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Ho. 471, April 2, 18590 THE ^ /L^ A/fiX'...
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The French Government have just advertised for a large quantity of brandy , to be delivered on or before the 27 th April . _ _ The Dresden Journal states that the Five Powers may be regarded as having agreed to the preliminaries of the approaching Congress . The day of assembling will probably be the 30 th inst ., but the place of meeting is not yet settled . AUSTRIA . It is not yet known who mil represent Austria at the Congress . Count Hartig is spoken of . The Count , who , some sixteen or eighteen years ago , was Stadtholder of Lombardy , is a very able man , and knows Italy and her ailments well . The probability however , is that Count Buol will himself attend , the Congress . Although Austria lias promised to attend the Congress , she is not inclined to think peace will be maintained , and consequently continues her armaments . There are now , or will be by the end of the month , thirty-five regiments of the line in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom . It is said that General Hess is doing all in his power to divert Francis Joseph from war . " If Ave have to fight against Italy and France , " he is declared to have said on a recent occasion , " we are inevitably lost . If we have allies , the war will become general , and then who can tell where it will stop ?¦ " The Emperor does not , it seems , pay much heed to the marshal , and is still ardently in favour of showing-his strength . War , then , seems inevitable , despite all the efforts of mediators . We learn from "Venice that information had just reached that city that the colonel of a Hungarian regiment had been tried by court-martial , and sentenced to be shot at Verona , for having attempted to persuade his regiment not to fight against the Italians . The sentence , we regret to add , was immediately carried into effect . A Vienna letter , in the Lloyd of Pesth , states that Austria has addressed a note to Piedmont , demanding the extradition of the Venetians who have been received there contrary to treaties . ¦ letters from Piacenza announce that on the 25 th ult ., 1 ^ 200 Austrians , with 50 cannons , 150 barrels of resin , and a great quantity of Congreve rockets , arrived there . The chureh has been converted into a flour magazine . The Opinione states that the Austrians have occupied two villages , Reggiolb and . Volo , belonging to the duchy of Modena .
SARDINIA . : ¦ "With regard to the sudden visit of Count Cavour to Paris , a correspondent at Turin writes ^— "lam assured that the President of the Council intended to protest in his Majesty ' s name against the humiliating and unjust exclusion of Sardinia from a Congress , which is the direct consequence of the maxims laid down in that of Paris . Victor Emmanuel lias written a most energetic protest , and has not concealed his indignation . When Count de Gavour left it was his intention to be back in Turin on Tuesday , the 29 th ult . A later despatch informs us , upon " unquestionable authority , " that Sardinia will be admitted to the congress . TUSCANY . At Florence there is great excitement . The Tuscan Monitore of the 23 rd ult , suspends the littlo liberty of the press that was loft , and re-establishes the censorship . There was a talk of Bnklasseroni's resignation and that of the other ministers ; but it seems there is repentance and fear in the Pitti Palace . The new Minister of . Public . Instruction , Martini , demands the admission into the Government of two liberal chiefs , one of them being Lucchesi , they say . Landucci continues to bo the soul of the reaction in tlio Austrian sense . Now that the freedom of the press is suspended , Tuscany will of course bo inundated with secret publications . The report is cxirront that the Grand Duke has published a now manifosto , but its contents are not yet known .
ijEi ^ fliuJr , The Chamber of Ropi'cschtatives has terminated the discussion of the war budget for 1800 , and has voted all the credits , to the amount , 01 ' 32 , 213 , 500 francs . The majority was 50 against 8 ; tho number of representatives who did not -vote having been six . NAPLKS . Thoro is no fresh intelligence with regard to the health of the king . A letter of tho 19 th ult . says : — "He continues in a most wretched state ,. and I am assured on good authority , that ha cannofc live more than throo months . His death is looked forward to with dread by liis Government in tho present critlqal state of affairs . In the case of war between Franco nnd Austria , a Murnt occupation of Naples might ensue , a result much to bo deprecated . < In case of penee thoro might bo a modification of the absolutlat system . Meanwhile all things stagnate , ana commerce is at an end . "
¦ ¦ io : nran islands . ¦ ' , ¦ ¦¦' The Lord High Commissioner has appointed a commission with the concurrence of the Senate , to inquire into all public departments , for the purpose of effecting such improvements as could be legallydone by the Government . The commission was . to meet for the first tirne on the 18 th inst .
PORTUGAL . The latest advices inform , us that the new ministry had only brought forward in the Cortes a bill to authorise the continuation of the State receipts and expenditure until the budget can be discussed and voted . The Ministerial explanations seem to have been satisfactory , and little doubt was entertained of the approval of the money bills . The Cortes is likely to close on the 2 nd of April . It is believed that the railway will be put up to public competition . : Senor Fon tes , it is said , will be Minister of Public Works , and Piraental will be Minister of the Interior . Prince George of Saxony is shortly expected at Lisbon , to marry the Infanta . . The postal convention between England and Portugal is in course of final adjustment . GERMANY . Among other reports , one has been circulated that the Congress will be assembled in the Grand Duchy of Baden . . From Frankfort we have the following dispatch , which we are told is " official " :- ^ The federal assembly has voted supplies for arming : the federal fortresses with necessary artillery . The Ober-Postdmts-Zeitung contains news from . Stuttgart to the effect that Prince Frederick of Wurtemberg has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the 8 th Federal Corps d'Armce . "
BAVARIA . The Munich Gazette publishes officially the application of M . Von der Pfordten for his dismissal from the post of President of the Bavarian Ministry . The closing of the Chambers , took place on Saturday . The Diet approved of all the bills which had been submitted to it . In the closing speech , the Government promised to take-into consideration the wishes expressed by the Chambers ; and stated that the demand relative to the liberty of the press had been sent to the Council of State . TURKEY . Oil the 18 th of March the Sultan reviewed a body of 6 , 000 men who are about to niarch for Roumelia . All the troops had been newly equipped , Three of the principals in the massacre ofDjeddah have arrived at Constantinople , whither they had been sent to undergo their sentence . One of them , the Caimakan , or governor of the' ^ lace , had formerly been attached to the household of the Sultun , and for that reason , although he and the two others were condemned to death , the commissions preferred sending them for the Sultan to decide on their fate . The illness of AH Pacha ; the Grand Vizier , caused serious disquietude to his friends .
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Canada. N'Kws From Toronto To The 18th U...
CANADA . N ' kws from Toronto to the 18 th ult . has been received . In the Canadian Parliament on" the 17 th , Mr . Buchanan ' s -motion , that the House do not go into committee on the new tariff of the Inspector-General , was lost by a majority of thirteen . Mr . Buchanan ' s motion was looked on as a motion of want of confidence in the Administration . It is now probable that the new tariff will be passed with slight modifications . Tho Inspector-General stated that , when in committee , lie would be willing to consider tho propriety of deferring the Operation of tho notw tariff for such a time as would enable tho Upper Canada merchants to obtain their goods from the place of growth . This announcement ' , as well as the result on Mr , Buclnman ' s amendment , was roceivod with loud cheors .
America, Tun Jura Arrived At Liverpool O...
AMERICA , Tun Jura arrived at Liverpool on Sunday , with New York advices to the 15 th ultimo . A meeting of tho Democratic KopubHean doctors was hold at Tammany-hall , Now York , on tho 14 th , when resolutions favourable to tho acquisition of Cuba wore adopted . Tho grand jury at Washington had examined witnesses in tho Slcldos case . Louis Bono , a gentleman attaahed to tho Prussian Legation , had committed suicide by shooting himself . ' Ho left a statement , alleging that lie was apprehensive that ho was troubled with disease of tho heart , and a failure to receive remittances from Texas , whore ho owned largo etftutos , impelled him to tho act of self-destruction . Tho JYew York Jlorald Bays : —" Tho financial officers of tljie Post-ofHoo department havo submitted a statement to the President , by which It appears that tho dofleit in that branch of tho public service amounts to six millions of dollurs instead of three , an heretofore supposed , and that tho department is at
this time six months inarrears . The President has this statement under consideration , and will , it is stated , on the 15 th , indicate whether , in his opinion , an extra session of Congress is to be called . " A resolution was pending in the New York Legislature , authorising an additionial canal loan of 3 , 500 , 000 dollars . The Bremen has arrived at Southampton , with , dates from New York to the 19 th March . The political news is unimportant ; the question of an extra session of Congress was still undecided . . The American Minister in China states tliat an extensive trade in Coolies is carried , on between China and . Cuba . The Coolies are entrapped and barbarously treated . . Sickles' trial for murder was to commence on the 22 nd ult .
Mexico. Advices From Vera Cruz To The 9t...
MEXICO . Advices from Vera Cruz to the 9 th ult . state that a battle had been fought near Cordova ., and the left wing of Miramon ' s army was completely routed by the liberals . Miramon lost 100 men killed , three cannon , 300 muskets , and a large quantity of ammunition . General Degollado was preparing to march on the capital with 10 , 000 men . The liberals had captured Guanajuato and Aguas Calientas . A Washington telegram says : — "It is credibly
ascertained that both England and France disclaims any other intention in sending naval forces to the coast of Mexico : than to procure due reparation for wrongs to British and French subjects , and that it is not their purpose to take sides with or favour either of the contending Mexican governments . There is reason to believe the American Government is not apprehensive that anything will be done by them in conflict with the Munroe"doctrine , or to shape the political institutions of that country . "
The last advices from Vera Cruz communicate an order , addressed to the authorities at that port , by Senor Ocampo , Minister for Foreign Affairs , instructing them to set apart , and under no circumstances whatever : to use , the moneys assigned to English and French subjects . Senor Ocampo had also issued a circular referring to the demands lately made by the English and French naval commanders . Their stipulation that agents nominated by the English and French creditors should be empowered to supervise the proceedings of the custom-houses ,
and to have free access to all books arid other documents , was absolutely refused by the Mexican Government , upon the ground of its humiliating character . The minister ' states that President Juarez has been made aware of the irregularities which have occurred in the payments to the foreign creditors , affirms his anxious wish to satisfy all just claims , and declares . that , in so far as his administration is concerned , these irregularities shall no longer be permitted . The intervention of the British naval forces has at once bceu productive of the good results anticipated .
West Indies. •Cuha. Ninvs From "Havannah...
WEST INDIES . CUHA . Ninvs from "Havannah to the 9 th ult , informs us that General William Walker , the filibuster , had arrived thei'e , en route for Aspinwall and California .
Morocco. Tub Gibraltar Chronicle Of The ...
MOROCCO . Tub Gibraltar Chronicle of the 19 th ult . says : — " Wo learn from Tangier that the seven Spanish prisoners had been delivered over by . the Moorish authorities to tho Spanish Charge d'Affaires , and that salutes . 21 guns had been exchanged between tho Spanish war steamer in Tangier Bay and the Moorish batteries . It is reported , too , that the differences which haye for some time past formed the subject of discussion between the two governments , including tho Mehilla boundary question , are in a -fiiir way of being adjusted . The son of the Kmporor of Morocco , after escorting tho Spaniards to tho environs of Tangiors ,. returned with his troops into tho interior / '
West Coast Of Africa. Lhttkrs From Hiorr...
WEST COAST OF AFRICA . Lhttkrs from Hiorra Leone speak in fltronff terms of arbitrary measures which are boniff adopted to stitto public opinion in that colony . . Vno tinio ngo soveral hundred of the inhabitants addressed a ineniorUa to Sir K . B . Lytton , describing tlio p'levnnqoa from which they suffered , ami praying fur a Commission of Inquiry and the establishment of rpprosontativo institutions . His stated that thu olnolals aro not content with Rotting up a counter memorial , but have adopted unjustifiable means to intimidate thoir oppononts . Many of tho pooror classes of tho memorialists havq been required to \\\\\ ) wx in tho IioIjLoo court , and thoro sovoroly censured by tho nintfistrate \ while attempts have been made to in « duco othors to ( lisavow thoir signatures ,, or to declare that they wore abuonded in i « noraneo of tho con-
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Leader (1850-1860), April 2, 1859, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02041859/page/9/
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