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0UJ1 CIVILIZATION. THE BANK OF LONDON CA...
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Continental, Notes. France. Dr. Kern Has...
for the purchase of the tomb and habitation of the Emperor Napoleon I . at St .. Helena . Prince Gregory Ghika , aide-de-camp of the Kaiaiakan of Wallachia , has arrived in Paris on a political mission . A grand review of 50 , 000 men , composing the ehte of the French army , took place in the Champ de Mars on Wednesday , in the presence of the Grand Duke Gonstantine , ITALY . The Empress Dowager of Russia paid a visit on the 25 th ult . to the Pope , at the Vatican , and was very courteously received by the successor to St . Peter . A curious meeting , this , of Eastern and Western , of Greek and LatinChristianity !
, The debate on the bill for transferring the marine establishment of the Kingdom of Sardinia to Spezzia commenced in the Chamber of Deputies at Turin on the 28 th ult ., and was continued in the following sitting . TUEM . Pareto , Pallavicini , and Solaro della Margherita were among the chief speakers against the bill ; M . Mamiani spoke in its favour . Count de Cavour , in reply to the various arguments of the Opposition , denied his having awakened hopes of liberty among the Italians on his return from Paris , and declared that the policy of Piedmont was liberal , and not revolutionary . He showed that the fears entertained by some members that the project was secretly recommended by a foreign Power (" meaning England ) , with a view to seizing the place Gibraltar
afterwards ami converting it into a second , were utterly devoid of foundation , and that England , although she did not oppose the project , was far from being partial to it . How could she expect to take possession of Spezzia without a sanguinary war with all the European Powers , among whom France would stand foremost , since she would consider Toulon menaced ? As to France , he could not tell whether she approved the project ; but , considering the alliance existing between that country and Piedmont , and the interests of France , he could not but think that she must see the improvement in the Piedmontesa navy with pleasure , as calculated to render Piedmont strong in Italy . With respect to the Cabinet of Vienna , he declared he was perfectly ignorant of its opinion on the subject . the duties
The Roman Government has lowered on a great number of imported articles , such as 'silks , linen and cotton goods , woollens , & c It has been encouraged to this step by the good effects that have already ensued from the previous reductions . The Pope has signalized the Easter festivities by rarious acts of ' clemency , ' including a permission to return to Rome granted to Signor Sturbinetti , the chief of the Roman municipality during the Republican Government of 1849 . The two Mayors of Genoa , annoyed at the project for removing the Naval Arsenal to Spezzia , aud at the consequent loss to them of certain contracts , have refused to pay their taxes . The town council has , therefore , been dissolved by the Government , which has appointed an intendant in its place . This act has caused a great deal of excitement and angry feeling .
RUSSIA . The prohibition of the exportation of gold has been rescinded . The Government has just published the treaty of commerce and navigation with Japan . The treaty consists of nine articles . The ports of Simoda , Hakodada , and Nangasaki are thrown open to commerce . A committee is about to be formed in St . Petersburg ( says a letter from that capital ) for the affairs of the
Grand Duchy of Finland . Every measure relative to that province will undergo a preliminary examination by this committee , to decide whether it is in conformity with the particular laws of the Grnnd Duchy , and to point out to the Emperor the motives on which their dc ^ cision ia come to . The committee is to be composed of five members , Count Armfcldt , Secretary of State for the Grand Duchy , being the president . A similar committee formerly existed , but it was abolished in 1825 , on the accession of the late Emperor Nioholas .
AUSTRIA . The persons charged with making the preparations for the reception in Hungary of the Emperor and Empress are exciting great animosity by the domineering way in which thoy order the nobility to burst into a Spontaneous combustion of loyalty nt the approach of the Imperial visitors . The Magyars do not like being ¦ coerced into satisfaction ; but thoy are afraid of refusing . The following pwasngoiaam address of the Hungarian Protestants to tho Emperor is said to have given great offence *— «• It cannot have escaped your Majesty's attention libat xivQ most salutary laws , if bnaexl on resolutions takon by Government , instead of being the emanations of tfc « religious convictions of the Protestant Confeesions , are fhv from producing a tranquillizing effect : on the contrary , they create alarm , inasmuch aa thoy shake principles which are based on tbws independence that is eoourod ( gmioherl ) i > y the' Protestant canons . The feeling of our independence—which independence is secured by 1 » W and by treaties of peace guaranteed by foreign Btatea—induces us to hope that the settlement of oar / spiritual ) aflWra will b * loft to ourselves . "
A deputation of the Protestants of Hungary lias waited on the Emperor . It was headed by the Privy Councillor de JLonyai , who , speaking in the Magyar language , besought his Majesty to grant to the church -of Hungary the right of convoking a general Synod , to deliberate on an organic statute for the church and schools of the reformed creed . The Emperor , promised to take the request into consideration , and to accede to it as much as possible . The burgomaster of Saaz , in Bohemia , has ordered all the Jewish families residing in that town to quit it within a fortnight . The Hebrews there comprise about sixty families .
SWEDES . The Swedish Government has transmitted to its diplomatic agents at foreign Courts a circular in which soraie remarks are made on the recent Danish note with reference to the Scandinavian Question . After expressing the ' lively astonishment' of the King of Sweden at the long piece of reasoning , ' not justified by any act of his Majesty ' s Government , ' which the Danish Government has put forth ' on a question which has bean hitherto confined to literary discussion , ' the document proceeds : — " M . de Scheele [ the Danish Foreign Minister ] says , among other things , that ' he will not examine if really the conduct pursued by the Governments of the North was the most appropriate to circumstance * , and t 3 iat which ought to have been chosen , if it had been possible to measure in advance the proportions which the
Scandinavian agitation would take . ' The King [ of Sweden ] does not recognise in any one whatsoever the right to cast , officially , in a letter addressed to the agents of a foreign Power , and to be communicated to the Cabinets to which they are accredited , a blame , direct or indirect , on the acts of his Government , even though that blame should fall on the manner of acting of his own Government , which the minister , author of the circular in question , appears to envelop in the same disapprobation . It is our duty to remark on this unusual manner of expression , in order to prevent any repetition of the same . I have without doubt no need to add that no concert was come to with us touching the affair in question , and that no previous explanation relative thereto was asked for or obtained from us . " The circular concludes with an expression of the Swedish monarch ' s friendly fecliug towards the King of Denmark . SPAIN . & arvaez , it is believed , has been endeavouring for some time past to obtain the support and co-operation of O'Donnell , who , however , refuses to be connected with the existing Government . The Gazette contains a decree summoning to the colours 50 , 000 men of the conscription of 1857 . General Urbistondo , chief of the King ' s military household , and lately Minister of War in the present Cabinet , who recently died after a lingering illness , was buried on the morning of the 28 th ult . with much pomp , the lung ' s carriage and aides-de-camp forming part of the procession . The Queen is said to be in the fourth month of her pregnancy . As she has had one or two miscarriages at that period , her physicians cause her to live very strictly , and she is not even to leave tha Palace until the eud of
the present month . The Cortes opened on the 1 st of May , when Marshal Narvaez read in the Queen ' s name an Address in which , after announcing the rc-establishnient of friendly relations with the Courts of Rome and St . Petersburg , and intimating a hope that the Mexican Government ia beginning to prove that it will not countenance the acts of injustice and inhumanity which have been committed by its citizens on Spanish subjects , the sovereign is ma-de to aay : — " Public tranquillity and internal security are completely guaranteed , and the municipal elections and those for the legislative body were efl ' ectcd without any
disturbance . I have , been also able to give myself up without fear to the maternal feelings of my heart ,, by granting a political amnesty so general and so complete that not a single Spaniard has been excluded from it . My Government will propose to you an important measure—the reform of the Senate , founded on certain restrictions in the conditions of admission ; the union of tho dignity of sonator with the highest charges in the Church and State ; and tho introduction of hereditary descent as a new clement of stability and foroo ^ anil as a moans of preserving in a permanent manner the glorious names of those who in past tiim ; 8 and at present have , in serving their country , added to its fame "
M . Martinez do la Rosa has been elected Prosiitont of tho Cortes , and MM . Maguiora , Forreira , Alonso , aud Count de Vistahonnosn , Vice Presidents . Mgr . Simooni , tho Pone ' s nuncio ad interim , arrived on the 1 st inst . Tho mother of Marshal O'Donnoll has just aspired .
rottTUOAr ,. At tho sitting of tho Lisbon Chamber of Deputies on the 28 th ult ., tho first three articles of tho project of law authorizing the Government to carry out tho railway contract mode with Sir M . Poto were voted by a largo nwtfority . The remainder of the project was expected to bo voted on the 29 th , and there seemed to bo ovcry chance of tho contract being carried out . TUKKKT . A Tnrkiafc vessel firow Tripoli , fcavtog jflftoea nl * voa
on board , has been seized at Tchesme on . the requi sition of tlie English consul-general . The munksbal council at Smyrna has ordered the slaves to be seta ± liberty . Ismail Pasha , commandant of the army of Anatolia has beeu removed to the command of the army of Arabistau . , An Imperial order has been sent to the Greek Bishops requiring them to carry into execution the reforms decreed in 1 S 5 G . The 23 rd ult . was the day fixed for tlie Nikiah JeangaiUes , of the Sultan's three daughters , who hatf fee ised in tur to
prom marriage some . e ago Mahmoud Pacha . son of Fethi Ahmed Pacha , Grand Master of the ArtlU lery ; Ethern Pacha , son of Mehemet AH Pacha , Capitan Pacfca ; and El 11 ami Pacha , son of tha late Abbas Pacha , Viceroy of Egypt . The description of the procession of the presents occupies nearly a column of the 2 ' imes , wherein the type seems to flash with jewellery embroidery , silks , satins , velvets , and gold mid silver tissue . The reader instinctively reverts to the presents sent by Aladdin to the royal father of the Princess Badroulbadoxvr , and perceives that the East still clings to its traditionary splendours even in these days , and witlrin the limits of Europe . THE DANCBIAX rRrNCIPAI . ITIES . The " Wallacliian Government , it is stated , has definitively fixed the loth of June for the elections in "Wallachia . Notwithstanding this postponement , the Unionist party , remaining calm and moderate , continues to feel certain of success . The arbitrary acts of the Kahnakau of Moldavia continue . PliUS-SIA . Unron Liebig has discovered arsenic to a large amount in the loaves of bread forwarded to him from Hong-Kong for analysis . Prince Alfred of England lias arrived at Gotha . SWITZERLAND . Colonel Denzler , commanding the Republican troops , and a member of the Grand Council of Neutchatel , Las published a letter addressed by him to the Cantonal Government , blaming the acceptance of the treaty without consulting the Grand Council . The Colonel expresses a hope that the people and Grand Council of Neufchiitel will declare themselves against the treaty , to which he considers the s / ati / s quo preferable . The text of the treaty has been lion-officially published in the Swiss papers ; but , as the version appears to be incorrect , we do not reproduce it .
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438 T H E _ IjJE A ^) E B ,. _ _ ' _ [ No __ 372 , Saturday ,
0uj1 Civilization. The Bank Of London Ca...
0 UJ 1 CIVILIZATION . THE BANK OF LONDON CASE . The charge against Mr . Cockburu of conspiring to damage the liank of London by publishing libels upon it , was further gone into last Saturday before the Lord Mayor . A . Mr . John Lawson appeared on tins occasion as well as Cockburn . The additional evidence went to show that Cockburn managed the paper , and was constantly about the nrintiug-ofiice , taking away proofs , and bringing them back again , corrected ; that Mr . Lawson read and altered the proofs ; that lie was in the habit of going to the printing-oUiee , though less often than Mr . Cockburn ; that , when done with , the manuscripts were taken away , and the proofs burnt ; that Mr . Cockburn told tho printer to call Mr . Lawson by the name ot Williams , as he didn ' t waut the men and boys to know him by hid real name ; that , after the printing of tho paoer had left that oilicc , and subsequently to the comhnu
mencement of these proceedings , Mr . Cockburn called on the original printer , and had said , " I hope you have not got any of my copy here—I don ' t want it to go into -any other handa , " but that , previously to this , some had beeu fetched uway by the police , - and that tho persona described as the publishers of the Joint Stock Companies Journal were in no way connected with it . Tho person employed to carry about tho placards saul : — " Jklr . Cockburu told mo that , if any policeman came ur » , and ordered mo to move on , I was to go on a littlo way » nd return again . Ho said , if a policeman came und threatened to take mo into custody , 1 was to tell him 1 didn ' t care , ior ho ( Mr . Cock burn ) would soon come and fetch me out of prison . I had wolil a gooa wto
many copies of tho paper before 1 was taken custody . 1 gave 5 . 1 . lOd ., which 1 received for i » aperd , to Mr . Cocktmrii . 1 remember a gentleman nslunj , Mr . Cock burn , when ho was putting tho board rounu my neck , if what wan printed on it whs true ; aiiu » o aald it waa quite as true as U « at about tho Ha-itish UanK . In tho cross-examination of Mr . l < Vamsin Palmer , dor * m tho secretary ' s oflico of the Bank of Londoii , twu gentleman said . — " Tho placard rofijw to tho rutiwmoM of ono hundred and forty shareholder . - ) . lliuL atuiu ment ix untrue . They UiU not nil retire Some of them haw died , and their hIijwoh « ro in the imtnos ot t icir executors : others have sold their nhuros . A » l » lluru I , a « d thirty nharoa » "vc boon bought by ninety other * . Ku-oxmniiioil by Mr . Bodkin ( for the proBeout on ; - " The persona who have retired have wold their sum te othwr persons who have bought thorn , ftyeryi '"" ia roiirouontod by a proprietor . " Tho Lord i »* ywi
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Leader (1850-1860), May 9, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09051857/page/6/
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