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December 10, 1853.] THE LEADER. 1179
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. Tub latest diplomatic...
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Yesterday was inaugurated the statue of Marshal Ney . This statue has been erected at the end of the Alle * e du Luxembourg-, immediately opposite to the spot where he was shot just thirty-eight years ago . Although the name of Ney remains one of the most popular in . our history , yet as the Bonapartist gentlemen made a purely imperial /^ e of the" ceremony , all the imposing military display attracted a scanty attendance of the people . St . Arnaud gave a description of the great actions in which the Marshal distinguished himself . M . Dupin , defender of N " ey before the House of Peers , gave a history of the condemnation of the Marshal ; he proved the illegality of that condemnation in violation of the Treaty of Capitulation of Paris . Finally , an invalide , formerly a soldier of Ney ' s , delivered , in honour of his old general , a speech which was received with general applause .
A marked stagnation in business prevails at Paris . Trade languishes . The dearth of bread prevents the provinces from buying . All the pecuniary resources of the working-men of the towns and country , about thirty millions of people , are absorbed in eking out a bare subsistence . The tactics of parties contribute equally to this stagnation of affairs . Orders have been received by the Legitimists and Orleanists to live as closely and narrowly as possible . These instructions are punctually executed . The nobles , who ought by this time to be here in the capital , are lingering at their
chateaus , and will probably linger on till the approach of the new coup d' Mat . As for the Orleanists who ^ occupy high functions in the banking and commercial world , they have combined to make the money market tight , which may , ; possibly , occasion a very pretty commercial crisis ere long . What makes me smile at all this is , to think that we are all , Republicans , Legitimists , and Orleanists alike , manoeuvring in the service of Russia . The Emperor Nicholas is the General-in-chief , and Leopold is his aide-de-camp general .
Do not run away with the belief that you will escape the common destiny . You fancy yourselves a free and a self-governed people ; you believe that your Ministers will do only what they are told to do . Nothing of the kind ! Your Ministers are doing what Queen Victoria tells them to do . Queen Victoria wishes all that King Leopold wishes ; King Leopold desires all the Emperor Nicholas desires ; so that Nicholas , Emperor of all the Russias , is de facto
the present King of England . You wont believe it ; well , then , listen . Who was it that recommended Lord Aberdeen to impose upon Turkey a three months ' armistice ? Who is it that persuades the British Grovernment to resume their Vienna conference ? Who is it that pulls the strings , and moves the arms and legs of the British Ministry?—The Emperor Nicholas —through King Leopold . Everything is to follow the caprices of the Emperor Nicholas . We are to have a Conference . . This Conference will raise its voice to
impose an armistice upon the two belligerent Powers—a three months' armistice . But what if in three months Henry V . were to be in Paris , the French fleet recalled to Toulon , England abandoned to helpless isolation ? Turkey left to herself will be alone against Russia , and thus you see you are playing , as we have played , the game of the Czar . Nicholas , our general-in-chief , means to have Constantinople . Is he to got it ? ¦ S .
December 10, 1853.] The Leader. 1179
December 10 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 1179
Continental Notes. Tub Latest Diplomatic...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . Tub latest diplomatic mystification of tho Pour Oo-Betweens ( as Emilc do Girardin calls thorn ) -who compose tho now Conference at Vienna , is authenticated in yesterday ' s Monitcur by tho French Government . Tho official journal announces the agreement { accord ) between the Four Powers on the Eastern question . 4 V protocol to this efTeefc was signed at Vienna on the 5 th hint ., in a conference at which the representatives of France , England , Austria , and Prussia wero present . The basis is to reestablish peace between Russia and tho Porto , on conditions honourable to the two parlies ; to maintain ( he territorial integrity of the Ottoman Empire ; and to acknowledge beforehand ( constatcr d ' avance ) that ; the present war < . ftn j ,, , K ) manrl ( . ]( ., ui < () modifications in the state ot possession which lime has consecrated in tho Kiwi . It was on the 4 i ) th ult . that General Baraguay d ' llilj'ei-s presented his credentials to the Sultan . The" following is the official vernioii ( in the Monitcur ) of | , he . French ambassador ' * address to the Sultan : •¦¦ - " Franco does not fear war . Faithful to the spirit of » w mission declared by the Emperor Napoleon himself , •' ranee dcsiroH peace , but nIio desires it durable , loyal , ami »«> nourabl (> for herself and her allies . For that object the ^' niperor Napoleon , in eoneert with his powerful ally the J / ueen of Great Britain , has sent his fleet ; to the ' Kant , . ymhding in the reiterated assurances of tho Cabinet , of St . " (¦ ernlmrg , he nfcill hopes that the difference which has '"• 'sen between the Sublime Porto and the Court of Russiu '" "y . lio smoothed down ; and that ; this temporary trouble " ! . m forward clearly the question of the integrity < l > . f ' oman Empire , will only nerve to confirm an iii"IH'ndemw no precious to all Europe , and so necessary to j " maintenance of the peace of the world . The Sultan he 1 t ; orllllm '' nilt ( n . ys ( iir to be the faithful ' organ of my on fl "" lH < express to your Imperial Mnjosty my lent desire to contribute with till any efforts to tho
maintenance of the old an d friendl y relations which France has always kept up with the Sublime Porte , and I place at tho feet of your Majesty the homage of my profound respect . " The following is the text of the Sultan ' s reply to General Baraafuay d'Hilliers : — " I ; have always relied , and I rely in the present crisis , on the material and moral support of my ancient allies , France and Great Britain . France and the rest of Europe have the right to insist ( vouloir ) on peace . I , too , desire peace , but only if it can be had without prejudice to my sovereign rights and the independence of Turkey . At present no arrangement is possible without the entire renunciation of the pretensions put forward by Russia , and without the immediate and complete evacuation of the two Principalities , which are part of my
ein-On the occasion of his audience General Baraguay d'Hilliers introduced to the Sultan Vice-Admiral Hamelin , with Rear-Admirals Jaequinofc and de Tinan , as well as their aides-de-camp and principal officers . On M . de la Cour's taking leave of M . Baraguay d'Hilliers , the general observed , Alca jacta , est , to which M . de la Couv replied , " Vous la ramasserez , raon general . " The Turkish Government having declined repayment of the costs of the repairs of the French line-of-battle ship , the Friedland , amounting to about 12 , OO 0 L , the French ambassador had presented the Sultan , in the name of Louis Napoleon , with . 2500 Minie rifles for the use of the army .
. The Capudan Pacha had given a grand banquet to the Admirals and Officers of the English and French fleets , on board the Turkish flag-ship , the Mahmondie . The officers were presented to the Sultan , and Lord Stratford made _ a speech , in which he promised to Abdul-Medjid effective support against unjust aggression , at the same time that he recommended the conclusion of an honourable peace as soon as possible . The Sultan replied , that he desired peace , but on the condition that it should in no wise offend the honour of Turkey / and that it should be compatible with his sovereign , rights . h '• The Ottoman government has officially decided that it will not lend its countenance to privateering .
A letter from Constantinople of the 21 st ult ., declares that the Greek patriarch had requested the Sultan to allow him to accompany his Majesty to Adrianople , to-give a proof to the world that the Greek church preferred the patronage of the Sultan to that oi the Czar .
The Scamander Which Reached Marseilles O...
The Scamander which reached Marseilles on Tuesday brought intelligence from Constantinople confirming the accounts previously received of the Turkish successes in Asia . The Russians'had been repulsed at Sahilz , after three sanguinary engagements . The fortress of Saffa , and that of Akiska , wero taken by assault by Selim Pacha . Cheftakil ( St . Nicholas ) had again been unsuccessfully attacked by the Russians on the 17 fch , as were also the entrenched positions of Abdi and Bajazet . In Moldavia affairs are conducted in the most absolute manner by General Urusofl " . The Jews in particular are the victims of his brutality . Some Austrian Jews , who believed that , as foreigners , they were entitled to a different sort of treatment , were peremptorily told to go to Lemberg , in Austria . They had to invoke tho protection of tho Austrian Consul-General .
^ At Jassy , not less than 18 houses , belonging to different Boyars , have been converted into hospitals . The latest accounts from the Danube state that , although the Russians have made some demonstrations of their intention to cross tho Danube , the force under the command of Prince Gortsehakoff is quite inadequate to so great an undertaking . The different divisions of which the army of the Prince are composed are far from being complete , and the difficulty of raising levies in the central provinces has not permitted him to complete them . The corps of Onten-Saoken , which was announced as iorming a contingent of 60 , 000 men , does not amount to more than 18 , 000 . Letters from the f rrmtinr Kinti \ flm / - 41 m l / . mr ,,,..., . _„ : . Letters from the frontier state that the levy now going
on in Russia is not the ordinary recruiting , as has been asserted . So many men wero never before seized , so much severity was never before resorted ( o , and so many children ( boys of twelve years of age ) wero never before fcakon from their parents to be sent to the regiments . Tho Turkish garrison at Knlafnt in changed every other day , the troops boing relieved from Widdin . It is supposed that this eireumKlanee gave riso to the incorrect report that Kalafat had been evacuated by the Turkish forecH . A similar regulation is observed at Mnkan . The Turks pacing to and fro iiieesmintly alarm the Russians at Giurgevo , who , not being relieved , suffer exceedingly .
The Russian . Huron Budberg takes the title of Imperial Commissioner Extraordinary for Moldavia and Wullachia . By the name authority the Russian ConsuNOJciicr il at Bucharest in appointed Viee-1 ' renideiit of Wnllaehia . There is a rumour at ; Bucharest of the desertion of , 'JOO YVallachiau gendarmes , who were attached to the corns of ( jlenornl Fishhuck , and who , with homes , weapons and accoutrements , iir . i Haiti to have gone over to the Turks The Hal tic Gazette , published at Stettin , received a warning , for publishing a report , of the recent meeting at ( Jlnflgow on the subject of Turkey . ,
The Russian authorities have r < ifunctl to allow the despatches of the British and Turkish Consuls-General to be conveyed to Constantinople via Giiu-gm-o and Rustehuk as heretofore , and permission was refimed even to the Consuls-General themselves to travel by that route , ho that they find no choice hut to brave the ' stormy HloVk Sea . M . Poujado , the Kronuli Consul-Oeneral , loft liuelmrest on the 22 nd ult ., and the Knglinh Consul-General wtis expoeted immediately to follow him . Both consuls have remained until they could do « o no longer with dignity , as will ho seen from the following purtiou ia ™ of an outrage upon 11 messenger in tho service of the British Conwul : —
On the 15 th ult ., an Albanian , who has been for nineteen years m the service of the British Consulate-General a * Bucharest , was sent with despatches for Lord Stratford de Bedcliffo to Gralate , and the English Vice-Consul there was instructed to send them by the Austrian steamer to Constimtinople . The Albanian arrived safely at Galatz , and delivered his despatches to the Vice-Consul , and then went to Ibraila , to wait for the despatches which the Austrian steamer , expected hourly from Constantinople , was to bring Irom Lord Stratford . He was arrested in a coffee-house , carried before the Russian General , Engelharfc , and imprisoned , although he proved lumselt to be in the employment of the British Consulate . After repeated remonstrances the Albanian was released . Several villages on the Russian territory have been occupied bv the Turks .
The number of deserters from the enemy is so extraordinary , that it- is iti contemplation to ' form a Russian legion , to be led against their former masters . ThePorfce is forming Christian legions of the Cossacks who emigrated to Turkey in the time of Catherine . Legions of Poles and other refugees are also beino- formed for service in Asia under Generals Guyon , Klapka , and Wysocki . Constantinople swarms with soldiers of fortune of every hue and clime . Notwithstanding all the excitement of the war the city has remained perfectly tranquil , and the Turks have maintained their usual nonchalance . It now appears that noi a single British ship has entered the Black Sea ; the Government at home having , no doubt sent out orders to prevent any movement so audacious on the part of the " protecting" squadron .
It is reported , but we do not attach much faith to the rumour , that a three months' armistice , demanded bv England , has been refused by the Turkish Ministers , and that , in consequence Lord Stratford had an audience of the Sultan , which lasted five hourj . An extraordinary Divan was appointed to meet . Despatches from Munich , under date of the 3 rd instant , state that tho demands of Austria are not confined to that of a strict neutrality to be observed by the Germanic Confederation on the Oriental question ; that neutrality is to have a certain character , and that character is to be determined by Austria . For this purpose secret negotiations have for some time past been carried on at Munich by the agents of Saxony , Bavaria , and Austria . These conferences closed on the 30 th ult ., and the Austrian and Saxon agents have left Munich .
The Austrian government having learned that it had been publicly announced in London , with a semblance of authority , that the Four Powers had made a kind of alliance favourable to Turkey , has lost not a irtoment in setting itself right with Russia . It has caused to be published at Vienna that only a collective note had been drawn up , and that no mutual pledge had been given to enforce its acceptance . Probably this is quite as much as anvbody in England believed .
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The Post-Ampt Gazette of FrankforJ states , from Vienna , that new arrests have taken place in various towns of Lombardy , particularly at Brescia , Bergamo , and Corao , and that several carriages full of State prisoners arrived at Milan on the 22 nd instant , mostly belonging to noble families , or to the commercial class . The Government of Baden has suspended its late order , and notified to the Jesuits that they may remain in the state . The railway from Turin to Genoa was opened last ; luesday . The train of honour , which carried thministers , numerous senators , deputies , councillors ol state , and oficers , performed the journey in about four hours , stoppages included . The weather was extremely favourable . J
« Four Hungarian hussars , stationed at the Austrian post ot J . onto Iressa , on the confines of Ticino , deserted with arms and horses on tho 2-lth ult . Ontl . fi 2 » fch ult ,, the Polish exiles in Paris assembled in the Church or the Assumption , to celebrate by a religious service their national anniversary . They repaired ( hence to the Hotel Lambert , when ! Prince " Czartoryski had called a meeting of the Polish lilernrv and historical ' societies , ihe front benches were occupied by ladies of the J . ohsh Emigration . The Prince delivered nil address , full of hope and resignation , sueh as might be exported of an old man , content to live and die in Die enjoyment of a patriotic name in Paris .
A letter from Toulon aiinoueos that , on the night of the ' . > nd inst ., nineteen political convicts , sentenced lo transportation to Cayenne , e . srnped from Fort Lamalgiio , by breaking a hole in the wall of their prison . Five oflh > i ' u wore retaken at jlyeres , and a strict , search i . s being made for tho remainder . A ball is to take place at the Pjilner of the Tiiilriien on the 1 st of January , when the ¦ numteau , < lc la Hour will be dc , rit / eur for tho " first time . Alexandre . Dumas' second play has been stopped by the ceiiHorship . Renders to write a ( bird within tho \ veck , to bo called 1 m Jvnnciiso to . J ' j < tu . zun . The King of Bavaria , on ( lie occasion of the anniversary of his birth , has created a new order of chivalry , the insignia of which will be awarded to men distinguished in " sciences and fine arts . It i . s called the ordor ' of Mux » imilinii n . TJ 10 decoration is composed of a Gothic rross
in gold , enamelled 111 dark blue , with a white edge , it is surrounded by 11 garland of laurel and oak , and sumnounted by a royal crown ; at each of the corners are ( our rays , and in tho centre in u crowned escutcheon is tho cfligy ' of the King , with the mo ! to , " Maximilian 11 ., lun ^ of IJavarin " On the (> ther side is the symbol of the branch of science or of tins fine arts to which the recipient , 'belongs , whether he be a navant , a poet , or an artist . Tho lirHt of them * symbol consists of an owl holding a roll in his claws the other , Pegasus . Below is written 2 Hth November W >' - » ( tin ) date of the foundation of the order ) , and Ihe words » ' Woelion of the Sciences , " or " Section of the Kino Art /" ThiB cross is worn Husjpendod to a dark blue ribbon willi u white edge . The King baa already mimed forty t ' hevr-
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 10, 1853, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10121853/page/3/
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