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Ann 18, ,t8g6j THE I»EADRR 34S
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This health of the Empress continue* to ...
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As a matter of course , the address of the hissed Professor wsb known beforehand . The custom is for these official ha rangues to be subm itted to the preliminary censorship of a committee composed of four members drawn by lot , of the chancellor and of the secretary of the Academy , who are elected by their colleagues . At present the two latter are M . Villemain , openly hostile to Bonapartism ., and a M . de Pongerville , an old gentleman who once translated Ovid , who ia favourable to every Government and pensioned by all in turn , and who eniov s a complete nullity . The
members drawn by lot on this occasion were M . de Tocqueville , M . Mignet , M . Vitet , and a fourth malcontent . It was before this audience , not much prepossessed in his favour , that M . Nasard had to read his tmrtvn . es upon the great Prince who g ' overns us , the glory restored to Franc * , the prospeiity re-established , & c . He had carried his impudence so far as even to Indite a formal apology of the coup d' & tat . It appears the committee , with the single exception of poor old M . de Pongerville , revolted at these platitudea . They told M . Nisard that as a concession to traditional .
usage they might tolerate the customary compliments to the existing Government ; but that speaking in the name of the Academy in which there were not ten . members who shared Mb opinions , and on such an occasion as the reception of M . de Broglie , who had teen thrown into prison after the Second of December , they certainly would not endure the language of laudation addressed to that act of infamy . ThefcProfessoiattempted some resistance on the plea that his words had been dictated by his patrons , bu the was compelled to bow to the objections expressed by the committee . Nothing short ^ of a second cowip d'Uat could have enabled him to persevere . Consequently the censured passages were erased . But it was feared that a formal ini unction from the Minister of Publio
Instruction might order the offending Svoras to be restored at the public seance . Accordingly a public protest was organised and ready , of which M . Villemain was to give the signal . Everything seemed to promise a thoroughly dramatic stance , and on Monday last the Institute overflowed with company , It was known that M . Fortoul , indignant at the suppressions in the address of M . ZNisard , had nevertheless bespoken ahtiiidredtickets of admission ; and it was presumed that by this official adulteration he had secured an enthusiastic reception to the tirades of liis prottgi . And these anticipations ¦ were not deceived . At the very jBrst sentences of IE . Nisard ' s tolerably stupid discourse applause was heard to proceed from two or three coraers . into which Icnots of a dozen
• or so of Professors in evening dress had discreetly grouped themselves , and under the eye of the [ minister whose favours they courted , -were discharging the glorious duty of claqueurs . But , as soon as their voices were heard , a formidable chtit ( fancy this in the Academy !) crushed their degrading attempt , and they did not venture to renew it . The unfortunate M . Nisard was obliged to read his harnngue , all studded with big words and with appeals to la vietoire , la gloire , guerriers , and lauricrs , without a solitary bravo to keep liiin in countenance . It was a deathlike silence , une execution complete . To enliven the spectacle , however , just behind M . Nisard there sat M . Villemain , whose cruel smiles , pitying looks ,, and ironical gestures supplied a by no means agreeable commentary to the Bonapartist discourse .
M . de Broglio was much , applauded ; especially When avowing his sympathies for the Revolution of 1830 , he said , "If T was in error then , I am in error still . " A few words which appeared hostile to the fusion ( of the two branches of the House of Bourbon ) , brought a frown to certain brows , and some thought that M . de Broglie dwelt a little too freely on the merits of the eighteenth Brumaire , whioh put an end , it is true , -to the disorders of tlie Directory , but which also served as a preface and a procedent to that act of brigandage to which wo owe Napoleon III . With these exceptions , the audience wore charmed . M . de Montalembert se frottait Us mains .
All section s of tho great liberal party may at least applaud the speech of M / de Broglie ns a vigorous demonstration of the Parliamentary spirit against the rc ' gime dw lion plaisir . Lot us all applaud whatever resembles in tho l east degroo to the promise of a time when wo shall again enjoy some slight freedom of speech and of tho press . Tho rest will follow .. .
Ann 18, ,T8g6j The I»Eadrr 34s
Ann 18 , , t 8 g 6 j THE I » EADRR 34 S
This Health Of The Empress Continue* To ...
This health of the Empress continue * to improve , Bho was enabled on Tuesday week to dt on a sofa at one of tho windows of the palace , to witness the departure and return of tho cortege which accompanied tho Bmporor to and from tho review i « w « o « ™ ijC « ^ - % ™* $ hi « ™»* to agricultural rnatterH "It ih affirmed » a « . ys the Ed £ Agrioole , " that ho has just purchased tho old demesne o Pouillcuao Hifcuate between \ St . Oloud and Mont Valerion . TUo lutoiution of his Majesty is to establish on this ground a large model farm , oil whioh will bo collected tho most improved agricultural implements and tho boat brood of animals of ovory land Tina excellent idea haa boon carried iutoprootico by severa j
sovereigns , pai-tieulariy in Wurtenaburg and in Eng land . " . The pen with which the treaty of peace was signed was made from a quill taken from * he wing of an eagle at the Jardin des Plantes . Immediately after the signature , it waB placed on a white sheet of paper , and surrounded by the seals of all the Powers represented at the Congress , and by the signatures of the Plenipotentari . es . At the bottom , M . Feuillet de Conches , Chef de Bureau du Protocol , wrote ;— "I certify that this pen was taken by me from tho Imperial eagle at t he Jardin des Plantes , and that it served for the signature of the treaty of peace of the 30 th of March , 1856 . " The whole was then placed in a gilt frame , with a glass fixed over it , to be presented to the Empress . The Pays ( says the Daily News Paris correspondent ) lays great stress upon the fact that , out of 31 , 000 men who now constitute the whole force of the National Guard of Paris , 28 , 000 have signed an address of congratulation to the Emperor on the birth of the Imperial Prince . It very truly says , that , considering the average number of the absent , from one cause or another , this address may be considered as an expression of the unanimous sentiments of the National Guard . It is really irksome to be driven to explain facts which the Government journals continually pretend to ignore . But I cannot refrain from stating
( what some English readers may not know ) that the National Guard' is not any more ' national' than the footmen of the Tuileries . Every member of the force is carefully selected by the Government . It is a sign of the times , that the Charivari , which in obedience , it is said , to orders , ceased to publish caricatures of Russia some time before peace was signed , has now begun to familiarise the public mind with a war with Madagascar . All the cafes chaoitants have received orders to repress the anti-Russian songs , that they have lately been in the habit of giving . By an arrete of the French Minister of the Interior , dated April 6 th , Le Nor A is allowed to enter France .
A journey by the Emperor to Algeria , after the ratification of the T reaty of Peace , is very generally talked of in Paris . On Sunday last ( says the Paris correspondent of the Morning Pest ) a riot took place at Valence the pretext being the recruiting . The Govern ment immediately placed the province in a state of siege , ordering that the established law of the 17 th of April , 1821 , should be rigorously applied to the rebels . The . riot was instantly suppressed and order restored . —There has been a great deal
of talk in the Fusionist salons of a letter a < lclressed by the Count de Paris to the Duke cle Chambord . It is said that this letter is a sort cf homage rendered by the heir of the Orleans dynasty to the legitimate branch represented by the Duke de Chambord . It expresses sentiments of great affection , intended to bring about a perfect reconciliation between the two families , althoxigh . a point of great importance is not yet settled—the colour of the national flag . The Times of T uesday has been seized for containing Bei'anger ' s new song , which we published last week .
The pastoral letter of the Archbishop of Paris , on the conclusion of peace , has attracted considerable attention . After a disquisition of some length on tlie nature of the war , the prelate turns to the consideration of tho Peace , which he describes aB " a great step to tho purification and unity of the Church . So many nations of such different creeds have been thrown together as friends or as enemies iu tlie struggle , that the asperities of each must have been somewhat rubbed off , and the end to be looked to is , tho probable reunion of all souls iu one belief . It is merely local prejudices that separate France and England . These will disappear before the light of civilisation , and , one day or other , England will effaca
tho memory of that separation , which has a date . Russia , so young in courago , so old by enlightenment , and in whioh tho Christian sap is still so vigorous , cannot fail to oomo back to tlie fold . " Tho most remarkable passage of tho pastoral is that relative to tho Turks : — " This people , so long the terror of our faith , whose scimitar , iu the hands of Providence , was an arm wherewith to strike in tho East an enervated Christianity—this , people who carried their conquests so far , and tho wavos of whoso power have beaten tho ramparts of our capital , and inundated tho plains of Europe—this people is no longer the sumo n « it
was . ' Whore are its angers and its cmnitios ? It lias become ono of our faithful Allies . It has opened Its bosom to tho influence of Christian civilisation . It begins to open its eyes to the true light . It will roooRiiiiso its father nud its mother . At bottom , w / iat is Mahommcdaniam but a seat of OhriutianU- j / f When the work , raised by tho hand of man upon Divine foundation , shall have fallen and disappeared , wbor tho diviHione , tho hatred , tho raiaunderHUndingu shall have boon done away with , there will remain but iho faith aud charity of tho Gonpol , tho imperishable work ofOod . " iiuasrA . Tho Emperor was expected back iu St . Poterobvrg
hy th « 30 th from his Finland trip . His coronation cannot , on account of the great preparations necessary , take place before August : it is to be celebrated in all pomp , and the old Russian costume is to be the festal dress . The procession will contain eightee n new gilded state coaches . The Czar has authorised the free export of com from all the ports of his empire . The Russian Minister of Finance notified on the 5 th inst ., at St . Petersburg , that , a treaty of peace having been signed , the merchant vessels of the Western Powers will be admitted into Russian ports . The blockade of the Russian ports has been raised . AUSTRIA . The Theiss Railway Company is to have the right to continue the railroad from Arad to HermanEsfcadfc and Kronstadt , in Transylvania .
An important alteration , in the Austrian tariff has just been promulgated . It effects in several eases a reduction of between thirty and forty per cent ., and is regarded as an experimental step towards a more general abandonment of the prohibitive system- The reduction will take effect from the 1 st of July next .
SPAIN . The Cortes have agreed to the first two articles of M . Santa Cruz ' s financial scheme . The basis for the law relative to the militia has been decided on : workmen are excluded . The Madrid Gazette announces that the Spanish Credit Mobilier Company is now constituted . The construction of the Seville and Xeres railway has been adjudicated to Messrs . Prost and Co . Directly this decision was announced , two protests were presented , the one by Messrs . Osma and O * Shea for the Spanish Crddit Mobilier Company , and the
other by Senor Retortilla , of Cadiz . The ground of the protests was , that it was altogether irregular and unfair to allow the representatives of the Prost Company to hear the offers of all their competitors read , and then to modify , as they consider they have done , their original proposition . Under a former Ministry , the construction of this line was concealed to Senor Sanchez Mendoza , who commenced the work ; but the Cortes subsequently annulled the concession , granting ' him an indemnity . The Government has submitted the protest to the legal tribunal appointed to consider such matters .
Spain is once more in a very disturbed state . An insurrection broke out on . the 6 th inst . at Valencia , owing to dislike of the conscription ; An unpopular tax led to another disturbance at Lorca ; and a riot was feared at Saragossa . Tranquillity has for the present been restored ; but the future looks ominous . A Spanish letter says : —* ' Tne municipality of . Madrid has resigned at inasse , but not from political motives . The civil governor , it appeal's , demanded and ohtained certain information from the municipality , but he mislaid the papers containing it , and sent an official to examine the archives anew . This the municipality considered offensive , and it resigned . "
TURKEY . The first , second , and fourth Chamberlains of the Sultan have been dismissed . Redscbid Pasha , becoming jealous of Aali Pasha , on account of the latter obtaining the confidence of the Sultan , denounced his former protege in a memorandum , in the course of which he declared that Aali had made too many concessions to the Western Powers in the late Habfci-Humayoun , and had betrayed his country . As a consequence of this document ( though it does not clearly appear how ) , it was determined to dismiss the first , second , and fourth Chamberlains .
In several towns of Asia manifestations have been made , hostile to the reforms recently decreed ; at Aidin , especially , the Christians have been maltreated . It is said that the cavalry has repressed a disturbance by the Turkish population , at Ismid . The prisoners who were exchanged against tho Russians taken at Kinburn have arrived at Constantinople . They gave somo very interesting details about Odessa . It has boeu publicly stated that Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons will probably replace Lord Stratford de Redcliflo as English Ambassador to tho Porto .
ITALY . Some rumours are afloat as to the " sottlomout " of tho affairs of Italy whioh i » likely to be proposed by the Parifi Conferences . TJig Turin Opiniono of the 3 rd statos that tho proposition which will probably bo adopted oousists in establishing in the . Pontifical Legations a semi-independent government , subject only to the sovereignty of the Pope . This armugemont is said to bo conformable to tho wishos both of England and Franco . " ~\ Vo do not hositato to say , "
continues the Opinionc , " tlint this will bo a hall measure , of no roivl worvioo to Italy . It will only be a now edition of tho Duchios and Grand Dubhioa © I Central Italy , with this diflbveuoo , tluvt the Duohiee nro under the suzerainty of Austria , and Legatio n * will be undor tlie suzerainty of the Popo . Now , aa tc tomponU power , the Pope is under tho suzerainty o Austria ; wo do not hoo then "what the Italian pouiu huIu will gain by thoao arraugomentw . " Mount Vesuvius is again in iv state of eruption .
rORTUCIAT ,. Tho object of tho visit whioh King Don Ferdinand * in about to make to Brussels , is Biud to bo to arrangi
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Leader (1850-1860), April 12, 1856, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12041856/page/7/
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