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the increase of interest resulting from the fall in the « f * S % J * ' rdU . be found to amount to several . nul-23 ? n ? % SSL & tathe harvest is undoubtedly SSrf thewm , ' but it is not the only one which has Wuci tS ^ Sc . It may be traced , also to the late C the ' awSwaloa af . the ^ atenBWii of the , war , and ofother loaas which the Government may require . The future crisis which is apprehended , and the perturbation * in commercial enterprises which would be the consequence , produce afar greater effect on the imagination of the public than the deficiency of the harvest . There is probably some exaggeration in these forebodings ; but when we take into account the difficulty experienced m classifying the last loan of 780 millions , it cannot be denied that there is some foundation for them . A considerable number of the subscribers to that loan speculated on a rise , and anticipated a good profit . It was , no doubt , a perfectly legitimate speculation , but it was not withont its risk , inasmuch as the same number of subscribers—and the proof is now before us—had not m reserve wherewith to pay up the monthly instalment of the twentieth part of the capital they had obtained , and still less of the capital , four or five times more considerable , for which they had subscribed in anticipation of the proportionate reduction in the subscriptions .. Every one desired to realise a profit , and hastened to sell out the moment the value of the Rente rose ever so little . This depression , continuing from day to day , together with fears for the future , forces not only the holders of the loan to sell , but those also who are obliged to create retut crisis
sources to meet a ure . The Moniieur announces that her Majesty the Empress has just entered the fifth month of her pregnancy , and that the health of her Majesty is excellent . A state paper is said to have just left the Austrian Foreign Office , in which it is contended that the present is not the time to entertain propositions with respect to peace , and that the Western Powers should follow up their advantage , and not treat with Russia uutU the Crimea is wrested from her grasp . Further successes are necessary before the war can be brought to a " strategic conclusion . " Austria refuses to listen to any proposals that may come from St . Petersburg , unless they are also addressed to France and England ; and she agrees with the Western Powers in regarding the four guarantees as the minimum of what is to be demanded from Russia . The Russian Imperial Court are returning by degrees to the capital . . The Univers states that the Russian Government , in order to excite the fanaticism of the people , has caused to be constructed near Moscow an exact imitation of the Holy Places at Jerusalem . The natural configuration of the soil was favourable to this undertaking , but still immense works were necessary to render the imitation perfect The convent of Voskreseenskoe is made to resemble exactly the church of the Holy Sepulchre ; and the sanctuaries , chapels , and tombs have precisely the same dimensions , colour , and ornaments as those at
Jerusalem . . , „ •« . * t «~ i The Greek Patriarch Anthymos , the favourite of Lord Stratford de Redcliffe , has been dismissed , and the Archbishop of Amasia is named his successor . The Greek Ministers , M . Mavrocordato and General Kalergi , have given in their resignations . rhe new Ministers have taken the oaths . Four are—M . Miaulis CMarine ) , M . Smolensk ! ( War ) , M . Siliverio ( linance ) . The last holds the portfolio of Foreign Affairs untd the arrival of M- Tricoupi . . . The Austrian troops in the Danubian Principalities have recommenced their excesses . At Backeo , in Moldavia , a non-commissioned officer of the Moldavian militia has been wantonly insulted and murdered in a public place . At Tergowitz , in Wallacliia , the Austrians have been guilty of such atrocities that the administrator of the district has made a formal complaint to the Government , in consequence of which , an investigation has been ordered . The central committee of the I 3 ank of Prussia has resolved to raise to 4 £ per cent , the rate of discount on bills of exchange , and to 6 £ per cent , that on the paper called Lombard ( advances on Public Securities ) . A leading article to the following effect has been published in the New Prussian Gazette , the avowed organ of the Russian Embassy at Berlin :-- " Europe is at this moment within two steps of disgrace and of servitude ; its independence , its honour , and its faith now incur tho same dangers as from 1810 to 1812 , and perhaps greater . Forty-five years ago , the first Napoleon undertook to strike , in Russia , the last hope of European liberty , and he drew with him , as victims condemned to tho sacrifice , the nations already conquered , and Germany herself : now revived Bouapartiam again conapirea for the triumph of revolution , and the establishment of universal monarchy . It is liberty , it ia right , it is Christianity itself , which it wishes to destroy by annihilating Russia . It has already got for accomplices England , which has become its auxiliary from foar of conquest ; Sardinia , which has descended to the rank of vassal -, Spain and Portugal , aspiring to the same servitude $ and it still requires the co-operation of Germany . Must Prussia in her turn enter into this alliance , which is only a vassalage slightly-disguised ? Must she rebuild with her hands the * oraiqation of Bonnpartism ? Must tho French reign In 'Germany ? Yes or no V "
Poerio and his friends have recently experienced some slight amelioration of their wretched condition in the dungeons of King Bomba . They are permitted to write twice a week to their friends , under survetllawe , and they walk out every day within the enclosures . A rumour is abroad in France that Prince Napoleon ia about to marry one of the Royal Princessesof England . We cannot say we place much faith in it . On account of the deficiency of the vintage , the Roman Government has prohibited for another year the exportation of grapes , must , common wines , and vinegar , as also crude tartar . ,.., <• « . i _ ,, , The Spanish Cortes have passed a bill for the establishment of agricultural colonies by moans ot private enterprise . , . . The Emperor of Austria is in great perplexity about his coronation . Although he has been on the throne seven years , that august ceremonial has not yet been performed ; and it seem * not improbabl y that it will remain unacted for an indefinite period , owing to the dithculties by which Francis Joseph is surrounded . . Austria has been declared an empire ' one and indivisible — therefore , its supreme head nmst be crowned simply as the Emperor of Austria ; but it happens unfortunately that Hungary , Bohemia , and Lombardy arc very particular about " having a special coronation lor themselves , in which they desire their national crowns to be introduced , and this wo . ild indicate divisibility of rule . On the other hand , to be crowned with the imperial crown of Charlemagne would create great jealousy all over Germany ! Such are the petty difficulties of mo-1
na itfa " believed in Berlin that the banker Hope will succeed in raising a loan for Russia in North America . The health of the King of Sardinia has so tar recovered as to render unuecessary the issuing of any further bulletins . „ , A collision between the Pope and the . " Sardinian t * overnment seems imminent . The Sardinian episcopacy , feeling perplexed as to whom they were to apply the Papal excommunication to , addressed the 1 ope , and were told that the penalty applied to the Ministers , the members of the Ecclesiastical Board , the agents of the public revenue , the inavors , municipal councillors , and workmen who took part in the different expeditions against the convents , all journalists who hav ? supported the Government anti-ecclesiastical measures , and the si-ners of petitions in favour of those measures . All these persons are to be refused the sacraments unless they sign a retractation . The Pope is certainly doing his best to drive the Sardinians into Protestantism . The Austrian Government lias sequestrated the property possessed in Lombardv by religious corporations which have been suppressed in Piedmont , supporting its right to do so by the example of the Sardinian Government , when Joseph II . abolished convents and monasteries The Sardinian Government has remonstrated . The Spanish Cortes resumed their sittings on the 1 st inst The Budget has been read by Signor Bruil ; nnd it appears that about fifteen millions sterling will be required for the year 185 G , and seven millions and a half for the following half year . A demand is also made for 298 000 , 000 reals for an extraordinary expenditure for 185 G ; but means are provided for defraying it . Some further particulars of the Budget are given ns follows by the Times Madrid Correspondent : - —The deficit on the ordinary budget of I 860 is stated at 324 , 000 , 000 reals , which will be provided for by an increase of propertytax which the Minister estimates to produce 34 , 000 , 000 reals ; by the reimpoMtU > n-of _ tlui _ gate and excise dues on articles of general consumption , which i « estimated to produce 140 , 000 , 000 ; by alterations in the Customs tariff , and draughts on the colonial revenues , amounting respectively to 40 , 000 , 000 and 71 , 000 , 000 . 1 he Minister calculates that 440 , 000 , 000 reals will have been received by the Government from the sales of national property by Jnly 1 , 1867 , and the proceeds are to be applied to the repayment of the lnnn of this year and of the portion of the Snrtorius loan of last year which had been paid in , together with the payment of obligat . ona due to tho clergy , charitable institutions , those of public instruction , and corporation * , to public works , und the redemption of the public debt . A special law will provide for the repayment of the loan of 1854 . Another law confers on tho Bank of San Fernando tins title of " General Bank of Spain , " und raises its capital Iron * 120 000 , 000 to 200 , 000 , 000 mils . The bank m to establish within a year branches at Barcelona , feeviUc , Cadiz , Malaga , Valencia , Bilbao , Santandcr , Lorunua , Alicante , Valludolid , and Saragossu , and the Government is to be authorised to grant them the privilege of issuing
The vineyards in the south of Franco are reported to bo doing well . Tho produce will be greatly superior m quuntity and quality to that of laot year . ' 1 ho oidiuin or vino disease haa not done ho much injury as waa expected . Tho olivo aud chestnut crops aro also oxeol-Tho now Danish Constitution , adopted by tho Chambers , has , together with tho Electoral Law , been aunctlono d by tho King in a Council of MiiUatora ; but tho Hereditary Prince Ferdinand has refused to sign , and , atj a punishment , has been removed from tho chief command in Seoland .
The Maniteur publishes the following : — " The Government of the . Emperor has seen with deep regret the publication of a letter on the subject of the affairs of Naples of a nature to engender the belief that the policy of the Emperor , instead of being frank and loyal , aa it has always been , towards foreigu Governments , might favour , underhand , certain pretensions . The Government openly disavows them , under whatever form they may appear . " The Russian Emperor visited Odessa on his way to Nieholaieff . His arrival was expected at noon , but he did not arrive till late in the afternoon ; so that , tho crowds having dispersed after waiting several hours , his Majesty had but a poor reception . The unity , of opinion in Russia on the subject of the war would seem to be not « o certain as the Russian organs desire to make out . In a letter from Warsaw dated October 2 nd , and published in the Consliluhonitel , we read : " 1 have to communicate to you the opinion which prevails here generally among the usually wellinformed Russians , that it is not improbable Count Nesselrode will retire from public life . Tho veteran statesman is accused of having , from the very commencement of the Eastern question , allowed it to become envenomed until war became inevitable . In Europe , the opinion prevails that Count NcsM-lrodc was always peacefully inclined . Here , on the contrary , the Russians accuse him openlv of having desired war , and they are inclined to suspect " him of secretly exulting at the checks they hive suffered within the last year . Such supposition * will prove to you how many sources of discord there arc between the Russian and German factions . So much is curtain , that Count Nc ^ clrode has not received any mark of satisfaction , either from the Emperor . lsicholas or from the Emperor Alexander , since the commencement of the war . The Chancellor is not mentioned m the will of the late Czar . This fact is signUicant , as the Emperor Nicholas names all his servitors in his will . It is finally rumoured here that the Chancellor v . ill be replaced by M . Stfiiiirvine before the end of the '"" General O'Donnell , Spanish Minister of War , in road , ing to the Cortes a project of law fixing the force of the armv next year at 70 , 000 men , alluded to the possibility of circumstum-e ' s arising which might render necessary the intervention of Spain in the great European
b l ru uf * l o The Prussian Minister of Llie Interior ( says the Tim , s Correspondent ) ha - s personally aud vied race denied , at a meeting of electors , any cognisance on his part , or of any one in his bureau , of the doiniciliury visits of the policemen , and their improper attempts at influencing the elections by intimidation . On the other hand , it is known that he approves the attempts made by the Um < lratlu ; or sheriff * , to secure the return of Ministerial candidates by rouudlv stating that it will not be tolerated that any one in " the employ of the Government should in any way be concerned in " forwarding the election of any tnyrata
The refusal of the Beyrade George Stirbey , son of the Hospodar of Wallachia , to order , in the absence of his father , a general illumination of Bucharest , on the receipt of the news from the Crimea relative to the taking of Sebastopol , is making a great stir in the Principalities . The young man , who is a great partisan of Austria and Russia , had had the impertinence to Bay that there was no proof of Sebastopol being taken , and that , on the contrary , the public might expect to learn that the Allies had been driven into the sea . The Hospodar returned hurriedly to Bucharest to soften matters . He asked the Director of the Home Department the reason of the omission , and was told tho Ucyrndc * George was the cause Stirbey then ordered tho town to be illuminated for three davs , und sent tho Administrative Council to the residence of the EngllHh Consul to congratulate him . Mr . Colqulioun is reported to have replied as follows : — » I am quite surprised to we you hero after a delay ol fifteen days . 1 cannot conceal from you the little faith I attach to your felicitations , which you term sincere . Tho Government of her Britannic Majesty will be the judtfo between ino and your conduct during the last ion
Several persons , moat of them Mayors , have been arrested in Finland , by order of the military commundanta in tho various districts . The causes o these arrests — eighty in number — are stated to u « .
A conspiracy against the existing ^ aniMh Go ^ rn - menthas been discovered , according to « letter fiom Madrid , written apparently by a Car hat A paper sotting forth tho deign . ,, f the ^ "I ^ ftta J w ^ covered just as the person employed to dl-tnl uto * waa well aa tho or ginal , corral by tho hand of the author . Tho writing | , £ , vurt to ! .,. tliut of Don August ... Perules , SecreUry of tho Queen , whu had juat been removed Iron . hiapoat V tho new palace rotations Ho I ... 1 h * , i arrested together with sumo persona of less note . 1 »< " c ; ii (! l . wa « < ll « cov « r « a «« t » forth that , owing o '"So failure of tho July revolution , " tho Queen « insulted and tyrannised over , shut up In her pal «<« u » " a prison , encircled by « Airn , and calumniated . A « loc iinent ia then appended , which , it i » snid , is attributed to
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THE LEADED [ No . 290 , Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 13, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13101855/page/6/
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