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Continental Notes. France. The Separate ...
jhe Allied forces , Kamiesch is to be elevated by the BTOSiai * Government to the rank of a town of the second < da $ 0- Before the war , the importance of the port was comp letely unknown , though it is now considered to be superior to that of Eupatoria . ^ . > Some interesting particulars of the recent ministerial changes made by the Emperor Alexander are given by fhe Berlin correspondent of the Times , who writes : — * ' The removal of the Senator , Puschkine from his post in ; the Educational Administration of St . Petersburg seems to create more sensation in the Russian capital than almost any other of the many changes that have been made of late ; although deprived of these special functions , he is nominated privy councillor and remains
senator . He stood at the head of the Upper Committee of Censorship , and it is believed that the intended innovations in the Ministry of Public Enlightenment , as it is called in Ruisia , were thought incompatible with his principles , as a member of the strictest Old Russian party , and the forms in which those principles exhibited themselves . He is represented as a man of high honour , and one of the most intelligent and enlightened among the superior officers of the State service , but at the same tune as one who opposed fanatically what he thought the irruption of foreign ideas of civilization , and was most successful in keeping them at bay . Without going to the full extent in which some persons sanguinely
hope that the whole repressive system of censorship is now to be dropped in Russia , it may be safe to conclude that this removal of Puschkine by the Emperor is the evidence of a change for the better , as regards the application of liberal principles in the field of literature and the press . His successor is not yet named . In connexion with these movements of literary emancipation is mentioned as very possible that the present Minister of Public Worship and Education , Noroff , will divide the business of these two different branches of administrative activity , and thus schools and education would be permitted to take up a position nearly independent of the Church . This report will require a good deal of confirmation before we place much credence in it . "
" All that I have been able as yet to learn , " saj's the same writer , " the Emperor ' s speech to the nobility at Moscow during his late visit there , is , that he alluded to the report that had been spread of his intending to emancipate the serfs ; that was , however , he added , a matter that could by no means be done in a hurry . The state of things as it now exists was , nevertheless , one that could not last . It would therefore be very agreeable to him if the nobility itself would take into mature deliberation in what way a change could be gradually prepared for ; and any propositions they might make on the subject would always be welcome to him . "
Dr . Mandt , the homoeopathic German physician , who was with the Czar Nicholas during his last illness , and who was recently summoned to attend on the Empress-Mother , has fallen into some disgrace , and has quitted St . Petersburg . He refused to have a consultation with other physicians about his imperial patient ' s health ; and , indeed , it now appears that the Empress is sufficiently well to take her contemplated departure for Berlin . An inquiry into Dr . Mandt ' s system of medicine is being instituted by the regular practitioners . It is said , however , that he is commissioned to await at Berlin the arrival of the Empress-Mother .
The Russians , having been shut out from the Continent for the last two years , are now pouring forth . Passports to the number of forty thousand have already been issued at St . Petersburg . All the accommodation that can be afforded by the steam-boats plying between that city and Stettin is engaged up to the 1 st of July . The Czas of Warsaw announces that Russia is to commence a campaign this summer against the Caucasus . General Chruleff will have the command of the expedition under the superior direction of General Mouravieff . The expedition will extend to Daghestan , a distance of about sixty miles from the Black Sea coast .
SPAIN . General Zabala is shortly expected from Valencia , where order ia completely restored . The Government has invited General Villalonga to await further orders at Valencia , and it is generally believed that ho will bo reinstated in the government of the province . The last accounts from Barcelona state that some agitation provails among the labouring classes . Several persons convicted of having published a Socialist pamphlet , which was distributed in profusion throughout Catalonia , have been banished from Barcelona .
ITALY . In connexion with the important subject of thu present condition of Romo , and of the remonstrances of Franco against the lawless oppression tlu > ru exercised by tho Pontifical Government , the Vienna correspondent of the Conatitutionncl gives some interesting particulars , which are reproduced by the Paris correspondent of the Daily News . Tho former correspondent says that . since tho signing of tho treaty of April 15 , " France and Austria , desirous of proving by a collective step the perfect accord which prevails between tliem hh to tho best means to consolidate , order and tranquillity in tho Apennino peninsula , and to abridge the duration of tho foreign occupation of tho States of tho Church , have ngrood forthwith to address ( on behalf of each of tho two Governments ) a pressing memorandum to tho Papal
Government . To this end , Count Colloredo , the new Austrian ambassador to the court of Rome , will immediately proceed to his post- He will at once , conjointly with the French ambassador , Count de . Rayneval , deliver the document in question to Cardinal Antonelli . The two great Catholic Powers , prompted solely by the sincere and , so to speak , filial desire to strengthen the Government of the Holy See , to enhance the respect due to the throne of the Sovereign Pontiff , and to augment its eclat , have taken pains in this memorandum to represent and demonstrate the urgency of accomplishing in the interior of the States of the Church such salutary reforms as are called for by the aspirations of the country and the incessant development of modern civilization . The counsels of France and Austria , although couched in that friendly form which is doubly due to an independent sovereign and the Vicar of Christ , have nevertheless a certain firmness of language calculated to produce a profound impression upon the Sacred College . "
Cavaliere Cibrario has retired from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sardinia , and Count Cavour has been temporarily nominated in his place . Reform in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies appears to be hopeless . The King denies that his people are discontented , and openly asserts to those who have the courage to represent the truth to him that the masses are satisfied . Some members of the Royalist party recently urged on the King the necessity of making some change : their counsels were of no avail , and , as a last resource , they sent the Cardinal Archbishop . To him , the King made the astounding assertion just quoted , adding , " Send those to me who undermine me ( che io le acconciaro ) , and I will put them in order . " The political prisoners at Montesarchio say that they would rather die than accept their liberty on conditions which would compromise their honour . Poerio and his companions are suffering from pains in the chest , joints , and
the whole of the body , from the excessive damp of their prison , which almost liquefies salt and turns their bread green . As a pleasant contrast tothesebrutalities , the Times Naples correspondent records " a circumstance of a very different kind , reflecting much credit on Cardinal Carafa , the Minister for Foreign Affairs , and the British Consul , Captain Gallwey , R . N . In 1854 , two British subjects , dying of cholera at Castellamare , were buried in a neglected spot . The consul applied to the municipal authorities on the subject , but was treated with insult- The application was then made to the Sott' Intendente ana Cardinal Carafa , by whose orders not only has that spot been enclosed , but a considerable piece has been added , and , having been surrounded by a handsome wall at the expense of the municipality , has been dedicated to the burial of Protestants dying of cholera or any contagious disease . On the application , too , of Captain Gallwey , a duplicate key has been placed in the hands of the vice-consul resident in Castellamare .
The Grand Duke and Duchess of Tuscany are at Rome , where they have had an audience of the Pope . M . Manin has addressed a letter to the editor of tlio Turin Diritto , applauding the course taken by Sardinia at the recent Paris Conferences—a course which has asserted the right of Sardinia to speak in the name of Italy , and which has forced the diplomatists of Europe to admit that the state of Italy in intolerable . An interesting anecdote of Counts Cavour and Buol is related by the Times Paris correspondent , who says : —
" When the Plenipotentiaries were about to separate , Count Cavour observed to Count- Buol that their disagreement on the political state of Italy would not , he hoped , prevent them from being good friends as private individuals , and he held out his hand . Count Buol took it , expressed the pleasure he felt at making his acquaintance , and added that he trusted matters were not gone to such lengths between them in council as to cut off all hope of an arrangement or compromise . Count Cavour said , ' No ; the difference between us is too great for compromise . We must have all or nothing . ' "
" It is asserted here , " says the Vienna correspondent of tho Breslau Gctzette , " that Field Marshal Radetzky has written to tho Emperor himself , requesting him either to come to a decision with regard to tho projects of reform concerning the political organization of Lombardy , or to accept his resignation . It ia also said that the Field Marshal has called tho attention of the Government to certain suspicious-looking individuals who have assembled on the Sardinian frontier , and to the facilities granted to Sardinia for rendering herself popular in Italy , and acquiring partisans even in quarters which formerly were most hostile to her . " TVHKKr . The Sultan , it is fluid , has requeslou several Anglo-French divisions to remain for some time at Constantinople . It is thought that this request has beon canned by thu state of things in the interior of Turkey . The extensive revolt which Ii . ih broken out in Arabia is the
theme of general conversation . Egyptian troops are be employed in repressing it . Tho journals arc silent on the subject . Tho Smyrna papers state that tho fanatics in Syria have massacred tho English consular agent in Marasch and his family . Private letter * state that the Cadi , incited tho murderers . Suleiman Pacha has put down thu revolt in Magnesia , and arrested tho ringleaders . Troops have bei'ii despatched \ , y tlio Sultan , who ordered them to adopt . severe measures of repression .
Omar Pacha has been charged to organize movable columns , which are to overrun the provinces in which distress appears to have caused the agitation . The Abasians , united under the presidency of Prince Hamed , declare in favour of their nationality . A deputation from Abasia is expected at Constantinople . THE CRIMEA . General Liiders has authorized the cavalry division of General d'Allonville to proceed from Eupatoria to Kamiesch by land , passing along the coast . The Tartars of Eupatoria are emigrating , and establishing themselves in the Dobrudscha . Others are arriving in large numbers at Balaklava , to escape from the Russians . A promise has been made by the Russians to respect the graves of the English . A body of 9000 English troops has embarked at Balaklava . Trade continued to improve at Kamiesch .
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OUR CIVILIZATION . —* . — DRINK-MANIA . A Shocking Teagedy has occurred at Rochdale . James Taylor , landlord of the Boar ' s Head in that town , had for some weeks been in the habit of drinking excessively , and it is supposed that this intemperance brought on delirium tremens . His manners became very strange ; and one morning , about ten days ago , he greatly alarmed his wife by the violence of his conduct towards her . She therefore left home , and went to her sister ' s , but was induced by her husband a few hours afterwards to return to the Boar ' s Head . In consequence , however , of his alarming behaviour , she got two men to go with her to the house , and to stay there for her protection . Taylor gave some ale to one of these men , and to two others who were stopping at the house . Shortly after they drank it they were seized with vomiting and dizziness , and were obliged to go to their homes , where they were attended by medical men , and partially recovered , though it was evident that they had been poisoned .
In the mean time , Taylor , who was left in his house with his wife and infant child , and a man named Chadwick , took up the poker in the course of conversation with the latter , and , after stirring the fire , deliberately struck his wife a violent blow on the head with the weapon , and felled her to the ground . He also attempted to strike the child , but Chadwick sprang forward and forced the poker out of his hand . Before Taylor could uC any further mischief , the police entered the house ( his wife hav ^ previously raised an alarm ) , and took him into custody . " WiiuC h « waE > bei » S conveyed to the station-house , he drank some es ; C . ntlal oU ot al ~ mohds out of a bottle he had in his pocket , frCHl the effects of which he died about an hour and a half after
his arrival at the police-office . Tiie blow which he struck upon his wife's head is . not as dangerous as was at first supposed .
Jjaiung Hotei, Robjjkky.—A Very Impudent...
jJAiung Hotei , Robjjkky . —A very impudent robbery has been committed at the Turk ' s Head Hotel , Newcastle , by a stranger , a " swell mobsman , " but who , through his gentlemanly appearance and address , had been admitted into the establishment as a lodger . Ho drove up to the hotel one evening in a cab , and went into the coffee-room , where he ordered some refreshment , and asked if there were any letters for him , mentioning some extraordinary and uncouth name . The waiter told him that there were none . lie afterwards had tea , and
was accommodated with a bedroom for the night . This room was situated in the immediate vicinity of seven others , all of which , except one , were occupied by commercial travellers . About half-pant live o ' clock on tho following morning , the gentleman who had arrived tho day before left the hotel to go by the curliest train to Carlisle , accompanied by another man of great respectability , well known to the proprietor . of the hotel , and who also had been sleeping in the house . They had not been gone long , before the occupant of one of the bedrooms discovered that he had been robbed of bin
watch , which had been stolen from under his pillow . The pockets of hia trousers had likewise been ransacked , and some silver and halfpence ¦ were scattered on tlio iloor ; but as the greater part of his money was in his pur . se , which ho had fortunately wrapped up in his shirt , it escaped tho vigilance of the thief . A Spaniard sleeping in another room was al . so robbed of H / ., and an attempt was made to enter a third apartment , in which was a portmanteau containing a largo Hum of money ; luckily , however , the door of this room had been both locked and bolted by its occupant overnight , ho af » to
prevent any one from entering . As nobody had left the hotel but I ho stranger and his companion , Hiispiciona were immediately directed against them , and a messenger was despatched by thu next train in pursuit ; but shortly afterwards it waa ascertained by tho telegraph that tho Btrangor had got out of the train at Ilcxham , instead of going on to Carlisle . He has thu « hitherto escaped detection . It appi-arB that neither of tho gentlemen whose rooms had been onterod had been diaturbed , and tho room doors in the . morning wore locked and pns-Hnnti'd no marks of violence . The oano resembles that
reported a few weeks ago , and which had reference to two Americans who carried on a Hystem of plunder at hotels in Manchester and elsewhere . It avus then shown that by moans of pliers of n peculiar description , which were found in connexion with tlio . se robberies , the koy in
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Leader (1850-1860), May 17, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17051856/page/9/
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