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-April'18,1857.] THE LEADER. 365
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. FRANCE. The Republica...
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-April'18,1857.] The Leader. 365
-April' 18 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . 365
Continental Notes. France. The Republica...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The Republicans intend to nominate M . Carnot as a candidate for the Legislative Chamber . They mean to propose Mm both in Paris and in the departments . The religious ceremonies of Holy Thursday ( the 9 th inst . ) were conducted with great pomp , and attracted a large number of persons to the churches , which -were fitted up magnificently . An account given by the Times Paris correspondent of a spectacle exhibited at the church of St . Rpcb , in tlie shape of an illuminated pictuie of Mount Calvary at the time of the crucifixion , . throws a curious light on these ecclesiastical showpieces : — " Amid the sharp , rocky eminences arose the
cross , half covered with black cloth . A number of lamps , partly concealed among the crags , shed a ' dim religious light' over the chapel in which the toinb was erected , while the cross itself , oil which the brilliancy was skilfully thrown , canie out in bold relief . At the ^ Madeleine , the tomb was erected in one of the side chapels ; but the effect , however in harmony with the rather ostentatious ornaments of the interior of that church , was not so striking nor so solemn as at . St . Rock or St . Sulpice . The coffin was covered with velvet embroidered with gold , and above the whole rose a canopy of crimson velvet surmounted with white plumes . " The writer says that the picture at St . Eoch " was the object of general veneration . " Shade of Voltaire ! was it veneration , " or only curiosity ?
General Todleben paid a visit on Thursday week to Prince Jerome and Prince Napoleon Bonaparie at the Palais Royal . Prince Napoleon , it is said , intends visiting Egypt in the course of next month . . " General Todleben , " says the Times correspondent , " is rather feted among official people . He remained vvith the Emperor nearly an hour at his first audience . The Emperor asked him whether , if the French and English had marched on Sebastopol at once after the battle of the Alma , they could have taken it . General Todleben declared that there was no doubt about it , as there were but two or three battalions in the place . This opinion vas subsequently expressed by him to others . " A thunderstorm , accompanied by hail and rain , burst over Paris on the morning of Friday weelc .
The commission nominated last year on the monetary question has now met , under the presidency of M . Schneider , the Minister of Finance , M . Liagne beingprevented by other occupations from presiding . It is said that there never was so much specie in France as at present ; but the peasants hoard , and an artificial scarcity is thus created . In a paper lately read before the Academy of Sciences at Paris , M . Boussingault has shown that the water contained in the wells of Paris is impregnated with nitrate of potash , or saltpetre . It is true that this water
is not generally used For drink , but wine-dealers water their wines with it ; and although nitrate of potash is " not absolutely poisonous , siuce it may be taken with impunity in much larger doses than can be imbibed with th < s water , still its presence always denotes the existence of vegetable and animal matter in a state of decomposition , which is unquestionably injurious to the public health . In consequence of this discovery , the baking establishment of the hospitals of Paris has resolved to use Seine water for making bread , instead of the water brought from the wells of the neighbourhood . . ¦ ¦
Sonus remittances of sovereigns are taking place from Paris to London . During the last week , 70 , 000 are said to have been sent via Boulogne . It appears that , at the reduced price offered for gold by the Bank of France , they no longer afford any profit on melting . — Times City Article ( Tuesday' ) . The question of the renewal of the charter of the Bank of France is now under discussion . The Government is said to contemplate granting a term of fifty years , upon condition that the Bank shall double its present capital of 3 , G 50 , 000 Z , and employ the additional amount thus raised by investing it in Government securities . According to the Prcsie , these securities arc to consist of Treasury Bonds , but it is believed in private quarters that they are to be Three per Centrentes .
, Silk still maintains a high price in France , owing to the holders of stock keeping the sales back , in the belief that another short crop is to bo expected . The aspect of the mulberry trees , however , is favourable . King Victor Emmanuel , according to a letter from Koine of the 3 rd inst ., has proposed to the Pope to resume negotiations with the Court of Rome on the following bases : —Monsignor Franzoni to resign his rank oi Archbishop of Turin , and to receive a cardinal ' s hat in return . Monsignor Charvaz , Archbishop of Genoa , to be translated to the sec of Turin ; and , further , that a concordat should bo concluded which would efliice all tho acts of tho Picdnionteso Government with respect to ecclesiastical matters for somo years post . —Times Purls Lorrespmident .
Marshal Vaillant , Minister of War , in order to place the effective strength of tho army in harmony with tho estimates of the budget of 1857 , has decided that fr « sh temporary renewable furloughs shall bo immediately granted to tho noldior-j of the classes of 1850 , lBfiJ , 18 C 2 , 1853 , and 1854 . They will bo divided hi the proportion of about 100 to each regiment , making 3000 for
the first military division , of which PaTis is the centre . These furloughs will not in any way interfere with the others , granted in accordance with the Minister ' s , " circulars of the 7 th . of June , 1856 , and the 22 nd of January , 1857 . —Idem . Some men have recently been punished in Paris by fine and imprisonment for insulting priests in the streets—an offence which has become very common since the Verger affair . The vines present a very healthy appearance this year , there being no sign as yet of the oidium , the disease from which they have recently suffered . The Bishop of Nancy , principal Almoner to the Emperor , has returned from Rome , and has bronght with him a Papal Bull for the better organisation of the Imperial Almonry .-.
The Grand Duke Constantine is expected in Paris on tho 23 rd . The Emperor wished his cousin , Prince Napoleon , to go and meet him ; but he refused , his repugnance to anything like a Russian alliance being very great . There is said to have been a rather warm iiltercation between him and the Emperor ; and the Prince is even reported to have intimated a desire to absent himself from Paris during the visit of the Russian Grand Duke . Some electoral committees were formed a short time ago to agitate the country in the Republican interest
and to aid in the return to tlie Legislative Chamber of Republican representatives . For some time , the Government looked on passively ; but , according to the Paris Correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette ^ when it was perceived that the committees were every day drawing off more and more of the working classes from the Government candidates , the police made two descents upon the agitators , and have altogether arrested one hundred and six . These will be tried , not for any conspiracy against the safety of the state , but for unlawfully assembling .
I he spring campaign against the Kabyles , in Algeria , has been opened . The commission with reference to Cayenne , which was appointed by the Minister of Marine , has , it is said , reported that the evacuation of the settlement at Cayenne is indispensable , and that the convicts should be removed to New Caledonia .
TUKKEY , Some pirates have attacked a Dutch ship in the Bosphorus , and have escaped all pursuit . The English Ministry and the India Company have reversed the project for carrying the telegraphic wire from Constantinople to India by way of the Red Sea . It is now decided that the wire shall follow the line of the railway of the Euphrates . The English steamer Arcadia , which was wrecked at the entrance of the roadstead of Smyrna , has been got up by the aid afforded by Admiral Roset .
The following are given in the Times City Article of Wednesday as the chief details of the projected Turkish Bank : — " The privileges are for thirty years , and extend over tlie whole of the Turkish dominions , giving the right of establishing branches in any part of the empire . The capital is to bo 10 , 000 , 000 / ., of -which 2 , 500 , 000 ? . must be paid up . The Board is to consist of a Governor , Deputy-Governor , and twenty-four Directors , the Government nominating the Governor and Deputy-Governor and six directors , the remaining eighteen directors being elected by the shareholders . The right of issue is for 15 , 000 , 000 / ,, with a reserve of one-half in specie . Within six months from the commencement of business , .. tho Bank is to withdraw that
portion of the existing state paper circulation which bears interest . This amounts to about 2 , 700 , 000 / ., of which 1 , GOO , OOOJ . carries six per cent ., and 1 , 100 , 000 / . ten per cent . The circulation not bearing interestabout 2 , 300 , 000 / . — -is to be redeemed within ( ifteen months . The total to be redeemed ia , therefore , 5 , 000 , 000 / . The depreciated specie currency , amounting to 4 , 500 , 000 / ., is to bo replaced by new silver and copper coinages to be gradually supplied from the Mint —the former with an alloy of sixteen per cent ., the latter with an alloy of thirty-three per cent . For the amount of paper currency withdrawn the Government is to give the Bank transferable Six per Cent . Trea-Bonds
sury ) , secured by a special assignment of the revenues of tho provinces of Konia and Kutayah , Adriunoplo and Uskuif , amounting to nearly 1 , 000 , 000 / . per annum . . Similar bonds are also to bo given for any difference resulting between tho value of tho depreciated currency called in mid the new coinages issued in its place . Finally , tho Hoard is to have tho power of carrying on all legitimate banking operations in tho saino manner as the Banks of England and France . " The first experiment in Kuropcun colonization in Turkey has just been made . Uno hundred and thirty Polos have embarked for the purpose of settling oil the domains of Rescind Pacha in Th < j , ssuly .
AUSTItlA . Ono of tho Vienna correspondents of the Augsburg O ' azctta Htaten , that two South-Slavonians forced their way into tho anteroom of tho Emperor ' s aiidienco chamber , and there stated that a plot had been formed against his Majesty , which was to bo put into execution while he wna in Hungary , liuaiiriea have been made on tho subject , and it is now said that tho Btory has but
little foundation an fact , the men having only come for the settlement of some private affairs of their own . The Aulie Councillor , Von Lackenbacher , has left Vienna foi Constantinople , where he is to form one of a commission for examining- into the finances of Turkey . The money matters of that empire have got into a state of such grievous disorder that tlie Sultan has requested England , France , and Austria , each to send a person learned in such affairs to give advice to the Ministers of the Porte . Count Ficquelmont , who was Minister for Foreign Affairs in 1848 , died at Venice on the 6 th inst ., in his seventy-eighth j-ear .
The preposterous ceremony of " the washing of feet ' took place on Holy Thursday ( the 9 th inst . ) at Vienna . The Emperor operated on twelve old men , the Empres a on the same numcer of old women . The performance is of a very simple kind , and is not too laborious . It is transacted thus :- —A requisite number of basins is produced ; a Lord Steward hands to the Emperor , and another Lord Steward hands to the Empress , a gilt ewer . ( Imperial 'humility must not be without its' S 2 > lendours ) ; the august operator pours on one foot of each of the old folk ( for'self-mortification in palaces must be
minimised ) . a-few . drops ; of water and then dabs the foot dry ; and so , with a present of money , the ceremony concludes . And by :. this ¦ ¦ cheap humility does Ferdinand Joseph purchase the right to commit—or , as an act of special favour , 1 o withhold from committing '—— any amount of pride : ind vanity and oppression for the next twelvemonth . —A writer from the spot says that " the Emperor handled the eroelcery in a masterly way j but the Emp-ress required the assistance of her ladies . " From this it would appear that it is a part of the education of Austrian ladies of the . court to knoiy- how to handle hardware .
The concentration of 20 , 000 Sardinian 'troops in a camp near Alessandria has induced the Government to order the commander ' of ' . the Austrian army in Lombardy to form " a camp of ' instruction" ' between , Sesto Calende and Somma , at the ' 'southern-extremity , of the Lago Maggiore . Sueh , at least , is a report generally believed in military circles ; and there .-is- another report , to the effect that Sardinia has given tip her intention of forming the corps at Alessandria : Count Correr , the Podesta of Venice , has tendered his resignation to Count Bisshigen , the Stadtholder of the province . .. . : The Government has removed the sequestration placed on the estates of Count Ann on i , deputy to the Sardinian Parliament .
The Government has solicited many of the most influential Hungarian nobles to undertake the task of preparing an enthusiastically popular demonstration In . favour of the Emperor on the occasion of his approaching visit to his Magyar dominions . Tliey have declined , however , knowing full well that the feeling of discontent at the loss of national liberty—at the endeavour to break down the Hungarian language by introducing German into the law-courts , where the people have actually to employ interpreters—at the separation from Hungary of Croatia , Transylvania and the Banat— and at the despotic rigour of the Concordat—is so great , that tho attempt would end in failure .
XTjLLY . The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian , on entering oil his office of Governor-General of the Lombardo-Venetian Provinces , has issued a circular to the administrative authorities on the nature of their duties , and on the spirit in which they must henceforth act . Among otlier things , he recommends that the people shall be allowed to develop freely their material and moral resources ; that tliey shall bo treated with due consideration and humanity ; and that functionaries shall not , by exaggerated zeal , ¦ ¦ compromise- the safety of the throne and tho welfare of the population . ( . Jucen Victoria has sent a gold medal to Signor Vincenz llobuiuli , na a token of her admiration of his " Hymn of tho Riflemen , " which was dedicated to her , and which was very popular with all tlie allied armies in the Crimea .
Tlie inhabitants of Novellarn , in the Duchy of Tklodena , have scut lOOf . towards the subscription for purchasing cannon for tho fortress of Alessandria . The wtato prisoners in tho fortress of Paliano , iu the Roman Stalen , have been treated -with great cruelty since tho attempt made by some of their companions to escape , when six were shot dead und several wounded . They are kept in solitary conlinement , and deprived of books , pen , ink , or paper . It in denied by the writer of a letter from Naples in tho Nord of Jinisscla that General Pianelli lias arrived
in I ' l ' iincG with a mission to arrange the differences between Naples and the two great "Western Powers . The . same writer auy . s that tho author of a false proclamation posted in tho streets of Naples during tho night , with tho . signatures of the Ministers and the King ' s soul attached , has been arrested , lie is a young printer , ami he admit * hid guilt , hut denies having any accomplices . SpimiKzn , one of the insurgents at Palermo during thu late outbreak , has been shot before his own house , bin family being previously sent out of the town . He confessed , obtained absolution , received tho sacrament , and heard mass , at a neighbouring church , where the »« -
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Leader (1850-1860), April 18, 1857, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18041857/page/5/
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