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General Castillo , on his return to Callao , was placed under arrest by the Council of Ministers , who exercised the supreme power during the absence of the President . Castillo published a letter complaining of this outrage , and the matter "was referred to the convention , which disclaimed the action of the Council . An amnesty has been granted at Valparaiso to all persons who , on account of the part they took in the events of 1851 , have been , or may be , indicted , and who reside at present in the country . The leaders of the Conservative party , who have hitherto supported the Government , united with the Liberals , and formed a strong party against the Government . The } ' demanded a change in the Cabinet , and a more liberal line of policy . The Ministers , consequently , presented their resignation , which , was accepted by the President .
The whole of Yucatan is in arms , and the revolutionists have been successful everywhere . The Governor has marched against Campeachy with 1500 men . Financial affairs at New York continue in an unsettled , state , and several other failures are announced , including the firms of Messrs . A ' tward and Co ., bankers , and the Mechanics' Banking Association , which has suspended on account of an alleged defalcation of the first paying teller . A more confident feeling , however , ia arising , and it is thought that the worst of the panic is over .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRAXCE . The approaching visit of the Emperor to Stuttgard , and the interview he is to have there with the Russian Czar , form prolific subjects for discussion and guesswork in the French and other continental papers . A great many idle conjectures as to the affairs of state which will be talked over by the two crowned heads have been put forth . ; but they are not worth repetition . In the meanwhile , it becomes every day more a matter of certainty that the interview will really take place . General Fleury , Louis Napoleon's aide-de-camp , charged with the direction of the travelling equipages , has arrived in Paris from Chalons , to make arrangements . Every thing is to be ready for the journey on the 20 th inst .
la consequence of the accident which occurred at the Camp of Chalons , where two artillerymen were wounded owing to negligence in closing the touchhole of a gun , the Emperoi " , who was much shocked at their misfortune , has appointed a commission to devise a plan for preventing such accidents in future . A paper mentions that M . Gustave Oppelr , a Belgian officer , has invented what he calls an obturator , which he undertakes will perfectly close the touchhole of a gun while it is being charged . —A large piece of ground in the Champs Elysees , near the Palace of Industry , has been granted to a society of artists , and a building has already been commenced upon it , in which are to be exhibited a succession of panoramic views of a high class , illustrating great historical events , wars , festivals , and ceremonies of recent and present times . The first series of views is to be from the Crimean campaign . —Times Paris Correspondent .
M . M'Carthy , a member of the Geographical Society of Paris , has just started on a journey to Timbuctoo . He speaks Arabic and various African dialects with great fluency . He travels alone , —Idem . Very heavy storms of rain , wind , thunder , and lightning , have burst over Lyons , Valence , Strasburg , and Perigueux . At the latter town , much damage was done , a great many trees being uprooted or split down the middle , houses unroofed , buildings levelled , and crosses on the church roofs twisted awry . The printing-offices of the Moniteur were burnt down about seven o'clock on Monday morning , shortly after the paper was printed and distributed . The fire was extinguished at half-past eight . The printing presses were saved . The Indinendance Belye has again been seized .
The celebrated painter Winterhalter has been commissioned to execute the portrait of the Emperor Alexander II ., which 5 s to bo placed in the Museum of " Versailles . The Emperor continues to reside in military style at the Chalons camp , nnd the various exercises of the troops go on from day to day to his entire satisfaction The railway branch from Chalons to the camp , twenty- ' live kilometres in length , was opened on Tuesday . It has been completed in seventy days from the first survey . Two members of the municipal council of Stuttgard have arrived in Paris , and havo proceeded to the camp at Clialona . Thoy are come , it is said , with reference to arrangements for a fete which their city proposes to give in honour of the Emperor of the French . —Times Paris Correspondent .
Au immense telegraphic lino is about to be commenced , passing from Marseilles to tho Iulnnd . s of Ilyerca , thence to Corsica , nnd from inland to island until it reaches Constantinople . It will ¦ thus unite to Franco the whole of tho East . Tho lino which ia to unito Marseilles to ' Bnetiu is to bo finished in less than a year , on the let of July , 1858 . This gigantic undertaking has been conceded to M . Balestrini . —fdem . Prince Napoleon has paid a viait to George Sand at her residence in Berry . His projected journoy to tho
Isthmus of Suez has been abandoned . He will go to the Cha-lons camp , the Emperor having required his presence there ; but it i 3 said he did not intend to go there voluntarily .
PRUSSIA . The assembly of Evangelical Christians was opened at Berlin on the 9 th , inst . The meeting took place in the garrison church . Prayers invoking the Divine blessing on the labours of the assembly , were offered up in German , French , and English . Tho . Hon . and Rev . Baptist Noel , in his prayer , implored the protection of God for his fellow countrymen in India , and tb . 3 Divine aid in the speed y evangelization of that country . Several
meetings have taken place , at two of which the King was present , and was so crowded and mobbed at the first by our flunkeyish countrymen that the Queen , who was looking on from a distance , was alarmed , and thought an Insurrection was being inaugurated I On one of the days , a striking ' ceremony took place : this was the administration of the Lord's Supper to two hundred communicants of various nations , all speaking the English language . The ceremony took place in a large public room hired for the purpose .
PORTUGAL . A decree has been issued authorizing Messrs - Alfred Coursoh and L . V . D . Alfonseca to form a company for the construction of railroads upon the American plan in the African provinces of Angola , the Portuguese Government making considerable grants of land and mining privileges to the company , which is said to be a Parisian j reject . SWEDEN . The King on the 11 th inst ., in virtue of the terms of the Constitution , appointed a provisional Government , on account of his illness . A motion was made on the following day in the Parliament that the King should nominate the Crown Prince Regent of the Kingdom .
KUSSIA . A gala spectacle took place at the Grand TheatTe , St . Petersburg , on the occasion of the marriage of the Grand Duke Michael . The Emperor and Empress mother advanced to the front of the large centre box , and presented the bride and bridegroom to the public . The performances only lasted an hour , and but little attention was paid to it , the Imperial box being the chief object of attraction . On' the following morning , the newly-married couple received the congratulations of the court , and of the deputations from the different trading bodies of the city , who . presented bread and salt , " according to custom , on gold dishes . That presented by the artisans is described as the handsomest . Next day , the Imperial family returned to Peterhof , and a . grand , ball was given at the palace .
AUSTRIA . Austria , it is said , wishes to negotiate a Treaty of Trade and Navigation with Russia , but the St . Petersburg Cabinet declines to treat . The assertion tliat Baron von Prokesch insists on the evacuation by England of the Island of Perim is denied by a Governmental correspondent of the Frankfort Post Zeitung . The Austrian Government denies the right of this country to tho island , but does not mean to move in the matter . A 3 the murrain lias broken out again on the Transylvanian frontier , all foreign cattle are subjected to a quarantine of ten days .
Having completed his Hungarian tour , the Emperor has addressed to the Archduke Albrecht a document , in which he says : — " I observed with satisfaction the remarkable progress which Hungary has made in all respects since I travelled through it five years ago , and convinced myself that the institutions which—after ripe consideration and with due regard to the peculiarities of the country—were introduced in accordance with my organic ordinances of December 31 , 1851 , have essentially contributed to its evident improvement . I feel assured that their salutary influence will be still more felt when the commerce of the country is more developed nnd there are greater facilities of communication—when the measures relative to the emancipation of the soil are
entirely carried out , and the new organization is completed . Being resolved that tho fundamental principles which have hitherto guided mo in the government of my empire shall be maintained inviolate , it is my will that this should bo universally Xnown , and particularly that all the organs of my Government should tsike my will foi their exact rule of conduct . At tho same time it will bo my anxious care that allowance all all bo made for tho national peculiarities of the different races , and that duo attention shall be paid to tho cultivation of their language , " The miserable state of religious subjection to which
Austria has been reduced by the Concordat is illustrated by a fact related in the Vienna correspondence of the 7 'imcs : — It was ( stipulated that tho monastic establishments should undergo a reform , and tho monks bo obliged to live in otriet accord unco with tlio rules and regulations uiado by tho founders of their respective orders . Accordingly , tho Archbishop of Vienna informed the Dominicans muling in thia city that they must have their heuds shaven in a certain way ^ aing pnalim iu their church nf midnight , repout their pray era at three o'clock in tho morning , and castigate thomaclvea . Tho Dominicans , with tho exception of three , refused to agree
to tins , and alleged that when they took the vows thev only pledged themselves to observe the regulations ^ hieh were at that time in force in their monastery . Thp Archbishop has sent the refractory monks to a Dominican convent at Maissau , in Lower Austria , and has sum moned other Dominicans from Belgium and Italy "
ITALY . A lady who has recently arrived at Vienna , and who asserts that she is a Gon ^ aga , lays claim to the Duchv of Mantua . ¦ . ' * The Pope returned to Rome on the 5 th inst ., in the midst of great pomp . He was received by t he people with the utmost coldness . The Roman correspondent of the Times asserts that " the ' claque' organized for the purpose of misleading the people during the entry of the Pope deserted en masse after receiving the bread , meat , wine and money , distributed among them . " There was a large display of military and police ; and all the vivas came from hireling lungs . What a picture of the essential meanness of these effete * forms of Government !
On the morning of the 18 th inst ., the Pope pr esided at an Ecclesiastical Council in the Church of Santa Maria del Popolo . Thence he was escorted to the Spanish Embassy , for the purpose of blessing the monument of the Immaculate Conception , which was completely uncovered for the first time . He performed his office in the midst of profound indifference . A small torrent which flows through the Commune of Arnaz , Valle d'Aosta , Sardinia , was so swollen b y the rain on the night of the 10 th inst . that it overflowed its banks , and swept away ten or twelve houses with'their inhabitants . Seven persons were rescued , but thirty are missing . Subscriptions hare been raised for the survivors .
A number of persons temporarily imprisoned on suspicion of being concerned in the Mazziniau plot of last June have lately been released at Genoa ; and it is said that Miss "White will be restored to her country before long .
GERMANY . The subjoined notification appears in the ' Frankfort Post Zeitung .- — " As the British Embassy in this city continually receives offers of service in the English army , we are authorized to state that at present the British Government does not intend to form a Foreign Legion ,, and that foreigners cannot serve in the English army . " SPAIX . The Ministers have offered their resignations to the Queen , who has refused to accent tlieni .
TURKEY . A ° part of the street leading from Pera to Galata has been destroyed by fire . A very unflattering account of the line of policy of the Sultan and his chief officers of state is given by the Times Constantinople correspondent , who observes : — " The people will not long consent to see the wealth and resources of their country squandered by improvident and incapable Ministers . The extravagant expenditure of the Sultan and his women , and the endless palaces he is every day building , are becoming common themes of discussion in all the cafenehs . Only two days ago , in
the sacred suburb of Eyoub , the City of the Tombs , the abode of the most fanatic Mussulmans , the last place in Stamboul where one would expect to hear seditious language , a white-turbancd Turk , in the middle of a large group , asked me whether it was true that the Kings of . England had not built themselves a new palace for upwards of two hundred years . 'Why , ' said he , ' our Padishahs build themselves one every year . How can a country be rich when its wealth is so heedlessly squandered ? You are wise , and do not let your kings do as they like . ' With all the religious prestige which surrounds tho Imperial person , such opinions need not gain much ground among the people to become serious . "
THIE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIK 8 . The now Moldavian elections nro now proceeding . Up to tho present time , they have been favourable totlie Union .
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Inquksts on the bodies of some men who w killed by an explosion at the Gawn Colliery , on Thursday w eek , were opened at Dudley on Saturday . The bodies of tho seven men having been removed to their Into residences , which happened to be situated in thrco separate coroners' districts ( the counties of Worcester and Stafford being at this point much intermixed ) , separate inquests were opened on each . Tho evidence n ' " ° these wna chiefly of a . formal character , and they were adjourned for a more complete investigation . At the
inquest on tho body of George French , the ' doggie , or underground superintendent of the works , one witness ttaid that lamps ytcio kept in tho pit . It was tlio 4 doggioV duty to try the lumps every morning before commencing work . Ho ncvor saw any lamps in tue 1 whimacy' ( a hut on tho bank of tho pit ) . llu sftW lamps taken down into tho pit after the explosion . A juror romurked that 1 ' rcnch hud told him *> n t ' vcr ^ morning of tho accident that h « vvua going to work , «»«' that there was not a lamp in the ' whimsoy' lit- t 0 & 0 down . into the pit witk . —Prior to tho adjourned iiujucwta ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 19, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19091857/page/8/
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