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CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian feeling is to le condemned which regards with jealousy the progress of foreign nations " and cares for no portion oF the human race but that to which itself belongs . Dk . Aenoid . FRANCE . The Momteur records & fact which it describes as proving " the honourable feelings with which the English officers who took part with the French in the war in the Crimea are animated . The committee of the Army and Navy Club in London , Laving heard that a caricature at the bottom of which were some offensive remarks , with a pretended message from the club , had been sent to some colonels of ¦ . the French army , has offered a reward of 50 £ to any one who will make known the author of it , thus showing how indignant the members of the . club feel , at so shameful an insult . " There has just been discovered at Nantes a series of letters written by some of the literary celebrities of the first half of the eighteenth century . Among them are thirty-six signed by Louis Kacine ; three by Tilbn da Tillet ; fourteen by Desforges-Maillard ; thirty by Bertrand of Nantes ; and one by President Bouhier . M . Pietri , Prefect of Police , has resigned his post . The Emperor , who has written a letter to M . Pietri , accepting his resignation with regret , and speaking highly of the retiring Prefect ' s services , has appointed to the vacant office M . BoitteUe , Prefect of the Yonne . The Moniteur of Thursday contains some noteworthy replies to observations which have appeared in the Times and other English papers . The official journal sayS : " In its number of the 15 th of March , the Times pretends that the French policer penetrate into the domestic circle , and cause anxiety and mistrust in the relations of private families . It adds that it regrets the days when it could not refuse its admiration to the noble confidence of the Emperor , ' who drove his own phaeoui
ton , ana . wno now never goes muess jjuamcu u > squadrons . It will suffice to mention such assertions to refute them . Never was the French police less inquisitorial than at the present moment . If its zeal has been doubled since the attempt of the 14 th of January , those ¦ who regret the failure of that attempt are the only persons to complain . As regards the assertion respecting the Emperor , every one knows that his Majesty has made no change in his usual habits , and that he drives out daily without an escort . . . . Some foreign journals seem astonished that France should have requested the continental and bordering Powers to send away dangerous refugees from her frontiers . Thus acting , Trance only made use of the right of international law . No one was astonished that Switzerland last year requested the French Government to send into the interior the refugees who desired a restoration of Royalty at Neufcbatel ; nor was any one surprised that Spain should have asked us to send into the interior the Carlist refugees , and that the Cortes should have thanked the Emperor for having , by such a step , prevented a civil war . The conduct of France hns therefore teen guided by the universally acknowledged principles of international law . " PRUSSIA . Some sensation has been created in the House of Deputies by a matter affecting the independence of the electors .. An - interpolation was recently addressed to the Minister of the Interior , seeking for information ¦ with respect to certain interferences by the police in the election . which took place last autumn at Elbing . Tho facts alleged arc to the effect that the Director of Police at the place mentioned issued to the various , authorities a . circular . enclosing a , list of the Conservative , or High Tory , candidates , and calling upon them not only to vote fop those'Oondidataa- 'themselves , but to use all their influence- with others to get those candidates elected , Tho same moans woro taken to corrupt the individual citizens 5 but , two days before tho election , a . complaint -was sent ) to > the . Minister of the Interior with , respect to tula scandalous invasion of popular rights . Nevertheless , tho illegal interference continued during tho ' election . The ground was surrounded by tho police ,, who questioned every voter ( is . ho came up as to- how he intended to vote ; and a . Commissary of Police stationed Iiimaeie so-as to . eee wore voted fory and . who against , the Conservative candidates . Toward * tho clone ot the day , it bocamfl'manifest that these favoured gentleman had noohanqoof success in the ordinary way ; whereupon , __^ 1 JUo . poli <> e , brought . aip ^ A ~ . nura completely undor their iufluonce , und forced them to vote as the . Government , wished . Tho answer which tho Minister iQf , the Interior gave , on tho 8 th . of January , to tho oomplalut , atated " that tho polico luul , conformabl y w-ltli theledufcy , done their best to protect tho elections fiwn nU . unduo influonoes and diaburbanees , and that proper measuroa had bean taken with reforoneo to their oonduot . " This aua \ v « r not boing sntlufuctory , tho interpollation already alluded to wits put . lc was thus worded ;— - «' Doos tho Minister really approve tho con *
* duct of-the ? poMce iminterfering't »* influence" the : sai election , and what were the . ' proper ¦ measures ? - vrtM the- Minister . subsequently took to . reateain the ; Polio Director- for the future > within'the > 'bounds ¦< of . 'hisxonape tence ? " In- answer to these questions ; the Miniate read the Police- Director ' s- own * account off the- affair That official admitted the- alleged- facts * and' justifiec them by asserting that election ; . trac k * are resorted to b p the democrats to induce- voters * to favour their candidates ! The Minister of the Interior : concluded by saying that he approved the motives of the Director of- Police while'he disapprovediof his ac * s ; bat heorefuseditasta . what were-the ' proper measures' hehadtakenii " iheBdrasmlSeitung " says -the . Berlin correspondent of the Timesy ' lately brought to the knowledge - of ; ' tlu public that a . telegram hadi been refused transmissioniat the Royal Telegraph-office , although itsieontents-weroa piece-of news that , was published in all the newspapers of > theday ; via > , that some-expectations had been enter * tained that on > the-occasion of the marriage-of Praree Frederick William an-amnesty would-be proclaimed * . and that ? those expectations were , however , not to be fulfilled . The remark attached to this statement was , that a species of censorship was exercised at . the telegraphoffice , which ; was not referahle-to either law or reason *" The same writer relates other-instances of official tyranny , and states that " civil liberty is reduced to the smallest conceivable fraction . " ITALY . The political trials at Naples continue to drag their wearisome and horrible details through the letters from that citj' to the English journals . The correspondent of the Times ( who acknowledges the great courtesy and facilities he has received from all the authorities of the court ) , says that most of the Government witnesses have retracted their statements , which were made under the influence of threats . One of the prisoners stated that Eugehio Lombardi , one of the strongest witnesses for the Crown , had confessed to him that he had denounced Captain Sitzia because he had been ungrateful to him , but that all he had said was false . " The evidence of the men I have heard examined , " says the Times correspondent , " amounts to this : —Captain Sitzia and the crew were surprised by a few of the passengers ; they were greatly vexed , and the captain wept . They were mpnnpprl nnd n-iiardod bv the insurgents ; thev were
perfectly passive , or did what they did at the command of Pisacane . ' It is useless , ' he said , ' to resist ; if you ohey us , no harm shall happen to you . ' ^ On arriving in Ponza , they did not land , but were compelled , on their lives being threatened , to row ashore ; but Watt , Park , and the captain did not even leave the steamer . When the vessel put off for Ponza for a moment or two , and then returned , it was by order of Pisacane , with fifty or sixty of the exiles on board . From Ponza to Sapri the captain did not appear . On the vessel leaving Sapri , and long before any Neapolitan vessel hove in sight , the captain ordered his men to throw the arms which the rebels had left overboard . Such are the statements which were repeated over and over again by the men who alluded at all to the subject . Two doubtful statements only exist to be spoken of . Moline had heard it said on board that the captain , crew , and some of the passengers , had been guilty of a tradimento . This evidence is , of course , worth nothing . Mascia was then called . ' Mascia , Signor Presidente , is dead . ' ' Let his deposition then bo read . ' ' I oppose the reading of tho deposition of a dead man , ' said the advocate . Ho was overruled by the Procurour-General , and the deposition , which was read , amounted to this : — ' The captain waa in communication , with tho chiefs of the jusurgonts , hence we inferred that they were friends and fellowconspinttors ; ' but , ho adds , ' the captain , depended on tho orders of the General . ' This evidence , too , falls through , ns a . dead man cannot appear like tho others to retract , modify , or explain , and because it neutralizes itself . As far , thoreforo , as the testimony of ono hundred and eighty-three prisoners goes , tho captain and tho crew ( including Watt and Park , of course ) are innocent of the crime imputed to them . " Ono of tho prisoners , on being about to be brought into court , was discovered , to be mad . He had stripped himself stork naked , and howlod loudlv . Three , it scorns , are now demented , and sixteen are reported ill . Several are suffering from tho itoh ; ono who was oxaniincd on tlio trial is described as ' a dirty , pallid skeleton , ' another was so mniinod by tho illrusage of tho soldiers that tho President ordered his removal to tho hospital ; and a third has received seventy lashos for singing a patriotic song which ho had been accustomed to sing from hia boyhood . It appears cortuin . that , when tho rising wob put down , tho soldiers behaved with savugo-violence to tho poor insurgents ; and since . then they have robbed them shamelessly , — We are happy-to bo able to stato that a Royal decree ftiipw ^ Watt to return to England immediately . It is ' to bo hopoTThlFriusUrxly adi of / justice wiirrcsuttfin tho poor fellow ' s restoration to sanity . A domand on tho part of tho French Government tliat tho MniSKlnlan organ , L'Italia del Popolo , should be suppressed ,, and that tho editor of VUniona should bo expelled , has boon refused by the Sardinian Government . Tho King is Baid to have written a letter to tho Foreign Minlstery General dolla Itoooa , in whioh ho says that tho people have entrusted to him the- custody of their liberties , and that he will novoc betray thorn .
: it i A subscription-has beensofc on-foxrt 1 at Tariovtoi pxe > ct x sent M . Jules Favre with a testimonial / ofrgTBtit ude find * e admiration for the eloquent' and i courageousi ^ plea ? fo r ; the - independence of Italy which he introduced : inta'bisidewj r- fence -of Orsini . The editor of the Armonia thffclerical organ of Turiii > i I- has- been , for the second time , condemned to two months ^ - t- imprisonment , a fine of 1000 francs , and damagestothen - amount of 3000 francs , for defamatory articles againstin r- Professor Melegari , a determined adversary of ultra * ,-. montanism . j The Piccolo Corriere of Twin states , on the authority ; of a communication from Verona , that the municipality ofi that place- have received notification of an Imperial ! dei > crea $ commanding , them to restore to the Jesuits the ? buildings taken away from them in 1848 ; and also to I- , entensfc-their communal college to that body , to which the municipality are to pay 40 OO francs annually for its-<¦ services * . t The recent street robberies and outrages at Genoa . have been : suppressed , several of the robbers having - been captured . It is also stated—but we hope incor ^ r reedy—that- many political refugees have- been sent away from . Genoa , and that some of these ! have . beenr shipped'to ^ Montevideo and Buenos Ayres . hatiovek . A manuscript , entirely written by Leibnitz , and form- - ' ing part of a refutation of Spinoza :, which was never completed , has just been discovered in the city of' Hanover . SWITZERLAND . The Genevese Government has dissolved the Italian Benefit Society . The Federal Commissioners have ordered the expulsion of twelve French and seventeen Italian refugees . An inquiry is going on concerning twelve others . HOLLAND . The Dutch Ministry has been modified as follows : — M . Gollstem , Foreign Affairs ; M \ Van Bosse , Finance ; M . Van Tets , Interior ; Mr . Boot , Justice ; and M . Rochussen , Colonies . The other Ministers retain their portfolios .. BELGIU 3 L The young Princess de Ligne , daughter of the President of the Belgian Senate , died at Brussels on Thursday week , of the attack of typhus fever under which lor time
she had been labouring some , one was vum . y eighteen years of age . . M . Labarre , editor of the Drapeau , Belgium , who was recently condemned to thirteen months' imprison- * ment and 1200 f . fine , for offensive articles against the French Emperor , has surrendered himself at Brussel s , and given notice of appeal . SPAIN . General Narvaez has obtained leave of absence for some months , and has received his passports from France . TUKKEY . Quarrels of race are becoming every day more violent in the Turkish empire . The Bulgarians refuse to pay the dues to the Greek Patriarch ; and the Pacha , of Trebizond has issued a circular accusing the Christiana of being deficient in respect to the Mussulmans . Tho Presse d'Orient states that the conflagration of the Gor vemor ' s palace at Adrianoplo was the result of a plot , the Beys having refused all assistance . Austria ia about to concentrate 25 , 000 men at Scutari * to keep Montenegro and the Herzegovina ia check . Other troops will be sent into Bosnia . Russia and Aus ^ triaare said to be in perfect accord as to the necessity of securing tranquillity on the Turkish frontior . Further conflicts have taken place between the Turks and tho Montenegrins in the Ilorssegovina , in which theformer appoar to have got the worst of it . Roamelia ia also in a rather disturbed state . Here , however , it : is the Mahometans , and not tho Christians , who complain of grievances . Tho Boys who raised irregulars during tho last war assert that their arrears of pay have not been rendered to thorn .
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IT AVAL AND MILITARY . Lifeboats . —The Humane Society of Boulogno , having completed the modiucations of one of tuck- lifcboata on the principle of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution of Groat Britain , designed by Mr . Peako , master shipwright at Woolwich dockyard , asaomblod in committee a few days ago . Mr . Poako was present , and put the boat through uonio severe experimental teats , tho result © of which wore highly satisfactory . . TlUU FjUCJLD-TKAlN DlCl'AKTMKMT at WoOlWHJD , hitherto a Beparate corps ( lUnjor-Gononil W . Cator , 0 . 13 ., Director-General of Artillery , commanding ; , has boon abolished , the duties of that department having been consolidated with the military etoro department , of - -tho ~ Kov'al--A : rsoiial r-iindor-tho-BUi > eriutondoACO pf _ W ^ ., _ Pollutt . Tlio clerk * and other oDlcora of the latofl » partmont aru to bo inetaUed 111 the Military Store , keeper ' s offices , iu similar positions , according to thefr fQr \ KaK ? K l "S' tub Ava . — TUo Calcutta etoamor Avft was wrecked near Trlnooraaleo on the loth , of Jfebruary , The cargo and mails wore totally lost , but the crew ¦ and passengers wore aavod . 2 fi » , 000 J . treasure for tab Bombay Government woro on board . 28 , ftOOA have
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Leader (1850-1860), March 20, 1858, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20031858/page/11/
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