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SPAIN. The Grozette publishes a royal de...
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS. B. (Paris.)—O...
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900 The Lbadek. F No - 339 > Saturday,
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Leader Osvicb , Saturday , September 20 . IMPORTANT FROM NAPLES . ¦*« Thb Neapolitan question , winch was in a state that gave hopes of an amicable and satisfactory adjustment , has , I regret to lean * , " writes the Paris correspondent of the Times ofthis day , "just : assumed a less favourable aspect It is now considered not improbable that France and England will send in a note , of the nature of an iMmatum , and that , should its terms not be complied with , the two Powers will withdraw their representatives at the Court of the Two Sicilies . "
"I am able to assure you , " writes the Paris correspondent of the Post of this day , u that the French Government , unless some unforeseen events occur , is about torecal M . Brenier and the whole of the Embassy from Naples . I understand that that diplomatist ' s last despatches do not now hold out any hopes of an amicable settlement of the Neapolitan difficulties . " Baron Httbner , after arriving at Naples , declared to Chevalier Carafa that he had no mission of any kind , out that , if the King would deign to speak to him on political affairs , he would most willingly reply to any questions his Majesty might think proper to address to him . He has since then had a public and a private audience of the King . The fiTst was merely a matter of etiquette ; and we have information as to what transpired at the second . '
The Efssian Coronation. The Times Of Thi...
THE EFSSIAN CORONATION . The Times of this day has a letter from its Special Correspondent , describing the State levee , & c . He writes : —" According to . the stories I hear , his Majesty was very gracious to M . de Morny at the levee , and conversed with him for some time . He alluded to the readiness evinced by France to conclude peace , and to remove all impediments to an entente cordiale . With Lord Granville he was , on dity more reserved , and he is undertood to have made some pointed allusions to the attitude of the English Cabinet . ' We were ires lies in days gone by , ' said his Majesty , ' but it is to be hoped
that the estrangement will not continue . ' Lord Granville replied in alow tone of voice . To Prince Esterhazy the manner of the Emperor was at first exceedingly dry and cold , but the veteran diplomatist spoke with such effect , and gave such assurances of the sincere desire which actuated a large party in Austria to return to their premiers amours , that the EmperoT was visibly moved , and held out his hand ere the Prince ceased . When the Turkisli Minister was introduced , he read at some length his letters of cr & ance , but the Czar became impatient ere the conclusion , and dismissed the Envoy with a few short sentences . "
Switzerland — Holland. The Swiss Federal...
SWITZERLAND — HOLLAND . The Swiss Federal AsSembly opened on Monday , the 15 th inst ., when the President spoke in very firm language of the late attempt at Neufchatel . The Session of the States General of Holland was opened at the Hague on the same day . The speech of the King contained nothing of particular mark .
Spain. The Grozette Publishes A Royal De...
SPAIN . The Grozette publishes a royal decree which re-establishes the Constitution of 1845 . An additional article laya down the nature of those offences of the press which shall be cognizable by a jury . It is also stated in the decree that the minimum duration of the session of the Cortes shall be four months ; that the existence of the Council of State is solemnly acknowledged ; and that the consent of the Cortes shall be necessary for the marriage of the Sovereign , or that of the heira to the Crown , for the alienation of the royal patrimony and for general amnesties .
Daniel Fobbrstosr Has Succeeded In Appre...
Daniel Fobbrstosr has succeeded in apprehending in London one of the lato officials of the Great Northern of ^ France Railway Company , supposed to bo implicated in tho rocent extraordinary robbery of 300 , 000 shares of that company . The party in question is M . Luerin , the chief superintendent of tho line . He has been sent back to Paris . Two English officers will be despatched to America in pursuit of the other fugitives . JtAttWAV Accident . —Another accident of a very Mtioiis nature has occurred on tho Birmingham , Wolver-1
Ijajnpton , and Stour ValleyRailway , about seven miles WP IH'mtaKka ™ , The oxpresa train to the north ran ~ 2 J ? 5 'K x > ds ; train , and seven of the passengers were very ***>* % ^ fl ared . buhS ?*!?^*?** coi-MBmr Explosiojt . —Threo in-» SS r ^« i bodiea of tho "MwkUlc * i" the Ramrod MaBftUnc * . ? ' ** P * Pn have terminated in verdicts of SS ^ flfete ^^ . « M «*< w « ed batty , Baker , who ¦ fiSaSS SwSSiJ-s
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NOTICES TO CORRESPONDENTS . B . ( Paris . )—Our correspondent ' s communication , witn several others , reached us too late for insertion this week . H . I . —Our correspondent will observe that the remainder of his communication is published this weefc .
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We do not undertake lo return rejected communications . No notice can be taken of anonymous correspondence . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , "because there is nothing so unnatural and . convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . ABiroiD .
Coronation Policy. Jotrbwaxiisiswho Affe...
CORONATION POLICY . JoTrBWAXiisiswho affect to be more than , philosophical , may discover a profound significance in the glitter of tie Moscow coronation . But its meaning was simply identical with the meaning of a regal investiture in any other part of the world—Teheran , Sh pa , Pekiri . It was the act by which tie unlimited authority of a single man was consecrated by religion in a cloak of gold brocade . The size of the diamonds , the "brilliance of the carriages , the ostentation of the ceremony , added nothing to its moral effect . Alexander II . was as
powerful before he was crowned as after—he was the first judge and the first priest in Russia , the head of the army and the Church , and the embodiment of the State . The diadem , the globe ,-and the sceptre , the oath , the benediction , and the sacred oil , made him not more supremely tte master of sixty-four millions than he was when his proclamation announced to the empire the death of NiohoiiAS . Of course , until the sanctifieation had taken place , the Russian people would have regarded him as an imperfect Czar ; but , to attribute more than this amount of
influence to the dramatic exhibition at Moscow , is simple affectation of the most morbid kind . What did it signify to Azexa-Nder II . that he heard the bells in four hundred steeples ringing in his official accession ? that tributary princes came from the valleys of the Caucasus and the Asiatic steppes ? Not one of his disaffected subjects was conciliated by his display of military force , of gilt and jewellery , or ecclesiastical pomp . In a word , not the slightest change was wrought in the Hussian
Empire by the imperial coronation . " Whatever change is due to the descent of the crown from Nicholas to Alexander is of a negative kind- The character of the new Czar himself has been exhibited , as yet , in only negative aspects . He appears not so determined as his father , not so insanely proud ; he declined to carry out his * declaration , that while a man or a piece of money remained in Russia he would not succumb to the opposition of the Western Allies . It is frequently said that we are not in a condition to
attribute any special qualities to Alexander II . He is unknown , untried . "We are inclined to take this is a proof that he is wanting in character . We have all heard and known enough of the Archduke Oons * antine . Even during the late reign , under the imperious parental authority of the Emperor , he made his influence felt ; he attached to himself a strong and restless party ; and Europe , while at at a loss what to think of AxEa ^ ANwait , was soon persuaded of the characteristics of Cons-rAJNTiNE . Since the death of 3 STioh . oi . as all the acts of tbe young Czar bave been
negations . He agreed to drop the war . His policy was that of abstinence . And now , being crowned , he promulgates a manifesto declaratory of his intentions with respect to the future government of the empire . Every point in this document is negative , remitting reserving , relenting . Special immunities are to be granted to the provinces bordering on the White , Black , and Baltic seas , in consideration of the great charges endured bv them the of the
during progress recent conflict . The empire is liberated , from the military conscription for a term of four years , providing that the public safety does not require this ordinance to be revoked . Arrears of taxes , to the amount of about 4 , 000 , 000 ? ., are forgiven , and fiscal fines commuted . Mercy is . to visit'the prisons : some penitent convicts are to bo pardoned , the sentences of others are to be mitigated . There is , also , to be a political amnesty
That is to say , there is to be what passes in Hussia for a political amnesty . A certain number of political prisoners and exiles are to be set at liberty ; the condition of others is to be materially assuaged . But of those who are to receive their personal freedom not one is to be allowed to inhabit St . Petersburg or Moscow , nor is there to be any restitution of confiscated property ; The nobles who had lost their nobility are to regain it , but not with it the estates , without which nobility is a burden and a sham . The few traces of an . improved administrative policy to be discovered in the manifesto relate to exemptions granted to the Jews , to an equalization of the terras of admission to the
government service , and to a more equitable distribution of the poll tax . But the policy of the new Czar is nob ; to be estimated amid the flush of his coronation . It will be developed under colder influences . We have yet to learn what relations he will be solicitous to establish with the other governments of the world , despotic and liberal ; and what are his plans for the administration
of the empire . It would be very premature to flatter the Russian people with the hope that they are about to enter upon an era of practical reform , that high roads and railways are to open up a vast system of internal communication , that the Iree commerce of the provinces will be encouraged , that serfdom will be gradually abolished , and that which English journalists call civilization introduced . Two-thirds of the conditions
regarded in our country as essential to civilization would be incompatible with the perpetuation of the existing political system of Russia . The celebration which has just been witnessed only differed from the barbaric shows of the Ivans in that it was more artistic , and upon a grander scale , consistent with the enlarged resources of the empire . We may credit ourselves with a good deal of ingenuity for suggesting that the fact of the Czae ,
wearing the ( comparatively ) plain uniform of a general officer , in the midst of the hundred-tinted masquerade , was emblematic of Western simplicity stealing within the precincts of Eastern , splendour . But the trick is as old as the Pagan ages . As we have before remarked , it was the policy of the Hun kinga to dress with sobriety , and to affect erenaital manners , while they forced the subject chiefs to wear peacook liveries and servile decorations . No incident
connected with the ceremony indicated , on the part of Alexander II ., that he was prepared to insist on less than tho utter prostration of men at his feet . He placed the imperial crown on his head , according to some accounts , with his own hands ; he barely touched tlie brow of . hia Empress with that superior diadem , and himself crowned her with r another , as if from no mortal hand
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1856, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20091856/page/12/
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