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    _Jinrai 27, 1857J TJgj; lEADEE, P$

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES

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    IRELAND. Thb Mubdeu of M«. LirrL,M. — Th...

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    1the Ifeenoh Elections. Tb* Ejections Co...

    la . Paris , M . Garnier-Pages has addressed the following letter to the electors of the fourth circumscription , pending the fresh election : — " I return my sincere thanks to the electors who have been pleased to honour me with their votes . In the interest of my democratic principles , to which I have devoted the whole , of my life , I request my supporters to transfer their votes to M . Einile ODivier . " " The Opposition , up to the present time , " says a daily contemporary of yesterday , " has obtained only six nominations in all—namely , MM . Carnot and Goudchaux in Paris , Dr . He * non at Lyons , M . Cure at Bordeaux ; , M . Migeon at Colmar , and Viscount Rambourgt , in the Aube . There are certainly some other nominations of persons not comprised among the Government

    candidates , but these gentlemen cannot be claimed by the Opposition . As a set-off to the six candidates named above , the Opposition has lost the five deputies belonging to it in the last Chamber , viz ., the Count de Montalembert , the Duke d'Uzea , and MM . de Civrac , Charlier , and Desmolles . The Opposition had brought forward 115 candidates in 58 departments , so that it has been defeated in 111 places . A somewhat remarkable fact of the late elections is the very limited number of cases in which a second ballot will be necessary , being in fact as yet only six in all—three in Paris , and , the three others in the Maine-et-Loire , the Mayenne , and the Somme . In the last three , the contest took place altogether between candidates fully supporting the policy of the Government . "

    The following circular was sent round oil Sunday evening from the Hotel de Ville to many of the electors who .. had not then taken out their tickets : — " Prefecture of the Department of the Seine , Paris , June 21 . —Sir , —the elections for deputies to the Legislative Body commenced this day . Each person is at liberty to exercise or not the rights which the constitution confers on him . Now , as certain parties have systematically advocated abstaining from the vote , many electors would , perhaps , regret being involuntarily associated with , them , either through forgetfulness , or in consequence of their occupations . I therefore take the liberty of reminding you that the voting will remain open to-moirow ( Monday ) from eight o ' clock in the morning till four in the afternoon . —Receive , Sir , & c , G . E . Haussmann , Prefect of the Seine . " ,

    " M . Senator Vaisse , exercising the func tions of Prefect of the Rhone , " says the T > aily News Paris correspondent , " wrote a circular to the mayors against the candidatures of MM . Bacot , Henon , F . Morin , and Jules Favre , which , for its open disregard of the promises of the Government that the elections were to be free , transcends anything that has yet been seen of the like kind . He says ;— ' Emissaries have been sent round the country to canvass in favour of republican candidatures . Their ardour and activity have redoubled within the last few days . In informing you of their intrigues , I make a fresh appeal to your zeal and vigilance to entreat you to use all the means in your power to prevent , and if necessary to destroy , the effect of these intrigues among the electors at your command . ' " .

    " A deputation of the electors of the third arrondissement , in order to put an end to the doubt about the Opposition candidates taking the oaths , " says the Times Paris correspondent , " called on General Ca \ : aignac in order to ascertain whether it was his intention to do so . The General was rather puzzled what to reply . To answer in the negative was to trifle with the electors , and to answer in the affirmative he could not do without taking counsel of his ordinary advisers , He 8 aid that \\ o > could not give an answer then , and asked for time to consider . " M . Billault , the Minister of the Interior , previous to the elections , addressed tlx « following circular to the prefects of departments : —

    " Monsiour le Pre'fet , —It is not sufficient that universal suffrage should bo free ; it must likewise be enlightened . The law in granting the candidates exceptional facilities freely to proclaim and explain themselves during the twenty days which procede the ballot wished that the country , being thus perfectly instructed ^ should decide . We are arriving at the conclusion of this period of instruction and discussion . The Government has scrupulously watched over the maintenance of the franchise of all ; some have endeavoured to abuse it , and , under pretence of distributing voting tickets , wiahod to revive among the mass of the population the leaven of twinchif

    old domocratical passions . The Governmen , , it wore neoosaary , could show that it has lost none of its force , or of its energetic will for the maintenance of public peaoo , has allowed those impotent sallies to pass . It would not giro even the slightest pretext for bad faith to calumniate that liberty which our laws eeeuro to the elootoral atruffglo . Candidates , journalists , instigators , or propagators of candidatures have nil written and acted freely . It is now for tho country to meditate and to vote . Everybody has given his advice to the people —tho Govornmout owes thorn its opinion , and charges yeu , M . le ProTet , to mako it known in all your

    communes . " In tho midst of this porfoot tranquillity , producod and maintained by tho vigour of tho Imperial power , and by tho absolute oonfldenoo whloh tho people ropoao in the Emperor—In presence of tho general measures which

    proposed for re-election all the deputies whose loyal concurrence in public affairs offered in the past security for the future—it . appeared that , with the exception of some individual pretensions without political bearing , no serious difference of opinion would agitate the ballot ; but a small number of persons , setting themselves up exclusively as democrats in the face of a Government established on the most democratic basis which ever existed , has thought proper to commence a contest . Sheltering themselves under a formula of liberalism , sufficiently vague that its elasticity might save them from the danger of their own dissensions , they endeavoured to supply the want of numbers by activity , and are making unbeard-of efforts everywhere to raise up opposition candidates . But what , then , is the object of this opposition ? The country must know it ; you , Monsieur lo PreTef , must explain it to the people .

    " lhe majority of the candidates brought forward formerly professed Republican or Socialist opinions , and certainly none of them would declare to-day that he had repudiated . them . What , therefore , do they want ? To present again the question of the Republic to universal suffrage , which has three times solemnly condemned it ? That is not serious . To take the bath to the Empire , and by submitting , to the constitution honourably to fulfil the mission of deputy ? Nobody -will believe it . Then , -what remains ? To endeavour to sow trouble and agitation , to embarrass tt \ e action of the Emperor , and to enfeeble , both at home and abroad , the feeling which all Europe entertains of his power , the prestige with which be has done so much during the last six years for

    the glory and prosperity of the country . But they will not succeed ; their efforts will be shattered against those electoral masses whose good sense and patriotism founded the Empire ; it will suffice that these masses present themselves at the ballot . Explain to them well , Monsieur le Prefet , how they have put the question . One of their journals said that it would be resolved by the country centralized in Paris . Paris will disappoint their hopes , and the 350 , 000 electors of the department of the Seine will not separate themselves from the 9 , 000 , 000 electors inscribed in the eightv-five other

    departments . Remind those who possess property ^ of the security which the Empire has given them ; tbose who labour , of the marvellous conditions of activity created for them ; those who suffer , of the incessant anxiety of the Emperor on account of the distress of the people ; all , of the glorious- and respected position to which he has restored our country . Let them all , therefore , come and give their opinion on affairs which are their own . They are well aware that the Empire repays them with , usury in glory and in prosperity that which they give it in confidence and self-devotion .

    " Repeat to them , Monsieur le Prefet , that their duty as well as their interest calls them to the ballot . The verification of their votes will prove that if the enemies of the Empire hoped to find a point of support in the electoral urn , they have once -naoee mistaken the power of the bonds which unite the Emperor to the people , and calumniated universal suffrage . Receive , Monsieur le Pre'fet , the assurance of my very distinguished consideration . —Biclault . " It is stated that tho distributors of Opposition bulletins at several of the provincial elections have been set upon and beaten with bludgeons by bodias of ruffians , and that the police have acted in the moat arbitrary himsel

    manner , arresting any one ^ who rendered f distasteful . The Ere Nouvelie of La Roclielle pnbliahes a complaint by M . Fabius Filippi , an Opposition candidate , setting forth that tho men employed by him to placard his address had been threatened with arrest by the commissary of police , who , assisted by tlio garde chainpfitre , had torn down his addresaoa from the walls in tlie presence of many witnesses ; that liis son , having called on tho Mayor to complain of these outrages , could obtain no redress , but had been called a mountebank ; and that , for all these and many other still more serious reasons , he protests against tho oleotion of General Vast Vimeux , the Government candidate .

    Tho Prefeot of the Gers has suspended M . Gounon , the Mayor of Eauze , for coming forward as an Opposition candidate .

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    _ Jinrai 27 , 1857 J TJgj ; lEADEE , P $

    Continental Notes

    CONTINENTAL NOTES . KKANO 1 E . Tmo Plenipotentiaries of Austria , Franco , England , Prussia , Hussia , Sardinia , and Turkoy mot on the 19 th hist , at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs , for the purpose of signing tho treaty for tho frontier sottloment in Bossarnbia , and for regulating tho question of tho Islo of Serpents and tho Delta of tho Danube Tho Moniteuv confirms tho fact that a treaty of commerce was signed botwoon Franoo and Ruaala on the 14 th of the present month . Tho Emperor loft at ten o ' clock on Thursday morning for Plombioros , by way of Chalons . Tlio Council of tho Bank of Franco has reduced tho rnto of discount on commercial bills ( oscomyta de s effete de commerce ) to 5 £ per cent . It maintains tho interest on advances at 0 per cont . AUSTHIA . A Pwria correspondent of Lo Novd spouka of tho augmentation to 5000 men of tho Austrian contingent of tho

    garrison at Rastadt , which has given rise , he says , to various conjectures as to what can be the cause of such a reinforcement on the frontier . A grand festival has been held in "Vienna in honour of the hundredth anniversary of the Austrian Military Order of . Maria Theresa . The ceremonies included a grand ' military mass' outside the Franzens-gate , at which the Emperor was present , a . banquet in the galleries and garden of the Palace of Schonbrunn , at which the Emperor presided , and an appropriate theatrical performance at tlie chief theatre .. Here the Emperor was again present . The . Empress , wlio is completely prostrated by the death of her daughter , passed the whole day in retirement at Laxenburg .

    ITALY * The number of young persons at Milan who present themselves to receive ecclesiastical orders has fallen this year from seventy , which was the average , to thirtytwo only . This is ascribed by a correspondent of the Independence Beige to the disrepute into which the priesthood has fallen since the Austrian concordat . Some interpellations addressed to Count Cavour by Signor Brofferio in the Chamber of Deputies on the 16 th inst . have led to certain statements by the Foreign Minister . With respect to the journey of the Cavaliero Boncompagni to Bologna At the time the Pope was there , Connt Cavour said that the only errand of

    Boncompagni was to pay his respects to the Pontiff as the supreme head of the religion professed by the grand majority of the Sardinian people ; he had not been invested -with any authority to say a word about an arrangement with Rome , or to seek anybody ' s good oflSces with the Court of Vienna . As regards certain persecutions of the press , of which Signor Brofferio had complained , Count Cavour 3 aid that the laws must be executed as they stand . Those laws , he admitted , are not bItogether good , and the institutions of the country require that they shall be improved ; but Government could not , by its own authority , suspend the course of justice in accordance with existing law . i .

    The Pope has granted pardons to Advocate Francesco Sturbinetti , President of the Constituent Assembly of Rome in 1849 , and to Count Antonio Mariscotti , who commanded a military body under the Republic . The latter has already returned to Rome . Some sanguinary and fatal conflicts have taken place between the French and native Italian troops at Rome . There are reports , requiring confirmation , of the King of Naples having been again attacked and wounded .

    BELGIUM . A hundred electric clocks are about to be , established in Brussels . The municipal authorities have acquainted tho inhabitants of some of the streets that the wires will run along the top of their houses , . and have called upon them to allow the workman to make the necessary arrangements .

    SPAIN . The Government has decided upon accepting the re signation of Marshal Serrano , the present Ambassador at Paris . Tho Epoca states that , in consequence of intelligence relative to the Spanish question -which had reached Cuba , General Concha had ordered the departure for Vera Cruz of part of the Spanish squadron ; and , accordingly two steamers , Colon and Isabel II ., had sailed on the 13 th . The hopes of a pacific arrangement diminish every day . lu Cuba it was feared that tho United States would excite Mexico to hostilities against Spain . Catalonia is in a very disturbed state . rnussiA .

    The Thorn steamer , belonging to the Vistula Navigation Company , blew up on the 17 th near Wisszogrod . All the persons on board were either killed or wounded . Sevoral Italians were arrested in Paris last week oa suspicion of being concerned in a pollbioal plot . Arms , it is said , wore found upon them . Count Paul Kiaseleff went last Saturday to St . Cloud to deliver to the Empress , on the part of hia sovereign , tho Grand Cordon of the Order of St . Catherine .

    OKRUIA 3 TY . Tho Diet of tho Duohy of Saxe-Gotha , in its sitting of the 18 th , adopted unanimously tho proposition for * complote union of tho two Duchies of Gotlia and Ooburg . Tho Diet was immediately afterwards prorogued . It ia supposed that tUo Diet of Saxo-Cobwrg will vote in tha contrary sense .

    Ireland. Thb Mubdeu Of M«. Lirrl,M. — Th...

    IRELAND . Thb Mubdeu of M « . LirrL , M . — Tho perpetrator of that atrocious dead which filled Ireland with consternation in tho course of last yoar , would seem at length to bo in tho power of the police . A house painter , namea Spollon , has been arrested on tho ovidonoe of hia own wife . Ho was employed about Mr . Littlo ' a office on tUe day of tho murder , and at night brought home ( as ftia wife now alleges ) a quantity of gold and ailver ,, and told her that he had robbed and murdered Mr . Little . She fluya that aho saw him burn a pookot-book and alao hia cravat ; that auo suvr » l V ° 7 ^ \ £ ^ had bloodstatna on his olotho * , and that ho told her ho had

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 27, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27061857/page/7/