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CONTINENTA L NOTES . FRANCE . p DBMe b « - i * £ zrzE £ ! % szJEiz ¦ SSSSXSS iSL country , three . ord . suffice ^ - 5 Sny irSBrence-Platihide . Nevertheless , public sSnTia flot quite dead ; it needs nothing but an event Stam * into JIfe . Sbw , with a regime hanging on the Se ^ f one man , o » e * ef a « e * , such an event may altars' happen from one day to another . I have always observed that these grand Adventurers go as quickly as they come , and as suddenly . But the meanwhile seems terribly long ! .... " The French Students and the Liberal Journals . — La Presse , Le Siecle , and EEstafette are threatened with prosecution for having published the address of the French students to their brothers in Turin . But since it
would be difficult even for imperial lawyers to construe the publication of that very harmless document into an excitation a la hcdne et au mepris du goitvernement , it is believed that the Government will proceed on the ground of the address having appeared without a signature . Such are the grand tactics of the Second Empire The grand dinner g ' . ven by the members of the medical profession in France to the French , English , Turkish , and Sardinian medical officers who served in the late war , took place on Wednesday evening in the large room of the Hotel du Louvre . Baron Paul Dubois filled the chair , and more than six hundred French and foreign medical men were present . At the end of the banquet , a subscription was opened for the widows and orphans of the numerous medical men who died in the East ; which was liberally contributed to . —Times Paris Correspondent .
The Emperor and Empress , on Thursday week , received at the Villa Eugenie , at Biarritz , Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte , for some time sojourning at St . Jean de Luz . " Everything , " says the Message ) - de Bayonne , " leads to the belief that the stay of the Imperial party will be longer this year than in any preceding one . The lieads of the stable department have sent here not fewer than nineteen carriages , twenty post horses , ten carriage horses , and six ^ for the saddle . M . Thiers mis returned to Paris from London . Some French gossip is supplied by the Times Paris correspondent , who says : — "In the absence of the Emperor , the Council of Ministers is presided over by M . Abbatucci , Minister of Justice . He , in consequence , will not be able to attend the Council-General of the department of the Loiret , of which he was lately nominated President , and . General Count de Salles , Senator ,
Tice-President , " replace 3 him . Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte , who was at St * Sebastian when the insurrection broke out at Madrid , and who was desired by the Einperor to return to France , is about to re-enter the Spanish Basque provinces , with the object of studying their language , antiquities ^ % nd history . He is anxious to compare the * various dialects of the Bas < mertse 1 which are very numerous and differ widely from each other . His rambles are not expected to extend beyond the three provinces and Navarre . The Minister of Public "Works has addressed a long circular to the Prefects' of Departments , directing them to obtain from tho chief engineers of the departments answers to a series of questions respecting the causes of inundations , and the practical measures best adapted to carry into effect tho suggestions contaiued in the Emperor ' s letter of the 21 st of July last . "
Galignani relates the case of a servant girl named Saluces , who has just been tried at the Court of Assizes at Paria for what the French call " spoliation of tho succession of a person . dooeaaod . " The widow of a rather wealthy colonel , of the name of Do Montdoair , diod last April in reduced circumstances . Nevertheless , it waa well known that she possessed , in addition to her peusion and a small independent iucomo , a few articles of plate and jewellery , a handsome silver-gilt coffee-pot adorned with her husband ' s crest , and some railway shores . These were all missed immediately after her decease . Suspicion fell on tlte girl Saluces , who had entered tho service of tho old lady shortly bofore her death , but who had beon intimate with her some timo
previously , and' had , by pretending to be a somnambulist , gained great influence over her . Tho girl was extremely cunning , having had some connexion with a professor of magnetism . She made strong protestations of- her honesty , and ; to-prove how unwilling fthc was to obtain any advantage at tho expense of nor late mistress ' s surviving' daughter , she ottered to destroy a will that had boen left in her favour , amounting to 000 fr . Bwtunately , however , Madlle . de Montdesir found otfhongst her mother ' s effect a a little pocket-book , in will oh w & a inscribed tho number of tho railway shares ,
and ^ shA'tald' the girl that she should put in an oppouitkm > to th »> aale of the uharos ) or tho payment of . tho dividbndb . oa . tiKin at < the-offices of tho companies , and at tho * V ** dto <* t ! otx tHe agent $ d * change . This frightened tho g riTSalucoBy and * shortly afterwards , she told Madllo . do Montdeair-that BWb « Ueved she could discover , through th « agonoy . of m * gn « ttan , what had become of all the mining property * o * the l * to Bfiulamo do Montdosin Anoordlngly th » iwattduy , after * hawing thrown herself Into a * mesmeric trance , aha » t * todth « UaUe hadsoen . flve of tho shares secreted in a certain msttrea * Tho
mattress was therefore examined , and the five shares were found . They had doubtless been purposely placed there by the girl herself . The remainder of the shares were subsequently discovered in the horse-hair seat of a chair , after a similar preliminary had been gone through , and the girl had extorted a promise from Madlle . de Montdesir to make her a present of one of them . The jewellery and plate could not be recovered , and Saluces- was , therefore , arrested . The jury having found her guilty , the court sentenced her to eight years' hard labour . A merchant of the name of Camroux , an English
descendant of a French family , has just proved his relationship to an old lady , named Godefroy , who has recently died in France , leaving behind her certain property . This property wa 9 bequeathed to those who appeared to be her nearest relations ; but Mr . Camroux went over from England , traced his descent back to 1665 , showed that he belonged to an elder branch of the family which had fled to England on the revocation of the edict of Nantes , and obtained the property , though it had already been divided among three persons . The case has just been decided by the Civil Tribunal of Rouen .
AUSTRIA . Baron Jame 3 de Rothschild has just left Vienna for St . Petersburg , in order to concert with the Russian Government relative to the railways which are about to be constructed in that empire by a company , of which he is the principal representative .
PRUSSIA . The Prussian Government ( says a letter from Berlin , in the Presse BeVja ) has determined to wreak a terrible vengeance for the affair of the Riff . A company of the Chasseurs of the Guard from Potsdam , another of the 4 th Chasseurs from Magdeburg , a third of the 8 th Chasseurs of the Rhenish provinces , and a company of Marines from Dantzic , have been placed on a war footing , " and are about to leave in transport vessels . An order has been sent to the Prussian Vice-Cojxsul at Fez to inform the Moorish Government of what is intended , and to declare that all relations will be interrupted between the two Powers , should any attempt be made to oppose a descent on the Riff coast . England , it is affirmed here , will co-operate in the suppression of the pirates .
GERMANY . General Count de Kielmansegge , formerly Minister of War at Hanover , has just expired in that city , aged seventy-nine . DENMARK . With respect to the Sound Dues , we read in the Fcedrelandet , of Copenhagen : — " Mr . Buchanan , the English Minister at our Court , who had been summoned to England to give information to his Government on the subject of the Sound Dues , returned to his post the day bofore 3 'esterday . We are informed that he has brought with him the pleasing intelligence that the British Government is disposed to accept the proposition of capitalization made by Denmark . Mr . Buchanan ,
who , in returning to Copenhagen , passed through Berlin , states that the Prussian Government also adheres to the proposal of our Cabinet . Tho Powers most interested in the question—Russia , Sweden and Norway , England , and Prussia—are thus agreed on the poiut of accepting the Danish proposition . If to this bo added that tho United States have made offers to the same effect , there is every reason to hope that the commerce of tho world will bo soon relieved of one of its most heavy charges . " A shocking scone occurred at the execution of two robbers named Boyo and Olsen , at Assens , in the Isle of Funen , in Denmark , on the 18 th inst . Olsen made such a desperate resistance that the executioner and six men who helped him could not bring tho criminal to the block without calling the soldiers to assist them . As
soon as Olson ' s hoad was severed from his body , two young peasant girls , fifteen and seventeen years of ago , rushed through tho double line of armed police who guarded tho scaffold , filled some cups with the blood that spouted from the neck of tho mutilated corpse , and iustantly swallowed the horrible draught . There is an old superstition among tho rural population of Denmark that tho blood of a beheaded felon , if drunk while it is warm , is nn infallible , preservative against epilepsy and apoplexy . The girls were taken beforo a police commissioner , und declared that they had only done what ( hoyhad a right to do ; they showed a paper , signed . " G . Olson , " in which he had authorized them , whenever ho should come to bo oxecuted , to drink his blood .
HWBDKN . The Swedish Chambers havo approved the proposition of tho Minister of Marine , which fixes the strength of tho Swedish and Norwegian fleets for 1857 as follows : — Swedish fleet , 10 sail of tho line , G frigates , 4 schooners , 4 brigs , 9 steam schooners , 77 gunboats , 122 armed boatH , (> mortar vessels , 22 steam despatch boats , ii royal yachts , 21 transports , 594 armed row boats . Norwogiuu fleet , 2 frigates , 2 schooners , 2 steam schooners , 1 brig , 4 . "J gunboats , 5 tugs , with a steam frigate and a despatch boat , both of which are now being Anlshod on tho stocks at Christiana . All the vessels of war are ready to go to sea , but in time of peace they are laid up in ordinary . Only tho vessels strictly required by the GoTornment are kept on service . The cholera has broken , out with groat aovority at
I . . , Russian military envoy , is one of its first victims . RUSSIA . Count Morny has handed to the Czar the Grand Gross of the French Legion of Honour , in return for the Order of St . Andrew , presented to the Emperor Louis Napoleon by the hands of Baron Brunow . The Pays , of Paris , says that as soon as the Russian Government heard of the attack of the lliff pirates upon Prince Adalbert of Prussia , it offered to tako part in an expedition to chastise them . Russia proposes to furnish a flotilla of two frigates and two corvettes . These vessels fully armed , are now lying at Cronstadt , read y to put to sea . They purpose , it is said , to join the Prussian squadron now assembling at Stralsund , and which is to go out of harbour the beginning of next month . It is stated by a St . Petersburg correspondent of the Hamburger Borsenhalle that Russia has signified her approval of the present state of things in Spain , Naple 3 , and Denmark . The Kreuz Zeitung is informed by a correspondent in London that in the early part of last week Lord Palmcrston received a note from the Russian Cabinet , in which " the complaints of the English Government as to the manner iu which Russia has carried out the stipulations of the treaty of peace meet with a complete answer . The note is described as taking one by one each fact of which the English Government makes a reproach , and in each case depriving it of all ground for complaint equally firmly and happily . The note then expresses itself in general terms with reference to the mistrust shown by the English Government . It is said in it , that Russia concluded peace in the full hope and expectation that confidence would fully and completely return ; this expectation , however , could not be otherwise than completely disappointed by the distrustful policy that England had assumed . One passage is more particularly worth notice in the Russian note . The English Government hail , it appears , on some occasion declared that if it could have known beforehand how Russia would have put the terms of peace into execution , it wouldhave kept its troops six months longer in the Crimea . To this the Russian Cabinet answers that that would of itself have put an end . to the peace . " A host of locusts has invaded the districts of Odessa , Ananieff , and Robvior . A gentleman living in the neighbourhood of Odessa invited a Lirgc party to a . fcte at his country house , and in the evening the place was lit up with lamps , Bengal lights , & c . Sumptuous sideboards were laid out , and a brilliant and select company had assembled . All looked forward to a merry evening . The windows of the apartments had been opened , and a refreshing breeze was entering the rooms , when suddenly a loud noise was heard , and a few moments after nvyriads of locusts filled the rooms , tho gardens , tlio sleeping chambers , and every part of the villa . Fireworks , rockets , & c , were discharged m the hope of driving away these troublesome guests , but in vain . The company were compelled to leave . The Emperor has ordered the Jews in every government to depute five of their number to proceed to St . Petersburg in September , to form a-conference there , for the purpose of discussing what changes are desirable in tho political standing of the Jews , and to lay their proposals at the foot of tho throne . An accident occurred to the ship in which the Emperor and Empress were making their late voyage from St . Petersburg to Hupsnl . During the night , the vessel was run into by a Dutch merchantman , and so injured that she was obliged to lie to for four hours until clay broke . It was then ascertained that tho vessel was off Swcaborg . Signals of distress were made , a ml the Governor sent oil' a steamer , which took the Einperor and his suite on board , and convoyed them back to Cronstadt . For nearly upsetting him , the Emperor has rewarded tho Dutch trader by ordering that sho should bo repaired at his expense , and by distributing fivo hundred roubles among her crew . ITALY . The subscription for the one hundred guns for tho fortifications at Alessandria is energetically proceeding m Sardinia , ami it is even said that lists for tho same purpose have boon opened at Milan , Floronw , Como , ana other largo towns of tho northern part of J taly . ^ ven Homo and Naples are expected ero long to join the subscription . Humour statoa that Austria has already signified that sho regards these fortifications as a menace directed against herself ; aud it appears that tho i ' <' Minister at Vienna countenances this view ol l matter . " Tho works contemplated at present at Alexandria , " says tho Times Turin correspondent , " cou " wist of an enceinte , with buatioiw , encircling tho town , and four detached forts— one on tho IJormidu , near Us confluence with tho Tanuro ; one on the Taiiaro , in ran of tho works of Valenssa ; and two othi > rH to tho houlij and south-east of tho town . Theso forts will bo joiiica together by earthworks having a strong profile , ai whole of these works will thus form an important . /«< " - '' d ' armes . Under tho protection of Alexandria iuhi Gonou , it is thought a Sardinian army could saioiy throatou Farina mid Piaconza , or by menacing a ^~ siegiiitf ouomy on the flank or in roar could force lum io raibo . tuo bLoko without atrikintJ a blow . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 30, 1856, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30081856/page/6/
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