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;Nb. 397, October 31, 1857.] THE LEADEE....
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Ameuica. Tins' Financial News From Tlie ...
Mr . George Washington P . Custis , the last member of 4 he great Washington ' s family , has just died . The Hon . Louis M'Lane , an American statesman of note and standing in bygone days , died at New York on the 9 th inst . in the seventy-second year of his age . It is reported that one hundred and ninety-nine lives were lost in the Central American . The steamer Empire State sank on her voyage to Boston , but no lives were lost . The cose of Mrs . Cunningham came on on the 13 th in & t ., but she had fled . The Custom-house at Richmond , 'Virginia , was burglariously entered on the same day , and 155 , 700 dollars were stolen . Walker's army is being ; recruited with great vigour , and hundreds of volunteers have joined .
The murderers of Mr . Sullivan , the English minister at Peru , have been discovered , but have not been arrested . They are stated to be hired bravos : those who employed them are not known . The Mexican Congress has held , a preliminary meeting , and chosen Emanuel Ruiz President . ; The insurgents in the south continue to told oat against the Government forces , and it is reported that Alvarez has been assassinated .
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Continental Notes. France. The Trial Of ...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The trial of M . Migeon seems likely to pro % T e a very bombshell in the midst of French stagnation . The Paris correspondent of the Times writes that " the law officers of the Government at Colmar , who form what is termed the Parquet , will , it is said , be removed , in consequence of the indiscreet use they made of the police reports in the late proceedings . The documents furnished by that department to the prosecutor were not intended to be exposed "to the public ; they were for the private eye of the Procureurs , -with a view , no doubt , to secure the conviction of the accused . The language used by the Prefect of Police in them was of the harshest kind , and the prisoner ' s counsel declared their intention to prosecute that functionary' for defamation of their client .
Moreover , the decision of the Tribunal declaring its incompetence is not satisfactory . The matter will not end here . M . Migeon intends taking his seat in the Legislative Chamber . " The same writer tells a story of the ¦ election of M . Migeon last July . For a long time the jreople believed that he was the Government candidate , and , " when the hostility of the Prefect was known ., the electors were astonished and incredulous . The Sub-Prefect-was asked to explain the fact ; this bold citizen replied that there -was no explanation to give , and , ac--cerding to the evidence of a -witness , added , that , when people mean to get rid of a servant , they turn him off ¦ without alleging any reason for what they do . The members of the Legislative Corps cannot be otherwise than flattered at this description . The legislators display , it is true , a uniform , but till now the embroidered coat wns not formally declared to be a livery . "
The Chamber of Commerce of Algiers has appointed a deputation to wait on the Emperor-when he visits Marseilles , and at the same time the Chamber of Commerce will pray for the construction of a network of railways as a matter of urgent necessity . The 'Memoirs' of M . Guizot are to be published in Paris next January . It is anticipated that they will throw great light on the history of France from 1830 to
1848 . In virtue of an arrangement with the Austrian Government , a French consul is about to be established at Pola , "N \ rherc a new and important arsenal and dockyard have been constructed for the Austrian war navy . Dr . Siegl , chief physician to the military hospitals at Tienna , has arrived in Paris , charged with a medical mission . Ho ha 3 been authorized by the Minister of War to visit the military hospitals in France , and he has begun by minutely examining the hospital at Vincemies . Very serious inundations have again devastated the departments of the Loire and Allier ; but the waters are now subsiding . Great iloods have also occurred in Piedmont .
General d'Orgoni has arrived at Marseilles on his way to Rome . Prince Napoleon passed through Turin on the 22 nd inst ., on his journey to Home . Ho is accompanied by tho Marquia Francesco dol Gallo . The improvements in Paris are causing tho destruction of some honses of note . Among others , tho dwelling hx the Rue St . Claude , in which the famous Marshal Tirrennc wna l ) orn , is now being taken down . The Emperor , Empress , and Court , have been am using tnemsolvea with a grand hunt in tho forest of Compibgno . AH wore in full hunting costume , and a pack of English staghound 3 was uaed on tho occasion . The Bishop of Straalmrg has issued a circular recommending all persons in his diocese to burn all Protestant Uiblcs , and all books and tracts whatsoever published by Bible societies , which may bo in their hands .
? TwT £ tr !\ n S \ 8 t 0 | y Js told in a Paris lotter published in tiro Tudvpendcmce , of Brussels , where wo read- — "A Bolcnn visitation , hold recently in ono ,, f tho towns « , t the arclnupiHCopal province of Bordeaux by the new -archbishop of Aix , Mgr . Chalandon , wna marked with nn incident of pninrul interest . Tho binhor , of a diocese , whom I vrilTnot name , but who is noted lor hid violent
ultramontanism , placed himself on his throne m presence of all his clergy , about two hundred in number , and humbly confessed that he had committed a number of culpable acts charged against him . The gravest of these acts was the misappropriation of the funds of the diocese , ¦ which were destined for the relief of aged and infirm priests , and the prelate avowed that being in want of a large sum to construct an establishment for the Marisfc Fathers , he had appropriated those funds for the purpose . He then proceeded to state that for some time he had been an object of hatred to his clergy , and that this hatred had been carried so far that he had received an
anonymous letter , in which he was threatened with death by a dagger . He concluded by declaring that , with respect to the unfortunate money question , he was ready to give all the explanations that his clergy could require . You ' may judge of the effect which this revelation created . It is positive that the prelate had been pointed out to the Minister of Justice and Public Worship as guilty of embezzlement . "
SPAIN . The Spanish Ministry had been definitely constituted as follows : —President of the Council and Minister of War , General Armero ; Foreign Affairs , Martinez de la Rosa ; Justice , Casau 3 ; Finance , Alexandra Mon ; Marine , Bustillos ; Home Department , Berrnudezde Castro ; Fomento , Salaveria ; Governor of Madrid , Marques de Corbera . It is believed by some that Armero means to govern constitutionally . The Epoca , a Moderado paper , gives him its support . The new Governor of Madrid is said to have declared that he will not tolerate reactionary manifestations of any kind .
The Espana say 3 that tho Queen wislied the Ministry to be composed as follows , but the negotiations for the purpose failed : —The Interior , with the Presidency , jf . Isturitz ; Foreign Affairs , Alcala Galiano ; Justice , Gonzalez . Romero ; ' War , General Fezuela ; Finance , Bravo Murillo ; Marine , General Armero ; Fomento , M . Caveda . Prince Louis Lucien Bonaparte is on a visit to Navarre and the Basque Provinces , with a view to prosecuting those philological and antiquarian studies for which he is famous . He was received at Pampeluna with much enthusiasm . The Madrid Gazette of the 21 st inst . publishes a royal decree , signed by Don Francisco Armero y Peiiaronda , adjourning the meeting of the Cortes from the 30 th of October to the 30 th of December .
PRUSSIA . The King was sufficiently recovered oh the 23 rd inst . to enable him to sign a mandate empowering the Prince of Prussia to assume the conduct of public affairs , for the next three months , unless the King should be fully recovered before . M . de Niebuhr , the Cabinet Councillor , has expired at Berlin . The President of the Council , informed of the ev « nt by the Prince cf Prussia , immediately proceeded by a special train to Potsdam to take the necessary steps for preserving ; the State papers and correspondence which were in the keeping of his Majesty's secretary . The Portuguese Count Lavradio has formally demanded the hand of the Princess Stephanie of Hohenzollern for the King of Portugal .
The Berlin Ministerial journal , the Zeit , and the Prussian Correspondence , announce that the Prussian Government has ordered its representative at the Diet to call immediately for tho intervention , of the Germanic Confederation in favour of Holstein , and also to request the support of Austria .
THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALTTIKS . The second elections in Moldavia and Wallachia are said to have been oven more illegal than the first . " The following facts , " says a writer from Vienna , have been communicated by persons of high respectability wlio were at Jaasy before and during the elections in Moldavia : —The Kaiinacun was ordered by the Porte on the 2-JLth of August to revise the electoral lists ' upon the interpretations given at Bucharest to certain doubtful points in tho electoral firman . ' Instead of following the instructions received , Prince Vogoridos deprived tho committees of the right to examine into tha validity of the reclamations of persons whose names ought , if tho Wallachian interpretations had been followed , to have figured on the electoral lists . On the 14 th of August , the Moldavian Government agreed to allow tho committees to examine tho electoral lists , but still it '
continued to act as it . no such bodies existed , inaexting or erasing names according to its own good pleasure . At Borhul , two Greeks , named Pogonato and Jouvare , were entered as electors by special order of tho Government , although they were nut naturalized Moldavians . Tho Minister of tho Interior wns dismissed because ho declined to put into execution orders that wero not in keeping with the instructions which the Knimucan had received from tho Porte . The Miniater ' a successor is tho aide-de-camp of tho Kaimncan , and ho naturally executes tho bohosta of his master to the letter . Before tho second elections took place , all the protects of tho district * were diwn » i « . sed by tlio Kuiinuciin without thu knowU'dgu of tho Administrative Council , and their place * given to aidea-do-ciunp and ae-criitarioa of thu Prince , la couclu . sion , the names of no timer than Uventy-threo inombcra of tho Moldavian Divuu ad hoc
are given who have no right to the seats which they occupy in that assembly . " AUSTRIA . Several large houses at Pesth have suspended ; and at Vienna a good many small failures have occurred . On or about the 12 th or 13 th inst ., the Austrian Government forwarded a circular to its diplomatic agents abroad , in which it was said that the union of the Danubian Principalities could not be decreed by a maiority of the parties to the treaty of the 30 th of March because that document distinctly says that the question of the reorganization of the two provinces cannot be definitively settled without an accordance between the Porte and the Powers . At one o ' clock on the lDth inst ., a slight earthquake was felt at Trieste .
¦ POWIUGMj . Yellow fever continues to rage at Lisbon . Many persons of importance have been carried off " , including three generals—Casal , Francos , and Rezende ; but the cases were principally confined to the lower parts of the town and the banks of the river , the hills being comparatively free . The employment of sulphur in the treatment of the vine disease has had a very singular and a very awkward effect . The wine made from grapes which have grown on vines so treated has an unmistakable brimstone flavour . Those who are singular enough to like a fierywine may now have it in the highest decree ; but the flavour is described by those who have experienced it as being abominable .
GEIWtANT . A congress of delegates from a number , of the German banks affected by the lat & restriction of the Prussian Government upon the circulation of their notes in Prussia is now sitting at Frankfort , under the presidency of Prince Felix von Hohenlohe . Their present labours are directed to the establishing of a ' solid identical principle' by which the issue of . bank-notes is to he regulated .
DEmtAUK . Baron Buxen-Finecke , brother-in-law of Prince Christian , heir presumptive to tile Danish throne , announces in the Copenhagen newspapers of the loth inst . that he has become a member of the Chamber of Nobles 5 n Sweden , and that he renounces the rights and titles he possessed in Denmark .
SBKVIA . The Servian Government ( according to a letter in the Cologne Gazette ) has ann ounced that it appears , from the disclosures made by the persons lately arrested , that the intended movement was republican , and that the chiefs of the insurrection were in communication with the exciters of agitation in the Principalities . A story is also told to the effect that a Servian , of the lower orders , was hired ' by certain persons' to take the life of the Hospodar ,- bur , recollecting- that his father had been very kindly treated by the father of the Hospodax , he repented , and divulged the whole plot . MM . Martzailovitch and Stefanovitch . have made confessions which have led to further arrests . Stefanovitch says that the plot originated at Bucharest .
NORWAY . The Norwegian Storthing was dissolved on the 14 th inst . by the Prince Regent . Tho session , which is the fifteenth since 1815 , is tho longest that has ever taken place , having lasted from the . 2 nd ofFebruary . Thespeech of the Prince Regent comprised the following passage : — " His Majesty regrets that the Storthing did not adopt the propositions founded on the nature of the union of the two kingdoms , and the common interests of the two nations , which were submitted to by the Government in order to facilitate reciprocal commerce and navigation , and to regulate certain juridical relations of the inhabitants o € the two States . But tho considerable minority wliieh tho first of the propositions encountered in the Stortlriug leads his Majesty to hope that the time is not far distant when tho relations of union , so important for tho two kingdoms , will be better appreciated , and that all cause for mistrust will liavo disappeared . "
RUSSIA . Tho Northern Bee say a that an English gentleman , Mr . Seymour Kerry Wodehouse , nephew to Lord Wodeliouse , the British Aiuba-saador at St . Petersburg , arrived at Astrakhan on the 6 th of September , and thoncc proceeded to visit Princo Tuniouew , tho chieftain of : a tribe of nomad Culmucks in Tartavy . He has since returned to Astrakhan to oxamiuo tho Russian fisheries there established , and intended to ombarlc on the lal instant to go to Bakou by the steamboat Turki . Mr . Wodehouso designed , also , on his way home , to visil Georgia , the Crimea , and South Russia , and then to- return to London by way of Constantinople .
TUBKBY . The Sultan hna exhibited very great favour to Redschid Pacha , at whose house ho dined on the lOih . inst ., to tho chagrin of the existing ministers . Sinoo then , Kedschiil hua boon nuulo Cjraiul Vizier . Aali I ' no hu remains Minister of Foreign Au ' aiid , and the Sultan ' s brother-in-law i .-j ruapimiiiLtid ALunti'r of thu Onlnauoo . Mr . Hornby , tlio . hul ^ o of tho fciuproiuo Consular Court , has arrived at . Cou . iUmtinopJo . The Porte o . ui . sitler . s that tventlc .-i hnvo lxmn violated by tho recent appourunoo of a Itussiun . ship of wur naar .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 31, 1857, page 1039, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_31101857/page/7/
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