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Reports are in circulation , both in Berlin and Vienna , that theEmppror of Russia intends , on the 1 st of December next , to abdicate in favour of his son , the Hereditary Grand Prince AlexanderNicolaiewitsch . The motives of this resolution are said to be a desire to retire from the fatigue of government , and the recollection of the old superstition that no Russian emperor can ever govern more than twenty-five years . The Sultan of Turkey has been making a progress through apart of his dominions lately . At all places he was received with enthusiastic welcome by the inhabitants , and , like Louis Napoleon , he is described as having left " marks of his imperial munificence . "
It is said that the dissolution of the Spanish Cortes will follow close upon the Queen's delivery . The general elections will then take place , and on the 10 th of October the Cortes will be reassembled . The Count of Montemolin is said to have solicited the hand of the Princess Carlotta , sister of the King of Naples . The King has consented to the marriage , but the day is not yet fixed . The Spanish Ambassador at Naples has protested against the match , and in this proceeding has been supported by his Government , which has given him orders to renew his protest , and withdraw from Naples if the King does not comply with the requisition of the Spanish court .
The Stockholm journals contain long accounts of the brilliant and enthusiastic reception given by the Court and population to the Netherlands Prince and Princesses , and of the satisfaction evinced by all classes at the union between the Prince of Sweden and the daughter of Prince Frederick . Queen Christina ' s organ , the Espana , has published , an article to prepare the public mind for the giving the title of princes and princesses to the children she has had by
Munoz . To obviate any opposition on the part of the King-Consort , she proposes that the Duke of Sessa , who has married his sister , should have the title of prince also , as well as the two adventurers who eloped with the other two infantas , the Polish Count G , and the American tobacco planter Gwell . The Patria observes that the only man ever named prince in Spain , who was not son of the King , was the celebrated paramour of the Queen Maria Louisa , and that the precedent was by no means of good omen .
On the 23 rd ult . a telegraphic despatch arrived at St . Sebastian , announcing that the Queen of Spain had given birth to a princess . A salvo of twenty-one guns immediately proclaimed the happy event , as far as their roar could be heard through the surrounding country ; despatches were sent off to the alcaldes of the districts of Guipuzcoa with the intelligence ; and in the evening the town was illuminated . But next morning the aspect of affairs changed when it was discovered , much to the astonishment of everybody , that a mistake had occurred , and that Isabel II . had not been confined . It is supposed , as the communication took place at night , that the watch in one of the telegraphs was deceived by the appearance of a chance light , probably a shepherd's , and that the intelligence was then forwarded under a false
impression . The University of Jena has granted to Meyerbeer the title of doctor , or , as the German phrase runs , the dignity of the doctor ' s hat . M . Horace Vernet has just returned from his journey to Russia , where fie met with the most flattering reception . At the moment of his departure the Emperor presented him with 500 , 000 f ., as the price of his works . It is stated that General Cavaignac is in some part of Switzerland , where he is preserving the strictest incognito .
M . Armand Marrast , the ex-President of the Constituent Assembly , and previously editor of the National , has resumed his labours as a journalist . The Credit announces his name as of its editors . In consequence of the manner in which M . Gros has acquitted himself in the mediation between Great Britain and Greece , Louis Napoleon has elevated him to the rank of commander in the national order of the Legion of Honour . The statements published in the Conservative journals about the luxurious habits of M . Eugene Sue , turn out
to have been much exaggerated . They would have been true a few years ago , but they arc not so now . M . Sue has , in consequence of pecuniary embarrassments , it is said , broken up his splendid establishment in the country , and has now there only a gardener to prevent the grounds from being utterly neglected . In Paris he has only a small lodging at 1000 francs a year , and receives scarcely any society . It is reported that his allowance as a representative of the people i 3 now almost his only certain income , the profits upon his literary works being almost nominal .
A rJuel with swords took place at Versailles the other day between M . Clary and M . Valentin , the Montagnard representative , in consequ ence of some remarks on M . Valentin , in a letter addressed by M . Clary to the Moniteur , M . Valentin received a severe but not dangerous wound in the thigh . On Sunday , 180 persons met to dine in the rooms of the restaurateur Defneux , Boulevard du Temple , at a banquet given in honour of the election of M . Girardin . All ine hands engaged on every department of the Presse , editors , compositors , printers , cleiks , employes , porters , » nd female folders nf the journal were present .. M .
Victor Hugo , who undertook so nobly the defence of the J ' resse in the Assembly on its arbitrary suspension in July , 18 i 8 , occupied among the guests the distinguished rank , merited by this service . One of the workmen proposed , in ci . ergctic language , the health of Girardin , the ' ¦ old publicist ., and Victor Hugo , the poet of the tribune . M . ( ii rnrdiri , in returning thanks , said the Prcsse had been founded that day fourteen years , and unfolded the first copy printed on Juno 30 , 1836 . He proceeded to rt ' . 'ul lonu ? quotations from Victor Hugo and Laniartine , which had appeared in that original sheet . After a speech by Victor Hugo , and a song called The Hymn of
the Workmen" by one of the printers , the banquet broke up . An Arab , of the name of Mustapha , has been appointed British Consular Agent in Thebes . This man was originally a traveller ' s servant , after which he was made a janizary in the British Consulate here , and for the last few years he has been acting in various capacities , latterly as a purveyor of stores to the British shipping in port .
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The election of the President of the French Assembly was to take place on Thursday . The Legitimists have agreed to support M . Dupin . The Republicans had some thoughts of starting General de Lamoriciere for the office . Accounts from the French provinces state that the Councils-general are preparing to bring forward the question of the revision of the Constitution at their earliest meetings . A bill for opening a credit of two thousand pounds sterling for defraying expenses in relation to the London exhibition , is about to be submitted to the French Assembly . . The printer of Ledru Rollin ' s pamphlet , Le 13 Jinn , has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment and costs , for having affixed a fictitious name and address to the publication .
A deep sensation was created in Paris , on Wednesday , by the announcement of the d eath of Sir Robert Peel , the news of which reached the French Government that morning by telegraph . The same day a nephew of the lamented statesman passed through Paris , on his way to Switzerland , to announce the melancholy event to the eldest son of the late baronet , who is residing at Geneva , and who now is Sir Robert Peel . The editor of the National has been condemned to three months' imprisonment and a fine of 200 f , for announcing that a subscription had been commenced at Nangis to pay the fine of 25 f ., to which ( with a week ' s imprisonment ) the wife of a farmer at Fontenelles had been condemned , under the law against hawkers , for lending a newspaper to a neighbour .
The new press laws , as proposed by the committee , were presented to the French Assembly on Saturday . The amendments made by the committee in the Government's bill greatly mitigate the severity of the measure . The committee rejects the proposed augmentation of the caution-money to 50 , 000 f ., retaining for Paris and the zone of the capital the present amount of 24 , 000 f . For other parts of France 6000 f . is the amount of cautionmoney demanded for departments including towns of 50 000 souls , and 3600 f . for the other departments . The half only is exacted for journals which appear only twice during the week . The principle of a postage-stamp is adopted , the amount of which is fixed at six centimes for the newspapers of Paris and the Banlieu , and at two centimes for the rest of France .
The Moniteur contains a decree from the President of the Republic , declaring that as Jean Pruvot , an agricultural labourer in the department of the Aisne , has been employed for fifty years on the same farm , and has , during that period given numerous proofs of rare disinterestedness , and performed many acts of devotedness , the head of the state has thought fit to nominate him Knight of the Legion of Honour . The Court of Assizes of the Seine has lately
condemned a small landed proprietor named Leray , residing at Joue , to three months' imprisonment and 500 francs finp , for having at a public meeting raised the cry of " Vive le pillage ! " Also a labourer of the same place , named Gauduchon , to one month ' s imprisonment and 100 francs fine , for having in the street shouted out , "Abasle bon Dieu ! " " Vive l ' enfer ! " A bas la religion ! " "A bas les pretres ! " and lately a s nith , named Cornet , to two months' imprisonment and 100 francs fine , for having cried out , " Vive la guillotine ! "
The new postal convention between the kingdom of Prussia and the Austrian Government for the formation of a Germanic-Austrian postal union for the fixation of an equal rate of postage throughout Germany came into operation on the 1 st of July . The convention has been joined by the Governments of Bavaria , Saxony , Mecklenburg-Strelitz , and the superior postal authorities of Schleswig-Holstein . By the treaty , the rate of postage is very considerably reduced . The electric telegraph has been introduced into several of the large Austrian state steamers , to enable the commander to communicate direct with the engine-room . The Parliament in Wirtemburg has refused to grant the taxes for a longer period than two months .
A telegraphic despatch from Berlin states that , on Thursday evening , the plenipotentiaries of Denmark and Prussia signed a treaty of peace , in the name of the German Confederation . Excursion trains are no longer confined to England . A monster excursion to Paris is to leave Berlin on the 10 th , and passengers will be carried there and back for thirty-six thalers in the first class , and twenty-six thalers in the second class . A week or ten days will be allowed the excursionists in Puris .
At one of the principal churches at Pesth , recently , the performance of " The Mossiah" was appointed for a charitable purpose . On the morning of the day appointed it was discovered that the organ had been tuned exactly a semitone too high . This was an awkward blunder , but how it was to be remedied no one could tell , until the organist , it liohemian hy birth , suggested that he should play the whole one half note lower , and this difficult feat he actually performed . It is said that M . de Persigny is to be charged with a delicate mission to St . Petersburg . The French President is about to solicit , through this confidential messenger , the hand of the daughter of the late Grand Duke Michael .
The Spanish Government has contracted with a London firm lor the immediate construction of two war steamers of 600 horse-power each , to be completed by the end of
February These are in addition to the seven alreadyordered to be built , namely , two in England , three in Ferrol , and two in Cadiz . When these are all launched , the steam navy of Spain will consist of thirty-four vessels . ,. . _ .. , . A letter from Rome in the Umvers confirms the fact of the demand made by the Papal Government for the recal of Mr . Freeborn , the English consul there , and adds that the negotiations on that head have hitherto failed . * . The funeral ceremony in commemoration of the French who fell in the siege of Rome was celebrated in that city with great pomp on the 20 th ultimo , in the Church of Santa Maria di Trastevere .
Letters from Bologna state that a number of the Roman Republicans have established their quarters in the small Republic of Santo Marino . The Papal Government has demanded their expulsion , but the Republic has turned a deaf ear to the application . An app lication was then made to the Austrians , who have hitherto respected the territory of this old Republic , but who have now demanded the expulsion of all the refugees . The consuls of Santo Marino have replied that the great majority of the refugees now enjoy the right of citizenshi p , and that they cannot drive them out ; all they can do is to request them to remain tranquil . The Official Milan Gazette mentions the arrest and execution by the Austrian troops in the Modanese of a band of forty-three robbers , who all confessed their
crimes . Letters from Malta announce that the English fleet was about to quit that place and proceed to Gibraltar . Two American ships of war , the Independence , 56-gun frigate , and the Mississippi , first-class steamer , arrived in the Tagus , on the 29 th ult ., charged to demand , and , if necessary , to enforce payment of certain claims made by the United States Government upon that of Portugal . It is supposed that the affair will be settled by an offer of payment by instalments , which the Americans can scarcely refuse to so needy a debtor . We understand that , pending a reference to the Portuguese Government as to the validity of Don Pacifico ' s claims on that country , 20 , 000 dollars have been deposited on board H . M . S . Ganges , at Salamis Bay . —Naval and Military Gazette .
Advices from Semlin of the 21 st ult ., state that the Pasha of Widdin having collected a body of troops , attacked the insurgent peasants near that place upon the 18 th , and after cutting down about 500 dispersed the remainder . The same accounts mention that Omer Pasha had entered Bosnia with 20 , 000 men , and expected to crush the insurrection in a short time . Recent accounts from Cochin China state that cholera made its appearance in that country in the latter part of last year , and had committed great ravages , traversing the whole kingdom . A great drought had also prevailed , followed by famine , the rice crops having almost entirely failed , and the inhabitants were reduced to the utmost misery , feeding upon leaves and whatever they could possibly use as a means of preserving life .
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The grounds of the Brighton Pavilion , recently purchased of the Woods and Forests by the commissioners of Brighton , under powers conferred on them by an act of the present Parliament , were opened to the public on Sunday morning . During the day many thousands entered the grounds . A meeting of deputies from the Protestant Dissenters of the metropolis was held at the King ' s Head , in the Poultry , on Monday , to petition the House of Lords to refer the Interments Bill to a select committee , in order that they and other parties aggrieved may have an opportunity of explaining and substantiating their
objections . A public meeting of the inhabitants of the parish of St . Leonard , Shoreditch , was held at the Baptist Chapel , Shoreditch , on Monday , for the purpose of taking measures to obtain a continual supply of pure water to this portion of the metropolis . Mr . M . J . O'Connell , M . P ., who presided said the district of Shoreditch was supplied at present by two companies , but the water was defective In quantity , and unusually hard . If , however , the plan to be submitted to the meeting should be carried into effect these evils would be remedied . Ip was proposed to supply the parish by means of Artesian , wells , the water from which had been provtd to be of excellent quality . One great advantage of this scheme was
that it required no act of Parliament to carry it into effect , for by a very eld act passed in the reign of George II ., the authorities of the parish of St . Leonard , Shoreditch , were empowered to undertake any improvements without applying to the Legislature for its sanction . The plan now proposed to supply the district of Shoreditch with water was to sink Artesian wells within the parish . By this means a constant supply of the purest water would bo obtained , which might be distributed at high pressure to every house at about half the present rates . Resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting were adopted .
The Gorham case has advanced a stage in the Court of Exchequer . The arguments on the rule nisi , for and against issuing a prohibition from inducting Mr . Gorham , were heard on Saturday , Monday , and Tuesday . The Attorney-General , with other counsel for Mr . Gorham and the Archbishop of Canterbury , opposed the prohibition with new heaps of quotations ftom a long list of authorities against the existence of Convocation ; but
most of these authorities are of secondary weight with lawyers . Sir Fitzroy Kelly and other counsel for Dr . Philpotts reinsisted on the uninterrupted current of gieat text-writers , who ns ume the existence of Convocation , Baron Alderson gave fresh indications of extending doubt on the point he originally raised , whether the suit is one which concerns the Crown—a point necessary to give Convocation jurisdiction , when it shall be proved an existing institution . It seems probable that the judgment of the Exchequer Court will go for Mr .
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July 6 , 1850 . ] ®!) £ 9 Ltato $ V . 345
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Leader (1850-1860), July 6, 1850, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1845/page/9/
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