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The Sardinian Chamber of deputies has continued the debate on the Convent Bill , and on the 17 th Count Cavour made a vigorous speech on the financial , economical and political bearing of the measure , and as to its opportuneness- Financially he showed that this bill would benefit the Treasury in three ways—in the first place , by relieving the budget of a sum amounting to nearly 1 , 000 , 000 francs ; secondly , by freeing the Treasury from rent for places that might be required for different objects ; and , thirdly , by procuring extraordinary means with whieh to supply the deficiencies of the budget , finally , he contended that the introduction of the bill waa not inopportune * had been asserted ; and he pointed out the danger of withdrawing the measure , by precedents from English history .
Count Nesselrode has addressed a circular to the Russian agents in foreign states , notifying that Russia is at war with Sardinia . The document asserts that the King of Sardinia has placed 15 , 000 men at the disposal of England , for the invasion of the Crimea , " without any ostensible motive , without any legitimate cause of complaint ; " and complains that the Sardinian Government has left it to the public journals to warn the Court of St . Petersburg of the aggression , instead of openly declaring war . Sardinia is reminded of former occasions on which Russia has taken up arms to assert the
interests of the House of Savoy ; and _ a covert sneer is thrown out as to the name which ought to be given to the auxiliary Sardinian troops . Sardinia , it is said , cannot pretend to serve the cause of Christianity by unfolding its banner by the side of the Crescent ; " nor can . it be affirmed that she seeks to defend the weak " against the -strong , when she joins her arms to those of France and England / ' The Emperor of Russia , however , still undertakes to afford protection to the private interests of Sardinian subjects entertaining commercial relations with Russia , who are permitted to remain in the empire . The Russian agents at Genoa and Nice will receive orders to suspend their functions .
The diplomatic relations between Austria and Prussia are extremely cold , and so they are likely to remain as long as the Berlin Cabinet continues to give its secret support to Russia . It is not oncof the least significant signs of the times that permission has been granted by the' Empeuor to Count Buotl , Barow Werner , Baron Plainer , Baron Meysenburg , Baron OttenfeJs , Prinee Schonburg , Prince " Richard Metternich , and Count Traun , to wear the orders they have received from ¦ " His Majesty the Emperor of the French . " The official Wiener Zeitung contains the Imperial rescript on the stibjecty-and it has excited considerable attention , as no Austrian subject was allowed to wear orders given by tbe younger branch of : the Bourbons .
The Aeustriam correspondent of the Times asserts that the Imperial Government at Vienna is not likely to ¦ ooasent ( that the destruction of the , Sebajrtopo ^ l fortifiea > - tions shall be made one of line conditions of peace at the approaching . Congress , on account of the improbability of Russia ' s consorting to any suck step . The . Paris correspondent of the Daily News , writing on Monday evening , says : "I beAieve . I may safely announce tha * ali doobftg about the Emperors journey to the Crimea me at an « nd . It is certain that he will go ,- and that very soon , unless sonw very unexpected event should occur to prevent him . "
M . Ame'dee de Cesena has written-a very remarkable article in . th » Conntitutionnel ;—a » article w-hich is regarded as a semi-official announcement of the Imperial intentions . In the event oB the failure of the-negotiations , the writer anticipates the presence , not only of the allied fleet , but of an army also , on the Baltic ; and avers that . Atostria and France wiH be found combating side by side on the upper part of tl » e Vistula , in a common struggle which may prolong itself to the- frontiers of Polauti ) , as wefli as to thw banks of the Danube . . . » We caa no more confirm than we can deny , " continues the "writer , '" -the rumours which attribwto equally to the two sovereigns of I ^ nnae and Austria the
intention of taking thai corttnnwid respectively of their armies . Uut alueady , in . anticipation of this great event , t / he people , whose instincts are rarely at fault , hew characterised , in its own picturesque language , the ensnfng ' spring campaign as the War of tl » ie' Throe Emperors . " M . de Cmenoi prophesies that the war will 1 lead to a solid and durable peaoe ^ and conduoe to European pro-; g » eis and civilisation ; and he adds : " France ehall be , » een everywhere with her fleets and her armtee . She stall be aeon in- the Baltic , in the Crimea , on the Vistula . What an immense ascendant does not thiegloriolu < r 6 h which she lias taken in the Eastern question guarantee to her future position in the world !" Hamburg letters ( mention further pnrohasoa of sugar of better qualities for transmission to Bw ^ ftin , encouraged by tke ikciUtiog f « r conveyance presented by tho sledge roads . Ooffocj tea r and cotton had aim * been t * k « n for tha same quarter , and the trade vi& Po )« nd waa briak . It ia important to notice that sales of the Wn « -
sian Five per Cent Loan of 1854 are . reported as being continued at Hamburg , Berlin , and Amsterdam . As low as 81 J , 81 i , and ev « a ® 0 f per cent , was stated to have been accepted by the Czar ' s agents , and it was whispered that at the last mentioned reduction purchasers might still be accommodated to a considerable amount . Although these operations are apparently conducted with great secrecy , it is difficult to imagine that they can escape , the attention of the authorities . It may be as well for the English Government to keep an eye on these proceedings , which , reasonably viewed , are equivalent to a breach of neutrality on tie part of the states in which they take place . The proceeds of the safes , it was understood , were not going to St . Petersburg but it was surmised were intended to meet the
dividends oil the old Russian stock in the markets of Western Europe ; Holders of Russian securities who have hitherto shown such faith in the Czar ' s fidelity to his financial engagements will do well to bear in mind the precarious nature of the resources by which their claims from half-year to half-year are shown to be met . The anxiety evinced by the Russian Government in propping up the market for its old stock is also explained ; for any serious fall in the latter would render further sales of newly created stock almost impossible , unless at a still more serious sacrifice . In consequence of these operations bills on Russia were quite without demand , andoffered at 31 J . Money was less abundant . A postscript states that further sales of the Russian loan had just been effected ' at 80 § per cent ., being a further reduction . —Daily Neics , Feb . 28 , City Article .
It was said in well-informed money circles that Messrs , Rothschild had withdrawn their agent from St . Petersbnrg- ^ -a fact of much significance at a time like the present . —Morning Post , City article , Wednesday . , About five or six weeks ago , the Milanese police arrested some men of whom they had suspicion , and were tlius put on the track of what the Trieste Gazette calls " a vast Mazzinian conspiracy , " of which proofs were soon discovered . Forty persons , some of whom belonged to the upper classes , were , in consequence , arrested . According-to Madrid journals of the 21 st ult ., General Pascual Real had been arrested , and placed in secret confinement , on suspicion of having' been concerned in one of the recently-discovered Carlist plots . The treaty for the settlement of the dispxited frontier line between Switzerland and Baden—a dispute which originated as far back as 1623—has been ratified .
- The correspondent of the Times says :- ^ " Of the Emperor ' s departure _ fbr the theatre of war , no reasonable doubt seems now to be entertained by-any " one 7 It is known that his Majesty has devoted much time to the study of a plan of operations drawn up by himself and submitted to a very few eminent military authorities ; and that the plan has been communicated to the Austrian militar } ' commissioner , in Paris , who in turn transmitted it to Vienna , where it is now under the consideration of
the Emperor of Austria . It appears that the Emperor's journey is objected to by the English and Austrian Cabinets . A special correspondent of the Morning Post , writing from Paris , on Tuesday , says that " His Majesty will decidedly leave . Even the day is fixed for the departure—Saturday next , the 3 rd , or , at latest , Monday , the 5 th . The Eiuper&r has nominated the persondges ' who ' are to" attend him ;" The latest probable news is told by the Paris correspondent of the Times : —
" Not long since some of the Generals of the army in active service had an audience with the Emperor on business connected with the PiedmonteSe contingent . Those officers recommended very strongly that there should be one General who should have the supreme command of the operations before Sebastopol , in order to secure unity of plan and operations . They took occasion at tho same time to allude to the subject of the Emperor ' s departure , with the object of ascertaining ¦ whether the intention was persevered in . The Emperor listened , as is his wont , to all they had to allege for or against it , but said nothing of his final resolution . It appears that in the reports addressed by General Niol , on the works before Sebastopol and the position of the
allied armies , it was stated that while the General approved thoroughly what had been done , it was nevertheless his decided opinion that the point of attack had boea badly selected , and . that it should bo much moTO to the right , in the direction of the English camp . General Niel is admitted to bo a very skilful officer , and the changes lie suggested were , it appears , unobjectionable . On conversing with a certain , personage on those points , the Emperor took from a cabinet a plan of Sebnstopol very carefully and elaborately drawn , with pins , the liendfl covered with wax of different colours , stuck hero and there to mark the positions and movements' of tho
enmp . He pointed out thnt the point shown by General Niel as the best for attacking tho city was the ono which he had himself selected long before the General ' s reports had reached him $ and ho very naturally felt pleased at the coincidence , which proved his genius for war . I have been informed that the Emperor has received letters from General Niel from bbforo Sebastopol . Theee letters appeared to give his Majesty much satisfaction . The family of General Niol , residing in Paris , liave also Tecoived letters from him . Tho Gonoral is ordered to rema'rn In the Crimea . " We find the following in the Morning Post : —
" The Grand Council of the Canton-of Geneva Tiavihg adopted the maxim that the Church should be separated from the State , the majority of the committee intrusted With the framing of a billfor that purpose , has made-the following- propositions : —1 . The State makes no difference between citizens of different creeds ; 2 . No person shall be prevented from the exercise of the reHgfeox * which he has . ckosea , so long as he does not not disturb the public peace , or act against the laws ; 3 . 28 o one is obliged to contribute towards the support of any worships ; nor shall salaries be paid eitker by the State or the communes for that purpose . The ecclesiastical property belonging to tbe Protestant Church is to be distributed among the Protestant communes , except that whieh has been applied to the establishment of the Bank of Geneva and the Mortgage Bank . " Geneva is ia advance of England in this respect .
The Journal de Frankfort gives the following , in ft letter from Genoa , 15 th ult .: — " His Majesty Victor Emmanuel , who has been severely afflicted in his family relations by losing three members of it in less than a month , entertained an idea of abdicating in favour of the Prince of Piedmont , his eldest son , aged ten , under the regency , during his minority , of his cousin Prince Eugene de Savoie Carignan . Victor Emmanuel , who is a gallant soldier , would then go and seek in the perils of war in the Crimea a diversion for his grief . It required the supplications of his Ministers and of Prince Eugene , and a representation of the convulsions whieh might take place in Europe , in the course of the approaching summer , to make him comprehend that he ought not to quit his elevated post . "
A letter from Ronae of the 20 th ult ., quoted in the Morning Post , sayst— "The Eternal -City has been just men « eed with an inundation . The continued rains had swelled the Tiber , and forced it to issue from its channel . AH the low quarters of the city , the Ghetto ; the Orso , the Ripetta , and the open space of the Pantneon were under water . ' . Baron Prokesch von Osten has been appointed second Austrian Plenipotentiary to the Vienna Conferences . The American papers bring accounts from Buenos Ayres to Dec . 27 ( Mendoza ) . There were stretig hopes of an amicable arrangement between the province of Bttenos Ayres and the rest of the Argentine Confederation .
A letter from Bucharest , ofthe 5 th , in the Pays , says : —^ " A curious affair has occurred here ^ and has created some sensation . Four persons wearing masks , but whose appearance indicated that they belonged to the higher classes , waited-two daysT ago on Mr . Colquhounj the English consul . On being introduced to his office , they carefully closed the door . He at first thought they were carnival maskers ; but they prodnced-a numberof papers and presented them to him . Amongst them there was a complaint , drawn up in strong terms , against the administration of Prince Stirbey . Mr . Colquhoun begged of them to take off their masks , but they refused . When they left he examined the papers , and found that they contained some very curious details . "
M . Thiers has met with a rather serious accident . As he was leaving his own door , he slipped on Bome frozen ice , fell , and broke his wrist . The pain was intense at first ; but no fever set in . Tho Emperor sent an aidede-camp - to inquire- after -M- -Thiers - Jiealth . _ Mf __ de Lamartine and all the most eminent political as well as literary personages , without reference to party , also hastened to express their sympathy and their good wishes for his recovery . Fears have been entertained
that amputation of the arm will be necessary . The Siecle was to have been prosecuted for publishing a feuilleton of the well-known Socialist writer , Eugene Sue , The romance of which it forms a part is entitled the Lorettes , and some scenes and descriptions in it being of a nature similar to the more objectionable ones in tho Mysteres de Paris , attracted the attention of the Procureur . But the prosecution has since been abandoned . The Siecle announces that M . Dupont ( de 1 'Eure ) ia so dangerously ill as to leave scarcely any hope of his
recovery . Admiral Nachimoff has just received from the Czar the order of tho White Eagle , as a reward for his services at Sebastopol . A humour is afloat in Constantinop le to tho effect hat Lord Redcliffe is about to retire . General R oso is talked of as his successor . Tho Emperor of tho French arrived on Thursday at Boulogno from tho camp at St . Oinor . Ho was expected to return to Paris on Sunday .
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RIOTS IN" AUSTRALIA . Advices have arrived from Melbourne up to the 2 nd of December , inclusive . On tho 30 « t of ^ November , some A-ory serious disturbances took place at BaUarat , and order had not been re-established on the 2 nd of December . The cause of the disturhaW * was a refusal on the part of the d . ggcrs to pay tho licensc-a decision adopted at ; a monster rneethtg on to previous day . We Icnrn from the Melbourne 3 ™ £ that at 10 , a . m ., Messrs . Commissioners Ifcde nna Johnson , with a troop of roountoJ and foot police , nrmed with drawn swords and fixed bayonets , demanded from tho diggers their licenses . Thlfl-was
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CGHPTINENTAL HOTES . DEATH OF THE EHPEBOS OF BUSSIANews wa * . received in Beriia -cm Thursday night that the Emperor of ^ Russia wafl-dangerously ill ; and subsequent accounts mention hia death .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 3, 1855, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2080/page/7/
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