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the space " of one hour were selling at two francs below the closing prices of the day before . There was no explanation of this sudden degrmgolade , and people began to fancy that we had been beaten on the Tcheruaya , when at length it was discovered that the sellers were speculating on the treme ndous intelligence , that for twenty-four hours his Majesty had bee n afflicted with the " complaint of philosophers , " as Montaigne / who was also a sufferer , called it . . . When the authorities heard of this panic , his Majesty promised to go out for a drive on Sunday , and to the play on Monday , so as to persuade the funds to get up again : the elasticity of the funds depends so much on the elasticity of the Imperial constitution . But then again , the stockjobbers have another anxiety . Suppose his Majesty were to wear himself out with his endeavours to appear well ! . . . .
. . . . M . Gamier , Professor of Political Economy , and , as such , under the jurisdiction of M . Rouhc-r , Minister of Public Works , having presented , in the Joiunal des Economises , some observations on the dc- ^ cree relative to the Institute , was sent for by the Minister to answer for his impudence . When he alleged the excessive moderation of those remarks which had offended the susceptibility of M . "Fortoul , the Minister of Public Instruction , " We know , " replied M . Kouber , " that your article is very measured in terms . Before 1852 there would have been no objection to it . But you cannot be ignorant that since 1852 any functionary who in any way censures an act of the Government is in hostility to ( en disaccord avec ) the system which the Government is determined to establish . Consider yourself warned , and for the future be circumspect . " ( From another Letter . " )
You remember that Isapoleon ( the First ) honoured with his presence the tomb of Frederick the Great , and that Charles the Fifth paid a visit to the ashes of Charlemagne . The Charlemagne of the 2 nd of December , the Xapoleon of Boulogne , of Strasburg , and of Satory has rendered the same honours to the tomb of the Due d'Orleans . Last Thursday , June 14 , a cabriolet stopped at the grille of the little monument of the Chemin de la Re'volte ; two private gentlemen in plain clothes got out : the one resembled a schoolboy , the other a Sick perroquet — the one was the King of Portugal , the other the Emperor of the French . They had
the chapel openeil . The concierge recognised them , and respected their incognito even to calling them Messieurs . Our Emperor deigned himself to do the honours of the chapel to his young companion , to . whom he pointed out the painted windows of M . Ingres , and the singular resemblance of the late king to Saint Philippe . The Orleanists are scandalised at this invasiona the more so that the chapel is private property , and actually pays taxes as such . But it seems that this Government respects neither the living , nor the dead . The young King of Portugal is not so strictly watched by his guardian this time ns he was on his last excursion . He has been
permitted to disport himself , and he has taken full advantage of the permission . .... You ask me what I think of Ristori , and of the Demi-Monde . I have not yet found time to see Ristori ; but my friends assure me that she has great dramatic power , and that 6 he adorns that bestial tragedy of Mirra . Those who saw her at Home admired her much less . Perhaps the public enthusiasm here is un peu une niche faite a Mademoiselle Rachel . Madame Ristori is going to play a Maria Stuarda , becauseone of Rachel ' s celebrated parts was the Marie Stuart of Lebrun .... The Demi-Monde is a success , because it is an exact daguerreotype of Parisian conversation . The style is lively and amusing , and the characters seem to be
transported directly from the Boulevards to the stage . Just before young Dumas' piece was brought out , Emilo Augier was preparing another on the same subject , founded on the true story of an officer attached to the household of the Emperor , M . de G fc , and a certain Constance . Constance had been a fille en carte . To save the young man who was mad to marry her , the police laid a trap fo r the poor girl and gave her a rendezvous in a inaison de pause , where they came and arrested her , and lodged her at St . Lnzfirc . Her lover , however , got her out , still resolved to marry her , and nothing could be done but to send him off to the Crimea , where he is still . I suppose M . Augier has given up his piny . Q 1 ia too like Nanjac . ,...., . . Every hour of tlie day tho telegraph has been asking for news , and receiving none . Great things ar £ pxpected of Pelissicr—grand maitre en tucric .
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, CONTINENTAL NOTES . Convocation of this French CiiAMmcua . — By u decree in Thursday ' s Manileur , tho Senuto and Legislative Body are convoked , . This convocation , tho oilicial journal observes , is of no unforeseen character , as , ever since , ^ hei close of last session , the Government had uignlfe ^ tif fha SOqatora au < l deputies that financial incaeutyjs would compel thole upoQay reunion , V . l ' . iM . ' ¦ : i ¦ ' , ¦•¦
A Parisian sculptor has been lately selling plaster casts of a bust of Bexanger which he had made . For these casts he charged six sous a piece ; and 10 , 000 have been sold in a fortnight—a fact which indicates the existence of a considerable residuum of republican feeling even iu purpureal Paris . The idea of selling the casts at so low a rate originated in a desire to give an answer to some virulent attacks upon BeYanger which have appeared in the Univers , the press organ of the Jesuits .
A French physician has just published a pamphlet under the title of " The Physical and Moral Degeneration of the Human Race caused by Vaccination . " The startling theory that Jenner , who for more than half a century has enjoyed the reputation of one of the greatest benefactors of humanity , was in fact the principal author of cholera and a host of modern diseases , has been broached before , but without exciting much attention . Now , however , the Imperial Academy of Medicine has placed the subject on their paper for discussion . The Queen ' s visit to Paris is said to be fixed for the 13 th of August . It is held to be probable that the sovereign of England will be present at the Napoleon fetes on the 15 th of the same month . If so , this will perhaps be the strangest fruit of the Alliance which has yet been produced .
The French Emperor has been ill ; and the consequence has been a serious fall on the Bourse . The story is , that , after leaving a rather long council of ministers on Saturday , he was seized with a strangury . The ailment , however , could not have lasted long in its intensity , as the Emperor received several visits at the Tuileries on Sunday morning . He lay in bed the latter half of Saturday . The Turin journals state that during the visit of the King of Sardinia to Paris , the regency of the kingdom will be entrusted to II . R . II . Prince Eugene of Carignan . The shock of an earthquake has been felt at Albano . It is thouglit to have been connected with the late eruption of Vesuvius . Some seveie floods have occurred in France . All the
rivers in the neighbourhood of Toulouse rose considerably ; the Garonne overflowed its banks ; and the Prairie des Tiltres , near Toulouse , was entirely under water . Trees , domestic animals , and articles of husbandry , were swept away ; and the inhabitants of the surrounding country had to fly for their lives . Three piers of a suspension bridge were also destroyed ; but it does not appear that any lives were lost . On the 2 nd instant , a kind of waterspout burst over the town of Aubusson ( Cieuse ); the rivers overflowed their banks , and the water rose to the height of ten feet round some of the buildings . The next day it subsided .
A correspondent of the Daily News , writing from St . Petersburg , observes : — " The peaceable and bloodless conquest of the extensive territory to the north of the river Amur—a territory equal in size to the whole area of Germany—Is now officially confirmed by the Irkutzk correspondent of the Northern Bee , and is considered as an event of great importance for the future ; for , though at the present moment there exists only one solitary ' winter house , ' there are two most excellent harbours , capable of becoming , when fortified , what Sebastopol is now in the Black Sea with reference to Turkey , as it will give Russia the command of the Sea of Japan , and open the door for the aggressive spirit of the Muscovites to pick a quarrel with , and finally subjugate , the vast empire of Japan , and possibly China . "
Montenegro , after having been quiet for a long time , seems disposed to stir again , if we may rely upon a letter from Cettingc , of the 29 th of May , which has been published in the Austrian Gazette , and which says : — " The ruling Prince and Princess of this country proceeded last week with the principal dignitaries of the country and the Senate to Itieka-Cernovic , where 6000 men in arms were assembled , that ia to ( jay , all those who had last year volunteered to fight against the Turks . The Prince passed them in review and then presented each with a cross , which ia to be worn to intimate that tho person displaying it had come forward voluntarily to battlo with Turkey . Three salvoes of applause greeted tho Prince when he addressed the troops , and the ceremony terminated . "
The Carlist rebellion seems to bo nearly at an end . Aragon and the Maestrazgo are referred to by the Government as completely tranquillized . Tho Carlist Colonel Puollefl , together with Coralen and seventy rebel horsemen , were shot at Agramunt on tho 8 th inst . According to advices from Oporto , dated the flth instant , tho vino disease in tho Douro ia uproading with such intensity as to cause tho worst apprehensions . An Austrian note , addressed by Count Buol to Count
Esterhazy , and dated the 01 st ult ., exhibits still inoro clearly than preceding documents the political coquetry thut is now going forward between the two groat German powers . Prussia , ns well as tho other Teutonic states , is complimented on having waived tho discussion , in tho Federal Dlot of the Russian offer with respect to tho two first PointH . Count Buol concludes by observing that " events are taking such a turn that for tho future wo shall not have to act with reserve toioarda Prussia in pending negotiations . " A letter of tho 12 th from Burgos ( nays tho Times Spanish correflpondent ) mentions that tho mail which
left there on the 10 th was burnt not far frona Briviesca by ten mounted men , headed , it is believed , by th Estudiante de Villasur , who is said to have entered Spain from France five or six days ago . A French . Cabinet courier was in the mail , carrying despatches f rom / the French and English Embassies in Madrid . He e arnestly entreated the brigands to respect the official correspondence , but in vain . It was soon after this exploit that the mail of the 9 th from . Paris came up , with correspondence from Marseilles , including , it is said , despatches from Senor Pacheco to the Spanish Government . These , according to the letter , were the onl y ones not burnt The robbers carried them away , with what object it is difficult to conjecture .
A few details are given by the Monitore Toscano , of the late attempt against the life of Cardinal Antonelli . It appears that the Cardinal was issuing from the palace of the Vatican to enjoy a walk , when , while descendin g the steps before the entrance , a man named T > efelicis a hatmaker by trade , rushed on him , and at tempted ' fo stab him , but was stopped in time , and arrested . The Brussels Indej > endance has intelligence from Vienna that the reduction in the Austrian army will be of 140 , 000 , and not of 100 , 000 men , as originally announced . — Significant comment on the intentions of the Court of Vienna with respect to the war !
The Biirgerschaft of Hamburg ( says a correspondent of the Daily News ) have rejected by a majority of 162 a new and liberal constitution laid before them by the Senate , and emanating from a mixed commission of the Senate and the people . This constitution is much more liberal than one which the same body accepted in 1850 by 347 to 149 votes . A new constitution for Hanover is in process of construction . We gather the following particulars from a letter of the 16 th inst . in the Cologne Gazette : —" According to the bill , the First Chamber will be again
formed of the same elements as before 181 S , ¦ , this difference , that the equestrian order will no longer have more than 26 deputies , by whose side will sit 18 landed " proprietors having a net revenue of GOO thalers ( the thaler is about 4 fr . ) , and chosen by electors designated by the assemblies of the buUliages . The present representation of the legal profession , the schools , commerce , and manufactures , will be done away with . As far as regards the Second Chamber , the bill returns to the fundamental law of 1850 . Notwithstanding the urgency of the Ministry , the bill appears likely to have but very little success with the Second Chamber . "
Poor Poerio and his comrades are still languishing under the devilish tyranny of the Neapolitan despot . A correspondent of the Morning Post says : —" Owiuglo the great sympathy expressed by the inhabitants of the small village of Montelusco , where the political victims of 1848 had been long confined , fifty of them were some time since removed to Monte Sarchio . The mode in which Poerio and his companions were conveyed from the one place to the other is characteristic of the Neapolitan government . No less than 4000 soldiers were
employed at different parts of the road to guard the closed vans containing the prisoners . All these unhappy men were made to travel in their chains , from which they suffered excessively . But the most painful event of the journey was caused by the overturning of one of the vans , which broke the arm of one prisoner and injured others . On this occasion , the military guard took upon themselves the responsibility to remove tho irons from the prisoner , contrary to tho strictest orders given on that subject . "
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A NEW CONVEYANCE ASSOCIATION . The reorganisation lately effected in l ' aris of the public conveyances under the direction of one vast Association , is about to be attempted , we are informed , in London . In Paris , the Association guarantees better carriages , better horses , cheaper farcy , and a more regular service . If the projectors who lmve successfully realised their scheme in France , / aid who propose its adoption in London , can surmount tho difficulties peculiar to our independence of Government control and to our unrestricted competition , can succeed in P " trudc to
ciuading tho various interests engaged in the merge their isolated profits into a monopoly -which promises simplified expenses of management mxl increased receipts , and can convince the public that ouch a- monopoly would conduce to the public advantage , tho Association will deserve encouragement and support . Certainly our public conveyance , syutcm b mi . sceptiblo ot great improvement . If our cabs and omnibuses are better horsed , they ar « far inferior to those of Paria in comfort , and in that regularity of correspondence ¦ nhicli is at onco an economy of time and of npuco , by affording to even the most remote districts a continuous communication with the central thoroughfares .
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THE FAILURE OF MESSIiS . STJMIJAN , PAUL , & CO . This commercial catastrophe turns out to bo something more than was at first believed , and is transferred from tho ground of simple bankruptcy to thai of a criminal appropriation of other peop le '* property . Tho police court is dividing with tho ^ mi " of Bankruptcy tho honours or dishonours of tin .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 23, 1855, page 596, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2096/page/8/
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