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ditary distinctions are , therefore , contrary to the principles of ' 89 , which constitute the grandeur of France , and to which principles we owe it that I am hereto defend them , and that you are here to interrupt me ; for , thaaks to them , we yet enjoy a sort of parliamentary liberty- These principles are deeply rooted in the popular mind . The people are proud of them . And it is at a moment when there is so little liberty ; when so much distress prevails , in the midst of a commercial crisis ; when the country is uneasy , agitated , that you . propose to crush its traditions , to destroy that ideal ¦ which it cherishes and which enables it to endure its trials with patience in the hope of better times , and to break with the great , the holy , the blessed . Revolution .
To exhume such trivialities under existing circumstances were to imitate the conduct of the Greeks , who lost precious time in vain discussion when the barbarians were at their doors . I can understand that a family desires to preserve its traditions . That a Montmorency should remember with pride the virtues of his ancestors , and should oppose any usurpation of his name , is not only natural but just . He has a right to cling to that name as much as I do to that of my father , which I would not change for any other in the world , nor for any title of duke or baron . But let not the private and personal rights of families be mingled with state distinctions . I care not whether the law may be useful to
you or not ; but I Insist on this—that the Government has no right to repudiate the principle to which it owes its existence . You want to bring us back to principles anterior to the Revolution . It is in the name of the Revolution , and in the name of the people , which dates from " 89 , that I vote against the bill . " M . BarocTie , President of the Council of State , replied , to this speech , and accused M . Ollivier of attacking the basis of society and of family ties . Nothing , he said , could be more dangerous to the regular development of liberty than * ' such deplorably retrospective expressions as those which the Chamber had just heard . " At the close of the discussion , the bill was adopted by 211 to 2 3 .
The Abbe Damage , parish priest of Tavaux , in the department of the Aisne , has communicated to the < Semaine' du Vermatidoh an account of a miracle which he and some children saw in the cemetery of Tavaux . * ' Floating in the direction of the sun , but much higher , a cross appeared , about thirty feet long , in a horizontal position . " The tree of the cross was white ; the arms were rainbow-hued , and blue prevailed towards the centre . Truly , a very pretty miracle . The re-election , for the Fifth Circumscription has terminated in a large majority for the Opposition candidate , M . Picard . The numbers were— -Picard , 10 , 323 ; Eck , 8976- Thus , M . Eck , the Government candidate , who , at the first election , had a majority , but not a sufficiently large one to satisfy the lav 3 now finds himself quietly shelved by his opponent .
It has been again resolved that the Mediterranean squadron is to take part in the review ^ at Cherbourg , so that a large portion of the French fleet will be assembled there . The Moniteur of Wednesday has an article objecting to the hostile attitude assumed by Turkey towards Montenegro , and denying that the former has any xight of suzerainete over the latter . For nearly a century , says the writer , Montenegro has been closed to the Turks . The article proceeds : — " The Government of the Emperor" ( after the breaking out of hostilities ) " asked the other Powers to concert measures to prevent a conflict which otherwise seemed inevitable
betveen the Montenegrins and the Turks . These advances were favourably received , and England immediately made a proposition , accepted at Pa . ris , according to which the great Powers were to appoint Commissaries , who , in concert with an Ottoman Plenipotentiary , were to draw up a territorial settlement , having for basis the status quo existing at the time of the Congress of Paris . " The Jioniteur hopes and believes that France and England will bo supported by Russia , Austria , and the other Powers .
SPAIN . The Cortes have been suddenly and definitively prorogued . Some of the Ministers have tendered their resignation . The Government has dismissed two-andtwenty corregidors . The Madrid Gazette of the 7 th contains the royal decrees which accept the resignation of Senor Diaz , Minister of the Interior , And suspend the sittings of the Cortes .
TUBKEY . The Porte has just transmitted a note to each of the Legations , in which wo read : — " From information that has come to the knowledge of the Sublime Porto , it appears that Ottoman subjects , by bota-king themselves to foreign countries , find means to procure from the authorities of thoso last certain documents , with which they return home . The Consulates then claim to protect thorn , and occasionally even seek to > release from their Ottoman allegiance individuals who have never left the country , by giving them papers , under the form of passports and patents of protection If it wore even possible to permit subjects of the Porte , through a preference for the governmental system of another State , to forsako their own country and their own allegiance , grave inconveniences would result from permitting indi
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDKN DEATHS . A strait cow on the line of the London and North-Western Railway caused a frightful accident on Monday near Nunoaton . The driver saw the cow in advance , and raised a shrill alarm with his whistle , hoping to frighten tho animal ofl' the line ; at the same time , tlio breaks were vigorously applied , but to no effect . Tho cow , on seeing the train advancing , coolly turned her back to it , and Btood quietly between tho rails . In another moment , the train was upon her , and bIio waa crushed to pieces . Tho hiclo got wrapped round tho wheels , and tho bones wcro strewed along tho line ; tho
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STATJB OF TRADE . The market for yarns and cloths was quieter during the week ending last Saturday , spinners and manufacturers having advanced their terms in consequence of the in . creasing desirness of cotton . Still , business is in a more flourishing state than it was in some weeks ago . There are further indications of improvement in the iron , trade of South Staffordshire ; but the demand for finished iron is still far below the average usual at this time of year . Both the home and foreign market are dull ; but large orders are anticipated from the East Indies and other parts of the world . Another dispute as to wages has occurredin the South Staffordshire district . The stock lockmakera of Wolverhampton and neighbourhood have refused to submit to a reduction of from 3 s . to 4 s . per dozen , as proposed by their masters . At "Wolverhampton , Bradford , Norwich , and Dublin , an improved state of business may be noted ; but dulness continues to prevail at the other chief seats of industry . The general business of the port of London continued active during the week ending last Saturday , the arrivals of corn being unusually large . The number of ships reported inward was 275 , including 122 with grain , flour , &c , 25 with cargoes of sugar , and three from . China with 29 , 913 packages of tea , and 541 bales of salk . The number cleared outward was 138 , including 23 in ballast , and those on the berth loading for the Australian colonies amount to 73 .
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CRIMINAL RECORD . Burglaries in the Notk-East Towns . — A great many burglaries have been committed within the last fortnight in Shields and the neighbouring towns , and two or three men are in custody . The alarm produced has been such that many persons have taken to keeping loaded pistols in their houses—a fact which has led to an accident near South Shields . A Miss Waun , the daughter of a county magistrate residing at West Beldon , found a pistol in one of the bedrooms , and attempted to discharge it out of the window , but it missed fire . Thinking it was not loaded , she put a cap on it , ran down stairs , and presented it tit a Miss Niece , exclaiming , " Your money or your life ! " Miss Niece bent her head on one side , and thus saved her life , for the pistol went off , and the contents were lodged in her shoulder . Happily , however , she is not in any danger . MuHDXit NioAH Coventry . —Joseph Owen , a labouring man at Ryton , near Coventry , has been found murdered in the high road near a public-house . Two men aro in custody , under suspicion . Stabbing on the High Seas . —George Reed , a Swedish seaman on board an American ship , has been charged before tho Liverpool magistrate witli stabbing tho mate of the vessel while on a voyage to this country from New Orleans . One morning , the second mate called Reed to his duty , when some dispute arose between tho two men , in tho course of which , Reed ran at the second mate with a knifo . On seeing this , the first mate rushed to the assistance of hia comrade , and struck Keed on the face . The latter then stabbed his assailant with his knife in tho hack of his neck , and inflicted a severe wound , which extended almost from , one car to the other . Rccd afterwards told tho captain that ho had in tended to murder tho first mate . When before the magistnito , ho stated tliat both tho first and second mutes beat him unmercifully , tho latter using a largo belaying pin , and that when ho ( Reed ) used the knifo , he scarcely know what he was about . Tho second mate entirely denied Reed ' s assertion with respect to himself , and declared ho never struck him at all . Rood was committed according to tlio International Act , until tho American Ambassador could inquire into tho case .
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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Thus May sessions commenced on Monday , when the first person tried waa John Smith , who had been coa-
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viduals who , after halving so renounced subjection to a Power , return to reside in the territory of that Power with other rights , and raising pretensions to a foreign nationality , to evade in this manner all the obligations inherent in their quality of subjects . I am convinced that your Excellency , guided by the justice which distinguishes you , will perceive the mischievous consequences of such a toleration . The Sublime Porte , therefore , feels compelled to transmit to its agents orders enjoining them to reject all such pretensions when raised by subjects of the Porte , and to hold all such bound to fulfil their legal duties as subjects ; and . as to those who may
persist in adhering to their change of nationality , seeing that such , conduct does injury to the dignity of the imperial Government , which has the right to expel them altogether from its territory , it will be the duty of the aforesaid officials to compel the individuals in question to leave their homes and the country , conformably to the laws of the empire . " This document is said to have been necessitated by some peculiarly unwarrantable act on the part of the Russian representative , though the Ministers of other countries are also greatly to blame . A few slight shocks of earthquake have been felt at Constantinople and Xroussa . ¦
Serious disturbances have broken out in that part of the mountains of Judea which extends from Hebron to Beit-Gebrin and Ramleh . They were caused by some Scheiks , headed by Mustapha Abou Goch- —a man who , though . be is described as little better than a brigand , possesses great power . He has lately had a combat with another brigand , in which sixty men were killed , and upwards of one hundred were wounded . A tribe of Thyas took advantage of this state of things to pillage several villages . By the assistance , of the French consul , the governor of Palestine ( -who had not sufficient force to quell the disturbances ) induced the combatants to consent to a truce of sixty days .
; .. - ., ITALY . . . . .. The state trials at Naples weie resumed on the 30 th ult ., and were again postponed for a fortnight . Three of the unhappy prisoners have been subjected to the lash for singing a patriotic song . One of these men , on being brought up again on . the resumption of the trial , thus denounced his torturers in open court : — " Signor President , on my own . behalf and that of my two companions , Nasti and Amoroso , I loudly protest against the unmerited and barbarous punishment of legnate , which a few days since we were compelled to suffer . I know that this is a useless protest , but I am driven to make it by the desire of denouncing to the whole civilized world the barbarities which , in the nineteenth century , are committed by this Government ; and I demand that my protest be entered on the verbale of this day's proceedings . "
RUSSIA . . The revolts of the peasantry in various parts of Russia continue , and have extended to remote localities ; but they are very easily put down . Russia has made to Prussia aa offer of further reductions in her Customs tariff , if Prussia will abolish the transit dues levied on Russian goods .
AUSTELA . Count Valentine Esterhazy has resigned his post as Austrian Ambassador at St . Petersburg . He is shortly expected at Vienna . His prohable successsor is Prince Richard Metteinich . The latter , with the Princess , his wife , and Baron and Baroness von Wydenbruck , had the honour of dining at the imperial table a few days since . Baron von Wydenbruck will shortly receive a new diplomatic appointment . Fuad Pacha has been staying at Vienna for a day o-r two , and has had interviews with Count Buol , Baron Hubner , and the -whole of tho diplomatic corps . He has since returned to Paris .
GERMANY . Tho Saxon representatives have just rejected tho whole of the war estimates of the kingdom , on account of their being , as they conceive , far too high . MONTENEGWO . There has been a battle at Grahovo between the Turks on one side and the Montenegrins and tho Herzegovine rayahs on the other . The latter had fifty men killed and seventy wounded . The loss of the Turks ia not known . Grahovo was burnt by its inhabitants . Iiagnani hna been occupied by about 2000 Turkish troops . Tho inhabitants have fled , some to Budino di Niksich , others to Grahovo . It ia stated that tho Montenegrins have taken measures to put their frontiers in that direction in a atute of defence .
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result of which was that , while the engine and tende remained on the rails , the carriages were jerked off and smashed , in many instances , to fragments . Three of the passengers were killed , and six more or less injured The guard had a remarkable escape , being rolled down an embankment on the break-van , with scarcel y a hurtbut the conductor of the train sustained a contusion of the leg . 0 n « of the gentlemen who was killed is said to have exclaimed , immediately before he breathed h » 3 ast , " I'm insured . " This was the Rev . Thomas Miller a Presbyterian clergyman residing at Belfast . Aa in ! quest was opened on Tuesday , and adjourned to the following day . < A frightful accident has occurred at Lenton , a village one mils' from Nottingham . A boy , named Rowland , seven years of age , went to the Old Abbey Flour Mill occupied by Mr . Kirchin , and became entangled by a chain connected with the machinery , which being at work at the time , dragged the lad to the ceiling , pressing his throat so severely that , when extricated , the head fell from the body ; both thighs also w ere broken . The boy had been frequently cautioned not to enter the mill . Two labouring men were run down last Saturday night , while intoxicated , by a train on the Monmouthshire Company ' s line at Bisca . Both were killed oa ths spot .
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464 THE LEADER , [ N ^^ JM ^ IS , 1858 ,
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Leader (1850-1860), May 15, 1858, page 464, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2242/page/8/
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