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. accepts the principle of disarxnament , the details of which she will leave to be discussed in the Congress . "This moderation on the part of Sardinia , it is feared , witt not be of any avail . Meanwhile , according to the ad Vices from Piedmont , the war preparations in that country , as Avell as in France , require some further weeks of active effort for full completion . A letter from Turin says : —" War seems altogether inevitable to every man in Italy , arid I have heard of nothing but volunteers hastening to Piedmont . Eight hundred are gone from the little duchy of Massa-Garrara alone . The very dragbous and cendarmes of Modena , who patrol the valley day Ind night at Aulla , to intercept these volunteers , are not proof against the temptation of running and desert twos and threes
away with them , by , till , if the war breaks but , hardly one of them will remain staunch to their colours . At Berceto , the other side of La Cisa , 104 Lombards arrived yesterday ; 400 Romagnoli are expected to-day . They have come to Parma fromLombardy and Romagna ; and as the Austrians have drawn a military cordon near Piacenza , so that it is no longer possible to cross that frontier , they travel across the mountains . to Berceto and Borgetaro , and hence across the pass of Cento Croci , a mule-path , to Varese and Chiavari , in the Sardinian territory . Amongst . the Lombards were two or three Hungarian deserters , who stated that a rumour was spread amongst their brethren in Lombardy that Kossuth is now at Turin , so that -the greatest ferment reigns amongst those troops "
GEHMAKY . The King of Bavaria left Munich on the 16 th for Darmstadt , to attend , as it is alleged , a meeting of several monarchs of South German States . The Wurtembergischer Staatsartzeiger of Sunday / publishes an extra sheet , containing a ministerial decree concerning the forced levy of horses for military service . The Frankfort Journal of the same date states that the Ministers of War of several German States and the Commanders of the Eighth Federal coryxsd ' armee , were to hold another meeting at Heidelberg . The Ministry of Cassel have resigned .
NAPLES . Advices have also been received from Naples to the 16 th inst . After a terrible attack of his malady the King received the sacrament , and afterwards blessed and bade farewell to his family . Sighor Eilangieri has been summoned to Caserta . The lung ' s disease is said to have been a carbuncle , which has defied the efforts of the best surgeons , and has at length begun to mortify . . His death is hourly ^ expected . The Nord actually announced that event this _ week , and in Home and Turin many people will have it that the King of Naples is dead ; and that the fact is hidden in order to keep off a revolution . The realisation of the Constitution under a new Toign appears certain . SPAIN .
According to a Madrid telegram , the ministers had declared that , should the news be confirmed of the capture of a Spanish merchant-ship , the Maria y Jnlia , off the coast of Peru , Spain will act energetically . The senate has held a secret sitting to arrange the preliminaries of the trial of M . ; Esteban Collantes . Tho . Chambcr of Deputies had nominated a committee to support the accusation against that gentleman ,-anti appointed M . Oalderon Collantes ( who , though of the same name , is not a relative of the accused ) president . M . Caldoron Collantes begged to be excused firom serving , on the ground that he is father of the Minister of Foreign Affairs , and might therefore be suspected of proj mlico ; but the chamber declined to grant his i * equest .
The Eftpana , Leon , ami Parlamento had been seized .
l'ARMA . The Armenia of Turin publishes nn account of the financial improvements effected by the Duchess Itogont of Purifla since hor accession to power . The budgets of the current nnflfour preceding years show the following results : —1855 and 1850 , income and expenditure balanced ; 1857 , n surplus of revenue of 81 , 000 f . ; 1858 , surplus ditto of 117 , 000 f . ; 1859 , income , 8 , ( 559 , 0001 ' . i expenditure , 8 , 3 ( 57 , OOOf . ; surplus , 2 t ) 2 , 000 f . Sitkeo 1858 the land-tax has been diminished by 77 , OOOf ., and 4 , 000 , 000 f . of the public debt pai d off , the remaining debt amounting to 1 l , 000 , 000 f .
At tho shmo time tho salaries of tho civil and military functionaries have boon increased by 10 and 20 per ico nt . The amount expended in public works during ' the last five years is 3 , 240 , 0 OOf . Moreover , tho customs tariff / has boon revised , transit duties aholishod , a now quarter tb . r workmon built nt Parma , a savings bank established , a bank created , and a sufficient reserve accumulated fn tho treasury j all these improvements having 1 been offbotediu tho midst of difficulties created by . tho rovolt of 1804 , tho flcarlty o f 1854 , 18 « 5 , and 1850 , tho grape blight during ( ho same years , and tho cholera of \ 855 .
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CANADA . Ax act has been passed making it penal to carry weapons upon the person in Canada , except by permission , in "writing , of two justices of the peace ; In the case of the landslip on the Great Western Railway , which resulted in so serious an accident and loss of life , the verdict of the coroner ' s jury blames the company for not having supplied a sufficient culvert to carry off the storm water . The Government inspector , in his report , exonerated the company .
A letter from Father Chiniq-uy , a seceder from the Church of Rome , has appeared in most of the papers giving details of the violence to which ho was subjected by his co-religionists in Quebec . He h ;\ s been distributing the New Testament , and exhorting his French-Canadian fellow-countrymen to read it . A stormy debate , has taken place on the alleged circumstance of the contractor for the Chats Canal getting himself ejected to Parliament in order to secure payment from the Government of certain claims , though tho work had failed .
The Royal assent has been given to a Forbes Mackenzie Act for Upper Canada ; also to an act empowering municipalities to lend , small sums for tho purchase of seed in cases of scarcity . Progress is making with the estimates , and an early close to the session is expected . The navigation of tho St . Lawronco , and . of most of the minor streams of Canada , is now open . Tho getting out of timber in tho Ottawa country , which has been extensive this year , is now complete , and all is ready for rafting down to tho ports of shipment . Tho nmplo sugar harvest has acquired a new importance , from the increased- duties on imported sugars .
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Confirmations An road . —Tlio Bishop of London has mado arrangements for confirmations on the Continent this year . Bishop Spencer is now on « . confirmation tour in France and J 3 olgi » m . Bishop Trower will if nothing prevent , hold confirmations in the summer at tho following places , and also , ft it be required , in Russia—Amst erdam , Berlin , Dresden , Hamburg , Hanover , Copenhagen , Christiana , uottenburg , and Stockholm . Foop itusouuoEfl of India . —Dr . J . J | . vy ataon , Reporter on Indian Products , writes to a contemporary : — "An attempt made last yoar to grow ' gram —the groat liorae-food of Northern and of Western Tn , i !«__ . iii tuia flountrv succeeded in a lew eases . 1
am anxious to havo tho experiment repented tlus season on a more extondod scale . A piece ot trround , well sheltered from north nnd east windB , will bo required , and should' any of your country readers fuel disposed to give this importan pulse u trial . I shull be happy to send , them some . "
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RUSSIA . The Journal de Constantinople quotes letters from the Danubian Principalities , confirming the report of Rassian armaments in Bessarabia . . Letters have also been received , tending to confirm previous reports that 100 , 000 Russians are to be assembled in Georgia .
BOME . , ' The departure of volunteers which has hitherto been inconsiderable , now begins to increase rapidly . 250 young men have left for Piedmont . A riot took place on the 16 th among the students of Bolonga , and the troops were obliged to fire upon them . It is stated that several persons were wounded . Austria is . increasing thei garrison of Farrara . The rail way to Civita Vecchia Was opened on the 10 th inst . with much ceremony , the Vieario-Gerente to the Cardinal Ticar officiating on the occasion . There was a grand display of troops , and the principal authorities attended .
Sir Moses Montefiore has not obtained an audience from the Pope . He sent in a . formal request fora presentation to Monsignore Paca four days since , without having as yet received an answer . Of course , every advantage will be taken of the Holy Week to put off the audience .
TURKEY . Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 13 th inst . The apprehension of war has aroused fears of an insurrection in Turkey . The deliberations of the Divan have lately been addressed to tho consideration of the attitude which it should assume , to meet coming emergencies , and Ome ' r Pacha has been summoned . The Greek Government is making a new loan . The concession for the railway from the Bosphorus to Smyrna has been granted to an English company , represented by the editor of the Journal de Constantinople .
THE PRINCIPALITIES . Accounts from Bucharest state that the National Assembly , at a recent sitting , had proposed that , in consequence of the financial crisis , payment of all commercial bills of exchange should be postponed for three months . The Government is to bring forward a bill on the subject . . ¦ A despatch of April 14 th confirms the report of a plot against the life of Colonel Couza . An infernal machine has been seized . Nine conspirators , all Austrian subjects , have been arrested .
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of the prisoner that they could not render an impartial verdict . These , of course , were set-aside . Oa the second day a new panel of seventy-r ive jurymen , was exhausted , only three being qualified , making eight in all . An additional panel was ordered , and the court adjourned . The election in Connecticut for state officers , members of Congress , and the Legislature , resulted in the complete success of the Republicans . Dispatches had been sent to General Lamar , instructing him to demand from Nicaragua an apology , restitution , and indemnity , on a failure to comply with which he is to ask for his passports . The home squadron was to be strengthened , and the commodore was to act up to the order of General Lamar . Similar instructions had been sent to the Pacific squadron .
AMERICA . ' Tub Niagara arrived at Liverpool on Monday with the Now York mails of tho ftth inst . Tho trial of Sickles for tho murder of Key was commenced at Washington on tho 4 th inst . Mr . Sickles pleaded " Not Guilty ; " Tho first dny was devoted to the task of ompimnolling' n jury , but tho panel was exhausted botbre moro than flvo wore sworn . Every person was challenged as to whether he had formed any prqjudico in tlio case , and nlso as . to his property qualification ; and in many instances parties admitted that their prejudices wero so strongly in favour
The lake and river boats seized by the Nicaraguan Government were new ones sent out a few months since by the new Yelverton-White Company . They were seized ( on the supposition that the United States sloop of war Decatur , which had come in sight ,, was ' a vessel loaded with Filibusters ) , in order to keep them safe from the supposed Filibusters . The boats were next day restored . A fugitive slave case was under investigation in Philadelphia , and the excitement in the court was such , as to require the presence of a large police force to maintain order . The Suffolk Flour Mills at Boston , conta i ning about 3 , 000 'barrels of flour and a large quantity of grain , had been destroyed by fire . The mills , were insured for 50 , 000 dols . The fire was the work of an incendiary . There of
^ are reports -serious " crevasses" in-the Mississippi river , -which were flooding many plantations , and great fears are entertained of a break just above the city of New Orleans . Five hundred men were employed strengthening the levee . The frigate Curacoa , having on board Lord Lyons , the new British Minister to Washington , arrived at Annapolis , Maryland , on . the 7 th inst . A destructive fire has occurred in New Orleans .
The cotton press known as the Lower Levee Press , and about seventy of the adjacent houses , have been burnt down . The Press is said to have contained forty thousand bales of cotton , and ten thousand bales vrer $ destroyed . Another dispatch says that very little of the forty thousand bales was expected to be saved : The sloop Mulhouse sank , and she will prove a total loss . A great part of the cargo for the ship Bamberg was also consumed . The loss is estimated at fully one million dollars .
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WEST INDIES . HAYTI . From ETayti we have accounts to the 21 st of March . During the carnival , masks of all the ex-royal family were seen . One who personated Soulouque was stabbed by an Imperialist . The Government fifth , of coftee was sold at auction in the city , and not exported , as heretofore ; Two merchants were the purchasers , who agreed to remit the price to France in payment of the loan of 800 , 0 ' 0 ' Of . contracted on the 10 th of January last . President Giffiard , who was more popular than ever , devoted much attention to public education , police , and other reforms . Ex-minister Solomon had arrived in Jamaica .
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SYRIA . Pisturmances have occurred in tho Pachalick of LataUieh , a Mussulman riot having broken out in the districts of Marquah and Cassal . The Turks are stated to have burnt down several houses , lulled one Christian , and wounded several more . The Christian families , pursued by the mob , sought refuge under the consular flags . Tho agents of tho European Powers wore obliged to interfere , and have demanded , it is said , the removal of the governor and provincial council of Latukjeh .
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tfo . 4 ! W 9 ^ rzlM > 1839- ] ,, T ; M : ' LrEAPEB . 519
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Leader (1850-1860), April 23, 1859, page 519, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2291/page/7/
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