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The Week.
warded . Rebels proved to have been deeply implicated are being executed--- — The Momtem ' gives an account of the last day ' s journey of the Emperor and Empress , which was marked with the customary incidents . At Le Mans , col which the late storm had Mien with considerable severity , and injured maiiy poor
persons , their majesties deposited a sum of money ; in the hands of the m be applied to the relief of the sufferers . Lord Palmerston was honoured with an audience by the Emperor Napoleon on Wednesday moving , at the palace of St . Cloud . The French government intends to construct a fort on the top of the Col de la Faucille , in the Dappen . It will command the only pass in the Jura from which an army could enter France from Switzerland . Three millons of francs
have been granted for this purpose by the Emperor , and the works are to be at once commenced . — -A remarkable speech has been made by the Count de Persigny , late ambassador to England , at the opening of the session of the Council General of the Department of the Loire , After making a clear exposition of the situation and feelings of France and England towards each other , he used the
following language : — " What is true is that there is no interest , no serious question at issue between the two Governments that the simplest exercise of common sense cannot satisfactorily solve , and that thus it only rests with us to maintain an alliance so advantageous for the two peoples . " If the two countries adopt this view of disputed Questions , there is no danerer ofthe alliance haitis- bmlrmr - — -JVh * view of disputed questionsthere is no danger ofthe alliance being broken- —^ The
, . Queen of England , having some tirne since presented a cannon of a peculiar construction to the Emperer Napoleon , he has offered her in return a cannon made after his own design . It has been named the Alliance , and bears the inscription " . Donne a la Reine Victoria par T Empereur , 1858 , " - —^ -We have received advices from Madrid , dated the 23 rd inst . ; the journals contained no news ^ The ports ef the Cantabrian coast had been relieved from quarantine , but vessels from Vigo were to submit to it a few days longer . There had been some talk of coining . " for the
whole of Spam in the new mint just erected at Madrid . There was a vast quantity of false money current in that country , particularly counterfeit gold pieces , so that the people were afraid to accept gold coin in their dealings . The Queen has declared her intention to effect an amelioration in the condition of the harbour of Gijon , a boon long ardently solicited by the people of that place . This declaration created the utmost excitement , and the people loudly testified their joy The works on the Cadiz and Seville Railroad are expected to be finished on the 1 st of May , and this line , bringing forward the . produce of one ofthe richest and most
fertile districts of Spain , cannot fail to be very beneficial to the country , and it is likely to be a most successful undertaking . Such is the price ancl the scarcity of paper in Spain that many periodicals have been stopped , and others printed on inferior paper . The duty on foreign paper is excessive , and this leaves its manufacture almost a monopoly in the hands of the paper-makers there . The tax on newspapers produced during the current year the sum of 77 , 129 reals ; newspapers
sent abroad are not liable to this tax . A terrible hurricane , accompanied with excessive rains , broke over Savonia , in Piedmont , on the 19 th , by which all the bridges over the Lettimbro were washed away , and large trees were torn up by the roots . Many persons were drowned , and an immense amount of property destroyed . Some carabhriers mounted upon horseback and saved ' a number of persons who otherwise would have been drowned . Berlin dates of the 26 th have
arrived . It appears to be settled at last , that at the expiry of the present delegation of power to the Prince of Prussia , he will be declared Regent o f the kingdom . ——The new-born heir to the Austrian empire has been baptized , and made colonel and " proprietor" of the 19 th Regiment of Infantry . ——Accounts have reached Paris from Montenegro , dated the 15 th , according to which , Ali Pasha , the Turkish , commander at Podgorizza / had made a sudden attack on the
Montenegrins at the very moment when the engineering commission was a . bout to proceed with the settlement of the frontier , which had delayed the work : ofthe commissioners . However , as the Montenegrins had themselves been the first to break the truce , Prince Danilo had punished his own officers , and threatened similar offenders with death .- According to accounts from Marseilles , dated the 25 th , disturbances had again broken out in Caudia . At Heraclion , in that island , ten
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week.
warded . Rebels proved to have been deeply implicated are being executed--- — The Momtem ' gives an account of the last day ' s journey of the Emperor and Empress , which was marked with the customary incidents . At Le Mans , col which the late storm had Mien with considerable severity , and injured maiiy poor
persons , their majesties deposited a sum of money ; in the hands of the m be applied to the relief of the sufferers . Lord Palmerston was honoured with an audience by the Emperor Napoleon on Wednesday moving , at the palace of St . Cloud . The French government intends to construct a fort on the top of the Col de la Faucille , in the Dappen . It will command the only pass in the Jura from which an army could enter France from Switzerland . Three millons of francs
have been granted for this purpose by the Emperor , and the works are to be at once commenced . — -A remarkable speech has been made by the Count de Persigny , late ambassador to England , at the opening of the session of the Council General of the Department of the Loire , After making a clear exposition of the situation and feelings of France and England towards each other , he used the
following language : — " What is true is that there is no interest , no serious question at issue between the two Governments that the simplest exercise of common sense cannot satisfactorily solve , and that thus it only rests with us to maintain an alliance so advantageous for the two peoples . " If the two countries adopt this view of disputed Questions , there is no danerer ofthe alliance haitis- bmlrmr - — -JVh * view of disputed questionsthere is no danger ofthe alliance being broken- —^ The
, . Queen of England , having some tirne since presented a cannon of a peculiar construction to the Emperer Napoleon , he has offered her in return a cannon made after his own design . It has been named the Alliance , and bears the inscription " . Donne a la Reine Victoria par T Empereur , 1858 , " - —^ -We have received advices from Madrid , dated the 23 rd inst . ; the journals contained no news ^ The ports ef the Cantabrian coast had been relieved from quarantine , but vessels from Vigo were to submit to it a few days longer . There had been some talk of coining . " for the
whole of Spam in the new mint just erected at Madrid . There was a vast quantity of false money current in that country , particularly counterfeit gold pieces , so that the people were afraid to accept gold coin in their dealings . The Queen has declared her intention to effect an amelioration in the condition of the harbour of Gijon , a boon long ardently solicited by the people of that place . This declaration created the utmost excitement , and the people loudly testified their joy The works on the Cadiz and Seville Railroad are expected to be finished on the 1 st of May , and this line , bringing forward the . produce of one ofthe richest and most
fertile districts of Spain , cannot fail to be very beneficial to the country , and it is likely to be a most successful undertaking . Such is the price ancl the scarcity of paper in Spain that many periodicals have been stopped , and others printed on inferior paper . The duty on foreign paper is excessive , and this leaves its manufacture almost a monopoly in the hands of the paper-makers there . The tax on newspapers produced during the current year the sum of 77 , 129 reals ; newspapers
sent abroad are not liable to this tax . A terrible hurricane , accompanied with excessive rains , broke over Savonia , in Piedmont , on the 19 th , by which all the bridges over the Lettimbro were washed away , and large trees were torn up by the roots . Many persons were drowned , and an immense amount of property destroyed . Some carabhriers mounted upon horseback and saved ' a number of persons who otherwise would have been drowned . Berlin dates of the 26 th have
arrived . It appears to be settled at last , that at the expiry of the present delegation of power to the Prince of Prussia , he will be declared Regent o f the kingdom . ——The new-born heir to the Austrian empire has been baptized , and made colonel and " proprietor" of the 19 th Regiment of Infantry . ——Accounts have reached Paris from Montenegro , dated the 15 th , according to which , Ali Pasha , the Turkish , commander at Podgorizza / had made a sudden attack on the
Montenegrins at the very moment when the engineering commission was a . bout to proceed with the settlement of the frontier , which had delayed the work : ofthe commissioners . However , as the Montenegrins had themselves been the first to break the truce , Prince Danilo had punished his own officers , and threatened similar offenders with death .- According to accounts from Marseilles , dated the 25 th , disturbances had again broken out in Caudia . At Heraclion , in that island , ten