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The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE QUEEN held a levee on AA'ednesday , at St . James ' s Palace , which AA \ IS very fully attended . Amongst the presentations were Prince Gholam Mahomed , son of Tippoo Sultan , Prince Feroze Shah , grandson of Tippoo Sultan , and Prince Ferroke Backt , great grandson of Tippoo Sultan , introduced by Lord Stanley . On Thursday the Queen celebrated the birthday of little Prince Leopold by a juvenile fancy hallto which a very large number of children were invited . Her Majesty
, leaves Buckingham Palace on tlie 18 th inst ., for Windsor Castle , to pass the Easter holidays . Tire Emperor of the French has attended so closely to business for the last fortnight that he has fallen ill , and is going either to "Villeneuve or Fontainebleau for the recovery of his health . AVar is now stated to be inevitable , and the semi-official journals both of France and Austria attack each other with extreme bitterness ; besides which each of these parties continues to prepare for the struggle with increased vigour . Neverthelessthe people of France still
, look upon a war as a fearful calamity , and it requires a strong government to act in opposition to the wishes and interests of the country . The Mouiteur contains an article on the policy of France in her relations ivith Germany , to show that there is no ground for the suspicions that have arisen that the emperor entertains any intention of attacking the independence of the German States . The French journals favourable to peace express pleasure at finding Lord Derby and his supporters Avill retain the veins oi power in England while the congress on Italian
affairs is in session . Tire conference was opened on Thursday , at the hotel of foreign affairs . Its attention was to be directed to tire question of the election of Col . Couza by both of the principalities . M . Muslims , the Ottoman plenipotentiary , would set forth tho reasons which have induced the Sultan to submit this question to the conference . There seems to be no doubt that the double election of Colonel Couza -will be sanctioned . The St . Petcrslmrgh Gazette , of AVednesday
last , contained an imperial ukase for the loan of .-01 . 2 , 000 , 000 . It states that the loan has been concluded through Messrs . Thomson , Bonar , and Co ., of St . Petersburg , and M . Magnus , the banker , of Berlin . No subscriber to the loan is to be allotted less than £ 100 , or more than £ 1 , 000 ofthe debt . The new loan was clone at 71 in St . Petersburg . Austria has asked for loans from all the Italian princes Avhom she considers her feudatories . The Archduke Maximilian d'Este has responded to the appeal , by au advance of nearly the whole of his fortune . His nephewthe j-eignbrg ; Duke of Modenagives six millions of zwanzigersaud the
, , , Molza family one million and a half , besides an equal sum ivhich they will advance nuclei- the guarantee of the grand duke . It is not yet known AA'liat subscriptions ivill be made by the King of Naples and the Grand Duke of Tuscany . Fifty thousand more Austrian troops have heen marched into Italy to reinforce the various garrisons . It is confidently assorted that the Austrian government is determined to declare war at once with Sardinia , and of course Avith France . A letter from Vienna , dated April 4 th , says : — " The sincerity of the French government is about to be put to
the test , for thc Austrian government , a day or two since , proposed that there should be : i general disarmament . It France accept the proposition , peace will probably be maintained ; if she reject it , war is inevitable . Sardinia persists in refusing to disarm unless Austria does so likeivise , but tho latter cannot possibly suspend her preparations for war as long as the Emperor of the French continues iris armaments . According to advices from Naples to the 5 th , five of the king ' s physicians have declared his majesty ' s malady to be incurable . Public opinion is
iu an agitated state , and the higher classes of society are again beginning to demand constitutional reforms . Advices have been received from Rome to the 5 th inst . The Papal government is preparing a note relative to the proposed congress to he addressed to the great powers , It is said that Cardinal Aivtonelli intends to declare
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week.
THE WEEK .
THE QUEEN held a levee on AA'ednesday , at St . James ' s Palace , which AA \ IS very fully attended . Amongst the presentations were Prince Gholam Mahomed , son of Tippoo Sultan , Prince Feroze Shah , grandson of Tippoo Sultan , and Prince Ferroke Backt , great grandson of Tippoo Sultan , introduced by Lord Stanley . On Thursday the Queen celebrated the birthday of little Prince Leopold by a juvenile fancy hallto which a very large number of children were invited . Her Majesty
, leaves Buckingham Palace on tlie 18 th inst ., for Windsor Castle , to pass the Easter holidays . Tire Emperor of the French has attended so closely to business for the last fortnight that he has fallen ill , and is going either to "Villeneuve or Fontainebleau for the recovery of his health . AVar is now stated to be inevitable , and the semi-official journals both of France and Austria attack each other with extreme bitterness ; besides which each of these parties continues to prepare for the struggle with increased vigour . Neverthelessthe people of France still
, look upon a war as a fearful calamity , and it requires a strong government to act in opposition to the wishes and interests of the country . The Mouiteur contains an article on the policy of France in her relations ivith Germany , to show that there is no ground for the suspicions that have arisen that the emperor entertains any intention of attacking the independence of the German States . The French journals favourable to peace express pleasure at finding Lord Derby and his supporters Avill retain the veins oi power in England while the congress on Italian
affairs is in session . Tire conference was opened on Thursday , at the hotel of foreign affairs . Its attention was to be directed to tire question of the election of Col . Couza by both of the principalities . M . Muslims , the Ottoman plenipotentiary , would set forth tho reasons which have induced the Sultan to submit this question to the conference . There seems to be no doubt that the double election of Colonel Couza -will be sanctioned . The St . Petcrslmrgh Gazette , of AVednesday
last , contained an imperial ukase for the loan of .-01 . 2 , 000 , 000 . It states that the loan has been concluded through Messrs . Thomson , Bonar , and Co ., of St . Petersburg , and M . Magnus , the banker , of Berlin . No subscriber to the loan is to be allotted less than £ 100 , or more than £ 1 , 000 ofthe debt . The new loan was clone at 71 in St . Petersburg . Austria has asked for loans from all the Italian princes Avhom she considers her feudatories . The Archduke Maximilian d'Este has responded to the appeal , by au advance of nearly the whole of his fortune . His nephewthe j-eignbrg ; Duke of Modenagives six millions of zwanzigersaud the
, , , Molza family one million and a half , besides an equal sum ivhich they will advance nuclei- the guarantee of the grand duke . It is not yet known AA'liat subscriptions ivill be made by the King of Naples and the Grand Duke of Tuscany . Fifty thousand more Austrian troops have heen marched into Italy to reinforce the various garrisons . It is confidently assorted that the Austrian government is determined to declare war at once with Sardinia , and of course Avith France . A letter from Vienna , dated April 4 th , says : — " The sincerity of the French government is about to be put to
the test , for thc Austrian government , a day or two since , proposed that there should be : i general disarmament . It France accept the proposition , peace will probably be maintained ; if she reject it , war is inevitable . Sardinia persists in refusing to disarm unless Austria does so likeivise , but tho latter cannot possibly suspend her preparations for war as long as the Emperor of the French continues iris armaments . According to advices from Naples to the 5 th , five of the king ' s physicians have declared his majesty ' s malady to be incurable . Public opinion is
iu an agitated state , and the higher classes of society are again beginning to demand constitutional reforms . Advices have been received from Rome to the 5 th inst . The Papal government is preparing a note relative to the proposed congress to he addressed to the great powers , It is said that Cardinal Aivtonelli intends to declare