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BRUSSELS, September 10.
ArSTRIA has made a fresh demand in favour nomi-
nally of Turkish interests in Moldavia. It is
insisted that the delta of the Danube shall be
given to the Porte. By this cession, supposing the
principalities to be an independent State, the Porte,
in conjunction with Austria, might prevent any
riverain access, and effectually destroy the resources

of the Dental in provinces by barring the single
outlet to agricultural commerce. The free naviga-
tion of the Danube is laid down to be one of the
objects of the late war, and that the Porte offers a
better guarantee for this preservation than the Mol-
davian province, which is known to be partial to
Russian influence. It is further affirmed that the
Porte is willing to be submissive to the two mari-
time powers and Austria, and that to place the
mouths of the Danube under Roumani guardianship
would be to reduce the liberties of riverain naviga
titan to a chimera. In this statement the power of
Turkey is shown to be ineffective in aught save
submission, and it is sufficiently palpable that Aus-
trian credit is held to be more potent at Constanti-
nople than at Jassy. Every argument adduced goes
to show more plainly the necessity of forming the
Moldo-Wallachian provinces into an independent
State. In the truth Austria claims, without much
disguise, such a disposition of that territory as shall
eventually place it in her power, and verity the tra-
ditional name of Oesterich. In order to complicate
the question and to keep alive international jealousies,
Austrian journals magnify and embitter the differ-
ences respecting the Isla of Serpents. Nothing can
more conduce to realise Austrian projects than to
prevent a cordial reconciliation between Russia and
England. An exposition has been made at Vienna,
in the offices of the Treasury, of some rich ecclesi-
astical relics, formerly belonging to the convents
suppressed by the Emperor Joseph, and which are
now exhibited as a silent protest against the impiety
of the Imperial act. They are destined for the
church at Jerusalem. A recurrence to the rigours
of a conventual system, especially in reference to the
education of the lower orders, will not tend to the
progress of intellect. In the diocese of Prague, the
Archbishop lately visited the several schools under
the superintendence and care of the convents. Upon
asking one of the scholars the cause of Adam and
Eve being driven out of Paradise, the child, after a
moment's hesitation, answered—" For not having
paid their rent." The confusion of the monachal
teachers was not made less by the hearty laugh of
the prelate. Baron Bach has returned from hie
Ministerial peregrination in Italy, and has proceeded
to (Iran to make his report to the Emperor. It the
truth be imperative to be spoken, the account he
brings cannot be pleasing to the young Empurer.
A royalist insurrection at Neufchatel has been a
cause of serious disquietude to the Court of Berlin,
on account of the principles involved, and from its
awkward vicinity to the French frontier. In the
village of Segue, near Lode, which together with
the hamlets of des Fonts, de la Brevine, and Chaux
du Milieu, form a district known in the canton by
the name of " is Vendee Neuchateloise," conspiracy
was planned for the seizure of the castle and town
in the name of the King of Prussia. Proclamations
were distributed, beginning with " Avec Dieu poor
Is Roi et la Petrie," signed by the insurgent com.
mander-in-chief, " Comte Frederic de Pourtales,"
and countersigned by "De Meuron, lieutenant-
colonel." These called upon the people of Neuf-
chatel to rise and deliver the canton from the Go
vernment of the Confederation. " Aux armes less
fideles. Le drapeau du Rio tiotte de nouveau stir le
château de nos princes Neuchatelois!—Rendons
graces a Dieu." On the 3rd of September the in-
surgents of the Val de Verrieres, under the com-
mand of Colonel Meuron, mustering five hundred
men, took possession of the town and castle, planting
the royal standard on the ramparts, amidst the cries
of " Viv. le Roi !" MM. Piaget, Humbert, Jeanre-
nond, and other of the authorities, were taken pri-
soners, and the powers of the Cantonal Government
were assumed by the Count Pourtales. On the
revolt becoming known at Berne, the Federal Execu-
tive despatched two members of the Government,
MM. Fornerod, vice-president of the Confederation,
and Frei Hirose, military commissary, with full
powers to put down the insurrectionary movement.
Four battalions of the federal army, with some pieces
of artillery, stationed at Goerdun, under Colonel
Bourgeois Doxat, were placed at their disposal. A
portion of these, commanded by Colonel Denzler,
immediately marched to Neufchatel, and at "la
Colonna
.des. 3lontsgues " were joined by the repub-
lican of Chaux-de•Fonds, and a squadron of
cavalry in garrison at Colombier. At five o'clock in
the morning of the 4th, the companies of Jeanne

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Reuss, Jules RUM, and H. F. Ducommnn, com-
menced the assault, and after a sharp conflict of an
hour the royalists were beaten, and the castle and
town recaptured by the republicans. Fifteen of the
insurgents were killed, eighteen wounded, and more
than a hundred taken prisoners. The younger
Count Portales was killed, and Colonel Frederick
Portales, the leader of the insurrection, severely
wounded. Colonel Meuron escaped. uch diffi-
culty was experienced in restraining the impetuosity
of the republican soldiers. The printing-office of
the Neockcitelois, the organ of the royalists, was
utterly destroyed, and unless praiseworthy precaution
t.nd energy had been shown many of the royalist
houses would have shared a similar fate. Prosecu-
tions for high treason have been ordered by the
Federal Council, and M. Amiet, procureur.general,
and M. Duplan Veillon, " juge d'instruction," have
been sent to try the prisoners. Colonel Denzler and
the republican troops occupy the town. Circulars
have been despatched to the several cantons, and in
a martinal annotation of one of them upon the
Pourtales proclamations appeared, in the handwriting
of a member of the Confederation, " Tout ports h.
croire qu'elles etaient connues d'avance a Berlin."
Count de Salignac, the French Minister, has had a
conference with the president of the Federal
Council, upon the above events, and it is au•
thoritatively stated that more than one foreign Govern-
ment was acquainted with the preparations of the
Neufchatel royalists. The Jesuits have been con-
nected with the insurrection. It has been resolved
upon this and cther accounts by the Federal Go-
vernment, that the legions in foreign service, after a
time, shall be dispersed, and that in future the Swiss
shall not be permitted to accept foreign commissions
without sanction of the Government. After their
return from foreign service, the Swiss mercenaries,
almost without one exception, belong to the Ultra-
montane and Anti-federal party.
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The first Count of Neuichalel was Ulric de Fenis
(1032), who held the fief from Rodolph 111., the last
King of Burgundy. After a succession o countal
dynasties, William of Orange Nassau, then King of
England, yielded his rights to the principality in
favour of the King of Prussia, which was ratified by
the plenary and sovereign Court of Neufchatel, in
the year 1707. This disposition of the principality
was confirmed by the peace of Utrecht in 1712.
From 1806 to 1814 the territory was annexed to the
French empire, and given to Marshal Berthier, with
the title of Prince of Neufchatel. In 1814 it was
again restored to Prussia, according to the princi-
ples established by the treaty of Chamouni ; and in
1815, by that of Vienna, it became a Swiss canton,
reserving the rights of the Prussian monarch. By
the twenty-third article of the treaty of Vienna
(June 9, 1815), Neufchatel is directly given to the
King of Prussia, " en toute sovereignte et propriete ;"
yet by article seventy-five it is said to form one of
the Swiss cantons, subject to the Confederation.
This indecision of terms, "de jure et de facto," has
led to substantial differences. By the Revolution of
1848, it made itself independent of Prussia ; but a
royal manifesto of 1850 declared null and void the
several acts of the Government in the sale of public
and church property without the consent of the
King. The rights of Prussia were acknowledged
and again confirmed by the protocol of London, May
24, 1852, signed by England, Austria, and ussia,
and subsequently agreed to by France. In 1855 the
Swiss Confederation protested against the power of
Prussia to recruit within the territory of Neufchatel ;
and although the Prussian Government denied the
fact, yet it insisted upon the distinct right to recruit
at its pleasure, according to the stipulations agreed
to at the capitulation of the 20th July, 1814. The
whole dispute turns upon the question of legiti-
macy," proclaimed by M. de Talleyrand, at the
Congress of Vienna, to bathe basis of that European
alliance of kingdoms.
Great preparations are making at Nice for the
reception of the Empress Mother of Russia.
Monsignor Nigra, the Comptroller of the Ex-
chequer, has received orders to superintend per-
sonally the arrangements that are in progress, and
to spare no expense in testifying the satisfaction of
the King at the Imperial visit. Count Potoexi has
already arrived with a portion of the suite.

Speculation is afloat on the probable consequences
of the arrival of the Cardinal Viale Prela from Vienna.
He came to Rome by way of Trieste and Ancona,
and might possibly have met 14. Bernardi at the
latter place on his mission from Cardinal Antonelli
to the Governors of the Romagnese States. The
policy of Cardinal Antonelli cannot long be upheld
unless assisted by foreign bayonets, and, be it said,
more actively than at the present moment. A few
days since, a succession of quarrels took place betwixt
the French soldiers and some Roman artillerymen
stationed at Civita Vecchia. The origin of the mis-
understanding was in some way connected w.th the
Swiss troops, but order was in the end restablished,
and the mutineers placed under arrest. A strife of
another character occurred in the Hospital of San
Michele, in the Trastevere quarter at Lome. This

SATURDAY,

is a charitable establishment for aged paupers, and
for the maintenance and eduoation of the children
belonging to the lower orders. It is likewise used as
a prison for political offenders, and a penitential re-
treat for women. The manifold departments of this
vast " hospice " are placed under the superintendence
of Cardinal Tosti, who has also the management of
the funds, with a committee of direction. Complaints
had been made of late by the children of a paucity
of food, and, instead of attention being paid to their
remonstrance, the rations were gradually diminished
until they reached the famishing point. Thereupon
nature asserted her rights, and a rebellion broke out;
plaistei images were broken, hurled at the head of
the fathers of starvation, and a regular row took place,
according to the ordinary rules of scholastic insubor-
dination. But if open rebellion was never success-
ful when waged by high-spirited and lusty Etonians
against the despotic rule of Keate, it could hardly be
expected to be triumphant with puny boys under the
austere and peculating fathers of the Roman Church.
The juvenile rebels were easily disaomfited; fifteen
of the ringleaders were expelled, others were punished
and put in confinement. Had the fathers confined
their severity to this it would have been well. Ex.
cited, however, by anger at the discovery of a defi-
ciency of food not in accordance with the account of
expenditure, they resolved to flog the peccant authors
of their disgrace. Sixty-two of the refractory urchins
were placed on the "cavaletto." This is a species of
long bench or benches, so constructed that the cul-
prit when tied thereon offers the most convenient
position for punishment. A dozen of the holy fathers
commenced operation at one time, and the piercing
shrieks of the whipped children, the shouts of the
other boys, and the imprecations of the flagellant
fathers caused a din that echoed through the aisles
of the hospice, and raised the neighbourhood. Some
of the children, having escaped, bore the tidings to
their mothers ; these became furious, ran screaming
through the streets, and threatened to pull down the
doors and tear the fathers in pieces. Aided by their
husbands, the Trasteverini of Pinelli, matters wore
an unpromising aspect, until peremptorily terminated
by the intervention of the police.
The situation of the French Minister at Naples is
becoming exceedingly unpalatable. Unsupported by
an English envoy, the whole weight of opposition to
the Court of Naples devolves upon him, and it is
confidently rumoured that M. Brennier has peti-
tioned his Government for leave of absence. No in-
telligence has reached Naples of the probability of
an English Minister being forthcoming.
C. A. H.

A CORRESPONDENT, writing from Spa, alludes in
the following terms to the reception given to Mr.
Disraeli :

It was highly gratifying to witness the complimentary
reception given to Mr. Disraeli. The most respectful
and dignified attention welcomed the Right Hon. Member
for Bucks to Belgium. His privacy was not invaded;
cariosity to see the celebrated leader of Parliamentary
Conservatism did not transgress the proper limits; but
an open and ready courtesy, that only awaited the sign
of permission to be extended to any degree, proclaimed
the acknowledgment of high worth, and the satisfaction
that such visit caused to persons of all ranks and
opinions. Mr. Disraeli's determination, energy, and
unrivalled powers, have placed him in the foremost
rank of European statesmen; and his varied talents,
and political foresight, are truly judged and valued on
the Continent.

A CURIOUS PICTURE OF MANNERS AND MORALS IN
TURKEY is given by a correspondent of the Paris
Univers, in a letter from Constantinople :

The Turkish ladies in general, and those of the Imps-
rial Harem in particular, have resolved to participate in
the blessings of liberty awarded to the rougher sex by the
Tansimat. They have of late adopted a most transparent
kind of qainsak (veil), and make an offer of their hearts
to any young fellow who may happen to arms their path,
whatever be his nation or creed. The second ikbale (this
is the name given to the favorites who succeed to the
cadinas, when death causes some vacancy in their ranks),
had fallen violently in love with a young Armenian mer-
chant. Her advances were probably listened to with a
willing ear; for Emin Aga, the chief of the Imperial 3fa-
bein, having discovered that she had recently given him
a ring worth 150,010 piastres, ordered one of the balla4(jis
(axe-bearers) of the palace to murder the young man.
Accordingly, one night the latter was suddenly attacked
in the streets by the officer of the seraglio above named,
and received a stab in the left side, from which be died
in a few days. The sister of the victim has applied for
redress to the representatives of France, England, and
Russia, who have officially requested Fuad Pacha to ex-
plain how such a crime could have been committed upon
a Christian by an officer of the seraglio. The other day a
young Greek, who also had an intrigue with one of the
ladies of the seraglio, was shot down in the streets, and
twelve other persons in a similar predicament have shut
themselves up in their houses, being afraid of meeting
with a similar fate if they stir out.
THE defalcations of the cashier and sub-
cashier of the Northern of France Railway, at first
supposed to be about 30,0001. or 40,0001., are now
rumoured to reach 6,000,000 f., or 240,0001.

SEPT. 13, 1856.

lortign and 6010, 3ittagence.

FRANC;F:.

The Emperor and Empress of the French have
made several excursions lately from Biarritz. This
week the Emperor has crossed the Spanish frontiers,
and on the 9th paid a visit to St. Sebastian.

The Emperor, it is believed, will not return to
Paris before the Ist of October.

The French Government has prohibited M. Manin
from receiving the subscriptions which ho pmposed
to do fur the purchase of cannon for Piedmont. The
Austrian Chargé d'Affaires, in the absence of M. de
Hubner, sent a note last week to Count Walewski,
inquiring whether France, as the ally of Austria,
would suffer in Paris such a demonstration against
Austrian interests. Count Walewski replied that
the Imperial Government had already taken the
initiative in anticipation of Austria's reasonable
wishes, and that the subscription would not be
allowed to proceed.
The Emperor has resolved for tho present upon
maintaining the French forces in Greece.

The Princess Lieven has arrived in Paris. M. de
Kisseleff with a brilliant suite is expect/ad shortly.
Marshal Serrano arrived in Paris late last Satur-
day night; being unable to arrange an interview with
M. Walewski, his Excellency returned very shortly
to Biarritz.

The silence of the Moniteur upon the Neufchatel
insurrection has given rise to reports that the
attempt had for some time past been the subjeot of
negotiation between Prussia and Paris.
Several journals announce that a portfolio, belong-
ing to the Count Pourtales, which has been
deposited at the Council of State, has been found to
contain letters from the royalist leaders, and even
from the King of Prussia himself, which will pro-
bably be published.

The Pays professes not to (believe that the King
of Prussia has directly or indirectly fomented the
insurrection, but insists upon his "incontestable
rights," which he has never renounced, and says
It is probable that Prussia will take care by diplomatic
action upon the Helvetic Diet to prevent any severe mea-
sures being taken against these insurgents, whom the
Bing continues to regard as his subjects; and perhaps
these unexpected events may be the point do cUpart of ne-
gotiations destined to regulate a situation which is both
irregular in point of law, and dangerous to the internal se-
curity of the Confederation.

A late letter in the Indipoulance of Brussels
says :

It is said that there is a community of views between
France and Prussia on the Neufchatel affair. The latter
proposes to abandon any pretensions to the canton of Neuf•
chatel in return fur an indemnity to be fixed by common
accord, under the mediation of the great Powers of Europe.
The Congress of Paris, which is about to reassemble to settle
the points left undecided as to the frontiers of the Danubian
principalities, will probably terminate the Neufchatel affair
once for all.