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taches a ftt Victor Emmanuel have been prohibited at Milan . " The Legate at Bologna , Gr assellini , has committed a horrible crime , according to the Unione of Turin . He was fascinated by a very handAome Bolognese girl , who was engaged to be married . After vainly try ing t o seduce her , and after banishing the young man to whom she w as e spou s ed , he threw her into prison on a charge of heresy . " The parents went immediately to the Austrian General Degenfeld . Cardinal Grassellini pretended to know nothing about it ; but the General knew his man , and threatened force- The girl was set at liberty and given over to her parents ; but the treatment she had received in prison was so horrible , that , what between shame and suffering , t he p o or creat u r e ex pired in a few days . "
TURKEY . Great excitement prevails in Thessal y a n d E pirus , both among the Greek Christians and the Turks , the latter of whom have committed great outrages , which the authorities seem powerless to check . The utmost interest and astonishment is created at Varna by the trial of Salik Pacha and his accomplices for the murder of a Gr eek girl . Mehemet A ga , the P acha ' s aide decamp , w as bro u ght up in iro n s , and exhibi t ed the most abject terror and cowardliness , sometimes cry ing aloud .
H uss e in , the intendant of Salik , was equally cast down , and both seem to have lied egregiously . Vacil , the cook ( says a letter from Paris ) , would have electrified a European audience by the coolness with which he related that , on ar r i v ing a t a certain place , he , 5 f ustapha , the actual murderer , and Nedela , the victim , sat down , and that he made a cigarette for the girl , while Mustapha , t aki ng a cord from his pocket , passed it round her neck , and st r ang led her . Mustapha , on the other hand , says that it was Vacil who carried the cord and made the noose . A fire has destroyed two-thirds of the town of Thessalonica . The Russians have occupied the Island of Serpents , the possession of which is claimed by Turkey by virtue of the treaty of peace . They have refused to admit the E nglish co m missio n ers into K ars , declaring that they will not g i v e u p tha t for t ress until T urkey has been comp le t ely evac u ated b y the Allies . The new Scheriff of Mecca has gained a sanguinary battle , and-taken by assault the town of Taif , where hid ' rival had taken refuge . The revolt in Arabia is considered as at an end . The formpr , ^ ¦ -- *• ' - '* " * " ** u be banished . General Qp *»'• ¦ ' - &*" " * ' " - ^ , p j e on the 2 Lst ul t ,, T ' ' '" ' linens with t . ^ fleet that acci . A . . ^ lttee has bee n appointed to inquire into * -. eat means to promote public instruction in Turkey , and to devise a plan for the organization of the higher branches of instruction in the spirit of the Hatti-Humayoun . MONTENEGRO . It is stated that 3500 men have advanced towards Cettingen , under the command of Murki Petrowitch . This expedition is directed against the district of Kouci , which has refused to pay tho annual tribute to Prinee Danielo . RUSSIA . Preparations , on a scale of great magnitude and sp lendour , are now being made in Russia for the coronation of the Emperor . " Tho silk manufacturers of Moscow , " says the Times Berlin correspondent , " getting up a specially rich article to be called ' coronation silk , ' which is described as a sort of silver damask , with a pattern of gold rosettes on it . The finest kind of this coronation silk is to cost twenty-five roubles ( about 41 . 5 a . ) the archine , which is twenty-eight inches long ; but , unfor t una t el y for any calculations that your fair readers might be disposed to make as to the expense of a dreas of this Bilk , the Baroness do Ber , who describes it tolerabl y minutely in tho R ussian Journal des Modes , has neglected to mention tho width , so that the number of breadths necessary for a dress cannot be clearly ascertained . " A Bavarian corporal , named Bauer , has invented a diving vessel , which has recently been tried off Cronfitadt , and , if w e m ay beli ev e the accoun t s given b y the artist himself , liaB succeeded to a wonderful degree . Eleven persons remained in this vessel for eight hours at a depth of seventeen feet beneath tho surface of tho sea . A letter , d at ed f r o m that unus u al spot , and giving some details of the boat , the modo of working it , & c , was indited by the inventor to some of his friends in Bavaria ; and from this communication it seems that tho vessel can move backwards or forwards , and rise or sink , either vertically or at an ang le , rap idl y or slowly . Tho company appear to have had a merry party , and to have drank several bottles of Rhino wine to tho healths of various European monarchs . Unless its capabilities be exaggerated , tho Invention -would have very seriously perplexed our vessels in the Baltic this year , had the vimx continued .
Some Interesting particulars , singularly illustrating the political intrigues which direct royal and imperial marriages , are' given by tho Times Berlin correspondent , who » aya : —" It appears that the information I sent you from here , during tho stay of tho Empress of liussia at ft * oa 8 oDci , with reference to tho matrimonial intentions
of the Grand Duke Michael , was quite correct . The trip which the Queen of Prussia made to the Prusso-Saxon frontier at Roderau , for t he os t e n sible purpose of celebrating with her two sisters—the present Queen and the Queen Dowager of Saxony—some family anniversary , had really for its object to propose for the hand of the P rin c ess S ido n ia of S a x ony in the n ame of the Grand Duke . The proposal was rejected b y or fo r t he young Princess on account of the change of confessioa that w ou l d be necessa ry o n marr y ing i nt o the R ussia n I mperial fa m il y . The royal family of Saxony is Roman Catholic , although the population is Protestant . We have here the reason -why the Queen of Saxony did no t return to Potsdam with the Queen of Prussia , as was
so confidently expected she would do , when the Queen left here for Roderau . The young Grand Duke , who continued to stay at Sans Souci , where he constantly met the Princess Mary of the Netherlands , felt a strong inclination to elevate her into a Grand Duchess ; but the E mpe r or , his brother , to whom he expressed his views arid feelings , impressed upon him the importance of observing what has become almost a law with the imperial family of Russia—viz ., that of marry ing a 'German princess . In consequence of further confidential communications between the two brothers and a third party at this court , B aden was
pointed out as a country of growing importance ( geographically ) , and in which the foreign sympathies of the population were divided between France and Austria , and therefore one where it would be desirable to raise up a Russian counter-influence . The Empress Mother underook to prefer her son ' s suit on the occasion of her visit to Wildbad ; and , foreseeing the difficulty of gaining the consent of the Grand Duchess Sophia , mother of tho Princess Cecilia , the bride selected for the Grand Duke Michael , she gained over first of all the goodwill of the Grand Dowager Duchess Stephanie , through whose intervention the disinclination of the Grand Duchess
Sophia , a Princess vasa by birth , to her daughters marrying into the Russian family was overcome . " The anniversary of the Russian success at the attempted storming of Sebastopol on the 18 th of June last 3 "ear , has been celebrated most enthusiasticall y at Alexandropol by the corps under the command of General Chruleff . Count de Morny , ambassador from France to the Court of Russia , has arrived at Berlin .
THE DANUBLVN PRINCIPALITIES . S ir H enry Lytton Bulwer arrived on Monday evening in Paris on ' his route to the East , where he is commissioned to arrange the government of the Wallachian and Moldavian provinces . He was attended by C aptain Leycestcr Vernon , M . P .
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SANITARY MATTERS . Health op London . —The mortality in London is below the usual average rate which prevails within its limits . In the week that ended last Saturday , 9 !) 5 parsons ( of whom 487 were males , 508 females ) died . The total number differs little from that of the preceding week , which was 1018 . The corrected average of the corresponding weeks of the previous ten years was 1 , 213 . But this result represents more than the nominal rate of mortality , in consequence of cholera , which was epidemic in 1849 and 1854 , having carried off in the corresponding weeks of those years about 91 G persons . Of the 995 persons who died , 522 were under 20 years of age , 147 were 20 and under 40 , 146 w ere 40 to CO , 14 G were CO to 80 , and 34 were 80 years of ago and upwatfds . 278 persons died of zymotic diseases , including 11 by cholera , 71 by diarrhoea , 20 by smallpox , 46 by measles , 19 by scarlatina , 48 hy typhus , & c .
T e n of tho deaths b y cholera are returned as infantile cholera , and occurred to children under two years of age . —Last week , tho births of 844 boys and 764 girls—in all 1008 children—were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of tho ycara 1846-55 , the average number was 1394 . —From the 1 ' iegistrar- General's Weekly Itcturn . THE RegISTRAR-GkNKRAL ' h QUAItTKRLY RlCTURN of marriages , births , and deuths ( marriages , January February , March , 185 (> ; births and doaths , April , May , June ) has likewise just been published . From this documontwelearn that 6 C . 77 G persona weronmrried in the threo months indicated . The annual rate in tho quarter was 707 marriages to evory 100 , 000 of the population ; while tho rate in the winter of 1855 was 631 ( or Ickh by
l-10 tb ) , and tho average rate of tho preceding winter quarters wan 704 . Tho present augmentation bIiowh an increase in tho prosperity of tho country . —173 , 204 boys and girls were born alivo and registered in the spring quarter that ended oi » tho last day of Juno , giving an increase of 7954 children on tho numbers of the corresponding quarter of 1855 . —The number of deaths \ v « h 100 , 310 , tho natural increase of the population of England being 72 , 894 in tho threo months of April , May , and Juno ; bo that 1903 lives wore added , and 1102 wore taken away dail y ; leaving 801 us tho daily inerouHO . But , in the name threo months , GO , 379 emigrants loft tho ports of tho United Kingdom at which Government agents aro ( stationed ; and of tliat number nbout 21 , 304 were of English origin .
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . The Grounding of the Beixeisle . —A court-martial to inquire into the grounding of the troop-shi p B ellei sl e ' Commander James Hosken , in the Bosphorus , on the morning of the 12 th of June , has terminated in a declaration of opinion that blame was attributable both to the commander and the master , and the court according ly adjudged the former to be admonished , and the latter to be severely reprimanded . A Match for the Yankee Frigates . —The new frigate of immense size , now in course of construction at the Royal Docky ard at P embroke , the Diadem , is so advanced in her construction as to be ready to be immediately caulked , for which purpose men have arrived at the yard from P l ymouth . The Diadem is the first of the new class of enormous frigates building to matcfc the Americans , and , thoug h onl y to carr y 32 guns , yet her length and tonnage are equal to a ship of the line . Her length is 240 feet , and her tonnage will be upwards of 2500 tons . The armament of this ship will be enormous , being 32 C 8-pounders or 8-inch shells , with one pivot-gun of 95 cwt ., and 10 feet in length . Her engines are to he of 1000 horse-power , and , as her model is exceedingl y g ood , it is expected she will be very fast . The Steam-transport Spartan . — Her Majesty ' 3 steamer Triton , sent by the Rear-Admiral Superintendent the Hon . Sir Montagu Stopford to the assistance of the Spartan , which ran on the Cane , or Dog Rocks , on the night of the 5 th of July , returned to Malta on the 17 th , bringing with her Captain Milburn and the crew of the ill-fated vessel . The troops on board had arrived previously in safety in her Majesty ' s steamer Shearwater and the steam-transport City of London , from Tunis , whither they were conveyed from the Rocks by a French steamer . The Triton and Shearwater arrived at the Dog Rocks at midnight on Wednesday , the 9 th ult ., where they found the Spartan lying on a reef on the outskirts of the Rocks , broken in three places on the port side , and having in her a depth of from fifteen to seventeen feet of water . The anchors , cables , sails , rigging , masts , and stores , have been got off in safety .
The Newfoundland Submarine Cable . —The submarine electric telegraph cable for the New York , Newfoundland , and London TelegTaph Company was suc cessfully laid on the 10 th ult ., from the steamship Propontis , Captain Goodwin , under the direction of Mr Samuel Canning , across the Gulf of St . Lawrence , between Cape Ray Cove , Newfoundland , and Ashby Bay , Cape Breton , a distance of eighty-five miles , in fifteen hours . Messages are now being transmitted from shore to shore . Mutiny and Murder . —The men of the English barque Globe have mutinied , killed one man , wounded three others , and plundered the captain and chief mate . This took place in the Black Sea . The mutineers afterwards landed about thirty miles to the eastward of the Bosphorus . Three of the offenders have been captured and the others are being pursued by the Turkish police , who have been of great service .
Review at Aldershott . —The Queen again reviewed the troops at Aldershott on Wednesday . She was ao companicd by Prince Albert , the Duke of Cambridge , and some of the Koyal children . Only one accident worth mentioning occurred . A gun of the Horse Artillery stuck fast in a morass , and it was said that two of the horses were lost and a driver ' s log broken before it could be extricated . Her Majesty and tho Koyal party passed the night at the Pavilion . The Late Fatal Collision on the Mersey . —The inquiry into this catastrophe has at length concluded . After an absence of two hours and a half on Wednesday , tho jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the pilot ( William Uewcr ) and the mate of tho Excelsior ( William Shaw ) , coupled with a reprimand of the captain of the Excelsior for not maintaining greater discipline on board .
Banquet to the Fourth Dragoon Gwards . —The inhabitants of Sheffield gave a dinner on Tuesday evening to the officers of tlio 4 th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards , to celebrate their return from the Crimea . The Major presided ; and among the chief speakers were Lord Cardigan and Lieutenant Mnssej r , better known as Redan Massej ' , " who appeared supported by hi * crutchca . Entertainment to Major-General Windiiam . — Tho congratulatory address of tho inhabitants of
Leamington to ( . Jcnc . ral Windham , on Ufa return from the Criincii , was presented to that gallant ollicer on Tuesday , in Jephson-gardcnH , with much ceremony . The General was escorted from bin residence , Myton House , by » largo party of gentlemen , preceded by tho bands of th « Militiu and tho 10 th Hussars . Tho houses wero profusely decorated with ILiga and evergreens , and th « Htreots lined with people , v / ho loudly cheered the General an ho puHHcd . A cold collation followed , at winch tlio General tlumkcd tho compuny for tho honour they hft < l done him .
Tub Cavalry Rkuuvucnth . —It is eaid that tho cavalry rcgiinentH at homo will havo two troopH each taken off tlft ' . ir strength . They wero incroaned to thin oxtont during tho RuBoiun war .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 2, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02081856/page/8/
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