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A pretty entertainment took place on Christmas-eve in the Hall of the Caryatides at Milan . The Archduke and Archduchess gave a Christmas-Tree party to a hundred and forty-six poor children , being an equal number of boys and girls . On a long table were arranged presents for the young ones , who were attended to by the Imperial host and hostess . A complete suit of upper and under winter clothing , a loaf of milk bread , a small basket filled with fruit and sweetmeats , a missal , and a golden ducat , were distributed to the little guests , who were afterwards allowed to help themselves to the gilt knick-knacks which hung on the trees .
of blasting but the great machine specially constructed for boring through the mountain will soon be brought into use , as the cuttings for facilitating access at each end are completed . ' . . A correspondent of the Iford states that an extensive insurrection has been organized in the kingdom of the Two S icilies , the materiel and preparations for which had been collected at Tunis , whence an expedition was to sail for the Neapolitan coast . The enterprise was to be made under the name of Prince Murat . The affair for the present has failed , owing to the vigilance of the Neapolitan Government . AUSTRIA . Lord Stratford de Redcliffe left Vienna on the 29 th ult ., after a stay of eight days . During his sojourn in the Austrian capital he received great attention .
A curious story is told by the Times Vienna correspondent : — " Some historians have related that the Turks , when they last besieged Vienna , carried their mines under that part of the city which is known as the . ' Freyung . ' The correctness of the statement has been questioned ; but , not long since , proof positive was acquired that the historians spoke , or rather wrote , no more than the truth . An acquaintance of mine was building a house at the corner of the Strauch Gasse ( street ) and Freyung ; but , after the walls had been carried up some thirty or forty feet , they began to sink . On examination , it was found that there were Turkish mines some twenty feet deeper than the foundations and cellars of the old house which had been pulled down . " PRUSSIA .
From the first day of the present year , the circulation of any foreign paper money , other than of the notes issued by State Governments , between buyer and seller , is unlawful in Prussia . Any one violating this law is liable to a fine of fifty thalers . " The President of the Council , " says a Berlin letter , " has prepared a bill for the coming session of the Prussian Chambers , enacting that two millions of thalers ( 7 , 500 , 000 fr . ) shall be annually applied , for fifteen years , to the development of the navy . It is not intended to create a large fleet , but one equal at least in strength to the Danish one . "
TURKEY . The calumet of peace was smoked , or rather the dinner of reconciliation eaten , by M . de Thouvenel and Redschid Pacha , a week or two ago . A few days afterwards , the Turkish Minister , according to a telegram which , however , ia not yet confirmed , expired . A subject of difference has just occurred between the Greek and Ottoman Governments . On the Customhouse officers attempting to board a Greek fishing-boat off one of the qua }' s at Constantinople , the captain repelled them , and the crew , it is said , even levelled their muskets at the Captain Pacha , who was close by on shore . A commission on financial reform and the consolidation of the Turkish debt has been appointed . SPAIN . A Koyal decree , published in the Gazette , authorizes the Government to collect the taxes ahd to pay the Treasury Bonds in 1858 until the Budget is approved by the Cortes . BELGIUM . The Government has just ordered Colonel Charras to quit Belgium . Ho was once before expelled in 1854 , under the Ministry of M . Brouckdrc-Fnider . SWKDKN . The Koyal Academy of Stockholm has just awarded a prize to Prince Oscar as the author of a poem on the Swedish fleet . THE OANUKIAN PRINCIPALITIES . A young Greek has assassinated the President of the Civil Tribunal at Bucharest . Tho Judge decided against him in a lawsuit , the consequence of which was that ho would have to soil all his property . On hearing this judgment , the Greek drew a pistol from his breast , and shot the President through tho head , exclaiming , " Justice is at length rendered . " Ho then attempted to commit sutoide , but was seized before ho could effect his purpose . r- " ~ Tho ~ report ^ of ^ the" ^ Europoan" -eommis 8 ionera ~ on- 'tho proceedings of tho Divans is said to be nearly concluded . It is rumoured that tho English , Austrian , and Turkish Commissioners are of opinion that the resolutions of tho Wullaohian Divan tend to a separation from tho Turkish Empire ; and they allude more especially to two resolutions as having this effect—one of which demands that the orthodox church be declared independent of all authority , while tho other requires the rectification of the frontiers of the two Principalities by tho European Commissioners . At the last sitting of tho Moldavian Divan , tho
following resolutions were passed nem . con . : —1 . Property of all kinds to be respected ; 2 . Gratuitous , but obligatory , instruction in all towns and villages . The Moldavian Divan has closed its sittings . It has abolished the compulsory labour of peasants , and voted the secularization of ecclesiastical property .
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OUR CIVILIZATION . ? CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The January session of this court was opened on Monday , when the calendar was found to contain the names of only sixty-three prisoners—an unusually small number . In swearing the grand jury , an objection to take the oath on religious grounds was made b } ' Mr . George Vicesimus Wigram . He considered that by the form of the oath he was pledging the power of God , which he conceived he had no right to do . The Recorder inquired if he belonged to the Society of Friends . He replied that he did not . The Recorder observed that , as the law at present stands , no persons can claim exemption from taking an oath unless they are members of the Society of Friends , Mormons , or Separatists . A bill was brought in of a more general kind ; but unfortunately it was not passed , and the court had no power to relieve any person from taking the oath required by law unless in the excepted cases to which he had referred . Mr . Wigram here stated that he was not a Separatist , and he belonged to no particular sect of religion . The Recorder inquired whether Mr . Wigram had ever before made a similar objection in a court of justice . Mr . Wigram said he had made the same objection upon a former occasion at Clerkenwell , and he was excused . The court appeared to be in some difficulty as to the course that should be adopted under the peculiar circumstances ; but it was put an end to by another gentleman who had been summoned volunteering to supply the place of Mr . Wigram , and that gentleman was then relieved from further attendance .
John Mitchell , described as a soldier , was then indicted for assaulting John Hatehard Welch , the usher and gaoler at Marlborough-street police-court . The offence was committed as far back as last August ; but since then Mitchell had been insane and confined in a lunatic asylum . Being now recovered , he was put on his trial . It appeared that he had been ordered to find sureties at the Marlborough-street police-office for creating a disturbance at the shop of Messrs . Swann and Edgar , and , on being removed to the cells , he committed so violent an assault on Welch that he was disabled for some months , and is even now not entirely recovered . Shortly afterwards he was found to be in a state of delirium tremens , and this deepened into temporary insanity . He was now found Guilty of a common assault , and was sentenced to hard labour for four months .
John Hoydon Thornhill surrendered and pleaded Guilty to a charge of having in his possession for sale a large number of indecent prints . Mr . Sleigh , who appeared for the prisoner , said he had now given up the disgusting traffic with which he stood charged . He therefore hoped that the court would simply order Thornhill to enter into sureties to appear and receive judgment , if called upon to do so . Mr . Bodkiu , who appeared for the prosecution , . said he could not consent to that course without consulting with the Home Secretary . The matter waa accordingly postponed to the next session , the accused in the meanwhile being set at liberty on his own recognizances . The same result lias been come to in three similar cases .
William Wallace Thompson pleaded Guilty to three indictments charging him with embezzling' money to the extent of nearly 3000 / . from his employers , Messrs . W . T . Jones and Co ., wholesale oilmen , Leadenhall-buildings . He was their traveller , and it appeared that he also took with him on his journeys a female companion , who of course increased his expenses . The whole of the money waa appropriated between last May and November . He was sentenced to four years' penal servitude . The trial of Mr . Edward Auchmuty Glover , the late member for Bovorley , has boon postponed till next session .
Christian Sattler was tried on Wednesday for tho murder of Charles Thain , tho detective officer , while in his custody on a charge of felony , and during their passage to England from Hamburg . The facts will be within the recollection of our readers , as the murder wus committed no longer ago than November 22 nd . Tho defence was that Suttler had been illegally arrested and treated with great violence , and either that lie had committed tho act while smarting under u sense of wrong , or that it was purely accidental . Ho was found Guilty , and sentenced to death . During tho delivery of the -sentence , ~ Sa <; tler-interruptod ^ Mr .- ^ Baron- ~ Martin- < whof together with Mr . Justice WHIoh , tried tho case ) , and said with groat vohomonce that lio had not had a fair trial , and that the moment ho looked at tho jury ho could see that they wore not porsons likely to understand the matter , as they wore ignorant of law . Ho added that ho was convicted without any actual evidence , and upon nothing but probabilities , and ho doolarod that thoro was nothing to prove that ho had boon guilty either of robbery or murder . Ho then exclaimed thut ho was murdered , and thnt ho liked tho English laws , but desplsou * tho English , people . Tho Judgo , on
rosuming , was again interrupted y S , who passionately exclaimed : — " I am sentenced upon probabilities ; I did not shoot the man ; it was done by accide nt . I intended to shoot myself , and he caught hold of my arm , and the pistol went off and shot him . Do what you like with me ; . roast me or kill me , " The sentence having been concluded , the culprit was removed in a very violent and excited state . Albert Adolphus Armstrong , a young man of twent yone , has been found Guilty of bigamy . On his counsel pleading for mercy , the counsel for the prosecution said that the prisoner had offered marriage to nearly twelve other ladies , and in six or eight cases had succeeded in seducing them . He was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment .
Robert M'Echam surrendered to take his trial on a charge of assaulting John William Norris on the high seas . It was alleged that , in consequence of this ill usage , the lad committed suicide by leaping overboard ; but it was made pretty clear that he fell into the sea , and it could not be shown that the captain had done anything more than correct the boy . The charge was then withdrawn . Frank Valentine Saundcrs , the tide-waiter who last session was found Guilty of assaulting his superior officer , came up for sentence , and was condemned to two months ' imprisonment . Henry Perry White , a tallow chandler , has bean found Guilty of receiving some of the property stolen from the house in Great Portland-street which was robbed by the policeman Sankey . He was sentenced to four years ' penal servitude .
William Jessop was indicted on Tuesday for a robbery committed with violence on Harriet Davis . The girl was a light character , and one night Jessop went home with her . A dispute arose with reference to five shillings which Jes . sop had given the girl , and ( according to her account ) , on her resisting his attempts to regain it , he severely injured her with a pair of tongs . The defence was that the man himself was attacked , and that ultimately the girl ( who , together with Jessop , was very drunk ) fell into the road , and so hurt herself . The prisoner was Acquitted .
Edward Powell , Thomas Griffiths , and Joseph Clarkson were tried on the same day with conspiring to defraud Messrs . Shoolbred and Co . of goods . They forged an order for the goods in the name of Major Martin , a gentleman residing in Worcestershire , and a customer of the prosecutors '; and the things were sent as directed . Having been found Guilty , the men were sentenced , Powell to four years' penal servitude , and the others to a year ' s hard labour . James Brown , a carman , has been Acquitted of the manslaughter of Mary Coney , a child . The facts of this case were mentioned in our Postscript last week .
Charles Hartley , a . shopman , was tried on Thursday on a charge of feloniously altering a telegraph signal on the London and Greenwich line . He had formerly been in the service of the Company , but is now a shopman . On the night of the 29 th of November , he was travelling on the rail , ami , getting out at Dcptford in a state of intoxication , went into the private room containing the signal , and altered it , so that , instead of its indicating to the next station thut the line waa blocked , it stated that both lines were clear . The defence was that the alteration was purely an accident , occurring during Hartley ' s drunken bungling to get out . His counsel expressed a very strong opinion that an instrument of such importance ought to bo more carefully guarded . Tho judge and jury concurred in this remark , and the prisoner was Acquitted .
The Kinaiilky Poisonumu Cask.—Tho Inques...
The KinaiiLKY Poisonumu Cask . —Tho inquest on the body of Barbara Sagar , tho wife of the master of Keighley workhouse , Yorkshire , has ended in a verdict to the effect that the woman died from tho effects of arsenic , but that there was no evidence to show who nil ' ministered it . Sagar , however , has not been discharged from custody , but has been examined before tho West Riding magistrates . The inquest was adjourned in order that Mr . Morley , of Leeds , might analyze the contents of a bottlo found at Sugar's house , labelled < Bessemer ';) Gold Paint . ' At tho adjourned inquest , it appeared that tho powder found in tho bottle consisted chiefly of copper mixed with a little silver . Sagar has had nine children , all of whom , it is said , died before they wore four years of ago . Stories of this kind , however , arc always told of persons suspected of having used poison ; and it would clearly bo unfair to receive with too much confidi'iieo the inference sought to bo established against Sngar with respect to his children .
Muudick qv a 1 ' oi . iokman . —Henry Morgan , a policonmn whose duty lay In the direction of tho Milu-endroad , died last Saturday from tho effect of injuries iniHcted-on-hiin by un-IriHUiuun-nainod JoroiniaU-lvull ( i )) , ' , ''i On tho evening of the 20 th ult ., Kullnlier , who is ordinarily n vory quarrelsome and disorderly follow , an *' who on thie occasion was in a state of raving Intoxicntlon , was running about tho road , striking ovory ono lio mot , without any provocation . Ho was a fterwards Joined , by several other Irishmen , who cliasod peoplo about with mivngo persistency , screaming and swearing all tho while , and putting many in peril of tholr lives . Ono of tho pursued Hod for refuge into a publIo-hou « M but tho Irishmen followed , and , nftor a groat deal o rioting , wore oxpollod . Kallahor had a largo painted
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 9, 1858, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09011858/page/4/
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