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      Gatiikuings From Tlll-I Law And Police C...

      speecli , the Judge ( Mr . Baron Martin' ) refused to hear witnesses , alleging that , as the accused-was . partner , he was an owner of the property , and therefore not indictable . Mr . James suggested that perhaps the law which renders a shareholder , who is also the servant of the company of which ho is a member , punishable for embezzling the funds of tlie company , might be strained , so as to apply to the present case 5 hut this was at once set aside by Baron Martin . The prisoner was therefore discharged . A case in wMch Cardinal Wiseman was the defendant has been tried before Mr . Justice Crovvder at the Gloucester Assizes last Saturday , and excited very great interest . Lord Petre , the Duke of Norfolk , and

      several Roman Catholic ecclesiastic ? , were on the bench . The facts were briefly these : —The Princess Letitia lionaparte , the sister of Prince Lucien Bonaparte , the first cousin to the present Emperor Xapoleon , having married Mr . Wyse , afterwards the Right Hon . Thomas Wyse , our Minister at the court of Athens , and having subsequently been separated from her husband on account of her dissipation , took up Jier residence in . ' France , and was allowed 200 / . a year by her husband . There 1 she became involved in pecuniary difficulties , and the plaintiff— the Abbe" Roux , a French priest , lately in . a cure in Chelsea—visited her , and advanced money to pay creditors , to rescue her from a maisoncle sante , and to redeem furniture and jewels . The Abbe alleged that

      she had signed the acknowledgment of debt of 25 , 000 f ., and that he had placed this in the hands of Cardinal Wiseman , who , he said , had undertaken to endeavour to obtain payment from Mr . Wyse , but had not done so , and now the paper was not forthcoming . The plaintiff was under examination upwards of four hours , it being necessary to interrogate him through an interpreter . Cardinal Wiseman , on the other hand , swore that he had never had the document in his possession : he had had an interview with the Abbe * -with respect to the matter , and he had seen the document ; but , " if it went through his hands at all , it was merely that he might hand it over to Mr . Wyse . " He had made a search among his papers for the paper , but could not find it . He was

      persuaded that it had not been left with Mm . —The evidence of the Princess Letitia Bonaparte ( Madame Wyse ) , taken on interrogatories in Italy , was next read to the court . She stated that the plaintiff had offered his friendly offices in her ¦ affairs , and had paid numerous sums of money on her behalf , but she declared that he had been repaid by sales of her jewellery and from other sources , and that lie had received one quarter of a year ' s allowance from her husband ( Mr . Wyse ) , which" left him actually in her debt to the amount of two hundred and fifty francs . She admitted signing the acknowledgment of her debt to him of 25 , 00 Of ., but this she did on the representation by the plaintiff that the Archbishop of Paris had requested him to discontinue his visits to her , and that he wished to have this document to show

      that his visits were visits of business . He promised , after showing the papers to the Archbishop of Paris ( the prelate who wasassassinated a few months ago ) , to return them to her . Accordingly , on the day after he had received the paper of acknowledgment as to the 2 o , 000 f ., lie again came to her , told her he had shown it to the Archbishop , and , as there "was no further use for it , threw what appeared to bo the very document into the fire . Notwithstanding tlieso allegations , however , the jury found a verdict for the Abbe ; damages , 500 / . At the request of the counsel for Cardinal Wiseman , execution was stayed till after the fourth day of Easter term ( this day weok ) , in order that Mr ., Wyse should be communicated with , in the hope that ho might be able to throw some light on 'the existence of the document . Some of the Cardinal ' s letters were read at the trial .

      I hey conclude with singular union of - formality , commercial abbreviation , and religious phraseology : — " 1 hnvo the honour to be , Sir , your very obedient servant in J . C—N . Cardinal Wiseman . " John Callaghan , Thomas Conway , and Patrick Fraxoley , three labourers , were charged at the Westminster polico-oflico with having endeavoured by threats and intimidation to force a number of men to depart rotn their work The accused were work men employed by Mr . Freake , builder , in finishing some houses in Priaces-gato and Exhilntion-road , Kensington ; they truck for higher wages , and attempted to prevent some men , who had been engaged in their places from doing their work . Callaghan was sentenced to three months ' haru labour , and the other two to fourteen day a' imprisonment each .

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      Naval And Military. Likutenant-Gknkral A...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Likutenant-Gknkral AaunuuNiiAM , C . B ., appointed to tho command of the military force about to bo despatched to tho scat of war m China , lert town , accompanied by several military officers , lost Saturday eveninc for Alexandria , on his way to Hong-Kong , to assume hia command . Libutknanx-Colonkl J . L . SmMows , C . B ., of the Royal Engineers , who -w-as tho Quoon ' s Commissioner at tlie head-quarters of tho Turkish army under Omor Pacha , and who has received tho Imperial Order of tho Medjidio of the Third Class for liia distinguished services during tho late -war , loft town on Friday for Marseilles

      on his way to Constantinople , accompanied by his staff . He is now British Commissioner for the regulation of the Turco-Persian boundary . Experiments at Woolwich : Aksexal . —The Duke of C ambridge , Commander-in-Chief ; Lord Panmure , Secretary at War ; Lieutenant - General Sir William Codrington , Admiral Eden , and Mr . -Monsell , accompanied by the Persian Ambassador , Ferukh Khan , and suite , arrived at" Woolwich last Saturday for the purpose of witnessing a series of experiments which were carried out at the Government practice range . The experiments , which occupied upwards of two hours , commenced with a trial of the efficiency of shells filled with molten iron , for the purpose of firing any ignitable material . The invention appeared to be highly successful , as did some others which were also tried .

      A Solitary Voyagkk . —Information has been received in the uorth-east ports that the schooner Happy Return , which left Sunderland . with coals on the 28 th ult ., has been , towed into Dundee , by the Hull steamer Queen , with only one hand ( a lad , named W'illiam Charlton ) on board . It seems that after leaving Sunderland the schooner had encountered a heavy gale , and lost her main boom ; she also had her sails split , and her bulwarks carried away . Her crew got on board a foreign vessel near the South Bell Light , but , for some reason

      not explained , they left the lad on board . After the crew had left the lad in the leaky and disabled larque , in a rough and stormy sea , he pumped her arid kept her before the wind , until , exhausted with his efforts to keep the crazy craft afloat , he went below to bed , after securing the wheel , and slept soundly for several hours . He was wakened by the steamer coming alongside . When the schooner was got into Dundee , it was ascertained that she was making three inches and a half of water an hour .

      Eewakds fok Saving Life ,- —On the morning of the 19 th ult ., the British barque Haltwhistle , James Patterson , inaster , was stranded off the heights of Calantsoog , when the Dutch pilot-boat Rinkelaar , with the master and nine men , put off to her assistance , and succeeded in saving the lives of the crew , consisting of fourteen hands ; but the master and mate declining to leave the ship , a , hoar , manned by a pilot and an apprentice , put off to their assistance . In consequence of the boisterous state of the weather , she was upset , and the pilot was drowned ; but the apprentice succeeded in swimming to

      shore , after three houi-s perseverance . Signals of distress being still sent from the ship , the same apprentice , together with another apprentice and a seaman , put off in a boat , and , after much exertion and danger , succeeded in saving the captain and the mate . These circumstances having been represented to the Board of Trade ,, they have awarded the following sums : —To the inaster of the pilot-boat , 51 . ; to the crew , consibting of nine persons , 2 / . each ; to the relatives of the pilot who was drowned , and who belonged to the first boat , 10 / - ; to the apprentice who swam ashore , 101 . ; to the three persons in the last boat , 101 . each .

      Accidkst to the TROOP-srur Tkaxsit . —The Transit , while lying at anchor in a fog off Lynrington , had her bottom staved in , the young flood having driven her on her anchor .- The water rose very fast , and the captain was obliged to put back to Spithead . Tiik Oxiiit > A . —Fears are entertained for the safety of the Oneida , vhich ought to have arrived before now from Australia . She was the pioneer ship of the Overland Australian Mail line , and had nearly two hundred persons on board , and a large quantity of gold . The last that was heard of her was on the 4 th of February , on which clay she left King George ' s Sound , a 2 'Qrt just within the south-west point of Australia .

      Explosion on Siiivboakd . —A violent explosion occurred on Monday afternoon , on board the iron screw collier Button Chaytor , Captain J . Jefferson , lying in the Victoria Dock , Hartlepool , by which two of tho crew were seriously injured , though not dangerously . Tho Hutton Chaytor was loaded with Thornley gas coals , and had been lying'in her berth since Saturday waiting for a sea-tide . Two of tho crew—the second mate and another—went down into the fore-hatch upon some necessary business , carrying a lantern with them . On getting below , thecundle was removed out of the lantern , and tho explosion took place .

      A Smi ' N Ckew Starved to DuATH . —A Stavanger pilot , on the 2 nd ult ., boarded a vessel about eight miles from the hind , oil' Kinn , Norway . Seven bodies were found on board , bearing marks of having died of starvation . No provisions were in the ship , and one of the bodies seemed to have been attacked by the others to satisfy their hunger . Some of tho bodies had apparently been dead several days ; others only a few . The vessel was the Ilolingen , from Narva for Gainsborough . Judging from , articles found on two of the men , they wero English .

      Miscellaneous. Loud Ciiicusica And Tiik ...

      MISCELLANEOUS . Loud Ciiicusica and tiik Jkws . —Tho following excellent letter , signed " A Jewess , " has been addressed to Viscount Chelsea , tho defeated candidate for Middlesex — "My Lord , —I feel that I should apologize for intruding upon your time when I know it to be so fully occupied , yet I find it impossible to rcfrnin from

      addreaemg you upon a subject of the greatest importance . T have no words sufficiently vivid to express my astonish ment at your speech of the 1 st of April . In thaUpeecli " delivered at Edmonton , you stated that ' you had never met a Jew -who had net declared that , "if he had the opportunity of inflicting a serious injury upon the Christian faith , or of preventing its spread , he would fail to do so . ' I am always unwilling , indeed I am quite unable , to doubt the veracity of an English gentleman and therefore I feel anxious to believe that , in the somewhat bewildering excitement of electioneering movements , you -were unfortunately betrayed into expressions at variance with * well-ascertained and universallvacknowledged facts . The Jevs never try to make *

      proselytes . Faithful to their own creed , they do not either directly or indirectly , endeavour to undermine the religious opinions of others . Why should they make the attempt ? They are taught to believe that Almighty God , the fountain of all mercies and of all blessings judges all human beings according to their works , and that the pious and righteous on earth , whatever be their race or faith , may all hope to enter into the kingdom of Heaven . That those who profess the Christian religion should endeavour to make concerts I fully understand and , while I am firmly convinced that they will not be

      successful in Winning my co-religionists from the faith of Israel , I candidly confess that I honour the motives and appreciate the exertions of zealous missionaries . They labour indefatigably to diffuse "the tenets of their religion , because they believe that there is no salvation out of the pale of their own church . The Jews , however , can have no motive for wishing to make prosel ytes ; they respect all religions , and are truly convinced that a conscientious obedience to the dictates of the same is not merely compatible with , but pre-eminently productive of the exercise of the noblest virtues . " .

      Louis D'Okleans on the Boubjiojt " Fusion . 'The affair of the ' fusion " between the two branches of the Bourbon family continues to excite a languid interest in political circles . The Paris correspondent of the Independence Beige , writing under date March 27 th , communicates to that journal the following letter of the Duke de Nemours to a friend : —" Claremont , Jan . 25 . — ~ & ly dear Sir , —In a letter from M . le Comte de Chambord written upon the occasion of tlie death of M . de Salvandy , and published in the papers , there occurs a sentence w hich represents the reconciliation accomplished in L 853 as one of the firmest guarantees for the future condition of France . This sentence , as we have since ascertained , has a meaning with respect to which it is

      now no longer possible to entertain , any doubt , and its effect must be to lead the public to believe in engagements on our part which my brothers and I have never contracted . We are therefore most unwillingly compelled to depart from the silence which we had determined upon preserving in regard to our relations with M . le Comte de Chambord . The fact is that -when , in a spirit of conciliation , I went to M . le Comte de Chambord , I only did so upon the formal assurance that this step did not involve any engagement on our part . In expressing to him , then , our sincere desire to see France cnll him one day to the throne , and cur wish to devote all our efforts to obtain such a result at a fitting opportunity , I was far from offering him our blind and

      undefined co-operation . Its conditions were , of course , to be determined by a previo * is understanding . These conditions , on our side , are contained in three principal points , which our convictions , as well as therespect due to the past history of our family , forbid us ever to abandon : — 1 . The maintenance of the tricolored . flag , which is now , in the eyes of France , the symbol of the new state of society , and the expression of the principles consecrated since 1789 2 . The re-establishment of a constitutional government . 3 . The concurrence of the national will in the rc-establislnncnt of this form of government , and in the recal of the dynasty . Of these three points one only was entered upon by me with M . le Comte de Chambord during hia visit to Nervi , and the result of our conversation was such that 1 felt

      myself called upon to inform him that so long as this matter remained undecided all community of views between him and ourselves was impossible . Since then , this state of things having to our great regret remained unaltered , and tho bare notion of a previous understanding being rejected by M . le Comte de Chambord , it has become incumbent upon us to put a stop to attempts , nt present useless , in favour of an agreement . We sincerely regret not having been more successful in our endeavours to reunite under the same flag all shades of the Constitutional party , for wo should bo thereby still serving Franco , Our resolution is lienccfoith to nwnil events , and to tulie counsel , on each occasion from reason and our duties towards our country . —Receive , niy dear nr , & c , —Louis i > ' 0 kl . kan 8 . "

      Mit . Thackkkat at Ei > lnbuucui . —Mr . Thackeray was entertained at a dinner at EdinLurgli on Thursday week . Lord Neaves occupied tho chair , and Mr . Thackeray , in reply to tho toast of Uis health , humorously vindicated himself from tho charges of being a systematic cynic , perpetually engaged in finding out wliat in base in human nature , and of entertaining anarchical views in politics—an opinion which some nervous persons have adopted since the delivery of t " celebrated lectures on " the four Georges . "

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), April 11, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11041857/page/8/