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      Continental Notes. Fhance. Ji^Bshal Easd...

      HUiur . Another of those frequent acts of ruffianism which disgrace Austrian ; oflLcialsr in Italy ia recorded-by a-correspondent of the Italia del Popolo ^ who writer : — "A young stadent . was walking with his betrothed on the public promenade , at Paduavwhen- a * German official , attracted by the , beauty- of the latter ,, fblLowed ker r and not satisfied with impudently' staring- her in the faaej went so far aa to insult her by an , indecent act . The student replied by- striking , the man oi * the- cheeks The- officer thereupon , drew bia . sabre ^ . and * wounded the student in the- , hand . The bystanders rushed , upon the officer ; to -aasisfe wliom . some other / officers came up . A terrible scuffle took place between the- officers and . the students of the city , which , continued foe some time , and resulted in * the . death of . seven , officers . Many others were wounded ; . The loss , oa- the side of the students is not known . Numerous axresta- have : taken place , and several ethers lia ^ e fled to . Switzerland and Piedmont . " A reconciliation between Naples and the Western Powers ia spokea of as > highly probable . Th « question , it is ( Said , will be diaeussed attha meeting of the Emperors at Stuttgard .. The . captain , of the Cagliari has been declared innocent of any offence , but he is detained a 3 a witness . It i 3 expected that the vessel will be restored to the owners . The effects of the passengers found on board have been given up to their proprietors ..

      AUSTKIA . It has been settled that a stamp of one kreutzer ( about a halfpenny ) shall be : imposed on each copy of the . nonoificial Austrian , papers . The largest of tlie journals aow costs only two kreutzer 3 j . so that this addition to then : price will be a great injury to them . The Austrian , corps of occupation , in the Legations will soon be greatly reduced , as the Papal Government ceases to . pay the . monthly subsidy of 54 , 000 zwanzigers Cl & OO / L ) .. On . the 28 th ult-, a . port of the garrison of Aocona . began- its . march towards Austria .

      An Austrian , soldier on . duty at Ancona desired a Berson , in . plain , clothes . to take a cigar he was smoking out of his mouth . The gentleman , who was a lieutenant in the Papal army * refused to do so , and reproved the Soldier for Ms impertinence . The man then knocked tbe cigar oat . of the mouth of the officer , who straightway complained to the colonel of the regiment ; but he obtained ao satisfaction whatever . The Emperor is still making , his progress through Hungary .. Aa ha-was receiving the congratulations of the burgomaster of Miskolcz , Lieutenant-Colonel Couiit Szirmay , who had accompanied the Imperial carriage all tha way on horseback , suddenly fell dead from tlie saddle .

      The solemn entry of the Archduke Maximilian and tihe . Archduchess Charlotte into Milan took place on Sunday afternoon at four o ' clock . They were received by Count Sebregon . di , the Mayor . RUSSIA .. The commission entrusted with the administration of toat part of Bessarabia which has been eeded to Moldavia has just been dissolved . The Emperor has probibiiied Jews from , inhabiting Sebastopol . They are not even allowed to go thither in order to embark in a steamer for foreign parts : for that purpose , they must go . to Eupatonia .

      The Nora states that the Emperor of Russia , after passing some days at Berlin , Wilbad , and Darmstadt , is too go to-Stuttgard on the 2-ith , and to remain there to th & 28 th ; and tUstf . tho . Emperor of the French is to arrive in the same city on the 25 * h on a visit to the King of Wartemberg . According to a . letter from' Stuttgard , in ' the JZeit of Berlin ,, tho Empress of the French ia . to accompany his Majesty .

      BSXUitLCrUX During-the riota . which took place in Belgium afc the latter end of May . , that towmof Ghent remained undisturbed T but the- General who commanded the town took military precautions . Since then ^ the communal council has < condemned those precautions aa being illegal , because thoywMsre not called' for by the civil authouitiesi The mattor , however , Laving- boon brought before the King ,, a , Royal ordinance haa been published annulling tho determination of the cornauuinl council as . being founded ia error .,

      DKNM \ JUC The- Diet off IOJolstciii , ini tlie sitting of the 31 st tilL , unmrimousljr resolved that a committee oC seven moinbors should ' bo nominated to obtain from the Danish Government the 1 annulment ofl the measures adopted by M . Do-SelieelBj without ) the approbation of the Diat ,. and for which ) he was impeached ; .

      hpain .. mujuia Jeuna . and Cajetano Morales hnvo boon shot ntt SovilLj . on n charge of infltigating tho loto rebollion . , , T ! 0 UICltY . » yrna continueai in ai most disordered sbnto ; High way robberioa aro of frequxmt oceurrerutQ ; . murders are constantly committed ; and tho Turkish authority aoonis to bo < almost oponly doflwl . TIiqi Stdfcon ha » roliavod' Rodachiil Pacha of hia oflico oi- ITrenidwit of ! thv Tansdmafc . liWd . l ? iuoha . has , heon "ppointodi ia . biB < placo . GIKRMAtlY . Kerr Otto voo < JorvMiyapoUUcal oxilain England ,

      communicates to the Times an account : of an Insult offered ' to his wife-by the police of Hamburg .. "On Thursday week , " he -writes * . " my wife was told : by a » servant that two- men . wanted to see her . She met two disguised policemen , whom she recollected to be-the same who had seized ' my papers . These fellows said they were ordered to seize * again the papers of my wifie , to tafee her to the Town-hally and to ruse-force iS she : should happen to offer any resistance . ! No maa- being at this time in tie country-house , only an > old lady andisoine maidservants , my wife could not butsubmit , aod- was carried ofly wait ing , on foot between thesa two men like a vagabond ) or thief . Having , waitad ux theTown ^ hall for half an h » ur

      she was "brought to the ' Winzenbaum , ' ap-rison situafeed im theold city . Arrived there , she ' was-searched to fche skin-by the wife of the gaoler , and-anything found about her seized . Then , she was looked , up in a common prisoner ' s cell . The other day sue was taken before the senator , not Blumenthal , another ,: ' finer but viler , ' as rhy wife describes him . He had the boklness to maiatain that nay wife had been forbidden to come to- Hamburg . This was not so , the police having only revokedi the permission to > live in their city ( sic . ) The day before yesterday ( the 3 rd inst . ) , she was led by a policeman ! over the Holste in frontier , in toe same manner as is done with vagrants . "

      aWITZEaiAND . A dispute has arisen ( says a contemporary ) between the federal authority and the Canton of Vaud , on the question of the railway from Lausanne to Berne , by way of Oron and' Fribourg . The Council of State of Vaud directed the Prefect- o £ Lavaux to stop the works ,, on the ground that it had not given ; its sanction to that portion of the line which traverses the canton .. As soon as the Federal Council lieard of this resolution , they unasimouslv annulled it , and , aa tbe authorities of Lausanne

      were preparing to send a battalion to enforce their orders , a telegraph despatch , containing , the substance of the federal resolution , was seat off , so as- to throw on the Council of State of tbe Canton of Vaud the responsibility of any further proceedings . M . Fornerod , the President of the Confederation , was-absenn when hia colleagues came to the resolution : of enforcing the federal laws ; . and , as he is a Vaudois , it is . hoped that he -will have sufficient influence with his ifellow-cauntrymen to prevent them , from- pushing the matter to extremities .

      THE DABTOBIA 2 I P-ROJCIPALITEES . The Minister- of the Interior of Moldavia , M-. Basile Ghika , and- seven Prefects ( according to a despatch from Jassy in the Nord ~ ) have been dismissed for having committed administrative abuses .

      No. 390r Sebtembeb 12,1857.]; The Leader...

      No . 390 r Sebtembeb 12 , 1857 . ]; THE LEADER . Q 71

      Accidents And Sydden Deaths. A Sisgtjlar...

      ACCIDENTS AND SyDDEN DEATHS . A sisgtjlar accident Las befallen Dr . Day , the Professor- of Medicine ia the University of St . Andrews , in the-neighbourhood , of the Lakes , whew he was staying . Having made several ascents of Helvellyu with a guide , lie determined on going up by himself . He did so in safety ; but , -while descending , he suddenly found the earth behind him give way , and he was precipitated into a cavern beneath . A sufibcating feeling , at once convinced-him that lie had fallen into the tunnel made to convey away tho sulphurous gases from the smelting works of the mines . Happily he was just able to reach the opening , -where he remained for some hours hanging by one arm , the other , being powerless , and calling for help . Towards evening ,, three gentlemen tourists heard his cries and released himk He was removed to the inn afc Patterdale , where it . was found that his arm . was badly broken ; but he is now doing , well .

      A party from Leeds and Rochdale were recently visiting , Bolton Abbey and its neighbourhood . One eff the gentlemen undertook the dangerous feat of leaping over the celebrated ' strid ; , ' but , on gaining the opposite lock , his foot slipped and he fell into the torrent . Tho shrieks of his wife at length induced the ltev . John Mather , of Rochdale , to attempt a rescue . He ran < lown . tliaistcoam for somo thirty yarda , jumped to . the other side , and caught the adventurous gentleman- as ho reachod- tho spot . Additional assistance soon arrived- and the drowning man was pulled out , and partially recovered . This is . suid . to . bo the first instance of a peraou who liad fallen into the ' strid' being saved . A l ) aby in anna was smothered to death a few days ago in a railway carriageduriug a cheap trip from Locus to Hull , owing to the carriages being overfillod .

      Jano Beadon , aged forty-five , the wife of a lookingglass silverer ii » Alie-atrcet , Goodman's Fields , has met with a sudden- death , from strong emotion . Owing to the no-turn of hor occupation , her health wua very had ; nnd on Wednesday week she waa much agitated by hearing her'son ^ , a youth of thirteen , singing in a . choir of three thousand at tho Crystal Palace . She beciuno suddenly ill ; exclaimed , ' * Oh , my dear child 1 " pointed to the orchestra , and . was immediately afterwards paralysed ia her right side , losing at onco alL power of spoeoh . Sha waa iinn ) edintoly attended by medical muni ; , but sho < liod about eleven o'clock Iho samo night . An . inquest has boon , held , terminating in a verdict of Natural Death .

      A » singuhtc accident bus-occurred nt tho Margate , station of the . South-Eastern Railway . At tho Margate station , thuro ia nixiuolinu in . tho direction of tho station

      of 1 in & 0 i to the extent of 3114 yards . At the top . of this ; mchnei are the switches , and itis the duty ' of the enginedriver , pnoc to . reaching it , to go behind tie- traini and push ifcorer thebask ; on to . the incline * , wfaen it reaches the stattan . by its owrt impetus , regaiated in its snaed by the . breaks . Oni the . arrival o * one of th » trails oa Monday , the switchman ,, -with & i » assistant having placed the points'in » the right direction , uncoupled the London fcom th * Ramsgaie ttmn awL tb * formerwaei puahed by the engine , over the Indiaae . The bceafc , being ; im fronty the- switchman had- no "

      knowledge that the guard * was not in it , and he therefore , as usual , jumped , oa to- the step : ofi the * last carriage , so as to be ia readiness to : open : the doorsand assist the passengers out om Che train drawing , up at the plsufomnw . The moment the- train reached the station its * velocity- left no doubt that a-collision with , the end of the : station ) would : be inevitable , and the switrfunaw jumped off . Imaniu > stant afterwards , the crash , occurred ; £ fo Jives , were lost , but several of the passengers- were seriously cut and bruised . They are all , howeverynow progressing 1 favourably .

      The . accident which occurred , at the Ipswich races to the la & George Deer ,, the rider of the ocrsaMevSj ter minated / fatally on Monday . John- Teal , a youth , of seventeen , has accidentally shot his uncle ia the fields near tlie : hamlet of Timble Great , about six miles from Otley , Lancashire . The trigger of the gun . caught a twig in the hedge , and the > uncle -w « a instantly shot dead . The body waa afterwards , discovered by some lads ( one a relation ) , who thought the man was asleep , and called cut : tO'him to get up . Going nearer to him , however , they discovered that he was dead . The nephew did not make hi » appearance till dusk the aamB > evening , being overwhelmed with grief and horror *

      State Of Trade. The Reports Of The State...

      STATE OF TRADE . The reports of the state of txade in- the manufacturing towns for the weeM ending laat Saturday show an increase of- business at Manchester . At Birmingham , and elsewhere , there has been little' alteration ,, tae transactions in most cases being on a . full average scale * , at steady prices . — Times * In tie general business of the port of London during the same week there has been considerable activity . The number of ships reported inward was 260 ., showing an increase of 50 over the previous week . These included

      24 -with cargoes of sugar , 43 wibh cargoes of grain ,. & c .,. and 2 from Shanghai with cargoes of tea . and silk ,, comprising 16 , 361 packages of the former and 2028 bales of the latter . The number of vessels cleared , outward was . 116 , including 16 in ballast , showing ; a decrease , of 29 . The number of sliips on the berth loading for the Australian colonies is 47 , being 13 less than at the last account . Of those now loading 5 are for Adelaide , 4 for Geelong ,. 2 for Hobart Town , 3 for Launceston , 4 ibr New Zealand , 14 for Port Phillip , 2 for Portland Bay , . 12 for Sydney , and 1 for Swan Hiver . —Idem .

      Several failures have taken place at Bristol , consequent on the suspension of Messrs . Bruford ,, Dyer , amd Co ., African merchants . The new failures include Messrs . IT . F- Fardon and Co ., with liabilities ranging from . 30 , 000 / . to 40 , 000 / . ; Mr . Aaron . Croslield , general merchant ( liabilities about 10 , 000 ? . ); Mr . Charles Isaacs , Australian merchant ( liabilities about 15 , 000 / . ) ; Geoxge Wyld . and Sons , rectifying distillers and wine and brandy merchants ( liabilities unstated ) ; and Messrs . Perron and Co ., merchants , ship and insurance agents , & c , whose debt 3 are estimated at 20 , 000 / .

      A petition has been presented to Vice-Chancellor " Wood on behalf of Mr . Abel Stuart , of South-bank * Regent ' s-pnrk , and Mr . George Duplox , of Torriugtonsquarc , praying that an order absolute may be granted for Use dissolution of the London aud Eastern Banking Corporation , and that ita iiffkir * ma 3 ^ bewound up uuder tho provisions of the Joint-Stock Companies Winding-up Acts . The petitioners , solicit this on the ground of mismanagement by the directors ,, who are accused of making dishonest uses of the capital of the company .

      The Mokmo3st Conference In London. Tun M...

      THE MOKMO 3 ST CONFERENCE IN LONDON . Tun Mormons hold their sixth annual conference last Sunday at tho Adelaide Gallery . It was presided over by two of the ? apostles , ' Brothers Orson Pratt and Ezra Benson . The persons present . during the day and evening ranged from six hundred to a . thousand From , the statements , of . Pastor , lioso , the representative of London , it appeared that 12 G 0 / . hud boon subscribed during tha past 3 'enr for emigration and other purposes . The . exertions of the priesthood , weru said to havo Leon universally received : and accepted . Preaching , in . tho

      streets ,, lanoa , and . other placus , hud : been revived . Tho President of . the Kent conference onid they had had very plonaaut times . He looked upon tho ' sointa' in Kont ,, who number 560 , na ' n first-class lot of people , JL « , tlioy support thirteen ciders ,, pay . their titliing ,, ainl approve all that , the ddurs . puopose . Tlioy havo aleo to hour their share of opposition , but . thoy have felt the hotter for it . ' 1 'lie l ' rosidaut from Ktmex . said ho had ro-bnpliv . cd in hiu district . SM . -1 out of 371- —The Heading President , apoko , of . having from

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 12, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12091857/page/7/