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      Accidents Atsd Sudden Deaths. Whonnn Exi...

      some time held up the drowning youth , but was at length obliged to relinquish his hold to save his own life . Further aid was procured , but it was then too late . A fearful railway collision took place on the London and North-Western Railway , at Longwood , near HuddersfLeld , on Monday . A train of coal waggons arrived at the Huddersfield station , and had shunted two trucks while the engine was being turned from the points on to the main line , when the passenger train from Leeds to Manchester ran into the waggons standing on the line . The train was due at Lone wood at 1 . 35 P . M ., and was

      about eight minutes late . The distance signal light was put on while the coal waggons were being shunted ; and the driver of the passenger train , John Laty , ought to have seen it , but , being busy -with some disarrangement of his engine , he did nut notice it , and the train ran into the -waggons with fearful violence . The engine was seriously damaged , and three third-class carriages were much injured , the whole of the divisions of the compartments being forced out . One truck and the guard van were smashed to atoms . Upwards of twenty persons were * either more or less injured : —some of tlem very seriously .

      Mrs . Sarah Lovell , another of the victims of the late accident at the Bishopstoke station , died on Thursday week from the effects of her injuries .

      No. 435, July 24,1858.] T H E X. E A D E...

      No . 435 , July 24 , 1858 . ] T H E X . E A D E It . 705

      Continental Notes. That Narrow And Unchr...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian feeling is to be condemned which , regards with jealousy the progress of foreign nations , and cares for no portion 01 the human xace but that to . which itself belongs . Dit . Abnold .

      FRANCE . Tue Baron de Lachatre , author of a " Universal Dictionary ; " has incurred the displeasure of the Government for some observations which he has made in his work offensive to Imperial susceptibilities . The precise nature of the remarks has not transpired ; but all the copies of the book remaining in the hands of the publisher and the booksellers have been seized and destroyed . No fresh edition is to be permitted . The author is sentenced to five : years' imprisonment , and six thousand francs fine . The publisher and printer are also sentenced to lesser fines and terms of imprisonment . The eleventh sitting of the Paris Conference was held last Saturdaj ' .

      The following ( says a letter from Paris ) are said to be the final arrangements made for the imperial visit to Cherbourg : —Queen Victoria will arrive at Cherbourg on the evening of the 4 th , and theEmperor and Empress will make their entrance into the town in the afternoon of the same day . Their imperial Majesties will remain at Cherbourg ou the 5 th , 6 'tli , and 7 th , and on Sunday , the 8 th , will embark on board the Bretagne , screw 1 ineof-battle ship , to proceed to Brest . The first interview between the sovereigns of France and England will take place on the 5 th . Their Majesties will pass the 6 th in

      the roadstead . On the 7 th the inauguration , benediction , and immersion of the dock Napoleon III . will take place , and in the afternoon the Ville de Nantes screw liner , which has been built on one of the slips of the new do « k , will be launched . In the evening there will fee a grand ball offered by the town . A grand dinner will be given by the Emperor to all the persons attached to his suite . It will take place under a tent fitted up on the deck of the Bretagne . All the plenipotentiaries forming part of the Conference of Paris have received invitations foi the fetes at Cherbourg .

      The Committee of French Coalowners hare addressed a petition to the Emperor , praying him to reduce the duties oh coal , as . the competition , under disadvantages , with English coal lias seriously depressed the trade . ' A young farmer at Le ' zigne has murdered an old man Whom he believed to have bewitched him . The homicide has been apprehended . "On the arrival , " saya the Globe , " of the accounts from the coast of Araby , describing how that gallant girl , Mademoiselle Eveillard , after the massacre of her father the French consul nnd her mother , whom she valiantly defended , killing a fanatic and lighting her way to the Cyclops , the Empress Eugrfnie at once declared she would act as a mother to her , and provide her with a suitable marriage portion . The maid of Jeddah will now take rank with Judith of IJethalin , Clcliaof the iiber , and the maids of Snragosa and of Orleans . "

      SrAIN . The Madrid Gazette of the 13 Hi contains Royal decrees , which relieve from their offices of aides-de-camp and orderly officers to the King , Generals Villa Koya and JJonteca , and Colonel Espinosa . The Etpana alleges that these gentlemen havo beon dismissed for no other reason than that they were appointed by the late Cabinet , and were friends of Marshal Narvacs . Another decree establishes a Council of State consisting of thirty , two members , and appoints Sonor Martinez do In Rosa to be its President . The Piogrcaista party was actively preparing for the revision of tlio electoral lists

      Forty-one new senators havo been nominated . It has been decided that Sciior Isturitz shnll be appointed ambassador at London ; Senor Mim at Paiia ; Senor Kios Roaas at Rome ; nnd the Duke de Ossuna at St Vetereburg . The note addressed to the English Cabinet on the subject of Lord Mahncabury ' a speech is

      represented in the Madrid newspapers to be conceived in strong but polite terms . A portion of the Moderado party is displaying great hostility to the new Cabinet ; but the Ministerial journals assert that the bulk of the party will not follow its example . The Queen and King have presided at a grand distribution of prizes to the most deserving exhibitors of the Agricultural Show of 1857 . The Gazette publishes a royal decree , which establishes a Council of State , to be composed of thirty-two members . Senor Martinez de la Eosa is appointed President . The Director of the Colonies is replaced . A manifesto has baen addressed by some of the Liberal leaders in Spain to the'Progresista party , in favour of O'Donnell ' s Government .

      TURKEY . Another sanguinary collision has taken place between the Christian population of Bosnia and the Turks . The fanatical beys had said that they would sooner take up arms against the Sultan himself than suffer any compromise to be made with the Christians . In the last affair the latter had the advantage ; but both sides are preparing for a renewal of the struggle . Three thousand Christians are said to have crossed the frontier into Austrian Croatia ; and a general rising in European Turkey is talked of . The Turkish authorities do their best to maintain order ; but the fanaticism of the Mussulmans renders it impossible . The insurgent chiefs of Herzegovina have declared their submission to Kemal Effendi , the commissioner sent to conciliate them .

      "Turkey , as the French Government has been informed by telegraph , " says the Morning Star , ¦ " will atone for the Jeddah massacre , in whatever way Europe may demand . Two thousand men are to go there , and the rioters are to be tried by court-martial . Indemnities are to be paid to the sufferers , & c . In the mean time French men-of-war are said to have been ordered to approach Candia , while it is known that English ships from the Indo-Chinese squadron are to enter the Red Sea , and in the continental press demands are made that to the Turkish ports , where European Christians reside , European garrisons should be sent to protect them . The Sultan had fallen ill when the Constantinople mail left . " Sir Henry Biilwer , the new ambassador at Constantinople , paid his first official visit to the Sultan ' s ministers oh the 8 thinst . .

      "It appears by recent letters from Mecca , " says the Paris Pays , " that , during the last religious fetes , serious dissensions broke out between different Mussulman nationalities , and that the fanatical part of the population of Hedjaz , having at its head an Arab chief named Beckel-Hafer , who lias acquired an immense reputation for sanctity , has formed itself into an independent religious party called ' the sect of true believers . ' This sect is said to be fast increasing . Its tendencies are very unfavourable towards the Porte . It does not recognize in the Sultan the title of protector of the true believers and temporal chief of the Mussulmans , which , as Emperor of the Ottomans , he has borne without dispute for many centuries . "

      The tribe of Bari-Lam has revolted and pillaged the country in all directions within only about forty-five miles of Lagdad . Some partial engagements have taken place between the troops of Omar Pacha and the insurgents ; but the latter , who are about 15 , 000 strong , keep their-ground , nnd , by adopting the Arnb tactic of dispersing when subject to attack , manage to escape the . punishment which threatens them . -So far , they maybe compared with the Indian mutineers . The insurgent leaders of the Herzegovina ( after an interview with the consuls ) have made their submission to Kemal Eflendi . A deputation , appointed by them to arrange cxistiug difficulties accompanied the Ottoman commissioner to Trebigne . The fourth son of the Sultan died on the morning of the 9 th hist .

      SWITZERLAND . The Council of the States ratified the resolution voted by the National Council , that the Federal Council shall no longer lend money to railway companies . BICIvGlUM . The King of the Belgians , the Archduke John of Austria , tlie Count de Mcrnn , the Archduke's son , and the Duke de Brabant , left Brussels on the 15 th hist , by railway , to visit the manufacturing establishments of Saintu Murie d'Oignies and Couillet . In the evening , they returned to the palace at Brussels , and the King there gave a grand dinner . At seven o ' clock on the morning of the lGth , the Archduke and liis son left Brussels for Ems . The Count do Chambord is ut Brussels .

      . It is said that , to visit her duughter , Queen Victoria will be obliged to go the whole way to Berlin , us tho Princess is in a stato whlcli will not allow her to make tho journey to tho Kliine , as originnuy contemplated . Her Majesty will stay at the castle of Bubclsberg , near Potsdam . ITALY . According to a letter from CugliaH of the 8 th inst ., the British steamer Elba had arrived there , coming from the const of Africa , and having on board two electric cables which wore lost two years since between

      Spartivento , Bona , and Galita . Captain Sitzia , of the steampacket Cagliari , had likewise arrived , after his liberation from a Neapolitan dungeon . He came to visit his family . The members of the Chamber of Commerce entertained him at a sumptuous dinner . A story of assassination is told in a letter from Some published in the Opinione of Turin , which states that a bookseller of Forli , who had been several months in prison on suspicion of being implicated in a political conspiracy , and had been released for want of sufficient evidence , was stabbed to death in the streets by an unknown Land . As the victim of this crime belonged to the constitutional or Piedmontese party , the act is attributed to some emissary of the ultra-revolutionist party , which hates the constitutionalists quite as much as it does the Government . ¦

      Quarantine has been placed by the Neapolitan Government on all vessels arriving from France , Malta , Constantinople , & c . A corporal of marines at Naples has shot his lieutenant dead in the streets , in revenge for a slap in the lace given him by the officer a few days previously for some dereliction of duty . The man has been hanged , and , died regretting his crime .

      GERMANY . The death of Prince Anatole Demidoff , at Baden , is announced in the German papers . RUSSIA . The Emperor and the Prince Royal of Wurtemburg his guest , have been visiting Archangel . DENMARK . In the recent reply to the German Diet on the Holstein question , Denmark claims to have the matters at issue settled by negotiation , and not by resolutions of the Diet . The ground on which this claim is raised is that Denmark and the Confederation have been at war on the question , and that the present state cf affairs is the result of a treaty , and not of Federal law .

      Gatherings From Law And Police Courts. T...

      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . The legal circles are promised a case of great interest and singularity . Our readers probably recollect the will case of Swihfen v . Swinfen , which concluded with a compromise arranged between the counsel on both sidesthe present Lord Chancellor ( then Sir Frederick Thesiger ) on the side of Mr ? . Swinfen , and Sir Alexander Cock burn , then -Attorney-General , and now Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas , on the side of the representative of the heir-at-law . Under this arrangement , the latter ( who was the defendant in the action ) was to secure to Mrs . Swinfen an annuity of 3000 / . The lady , however , refused her . consent to this compromise ; and , after proceedings in various courts , the Master of the Rolls , last November , gave judgment directing that there should be a new trial to test the validity of the will . This trial will take place at the Stafford Assizes . But the remarkable part of the story remains to be told . Mrs . Swinfen has determined to bring an action against the Lord Chancellor ; and it will probably be set down for trial at the sittings after next term for Middlesex .

      1 he case of Margaret Robertson or Robinson , the Scotch girl who alleged that she was entrapped to a disreputable house in London , has reached an unexpected climax- Inspector Hamilton and Mr . Phillips , the police and workhouse officials who had charge of the case , attended again before Sir Peter Laurie last Saturday , accompanied by the girl , when the Alderman said he had received from the last named tho following letter : — "July 17 , 1858 . —Your worship , I hope , will , pardon me , as I have not made a correct statement previously . I feel now very sorry for what I have done , and I trust your worship will forgive me , a 3 I now see I have done wrong . I feel I havo much to answer for to my blessed Maker . Tho master of this establishment ( Mr . Phillips )

      has been very kind to me , and I feel I have much to be thankful for . I hope God will bless all the gentlemen that have been so kind to me , and I am thankful it is found out , as I feel now more easy on my conscience , and I hope your worship and all tho gentlemen will forgive me . 1 leave it entirely to tho gentlemen and your worship ' s decision . If you think I deserve punishment I leave it entirely to your decision . —I am , your most obedient , humblo servant , Mauoaiiut Robebtson . " From the statements of various witnesses who attended before Sir Peter Laurie , it appeared that the girl ^ ras the daugliter of drunken parents , and had a thoroughly depraved sister , who kept a disreputable house at

      Glasgow . To that house she enticed Margaret ( wb » lived at PoTtb ) ; but the girl resisted temptation , and at the end of ji week escaped , and obtained a | situation . Her sister , however , found her out , went drunk to tho house , and drugged her away . She then lived at the sister ' s house for about four montlis , and was there ruined , after being drugged . A second timo she escaped , and w « s about to drown herself iu the Clyde but tho police prevented hor . She ultimately found her way to the Uav . Mr . Oldham , one of the Episcopal clergy of Scotland , who sent her ( in order to get her uwuy from hor relations ) to tho Westminster Reformatory . Thence she was taken on tho 18 th of . 1 unc to tho lioyal Free lloapitiil in tho ( Jrny ' a Inn-road ; but on the following day

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24071858/page/9/