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Continental Notes. France. The News From...
exists The approaching elections to the Cortes are causing great excitement , and threaten to be fiercely contested . ¦ AUSTRIA . The autograph letter which the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian lately received from the Emperor of the French ( says the Augsburg Gazette ) had for its object to thank the prince for an offer which he had made to send to his Majesty a copy on a small scale of the statue of Napoleon I ., by Canova , at present in the public gardens of Milan . The Emperor , in accepting the offer , expresses himself in the most affectionate terms . According to the JJorsenJuxlle , the Emperor of Austria , intends to increase the concessions already granted to his Lomburdo-Venetian subjects , and the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian , Governor of that kingdom , is endowed with full powers to this effect .
GERMANY . Great damage has been caused in Saxony by severe floods . HOIXAND . The King of Holland is contemplating abdication in favour of his son , the Prince of Orange , who will attain his majority on the 4 th of September next . In conjunction with this event , it is said that overtures wUl be formally made on behalf of the young prince , for th « handof the second daughter of Queen Victoria . ' The change which took place in the Dutch Ministry last year has resulted in the advent of another of more advanced liberalism . The Prime Minister and President of the Council , who is also Minister for the Colonies , is M . E . E . Roehus & en .
ITA 1 Y . It is stated that the political prisoners recently found guilty at Naples are being subjected to more severe punishments than their sentences indicated . The state of aiege under which , the Duchy of Modena , now occupied by Austrian troops , was placed under the revolutionary attempt , two years ago , has been raised . The police authority still remains , however , in the hands of the Austrian General .
TURKEY . Accounts have "been received from Canea to the I 7 fch . The following is the test of the articles modified to the wish of the insurgents : — " 1 . A general amnesty is granted to all wlo have taken up arms . 2 . As regards everything connected with religious -worship , the provisions of the Hatti-Hurnayoun remain in full force and vigour . 3 . The mufti has nothing to do with the administration of the property of Christian minors , or - with the affairs of inheritance . 4 . The councillors of the provinces will be named by the people according to the established regulations . Their services will be gratuitous . "
The Jford of Brussels states that letters have been received from Hagusa which set forth the conditions on which the rayahs of Herzegovina have offered to make their submission to the Porte . The principal of these conditions is tie abolition of taxation , and substitution of a tribute ; they also require that the Basui-JBazouks shall be replaced by regular troops ; that the proprietors of the soil shall have a xight to only onefourth of the pToduce of the soil , and that certain religions privileges shall b « granted to them .
RUSSIA . A serious collision occurred some time ago between the Moscow students and the police . Some high officers of the latter have just been dismissed the service , and one has been degraded to the lowest ranks of the army , as a punishment for improper conduct towards the students on this occasion . *
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Accidents And Sudden Deaths. Ah Accident...
ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Ah accident of a distressing character , resulting in the death of an excursionist , occurred oa Monday morning at Biahopatoke . An excursion train left Salisbury for Southampton and Portsmouth , calling at the intermediate stations . On arriving at Bishopstoke , it was necessary to detach the carriages in order that the portion destined for Portsmouth might proceed on another line . "Whilst this was being done , a young man left the carriages ( contrary to rule ) and entered the refreahrnentroora . Whilst he woe partaking of refreshments , the starting bell was sounded , and he hurriedly left the room and ran along the platform , for tie purpose of getting into the carriage he had left . The train was then in motion . On his way , he came violently against a post , and foil between the carriages on the line , a great portion of tea train passing over him . His limbs were fearfully mangled , and his head was crushed to atoms . A fearful railway accident occurred at Gartsherrie { Scotland ) last week , in consequence- of a large excursion train for Stirling , containing about ono thousand scholars and teachers , running into a mineral train at a crossing . The engine was pitched off the line , and about sixty persons ¦ were injured , twenty so severely that they were unable to proceed to Stirling . Black eyes and bruises wero very abundant , and the hand of the Rev . Mr . Brown was so severely cut that ho was obliged to return to Coatbridge in order to have it dressed . Fortunatel y , the train was proceeding at rather a slow pace , or the consequences would undoubtedly lmvo been fearful .
. , a to a pic-nic neaT Bridport , on Monday , met with his death while bathing in the morning previously to starting . The greater part of the day passed without his making his appearance at the pic-nic , and in the evening word was brought to his relations that he was dead . It is thought probable , either that he struck his head against one of the rocks in diving , and so , becoming stunned , was drowned , or that he was seized with a fit while in the water . The Ramsgate station of the South-Eastern Railway has been the scene of an accident . A train filled with passengers was on Tuesday running into the station down an inclined plane , and , owing to the breaks not being applied , a collision ensued with the stationary buffers , and several of the passengers were seriously bruised , and lacerated . Some were carried away insensible , but no lives were lost .
The Scotch papers announce the death , by accident , of the Marquis of Queensuerry . He had gone out shooting , on Friday week , on his estate in Dumfriesshire ; in the afternoon , he was found dead , having been shot through the body . He was probably loading one of the barrels of his gun , when the other went off , and cau 3 frd his death . The Marquis was only forty years of age . He succeeded his father in 1856 . He leaves a large family . The inquiry into the death of the persons killed by the explosion of the firework factory in the Westminsterroad was resumed and concluded yesterday week . After hearing a great deal of evidence , which has already appeared , the coroner summed up , and the jury returned
the following verdict : — " That the deceased children , Sarah Ann Vaughan Williams and Caroline Bridges , died in consequence of burns received by the explosion at a firework manufactory in the Westminster-road on the 12 th ult ., carried on by William Bowyer Bennett [ trading under the name of Madame Coton ] , and this jury find 3 a verdict of manslaughter against the said William Bowyer Bennett , for having unlawfully carried on such manufacture contrary , to the statute 9 and 10 William HI ., c . 7 ; iand this jury cannot separate without expressing their anxious hope that the proper authorities will take measures to prevent the recurrence of such unnecessary calamities for the future . " Bail was taken for Bennett .
Captain Patullo , a gentleman of a Mprayshire family , has been drowned . while bathing in the sea at Nairn . He was nearly saved by a Mr . James ; but the rope that was fastened round the body of the drowning man suddenly slipped , and Captain Patullo was borne beyond the reach of help .
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GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . On Saturday an Italian , who said hi 3 name was Antonio La Rosa , and whose age appeared to be about forty , was charged with parading the streets in woman ' s " attire . The description of his dress , according to the report , isthe skirts of a pink muslin dress , duly expanded by means of crinoline and hoops , his legs inserted in lace drawers and military-heeled boots , his by no means handsome face partly concealed by ringlets , and his hands enveloped in light kid gloves . The defendant said it was only done for a frolic . He had only put on his intended wife ' s bridal dress . The friends of the
defendant were sent for , and the magistrate was assured that Rosa was an . artist of considerable repute , and a member of the Royal Academy of Naples , besides being the possessor of several foreign and English medals , all attesting his excellence in the profession . Mr . Henry directed the interpreter to tell the defendant that people were in the habit of attiring ; themselves in women's clothes for very evil purposes , and he would certainly be committed if the frolic were repeated . The practice of assuming women ' s apparel is l » y no means rare among foreigners in this country . We would advise the police to look after a Frenchman who keeps a shop in the Haymarket , and who has been seen walking in Kegont-street dressed as a woman .
A person described as Arthur Robinson , 7 , Hnrt-street , Bloomsbury , gentleman , was s « nt to prison for a month for indecently assaulting a young woman in ono of tho carriages on tho North Kent Railway line . An extraordinary case of cliild desertion camo before the Worship-street police magistrate on Saturday . A gentleman brought to the court an elegantly dressed little girl who , he said , had been placed by n respectable middle-aged woman in his hall , on tho previous night , under the pretence that she belonged to the family . Tho poor little creature could give no other account of herself than that her mother brought her to town in n railway train , and that her name is Louisa Tumor . Her dress was in every respect that of u gentleman ' s daughter , and sho is described as a pretty child , of olivet complexion . From circumstances which have uiuco transpired , there is ronson to suspect that tho " gentleman " > vho took her bofore tho magistrate is her own father .
At the Court of Bankruptcy on . Monday , a traderdebtor summons , taken out a short time since against Messrs . Felix Calvert and Co ., was heard and ( linmisaod . A petition was presented , praying for an order to wind up tho Patent Somiilcua Leatlier Ooinpimy .
William Cox , an accountant , in the s *™; ,, „ " Commercial Dock Company , RotherStheX ^ ° d the Monday on remand before Mr . Trail ] U £ d . police-court , charged with embezzling Var ousT ^ money belonging to his employers . lle wao * n Cf mitted for trial on three charges , but waTLi J C ° ' two mietteiiu 4007 . cacn / and himself fa ^ ° * * pear at tUe next Old Bailey sessions . ' ° J " Ten bakers were summoned last Saturday at tho \ r towmvards Petty Sessions , in the North of Ireland T working at their trade on Sunday night Tlie m ' appears , began their work between nine and ten qmY ' but , on the masters agreeing that they should hcnceS wUhSn : 111 UVelVC ° ' ° ' tlle P—uSfS
William Henry Hunt , a voung inanof ahoi . ffl ancl-twenty has been examined a ^ the ManiSw aud committed for trial , on a charge of having em bezaled between 500 / . and C 00 / . from his emnW ?" Mr . Noel Whiting , colonial broker , 14 , M & SftS The accused is what is called the Custom House C S " and , when there were any duties to pav , it was his dufv to fill up th « bodies of the cheques for tl > e JenuS sums , and lay them before Mr . Whiting . Tliis position he appears to have abused , by appropriating a portion of the money due on several of the cheques . A cabdriveT ' s trick has been discovered by Hr Chewy the veterinary surgeon and inspector of horses to the police . He observed that the horse driven by a cabman in Oxford-street was lame , and he asked the man for his ticket . One was given , but it did not contain the rHit number . Oa being told of this , the cabman nude °
excuse , and gave another ticket , which Mr . Cherry discovered had beeu " doctored . " A certain number appeared on a piece of very thin paper , fastened to the ticket so sliglitly that on the least pressure it came off revealing n , different number underneath . Mr . Cherrvtherefore summoned the cabman to the Marlboroug hstreet police-office . Mr . Beadon inflicted a fine , detained the driver ' s badge , and remitted the license to Scotland-yard , for the Commissioners to inquire into these deceptive tickets .
The Assizes. Two Distressing Cases Of Ch...
THE ASSIZES . Two distressing cases of child murder by mothers , of a very similar nature , and ending in the " same verdict , were tried at Wells on Wednesday . The first case was that of Elizabeth Card , who cut the throat of her little boy , and afterwards her own . Tlie . wound inflicted on the child ' s throat was fatal ; that on her otra , not so . It appeared that the poor woman ' s husband was a drunken , worthless fellow ; that he treated her with ' great brutality , and put her in fear of her life ; that tltis had driven her into a condition of temporary insanity ; and that she had killed her child under fear that it - would lje
starved . She was in a state of pregnancy at the time , which no doubt contributed to her excitement . The jury found a verdict of Not Guilty , on the ground of insanity . —In the second case , Eliza Williams was indicted for the murder by'drowning of two of her children . This is ' the case which we briefly related in our Postcript last-week , tlie events occurring no longer ago than tie 3 rd instant . The woman was passionately—almost madly—attached to her husband and children ; and , on the 2 nd instnnt , she fancied that her husband treated her less kindly than usual , owing to her having made a mistake in paying some taxes . On the following morning , she conceived tliat his manner was
more cordiwl again ; but the previous impression had done its work . Sho -wandered out in a state of moody insanity , and drowned her children in a bay of the IJristol Channel . Subsequently , she gave lierse-lf into custody , and made a statement to the police , in tvhiuh slie said : — " I walked about till ten o ' clock , and sat oi » a stone bench near the bench . My children foil asleep in my nnns . 1 walked down with my children in my arms still asleep , witli their liendson my 'breasts . I went ' with tho intention of drowning myself and my children . I met tho title and walked into tho sea up 1 o my waist , viion I stumbled over a stone and fell backwards , and I did not know what had
happened for some , time . When I came to myself I sow something lion ting on tho water . 1 got to it , find found it vas my little boy , dead , ami 1 put it down again . I then saw my little baby in tho water . 1 # » ve a scream , and wont awny . I walked along till i >« two boys , who said , ' That woman is mad . ' 1 asked for a police-station to give myself up . " Tho rending i >» tliis statement caused a painful sensation , and ninny eye * were suffused wifli tears . Insanity was show" to he in tlie woman ' s blood , nml tho jury found tho sninis votdict in this cane aa in tho previous . Tho husband , who win outsido tho court , in great distress of wind , ilenied thnt ho behaved harshly to hia wife on the morning of ll " 2 nd inst .
John Bnker Buckwell wna tried on Monday nudiursday at the Wells Assizes for tho munlur of his grn « d * father and grandmother « t Creech tit . Miulmel on I "" 12 th of April . The , facts have nlreiuly nppenred >« tliGsacol ' . ' . rnna . The objectnppenrdto have l » coi » p luiulcT ; and , aftoi committing the net , tho prisoner . set ilro to t « e house . Ho wan found IJuilty , niul sentenced to dent" ; oudTio ltift tho do « k smiling *
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 14, 1858, page 800, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_14081858/page/8/
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