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    had a strong dislike to bearing his share of the public burdens , had refused to pay his taxes , and an execution was issued against his goods and chattels . He threatened the officer who made the se izure that if ever he met him by night he would take his revenge . The huissier thought no more of the matter , but , on Sunday night , Ebran accosted him in the street , and , after some abuse , stabbed him with a poniard knife to the depth | of five inches . The assassin was immediately arrested and lodged in prison . Large placards have recently been posted up at Lyons , announcing : the sale by auction of the remaining part

    of the immense quantity of tricoloured silk , ordered by the Provisional Government to make scarfs for its commissaries , and colours for the National Guards . An Englishman , named Macnamara , who resided in the R ue des Marais , in Paris , and earned a precarious existence by giving lessons , committed suicide the other day by means of the fumes of charcoal . The porter of the house not seeing him go out at his usual hour became alarmed , and not receiving any answer when he knocked at the door of his room , sent for the commissary of police . On the door being broken open , the unfortunate roan was found dead on the floor .

    The Courrier de Lyons mentions the arrest in that city of a notorious character named Andr 6 Gros , of Puy , who has , for the last five years , managed to evade the pursuits of the police authorities , warrants having been issued against him for various robberies , assassinations , and acts of incendiarism . A woman who had lived with him as his mistress was executed in February Jast , as an accomplice in one of the murders , and his brother is now at the galleys for taking part in the same crime . Letters from Naples state that Baron de Riso , who was recently decorated by the King , was stabbed with a poniard on the 27 th ultimo , as he was leaving the theatre , and that M . Sendato had been shot at and wounded . The latter took part in the revolutionary movements , but lately joined the royalists .

    An Austrian officer , talking to a Prussian one , one day last week , observed that he soon hoped to frequent the Opera at Berlin . " I regret , " replied the other quietly , " that you are musically inclined , for we are not accustomed to give so much liberty to our prisoners . We generally send them to the western fortresses , and there are no operas there . " The tumultuous conflicts at Frankfort , between Bavarian and Prussian soldiers , having induced the Senate to request Prince Leiningen ' s interference , his Highness fault with disaffected

    replied , that the chiefly lay some agitators , over whom it was the duty of the municipal police to watch more narrowly . A telegraphic despatch from Hamburgh of the 8 th states that the Lieutenancy of the Duchies had published a proclamation , announcing that General Willisen had resigned the general command of the troops of Schleswig-Holstein , and had been succeeded by General Von der Horst . This was considered as a preliminary step on the part of the Lieutenancy General to the carrying out of the order of Austria and Prussia to cease hostilities ,

    antl reduce the army . The Minister of Trade , Von deHeydt , has proposed to the Commercial Board of Berlin to prohibit the post-office and railway operations on Sundays during church time . The reply was a remonstrance , on the ground that such interference would be little calculated to promote religious feeling . ... A letter from Berne of the 3 rd says : — lhe bill relating to mixed marriages has just been voted in the National Council . According to the measure , as originally presented , the children were always to follow the religion of the father ; but by the bill as amended , and now adopted , the father is to decide in which religion the child is to bo brought up . The law in its amended form is to be shortly promulgated . " _ , . the 5 th

    We have reason to believe that Parliament will be summoned for the despatch of business on Tuesday , the 4 th of February , 1851 . —Globe . A Royal Commission is about to issue to enquire and report upon the whole subject of the law of divorce—not merely the proceedings in the Ecclesiastical Courts , but the proceedings in Parliament—not the divorce amensdet thoro alone , but the more weighty and important question of the divorce a vinculo matnmonii , which troubles many an honest man , and , we have no doubt , many an honest woman too . This was precisely one of those questions which , although palpable to all , yet on which it is most expedient , as it is most easy , to collect and of The

    condense an overwhelming weight testimony . commission is chosen from most eminent lawyers and members of both Houses of Parliament . There could not possibly be a better selection . It will be composed of the following : — Lord Campbell , Lord Beaumont , Lord Redesdale , Dr . Lushington , Spencer Horatio Walpole , M . P ., W . Page Wood , M . P ., and the Honourable E . P . Bouverie , M . P . — Observer . The Smithfield Club Cattle Show was thrown open to the public at nine o ' clock on Tuesday morning , and very soon became crowded with company . The visitors during the earlier portion of the day were chiefly composed of the butchers and dealers of the metropolis ;

    but after noon a great many members of the nobility and leading agriculturists of the country arrived . At one o ' clock the annual meeting of the members of the club took place at the Bazaar . The Duke of Richmond , president of the club , occupied the chair , and in opening the proceedings congratulated the members upon the honour conferred on the club by the visit of the Queen and Prince Albert on the previous day . He had it on command to communicate to them her Majesty ' s gracious approval of all she had witnessed , and he was sure that the countenance given to the exhibition by the Queen ' s visit would only have the effect of encreasing their endeavours successfully to carry out the objects of the Smithfield Club .

    A numerous meeting of the National Association for the Protection of British Industry and Capital was held at the London Tavern , Bishopsgate-street , on Thursday , to discuss what they ought to do for the restoration of the Corn-law . Several long speeches were made , and an address was adopted , urging the farmers to meet and petition the House of Commons to restore Protection . Most of the speakers complained in very severe terms of the way in which the landlords had deserted the cause of the farmers . It is said that the Customs authorities are preparing , with all possible despatch , to bring the differences between themselves and the London and St . Katharine

    Dock Companies to an issue . Difficulties have , however , arisen in connection with some of the goods under seizure , the Dock Company not alone claiming them , but also other parties , who assert as merchants the right and title to them . It is expected that some very curious disclosures will be made when the whole investigation becomes public . A public meeting of the Inventors' Patent Law Reform League was held at Anderton ' s Hotel on Monday evening . The chairman , at some length , detailed the proceedings which the League had already adopted . The provisional committee , in their second report , appealed to the public for support , and trusted that inventors and friends of reform would come forward , and not allow the cause to be crippled for want of funds .

    The committee appointed by the Bishop of London , to make arrangements for the performance of divine service next year in the various Continental languages , have received notice from the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge that they will subscribe the sum of £ 500 in aid of this object . . The Committee of Observation appointed by the Democratic Conference met on Tuesday evening last at 14 , Southampton-street , Strand , Mr . William Shute in the chair . Correspondence of an encouraging character was read , and after the transaction of financial and other business the committee adjourned to Tuesday evening , Dec . 17 th .

    A meeting of the vestrymen of St . James , Westminster , was heldin their room in Piccadilly , on Thursday , when the subject of the window tax was broughtunder consideration . Resolutionsin favour of petitioning the House of Commons for the total abolition of the tax , and for the appointment of a deputation to wait upon the Chancellor of the Jixchequer were passed unanimously . One of the speakers , in pointing out the pressure of this impost , said there were authentic tables by which it appeared that the aristocracy and rich people paid little in window tax compared with the tradesmen of Marylebone , and that the inhabitants of smaller streets were assessed at a much heavier ner centaire . In those tables would be found a rag

    shop in Bulstrode Mews assessed at 10 | per cent ., while the Earl of Chesterfield ' s house in South Audley-street was at 21 also the little house of a plasterer in Lnncastercourt at 19 V . *» le the Duke of Wellington was assessed for Apsley House at 1 j . There was the Duke of Beaufort down for 2 J per cent . ; the Marquis of Westminster for 3 $ per cent , for a house in Upper Grosvenor-atreet ; the Duke of Newcastle , in Portman'square , at 3 per cent . ; and , at the same time , they might read in contrast such places as these—No . 31 , Broad-street , Westminster , 21 | ; No . 8 , Cross-street , Westminster , 23 per cent . ; No . 6 , and When this

    will be chiefly composed of glass , and be above seventy feet in height . The globe will be hollow , and the spectator will view the different countries from the exterior . It is said that the Cunard Company , alive to the necessity of encreasing the number of their fleet , have arranged for the construction of two new vessels , to be called the Arabia and Persia . The competition created by Collins ' s line across the Atlantic has rendered this step necessary , and it is anticipated that these vessels , which will be built after the most improved models , will be ready by the middle or the close of next year .

    Great excitement prevails in South Notts respecting the election of a member for that division . The two candidates are Lord Newark , son of Earl Manvers , and Mr . Barrow , a barrister , belonging to the county . Both candidates are Protectionists , but with this difference , that Lord Newark is nothing else , while Mr . Barrow is a staunch Financial Reformer . In addition to the declared vacancy for the South , it is now understood that Mr . T . Houldsworth , M . P . for the Northern division of Nottinghamshire , will also shortly resign , extreme age having latterly rendered him incapable of discharging his parliamentary duties so efficiently as his constituents require .

    The first soiree of the Leeds and West Riding Freehold Society was held in the Music-hall , Leeds , on Monday , to celebrate the society ' s first purchase of land . It was attended by Mr . Cobden , M . P ., Mr . J . G . Marshall , M . P ., and a number of other gentlemen . Mr . Cobden spoke at great length , and in his happiest style , in favour of the freehold movement . In the Court of Queen ' Bench , on Monday , Mr . W . Cook was tried for a libel upon Captain Aaron Smith , he having , in a letter to the Times , last June , spoken of the latter as a pirate . The defence , on the part of Mr . Cook , was that what he said was true . In 1822 he had been on board a vessel which was boarded near the island of Cuba , by a piratical schooner , the captain of which was Aaron Smith . In 1823 Smith was tried at the Old

    Bailey for that and other acts of piracy , but was acquitted on the ground that he had acted from compulsion . Mr . Cook , fn the letter to the Times , referring to this affair , said that Smith had acted the pirate so well that he ( Cook ) had never been able to divest himself of the idea that he was a real pirate and no mistake . The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff , damages , £ 10 . One of the commonest and most dangerous crimes which soldiers commit is , to strike a non-commissioned officer . No good soldier commits the offence when sober . Lord Frederick Fitzclarence has just issued an order that no non-commissioned officer on duty shall approach a drunken soldier . — United Service Gazette .

    The operative tailors of Scotland intend to hold a conference in Edinburgh or Glasgow , for the purpose of forming a national union to repress the " sweating" system . One of the objects will also oe to reduce the hours of labour to ten hours daily .

    Dufour ' s-place , 18 J per cent ., so on . was the scale of assessment upon the houses inhabited by the working and poorer classes , it was absurd to say that this tax did not press most heavily and injuriously upon them . The protracted litigation between the Tulk family and the representatives of the late Mr . Moxham , as to the title to the area of Leicester-square , and the right to build thereon , hus just been brought to a satisfactory termination . The open space will now be let forthwith to Mr . Wyld , of Charing-cross , who intends to erect a hucc globe , showing upon a large scale the mountains , rivers ? &c , of the known world . The external building

    The Free Press of Hamburg states that , on m-Btant , a sharp engagement of advanced posts took place , near Gottorp , between the Danes and the Holsteiners , in the course of which the former had one officer killed and several wounded , but the latter had no loss . Another affair of outposts occurred at Fleckbye , on the 6 th and 7 th instant , in which the Holsteiners say they lost one oificcr , but took twenty-one prisoners . The latest intelligence from Aleppo is , that after the defeat of the rebels by Kcrim Pacha , they attempted to attack Aleppo again on the following day , their numbers having been recruited during the night by some bands of Arabs . This second attack , however , was not more successful than the first , as the insurgents were a second time entirely defeated , leaving about a hundred prisoners in the hands of the imperial troops .

    The latest accounts from Jamaica , which are to the 15 th of November , state that the cholera was making sad havoc throughout the country . From the official report it appears that about twenty-five per cent , of the population had been carried off . A terrible riot is said to have taken place on November 25 th among the Irish employed tin the Chartcers Railway , near Pittsburgh . Five or six men had been killed , ami the riot was not quelled when the report closed . The papers received from the Cape of Good Hope , which come down to October 27 th , are nearly filled with details relative to the great political movement of the settU'inrntin furtherance of which Mr . Fairbairn and

    , Sir Andries Stoekenstrom wore about to proceed to Englnnd . A representative Legislature , founded on a " proper basis , " is what was called for by the unanimous voice of the inhabitants . The preliminary article of the form of a constitution proposed requires that the legislative powers of the settlement shall be vested iu a Governor and a Legislative Council and a House of Assembly , both of which shall be composed of members elected by the inhabitants , and shall he called " The Parliament of > he Capo of Good Hope . " The necessity of an immediate leoision upon this matter is strenuously urged , and the iddross to the Queen to that effect is supported by tho lignatures of a vast multitude of persons .

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    A collision occurred on the London and North-vv estern Railway on Saturday evening , under circumstanees that deserve especial notice . The Tring train due at Eustonsquare at a quarter to nine p . m . reached the Harrow side of the Primrose Hill Tunnel , when some fog signals exploded , and the train stopped close to the signal-hut there . On this spot it stood for a very considerable time , but was at length moved some short distance within the tunnel , and then again stopped . Two faster trains were becoming rapidly due , and the condition of the passengers became more and more perilous . The train stood still full fifty minutes , when the 5-30 p . m . train from Birmingham entered tne tunnel and ran into

    the carriages waiting there , lhe collision was so severe that the last carriage in the Tring train was broken in all directions . Happily no lives were lost , but the driver of the Tring train was thrown against the boiler , and had one arm much cut and bruised . Only one passenger in the Tring train was seriously hurt , though all were much shaken . The two passengers who were the most injured occupied the centre compartment of a first-class carriage about the middle of the Birmingham train . One was a gentleman named Weston , resident in Dover-street , Piccadilly , whose legs were much hurt ; the other gentleman resides in St . James ' s-street , and he has had . his shins severely cut . _ _ . . . .. « . . „ . _„ . » took at the Chartered

    An alarming explosion place Gasworks , in the Horseferry « road , Westminster , on Saturday morning . The explosion was terrific , and carried away a portion of the purifying-house , lhe workmen immediately cut off all communication with the gasometer , or the damage might have been exceedingly et < A death occurred one day last week , near Blackburne ; John Riley , a labourer , was in a stooping position , a companion suddenly jumped upon his back , and so injured him that he died the following day . A man was killed at Letton , near Hereford , in a tight last week . After the last round , in which he fell heavily i

    and undermost , he said to Frostier , his antagonist , cant ' t get up , James , my neck is cricked . He was taken home and died the next day . A post- mortem examination shewed an extensive fractuTe of the second ana third vertebra . Prosser has been committed ior raan-8 number of boys were sitting in the Casino , Lower Mosley-strect , Manchester , on Monday evening , a boy , not quite twelve years of age , named George Ormrou , wished to stand before some others , but they refused to allow him to do so ; some words ensued , upon whici Ormrod stabbed one of the lads , named John . Drape ,

    inflicting a severe wound . .. At the Nethcrton Quarry coal-pit , about two nines from Glasgow , two men and three boys were sullocateu yesterday week , and on the following day a man was crushed to death by the falling of a piece of coal . A quarrel took place in Newcastle at a late hour on Friday night , between two nail-makers , named -l ^ De " Johnson and Thomas Baglee , when the former was killed

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 14, 1850, page 894, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1862/page/6/