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      that neither tie owner nor his servants could be liable to the penalties of the act unless found actually betting ¦ with the company . —Mr . Jardine could not adopt the learned counsel ' s limited interpretation of the 3 rd clause , which made any one " assisting" in conducting the business of a house " to which persons resorted" for betting upon races , liable to the penalties . The defendant Kyan must be regarded as " assistiug" in conducting the business of the house at the time in question , and , therefore , he should order him . to pay a fine of 501 ., or be committed to prison for three months . —Mr . Huddlestona gave notice of appeal against his worship's decision , and consequently the defendant -was admitted to baiL

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      No . 2 , High-street , Newington-butts , has been th e theatre of similar operations . There , however , was an undoubted betting-office ; but though distinct evidence was given of 10 s . having been staked en " Little Harry" at 8 to 1 , none of the defendants , except the proprietor , could be touched by the Act . The proprietor , Mr . H . N . Simmonds , was defended at great length by Mr . Clarkson , before Mr . Elliott , at the Iiatnbeth Police Court . Mr . Claikson denounced the practices of the

      netting offices . He admitted that his client made bets—his client admitted it himself—but he contended that the whole case turned on the proprietorship of the house , "which was a cigar-shop , with some other name , not his client ' s , over the door . He referred to the practices at Tattersall ' s and the Clubs , an . d did not think that the Legislature meant to suppress _ betting generall y . The defendant had kept the cigar shop , but his lease had expired some months since , and was now held , by his sister .

      Evidence , however , had been given that the cigar business was carried on . by the defendant , who was merely a lodger in the house . Mr . Elliott considered that that , came within the meaning of the act . Bets had been _ made , and records found in defendant's handwriting , and he felt warranted in considering Simmonds guilty of carrying on a certain system of betting ; which was illegal . He therefore sentenced him to pay a penalty of 20 l ., or , in default , a month's imprisonment . Notice of appeal was given , and bail was accepted .

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      THE COURT ; AND PRESS IN DENMARK . A most happy change ( says the Chronicle correspondent ) has come over the Danish Oourt , which has to decide the inany prosecutions of the press . A new light appears to have broken in upon the judges . They ^ have just given sentence in several cases respecting the Dagblad and the Fazdreland , brought "before them by the Ministry , which , you will remember , has publicly announced the Bedlamite doctrine , that every at tack upon a minister is , ipso facto , an attack against the King , whose servant he is .

      Ihusthe purple would have to cover the portfolio , instead of the portfolio shielding the purple , and the King would at once be the direct perpetrator of all tho wrong done in his name . Well , the verdict has fallen , and , wonderful to relate , the accused have not been condemned to a heavy fine for speaking 1 the truth . They have been declared not guilty , the costs to be paid by the Crown . It is hoped that the High Court will decide with equal justice should the Cabinet bring these matters before them by appeal .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES , St . Petersburg . —On the 27 th of October tho water in tho INeva rose so high during a heavy storm from tho weat , that the canals in tho city were fearfully overflowed , and many streets filled with -water th « refrom , Tho cholera appears to have regularly established itself in St . Petersburg , as it has recommenced again , and thirty new cases have been mentioned as having occurred at tho end of October .

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      ivAtnr . —Wo road in tho Univers : — " Our letters from Romo are to the 4 th . Tho regiment of dragoons , which bna boon in garrison there from tho commoncomont of tho occupation , and took part in tho aiogo of 1849 , haa received ordor » to hold itself in roudinoas to return to Franco . As thoro ia no talk of its being replaced , ita departure is coriHidorcd as a step tow « rd « a complete evacuation of tho Papal States . We have already stated that tho only battalion of foot Chasseurs which had lioon attached to tho army of Italy had uluo returned to Franco . " A correspondent of ( . ho Morning Post wayst—*' A masst of correspondence from M . Mussssiui Una fulloa into tlio bunds of tho polluu of Itouio , who , by tho aid of their » ples in Paris and London , appear to know everything that Is talcing plnco . In fuel , it is vury evident that tho Italian axiloiihava traitors amongMl . thorn in all directions . " A correspondent of the ) Morning Chronicle , writing

      from Turin , conveys this insolent nonsense to England : — " It is , however , a melancholy fact that the Mazzinians intend again to attempt a repetition of the iniquitous assassinations which disgraced Milan on the 6 th of February , 1853 . I am led to this conclusion from information which has reached this place from many quarters . Mazzini is in Switzerland , and is busy in reorganising his clubs of demagogues and assassins . "

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      A Romance in Rome . — The gossip of Home turns upon a treacherous and murderous onslaught made last week by the Count del Gallo , at Tiyoli , upon a young Englishman named Furze , whilst walking with him in the country . A grudge appears to have arisen from the old ingredients of jealous quarrels—flowers and ladies . The count left his rival senseless on the ground , and lost no time in taking his passport for Fiance , where Mr . Furze has pursued him , eager for his " great revenge . "

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      Population of Russia . —The following , according to the almanack of the Imperial Academy of Sciences at St . Petersburg , was the population of Itussia at the last census in 1849 . The population of Russia in Europe was 60 , 628 , 700 , and that of the whole of the empire was 66 , 428 , 200 . It was in 1722 , 14 , 000 , 000 ; in 1762 , 20 , 000 , 000 ; in 1795 , 36 , 000 , 000 ; in 1818 , 45 , 500 , 000 ; in 1824 , 50 , 000 , 000 ; in 1838 , 59 , 000 , 000 ; and in 1842 , 62 , 500 , 000 . These augmentations arise from the conquests of the Crimea , of the Caucasus , Poland , Finland , &c , which additions of territory have more than doubled the extent of the empire in 1722 . The augmentation of 4 , 500 , 000 between 1818 and 1824 , shows an increase of population of one-tenth in six years , and of double in sixty years , according to which calculation M . Stchekaloff affirms , that in 1892 Russia will have 230 , 000 , 000 inhabitants .

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      CHINA . Canton being still threatened , the trade of the place continued at a stand . Much fighting had recently taken place , but the result was unknown . No further supplies of tea had come down , and none seemed , to be expected , although every effort had been made to obtain it , and black mail had been offered at the rate of seven dollars per pieul . The anarchy in the interior of the country was said to bo increasing .

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      GREECE . The Ministry has been for some time past in a stafe of crisis , You are aware that it is composed of the fusion of the two parties , English and French ; but , as I have often had occasion for observing , those who form the three parties in Greece range themselves under the banners of the different great powers , in order to obtain their protection for their own personal interest , and by no means with the idea of serving tho interests of France , England , or Russia . It is , therefore , easily conceived that tho policy of these parties does not always agree exactly with that of the power whose name they bear ; thus , for instance , while French and English interests arc at present intimately connected , the men of the English and French party in Greece are divided , because , in the division of power , each tries to have the greater part . The cholera is very rife a . t Athens .

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      SWEDEN . Tub Swedish couvt carried its vote of credit of 2 , 500 , 000 dollars . In tho first two chambers no opposition was expected . Tliere was , however , ft lively debate in tho House of Nobles . Moat of tho advocates for tho grant decl ared that they could not imagine the money would bo spent in useless demonstrations ; they regarded it us n . war grant , if necessary , and a war could only be against Kussia . Tho Ministers let fall several mystic expressions in tho same direction , but they took caro not to compromise thomBolves by any distinct declaration . In the

      Priesta' House matters went still more swimmingly . There was scarcely uny discussion . Public interest was chiefly centred in the Third Chamber , tho Houso of Burghers , which , in epite of tho curieuturo system of representation and the miserable dependence of many of the members upon the crown , still , in u far higher degree tlmn the two Upper Houses , reflects ) tho opinions of tho middle- classes . It was also known that u majority of the members were oppoucd to the grant . In tliis extremity the court had recourse to an Mogul step , whiuli it hua often employed before . It refuses tlio Purlinnient , a » such , any explanation , but whispers certain statements m the

      ears of individual representatives . So in this case . Not the least attempt at a reason or an object hasbeen made respecting this enormous sum . It has . simply been demanded for naval and military demonstrations in support of the neutrality . The two Upper Houses know nothing more . But the Third Chiimher was treated differently . The day before the debate a number of the members were summoned to a certain high personage , and received from him certain statements which were to serve as explanations . They were to the effect that the grant was not so much to defend the neutrality as to prepare for war ; that state secrets could not be divulged ; that the Western Powers could not be the enemies of Sweden , and so forth . And this miserable jargon

      succeeded . Iliese persons were flattered -with the " confidence" shown them . They abdicated their dignity and their rights as public representatives in Parliament assembled . ' . They went down to the House and passed the grant by 39 to 15 . As to the Fourth Chamber , the House of Yeomen , the Government knew that they had no chance . That House did not even discuss the question ; they simply adjourned the debate to a future day . Tb . ua the court Jia . s entirely succeeded in its machinations . It has performed exactly the same manoeuvre as the court of Eexlin previous to its obtaining the famous subsidy from the Prussian Chambers . A fewphrases , afterwards easily explained away or disavowed , and the gold was gained . Sweden , therefore , remains Russian .

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      . SPAIN .-The Gazette publishes a general amnesty granted -by the . Queen on the occasion of the opening of tie Cortes . It is generally stated that the Queen was received with enthusiasm in opening the Cortes . A Madrid letter says s" The partisans of Queen Isabella think , from her Majesty's deception yesterday , that the question © f the throne and dynasty must be considered as favourably solved . " On the other hand , the Carlists have been dining together in . Paris , and talliing openly of having their Christmas dinner in Madrid . San Miguel- —a " Moderate Progressist , " has been elected President of the Cortes .

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      AMEBICA . A' eaiiwat accident took place on the Gieat Western railroad , resulting in the death of 57 persons , and in the wounding of 41 others . It occurred through the neglect of a watchman on the railroad near Chatham , a passenger train running into a ballast train , during a fog . Mr . Thomas F . Meagher , who was in the train , escaped uninjured . One locomotive was completely thrown over to the right , the express car thrown over , crushing the first and second class cars into mere splinters , demolishing the next and making a wreck of the third car , and driving in the end of the fourth . The passengers in the last curs escaped with slight bruises . Almost tlie entire load of the second-class cars were killed or wounded—some cut completely into pieces , others

      with mangled heads and bodies , and without limbs . The screams and groans of the mangled were awful in tho extreme . Every effort was made by the conductor and passengers to relieve the sufferers , but ai were not extricated for more than four hours after the collision . Heaps of the dead and wounded were found in the ruins , piled together in all mangled shapes , One poor fellow was cut into two by th © express car , his limbs hanging out 15 feet from tho aide . One of the strangest features pf the accident is , that all ballast cars were demolished and piled upon oa-ch other , with the tender of the engine stove in . The conductor of the ballast train was in tho rear cuxwith his signal light , and a negro fcojr at his side ; the conductor saved himself by juinj > ing the negro was killed .

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      AMERICAN PLOTS . Tim American letters furnish a supply of that peculiar " j roimineo of real life" which belongs almost to the Atlantic transit , and consists not in events accomplished , but in wonders anticipated . The ISngllsh Titus Oates cannot ) sleep for America * conspiracies . Tlie romance , however , haa a preface of probability . The JVew York Tribune affirms that tho

      British ( government abandons tho assortioa of a protectorate over Moaquitlu , so far as San Juan is concerned , leaving tlie sovereignty of that place to bo Bottled between tho claimants , without doing moro than maintain tho provisions of the Clayton liulwcr Treaty as regards the freedom of the port and tninnit route . At tho same time tho claims of bond , / Me Biltiwh ssulijeuta lor damages from tho late bombardment of the town will alouc l > o urged by tho cabinet of 8 c . J nines . Tho propoueri annexation of Sun Domingo , however , still disturbs the prophetic mind of some earnest

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      Beultn . — -Baron Brunow arrived nt Berlin last week , and dined on tho llth with tbo King of Prussia . The object of hia journey waa believed to be that of supporting the diplomatic noto from St . Petersburg duo at Berlin about that time , and from which great things wore hoped .

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      St .-Aulaxke . — We read the death of Count Saint-Aulaire , formerly French Ambassador at London . The event took place on Monday morning , at his hotel , 61 , Rue'Saint-Dominique- Saint-Germain . The deceased had attained the age of 7 7- He was a member of the Institute , and grand officer of the Legion of Honour . Under King Louis Philippe he was successively member of the Chamber of Deputies , Peer of France , and Ambassador at Rome , Vienna , and London . His diplomatic talents were of a very high order , and his literary attainments made him one of the most distinguished members of the Institute .

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      1088 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 18, 1854, page 1088, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2065/page/8/