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      State addressed ] shall express to his Majesty the Emperor the confidence of placing , in case of appeal , the direction of their contingent under the superior command of his Imperial Majesty . "We count upon a frank and candid reply , and it will give us great satisfaction to find that it responds to our wish , as that will have the effect of throwing light upon our relations with the German Governments , and of consolidating . them especially with [ name of state ] , providing them with all the guarantees which the necessities of this grave epoch demand . " You will please to make a confidential communication of this despatch to . « De Buol . "

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      Prince Napoleon Je * rome has arrived in Paris . His father went as far as Chalons to meet him . The Prince is reported to be most indignant against General Canrobert , and determined to press for his recal . He has met the leading ministers at dinner at his father ' s , and has had a private interview with the Emperor . The Moniteur publishes the articles of the Military Convention concluded between France and England by the Piedmontese Government , in consequence of its accession to the Treaty of the 10 th of April : Art 1 . His Majesty the King of Sardinia will supply for the demands of the war a corps cTarmee of 15 , 000 men , organised in five brigades , forming two divisions and a brigade of reserve , under the command of a Sardinian general .

      2 . Immediately after the exchange of the ratifications of the present convention , the formation of the corps and the organisation , of its administrative service shall be immediately proceeded with , so that it may be ready to depart as soon as possible . 3 . For the execution of the first article of the convention , the corps d ' arniee of his Majesty the King of Sardinia shall be composed of infantry , cavalry , and artillery , in proportion to its effective force . 4 . H . M . tiie King of Sardinia engages to maintain the expeditionary corps at the total of fifteen thousand men , by the successive and regular despatch of the necessary reinforcements . 5 . The Sardinian Government will provide for the pay and subsistence of its troops .

      The high contracting parties will concert so as to ensure and facilitate the complete storing of the magazines of the Sardinian army . _ 6 . Their Majesties the Emperor of the French and the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland guarantee the integrity of the States of his Majesty the King of Sardinia , and engage to defend them against all attacks pending the duration of the present war . ¦ . _ ^ 7 . The present convention shall be ratifiedr *" and the ratifications exchanged , at Turin , aa speedily as can be done

      Under the supplementary convention to the treaty with Sardinia , this country has agreed to lend that state , 1 , 000 , 000 / . during the current year , and a further sum of 1 , 000 , 000 ? . next year , at 3 per cent , interest , and 1 per cent , for a sinking fund . As soon as the consent of Parliament has been obtained , 500 , 000 £ will be paid , The health " of the Duke of Genoa ¦ waTImproving .-The King of Sardinia has decreed a general mourning of 180 days , ' from the 24 th of January , on the occasion of the death of Queen Maria Adelaide . Generals Pelissier , Rivet , and Desvilliers sailed on Wednesday from Marseilles for the Crimea . General Pelissier landed from Oran on the preceding Monday .

      The Piedmontese contingent is being actively organised . It will leave for the Crimea towards the end of February . General La Marmora , Minister of War , will command it . It will bo reviewed in the plains of Marengoby the King about the 12 th or 15 th inst . The Diet at Frankfort has rejected the Austrian project for the general mobilisation of the Federal army , and adopted that Bavarian compromise supported by Prussia , and acceded to by Austria , that the principal contingents should bo made ready for war . M . Drouyn do Lhuys has addressed another sharp note to the French Ministers at Foreign Courts on the conduct of Prussia .

      On the 21 st of January M . do MantcufM addressed to the representatives of Prussia in Paris and London a despatch , not more than usually mystifying and enigmatical , professing to explain why , after admitting that Prussia cannot join the treaty of tho 2 nd of December , the Powers negotiating have not been able " to reconcile their common purpose with their particular interests . " Tho Queen , Maria Adelaide , of Piedmont , was buried on the 21 th ult . with great pomp , and amidst tho universal grief of tho nation . Tho Archbishop of Genoa was tho officiating priest . Though the thermometer was at 1 GJ deg . below zero ( of lteauinur ) , tho streets wore crowded .

      - There have been symptoms of Carlist movements in Spain . A domiciliary visit has been paid by tho police at Madrid to Mr . O'Shea , the banker , but his papers were found to contain nothing to support tho charge of a Carlist conspiracy . General Cabrera , married to an English hoiresA , has " bought a largo property in England . On tho 26 th ult . the 11 th Regiment of French Dragoons passed through Genoa en route from Homo . They entered tho PiU Gate on foot , holding their horses by the bridle . They , however , mounted them again on

      reaching the gate of the Arco , and took off their cloaks . The French colonel had on his right the general commanding the brigade of the Guards , and on his left General Alexander della Marmora , followed by a numerous staff . It is said that Prince de Canino , sometime President of the Roman National Assembly , has ventured to take orders in the expectation of becoming a cardinal . ¦ At Rome , we hear the Papal solemnity of St .-Peter ' s chair , concerning which Lady Morgan has put forth such heterodox opinions ; the polyglot declamations of the Propaganda collegians ; and the blessing of beasts at the shrine of St . Anthony , are amusing the foreign sightseers in the Eternal City . Cardinal Simonelli is dead . His place as " Secretary of Memorials , " one of a confidential and intimate nature in the service of the Pope , has been given to

      Cardinal Altien . The prefect of the Haute Garonne , in a circular to the mayors of his department , says that he is convinced from the extraordinary number of passports lately issued to young men that many persons have lately gone abroad to escape the chance of being drawn for the army . He therefore orders that in future no passports for a foreign country shall be granted to young men above nineteen years of age and liable to serve , except in special cases , and then only when the reasons shall have first been submitted to him .

      Attempts to pass forged Bank of England notes on the Continent appear at present to be numerous , probably on account of the increased circulation caused by the war . A few days back mention was made of several unusually well executed specimens which had been remitted from Marseilles ; and according to advices fro ^ m Frankfort , it appeara that a Spaniard has just been arrested at that city , after having negotiated 20 0 J . with temporary success , and that a considerable sum of good money was found upon him , together with 20 , 000 / . in forged notes . The French Government has just accorded to the town of Valenciennes a fine block of marble for the statue of Froissart .

      The following paragraph , which appears in the compendium of a daily contemporary , will excite some derisive interest in France : — " The family of Marshal St . Arnaud is about to publish a volume of his private letters . This collection , _ certain to be interesting , independent of its literary merits ^ will commence with La Vende ' e , and terminate with the war in the Crimea . " A fine equestrian statue of Joan of Arc has been completedfor-ttie town of Orleans . The Austrian general , Count de Crenueville , has been sent to Paris to _ concert the co-operation of French-with Austrian troops , in the event of Russia attacking Austria . It is reported that Louis Napoleon intends to assume the command of a corps d ' armee to operate with Austria , or possibly even on the Rhine .

      A decree in the Moniteur orders the formation of a second foreign legion , to be commanded by Colonel Ochsenheim , lately head of the military department in Switzerland . Cardinal Wiseman arrived in Paris on Wednesday from Rome , after an escape from a serious collision at sea between Civita Vecchia and Marseilles . The Grand Cross of the Order . of-St . Xeopold has . been presented to the Baron Bourqueney ; and his Excellency the Minister for Foreign Affairs , Count Buol-Schauenstein , has received the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour .

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      CONFESSION OF THE MURDERER BARTHELEMY . Mr . Hemiing , Barthelemy ' s solicitor , has published a statement , which , he says , ho received from Barthoiemy a few days before his execution . Emmanuel Barthelemy says , that— "On tho night I went to Moore ' s , I had no intention of going , until a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes before I knocked at Mr . Moore ' s door , and entered his house . I had been into the City on important business , and was disappointed ; and it was my intention , on my return home , of going into a shooting gallory at Westminster , near Buckingham Palace . I think they call it ' Gun Tavern . ' It was my intention of practising with tho pistols . I had taken them out of pawn about two months ; but , when I arrived at tho place , I found it shut , and then went to my houso at Chelsea , and found no ono at homo . I then walked

      towards , I think tho name of tho street m Great Portland-street , or road , I am not sure which ; and when I arrived there , I met tho female , who informed mo eho was going to Mr . Moore ' s , and asked mo to accompany her , which I consented to do , and knocked at tho door , and asked for Mr . Mooro , and was shown into tho back parlour , and Mr . Mooro received us at first well , and , after some little time , tho fomnlo began to talk to Mr . Mooro in French , when Mr . Mooro said to hor , 'Why don t you talk to mo in English ? ' I made a reply , and said , ' You know sho cannot understand English , and you have talked to mo in French ; ' when Mr . Mooro said , ' It is no business of yours ; ' and then sho took out a letter from hor pocket , and began to read , which sho did in French , and when she had road nearly tho first page , Mr . Mooro roso from his chair in a passion , and endeavoured to snutch tho letter out of her hand , upon which I rose , and lifted my arm up to prevent him , and pushed

      him back , and he staggered and partly fell ; and then he took something up , which I afterwards found was the lead with the piece of cane , and struck the same violently against the chair , and came towards me and the female , and struck me and pushed me towards the passage , and when in the passage he pushed and struck me " several tim es , although I was trying to get out as fast as 1 could . The last time he struck me was when the servant hadjaartly opened the doo . r , and then I let the p'istol off that shot Mr . Moore , for which I am sorry , I having no ill-will towards him . Finding I could not get out for the persons at the front door , I shut the door , and went to the back door and took down a bar that went across the door , and opened it and let the female

      out , and when we got into the back yard the female was greatly alarmed at Mr . Moore ' s death , and begged and prayed me to shoot her more than once . I had not the heart to do so ; I was anxious she should escape . I put my hand into my pocket , and took out my purse , and gave it to her , which contained a sovereign and some silver , and in doing so took the cane out of her hands , and lifted her upon the wall , and she made her escape . I had the pistol in my hand , and when I was in the act of getting over the wall I heard some persons call out aloud something , and then in the hurry I staggered , and some persons took hold of me , and then the pistol went off and shot poor Collard , which I feel much hurt at , for I had never seen or known him before . I then endeavoured to make my escape and was taken . I can assure you , Mr . Herring , there was no foul play respecting the duel at Egham—the person I shot was a French spy . "

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      THE MURDER IN FOLEY-FLACE . The coroner ' s inquest has been finished , resulting in a verdict of Wilful Murder against L . uigi Buranelli . The evidence leading to the conviction has been already laid before the public . The statement made by Buranelli was read over , and he said he believed that it was correct . He did not wish for a legal adviser . The state of Mrs . Lambert ' s health rendered it necessary for the jury to adjourn to No . 5 , Foleyplace , the scene of the tragedy . Mrs . Lambert was then examined , and , after some hesitation , she said that she was a widow , and that her husband was a gentle- * man farmer , named George Jeanes , and had resided in Devonshire . Buranelli , on entering , eyed his * victim with a fixed stare , upon meeting which , in ths act of recognition , Mrs ^ Jeanes screamed out , "Oh ! take him from me ! " and then became violently

      hysterical for several minutes . Mrs . Williamson was also examined ; she was in deep mourning , and appeared to be in profound grief . Her evidence was precisely similar to what has already appeared . - ¦ Inspector Dargan said the prisoner had made a statement to him after his admission to the hospital , and had admitted the purchase of the pistols on the Thursday previous to the murder . The coroner thought the evidence so clear that it called for no comment from him , nor even for the evidence to be read over . The jury assented , and immediately returned their verdict of Wilful Murder . The coroner then made out the warrant for the committal of Buranelli to JNewgate .,... _ .., " routine" in the polick .

      When the verdict was given , an affray arose between the force of Sir liichard Mayne and the county officers . The regulars expected the immediate custody of the prisoner , for the purpose of taking him , according to routine , before a magistrate . Mr . Wakley , the coroner , commented in strong terms on the absurdity of this , and characterised it as an insult to the jury . Inspector Dargan thought the law all on his side , but on the other hand , two parochial officers of Marylebonc had been bound over by the coroner in 4 . 0 / , each to take the prisoner to Newgate . Buranelli was placed in a cab , which the police garrisoned , but tho inspector vio

      was pulled off the box by a juryman . A very . lent discussion ensued , each party exp laining the law , and each explanation making the law more intricate . Tho police carried tho day , but the other officers and the jury followed in other cabs , and finally Sir Richard Maync was found and appealed to . He assented to the execution of the coroners warrant , and Buranelli vas lodged in Newgate . This disgraceful scene appeared to excite the greatest interest ; bur , much as it is to be regretted , it will probably load to the settlement of this long-vexed question , and a proper definition of the law as to the jurisdiction and power of coroners and police magis-Aceording to routine the prisoner would bo tried at the present sessions ; but application has been made and granted for postponement , as tliore is not time to got up tho evidence .

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      OUR CIVILISATION This wook "Our Civilisation" exhibits some retrogression—which is startling , but satisfactory . Wo mvo to record o nly threo cases , but it must be admitted on tho other hand , that they exhibit some novelty in detail . Wife-beating has given place to 'Murder , " and " Cutting and Wounding . "

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      Febbuabt 3 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER , 105

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 3, 1855, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2076/page/9/