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      right to enter upon this examination , and , if Austria reserves to herself to settle what , according to her views , Europe ' s and Germany ' s interests require , so shall we decide , at the right time , what our own , Germany ' s , and Europe ' s interest seem to us to require . " Any arrangements which Austria may have made without consulting Prussia must be considered at some future period . Baron Manteuffel concludes by observing , " We confidently hope that Count' Buol will find our frank language only commensurate with the gravity of the nioment , and will recognise in it a fresh proof of our lively wish fora genuine and sincere understanding , and for a solidarlte based upon it . " Rossini has arrived in Paris . We are glad to see it stated that he is not so ill as former accounts set forth . He complains of weakness and want of sleep ; but his malady is thought by some to be chiefly nervous .

      The Englishman , Rolfe , who was arrested at Hamburg , under suspicion of being a recruiting agent for the German Legion , has been released , with a warning to quit the city . Five young men , accused of taking part in political " assassinations'' in 1849 , have been executed at Fimo ( Roman States ) , after undergoing an imprisonment of six years . A letter in the Independance Beige says that no convincing proofs of their guilt were forthcoming , and that the execution caused a general horror amongst the population . Numerous persons retired into the country for the day . The cholera is at "Venice , Pesth , and Prague , but has not yet assumed an epidemic character .

      A despatch from Turin , dated the 13 th instant , announces that on the evening of the 12 th an attempt was made at Rome to assassinate Cardinal Antonelli . The attempt failed , and the assassin was' arrested . The Carlist rebellion in Spain is not yet suppressed . A despatch from the Spanish frontier announces that a band of seventy unarmed men was formed on the 11 th near Pampe ^ una , and took the direction of the French frontier to procure arms there . Hotly pursued , the greater number sought refuge in France . A movement in Catalonia is said to be feared . The French mail which left Paris on the 9 th , and the mail which left Madrid on the 10 th , were burnt by some insurgents in Castile .

      A despatch from Madrid , dated the 13 th instant , says : —" Yesterday , the Cortes rejected a proposition tending to censure the Ministry . The Minister of Finance declared to-day to the Cortes that he would only have recourse to a forced loan as a last resource . " Amiens has just given a deplorable example of opposition to a paternal government . At the recent election of a member of the Council-General there were two candidates , and the one emphatically recommended by

      the Government was a M . Vulfran Mollet , who had manifested his enthusiasm for the Empire so long back a 3 1852 . The rival candidate was a M . Porion , formerly Mayor of Amiens , and who , as a member of the Legislative Assembly , had displayed hostility to the intrigues and suspicion of the conspiracies of the then President of the Republic . Will it be believed , that in spite of the adjurations of the official journals , M . Porion has been returned to the Council-General by a majority over the imperialist candidate of 416 votes .

      At Auxerre , the Government mayor lias been reelected , but by so small a majority , that . with an honourable susceptibility he has resigned . M . Jules Cloquct , tho eminent surgeon , lias been elected a Member of the Academic des Sciences . Moke Religious Peilskcutiox ix Austria . —The case of Borzinsky , which we noticed last week , is not tho only case of tho kind now casting disgrace upon the Austrian Government and Church . A correspondent of tho Dally A cios , writing from Prague , mentions the persecution of one Joachim Jc' / ulc * , " also formerly a [ Roman ] Catholic priest , who was converted to the Protestant religion , and who has now beim conliuod for twenty years , and is treated as a lunatic because he will not recant . " This is in tho same convent as that to which Borzinaky belonged , and whore ho is now confined solitarily in n dark cell adjacent to those occupied by two raving lunatics .

      A decree of tho King of Sardinia has indicated tho religious orders of men and women which are to be suppressed . The number ia considerable ; 334 monasteries will disappear ; they contain a population of 651 ) 8 persons . Among these monasteries , 281 ) were inhubitated by 4126 monks , and 45 by 1473 nuns . In tho orders still preserved there remain 8 C 3 monks and 109 !) nuns . According to tho economy of the law , monks and nuns who belonged to tho orders suppressed will continue to live each in common , and each of thorn during life will receive a pension not of 500 f .

      I'ree Trade has got us fur as Rome . An announcement has been made of u reduction in the import and consumptive duties of tho principal articles of foreign produce introduced into the Roman states .

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      Wo ' Jtaavo noted with . special interest in tho Melbourne papers of late , tho mime of a former colfaboratenr , who appears to bo rising to rapid and conapicuouu distinction at tho Australian bar—wo moan Mr . Butler Colo Aspinall . Thia gonllumau wua for some time engaged as a parliamentary reporter on tho Morniny C / fronick , and was in tho habit of contributing occasionally to our own journal . He- was distinguished among his frieuda and can- '

      jreres as a young man of singular promise and power , and extraordinary aptitude for public life . As a speaker , he was remarkable not only for his command of language , and for the easy vigour with which he would grasp a subject , but for a faculty of sarcasm which almost exceeded his control . In a recent number of a Melbourne journal , we find Mr . Aspinall , who has been retained to defend the Ballarat diggers , addressing a large open-air meeting with great effect . Alluding , we suppose , to the surveillance of the Government police , he commenced his address in these words : " Gentlemen — and spies . " Those who remember the speaker will have no difficulty in recognising Mr . Aspinall .

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      ALLEGED PERJURY : EXTRAORDINARY CASE . In the Central Criminal Court , on Monday , Louisa Harrison , a well-dressed young -woman , with an infant in her arms , surrendered to take her trial on a charge of wilful and corrupt perjury . The counsel for the prosecution opened the case by a narrative of the facts , which were published at the time of their occurrence , and which may be thus briefly recapitulated . —A man of the name of Mallett had in a previous session been tried at that court for an assault and robbery committed upon the woman Harrison , who swore that he entered her house in Bull-yard , Aldgate , one evening last December , robbed her , tied her hands together , and inflicted several serious wounds on her head . A verdict of guilty was returned by the jury ; and Mallett was condemned to death , the sentence being subsequently commuted to transportation for fifteen years . A very few days after this conviction , Mrs . Harrison was again found in her house with her hands tied and her head wounded , precisely as before . She represented that a second attack had been made on her , and that she should be able to identify the offender . This created suspicion ; the police made inquiries ; it was ascertained that there was no foundation for the charge against Mallett , and the Government consequently granted to him a free pardon . Mrs . Harrison was nowplaced on her trial for perjury ; but the evidence produced certainly did not tend to establish the inference which had been formed against hernamely , that she had bound her own hands , and inflicted the wounds upon herself . When found on the evening of the alleged robbery and assault , she was nearly insensible , bleeding profusely , and with her hands tied so tightly that one of the witnesses who went to her assistance was obliged to use his teeth to loosen the knots . There was not , said this witness , the slightest appearance of " shamming" in her conduct . The eldest child , who seemed very much frightened , was the first to give an alarm , by saying that a man was murdering her mother . Another witness said he certainly could not have tied such a knot round his own hands . In the coxirse of the evening , Mrs . Harrison fainted twice , and was seized with violent convulsions . A woman who attended on her had great difficulty in preventing her from injuring herself . Nevertheless , the medical man who was called in was of opinion , according to his evidence on the trial , that the woman might have inflicted the wounds upon herself ; but he admitted that she had a convulsive fit which was " undoubtedly real . " He added , that she was then three months advanced in pregnancy . She Avas insensible and almost pulseless when he first saw her . He did not consider that it would be a very easy thing for a woman to cause such injuries to herself ; but she might have done so . A stick was found in the house , with blood upon it ; and , if she had used this stick , sho must have inflicted the wounds first , and tied her hands afterwards . The man Mallett was then examined , and accounted for tho whole of the evening of the alleged robbery . He admitted that he passed undor a false name , but that was because he had formerly been a bad character , by which he meant a lighting man . lie had been arrested at a penny theatre , where he was an " officer , " appointed to keep order . " The alibi whieli ho now proved was advanced by him on his trial ; but it was not hooded by the jury .

      The Recorder , in summing up , directed the jury that Mallett was innocent , and that the woman Harrison was simply mistaken as to tho identity of the person who assaulted hor , and had no corrupt intention in accusing Mallett . Ho did not think it could bo doubted that an assault and robbery had really been committed . Mr . Ryland , Mallett ' s counsel , consented to withdraw from tho prosecution ; and a verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly taken . —A second charge of a similar kind against Mrs . Harrison it was arranged should not bo taken until Friday morning .

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      OUR CIVILISATION . A Romance ok Ricai- hivn . —A very singular history of alleged successful fraud , and unlawful withholding oi largo landed property from tho real owner , has been hoard before Vice-Chancellor Wood . The plaintiff ia a common day-labourer residing at Loath in Lincolnshire , and seeks to establish his title to cortain property in Northumberland producing a rontul of nearly 50 , 000 / . a year , of which ho alleges his grandfather to havo been fraudulently deprived . Stole Manby , tho grandfather , had . bocomo of unsound mind owing to tho kick of a hosrno , JIo also was a labourer , was unable to road and

      write , and lived during his latter years in a wretched hovel , supported by the exertions of his wife and by casual charity . Upon the death of Dorothy Windsor , from whom the property descended , the estate should have passed to Stote Manby ; but Sir Robert Bewicke and John Craster , two of her tenants , colluded together , according to the allegations of the plaintiff , and unlawfully obtained possession of the property . After their deaths , some time prior to 1780 , it descended to their heirs , who took possession of it , though well knowing that they had no right or title . In 1781 , a lawyer of Newcastle , named Harvey , who had sought out Stote Manby , and informed him of his rights , brought two writs of " cosenage" . behalf of Manby against Bewicke

      and Craster ; but subsequently , as the plaintiff averred , he colluded with them , accepted a bribe to betray the interest of Manby , and agreed that a compromise should be made , by which Bewicke and Craster were to pay 1 , 500 ? . to Harvey , and to charge the estates with a perpetual rent-charge of 3001 . a year in favour of Stote Manby and his heirs . The action was consequently withdrawn , and an order , which was afterwards made a rule of court , was drawn up , in which it was stated that William Manby , the son of Stote Manby , was present in court , and consented to the arrangement . This , it was now alleged , ¥ as false . William Manby was not in court , and being , like his father , of weak intellect , he was not capable of giving any valid assent to the proposed terms . Subsequently , certain legal documents were signed , or alleged to have been signed , by Stote

      Manby ; but , owing to his imbecility , it was contended that the instruments , if executed at all , were inoperative . By a further fraudulent scheme , Stote Manby , according to the plaintiff ' s averments , was deprived of the 300 / . a year rent-charge . The plaintiff in the present suit first became informed of his alleged rights by a very old man at Louth in the year 1846 . This man recollected the action of 1781 ; and , in consequence of what he said , and of inquiries afterwards made , the plaintiff filed the bill now before the Vice-Chancellor ' s Court . To this bill , the defendants demurred ; and the Vice-Chancellor , thinking the allegations were not capable of legal proof , and were extremely doubtful , stated that the demurrers must be allowed , with costs . As , however , some documents might possibly exist , which would throw light on the transactions , he granted leave to amend .

      Robert M'Laeen , the youth charged with having robbed the young lady to whom he was engaged , was brought up on remand on Monday , when the counsel for the prosecution said that M'Laren had reiterated his intention to marry Miss Hill ; in which case his client was not desirous to press the charge . The prisoner was therefore set at liberty . A Business-like Thief . —Henry Palmer , an escaped convict , has been arrested after a desperate struggle with the police . Upon his person was found a

      memorandumbook , containing tbe following entries with respect to his " profession " : —" Sunday , at 11 o ' clock , St . James ' s Church , Paddington ; half-past six , Eccleston Chapel ; Monday , the 27 th , Willis ' s-rooms ; 24 th , public meeting , Upper-street , Islington , at 7 o ' clock ; 16 th , Lecture-hall , Greenwich , note ' Sims Eeeves ; ' 17 th , a sale at Churtonstreet , Pimlico ; 21 st , a sale in Grosvenor-street , Grosvenor-square ; 21 st , 11 o ' clock , Haddington-villas , Romford-road . " He was brought up at Worship-street on Monday , and remanded for a week . twelve of named Edwin

      Homeless . —A boy , years age , Williams , was charged at Clerkenwell with being found destitute near the Caledonian-road . A policeman discovered him , togctlier with another boy , lurking in some brick-fields ; and here , in tho furnace-holes of the heaps of new bricks , they were in the habit of sleeping every night . Tho constable took the lad to tho stationhouse , and thence he was conveyed to the workhouse ; but , as it was tho middle of the night , the porter refused to take him in . On the following morning , added the policeman , the second boy was not to be found in the brick-field . Upon this , tho lad Williams immediately rejoined , " But ho will ho there to-night . " He then stated , in reply to the magistrate , that he had no relatives or friends . Ilia father , who was a shipwright in ft

      man-of-war , was killed in the Black Sen . Tho news enmo to his mother liy letter , and she died in five days after tho " worry . " He did not know where they lived , nor where sho was buried . When his mother died , the landlord said to him , " You imi « t go awny ; and he was turned out before hIic was buried , and did not sco her again . —The magistrate m / ulo an order for tho immediate admission of tho boy into tho workhouse . The Ai . lkgi . ; i > Ooi . » Mo » i » sBY .-bnmuol Seal was on Fridav week lurnin remanded at tho Mansion House , IS ^ Sibifllmo -ep ^ l-hi . nself in 1000 / and acb Chaplinof the Spread

      w sur ios of V > 00 / . « . Mr . , 1 uile , Urnceohurcli-strcet , carrier , guyo evidence as to twJ consignments of fold which ho had recently received for inii « lHBion by rail , and whu-h wore stolon . Tho cleric of one of tho consignors , however , stated that the cold « ont by his employer was totally difloront from that which the prisoner had possessed . Mukdkk . — At tho Thames Polico-oflioo , on Tuesday , Jeremiah Foloy wan charged with tho wilful murdor of llannah Robertson , of Klvo Bell-alley , IJmohouBO . It appeared from tho wldon « o that the prisoner , who had < Veniiontly boon in ountody for assaults and disorderly conduct , had boon In | ho habit of vbiti »« tho deceased ,

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      June 16 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER . 561

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 16, 1855, page 561, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2095/page/9/