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3 taJ ) ljied in the face and breast . The culprit was arrested , and has been examined at Worship-street , where she has "been remanded . She aUeged drink as the' excuse for her offence . An Attempt to Murder ts the Subrby Thjba . tbe . —t , A scene-painter at the Surrey Tkeatre , named Frederick-QaenneU , made a serious attack with aa iron barton Saturday night , on a Mr . Harcuni . A quarrel had 'for some time existed between the two ; but no precise details are at present known , yaeanen has been examined at the Southwark police-court , and is remanded . * _ .. . Bank Bobbery . —A young man afc Glasgow has been robbed of £ 250 which he was paying into the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank . While counting out a pound ' s worth of silver , to add to the former sum ( which was in notes ) , a man asked him some questions to e-ngage his attention , and shortly afterwards disappeared . It was then found that the notes lad disappeared also . A 2 J Incendiary in the FAactr . Y . —Josepli L . ockvood ,
son of Mr . George Lockwood , farmer , of Arlington , near Doncasfcer , has been committed for trial , charged with setting fire to a stack of wheat belonging -to his father . The father said he believed the cause of the crime was that the young man could not agree with his halfr-sister—a very unsatisfactory m <> de of accounting for the fact ; Joseph Lockwood admitted his crime to the . police , but denied it before the magistrates . Ail the witnesses gave hini an excellent character as an honest man , but rather incongruously adaed'that ' * drink had been his ruin . "
A DispEBAJDO .- — -A young man , named Edward Butter , has been examined at the Clerteixwell policeoffice oh a charge of severely wounding ; Ann Cos , a ch ' arwoihan livingat , Somers-townj and also assaulting .-t'W'O policemen . The prisoner , who appears to be of' a '; . hlibitually savage disposition , vjras drinkiig , in comiiany with the woman , at a public-house ia " Soir iiifefcQwn .: After a - time , a quarrel arose between tbM £ yrkisn ; Butler , / taking out a knife ; , threateried to kiU ^ his" companion , and then commit suicide - The woman heldnip her right hand to ward off the blows
and immediately received several deep aaad dangerous cujts ^ T ^ aid , and attempted , to ' . take Butler into custody , were Mt and k | pk « d fe ^ c ^ ousl y . Afterhe was cdficveyecl to the ° * -atioii-hbUBe , and while a police ^ sergeant was taking *» w : '•" ¦" l ., ; - ; - "hnbecame so violent that it "required six thecHaaJgeViiv . - ^ " ~ w Ms cell . He said he constables to remove Jtimx v ~ . - ~~~ ed against ¦ would ; "do" for the woman if she appx *~ , J hinu' ¦ All he ? alleged in his defence was that lie was drunk at the time . He was sent to the House of Correction for two months for the assaults on the
woman and constables . Suspected > Mijbdek at Nant ? ygi . o , ^—The dead body of v » itnah -has been discovered at the bottom-, of a sh |^ -o f ^ one of the collieries at Hantyglo . Traces of blood in "the locality of the body seem , to render it probable that the man was murdered . The Murder at Islington . —Mis . Somner has been committed for trial on the charge of murdering Celestiua Christmas . It now appears beyond all doubt that the girl ( who was a little turned ten years of age ) was the offspring of her murderess . On being removed after the former examination , Mrs . Somner began talking with a policeman abo ut HamJet and Richard the Third , and of the acting of Mr , Phelps in •' . the tyrant" of the latter play . She added , alluding to the murder , "It is no use telling a He :, I did not know what to do for the best "—with respect to the deceased child . . ¦*'
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the patriotic gentlemen on the Bourse are aghast at their G overnment , unofficially ifc is true , demanding the destruction of Ntcholaieff , the closing of the Bug , the limitation of the Kussian frontier , &c . &c , as essentials to peace . Next morning , a note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs appears in the semi-onxcial Cbnstitutionnel , announcing that it was by an error that the article from the Sieele had been transplanted into the Moniteur . Thereupon , hot war between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of State . Next morning again , a note in the Moniteur stating that the Constitutionnel was in error in conceiving the Moniteur capable of an error ; that the reproduction of the article from the Sieele was intentional , and that
the Moniteur always corrected its own mistakes . This note appeared in all the journals , except in the Constitiitionnel , whose silence occasioned so sharp a quaiTel between the two ministers that it is said they offered their resignations , under the conviction , we need not add , that they would not be accepted . Finally , the Constitutionnel was ordered to publish the note of the Maniteiw , and its pliant editor-in-chief , M . Amede ' e de Ce " sena , -who had taken his orders from the Minister of Foreign Affairs , has fallen a victim to the resentment of the Minister of State , and has lost his position on the journal . Such is the dignity , and such
Francaise will not speedily be replaced . Sh « made her debut at the Theatre Francois in 1827 as Mdlle . Despreaux- From the Francaise she passed to the Gymnase , where she was married to the actor Allan and from the latter theatre she accepted an engagement at St . Petersburg , where she held a brilliant engagement for ten years . On her return to Paris in 1844 Madame Allan introduced the charming Proverbes of Alfred de Musset to the Parisian stage , enriching them with her own moat delicate and refined delineations The select public of the St . James ' s will not easily forget Madame Allan ' s exquisitely pathetic acting as the mother in
La joie fait peur . That singularly true and touching little drama has now obtained a new and melancholy consecration in the deathof her whose genius conceived a simple story of universal human interest and of her whose subtle and accomplished art gave ' form _ and reality to the conception . Madame Allan at the time when she -was . seized with her fatal illness was studying the chief part in Madame George Sand ' s new piece Francoisc . Justly esteemed and beloved both inthe profession she adorned and in her private life , her death at the ago of forty-six , will , we are sure , be universally and profoundly lamented wherever her . genius and her goodness are known .
Madame Rachel has arrived in France from New York . Madame Maria Cabel has made her debut at the Opera Comique in M . Auber " s new opera , Manon L-escaut , the composer having recovered from bis recent severeillness . The Court and all the corps diplcma , tique including most of the Plenipotentiaries , were present at the first performance , which was completely successful . A Paris paper had published a story abo ^ t M . de Montalembert , to the effect that that nobleman had
made himself liable to ah action at law for having omitted to assume a name on condition of which he had inherited a fortune . M . de MontalemTbert , in a curt and caustic letter to the journal , for which he demands peremptory insertion , insists that the whole story is a fabrication—that his ancestors have borne no other name than his own since the eleventh ceirtury—and "if the journal in question will be good enaugh to inform , him what name they bore before that date , he will be very much obliged for the information . "
The Court of AsBizes of the Basses Pyrenees has been occupied in the trial of a young Swiss woman , named Jenny Dufey , who made an attempt to murder Mrs . Brock , an elderly English lady , suffering fronx an affection of the lungs , and residing at Pau . Dufey lived with . Mrs . Brock as a kind of companion ; and , having ascertained that her mistress kept £ 49 in a pair of stays , she resolved to possess herself of that sum , and to murder the invalid . She therefore told a girl Y ? ho lived with a German countess ia the same
iC "" that her unstress was dying and that s"he waiitocc her assistance . T : iL 5 "Witi * her two blankets , she then entered the invalid lady ' s roonl Sod attempted to smother her ; but the cries of the vzctiiC . brought assistance , on which Dufey said , with great selfpossession , " Get some hot water instantly—Mrs . Brock ia dying , " She was in fact discovered to be insensible , but was restored . The accused was found guilty , though with extenuating circumstances ( what these are do not appear ) , and the court sentenced her to twenty years' hard labour .
BELGIUM . ' Belgian journal states that Rossini , who has published nothing since the Stabat Mater , has recently composed a beautiful melody , entitled La Separation for a favourite pupil , Madame de Luigi .
AUSTRIA . The EmpresB of the French has received from the Austrian Empress-Mother , Caroline Augusta , the order of the Star Cross ( Ster-tv-Kreuz Orden ) . This star is only worn by those ladies whoso pedigree i * supposed to be without the least blemish ; but the-Empress-Mother , who is Protectress and Superior of the Institution , says , in the letter which a « oompanic » the star , that the attention has been shown " in order to consolidate the intimate relations already existingbetween the two families . "
Sir Hamilton Seymour has been unable to find a suitable house or apartments since he went to Vienna , and has therefore lived at an hotel . Hia rooms have been entered in the night , and his linen has been stolen . With reepeot to the quarters no » w occupied b y our ambassador , the Times Vienna correspondent observes : — " For a long time , « , Russian prince with a polysyllabio name had the very next room to tbat whiob , served the British minister for his salon de reception , and it is highly probable ho heard a great part of what was said , aa Vienna doors are by no meana remarkable for their thicknose ox for fitting clone . " A conference of bishops » 8 to take place at Vie ««« > io consider the subject of the Concordat , with respect to which thejro i « great diversity of interprotfttion on the part of the Government and of the ooolcHiaatic » .
The intolerance of the Auatrian ecoleaiaatios lift * received a rebuke even from Government . The W « v Sebastian Bmnnor . had , in the Vienna CAw ? cA $ c * w < fcV
is the wisdom , with which public affairs are conducted in France . It 5 s still asserted that the article inserted in the Moniteur was not the one intended to enjoy that distinction . We should add that the Sieele affects to treat the condescension of the Monileur as an honour it had not been accustomed fco of late , and to which in its Spartan virtue it was sublimely indifferent , while the Debats , which has certainly the best of the game , informs its contemporary with a polished sneer that ifc is not in the habit of taking lessons of patriotism , and that it is as much concerned in the honour of France as the Sieele , only it appreciates that honour differently .
Count Orloff is niuch remarked in Paris for his portly person , his lofty bearing , and his aristocratic manners . Baron Bruuow is thouight to look quite bourgeois in comparison . The sale of the Iniiependa-nce Beige is now an accomplished fact . It was announced by that journal on Sunday last . The particulars were correctly transmitted to us by a private Correspondent a fortnight since . M . Perrot retires , and is succeeded in the chief editorship by ML Berard , who for the last ten years has been acting chief editor- of the paper . M . Peh-ot receives 600 , 00 . 0 francs ( . £ 24 . 000 ) in cash , and
© reserves an interest in the property to the extent of 200 mm " * "ancs ( £ 8 , 000 ) . The remaining shares to ? he ' e xtent - of ^^ > * ^™*** Yj **** Veron and two banking firmB «„ !> 6 ne ' » ° tably that of Oppenheim et Cie . The Tndepcnt » ZW ? > f *» with suspicious eamesuneaS that its polHical direction will _ remain , absolutely unchanged . No doubt any modification will be very gradual ; but whether the intervention of a man of the Empire like M . V < 5 ron will be imperceptible to the readers of the journal , time must show . Already , as our correspondent informed us would be the case , M . Louis Hymans , the chief Belgian contributor to the paper , has seceded .
An extract from the private letter of a French lady contains an amusing account of the ball given to the Sultan by the French ambassador at Constantinople . " At half-past eight , when I entered the room , the Sultan was already in the palace ; he had arrived at half-past seven , but was still in the private apartments . He made his entry into the ball-room at half-past eight , and took his seat upon a throne which had been prepared for his reception . Hia Highness looked on while a quadrille and a valse were danced ; then retired for an hour ; and returned to see another quadrille and polka . I danced in a quadrill © . close to his tirone . The physiognomy of the
CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The incident of the SiZcle , the Debate and the Moniteur has been a good deal talked of in Paris , as aa amusing illustration of the constant and systematic equivocation whioh constitutes the genius of tho present ' Imperial government . To undorstand the erabroglio , it should be premised that the Siicle , with xta qusfei-republican airs , and frothy patriotic O \ au ~ vi ^ iem and bluster about the nationalities , &cf , has for a long time forfeited tho confidence of the pure r JP ufcycft P party in Franco from ita known intrigues wjth . that branch of the Imperial family afe present located in the Palais Royal , and from , the intimacy of its extremely mediocre editor-in-chiefM . Ha , vinwith
, , fee , renegade miniater of the Interior , M . Billault , and other congenial associates . Well , in tlio present M ) frtance the Siicle publishes an article wliieh finds wvour yn the eyes of the Emperor , not because it ^ reBont-B his own policy , bub because it is oaloulated to . throw dust in the eyea of the British plenipotentiaries . This artiole ia in tho form of a loud SX ;^ L * oalm ^ omatio resume in tho JHbats , in ^ Src ^ 1 ^ * 1 * 16 Pretensions of ItuBsia had been St ^ ff * ' - JSf P * ° * Sives orders , through M . ffi&S ^**^? ° * * ° f fc »« Household , Sfe & ^ ^^\ qontro 1 of toe Manitcw , to have &&SSffl& « 5 & ESS ? J
Prince lacks animation ; he looked at us fixedly by turns ; but ifc would be difficult to say what feeling was dominant in his expression , ennui or pleasure . The Sultan wore a black dress , tightly fitting , something like the dress of the Turkish attaches at Paris ; but over all he wore the white mantle of the Prophet , the collar and sleeves of which wore studded with magnificent diamonds . As to his household and ministers , their dresses wore covered with gold . They seemed uncommonly pleased with our amusement , etje t' astwre qu 'Us nous lorgnaient d' wie faeon toute Francaiee . They atayed till tho ond of tho ball . " A census of tho French Empire ia to bo taken this wear .
Several political arrests have recently taken place in tho departments . No sorb of demonstration was attempted in Paris on tho occasion of the anniversary o f tho Revolution of Washington's birthday was celebrated by tho most brilliant fete o £ tho soaaon given by tho American residents in Paris , and presided over by tho American Minister , at the Hotel du Louvro . The reception of tho esteemed M . Legouve" at the French Academy took place on Thursday last .
Madame Allan , one of the moat remarkable actresses of tho French ato ^ o , died ou the evening of the 22 nd inietv , ^ ator a Bovcre Illness . Her Iobb to tho Com < 5 dio
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200 THE LEA DEB . [ No . 3 J 0 , Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), March 1, 1856, page 200, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2130/page/8/
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