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      THE HAGS OF BELGIUM AND THEIR EKGLISH VICTIMS . Some investigations recently made at the Mansionhouse exhibit the too often , successful working of an iniquitous system of seduction . A fewweeks ago , Susannah Evans ( a young woman about sixteen years of age ) and a female acquaintance were met at the corner of Fenehurch-street by a Belgian Jewess , -vrho appeared to be known to the latter , and who , in a very friendly manner , asked them to go with her to see two or three young girls like themselves , who resided in Lambert-street , Lemaia-street , Goodman's-fields . They consented , and accompanied tlao iiomnn in a cab to a House where they were

      introduced to two young women in a room on the second floor . The appearance of the place and of the "women was not satisfactory to Susannah Evans , who expressed much anxiety to get away , but was prevailed upon by the Belgian Jewess to stay to dinner , ¦ while tb . e new acquaintances informed her that they ¦ were going next day to Hamburg to get into splendid situations , in which they would be enabled to live in high style , wear gold -watches and other jewelry , and supply -their parents with the luxuries as well as the necessaries of life . The girl Evans was desirous to return home , but was at last prevailed upon to go to bed after having in vain attempted to leave . In the morning , at an early hour , there Was a bustle in the

      house , and she was hurried off in a cab with the two girls to whom she had been newly introduced , and was taken on board a steamer wliich lay near St . Catherine ' s-wharf . These facts were communicated by her companion , who contrived to escape , fund , application having been uaade at the Mansion-house for assistance , the fact of the abduction was telegraphed to Hamburg , with directions to tho polioe thoro to detain the girl . Two English detective officars wore then despatched to the destination of the Belgian Jewess , and , after much trouble , the girl was rescued , But tho Belgian was determined to inako evory effort to secure her prey , notwithstanding the interposition of thepolioo ; and she had actually assured tho officials that the young woman had accompanied her from

      England under a regular engagement to rooeive tho visits of gentlemen . Furthermore , she charged tho poor girl with having robbed her parents of £ 5 , and referred to a letter found in her poqKet , but not at all liable to any construction of the kind as ovidonoo of her dishonesty . Tho young -woman oomplained much of the attempts ) of a person who , she was told , wan the doctor appointed to examine all tho fresh fomalo arrivals , under engagements to $ 10 Jewess 1 y whom she had been forced on boardL The deteotive offloors brought the matter before fcho attention of tho . English consul , Colonel Hodgos , who said he was awaro of tho existence of , the system , but thought tho only raoan » to prevent it would be to memorialise Lord Clurendou for lie immediate interference .

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      StiocEsstftrti GRArnTATus in Onnvnt . —James and Charles Green , youthB , have beon examined at Lampath on several charges of stealing from dwelling-

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      frmissibff to" exgbrir bisemfr antf tMatfcaroni' from aplest applies only to a term of three months wtedh expires on the 31 st of May . We find' it stated by the' Timxs Turin correspondent that' " an article- from , the Mornvng Post , which , singularly enough , found its way here through ihe cblumttsof th < e Notd ( a fact not without significance ) , as weli as some hints from Paris correspondents of German papers , have given rase to a belief that the italian question will be brought forward for the consideration of the Conference after the terms of peace have been agreed upon . " The jfirst stone of the Puglia railway , in the kingdom of Naples—a railway which is to unite the Mediterranean and the Adriatic —has been laid . The King was not present ,- but delegated one of his ministers . spaht .

      fco " e % ffie * ifl ^ l&W fiolgSiSSfi w ^ tmeTa 6 fr < 38 ffip 5 pf ; abMtf Six , buna * ea and eigniT fe ^ f * * f * fj n { Vb % c ^ atfy ^ Tb pay foftfe-fini ^ ea ^ i «! : ^^« by ^ nfffMSn ts eprW o ** sis- yearS , with ^^ 1 adSitimal ^ caSS the average profits ^^ S ^** " ^ . snail' eSceed f seven * per <; eflt , Tfie > tfnole e&P ^ « £ qtiiref is eMfetSd A * ^ lO . OOO ^ OO , ort wMcli the Austrian Q < $ veriimen € guaranteesifiye per cam . ¦< & farther reduction in tta Austrian army is an * * & ? PoP e has convoke * the ¦* £ * £ * $£$£ April etb , lite to take into * bnsiderafeon luyw the prdvMoos of the Con * oi-dat may be best earned out . POBtJHSXA . tb euri

      The ffink ^ afey du ' elcbntmue ^ 6 xbite great r ority ^ dlcus L ** Berlin . By the dece as ed * own aSg&meni- Patois were chose * as ^ J *? P ? _ J eStt&a ; but it seems- that he was shortsighted , and knewnbfcMngbf the use of firearms , though _ he Was ^ excelle nt hand at using tlie broadsword . Herr _ von J&cto * is now being - tried before the " Ctfzrfc of Honour * '' iijsfitufed by th * King m 1845 for the investigation of sufeh mattersi but it is believed that tBe > BuiJlic prosedutdr' willy neverfcheleMs , cemrflcence

      proSaqdEaP against the duellist . It is stated tnat , &e >~ tfi ^ iroce ' edings--at the Jockey Club whieb . ' tedto th ^ duSIj KofeHbw and afriend called off Hmfeeldey and demWdeid explanations' asto hikednduct . The Police Minister , answering merely" &s- a private indfevidual , anffnot binding ? his visitors to sebreey , Mdisjerteetly SE ^ d he had * the express orders of the King for what he had done ; This was repeated ; demands were made on him for Ms written or official evidence of

      the royal authorisation ; and , to save himself from implica ^ pn with , the King , it is asserted that Hin&eldey denied t&ean ^ party bbtained an official in ^^ r ^ i aiwtEiinfceldey repeated the denial . Bofeh ^ it : M&ms ^ - $ & n * reject oVeiivtires for an arrartj ^ eSien't ; jfeu * / k ^ - ' 7 ^ l ^ a ^ e 'd' -for ?' ; insisting too sf ^ ofiglylbn : ii £ ? itig BCiiiKeldeys f . sign ^ atua-e to a &rni of e ^ pkinfetibh diftfewn up by Mmself . The King appears to-tiatfe-kaiowiS ; of .- .-tike ' - duel beforehand , and t » have diicbfetenaTSoeid it ,- and dxliorled' the disputants to an afificibfe arrsfiageinfent ¦¦; liut Hinteldey precipitated tfie el £ do \ inter , an'd hastened bis own death .

      ^ Ctoifipfr CajDit 2 !> who > it- was alleged last ^ week had « U < S # j fiiB 5 B © lf , liasi "' -fallen iii a duel at Potsdam . NotMng'is yet knbvrti of the circumstances . As we remfeckedlaist we'et , " a strange stain of blood has > come 6 v ^ Prussia / ' where , riot to speak of the duels , mu * de ^ rfe have lately been almost as common as in England . * Tike * Leipsie Illustrated News was seized at Berlin ont : the- ; l 2 ' fcli-ihsfci for an article against ilussia . ¦ S k- ^ ef Zedlizi NeuMrchy Ghief Councillor of the goybrlhi&ieat of Lieggitz ( Silesia ) ' , iai appointed succeBS ' or ¦ % o ' --3 SL- Biij ! nskeldy in the Director-&eneraisMp of PoEcet ¦ ' : --: ~ ' ¦ ¦ ' . ¦ . ¦¦¦¦ ¦'¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦

      Iffi t 1 S 6 ; tfp ' arM of last sitmtaeri ieveraa private papers an ^;) desp ) a ; t ; cb ^ s ' ., frbiai the lefctiar-caaes of two- persons of ^ fegli attaeoTirtly stan'din'g ' , were Btoleh , andaman-Bev ^ Miy ' ¦ ' ¦ " ¦ of the King ' s pfivate seeretary , l ^ iebute / stud . anpHifrer of General Gerlach , were arrested , on tite instigation , rfc is said > of the Russian Goferhmeht ; which had evidence of the cbttf : e » ts of the' deapotchesi fittding their way to the Frenoh enl- ^ bassy afc Berlnii and irifluericing the' operations' in' the CriBbteav ' Prom itojuMes now made , it appears that there ia a slispitiibn of Baron von Ma ^ euffell aiid the latS l MIn 3 ster' of Pojice being implioaiediriHhe transaction .- An ex-menfiiber of the secret policei named

      TetoK 0 tt > appears to hiave been , the thiief ; arid atriong the' papers pttrlpined "was a copy of-fctue rep ' trt sent in i $ 6 Gfetteral Gerlaeh by a iftwuAiebii dufat he liad employddt ' o ' seatolibut and report on' all the Prince of PrttB ^ S toyinga and ctbings ^ ^ Mle on a ^ tour of militavyiSspec'tion '—a tiaport full of odious incrinainations of tiie Bo ^ ftl Highness . TBe report wao by thie mea'fts brought to the knowledge of the Pri&e « , < and by ' Mktt' laid bbfore the King . There were also the most * private oorhtffunictttions from Count Munster at the Gourt of St . freter&burg to General aerlabh , whefcner for' communication to the King or not is unknoVra .

      ITALY . Major Count Valorio MagauH-Cfirati , of Caf 3 ; Chamberlaia to the Duke of Parjma , and director of the Central House of Detention , was ' stabbed a few nights agoVat the * moment he was returning home from the theWi 4 s with His wife and a relation o ? his ; Re expired almdfft i ) chniediately affcelr rdcleiying the \^ ound ' . The xnottly * wliioh' Actuated the assassitfis not kno ^ ; btxt it i ¥ ^ ae ' Vted'lihat the' orlme' was oa ^ ed by hia adopting- ' p ^ rtwttl stringent measures in tbe © xeroifee of hi ^ fu < i 6 tlonB . > . tS ^ - ^ f * $ JSW ^ Ws ^ as oomo ion definitive traded stattdtfijg ^' wliiiv the Pope . His Majesty coneOntB that SUfrW privileges of tlte Sicilian oionArdhy &SsKi ! 2 W W ^ oKstea t a » d' tod ao ^ pted tlie ^ SlBS ^^^ ^^ * 4 « atroys «» # deoular ^ SK& ^^ H ^^ Tribunal of Sicily . j wEMSs » t » s'i ! s $ . s

      JWB 9 tteic » gifir bf < f , O 00 , 0 O 0 lb . of gun metal foi the purposes of the army and fleet . , swiTiZEialA . isrt ) . The FiciTiese Gazette annotmees that the ratifica l ° ? a . * « eoriimeroial treaty between Great Brita in aad Switzerland were exchanged at Berne on the 6 th

      A few items of Constantinople news aye transmitted by telegraph to Marseilles . The Divan , taking into consideration the remonstrances of the merchants has given up issuing the one hundred million paistres of paper money in contemplation . The judgment pronounced against Rustum Pacha , who was convieted of malversation , has condemned him to pay back to the State several thousands of franca and to be imprisoned dunng but it is

      a J-ear ; reported that the Sultan has commuted his penalty to "banishment . Severe frost has recommenced at Constantinople , with heavy snow , ana sickness is again on the increase . Two other French physicians lave died . The chiefs of the board of health of the allied armies have , in consequence , ordered several wise sanitary measures . The Sultan has given audience to the Moldavian Hospodar , Ghika . Mve hundred Bashi-Bazouks have arrived from Adriaaiople .

      The Armenians and Greeks have protested against the late decree of the Sultan . The Greek petition is especially directed against the articles relating to the clergy .

      THE DANUBIA-N- PRINCIPALITIES . It is said that Prince Ghika is greatly dissatisfied with the resolutions for the reform of the Principalities which have been . arrived at in the Constantinople Conferences . The effect of those resolutions would be to place Moldavia and "Wallacbia more in the li ght of integral parts of the Turkish Empire . The Prince and the boyards have transmitted a protest to the Paris Plenipotentiaries ; and the former demands that the Principalities shall be united .

      With , all her recent advances , Spain is not yet thoroughly tolerent . The presence of a Protestant Minister at Barcelona has induced M . Arios , the Minister df Justice , to issue a circular directing presidents of tribunals to prosecute with vigour all ^ S paniards who may pretend to break or disturb the thereligious unity to which it las pleased Divine Providence that Spain should owe her prosperity . " Av contest is going forward between Senor Battles

      and the ecclesiastical authorities relative to the legality of printing the Bible in Spanish without notes . The latter deny tble legality ; the former asserts it , and will insist on the Government appealing to a tribunal nominated by the Cortes , in accordance with a law passed in 1822 . Senor Battles contends that the ecclesiastical censure is only valid against comments or writings on . the Scriptures . The question has been raised by Mr . Alton , aai English clergyman at Gibraltar .

      Some time since , Senor Figuerola ., President of the Committee onrthe Budget , and , in virtue of his office , sitting immediately behind the Treasury Bench , declared" that the English holders of Spanish coupons had nothing whatever to expect , as they had been well paidj and their claims were untenable . " Lord Clarendon instructed the English Ambassador at Madrid to demand explanations from the Spanish Government ; but the ministers flatly refuse to render these . Such , at least , is the story contained in a letter from Madrid . The discussion on the bases of the bill on administrative organisation las been brought to a close in the Cortes . The Government has declared that it will not make a cabinet question of the plan offinanae presented by M . Santa Cruz . General tranquillity prevails .

      RUSSIA .. A great demand for railways and other social improvements is now arising in Rucaia ,. The want of proper means of communication between thie nox » th « m and southern parts of the Empire , and the immense loss of cattle in slowly traversing the Vast ; arid , feverhaunted steppes , causes a large enhancement in the price of many necessaries of life . "You have already learnt , " says the Times Berlin correspondent , " something of the new frontier army which Russia is now organising , not for the purpose of directly menacing the West , but apparently with the view of extending the present . existing system of military colonies on the East . The Cossaok forces of

      the Russian army consisted Mtherto of eleven separate bodies ; " ai twelfth has now been added by the exertions of Count Perowski , who has- succeeded in raising it from among the Baschkirs n . nd MetBchscheriaken , in the' Governments of Peinsi and Orenburg , and in settling them aB a regularly organised cordon army . This twelfth Cpssaok army , or corps d'armde , is located in twelve regimental districts , which again are also divided into two war distrusts , each containing six i-egiments . Each regiment is numbered according to the number of itB district . These twelve districts contain 30 , 188 louses , with a male population of 91 , 780 occupants , and they are required to furnish twelve

      regiments of mounted Cossacks , one brigade of horse artillery , with three aotivo "batteries , arid , in addition to the abwve , a military sotnia of mechanics . For tho administrative department connected with the cpminan'd in chief a civil' staff of thirty-eight employes aiid an allowance of 10 , 000 roubles are allotted . The . civil expenses of the whole -twelve regimental districts are estimated ft * 8 % 268 in the budget , " The Poles are expecting great things from the benovdlenoe of Alexander aftor the conclusion of peace j the new Viceroy , Prince Giortsohakofi ' , having reoontly said that "they oan have no idea what the Emperor intends to do for theia shortly . "

      The Russian Government , it la asserted , has the intention of establishing journals , as organs of its views ,, in ; variotiB capitals of Europe , or of purchasing journals already established . La Word is Bald to fulfil in a yory small degree the expootationB' and intentions of itu founders . That moat liberal millionnairo , the Stroatnrath Jalcowleff , the proprietor of the "Weroh-IsetiB mining and smelting worfca , who on a former occasion supplied 1 1 , 000 , 000 silver roubles to make , up for tho doialoatftma and peculations committed iw the' funds of f Utf Invalids , Una just signalised himself Again by a

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      2 % THE LEADER ., rNo . 313 . j ^ ,.

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      OUE CIVILISATION .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 22, 1856, page 270, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2133/page/6/