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RoBBDSto Post-Offices . —Two fashionably-dressed voung men , named George Thomas and Henry Hillyer , are under remand at Guildhall , charged with stealing letters ( one of which contained a cheque for 761 . 17 s . 6 d . ) from a post-office in King-street , Covent Garden , and from another receiving-house in Holborn . The-robbery at the latter place was committed as long ago as October last ; that of the former was perpetrated on the 21 st ult . The cheque was given by Thomas to a respectable youth to present at Messrs . Coutts ' s , but it was not paid . In consequence of inquiries that were then made , the two men were taken into custody . _
William Dove . — The execution of William Dove will take place to-day ( Saturday ) at York Castle . Great « fforts have been made for a respite . His mother , the jury who tried him , and several other persons , have petitioned the Government , but Sir George Grey refuses to listen to their entreaties . Dr . Forbes Wmslow has . also expressed his belief in the convict ' s " imbecility , " and his opinion that to hang him will be " a grave act of inhumanity . " Mr . Wright , of Manchester , the wellknown prison philanthropist , says he has had twelve interviews with the prisoner , and that he " never met with a more sincere penitent under similar painful circumstances ; " but he adds that he believes him to be of very defective intellect . The alleged " penitence" is doubted bv some .
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IRELAND . The Great Comet of 1556 . —If the accounts from Limerick are to be credited , the marvellous comet of 1556 , after an absence of just three centuries , has made its predicted reappearance in the south of Ireland . But we cannot forget that comets and extraordinary meteors are frequently to be seen—in the columns of newspapers—during the off-parliamentary season . The Nojbth Tippejrarx Militia . — The Nenagh Guardian gives a lamentable account of the wretched state of raggedness and physical dejection of the men belonging to the North Tipperary Light Infantry . They recently appeared on parade literally in tatters , and some Lalf naked . This is the regiment the disgraceful treatment of which by the Government led to the recent disturbances .
Chables M'CBEAor , the soldier who was recently convicted at the Cork Assizes of the wilful murder of Sergeant M'Guinny , of the 68 th Light Infantry , has been sentenced to death . It is understood that his execution will not take place till the 22 nd of September . The Tipperaky Bank . —Mr . Murphy , the Master in Chancery , has placed on the file of proceedings in the ¦ winding-up a minute in which ho justifies his proceedings in connexion with the investigations into the affairs of the Tipperary Bank . Collision on a Railway . —A fatal accident—a very unusual occurrence on an Irish railway—took place on the Belfast Junction line on Wednesday morning . A clown goods train came in contact with a ballast engine and waggon about five miles from Newry . One life was lost , and three men were much hurt . The coroner ' s jury have found a verdict of manslaughter against the engine-drive * of the ballast train .
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the Zoological Gardens , where ho has been entertained , together with several of the soldiers and sailors who served at Sebastopol , by the directors of the gardens and l > y the Municipal Council . A magnificent tout of velvet , eilk , and gold luce , was provided for the successful general . An ample banquet having been enjoyed by officers nnd men , the customary toasts followed ; and , at tho closo of tho evening , Marshal Polissier rose and said : — "Gentlemen , —I did oxpect tbtit somebody would liavc proposed a toast to our brave allies , but , nothing to that effect having been offered , I must say that wo huvo
CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . Marshal Pelissier arrived at Marseilles on the 1 st inst . A considerable body of military received him after ho had landed , and all tho vessels in the port were dressed with flags . He has been created a Duke . His reception at Marseilles was very cold . There ¦ was no one to receive him for some time ; the streets through which ho passed Avere almost empty , and tho few who were abroad scarcely uttered a single cheer . This has been accounted for by the fact that tho inhabitants wore all enjoying their siesta at tho time ( two o ' clock , p . m . ) ; and tho Marshal has since met with a flattering welcome at the theatre , where his bust was crowned with a goldon chaplet and with laurel , and at
nctou like egotista . x our silonco compels mo to recnl to your recollection tho flrmnesa and tho valour of tho British army , which showed ua how to conquer or to die , and tho constant spirit of concord and confraternity of which it gave us ao many proofs . Wo should also rouolluct the ongerneea -with which tho Sardinian army , but rocontly created , joined our ranks , and tho noble courage with which it fought . I am confident , gentlemen , that these observations will flud tui echo in your hoarta , and I consequently propoao to you the health of tho grucious Quoen of Great Britain * " and another toojjt , ' the King of Sardinia . ' " Tho General then retired . On tho following day , having received during the night a
telegraphic despatch from the Emperor , he departed for Plombieres . . The weather has been excessively hot » n Pans . Politics are at a perfect stand-still , and fashion has departed into the provinces . Bordeaux ( says the Courrier de la Gironde ) is about to witness the passage of a great number of regiments of infantry proceeding to the frontier of Spain . This movement has already commenced , the 1 st battalion of the 3 rd Regiment of Infantry having marched through
Bordeaux . Ten other battalions of 900 men each are to follow it . The 12 th battalion of Foot Chasseurs , consisting of 25 officers and 1000 rank and file , is also ordered to the frontier . We have been assured that the 3 rd Regiment of Hussars , in garrison at Libourne and Bordeaux , will leave shortly for Bayonne . —Since the publication of this announcement , the Moniteur has issued a notification to the effect that , as tranquillity has been restored in Spain , all movements of troops towards the frontier have been suspended .
The Emperor returns to St . Cloud this day ( the 9 th inst . ) . He will leave again about the 15 th . It is anticipated that the harvest will be good . A discovery has just been made that an immense number of forged notes of the Bank of France , amounting , it is supposed , to the value of many millions of francs , are in circulation . The Moniteur contains what professes to be a letter from Madrid , defending the course pursued by O'Donnell in the late crisis . It is believed that this so-called " letter" has been concocted by Louis Napoleon himself .
AUSTRIA . The head-quarters of the Austrian troops i n Moldavia have been removed from Jassy , and it is said that the evacuation of the two Principalities will be soon completed . Rumour asserts that the Austrian lieutenant who was concerned in theVmiwdeT" of a French soldier at the Giurgevo telegraph-station has been cashiered , and condemned to imprisonment in a fortress for five years . Thfe punishment of the Austrian corporal who shot the Frenchman will depend mainly on Louis Napoleon , who may perhaps intercede in his favour should he be condemned to death ( as he probably will be ) by the courtmartial now investigating the case .
The " Protectionists" are raising a tremendous clamour against Baron Bruck , who is accused of having recklessly sacrificed the native manufacturers by lowering the duties on woven goods , colonial sugar , and iron . That the inland iron trade suffers from the privilege granted to the various railroad companies to introduce their rails , &c , on payment of half the usual duty , is certain , but the Minister of Finance seems to be of opinion that the interests of the many ought not to be sacrificed to those of the few . — Times Vienna Correspondent .
The Jesuits have just received permission for the first time to establish a private seminary at Feldklrch , in Vorarlberg . The priests will not be allowed to examine and grant certificates to the pupils . On the 27 th of June , the Emperor decided that Catholic unions or brotherhoods might be formed in Austria " under clerical direction and under the superintendence of the bishops . " The Austrian Catholic unions will bo allowed , if the "bishops consent , to correspond with the foreign unions on ecclesiastical matters . The harvest has been good , and the price of wheat , r 3 'e . barley , and oats , has fallen very considerably .
. The King has been visitiug Carlsbad , where he was met by the King of Greece , who entertained him at dinner . On the following morning , tho King proceeded to Tiiplitz to fetch the Queen on their return home , and they were met there by tho Emperor of Austria and the King and Queen of Saxony , who had conic over from Pilhritz for that purpose . Tho next day , the Prussian King and Queen returned to their own palace of Sans Souci .
SPAIN . Sarngossn has submitted to the Queen ' s troops , without resistance . General Dulco made his cntrunco on the 1 st inst ., and it would appear Unit the contest between tho Liberals and tho Government is over for tho present , tho whole peninsula being reported as " ' tranquil" — . that ia to say , sullenly quiescent for tho time . A new AyuntunUQiito and Provincial Deputation have boon appointed ut SurugoasQ . Tho Madrid journals of tho 2 i ) th ult . stato that M . de Bruil , tho ex-minister , took part in tho negotiations which Jed to tho surrender of SaragoH . sa . They also Bay
thut M . . Junn Martinez Alonzo , a progressist deputy , accepted tho mission of informing the iutmrgcut leaden * thut tho Queen , her ministera , and her generaln , wore animated by a most conciliatory spirit . Wot only Genoral Falcon , but tho President , and uuvural members of tho Junta , escaped from ( Suvugonsa tho night hofuro tho surrender , nnd proeoodod towurda tho French frontier ^ The National Guard of SurMgoiuja , with tho exception of one battalion , and tho cloven buttullona of tho Arugoncso provinces , have boon ditwolved . On tho day following tho entry of Goneral Duloo , a Tu J ) cuiu wan tnmg in the cnthcdrul . Tho contest in Catalonia was attended with much
bloodshed . On the side of the people , according to the Epoca , General Ruiz , with the Sub-inspector of the militia of Lampurdaa , Roger , at the head of two thousand men , moatly belonging to the militia , intrenched themselves at Llers . The Regiment of Navarre , commanded by Colonel Gonzalez , attacked them and put them to flight , , and on the 25 th Ruiz , iua aide-de-camp the Mayor of the Place of Girona , and the Commander of the Regiment of Africa , Juan Gangara , with all the persons implicated in the revolt at Girona and , in the Lanipurdan , sought refuge in France , where they were arrested and removed to the interior .
An interesting article on the present position _ of Spanish affairs has appeared in the Paris journal L' Union . The opinions there expressed are , as will be seen , singularly bold , whea we consider the rigorous censorship that is exercised , on the French ( press . The writer observes : — " O'Donnell is at this moment master of the position . He oan . lean on his long sabre , and gaze en the ruins which stUJ smoke , whilst saying— ' All this acknowledges me . ' But does this victory , so d « arly purchased , promise to Spain a regular Government ? does it promise to the victor a long possession of power—a Government ? ' On this point our doubts exist . As Iwg as the laws are suspended , the Cortes dispersed , the national militia disarmed—as long as the dictatorship
continues—we may question the re-establishment of the constitutional rule in Spain . And yet it is said that this rule is the one meditated by O'DonnelL But we are all aware of the value and of the destination of good intentions . Let us , however , hasten to say that the Government of O'Donnell does not appear to incline towards constitutional liberties . Where are any symptoms that correspond with the intentions attributed to him ? Do they , perhaps , exist in his attitude towards the press ? At this moment the Spanish press is treated in a manner that corresponds with anything but liberty The general march of the Cabinet is at the same time hostile to the idea of an approaching return to constitutional Government . With respect to the solution of the
second problem—namely , the personal position of O'Donnell—it must be said that threatening clouds conceal the truth , and reduce us to conjectures . O'Donnell issued from a revolution , and bears , whatever he may do , the unmistakable signs of his sad origin . The actual dictator of Spain cannot therefore expect to obtain the absolute confidence of the party qualified as moderate- ^—of that party which , in the end , is really victorious today . On the other hand , he has made himself for ever the euemy of the Progresistas , his friends of yesterday , against whom he fought in the streets of Madrid ^ Tbia is the position of the isolated victor—a chief without an armyan administrator without a party . It is said ,
, though we discredit the statement , that Marshal O'Donnell had , at one time , the idea of seeking in the Progresistas the strength which fails him . If such had been his tactics , he must speedily have discovered his aiusion . The Marshal and that party are separated by all the breadth of the late barricades , and the only policy which remains to him is to throw himself into the arms of his enemies of yesterday . Will ho do this ? Perhaps ! But he will hesitate before accomplishing that act , for he will foresee that the union cannot be of long duration . At all events , it is for tho advantage of the so-called moderate party that the recent revolution was brought about . "
It is a fact worthy of note that the Morning Post , the chief organ in this country of Napoleonism , strongly condemns the O'Donnell treason , though it closely re-r sembles the French coup d ' etat of December , 1851 , a » d though the French Emperor , iu the columns of the Monyteuv ( as we showed last week ) , expresses his gratitude for the recent events at Madrid . Tho Puria correspondent of tho paper in question writes : — " Her Majesty has dispersed by a military force a moderate Cortes , disarmed tho national guard , reduced the press to an echo of the triumphant treason of O'Donnell , caused some hundreds to be shot down in the streets , and given life and hopo to Carliats aud Republicans . Such , in a , few wordfl j is tho result of a long-cherished plan of the Huly Sovereign of Spain , who has no power to replace any one of the olomenta of government which have been swept away , and Queen Isabella can henceforward only rule by tho aid of some uiubitious soldier , or , it may bo , by the
favourite who shall win his way to power by doods of tho drawing-room rather than by military prowets . It is attempted to show that no mp . tor . iul ahnngQ wiW tuko pluco in the Government of Spain , and that tflO Quoen , in dispersing tho Cortes by force , hiu > only oXr ercitied a constitutional right ! Such Jesuitiqa . 1 vo « oou-t ing cannot deceivo any one , either at homo or abroad-Tho Quoqii , in fact , hus soutfht to establish a , military despotism in Spain . Thut is tho plain Kntjlla . h of tlio lato ' revolution . ' " Further o »> , we road i ^~ " Jfow 1 110 W boliove in O'Doimoll'a nubility , The Freuoh qfllojaj journal" [ i . e ., Loub Wapoleou ] " ha # committed » blunder in supporting and countenancing a . wan who has played many part * , » nd dous not eujoy the « c » llfldonuo of any party . Uo hiut no priucinlw , gppd . or bud , and no Jiuad for Stato affairs . Perhaps Q « e « H Isabella , who wuh alwaya complaining that EwpArtaVP kepi her in prison , will flud homulf now Juidgud tc » wd with Htill greater difUoultio * , Sho hw b «« u wiwUing tp destroy tho Constitution fpr ftomo time ; It way ho t » U « A
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a , t « ttST 9 . 1856 . 1 THE UADER . 751
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1856, page 751, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2153/page/7/
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