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speech , the Judge ( Mr . Baron Martin ) refused to hear ¦ witnesses , alleging that , as the accused -was a partner , he was aa owner of the property , and therefore not indictable . Mr . James suggested that perhaps the law " which renders a shareholder , who is also the servant of the company of which he is a member , punishable for embezzling the funds of the company , might be strained , so as to apply to the present case ; but this was at once set aside by Baron Martin . The prisoner "was therefore discharged . A case * in which Cardinal Wiseman was the defendant has been tried before Mr . Justice Crowder at the Gloucester Assizes last Saturday , and excited very great interest . Xoi-d Petre , the Duke of Norfolk , and
several Roman Catholic ecclesiastics , were on the bench . The facts were briefly these : —The Princess Letitia Bonaparte , the sister of Prince Lucien Bonaparte , the first cousin to the present limperor Napoleon , having married Mr- "Wyse , afterwards the Eight Hon . Thomas Wyse , our Minister at the court of Athens , and having subsequently been separated from her husband on account of her dissipation , took up her residence in France , and was allowed 200 / . a year by her husband . There she became involved in pecuniary difficulties , and the plaintiff— the . Abb < 5 Roux , a French , priest , lately in acure in Chelsea—visited her , and advanced money to pay creditors , to rescue her from a maison de sante , and to redeem furniture and jewels . The AVbe alleged that
she had signed the acknowledgment of debt of 25 , 000 f ., and that he had placed this in the hands of Cardinal Wiseman , who , lie said , had undertaken to endeavour to obtain payment from Mr . Wyse , but had not done so , and now the paper was not forthcoming . The ' plaintiff was imcler examination upwards of four hours , it being necessary to Interrogate him through an interpreter . Cardinal Wiseman , on the otheT hand , swore that he had never had the document in his possession : he had had an interview with , the Abbe' with respect to the matter , and he had seen the document ; but ; " if it went through his hands at all , it was merely that he might hand it over to Mr . Wyse . " He had made a search among his papers for the paper , but could not find . it . He was
persuaded that it had not been left with him . —The evidence of the Princess Letitia Bonaparte ( Madnme " Wyse ) , taken on interrogatories in Italy , was next read to the court . She stated that the plaintiff had offered his friendly offices in her affairs , and had paid numerous sums of money on her behalf , but she declared that he had been repaid by sales of her jewellery and from other sources , and that he had received one quarter of ayear' . s allowance from her husband ( Mr . Wyse ) , which left him actually in her debt to the amount of two hundred and fifty francs . . She admitted signing the acknowledgment of her debt to him of 25 , 000 f ., but this she did on the representation by the plaintiff that the Archbishop of Paris had requested him to discontinue his visits to her , and that he wished to have this document to show
that his visits were -visits of business . He promised , after showing the papers to the Archbishop of Paris ( the prelate who wasassassinAted a few months ago ) , to return them to her . Accordingly , oix the day after he had received the paper of acknowledgment as to the 25 , 0 O 0 f ., he again came to her , told her he had shown it to the Archbishop , and , as there -was no further use for it , threw what appeared to be the very document into the fire . Notwithstanding these allegations , however , the jury found a verdict for the Abbe ; damages , 500 / . At the request of the counsel for Cardinal Wiseman , execution was stayed till after the fourth day of l £ ast « r term ( this day week ) , in order that Mr . "NVyso should be communicated with , in the hope that lie might bo abl © to throw some light on ; the existence of the document . Some of the Cardinal ' s letters wero read at the trial .
They conclude with ' singular union of formality , commercial abbreviation , and religious phraseology : — "I havo the honour to be , Sir , your very obedient suvvant in J . C . ~ N . Cardinal Wiseman . " Jolin Callaghan , Thomas Conway , and Patrick Fraccley , three- labourers , were charged at the Westminster police-ofiice with having endeavoured by threats and intimidation to force a number of men to depart roin . their work The accused were workmen employed fcy _ Mr . Freako , builder , in iinisliiug some houses ' Priaees-gato and Exhibition-road , Kensington ; they track for hi gher wages , and attempted to prevent some mea who had been engaged in their places from doing their work . Callaghan was sentenced to three months ' hard labour , and the other two to fourteen days' imprisonment each .
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on bis way to Constantinople , accompanied by his staff . He id bow British Commissioner for the regulation , of the Turcp-Persian boundary . ¦ ... Expeiuments at Woolwich Arsenal . —The D ulie of Cambridge , Commander-in-Chief ; Lord Panmure , Secretary at War ; Lieutenant - General Sir William Codrington , Admiral Eden , and Mr . Monsell , accompanied by the Persian Ambassador , Ferukh Khan , and suite , arrived at Woolwich last Saturday for the purpose of witnessing a series of experiments which were carried out at the Government practice range . The experiments , which occupied upwards of two liours , commenced with a trial of the efficiency of shells filled with molten iron , for the purpose of firing any ignitaole material . The invention appeared to be highly successful , as did some others which were also tried .
A Solitary ; Voyager . —Information has been received in the novth-east ports that the schooner Happj" - Return , which left Sunderland with coals on the 28 th ult ., has been towed into Dundee , by the Hull steamer Queen , with only one hand ( a lad , named William Chailton ) on board . It seems that after leaving Sunderland the schooner had enconntered a heavy gale , and lost her main boom ; she also had her sails split , and her bulwarks carried away . Her crew got on board a foreign vessel near the South Bell Light , but , for some reason
not explained , they left the lad on boar < L After the crew had left the lad in the leaky and disabled barqwe , in a rough and stormy sea , he pumped her and kept her before the wind , until , exhausted with Iris efforts to keep the crazy craft ailcat , he vent below to hed , after securing the wheel , and slept soundly for several hours . lie was wakened by the steamer coming alongside . When the schooner was got into Dundee , it was ascertained that she was making three inches and a half of 'water an hour . . :
Eewakds for SA . VIKG Life . —On the morning of the 19 th ult , the British barque Halt whistle , James Patterson , master , was stranded off the heights of Calantsoog , when the Dutch pilot-boat Rinkelaar , with the master and nine men , put off to her assistance , and succeeded in saving the lives of the crew , consisting of fourteen hands ; but the master and mate declining to leave the ship , a boat , manned by a- pilot and an apprentice , put ofFto their assistance . In consequence of the boisterous state of the weather , she was tiyset , and the pilot was drowned ; hut the apprentice succeeded in swimming to
shore , after three hours' perseverance . Signals of distress being still sent from the ship , the same apprentice , together with'another apprentice and a . seaman , put oif in a boat , and , after much exertion and danger , succeeded in saving the captain and the mate ; These circumstances having been represented to the Board of Trade , they have awarded the following sums : —To the master of the pilot-boat , 51 . ; to the crew , consisting of nine persons , 2 / . each ; to the relatives of the pilot -who was drowned , and who "belonged to the first boat , 101 . ; to the apprentice who swam ashore , 101 . ; to the three persons in the la . 3 t-bo ' i \ t , 107 .,: cacli .
Accmi' . NT to . the Tuooi ' -smi ? TnAXsrr . —The Transit , while lying at anchor in a fog off Lymirigtcu , had her bottom staved in , the young flood having driven her on her anchor . The water rose very fast , and the captain was obliged to put back to Spithcad . Tun Oneida . —Fears arc entertained for the safety of tlie Onekla , which ought to have arrived before now from Australia . She was the pioneer ship of the Overland Australian Mail line , and had nearly two hundred persons on board , and a large quantity of gold . The last that was heard of her-was on the 4 th of February , on which day she left King George ' s Sound , a port just within the south-west point of Australia .
E . xrjLosioN on SiiiiMiOAUD . —A violent explosion occurred on Monday afternoon , on board the iroa screw collier Hut ton Chaytor , Captain J . Jefferson , lying in the Victoria Dock , llnrtlcpool , by which two of the crew ¦ were seriously injured , though not dangerously . The Hutton Chaytor was loaded with Thomley gas coals , and had been lying in her berth since Saturday waiting for a sea- tide , Two of the crew— 'the second mate and another—went down into the fore-hatch upon some necessary business , carrying a lantern with them . On getting bolow , tlie candle was removed out of the lantern , and the explosion took place .
A Siuv ' s Ckew Stahvxcu to Death . —A Stavnnger pilot , on the 2 nd ult ., boarded a vessel about eight miles from the land , oft' Kinn , Norway . Seven bodies were found on lioard , bearing marks of having died of starvation . No provisions were in the ship , and one of thebodics seemed to havo been attacked by tlio others to satisfy their hunger . Some of the liodies had apparently been dead several dnys ; others only a few . The vcsacl was tho llolingen , from . Narva for Gainaborough . Judging from articles found on two of tlie men , tliey were English .
NAVAL AND MIMTAHY . Lieutenant-general Askbuiikham , C . B ., appointed to « ' « 5 »« nma « dofthc military force about to be despatched to the scat of war n China , left town , accompanied by several military oflicors , last Saturday evening for Alexandria , on Ins way . to Hong-Kong , to assume his com-LlBOTBNANT-COMNBI . J . L . SlMMONH , C . tt ., of the Royal Engmeora , who was tho Queon ' s Commissioner at the . head-qunrtopfl of tho Turkish army under Omer Pacha , and who lias rocelved tho Imperial Order of tho Medjidio of tho Third Class for hla distinguished services during tho l « to war , loft town on Friday for Marseilles
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ing you upon a sufcject of the greatest importance I have no -words sufficiently vivid to express my asto nish ment at your speech , of the 1 st of April . 3 n that speech " delivered at Edmonton , you stated that < you had never met a Jew who had net declared that , if he had the opportunity of inflicting a serious injury upon the Christian faith , or of preventing its spread , he would fail to do so . ' I am always unwilling , indeed I am quite unable , to doubt the veracity of an English gentleman and therefore I feel anxious to believe that , in the some ' what bewildering excitement of electioneering movements , you were unfortunately betrayed intoexpressioiw at variance with well-ascertained and universallvacknowledged facts . The Jews never try to make
proselytes , Faithful to their-own creed , they do not either directly or indirectly , endeavour to undermine the religious opinions of others . Why should they make the attempt ? They are taught to believe that AJmi ^ htv God , the fountain of all mercies and of all blessing judges all human beings according to their works , and that the pious and ' righteous-. on earth , whatever be theirace or faith , may all hope to enter into the kingdom o ' i Heaven . That those who profess the Christian religion should endeavour to make converts I fully understand and , while I am firmly convinced that they will not be
successful in ^ winning my co-religionists from the faith of Israel , I candidly confess that I honour the motives and appreciate the exertions of zealous missionaries . Q'hey labour indefatigably to diffuse the tenets of their religion , because they believe that there is no salvation out of the pale of their own church . The Jews , however , can have no motive for wishing to make proselytesthey respect all religions , and are truly convinced that a conscientious obedience to the-dictates' of the same is not merely compatible with , but pre-enuhentlv productive of the exercise of tha noblest virtues . "
Louis D'Orlkjvks oa the Bourbon " Fusion . '' The affair of the fusion " between the two branches oi the Bourbon family continues to excite a languid interest in political circles . The Paris correspondent of the Indcpendance Beige , writing under date Starch 27 th , communicates to that journal the following letter of the Duke de Nemours to a friend : —" Glaremont , Jan . 25 . —My dear Sir , —In a letter from M . le Comte de Chanibord written upon the occasion , of the death of M . de Salvandy , and published in the papers , there occurs a sentence which represents the reconciliation accomplished in 1853 as one of the firmest guarantees for the future condition of France . Ihis sentence , as we liave since ascertained , has a meaning with respect to which it is
now no longer possible to entertain any doubt , and its effect must be to lead the public to "believe in engagements on our part which my brothers and I have never contracted . We are therefore most unwillingly compelled to depart from the silence which we had determined upon preserving in regard to our relations with M . le Comte de Chambord . The fact is that Avhen , in a spirit of conciliation , I went to M . le Comte de Chambord , I only did so upon the formal assurance that this step did not involve any engagement on our part . In expressing to him , then , our sincere desire to sec Irance call him one day to the throne , and our wish to devote all our efforts to obtain such a result at a fitting opportunity , I was far from offering him our blind and
undefined co-operation . Its conditions were , of course , to be determined by a previous understanding . These conditions , on our side , are contained in three principal points , which our convictions , as well as the respect due to the past history of our family , forbid us « verto abandon :- ¦—1 . The maintenance of the tricolored flag , which is nuw , in the eyes of France , the symbol of the new state of society , and tho expression of the princiiiles consecrated since 1789 2 . There-establishment of a constitutional government . 3 . The concurrence of the national will in the re-establishment of this form of government , and in the recal of the dynasty . Of these three points one only was entered upon by me with M . le Comte de Chambord - during his visit to Nervi , and
the result of cur conversation was such that I felt myself called upon to inform him that so long « s this matter remained \ mdecided all community of views between him and ourselves was impossible . Since then , this state of tilings having to our great regret remained unaltered , and the bare notion of a previous understanding being rejected by M . lo Comte do Chambord , it has become incumbent upon us to > put a stop to attempts , at present useless , in favour of an agreement . We sincerely regret not having been more successful in oar endeavours to reunite uiulcr tho same flag all shades of the Constitutional party , for we should be thereby still serving France . Our resolution is henceforth to await events , and to take counsel on each occasion from reason and
our duties towards our country . — Receive , my dear sir , &C , —Louis o'Oiilkanh . " Mk . Thackeray at Eumuvnau . — Mr . Thackeray was entertained at a dinner at Edinburgh on Thursday week . Lord Neavea occupied tlie chair , and Mr . Thackeray , in reply to tho toast of his health , lunnoroualy vindicated himself from tho charges of being a systematic cynic , iicrpetuully engaged in finding «" wlint is buHO in human naturo , uud of entertaining anarchical tiowb in politics—an opinion which sonic nervous persons haw adopted since tho delivery of tin celebrated lectures on " the four Georges . "
MISCELLANEOUS , Loud Ciiisi ^ mba ani > tiik Jkws . —Tho following excellent letter , signed u A Jewess , " has been addressed to Viscount Ohelsen , the defeated Candida to for Middlesex —' "My Lord , —I feel that I should apologize for intruding upon your time when I know it to be so fully occupied , yot 1 find it impossible to reirainfroia address-
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344 T HE LEJ-PEI . [ No . £ 68 , Saturday
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Leader (1850-1860), April 11, 1857, page 344, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2188/page/8/
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