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      ECAliT . Another of those frequent acts of ruffianism ¦ which diBgrace Austrian officiala-in . Italy is recorded by- a correspoudent of the Italia ? del Popola ,. who writea : — "A yoomg student was walking with his betrothed oil the public promenade at Padua , when a German official , attracted by the beauty of the latter , followed her , and not satisfied with impudently staring : her in . the faue , went so fiir aa to insult her by an indecent act . The student isplied by striking , the man on the cheek . The officer thereupon . -drew- bia sabre ,, and wounded the student . in tie hand . The bystanders rushed , upon the officer , to assist whom , some other officers came- up . A terrible scuffle took , place-between- the- officers-and the students of the city , which continued for some time , and resulted ilk the death of s « ven officers . Manv others were

      wounded . The Loss on the side : of the students is not Imewn .. Numerous arrests have taken place , and several others have fled to Switzerland and Piedmont . " A reconciliation , between Naples and the Western Powers is spoken of as highly probable . The question , at i& said , will be discussed , at the meeting of the Emparors . at Stuttgard . Uha captain of the Cagliari . has been declared innocent of any offence , but he is detained as a witness .. It is expected that the vessel will be restored to the owners . The effects of the passengers found on board have been given up to their proprietors .

      AUSTRIA . It has been settled that a stamp of one kreutzer ( about & halfpenny ) shall he imposed on each copy of the nonofficial Austrian , papers . The largest of the journals now costs only two kreutzers ; so tbat this addition to their price will be a . great injury to them . The Austrian , corps of occupation in the Legations will aoen be greatly reduced , as the Papal Government ceases tor pay the monthly subsidy of 54 , 000 zwuazigera ( ISOOi ) . On the 28 th ult ., a . part of the garrison of Accona began its march towards Austria .

      municates to the Times an account of an insult offered to his wife by : the . police of Hamburg . " On Thursday week , " he : writea , " mf wife "was told by a servant that two men wanted , to see hen She met two disguised policemen ,, wham- she recollected , to be the- same who had seized my papers .. These fellows said they were- ordered to seize again the papers of my wife * to take . her to the Town » hall T and to use force if she should- happen to offer any resistance ! No man being : at this time in : the country-house , only aa olii lady and some maidservants , my wife could not but submit , and was carried off , walking on foot between these two men like a vagabond or thief . Having , waited in . the Town-hall for half ! aa hour ,

      she was brought to the ' Winzenbaum , * a . prison situated in the old city . Arrived there , she- Avaa searched io the skin ; by the-wife of the gaoler , and anything found , about her seized . Then she was locked up in a common , prisoner's cell . The other day she was taken before the senator , not Blurnenthal , another , ' finer but viler , ' aa my wife describes him . He had the boldness to maintain that my wife had been forbidden to come to Hamburg . This -was not so , the police having only revoked the permission : to live in their city ( sic . y The day before yesterday ( the 3 rd inst . ) , she was led by a policeman , aver the Holste in frontier , in the same manner as is done with vagrants . "

      ) . A dispute has arisen ( says a contemporary ) between the federal authority and the Canton of Vaud , on the question of the railway from Lausanne to Berne , by way of Oron and Pribourg . The Council of . State of Vaud directed the Prefect of Lavaux . to stop the works , on the ground that it had not given its sanction to that portion of the line which traverses the- canton . As soon as the Federal . Council heard of this resolution , they unanimously annulled it , and * as the authorities of Lausanne

      were preparing- to send a battalion to enforce their orders , a telegraph despatch , containing the substance of the federal resolution , was sent off , so aa to throw on the Council of State of the Canton of Vaud the responsibility of any further proceedings * .. M . Fornerod , the President of the Confederation , was-absent when Ms colleagues came to the resolution of enforcing the federal laws ; and , as he is a Yaudois , it is hoped that he will have sufficient influence with his fellow-countrymen to prevent them , from pushing the matter to extremities ..

      THE DJUStUBIAU PBtNCIPALlTIES . The Minister of the Interior of Moldavia , M- Basile Grhika , and seven Prefects ( according to a despatch from Jassy in the JVorc O have been dismissed for having comuaitted administrative abuses .

      Aai Austrian soldier on duty at Ancona desired a person in . plain , clothes to take a cigar he was smoking out of his . mouth . The gentleman , who was a lieutenant in the . Papal army , refused to do so , and reproved the soldier for his ; impertinence . The man then knocked the cigar out of the mouth' of the officer , who straightway complained to the colonel of the regiment ; but he ob " - tained no satisfaction whatever . Iih . 8 Emperor is . still making his progress through Hungary . As he was receiving the congratulations of the . burgomaster of Miskolcz , Lieutenant-Colonel Count Szirmay , who had accompanied thelmperial carriage all the way on horseback , suddenly fell dead from the

      saddle-The solemn entry of the Archduke Maximilian and the Archduchess Charlotte into Milan took place on Sunday afternoon at four o ' clock . They were received by Count . Sebregpndi , the . Mayor .

      BJJSSIA . The commission entrusted with the administration of tEat-part of Bessarabia which has been ceded to Moldavia has just been dissolved . The Emperor has prohibited Jews from , inhabiting Sebastopol . They are not even allowed to go thither in order to embark in a staamer for foreign parts : for that purpose , they must gu to Eupatoria . The Nord states that the Emperor of Russia , after passing some days at Berlin , Wilbad , and Darmstadt , is to go to Stuttgard on the 24 th , and to remain there to tlie 28 th ; and that the Emperor of the French is to arrive in the same city on the 25 th . on a visit to the King of Wurtemberg . According to a letter from Stuttgard , in the Zeit of Berlin , the Empresa of the French is to accompany his Majesty .

      BELGIUM . During the riots-which took place in Belgium at the latter end of May , the town of Ghent remained undisturbed , but tlie General who commanded the town took military precautions . Since then , the communal council has condemned those precautions as being illegal , because tlieywere not called for by the civil authorities . The matter , however ; having been brought before the King , a Royal ordinance has been published annulling the determination of the communal council as being ; founded in'error .

      DKNMAKIC The Diet of Holsteih , in . the sitting of the 31 st ult ., ¦ unanimousl y resolved that a committee of seven members should bo nominatod to obtain from the Danish Government tho- annulment of the measures adopted by M . Do Schools , -without the approbation of the Diet , and for which ho was impeached- SPAIN . Joaquin Jcuna and Cajetano Morales have been shot fit Soville on a-chargo of instigating the lato rebellion .

      _ Tumure . Syria continues in a most disordered state . Highway robberies are of frequent ocourronco ; murders are con-HtanMy committed . ; and the Turkiah authority seems to be almost openly defied . The Sultan has ' relieved ' Ecdachid Pacha of his office ot President of tlie Tanrimat . Fuad Pacha has been nppomt « d . iu Ilia placei aKIUtfAMY . iiorr Otto von Gonnau apolitical oaila in England ,, com-

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      STATE ( XF TRADE ; The reports of the state of trade in the manufacturing towns for the week er-dinglast-Saturday show an increase of business at Manchester . At Birmingham and elsewhere , there has been little alteration ^ the transactions in most cases being on a . full average scale ,, at steady prices . —Times . In the general business of the port of London during the same week there has been considerable activity . The number of ships reported inward was 2 60 , showing- an increase of 50 over the previous week . These included

      24 with cargoes of sugar , 43 with , cargoes of grain , &c , and 2 from Shanghai with cargoes of tea . and silk , comprising 16 , 361 packages of tie former and 2028 bales of the latter . The number of vessels cleared outward-was 116 , including 16 in ballast , showing a decrease of 29 . The number of ships on the berth loading for the Australian colonies is 47 , being 13 less than at the last account . Of those now loading 5 are for Adelaide , 4 for Geelong , 2 for Hobart Town , 3 for Launceston , 4 for New Zealand , 14 for Port Phillip , 2 for Portland Bay , 12 for Sydney , and 1 for Swan River . —Idem .

      Several failures have taken place at Bristol , consequent on the suspension of Messrs . Brufovd , Dyer , and Co ., African merchants . The new failures include Messrs . H . F . Fardon and Co ., -with liabilities ranging from 30 , 000 / . to 40 , 000 / . ; Mr . Aaron Crosfield , general merchant ( liabilities about 10 , 000 / . ) ; Mr . Charles Isaacs , Australian merchant ( liabilities about 15 , 000 / . ) ; . George Wyld and Sons , rectifying distillers and -wine andbrandy merchants ( liabilities unstated ) ; and Messrs . Perrcnand Co ., merchants , ship and insurance agents , &c , wliose debts are estimated at 20 , 000 / .

      A petition has been presented to Vice-Chancellor Wood on behalf of Mr . Abel Stuart , of South-bank , Regenl ' s-park , and Mr . George Duplex , of Torring ; tonsquare , pra 3 'ing that an order absolute may be granted for the dissolution of the London and Eastern Banking Corporation , and that its affairs may he wound up under tho provisions of the Joint-Stock Companies Wiuding-up Acts . The petitioners-solicit this on tho ground of mismanagement by the directors , who are accused of inakiDg dishonest uses of the capital of the company .

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      THE MORMON" CONFERENCE IN LONDON . The Mormons held their sixth annual conference last Sunday at tho Adoluidc Gallery . It was presided over by two of tho 4 apostles , ' Brothers Orson Pratt and Ezra Benson . Tho persons present , during the day and evening , ranged from six hundred , to a thousand , From the statements , of Pastor Ross , tho representative of London , it appeared that 1260 / . hatl been subscribed during tlie past year for emigration aud other purposes , The exertions of tho prieBthood wore saiid to huve been

      universally received and accopted . Preaching in the streets ,, lanes , and other places , had been revived . The President of the Kent oonforence said they had had very plcnsnnt times , llo looked upon tho ' saints' in Kent , who number 5 G 0 , as ' a iirat'clasa lot ol people , a& they aupport thirteen , elders , pay theix tithing , and approve all that tho ciders j ^ ropose They havo also to bear their share of opposition , but they have felt tho better for it . ' Th « President from IChscx . saidhc had re-baptized in hiu dlutrict 2 ' out ol 374 . —The : Itcadiag 1 ' iosidont auoko of huviu ^ fr om

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      of 1 in 80 , to the extentof 3114 yards . At the top of this incline are the switches , and it is the duty of the enginedriver , prior to reaching it , to go behind the . train , and push it over the banks on . to . the incline * when it reaches the station- by- it&own impetus , regulated in its speed by the hreaks . On the arrival o £ one of tha trains on . Monday , the awitchnuwn with ; his assistant , having placed the . points in the right direction ,, uncoupled the Londbn . from , the Ramsgate train , and . the former was pushed by tie engine over the incline . The break ; being ia front } the switchman had" no

      knowledge-that the guard was not in it , and he-therefore , as usaal , jumpedon to the step ; of the last carriage , so-as to be in readiness to open the < loors and assist the passengers out on , the train drawing : up ; at the platform . The moment the train reached the . station , its . velocity left no doubt that a . collision with tie end of the station would be inevitable , and the switchman-jumped off . In , an instant afterwards , the crash occurred . JSTo lives were lost , but several of the . passengers were seriously cut and bruised . They are all , however , now progressing favourable-.

      The accident , which occurred at the Ipswich races to rthe : lad . George Deer , the rider of the horse Neva , terminated fatally on Monday . John Teal , a youth , of seventeen , has accidentally shothis . uncle in the fields near the hamlet of Timble ' Great ; about six miles from Otley , Lancashire ; The trigger of the gun caught a twig in the hedge , and the uncle was instantly shot dead .. Th& body waB afterwards discovered by some lads ( one a . relation ) , who thought the man was asleep , and called cut to him to get up . Going nearer to him , however , they discovered that he was dead . The nephew did not make his appearance till dusk the same : evening , being overwhelmed with grief and horror . ' ' -

      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A singular accident has befallen Dr . Day , the Professor of Medicine in the University of St . Andrews , in the neighbourhood of the Lakes , where he was staying . Having made several ascents of Helvellyn with a . guide , he determined on going up by himself . He did so in safety ; but , while descending , he suddenly found the earth behind him give way , and he was precipitated into a cavern beneath . A suffocating feeling at- once convinced him that he had fallen into the tunnel made to convey away the sulphurous gases from the smelting works of the mines . Happily he -was just able to reach the opening , where he remained for some hours hanging by one ami , the other being powerless , and calling for help . Towards evening , three gentlemen tourists heard his cries and roleased him . He was removed to the inn at Patterdale , where it -was found that his . arm was badly broken ; but he is now doing well .

      A party from Leeds and Rochdalo were recently visiting lioltou Abbey and its neighbourhood . One cf the gentlemen undertook the dangerous feat of leaping over tlie celebrated ' strid ; ' , on gaining the opposite rock ^ lib foot slipped and ho fell into tho torrent . The shrieks of his wife at length induced the ltev . John Mather , of Itochdale , to attempt a rescue . Ho ran downtbve- stream for some thirty yards , jumped to tho other aide , and caught the adventurous gentloman as ho reached the spot . Additional assistance soon arrived , and the drowning man was pulled out , and partially recovered . This is said to be the , first instance of a person , who had fallen into the ' strid' being saved . A baby in arms was smothered to death a few days ago in a railway carriage during a clienp trip from Leeds to Hull , owing to tho carrium being overfilled .

      Jane Bcadon , aged forty-five , tho wife of a lookingglass silvcrer in Alie-atreet , Goodman ' s Fields , has met with a sudden death , from strong emotion . Owing to tho nature of her occupation , her health was "very bad ; and on "Wednesday week she was much agitated by hearing her son , a youth of thirteen , singing an a choir of three thousand at thu Crystal Palace . She became suddenly ill ; exclaimed , " Oh , my dear child ! " pointed to the orchestra , and was immediately afterwards paralysed in her right side , losing at once all power of speech . Sho was immediately attended by medical men ; but she died about eleven o ' clock tho sa-iue night , An inquest haa been , held ; tcrmin-ating in a vordiut of Natural Death .

      A singular accident ltas occurred ut tho Margate station of tho South-Kastorn Railway . At tli « Margate station thero in nn iucliuc in tho direction of . tlau station

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      No . 390 , Septembeb 12 > 1853- ] THE 1 / E A B E B . gy ^

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 12, 1857, page 871, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2209/page/7/