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cursion to the south , and are now in the palace of Aranjuez . The Queen has authorized the importation of cereals into Spain until the end of December . . PORTUGAL . The Cortes were opened on tlie 7 th last . The Royal speech , announced the betrothal of Prince George of Saxony to the Infanta of Portugal , and spoke of the establishment of new railways , improvements in existing finance measures , and advantages accorded to navigation . The oidium has reappeared . Earthquakes have taken place in the Azores .
' ¦' PRUSSIA . There appears to be no doubt that the powers of the Prince of Prussia to act as Regent will be again prolonged for three months in July . It is very questionable whether the King will ever be able to resume the conduct of public business . His intellect seems to be hopelessly-enfeebled .
AUSTRIA . . The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian , Governor of Austrian Italy , arrived at Venice on the 1 st inst . from Milan . He went immediately to visit the works of the canal . ' .. . '¦ ' ... . ¦ ¦ . ¦' .. ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦'¦ V ¦¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ ' " GEIUTANr- ' ' ¦ ¦ - . . ¦¦ The Germanic Diet has given its sanction to the proposition of the Grand Duchy of Baden for the construction of a solid bridge over the Rhine "between Kehl and Strasbourg .
MONTENEGRO . Prince Danilo has given orders that a church shall be erected in memory of the victory of Grahovo . He has also published a decree directing prayers to be offered up during a space of forty days for the Montenegrins killed in that engagement , and has ' forbidden any man to boast of having shown more bravery than the rest , all having behaved with the greatest gallantry . : ' ¦ '¦ ¦ ¦ ' "¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . BirssiA . ¦ ¦ . - . " . - . ¦ . ¦ : ' . • ¦ ¦ . ¦ A . Trans-Caspian Company has been formed , -with a capital of 350 , 000 ? ., the object of which is to develop Russian commerce with Persia arid Central Asia , by way of th « Caspian Sea .
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A strange accident has occurred at Paignton , Devonshire . A poor single woman , residing in a small cottage , was confined . Several neighbours , to the number of seven , were present , when suddenly the floor gave way , and all ( including bed and baby ) fell through to " the ground floor The leg of one of the women was broken . A man , after the fall , picked out from , the ruins the newly-born baby , which was uninjured . Tlree boys belonging to the N « w College of St . Nicholas Lancing , Sussex , have been drowned while bathing in the river Adur , about half a mile above Old Slforeliam Bridge . The poor lads were unable to s w im , and had gone into the water contrary to orders . The current was very strong at the tim « , and , in the vain endeavour to rescue them , three more of the pupih nearly met the same fate . James Templeton , a labourer at tlie Heathfield Fire-Clay Works , near Garnkirk , Glasgow , was buried alive a few days ago by a fall of earth . livery exertion was immediately made to rescue him ; but it was not until one hundred and eight hours had elapsed , that he was got out . Ho was still alive , but of course very much exhausted . On the day before the fall of matter took place , he had observed certain signs which looked suspicious ; but , though requested not to go back , he disregarded the danger , saying that , "if there should be a fall , he bad an outgate . "
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . New Army Clothing . —The Horso Guards have latelymade a move in the right direction by clothing one of the West India regiments in loose wide trousers , coming in and fastening a little below the knee , a la Zouave or Chasseur de yincennes . It is suggested that these loose trousers might be adopted in our Highland regiments in lieu , of the kilt . They would be much more manly , much more convenient , much less indecent , and less obsolete than the kilt . ~ United Service Gazette . Reinforcements fok India . — Orders have been issued to the officers in command of the several cavalry and infantry depots of those regiments serving in India , directing them to hold in readiness reinforcements to the number of about 10 , 000 men of all ranks , to embark for India immediately . Military Funerau—The whole of the disposable troops in "Woolwich Garrison , consisting of the Horse and Foot Artillery , the Royal Sappers and Miners , Eoyal Marines , the Enst Kent and Oxford Militia Rogixn ' onts , the Military Train , &c , wore last Saturday mustered on parade in front of the Royal Artillery barracks to attend the funerul of the late Mr . Francis Tellatt , principal military storekeeper of Woolwich , ¦ whoso death by an accident wo noticed last week . The Cabtino Drfaiitmbnx at Woomvicii . —A committee composed of Mr , Macartney and other members of the House of Commons recently assembled to inquire into various proceedings connected with the casting department of Woolwich Arsenal , as it had come , to tholr
knowledge that a large amount of labour had not been satisfactorily accounted for . A return of the past year ' s expenses and produce has been consequently demanded in order to bring the matter befoie the House . Time las been asked for , to prepare the accounts , -which will not be ready before next session . It is said that among the articles in question , and which were cast in the Royal gun foundry , is a quantity of small fine casting . * , such as busts of the Royal families of Great Britain , France , Turkey , and Sardinia , all cast in gun metal , as well as various tobacco-jars , watch-stands , vases , and many other ornaments . The obelisk which was intended to commemorate the officers of the Royal Artillery who fell in the Crimea , and which was laid aside in the metalstore , the committee have been informed , cannot now be found . —Times . Testimonial to a Sergeant-Major . —The non-commissioned officers attached to the East India Company ' s depots at Chatham Garrison have presented Sergeant-Major J . Brainall , the senior non-commissioned officer of the' 1 st . battalion-of infantry , with a massive silver goblet and cover , as a mark of Hie high respect enter-, tained towards him , on the occasion of his retiring from the 1 st battalion , having received a staff appointment . Her Majest y ' s Ship Coatus , 14 , Commander Richard Dawkins , which was paid off at Chatham on Monday , las been in commission upwards of five years , laving sailed from Sheerness in June , 1353 , where she was commissioned by Captain W . A . Fellowes . During the whole time she has been in commission , she has been attached to the China squadron , un « ler the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour , K . C . B ., and has been in succession in Hong-Kong , Canton , Shanghai , and Arnoy , having been stationed at the last port seventeen months . The Comus was exceedingly successful in putting down piracy in the Chinese waters , and on one occasion destroyed eleven pirate junks which had for a long time infested the Formosa Channel , - the crews being for the most part billed . v Capture of a Slaver . —Her Majesty's brig Heron captured a slaver on April lSth off the west coast of Africa . The barque at first showed American colours , but afterwards threw them overboard .
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CRIMINAL BECOKD . Robbery at the Great Northern ^ Railway . — -A youth , named John IMagg , clerk in ' the coal department of the Great Northern Railway , has been examined at the Clerkenwell police-court on the charge of robbing the company to the amount of 350 / . It was his duty to receive daily from the carmen the different sums of money which had been paid to them for coals ; and on the 24 th of May he received altogether the sum of 350 / . in gold and silver , bank-notes and cheques . He left his office shortly before ten o'clock at night , and about half an hour after his departure , a cash-box was discovered by a boy in the gutter in Stanmore-street . The lad immediately took the box ; home to his mother , by whom it was opened , when , seeing that it contained money and papers belonging to the Great Northern Railway Company , she took it to the police-station . An investigation was then made , and suspicion having fallen on Blagg , his box was searched the following morning , and 58 f . in gold were found in itj which the young man said were his savings ; however , on making further inquiries , it was ascertained that a few days previously he had occasion to borrow 23 L in order to make up the day's accounts . Blagg admitted this fact , but added that 9 / . of that amount he had borrowed for a friend , the remainder being to make up the accounts of the day , in consequence of the men having struck work . The young man was taken into custody , and , after his arrival at the station-house , he was searched , and seventy-two sovereigns were found upon him . He was remanded , Prize-Fight by Women . —Two disreputable women were discovered on Sunday morning in the Pottery-fields , near Liverpool , stripped to tlie waists , and fighting in the manner of professed pugilists . The men with , whom they cohabit were acting as their seconds , and it was by them that this disgraceful encounter was got up . They had been wagering on the issue . The women were brought before the magistrates on Monday morning , and were committed to prison for a month . —Another encounter between women ( arising , however , from , a personal quarrel ) took place some weeks ago in Hungcrfordstreet , Commercial-road , London . After a good deal of abuse , the women flew atencli other savagely , and fought with great vindi « tiveness . Finally , the one who had got the worst of it went inio her house , armed herself with a knife , and wounded Eicr adversary very seriously in the face in several places . The injured woman remained in hospital for a fortnight ; and the other 1 ms just been sent to prison for two months . Mn > i > uc 8 icx Sessions . —The Juno Sessions has been held this week ; but not many ensoa of importance have come before it . On Wednesday , two sailors , natives of Oiide , were tried for stealing watches . They liad obtainod them by pretending to act as agents of the Prince of Oudo ; but they woro not ao authorized . Having been found Guilty , they were- sentenced to six months hard labour each . —Bridget Sullivan wus
charged with a savage assault on Eobert Baker who hud offended her by not taking lier pa J when her husband was beating her . She accordingly on the following day , threw at him a large kettle full of scalding water , in which she Lad boiled four candles , in order , as she told a police man , that it might stick all the more to Baker , adding that "it was better for him" than pure water . Bv dipping his bead in time , Baker missed the greater part of the water , but , nevertheless , his face and arms were fearfully scalded . The woman was found Guilty and sentenced to hard labour for eighteen months . —George Portsmouth has been sentenced to nine months ' hard labour for an assault on a man and his wife , with an iron bar . —On Thursday , John Lacy , a smith , -t ^ as found Guilty of assaulting John Ryan , a blind boy , by striking him on the head with a hammer so violently that there was an indentation on the bone . No provocation whatever was given . He was sentenced to two years' lard labour ; but inquiries will be instituted a& to the state of his mind .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LA W AND POLICE COURTS . The First Division of the Court of Session , Edinburgh gave judgment on Friday -week in the appeal of Mr ! Wilkie , the ageut in Mr . Stephens ' s bankruptcy , against a decision of Mr . Sheriff Substitute Hallard , repelling the objections made by him to answering certain questions in his examination relative to the furniture of Gothic Lodge , Twickenham . In July last , Mr . Stephens first engaged the legal advice of Mr . Wilkie , a solicitor before the Supreme Courts in Scotland , and the latter at that time dissuaded the insolvent from taking out sequestration . In August , Mr . WilTae advanced to Mr Stephens . 1 U 0 O / ., and had the furniture of Gothic Lodge assigned to bint in security . On the 19 th of October , Mr . Stephens at length took out sequestration in the Sheriff ' s Court at Edinburgh , and , in December , while under judicial examination before the Sheriff Substitute there ,, he absconded . The furniture of Gothic Lodge was advertised to be sold on the 9 th of February , and Mr . Binny , Writer to the Signet , and trustee on the sequestered estate , found on tracing the matter that this proceeding was at the instance of the bankrupt ' s agent . Mr . Binny immediately made application to the Sheriff for the examination of Mr . Wilkie . The Bankruptcy ( Scotland ) Act of 1856 authorizes the Sheriff , on application by the trustee , to order examination of "the bankrupt ' s wife and family , clerks , servants , factors , law agents , and others who can give information relative to bis estate ; " and further provides that "the bankrupt and such other persons shall answer alL lawful questions relating to the affairs of the bankrupt . " The Lord President said that , looking to the relation of the parties ,, and without giving any opinion as to tlie case of a separate individual acquiring right to the property of the bankrupt , that the investigation was not to stop by reason of Mr . Wilkie having taken the character of an interested party , when he stood in the position of having . to give information relative to the bankrupt estate . The other Judges concurred , and judgment was given accordingly . The case of Braine v . Braine was tried by a Special Jury in the Court of Probate last Saturday . The late Mr . George Henry Braine , a builder in a large way of business , died of paralysis on the 4 th of last October , at the age of fifty-six , leaving house property of the nominal value of 45 , 000 / ., but reduced by mortgages to about 10 , 000 ? . He left a will , executed in duplicate a short time before his death , by Tvhich he bequeathed the bulk of his property to an illegitimate son and daughter who hud always passed by his name and been brought up by him . This will was disputed by tho testator ' s brother ,, on the ground that , owing to attacks of paralysis , the deceased was not in a sound state of mind at the time he signed the document , 'i'lie jury , however , pronounced for the will , and the Judge then decreed probate , and condemned tlie plaintiff in the costs . —In the course of the case , it came out that the deceased was married several years ago , but had separated from his wife on the wedding-day , and had never had any further communication with her . Rear-Admirul Edward Stanley attended , last Saturday , at tho sitting of the Court of Queen's Bench , and took the oaths of allegiance , supremacy , and abj uration . After the administration of the oaths Lord Campbell said he hoped that before long they would get rid of Jhe profane mummery of abjuring allegiance to tho descendants of tho Pretender . A first class certificate , to bo issued after three months' suspension , was awarded in tho Court of Bankruptcy on Monday , to Mr . liuvdgett , of tho firm of Bardgctt and Picurd , corn-factors ; and an immediate certificate of tho first class was given to Mr . Pic / ird . Tho day beforo placing themselves in the hands of their creditors , they hud drawn out of the concern tho sum of 400 / . Picard subsequently returned a portion of his share , and had not uttempted to defend his act ; while Bardgett had not returned any part of tho moncyt and had been guilty of disingenuous conduct . Henco the difference in tho judgment aa respects tho two partners .
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560 THE LEADEJi . T ^ ° - 4 ' > June 12 , 1 S 58 .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1858, page 560, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2246/page/8/
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