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* a—^—¦¦ " ' immmImwm-mm mm . mimmmmm _ him Btablfed in " the face and breast . The culprit was arrested , and las been examined at Woi-ship-street where she has "been remanded . She alleged drink as the excuse for her offence . % Attempt to Murder in the Subbey Theatbe . — - A scene-painter at the Surrey Theatre , named Frederick Quennell , made a serious attac k with an iron bar , on Saturday night , on a Mr . Harcum . A quarrel had for some time existed between the two ; but no precise details are at present known . Quennell has been examined at the Southwark police-court , and is remanded .
B & ntK Robbery . —A young man at Glasgow has been robbed of £ 250 which he was paying into the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank . While counting out a pound ' s worth of silver , to add to the former sum ( which was in notes ) , a man asked him som e questions to engage his attention , and shortly afterwards disappeared . It was then found that the notes had disappeared also . An Incendiary in the Famhy . —Joseph . Lockwood , son of Mr . George Lockwood , farmer , of Arlington ,
near Doncasfcer , has been committed for trial , charged with setting fixe to a stack of wheat belonging to his fatter . The father said he believed the cause of the crime was that the young man could not agree with Ms half-sister—a very unsatisfactory mode of accounting for the fact . Joseph Lockwood admitted his crime to the police , bub denied it before the magistrates . All the witnesses gave him an excellent character as an honest man , but rather incongruously added that "drink had been his ruin . "
A Desperado . ^—A jpoung man , named Edward Butler , has been examined at the ClerkenweU policeoffice on « , charge of severely wounding Ann Cox , a charvroman living at Somers-town , and also assaultjjjig twopolicemen . Th . ? prisoner , who appears to be of a . habitually , savage disposition , was drinking , in companywith -the woman , at a public-house x ° - Som ? i & $ , oyrii , After . a iime , a quarrel arose between thein , whenButler , talking out a knife , threatened to tall , bis companion , and then commit suicide . The woman held uj ) her right hand to ward off the blows , and immediately received several deep and dangerous yjdter ! V-. Twtipolicemen who came to her aid , and at-^ mpted to take Butler into custody , were bit and lacked ferociously . / After he was conveyed to the station-house / and while apolice-sergeant was taking tii ^' : charge , he became bo violent that it required six constables 06 remove hini to his cell He said he
would "do" fox the woman if she . appeared against him . All lie alleged in his defence was that he was drunk at the time . He was sent to the House of Correction for two months for the assaults on the woman and constables . jSp ^ PEOTED { Mxtbdbr AT JJTANTYGto .- ^ The dead body of ; a man has been discovered at ' the bottom of a shaft of one of the collieries at Kantyglo . Traces of blood in iUxe locality of the body seem to render it probable that tne mm was murdered . The MtjBJDBSR at -IsiiiNGTON . ^—Mrs . Somner has
been committed for trial on the charge of murdering Celestana Christmas . It now appears beyond all doubt that the girl ( who was a . little turned ten years of age ) was the offspring of her murderess . On being removed after the former examination , Mra . Somner began talking- with a policeman about Hamlet and Richard the Third , and of the acting of Mr . Phelps in Sthetyrant" of the latter play . She added , alluding to the murder , "It is no use telling a lie : I did not know what to do for the best "—with , respect to the deceased child .
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Continental Notes. France. The Incident ...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . The incident of the Siicle , the JDebata and the Monitew has been a good deal talked of in Paris , as ah amusing illustration of the constant and systematic equivocation which constitutes the genius of the present Imperial government . To understand the embroglio , it should be premised that the Siicle , with its quasi-republican airs , and frothy patriotic Chauvinism and bluster about the nationalities , & c , has for a long time forfeited the confidence of the pure republican party in Franco from its known intrigues With that branch of the Imperial family at present located in the Palais Royal , and from the intimacy of its extremelmediocre editorinchief
y -- , M . Havin , with he renegade minister of the Interior , M . Billault , and other congenial associates . Well , in the present WBtence j the SUch publishes an article which finds favour m tlie eyoa of the Emperor , not becauao it represents his own policy , but because it ia calculated tOMthrow dvat in the eyes of tho British plenipotentiaries . This artiole is in the form of a loud ^ i ^ i . ftoalm di Plo » n « tio resume in tho JDdbats , ia ^ M oh thc px pbablo pretensions of Russia had boon mfiSyvfc ™ f ¦ * P 2 S e ™ order 8 ' trough m . ¦ wStSl ^^^ Jw of State and of the Household , SSiS ^ ^ ^ 01 of the Monitewr , to have ¦ ¦ asEBaagaEi tffi «& ssssw
BmmmmmmmwmmwKmmmmm ^ mmwmmmummmmmmmmw ^ mmmmmmmmmmm ^ mmmmm ^ mmm the patriotic gentlemen on the Bourse are aghast at their Government , unofficially it is true , demanding the dest ruction of ITicholaieff , the closing of -the Bug , the limitation of the Russian frontier , & c- & c , as essentials to peace . Next morning , a note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs appears in tfie semi-official Cbnstitutionnel , announcing that ife was by an error that the article from the Siecle had "been transplanted into the Monitew . Thereupon , hot war between the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Minister of State . Next morning again , a note in the Moniteuv stating that the Constitutiormel was ha error in conceiving the Monitew * capable of an error ; that the reproduction of the article from the Siecle was intentional , and that
the Moniteur always corrected its own mistakes . This note appeared in all the journals , except in the Constitutionnel , whose silence occasioned so sharp a quarrel between the two ministers that it is said they offered their resignations , under the conviction , we need not add , that they would not be accepted . Finally , $ he Constitutionnel was ordered to publish the note of the Mb % itev / r , and its pliant editor-in-chief , M . Amedee de Ce * sena , who had taken his orders from the Minister of Foreign Affairs , has fallen a victim to the resentment of the Minister of State , and has lost his position on the journal . Such is the dignity , and such
as the wisdom , with which public affairs are conducted In France . It is still asserted that the article inserted in the Moniteur was not the one intended to enjoy that distinction . We should add that the Siecle affects to treat the condescension of the Moniteuv as an honour it had not been accustomed to of late , and to which in its Spartan virtue ifc was sublimely indifferent , while the Debats , which , has certainly the best of the game , informs its contemporary with a polished sneer that it is not in the habit of taking lessons of patriotism , and that it is as much concerned in the honour of France as the Siecle , only it appreciates that honour differently .
Count Orlof f ia much remarked in Paris for his portly person , his lofty bearing , and his aristocratic manners . Baron Brunow is thmight to look quite bourgeois in comparison . The sale of the Tndependance Beige is now an accomplished fact . It was announced by that journal on Sunday last . The particulars were correctly transmitted to us b y a private correspondent a fortnight since . M . Perrot retires , and is succeeded in the chief editorship by M . Berard , who for the last ten years has been acting chief editor of the paper . M . ~> . ..: .... ¦ n . nn . nnn e ., 7 / ininnn \;_ ™« v . O , o ~/ l
rwraii revcivsD vuv > , yw ntuiuo \« v « . x , wvy ~* . .. ~™ , . _ preserves an interest in the property to the extent of 200 , 000 francs (^ 8 , 000 ) . The remaining shares to the extent of 600 , 000 francs are held hy Doctor Veron and two banking firms at Cologne , notably that of Oppenheim et Cie . The Independaiice insists with suspicious earnestness that its political direction will remain absolutely unchanged . No doubt any modification will be very gradual ; but whether the intervention of a man of the Enrpire like M . V ^ ron will be imperceptible . to the readers of tie journal , time must show . Already , as our correspondent informed us would be the case , M . Louis Hymans , the chief Belgian contributor to the paper , has seceded .
An extract from the private letter of a French lady contains an amusing account of the ball given to the Sultan by the French ambassador afc Constantinople . "At half-past eight , when I entered the room , the Sultan was already in the palace ; he had arrived at half-past Beven , but was still in the private apartments . He made his entry into the ball-room at half-past eight , and took his seat upon a throne which had been prepared for his reception . His Highness looked on while a quadrille and a valse were danced ; then retired for an hour ; and returned to see another quadville and polka . I danced in , a quadrille close to hia throne . The physiognomy of the
Prince lacks animation ; he looked at us fixedly by turns ; but it would be difficult to say what feeling was dominant in his expression , ennui or pleasure . The Sultan wore a black dress , tightly fitting , something like the dress of the Turkish attacks at Paris ; but over all he wore the ' white mantle of tine Prophet , the collar and sleeves of whioh were studded with magnificent diamonds . As to hia household and ministers , their dresses were covered with gold . They seemed uncommonly pleased with our amusement , etje t' wwre qu 'ilanous iorgnaient d' nnefacon toute FrancoAse . They stayed till tho end of tlie ball . " A census of the French Empire is to bo taken this year .
Several political arrests have recently takon place in the departments . No sort of demonstration was attempted in Paris on the occasion of tho anniversary of the Revolution of 1848
. Washington's birthday was celebrated "by the most brilliant fete of tho season given b y tho American residents in Paris , and presided over by tl » e American Minister , at the Hotel a « Louvre . The reception of tho esteemed M . Legouvd at the French Academy took place on Thursday last . Madame Allan , one of tho most remarkable actresaeg of tho Frenoh 9 tage , died on the evening of tho 22 nd in » t » , alter a oevero illness . Hor lorn to tho Com < $ dio
^¦¦¦¦¦•^¦••¦¦^¦¦¦•¦¦¦¦¦• bsbhsss ^ HBBBHBSBBBBS Francaise will not speedily be replaced . She made her debut at the Theatre Frangais in 182 T aa Mdlle Despre " aux . From the Francaise she passed' to the Gymnase , where she was married to the actor Allan and from the latter theatre she accepted an engagement at St . Petersburg , where she held a brilliant engagement for ten years . On her return to Paris hi 1844 Madame Allan introduced the charming Proverbes of Alfred de Musset to the Parisian stage , enriching them with her o wn most delicate and refined deline ations The select public of the St . James ' s will not easily forget Madame Allan ' s exquisitely pathetic acting as the
mother in Lajoiefait peur . That singularly true and touching little drama has now obtained a new and melancholy consecration in the deathof her whose genius conceived a simple stoty of universal human interest and of her whose subtle and accomplished art gave form and reality to the conception . Madame Allan at the time when she was ' seized with her fatal illness was studying the chief part in Madame George Sand ' new piece Franqoisc . Justly esteemed and beloved both in the profession she adorned and in her private life , her death at the age of forty-six , will , we are sure , be universally and profoundly lamented wherever her genius and . her goodness are known .
Madame Rachel has arrived in France from New York . Madame Maria Cabel has ma . de her debut at the Opera Comique in M . Auber ' s new opera , Mtmon Lescomt , the composer laving recoveredfrom his Recent severe illness . The Court and all the corps diplomatique , including most of the Plenipotentiaries , were present at the first performance , which , was completely successful . A Paris paper had published a story about M . de Montalembert , to the effect that that nobleman had
made himself liable to an action at law for having omitted to assume a name on condition of which he had inherited a fortune * M . de Montalembert , in a curt and caustic letter to the journal , for which he demands peremptory insertion , insists that the whole story is a fabrication—that his ancestors have borne no other name than his own since the eleventh century— -and "if the journal in question will be good enaugh to inform hina what name they bore before that date , he will be very much obliged for the information . "
-The Court of Assizes of the Basses Pyrenees has been occupied in the trial of a young Swiss woman , named Jenny Dufey , who made an attempt to murder TW-i-a " R-nn /» v art pirj flvlir Enclish . ladv . suffering from an affection of the lungs , and residing at Pau . JDufey lived with Mrs . Brock as a kind ! of companion ; and , having ascertained that her mistress kept £ 49 in a pair of stays , she resolyed to possess herself of that sum , and to murder the invalid . She therefore told a girl who lived with a . German countess in the same
house that her mistress was dying and that she wanted her assistance . Taking with her two blankets , she then entered the invalid lady ' s room and attempted to smother her ; but the cries of the victim brought assistance , on which Dufey said , with great selfpossession , " Get some hot water instantly—Mrs . Brock is dying . " She was in fact discovered to he insensible , but was restored . The accused was found guilty , though with extenuating circumstances ( what these are do not ; appear ) , and the court sentenced her to twenty years" hard labour .
BELGIUM , A . Belgian journal states that Rossini , who has published nothing since the Stabat Mater , has recently composed a beautiful melody , entitled La Separation for a favourite pupil , Madam * de Luigi . AUSTBIA . The Empress of tlie French has received from tho Austrian Empress-Mother , Caroline Augusta , the order of the Star Cross ( Stern-Kreuz Or den ) . This star is only worn by those ladies whose pedigree ia supposed to be without the least blemish ; but the Empress-Mother , who is Protectress and Superior of tho Institution , says , in the letter which accompanies tho star , that the attention has been shown " in order to consolidate the intimate relations already existing between the two families . "
Sir Hamilton Seymour baa been unable to find a suitable house or apartments since he went to Vienna , and has therefore lived at aa hotel . His rooms have been entered in the night , and his linen has boon stolen . With , respect to the quarters now occupied by our ambassador , the Times Vienna correspondent observes : — " For a long time , a Hussion prince with a polysyllabic name had tho very next room to that whioh served the British miniflter for . Iub salon de reception , and it is highly probable ho hoard a groat part of what was said , as Vienna doors aro by no means remarkable for thoir thickness or for fitting close . "
A oonforenco of bishops is to take place at Vienna , to consider tho subject of tho Concordat , with respoct to whioh there is great diversity of interpretation on tho part of tho Qovernmont and of tho ecoleBiaatioa . Tho intolerance of tho Austrian ooolosiastics hw received a rebuke even from Government . The Rov JSoboatian Brunner . liad , m the Vienna Ohwch GmcUvr -
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Leader (1850-1860), March 1, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01031856/page/8/
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