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IRELAND. The Great Comet of 1556.—If the...
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. FRANCE. Marshal Pelis...
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Assize Cases.—Grace Richardson, A Straw ...
Robbxno Post-Offices . —Two faehipnably-dressed young men , named George Thomas and Henry Hillyer , Jre 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 , Corent 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 efforts have been made for a respite . His mother the iury who tried him , and several other persons , have petitioned the Government , but Sir george Grey refuses to listen to their entreaties . Dr . Forbes Winslow 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 t o be of very defective intellect . The alleged " penitence is doubted by some .
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Ireland. The Great Comet Of 1556.—If The...
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 Tippejrakx 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 half naked . This is the regiment the disgraceful treatment of which by the Government led to the recent disturbances . Charles M'Cbeady , 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 fceen sentenced to death . It is understood that his execution will not take place till the 22 nd of September . The Tippekary Bank . —Mr . Murphy , the Master in Chancery , has placed on the file of proceedings in the ¦ winding-up a minute in which he 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 p lace 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 .
Continental Notes. France. Marshal Pelis...
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 the vessels in the port were dressed with Hags . 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 the few who were abroad scarcely uttered a single cheer . This has been accounted for by the fact that the inhabitants wore all enjoying their siesta at the time ( two o ' clock , p . m . ) ; and the 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 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 hy the Municipal Council . A magnificent tout of velvet , eilk , and gold lace , was provided for the successful general . An ample banquet having been enjoyed by officers and men , the cubtomary toasts followed ; and , at the closo of the evening , Marshal Polissier rose and said : — "Gentlemen , —I did oxpect tlmt somebody would liavo proposed a toast to our brave allies , but , nothing to that effect having been offered , I must say that wo have acted like egotista . Your silence compels me to recal to your recollection the flrmnesa and the valour of the British army , which showed ua how to conquer or to < lie , and tho constant spirit of concord and confraternity of which it gave us ao inuny proofs . Wo should also recollect tho oagernoaa , with which tho . Sardinian army , but rocontly created , joined our ranks , anil tho noble courage ¦ with which it fought . I am confident , gentlemen , that thoao observations -will find an echo In your hoarta , and I consequently propoao to you tho health of tho gracious Queen of Great Britain , " and another touflt . ' the King of Sardinia . ' " Tho Geuoral then retired . On tho following day , having received during tho night a
telegraphic despatch from the Emperor , he departed for Plombieres . . The weather has been excessively hot in trans . Politics are at a perfect stand-still , and fashion has departed into the provinces . Bordeaux ( says the Courrier de la Gtronde ) is about to witness the passage of a great number of regiments of infantry proceeding to the frontier of Spain . 1 ms 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 au 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 in 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 theNmwrdeT" 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 , rye , barley , and oats , has fallen very considerably . rnuwsiA . The King has been visiting Carlsbad , where he was met by the King of Greece , who entertained him at dinner . On the following morning , the 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 come over from Pillnitz for that purpo . se . Tho next day , the Prussian King and Queen returned to their own palace of Sans Souci . SPAIN . Saragossa has submitted to the Queen ' s troops , without resistance . General Dulce made his entranco on the 1 st hist ., and it would appear that the contest between tho Liberals and tho Government is over for tho present , tho whole peninsula being reported as " ' tranquil "— . that is to say , sullenly quiescent for tho time . A now Ayuntamiqnto and Provincial Deputation have been appointed at Saragossa . 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 Sarugonsa . They also Bay tlmt M . . Juan Martinez Alonzo , a progressist deputy , accepted tho mission of informing tho insurgent leaders thut the Queen , her ministers , and her generaln , wore animated by a moat conciliatory spirit . Wot only General Falcon , but tho President , and uuvernl members of tho Junta , escaped from giirugosaa tho night buforu the tiiirrondor , and proeoodod towards tho French frontier The National Guard of Sarugoiwa , with tho exception of one battalion , and tho eleven battalions of the ArugoncHO provinces , have boon ditwolved . On tho day following tho entry of Goneral Duloo , u To Down wa » Hung in tho cathedral . Tho contest in Catalonia was « Uonunu with much
bloodshed . On the aide of the people , according to the Epoca , General Buiz , with the SubTinspector of the militia of Lampurdan , Roger , at the . head of two thousand men , moatly belonging to the militia , intrenched themselves at Liers . The Regiment of Navarre , commanded by Colonel Gonzalez , attacked them and put them to flight , , and on the 25 th Ruiz , IXa 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 Lampurdan , sought refuge in France , where they were arrested and removed to the interior . An interesting article on the present position of Spanish affairs baa appeared iu the Paris journal U Union . The opinions there expressed are , as will be seen , siagularly 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 on the ruins which still 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 lWfif 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 f 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 moderateof that party which , in the end , is really victorious today . On the other hand , he has made himself for ever the enemy of the Progresistas , his friends of yesterday-, against whom he fought in the streets of Madrid . Tboa is the position of the isolated victor—a chief without an army , an 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 . illusion . The Marshal and that party are separated by all the breadth of the late barricades , and tho only policy which remains to him is to throw himself iuto 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 the advantage of the so-called moderate party that the recent revolution was brought . 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 Manyteuv ( as we showed last week ) , expresses his gratitude for the recent © vents at Madrid . Tho Paria 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 a . n echo of the triumphant treasou of O'Donnell , caused aomo hundred ^ to be shot down in the streets , and given life and hopo to Carlists aud Republicans . Such , in a few words , ia tho reault of a long-cherished plan of the lady Sovereign of Spain , who lias no power to replaco any one of the elements of government which have been swept away , and Queen Isabella can henceforward only rule by the aid of aomo ambitious soldier , or , it may be , by the favourite who shall win hia way to power by doeds of tho drawing-room rather than by military prowe * 8-It ia attempted to show that no matoriul ohangQ wUl tuke place in the Government of Spuin , and tjmt tho Queen , in dispersing tho Cortes by force , hue only exercised a constitutional right ! Such Jesuitical ro « . »< W- ' ing cannot deceivo any one , either at h < im « or abroad The Quean , in fact , has sought to establish a . mmtftjy despotism in Spain . T «> ut is the plain Jfin . Klla . tt .. Of ttio lute ' revolution . ' " Further on , wo roads— " JlBWjWO boliovo in O'Doimoll ' s nubility , TU © French < Ma \ U journal" [ i . e ., I-ouw Napoloou ] " ha » committed « blunder in supporting and countenancing a , wan , W » o has played many part ** , and dona not eujoy the « onfldoneo of any party . Ho hua » o prjucinltt * , good or bad , and no hood for Stato affairs . Parhans Q . « ew lsubellu , who wuh alwaya complaining that EvpACtexp kopl her in prison , will flud horaulf » gw liwdgud IW 1 with fltiU grater 4 . ifUQulUo » , 8 Uo h « a been wiwUing tp doatroy tho Constitution fo « Nomo tluw j It Winy be fo * t
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1856, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09081856/page/7/
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