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October 9, 1852.] THE L E A D £ R. 861.....
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. The Revue Uritannique...
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ASSASSINATION IN PAEIS. Paeis has been t...
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A TliUB ACCOUNT OF THE CASK OF MR. VMibY...
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Letters From Paris. [Fbom Our Own Corkes...
more angry . The Belgian Government has just received from a military commission , appointed ad hoc , a report on the defences of the country . On receipt of this intelligence , all the garrisons of our northern departments were doubled ; orders were sent to the troops to be ready to march at a moment ' s notice ; munitions of war were distributed , and every soldier received one week ' s provisions . To cover these preparations , a report was spread that the Belgian miners , irritated at the coal duty being raised ten per cent ., intended to make an incursion on the French frontier . The fact is , that Bonaparte wants to terrify Belgium , by threats of invasion , into compliance with all his demands . S .
October 9, 1852.] The L E A D £ R. 861.....
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Continental Notes. The Revue Uritannique...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . The Revue Uritannique states , that an application has been made by the French Government to the English Cabinet for the original will of the Emperor Napoleon , which has hitherto remained in the possession of England . Of course Lord Mahnesbury could not refuse to comply with e uch a s trictly personal request of his intimate friend . A letter from Nismes , of the 1 st instant , gives some few details of the assassination of the Marquis de Dammartin , Mayor of TTzes , in the Gard . At the moment when he was about to % et out , accompanied by his son , for Nismes , to be present at the reception of the President , four armed men came up to him , and one of them discharged a pistol Doint blank at his breast and another at his head . His
death was instantaneous . They then took to flight , and got off . It is said in the country that this act was caused by motives of political vengeance . The Independance Beige of Tuesday says , " M . H . de Brouckere , summoned yesterday to the Palace , was received at two o ' clock by the King . It was stated that at the close of the conference , which was of very long duration , M . de Brouckere , without overlooking the difficulties of the situation , consented to employ himself in the composition of a Cabinet . We learn that M . Firmin Rogier has asked the King to accept his resignation of the mission to Paris . "
We can scarcely believe that this disgusting parody , signed by the Mayor of a commune in tho department of the Herault , can be authentic , though blasphemy of this kind is native and to the manner born in France , and in fact would not be considered blasphemy , but rather an honour to the original—especially by the frantic flatterers of louis Bonaparte : — . " Our Prince , —You who are in power by right of birth and by the acclamation of the people , your name is everywhere g lorified ; may your reign come , and be perpetuated by the immediate acceptance of the Imperial Crown of the great Napoleon ; may your firm and wise will be done in France , as abroad . Give us this day our daily bread by
reducing progressively the Customs duty , so as to permit the entry of articles which are necessary to us , as also the exportation of what is superfluous . Pardon us our offences when you shall be certain of our repentance , and that we become better . Do not permit us to yield to the temptations of cupidity and place-hunting , but deliver us from evil—that is to say , from secret societies , from vicious teaching , from tho excesses of the press , from elections of every kind ; and continue to make it more and more a matter of honour the practice of morality and of religion , respect for authority , agriculture , and industry , the love of ord < vr and of labour . Amen . "
The ten days which intervened between the promulgation and execution of tho Presidential decreo aggravating the duties to be levied at tho French frontier on coal and iron coining from Belgium were so well improved by the importers , that on tho Valenciennes Railway alone 9 , 34 ) 1 , 000 kilogrammes of coal and iron were conveyed in 18 C 0 wagons across tho Customs boundary between Sept . 24 and Oct . 1 . This is at tho rato of nearly 300 wagons per diom . Tho transportation of Belgian coal by tho canals from Mons to Coudo , and by tho Sambro and Mouse , was very much greater , and effected with equal diligence . Tho customs conferences at Berlin aro broken up ; and , though tho channel of diplomacy is to bo kept open for further negotiation , tho Zollverein may be rogardod as irrotriovably dissolved .
It seems that tho Customs' Union between Prussia and Ilunovor is in great danger of not being realized . Still it is a question whether Austrian influence is not too strong with tho Court there . Austria is intent on completely isolating . Prussia . And the influenco of Austria is encouraged in its attacks on progress and free trade by tho fact that a Protectionist and rotrognido M inistry is in office in jijng lund . Were thero a liberal Freo-tra ' do Cabinet in ^ ng land , its influence , especially in Hanover , would certainly deter the government thero from breaking tho ouptember treaty , if Prussia offered free-trade concCHsions w ii boon for keeping it . Military honours huvo been paid in Austria and Prunsia t <> the memory of tho Duke of Wellington , Field Marshal * 'i both armies .
A deputation , consisting of tho Colonel , a Captain , and ^ lieutenant of ( , l , e lato . Duke ' s regiment , the 27 tU of i rUHK 'an Infantry , is to coruo to London to attend the funeral . ¦ A- grand militar y " mourning ceremony" took place at Vienna <> u Thursday , in honour of tho late Duke of "[""• nglon , iih Austrian Ficld-Mareilml and Grand Cross 01 Ul ° Order of M aria Theresa . Tho whole of tho garrison wiw drawn up in full parade on tho glacis in presence of uie Rmporor and a brilliant staff of general officers . JVot » 'v did the officers wear the usual utripo of black erapo tuo 'oft arm , but even the flags and standards were nung ; , crape . The ' Emperor bus issued orderw that i" Hiinio ceremony Khali bo observed in every place in JJ , j I " where thoro is a largo garrison . : "' anoverian . army baa been ordered to wear mourn-6 lw B « djiyo for tlio Duko of Wellington .
The reports from the districts where the cholera has prevailed continued favourable . In Konigsberg , from the 29 th to the 30 th ulfc ., only eight cases are reported and five deaths . In Birnbaum the disease has abated . In Ostrowa only isolated cases are reported . A similar report is given from Ortelsberg , where the epidemic has been particularly severe—one-eighth of the inhabitants having died from it . From Posen no more reports will be made , the disease having so much decreased as to . render it , in the opinion of the authorities , unnecessary . Up to the 30 th September there had been in all 2 , 571 cases , and 1 , 356 deaths
exclusive of the fatal cases among the troops , which are returned at 200 more . Posen contains 40 , 000 inhabitants . Guerazzi , the ex-Dictator , continues his defence at Florence . He explains away all his Republican professions as assumed at a time of great peril , and declares his attachment to the throne of the Grand Duke to have remained unimpaired . The character of the man does not shine in his explanations-Count Nesselrode was recently at Florence for one ni g only , and M . Turgot , the French ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs , had arrived there .
The King of Naples , on his return from a visit to the relics of St . Januarius ( the famous liquefying saint ) , narrowly escaped a railway smash . He attributed his escape to Providence . With how many mistakes is Providence fathered ! The removal of the body of the late Duke de Baylen to the church of Atocha took place on the 1 st . The King , and all the distinguished members of tho Court , the army , & c ., were present at the ceremony .
Assassination In Paeis. Paeis Has Been T...
ASSASSINATION IN PAEIS . Paeis has been the scene of a tragedy , the narrative of which forms the most interesting and appalling piece in the news of the week . The actors were two gentlemen and a lady . The gentlemen were correspondents , one of the Morning Advertiser , named Bower ; the other , of the Daily News , named Saville Morton ; the lady was Mrs . Bower . She is described , by an excellent authority , as accomplished , amiable , and beautiful ; and as apparently fulfilling in society all her duties according to the " most rigid views of female propriety . " The two journalists were on terms of the closest intimacy , visiting and assisting each other . Some time ago Mr . Bower grew jealous of the attentions which Mr . Morton paid to Mrs . Bower ; but mutual explanations removed all suspicion , and the two gentlemen remained good friends . Lately , however , Mrs . Bower was confined , and her time of trouble did not end with the birth of
the child , but was followed by an attack of puerperal fever . For several days she was on the "brink of death , and in her agony she repeatedly and vehemently desired to see Mr . Saville Morton ; and the physicians thinking that if she saw him she would "be calmer , persuaded Mr . Bower to request Morton to call . We now quote from an account furnished to the Morning Advertiser , we believe , by Mr . Bower himself : — " Mr . Bower , under the circumstances , acquiesced in the wishes of the physician , and Mr . Morton came to his house , entered tho apartment of Mrs . Bower , and remained by her bedside , with a few brief intervals , several days and nights ; Mrs . Bower being , let it not bo forgotten , all
this time in a state of dreadful delirium , would receive no attentions nor nursing from any one but Mr . Morton , except in occasional intervals , when she became somewhat more calm . During ono of the brief periods of Mr . Morton ' s absence [ on Friday ] , Mrs . Bower stated that her last child , born four weeks previously , was not Mr . Bower ' s , but Mr . Morton ' s . On Mr . Bower ' s remarking that ho ascribed tho statement to tho illness under which she was labouring , and did not place any faith in it , Mrs . Bower roitorated the assertion with increased emphasis , and said that , as a dying woman , it was true . Mr . Bower observed that , if he could bolievo it , either Mr . Morton or himself should , in less than an hour , bo a dead man . Sho again
energetically declared that the child was Mr . Morton ' s , not Mr . Bower ' s , and appealed to tho housornaid , who happened to bo present , whether it was not true that Mr . Morton had slept in the house several nights during Mr . Bower ' s absence from Paris , about nine months previously . Tho housemaid said that such was the fact . Mr . Bower then retired in < o tho dining-room , whero arrangements had been mado for a hurried meal , when unfortunately , while Mr . Bower ' s brain , according to his own statement to us , was maddened by what he bad hoard , Mr . Morton entered tho room . Mr . Bower immediately put the question to him , whether the horrible averment of his wife was
true . Mr . Morton mado no reply—neither admitted nor denied tho gravo charge which the question implied , but that instant rushed out of tho room . Mr . IJower , on the impulse of tho moment , snatched up a knife which was lying on tho table , and rushed after Mr . Morton , overtaking him as he had readied the fourth or fifth Htair , and making a deep wound in the neck , which cult tho jugular vein . Mr . Morton fell that instant , and never spoke a word , or even uttered a groan . Mr . Bower , acting on the advice of a relative who was in tho house at the time , hurriedly put on an overcout which was lying beside him , and , through the aid of n female servant , oocapod by a back passage . "
Tho tragedy occurred in the line do Stizo , near tho Madeleine ; Mr . 1 lower I ihh escaped to Knglund . Jn other accounts tho horror of tho
" Mr . Morton entered tho room from the outside door , and Mrs . Bower , sen ., asked him to sit down . ^ He took a chair on her right hand ( her son ' s chair being at her left ) , and had only time to inquire after the state of the patient , when the door leading to the part of the apartment where the wife ' s room was situated was flung violently open , and Mr . Bower appeared , with his fe atures convulsed , and apparently under the influence of the most violent agitation . At the sight of Mr . Morton an uncontrollable fury appeared to seize on him ; , he ran to the table , and snatching up tho knife laid for his dinner , rushed round his mother ' s chair at Mr . Morton . The latter , seeing the movement , at once rose and flew out of
the room , through the passage , and down the stairs , Mr , Bower pursuing him closely . As Mr . Bower passed bis mother , she caught him by the skirt of his coat , but the cloth unfortunately gave way , and with the recoil she fell to the ground . No word was spoken from the beginning to the end of this fearful scene , nor was a sound heard , except the noise of the footsteps of the two men on the stairs , until Mr . Morton , when struck , uttered a single smothered ' oh ! ' and sank on the ground . Mr . Bower then , probably struck with horror at what he had done , came up the stairs , and seated himself on a little bench outside , where he was found the moment after by his mother , when , having raised herself from the floor , she
hurried out to try and prevent mischief . The servantgirl , who had followed him out from the younger Mrs . Bower ' s room , then roused him from his stupor by telling him to fly . He then took some money , and , changing his coat , left the house . He proceeded at once to the residence of Dr . Bertin , but only saw that gentleman ' s servant , who declares that Mr . Bower , who was in much agitation , seemed annoyed by not finding the doctor at home . It is not certainly too much , to presume , that the object of Mr . Bower , in making this call at that critical moment , when every minute was of such importance to him , must have been to obtain medical aid for Mr . Morton , of whose desperate state he was most probably unaware . "
The police were soon made aware of the deed , and on the track of the criminal , but for once they were defeated . " The knife , " says the Dibats of Saturday , " has been found . It is a table knife , and rounded at the { joint . The blade was bent in the middle by the vioence of the blow . The commissary of police of the section of the Madeleine , having been informed of this crime , went immediately to the spot , where he was joined by several of the . agents of the detective police , who searched the house , but without success , from the cellar to the attics ,
to discover the murderer , who had escaped , it is not known how . The sapeurs-pompiers of the post of the Rue de la Paix also came to lend their assistance . They visited the roof of the house , and of the neighbouring liouses , which were also searched , but their efforts were equally fruitless . The agents having learnt that Mr . Bower bad another lodging at St . Cloud , where four of his children were with their nurse , they went there during the night , and remained till next day ; but Mr . Bower did not appear . It is thought that he left Paris in the course of the evening , and that he got away by a railroad : his description has been sent by telegraph to all the lines . "
Mrs . Bower is the mother of four children . She was taken to the Maison de Sante , kept by Dr . Blanche , at Passy , on Saturday . The Daily News thus writes respecting Mr . Saville Morton : — " Mr . Savillo Morton , whose untimely and painful death wo yesterday recorded , was a gentleman of good family , a graduate of Cambridge , and a talented and zealous man of letters . IIo was attached to the staff of tho Daily News from the day of its commencement—his first dut y being that of correspondent at Constantinople , from which placo ho travelled in succession to Athens , Madrid , Vienna , Berlin , and Paris . In these different cities ho passed tho
last six years of his life , and the readers of this journal aro indebted to his fluent pen for many a pleasant description of scenes and events of interest , and for many a valuable disquisition on passing political events . He was an ardent liberal , and wrote boldly and constantly in support of political progress ; ho had a keen appreciation of that which was generous and true ; fine literary taste , and a lofty idea of his profession as a journalist . During the revolutionary 1 > eriod of 1848—as after tho coup iTStat of December 2—io nover allowed any uonttidcrutions of personal rwk to interfere with the performance of what bo considered to bo his duty . towards the journal to which be was attached ;
and when , a few months ago , the Minister of Police in . Paris threatened and attempted to silence the representatives of the Kngli . sh prcHs in that city , Mr . Morton was honourably conspicuous for the calm und dignified , the firm and proper tone lie assumed in his communications with Louis Napoleon ' s agent , and subsequently with the British Ambassador , Lord Cowloy . Ah a correspondent ho wan indefatigable in tho performance of his duties ; and his most untimely death is at once a grief and a loss to thoso with whom he was honourably associated . He was fortunate enough to number amongst his friends many distinguished men , most of whom will forget any faults lie might have had in their recollection of bis warmheartedness , his
talents , and his melancholy mul painful imtl . Tho body of Mr . Morton wits buried on Monday in tho cemetery of Montnuirtro .
A Tliub Account Of The Cask Of Mr. Vmiby...
A TliUB ACCOUNT OF THE CASK OF MR . VMibYV . TriM Times of Thursday givo . s an apparently authorised version of the outrage on Mr . Paget in Dresden , the capital of Saxony ; from which it will be Been how tho property of ( inspected Knglinhinen is at tho mercy of Austria , and how littlo ground thero is for calling Suxony an independent state .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1852, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09101852/page/5/
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