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Our Civilisation. Thomas Tutton Waa Trie...
- $ UtfrpEKipher and patentee of the Anastatic mode of printing , and producing a Prussian thaler note , requested to have it imitated . Mr . Appel said he TOJuld do as they wished if he had proper authority ; { Old they left the note with him . He communicated ^ with / the Prussian ambassador , and for some time the Schele continued to pay visits to Mr . Appel on the subject of the imitation . Mr . Appel made several copies on plates , and submitted proofs ; and when tlje nien were sufficiently criminated they were taken Into custody . Both were remanded for a week . The impressions were exhibited , and proved the striking and dangerous fidelity of the new process . Wojoan-Bbatjuo . —An artificial flower maker , named Henry Hancock , was charged at the
Worshipstreet police office with , beating and half-starving his jvife . Gne night , about half-past twelve o ' clock , he came home intoxicated after having been absent all day . The poor woman and her two children had feeen-without either money , food ( except one pound of bread ) , coals , or candles . Mrs . Hancock remonstrated with him upon his conduct , and he then seized her by both arms , struck her a violent blow Oir her side , and dragged her furiously about the room . She called for the police , upon which he ran out of the house , and his wife saw no more of him until after he was in custody . Hancock was constantly in the habit of beating or ill-using his wife , and came home every night thoroughly intoxicated . Once he beat and kicked her because she followed
him to a gaming-house where he was squandering Jus money , and another time she was obliged to stay away a whole night from home out of Jear of his cruel treatment . She was still very weak , and suffering greatly from the effects of her husband ' s behaviour , so that she was obliged to be ageated while giving her evidence . The mother of Mrs . Hancock stated that she was compelled to stint herself in food in order to save her daughter ' s children from , utter starvation ; that the children were extremely ill from scanty feeding , and that Hancock
had a-very good business , from which he might earn J £ 5 a-week , if he properly attended to it . Mr . Hamjnill ( sentenced Hancock to six months * imprisonment , with hard labour , and told him that at the end « rf that time he must find substantial bail for his future good behaviour . —A journeyman cooper , who gave the name of Walter Scott , was sentenced to three months' bard labour for an attack , of the usual character , upon a woman with whom he lived . The man -was a confirmed drunkard , and the woman frequently suffered from his violence .
'Faual Pbize Fight . —A prize fight , which took . place -on Tuesday in the Kentish Marshes , at Long ¦ Beach , has resulted in the death of one of the combatants , a man named John Jones , who received the fatal blow in the twenty-third round , " Child Murder . —William Aspinall and Mary Aspi-. nall , man and wife , were indicted at the Liverpool Assizes for the manslaughter of Emma Aspinall , their daughter . The evidence showed the most systematic ill-treatment of the children of the prisoners , ending in the death of two from starvation and neglect . The -woman was a confirmed drunkard , and she appears to . have been chiefly to blame . The man was acquitted ; but the wife was found guilty of manslaughter . Sentence was deferred . —Johanna Dutton has been acquitted at Derby of a charge of drowning her child in a pond . The evidence , however , showed great illusage on the part of the mother .
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CONTINENTAL . NOTES . Peace Prospects . —The Governmental Morning Post of Tuesday contains , at the head of its leading -articles , and in very conspicuous type , the following observations : — . " The nature of the terms necessary for peace w patent to all the world . Not a Russian ship in * he Black Sea—not a Russian fort at Sebastopol . No . Muscovite gripe on the very throat of the Danube . No more protectorates and interferences—no more overawing , because no more means of menacing weaker neighbours . These main terms sealed in a treaty , secured by material guarantees , would , there is pot a doubt , secure peace if Russia would yield to them , but no other terms are possible , and we are . aure that neither the people of England nor of France neither the English Cabinet nor tho Government of our Ally—would listen to any other proposals for a eettlemont . Austria , though perhaps hitherto lacking tho decision which would have become so groat a power , is not wanting in sagacity j and , matters standing as they are , it will not surprise us to learn that Austria accepts as certain the defeat which Russian pride may yet refuse to foresee , and that the Cabinet of Vienna , having made up its mind a « to the final triumph of tho Allies , had resolved to urge , even now , a peace upon their terms , preparing oven to break altogether with Russia in the event of hor refusing them . " Tho language held by the principal continental journals ia unfavourable to the prospects of peace ; it in denied that Austria has made any propositions to Russia ; and the Debate BayB that the ohonoeR of a pacific-hoIution " have lost rather than gained ground during tho previous week . "
Le Nord , the Brussels Russian organ , ridicules the idea of the Czar coming into the terms demanded by the Allies , and denies the exhaustion of the Empire . The object of General Canrobert ' s diplomatic journey to the northern courts continues to excite considerable discussion . The writer of a letter from "Vienna , of the 6 th inst ., says : — " The mission of General Canrobert , if I am rightly informed , comprised two parts , perfectly distinct—one had for object to obtain an immediate diplomatic action ; the other , the eventual co-operation of the Scandinavian States . No one supposed that the French
Government meant to drive Sweden and Denmark to an immediate declaration of war against Russia , and at the very moment when , in consequence of the advanced season , the campaign was at an end in the Baltic as well as in the Crimea . What the Western Powers were anxious to obtain from the Scandinavian States , as to the present , is clearly defined in the address delivered by the Emperor Napoleon at the closing of the Exhibition , and in the circular despatch of M . Walewski . " Bavaria and Saxony , it is said , have notified to the Russian Government their desire to see peace concluded on the basis of the four guarantees .
The Marquis de Turgot has appealed to the law tribunals of Madrid , relative to an article inserted in a journal , insulting to the Empress Eugenie . A report is current that the Minister of Finance is about to resign . The faction Gorsa , the only one which remained in Catalonia , has been annihilated . The King of Sardinia , after a second brief stay in Paris , left that city for his own dominions on Sunday morning , and arrived at Turin on Wednesday . Colonel Blomfield , who had been sent to Bucharest in consequence of the arrest of Colonel Turr , died almost suddenly on the day after his arrival , from the fatigues of his journey . The Ottoman troops of the garrison and the Wallachian Staff paid the usual military honours at his funeral . The Agents and Consuls of the Foreign Powers were invited by the English Consul-General to attend the funeral , as well as the super ior civil and military authorities .
The Czas states positively that it is the intention of the Russian Government to effect the immediate emancipation of the serfs of the whole empire . The Emperor personally is favourable to the measure , and the land-owning aristocracy , who have been sounded , offer no opposition . The vote of confidence in Marshal O'Donnell , which has been recently passed by the Spanish Cortes , arose in this manner : —M . Oreuse , the leader of the democratic party , made a speech denouncing
the Minister of War for persecuting the democrats and progressists in Catalonia , and for concealing a policy hostile to freedom under the vague title of " Liberal . " He also proposed a vote of censure . Marshal O'Donnell replied by giving a sketch of his struggles and sufferings for liberty , and by reminding his audience that , for conspiring in favour of a revolution he had been shut up in a room five yards long . He concluded by declaring his continued adherence to Espartero ; and the Chamber carried a vote of confidence by 110 votes to 6 .
An ex-dragoon , named Morandi , has been arrested at Rome , while in the act of writing a letter to Mazzini , in which he said that , when that triumvir should receive the communication , he need be under no anxiety about his arrested friends , as by that time all would be over . The Roman sbirri , therefore , fear an incipient revolution , and weigh with redoubled tyranny upon the unhappy victims of their suspicions . A orominent member of tho police body has recently
been assassinated . Gennaruccio , which was tho name of this champion of law , order , and religion , was a man of such notoriously bad character that it was found necessary to remove him from a post he held at the Custom-house ; and he was ouco imprisoned six months for causing the assassination of a French soldier . Nevertheless , he enjoyed a peuhion from Government , was still employed as a member of the police , and used to accompany hw Holiness ' * « q "» Pages . Such aro the guardian angela of the Infallible
Church ! ,, «•* , Thk mediation of France and England has effected a reconciliation between the courts of Tuscany ivud Sardinia , their differences being arranged iu a manner which the Oonatitutionnel dmorihoa as " equally satisfactory and honourable to both partioH . " Perhaps * tho Liberals of Europe may not bo ho euwly convinced Tho Paris organ of tho ultm-Pupwtioal party—the r / nivera—ifi greatly perplexed au to how it should of tho of
regard the late rocoption in France King Sardinia , who , to a certain oxtont , lion under tho baa of tho Pope , It in therefore contended that Victor Emmanuel is only censured , nnd that in foot tho censure applies not bo much to bAua aa to his mnuutwn , for tho Sardinian monarch i « a constitutional hovoreiffn aud his government officers arc- tho proper paraonB to boar the responsibility . Yofc , att tho Jtntra L ' ariB correspondent points out , Victor liwnumnucJ sanctioned tho aots of " Hacrilego nnd p lunder lor which hi « government has boon " oonmirod , mm to
hold any communion with persons lying under the displeasure of the Vatican is to be involved in the same shadow . But the French , clergy have not only received the " bad boy" from Sardinia , but their highest dignitary has accepted from him the Grand Cross of a Piedmoutese order . The Times correspondent adds : — " It was said that the Papal Nuncio had resolved on absenting himself from Paris during the stay of the King ; that a remonstrance had been sent
to Rome , and that a telegraphic despatch from the Papal Court ordered him to remain at his post , and to pay his court to his Majesty with the other ' sacr ilegious' diplomatists . " The clerical papers of Turin have been very indignant with Victor Emmanuel for receiving deputations from Protestant religious bodies during his visit to London ; and tho Radical journals have been offended at bis sending a courteous message to Monsignor Franzoni , the exiled Archbishop of Turin , who resides at Lyons . v
The Papistical Church is rampant in Austria ; and the Concordat seems to have made priestcraft raving inad . In the Vienna correspondence of the Times we read as follows : — " There is , perhaps , no country under the sun in which the authorities so much delight in vexatious measures , which , have not even the merit of being of service to the State . Every peraon who frequents the Exchange is obliged to take a ticket , for which he pays a trifling Sum ; and on the lstof this month notice was given by the police authorities that in future every ticket would , iu addition to the name and address , have the reliyion of itB possessor inscribed ou it . This new regulation has excited extreme indignation among the Hebrew frequenters of
the Exchange , and its consequences will assuredly be felt when their assistance is again required by the State . When the national loan was being raised , the wealthy Jewish bankers were cajoled , aud led to expect that their political position would be greatly ameliorated . In the hope that their |) atriotic feeling would be properly appreciated , they one and all subscribed very largely , and now they find themselves exposed to what they justly consider a gratuitous insult . " In the same letter we find the annexed particulars with respect to the Credit Mobilier and other doubted that the sub
financial matters : — " It is not - scriptions for the Credit Mobilier will far exceed the sum ( 15 , 000 , 000 fi . ) which has been placed at the disposal of the public . Oue of the founders showed me a list of private applications which he hod received from friends and acquaintances for shares , and the sum total was somewhat less than 7 , 000 , 000 fl . There is seriously a question of the construction of a railroad from Cronstadt to Bucharest , and some of tho wealthiest of the Wallacliiau Boyards display an inclination to share in the speculation . "
The export of horses , lead , saltpetre , and sulphur , to Russia and to Turkey , with tho exception of the Principalities , has been prohibited at Vienna . Correspondence from Berlin states that tho Russian Emperor is Reeking to flatter the French Emperor . A St . Petersburg journal was lately about to publish an article indicating tho speech of Loui » Napoleon at the close of the Exhibition as a threat addressed to tho Conservative interests of Europe ; tho article in question , however , was suppressed "by command . Anvthing that can be construed into an offence by franco is anxiously avoided , and it w uo longer tho ftwhion to designate her policy as revolutionary and forming a contrast with that of Russia . The Kinporor Alexander a wordrtin his general orders addressed to tho army ot the Crimea , which speak of a " powerful and valiant enemy , that shuns no sacrificoH , " ure uudoratood in St . Petersburg to bo intended solely for I ' ruuco .
The Emperor Alexander , it in « aid , Una determined to confer ou hw brother , the ( Jrund Duke Constantino , the dignity of Viceroy of Poland , ou tho death of Prince Poskiewitoh , which ifl now hourly expected . Constantino is boliovod to bo highly popular in Poland . , , . ,. , , - In addition to tho account * already published of tho fearful condition of Uwwia , vurious other confirmationa of tho opinion , now generally entertained , that cxhauHtion is beginning to mamfoBt itself m the their
territory of our enemy , aro aoutuiually finding way into the paper * . A letter from Run » um Poland , dated the 28 th ult ., says — " Tho Chamber of Public Relief of St . Petersburg ban been obliged to ho by auction the property on which It hart mmlo "dvanceH , but which it was hnpc-HBible for the 1 >»*™ W ? " > K » JJ when the moment arrived ; ami tlio ««»{ < < J » . solvent debtors increase * daily Th « l » n " £ ™ fi ™ has suffered from thin-tute « " »^ / t ^ 3 * fiu been taken of tho male popul .. < o .. a , ^ " « yeawbaveiH ^^^ > ... < n uf . iU t . li « Maine . *¦"* o « iu «»« i . fcuUU « £ -
UtahS . than in !«« . owing < ^ • = ^ rl ^ VTit Soly- tie uh « « f tl'l * « looroa « c ; of battle winch ««; 1 « J ' , mri mlioll to do with tho general l . uaU » < th > wg , Vuiuthi on tho w ^ X ^ jje
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 15, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15121855/page/7/
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