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June 16, 1855.] THEX.EADEB,. 561
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OUR CIVILISATION. A Romanois ok Ricat, L...
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right to enter upon this examination , and , if Austria reserves to herself to settle what , according to her views , Europe ' s and Germany ' s interests require , so shall we decide , at the right time , what our own , Germany ' s , and Europe ' s interest seem to us to require . " Any arrangements which Austria maj" - have made without consulting Prussia must be considered at some future period . Baron ManteufFel concludes by observing , " We confidently hope that Count Buol will find our frank language only commensurate with the gravity of the moment , and will recognise in it a fresh proof of our lively wish for a genuine and sincere understanding , and far a solidarity based upon it . " Rossini has arrived in Paris . We are glad to see it stated that he is not so ill as former accounts set forth . I Ie complains of weakness and want of sleep ; but his malady is thought by some to be chiefly nervous .
The Englishman , Itolfe , who was arrested at Hamburg , under suspicion of being a recruiting agent for the German Legion , has been released , with a warning to quit the city . Five young men , accused of taking part in political " assassinations" in 1849 , have been executed at Fimo ( Roman States ) , after undergoing an imprisonment of six years . A letter in the Independance Beige says that no convincing proofs of their guilt were forthcoming , and that the execution caused a general horror amongst the population . Numerous persons retired into the country for the day . The cholera is at "Venice , Pesth , and Prague , but has not yet assumed an e |) idemic character . A despatch from Turin , dated the 13 th instant , announces that on the evening of the 12 th an attempt was made at Rome to assassinate Cardinal Antonelli . The
attempt failed , and the assassin was arrested . The Carlist rebellion in Spain is not yet suppressed . A despatch from the Spanish frontier announces that a band of seventy unarmed men was formed on the 11 th near Pampeluna , and took the direction of the French frontier to procure arms there . Hotly pursued , the greater number sought refuge in France . A movement in Catalonia is said to be feared . The French mail which left Paris on the 9 th , and the mail which left Madrid on the 10 th , were burnt by some insurgents in Castile .
A despatch from Madrid , dated the 13 th instant , nays : —" Yesterday , the Cortes " rejected a proposition tending to censure the Ministry . The Minister of Finance declared to-day to the Cortes that he would only have recourse to a forced loan as a last resource . " Amiens has just given a deplorable example of opposition to a paternal government . At the recent election of a member of the Council-General there were two candidates , and the one emphatically recommenced by
the Government was a M . Vulfran Mollet , who had manifested his enthusiasm for the Empire so long back as 1852 . The rival candidate was a M . Porion , formerly Mayor of Amieii 9 , and who , as a member of the Legislative Assembly , had displayed hostility to the intrigues and suspicion of the conspiracies of the then President of the' Republic . Will it be believed , that in spite of the adjurations of the ofiicial journals , M . Porion has been returned to tlie Council-General by a majority over the imperialist candidate of 416 votes .
At Auxerre , the Government mayor has been reelected , but by so small a majority , that ^ with an honourable susceptibility ho has resigned . M . Jules Cloquct , tlio eminent surgeon , has been elected a Member of the Academic des Sciences . Moan Religious Persecution in Austuia . —The case of Borzinsky , which we noticed last week , is not the only case of the kind now casting disgrace upon the Austrian Government and Church . A correspondent of the Daily News , writing from Prague , mentions the persecution of one Joachim Jezulc " , " also formerly a [ Roman ] Catholic priest , who was converted to the Protestant religion , mid who has now been confined for twenty years , and is treated as a lunatic because he will not recant . " This is in tlic same convent as that to which Borzinsky belonged , and where he is now confined solitarily in ft dark cell adjacent to those occupied by two raving lunatics .
A decree of the King of Sardinia has indicated the religious orders of men and women which arc to bo . suppressed . The number ia considerable ; 834 monasteries will disappear ; they contain a population of 5698 persona . Among these monasteries , 280 wore inhabitatcd by 4125 monks , and 45 by 1473 nuns . In the orders still preserved there remain 8 ( 53 monks and 1 ( 599 nuns . According to the economy of the law , monks and nuns who belonged to the orders suppressed will continue to live each in common , and each of them during life will receive n pension net of 600 f .
Free Trade has got ns far as lioino . An announcement has boon mado of a reduction in tlui import and consumptive duties of tho principal articles of foreign produce introduced into tho Roman states .
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June 16 , 1855 . ] THEX . EADEB ,. 561
Wo^Havo Noted With Special Interest Melb...
Wo ^ havo noted with special interest Melbourne papers of late , the name of a former collahorate . ur , who appears to bo rising to rapid and conspicuous distinction at tho Australian bur—wo moan Mr . Butler Colo Aapinall . Thia gon ( Ionian wua for hoiuo time engaged as a parliamentary reporter on tho Morniny Chronicle , and waa in tho habit of contributing occasionally to our own journal , h © whs distinguished among his frionda and
confreres as a young man of singular promise and power , and extraordinary aptitude for public life . As a speaker , he was remarkable not only for his command of language , and for the easy vigour with which he would grasp a subject , but for a faculty of sarcasm which almost exceeded his control . Id a recent number of a Melbourne journal , we find Mr . Aspinall , who has been retained to defend the Ballarat diggers , addressing a large open-air meeting with great effect . Alluding , we suppose , to the surveillance of the Government police , he commenced his address in these words : " Gentlemen — and spies . " Those who remember the speaker will have no difficulty in recognising Mr . Aspinall .
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ALLEGED PERJURY : EXTRAORDINARY CASE . In the Central Criminal Court , on Monday , Louisa Harrison , a well-dressed young woman , with an infant in her arms , surrendered to take her trial on a charge of wilful and corrupt perjury . The counsel for the prosecution opened the case by a narrative of the facts , which were published at the tirue of their occurrence , and which may be thus briefly recapitulated . —A man of the name of Mallett had in a previous session been tried at that court for an assault and robbery committed upon the woman Harrison , who swore that he entered her house in Bull-yard , Aldgate , one evening last December , robbed her , tied her hands together , and inflicted several serious wounds on her head . A verdict of guilty was returned by the jury ; and Mallett was condemned to death , the sentence being subsequently commuted to transportation for fifteen years . A very few days after this conviction , Mrs . Harrison was again found in her house with her hands tied and her head wounded , precisely as before . She represented that a second attack had been made on her , and that she should be able to identify the offender . This created suspicion ; the police made inquiries ; it was ascertained that there was no foundation for the charge against Mallett , and the Government consequently granted to him a free pardon . Mrs . Harrison was now placed on her trial for perjury ; but the evidence produced certainly did not tend to establish the inference which liad been formed against hernamely , that she had bound her own hands , and inflicted the wounds upon herself . When found on the evening of the alleged robbery and assault , she was nearly insensible , bleeding profusely , and with her hands tied so tightly that one of tlie witnesses who went to her assistance was obliged to use his teeth to loosen the knots . There was not , said this witness , the slightest appearance of " shamming" in her conduct . The eldest child , who seemed very much frightened , was the first to give an alarm , by saying that a man was murdering her mother . Another witness said he certainly could not have tied such a knot round his own hands . In the course of the evening , Mrs . Harrison fainted twice , and was seized with violent convulsions . A woman who attended on her had great difficulty in preventing her from injuring herself . Nevertheless , the medical man who was called in was of opinion , according to his evidence on the trial , that the woman might have inflicted the wounds upon herself ; but he admitted that she had a convulsive fit which was " undoubtedly real . " He added , that she was then three months advanced in pregnancy . She was insensible and almost pulseless when he first saw her . He did not consider that it would be a very easy thing for a woman to cause such injuries to herself ; but she might have done ao . A stick was found in the house , with blood upon it ; and , if she had used this stick , she must have inflicted the wounds first , and tied her hands afterwards . The man Mallett was then examined , and accounted for the whole of tho evening of the alleged robbery . He admitted that he passed under a false name , but that was because he had formerly been a bad character , by which he meant a fighting man . lie had been arrested at a penny theatre , where ho was an " ofliccr , " appointed to keep order . " The alibi which ho now proved was advanced by him on his trial ; but it was not heeded by the jury . The Recorder , in summing up , directed the jury that Mallett was innocent , and that the woman Harrison was simply mistaken ns to the identity of tho person who assaulted her , and had no corrupt intention in accusing Mallett . lie did not think it could bo doubted that an assault and robbery had really beon committed . Mr . Ryland , Mnllett ' a counsel , consented to withdraw from tho prosecution , and a verdict of Not Guilty was accordingly taken . —A second charge of a similar kind against Mrs . Harrison it wan arranged should not bo taken until Friday morning .
Our Civilisation. A Romanois Ok Ricat, L...
OUR CIVILISATION . A Romanois ok Ricat , Lilac . —A very singular history of alleged successful fraud , and unlawful withholding of large landed property from tho real owner , has boon hoard before Vico-Chimcollor Wood . Tho pluintin" is a common day-labourer msiding at Louth hi Lincolnshire , and socks to establish hit ) title to certain properly in Northumberland producing n rental of nearly 60 , 000 / . a year , of which lie nllogou his grandfather to have been fraudulently doprived . Stoto Mauby , the grandfather , had become of unsound mind owing to tho kick of a horao . Ho uluo was u tobouror , was unublo to read and
write , and lived during his latter years in a wretched hovel , supported by the exertions of his wife and by casual charity . Upon the death of Dorothy Windsor , from whom the property descended , the estate should have passed to Stote Manby ; but Sir Robert Bewicke and John Craster , two of her tenants , colluded together , according to the allegations of the plaintiff , and unlawfully obtained possession of the propert y . After their deaths , some time prior to 1780 , it descended to their heirs , who took possession of it , though well knowing that they Lad no right or title . In 1781 , a lawyer of Newcastle , named Harvey , who had sought out Stote Manby , and informed him of his rights , brought two writs of " cosenage" on behalf of Manby against Bewicke
and Craster ; but subsequently , as the plaintiff averred , he colluded with them , accepted a bribe to betray the interest of Manby , and agreed that a compromise should be made , by which Bewicke and Craster were to pay 1 , 500 / . to Harvey , and to charge the estates with a perpetual rent-charge of 300 ? . a year in favour of Stote Manby and his heirs . The action was consequently withdrawn , and an order , which was afterwards made a rule of court , "was drawn up , in which it was stated that William Manby , the son of Stote Manby , was present in court , and consented to the arrangement . This , it was now alleged , was false . William Manby was not in court , and being , like his father , of weak intellect , he was not capable of giving any valid assent to the prdposed terms . Subsequently , certain legal documents were signed , or alleged to have been signed , by Stote
Manby ; but , owing to his imbecility , it was contended that the instruments , if executed at all , were inoperative . By a further fraudulent scheme , Stote Manby , according to the plaintiff ' s averments , was deprived of the 300 / . a year rent-charge . The plaintiff in the present suit first became informed of his alleged rights by a very old man at Louth in the year 1846 . This man recollected the action of 1781 ; and , in consequence of what he said , and of inquiries afterwards made , the plaintiff filed the bill now before the Vice-Chancellor ' s Court . To this bill , the defendants demurred ; and the Vice-Chancellor , thinking the allegations were not capable of legal proof , and were extremely doubtful , stated that the demurrers must be allowed , with costs . As , however , some documents might possibly exist , which would throw light on the transactions , he granted leave to amend .
Robert M'Larkn , the youth charged with having robbed the young lady to whom he was engaged , was brought up on remand on Monday , when the counsel for the prosecution said that M'Laren had reiterated his intention to marry Miss Hill ; in which case his client was not desirous to press the charge . The prisoner was therefore set at liberty . A Business-like Thief . —Henry Palmer , an escaped convict , has been arrested after a desperate struggle with the police . Upon his person was found a
memorandumbook , containing the following entries with respect to his " profession " : —" Sunday , at 11 o ' clock , St . James ' s Church , Paddington ; half-past six , Eccleston Chapel ; Monday , the 27 th , Willis ' s-rooms ; 24 th , public meeting , Upper-street , Islington , at 7 o ' clock ; 16 th , Lecture-hall , Greenwich , note ' Sims Reeves ; ' 17 th , a sale at Churtonstreet , Pimlico ; 21 st , a sale in Grosvenor-street , Grosvenor-square ; 21 st , 11 o ' clock , Haddington-villas , Romford-road . " He was brought up at Worship-street on Monday , and remanded for a week .
Homeless . —A boy , twelve years of age , named Edwin Williams , was charged at Clerkenwell with bein , j found destitute near tho Caledonian-road . A policeman discovered him , together with another boy , lurking in some brick-fields ; and here , in the furnace-holes of the heaps of now bricks , they were in the habit of sleeping every night . The constable took the lad to tho stationhouse , and thence he was conveyed to the workhouse ; but , as it was the middle of the night , the porter refused to take him in . On the following morning , added tho policeman , the second boy was not to be found in tho immediatel
brick-field . Upon this , the lad Williams y rejoined , " lixit he will ho there to-night . " JIo then stated , in reply to the magistrate , that ho had no relativos or friends . His father , who was a shipwright in a man-of-war , -was killed in tho Black Sen . The news camo to his mother by letter , and who died in five days after tho " worry . " Ho did not know where they lived , nor whore she was buried . When his mother died , tho landlord said to him , " You must go awny ; and he was turned out before she was buried , and did not sco her again —The magistrate mado an order lor tho immediate admission of tho boy into tho workhouse
Tiif Ai i ksk" Uoi-i > Kohiucky . — Sumuol beal was on Friday week again remanded at the Mansion House bail being this time accepted—hinwicH in 1000 ., and wo sureties of . 000 / . each . Mr . Chaplin , of tho Spread J .- hk 1 < . Cirncuclmrch-Htreet , carrier , gave evidence as to two consignments of gold which he had recently received for traiiMniianioii by rail , and which were stolen , lho dork of ono of tho consignors , however , stated that tho gold sent by his employer was totally different from that which tho prisoner had possessed .
Mukdkis . — tho Thames Police-office , on Tuesday , Jeremiah Foley was charged with tho wilful murder of Hannah KoborlBon , of Five Bell-alley , Limehouse . It appeared from tho evidence that tho prisoner , who had ' rVniu'iitly boon in custody for assaults and disorderly conduct , had boon iu tho habit of vl » W » tf tho docoiwod ,
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Leader (1850-1860), June 16, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16061855/page/9/
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