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CONTINENTAL NOTES. M. T^H"att lately pub...
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VOLUNTARY TORTURE AT PAKKHUBST PRISON. _...
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The Ttaxiajk Nightmares. The Joy Felt By...
WArn insurrection seems to > be imminent in . Sicily JBanda ? of armed men * it is stated , are collecting , and tnoop * have been : sent against them . Bomba is threaten ^ , aad » fiwI «) 8 tUegaidierings niay be for Mm" the wearing : ** the end . "
October 20^1£55.1 Tub Lbadee. 1003
October 20 ^ 1 £ 55 . 1 TUB LBADEE . 1003
Continental Notes. M. T^H"Att Lately Pub...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . M . T ^ H"att lately published ! a work entitled "Mystical France ?; : as , Picture of the Religious Eccentricities of the Age . " The author , having violently attacked the Oatholic religion , was tried last month by the Court of Correctional Police , and only sentenced to eight days " Imprisonment and one hundred francs fine . The printer was - fined forty francs , and the publisher one hundred francs . The Attorney-General having appealed a minima against the sentence , M . Erdan appeared before the . Imperial . Court , and was condemned to one year ' s imprisonment , three thousand francs fine , and costs . The court , moreover , ordered the destruction of the copies of the ¦ w ork seized , as well as those that may be seized here--flfte * :.
• The King of Hanover , by a decree of the 8 th , declares £ oafc any public functionary , magistrate , or clergyman who may , by any official or public act , call in question -the validity of his Royal ordinance of the 1 st of August , for carrying into effect certain decrees of the Diet ,, or any -laws or ordinances promulgated by them , shall be at once dismissed . Bacon . Brack has left for Ischl , where he will submit to the Austrian Emperor the proposition made by the house of Rothschild for the establishment of a credit institution , which is to have a capital of 100 , O ( M ) , 00 O of florins . M . Bunsen , has been returned by the electors of Magdeburg as Deputy to . the Prussian Chamber ; but , owing , to ilk-health , it is doubtful whether he -will sit .
It is asserted that Austria , has fomented the quarrel between Sardinia and Tuscany ; that she is the partisan of the latter ; and that she has said that , if the dispute is not arranged within a given time , she will regard it as A personal quarrel , and adopt measures accordingly . General Kalergi , before resigning his functions of Greek Minister of War , addressed an order of the day to the army , in which he said :- — " I leave you with reluctaa / ift , ton , during all my period of office , I have not ceased tft receive most flattering marks of your sympathy , at the same time that I had an opportunity of more fully appreciating those military qualities which , I fear not to proclaim , render the Greek army one of the best in Europe . My real mission among you . has been to . establish friendly relationships between you and the glorious allied troops now here . You have seconded and
facilitated this mission , and the most happy results have been , realised for our country and for yourselves . Thanks . tat youc excellent demeanour and to your prudence , which was proof against every insidious suggestion , the army of occupation has laid aside its menacing attitude , -and this day displays on our territory the friendly flags that floated at Navarino and in the expedition of the itoreov . . . Soldiers , continue to follow the same coarse . Conduct yourselves , always , as brothers towards tk » brave Allied asmies , which have held out to you a . generous , and friendly hand , and to which so many *» Quvemr ? 8 and so many hopes bind you . It Is only the feaemjf o £ all progress in Greece that can deny the innate sympathy that exists between the armies of civilisation ¦ and that , of Greece ^ You are aw . are that this sympathy is ; ! the firmest guarantee both , of the present and future Jiappi £ bBS 3 of our country . "
The insurgents of Catalonia have been defeated near Mocguefa . The Cabecillas Poful and Ferrer liave been killed , andRengoa . and Lerides taken prisoners . Twenty-. aix of the band have heen shot . Commandant Forges baa dispersed the band of Tristany , but it is not known in . what direction that leader has fled . The Cortes have approved the bill fixing at 70 , 000 the strength of the -Spanish army for 1856 . The laying down of the submarine cable between Cagliari and the- coast , of Africa has been interrupted in < o . < msaqjwence , of the breaking of the cable . The English veaeeli Result , which was engaged in the operation ,, is About ; too return , to England with the cable , which probably oannot now be laid down until the weather boomed move favourable . ¦ The Duke and Duchess of Brabant have arrived in Pocte on * a visit to the Etnperor ..
The . proceedings instituted against Bellomarre , the author of the attempted ; assassination of the French Ein-^ erar on the 8 tin ol Soptomben , have satisfied the ex-¦« mining Judges that he-was tho instrument of no purty ; iUat he was a madman ^ a nd- not an assusein ; and that he Jbad neither the- consciousness of his act nor of his posiiietu On the requisition of the Attorney-General , the Court decided on abandoning the prosecution ? recommopdiog toe . Admiiusteatioix , however , to adopt tho ne-CflBSjHiy measures bo prevent public order being ; disturbed iikjEaturei by the maniac .
.,- Jtokump loy £ of the eloctrio tolegruph having forwarded **;* , wntjcpda in Amiens a , dospatch stating that tho Emjperor . Uiifi been wounded by a Cent-Gardo , and tho ^ B ^ ini of Amiens having circulated the report through the * tawm * tour wore tried by tlie Court of Correctional
Police for propagating false news , and sentenced * first to six months' imprisonment , and the latter to three months ' , and both to five , hundred francs fine , Forty-eight persons / concerned in the late Angers insurrection have been sentenced . Fourteen are : to be removed to a penal' settlement . ; : the rest are condemned to imprisonment , for life . Eleven a * e . acquitted . The- Borsen Zeitung , or Exchange- Gazette of Berlin , mentions that the Russian Government is endeavouring to effect a sale to the United States of America of its possessions in the north of that continent for the sum of 40 , 000 , 000 of silver roubles . Should the bargain be brought to a satisfactory conclusion , various indulgences are to be extended to the commerce of the United States on the part of Russia .
The results of the Prussian elections are now nearly all known ; and , from an analysis of the members , it would seem that the House of Deputies will be Conservative in its majority . Gut of 350 elections , 163 have fallen upon men new to public life . Count Schwerin has . been elected five times , Herr von Patow , Herr Otto , and Herr Rhodew , each three times ; and seven others , among whom is the Minister of Finance , have been elected twice . Joseph Buonaparte , the eldest son of Prince Canino , has been thrown out of bis carriage at Naples , and severely hurt . He fell with one leg into a hole , and his foot was nearly wrenched away .
A meeting for the revision of taxes has taken place , at Genoa . The following resolutions were adopted : — " 1 . The meeting proclaims the necessity of economy and the abolition of all existing taxes . 2 . It declares its opinion in favour of an income tax , to be paid by persons possessing a capital of upwards of 3000 livres ; and recommends the exemption of the labouring classes and literary men . 3 . It loudly condemns the principles on which are based the financial laws of 1854 and 1855 , and holds . , the Cavour Ministry responsible for all the consequences which may result from its obstinate adherence to a system tending to the ruin of the State . " Cholera is raging at Madrid and in other parts of Spain . It appears to have been exacerbated by the late accession of cold and rainy weather . At Rome , where it has also made great ravages , it is on the decline .
The Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha recently declared in the Germanic Diet that he would oppose the demand of the nobles of his duchy for the restoration of their ancient privileges , abolished in 1848 . In consequence , twenty-one villages of the duchy have just voted an address to his Royal Highness , expressing their gratitude for this liberal policy , and it was presented to him a few days ago , after his return from Paris , by a special deputation . The semi-official Berlin paper , Die Zeit , confirms the intelligence of an approaching congress on the subject of the Sound Dues . The congress will be held at Copenhagen , and the period mentioned in the invitation to the Prussian Government to > send a plenipotentiary is the latter part of November next .
The old Russian believers in the Greek Church as it was in the days when it acknowledged no temporal head ( a subjection which was forced upon it by Peter the Great ) , are stated to regard tho late reverses of Russia as a Divine judgment . A secret society has , it is said , been formed , under the-title of the Finger of God , the members of which predict a speedy restoration of independence to the Church . Many priests , even at St . Petersburg , it is added , adhere to the new-old doctrine . 1 A subscription haa been formed at Rome for the benefit of the Sardinian army of the East , though every obstacle has been placed in the way of tho subscribers by the police . In transmitting the amount to the Sardinian Charge * d'Affaires , the donors observe : — " Small is the sum gathered , since it does not exceed l , 670 f . ; but our brothers of Piedmont will know how to excuse the poverty of the gift by the difficulty of the situation , and on account of our poverty , and will appreciate the affection which prompts it . "
Tho Jet * given at the Htttel { du Louvre to Prince Napoleon and the members of the Imperial Commission by tho exhibitors at the Exposition , was a lamentable failure . The arrangements were all behindhand ; ladies were injudiciously excluded ; and , after the departure of the Prince , some young , man , inutiicd with champagne , got to dancing among themselves , and the scene ia described as repulsive . An audacious brigand , named Joseph Affliti , commonly called Lazssarini , continues to spread terror and desolation in the environs of Iterrara . Ilia band consists of ten men . The Apoatolie delegate ^ Count Philip Folicaldi , has addveBHed tho people , inviting them by the promise of rewards to uoizu these desperate robbers . Tho reward offered for tho capture of Lazzariul amounts to 8000 crowns ; for two of hlu followers , 500 crowns ; and for the remainder , 100 crowns .
The now Greek Cabinet in thua composed : —Interior , M . Bulgaria j Justice , M . Bottli ; Publio Worship , M . Garcos ; Finance , M . Silivergoa ? War , Col . Smo . Bouitz ; Marine , M . Miaulin . The Allied Ambassadors declare that they will no longer transuct buameua with the Ministers , but only with , tho King . Tho King of Prussia ' * sixtieth , birthday , and the fiftieth anniversayoC his . entrance into tho army , was celebrated at Potudum on tho 16 th . iu » t . with great onthuuiasm and magnificence .
Voluntary Torture At Pakkhubst Prison. _...
VOLUNTARY TORTURE AT PAKKHUBST PRISON . _ A convict , named Patrick Battle , eighteen years of age , recently died at the Junior Prison at Parkhursi ; and , at the inquest held on his body , evidence yraa adduced which , according to the report in the , local papers , exhibits the extraordinary methods resorted to by prisoners to gain admission into the Infirmary . The chief witness was James Limb , No . 113 " convict , who said—" I have been here four years . I have known the deceased ever since he has been here . On Thursday , he told me he wished to get into the Infirmary for the winter , and he asked me the best way to manage it . I told him to get some of the stmT off the pump , and swallow it , and if it was made round he could swallow it like a pill ; and so he did . He took off the green stuff of the brasses with a bit of tin , and I made it into pills for him . He was at work on the pump that day . It was green , and I mixed it up with soap from his cell into pills with the oil from the top of the pump . I told him where to get it , and ! made it into six pills about the size our doctor gives us . He got a drink of water , and swallowed them one at a time , and in the afternoon he told me he had a pain in his head . I saw hun the next morning , when lie said it hadn ' t made him quite bad enough , so he he -would take some more pills , and I think he did , for he had enough stuff in the box to make six more , and . there was none left in the box the next morning ; and then his cocoa got on his stomach , and it made him sick , and he told the officer , and he put him in his cell . I took the oil myself when I tried to get into the Infirmary ; but tliere was no verdigris in that , but it made me very sick . He said he thought the verdigris would make it all the better , and so he took it . It is a common practice for us prisoners to make our eyes and legs sore , to get into hospital . Some eat ground glass , and put copperas into the sores . I can ' t say whether deceased knew of these pills before I told him , but the last time he got in by running a stocking-needle right through his leg , above the knee . It was full of thread , and he did it to make his leg sore ; but he ' most lost his leg by it . He got m all last winter , and he often tried the same thing over again when he did not succeed at first , but he got in every winter somehow . He asked me what to do , and I told him what I had tried , and I got in . You must mix soap with it to make it stick ; but it ' s two years ago since I took any . He said he wouldn't liko to try the experiment that No . 17 did of eating pounded glass . I was sent here for stealing a horse . I was only eleven years old then , and was remanded for two assizes , ' cause they couldn ' t find the man I sold it to . " The witness detailed the particulars of these horrible practices with the greatest coolness and effrontery , and seemed proud of the part he had taken in the transaction . Mr . Dabbs , hospital surgeon , said he had frequently discovered the prisoners in tho act of removing tho dressings from the sores , and irritating them , with , the hope of continuing longer in hospital . Tho doctor cited one case of a prisoner , for whose disease he could find no remedy , and who appeared to be daily wasting away . He at last ordered him to be stripped naked , and to spread out his arms , when a vein in his arm spirted ilood ,, and he then discovered that he had by some means obtained a lancet , with which he frequently bled himself down to death ' s door , in order to remain in the hospital . Tho jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased died by poison administered by his own hands , with the view to gain admission into the infirmary , and not to occasion his own death .
Our Civilisation. ' Loro Ernkst Vanh.—A ...
OUR CIVILISATION . ' Loro Ernkst Vanh . —A further account of this young nobleman ' s disgraceful behaviour at tho Windsor Theatre has been communicated to the Times by Mr . Albert Nash , tho manager of the establishment , who , it will be recollected , was the aggrieved person . From this statement , it would seem that Lord Ernest Vane ' s conduct was oven worse than the first accounts exhibited . Wo quote the major part of Mr . Nash ' B Jetter , as giving a specimen of tho kind of soldier who is now sent out to fight by the side of honourable men : —* ' In thq early part of tho evening , hi » lordship had amused himself by blacking the eyes of one person , kicking another , and ho forth . My first salute from him wan his stick broken across my back . Tho curtain was going up ; I wna wanted ; tho house pretty full , and , u » I did not w ish tho audiences to be disturbed , I put up with it and wont on . When the first piece wm over and I was drawing for the last , I was informed that hi « lordahlp had Poroea hit * way into tho ladies' dreaaing-room , « nd wouitt not leave , though repeatedly requeued by the hu ll ** , who had to commence re-dre » aing-, ho to do . i «> " •¦ ' " £ stage-manager to romonHtroto with !• Im , l » t Ito no fftat . I then went my «» Jf , whonhe told \ m * U > fi £ * £ place not mentioned to earn P ^ ' \^ Jgg ^ obliged to »« "d for « po "j-J- ^ jKVwrfiw «« i w £ ho < l «* ftl y w ^ Jced out . ' ^ "J ne ni ' < , at the S ^ k hJli of m ? by tho collar , and , before I was « ror .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 20, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20101855/page/7/
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