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1O1 Q ^ THE LEADER. [No. 300, Saturday, ...
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MANIN AND THE FRENCH PRESS. [The illustr...
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IMPERIAL JUSTICE. [The following communi...
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THE TURKS AND THE ALLIES. [We have recei...
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. A SWEDISH ALLIANCE. S...
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Pjoaoe Pnosi'JBCTS.—A cloud of ministeri...
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Our Civilisation. James Wabeham Has Been...
I > xmng Bttbgiaby at Portsmouth . —The shop o ? mSSb-K * jewellers and goldsmiths , of Porte-South has been broken open , and robbed of a consi-Se amount of valuable property , apparently ¦ under the eye of the police . The premises of Messrs . Emanuel are fronting the harbour , and close to the dookyai-d-gate , where a strong police force is always on duty . Last Sunday morning , between one and two o ' clock , about an hour after the family had gone to bed Mr . Ezekiel Emanuel was awakened by a noise in the lower part of his house . He got up and looked
out ; bub , as he perceived from the window of his room that there were lights in the opposite houses , he imagined that the noise he heard proceeded from one of them , and therefore returned to bed . At the expiration of half an hour , he was again aroused , and again got up and looked down upon a glass cupola which lighted the sitting room adjoining the shop ; but , not seeing any light there , or anything to cause suspicion , he still supposed the noise to be the moving of the neighbours about their houses , and once more went to bed . The thieves were evidently at work
during this period . About half-past seven , the maid servant went down to the sitting room , on entering which , she was astonished to find several housebreakers' tools lying on the floor , and the doors communicating with the shop partly open . Having informed her master of this circumstance , he went into the shop , and found that it had been entered , and a large quantity of small jewellery , gold chains , rings , & c ., to the amount , it is supposed , of at least one thousand pounds , had been stolen . An inspection of the premises was subsequently made by the Mayor of Portsmouth and the police ; and it was then discovered that the burglars had effected their entry of Messrs . Emanuel ' s house by a most elaborate process , having in the first place broken into a wine and spirit
merchant ' s shop , situated immediately in the rear of the goldsmith ' s . They then , by means of a ladder , climbed on to the roof of the store ; in this they broke a hole , and then got out on to the roof of Mr . Emanuel ' s workshop , from -which they removed a few tiles , and descending through the ceiling into the workshop , from which they did not take anything , they next crossed the yard which separates it from the main dwelling , and finally entered the shop through the kitchen . Considering the extreme publicity of the neighbourhood , the number Of people constantly on the spot , and other surrounding circumstances , it ia wonderful how so extensive a robbery could have been committed with success . The police are taking active measures to trace out the thieves .
Alice Grey . —This woman was brought before the'Wolverhampton magistrates on Wednesday , and committed for trial . She was jocose and eccentric as usual . She assured the chairman that if he was as prepossessed with her looks as she was wibh his , he would never send her to trial . A letter from Mrs . Morris having been read , stating that Mr . Morris ( her husband , and one of the witnesses ) was precluded from attending by indisposition , Alice observed , " . Perhaps he is in love ; " adding afterwards , " I wish he had never come to the railway station—that's one , thing . " The magistrates refused to take bail ; upon which Alice said— " It is a pity to be on the lea side of want . "
JRailway Robberies . —Several robberies at different railway stations have been recently committed ; and various persons are now in custody on charges of complicity . Tinas Great Cit y Fbattds . — Daniel Mitchell Davidson , and Coemo William Gordon , were on Wednesday placed at the bar of the Central Criminal Court , on a chai'ge of embezzling a portion of their estates , to the value of . € 1 , 000 , with intent to defraud their creditors , and of secreting money to the amount of £ 2 , 600 , with the same design . They were acquitted upon a technical ground , tho aots imputed having been committed out of this country . They have since been charged with fraudulently
obtaining goods after their bankruptcy , and being forchid guilty yesterday , they were sentenced to two yeara' imprisonment in the House of Correction . Thb SdTTTHJkiM ^ roN Murder . —Abraham Bakev has been tried at "Winchester for the murder , by shooting , of Naomi Kingswell , a girl to whom ho had been engaged to be married , but who had broken off the match The act having been witnessed by several persons , the only dofenoe possible was that of insanity , which was accordingly advanced ; but the only thing suggestive of mental disturbance was a confession
made by the prisoner , in which , in a very incoherent way , he said his mind had been affected by the girl ' s inconstancy . Buker wns found guilty , and was aentenoed to death . He had dropped senseless during the speech of his counoil ; and at the close of the trial he was carried oub of court in a helpless state . Both judge and jury were visibly affected . Baker was a Methodist , ana appoars to have boon really attached to the girl . Thid BuRNOvFiHiiD MuRDE « .--Tho inquest on tho body of Mr . Robert Stirling has already extended over uevtafftj weeks , and is not yot oonoluclod . Strong suspicion attaches to a mnn named Cayne , who is now
in custody . A glass button , corresponding with those worn by this man , and fitting a place where one is wanting , has been accidentally found at the scene of the murder ; and Cayne , together with another man ( also in custody ) , was observed , about the time of the tragedy , near the spot .
1o1 Q ^ The Leader. [No. 300, Saturday, ...
1 O 1 Q ^ THE LEADER . [ No . 300 , Saturday , 1218 ______ ¦ : i ' ¦ ' — ' ; ——————^— — ————————*———¦—————¦¦¦——————¦_—¦—i—
Manin And The French Press. [The Illustr...
MANIN AND THE FRENCH PRESS . [ The illustrious Daniel Manin has recently addressed the following letter to the principal journals of Paris ^ without distinction of party . It has been inserted in the Presse and the Siecle , and , in the former of those journals , it has been very strikingly and significantly commented upon in an article by M . Alphonse Peyrat . We shall take an early otfeasion to treat it as a text for considerations on the hopes and prospects of Italy . ] " Paris , December 10 , 1855 . "Sir , — The < ico essential conditions of a complete national life are independence and unification . * I think it superfluous to demonstrate a proposition so evident to every sincere man . Only consider what would become of the French nationality if France ceased to be independent and one .
" The Italians aspire to conquer the enjoyment of a complete national life . Therefore they must desiretherefore they do desire —the independence and unification of Italy . But a pernicious prejudice practically interrupts their efforts , a phantom blocks the way , adding to the numeroxis real difficulties , imaginary ones , and chilling the ardour necessary to the success of great enterprises . It is pretty generally believed in Italy , that France and England are , and always will be , hostile to the unification of Italy by reason of paltry considerations of rivalry and envy . I feel certain this is an error . In their great and legitimate pride , France and England , those leaders of European civilisation , must be and are inaccessible to any feeling of envy or of rivalry towards any other nationality whatsoever , and in their manly intelligence they must understand—and do understand—that their greatness and their prosperity can only gain by the prosperity and the greatness of their neighbours .
My own conviction on that point is fully made up ; but it would be powerless to destroy the error I have noted ., if it were left unsupported by the organs of public opinion in England and in France . " Upon the appearance , last September , of my letter , addressed to the editor of the Siecle , in which I clearly defined the formula of the national aspiration of Italy in two inseparable terms , Independence and Unification , the English journals of all shades of opinion , from the Times to the Leader , declared themselves favourable to that formula , and accepted with equal sympathy the term of testification and that of independence . "An analogous declaration on the }? art of the French periodical press would be an immense service rendered to the cause of Italy .
" The question I submit is this : —Whether , if , in an early or remote future , by the use of the means which Providence may put within ovir reach , we should succeed in accomplishing our object : if Italy , ceasing to be a simple geographical denomination , should become a political individuality , powerful and prosperous , could Buch a result be dangerouB , or hurtful , or simply disagreeable to France ? I think that , putting aside all discussion on the probability of the hypothesis , an intelligent and skilful writer nright , without inconvenience , treat this question fvom a general abstract , and elevated point of view , having regard to the permanent political and economical interests of France , superior to , and independent of , any transitory interest , and of al ] preoccupations of party , of coterie , or of persons .
" The evidence of sympathy 'which , on many occasions , you have given to my unhappy country , bids me hope , Sir , that you will kindly answer to my appeal . I offer you my acknowledgments in advance , and pray yon , at the same time , to accept tho assurance of my distinguished consideration . " Manin . "
Manin And The French Press. [The Illustr...
* I soy vnt / lcattdii , ami npt union oy unity , beaauflo tho -wovd unity would nppoar to exclude tho loiloruUvo form , and ttio ¦ word union would mhioav to exclude tho unitary form .
Imperial Justice. [The Following Communi...
IMPERIAL JUSTICE . [ The following communication , signed " Britannicus , " appears in the Daily Ncioa : —] At tho period of tho attempt of Bollemaro ( who , it will bo remembered , fired a pistol at ono of tho imperial carriages nenr tho ontranco of tho Opera Comiquo , and was , in consoquonoo , pronounced mad , and confined in tho Hospital of Biodtre ) , tho Government , fearing that Iuh attempt was tho result of a conspiracy , ordered tho arrest of a groat number of young men , appertaining , for tho most part , to tho youth of tho public schools . Among those was Mr . Rane , the eldent Ron of a gentleman of rcHpootability and position ; hiss father , a magistrate , having formerly been juge dc paix of tho district of Poitiorn . No proof whatovor was discovered agaiuwt this
young man , who was at that tune fully occupied with his literary labours . Nevertheless , despite the total absence of proof , and despite the steps taken by his family , Mr . Rane was detained in prison at the dep 6 t of the Prefecture de Police . Several months had thus elapsed without the prisoner having been able to procure either a trial or his liberty , when ; some few days since , a commissary of police called on him in prison , and imparted to him a decision which the Council of Ministers had come to respecting him , in virtue of which Mr . Rane wasnot to receive his liberty , but—to be transported to the penal settlement of Cayenne .
Mr . Rane , senior , who was then at a distance of five hundred miles from Paris , was informed by the telegraph of the decision arrived at with respect to hie son . He returned at once to Paris , and applied to one of the Ministers to obtain a repeal of the sentence ; but finding their decision irrevocable , he begged that his son might be transported , not to Cayenne—a distant settlement with a deadly climate—but to Algeria , a nearer and more healthy colony . The Minister refused , alleging that " Africa , like France , was infected with secret societies , and that the Government had left off transporting thither . " The father thereupon beseechingly implored that his son might not be AmericaThe
transported , but merely banished to . Minister replied that banishment to America would be granted to Mr . Rane , jun ., in commutation of his sentence , if he would consent to write and sign a declaration renouncing his republican opinions . The father transmitted these conditions to his son , who nobly refused to give this declaration of apostasy . In consequence , the order is about to be executed , and Mr Rane , a young man twenty-four years of age , is to be transported to Guiana . The ship which conveys him is to leave the port of Toulon between the 15 th and 20 th instant . I am informed that several other persons , arrested at the same period , are about to be similarly transported , without trial , to Cayenne
The Turks And The Allies. [We Have Recei...
THE TURKS AND THE ALLIES . [ We have received from a private correspondent at Pera some details of interest with reference to the position of the Allies in Constantinople . After mentioning that the Turkish authorities place every obstacle in the way of the English commissariat officer at Schumlr , in providing for the irregular cavalry stationed there , our informant proceeds : ] The letter of the Times correspondent at Constantinople , which appeared in that publication of the 23 rd ult ., is . I am sorry to say , but too true of tins place . It is not safe for foreigners to go out after dark , unless in parties and well armed . The streets are in a fearfully dirtydarkand unpaved state .
, , The ill-feeling existing between the Turks and the French is not likely to be allayed but augmented it such conduct as I witnessed on the part of two trench soldiers ( privates ) be permitted . I was confined to the house during the whole of the morning by a heavy fall of rain , which ceased about one p . m . About two p . m . I sallied out , passing down Pera street towards a in the main street which runs parallel to the
Bosphorus , and leading to the Sultan ' s new palace my attention was attracted by some one shouting Bono Ancjlaise , Turk no bono I" Thw proceeded from two French soldiers , rather the worse for drink , who were shaking Hands with some English sailors standing in the street . The two soldiers then marched ob , shouting " Tnricno bonol" thrusting every Turk they met into the middle of the street , and striking some with a largo stick . I attempted to remonstrate with them , but got no reply but " Tuf nc > bonol English bono ! " In a minute or two two Fionch officers came up , who stopped these disgraceful
proceedings immediately . , , News from tho Crimea will in all probability be delayed for some time to come , as there is a limit iu the cable between Varna and the Crimea . What that fault is we are not yet » b , K * ° £ " ff fears arc entertained that it is a break in tho cable , if so , it may bo necessary to send to Eng landIki « new one , as it will bo almost impossible to flon it up again . ____
Continental Notes. A Swedish Alliance. S...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . A SWEDISH ALLIANCE . Stockholm , Dec . 18 . Thk King of Sweden has ratiflod a treaty with Kng land and Franco . , , .. i Tho two Allied Powers guarantee the tcrritoiial integrity of Sweden , and tho latter engages not w alionato any part of its territory to llusseia . Tho high contracting parties engage to communicate , mutually and reciprocally , all propositions coming from Russia .
Pjoaoe Pnosi'jbcts.—A Cloud Of Ministeri...
Pjoaoe Pnosi'JBCTS . —A cloud of ministerial niyHt . ° V yot hangs about tho question of pouoo . A tl « HJPltt ~ J from Vienna , of December ICtli , says : — ^""^ Efltorhazy loaves to-day for St . Petersburg . »" understood that he is bonror of most import !"" despatches containing the propositions fur a paciaoi
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 22, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22121855/page/6/
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