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STATE OF TRADE. The accounts from the ma...
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OBITUARY. William Henry Playfaik , the a...
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THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK. The examination ...
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0-UK- CIVILIZATION. +¦ — WITCHCRAFT IN S...
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to the walls of his palace ; on the contrary , he lived in a house of glass . The father then denounced those who sell the favour or protection of the court for gold , and who thus get rich by iniquity . The sermon has been much talked about . ' . ¦ A bill is spoken of for prohibiting people from bearing titles of nobility to > which they have no right . It is proposed to make the assumption penal . The flourishing of these " titles" in the eyes of servile persons is . said to be a great aid to swindling
adventurers-Matraccia , the Italian who was some short time back condemned , to death by the Court or Assizes of Abe for a series of extraordinary murders at Marseilles , was executed in the latter city last Saturday morning-. He exhibited considerable firmness and religious fervour ; and solicited and . obtained permission to take with him to the scaffold a favourite parrot in a cage , when , addressing it , he said , " Your master is about to die , and he embraces you for the last time . " He then begged forgiveness of the people of Marseilles , and in & few minutes more was dead .
. . SPAIN-. . . ¦• . . . The journal El Leon JSsptmol announces that the Government lias determined to raise the state of siege in all the provinces of Spain , including Catalonia . It is confidently stated that the Papal Nuncio to the Court of Madrid has quitted Rome in order to assume his functions . The Chateau de Galeras , in Alicante , has been assigned to General Prim for his residence during the six months' " arrest" to which he has been sentenced , by court-martial . The Captain-General of Madrid has sent him passports to travel from Toledo to Alicante on his parole .
PORTUGAL . After a ministerial crisis of a fortnight ' s duration , the Portuguese Cabinet has been reconstituted as follows : —• The Marquis Louie " , President , Minister' of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs ; Viscount Sb , da Bandiera , Minister of Marine and of War ; Senhor Avita , Minister of Finance ; Senhor Ferrer , Minister of Justice ; Carlos Bento , Minister of Public Works .
¦ : ¦ ' . ¦ . '¦¦¦¦ . PRUSSIA . / ¦ ' ; ' ¦ , With reference to the NeufchStel question , the ftide pendance Beige publishes the annexed telegraphic despatch , from Paris , dated the 20 th instant : —" The Prussian Minister has just received the instructions 'which he awaited from his Government relative to Neufchatel . They are to the effect , it is said , that King Frederick William will consent to treat upon the bases proposed by the Conference on the following conditions :- —' The title of Prince of Neufcha tel will remain attached to the
Crown of Prussia .. The benevolent institutions at JtsTeufchatel shall be maintained and guaranteed . The revenues of the royal domain sliall continue to be paid to the King for four years . The produce , which amounts to about 100 , 000 francs a year , will serve to indemnify the Royalists for the sacrifices and losses they have undergone . His Majesty renounces the maintenance cf the bourgeoieie . Switzerland will have to proclaim a general amnesty , and the Royalists compromised since 1848 are not to be molested on any grounds whatever . ' "
"The settlement of the Neufchatel question , " says a letter from Berlin , in the Tost Gazette of Frankfort , " encounters afresh difficulty f rom the circumstance of the agnates , or younger branches of the House of Prussia , refusing to consent to a renunciation of the Principality . Without their consent the renunciation of th & King would not be valid . " A . melancholy scene occurred in the Chamber of Deputies at Berlin on the 17 th instant . Herr Otto , a respected and influential member of the Catholic party , while speaking in the debate on the budget of the Minister of Public Worship , was overpowered with sudden illness and fell to the ground insensible He was carried into an adjoining apartment , where , in spite of all the remedies that could be applied , ho expired in a few minutes .
TV RICKY . The Ottoman Government has issued an important decree relative to the colonization of the waste lands in Turkey , by which decree forei gners are to bo enabled to acquire property in those lands .
CIRCASSIA . According to the Journal de Constantinople , the English steamer Kangaroo was captured by Itusaian gunboats , with Mohemot Bey on board . This statement , however , wat war with a previous report , which said that the expedition efiected a landing on tl ! o coast Pf Crcassia with perfect success ; and the Journal de Comtantmoph has itself made the same announcement X pT" the capture by the Russians . The safe M * f £ ^ H % T ^ dCCd ' " ow bey <>» d » doubt . « tlV i f e ? Kuasia » Ambassador « t ConnS ™? , ' - < l . ™ ?? thQ appointment oC a comni r ^ ° 1 W ~* " »« expedition to Circasaia
. Iho rurkidh Government will sot on foot the dceiwd investigation Mchomcd Uey ' s adjutant 3 as been arrested , examined , ami set at liberty nf o " two ? d . iv ? imprisonment . Baron Stein , now KP " , Wl Paaha , have been alno ' an ^ ted aZUertSaS Accounta from Tiftis state thnt «" V . 6 ute ( I - achieved some auccess agaLt ho vLST ™? ' ¦ V ° penetrated to within thirt ? ver ^ of S ^^ X" *
¦ ¦ . . H . ¦ I . —— i I . , DENMARK . Prussia ( says a despatch from Berlin ) refuses to refer the decision of the question of the Danish duchies to the Western Powers , as desired by France and "England , on the ground of its being a purely German matter . It is thought that Austria will also refuse .
ITALY . Chevalier Pinelli ( says the Independence Beige ) left Naples on the 12 th for Rome , and will proceed thence to Paris and London , with the view of bringing about the resumption of diplomatic relations between Naples and the courts of England and France . The Turin Gazette officially announces that the Sardinian Legation at Vienna has been recalled . This measure very naturally arises from the recal of the Austrian Legation at Turin , announced in the Gazette two days before .
1 he King of Naples has recently introduced into his prisons a new instrument of torture , called " the cap of silence , " the object of which is to prevent the wearer speaking . It consists of vn ingenious complication of steel cands and leathern straps , capable of such terrible constriction , when fastened round the head , that the victim faints with the pain .
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State Of Trade. The Accounts From The Ma...
STATE OF TRADE . The accounts from the manufacturing towns for the week ending last Saturday show no material variation , the attention of all classes having been directed to the approaching elections . At Manchester , the markets have been steady , but without animation . The Birmingham report mentions the receipt of improved orders for iron from the United States , while there lias also been a full export demand for other goods . At Nottingham , business has been well sustained , both in hosiery and lace , and a great spring trade is relied upon .
In the woollen districts there has been dulness . — Times . In the general business of the port of London during the same week there has been increased activity . The total number of ships reported inward was 238 , showing an augmentation of 95 . These included 54 with cargoes of grain , rice , & c , 22 with cargoes of sugar , and 3 from China with tea and silk , comprising 24 , 784 packages of the former , and 4800 bales of the latter , worth about half a million sterling . The number of ships cleared outward was 130 , including 11 in ballast , and showing an increase of 9 . —Idem .
Obituary. William Henry Playfaik , The A...
OBITUARY . William Henry Playfaik , the architect , whose genius was chiefly employed in the decoration of the Scottish capital , died on the morning of Thursday week , after a long illness which had for some years paralysed his limbs . He wasa native of London , where he was born in 1789 . His father was an architect before him , and his uncle was the celebrated mathematician and natural philosopher , Professor John Play fair . Dr . II . J .. Simons , formerly vicar of Hereford , and chaplain to the Forces and to the late Dukes of Kent and Cambridge , died suddenly from disease of the heart last Saturday morning in a railway carriage near Gainsborough . He had lately been officiating for another clergyman , and the exertion is thought to have accelerated his death . He was a person of sonle mark , if only from the fact of his having read the funeral service Over the famous General Sir John Mnflrfi .
The Royal British Bank. The Examination ...
THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK . The examination of Mr . Edward Esdaile was continued on Wednesday , when the late governor read a statement in defence of the management of the bank , in which he declared that , though the directors might have acted injudiciously , they had done . everything for the best . He had joined the bank early and continued with it , and he thanked his God he had left it with clean hands . ( Laughter . ) Mr . Esdaile was then examined at great length by Mr . Linklater . Ho stated that he never availed himself of the funds of the hank . The
money advanced to the Wandle Water Company had been repaid with interest . He had not any conception that there were two thousand pounds due on that account . He was n director of the company . It appeared from further cross-examination that a circular , proposing to tnke an establishment near Chancery-lane for a bank , and purporting to be signed by the secretary , had been issued in December , 1855 . Mr . Paddisoi ) , tho secretary , hero said that he was
repeatedly ordered to leave the room in consequence of some special matter ; and ho now learned for tho lirst time that such a letter was written . Mr . Linklater declared there was no imputation against Mr . Paddison , who had given most valuable assistance in the investigation . Mr . Eadailo further acknowledged that Mr . Cameron was iu tho bank for " vise , " and ho himself for " ornament . " ( Laughter . ' )—The proceedings were adjourned for another week .
A meeting in connexion with tho Ro ' ynl British Bank took place last Saturday at Vice-Chanaillor Kiudcrslcy'H chambers , before Mr . l ' ugh , his chief clerk . A call ol 75 / . per share was declared on all those shareholders who have been placed on the list huico January ; but , through tho insolvency nnd absence from thia country of the shareholder *! lmblo to pay , it ia expected the call will scaranly realize 100 QL altogether .
0-Uk- Civilization. +¦ — Witchcraft In S...
0-UK- CIVILIZATION . + ¦ — WITCHCRAFT IN STAFFORDSHIRE A strange story of superstition and i gnorance , with accessories which seem more in harmony with the L of the celebrated imposition of the Woodstock DeS than with these tunes , was unfolded at the close of l »> week at the Stafford Assizes during tie trial of a m named James TunniclifF , a beer-shop keeper , who wS charged with obtaining several sums of money fm Thomas Charlesworth , a farmer , ou the false pretence nf ridding him from certain influences of witchcraft Charlesworth is a young man who recently inarriV , l against his mother ' s desire . She had been iivinr-wj him and keeping his house ; but , a few months after thP marriage , she left . She wished to take her two youneer sons , who were mere boys , away with her ; but Charles worth said she should not , and there was a truarrel m that ground . On leaving , she is said to have threatened that the cheese should all fall to pieces , and that thp dairymaid should be ill ; that her son and his wife should rot in their beds , and that nobod y should heln them . Some of these doleful results were not Ions ; in happening . Great was the ruin of cheese ; lamentable the megrims of the dairymaid . NW there-was a wise man working on the farm , named Sammons , and a wise woman in tho neighbourhood , one Mrs . Willatts but inasmuch as the core of wisdom consists in the acknowledgment of superior mental powers -when they are manifestly apparent , these erudite persons referred Thomas Charlesworth to the beer-shop keeper , Tunnicliff , as to a . person learned in the art of defeating witchcraft . To TunniclifF , therefore , did the farmer pour forth his sorrows ; and the beer-shop keeper undertook , for a consideration , to bring the great capacities of his intellect to bear on the case . He went over to the farm , and pronounced that the cows were bewitched ; also two horses the farmer himself , the farmer ' s wife , the dairymaid ' and the cheese-kettle . Having made this weird inventory , he came to a business view of the case—to a
statement of terms . The cure of the cattle was valued at 3 s . 6 d . each beast ; that of Mr . and Mrs . Charlesworth and the dairymaid , at 5 s . each . It was necessary that the names of the cows should be supplied ; and this was done . Another stipulation was that the maid should be sent away , or she would become " a wanderer "—which appeared to be reversing the probabilities . The word , however , seems to have some mystical or ghostly signification . Another alleged consequence of the maid ' s remaining would be her death ; and accordingly she
was dismissed . In . the course of a few days , Farmer CharleswortU was " took \ eiy ill" as he u-. is going home from the wizard ' s beei-shop . He had shooting pains in his chest ; his head was " -very bad ; " and , on getting home , he began to shiver and shake . Tunniclift ' was sent for , and prescribed brandy—to which antidote to witchcraft there seems never to have been any objection on the part of the patients . More money was paid ; and , in all , the beer-shop keeper appears to have netted about SOL by the transactions .
Shortly after this , Tunnicliff came to live with Charlesworth ; and it must be confessed that , coincident with the domestication of the witch-curer , the witchcraft seems to have increased . The wife was taken ill with shivering , and so was the baby . Tunniclift" accused certain persons of having entered into a kind of witchcraft partnership with Mrs . Charlesworth , senior ; winch was the reason why so much business was efFectcd . He undertook to beat these wizards ( always for a separate consideration ) , and he professed to bring one of them , an old man , to the farmhouse ; but nothing appears to have resulted from this . Then he himself—even'fuunicliff , the terror of witches—was taken ill , and said the enchantment was on him . A certain man , named
Cotton , living at Longton , was tho cause of this ; and he added-that , if he did not go and encounter this man at his place of abode , he , the great Tunnicliff , . should die . For the high favour of thus rescuing himself from premature dissolution , he demanded 0 / . 10 s . ; but it docs not appear -whether ho got it or not . " When ho came back , " said tho victim , in his evidence at the trial , "he stated he was obliged to get tho superintendent of police to break Cotton ' s door open , and that he ( Tumucliu" ) had been very ill at Longton , and obliged to have the doctor . Ho said it was through having had a contest with Cotton . He said he had seen Cotton , and that the
police went in with him , and that Cotton was very stubborn . " A few days after , ho went to Derby ; but Mrs . Charlesworth , seeming by this time to have some suspicions , went with him , to seo if tho wise man were " correct . " On his return , he said he had had a contest with one "Wilson , who had been very stubborn ; but he would finish him in threo days . At thia time , ho frequently prepared the food of Mr . and Mrs . Clnivlesworth and the now dairymaid , and took it to them . TUo last named entertained a suspicion that ho drugged them ; and this appears to be strengthened by tho fact tluit in his house wero afterwards discovered BOine leaves and some briony root . Tina root possesses irritating properties . During TunniolHF ' s stay in the house , the inmates saw and heard , or fancied they saw and heard , appalling sights and sounds j and , to keep up their spirits , which
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Leader (1850-1860), March 28, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28031857/page/8/
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