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tenuating circumstances . The Sentence of the Court was , that the director of the journal be imprisoned for one year , pay a fine of 8000 f . ; and that the author of the article , " as accomplice of the offence , " be imprisoned for six months , and pay a fine of lOOOf . ; and that the journal itself be suspended one month . The House of Deputies in Turin is busy with the discussion of a bill for the suppression , or thorough reformation of a monastic ordeT . named the Compagnia di S . Paolo , & charitable institution in its origin , but now suspected of a coalition with the Jesuits . The Minister of the Interior proposes to reduce all national festivities in Piedmont to One solemn day , and to appoint the second Sunday in May for that purpose .
The Ministerial papers in . Tu , rin contradict all the sinister reports occasioned by the resignation of Count Siccardi , and declare that this act was merely the result of the inability of the Ex-Minister to continue in the discharge of his duties , owing to his declining health . Letters from Rome state that the judicial investigation into the assassination of Count Rossi is still proceeding . Several persons are in custody , but as the assassins , forty or fifty in number , had bound themselves by solemn oath not to make any revelations , it is most difficult to get at the truth . One of the principal accused , Felice Neri , died in prison a few days ago . Some persons suspect that it was he who plunged the dagger into the neck of 3 Vt . Rossi .
Nine highwaymen were condemned to death at Bologna ; eight of them shot on the 18 th . Monsignor Bedini , in his proclamation , insists that the Government have done their best to screen the population from the attacks of the brigands , and that the country alone is to blame if the whole band does not fall , into the hands of the public force . A fight was raging on the 16 th and 17 th between the Pontifical and Austrian troops and a detachment ot the Passatore band , on the Apennines between Romagna and Tuscany . Two of the soldiers were killed ; several were badly wounded ; and up to the departure of the mails , no decided advantage had been
gained against the desperate marauders . A Consistory was held at Rome on the 17 th ultimo , in which the Pope delivered an allocution on the religious affairs of Switzerland . His Holiness complained bitterly of the oppression which weighed on the consciences of Catholics in that country , in consequence of the conduct of the Liberals ,. of the obstacles to the tree exercise of the Catholic religion , of the exile of several of the spiritual leaders , and of the spoliation of churches and destruction of convents . He at the same time praised the moderation of the Swiss episcopacy and clergy in the oppressed cantons .
* Letters from Spain bring frightful accounts of the misery and crime prevailing in various parts of the country . Catalonia , Murcia , Valentia , and Andalucia are overrun with brigands . In the fertile province o Jaen , the , districts , of A j ° na , Marto , and Santiago de Calatrava have bueen thrown into consternation by the seizure of several affluent individuals for whose ransom from death large sums are demanded . In some instances the miscreants have carried their villany to the extent of murdering their captives after the sum demanded had been paid . By news received from Egypt at Trieste on the 16 th institi t , we learn that the differences which had arisen between the Ottoman * Porte and the Viceroy had been arranged . This arrangement is stated to be due to the influence of France . — Coloqne Gazette , Feb . 22 ;
A petition to Congress from the American Peace Society has been referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations , who have reported a resolution that it would be desirable for the Government of the United States to secure a provision in its treaties with other nations for referring all future difficulties to the decision of umpires before the commencement of hostilities . A railway convention was held at Kingston , on the 6 th of February , to take into consideration the steps
necessary for the construction of a railroad from Kingston to Toronto—the line to run through the rich and populous country on the borders of Lake Ont «~ io . The convention was principally composed of delegates from County municipal councils . Meetings have alwobeen held upon the subject in different parts of the province ; and the public mind is gradually becoming more aroused to their utility and necessity . One county council has voted £ 60 , 000 , and another £ . 30 , 000 , towards constructing portions of the Kingston and Toronto railway .
A destructive fire took place in-Valparaiso at the end of last year , consuming houses and other property to the amount of 250 , 000 dollars . The principal sufferers are among shopowners , mechanics , and umall tradespeople . The whole number of persons who have been burned our , including families , tradesmen , and mechanics , amounts to ' M .
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The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress received nearly two hundred members of the Court of Common Council and their wives at dinner , in the Egyptian Hall on Monday . At this entertainment there were present the Common Council of his lordship ' s ward and twelve other wards . The promoters of an amendment in the patent law held a meeting at the Belle Sauvage , Ludgate-hill , on Monday evening . Several gentlemen addressed the meeting in illustration of the particular grievances under which inventors labour . Mr . Rogers , a barrister , enlarged
upon the very great expense which attended the working oftho present patent laws . It was only by an association of parties directly interested as inventors in the question that » reform could he expected . Th « question which occupied the immediate attention of the meeting , whs r . Uft ri ghts of inventors in the objects to bo Bent in to the inhibition of May . It is well known that there are many valuable inventions which would do honour to the talent of this country , and must be withheld from the Inhibition , unless Government instantly pasa the proposed protective law , to s « our « to inventors the property m their respective patents .
The following reductions have been made in the expenses of the diplomatic service , to tak e effect from the 6 th of April next .- —There are to be in future but two British Ministers abroad with the rank of Ambassador namely , at Paris and Constantinople . The Paris embassy is reduced from £ 10 , 000 to £ 8000 a-year . The Madrid mission is reduced from £ 6000 a-year , and £ 550 for house rent , to £ 5000 a-year , and £ 700 house rent . The Vienna mission is reduced from £ 9000 a-year , and £ 900 house rent , to £ 5000 a-year , and £ 900 house rent . The Secretary of Legation of Vienna to have £ 550 , instead of £ 900 , hitherto paid to the Secretary of the Embassy . These reductions , in addition to the abolition of the Consuls-General at Syria and Algiers , and other reductions , which we have already announced in the consular department , will effect a considerable saving in the expenses of the Foreign-office . 1
Extraordinary exertions have been madeto erect the marble arch in its appointed place , at the Oxford-street entrance to Hyde-park . The works are now so far advanced that the massive gates have been fixed in their places , and the whole of the superstructure is in a very forward condition . It is the general opinion that the arch shows to greater advantage than in its former position , in consequence of the present site being much more elevated , and , owing to its prominent position , the elaborate ornaments and devices on the front of the arch are now seen to the greatest possible advantage . — Times . A company has been formed and is about to apply to Parliament for an act enabling them to reclaim 30 , 000 acres of land lying on the Lincolnshire side of the Wash .
. "YVhittlesea Mere is now free from water , and next year will no doubt be under the plough . Various articles in gold and silver have been taken from the bottom ; among other things , a gold censer , very many swords , and a valuable chandelier , which when lighted up , represents the west front of Peterborough Cathedral . —Cambridge Paper . The Norfolk Estuary Company held their halt-yearly meeting at Gray ' s inn Coffee-house this week . The report stated that the works authorized by an act passed in 1846 had been commenced . A provisional contract , to the amount of . . £ 143 , 000 , had been entered into with Messrs . Peto and Betts , and the first sod was turned on the 8 th of November . About 800 men and 300 horses are employed on the works at present ; and it is expected that the whole of the works will be completed within the time specified by the Act of Parliament . Mr . George Game Day and Mr . Wing were elected joint solicitors of the company .
The first report on the progress of cotton cultivation in Jamaica speaks favourably of the experiment . The manager at Green wall has seventeen acres planted with cotton , from which he anticipates obtaining three or four bales of white , and one of yellow cotton . A pair of young male lions were landed at St . Katharine ' s Docks , the other day , from the Thomas Henry , which has recently arrived from Table-bay . Although only about six months old they consumed twenty-one sheep during the voyage , a quantity sufficient to have kept a Suffolk workhouse in mutton for a twelvemonth . Sir W . Owen Barlow was seized with sudden illness at the Reform Club , on Monday evening , after dinner , and was conveyed home to his chambers in the Temple , where he died early next morning . He was in his 79 th year , 1 and has left a large fortune , which is entailed .
A fire broke out on the premises of Messrs . Cuthbert , tallow-merchants , Paternoster-row , on Thursday evening , a little before six o ' clock , by which the premises were totally destroyed . A great many complaints have been made by the neighbours at various times , and the danger to the surrounding property from the liability of Messrs . Cuthbert 8 premises to take fire has been represented , but all to no purpose , and it has remained for the accident of Thursday night to put an end to the nuisance of a tallow-melting business in the very he / irt of the City of London ,
A fire took place at Brighton , on Monday , at the residence of Mr . Boxall , coachmaker and general dealer in leather , ironmongery , Sect . The fire was most destructive , and the family of Mr . Doxall had a very narrow escape from loss of life . In two or three hours the house was completely gutted , an < l the stock , valued at £ 2000 , was entirely consumed . Mr . Iloxall ' s carter , named Winder , hearing of the fire , ran to the spot in a state of great excitement and ( right to nave his horses , and almost immediately after he entered the yard he dropped dead into the arms of one of his fellow-workmen .
William Gray Smith , surgeon , vauxhall , was brought up at Lambeth Police-court , on Thursday , for further examination , when four distinct capital charges were established against him , and one of criminal assault . One of the girls was only thirteen years of nge , and the . others were under seventeen . The prisoner was again remanded , in order that further evidence uiuy be brought forward against him . A prize fight took plane at Leeds on Monday last , be-, tween two men , named Richard Searfe and Richard
Kelvey . Having pommelled each other for a considerable time , Kcarfe acknowledged himself vanquished , and Kelvey was declared entitled to the stakes . Kelvey was no elated at his victory , that he ran across the field in which the fight took place , and jumped the enclosure . Immediately afterward * he veiled , complained of his head , and was conveyed to the Dog and dun , where medical aid was procured , but he died in two hours afterwards . A verdict of nmntdaughter against . Ncurfo has been returned , and he has been committed for trial . The hens of Kgypt now lay eggs for the Londoners . Thirteen casks were lately landed at Southampton from Alexandria . An affecting incident occurred en Saturday at the exhibition of paintings at the Palais National . A decently dressed workman , while looking at a picture representing a scene after tfyo Insurrection of Jui \ e , with . 11 wounded garde mobile in the buck-ground , suddenly
exclaimed " Oh . I mon frSre Stanislas ! " fainted away and was carried out . On his recovery , he said he thought he had recognised his brother , who had died of his wounds , in the picture of the garde mobile ; that at the barricade when his brother was wounded in the cause of order , he had himself unfortunately been on the other side with the insurgents , and had frequently since had his mind afflicted by the idea , that the ball "which destroyed his brother had come from his musket . The picture at the exhibition had revived this idea with suoh intensity , that he sunk under its effect .
A curious story is in circulation , the details of which are so delicate as to oblige me not to name directly the parties concerned . A near female relation of an exalted person , married to a ltussian prince , has had the misfortune to lose half her pin money , through the displeasure of the Czar , at whose express command the said pin money , amounting to eight thousand pounds sterling , had been hitherto paid to her . It seems that the father of this lady , whose habits of expenditure have been , probably from the circumstance of his having once occupied a throne , disproportioned to the modest income which he receives as the director of a hospital , vras accustomed to make frequent appeals to the generosity of his
daughter , in order to eke out his narrow means . Meanwhile the princess , whether wearied with the constant repetition of these claims upon her filial duty , or dreading " that climax of all earthly ills , the inflammation of our weekly bills , " gradually turned a deafer ear to these paternal importunities , and finally sent the suppliant ex-king empty away . The consequence was that a letter full of revelations , by no means calculated to raise the character of the princess , whose' youth and beauty expose her to more than ordinary temptation , reached her husband- This letter was sent to St . Petersburg , and laid before the Czar . Hence the ukase clipping the allowance of the lady . —Parts Correspondent of the Daily News .
A singular instance of the mode in which judicial penalties are carried into effect in Prussia is announced in the Berlin papers . The editor of a democratic journal was recently condemned to four months' imprison T nent ; but pleading ill health as an excuse for submitting to the penalty , it was decreed that he should be examined by the medical superintendent of prisons , Dr . Casper , who made his report , whereupon it was decided that the condemned person should submit to a system of alternation of prison and freedom—that is , he is to go into and remain in gaol four days , and then come out for eight days ; and so on until the whole period of four months ' imprisonment shall be made good .
A horrible tragedy in domestic life was lately enacted in Mississippi . An engagement had existed for suine time between a Mr . Tate and Miss Shepherd , in the Haarlem Creek District , Holmes County , to which the father of the young lady refused his consent . The young ' couple had agreed to runaway for the purpose of getting married , and for that purpose were to start from a wedding party held in the immediate neighbourhood . Mr . Tate met the young lad y , as arranged , at the party , and asked her publicly whether she was ready to fulfil her promise and go with him , and , on her declining , ho drew a pistol , shot her dead in the room , and attempted to destroy himself , but failed , and was immediately sent to Lexington gaol on the charge of murder . The Jteverend John J . M'Hride was recently indicted , in North Carolina , for presenting a little slave girl with a copy of the Ten Commandments . lie was found guilty , and his sentence Was , " to stand one hour in the stocks , receive thirty lashes on the bare back , and he imprisoned one year in the common gaol . "
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The extraordinary libel case of " Wynne v . the Mar-! quis of Westmeath , " which commenced in the Irish . Exchequer nisi prius on Monday week , was brought to a conclusion on Tuesday evening , after a seven hours charge by the Lord Chief Baron . The jury , after half an hour's deliberation , found a verdict for the plaintiff , to whom they awarded £ 2000 damages and ( id . costs . The libel consisted of certain charges which the marquis brought against Captain Wynne to the effect that ho had compelled the relieving officer , in spite of his remonstrance ,, to place upon the list a woman of had character , with whom he was living , and that upon the officer ' s refusing to do so , and informing him that kIio had ground , and wa . s not iii need of relief , fie persisted in bringing the ease before the vice-g-iuardians , who ordered her relief ; and that this was done upon three several occisions .
So brisk at present are that class of our capitalists who are engaged In the manufacture of machinery for fl . ix spinning that the steam-engines in most of their workshops are running night and day . Stands ure not to be > had , for love or money , either in Scotland or Kngland . Several new mills are unable to start , partly from want , of their machinery and partly for lack of operatives . About 70 , 000 spindles more than lust year will be » t ; work iu a couple of months , every hundred of whinh will
employ Hcveu hands . This alone will circulate about £ 200 ( 1 weekly in lielfast . Tin ; manufacturers of linens , damiuiks , and Hewed muslin , are . busy iu their preparations for tlie ( Jreut ( Exhibition ; and ho numerous nre the females employed in the latter class of establishments that , when they turn outat meal hours , a stranger might really suppoMe that . Imlf-a-do / en great factories had been let loose in every street . Other branches of manufacture are equally active . — ( lister ( iaztitto .
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One of tins most promising of joint-stock companies recently Hturted i » that of the Metropolitan and Provincial Joint-Stonk Hrewery Company , which , by the association of capital , will enable the compnny to furniuh unadulterated beer at prices lower than those of ordinary breweries . Everything depends upon the management of hiioIi a'ttohftm ' c , Vv ' ell managed , such a speculation must ho proftiiibfc ; everything hangs thereon .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 1, 1851, page 197, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1872/page/9/
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