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a . - «!* . « - "sras . ssSE . « s s l i i i J i § S £ 5 * 5 out t ortem towards which side they were to front , ^ d on which side they were to fight ; it was for the army to think only howit could test preserve and increase its glory and honour . In the Sardinian Chambers , the suppression of Monasteries Bill is pending . The bill for a general register of lands has been carried by a majority of 68 against 52 . General Dabormida has resigned his seat in the Sardinian Cabinet , and Count Cavour has accepted the office of Minister for Foreign Affairs .
BoneUi ' a electric loom , which will supersede the Jaquard looms , is exciting great interest at Turin . It will be one of the most remarkable inventions to be seen at the Universal Exhibition in Paris . The Tuscan Government has decreed the cessation of the state of siege at Leghorn from the 2 nd inst ., but forbids the bearing of arms without special license . The following provision is a good specimen of Austrianism : — " All offences against the interior or exterior security of the state , or against public order , as also all cases of murder or infliction of wounds , are to be judged with the greatest possible despatch , and before all other matters . Whenever the offences above alluded to are not sufficiently serious according to the ordinary laws in force to warrant the immediate imprisonment of the delinquent , the
governor is empowered to order such" imprisonment whenever he shall judge it necessary for the sake of maintaining public tranquillity . " The Marquis of Norin a nb y has succeeded Sir Henry L . Bulwer as British Minister to Tuscany . Kin g Bomba has been publicly weeping at a procession of the Madonna through the streets of Naples . He has , it is said , renewed the contract -with his Swiss troops for 30 years . The quarrel with the Jesuits has been made up by the General of the Order , and the Jesuits are now more powerful than ever at Naples . The French Moniteur has the following respecting the French army . of occupation in the Papal States : —
" The Emperor , in _ deciding that the effective force of French troops ~ at Rome should be diminished in proportion to the security now enjoyed in the Papal States , in his solicitude for the cause of the Church and the Holy S e e , has consented that until further order the army of occupation shall not be reduced below 3500 men . " Prince Lucien Murat having been accused by the liberal Piedmontesepress of being in league with * the Jesuits , wrote a letter to the Deputy Brofferio repudiating the connexion , and treating the Jesuits with contempt . The Prince has since written to the French papers , which reproduced his letter , to say that the translation from the Italian was incorrect . In S pain there have been serious disturbances at Malaga : —
" The National Guard of Malaga , " says the Madrid correspondent of La Presse , " has seized the first opportunity of making" ^ the present Ministry . Malaga is a focus of progressist opinions ; there are parties who like Espartero very well , but they seemed to be very disinclined to approve the policy of conciliation he is now following . The disturbances that have just taken place in that city are a broad hint to the Duke de la Vittoria that he must separate from Messrs . O'Ponnell , Luzurriaga , and a few more of the other Ministers . " The Governor o f Mal aga , a brother of Marshal O'Donne ll , was obliged to fly for his life . On the 2 nd i nst , Espartero made the following declaration in the Cortes :
" Gentlemen , —I am about to speak to the nation legi t ima t el y represented in this place . The idol I adore has been , and always will be , the liberty of my country . To consolidate it on a firm and indestructible basis I shall be read y to sacrifice my life , and , what is worth still more , my reputation . But , gentlemen , without obedience t o t he laws , and without the preservation of public order , liberty is impossible . ( Applause . " ) I w i ll emp l oy a ll my efforts to preserve it . I count on you , on your e nli ghtenment , your talents , and your virtues ; I count also on the national guard , I count on the army , I count on the entire nation . With such powerful support , if any men should attempt to violate the laws , o r to t rouble p ublic order—whether they call themselves anarchists , or proselytes of despotism—on them will fall the sword of the law ; and if t h e y should es cap e i t , t h e y will fly cove r ed with confusion and opprobrium . Our country will thus be purified , and liberty will bo for ever established . "
The proposition of M . Pareda , who demand e d t ha t the bills voted by the Congress before the Constitution should riot be submitted to the Royal sanction , has been rejec te d b y 144 votea against 66 . TheDucde Sevillano , t ho Minist e r of Finance , has paid out . of his private funds several debts due by the State . ' pMticularly 2 , 000 , 000 reals to tho household of the j * * ' 600 > 00 ° i which remained due of the halfyear ' s dlyiderid of July , and nearly 8 , 000 , 000 which were due to the troops of Navarre . It is said , indeed , ta « t the tQtal he has advanced for the public service
i amounts to no less than 14 , 000 , 000 reals ; and that the committee on the budget have resolved to propose a reduction of 500 , 000 reals in the allowance of the Duchess de Montpensier . The reception of M . Berryer at the French Academy is fixed for the 25 th of January . In the rules of the French Exhibition the space for works of art is not limited . M . Cornelius , a well-known German artist , is about to send all his works—two hundred pictures .
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* MILITARY CONVENTION BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA . Fok some days past t he German papers ha v e been speaking of a military convention concluded oet vreen Prussia and Aus t ria , which the latter Power has called upon Prussia to fulfil . The version which the papers g ive of t hi s conven t ion bein g erroneous , we are glad to be enabled to lay the text of the article before our readers . It is as follows : —
" MILITARY CONVENTION ANNEXED TO THE CONVENTION CONCLUDED BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA , ON THE 20 TH OF APRIL , 1854 . " Art . 1 . Austria engages herself to add to the 150 000 men who are assembled in Hungary , on the Danube , and on the Saur , 100 , 000 men , who will together compose a second army—and that as soon as the necessity of the measure shall be felt , and at periods which she will appoint in accordance with Prussia . The troops mobilised in Gallicia , ^ n Tr ansylvania , in Moravia , and joined in Gallicia , as a corps d ' armee , or in separate bodies , will remain in intimate relations with the military forces of Prussia . her sideto
" Art . 2 . Prussia engages herself , on , concentrate , according to the circumstances , 100 , 000 men within the space of thirty-six days ; to wit , one-third of these forces in Eastern Prussia , and the two others at Posen or at Breslau . Besides this , she binds herself to raise her army to the number of 200 , 000 men , if the circumstances should require it , in coming to an understanding each time in that respect with Austria . "Art . 3 . The military convention of the Germanic Confederation preserves all its force as respects Prussia and Austria . «¦** ¦ ' ¦ "Art . 4 . The Minister of War in-Prussia and the Commander-in-Chief of the Imperial army engage themselves mutually to make to each other all the communications necessary to insure the maintenance of the troops at the amount determined on above , their organisation , and their meetingat the periods fixed , as well as the places of their meeting . ~
" Art . 5 . Austria and Prussia will reciprocally accredit superior officers to the two contracting States , as soon as Prussia shall have commenced placing her army on a war-footing , in order to arrive at a complete understanding with respect to the measures which they will have to adopt . Superior officers will be afterwards accredited to the two armies . "Art . 6 . The direction to be given to these armies when united shall be based on this principle , that the object of the support which the two Powers are to afford each other reciprocally i s merel y to repulse an at tact " . ""'" ' " - ""¦ " " * . . ¦ " The present convention has been passed at Berlin on this 20 th of April , 1854 . ( Signed ) " O . Th . de Mantkuffel . " Henry Baron de Hess , General of Artillery . "
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THE MURDER IN FOLEY-PLACE . On the morning of the Sabbath , in broad day-light , and in an opulent quarter of the metropolis , we have just witnessed a crime of extraordinary magnitude and fearfulness . At No . 5 , Foley-place , Portland-road , resided a Mr . and Mrs . Lambert , tb , e tenants of the house . On an upper floor lived a Mrs . Williamson , and apartments had also been occupied under the same roof by an Italian named Luigi Baranelli . Between this man and Mrs . Williamson an intimacy appears to have arisen , the sequel of which was a quarrel between him and Mr . Lambert . Into this part of the transaction we need enter no further than to say that Baranelli was desired to quit his lodgings , which he did some ten days ago . On Sunday morning , about half-past nine , he presented himself at the door of the
house , and was admitted by the servant . After exchanging a few words with her he proceeded to the door of the back parlour , where , as the girl had informed him , her master and mistress were in bed , entered the apartment , shot Mr . Lambert through the head as he lay asleep , and discharged a second pistol with almost equally fatal effect into the breast of Mrs . Lambert as she started up in alarm . He then rushed upstairs and endeavoured to gain admission into the room where Mrs . Williamson was ; but , not succeeding' in the attempt , he ran up to another room on the floor above , and there shot himself through the head just as a police-conatablo got to tho door . His own statement , volunteered as he Jay between life and death , with the blood gushing from his mouth , compressed into tho compass of half-a-dozen lines tho narrative of this frightful tragedy : — " I this
morning went to the house No . 5 , Foley-p lace , when the street door was opened to me by the servant . I forced my way into the bedroom , placed the pistol at the back of Mr . Lambert's head and shot him , and then shot Mrs . Lambert , and then ran upstairs , when I loaded a pistol again , and shot myself , and I hope I shall soon die . " It further appears tjiat on £ riday , the 5 th , he prepared a small Remembrance of himself , in the shape of a note and a portrait , addressed t o Mrs . Williamson , and that on Saturday evening he p urchased t he p istols with which the deed was committed . He must then have risen on the following morning and put this dreadful design into exe ^ - cution
. ........ What will strike the reader most forcibly in this appalling s tory is the disproportion apparently subsisting between the provocation and the crime . The only motive for the deed seems to have arisen out of the exclusion of the murderer from the house . This proceeding was probably attended with angry words , but the worst Baranelli says of Mr . Lambert is , " that he threatened to strike him , " to which he adds that he " became desperate from that time . "
In consequence , therefore , of a difference of this nature he resolves upon murder , and , apparentl y upon suicide ; commits a treble crime with unfaltering determina t i o n , and puts the whole case upon record by a volun t ary s t atement , without any expression of contrition or remorse . Nothing can be more trivial or commonp lace than the alleged circumstances of the quarrel ; nothing more truly frig htful than the consummation which it received at his hands .
Mrs . Lambert , although severel y injured , is expected to recover—the murderer also . A coroner ' s inquest has been held on the body of Mr . Lambert , but the proceedings have been adjourned until the 17 th . At the inquiry , however , some facts were elicited . The brother of the murdered man gave evidence , and said that his real name was Lathamthat of Lambert having been assumed . He had been separated from his-wife eig ht or nine years since , and had la t el y been living with the woman calling herself Mrs . Lambert . The connexion had given annoyance to his friends , and it is said that the house in Foley-place had been taken with the intention of establishing her in some way of business , with a view to dissolving the intimacy . It may be also remarked that the house had borne a character by no meanTuncomraon in the neighbourhood .
STATEMENT OF THE MURDERER . In one of the smaller parcels ^ which Baranelli thrust on the woman who opened the door to him on Sunday morning , a pocket-book was found , which contained the following letter and "Memorandum "!—" 63 , Newman-street , " The night of the 4 th of January . " Sir , —I beg of you to pardon me . I dishonour you-I dishonour our dear Italy . But it is not my own fault .
From the first moment I arrived in this country—since ten years' exile—it has been a place of suffering to me . I have never had one hour of peace . I have been called by the name of an assassin ; and aa an assassin I must act I am a Roman ! I am an Italian 1 It is enoug h ! In a little memorandum-book of mine you will perceive the cause . There is something of love in the matter . " Remember my name to all my friends , and in dying say farewell to Italy . " Luigi Baranelli . " M . Conforti . 53 , Old Compton-Btreet , Soho . "
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" MEMORANDUM . " The cause of my desperation is the Lamberts . When I left the hospital some time since I wished to return into the country . This Lambert kept me in London , and wi t h f a l s e fl a tte r y wro te t o my c lub , giving notice that I and Madame Williamson had become attached to each other . In conclusion , a fl a me w a s ligh t ed in our hearts , which hurried us onward to the point of impropriety , t hough Madam e Willi a mson was both an experienced and capricious woman . In that momen t of lov e o u r reason deserted us and she swore to be true to me many times more than if I were her hueband , a nd I , for my part , the some . Our love was mutual from the first , and cost t he honour of Madame Williamson . ' She , being a l a rmed a t her si t uation , discovered ( confessed ) all to the Lamberts , who immediately
beg a n t o m e ddl e in t he business , and Mrs . Lambert discovered to Mrs . Williamson a purpose of her own . As the state of my health would not allow me to go out of Engl a nd , I remain e d in London , and m y a ffec t ion for Madame Williamson increased . At this time I found that M . Kolozdy and M . Zambelli had become , t hrough the Lamberts , equall y attached to Madame Williamson . When the Lamberts found that they wished to take her out of Engl a nd , they attempted directly to cause a separation between them . The Lamberts also prevented the husband of M ada m e W i lli a mson from comin g back t o her ; a nd , with regard ' to myself , Madame Williamson confessed to me that they always spoke disparagingl y of me , and attempted , b y e very means , t o cause t he greates t disagreement between us ; and they aucccedod to this extent , t h at Mad a me Williamson s a id she wanted to ovo mo no more . She also told mo that Madame Lam-
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 13, 1855, page 32, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2073/page/8/
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