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tfeem Btf ^ tiaples by his Majesty ; and Father Beex , their general , wished to publiaK a modification , in order to make hifl peace elsewhere ; but the court of Borne , upon miture deliberation , requested him to take no further trouble in the matter , but just " let well alone . " The Consul General of France , in Egypt , has been eliarged to present to Said Pacha the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour , accompanied by an . autograph Kitter of A 0 Emperor Napoleon . 1 - ' Thirty-flve "Turkish decorations have been conferred oii tii ^ FTehcfe army by ^ he Sultan . - Eighty « two officers and 2053 rank and file of the Eniperial Guard have embarked from Marseilles for the ^ ftni ^ - ¦ * * ^; Vinckstio GioBEBTt . —The members of the cdm-( nrtt ^ e formed at Turin' to examine the papers left by BFoberti have announced that they consist of fragments j f works which the illustrious writer intended for publi-» tion , and entitled u Catholic Reform , " " Preface to She-Philosophy of Revelation , " and " New Corrections Sria Additions to the Vocabulary of La Crusca . " All thtise are to be published .
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¦ ' OUB CIVILISATION . 5 Bj > uction . —At the Thames Police Court a curious $ se has been heard . James Tilley , a mastern&riner , was charged with being the father of the jbildof Emma Sophia Fbrster , described as " ladyike and well educated . " The defendant was husband 0 a cousin of thie' complainant . Her family bad > een in dimculties , and the defendant had been 1 very attentive . " The complainant was properly jtateful . On the 28 th October , 1853 , Tilley reraested Miss Forster to accompany him to a house a Margaret-street , St . George in the East , where ^ hVhad to transact some business . " She went , and fterjr % ere ; shown to a room with a lied in it . The emaincler of the evidence may be omitted , but it liquid be remarked that complainant shouted so that ferenaant became alarmed . However , subsequently urther connexion occurred .
.. The defendant cross-examined the complainant with Dnaiderable severity , imputing to her that she had had annexion with Mr . Roche , her mother's landlord ; a [ r . George Thompson , a clerk in . the London Dock ; and tie doctor who . attended her in her confinement , all of ¦ hich she indignantly denied . ' She said that Mr . Roche , er mother ' s landlord ,-was ' very kind to her , and al-• wed themjto guit-his house-without seizing their goods , Ithough a good deal of rent was owing to him . This tew forth a remark from the defendant that Mr . Roche ' as an officer of a loan club , and nothing would be meezed out of him , / and that he ( the defendant ) must a a fascinating man' to be preferred to all her suitors .
[ e then asked the young woman if Mr . Roche had not it her on to swear the child to him to save himself , and at Mh Pelham upon him , and she denied having been it on by Mr . Roche , or that he ever indulged in the Ast familiarity with her . The defendant said that Uaa Forster had taken him to the back of Birchfieldnrace , Tullbck ' s Side-rooms , and other places , three id four years ago , and that she would never let him [ one ; and it was singular - , she _ , _ not . in . the ... fanulyr . "ay then by him , and finished by saying , " God rike me dead on this spot if it is not so ; and she knows ro or three others have had the same favours as I have ad . "
It appeared that Roche was an officer of the court , ad Mr . Yardley gave him an excellent character , ¦ hat part of the defendant ' s charge was utterly disroved . The defendant conducted himself in a very violent tanner . He constantly called on God to witness the ruth of his statements ; it was of no avail . The sttal order was made . However , Tilley ascertained lat he was at liberty to appeal , and said he would Mte a new trial if it cost him 500 / . Assaulting a Woman . —A seaman named Wm .
owland , belonging to the ship Gallant , met Mrs . [ alpin in Well-close-square . Although as a seaman b had had the advantage of travel , he could not rest commenting on the weather , and on Mrs . Hnlpin ^ questing him to leave her , he could not resist ivagely assaulting her . Ho had clearly mistaken le character of Mrs . Halpin . Some evidence was iven at the police-court to prove that the seaman as struck first , but this was very strongly denied , id Mr . Yardley sentenced him to three months ' ard labour .
William Barker performed every known method f beating his wife . He knocked her down , kicked Br severely , dragged her out of the room by her air , and threw her down stairs . An attempt to lick a knife in her throat was unsuccessful , but he mtrived to wound her hand dreadfully . The only > ason was that his wifo wanted money to buy food > r the children . He had only given her tenpencc > r three days , and yet ho had that day spent six or > ven shillings at n public-house . Ho was remanded . Dkbbbtino Children . — Harriet Nelson , the oman who left her child naked in the street , has gen sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment . . Keeping Company . —Caroline Haynes appeared i Worship-street to complain of a young man with
whoin she had b 6 eii " keephig company , " In some quarrel he had made a ciitat her throat with a razor t and failing in that , had severely gashed her arm . HehasT > een sent for triaL ¦'¦" .- '¦' . The Foj . KT-pi . Adk MvUpisBL—The inquest has been resumed on the body of Mrs . Lambert ( or Latham ) , but has bfeen again adjourned for a week , when it is expected that Mrs , Lambert will be sufficiently well to give evidence . BaraneUi is progressing in health . ' ¦ ' :-
_ . .. , ,. Seven Men SHoonNa a Fowt . —Our Civilisation has been illustrated in a remarkable manner at Ashby-de-la-Zbucb . Seven men—we are delighted to give publicity to honourable names—George Smith , Timothy Smith , George Severn , Thomas Choyce , William Atkins , Edward Shepherd , and Edward Needham—were charged , at the instance of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , the first with having " caused to be tortured , " and the other defendants with having " tortured a
domestic fowL From the evidence of Mr . Forster , on behalf of the society , it appeared that the seven defendants , with other persons , assembled in a field in the parish of Heather . George Smith brought with him a gamecock , which he tethered by a string two feet long to a stake driven into the ground . A distance of forty-five yards was then measured off , at which point the other defendants took their station , armed with three guns a mong the party . The owner of the fowl , George Smith , now agreed with the rest that for a payment of threepence each any person should be allowed to shoot at the cock , and is was further agreed that the fowl should become the property of the one who killed it . During half an hour the six defendants fired eight shots at the bird without inflicting upon it any fatal injury , but one of its legt was broken , and several single shots had entered the the bird
head and different parts of the body . As was struck by successive shots it flew up as far as the tether permitted it , and uttered cries of pain . At the moment the eighth shot was fired , the rector of Heather , the Rev . G . P . Belcher , who had learnt what was going on , arrived in the field and interfered to prevent a continuance of the cruelty . Finding that he could not induce them to cease firing at the cock , Mr . Belcher released the animal from the tether , and was in the act of carrying it _ away , when the defendant , George Smith , followed him and demanded that the cock should be given up to him as it was his property . Mr . Belcher , however , handed the bird to the parish constable , but it died during ^ the night . George Smith endeavoured , to repudiate the ownership of the cock , and denied having fired at it . He did not consider he had been guilty of any cruelty . ~ The other defendants said they were not aware they were doing wrong in shooting at thejeock .
They were all fined 2 / . each , with costs , or one month ' s imprisonment . White Sj ^ aveb * . —Mrs . Mary Cumber , " a welldressed , but hard-featured lady , " has been fined 40 s . for beating her maid-servant . The girl was perhaps rather " slatternly , " but Mrs . Cumber was really worse than that . She used to strip the poor girl naked , and beat her with a thick rattan cane . This occurred several times , and the _ exposure . of . the . ^ . acerated back-occasioned a shudder in court . King , the Thief-trainer . —A further examination has produced much corroborative evidence . In one instance a park-keeper observing some men earnestly congregated about a tree , examined the tree when they left . He found a purse concealed there , -which was doubtless that which the former witness mentioned .
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THE WARDROPER CASE . This matter is settled , but scarcely satisfactorily . The result is that Mr . Wardroper has abandoned his speculation—the alleged reason being , that the public calumny has destroyed confidence in his mercantile stability . He professes to be already a loser of between 200 / . and 300 / ., and imagines that his arrangements for a vessel may involve a further loss of 1000 / . The Globe says : — ? ' The explanation offered on-Saturday by Mr . Parry in behalf of Mr . Wardroper was not altogether satisfactory , nor was the tone of his comments upon the conduct of the magistrates and Mr . Aldridge altogether just As far as Mr . Wardroper ia concerned , we are told that he is a man of good family ; that he was onco ,
in some sort , attached to the household of the Duke of Richmond as a surgeon ; that he entered with the best intentions upon his Crimean enterprise ; that he had sold property value 1540 / . to furnish capital for his venture ; thajb he had practically chartered a ship called the Sparrowhawk ; and that ho has not as yet received a farthing from any of her Majesty ' s subjects . But neither Mr . Parry , nor any ono else , gavo , reasons for the strange course of proceedings adopted by his client in advertising for a storekeeper and a loan under varied initials . Sir Robert Cardan ' s judicious questions also elicited the fact that tho property sold for 1540 / . was subject to two mortgages , one of 1000 / ., the other of 100 / . —facts which , as th 6 magistrate-observed , ' awaken a little suspicion . ' Still it does not appear that Mr . " Wardropor engaged in
the enterprise with any bad * intentions , although it would seem ' that he * was not the fittest person to carry it put . " With respect to Mr . Aldr idgei antf Alderman Wilson , Mr ; Parry ' would hav 6 done Well to have abstained from casting doubts upon the purity of the motives ' of the former , and the propriety of the conduct of the latter . Mr . Aldridge was perfectly right , under the circumstances , in making a public statement on a matter affecting the public interest and the good faith of those / Who come forward to give legitimate aid to our gallant ariny . And certainly Alderman Wilson , presiding in a public court of justice , did no less than his duty in giving atrtention to the statement of Mr . Aldridge . We cannot but think that had Mr . Wardroper adopted a perfectly simple and straightforward line of conduct , his name would not have appeared in the records of the City police : "
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THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE . We beg to calL the attention of all those interested in imparting or receiving instruction to the rules laid down by the India Board for the examination for writerships , which is to take place in July next . These rules differ in many respects from the report already published . Each candidate must send in , before the 1 st of May , certificates of health , character , and of his being above 18 and under 22 years of age , together with a list of subjects on which he wishes to be examined . These subjects , as finally settled , are—English composition ; English literature and history , including that of the laws and constitution ; language ,
literature , and history of Greece , Rome , France , Germany , Italy ; mathematics ; chemistry ; electricity and magnetism ; natural history ; geology and mineralogy ; logic ; mental , moral , and political philosophy ; Sanscrit and Arabic . The 20 best candidates are to be selected . They will be required to pass , after one or two years , at their option , an examination in law , Indian history , one Indian language , and political economy . After passing this examination they will receive their appointments . Such are the outlines of a plan destined probably to work greater changes in the education of the upper classes than any which has occurred since the revival of classic learning in the 15 th century .
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NEW MAIL ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA . The following-route to Australia has been suggested , by way of remedying the inconvenience likely to arise from the withdrawal of other lines . The most direct , safe , and speedy means of reaching Australia from this country seems to have been entirely overlooked : — ¦ "' ¦¦ _ ¦ — ' _ If the overland route to India be followed as far as Aden , and clipper sailing vessels be provided to run direct between Aden and Port Philip , it would place Australia within fifty to fifty-five days' passage from London , and bring the return of post in about 110 days .
" It will be seen on reference to a . , by following a line over land and sea vid Paris , Marseilles , Alexandria , and Suez to Aden , that a passenger from England at the latter place would be nearly half way on his direct journey-to-Australian- As it is-possible , by existing means of boat , rail , and road , to reach Aden on the 19 th day from leaving London , allowing necessary time for rest and refreshment , it only becomes a question how soon the space of ocean intervening between Aden and Port Philip—say , 6720 miles—can be traversed by a sailing ship . Judging from antecedents , thirty to forty days would be a reasonable time to allow a fast vessel to effect
this distance . " The employment of steam-vessels , instead of sailing ships , would reduce the whole time between London and Melbourne to about forty-three days ; but , looking to the difficulty of coaling , an d the enormous expenses attendant on steam navigation , it is doubtful if capitalists could be found to take the risk of providing them , until the traffic and other inducements could be clearly shown as sufficient to justify the experiment . "
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INDIAN NEWS . There is no news of importance received by the last mail . A few mere scraps of intelligence ^ and incalculable rumours make up the news . Tho Bombay correspondent of the Times says : — " Friendly relations are now established between Dost Mahomed and the Government of India , and it w reported that a British envoy is to be sent to Cabul , and one of the Doit ' s sons to the Governor-General . " The Khan of Kokan , who applied to the British Government for assistance to repel tho Russian force that has invaded his dominions , is to bo allowed to entertain British drill sergeants . Government , it is _ saia , nas sanctioned volunteers being allowed ( from the « rtmery and infantry of tho frontier regiments ) to proceed to Kokan as drill instructors . " Wo know nothing of tho strength of the invading Russian force on tho Jaxnrtes , except that it has hitherto been strong enough tb beat everything that theinvadad districts have been able to bnng against it , and that the chief of tho patrimony of Baber and the successor of Mahmoud of Ghuznce have been under the necessity of
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 20, 1855, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2074/page/9/
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