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'ins conduct of several hundred dock » labourers and owier destitute . persons , who perambulated the prineiDSl trjoraugbi ' ar / es Hn procession , demanding bread and money from the shopkeepers , whose premises thev forcibly entered . and ransacked of their con--tents In several instances the tradesmen were subjected to gross acts of violence , and the most dariBff Tdbberies vrere . committed in open daylight , -and property tQ a considerable , amount carried away by the mob . The . alarm was so general during the day that the shops were closed in High-street , TThitechapel , Commercial-road East , Stepney , and : the Whole dtihe principal streets , at the © astern portion of the metropolis , where business was generally suspended . .... clock
Shortly after six o ' on Wednesday evening about 1000 labourers from the London and St . Katharine ' s Docks assembled in front of the workhouse of St . Mary ' s , Whitechapel , where they remained for a considerable time , yelling and making the most hideous noises . An attempt was made to force an entrance at the front gates , when they were informed that no relief could be given until the following morning . Bricks and stones were hurled at the windows , many of which were . broken . Subsequently the mob-entered the shop of Mr . Gregory , a baker , " and cleared the jcontents , which consisted of nearly a 'hnndred quartern loaves , which tlie men ate ravenously . One of the ringleaders placed a 41 b . loaf on the top of a long pole , on which a , placard was exhibited with the following Avords : — "We are
starving , arid want bread . " The mob increased , and moved towards Aldgate , and-on . the way several bakers' shops were completely cleared of the bread , which was carried away . The procession proceeded to Rosemary-lane , where nearly every shop was robbed of its contents . Upon reaching the premises of Mr . Barrett , eating-house-keeper , the ringleaders took the whole of the cooked meat and vegetables , and then inflicted serious injury On Mr . Barrett . Several of the rioters were taken into custody , and have been remanded until Wednesday . The magistrates have been using every endeavour to allay the distress by distributing the poor-box funds , and they have also recommended the parish authorities to relax their rules as . far as possible .
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Bread- Riots atJjTvevp <> oi .. —The severe distress in the north has Jed to some rather serious rioting at Liverpool . Xarge bands of people paraded the streets , committing occasional devastations , but the bakers ' shops were the principal points of attack . About jBixty of these poor-wretches , principally Irish , were taken into custody . Of course they had all visited . the bakers' shops with any intention but that of plunder , . It was all accidental , and no harrntwas meant . They were generally sentenced ta , sorne . ahort period of imprisonment .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . The last Austrian note to the Cabinet of Berlin was dated January 26 : It nwntained tharCountrBuol was perfectly justified , even in a defensive point of view , in requiring the April treaty and the additional arcicle to be carried- out . It was answered by a note from Berlin On the 3 . 1 st of January , denying the justice of the Austrian allegations , and putting a full stop to the correspondence on this , eubjcot , by assuring Count Buol that this Court will form its awn opinion of the obligations contained in these treaties , and . will not have one
dictated to it . On the day previous a despatch was forwarded to Count Arnim , in Vienna , informing him that the Foreign Office had received notice from its diplomatic agents of the existence of the Austrian secret j « te to certain Federal Courts of Germany , and of the advocacy extended to it by the Minister of Foreign Affairs in France . The Cabinet of Prussia does not . ask for any explanation of that Mote ; it rcokons with confidence on the continued existence of the Buud ,, which iis secured , by treaties , but regrets to observe symptoms , of « desire to jeopardise it .
Boron . Pirokesoh is to be the Austrian Special Comnjissioner at the Congress about to be held at Vienna . The Vienna correspondent of the Constituiionnel writes : " The Envoy of Prussia , three days back , received ^ orders to inquire of our Government what importance it attached to the extraordinary armaments of Franco . Aa Count d'Arnim is indisposed , it was Count Flemming , ( Councillor of Legation , who was charged with the moa-# age . Tho reply was worthy of Talleyrand . ' Tho ( Armaments of France , ' said M . do Buol , ' causo no more . uneasiness to Austria than do those of Russia to Prussia . '"
Count Tolstoy is expected to talco part in tho Vienna Conference , as assistant to Prince GortschakofF . Count Tolstoy is the author of that pamphlet on tho war which wo analysed iu tho Leader iu tho course of last Soptomber . The fuseral of . the Duke of Genoa took placo on the < W $ U , with all tho military honours . Tho prince was accompanied to his last veufcing-placo byaiearly tho whole population of Turin . A strong opposition , composed of tho two oxtrome ftAttieaiin the Chamber , is . baiag organised in tho Pied-Wonteso Senate against tho toeaty of alliance .
" We hear from Genoa that Catania has been nearly destroyed , either by an earthquake or an eruption of the iEtna . General Niel has arrived in Paris from , the Crimea . Lord John Russell has had an interview with M . Drouyn de Lhuys . It is known that the . French troops at Rome are ,. to ,. be reduced to 3000-, ' and at Civita Vecchia to 5 OX ) . The effective of the . Roman army , including the gendarmerie , may be estimated at'between , J . 5 ., 0 , 00 and 16 , 000 m « n , andif a second foreign regiment be fon » ed ; the . Roman army will then be 18 , 0 , 00 , innumber . The following is the full text of , the Russian manifesto , of which a . telegraphic summary has . already been publishedc" We , by the . Grace of God , Nicholas I ., Emperor fljad Autocrat of All the -Russias , &c , make
kaown-r-" Our faithful and beloved subjects know how much we desire to obtain , without recourse to the force of arms , without a . greater effusion : of blood , the object which . we have had constantly in view- * - that of defending the rights of our coreligionists , and in general of all the Christians in the East . That 4 e 3 ire is also known , to all those who have followed wfttuatteniion * nd impartiality the progress of events as well . as the invariable tendency of our . acts . We have been and still reuwin strangers to any other mainspring of action , to any other view in matter of faith of conscience . Even now , true to those principles which we have adopted , we have announced our consent to the opening ofnegotiations with the Western Powers , . who , with the Ottoman Porte , have formed a hostile alliance . against us . We think
that we are entitled to the same sincerity on . their parts to the same disinterestedness of intentions , and we do not lose the hope of obtaining the reTestabiishment of peace , so much desired , and so precious for the whole of Christianity . Nevertheless , in the presence of the forces which they array Against us , and of the other preparations which they , are . making to contend with us , preparations which , despite the measures taken for the opening of negotiations , -are not . discontinued , hut , on the contrary , daily assume larger dimensions , we are constrained , on our side , to think-of ^ measures to increase the means which God " has given us to defend our country , to oppose -a firm and powerful barrier to all attempts hostile to Russia , fo - all projects that menaee its safety and its greatness .
" This , the first of our duties , we . accomplish , and invoking the support of the Most High , with entire faith in His grace , with full confidence in the love of our subjects , animated like ourselves . with the same sentiment of devotion for our faith , for the Orthodox Church , and for our beloved country , we address . this new appeal to , all classes of our subjects , ordaining : —¦ " The formation of a general militia of the Empire . " The measures relative to the formation and organisation of . this militia have been examined and confirmed by us , and are embodied in detail in special regulations ; they will be everywhere carried out with punctuality and zeal .
" More than once Russia has been menaced , and has undergone sad and cruel trials ; but she always found her salvation-inlier humble faith in Erovidence ,-andin the close and indissoluble bonds which unite the Monarch with his subjects , his devoted children . Let it be so again to-day ! May the Almighty , who reads every heart , who blesses pure intentions , grant us his assistance ! " Given at St . Petersburg , the 29 th of January , of the year of grace , 1855 , and in the 30 th year of our reign . " Nicholas . " It is believed that General de Wedell , assisted by Baron vou Usedom , has come to an understanding with he French Government about the Prussian Alliance . tPruseia will sign a treaty identic with that of the 2 » d of December , save the omission of tho second article , relating to the Danubian Principalities ,
It i * still believed tUat the French Emperor has finally resolved to go to -Sobastopol , but his departure will not take place before the middle © f March , General Pelissier having written to say that no decisive attack eon take place before thoend of uextwiQntb . iTU © Emperor , it is reported , will be accompanied by 400 tof . the Guides , the Cent Gardes , and a battalion of caflb . wgiroftnt of the Imperial Guard . On the other hand , it is said that M . Mauvel , a stockbroker , and iutfnwte . acquaintance of M . Fould , is to bo prosecuted for luvvAnf ? spread the report of the Emperor ' s projected departure .
Tho frost has continued , not only in Paris , but throughout Franco , with extraordinary severity . On Tuesday the procession of the Boauf-Gras took place . So cold a MardirGrae was not remembered . Tho ox , christened this year Sevastopol , was conducted to the PInce du Carrousel , aad inspected by the Emperor , and Empress from the central balcony . Tho following of Sebmtopol consisted of about a hundred Knights , Crusaders , MousquoUire ^ Turks , Pewians , and Noblemen it Iu Louis XIV ., iall on horseback . General de la Marmora has arrived in Paris from Turin , to decide upon tho organisation of tho Picdmouteao expedition to tho Crimea . TJio Imperial PiUa . cc at ( Prague was burnt on tho 20 th iast . It was tho rcskl « ucc of the ok-Emperor and . Envpioas of Austria . Several political arrests hnrvo recently been nindo in the Roman Stntos aud in Tusoany . The Roman
Govern-WWAt . h ^ aforWden . anaeks jBgaiaithis y ^ ar . in-the Carnival . ¦ . " . '' .. ' .- : •¦ : ¦ ¦ '•¦¦ :-.: rr ;> The JParmp Gazette of iihe 12 th sayaj that / lieutjmaHt ColonelChevalier Laaa £ i , ! t * ie . P-resMent of'ihe Petmanent Court-martial , at Parma , - ; w « as . stabbed -on > 'the preceding night , while returning > hf » me , > & few . steps from his own door . He reeeivedfiv * wounds , none , of which is mortal . - ' ' . Advices from Pesth announce the death © f Count Joseph Teleky , which took place on . the-i 6 th inst . JP . uteh newspapers confirm , an announcement that the Government of Holland is preparing to send an- 'extraordinary embassy to the Emperor of Japan , = in order to take advantage of his friendly dispositions towards Europeans .
The Jielgtan Minister of Foreign Affairs has made an emphatic declaration of ^ neutrality in the Chamber of Representatives . He declared the neutrality of Belgium , . as guaranteed bythe treaties of 18 , 31 and 1839 , to be *• perpetual and obligatory . " The Monit&ursaya : —" The French Government has just caused proceedings to be taken before the Belgian tribunals against a pamphlet published recently at Brussels , with the following title : — "' On the conduct of the
war in the East ; Expedition to the Crimea ; Memoir addressed tot the Government of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon III . By a General Officer . ' We need not affirm that this Memoir has not been addressed to the Government of the Emperor . This production , the tendency of which is to libel the chiefs of our army , to exaggerate our difficulties and losses , to give confidence to our enemies , is merely a pamphlet published in the interest of Russia , and falsely attributed to a French officer . "
The Austrian Government has contradicted , through its accustomed organ , the Austrian Correspondence , the statement that an Austrian loan of 15 , 000 , 000 / , ^ guaranteed by England , is about to be raised .
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HANDCQCK v . DELACOTJB . In justice to Lord Clanricarde we maker some extracts from a letter which he lias addressed to the Daily JVewS : . ' — . " The main allegation , upon which the story you relate upon the authority of the Irish Attorney-Generat seems to rest , is that in . the year 1841 , ' in consequence of a suspicion of too great intimacy between Lord CJlanr icarde and Mrs . Handcock , a separation took place , and Mr . Hrjidcock went to France . ' This is whplly and notoriously false , and I cannot learn-that any _ attempt was made to sustain such a statement by a particle of evidence . In fact , it is perfectly wellknown that Mrs . Handcock left her husband on account of his conduct with her French maid , who thenceforward lived openly with him until his death . This was happily concealed from the daughters , and Miss Handcock in her
diary attributes the separation to the machinations of persons in her father ' s employment . My affidavit was not , as you say it was , inaccurate in dates upon this matter . It states thatl saw Mr . and Mrs . Handcock in the autumn of 1840 , and , 'having passed the winter of 1840 in Russia , ' I didjaot . see either of them again until after their separation , which took place in the " spring" of 1841 V while I was still abroad . All this is indisputable out of tho Irish Court of Chancery . My affidavit , however , was not made to explain or defend my conduct in any respect , but it was made upon the application of one of the ligitants , that I should bear testimony to facts within my own knowledge , to contradict statements sworn to by the opposite party as having been ' heard and believed . ' If no other evidence existed to show that Mr . Handcock entertained no such suspicion as is attributed to him , his own conduct when I met him in Paris and in his last
illness afford good proof of it . ... " I , however , do not wonder that when I had acted thus to Mr . llandcocsk , his daughters , who had known mo from their childhood , should recur to me for aid and advice . And whenever I was so called upon , my interference was uniformly hot in furtherance of , but in opposition to , the views of Mrs . Handcock , who was d « termined to secure for herself , in any way she could , tho fortune of each of her daughters after their" deaths .
Persons who knew her well « re aware that she was highly incensed against me for aiding Miss Handcock to moke a will , whereby she left to her mother , m pursuance of her own and her deceased sister a wishes , 10 , 000 / ., instoad of her entire property . Vthen the youngest daughter communicated to me her intention to convey her estate to her mother , I prevented her executing any deed . to tluit ciiect which should not contain . tho power of revocation thereupon inserted , and ^ delayed the execution of any such deed for some months .
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OUU CIVILISATION , Muiu > K « . ~ Abiguil Shea , a repulsive-looking IrishvromaiL with a l . aby in her arms , hw . beon charged with 3 ? tho throat of Catherine X ^ yams witb wW » she worked at a furrier ' s . The prisoner had nothing to say , and wan committed for trial . INUKNIOUS Al ^ lCAXION OF * HK BiX ^ W , If o » K ^ - Heury Bcnwford , a promising yovnjg f ^»^<*' »** Sen years » f aye , or rather youtlx , tmA ^ g ^ f *™* ? with hS nu . thcr . Ho assaulted her ao . violently , * U * t she sent for lier son-in-law to protect her . As VM »* i * ka
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 24, 1855, page 179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2079/page/11/
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