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been committed for trial at Bristol for the murder of her husband . The prisoner had been jealous of the deceased , aadafew days ago went to seek him in the streets . On finding him , she flung a stone at his head ; and he shortly afterward * died from the effects of the blow . The Tkadk rs Women . — At Marlborough Street , on . Wednesday , Henry Templeman was ordered to find baH to answer the charge of keeping a house of ill-fame in Newman-street . The house is well known as being connected with the traffic in foreign women , and has more than once attracted the notice of the police and parish authorities . Matilde Colbert , the head of the firm , was also brought into court dressed in man ' s apparel , and was required to find bail to answer the same charge . The woman was taken into custody in Pantonstreet in her disguise , and just prepared for a flight to France .
Tcck Gtnr , the Chinese juggler who was severely wounded some -weeks ago in an affray with several of his countrymen , is now convalescent , though at first his life was despaired of ; and on Thursday he appeared at the Thames police-court , and gave evidence . All tlie four prisoners were committed for trial . Edwabd Agak has been remanded at the Mansion House on a charge of uttering a forged cheque for 700 / . on . the house of Messrs . Stevenson , Salt , and Co ., of Lombard-street . He had got a carpenter to present the cheque , and had furnished him with a very elaborate tale to give in answer to any questions which might be addressed to him at the banking-house . A bag containing farthings and waste paper was given for the cheque , the fraudulent character of which was discovered .
Beteb Vandenbbook , a professor of languages , was found guilty on Thursday , at the Middlesex Sessions , of stealing three diamond pins and a pistol . On the same day , William Falkner , a jeweller , was convicted of receiving watches and jewellery which he knew to be stolen ; and Benedetto Spinola , an Italian , said to be highly educated , and connected with a respectable Sardinian family , was sentenced to a year ' s hard labour for stealing two hundred pounds from a eonntrynian .
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THE REIGN OF TERROR AND MADNESS ' EST ITALY . Naples , at the present moment , may be said to be under a Reign of Terror . In addition to the horrible instances of oppression and intimidation which we recorded last week , several cases of a similar nature have since come to light . A lithographist , having made a device for the bottom of a gentleman ' s hat , accompanied by ; the words " Costanza e Fedelta al nostro augusto unico Signore e Padrone Assoluto Ferdiuando , " asked permission of the authorities , according to law , to proceed with bia work , and have it printed . For the offence otthus obeying the law , he was imprisoned for several days , because " he did not understand that some things are to be done from an impulse of devotion , and not with the usual forms of permission . " The Daily Neiva Naples Correspondent , who relates the foregoing , states that
even the military are now under the heel of the police , and adds the following anecdote : — "An officer having been insulted by a policeman , corrected him with the flat of his sword . Sbirro lays his complaint before his superior . ' Had you your dagger by your side ? ' was the first question . l Yes . ' ' And why was it not used ?' He was then driven from the presence with reproaches , and turned out of his situation . " The people are goaded to . desperation ; and two pamphlets have been discovered , vehemently denouncing the Government . But , while quiet persons are punished for obeying the law , the police are allowed t <* break it . Bourbon or Royalist clubs , though they are notoriously illegal , have been established ; and it is said the Commissary of Police , Carapagna , is at the bottom of one . The members are reputed to be armed . From Home , we have further details of the Pope ' a
curaing . The Allocutions of his Holiness on the affairs of Piedmont , "Spain , and Switzerland , have been published . TUey are rather long speeches ; and their style is diffuse , abounding , in unnecessary synonyms , like an Act of Parliament . Having , with respect to Piedmont , lamented in general terms over "that supremely unjust and disasjxoua law by which it was proposed , among other things , to suppress almost all the monastic and religious communities of either sex , the collegiate churches , all the simple benefices with right of patronage , and to hand over their : revenues and property to the administration
and free disposition of the civil power , " his Holiness reminds all , offenders that ! they " have incurred major excommunications , and the other censures and ecclesiastical penalties imposed by the sacred canons , " &c . It greatly grieves the Holy Father thus " to depart from that gentleness and xnansuetudo" to which he is " naturally inclined ; " but still he must do his duty . A « regards :: Spain , the . Pope alludes to an agreement made in 1851 -with , " his very dear daughter , " the Queen , with respect to . the rights of the church , which was to have thA « exclusive care of education , and was to be maintained " to the exclusion of every other form of worflhjtt . f H » . « ddsf **" irith a heart full of astonishment
and grief" that this agreement has been broken . " Laws have been passed which , to the great injury of religion , destroy the first and second articles of the Concordat , and which ordain the sale of the property of the church . Various decrees have been published by which bishops are forbidden to confer holy orders , and the virgins consecrated to God prevented from admitting others as novices iu their own institute , and by whicli it is ordered that the lay chap lainships and other pious institutions shall be completely secularised . " All who so transgress are reminded that " they cannot escape the hand of the Almighty . " Similar complaints are made against the Papal cantons of Switzerland ; but the affairs of those states are to be criticised more at large on a subsequent occasion .
Three magnates of the Roman Government have been arrested for lewd intercourse with female prisoners , almost amounting iu one case to a rape . It is thought that these , reverend offenders will not receive any very severe punishment . Highway robberies and burglaries in the Roman States are increasing in an alarming degree ; and the use of the bastinado is to be revived . The Spanish Minister , Senor Pacheco , has demanded his passports , and is about to leave Rome as soon as he has had an audience to present the " Memorandum" of his Government to his Holiness . He takes the whole of his diplomatic staff with him , except Senor Moreno , who remains charged with the execution of ecclesiastical business only .
A correspondent of the Jndeptndance Belye writes from Turin that , at the request of the Archbishops of Piedmont , the Holy See authorises the clergy of that kingdom to receive the sums put at their disposal by the Government , conformably to the new law relative to the convents . They are to protest , but not to refuse the cash . When will the great heart and brain of Italy awake , and throw off these uglv yet preposterous nightmares ?
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MADEMOISELLE DOUDET . ( JFrom a private Letter . ") Paris , Aug . 1 G . I suppose the great majority of the public have already forgotten a case which excited so much interest a few nionths ago , namely , that of Mile . Doudet , a governess , accused of cruelty to some children confided to her care . She was tried and condemned . The ends of justice seemed satisfied . The victim went to her celL The public passed on , dividiug its attention between various other judicial spectacles , or pausing to wonder at the reappearance of Lasnier on the surface of society . They had consigned him also long before to oblivion . The ends of justice also seemed satisfied . The victim had gone to the galleys . His head had probably been moulded as that of a celebrated criminal . It starts up as that of a martyr—a painful reproach to the pit of the Cour d' Assizes . ....
Many persona believe that before long Mile . Doudet will again enjoy the unenviable honour of studding the columns of the Paris papers with her name . She stands in a remarkable position . Although the mere lovers of excitement no longer think of her , or think of her only as a kind of vampire most justly chained up between stone walls , a large and increasing section of the public of the salons—of those best situated to obtain correct impressions on this mutter—appear to be becoming more and more firm and even triumphant in the assertion of her innocence . This , in itself , tells singularly in her favour . It ia not wonderful that her fricuds rallied round her whilst the struggle was going on . But she has been condemned , her appeals liuve
been rejected ; and yet her partisans increase in number and in fervour . In not this a notable phenomenon V And , mark ! aha has no beauty , no youth , nothing romantic about her to excite the sympathies of young men and girls . Young men think the case a bore ; and girls are forbidden by their parents to study its details . Mile . Doudet ' a friends are all married women and mothers , or sober men , politicians , magistrates , who have accidentally had her strange adventures forced upon them . . . . The whole cose ugainst the victim really rests on a marvellous supposition—thut it is possible for a woman of strong mind ho to iuilucace children on whom she haa exercised great cruelty tliat after they have boon delivered from her they shall continue to write affectionate letters for eoino time , Obviously tho
natural inference ia , that if the children were so impressionable as to be induced to make wilful false statements by fear of an absent person , they could also be induced to make wilful falsa statements by fear of a present person . ... I have very carefully examined all the evidence in this case ; and am quite convinced of Mile . Doudot ' s innocence . It is quite impossible that she should be guilty . In fact , in an English court of justice tho case would have broken down at once . However , I will not at present examine the detailsmerely wishing to draw your attention to tho consoling fact that public opinion is struggling , and may probably struggle with success , against the decreed of a series of prejudiced courts . We Englishmen are particularly interested In thLs question on general grounds . When tho firet examination of Mile . Doudet took
place by the police , equivalent to an examination at Bow-street , except that it is private , she wai most emphatically pronounced innocent . Then she was brought before a jury , and although very disgracefu attempts were made to influence its members , she wm acquitted . But then she was forced to appear before one of those anomalous courts of which France is so proudin which the offices of judge and accuser are practically united in the same person . No one can deny the facl that before hearing a particle of evidence , M . Hattoi exhibited an absolute conviction that Mile . Doudet was guilty ; and when the case seemed likely to break ( Iowe from the apparent absence of all motive on her part , tried to bully her into confessing that she had been in love with the father of the children she had maltreated
It has already been remarked that it is a principle in France that " everybody is supposed to be guilty until he is proved to be innocent . " Throughout this remarkable case—as soon as it was taken out of the province ol the jury—I was perpetually reminded of that observation . Generally speaking , it is true , the French judges , although incited by self-love to . endeavour to make every trial end in a condemnation—and inclined therefore to abuse the power placed so absurdly in their hands of torturing a prisoner by questions and cross-questions tc obtain an admission of guilt—are not inaccessible to verj strong proofs of innocence . In this instance , however , many circumstances combined to warp their judgment . The complainant was an Englishman—the accused a
Frenchwoman- ; and the case was first brought forward in the midst of " the early enthusiasm of the alliance Worse than this , there is the violent anti-Protcstanl feeling stimulated by the clergy , and so easy to be directed against a Protestant governess in a country where Jesuits now claim the whole guidance of education . A lady in a high position the other day being told by a friend that she had visited Mile . Doudet , exclaimed not , " What , that criminal ! " but " What , that Protestant ! " This will illiustrate the state of feeling here . I am quite certain that the result of the trial iras influenced by it . The judges who decided went constantly into the society where M . Chaix d'Est Ange , retained for the accusation , exercised himself for nionths , for the amusement of foolish ladies , in relating the case
with all the ornaments which bis imagination could devise . They were irretrievably prejudiced before they camo and sat on the bench . Then the priests whispered in their ear . This ia how it happened , that in the teeth of all exculpatory evidence , and in the absence of all sound condemnatory evidence , the poor woman ivas found guilty , and condemned at last to five years' imprisonment . Such stupendous things , however , cannot happen , -even in France , without leaving many consciences disturbed ; and this 1 suppose is the reason vhy suddenly the rumour gets abroad that the whole case may very shortly bo revised . At any rate , even many of the persons who concurred in bringing about the condemnation would breathe more freely now if it were announced that Mile . Doudet had received her grace .
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CONTINENTAL NOT E S . THE QUEEN ' S VISIT TO 1 'AUIS . The Jfaniteur box the following : —" The Qnecn of England will make her entry into Paris on Saturday next at about six o'clock in the evening , and will proceed from the terminus of the Stra-sburg Railway to the Palace of St . Cloud by the Boulevard de Strasbourg , the Boulevard from the Porto St . Denis to the Madeleine , the Uuc Royalo , Place do la Concorde , Chump * Elyse ' , Avenue dtrlTmperatriee , thcBois de Boulogne , and Bridge of St . Cloud . " According to the Morning Pout , there will bo theatricals at St . Cloud ; visits to the Exposition , the Grand Opern , the Opera Comique , the Louvre , and the Hotel doa Invalidea ; Concerts of tlni Conservatoire tie Muaiquc ; a grand ball at tho Il « 3 kl de "Ville ; a review in the Champ-dc-Mara ; drives in tho Forest of St . Germain , &c .
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The French Minister of 1 ' inonco has laid before tho Emperor the last returns relative to the loan . These show an increase upon tho amounts indicated approximately in the report of tho 30 th ult . The number ol subscribers reaches 31 G , 8 ( JA . The capital subscribed for is » , G 52 , 591 , 985 fr . General Aruiandi died on the . 3 rd inst ., at Aix-lcs-Bains , in Savoy , whero the physicians of Puris had ordorcd him to go for tho recovery of his health . ThM distinguished Italian officer had been preceptor to th « present Emperor of tho Fronch . Ho took an active pnvt with General Pdprf in tho heroic defonco of Vonico , and was latterly Director of the Imperial Library of the Palace , of St . Cloud .
Tho Emperor of Austria has withdrawn tho sequestrution imposed by tho ordinance of February IU , 1853 , on tho property of thirty-ouo poruonu , political oflondortt ; but rumour Bays that only three- of theso poasi-.-wcd property suflicicnt to bo worth Hoi / . ing . —Tho oflicial Gazette of Milan ( which in of course an AuMrin " publication ) lia « an article speaking contemptuously *>{ the idea of an Italian Leglou for England , and uaiuff very insulting expressions towards this country in counoxion with our doings at Taganrog and Kortch . At tho Dardanelles , order has been restored ; but tho Bashi-Biuouk deserters scour the neighbouring
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78 e THE LEADER , , [ No . 282 , Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 18, 1855, page 786, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2102/page/6/
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