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treaty" of December 2 nd is looked upon with considerate uneasiness by Austria , ft pro ^ de ^ that Austrian , occupation of thaDanubian . Principalities " shall tiofc interfere with the free movement of the Anglo-French or . Ottoman troops upon the territories of those principalities against the military forces or the territory at Russia . " Baron Heckeren , French senator , has arrived at Vienna from iParis , on a mission r it . is alleged , of great importance ; Major-General Count Stackelberg , the military member of the Russian Embassy , has left Vienna for Warsaw . Mr . Fonblanque , the English Consul-General in Servia-,, is expected at the Austrian capital . of
Bom Pedra V . was proclaimed King Portugal on the-lfith instant , amidst . much pomp and rejoicing . ^ The new iring and his father made speeches , in which a maintenance of the representative system and of the free institutions of the country was spoken of . The news of the fall of Sebastopol was received by many of the Portuguese with great enthusiasm . In Naples and Rome , also , the intelligence has- excited amongst the large majority , a feeling of the utmost satisfaction and joy . Singularly enough , it happened in the latter city that ,, on the day the news arrived , the Russian Embassy was brilliantly illuminated , the day being sacred to St . Alexander . The students of Upsala have had a grand demonstration , to celebrate the event , in the Wood of Odin . Patriotic songs , speeches congratulating the Allies on their success , and groans for Russia , were among , the ceremonies .
OnSunday last , the French Emperor received at St . Cloud Baron Prokesch , President of the Germanic Diet , who with his son was presented by Baron Htibner , ministen to the Emperor , of Austria . King . John of Saxony has been visiting the most prosperous of his cities—Leipsic—which he has not entared since the disturbances of 1845 . He was cordially received . A letter from St . Petersburg , dated September 15 , says : — " Our diplomatic relations with Persia will shortly make us- acquainted with the Mir-Pendscha at the Court of Teheran , rejoicing in the name of Mukarrabul-Chakan-SeifF-Ul-Melik-Abbas - Chuli - Khan , who is sent by his royal master on a special mission to congratulate the Emperor Alexander on his accession to the throne , and to invest him with the insignia of the Persian order of the Lion and Sun . "
Accounts from Vienna menti 6 n ~ that . the Austrian Government , before realising , their contemplated loan of 20 r 000 , 00 OJ ., and effecting a sale of their Italian railways , desire to enter upon ' an operation to regulate definitively the position of the State towards the Bank . With this view , it is said to have been proposed by the Finance Minister to cede to that establishment the Government domains , amounting to 15 , 000 , 000 / ., together with new bonds for 2 , 000 , 000 / . The establishment of . a new mortgage bank is then to take place , with a capital of 10 ,. OOOyOOOZ . The whole scheme appears to be rather favourably thought of , provided it be kept out of speculative management . — Times' City Article . and it would
The King of Sardinia has been ill , appear that the state of his health was more alarming than was generally believed , as the Piedmontese Gazette of the 2 2 nd , while announcing that his Majesty is progressing favourably , adds that a miliary eruption , foreseen from the beginning of the malady , made its appearance on the preceding day , in consequence of which the fever and pains in the joints have abated , and the patient has been enabled to enjoy a few hours' rest . A Russian , officer , according to a letter from Berlin in the Emancipation of Brussels , recently congratulated the King of Prussia on having courageously maintained peace in spite of the solicitations of the Western Powers ;
to which the king is said to have replied , that he had hitherto maintained peace , but that if Russia should display misplaced exigencies , and if she should extend war on the shores of the Baltic , in Italy , and perhaps elsewhere , he should also have the courage to counsel efficaciously the return to order on the part of those who should continue to disturb it . The king added , that it waa not , without his consent that his Minister was present ftt the Te Deum at Paris . Ho alao said ; " Tho opportunity is a good one for coming to a fair arrangement , and wo are ready to facilitate matters ; but tomorrow , perhaps , it will be late . Our patience ought not to be abused , and difficulties ought not to bo increased . This , air , merits sorious attention . " The Hanoverian army is now extremely numerous , ami the king is opposed to any disarmament .
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OUR CIVILISATION . A , Gaboitb Attack in FLKKT-sTiufiET . — Wo really 8 O . 0 UJ , to . be fast returning to the condition in which tho atr , ep ta q £ London remained from tho oarlioat times down to the commencement of tho present century—to bo reviving tbe . gjtortaa of awash-bucklera , highwaymen , and Mphowkq , as they existod in tho days when there woro up constables but watchmen , and no lamps but oillamps . Murderous attacks in . tho . streets by night are now of perpetual occurrence ; . and tho ' guardiana of the pooKje" Bflem powerless , to preserve it . A recent outrage atr , tha / i () oxner p £ Chancery-lane and Fleet-street is thus ueaQBttwhi ; hw a . _ ooxresnondon . t of tho Times ; . — " Thia
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morning , shortly before three o ' clock , I was accosted at the corner of Chancery-lane by a young man , who asked the way to Fleet-street . Just as I was about to reply I found myself seized behind with a knee firmly forced against my back and an arm tightly pressed round my throat , my body pushed out , and my head pulled back , while the ' stranger' busied himself upon my pockets . Fortunately I had previously removed some gold from the right to the left-hand pocket , leaving only some loose silver , and the thieves , apparently disturbed , . sud denly rushed up Chancery-lane—three men , without the ' inquirer '—leaving me to sustain a heavy fall . I im-Police !
mediately ran up and ^ down the street , shouting ' ' at the top of my voice , through Temple-bar , past Holloway s shop , back again , and met a policeman by the church . I informed him of the affair , but he coolly replied , ' Oh , if you had called , I should have heard you , ' and doubted my having been down , because my hat , which rolled off , ' didn ' t look like it . ' I told him which way the fellows went , and then left him in disgust . I informed the inspector ( as I suppose ) at the stationhouse of the circumstance , and he was very civil , and promised an investigation . " Have we sent our best policemen to the Crimea , to look after garotting Russians ? or what is the cause of these frequent outrages
remaining unchecked?—Another attempt garotte robbery has been made near the terminus of the Great Northern Railway . Mr . Skeet , a farmer from Oxford , had imprudently shown some money in a public-house at night . He was followed and attacked by several men ; but resisted until a policeman came up . One of the men was arrested , and has been committed for trial ; the others escaped . How they Punish Wife-beating en Wales . —A man residing near Cardiff recently struck his wife a violent b . low on the face with an . iron spoon , because she had requested him to put some nails in one of the
children ' s shoes . The poor woman bled profusely , and was put to bed in a state of great exhaustion . On the news getting about , a number of colliers and miners hoisted the offender on a plank , and carried him a considerable distance , scourging him all the while with branches of ash and other trees , to the great satisfaction of the mob . After a time , he was taken down , lectured on his conduct , and induced to make a humble confession of repentance . He was then allowed to drink a glass of beer ; and the agents of his punishment regaled themselves at various public-houses , and " made it a day . "
Cruelty to a Horse . —William Pickersgill , Joseph Nixon , and William Nixon , were charged at the Petty Sessions at Skipton with literally beating an old horse to death with a thick oaken cudgel . The evidence disclosed the most savage and deliberate brutality . Pickersgill was sentenced to three months' hard labour ; the others , on account of being boys , to two months ' . It is clear that in such a case the law is in fault in not authorising a much more severe punishment . A Gentleman Thief . —Peter Bailey , who described himself as a surveyor , a graduate of Oxford , and a member of Guy ' s Hospital , but who would seem to have
been recently serving with the 17 th Lancers in the Crimea , and to have been discharged for misconduct , has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour for stealing some cupping instruments and other articles . He had been previously in prison on a charge of vagrancy ; and , while there , had an attack of delirium tremens . The doctor who attended him behaved with great kindness , and gave him some money to start with , after leaving prison . This money he soon squandered ; and , afterwards calling on his benefactor , had the ingratitude to walk away with the instruments . Ho subsequently stole a pair of socks from a pot-boy at a public-house .
Daring Robbery . —John Williams , described as a photographic artist , has been committed for trial on a charge of attempting , in company with two men not in custody , to steal a cash-box at a coffee-house in Southwark . The three men rushed into the shop , broke open the drawer containing the box , seized it , and attempted to make off . An elderly woman , tho mother of tho proprietor of tho shop , was tho only person present . With great bravery , she throw herself on the mun who hold the cash-box , and forced him to drop it ; but he contrived to get off with his companions . Williams , however , was pursued and captured . Savage Assault . —A man in tho Land Transport Corpa has been fined twenty shillings for fiercely assault , ing and biting a policeman . Tho original sentence was fourteen days' imprisonment ; but , as ho was about to join his corps , ho was allowed to pay tho fine instead . A woman who aasisted him was sent to prison without
tho option of a fine . Uttering a Fohokij Note . —Thomas Cumby , a boorshop keeper in Wolbeck-strcet , Bluokfriurs-road , ia under remand at tho Southwark polioc-court , charged with having uttered a forged Bank of England note . A Goon Riddance . —George Wilson , one of a gang who infest tha neighbourhood of tho Manaion-houao , has been sentenced to a fortnight ' s hard labour , for annoying ladioa , and assaulting the police . This worthy , who ia described as being almost always drunk , aaid to Sir R . W . Carden , " I wish to got away out of thiu sort of business ,. Sir Robert j and 1 hojio you'll lot me go . I
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am going to sea to-morrow , and you'll never see me more—never no more . " The alderman , however , having no faith , in his abandoning " his sort of business , "" refused to let him loose without a little preliminary punishment . A Lover of " Sweet Stuff . ' *—A little boy , twelve years of age , made his appearance on Monday at the Mary lebone police-court , charged with robbing his father of ten shillings , which he gpt at on two separate occasions by breaking open a desk . He said he had spent the whole of the money in . " sweet stuff . " He was sentenced to hard labour in the House of Correction for three months .
Illegal Opening of a Body . —Mr . Robert Hudson Parrott , formerly a surgeon in good practice , and who has appeared several times on remand , has been sent for trial , charged with having illegally , and without the consent of the relatives , made a post-mortem examination of the body of a potman who died in the Lambeth Workhouse . He contrived to get the body removed from the workhouse to an undertaker ' s , where he opened it ; and he subsequently created great horror and disgust by exhibiting the heart and a portion of the lungs , the blood from which streamed from between his fingers . Another charge of obtaining half-a-crown on false pretences of opening a subscription for the burial of the body , was abandoned , for want of sufficient evidence .
1 he Robbery at the Crimean Hospitals . —Jane Gibson has been discharged , her offence not coming within the jurisdiction of the English law . The goods , however , will not be given up to her . Starving a Family . —A most dreadful case of starvation , almost to the point of death , of a family of five children , in Compton-street , Brunswick-square , has come to light . The father , a sanctified-looking man , and the mother-in-law were in the habit of indulging themselves to the utmost , and would even have fruit after dinner , while the famished children , who ranged from seven to fifteen years of age , would look on with famished and pleading faces , unheeded . On one
occasion one of the children had only had a potato in- the course of four-and-twenty hours . They would prowl about the streets , picking up offal from the kennels , and devouring it eagerly ; and they had sometimes been relieved by the neighbours . In addition to slow starvation , the poor creatures were unmercifully beaten and kicked . At length , at the instance of the overseer of St . Pancras parish , the father was taken into custody , and was sentenced by the Clerkenwell magistrate to a month ' s hard labour—a TJegree of punishment manifestly insufficient . Mr . Jones , a neighbour , in giving evidence , shed tears , and all present were painfully affected at the emaciated condition of the children .
Spunging on the Benevolent . —A woman , named Jane White , has lately been obtaining several sums of money on pretence of applying them to the benefit of certain persons alleged to have met with dreadful accidents . She has been committed for trial . Burglary , —George Williams and James Trelawney ,. two young men well-known to the police , entered the house of Ludwig Oerthing a few evenings ago about half-past seven o ' clock , and were in the midst of their depredations , when they were discovered by Mrs . Oerthing , who raised an alarm and pursued them . The lady even seized one , and was violently assaulted ; but they were ultimately taken into custody , and have been committed for trial .
Extensive Forgery . —Information has been , received by the police authorities at Bow-street , of an extensive forgery , by a man named James Wheeler , of Lewes , Sussex , cattle-dealer . At Wilton Fair , on the 14 th inat ., Wheeler purchased two hundred and fifty sheep , and gave in payment a cheque on the Lewes Bank for 470 / ., which has turned out to be a forgery . Robbing Children . —Ellen Reynolds has been committed for trial on a variety of charges of robbing children . Her habit was to speak to little boys and girls who had been sent to make purchases , to pretend that she had come from their mothers , and to wheedle them out of their money on the pica of sending them to make inquiries while she went about their errands . More than a dozen children made their appearance in court ; but many were too young to be examined .
Daniel Lorpan has been again examined on tho charge of murdering his wife . His daughter , a . girl of eighteen , gave evidence on this occasion . She became hysterical on entering the witness-box , and gave her testimony with great pain . Her father croaa-oxaminod her in an uflectionato tone , frequently calling her by endearing epithets , and , when her answers wont against him , ho said very mildly that sho was mistaken . Witnoaaoa were produced to show that tho priaoner was a very steady , abstemious man , while his wife was a confirmed drunkard , and to disprove tho allegation of jealousy on tho part of Lordan aguinat the man . Kingston-The caflo was again remanded ..
. . _ A Case of Manslaughter has occurred in J-wfolk , whore Joaoph Underwood , a bricklayer , ha * * " *"" Robert Greon , a labourer . There had bcou a " *«™ £ sjs-s ES ^ ras ^/ sw * s « &
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1855, page 931, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2108/page/7/
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