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An insurrection seems to be imminent in Sicily Bands of armed men , it is stated , are collecting , . and troops have been sent against them . Bonaba is threateaedVand a few ; hostile gatherings may be for him " the badnaing of the end . "
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CONTIITENTAL NOTES . M . Ebdan lately published a work entitled "Mystical Franee ; or , Picture of the Religious Eccentricities of the Age . " The author , having violently attacked the Catholic religion , was tried last month by the Court of Correctional Police , and only sentenced to eight days ' Imprisonment and one hundred francs fine . The printer was fined forty francs , and the publisher one hundred francs . The Attorney- General having appealed a minima against the sentence , M . Erdan appeared before . the Imperial Court , and was condemned to one year ' s imprisonment , three thousand francs fine , and costs . The court , moreover , ordered the destruction of the copies of the work seized , as well as those that may be seized hereafter .
The King of Hanover , by a decree of the 8 th , declares -that any public functionary , magistrate , or clergyman who may , by any official or public act , call in question the validity of his Royal ordinance of the 1 st of August , for carrying into effect certain decrees of the Diet , or any laws or ordinances promulgated by them , shall be at onee dismissed . Baron Bruck has left for Ischl , where he will submit to the Austrian Emperor the proposition made by the . house of Rothschild for the establishment of a credit institution , which is to have a capital of 100 , 000 , 000 of florins . M . JBunsen has been returned by the electors of Magdeburg as Deputy to the Prussian Chamber ; but , -owing to ill-health , it is doubtful whether he will sit .
It is asserted that Austria has fomented the quarrel between Sardinia and Tuscany ; that she is the partisan of the latter ; and that she has said that , if the dispute is not arranged -within a given time , she will regard it as a personal quarrel , and adopt measures accordingly . General Kalergi , before resigning his functions of Greek Minister of War , addressed an order of the day to -the army , in which he said : — " I leave you with reluctance , for , during all my period of office , I have not ceased to receive most flattering marks of your sympathy , at the same time that I had an opportunity of more fully appreciating those military qualities which , I fear not to proclaim , render the Greek army one of the best in Europe . My real mission among you has been to establish friendly relationships between you and the . glorious allied troops now here . You have seconded and
facilitated this mission , and the most happy results have . been realised for our county and for yourselves . Thanks to your excellent demeanour and to your prudence , which was proof against every insidious suggestion , the army of occupation has laid aside its menacing attitude , and this day displays on our territory the friendly flags that floated at Navarino and in the expedition of the Morea . ... Soldiers , continue to follow the same course . Conduct yourselves always as brothers towards the brave Allied armies , which have held out to you a generous and friendly hand , and to which so many souvenirs and so many hopes bind you . It is only the enemy of all progress in Greece that can deny the innate sympathy that exists between the armies of civilisation and that of Greece . You are aware that this sympathy is the . firmest guarantee both of the present and future happiness of our country . "
The insurgents of Catalonia have been defeated near Morguefa . The Cabecillas Poful and Ferrer have been killed , and Rengos . and JLerides taken prisoners . Twentysue of the band have been shot . Commandant Forges has dispersed the band of Triatany , but it is not known in what direction that leader has fled . The Cortes have approved the bill fixing at 70 , 000 the strength of the Spanish army for 185 C . The laying down of the submarine cable between Cagliari and the coast of Africa has been interrupted in consequence of the brooking of the cable . The English vessel Result , which was engaged in the operation , is about to return to England with the cable , which probably cannot now be laid down until the weather becomes more favourable . The Duke and Duchess of Brabant have arrived in Paris on a visit to the Emperor .
Police for propagatingfalse news , and sentenced , the first to six months imprisonment , and the latter to three months ' , and both to five hundred francs fine . Forty-eight persons concerned . in the late Angers insurrection have been sentenced . Fourteen are to be removed to a penal settlement ; the rest are condemned to imprisonment for life . . Eleven are acquitted . The Borsen Zeitung , or Exchange Gazette of Berlin , mentions that the Russian Government is endeavouring to effect a sale to the United States of America of its possessions in the north of that continent for the sum of 40 , 000 , 000 of silver roubles . Should the bargain be brought to a satisfactory conclusion , various indulgences are to be extended to the commerce of the United States on the part of Russia . The results of the Prussian elections are now nearly all known ; and , from an analysis of the members , it would seem that the House of Deputies will be Conservative in its majority . Out of 350 elections , 163 have fallen upon men new to public life . Count Schwerin has been elected five times , Herrvon Patow , HerrOtto , and HerrRhodew , each three times ; and seven others , among whom is the Minister of Finance , have been elected twice . Joseph Buonaparte , the eldest son of Prince Canino , has been thrown out of his carriage at Naples , and severely hurt . He fell with one leg into a hole , and his foot was nearly wrenched away . A meeting for the revision of taxes has taken place at Genoa . The following resolutions were adopted : — " 1 . The meeting proclaims the necessity of economy and the abolition of all existing taxes . 2 . It declares its opinion in favour of an income tax , to be paid by persons possessing a capital of upwards of 3000 livres ; and recommends the exemption of the labouring classes and literary men . 3 . It loudly condemns the principles on which are based the financial laws of 1854 and 1865 , and holds the Cavour Ministry responsible for all the ' consequences which may result from its obstinate adherence to a system tending to the ruin of the State . " Cholera is raging at Madrid and in other parts of Spain . It appears to have been exacerbated by the late accession of cold and rainy weather . At Rome , where it has also made great ravages , it is on the decline . The Duke of Saxe Coborg Gotha recently declared in the Germanic Diet that he would oppose the demand of the nobles of bis duchy for the restoration of their ancient privileges , abolished in 1848 . In consequence , twenty-one villages of the duchy have just voted an address to his Royal Highness , expressing their gratitude for this liberal policy , and it was presented to him a few days ago , after his return from Paris , by a special deputation . The semi-official Berlin paper , Die Zeit , confirms the intelligence of an approaching congress on the subject of the Sound Dues . The congress will be held at Copenhagen , and the period mentioned in the invitation to the Prussian Government to send a plenipotentiary is the latter part of November next . The old Russian believers in the Greek Church as it was in the days when it acknowledged no temporal head ( a subjection which was forced upon it by Peter the Great ) , are stated to regard the late reverses of Russia as a Divine judgment . A secret society has , it is said , been formed , under the title of the Finger of God , the members of which predict a speedy restoration of independence to the Church . Many priests , even at St . Petersburg , it is added , adhere to the new-old doctrine . A subscription has been formed at Rome for thft benefit of the Sardinian army of the Eawt , though every obstacle has been placed in the way of the subscribers by the police . In transmitting the amount to the Sardinian Charge" d'Affaires , the donors observe : — " Small is the sum gathered , since it does not exceed l , 070 f . ; but our brothers of Piedmont will know how to excuse the poverty of the gift by the difficulty of the situation , and on account of our poverty , anil will appreciate the affection which prompts it . " Thojeto given at tho Hotel | du Louvre to Prince Napoleon and the members of the Imperial Commission by tho exhibitors at the Exposition , wan a lamentable failure . The arrangements wore all behindhand ; ladies were injudiciously excluded ; and , after tho departure of tho Prince , some young men , flushed with champagne , got to dancing among themselves , and tho scene is described as repulsive . An audacious brigand , named Joseph AITliti , commonly called Lazzarini , continues to spread terror and desolation in tho environs of Forruru . Ilia band consists of ten men . The Apostolic delegate , Count Philip Foliealdl , has addressed tho people , inviting them by tho proniiao of rewards to « oizu these dottperato robbers . Tho reward offered for tho capture ) of Luzzurini umountt * to 3000 crowns ; for two of hia followers , 500 crowns ; and for the remainder , 100 crowns . Tho nvw Greuk Cabinet is thun composed : —Interior , M . Bulgaria ; Justice , M . TJottli ; Public Woruhip , M . Garcos ; Finunco , M . Silivorgoa ; War , Col . Smo . Bon it / . ; Marine , M . Miaulitt . Tho Allied Ambassadors declare that they will no longer transact business witb . the Ministers , but only with tho King . The King of Prussia ' s uixticth birthday , and the fiftieth anuivorsay of hia entrance into the . army , was celebrated at Potsdam on tho 15 th inst . with groat enthusiasm and magnificence .
The proceedings instituted against Belleinarre , the author of the attempted assassination of the French JEinporor on the 8 tU of September , have satisfied the ¦ examining judges that he was the instrument of no party ; that ho was a roadman , and not an assassin ; and that he had neither tho consciousness of his act nor of hiu position . On th « requisition of tho Attorney-General , tho Court decided on abandoning tho prosecution , recommending the Administration , however , to adopt the necossary measures to prevent public order being disturbed in future by tlie maniac
An cmplqyS of the electric telegraph having forwarded to a comrade in Amiens a despatch stating that the Emperor had been wounded by a Cont-Gardo , and the empltiyd of Aruiene having circulated tho report through tho iown , they wero tried by tho Court of Correctional
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¦ - OUR CIVILISATION . Loud Ernkht Vane . —A further account of this young nobleman ' s disgraceful behaviour at tho Windsor Theatre has boon communicated to the Times by Mr . Albert Nash , the manager of the establishment , who , it will be recollected , was the aggrieved person . From thlfl statement , it would « eem that Lord Ernest Vane ' s conduct was oven worse than tho first accounts exhibited . We quote the major part of Mr . Nosh ' s letter , a 8 giving a specimen of tho kind of soldier who ia now sent out to fight by tho Hide of honourable men : — " In the early part of the evening , hifl lordship had amused himself by blacking tho oyos of ono person , kicking another , and so forth . My flr * t aoluto from him was his wtlck broken across my back . The curtain wan going up ; I wns wanted ; tho house pretty full , and , as I did not wish the nudionco to bo diwturbod , I put up with it and went on . When tho first piece wafl over and I was drctming fyr tho lost , I was informed that his lordship had forced hit ) way into the ladie » ' drcaaing-room , and would not leave , though ropoatodly requested by tlio ludtoe , who had to commence re-drowsing , ho to do . I « ent my Btagu-inanngor to roinoiiHtmto with him , but to no © fleet . I then went myself , vrhon ho told me to go to « place not mentioned to oars polite . I * t tong ™ wa » obliged to send for a poliooman Who ^ the afflcer came , ho qulotly wallcod out I » £ 1 fljbhj d ^ JJftJ * ™ uacfofiho ^ faVAn ui ! . ° ho ^ to ' d to speak tp . me , SSk £ w 3 ri ? bv the collar , and , before I w « a ware
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VOLUNT A R Y TORT U RE AT PARKH URST PRISON . A convict , named Patrick Battle , eighteen years « age , recently died at the Junior Prison at Parkhnrst ; and , at the inquest held on his body , evidence was adduced which , according to the report" in the local papers , exhibits the extraordinary methods resorted to by prisoners to gain admission into the Infirmary . The chief witness was James Limb , No . 118 convict , who said—" I have been here four years . I have known the deceased ever since he has been here . On Thursday , he told me he wished to get into the Infirmary for the winter , and he asked me the best way to manage it . 'I told him to get some of the stuff off the pump , and swallow it , and if ; it was made round he could swallow it like a pill ; and so he did . He took off the green staff of the brasses with a bit of tin , and I made it into pills for him . He was at work on the pump that day . It was green , and I mixed it up with soap from his cell into pills with the oil from the top of the pump . I told him where to get it , and I made it into six pills about the size our doctor gives us . He got a drink of water , and swallowed them one at a time , and in the afternoon he told me he had a pain in his head . I saw him the next morning , when he said it hadn't made him quite bad enough , so he he would take some more pilla , and I think he did , for he had enough stuff in the box to make six more , and there was none left in the box the next morning ; and then bis cocoa got on his stomach , and it made him sick , and he told the officer , and he put him in his cell . I took the oil myself when I tried to get into the Infirmary ; but there was no verdigris in that , but it made me very sick . He said he thought the verdigris would make it all the better , and so he took it . It is a common practice foi us prisoners to make our eyes and legs sore , to get intc hospital . Some eat ground glass , and put copperas intc the sores . I can ' t say whether deceased knew of these pills before I told him , but the last time he got in b \ running a stocking-needle right through his leg , above the knee . It was full of thread , and he did it to make his leg sore ; but he ' most lost his leg by it . He got in all last winter , and he often tried the same thing over again when he did not succeed at fir 8 t , but he got in every winter somehow . He asked me what to do , and I told him what I had tried , and I got in . You must mix soap with it to make it stick ; but it ' s two years ago since I took any . He said he wouldn't like to try the experiment that No . 17 did of eating pounded glass . I was seat here for stealing a horse . I was only eleven years old then , and was remanded for two assizes , ' cause they couldn ' t find the man I sold it to . " The witness detailed the particulars of tbese horrible practices with the greatest coolness and effrontery , and seemed proud of the part he had taken in the transaction . Mr . Dabbs , hospital surgeon , said he had frequently discovered the prisoners in the act of removing thei dressings from the sores , and irritating them , with the hope of continuing longer in hospital . The doctor cited one case of a prisoner , for whose disease ho could find no remed }' , and who appeared -to bo daily wasting away . He at last ordered him to bo stripped naked , and to spread out his arras , when a vein in his arm spirted blood , and he then discovered that ho had by some means obtained a lancet , with which ho frequently bled himself down to death ' s door , in order to remain in . the hospital . The jury returned a verdict to tho effect that the deceased died by poison administered by his own hands , with tho view to gain admission into the infirmary , and not to occasion his own death .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 20, 1855, page 1003, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2111/page/7/
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