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The Austrians have been in the habit , daring , their occupation of Rome , of occasionally arresting Italian aobjects and committing them to prison , where they b&ve been maintained at the expense of the Papal Government . As a corollary to his amnesty in the North of Italy , the Emperor of Austria ordered the discharge of these captives , bat the Pope objected , the order being an exercise by foreigners of sovereign power . The Austrians , however , insisted , and the Roman authorities at length consented , but with so bad a grace that they delayed the release of the prisoners for some days after they had determined on sanctioning it , and sect them from the Castle of Paliano to Rome , in chains , accompanied by thieves , and so exposed to cold and unprovided with food , that they would have died but for the charity of the gendarmes who escorted them . The Grand Duchess and Regent of Parma has liberated the political prisoners in the duchy , on condition that they shall expatriate themselves beyond the seas .
It is announced in a letter from Naples that the convention concluded between the Neapolitan Government and the Argentine Republic cannot be carried into effect , inasmuch as only six of the political prisoners in confinement have agreed to expatriate themselves , and they are too few to form a colony . The King had appointed a commission , composed of General Afan de Bivera , the Attorney-General Gallotti , Tocca , Attorney-General of the Court of Cassation , the President Jannicone , and the President of the Royal Court of Aquila , to inspect the provinces , and to recommend to the Government what reforms they may consider necessary .
The Saxdinian Chamber of Deputies has at length , after a debate extending through twenty sittings , passed the bill for public Instruction by a majority of 75 against 55 . —" The general tenour of the law , " says the Times Turin correspondent , " is that all persons properly qualified , lay or clerical , shall be free , to establish schools , Imt that all schools , whether public or private , shall be subject to the surveillance of the Government , in accordance with the special regulations made and provided for such eases . In all public schools , the Roman Catholic religion will be the foundation of religious instruction , but children not of that religion will be left to the care of their parents . The Minister of Public Instruction will direct and promote the increase of public education , but he "will only supervise private institutions as to morals , healtfc , the institutions of the State , and public order . "
A paper war , having considerable state significance , has been raging between the official Austrian Gazette of Milan and the equally official Piedmontese Gazette . The Austrian organ commenced hostilities by a bitter attack on Sardinia , accusing that state of perpetual underhand attempts to aggrandize its petty territory , and threatening that any attempt to renew the plots of 1797 will lead to severe punishment . In another article , the Sardinian Government is upbraided for the slight check it puts upon the freedom of the press , and is accused of tacitly snaring in the praise showered on Milano for his attempt on the life of the King of Naples . The Piedmontese journal replies by exposing the treacherous
ma-Paris , London , Amsterdam , and Berlin . The first series of 600 , 000 shares has been taken by the founders . The Government is to have the right of repurchasing the concession in twenty years . The marriage of the Grand Duke Michael of Russia with the Princess Cecile of Baden is to take place at St . Petersburg in March . The Grand Duchy of Finland is in a state of distress bordering upon actual famine . Large subscriptions , headed by the Emperor and Empress , have been opened foi the relief of the people . PORTUGAL , The House of Deputies is still engaged in the debate on the reply to the speech from the throne . The Ministers have declared to the Cortes that no crisis exists .
SWITZERLAND . Colonel Asztalos , a young officer who served in the Hungarian war of independence , has been shot in a duel at Geneva by a Polish wine merchant of Bordeaux , with whom he had quarrelled at a whist table . The occasion of the dispute was so trivial that General Klapka , who was present , tried to prevent the meeting , but failed ; tlie colonel was killed , and his adversary was wounded in the hip . It had been agreed on between the combatants that if one of them fell it should be made to appear that he had committed suicide , and accordingly tie body of Asztalos was placed at the foot of . a tree in a . wood where it was found .
DENMARK . The treaty concerted between England , Prussia , and France for the redemption of the Sound Dues was made the subject of a conference of the Powers inteTested in that question , on the 3 rd inst ., at Copenhagen . On this occasion not only the representative of Austria , but also the plenipotentiary of the Hanseatic Towns , acceded to it , in addition to the original members of the conference . The withdrawal of the despatch that the Danish Ministry was about to forward to Vienna and Berlin , refusing to listen to the remonstrances of the Oerman Powers , is understood to have been occasioned T ) y some intimations from Russia of her rulers no longer being disposed to support Denmark , in the course of treatment she has observed for a long time past towards the German Duchies . —Times Berlin Correspondent .
GEKMANr . Saxony and Prussia have just concluded a treaty , of which the object is to establish between the t \\ o countries a new communication , by means of a railway to connect Leipsic and Berlin by a direct line . This line -will form , a junction at Bitterfield with the railway ¦ which unites Wittemberg to Halle , by way of the Elbe and Bitterfield .
SPAIX . Espartero has resigned his position as a senator , " for reasons which , " as he says in a letter to the Queen , " no one -will understand better than her Majesty . " turkey . ¦ , ¦ The Sultan and the Ministers have subscribed to the Smyrna Railway , which has been conceded . It is to pass by the route of Aidan . The town of Candia will be rebuilt , and the damages of Sinope repaired .
BELGIUM . Alluding to Mr . Disraeli and " the secret treaty , " the Tndependance Beige says : —" All that Lord Palmerston has acknowledged was announced by us more than two years ago , at the -very time of the signature of the treaty , in a despatch from Berlin , dated tlic 31 st of December , 1854 , published in our number of the 1 st of January , 1855 , and completed by a letter of our Berlin correspondent , which appeared in our number of January 2 . " Another correspondent of the same journal , however , afterwards contradicted the assertion with respect to the existence of such a treaty .
chinations against Sardinia constantly pursued by Austria ; vindicates the right of the Sardinian Ministers to promote the welfare of Italy by all honest means ; and concludes thus : — " Confident , not in the forbearance of Austria , but in the purity of their intentions and in the justice of their measures , sustained by the friendship of their allies and by the sympathy of all Europe , they ( the Ministers ) are not frightened by the dangers which impend—dangers they know how to meet with resolution , convinced that henceforth , when wars take place in the sacred name of civilization and justice , success does not depend solely upon the number of soldiers or the extent of territory . "
PKVSSIA . It appears now but too certain that the King of Prussia , having obtained the release of the Neufchatol prisoners , will do his utmost to avoid fulfilling his implied promise to give up all claim to the disputed principality . " The King's views , I understand , " says the Ttmea Berlin correspondent , " point to a return to the purely monarchical relation that existed between the principality and its Prince previous to 1806 , up to which time , whatever th « nature of Neufchatel ' s relations and alliances with certain cantons of Switzerland may have been , there is no trace to bo found in history of anything like a claim on the part of Switzerland to any share m the sovereignty or government of the principality . A feeling of dissatisfaction is becoming vcrv general in Switzerland . RUSSIA . The ukaso relative to the concession of the railwavs ( says a despatch from St . Petersburg ) has at length appeared . It concedes to a company composed of Ruaaian and foreign bankers the linea already known within addition a branch to Konigsborg , in order to K them in direct communication with the European lines S concern is for eighty-fivo year , , and the wStaW t ! forS ' uTLVT r A , b 0 Ur < l ° di * 2 o » i . £ tl formed at St . 1 etcrsburg , , in addition , « commilteo of nine members is to bo established at Pan ? Th ! K BOOfr and ??' ^^ ' ° ^ ™ " bo of fiOOfir ., and to bo negotiated at St . Petersburg ,
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ATTEMPTED MURDER AND HIGHWAY KOBBERY IN SURREY . An outrage has been committed on "the high road between the villages of Nutfield- and Warwick-town , in Surrey , which bears a . close resemblance to those murderous attacks on wayfarers which are of frequent occurrence in Ireland * The accounts of the affair are somewhat contradictory . According to one , as Mr . Oven den , a draper , was returning from Godstone to Warwick-town in a light cart , on the evening of Friday week , about a . quarter to five o ' clock , a man dressed as a labourer , who was walking in the same direction , asked for a lift . Mr . Qvcnden complied ; and the two drove through Nutfield . A little beyond that village
they arrived at a very lonely part of the road , when the stranger suddenly turned upon Mr . Ovcnden , and demanded his money or his life . The other thought this was merely a joke ; l ) ut the man took out a pocketpistol , and pointed it at his companion ' s breast . Still Mr . Ovenden treated the thing as a rough piece ] of practical fun , though tho truth must by this time have been obvious , for the man , with a threatening aspect , repeated bis demand . He was met with a firm refusal to give any money ; on which the man fired , and tho bullet lodged in Mr , Ovenden ' s left breast , a little below his
tho shoulder . Tho victim , still holding the reins in hand , fell to tho bottom of the cart , and the horse wis pulled up by the jerk . The assassin then proceeded to ride the pockets of his companion , who was lying senseless , and from -whom ho took 4 J . in gold , and about ton shillings in silver , with which ho made oil' across tho country . Mr . Ovonden recovered his consciousness about a quarter past live , and endeavoured to stanch the bleeding with his pocket handkerchief . Ho then drove home , where ho arrived almost fainting , but at once gave information to the police , accompanied by u minute description of his assailant . Ho then went to bed , ami
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being on and some off the line , till it was brouehtfaT stop by coming in contact with the parapet of thebrM * which crosses the Shields turnpike-ioad . The coiror chains of the engine gave way in the shock ; butseKX of the passengers received severe injury . A colhV occurred on the same line on Tuesday , by which seve ^ i passengers were injured . m * A frightful accident took place on the London an * South-Western Railway , near the Barnes station T Monday- The wife of the switchman noticed her chilrt upon the line just as the goods train was making iZS progress towards the station . She rushed across th metals to save her child , which she succeeded in doinp but before she could gain the platform she was caueht by the train , thrown down upon the line , and her two legs nearly severed from her body by the passing of thl wheels of the carriages over her limbs . Very slight hopes are entertained of her recovery . °
An explosion of fire-damp has taken place in thp Pew Fold Colliery , Ashton , about four miles from Wigan , by which three colliers -were killed , and two others seriously burned . The catastrophe was caused by one of the men going too close to a new air road with a naked candle in bis hand . Two men were engaged in the neighbourhood of Canterbury in conveying from Whitstable some spirit Which was over proof . On the road , they contrived to abstract a portion , which speedily rendered them senseless ; and , being discovered in this state , they were conveyed in waggons to Canterbury . One of them died before he arrived there ; the life of the other was saved by the use of the stomach-pump .
Mr . C . K . Sala , a brother , we fcelieve , of Mr . George Augustus Sala , the writer , died suddenly at the house of his mother , well known in the musical circles of Brighton , on Tuesday night . The cause of death was an apoplectic stroke . He was only thirty-four years of age . . A few minutes after twelve o'clock on Thursday a fearful explosion took place at the Lund-hill Colliery situated about half a mile from the Wombwell station on the South Yorkshire Railway . The day workers , to the number of a hundred and eighty men and eight lads , descended at six o'clock in the morning . At twelve o ' clock , twenty-two of them , who reside near the pit , came up to dinner , the rest remaining to partake of that meal in the pit . Shortly afterwards , the explosion occurred . The frame in which the corves descend was blown
up the shaft and lodged in the gearing above the pit mouth - Numbers of men from neighbouring collieries flocked to render assistance , and up to seven o ' clock sixteen men had been drawn up alive , some of them most seriously injured ; but this left one hundred ana . lortytwo men remaining in the pit . The interior was set < m fire by the explosion , and the flames spread with such rapidity as to render improbable the reaching of that part of the pit where the one hundred and forty-two men are supposed to be . Twelve or thirteen dead bodies were picked up in the main tramways ; but it has been found necessary to close the mouths of the pit . It is supposed that a fall in some part of the works has led to the explosion .
ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A melancholy catastrophe took place last Saturday on board the steam frigate Arrogant , now lying alongside Portsmouth Dockyard . A heavy pivot-gun was being hoisted out , when it dropped , and fell on Jaincs Desman , one of the crew , who was instantaneously killed . An inquest was held on board , and a verdict of Accidental Death was returned . Tho gun fell owing to tho tackle breaking , though it was quito new . Dr . J . T . Bateson , of Lancaster , has been killed on the North-Wcstorn Railway . He and some others were crossing tho line at tho Settle station , when tho doctor stooped , apparently to pick up something , and tho engine knocked him down and passed over him . Ho was conveyed to Lancaster much mutilated , and expired shortly after reaching his homo . A woman , who was crossing the lino at the same time was also knocked down , but was only slichtly injured .
An accident lias occurred to tho evening express train on the Tynomouth branch of tho North-Eastern Railway . Tho train loft Ne \ vcastlo-on-Tyno at a quarter to five , with about twenty passengers . When it was within a quarter of a milo of Shields , an axlctrco of the first carriage broke , forced the carriage off its springs , nnd throw it completel y across the line . In spite of this obstruction , th « train continued to run on , Homo carriages
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 21, 1857, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2181/page/8/
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