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when the Em jeror was at Milan , waited on the sovereign and urged him to make further concessions to the Papal chair ; but Francis Joseph sent them to the Minister of the Interior , -who gave them no hopes . The Emperor is even said to have let fall a hint * that the Lorubardo-Venetian hierarchy might possibly receive a check ; and it is added by popular report that a note in this sense ¦ was forwarded to Rome . No order or other sign of favour has been given by the Emperor to the Bishops of Bergamo and Pavia , two very bigoted prelates . The Jesuits also have received a check from General Baron Hempen , the chief of the Austrian police , -who has declined to allow them to take into their own hands the , direction of all matters connected -with the public press
ITALY . The Minister of Grace and Justice has lately intimated to the Procurators-General of . the various courts in Naples that , having been informed by the agents of the police that the advocates , notaries , and other frequenters of the courts talk and conspire ( one and the same thing in Naples ) , he is desirous that the discussions should not be protracted more than necessary ; that decisions should be arrived at as soon as possible , and that , on this being done , the courts should be immediately dosed . To such a head has suspicion grown . The army , also , has beeu forbidden all intercourse with civilians . — Times iVqnfej Correspondent .
DENMARK . The convention relative to the abolition of the Sound Dues was signed at Copenhagen last Saturday by all tlie Powers concerned in it . " By the terms of this treaty , " says the Maniteur , * the tolls and dues of every kind to which vessels were subject in their passage through the Sound and the Belts will be completely abrogated from and after the 1 st of April . Denmark also engages to abolish , witl regard to certain kinds of merchandise , the tolls which have hitherto been levied , under the title of Transit Dues , upon the traffic of the Eyder Canal and the routes connecting the Baltic with the North Sea . The maritime states , on their part , bind themselves to pay Denmark , by way of compensation , in one or several payments , an indemnity representing the revenue derived from the existing tolls , taken at an average of five yeara , and capitalised at the rate of four jer cent . "
THE » ANTTBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . The evacuation of these provinces is proceeding without interruption , and it is expected by the French Government that it will now very shortly be coinplated . It is now stated that the late Kaimakan of Moldavia was poisoned .
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STATE OP TRADE , ' The accounts of the manufacturing trade of the country for the week ending last Saturday present no material change . . At Manchester , the tendency has been towards firmness , OTving to the Indian advices . In the Birmingham iron-market , there has been less general activity , although quotations have been maintained , and no reduction is anticipated for the ensuing quarter . The general manufactures of the town continue to be affected by the high prices of tin and copper . At Nottingham , there has been diminished home demand for lace , but the foreign orders-have been large . The woollen districts and the Irish linen-markets have been witliout animation . —Times .
The general business of the port of London during the same week -was moderately active . The total cumber of ships entered inward was 143 , being 21 more than in the previous week . These included 26 with cargoes of corn , grain , &c , 9 with cargoes of sugar , 2 - with cargoes of dried fruit , and 2 with cargoes of tea , comprising 19 , 555 packages , nearly all of winch are chests . The number of vessels cleared outward was 121 , including 8 in bullast , showing an increase of 4 . — Idem .
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Tins chief guard oFa train from London on the North-Wostern Railway fell off the break , a few nights ago , near the Spa Road station , while tko train was proceeding , and was killed by the carriages passing ovor him . Ho was known to be in the habit of getting out of his break , and going along the steps of the carriages , to sec that all vrns right ; and this dangerous custom probably led to his death . A Mrs . Robson , of Newcastle , has been burnt to death by her muslin dress being set alight by the fire close to 'which she was standing . ' A cutter belonging to one oT the vessels-of-wnr at Chatham capsized last Saturday morning off the dockyard , and two seamen were drowned .
In the course of a gale which raged in the Channel on tho night of Friday week , four men belonging to th «> smack Martha , of Colchester , were washed overboard and lost . Tho only one of the crew left was a youth about eighteen years of nge , who succeeded in bringing tho smack safe to Shoreham Harbour last Saturday afternoon , having laboured for several hours in accomplishing- his task . On reaching Shoreham , ho was nmch exhausted , haying been without food for . 1 lone time .
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THE ASSIZES . A man named David Berry was tried at York on Friday week for wounding Thomas Maugham at Bradford on the 14 th of last November . This was a charge arising out of the riots among the operatives at the mill of Mr . Taylor , Baildon , near Shipley , of which we gave full reports at the time . IBerry was one of the weavers on strike ; Maugham was a new hand who had undertaken to work on the terms to ' which the others objected . There was a certain degree of doubt as to the identity of the accused ; but the jury found him Guilty , and he was sentenced to eighteen months'
imprisonment with hard labour . John Hawlcy was charged at the same Assizes with committing a burglary at North Dalton on the 13 th of February in the house of Mr . William Binnington , a farmer , and stealing a large quantity of plate . Mrs . Binnington , on the night in question , looked her diningroom door aiid went up-stairs , taking the key with her . On the following morning , it wan discovered that the dining-room had been entered by the window , a large quantity of plate stolen , and tlio room entirely ransacked . The burglars had been drinking in the room , and footmarks of two men were traced for several miles
gentleman living near Brewood , and who was charged on a coroner ' s inquisition with the manslaughter of his wife . Mr . Durant , it appeared , was a very dissipated man , and had been in the habit of treating his wife with great brutality ; but , on the other hand , it seemed that the wife had been in a debilitated state for the last two years , and had suffered from palpitation of the heart . After the grand jury had thrown out the bill , the evidence -was withdrawn , a verdict of Not Guilty was returned , and the accused Was discharged . John Jones and Richard Morgan , two young working men , were charged at the same Assizes with committing a violent garotte robbery on an old man belonging to the Lundhill colliery , who was proceeding one Saturday night along tho high road with 10 ? . worth of change for the payment of the men . They were found Guilty ; and Jones was sentenced to four years' penal servitude , and Morgan to eighteen months'
imprisonment . Two men have been , convicted at Bedford on separate charges of arson . One was sentenced to twenty , the other to fourteen , years'transportation . ' . . Daniel Dickenson and James Gledall were found Guilty at the same Assizes of committing a burglary at the dwelling-house of Mr . Bradley , of-the Manor Oaks , near Sheffield . Without the least provocation , or even resistance to their demands , the rufjfinns murderously attacked Mr . Bradley , and . but for the noble courage of his wife , who several times interposed herself , and received the blows meant for him , so that she was seriously wounded , he would probaby have been killed . They were sentenced to transportation for life .
John Oldershaw , Joseph Sills the elder , Joseph Sills the younger , William Wragg , Mary Wragg , and Sarali Itadbourne , were tried at York for . conspiracy and perjury ^ to pass off a forgery -as the will ' of John Jackson , Esq ., Stapleton , Nottinghamshire . The facts of this case appeared in the Leader of February 21 st , in connexion with some recent law proceedings . The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against the two Wraggs , Oldershaw , and Sarah Iladbourne , but Acquitted the Sills . The fii ' st four were sentenced to hard labour for two years . :
to a plantation , in which , about a week afterwards , nearly all tho plate was found . The prisoner on sonic former occasion bad called at the house , and on the day of the robbery had been seen with two other men about two miles from it . At nine o ' clock on the following morning , he was seen going into lievcrley , and at halfpast cloven was taken to the lock-up'for being drunk and disorderly . On bis person were found Mrs . liinnington's purse and four silver knife-rosters ; and the marks made by his boots wero similar to those left by the burglars on tbc premises , He was found . Guilty , and sentenced to four years' penal servitude .
John Jurviswas charged with shooting nt John Jackson , with intent to murder him . Tho affray nro .-= o out of n night poaching expedition ; the prisoner being a poacher and Jackson a gamekeeper . Jar via fired pointblank at Jackson ; but tlie gun missed lire , and tho jjnmekeopcr then made off unhurt . Tho accused was found Guilty , and sentenced to eight months * hard labour . The grand jury at Stafford ignored a bill which bad been preferred against Arthur Edwin Ucaufoy Durant . q
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Tke Case ok Pkactioal Jokxxg at Brentwood- — A memorial to Lord Palmcrston is now in course of signature by some of the jurors empannelled in this case ( who reside chiefly in this district ) , recommending a remission of the sentence passed by Justice Cresswell on Cooper and the Hoofs , and the substitution of . a fine . In the event of the application succeeding , it is understood the young men have promised to placo 5001 . at the disposal of the widow . —Chdmsford Chronicle . Frauds by Commission Agents . — A commission agent in Paris , of the name of Frederick Musitano , appeared last Saturday in the Insolvent Debtors' Court of London , and was opposed on behalf of a young woman named Marie Pubcau , who was assistant to a
shopkeeper in Paris . , The complaint was that the insolvent obtained from the young woman a shawl and other things of tbc value of 57 Z ., promising to pay for them on the next day , as he said he had a customer who would purchase the articles . Immediately he received them , he left Paris and came to London , whither he was followed soon after by Mademoiselle Pubeau , who , having discovered his residence , obtained a Judge's order for his arrest . The Chief Commissioner ordered him to be discharged after being in custody for nine calendar months from the date of the vesting order . —In the same court , William Stroud , also a
commissionagent , was likewise opposed on the ground of fraud . The sufferer was Mr . Powers , a miller in Bedfordshire , for whom the insolvent had been agent . Stroud ' was noiv a defaulter to the extent of 3051 ., having receive : ! that amount on account of Mr . Powers , and applied it to his own uses . The insolvent had also carried on business as a flour factor , and in that character owed Mr . Powers ' 20 07 . for Hour supplied . Mr . Commissioner Phillips said the insolvent had been in custody since December , and tho judgment would prolong his imprisonment until May . lie would be discharged in live calendar months from the vesting order .
In is ( Jiuiici . Fooi , isiiNKriH of locking up juries during tho night irhen tlit ; y cannot come to an agreement was . strikingly exhibited last . Saturday at tho Middlesex Sessions . On tho previous day , a man had been charged with receiving a firkin of butter , knowing it to have boon stolen . The jury could not agree , and wero locked up during thu night , in accordance with the senseless and barbarous luw which decrees that jurymen ahull be starved into unity of opinion . When brought into court on tho following day , they looked very buggard and ill . Counsel fur tho prisoner applied , to have tho
jury discharged ; but the Assistant-Judge had some technical objections , and would not consent , " unless there were reasons to apprehend illness . " A Juror said ho suffered from asthma , and only got relief by warmth and miming . Longer detention without refreshtuent would be very dangerous to him . Two others complained of illness arising from exhaustion . The Asuiatunt-Judge suit for a medical gentleman , who examined tlio three complaining juror * ; and , having been sworn , he stated that , with respect to two of thunri , lie apprehended danger if thoy were kept longer without refreshment . Tho Assistant-Judge thereupon ordered
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- ^ THE ATTEMPTED ASSASSINATION ON THE B LAC KW ALL RAILWAY . Wiixjam Webb , the man charged with attempting to murder Mr . Alfred Buckler in a railway carriage , was again examined last Saturday at Marylebone . The wounded person , whose life' was at one period considered to be in extreme danger , said" I am assistant to Mr . Hollick , a draper , in Highstreet , Poplar . At a quarter to eight o ' clock in the evening , I got into a carriage on the Blackwall Railway . There was a change at Stepney . The carriage I was in was a second-class one , and my destination was the Hampstead-road . I took nay ticket at Poplar for the Camden-town station . All the passengers alighted , and
left me alone in the carriage . This was at about twentythree minutes past eight o ' clock . I saw the prisoner , just as the train was about to start from there , looking in at the window ; he opened the door and took his seat opposite to me ; directly he had done so , the train was in motion . He asked me which was the next station , and I told him ' Hampstead-road , ' when he remarked , ' That ' s right . ' He moved towards me and said , ' It's half-past eight , isn't it ? "What is really the time ? ' I took out my watch , and told him it was twenty-five minutes past eight , or thereabout . I turned my head to look out of the window , when lie struck me with great violence in the neck . I did not know at the moment with what instrument he had done it . He struck me on the arm in the same manner . I sprang to my feet and grappled with him , and when , after a struggle , I had nearly overpowered him , I saw a knife in bis left
hand . I caught at it with my right by the blade , and succeeded in pushing him into the corner , where he had been sitting . With my left hand I held his right , and grasped him by the neck . He attempted to draw the knife through my hand . We had a desperate struggle , and 1 squeezed his throat with riiy left hand with all my might . By this time , the train had almost stopped , as it was nearing the Hampstead station . I kept calling out ' Murder ! ' and as soon as the train came to a stand , the door of the carriage was opened by one of the guards or a porter . I then said , ' This man has stabbed me . ' Blood was flowing fast from the wounds which I had received . The prisoner remarked , ' It ' s not me ; it was that gentleman ; he tried to stab me . I took the knife from him , and , in self-defence , I stabbed him . ' I gave the knife to the porter . It was in both our hands , the prisoner having hold of the handle , and I of the blade . "
The police proved that the man ' s name is not " Webb , but Levy , and that he is a butcher instead of a sailor . He repeated to the magistrate that lie had been attacked by Mr . Buckler , and had only acted in self-defence ; and he was again remanded . On Thursday , the accused was committed for trial .
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Maboh 21 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . 273
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Leader (1850-1860), March 21, 1857, page 273, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2185/page/9/
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