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to the walls of bis palace ; on the contrary , he lived in a house of glass . The fatter then denounced those who sell the favour or protection of the court for gold , and who thus get rich by iniquity . The sermon has been much talked about . A bill is spoken of for prohibiting people from bearing titles of nobility to which , they have no right . It is proposed to make the assumption penal . The flourishing of these " titles" in the eyes of servile persons is said to be a great aid to swindling adventurers .
Matraccia , the Italian who was some short time back condemned to death by the Court or Assizes of -A 5 x for a series of extraordinary murders at Marseilles , was executed in the latter city last Saturday morning . He exhibited considerable firmness and religious fervour ; arid solicited and obtained permission to take with him to the scaffold a favourite parrot in a cage , when , addressing it , he said , " Your master is about to die , and he embraces you for the last time . " He then begged forgiveness of the people of Marseilles , and £ a a few minutes more was dead .
SPAIN . The journal El Leon Espanol announces that the Government has determined to raise the state of siege in all the provinces of Spain , including Catalonia . It is confidently stated that the Papal Nuncio to the Court of Madrid has quitted Rome in . order to assume his functions . The Chateau de Galeras , in Alicante , has baen assigned to < xeneral Prim for his residence during the six months' " arrest" to vrhich he has been sentenced by court-martial . The Captain-General of Madrid las sent him passports to travel from Toledo to Alicante on his parole .
DENMABK . Prussia ( says a despatch from Berlin ) refuses to refer the decision of the question of the Danish duchies to the " Western Powers , as desired by France and England , on the ground of its being a purely German matter . It is thought that Austria -will also refuse .
ITALY . Chevalier Pinelli ( says the Independance JBelge ) left Naples on the 12 th for Rome ,- and will proceed thence to Paris and London , with tie view of bringing about the resumption of diplomatic relations between Naples and the courts of England and Prance . The Turin Gazette officially announces that the Sardinian Legation at "Vienna has been recalled . This measure very naturally arises from the recal of the Austrian Legation at Turin , announced in the Gazette two days before .
The King of Naples has recently introduced into ms prisons a new instrument of torture , called "the cap of silence , " the object of which is to prevent the wearer speaking . It consists of un ingenious complication of steel cands and leathern straps , capable of such terrible constriction , when fastened round the head , that the victim faints with the pain .
PORTUGAL . After a . ministerial crisis of a fortnight ' s duration , the Portuguese Cabinet has been reconstituted as follows : — The Marquis Louie " , President , Minister of the Interior and of Foreign Affairs ; Viscount Sb , da . Bandiera , Minister of llarine and of "War ; Senhor Avita , Minister of Finance ; Senhor Ferrer , Minister of Justice ; Carlos Bento . Minister of Public Works .
PRUSSIA . With leference to the Neufchatel question , the Independance Beige publishes the annexed telegraphic despatch from Paris , dated the 20 th instant : — " The Prussian Minister has just received the instructions which he awaited from his Government relative to NeafcMtel . They are to the effect , it is said , that King [ Frederick "William will consent to treat upon the bases proposed "by the Conference on the following conditions : — 'The title of Prince of Neufclmtel will remain attached to the
Crown of Prussia . The benevolent institutions at Neufchatel shall be maintained and guaranteed . The revenues of the royal domain shall continue to be paid to the Xing for four years . The produce , which amounts to about 100 , 000 francs a year , will serve to indemnify the Royalists for the sacrifices and losses they have undergone . His Majesty renounces the maintenance of the bourgeoisie . . Switzerland will have to proclaim a general amnesty , and the Royalists compromised since 1848 ai& not to be molested on any grounds whatever . '"
" The settlement of the Neufchatel question , " saya a letter from Berlin , in the Post Gazette of Frankfort , " encounters a fresh difficulty from the circumstance of the agnates , or younger branches of the House of Prussia , refusing to consent to a renunciation of the PrincipaHtj 1- . Without their consent the renunciation of the King ¦ would not be valid . " , A melancholy scene occurred in thte -Chamber of Deputies at Berlin on the 17 th . instant . Herr Otto , a respected and influential member of the Catholic party , while speaking in the debate on tho budget of the Minister of Public Worship , was overpowered with sudden illness and fell to the ground insensible . He was carried into an adjoining apartment , where , in spito of all tho remedies that could be applied , he expired in a few minutes .
TURKEY . The Ottoman Government has" issued an important decree rolativo to the colonization of the waste lands in Turkey , by which decree foreigners are to bo enabled to acquiro property in those lands .
circassia . _ According to the Journal de Constantinople , the English , steamer Kangaroo was captured by Russian gunboats , with Mehcmet Bey on board . This statement however , is at war with a previous report , which said that the expedition effected a landing on tho coast of Csrcasaia with perfect success ; and the Journal de ConstxnUnoph has itself made tho Bamo announcement Bince tho report of tho capture by tho Hussions . The safe ?" m " , i , ( ° ? « . ' indecd « i 3 now beyond a doubt . M-clc Bou omefl ; tho Russian Ambassador nt Con ptantmoplo , has demanded tho appointment of a commission to incmlro into this expedition to Circaasia
. . .. The aurkwh Government will Bot on foot tho « lesirea lavwtigation Mchemed Uey ' a adjutant 1 ms been arrested , examined , and act at liberty aft « c two tW imndsomnent . Baron Stein , now Ferhad Pacha , and Isin ^ l Pashn have been also arrested and interro Kate " , Accounts from TlQia 8 tato that tho RuBBin ^ S ™ achieved some success against tho Circassians , havinc penotratod to within thirty voreto ofSchamyr 8 camp .
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STATE OF TRADE . The accounts from the manufacturing towns for the week ending last Saturday show no material variation , the ' attention , of all classes having been directed to the approaching elections . At Manchester , the markets have been steady , but without animation . The Birmingham report mentions the receipt of improved orders for iron from the United States , while there has also been a full export demand for other goods . At Nottingham , business has been well sustained , both in hosiery and lace , and a great spring trade is relied upon . In the woollen districts there has been dulness . —Times .
la the' general business of the port of London during the same week there lias been increased activity . The total numher of ships reported inward was 238 , showing an augmentation of 95 . These included 54 with cargoes of grain , rice , &c , 22 with cargoes of sugar , and 3 from China with tea and silk , comprising 24 , 784 packages of the former , and 4800 bales of the latter , worth-about half a million sterling . The number of ships cleared outward was 130 , including 11 in ballast , and showing an increase of 9 . —Idem .
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OBITTJAHY . William Henry Playfair , the architect , -whose genius was chiefly employed in the decoration of the Scottish capital , died on the morning of Thursday "week , after a long illness which , liad-for .. some * years paralysed his limbs . He was a native of London , where he was born in 1789 . His father was an architect before him , and his uncle was the celebrated mathematician and natural philosopher , Professor John Playfair . Dr . IL ' J . Symons , formerly vicar of Hereford , and chaplain to the Forces and to the late Dukes of Kent and Cambridge , died suddenly from , disease of the heart last Saturday morning in a railway carriage near Gainsborough . He had lately been officiating for another clergyman , and the exertion is thought to have accelerated his death . He -was a person of some mark , if only from the fact of his having read the funeral service over the famous General Sir John Moore .
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WITCHCRAFT IN STAFFORDSHIRE . A strange story of superstition and ignorance xriih accessories which seem more in harmony with the dav of the celebrated imposition of the Woodstock Devil than with these times , was unfolded at the close of last week at the Stafford Assizes during the trial of a man named James Tunnicliff , a beer-shop keeper , who was charged with obtaining several sums of money from Thomas Charlesworth , a farmer , on the false pretence cf ridding him from certain influences of witchcraft . Charlesworth is a young man who recently married against his mother ' s desire . She Iiad been living -with him . and keeping his house 5 but , a few months after the marriage , she left . She wished to take her two younger
sons , who were mere boys , away with her ; l ) ut Charlesworth said she should not , and there was a quarrel on that ground . On leaving , she is said to have th reatened that the cheese should all fall to pieces , and that the dairymaid should be ill ; that her son and his -wife should rot in . their "beds , and that nobody should help them . Some of these doleful results were not long in happening . Great was the ruin of cheese 5 lamentable the megrims of the dairymaid . Now there was a -wise man working on the farm , named Sammons , and a -wise woman in the neighbourhood , one Mrs . "Willatts lut inaamuch as the core of wisdom consists in the acknowledgment of superior mental powers when they are manifestly apparent , these erudite persons referred Thomas
Charlesworth to the beer-shop keeper , Tunnicliff , as to a person learned in the art of defeating witchcraft . To Tunnicliff , therefore , did the farmer pour forth his sorrows ; and . the beer-shop keeper undertook , for a consideration , to bring the great capacities of his intellect to bear on the case . He went over to the farm , and pronounced that the cows were bewitched ; also two horses , the farmer himself , the farmer ' s wife , the dairymaid , and . the cheese-kettle . Having made this -weird inventoiy , he came to a business view of the case—to a statement of terms . The cure of the cattle was valued at 3 s . 6 d . each beast ; that of Mr . and Mrs . Charlesworth and the dairymaid , at 5 s . each . It "was necessary that-the names of the cows should be supplied ; and this was done . Another stipulation was that the maid should be
sent away , or she would become " a wanderer" —which appeared to be reversing the probabilities- The -word , however , seems to have some mystical or ghostly signification . Another alleged consequence of the maid ' s remaining : would be her death ; and accordingly she was dismissed . In the course of a few days , Farmer Charlesworth was " took very ill" as ic was going home from the wizard's beer-shop . He Iiad shooting pains in his chest ; his head was " very bad ; " and , on getting home , he began to shiver and shake . Tunniclifi was sent for , and prescribed brandy—to -winch antidote to witchcraft there seems never to have been any objection on the part of the patients . Morfc money was paid ; and , in all , the beer-shop keeper appears to lave netted about 30 / . by the transactions .
Shortly , after this , Tunnicliff came to live -with Charlesworth ; and it must be confessed that , coincident with the domestication of the witch-curer , the witchcraft seems to have increased . The wife was taken ill with shivering , and so was the baby . Tunnicliff accused certain persons of having entered into a kind of witchcraft partnership with Mrs . Charlesworth , senior ; which ¦ vras the reason -why so much business was effected . lie undertook to beat these wizards ( always for a separate consideration ) , and he professed to bring one of thein f an old man , to the farmhouse ; but nothing appears to liave resulted from this . Then he himself—even Tumricliff , the terror of witclies—was taken 511 , and said the enchantment was on him . A certain man , named
Cotton , living at Longton , was the cause of this ; find ho added that , if ho did not go and encounter this man at his place of abode , he , the great Tunuicliff , should die . For the high favour of thus rescuing himself from premature dissolution , lie demanded 3 ? . 10 s . ; but it does not appear whether ho got it or not . " When lie came back , " said the victim , in his evidence sit the trial , "h « stated lie waa obliged to get the superintendent of police to break Cotton ' s door open , and that lie ( Tuiniielill" ) had been very ill at Longton , and obliged to have the doctor . Ho said it was through having- had a contest with Cotton . He said he had seen Cotton , and that the
police went in with him , and that Cotton was very stubborn . " A few days after , ho went to Derby ; but Mrs . Charleswortb , seeming by this time to have sonic suspicions , went with him , to sco if tlie wise man were " correct . " On his return , he said he Iiad had a contest with ono Wilson , who had been very stubborn ; but lie . would finish him in three days . At this time , ho frequently prepared tho food of Mr . and Mrs . Charlesworth and the now dairymaid , and took it to them . Tlio last named entertained a suspicion that he drugged tliein ; and this appears to be strengthened by the f « i « t that in his houso were afterwards discovered some leaves and aomo briony root . Thia root possesses irritating P " pcrtics . During Tunnicliff ' s stay in tho house , the inmates . saw and heard , or funded they ( taw and heard , appalling sights and sounds ; and , to keep up their spirits , which
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THE ROYAL BRITISH BANK . The examination of Mr . Edward Esdaile was continued on Wednesday , when the late governor read a statement in defence of the management of the bank , in which he declared that , though the directors might have acted injudiciously , they had done everything for the best . He had joined the bank early and continued with it , and lie thanked his God he had left it with clean liands . { Laughter . ' ) Mr . Esdaile was then examined at great length by Mr . Linklater . He stated that ho never availed liimself of the funds of the bank . Thp
money advanced to the Wan die Water Company hud been repaid with interest . Ho had not any conception that there were two thousand pounds due on that account . He was a director of tho company . It appeared from furthor cross-examination that a circular , proposing to tnkc an establishment near Chancery-lane for n bank , and purporting to bo signed by the secretary , had been issued in December , 1855 . Mr . Paddison , tho secretary , hero said that ho was repeatedly ordered to leuvo the room in consequence of some special matter ; and ho now learned for tlie first time that such a letter was written . Mr . Linklater declared there was no imputation against Mr . Faddison , who liad given most valuable assistance Sn tho investigation . Mr . EddUile further acknowledged that Mr . Cameron was in tho bnnlc for " , " and ho himself for " ornament . " ( jMvgktcr . ' )—The proceedings were adjourned for nnotlier week .
A meeting in connexion with tho Royal British Bank took place livet Saturday at Vicc-Chancollor Kindersloy ' H chambers , before Mr . l ' ugh , his chief clerk . A call of 75 £ . por share was declared on all those shareholders who have boon placed on the list since January ; but , through tho insolvency nnd abaencc from this country of the Hharclioldcra linblo to pay , it ia expected tho call will scare-jl y realize 1000 / . altogether .
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¦ 296 THE LEAPER . [ No . 366 , Saturday
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Leader (1850-1860), March 28, 1857, page 296, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2186/page/8/
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