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passed upon Captain Domeau , as instigator of the murder near Tlemcen , will be commuted to banishment to a French penal settlement . The army in Algeria is to be reduced . The 45 th , 54 th , 60 th , and 68 th . infantry regiments are ordered to return to France . Official despatches received at the Ministry of Marine from Senegal , under date of the 15 th ult ., say that daring the entire month of August the expeditionary column commanded , by the Governor , M . Faidherbe , had had constant engagements , invariably successful , with tie hands of Al-H adji , the Arab chieftain . It is said to be intended to appoint a maritime prefect at Algiers , ¦ which will be the chief city of the sixth maritime arrondissement of France .
The Emperor , previous to leaving the camp at Chalons , issued the following order of the day : — " Camp of Chalons , October 8 th . Soldiers !—The time which we have passed together will not have been lost . Your military instruction has been improved , and the bonds which united us have been drawn closer . When General Bonaparte had concluded the glorious peace of Carapo Formio , he hastened to again place the conquerors of Italy in the platoon and battalion training , thus showing how- useful he considered it , even for old soldiers , to constantly fall back on the fundamental rules of theory . That lesson has not been forgotten ; as , scarcely had you returned from a glorious campaign , when you applied yourselves with zeal to the practical study of evolutions , and you have now inaugurated the camp at Chalons , -which is to serve as a great school of manoeuvres for the whole aTmy . The Imperial Guard will thus always set a good example , in peace as well as in war . Instructed , disciplined , and ready to undertake and support everything for the welfare of the country , it will be for the Line , out of which it comes , a just object of emulation , and will contribute with it to preserve intact that old reputation of our immortal phalanxes , which have only succumbed from the excess of their gloxy and of their triumphs . —Napoleok . " The txoops from Chalons are beginning to arrive at Paris . Several women who served in the armies of the First Napoleon have claimed the St . Helena medal , and the Emperor has ordered the claims to be admitted . Great excitement is being caused by-a trial hefore the Colmar Tribunal , where Count Jules Migeon is accused of corrupt electoral practices , and of wearing the riband of the Legion of Honour without having any title to it . M . Migeon was an Opposition candidate during the late elections , and , having defeated the Government , the Government is now desirous , of casting discredit on him . He was at one time a Bona [ artist , but bas since quarrelled with his former friends . Jules Favre is now his < M > unsel ; and he has succeeded in showing that the Government resorted to the most arbitrary measures to prevent the success of the Count during the elections of July . The ballot-boxes , it appears , are not inviolable , hut will easily admit a hand , so thnt the votes may be altered . M . Favre , having elicited some damaging * admissions on the part of Government officials , exclaimed , " This , then , is the liberty -we enjoy !"—an ejaculation of so bold a nature that few of the papers have ventured to report it . A good deal of skirmishing between the accused . and the witnesses has takea place , marked , as usual in French courts , with great heat and violence . Lamentable accounts are still published of the floods in the departments of the Droine and Ardeche . The Mayor of Colombi&res has been drowned . The Bank of France has raised its discount to six and a half per cent .
SPAIN . The Ministerial crisis still continues , the Norvaez Government only remaining in office till the new Cabinet can be appointed .
AUSTRIA . The Duchy of Parma has ceased to be a member of the Austro-ltalian Customs Union . " While in the theatre at Weimar , " says the Paris correspondent of the Times , " the ISmperor had a conversation , which lasted full a quarter of an hour , with Prince GortschakofT . Before Francis Joseph quitted Weimar , lie gave Prince GortschakUofF the Grand Cross of the Order of St . Stephen . The Weimar correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette states that , while his Majesty was talking in the back part of the box with Prince GortscLiakoff , the other Russians ' drew a cordon round them . ' The same writer states that tho Emperor was somewhat embarrassed wlien first he found himself in tlie company of strangers , some of whom were prejudiced against him , but he soon , recovered his self-possession . The Austrian monarch conversed freely with the persona with whom he was brought into contact , ' but the Emperor Alexander was as cold and reserved ( boutonne ) aa he was at Stuttgard . ' " We read in tlie same letter : — " It appears that Dr . Zugscliwerdt , who is tho Dean of the Vienna notaries , as well as a member of the Board of the Credit Bank , is u much greater malefactor than was originally believed . He has already confessed that ho has pledged the property « f several minors to some of his creditors , instead of depositing it in the hands of tho authorities , as ho ought to have done . His wards and acquaintances lose about 40 , 000 / . by him . "
. The licalth of Count Buol is improving . A colonel in the Austrian army , recently decea-sed , has been forcibly buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery at Komerstadt in Moldavia , though a Protestant . He was interred , however , in the Protestant division of the ground ; but no clergyman was allo-wed to follow the body , nor were the bells tolled , ' because the deceased had neither gone to church , nor confessed at Easter . dead inarch was played as the coffin was carried through the streets of the town . The circumstances of the case have led to much public agitation . Hardly a day passes in Vienna without some ruined speculator on the Bourse committing- suicide . ITALY . ^ The Duchesse de Montpensier , Infanta of Spain , arrived at Turin on the 7 th inst . with her husband and family . The Pope has published an allocution giving & sketch of his late journey through Central Italy . He profes&es to be excessively pleased with the reception he met with from people , priests , and princes . A passenger train on the railway from Alessandria to Arona , Piedmont , ran into another train , which was stopping at the station of Valenza , on the 7 th instant . The shock was extremely violent , and more than forty passengers were wounded . Fortunatelv , none were killed . The town of Carrara has been declared in a state of siege in consequence of a murder committed there on the 28 th September . The gaTrison has been reinforced by three hundred men , at the expense of the town . THE DANUBIAN riUNCIP-AUTIKS . The Divan ( says a despatch from Jassy , dated the 6 th inst . ) was opened on Sunday , the 4 th , by the Metropolitan . His speech was moderate , and was well received . The most perfect tranquillity prevailed throughout the assembly . During the sitting , cries were raised in favour of Moldavia , the Porte , and the friendly powers . The cry most frequently repeated was for the self-government of the Danubian Provinces . On the same day , the Prince Kaimakan reviewed the troops . The town was illuminated in the evening , and ^ reworks were let off . Perfect order prevailed . On Monday , the 5 th , the powers of the deputies were verified . M . Basily , the Russian Commissioner , has returned to Bucharest . Great sj'mpathy is being shown in Wallachia for Russia . The ' name-day' of the Emperor Alexander was recently celebrated in the Principality with great enthusiasm , and the Czar was referred to as having ' guaranteed and protected the rights and privileges of the Wallachians , ' and was styled ' the illustrious Protector of the orthodox faith , i . e . the Greek church . It is rumoured that the English and Austrian Ambassadors at Constantinople have demanded the annulling of the Moldavian and Wallachian election . " , on the ground that they have been conducted in an illegal manner . The Democratic party has got the upper hand , owing , it is said , to the return of the political refugees to Bucharest and Jassy . The Taris Constitulionnel denies the truth of the rumour . The Porte has issued a circular , disavowing any intention of permitting the union of tli « Principalities , but adding that it is not intended 'to exclude all idea of the assimilation of certain administrative laws that may be reconcilable with the rights of the Sultan , and with the maintenance of the political separation of the two provinces . ' TURKKT . Ths Turkish Government has announced that it has arrested , and intends to punish , certain ' Primats' of the province of Widdin , and Youssouf ISfFendi , the Mudir of Beligradjik , for oppressing and squeezing money out of 20 , 000 inhabitants of the province in the name of the Imperial authorities . The money is to be restored to the persons from whom it was taken . — Times Vienna Correspondent . SWEDEN . The Swedish Government has advertised the particulars of a proposed loan of about 1 , 200 , 000 / ., to be expended in the further extension of the railway system in Sweden and Norway ; but the Journal do Frankfort states that , according to Hamburg advices , the contract has already been adjudicated to Messrs . Merk and Co . and the Bank of Northern Germany . rnussiA . Tho King of Prussia hns been suffering during the present week from an alarming illness , which at one time threatened almost immediate death , and which even now is not altogether unattended with danger . Feeling symptoms of indisposition when travelling in company of tlie Emperor and Em preys of Russia from Potsdam to Berlin , with tho intention of proceeding to Silesia , he consented to give up his visit to the Duke of Augufltenburg , and returned to Potsdnm . Hero he look to his bed , and showed great depression . Violent vomiting ensued , and two days afterwards pressure of blood on tho brain exhibited itself to so alarming an extent that Hood wns let twice during tho night . This produced an improvement mid the King / slept for several hours . Previously to this , ho had been insensible for a considerable time . Congestion of ( ho brain is reported to liavo set in : and the
physicians think that the King , who is subject to detor initiation of blood to the head , has broken a small bln « S " vessel in the brain , and that the extravasated blood IT led to tlie paralyzing pressure in that region . The patient has continued to progress , theugh he is . still confined ?« his bed and is very feeble . The latest accounts ( dated the 15 th inst . ) are favourable . ^ ated
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A MYSTERIOUS MURDER . Two youths were rowing up the river in a boat from Richmond between five and six o ' clock on the moraine of Friday week , when they noticed a carpet-ba « - lyim ? on the third abutment from the Middlesex shore on the west side of Waterloo Bridge . A long cord was fastened to the handle , and was partly immersed in the ¦ water . By means of this , the lads pulled the enrpet-bae into the fcoat . They found it heavy , and conceived they had discovered something worth having . They . then went to Lambeth , to the elder brother of one of them a bargeman , and tokl him they had found a prize . The brother , John Kilsby , tried to open the lock with a key but , failing , forced it open . A large numberof bones , rolled up in some clothes , with tlie exception , of one large bone which stuck up in the middle , presented themselves to the view . The clothes , which were those of a man , apparently in a respectable rank of life , were slightly damp , but not wet ; and the carpet-bag itself was perfectly drv , and had evidently not been in the water at all . " Some of the clothes were much stained with blood , particularly the shirt and under-waistcoat , which were covered with , it . They also exhibited several cuts and gashes ; viz ., three in the back of the coat , two on the shirt , as if over the abdomen , and seven through , the breast of the shirt and under-waistcoat . The cuts were all very sharply made , and blood had coagulated round them . The coat was also torn up tlie back , as if it had been hurriedly stripped off a dead body . The youths , on the advice of John Kilsby , immediately put the remains and the garments back into the bag ; took them to the Fox-under-the-hill , a public-house in the neighbourhood of the Strand ; and spoke to a policeman who was doing duty in the Adelphi arches . He went with them to the public-house , between six and seven o ' clock in the morning , and there found the bones and tins clothes laid out in the yard . By him they were taken to the Bowstreet station-house , where Mr . Paynter , the divisional surgeon , examined the bones , and found that they formed a complete skeleton , with the exception of the cervicle , seven of the dorsal vertebra , some portions of the ribs , the head , the hands and feet , and a portion of the small bone of the leg . At the inquest on Monday , Mr . Paynter thus described the more minute appearances pressnted by the remains : —
" All the principal bones were sawn into two or more portions , and nearly all had pieces of tendon and muscle attached to them as if the flesh had been cut off in a rough , haggling manner . On four places only was the skin left adhering to the bones—a piece of considerable size being on the back of each wrist , and on the right tubercle of the left tibia . These portions of the skin left were partly covered thinly with short black hair , showing that the individual had been a vigorous adult . The flesh adhering to the bones was neither fresh nor decomposed , except in one part , and one part only , where decomposition had commenced in the socket of the left thigh bone . The capsular ligament of tliis thigh ^ vas cut open , « ml upon rotating the thigh "bone I perceived a strong smell of decomposition , with the blue marks produced thereby . The whole of the remaining muscles and bones appeared to be quite undecomposcd , and , on seeking to discover the cause of this , I found in several parts a gritty matter like salt . To tho presence of this saline matter I attribute the preservation of the other portions of tho remains . The flesh upon the bones was , on the surface , of a reddish-brown colour , as if from tho action of salt , and of a brighter colour when cut into . I should perhaps have remarked before that every portion of the internal viscera of the person had been removed . On examining the rib ? , I found tlie second , third , and fourth rib . s with « piece of the sternum and flesh adhering . Botwecn the third and fourth ribs was a cut in the flesh of rather smaller size than the cuts in the shirt and under flannel waistcoat . That piece of the ribs when placed in its natural position had its stab or hole exactly corresponding in position and direction ( its long axis being up and down ) with the cuts in the clothes . Tho reason of the wound in tho flesh being smaller is because flesh , when wounded , after the weapon ia withdrawn , contracts again directly . " Mr . Paynter felt convinced , from appearances , that the stabs were given to tho living liody , and not after death . He wa . s also quite certain that the body had not been used for dissecting purposes . A medical ui « n would not have cut up tho corpse in tho way in which it had been cut up . Tho deceased wan most probably a man , though Mr . PaynteiJfolt it necessary to guard himself in making tlmt . statement , as , though tho boncH , skin , und hair upon tho skin were thoso of an ndult male , the pclvia was larger than is commonly found in men , and was mote- like that of tho other sex . Still , Mr . Paynter had little doubt that the body w « s
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992 THE LEADER . fNo . 395 , October 17 irk *
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 17, 1857, page 992, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2214/page/8/
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