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of blasting but the great machine specially constructed for bortaffWoug b the mountain will soon be brought into use , as the cuttings for facilitating access at each end are completed . A correspondent of the Word states that an extensive insurrection has been organized in the kingdom of the Two Sicilies , the materiel and preparations for which had been collected at Tunis , whence an expedition was to sail for the Neapolitan coast . The enterprise was to be made under the name of Prince Murat . The affair for the present has failed , owing to the vigilance of the Neapolitan Government .
AUSTRIA . Lord Stratford de Eedcliffe left Vienna on the 29 th ult ., after a stay of eight days . During his sojourn in the Austrian cap ital he received great attention . A pretty entertainment took place on Christmas-eve in the Hall of the Caryatides at Milan . The Archduke and Archduchess gave a Christmas-Tree party to a hundred and forty-six poor children , being an equal number of boys and girls . On a long table were arranged presents for the young ones , who were attended to by the imperial host and hostess . A complete suit of upper and under winter clothing , a loaf of milk bread , a small basket filled with fruit and sweetmeats , a missal , and a golden ducat , were distributed to the little guests , ¦ who were afterwards allowed to help themselves to the gilt knick-knacks which hung on the trees .
A carious story is told by the Times Vienna correspondent : — " Some historians have related that the Turks , when they last besieged Vienna , carried their mines under that part of the city which is known as the ' Freyung . ' The correctness of the statement has been questioned ; but , not long since , proof positive was acquired that the historians spoke , or rather wrote , no more than the truth . An acquaintance of mine was building a house at the corner of the Strauch Gasse . ( street ) and Freyung ; but , after the walls had been carried up some thirty or forty feet , they began to sink . On examination , it was found that there were Turkish mines some twenty feet deeper than the foundations and cellars of the old house which had been pulled down . "
PRUSSIA . From the first day of the present year , the circulation of any foreign paper money , other than of the notes issued by State Governments , between buyer and seller , is unlawful in Prussia . Any . one violating this law is liable to a fine of fifty thalers . " The President of the Council , " says a Berlin letter , " has prepared a bill for the coming session of the Prussian Chambers , enacting- that two millions of thalers ( 7 , 500 , 000 fr . ) shall be annually applied , for fifteen years , to the development of the navy . It is not intended to create a large fleet , but one equal at least in strength to the Danish one . "
TURKEY . The calumet of peace was smoked , or rather the dinner of reconciliation eaten , by M . de Thouvenel and Redschid Pacha , a week or two ago . A few days afterwards , the Turkish Minister , according to a telegram which , however , ia not yet confirmed , expired . A subject of difference has just occurred between the Greek and Ottoman Governments . On the Customhouse oflicers attempting to board a Greek fishing-boat off one of the quays at Constantinople , the captain repelled them , and the crew , it is said , even levelled their muskets at the Captain Pacha , who was close by on shore . A commission on financial reform and the consolidation of the Turkish debt has been appointed .
SPAIN . A Royal decree , published in the Gazette , authorizes the Government to collect the taxes and to pay the Treasury Bonds in 1858 until the Budget is approved by the Cortes . BELGIUM , The Government has just ordered Colonel Charraa to quit Belgium . He was once before expelled in 1854 , under the Ministry of M . Brouckere-Faidor . SWEDEN , The Royal Academy of Stockholm has just awarded a prize to Prince Oscar aa the author of a poem on the Swedish fleet .
THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES , A young Greek has assassinated tho President of the Civil Tribunal at Bucharest . Tho Judge decided against him in a lawsuit , the consequence of which was that ho would have to sell all his property . On hearing this judgment , the Greek drew a pistol from his breast , and shot the President through tho head , exclaiming , " Justice is at length rendered . " Ho then attempted to commit eulcide , but was seized before ho could offoot hia fturnoao .
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OUR CIVILIZATION . ¦ ¦ - ¦ CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The January session of this court was opened on Monday , when the calendar was found to contain the names of only sixty-three prisoners—an unusually small number . In swearing the grand jury , an objection to take the oath on religious grounds was made by Mr . George Vicesimus Wigram . He considered that by the form of the oath he was pledging the power of God , which he conceived he had no right to do . The Recorder inquired if he belonged to the Society of Friends . He replied that he did not . The Recorder observed that , as the law at present stands , no persons can claim exemption from taking an oath unless they are members of the Society of Friends , Mormons , or Separatists . A bill was brought
in of a more general kind ; but unfortunately it was not passed , and the court had no power to relieve any person from taking the oath required by law unless in the excepted cases to which he had referred . Mr . Wigram here stated that he was not a Separatist , and he belonged to no particular sect of religion . The Recorder inquired whether Mr . Wigram had ever before made a similar objection in a court of justice . Mr . Wigram said he had made the same objection upon a former occasion at Clerkenwell , and he was excused . The court appeared to be in some difficulty as to the course that should be adopted under the peculiar circumstances ; but it was put an end to by another gentleman who had been summoned volunteering to supply the place of Mr . Wigram , and that gentleman was then relieved from further
attendance . John Mitchell , described as a soldier , was then indicted for assaulting John Hatehard Welch , the usher and gaoler at Marlborough-street police-court . The offence was-committed as far back as last August ; but since then Mitchell had been insane and confined in a lunatic asylum . Being now recovered , he was put on his trial . It appeared that he had been ordered to find sureties at the Marlborough-street police-office for creating a disturbance at the shop of Messrs . Swann and Edgar , and , on being removed to the cells , he committed so violent an assault on Welch that he-was disabled for some months , and is even now not entirety recovered . Shortly afterwards he was found to be . in a state of delirium trement ) , and this deepened into temporary insanity . He was now found Guilty of a common assault , and was sentenced to hard labour for four months .
John Hoydon Thornhill surrendered and pleaded Guilty to a charge of having in his possession for sale a large number of indecent prints . Mr . Sleigh , who appeared for the prisoner , said he had now given up the disgusting traffic with which he stood charged . He therefore hoped that the court would simply order Thornhill to enter into sureties to appear and receive judgment , if called upon to do so . Mr . Bodkin , who appeared for the prosecution , said lie could not consent to that course without consulting with tho Home Secretary . The matter was accordingly postponed to the next session , the accused ia the meanwhile being set at liberty on his own recognizances . The same result has been come to in three similar cases .
William Wallace Thompson pleaded Guilty to three indictments charging him with embezzling money to the extent of nearly 8000 / . from his employers , Messrs . W . T . Jones and Co ., wholesale oilmen , Leudenlmll-buildings . Ho was their traveller , and it appeared that he also took with him on his journeys a female companion , who of course increased hia expenses . Tho whole of the money was appropriated between last May and November . He was sentenced to four years' penal servitude . The trial of Mr . Edward Auchmuty Glover , tho late member for Bovorley , has boon postponed till next session .
Christian Suttler was tried on Wednesday for the murder of Charles Thain , tho detective oflicer , while in his custody on a charge of felony , and during their passage to England from Hamburg . The facts will bo within the recollection of our reactors , as tho murder was committed no longer ago than Novombor 22 nd . Tho defence was that Sattler had been illogully arrested and treated with great violence , and either that ho had committed tho act while smarting under a aonsa of wrong , or that it was purely accidental . Ho waa found Guilty , and sentenced to death . During tho delivery of tho
16 Wt * oTre 67 Sattl 6 r-intornjptod ^ Mrr-BaTon ^ Iartln ^( whov together with Mr . Juetico Willcs , tried tho case ) , and said with groat vohomonco that ho had not had a fair trial , and that tho moment ho looked at tho jury ho could seo that they wore not persona likely to understand tho matter , aa thoy worp ignorant of law . Ho added tliat ho was conviotod -without ) any actual evidence , nnd upon nothing but probabilities , and ho declared that there was nothing to prove that ho had boon guilty either of robbery or murdor . Ho then exclaimed that ho waa murdered , and that ho likod tho English laws , but despised tho English people . Tho Judgo , on ro ~
su , was y , passionately exclaimed : — " I am sentenced upon probabilities ; I did not shoot the man ; it was done by accident . I intended to shoot myself , and he caught hold of my arm , and the pistol went off and shot him . Do what you like with me ; roast me or kill me . " The sentence having been concluded , the culprit was removed in a very violent and excited state . Albert Adolphus Armstrong , a young man of twentyone , has been found Guilty of bigamy . On his counsel pleading for mercy , the counsel for the prosecution said that the prisoner had offered marriage to nearly twelve other ladies , and in six or eight cases had succeeded in seducing them . He waa sentenced to nine months' imprisonment . take his trial
Robert M'Ecbam surrendered to on a charge of assaulting John William Norris on the high seas . It was alleged that , in consequence of this ill usage , the lad committed suicide by leaping overboard ; but it was made pretty clear that he fell into the sea , and it could not be shown that the captain had done anything more than correct the boy . The charge was tben withdrawn . Frank Valentine Saunders , the tide-waiter who last session was found Guilty of assaulting his superior officer , came up for sentence , and was condemned to two months ' imprisonment . Henry Perry White , a tallow chandler , has bean found Guilty of receiving some of the property stolen from the house in Great Portland-street which was robbed by the policeman Sankey . He was sentenced to four years ' penal servitude .
William Jessop was indicted" on Tuesday for a robbery committed with violence on Harriet Davis . The girl was a light chavacter , and one night Jessop went home with her . A dispute arose with reference to five shillings which Jessop had given the girl , and ( according to her account ) , on her resisting his attempts to regain it , he severely injured her with a pair of tongs . The defence was that the man himself was attacked , and that ultimately the girl ( who , together with Jessop , was very drunk ) fell into the road , and so hurt herself . The prisoner was Acquitted .
Edward Powell , Thomas Griffiths , arid Joseph Clarkson were tried on the same day with conspiring to defraud Messrs . Shoolbred and Co . of goods . They forged an order for the goods in the name of Major Martin , a gentleman residing in Worcestershire , and a customer of the prosecutors '; and the things were sent as directed . Having been found Guilty , the men were sentenced , Powell to four years' penal servitude , and the others to a year ' s har d labour . James Brown , a carman , has been Acquitted of the manslaughter of Mary Coney , a child . The facts of this case were mentioned in our Postscript last week .
Charles Hartley , a shopman , was tried on Thursday on a charge of felonious ^ ' altering- a telegraph signal on the London and Greenwich line . He bad iormerly been in the service of the Company , but is now a shopman . On the night of the 29 th of November , he was travelling on the rail , and , getting out at Deptford in a state of intoxication , went into the private room containing the signal , and altered it , so that , instead of its indicating to the next station that the line was blocked , it stated that both lines were clear . The defence was that the alteration was purely an accident , occurring during Hartley ' s drunken bungling to get out . His counsel expressed a very strong opinion that an instrument of such importance ought to be more carefully guarded . Tho judge and jury concurred in this remark , and the prisoner was Acquitted .
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The Keiciiiley Poisoninu Case . —Tho inquest on tho body of Barbara Sagur , the wife of the master of Keighley workhouse , Yorkshire , has ended in a verdict to tho effect that tho woman died from tho effects of arsenic , but that there was no evidence to show who ad ' ministered it . Sugar , however , lms not been discharged from custody , but has been examined before the "West Riding magistrates . Tho inquest was adjourned in order that Mr . Morley , of Leeds , might analyze the contents of a bottle found at Sagar ' tt house , lubollcd ' Bcssrmcr ' ti Gold Paint . ' At tho adjourned inquest , it appeared I lint tho powder found jn tho bottlo consisted chiefly of copper mixed with a little silver . Sagnr Iuih had nine children , all of whom , it is waid , died boforo thoy woro four years of ago . Stories of this kind , however , aro always told of persons suspected of having uaod poison ; and it would clearly bo unfair to receive with too much confidence tho inference sought to bo established against Sagar with reaped to his children .
Muitmcit op A PoivicKMAN . —Henry Morgan , a policeman whouo duty lay in tho direction of tho JMilo-oiidroad , died last Saturday from tho effect of injuries in-< iictod -on-himbyan-Irl 8 hman'namod-Jorominh-K « nahur On tho evening of tho 26 th ult ., Kallalier , who is ordinarily a very quarrelsome and disorderly fellow , and who on this ocoaaion waa in a stato of raving Intoxication , was running about tho road , striking every o » o lio mot , without any provocation . ' Ho was aftorwnnls joined by ' several other Irishmen , who chased people about with savage persistency , scream ing and swearing all tho while , and putting many in peril of tholr lives . One of tho pursued ilod for rofugo into a public-house j but tho Irishmen followed , and , after a grout deal of rioting , woro expelled . Kalluhor had a lame poi » tc
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Tho roport of tho European Cominissiori ^ rF ^ dnrtlfo proceedings of tho Divans is said to bo nearly concluded . It is rumoured that tho English , Austrian , and Turkish Coniinia § lonera are of opinion that tho resolutions of tho Wallaohian Divan iond to a separation from tho Turkish Empire ; and thoy allude more especially to two resolutions as having this effect—one of which demands that tho orthodox church bo declared independent of all authority , while the other requires the rectification of the frontiers of tho two' Principalities by tho European Commissioners . At the loot sitting of tho Moldavian Divan , tho
fol-__ . __ lowing resolutions were passed nem . con .: —1 . Property of all kinds to be respected ; 2 . Gratuitous , but obligatory , instruction in all towns and villages . The Moldavian Divan has closed its sittings . It has abolished-the compulsory labour of peasants , and voted the secularization of ecclesiastical property .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 9, 1858, page 28, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2225/page/4/
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