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Sores against the Italian refugees on account of various murders and other crimes committed by them ; tut the Btatement is evidently written with a strong bias against tlie refugees , and should therefore "be received with caution . "When the disturbances broke out , thfi Pacha who is Governor of Alexandria temporized with the rioters ; encouraged by which , the malcontents made themselves completely masters of the city , and endeavoured to pillage the arsenal , but failed . The Pacha has been dismissed , and energetic measures were taken against the insurgents ; but the disturbances -were not entirely suppressed at tbe . last advices .
The Chambre des Mises en Accusation ( similar to our grand jury ) of the Imperial Court of Dijon has decided © n sending before the Correctional Police court of Chalons-sur-Saone thirty-fi-ve persons implicated in . the disturbances ¦ which took place in that town on the 6 th of March . The counts of the indictment comprise the affiliation to secret societies , public incitement to armed assemblages , seditious cries , publication of false intelligence , carrying and distributing prohibited arms , detention of munitions of war , rebellion , attempts publicly made to seduce the military from their duties , &c . The a ^ ffair will soon come before the tribunal of Chalons-sur-Saone . " M . Dupuy de Lome , Director of Naval Constructions , who built the screw steamships of the line Napoleon and Algesiras , is appointed Councillor of State , in place of M . Mestre , Director of the Colonies , deceased .
The proposed plan for the government of Algeria is the establishment of a . Lieutenancy ; three Directors-General with functions similar to those of a Minister ; and , in France , an Under Secretary of State as the channel of communication between the Home Government and tbat of Algeria . " The opposition in the Legislative Body , " says the Morning Star , " against the application of such enormous sums of monei ' , at the expense of the whole
country , for the architectural improvement of Paris , has to a certain extent been successful . It has been agreed upon between the special commission , of the Legislative Body and the Council of State - that ten million francs shall be deducted from the sum demanded by the Government for the purpose . The State having undertaken to furnish one-third of the amount required , this reduction will bring down the whole estimate of tlie expenses from one hundred and eighty million francs , to one hundred and fifty millions . "
si . Lightenfelt , the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary of the King of the Netherlands , was received on Sunday at a private audience by the Emperor , when he placed in his hands a joint letter from the King of the Netherlands and the Duke of Nassau , together with the insig-nia of the Order of the Golden Lion of the Nassau House , which the King of the Netherlands and the Duke of Nassau have just founded . The difficulty concerning the new French Consul at Basle , to whom the citizens objected on personal grounds , has been got rid of by the French Government finding another employment for that gentleman .
The Marseilles journals state that an actress of the theatre of that city is about to enter a convent . They say that it was the : impression produced on her when performing the part of a sister of charity which caused her to take this determination . The commission appointed to consider the claims for compensation of Mr , Morse , the inventor of the system of electric telegraphs as used in France , has recommended that the Government should give Mm -100 , 000 f . indemnity . ^ The Kmperor is preparing for the press a work on rifles , to form a pendant to his treatise oa artillery . Mr . Uonaparte , the eldest son of Prince Jerome by his marriage with Miss Paterson , has been staying in Paris for some time almost incog . He is an . American by birth , and talks with a strong trans-Atlantic accent ; but he i-s very like his father in appearance .
The gardens on the south-east and north-onst of the Louvre , extending from the Apollo gallery opposite tlie river to the parallel gallery in the Kuo Itivoli , have been thrown open to the public by order of the Emperor . The gift , is looked upon as a compensation for the loss of a portion of the Tuilcrics garden which tlie Emperor has recently lnrulo private . M . do St . Paul , a Government member of the Legislative Body , recently made a very bold and independent speech in opposition to the Budget , and expressed a hope that tho
Emperor would allow to the Chamber a greater liberty of discussion . On Monday night , M . de St . Paul presented himself , with the other deputies , in the Imperial saloons . The Emperor spoke to him , and , while disavowing any wish to dictate the luiigungo or the votes of a deputy , said that he thought a gentleman who had courted the interest and protection of Government 5 u obtaining hi . s seat ought to give the Government his support . M . do St . Paul inudc . some explanation ; but it did not appear to be satisfactory .
KUS-SIA . There is a report from the Prusso-Ruaaian frontier of a rising of th « Lithuanian peasantry , in consequence of thoir misunderstanding tlie extent of tlie legislation just introduced in their favour . Tlio military hud to be called m to qi »« ll the outbreak . Some of thu rioter * had been flogged . '
AUSTRIA . Sir Henry Bulwer left Vienna on the 28 th ult . for London . The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian and the Archduchess Charlotte arrived at Vienna on the 2 8 th , and it is said that they will not return to Italy . SPAIN . The Government has abandoned the idea of claiming an indemnity from the Treasury for the sum realized by the sale of ecclesiastical property above-what had been calculated on . The opening of the Mediterranean railway , though quite recent , has had the effect of increasing considerably the value of houses in Alicante , and in all the towns and villages by which the line passes . PORTUGAL The marriage by proxy of the King of Portugal with the Princess Stephanie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen was celebrated on Thursday week at Berlin , in the Catholic church of St . Edwidge . The Hereditary Prince of Hohenzollern , brother of the bride , represented the King of Portugal on the occasion . AH the Government candidates have been elected in the capital , and the Government has obtained an immense majority in the provinces . GERMAN V . " The Diet has now under consideration , " says the Journal de Francfort , " seven disputes relative to the constitutional laws of as many States of the Confederation . The constitution of Electoral Hesse , revised in March , 1852 , was submitted to the States of the Electorate , in virtue of a resolution of the Diet in that year , and the Diet reserved to itself the ulterior decision . The representative of the Elector of Hesse made a detailed communication on the subject to the Diet on the 25 th January , 1855 , which was referred to a committee . In the six others , namely , " Wurtemberg , tlie grand duchy of Hesse , the principality of ILippe , the duchy of Saxei Go ' tha , and the duchies of Anhalt , it is the nobility which protest against different attacks made on their I privileges by the laws of 1848 . " PRUSSIA . A Radical paper of Berlin is now under prosecution for having published a libel on the Emperor Napoleon in furnishing it 3 readers -with extracts from Mr Edwin James ' s speech , and commenting upon them . The police seized the paper immediately after the publication . ¦ . ¦ ; ITALY . - . ' The majority in the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies in favour of the Deforesta Bill is now stated at 100 ( instead of 110 as at first put forth ) against 42 . Mr . Lyons ( says a despatch from Marseilles ) has presented a note to the Neapolitan Government asking for an indemnity for the English engineers of the Cagliari who were kept in prison by order of the Neapolitan Government . It is said the indemnity demanded by the English Government is _ 10 O , O 0 Of . ( 40 00 ? . ) The King appears inclined to negotiate . The ' armaments continue 5 n the Neapolitan arsenals . Several relations and friends of tlie man Milano are now confined in subterranean dungeons , and subjected to all the refinements of Neapolitan cruelty , simply because they were connected with , or knew , the would-be assassin .
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . The Rev . W . P . Brook , curate of Holy Trinity Church , Ely , was returning , a few evenings ago , to his home , and was walking , by permission , on the Eastern Counties Railway , when he stepped on to one of the lines of rail , in order to avoid a tn \\ n that was coming along tlie other . In so doing , however , lie only ran into the same peril as tbat which he , sought to avoid ; for lie was knocked down by a return train , and received such injuries that he died shortly afterwards . He was only twenty-five years of age . The boat lienown , laden with two pigs of iron ballast and two sacks of potatoes , besides fourteen passengersa number in excess of the license—was capsized in Plymouth Sound on Friday week , and live seamen were ! drowned . The boat was literally sunk by the excess of the weight put into it . A boiler explosion took place at Bottom ' Hall Mill , Tottingtoti-lowcr-end , on Friday tve « k , when the boilerhouse and one end of the factory were blown in . One man was killed , and two other persons wore injured , but . not fatally . The boiler was old , and the plates had ] been worn . so thin that they could not resist the high pressure t 1 mt was being applied at the time of tlie catastrophe . Mr . Evans , the editor of the United Service Onzcltn , has been thrown from his chaise at liridgewatur , where he was on a visit , find killed . The inquest on the bodies of the persons who perished in the tiro in Gilbert-street was resumed on Tuesday , and concluded on Wednesday . The verdict stated" That tlie members of the Smith fsimily ( except Hic . hard Smith , tins younger ) were found dead in the ruins of a certain house ami premises which liad been destroyed by fire , and that the deaths were caused by the mortal effect . s of certain poisonous fumes nnd common woodsinokt > , produced liy tho said liro ; and the juior . s aforesaid further say , that i » i what part of tho house and premises aforesaid the suid lire originated , and by what means tho aaid liro wna caused , they have found it
to be impossible to discover . That William Hedger , the younger , was found dead in the ruins of a certain house which had been destroyed by fire , and that the death of the said "William Hedger , the younger , was caused by the mortal effects of suffocation by smoke produced by the fire aforesaid . That Richard Smith , the younger , did die from the mortal effects of fracture of divers of his ribs , caused by his having fallen from a certain house when it was on fire , and his life in danger therefrom . " To this verdict the jury appended a presentment , in which they blame Mr . Taylor , the landlord , for not making a better partition between the house and Mr . Calverfs room where the poisonous minerals were kept ; and suggest alterations in various acts of Parliament , with a view to the better construction of houses , the prevention of the overcrowding of rooms and obstruction of streets , the formation of a fire-brigade and fire-escape establishment independent of private or parochial control , the augmentation of water supply , and the connexion of police stations , fire-engine stations , &c , by the electric telegraph . Lastly , the jury express high admiration cf the conduct of John Curie in assisting the Eastwood family to make their escape . An explosion of fire damp occurred at the Wornbwell Main Colliery , near Barnsley , on Tuesday morning , and resulted in the injury of several persons .
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CRIMINAL RECORD . Murder' at Ipswich . —Mrs . Studd , the wife of a baker living at St . Mary Elms , Ipswich , was murdered on the morning of Friday week by Ebenezer Cherrington , a man who had formerly worked as a journeyman with Studd , and who appears to have given his master some cause of jealousy . Tlie woman was forty-seven , and was the mother of seven children , ranging from-fourteen to five years of age . The bakehouse was some little distance from the cottage where tlie family resided , and Studd was a good deal at the former . Sometimes , indeed , he would sleep there , leaving his wife and children to sleep at the cottage- At the inquest , he stated that he sometimes had " words" with , his ' , wife , but that he did not live with her " on particularly bad terms . " He had recently t-jld her that he would not have Cherrington at tlie cottage , and the woman had replied that she did not want to Lave him there . The man , however , persisted in coming . On Thursday week , he came in . just as Mrs . Studd and the children had . finished dinner ; but the woman told him she would not have him there , and ultimately be vent . On the same night , ' at twenty . minutes to eleven , he came again , and attempted to seize the poker , but was prevented by the woman , who , seeing that lie was the worse for liquor , went out for a policeman , followed by the intruder . Mrs . Studd returned alone about twelve o ' clock , and she and her eldest daughter went up to bed , having- first locked the outer door . So > on afterwards , Cherrington burst open the lock , and went up into Mrs . Studd's bedroom .
He placed his back against the door , saying he would not leave ; and then , holding up a large stick which he found in the room , he threatened to break Mrs . Studd ' s head if she attempted to quit the place . He was in a great passion , and exclaimed , " I'll murder j'ou before the morning ; you sliall not go out of this room alive . " Mrs . Studd and her daughter remained standing all night by the side of the "bed ; and during the whole of this time Cherrington kept his back against the door , swearing at and threatening the two females . At half past five , he went down stairs . Mrs . Studd followed ;
proceeded to the bakehouse for some fuel ; and returned . Shortly afterwards , the daughter , who was still upstairs , heard a scream and a groan , and , running to tlie lower room , found tbat Cherrington had gone , but that her mother was stretched on the floor , with a cut on her head , and blood flowing from the wound . A poker , bent as by violences , stood by the side of the door . The girl then went for her father , who , on arriving , found his wife dying ; and she expired shortly before seven o ' clock . Cherrington was apprehended in the course of the day , and the inquest ha . - ) terminated in a verdict against lihn of Wilful Murder . He is committed for trial .
MnuoKit at Glasgow . —Three abandoned women have been tricd ^ nt tlie Glasgo w Spring Circuit Court oa a charge of murder . Two of thorn got into company with an elderly man in th-a- streets at night , and lured him away to their den in Tontine-close . They there mado an attempt to rob him . lie resisted , and tiny then drn ^ rcd him to the sUirlicad , ilung him down into tho stivofc upon bis fnco , an < l afterwards kicked him , and dnslied his head upon the . stone . i . Ho soon afterwards died . Several witnesses having bceun examined , two of the women withdrew their plea of " Xot Guilty , " and pleiuled " Guilty of culpable homicide , " which was accepted . The charge ag ; iinnt the third woman was abandoned . The two others were . sentenced each to twenty-uno years' penal servitude .
Muiti > uit in l > i > KsKT . siitRK . —A young woman , named Sarah Ann Uuppy , of diminutive stature , and ruLlxer deformed , has been murdered at the little villagu ol Stoke Abbott , « onr HcniniuHtur , Dorset . Slie had been left alone , in tins cottage ; wliile the oLlicr inmates vvoro out working , and had been s *; en alive and well up to two o'clock in tho : tf ( tirnooii of l'Yiday week . At four o ' chn . k , Home labourers working in the distant fields observed rituoko issuing from the cottage , and , hastening to the spot , they found . tho body of Surah Aim Guppy ly ing
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No . 424 , Mat 8 , 1858 . ] _ THE LEADER . 441
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Leader (1850-1860), May 8, 1858, page 441, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2241/page/9/
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