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      and by a late telegram we learn that it has conceded ' all that has been demanded of it by the Germanic Confederation . What has been done is the abrogation of tLe whole state constitution with reference ' to Holstein . . .. .. _ ..., ; A letter in the Gazette ( lit Midi gives an mtcrestino- account of the progress making by the Russians intaking possession of Villa franca and Nice . They are driving out the English colony at the latter place , and at the former place the Russian Hag was flying from twenty-four ships at the date of the letter , and a large reinforcement was expected , to o-reet the arrival of the Admiral Prince Cbnstantine . Not a bad display of naval power to be drawn thither by the attraction of " a few coalsheds ! " ....

      Turkey , both European and Asiatic , is m a very disturbed state , with threateiiings of the outbreak of a bloody and desolating religious war . At Genoa , for some time past , agents , both Turkish and Christian , have been buying arms and despatching them to the Levant . And from Beyrout we have intelligence of an absolute insurrection . Omar Pasha was at Bagdad " surrounded by difficulties , " and the mail communications cut off . In the home news the appointment of the Prince of Wales to be a Colonel in the army is a notable event . His Highness attained his seventeeth year on'Tuesday , ana his brevet was published in the Gazette of that evening . At present , it can only be said that he has a sp lendid career laid open to him ; if he will follow it greatly there is no limit to the popularity he may win ,, both with the army and with the country at large .

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      CRIMINAL RECORD . The Buadi-orjd Poisonings . —On Monday , Hodgson , the chemist , who sold the poison , Goddnrd , his assistant , who actually served it out , and Neil , the comfit-maker , who bought it and made it into lozenges , were again brought before the magistrat es , when Mr , Kinimingto'i , the chemist , gave in evidence the roault of . his analysis . It appeared that one-third of each lozenge was poison . Tho prisoners' were fully committed for trial on tlio charge of manslaughter . Bail was accepted . On Saturday , three moro deaths were added to the fearful list ot calamities arising out of this awful catastrophe , making tho total number of . deaths amount to 20 ; while upwards of 200 people are known to bo ill from tho eflects of tho lozenges . Tho total amount of injury caused by this villanous transaction will probably never L > o

      known . . Turn Aboution Case at Stirusci . —Tho trial n William lieid was opened ou Wednesday at the H'S » Court of Justiciary , Edinburgh . It will bo romomborcu that in the month of September tho death of a son'aiugirl took place at Polmont , near Stirling , throutfU mo attempt to procure abortion , and that tho , present prisoner and a young surgeon , named Thomas ^ ™ woO ( l ' were charged with tho crime . Immediately after t » o fatal result , Girdwood committed suicide , and lvoiu was captured in endeavouring to malto l » is oscapo , iUo •""" ' ; of tho evidence taken was that of tho medical men « w had examined tho body of the deceased * and its " - '" - dency waa to show that tho oporalion had boon performed by a professional person . ' JL'Uo trial waa nujoiirned iini

      . . . „ , .... UlllllUU . . r 1 Bigamy . —It is said that the institution of ft , " '" ' charge of bigamy against tho Hon . Major * , ;! V 111 "" , Ims been found untenable by tho authorities . — M . mno « 'J Tub Murduu * v A Maniac .- ^ Mi-. Groom the « n optunato madman , who recently imirdoiod his " llIU " sister at Poostan , near Lavonham , SuflUU , h «« ow removed'from tho county g « ol at Bury bt . iw »»» to Hoxton Ilouso Lunatic Asylum .

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      Where are the Police ?— -The fire season in the m etropolis witnessed one on Wednesday morning which raged with great fury in Fleet-street , destroying much property . A feature connected with this conflagration deserves to be noticed ^—we mean the difficulty of obtaining the assistance of the police , and yet we perceive that in some of the papers credit is given to the police for having made the discovery of the fire- That mistake must have arisen , we imagine , from the police having themselves put our contemporaries in possession of the information . On the occasion of which we speak the fire was discovered by a passer-by , who aroused the inhabitants of the burning houses , and shouted " Po ^

      lice ! " loud enough to be heard in St . Paursrchurchyard , but a long time elapsed before any of the force made their appearance . There 'Seems also not to have been tbe usual promptitude on the part of the fire brigade . It too frequently happens , especially in long and cold nights , that the police are found in groups , and not dispersed up and down their beats as they should be . It is also observable that our night police are too much in the habit of holding conferences with notorious women when they should be attending to their duty . Another feature of this fire which should be specially noted was that the supply of-water dropped off for a time at the most critical period .

      Desecration ojt the Dead at Camden Town .- — "Whilst the public mind is so justly excited by the painful and disgraceful incidents attendant upon the wholesale removal of bodies from the burial-ground of St . Martin ' s-in-the-Fields , at Camden-town , the fact appears to be overlooked that that occurrence is but a sample , upon a comparatively small scale , of what must before long take place in every district around tho metropolis , unless timely steps be taken to prevent it . The establishment of suburban cemeteries , some years ago , was but a temporary expedient to meet an urgent requirement ; but it served only to postpone the adjustment of an important sanitary question , and to transfer the evil complained of , in accumulated bulk , from the various

      parish burial-grounds -within the metropolis to other places in its immediate neighbourhood . These cemeteries are upon every ground wholly inadequate to the purpose they assume , and have been supposed to meet . The Board of Health , in its report to Government , dated 1850 , stated u that tho existing cemeteries cannot be used permanently for burials , not one of them possessing the conditions essential to places of sepulture ; that the soil is unsuitable in all but one ; that th « chapel accommodation is wholly inadequate ; that tho position of six out of the eight is urban rather than suburban ; that

      the remaining two have an Increasing population surrounding them , and that they must all bo closed . " Of course from this sweeping condemnation must be excepted the London Necropolis or Woking Cemetery , which , though not in immediate contiguity to town , is within an easy railway distance of it . In this , ground , so extensive in its dimensions , overcrowding or desecration of tho dead by removal of bodies is impossible , it being amongst tho provisions of tho act of Parliament upder which the company Is empowered ; ( hat a separate grave shall bo provided for each interment , and that it shall not bo reopened , oxcoptat the request of the friends of the deceased , for tho purpose of tho interment of

      another membor of tfie family . Tho question . is one deserving serious attention . —Morning Chronicle .

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      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICK COURTS . At Worship-street , onMonday , a chemist named Griffin was charged with being intoxicated while mixing up medicines . Had the woman for whom he had made some pills , while he was in this state , taken them ,, she must have been poisoned , for they -were found to contain fifty-nine grains of morphia , instead of nineteen . The magistrate justly regarded the offence as a serious one , ami required the prisoner to find bail . He was locked up in default .

      -Richard Roper , charged with arson , and causing the loss of his children ' s lives , underwent another examination on Saturday . A portion of the burnt stair was brought forward " by one of the firemen , to give proof of the place where the fire bad its origin . The gasman who attended oh the morning of the lire described the condition of the meter , and stated that the burners were partly turned on . Mr . Traill said there could be no doubt the fire was not the result of accident , and the prisoner must be remanded for the completion of the depositions .

      A cab-driver of the name of Field lately attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself from Waterloobridge under circumstances of great distress , as appeared from the inquiry that followed . It was further ascertained that the man had all along borne a respectable character . In consequence of the publicity given to the facts at the time various small sums of money have been received l > y the magistrate of Bow-street for the use of the unhappy sufferer , and Mr . Jardine has announced that these had now amounted to . nearly 70 ? .

      At the Guildhall , on Wednesday , Oliver , the sharebroker , was examined on another charge of tampering with shares entrusted to his charge . In this case his victim was Mr . Swan , a gentleman of property , who appears to have been one of his most intimate friends , and to have reposed unlimited confidence in him . Oliver sold a large quantity of Australian and Crystal Palace shares for his own benefit , and forged the deeds of transfer . He was committed for trial in this case on a charge of forgery and larceny . _

      Sir William Magriay , late an Alderman of the City of London , came before the Insolvent Debtors' Court under the Protection Act . His petition was opposed on various grounds ; among others , that he was a trader , the debts on the schedule amounting to 50 , 0001 . The Court decided that the insolvent was entitled to have a day named for a final order , and appointed the 3 rd December for the purpose . At the Court of Bankruptcy , Mr . Henry John Hall , of Mark-lane Chambers , a ship and insurance broker , applied for his certificate . The Commissioner , in consideration of the bankrupt having traded for nearly two years when he must have known that he was insolvent , suspended the certificate ( third class ) for six months , and granted protection in the mean time , observing that the suspension was not for a longer period because the bankrupt had kept his accounts in a proper manner .

      Company of the metropolis against the General Omnibus Company , and involves the question whether one com pany is at liberty to put down the other , and thereby to secure a monopoly of transit in the streets of London The Saloon Company charge the General Company with conspiring to ruin them , first by the " nursing " system with respect to omnibuses ; and , second , by slanderous reports and other unlawful behaviour . Free-trade in omnibuses is a principle which the people of London will be anxious to see maintained , and it is to be hoped that the issue now brought into court will succeed in the full establishment of that principle . The evidence given against the General Omnibus

      Company was certainly damaging to that Company but their reply to it has not yet been heard . The case was again proceeded with on Thursday ; little progress was made ; and again was it adjourned for a week . The magistrate , amid a good deal of squabbling declared his opinion to be that the nursing system was an evidence of conspiracy , unless it could be shown that steps had been taken by the General Omnibus Company to discontinue it ; and accordingly evidence of -that nature was again tendered . The eilbrts of the counsel for the defendants to shift the question were stopped by the magistrate , and the latter was therefore cheered by the lookers-on .

      On Wednesday , John Pollard , of AV'igan , proprietor of the IV iff an Examiner and the Colliery Guardian , was committed for trial on a charge of forging scrip , representing shares in the Wigau Building Society . It is supposed that the prisoner ' s robberies Amount to 2000 / . A question affecting a considerable portion of house property subject to the powers of the 2 S ' ew Building Act was brought before Mr . I 3 eadon , at Marlborough-street . The act requires a certain space for light and air to be left in the rear of a house . The defendant summoned in this case—Mr . Higgs , Charles-street—it appears , had covered over with a skylight the space required to be left open ; and it was contended that , as provision was made for light and air , the spirit , of the act had been complied with . The magistrate , however , seemed to think otherwise , but adjourned the case for further consideration .

      At the Mansion House , another prosecution lias been instituted by the Tweed Fishery Commissiouers against a fish-salesman for being in possession of salmon caught in the River Tweed after the season had closed . Mr . Meyer was the person summoned , but the case against him could not be sustained , and a summons against bis wife was refused . At the Southwark police-court a man named Mathews was charged with having unlawfully-disposed of the dead body of a child by placing it on the steps of

      Southwark-bridge . The child was aft illegitimate one , placed in the prisoner ' s care by its parents , they paying him a small weekly stipend . Tho poor little creature died a few days ago , but the corpse could not be sent to the parents , as their residence was unknown . To avoid the expense of burial himself , the prisoner placed the body on the steps of Southwark-bridge . The oifcuco is a misdemeanour , and tho magistrate intimated that he would be indicted at the sessions by the parish authorities .

      At Marylebone , Mr . Broughton has shown that the opinions lield by the City Shallow with regard to tho very poor who strive to get an honest living , are not participated in by his fellow-magistrates , who do not all look upon costermongers and shoe-blucks as mere " obstructives , " to be cleared out of sight without mercy . On Tuesday , 364 S brought a decent lad before Mr . Broughton , charging him with obstructing the footpath in the exercise of his professional duties as a shoe-black . The chief clerk remarked : You don ' t take up parties wheeling perambulators along the pavement , and yet they tako up a deal more room than these boys' boxes . Constable—But they " move on . " Mr . Phillips—That don ' t matter . They take up as much room . Mr .

      Broughton—These boys' boxes do not take up much room ; not so much as an umbrella , or as a Welshwoman with her pair of milk pails . I don ' t understand tho principle upon which you are going ; but this I know , that some of these boys are supported by some of tho first gentlemen of tho land , such as Lord Shaftesbury and others . Constable—But they belong to tho brigade , and keep off the footpath . Mr . Broughton—That mutters not . These boys must be allowed to get a living . You said , constablo , you had orders from your superintendent to lock those boys up ? Yes , sir , if they don't " keep moving . " Mr . Broughton—If they keep moving they can t blaolt boots . I shall discharge tho boy , but advise him to keep off tho pathway . '

      An official inquiry , instituted by the Board of Trade , has been held at Greenwich beforo Mr . Traill , assisted by Captain Hurrls , concerning tho loss of tho schooner Jane May , on the 19 th ult . Tho vessel sailed from Antwerp for Voniuo with a oargo of railway iron , and sunk to the- eastward of Dungoness , and becamo a total wreck . It was alleged that tho ooiwnandor , Captain Hay , was incapacitated by intoxication for managing tho ship , The magistrate directed an adjournment of tho case . A magisterial investigation began ab tho Westminster police-court on Saturday , and which may occupy a good doal of time . It Is the case of tho Saloon Omnibus

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      1212 T H E Ii E A D E IV [ K-6 , 451 , November 13 , 1858 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1858, page 1212, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2268/page/4/