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      CRIMINAL RECORD . James William Mitchell , second engineer of the steamer Bogota , convicted at "Liverpool of the manslaughter of Thomas Landor , the unfortunate Cornish miner , whose martyrdom has caused him a kind of rude canonisation as the " roasted sailor , has been sentenced by Mr . Justice Willes to fifteen years penal servitude . The learned and humane judge who pronounced the sentence stated that "he must mark his sense of the cruelty of the punishment inflicted , and that if he was wrong he might be set right " On Thursday , at Birkenhead , the announcement was made that a boy named Joseph Marsden , belonging to tlie ^^ mato ^ y , hulk , Akbar , had been flogged to deam ^^ wMwquest , which has been adiourned , it was stated that the boy had been ailing some time , but that on Thursday he was whipped , from which he never recovered . The body exhibited evidence of severe treatment . There is to be & post-mortem examination . The unhappy youth Frederick Prentice , convicted of the murder of Emma Coppin , at Queenborough , in Kent , underwent the last penalty of the law on Thursday morning , at Maidstone .

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      ACCIDENTS . The inquest on the bodies of the unfortunate persons whose lives were sacrificed by the powder explosion at Hounslow , was formally opened on Saturday . The proprietors of the . pqwder . mills undertook to bear any special expenses which * ni ght be incurred , Mr . "Wakley explaining that on a previous occasion , when he felt it necessary to provide a model for the information of the jurj ^ the sum that he paid for it was disallowed by the county magistrates , and he was compelled to be the loser . An explosion took place at the Faversliam Powder Mills on Saturday : morning . Fortunately , owing to the absence of a large number of the workmen , no one was killed , and only a few injured .

      Wombwell ' s Menagerie last -week ' was being exhibited to a crowded assembly in a field at Maes-y-dre . Flintsliire . A furious gale of wind was blowing , and four of the caravans ( forming one entire side ) , containing lionSj tigers , and bears , were thrown in upon the people , carrying with them the roof , poles , and lights , and burying the people beneath . Pour persons were killed and twenty wounded . A fatal accident has happened in Chatham dockyard to a workman named Gallavan . The deceased was doing something to one of the pumping engines , when Ids clothes came into contact with a portion of the machinery , and he was immediately drawn in , his body , before the engine could be stopped , being torn limb from limb .

      The American mail , which arrived on Thursday-, brings the account" of several disasters at sea . Tho ship Centurion arrived at New York on the 23 rd ult . from Glasgow , having on board part of the crew of the bark Dromnhair , from Quebec to Sligo , abandoned at sea by her crew . When the Dromahair wns fallen in with , she had been twenty-one days a wreck . The crew had subsisted on half a biscuit a day , and what rain water they could catch . Pivc died of starvation : the remainder , seven in number ,

      were taken on board the Centurion , five of whom were subsequently transferred to the ship Magellan . The Tannro had also arrived at Now York with the crow of the French ship Bengal , who were taken ofF in lat . 85 . 8 , long . 40 , 41 , the ship boing waterlogged and unmanageable . The Bengal sailed from St . Pierre , Martinique , for Bordeaux , on the 11 th of January , and experienced a succession of heavy gales , which washed everything from the decks , dopriving the crow of food , water , &c , for several days previous to their being picked up .

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      IRELAND . On- Monday Mr . AttornoyrGonoml Whitosido arrived in Belfast , in order to conduct in person the second trial of the parties charged with being moinbors of a secret Riband sooioty . The presenco ot the first lnw officer of the Crown has imparted u somewhat graver aspect to tho proceedings , and at the scono of action the rosult was looked for with considerable anxiety . Mr . Rao , the nttornoy i ' ov the traversors , having vainly endeavoured to persuade Baron Fitzgerald to postpone tho trials , that gentleman , following up tho taclloa at Trulee , lias abandoned tho defenco of his clients , with tho curt romark , addressed to tho Court , that ho " don ' t euro how tho caso goes . " Tho jury , having boon locked up all night on Wednesday , liavo been discharged without agrcoing to a vordict . There woi'o cloven Protestants and one Catholic on the jury ¦ . Tho prisoners aro to etand out till noxt assizes , if thoy can find ball . Mr . Dobbs ' s appointment being officially

      announced in the paperSj a vacancy will be created in the representation of Carrickfergus borough . It is announced that thie Queen has been pleased to signify her intention of conferring a baronetcy upon Mr . Edward Grogan , the senior member for the city of Dublin . Mr . Grogan has represented the Irish capital for nearly seventeen years . He is a Tory of the old school .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge held a levee on Thursday at the Horse Guards , which was very numerously attended . An interesting lecture has been delivered at the United Service Institution , on " The Rifle and the Spade . " After an elaborate examination of the probable effects of recent improvements in artillery and muskets , the lecturer ( Captain Tyler ) said that the infantry soldier , who , ' in virtue of his enormously increased powers , had become of so much greater importance , should now be better trained . The best infantry that a nation could now possess would be one in which every man was not only a good

      rifleman , but also a good sapper . This country was m a state periodical apprehension of French invasion . Without putting the rifle into the hands of the people , as it -was called , there would be no difficulty in organising and in keeping up a body of 100 , 000 rifle volunteers , from a class wlio would be alike ready to protect us from internal disturbance or from foreign invasion . With these men to harass the flanks and rear of an invading army , and to oppose their advance , in conjunction with the regular troops and militia , from a series of intrenchments , provided . by a sufficient number of sappers , the country might be disputed mile by mile with an invading army in a manner that would prevent the possibility of its

      advance . General Frederick Charles White . died on Friday last . The deceased general was for many years in the Grenadier Guards , and was present , at the sieges of Valenciennes and Dunkirk , and at the action and storming of Lincelles : The total force of all arms now included . . the Aldershott Division is rather over 15 , 000 men , but from this force 650 must be taken for the 15 th Hussars , who are stationed at Hounslow . The whole of the troops in Canterbury were reviewed by the Comman-der-in-Chief on Tuesday . The cavalry , under the command of Colonel J . C . H . The 1 st

      Gibsone , comprised the following depots : — , the 2 nd , the 3 rd , and 7 th Dragoon Guards ; the 7 th and the 8 th Hussars ; and the 17 th JDancers . The infantry depots were under the command of Iiieut .-Colonel J . W . Armstrong , C . B ., and embraced the 64 th , the 70 th , the 82 nd , the 90 th , and 98 th depots . The marching of the troops was pronounced excellent , especially for such young soldiers as most of them were . The Conimander-in-Ghief seemed exceedingly pleased with the very creditable state of efficiency displayed by them , upon which he complimented the commanding officers . His Royal Highness dined with the officers and left by the 7-22 train for town .

      The Gazette contains the copy of the Royal Order for a Commission to inquire into the system pf recruiting in the army . The Commissioners are Lord 1-Iotham , Colonel Tulloch , William Foster , Colonel John Leslie , Colonel John Smyth , and Peter Blackburn . Admiralty orders have been received at Chatham for the launch of tho Cliarybclis , 21 , screw corvette , to tako plaqo on tho 1 st of Juno next , immediately after which one of the now screw steamers is ordered to be built at Chatham .

      Tho admirable method recommended by the Sanitary Commission in their recent official inspection of Woolwich garrison for furnishing-a nuinbar of baths and washhousos for tho free accommodation ' of tho private soldiers is now complete Each room contains sovon spacious baths supplied with hot and cold water at discretion , and aro situatod so as to bo easily necessiblo , being contiguous to tlio barrack quarters . Tho MuUa Times , of tho 29 th ult , states that ordors have been received from England , in pursuance of which the order requiring sontries to " carry arms and present nrms , as tho llost passes , " has beon removed .

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      Astonishing Fjsat at Niaoaka . t—An American circus performer has , for a wager of a thousand dollars to fifty * accomplished the feat of walking auross tho Niagara River , amid tho rapids botweon Goat Island and tho Falls . Ho performed the task in rather moro than half an hour , by means of a pair of stilts " made of wrought iron , twelve feet long , flat , doublo edged , and pointed . " Tho current struck only against tho sharp edges , and produced but little oflbct . One falso step would of course have beon destruction .

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      — . * ¦ GONTE ^ ENTAL NOTES . FKAJTCE . The review in the Champs de Mars on Sunday was favoured with splendid weather . ' There were about 50 , 000 troops on the ground . The Emperor and Empress were both present , A . Paris letter says : — "If any expectation prevailed in Governmental circles that the review would elicit more enthusiasm than the one which took place a fortnight since , ifc must before this have been completely undeceived . People were as cold and as dull at this second gathering as at the first . They looked at the troops as they might have looked upon the llccnf Gras , with mere idle curiosity , not appearing in any way to associate the idea of war with the military display they were witnessing . As qn the previous occasion , there were no cries , no shouts of welcome r the Emperor passed among a population utterly indifferent to his presence . Of course claqueurs . were in attendance , who earned their money in the usual way ; and there was the usual number of simpletons and rustics who ran forward with delight upon seeing Imperial Majesty approach , -and gave utterance to the usual sounds of rejoicing . But the vast mass of the spectators were as orderly as though at an Ancient Concert , and as devoid of animation as hired mutes at a funeral . Therefore , if reviewnumber two were intended as demonstration number two , it must be considered a complete and utter

      failure / ' . It is stated that although Count Cavour expressed himself to the Italian refugees in Parisas perfectly satisfied with the Emperor , this satisfaction is more apparent than real ; that , in fact , his real feelings are quite of a contrary l ? ind . He is said to be in reality anything but content with the little sympathy the Italian cause found among the French people , and that he was satisfied neither with the Ministry nor with their master . Hi 3 Majesty , it is true , received him courteously , as a matter of course , but civil words were not the only things he required , and he left Paris for Turin much less sure of the fulfilment of his hopes than when he came there . . . _ . ris

      The Colonel of a regiment quartered in Pa lately assembled his officers and said to them , " Gentlemen , you may consider war as certain . I beg that any of you who , from the state of your health or other legitimate reason , may not be in a condition to take the field , will at once send in your claims for exemption . " It is rumoured that a division of the armyot Paris is under orders to leave for Lyons at a

      moment ' s . „ A letter in the Nard says : —" The Emperor of the French , though accepting as a fact the existence of the treaties of 1815 , will never consent to give them , by his signature , a new consecration . In invoking the protocol of the 15 th November , 1819 , of Aix la Chapelle , Austria contrived a plan for obtaining a new sanction of those treaties ; but the Emperor has formally declared that he will not sign in the Congress any protocol mentioning the treaties

      The Marquis de Torcy , a member of the Corps Legislatif for the Orne , died on Monday . He was a landed proprietor of considerable wealth , and one of the most celebrated cattle breeders in France . Another deputy , Baron Roquet , one of the members for the Gironde , and a son of General Roquet , the Emperor ' s aide-de-camp , is also dead . Prince Gortschakoff , the Russian minister of Foreign Affairs , ' is expected this week in Pans . tho affairs of the Danubian

      Tho conferences on Principalities were to have opened on lliursday noxt . There will be two sittings only , both oi which will be occupied with tho consideration of 1 rince Couza ' s election . The discussion of tho Danube navigation question is to bo deforrod to some future period . The Turkish Ambassador , M . Musurus , means to protost against the double ulootlon ol Colonel Couza , but it i $ nevertheless believed that Fuad Pacha is preparod to sanction the voto ol tlio mirinrltv of the Oonirrcsss in his favour . As airoaciy

      statod , tho question is virtually settled . -ynpMfl Tho Frenoh journals favourable to peace oxpieas pleasure at finding Lord Derby and . Is Wgrtg " will retain tho reins of power in England while tho Congress on Italian aflairs is In roasioii . MT Mires has purchased tho JU > el do * 1 lineos , m bheIiuedeRioheliou , lnordur , it Is state , to convort tho building into ofucos lor thy Credit Jnaus-SalOomSSS . It is said that ho is charged vrxth tlio organisation of thenew undertaking . ¦

      . AUSTRIA . _ T offnr ( 1 fvom Italv state positively that Austria mSMr loS from all tho Italian lMncoa whom she considers hor feudatories . The Archduke Maximilian d'JGste has responded to tho anpoul , by

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 9, 1859, page 455, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2289/page/7/