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      son in the street . He first refused to go , but at last went out , and found a young man , who claimed acquaintance with him as a fellow-countryman , asked after Kinkel s health , and finally requested him to convey some letters to the prisoner . The young man was a student named Schurtz . He had many interviews with him afterwards , and at last he , was offered 400 thalers and a provision for life if he would effect Kinkel ' s escape , He was on the other hand threatened with « eternal persecution if he divulged anything about the offer . At last he consented , M . Kruser having become guarantee for the reward to be paid him , and persuaded him that it was unjust M Kinkel should be any longer confined . On the 28 th ot October , Schurtz proposed the plan . He was to obtain false keys to the inspector ' s room , and thus get possession of the two keys of the cell ; he was , th en to

      accompany Kinkel to the outer door of the prison , and get the porter to let him pass into the street . He was first to sain over the man who would have the duty for the night of the 5 th of November . After several vain attempts he succeeded in doing so , and the escape was fixed for the night of the 5 th ; but theplan was defeated by the accident of the inspector taking the keys of the cell home with him . The next night he got possession of them bv opening the press in the inspector s othce where they were kept ; but instead of letting the prisoner out at the door , he took him through several workrooms to an undated window on the first floor . Schurtz was waiting in the street with a strong rope , which he pulled up to the window by a packthread ; Kinkel tied it round hifl wai 3 t , and was thus lowered into the street .

      In an after examination Brune denied he had ever actually received any money , asserting he had aided the escape out of mere humanity . One hundred and jiftv-one thalers were found in his room , fifty of them in sold ; hut he produced evidence from the Savings Bank that the sum had been withdrawn from it , and heloxxged to his wife and son . The jury , however , did not believe he had been misled by his humane . sentiments alone . The popular character of his jayooation was against him" Seldom when The steeled gaoler is the friend of men ; " and it assumed he had been promised a bribe , if he had not actually received one .

      The trial lasted till a late hour of the evening , when the jury , to the questions put by the court , tfouad him guilty of wilfully assisting the escape of a State prisoner for a promised reward in money . He was sentenced to three years' imprisonment in the House of Correction , and deprivation of civil rights ; with a deelaration of unfitness to hold any Government employment hereafter . Under the old penal code the punishment would have been more severe . Kriiger was fauud guilty as an accessary ; but the jury ° being divided , seven to five on the question , the ijourt had to determine for a conviction or acquittal , And considering the evidence imperfect , discharged him .

      The Prussian Monitor states that the German diet at Frankfort has decided , upon the proposition of Prussia , that Old Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Posen , whose populations belong to the Polish race « sd which in 1848 were embodied into the German ^ Confederation , are to be separated from it . ' According to the Prussian National Gazette , the Sixth Russian corps , now located in Moscow and its environs , is to march next spring towards the frontier of Poland . Contracts for the food and forage of that

      corps have already been entered into . " Tins is a proof , " says the National Gazette , " that iluasia expects importantevents next ; year , and that the Czar does not wish to be taken by surprise . Should "Russia bo obliged to intervene ., she would furnish 350 , 000 men ( with 720 pieces of ordnance ) . In such cuho Poland would be occupied by new reserve brigades ( formed of the Fifth and Sixth battalions of « iach of the seventy-two regiments ) , or by the corps of grenadiers and that of the guards , ( both amounting to about 120 , 000 men , with ' 210 pieces of ordnance ) .

      The ( Juzotlc of lireslau informs us that the institution of . 1 nry will be preserved in Austria , but that the jurieB will be selected by the Government . One nnonstroaity more to crown those which have preceded . The Times publishes the following correspondence between the Prince Castelcicala and Lord Palmer-» ton relative to the communication oflieiully , by the former to the Foreign-oHice , of u pamphlet published in London in reply to Mr . Gladstone ' h letter * to the 3 <] arl of Aberdeen : — 41 J'KINCIi CANTHMMOALA . TO VISCOUNT 1 ' A 1 , M l ' . KSTO N . ' lf > l ' rinccH-Hlrci't , < ; iivriulirfh- ! ' < iu : irc , AugiiHl . ' . ) .

      « ] yj Y J , oki > , —I » il report , which appeared in the Times manor of yesterday of the sittinR of the House of Commons 1 have read tlisit your Excellency , m answer to a question put by Kir I >« Lacy Kvans , relative to Rome imblicaf . i » MH of Mr . Gladstone again "' - the Government . If the King my august muster , said that you considered it your duty to send copies of the same to the IJntish M . inter / tthe various Courts of Europe ; and s . n . o a re y o tl . e said publication , roun « l « l upon substun i ,, l Su . nen . H , 1 . » h recently ma . lo it * appear-ance , hare th j honour to . vml ( ifteen copies to your Excellency ami therefore request your Exeelleney will take !'"«»?«>/ J « muno mean * for their distribution as you have done for thono of Mr . ( Jladstone- > * ' Tho known maxim , ' Audi ttlCeram parlcm , the

      c ourtesyof your Excellency , and , in the present conjuncture , what is better , your justice , all lead me to hope that your Excellency will not find my request indiscreet . ' ' , « Castelcicala . "

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      " Viscount Palmerston To Prince Castexci...

      " VISCOUNT PALMERSTON TO PRINCE CASTEXCICAXA . ' Foreign-office , August 18 . ? ' Prince , —I have had the honour to receive your letter of the 9 th instant , inclosing a copy of a pamphlet entitled The Neapolitan Government and Mr . Gladstone , and requesting that copies of that pamphlet may be forwarded to her Majesty ' s Ministers at the several European Courts . I have to state to you in reply that I must decline being accessory to the circulation of a pamphlet , which , in my opinion , does no credit to its writer or the Government which he defends , or to the political party of which he professes to be the champion . " I should never have taken the liberty of addressing

      you on the subject of Mr . Gladstone ' s pamphlet , if you had not , by your letter of the 9 th instant , rendered it necessary for me to do so , and I can assure you that it is not without pain and reluctance that I state to you my opinion in regard to those pamphlets and to the matters of which they treat ; but I feel that silence on my part , after the receipt of your communication of the 9 th , would expose me to misrepresentation . I feel myself , therefore , compelled to say that Mr . Gladstone ' s letters to Lord Aberdeen present an afflicting picture of a system of illegality , injustice , and cruelty practised by the officers and agents of the Government in the kingdom of Naples , such as might have been hoped would not have existed in any European country in the present days ; and the information which has been received upon these matters from many other sources leads , unfortunately , to the conclusion that Mr . Gladstone by no means overstated the various evils which he describes ,

      but that Mr . Gladstone ' s letters were evidently written and published , not , as the pamphlet which you send me insinuates , in a spirit of hostility to the King of Naples , or with feelings adverse to the parliamentary and monarchical constitution which his Sicilian Majesty has granted to his subjects and has confirmed by his Royal oath Mr . Gladstone ' s object seems , on the contrary , to have been the friendly purpose of drawing public attention to , and of directing the force of public opinion upon , abuses which , if allowed to continue , must necessarily sap the foundation of the Neapolitan monarchy , and prepare the way for those violent revulsions which the resentments produced by a deep sense of long-continued and widespread injustice are sure sooner or later to produce . It

      might have been hoped that the Neapolitan Government would have received those letters in the spirit in which they manifestly were written , and would have set to work earnestly and effectually to porrcct those manifold and grave abuses to which " their attention has thus been drawn . It is obvious that by such a course the Neapopolitan Government would do more to frustrate the designs of revolutionists , and to strenghten the monarchical institutions of their country , than could be effected by the most rigorous proceedings of the most vigilant Minister of the Police . But the

      Government of Naples will be much mistaken if it imagines that a pamphlet , consisting of a flimsy tissue of bare assertions and reckless denials , mixed up with coarse ribaldry and commonplace abuse of public men and political parties , will accomplish any useful purpose or render any real service to the Government on whose behalf it appears to have been written . And I must take leave to observe that there are admissions , direct and indirect , in Mr . MacFarlane ' s pamphlet , which go far to establish the conclusions which he professes an intention to overthrow . Pamerston . "

      [ It will be remarked , says the Times , that the letters above given were written as far back as the month of August ; but wo understand , from the person from whom we have received them , that it was only lately that they were made known to the diplomatic world . ]

      Society Of Thk Friends Of Italy, And The...

      SOCIETY OF THK FRIENDS OF ITALY , AND THE PEOPLE OF PIEDMONT . The following letter from a deputy of the Piedmontese Parliament appeared in a leading article of the I ' rograsso of Turin of the 22 nd current : — " Dearest Sirs , Editors of thcTrogreaao , —When I read in yourand the other Liberal journals of Piedmont , that a Society of the Friends of Italy had been founded in London , 1 felt such satisfaction at the pleasant news , that I could not express it in words . " I thought of Itome , of Naples , of Milan , of Venice , of our twenty millions of oppressed fellow-countrymen , and of the consolation which that news must afford them . " The unfortunate who groans in the wretchedness of a prison , let but a kindly soul come and visit him , and flay to him , ' Courage , friend , and hope , ' and what comfort to the unfortunate in that good word ' friend ' ! when abandoned by all , and in the solitude of grief , amid insults and culiiinnic'H , to hear one say ' friend , ' this is of itself an alleviation of the grief , a balm for the wounded houI , a blessing from Heaven . And if the comforting voice be that of one who is powerful , then the unfortunate would leap for joy , and , forgetting the Bud reality of the present , would have a . foretaste of the sweetness of deliverance . " Such , I think , must be the consolation to our brethren in thin announceint'iit of the new Society . Poor brethren ! And to be obliged to conceal your joy , to keep your gratitude shut up within your henrtH , not to be able to send even one word of thanks to our fiiends ! " Hut you cannot < lo ; Piedmont can , must , will . " Daily I have been expecting to read in the papers an invitation to the Piedinontesu to thank , in the name of Italy , her friends of Greiit Britain . It has not yet unpeared . Meanwhile , the English Society is duil y gaining strength , and promises important results . The only purtioH , ho far as , 1 am aware , that have hitherto thanked

      i , , the Society , have been the brave workmen sent to London and the Society of the Refugees . Is this enough ? No it is the duty of all Italy—a duty falling entire on that part of it which is not enslaved—to discharge thisobliea tion . b < x ~ 11 It is now time that some one should take the initiative , and remind Piedmont of her noble right her sacred duty . - ' ** Do you , therefore , write in the first page of your paper words to this effect : — ' An address of thanks to the English Society of the Friends of Italy is now open for signature . '

      " Ask the other journals to do likewise , ask the most distinguished citizens , both of the capital and the provinces , to constitute themselves collectors of such signatures . No Piedmontese , I will swear it , would refuse to sign ; and in a short time we shall have got together thousands , and hundreds of thousands of names , which we shall send to London with this inscription at their head : — ' To her friends in England , grateful Italy . ' " Yours , Robecchi , Deputy . " In accordance "with this suggestion , the editors of the Progresso announce that an address , conceived in the spirit indicated in the above letter , lies for signature at their office .

      We are happy to state that Mr . Arthur Trevel yan has handed in £ 5 to the Society for the Relief of the Italian Refugees , desiring the same to be acknowledged in the Leader .

      The New Reform Bill, Meeting At Buity. P...

      THE NEW REFORM BILL , MEETING AT BUItY . Public opinion is manifesting itself slowly in favour of reform . Mr . Fox , M . P ., and Mr . Tindal Atkinson , as representatives of the National Parliamentary Reform Association , met the people of Bury on the 24 th . Several influential members of the middle class were present , and the Town-hall was well filled with auditors . The resolutions were moved by gentlemen of the locality ; Mr . Fox and Mr . Atkinson simply speaking in support of them . The name of Kossuth , mentioned by Mr . Fox , called forth a burst of cheers . Generally speaking , Mr . Fox ' s speech did not differ from the many speeches he has delivered in the cause of reform , except in the inexhaustible ingenuity with which he treats the ever recurring topics . We extract one happy characterisation . He denied that the members of the House of Commons were the choice of the people , and having shown whose choice they were , he asked where they w ' ere chosen ?—" By little places such at Thetford and Arundel , where a couple of hundred voters returned members to Parliament , while Manchester and Liverpool did no more . { Hear , 7 iear . ~ ) The big and little were jumbled together without system , like looking through different ends of the telescope at them . It was as if you were looking at a flea and an elephant ; one way the flea was as large as the elephant , the other way the elephant was as small as the flea . { Cheers and laughter . ) And they were chosen by a septennial revel of the grossest corruption and debauchery . We talked of our constitution ; why , if this was it , the banner of the British constitution was a bank-note , and its basis a beer-barrel . { Applause and laughter ,, )"

      Both Mr . Fox , and Mr . Wrigley , an inhabitant of Bury , were in favour of more extended reform than that proposed by the National Association , but they accepted that as a practical measure . The resolutions agreed to were as follows : — " That the First Minister of the Crown having intimated his intention to introduce a measure of Parliamentary Reform during the next session , the people should lose no time in giving effectivo expression to their wishes ; this meeting doth therefore declare that any measure which does not rearrange the electoral districts , extend the franchise to every occupier of a tenement , protect a voter by the ballot , shorten the duration ot

      Parliament , and abolish the property qualification required of members , will fail to satisfy the just expectations of the people—will be ineffectual in preventing ; the corruption , intimidation , and oppression now prevailing at elections , and in securing the full and free representation of the people in the Commons' House of Parliament ; " and " That the cordial union and cncrge' « action of ali reformers are now imperatively rcqinsi . c That the principles advocated by the National f ' " ' " mentary and Financial Reform Association merit tn support of the great body of the people of this king'lon , and this meeting , consisting of reformers of every s "" - ' pledge themselves to sustain the well directed ciiorts that association . "

      Mr . W . J . Fox met his constituents in the lownhull of Oldluun , on Monday ; and after u lon « orati ( W » in which be reviewed the doings of the past h « jh «»<> ^^ commented on financial , eeonoinioo-poliuml , i ^ educational schemes , and the coming TC * "mlH ' yia l was rewarded by a resolution approving * I ' " ^ mentary conduct , and pledging the lil > eruU > < fc reelection . The meeting wa « very large . Ai »« K other thing * he said : — " Much of last , bchaioh "" ' ) 1 ( lC . () occupied with what ought never to have hiUi jj llt in the IIou « e , theological di . sciiMHioiin . It n « 't ! one time n » if the Council ot Trent hud urine : n the dead to hold an aggregate meeting witu ' God JlareboncH Parliament . " { Laug hter . )

      MHKTINO AT IIKOrOHI > - M ) HAt the Reform meeting held at «« m 1 ^ ^ . Jaion day , the representatives of the National AJ " ' JiU were Mr . Serle and Mr . E . Clarke . ** - ' XB ttoutthtpu and Mr , I ^ ttimoro , both , tenuut Jui »

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 1, 1851, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01111851/page/6/