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      Continental Notes. France. The Trial Of ...

      peror cf Russia . The King of Saxony had not come up to Thursday . MONTENEGRO . Considerable excitement prevails in Montenegro . The prince seems perfectly indifferent to public opinion , and acts as arbitrarily as if be had half a million of bayonets at his command . Not long since he condemned a member of the noble family of Zuza to death for some political offence ; and a circumstance took place when the man was put to death that deserves mention . As a dog belonging to the deceased could not be induced to quit the place of exeoution , the inhuman executioner tied it to the dead body . After a few days had elapsed , the poor dog became so hungry that it began to devour the body of its former master . —Tunes Vienna Correspondent .

      AUSTKIA . " The General Assembly of the Catholic Unions at Salzburg , " says the Times Vienna correspondent , " appears , when compared to the Evangelical Alliance at Berlin , to be a complete failure . There were not more than 100 delegates present , and the great majority of them represented Austrian provinces and cities . Vienna sent 9 ; Gratz , 9 ; the Tyrol , 9 ; Upper Austria , 15 ; Bavaria , 15 ; Salzburg , 13 ; and other Austrian towns , 14 . German Rome , as Cologne is here called , sent 10 delegates . The only circumstance -worthy of notice that took place at Salzburg while the representatives of the Catholic Unions "were together is , that , on the morning of the 22 nd of September , prayers were offered up that the whole of Germany might be reunited in the Roman Catholic faith . "

      The amnesties granted by the Emperor wlien in Italy and Hungary axe far from being complete . Many refugees have applied in vain for permission to return to their homes , and in several cases no reply was given to the petitions presented . The Emperor left at midnight on the 29 th ult . foi Dresden and Weimar .

      Fri6 The Lkadee, , [No. 393, October 3, ...

      fri 6 THE LKADEE , , [ No . 393 , October 3 , 185 ^

      Our Civilization. —?—Middlesex Sessions....

      OUR CIVILIZATION . —?—MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . Thomas Muujcns , a tailor , has been sentenced to hard labour for a year for a criminal assault on a girl under ten years of age . The prosecution was set on foot by the Associate Institute for Enforcing and Improving the Laws for the Protection of Women . —A youth of nineteen has been found Guilty of the same offence , and sentenced to a year ' s imprisonment . Mahmoud Ali , a native of Calcutta , of good education , and known by the alias of George Brown , was tried on Monday for stealing a cheque-book , value one shilling , from Messrs . Grindlay and Co ., the East India and military agents . He went to the branch establishment of those gentlemen in St . MartinVlane , and said he " wished to make arrangements for the transmission of a sum . of 3765 Z- 10 s . 6 d . from Liverpool to London . He was told that the money could he received there , and that ho must then draw upon them by means of cheques . Having professed ignorance of the nature of cheques , a cheque-book was shown him , and the process was explained . Shortly afterwaTds he left , but not before he had possessed himself of the book . In about an hour or two , a man brought a cheque for 161 . odd , drawn in favour of Messrs . Moses and Son ; and , on the manager going to the Oxford-street branch of Messrs . Moses' business , he found AH there , and gave him in custody . It was afterwards ascertained tliat ho had no funds at Liverpool , and that he had committed various frauds by representing that bo -was an aide-de-camp to

      the Queen of Oude . Ali , who spoke English fluently , cross-examined the chief witness with great acuteness . The jury found him Guilty , and it was then proved that he had been committed twice for three months a 3 a rogue and vagabond , and sentenced to nine months under a conviction at tlic Old Bailey . Mr . Doyle ( who appeared for the prosecution ) said , theTO were tTiroo other cases against Ali «—one for attempting to obtain & carriage , value 192 Z . 10 s ., from Messrs . Silk and Sons , of Long-acre ; one for the fraud upon Messrs . Mosea ; and one for obtaining an opera-gloss and ton ticket » of admission to the Surrey Gardens on the occasion of Airs . Seacolo ' s benefit , with intent to defraud M . Jullicn , by representing that thoy were for the Queen of Oudo . Mr . Creasy sentenced him to eighteen months' hard labour .

      A rnthcr singular case was tried on Tuesday . Isaac Hadfield , a midshipman , aged twenty-two , was charged with stealing two rings , valued at 11 . 5 s ., from Mary Ann Miulley . Tho woman was a person of light clmractor , and Hadficld fell in with her one night in ltogontstreot . On tho following day , ho accompanied her to the Crystal Palace ( though it "would appear that Hho hud to pay the expenses ) , and there took a funcj' to two ringa sho was wearing . He induced her to let him put them on hia own fingers , and then refused to return thorn . She thought , however , that ho was only joking ; but , on nrrrying at London Bridge , lie told her to wait for him , and then disappeared , and did not return . Some -woclcs afterwards , elio mot him in the Ha 3 m « rlcct , and collnml liitn ; but lie twisted himself from her graap , and eacapod under a cab-horse . A week after-wards , who ngaln met him in the Uuymarkot , and gnvo him in cliartro .

      Mr . Creasy ( the presiding Judge ) told the jury they must acquit Hadfield unleas they were clearly of opinion that at the time he induced the woman to part with the rings it was his intention to steal there . Even if they thought he had no such intention at the time , there could be no doubt that his conduct was shabby and contemptible in the extreme . The jury found him Not Guilty . Mr . Creasy observed that , if he had any rnanly or proper feeling about him , he would make restitution of the rings , or give the woman their full value . Mr . Metcalfe ( who appeared for Hadfield ) said that the solicitor who instructed him would take care that such should be done . Hadfield was then discharged . He had been in custody since the 4 th of August . £ A very similar case is now under remand at the Westminster policecourt . ]

      Rose Uaoul , a Frenchwoman , has been found Guilty of keeping one of the notorious houses in Norton-street . The prosecution -was instituted by the authorities of Marylebone . Judgment was deferred .

      Ilii-Treating A. Girl.—Two Respectable W...

      IlIi-treating A . Girl . —Two respectable women made an appeal to Mr . Paynter at the Westminster police-court last Saturday , on behalf of a little girl they had with , them , who had been neglected and ill-treated by her step-father . The child , whose father had been dead some time , lived at a house in Tufton-street , where the applicants also lodged . Her mother had lately married a stoker named Connor , and since their marriage he had behaved very brutally to the child , being constantly in the habit of beating her severely . One night he chastised her with a policeman ' s leathern belt ,

      and repeated the same treatment the following morning , in consequence of which the two women lodging in the house interfered and applied to the magistrate for a summons . They likewise stated to Mr . Paynter that the child ' s mother , from being confined to her bed by illness , was unable to protect her daughter from her husband ' s violence , but could only make a cry of entreaty when she saw her ill-used . The child ' s neck , shoulders , and legs were covered with stripes and bruises . A summons against Connor was granted by Mr . Paynter .

      Murder in Scotland . — -The Circuit Court at Aberdeen was occupied on Thursday week with a charge of murdeT . John Booth , a hawker at Old Meldrum , was drinking one night during last July , when he had his suspicions aroused with respect to his wife ' s fidelity , and he returned home vowing vengeance against her . She fled to the house of her parents , followed by Booth , who , meeting his Avife ' s mother at the door of her house , stabbed her mortally in the arms , head , and chest . Booth pleaded guilty of homicide ; but this was not received , and he was convicted of murder , and ordered for execution on the 21 st of October .

      The Murder in Leigh Woods . —Bealo has been examined before the Bristol magistrates . Inspector Norris , of the Bath police , said that he apprehended the accused at Captain Watkins ' s , Badley House , Doventry , where he was butler . He found in his jacket pocket a pistol loaded with ball ; also two boxes in a cellar , and one in Beale ' s bedroom , answering the description of those in the possession of Charlotte Pugsley . The boxes had been opened , and their contents partly removed . Another officer proved iinding in Beale ' s bedroom a second pistol , which liaxl been recently discharged . Simeon Branscomb , gamelteeper to Captain Watkins , said that Beale , on bringing the boxes to the house , had stated that they had belonged to his sister , who was dead . The hearing was adjoui'ned to this day ( Saturday ) .

      Another Outrage in the Neighbourhood of Ratcliffe . —A quarrel arose last Sunday evening between some foreign seamen at a beevshop in the neighbourhood of Victoria-streot , Ratcliffo ; and the men , having gone out into the street , fought -with knives . The result was that two of them were stabbed in tho chost and back , and that a woman who interfered to separate tho combatants was hurt in the forehead . The wounded men are in a . dangerous state in the London Hospital ; and the meai who committed the assaults , and who are both Arabs , arc under roniand . at the Thames polico-oflice .

      Aujkoisu Rai ., sk Puki'bncks . —Lord Charles Pelham Clinton and Mr . Jou ' roe , of _ the Wheal Zion Mining Company , reappeared at tho Mansion llouso , hist Saturday , in discharge of their own recognizances , for further examination , on the charge of having , together with several other personn , defrauded Mr . l <> nn < sis Stockwell , sharebroker of Old Ilroad-strcet , City , of COO / ., the particulars of which appourcd in lust w cult ' a feeder . Further evidence was received on tlio preaont occasion , when Mr . Stockwell prevaricated a good deal in cross-examination . Mr . Sleigh , who appeared for Lord Clinton , maintained that » inoro absurd , frivolous , and utterly

      unwarrantable charge hnul never been brought into court , inasmuch oh , instead of his Lordship and Mr . JofTVee having obtained bOOl . by falso i > ietonc : es , Mr . Stockwoll hold Bocurky to the value of <>«()/ ,, which would immediately raallza that Hum on being ; tnkon into tho market . Mr , Jofiroo ' s solicitor contended that Mr . Stockwell' * tvnB well aware Hint , whm tlio bill becamu duo on tho'Uh <> J October , it would bu taken up , while Lord Clinton did , not know that tho hIwuoh , which hud boon made over to Mr . Stookwdl na collatornl security , would bo given up on payment of tho bill . On the contrary , both hia

      Lordship and Mr . Jeffree had every reason to believe that tfee shares would not be given up at all . The Lord Mayor said that , although there had been very great impropriety in dealing with the shares , he could not see any proof of an intention oai the part of Lord Charles Clinton and Mr . Jeffree to defraud , and they must therefore be discharged . Mr . Sleigh warned Mr . Stockwell that a jury would have to decide whether he had not instituted the prosecution maliciously , and Mr . StockwelFs solicitor retorted that the defendants had not yet escaped . A Thievbs' Tutor . —John Lee , a well-known thief , was charged at Southwark on Monday with attempting to pick the pocket of Catharine Marsh , on the incline of

      the South-Eastern Railway , London-bridge terminus . Mr . Combe asked what was known of the ' prisoner ! Thomas Richards , a detective inspector employed on the Brighton railway , said he had known him for years as an expert pickpocket . He infested the railway station with a number of well-dressed lads , whom he instructed in the art of thieving . Mr . Combo : " Then he is a thieves ' tutor ? " Richards replied that he was , and the lads he selected aa pupils were good-looking , and dressed like sons of the geutry . Several of them had been convicted of picking pockets . Lee said it was all false about the lads , but he acknowledged putting his hand in the woman s pocket . He therefore pleaded Guilty . Mr . Combe sentenced him to three months' hard labour .

      Charge against a Jockey . —William Bryan , a jockey , has been examined before the Monmouth magistrates , and committed for trial , on a charge of setting on fire a stall containing the race-horse Van Eyck , for the purpose o f injuring the animal . He had riddea a horse for the Chippenham Stakes , and Mr . Evans , the proprietor of that horse ' and of Van Eyck , refused to pay Bryan anything , owing to his having lost the race , as alleged , through carelessness . It would appear to have been out of revenge for this that he set the stall on fire . The liorse was rescued .

      An Ibish Faction Fight . —A fight between some Irish near Saffron-hill has resulted in a woman , named Bridget Sullivan , receiving such , serious injuries that she now lies in the hospital in a hopeless state . She wa & far advanced in pregnancy , and , after being knocked down , was kicked in the storaaph . John Clarke , a costermonger , his wife , and Margaret Daveran , the persons concerned in the assault , are under remand at Clerken-• well . Murdeeous AssAUi , T .- —Thomas Kite , an omnibus proprietor and coffee-house-keeper in Shoreditch , and William Ryan , a cab-driver , were on Tuesday charged at Worship-street with assaulting Thomas Meeres , a driver employed by the London General Omnibus Company . While Meeres was in the Lamb Tavern ,

      Kingsland , on the evening of the 21 st ulfc ., Ryan entered , picked a quarrel with a man named Coppard , and then , without any provocation , turned upon Meeres , struck him repeated blows on tho head , knocked him down , and by kneeling on his chest , inflicted a serious internal injury . Kite ' s complicity in the assault was known by his sudden appearance in the apartment and exclaiming , " You are on the wrong man ; that ' s not him . " The police were called in , and , Meeres having been released from his assailant in a bleeding state , Kite observed to him " It was not meant for you but another , " alluding to Coppard , also a servant of the company ; " and he shan ' t be alive this day week . " Kite was ordered to find surety to answer the charge , and Ryan wus fully committed for trial .

      Attempted Suioide . —A girl , named Ellen Harvay , threw herself last Saturday night into one of tho ornamental reservoirs in Trafalgar-square . Two gentlemen who were passing by dragged her out , put her in « cab , and took lier to Charing-cross Hospital , as she appeared to be in a swoon . They thore saw a drunken porter and a dirty old woman , who behaved very insolently , and kept tho girl waiting for admission so long that the gentlemen took her to the King-street police-station , whore she received every attention , and was eventually removed to the Westminster Hospital . Ou being brought before and

      tho Bow-street magistrate , she was remanded , Mr . Jardino promised to investigate the charge against the persona i \ t the Cliaring-crosa Hospital . Mr . ! £ A , Bennett , house surgeon at Charing-cross Hospital , waited on Mr . Jardino on Tuesday , in order to make a statement relative to tho alleged misconduct of tho porter and nurse , Referring- to a communication made by his worship to tho secretary , ho said : —" In conaequenco of your note , the secretary wished me to call n » d oiler nn explanation of tho facts , that there might bo an investigation if you think it necessary . There appear to havo been some little confusion and misunderstanding- ' 1 » °

      gentleman brought tho -woman round at about one o ' clock . Tlio porter wan asleep in his room , mid I > wng woke up out of his sleep was perhaps a little conluHiul . Instead of bringing tho woman in at once , hu wont to fotch mo . The gentleman iai following h » n »» to V private part of tlio hospital , -when the nurse stopped him and told him thut he could not go that way , uh it was private . I put on aoina of iny clothoa and wisnt il'iwn , when I found thagnutlutimn had gone away . I followed find spoke to him , ' but ho was so agitated that 1 don t think ho noticed me in tho confusion . U <> M . V' > lll ° porttu- whs intoxicated , but ho deuidodly wiis " <»*• never know him othurwiso than Hobor . " Mr . Jardino

      loclincd toprevis the demand for an investigation . A liKUfiiMu Lkttisk Imi'Ohtoic- —Jamus . Doyle , ft

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 3, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03101857/page/10/