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      himself ; s the others were not so fortunate , and eighteen men have been killed or injuied . The Emperor , the Minister ef "War , the Prefect of Police , the General cpnim & nding the garrison of Paris , and several officers of rank , were soon on the spot ; aad the Emperor is said to have expressed Ha displeasure at the condition in which tlie tower has Itteen ; for some -time . It was very : bld--dattag as far back a ? the 13 th or 14 th century ¦^~ - and could boast many interesting historical associations . Two years ago , the roof was slated , and converted into a platformfor artillery i . This additional -weight has ' been too much for the old masonry . : ; ' . . ¦ . ; , '•

      "A very painful occurrence , " says theDaily Netbs Paris correspondent , "has lately happened at StiEtiehne , which the French papers are , I believe ; prohibited from alluding to . The son of a senator residing there married , about two < years since , the daughter of a rich chemist : In the town . At the end ' - ' of two monthsthey separated . The daughter returned to her father ' s house , -where in due time she was dlelivereS of a cnildj now thirteen months old . She frequently walkedabout StvEtienrie with the child and its ntirse . It appears that her father-itirlaw , the senator , lately formed the design of getttng this child into his own custody , and with that object caused her to be- fpllow-ed by the police . duririg her walks . : He had succeeded in persu ading : the chief commissioner of

      police of the town to aid him ' -in ' ' 'theVproje 6 t ^\ ' ?; . 0 n e ';'; 4 iBy ' last week , the lady in question was walking throiigh the galleries of the ; museum at theHotel deVille , accompanied by her servant with , the child , when a police agent came up to tell her that a person was wailing to speak to her down stairs . She -went oiitsicle the building , and during her absence the child was taken away . When 4 he fpurid the trick that had been played ; upon hor , she uttered piercing criei ? , arid to silence her , was thrust into a ^ room , in the Hotel de Villej where : she w / as for some time / Jkept : a prisoner . Ultimately she escaped into a

      garden ^ , separated from the street by an iron railing , thrbugli the bars of which' she told her story' the passers-by . An immensei crowd assembled ; and . it was feared at one moment ; that an attack would : be made upon the Hotel de Valle . The people , however , were ; appeased by the release : of the lady , who has applied to the courts of law fortherestoration of her ehilcL MeanWhile , the Government has disrnissied the Gommissary of Police , whose conduct had so nearly led to an attack by the mob on the Prefect ' s residence . The Prefect was wholly innocent in the matter . " . ' ' v " .

      " A . sort or war 6 b a small scale between the civil and religious authorities , ' says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph , "is raging in a srhaft French provincial town named Hoppencburt , near St . Quentin . Some time ago , the c ^ f < e ' vQf ; the : place ; . had \ the : te ^ enty ' tp ' . den « nnce from the pulpit one of his flock . The friends of th « es , personthus treated complained . ¦ to : the ^ ecclesiastical : aathorities-of the diocese , and the cure * was removed to another parish . Peace ^ yas at once restored , and the agitation the priest ' s conduct had caused was immediately calmed . ; Recently the cure has been reinstated in the living of Hoppericourt . But the inhabitants , at the head of whom are the Mayor ; and the municipal authorities , refuse to receive him . They will iiot give up the keys of the church , and will not let him enter the vestry . Matters are thus at a dead lock , and open war is proclaimed bet-ween the civil and religious power . "

      ¦ ; .. : ' .. . ¦ •• ¦ .,. ¦ ; : . ¦ : . ¦¦/¦¦ :- ¦ sfain .. . , ¦ ., ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ; ¦ .... . . ;¦ ¦ . ¦¦ -. . ¦ ¦ . ¦ The Queen was delivered of a 80 n last Saturday ight . The child is said to be healthy . v ' ¦' .. ' . •¦¦ '¦ ' ; ¦ ¦ :: ¦ . :. ¦; - . '¦' . - ' turkey . ¦; : /; - i - i ' v ; - ' . : \ ' ' :. ., - ; . - ¦ Tea battalions havo been concentrated on the Danube towards Widdeh . The Presse d ' Orient states that thi 3 movement « f troops is caused by the agitation which has taken place in Servia . ' ,: ¦ The regulations relative to the navigation of the Danube will bo shortly published , and are to bo la force from the 1 st of January . Rcdschid Pacha has sent a memorandum to the representatives of tlie Powers , in which he claims certain duties for keeping up the lighthouses on the Turkish coasts . The ambassadors have protested . Isset Pacha has died suddenly .

      - ,. ¦ , ' . ' . ; . . . .. . . : gbbece . ¦¦ ¦• ¦ ;¦' .. ' ' . ; .. ' , ¦ The President of the Council of Ministers liaa resigned , and the Chambers have adjourned , the deputies not being in sufficient numbers . ; , ' ¦' ¦'¦ ¦ ¦ ' ' ., ' ¦" . ¦ AUSTRIA . ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦; . ' ' ' . ' . , " . ' ¦¦ . ; The Emperor of Austria has addressed an autograph letter to the Minister of the Interior , ordering him to direct the authorities in all the provinces of the empire to raise subscriptions for the sufferers by the explosion in the Federal fortress of Mayence , The German lawyers are of opinion that the Bund is bound to indemnify tho inhabitants for the damage done to their property . It appears certain that an Austrian artilleryman purposely blew up the magazine out of revenge . It is believed he has perished in the explosion . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' Italy : ' ¦ So many assassinations have recently taken place at Amcona that it is contemplated to proclaim tho state of siege again . I'llUSttlA . The King has removed from Potsdam to Charlottenburg without any injurious consequences . He progresses favourably , and now takes short walka .

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      OUR eiYlLIZATION . ' " -: ' '¦ ' ••¦ ¦ . ; . ' ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ " ' .. ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ... ' . " ? . '' ' / ¦¦ ' :- '' : ; ,. : .: : ¦' ' ¦' . ' . ¦ ¦•' ¦ ¦"¦ ' ' : ' ¦'• ' : \ V ' :. ; : ;" ;¦ :: , ¦ ¦ A CAIJTIOIJS LOVER . .-. ; "'; . \ ' - " .. / ?¦ ¦< Edward "VTiiiES -Enichit was . tried on ¦\ Vednesday at the Middlesex Sessions on a charge of haying stolen a bill of exchange for 5 ? ., three letters , and a mat of the value of . ' . five shillings , the property of George Henry Shepherd . The -wife of the accused had been housekeeper to the prpsecutor ; and Knight had one day called at his house , and taken about seventy duplicates upon which Shepherd had advanced money to Mjrs > Knight . At the same time he also took away the other property . Subsequently he admitted to Shepherd tbat he had got the articles , but would give them up aaid suppress ; a charge of adultery he could prefer oh the evidence of the letters . However ; h « : was ordered out of the house ,

      and afterwards given into custody . In cross-examination , Shepherd , who looked very young , said he had been a grocer s assistant , but was now nothing but a gentleman living on what he had acquired by industry in his call of life . Mrs . Knight ' s Christian name was lydia . He had never addressed her as ' my dearest Lydia ; . ' Here the letterswere shown him .: "Those letters were never sent to the prisoner ' s wife ; they were never out of : his possession . They contained the words ' iny dearest Lydia , ' but they were intended to apply to another Lydia— -one to , whoni he hoped sppn to be married . He styled her 'Lydia Shepherd * in one of the letters in . anticipation of the event which was to give lier that name : in fact ,

      like most men were at some period of their lives , he was in loye . ( Much laiighteri ) He did not send the letters to the person they were meant for , as lie reconsidered their contents , and thought ' under the circumstances ' that what : was written on paper might be used some day against him in a court of justice if he altered his feelings , so he wrote in their stead letters- of a more sober and . less affectionate ' .- ' : nature . ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦''' ¦ ' ( jCpntinuedtdughteriy He ¦ would not say -where his furniture came from , and ; declined to' •'¦ . ' give ' . -any ^ reason forbis refusal . " Prisoner *' You stole : it from me . " The counsel •• fbr . thVprpseqiiT tion ultimately '' withdrew- the charge , and , Shepherd was Acquitted . ; V ¦'"' ' : " - ¦ '¦¦¦' ¦ - ' - . - ' ¦ - ¦; : '¦; ' - ' : - .. ' " , '¦ . ¦' ' -J--- . ' - ' . " ¦' : ;

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      TjiE . 'JP ' Roci ^ 0 ra 0 sliii ' : M 9 OBip ^ ws : H'qRiA ^ 6 JtovNp ' .. —This ^ disgusting case'was further ^ investigated : on Rltonday at the : Mansion House ; ; .. ¦ The , chief facts -may be gathered from the ( evidence of ithreeef the chief Tyitaesses . Thomas Bolchin , = a ^ police-constable , said ; :- ^ - ' l ^ -On-F . n ^ y v . the \ 20 tK- « F ' 'Noy . e ' niberj Iw'eijt ^ tP . - ^^ street , ' ^ Bethnal-green-road , ¦ ¦ - '¦ wliiere . ^^ I saw a quantity of human bones intermixed witb ^ -. a quantity of black earthi I have sonie of the bones here ; , and part of a coifin , toree feet ' . long and one foot wide , with the jriht of part ; of a human body ou . it . I observed a very offensive smell from ; the earth at the time this ~ . \ yas"being taken out . / On thei 21 st of -November ; I went to Victoria Park ,, where I observed some newly removed eartb , wliich was cleposited

      by the side of Sir George Duckett ' s Canal , and which was to be used to make the road with . I found a quantity of bones and pieces of coffins . Clolh arid lining were adhering toV the bones . The soil srnelt very offensive . On the Monday following ^ I again wen t to the same place , when a man ; named John Bradbury showed me the earth of which I last spoke . The earth is being sifted in WolverleyrStreet , and , made into mortar to build mew houses with . " The evidence of Johii Bradbury was as follows : — "I ant a '/¦* shoetsman . ' 1 recollectMr . Piper ' s carts bringing the earth to Victoria Park ; it was dry black mould . I made a contract with Mr . Piper ' s foreman , arid he was to pay me Id . a load for what he brought there . We had about fifty . ; ' to sixty loads of it . I noticed bits of coffin and bones in the

      mould . It will be used to make ; the road with . " . Tames Bradbury deposed : —*• I am a plasterer . During the last fortnight I have been employed in Wolverleystreet , -where some new houses are being built . I havo seen a quantity of earth carted there . The man said ho had some very good stuff to make mortar of . Several bushels of bones were taken from the earth . Men used to come raking the earth every day for the bones , which they took away in bags . I sifted sonic of the earth myself . Some of the bones were fifteen , sixteen , and seventeen inches long . I have also picked up bits of coffin . One old ' chap' who came there picked up a rare big bag full of bones . " Cross-examined : " I never tried to sell any of the bones ; I left that to other people . " The defendants were bound over ¦ to appear and answer tho charge at the sessions .

      The Ciiargk against t » k Powck . —The two constablos suspected of having caused tUo death of WillianiSj a sailor , in Ratcliffft-highwav , were on Monday examined at the Thames office , and discharged . —An inquest on the body of " Williams was held on Monday , terminating in a verdict that ' death had been accelerated l > y violence received from the police , but that the evidence as to identity waa not sufficiently clear to enable the jury to say who the individual was . ' A Sunday Robukry . —Tho house of a cheesemonger in tlio Fulh « m-roa < 1 , named Tipper , wna . entered on Sunday , the 25 th of October , while the fumily wore at church . On returning , they could net got admittance in the ordinary way , and woro obliged to enter by the back . It was then found thut the servant who had been left in the Iioubo had disappeared , and that the place had been robbed . On tho same morning , two porso « 3 were

      walkrag in Battersea-fieUs , and observed two other men sitting down on the side of a field wlich waa Very much flooded . Thiese men shortly afterwards passed by , and it was observed that one of them had something bulky under his arrn . They walked up to an old willow tree , . andj after some time , again passed on , the ^ something bulky' being still in , the possession of one of the men . The watchers then went to the tree , and searched , and , after much rakiiig about in the water and the soil , discovered a cash-box-which had / been broken open / They took it to the Glaphani police station , and it was found to contain sonie cheques , and a guinea of the reign of Charles II . This was a part of the proceeds of the roDbery at D-Ir . Tipper ' s . Two days afterwards , an old man .

      named Peter Book , a shoem aker , was taken into custody on . suspicion of being cbncei-ned in the robbery . He said to the policeman : — "I met ; a man on Sunday morning , and he asked me to ; take a walk , and I went throughi . ' Green Park with him ; He left , and told me to wait till he came back , and . when he came back he had something under his coati and I said , + What have you there ? ' and he answered , ' Something to get ; Us some beer , ' . ' - and he took me over some bridges which ! don't know , into a field , ; arid broke open the cash-box and took the money put 4 . but I had none of it . " He was cominitted , however , and was ; tried on Mon day at the Sliddlesex Sessions , when ,- though : one of the witnesses swore tlat he was the person seen in company of the m an carrying the bulky substance in Battersea-fieldSj he was acquitted .

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      GATHERINGS FROM THE tAAV AND ; : ¦ ; . ¦ : ; : :, ; , ; : ^ : :- ; .. ; i ^ f >^ E : Cb . V 1 ^ . 7 y ^^ . O ^ - ¦ ;¦;¦'' ¦ TifiS /" Court of Exclieqrier has been occupied with an iiiforination filed at the : instance pf the Attorney-General , for an infringement of the . StampiDuties Act , in printing and publishing a paper called the Bury Tinies -without registering it as reqi \ ired by the statute , the publication being held to be a newspaper . The defendant-denied that it was a newspaper within tlie meaning of the act . TheJury , , "being ^ instructed to that end by the Lord Chief Baron , found a geiieral yeTdict for the ^ Crown . > M ^ has brought ah action in the same : court agaiiist Mr . Morton . Suniner , to recover 1607 .. for goods supplied to bis wife .: Mri . Sumner is a son of Mr . Richard Sumner , of PuttenhainPaTk , Surrey . Mr . y Morton Sumner was married in Corfu , in . I 849 i to a daughter of the Countess Yolsiiriaccbi ^ who wa s the Avido- \ v of the late Bishop Heber , One child was born , and they lived on ' . ' th ' ti . Con--tinent until the ; year 1850 , when some differences arose between them , and a separation took place with mutual consent . In 1851 , Mrs . Sunirier came to England with her mother , who had dealt with : ftfrs . Johnston for some tune , arid she introduced her daxighter to her . ; . This bill was then incurred . After this , Mrs . Sumner went to America , arid there obtained a divorce , which she thought would be held valid in Englandj but of course it was notsq . She then went to Gorfuj and there married a pliysician in 1855 . Upon that Mr . Sumner applied to the House of Lords , and obtained , a divorce on the ground of adultery :, but there was ; no imputation against tlio honour of Mrs . Sumner ; At the time of the

      marriage , she was entitled to the interest of 4000 ? ., which was settled on her , and Mi \ Sumrier had 5007 , a yeai : settled on him by his father . The Lord Chief Baron directed the jury that there was no evidence to show that Mr . Sumner was bound to pay the money . "A rnaii with 10 , 000 ; . a year might say that his -wife shall spend no > morei . titan- 200 ^ . ; he has a perfect right to do so . " A verdict was accordingly entered for the defendant , the court allowing a bill of exceptions . A servant girl , named Emina Lucas , has brought an action in the Court of Queen ' s Bench against Mr . James Patterson , a barrister , residing in Hanover-street ,

      Pimlico , for false . 'Imprisonment .-, The girl left the house suddenly , early in the morn ing ,, and it was afterwards found that certain property was missing . Mr . Paterson spoke to the police , who searched the girl ' s lodging , but d id not find any of the property . Nevertheless , she waa taken' into custody ; and , Mr . Paterson having signed the chaTge sheet , she was locked up all night . On the following day , Mr . Paterson declined to go on with tlie charge . Shortly afterwards , the girl got a situation , but soon lost it , on its beiny ; known that she had beon in custody on a charge of tlieft . This dismissal she alleged as special damage . ; and the jury , deciding in her favour , gave her 50 / . iii compensation .

      The two coloured girls , named Rose and Minie Avoryj whoso case wo recently noticed , attended before the Soutlivvark mngistrute again on Monday , it being thought requisite that inquiries should bo made about tho truth of their statements . Mr . Uurchain directed thorn to be supplied with more money from tho contributions forwaided , anU requested them to call again next Monday , As they were leaving the court , an American gentleman , stated to be a New York magistrate , handed a constable 21 . toj ) urchnso them warm clothing and boots , which they were shortly afterwards , to their great gratification , furnished with .

      Lord George Townslienrf , a brother of the Marquia Townahend , iictitioncd tlio Insolvent Debtors' Court under the Frqtcction Act , on Thursday . The debts are to tho amount of 27 » 8 / . Tlie cnao wna adjourned for a wook , owing to the insolvent being laid up with gout .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 5, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05121857/page/9/