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      Continental Notes. Trance. The Emperor, ...

      Malta ! Vive i Jratelli Lombardi J At a grand promenade of gondolas given in honour of the Milanese , those in -which Austrian officers and functionaries were seated were run against with great -violence . Several of the gondolas also hoisted tri-colored flags . To the cries of Viva V Italia P many of the crowd added , l A basso FAustria ! ' The Austrian police took no notice of what occurred ; but this first pleasure train will be tlie last . "

      AUSTRIA . Christian refugees from Bosnia continue to cross the Austrian frontier , wliere they are well provided for by the Emperor ' s direct order . A military cordon has been established near the frontier to protect the Christians , and the Turks , on their side , have stationed a large force to intercept the fugitives . Rumour at Vienna speaks of the concentration of an A ustrian corps d ' arrnve of 30 , 000 to 33 ,-000 men of all arms in Southern Hungary , on the points nearest the Turkish , Bosnian , and Servian frontiers . According to rumour , this army is to be provided with provisions for one year , and with everything requisite for it to take the field " immediately , sliould circumstances render is necessary . The Cologne Gazette gives a similar rumour , but with a far less number of troops .

      arAxv . " The German-Danish quarrel , " says the Mommy Star , " has now arrived at a serious crisis . The special committee of the Federal Diet has recommended the rejection of the Danish proposition , arid proposed that execution—that is , the entrance of Federal troops into Hoistem , accompanied by Federal commissioners , to take the Government of- the Duchy into their hands—should be proceeded with ' in a fortnight . '

      RUSSIA . The efforts which Uns « ia has been making for some time past to increase her navy are so considerable ( says a letter from Poland in the Vienna Gazette ) that her own bnilding-yaTds are not sufficient for the purpose . She has had vessels built in England , France , and America , under the superintendence of . officers of the Uussian navy . The reorganisation , of the Baltic fleet is now complete , and reckons twenty-seven ships of the line and several smaller vessels , without -counting gunboats . As the number in the Black Sea has been reduced , the Government has endeavoured to compensate for this loss by increasing the flotilla in the Caspian Sea , and by creating a respectable naval force in Eastern Siberia and at the mouth of the River Araoor . Kamiesh , the wooden seaport town erected by the French during the war in tlie Crimea , still exists , and boasts of inhabitants .

      . rorJ > ' > . The Revolutionary Committee of London ha ? , it is said , recently distributed an Poland copies of a manifesto exciting the Poles to rebellion . A copy has been seized by the authorities of Posen . HOLLAND . The Minister of the Interior ha 9 submitted to the King a detailed report on a new submarine telegraphic line between the British and Dutch coasts . The Minister proposes , contrary to the opinion of his predecessors , to grant a new concession to M . Ruyssenaers , who has obtained it from Hanover and Denmark .

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      Criminal Record. Child Mubdeii,—The Wife...

      CRIMINAL RECORD . Child Mubdeii , —The wife of a collier at Nailsca has cut the throat of her little boy Avhile , apparently , iu a state of temporary insanity . She was then about lo make a similar attack on her other children , but their cries brought assistance to the spot , on which the woman gashed her . ovnthro . it , . though ' not fatally . An inquest has boon held on the body of the child , ending in a verdict of Wilful Murder against the-. mother , who will he committed'for trial when suflicicntly recovered . Discovi . ry or Ili'MAJj ivKMAixts . — Four human

      skeleton * Imve been discovered by ' tho workmen employed ii ; digging Tor the foundations of tlie Westminster Palaco Hotel . They wero found in the centre- of the ground where formerly Htood sonic , old structures of a very disreputable character . The remains ' were probably those of persons who had been murdered ; but uu inquiry would now be fruitless , from lapse of time . Mvrbkpat Uyk . —John White , annul against whom a coroner ' s jury , on Friday week , returned n verdict for the wilful murder of liis wife ut Uyc , was captured between four and five miles of Unit town last Saturday evening . He made very little effort , to escape , saying that ho could not leave his children , of whom ho lms seven . He confesses thai ho wad tho murderer , lit :

      was examined at the Town Hull , WiiiL-holson , on Tuesday , when a scone of unexampled ' pnlhos and misery took plnoe . It won found necessary to administer water frequentl y to tho prisoner , who was in a Ftnto of lamenLa » Io proHtrntion ; mid , on hi i daughter bdiitf brought , lonvard to give evidence , ho uttered a tumble- groan , leu on his knees-, and oxcliiimed , "Oh , Lord , look dutvn upon my poor soul , ami my dc : ir blessed wifn ! Oh , Keep my children from temptation ! Oh , let m « huo my childre n ! The ln »|> t » lioii Iuih ) kch too great , f <» r me . ' " several young girls who -wore , present were mo overcome at tins tlint it wus found luiccasary to take tluun out . A Ho prisoner was attended to by medical nun , mul in

      time became calmer , and slied tears . His daughter was removed , and another witness examined ; on which the prisoner cried out , "Where is that girl ? Oh , where is that girl ? " adding , to one of the medical men , "Directme , sir , direct me . Lost , lost ! " One of the witnesses having alluded to the suspicions felt by the accused with respect to his wife ' s fidelity , the prisoner started up , clenched his fists , ground bis teeth , and made a horrid noise . Several policemen restrained him , and he then said , " I won ' t hurt anybody . '' After a time , he asked , " Where are my-poor boys ? " The girl was again brought in , and screened from her father ' s observation ; but , as sbe -was

      leaving , he caught sight of her , cried out , "Ob , there is my girl ! " and burst into tears again . Having been committed for trial , and been asked if he wished to say anything , he replied , " No , gentlemen . I want to see my children , if you please . Oh , let me see my children . ! " He was then removed to Lewes gaol . A New Trick . —A correspondent -writing to the Times , mentions a new device of policy of the rogues who are always looking out for victims among the shopkeeping class : — " Mrs . Underwood , an elderly lady , keeps the post-office , and a small stationer ' s shop , in

      Ladhrook-grove , Notting--bill . On Friday last ( July 30 tb ) at eleven a : m ., a man came to her shop for some note paper . At the same time , a smart dog-cart , no doubt driven by an accomplice , drove up , which the man in the shop , affecting to see it through the window , pointed out with - the * words , ' Holla , ma'am ! here's somebody wants you . ' Mrs . Underwood thereupon left her shop to attend to the driver , who , it is needless to say , contrived to detain her by questions about the post sufficiently Ion- £ to » enablc the confederate in the shop to rob her and make oft ' , and then drove away . Upon Mrs . Underwood returning in-doors , sbe found , the man gone , and with"him her cash-box , containing over 20 ? . in gold and some silver . "

      — - ——— w » - — w » vu ^ uuuvCi kJLlC vUCU UUl * ' The Lord help me ! ' three times , to the best of my recollection , and then she fainted away , and I left her . I -went over the wall , shut the knife , and put it in my waistcoat pocket . I went into the fields , and -wandered about , perhaps an hour or an hour and a half . I laid me down and thought I would go and tell ler parents , but I could not go . I then thouglit I would go to her again , and I went back ; but , when I got a little way up the lane , my heart failed me and I couldn't go to her . Then I got over the other wall into the field on the other side . I took the knife .

      t 4 tutaum Wednesday , Atkinson was examined before the county magistrates at Knaresborougb , and he then made a verbal confession of his guilt . The girl had refused to marry him , as she did not think they would be happy together . He then threatened to murder her , and ultimately clutched her round the throat . She cried out , and he released his hold , and walked on with her a little -way farther , but soon pulled out a kuife , and showed it her . " She cried out , ' Let ' s go home , Jimlet s go home , Jim ! ' Then I seized her and cut her throat , and she cried out , ' It ' s all my mother , Jim—it ' s all my mother that ' s caused this disturbance' She cried out

      out of my pocket again and opened it , and I put it in a wall top , after which I took across the fields home to a little dam of my father's , to wash the blood off my hands and face . I tlien crossed another field home . "When I got home , my father and them were up . I did not go into the house . 1 went into the shed where the carts -were , and sat me down until I thought they had all gone to bed . Then I went into the house . I could not eat any supper , and went to bed . I could not rest all the night . " After this statement , Atkinson was committed ft v trial at the next York Assizes .

      /¦ AiUJiDEK of a Bot . ~ -The dead body of a youth , sixteen years of age , was discovered a few days ago in a hayiack in a stable , at . Wick , near Berkeley , Gloucestershire . He had been missing for two daysj and had last been seen in company of two carter .- ! , named Daniels and Bailey . It was Daniels vho first announced the discovery of the body , which he did in a very cool and flippant manner . He and Bailey have been apprehended , and committed for trial on a charge of "Wilful Murder . '* .--Maxslaugiitek on a Railway . —The adjourned inquest on the body of-William Pine , the engine-driver , on the London and North-Western Railway , who came

      iUt'UPKR OV A YOUXG LADY BY IIKR LOVRK . Miss Mary Jane Seaife , the daughter of a farmer at Darley , near Ripley , on the line of the Leeds Northern Railway , was murdered on Sunday night by a young gentleman , named Atkinson , to whom she was engaged . Atkinson is tlie son of a llax-spinner , and lie has been intimate with the young lady since they wero both children together ; but the mother of Miss Scaifo and the father of Atkinson did not approve the match , and it was broken , off for a time , during which interval Miss Scnife received the attentions of a Mr . Gill . But that intimacy wasalso put an end to , and the young lady again accepted Atkinson as her suitor . On Tuesday week , however , Atkinson saw Miss Scaife at a gala talking with Gill , and this

      by his death in an accident on the AVillesden junction , caused by the negligence of the pointsman , Henry Lamb , was brought to a conclusion on Tuesday , when the jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Lamb , and appended the following remarks :- ^ " The jury recommend that an extra man should be appointed to work the points , and that the men should be confined to that work and nothing else ; also , that the telegraph signalbox , should bo placed just opposite the points . The jury also attach great blame to the manager of the . North London Railway in consequence of the irregularities that mark the time of starting their Kew trains from their stations . "

      appears to have awakened a strong fooling of jealousy . Nevertheless , tho young couple vent to chapel together on Sunday evening , and left in company . Jliss Scaife did not return home ; but it was thouglit she liad gone to the house of her uncle , and no alarm was felt . Atkinson readied home a little nftcr nine o ' clock , and went to Led very soon . At daybreak , his brother , who slept in the sumo room , observed blood on his shirt , and asked the cause . Atkinson replied that he had murdered Mary June Seuifc on tlie previous night ; on which the brother roused the family , and told them tho dismal news . In the menu vhiky tlie body hml been discovered in n lano , with tho throat cut , and the eyes starting from the . sockets . Everything betokened that n frightful struggle

      for life h : ul taken place . Atkinson was apprehended , niul at the police office- at IMpon made some vaunting lvnuirktt , among which were : — " t have been very happy I ' Vtir since , 1 loft Tatoley-bridgo ( tho pluce to which ho was lii ' iit t . ikon on being apprehended ); I have cominittevl a p , reut crime , but I nm quite content ; I can go freely to tho gallows ; 1 can forgivo the vilest of the vilu ; 1 Jim guilty ; I left her about half-past nine o ' clock liiHt night . " According to ono account , Atkinson ' h brother slept in another room , and the . murderer caino in early in thu morning , exclaiming , " What have 1 < lon «? Oli , Lord , ImvB nmrcy on mo ! What have 1 dunuY I have murdorcd Mary Ann Soaife . " The noise of tho dcuth-striigglu had been heard « t a distance- by Boino people , but they had not inquired into it . Ou

      The Assizes. Albert' .Itusket Turner Was...

      THE ASSIZES . Albert ' . ITusket Turner was tried at Maidstone on . Friday week on a charge of murdering his wife . He had some reason for supposing that a man named Taylor had been unduly familiar with her ( though Taylor solemnly denied the fact at the trial ); and , on the night of Saturday , April 17 th , being greatly exasperated at a meeting which he supposed to have taken place , he struck-her three times on the head with a poker , and then cut her throat . The act was first discovered by some lodgers in the room below , on to whose bed the blood dripped through the ceiling . Turner made no attempt to deny his guilt , but said he would rather see his wife lying dead tlian that she should live to be a prostitute The defence simply sought to soften the charge from murder to manslaughter . The jury took this view of the case , and Turner was sentenced to penal servitude for life .

      Captains Menham and Fox , who were recently committed for trial on a charge of murdering a sailor by throwing him overboard off Hamburg , have been Acquitted at the Durham Assizes . The case for the prosecution broke down . Mr . Frederick Swan Todd has been found Guilty at Newcastle-on-Tync of a murderous attack with a knife on Mr . George Tallentyre Gibson , a solicitor , in his office , on the night of the 24 th of last March . The defence was a suggestion of insanity , caused by losses and misfortunes . Todd Avas sentenced to imprisonment for six months . In the case of John . Franklin , the man charged with the murder of Joseph Owen , at Kyton , near Coventry , the Grand J ury at "Warwick throw out the bill .

      Sehna Cranmore , a married woman , has been tried at the same . Assizes on a charge of strangling her infant in its cradle . It was clear , however , that she was insano nt the time ; and she was therefore Acquitted . On tho day on which tho child was born , a neighbour Iianged himself , which made so groat an impression on the woman that she accused herself of being the cause of the act . She will be kept in an asylum till she is quito cured . William Ayerst , a medical gontlcman between eighty

      nnd ninety years of age , has been tried at Maidstono on a charge of being concerned with a quack named Baldwin ( found guilty at the Spring Assizes ) in tho manslaughter of the wife of a labouring man . Tho caso was one of imputed unskilfulness in the delivery of tho woman during childbirth . The jury Acquitted tho accused . —A similar caso has been tried at Guildford . Tho accused in this caso was Mr . Francis Ward , a surgeon practising at Streethnm ; but the evidence altogether failed to provo negligence , and tho accused wn 3 Acquitted , with a compliment from tho Judge .

      William Barker , a fanner owning considerable property near Canterbury , was tried at Muidstone last Saturday on n chur ^ e of setting liro to some of liis own buildings which were insured . lie only applied to thu fire-office for tho cxaict value of tho buildings destroyed ; tho object , therefore , was not to tfnin in tlio ordinary Henso of the word ; but . it is thought llwl . ln > wauled tho insurance , company to prnvido him with new buildings in the plneo of tho old . Ho w / i . s found Guilty ; but Huron IJruniwoll postponed sculeiici " , as Murker nppearod to bo of rut Iut weak intellect . <»» " subsequent day , however , ho-was seiitctiiMid to tliruoiixjiitlisT hard labour . An notion was brought at I ho siuno , Aa . sizi's against Mr . John Webb Itoeho by a Miss Smith , to recover ( i -V . 10 s , being five quarters' Arrears of an annuity of 6 QI . granted

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 7, 1858, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07081858/page/7/