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      Bonelli ' s electric loom , which will supersede the Jaquard looms , is exciting great interest at Turm . It will be one of the most remarkable inventions to be seen at the Universal Exhibition in Paris . The Tuscan Government has decreed the cessation of the state of siege at Leghorn from the 2 nd inst ., but forbids the bearing of arms without special license ; The following provision is a good specimen of Austriamsm : — " All offences against the interior or exterior security of the stateor against public order , as also all cases of murder

      , or infliction of wounds , are to be judged with the greatest possible despatch , and before , all other matters . Whenever the offences above alluded to are not sufficiently serious according to the ordinary laws in force to warrant the immediate imprisonment of the delinquent , the governor is empowered to order such imprisonment whenever he shall judge it necessary for the sake of maintaining public tranquillity . " The Marquis of Normanby has succeeded Sir Henry L . Bulwer as British Minister to Tuscany . at

      King Bomba has been publicly weeping a procession of the Madonna through the streets of Naples . He has , it is said , renewed the contract with his Swiss troops for 30 years . The quarrel with the Jesuits Has been made up by the General of the Order , and the Jesuits are now more powerful than ever at Naples . The French Momteur has the following respecting the French army of occupation in the Papal States : — The Emperor , in deciding that the effective force of French troops at Rome should be diminished in . proportion to the security now enjoyed in the Papal States , in his solicitude for the cause of the Church and the Holy . See , has consented that until further order the army of occupation shall not be reduced below 3500 men . " : —

      Prince Lucien Murat having been accused by the liberal Piedmontese press of being in league with the Jesuits , wrote a letter to the Deputy Brofferio repudiating the connexion , and treating the Jesuits with contempt . The Prince has since written to the French papers , which reproduced his letter , to , say that the translation from the Italian was incorrect . In Spain there have been serious disturbances at Malaga : — ' The National Guard of Malaga , " says the Madrid correspondent of La Presse , " has seized the £ rat-opportunity _ . o £ _ makfng _ a _ pro ^ the present Ministry . Malaga is a focus of progressist opinions ; there are parties who like Espartero very well , but they seemed to be very disinclined to approve the policy of conciliation he is now following . The disturbances that have just taken place in that city are a broad hint to the Duke de la Yittoria that he must

      separate from Messrs . O'Donnell , Luzurnaga , and a few more of the other Ministers . " TheGovernor of Malaga , a brother of Marshal O'Donnell , was obliged to fly for his life . On the 2 nd inst ., Espartero made the following declaration in the Cortes : " Gentlemen , —I am about to speak to the nation legitimately represented in this place . The idol I adore has been , and always will be , the liberty of my country . To consolidate it on a firm and indestructible basis I shall be ready to sacrifice my life , and , what is worth still more , my reputation . But , gentlemen , without obedience

      to the laws , and without the preservation of public order , liberty is impossible . ( Applause . " ) I will employ all my efforts to preserve it . I count on you , on your enlightenment , your talents , and your virtues ; I count also on the national guard , I count on the army , I count on the entire nation . With such powerful support , if any men should attempt to violate the laws , or to trouble public order—whether they call themselves anarchists , or proselytes of despotism—on them will fall the sword of the law ; and if they should escapo it , they will fly covered with confusion and opprobrium . Our country will thus be punned , and liberty will bo for ever established . "

      The proposition of M . Pareda , who demanded that the bills voted by tho Congress before the Constitution should not be submitted to the Royal sanction , has been rejected by 144 votes against 66 . The Duo de Sevillano , tho Minister of Finance , has pald ' out of his private funds several debts duo by the SUt ^ - particularly 2 , 000 , 000 reals to tho household of the Queen , 8 , 60 O ; 00 O , which remained duo of tho halfyear ' s dividend of July , and nearly 8 , 000 , 000 which wore due tothetroopa of Navarre . It is said , indeed , that tb « total he . has advanced for tho public service

      amounts to no less than 14 , 000 , 000 reals ; and that the committee on the budget have resolved to propose a reduction of 500 , 000 reals in the allowance of the ^ Ttete ^ SS Berryer at the French Academy * t ^ J & T £ W k * M *» ^ e space for works of art is " not limited . M . Cornelius , a well-known German artist , is about to send all his works-two hundred pictures .

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      Military Convention Between Austria And ...

      MILITARY CONVENTION BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA . Fob some days past the German papers have been sneakin" of a military convention concluded be-Sreen Prussia and Austria , which the latter Power ^ called upon Prussia to fulfil . The version which the papers give of this convention being erroneous , we are glad to be enabled to lay the text of the article before our readers . It is as follows : —

      « MILITARY CONVENTION ANNEXED TO THE CONVENTION CONCLUDED BETWEEN AUSTRIA AND PRUSSIA , ON THE 20 TH OF APRIL , 1854 . " Art . 1 . Austria engages herself to add to the 150 000 men who are assembled in Hungary , on the Danube , and on the Saur , 100 , 000 men , who will together compose a second army—and that as soon as the necessity of the measure shall-be felt , and at periods which she will appoint in accordance with Prussia . ± ne troops mobilised in Gallicia , in Transylvania , in Moravia , and joined in Gallicia , as a corps d ' annee , or in separate bodies , will remain in intimate relations with the military forces of Prussia , herself her sideto

      " Art 2 Prussia engages , on , concentrate , according to the circumstances , 100 , 000 men within the space of thirty-six days ; to wit , one-third of these forces in Eastern Prussia , and the two others at Posen or at Breslau . Besides this , she binds herself to raise her army to the number of 200 , 000 men , if the circumstances , should require it , in coming to an understanding each time in that respect with Austria . " Art . 3 . The military convention of the Germanic Confederation preserves all its force as respects Prussia and Austria . . . ¦ . ... ¦ " Art . 4 . The Minister of War in Prussia and the Gommander-ih-Chief of the Imperial army engage themselves mutually to make to each other all the communications necess ~ ary to insure the maintenance of the troops at the amount determined on above , their organisation , and their meeting at the periods fixed , as well as the places of their meeting .

      " Art . 5 . Austria and Prussia will reciprocally accredit superior officers to the two contracting States , aa soon as Prussia shall have commenced placing ier army on a war-footing , in order to arrive at a complete understanding with respect to the measures which they will have to adopt . Superior officers will be afterwards accredited to the two armies . " Art . 6 . The direction to be given to these armies when united shall be based on this principle , that the object of the support which the two Powers are to afford each other reciprocally is merely to repulse an flttflclc * « Xhe ' piresela ' t ^ nvenBon'lias been passed at Berlin oil this 20 th of April , 1854 . ( Signed ) " O . Th . de Manteuffel . " Henry Baron de Hess , General of Artillery . "

      The Murder In Foley-Place. On The Mornin...

      THE MURDER IN FOLEY-PLACE . On the morning of the Sabbath , in broad day-light , and in an opulent quarter of the metropolis , we have just witnessed a crime of extraordinary magnitude and fearfulness . At No . 5 , Foley-place , Portland-road , resided a Mr . and Mrs . Lambert , the tenants of the house . On an upper floor lived a Mrs . Williamson , and apartments had also been occupied under the same roof by an Italian named Luigi Baranelli . ' Between this man and Mrs . Williamson an intimacy appears to have arisen , the sequel of which was a quarrel between him and Mr . Lambert . Into this part of the transaction we need enter no further than to say that Baranelli was desired to quit his lodgings , which he did some ten days ago . On Sunday morning , about

      half-past nine , he presented himself at the door of the house , and was admitted by the servant . After exchanging a few words with her he proceeded to the door of the back parlour , where , as the girl had informed him , her master and mistress were in bed , entered the apartment , shot Mr . Lambert through the head as he lay asleep , and discharged a second pistol with almost equally fatal effect into the breast of Mrs . Lambert as she started up in alarm . He then rushed upstairs and endeavoured to gain admission into the room where Mrs . Williamson was ; but , not succeeding in the attempt , he ran up to another room on the floor above , and there shot himself through tho head just as a police-constable got to the door . His own statement , volunteered as he lay between life and death , with the blood gushing from his mouth , compressed into the compass of half-a-dozen lines the narrative of this frightful tragedy : W I this

      morning went to the house No . 5 , Foley-place , when the street door was opened to me by the servant . I forced my way into the bedroom , placed the pistol at the back of Mr . Lambert ' s head and shot him , and then shot Mrs . Lambert , and then rairupstairs , when I loaded a pistol again , and shot myself , and IJhope I shall soon die . " It further appears that on Friday , the 5 th , he prepared a small remembrance of himself , in the shape of a note and a portrait , addressed to Mrs Williamson , and that on Saturday evening he purchased the pistols with which the deed was committed He must then have risen on the following morning and put this dreadful design into exe-. _ house ito . 5 , Foley-place , when

      cution . , j , ... . ... What will strike the reader most forcibly in tlus appalling story is the disproportion apparently subsisting between the provocation and the crime . The only motive for the deed seems to have arisen out of the exclusion of the murderer from the house . . Thi 3 proceeding was probably attended with angry words , but the worst Baranelli says of Mr . Lambert is , " that he threatened to strike him , " to which he adds that he " became desperate from that time .

      In consequence , therefore , of a difference of this nature he resolves upon murder , and , apparently upon suicide ; commits a treble crime with unfaltering determination , and puts the whole case upon record by a voluntary statement , without any expression of contrition or remorse . Nothing can be more trivial or commonplace than the alleged circumstances of the quarrel ; nothing more truly frightful than the consummation which it received at his hands . . . _ .

      Mrs . Lambert , although severely injured , is expected to recover—the murderer also , A coroners inquest has been held on the body of Mr . Lambert , but the proceedings have been adjourned until the 17 th . At the inquiry , however , some facts were elicited . The brother of the murdered man gave evidence , and said that his real name was Lathamthat of Lambert having been assumed . He had been separate * from his wife eight or nine years since , and had lately been living with the woman calling herself Mrs . Lambert . The connexion had given annoyance to his friends , and it is said that the house in Foley-place had been taken with the intention of establishing her in some way of business , with a view to dissolving the intimacy . It may be also remarked that the house had borne a character by no means uncommon in the neighbourhood . STATEMENT OF THE MURDERERr In one of the smaller parcels which Baranelii thrust on the woman who opened the door to him on Sunday morning , a pocket-book was found , which contained the following letter and "Memorandum " : — " 68 , Newman-street , " The night of the 4 th of January . " Sir , —I beg of you to pardon me . I dishonour you . I dishonour our dear Italy . But it is not my own fault . From the first moment I arrived in this country- —since ten years' exile—it has been a place of suffering to me . I have never had one hour of peace . I have been called by the name of an assassin ; and as an assassin I must act . X am a Roman ! I am . an JLtaHMU ^^ K isjenou ^^ In a little memorandum-book of mine you will perceive the cause . There is something of love in the matter . " Remember my name to all my friends ; and in dying I say farewell to Italy . " Luigi Baranelli . " M . Conforti , 53 , Old Compton-street , Soho . "

      " Memorandum. " The Cause Of My Desperat...

      " MEMORANDUM . " The cause of my desperation is the Lamberts . When I left the hospital some time since I wished to return into the country . This Lambert kept me in London , and with false flattery wrote to my club , giving notice that I and Madame Williamson had become attached to each other . In conclusion , a flame was lighted in our hearts , which hurried us onward to the point of impropriety , though Madame Williamson was both an experienced and capricious woman . In that moment of love our reason deserted us , and she swore to be true to me many times more than if I were her husband , and I , for my part , tho same . Our love was mutual from the first , and cost tho honour of Madame Williamson . She , being alarmed at her situation , discovered ( confessed ) all to the Lamberts , who immediately

      began to meddle in the business , and Mrs . Lambert discovered to Mrs . Williamson a purpose of her own . As the state of my health would not allow mo to go out of England , ' I remained in London , and my affection for Madame Williamson increased . At this time I found that M . Kolozdy and M . Zambclli had become , through the Lamberts , equally attached to Madame Williamson . When tho Lamberts found that they wished to take her out of England , they attempted directly to cause a separation between them . The Lamberts also prevented the husband of Madame Williamson from coming back to her ; and , with regard to myself , Madame Williamson confessed to mo that they always spoke disparagingly of mo , and attempted , by every means , to cause the greatest disagreement between us ; and they succeeded to this extent , that Madame Williamson said she wanted to ovo mo no more . She also told mo that Madamo Lam-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 13, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13011855/page/8/