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      he should be christened after the holy man . Accordingly , the child was born , and hence the name . AlexaS has communicated the fact to the Reverend Metropolitan of Moscow , Philaret , ma letter m which it appears that he expressly stipulated that the Empress should be " happily and safely delivered ; » otherwise , the bargain . would not have held good . But what vain old fellows these saints are , who will do anything to have a child christened after them ! THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . The Kaimakan Vogorides has received the Grand Cordon of the Iron Crown from the Austrian Government . It has been suggested that this is a testimony of approbation for his conduct in opposing the Union . In the negotiations concerning the organisation of the Danubian Principalities , the partisans of the Union of the two provinces have often brought forward the name of a Prince of the Royal Family of Belgium , the Comte de Flandres , as a candidate for that eventual constitutional throne . The representative of Belgium at Constantinople has even been accused of lending an active aid to that candidateship . Such an intervention would have been not only a signal ma-ladresse , but a positive infringement of treaties on the part of a state which is bound to strict neutrality . The Moniteur hrfge has accordingly denied in formal terms these accusations , and has published the correspondence exchanged between the Belgian Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Belgian represenrative at Constantinople . It is quite evident from these diplomatic letters that neither the Belgian Government nor its representative has ever in the slightest degree interfered in the questions relating to the Danubian Principalities . PRUSSIA . The King and Queen have left Berlin for Toplitz . A long and excessive draught has prevailed in the neighbourhood of Berlin . The light sandy soil 0 ies about in clouds for want of moisture , and penetrates throug h doors , windows , and walls ; and the heat and aridity are so great that the trees in the woods frequently burst into spontaneous combustion . Iwo tirework shops have been blown up , destroying the lives of four or five persons . . A railway station , also , suddenly burst into flames , ¦ without any apparent cause .

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      The Alleged Malversations In The Duchy O...

      THE ALLEGED MALVERSATIONS IN THE DUCHY OF LANCASTER . ( From the Preston Guardian . ') It will be se « n by our Parliamentary report that Mr . Coningham has obtained a committee of some sort to inquire into the allegations contained in the petition of Mr . Francis Bertolacci . As the accusations in that petition are to be submitted to a ^ wasi-judicial tribunal , we will not at present enter into the details of the case between the late auditor and the inculpated noblemen ; but we may express a hope that the investigation will be conducted openly and searchingly—that , in short , it will be a real , and not a sham inquiry . Shall we _ confess it—we Lave our misgivings ! After Mr . Baines s assurance that his predecessors were most anxious to meet the charges preferred against them , and to show cause for the removal of an apparently high-minded and honourable man from his office , because he appeared unwilling to gloss over flagrant irregularities , wo hoped that a full committee would have been nominated in the usual manner , and that Mr . Coningham would have been placed at its head . Instead of this , the government seem to have constrained the honourable member for Brighton to refer tbe choice of his committee to a select little body of cabinet nominees , and to limit the members to a manageable number—five . This first step do e s not look veil , and we wonder that Lord Cavendish who certainly has tho honour of his relative at heart — did not assist the mover of the resolution to relievo himself from- an unusual compact . What on earth have the general committee of elections to do > vith tho case of tho Duchy of Lancaster ? We have Mr . Henry Hansard ' s rules and orders of tho Houae of Commons lying before us , in which tlie mode of appointing committees is specified , nnd to save quoting the rules applicable to the matter under notice , wo may obaerve that in tho hitherto almost , if not quite , invariable order of things , Mr . Coningham would have been entitled to nominate his own committee . Why , then , delegate this function to a body appointed for contrary purposes ? Tho question is not answered by referring to the debate on Thursday night week . Let us , however , hope that tho progress of the investigation will remove any suspicion arising from its false initiation . Wo assume that tho committee will ait with open doora . Public feeling will not tolerate a secret investigation into auch a matter as this petition . Tho qxiasi-judicial character of the tribunal is a powerful reason against concealment . Nothing will certainly afford ua more pleasure than to find Earl QranviUo innocent of all just cause of complaint | but wo can assure tho amiable young nobleman , whose inaiden speech < Jf Thursday week does groat credit to hla understanding and hla heart , that his motive will bp defeated by a clandestine inquiry . Tho triumph of Karl Grauvlllo and his companions will bo , at all events , incomplete , unless tho trial—if wo may ao speak -r-be conducted openly , People are very auspicious

      about the affairs of the Duchy , and no one can say that this distrust is not warranted . The public fancy that there has been gross jobbery in the management of the estates . Perhaps the public are in error , but we cannot say that we think they are . A short time since a review of the internal economy of the offices showed that there were 69 persons em ployed ,, whose salaries alone amounted to 7936 ? . ; the surveys and valuations came to 1668 ? . ; and the general expenses were 4781 ? . per annum . We also find that £ The ten years' total revenue was 390 , 819 The sum received by the Queen was 121 , 000 The outgoings were 269 , 819 The antiquity of an abuse we hold to be no palliation for its continuance , but certainly the present system is not a thing of modern growth , nor , by-the-by , is it confined to one duchy . The affairs of the Duchy of Cornwall are as wastefullv conducted . Here we find that-In ten years the receipts were 566 , 537 The outgoings were 288 , 478 Leaving for the Queen ... 278 , 059

      Ouu Civilization. <>-— A Dangerous Ticke...

      OUU CIVILIZATION . <> - — A DANGEROUS TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN . A poucejus was nearly killed in the Haymarket last Saturday morning by a ticket-of-leave man . Sergeant Crocker observed two men in the Haymarket . about twenty minutes past two o ' clock . In one of them he thought he recognised a burglar who had recently entered the residence of Lord Panmure ; but , not being certain , he sent for a police constable , one Murrell , who knew the man better . On the two officers approaching the men , the latter ran off in the direction of Leicester- j square , pursued by Crocker and Murrell . The suspected burglar was speedily caught , and recognised by the constable ; but the other man escaped The two officers walked with their captive as far as James-street , Haymarket , when the sergeant left in order to try and find the other man , and Murrell , the constable , continued to conduct his prisoner to the station-house . They had not walked far , when the burglar , who goes by the name of Melbourne , suddenly pulled out a pistol and shot the constable in the mouth . The sergeant , who was at no great distance , and who beard the report and the cries for help , hurried back , and found Murrell still grasping his man , though bleeding considerably and almost stunned . Melbourne then fired another pistol at the sergeant , but it took no effect . Before the arrival of Crocker , however , some of the ' swells' who haunt the Havmarket at that hour of the morning had rushed upon Melbourne , and handled him so severely that , upon being brought up in custody the next day at Marlborough-street , he exhibited a very battered appearance . It was with great difficulty that the police rescued him . He was well known to tho constables as a housebreaker , and in 1853 he was tried for that offence , and sentenced to be transported for seven years ; but he was afterwards liberated on ticket-of-leave . He was now committed for trial . The pistol had been loaded with a stone , which had lodged iu tbe constable ' s chin ; but the wound was not mortal , and ho gave evidence against the man on Saturday morning .

      Wholesale Shoplifting.—Two Women, Sister...

      Wholesale Shoplifting . —Two women , sisters , and the wives of artisans at Plymouth , are now in custody at that town , charged with shoplifting on an immense scale . Goods sufficient to stock a shop with were found by the police at thoir lodgings . Their courago must have beon equal to their dishonesty ; for one day they went to a draper ' s Bhop , stole a parcel of silk braid , and afterwards had the audacity to mako a second visit with the braid still in their possession . Kjctjsnsivk Fraud . —A young man of the name of William Jones hns been examined at the Guildhall police-office on the charge of haying attempted to defraud Messrs . Dent and Allcroft , wholesale glovers of Wood-strcot , City , of 1600 ? . worth of goods , lfinrly iu last month , the young mun went to the firm , and , after stating that he came from Messrs . Jones and Evans of New York , and of Melbourne in Australia , and that ho was transacting business for them , selected stock to the amount of 1600 / ., and gave instructions for its shipment , adding that ho would call again the next day and Bottle the account . On leaving , ho took with him a pair of gloves and a scarf as a sample , but nothing more waa soon of him until a week afterwards , when one of ( ho mon at Dont and Alloroft ' a observed him walking down Wood-strcot . Ho stopped him , and inquired when ho was going to pay for the goods ho had selected , Jonos denied that ho had over uoloctod any goodu , on which ho was taken into tho counting-house , whoro , on being spoken to by one of tho partners , ho confessed tho whole fraud , nnd bogged for mercy . Ho was S lvon illto custody , and it was then discovered that tho eonrf nnd glovoa of which ho had defrauded Messrs . Dont and Co ., had been pawned for le . Od . Ho waa remanded . Defalcations ov Oiwioickb ox ? Savinois-mank 8 . — A return published on Monday gives full particulars of

      defalcations discovered to have taken place in 8 avinT banks since the 1 st of July , 1851 , with a ? th ^ respondence thereto relating . Defalcations have tak ° ^ place in the following banks—viz ., in the Oncar h « , of the Romford savings-bank , the Dunmow ^ ank t Newport ( Isle of Wight ) bank , the Runcorn Sank t Bradford ( Wilts ) . bank , the Southport bank / the * YoJJ ? and Barton bank , the Rugby bank , the West LonH bank , the Bromley bank , and the Leicester bank . Assault by a Solicitor on a Brother Solicit ™* —On the Mayor of Birmingham leaving the banouet £ Dec ' s Hotel given to the Duke of Cambridge on Monday week , he asked Mr . Hodgson , a solicitor and the ex Mayor , to take his place as chairman . This was ao cordingly done ; but , if we may rely on Mr . Hodgson ' s subsequent statement , Mr . Collis , another solicitor told him that it was the desire of the Mayor that the ' festi j vities should be speedily closed . Mr . Collis denies this " and says the suggestion was merely one of his own . On the following day , the Mayor inquired why the party had been cut short . Mr . Hodgson attributed the fact to what Mr . Collis had told him . Mr . Collis then wrote a note to Mr . Hodgson , asking him if he adhered to the statement , and the latter replied that he did , thoughexpressing himself in very conciliatory language . Shortly afterwards , Mr . Collis went to tlie office of his brother solicitor , and , holding up the letter , said , "Do you withdraw this ? " Mr . Hodgson answered , "No , but . " At that moment , he was struck on the face by Mr . Collis , and , according to his 6 wn account , he received some dozen blows , causing a flow of blood . The poker was also brandished over his head . At length , he became insensible , and , when one of the clerks burst the door open ( for it was locked ) , Mr . Collis threatened to " lay him straight" if he interfered . When the case was brought forward at the police-tourt , Mr . Collis said Mr . Hodgson admitted that his letter was a tissue of falsehoods , and offered to write any apology . He then began writing it , but suddenly seized the tongs , and called out '" Murder ! " on which , Mr . Collis says he knocked him down three times . The offender was committed for trial . His counsel threw up his brief on hearing Mr . Collis in open court call Mr . Hodgson a liar . A Mortal Blow . —A dancer and singer at Evans's Hotel , Covent Garden , named Hiltlebrarid is now in custody under a very serious charge . He is in the habit of appearing in the saloon of the hotel , towards the small hours of the morning , as ' an Ethiopian serenader ; ' on the night of the Derby day he -was going home to his lodgings in Church-street , Waterloo-road , when he met a man named Rowland White , -who was intoxicated . It would appear that this man struck Hildebrand , who returned the blow with such force as to knock his adversary down . White rose , with his mouth bleeding profusely , and exclaimed , " My jaw is broken ; he kicked me on the jaw . " He -was assisted by the proprietress of a ' coffee-house in Wellington-street , where the circumstance occurred , and was afterwards conveyed to King ' s College Hospital . IliWebrand , in the meanwhile , walked off ; but he was taken into custody at Evans ' s on the night of Friday -week , and on the following day he appeared before tlie Bow-street magistrate . A young woman , named Jane Hicks , with whom he cohabits , and who performs as a jwse pUistique at the Coal Hole , was with him at the time , and slio confirmed Hildebrand ' s assertions that he merely acted in selfdefence . Tho allegation that he hud kicked the man , Hildebrand solemnly denied to tlie police , saying , "So help me God , I did not ; " but he acknowledged that ho struck White two or three times . Mr . Nicholson , of the Cole Hole Tavern , and some others gave Hildebrand au excellent character for sobriety and steadiness , and tue police stated that White was known to them as a constant drunkard . The accused was remanded , anu admitted to bail . During the progress of tho case , constable brought in the intelligence that A \ ' V ^ " , H died at tho hospital . Tho young woman Hicks fainted and fell back , and was taken out of court insensible , iho inquest has terminated in a vorilkt slating that U mw was killed by Hildebrand in solf-dofoiioo . Wife-beating , — James Shadrach , a mWa'o-agJJ man and a carpenter , has been sent to prison o r d * months , with hard labour , for au assault 0 . 1 Iiis vrlic , wretched-looking woman , whom ho frequentlyJll usej and on tho present occasion noar y >» urdor 0 ° - ^ accused her of being drunk , but this . " ^ Vi" woma « a been a falsehood , the neighbours giving : thewo mon very good character . Tho m an , l » o % veverf wns Wnw ^ intoxicated , and this was all tho « letonco jej M * Tho wife , who is always kept vorv short of money , assisted with a small sum from the poor-box . A ViolkntMan a » d ii » Violent ^ fc ^ Hlokmott , one of tho guardians a "" f ^ JJ ^ n Old Town , owns a cottage and niece of «« J & n of ground at Bromley , which .. In tto J *^ ti , is William Moyco , a gardener , ^ wlilnt to ai i a tenant , Mr . hiekmott obtained a ^ « . f » SC wid two wont on Monday morning w th . .. *« W : n oM « J « policemen ( for Moyco had t' % ''™ ° \ vna required violent person ) to tho promises . Ho nuii y , f | l 0 to give up possession ; but Jo ^ JouM » , lfl door of tho cottage was * * ™? " ' Moyco boofllcera began to remove tho furniture . )

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), June 13, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13061857/page/8/