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      Continental Notes. France. The News From...

      exists The approaching elections to the Cortes are causing great excitement , and threaten to be fiercely contested . AU 8 TTBIA . The autograph letter which the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian lately received from the Emperor of the French ( says the Augsburg Gazette ) had for its object to thank the prince for an offer which he had . made to send to his Majesty a copy on a small scale of the statue of Napoleon I ., by Canova , at present in the public gardens of Milan . The Emperor , in accepting the offer , expresses himself in the most affectionate terms .

      According to the Borsenhalle , the Emperor of Austria intends to increase the concessions already granted to his Lombaxdo-Yenetian subjects , and the Archduke Perdioand Maximilian , Governor of tbat kingdom , is endowed with full powers to this effect .

      GERMANY . Great damage has been caused in Saxony by severe floods . HOI / LAND . The King of Holland is contemplating abdication 5 n favour of his son , the Prince of Orange , who will attain his majority on the 4 th of September next . In . conjunction , with this event , it is said that overtures will be formally made on behalf of the young prince , for the hand of the second daughter of Queen Victoria . The change which took place in the Dutch Ministry last year has resulted in the advent of another of more advanced liberalism . The Prime Minister and President of th & Council , who is also Minister for the Colonies , is M . E . E . Rochussen .

      TTAIY . It is stated , that the political prisoners recently found gtulty at Naples are being subjected to more severe punishments than their sentences indicated . The state of siege under which the Duchy of Modena , now occupied by Austrian troops , was placed under the revolutionary attempt , two years ago , has been raised . The police authority still remains , however , in the hands of the Austrian General . .

      . . - • . ; ¦; . ¦ . . . - TURKEY . " .. ¦ ¦ . . . ¦ . Accounts have been received from Canea to the 17 th . Tie following is the text of the articles modified to the -wish of the insurgents : — " 1 . A general amnesty is granted to all who have taken up arms . 2 . As regards everything connected with religious worship , the provisions of the Hatti-Humayoun remain in full force and vigour . 3 . The mufti has nothing to do with the administration of the property of Christian minors , or with the affairs of inheritance . 4 . The councillors of the provinces will be named by the people according to the established regulations . Their services will be gratuitous . " . .

      The Nora of Brussels states tbat letters liave been received from Kagusa which set forth the conditions on which the rayahs of Herzegovina have offered to make their submission to the Porte . The principal of these conditions is the abolition of taxation , and substitution of a . tribute ; they also require that the Bashi-Bazouks- shall be replaced by regular troops ; that the proprietors of the soil shall have a right to only onefourth of the produce of the soil , and that certain religious privileges shall be granted to them .

      RUSSIA . A serious collision occurred some time ago between the Moscow students and the police . Some high officers of the latter have just been dismissed the service , and one has been degraded to the lowest ranks of the army , as a punishment for improper conduct towards the students on this occasion .

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      Accidents And Sudden Deaths. An Accident...

      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . An accident of a distressing character , resulting in the death of an excursionist , occurred on Monday morning at Bishopstoke . An excursion train left Salisbury for Southampton and Portsmouth , calling at the intermediate stations . On arriving at Bishopstoke , it was necessary to detach the carriages in order that the portion destined for Portsmouth might proceed on another line . "Whilst this was being done , a young man left the carriages ( contrary to rule ) and entered the refreshmentroom . Whilst he -was partaking of refreshments , the starting hell was sounded , and he hurriedly loft the room and ran along the platform , for the purpose of getting into the carriage he had left . The train was then in motion . On his way , he came violently against a post , and fell between the carriages on the line , a great portion of the train passing over him . His limbs were fearfully mangled , and his head was crushed to atoms . A foarful railway accident occurred at Gartsherrio ( Scotland ) last week , in consequence of a large excursion train for Stirling , containing about one thousand scholars and teachers , running into a mineral train at a crossing . TUo engine was pitched off the line , and about sixty persons ¦ were- injured , twenty bo severely that they were unable to proceed to Stirling . Black eyes and bruises wore very abundant , and tlio hand of the Rev . Mr . Brown was so severely cut that ho was obliged to return to Coatbridgo in ordor to have it dressed . Fortunately , the train was proceeding nt rather a slow paco , or the consequences would undoubtedly havo been fearful .

      Mr . John Major , a gentleman who had been invited to a pic-nic near Bridpprt , on Monday , met with his death while : bathing in the morning previously to starting . The greater part of the day passed -without his making his appearance at the pic-nic , and in tlie evening word was brought to his relations , that he was dead . It is thought probable , either that he struck his head against one of the rocks in diving , and so , becoming stunned , was drowned , or that he was seized with a fit while in the water . The Ramsgate station of the South-Enstern . Railway has been the scene of an accident . A train filled with passengers -was on Tuesday running into the station down an inclined , plane , and , owing to the breaks not being applied , a collision ensued with the stationary buffers , and several of the passengers were seriously bruised and lacerated . Some were carried away insensible , but mo livea were lost .

      The Scotch papers announce the death , by accident , of the Marquis of Queensberry . lie had gone out shooting , on Friday week , on his estate in Dumfriesshire ; in the afternoon , he was found dead , having been shot through the body . He was probably loading one of the barrels of his gun , when the other went off , and caused his death . The Marquis was only forty years of age . He succeeded his father in 1856 . He leaves a large family . The inquiry into the death of the persons killed by the explosion of the firework factory in the Westminsterroad was resumed and concluded yesterday week . After hearing a great deal of evidence , which has already appeared , the coroner summed up , and the jury returned

      the following verdict : —* That the deceased children , Sarah Ann Vaughan Williams and Caroline Bridges , died in consequence of burns received by the explosion at s firework manufactory in the "Westminster-road on the 12 th tilt ., carried on by William Bowyer Bennett C trading ; -under the name of Madame Co ton ] , ami this jury finds a verdict of manslaughter against the said William Bowyer Bennett , for having unlawfully carried on such manufacture contrary to the statute 9 and 10 William III ., c . 7 ' ¦ . ; '¦ and this jury cannot separate without expressing their anxious hope tlvat the proper authorities will take measures to prevent the recurrence of such unnecessary calamities for the future . " Bail was taken for Bennett . ¦ .

      Captain Patullo , a gentleman of a Moraysliire family , has been drowned while bathing in the sen at Nairn , He was nearly saved by a Mr . James ; but tlie rope that was fastened round the body of the drowning man suddenly slipped , and Captain Patullo was borne beyond the reach , of help .

      Gatherings From Law And Police Courts. O...

      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Oh Saturday an Italian , who said his name -was Antonio La Rosa , and -whose age appeared to be about forty , -was charged with parading the streets in -woman ' s " attire . The description of his dress , according to the report , lathe skirts of a pink muslin dress , duly expanded by means of crinoline and hoops , his legs inserted in lace drawers and military-heeled boots , his by no means handsome face partly concealed by ringlets , and his hands enveloped in light kid gloves . The defendant said it was only done for a frolic . He had only put on his intended wife ' s bridal dress . The . friends of the

      defendant were sent for , and the magistrate was assured that Rosa was an artist of considerable repute , and a member of the Koyal Academy of Naples , besides being the possessor of several foreign and English medals , all attesting bis excellence in the profession . Mr . Henry directed the interpreter to tell the defendant that people were in the habit of attiring themselves in women ' s clothes for very evil purposes , and he would certainly be committed if the frolic were repeated . The practice of assuming women ' s apparel is by no means rare flinong foreigners in this country . We would advise the police to look after a Frenchman who keeps a shop in the llaymarket , and who has been seen walking in Jtcgcnt-street dressed as a woman .

      A person described a 3 Arthur Robinson , 7 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury , gentleman , was sent to prison for a month for indecently assaulting a young -woman in one of the carriages on the North Kent Railway line . An extraordinary case of child desertion came before the Worship-street police magistrate on Saturday . A gentleman brought to the court an elegantly dressed little girl who , he said , had been placed by a respectable middle-aged woman in his hall , on the previous night , under the pretenco that she belonged to the family . The poor little creature could give , no other account of herself than that her mother brought her to town in a railway train , and that her name is Louisa Turner . Her dress was in every respect that of u gentleman ' s daughter , and she is described as a pretty child , of olive complexion . From circumstances which havo since transpired , there is reason to suspect that tbo " gentleman " who took her boforo the magistrate ia her own father .

      At the Court of Bankruptcy on . Monday , a traderdebtor summons , taken out a short time since against Messrs . Felix Oalvert and Co ., w « s hoard and dismissed . A petition was preflcnlod , praying for nn order to wiiu up the Patent Seamless Leather Company .

      William Cox , an accountant , in the a ^; ¦ " * Commercial Dock Company , ltotherh thf ° the Monday on remand b 5 o « Mr ? Si \ t ^ * " * ° " police-court , charged with embezzling Varm , ™ nwich money belonging to his employers . Il e w " , ° f ? ,, f <* mitted for trial on three clmrges , but ww hnilS C ° ' two sureties in 400 L each , and llimselfTn $ 0 ? ? ' > pear at the nest Old Bailey sessions . " ' ° PTen bakers were summoned last Saturdav at tl , o xr townwards Petty Sessions , in the North" 2 f Irri . jT * working at their trade on Sunday night . The appears , began their work between , nine and ten JTV ' but , on the masters agreeing that they should L ™ c I ^ hS » tiluclsr * " *• • ' **• «»»

      William Henry Hunt , a young man of about fi and-twenty has been examined at the Mansion " HoTse * aud committed for trial , on a charge of J n ™^ bezzled between 500 / . and G 001 . from his e ! L Mr . Noel Whiting , colonial broier ,- i < SSnSSST ' ' The accused is what is called the CustoA & and , when there ^ vere any duties to pay , it was his duty to fill up the bodies ot- the cheques for the requishe sums , and lay them before Mr . Whiting .- This position he appears to . have abused , by appropriating a portiou of tlie money due on several of the cheques . A cabdriver ' s trick has . been discovered by Mr Cherrvthe veterinary surgeon and inspector of horses to the police . He observed that the horse driven by a cabman m Oxford-street was lame , and he asked the man forhia ticket . One was given , but it did not contain tbe ri ^ ht number . On being tol < l of this , the cabman niade ° aii

      excuse , and gave another ticket , which Mr . Cherry dis covered had been "doctored . " A certain number-ap ; peared on a piece of very thin , paper , fastened to the ticket so slightly that on the least pressure it came off revealing a dittcrent number underneath . Mr . Cherrytherefore summoned the cabman to tlie Marlboroughstreet police-office . Mr . -Bead ' on inflicted a fine , detained tlie driver ' s badge , and remitted the license to Scotland-yard , for the Commissioners , to inquire into these deceptive tickets . : : ¦•" ¦¦

      ; The Assizes. Two Distressing Cases Of ...

      ; THE ASSIZES . Two distressing cases of ' child murder "by mothers , of a very similar nature , and ending in the same verdict , were trieil at Wells on Wednesday . The first case was that of Elizabeth Card , who cut the throat of her little boy , ami afterwards lier own . The -wound inflicted on the child ' s throat was fatal ; that on her own , not so . It appeared tbat the poor womaiiVTiiisb ' and was-a drunken , -worthless fellow ; that he treated her with great brutality , and put her in fear of her life ; that'this had driven her into a condition of temporary insanity ; and tliat she had killed her child under fear that it would be starved . She -was in a state of pregnancy at Hie time , which no doubt contributed to her excitement . The jury found a verdict of Not Guilty , on the ground of insanity . —In tlie second case , Eliza Williams was indicted for the murder by drowning of two of her children . This is the case -which we briefly related in our Postcript last week , the events occurring no longer ago than the 3 rd instant . Tlie woman was passionately—almost madl } ' —attached to ' h « r husband and children ; and , on tbe 2 nd instant , she fancied that her husband treated lier less kindly than usual , owing to lier having made a mistake in paying some taxes . On the following morning , she conceived that hi ? manner was more cordial again ; but the previous impression had done its work . She wandered out in n

      state -of moody insanity , mid drowned her children in a bay of the liristol Channel . Subsequently , slie gave herself into custody , and made a statement to tlie police , in which she said;— "I walked about til ! leu o ' clock , and sat on a stone bench near the bench . My children fell asleep in my nrnis . 1 walked down with my children in my aims still asleep , with their heads on my breast ? . I went with the intention of drowning myself and my children . 1 met the tide and walked into tlie sea up to 1113 ' waist , whon I stumbled overa stone and fell backwards , and I did not know what had happened for some time . When I aunt ; to myself I and

      saw something floating on the wntcr . 1 got to it , found it was my little boy , dead , and 1 put it down again . I then saw my little baby in the wntur . I K ilVC a scream , and went away . I walked along till I »«' two boys , wlio said , ' That woman is mad . I asked far a police-station to give myself up . " The reading <>< tills statement cnused a painful seiidution , and many eyM wore suffused wifti teara . Insanity was shown to bo w the woman ' s blood , fliul the jury found tlie same verdict in this case as in th < j previous . Tho lui . sb . -md , who was outside the court , iu groat distress of mhnl , donifid tnat ho behaved harshly to his -wife on the morning of I '" ' 2 nd ilist .

      John Raker Buck well was tried on Moiulny and Tupsday j \ t the Wells Asateoa for tho imirder of lii . s grft »»* father nnd grandmother at Cr « tu : h » St . MMuwl on 'f 12 th of April . Tlio facts Imvo already appeared « i thesacol . nmis . Tlie object appear * to have l > i' < m plun der ; and , after comiuiuiiitf tho act , the pririoni'i- M lire to t w houHfi . He was found ( Juilty , anil . sen ! - nerd to dcut » i and ' ike left the do « U smilinur . '

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 14, 1858, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14081858/page/8/