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      The Foksakkn Indians. — Mr. Tcnlo, Of Ca...

      a local pap « r ) r ba » made his escape through bis eel Siidaw in Oxford g * ol in a very cunningly contrived Wanner . The window consists of a small pa nej rf glass oxTihe one half and : a . slide-shutter on the other the tetterSa poshed aside exhibiting several , iron . bars . Sneof these bars , aninch square in thickness , had been S completely ia two by some sharp instrument , thus Siiuran aperture for escape of only ten and threec ^ urtCT inches-by . seven and three-quarter inches . On tfiao utside of this -window is a wooden contrivance , called a louvre light , placed there toobstruet any view £ o m the interior of . the cell . Priest had torn bis . bedrrug into strips , and tied it together with thin pieces of fci & check shirt , and , having made a stout ,, thick line , he secured one- end of it to the iron bans of the window . He then mwr" ^ gp ^ to squeeze himself througbr the small aperture on to the louvra light , which he got over ; and this , moat , have been attended with great difficulty and danger . Several other obstacles had then to be overcame ; but they -were all surmounted in time , and the convict got clear off . Early in the morning , a policeman discovered the extempore ladder hanging on the exterior , wall . Assizfi Casks . —George Curedale , a small manufacturer of Burnley , has been found Guilty-at Liverpool on a , charge of forging and uttering at Manchester a bill of exchange- for 30 , 0 / . He appears to have forged and uttered two other bills . Ultimately , he fled to Hamburg , where he was arrested , while living under a false name . He was afterwards declared a bankrupt . The sentence was that he be transported for fourteen years . - ~ -An action for assault has been brought at Liverpool by a ~ commission agent named Hey wood against a Mr . Law ,, an attorney . The plaintiff ' s cousin , a Mr . Jackson , and the- defendant , had offices on the same staircase ; and it appeared that a young lady called one evening at Mn Law ' s chamber , and , after knocking at ib « door-some time-without effect , Hey wood came out of Mr . Jackson ' s office , told her Mr . Law was not in , ami asked her to walk- into Mr . Jackson ' s room . AccordiBg to the case for the defendant , Hey wood accompanied this- invitation with very insulting insinuations with respect to the young lady ' s object in going there ; and accordingly Mr . Law next day wrote to him , der masdingi . an apology , on pain of a horsewhipping , Hey wood went to Mr . Law ' s o & ce to make an explaeatjon , . when .- he . was assaulted and severely beaten . At the trial , he denied that he intended to iusult the young lady . A verdict was- given in his favour ; damages , 1502 , James Jbnnaway , charged with firing , a pistol at a servant gjrl under circumstances which have already apnearedy has been , committed for trial , after repeated renwuodsv Mubdeeotts Atta-CK . —Henry dEToker , one of th < j draymen employed ; at Messrs . Truman and Hanbuxy's , the brewers , was examined before the Worship-street , nMgtstratfrOU atcbarge of having inflicted several severe : vrouoda on Richard Baker , a journeyman upholsterer . TJhte . pjrisoaeriwas seen by Baker standing in the road in geiham-street , Spitalfields , brandishing a large knife in tti very wild and excited manner . Suspecting , from hob general be & aviour , that he might do some mischief , Baker stealthily approached him from behind , and attempted to snatch the knife suddenly out of his hand ; but , before he eouWkefiect his purpose , Hoker turned quickly round , agk & f . seizing Baker , stabbed him several . times in the upper part of the . back . He was rescued after a time : by sotne pasg « rs-by , who also succeeded in disarming the prisoner . Baker received not less than fkve deep wounds ilk his back , one of which nearly reached the left lung , a * 4 *; in the opinion of , the medical man , the consequences a »« t llkeiy to be vavy serious . The Mows-were inflicted -vriith such savage violence , that the blade of , th « knife -vrna < broken in the act . Hoker said that he used the knife foa the purposeiof protecting himself against an attack 'which bad , been made on . him by a mob ; and two >« ftne * M » in his bahalfc stated that they knew him to be , gffr + vlty ttpaahjnff ^ t » pe aceable * . inoffensive mam . Mr . D !^ B ) mioo » t *; re « aaad « d the-accused until tbe result of the is ^ XMBiea he had inflated on . the otlwr nxaa should be known . Shuvkb oor Putrid Mbat . —Jaraea Bridge , a sausage MMtosaveloyrBnakar , living at Notting-luU , has been fined 41 * . for ktaving on his premisoa a large amount of meat in MStiAdvanced state * of decomposition ) , which . bia , wife , in-r t « arfedit » roAtoeioto ^' poloniwei '' The sausage-machine ,. a * well as the mrhoh ) places was found in a most filthy oodbrevolting state , hy the » inspector of nuisances , who akat duMovrerii soanei Bamaage-meat ready chopped ; but this , wm s » highly Masoned thai . it did not smell ae badly m * m * ma * * ikMiiWis » Jfmv ! MJ £ M o » Bodmubu— -One o € , the jurors " « fcfc > tatatah * ina » . Jo 0 e , a * the last Bednun Aaaiaea , for t * WiiWrtr <— . iifcaniafMit , and who brought in a , veedlcfc of —il—ghfaiiv contrary to the evidence and to the opinion of the Judge , has written to the Times , to dafend ni—tnlfc * ad ~ hh > , nn—pmlon * , from- the severe , but- jnst , extokrtamtiAthatitpmpm fhti latter ooeupiea upwarda < o £ » tmiummrot « U «» , ¦ wdVtypo , and it written in that p «~ onUav iy ^^ ortk » gi »| lih jn ^» A 4 , u «« twti < wi to aay no ~ ^ P 2 f ^ £ ^ " * * *** V * *** r find tovow gK h , Blr Ch-ks Jfeftto . ua Pro * . » , **» £ mil 9 Utg . Jmmmumjytmtitm ,, it iar . 4 UBw 0 i *» dttaattbtuMrioTiilMi

      , ; - ¦ but the defence seems to rest on the assumption that , the evidence of Burns , the chief witness , could not be depended on in connexion with " tliis important and . Critical Afair . " If that were the case , it is clear there should have been . an acquittal . A great deal of irrelevant talk is introduced , with respect to the prisoner Matthews , the mother of the infant , of whom the juror says : — " She . most assuredly could have saved the child ' s life She weak & feeble as she must have been She- knew that her newly born infanfc ' was lying naked on the cold floor & though it was illegitimate yet . she ought to have felt a . mothers care And what if she . had made a maternal and pathetic appeal & . intreated them to take care of her child wrap it in something warm & bring , to her Should we not think that with , such an intreaty that the stoutest : heart would . have yielded & a bad intent be cast aside . " The Suspected Mukdbr at Hampton Court . —It will be recollected that the body of a Jewish-looking man was found ia the Thames near Hampton Court a short time back , and that it exhibited wounds of a fearful , description , suggestive of some murderous violence having been resorted to . The corpse has been since identified as that of Lewis Solomons ,, lately returned from . Australia . An- inquest-has- been opened , but stands adjourned ; and the story disclosed in the evidence is singular , though , at present rather obscure . In the course of 1853 T Solomons went to Australia , leaving his wife in the care of her brother , Mr . Abraham Davi 3 , a china and glass dealer in Tottenham-court-road . Mr . Davis soon found that his sister received the visits of a man named Gray , and in process of time seemed to regard herself as his wife . He remonstrated , and forbade Gray to enter the house . On this , his sister made a violent attack on him with a carving-knife , but he escaped without injury . He then wrote to Solomons , informing , him of the facts ; but Solomons replied in a letter full of the most appalling threats against Davis for the calumnies he had uttered against " his dear Louisa . " On returning to England , however , he discovered that the allegations were true , and he became very low , expressed a wish to be out of the world , and threatened to destroy himself . He was found to possess a pistol and a bowie-knife ; but he was induced by the wife , of the man Gray to give them up . Ou the day he was last seen alive , he said he should return home in the evening : he was not then living with , his wife , but was boarding at another house . Mrs . Solomons , who is described as a morose-looking person , appeared at the inquest as a . witness ; and she stated that her husband had latterly become a drunkard . She also said that , some time before his death , she remonstrated with him for going about with so much cash in his pockets , as he might get murdered or robbed . Suspicion attaches to the roan Gray , on account of his having said previous to the death , that Mrs . Solomons might consider herself a widow , as no other man should have her . During the adjournment of the inquest the police will make inquiries .

      * 774 0? Hie Ii Eadeb, [No. 334, Saturda...

      * 774 0 ? HIE Ii EADEB , [ No . 334 , Saturday ,

      State Of Trade. The Reports Of The Trade...

      STATE OF TRADE . The reports of the trade of the manufacturing towns for the week ending last Saturday are satisfactory . At Manchester , the market has been quiet , but the demand is fully equal to the supply , and prices therefore show an improving tendency . The Birmingham advices describe no revival in . the * iron trade , a considerable reduction being submitted to by second-rate makers . There is a fair home > demand ,, however , and ,, as the heat of the ¦ weather has caused many furnaces to be stopped , there will be no accumulatioa of stock . The general trade of the place has been , assisted by some good foreign orders . At . Nottingharo , for the period of the . year , the transactions have beea on a favourable scule , and orders are being received from the United States . In the woollen districts there has been great steadiness , and a general improvement in tone . The Irish linen-markets have also been well maintained . — Times . The Ilegjatrari-Generftl ' a returns with respect to Life Insuraitca Offices have recently been published . They extend over irregular periods , and are framed upon no coherent plan ; hut it appears from them thut , out of 54 offices , 30 show an expenditure in excess of premiums and interest received , and G au expenditure not only in ecsceas of premiums and interest , but . also of capital paid up . That ia to say , in 30 coses the claims on policies , tb « outlay for advertizing , the salaries of the directors and clerks , and the dividends occasionally distributed , have more than absorbed all the recnipis of the companies , and have left them in debt either to general creditor * or to capital , without the slightest . accumulatioa having , been made to meet the liabilitie » on the outstanding policies on ; wlueh the premiums have , beon received , and the force o £ > which increases with- every year of their duration . Of the remaining < 24 < offices , the expenditure of 22 haaheem below tboir . receipts , and 2 haiva rondeved accounta » a > unintelligible ae to defy scrutiny . Thirteen offices appear to leave- been compelled to dissolve , while 40 have found ifc oitherunneceeaary or inconvenient'to scad in any returns- whatever . —/ efom . The Wolverhampt ** . CHnonialere ^ ortnthat * th * intense ha & tiof the weather has put . a complete stop to the mills and forges of the . district , wfaiek subjaata the men to great privation , for ,, with tb » high , price * of- p * OTl » iona , they can ill aftbrd to oeawe wosk .

      Mazz1nx And Manot. We Proceed To G Ive S...

      MAZZ 1 NX AND MANOT . We proceed to g ive some extracts from the Third ^ Letter of M ' azzini to Manin to which ^ re briefly alluded last week . It thus commences : — " In one of your letters , dated— -if I am not mistafcen —May 28 , you proclaimed Victor Emmanuel the king destined to unite Italy ( re unificatore cPTtalia ) . " In that of the 26 th of June , you profess to teach the Italians in Naples—through the medium of the English press—the means by which to make of King Ferdinand the constitutional monarch of the Two Sicilies . * Whether thousan / ls—or rather millions—of men , crushed under an unlimited tyranny could quietly agree to practise universally a remedy always difficult , and rarely attempted , even in countries where freedom and rigltt are under the guardianship of deliberative assemblies ; and whether , even supposing such a miraculous harmony of will could be arrived at , it would not be better ro raise barricades at once and rid themselves of their hated Government , is a question which the people of Naples should your , counsels ever reach their ears—must decide . I write to ask you and } r our friends bow you reconcile the unity of Italy under Victor Emmanuel , with tire re-establishment of a constitutional monarchy in Naples ? Italy , Manin , has long deplored your silence ; I fear that , ere long , you will deplore the hour in -which the suggestions of false or injudicious friends induced you to break that silence . " Sign or Mazzini proceeds to question Signor Manin on the precise nature of his designs , and asks : — ""When you say that the revolution is * possibly at hand , do you hint fit au uprising of the people , or a spontaneous movement of the monarch of unity ? When you entreat Rome not to move ,, do you mean to teach a cowardly fear of insurrection , or do you trust in any hidden designs of the man of the 2 nd of December ? " It is your and your followers' duty to answer these things ; but you -will not . You will not do it ; you will pretend to disdain questions , which you will call imprudent , and assume the air of diplomatists who cannot without danger reveal their secrets . But the faet is that you cannot answer . You have no secret , you have no > programme , you have no principle to guide you . You do not breathe the breath of Italian life , but of foreign inspiration . " Italy is designated by Signor Mazzini as " Christ among nations , by her sufferings , " to whom " the word of the great universal resurrection" has been confided by Providence . On the day when she shall utter that word , " the sepulchre in which the peoples lie entombed will burst asunder to usher forth the new life . " The Italians , adds the writer , hold in their hands " the question of the nationalities—the map of Europe . " He then proceeds to show that the Governments , desiri » g , as in 1881 and 1848 , to avert the threatened popular insurx * ection , have resorted to the old contrivance of dividing the camp of the people into two section !? , by urging on the tardy to a semblance of motion which comes to nothing , and restraining the eager " with the hope of a coming crisis and a general union of forces that will never tako place , save as the result of some daring feat achieved . " Signor Manin is then taxed with countenancing the design thus indicated : — " To accomplish this plany which is the moving spring of all that i 3 being done or hinted at in governmental circles , and to create a dualism in our ranks , they wanted a banner and the authority of a name known and dear to Italy , and they selected you . You are , uncoiiacioualy , the Gioberti of 186 < J 4 " Turn again to us , Mandn ; return to the national camp—to the men who defended the honour of Italy in Home while you defended in it Venice , lteturn to the people—to the people that combat and die —to the people that do not betray—to the people of the five clays—to the people of the great deeds of Sicily , of Bologna , of Urescia , of the city that gave you birth . There is yet time . Tear up all your lette r * , aud keepouly the ' If not , not' < xf the first . A year of circumlocutions , of cowurdly hesitation , and of unfulfilled hopes , has for ever effaced that' If . ' You resigned yourself then to a last triul ; ( Iccluro that that trial is now over . Kcturn to ue . Say to the Italians— - ' Accept mo aa one among you—I have no longer faith but in you . ' They will receive you approvintfly * and trust : me—on the-unanimous accord of the men ot ovary fraction of opinion ^ -they will respond by deed « that Hball be to the glorious deeds of ' 48 what the , conflagration is to the sporke that foretel it . " Italy is now on thu verge of one of those supreme moments ii * wliich the party must decide either to act and be to-morrow , or submit to a docenniuirt oi blavory . Any- creat deed accomplished in tlno name ot the people would be hailed au- a aigiml i ' or t » u U P " riaing of the oppressed : — " But , on the otlrcr hand—it is une ! enn to attemp t to dirtguine it— public opinion , woro it now dirfiappon" ^ - * Signor Manila proposition wan «¦ uuivoraiU aud Hpoataaoaua refusal to pay- ta & ea .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 16, 1856, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16081856/page/6/