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      Justice , is reported- His name will be remembered m the annals of Portugal in conjunction with Fernandez Thomar and Borges Caraeiro , whom he joiaed , and formed one of the three chiefs of the first Constitutional movement at Oporto in 1820 .

      GREECE . . ¦ . . . -. A conference will shortly be opened in London between the three powers protecting Greece , to regulate 'the succession to the crown . Prince Adalbert having , on tbe occasion of his marriage with the Infanta Amelia , declared positively that he will never embrace the religion of the Greek non-united Church , but that he does not wish to prejudice the rights of his descendants , a protocol will be drawn up in London , permitting Prince Adalbert to renounce his personal claims to the throne

      of Greece , and at the same time reserving the right of succession of his heirs . The Greek journal Helios states , on official authority , that the Russian Cabinet , upon being asked by the Western Powers to send a representative to this conference , replied to the effect that it could only do so on condition that the Anglo-French troops should previously evacuate Greece ; that it ( the Russian Government ) should previously be informed as to the subject of the negotiations ; and that Greece should be represented at the conference by a deputy .

      , . ; . . ' . . .- TURKEY .- - ... In consequence of the steps taken by M . de Boutinieff and the other , ambassadors ,-the Porte has abandoned its intention of sending an expedition against Montenegro . The affair is now to be regulated "by the Conference of Paris . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' . ' ' . . ¦ , : ¦ ¦ ¦ : ' ' - . . : ¦ . ¦

      THE DAJtrjBIJVN FRINCDPAMTIES . The composition of the new Wallachian Ministry gives satisfaction , the choice of members not having been influenced by foreign considerations , and the members being Liberals , wfth some few exceptions , aud selected without reference , as hitherto , to the exclusive and privileged class of Boyards . In Moldavia , the new Government has not been so favourably constructed . The Kaimakan and the whole of his Ministers are known partisans of Russia and Austria . The Porte gives no encouragement to the suggestion for the pardon of the Wallachian political emigrants of 1848 ; and they willtherefore not be allowed to return at present .

      Great disgust has been excited in Moldavia and Wallachia , and especially in the latter province , by the bestowal on Prince Stirbey of the Medjidie' the first class—an honour usually confined to crowned heads , or to persons of very great distinction . It is thought that Fuad Pacha , backed by Austria , has procured this mark of favour , in gratitude for services to "both rendered by Stirbey . ; ¦ Letters from Constantinople , up to the 8 th inst ., announce that all the commissioners for the affairs of the Danubian Provinces were then assembled there , and that they would immediately proceed to settle the bases of the reorganization , after which , they would go , to Bucharest . The Principalities , however , haye not been evacuated by the Auslrians .

      SWITZERLAND . In connexion with the late insurrection at Neufchatel , the Prussian Minister to the Helvetic Confederation has addressed to the Federal Council , in the name of his Government , the following letter , dated the 5 th of September : —" The undersigned , Privy Councillor of his Majesty the iKing of Prussia , and bis delegate to the Swiss Confederation , having been made acquainted with the events of which the Principality of Neufchotel has lately been the theatre , and while reserving to his

      Government the faculty of taking an ulterior decision , comes without delay to renew , in the most positive and solemn manner , the legal reserves that he made on the 2 nd and 3 rd of March , 1848 , as well as since then , on the occasion of the revolution of Neufchatel . Ho does so by reason of all the old and new violations of the rights of Ms Majesty the King of Prussia as Sovereign Prince of ITeufchatel and of Valengir , and this without distinction , from -whatever source those violations may have emanated , and no matter by whom they may have been committed . "

      The intercession of the Prussian Envoy for a x-espitc in the judicial steps to be taken against the prisoners captured at Neufchatel , until the main questions of right and international law have been settled , iq understood to lia , ve been fruitless . His representation in favour of a lenient treatment of the Royalists has been set aside aa unnecessary and uncalled for , seeing that the Federal la ^ rs visit political offences very lightly , and tliat there is no intention to stretch the laws on the present occasion beyond their usual range . ThoJederal Council refuses to admit the power claimed by Prussia of resorving its right it sovereignty over the principality of Noufcliatel .

      896 The J(Ea.Beb. [No. 339, Satukdat,

      896 THE j ( EA . BEB . [ No . 339 , Satukdat ,

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      died after a delay of an hour , a slight crack was heard to proceed from the woodwork : but no great notice was taken of it . As soon as a strain w « again put upon the tackling , the shears immediately swerved , a little to one side , and the ponderous machinery came to the ground , cracking like firewood , and in its course bringing down the foremast of the vessel and breaking it into ' splinters , besides doing serious damage to the hull . The bell descended to the bottom of the vessel without injury . The large crowd of people who were standing near had a narrow escape from the falling mast and timbers . The captain of the schooner was in the hold at the time , bat

      escaped without being hurt . As the vessel immediately began to make a great deal of -water , a couple of steamboats took her in tow , and removed her out of the dock into the inner basin , where she was run on the ground . An inquest has been held on the body of Mr . Richard Palmer Roupell , aged seventy-four , a gentleman well known in Lambeth for his wealth and liberality to the poor . He -was found dead in his bed . Mr . John Shea , M . D ., made a postmortem examination , and found that death had resulted from serous apoplexy . Mr . Roupell bad been somewhat annoyed of late by some lawsuits , and a fire that had taken place on his farm . The jury returned a verdict of natural death .

      Mr . Armsworth , a publican at Bow Bridge , has lost his life in the river Lea . He was returning in a light chaise cart from some plots . ' of . ground he had purchased in the Marshes between the Temple-Mills and Bow , and was driving along the banks of the Lea , when tlie vehicle and horse were capsized into the water . A son of Mr . Armswortfy and two of his workpeople , who were riding with him , got out safely ; but Mr . * Armsworth himself was thrown underneath a raft of floating timber , and was not got out for some time , "when it was found that he was dead . A piecer in a mill at Meltbain , near Huddersfleld , was caught by an upright , unfenced shaft , as he was reaching between the shaft and the wall , to get at his ends . His arm was drawn in by the machinery , and dreadfully lacerated up to the shoulder ; and it has been found necessary to-amputate the limb .

      An accident of a singular description occurred a few days since at the Hambridge Brewery , Langport . A considerable portion of the brickwork * of the 'jibbing " , gave way , owing to which the head of a large vat , in which were about 2500 gallons of strong beer , was stove in . A large portion of the liquor found its way to a small river called the Ivel , and thence into the river Parrot , of which the Ivel is a tributary ; and the result was that a great many fish were killed by the potency of the fluid they were obliged to swallow . The inquest on the body of John White , who was killed by the bursting of the "boiler of the steam thrashing-machine on Mr . Hives ' s farm , near Newport Pagnell , has been concluded . The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death , occasioned by the bursting of an improperly-constructed steam-boiler , to which'had been attached a gauge indicating a pressure which it was unable to bear . "

      A man has been killed by the bursting of a small cannon discharged towards the close of an exhibition of fireworks at the Pomona Gardens , Manchester . The surrounding objects were a good deal damaged ; the left arm of the unfortunate man was torn off , and he was otherwise severely injured , and propelled into an' open sewer close by , from which he was taken out quite dead . The allowances to the witnesses on the inquest were banded over to the widow , and a club , on which she had no claim , her husband having discontinued bis subscriptions , has generously voted her the entire sum to which she woull otherwise have been entitled .

      Richard Bentley , a youth of eighteen , was found < lcad in the Abbey Mills-, Merton , with blood flowing from his nostrils . The person who discovered this also found the young man ' s neck-handkerchief twisted round the shaft of some machinery at which lie had been working . The probability seems to be that he had got up towards the shnft to look after something which a man had been hiding on a beam above the machinery , and the shaft caught the handkerchief , -which , after tightening round the neck ao aa to cause strangulation , gave way . Bentley must then have fallen to the floor , and died shortly afterwards .

      Our Civilization —«—Central Criminal Cou...

      OUR CIVILIZATION —«—CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The September session of this court commenced on Monday , — Alfred Richard Bennett , a youth , was charged -with being at laryo before the expiration of a period of penal servitude , and with stealing a -writingdesk . Ho pleaded Guilty to the first charge . It appeared that ho escaped from the ' hulks at Woolwich on the 5 th of last April , and nothing was heard of him till the 18 tli of August , when he went to the house of a Mr . Dawson -while the family were at chnpel , and said he was Mr . Dawson ' s brother , and had couio there to stop the night . He then , when left to himself , ran up into the servant ' s bedroom , and stole the desk , but was recognized as a former apprentice of Mr . Dawson aa he was onde & Vouring to lcavotlio house with his prize , and was pursued and given into custody . lie now donied " : ' - ; r ¦ ¦ , ¦ " ¦ " < ¦ .. - •¦ . . , .,

      this charge , and . said he had given himself up be _ cause he could not get a livelihood , and therefore -wisaea to be transported . He was fooad Guilty of the theft *&& sentenced to four years' penal servitude , — -George " Webb was found Guilty of uttering an order for the delivery of a banker's pass-book , with intent to defraud , and traa sentenced to penal servitude for five years . — -Alliflter McDougall , carpenter , and Robert Ford , pleaded Guilty to a burglary in-tie' dwelling-house of Mr . Henry XJox McDougall also pleaded Guilty to stabbing John Hayes with intent to prevent his lawful apprehension . The prisoners , who were ticket-of-lcave men , were sentenced to six years' penal servitude . —John Garrett , marble polisher , and James Murphy , were charged with a robbery with violence upon George Sapside , and with

      stealing from him part of a gold chain , valued at 21 . The jury found them Guilty . The Recorder , in passing sentence , told the prisoners , who had both been transported and only out upon tickets of leave a short time previously to the commission of this offence , that in cases of garotte robberies like the present one , he felt bound to pass the most severe sentences , and he ordered them to be transported for twenty years . — Charles Bryant , waiter Thomas Banks , -waterman , and Richard Sholl , Custom House officer , were charged with stealing ten pounds of tobacco , the property of the Queen ; Bryant pleaded Guilty , and Banks and Sholl were Acquitted . The tobacco was abstracted from a T > arge lying off the Custom House , in charge of which was Sholl . Bryant was rowed to the barge one night by Banks , and afterwards

      rowed back with the plunder ; but the police observed the transaction , and took all the parties into custody . The Recorder said there was ao case against Banks , and the defence of Sholl was that he had fallen asleep , and knew nothing of the theft . Bryant was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour . —The Grand Jury on Tuesday brought in a : number of bills , and among them one against Mr . Charles Snape , for the manslaughter of a patient in the Surrey Lunatic Asylum . This bill they returned not found . —John Cole , gardener , described by the reporters as a simple-looking young man , has been found Guilty $ f shooting at Emma Luker , with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm . The particulars appeared in this journal on the 12 th of J . uly . He-was sentenced to be transported for twenty years . —George Thomas and Henry Hillyer , both of them young men flashily- dressed , were charged , with stealing a letter containing a cheque for 761 . 17 s . 6 d . under circumstances

      already known to our readers . Thomas was found Guilty of receiving the cheqtie , knowing it to have been stolen , and Hillyer was Acqtiitted . They were then accused of stealing a letter and a 10 ? . Bank of England note . The verdict in this cose was precisely opposite to that in the other . It appeared that both had before been convicted of felony , an < l they were sentenced to six years 1 penal servitude . —John . Cooper pleaded Guilty to a charge of uttering three forged cheques upon the Royal British Bank . He was sentenced to six years' penal servitude . —Shafter Wood , aa imbecile-looking labourer , was Acquitted , on the ground of insanity , of attempting to strangle a little girl , six years of age . There was no apparent motive for the act , -which was evidently that of a maniac , lie was ordered to be detained . —Francois Michel , a French gentleman , has been Acquitted of the charge of rape detailed in our last week ' s paper . The girl , on cross-examination , admitted tlmt she had told lies at the police-court .

      Middlesex Sessions.—Herr Von Dittmar, La...

      Middlesex Sessions . —Herr von Dittmar , late an officer in the German Legion , -was indicted for an assault in Cremorne Gardens on Major Augustus Yates . He pleaded Guilty . The particulars of this case appeared in the Leader of September 6 th . The legal adviser of Mr . Dittmar said that his client was a gentleman of good and noble family , who had the highest testimonials as to his character as a gentleman and a soldier . He had to say on behalf of his client that he had no justification to offer for the assault he had committed . It was not a premeditated assault ; but by accident ho met Major Yates at Crcmornc , and then ho gave way to his temper , and committed an act which lie now regretted . Ho would submit to the judgment of the court and pay all the costs of tlie prosecution . He was ordered to enter into a recognizance of 100 J-, to come up for judgment when called upon .

      A Young Htjffian Henry Beaumont , a boy of fifteen , was cliarged at Bow St . with a series of outrages . Thomas Nay lor , a compositor ^ who is the lad ' a brotherin-law , had gone with his wife to sco Mrs . Beaumont , who was lying in the last stage of consumption . The boy came home while they were by the mother ' s bedside , and began using the most violent and disreputable language , regardless of his mother ' s condition . Naylor remonstrated with him in vain , and finally boxed his cara slightly , upon -which the boy rushed at him with a knife . Ho snatched it out of his hands , when Beaumont caught up the poker , and made a desperate blow at Naylor ' s head , which , being partly averted , only loft a slight scar upon the temple . By ^ this time , a polico-constablo arrived , having been attracted by the disturbance ; and , when ho proceeded to talce the boy into custody , the latter pulled out a double-barreled pistol , loaded with powdor and allot , and fired it at the officer . By a fortunate accident , the cap only woe discharged . On his

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20091856/page/8/