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      libly die . One of them , however , died because he did not seek medical advice , but trusted himself entirely to the charms of the impostor . The court sentenced the 'Woman to thirteen months'' imprisonment , with a fine of fifty francs . These , cases are very common in the French rural districts . The Court of Cassation ( presided oveT by M . Dupin ) has just given its decision on an important point of law , which has long been in dispute—viz ., whether a wife married under the regime of community of goods can , after the death of her husband , or in case of a separation © f property in his lifetime , claim the amount of her fortune out of the personal estate of her husband , in priority to his creditors . The Court has decided that she has no priority . This judgment is counter to the opinion of M . Troplong , one of the most eminent of IVench judges ; but it is said that the majority of the bar ar « in favour of the decision which has been

      arrived at . A strange case has recently come before the Civil Tribunal . A man , who died in 1816 , left his widow , for the benefit of their four children , a public-rhouse and a restaurant . Some years afterwards , the woman married a man younger than herself , and , as an antidote to her faded charms , transferred to him the propem-- which of right belonged to her four children . She and thi 3 man , in accordance with a French law , formed a partnership for carrying on the two houses of business ; and it was

      so contrived that the man could easily , in course of time , make himself appear a creditor to the woman . Ultimately , he put an end to the partnership ; declared that his wife was his debtor to the extent of 71 , 168 francs ; and took steps for selling the businesses . However , an action having been brought against him , the Civil Tribunal has declared the partnership null and void , but has given the woman ' s husband an indemnity of 25 , 000 francs for having carried on the businesses for several years . The editor of the Estafette has been sentenced to imprisonment for two months , and to pay a fine of five hundred francs , for having published an article described as * insulting to religion and pilblic morality . ' TOUIUKY . Mr . John Tenniswood , an English engineer employed on a mine which is being worked near Ismidt , has been shot dead while returning from Constantinople with a sum of money about him . He was . found to have received five wounds , and , as two of his servants have disappeared , it is supposed that they are the assassins . The Turkish Minister of Police has sent off three skilful officers to Ismidt , to inquire into the circumstances . TTALT . A declaration has been published , signed by Pisacane * nd niaeteen otbera of the conspirators of the Cagliari , declaring that they embarked as passengers ^ that they planned the eeizur o of the vessel ; that the captain and crew yielded to force and were unconcerned in the plot ; and that the naval captain Daneri , who was on board as a passenger , was compelled by them to navigate the vessel . The document is dated on board the Cagliari , at half past nine on the evening of the 25 th of June . The bill of indictment against the conspirators has been printed and distributed . The prosecution relies in a great measure for success , as far as regards the English ' engineers , on a letter from Miss White found on oue of them .

      Shocks of earthquake are still constantly felt in various parts of the kingdom of Naples . Referring to the catastrophe of a few weeks ago , a writer from tho capital eaya : — " The accounts which continue to arrive from the provinces are of Clue most harrowing character , confirming the very -worst statements which I have already Tnade . Great as is the number of lives already sacrificed , it is expected , that as many more will die of cold and ; hunger and sickness * Panic-stricken , famishing , despairing , the inhabitants of many places are reproseaied to me a * sitting among the ruins without the capacity of exertion . There are doubtless hundreds rotting beneath the ruins , — -some , perhaps , who have only recently died , for Collotta , in his wonderful

      description of the earthquake of 1768 , speaks of some who were taken out alive after eleven days' entombment . How many might have been saved had only one-tenth part of the energy been displayed on this occasion which was displayed lout summer at Sapri ? 80 , 000 perrons wore buried under the ruins of ttieir houses in the twinkling of an eye , 250 , 000 persons are turned houneleas on the world , and the Government is Snort . A handful of men land in the same province , and thousands are sent down in a fe ^ Tfi ^ s ^ tof'Tropd'thO' -attaclsrftndt-oommit ^ evory . apocios of brutality . " Many persons have buon made ill , and many have actually died , from the effects of fear . The King , it appenrs , hns contributed very meanly to tho fund for the relief of the flutferora .

      After a debute of throo days' continuance , tho Turin Chamber resolved that the canon ** of cathedrals cannot take their seats us deputies , becuuso thoy aro comprised amongst the exceptions specified by tho Oth artlolo of the doctoral law . Qignor Efttaa / 1 hits resigned tho post of Minister of the Interior iiv Piedmont , on account of tho personal attacks which have boon rooontly made on him .

      Signor Cadorna , the Ministerial candidate , has been elected President of the Sardinian Chamber of Deputies . Signor Depretis ( who also' contended for the Presidentship ) has been elected first Vice-President : he is a member of the Left , and is suspected of Republicanism . For the second Vice-Presidency , Signor Qutiglia was elected . Signori G . Cavalini , Borson , and Saracco , were chosen as Secretaries . The results of the verification of powers have been summed up as follows : —174 elections approved , 11 annulled , 18 referred to an inquiry , 1 still to be considered : total , 204 .

      Ten political persons , confined in St . Maria Apparente , Naples , have been liberated . Eight had been shut up since August , 1856 . The process against them had been quashed in June , 1857 , but they have been detained ever since at the mere pleasure of the police . All the Judges of the Grand Criminal Court of Avellino have been dismissed for having acquitted some men who were charged with having conspired for the liberation of Poerio and his companions . The Giudice Regio of the district where the men were arrested has also been dismissed because he had discredited the charge . There is a rumour of an attempted insurrection at Ancona , where there is an Austrian garrison ; but the statement has not been confirmed .

      AUSTRIA . Some bad blood has been created between France and Austria with respect to the Riverain question . Austria ( according to eertain statements generally credited in Paris ) refuses to recognize the right of the parties to the treaty of March 30 th , to meddle with the Riverain Convention . Against this . Count Walewskl protests with great vehemence , and he is said to have recently declared that if the Riverain Powers should persist in refusing to submit their convention to the Paris conference , the latter will

      altogether-ignore it , and will itself draw up regulations for the navigation of the Danube in accordance witli that part of the Vienna Congres 3 which treats of rivers dividing or traversing different states . It is not positively known whether this language has really been addressed to Austria ; but it seems that a good deal of animosity to France prevails in the political circles at Vienna . — -According to . a statement : from Berlin , Austria has agreed to the revision of the convention by the Paris Conference .

      A number of the Oesterreichiscke Zettung has been confiscated on account of an article on the Commercial Academy , which gave offence to some members of the Government . This very article , however , was written at the instigation of the Minister of Finance ! The Emperor has just performed a gracious act towards the Protestants . He has given orders to pay out of the coffers of the State the sum of 7476 florins for a piece of ground which is to serve as a cemetery for the Protestant inhabitants of Vienna . A deputation of the Protestants -waited on the Emperor to thank him for this act of consideration ; and , in reply , he told them that the Protestants should in future apply to him in person in such matters , and added : — " 1 am well pleased to see the representatives of the Protestant communities assemble around me , and that it has been in my power to uphold their Tights . " leadeof

      Joachim Haspinger , the renowned clerical r the Tyrolese in 1809 , died on the 12 th instant in tho Imperial castle of Mirabel , near Salzburg . The religious part of the funeral of Marshal Radetzky took place at Vienna on Monday with great military pomp . The Emperor himself was present , and tho religious ceremonial was performed at the Cathedral of St . Stephen . The body was then despatched by rail to the place of sepulture . "A few days since , at seven o ' clock in the evening , " nays the Time * Vienna correspondent , " ten armed men , with faces covered with crape , forced their way into tho house of a M . Kallivoda , at Also-Lendva , in Hungary , and demanded his . money and that of two persons who were playing at cards with him . As thoy refused to part with their cash , a fight ensued , in which M . Kallivoda was killed , and ono of his friends dangerously and the other slightly wounded . A servant-maid who entered into the room , and endeavoured to succour lior master , was also cut down by tho robbers with their axes . A crowd had assembled round the house during the scuffle , but the miscrotmts managed to escape after having killed a gendarme and mortally wounded another man who came in their way . Two light waggons wore in waiting outside the town , and into them the ten man got , and drove away as if nothing had happened . " 8 PAI 2 * . . —A . ncw ^ Mi » latrx . has _ l > oen formed by Sefior laturitz , a Liberal Conservative ? it is ~ Iliouglit "" tlfiftr"liia 'Govern- - ^ inont will only bo a transition to that of Bravo Murlllo . DICNMAUK . . In opening tho session of tho Supreme Council on tho 14 th ln » t ., tUo King said ;— " Wo have noon with extroint } regret that there oxlsts in tlioDucldos or" llolatein and Lauenburjr , as regards our constitutional relutlons , an appreciation which could not fail to quuac anxiety and excitement . Tho relations of thoao JDuohioa with the German Confederation nccoflsarily brought our Government into negotiations with Prussia nnd Austria ,

      after which the matter was referred to the Frankfort Diet . In these negotiations —all documents relating to which will be laid before the Supreme Council—it -will be shown that , to come to an amicable arrangement , we were willing to make every concession compatible with our solicitude for the welfare of the monarchy , and especiully for the maintenance of its constitutional relations , established after great efforts . Among the bills which will be brought before yo \} , there will be some for regulating and increasiug the defensive force of the country . " "

      GERMANY . The offence of cutting off the pendulous tresses of the young women of Augsburg , Munich , and Nuremburg , has spread to such an extent that the fair half of humanity is afraid of stirring abroad after dark . Some three hundred police agents have been on the look-out for the thieves for eome time , but with no success ; so the male inhabitants have declared that they will remorselessly knock on the head any person discovered in the fact of committing one of these : mercenary rapes of the lock .

      78 The Leader. [No. 409, January 23,1858...

      78 THE LEADER . [ No . 409 , January 23 , 1858 .

      State Of Trade. The State Of Trade Durin...

      STATE OF TRADE . The state of trade during the week ending last Saturday was almost identical with its condition during the previous week . The improvement already noted continues to progress in nearly all the manufacturing towns and districts ; but , at Bradford , local causes—that is to say , the failures of large manufacturers—Lave somewhat disturbed the market for wools and worsteds , and rather checked the previous improvement ; A communication from that town says : —" Apart from the state of the market , we have had a somewhat eventful week . With a view to check the inflation of credit , all the woolstaplers here , with one exception , have signed au agreement whereby the terms of payment for wool are heuceforth to be uniform . They have decided to take either a bill at three months drawn from the date of the

      invoice , or a fourteen days bankers draft , allowing three months' interest from date of invoice . The terms previously have been one month ' s open credit , with a bill at lour months , or two months' open credit , with . a . bill at three months ; so that the new t erms will reduce the period of credit from five months to three mouths . " ' At Sheffield , also , trade continues dull . " Mr . F . Ward , of Norfolk-street , " says a writer from the city of cutlery , lias introduced a new and improved method of manufacturing the blades of table-kuives by machinery . It Is anticipated that this process will rapidly expand , almost superseding the old process of hand-forging , and enable Sheffield to hold its ground in competition with the macuine-nianuiiictured cutlery now produced in America . "

      We give our readers the benefit of a hint or two extracted from the letter of a merchant at Bordeaux , witli respect to the recent vintages : — " AH sorts of ' 48 are out of the market . .... The vintage of ' 51 was always considered good , and is , no doubt , a very similar one to' 41 , so highly prized amongst ourselves here ; and we fancy we shall , in some live or ten years hence , when we drink the ' 51 , appreciate them almost as highly as the ' 41 . Tho ' 64 , a most extraordinary vintage for its precocious flavour , is found to be less

      remarkable as it waxes older , and , if it loses caste with some , then the ' 51 will , notwithstanding the large stocks laid by , be made a rarity even as the ' 48 is at present . The ' 55 is only u moderate vintage , and both ' 66 and the new wine ' 57 seem to require a very great deal of selecting . Many estates have so much suffered from tho disease that their wines , although good at times , do now and then ferment , and otherwise show signs of being undor the influence of the slightest change of temperature . All these reasons tend to make 1861 claret the wina to lay in a stock of . "

      Accidents And Sudden Deaths. Mr. John Ju...

      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Mr . John Jupjfkrson , one of tho persons employed on tho works of the north pier at the mouth of TyuumoutU harbour , had been swept into the sou while performing some operations during a hoavy gale last Saturduy . A tremendous sou came round Tynomouih Point as ho waa at work with Homo other men , and dragged him away . Ho struggled manfully with tho wuvoe , and waiLitfod to reach a rock . The men on tho pier throw a 1 W « « uoy to him , but the lino became loose , and it was currlou oil . Shortly afterwards , the poor man was again drawn into tho sea , and sank in tho presence of a grout many whs

      p « r « ons ^ w , hp ^ c « . u Ul _ rondoi ; jnoasfllstance . A boat put out , but it cam © two lat 3 I ¦ - * - —• --- > - y ¦ .-- ~ Tlie Ariel river steamer waa nearly upset while passing tho Leviathan on Sunday evening . All the pum » untforu rushod simultaneously to tho wide of tho vessel eomi . aml-Ing a view of ilia liutfo ship , and throw tho Arlol ao nmcli out of her proper position chut she whipped a large quantity of wator through tho cabin window * . She was "" - " taken aorobu thu rlvor to tho noaroafc pier , whoro a gooii many of the paauongera dlsombarkoU , and tho Ariel proou « Uod towards Woolwloh . When off areunwloh Uosnltnl , however , It was found that tho voeeol had uuon

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 23, 1858, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23011858/page/6/