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      Child Murder. Two Illegitimate Children ...

      He -was now again committed on this charge , and remanded on the charge of gold robbery . SPECTA . ctK-RoBBEKiES . — Gay , " in his ** Trivia , " speaks of the ingenious thieves of those days who robbed gentlemen of their wigs . In these times , there are few wigs to steal ; but there are plenty of spectacles -with gold and silver rims , and on these our modem street ruffians le-vy blackmail . A Mr . Cohen was -walking through Bishopsgate-street at an early hour of the evening with his wife , when a man rushed at him , drove his head into his stomach , and ran off , leaving Mr . Cohen breathless , in great pain , and without his gold spectacles . He pursued , seized hold of the man , or of a confederate whom he had with him , and , after a hard struggle , in which he was savagely ill-used , secured him . On the culprit being brought before the "Worship-street magistrate , a gaoler said

      that this plan of robbery had lately come much into practice , and several persons had complained to him of having been robbed in a similar manner . About a fortnight ago , an elderly gentleman , while walking through the Hackney-road , was robbed of his spectacles in this way , the thing being done so quickly that the thief escaped ; and , a few nights after , a man walked into a tradesman ' s shop in the same neighbourhood , where an elderly lady was serving behind the counter with , a pair of gold spectacles on . The man was dissatisfied with the articles shown him , but mumbled his complaint so indistinctly that the woman could not hear him , and , being rather deaf , Bhe leant over the counter to hear what it was that he'is '& id ,: and the man . immediately whipped off her spectacles , and took . to his heels . The accused , in the ^ present instance , was remanded . *

      Sjjibcsed jatrKDEB . —A servant-girl , named Harriet ^ ard , mysteriously disappeared a few days agofcfrom her place , ; and has since been found drowned in the Thkmes / under suspicion of murder . Mxjrjder ob a . GrAMEKEEPER .- ^ -Anxinder-gamekeepex on the estate of Sir J . T . Tyrell , M . P ., near Chelmsford , has been shot dead by poachers , Two of his brothers , and two other men , are in custody . VioijejST Death at Liverpool . — -Asailor has been found la the streets of Liverpool , dead of strangulation . The inquest has ended in a verdict of Wilful Murder against two men who were seen in his company . These men , who were present at the inquest , behaved very unconcernedly , and . laughed at eacl other when the verdict was given .

      SELF-STRAKGUiiA ' ndiir by a Boy . —A youth imprisoned , at Manchester for stealing iron has been found in his cell strangled apparently by his ovno hands . , BtJRQtART at WlQTON . —The house of an old couple & ijfc Wig-ton has been broken into , and the master an < i mistress seriously beaten . They contrived to escape iand jra ^ se an alarm y on which , the burglars fled with out gaining anything . '

      Iy$ The Leade R. [No. 309, Saturday,

      iy $ THE LEADE R . [ No . 309 , Saturday ,

      An" Episode Of The Second Empire. The Po...

      AN" EPISODE OF THE SECOND EMPIRE . The pomp of historical dramas is sometimes interrupted by episodical scenes of the prison and the scaffold . The contrast is effective . In like manner we may be permitted to intrude upon the tumultuous festivities of the Tuileries with the brief and unadorned recital of a scene that took place a few weeks since at Cayenne . Five . years ago Victor Hugo wrote : — " Nothing will tx'anspire , nothing will reach you ; nothing ! except perhaps from time to time Bad tidings from beyond the sea , which will sound like a funeral bell upon the ear of France and Europe , announcing , such and such a prisoner is dead . " These words were only too prophetic . Every ship that comes from those pestilential shores brings the death of a new victim to the success of the man

      whom the organ of Lorxl Stanley and of Mr . DiBraeli delights to call " the preserver of right and order in Europe . " The latest victim is one Peret , sometime mayor of Bdziers , deported to Cayenne without trial , for having resisted the conspiracy of the 2 nd of December , 1851 . It appears that M . Bdziers , accompanied by six fellow-prisonere , attempted to escape from that living tomb . They put to sea at night in a boat . Two hours after they were driven on the rooks . Perqt , entangled in his cloak , was drowned . The Six others survived . But what an existence I For two days they lived on what shellfish they could find on a desolate rook in the midst of an ocean that threatened every moment to overwhelm them . At last one of them resolved to risk his life for the rest . Seeing no succour come , ho threw himself into the & oa , and after three hours' swimminc reneWI

      the land . Unhappily the land was JPrcncfi Guiana . He covild only eave his life on condition of eurrendormg hitttBelf a prisoner ; his five companions were reached from the devouring sen only to bo cast into W * 611 ^ ngeon . Tomb for tomb . w 2 & » h » PPy Poret , " says a letter we lmvo now SE ^ a V ' ? ™ terminated * life of sixty ve « rs ' SLr ^^ 1101116 ^^ »»<* prosperouslyj beLs ZZ ^ rf ^ o rare and generous-hearted M « SSvSS ffiSlf * * ** y Sacrifices , feelipg oouiseiy t & ftt , vrtnlet he was rich , many of his

      fellowcreatures were perishing of hunger , and sparing neither his fortune nor his life to the cause of humanity On the 2 nd of December , he -was one of the first to take tip arms . When the cause was hopeless he remained for several days on the Spanish frontier , unwilling to believe in the success of the coup d'etat . He was arrested , and well do I remember seeing him before the Conseil de Guerre three months afterwards . Never was there a sadder sight than that venerable old man , bent with age , as he gave himself up to the

      gendarmes to be handcuffed . " You could see he was a man accustomed to a life of affluence and ease , and even in that moment his expression was resigned and almost serene . He departed on his long exile sad but calm , full of mourning , but not deserted by hope —strong in the justice of his cause—confident in the future-. Who could have believed that he was bidding a last farewell to his wife , his children , and his friends ? What historian will ever have the courage to count up the innumerable victims , the unknown dead of the 2 nd of December ?"

      Continental Notes. Prance We Have Receiv...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . PRANCE We have received the following resume of the state of Europe from a correspondent : — Jupiteb Asians . Bedimtedto Victor Hugo . " Le Petit" call not him who by one act Has turned old fable into modern fact Nap Xouis courted Europe : Europe shied : Th * Imperial purple was too newly dyed . " I'll have her though , " thought he , " by rape or rapine , " Jove nods sometimes , but catch , a Nap a napping ! And now I think of Jove , 'twas Jove ' s own fix , And so I'll borrow one of Jove ' s own tricks :

      Old itching Palm I'll tickle with a joke , And he shall lend me England ' s decent cloak . " 'Twas said and done , and his success was full ; He won Europa with the guise of Bull ! The celebrated German poet , Heinrich Heine , died at Paris on Monday night , after lingering for a long while in a state of complete bodily paralysis ^ but wi th his marvellous intellect unimpaired . He was buried in the cemetery Montmartre , and his body was followed to the grave by Alexandra Dumas , Theophile

      Gautxer , Mignet , Paul de St . Victor , Alexandra Weill > and a great number of German writers and journalists . ««»«» The Countess Caumont Laforce has been murdered by her groom , who stabbed her with a pitchfork , in consequence of a violent quarrel he had had with . her . The Countess was toriy years of age , and somewhat eccentric . She resided in the Avenue dea Champs Elys ^ es . The assassin made no attempt to escape , but gave himself up to the commissary of police .

      AUSTRIA . " Some account of an " annexation" to the Concordat is given by the Times Vienna Correspondent , who Bays that , " by order of the Emperor , a letter containing a detailed explanation of -each separate article of the convention was addressed to the Pope , and mention was also made of certain demands by the Papal Chair which were . refused by the Imperial Government . One of them Was , that the ' preventive censure' should be re-estalished in Austria , but it was rejected , on the ground ' that long experience had proved it to be of little real use . The Archbishop of Vienna was the author of the letter , and the ni nth article in it is said to

      contain a passage . which would seem to give the Italian bishops a right to , interfere with the press which is not granted totheir Austrian and Hungai-ian brethren . " Iu the meanwhile , bigotry is rampant . The Archbishop of Vienna has refusod to allow the Common Council of Vienna to erect a monument to Mozart , because worship of genius is a kind of idolatrystrange objection to come from the Church of Rome J And a work introduced into the schools by the Ministry of Publio Instruction has been prohibited because it teaches that there was no deluge after the creation of man , " as no fossil remains of human beings have ever been discovered . "

      A great gap in the Austrian railroad net ( says the OeaterreichiseJic Oorrcspondenz ) , is about to bo filled up . On the 8 th inst ., the Emperor granted to M . Eruest S xT ' 5 *? J mperial Roval Consul at Hamburg , And to M . H . D , Lindhehn , merchant , a privilege to construct a railroad from Vienna to lanz , and thonce to the . bavarian frontier near Salzburg , on the one sido and to the Bavarian frontier near Paasau on th © other . 1 he railroad , which ia as important for Bavaria and Southern Germany as it ia for Austria , will boar the name of'tho Empress Elizabeth Railroad . "

      rncssiA . A " Credit Institution" ia about to bo established at Berlin . It will bo permitted to issuo its own paper , bearing interest and payable to beaver . Tho oapital is to bo 80 , 000 , 000 thalera , in eharos of two hundred t halcrs each , with liberty eubsoquontly to increase tho amount to 50 , 000 , 000 . Tho managing committee will consist of largo landed propriotora and bankers . HANOVISIt . There i « a miuistorial crisis in Ha . novor , tlio Kiug

      having determined to restore the Constitution , of 1840 instead of that of 1849 . THE GERMANIC COtfJ'EDEEATION . The declaration with respect to the approaching Paris conferences , presented to the German Diet by Austria on the 7 th of February , contains the annexed passages : —" The high Government of the Confederation will recognise that the guarantees which the future peace must bring will not be the less precious , especially for Germany , by the development given to these points ( viz ., those contained in the preliminaries . ) On the other hand > they will not disown that the said Powers , faithful to the principles the collective recognition of whic h constitutes the bond of their alliance , have con > scientiously excluded any proposition which would not be fully justified by an incontestable European right , and which , for that veiy reason , would not be of a nature to be accepted with honour by each of the great Powers which divide between them , in the first rank , the responsibility of peace and of the prosperity of Eui'ope . The Imperial Court entertains the firm conviction that this spirit of moderation and solicitude for the general welfare of nations will also prevail at the Conferences which will Bhortly open , and that , consequently , the rig ht expressly reserved in the fifth point for the belligerent Powers to propose , in addition to the four points -of guarantee , new conditions in a European interest , will not be exercised in a sense which might have the effect of again compromising the work of peace so happily commenced . " DENMARK . The inextricable complications presented by the internal condition of the Danish monarchy , have ended in the overthrow of the ministry . The telegraph announces that M . Raasloflj the King's minister for the Duchy of Schleswig , has teudered hisresignation , and has been replaced provisionally by M . Hall . ITAXY . The Sardinian Government has received an intimation from the Government of Vienna that the latter is prepared to raise the sequestration from the properties of denaturalised Austrian subjects , provided they will return to their country and reasurne their citizenship . In case of their preferring to reside abroad , the Imperial , Royal , and Apostolic Government will consent to hand over their properties to their heirs and successors ; and they are to have until the end of the present year to make their election . How Austria can continue to claLm any authority over her "denaturalised" subjects , in the face of a law of March , 1832 , which declares that " persons duly authorised "to emigrate lose their quality of Austrian subjects , and for all and every effect of civil political law will be treated as foreigners / ' is one of the mysteries of diplomacy . The British residents at Naples , travellers and merchants , have presented a document to Sir William Temple , our Minister at that city , complaining that they have to pay an income-tax to the Neapolitan Government far exceeding that which they pay at home . This abuse , they say , ar ises from the Neapolitan Mint making an exorbitant charge for exchange , instead of ( as usual with other minta ) paying the actual equivalent of silver , with an infinitesimal deduction only , to repay mint expenses . The King of Naples has performed an act of grace in pardoning ( on condition of Ms leaving the kingdom ) an English sailor who had killed a Sicilian in the course of a disturbance . Sir William Temple had interceded for the man , who had been condemned to thirteen years' imprisonment in irons . It seems he did not strike the blow with malice prepense . sp-ain . Edouardo Abad , alias Lutgardo Abadia , has boon executed for tho murder of Mr . Fonton , an Englishman , in April last . An accomplice who witnessed the murder was sentenced to imprisonment for life ; but it was part of his punishment that he should witness the execution of his comrade . The Minister of Foreign Affaire , in reply to a question put in the'CortoB , announced that the negotiations with France about tho precise limits of the frontiers had been brought to a satisfactory conclusion . The publia sittings of the committee ou the tariffs have been brought to a oloso . There appears to be a tondenoy ou tho part of the Spanish Government to offeot a reconciliation with tho Holy See . TURKEY . The Loan Commission reoontly proposod to tho Government to jsauo in tho market tho bills which the lattor was to draw ou aocouut of the loau . Tho Government accopted this proposal ; and a downward tondenoy immediately took placa in tho rate of cxehango , and the pound sterling foil by dogrooa to 144 piastres , though worth 160 iu tho bazaiu-n . Whon tho rate of oxctittngo had reached this figure , " tho Turkish Government , on tho euggoatiou of tho L onn Commission , " eays a Latter from Constantinople , " offered to pay tho creditors who had a olaixn on tho proceeds of the loan , at the rate of exchange of tha day . Tho speculator who never expected to be

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 23, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23021856/page/8/