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      Bread Riots In London. Duriwa W Ednesday...

      fast conduct of several "hundred dock-labourers and etHer iSfestftute persons , "who perambulated the prin--ripaHarorotig'biaTes in ' procession , demanding bread ana -money from the shopkeepers , whose premises thev ibrcrbly entered and ransacked of their consents " In several instances the tradesmen Trere subjected to gross acts of violence , and the most daring robberies -were committed m open daylight , and -property to ti considerable amount carried away bv the mob . The alarm was so general during the day that the shops were closed in High-street , Whitechapel , Commercial-road East , Stepney , and the whole of "the principal streets at the eastern portion of the metropolis , where business was generally suspended . * .

      __ . .,.,.. ___ •„ - »_ - _ ., _; Shortly after six o ' clock on Wednesday evening about 1000 labourers from the London and St . Katharine ' s Docks assembled in front of the workhouse of St , Mary ' s , Whitechapel , where they remained for a considerable time , yelling and making the most hideous noises . An attempt was made to force an entrance at the front gates , when they were informed that no relief could be given until the following morning . Bricks and stones were hurled at the windows , many of which were broken . Subsequently the mob entered the shop of Mr . Gregory , ¦ a , baker , arid cleared the contents , which consisted of

      nearly a hundred quartern loaves , which the men ate ravenously . One of the ringleaders placed a 41 b . loafonthetop of a long pole , on which-a placard was exhibited with the following words : — "We are starving , and want bread . " The mob increased , and moved towards Aldgate , and on the way several bakers' shops were completely cleared of the bread , which was carried away , The procession proceeded to Kosemary-lane , where nearly every shop was robbed of its contents . Upon reaching the premises of Mr . Barrett , eating-house-keeper , the ringleaders took the whole of the cooked meat and vegetables , and then inflicted serious injury on Mr . Barrett .

      Several of the rioters were taken into custody , and have been remanded until Wednesday . The magistrates have been using every endeavour to allay the distress by distributing the poor-box funds , and they have also recommended the parish authorities to relax their rules as far as possible .

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      Bread Riots At Liverpool.—-The Severe Di...

      Bread Riots at Liverpool . — -The severe distress in the north has led to some rather serious rioting at LiverpooL Large bands of people paraded the streets , committing occasional devastations , but the bakers ' shops , were the principal points of attack . About sixty ' of these poor wretches , principally Irish , were taken into custody . Of course they had all visited the bakers' shops with any intention but 4 hat of plunder . It was all accidental , and no harm was meant . They were generally sentenced to some short period of imprisonment .

      Continental Notes. The Last Austrian Not...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . The last Austrian note to the Cabinet of Berlin was dated January 26 . It maintained that Count Buol was perfectly justified , even in a defensive point of view , in requiring iffie ^ prll ~ Cr ^ ty ' flua 3 ' ~ t 1 i ' e ~' addition ' al ~ arcicIe' ~ ta be carried out . It was answered by a note from . Berlin on the 31 st of January , denying the justice of the Austrian allegations , and putting a full stop to the correspondence on this subject , by assuring Count Buol that this Court will form its own opinion of tho obligations contained in these treaties , and will not have one

      dictated to it . On the day previous a despatch was forwarded to Count Arnim , in Vienna , informing him that the Foreign Office had received notice from its diplomatic agents of the existence of the Austrian secret note to certain Federal Courts of Germany , and of the advocacy extended to it by the Minister of Foreign Affairs in France . The Cabinet of Prussia does not ask for any explanation of that note ; it reckons with confidence on the continued existence of tho Bund , which is secured by treaties , but regrets to observe symptoms of a desire to jeopardise it .

      Baron Prokescb , is to bo tho Austrian Special Commissioner at the Congress about to . bo hold at Vionna . The Vienna correspondent of tho Constitutionnd writes : " The Envoy of Prussia , three days back , received orders to inquire of our Government what importance it attached to the extraordinary armaments of Franco , As Count d'Arnim is indisposed , it waa Count Flemmiiig , Councillor of Legation , who was charged with the message . Tho reply was worthy of Talloyrand . ' The armaments of France , ' said M . do Buol , ' cause no more uneasiness to Austria than do those of Russia to Prussia . " Count Tolstoy is expected to take part in tho Vienna Conference , as" assistant to Prince Gortschakoff . Count Tolstoy U tho author of that pamphlet on tho war which wo analysed in the Leader in tho courso of last September .

      Tho funeral of the Duko of Gonoa took place on the 14 th , with all the military honours . Tho prince was accompanied to his last reating-piace by nearly tho whole population of Turin . A strong opposition , composed of tho two extreme parties In tho Chamber , is being organised in tho Pied-Wonteso Senate against the treaty of alliance .

      We hear from Genoa that Catania has been nearly destroyed , either by an earthquake or an eruption of the Mtaa . - General Niel ha 3 arrived in Paris from , the Crimea . Lord John Russell has had an interview with M . Drouyn de Lhuys . It is known , that the French troops at Rome are to be reduced to 3000 , and at Civita Vecchia to 500 . The effective of the Roman army , including the gendarmerie , maybe estimated at between 15 , 000 and 16 , 000 men , and if a second foreign regiment be formed the Roman army will then be 18 , 000 in number . The following is the full text of the Russian manifesto of which a telegraphic summary has already been published :- — " We , ~ b y the Grace of God , Nicholas I ., Emperor aad Autocrat of AH the Russias , & c , make known . —

      " Our faithful and beloved subjects know how much we desire to obtain , without recourse to the force of arms , without a greater effusion of blood , the object which we have had constantly in view—^ that of defending the rights of our co-religionists , and in general of all the Christians in the East . That desire \ b also known to all those who have followed with attention and impartiality the progress of events as well as the invariable tendency of our acts . We have been and still remain strangers to any other mainspring of action , to any other view in matter of faith of conscience . Even now , true to those principles which we have adopted , we have an * - nouncedour consent to the opening of negotiations with the Western Powers , who , with the Ottoman Porte , have formed a hostile alliance against us . We think

      that we are entitled to the same sincerity on their parts to the same disinterestedness of intentions , and we do not lose the hope of obtaining the re-establishment of peace , so much desired , and so precious for the whole of Christianity . Nevertheless , in the presence of the forces which they array against us , and of the other preparations whioh they are making to contend with us , preparations which , despite the measures taken for the opening of negotiations , are not discontinued , but , on the contrary , daily assume larger dimensions , we are constrained , on our side , to think of measures to increase the means which God has giv « ri us to defend our country , to oppose a firm and powerful barrier to all attempts hostile to Russia , to all projects that menace its safety and . its greatness- . _ —

      " This , the first of our duties , we accomplish , and invoking the support of the Most High , with entire faith in His grace , with'full confidence in the love of our subjects , animated like ourselves with , the same sentiment of devotion for our faith , for the Orthodox Church , and for our beloved country , we address this new appeal to all classes of our subjects , ordaining : — J' The formation of a general militia of the Empire . " The measures relative to the formation and organisation of this militia have been examined and confirmed by us , and are embodied in detail in special regulations ; they will be everywhere carried out with punctuality and zeal .

      " More than once Russia has been menaced , and has undergone sad and cruel trials ; but she always found her salvation in her humble faith in Providence , and in the close and indissoluble bonds which unite the -Monarch-witk-bia- subjects , -his devoted , children . _ Let it be so again to-day ! May the Almighty , who reads every heart , who blesses pure intentions , grant us his assistance ! u Given at St . Petersburg , the 29 th of January , of the year of graco , 1855 , and in the 30 th year of our reign . " Nicholas . " It is believed that Genoral do Wedell , assisted by Baron von Usedom , has come to an understanding with ho French Government about the Prussian . Alliance . tPrussia will sign a treaty identic with that of the 2 nd of December , save the omission of the second article , relating to the Danubian Principalities .

      It is still believed that the French Emperor lias finally resolved to go to Sebastopol , but his departure will not take place before the middle of March , General Pelissior having written to aay that no decisive attack can take place before the end of next month . The Emperor , it is reported , will bo accompanied by 400 of the Guides , the Cent Gardes , and a battalion of each regiment of the Imperial Guard . On tho other hand , it is said that M . Mauvel , a stockbroker , and intimate acquaintance of M . Fould , is to bo prosecuted for having spread tho roport of the Emperor's projected departure .

      Tho frost has continued , not only in Paris , but throughout Franco , with extraordinary sovority . On Tuesday the procession of the Bmtf-Graa took place . So cold a Mardi-Graa was not remembered . Tho ox , christened this year Sebaatopol , was conducted to tho Place du Carrousel , and inspected by tho Emperor and Empress from the central balcony . The following of Sebaatopol consisted of about a hundred Knights , Cruuaders , Mousquotaires , Turks , Persians , and Nobleman it la Louis XIV ., all on horseback . Genoral de la Marmora has arrived in Paris from Turin , to decido upon tho organieatlon of tho Piedmontoso expedition to tho Crimea . The Imperial Palace at Prague was burnt on tho 20 th inat . It was tho residence of tho ox-Ejnperor and . Empress of Austria . Several political arrests have recently boon made in tho Roman States and in Tuacany . Tho Roman

      Government has forbidden masks again ibis year la the-Gar * nival . The Parma Gazette of the 12 th say * * nat Ltoatenant-Colonel Chevalier Lanati , the President of « the Permanent Court-martial at Parma , nsu stabbed oil the preceding night , while returning home ,-a faw ^ steps from his own door . He received five wounds , none of Which is mortal . Advices from Pesth announce < the . death of Count Joseph Teleky , which took plaeeionihe 16 th inst . Dutch newspapers confirm , aa . announcement that the Government of Holland is preparing to send an extraordinary embassy to the Emperor of Japan , in order to take advantage of his friendly dispositions towards Europeans .

      The Belgian Minister of . Foreign Affaira has- made an emphatic declaration of neutrality in the Chamber of Representatives . He declared- the neutrality of Belgium , as guaranteed by the treaties of 1331 and 1839 , to be " perpetual and obligatory . " The Moniteur says : —" The French Government has just caused proceedings to be taken before the Belgian tribunals against a pamphlet published recently at Brussels , with the following title : — 'On the conduct of the

      war in the East ; Expedition to the Crimea ; Memoir addressed to the Government of his Majesty the Emperor Napoleon III . By a General Ofiioer . ' We need not affirm that this Memoir has not been addressed to the Government of the Emperor . This production , the tendency of which is to libel the chiefs of our army , to exaggerate our difficulties and losses , to give confidence to our enemies , is merely a pamphlet published in the interest of Russia , and falsely attributed to a French officer . "

      The Austrian Government hap contradicted , through its accustomed organ , the Austrian Correspondence , the statement tnat an Austrian loan of 15 , 000 , 0007 ., guaranteed by England , is about to be raised .

      Handcock V. Delacour. In Justice To Lord...

      HANDCOCK v . DELACOUR . In justice to Lord Clanricarde we make some extracts from a letter which he has addressed to the Daily News . •—" The main allegation , upon which the story you relate upon the authority of the Irish Attorney-General seems to rest , is that in the year . 1841 , ' in consequence of a suspicion of too great intimacy between Lord Clanricarde and Sirs . Handcock ^ a separation took place , and Mr . Hy . ndcock went to France . ' This is wholly and notoriously false , and I cannot learn that any attempt was-made to sustain such a statement by a particle of evidence . In fact , it is perfectly well known that Mrs . Handcock left her husband on account of bis conduct With her French maid , who thenceforward lived openly with him until his death . This was happily concealed from the daughters , and Miss Handcock in her

      diary attributes the separation to the machinations of persons in her father ' s employment . My affidavit was not , as you say it was , inaccurate in dates upon this matter . It states that I saw Mr . and Mrs . Handcock in the autumn of 1840 , and , 'having passed the winter of 1840 in Russia , ' I did not see either of them again until after their separation , which took place in the spring of 1841 , while I was still abroad . All this is indisputable out of the Irbh ' Court "" ofTfh ¥ ncery : Myaffidavitf however ,-wa » not made to explain or defend my conduct in any respect , but it was made upon the application of one of tho ligitants , that I should bear testimony to facts within my own knowledge , to contradict statements sworn to by the opposite party as having been ' heard and believed . ' If no other evidence existed to show that Mr . Handcock entertained no such suspicion as is attributed to him , his own conduct when I met him in Paris and in his last

      illness afford good proof of it . ... " I , however , do not wonder that when I had acted thus to Mr . lluudcock , his daughters , who Jiad known me from their childhood , should recur to me for aid and advice . And whenever I waa so called upon ,, my interference was uuiformly not in furtherance of , but in opposition to , tho viewa of Mrs . Handcock , who waa determined to secure for herself , in any way she could , tho fortune of each of her daughters after their deaths . Persona who knew hor well arc aware that she was

      highly incensed against mo for aiding Miss Handcock to inoko a will , whereby she loft to her mother , in pursuance of hor own and her deceased sister ' s wishes , 10 , 000 / ., instead of her entire property . When tho youngest daughter communicated to mo her intention to convey hor estate to her mother , I prevented nor executing any deed to that effect which ahould not contain tho power of revocation thereupon inserted , and 1 delayed tho execution of uiiy Much deed for boiuo inoutlia .

      Ouk Civilisation. Muui»Kh.-Al,I Ff «Il S...

      OUK CIVILISATION . Muui » KH .-Al , i « il Shea , a " P ^ -kf * " * , ^ woman with n Imby in hut unna , hua boon charged with Sg the throat ^ f Catherine Lyons , with whom she worked "t ft furrior ' s . The prisoner had nothing to say , and was committed for trial . 1 NUKN 1 OUH Al-VUCAXION OIT Xl . E DOUWtlC *<>** . --Henry Uoroalbrd , a' promising young gcutleman of n » e-Wyeur * of ago , or rather youth , haU a OUturbanco with his mothor . He asaaultod her bo violently , that she wont for her « on-in-law to protect her . Ab u » uftl , tho

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 24, 1855, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24021855/page/11/