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      The Rug-Elej Poisonings. {From Our Speci...

      not to aBk him anything about that policy . He is stall very young , his wife also is very young , and his three children are younger . He is » ruined man . His practice is taken from . him . He has lost £ 4 , 000 by William Palmer . At length his emotion moderates . No one offers sal-volatile , but the atmosphere of the room is sufficiently pungent . His legal bottle-holder , a Mr . Vallancey Lewis , tis friend , though an attorney , imparts courage to the witness , who finally deposes that he holds William Palmer ' s

      assignment of a policy for . £ 13 , 000 effected pn the life of his brother Walter , and that this assignment was made previous to Walter ' s death . Of course , the statement about" the loss of £ 4 , 000 only excited a smile , though perhaps Mr . Pratt only intended to say that such was about the amount he would ultimately have squeezed out of his client . However this may "be , the jury were now quite satisfied . For some time they been staggered by the fact that Walter Palmer had died an twenty

      minutes with only two medical men in attendance , though many persons , it is said , have been known to linger , if not to survive , when even three doctors were present . But now all their doubts were dispelled . The coroner summed up succinctly and impartially . The jury then withdrew , but one * uror stood out for two hours and eight minutes . At last , they again came into court and pronounced a verdict of Wilful Murder against William Palmer , as having administered prussie . acid to Walter Palmer , so aa to cause his death . They further expressed their disapprobation of the manner in which Walkeden . had given his evidence , but highly approved of the

      conduct of Capt . Hatton and the Staffordshire constabulary in bringing forward the last two cases . And > in conclusion , they thought that an application ought to be . addressed to the Home Govern- ^ xnent for some indemnification to be made to the landlord of the Talbot Inn , where the bodies were opened : for people now foolishly shun that tavern as if it were plague-stricken ^ albeit there is no offensive smell nearer than the opposite churchyard * and the tap is excellent . When the Foreman had ceased , up tarted and thankedthe

      s Superintendent Bergen ^ , jury for the compliment they had paid to Capt . Hatton and the cbnstablefrof Staffordshire ^ who had only done their duty > and would always do their duty , and thought it their duty to do so . He must also beg to inform them that it was in contemplation to have a public dinner at the Talbot Inn to commemorate the frightful scene exhibited in the Commercial-room of that hostelry , seven feet by five . No doubt Mr . Spitzbergen . will favour the company , after pipes are introduced , with the fashionable melody of " Hot Codlins . "

      Perhaps it may not be amiss to allude to the coroner ' s opening addresB to the jury this morning . He said that the metropolitan weekly papers had spoken disparagingly of Rugeley and its inhabitants ; nor had they spared himself ; but when the proper time arrived he should be fully prepared to vindicate his conduct in every respect . His red hair bristled as he spoke , rubescent flames flashed from those pinty eyes , and the mantle of the immortal Pecksniff" visibly descended upon the shoulders of the much-injured but longsuffering little man .

      The jmora rowed applause , the cha-wbacdns joined in chorus , and the Town-hall trembled to itB foundations , like tbe mighty Olympus when great Jove shakes his ambrosial locks . Indeed , it was a service of some danger for any " gentleman connected with the press" to show himself in the street to-day . A certain illustrated paper of some importance in the world of Journalism has given the most dire offence . The antique and curiously-carved landlord of the Talbot Arms , who has been in that house now seventyfour years as man and boy , vows that he will duck the recreant correspondent in the nearest horse-pon < l ; and one gentleman with a well-shaven face , black and curly whiskers , being mistaken for the offend « i > , well nigh came to grief .

      Local rumours point to a fresh exhumation . It is whispered that the body of Mr . Leonard Bladen is to be , taken , up and examined , though he died nearly six y « ars ago . It appears that he had accepted the odds against « Voltigeur , " forty to one , and became the . winner of a large amount . The tickets wore duly paid when presented , but it is not known by whom they wore presented . The exhumation , however will got clear up this mystery ^ pad it is to be hoped that SirGooi-ge Grey will not sanction any further proceeding ? of the kind . The jury would boko up tlie whole churchyard .

      80 . The Leader. Fno. 305, Saturday,

      80 . THE LEADER . fNo . 305 , Saturday ,

      Continental Notes. M ' . , France. F£^J™...

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . m ' . , FRANCE . f £ ^ J ™? * VMarnoiUeB of the despatch announcing « rodut $ Tu *™*»<* tho Austrian ultimatum Fen fourlS « r ° ioitt tho com raftIt < kofc - Whe < *

      one hundred public clocks , which axe much wanted . It will scarcely be believed in London that there is not a public clock at the Marseilles Post-office . An audacious robbery was committed on Friday night last at the Hotel de Ville . Tbe robbers forced the door of the cash-office , and succeeded in opening the iron safe with false keys . They extracted from it 136 , 00 Of . in bank note 3 aud gold . A considerable sum in silver , and a number of bonds aud other securities , were untouched . No trace of the thieves has as yet been discovered . Lord Cowley has distributed to a small number of French naval and military officers the Order of the Bath bestowed by the Queen . Sir Colin Campbell , Sir A . Woodford , and Colonel Clarernont , were present at the Embassy on the occasion .

      , A . TJSTRIA . The blight and ban of religkrus differences are being called into active existence in Austria , by the Concordat . A Roman Catholic in Hungary was about to marry a Protestant girl , who desired to have the ceremony performed according to the rites of her own church ; but the bridegroom ' s Romanist ; priest refused his consent , because , according to the Concordat , anypapistical bridegroom , who should "be induced by love to dare to enter into a matrimonial engagement in open contempt of the Catholic laws , would be guilty of an illicit and impious act . " The contest between the secular and the ecclesiastical authorities

      as to . the interpretation and working of the Concordat , continues , and may in time lead to bad blood . The Gazette de Milan , the official o-rgan of the Austiian Government in Lombard y , publishes under the title " Disputes relative to the Cpacordat , " an article formally condemning the Circular of the Archbishop of Milan , and indicating that tte Government will take no more heed of this Circular ^ than it deems convenient . In the same article , the pretensions of the Archbishop on the subject of the press and education are very curtly repudiatedi- Marshal Eadetzky , Governor-General of Lombardy , has also issued an ordonnance which quite annuls tie episcopal decree .

      A letter from Vienna , in tb .-e German , Gazette of Frankfort , says : — " The Minister of Public Instruction has invited the bishops of the Lombardo-Vene-r tian kingdom to retract the orders of censure which they had issued , and to await , foa the execution of the articles of the Concordat , the decrees of the Government . " ^ jnw . 1-

      PRUSSIA . Within the last week or so , a pamphlet has appeared at Brussels , entitled La - Ligue des Neutres , in which the author endeavom-s to show tliafc all the concessions hitherto made by Russia are due to the pacific steps of the neutral Powers , among whom Austria is included . The moral of the work is , that , by the mediation of the neutral Powers , Russia has been brought to concede everything that virtually the ttainment of

      secures a the original objects of the war , and that they ought now to enter into a league to protect each other against -the pressure which is being put upon them by the belligerent Powers to compel them to take part in the -war . For the present , since the l-eceipt of the pacific news from Russia , the novelty of the week has become obsolete ; should tbe approaching negotiations not result in peace , it will re-acquire an interest . —Times Berlin Corre sjtondent '

      It is generally denied in Prussia that the bearing of England towards that country has lately been extremely imperative ; that she has' threatened to blockade the ports , and thus fo-rce Prussia to join tho war ; or that she has refused to admit th « representatives of Frederick William to a . ny future conferences .

      DENMAIllfci The conferences o-n the Sound Dues were opened on the 4 th inst . Tho special plenipotentiary for Russia was tho celebrated statistical author , M . de Tengoborski , who expressed an unwillingness on tho part of Russia that the Dues should be abolished . A general view" of receipts from 1840 to' 1847 being required by some of the plenipotentiai'ios 3 the conferences were adjourned to the end of tho jn . on . th . The King of Denmark haa announced that hie marriage with the Countess Danner is " for tho prosent and for the future morganatic " It is thought that the charge of high treason against the lato nainietera will bo quashed . ... . . WAM . , „

      In defiance of the prognostications of tho merchants of Genoa , to the effect that that city would be ruinod by the war with Russia , trade , for tho aaout part , has been flourishing . Owing to tho demand for transports , tho shipping trade haa been benefited . Tho harbour of Genoa , says a writer from tho spot , in now nearly as full aa ovor of doop sou-going BhipB . Tho arrivals of grain , howover , during tho piuit year , hnvo been comparatively email . Tho Sardinian budget for the extraordinary oxponaoH of tho Crinaoan expedition haa just boou published in the form of a blue book of very roepootablo dimonaioMS . It oomprohends tho calculated expenses of tho military and naval department /) from tlio commencomont of tlio war to tho end of 1800 , which nro put down at 74 , 239 , 532 f . 07 « . —that i « to say ,

      military department , 62 , 863 , 131 f . ; naval department ll , 376 , 401 f . 67 c . The force which left for the East was fixed by Royal decree of March 31 st , 1855 at 17 , 603 men—i . e . 1 , 034 officers and 16 , 569 soldiers but , in order to supply casualties in this force , whic h on the 10 th of November last mustered 17 , 584 , it ¦ was evidently necessary to increase the establish ment of engineers , artillery , cavalry , commissariat , and waggon train . Cholera and fever have mowed down many victims . The total deaths from the 26 th of June to the 31 st of October were 1 , 632 , divided as follows —Cholera , 1 , 211 ; -typhus fever , 170 ; wounds , 30 divers maladies , 221 . Of this number , 56 were officers ; 1 , 663 non-commissioned officers or soldiers , and lg civil employes . The loss of horses and mules in six months was 232 horses and 116 mules out of total of

      3 , 659 . The debate on the proposed loan of 30 , 000 , 000 f ., to meet the extraordinary expenses of the war budget , commenced on the 14 th inst ., and terminated on the 16 th in a vote of 108 in favour of the loan , and 29 against it , in a house of 137 . M . de Revel having proposed a division of the loan into two separate votes , one of 24 , 000 , 000 for the army , and another of 6 , 000 , 000 for the interior , Count Cavour accepted that division . The proposition was then put to the vote ; but it was only supported by six or seven members of the extreme right , and was consequently lost .

      Priestl y prudery has been performing a grand act of purification at NapleB . Certain pieces of sculpture which have long adorned the public gardens and the Museum- —sculptures representing the Rape of the Sabines , the Rape of Proserpine , file Venus Vincitrice of Capua , and one or two other Venuses—are tq be removed . The morals of Naples—so ; , it is to be presumed , the prieste argue—are so entirely unexposed to other Bources of courruption , that it would be a pity to let this one remain . The ^ pet British morality of the fig-leaf is certainly here surpassed .

      Spanr. . * Several Ministerial Changes A...

      SPAnr . . * Several ministerial changes are now taking place in Spain . All the ministers resigned , excepting Espartero ; but O'Donell and Brail have returned to the departments of War and Finance . Sendr Luxan will have the Ministry of Public " Wprks , vacated by Senor Alon , so Martinez ; Senor Escoaura , the Home Department , in place off Senor Huelves ; and Senor Arias-Aria , Justice . .-. ¦* The Cortes , on the 17 th rust ., rejected the vote of censure on the Ministry by a majority of 152 to 57 . The parliamentary committee is favourable to the Credit Establishment proposed by some Spanish capitalists .

      TURKEY . The Journal de Constantinople has a long paragraph about the construction of a canal from , the Danube to the Black Sea , setting forth all the advantages to be derived from such an undertaking . The Imperial firman , which grants the right of constructing this canal to a company formed by some financiers of London , Paris , Vienna , and Constantinople , was signed on the 4 th of January . The electric telegraph , which the Turkish

      Government proposed to construct , and which , passing from Schumla and Roustchouk to Bucharest , was to join with the Vienna line , has been ^ abandoned , and . a line will now be constructed by Adrianople to Belgrade , with branches to Salonicaand Cattaro , thus connecting all the provinces of European , Turkey . The construction of the original telegraph was granted to Messrs . De la Rue and Black ; but there has been some disagreement with these gentlemen , and they have been paid au indemnity to retire . Another project is for a line from Constantinople to Alexandria .

      The 9 th of January wis the first night of the French company at the theatre in Pora : every seat and place was taken before the . doors were open , and crowds waited outside . A Blight disturbance in Pera threatens unpleasantness between the English and French officers ., Tho commandant at Scutari haa issued an order for no officers to quit that place for Pera without permission . —Daily News .

      Rtresu . The doctors have pronounced tho case of Prince Paskiowitch ( cancer of tho breast ) to bo hopelessly incurable . Baron Klotz , nevertheless , tries magnetic treatment . Pxinco Gortachakoff , Prince Woronzoff , M . KisBolof , and Count KraBiusky are severally mentioned as bin successors . Again , it is said , that the Arohduko Constantino will take tho government a * viooroy ; but many think no vi ^ eroyalty will bo wniu tained .

      Naval And Military News. Tins Case Of Li...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . Tins Case of Lieutenant Denneuv . — "With rel ' or enco to the unfortunate naval officer , aontonccd to death for cowardice , tho Cork OoiutMution Bays ,:- " " We understand a letter ban boon received from an authority high in tho Admiralty , in reference to the cane of Lieutenant Dennehy , m wluoh it i » » tatod thut tho entire facts of tlio case were not boforo the public ; however , tho Lords of tho Admiralty hod commuted tho extromo punishment to transportation for life , which tho unfortunate officer will have to

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 26, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26011856/page/8/