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      to be made dependent on the civil . power ; our institutions would be vitiated from th » root ; we should hare an appearance of liberty ,, but substantially , a tremendous administrative despotism-. If the administration of the Roman States has its inconveniences , it is because the cLvil power ia in the hands of ecclesiastics ; and , if with , us the ' clergy ¦ were made dependent on the civil power , we should arrive at analogous , and perhaps still more pernicious results . But I think the incameramenlo would produce the contrary . effect , would increase iu the clercfv

      tlie spirit of caste , would detach them still more from civil society . I speak in the purely social point of view . The organization of the Catholic clergy has the defect of having few ties with civil society . Separated from his family , not permitted to aspire to create himself another , the priest concentrates his-affections on his caste . But if he has -property , that constitutes a tie to civil society and neutralizes the tendency to separation . " In support of theao views , he pointed to the extremely ultramoutine opinions held by the Roman . Catholic clergy of Prance and Belgium .

      In pursuing his vindication of the policy of the Government last Saturday , Count Cavour defended the removal of the maritime arsenal from . Genoa to Spezzia , and said it was his " profound conviction that the fortification at the latter place is a matter of absolute and urgent necessity . " This caused great sensatip : i in the Chamber . The Count then related an anecdote : — " Yesterday ( said Cavour ) , ' as I was leaving this House , preoccupied with many thoughts , 1 accidentally met an engineer—our former colleague -Q 3 i . jin . or Soiumeiller ) , whom the electors of Savoy have forgotten , notwithstanding that he ever showed himself a steady partisan of liberal opinions , and wlio has taken advantage of that oblivion to devote all his time and energy to a work

      which will honour not only himself but his ungrateful country . ( Murmurs . , and sensation , on , the Right . " ) I questioned him as to-wliat he had been doing during the many months we had not met . He replied , with a smile ( well for him that he did not hear . the speech of I > eputy Casaretto ) , ' I have just returned from Brussels , where I have completed the arrangements for the ma chinery for the trqforo ( the Mont Cenis tunnel ) , and with improvements that will save expense while increasing its efficacy . Instead of l , 5 O 0 , OO 0 f ., only l , 000 , OOOf . will be necessary . ' He then told me that he -had found himself in contact with many scientific men , French and others , and that all approved his project as well founded . "

      The King of Naples is fortifying his coasts and making various defensive preparations . ' The army is being enlarged , and orders ( it is said ) have been given for building sixteen new frigates ^ The King has consented to the arbitration , of Prussia in the Cagliari dispute . The Pope and the King of Naples have met at Porto d'Anzio , and have greeted with great cordiality . Queen Maria Christina ( of . Spain ) was tit Porto d'Anzio during the time her brother , the Neapolitan monarch , was also there ; but , though they have not seen each other for some years , she went away without an interview ,. the surprise of everybody . The Pope has now returned to Home . ,

      AUSTRIA . Sir John Young , the English Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian . Islands , has informed the Austrian Government that it is at liberty to lay down an electric telegraph from Ragnsa to Corfu or Xante . An official telegram has been received at Vienna from London , asking whether the Austrian Government proposed to lay down a submarine telegraph between Kagusn and Alexandria , or between Corfu and Alexandria . Tlie Lord Bishop of Jiergamo , in Lombard } -, has given giv . it . offence- to the inhabitants by his intolerance towards Protestants . He haa warned the clergy of his diocese against " desecrating" tlie cemeteries by interring in them impenitent Roman Catholics and Protestants . If the remains of a heretic should by accident be buried iu one of the cemeteries , it is to be cast forth from tlie consecrated earth .

      Pater Bcrgstaller , a member of the Jesuit body at Feldkirch , in Vorarlberg , lias told the students of tlie Gymnasium " , from the pulpit , that the celebrated llumboldt is an impious person , who , if he does not shortly repent , will bo lost to all eternity . A Commission of the Council of the Empire is now employed in revising the drafts of the constitution of tlie different provinces and of the municipal luws . TIig measures are stated to have a reactionary character .

      KUS 3 IA .. The ceremony of turning trie first turf and commencing the works for tlie Riga Ditnaburfr Itnilwuy toolc jphicc ( suya a communication from Riga ) on the 2 () tli inst . The Greek Archbishop of the siiriounding provinces attended with his choir , an did nl , so the principal Reformed clergy with theirs . A procession was formed tt > conduct Prince Suwuroff , the-Governor-General , from the Exchange to the spot , in which all the authorities took part , together wiLh tho various guilds with their banners . The day was kept as a general holiday ; and great interest in the went \ v i \ h inuuifustod l > y nil clasoefl . " A new impulHc , " says a letter in the Nord , " is itlso shortly to bo given to our Statistical Department .

      • A central committee on statistics is to be formed at the ( Ministry of the Interior . This committee , which will , receive the statistical reports from every portion of the I empire , will be divided into two sections—statistics and rural economy . The latter will be exclusively devoted to the study of questions concerning the rural economy of the empire , and to the examination of information hearing upon this chief branch of our social wealth . In addition to the members of the committee , all of whom are to receive ffood salaries , all the Ministers

      have to designate some of their emjiloyes , who may be consulted relative to the labours of the committee . These Ministerial cmjiloyvs will have to . express an opinion whenever they are consulted on subjects relating to labours connected with their" departments . " It is also saiil that the reports of the Ministers , after having been examined by the Emperor , will henceforth be handed over to a Council of Ministers , llis Majesty finds himself oppressed by work , and needs the assistance he will now obtain .

      Sl'AIA ' . An accident has taken place on the Aranjuez Railway , owing to a passenger train from Madrid running into a goods train which had been left on the same line of rails . Two waggons were broken to pieces , and others were a good deal dam aged , while several of the passengers ( including the Minister « of Public Works ) wero more or less injured . The . engine driver of tlie passenger train has been arrested . The Queen , while standing a few days ago in the balcony of the palace at Aranjxiez , perceived that a boat on the Tagus , in which were two or three gentlemen and some ladies , was in danger of being carried away by the current . Her Majesty gave an alarm , and some men employed at the palace rescued the little vessel from its peril . These men were afterwards brought into the Queen ' s presence by her orders , complimented on their courage , ; md rewarded with liberal presents .

      The Queea has arrived at Albaeete , accompanied by lit . Turgot and a numerous suite . The price of bread has risen in Madrid , and the Government has resolved to adopt a proposal of the municipality to establish granaries . The postal treaty with England is signed . General Concha has reqixested to be relieved of the Government of . Cuba ¦ on account of being affected with a severe liver complaint . Some disturbances in various parts of the Peninsula

      are reported by telegraph . At Ba-eza , in the province of Jaen , a riot took place at a bull-fight , ami ' . the Civil Guard , -who attempted to re-establish order , were pursued with stones . Eventually , the principal rioters wore arrested , and order was restored . At Soria , an Italian , calling himself Lemeti , has been arrested on the discovery that he was an agent of the Marianne secret political society . At Orma , orders . iin . ve been given for the arrest of another Italian who was disguised as a pilgrim ; but he could not be found . It is not stated why he was to be arrested .

      Lord llowden signed on the 21 st the postal convention betweon Spain and England , and the same evening presented his letters of recal -and took leave of the < iueen . He was to leave Madrid on the 23 rd , and will arrive in Paris probably on the 30 th .

      GERMANV . Tho Frankfort Diet has come to . a decision respecting the reply to be made to the last proposals of the Danish Cabinet . A term of six weeks lias been fixed upon for Denmark to make known to the Diet the new measures it may think fit to propose to satisfy the complaints respecting Holstein and Lauenburg . Should Denmark decline to make any further concessions , the Diet will then consider what further measures shall be taken .

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      Criminal Record. . Escaimjof A Convicx.—...

      CRIMINAL RECORD . . Escaimjof a Convicx . — . William Roberts , a man under sentence of fifteen years ' . penal servitude , escaped from Chatham Dockyard' last Saturday afternoon . Having contrived to elude the warders and the sentry , he retired to a private part of the dockyard , where he took off his convict ' a clothes , and plunged into the Mudway , which at that spot is about a mile across , lie has since been rc-nrrested-Attem rTEi > Murdkii at Puuston . —RoLert Frnnklind , a butcher at l'rcston , has uttempted , while in a Btnte of intoxication , to murder lib wife , lla sent onu of his children up-stairs for his " skinning knife , " and , having obtained it , seized his wife by the hair , and asked her whether she preferred having hur throat cut , or being ripped open . She screamed for assistance , when ho mudu two or throe blows with the knifu « l lior throat , which she received on her arms and hands . Some neighbours at length hurst in , secured the man , and gave him into custody .

      Fataij Puizio l'VanT . —A professional fight was to havo taken place on "Wednesday at Grnviwend ; but , for some reason , the audience wero disappointed of their brutal pleasure . They therefore prevailed oil two men , Sullivnn and Haley , to batter thiMu . selvw ) for tho cntortuinmeutofthc spectators ; and those porous ipught ( br ii long tiniu . Two other men—James Morris and Philip licdwood , friendu —tlion took possession of the ring , and ,

      after-a severe contest , the latter fell dowu-hiseusibf " lie was taken to the infirmary , and in the evening h expired , leaving a widow and two young children . ' j £ ; face and neck were horribly mutilated . Two men a / in custodv , but not the principal . e

      Gatherings From The Law Antv Police Cour...

      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW ANTV POLICE COURTS . rniLir ILvspY , a boy about ¦ thirteen years of ; t < . - ^ charged last Saturday before the Hammersmith " n ' sc-is " irate with having caused the death of ltebecea Handy " his sister . ' i'Jio father of the buy stated that In ; and hi ' family were going to emigrate to New Zealand in about another . wei'U , and that he went with his son to a nei"h . Louring shop to buy a yun . Having loaded the weapon with powder and shot , and capped it , he laid it . down oh one side , while he told his son to run home fur some brown paper ; but tho latter hud scarcel y quitted ' the shop , when his father missed the gun . " lie hastened liome , and had just reached the door of his house when

      lie heard a loud report . ' On proceeding up-stairs into the sitting-room , he found his daughter stretched senseless on the iloor , bleeding profusely from a wound in her liead . Part of her face was . completely blown oil " . Tlie hoy came rumiing towards his father in a state uf distraction , and cried out , "Oh dear , lather , 1 don ' t know what I ' ve done ! " ' . The girl was immediately removed to St . Mary ' s Hospital , raddington , but lunl scmcely been admitted before she died . The buy , who cried excessively throughout the whole proceedings in court , was liberated on his father ' s recognizance that he should appear on a future day ; and on Monday he was tin ally discharged . An inquest has been held on tho body , when the jury returned a verdict of " Death by ¦ Mi sadventure . "

      Lord Chief Justice Cockburn , \ rlio was prc-vented Ijy a severe attack of bronchitis from sitting , during the whole of last term ( with the exception of one davj , in the Court of Common Pleas , resumed hid seat last ' Saturdaymorning , aiul appeared to have perfectly recovered hU health . , In the Court for Divorce and Matrimoni . il Causes , last Saturday , the case of Stacey ivStacey was hoard . The petitioner ( Mrs . Stacey ) was married in the year 1812 to the defendant , then a hatter at Bristol , but subsequently of Warminster and of Oranbourne-street , London , llis liabits became dissipated and brutal soon alter the union took place ; and , at the moment the case was heard , he vas undergoing a-sentence of six months'imprisonment at ClerkonweUior ill-treating the petitioner . J £ videu . ee ill proof of these facts h living been called , ' court . without hesitation decreed si judicial separation .-

      The Court of Arches , iu commoii with tliu other livw courts , opened last Saturday , but no business could be transacted , for the simple reason that then ; was no Judge . CKving to the recent separation of tfie oliiees of the Judge of Faculties ( prerogative ) and of Uus Dean ul Arches , ' tliii latter oIlicLiilhas been left without any remuneration besides fees , which do not amount to more than 25 / . or 30 / . a ; ycur . Sir John Dodsoii , the last Judge of the united court , was Luund to discharge'the duties until his death ; since which event , it has boou impossible to Jind a successor , and not unnuturally , considering tlie heaviness of the work and the wretched character of the pay .

      1 L has Leen decided in the Court of Exclu'ijiujr , on an appeal from a verdict givcii at the last Brecon Assizes , that a will is suiliciently revoked by tlie simple act of tearing off the seal , fcjuch was indisputably 111- ¦ . state of the law before the passing of the Suituto ut" Wills , lit Victoria , cap . 2 U , seo . 20 ; : but , under thai ai : t , there was some reason lur . tloubt . The decision vl' the Chief Duron auinns the verdict . An action to recover damaye . s for sl . iiu . ler and an assault was tried on Monday in the Court of Quei'if s lioneh . ~ Mv . Kiny , a solicitor , was the plaintiff , and Mr . Lindas , a bill discounter , was the defendant . Tho case has already come before the Guildhall Al'lcrmtin . The two parties to the action hud had a quarrel alioul sonic business niutteis , and Mr . Lindus iiuulidy culled Mr . Kiny " a perjured villain , " and ussaulml him . A verdict was given ibr the iiluintil ] ' ; dania ^ 'H , UK

      Mr . Coniiuissioncr Cloulhum gave judgment . «> u Monday , in the Court of Hankruijtcy , in the case of i ' . ivitt , 1 'avitt , and Puvitt , millers , itc , of Kingslainl and I'lsowhere . X'lie conduLrt of thu bankrupts was . stigiuuli / cd as extrenu'ly reckless . They had bci-u in tliiHeultiw many yours , and hml proeoedi : « l rapidly from bad . tu worse . At the commencement of iHoij , Uumv was a ddicienc . y of O'J-iO / . ; the debls were Hi , i >*» JA , and tho assets wct'u only sutlieient to pay the mtditors' threeponce or sixpence , in . tlie ]) omul . The buddrlit-s aiiioiiiite ' l to 10 , 51 \ J . ; and tho trading hml been can'less and improvident . The Commissioner therefon : . said ho fhoiil ' l suspend tho certilicittus ( thinlolus . i ) for six mouths from tin ; hearing j but ho allowed protection . The ] ., ord Chancellor guvu judgment , on Monday ou tho appeal from Vieu-Chuuctllor N \' oud ' . s lU-cisi . / u

      iiiconnexion with tho . Loiulon and JOat-tern liunUhiH 'poialion . T |» u inattei' had comu buforu the imuri l > t : lu \ Y ° " motion ou behulf ol' the ollicial liiana ^ ci ' s , a | i | ' « ii > l ; under this windiny-up of thiH if Charles Forbes and others from taking any proceeding

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1858, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29051858/page/6/