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      more angry . The Belgian Government has just received from a military commission , appointed ad hoc , a report on the defences of the country . On receipt of this intelligence , all the garrisons of our northern departments were douhled ; orders were sent to the troops to be ready to march at a moment ' s notice ; munitions of war were distributed , and every soldier received one week ' s provisions . To cover these preparations , a report was spread that the Belgian miners , irritated at the coal duty being raised ten per cent ., intended to make an incursion on the French frontier . The fact is , that Bonaparte wants to terrify Belgium , by threats of invasion into compliance with all his demands . S .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . THE Hevue JBritannique states , that an application has been made by the French Government to the English Cabinet for the original will of the FJmperor Napoleon , which has hitherto remained in the possession of England . Of course lord Malmesbury could not refuse to comply with such a strictly personal request of his intimate fnend . A letter from Nismes , of the 1 st instant , gives some few details of the assassination of the Marquis de Dammartin , Mayor of Uzes , in the Gard . At the moment when he was about to set out , accompanied by his son , for Nismes , to be present at the reception of the President , four armed istol

      men came up to him , and one of them discharged a p point blank at his breast and another at his head . His death was instantaneous . They then took to flight , and § ot off . It is said in the country that this act was caused j motives of political vengeance . The Independence Beige of Tuesday says , " M . H . de Brouckere , summoned yesterday to the Palace , was received at two o ' clock by the King . It was stated that at the close of the conference , which was of very long duration , M . de Brouckere , without overlooking the difficulties of the situation , consented to employ himself in the composition of a Cabinet . We learn that M . Firmin Rogier has asked the Eng to accept his resignation of the mission to Paris . "

      We can scarcely believe that this disgusting- parody , signed by the Mayor of a commune in the department of the Herault , can he authentic , though blasphemy of this kind is native and to the manner born in France , and in fact would not be considered blasphemy , but rather an honour to the original—especially by the' frantic flatterers of Louis Bonaparte : — " Our Prince , —You who are in power by right of birth and by the acclamation of the people , your name is everywhere glorified ; may your reign come , and be perpetuated by the immediate acceptance of the Imperial Crown of the ereat Napoleon ; may your firm and wise will be done in

      France , as abroad . Give us this day our daily bread b y reducing progressively the Customs' duty , so as to permit the entry of articles which are necessary to us , as also the exportation of what is superfluous . Pardon us our offences when you shall be certain of our repentance , and that wo become better . Do not permit us to yield to the temptations of cupidity and place-hunting , but deliver us from evil—that is to say , from secret societies , from vicious teaching , from the excesses of the press , from elections of every kind ; and continue to make it more and more a matter of honour the practice of morality and of religion , respect for authority , agriculture , and industry , the lovo of order and of labour . Amen . "

      The ten days which intervened between tho promulgation and execution of the Presidential decree aggravating tho duties to be levied at tho French frontier on coal and iron coming from Belgium were so well improved by tho importers , that on tho Valenciennes Railway alono 9 , 341 , 000 kilogrammes of coal and iron were conveyed in 1860 wagonn across tho Customs boundary between Sept . 24 und Oct . 1 . This is at tho rate of nearly 300 wagons per diem . Tho transportation of Belgian coal by tho canals from Mono to Conde , and by tho Sambro and Meuso , was very much greater , and effected with equal diligence . Tho customs conferences at Berlin oro brokoil up ; anil , though tho channel of diplomacy is to bo kept open for further negotiation , the Zollvorein may bo regarded aa irretrievably dissolved . It seems that tho Customs' Union between Prussia and

      Jlanover is in groat danger of not being realized . Still it is a question whether Austrian influence is not too strong with tho Court there . Austria ia intent on completely JHohiting Prussia . And tho influence of Austria in encouraged in its attacks on progress and free trade by tho fact that a Protectionist arm retrograde Ministry is in office * in Wnglund . Woro there a liberal Kreo-trado Cabinet in ¦ England , its influence , especially in Hanover , would certainly deter tho government there from breaking tho September treaty , if 1 ' russiu ottered froo-trudo concessions iih a boon for keeping it . Military honours have been paid in Austria and Prussia to the memory of tho Duko of Wellington , Field Marshal in both armies . A deputation , consisting of tho Colonel , a Captain , and " ¦ Lieutenant of the lato Duke ' u regiment , tho 27 th of riiHHiun

      ^ -1 lllNMIfftYl I ft t ' 4 fc yt I h « i' ¦ , 4 . > * h ..-bwt ^* i j ^ I * * vh rfl / ttk ff' /^ hi rihTwl I nit * Infantry , in to como to London to attend the funeral . A grand military " mourning ceremony" took place at . vjoimu on Thursday , in honour of the lato l ) uko of W <> llinjjrt , () ri j ftb Austrian Field-Marshal and ( Imnd Cross oi the Order of Maria Theresa . Tho whole of tho garrison was drawn up in full parade on tho glacis in proHunco of the ICiimcror and a brilliant stuff of general officers . Wot onl y did t , | u . Onioors wear tho usual stripo of black crape <> n the loft arnij j mt 0 V 0 T 1 t j JC jj H an < ( H | , anrhmlH woro Iiun will * (! ra j ) 0 'J'ho Kmporor ban issued orders that : ' {'" * a » i « ceremony shall bo observed in o \ t ) ry place in , ! " «> l >« ro where there in a largo garrison . he Hanoverian army has been ordered to wear mourn-» 'ff lor bU duy » for tho Duko oi" Wellington .

      The reports from the districts -where the cholera has prevailed continued favourable . In Konigsberg , from the 29 th to the 30 th ult ., only eight cases are reported and five deaths . In Birnbaum the disease has abated . In Ostrowa only isolated cases are reported . A similar report is given from Ortelsberg , where the epidemic has been particularly severe—one-eighth of tho inhabitants having died from it . From Posen no more reports will be made , the disease havinff so much decreased as to render it , in the opinion

      of the authorities , unnecessary . Up to the 30 th September there ha d been in all 2 , 671 cases , and 1 , 356 deaths , exclusive of the fatal cases among the troops , which are returned at 200 more . Posen contains 40 , 000 inhabitants . Guerazzi , the ex-Dictator , continues his defence at Florence . He explains away all his Republican professions as assumed at a time of great peril , and declares his attachment to the throne of the Grand Duke to have remained unimpaired . The character of the man does not shine in his explanations .

      Count Nesselrode was recently at Florence for one night only , and M . Turgot , the French ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs , had arrived there . The King of Naples , on his return from a visit to the relics of St . Jamiarius ( the famous liquefying saint ) , narrowly escaped a railway smash . He attributed his escape to Providence . With how many mistakes is Providence fathered ! The removal of the bod y of the late Duke de Baylen to tho church of Atocha took place on the 1 st . The King , and all the distinguished members of the Court , the army , &c ., were present at the ceremony .

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      ASSASSINATION IN" PARIS . Paeis has been the scene of a tragedy , the narrative of which forms the most interesting and appalling piece in the news of the week . The actors were two gentlemen and a lady . The gentlemen were correspondents , one of the Morning Advertiser , named Bower ; the other , of the Daily News , named Saville Morton ; the lady was Mrs . Bower . She is described , by an excellent authority , as accomplished , amiable , and beautiful ; and as apparently fulfilling in society all her duties according to the " most rigid views of female propriety . " The two journalists were on terms of the closest intimacy , visiting and assisting each other . Some time ago Mr . Bower grew jealous of the attentions which Mr . Morton paid to Mrs . Bower ; hut mutual explanations removed all suspicion , and the two gentlemen remained good friends . Lately , however , Mrs . Bower was confined , and her time of trouble did not end with the birth of the child , but was followed by an attack of puerperal fever . For several days she was on the brink of death , and in her agony she repeatedly and vehemently desired to see Mr . Saville Morton ; and the physicians

      thinking that if she saw him she would be calmer , persuaded Mr . Bower to request Morton to call . We now quote from an account furnished to the Morning Advertiser , we believe , by Mr . Bower himself : — " Mr . Bower , under the circumstances , acquiesced in the wishes of the physician , and Mr . Morton came to his house , entered the apartment of Mrs . Bower , and remained by hor bedside , with a few brief intervals , several days and nights ; Mrs . Bower being , let it not bo forgotten , all this time in a state of dreadful dolirium , would receive no attentions nor nursing from any one but Mr . Morton , except in occasional intervals , when she became somewhat more calm . During one of the brief periods of Mr . Morstated that her

      ton ' s absence [ on Friday ] , Mrs . Bower last child , born four weeks previously , was not Mr . Bower ' s , but Mr . Morton ' s . On Mr . Bower ' s remarking that ho ascribed tho statement to tho illness under which she was labouring , and did not place any faith in it , Mrs . Bower reiterated the assertion with increased emphasis , and said that , as a dy ing woman , it was true . Mr . Bower observed that , if he could believo it , either Mr . Morton or himself should , in less than an hour , bo a dead man . She again energetically declared that the child was Mr . Morton ' s , not Mr . Bower ' s , and appealed to tho housemaid , who happened to bo present , whether it was not true that Mr . Morton had slept in the house several nights during Mr . Bower ' s absence from Paris , about nine months previously . The housemaid said thut such was the fact . Mr . Bower then retired into tho dining-room , where arrangements had boon made for a hurried meal , when unfortunately ,

      while Mr . Mower ' s brain , according to Ins own statement to us , was maddened by what lie had heard , Mr . Morton entered the room . Mr . Bower immediately put the question to him , whether the horrible averment of his wife was true . Mr . Morton made-no reply---neither admitted nor denied the grave charge which the question implied , but that instant rushed out of the room . Mr . Bower , on the impulse of the moment , snatched up a knife which was lying on the table , and rushed after Mr . Morton , overtaking him as he had reached the fourth or fifth stair , and making a deep wound in the neck , which cut tho jugular vein . Mr . Morton fell that instant , ami never spoke a word , or even uttered a groan . Mr . Bower , acting on the advice of a relative who was in the house at the time , hurriedly put on an overcoat which was lying beside him , and , through tho aid of a female servant , escaped by u back passage ? . "

      Tho tragedy occurred in tlui Hue do Sozo , near tho Madeleine ; Mr . Bower him escaped to IOn ^ liuid . Jn other accounts tho horror of tho catastrophe is augmented by tho statement that the mother of Mr . Bower was present , and that Mr . Morton wna sitting beside hoi * whou lior son came in .

      " Mr . Morton entered the room from the outside door , and Mrs . Bower , sen . y asked him to sit down . He took a chair on her right hand ( her son ' s chair being at her left ) , and had only time to inquire after the state of the patient , when the door leading to the part of the apart ; - ment where the wife ' s room was situated was flung violently open , and Mr . Bower appeared , with his features convulsed , and apparently under the influence of the most violent agitation . At the sight of Mr . Morton an uncontrollable fury appeared to seize on him ; he ran to the table , and snatching up the knife laid for his dinner ^ rushed round his mother ' s chair at Mr . Morton . The latter , seeing the movement , at once rose and flew out of the room , through the passage , and down the stairs , Mr .

      Bower pursuing him closely . As Mr . Bower passed his mother , she » caught him by the skirt of his coat , but the cloth unfortunately gave way , and with the recoil she fell to the ground . No word was spoken from the beginning to the end of this fearful scene , nor was a sound heard , except the noise of the footsteps of the two men on the stairs , until Mr . Morton , when struck , uttered a single smothered ' oh ! ' and sank on the ground . Mr . Bower then , probably struck with horror at what he had done , came up the stairs , and seated himself on a little bench outside , where he was found the moment after by his mother , when , having raised herself from the floor , she

      hurried out to try and prevent mischief . The servantr girl , who had followed him out from the younger Mrs . Bower ' s room , then roused him from his stupor by telling him to fly . He then took some money , and , changing his coat , left the house . He proceeded at once to the residence of Dr . Bertin , but only saw that gentleman ' s servant , who declares that Mr . Bower , who was in much agitation , seemed annoyed by not finding the doctor at home . It is not certainly too much to presume , that the object of Mr . Bower , in making this call at that critical moment , when every minute was of such importance to Kim , must have been to obtain medical aid for Mr . Morton , of whose desperate state he was most probably unaware . "

      The ponce were soon made aware of the deed , and on the track of the criminal , but for once they were defeated . " The knife , " says the Bebats of Saturday , "has been found . It is " a table knife , and rounded at the point . The blade was bent in the middle by the violence of the blow . The commissary of police of the section of the Madeleine , having been informed of this crime , went immediately to the spot , where he was joined by several of the agents of the detective police , who searched the house , but without success , from the cellar to the attics , it is not known

      to discover the murderer , who had escaped , how . The sapeurs-pompiers of the post of the Rue de la Paix also came to lend their assistance . They visited the roof of the house , and of the neighbouring houses , which were also searched , but their efforts were equally fruitless . The agents having learnt that Mr . Bower had another lodging at St . Cloud , where four of his children were with then * nurse , they went there during the night , and remained till next day ; but Mr . Bower did not appear . It is thought that he left Paris in the course of the evening , and that he got away by a railroad : his description has been sent by telegraph to all the lines . "

      Mrs . Bower is the mother of four children . She was taken to the Maison de Sante , kept by Dr . Blanche , at Passy , on Satuulay . The Daily Hews thus writes respecting Mr . Saville Morton : — " Mr . Saville Morton , whose untimely and painful death we yesterday recorded , waa a gentleman of good family , a graduate of Cambridge , and a talented and zealous man of letters . He wus attached to the staff of the Daily News from tho day of its commencement—his first duty being that of correspondent at Constantinople , from which place he travelled in succession to Athens , Madrid , Vienna , Berlin , and Paris . In these different cities he passed tho last six years of bin life , and the readers of this journal ore

      indebted to his iluont pen for many a pleasant description of scones and evento of interest , and for many a valuable disquisition on pasmng political events , lie was an ardent liberal , and wrote boldly and constantly in support of political progress ; bo had a keen appreciation of that which was generous and true ; fine literary taste , and a lofty idea of his profession us a journalist . During the revolutionary period of 1 H 48—as after the coup d'ttat of December 2 —¦ he never allowed any considerations of personal risk to interior *) with tho performance of what lie considered to be his duty towards tho journal to which he was attached ; und when , a low months ago , the Minister of Police in

      Paris threatened and attempted to silunco the representatives of tho Kngliwli press in that city , Mr . Morton was honourably conspicuous for the calm und dignified , the firm and proper tone he assumed in his communications with Louis Napoleon ' s itgent , and subsequently with the British Ambassador , Lord Cowloy . As a correspondent be was indefatigable in 11 io performance of bis duties ; and his most untimely death is at once a grief and u loss to those with whom he wan honourably associated . I Its was fortunate enough to number amongst his friends many distinguished men , most of whom will forget liny faults lie might , have had in their recollection of his warmheartedness , his talents , and bis melancholy and painful end . " Tho body of Mr . Morton was buried oh Monday jii tho cemetery of Moiitinarf . ro .

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      A TIHJK ACCOUNT OF TIIK ( 'ASK OF MIL PAGF / r . Tins Times of Thursday gives an appHwntly iiuf-borised version of the outrage on Mr . Pugttt in Dresden , tho capital of Saxony ; from which it will In ; seen how tho property of nuMpeeted Mnglislnnen is at tho inoroy of Austria " , and how little ground tUoro in for calling Saxony an independent stato .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1852, page 961, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1955/page/5/