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      tbreeor foui ; not one of them -will attend , for the maa is poor * and the night is late : the woman accordingly dies . The jury express their " regret . " A New-Orleans paper speais thus of an emigrant sliip recently arrived out there from Liverpool : — u The entire ship ' s company , with the exception of the captain , mate , and carpenter , are charged with , the most fiendish outrages upon the female passengers during the passage . What renders the case more aggravating , is the ciarge made by the poor victims that thesetirutulities were perfectly well known to the officers , who made no efforts to restrain their brutish crew . " A poor woman , residing at 2 , Bailey-court ( somewhere near Covent Garden ) , was going to bed late last Saturday night , when her door . was banged open * aod her apartment \ vas invaded by a drunken Irish * man . She remonstrated , and he threw her out of the window ! She is not expected to jecover the effects of the fall—eighteen feet .

      Readers will remember the case of the girl at I * ittle Torrington , who was found murdered , having teen violated , in . a wood . The murderer , a married man , has been tried this week at Exeter Assizes , found guilty , and sentenced , to death . It appears that he had never seen the girl before the day of the murder ;•—the deed was the result of sudden and Irutal lust . Here is a terrible case , illustrating the influence © f the law of divorce on deserted women i" Jane Bedford , a poorly clad miserable-looking woman ., ¦ was charged ( at Westminster ) -with intermarrying with John Hynnj her husband being then and now alive . William

      Qowan , 39 B , stated that the prisoner waa given into his custody that xaornjngnpon the charge by her second husband , when she admitted that she had been recently married to him . The accused said that it was quite true that she had been married to both the , men , but her first husband deserted her in 18 ^ 7 , leaving her in the greatest poverty and distress . She heard no tidings of him for seven years , and thought he was dead . When she became acquainted with FJy " nn she told him every circumstance connected with her history , and he then married ber . On Monday evening he Came home , struck her , and turned her out of doors , and that morning got up the present charge againsiher , and produced her former husband . Prisoner was remanded ^

      At Bow-street a > " labourer" has been , sentenced to six months' imprisonment for brutality ( kicking ) to his wifej and the magistrate said : — " It would be quite impossible to carry out the provisions of the new act for the protection of women with any useful result , unless the parish authorities were willing to cooperate with the magistrates and assist the poor women who werei deprived of their usual support . It was no use to talk about taking teem into the -workhouse . Tlie women had a natural repugnance to go there ; some triflo in the way of out-relief ought to be granted . ™ The Liverpool sharebrpker , who stood charged ¦ with stealing , a 1000 / . bill of exchange , has been tried and acquitted- —for no other reason , apparently , than that , his counsel , Mr . John Aspinall , was eloquent . lie failed altogether on the trial to account for the l ) ill coming into his possession .

      " On his behalf it was stated that he had received the bill from a Mr . Harris , whom ho liad known occasionally doing business on the Exchange , but whom he had not since seen , Dor could ho give any information to lead to his discovery . " At GuildtialL on . Wednesday , an extraordinary case came on . ;—a * revelation of a religion not included , ia Horace Mann's Census Summary . " John- Ohallis , an old man about sixty years of ago , dressed in , the pastoral garb of a shepherdess of the golden age , and Geoxge Campbell , aged thirty-five , who described lumself . as a lawyer , and appeared completely equipped in female attire of the present day , were placed at the bar before Sir B . W . Carden , churned with being found disguised as women in the Druid's-hnll , iu Turnngain-lane , an un _ licensed , dancinir-room . for tho dornose of excitincr othara tn

      commit an unnatural of&noo , " Inspector Teague s ; ud , i—From , information I roceivvd relative to the frequent congregation of certain peraonu for immoral practices at the Daui < l'a-hull , I proceeded thither in company with Sergeant Gpcdevo about two o ' clock this morning . I saw a great ninny persons dancing there , and among the number were tlio prisoners , who rendored thomeelvca very conspicuous by tlieir disgusting and fUlhy con * dnct . I suspected that the prisoners and mjvornl others who -ware presents in female attire were of tho malo sex , and I left the room for the purpose- of obtaining furthert ( assistance so us to scouro tho whole of tho parties , b ut when wo got outside OutnpbeH came out after us , and .- taking us by tlio aims , waa about to spoalc ; when I oxclniihed That ia a man . ' upon Trliich . ho turned , roundand ran back Immediately to the JDrnid ' e-halL I rotnrned . and took Campbell into

      custody , nn < l observing Chains , whom I have frequoutly seen , tbeua before , behoving with two men aa if ho wore a common nrogULnte , I took olwgo of him also . "It was intimated that Campbell hud been identified aa having , robbed a portion under cover of a similar disguise . " Isano Somora anid , —I nm a journeyman baker , und have used tho Wttto Hart , in Giltspur-etrcot , for tho last twenty years . About seven ; weeks ago I mot a woman dressed in muslin ,, and wearing a whito veil . Slio took mo to the Druid'd-hull , » nd I had a gUiaa of brandy-amd-water and n cigar , for . nrhjcii I paid Is . I changed a , sovereign , ond while in , the company of that woman I fell * hor arum clou « round . injr waist ,, and shortly « ftorwwrda 1 niiatfod tho IDs . 1 liad roceivod in ohango . 1 believe that person , whom 1 took for a womfln . waa tho nriaonor Cumpbol ) , in woman' *) dotMnjj . " ' * * ' Tlio case stands rcmoa < lcd .

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      NOTES ON THE WAR . These ia this week little or no alteration iu the attitude of the war . Napier is where he was : the French troops , with the additional English ships , slowly joining him , and the destination supposed to be Aland Isles ( Bomarsund to be bombarded ) , or , if " negotiations" should g-o wrong ^ the Gulf of Dantzic . General Baraguay d'Hilliers had reached Copenhagen , furious at news he got there that a second division of troops was to ba sent out , and that D'Hilliers was not to be chief in command .

      The English army remains at or about Varnatheir destination supposed to be the Crimea . The fleets in the Black Sea are cruising . Omar Pasha ' s army continues to obtain small successes ; and news in yesterday ' s Times , being a despatch communicated by their Vienna correspondent , dated Hermannstadt , is to this effect : — " The Russians consider the mouth of the Danube no longer tenable . " Prince Gortschakoff , having convinced himself that Giargevo and . the Danubian islands opposite are occupied by a Turkish detachment , and not by the Balkan army , is withdrawing a great part of his army to Bucharest . " It is believed that the right and left wing of the Kussian army are retreating to the Sereth line of operations . "

      This indicates a retreat ; but the news is at variance with the preceding and continuous accounts of the week—that the Russians were operating as if with the resolute intention of holding Wallachia—Omar Pasha accordingly halting—and waiting on the English and Austrians , both of whom , remain still . A party of officers from the English ships were boating about Sulina ( mouth of the Danube ) , calculating that the defeated Russians had left the place ,

      when a fire was suddenly opened on them from a ditchy covert of reeds , and , unhappily , Captaiu Parker , of the Firebi-and , irhen leaping on shore to head his friends to the assault , was shot through the heart . He was a gallant officer , of that splendid family which maybe said to belong to the navy , and he is deeply regretted . " He was buried ( at Cons tan . tinople ) with solemn naval honours—French assisting , and Turks staring . There has been a slight aifair at Odessa .

      " Odessa , July 14 . " Yesterday three steamers arrived and destroyed some works erected hire . The allies fired some thousand sliots . The Russians ( as usual ) lost one man . " A letter from Kars says : — " The emissaries sent to ScLaniyl have returned . They gtate that the Circassian chief is keeping considerable forces in check .- He lias seized several places situated in the mountain range between Derbcnt and Kouba . Many Mussulman deserters come over _ to the Turkish camp . It is declared that the Russian Government lias sent word to its generals in Asia , that there was no possibility of sending them any reinforcements , and that they must keep on the defensive . "

      Lord Cardigan had returned to the English camp near Varna from his long reconnaissance along- the banks of the Danube with , his Light Dragoons . They ¦ were out seventeen days , and having no tents liad bivouacked—the first taste of war ' s hardships . Once they were within sight of the Russians , ' on the other bank of the river ; but they were only stared at .

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      The Times Vienna letter of the 22 nd says : — " Yestordny morning Lieutenant-Colonel Manteufful conferred with Count Buol , and tin hour later he had an nudidience—the second pinco his arrival here—of his Majesty . As haa already been stated , tho Prussian Envoy failed during his first interview to produce any chnngo in the opinions of tho Emperor ; and report says that ho mot with no greater success yesterday . It is further related thnt M . do Munteumjl yesterday morning received a telegraphic mca-Biige from Berlin ^ which ho waa charged to communicate without delay to this Government , and it is probable that such really was tho case , ao a Cabinet ) Council , at which his Majesty presided , was held in tho evening , No particulars of what occurred have transpired , but persons worthy of confidence luivo tliia morning assured mo tlmt the mission of Prince-Gortschnkoff , although indirectly siipported by Prussia , ' has complotoly failed . '" In a few days we may expect tho German Powers to pronounce decisively . Austria , cortainly , cannot much longer delay action .

      1 he lung of the { Sandwich Islands has declared himself neutral in tho Twr between . England and Russia ! That sounds very ridiculous } but it appears that his Mnjmsty was obliged to " pronounce "—both Russian und English ships of war frequenting his pleasant hnrboura . A writer in tho Press ( tho " authoritative Tory writer" we have before alluded to ) , mentions tliia us a fact :--. " The Ohovulior RunHon , ono of tho -victims of our perfidious vacillation , wrote recently , in a lotler to a fiiuntl , and in tho bitterness of his heart , that , ' though tho RuHtiiaun wore lmtod ia Ucrinany , no living man would tru » t England . ' " The Chevalier had bettor u'struin liimoelf to Hippoly tua ; but , if ho conio among ua agaiin , his opinion of , us ought to bo remembered .

      An Army Police ( ambulance corps ) is being selected from the metropolitan police ( London ) , and will be sent out to the Kast to serve in keeping order and regulations in the camp . They are to be mounted : pay 5 s . 6 d . a day with rations . New sets of paragraphs are this week flying about respecting the Turkish loan : — " 5 DI . Djuck and Durand , merchants at Constantinople , who are charged with the negotiation of the Turkish loan , are now in Paris , and have placed themselves in communication with the Credit Mohilier and M . Mire ' s for that object . It does not appear , however , that these negotiations have as yet led to any definitive result . " On th-e same subject the writer of the Daihj News city article , says : —

      " The proposed Turkish loan engaged , some conversation in the Stock Exchange to-day , in the absence of more exciting matter , the point more immediately under discussion being as to whether the loan would float at 75 per cent , in a 5 j > er cent , stock , these being terms to which it was rumoured the parties engaged in the operation on the part of the Porte might probably be induced to accede . We cannot help thinking , however , that such a course as this would be calculated Tather to injure than benefit the credit of the Turkish Government , as a disposition will be generated to avoid all participation in a security which , after being hawked about in so many quarters , is offered on terms so low . If , as proves to be the case , the Turkish commissioners are equally unable to place the loan at a fair price , or to procure a guarantee for the interest and sinking fund from Great Britain and France , the lest plan will surely be for them to write to Constantinople for fresh instructions . "

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . The Austrian loan is being largely subscribed for . The Emperor stands at'the head of the list for 1 , 200 , 000 florins — -wliich he will lend to himself . The Esterliazys are down for large sums . The bureaucracy ia prompt : no one daro refuse . The first portion of the Mediterranean submarino telegraph from Spezzia , in Piedmont , to Cape Corso , in Corsica , a distance of about 100 miles , has been successfully laid , down . The Emperor and Empress of the French are euj oying themselves at Biaritz ; liis Majesty , however , devotes much of his tiine to his avocations . Nor were these interrupted during bis journey ; a saloon carriage was fitted Up-for him as a bureau , in which he transacted business to his journey ' s end . His Ministers meet in council here every second day during his absence . The road from Mont de Merson to Bayonnc , by which the Emperor anil Empress passed , had been ornamented , with evergreens and strewed with flowers

      by the inhabitants of the neighbouring towns and villages . All of them came out dressed in their holiday clothes . It is said that the Emperor means to form an " army of observation" ( on Spain ) at Bayonne . Wo have given , in the Spanish news , the fact that ML Salamanca ' s house was sacked , and his furniture thrown into the street and burned or smashed ; unfortunately , we may add , the mob altio destroyed his magnificent collection of pictures—one of the finest in Madrid , and of especial Spanish value . Earthquake . —There has been an earthquake at Bareges ( France ) . It worked several miracles . " Three shocks , at intervals of about five minutes , shook the whole chain of tho Pyrenees , which seemed for an instant ready to topple down . The streets were speedily crowded with , sick instautaneously restored to health . Paralytic persons , wbo hud come to the waters to recover tho elasticity of their Hinbs , ran aa hard as if nothing was tlio matter with them . Several residents hastened to leave tho town , carrying u few necessaries on their backs . "

      1 ' auh Fjites . — 'Great preparations are being made in Paris for tho annual Napolcan f 6 to on the 15 th . August . " Au cliamp dq Mars , on rcpre ' aentcra lo sie " go do Silistrje ot on lancera quatro tallons portant lea noms de France , Angleterre , Turquia , et Autricno . Un rnagnifiquofeu d ' urttnpo sera lird on face du pnhiis . du Corps ldgislatif ; a la barrioro du ThGuo , il y aura Ofr'ilenwnt un fuo d ' urUlice . Jtapr&cntations gratuites a tous les thuutres , jeux militairea au Cirque ut uux Arcues , et illuminations duns lq genre le plus grandiose . 11 n ' y aura pas cotto aim do , do jouto sur l ' oau , a cause des travuux en cours d ' oxeeution « ur la Seine . Lcs pauvroa ne soront paaoublida : uno sommo do 80 , OOOfr 9 . eat destine **) h dtro distribute en secours hux Indigons ties tlouzo arvoiullUKomentt do Paris . "

      TJlo King of Portugal is on a viait to tho King of Pru&biii , and is enjoying tho horrors of hot and gloomy Berlin . " Disturbances" uro vaguely spokea of oa iinponding or oecniTuif ; in various parts of Italy . < l Advices from Voronn , of tho SWnd Just ) ., Btutu that diaturhaweca had taken place at Parma , The woldiora wore , fired upon from tho roof » and windows of tho houses . The AuHtrnia troops maintained tho upper hand on all points , und tho I ' armoso troops bohaved well . " Ono of those " tolegrapliH" in tho Times which nro always dated Piiritt , but come no ono can guosy whence , in t * a Una clieot : — " Throughout Italy the Btato of public fooling ia very bad . "It in said that au insurrection U contemplated ut Moduna . " TI io French garrison at Homo is | , obo reinforced . "

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      AUSTRALIA . Tum citizens in Sydney heiw < l ucennUo nowe of Kngland ' a war with lluawiu in May , und on thy 22 ml of that month they naaomblod , iu n groat meeting andpaeacd loyal rusolntions . A memorial was agreoJ to , to bo forwarded to the Queen , declaring that ;

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      7 iO& THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 29, 1854, page 702, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2049/page/6/