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    a monographer and patentee of the Anastatic mode of printing ., and producing a Prussian thaler note , requested to have it imitated . Mr . Appel said he would do as they wished if he had proper authority ; and they left the note with him . . He communicated '¦ with the Prussian ambassador , and for some time the ¦ Schele continued to pay visits to Mr . Appel on the subject of the imitation . Mr . Appel made several copies on plates , and submitted proofs ; and when the men were sufficiently criminated they were taken into custody . Botb were remanded for a week . The impressions were exhibited , and proved the striking -and dangerous fidelity of the new process . Woman-Beating . — An artificial flower maker , named Henry Hancock , was charged at the Worship- " i

    street police office with beating and half-starving his wife . One night , about half-past twefve o ' clock , he came home intoxicated after having been absent all day . The poor woman and her two children had been without either money , food ( except one pound of bread ) , coals , or candles . Mrs . Hancock remonstrated with him upon his conduct , and he then seized her by both arms , struck her a violent blow ¦ on her side , and dragged , her furiously about the room . She called for the police , upon which he ran out of the house , and his wife saw no more of him until after he was in custody . Hancock was constantly in the habit of beating or ill-using his wife , and came home every night thoroughly intoxicated . Once he beat and kicked her because she followed

    Him to a gaming-house where he was squandering bis money , and another time she was obliged to stay away a whole night from home out of fear of his cruel treatment . She was still very weak , and suffering greatly from the effects of her husband's behaviour , so that she was obliged to be seated while giving her evidence . The mother of Mrs . Hancock stated that she was compelled to stint . herself in food in order to save her daughter's children from utter starvation ; that the children were extremely ill from scanty feeding , and that Hancock

    had a very good business , from which he might earn £ 5 a week , if he properly attended to it . Mr . Hammill sentenced Hancock to six months' imprisonment , with hard labour , and told him that at the end of that time he must find substantial bail for his future good behaviour . —A journeyman cooper , who gave the name of Walter Scott , was sentenced to three months' hard labour for an attack , of the usual character , upon a woman with whom he lived . The man was a confirmed drunkard , and the woman frequently suffered from his violence .

    Fatal Prize Fight . —A prize fight , which took place on Tuesday in the Kentish Marshes , at Long Reach , has resulted in the death of one of the combatants , , a man named John Jones , who received the fatal blow in the twenty-third round . Child Murder . —William Aspinall and MaiyAspinall , man and wife , were indicted at the Liverpool Assizes for the manslaughter of Emma Aspinall , their daughter . The evidence showed the most systematic ill-treatment of the children of the prisoners , ending in the death of two from starvation and neglect . The ¦ woman was a confirmed drunkard , and she appears to have been chiefly to blame . The man was acquitted ; but the wife was found guilty of manslaughter . Sentence was deferred . —Johanna Dutton haa been acquitted at Derby of a charge of drowning her child in a pond . The evidence , however , showed great illusage on the part of the mother .

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES . Peace Prospects . —The Governmental Momiiig Post of Tuesday contains , at the head of its leading articles , and in very conspicuous type , the following observations ' : — " The nature of the terms necessary for peace is patent to all the world . Not a Russian ship in the Black Sea—not a Russian fort at Sebastopol . No Muscovite gripe on the very throat of the Danube . No more protectorates and interferences—no more overawing , becauso no more moans of menacing weaker neighbours . These main terms sealed in a treaty , secured by material guarantees , would , thoro iB not a doubt , secure peace if Russia would yield to them , but no other terms are possible , and wo are « ure that neither the people of England nor of Franco —neither the English Cabinet nor the Governmont of our Ally—would listen to any other proposals for a

    ¦ settlement . Austria , though perhaps hitherto lnoking the decision which would have become so great a po wor , ia not wanting in sagacity ; and , matters standing aa they are , it will not surprise us to loarn that Austria accepts as certain the defeat which Uusnian pride may yet refwBe to forosoo , and that tho Cabinot of Vienna , having made up ita mind aa to tho final triumph of the Allies , had resolved to urgo , ovon now , a poaco upon their terms , preparing ovon to broak altogether ¦ with Russia in the ovent of her refusing thorn . " Tho language held by tho principal continental journals is unfavourable to tho prospeotB of poaoo ; it is doniod that Austria has made any proportion *) to Russia ; and the Debate eaya that the ohanoos of n pacific solution " have lout rathor than gained ground during tho previous week . "

    Lt Nord , the Brussels Russian organ , ridicules the idea of the Czar coming into the terms demanded by the Allies , and denies the exhaustion of the Empire . The object of General Canrobert ' s diplomatic journey to the northern courts continues to excite considerable discussion . The writer of a letter from Vienna , of the 6 th inst ., says : — " The mission of General Canrobert , if I am rightly informed , com prised two parts , perfectly distinct—one had for object to obtain an immediate diplomatic action ; the other , the eventual co-operation of the Scandinavian States . No one supposed that the French . Government meant to drive Sweden and Denmark to an immediate declaration of war against Russia , and at the veiy moment when , in consequence of the advanced season , the campaign was at an end in the Baltic as well as in the Crimea . What the Western Powers were anxious to obtain from the Scandinavian States , as to the present , is clearly defined in the address delivered by the Emperor Napoleon at the closing of the Exhibition , and in the circular despatch of M . Walewski . " Bavaria and Saxony , it is said , have notified to the Russian Government their desire to see peace concluded on the basis of the four guarantees . The Marquis de Turgot has appealed to the law tribunals of Madrid , relative to an article inserted in a journal , insulting to the Empress Eugenie . A report is current that the Minister of Finance is about to resign . The faction Gorsa , the only one which remained in Catalonia , has been annihilated . The King of Sardinia , after a second brief stay iu Paris , left that city for his own dominions on Sunday morning , and arrived at Turin on Wednesday . Colonel Blomfield , who bad been sent to Bucharest in consequence of the arrest of Colonel Turr , died almost suddenly on the day after . his arrival , from the fatigues of his journey . The Ottoman troops of the garrison and the Wallachian Staff paid the usual military honours at his funeral . The Agents and Consuls of the Foreign Powers were invited by the English Consul-General to attend the funeral , as well as the superior civil and military authorities . The Czas states positively that it is the intention of the Russian Government to effect the immediate emancipation of the serfs of the whole empire . The Emperor personally is favourable to the measure , and the land-owning aristocracy , who have been sounded , offer no opposition . The vote of confidence in Marshal O'Donnell , which has been recently passed by the Spanish Cortes , arose in this manner : —M . Oreuse , the leader of the democratic party , made a speech denouncing the Minister of War for persecuting tho democrats and progressists in Catalonia , and for concealing a policy hostile to freedom under the vague title of " Liberal . " He also proposed a vote of censure . Marshal O'Donuell replied by giving a sketch of his struggles and sufferings for liberty , and by reminding his audience that , for conspiring in favour of a revolution he had been shut up in a room five yards long . He concluded by declaring hifl continued adherence to Enpartero ; and the Chamber carried a vote of confidence by 110 votes to 6 . An ex-dragoon , named Morandi , has been arrested at Rome , while in the act of writing a letter to Mazzini , in which he said that , when that triumvir should receive the communication , he need bo under no anxiery about his arrested friends , aa by that time all would be over . Tho Roman sbirri , therefore , fear an incipient revolution , and weigh with redoubled tyranny upon tho unhappy victims of their BUHpieious . A prominent member of tho police body has recently been assassinated . Genuaraecio , which wiw the name of this champion of law , order , and roligion , was a man of such notoriously bad character that it was found necessary to remove him from a pont ho held at tho Custom-house ; and he was ouco imprisoned six months for causing the ussaHHiuatiou of a French soldier . Nevertheless , he enjoyed a pouHiou from Government , was still employed an a member of tho police , and used to accompany liin HoHuobb ' b equipages . Such uro the guardian augclB of tho Infallible Church ! , « . , Tub mediation of Franco and England hut * oilocted a reconciliation botweon tho courtu of Tuscany and Sardinia , their diflbrencoH being arranged iu a manner which tho Oonatitutiunncl describon oh " equally huMmfactory and honourable to botU partioH . " PorhapH tho Liberal * of Europe may not bo ho easily conviuoed of this . . t Tho Paris organ of tho ultra-Papistical party—tho Univers—in greatly purploxed an to how it Hhoulcl regard the lato reception in Franco of tho King of Sardinia , who , to a cortuin extent , lion under tho ban of tho Popo . It in therefore oontondod that Victor Emnmnuol in only censured , and that in fact tho oonsuro applies not ho much to him an to hi « mini » tern , for the Sardinian monarch in a constitutional hovoroign , and hid government oflloei-H uro tho proper pwflons to boar the responsibility . Yet , « n tho 77 //*™ Paris correspondent pointu out , Victor Emmanuel sanctioned tho acts of " Haorilogo and plunder" for which hifl government ban boon " oonmirod , and to

    - hold any communion with persons lying under the displeasure of the Vatican is to be involved in the same shadow . But the French clergy have not only received the " bad boy" from Sardinia , but their highest dignitary has accepted from him the Grand Cross of a Piedmontese order . The Times correspondent adds : — " It was said that the Papal Nuncio had resolved on absenting himself from Paris during the stay of the King ; that a remonstrance had been sent to Rome , and that a telegraphic despatch from tho Papal Court ordered him to remain at his post , and . to pay his court to his Majesty with the other ' sacrilegious ' diplomatists . " The clerical papers of Turin have been very indignant with Victor Emmanuel for receiving deputations froui Protestant religious bodies during his visit to London ; aud the Radical journals have been offended at his sending a courteous message to Monsignor Franzoni , tho exiled Archbishop of Turin , who resides at Lyons . The Papistical Church is rampant in Austria ; and the Concordat seems to have made jn-iestcraft raving mad . Iu the Vienna correspondence of the Times we read as follows : — " There is , perhaps , no country under the sun in which the authorities so much delight in vexatious measures , which have not even tho merit of being of service to the State . Every person who frequents the Exchange is obliged to take a ticket , for which he pays a trifling sum ; and ou the 1 st of this month notice was given by the police authorities that in future every ticket would , in addition to the name and address , have the religion of its possessor inscribed on it . This new regulation has excited extreme indignation among the Hebrew frequenters oi the Exchange , and its consequence * will assuredly be felt when , their assistance is again required by the State . Wlicu the national loan was being raised , the -wealthy Jewish bankers were csijoled , and led to exjject that their political 2 'osition would be greatly ameliorated . In the hope that i heir patriotic feeling would be properly appreciated , they one and all subscribed very largely , and now they find themselves exposed to what they justly consider a gratuitous insult . " In the same letter we find the annexed particulars with respect to the Credit Mobilier and other financial matters : — " It is not doubted that the subscriptions for the Credit Mobilier will far exceed the sum ( 15 , 000 , OOOfl . ) which , has boen placud at the'disposal of the public . One of tho founders showed mo a list of private applications which ho had received from friends and acquaintances for shares , and tho sum total was somewhat less than 7 , () 00 , 000 fl . There is seriously a question of the construction of a railroad from Cronstadt to Bucharest , and some of tho wealthiest of tko Wallachian Boyarda display an inclination to share in the speculation . " The export of horse * , lead , saltpetre , and sulphur , to Russia and to Turkey , with tho exception of tho Principalities , has been prohibited at Vienna . Correspondence from Berlin states that the Russian Emperor is seeking to flatter tho I'Yench Emperor . A St . Petersburg journal won lately about to publish an articlo indicating the speech of Louis Napoleon at the close of tho Exhibition as a threat add reused to the Conservative intercuts of Europe ; tho articlo in question , however , was suppressed "by command . " Anything that can be construed into an ollunce by V ranee is anxiously avoided , and it in no longer tho fashion to designate her policy as revolutionary and forming a contrast with that of Russia . Tho Emporor Alexander a words in his general orders addioHiod to tho army of the Crimea , which spoiik of a " povvur / ul lUid valiant onomy , that shuns no saoi-inces , " are understood iu » t . Petersburg to be intoudoil nololy for Fmnoo . Tho Emperor Alexander , it is said , haw determined to confer on liin brother , the Grand Duko Constantino , tho dignity of Viceroy of Poland , on tho death of Prince Puwkiowitch , which in now hourly expected . Constantino ia boliovod to bo highly populur in Poland . , _ In addition to tho accounts already published of the fearful condition of Russia , variouw other conftrmatiouB of tho opinion , now gonomlly entertained , that oxliiumtiou ih beginning to ininilfuut itself in tlio territory of our onoiny , are continually finding thoir way into tho pay . orH . A lottor from Uuhhiiui 1 oland , dated tho 28 th ult ., Hay » : — " The Chamber of Public Relief of St . Petersburg 1 i » h boon obliged to soil by auction tho property on which it bad uiiwlo advances but which it was impossible for tho l . oirovv . rri to pny vvhonthc moment arrived ; and tlu . iiiui . l . or oltusolvont debtor * increase * daily . The I ^^ Xm h , is Buffered from thin state „ t hii « h . A "' . " few boon taken of tho male , «* j * . iJ « tio » , ami , ^ . f ^ y « avB have passed since tho last ,, y . | t Lh . i . a bo » ro J . in . 1 i tii / wi' Hill i ) olli 1 > r < ol ino omjmo ? ° TX ZIn . t » f Jim ! "" . lull .. « ' » « V » Zm nb , wrotoboH « rc ! duoin . atod by opldonm , « aoHwhoi * nm .. nn « every nort of character . I ' oihoJS yoan . , » . Ht tho oliolom I . uh not oounod a aingle

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    December 15 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER . 1195

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 15, 1855, page 1195, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2119/page/7/