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      not to ask him anything about that polioy . He is still very young , his Wife also is very young , and his three children are younger . He is a 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 , bis friend , though an attorney , imparts courage to the witness , Vfho finally deposes that he holds William Palmer ' s assignment of a policy for . £ 18 , 000 effected on tbe 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 he , the jury were now quite satisfied . For some time they lieen staggered by the fact that Walter Palmer had died in 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 prussic acid to Walter Palmer , so as to cause his death . They -farther ex-pressed 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 Government 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-Eoieman had ceased , up started Superintendent Bergen , and thanked the jury for the compliment they had paid to Capt . Hatton and the constables of Staffordshire , who had only done their dutyv and would always do their duty , and thought it their duty to do so . He must also fceg 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 . H " o 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 address to the jury this morning . He said that the metropolitan weekly papers had spoken disparagingly of Eugeley and its inhabitants ; nor had they spared himself ; but when the proper time arrived he should be f unprepared to vindicate his conduct in every respect . His red hair bristled as he spoke , rubescent flames flashed from those pinky eyes , and the mantle of the immortal Pecksniff visibly descended upon the shoulders of the much-injured but longsuffering little man . . -

      The jurors roared applause , the chawbacons joined ha chorus , and the Town-hall , trembled to its foundations , like tbe mighty Olynipus 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 corresponded in the nearest horse-pond ; and one gentleman with a -well-shaven face , "black and curly whiskers , being mistaken for the offender , well nigh came to grietf .

      • Local rumours point to ft fresh exhumation . It is whispered that the body of Mr . Leonard Bladen is to be taken up and examined , though he died nearly six years ago . It appears that he had accepted the odds against " Voltigeur , " forty to one , and became the winner of a largo amount . The tickets wore duly paid when presented , but it is not known by whom they were presented . The exhumation , however , will not clear up . this mystery , and it is to be hoped that Sir George Grey will not sanction any further proceedings of the kind . The jury would take up the whole churchyard .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . This Cash ojp Lieutenant JDknnehy . — "With roi ' or on . co to the unfortunate naval oflicor , wont oncod to deatli for < jowardico , the Cork Constitution saya ;—" Wo understand a letter haa boon rocoivod from iw authority high in tho Admiralty , in reference to th « oitflo of Lieutenant Donuohy , in which it ia HtaM that the entire fnctH of tho case woro not before th *' publio ; however , tho Lordu of tho Admiralty luid commuted tho extreme puniulimont to tr * w » nportatlou for lifo , wluoh tho unfortunate offluor will have 1 o

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      one hundred public clocks , which are much wanted . It will scarcely be believed iu 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 . The robbers forced the door of the cash-office , and succeeded in opening the iron safe with" false keys . They extracted from it 136 , 000 f . in bank notes aud gold . A considerable sum in silver , and a number of , bonds and 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 Claremont , were present at the Embassy on the occasion .

      AUSTRIA . The blight and ban of religious 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 rite 3 of her own church ; but the bridegroom ' s Romanist priest refused his consent , because , according to the Concordat , any papistical 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 to the

      tary department , 62 , 863 , 131 f . ; naval demrtmo «* ll , 876 f 401 f . 67 c . The force which left fcSffpS T ?^ xed by R ° y decree of Marca 31 s * . 1855 ^ f 17 , 603 men—i . e . 1 , 034 officers and 16 , 569 soldiers but , in order to supply casualties in this force whiofc on the 10 th of November last mustered 17 58 ? if was evidently necessary to increase the establishment of engineers , artillery , cavalry , commissariat and waggon train . Ch olera and fever have mowed down many victims . The total deaths from the 26 th of « W 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 , 563 non-commissioned officers or soldiers , and 13 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 3 O , 0 O 0 , 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 voie of 108 in favour of the loan , and 29 against it , in a house of 137 . M . de Eevel 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 .

      Priestly prudery has been performing a grand act of purification at Naples . Certain pieces of sculpture which have long adorned the publio gardens and the Museum—sculptures representing the Rape of the SabineB , the Hape of Proserpine , the Venus Vincitrice of Capua , and one or two other Venuses—are to be removed . The morals of -Naples—30 , it is to be presumed , the prieste argue—rare so entirely unexposed to other sources 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 .

      SPAIN . Several ministerial changes are now taking place in Spain . All the- ministers resigned , excepting Esparterof ; but O'Doixell and Bruil have returned to the departments of War and Finance . Senor Lusan will have the Ministry of Public ' ^ orks , vacated by Senor Alonso Martinez ; Senor . Escosura , the Home Depart ment , in place of Senor Huelves ; and Sent * j ^ rifts Aria , Justice , . ,. ¦ . "" The Cortes , on the 17 th inst-, rejected the vote of censure on the Ministry b& a majority of 152 to 57 The parliamentary comxaittee is favourable to t&e Credit Establishment proposed by some Spanish eapi talists .

      TURKEY . * The Journal de ConstantinopUhss a long paragraph about the construction of a canal from the Danube to the Black Sea , setting forth all the advantages to b « 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 Goveiumeat proposed to construct , and which , passing from Sclmmla and Itoustchcmk to Bucharest , was to job with the Vienna , line , has been abandoned , and a line will now be constructed by Adrianople to Belgrade ,

      with branches to Salonica and Cottaro , 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 an indemnity to retire . Another project is for a line from Constantinople to Alexandria . The 9 th of January was the 6 vst night of the French company at the theatre in Pera : overy seat and place was takou before the doors were open , and crowds waited outside . A slight disturbance in Pen * threatens unpleasantness between the English and French officers . The commaudant at S-outari hw issued an order for no officers to quit that place for Pora without permission . —Daily News .

      RUSSIA . The doctors have pronounced tho case of Prince Paslriowitcn ( cancer of the breast ) to bo hopelessly incurable . Baron KlotK , nevertheless , tri « a magnetic treatment . Prince Gortsohalcoff , Prince Woronzoff " , M . Kiraselof , and Count Krasinaky are severally motioned as Ida fmcceasortj . Again , it is uaid , that the Archduke Constantino will take tho govormnonfc of viceroy ; but many think no vioeroynlty will bo uiniutallied .

      , as interpretation and working of the Concordat , continues , and may in time lead to bad blood . The Gazette de Ifi ' an , the official organ of the Austrian Government in Lombardy , publishes under the title " Disputes relative to the- Concordat , " an article formally condemning the Circular of the Archbishop of Milan , and indicating that the 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 repudiated . Marshal Radetzky , Governor-General of Lombardy , has also issued An ordonnance which quite annuls the episcopal decree .

      A letter from Vienna , in the German Gazette of Frankfort , says : — " The Minister of Public Instruction has invited the bishops of the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom to retract the orders of censure which they had issued , and to await , for the execution of the articles of the Concordat , the decrees of the Government . "

      PRUSSIA . Within the last week . or so , a pamphlet has appeared at Brussels , entitled Zte Ligue des Neutres , in which the author endeavours to show that all tho 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 secures the attainment of the original objects of the war , and that they ought now to enter into a league td 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 receipt of the pacific news from Russia , the novelty of the week has bocomo obsolete j should the approaching negotiations not result in peace , it will re-acquire an interest . —Times Berlin Corre spoiulent - ' ¦ ) 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 force Prussia to join the war ; or that Bhe has refused to admit the representatives of Frederick William to any future conferences .

      DENMARK . The conferences on the Sound Dues were opened on tho 4 th inst . The special plenipotentiary for Rusaia waa tho celebrated statistical author , M . do Tengoboreki , who expressed an unwillingness on the part of Russia that the Dues should bo abolished . A general vi « w of receipts from 1840 to 1847 being required by some of the plenipotentiaries , tho conferences were adjourned to the end of the month . The King of Denmark has announced that \\\ n marriage with the Countess Danner is " for tljo prosent and for the future morganatic . " It iB thought that the charge of high treason ftgamwt tho late ministers will bo quashed .

      ITABY . In defiance of the prognostications of tho merchants of Genoa , to the effect that that city would bo ruined by the war with lluaaia , trade , for the most part , has been flourishing . Owing to tho demand for transports , tho shipping trade has boon benefited . Tho harbour of Genoa , Bays a writer from tho spot , i » now nearly as full aa over of doop Boa-going » hip » . Tho arrivals of grain , however , during tho past your , have been compnrutivoly small .

      CONTINENTAL NOTES . rp . FRA . N 0 B ) . A he arrival at MawoilloB of tho doapatoh announcing ttte adoption by Ruasia of tho Austrian ultimatum produced qmto « panic in tho corn market . Wheat l © Ufour franca thohectolitro , and few purchnoora wore rSf **? , ovon at thft 1 > reduction . Ihe Municipal Council of Marseilles < Hay » tho Times correspondent ) are about to < u > compu « h some improvement m that hitherto neglectod city . Thov announce that tl , ey will shortly confer on the town

      Tho Sardinian budget for tho extraordinary oxponeea of the Crimean expedition has juat boon published in tho form of a blue book of voiy voHpootablo dimensions . It oomprohendH the calculated oxpcnBos of tho military and naval departments from tho commencement of tho war to tho end of 3856 , which arc put down at 74 , 23 D , 532 f . 07 c—that in to aay , mill-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 26, 1856, page 80, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2125/page/8/