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      control of the Gocenomen * . The motion was rejected by 208 against 92 . EPAIiY . The Sardinian Senate has voted the loan of 30 ^ , 000 by a majority of 50 to 7 . The- Patriarch of Venice has ordained that , "in order to avoid seandak . all those persons who do not feat on the appointed fast days are to be served in a private room . " &FAEST . The Madrid Gazette announces the resignation of Mi BruaV Minister of Finance , and the appointment of Mi Santa Cruz as his successor . The new Minister renounces the re-establishment of the octroi duties . He will convert the floating debt into a voluntary consolidated debt .

      £ OBTTJ « AIi . The debate upon the reply to the throne has commeneed in the Portuguese Chamber of Deputies , Where the Minister of Finance has presented the budget for 1856-57 , showing 10-939 contos of a-evenue , and 12584 contos of expenditure ; but by adding to the revenue the usual abatements from the royal allowances and from public salaries , the calculated deficit is reduced from 1 , 655 contos to 355 contos , or about . £ 80 , 000 . The Minister of Finance Las also brought forwards his arrangement with the foreign bondholders j and a bill to regulate thetrade in grain , allowing free exportation and importations upon a sliding scale of duties , has been introduced .

      BEW 3 EUM . A private correspondent at Brussels , who is in a position to be correctly informed , transmits us the following statement respecting the recent transfer of the Independanct Beige into the hands of a French proprietary . " Tie Jndependaiice is positively sold to a French company consisting of M , Veron , M . de Morny , and two bankers established at Cologne . So long ago as last summer M , Perrot , the proprietor and director of the Independence , was desirous of parting with the property of his journal on account of some difficulties in-the way of its circulation in . France , and of its conduct at home in the face of a daily increasing liberal reaction against Bonapartism . M . Jules Lecomte , the writer of the Courier de Paris ^ thefewilleton of tiejournalundertook , or waseharged with , the opening of negotiations . Two months since the affair was all but concluded for the sum of

      800 , 000 francs ( £ S 2 , 000 ) , but two obstacles , or rather difficulties , presented themselves . M . Veron proposed to announce the sale in the Paris papers , to which M . Perrot reasonably objected on the ground that such arrangements were better kept secret . On the other hand , M . ? errot was anxious to insure a £ s . od and certain position -to'his chief editor , and to give him a share of the property , but to which M . Ve " ron objected . After two months' negotiations the parties assented to mutual concessions . Mi . Ve " ron consented to make good the position of the chief editor , and M . Perrot to allow the transaction to be published in the papers . Such iB the precise state of affairs . M . Perrot will shortly quit the journal , and it is probable that some of his -writers also will withdraw rather than

      remain openly ia the pay of M . Ye " ron and of the French police . Already , indeed , M . LouiB HymanB , Whoae name is better known than the rest , has resigned his post oq the journal . TURKEY . A fire took place on Saturday week in the barracks at Constantinople , occupied by a detachment of the 13 th English Dragoons . ! N " o lives were lost . The building , with the arms and accoutrements it contained ,, was totally destroyed . The Sultan , ou the 31 st of January , attended the oal costume at the English Embassy . This is looked on as a great concession to the non-Mahoinedan part of the population , the Mussulmen having a great prejudice against such frivolous amusements . His Majesty seemed much , interested in the dancing , to observe which ho stood up for about half-an-liour .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . The CoiAisroN off Foxksxonb . —An inquiry into the loss of the Josephine Willis has been instituted by the coroner for the Cinque ports , and terminated in a verdict of Manslaughter against Capt . Bourchior , of tho Mangerton , who appears to have been careless in . the management of his vessel . The official inquiry has resulted in the annexed verdict : — " We come to a unanimous conclusion that George Summers and others caiao by thoix deaths in consequence of a collision between tho ahi p Josephine Willis and the steamer Mangeuton , owing to an error in judgment tne cmelolneor

      on pare or sue of tho ship , mistaking tho light of the ateamer for Dungeness Light , and starboarding the helm . Wo also agree that if a proper lookout had been -kept on board of the etonmor , the collision might have been avoided . Wo fool it our duty also to state that there appears to haro boon a great want of humanity on tho part of tlio crow of both shipa in not sending assistance to tho passengers of the ship while they had it in their power to do so and wo believe that , if proper efforts had been mado , ' many more llvea -would have beou saved . ' * A third inquiry has boon opened before Mr . Yardloy . tho

      Thames magistrate in London , bub is not yet concluded . The WRfccK of the Polyphemus . —Eight offic-ers and sixty-sis men of the Polyphemus , which was lately wrecked on the coast of Jutland , arrived at Portsmouth on Tuesday , to await their trial by courtmartial , with the remainder of the officers and crew . A FEMALE Recruit . —A young woman , about seventeen years of age , has enlisted into the 97 th Regiment , a recruiting party of which corps is stationed at Windsor . Although she slept that

      evening in a room where there were several beds occupied- by men , her sex was not discovered until next morning , when , being taken before the medical officer for examination , and ordered to strip ,, as usual on such occasions , she was obliged to confess that she was a woman . She was then brotight hefoie the magistrates , charged with obtaining the Queen ' s money under false pretences , and was remanded . It is said that she enlisted in order to be enabled to join her sweetheart , who is in a cavalry regiment in the Crimea . A subscription has been commenced for her in Windsor .

      Great Pbepaba . tioits at Portsmouth . —Portsmouth garrison presents just now the appearavnee of a town beleaguered from the sea and the garrison preparing busily for its defence . A large fleet of ships and gunboats is at anchor in the roadstead off the town , and new batteries and quarters for soldiers are being constructed rapidly within the walls of the fortress . At the top of the town , a large range of dwelling-houses and the theatre have been pulled down to create more room for military

      accommodation , while at the bottom a heavy battery of sixteen 68-pounder pivot guns is in . course of completion , having taken the place of the old platform of 6-pounder saluting guns . In the rear of these has been ereeted a large shell magazine , flanked by a high earth mound to protect it from the shot of an enemy seaward ; new embrasures for heavy 32-pounders have been cut in the curtain of the ramparts at various points commanding Southsea , where a mud fort has been built near the old sfcone fortress , Southsea Castle , to strengthen that defence . —Times .

      Banqujet " -to Sib Edmund Ltoits at the Mansion-house . — The Lord Mayor gave a dinner on Wednesday to Sir Edmund Lyons . After Sir Charles Wood had returned thanks for the Navy , and General Buckley for the Army , the Admiral addressed themeeting , and in the course of his speech , said , that he was afraid that some of the admirals were too old . * ' They are sorry for it , " lie added ; " but I hope the country will forgive them what they cannot help . As to the captains sad ycxsJger officers , they are eaual to any the service ever boasted of . "

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      MURDER BY A CONVICT AT PORTSMOUTH . An inquest was held at Portsmouth , on Friday week by the Admiralty coroner , ou the body of Mr- Hope , assistant-surgeon to the convict-ship , Stirling Castle , now in Portsmouth harbour , that gentleman having been murdered by one of the convicts on board the vessel . On the morning of the inquest , tho murderer , Thomas Jones , asked Mr . Hope to examine hia chest . The surgeon did eo > , aud afterwards said , iu answer to a question from Jones , that he saw no occasion then to send him to the lower deck , which was very full , but that ., if necessary , ho would be shifted to the lower deck of another vessel . Mr . Hope left the surgrery , followed by Jones , and , as he was passing

      plied he would not be slow poisoned or slow murdered . After he was captured , he expressed a wish to see Mr . Williams , the chief warder of the shin and when that gentleman came , he Baid to him , " ' villain ! I would serve you the same way as M * . Hope . Mark my word , there is some one waiting for you on board . " It also appeared that he was irritated against Mr . Hope for not sending him to the invalid deck ; and at the inquest lie accused the surgeon of oppression and cruelty , though of this there seemed to be 310 proof . He said he had done the deed " without a pang , " and only wished he had "finished" Mr . Williams and : Mr " . Bowler , another surgeon . A piece oi a razor , set into a wooden handle , which Jones has carried about for some time , seems to have been the instrument with which the act -was committed . A verdict of Wilful Murd « r was returned by the coroner ' s j ury .

      the ohnpel gallery of tho snip , Jones caught him by the neck with one hand , and apparently stmok him on the face with the other . One of tho officials ou board tho Stirling Castle seized the convict and secured him , while Mr . Hope ran round the gallery , He did not complain of boiag hurt , nor did tliere appear to bo any mark of violenco -upon his person . Nevertheless , he was not long afterwards 00011 lying prostrato by the governor's door , with blood flowing from hia mouth and nook , and , on removing tho neckkorohiof from tho latter , it was discovered that his throat -was cut . Ho was thon scarcely alive , and about five minutest afterwards ho died . Provimia to his dontli , ho stated that Jones had Btruok hiiri ; but no weapon of any kind was found on tho oonv iot .

      It would Boom that tho murderer committed tho act out of some offonoo that ho bore against Mr . Hope , as ho woa hoard to any to that gontlomnai a few minutes before ho struck him , " You and Mr . Williams nvo conniving together to do > mo a aorious injury . " Mr . Hope Interrupted him , saying ho tvub not to believe anything of tho nort , an he had not montiouod Johgh ' h name to Mr . Williams . Jonon ro-

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      SnfKiua A Ship . —Jos . Taylor ,-late second engineer of the steam-ship Marley Hill , has been committed for trial charged with , attempting to sink that vessel , by turning on the sea-cockj in consequence of which the engine-room was flooded , and the ship ( which was lying in the Pool , off Limohotise Hole ) was nearly lost . The object of the prisoner seems to have been to do an injury to the chief engineer , with whom he hatl quarrelled . Excess of Duty . —The charge against two policemen of excess of duty in arresting a Mr . Dawson , in connexion , with the shot robbery in the Belvidere « road , Lambeth , has fallen to the ground .

      Imprisoned fob Forty-jpoub Tears . — An inquest has been held on the body of Jean . Baptist Dufrene , who recently died in the Queen ' s prison , from old age . He was eighty-two ; and had been imprisoned eve * since 1812 , at which period he was before the Court of Bankruptcy , and , having refused to answer some question with reference to his account books , he was committed for contempt of court . A few years ago he was offered his liberty , but refused His brother gave evidence at the inquest , and was much affected . ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦

      Biography of two GniMnfALS . —Three accomplished thieves , named Monro , Jones , and Richardson , the two former with , a great many alia ^ eSj -were recently sentenced , at the Clerkenwell police-office , to three months' hard labour for loitering about the streets . A police- sergeant , suspecting that more charges might turn up against them , obtained a remand , and found that some shirt collars which they ¦ wore were stolen . This led to the discovery of one oc two burglaries committed by the men , one on the morning of Christmas-day , -when they took out a box trow , a , iiGUSC ill Hollowav . T > laced it iu a dog-cart and drove off . They have been committed for trial . The

      previous lives of two of the men are singular , and may be described as the romance of criminality Jones was convicted of a burglary in 1839 , and was transported for fifteen yeai' 3 . He was sent to Norfolk . Island , escaped from there soon after , and returned to England . He waa recaptured in Liverpool , when he was tried as an escaped , convict , and sentenced to be transported for life . He was then sent to Hobart Town , taut escaped from there in 1849 , once more returned to England , and was appreh-eaded in January , 18 62 , tried at the Old Bailey , and again transported for life ,

      but subsequently obtained his pardon . He -was shortly afterwards apprehended , and committed for trial foe an extensive burglary atj a jeweller ' s shop atLeighton Buzzard , but was acquitted , and has since been in custody , and bad three montis' hard labour . Hichard-Bon is also well known , having been , tried for a burglary and sentenced to six years' penal servitude . He was then confined in Horaemonger-lano Gaol , and escaped from there about eighteen months since . Monro is likewise well known to the police , and has been sentenced to two years' hard labour for an attempted burglavy .

      Murder 01 ? a Child at Wamvorth . —An infaufc six weeks old , named Frank Withers Rider , has been murderod by his mother , Mrs . Emily Iiidor , a lady living iu Onslow-torvace , Lorrimoro road , Wai worth . An inquest was held on tho body last Saturday , when it appeared that on tho previous Thursday Miss Georgina Armstrong was told by hor sister that Mrs . Rider had drowned her infant son . Miss Armstrong wont to Mrs . Rider ' s bedroom , but mot seeing tho ohild there , she proceeded to Mrs . Rider , who told hor that she oovorod with

      would find her boy in a pan over a board . Ho was immediately aftorwnrds found iu a pan full of wator , lying on his faao with hia legs doubled under hia body . Ho was thought to "bo quite dead , but Miss Armstrong -was too muoh frightened by tho discovery to cull in medical aid directly . A Verdict of " Wilful Murdoir" was returned against Mra . Rider , who waa thon removed to Horsomongerlano Gaol . It appeared from further statements that nho was of unsound mind , and hn , d ropoatodly tried

      tu kill herself . Caitiikb ojt a Qanq of BouacABS . —Four mon , engaged in a burglary in tlio houso of a olergyinan near Burntjley , Lancashire , have boon arrested by tho polioo . They woro entrapped in their own houeo while in tuo aot of breaking up the nlato . Tlio polioo

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      OBITUARY . Mrs . CljOikson , widow of Thomas Clarkson , tlie great anti-slavery reformer , died a few days since at Playford-hall , near Ipswich . She was in . her eighty-third year . Mb . AjiKWBiQHT , M . P . for Leoininster , died on Wednesday week-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 16, 1856, page 151, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2128/page/7/