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    He me sow again committed on this charge , and remanded on the charge of gold robbery . - Spectacus-Robbeioes . —Gay , in his " Trivia , " speaks of the ingenious t hieves of those _ days who robbed gentlemen of their wigs . In these times , there are few wigs to steal ; but there are plenty of spectacles with gold and silver rims , and on these our modern street ruffians levy blackmail . A Mr . Cohen Tyas walking through Bisiopsgate-street at an early lour of the evening with his wife , when a man rushed at him , drove his head int o his st omach , and ran off , leaving Mr . Cohen breathless , in great pain , and without his gold spectacles . He pursued , seized hold of the manor of a confederate whom he had with him .

    , and , after a hard struggle , in which he was savagely ill-used , secured him . On the culprit being brought before the Worship-street magistrate , a gaoler said ¦ that this plan of robbery had lately come much into practice , and several persona had complained to him of having been robbed in a similar manner . About a fortnight ago , an elderly gentleman , while walking through the Haciney-road , was robbed of his spectacles in this way , the thing being done so quickly that the thief escaped ; and , a few nights after , a man walked into a tradesman ' s shop in the same neighbourhood , where an elderly lady was serving behind the counter with a pair of gold spectacles on . The man was dissatisfied with the articles shown him , but

    mumbled his complaint so indistinctly that the woman could not hear him , and , being rather deaf , she leant over the counter to hear what it was that he said , and the man immediately whipped off her spectacles , and . took to his heels . The accused , in th 6 present instance , was remanded . Supposed Mukdbb .- ^ -A servant-girl , named Harriet ¦ Ward , mysteriously disappeared a few days agoifrovn ier lace ; and has since been found drowned in the Thames under suspicion of murder . Mtoeudebofa GrAMEKEEPEB . —An Tinder-gamekeeper on the estate of Sir J . T . Tyre ll , M . P ., near Chelmsford , has been shot dead by' poachers . Two of his brothers , and two other : men , are in . custody .

    : " -.:. Violent Death at Ltveiipool . —A sailor has been found in the . streets of Liverpool ; dead of strangulation . The inquest has ended in a verdict of Wilful Murder against two men who were seen in his company . These men , who were present at the inquest , behaved very unconcernedly , and laughed at , each other when the verdict was given . : SjEao ^ -SoasANOUiiATiON by ; a Boy .- ^ -A youth imprisoned at Manchester for stealing iron has been found in his cell strangled apparently by bis own bands . .::.. •¦

    I BtmotABT at WiGTON . —The house of an old couple at TYigton has been broken into , and the master and Boiaja-ess Eaeriousiy beaten . They contrived to escape and jraise an alarm | on winch the burglars fled with out gaining any thing .

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    . .-. . — : ; ; . , » AN EPISODE OF THE SECOND EMPIRE . The pomp of historical dramas is sometimes interarupted by episodical scenes of the prison and the scaffold . The contrast is effective . In like manner we may be permitted to in trude upon the tumul tuous festivities of the Tuileries with the brief and unadorned reoital of a scene that took place a . few weeks since at Cayenne . Five years ago Victor Hugo wrote : —" Nothing will transpire , nothing will reach you ; nothing | except perhaps from time to time sad tidings from , beyond the sea , which will sound like a funeral bell upon the ear of France and Europe , announcing , such and such a prisoner is dead . " These words were only too prophetic . Every ship that comes from those pestilential shores brings the death , of a new victim to the success of the man

    creatures were perishing of hunger , and sparing neither his fortune nor his life to the cause of humanity . On the 2 nd of December , he was one of the first to take up arms . When the cause was hopeless he remained for several days on the Spanish frontier , unwilling to beldeve in the success of the coup d ' etat He was arrested , and well do I remember seeing him before the Oonseil de Guerre three months afterwards . Never was there a sadder sight than that venerable

    old man , bent with age , as he gave himself up to the gendarmes to be handcuffed . You could see he was a man accustomed to a life of affluence and ease , and even in that moment his expression was resigned and almost serene . He departed on his long exile sad but calm , full of mourning , but not deserted by hope —strong in the justice of his cause—confident in the future . Who could have believed that he was bidding a last farewell to his wife , his children , and his friends ? What historian will ever have the courage to count up the innumerable victims , the unknown dead of the 2 nd of December ?"

    whom the organ of Lord Stanley and of Mr , Disraeli delights f ; o call * ' the preserver of right and order in Europe . " The latest victim is one Peret , some time mayor of B ^ ziere , deported to Cayenne without ' trial , for . having resisted the conspiracy of the 2 nd of December , 1851 . It appears that M . Boziers , accompanied by six fellow-prisoners , attempted to escape from that living tomb . They put to sea at night in a bont , Two hours after they were driven on the rdoka , perefc , entangled in his cloak , was drowned . The six others survived . But what an existence

    For two days they Jived on what shellfish they could find on a desolate rook in the midst of an ocean that threatened every moment to overwhelm them . At last one of thepa resolved to risk his life * for the rest , Seeing no succour come ; he throw himself into the soa , and after three hours' swimming reachod the land . Unhappily tho land was French Guiana . He could only Gave his life on condition of surrendering , lun » 8 olf a prisoner ; Mb five companions wore teBctied from the devouring sea only to be oast into

    mother dungeon . Tomb for tomb . ¦ U ^ The unhappy Perot , " eay » a letter wo have now ¦ SSr iSPL b ^ a thu terminated a life of sixty years ' SKft ° auflo <> f Wberty . A rich man , ho but 1 ? Zt W f * * " * < l « toly and prosperously ; bSta ? SS ^* * * tho 8 e taxo *»* geuerous-hearfced 3 l 2 Sf " mftko ^ y wwrifloea , feeling acutely that , wJuH ho jvas rich , many of his follow-

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    having determined to restore the Constitution of 1840 instead of that of 1849 . THE GERMANIC CONFEDERATION . The declaration with respect to the approaching Paris conferences , presented to the German Diet by Austria on the 7 th of February , contains the annexed passages : — The high Government of the Confederation will recognise that the guarantees which , the future peace must bring will not be the less precious , especially for Germany , by the development given to these points ( viz ., those contained in the preliminaries . ) On the other hand , they will not disown that the said Powers , faithful to the principles the collective recognition of which , constitutes the bond of their alliance , have conscientiously excluded any proposition which would

    not be fully justified by an incontestable European right , and which , for that very reason , would not be of a nature to be accepted with honour by each of the great Powers which divide between them , in the first rank , the responsibility of peace and of the prosperity of Europe . The Imperial Court entertains the firm conviction that this spirit of moderation and solicitude for the general welfare of nations will also prevail at the Conferences which will shortly open , and tha t , consequently , the right expressly reserved in the fifth point for the "belligerent Powers to propose , in addition to the four points of guarantee , new conditions in a European interest , will not be exercised in a sense which , might have the effect of again compromising the work of peace so happ il y commenced . " ¦ * ¦ * A . W

    CONTINENTAL NOTES . PEANCE We have received the following resume of the state of Europe from a correspondent : — Jupiter Asians . Dedicated to Victor Hugo . " Le Petit" call not him who by one act Has turned old fable into mod . ern fact . Nap Louis courted Europe :. Europe shied : Th " Imperial purple was too newly dyed . * "I'll have her though , " thought he , "by rape or rapine , " Jove nods ' sometimes , but catch a Nap a napping 1 Attd now I think of Jove , 'twas Jove ' s own fix , And so I'll borrow one of Jove's own tricks : Old itching Palm I'll tickle with a jolce , And he shall lend me England ' s decent eloalr . " 'Twas said and ; done , arid his success was full ; He won Europa with the guise of Bull !

    The . celebrated German poet , Heinrich Heine , died at Paris on Monday night , after lingering for a long while in a state of complete bodily paralysis , but with his marvellous intellect unimpaired . He was buried in the cemetery Montmartre , and his body vfas followed to the grave by Alexandre Dumas , Theophile Gautier , Mignet , Paul de St . Victor , Alexandre Weill , and a great number of German writers and journalists . « == « The Counte ss CaumontLaforce has been murdered by her groom , -who stabbed her with a pitchfork , in consequence of a violent quarrel he had had with her . The Countess was forty years of age , and somewhat eccentric . She resided in the Avenue des Champa Elysees . The assassin made no attempt to escape , but gave himself up to the commissary of police .

    AUSTRIA . Some account of an " annexation" to the Concordat is given by the Times Vienna Correspondent , who says that , * 'by order of the Emperor , a letter containing a detailed explanation of each separate article of the convention was addre ssed to the Pope , and mention was also made of certain demands by the Papal Chair which were refused by the Imperial Government . One of them was , that the ' preventive censure' should be re-estalished in Austria , but it was rejected , on the ground ' that long experience had proved it to be of little real use . ' The Archbishop of Vienna was the author of the letter , and the ninth article in it is said to

    contain a passage . ' which would see m to give the Italian bishops a right to interfere with the press which is not granted totheir Austrian and Hungarian brethren . " In the meanwhile , bigotry is . rampant . The Archbishop of Vienna has refused to allow the Common Council of Vienna to erect a mon ument to Mozartj because worship of genius is a kind of idolatry —• strange objection to come from the Church of Rome And a work introduced into the schools by the Ministry of Public Instruction has been prohibited because it teaohes that there was no deluge after the creation of man , " as no fossil remains of human beings have over been discovered . "

    A great gap in the Austrian railroad net ( says the Ocsterrcichiecftc Oorrespondenz ) , is about to be filled up , On the 8 th inst ,, the Emperor granted to M . Ernest Mork , the Imperial Royal Consul at Hamburg , and to M . H . D . Lindhoim , merchant , a privilege to construot a railroad from Vienna to Linz , and thence to the Bavarian frontier near Salzburg , on the one side , and to the Bavarian frontier near Passau on the other . The railroad , which is as important for Bavaria and Southern Qoimany as it is for Austria , will bear the naino of'tho Empress Elizabeth Railroad . "

    PRUSSIA . A . " Credit Institution" ia about to be established at Berlin . It will bo permitted to issue its own paper , bearing interest and payable to bearer . Tho capital is to be 30 , 000 , 000 thalors , in shares of two hundred thalera eaoh , with liberty subsequently to increaso tho amount \ p 60 , 000 , 000 . Tho managing committee will consist of largo landod proprietors and bankers . HANOVHR . There is a ministerial crisis in Hanover , the King

    DENMARK . Tlie inextricable complications presented by the internal condition of the Danish monarchy , have ended in the overthrow of the ministry . The telegraph announces that M . Raasloff , the King's minis , ter for the Duchy of Schleswig , has tendered hiraresignation , and has been replaced provisionally by M . Half . ITALY . The Sardinian Government has received an intimation from the Government of Vienna that the latter is prepared to raise the sequestration from the properties of denaturalised Austrian subjects , provided they will return to their country and reasume their citizenship . In case of their preferring to reside abroad , the Imperial , Royal , and Apostolic Government ¦ will consent to hand over their properties to

    their heirs and successors ; and they are to have until the end of the present year to make their election . How Austria can continue to claim any authority over her " denaturalised" subjects , in the face of a law of March , 1832 , which declares that " persons duly authorised to emigrate lose their quality of Austrian subjects , and for all and every effect of civil political law will be treated as foreigners , " is one of the mysteries of diplomacy . .

    The British residents at Naples , travellers and merchants , have presented a document to Sir William Temple , our Minister at that city , complaining that they have to pay an income-tax to the Neapolitan Government far exceeding that which they pay at home . This abuse , they say , arises from the Neapolitan Mint making an exorbitant charge for exchange , instead of ( as usual with other ininta ) paying the actual equivalent of silver , with an iuflnitesimal deduction only , to repay mint expenses .

    The King of Naples has performed an act of grace in pardoning ( on condition of his leaving the kingdom ) an English sailor who had killed a Sicilian in th « course of a disturbance . Sir ' William Templ e had interceded for the man , who had been condemned to thirteen years' imprisonment in ironB . It fleema he did not strike the blow with malice prepense .

    SPAIN . Edouardo Abad , alias Lutgardo Abadia , has beon executed for the murder of Mr . Feu ton , an Englishman , in April lost . An accomplice who witnoased the murder was sentenced to imprisonment for life ; but it was part of his punishment that he should witness tho execution of his comrade . The Minister of Foreign Affairs , in reply to a question put ia tho Cortes , announced that tho negotiations with France about the precise limits ol the frontiers had beon brought to a satisfactory conclusion . The public sittings of the committe * on tho tariffs have been brought to a close . There appears to be a tendency on tho part of the Spanish Government to effect a reconciliation with tho Holy See .

    TUR 1 CEV . The Loan Commission recently proposed to too Government to issue in tho markot tho bills which tho latter was to draw on account of tho loan . Tlie Government accepted this px'opowvl ; and a downward tendency immediately took plaoa in tho mte of exchange , and the pound uterling foil by degrees to 144 piastres , though worth 150 in tho bazaars . When tho rate of oxohnngo had roaohod this figure , " the Turkish Government , on tho euggostiou of tho Loan Commission , " eaya n letter from Constantinople , " offered to pay the creditora who had ft claim on M * 3 proceeds of the loan , at tho rato of oxohango ol' tuo day . Tho speculators who never exjpootod to b «

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    I 76 THE LEADER [ No . 309 , Saturday

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 23, 1856, page 176, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2129/page/8/