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      JS S ^ taches a la Victor Emmanuel lave been prohibited at VhA Legate at Bologna , Grassellini , has committed a horrible crime , according to the Unione of l . unn . ue was fascinated by a very handsome Bolognese girl , who was engaged to be married . After vainly trying to seduce her , and after banishing the young man to whom she was espoused , he threw her into prison on a charge of heresy . " The parents went immediately to the Austrian General Degenfeld . Cardinal Grasselkm pretended to know nothing about it ; but the General knew his man , and threatened force . The girl was set at liberty and given over to her parents ; but the treatment she had received in prison was so horrible , that , what between shame and suffering , the poor creature expired i few days "

      n a . XIX tfc XV TT V **»^ »• TURKEY . Great excitement prevails in Thessaly and Epirus , both among the Greek Christians and the Turks , the latter of whom have committed great outrages , which the authorities Beem powerless to check . The utmost interest and' astonishment is created at Varna by the trial of Salik Pacha and his accomplices for the murder of a Greek girl . Mehemet Aga , the Pacha ' s aide decamp , was brought up in irons , and exhibited the most

      abject terror and cowardliness , sometimes crying aloud . Hussein , the intendant of Salik , was equally cast down , and both seem to have lied egregiously . Vaci ] , the cook ( says a letter from Paris ) , -would have electrified a European audience by the coolness with which he related that , on arriving at a certain place , he , Mustapha , the actual murderer , and Nedela , the victim , sat down , and that he made a cigarette for the girl , while Mustapha , taking a cord from his pocket , passed it round her neck , and strangled her . Mustapha , on the other hand , says that it was Vacil who carried the cord and made the

      noose . A fire has destroyed two-thirds of the town of Thessalonica . The Russians have occupied the Island of Serpents , the possession of which is claimed by Turkey by virtue of the treaty of peace . They have refused to admit the English commissioners into Kars , declaring that they will not give ng ^ that fortress until Turkey has been completely evacuated by the Allies . The new Scheriff of Mecca has gained a sanguinary battle , and taken by assault the town of Taxf , where his rival had taken refuge . The revolt in Arabia is considered as at an end .. The former Scheriff will be banished . jGeneral Codrington left Constantinople on the 21 st ult . He was to visit Athens with the fleet that accompanied him .

      A special committee has been appointed to inquire into the best means to promote public instruction in Turkey , and to devise a plan for the organization of the higher branches of instruction in the spirit of the Hatti-Humayoun .

      MONTENEGRO . It is stated that 3500 men have advanced towards Cettingen , under the command of Murki Petrowitch . This expedition is directed against the district of Kouci , which has refused to pay the annual tribute to Prince Danielo .

      RUSSIA . Preparations , on a scale of great magnitude and splendour , are now being made ialtussia for the coronation of the Emperor . " The " silk manufacturers of Moscow , " saj-s the Times Berlin correspondent , " getting up a specially rich article to be called * coronation silk , ' which is described as a sort of silver damask , with a pattern of gold rosettes on it . The finest kind of thi 8 coronation Bilk is to cost twenty-five roubles ( about 4 / . 6 s . ) the archine , which is twenty-eight inches long ; but , unfortunately for any calculations that your fair readers might be disposed to make as to the expense of a dress of this silk , the Baroness de Ber , who describes it tolerably minutely in the Russian Journal des Modes , has neglected to mention the -width , so that the number of breadths necessary for a dress cannot be clearly ascertained . "

      A Bavarian corporal , named Bauer , has invented a diving vessel , which has recently been tried off Cronstadt , and , if we may believe the accounts given by the artist himself , has succeeded to a wonderful degree . Eleven persons remained in this vessel for eight hours at a depth of seventeen feet beneath the Hurfaco of the sea . A letter , dated from that unusual spot , and giving some details of the boat , the mode of working it , &c , was indited by the inventor to somo of his friends in Bavaria ; and from this communication it seems that the vessel can move backwards or forwards , and rise or sink , either vertically or at an angle , rapidly or slowly . The company appear to have had a merry party , and to have drunk Mreral bottles of Rhino wine to the healths of various European monarchs . Unless its capabilities be exaggerated , tha invention would have very seriously perplexed our vessels in the Baltic this yearhad the

      , war continued . Some interesting particulars , singularly illustrating the political intrigue which direct royal and imperial marriages , ore given by the Times Berlin correspondent , who « ays : — " It appeara that tho information I sent you from here , during the stay of tho Empresa of Kusaia at » an » Souci , with reference to th « matrimonial intentiona

      of tho Grand Duke Michael , was quite correct . The trip which the Queen of Prussia made to the Prusso-Saxon frontier at Roderau , for the ostensible purpose of celebrating with her two sisters—the present Queen and the Queen Dowager of Saxony—some family anniversary , had really for its object to propose for the hand of the Princess Sidonia of Saxony in the name of the Grand Duke . The proposal wa 3 rejected by or for the young Princess on account of the change of confession that would be necessary on marrying into the Russian Imperial family . The royal family of Saxony is Roman Catholic , although the population is Protestant . We have here the reason why the Queen of Saxony did not return to Potsdam with " the Queen of Prussia , as was so confidently expected she would do , when the Queen left here for ROderau . The young Grand Duke , who

      continued to stay at Sans Souci , where he constantly met the Princess Mary of the Netherlands , felt a strong inclination to elevate her into a Grand Duchess ; but the Emperor , his brother , to whom lie expressed his views and feelings , impressed upon him the importance of observing what has become almost a law with the imperial family of Russia—viz ., that of marrying a German princess . In consequence of further confidential communications between the two brothers nd third at this courtBaden

      a a party , was pointed out as a country of growing importance ( geographically ) , and in which the foreign sympathies of the population were divided between France and Austria , and therefore one where it would be desirable to . raise up a Russian counter-influence . The Empress Mother underook to prefer her son ' s suit on the occasion of her visit to Wildbad ; and , foreseeing the difficulty of gaining the consent of the Grand Duchess Sophia , mother of the Princess Cecilia , the bride selected for the Grand Duke Michael , she gained over first of all the goodwill of the

      Grand Dowager Duchess Stephanie , through whose intervention the disinclination of the Grand Duchess Sophia , a Princess Vasa by birth , to her daughter ' s marrying into the Russian family was overcome . " The anniversary of the Russian success at the attempted storming of Sebastopol on the 18 th of June last year , has been celebrated most enthusiastically at Alexanclropol by the coips under the command ' of General Chruleff . Count de Morny , ambassador from France to the Jourt or Russia , has arrived at Berlin . THE DANUBIAK PRINCIPALITIES . Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer arrived on Monday evening n Paris on his route to the East , where he is commissioned to arrange the government of the Wallachian md Moldavian provinces . He was-attended by Captain Leycester Vernon , M . P .

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      Ten of tho deaths by cholera are returned as infantile cholera , and occurred to children under two years of age . —Last week , the births of 844 boys and 76 * 4 girls—in all 1 G 08 children—were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 184 G-65 , tho average number was 1894 . — From the Ite < jistrar- (! cncral ' a Weekly Itcturn . Tins Registrar-Gicnkral'h Quarterly Rktukn of marriages , births , and deaths ( marriages , January February , March , I 860 ; births and deaths , April , May , Juno ) lias likewise just been published . From this document we learn that ( iG , 77 G personswereniarried in tho threemonths indicated . The annual rate in tho quarter was 707 marriages to every 100 , 000 of the population ; while tho rate in the winter of 1865 was tittl ( or less by

      SANITARY MATTERS . Health of London . —The mortality in London is below the usual average rate which prevails within its limits . In the week tliat ended last Saturday , 995 persons ( of whom 487 were males , 508 females ) died . The total number differs little from that of the preceding week , which was 1018 . The corrected average of the corresponding weeks of the previous ten years was 1 , 213 . But this result represents more than the nominal rate of mortality , in consequence of cholera , which was epidemic in 1849 and 1854 , having carried off in the corresponding -weeks of those j r ears about 91 G persons . Of the 995 persons who died , 522 were under 20 years of age , 147 were 20 and under 40 , 146 were 40 to 60 , 146 were 60 to 80 , and 34 were 80 years of age and upwards . 278 persons died of zymotic diseases , including 11 by cholera , 71 by diarrhoea , 20 by smallpox , 45 by measles , 19 by scarlatina , 48 by typhus , &c .

      l-10 th ) , and tho average rate of tho preceding winter quarters was 704 . Tho present augmentation kIjows an increase in tho prosperity of tho country . —173 , 204 boys and girls were born alive and registered in tho « prin # quarter that ended on the last day of June , giving an increase of 7954 children on tho numbers of tho corresponding quarter of I 860 . —Tho number of deaths was 100 , 010 , tho natural increase of tho population of England being 72 , 894 in tho three months of April , Muy , and Juno ; ao that 1901 ) lives were added , and 1102 wore taken away daily ; leaving 801 as tho daily incrcutio . But , in tho same throe months , 60 , 1 ) 79 emigrants left tho ports of the United Kingdom at which Government agents aro stationed ; and of that number about 21 , 804 were of English origin .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . The Grounding of the Beixeisle . —A court-martial , to inquire into the grounding of the troop-ship Belleisle , Commander James Hosken , in the Bosphorus , on the morning of the 12 th of June , has terminated in a declaration of opinion that blame was attributable both to the commander and the master , " and the court accordingly adjudged the former to be admonished , and the latter to be severely reprimanded . A Match for the Yankee Frigates . —The new frigate of immense size , now in course of construction at the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke , the Diadem , is so advanced in her construction as to be ready to be im-_

      mediately caulked , for -which purpose men have arrived at the yard from Plymouth . The Diadem is the first of the new class of enormous frigates building to match the Americans , and , though only to carry 32 guns , yet her length and tonnage are equal to a ship of the line . Her length is 240 feet , and her tonnage will be upwards of 2500 tons . The armament of this ship will be enormous , being 32 G 8-pounders or 8-inch shells , with one pivot-gun of 95 cwt ., and 10 feet in length . Her engines are to be of 1000 horse-power , and , as her model is exceedingly good , it is expected she will be very fast .

      The Steam-transport Spartan . — Her Majesty ' s steamer Triton , sent by the Rear-Admiral Superintendent the Hon . Sir Montagu Stopford to the assistance of the Spartan , which ran on the Cane , or Dog Rocks , on the night of the 5 th of July , returned to Malta on the 17 th , bringing with her Captain Milburn and the crew of the ill-fated vessel . The troops on board had arrived previously in safety in her Majesty ' s steamer Shearwater and the steam-transport City of London , from Tunis , whither they were conveyed from the Rocks by a French steamer . The Triton and Shearwater arrived at the Dog Rocks at midnight on Wednesday , the 9 th ult ., where they found the Spartan lying on a reef on the outskirts of the Rocks , broken in three places on the port side , and having in her a depth of from fifteen to seventeen feet of water . The anchors , cables , sails , rigging , masts , and stores , have been got off in safety .

      The Newfoundland Submarine Cable . —The sul marine electric telegraph cable for the New York , Newfoundland , and London Telegraph Company was successfully laid on the 10 th ult ., from the steamship Propontis , Captain Goodwin , under the direction of Mr Samuel Canning , across the Gulf of St . Lawrence , between Cape Ray Cove , Newfoundland , and Ashby Bay , Cape Bretou , a distance of eighty-five miles , in fifteen hours . Messages are now being transmitted from shore to sbore . Mutiny axd MVr ' dek . —The men of the English barque Globe have mutinied , killed one man , wounded three others , and plundered the captain and chief mate . This took place in the Black Sea . The mutineers afterwards landed about thirty miles to the eastward of the Bospliorus . Three of the offenders have been captured and the others are being pursued by the Turkish police , who have been of great service .

      Review at Aldeusiiott . —The Queen again reviewed the troops at Aldershott on Wednesday . She was accompanied by Prince Albert , the Duke of Cambridge , and some of the Royal children . Only one accident worth mentioning occurred . A gun of the Horse Artillery stuck fast in a morass , and it was said that two of tlie horses were lost and a driver ' s log broken before it could be extricated . Her Majesty and the Royal party passed the night at the Pavilion . Tim Late Fatal Collision on tiik Mkksey . —Tlie inquiry into this catastrophe has at length concluded . After an absence of two hours and a half on Wednesday , the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against tlie pilot ( William Bewer ) and the mate of the Excelsiw ( William Shaw ) , coupled with a reprimand of the captain of the Excelsior for not maintaining greater discipline on board .

      Banquet to the Fourth Dkawoon < J tiAiins . — 'llio inhabitants of Sheffield gave a dinner on Tuesday evening to the officers of tlie 4 th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards , to celebrate their return from the Crimea . The Major presided ; and among the chief « p « ikern ¦ wen : Lord Cardigan and Lieutenant Mnssey , better known as liccluu . Massoy , " who appeared supported by hi * crutches . Entertainment to Major-Gunekal Windham . — The congratulatory address of the inhabitants of L < ' "

      mington to General VVindhani , on bin return from the Crimed , was presented to that gallant oflicer on Tut'sday , in JcpliHon-gurdeiiH , with much ceremony . The ( Jon ^ rnl was escorted from his residence , My ton House , by " l . irpjo party of gentlemen , preceded by the band * <>' " l ' Militia and tho 10 th Hussars . Tho houses woro profusely decorated with flags and evergreonn , and *'**" atroots lined with people , who lo . udly cheered tho ( ioiienil us liu pawed . A cold collation followed , at whwh tliw General tiutnkcd tho company for tho honour they hail done him .

      Tina Cavalry Regiments . —It is said that the cavalry regiments at homo will havo two troops < : «< ' » taken off their strength . They were incrcaaed to tins extent ( luring the Ruusiun war .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 2, 1856, page 728, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2152/page/8/