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      Justice , is reported . Hia name will be remembered in the annals of Portugal in conjunction with Fernandez Thomar and Borges Carneiro , whom he joined , and formed one of the three chiefs of the first Constitutional movement at Oporto in 1820 . OREECE . A conference will shortly be opened in London between the three powers protecting Greece , to regulate the succession to the crown : Prince Adalbert having , on the occasion of his marriage with the Infanta Amelia , declared positively that he will never embrace the religion of the Greek non-nnited Church , but that lie does not wish to prejudice the rights of his descendants , a protocol will be drawn up in Londou , permitting Prince Adalbert to renounce his personal claims to the throne of Greece , and at the same time reserving the right of succession of his heirs . The Greek journal Helios states , on official authority , that the Russian Cabinet , upon being asked by the Western Powers to send a representative to this conference , replied to the effect that it could only do so on condition that the Anglo-French troops should previously evacuate Greece ; that it ( the Russian Government ) should previously be . informed as to the subject of the negotiations ; and that Greece should be . represented at the conference by a deputy . ¦

      . ¦ ¦ " ' •¦ . ' TUBKEV . : . .. ; , \ . ¦• In consequence of the steps taken by M . de Boutinieff and the other ambassadors , the Porte has abandoned its intention « £ sending an expedition against Montenegro .. The affair is now to be regulated by the Conference of Paris . . . . : ; . ''¦ ¦ ¦ .. ¦ ; ¦ ' ' .- :. : " / . V ¦ ' ' . THE DAUUBIAN PREJC 1 PAUTIES . The composition of the new Wallachian Ministry gives satisfaction , the choice of members not having been influenced by foreign considerations , and the memb Liberalswith few aii

      ers being , some exceptions , u selected -without reference , as hitherto , to the exclusive and privileged , class of Boyards . In Moldavia , the new Government has not been so favourably constructed- The Kaimakan and the whole of his Ministers are known partisans of Russia and Austria . . Tlie Porte gives no encouragement to the suggestion for the pardon of the " Wallachian political emigrants of 1848 ; and they -will therefore not be allowed to return at present . Great disgust has been excited in Moldavia arid Wallachia , and especially in the latter province , by the be- ^ stowal on Prince Stirbey of the Aledjidie of the first class—an honour usually confined to crowned heads , or to of great distinctionIt is ht that

      persons very . thoug Fuad Pacha , backed by Austria , has procured this mark of favour , in gratitude for services tobothren ^ dered by Stirbey . .- ¦¦ .-. Letters from Constantinople , up to the 8 th inst ., announce that all the commissioners for the affairs of the Danubian Provinces were then assembled there , and that they would immediately proceed to settle the bases of the reorganization , after which , they would go to Bucharest . The Principalities , however , have not bee n evacuated by the Austrians . SWITZERLAND . . In connexion with the late insurrection at Neufchatel ,

      the Prussian Minister to the Helvetic Confederation has addressed to the Federal Council , in the name of his Government , the followi ng letter , dated the 5 th of September : —" The undersigned , Privy Councillor of his Majesty the King of Prussia , and his delegate to the Swiss Confederation , having been made acquainted with the events of which the Principality of Neufchatel has lately been the theatre , and while reserving to his Government the faculty of taking an ulterior decision , comes without delay to renew , in the most positive and solemn manner , the legal reserves that he made on the 2 nd and 3 rd of March , 1848 , as well as since then , on the occasion of the revolution of Neufchatel . He docs so

      by reason of all the old and new -violations of the rights of his Majesty the King of Prussia as Sovereign Prince of Neufchatel and of Valengir , and this without distinction , from whatever source those violations may have emanated , and no matter by whom they may have been committed . " The intercession of the Prussian Envoy for a . respite in tho judicial steps to be taken against the prisoners capturedat NeufchiUel , until the main questions of right and international law havo been settled , is understood to have been fruitless , His representation ' in favour of a lenient treatment of the Royalists has been set aside as unnecessary and uncalled for , seeing that tho Federal laws visit political offences very li ghtly ' and that there'is

      , no intention to stretch the ' laws on tho present occasion beyond their usual range : The Federal Council refuses to admit the power claimed by Prussia of reserving its right bridvewl ^ nty 1 over tfce principality of'USTdnAihatel' .

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      ' "vfAfflOEDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS ; T > i ^ ^^ J jett recently cast at Norton for tho new Clock V ^ S lS ^ «*»*«»« w Itaui ;¦ - metf-with an acoMenf— to Sh ^^] 4 ^ b * al J ' ? ual | y ' B l > I lK « tt t < r l ^ ttian beings wl * r 2 S $ SM ^ 'b oatd ' the schooner Wave , bf IZSlS ^ il ^ i ^ ''™^ ' *^ not being afirong SXtl't ftj ^ ^ tf p * ait of shttar . was " . T&& ^ r % S ^ Sf ' tV * >« "Efficient BCnMgtti . % rt 9 ( ^^^^«^~ ;

      died after a delay , of an hour , a slight crack -was heard to proceed From the woodwork : but no great notice was taken of it . As soon as a strain was again put upon the tackling , the shears immediately swerved a little to one side , and the ponderous machinery came to the ground , cracking like firewood , and in its course bringing down the foremast of the vessel and breaking it into splinters , besides doing serious damage to the hull . The bell descended to the bottom of the vessel without injury . The large crowd of people who were standing near had a narrow escape from the falling mast and timbers . The captain of the schooner was in the hold at the time , but escaped without being hurt . As the vessel immediately began to make a great deal of water , a couple of steamboats took her in tow , and removed her out of the dock into the inner basin , where she was run on the ground . An inquest has been held on the body of Mr . Richard Palmer Roupell , aged seventy-four , a gentleman well known in Lambeth for his wealth and liberality to the poor . He -was found dead in his bed . Mr . John Shea , M . D ., made a post mortem examination , and found that death had resulted from serous apoplexy . Mr . Roupell had been somewhat annoyed of late by some lawsuits , and a fire that had taken place on his farm . The jury -returned a verdict of natural death . Mr . Armsworth , a publican at Bow Bridge , has lost

      his life in the river Lea . He was returning i n alight chaise cart from some plots of ground he had purchased in the Marshes between the Temple Mills and Bow , and was driving along the banks of the Lea , when thevehicle and horse were capsized into the water , A son of Mr . Arrnsworth , and two of his workpeople , who were riding with him , got out safely ; but Mr . Armsworth himself was thrown underneath a raft of floating timber , and was not got out for some time , when it was found that hewas dead . iecer i mill at Meltham Huddersfield

      A p n a , near , was caught by an upright , unfenced shaft , as * he was reaching between the shaft and the wall , to get at his ends . His arm was drawn in by the machinery , and dreadfully lacerated up to the shoulder ; and it has been found necessary to amputate the limb . An accident of a singular description occurred a few days since at the Ilarabridge Brewery , Langport . A considerable portion of the brickwork of the ' jibbing ' gave way , owing to which the head of a large vat , in which were about 2500 gallons of strong beer , was stove in . A large portion of the liquor found its way to a small river called the ' Ivel , and thence into the river Parrotof which the Ivel is and the result

      , a tributary ; was that a great manj' fish were killed by the potency of the fluid they were obliged to swallow . The inquest on the body of John White , who was killed by the bursting ; of the boiler of the steam thrashing-machine on Mr ; Hives ' s farm , near Newport Pagnell , has been concluded . The jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death , occasioned by the burs ting of an improperly-constructed steam-boiler , to which had been attached a gauge indicating a pressure which it was unable to bear . " A man has been killed by the bursting of a small cannon discharged towards tho close of an exhibition of

      fireworks at the Pomona Gardens , Manchester . The surrounding objects were a good deal damaged ; the left arm of the unfortunate man was torn off , and he was otherwise severely injured , and propelled into an open sewer close by , from which hewas taken out quite dead . The allowances to the witnesses on the inquest were handed over to the widow , and a club , on which she had no claim , her husband having discontinued his subscripr tions , has generously voted her the entire sum . to which , she would otherwise have been entitled . Richard Bentley , a youth of eighteen , was found dead in the Abbey Mills , Morton ' , with blood flowing from his nostrils . The person who discovered this also found the

      young man a neck-handkerchief twisted round the shaft of some machinery at which he iiad been working . The probability seems to he that he had got up towards the shaft to look after something which a man had been hiding on a beam above the machinery , and the shaft caught tho handkerchief , which , after tightening round tho neck so as to cause strangulation , gave way . Bontley must then have iallen to the floor , and died shortly afterwards .

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      . OUR CIVILIZATION . ¦ , A .......

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      CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The September session of this court commenced on Monday . — -Alfred Richard Bennett , a youth , was charged -with being at large before tho expiration of a period of penal servitude , and with stealing a writingdesk . He pleaded Guilty to the first churge . ' . It appeared that ho escaped from-: tluMiulks at Wqolwich on the 5 th of last April , and nothing : was . heard" of him till tho 18 th of August , -when he went to the house of a Mr . Dawson "while tho family were , at chapel , and said he wns Mr . Dawson ' S'ibrotheri nnd ' had eomo thoro to stop the night . Ho theny when loft to himself , ran up into the servant ' s bedroom , and stole tho dealt , but was recognized as a formor . apprentice . of Mr j Dawson ha life was endeavouring to leave tho liouse with' hla prizo , and ¦ was pursued and given into . . custody . / : IIe " noWdoniod '" ¦• 'I' ¦ ., •¦• - ¦•) T ' . ;\ , . i / : -.. ; ¦ ¦ ¦ * . ! . !• • ¦ ¦/ :. ¦ .. •¦> I ..: ; 1 . ' - ¦¦ IK - . ' . ^ . . ' \ i s . '• ¦! . ; ; :,. ! :. (' . i . .,. •¦ . ¦'; ' , ; . ,. ; . ,.. ;! . ' . ; , * ; ¦ , ; -

      , , , to a burglary in the dwelling-house of Mr . Henry Cox . McDougall also pleaded Guilty to stabbing John Hayes * with intent to prevent his lawful apprehension . The prisoners , who were t £ cket-of-leave men , were sentenced to six years' penal servitude . —John Garrett , marble polisher , and James Murphy , -were charged with a robbery with violence upon George Sapside , and with stealing from him part of a gold chain , valued at 2 ? . The jury found them Guilty . The Recorder , in passing sentence , told the prisoners , who had both been transported and only out upon tickets of leave a short time previously to the commission of this offence , that in cases of garotte robberies like the present one , he felt bound to pass the most severe sentences , and he ordered them t 6 be transported for twenty years . — Charles Bryant , -waiter Thomas Banks , waterman , and Hichard Sholl , Custom House officer , were charged with stealing ten ponnds of tobacco , the property of the Queen . Bryant pleaded

      McDougallcarpenterand Robert Ford pleaded Guiltv this charge , and said he had given himself up because he could not get a livelihood , and therefore wished to be transported . He was found Guilty of the Heft , and sentenced to four years' penal servitude . —Geoxge "Webb -was found Guilty of uttering an order for the deliverv of a banker ' s pass-booh ,-with intent to defraud , ttn 4 .-ffas sentenced to penal servitude for five years . —Alliater McDouerall . carnenter . and Robert Ford . nloo <«<^ /^ .. n .

      Guilty , and Banks and Sholl were Acquitted .. The tobacco was abstracted from a barge lying off the Custom House , in charge of which was Shoty . Bryant was rowed to the barge one night by Banks , and afterwards rowed back with the plunder ; bat the police observed the transaction , and took all the parties into custody . The Recorder said there was no case against Banks , and the defence of Sholl vras that he had fallen asleep , and knew nothing of the theft . Bryant was sentenced to twelve months' hard labour . —The Grand Jury on

      Tuesday brought in a number of bills , and among them one against Mr . Charles Snape , for the manslaughter of a patient in the Surrey Lunatic Asylum . This bill they returned not found . —John Cole , gardener , described by the reporters as a simple-looking young man , has been found Guilty of shooting at Emma Luker , -with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm . The particulars appeared in this journal on the 12 th of : July . He was sentenced to be transported for twenty years . ^—George Thomas and Henry Hillyej , both of them young men flashily-dressed , -were charged with stealing a . letter containing a cheque for 761 . 17 s . 6 d . under circumstances already known to our readers . Thomas was found

      Guilty of receiving the cheque , knowing it to have been stolen , and Hillyer was Acquitted , They were then accused of stealing a letter and a 10 / . Bankof England note . The verdict in this case was precisely opposite , that in the other . It appeared that both had before been convicted of felony , and they -were sentenced to six years' penal servitude . —John Cooper pleaded Guilty to a charge of uttering three forged cheques upo ' a the Royal British Bank . He -was sentenced to Bix years' penal servitude . —^ Shafter Wood , an imbecile-looking labourer , was Acquitted , on the ground of insanity , of attempting to strangle a little girl , six years of age . There was no apparent motive for the actwhich was evidently that

      , of a maniac . He was ordered to be detained . —Francois Michel , a French gentleman , has been Acquitted of the charge of rape detailed in our last week ' s paper . The girl , on cross-examination , admitted that she had told Iie 3 at the police-court . Middlesex Sessions . —Henvvon Dittmur , late an officer in the German Legion , was indicted for an assault in Cremorne Gardens on Major Augustus Yates . He pleaded Guilty . Th « particulars of this case appeared in tho Leader of September 6 th . The legal adviser of Mr . Dittmar said tliat his client was a gentleman of good and noble family , who had the highest testimonials

      as to his character as a gentleman and a soldier . He had to say on behalf of his client that he had no justification to offer for the assault he had committed . It was not a premeditated assault ; but by accident he met Major Yates at Creinorne , and then he gave way to his temper , and committed an act wliioh he no-iv regretted . He would submit to the judgment of the court and pay all the costs of the prosecution . He was ordered to enter into a recognizance of 100 / ., to come up for judgment when called upon . A > Young Ruffi \ n . —Henry Beaumont , a boy of fifteen , vaa charged at Bow St . with a scries of outrages . Thomas Naylor , a compositor , -who is the lad ' s brotherin-law , had gone with his wife to ace Mrs- Beaumont , The

      who was lying in tho last stage . of consumption . boy came homo while thoy were bytho mothev ' s bedside , and began using the most violent and disreputable language , regardless of his mother ' s condition . Naylorromonstrated with him in vain , and floally boxed hia ears slightly , upon which the hoy rushed at him - \ vith aknife-Ho snatched it bat of hia . honda , * when Beaumont caught up the pokor , and made a desporato blow at Nayr lor's head , which , being partly averted , only laft a alig ht scar upon tho temple . By this time , a police-constable arrived , having been attracted l > y the . disturbance ; apd » when he- proceeded to . take the boy into custody , / ll > Q latter pulled- out a . double-barreled pistol , loaded , with powder add shot , . and . lirodi it at . 'tho'ofilcer . By a fortqnato accidttnt , the cap only was diaahftrged .: Oh biB ¦ '' '¦ : ' - " > ' ' ¦ ¦ • ' i ¦• ¦ < •¦¦ : ¦ ' ¦ ••'» , ¦ - . ' li . l ' t ; : > * < " . ¦ i ¦ ¦ : <¦ . ¦ : ¦ ' ¦• : ¦ - •¦ " ' ' - ¦ •;¦ ¦¦ , ; i- > ' ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ' 'i : ¦ ' ' . ' '' : ' • • • ' ¦ . ¦' • '; ' ¦ "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1856, page 896, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2159/page/8/