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      tvent to awaken him , but was surprised to find that the bolster dressed up occupied his place ill the bed ; and , on examining the beds of the other two prisoners , he found them similarly occupied . On investigation , it was ascertained that the three prisoners had . escaped by the chimney ; that in a granary at the top of the building they bad found a rope ladder , which must have been placed there bv some one connected with the iortress whom they had ' gamed over ; and that they had then let the fortressIhey

      themselves down into the fosses of . had then , it appeared , gone straight to a place called Neustadt about eight miles off , where they breakfasted , after which they passed into Prussia , and Lave not since been heard of . Dr . Schutte left on his table a letter for the commander of the fortress , thanking him for his kindness during his confinement , and promising to let him know through the newspapers of his definitive retreat . Schutte was under sentence of twenty years' imprisonment for having taken part in the insurrection of A ienna in 1848 . ; srAinr . Caro , the chief of the recent insurrection in Andalusia , and Lavalla , one of his lieutenants , were skot at Seville on the 9 th inst . The former was suffering greatly from two broken ribs , and he was conveyed to the scene of his death , on a litter . Some of the other insurgents have also been shot . The Legislative session of 1857 has closed ; that of 1858 is announced to commence in September . The Queen ' s confinement is expected in November . The recent insurrections have apparently thrown the Government into a fever of . fear , and the most tyrannical acts are being committed daily . The police enter the houses of quiet , respectable people in the middle of the night ,

      and search every room , every drawer , and every writingdesk , for seditious papers and weapons , and generally fail in their pursuit . This takes place in Madrid , where there has been no sign of insurrection recently . At the same time , the Government revenges itself savagely on the persons implicated in the late attempts at revolution . We read in the Madrid correspondence of the Times : —On the 11 th inst ., twenty-four prisoners belonging to the revolutionary band which went out from Seville were shot in that city . Among them were their chiefs , Caro and Lavalla . The latter was a man seventynine years of age . € aro made important disclosures , and declared he had been completely deceived by the

      real promoters of the rebellion , who said it was general throughout Spain . Strings of fifteen or twenty prisoners are daily brought into Seville , and among them are some women . It appears that many of the insurgents have succeeded in escaping to Gibraltar . Arrests continue to be made in consequence of the revelations o ; prisoners . In the affair at Benaojan , the rebels , finding themselves attacked in front and flank , broke , and were pursued and sabred by the cavalry . Thirty-seven corpses remained on tlie field . Another account says that Lavalla was not shot at Seville , but was sent off to Utrera , where he kept a shop , to be executed there with twenty others . " shot

      The Aiscusion says that twenty-four men were on the 11 th , forty-five were to be shot on the 12 th , and it is to bo feared that the same fate is ' reserved for sixtyfive others now in the prisons of Seville . These wholesale slaughterings have at length been stopped , owing to petitions to the Queen signed by several thousand persons , including many women . In consequence of these supplications , General Narvaest has published a Royal order , enjoining the authorities of Seville to put no one else to death without previous communication with the Government . a The law relating to constitutional reform has . boon signed by the Queen . The Pope lias sanctioned tho sale of the ecclesiastical properties made previously .

      PRUSSIA . Tho King and Queen have returned to Potsdam from Pillnitz and Dresden . The Prince of Wales is now established at KOnigswinter , in tho Hotel do riiuropo , which has been taken for him and his suite till the end of August . His Royal Highness passes under hia title of Baron lteufrew .

      ITALY . A slight disturbance took place on tho 12 th inst . at Rome , on tlie occasion of the funeral of General Carina , the late Minister of Witr . Somo hissing w « a heard ; several people , fancying this w « s the signal of an outbreak , fled iu hasto ; a panic followed , during which a good many woro trampled under foot ; and tlie Swiss battalion , marching with arms reversed , shouldered their muskots , to bo ready for any emorgoncy . Tranquillity-, howover , was shortly al'torwarda restored . omciicjc .

      Tho Daily Notvs publishes a roport of tho proceedings of tho Ionian Aasombly on the 2 nd of July , when a roport was mentioned to the effoct that a petition was in circulation praying , that Corfu might bo made t \ u lingliah colony . At this tho utmost horror was expressed by tho Assembly , which intimated its wish to bo united with Greoae , to which kingdom tho I on inn a fuel thuy truly belong , Ono of tho . members ovon deolurod that they wished , nothing , ao much us to got rid of tho protection , of England . A groat amount of enthusiasm was roauifotttod bjr the AaBonnblYv *

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      THE LOVES OJL' HENRY AND TIICEBE . Henry lluzcldiue , u furinor , innkeeper , and butcher , at Stourbridge , Worcestershire , foil iu love , at a pio-nic in the autumn of 1866 , with Phoebe Darby , daughter of a maltster and farmer at Briefly Hill . The father of Henry approved of tho match ; but L'hcebe hud u ' stern pnreaut , ' who , liko tho father of thtj celebrated Miss Dinah , oppospd tliu otherwise smooth course of h > vo . He was an obrttiuulo old man ; but tlio daughter was also obstinate , ami tlie engagement went on . Various letters passed between the loving couple , in one of these , 1 'htobo ussuroil her suitor that she had been crying all tho timo oho wus writing ; iu another , she piously ,. | Unmrn , l ii W . i ulmli want in lin . ivmi : l . llCV OaXHlOt obaorvoil" W « shall meet in houvou ; they cannot

      , part us thoro . " Some timo al ' lorwarils , sho wroto to Henry to send her " a 10 / . note , and kisses past counting , " adding , " lMoaao to Mend Iho llnanoe in aiiHwor to this note . " A month or two subsequently , sho uont hor sweetheart a luttor to fay slio bad aeon a capo which hor fatliur wo :. ld not give hor tUo moiicv to buy , ami to request tho huiu of 10 / . or Zl >/ . The fottor , however , mid nut purely mercenary ; it contained ono tender littlo bit of sentiment , to this oOaot : — " I cannot sloop for thinking of you . " Still , the inonoy nuostion rotunuU importunately in tho postscript : — " Lot me havo tlmt inonoy , booauso I havo a bill or two to pay . " - Further sums of money woro ulso ' obtained , or

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      THE ASSIZES . Elizabeth Smith , a girl charged at the Leicester Assizes with causing her mistress to take nitrate of mercurv , with intent to do her bodily harm , has got off through a technical mistake in the indictment . She had been reproved one day for lingering on an errand ; and , in order to reveiige herself , she put some of the nitrate of mercury into an infusion of camomile tea which her mistress was drinking . Great sickness ensued , but the ladv was saved by the speedy administering of an antidote . The girl , on being questioned , admitted her guilt , but said she had no desire to kill her mistress . Mr . Justice Cress-well , after hearing the opening statement , expressed his opinion that the evidence would not

      sustain the indictment , which was framed upon an Act of Parliament directed against an entirely different class of offences . It was the statute 9 th and 10 th Victoria , cap . 25 , sect . 4 , whereby it was enacted that " whoever shall unlawfully and maliciously cause any gunpowder or other explosive substance to exp lode , or send , or deliver to , or cause to be taken or received by any person any explosive substance , or any other dangerous or noxious thing , or cast or throw at or upon , or otherwise apply to any person any corrosive fluid , or other destructive or explosive substance , with intent in

      any of the cases aforesaid , to burn , maim , disfigure , or disable any person , shall , although no bodily injury be effected , be guilty of felony . " Now , although the words " cause to be taken any noxious thing" were found in that section , yet looking at the -whole context , he was clearlv of opinion that they did not apply to the taking of poison internally , but only to the taking in hand or receiving of dangerous substances calculated to do external bodily injury ; and Mr . Justice Erie , whom lie had consulted on that point , entirely concurred with him . —A verdict of Not Guilty was consequently taken , and the erirl was discharged . . .

      John Thang Harradine was tried at Bedford for forgerv . He was undefended , and requested Mr . Justice Williams to assign him counsel , pleading his poverty * His lordship , however , declined to accede to this request , on the ground that suiih a course is unusual except in cases of murder . Harradine was a farmer , but , falling into bad circumstances , he resorted to bill transactions to retrieve himself , and in the course of this career committed several forgeries , which have been the subject

      of civil proceedings both in London and at Cambridge . Eventually he absconded , and—was supposed to have escaped to America . Recently , however , he made his appearitnee in Bedfordshire , where he was apprehended , tried , and convicted on a charge of horse-stealing , for which offence he was sentenced to seven years' transportation , and then detained on the more serious charge of forgery . The present case was clearly established against him , and he was sentenced to fourteen years' penal servitude .

      A case which has already been brought before the public came forward again on Friday week at the Chelmsford Assizos . This was an indictment removed from the Crown side of the Court by certioruri , which charged the defendants , John Cutts and Kobert Ezekiitl Smith , under the statute of the 12 th and lath of Victoria , commonly known as the Bishop of Oxford ' s Act , with having conspired together , and by false pretences induced one Martha Augusta . Hills , a girl under tho aye of twenty-one yours , to cohabit with tho last named of tlie defendants . * Mr . Smith had promised to marry Miss Hills , who is tho daughter of a farmer { but , after a time , ho seduced her , and sho lived with him us his mistress , and ultimately gave birth to a . child . She then

      returned to her parents' house , and Mr . Hills commenced two actions against Mr . Smith , one for seduction , the other for broach of promise of marriage . Thoso , however , wore stopped on Mr . Smith undertaking to pay 50 / . for tho costs which liad been incurred , and to marry Miss Hills within two months . During 1 these negotiations , Bliss Hills returned to the house of Mr . Smith , and resumed her intercourse ) with him . This was done on tho faith of an agroemont sho had been induced to sign , which wis drawn up by Mr . Cuttd , tlie legal adviser of Mr . Smith , and in which tho lattor undertook to marry tho young lady within a period of eight months , and to pay all the costs of tho ponding action for breach of promise , provided- that action woro withdrawn , and on tho ugrounient , moreover , of Miss Hills to rotum to tho house of heretofore to which

      Mr . Smith , and livo with him ' ns ; ' was added a proviso that tho agreement was not to bu shown to Miss Hill ' s legal advisor . At longth , however , it cniiio to tho knowledge of the attornoy of tho family , and ho declared that it wna utterly worthless . An indictment was thoii preferred against Mr . Smith and Mr . Cutts , and this wan found by tho grand jury at the last Assizes , and would havo como ou for trial but for the illness of Mias Hills , who was again oxpootiiig ' to bo conllnod . Sinoo then , sho hud boon married by Mr . Smith . It was thoreforo found nocoasary on tho present occasion toubandou the prosecution against him , as tho wifo could not givo evidence to criminate hor husband . Mr . Chambers , who appeared for tho prosecution , said ho wa * instructed to poraovoro with tho ttotion as regarded Mr . Cutts . Tho Lord Chief Barou ,

      however , observed that he should take upon himself ; not only as a matter of law , but also of regard to the public interest and the feelings of the parties , to decide that Mrs . Smith was not a competent witness . If she . were examined at all , she must give evidence equally against her husband as against Mr . Cutts , and he should therefore rule that she could not be examined . Mr . Chambers said that , as this was his Lordship ' s opinion , it would be useless for him to proceed further or to call any evidence , as the case rested almost enthely upon that of the young lady , who was the only person present when the agreement was given . The jury therefore returned a verdict of Not Guilty . A little squabbling then took place between the opposing counsel as to the object of bringing the action ; during which , Mr . Prentice and Mr . Serjeant Shee , who appeared respectively for Mr . Smitli and Mr . Cutts , asserted that their clients had acted in the most perfect good faith and with , the

      best intentions . A remarkable case of bigamy was tried at the "Worcester Assizes last Saturday . Matthias Wood , the accused , was first married as far back as 1833 . Soon afterwards he left his wife , and in 1841 he was again married at the Baptist chapel at Tewkesbury , his first wife being then and still living . He has lived with the second wife up to the present time ; has had seven children by her ; and is greatly respected as an exemplary husband and father . The tirst wife is stated to be the promoter of the present prosecution . "Wood's counsel was unable and the convicted

      to struggle against the facts , jury the accused . A certificate , signed by the rector , churchwardens , and some of the most respectable inhabitants of Upton , where AYood resided , was then read . It spoke in high terms of the prisoner , who , when'he was taken into custody , said he had left his first wife because she was in the habit of going with other men , and he believed she was then living with a policeman . "Wood was sentenced to two months' imprisonment . t The moral of the case is , that , in default of a proper divorce law , he made one for himself .

      William Lush was tried at Dorchester for a criminal assault on a girl named Ezett Martin . The case presented features of more than ordinary atrocity . Lush was struggling with the girl for an hour , during -which time , two persons , named Lydford and Smart , the latter a cousin of the young woman , came by . The _ girl called on them , for God ' s sake , to help her . Lydford , for a minute , endeavoured to drag Lush away ; but , finding that Smart would not assist hhri , he walked off in his company , and left the girl to her fate , never even giving information to any one else . This dastardly conduct was severely , but justly , reprobated in court-Lush was found Guilty , and sentenced to iilteen yeara ' penal servitude .

      Sophia Hudson , a young married woman , has been acquitted at Nottingham of tha nmrdur of her uncle-inlaw , Joseph llodson , a penurious old farmer , who was found dead in his chair on the 22 nd of March , with a piece of a poisoned mince-pie lying iu a drawer in the same room . It was not known by whom the mince-pie was originally sent to the old man ; but it was left by the carrier at a public-houso with a direction that it might be forwarded . It thenee was sent to the house of Mrs . Hodson , by whom it was taken to old Mr . llodson ' s residence . She had purchased arsenic ( which was the

      poison found in the pie ) as far back as December 8 , last year , saying it was for a neighbour , and signing 1 her name in the chemist ' s book us a witness—an irregularity on tho part of the chemist which Mr . Justice Cresswell , on tho trial , severely condemned . After several witnesses had boon examined , the Judge stopped tho case , which ho thought had utterly failed ; and u verdict of Not Guilty wuo accordingly taken . Mia . Hodson and her husband were then arruigned on the verdict of tho coroner ' s jury ; but no evidence was ollerod , uud both were discharged .

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      No . 888 . Jot * 25 , 1957 . ] THE LEADER . 703

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 25, 1857, page 703, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2202/page/7/