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      there one day . He will then join the Empress at Darmstadt , ancl , daring bis stay in Germany , will meet Louis Napoleon . A few days since , several illustrious personages met at ft . little place called St . Gilgen , ou the road from Ischl to Salzburg . The Empress Caroline Augusta ( the widow of the late Emperor Francis I . ) , King Louis of Bavaria , the Duchess of . Modena , and the Princess Alexandra of Bavaria , drove over from Salzburg to St . Gilgen , and vrere there met by the Archduke Francis Charles and the Archdudess Sophia , who were on their way from the shwne at Mariazell to Iachl . —Times Vienna Correspondent .

      BELGIUM * A large building , situated in the Grande Place at Bruges , opposite to the Government House , and known as the Cercle du Commerce , was partially burnt down last Saturday night , owing to the carelessness of a tobacconist who occupied a portion of the premises , and who , after striking a lucifer match to light a candle , threw it aside without extinguishing it . The spark communicated with some tobacco , and the flames rapidly spread . All the inmates escaped , and the soldiers and police saved the greater portion of the Furniture .

      TURKEY . Lord Stratford de Redcliffe ( says a despatch from Trieste ) has applied for the consent of the Porte to the transport of British troops across the Isthmus of Suez , and has met with a refusal . Herr von Prokesch , the Austrian Internuncio , has proposed a collective demand , to be addressed by all the European powers to Great Britain , to restore the island of Periau . SWEDEN . By the advice of his physicians , the King has made his will . An extensive fire has broken out in that part of the town and suburbs of Stockholm called Soedermalm . Thirty houses have been destroyed . AUSTRIA . The Emperor made Ms public entry into Presburg on the 25 th ult . at nine at night .

      THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . M . Vaillant communicates to the Courrier de Paris an account of the circumstances which led to the suicide of Prince Gregory Ghika . A committee , he states , was appointed by the Kaimakan Balsclie to demand from him an account of the public money during the time he was in office . This gave him great pain ; but he contrived to procure the dissolution of the committee and the cessation of all proceedings against him . " Some time after this , a libel appeared which dragged to the

      bar of public opinion Prince Ghika , for having touched the arrears of the civil list , not in virtue of the authorization that reached him later , but of the quasi-official letter in -which he was authorized previously by his agent at Constantinople , Priuce Vogorides , father of the present Kaimakan of Moldavia . This perfidious libel , added to the deep wounds he had already received within less than a year , inflicted the death-blow upon the Prince . " He shot himself while M . Vaillant was in the house .

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      r HOMICIDAL WOMEN . Anne Burke , a woman residing in Haverstock-street , City-road , has attempted to poison her sister Helen . She had Bcveral times threatened to do so , and , on the evening of Thursday week , she almost succeeded in her design . Helen sent her out for some beer and rum , which she fetched . Anne then made her sister some rum-and-water , which Helen drank , and complained of its strange taste , and of its having had a bad effect on her . She at once went to bed , and became very ill . Last Wednesday , Anne confessed that she had endeavoured to poison her sister with laudanum , and asserted th : it eho would obtain a larger quantity and repeat the doso . Sho was then eiven into

      cusj house told me the prisoner was in the habit of corning I home intoxicated with the child at all hours of the night , that this was the only child she had , and that "her husband is a sailor , whose pay she was receiving . " The constable also stated that the child . had the appearance of having been starved to death . Jane Mason , a married woman , said : — " About the time referred to-, I saw the prisoner at a brewery-tap . She had the child with , her , and was singing ; and dancing about . I spoke to her about her child , and she said , ' I think it is dying , * 1 looked at it , and at once saw that that was the case . " A parish officer proved that the woman received relief , but refused to go into the workhouse . The neighbours frequently told her the child was starving ; but she never heeded them . She was remanded , tlfat an inquest may be held . -

      A young woman , named Rachel Downs , has attempted to strangle her infant daughter by passing a piece of cord round its neck . The woman had been lodging for the last twelve months at a house in Little Symond's-street , Chelsea , ia company with a man who was believed until lately to , be her husband , but who deserted her about a week previous to the attempted murder of her child , leaving her very much in debt . This circumstance appeared to prey greatly on her mind . Between eight and nine o'clock last Saturday evening , the landlady of the house where she lodged was startled by hearing the loud screams of the child . She immediately proceeded to the room occupied by Mrs . Downs , and there saw the child with its throat bound up tightly

      with a piece of strong cord , the other end of which the mother had fastened to the bed-post , and was pulling- with all her strength . The other woman loosened the cord as quickly as possible , and Mrs . Downs then said tha . t she had intended first to destroy her child and afterwards herself . She had been drinking . The child , - who is only eight mouths old , was severely injured by th « attempted strangulation , the cord having made & deep mark in its throat , and . it likewise bled profusely at the nose from the effects of the pressure . It was taken at once to the hospital , and afterwards to the workhouse , and the mother was given into custody . She was subsequently brought up and examined at the Westminster police-court , where she seemed much affected , and . cr ied continually during the proceedings . She was remanded .

      tody , and was examined before the Clerkenwell magistrate , by whom sho was remanded . She exhibited great levity , and left the- dock laughing . — A dissipated woman of thirty , named Mary Ann Hope , has caused the death of her female child , about two years old , by systematic neglect of it . On her being brought before the Worship-street magistrate , a policeman said : — " I was on duty at ton on Tuesday night in Somerset-placo , Hoxton , when I heard a cry of Oh , my God ! my child is dead . ' I turned round and found there the prisoner with a child in her arms , and sho

      repeated what sue had said . I took the child from her , leaving her standing near mo , drunk . Sho said , ' Givo mo my child ; ' but , as I saw it was dead , I refused to do so , and took it to tho house of Mr . Coward , tho divisional surgeon , tho prisoner following me . Tho surgeon pronounced tho child to be dead , and I thercforo took tlie body to the workhouse and lodged tho prisoner in Robert-street station . I afterwards went to her lodging-, in BurreH's-buildings , Kingsland , and found it to bo b . back room on tho top floor . It was in a most filthy state , had no furniture At all in it but part of an old mattress , and Btank shockingly . A lodger in tho

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      n ^ n ^ f ° - ip " street m * Si * t * &te to a month ' s hard srrstsras- a ^ zsmisi the master of the barque John Ingars , front Ceylon , bu appeared at the Thames police-office , charged with various acts of cruelty to a boy employed on board his ship , and with driving him to commit suicide . The lad it appears , was frequently flogged , kickedand knocked

      , about by the captain , until his person was covered with weals , sores , and bruises ; and at length he jumped overboard . The captain was remanded on bail . Cruelty to a . Gird . —William Macguire and Jbsepli O'Brien , labourers in the docks , appeared at the Man sion House on Tuesday , in answer to a summons charging ttem with having beaten and otherwise ill-treated an Irish servant girl . Macguire was sentenced to two months * imprisonment with hard labour , and O'Brien was ordered to pay a fine of forty shillings , or to be imprisoned for fourteen days .

      Mucoerous Assault . —A labourer , named William Sweeney , was charged at the Westminster police-office on Monday with Laving committed a savage attack on his father . The elder Sweeney lived with his wife and daughter in Durham-street , Chelsea , and his son occasionally lodged in the same house . One night , about a weok ago , Sweeney came home in a very excited state from drink , and began abusing bis mother . This was soon followed by a very violent attack on her , and , when her husband interfered , the young man struck him . a heavy blow on his nose , and knocked him down . His

      wife and daughter raised an alarm , and , a policeman entering the house shortly after , the son was taken into custody , but not before he had inflicted further injuries on his father by flinging a chair at his head , which cut open bis scalp . His right shoulder was also dislocated in the scuffle . He was removed to the hospital . The magistrate remanded Sweeney for the attendance of his mother and sister . The Late Child Murder at Lincoln . —Mrs . "Woolfit , the woman who recently killed her infant with a cork-cutter ' s knife , has exhibited the utmost wretch « dness and depression since her imprisonment . She is watched day and night , " lest she should make an attempt on her life , and she says that she wishes to be hung , as then she will be with her child .

      A Murderous Sensualist . —Elizabeth Christie , a young woman about seventeen years of age , charged Hermann Hftcke , a middle-aged German , at the Worshiy-street police-court , last Saturday , with having threatened her life . The girl was a native of Kingston , Jamaica , whence she had been brought to England by her mother on the death of her father . Her mother tlen went to live with Hacke , by whom she had two children . On her death , she Avas left without friends in this country , and she consented to remain in Hacke ' s house , to see after the young ones . Hacke at length made

      dishonour-Manslaughter . —An inquest has been held at Bath on the body of Sarah Ann Morris , a young woman of twenty , who was beaten to death by William Bedford , a man -with whom she lived . A verdict of manslaughter was returned . . The Last Action fok Crim . Con . —Some proceedings took place in the Sheriffs' Court on Thursday , based on a writ of inquiry in an action for crim . con ., tie defendant having suffered judgment to go by default . There was nothing remarkable in the facts , and tike case would hardly be worth noticing but for an observation of the counsel for the plaintiff , to the effect that tliat , in all probability , would be the last action for crim . con . The jury assessed the damages at 50 / .

      Falsu Prictencics . —Jean Baptiste vavasseur has been committed for trial on the charge of conspiring-with one Riviere ( not in custody ) to obtain goods to the value of nearly 50 / -, with intent to defraud Messrs . Milligan and Co ., of Bradford , Yorkshire . Embezzlement . — John Llewellyn Griffiths was charged at Guildhall on Thursday with embezzling various sums of money belonging to Messrs . Foster , Porter , and Co ., of Wood-street , Chcapside , his employers . He had been in their service for a considerable period , and evidence was given of the payment to . him of a number of sums amounting to about 150 / . during the present year . Ho had only accounted for portions of those sums . Upon the completion of tho depositions , Griffiths was asked if he had anything to sa }' , when he replied , " I plead Guilty , and throw myself upon the mercy of tho Court . " He was committed for trial .

      Executions . —John Blagg , the man convicted , on very imperfect circumstantial evidence , of murdering John Bebbington , a gamekeeper , waa hung on Friday week on tho summit of Chester Castle . Great efforts had been made by several gentlemen to obtain a commutation of tho punishment ; and ia tho meanwhile his wife buoyed tho culprit up with hopes of success . Sir George Grey , however , with his usual indisposition to Irnlk tho gibbet of its prey , refused to listen to these prayers : and , when Blagg heard that hia fut « was

      inevitable , lie became very much depressed . He never confessed tho crime with which he was charged , nor did ho directly deny it , though he disputed the truth of certain portions of tho evidence . A large crowd of persons witnessed the execution . —On the following day , Edward Hardinan , convicted of the murder of his wife , was hung in front of Lancaster Castle . He appeared to suffer great apprehension ; but ho died speedily , probably owing to the physical deprcsfiion to which he waa alrcndy reducod when brought on to the scaffuKI .

      Tine Mukdick ih the ILuvirsTisAn-Ko . u > . — An inquest was held last Saturday on tho body of the Italian youth , BonzQiielli , who was killed on the previous Sunday morning by Cornelius Denny , u smith . A verdict of Wilful Murder was returned . Crukltv to a Cat . —Two scoundrels , named Dean and Cuohway , both cabinet-makers , havo been sentenced

      « bl « proposals to her , which she . rejected ; and he tnen attempted to take advantage of her by force . She escaped , and took refuge in tlie house of a tradesman , who protected her . Hacke , however , frequently went to the house , and demanded that the girl should be given , up to him . Failing in this , he assailed the young woman one day with infamous epithets , and threatened to take her life ; whereupon she obtained a warrant for his apprehension . He was ordered to find bail for his good beliaviour during the next six months ; and , not being able to do so , -w as committed to prison .

      A . Young Gentleman sent to Gaol . —Egmont liarpent , a youth of fifteen , son of tho Baron de Hockejicd Larpent , Mayor of tho Cinque Ports , Dover , has been condemned by Mr . Trail ) , the Greenwich magistrate , to a fortnight ' s imprisonment for ill-using a horse . ^ He had . been observed at Pluinstead riding on the animal , and . stabbing it with a knife in tho ribs , neck , ami shoulders . A Violent Family . —Cries of « Help ! ' were heard about midnight on Monday proceeding from the Middlesex : side of tho river , near the Westminster New Bridge wotka . A watchman employed on the spot rowed towards the source of tho cries , and found a boyj _ about thirteen years old , clinging- to the woodwork ufulertjio third arch of the old bridge . Ho lifted the lad into Ins beat , and took him ashore , when he said , " I meant to hwn to

      have done it some time ago . " A policeman took the hospital , and afterwards saw him home , directing tlie futher to bring him before the Bow-street magistrate on tho following morning . This he did , an « l tlie boy then said , as his reason for the act , < l Father was going to beat me with tho Btrap . " The father , who is a ladies' shoemaker , living in Peter-street , Westminster , admitted this to be tho truth , and said tho boy lin < l got into a passion , and struck his step-brother . The anger of tho step-mother wns thus excited ; a quarrel ensued ; aud the futher , as ho himself acknowledged , utiowcu nnieh temper . A police inspector said the woman a uihpobition waa ao violent that eho had driven her husband to attempt suicide . Tho man hero showed , in co nfirmation of thi 3 statement , a . largo scar on the side of I » is liead , where ho had attempted to dash out his brains against tho wall . It appeared , howovor , that botJi man

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      848 THE LEADEB . [ Ho . 389 , Bmnus * 5 , 1867 .

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      OUR CIVILIZATION .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 5, 1857, page 848, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2208/page/8/