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      himself ; the others were not so fortunate , and eighteen men have been killed or injured . : The Emperor , the Ministerof War , thePrefect 6 f Police , the General commanding the ganison of Paris , and several officers of rank , -were soon on the spot ; and the Emperor is said to hare expressed his displeasure at the condition in wMch the towerhas been , for some time . It was very olddating as far Lack as the 13 th or 14 th century- —and could boast many interesting historical associations . Two years ago , the roof was slated , and converted into a platform for artillery . This additional weight has "been too much for the oid ^ masonry . ¦ ; /

      A very painful occurrence , " says the Daily News Paris correspondent ^ "has lately happened at St ; Etienne , which , the , French papers arej I believe ^ prohibited from alluding to . The son of a senator re 3 idmg there married * about twoyears since , the daughter of a rich chemist in the town . At the end of two inonths they separated . The daughter returned to her father's house , where in due time she was delivered of a child ; now thirteen months old . She frequently walked about St . Etienne with the child and its nurse . It appears that her father-in-law , the senator , lately formed the design bf ; getttng this child ; in to his own custody , audwith , that object caused her to be followed by the police during her walks . He had succeeded in persuading the chief commissioner of

      police of the town to aid him in the project . One day last wreek , the lady in question was walking through the galleries of the museum at the Hotel de Ville , accompanied by her servant with the child , when a ^ police agent came up to tell her that a person was waiting to speak to her down stairs . She went outside the building , and during her absence the child was taken away . When ¦ lie found the trick that had been played : : up 6 n herj she uttered piercing cries , and to silence her , was thrust into a room in the Hotel de Ville , where she was , for sotne time kept a prisoner . tJltimately she escaped into a

      garden , separated frbm the street by an iron railing , through the bars of which she told her story to the passers-by . Ar t jLmniehse crowd assembled , and it was feared at one moment that an attack wrould be made tipqn the Hotel deyille ; The people , however were appeased by the release of the lady , who has applied to the courts of law ; for therestoration of her child . Meanwhile , the . Government h as dismissed the Commissary of Police , whose conduct had so nearly led to an attack by the inob on the Prefect' ^ residence ; The Prefect was wholly innocent in the matter / ' ¦' .. ''''¦'¦ . ¦ -.- ¦¦> .- ; -- ^

      " Asort or war on a sniall scale between the civil and religiousi authorities , " saysthe Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph , "is raging in a small French provincial town" named Hoppencburt , near ; St . Quentiri . Some time agoj the cure of the place had the temerity to denounce from the pulpit one of hisvflock . The friends of the person thus treated complained to the ecclesiastical authorities of the diocese , and the cure' was removed to another parish , Peace was at once restored , and the agitation the priest's conduct ¦'' ¦ , had caused was immediately calmed . Recently the cure has been reinstated in the living of Hoppencburt . But the inhabitants , at the head of whom are the Mayor and the municipal authorities , refuse to receive hini . They will not give up the keys of the church , and will not let him enter the vestry . Matters are thus at a dead lock , and open war is proclaimed between the civil and religious power . "

      ¦' .: ¦¦ : ¦;; ¦ ;; ., ¦ ¦ : ; : ¦ ¦ . . . ¦ ¦; ¦¦¦ ¦ •¦ ¦¦ ; ¦ SPAIN ; ' r . : : - '¦ '' : ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦¦ ; . ¦ .. ' ¦" The Queen was delivered of a son last Saturday ignt . Thechild is said to be healthy . - .. ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦;; ' . ' - ¦ ¦¦'¦¦ ¦ . [ . . ¦; ¦' ; . : / ¦ ' ¦ " TCRKBTr . ¦; ' •' ¦ ¦'¦ •' . ¦ ¦ ' : . ¦' ¦ •¦ ' .. ¦ ¦ ' ' ¦¦¦ .. " . ' . . ' Ten battalions have been concentrated on the Danube towards Widden . The JPresse d'Orient states that this movement of troops is caused by the agitation which has taken place in Servia . ' ¦ {¦ The regulations relative to the navigation of the Danube will be shortly published , and are to be in force from the 1 st of January . Redschid Pacha has sent a memorandum to the representatives of the Powers , in which he claims certain duties for keeping up the lighthouses on the Turkish coasts . The ambassadors have protested . Isset Pacha has died suddenly .

      . ; ¦ ' , ¦ .. - . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ GREECE . , . ¦•' . ¦ . ; -.. , Tho President of the Council of Ministers has reeigned , and the Chambers have adjourned , the deputies not being in sufficient numbers . ¦ ¦ ¦ . '¦ ' ' . ' ; . ¦ ¦ ¦ ,. . ¦ . ' ; - AUSTRIA . , ' , , ¦; . '¦ ¦ ¦ : . ; ' ¦ ¦ The Emperor of Austria has addressed an autograph letter to the Minister of the Interior , ordering him to direct the authorities in all the provinces of the empiro to raise subscriptions for the sufferers by the explosion intheFedernl fortress of Mayence . The German lawyers aro of opinion that the Bund is bound to indemnify tho inhabitants for the damage done to their property . It appears certain that an Austrian artilleryman purposely blow up the magazine oat of revenge . Xt is believed ho has perished in the explosion .

      ITALY . So many assassinations have recently taken place ait Ancona that it is contemplated to proclaim tho state of siogo again . PHUS 3 IA . Tho King has removed from Potsdam to Cliarlottenburg without any injurious consequences . Ho progrosaes favourably , and now takes short walks .

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      :: ¦ ¦) - . - , . ¦ : ¦•¦ . ¦ , ¦ ; ¦ : A , ; CAUTIOUS LOVER . Ei > wARr > Willes Knight was tried on Wednesday at the Middlesex Sessions on a charge of having stolen a bill of exchange for 5 i , three letters , and a mat of the value of five shillings , the property of George Henry Shepherd ! The wife of the accused had been housekeeperto the prosecutor ; and Knight had one day called at his house , and taken about seventy duplicates upon wiiich Shepherd had advanced money to Mrs . Knight ; At the same timehe also took away ^ . the other property . Subsequently he admitted to Shepherd that he had got the articles , but would g ive them up and suppress a charge of adultery he could prefer on the evidence of the letter ^ . However , he was ordered out of the house ,

      and afterwards given into . custody . In cross-examination , Shepherd , who looked veryiypung , said he had been a grocer ' s assistant , but was now nothing but a gentleman living on what he had acquired by industry in his call of life . Mrs . Knight ' s Christian name w ; asLy aever addressed her as ' my dearest Lydia ^ ' Herb the letters were shown him . ^ Those letters were never sent to the prisoner's wife ; they-were never out of his possession .: They cpntained the yordsfrny dearest Lydia , ' but they were ' intended to apply to another Eydia— -one to whom he hoped scon to be rharried . He styled her ' Lydia Shepherd' in one of the letters in anticipation of the event which-was to give her that name : in fact ;

      like most men were at some period of their lives , he was in love . ( Muck lavghitr . ) He did not send the letters to the person they ' , were meaint for , as he reconsidered their contents , arid thought f under the circumstances ' thai what was written on paper : might be used spine day against himin acourt of justice if'he altered his feelings , so he wrote in their stead letters of a more sober and less affectionate nature ; ( Continued Iaug 7 tter . ) He would , not say where liis furniture came from , and declined , to give any reason for . his refusal . " Prisoner " You ' stole it from me . " - Tie counsel for the prosecution ultimately -withdrew the charge , and Shepherd wa 3 Acquitted .,: V : '" .- ' " ¦\ ' - - , ' " . : - ' : - : . i > .- ; ; ' ,. ¦ . '¦ . '¦'¦ -. . . ¦''" . .,

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      The Proceedings in BIoobfielosi BmtiAii-GitptJND . —— This disgusting case w&s further investigated on Mbn- ^ day at ; the . Maiision Housev The chief facts may be gathered from the evidence of three of ; the chief witnesses . Thomas Bqlcbin , a ppiice-cpnatabie , said : — - "On Friday , the 20 tli ofNoyeiriber , Iwent to Wolverleystreet , Bethnal-green-rbad , where j saw a guantity of human bones intermixed with , a quantity of black earth . ¦ I ; h : ave some of the bcneS here , and part of a coffin , three feet long arid one foot wide , with the print of part of a human bod y on it . ; I observed . a ; very offensive , " smell from the earth at the time this was being taken put . On the 21 stof November , I went to . Victoria Park , ! where I observed some newly removed earth , which was deposited by the side of Sir George . l ) uckett ' s Canal , and which

      was to be used to make the road Avith ; I found a quantity of bones and pieces of coffins . Cloth and lining were adhering to the bones . The soil smelt very offensive . On the Monday following , I again went to the same place , when a man named John Bradbury showed me the earth of - which I last spoke . The earth is being sifted in Wolveriey-street , and made into . ¦ " . ' mortar to build new houses with . " The evidence of John Bradbury ¦ was as follows : ~ " I am a : ' slibotsman . ' 1 recollect Mr ; Piper ' s carts bringing the earth to Victoria Park ; it was dry black mould . 1 made a contract with Mr . Piper ' s foreman , andhewas to pay me Id . a load for what he brought there . We ha ' d about fifty to sixty loads of it . I noticed bits of coffin and bones in the mould . It will be used to make the road with . " . lamua

      Bradbury deposed : — " I am a plasterer . During the last fortnight ' % ' Jiave been emploj'ed in Wolverieystreet , where some liew houses are being built . I have seen a quantity of earth carted there . The man said he had same very good stuff to make mortar of . Several bushels of bonea were taken from the earth . Men used to come raking the earth every day for the bones , ' which they tcok away in bags . I sifted some of the earth myself . Some of the bones wcro fifteen , sixteen , andscveiit ' eon inches long . I have also picked up bits of coffin . One old ' chap' who came there picked up a rare big bag full of bones . " Cross-examined : ' ! ' I never tried to sell any of the bones ; I left that to other people ; " The defendants were bound over to appear and answer the charge at the sessions .

      TiiE CuAitou a-OAInst xiiis PoLicK . —The two constables suspected of having caused tho death of Williams , a sailor , in Ratcliffb-highway , were on Monday examined at the Thames office , and discharged . —An inquest on the body of Williams was held on Monday , terminating in in verdict that ' death hud been accelerated by violence received from the police , but that the evidence iia to' identity wus not sufficiently clear to enable the jury to say who tho individual was . ' A Sunday Rojjijbry . —Tho house of a cheesemonger in the Fulhiun-road , named Tipper , was entered on Sunday , the 25 tli of October , while the family were at church . On returning , they could not get admittance in the ordinary way , and vcrq obliged to enter by tho back . It wns then found that the servant ^ vho had been left in tUo house had disappeared , and that tho place hud been robbed . On the « iune morning , two persona were

      walking ^ , in . Battersea-fields , and observed two other . men sitting down on the side of a field which was ^ very much flooded . These men shortly afterwards passed by , and it yas observed that one of theni had aomething bulky under his arm . They walked up ^ to an old "willoTr tree , and , after some time , again passed on , the ' something bulky' being still in the possession of one of the men . The watchers then went to the tree , and searched , and after much raking about Iii the vrater and the soil , discovered a casli-bo-x which had been broken open . They tppk . it to the Clapliam police statipn , and it was found to contain some cheques , ' ¦ . and a giiinca of the reign of Charles II . This was a part of the proceeds of the robbery at Mr ; Tipper's . Two days afterwards ^ an old man .

      named Peter Rook , a shoemaker , wa . ^ taken : into custody on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery . He said to the policeman : — " I met a man on Sunday morning , and he asked me to take a walk , and I went through the Green Park with him . He left , arid told me io xyait till he came back , and % vhen he came back be had something under his / ' coat , and I said , ' What ; have you there ? ' and he answered , ' Sbmething to get us some beer , ' and he took me over some bridges which I don ' t knoYr , into a field , and broke open the cashrbox and took the imbney 6 ut ;; -. b ! dt ' Xliad / - » o ever , and was tried on Monday at the Middlesex Sessions , when , thoiigh one of the Avitnesses s > ybre that he was the person seen in company of the man carrying the bulky substance iiv Battersea-fields , lie was acquitted . ,

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      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW A * TI > : ; \ > - ;¦ ¦ ¦ .. / ¦ . PbLipE . 'cpuKTS . ' ; - \ d-- : vV . ' " . A ¦ ¦ ¦ T he Court of Exchequer has been occupied with an informatiph filed at the instance of the Attorney-Gleneral , for an infringement , of the Stami > Duties Act , in printing arid publishing a paper called the \ Biiry Times without registering it as required by the statute , the publication being held io : he a riewspaper . , ; The defendant denied that it was a rrieysrspaper within the meaning of the act . The jury , being instructed to that end by the Lord Chief Biarbn , found a general verdict for the ; Crown . : f Mrs ;; Jphristbu , i a milliner , of Dover ' Street , Piccadilly , has brought ah action in the sapie court Against Mr . Mprtpn Sumner , to recover 160 h for ! goods supplied to liis -wife . Mr . Sumner Is- ' a son of : Mr ; Richard Sumner , © f ^ Puttenham Park , Surrey ^ Mr , Morton Sumner \ y-aS married in Gpr fay . ' . in i 849 , * to a d . aughter of the Countess yplsimaccbi , who was the widow of the laite Bishop Heber . One child was borii , : and they lived on t ] iu Contineni until the year 1850 , when some differences arose betweeh ; them , and a separation topic .-place with mutual consent . In 1851 j Mrs . Surriner came to England with , her mother , who had dealt with Mrs . Johnston for spme ¦ ti me , and she introduced her daughter to her . This bill / v \ -as then ; incurred .: After this , Mrs Sumner went to . ' . America ; - ; and there obtained a divorce , vvhichshe thought w-oukl be held valid in England , but of course it wias not so . She tli . en > yent to Corfuf arid there lnarried a physician in 1855 . Upon that Mr . Sumrier applied to the House of Lords , arid obtained a divorce on the

      ground of adultery ; but there was no imputation , against tho lipnour of Mrs .: Sumner . " •'¦; At the time of the marriage , she was < entitled to the interest of 400 0 / ., which was settled oil herj and Mr . Suinner had 500 ? . a year settled on ; hini by . his father . The Lord Chief Baron directed the jury that there > vas no evidence to show that Mr . Suiriner was bound to pay the money . "A . man with 10 , 000 ^ . a year might say that his wife shall spend no niore than 200 / . ; he has a perfect right to do so . " A vei'dict was accordingly entered for the defendant , the court allowing a bill of exceptions . A servant girl , named Emma Lucas , has brought an action in the Court of Queen ' s Bench against Mr . James

      Patterson , a barrister , residing in Hanoyer-stfeet , Pimlico , for false imprisonment . The girl left the house suddenly , early in the morning , and it was afterwards found that certain property was missing . Mr , Paterson spoke to . the ' police , ' -who searched the girl ' s lodging , but did not find any of the property . Nevertheless , she was taken into custody ; and , Mr . Paterson having signed the charge sheet , she was locked up all night . On the following day , Mr . Paterson declined to go on with the chnrgc . Shortly ' afterwards , tho girl got a situation , but soon lost it , on its being known that she had been in custody on a charge of theft . This dismissal she alleged as special damage-, and the jury , deciding in her favour , gave her 50 / . in compensation .

      The two coloured girls , named Koso and Minio A very , whose case to recently noticed ; attended before the Southwark magistrate , again oh Monday , it being thought requisite that inquiries Should bo made about tho truth of their statements . Mr . Burcham directed them to bo supplied with more money from tho contributions forwarded , and requested them to call again next Monday . As thuy were leaving tlio court , an American gentlemnn , stated to bo a New York magistrate , handed a constable 2 / . to jmrchnao them warm clothing and boots , which they wcro shortly afterwards , to their great gratification , funuHhocl with .

      Lord George Townshoml , a brother of tho Marquis Townshend , petitioned the Insolvent Debtors' Court under tho Protection A < st , on Thursday . The debts are to the amount of . 2738 / . Tho case w «« adjourned for a week , owing to the insolvent being laid up -with gout .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 5, 1857, page 1161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2220/page/9/