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    some time held up the drowning youth , but was at length obliged to relinquish his hold to save his own life . Further aid was procured , nut it was then too late . A fearful railway collision , took place on the London and North-Westera Railway , at Longwood , near Huddersfield , on Monday . A train of coal waggons arrived at the Huddersfield station , and had shunted two trucks while the engine was being turned from the points on to the main line , when the passenger train from Leeds to Manchester ran into the waggons standing on . the line . The train was due at Longwood at 1 . 35 p . m ., and was

    about eight minutes late . The distance signal light was put on while the coal waggons were being shunted ; and the driver of the passenger train , John Laty , ought to have seen it , but , being busy with some disarrangement of his engine , he did not notice it , and the train ran into the waggons with fearful violence . The engine was seriously damaged , and three third-class carriages were much injured , the whole of the divisions of the compartments being forced out . One truck and the guard van were smashed to atoms . Upwards of twenty persons were * either more or less injured—some of them very seriously .

    Mrs . Sarah Loveil , ' another of the victims of the late accident at the JBishopstole station , died on Thursday week from the effect 8 of her injuries .

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and unchristian feeline ; is to be condemned which , regards with jealousy the progress of foreign nations , and cares for no portion of the human race but that to -which itself belongs . Dii . Arnolt * .

    FRANCE . The Baron de Lachatrc , author of a " Universal Dictionary , " has incurred the displeasure of the Government fox some observations which he has made in his work offensive to Imperial susceptibilities . The precise natureof the remarks has not .. ' transpired ; but all the copies of the book remaining in the hands of the publisher and the booksellers have been seized and destroyed . No fresh edition is to be pormitted . The author is sentenced to five years' imprisonment , and six thousand francs fine . The publisher and printer are also sentenced to lesser fines and terms of imprisonment . The eleventh sitting of the Paris Conference was held last Saturday .

    The following ( says a letter from Paris ) are said to be the final arrangements made for the imperial visit to Cherbourg :- —Queen Victoria will arrive at Cherbourg on the evening of the 4 th , and the Emperor and Empress will make their entrance into the town in the afternoon of the same day- Their imperial Majesties will remain at Cherbourg on the 5 th , 6 th , and 7 th , and on Sunday , the 8 th , will enVbark on board the Bretagne , screw lineof-battle ship , to proceed to Brest . The first interview between the sovereigns of Prance and England will take place on the 5 th . Their Majesties will pass the 6 th in

    the roadstead . On the 7 th the inauguration , benediction , and immersion of the dock Napoleon III . will take place , and in tlie afternoon the Yille de Nantes screw liner , which has been built on ono of the slips of the new dock , will be launched . In the evening tluere will be a grand ball offered by the town . A grand dinner will be given by the Emperor to all the persons attached to his suite . It will take place under a tent fitted up on the deck of the Bretagne . All the plenipotentiaries forming part of the Conference of Paris have received invitations for the fetes at Cherbourg .

    The Committee of French Coalowhers have addressed a petition to the Emperor , praying him to reduce the duties on coal , as ^ t he competition , under disadvantages , with English coal has seriously depressed the trade . A young farmer at Ldzignd has murdered an old man whom he believed to have bewitched him . The homicide has been apprehended . u On the arrival , " says the Globe , " of the accounts from the coast cf Araby , describing how that gallant girl , Mademoiselle Eveillard , after the massacre of her father the French consul and her mother , whom she valiantly defended , killing a fanatic and fighting her way to the Cyclops , the Empress Eugdnie at once declared she would act as a mother to her , and provide her with a suitable marriage portion . The maid of Jcddnh Will now take rank with Judith of Bcthaliii , Clelia of the Tiber , and the maids of Snrngosa and of Orleans . "

    SPAIN . The Madrid Gazette of the 13 th contains Royal decrees , which relieve from their offices of fliiles-de-camp and orderly officers toth « King , Generals Villa lioya and Fontcca , and Colonel lispinosa . The Etpana alleges that these gentlemen haru been dismissed for no other reason than that they were appointed by the late Cabinet , and were friends of Marshal Narvaez . Another decree establishes a Council of State consisting of thirtytwo members , and uppoints Senor Murtinoz do la Rosa to bo its President . Th « Progrcsista party was uctively preparing for the revision of tlio electoral liata .

    Forty-one now senators have been nominated . It has been decided that Sofior Isturitz shall bo appointed ambassador at London ; Senor Mon at PuriH ; Senor Kios Rosas at Rome ; and the Duke do Oasuna at St . Petersburg . The noto addressed to the English Cabinet on the subject of Lord Malmoabury ' a Bp « ech is

    represented in the Madrid newspapers to be conceived in strong but polite terms . A portion of the Moderado party is displaying great hostility to the new Cabinet ; but the Ministerial journals assert that the bulk of tie party will mot follow its example . The Queen and King have presided at a grand distribution of prizes to the most deserving exhibitors of the Agricultural Show of 1857 . The Gazette publishes a royal decree , which establishes a Council of State , to be composed of thirty-two members . Senor Martinez de la Rosa is appointed President . The Director of the Colonies is replaced . A manifesto has bsen addressed by some of the Liberal leaders 5 a Spain to the Progresista party , in favour of O'DonnelPs Government .

    TURKEY . Another sanguinary collision has taken place between the Christian population of Bosnia and the Turks . The fanatical beys had said that they would soon-er take up arms against the Sultan himself than suffer any compromise to be made with the Christians . In the last affair the latter had the advantage ; but . both side 3 are preparing for a renewal of the struggle . Three thousand Christians are said to have crossed the frontier into Austrian Croatia ; and a general rising irt European Turkey is talked of . The Turkish authorities do their best to maintain order * but the fanaticism of the Mussulmans renders it impossible . The insurgent chiefs of Herzegovina have declared their submission to Kemal Effendi , the commissioner sent to conciliate them .

    * . ' Turkey , as the French Government has been informed by telegraph , " says the Mowing Star , " will atone for the Jeddah massacre , in whatever way Europe may demand . Two thousand men are to go there , and the rioters -are to be tried by court-martial . Indemnities are to be paid to the sufferers , &c . In the mean time French men-of-war are said to have been ordered to approach Candia , While it is known that English ships from the Indo-Chinese squadron are to enter the Bed Sea , and in the continental press demands arc made that to the Turkish ports , where European Christians reside , European garrisons should be sent to protect them . The Sultan bad fallen ill when the Constantinople mail left . " Sir Henry Bulwer , the new ambassador at Constantinople , paid his first official visit to the Sultan ' s ministers on the 8 th iost .

    " It appears by recent letters from Mecca , " says the Paris Pays , " that , during the last religious fetes , serious dissensions broke out between different Mussulman nationalities , and that the fanatical part of the population of Hedjaz , having at its head an Arab chief named Beckel-Hafer , who has acquired an immense reputation for sanctity , has formed itself into an independent religious party called ' the sect of true believers - ' This sect is said to "be fast increasing . Its tendencies are very unfavourable towards the Porte . It does not recognize in the Sultan the title of protector of the true believers and temporal chief of the Mussulmans , which , as Emperor of the Ottomans , he has borne without dispute for many centuries . "

    The tribe of Bari-Lam has revolted and pillaged the country in all directions within only about forty-live miles of Bagdad . Some partial engagements-have taken place between the troops of Omar Pacha and the insurgents ; but the latter , who are about 15 , 000 strong , keep their ground , and , by adopting the Arab tactic of dispersing when subject to attack , manage io > escape the punishment which threatens them . So far , they may be compared with the Indian mutineers . The insurgent leaders of the Herzegovina ( after an interview with the consuls ) have made their submission to Kemal Effendi . A deputation , appointed by them to arrange existing difficulties , accompanied the Ottoman commissioner to Trebigne . The fourth son of the Sultan died on th-e morning of the 9 th hist .

    SWITZEIILAND . The Council of the States ratified the resolution voted by the National Council , that the Federal Council shall no longor lend money to railway companies . nrcr . GiuM . The King of the Belgians , the Archduke John of Austria , the Count de Mcran , the Archduke ' s son , nnd the Duke do Brabant , left Brussels on the 15 th inst . by railway , to visit the manufacturing establishments of Siiinto Mario d'Oignies and Couillut . In the evening , they returned to the palaco at lirusscln , aind the King there gare a grand dinner . At seven o ' clock on the morning of thu 10 th , the Archduke ami his son left Brussels for Ems . The Count do Chainboril is ut Brussels .

    1 'IUJSSIA . It is said that , to visit her daughter , Queen Victoria 'will be obliged to go the whole way to Berlin , us the Princess is in a stutu which will not allow her to make the journey to the Rhine , as originally contemplated . Her MnjuBty will stay at the castle of Butelsborg , near Potsdam . ITAI . Y . According to a letter from Cuglinri of the 8 th inat ., tlio Dritiuh steamer Elba had arrived there ., coming from tlio coast of Africa , and having on board two electric cables which were lost two years since between

    Snartivento , Bona , and Galita . Captain Sitzia , of the steampacket Cagliari , had likewise arrived , after his liberation from a Neapolitan dungeon . He came to visit his family . The members of the Chamber of Commerce entertained him at a sumptuous dinner . A story of assassination is told in a letter from Borne published in the Opinione of Turin , which states that a bookseller of Forli , who had leen several months in prison on suspicion of being implicated in a political conspiracy , and had been released for want of sufficient evidence , was stabbed to death in the streets by an . unknown hand . As the victim of this crime belonged to the constitutional or Piedmontese party , the act is attributed to some emissary of the ultra-revolutionist party , which hates the constitutionalists quite as much as it does the Government .

    Quarantine has been placed by the Neapolitan Government on all vessels arriving from France , Malta , Constantinople , &c . A corporal of marines at Naples has shot his lieutenant dead in the streets , in revenge for a slap in the face given him by the officer a few days previously for some dereliction of duty . The man has been hanged , and , died regretting his crime . GERMANT . The death of Prince Anatole Demidoff , at Baden , is announced in the German papers . RUSSIA . The Emperor and the Prince Royal of Wurtembnrg his guest , have been visiting ATchangel . DENMARK . In the recent reply to the German Diet on the Holstein question , Denmark claims to have the matters at issue settled by negotiation , and not by resolutions of the Diet . The ground on which this claim is raised is that Denmark and the Confederation have been at war on the question , and that the present state cf affairs is the result of a treaty , and not of Federal law .

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    GATHEBINGS PROM LAW AND POLICE . : ; , ; . , ¦ . : ¦ . COURTS . ¦ . :. . ¦ . :.- ..: The legal circles are promised a case of great interest and singularity . Our readers probably recollect the will case of Swinfen v . Swinfen , which concluded with a compromise arranged between the counsel on both sidesthe present Lord Chancellor ( then Sir Frederick Thesiger ) on the side of Mrs . S winfen , and Sir Alexander Cockburn , then Attorney-General , and now Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas , on the side of the representative of the heir-at-law . Under this arrangement , the latter ( who was the defendant in the action ) was to secure to Mrs . Swinfen an annuity of 3000 ? . The lady , however , refused her consent to this compromise ; and , after proceedings in various courts , the Master of the Rolls , last November , gave judgment directing that there should be a new trial to test the validity of the will . This trial will take place at the Stafford Assizes . But the remarkable part of the story remains to be told . Mrs . Swinfen has determined to bring an action against the Lord Chancellor ; and it will probably be set down for trial at the sittings after next term for Middlesex . The case of Margaret Robertson or Robinson , the Scotch girl who alleged that she was entrapped to a disreputable house in London , has reached an unexpected climax . Inspector Hamilton and Mr . Phillips , the police and workhouse officials who had charge of the case , attended again before Sir Peter Laurie last Saturday , accompanied by the girl , when the Alderman said he had received from the last named the following letter : — "July 17 , 1858 . —Your worship , I hope , will pardon me , as I have not made a correct statement previously . I feel now very sorry for what I have done , and I trust your worship will forgive me , as I now see I have done wrong . I feel I have much to answer for to my blessed Maker . Tlie master of this establishment ( Mr . Phillips ) has been very kind to me , and I feel I have much to be thankful for . I hope God will bless all the gentlemen that have been so kind to m « , and I am thankful it is found out , ns I feel now more easy on my conscience , and I hope your worship and all tho gentlemen will forgive me . 1 leave it entirely to the gentlemen and your worship ' s decision . If you think I deserve punishment I leave it entirely to your decision . —I am , your most obedient , lmmble servant , MAitGAitiiT Robertson . " From the statements of various witnesses who attended before Sir Peter Laurie , it appeared that the girl was tho daughter of drunken parents , and had a thoroughly depraved sister , who kept a disreputable house at Glasgow . To that house she enticed Margaret ( who lived at Perth ); but tlie girl reaisted temptation , and at the end of a week escaped , and obtained a [ situation . Her sister , however , found her out , wont drunk to tho house , mid dragged her awny . Slid their lived at the sister ' s house for about four months , and was there ruined , after being ; drugged . A hcooikI time she escaped , and wus about to drown herself in the Clyde but the police prevented her . Slio ultimately found her way to tho liov . Mr . Oldliam , ono of tlie Episcopal clergy of Scotland , who sent her ( in oidor to fiot her away from her relations ) to tho Westminster Keformutory . Thence she was taken on tlio 18 th of June to tlte Royal Free Iloapitul in the ( jimy'a Inn-road ; but on the following day

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    No . 435 , Jui / r 24 , 1858 . ] T H E L E A P E B . 705

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  • Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1858, page 705, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2252/page/9/