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FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 1859.

THE DAY'S NEWS

The curious letter addressed to the Journal de
Frankfort,Nitich will be found in another column,

respecting the recent attempt of Lord Palmer-
ston and Lord John Russell to accept, of their

own accord, the conditions of the peace of Villa-
franca, well deserves attention at

the present

moment. Of course it must be taken tipm credit ;
but there is only too math reason to believe that

what he states is, in the main, true

The i-nos

t interesting news from the Corrfikent

this morning is that rola

ng to the French

amnesty. It would seem to be free

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served ; and it is said that the finperor has ordmd

two government steamers to live immediately
for Algeria and. Cayenne, to bring back political
The Paris correspondent of the Daily

transports,

News conjectures the latest news

from Italy had.

something to do with the promulgation of the
amnesty, and that the impossibility of carrying
out the peace of Villafranca in an Austrian sense

has• made the Emperor reflect seriously on the

necessity of uniting all parties in Fray

Ice round

his standard

The works on the Prussian fortifications of
Konigsberg, which had been suspended on the
first news of the peace, have been resumes, and
are now pushed on with extraordinary 'vigour.
A decree has been published at Bologna, de-
claring alt the citizens of the Romagna, wihout
destinctibm of religion, equal in the eye o the
law and in; the exercise of their political rights.
A journal of Turin statcs.that the army of the
League of Central Italy is tb consist of 40,000
men, under the command of'General Garibaldi..
From Rome we learn that Cardinal Antonelli
has retired: from the Presidency of the Council
of State. Tha-Paris correspondent of the Herald
says that the Cardinal retains-the most important
office of Secretary of State.

By the arrival of the Imperatriz at this port
we are in receipt of late news from the Cape of
Good Hope. T 1 Cape Parliament was prorogued
on the Bth July by the Governor:General. The
American ship, Josephine had been completely
destroyed by fire- in the harbour- of St. Louis,
Mauritius, on the. 28th of June. No lives were

We are in receipt of a day's later news from
America by the Jura. It is not, however, of much
importance. The Indians in. New Mexico were
becoming very troublesome. The war of races
had ended in Yucatan, and advices;from Hayti
represent quiet as. being restored.
An extraordinary. case has been. before the
Bristol magistrates.. One Mr.. Williams, a soli-

citor, summoned the It

ev. J. 8.. Sn

h, a dissent-

ing minister, for endeavouring to incite him to a
breach of the peace. The facts are rather strange.
The complainant is a, member of the defendant's

congregation. Some time ago he saw his wife's
sister give her a letter; which was subsequently
torn up and thrown into the water-closet.. Mr.
Williams suspected' something, wroitgi. and pro-
cured the torn-up. pieces, which being, placed
together proved to be a, letter from, the rev.
gentleman to Williams's wife, asking'her to meet
him that night and they would elope:. Williams

was indignant at this,, and issued a placard to, the
effect that he would publish the letter ; the re-
joinder was that Mr.. Williams had. endeavoured
to seduce a number of young women. of the con-
gregation, and a letter was sent through. the post
to Williams, threatening to expose ands ruin him.
Mr. Smith was accordingly summoned by Mr.
Williams, and the magistrates boun.d.both parties
over to keep the peace.

The trial of Dr. Smethurst was resumed yes-
terday morning. One of the medical witnesses
examined was of opinion that the deceased died
from the disease known as diphtheria dysentery,
and the general tendency of the testimony was to
show that death arose from natural causes

sentery was, aggravated by pregnancy and by a

bilious tempvrathent

Yesterdaythe grand jury, before being dismissed,
made a presentation to the judge• on the state of
Int it they state that the majority of the
cases of cutting, stabbing, and wounding, which
have come before them, have been the result of
intoxication, and emphatically declare their
opinion to be that, " apart from the moral mis-
chief which the excessive use of intoxicating
drink occasions in families and society, all the
poisons sold to malefactors, or wantonly or care-
lessly used, cause far fewer deaths than the unre-
gulated sale of lacer and spirits." The grand
jury call the attention of his lordship to the fact
that the magistrates have little or no control over
beer-houses, and that they have not sufficient
power over public-houses ; they also seem to
think that the owner of a public-house should
be compelled to reside on the premises ; and they
touched on the much-vexed question whether the
trade should be thrown open or not.
At the assizes yesterday, Captain Lesley was
tried on a charge of assaulting one Benjamin
Vicuna M'Kenna. It will be in the recollection
of our readers that some time ago the vessel
Louisa Braginton arrived here from Chili! In her
were three or four Chilian gentlemen, who com-
plained that they had been carried away from Val-
paraiso by force. They had been political prisoners;
and Captain Lesley had bargained with the Chili=
Government to convey them to England, without
their knowledge or consent. They were taken on
board by a file of soldiers ; and, notwithstanding
they protested against the outrage, Captain Lesley
proceeded to sea, and would not land them any-
where on the coast. Yesterday, the jury, as a
matter of form, returned a verdict of guilty of
assault, Baron Watson remarking that the case
would have to be taken to a higher court, for the
purpose of deciding some very delicate points of
law. Captain Lesley was released on entering
into his own recognizance in £6OO, and finding
one surety in £lOO, to appear when called upon,

crime

THE great Soiree to Mr. COBDEN at Rochdale,

which we reported yesterday, was certainly a
most enthusiastic display of political feeling,
and a proud mark of devoted attachment to that
I...imitable member. There is no man, certainly,

r1..".."1,- if

of the party of "Advances as they

call theri2selves, who appears to be held in such
esteem as Mr. COBDEN,—and, no doubt, de-

servedly so. We have ever considered him to

be a sincere politician, however widely we may

have differed from him as to the principles he

professes.

And our difference with him is sub-

-that his principles are not those
of a Monarchy, but of a Republic; and this, we

stantially this,—

conceive, is the great mistake which such men as

Mr. COBDEN make in their statesmanship. Their

views are not in accordance, in many important
respects, with the Constitution of the country ;
and, were they reduced to practice, they would

sooll shatter to pieces that venerable and in-
valuable fabric, under the security of which this
country has attained a higher eminence of na-

tional gttntness, prosperity, and glory, than was
probably ever attained before by any country in

the world. That there is a very tiKtettsive pre-

valence of flit se principles, however, and espe-
cially in the manufacturing districits-,. was proved
by this gatherfig at Rochdale
needed any such' proof ; for we have hail evideroce
enough, during flie. past few years mire' ortf--
cularly, of the graving influence of "Adlraneed
Liberalism" in then 'districts, and it is rJ4thing
Ikrt desirable that tikiia fact should be attnuptedi
tot e concealed, or slijhted, in any degree: Po

Acor flint we

Ibeforwarned is to be fatearmed; and such [fiat;

whilht it forewarns, ought certainly to forettiln

the Constitutional partrof the country to sfxrid
on thvdefensive. That

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