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have formed a council consisting of 42 members,
who have been appointed by the Commissioner
Extraordinary. They are to meet monthly, but the
Government has the right of assembling whenever
he may require their assistance. He has appointed
the Marchese Gino Capponi, President, the Cay.
Avv. Leopoldo Galeotti Secretary: There are to be
two Vice-Presidents, chosen by the Council itself ;
one only is at present named--‘Giuseppe Puceioni.

TICE DEBATE IN THE PRUSSIAN
CHAMBER.

The debate which took place in the Prussian
Chamber of Representatives on the 12th instant,
when a bill was presented for extraordinary sup-
plies to provide for placing the army on a war
footing, and for the eventualities of war, throws
considerable light upon the state of feeling in
Germany :
" M. de Sehleinitz, the Minister of Foreign Af-
fairs in proposing the adoption of the bill, expressed
the hope that no orator would endeavour to throw
obstacles in the way of the Government at so seri-
ous a juncture. It was not, however, his wish to
impede free discussion, especially at a moment when
it was desirable to ascertain the real sentiments of
the country.
" M. de Vineke said he should have liked to have
seen a little more energy and patriotic spirit in the
Government report. He would speak with that sin-
cerity which was due to the nation. No Prussian
heart could conceive the idea of Prussia joining the
Emperor Napoleon against Austria. (Loud cheers.)
Prussians should never forget that Austria formdol
a German nucleus, and that they were bound to
Austria by the sacred bonds of the Confederation.
'Cheers.)_ Ile had no enmity towards France. Tra-

mat 'hatred had passed away,

Behold

Anglo-French alliancel Frenchmen have qualities
which we might envy, but they are superficial ones.
We have qualities which they do not possess—a
fear of God, a love of truth, of justice, and consis-
tency. The French are always craving for what
they call their national frontier.' Another danger
exists in the system actually in force in France—a
system developed in 1839 in the Idees Napo-
leoniennes, according to which the war in Italy is
but the first act of the drama. The others will be
played upon the Rhine, then in England, then in
Russia. He cou' d not blame the Austrian ultimatum
as it had been blamed by the Government. If Aus-
•ia has commenced the war, she was driven to it.

After alluding to the Emperor's words to Baron Hub
ner on New Year's Day, to the Sardinian marriage,
the alliance with Piedmont, and the armaments of
France, M. de Vineke alluded to Lord Derby's very
unparliamentary' expression—(loud applause)—
the aggression of Austria'—which was only ex-
cusable on electioneering grounds. The Congress
was nothing more than a subterfuge to give France
time to complete her armaments. As in all pro-
bability Prussia would have shortly to stand side
by side with Austria on the field of battle, the.
sooner the disapproval of the Government of the
policy of Austria was dropped the better. (Great
sensation.) Ho did not think the moment had
arrived-for Germany to send an army to Italy. The
resolutions of the Diet were not binding upon
Prussia, because the Diet was reinstalled in 1851
despite the representations of the country. The,
domination of Austria in Ittly had no sympathies
in Germany. lie severely censured the despotic
acts of Austria in Italy and her secret treaties.
Moreover, Austria would never forgive Pussia for
her influence in Germany, her Protestantism, her
freedom of public instruction, and liberty of the
press. But it was very important to Prussia (though
of no direct interest to Germany) that the power of
Austria in Italy should not be weakened to the
advantage of France and Sardinia. If it was true
that France had concluded an alliance with Russia,
then it was Prussia's duty to arm to the teeth.' It
would then be requisite not only to mobilise the
army, but to rouse the spirit of 1813. He believed
that Belgium, 11.)11and, and Switzerland would
stand by Prussia ; that England would remember
she was a great European Power, and that it was
her interest not to tolerate the existence of a mili-
tary Power that threatened her naval pre-eminence.
The ghost of Chatham would rise to warn her. She
was Prussia's ally in the seven years' war, but even
should she fail us we have another ally (said M. de
Fru. Am, iisoiward, with God, for our King and
country!' "
M. de Vineke sat down amid loud cheering, and
for a few minutes the debate was stopped.
" M. de Schleinitz, Minister of Foreign Affairs,
said that Prussia did not wish to dispute Austria's
right to send an ultimatum to Sardinia ; but the
Prussian Government felt it its duty to disapprove
an act which it thought was impolitic, which it had
energetically diseounselled, and which put an end
to the hopes of peace.
" M. Henri d'Arnim (ex-Minister of Foreign
Affairs, and ex-Ambassador at Paris and Brussels)
was of the opinion that the whole of Germany ought
to give its adhesion to the vote which the Chamber
would shortly give. Gentlemen (he said)' accord-
ing to the 46th article of the final act of Vienna,
the present war in Italy does not concern the Ger-
man Confederation. But according to public
opinion here, as well as in the rest of Germany, the
war touches us nearly. The final act of Vienna
has the value of a fundamental law for Germany.
But the great public voice of German nationality
is a fundamental law of her national existence in a
much more elevated sense, and this war, though
only as yet touching the non-German provinces of
a confederate State, ma become a danger for the
Confederation and for Germany. (Applause.) Does
that mean to imply that we should enter Italy to
assist Austria in preserving her Italian provinces.
her influence over the rest of Italy, and, perhaps,
in stifling the constitutional life of Italy ? No !
assuredly not! But Prussia ought to be prepared
for every
fyoevGenetrumaalinty.y. Her calling is to defend the
interests

" M. Simson (ex-President of the National As-
sembly at Frankfort) declared that he had no sym-
pathy whatever for the present system of Govern-
mentin France. The man who has broken faith
cannot restore it.' The end cannot justify themeans.
Since Sardinia had thought fit to join the revolution
and call in foreigners into Italy she had lost all
claim to respect. Prussia and Austia were at
variance on many points. But Austia counted
8,000,000 Germans among her subjects; there was
therefore a German interest to support Austria.
But the time had not yet come. Prussia should
never allow herself to be actuated by a vote of the
majority at Frankfort. When the time comes
Prussia will draw the sword and place her trust in
the God of Battles. (Applause.)
"M. Burger (the reporter of the committee)
stated that the policy of Prussia was not neu-
trality,' but, for the present, an armed mediation.
She was keeping guard over the maintenance of
the balance of power in Europe, and reserved it to
herself to take part in the war if her conditions
were not accepted."

The Chamber then proceeded to vote. The first
proposal for a loan of 40,000,000 dollars was voted,
without discussion, amid great applause ; and the
other proposals for levying certain taxes, &c., were
also carried unanimously.
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_TATE OF BADE.--MANCHESTER, May 13.—
There is some little business in cloth, but the orders are
mostly small ones. The chief business in the earlier part
of the week was for fabrics suited to the India trade, but
there is less demand for these goods to-day, and the market
is dull, though prices are less depressed in cloths than in
yarns. For mule and water twist there is exceedingly little
doing, especially for the Continent. The Germans are ab-
staining to an extent rarely known for many years past,
and some of the best informed among buyers in this trade
say that if sellers could only realise the state of things de-
scribed in their advices they would not be canvassed for
orders. There is but little doing for India, and most of the
offers made have been at lower rates. Yarns for manufac-
tures are in some request, but buyers only endeavour to
supply their more pressing wants. The cotton market has
yielded id. per lb. on late prices to-day, and this has
tended to help the general depression observable in this
market.

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IMPROVEMENTS AT DOVER CASTLE.—Various im-
portant works are in progress at Dover Castle, particularly
quarters for married soldiers. This is a Gothic building,
with Bath stone dressing, and Kent rag rubble masonry, to
contain 54 families, each to have a separate room, 14 fe_talq,
12 feet and 11 feet high, every room fitted with
.ae dwarf
rangort
cupboard, shelves, and pin-rail, and small cottage
with oven, and ventilated by
air-flue. The landings and stairs are of be sup-
laid on to each passage, so that every oeo.aPr's.
0 The stairs '
plied with water without going out of ao_
111 the rear of the
and landings are to be lighted with gas.
wringing machines,
d washing esta-
building there is to be a roomy laundry an
blishment, fitted with boiling .
coppers, wishing.
-troughs,
with hot and cold water laid on,
The whole of these patent mangle, ironing stove,
fit-
tings are to be supplied by. n '
with this establishment, and
Bloomsbury. In connection and drying closet. The iron.rieangkm&eces.anosf
a uew kitchen is in
the barracks in the keep-yard, jofreifijactunonnnnleumi.sgnsasea-;‘,BVlPstater
Russell-street,
Baker'snei tst,
course of
' fitted with Capt. Grant's cooking apparatus, for
erection,
500 men. New baths and wash-houses have been erected
at the north entrance .
of the whole
to the keep-yard, fitted with enamelled
each with
-room
andN,_at
er. provisioni‘ lore
olvs
ez made for
ventilation supplying
of the barracks has been improved, and gas is shortly to be
Laid psi, externally and internally, to the whole of the Castle
and barracks. All this sounds very well, and we shall hope
to find the impression confirmed when we have the oppor-
tunity to see for ourselves.— The Builder. -
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AMEMPTED MURDER rzrz(6.l--).4, JEALOILS'I7-.
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A young man named Charles Peeke, the wider 11 S
of a trading vessel called the Anne belonging to
Guernsey, was yesterday brought before Sir P. 11, Dyke and a full bench of magistrates, at the
Court-house, Dartford, upon the charge of felo-
niously stabbing a young man . named Charles
May, with intent to do him grievous bodily
harm. _ Mr. Russell, a solicitor, of Dartford, con-
ducted the prosecution, and Mr. Gibson, another
professional gentleman of Dartford, appeared
oi interest, t e
Dartfordrestand thean d court
t the
for the prisoner. The case, from the circumstances
connected with it, appeared to create a good deal of
was
neighbourhood
b .during
inhabitants
the
inquiry• The transaction that was the subject of
investgation occurred on Good Friday last, and the
prisoner has been in custody since then, the prow.
cuter having been too seriousl • • d
y injure to appear
and give evidence until the pre sent occasion. The
act appeared to have been committed under the fol-
lowing circumstances :—The prisoner, who, it
appears, is very respectably connected, his father
being a shipowner at Guernsey, one of his vesssels
being under the -prisoner's command, was in the
habit, when his vessel came to London, of stopping
at an inn at Greenhithe, kept by a person named
Minter. He had two daughters, and it would seem
that the prisoner paid great attention to one of
them, and there appears to be no doubt that he was
much attached to her. The prisoner's vessel being
at Greenhithe on Good Friday, he spent the day
at Mr. Minter's, and invited the prosecutor, who is
a young man belonging to Dartford, and a friend of
his named Webb, to accompany him and.the two
young women on board his vessel; and it seemed
that during the day the prisoner was very much
annoyed at the prosecutor paying attention to his
sweetheart. Upon their return to Greenhithe in
the evening a quarrel took place between the two
young men, and the prisoner challenged May to
come out and fight, but he declined to do so. About
half-past nine o'clock at night the prisoner left the
Hull Trader, which is the sign of the house kept by
Mr. Minter, to go on board his vessel. The prose-
cutor, it appeared followed him, soteethinghaving
shortly before been said about fighting, and
some blows were exchanged between him and the
prisoner, and the litter was seen to suddenly thrust
his hand forward in the direction of the prosecutor's
breast, when he immediately exclaimed, " I am
stabbed," and fell to the ground. The prisoner
then made the best of his way on board his vessel,
where he was taken into custody on the following
morning by Mr. Brandon, a superintendent of the
county constabulary, and a very useful and active
officer, who has the charge of this district, and a
seaman's knife, the blade of which was covered
with blood, and with which the injury had no doubt
been inflicted, was found concealec in his berth.
Dr. Sercomb, a surgeon at Greenhithe, who attended
upon the prosecutor, found that he had received a
very serious injury, and for some time it was
thought the knife had penetrated the right lung,
in which case the injury would, in all probability,
have proved mortal. This, however, fortunately
turned out not to be the case, and the prosecutor
was now sufficiently recovered to be able to attend
and give evidence, although still in a very weak
condition. He was sworn, and deposed to most of
the above facts, and in cross-examination he denied
having paid any attention to Miss Minter with a
view to annoy the prisoner, but he admitted that
they were all joking together during the afternoon.
The other young man, Webb, was also examined,
and he corroborated the prosecutor in his statement
as to the circumstances under which the injury was
inflicted, and said that until the prosecutor called
out "I am stabbed," he ,had no idea that the pri-
soner had any weapon. The whole of the deposi-
tions having been taken, the Chairman said the
bench felt it to be their duty to commit the pri-
soner to Maidstone Gaol for trial at the ensuing
summer assizes.

WILTS OF PERSONS .RECENTLY
DECEASED.

The will of Rear-Admiral Sir Richard Grant, of
Connaught-place, Hyde Park, and of Brighton, was
Lroved in London, on the 2d of April, by Dame
ydia Grant, the relict and sole acting executrix,
power being reserved to John Gillam Booty, Esq.
of Gray's Inn, solicitor, the other executor. The
personalty was sworn under £14,000. The will is
short, being contained on two sides of foolscap, and
there are but two legatees named therein. To Lady
Grant he has bequeathed his house at Adelaide-
crescent, Brighton, for her life, and has left her. the
7 • _1
Mrs. Ann Shawe, widow of George Shawe, Esq.,
luta of Havant. The will is dated the Bth of Au-
gust, 1855. Sir Richard attained the rank of Ad-
miral onthe 7th of February preceding, and died
at Shawefield, Havant, Hampshire. on the 3d of
March, 1859, at the age of 76.
The will of Captain James Robertson Walker,
R.N., of Gilgarran, Cumberland, who died there on
the 30th of October last, possessed of large estates
in Cumberland and in North America, bears date
the 21st of October, 1856, and a codicil on the 25th
of August, 1858. The will is of considerable
length. The estates in Cumberland, and other real
estates, he has entailed, making a provision for his
wife and settling an annuity upon her. His estates
in Nova Scotia he has bequeathed to his brother,
John Robertson. He has left a pecuniary legacy to
his nephew, James, the son of his deceased brother,
Murdoch Robertson, and legacies to others of his
family. The executors are John Robertson, Esq.
(his brother), John Munro Mackenzie, Esq., N. 8.,
and John Champley Rutter, Esq., solicitor, of 170,
Regent-street, and Ely-place, Holborn, who duly
proved the same in the London Court of Probate,
on the 29th of April.
The will of Simeon Leete Sell, Esq., of Bassing-
bourn, Cambridge, which bears date the 6th Feb.,
1859, was proved in the London Court of Probate,
on the 30th April, by John Seabrook, Esq., of
real has
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ahl eacting
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amounting executor.
to 30T,h00e deceased
besides
estates. The latter he has portioned out to a sister,
a brother, and nephews, leaving to them also pecu-
niary legacies, as well as to other relatives, ap-
'
pointing his sisters, Edith and Elizabeth, and his
brother, Tempest Sel, residuary -legatees.

EXTRAORDINARY STROY ABOUT THE
DAUPHIN OF FRANCE.

There are stranger things than fiction, even in
modern times ; but people will hardly be prepared
for the strange announcement which was asserted
at a coroner's inquiry held yesterday before Mr.
Wakley, coroner for West Middlesex, that the
Dauphin of France, the unfortunate son of
Louis XVI., died not, as history states, " on the 9th
of June, 1795, in the prison of the Temple, after a
miserable confinement of three years," but that he
died in a London street cab a few days since, and
that the deceased, upon whom the inquest was
being held, was ne other than that Dauphin,
Louis XVII. of France. Such was the marvellous
story made public yesterday at an inquest
held at the Lord Wellington, University-street,
upon a person who, under the name of Augustus
Menes, has for some years past resided with his
family at 35, University-street, Tottenham-court-
road, where he followed the avocation of a professor
of music. It appeared that the deceased, who was
in his 75th year, was taken suddenly ill, when near
his own residence, and as medical assistance could
not be immediately procured, he was conveyed..ge
without delay in a cab to the University College
Hospital, close by; but he was dead before arriving
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at the institution, the cause of death
being,'cd as
disease
post mortem examination distinctly proved,
of the heart. The jury recorded
accord-
ingly, and so far the judicial part of the proceed-
a
ings terminated ; but uponh inquiry further into the
peculiar statements
had been made by the de-
ceased's family, andthe rumours that have got
about in the neighbourhood, causing no little
excitement, it seems that the deceased's conversa-
tion for the last 30 years, when he first made his
family acquainted with the strange story, has been
to the effect that
he was the Dauphin who was
supposed to have died in the Temple ; and while
the deceased bore a striking likeness in the face to
the Bourbon family of France, his family further
assert that he had certain marks on his person
which the hapless infant King had. He had him.
self always a desire to keep the matter secret from
the world, but his family have now expressed their
determination to publish the whole facts connected
with his life.

THE MANCHESTER RIFLE CLUB.—We under-
stand that two gentlemen, who were working separately to
promote the establishment of a local rifle corps, have joined
their forces and influence, and that the project is now pro-
gressing more favourably than could have been anticipated.
Already the club numbers some 50 members, and it is pro-
posed, as soon as the number of members reached 100, to
wait on the Mayor, to request his worship to convene a pub-
lic meeting, to consider the subject—such meeting to be held
in the Town-hall, under the presidency of the Mayor.
Meantime the powerful co-operation of the great warehouse
firms is desired, that they may not only sanction the pro-
ject, but allow some of their young men the requisite time
for rifle practice. It is suggested that, at all events for I,
time, the Saturday afternoon half-holiday would suffice for
this purpose. We believe there is a strong feeling amongst
the members in favour of the Wlijtworth rifles, if that
can be obtained. A very good practice ground, stated,
can be secured on Carrington Moss, affording a range
of two miles, and with ready access from the railway, either
from the Sale or Timperly Station.-111anchester Guardian.