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lence of crime.

It ought to convince the many,
for what is falsely called Religious
that no education can be beneficial which

who stickle
Liberti

is not strictly and essentially Christian instruction,
Secular knowledge is but a delusion and a snare.

and its results the mere change in the nature of

crimes from those prompted by poverty to oche

which originate in intemi

.ance and vi

The trial at Gloucester in which an impostor,
until lie underwant tlafa ordeal of IN. vsev.rtitiaing- cross -
examination, presented a plausible claim to a
baronetcy, and an estate of

Learly £30,000

was one of those singular romances of real life

which go to prove that " truth is strange, strange'

than fiction." Not the least extraordinary circum-
stance, as it proved the final hair which broke the
_ _

camel's back, was the receipt of a telegraphic
despatch, in the midst of the examination, which
presented-the most damning proof of turpitude on
the part of the claimant, and at once put an end to
the trial, which resulted in the committal of the
plaintifl'for forgery and perjury
of its features, bears a strong resemblance to that
of the claimant to the Earldom of Cranford and
Lindsay, so graphically described in Blackwood' s
Magazine some time since.

The cas

in some

The report of the Medical Officer, presented at
the meeting of the Health Committee, shows the
sanitary condition of Liverpool to be in a very
satisfactory state, the rate of mortality having con-

siderably diminished from previous years. This is
the more gratifying, as the increase of population,
Owing to the great increase of the commerce of the
Port, would naturally have had a contrary tendency,
unless the means for preserving the public health
had been efficiently carried out.
The clause in the Ministerial India Bill, for
putting an end to the East India Company's Salt
Monopoly, has, as we predicted was possible, been
struck out in the House of Lords. There was a
time when we looked to the Upper House as the
surest safeguard for the privileges of Englishmen,
when assailed by a factious majority in the Lower
Chamber ; but their Lordships, during this session,
have done little to maintain their former character.
They seem to have been content to register the
doings of the Commons at the bidding of the
Ministers ; and as in the case we have referred to,
to undo what little good may have been wrung
from an unwilling party.

FOREIGN INTBLLIGEivc.E.
4

FRANC'E.—Yesterday, being the fete-day of Napoleon,
was to _be celebrated in Paris by the usual- processions,
ilkimmations, &c. The keel of a new screw line-of-battle-
ship, of 120 guns to be called the Arcole, is about to be
laid at the dock'yard at Cherbourg. The fitting out of
the Austerlitz, 100 guns, is going on with great activity.
M. Dronyn de Lhuys is raised to the dignity of Grand
Cross of the Legion of Honour for the eminent services he
has rendered in his direction of diplomatic affairs.
Extensive decorative improvements have taken place
among the public buildings of Paris. The facade of the
Palace of the Institute, on the side next the Louvre, the
front of the beautiful Church of the Val de Grace, and
that of the Invalides have been entirely restored.

The French Emperor and ticfTEmpress have recently
taken to shooting, at St. Cloud. On Wednesday their
Majesties went out in a boat on the hangs of St. Cyr for
the purpose of duck shooting. The Empress was provided
With a light and elegant fowling-piece, with which she did
such execution as showed her to be an accomplished sports-
nzan. She shot four wild ducks, and each bird which fell
was not only received with hurrahs: by the courtiers, but
satisfaction the Emperor an opportunity of expressing his
6111.,,faction in a more tender manner. The historian of
eir Araesties' exploits declar that " l'Empereur em-
rassa l'lmperatrice tendremen es
t."
ba,Jumour was current in Paris, on Friday, of the the
extent of a further reduction in the French army to the
riseel.lt of from 35,000 to 40,000 men. This had caused a
1„111 Government securities.
Mme that
province of Bologna is so overrun with
rillaB,t,_llat many families, not feeling safe at their country
forty nave repaired to the city. At Faenza, upwards of
criminal
• l'ersons had been arrested, in consequence of the
the gpufPernpts lately made on the lives of the governor,
The
07niere, and the police inspector of that place.
received aoee authorities of Pavia, in Lombardy, having
sumed, pair information of a startling kind, it is pre-
expectation visit by night to the town-hall, with the
Galimberti, Maki a great discovery. The commissary,
followers te /4 finding any thing criminal, caused his
Carlo Folperti:rte the walls, but without success. M.
account of the n e Mayor of Pavia, despatched a detailed
governor of MiZeedings of the police authorities to the
'once committed at and demands satisfaction for the vio-
RtrsSlALetters he town-hall.
the Russian Governfrom Tiflis, of July 15, state that
against Caucasus, toptt is preparing a new expedition
undertaken at the end of this
month. A fleet is
the land operations. sui. mg in the sea of Azof to support
iee the quarrel with Turkey there
has been great agitatietonersit the Russo-Caucasian provinces.
A letter from St. P
the Ist orders were given mg, of the sth, states that on
pre,thsnsPend all movements of the
Russian troops in the
th tc,le:Rf the Danube, and on the
4th an order was sent
h__ General-in-Chief to put an
end to all demonstratims
zrzt ()patio' havinga character of perma.

he Fed

'JOT .100 St,
act of Me

A' the United Stab
PurssiA,—A cc
Lions between Pr
glace. The Pruss:

shnultaneo
that the Er

ismitted from Vier

on the sth ins

a of

Both si

stern question

ninister at that court has received

and to Whit
It

the foul; Power

seems that t

Lt; the very day of the reported

Emperor in Pefersl
outline of the arrant

which were

but a py

le actual draft
na till thp 9,-H1

end elicited some expressions of approval
lion of the terms
s.was on!the sam P

tantamount to

lay:forwarded to Conaautit

Though theprecise terms

the arrangement thus proposed are yet unknown, its lead-
'mg features have transpired through the diplomatic cor-

respondence received in Paris and Vi

itiorning

authoritative form, the foll
The definitive project of settlemei
from Vienna to Constantinople on the sam
t to St. Petersburg, that is, on tl
of the Czar will b
This will, of corn
w;11

The aceeptan,

2nd instant.
d at Vienna
despatched

about the 14

will be ready then to start fc
e understand that as soon a

he Russian Government of the fact 01

the ambassador being on his road, the Emperor will tele-
graph his orders to Prince Gortschakoff to evacuate the
Danubian provinces. These telegraphs, being for the most
part old semaphores, will, of course, not work with the
same speed as the electric; but they, and the course of

to warrant

us in expect•
ussiau soldier