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the nurse at Road House , who was the object of such unfounded suspicion for a period of five years . He proposes that a small annuity , to be raised hy a guinea subscription , should be purchased for her . She is certainly deserving of great sympathy , and we do not doubt that the public will he disposed to respond to Mr . Stapleton's appeal . An important case was argued before Vice-Chancellor Wood . Application was

made on behalf of the United States Government for an injunction to restrain Messrs . Fraser , Trenholin , and Co . from delivering to any one save the agents of the plaintiffs 1 , 228 bales of cotton which had been consigned to the defendants by an agent of the so-called Confederate Government . It was argued that the Confederate Government never having been recognised

here , no act of theirs could give the defendants a right of property in cotton which belonged to the plaintiffs as the rightful governors of the country . After hearing the arguments the Vice-Chancellor decided lhat , as the value of cotton was £ 40 , 000 , "UVlf of that sum should be paid into court before Michaelmas Term , to he held pending the decision of the cause .-

At the Maidstone assizes Henry Benge and Joseph Gallimore were put for their trial for manslaughter , in respect of the railway accident at Staplehurst . After a long a long hearing , tbe jury found Benge guilfy and acquitted Gallimore . They added to their verdict an expression of opinion that a man of ¦ more intelligence than Benge ought to have been employed upon

the work in which he was engaged when the accident happened . Sentence on Benge was deferred . Tiie inquest ou the body of Marie Builot , the young French lady , who died under suspicious circumstances at Portland-terrace , St . John's Wood , was resumed on Wednesday . Hitherto there had been no evidence tcniing to show who the g ntleman was who had engaged the lodgings for the young iady , and who visited her

during her illness . He attended to be examined of a witness . He proved to be Mr . Francis Mowatt , formerly and member of Parliament . He described his relatons with the girl as simply those of friendship , and described how on various occasons he had assisted her when she was in distress . In 18 G 3 he and her friend had paid for her passage to Brazil , and after her return she told him , according to his statement , that she had

lived with a French official at Rio , and had subsequently visited the place in the south of France where he now retided . Mr . Mowatt visited her occasionally during her illness , and was of opinion that her miscarriage was occasioned by a fall she had- met with on the deck of a vessel . The jury returned a verdict of "Death from

abortion , but how produced there was no evidence to show . " FoivsifiN INTELLIGENCE . —The Empress and the Prince Imperial left Paris on Thursday , for Fontaineblcau . The Prince is now perfectly recovered . The railway accident in Prussia , although bad , is not quite so bad as was originally announced . Reliable information states that five persons were killed and

twelve were seriously wounded . The engineer and the assistantengineer were both killed on tbe spot . The accident is supposed to have arisen from one of the pointsmen , who have been arrested in consequence . The King of Prussia , who is journeying through part if his dominions reached Ratisbon on the 20 th inst ., and on the following day he presided at a Council

of Ministers , to which all the ministei s , and also tho Prussian ambassador at Paris , had b < e-t summoned . Tho objection of the police authorities to the banquet of the Liberal deputies being overruled hy the Cologne Provincial Court of Justice , the banquet was held on Saturday in the Zoological Gardens at Cologne . The proceedings were , however , interrupted by the authorities , anil the company dispersed by the militarv , on account of the nature of the speeches and

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toasts . Arrangements have heen made for a similar banquet at Bremen . The Prussian authorities seem to have put Cologne into something like a state of siege in order to prevent the Liberal banquet from taking place . The bridges across the Rhine ( one a railway bridge , the other a bridge of boats ) were oecupied by the military , and all intercourse between Cologne and Deutz was thus cut off . The steamers engaged to convey

the guests were occupied by pioneers , wdio were ordered to prevent their departure . The greater number of guests therefore took the Rhenish Railway to Oberlahnstein , in the Duchy of Nassau , hoping to hold their banquet there . They were cheered at all the stations as they passed along , espee ' ally at Bonn and at Rolandseck , just opposite Byron's

Drachenfels . But when they got to the hotel in Oberlahnstein they found that the authorities of Nassau were in league with those of Prussia . The hotel was occupied by soldiers , and the visitors were compelled to leave the place . The Florence papers give an account of a shocking act of treachery performed by a band of brigands , who , on pretence of

surrendering themselves , enticed some Italitn military and civil officers near the Roman frontier into tbe Pontifical dominions and there murdered them . The papers which publish this

statement justly demand whether the flag of France will lend its authority to screen such outrages . The bishops and clergy of Spain are furious against the Government for proposing to recognise the Kingdom of Italy . Episcopal protest after protest pours in ; and there is even some wild talk of a reactionary movementinarms to compel theQueentoretraeeher steps . Saxony and Bavaria , which have long been impatient about

the progress of the Schleswig-Holstein question , have conjointly given notice of a motion on the subject in the Federal Diet . They propose to demand from Austria and Prussia some explicit information relative to tbe steps taken since April last to settle the question , and also to obtain from the Diet a declaration in favour of the prompt incorporation of Schleswig with the

German Confederacy . Meanwhile Austria and Prussia , as we know , have really no answer to give . They have taken no steps , and they have not yet rgreed what steps ought to be takon . The King of Prussia has only just been holding a council of his Ministers to determine on some definitive proposals to be made to the Austrian Government on the subje AIIEEICA . —The Cuba has arrived at Qtieenstown , bringing news from New York to the morning of the 12 th July . President Johnson had declined to strike out the 20 , 000 dollar

clause from the amnesty proclamation . Several of the leaning abolitionists of Massachusetts have declared that , in their opinion , the continued military occupation of the South is necessary for the extinction of slavery and the complete restoration of the union . It is said that Jefferson Davis will be tried hy a military commission , for that additional evidence of his complicity in the assassination plot has been obtained . The whole of the army of the Potomac has been ordered to be mustered out . Gold on the 12 th was quoted 139 J . By the arrival of the Moravian , we have intelligence from New York to the 14 th inst . The work of reorganising the Southern States continues .

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* * All communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisburystreet , Strand , London , W . C . N . W . H . — We are obliged by your courtesy , on this and former occasions . We shall be pleased at all times to receive similar particulars to those you have forwarded , and which you will find are inserted in this number of the MAGAZINE . JCMAU . —Yes ! the brother would be competent under the circumstances to officiate as J . W . It would be in accordance with the " Book of Constitutions . " We know of several precedents .