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would accomplish his object . Tho magistrate disclosed tho matter to tho proper authorities , and the chargo of attempted bribery was tho result . On tho trial it was shown that tho accused had sent tho letter to tho magistrate in ignorance of tho law . Ho was found guilty , but was recommended to mercy , and soutonco was deferred to allow tho settlement of a legal point that was raised . At tho Central Criminal Court William Gosling Balls

pleaded guilty to having received from a Matthew John Thomas £ 10 for having procured for him an appointment in the Postoffice . Thomas is a young man from tho country . Ho advertised for an appointment , and offered £ -10 to anybody that would got him ono . Balls responded to tho invitation . Tho situation was procured , but Thomas was unablo to pay tho money down , and

got into difficulties . An exposure of tho transaction was tho consequence . Sentence upon Balls was postponed in anticipation of somo further information being fortlicoiuiugrcspocting him . Garotting by daylight is something new in the street outrage line . An offence of this kind was , however , committed in Islington the other day . A lady was passing along

Upperstreet between two and three o ' clock in the afternoon , in the midst of a glorious June sunshine , when five men attacked her . Three of them held her from behind , and two came in front and nearly strangled her in their endeavours to forcibl y tear a watch-chain from her neck " . The two latter follows were after a sturdy resistance captured , and were committed for

trial by the Clerkenwell Police-court magistrate . In the Court of Queen's Bench , on the 12 th inst ., an attempt was made to remove the trial of the tailor who is charged with intimidation from the Old Bailey to that court , but it failed , . At the Central Criminal Court , Georgo Richard Martin , the individual who has made himself notorious in connection with extensive swindling transactions , in which well-to-do

West End shopkeepers have figured as the victims , pleaded guilty to five indictments charging him with stealing a large quantity of jewellery and other property . The plan adopted by tho prisoner for carrying on his dishonest calling was remarkable for its coolness and originality . It was shown time he had from time to time dishonestly possessed himself of £ 400

worth of jewellery , and had very nearly succeeded in getting hold of rings valued at £ 2 , 000 . It was calculated that he had plundered different tradesmen of property to the amount of £ 1 , 000 . He was cut short in his career by being sentenced to ten years' penal servitude . FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Tho proposal of Signor Ferrara in

reference to the ecclesiastical property of Italy does not meet with favour in the Parliamentary bureaux . The question is , however , what will the Chamber of Deputies say to the proposal ? That it will be hotly opposed is beyond doubt , and should it be adopted , the majority in its favour will in all probability be very small . The King has returned to Florence . The Emperor

Francis Joseph has been crowned King of Hungary . The ceremony took place at Pesth on the Sth inst ., amid great rejoicing . The Emperor signalised his coronation by an act of grace . A complete amnesty was accorded to every class of political offenders , anil all prosecutions of this kind which are now pending are absolutely quashed . Under an amnesty so

comprehensive we presume Kossuth might , if he thought fit , return to his own country . Croatia does not share in the rejoicings consequent on tho coronation of the King of Hungary . The reconciliation of Hungary and Austria gives no satisfaction to the Croats . On the 7 th inst . an Agram paper had an article in which it declared that any Croat who should

attend the coronation of the King of Hungary would be a traitor to his country . The paper was at once seized . Here is new trouble for Francis Joseph . It would seem as if the Emperor

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Napoleon and the King of Prussia had completely made up their differences . A Berlin telegram says that the Emperor is expected on a visit to Berlin in September next . Tho Sultan has fresh troubles . A conspiracy against him is said to have been discovered at Constantinople , and arrests are being made . Not improbably the persons thus arrested are opposed to the

concessions which are being granted by the Porte . Small as these concessions are , they are sufficient to rouse the ancient bigotry of tho Alussulmen . Whether the affair will have any effect iu preventing the visit of the Sultan to Paris remains to be seen . ——Tho news of the capture of the Emperor Alaximilian has been confirmed , but the rumour that he had

been shot happily proves to be without foundation . He has been removed to tbe city of Alexico as a prisoner of war . The good faith of the Italian Government in respect to the Ecclesiastical Property Bill seems to be a good deal doubted by the Italian Parliament . A AI . Brasseur has charged the Government with so arranging the bill as to hoodwink the Chambers ,

with a view to the retrocession of the property to the Church . At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies , Signor Ratazzi was questioned on the subject . He indignantly denied the truth of the allegations of AI . Brasseur , and declared that there was no understanding between the Italian and Papal Governments as to the ecclesiastical property . In such a matter the Italian

Government would never think of first consulting the Papacy Notwithstanding all this , however , the Church Property Bill , and the convention accompanying it , are not liked by the

Parliament . The coronation festivities at Pesth are shortened by the death of the Archduchess Alathildo . The King , while the chrism has scarcely dried on his brow , has to hurry to Vienna to be present at the funeral of the Archduchess . This is undoubtedly a sore disappointment for the Hungarians . Tho Czar aud his sons wont to Fontainobloau on tho llth inst .,

and in tho evening loft Paris for Darmstadt . Tho King of Prussia is to leave before tho ond of tho week , and on tho 17 th tho Czar and King William will moot again in Berlin . A report is afloat that Prussia is firmly rosolvod not to carry out in its integrity that clause iu tho Treaty of Prague which relates to tho retrocession of North Schloswig . Something is to bo given

back to Denmark , but thoso strong places Alson aud Duppel aro to bo retained . Tho authority on which this report rests at prosout is anything but trustworthy , but thoio is groat probability on the side of tho story . Everything , however , tends to show that ovon conduct liko this on tho part of Prussia will not load to war . Tho visit of tho Czar and King William to Paris is generally boliovodto have been favourable to peace . It is ovon stated

that disarmament to a certain extent has been agreed upon . This would bo exceedingly good nows if it woro true . AVe hope it is . The Monilear is very sangnino of peace . As soon as William , King of Prussia , loaves Paris , ho is going to take a holiday at ono of tho Gorman baths for a month . Count Bismarck , too , will only return to Berlin to transact tho business which then presses . Afterwards ho will go into Pomorania for a holiday .

To Correspondents.

TO CORRESPONDENTS .

*; j * All communications to bo addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street , Strand , London , W . C . TYRONE . — -The ancient charge to which our brother refers specifically sets forth those offences by one Alason towards another which may properly be made the subject of complaint to the lodge to whicli they respectively belong , the principal of them being slander , wrangling , quarrelling , and

backbiting- The subject is also very particularly alluded to in a way that is known by every Alaster Alason , but it is not to be supposed that a lodge , sacred to the principles and practice of our Order , is to be made a sort of small Court of Requests for the hearing of disputes about pecuniary matters , aud especially as any decision which might be come to upon them can have no legal force whatever .