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a child named Mack to rob its parents . The child was put into the box and distinctly proved the charge against the prisoner . The Assistant-Judge passed a sentence of five years ' penal servitude . A trick , more discreditable to its perpetrators than any that has ever been attempted in contested elections , has been attempted to be played off upon the electors of West Kent by some person in the interest of the Liberal

candidates . An election circular , purporting to be addressed from the Conservative committee-rooms in London , and having all the specialities of a document emanating from that place , intimated to the electors that the committee being satisfied that the return of two Conservatives was impossible , recommended their friends to secure the return of Lord

Holmesdale and Sir John Lubbock . To complete the fraud the document was signed " Nevil" —just such a mis-spelling of the name of Lord Nevill , the chairman of the Conservative committee , as to take it—if , indeed , it does take it—out of tbe legal definition of forgery . AVe need not say that Lord Nevill and the committee have taken prompt steps to expose the shameless fraud .

Wimbledon Prize Meeting . —This day ( Saturday ) , Field-Marshal , H . R . H . the Duke of Cambridge , will hold a review of the metropolitan and other volunteer corps . The presentation of prizes will take place at three o'clock in the afternoon . FOBEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The Spanish Senate have adopted the bill ratifying the amended customs tariff on articles

passing into France across the frontier , and vice versa . - Florence has now a daily paper printed in English , and callod the times . It is a sort of small Qalignani , perhaps half the size of the Parisian print so dear to all Britons on their summer and autumn travels . But the English of the Florentine paper , though well-meant , is sometimes a little perplexing The interpreter is occasionally , as in the Critic , the harder to

be understood of the two . The Patrie states thst , on the invitation of England and France , several Powers will send , vessels to be present at the fetes at Cherbourg and Brest . The Belgian Minister for AVar , Baron de Chazal , has been sentenced in Brussels to two months' imprisonment and a fine , for having fought a duel with the member for Antwerp . The latter , whom the tribunal regarded

as the aggressor , was sentenced to an additional month of imprisonment , and a somewhat heavier fine . But it is not supposed that the AVar Minister will really be handed over to the custody of a gaoler . The King is expected to intervene and pardon the culprit , having seen that the rights of law and peaceful citizenship were formerly asserted by the the trial and

the sentence . Even this is a great advance upon the practice of some other Continental countries , where an officer would be far more likely to meet with severe punishment for having refused to fight than with any form of censure , however mild , for having consented to take part in a duel . The cholera in Cairo is reported to be decreasing . The Paris papers say that

the Emperor Napoleon and the Queen of Spain will meet at Biarritz in August . The Prince Imperial of France has been unwell . His indisposition prevented the deyjarture of the Emper or and Empress from Paris , but he is now stated to be much better . The Spanisli Government is about to send Senor Ulloa as its ambassador to the Court of the King of Italy .

The Paris Bourse , we learn , was excited on Monday , and was flat as to business . The meaning of this may , we presume , be found in the continued illness of the Prince Imperial . It was stated on Sunday in Paris that the illness was but slight , and that tho Prince was recovering , but the Moniteur officially announced that the departure of both tho Emperor and tho Empress would he postponed for some days in consequence of the hoy ' s condition . It is true that the Monitcnr only speaks

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of a "light indisposition ; " but the public mind of Pans easily takes alarm on such a subject , and will have it that tho illness of the Prince is of a serious character . Every one must hope that the alarm will prove unfounded . A private letter received in London gives an account of a sudden storm at St . Petersburg a few nights ago , which is represented as having done much damage . A Florence paper publishes a

report to the effect that the Italian Ministry had received a proposal from Paris relative to the convening of a Congress , and had given their assent to the scheme . AVe believe this to be only another appearance of the rumour which has lately spread abroad from Cologne . A telegram from Geneva confirms the account of a shocking

tragedy that has just taken place in the Swiss Alps . A party of English tourists , headed , it is believed , by Professor Tyndall , determined to attempt the ascent of Matterhorn , which has hitherto been deemed inaccessible . They reached the summit of the mountain in safety , but in descending three of their number lost their lives . The names of the ill-fated gentlemen

are said to be Lord Francis Douglas , the Rev . Mr . Hudson , and Mr . Haddo . Lord Francis appears to be the brother and heir presumptive to the Duke of Queensberry . He was only in his eighteenth year . The bodies have not yet been found . A telegram from Magdeburg , in Prussia , reports a very serious railway accident caused by a collision between a

passenger train from Halberstadt and a goods train coming from Dortmund . Six passenger carriages were smashed , and no less than thirteen persons are reported to have been killed . The number of the wounded has not yet been precisely ascertained . An accident of this kind is very rare in Prussia , where the trains run slowly , and a peculiarly exact system prevails .

The Moniteur officially announces that tho health of the Prince Imperial is completely re-established . The Emperor has left for Plombieres . The French agricultural interest , in all its sections—corn growing , wine growing , and grazing—is suffering severely at present from the great depreciation which has taken places in prices . So serious is the aspect of affairs ,

that the Minister of Public AVorks has considered it incumbent upon him to issue a circular on the matter addressed to the sufferers . The Minister assures them that the Anglo-French treaty has nothing to do with their distress ; although that assurance , even from an official quarter , can afford small comfort in the prospect of imminent ruin . A cholera panic is said

to have broken out in Tuscany , owing to a death having occurred , as is believed , from that epidemic . The cholera is rapidly subsiding in Egypt , and the deaths at Alexandria are daily decreasing . In Constantinople , however , the dreaded disease is spreading , notwithstanding the strict sanitary precautions that are said to have been adopted . AMEEICA—The Asia has arrived with dates from New York

. to the 6 th inst . The conspiracy trials , which have been rendered so interminable by the complex machinery of a military court , have now terminated , and the findings and sentences approved by President Johnson . The chief culprits , Payne , Harrold , Atzerott , and Mrs . Suratt , have been sentenced to death . The City of Boston has arrived , bringing news from New York to the morning of July 8 . Payne ,

Harrold , Atzerott , and Mrs . Suratt were hung on the 7 th . The judge of the Supreme Court had previously served a writ of habeas corpus on General Hancock iu Mrs . Suratt ' s case . It was , however , disregarded by order of President Johnson . Gold on the 8 th was quoted at 139 J .

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