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March 1, 1856.] THE LEADER/ 197 "^"'" ' ...
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. THE PEACE. The grand diplomatic consul...
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AMERICA. We may now be allowed to hope t...
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IRELAND. The TrPPERAEY Bank.—The Carlow ...
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OUE CIVILISATION. THE SUICIDE OF MR. SAD...
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March 1, 1856.] The Leader/ 197 "^"'" ' ...
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. The Peace. The Grand Diplomatic Consul...
. THE PEACE . The grand diplomatic consultation is fairly under sail ; but the world is kept , for the moat part , in ignorance of results . The first Conference was held on Mon day , and lasted three hours and a half . It is thought that space of time is not too long to Lave been occupied merely with preliminaries . Strict secrecy is preserved . A declaration in writing has , it is thought , been signed by the Plenipotentiaries , not to reveal directly or indirectly what passes at the Conferences until the whole shall be concluded ; and the French journals have received peremptory instructions to preserve absolute silence on the subj ects of discussion during the sitting . This is only reasonable , as the dependence of the press on the Government lends a quasi-official sanction to everything that appears in print . There was no meeting of the Congress on Wednesday ; but on Thursday the Conferences were resumed . The meetings will not take place every day . An Armistice was resolved on at the Congress on Monday . It is to exist until March 31 st ; but it is not to affect the blockade at present established or projected . It is thought doubtful that Russia will , as announced about a week ago , allow of the destruction of Nieholaieft . A cabinet courier , says a despatch , from Berlin , has arrived with directions for Couut Orloff at Paris ; and it is added that Russia consents to what is demanded relative to the island of Aland .
America. We May Now Be Allowed To Hope T...
AMERICA . We may now be allowed to hope that the differences between this country and the United States will be suffered to find an amicable solution , since not only has public opinion . England pronounced clearly against hostilities , but the latest accounts from Amei * ica show less , of the war spirit than -was prevalent a month ago . ^ " The despatches from the British . Cabinet to their Minister , " says the Washington correspondent of the Courier and Enquirer , " are said to be pacific and cordial towards the United States , and to be of such a character as ought to dissipate the slightest shade of doubt that any difficulty endangeringthe peace of the two nations can grow outof the Central American questions . It is astonishing how coldly the public receive all belligerent demonstrations on these interruptions to the even flow of British and American diplomacy . " Nevertheless , a motion has been made in the Senate by Mr . Cass for an increase of the navy ; and the Secretary-of-War was requested to reDOrt whether anv . and . if so . what , additional fnrt . i-
past . Crowds collected in all the brokers' offices long before the adjournment of the board , anxious to get the first intelligence of prices and sales . The market on the following day closed heavy and quiet . Trade , on the whole , shows greater activity than it has recently exhibited .
fixations were necessary for the defence of New York and Brooklyn Navy-yards . Mr . Marcy continues to decline receiving the credentials of Colonel French as Nicaraguau minister . The Legislature of Texas has passed a bill accepting from the Government 7 , 750 , 000 dollars in full payment of the Texan debt . The money goes to the creditors of the State . About onehalf of the 3 , 000 , 000 dollars due to the Mexican Government , which had been advanced to Santa A una by certain capitalists of New York , lias been paid to Hargrove and Co ., and Howlandand Aspiuall . The Irish of Cincinnati have promised the Government , in the , event of a war with England , 160 , 000 Irish-American bayonets . About three hundred very poverty-stricken looking persons have sailed for Punta Arenas , to join Walker in Nicaragua , without hindrance from the Government . The Alabama State Convention has passed a resolution denying the right of Congress to legislate on the subject of slavery . Another message from the President on the subject of the troubles in Kansas has been issued . Tho town of Lawrence in that state has been regularly fortified as for a siege . The weather in America and on the Atlantic haa tieen extremely severe . The Persia , from Liverpool to New York , encountered in lat . 4 < $ , long . 46 , heavy gales and fields of ice , which detained her thirty-six hours , and caused her considerable damage . Great apprehensions are felt with respect to the Pacific I 1 * rrtl ¦ % m m m — . -w t -m . . steam vessel l tua
-snip , mac , wman lojc -averpool on 23 rd of January , had not arrived at New York on the 12 th of February ; and it was believed in that city that her non-arrival was caused by the ice . Mr . Oollins has despatched tho steamor Alabama , with a large quantity of provisions and clothing on board , iu search of tho Pacific , and for the purpose of convey , ing relief to other vessels presumed to be detained in tho ice in the vioinity of Newfoundland . Lieutenant Hartetein , of tho United States' steamer Arctio , has also started on a similar errand on receipt of orders from the Secretary of the Navy . The ports of Philadelphia , Richmond , Newark , Hartford , Providence , Washington , D . C ., Portsmouth , N . H ., Baltimore , Alexandria , Albany , New Haven , Amboy , and New London , were bo effectually closed with ioo about the middle of last month , that no vosaol could either outer or clear out from thorn . The Now York Herald mentions Mr . Buchanan ' s name as candidate for tho Presidency . Ho will not return to the States , but take a continental tour . Tho Now York commercial advices roporb that on tho 11 th ult . tho excitement and activity in Wallntrcet vtub greater than had boon known for years
Ireland. The Trpperaey Bank.—The Carlow ...
IRELAND . The TrPPERAEY Bank . —The Carlow branch of the Tipperary Bank has suspended its payments , the manager having paid off all the cash on hand up to three o ' clock on Monday week . Conversion to Rome . —Mr . John Otway Cuffe , of Misseuden-house , Buckinghamshire , and St . Albany , in the County of Kilkenny ( we presume , an Englishman ) , has been received into the Romish Church by the Bishop of Birmingham . He stood for the County of Kilkenny at the last general election , on the Conservative interest . Skibbereen . —The Cork Constitution calls attention to the now flourishing state of Skibbereen , so tragically conspicuous in the famine of 1847 . The workhouse is comparatively empty , having only 556 inmates .
Oue Civilisation. The Suicide Of Mr. Sad...
OUE CIVILISATION . THE SUICIDE OF MR . SADLEIR . The adjourned inquest on the body of Mr . Sadleir , M . P ., has lead to some disclosures of a . most astounding and painful kind . It / will be recollected that the inquest was postponed in order that certain letters which Mr . Sadleir had written to friends and relations might be produced . These were forthcoming on Monday -when the jury reassembled , and a discussion arosebetween Mr . Wakley and Mr . William T . Manning coroner of the Queen ' s Household and the Verge , as to whether they should be read aloud . Mr . Manning , on behalf of the family of the deceased , said he was instructed to offer no opposition to anything which might facilitate the fullest investigation . Mr . Wakley replied that he would take on himself the responsibility of deciding whether the letters should be read in open court or not ; and finally it was determined that they should be read with the omission of the names of persons referred to in them . The letter to Mr . Anthony Norris , the solicitor who was examined at the former stage of the inquiry , was then put in and read . It was dated on the night of the suicide , and was as follows : — " Saturday Night . " I can not live—I have ruined too many—I could not live and see their aeonv—I have committed
diabecause the seal of the court is not impressed on the document or in wax , but on a large wafer , and attached to it . There is such an estate as the deed purports to convey to Mr- Wilkinson . " I have heard , " added the witness , " thai ; a large sum of money was given to the deceased in nay office on the Saturday before he died . I have not heard anything of it since . It is not a matter of which I have any personal knowledge . I cannot say who told me of that circumstance , there have been so many rumours about the matter . " The knowledge that the forgery of the name 3 would be discovered by Mr . Stevens ' s visit to Dublin seems to have had considerable influence on Mr . Sadleir in determining the event . But the critical condition of the Tipperary Eank appears to have painfully occupied his mind up to the morning of Saturday . The object of his call on Mr . Wilkinson was to ascertain whether that gentleman could suggest any plan for raising money to assist the bank . " He showed me , " said Mr . Wilkinson in his evidence , " some telegraphic messages he had received from Ireland on the subject cf the wants of the bank- He had several schemes by Which he thought I could assist him in raising money ; but , after going into them , I told him I could not help him , the schemes being such as I could not recommend or adopt . He then became very excited , put his hand to his bead , and exclaimed , ' Good God ! if the Tipperary Bank should fail , the fault will be entirely mine , and . I shall have been the ruin of hundreds and thousands . ' He walked about the office in a very excited state , and urged me to try and help him , because , he said , he could not live to see ths pain and ruin , inflicted on others by the cessation of the bank . The ; interview ended in this , that I was unable to assist him in his plans to raise money . He had not been in the habit of coming into my office for a considerable time until a few days befoi ' e his death , as we had had some difference . " Several other letters besides the foregoing were put in and read . The punctuation , & c , of all of them iy * rather singular , and is here given verbatim . The annexed was addressed to Mr . Keating , M . P . : — < eDear Robert , —James sent me over his title deeds of Coohammiok and Kilconnel——I have not used "theses deeds in any way . 1 gave J . Gurney a letter from James , intrusted to me by him—which J . ; Gurney had sent to him—This letter can not be acted on by J . Gurney without my Brother's express authority . " John Sadleib . « R . Keating , Esq ., M . P . « 16 Fe ^ y 56 . " T . Uzielli has a bank bill . £ 2 , 000 on which nothing
bolical crimes unknown to any human being . They will now appear , bringing my family and others to distress—causing to all shame and grief that they should have ever known me . . " I blame no one , but attribute all to my own infamous villany , —— , , , , , and hundreds of ot hers ruined by my villany . ' I could go through any torture as a punishment for my crimes . No torture could be too much for such crimes , but I can not live to see the tortures I inflict upon others . "J . Sadleir . " Telegraph to , and otherwise when you read this . " Mr . Norris stated , in reply to the coroner , that Mr . Sadleir told him during their interview on the Saturday night that some shares had been sent up to his house , and he had them , there that evening . The witness acted for Mr . Sadleir professionally with respect to one trust in which he was concerned , but was not otherwise his solicitor , Mr . Robert Keating , M . P . for Waterford , said : — " On the Saturday cf his death , I saw Mr . Sadleir on business at No . 2 , Nicholas-lane , the offices of Messrs Wilkinson , Gurney , and StevenB , He exhibited considerable excitement in consequence of the critical position of the Tipporary Joint-Stock Bank- I was with him about half an hour . I did not hoar that ho had been made aware then of any gentleman going to Dublin . I heard in -the morning that one of the firm of Wilkinson , Gurney , and Stevens . i . . TT ^ w V . I !^_ .. ^** . bi . Y J \ « -h «« * J * maa j ^ nl 1 ^^ s * 4 » 4 * 1 ^ a -A-\ b uud vhwu
_ Was gOlUg OVer XO JL / UU 1 MJ . , UUU X jluu . j . ov : « u Mr , Sadleir ' s name was montioned in connexion with that visit . " It appears , however , from the evidence of Mr . Josiah Wilkinson , of the firm of Wilkinson , Gurney , and Stevens , solicitors , that Mr . Sadloiv had been informed that Mr . Stevens was , on that very evening , about to proceed to Dublin , with a security which Mr . Sadleir had given to Mr . Wilkinson , on acoount of a large dqbt to him . This soourity purported to be a deed given on iiho purchase of an estate in the Euoumborod Estates Court . It was signed by two of tho Commissioners of that Court , and by two attesting witnesses , iu two parts of the deed ; but tho seourity was nob registered , and when Mr . Wilkinson discovered tho alarming condition of tho Tipporary Bank , he determined to have it registered . On arriving at Dublin , however , Mr . Stevens found that not one of tho Higuaturos was genuine . ( Tho atatomaot of tine faot produced a profound sensation in court . ) Tho document had a seal of tho Enouuiberod Eataton Court attached to it , and tho Commissioners themselves admit tho eoul to bo genuine . That houI might have beou trauBfwrrod from some other genuine deod to tho upurious one ,
is due . It should be at once cancelled—If on Monday the bank is to be saved ^ £ 8 , 200 must be paid to East Kent Railway for 2 Orders £ 6 , 200 and £ 2 , 000 . — £ 2 , 500 must be paid in to Glyn ' to meet order at Bight issued to-day at Carrick . Gurriey knowB the orders falling due on Tuesday . All are advised save the one for £ 6 , 200 nay favour . This must be taken ud on Monday not being advised—I can not live . ¦ "J . S . " That letter contained the following telegraphic message : — " Forwarded from Dublin Btation , and received at the Strand station February 16 , 1856 . " From James Sadleir , 30 , Merrion-square ( South ) , Dublin , to John Sadleir , Esq ., MP ., Reform Club , Pall-mall , London . —All right at all the branches—only few small things refused there . If from twenty to thirty thousand over here on Monday morning all in safe /' Mr . Keating , in answer to Mr . Manning , said he fcrnnd , on applying to Mr . Uzielli , that nothing was due upon the draught mentioned in the letter which had just been read , and that that gentleman had anticipated the request to have it cancolled . The " J . Gurney " named in the letter was lately one of the firm of WilMnson , Gurney , and Stevens . The next letter read was another addressed to Mi-. Keating . The name of Mr . Norris was not suppressed , as that gentleman had no objection to its
UQUUK JLUtM . L' * - * WWWAAV . " 11 , Gloatev Toiraco , 1 C February , 1856 . " Dear Robert—To what infamy have I come step by step—heaping crimo upon crime—and now I find myself tho author of numborlcas crimes of a diabolical oiiaractev and tho cauao of ruin and misery and disgrace to thousands—aye to tons of thousands . " Oh how I feel for those on whom all this rum must fall—I could boar all punishments but I could never boar to witness tho sufferings of those on whom I have brought auch ruin—It must bo hotter that I should not live . " No on « has boon privy to my crimes—they sprung from my own cursed braiu alono—I havo e * vindlod and deceived without tho knowledge of any one—Stevens and Norris aro both innocent and have no knowledge of tho fabrication of doods and forgeries by mo and by which I havo sought to go on in tho horrid hopo of retrieving . " It was a » ad day for all whon I camo to London . " I can give but little aid to unravel accounts and transactions . " There are serious questions as to my iufcoreBt ui . the . Grand Junotiou and other undertakings .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 1, 1856, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01031856/page/5/
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