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^ Qio« i THE LEADER, - 201 March 3,1855....
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THE THAW. MMHH! Sunday nunng. it rose % ...
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THE LATE MR. CHARLES DOD. ] The Tarliame...
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; ; ,. . TOBACCO SMUGGLING BY MEANS OF F...
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MELANCHOLY DEATH OF AN OFFICER FROM THE ...
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THE COLD SHADE. Sevastopol ! Sevastopol!...
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; - - * . s - « - J MISCELLANEOUS. The K...
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A MURDER BY A. BOY. Thomas Monroe, a min...
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^ Qio« I The Leader, - 201 March 3,1855....
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The Thaw. Mmhh! Sunday Nunng. It Rose % ...
THE THAW . MMHH ! Sunday nunng . it rose % « , f *• | Jnda eTening SeTerctVl ^^ " aeg ., being a considerable 2 WSSS S «! A"p = S Ej ^^^^ ^™ ^ O ^ SatuSsy night another grand display of fireworks , fire-balloon ascents , and torchlight skating and sliding matches took place on * . Serpentine . Another life has been sacrificed in St . James spark , making a total ' . of five persons who have perished in that place during the present season . P River Thames , which on Saturday was completely blocked up by immense fields of floating ice , is now comparatively free .
The Late Mr. Charles Dod. ] The Tarliame...
THE LATE MR . CHARLES DOD . The Tarliamentary Companion is known to most po- liticians ; its author , as the Father of " the Gallery was known to a smaller number , . but wherever SownTe was respected and liked . We copy a biographical sketch from the paper he so well served—the Times : — " Mr . Dod was the only son of the Rev . Roger Do 4 , who was vicar of Drumlease , in the county of Leitrim . Inheriting a small patrimony , of which actual possession was only acquired after a Chancery suit , Mr Dod turned his early attention to the bar as a profession , and with that view entered at Kingsinns , Dublin . But the rewards of journalism detached him from legal studies , and before long he devoted to literature an undivided attention . After having been part proprietor and editor of a provincial journal , He eventually settled in London , where for thirty-seven years his pen has been unceasingly employed ; lor a considerable portion of " that period-namely , twenty- - three years—this journal has hao -the ^ benefit of his services To the members of both Houses of Parliament he isbest known in the position which he last occupied before his fatal illness developed itself . Under his guidance the debates in Parliament were presented for public perusal in the shape which the exigencies of a new spaper require ; and , as manager or superintendent of the corps of gentlemen who report these debates , he h # d a delicate and anxious duty to perform towards them , towards tbe public , and towards speakers in Parliament . He baa long previously secured the willing attention of the public by merits of a different and a superior class . For very many years , and until disabled by illness , Ins pen had contributed to these columns many of the memoirs ot distinguished persons who have died within the penod . To sharp powers of observing character , and Jong opportunities of studying politics and public men , lie added talents for literary composition which can only be estimated by those who know how rapidly these memoirs were produced . Rarely was it necessary to allow public curiosity to flag before all that a statesman had done to earn fame and honours was pictured to the world . In another capacity many thousands of the public know Mr . Dod ' s name , on the title-pages of the 4 Parliamentary Companion' and the ' Peerage , Baronetage , and Knightage , ' which publications wholly owe their origin to him . For many years , however , his increasing duties in connexion with this journal prevented hia actual execution of any portion of their contents . They * have for more than twelve years been in the hands of his son , with whom of course they still remain . In closing this brief account of one who , in various ways , has been a faithful servant of the public , wo cannot omit to record that in every private relation of lilo he was an example to all around him . Ho passed a life crowded with domestic virtues , and leaves a name ¦ of unspotted integrity . "
; ; ,. . Tobacco Smuggling By Means Of F...
; ; , . . TOBACCO SMUGGLING BY MEANS OF FOREIGN WOMEN . Mahtjxde Vanderplaas , a Belgian woman , aged 35 , Catherine Mohler , 40 , a German , and Janet Moulton , 24 , also a German , were charged at theThames Police-oflSce with smuggling 120 pounds of foreign manufactured tobacco , by which they had incurred penalties of 100 / . each . # The prisoners arrived at Blackwall from Ostend on Saturday morning , and , as they presented a very bulky appearance , a , tidesurveyor asked them if they had any goods liable to duty about them . They replied they had-not ; but the officer handed them over to a female searcher , who found under the gown of each woman a large petticoat , very ingeniously made , and containing upwards of 40 pounds weight of tobacco . The petticoats were divided into . compartments , and were partially supported on the shoulders by means ot a kind of stays , and partly by straps fastened round The loins . The women stated that they had been jnet in the streets of Ostend by a man who Promised to pay their passage to London and back , and to give them five francs ( 4 s . 2 d . ) each , if they would carry the petticoats containing the tobacco . The same man also said he would meet them in London . Mr . Yardley observed , that similar cases of heartless entrapping had come before his notice ; and that there appeared to exist a regularly organised system of smuggling by means " of miserable dupes . He advised the prisoners to confess everything ; in > which case , although he was obliged to fine each 100 / ., or , in default to sentence them to six months' imprisonment , the punishment would no doubt be partmlly or wholly remittecL . In the mean while the ; gaolerwa directed to take every care of them . The eldest o 1 the women said that if she could find the person who had deceived them , she would kill him .
Melancholy Death Of An Officer From The ...
MELANCHOLY DEATH OF AN OFFICER FROM THE CRIMEA . Major Charles Colville Young , an officer of the Royal Artillery , who had recently returned from before Sebastopol , where ho received a flesh-wound in the log , met with his death at Portsmouth , on Saturday last , under lamentable circumstances , ns atatcd at the inquest held on the body : — " Major Young arrived on the previous day at the Fountain Hotel , on his way to Uyde , in the Islo of Wight , whore his wife and family reside . Shortly after hia arrival , he sent a rather incoherent letter to a friend , Captain Savage , stating that ho had been travelling almost incessantly since ho left the trenches , . « to command a troop of horso artillery . ' Ho expressed n wisli to ace Captain Savage ; ' but , ' ho added , 'do not como till I send word—rather lot mo find you out , for I want to neo the dentist somewhere in this utreot . ' Major Young directed the waiter at tho hotel to bo very
partl-] , , , ., . cular in calling him , at seven morning ; the waiter states that ' he was sharp spoken and rather excitable , ' but not apparently from the influence of wine . At about 2 o ' clock in the morning , the > pohceman on duty saw the deceased leaning out of his bedroom window ( which was in the top story ) , with his hat on , and dressed , and he asked the policeman what tune he could go to the Isle of Wight . The constable told him that he would call a waterman if he wished it , but that it was a dark night , and would not be a pleasant journey . Major Young said ' he was not afraid , as he had Coit u s revolvers with him . ' The policeman went away , but returned in a few minutes , and found a light burning in the room . Major Young then asked him to call up the chemist opposite , as he did not feel well ; and remarked , I want to get out of the house quietly without disturbing anyone . ' The policeman went to consult the inspector , but immediately after heard a loud cry of ' Help ! On returning with another constable , he found Major Young stretched on the pavement , bleeding . A police-inspector , who had ^ directed the constable to look after Major Young , stated that he could see the whole of his body to the waist as he stretched himself out of the window ; and the probability seems to be that he overbalanced himself , or was seized with vertigo , and felL The police aroused the inmates of the hotel , and Major Young was conveyed to his room , where he died at a quarter to 4 o clock in the morning . The bed had previously been lam in by _ the unfortunate gentleman , and he had apparently lighted some wax-tapers . Death , according to the testimony ot the medical attendant , appeared to arise from excessive hemorrhage , caused by the injuries sustained in the fall . The jury found a verdict of death by accident .
The Cold Shade. Sevastopol ! Sevastopol!...
THE COLD SHADE . Sevastopol ! Sevastopol ! So vast a pall those fields hath shrouded—The trench , the tent , the hospital , With victims of supineness crowded—Lordly misdeeds so vast appal The souL The Cold Shade withers all ! B .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The King of the Sandwich Islands , Kamehameha III ., died on the 15 th of December , aged 42 . He is succeeded by his nephew , ; Prince Liholiho , who has taken the name of Kamehameha IV . Accident on the North Western Railway . — -On Sunday morning last a second-class carriage belonging to a mail train in the above line ran off the rails , and proceeded for three or four miles in that way . The passengers Were not hurt . The wheels of the carriage had collapsed , owing , probably , to the sudden change of weather , which has acted considerably on the metals of the line . ¦ ' ¦ . -Assistant-Surgeon Dr . Edmund Sidney YSason died at Scutari on Febuary 8 , of typhoid fever . We are requested by the Royal Commission of tb . e Patriotic Fund to state that , although the circular of the honorary secretaries to the local committees of the Patriotic Fund pointed out national schools for the orphans , this was only as an example , and the orphans of Roman Catholics and Dissenters may , of course , be placed in their own schools , and will be paid for by the committee upon the same scale as the other ch ildren are to be paid for . —Times . Army Before Sebastopol . —The committee nominated by the House of Commons met for the first tune on Mondaj-, to choose a chairman and consider the course of their proceedings . Mr . Roebuck was unanimously chosen chairman , the . other members being Mr . Drummond , Sir J . Pakington . Colonel Lindsay , Mr . Layaru , Mr . Ellice , Lord Seymour , Sir George Lewis , General Peel , Mr . Bramston , and Mr . J . Ball . Death of Professor Gauss . —Letters from t * ot-, tingen announce that Professor Gauss , of that Univerf sity , died on Friday last , tho 23 rd ult . JacicI Fiiost Salmon-fishing . — On Sunday last , 1 while several persons were standing on the ice m the vicinity of the Cutts , a large salmon leaped out ot tlie Bann and fell , very much to their astonishment , and at the same time their no small delight , close at their feet . We need scarcely say that ho waa at once secured , ana prevented from again getting back to his native clement , He was a fine plump lish , and weig hed about < J 01 bs . — Coleraine Chronicle . . . Thk vacancy in tho House of Lords , caused by the death of tho lato Viscount Lorton , bus been filled up by the election of tho Earl of Portarlington t to bo the new Representative Peer for Ireland . Mons . Sovbb left London on Tuesday mornwej ^ Scutari , at tho desire of Government , for the purpose ol superintending tho dietary at the hospital there . An alteration of tho City police ^ ' ^ M 1 ^ ° Monday morning . In future the men will bo placed on day duty for four hours , bo relieved for fo r " ° > » £ then commence their second four hours ; us aflordg them more relief than by tho old system , that , < f ^ lavinfc every other day a long duty of nine l . ou « . 1 " "'J ™ officers will bo placed on duty for eight , and not hours , as heretofore . llKAMlsII tho well-known : ; r = ^ SS ^« 4 J ^ SESS & SS a A UsiV " . Pi 1 k « ki , knt— A correspondent of tho 7 yL c , p . tho Sul , joined circular addressed by the Govonu ont of too Englbh Commonwealth in 1053 , to
A Murder By A. Boy. Thomas Monroe, A Min...
A MURDER BY A . BOY . Thomas Monroe , a minor , aged eighteen , an « P re ; scnting a very boyish appearance , was tried at Carlisle , before Mr Baron I ' arke , for the murder of Isaac Turner , of Lampleigh , on the 4 th of November last The trial occupied two whole days , and a large mass of evidence was produced . From this i . appeared that Turner , who was about flftj-eight years of ago , was in the employ of some large iron ore merchants , and that he was in the habit ot paying the wages of the men , for which purpose it was necessary for him to proceed some way across country . On the morning of the 4 th of November he set out on this business with the sum of 10 / . m his pocket ; and at about a quarter'P ^ t 1 . , ^* was seen going in tho direction ot a field called Hall ' s Acre . A quarter of an hour later , his lifeless body was found . at tho entrance of tho field by tho man who had seen him walking in that direction . The windpipe was severed from car to ear , and the head and face wore much gashed . The deceased s pockets were turned out and rilled , and near the place a few shillings and a holf-sovcrcign were found . Very soon after tho murder had been committed , a man waa seen proceeding from the spot vtherq tho body was found , apparently fearful of pursuit , as ho constantly glanced over his shoulder , and stooped hia head under tho hodgo . Ho was shortly afterwards seen wiping his face with a handkerchief , ns if in a great heat , and Btillcroeping stealthily along tho hodgo . i- ho pri- . . f p , I i . s . , , c I s 0 1 e o ; d ?
soner was , home , at the time the murder must have been committed ; hia clothes were found spotted with human blood ; certain footprints near the scene of the tragedy corresponded with the shape and size of his shoes ; and other circumstantial evidence tended to fix suspicion upon him . No witnesses were palled by the counsel for the defence , who confined himself to commenting Qn the above facts ; and the jury found a verdict of guilty , with a recommendation to mercy on account of the prisoner ' s youth . The Judge , however , implored Munroe not to place too much reliance on the recommendation . Speaking of the passing of the sentence of death , the Times reporter observes : —" There was something singularly affecting in this solemnity—the very long and protracted trial that had taken place , a densely crowded court—all heightened by the glare of lights upon wearied and anxious countenancesand the circumstance of the Court-house clock striking the midnight hour of twelve just at the instant the learned judge pronounced the last words of the awful sentence of the law . "
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Leader (1850-1860), March 3, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03031855/page/9/
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