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to make the most of their land , require a superior education , a knowledge of machinery and chemistry , I can 8 aytbat at least they ought to have a fair and just share in returning the representatives of this country . "
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CRIMINAL RECORD . The JIitbdeb in Bloomsbury . —The adjourned inquest on the body of Canty , who was murdered by Tombi , in Gloucester-street , Queen-square , was resumed on Tuesday . The adjournment liad taken place to allow of an app lication to the Home Secretary to have the prisoner brought before the jury , which was complied with . The prisoner was produced , and the evidence already before the public was repeated . Mr . Lewis , who defended the prisoner , raised no question as to his state of mind , although it is evident the man was insane when he committed the act , and the jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against him . Tlie prisoner -was also re-examined at the Cierkenwell police-court , and committed for trial . Fatax Prize Fight . —An inquest has been held at Guy's Hospital , on the body of George Macdonald , aged seventeen ,, who died from injuries received in a pugilistic encounter with Samuel Asquith , alias Gosway , at Abbey Wood , on Sunday morning . Witnesses proved that the fight , which was for 51 . a side , lasted an hour , when deceased wished to give in , but his brutal backers , unwilling to lose their few shillings merely to save his life , nrged him on to continue the contest . The result was that the wretched boy in the closing struggle had his neck dislocated , which caused death . The jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Asquith ; who has been brought up at Woolwich police-court and remanded for the apprehension of his accomplices . Poachers and Gamekeepers . —On Saturday night last another conflict between poachers and gamekeepers , doubly fatal , occurred on the estate of Mr . Ac . kroyd , in Cheshire . A party of keepers met four poachers , and attempted to take them ; but the poachers fired , shot one deafl , and mortally wounded the other . The murderers have hot been apprehended . It is surely time that something were done to remove this perpetual source of rural warfare and bloodshed . The Murder at Ajtdover . —rAn inhabitant of Andover , named Thomas Alexander Banks , a retired publican in good circumstances , has been arrested on suspicion of being the murderer of the deceased Mr . Parsons . An examination of the accused took place at the policestation on Saturday afternoon before the borough magistrates . The examination was a private one , and more evidence was not gone into than was sufficient to justify a remand . The wife of the' prisoner is watched by the , police . . Attempted Murder . —On Tuesday afternoon a prisoner , named Simpson , in the Coldbath-fields House of Correction , quarrelled with the officer in charge about ' his food , and then stabbed both him and another officer ' who came to the rescue . Both of the wounded men were seriously injured , and it was at first feared that one of them would not survive . ' Suspected Murder . —A servant-girl named Hannah ' King was found lying upon the railway near Dalston ' with her legs broken . She was conveyed to the German ' Hospital , but died after amputation had been performed . i Before her death she made a . statement to the chaplain ' and to her aunt to the effect that she had been met by a ' person in woman ' s clothes ( but whom ahe afterwards discovered to be a man ) who inquired the way to Pork- * road , and thus got her into conversation . The stranger ( gave her something to drink put of a bottle he had with him , which ' took away her senses . After awhile she * found herself lifted over the rnilway-bridge ; she rolled / T down the embankment , and then got up and walked on A the line , whan she heard a train approach her . Witnesses I at the inquest deposed to seeing the deceased thrown s over the bridge , and that a train passed immediately " afterwards . The person who threw her over was in the * garb of a woman , and immediately made off . In answer * to the coroner the surgeon stated that some slight c violence had been committed on her person . It further 8 appeared that a person answering the description of the ° party perpetrating thia outrage called on the same even- Q , ing at a house in the neighbourhood of the occurrence , j » n d , on the door being opened by a young woman , asked c her if sho was alone iu the house , but sho called her s master , and the party ran away . The inquiry was ad-( ournod .
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] i ' . j ] I 3 { 1 < j { < t i 1 \ i t a a \ s t o t v JFi DEATHS FROM GRIEF . We have a number of deaths caused by grief , recorded in Michaud ' s Biographie , for the truth of which he is responsible . The number of learned men who died of grief in consequence of various accidents is very considerable . Tribolp , a Florentine engineer of the sixteenth century , died of grief ( and of illness , adds the Biograjphiey for having caused the inundations in the territory of Florence . Viglius , a German lawyer , died , in 1577 , at the age of seventy , in consequence of the ingratitude of the prince whom he served . An English writer died , 1557 , at the age of fortythree , for having been forcibly converted ; the famous heretic of the twelfth century , Amaury , died from , the same cause , having been forced to deny his belief . The ^ Benedictine Lami ended his days at seventy-rfive because a young man whom he had converted from heresy , relapsed again into its fatal errors . Sibouyah , an Arabic grammarian of the eighth century , died , it is said , of grief , because the Kaliph Harounal-Rascbyd decided in favour of another savant on a . grammatical point on which they differed . The Spanish , theologian "Valentia betrayed equal susceptibility ; lie died in 1598 , aged fifty-two , because the Pope had reproached him with falsifying ; a passage of Saint Augustin . The historian Avrigny , born at Caen , in 1675 , died of grief at sixty-six , in consequence of some alterations made by Lallement in his works . The Scotch . Chancellor Elphinston died , they say , of grief occasioned by the loss of the battle of Flodden Field ; he was , it is true , eighty , five years of age . The Italian . philosopher Rhodiginus , died of grief in 1525 , because Francis the First was made prisoner at Pavia , he being at the time seventy-five . The English architect Jones , who could not survive the execution of Charles I ,, had attained the age of-sixty-nine . The physician Fabricius , whom tho misfortunes of the King of Denmark made succumb , was more than seventy . Various persons died , they sny , of grief occasioned by the assassination of Henry IV . They cite , amongst others , the celebrated chief of the partisans of Vic . Duprat , Bishop of Clerraont , died , in 1560 , at seventytwo years of age , because the canons of his chapter wished to forco him to cut his beard . — 'Irish Quarterly Review .
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. . Ci ' THE STATE OF SARAWAK . » deputation , consisting of the following gentlemen— oi Mr . Crawford , M . P ., Lord Godoricli , M . P ., Mr . Grogson , w . P ., Mr . Horsfull , M . P ., Mr . Ewart , M . P ., Mr . Drum- al mond , M . P ., Sir Dnlrymplo Elphinstoiio , M . P ., tho Mayor ai Manchester ( Mr . Mackio ) , Mr . William Fairbairn , Mr . ei Thomas Fairbairn , Mi * . Ponder , Mr . Ross , and Mr . Simp- ni son , from Manchester ; Mr . Cuarlca Turner , Mr . M'Mlclc- pi ing , and Mr . Adam Gladstone , from Liverpool ; Mr . re Nicol , from Glasgow { Mr . Ingrain Travors , Mr , Coulson , hi and Mr . John Smith—had an interview with tho Earl of rj Derby on Tuesday , in roforouco to tho propriety of re- ni tninlng the State of Sarawak under the protectorate of cc ltq English Government . cr Tho proceedings which wore of groat length , may bo tli thus summed up . Tho deputation , which represented C > of tho
some three hundred of the most eminent and opulent firms of the kingdom , informed his lordship that they consider it would be much for the advantage of trade if the British Government would take possession of the territory of Sarawak , which is offered to it upon any terms it may be pleased to name . The Earl of Derby said he had listened with great attention to the statements made upon this subject , which was one of considerable importance , but one of considerable difficulty . He wished to speak of Sir-James Brooke with the highest respect . He was a man of great energy and influence , and there was cot the least doubt that to his personal influence and efforts the improvement was owing'in the state of Sarawak . The propositions of the deputation his lordship met with a negative , refusing altogether to discuss the commercial points which they brought under his consideration . These he put aside , and based his refusal , first , upon the ground that great inconveniences would arise from the precedent of sanctioning such undertakings as the one which has been carried to so wonderful an issue by Sir James Brooke ; secondly , because he is not clear as to Sir James Brooke's title ; and , thirdly , because he and his colleagues are opposed to territorial extension altogether . With regard to Sir James Brooke , he did not conceive he had a claim upon the Government in respect of-what he had done for his own purposes and objects ; his was a half political and half commercial speculation . At the present time the views of the Government were not favourable to the adoption of any of the propositions laid before them . .
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GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE £ COURTS . jj , Tub mystery regarding the publication of tho Ionian n aospatchoa was cleared up at Bow-street last Saturday . 01 Otio William Hudson Guorasoy , n person iu tho position 1 « ft fn 6 ' OHtloma "» and who formerly hold a commission in s < t « e 1 urkiah Contingent , was charged with having stolen h ooplos of the dcspalchda of Sir J . Young . Thia is tho N man who sent thorn to tho oilloe pf the Daily Hews , a \ A « o prosecution is , of course , a Government one . Tho D evidence ndducod wont to show that tho prieouor had t « i ire quoritly called upon Mr . Millor , sub-librarian at tho tli « n ill V " * wlth whom lie had some acquaintance , ami that ho had been loft tiioi-o alone on one occasion tli A M of t
! when printed copies of the despatches were lying on the library-table . On the part of the Colonial Office it is imputed that Mr . Guernsey was induced to take _ the course he had done in revenge , not having received place , and pay according to his application . It was further proved that the prisoner was the person who supplied the Daily News with the copies from which the despatches were published . The prisoner , who offered no defence ; was committed for trial , ba il being refused . A thief , named Richard Barry , who practises childstripping , was placed in the dock of the Thames policecourt , where a crowd of his victims and their parents were in attendance to charge the rascal with his mea n villanies . A police-constable said he was prepared to substantiate a hundred cases of theft against him , perpetrated in all parts of the metropolis . Mir . Selfe sent the prisoner for trial , as he did not consider the highest penalty in his power to inflict adequate to the deserts of the case . At the Westminster police-court , a grenadier guardsman , named Hudson , was " charged wich having most I brutally assaulted a poor old woman , seventy years of age , who came into a public-house where he was drinking , and asked him to buy a song . The prisoner was remanded . The frequency with , which assaults are perpetrated , by soldiers at the West-end calls for the exercise of rigorous punishment . The disgusting case of March mont v . Marchmont has terminated in a verdict for the petitioner , and she is now , therefore , judicially separated from her husband . The judge , in his summing up , did not spare cither party—both alike received at his hands a well-merited castigation . Thomas Edis , grocer Aylesbury-street , Cierkenwell , and Benjamin George Clements , Elder-walk , were each fined in the mitigated penalty of 25 / ., by Mr . Jardine , at Bow-street , for adulterating coffee with chicory . Thomas Higgins and George Davis were charged at Westminster police-court with conspiring to obtain the signature of Mr . Charles Grunberg , proprietor of Ashburnham Nursery , Kihg ' s-road , Chelsea , to a number of bills of exchange and a bill of sale for a large amount . The evidence , given at great length , was to the purport that the prosecutor ' s i gnorance of English law had been taken advantage of to plunder him to the extent represented by the documents to which he had been induced to attach his name . Mr . Paynter found it necessary to remand the case , and refused to take bail . We regret to find that further evidence has been brought against the wretch Ruiledge which leaves no doubt as to his detestable conduct to his daughter . He and his wife have been committed for trial . There / will be another indictment preferred against him , for the vio- lation of a girl named Ellen Saltmarsh , who had lived as a servant in his house , At a meeting of the Middlesex magistracy on Thurs- day some discussion took place on the much-vexed question of the position and authority of coroners . A severe censure was passed on the Registrar-General for having in his report condemned the conduct of the magistrates in allowing certain fees claimed by the coroners for the holding of inquests , which they deemed unnecessary . Reference was then made to the measures idopted by Mr . Wakley and jury sitting on the body of the nian recently murdered in Gloucester-street , to secure the presence of the individual accused of the nurder at the remanded inquiry . The right of the Flonie Secretary to authorise this infraction of the ordi- mry custom was stoutly denied . The subject then Iropped . A remarkable case of robbery and perjury by a boy ms just come to light , by which a foul aspersion i $ renoved from the character of some innocent persons , I bout three weeks ngo a burglary was committed in the ( remises of Messrs . Kent and Co ., Great Marlboroughtrcet , when 51 / . in money was carried off . There was l boy , fifteen years of ago , named Edward Herbert , in ho service of tho firm , who , on oath before the mngis- rate , charged two men in the same employ witli the rime , saying that he had receivod a sovereign not to peak of it . Tho police , however , had some suspicions f tho boy ; and , being watched , ho was observed the thor day digging up some sovereigns in Hammersmith Churchyard , and , when brought before Mr . Bingham , onfessod that ho was guilty of tho robbery . Tho pri- oner was remanded for a week ,
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ji t ] t ( j , q j ,. I CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION . Pursuant to a requisition , signed by three hundred of . the principal linns in tho City of London , and addressed to the Lord Mayor , a meeting was held on Wednesday , in the London Tavern , to receive the report of Mr , Charles Pearson , City Solicitor , as to his recent proceedings to obtain improved railway accommodation for the City , and to consider the propriety of appointing a committee to inquire and report whether any aud what measures oau be adopted to diminish the overcrowding tho prinoiual thorough faros , and to obtain for tho working classes bettor habitations than they are now able to procure in tho close and ill-ventilated courts and alloys of tho City . Tho Lord Mayor presided , and was supported by a large number of tho most influential merchants and bankers ; Lord John Russell waa also present . Mr . 0 . Pearson , previous to presenting tho report , callod attention to the objects contemplated by him , and to tlm advantages that " would ariao from car- , rying hia project into effect . Ono of tho apooohos was made by Lord John Ruasoll , who supported the objoota contemplated . Tho first resolution spoke of tho overcrowding of tlio strootd of London , and tho second of overcrowding of tho dwolllnga of tho poor . The * Central Raihviiy Station project was advocated upon tlie
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1858, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04121858/page/5/
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