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Apbi* 7,1855.] THE LEADER. 321
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Miscellaneous. The Police Of Provincial ...
it appeared that Garrett was sentenced to ten years ' transportation for burglary in 1845 . He will be taken back to Melbourne for triaL Confession : of a Mukdeb . —Henry Ifield , who was lately committed for trial at Tunbridge for stealing a cheque , attempted to hang himself in prison , but was cut down in time . He afterwards made a confession , to the effect'that he had murdered his wife . He had married her , he said , for the sake of her money , and this being soon spent , he conceived a violent hatred of her , and at length struck her down , and cut her throat . The
body he deposited on a shelf in an archway at Dartford . This was about twenty years since ; and"the strange part of the story yet remains to be told . A year ago , he was irresistibly impelled to visit the spot , in order to see in what condition the body was ; and he found the bones remaining , but no flesh . He thought he would remove the bones , and took hold of one of the fingers ; but he fancied that the skull moved , and he ran away , frightened . He added that the ghost of his wife had haunted him unceasingly . Search has been made in the archway indicated : but no bones have been found .
The Royal Humane Society . —At the anniversary festival of the Royal Humane Society , on the evening of Friday week , the Chairman Sir Samuel Peto , Bart ., gave some interesting statistics relative to the labours of the association . He said— " The report for the last year states that of 150 cases brought under the notice of the society ( comprising 177 persons ) , 159 were treated with success , that 97 skaters and sliders ( out of 1 , 097 , 000 ) immersed by breaking through the ice during the late severe season , were rescued by the society ' s men , and that 620 cases of severe cuts and braises received medical treatment at the receiving-house up to the 27 th of February . The total number of bathers in the Serpentine during the year amounted to 193 , 000 , and out of this number 17 bathers were rescued from drowning .
Mb . W . P . Price , who accepted the Chiltem Hundreds , in order to relieve himself from any disabilities he had incurred in consequence of the extensive firm of timber merchants , of which he is a member , having constructed the huts for the soldiers in the Crimea , was re-elected for Gloucester , without opposition , on Saturday . Death of Viscount Boyne . —This nobleman , whose name revives some important political reminiscences ^ died on the 30 th ult . at his town residence . The deceased peer , Gustavus Hamilton , in the peerage of Ireland , was son of the fifth holder of the title , and was born in 1777 . He succeeded his father in 1816 , and married , at an
early age , the daughter of Benjamin Baugh , Esq ., through whom he inherited some property in the county of Salop . He is succeeded in the title and estates by his son Frederick , born in 1797 . The title was conferred upon the first viscount , General Hamilton , for services rendered to the cause of William III ., for whom he raised no less than six regiments , two of which now bear the title of " Inniskillinge "—one the Inniskillinge Dragoons , and the other the 27 th Inniskillinge Foot . The first Lord Boyne particularly distinguished himself at the siege of Deny and the battle of the Boyne , for which services , in addition to title , he received a large portion of confiscated property .
Emigration from Liverpool . —The total number of passengers who have left-Liverpool for all -foreign-ports during the quarter ending March 31 has been about 21 , 000 , of whom 6704 have proceeded to the Australian colonies , and the great bulk of the remainder to the United States of America . In the conveyance of this number of people , a fleet of a hundred ships have been employed , of an average tonnage of 1000 tons each . During the month of March eight vessels sailed for Australian ports , of an aggregate tonnage of 10 , 727 tons , or an average of 1341 to each vessel ; of these , four were for Melbourne , two for Adelaide , and two for Sydney . Three conveyed Government emigrants to the number of 1219 , while the remaining five carried 596 private passengers .
A Tragical Story . . — We derive the following narrative from the Chicago Press of February 21 : — "On the Saturday preceding Jthe memorable storm of the 21 st of January , two families , numbering' ten persons , moving from Southern Indiana to Northern Illinois , arrived at Oxford , the county scat of Benton county , Indiana , with two ox-teams , and well provided with necessaries for the road . They remained there through the storm , and on Monday morning resumed their journey . Last Tuesday morning , a man passing over a prairie only about five miles from Oxford came upon the carcases of two oxen , from which the viscera had been removed . Inside of one of them were the frozen bodies
of four children , and in the other the frozen corpse of the mother , with a nursing infant at her breast . Under the snow was a heap of ashes , in which the iron of the waggon showed that the party had broken thorn up and burned everything they had in the effort to save their lives . Not far from thia spot was found the body of the other woman of the party , partly concealed in a snowdrift , and near her one of tho men . The two other men had not been found . It is probable that tho party became inextricably involved in the snowdrifts on the bleak prairie , and lost their presence of mind . After burning up their waggons , it would scorn that the men had killed two of tho oxen for a shelter to those found in thorn , and then , accompanied by one woman , vainly endeavoured to reach the town they had loft , and procure
aid to rescue their companions . The two other oxen had wandered off . " The New Metropolitan Cattle-Market . —In the Court of Common Council , on Monday , Mr .- H . L . Taylor , the chairman of the Markets Improvement Committee , brought up a report in which it was stated ¦ that the architect estimates the expense of completing the works at 80 , 000 / ., in addition-to the amount already authorized by . the Court . After some discussion , it was agreed that the report should be received , and referred to the Coal , Corn , and Finance Committee , to consider how the money may be raised .
Fruits of Slavery . —The painful operations of the " peculiar institution , " have been witnessed practically in Missouri . The wife of a slave who was in the employment of a planter was severely whipped for some real or imaginary offence , which so exasperated her husbandalso a slave—that he armed himself with a deadly instrument , and visited the residence of his wife ' s adversary , and inflicted over his head several severe blows , which soon caused his death . The slave fired a . pistol at the window , and , jumping on a horse , rode away . A mob immediately gathered , apprehended the criminal , and proceeded to inflict summary vengeance on him . One party was in favour of burning him alive , the other for hanging ; the latter prevailed , and another crime was added to the already extended catalogue . — Kansas Herald of Freedom , February 24 .
The Railway Bridge over the Niagara has been passed for the first time by a locomotive . An English engine , bearing the name of the London , started from the Canada side , and paused at the centre to test the strength of the work . A deflection of one half of an inch—no more than was anticipated— -took place . The engine then passed on to the United States side ; and the blended flags of the two nations were waved amidst the exultation of the spectators . The Encampment in the Curragii of Kildare . —A correspondent of the Carlow Sentinel gives the following particulars relative to the proposed camp at Kildare ;—" I have visited the camp to-day . It will be beautifully circumstanced . In the rear , it will be
completely sheltered from the northerly winds by the hill on which it is placed ; whilst in front , its southerly aspect will make it exceedingly warm . The nature of the soil , and the inclination of the ground , will cause it to be dry in the wettest season of the year . The camp itself will be composed of huts made of wood , placed on brick foundation , about twenty by forty feet in size , arranged . in rows , with streets twenty feet wide between each , running down the side of the hill , so as to form an inclined plane for the water to be carried away in rainy weather ; each house will face the one at the opposite side , and there will be a space between the end of each , forming , as it were , cross streets , a matter of great importance in the ventilation . Each hut will be covered in with asphalte except the officers ' , which will have vulcanised iron roofs , and will be supplied with a stove in the centre , and open by a door at each end . Some of them
will have boarded floors ; others merely the soil on which they are placed ; and more will have ceilings . It is estimated that five rows , each having eight huts , will accomodate 1500 men . The foundations for four are already built , and a large number of men are engaged in renioving _ the . furze , clearing away the ground for the position of each hut , and preparing mortar , "& c 7 , ~ for the works . Twelve wells are being sunk along the bottom of the hill on the Brownestown side ; in these , forcing pumps will be put up , which the soldiers will have to work ; and , ia order to train them to field duties , I have heard it is the intention of the authorities to make the men clear away all rubbish which may be left ; and when encamped they will have to make the streets , remove offal , & c , to trenches dug at some distance from the camp , which are to be covered in according as they are filled up . Ovens and a slaughtering-house will also be erected . "
Tins Camp on Aldershott Heath . —We read in tho Times : —" Aldershott-heath embraces about 3000 acres of waste land , covered with heath or broom , and sufficiently undulating in surface to give , at the more elevated points , a fine extensive view of the surrounding country . Tho selection appears to have been a most judicious one , as affording facilities for the execution of military manoeuvres upon a sufficiently comprehensive scale ; and so far as the health and comfort of tho troops to be ¦ tntioned there are concerned , there seems nothing to be objected to in the soil or situation , or in tho supply of water , which is said to bo found in abundance and of
good quality . Altogether , perhaps , no better selection could have been made , for tho site of an experimentnl camp . It is proposed to concentrate upon this heath 20 , 000 militia-mon , and 10 , 000 regular troops—tho former to bo hutted , and tho latter to bo provided with permanent barracks . " The writor goes on to make several serious objections to the construction of the huts , which he thinks will not be convenient nor healthy ; and to point out the bungling way in which tho Board of Ordnance have set about the works . Amongst other instances of mismanagement , he mentions that tho Board have begun the erection of tho huts before preparing the ground or making tho roads .
Mkxico . —Advices from Mexico to tho 8 rd ult . state that Santa Anna is , reported to have left tho capital -on tho 26 th of February with all tho JtroopH , except 15 , 000 , taking with him a largo quantity of baggage . It was further reported that ho had reached tho department of
Guerero , and had defeated the insurgents under Moreno ; that he had met and forced the main army under Alvarez to retire after a desperate engagement , and that he was on his return to the capital . The Trees in the Parks . —Correspondents of various of our contemporaries complain that the authorities are allowing trees in the parks and Kensington Gardens to be cut down . If this be done without sufficient excuse , it is a shameful ifobbery of the public , and a disgraceful piece of Vandalism . The tree 3 about the suburbs of London are being destroyed so fast by the progress of building , that the public gardens become every day of greater importance . It will be really too bad if those too are to be rendered deserts . American News . —The President has issued his proclamation ratifying the treaty of reciprocity between the United States and Great Britain from the 16 th of
March . —The charge in the United States district court against the alleged " Filibustering" expedition of the steamer Massachusetts , has failed . —It is said that the Governor of . Halifax , Nova Scotia , has received authority to raise a foreign legion for the British service there , with a couple of regiments formed of persons born subjects of England . —The intelligence of the failure of Page and Bacon , of St . Louis , has caused a great panic . A tremendous " run" has taken place upon the banks ; many of those establishmenes have been obliged to close ; and the people , having in their anger broken into the vaults , discovered them to be empty . Some wealthy merchants , however , have proffered assistance ; and it is hoped that trade , which had been entirely suspended , will soon be resumed . —Business , in the United State 3 generally , was dull at the last advices .
Suicide in Full Dress . — Miss Augusta Frederick , a lady of property , aged fifty-three , residing in Upper Berkeley-street , was found lying upon her bed dressed in an embroidered satin gown , as if for an evening party . Upon examination , she proved to be dead ; and , from the fact of an empty phial which had contained essential oil of almonds being discovered close by , and the body itself giving out the odour of that poison , it is presumed that the deceased had committed suicide . She was frequently depressed in her spirits . Royal Inspection of 'Wounded Guardsmen . —By command of her Majesty , fifty men of the Brigade of Guards on service in the Crimea , invalided during the
different military operations , attended at Buckingham Palace at three o ' clock on Monday afternoon , and were inspected by the Queen and Prince Albert in the Grand Hall . Twenty of the invalids were Grenadiers ; fifteen were of the Coldstreams , and-fif teen of the Scots Fusilier _ Regiment . Her Majesty was attended during the inspection by Colonel Wood and Surgeon-Major Brown , of the Grenadiers ; Colonel Upton and Surgeon-Major Munro , of the Coldstream Guards ; and Colonel Ridley and Surgeon-Major Richardson , of the Scots Fusilier Guards ; who explained to the Queen the nature of the different wounds , the actions in which they were received , and the state of health of the men .
Death of JIk . Carpenter , the Architect . —Mr . R . C . Carpenter , distinguished by the success with which he has prosecuted that revival of Gothic architecture which forms a characteristic feature of the present generation , died on the 27 th ult ., at the early age of fortythree . Equally beloved as a man as he was honoured as an- artist , Mr . Carpenter ' s _ . loss \ vill be alike felt b y the circle of friends to whom his amiable quali ' tiea " endeared him , and by the world at large , in being deprived of one whose eminence in his profession was incontestable . Of his original works , the principal already executed was the large and striking College of St . John , at Huratpierpoint , near Brighton , founded by the Rev . N .
Woodard , for the education of the sons of the middle classes . The designs for Mr . Woodard ' s upper-class college , at Lancing , were already prepared . Of the numerous churches which Mr . Carpenter erected , we need only refer to St . Paul ' s , Brighton ; All Saints , in the same town ; and St . Mary Magdalene , in Munstersquare , London ; while , among many others , the restoration of the magnificent minster at Sherbome attests his skill in that department of the ecclesiastical architect ' s profession . In tho various subsidiary arts of glasspainting and wood-carving , his taste was excellent ; and Mr . Curpenter never left any work of his half finished from want of that fine eye which considers no detail too inconsiderable for tho artist ' s attention . —
Morning Post . The Reported Dkatii ok Dk . Bakth . — The following is an extract of a letter from Malta , dated tho 26 th of March : —" A highly interesting letter lrom Colonel Herman , her Majesty ' s Consul nt 1 ripoli , lias reached the island , dated tho 13 th of March . It says : — » You will , I am confident , bo delighted to hear that tho rumour of Dr . llnrth ' H death was unfounded . A letter from him , dated Knno , tho 15 th of November last , reached mo yesterday . Jfo then calculated on arriving monthsbut hich ho
at Moorzouk within three , w , a » purposed moving by tho circuitous route of Kooka , ho never would accomplish . Tho rumour of h » 3 death was fabricated by tho cx-rulcr of Hornou , for tho purpose of pofl-BOSBlnir himself of a depfit of supplies Unit had boon formed at Zojhan ngainat tho doctor ' s return , and in which ho succeeded . Tho overthrow of this man was most fortunate , otherwise tho fabricated report might have boon converted into a storn reality . ' " This Ballot . —Mr , II . Berkeley , M . P ., haa given .
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Apbi * 7 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER . 321
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Leader (1850-1860), April 7, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07041855/page/9/
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