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1064* THE LEADER. [No. 398, November 7,1...
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OBITUARY. Mb. James Morrisox.-—A roan wh...
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS. Mb. William...
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. FRANCE. "The report o...
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OUR CIVILIZATION. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COUKT...
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Ireland. Du.-"Walsi«K And This Patriotic...
PitESSum ; on the Irish Banks .- —There has been something of a ruu for gold on the "Waterford banks , bat the demands were promptly met . State ox Tifjpkrary . —Agrarian outrages are again being committed i » Tipperary . On the night of the 28 th ult ., some ruffians went to the house of < Tohn Hackett , a jerson employed on the lands of Mr . Matthew E . Gabbett , of Dublin , who some years ago purchased the ground in the Encumbered Estates Court , and nred through th < e window . The contents of the gun ( broken nails ) passed through the closed shutters , and fell harmlessly near Hackett , his wife , and a neighbour , who were sitting by the fire .
A Family Poisoned . —A man and his wife and child , living at Bilboe , about seven miles from Carlow , were discovered on the rooming of the 30 tIi ult . suflering from tie effects of arsenical poisoning . The wife is expected to die ; the husband is still in a precarious state ; but the child is recovering . It is suspected that the poison was wilfully administered by another person . The Orajsge Society . —Lord Dungannon , theGTand Master of the Antrim . Orange Lodge , has made a very indignant speech , at a recent meeting of the Lodge , with reference to the letter of the Chancellor condemnatory of those Justices of the Peace who are connected with the
Association . His Lordship hints at resistance , and advises a petition to the Queen . —The Grand Lodge of Ireland met on Tuesday , and appointed a committee to take the Chancellor ' s letter and other subjects bearing on the prospects of Orangeisni into serious consideration . Outrage in MkATH . —Mr . Richard Council , of Robinstown , while returning from service last Sunday morning in a car , with his mother and sister , was attacked by a party of ruffians , beaten about the head with sticks and whips loaded in the handle , and almost murdered . His mother was also a good deal hurt in endeavouring to save her son ; but the sister was untouched . The miscreants escaped .
Sudden Death op Lord Charges Butler . —Lord Charles "Wandesforde Butler has died suddenly of apoplexy , in his thirty-eighth year , at the residence of his mother , the Dowager Marchioness of Ormond , at Marley , Kathfarnham :
1064* The Leader. [No. 398, November 7,1...
1064 * THE LEADER . [ No . 398 , November 7 , 18 < V 7
Obituary. Mb. James Morrisox.-—A Roan Wh...
OBITUARY . Mb . James Morrisox .- —A roan who was not only a millionnaire , but a millionnaire nearly four times overj departed this life on the afternoon of Friday week . James Morrison , one of the merchant princes of London , was a native of Hampshire , though the family was of Scotch descent , and was born about 1790 . Coming to London in early life , he was employed as a warehouse assistant at very low wages ; but in time he secured a partnership in the Fore-street business of the late Mr . Todd , whose daughter he married . He rapidly advanced in wealth , chiefly by the principle of . * small profits and quick returns , which he was the first to introduce . He speculated in many things and in many directions , and was almost always successful . He was likewise a large
purchaser of land , in several English counties , as well as at Islay , Scotland , and was an admirable agriculturist . The Liberal party in politics always reckoned him as a faithful and enthusiastic member , and he has sat in Parliament for several boroughs . Though a self-educated man , he had an excellent taste in literature and art . He made several speeches in Parliament on the subject of railways ; and these were collected into a volume , and are mentioned by Mr . M'Culloch , in his l Literature of Political Economy , ' as having done the public good service . In 1846 , he succeeded in obtaining the
memorable select committee for better promoting and securing in Railway Acts the interests of the public . His wealth and estates are said to be equitably distributed among the members of his large family ; and it is stated that his far-seeing sagacity has prevented the likelihood of the amount being diminished by the recent American panic . For the last few years of his life , howeverstrange comment on the value of wealth !—Mr . Morrison was under the impression that he should die in poverty ; and hia friends were obliged to invent a fiction of employing him in agricultural work , and paying him wages 1
Accidents And Sudden Deaths. Mb. William...
ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Mb . William T . Siiaw , of Shawbrook , near Torshall , Longford , has accidentally allot himself . He waa out ¦ with a friend , and , in passing through a hedge , turned the muzzle tow . ar . ds himself , so an not to endanger his companion . The trigger caught in a twig , and in another moment Mr . Shaw waa dead . He waa in hia fortieth year , and has left a family of five young girls . A melancholy accident , which occurred during the passage home from Quebec of her Majesty's steam-frigate "Vulcan , lias deprived the service of a gallant and rising ; young officer—Ensign R . N . Luard—who , while in his cabin on the 27 th ult ., was thrown by the rolling of the vessel into a passage below , dislocating his neck . Death was instantaneous . His remains were committed to the deep on the 28 th with military honours .
Four of tho carriages belonging to a tram on the Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire Railway ran off he raila on Tuesday morning , tho engine keeping tho track at the points leading to tho Mottram Viaduct . At
——^¦ " . ^^^^^^^^ . ¦ ^^^^^ " ¦ ^¦ i ^ iMMBMMB the place of the accident , anew crossing was being put in , and the signalman , who in cases of repairs and renewals is stationed eight hundred yards beyond the point at which the me ; i are at work , neglected to give the proper caution to the driver of the train , who consequently went over the incomplete part of the road at the average speed of thirty miles an hour , instead of at halfspeed . No one was . injured , and the'passengers were sent on by another train . The end ' of one carriage and the side of another were broken against the parapet .
Continental Notes. France. "The Report O...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . "The report of the Minister of Finance , " says the Joui'nal des Actioimaires , "indicates that measures are about to be concerted between the Government , the Bank , and the railway companies relative to the bonds to be issued by the latter . We are assured that these measures consist in the Bank advancing to the companies sums more or less important on the deposit of their bonds , and that it will afterwards issue the bonds at the time and under the conditions which may appear most opportune . It is said that the Government will authorize the Bank to employ foT the advantage of the companies the sum of 59 , 000 , 000 fr ., which , it is said , are at its disposition under the treaty made with the Bank . " ITALY . The telegraphic communication between Africa and Spartivento , in Sardinia , is now perfect . The Modenese official paper announces the cessation of the Austro-Modenese Customs League at the end of October . The Prince and Princess de Joinville are now travelling in ^ Naples . Many Milan families are reduced to great distress by the failure of Ballabio , who has absconded . . .. Count Giuseppe Siccardi , the distinguished jurist , died at Turin on the 29 th ult . The court at Salerno , charged with the trial of the persons concerned iu the insurrectionary attempt at Sapri , has thrown out the bill of indictment against eleven of those who were arrested ; namely , against some who had belonged to the crew of the steam-boat Oagliari . They have consequently been set at liberty . The captain of the steam-boat and several of the crew still , remain in prison . . ...-, '
SWIXZKRLAND . " All the election * , ibr the Grand ¦ . Council , " says a despatch from Berne , " are now known , except those for the canton of the Grisons . The general result will not change in any respect the federal policy . A small number of nominations wliich have remained undecided will necessitate a fresh election . M . Barman , formerly Envoy to France , has been returned in the Valais . " The tunnel of the Haunsteiti has just been at last cut through . The Central Swiss Railway will , therefore , soon be relieved from the unfiuished piece which impeded the relations with Zurich , Lucerne , and Berne .
AUSTRIA . A stamp of one kreutzer ( not quite a halfpenny ) lias been imposed on each copy of the Austrian political organs of the press . The same stamp duty is also to be levied on all foreign political papers which may cross the Austrian frontier . Advertisement sheets , not forming part of a periodical , are likewise to pay one kreutzer stamp duty . It is calculated that the revenue will thus be raised about 600 , 000 fl . a yenr ; but there is no doubt that the great object is still further to restrict the liberty of the press . Horrible accounts are given of the atrocities committtcd by the Hungarian brigands , who not only rob but torture their victims . Very little is done by tho authorities to check them .
M . Guttman , a commission agent at Pesth , absconded on the 22 nd ult ., leaving behind him debts to the amount of about 10 , 000 / .
GEUMANV . The affair of Holstcin has been referred to a Commission at Frankfort . Hanover has demanded that the provisions of the constitution of Holatein , in so far as they may be opposed to the federal law , shall be declared not obligatory , if Denmark persist in . supporting-them . This demand has also been referred to the Commission . PKUSSIA . The King continues to recover health , and on the afternoon of Thursday week he was able for tho first time to go out into the open air . Leaning on the arm of the Queen , he walked for some few minutes on tho terrace of Sau » Souci . This he him sinco repeated .
8 KHVIA . "With refcrenco to the conspiracy recently detected , the scini-omciul Srbske Novlnu publicly accuses the ox-Hospodar Milosch of being concerned in it , observing , u During the examination of tho persons arrested , it was proved that some of the conspirators had received money from Prince Milosch . Ilia plenipotentiary , Dr . Patzel , brought 6000 ducats horo , and 1000 of thorn wore given to the hired assassin . " 'A'lio gcnoral opinion at Belgrade is aaid to bo that tho Russians liad nothing to do with tho plot . nuLOiuM . Tho ministers tendered their renignationa on Saturday .
Until the meeting of the Chambers , they will hold their ofiices ad intzvim . tueir SWKBEN . The debate upon th « bill which had been laid bafnr the Four Estates of the realm in the Swedish Diet aS the object of which was to efface from the leehuXS code certain penalties upon religious dissent , ha 3 T , t terminated in the rejection of t he bill . Just TURKEY . It is reported in Paris that M . de Thouvenel the French Ambassador at Constantinople , has suspende d h , s relations with Redschid Pacha , though not withthi Government . Louis Napoleon is said to be irreatKenraged at the failure of his plans with respect to th , Danubian Principalities ; and neither the Turkish nor Austrian Ambassador has been invited to take narf ; -n the festivities at Compiegne .
Our Civilization. Central Criminal Coukt...
OUR CIVILIZATION . CENTRAL CRIMINAL COUKT . Robeut Thomas Davis , a carpenter , aged fort y , was tried last Saturday for the murder of his wife . ' The facts have already appeared iu these columns , and may be briefly recapitulated . Davis was a man of drunken habits , and on the 6 th of October he and his wife had been spending ; the day at public-houses . On going home at night , the man was intoxicated , and picked a quarrel with the woman , whom he abused in unmeasured lasguage . He then locked her and the child into the bedroom , and cut her throat , notwithstanding her screams and those of the child Other inmates of the same house were roused , and found Mrs . Davis in the passage with her throat cut , and lier husband with the razor in his hand , and himself splashed with blood . He gave himself up with , an air of bravado , adding- that he was a happy man , and was ready to die for what he had done . On the road to ; the station-house , he said " it couldn ' t be helped ; it was all done in a moment . " But , after lie had been iu custody some time , he exclaimed , on hearing that his wife was dead , " Good God ! a better wife never walked on English ground . " He also twice said he did not do it . The defence was that he was so intoxicated that he did not clearly know what he was about , and that ' consequently the crime only amounted to manslaughter . The Judge , however , ruTeci to the contrary , and the jury found 1 ) avis Guilty of murder .- On being asked if he had anything to urge why sentence of death , should not be passed , he replied , "I loved my wife and child too dearly to deprive either of them of life , but my senses were destroyed by the liquor I had taken . I loved her too well to hurt a hair of her head if I had been in my senses . " He was then condemned to death . On hearing this , Davis trembled violently , and seemed to endure great mental anguish . Alexander Moody , shoemaker , was tried the same day for the manslaughter of bis wife . The only direct witness was a Mrs . Appleton , who it appears had led Mrs . Moody into drunken habits ; and it seems that , on the night when the injuries were received , Mrs . Moody was intoxicated , having ; been out drinking with the other woman . Mrs . Appleton lived in the next room , and she sweavs that she heard a quarrel , and blows struck . The next morning , Mrs . Moody was found much bruised and in an insensible state . She was ultimately taken to the hospital , and died there in rather less than a fortnight from the night when the contusions were received . Her husband was not then suspected ; but , after the death and burial , Mrs . Appleton ( who had hitherto been quiet on the subject ) so frequently annoyed Moody by calling after him in the streets that he had murdered his wife , that he summoned her before a magistrate , and she was lined forty shillings . She then made some statements to the police , who , without consulting a magistrate ( a course highly condemned by the Judge ) , apprehended Moody , and he was committed . It was now stated by an inspector of police that he liad stationed himself in the room occupied by Mrs . Appleton , while a constable was placed in the next room , and that he could not hear his voice unless when it was elevated to the utmost . When Mrs . Moody was in tho hospital , Mrs . Appleton brought spirits in to her , contrary to the rules of the house . Moody and his wife had been married fifteen years , and hud lived happily until tho woman took to drinking . Under all these circumstances , Moody was Acquitted . Two Irishmen , namod O'Brien , have been found Guilty of a savago attack on a policeman near Cholseabridgo , on tho 2 lir < l of August . They wore assisted by some women , who held the constable -while * tUo men subjected him to such injuries that ho was nearly lulled ; and tho twoO'Ilrioas afterwards confessed to some other policemen who opportunely came up that , had they not been interrupted , they would have killed their victim , and thrown him . over . They w « ro sentenced to thrco ycara' hard labour . John IJentlcy has been tried on a charge of feloniously assaulting Surah Catherine Harding , n deaf and dumb ¦ wom an , thirty years of ago . ll « r evidence was interpreted to tho court by Mr . Downing , tho secretary to tho Deaf and Dumb Institution . For tho defence , wit-
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 7, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07111857/page/8/
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