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Continent Al Notes. France. Eight Italia...
- * bat at Genoa the movement was not directed against ¦ the Piedmontese Government , but that it was intended to turn the means of action which Genoa possesses to -account , and to draw Piedmont into a revolutionary war . Mazzini concludes by declaring that he will not cease until he has attained his object . The Neapolitan Government has authorized the establishment of two lmes of submarine telegraph , uniting Sicily to Malta and Turin . A decree pronounces the reform of the postal system ; other decrees will complete this reform , which is based on the French system . An 4 imeute has taken place at Iserhia on the subject of the octroi . A body of 2000 peasants invaded the municipality -with cries of " Long live the King . ' The authorities soon restored order , and the ringleaders were arrested . HOLX . AND . The Government has presented to the States General a projet de loi having for its object the abolition of slavery in the Dutch West Indies . The basis of the ¦ project ¦ will be an indemnity which is calculated at sA . nnnonf ) minders , to be naid to the proprietors of K «« - »* h
—^^^^ ^^^ ^^ ^^ ^ , * ^ ^ v ^^^ B ™ ™ ^^™» ¦ -v w ~— j — — ^^ ^^ ^^ -elaves . TURKEY . There has been a change of ministry in Turkey . At Constantinople M . de Thouvenel , the French Ambassador , having received orders to break off diplomatic relations with the Porte if the Moldavian elections were not ¦ d eclared null and void , and not obtaining a satisfactory answer to that demand , at once prepared to leave the ¦ Turkish capital . To prevent this step being taken , the Sultan changed his Ministers . Mustapha Pasha ( of
Crete ) is appointed Grand Vizier ; Aali Pasha , Minister of Foreign Affairs ; Redschid Pasha ( ex-Grand Vizier ) , President of the Tanzimat ; Kiamil Pasha ( of Jedda ) , Seraskier . RUSSIA .. The St . Petersburg Gazette publishes the text of a convention concluded at Berlin on the 14 th of last February , and ratified on the 12 th of March , relative to the construction of a line of railway from Berlin to Konigsberg . in conjunction , with the railway between St . Petersburg and Warsaw . The Russian Government engages to construct upon its territory a branch line from the St . Petersburg and Warsaw Eailwaj ' , which will go by Kowno to the Prussian frontier near Kydkounen . On its side , the Prussian Government engages to -construct on its territory , in continuation of the Russian line above mentioned , a railway from the Russian frontier near Eydkounen as far as Konigsberg , where it-will join the Berlin to the Konigsberg line . i - PORTUGAL ,. . \ A set of coiners of English sovereigns and other foreign pieces at Braga , about thirty miles from Oporto , have been arrested . The number of the party was seven , and among them wna a priest . Another priest , who appears ' to have been the leader , has escaped . '
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. ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A fearful explosion took place on the afternoon of Friday week at a coalpit near Ashton , owing to which thirty-nine lives have been lost . On the previous day , an explosion occurred at the Rhymney Ironworks , resulting in the death of two men , -and injury to several other .- ? . So great ' was the force of the blast that one end of a case , weighing about half a ton , was blown in a straightforward direction a distance of one hundred yards . The other end was tound ruins ot tnc tno
among me wans , places ueing severed as though they had been cut with shears . The middle , -weighing five or six tons , was blown over a tip some thirty or forty feet high , a distance of one hundred yards or more , and was left standing nearly perpendicular in the soil , flattened out like a sheet of paper . A steam pipe , weighing about five hundred weight , was also blown over the tip to a distance of three hundred . and fifty yards . An accident to Miss Gilbert , the well-known professional horsewoman , while riding in Kotten-row , has been nearly attended by fatal consequences , bat has happily only resulted in a slight concussion of the brain . The cause of tho mishap is thus stated in tlio daily papers : —The horse waa a high-couruged hunter , ridden for the first time by a lady . He went very quietly , but ,
on being cantered down close to the rails on tho leftside of Rotton-row , he started with tlio wrong foot . Miss Gilbert , wishing him to change his leg , touched tho near side rein lightly . The horso evidently thought ho was to jump the rails ; on which ho rose in his stride sideways , but , feeing too near to clear thorn , caught tUo iron bar above tho knees , turned completely over , and fell on tho other side of tho mils . It was one of tlio worst falls ever seen ; and the lady ' s esoapo , to those who witnessed it , still appears incredible , but-wns owing to two causes—her fine riding and nerve—for nho novor moved her hands or stirred from hor seat until she struck ; tho ground . The horse had turned so completely over that the pommel of the saddle was tho first point of contact ; this wjm broken to pieces , but appears to have thrown tho horso beyond Miss Gilbert , and thus saved her life . She wished £ o ride tho aamo horso again the next aay $ 'bnt her medical attendant would not permit it .
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OUR CIVILIZATION ANOTHER CASE OF POISONING . A vert painful case was tried at Bodmin towards the close of last week . An old man , in humble life , named John Beard , was indicted for the murder , by poison , of his grand-daughter , a little girl three years of age . The child was illegitimate , and the grandfather appears to have grumbled at having to support it and to bear with the annoyance which it sometimes occasioned . The case for the prosecution rested mainly on the evidence of Grace Beard , the mother of the infant and the daughter of the man now accused of causing the child ' s death ; and it amounted to this : —The old man frequently spoke harshly of the little girl , and wished it was dead ; and he often told his daughter that he would ' heave her and her bastard out of doors , ' as he would not be troubled with them . This feeling was exacerbated when he found that his daughter was likely to become a mother again . On the 1 st of April , he gave her some money to purchase threepenny worth of arsenic , saying he
wanted it to kill rats with . She endeavoured to procure it , but the chemist would not let her have any , and gave her a pot of paste instead . When she got home , she found her father and the child in bed , though it was unusually early for the former . In the course of the night , the infant was very sick and ill ; but soon got better . Two days afterwards , she was found eating something brown , which smelt like brimstone ; and that evening she was again very ill , and vomited continually during the night . The grandfather , and asked to
being waked by the sickness , light a candle , said , with an oath , " I'll have alterations in this very soon . I'll not be disturbed in this way . " Between nine and ten o ' clock the following morning , the child , while lying in its mother ' s lap , was seized with convulsions , and the eyes became fixed . The mother felt alarmed , and ran for her neighbours , who came in ; but the little girl was dead in ten minutes . Grace Beard was much afflicted , and said she -was . sorry she had not had a doctor ; on which her father exclaimed , " D—n you ! what do you mean ? I will heave you and your bastard out of doors . " She subsequently intimated to him the opinion of the neighbours that the child was poisoned ; and he angrily replied , "Do you mean to hang me ? " adding that he wished she and the child were in hell . At another time , he said to a neighbour , " Grace is determined to bring me to the gallows . " On learning that the body had been exhumed , he swore and cursed a great deal , and wished all the neighbours were in hell flames for not letting the child rest , and allowing everything to remain quiet . He also threatened to turn hi 9 daughter away from the house if she continued to grieve for the child ,- as it was better cared for than she could care for it . Ultimately , both father and daughter werearrested for the murder or the infant ; but the woman was not placed on her trial , there beingno case whatever
against her . In answer to questions put to him by a superintendent of police , old Beard denied that he had purchased poison for rats , or that any of his family had done so , or that his house was infested by vermin . On being apprehended , his wife asked him what it was for . He swore a dreadful oath , and told her to hold her tongue ; adding to the police , " Why did she keep on so ? She knows well enough what I am took up for . " Tho intestines of the exhumed body were analyzed by Professor Merapnth and others ; but phosphorus ( the poisonous ingredient in the composition for destroying rats ) was not 4 Via * »* ^ 1 T h rt iMiAA *» . a r- \** f . \ Y \ a 1 O a ln-v » mfi-kxni »» # i » fr « f- virsh-iilsi }\ r \ irrt All
* . \ J % » . M ^ K * .. «*^ I ^ V * t ** a ^/ AVUUUAV f « V 1 IU « V > ) KllltU * H II VtUU I « CVTXS decomposed during the time the body was in the grave ; and the stato of the intestines was such as would rcnult fro the employment of ah irritant poison . The syinp- * toma of the illness , moreover , were those produced by phosphorus ; and , on the stomach being opened , a white vapour escaped , which is an indication of the presence of the poison in question . Portions of the remains of the child were given to insects , fishes , and rats ; and they all died . It was sought to be shown by tho counsel for tho dofence that the child might have been poisoned by phosphorus from sucking lucifcr mutches ; and Mr . Herapath , in cross-examination , Bind : — "A child died in two days from sucking matches . There is phosphoric acid naturally in the body . " On being re-examined , ho observed : is oi suoiteu inroe
—•• xnere a case a woman naving hundred matches , without dying . " In the course of the dofon . ee , Grade Beard was recalled by the Judge ( Mr . Justice Coleridge ) , and said : —• ' I remarked to ' A . Roberts that I had accused my father wrongfully , and I hoped the Lord would forgive me . She suicl ; " ' Why did you do so V I said , ' 1 don ' t know . I thought my child had oaten what it ought not . ' I said so bcoaurio I thought , if lie had given tho child anything , tho medical gentleman would havo discovered it , and therefore I thought I had condemned my father wrongfully . This was after the inquest . " The jury , after an absenoo of twenty minutes , gavo a verdict of Not Guilty .
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three weeks old , Budge was seen carrying it alonga road which went ty the side of a canal ^ and shortly afterwards was found returning by the same road without the child , which has never since been seen . The body of an infant was discovered in the canal a few creeks sub- ' sequently ; but there was some degree of uncertainty as to whether-this was the child of Rudge . The wife of a police superintendent , and a gardener , swore that Rudge had confessed the crime to them ; but considerable doubt attached to the evidence of both , their statements having been unaccountably kept secret for a long time ; and the . superintendent ' s wife appeared to be in the habit of extorting confessions from prisoners . The jury Acquitted tbe woman , on the ground that the identityof the lody was hot proved to their satisfaction . James Ablett , a warder or nurse in the workhouse of Yarmouth , has been tried at Norwich for the murder of Angus Steward , a pauper , under circumstances which w e detailed in our last issue . He was found Guilty of manslaughter , and was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude . Arthur Petty , a coal dealer , has been tried at
Warwick on a charge of causing to be engraved on a plate the words " Hull Old Bank , " and of thus forging a part of the promissory notes of Messrs . Pease and Liddell , bankers of Hull . When Petty ordered the ? engraving of the plate , he said he was about to set up a small bank at Hull and the only similarity between the notes he desired to have produced and those of Messrs . Pease and Liddell consisted in the use of the words " Hull Old Bank . " Even these , moreover , were ¦ engraved in a totally different character . Mr . Justice ustice UresswelJ
Erie , having consulted with Mr . J , expressed an opinion that , under these circumstances , the 1 prosecution had failed ; and a verdict of Acquittal was consequently taken . Thomas Pooley has been found Guilty at Bpdmin of writing and uttering certain blasphemous libels . Previously to his trial , he expressed a hope that none of the jury were Christians , " and , " say the reporters , " conducted himself as a person of violent and unsound mind . " He was sentenced to a year and nine months ' imprisonment . On hearing this , he said the Judge had better hang him at once . George Campbell , engine fitter , was brought up for sentence at Maidstone just before the adjournment of the Criminal Court . "While an inmate of Maidstone gaol , he stabbed a fellow prisoner with a chisel , and , although the act was committed under circumstances which clearly indicated insanity , and although he was removed to the county lunatic asylum , where he remained upwards of twelve months before he was considered in a fit state to be removed , Mr . Justice Willes , who tried him , ruled that , inasmuch as the surgeon was unable to state that at the time the offence was committed the prisoner Avas not aware that he was striking a blow ,, the jury would not be justified in acquitting him on the ground of insanitv , and that the onlv question they could leerallv '
THE ASSIZES . Harriet Rudgo , a single woman , aged twenty-two , was charged at lloroford with the wilful inunlor of James Rudge , hor illegitimate infant . When tho child was
consider was whether the intent was to murder , or only to do grievous bodily harm . The jurj-, upon this ruling •—cvidentl } -, however , with great reluctance—found the prisoner Guilty of the minor charge ; but judgment was respited . Mr ; Justice Willes now sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for four years , at the same time , informing him that the condition of his mind would be inquired into , and that the Secretary of State might interfere in the matter if he thought proper to do so . A very horrible case of fratricide has been tried at Maidstone . George Kebble Edwards , a youth , of eigh-4- « as-k a .. n 1 ! .. ! . ^ *¦* . n J-l » n t- 4 > •¦> .. * t ^ ^ 4 'ltsi *^ n * . fa . n > k a . i- *\ if J , l » * u UL
* ** * . bCCU j lYtia llYillfj Ait UIUL l / WWll 111 LI 1 V Vllll ^ JHH L bliu present year . He was an idle and dissolute young ; ¦ follow ; but he had an elder brother , named Thomas , aged twenty-four , who was a very hard-working , wellconducted person . Loth lived tit homo with their parents and a youngor brother ; aiicl Thomas assisted in supporting the family in respectability . On the ICth of March , the father told George he had got somo work for him ; but ho answered evasively that ho had something to do elsewhere . 11 is brother Thomas then said that , if he would not work , he would turn him out of doors ; and this appears to hnvo roused a revengeful feeling in the mind of George . Two nights later , Thomas , came homo early , and went to bed . George followed shortly nfterwurds . Both brothers slept in tho aamo room , ana , until half-past twelve o ' clock , all was quiet . But at tnat tiio mother tuo
Dour ueara a moaning vn ueuroom occupied by Thomas nnd George . Sim struck a light , and proceeded there , when she found hor eldest son , lying on tho bed , his liond covered with gashes , and tho pillow nmi shoots saturated with blood . Gooryo had gone , and it was evident that ho hurt juiupod out of tho window , which waa still open , and two garden pots were knocked down in hid hurried flight . An axe , of great size and weight , nnd covered with blood and hair , was found under tho bnd . Tho young man diod at eight o ' olock In the morning , and was imconeroloiis from tlio first . George had gone to tho house of an undo at JJrompton , naur Roehoator , and had remained thuro to the evening of the 19 th , but was oapturod tho next day at Rochester . Tho dofence on tho trinJ w «« an uttompt to show insanity ; but this failod , and thq accused waa found Guilt } -. Sontonco of death wn » pronounced by Mr . JusUuo WJHoa ; aud Edwards loft the ( logic without showing any emotion /
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 8, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08081857/page/7/
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