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Trial And Condemnation Of Pian0ri. Giova...
name of LiveranL It does not appear that he had any very certain \ means of subsistence by his labour . He had { an introduction to a master shoemaker in Paris , named Mallet , who agreed to give him work . After a sojourn of some months in Paris , he suddenly started for London , where he says he stayed nearly three months . What was his motive for leaving France ? He has not stated iany ; but it may be affirmed with certainty that it was not for want of work that he went to another country , since he never turned to good account the work that was offered him in Paris . However this may be , he arrived in London in the month of
December , 1854 , and there all at once he found means to earn 50 s . a week ( that is to say , nearly 65 fr . ) . Such is his declaration ; but he says he cannot possibly tell who it was that employed him at these wages , nor the address of his employer , nor even in what part of the town he lived . Pianori then , according to his own statement , earned 65 fr . a week , and he further says that he put by , out of that sum , as much as 30 fr . a week . Now , since he passed three months in London , he may , if he speaks the truth , have saved as much as 300 francs . This is impossible , or at least improbable . No journeyman shoemaker can earn so much in London , and save so much after paying all expenses . Suddenly , instead of keeping a place where he was so exceedingly well off , he left London on March 26 , and returned to Paris . What has he been doing since that period ? M . Mallet had turned him away because he did not work well . M . Michelet , at whose house he lodged , No . 40 , Boulevard Pigale , declares that since Pianori ' s return from England he did not work at all , and appeared to be ruminating on some project which absorbed his mind entirely . It may therefore be stated , that in reality Pianori is only nominally a workman , and that it is not from his labour that this man has for a very long time past derived the means of subsistence . "
The following questions were put by the President : — " After your crime information was sought about you at the Roman Legation , and it was ascertained that your name is not Antonio Liverani , as appeared in your passport , but Giovanni Pianori . The following is the information communicated in the two despatches we have received ; the first is dated May 1 , and the Charge ' d'Affaires of France at Rome says , — ' Pianori , known by the name of Brizi Guellino , aged 32 years , married , and the father of two children , was arrested for having committed a political assassination . He escaped from the prison of Servia . He fought in 1849 against the French army . He escaped to Genoa ; he afterwards returned to his country , and committed other crimes . ' Are you the person described in that note ?"— "M y name is Giovanni Pianori . Brizi Guellino is an additional name —supre-nom " " Have you borne that name ?"—" Yes , sir . " * ' Then it is to you the description applies . Here now aci ^ vi
Xo lUc HlIurilluLlUU UUXltuuicu in tuc ^ isjuiu . ugou i ^ u the 6 th of May : — ' Positive Information . —Pianori , condemned for 12 years to the galleys for assassination . ' "" That is not true . " " You deny the fact ; very well . Here is the rest' Accused of two acts of incendiarism in February , 1849 . ' Is that true ?"— " No , sir . I only remained six months in prison . " * ' For what cause ?"— " For having taken part in some affairs . " " The despatch adds— ' Escaped from the prison of Servia on the 30 th of April , 1852 ; noted as a terrible assassin . ' "—" That is not true . " The prisoner furthermore denied having been connected with any of the refugees in London , and said Lfc was only on the same day that the thought of the assassination occurred to him . His reason for the act he stated to be the French expedition to Rome , which had brought him and his family to misery .. He fully confessed the crime ; and the defence was therefore nothing more than an appeal to mercy on the ground of his frank confession and his illguided political sentiments . The jury , however , returned a verdict of "Guilty , " by a majority . Pianori exhibited great composure from first to last . With respect to the death of a parricide , it may be stated that , by the 13 th Article of the Penal Code , " tho parricide shall be led to the pluco of execution in a ehirfc , barefoot , and his head covered with a black veil ; that ho shall he exposed on the scaffold whilst a public officer reads to the people the senttenco of condemnation , and that ho shall be immediately put to death . " It is rumoured that the prisoner declared that , though ho did not deny the crime , he would not commit it if it was to be done again ,
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of February , the population had taken precautions in case of a recurrence of the calamity ; and it is to these that the small number of casualties is due . Every one who had an open space before his house pitched a tent , where the family passed most of its time , and very often remained during the night . The upper stories of the houses were abandoned , and the household lived in the hall with open doors , so as to be ready for immediate flight whenever the subterraneous roar of the earthquake should make itself heard , and the trembling of the furniture denote the approaching destruction . The previous warning , and the fact that the fall of buildings does not take until tne end sometimes not tm
great want is of food ; many of the ovens are destroyed , and bread is in consequence dear . The number of " persons thrown out of work by the event is , of course / very large ; but , happily , none of the silk factories have been injured ; and in a few weeks , should no repetition of the shocks occur , the fugitives will take courage and venture back , work will be resumed , the city will once more rise from its foundations , and nothing but the ruins" of a few vast edifices which the present age cannot restore will bear witness of the most fearful catastrophe which has befallen an Eastern city for many hundred years . "
place , ana after the cessation , of the vibration , is the reason that out of a population of 70 , 000 souls not more than 100 have been killed or wounded by a catastrophe which has made half of them houseless and destitute . On the lGth , the full extent of the calamity was known at Constantinople . The great shock of the 11 th was only the first of a series almost innumerable . At least forty vibrations were felt during the first night , and not a day has passed since without three or four of more or less severity . Many of these have been attended with the l ' all of edifices which had been previously shaken , and the chief danger now to be apprehended is , that the shattered walls which line the narrow streets will occasionally be thrown down on the ' inhabitants , even without a recurrence of the motion . The unhappy population is flying in all directions from the doomed city . On the 17 th , the Porte , at the request of Lord Stratford , sent a steamer to Guemlik to bring away the fugitives , who were thronging the little port without food or the means of transport . Mr . Whittall , a merchant of this place , also determined to go with a steamer belonging to him , and bring to Constantinople as many as it would hold . Availing myself of this opportunity , I started for Guemlik the day before yesterday , to judge for myself ^¦ C j . i . nTF 4 > < n 4- *^ £ + T » ^ /> nlnmifv An arnvitio £ i +. tViA snm
—OUR CIVILISATION . Gbnteel Smugglers . —At the Thames Police-office , on Monday , Jean Baptiste Vandenhaegen , a Belgian gentleman , and his daughter , an elegantly-dressed young lady , were committed to prison for six months for having smuggled a large quantity of Brussels lace into this country . By this act , they incurred a penalty of 100 ? . each ; and in default of payment were locked up , both sobbing loudly as they were removed . Murder and Suicide . —On Saturday , a poor woman , the wife of a tailor , in the neighbourhood of Old St . Pancras-road , drowned her infant child , and afterwards herself , in the water-butt . She had long been at variance with her mother ; and on the morning of the tragedy she observed to her husband that the child looked as though it would die . She also made some observation about " the curse of her mother having fol- v lowed her , " and that " it must come . " There is no doubt that under the influence of these feelings she committed the acts . Cruelty to a Child . —Elizabeth Lambert , the wife of a carrier at Kingsland , was charged at Worship-street , on Tuesday , with ill-using a little boy about two years old , who had been placed under her care by the parish .
mit of the line of hills which overlooks the glorious plain ofBroussa , we could judge of the force of the convulsion . From that point , there was not a bridge , a wall , or a house , which had not more or less suffered . The road Avas thronged with fugitives—veiled Turkish women , carrying with them all their goods on the back of a miserable horse , to obtain which they had probably parted with a number of necessaries . The very poor , mostly Armenians and Jews , were on foot , bending under the weight of counterpanes and kettles , and dragging after them their weeping and footsore children , who would be a couple of days in making the weary journey of twenty miles through the bush and quagmire before they arrived at Guemlik .. The most fortunate were the peasantry , who lived at a distance from the narrow lanes and crumbling mosques . Most of these had their cottages destroyed ; but they had quietly erected rude tents among the mulberry trees , and were living as happily as if nothing had occurred . On approaching the city , the results of the convulsion ot l
She had nearly starved the poor creature , and had been in the habit of beating it and throwing it about for some time . At length , a lady living in the neighbourhood , who had been disturbed by the child ' s screams , interfered , procured the assistance of a policeman , and caused the woman Lambert to be taken into custody . The policeman said the child appeared dull and heavy and half stunned for a time , and was shockingly emaciated ; but brightened up a little after he went in . The parents of the child , it appears , have deserted it ; but the relieving officer of the parish said it should be taken back again to the workhouse in company with another child of whom the prisoner had the care . The woman was remanded for a week . A Railway Police Sergeant on the Great Northern Railway has been committed for trial for stealing a portmanteau and its contents . It appeared that , owing to the instrumentality of the prisoner , several officers of the company have been lately charged with theft and have lost their situations .
were visible on every side . The village eiieiipiiu was in ruins , the houses seeming as if they had been crushed in by the fall of some enormous weight on their roofs . At last Broussa was plainly visible , its snowy mosques and dark red houses standing out against the green sides of Olympus , which towered up above with its crown of snow . Perhaps no more romantic spot can be found in the world than this , which has been the site of an imperial city for more than two thousand years . The rapid torrent which passes through the midst of the city and across the plain is crossed by massive stone bridges , two of which date from Roman times . The most solid of these structures , a work of the early Caesars , is now shattered and impassable . Huge masses of masonry have been hurled Jdown into the stream beneath , and the solid arch is cleft in two . The greatest antiquarian loss which the place has suffered , is , however , in the demolition of the great mosque , formerly the Convent of the Virgin , an edifice erected shortly after the ago of Justinian , and second to St . Sophia alone for vastness and beauty . The lofty dome is crushed ; the mosaic work , fresh and beautiful as if not ten years old , is scattered over the pavement ; the minarets—of course a Mussulman addition—are broken short off at a third of their height from the ground ; and the structure , which lately was filled with worshippers , is now' deserted by all but the Turkish guard which is placed at the gate to prevent tho depredations which often follow a general calamity . The tomb of Sultan Orchan , son of Otlunan , is also crushed . Whole quarters of tho town arc levelled with tho groulid , not a house remaining . Amid tho ruins miserable women may bo soon together tending their wounded relations , who lie under tho shcltor of u bit of carpet fastened to Unco upright pasts , or of n few board . s placed slantingly against some tottering wall . Tho Jews have sufibrcd greatly . Tho citadel stands on tho slope of tho hill ; beneath and around it cluster tho dwellings of thin peaceful and suffering raoo . At tho moment of thCshoek masses of wall wore hurlod . down upon tho sinall tenements bolow , and ovon portions of tho solid rock cumo rolling
EARTHQUAKE AT BROUSSA . The correspondent of tho Times gives tho following interesting account of tho lute earthquake at Broussa ;—" Thoro is no mistake thin timo about tho destruction of BrousHiu Tho shock which took placo on tho evening of tho 11 th has levelled to tho ground tho greater part of tho ancient city , and destroyed some of tho finoat monuments of Roman , Byzantine , and Mussulman art of which tlxla country can boast , Sinco t , ho firpt uhock on tUo 28 th
down tho mountain-sido like avalanches , and crushed everything in their way . Tho . Town , with their lofty hoad-diOHHoa , wore to bo soon sitting ninid thuir fallen wullfl , destitute and desolate . iS ' ot even ot ouch a moment doon companion mibduo tho dark aversion which HopnratoB this unhappy raco from tho people among whom it lives . Who will caro for a Jew ? Tho
Health Of London During The Week. (From ...
HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . ( From the Registrar-General ' s Weekly Return . ' ) The present return discovers an increase in the deaths of the week that ended last Saturday on those of the two previous weeks . Having been in these weeks 1087 and 1132 , they rose last week to 1185 , of which 597 were deaths of males , and 588 of females . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 , the average number of deaths was 990 , which , if raised for increase of population by a tenth part for tho purpose of comparison , becomes 1089 . It appears that nearly 100 deaths occurred last week more than the ordinary rate of mortality would have produced . The deaths of last week wore returned from tho five great divisions of London in the following numbers : 192 from tho West Districts , 245 from tho North , 169 from tho Central , 258 from the East , and 321 from the Southern Districts . In tho last division , the population and area arc considerably greater than in any other , and its contribution to tho total mortality is also the greatest . Though the population of tho West Districts is rather less than that of the Central , tho deaths in tho former were more by 23 than in the latter ; and while the East Division is rather less populous than the North , tho deaths exceeded those of the latter by Hi- 'i'ho corrected averages of deaths for tho week aro as follow : —In tho West Division , ICC ; North , 213 ; Central , 184 ; East , 229 ; South , 298 . Hence it appears that tho mortality was above tho average in « H except tho Central Division . Of 38 deaths from scarlatina , four occurred in Woolwich , and fhrco in rhunstead . 1 'ivo deaths from fever aro returned by tho Registrar or Christehurch , Southward Bronchitis and pneumonia wore fatul in 188 cases , which aro assigned in equal proportions to tho two dirioasos . . . Last week , tho birth- of H 4 f > boys and 779 girls , in nil 1 C 24 children , wuro roistered in London . In tho ton c « nipSIilntf \ vo « , kH of the years 18-15-04 , tho average number was 1507-
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C O NTINEN T A L NO T E S . ItlCSKJNATION OK JM . I > lU ) UY > f 1 > K I-1 IUYS . Tn 10 chiof foreign event of tho wools i . s tho rouignation of I the i- ' ronuh Minintor for Foreign Affaire , which was first ! kuown in London on Monday . Tho oauau of t , hi » event
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Leader (1850-1860), May 12, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12051855/page/9/
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