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February 16, 1856. J THE LEADER, 15l
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NAVAL AM) MILITARY. Trim CokMStott ow Fo...
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OBITUARY. Mrs. Clabkson, widow of Thomas...
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OUR CIVILISATION. MURDER BY A CONVICT AT...
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Sinkih g a Ship.—Jos. Taylor, late seeon...
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control of the Government . The motion was rejected by 208 against 92 . ITALY . The Sardinian Senate has voted the loan of 30 , 000 , 000 by a majority of 50 to ? . The Patriarch of Venice has ordained that , "in order to avoid scandal , those persons who do not feat on the appointed fast days are to be served in a private room . "
SPAIN . The Madrid Gazette announces the resignation of M . BruiL Minister of Finance , and the appointment of M . Santa Cruz as his successor . The new Minister renounces the re-establishment of the octroi duties . He will convert the floating debt into a voluntary consolidated debt .
PORTUGAI .. The debate upon the reply to the throne has commenced in- the Portuguese Chamber of Deputies , ¦ where the Minister of Finance has presented the budget for 1856-57 , showing 10 * 939 contos of revenue , and 12 - 584 contos of expenditure ; but by adding to the revenue the usual abatements from the royal allowances and from public salaries , the calculated deficit is reduced from 1 , 655 contos to 355 contos , or about £ 80 , 000 . The Minister of Finance has also brought forward his arrangement with the foreign bondholders ; and a bill to regulate the trade in grain , allowing free exportation and importations upon a sliding scale of duties , has been introduced . BEIXMTJM .
A private correspondent at Brussels , who is in a position to be correctly informed , transmits us the following statement respecting the recent transfer of the Independwnce Beige into the bands of a French proprietary . " The Independance is positively sold to a French company consisting of M . Yeron , M ! . de Morny , and two bankers established at Cologne . So long ago as last summer M . Perrot , the proprietor and director of the Independance , was desirous of parting with , the property of his journal on account of some difficulties in the way of its circulation in France , and of its conduct at home in the face of a daily increasing liberal reaction agarast Bonapartism . M .
tT ^ iieB Lecomtej the writer of the Cowrier de Paris ,, in the fcnilleton of the journal undertook , or was charged with , the opening of negotiations . Two months since the affait vjras all but concluded for the sum of 500 , 000 francs ( . £ 32 , 00-0 ) , but two obstacles , or rather difficulties , presented theiuoolveB . M . Ve " ron proposed to announce the sale in the Pans papers , to which . M . Petfroi reasonably objected on the ground tWh such , arrangements were better fcept secret . On the other hand , M . Perrot was anxious to insure a fixed and certain position to his chief editor , and to give him a share of the property , but to which M . Ve " ron objected . After two months' negotiations the parties assented to mutual concessions . M . Ve " ron consented
to make good the position of the chief editor , and M . Perrot to allow the transaction , to be published in the papers . Such is the precise state of affairs . M , Perrot will shortly quit the journal , and it is probable that some of hie writers also will withdraw rather than remain openly in the pay of M . Veron and of the French police . Already , indeed , M . Louis Hyrnans , whose name is better known than the rest , has resigned his post on the journal .
TURRET . A fire took place on Saturday week in the barracks at Constantinople , occupied by a detachment of the 13 th English Dragoons . No lives were lost . The building , with the arms and accoutrements it contained , was totally destroyed . The Sultan , on the 31 st of January , attended the bal ce & vtmc at the English Embassy , This is looked on as a great concession to the hon-Mahomedan part of the population , the Mussulmen having a great prejudice against such frivolous amusements . His Majesty seemed much intoi'ested in the dancing , to observe whioli he stood up for about half-an-hour .
February 16, 1856. J The Leader, 15l
February 16 , 1856 . J THE LEADER , 15 l
Naval Am) Military. Trim Cokmstott Ow Fo...
NAVAL AM ) MILITARY . Trim CokMStott ow Folkstonb . —An inquiry- into the loss of the Josephine Willis has been instituted by the coroner for the Cinque ports , and terminated in a verdict of Manslaughter against Capt . Bourchior , of the Mangorton , who appears to have been cnretosB in the management of his vessel . The official inquiry hita resulted in the annexed verdict : — " We come to a unanimous conclusion that George Summers and others ftamte by their deaths in consequence of a collision between the ship Josephine Willis and tho steamer Mangorton , owing to an error in iudcrnent
on the part of the chief officer of the ship , mistaking the light of the stoamor fox- Dttttgoness Light , , and starboarding the holm . Wo also agree that if a proper lookout had boon k < opb on board of tlio steamer , the collision might have boon avoided . Wo feel it our duty also to state that thorc appears to havo l > eou a groat want of humanity on tho part of the ovow of both ships in not sending assistance to tho passengers of tho ship While thoy had it in their power to do so ; and wo believe that , ff propor efforts hud boon made , many more lives would havo boon flavor ! . " A third inquiry has boon oponod l > oforo Mr . Yardloy . tho
Thames magistrate m London , but is not yet concluded . The Wehctk : ob the Polyphemus . —Eight officers and sixty-six men of the Polyphemus , which was lately wrecked on the coast of Jutland , arrived at Portsmouth on Tuesday , to await their trial by courtmartial , wit ! the remainder of the officers and crew . A Female Recruit . —A . young woman , about seventeen years of age , has enlisted into the 97 th Regiment , a recruiting party of which corps is stationed at Windsor . Although she slept that
evening in a room where there were several beds occupied by men , her sex was not discovered until next morning , when , being taken before the medical officer for examination , and ordered to strip , as usual on such occasions , she was obliged to confess that she was a woman . She was then brought before the magistrates , charged with obtaining the Queen ' s money under false pretences , and was remanded . It is said that she enlisted in order to be enabled tq , join her sweetheart , who is in a cavalry regiment in the Crimea . A subscription has been commenced for her in Windsor .
Great Frepaba . tioiis at Portsmouth . —Portsmouth garr ison presents just now the appearance of a town beleaguered from the sea and the garrison preparing busily for its defence . A large fleet of ships and gunboats is at anchor in the roadstead off the town , and new batteries and quarters for soldiers are being constructed rapidly within the walls of the fortress . At the top of the town , a large range of dwelling-houses and the theatre have been pulled down to create more room for military
accommodation , while at the bottom a heavy battery of sixteen 68-pounder pivot guns is in course of completion , having taken the p lace of the old platform of 6-pounder saluting guns . In the rear of these has been erected a large she l l magazine , flanked by a high earth mound to protect it from the shot of an enemy seaward : new embrasures for heavy 32-pounders have been cut in the curtain of the ramparts at various points commanding Southsea , where a mud fart has been Built near the old sbone fortress , Southsea Castle , to strengthen that defence . — -Times .
Banquet to Sib Edmund Lyons at thk Mansion-house . ' — The Lord Mayor gave a dinner on Wednesday to Sir Edmund Lyons . After Sir Charles Wood had returned thanks for the Navy , and General Buckley for the Army , the Admiral addressed the meeting , and in the course of his speech , said , that he was afraid thatsome of the admirals weretoo old . " They ai-t sorry for it , " he added ; " but I hope the country will forgive them what they cannot help . As to the captains and youu ^ cr officers , -f choy aro equal -to any the service ever boasted of . "
Obituary. Mrs. Clabkson, Widow Of Thomas...
OBITUARY . Mrs . Clabkson , widow of Thomas Clarkson , the great anti-slavery reformer , died a few days since at Playford-hall , near Ipswich . She was in her eighty-third year . Mr . Arklwmght , M . P . for Leominster , died on Wednesday week ,
Our Civilisation. Murder By A Convict At...
OUR CIVILISATION . MURDER BY A CONVICT AT PORTSMOUTH . An inquest was held at Portsmouth on Friday week by the Adnairalty coroner , on the body of MrTHopo , assistant-surgeon to the convict-ship , Stirling Castle , now in Portsmouth harbour , that gentleman having been murdered by one of the convicts on board the vessel . On tho morning of the iuquest , the murderer , Thomas Jones , asked Mr . Hope to examine his chest . Tho Burgeon did so , and afterwards said , in answer to a question from Jones , that ho saw no occasion then to send , him to the lower deck , which was very full , Tmt that , if necessary , ho would be shifted to tho lower deck of another ' vessel . Mr . Hope loft the surgery , followed by Jonea , and , as he was passing
the chapel gallery of tho ship , Jonea caught him by the neck with one hand , and apparently struck him on the face with the other . One of the officials on board tho Stirling Castle aoizod tho oonviot and aecured him , whilo Mr . Hope ran round the gallery . He did not complain of being hxirt , nor did tliore appear to be any mark of violence upon his person . Nevertheless , ho was not long afterwards seem lying prostrate l ) y the governor's door , with blood flowing from his mouth and nook , and , on removing tlio nookkorchiof from tho latter , it was discovered that his throat was cut . Ho woe then scarcely alivo , aud about five minutes afterwards ho died . Previous to his death , Uo stated that Jones had Btruck him ; but no weapon of any kind waa found on tho convict .
It would Boom that tho murderer committed tho act out of some offenco that ho bore against Mr . Hope , as ho was hoard to say to thut gentleman a few minutes before he struok liiin , " You and Mr . Williams arc conniving togotlior to do mo a Borious injury . " Mr . Hope interrupted him , saying ho was not to boliovo anything of the » ort , oh ho had not mentioned Jones ' s name to Mr . Williams . Jonvn
replied he would not be slow poisoned or slow m . iirdered . After he was captured , he expressed a wish , to see Mr . Williams , the chief warder of the ship and when that gentleman came , he said to him , "You villain ! I would serve you the same way as Mr . Hope . Mlark my word , there is some one waiting for you on board . " It also appeared that he was irritated agai nst Mr . Hope for not sending him to the invalid deck ; and at the inquest he accused the surgeon of oppression and cruelty , though of this there Beemed to be no proof . He said he had done the deed " without a pang , " and only wished he had " finished" Mr . Williams and Mr . Bowler , another surgeon . A piece of a razor , set into a wooden handle , which Jones has carried about for some time , seems to have beeu the instrument with which the act was committed . A vex'dict of Wilful Murder was returned by the coroner ' s jury .
Sinkih G A Ship.—Jos. Taylor, Late Seeon...
Sinkih g a Ship . —Jos . Taylor , late seeond engineer of the steam-ship Marley Hill , has beer committed for trial charged with attempting to sink that vessel , by turning on the sea-cock , in consequence of which the engine-room was flooded , and the ship ( which was lying in the Pool , off Limehouse Hole ) was nearly lost . The object of the prisoner seems to hare been to do an injury to the chief engineer , with whom he had quarrelled . Excess of Duty .- —The charge against two policenxen of excess of duty in arresting a Mr . Dawson , in , connexion with the shot robbery in the Belvidereroad . Lambeth , has fallen to the ground .
Imprisoned for Forty-four Yeaes . — An inquest has "been held on the body of Jean Baptist D = ufrene , who recently died in the Queen ' s prison from old age . He was eighty-two ; and had been imprisoned ever since 1812 , at which period le was before the Court of Bankruptcy , andj having .. refused to answer some question with reference to his account books , he was committed for contempt of court . A few years ago he was offered his liberty , but refused . His brother gave evidence at the inquest , and was nxuch affected . '
Bio graph ? of two Ceimin als . —Three accomplished thieves , named . Monro , Jones , and Richardson , the two former with a great many aliases , were recently sentenced , at the Clerkenwell police-office , to three months' bard labour for loitering about tne streets . A police- sergeant , suspecting that more charges might turn up against them , obtained a remand , and found that some shirt collars which they wore were stolen . This led to the discovery of one on two burglaries committed by the men , one on . the morning of Christmas-day , when they took out a box from a hoxi . se in Holloway , placed it in a dog-carfc and drove off . They have been committed for trial . The previous lives of two of the men are singular , andl
may be described as the romance of criminali'ty . Jones was convicted of a burglary in 1839 , and waa transported for fifteen years . He was sent to Norfolk Island , escaped from there Boon after , a . nd returned to England . He was recaptured in Liverpool , wh « n he was tried aa an escaped convict , and sentenced to be transported for life . He was then sent to Hobarfc Town , but escaped from there in 18 49 , once more returned to England , and was apprehended in January , 1852 , tried at the Old Bailey , and again transported for life , but subsequently obtained his pardon . He was shortly
afterwards apprehended , and committed for trial fou an extensive burglary at a jeweller ' s shop at Leighton ZBuzzard , but was acquitted , aud has since been in custody , and had three monthB hard labour . Richardson is also well known , having been tried for a burglary and sentenced to six years' penal servitude . He was then confined in Horsemo ^ gej ^ ne ^ Gaol , and escaped from there about eighteen monttrs' ^ siaxje-Monro is likewise well known to tho police , and has been sentenced to two years' hard labour for an
attempted burglary . Murder on- a Child at WamvoIvth . —An infant eix weeks old , named Prank Withers Rider , has been murdered by his mother , Mrs . Emily Rider , a . lady living in Onslow-terraco , Lorrimoro rond , Walvrorfch . Au inquest was hold on tho body last Saturday , ' wlien it appeared that on tho previous Thursday Miss Georgina Armstrong was told by her sister that Mrs . Rider had drowned her infant boh . Miss Armstrong went to Mrs . Rider ' s bedroom , but not seeing tho child there , that she
she proceeded to Mrs . Rider , who told hot- would fmd her boy in ft pan oovoiwl over wrth a " board , Ho was immediately aftor wards found in a pan full of wator , lying : o » his ^ Wlth ] lo S doubled under hia body . Ho was thought to bo quite dead , but Miss Armstrong was too much fhghtonoA by tho disoovory to cull in medical aid directly . A Verdict of " Wilful Murder " was returned against Mrs . Rider , who waa then removed to Horaoraougerlauo " Gaol . It appeared from further abatements ) that flho wan of unsound mind , and had ropoatodly tried
• to kill horaolf . Oajpturb of a Qanq op BxmatAHa . —Four xnoli , ongagod in a burglary in tho house of a clergyman mom- BiinciHloy , Lancashire , have boon nrrootod by tho police . They wore entrapped in thoir own house whilo in tlio act of breaking up tho plato . Tho police
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 16, 1856, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16021856/page/7/
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