On this page
-
Text (2)
-
992 THE LEADER. [No. 395, October 1*7, 1...
-
OUR CIVILIZATION. —*—A MYSTERIOUS MURDER...
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
-
-
Transcript
-
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.
Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.
Continental 3sotes. Fitan'ce. Some Very ...
passed upon Captain Doineau , as instigator of the murder near Tlemcen , -will be commuted to banishment to a French penal settlement . The army in Algeria is to be reduced . The 45 thj 54 ti , 60 th , and 68 th infantry regiments are ordered to return to France . Official despatches received at the Ministry of Marine from Senegal , under date of the 15 th ult ., say that during the entire month of August the expeditionary column commanded by the Governor , M . Faidherbe , had Lad constant engagements , invariably successful , -with the bands of Al-Hadji , the Arab chieftain . Itis s » id to be intended to appoint a maritime prefect at Algiers , -which will be the chief city of the sixth maritime arrondissement of France .
The Emperor , previous to leaving the camp at Chalons , issued the following order of the day : — " Camp of Chalons , October 8 tb , Soldiers!—The time which we have passed together will not have been lost . Your military instruction has been improved , and the bonds which united us hare been drawn closer . When Genexal Bonaparte ha < l concluded the glorious peace of Campo Formio , he hastened to again place the conquerors of Italy in the platoon and battalion training , thus showing how useful he considered it , even for old soldiers , to constantly fall back , on the fundamental rules of theory . That lesson has not been forgotten ; as ,
scarcely had you returned from a glorious campaign , when you applied yourselves with zeal to the practical study of evolutions , and you have now inaugurated the camp at Chalons , which is to serve as a great school of manoeuvres for the whole army . The Imperial Guard will thus always set a good example , in peace as well as in war . Instructed , disciplined , and ready to undertake and support every tiling for the welfare of the country , it will be for the line , out of which it comes , a just object of emulation , and will contribute with it to preserve intact that old reputation of our immortal phalanxes , which have only succumbed from the excess of their glory and of tlieir triumphs . —Napoleon . "
The troops from Chalons are beginning to arrive at Paris . Several women who served in the armies of the First Napoleon have claimed the St . Helena medal , and the Emperor has ordered the claims to be admitted . Great excitement is being caused by a trial before the Colmar Tribunal , where Count Jules Migeon is accused of corrupt electoral practices , and of wearing the riband of the Legion of Honour without having any title to it . M . Migeon was au Opposition candidate during the late elections , and , having defeated the Government , the Government is now desirous of casting discredit on him . He was at one time a Bonapartist , but has since
quarrelled with Lis former friends . Jules Favre is now his counsel ; and he has succeeded in showing that the Government resorted to the most arbitrary measures to prevent the success of the Count during the elections of July . The ballot-boxes , it appears , are not inviolable , but will easily admit a hand , so that the vote 3 may be altered . M . Favre , having elicited some damaging admissions on the part of Government officials , exclaimed , " This , then , is the liberty we enjoy !'—an ejaculation of eo bold a nature that few of the papers have ventured to report it . A good deal of skirmishing between the accused and the witnesses lias taken place , marked , as usual in French courts , with great heat and violence . Lamentable accounts are still published of the floods in the departments of the Drome and Ardeche . The Mayor of Colombieres has been drowned . The Bank of France has raised its discount to six and a half per cent . SPAIN . The Ministerial crisis still continues , the Narvaez Government only remaining in office till the new Cabinet can be appointed . AUSTRIA . The Duchy of Parma has ceased to be a member of the Auatro-Italian Customs Union . " While in the theatre at Weimar , " says the Paris correspondent of -tho Times , " the Emperor had a conversation , which lasted full a quarter of an hour , with Prince GortschnkofF . Before Francis Joseph quitted Weimar , he gave Prince Gortachakhoff the Grand Cross of the Order of St . Stephen . The Weimar correspondent of the Augsburg Gazette Btatea that , while his Majesty waB talking in the back part of the box with Prince Gortschakoff , tlio other Russians ' drew a cordon round them . ' The same writer states that tho Emperor was somewhat embarrassed when first ho found himself in the company of strangers , some of whom were prejudiced against him , but he soon recovered his self-possession . Tho Austrian monarch conversed freely with the persons with whom he was brought into contact , ' but tho KraperoT Alexander was as cold and reserved { boutonne ) aa he was at Stuttgurd . ' " Wo read in tho same letter : —" It appears that Dr . Zugschwerdt , who is the Dean of tlio "Vienna notaries , as well as a member of the Board of the Credit Bunk , is a much greutor malefactor than was Originally believed . He has already confessed that he has pledged the property of several minors to some of hie creditors , instead of depositing it in tho hands of the authorities , as ho ought to have done . His wards mid acquaintances loso ¦»!> Ottt 40
JLae healta oi Count iiuoi is improving . A colonel in the Austrian army , recently deceased , has been forcibly buried in the Roman Catholic cemetery at Romerstadt in Moldavia , though a Protestant . He was interred , however , in the Protestant division of the ground ; but no clergyman was allowed to follow the body , nor were the bells tolled , ' because tho deceased had neither gone to church , nor confessed at Easter . " A dead march was played as the coffin was carried through the streets of the town . The circumstances of the case Lave led to much public agitation . Hardly a day passes in Vienna without some ruined speculator on the Bourse committing suicide . ITALY . The Ducbesse de Montpensier , Infanta of Spain , arrived at Turin on the 7 th inst . with her husband and family . The Pope has published an allocution giving a sketch of his late journey through Central Italy . He professes to be excessively pleased with the reception he met with from people , priests , and princes . A passenger train on the railway from Alessandria to Arona , Piedmont , ran into another train , which was stopping at the station of Valenza , on the 7 th instant . The shock was extremely violent , and more than forty passengers were wounded . Fortunatelv , none were killed . * The town of Carrara has been declared in a state of siege in consequence of a murder committed there on the 2 Sth September . The garrison has been reinforced by thiee hundred men , at the expense of the town . THE DANUBIAN ntlXCIPAUTIKS . The Divan ( says a despatch from Jassy , dated the 6 th inst . ) was opened on Sunday , the 4 th , by the Metropolitan . His speech was moderate , and was well received . The most perfect tranquillity prevailed throughout the assembly . During the sitting , cries were raised in favour of Moldavia , the Porte , and the friendly powers . The cry most frequently repeated was for the self-government of the Danubian Provinces . On the same day , the Prince Kaimakan reviewed the troops . The town was illuminated in the evening , and fireworks were let oif . Perfect order prevailed . On Monday , the 5 tli , the powers of the deputies were verified . M . Basily , tho Russian Commissioner , has returned to Bucharest . Great sympathy is being shown in Wallachia for Russia . The ' name-day' of the Emperor Alexander was recently celebrated in the Principality with great enthusiasm , and the Czar was referred to as having ' guaranteed and protected the rights and privileges of the Wallachians , ' and was styled ' the illustrious Protector of the orthodox faith , ' i . e . the Greek church . It is rumoured that the English and Austrian Ambassadors at Constantinople have demanded the annulling of the Moldavian and Wallacliian elections , on the ground that they have been conducted in an illegal manner . The Democratic party lias got the upper hand , owing , it is said , to the return of the political refugees to Bucharest and Jassy . The Paris Constituiionnel denies the truth of the rumour . The Porte has issued a circular , disavowing any intention of permitting the union of the Principalities , but adding that it is not intended ' to exclude all idea of the assimilation of certain administrative laws that may be reconcilable with the rights of the Sultan , and with the maintenance : of the political separation of tho two provinces . ' TURKEY . Ths Turkish Government has announced that it has arrested , and intends to punish , certain ' Primats * of the province of Widdin , and Youssouf Eftendi , the Mudir of Beligradjik , for oppressing and squeezing money out of 20 , 000 inhabitants of the province in the name of the Imperial authorities . The money is to be restored to the persons from whom it was taken . — Times Vienna Correspondent . SWKDBN . The Swedish Government has advertised the particulars of a proposed loan of about 1 , 200 , 0001 ., to be expended in the further extension of the railway system in Sweden and Norway ; but the Journal de Frankfort states that , according to Hamburg advices , tho contract lins already been adjudicated to Messrs . Merk and Co . and tho Bunk of Northern Germany . PRUSSIA . Tho King of Prussia hna been suffering during the present week from an alurming illness , which at one time threatened almost immediate death , juid whicli oven now is not altogether unattended with ( lunger , Feeling symptoms of indispotiiticm when travelling in company of tlio Emperor and Empress of Kusaia from Potsdam to Berlin , with the intention of proceeding tc Silesia , lie . consented to give up his visit to tlie Duk < of AuguBtenburg , and returned to Potsdam . ller < ho took to bin bed , and allowed groat depression , Violent vomiting ensued , and two daya nfterwardt pressure of blood on tho brain exhibited itself tc so alarming nix extent that blood was let twice during the night . This produced au improvement and tho King slept for several hours . Previously to this , ha bad been insensible for a considerable time . Congestion of , the brain is , reported , . to have aet in ; and tlu
physicians'think that the King , who is subject to det ^ mination of blood to the head , has broken a smallbW * vessel in the brain , and that the extravasated blood h ^ led to the paralyzing pressure in that region . The Datienf has continued to progress , though he is still confined tl his bed , and is very feeble . The latest accounts fdat ^ the 15 th inst . ) are favourable . ^ aated
992 The Leader. [No. 395, October 1*7, 1...
992 THE LEADER . [ No . 395 , October 1 * 7 , 1857 .
Our Civilization. —*—A Mysterious Murder...
OUR CIVILIZATION . —*—A MYSTERIOUS MURDER . Two youths were rowing up the river in a boat from Richmond between fiv e and six o'clock on the mornine of Friday week , when they noticed a carpet-ba ^ Jyinf on the third abutment from the Middlesex shore on the west side of Waterloo Bridge . A long cord was fastened to the handle , and was partly immersed , in the water . By means of this , the lads pulled the carpet-bae into the boat . They found it heavy , and conceived they had discovered something worth having . They then went to Lambeth , to the elder brother of one of them a bargeman , and told him they had found a prize . The brother , John Kilsby , tried to open the lock with a key but , failing , forced it open . A large numierof bonesrolled
, up in some clothes , with the exception of one large bone which stuck up in the middle , presented themselves to the view . The clothes , whicli were those of a man , apparently in a respectable rank of life , were slightlv damp , but not wet ; and the carpet-bag itself was perfectly dry , and had evidently not been in the water at all . " Some of the clothes were much stain ed with blood , particularly the shirt and under-waistcoat , which were covered with it . They also exhibited several cuts and g . ishes ; viz . three in the back of the coat , two on the shirt , ' as if over the abdomen , and seven through , the breast of the shirt and under-waistcoat . The cuts were all very sharply made , and blood had coagulated round them . The coat was also torn up the back , as if it bad been hurriedly stripped oft" a duad body . The youths , on . the ¦
advice of John Kilsby , immediately put the remains and the garments buck ii : to the bag ; took them to the Fox-under-the-hill , a public-house in the neighbourhood of the Strand ; and spoke to a policeman who was doing duty in the Adelphi arches . He went with them to the public-house , between six and seven o ' clock in the morning , and there found the bones and the clothes laid out in the yard . By him they were taken to tli-e Bowstreet station-house , where Mr . Paynter , the divisional surgeon , examined the bones , and found that they formed a complete skeleton , with the exception of the cervicle , seven of the dorsal vertebra , some portions of the ribs , the head , the hands and feet , and a portion of the small bone of the leg . At the iaquest on Monday , Sir . Paynter thus described the mure minute appearances presented by the remains : —
"All the principal bones were sawn into two or more portions , and nearly all had pieces of tendon and muscle attached to them as if the flesh had been cut otFiu a rough , haggling manner . On four places only was the skin left adhering to the bonea—apiece of considerable size being on the back of each wrist , and on the right tubercle of the left tibia . These portions of the skin left were partly covered thinly with short black hair , showing tliat the individual had been a vigorous adult . The flesh adhering to the bones was neither fresh nor decomposed , except in one part , and one part only , where decomposition had commenced in the socket of the left thigh bone . Tho capsular ligament of tliis thigh was cut open , and upon rotating tho thigh bone I perceived a strong
smoll of decomposition , with tho blue marks produced thereby . The wholes of tho xemaininj * muscles and bones appeared to be quite undecomposeel , and , oa seeking to discover the cause of this , I found in several parts a gritty matter like suit . To the presence of this saline matter I attribute the preservation of tho other portions of the remains . The flesh upon the bones was , on the surface , of a reddish-brown colour , as if from the action of salt , and of a brighter colour when cut into . I . should perhaps have remarked before that every portion of tlie internal viscera of the person had
been removed . On examining the rib . , I found tho second , third , and fourth ribs with a piece of the sternum and flesh adhering . Between the third und fourth ribs was a cut in the ilerfh of rather smaller size than tlio cuts in the shirt and under flannel waistcoat . That piece of the ribs when placed in its natural position had its stab or hole exactly corresponding in position and direction ( its long axis being up and down ) with tlio cuts in the clothe ** . The reason of the wound in tho flesh being smaller is because flesh , when wounded , aftor the weapon i . s withdrawn , contracts again directly . " that
Mr . l ' aynter felt convinced , from appearances , tho Btaba were given to tho living : body , and not after death . Ho wan ailuo quite certain tlint the body bad not been used for dissecting purposes . A medical J > ltt 11 would not have cut . up the corpse in tlio way " which it had been cut up . Tho deceased was most probably a muii , though Mr . Paynter felt itneceasury to guard himself in making that . statement , us , thoug h tho bonca , akin , and hair upon the Bkin wore tlioso of an adult uiale , tlo pelvis was larger than i » commonly found in men , auil waa more liko that of tho other sex . Still , Mr . Pay liter had littlo doubt that the body W »»
-
-
Citation
-
Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 17, 1857, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17101857/page/8/
-