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• - , lunatic suicide and ' murderer in his speculations , ought not to be expelled . And we have the case of Hexry'Sxitii Bright , the great Hull co ' rumerchant aud President of the Hull Flax Spinning Company , sentenced to' ten years' penal servitude for forging the transfer of certain snares to himself in order that he might- raise the wand . "While ' merchant _ princes / collapshig like pricked -wind-bags , are exciting no sort of commiseration , except from their fellow-gamblers with others * means , an anxious sympathy will be felt for the distressed . populations of oilr large manufacturing towns , -whose trade lias beeai deranged . by the vicious system . But ayc have treated this subject at length in a separate article .
The careful discrimination of the jury who'tried the Bramhall murderer between presumptive and positive proof of guilt has been followed in two remarkable cases this week . At the York Assizes , Fanny Speed was tried for poisoning her husband with arsenic . A man to whom she had been attached returned from sea , and the fact , coupled with expressions which she had used in reference to her husband , strongly suggested a motive for taking away his life . Shortly before her husband ' s death she had asked a young man to get her some poison to kill a dog , which she said had flown at her . Slie had also applied at a druggist ' s for some arsenic , and been refused . When her husband was taken ill , she and the doctor who was called in were the
Only persons who attended upon him , and the doctor ' s medicine contained no arsenic . The man died , and his body was found to contain arsenic more than sufficient to cause death . No arsenic was found in the house ; but a quantity -was found in a place common to seven houses , 'there was a dbg which miahthaxe flown at the woman . But a more material point in favour of the accused was that her husband wa 3 suffering from a disease which he kept entirely secret . He might , then , unknown to any one , have procured . medicine for this disease , and so have poisoned himself . He might—iov it could not be proved that he might not . The jury , therefore , acquitted his wife . Again , in the case of Philip Clare , tried for the murder of Elizabeth Hopley . The evidence
against the accused rested solely upon the credibility of one witness . His account was horribly clear : he deposed to have heard a struggle between the murderer and his victim , to have heard her imploring expressions for mercy , to have seen the murderer take up her body , and bear it towards the canal in wliich it was afterwards found ; and further , that the accused threatened the witness with death if he should reveal what he had seen and heard . But the body exhibited no marks of having been exposed to a violent struggle before death . The night was dark , and there were other circumstances of time and place to render a
person liable to fall into the water at the spot where the murder was said , to have been committed . The character of the witness , though not of the best , was not such as on ordinary occasions would have put . his testimony out of belief , and there appeared to be no cause why he should seek to swear away the life of the accused man ; but the chain of circumstantial evidence wanted a link or two , and the jury would not venture to supply them ; they declared the prisoner not guilty . And it no doubt is better that fifty guilty men should escape than that one innocent man should suffer .
Naples , France , and Ireland furnish stories of blood this week . At Naples , a confidential servant of the Count of Aquila , brother to the King , has been , sentenced to death for attempting to poison his ' master . Neapolitan justice is troubled with no such soruples as those just mentioned ; therefore it made no difficulty in . getting rid of numbers of the witnesses for the defence by keeping the man in prison for a year or so , and it did not hesitate to take measures to deter one of the leading advocates at its bar from undertaking the prisoner ' s defence . It was , in fact , determined to convict him . For
what ? His position in the royal family has put him in the" way of becoming possessed of many secrets—which the royal family , no doubt , had the strongest reasons to desire should be kept eternally secret . The man is condemned , to death . In the French murder there is something of the same desire to get rid of a troublesome person . M . Guillox , a niauvais sujet , had troubled the house of Madame do Jeuposse , of St . Aubin-sur-Qaillon , in Normandy , by his unprincipled gallantries . He had , in spito oi being a married man , made love , first to the gcvernness in . Madamo Jeufosse ' s family , and next to that lftdy * a daughter ; he had , further , made these
persona his common talk , and shame fully compromised their characters . The whole Jeufosse family were indigaaut , and appear to have determined to bring him to a severe account . He was in the habit of entering their park by night for the purpose of conveying letters to the daughter , and Madame Jeufosse prevailed « pon her gamekeeper one night to shoot at the .. intruder * The man did his mistress ' s bidding , and Guillox was killed . Madame Jkuposse , her two sons , and the man who tired the fatal shot have been placed on their trial but we have yet to wait for the result .
YUiile this French tragedy calls up vivid recollections oi Balzac and Soulik , the Irish case we have mentioned brings to mind a score of Irish tales ot iraucl and bloodshed . On the Sth of April last year , Mrs . Saka . ii Kelly , landowner , was murdered in the open day , on her own land , and in the presence of . a number of her workpeople . Some years previously she had conceived a great esteem for one of her nephews , named George Strevens . She had made him the manager of some part of her estates , and had , moreover , made a will greatly in his favour . But between the time of the making of the will and the time of her murder she had received into her confidence a lawyer , who , after a while , gave up his practice ami went ' ¦ to reside with her .
The eifect of his advice appears to have been to induce Mrs . Kelly to alter her will , in a great measure substituting her lawyer in place of her nephew . ^ Irs . Tvislly was shot by two men dressed in women ' s clothes with their faces closely veiled . In spite of the outcry raised by the nephew who was with her , no one stirred in pursuit of the murderers , who got off , and have never been discovered . The lawyer , by innuendoes , endeavoured to make it appear that the assassins had been suborned by George Strevens , and it is oil .-these innuendoes that the nephew has founded an action against him for libel , the damages being laid at 5000 / . The verdict of the jury will carry with it a significance strange to eases of libel .
_ Perhaps the most curious accusation of all is that virtually launched at Lord Derby , in retaliation for his dreadful charge against Mr . Vernox Smith , of having sent a letter to the Peninsular and Oriental Company proposing as new a scheme already in operation . It turns out that « o letter passed ; the Globe challenges evidence that there was even any message ; ' the story has been traced to Mr . Anderson , who tells it in a very vague way on the strength of a conversation with two gentlemen in the office of the Peninsular and Oriental Company . Yet Lord Derby told the story circumstantially , with , minute particulars about the seal on the letter , & c . The enrichment of the talc with tliose traits of vraisemblcmce is left witli Lord
Derby ' s anonymous ' informant , ' ' a man of station and position , or with the Earl himself—an odd predicament for a gentleman and a peer .
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America. Difficulties Seem To Bo Once Mo...
AMERICA . Difficulties seem to bo once more growing up in Kansas . Governor Walker and the President are at issue on an important point ; but they have already had an interview oa the subject , and interchanged their opinions in a very friendly manner . Still the President does not seem inclined to withdraw from his position , and clouds are again lowering over what may bo called the battle-ground of slavery . The New York Herald thus states the cause of difference : —" The President hold 3 the ground that the Kansas Lecompton Convention was a legitimate convention ; that it had the law authority to frame a State constitution ; that it should have submitted such constitution bodily to tho vote of the people ; bat that , in submitting the question of
' slavery' or ' no slavery' to tho popular vote , tho only material question at issue was satisfactorily provided for , and that accordingly the immaterial reservations of tho Convention might bo overlooked . Governor Walker , on tho other hand , emphatically declares that this Lccompton constitutional programme is an outrage upon the people of Kansas — a shameless violation of all tho principles of free government ; that the constitution in question is yet a secret document in tho territory , still in tho hands of tho committee , to bo altered or amended as they may think proper , and that an effort on tho part of Congress to force this constitution upon tho people of Kansas , without their voice beting heard for or against it , will bo surely followed by rebellion and a bloody civil war . "
lho money market keeps generally quiet and easy , and there has been some improvement in tho state , of trade . Mx . W . S . Tuckorman , formerly treasurer of tho Eastern Railroad at lioston , has been arrested on a chargo of stealing mail-bags . A good deal of agitation has taken place at San Francisco , on account of tlie commercial failures at New York
« t orm rWhC re < SeVeral < hOUSe 3 have succumbed to the Nicaragua . has issued a declaration of war against Oosta-Kica in consequence of the attempts of the latter state to get the entire transit route into its po > ver . The Governor-General of Canada ha 3 dissolved the Parhament . The election votes are returnable on the 13 th of January . The new Administration has been formed a & follows : —Messrs . John A . Macdonald , Premier and Attorney-General of Upper Canada ; William Oayleyy Inspector-General ; Robert Spence , Postmaster-General ; G . E . Cartier , Attorney-General , lower Canada ; J . C . Morrison , Receiver-General ; P . M . Van Koug-h . net , President , Executive Council ; T . J . J Loranger , Provincial Secretary ; N . F . Belleau , President ' Legislative Council ; Charles AUeyn , Commissioner !' Public Works ; and L . V . Sicette , Commissioner , Crown Lands .
The American papers report the death of Mr . George R . Gliddon , the well-known Egyptian scholar and author , who died suddenly at Panama , of pulmonary congestion , oa the lGth of November , aged about fifty years . A serious disturbance has broken out at the Piermont terminus of the Erie Railroad in consequence of an attempt to reduce the wages of the ' navvies 'and to employ a fresh lot of men . Tlie ' navvies' have fortified the place and are in possession of a gun ,-which they have threatened to use if attacked . A body of police have been repulsed . Advices from Yucatan report the capture of Sisal by the revolutionists . Campeachy was still holding out . The National Convention at Lima has been , dispersed at the poiut of the baj r onet .
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THE ORIENT . ' : ¦ ¦ ¦ : china .. ¦ - . - . ¦ FRO ^ r Hong-Kong we learn that aa expedition under Commodore Elliot has been cruising about the great west and north rivers as far as Macao . Several Mandarin junks and some forts were destroyed , but private property was not interfered with . The people of the towns which were passed willingly jointed out the Mandarin boats . Another massacre by Chinese has been committed on board ship . The schooner Neva left Hong-Kong on the 17 th of October , with a valuable cargo of treasure and merchandise , forFoochow . The following evening , some Chinese passengers , assisted by the carpenter of the ship , killed the captain and a couple of the seamen . The mate escaped up the rigging ; remained there till the Chinese left the vessel at Mirs Bay , taking with- , them 22 , 000 dollars' worth of treasure ; and then navigated her back to Hong-Kong by the 19 th of October . , " ¦ ' . ¦ ¦ ' japan . ¦ : ¦ ' ¦' The treaty between the United States and Japan has been published . It provides that American vessels shall be allowed to enter the port of Nangasaki ; that American citizens may permanently reside at Simoda and Hakodade ; that the Government of the United State 3 may appoint a vice-consul to reside at Hakodade ; that Americans committing olleuces in Japan , and Japanese committing offences against Americans , shall be tried respectively by their own authorities ; and that the Consul-General of the United States may go beyond the limits of Seven Ri . The consul has assented to a request that he will delay the exercise of this last right , except in ca . ses of emergency . These are the principal provisions : the others are of no general interest .
State Of Trade. We Are Unable To Report ...
STATE OF TRADE . We are unable to report any improvement in the condition of trade in the great manufacturing towns -. The utmost stagnation universally prevailed during the whole of last week , and short-time-working was very general . The City of Glasgow Bank has obtained the full assistance necessary to enable it to reopen , and it will , therefore , not have to apply to tlie Bank of England . The Western Dank has formally notified that it caunot resume business . The failures this week include—Messrs IT . and M . Toldorph and Co ., Swedish merchants in London ; Messrs . Row , Prcscott , and Co ., the chief house in London connected with tho Swedish trade ( liabilities estimated at about 15 O , 00 OZ . ) i Mchhm . Richard Willey and Co ., silk mercers ; Messrs . S . C . Lister nnd Co ., woollen merchants at Halifax ; Mr . Edward Smith , woolstapler , of licrmondney ; William Clicescbroug h and Son , the largest woollen dculera in Bradford ; Mr . lewdall , ot Rnwdon , near Leeds , a very extensive operator m wools ; and the Dnrtford and Gravosend Bank . —bix failures were announced on one day towards the « loso of List week . These were in connexion with the houses
of Mess ™ . Heine , Scmon , and Co ., engaged m the German trade ( liabilities about 700 , 000 / ., which will probably be covered ); Messrs . Weinholt , Wehnor , and Co ., also n German house ( liabilities approaching a 00 , 000 / . ); Messrs . T . M . Elmenliorst and Co ., likovviso German merchant * ; Messrs . Moutoya , Saenz , mul Co ., a Spanish houso ; Mr . T . G . Ward , of West SniithlicW , whoso business wan chielly that of agent to cattle salesmen ; and the Worcester Bank of Farley , Lavender , and Co ., in which case tho liabilities are behoved to bo small .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 19, 1857, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19121857/page/2/
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