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Leader (1850-1860), 6th April 1850, Edition 1 of 1, Page 33, Untitled Article

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      Inquests were held on Wednesday upon Richard Clisby , a waiter , who , with his family , being in a state of destitution , threw himself from the window of his lodging , in Moorfields . and so much injured his spine by the fall as to cause death ; on Elizabeth Furnell , a dressmaker , aged nineteen , of Stepney , who , having quarelled with her lover , swallowed a dose of oxalic acid ; on Mary Horsman Batkin aged fifty-four , wife of a shoemaker , living in Bedford-court , Covent-garden , who having lost her senses in consequence of the great depression of her circumstances , and the fact of her son having been committed for a mouth to Maidstone Gaol as a rogue and vagabond , hanged herself . Verdicts of temporary insanity were returned in each case . _ _ .

      Sir John Dick Lauder was tried at the Edinburgh Sheriff Criminal Court , on Thursday week , for assaulting a railway guard in the employment of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway Company . The guard had charged Sir John with having damaged a railway carriage , the curtains of which were torn , the foot-rug taken away , the cushions cut , and the glass Limp broken ; and he attempted to detain Sir John till he received instructions in the matter from his superiors . Sir John resented this , and struck the guard one or two severe blows , which made the man sick for two hours . On the Saturday following the guard called upon Sir John , who expressed sorrow for what he had done and gave the man £ 5 . The jury returned a verdict of simple assault against Sir John , who was sentenced to pay £ 10 , or be imprisoned thirty days . _ _ ...,., Johnsonthe two brothers

      John Johnson and William , who were found guilty at Liverpool assizes last week of extensive frauds upon the St . Helen ' s Savings' Bank , were brought up to receive sentence on Monday . Mr . Baron Alderson expressed his regret to see two persons who had borne excellent characters , and moved in a high sphere of life , brought into such a situation . There had been various instances recently of similar frauds , which arose , no doubt , from that anxious desire to get rich which was the prevalent vice all over the country . The sentence for each was six months imprisonment in Lancaster Castle . The inquest on the bodies of the persons poisoned at Stow has been adjourned for a fortnight . The general opinion is that the deaths were the result of accident , not of design .

      Joseph Matthews , stage carpenter at the Strand Theatre , and a man named Lepbridge were employed on Tuesday , getting the theatre ready for the night ' s performance . Matthews desired the other to do something . Lepbridge refused ; a quarrel ensuing , he flew into a violent passion and swore he would throw Matthews from the second tier of boxes , where they were engaged . He did so : he seized Matthews by the waist , and after a brief struggle flung him into the orchestra , himself falling upon him . Assistance having been procured , Lepbridge was found not to be much hurt ; but Matthews was so seriously injured that he could not stand . He was conveyed on a stretcher to King ' s College Hospital . On Friday evening week , or Saturday morning , a desk in the goods shed at the Berwick station of the North British Ilailwav was forced open , and the sum of £ 150

      carried away . . . William Jones was charged at the Mansion House with having stolen a silk handkerchief . Two policemen observed him watching a gentleman ' s pockets , saw him whip out a handkerchief , gently wipe his face with it , and then , suspecting he was noticed , run off . When the policeman took him into custody he coolly asked him what was the meaning of the row . " I want the haudkerchief you stole , " replied the policeman . " What handkerchief ? I have no handkerchief at all , " said he . The policeman then pulled it out of hi * pocket . The owner had been lost sight of in the crowd . The prisoner upon

      hearing the charge said , " Well , the handkerchief was mine ; I paid for it . —Alderman Carden : " But why did you put it into your trousers pocket ? that is not the usual place . —Prisoner : 1 know it : but there ' s such a lot of thieves about in these holiday times , that I put it where I thought it would be safest . "—Alderman Carden : * ' You shall go to Bridewell for two months . "—Prisoner : " It ' s a hard case , please your worship ; but X hope , as I paid for the handkerchief , you'll order these people to give it up to me . —The policeman said the handkerchief was not only very handsome , but also highly scented . —Prisoner : " If my washerwoman chooses to scent my handkerchief , I can ' t helo that . "

      Joanna Veal applied on Wednesday , to Mr . A'Beckett , at Southwark Police Court , for his advice . While in service in a respectable family she had been courted by a young man named Kelly , to whom she mentioned that she had saved £ 10 . Kelly therefore proposed to use the money in going to California , where they could go as soon as they were married , and where , in a few months , he told her , they would obtain gold enough to make them comfortable for life . She intrusted her money to him ; and he soon ceased to visit her . She learned that he was about to marry another woman ; and when she applied to him for her money he only laughed at her . Kelly had a situation in a railway , and was in circumstances to restore her money . Mr . A'Beckett said the case did not come within his jurisdiction , and advised her to apply to the County Court . This however the applicant was unable to do , as she had no money to pay the fees , amounting to 14 s . 4 d .

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      The deficiency in the Customs of the year , caused by the diminished importation of corn , by the reduction of the duty on sugar which took place last July , and by the diminishod proportion of foreign sugar imported , will be about £ 700 , 000 . It . should , hr . wevcr , bu remembered that the > ear ending April 5 , 1849 , with which the comparison is made , was in some respects an extraordinary year , its Customs exhibiting an increase of £ 1 , 109 , fly-las compared with the previous year ; so that the Customs of the year which ends to-day arc still half a million more than those of the year ending April 5 ,

      1848 . In all the other items of revenue , as . was stated by Sir Charles in his recent speech , there is an increase which more than makes up for the deficiency in the Customs . Thus the total revenue will at least equal that of last year . The surplus of income over expenditure will exceed two millions , extraordinary and even incredible as that fact appears to b' e thought in some quarters . The total reduction of expenditure , as compared with that of the year ending April 5 , 1849 , will be about two millions and a half . The bearings of these

      results upon the public debt , and by consequence on the money-market , have been anticipated by our friends in the city . The sum of £ 524 , 000 will be applied to the Sinking Fund in the ensuing quarter , making , with £ 10 , 349 last July and £ 302 , 961 last October , a total of £ 855 , 310 placed at the disposal of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt in the year ending to day . As it is not expected that any deficiency bills will be required this quarter , the whole will be applied to the purchase of stock . —Times , April 5 .

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      The Alabama , Montgomery journal , has a full accoun . of a dreadful accident to the steamer Orville St . Johnt She was burnt about four miles below Montgomery . It is supposed that there were 120 persons on board , many of whom leaped into the river and were drowned , others perished in the flames , and others were crushed by the guards of the boat falling . The ladies threw themselves into the river , and most of those on board were burnt . Mrs . Hall , with her daughter in her arms , was drowned . The clerk of the boat ( Mr . Mear ) , in atempting to s ; iye her , was nearly drowned . The onlv article on board that was saved was the trunk of Colonel Preston . There were a number of returned Californians on board , who lost

      their all . Colonel Rodman Price , of the United States navy , ajjent from California , lost his baggage , with which were 250 , 000 dols . belonging to the Government . Mr . Maul , a returned Californian , was very severely injured . F . H . Brooks , of Mobile , rumoured to have been lost , was saved . In addition to the money lost by Mr . Price , there were 10 , 000 dols . belonging to Mr . Knowland , and a large sum by Mr . Schmidt . A considerable portion of the sum in charge of Mr . Price was gold dust in the safe , and may be recovered . 1 he register of passengers was lost . The clerk of the boat has furnished a list of the names as far as ascertained . Hugh Hughes , mate ;

      Peter , steward ; Esther , the chambermaid . I he second cook and eight negroes were saved , also all the crew , with the exception of the second mate . Another account supposes there were 50 lives lost and 60 , 000 dols . Many persons are still missing . —New York Courier .

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      — Saturday . The Revenue Accounts for the year and quarter , made up to yesterday , are published this morning . The inferences so commonly elaborated from these tables are often stretched beyond their reasonable importance , and less than usual is to be gathered from the tables before us : they do not indciate any momentous change , but maybe made to look bright or gloomy according to the wish of the student . In the subjoined passages the Times takes a favourable view i ' " In the quarterly return the decrease on the Customs is not more than £ 160 , 535 , notwithstanding the reduction of the duty on sugar , both foreign and colonial , and the lesser proportion of foreign sugar imported ; and notwithstanding also the fact that the importation of grain and flour in the three months just ended is less by somewhere about a million quarters than in the corresponding three months of last year . In the Excise there is an increase of £ 38 , 898 —not very compatible with the stories of depression and rum which interested parties are doing their very best to propagate , and , if possible , to realize . In Stamps * u _ .. _ : „ „ « .. ; ., ;^ i Aanva ^ aa t . n tho amount of

      £ 11 , 046 . The Assessed Taxes would seem to have been paid somewhat more punctually , for they exceed those of the corresponding quarter last year by £ 29 , l 30 . Ihe Income Tax appears to be recovering from the effects of the late commercial crisis . For this quarter it is £ 58 , 089 more than for the same quarter of last year , and £ 27 , 968 more than for the same quarter of 1 S 48 . When it is considered that railway property has fallen in marketable value at least £ 100 , 000 , 000 since 1845 , and that railway dividends have dwindled probably to half the sums rashly or fraudulently divided as lately as 1847 , the fact of the Income Tax recovering itself so much as appears on the present return shows the firm basis and elastic nature of the national resources . The Postoffice exhibits a decrease of £ 3 , 000 ; and in the miscellaneous sources of revenue there ia also a decrease of

      £ 50 , 832 On comparing the nems anu decrease it appears that in the total ordinary revenue of Great Britain in the quarter just ended there is a decrease

      of £ 99 , 296 . " In the comparison of the two years ending respectively April 6 , 1849 and 1850 , we are presented with the striking fact of a decrease on Customs , and an increase on every other item , to such an amount that the ordinary revenue of the year just ended shows an increase oi £ 152 , 950 over the previous year . The decrease on Customs is £ 594 , 566 , while on the Excise of the whole year there is an increase of £ 142 , 599 ; on the Stamps , £ 313078 on the Assessed Taxes £ 14 , 076 ; on I he

      , ; , Income Tax , £ 149 , 004 ; on the Post-office , £ 14 , 000 ; on the Crown Lands , £ 60 , 000 ; and on misccllaiu ous source ? . £ 54 , 759 . These items amount altogether to £ 747 , 516 . The above figures and observations refer only to the ordinary revenue of Great Britain ; but . the results are not considerably affected by the extraordinary items . Under the head of Imprest and other monies there is an increase of £ 97 , 398 on the quarter , which , with another small item , almost exactly balances the

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      M . de Larochejaquelin . has published a pamphlet in defence of his proposition in the Assembly taking the sense of the nation as to the form of Government , lie says : — " I have had the boldness openly to indicate to France her policy ; but I was sent to the Chamber for that purpose . "You accuse mo of being undisciplined . You are rifjht . But , do you know why ? It is because I have for a long lime sought a leader without being able to find one . 1 fired without orders ! My instructions were given me by Brittany ; against civil war , against foreign , war , against barbarism , against stupid accusations which falsify our principles , against usurpation . Fire ! Ihaoo obeyed . "

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      decrease on the ordinary revenue , and makes the difference £ 1 , 854 in favour of the . quarter just ended . In the comparison of the two years , on the one hand we have had no China money lately , whereas in the former year there was entered £ 84 , 284 on this account . ; but , on the other hand , the later year has the benefit of £ 125 , 588 as increase in the repayment of advances . This raises the actual difference in favour of the year just ended to

      £ 185 , 816 . " The Paris Journals of Thursday teem with conflicting accounts of an insult offered to the President on his return from reviewing the regiment of artillery in garrison at Yincennes . It seems that on Easter Monday , a " gingerbread fair" is held at the Barriere du Trone , in the quarter of St . Antoine , through which is the road to Vincennes . A great crowd ( some 30 , 000 , it is said ) of the lower orders were assembled , attracted by the holiday and the brilliancy of the weather . Through this crowd the President , accompanied by General Hautpoul , in an

      open barouche , and escorted by about thirty dragoons , had to pass . In the morning he was not ill received ; but on his way back a different scene awaited him . From St . Marde to the Place de la Bastille , the crowd was in dense masses , and shouts of " "Vi \ e la Republique Democratique et Sociale " resounded from all sides . As the cortege advanced , the signs of dissatisfaction increased ; the carriage was encompassed by scowling and unfriendly faces , cries of " A bas le tyran" were heard , and some of the more excited among the crowd shook their fists almost in

      the President ' s face . The manifestation appeared to be organized , men being seen to run by the side of the escort keeping up the cries . Louis Napoleon preserved his composure , and passed through uninjured . General ( Jhangarnier , meanwhile , was also returning from Vincennes by the same route . He was hooted and apostrophized by the coarsest names , to which he replied with military energy , but , observing a soldier in the crowd who insulted him , he seized the fellow on the instant , and made him

      perform a military salute ; the same night that man was despatched to the outposts of the French army in Africa . Another account says that , seeing two soldiers who were intoxicated , and who kept their kepis on their heads , without paying the usual salute to an officer , the General approached them , rebuked them warmly for being in such company , and peremptorily ordered them to salute their General . The men respectfully took off their caps . These particulars were not generally known in Paris till a day or two after the occurrence . Their accuracy , as far as the main facts are concerned , seems , however , to be certain , even though General d'llautpool thought proper in the Assembly to give an official contradiction to the whole story .

      The Government , says the Times , has received the serious intelligence that one of the regiments in garrison in Paris has revolted against its officers . It appears that the colonel having two days ago intimated his intention to punish an adjutant who voted for the democratic candidates at the late election , the greatest agitation manifested itself in the regiment . The soldiers refused to obey their officers , and set their authority at defiance . They left the barracks in bands , and since yesterday have been , wandering in the suburbs and indulging themselves in orgies of

      no very creditable description . All attempts to bring them back have hitherto failed . It is said that M . Theodore Bac , a Montagnard , is to bring the subject before the Assembly in the form of a question . The newspapers are tilled with accounts of sergeants and corporals who have been reduced to the ranks and sent to Algeria for . voting for the Socialists . From last night ' s news we learn that the disturbance took place , not at Paris , but at Limoges . The fact , however , is not less significant of the state of feeling in the army . The Moniteur du Soir announces a new office : —

      • ' The creation of a special Ministry of Police appears to be decided on . The chief of this department will , it ia said , be M . de Persigny , who will arrive from Berlin in order to direct the organization of the new administration which is destined for him . " The Patrie says : — " If we are correctly informed , the Government has resolved to cause to be executed the police regulations relative to persons without ostensible means of existence ( gens sans aveu ) or without domicile , who abound in . Paris . In ths course of yesterday fifteen hundred persons belonging to this category were expelled . We hope that these necessary measures will be followed up . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 6, 1850, page 33, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1839/page/9/