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twelve months ; -when he came back he said he had got transported for ten years , but seemed as usual . Witness went to bed at nine , and woke again at twelve . All was quiet . Woke again at three , and lay awake until a quarter to four , then turned round in bed , and missed Mr . Watts , and , seeing his slippers and boots , suspected something wrong . Woke the prisoner next to him , who immediately jumped out of bed , and went to the watercloset and called for a knife , saying Watts was there , hanging quite dead and cold . They rang the bell for the officer . Deceased was hanging suspended by a bit of cord , fastened by the side of his neck from some bars across a window , which was over and by the side of the
water-closet . Mr . Waldon came with a knife , and deceased was cut down . Shipton laid him on the floor . A doctor was sent for , although Watts was quite dead . He was in his shirt , with a napkin on his chest , and a locket suspended from his neck . The rope was cut out of tne sacking of the bedstead . It corresponded with a piece wanting . Was certain that during the three quarters of an hour that be was awake Watts did not go to the water-closet . Mr . Sewell , the assistant surgeon , said he must have been dead for two or three hours previously to four . Thought the pains in the head of which deceased complained were caused by a diseased condition of the brain , produced by hard drinking . Unanimous . verdict of " Temporary Insanity . "
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DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORMS . Several severe thunderstorms have taken place this week , which have been attended , in some instances , with loss of life and considerable loss of property . On Thursday the metropolis was the scene of one of these visitations . Between four and five o ' clock in the afternoon , the sky having been , up to that time , heavy and overcast , the rain descended with a suddenness , and in an overwhelming volume rarely witnessed , and continued , with some slight intermissions and with some abatement of its violence , during a great portion of the evening . There were also throughout the day some vivid flashes of lightning , followed rapidly by heavy peals of thunder . In some of the suburban districts the roads were nearly if not altogether impassable . We have not heard of any serious injury to life or property .
A violent thunder storm occurred on Wednesday evening at Gomshall , five miles from Dorking ; the rain fell in torrents , resembling a water-spout , and had the effect of excavating gullies in the embankment of the railway to such an extent as to stop the passage of the trains for some hours . The damage was repaired during the night , and the traffic passed over the line on Thursday morning without interruption . A storm of lightning , thunder , and rain , of almost unexampled violence , broke over Brighton on Wednesday
evening . During the whole of Monday , Tuesday , and Wednesday the temperature was very high , and on Monday the thermometer in the shade reached nearly to 80 degrees . Indications of a coming tempest were discernible during the whole of the afternoon ; and about a quarter to sevnn it burst , after a few preparatory grumbles , apparently over the centre of the town . The lightning and thunder were terrific , and the rain came down , not in poetic but in literal torrents , and the widest streets were turned into streams over their whole width .
The violence of the storm lasted about an hour . A number of shops were inundated . During a heavy storm of thunder and lightning , which passed over Bristol on Monday , several accidents occurred . At the ironworks of Acramans , Morgan , and Co ., a high chimney was partially thrown down . The telegraph flag-post , at Bathurst Basin , was demolished , and near the top of Old Market-street , a house was very much damaged , a woman thrown down and injured , and ? ~^* & !¦ HaanAM Lm \ Z «* Jl d * . Ji A w « # * *¦• r » f \ mrAa nwnofilTi rp I Ill 1 * n n 9 m uiau i / iusoiu j ^ i *
IWU UUIoca Ullliuvu .. xx . , nuu woo g » v . . Down during the storm , was struck by the electric fluid , by which he was completely blinded ; and at a place , a few miles from Bristol , two labouring men were nearly killed . They were working in a field , and upon the storm coming on took shelter under the branches of an elm-tree , accompanied by a dog . The lightning , attracted by the tree , passed between them , killing the dog on the spot , and throwing them both down in a state of insensibility . storm
Chatham and Rochester were visited by a severe of thunder and lightning on Tuesday afternoon , accompanied by a heavy fall of hail and rain . The electric fluid fell on the chimney of a farm-house , within half a mile from the Hi ^ h-street of Rochester , and scattered the bricks in alf directions . Its course downwards is marked in every Toom by the damaged ceilings and fissures in the brickwork , more particularly about the chimney-pieces , breaking several panes of glass ; and , passing out of the house , it split and displaced a stone close to
the kerb of the well , disappearing at that spot , and where a large opening in the earth is observable . The bailiff , his wife , and family , were seated at tea , and some other persons , who had taken shelter from the storm , were also present when the destructive fluid passed through the room , splitting the leg of a chair on which one of the party was seated . Thoso who witnessed the awful visitation describe the appearance of the lightning at the momsnt as an immense mass of fire suddenly thrown upon the house , and , under the impression that it wasm flames , hastened towards the spot with the view of assisti / ip to extinguish it .
On the same evening the storm broke over Lancashire . It appears to have been most severe towards Bury , Bolton , Horwich , and Chorlcy , where the rain descended in torrents , and much harm was done both by it and by the lightning . A boy , whilst riding between two milch cows , on a horse , near Littlewood Cross , was struck by lightning , and both he and the horse were , killed . Near Horwich damnge to some thousands of pounds extent was done to the growing crops by the rain . At the Fernhill colliery , near Bury , two men , ascending a coal-pit , when near the mouth of the shaft , and about to land ,
were precipitated to the bottom of the mine by the sudden snapping of the rope , which , it is supposed , was cut in two by the lightning . Fortunately the mine was not deep , and the men , though much injured , were not killed . Immediately after a violent storm of rain , with thunder and lightning , on Monday morning last , at Clifton and the neighbourhood , Durdham Down was visited by a prodigious swarm of cockchafers . —Bath Chronicle .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen , accompanied by three of the royal children , visited the Zoological Gardens in the Regent ' s-park on Thursday morning . Her Majesty ' s attention was principally directed to the hippopotamus , whose interest with the public of all classes continues unabated . Before leaving the gardens , her Majesty also witnessed the singular feats performed by the Arab boy with his serpents , a species of cobra , not dissimilar in habits to the cobra di capella of India . the
The Queen and Prince Albert , accompanied by whole of the Royal children , left Buckingham Palace on Wednesday , escorted by an officer ' s party of the 16 th Lancers , for the Nine-Elms Station , where a special train of the South-Western Railway was in readiness to convey them to Gosport . Her Majesty was received with the usual honours at the Clarence-yard , and embarked in the Fairy royal yacht , Master Commander Welch , attended by the Elfin royal despatch boat , for Cowes , en route to Osborne . The illustrious party , of course , were in deep mourning . Prince Leopold of Saxe Cobourg and the Count Munsdorff have closed their visit to her Majesty ,
and return to the Continent . Her Majesty ' s steam-packet Vivid has been ordered to be at Calais on the morning of the 24 th inst ., to embark her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent for Dover , on her return to Frogmore .
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It is said that Lord Londesborough will be elected a trustee of the British Museum , in the room of the late Sir R . Peel ; and that Prince Albert will be appointed by her Majesty as trustee , in the place of the late Duke of Cambridge . At a court held at Buckingham Palace , on Monday , the Queen , in Council , delivered the Great Seal to Sir Thomas Wilde , whereupon the oath of Lord Chancellor of Great Britain was administered to him , and he took his place at the Board . Sir Robert Peel has accepted the invitation of the electors to stand for the representation of Tamworth , in the room of his lamented father . The election was to take place yesterday , but the honourable baronet , it is understood , would not appep . r at the hustings .
The Gazette of Tuesday contains the announcement of Sir Thomas Wilde ' s elevation to " the dignity of a baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland , by the name , style , and title of Baron Truro , of Bowes , in the county of Middlesex . " The Saturday papers were not correct in stating that Sir Thomas Wilde and Sir John Jervis had attended the Council on that day . The ceremony of swearing in Lord Truro ( late Sir Thomas Wilde ) as successor to the Earl of Cottenham , took place on Wednesday . There were between 400 and 500 persons present , upwards of twenty Queen ' s counsel and a very full bar . The new Chancellor entered the court shortly after ten o ' clock , accompanied by Lord Langdale , the Master of the Rolls , Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce , and two Masters in Chancery . Lord Langdale administered the oaths to Lord Truro , who then took his seat . The business of the court was then proceeded with , and the first cause the new Lord Chancellor was called to try was a proposition for a reversal of the judgment of Vice-Chancellor Wigram in a case of very long standing . Sir John Jervis , the late Attorney-General , was sworn in as Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas , on Monday , at the private mansion , in Eaton-square , of Lord Truro . Sir John Jervis immediately after being sworn in proceeded to Lincoln . Vice Chancellor Sir J . Wigram is said to have been rendered blind by an operation recently undergone by him , and will no longer be able to perform his judicial duties . The vacancy thus created can only be filled up by a special Act of Parliament . Vice Chancellor Shadwell continues indisposed . The Lord Provost , magistrates , and council of Edinburgh gave a magnificent entertainment on Thursday week , in the British Hotel , Queen-street , Edinburgh , to Sir James Duke , M . P . for the City of London , as an * acknowledgement of the magnificent hospitality with which the honourable baronet lately entertained the corporation of that city at the Mansion House . The mayor of Southampton has invited the Lord Mayor of London to a grand banquet , in return for his lordship's hospitable entertainment a few weeks ago at the Mansion House to encourage the great Industrial Exhibition . The Lord Mayor has accepted the invitation , and the banquet will take place about the middle of next month in the town-hall . The East India Company have granted an allowance during life of £ 100 per annum to Major Herbert Edwardes , in consideration of his eminent services and the serious injury to his right hand . The New York Herald mentions the arrival in that city of Mr . James , the novelist , who , with his lady and family , have gone on a tour through the United States ; also of the Count and Countess Dembinski , a short notice of whom is given , " from the pen of Mr . James . " According to the Tablet the dignity of a cardinal is destined for the Right Reverend Dr . Wiseman , and he will proceed to Rome in the month of August . It is alRO stated that the Honourable and Reverend Gforgc Talbot has been summoned to the Holy City on the express invitation of the Pope , with a view to his appointment to a place of high trust near to the person of his holiness .
The Honourable and Reverend A . Cavendish , M . A ., late of Magdalen College , Cambridge University , and formerly , we believe , of York Chapel , St . James ' s ; and the Reverend J . H . Bodley , M . A . ; late of Queen ' s College , Cambridge , and curate of Archbishop Tenison ' s Chapel , Regent-street , are stated in the public papers to have joined the Church of Rome . Mr . Bodley is the forty-seventh member of that University whose secession it has been our painful duty to announce . An Oxford paper adds the name of the Reverend C . B . Garside . M . A .. of Brazenose College , and
curate to the Reverend W . Richards , of Margaret Chapel , whose name figures conspicuously among the clergy who took part in the recent Popish mummeries enacted at the opening of the transition Church of St . Barnabas , in Pimlico . The reverend gentleman was previously curate to Dr . Dodsworth , at Christchurch , and is the seventy-eighth known product and result of the labours of Father Newman at Oxford . In addition to the above , we further hear that Mr . Maskell ' s son has followed his father . The Oxford Herald asserts that Mrs . Allies has also gone , but our contemporary'does not add that her husband has followed her . Mr . Allies
remains rector of Launton , and in spite of his suppressed book , and his notorious sayings and doings , he is looked upon by the Tractarians as a man in the right path . To what we have said above we have further to add that the living of East Farleigh is vacant , on the resignation of the Reverend H . Wilberforce . What this means is significant enough . —Church and State Gazette . The Reverend Thomas Jackson , D . D ., has been ap-Eointe d Bishop of Lyttleton , New Zealand ; and the Leverend Francis Fulford , D . D ., Bishop of Montreal . The Reverend Mr . Dodd , of Magdalen College , and vicar of a parish in Cambridge , has been suspended for three months , in consequence of a suit instituted against him in the Archts Court , for refusing to read the burial service of the Church over the body of a parishioner .
Miss Peel , of Lariggan , near Penzance , a sister of Sir Lawrance Peel , Chief Justice of the Supreme Court at Calcutta , and first cousin to the late Sir Robert , has just seceded , after , as she states , six years' deliberation ^ to the Romish Church . Captain Hastings , of the Cyclops , has been recently cast in £ 5000 damages by the slave commissioners oa the coast of Africa , for illegal detention of a Portuguese ship . Mr . Maurice O'Connell , M . P ., is a candidate for the new office of Collector-General of Taxes . The appointment lies with the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , and the salary is said to be fixed at £ 800 a-year .
A notice has been issued by the Postmaster-General stating that the late rule relative to the discontinuance of the collection and delivery of letters on Sunday does not apply to the letters addressed to Cabinet Ministers or to the officers of Government . Louis Napoleon paid a visit to Compiegne on Sunday . The semi-official papers publish a long account of his journey , in which , however , there is little that is at all interesting . At one of the houses visited by the President a wedding was being celebrated . The bride advanced to the President , and begged him to honour her humble residence with a visit . The Prince graciously accepted the invitation , and to expressions of congratulation for the happy couple , added a present of 200 f . for their first-born child .
Since the grant to Louis Napoleon he has been beset by a host of new applicants for pecuniary assistance . Thousands who , before the increased grant , had kept in the back-ground , poured in petitions and memorials two or three days after the passing of the dotation bill ; on one day alone last week there were at the Elyse ' e more than one hundred applicants , whose petitions had been favourably received , and who had been desired to attend to receive a first monthly allowance . The sums given that dav varied from 50 to 100 francs each .
The King of Prussia having been entreated by a deputation of the citizens of Berlin to reside in that city , has refused to comply with the request , on the ground that the events of the last two years make it impossible for him , for the present , to reside in Berlin . The Queen of Spain was delivered on the 12 th instant , at four o ' clock p . m ., of a son , who died in a few minutes . The health of the Queen is as good as can be expected . The trousseau for the carriage of the sister of the King of Naples with the Count of Montemolin has been ordered at the establishment of a fashionable modiste in Paris .
The Count de Montemolin , son of Don Carlos , was married on the 10 th inst ., at the Royal Palace of Caserta , near Naples , to the Princess Caroline , sister of the King . The same day the Duke of Rivas , Spanish Ambassador , quitted Naples on board a Spanish steam-frigate . The Count de Montemolin's bodily presence is mean , and his purse empty ; he only possesses a few "Chateaux en Espagne , " and thinks it as well to secure a wife who brings him a fortune of 2 , 000 , 000 f . ( £ 80 , 000 ) . Her brother , the King of Naples , is also to provide them with splendid apartments , now being fitted up for them in the royal palace . He is to have the run of the house and maccaroni ad libitum , so that , even if his ambition should carry him no further , this will be no bad speculation for the son of Don Carlos of Spain . The lady is said to have refused better offers of late .
The Florence papers say that a report is current that the Duke of Leuchtcnberg intends to take up his residence for some time in the Roman states . Monday being the Feast of St . Henry , a considerable number—G 000 , it is said—of the Legitimist population of the Faubourgs left bouquets and other testimonials of respect at the residence of M . Larochojaquelein . M . Larochcjaquelein ' s name is Henry ; but it was generally understood that the . compliment was in reality intended for another Henri , whose restoration is considered inevitable by his partisans .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 20, 1850, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1847/page/7/
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