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long . 180 deg ., at half-past six in the morning , Captain Pain , with a small cane in his hand , went forward in order to enforce compliance with his order as to cleanliness . The coolies suddenly rose en masse , killed the captain and threw him overboard . They then killed and threw overboard the first and third mates , Mr . John Elias ( a passenger ) , juid the cook . ^ Another passenger , Mr . Jesus Elias , was all this time in his cabin . After a discussion among the insurgents his life was spared , although he received some maltreatment at their hands . The
crew and third mate meanwhile had sought refuge in the rigging , or they too would have fallen victims to the fury of the miscreants . Fortunately a squall came on soon after ; the Chinese became much alarmed , and as they required the assistance of the crew in the management of the vessel , they promised that the lives of the latter should be spared in consideration of the ship being navigated back to China .
During the return voyage the Chinese exercised full control over the vessel , and distributed amongst themselves the cargo and every article of value on board . On their arrival outside Hong-Kong harbour they caused the ship to be hove to , and , hailing boats , 130 of them , all the boats could carry , decamped for the mainland with their booty—leaving on board the Albert between forty and fifty of the most helpless , with whom the ship proceeded into port .
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MASSACRE AT ALEPPO . A letter from Aleppo , in the Times of yesterday * contains an account of a horrible outburst of Moslem fanaticism , against the Christian inhabitants of that city . The disturbances commenced on the night of the lGth . ultimo , when numerous armed Moslem bands entered the dwellings of the Christians , plundering every house , and , where any resistance was offered , wounding and murdering the inmates . The massacre continued throughout the whole of next day . The writer , speaking of what took place on the 17 th , says : —
** I saw hundreds of Moslems despoiling the houses , burning the Greek and Syrian Catholic Churches , hurrying off with their plunder—all this in broad daylight , and under the eyes of Turkish soldiery ; none to oppose , none to prevent these depredators from accomplishing their horrible designs on an inoffensive people—of murder , rape , incendiarism , and pillage . Three churches , worth upwards of £ 25 , 000 , have been burnt , live churches have been plundered , an invaluable library , containing ancient Syrian manuscripts , destroyed ; fourteen persons have been killed , including three priests ; a number severely wounded , among whom is the Syrian Bishop . The loss of property is estimated at a million sterling .
" On the morning of the 17 th the Pasha hastily removed to the military barracks , where , surrounded by the troops , he remained an almost passive spectator of what was going forward in the town beneath . General Bern pledged his life to stop the persecution , if he were allowed a few pieces of artillery and 500 soldiers ; but the Pasha would not grant them , on the plea that they would prove insufficient . He preferred to yield to popular fanaticism rather than set Moslem to fight Moslem in defence of the Christian . "
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SERIOUS CIlAltGE AGAINST THE POLICE . As James Harris , a well-known itinerant vendor of newspapers and periodicals , was knocking for admission to his lodging at the Queen ' s Head , John-street , Clerkenwell , on Saturday , the 26 th ultimo , at twelve o ' clock at night , the police took him into custody , and brought him to Bagnigge-wells station , where they detained him until the following Monday , when he was discharged by the magistrate . While in the station he only got a cup of coffee and two slices of bread and butter , for which he paid 6 d . He thrice complained of frightful pain in his rijjht foot , caused by the cold of the cell , and as repeatedly asked for a surgeon , but was told by the police that he could not get one unless he paid 7 s . 6 d . The
poor fellow had been delicate from his infancy , and subject to epileptic fits , of which he sometimes had seventeen in one day . The night before he wasputin the police-station his foot was well , but when exposed to cold it turned hi nek . On Monday he was taken to the Royal Free Hospital , at that time half his foot was mortified , and the mortification spread rapidly up the leg . On the 4 th instant Mr . Waklcy and Mr . Robinson amputated the leg from the knee while Harris was under the influence of chloroform . He continued to sink , however , from this time , and died on Saturday last . According to his own Account the police wore the cause of his death . An inquest was held on the body on Wednesday , but it was adjourned to enable the police to answer the charge .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Court still remains at Windsor . Thursday was the birthday of the Princess Royal . In the morning the band of the royal regiment of Horse Guards attended at the Castle and performed a serenade . The Queen and Prince Albert walked afterwards in the slopes and Windsor Park . The royal children took walking and pony cjcejcisc in the grounds nround the Castle . It was stated in the papers , a short time since , that Captain Forbes had brought with him to this country a vountr African princess , presented to him by the King of Dahomey , and that her Majesty , having been informed of the circumstance , had signified her intention of taking charge of the child . Her Majesty having appointed Saturday last for the presentation of the princess , Captain Forbes attended at Windsor Castle for thut purpose ,
when the young princess , who is not more than eight years of age , was presented to the Queen and the Prince Consort , in the presence of the Prince of Wales , the Princess Royal , other members of the royal family , and several of the royal household . After the formal presentation of the little princess to her Majesty , she returned with Captain Forbes to Winkfield-place , where she will remain until the necessary arrangements be made for her future education under the auspices of the Queen . Since her arrival in this country she has made considerable progress in the study of the English language , and manifests great musical talent and intelligence of no common order . Her hair is short , black , and curling , strongly indicative of her African birth ; while her features are pleasing and handsome , and her manners and conduct most mild , and affectionate to all about her .
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The Duke de Nemours , Count de Paris , three young princes , grandchildren of the late King Louis Philippe , Count Dumas , and the preceptor to the royal children , visited the Dock and Victualling-yards on Thursday . They were accompanied by Sir John Hill , captain-superintendent , and attended by Inspector Macgill , over the various departments . Nothing ; is yet known as to who is to be Lord Rector of Glasgow University . Two nations having voted for Lord Palmerston , and two for Sheriff Alison , the casting vote lies now with Mr . Macaulay , as last Rector , but nothing is known as to what his decision twill V » p .
The Earl of Carlisle has proffered his services , on the occasion of his visiting the town of Leeds , to preside at the dinner of the Tradesmen ' s Benevolent Society , to give two lectures—one on the " Poetry of Pope , " another on his own " Travels in America "—to £ the members of the Leeds Mechanics' Institute . The Right Honourable Lord Langdale , Master of the Rolls , attended at the Rolls Court , Chancery-lane , on Wednesday , to swear in solicitors . The number of gentlemen to be sworn exceeded 200 . They were introduced to his lordship in parties of 20 . It is reported that Lord Mackenzie will shortly retire from the judicial bench of Scotland , and be succeeded by the Lord Advocate .
Among the passengers by the transatlantic steamer Asia , which arrived at Liverpool the other day , is Lady Emmeline Stuart Wortley , ou her return from a tour in the New World . Lord Kinnaird has drained and enclosed a field in the neighbourhood of Dundee , for garden allotments to the working classes . It is to be let by public roup , and will be offered at a low upset price of annual rent , paid halfyearly in advance , in lots of six poles , but giving each purchaser the option of taking two lots . The will of Lord Rancliffe , who was buried last week , does not appear to have satisfied his relations , who
evidently think they have been defrauded . The document is very short , being only six lines , and it is expressive as it is brief . It bears date the 27 th of June last . By the provisions of the will every pennyworth of his late lordship ' s property is bequeathed to Mrs . Burtt , no mention being made either of relations or servants ; and even the plate presented to his lordship in 1831 by the Radicals of Nottingham , which he promised should be bequeathed to his heirs for ever , falls into the same hands . The heritable property , of necessity , goes into the hands of the co-heirs . The will having been read , Sir Cavendish
and representative of my deceased mother , the Honourable Lady Rumbold , one of the co-heiresses , in my behalf , and in behalf of my aunts , the Honourable Lady Levinste and the Piincess Polignac , protest against this will : I declare it not a valid will , and not Lord Itancliffe ' s by his own free will ; but it is the will of Mrs . Burtt . " The whole party then left the hall , and it is understood that they have since taken active steps for disputing the legality of the document , and settling the matter in a court of law .
will , it is expected , very shortly occur by the resignation of Mr . Lyell , the state of whose health , is such as to incapacitate him from the performance of the duties of the direction ; and should the presidency of Addiscombe be given to Major Ollivant , there "will be another vacancy . The original painting , by Herbert , from which the engraving of the Council of the League has been taken , was presented last week by Mr . Agnew to the Salford Museum , his object being to encourage the formation of a museum . The painting cost Mr . Agnew a thousand guineas . Mr . Agnew has been elected Mayor of Salford .
At the last meeting of the Council of the Geological Society of Ireland , a letter was read from Professor Oldham , the ex-President , resigning the office of Secretary , in consequence of his approaching departure to India , to take charge of the Indian Geological Survey . Professor Oldham goes to Calcutta as Director of the Great Indian Geological Survey , with an appointment of £ 1000 a-year , an office similar to that which he has so ably filled in Ireland , as local head of the Irish Geological Survey .
Shortly before ten o ' clock , on Wednesday morning , as Mr . Justice Erie was riding on horseback to the Court of Queen ' s Bench , a horse and cab , without a driver , came up at a furious pace from the direction of the Old Palaceyard , and , when opposite Canning ' s statue in New Palaceyard , was capsized ; the driver of another cab , in attempting to stop the horse , having unfortunately fallen under the wheel . The horse upon which the learned judge was riding became extremely restive , and plunged about in the most furious manner . Its rider endeavoured to control it to the utmost of his strength , but the horse plunged so violently that he was in imminent danger of being thrown off . At length several persons took hold of the horse , and the learned judge was relieved from his perilous position . The cabman who attempted to stop the cab horse was greatly , but not dangerously , injured in the head and other parts of his person .
Mr . Raphael , M . P . for St . Albans , died at his seat , Surbiton , in the county of Surrey , on the 17 th instant . Newspaper readers cannot fail to remember his return for the county of Carlow , in conjunction with the late Mr . Vigors , when both himself and his colleague wore unseated on petition . The alleged misappropriation of the sum of £ 2000 , represented as the price of the seat to the late Mr . O'Connell , formed the subject of a protracted Parliamentary enquiry . Mr . Raphael was a Roman Catholic , and some time since he advanced a sum of £ 100 , 000 for pious purposes . Ho has left behind him enormous wealth . He held property ia the counties of Sussex , Surrey , and ether parts of England , and was also a large fund-holder .
Sir Lumley St . George Skeffington , so well known as the author of many dramatic pieces , died a few days since at the advanced age of eijrhty-two . Ho was descent ed paternally from an old Milesian family , the O ierrul s , formerly Princes of Annaly , the district now forming the county of Longford , and inherited . the title on the demise of his father in 1813 . „ ,. „ A vacancy in the direction of the East India Company
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The Empress of Russia left Warsaw on the 10 th instant for St . Petersburg , where the Emperor arrived on the 5 th , and immediately took up his residence in the winter palace . The Princess of Prussia has just forwarded to the President of the Rhenish provinces , in her own name and that of her son , the sum of 300 thalers , for the relief of the families of the men of the Landwehr , " at a moment , " she says , " in which the nation is rushing to the flag , and displaying really patriotic sentiments . " The President has published this letter . The Monitore Toscano announces that the Grand Duke of Tuscany has conferred the Grand Cross of the Order of St . Joseph on the President of the French Republic .
Mr . Laurie , ex-sheriff of London , had an interview with Louis Napoleon on Tuesday , to present to him the bridle , bit , and stirrups used by the Emperor Napoleon in 1814 . Mr . Laurie had a very gracious reception , and received the thanks of the Prince for the present . Mr . Laurie then expressed to Louis Napoleon the pleasure that he had derived from his visit to France , in seeng order so well reestablished , and his hope that this state of things would continue , and that the relations between France and England would always be on the most friendly footing .
M . Alexandre Fragonard , the eminent French painter and sculptor , has just died . He was a pupil of David . As a statuary , his great work is the frontispiece of the old Chamber of Deputies ; and , as a painter , he executed several fine pieces , amongst others a ceiling of the Louvre , representing Tasso reading his ' Jerusalem . " The French papers relate a curious scene , in which the actors were a gentleman connected with the London press , a well-known author , and the celebrated Lola
Montes , who has been for some time in Paris , on the Hue St . Honore . As the story goes , whilst the gentleman of the newspaper press and Lola Montes were conversing together , the author came in , and presuming on the past life of the lady , indulged in some indecent conversation or gesture . The other guest , much to his honour , remonstrated against the impropriety of this conduct , and a quarrel ensued , which ended in a fainting fit on the part of the lady , and the expulsion of the insultcr with more force than ceremony .
Recent accounts from Constantinople say that the Austrian Government has given its consent to the release of all the Hungarian refugees in Turkey with the exception of Kossuth , but that the Porte had declared that all must be released or none . The refugees themselves are of opinion that all ought to be treated alike . The definitive answer of Austria is expected with anxiety . Should it be favourable , Perczell and Batthyani will take up their residence at Paris , and Kossuth in London . It was lately stated in the American papers that Professor Liebig intended to visit the United States . The New York Tribune contradicts the rumour , on the authority of a gentleman who was at Giessen last summer , and saw Liebig . Jenny Lind still continues to delight the Americans . She is to give a scries of concerts in the " Far West " previous to her visit to Europe , under the auspices of Mr . Barnum .
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The calling out of the French army of reserve of 40 , 000 men has created more agitation among the members of tho Assembly than among the public . It is said that the object of the measure is to remove General Chnngarmer from Paris by appointing him genernl-irichicfof the army of observation . A sharp discussion will take place on the voting of the credits demanded by the Minister of War to meet the additional expense , and many members express their intention of opposing the grant , unless the Government should give the most explicit explanations .
Tho French Minister of War has sent telegraphic despatches to Toulouse and ltcnnes , directing the postponement of sales which had been announced of a certain number of horses belonging to artillery regiments . From another order we learn , that 231 brigades of gendarmerie , 77 on foot , find 154 on horseback , are to be immediately organized , and divided amongst the departments . In the provinces of the south the authorities arc still following up tho traces of the Lyons' conspiracy , and the
occasional arrests which take place there show how extensive were its ramifications . On Monday morning the Attorney-General of the department of Ardeche , accompanied by ninety men , comprising gendarmerie and troops of the line , proceeded to eflect the arrest of a person named Morrice , Deputy-Mavor of Bourg St . Auduol , on a ehnrge of being implicated in the Lyons' affair . The arrest was effected ; but , as they were escorting him , the troops were followed by a large crowd ; and , when thoy were about to issue from the streets to the country , they
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Nov . 23 , 1850 . ] ® t > e gLeatoev * 823
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 23, 1850, page 823, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1860/page/7/
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