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his letter addressed to Lord Dudley Stuart , inserted in the limes , not only said what I mentionedinmy previous u e £ ' but ' seein that his inducements could not bend the determinations of the Poles , also requested him ( . Lord Dudley Stuart ) to send M . Szulezewski , the secretary of the Literary Association , to Liverpool , in order to accomplish the missi on he had himself been unsuccessful in , viz ., that of inducing the Poles to go to America . -Now , Sir , I ask you whether , after such an officious proceeding , it was becoming M . Pulszky to say , ' As to the Poles we do not meddle with their views' ?
" With regard to the wish with which M . Pulszky concludes his letter , viz ., that the Poles would not ' assume the name of Hungarians , ' I beg leave to tell him , that if the Poles assisted the Hungarians and shed their blood for the Hungarian cause , it was merely to practically show that they well understood what solidarity amongst oppressed nations meant ( hence their reluctance to leave Europe with that readiness others manifest ) , and not with a view of relinquishing their nationality to adopt that of the Hungarians ; for their own is at least as glorious and as dear to them as is that of Hungarians to the people of Hungary ; and I can solemnly assure M . Pulszky , that there is not one true and honest Pole who would exchange his nationality for any other . If there are some who do so , they are neither true nor honest Poles no more than individuals of other nations
assuming to be Poles are true and honest men . There are , indeed , many who under that name ' exploite ' the sympathy of the English people ; so that the Poles have repeatedly had to caution the public through the press against such impostors . " I am , Sir , your obedient servant , " Captain M . Domagalski , " A Pole , and not a Hungarian . "
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THE ESSEX MURDERERS . The execution , of Thomas Drory for the murder of Jael Denny , and Sarah Chesha'n for poisoning her husband , took place at Chelmsford on Tuesday , in front of Springfield Gaol . An immense crowd assembled to witness the harrowing spectacle . During the previous night the tramp of feet was heard throughout the town of persons anxious to be amongst the first to get a good place , many of them fatigued and careworn , from the distance they had travelled , in some cases upwards of thirty miles . The crowd consisted chiefly of labourers , farm-servants , and females , all dressed and decorated as if Chelmsford were for the day to be converted into a scene of gay festivity .
Notwithstanding the prevaricating statements Drory had made on the subject of the murder immediately after his conviction , and the imputations he east upon the unfortunate deceased , oa Monday night— at the eleventh hour—he penned a document , and subscribed it with his name , in which , after admitting the enormity of his crime , and his hope that his victim was at rest in heaven , he described the murder as a malicious and birbarous act , and prayed God that the forfeiture of his life might deter others from committing so wicked and horrible an atrocity . The substance of the statement was that he and J . iel
Denny met by accident , a * far as he was concerned , at half-past five o ' clock on the evening of the murder , but lie thought that she had put herself in his way purposely ; that he said ho could not talk to her then , but if she met him in an hour ' s time he would have some chat with her . They met as appointed , but in the meantime he hid gone to a cellar in his father ' s house and taken from it part of a rope left in their garden a fortnight uefore by a person who had ] come thereto buy some damsons . The remainder , except what was used to strangle the girl , wan afterwards found in the stable . On one occasion he
had carried the rope with which he committed the murder for . several days in his bosom , on another lie carried it in his coat pocket , and his last statement was , that immediately before tin ; act he took it from the cellar . These statements certainly appeared inconsistent at a lirst glance , yet it is quite possible that they may all be true . On meeting her for tho second Lime , lie Haid that lie and Jael Denny talked and walked about , after which , at her suggestion , they sat down on the bank . She had come to urge him to marry her . He passed the rope ; gently round her art they worn . sitting , and had got the end into the loop before she perceived it . She jumped up at once ; and put up her hands to Have her throat ( which i . s proved by the marks on her lingers ) , but he pulled hard and . she fell without a struggle . lie then left her lying in the field and went to Hientwood .
After his conviction lu- had several interviews with his tik'iidw , but he showed little emotion in their presence . When his father visited him , the Governor , Mr . Neale , baitl " they looked astounded at each other . " Ili . s last request wan that the money found on bin person ( £ 8 lls . Id . ) should bo given to the mother <> f Jael Denny " as part restitution lor the grievous injury he might , have done her . "
Sanili ( Miesham denied her yuilt to the last . Tin statement , that she confessed having poisoned her children having been utterly untrue . At the hint moment , on leaving her cell , her protestationa were as firm a . s they hail ever been . " I am innocent , " « he naiil , " though my neck iu put in the halter lor it . " After her conviction nIiu HU-tulfastly refused lo moV ' ' out of her cell either Kir tho purport * of exorcitte or religious devotion at th « chup » l . According to the chaplain , neither J ) rory nor Chc'uluuu displayed any
signs of genuine penitence . Drory , he said , seemed little able to comprehend the enormity of his crime , and its accompanying circumstance of cruelty and treachery . Both prisoners were very much unnerved on the morning of their execution . Drory quivered in every limb and joint of his body , and had to be supported as he ascended the scaffold . Sarah Cheshain . refused to move from her cell till told that she -would be carried if 6 he refused to walk . She was , however , so much overcome as to require the assistance of two persons . She was with difficulty placed under the fatal beam . In Drory all sign of animation was extinct in four or five minutes , but Chesham struggled for six or seven minutes .
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Lord Stanley will be entertained at dinner at Merchant Tailors' Hall on the 2 nd of April . Upwards of eighty peers , and more than 200 Members of the House of Commons , have signed the requisition to his lordship . In the Roll ' s Court , on Tuesday , Mr . Turner said in consequence of Lord Langdale's intended resignation , he was desired publicly to express to his lordship how much the profession were indebted to him fur his exertions to simplify the process aud practice of the court , and to lessen expences . Lord Langdale said he was sensible of short comings . " At a cooler moment a more ligid scrutiny would be made of his iudicial character : —
" The reports would show what he had done and what he had not done , and at the same time would show how greatly he had been assisted by the learning , the industry , and the integrity of the bar . Little did people who only looked upon the surface know how very little could be done by a judge without the honest cooperation of those most useful as > istants , a learned and . honourable bar . He had to express his gratitude for the greatest assistance from a bar of that cuaracter , and he retired with the strongest feeling of gratitude and respect . " It was understood that Sir John Romilly would be sworn into office as Lord Langdale ' s successor yesterday ( Friday ) morning . The Honourable Frederick George Ellis , son of Lord Howard de Walden , is appointed an unpaid attache to her Majesty's mission at Brussels .
Captain Warner has offered his services to terminate the Kaffir war cheaply and quickly—it is presumed by the long range . The offer has been politely declined by the authorities . —Daily News . The will of the late Sir John Pirie has been proved at Ductors ' -commons , and the property sworn under £ 30 , 000 . The entire copyright of the novels , poetry , prose wiitiugs of Sir Walter Scott , as well as his life by Lockhart , with the steel plates , woodcuts , and stereoptype plates belonging thereto , were ottered for sale at the London Coffee-house , Ludgatc-hill , on Wednesday , by
Mi . Hodgson , on account of the trustees of the late Mr . Robert Cadell . The conditions of sale stipulated that the purchaser of the above should take the remaining stuck , in the hands of the publishers , at tho sum of £ 10 , 000 , or at a price to be determined upon by referees . It was stated by the auctioneer that the sale of the " Waverly Novels" during the last two years had amounted to 71 , 000 volumes . The biddings commenced at £ 5000 , and advanced to £ H-, / 300 . These terms not being accepted , the whole of the property was bought in for £ 15 , 000 , by Mr . James Mylne , the agent of the trustees . On Friday , the 21 st , tho anniversary of his birthday , a massive silver U ; a and coffee equipage and salver were presented to Mr . C . Mitchell , the well-known advertising agent aud publisher , of Rod Lion-court , Fleet- « tre , et . Thin very handsome present was purchased by the proceeds of a . subscription entered into by upwards of two hundred authors , proprietors , and editors of the provincial press , with a few private friends . The bubscriptiou ( which amounted to £ 170 ) was originated by Home gentlemen connected with the " country press , " who felt deeply nens . ible of the services which Air . Mitchell had rendered their order in various ways , particularly in his Newspaper I ' rcss Directory , and in establishing a ' Literary Agency , " by means of which a regular int . ti communication between London authors und publishers and the proprietors aud editors of the provincial journals is kept up . It was uluo intended to m . uk their sense of his [ x i ' . < ni . il urbanity and kindness , The presentation took place at the Sussex Hotel , lioiivoric street , Fleet-sti eet ; , in the presence of a nclect circle of literary fiiends . T . Henderson , Kmj ., «> f the I ' ort . of I ' ort . smouth Guardian , occupied the chair ; and tho testimonial was presented , with mi appropriate address , by F . ( J . Tomlins , F . w ) ., ' honorary treasurer . Mr . Mitchell , on receiving the gilt , feelingly alluded to the pleasure which the events of that day afforded him , and expretmed his gratification at finding Hint his puHt services had been appreciated , and hiu determination to endeavour to strike out , if possible , new sources of usefulness . -Morality I'ost . Samuel Chitney , once the companion und friend of piincet * anil iidiilcH , and who almost , vied with them in tho Htylo of hiu living , ligured in tho Nowmarket County Court on Thursday an a petitioner for piotection imdor the i ' rotcotion Acts . Ou a former occasion ho wub
opposed on the ^ ground that he had not given up his house and furniture . Mr . Naylor appeared as counsel for Chifney , and stated that a schedule of the furniture had been filed , which had been identified as belonging to other parties ; and as to the house , the will of the late Mr . Thornhill was also filed , which showed that the insolvent has only a personal privilege in the use of it and not an estate for life . The friendship of parties , ' who wished that the insolvent should spend the remainder of his days in peace , would enable him to pay £ 100 into the hands of the assignees . The case was adjourned , the judge advising the creditors to accept the offer . — Cambridge Chronicle .
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An accident happened to the King of Prussia ' s carriage as he was entering Berlin from Charlottenburgh on the 20 th instant . It had just driven at a rapid rate through the Brandenburgh-gate , when in the Pariser Platz one of the hind wheels came off , the axle having broken . The carriage was dragged for some distance in an awkward position before it could be stopped . The King alightsd , and waited in the house of General Wrangell till another carriage arrived . The Prince of Salerno , uncle of th . e King of Naples
who has been for a long time labouring under a nervous complaint , complicated with erysipelas , died on the 10 th instant , and was buried on the 14 th with great pomp , at the Church of Santa Chiara . He was born on the 2 nd of July , 1790 , and was consequently in his sixty-first year . He married Marie Clementine Francoise Josephine , Archduchess of Austria , daughter of Francis I , on the 28 th of July , 1816 . He has left a daughter , Princess Marie Caroline Augusta , born on the 26 th of April , 1822 .
The Honourable Henry Clay arrived in New York ou the 10 th instant , and was enthusiastically welcomed . A bail was given on the same evening , in honour of his visit . He left New York on the 11 th instant , for a visit to Havannah , and not less than 10 , 000 persons were present to witness his embarkation in the steamer Georgia . Fanny Wright Darusmont has filed a bill in Chancery , in Cincinnati , containing 80 , 000 words , to recover back from her husband a large amount of property which she held at her marriage . The Havannah correspondent of the New York Herald says : — "Salvi , our ' gran tenore , ' goes to Europe in the next direct steamer . I am told that he has made an arrangement with Barnum to sing in . London twenty nights with Jenny Lind , for 9000 dollars , and that there is a clause in the contract by which he is obliged to go to your city in case the ' Nightingale' should not cross the Atlantic next summer . "
Jenny Lind had presented 4800 dollars to the charities of New Orleans . She will probably leave New York for Liverpool and London in July or August next .
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The number of marriages this year at Paris , amongst the working class , is said to be larger than usual . In the moat populous arondissements of the capital , the boards ou which the publication of banns are placarded are constantly covered . A letter of the 22 nd instant , from Berne , states that on that day , at eight in the morning , eighty peasants made a descent on the radical town of Fribourg , and succeeded in getting possession of some cannon in the old establishment of tlie Jesuits . The Government caused the tocsin to ring , and the generale to beat . The militia marched against the peasants , who occupied the upper part of the town . The affair was smart , but of short duration , iilight were killed or wounded . Tho eighty peasants in question formed the advanced guard of a body of 2000 , which dispersed when they heard of the defeat of their comrades .
The Jesuits have obtained the restitution of the Uorromean College , at Rome . The Minister of Commerce , who inhabited it , has been obliged to leave it in less than decent haste , and retire to the custom-howse buildings . A plot of certain Ulemas to poison the sultan , was lately revealed by Dr . SpiUer , the sultan ' s physician , who pretended to listen to their proposals , and procured from the conspirators a written promise to pay him a milliou of piiistres . The brother of the aultan , who was at the head of the plot , has since disappeared—some conjecture by the bowstring , and several of the Ulenms concerned have met with the name into . Dr . Spit « er , after having been well rewarded by the sultan , withdrew from the reach of vengeance , und is now residing with his wife at Trieste .
Ihe city of Levins ! , in the island of lthodea , has been destroyed by an earthquake . Abbus J ' usha has oflicially announced hiu intention of making a railroad between Cairo and Alexandria , thus bringing into close proximity the two principal tuwnn in Mgypt—a boon of inestimable benefit to the country , and which will give increased facilities to the uunsit to India . It is confidently expected that the woik » will be commenced iu the course of tho present y « i * r , under the
uuHpiccu of Mr . Robert Mtophonaou . Advices have been received one duy later than the lftbt date from the Cape of Good Hope , but they bring little additional intelligenc" A writer from Somerset auytt that the Kalliis aud Hottentots are committing grout havoc . They have muaiered . very strong at a place called Waterkloot , not far from Ain « lien-plaee . It in rumoured that they intend to attack ftoineiHet . The Dutch Hettlers are ttuiti to show very little willingness to fight , under Hir Harry Nmiili .
The Natal papers lately received represent tho colony as being generally prosperous . Civilization is extending itself in the . tegular KiigliHh fashion . Omnibuses uie already in active tine in the capital , Ji ' oteruittritzburg , at thu ohurgo ol lid . fur pnHHtMtgrrn . The Culiforniuu papers contain accounts of several engagements with the Indiums . In one cubou party oiuixty
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen and Prince , with the whole of the royal children , left Osborne-house on Tuesday afternoon , at a quarter before two o ' clock , on their return to Buckingham-palace . They crossed from Cowes to Gosport in the Fairy royal steam-yacht , and were conveyed to town by special train . On arriving at Nine Elms Station five carriages were in waiting for the royal party , and they proceeded to the palace escorted by a detachment of lancers . On Wednesday afternoon the Queen held a levee at St . James ' s Palace , which was numerously attended .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1851, page 292, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1876/page/8/
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