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Fourth Line . —From Suez to Calcutta and Hongkong and back , monthly , calling at Aden and Pomt-de-Galle , whence a steamer is to proceed by Madras to Calcutta , and another by Penang to Singapore and Hongkong . Fifth Line . —From Singapore to Sydney and back , every alternate month , calling both ways at Batevia , Swan River , or King- George's Sound , Adelaide , and Port -Philkp . A perfect and unbroken chain -of bi-monthly mailpackets , to and from Egypt , India , -and China , will be established immediately the hew contract shall come-into operation . Besides this , the semi-monthly mail-packet service between Malta and Marseilles , at present performed by steamez-s belonging to the Royal navy , will be accomplished by the contractors , and the English naval packets may , in consequence , be withdrawn from that station .
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MUTINY ON BOARD THE " QUEEN OF THE WEST , " LIVERPOOL . The Queen of the West , packet ship , cleared out of "Wellington Dock , Liverpool , on Saturday afternoon , bound for Uew York , and lay on the Cheshire side of-the river . The Captain , Mors by name , went on board , and George Freeman , one of the crew , complained that the crew was shorthanded , there being only twenty-six seamen instead of thirty , which he declared to be the proper complement . At last they came to high words , and the Captain ^ seizing Freeman by the breast , told him to be quiet , and do his duty . Freeman struck the Captain , who was knocked down and severely handled by the crew , armed with marlin-spikes and belaying-pins . Mr . Risk , the mate , attacked the crew with a cutlass , and the Captain aimed a revolver
at one of the men , which snapped , however , without exploding . He then got another cutlass , and aided by the mate , drove the crew below , after a tough encounter , in which many of them were sadly gashed . Some of the crew took part with the Captain , and the ringleaders were put in irons , while one , Downs , was flogged . The police having been informed , a posse of officers were sent on board , and the mutinous crew , twelve in number , were taken on shore to Liverpool , accompanied by Captain Mors and the mate . Most of them were slashed about the head and face in a dreadful way , one of them had his shoulder deeply cut , and one had his hand nearly cut off ; Three men were taken to the hospital , the rest were sent to Birkenhead , as the affray took place on the Cheshire side of the river .
The prisoners , ten young athletic men , most of them Americans , were brought before Sir Edward Cust and a bench of magistrates , at Birkenhead , on Monday . Captain Mors , and Mr . Bisk , the mate , gave their evidence , and in cross-examination by Mr . Aspinall , who appeared for the sailors , the Captain admitted that he had twice ¦ been before the magistrates in-New York , and once in England , for ill-treating passengers and seamen , but he declared that oh the last occasion he was " honourably cleared . " Mr . Kelly , surgeon , deposed to having attended on Captain Mors , who had received severe wounds on the top of the head ; the skull was laid bare , and he had lost much blood . Mr . Aspinall asked the bench to send the
matter for trial at the assizes , and he called several witnesses , who stated that the " row" commenced by the Captain striking Freeman ; that Freeman remonstrated , when he was roughly collared ; that the men interposed to protect him , and that the officers thereupon commenced the attack . The magistrates refused to send the case beforo a jury , and Freeman was ordered to pay 51 ., or be imprisoned two months ; Jack , Trayner , and Fowler , 31 ., or six weeks ; and the others to pay the expenses , or 14 days' confinement . A charge , made by Mr . Aspinall against the Captain for attempting to shoot one of the crew was not entertained . The two men at the infirmary are progressing favourably but one of them is not yet pronounced out of danger .
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MURDERS AND ATROCITIES . KAtAJiEBGo , the Italian , who murdered his uncle near Banbury , will suffer death at Oxford , on the 22 nd inst ., and the wretched woman , Pinckaird , who was condemned at Northampton , for strangling her mother-in-law , will undergo the sentence ^ on the 19 th inst . Tho day for tho execution of John Eyres and John Kemish , who wcro convicted at Winchester for drowning a man , named John Sofft , whom they had previously made drunk at Romsoy , has not as yet been fixed . Thomas Phillips and Margaret Morgan , of Dovynnock , Brecknockshire , are charged with having thrown a living child to a sow , which killed it , and devoured part of it ; they wore brought up at tho
Shirohall , Brecon , on Saturday last , before a lull bench ot magistrates , and tho examination of witnesses lasted for six hours , There is no doubt that they will bo fully committed , for trial . Arthur Townsond , a painter , was tried at Worcester , on Saturday last , for the murder of David Bandford , at Ships ! on-on-Stour . A dispute between Sandford and Townsond , nt a public-houso , led to violent languago and throats , and a challenge from Sandford to fight , any morning that tho other liked . A fig ht ensued , and Townsend got ting tho worst of it , drew a clasp knifo , and stabbed his antagonist , who died in a few hours . Ho was sentenced to fil'toon years' transportation . On tho same day , and bofbre tho sumo iudgo , Poter Pholton and John
Brogan , labourers , wore tnod for wounding Sarah Smith , with intent to murder hor . Mra . Smith , with her husband , keeps tho toll-gate at Holt-bridge , Omborsley , on tho Severn . Soon after midnjght , on tho 10 th of September last , tho very day sho , had given birth to a child , sho was Bleeping with "Martha Clarko , a nurao , ' when hearing a cry of " Gate 1 " Mrs . Clarko wont to tho door . A voico said , " Give me a light . " . The nurne turned to got a box of matches , whon Pholton and Brogan walkoa in , and Brogan immodiatoly attacked Mrs . Smith , who was in bed , with eomo hoavy weapon , and broke hor arm . Phelton then repeatedly struck Mrs . Clarko , tho nurso , in tho most savage manner , but bIio at last wrested tho stick from Ilia hand , and rushed down to tho room whore Mra . Smith ' s husband wo * sleeping , below the level of the road . Before Mr . Smith got up ottiixo the men baA gone ,
after still further ill-usinff his wife . Neither of the prisoners were taken until a long time after the occurrence . Broffan was taken in Herefordshire , on a charge ofrobbery No motive was shown for the commission of the offence . Phelton once said , in conversation with the officers « We were both drunk , but it served her right , " but would explain himself no further . They wereboth found guilty , and sentenced to transportation for Me . Mary Hodgson , aged thirty-one , was indicted , at York , onMonday , * for haying endeavoured ,, to conceal the birth of a child , by secretly burning the body ; and Richard Jaques , seventy-six years old , (!) for aiding and abetting her . Jaques , who was a miner at Arncliffe , near Skipton , was the father of the child ; Mary Hodgson lived with him as his housekeeper , and was of weak intellect . They were both found guilty , and Mr . Justice Cresswell sentenced the old man to a year ' s imprisonment , and the woman to three months . Jaques -was removed protesting his
inno-CGHCG ¦ John Phelan , a medical student , about thirty years of age , and son of a respectable resident at Cashel , was tried at the Clonmel Assizes , for having , on the fifth- of . July , 1850 , incited Alice Minehan to murder an infant child , named John Phelan , and another indictment awaited him for procuring the same woman to murder another infant , named Mary Phelan . Alice Minehan was examined . She is a young woman , of vulgar appearance , dark , coarse hair , red face , mean and pinched visage , but not marked with any peculiar character . She deposed that a man , named D ' iggan , had first spoken to her on behalf of Phelan , who was the father of the children , askthem off
ing her to take them to tie poor-house , and pass as the children of her sister , who was married to a soldier , and had gone to foreign parts . Afterwards , Phelan spoke to her , and she agreed to make away with them , as he was afraid "they would be brought home to him . " He promised her money . The children were , twins , and about two months old . She took the girl first , one morning , at break of day , and took it five miles from Cashel , to a ruined house * where she covered it with thatch . The child was then alive . The next day she took the boy about three miles * from the town , to a sand-pitj and put a sod of earth over it . She agreed to murder them , because the devil tempted her . The following answers were elicited on cross-examination : — -
Did the child scream when you put it under the thatch ?—It did not , for it was sleeping in my arms . ( Sensation . ) . And when you saw the child sleeping in your arms , and when the prisoner was not there jto influence you , you did not desist from your hellish purpose ?—I did not . And that same evening you went back again to Diggan ' s , and looked upon the other victim that you were to take out and murder in tie morning ? - —I did . When you covered the secondchild with the sods > where were the sods obtained P—They were ready cut . How large was it p—Larger than the seat of the chair . Did that child cry?—I did not hear it . It was covered too well to cry . ( A thrill of horror pervaded the court . ) After the examination of other witnesses , the case for the Crown closed .
Mr . Meagher addressed the jury for Phelan , and submitted that the case was one depending solely upon the evidence of a prostitute and a murderess , and ! could any man for a moment rely upon a word she uttered P—No witnesses were called for the defence . The jury brought in a verdict of Not Guilty , and John Phelan was discharged .
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STONE-THROWING AT TRAINS . WlIiliAM Hay and John Whitnoll , two country lads of 13 and 12 , were tried before Mr . Serjeant Adams , at the Guildhall , Westminstor , on Monday , for casting stones at a railway carriage used on . the London and North-Western Railway . Charles Skolton said— "I resido at Oxford . I am a guard on tho London and North-Western Railway . As tho train was proceeding between Sudbury and Harrow on Wednesday , tho 25 th ult ., I saw tho prisoners and another lad in a field adjoining tho lino , and each of the prisonors throw a stono at the carriages . Ono of tho stones would have struck mo if I had not gone under tho covered part of a van . Tho stono struck tho carriage and bounded off . It was tho prisoner Whitnoll throw tho stono that would havo struck mo . " James Thomas Cooper , police sergeant , 6 T , stated that whon tho prisonors wore wrought to tho station-houso at Harrow , tho prisoner Whitnoll said , " I tlirow a stono , but tho train had passed ; " and Hay said , "Wo wore only throwing at tho telegraph wires . '' Hay . — " I did not throw at tho train at all ; I throw at a bird on tho other eido of tho railway . " Whitnoll . — " I was throwing at tho telegraph . " Tho jury returned a verdict of Quilti / , with a recommendation to morcy . Tho Judge . — " You soe , gontlomon , it will not do to allow boys to throw stones in this way ; but such a punish . mont must be given as will dotor other children from doing tho same thing .. I think « littlo flogging , porluvps , will be tho best thing ?'
Mr . Borosford , superintendent of tho railway , said that thoro had boon ho . much stone-throwing on tho lino , that although thoy did not wish to pros ' s tho matter sovoroly on tho prjsonors , yot tho Company wanted to know what tho law really was on the subject . Tho Judge then referred to tho Act ! , and observed that unfortunately it did not give him tho power to order flogging . Those boys did not know tho mischief that might havo happened . Thoy only thought it grout fun to throw Btones , but it might havo cost several lives . If thoy had been grown-up men , he certainly should havo imprisoned them Tor two years . Ho hopod tho sontonco ho was about to pass would prevent other boys from playing such tricks . Although they escaped so oasily , if this did not put a stop to it , ho should , bo moro eoyoro another time Ho then
sentenced them to ono month ' s imprisonment and hard labour , and directed that they should be kept abarf- twJr tho other felons . * - " ¦ m
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« MAY I MARRY MY AUNT ?" A TdtraG- man applied to Mr . Gome , at Clerkenwell Police Court , on Wednesday , and ; coolly said j Please your worship , I wish to know whether it is lawful for a man to marry his aunt ? . ( A laugh . ) '""' .. ' . Mr Corrie ( smiling ) : It is a most extraordinary question . Have ^ bu married your aunt ? A pplicant : Yes " my mother ' s sister ^ ( Laughter . ) ' Mr . Corriei How old are you ? Applicant : Nineteen Mr . Corrie ; And what age is your wife ? Applicant-Twenty . Mr . Corrie said that such a marriage was certainly illegal according to the Scriptures , and he referred to L& . viticus and the Common Prayer Book . The aunt-wife , a good-looking young woman , here said-He is a fool ; I am willing to do everything to make him " comfortable .
Applicant : I can't live with her , she has got such a bad temper . Aunt : If the marriage is illegal , and he leaves me , is he not bound to support me P Mr . Corrie : Oh , no . Aunt : Then can he marry again ? Mr . Corrie : Yes . Aunt : And can I do so ? Mr . Come : Yes . Aunt : Oh ! then thafs all right . ( Laughter . )
A v ^ vii-a aa- « 4- "T'll 4-aUa * wsVst « 4 AO 1 * a I'll » " * i" \ 4 * SMS > 4 * « vtA * tinA >] a ^ . —? .. Applicant : I'll take good care 111 not get married again ; I have had enough of if for the last six jnonths . ( Loud laughter . ) Hie applicant then left the court , followed b y his auntwife , who continued abusing her nephew until they got out of sight .
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NEW WAY TO GET A HUSBAND . A vekt singular case of swindling , says GaUgnanfs Messenger , has for some time past occupied the good people of Chartres ; and it came to denouement four days ago by the ' trial of the heroine and her mother , as swindlers , by the Tribunal of Correctional Police of that city . The facts were these-r-Leonie Lehoux . daughter of the driver of the diligence which plies between XJhartres and Dreux , conceived in November last the ambition to become a heroine of romance , though she possesses none of the beauty or graces which are generall y supposed to be necessary for the part . In execution of the design which she had-formed , she borrowed a sum of 100 f £ from a fishwoman named Vire , for , she said , a lady of high rank , named Raymond , who had taken her under her protection . The money not havingbeen paid , Madame Vire went to Leonie ' s mother . At first the mother did not know what was meant , but Leonie produced a letter purporting to come from the Bishop of Chartres , and stating that he intended to marry Leonie to a young man of good family , to give her father and mother 20 , 00 Qf . a-year , and to give Leonie herself a fortune of 100 , 000 f . All this the mother appeared devoutly to believe , and she made her husband believe it too . The latter accordingly made no hesitation in paying Madame Vire the lOOf . The Bishop in his letter recommended that his benevolent intentions to tho girl should be kept a secret for tho present . But the father , in the prido of his heart , could not refrain from talking of it to some rather wealthy farmers , named Brunet , where he was acenstomed to stop to change horses , Brunei ' s son , a young
man , thought that a fortune of 100 , 000 f . was a very tempting thing , and ho asked whether Leonie was really to bo married to tho Bishop's protegS—hinting that if sho wero not , he would have no objection to take her himself . But tho father , though willing enough to accept him as a sonin-law , assured him that thoro was no hope . He showed tho young man the Bishop ' s letter ; and the latter could not help remarking that it was couched in rather strange languago , as it began , "Dear Madame , — I tho Lord Bishop of Chartrcs , Moneoignour Clausol do Montals , write these lines to you to produce an effect on your heart , " and as moreover there wero sundry faults o * fP " ing . But tho father sagoly answered , that when a bishop was 80 vcars of ao-o ho was at liberty to writo strangely .
and to spoil badly- ; and this profound observation removed all tho scruples of tho young man . About a month later , another letter arrived from the Bishop ; it told tho ushoux that thoy should live with him in his paluco attor tiio marriage of his beloved Lconio , and that ho had a roadv received tho first year ' s ronto of 20 , 000 f . for thorn , though ho could not send it for a few days , as ho was short ot money . Ho directed that a nowbonnot and a mult sjJ ° V ' bo bought for Leonio , and a cravat for himself , iiw intention was , ho said , to spend 90 , 000 f . for wedding garments and jewels for hor , and to increase hor > . nton ™ ' fortuno from 100 , 000 f . to 400 , 000 f , Ho also promised Uiaj whon Honry V . should bo restored to tho thvono , lie wouw mako hor "Regont of tho Court , " and would confer titios on hor imrontH . Dazzled bv hifi approaching good lorium ,
Lohoux , tho father , resigned the post of dihgonco-uin ^ , and took special dolight in talking ( o tradesmen am neighbours of hfo own and » hia daughter's future fflt'i . " ^ f ; It was not without groat onvy that tho humble inomw and acquaintances of tho family hoard of their o \ i *» ordinary fortune ; and'whon tho tradospoopJo i ) 0 '"" it too , they wore naturally disposed to give credit . j » » moisollo Loonio and bor mother went to Droux , whorei inoy not only purchased tho bonnet , tho muff , and tlio er » v « for tho Bishop , lmt a quantity of fino draws and cosuj articles , for none of which thoy paid . Thoy emp loyed apm eorvant to wait on . thorn , andp urohasod W ™^ /; : 10 * 0 ! .- !^ and Madomoisello Loonie indulged horsolf with ajnai After a while another letter amveid from tho ]™ l \ W- , ^ set forth that m tho husband ho had dostinod for wr » attempted to oauuaBinuto him , ho was dotermmpd «»• " . should not havo bor , and ho churned her P « ro nts to » o thomflolYeB a young man who would moke ixoxmVVJ-
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244 THE LEADER . [ SAtprday ^
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Leader (1850-1860), March 13, 1852, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1926/page/8/
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