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going to remain a few days in "London , and thence going to Clifton , and from thence to Scotland . Date your letter , don't put it in an envelope , for the post mark will be necessary to show , and then they may put their capias . — This done you may safely come , there will be only Barry , and that I will settle to-morrow . So come upon receipt , and don't mind Bennett . I'll answer for your safety . "I have been again crippled ; I am in anything but good healths I'll get Bennett ; to give money to take your horses to Inverness . Adieu till we meet . ¦ "Ever yours , "J . O ! B . "I had to give bail for 3 , 000 ? . George Payne acted nobly for me . "Ever yours , " J . O'B . "
He then continued— " I will swear that the cap of his knee actually was broken . I have not written any anonymous letters about defendants . I decline to answer whether I have been a party to their being written . I know Mr . George Wood , and have known him for twenty years . I have never played with him . I never won 3000 / . br 40002 . from him . Going over a period of , twenty-two years I do nOt recollect challenging any one for accusing me of cheating at cards . I was never charged by him with cheating him , and never challenged him . I have never challenged any one of whom I have won money . I fought one or two duels while in Trinity College , i will take my oath I have challenged nobody for fifteen years . I never challenged a person who refused to pay me a sum of money during the last fourteen or fifteen years . In my
earlier days duels were as common as possible . I can only speak to the best of my knowledge and belief . I cannot swear to twenty-five years ago . I hare been a defaulter for 60002 . or 70002 ., which I owe yet , but my debts probably will be paid . This was in 1847 . I am not now a member at TattersalTs , for no defaulter can be a member . I never said in the presence of Adam Glen , landlord of the White Bear , that I would break the neck of John Davis . I assaulted a person of the name of Scott six or seven years ago . He brought an action against me , and I had to pay 1002 . and 2002 . costs . I am now living at tihe Talbot . I never played cards in my ife—that is , I am not a professional player , nor have I played for lagre sums . I have never won 10002 . or 6002 . at hearts . I believe I know the brother of a man
named Cauty , who was transported , but I have never been charged with cheating in his company . Another person named lector lent me 2002 . I never paid him , for he never asked it of me . I think he meant it as a-gift . We were intimate at Paris . I made no threat against him of any kind . I got the money from him at Fenton ' s Hotel . He gave me a cheque for the money . I _ did know Mr . Beaumont . I got , I should-think , 13 , 0002 , or 14 , 0002 . from him as presents of various kinds . He is now dead , but was a gentleman of great property . He was a great per . = sonal friend of mine . I met him at Borne , Naples , and
other places , and used to go in his yacht , and was very intimate up to the time of his death . I had a duel with a Mr . Somers , and was wounded ; ho was member for Sligo . This must be twenty years ago . I was in the Queen ' s Bench in 1836 , for six or eight weeks . In that year I took the benefit of the Insolvent Act ; subsequently I recaived some moneys , and allocated them to the payment of the debts in my schedule , and I believe all entitled to be paid were paid 20 s . in the pound . I was arrested again last year , and was in gaol seven months . "
Several bystanders on the occasion , of the assault , testified to having seen O'Brien severely thrashed by the two Davises , and the jury having found them guilty , they were sentenced to a fine of 502 . each , the judge commenting on the line of defence that had been adopted , namely , " attempting to throw dirt on Mr . O'Brien's character" by reckless imputations which they did not even attempt to substantiate . The two brothers then entered into their own recognizances of 1002 . each , to appear on the 5 th of April , at Clerkenvvell , to receive formal judgment .
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CHILD MURDEBS . Janr Gbaham , a single woman , who had boon keeping house for her father , a lampblack manufacturer , at South Shore , Gateshead , was charged at Newcastle on Friday week with attempting to drown her child , a boy about seventeen months old , in a pond near Benton Bank . The first witness , Ralph Chapman , said that on the previous day Jane Graham had passed him near the bridge at Long Bonton with a child in her arms and three or four minutes afterwards sho passed him again without it . _ This excited his suspicions : he called a man named Robinson , nnd they went together to the place whero Chapman had soon her . On looking ovor the fence on the side of the road they at onco saw the child about nix or sovon feot off , " moaning and clinging to the side of the pond , and seeming much exhausted . " As soon as they had takon tho child out of the pond , they wont in search of tho mother , and soon overtook her , Boforo any question was asked , she said , " That ' s my child—givo it mo . " Tho pond was about three foot doop , and as there was a high wooden railing between it and tho road , the child must have been pitched ovor . Jano Graham declared that a man named John Taylor , a grocer ' s assistant , was tho father of tho child , ana had thrown it into tho pond , and that sho was waiting for an opportunity to take it out again . No such person waa known in tho neighbourhood . Sho woe committed for trial at tho next assizes .
A married woman , named Solina Eider , was committed for trial by the magistrates of Derby on Saturday , upon a chargo of having wilfully murdered her illegitimate child , named Martha Sudbury , by coating it into tho Derwont . Th p body was found in the river on Wednesday , with a string tied round its waist , to which a brick , rolled up in a handkorchief , was attached . _ Tho woman protested her innocence , but the evidence against her appeared to be conclusive .
A labouring man , named John Cannon , residing at Boyn Hill , near Maidenhead , has for the last two years taken as a lodger a relative of his wife , named Isaac Lee , who has always shown certain indications of weak intellect ; On the morning of Tuesday Week he cruelly murdered a little girl about four yeafs old , a grandchild of John Cannon ' s , by knocking its head against the floor , and kicking it about the room . Lee was taken before the magistrates at Maidenhead on Friday , and committed for trial at the next Berkshire assizes .
An inquest was held at Cork on Wednesday week on the body of a girl four years old , named Catherine Swiney , the child of a man named Edward Swiney , who lived in Simmon ' s-Iane , and , having been out of employment ^ had been for some time supported by the charity of the Society of St . Vincent de Paul . On Tuesday , while Swiney ' s wifewas out of the house , he strangled the child by tying . a skein of black thread tightly round her throat . . The child was found lying dead in the cradle with the string round its neck . Swiney was arrested by two men , who lived in the same house , at Cunningham ' s public-house , near Patrick ' s-bridge . He was then given into the custody of Constable Geale , to whom , although cautioned against saying anything , he stated that it was he who strangled the child . This statement he repeated when taken to the Tuckey-street guardhouse . The motive of the deed . cannot be conjectured . A verdict of wilful murder was returned by the jury . Swiney , who appeared quite indifferent during the course of the proceedings , was then removed to the city gaol .
William Gildon , a decent , quiet-looking mechanic , was tried before Mr . Justice Talfourd , at Exeter , on Monday , for the wilful murder of John Thomas , aged two years , the illegitimate son of his wife , who had lived with them at Marychurch since their marriage . During his wife ' s absence on the evening of the 6 th of March , Gildon called two of the neighbours to look at the child , saying that it had been suddenly taken ill . They found the ehildin bed , sobbing and groaning faintly , blood flowing from its mouth , and blood on the bed . Gildon was much confused , but readily agreed to send for the surgeon , Mr . Appleton . In the meantime his wife returned , and Gildon said to her > whilst giving expression to her deep grief for the child ,
" Silence ! what are you making that noise about r You deserve a good horsewhipping . " When in custody the prisoner said to his father-in-law , that if it had not been for Ann's ( meaning his wife ) long tongue , the neighbours would not have known anything at all about it . Mr . Appleton , the surgeon , found the child in a dying state , and when he called the next morning the boy was dead . In his evidence on the trial Mr . Appleton declared that the child's death was caused by blows upon the right temple and side of the head > such as would be produced by a man ' s fist . The jury acquitted Gildon of the charge of murder , but found him guilty of manslaughter . Mr . Justice Talfourd told Gildon he had had a narrow escape of his life . He was astonished at the verdict , but would sentence him to the severest punishment possible—transportation for life .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen is expected to visit Winchester Cathedral and College about the 10 th or 11 th of June next . It is said that our Queen will be visited by her blind cousin , the King of Hanover , about the beginning of May . A memorial to the Queen , praying for the subjection of nunneries to regular inspection , has been forwarded for presentation to the Earl of Shaftesbury , signed by 20 , 140 of the women of Glasgow . Mr . John C . King , delegated by the colony of Victoria , presented the first address to the Queen that has ever been carried to Engjand by an Australian colonist , at the levee on Wednesday . The principal gold , fields of Australia are situated in the colony of Victoria , and the address is expressive of the attachment of tho inhabitants to tho Sovereign , and their gratitude for the erection of tho province into a separate colony , " under Her Majesty ' s Royal name . " Mr . King was presented by Sir John Pakington . The Builder announces that Mr . Pugin , the architoet , is in a state of mind that prevents any attention to professional pursuits .
It is reported that Lord Beaumont and his sister , the Hon . Miss Stapleton , have seceded from the Church of Rome . Tho Hon . Mr . Staploton , brother to Lord Beaumont , became a member of tho Church of England a year and a half ago . Eady Beaumont , a daughter of Lord Kilmaino , always has been a Protestant . Mr . Sheriff Swift , at tho Queen's levee , hold on Thursday the 26 th of February last , caused to bo presented to her Majesty a Roman Catholic priest , aa his chaplain , under tho style and title of " the Very Reverend Monsignore
Soarlo ; " and this Papal dignitary paraded himself at Court in coloured Bilks , fantastic stockings , and all tho gaudincss of ultramontane millinery . The adoption of tho stylo of " Monsignore" was in direct violation of tho wellknown regulations of this country , which require a license from tho Crown to assumo " foreign titles , " and in tho Gazette of Tuesday the following paragraph was published : " Lord Ghamborlain ' s-oftico , March 23 . —Notico ia hereby given , that tho presentation to the Queen at tho loveo on Thursday , the 26 th of Fobruary last , of tho Very Rov . Monsignore Soarlo , is cancelled , that title having been assumed without tho required authority . "
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Many of tho sightseers who visit tho New Houses of Parliament ought to be informed that tho orders issued by tho Lord Groat Chamberlain now admit , not only to the House of Poors , but to tho Central-hall , St . Stophen ' shall , Westminster-hall , the Royal Gallory , the Victoria Tower , and tho Royal Staircase The public wore on Monday , for tho first timo since its erection , admitted into . tho Crystal Palace without any charge . During tho day more than 80 , 000 visitors availed themselves of the privilege afforded by the contractors . The galleries and the whole area of the building from end to end were carefully explored by numbers who had never
been there before , and their companions mieht h « v ^ eagerly explaining to them where the morVprSr ^; * ? objects of the Exhibition stood . The eroiins ^ °° unent naders , of everrckss / from the peer to ^ he SbourS ° S the Crowds of children p laying about without inconv «« - ence , suggested how easily so vast a covered space m \ vil be adapted for purposes of innocent and healthful iwJF tion , "vxecrea-
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A numerous meeting was held at : the Music Hall Stnr street , otf Tuesday evening , in aid of the Earlv Closin movement , the Reverend Thomas Dole , Vicar of St P eras , in the chair . Resolutions were passed condemning the present system of late hours in the retail trades an ! pledging those present who were employers or custom 7 r to do their utmost to carry out early closing . In pursuance of a requisition from a large number of citizens the Lord Mayor convened a Common Hall for thn purpose of considering the principle of the Bill now before Parliament for extending the municipal franchise to aU persons who paid taxes as Parliamentary electors , and \ vfcn
naa resided lor a year and a day in the city . On Wednesday , the appointed day , the Liverymen mustered in the Guildhall to the number of about six hundred , and vehe mently protested by their spokesmen , Messrs . Flanders " citizen and "lorimer ; " Clarke , " mercer ; " Taylor and Pearce , " plumbers ; " Sangster , "Bpectacle-maker ; " and Jones , " turner , "—against " giving away the privileges of the Livery to a foreign body , who had no right to such immunities ; " and they almost drowned Deputy Harrison ' s speech , who proposed a resolution in favour of the intended Municipal Reform , with groans , ironical cheers , and loud cries of disapprobation . The original resolution was lost , and an amendment condemning' the Bill ( which has now passed the second reading in Parliament ) was carried
by an overwhelming majority , and amidst tremendous cheering . At a meeting of the vestry of Marylebone on Saturday , Mr . Hodges moved for a committee on the subject of the tax of Is . Id . per ton levied by the City of London on all coals within a circuit of twenty miles , and also the toll of 2 d . oh every tradesman ' s cart entering the city . The motion was founded on a memorial from the Ratepayers ' Protection Association . The memorialists complained that the City of London should possess this privilege of taxing all the ratepayers of the metropolitan districts , and of expending the money in City improvements . The "Cit y of London had only a rental of 800 , 0002 ., while that of Mary .
lebone was more than a million . Marylebone had a thousand more houses than the City , and eight hundred more public gas-lights . According to the calculation of the speakers , Marylebone pays annually to the City of London a tax of 7 , 3362 . per annum for their coals ; and taking into consideration the difference in the price of gas caused by the tax , the entire burden imposed by the City p rivileges amounted to 10 , 3662 . per annum ; Aifter some discussion , in which Sir Peter Laurie defended the City corporation , the resolution was carried unanimously , and Sir Peter Laurie , Mr . Brass , Mr . Gray , Mr . Hodges , and Mr . Hume , M . P ., were appointed a committee .
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The Leicestershire papers say , that so many Meltonians are appointed to the new ministry , that the metropolis of the hunting world is in a most deplorable state of dulness . The report of the Liverpool Female Penitentiary , which was laid before the subscribers on Monday , stated that during the forty-one years that have elapsed since tho Penitentiary was founded , five hundred and thirty-fivo females had been enabled to return to a course of industry and virtue on leaving the institution , while many had been restored to their parents and friends . A large extension
of tho institution had lately been made , chiefly with tfco view of making the labour of the inmates more productive . Tho receipts had not been sufficient to meet this outlay , and in tho course of the year they had been compelled to refuse fifty-two out of a hundred and sixteen app licants for admission . The Great Britain steam-shi p made her first trial trip on Monday , after her long imprisonment in the LiverpooL Docks . Sho wont out of dock at noon , having on board a numerous comnanv . amonc whom were Mr . Samuel
Bright , Captain Claxton , R . N ., Mr . F . P . Smith , the original patentee of tho screw propeller , Messrs . Harman and Ponn , the builders of the Great Britain ' s engines , and other gentlemen connected with the vossol 8 recent alterations . Sho was loudly greeted by the chocrs ot ttio multitudes congregated -on the p ier-heads and landingstage , and fltoamed down to Holyhoad , a route of at ; leaac seventy miles , in five hours and forty minutes . Alter a short delay eho proceeded on her trip , which it is purnosed shall occupy outwardly twenty-four hours . Captain Mathews and tho managing onginoor aro porfcctly satiflfiod with her performances and behaviour . _ . arrived at tno
When tho 6 o ' clock train from Norwich Flordon station on Saturday ovoning , the passengers woro much surprised at Booing a clergyman in full c * "omca standing in tho passage of tho station house . 1 his wan the Rev . Mr . Moore , tho curate of tho parish ; a n 01 &" " bouring magistrate had given him some offonco ; no was oxpeotod to arrivo by thin train , and tho curato was waning to " curso" him . Whilo tho doomed individual wan giving up his ticket to tho station-master , tho lt « v . J *«« Moore thuH addressed " him : "I inflict a curse , upon u »» man . I cuvho you ; I curso your wife j I curse all y have—may your children' bo i ' atherloss and vagabonds , bog their broad ; " nnd continued his execrations witn muon vivacity and variety until tho * cursed mftn' tlfovo ou . Tho revorond gontfoman , in default of sureties to keep w »' linann Tuna ™» ,,,, ^ t ,,, l ^« tt ., r ,, l . » , r » . ; , rli ( . f . n NorWlOll UOSMUj
by Edward Howes , Esq . Tho whole matter has also l > oou reported to tho Bishop of tho diocoBO . . ' JohnSealy Townsond , n Rotirod Master in f ' " . " ^ and one of £ ho ornaments of tfio Irish bar in tho < lftyfl "" its greatest brilliancy , died , at hia residence , Kilvam , »«« * Dublin , on tho 18 th mat ., at tho advanced ago of »/• ** was tho contemporary and competitor of Plunkott , Uunuw . Saurin , Bushe , Pennefftthor , &c .
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294 THE LEADER . [ Saturday .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 27, 1852, page 294, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1928/page/10/
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