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      2 ^^ t > BRS AJSHP SOTCIDES , An inquest was held on Monday on the bodies ^ the inan A fhe two boys found drowned near , the residence of the ma Vice Chancellor at Putney . He" turns out to be a Set-maker , named Spankhurst , late of Barking , and rtTbovs were bis sons ; His -wife was examined . She aid her husband had once tried to cut her throat , and S ^ S ^^ ed li *; - . HBl ^ li «/ to : t 1 » e ..-7 j » - . aBA S £ ard Sfeg of him -until she received thefolloTv | ng letter ;— - "Apart ' ;' . . « Bv the time that you receive these few lines , or hours hefore , me and my boys wilT be locked in the arms of death * andlamvery tuohappy to think that my girl is not with us ; and you have no one to thank but your own temper towards ine , and 1 made up my mind what I should do as I lay on my pillow this morning before I started . And I have but little comment to make , but your temper lor

      has been that to me that it Has preyea on my mma sometime . But it is finished before this time . I hope that my girl will grow and bei a good girl , and I should have been happy if I had her here with us . I hope you will govern your temper for the future , and you have no one to thank but yourself for this , and I hope that you will do well . God bless you both for ever . N , S . " . An apprentice strengthened the testimony of Mrs . Spankhurst that her husband drank a great deal . The coroner summed up the evidence , and the jury returned separate verdicts , to the effect that the deceased children , Nathaniel John ^ and William , had been wilfully murdered hv their father , Nathaniel Joseph Spankhurstj and that

      the latter afterwards committed suicide by drowning him self , bemg atthat time of unsound mm ^ John Dawwasa miller ' s man , living near Lynn , jNorfolk . He had a wife and one child , and his cottage was situated on the banks of Rising River , For about a week John Daw was in " low spirits , " and at the end of that time , on Sunday week , he yas found lying in the river stripped tp his shirt , and his throat cut quite across . A neighbour went to break the news to Mrs . Daw . The cottage door was open , the sitting-room door was open , and to his horror he saw M ± s . Daw and her son lying on the floor in their night cldtheSj ^ with their throats cujt . It was testified by his master that John Daw was a good

      servant and to all appearance , an affectionate husband . The jury found " That the deceased John Daw did kill and slay Honor Daw : anct Martin Daw , he . being at the time insane ; and that the said John Daw did also drown himself while in a state of insanity . " Three boys were " crow scaring" afr Outwell , about 10 miles fromXynnrNprfolk , on Sundayy the eldest carrying ' a gun with which to frighten , the birds , A trifling quarrel arose , when the eldest boy , aged 13 , deliberately raised the gun to his shoulder , and blew put the brains of one of his companions , aged 0 , brightened at the apt which _ he had committed , the murderer prevailed upon his remaining companion to assist him to dispose of the body , by

      dragging it to a dry ditch , where it was carefully buried . The two boys then returned to the spot where their companion had been shot , and , gathering up his brains and the shattered fragments of his , ekull , they threw them into his cap . After this they kindled a fire of turf ( the field being in the fens ) , upon which they placed the cap , which they watched until , with its contents , it was entirely consumed . Upon their return home , inquiry arose concerning the murdered child , when the companion of the murderer confessed to the particulars above narrated , and was with the murderer himself taken into custody . A Coroner's inquest on the body of the boy , William Day , who was shot , terminated on Wednesday night , having Bat twn dnirfl TVia nf t / vit Tirt firnfi tVio tri two j tne is

      _ nama -Ma H xo- . m m am aays . , jcie name pi Doy wno nrea cne gun William Pearce . John Day , brother of the deceased , proved discovering the body and digging it out of the ditch where it was buried . James Pearoe , brother of the acoused , corroborated this evidence , but neither of them had seen anything of the murder . Wm . P « arce , ten years old , and brother to the accused , gave more important testimony . He stated that he went to bed with his brother ( James Pearce ) on Saturday night , when his Irother told him that he had shot Bill Day . They were sitting in the field by the fire , which boys are acouatomed fco keep up while crow-scaring , when they quarrelled , and Day struck him a violent Wow over tho eye ( his oye was blackened and bruised when

      « " « """ custody ;; ana that Ho tnon tooJc up tne gun and blowed Day ' s brains out . Day did not die directly , but lay upon the ground bleeding fast . My brother , continued the witness , ooid , "I did not know what to do with him . * mtod him up . and held him sitting on the ground , A * j | P ° * o him , but ho could not speak to me . fu I ° . minut ° s I saw ho was dead , and I dag a holo in the drain and buriod him ? and after covering him up X jumped on him and jammed him down . I did not JiKo to boo the blood on the rods whore he fol # and so I Pup them altogether , with Mb cap , and tried ftrburn them . " William , Goulott . a lifcfclft hnv f , \ crhh ve > nrn n ]( l sn . w Pnnrnn

      « i ? y . P lavin ff together , and hoard tho gun go off : wougut it was to frighten the crows . Soon after eaw a oarco wandering about by himself : did not suspect anything A constable of tho Norfolk police related a conversation ho had with William Pearco at tho station-house . J oarco said , — " Have you soon poor Billy Day P" Witness « -B ,. , ** " > affirmative , when tho prisoner replied , if i ? ° 5 T ^ follow - I have told a good many lies about W t r i } now toU y ° u tho *»»* h- * did n ° * Bl » oofc Wm , l , « n , T A ) od to burv Mm by tho drain aide . " Afterwards n « « lttod thafc ho did Bhoot Day , who had first got up , as they Woro eittlng b tho flr 6 ) ftnd Mfc him ^ ^ * j . no jury brought In a verdict of Manslaughter .

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      The Eight Hon . Sidney Herbert , M . P ., obtains a seat in the House of Lords by the death of his brother , the Earl of Pembroke , in Paris . Xord Panmure died at Brechin Castle pn Tuesday , at the age of 82 . Mr . Fox Maule , his son , succeeds to his title and great estates . , . Lord Dunsany expired at Dunsany Castle on the night of the 7 th instant . He is succeeded in his titles and estates by his only brother , tie Hon . Captain Plunkett , E . N . Lord Dunsany was born the 6 th of September , 180 % ' and \ yaa consequently only in the 48 th year of his age . By his death a vacancy is created in the representative peerage of Ireland . Lord Dynevor , -who had been for some time an invalid , expired at his seat , Barrington Park , Oxfordshire , oh Friday last , at 1 , p . m ., in his 87 th year . He is succeeded in the title and estates by his son the Hon . George Bice Trevor , Lieutenant-colonel of the Carmarthenshire Militia . The venerable peer has also left six daughters .

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      Prince Frederick of Sehleswig-Holstein is at present staying at Exmouth , where he has taken a house for a short tune . The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland , the Earl of Eglinton , proposes to give a grand tournament at Fermanagh ! The presence of the Duke of Wellington is expected I ! Preparations are being made for ' erecting the pedestal for the equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington in front of the Register House , Edinburgh . The statue , by Mr . Steel , is all but completed , and will be inaugurated with a fitting ceremony on next Waterloo day . On Sunday last , April 11 , was presented to W . Kaye , Esq ., of Broughton , Manchester , by his lady , the extraordinary number of three daughters , who , with . Mrs . Kaye , are doing well . This is an Eaater offering !

      Ann Kelly died at Lewisham , Kent , on the 5 th instant , aged 103 y ears . From early youth she was a member of the theatrical profession , and acted at various theatres in England , Ireland , and Scotland . She was in the same company with the late Edmund Kean , and also with James Sheridan Knqwles , and she had often played " Alicia" to the " Jane Shore" of Mrs . Siddons . About the age of 60 slie lost her hearing , and was obliged to relinquish the stage . Mr . Knowles learning her destitute situation , took her from compassion into his family , and from that timo she had been eololy dependent on that gentleman ' s bounty . She retained all her faculties to the last , and was only confined to her bed three days previous to her decease .

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      The greatest activity has been displayed at Woolwich Dockyard to complete the stores required for the vessels of the Arctio Expedition , under Sir Edward Belcher , that all may be on board to-night or oarly to-morrow morning , as the wholo of tho squadron are under orders te be ready to proceed down the river between nine and ton a . m . on Thursday , Apxil 15 . On Wednesday , Admiral Sir Francis Beaufort , K . O . B ., the hydrographor to tho Admiralty , visited Captain Belcher at an early hour , and witnessed several experiments made to explain to the officers tho mode of inflating balloons , and the bombardiers of tho Marino Artillery , tho plan for blowing up tho ice by moans of tho galvanio battery .

      Mr . Hunjo lias addressed a lottor to tho daily papers , in which he states tho result of tho labours of tho committoo appointod at tlio public meeting held on the 7 th of August , 1860 , at tho Whittington Club-room , to collect subscriptions from tho working classos for a memorial to tho lato Sir Robert Pool : —Including tho subscriptions begun at tho Bolvidoro Hotol , Pontonvillo , thero has boon rocoivod tho sum of 1 , 7371 . Os . Qd ., chiofly in penny subscriptions ; and that amount has boon paid into tho Bank of England , to bo invested in threo por cont . consols in tho namos of threo trustees . Tho committeo havo already decided that tho yearly interest of tho fund shall bo applied to educational purposos , under tho title of " Tho Working Man ' s Memorial to the lato Sir Robert Peel , " and they will sparo no endeavours to render its application judicious . Tho

      number of individual subscribers is about 260 , 000 , among whom ' are English workmen at St . Potoraburgh , who havo contributed $ , towards tho fund . ( A largo meeting of tho inhabitants of Marylobono was hold , on Tuesday evening lost , at tho Princess ' s Concert Rooms , to consider tho propriety of petitioning Parliament against the Militia Bill . Mr . J . A . Nioholay was- in tho oliair ; and tho mooting was addressed by Mr . Jacob Boll , M . P ., Mr . Cobdon , M . J ? ., Mr . Buckton , Mr . 0 . George , and othor gentlemen , Resolutions woro passed doclaring tho opinion of tho mooting that tho cnrolmont of tho militia would bo oppressive to all classes pf tho community , injurious to tho morals of the people , and cortniu to render nocossarv a largo amount of general and local taxation from which the people might otherwise be relieved , and

      to have the effect of deranging the habits of business , and injuring the prospects in life of those who would be brought immediately under its operation ) and pledging those present to adopt all constitutional means to prevent its passing into a law . A petition embodying the above objections was then agreed to , and having Been signed by the Chairman on behalf of the meeting , was ordered to be forwarded to the members for the borough fer presentation to Parliament . : .. ¦

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      The Grand Duke of Baden is dangerously ill and not expected to live many dayi . Navarro , the Jeifreys of Naples , unenviably immortalized in Mr , Gladstone ' s Letters to Lord Aberdeen , ifl dying from a gangrene in the foot . The Gazette de France Bars , "We are assured that M , Thiers will soon return to France . " The coronation of the King of Sweden and Norway in the latter country , which was to have taken place in the summer , has been postponed to the summer of 1853 . The delay has been occasioned by the works in the Cathedral of Drontheim not being likely to be completed in time . There is a rumour'in Quebec that Lord Elgin Jias tendered his resignation to her Majesty as Governor ' General of Canada , and expects to leave this country at an early date . —Montreal Courier , March 25 .

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      The Portuguese steamer , Porto , left Oporto on the morning of the 28 th of March , with a crew of twentytwo men and thirty-nine passengers . All went well tili the vessel reached Cape Mondego , when a furious gale sprang up , and the worn-out boilers only enabled the ship to make a head-way of a mile an hour . The mate in command tried to run for Vigo or Oporto . The pilot decided that it was possible to cross the bar at the mouth of the Douro . The sea was not high , and they made for this perilous passage . In one minute more the ship would have been in safety , when by some mismanagement she sheared and struck on a sand-bank , and unshipped her rudder . The rebound threw her on the Toiro rock , where she stuck fast for an hour , only forty yards from shore . The beach was crowded with the families and friends of those on board . A boat from the land failed in an attempt to rescue the crew and passengers . In an hour and a half the vessel went to pieces , and all the passengers were drowned , including Mr . Joseph Allen , Mr . James Anderson ,-and his nephew , Mr . Elinsley , Englishmen . Only eig ht of the crew reached the shore , and one was saved from the wreck in the morning . Several young men were arrested , a few days ago , at Pesth , for having woruL tricolour ribbons , and cried " Long live Kossuth !"— Two foydealers were also arrested for having exposed for sale dolls and toys ornamented with the national colours .

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      The Perth Courier states that the estate of Bichael and Glaschorrie , in the parish of Blair Athole , which was sold the other day for 8 , OO 0 Z . to Richard Hemming , Esq ., Worcestershire , was bought by Captain Beaumon ^ upwards of twenty years ago , for 5 , 000 Z . The rise in value since that time is solely owing to tho grouse shooting . How many families were turned off this estate , among many others , to make room for the grouse ? On Sunday afternoon , two privates of the 4 th Light Dragoons were drowned in the river Thames , off Isleworth Church . Five of the men in the same regiment , about 12 o ' clock , hired a boat , and after a short time , ono of them began to rock the boat , tho effect of which was that it was

      capsized , and they wcro all precipitated into the water . Several boats put off promptly to their assistance , and they were conveyed to the " London Apprentice , " adjoining tho churoh , where restoratives were immediately applied , by several medical gentlemen . Two of them , however , woro found to be past recovery , after lengthened efforts to restore animation . Daniel Tuffrey , of Juniper-hill , Cottisford , near Bicestor , convicted at the last assizes for horse stealing , and sentenced to seven years' transportation , and Charles Eock , convicted of robbery and attempt to murder , for which ho was

      sentenced to transportation for life , attempted to escape from tho county gaol at Oxford on tho evening of Friday . At about ten at night ono of tho watchmen hoard noises from two cells , which convinced him there was somofching wrong . Tuffrey and Rock had , by breaking away an iron bar from tho grate in thoir respective rooms , obtained tho means of making a hole in tho wall for tho purpose of getting through it into the yard . Rockhad succeeded in gotting from three to four foot of tho brickwork away , and would in a short timo havo boon from his cell . TufFrey was loss forward with his work ; ho , however , had made considerable progross . Thoy woro secured , and will for tho futuro bo ironed , at night as woll as by day .

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      MlSOELIiANBOlTS . TrtWrE ? * Jolm "Wilapn has announced in a letter tp tho iiZ ? *? J 0 lit ftr > d Town Council of Edinburgh his rosigna-W « ° f th o chair of Moral Philonophy in the . Univoraifcy . we rogret to say that the cause is continued illness .

      The Duke of Northumberland , aecpmpaMed ; by Commodore Herbert , the Fourth Lord pf the Admiralty , Captain Chads , G . B ., of the Excellent , and Captain the Hon . F . Pelham , Private Secretary to the First Lord , visited the ships of war at Spithead , the Dock-yard , and Sailor ' s Home , at Portsmouth , on Wednesday . The Duke subscribed 200 ? . to the Home . _ : Sir James Mathespn , M . Pi , proprietor , of the Island of North Eona , has offered it aa a gift to government for a new penalsettlemeht . ' Thisislsuidis situated in the Atlantic , in latitude 59 dee . 7 min . 15-48 sec . and longitude 6 dee .

      48 min . 60-45 sec . west . It forms part of the Lewis property . It lies 38 miles N . E . of the Butt of Lewes , forming a nearly equilateral triangle with it and Cape Wrath . Its highest point is 360 feet above the level of the sea . Its greatest length is nearly a mile , and its greatest breadtk the same . The island contains 270 acres ^ three feurths of which are arable . The cost of maintaining a convict in Australia is 40 Z . a year . The cost of maintaining a convict in Rona would not exceed 151 , a year , and this on 1 , 000 convicts for four years would save 10 Q , 000 Z . The climate and soil being favourable , the arable parts of Rona might be cultivated by the convicts as a garden farm .

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      An oxtonsivo firo , undoubtedly causod by an incendiary , broke out in several parts of tho farm promfaos of Mr . John Covo , Groat Loo , in tho parish of Shinftold , three miles from Reading , at about eight o ' clock on the evening 1 of Eaator Sunday , and was not got under until tho entire homestead presented a cgmploto wreck . Tho farm house was only saved by tho wina blowing in a contrary direction . On Wednesday night , about half-past nine o ' olock , afire broko out on tho promises of Mr . Woldon , bookseller , of Patornostor-row . By tho aid of tho engines , which aoon arrived , tho flames wore extinguished in a short time ; fcho damage done was howovor considerable . Mr . Weldon ' s atook was insured in tho Sun Firo-offloo . Tho inhabitants of Nassau-street , Middleaox Hospital , woro moBfc painfully oxcitod on Tuesday morning-, nboufc four o ' olock , by a scono at tho houso No . 16 , occupied hff Mr . Charles Lansiiold , a carpenter . A police constable , scoing clouds of emoko pouring fVom tho boaornont floor , auccoodod in arousing tho inmatoH , numbering no fewer than nineteen persons , Thoso who woro in tho lower portion of tho promiaea gained tho stroot at groat risk , but six who woro on tho socond floor , on reaching tho stairs , woro driven back by tho hofc emoko . They then made

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 17, 1852, page 367, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1931/page/11/