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• i and workmen who were sitting for their pen-and-ink ' 2 L oif a shrinking back to let us pass , as if we had just P out of a chollra hospital . The Prefecture of Police " futons is not a public building of any great pretensions f all events , the department of it to which we were " ~ ~ 1 lifted was situated on the second floor of a very dirty r « rfacinff the quai , the ground floor of which was occu-¦ HI * v an unsavoury sausage establishment . It was a P Iiifowashed room , decorated with a portrait of the lar ^ rTnt Vhy does he not stop these frightful libels of fPerson as Use majestS ?—they are never accurate in ? i ntr but the moustache and cocked hat ) , an almanack , ?
1 the picture OI » jL . rtJi « . u buk-iici m me avv < ji jjuwiug & A b tribe to flight ; with a desk at one end , at which ^ seated a police ' authority , ' and a three-legged stool , vUi creatly required a course of Holloway ' s pills , though ¦ > l'mbs never could have stood as long as the Earl of Aldboroug h ' s . The authority having heard the object of tT visit drew forth a sheet of printed paper , and , having xnlained the nature of it to me and Mr . ' s brother , tnd liaving inspected our passports , he gave it to us to which we did with a very good conscience , inasmuch
the gist of the declaration we made was , that we knew a 8 friend to be the person he stated he was , and that he ° \ passport when he started from England , but that hp had lost it , under the circumstances set forth , going 1 Wn the Saone . The landlord of the hotel at which we ¦ tended to stop , further attested his belief of these things , nd the authority having perused the contestation , letter T ) V letter , drew forth a pen , and with a great flourish gave " t the value of his respectable signature . This seemed a /¦ rmsifierable step made towards liberty , but it was in reality
" ant a small one , for ' Now , Monsieur , said ' the authority , •* before this can be of any value it must be signed by my clief ; he , unfortunately , is at his country-house , some distance from this , but it is probable he will return to-night , or , at farthest , to-morrow . ' Again we groaned , for now indeed the affair began to grow serious . Rousseau could not have hated Lyons more than we did . However , by dint of great eloquence , and a small consideration in francs , wo got a police ' authority' to take out the contestation to the chef for his signature , and repaired anxiously to our hotel to wait the result . It was now near one o ' clock , and ; fhe diligence for Geneva was to start at six ; but still we Irad liopes of getting off in time , or , at all events , of being able to go on the following morning . A weary wait ; and
• the policeman came back to say the chef was not at home , but that some one else , acting , I suppose , for the chef , had signed the paper . Joyfully we rushed off to the passportoifice once more , and laid the contestation with humble confidence before the chef of that department . He read it carefully , and seemed much relieved in his mind . ' Here , Monsieur , ' said he , ' is a fact done ; here is a fact to go upon . We are now in a position to take notice of your statement and existence' ( a slight groan ) , ' and although this document is not en regie , still it is a document' ( we brightened up ) ' which I can submit to the chef ' ofmy
department as a fact to be decided upon ! ' Here was another awful disappointment . This chef had a chef ( as , indeed has every chef in France ) , and he was a man perhaps more sceptical than all the others ; but we could not help it , and so we demanded to see this chef . But , no—things were not to be done in that simple way , and tho result of half an hour ' s colloquy , during which the chef ( with the skull-cap ) became very much excited on several occasions , was this—that we must wait in Lyons till the matter had boon duly considered b y his superior ; that the eircum-Blanecs of the case would no doubt , be forwarded to Paris
by telegraph , for the ultimate decision of the Minister of Hie Interior ; that meantime he ( the delinquent who had lost his \ m * x \) ovi jlayrantc d die to ) would bo free to inspect Hie various objects of interest in Lyons , though , it was hinted , ho must necessarily bo under the surveillance of ¦ 'In 1 police ; thai , he would have to present himself at the office at ten o ' clock < m the following , ami , it was to be presumed , () " Hie Niibsequent , morning , to receive a provisory passport for l , l » . day ; but , that , he was not , under fearful pains ai | 'l penalties to leave ? the city , and that any persons uidlu him in his flight would be looked upon as accessories in Ilio first , degree . A position ho unpleasant required desperate measures Here was the whole autumn holiday "i three hard-working lewho could not tell Ledru
peop , ¦ Ivollin from Louis Napoleon in principle , going to bo fi ( '< l < ' « li-afe < l by a waspish little ' authority' in a dingy poui ' e-ofliee in Lyons—those precious hours were going to '""• lipped and pared down , and the shreds thrown into the K'lllers of thin dirty city . No bettor run tho rink of J ' ' » a hos and all , aiid nn ' ike a boll , of it . So let us oil" to "' ' "' . ' "'''lee-o / li , ; , ^ and take our places . There we Haw a "i ;> m . intelli gent ami impressible conductor , and in a 'imiiU > , tin , coupf . was ours to ( Jenevu . As we started a 11 j'lxlei-oiiM gendarme came up and stared into the window . ' ¦ asked no questions , and ho we told him no lies .
d ' , ' ^> ' ' ' i " ><> I'Yeiich frontier , was panned in safety , am ! * y next morning , over a good break fust at the (' ouroiinc , '' '"Joyed a hearty laugli lit tho little ' gentleman of '•>!' »* . and tl ,,, passport system . " ne writer is of opinion ( , 1 ml , the . system uM . erly fails uiHWcr the ( > iul proposed . ( Jreat , criminals , ho says , 1 ( 'tl and social , enter and leave , nnd movo up and JWu With equal facilil . y nay , with far greater ease ''" ' 'T ( : ill % tl'un in lin-Un ' d . Hut , despotism mi-^ ' s loiiably duds its account , in innin | , aiuiii £ a system ' < 'in , hrals all the frank and honest , stamps v . vcry llH 'i slave , and worl < s < li <; deinor ! ili / -a ( , ion of" all .
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• 'ItOditKSN OK ASSOCIATION . Hi ,,,, ' .,. "' / ''' " ' ( ° '"' """ ble , from extreme pressure on our pro ,,, ' ,, / " <> ll ( 1 (> 'his week tlio lir / tort of tho tiorirtj / for <> l > n ; , f . j "! / ( > , "' . 'Ai " ! ' M'n ' s Associations , and of Uio V , oiiinl of "'! I •^' ' m "' "> which IiaH recently been published , uV ,,,. | '" '" wo have rccoivod a copy . Wo purpose , liovv-• uxiuiuno Una report , oxtromo ly auggoBtivonnd
aignificant as we find it to be , with great particularity . Our first paper on the subject will appear next week . consumer s protection society . Wo mentioned some weeks since that a Provisional Committee had been formed to consider the project of a Board of Supply and Demand , or , Consumer's Protective Institution . We ^ re now enabled to state that the firs t efforts of the committee have led to a subdivision of the work into two sections . The moral and spiritual objects of the plan are to be carried out by a society entitled the Consumer ' s Protection Society , quite independently of any commercial operations ; while the " Board of Supply and Demand , " acting as a general commission agency , will be provisionally conducted as a commercial firm , until it shall become a duly chartered company . The basis of the firm is settled , and the deed actually in preparation . As to the " Consumer ' s Protection Society , " a preliminary prospectus has just been issued , under high patronage , if we may judge by the card which accompanied the copy sent to us . While we fully admit the expediency of a society formed for the purposes of moralizing trade and industry , and of procuring and circulating useful information for that purpose , we may be permitted to suggest that the idea of a penny journal issued by the society , as hinted in the prospectus , would be an incumbrance to the Society , and a useless application of the best part of its resources : especially when we find tlie necessity of moralizing trade , and counteracting the adulterations so commonly practised , already discussed as a prominent topic of the day in many widely circulated journals : notably and specially in the Lancet . It does not follow that every man who wants to go , and to have a short cut and a cheap passage , to Australia , should build , man , and fit the steamer at his own cost !
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FATAL DUEL AT EGHAM . WiLiiiA 3 i Hebbeet , a . labourer , walking up Priest ' s Hill , near Egham , on Tuesday , heard the report of a pistol , and , running across the meadow , saw a man lying on his back , and another bending over Mm , trying to staunch a severe wound . -Mr . Hay ward , a surgeon , coming along the same road , met three foreigners , who told him that Ms friend had been wounded . Mr . Hayward went into the field , and found the friend , lying on the ground , with the blood flowing from a wound . He immediately had him removed to the Barley Mow . A ball had passed through his body . He died about six o ' clock in the evening . The superintendent of police was quickly on the spot . He stripped the body with Mr . Hayward , and found that a ball , which was much flattened , had passed through his coat , waistcoat , waistband of the trousers , and shirt . The bullet was found on the sheet of the bed . He examined the pockets , and found 2 s . 6 d . in silver , 3 ^ d . in copper , three keys , a pair of gloves , and a passport in the name of Richard Flunkctt , dated the 18 th of May last . He also found a life-preserver in hid pocket . Four foreigners , named Baronet , Edmoncl Alain , Philippe Morn ay , and Emmanuel Barthelemy , were arrested , nnd examined on Wednesday , at Cherfcsey . But the inquiry before the magistrates was adjourned till Friday ; and no evidence came out as to who were the principals , or why the duel was fought . The name of the victim was Cournct . As he made a dying deposition , no doubt the real facts will appear in due time . Cournefc was an officer in the French niivy .
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THE MURDER IN THE RUE VIVJENNE . Paris is tho theatro of romantic murder ; look there if you want , the revolting crime in all its atrocity of sentimental coolness and horror . One of these murders was perpetrated last August , in the liuo Vivienne , nnd the murderer was tried last week in Paris , lie is a Spaniard , by name Navarro Perez . In 1 H 50 , he fell in lovo with I ) oloreH , a beautiful countrywoman , and they lived together as man and wife . This year they made two visits lo Paris , and on fho Hecond Dolores was left behind . She had by this time become wearied with tho violence of her lover . Having lo sustain herself , she turned her attention to the circus . . Navarro returned to l ' aris to seek her , in August , and persuade her to return with him to Spain . Me gave this account of bis efforts , and of the catastrophe , iu bis evidence : —• " 1 could not leave Paris without some assurance of being again united to Dolores . I begged of Mdlle . Rosa JMauri to go to luir and get an assurance from her that wo should again live together . She went , accompanied by Aide . San I ' allaio . Those two women afterwards came to mi- at the hotel , accompanied by Dolores . 1 ordered dinner . I passed tho morning in look ing out of the window , in breakfasting , and Hiuoking . When I was left alone w illi Dolores I reminded her of our former connexion , and requested her lo return to Spain with me . She replied that , every ! liiii |_ r was at an end between us ; that she bad for mo
the affection which a sinter feels for a brother , but ( 1 ml . she did not lovo mo ; that sho never loved me , and lunl
Madame Lafolie , the keeper of the h otel , fancied she heard a strange noise , as of a person suffering , in Navarro ' s room ; and at the same moment Navarro , descending the stairs , passed before her , calm and tranquil . She sent a servant to the room . The door , which was fastened , was opened . Dolores was seen lying dead on the ground , just before it , in a pool of blood . The wall was marked with . blood , as if , after having been stabbed , she had attempted to grasp hold of it . On her hands , breast , and head , were eighteen wounds ; and the right hand was literally fastened to the shoulder by a sword cane sticking through it . This sword had been plunged with such force , that it was difficult to remove it . One of the stabs in the head had been so violent that the point of the sword had broken off Some of the wounds had been inflicted by a poniard knife . One of them in the breast reached the lungs , and must have caused instant death .
The murderer went calmly to the residence of a fellowcountryman , named Lima , rue Lamartine , 39 . He told him that he had just arrived from Spain , washed his hands , and sat down to dinner . At dinner he made jokes on one of Lima's friends . As Lima was unable , in compliance with his request , to give him a bed , he went to the rue de Buffault , and hired a chamber in an hotel . Having passed four days after' the murder in debauchery , he was apprehended on the 8 th of August . In the teeth of this evidence , the jury found him guilty of murder , with " extenuating circumstances ! " and the judge sentenced him to imprisonment for life , with hard labour .
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IS A RAILWAY STATION A CAB-STAND ? Mb . Gilbert A'Beckett has had to decide this " momentous question . " Some time ago a cabman was summoned for refusing to take " a fare" from the Brighton [ Railway terminus because it was not his turn . The company defended him , alleging that cabs in the railway yard are not hackney carriages within the meaning of the act ; that the cabman was not plying for hire ; and that the railway yard is not a public stand within the act . Mr . A'Beckett decided against these pleas ; and fined the cabman forty shillings . Taking advantage of the plea set up by the company , that the yard was not a public stand , and also of the fact that it was not one of the places appointed by the Commissioners of Police , a cabman named Williams summoned one of the privileged cabmen named Hall , charging him with plying for hire inside a railway terminus , that not being a place appointed by the Commissioners of Police . The matter was argued for two hours by professional men . It was urged that the Commissioners have no jurisdiction over the railway termini , as they are private property . Mr . A'Beckett decided as follows : —
" 11 ns is a summons against the defendant , as the driver of a hackney carriage , for plying for hire at the London and Brighton Haihvay station , within the metropolitan police district , the same not being a standing or place appointed for that purpose . Having recently decided that the driver of a hackney carriage standing at a railway terminus is plying for hire , unless lie is- already hired , , and there being no standings for hackney carriages appointed by tho Commissioners of Police at the terminus of the London and Brighton llailway—the Commissioners liaving exclusively the power of ajjpointing standings for hackney carriages within the metropolitan police district- — I can have no hesitation as to the law with reference to the case before me . It has been argued that I should not adhere strictly to the letter of the law , but I think I am bound to follow the words of tho act of Parliament when
they are clear and definite . It , is inconvenient enough to be compelled to fix a meaning when there is any vagueness of the expression , but when the words are clear 1 am to presume that the Legislature has meant precisely what it lias said . Tho words are thus : — 'Every driver of a hackney carriage who shall ply for hire elsewhere than at some standing or place appointed for that purpose shall for every such offence forfeit 2 O . v . ' Jl ban been submitted that defendant was plying for bin ; at the terminus , which is , certainly , not . a place appointed by the Commissioners of [' oliee as a standing for hackney carriages , and , consequently , the provisions of the act of Parliament have been infringed . Tho object of tho complainant is the abolition of what he calls an unjust monopoly on the part of the
railway company in giving to a certain number ol privileged cabs the exclusive rig-lit of profiting by what may bo called the railway cab traflic , of the metropolis . Now , thero in some reason for feeling there is a grievance , inasmuch as every cab proprietor is called upon to pay a large sum , amounting to ' M ) l . a-yeur , on each hackney carriage , ho owns , and the consideration for which he . pays thin wim is , that , he tdiall be cntil led to such a share as fair competition would give him of the whole of the cab traflic of the metropolis . It certainly docs seem very unfair that a most important , and perhaps the most profitable , portion of Huh tradic should be given over by the railway companies to privileged hands - a practice which , though it has for soino time existed , 1 know of no law to justify . I must , however , nay , that some consideration may be < hio lo the
railway company in tho present ca . se , i \ h it . is I he first m which , us far as I know , such n complaint has been nnufn as that now brought before me . Those in ( ho position of ( hit complainant , havo so long delayed to complain of the wrong that there is no reason for any basic , which might loud to very serious consequences in applying 'he remedy . It would be unreasonable to oxpecl . of tho railway company that it , should suddenly alter or put an end lo a system of arrangements which have long l > ecn miHercd to continue , and winch has no doubt been" inane with a view to tho accommodation of the public Taking into consideration these cirenm . slanceri , as well an the extreme inconvcniciicn to which Ilio public would bo put by 'he sudden fermination of tho existing rogulafioiiH im to liaelmey curriageH at tho liOinlon-bridgo terminus , I laive determined on following tho course not ( infrequently adopted in other eases , and giving time for tho law to Iji > complied with . I nhull not ul- present inflict any penalty on defendant , but I ahull
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October 23 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 1011
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1852, page 1011, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1957/page/7/
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