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A correspondent of the Boston Journal writes a letter from London , describing a visit paid by him to Kossuth , on the 11 th of November . The object of this letter is to prove that Kossuth is not living extravagantly on the money raised by him in America for the furtherance of the Hungarian cause . We Should have thought Kossuth ' s character required no such defence at the hands of American or European . His most violent political opponents canuot hope to make their o > vn cause better by affecting to consider him callable of a low theft .
Mr . Peter Cooper , a well-known merchant of . New York , has given 300 , 000 dollars towards building and endowing an institution devoted to the study of the arts and sciences ; to reading lectures , debates , and generally , to the improvement of the young . The characteristic of the plan is , that a hall will be set apart for the use of women who desire to discuss or study the application of science for their own benefit ; also , a prize of 5000 dollars to be given to the woman who has shown the truest heroism in the cause of the
suffering portion of mankind . The works of the railway across the Isthmus of Panama are in such a state of forwardness , that it is expected they will be complete from ocean to ocean by the 1 st of September , 1853 .
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NEW TELEGTCA PH . LINES ON THE CONTINENT . The lines of electric telegraph , which have just been completed in the Netherlands , connect , the following places : — Amsterdam , Breda , llottcrdam , Haarlem , Dordrecht , La Haye ; which are now for the first time in electric communication with Great Britain , by means of the submarine wires . Tlie following cities and towns , with others of lesser note , are also in communication with the offices in Cornliill : —Agram , Aix-la-Chapelle , Amiens , Antwerp , Augsburg , Avignon , Baden , Berlin , Bonn , Bordeaux , Boulognesur-Mer , Bremen . Breslau , Bruges , Brunswick , Brussels , Calais , Cassel , Coblentz , Cologne , Cracow , Dantzic , Dieppe , Dijon , Dresden , Dunkirk , Dusseldorf , Florence , Frankforton-Maine , Friburg , Ghent , Gotha , Hamburg , Hanover , Havre , Kehl , Strasbourg , Konigsburg , Leghorn , Leipzic , Lemburg , Lisle , Lucca , Lyons , Metz , Magdeburg , Malines , Mannheim , Mantua , Mayence , Milan , Munich , Modena , Nantes , Nuremburg , Ostend , Padua , Paris , Pcsth , Bude , Posen , Prague , Presburg , Parma , Itoucn , St . Omcr , Stettin , Stuttgard , Strasbourg , Trieste , Venice , Verona , Vienna , Weimar . Marseilles will be connected in a few weeks .
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M I SCK L liANKOUS . The Queen , with Prince Albert niul tliu children , crossed over from the Isle of Wight to Uosporl , on Wednesday , snliit (!( l on her way by the usual ceremonial firing of guns . Thenci ; she proceeded by railway to Windsor Castle , whew the court will keep Christinas . I ' rince A Ilicrt . granted 11 . 11 interview to I , lie newly ordained pastor of I'iteuirn ' H Inland , ( ho Reverend Mr . Nobbs , he-Con- hi > hH , out in Lit I'lidii ; ho was also presented to the ( Jueen . It . has been resolved to invite ( he American minister , Mr . IngerSoll , to u public dinner at Manchester , to testify respect both for ( ho man and the reprcsenlul ivc of America . Mr . IVfer Borl hvwck , Home time representative of l' ] ve-Hhani , it lit I lately editor of the Morning I ' ost , died on Saturday hint , nf ' tor a painful illness .
Mr . IIihho ' h portrait , |> nin (« m 1 by Mr . . 1 . Lucas , and miliscriliod for by ( he Liberal members of the Mourn-ol Commons , in now being exhibited at Mr . Graven ' . Mr . II nine holds in his hand a . document tied with red tape , and labelled , " Account , of the national income mid expent III lire . " Mr . Alderman SuIouioiih ban given n presentation to ono of the fittJioiloHM childroa of the Into Mr . J . W . All « n , '
artist , to the Blue Coat School ; and the Board of Man agement of the Governesses Benevolent Institution have pre " sen ted a free scholarship in Queen ' s Cpllege to one of th « girls . The Duke of Wellington , we understand , contemplates forthwith throwing open Apsley House to the public , under certain regulations , in order that they may view the magnificent collection of presents given by foreign Sovereigns to his late lamented and illustrious father . It i 8 ) % re believe , an acknowledgment on the part of his Grace for the late munificent grant of 80 , 000 ? . for the late Duk ' ' s interment . —Morning Herald . When Lord Derby resigned , a matter-of-fact Radical asked this posing question— "What will become of the Morning Herald now that it has ceased to be a Government organ ? " to which a wag instantly rejoined " Wiry it will be the Opposition hurdy-gurdy . "
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Tuesday being St . Thomas s day , the elections for the different wardmotes in the City took place . In the ward of Cheap , we observe that Mr . W . H . Ashurst moved and carried a resolution in favour of raising the revenue by direct taxation , upon the principle of an insurance-office according to the amount protected . ' The Middlesex reformers entertained Lord Robert Grosvenor and Mr . Osborne at dinner , on Tuesday . Sir John Shelley presided , and about 400 sat down at tho table of mine host of the Albion , Hammersmith . Lord Robert said the late Ministry would go down to posterity as the " Bowing Ministry ; " and Mr . Osborne characterized Mr . Disraeli's scheme as the Great Magician Budget .
We understand that a series of very successful meetings have been held at Pontypool , Newport , and Swansea , by the wandering representatives of the Anti-State Church Association . There have been meetings also at Middlesbroon-Tees . and North Shields . The very beautiful and costly Museum of Ancient and Modern Art Manufactures , and Vernon Gallery , at Marlborough-house , Pall'Mall , will be open free , from ten till four , during the Christmas week , for the special convenience and improvement of the working classes . Tho collections of ornamental and decorative art , and fortyfour pieces of china lent by the Queen , also a specimen of Palisy ware , are in the upstairs rooms . Education in Ireland has made a marked progress since 1850 . By the last Report of the National Commissioners we find that no less than 252 schools were taken into con .
nexion with the national system in 1851 . During thai year there were 520 , 401 pupils oji the rolls ; and there were on the 31 st of March , 1852 , 5822 teachers of both sexes in the service of the Board . The number of schools in operation in November last was 4795—an increase of 91 over last year . There were 4434 schools under separato management , and 175 under joint management of persons of different religious persuasions .
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The Madrid steamer , which , left Southampton on tho 17 th with the Peninsula mail , was obliged to anchor in Yarmouth . Roads for the night , the pilot refusing to go to sea on account of tho terrific violence of the weather . Tho Hermann mail-packet , which reached Cowes on Sunday , from New York , experienced the most tempestuous weather ever known , during the last three days of her voyage . Tho tempest experienced by the Hermann was also felt by tho Orinoco on the 10 th inst . ; although at tho time the Orinoco was light , and her hull sixty feet high , the sea beat over her stern while her bowsprit was under water . Tho Jersey mail packet Courier , which left Southampton on Thursday , had the greatest difficulty in reaching Guernsey . At Guernsey she made two attempts to leave for Jersey , but was obliged to put back . Nearly all tho passengers
for Jersey left , the Courier at Guernsey , and declined going on in her on account of the weather . At length the packet reached Jersey , and was obliged to keep up the steam all night on Friday in case she should be blown adrift . The Adelaide Australian steamer put back into Plymouth on the ]!) th , leaky . Water rushed in through the hawso holes , and her rudder was defective . She was expected to bo detained (• veral davs . Letters have been received from tho Anslralia ( Australian packet ) , dated Port Philip , September f > . Sho left tho ( Jape on July 22 , and arrived at Adelaide on August , 20 . The crew took the gold fever , and refased to work , but eventually agreed to go round to Sydney , and be discharged there . Seaman want HO / , each for the voyage home . Her crew and passengers were well , and the vessel proved a good one , but through the loss ot the crew , it is uncertain when sin ; will be in Kngland .
Not only l . ho Adolaido has been obliged t <> put buck : the W . H . Lindsay , a crack ship , built at . Sunderliiiid , launched with a speech from Mrs . Chisholm and Mr . Lindsay , and highly eulogised , has turned out unfit for wca , owing to her " peculiar construction . " The compass idso was not right . Sho had proceeded an far as tho Downs , on her way with emigrants to Australia , when Mr . W . S . Lindsay received information of her ilnfltness , and ho instantly ordered her buck to tho Thames . This is noble conduct in these days . Mr . Lindsay has written a circular to the passengers , explaining tho case ; lie requests that ? they will proceed by another ship which ho names , and ho promises to indemnify them for all reasonable expenses .
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It has been tint custom of persons sending parcels hy railway from Liverpool to London , to tnko them to ono person , who luis a receiving ollice . lie packs them up i " one parcel , and boohs it at thy railway station » H one (>' course by that , means ed ' octing a , ( urge saving to the several sender * . Tliey are coiiHigned to a . similar otlico m London , nnd thence distributed . To check this system , I ho London and 'North-Western I { . nil way Company gave notice to the proprietor of the Liverpool oflice , Mr . K imp-Ion , that lie would in future be charged for every Hoparuto parcel ; and lio han been so charged . Hut . tho question arose as to the right of the company to impose the extra , charge , and an action was brought in the Liverpool County-court to deride tho matter . A 1 r . Pollock , U »<' i ' udge , decided on Monday that tho large package nhouki x » charged for as ono package , but that » ui allowance oC
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CRIMINAL AND POLICE NOTES . The legislatorial affray in Cockspur-strect has come to an end . On Tuesday , after the Middlesex grand jury bad been discharged , Mr . Hudtllc-sUme snid , —My lord , perhaps I may lie permitted to trespass on your time lor a few minutes , as 1 wish to make an application to the Court . 1 believe that the grand jury have been discharged , and I have to apply , on the part , of the I Ton . Mr . Ji . Butler Johnstone , that the recognizances of himself , and of his two friends , Viscount Drumlanrigand Mr . Stirling-, maybe discharged . Mr . Johnstone was bound over to appear at this session to answer a charge of assault ; but the matter , 1 believe I . can say , has been amicably and privately arranged through the intervention of mill mil friends of both parties in a satisfactory manner . The Assistant-judge granted the application , and said , — --E am very happy to hear that it lias been settled in a manner that gentlemen always ought , to arrange such differences in . This is as it ought to be Iie ( ween gcnl lemen ; t he sooner it is done , and the more privately the mailer is arranged , the better . Alfred Wiuldington wooed and won Sarah Slater , of Sheflield . They did not marry , but it child was born . Waddington had to pay for this child : lie offered to marry Sarah , but she refused , because he was not sober ; and Ik ; then thought , slie had become tho mistress of Nome rich man . In his frenzy , he met a friend of its mother with the child ; Ik ? took it away and killed it . Sarah Slater was that evening at her reading class at the Lyceum , and Waddington went and called her out , told her lie bad killed the child , and attempted lo cut her throat ,. Sho escaped , and Wiiddiugton was arrested . This took place on the iHth of August ; and on Monday , Waddington was tried , found guilty , and Nonlenced to be hung . William Knitieis Maplcfhorpo was found dead in a ditch near Mull on Hie 21 st , of May last . As he bad evidently been murdered by what , is called the garotte -that is , pressure either by a cord or the arms round I ho throat , the case was inquired info . Two men and a woman wero arrested for the murder , and a second woman for harbouring and maintaining them , knowing Ilicy hm ! commit led I he crime . They were tried at York on Tuesday . None of flic evidence was direct ; but , if was proved that they were near the spot , nhout , the lime of I lie murder , flml . they hired a . cab to curry them away from the town , and that Iheir . clothes bore indications of a conflict . Some conversations wero reported , especially one by' the woman , implicating " her man , " Snipe . When the jud ^ r had Hummed up , oik ; of t be jury men was seized with a lit , and tlie court was adjourned . In consequence the whole trial liild to be gone over again before a new juryman ; and at ono o ' clock in I be night , flic jury found a verdict of Not ( jluilty against tho prisoner . Canadian not ioni ; as to wlnil , is evidence seem rather lax ; as tho following story shows . W i % ing from ( Quebec on the . 'Ird of December , n . correspondent says , " No more notable ovont than ( ho Iterube poisoning ' can ,, ban marked the puamigo of tho hint low days ; nor wan this in itself , if wo
are to admit the truth of the verdict , an unprecedented crime . Berube " , a farmer , tires of his wife , falls in love with a girl of fifteen ; shortly afterwards the former dies , Berube' marries the girl , suspicion haunts the mind of some neighbour , the body is exhumed , and poison found in the stomach . Nothing very original in this , as you see : but the novelty consists in the fact that the whole case for the prosecution rested on the evidence of a child six years old , who acknowledged that he did not know what an oath meant or a prayer ; that ' he had known God for five days ;' but swore positively that , sixteen months before , when he was four years and eight months old , he administered poison to the deceased by the direction of his sister , Berube's second wife . On this testimony Bdrube' and his wife haye been sentenced to death . The case has made much stir in town . " Jeremiah Donovan beat his wife ( to the 22 nd of November so brutally , that she was taken to the London Hospital , and has only this week recovered . The plea of Donovan was , that his wife had provoked him so that she richly deserved what she got . Donovan said , —Yes , she knows very well that she tore my shirt when I caught hold of her , and she would never have come here at all , if it hadn't been for the doctor and the policeman , who want to make a county job of it . Wife . —Yes , sir , and that ' s nothing but the lor lie is
blessed truth ; I didn t want to hurt him at all , a very good husband to me . The ruffian was , nevertheless , sent to the House of Correction for two months . Some time ago , there was an affray between the gamekeeper of the notorious Mr . Busfield Ferrand , of wood notoriety , and some poachers . The ruffians overcame him , and-tied his hands and legs , drew up his feet to his hands and left him head downwards . He was released by a farmer . Three men were arrested and tried at York on Monday , but the evidence was insufficient , and they were acquitted . One of the most singular stories of alleged poisoning has been investigated at the G-uildhall , by Aldtrman Wilson . A woman named Holly , laundress at chambers in Tokenhouse-yard in 1849 , charged the clerk of a solicitor there with having given her some poisoned arrowroot . She , her sisters , and children partook of it ,- and have suffered severely ever since . Such was the effect , that Mrs . Holly and her sister were afterwards placed in a lunatic asylum ; all who partook of the arrowroot became insensible . Medical evidence was given as to the terrible effect of what they had taken on the poor women : legs swollen and blackened ; pains in the groin , chest , and stomach ; vomitings , blotches ; and extreme feebleness . An attempt was made to show that the arrowroot contained nux vomica . The most curious part of the matter is , that no kind of reason can be given why the clerk should attempt to poison these people ; on the contrary , he had been extremely kind to Mrs . Holly . The whole matter stands over for further investigation . Mrs . Holly states that she has made at least four attempts previously to obtain an inquiry , but failed .
Impostors who live by wants of the imagination , and a recitation of sufferings never endured , whose stock in trade consists of lies , are always plentiful in the metropolis . On Tuesday , one Webster , with several other names , . charged at the Westminster Court with practising frauds on officers of the army . Among bis victims were Lord Arthur Hay , Lieutenant-Colonel Stcele , and Colonel Blair . W ebster described himself as a discharged soldier who was on his way borne . As there are other cases against him , be was remanded for a week . AI rs . Thornton , tho wife of the landlord of a public-house at Mori hike , was found dead in her bed , with one of her ears nearly cut off . How she came by her death docs not appear , but inquiries are going on . Sho was a great drinker , and seems to have been habitually intoxicated . "A young lady of high connexions" has mysteriously disappeared from the " locality" of Eaton-square . It , appears sho went out for a walk on Thursday , the Kith inst ., and took the omnibus at 11 k ; end of Sloane-street , Chelsea , and although every exert ion has been made to trace the fugitive , not the slightest tidings have boon heard of tho lady . The following is a ( Inscription of her : —Initials on linen , " Iv . I . Q . ; " about eighteen years of age , but looks older ; dressed m a coarse straw bonnet , lined and trimmed with blue , edf ^ ed with black velve t , with a wreath of pink daisies ; nage-coloured merino dress , black cloth paletot ; , with brown parasol ; high heeled black kid boots ; goldring , with green stone , which she wore on her right hand . She had with her , also , a brown paper parcel , containing ii . plaid silk dress . Her height is about , five feet four inches , ilark hair , pale complexion , and was last seen in tho neighbourhood of IHuckhculh .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 25, 1852, page 1228, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1966/page/8/
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