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ihenver . On the next evening some boys observed something floating near Southwark Bridge ; they threw stones at it , but some men in going nearer found it to be two bodies—a woman with a child closely fastened to her breast . Both ' ' were dead . This was Jane Papson with her chijd . Metcalfe lives off Holborn , and admits the factsj but he is , according to English law , " not responsible . "
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" HAUNTED BY DETECTIVES . " Thomas . Whitehead , an artist , wrote a singular letter to Lord Aberdeen . It Complained of " persecution . " The following is an extract :- — "I know not , my lord , -what you may have to say about these illegal and unwarrantable proceedings ; but this I say > that there is and can be but one inference drawn therefrom , and that is , that the Gov ernment seem to have wanted , and it would appear that they do want still , to make a victim of me ; and consequently they have done everything they can to provoke me to crime . I have been by them reduced to the greatest depths of misery : for five years and a half I have endured these ineffable privations with a patience arid a fortitude that I believe there would
be scarcely found one in a thousand to do the same . But , my lord , human patience has its bounds , and these bounds have already been passed . Everything has been done to blast my good name , and , not satisfied with that , everything ^ hasbeen done to deprive me of the commonest means of existence . Beware , my lord , what you do in this matter ; for if the saying be true that' self-preservation is the first law of nature , ' then , my lord , you have reduced me to a most painful alternative . Your policy , my lord , like your predecessors in this affair , has been , and still is , most pernicious and subversive . You have taught a lesson of implacable vindictiveness and of unprecedented pertinacious cruelty that will be cherished by thousands with a savage satisfaction till the latest day of their death . You have ' sown the wind , ' and if your lordship should persist in .
same suicidal course ; you must not be surprised if you should one day ' reap the whirlwind . ' " He added : — "If I should be goaded on to do that out of self-defence , which my soul abhors , remember * my lord , that the guilt will be upon your head and the-heads of your colleagues . " The prisoner was arrested and examined . It was stated that the Earl of Aberdeen was in danger of personal violence . The prisoner said : — " 1 cannot see that any such inference is to be drawn from any part of the letter , " and addeir- " If I am to be dogged and assailed by the detective police , in every form of disguise , like a pack of hounds ; and if , besides their insulting bearing towards me , they are to circulate defamatory remarks to my prejudice , shall I not be justified in knocking that man down ?" Mr . Henry—What man ? The Prisoner—Any man who thus insults arid degrades
me . Mr . Henry directed that the prisoner should be removed to St . Giles ' s workhouse for the present . The people in whose house the prisoner has been lodging state , that he was a remarkably quiet man , and of regular habits , going out every morning and returning nt night . Some time ago he won ' t to Jersey , to avoid tho detective police , but fancying himself still pursued by them there , ho returned to London . He looked about fifty years old .
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MISCELLANEOUS . TnE Queen ' s guests—tho King and Queen of Hanover , the Prince and Princess of Prussia , tho Duko and Duchess of Sftxo Cobdrg Gotha—have this week taken loive of Her Majesty and the Prince , and returned to tho Continent . ' The Queen and Prince Albert witnessed tho pontoon operations nt Virginia Water on Tuesday . That evening Her Mnjeaty went , unaccompanied by Prince Albert , to the Italian Opera j nnd tho next day , Prince Albert was understood to bo unwell ; and on Thursday it was stated that the lieges of Dublin will be disappointed next Wednesday , and that Her Majesty ' s expected visit will not then Come off The Prince of Wales has recovered .
The Queon has given a concert this week , hns attended tho Philharmonic concert , and seen those wonderful little beings , tho Aztecs . Tho following bulletin of tho health of Prince Albert wns issued yesterday : — _ . . 1 flM " Buckingham Palace , Friday , July 8 , 1853 . " His Royal Highness Prince Albert has an attack of measles . Tho eruption hns come fully out , and the disonso in proceeding favourably . « James Clauk , M . D .
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We fool bound to notify to the Homo Office that interviews have been interchanged this week botwetm the Countess of Neullly , political refugee , and the Prince of Prufism ; between tho mud Prince and the Duchess of Orlwuift political refugee , am mother of oTof l ; ho pretenders to the throne of Franco ; and that tho Duchess of Kent keeps up a continued intercourse with tho Hnid refugees . , ¦ . _
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first drive to the viceregal lodge , and in the afternoon visit the Exhibition . [ It is now postponed . ] The Grand Duchess Maria , Duchess de Leuchtenberg and eldest daughter of the Emperor 6 f Russia , is coming to England . The Grand Duchess Catherine , niece of the Emperor , ' and wife of Duke George of Mecklenberg Strelitz , is also expected . They will arrive in her Majesty's steamer Vivid , from Ostena .
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The Bishop of Eochester has issued a formal summons , convening the Dean and all the other members of the church to attend a visitation of Rochester Cathedral on Tuesday next , in conformity with the requirements of the statutes . Such a visitation has not been Ixolden for the last twenty years , nor more than once during the last forty . Alderman Muggeridgo ; has been elected the new alderman for the ward of Castle Baynard . Mrs . Harriet Beeeher Stowe is staying at Geneva . Korth Derby is vacant through the resignation of Mr . William Evans , of Allestree . His son , Mr . Thomas Evans , is likely to be returned in his place . The electric telegraph misled us last week into stating that Colonel Vandeleur was returned for Clare . The Liberal candidates , Messrs . O'Brien and Fitzgerald , have succeeded . ¦¦ . ¦"¦
At the Sligo election three candidates app e ared , Mr . John Sadleir , Mr . John Patrick Somers , and Mr . John Hanly , of London . There was very discreditable rioting on the hustings . Mr . Hanly struck a Koman Catholic priest , and some other priest struck Mr . Hanly , the mob rushed in , and assaulted several persons . The supporters of the Lord of the Treasury denounced Mr . Somers as the nominee of the Homo Secretary ; and the mob alternately cheered Mr . Sadleir and Mr . Hanly . Mr . Sadleir has been elected for Sligo . Sadleir , 145 ; Somers , 141—rather close . At Tralee , Mr . Daniel O'Connell polled 150 votes to 10 given to Mr . Fitzgerald—leaving him the large majority of 140 ! Mr . Eoebuck is convalescent . He will resume his duties
in parliament next session . " The doings of the Derbyite Admiralty will " out . " Lieutenant Engledue was a gunnery lieutenant in 1840 . Being off service he accepted , without leave , the command ofa mercantile steamer , a grave offence . When the Syrian expedition took place the Government was in want of officers versed in gunnery , and wrote to Mr . Engledue , appointing him to a lieutenancy in the Calcutta . Mr . Engledue ' wrote back , saying he would accept the appointment if he were made commander , but not if he was only appointed lieutenant . For this "improper and impertinent " reply ho was struck off the list of lieutenants . But a good timdfcame . The Tory Ministry came into power , Lieutenant Engledue made himself famous at Southampton for Tory partisanship , and shortly after his memorial to be reinstated was granted on the advice of the Duke of Northumberland , his Admiralty Board , Admiral Parker and Admiral
Berkeley , dissenting . Lieutenant Engleduo himself stated , on examination before the Committee , that his offence of refusing to servo when called on had beon committed by sovoralofficer 3 , whom ho named , who had been struck off the list , but who had been reinstated . He asserted that , as an Englishman , he had a right to interfero in politics as much as ho liked . In London no work of charity can be promotod without a dinner and a live lord . Great was tho grief of tho gontlomen of the National Orphan Homo on Saturday , when , on meeting at tho Star and Gartor , they found that Lord John Eussoll , who was to have presided , was at tho Palaco by command , and that of tho many titled patrons , not one could attend . Finally , tho stewards wero content with a commoner , and Mr . Cowan , M . P ., fillod tho chair . Wo hope tho orphans will not suffer from tho want of a peer ' s countenance .
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The Pope has sent an apostolic delegate to Hayti , and in his message addresses Soulouquo as tho " Constantino of his peoplo , " ° and " tho Napoleon of the Antilles . " Tho American Government haa commissioned Jtobcrt J . Walker as Minister to China . His duties also _ oxtond to Japan . The present political crisis in China is to bo " properly improved . " Slaves are still landed in Cuba . Tho famous slaver , JLady Suffolk , latoly landed llflO on tho south coast . She Bailed from Africa with upwards of 1300 on board , but tho vessol was so crowded that tho sickly and tho dead woro thrown overboard . The Irish State-prisoners , SmithO'Brion , John Nhtehol , and Mr . O'Dogherty , aro in good health and spirits , according to lato accounts from Australia . factAt tho Moath
" Iroland pacified" is at length a . AssizoH , tho wholo proceedings , civil and criminal , did not occupy a day . Similar results aro expected at tho ensuing arizen for tho other counties of Trolnnd . The American clipper , Sovereign of tho Boas , has mndo tho voyage from Now York to tlio Morsoy in twelve days . Tho ' Crystal Palaco Directors announce that tho building will certainly bo opened on tho 1 st of May next . Tho works proceed with huccosh . Tho incomo from oxhibitors alone will amount , it is said , to 100 , 000 ? . a year . The visitors to tho Dublin Exhibition aro increasing : 0 74 U porsonfl visited it on Monday . ' Tho mail brought by tho Melbourne from Australia woighed twolvo-aml-a-haU' tons . Tho maintenanco of tho workhouno poor of England and Wales confc ovor 1 , 000 , 000 ? . during the last half-year .
Inspectors , commissioned by tho French Government , aro at present inrtpocting tho agricultural improvements of Scotland . . . Tho vrtluo of tho London property paying mcomo-tax lfl 15 , « H , 012 Z . 5 . v . Tho importation of opium into England ifl on tho increase ; 05 « 54 ibfl . wOwi imported during tho laat flvo months . The number of puninlmientu inllioted in tho navy , was , hint your , 578 , tho lushes inflicted varying from 48 to . 'J . Ifn 1818 tho nurabnr of puniflhuiontfl was 13 M . | Tho rovemio of the Urtitpool doekft VfM 200 , 000 ? , h » h
year , being 13 , 000 ? . over the amount received the previous The proposed Thames embankment will extend two miles along the river , between Battersea and Vauxhall bridges . It Will consist of brick wall , with crranite coping , and Will cost 100 , 000 ? . The act to enable Government to make it is being passed . It is contemplated to extend tho embankment t o tho L ondon Docks , and thus there will bo a complete prom enade along the river . A similar embankment will be made on the Surrey side .
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At Bristol , a Roman-catholic priest hasbeen fined 61 . for causing- the Chevalier de Moscarentas to be turned out of his chapel . The generally violent demeanour of the priest was fully proved ; even on the altar his language was most intemperate . The county Tipperary is at present very tranquil . Une of the district judges , Serjeant Howley , says , " it is the moab peaceable county in the Queen ' s dominions . _ Cunningham , the medical man who caused abortion m tho case of E liza Marden , has been transported for fifteen \ n action for criminal conversation has been brought against the Prince of Armenia . It appears , that a Mrs . Mitchell arrived in England from Hong-Kong last year , for the benefit of her health , leaving her aflectionate husband in China . Here at a boarding-house , she became acquainted with Leo , Prince of Armenia , who praised her beautiful hair . The landlady of the boarding-house one mVlit found little Miss Mitchell crying for mamma ; and
on a search , mamma was found in the bed-roonv ot . Leo . Other instances of the same kind wero proved . Damages for the husband , 750 ? . .. . Matilda Deighton , the wife of a weaver , was sitting in the workshop , with her infant in her arms , waiting for her husband . He came home intoxicated about midnight , and immediately on entering began to abuse her . Immediately afterwards he struck her a terrible blow under the car , and knocked her down , swearing that he would murder her . To save her baby she handed it to another female who wai continued his attack
present , and the husband then upon her , striking her about the head and face till , she was covered with blood and bruises . He followed her about several times , and felled her to the ground . At length she succeeded in getting- away from him and out ot the house , and found refuge in the place of M . r .. J ± m ,-& neighbour , with whoso wife she _ slept-that night . Her features were so dreadfully swollen that her eyes were completely closed up , and she was unable to see at all until Saturday morning , three days after tho assault . ? - he
magistrate " sentenced tho husband to six months imprisonment with hard labour , and at the expiration of tho imprisonment to find sureties to keep the peace for six mouths . _ The Governor and his subordinates in Bn-mingham jail aro accused of great cruelty in their treatment of tho prisoners . An inquiry into their conduct has been ordered . Two bricklayers were imprisoned in Coldbath-lields House of Correction . To make them useful they woro put to work , but taking advantage of this , they obtained ladders , and scaled tho walls on Saturday . They have not been recaptured . ... .. » i Tho railway accident mania is again rising . At , Ayiesbury a boiler burst , killing a person travelling m charge ot cattle who was , most improperly , placed in a break next romaricea
tho engine . Fleming , tho driver , immediately , " It ' s tho firebox that ' s burstod , and this is just what 1 expected after tho Tring cutting job . " Captain Wynn , Government Inspector , has attributed tho accident to tho sudden pouring in of cold water into a boiler exhausted by heat Tho jury have stated in their verdict that tho superintendence at tho Aylcsbury railway station la vory inofliciont . ., . , Mr Frodoriek Cope , a Manchester gentloman in good circumstances , fancied that a young lady , to whom he was botrothod was growing cold in hor affection . lie becamo melancholy , and shot himself through tho hoart with a gun
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A groat improvement has beon introduced in tho Victoria and Albert Itoyal yacht . By tho uso of anthracite fuel no smoko or ashos issuo from the funnel . A building , 20 , 000 square foot in oxtont , has hoen constructed in tho Minories as a store for Allsopp ' s Burton ales . A branch lino from tho Blackwall railway convovs tho alo into tho vory Htoro ; another branch connects tho brewory with tho railway at Burton , ho that ita conveyance ia entirely done by rail . Tho p ' onny-a-linors havo caught a now character , tho returned Australian emigrant . Tho papers on Thursday havo tho following : — " Amonf > tho passengers who camo homo in tho Induswhich landed tho Indian mail nt
, Southampton on Tuoflday , wero nineteen . Australian returned emigrants , most of whom wero from Molbourno . Thoy wore while ; calico hats , and their lmlo , hearty , and John Bull appoaranco formed a striking contrast to that of tho Indian paM . songorw . Tho salubrity of tho climato from which thoy had eomo was manil ' cHtod throughout tho voyage in tho rango and power of their organs of digontion . Tlioy had all mado rapid and largo lbrtunoH . " Tho good f « elincn of tho pooplo in tho humblor olasson of lifo aro oxomphfiod in tho following Htory : —A low days nineo a young woman j ) rosontod , hornolf at tho Exotor Gaol , and Htalcid that oho wished to thank tho chaplain for tho excellent advico and instruction which « ho received
from him whon incarcerated thoro . It appears that tho young woman wan transported oight ycarfl ago from this ' city , and that upon hor arrival in Australia bIio wan rtllowod to enter , undor cortain rostriotions , tho family of a clergyman an a Horvant , whoro flho conducted horsolf ho woll that , on tho expiration of her timo of transportation , lie procured her , at hor desiro , a froo paflHago to England . Sho brought with hor a lottor l ' rom tho clergyman in whoso family hIio had lived , confirmatory of hor statement , and testifying to hor oxcollont conduct whilat in his aorvioo , and which lottor fcho chaplain road . Sho had . ouvo < t out of her oarningH i'orty-Uiruo guinuns , which tho ohapluin n- - coinmonded hor to plaeo in tho navingu bank , ntad whicln huu inibooquontly , wo boU « vo , boon < lono «
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Jui-V S , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 689
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Leader (1850-1860), July 9, 1853, page 659, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1994/page/11/
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