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said ,, Phillips then employed various persons to pawn i ^ e ^ icte 3 . . This led i& detection ; and the prisoners We i | l feo ^ d . gmliy , ar i < 3 ! sentenced to various terms of peiaal peryittide . —Thomas Jones has been found guilty at Winchester of the murder of Thomas Hope , Burgeon on board ike Stirling Castle convict hulk . at Portsmouth , The facts "will be found in the Leader of ; -February 16 th . The prisoner was sentenced to death . In this case also the defence was temporary
insanity . —Michael Cuffe , a private in ike 22 nd foot , was charged with attempting to drown his wife . He had contracted an intimacy with another woman , and , under the pretext of trying " whether he was an Btrong as he used to be , " he lifted his wife on to the parapet of a bridge in Portsmouth which they were passing , told her to stand there a moment while he looked at her , and then threw her deliberately over . She was . speedily rescued . Cuffe was found guilty , and sentenced to fifteen years' transportation . The usual
Th ? BaIi Masque and the Fibjb . — niimber of charges of rioting , drunkenness , and pocketrpicking , consequent on . a bal masque" and a fire , have been heard at Bow-street -within the last few ( days , arising out of the events of the memorable T ^ eiJiiesday at Govenfhgarden . One of thes _ e cases was that of a inan with being drunk while driving a carriage . / . Mrs . Anderson ( wife of " the Professor" ) had returned home from the theatre in her husband ' s carriages , and had sent it "back for Mr . Anderson and the children . The coachnaan found the theatre on fire , and , ; b ^ ing ^ aliairaied , he Quitted his box , and entered th ^ house . " ,: . Tli 01 pristKtiet 1 then jumped on the Ibos . and drove off , btit was taken into custody by the police . H 6 was finedten shillings .
; Xngehi > iak . t ^ iRB .- ^ The ; Canklow fire-mills , near Rothe * hair > , have been destroyed by fire , together v ? ahiheir ;^ uable coiiteints in jgrain and . flour . The cp ^^ mtioH . p suppose ^ to be incendiary . The miE isthe second . % hjch ; has been ! bujntdo ) jm after subset , within , the last few weeks ; ' ; ' ¦ . Gent&aij CRiMnsATi C 6 xmT . ^—Willisiia Bousfield has been tried for the muvder of liis wife and three children , and , being ? found guilty , was sentenced to death . Th 0 jfatcte were of such , recent occurrence that ' , they iieed ^ / nbjb jiow : ; - ; b §^ repeated . , Bousfieid ' s counsel admitted tto byer ^ helming nature of the evidence , arid set \ u |> Ms ^ efenee ; on the usual plea of insanity . The prijaonet appearedtobe overwhelmed With grief
and . was ^ rem . pve . d alnqosfc fainting , —A case involving un ^ uestionableimadneas , though but of brief duration , was tried on . the same dayin this same court . Emily Byder , ag ^ d . twent y . ^ oae , a married lady , was charged with : tlie jmtirder' of her infant , by drowning it in a pan ^ srat ^ r . ; The cbJld ^ as her first , ! and site appeared to'beTpassiormtely . fonadbf it . But shortly after her ^ imti 0 me ^ t'sh e . ' . ^^^ tt £ tc'kecl with , nei ^ vous fever , and became 7 / almosjb ,, fraxitie—an effect not unfreqiieritly fbll ow ^ g . on the cbnfin ' enient of women . . In this x 6 n ^^ n : ' j ;; 'tiiei ';; ' lact ' wast committed . She was f 9 ^ d | ni&t , g ^ t& ;^ and she ^ i ; i ^ 0 ^ stoiced ' ' -t 6 '' . 'her' friends . — -Another case of child-inurder y ^ as then tried . Hannah Brain well was charged with causiner the death of her illeidtiniate
child . She had been abandoned by her seducer , and reduced to the greatest distress ; and in this state she drowned the child ( as alleged by the prosecution ) in the Serpentine , Hyde-park . On being questioned as to its absen . ee , she told several contradictory stories , and © vinced great grief . From the diseased and emaciated state of tile b . ody , the jury conceived that the child might have died from natural causes , and therefore , with the concurrence of Mr . Justice Erie , found the prisoner not giiiltyv- ^ Joseph Taylor , a man employed on board one of the Iron Screw Collier Company ' s steamers , was acquitted of a charge of attempting to sink the vessel ' by turning on the " sea cook , " out of spite -to the chief engineer .
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AMERICA . The organisation of the Senate was not entirely completed ^ at . the date -of the last advices ( February 16 th ) . In order to arrange his committees without annoyance , the new Speaker , Mr . Banks , had deserted his usual place of residence , and taken lodgings in some undiscovered place of concealment . The State Department had sent to the Senate a mass of documents bearing on the Central American question as far back as I 960 ., Speaking with reference to Lord Palmersfcous proposition to refef the natters fa dispute to arbitration , the iVcio York Herald observes :-- " The ymted . States have no friendiu Europe , and , therefore , reject the idea of arbitration "
all emergencies , Some sharp , engagements have taken place off the Feejee islands , and the crew of the United States sloop of war John Adams . The natives of the islands had committed great cruelties on some American seamen ; but a treaty has now been ratified between Commander Boutwell and the King of Feejee . In Mcaragua . affaurs axe quiet . General Walker had about 1 , 000 men with him . President Rivaz had issued a decree suspending all official communications with the Ministers of the United States . Mr . Manning ,
acting "Vice-Consul of the English Government at Realigo , has addressed an official letter to the Minister of Foreign Affairs , recognising the government of Walker ,, and assuring the executive of the good-will of the English Cabinet . -.-. - ¦ ¦ ¦ - ' _ _ ' "'" Mexico , as- usual , is in a state of insurrection and civil war . Santa Annas property has . been , seized . In the interior all the telegraph wires have been cut away . Uraga has been beaten ; and it is said that the southern provinces are tranquil . Peru is in a very unsettled state . The New ^ York commercial advices report that tie money market was plentifully supplied with capital , and-a good business was being done at the rates previously quoted . The stock market was buoyant .
. J » 1 Jhesmemberfl of the Western Anti-Slavery Society ho . ve memorialised the Legislature of Ohio to withdraw f ^^ Unionv _ Bavbour , the witness against the «« q nit * ej IwU ^ Filibusters at Cincinnati , has been £ v 6 n ? S " *\ 5 P J y' The English Consul has ¦ ESS ^? **» «?* <* t he veracity of the accused . iKfcSfe— '**? " M ^ niafcer to England , was to leave SaS fefe <* TfV * an . The Governor It Srffi ^ T ^ o&A V ° ^ F ^« ff with him inoSSv £ « n 5 rSrt + ? 9 <« Mwr , Wko was at the hertd ox « g tttnuudrto iir 0 Op t ^ , hold ' himself prepared for
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THE ORIENT . " I 3 TDIA . The proclamation annexing Oude had not appeared when trie last advices left Calcutta ( January 24 th ); but troops are already swarming towards Cawnpore . The King will be dismissed with a lackh of rupees amonth ; and it is thought that he will retain his personal immunities . . The Jaghirdars will retain their rent-free lands for life , and a new settlement will be commenced . The Gayerno ^ General has received carte tlancke , and is arranging the administration pf the sequestrated province , notwithstanding "his extreme ill health . He is drawing up also complete accounts of every province and department for the benefit of Lord Canning , and a report upon his own administration of eight years . The question of the remodelling of the Bengal Marine gives some trouble .
Their position is ill defined , as their commandera have no naval rank , and the sailors are hot sub- ' jeefced to control . A proposal has been made by the Court " of Directors to amalgamate the Maigtiie with , the regular navy ; and it is now proposed by the Governor-General to place the vessels of the former under martial law , and to give the officers a suitable rank . Great inconvenience , also , results from the want of sufficient pilots at Calcutta , owing to which the existing pilots are terribly over-worked . There has been talk of a strike , but this has not occurred . The Indigo Planters' Association have resolved to present a petition to Parliament praying for the introduction of non-official members into the Legislative Council . Sir William Gomm has issued his farewell address to the Indian army , the chief command of which he has j ust relinquished .
been made by , robbers o , n private : residences at Bong-Kong . Two very large fires have broken out at Macao , an \ I destroyed the greater part of the Chinese town . The rebellion is making head against the Imperial Government . The insurgents have entirely possessed themselves of three prefectures in the province of Kiangsi ; and it is feared that the transit between the tea and silk producing country and the English possessions will be interrupted . The province of Honan in _ the north is said to be in a state of insurrection ; but particulars are not yet known . It ia reported that a plague has broken out in Chin-kiant ? - foo , and carried off upwards off 100 , 000 persons .
EGTPT . The despotic extravagancies of Said Pacha continue . The Bedouins are especial sufferers : sev-eral have been chained in couples , and cast into the vilest prisons . ! Many have died ; but the dead body is not for a considerable time removed from the living companion to which it is linked . Mr . Gisborne > who is at Alexandria on the part of the Eastern Electric Telegraph . Company , is very welL satisfied with the arrangements he has made with the Egyptian Government for the formation of an electric telegraph for his company between Alexandria and Suez , and he speaks highly of Said Pacha ' s liberality . Mr . Gisborne hopes eventually to extend the line from Suez to India , and the submarine electric telegraph between Constantinople and Alexandria is expected to be in working order in the course of the ensuing summer .
A demonstration has been made against the Persian Government . Two war steamers have been despatched from Bombay to Bushire . Some further accounts have been received of the insurrection of Arabs at Judda , in the Red Sea . It appears that a traffic in slaves has long existed between Judda and some of the ports on the Abyssinian shore of the Red Sea- —a traffic from which the Ottoman Government derived a considerable revenue , and which ,
consequently , it was interested in maintaining . Nevertheless , the present Sultan has abolished it in the interests of humanity ; but the inhabitants of Judda , displ « ased with this annihilation of one of their chief sources of pwfit , asserted that the abolition of the trade was against the law of Mahomet . A serious disturbance was the result ; the Turkish pacha and the European consuls were threatened ; and the town was declared in a state of siege . The place is thought to be in no immediate danger .
All is quiet in Rajpootana , though the chiefs have not yet given in their adhesion to the award . Lord Dalhousie has promulgated his decision with respect to the affair of Colonel Mackenzie and the mutinous troopers at Bolarum . The brigadier is ceusured for his conduct , and the ringleaders in the disturbance have been dismissed the regiment . The new Governor-Qanoral and Lady Canning arrived at Bombay from Suez on the 28 th of January . A scarcity of water , owing to want of rain , is apprehended at Bombay , and measures of relief are being taken . At the initiation of one of these Bohemes—the construction of a large reservoir or lake in the valley of Vehar , in the island of Salsotte—Lord Canning presided .
The money market in Bombay is very tight d uving the past fortnight , and the banks have raised their rates of interest to twelve per cent . All eeouritiea are much depreciated in value . The import trade haa not improved , prices remaining very low . In the export market some activity haa been manifested .
china . Admiral Stirling has organised a system of convoy to proteot vessels ftom the attacks of pirates—a measure much needed . Several daring attacks have
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THE FRENCH EMPEROR'S SPEECH AT THE OPENING OF THE CHAMBERS . The Legislative Session . at Paris jppened on Monday when the Emperor delivered the subjoined speech : — M . M . . iiES : Pairs , M . M . les Senateces , — r "The last time that I summoned you to meet grave anxieties weighed upon ub * The Allied armies were exhausting themselves in a siege , in which the stubbornness of the defenders made success doubtful . Europe , uncertain , seemed to await the issue of the struggle before declaring herself . ¦
To sustain the war , I asked a loan which , although it might appear excessive , you voted unanimously The high price of provisions menaced the labouring classes with general discomfort , and a disturbance in the monetary system , gave ground to fear the Blackening of business and the diminution of employment . Thanks to your aid , and to the energy displayed in . France and in England—thanks , above all , to the support of Providence—these dangers , if they havenot entirely disappeared , are for the most part dissi pated .
" A great deed of arms has since decided a desperate struggle , unparalleled in history , in favour of the Allies . The opinion of Europe from that moment has been more openly shown . In every direction , our alliances have extended , or have become more firm . The third loan has . been supplied without difficulty . The country has again proved to me its confidence by subscribing a . sum five times larger than I required , from it . It has undergone , with admirable resignation , the sufferings inseparable from dearnesa of provisions—sufferings which , nevertheless , have
been mitigated by private charity , by the zeal of the corporations , and by the millions of francs distributed in the departments . An arrival of foreign corn has now produced a considerable fall in the price of food ; the fears arising from the disappearance of gold have faded ; and never haa labour been more active , never have the revenues been so large . _ The chances of war have reawakened the military spirit of the nation . Never were there bo many voluntary enlistments , nor bo great an ardour among the conscripts .
" To this short statement of our situation , I may add a fact of a high political signification . The Queen of Great Britain , wishing to give a proof of her confidence in , and esteem for , our country , and to render our relations still more intimate , came to France . The enthusiastic reception which her Majesty received must have proved to her how deep were the sentiments inspired by her presence , and how much , of a character tending to strengthen the alliance of the two peoples . u The King of Piedmont , who had unhesitatingly embraced our cause with that courageous ardour of which ho It ad previously afforded proof on the field of battle , also came to France to consecrate a union already cemented b y the valour of hia soldiers . These sovereigns beheld a country , some time so disturbed aucl fallen from her rank in the councils
of Europe , now prosperous , peaceable , and respected , making war , not with the hurried delirium of passion , but with that calm which belongs to justice nnd all the energy of duty . They have ee « n Franco , which had Bont 200 , 000 mon across the sea , at the mune time convoke at Fariavoll the arts of pcaoo , as if bho meant to eay to Europe—¦ ' The present war is but an episode for me , « vud my strength , ia always in great measure directed towards peaceful occupations . Lot «» neglect no opportunity of coming to un understanding , and do not force mo to throw into tho
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Leader (1850-1860), March 8, 1856, page 224, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2131/page/8/
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