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effect of the scene made a profound impression on the court . ] My daughter did not rise till my son John and I raised her , and John said , ' Hector , come and help us , we cannot raise her ; she is heavy ; ' and the prisoner did come to help us . When we lifted her , prisoner wished her put into his own bed , but I refused , and we took her into my bed in my apartment . John and I carried her there , and I cannot say -whether Hector assisted us or not , but he -was there . We laid her down on her side on ray bed . I put my tongue to her throat to feel if she was breathing , and I took the shawl off her face and her eyes were coming out , as if they were started < nit . of their sockets ( sensation ); and I pushed
them back -with both my hands , I said , ' Dearest of ¦ women , if you can speak ' , and have your senses , do so . It is in your mother ' s two arms that you are . ' When I said this , she four times opened and shut her lips with a very slight smack , and I put my ear to her mouth , and she muttered softly ' Coup' ( Gaelic , cup ) , and I thought she wanted water . I gave her about half a cupful of water . I put it into her mouth , but I do not think any of it went over , as it ran out of her mouth . About two minutes after this , she pressed the points of her fingers very tightly together , and muttered something like ' My poor children ! ' She appeared to die then , and said no more . I think from the time she was carried * ¦ ben' till the time she died , would be about tea
minutes . It was daybght at the time she died . The prisoner was then in his own end of the house . I sail to my son John , ' Go for my sister , for Jane is dead ;* and prisoner said , ' If you will let me up , I will know whether she is dead or not . ' I said ' How will yoit know whether she is dead or not better than I do ? ' and te said , 'I will know ; ' and I said ' Come down , then . ' Prisoner felt her throat , and then he lifted his hands and exclaimed , ' Oh , Vho ! she is dead . I will go into the sea . ' I said , ' You will not not go out into the sea . You ¦ will remain and take care of your two sons . They re - quire nursingj and I cannot attend to them ; I am too weak . I require to be nursed myself to-day . "
M'Donald afterwards held the body while the old woman ' s sister washed it . He was very particular about having one portion of the corpse ( but which pare is not known ) carefully washed , and he desired to have the body buried the next day . In cross-examining the old woman , it was sought t 6 be shown that she had a grudge against her sonin-law because he had informed against her for smuggling whisky into tlie island . The medical evidence of Dr . Wilson confirmed the account given of . . the death of M'Donald ' s wife , and showed clearly that it must have resulted from throttling by some person other than herself . The jury found the accused Guilty of culpable homicide , and he was sentenced to transportation for life .
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¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ -MISOBLL AN EO US . The Court . —The Queen and infant Princess , contrail * to progress favourably . The last bulletin was issued on Monday . —The Duchess of Gloucester is In very bad health . She has been reduced to a state of great feebleness , and , considering her advanced years , apprehensions are entertained for her life . The latest accounts represent her as sinking . To-day ( Saturday ) is her eightyfirst birthday . The latest accounts represent her as rather better . The Starving Finlanders . —¦ We hear from good authority that upwards of 55 01 . has been subscribed by members of the Society of Friends in Bristol towards the funds for the relief of the starving Finlanders . —Bristol Mercury . . . The Rev . C . Hawkins , vicar of Stillingfleet , and canon residentiary of York , has just died at an advanced age .. ¦ ¦ ; ¦ ¦ ' . ; . ¦ . ' ¦ ' . ¦ ¦ ' ;¦ -v ; . ¦ ¦ ¦ .
Llandaff Cathedral has been reopened after a restoration extending over a period of teu years . Mr . Palk , M . P ., ox xhe Coming Session . —The Conservative member for South Devon , Mr . Palk , dined with a numerous party of his father ' s tenantry at Torquay on Friday week , when he believed that it would he necessary in the ensuing session of Parliament to settle the church-rate question by " a fair and honourable compromise" that should amicably adjust the claims botlx of Dissenters and Churchmen , But there were great difficulties to be encountered , as a law which would suit large towns would not do for agricultural districts . Mr . Palk also admitted the necessity that exists for Parliamentary reform ; but he did not favour his audience with any idea as to the nature of the reform which he would support . He said , however , that he looked forward to the ensuing session with " apprehension . "
Death op the Pkqiusofthe Scottish Episcopal Church . —The Right Rev . William Skinner , D . D ., Bishop of the diocese of Aberdeen and Primus of the Scottish Episcopal Church , died at Aberdeen , on Wednesday week , after a few days'illness . He was in his seventy-eighth year . Emigration fucm the North of Scotland . —The spring fleet has just sailed for Canada from the northeast coast of Scotland , carrying out 1500 passengers . They are chiefly agricultural labourers , and for the most part young and newly married people .
Iiuks . —The building and steam sawmill premises of Mr . Newsom , Westbouriie-street , Pimlico , were burnt down on Sunday morning , and eight or nine of the adjoining buildings were greatly damaged . —The premises occupied by Messrs . Goodyear and Co ., straw bonnet manufacturers , in St . Paul ' s Churchyard , were burnt down early on Wednesday morning . The inhabitants escaped -with some difficulty . —The printing-ink works of Messrs . Gil ton and Co ., Leeds-street , Liverpool , were destroyed by fire on Wednesday . —Some pottery works in Princes-street , Lambeth , were burnt down on the same morningwith the exception of a small portion .
, Ciiima . —A religious ceremonial , in honour of the officers and seamen of the Jeanne d'Arc and the Colbert avIio fell in the deliverance of Shanghai on the 6 th of January , 1855 , took place at that city on the 7 th of last February . A grand mass and sermon , at which all the French residents , several of the English residents , and various Yice-consuls , were present , were followed by a private service at the house of the French Consul . This 14 i £ cknt Fall of Bkickwouk . — -The inquiry
into the circumstances attending the deaths of Moma Fitzgibbon and John iShehan , who were killed by the falling of a wall on Good Friday , was concluded on Friday week . After a great amount of additional evidence was gone into , the jury returned the following verdict : — " That the deceased camo by their deaths by the fulling of a wall , aomo portions of which were in an unsound state , not visible , yet we are of op inion that , through nn error of judgment , sufficient precaution was not taken to secure the same . "
Tins Lundhiix Coi / mkry Exi-ujsion . —Mr . Coe . Mr , Maddison , and other colliery viowers , went down into the pit on the evening of Friday week , and again on Sunday , and waded a considerable distance through tho water ; but they -were unable to proceed as far as they wished , owing to tho depth of water , and to portions of tho roof having fallen in . Early on tho following morning , three bodies were discovered , much mutilated , and in a state of decomposition . The identity oL two wna quite beyond tho possibility even of u guess r and witli respect to tho third there were two opinions-Tho probability appears to bo that the body was that ot Thomau Gray 5 but Hannah Cutts , who lost a husband and three sons by the explosion , is of opinion that t »
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passengers and part of her freight ashore at Larabayequej when one morning about eight o'clock an officer from the Peruvian ship came on board armed with a cutlass and pistols , and stated to Captain Strachan , commander of the New Grenada , that he knew that lie ( Captain Strachan ) had in his vessel money antl arms belonging to General Castilla , President of Peru , while at the same time he exhibited a paper apparently corroborative of the truth of what he asserted . He authoritatively ordered the captain to deliver up the property to him . Captain Strachan replied that he would not give the goods up with his own consent , but as his ship was entirely unarmed , he was unable to make any resistance by force . Upon this , the Peruvian officer ordered the
exception of Hawkings , who was taken from therisrrnn by another coastguard cutter , the Scout , which ™ , o lying about a quarter of a mile off , and which went t the assistance of her sister vessel . When picked \ i Hawkings was in a very exhausted state , having b ^ n in the water about half an hour , and been much bnns ^ i by the steam-vessel running over him . Tjioops tor China . —The sailing troop-ship New having embarked two companies of Royal Artillery 7 Woolwich for Hong-Kong , left the pier on Thursdav morning . The majority were men who had serveri before Sebastopol .
crews of four armed launches lying ; alongside Captain Strachan ' s vessel to come on board the N " ew Grenada , and immediately sixty armed men jumped on deck , and were directed by their commanding officer to cut down any of the crew who should , go forward . " The whole affair , " says the writer , " Tras like a melodrama at a minor theatre . The men were of all colours—blacks , mulattoes , and some few English sailors , wlio , however , looked cowed and ashamed at their position , as forming a portion of as dirty and villanous a set of ruffians as could be brought together ; most of them having a drawn cutlass in one hand , and a pistol hi the other , apparently eager for some pretext for seizing and sacking the vessel . " The officer again demanded of Captain
Strachan the delivery of the specie or the key of the room , but the latter refused to give any orders , and the Peruvian therefore replied that he would take the command of the vessel oil himself , and give Ms own directions . The door of the cabin in which the specie was lodged was then broken open by means of large chisels and hammers , and 32 , 000 dollars' worth of property was stolen . The robbers afterwards jumped back again into the launches alongside , and sailed away with their booty . Captain Strachttivhas laid a protest before the consul at Payta . The . ship by whose commander this robbery was perpetrated had been some Weeks previously declared a pirate vessel by the Government of Peru , that country being at present in a state of insurrection .
The \\ kegkof the Palarmo . —It is now known that the vessel which was found drifting , dismasted and water-logged , on the coast of Norway , with the crew starved to death , is the Palarmo , of South , Shields , belonging to Mr . John Cleugh , and commanded by his son , Mr . William Cleugh She left Meniel in the middle of January . It is supposed that the principal portion of her crew was swept off her deck in the fearful gale that raged shortly after she passed Elsinore , and that , the provisions and other stores having been washed out of her along with tlie roundhouse , the poor fellows found dead 011 board had perished of cold and hunger . Captain William Cleugh was the last of eleven sons whose death the father has to lament . Several of . them '' perished ' at sea . . ¦ ¦ . • . ' ;
NAVAL AND MILITARY . General Beatson asi > ColonelShirley . —TIis quarrel between these officers is again brought forward this week by the publication of the opinion" of the Court of Inquiry lately assembled , by order of the General Commanding in Chief , to investigate the charges preferred by General Beatson against Colonel Shirley . Those charges were to the effect that , during the late Russian war , the Colonel , wlio had been serving under General Beatson at Shumla , in connexion , with the Bashi-Bazouks , had made private inquiries among the oilioers and others of the corps with respect to the General , and that he afterwards transmitted to General Vivian statements highly derogatory to General Beatson ' s character as an officer , while at the same time he suppressed evidence which was favourable to him . The Court of
Tnqmry are of opinion that there was nothing underhand or secret in the Colonel ' s inquiries , though they were privately made ; that he had reasonable cause for making those inquiries , and also for transmitting to General Vivian statements d 6 rogatory to General Beatson ' s character aa an officer ; that ho did not wilfully suppress evidence , and that he acted properly , considering his inferior position , in not prosecuting the inquiry any further . The , officers forming : the Court think that tho evidence collected by Colonel Shirley wns not " so precise and full aa to warrant lna making his statements so strongly . They further record their opinion " that tlicro are no grounds whatever to render it necessary to inves-* i ^ V * TO . ™ ght by Major-General Bentson against Colonel b
Shirley y a cou ^ ma ^ 'C ^™! ?« 5 £ ? n T * ttea t 0 the P P cr 8 t 0 complain of this £° l ° 0 te . f a 6 ain 8 t «> e proceedings of tho Court SMricv Wl * to , <» t « rato hia assertion that Colonel and suppressed a denial of their truth which ho received from Lieutenant-Colonel Snnkey , who had been ineiitionod aa tho authority for them . . riuyrs . Iho Now Grenada , an English merdiant steamer , while at anchor in tho Bay of fiba ^ S on " ^ zs ;;^« t =. tir / 3 Er Ms ^ srii : x ^ EI ° New Grenada glvea an account of thi 8 outrage , frOni wMch it appears that tho latter vessel Imd sent hS
Hosouauy Rkwards . —The Board of Trade have directed that a telescope , bearing a suitable inscription , be presented to Lieutenant Valence , of the French frigate L'Egerie , and 50 / . to the petty officers and crew , for the assistance rendered to the English barque ltulph Thompson , whereby the whole of the crew were rescued from drowning , after repeated attempts , on three successive days , to board the sinking vessel . From the representations of her Britannic Majesty ' s minister at Paris to the Foreign office , the Earl of Clarendon has directed that a sword bo presented to Captain Coreil for his exertions and praiseworthy conduct on this occasion .
The Wnmvontu . asi > Eni / ikld IUfles . —For the last few days , a very interesting and important series of experiments has been in progress at the Government School of Musketry , Hvthc , in order to test the comparative merits of these two rifles . The trial , which was of tho most searching and impartial character , was conducted by Colonel Hay , the able head of the school , and has terminntcd in establishing beyond all doubt the great and decided superiority of Mr . " Whitworth ' s invention . Tho Enfield rifle , which was considered so niucli better than any other as to justify the formation of a vast Government establishment for its special manufacture , has boon completely beaten , in accuracy of fire , in penetration , and in range , its rival excels it to a degree which hardly leaves room for comparison . —Times .
Collision with a Steamboat , and Loss of Life . — While tlie Curlew , coast-guard cnttci , was lying at anchor on the flat of the Mouse Sand , oil" Shecrnoss , on Wednesday niglit , a largo steam -vessel , about ' ono o ' clock in tho morning , bore down upon her , camo stem on , and struck lier amidships , breaking : the main boom . Michael Hawkings , tho look-out man , on seeing the vessel approach , called to all hands , who wero asleep below , to come on deck as quickly as possible . Ho also shouted
loudly to warn off * the steamer ; but to no effect . After tho collision , he heard sonic ono on board the steamer say , "Why did you not show a light ? " Hawkings was immediately afterwards thrown into the water , and became entangled in the standing and running rigging of tho Curlew ' s topmast , which was carried away . Tho steamvessel lo wered a boat , which was manned ; the men lay on thoir oars , « nd the boat drifted away with tho wind and tido , without making an effort to save tho crow of tho Curlew . All , consequently , wcro drowned , with tho
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Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2190/page/8/
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