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CRIMINAL RECORD . At Riclrmond a surgeon named . Smethurst has been arrested upcm suspicion of poisoning his reputed ¦ wife , but -who was not actually . married to him . It is said that the deceased was possessed of property , which the prisoner was aware of , and some arrangements had been desired to be made for the disposal of a portion . She fell ill , and was attended by Drs . Julian and Bird , of Richmond , who administered proper medicine . All their attention and medicine acted quite contrary to the desired effect , and she expired in great agony on Tuesday morning . It being the opinion of the medical gentlemen who attended her that she had beenpoisoned , the prisoner was apprehended , and taken before the magistrates , ¦ who decided on remanding the prisoner , that the viscera might be analysed by Professor Taylor .
At Nottingham a surgeon named Thackeray has been committed to take his trial / or manslaughter , in conseqiience of the death of a poor woman under his hands in her confinement . He is accused of being drunk and of acting with brutal indifference . This is , however , only one side of the story ,, as represented by the deceased ' s relations . William M'Cormack , a farmer , residing at Derryhaw , near Tynan , Armagh , was found murdered near his own house on Thursday . It is stated that the deceased took some laud from which a person had been evicted .
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ACCIDENTS . A fearful catastrophe has occurred off the Irish coast . The American ship Pomona sailed from the Mersey on the 27 th ult . for New York , with 375 passengers and a crew of thirty-two seamen . On Thursday she went on shore on the Blaokwater Bank , off Wexford , and , while stranded , her masts ¦ wqr o cut away . During Friday a boat from the wrecked vessel was put off , and landed sixteen people in safety . Another boat likewise put off , but she was capsized in the surge . When the ship first went on shore the weather was so boisterous that no communication could take place between the wreck and the shore ; and on Saturday morning the Pomona beat over the bank , and sank in nine fathoms of
water . The Dublin Evening Post states that out of 375 emigrants only fotfr wore saved , and of the crow , thirty-two in number , fifteen were lost—making a total loss of 3 SG lives . The passengers wore chiefly Irish . . * ' A most destructive fire occurred on Saturday , in Bristol , a t the sugar refinery of Messrs . Fripp , Mudgo , and Co ., Quay Head , which is one of the largest refiners in thokingdom . Thoadjoining warehouse of Messrs , Pickford , and some other houses , were much damaged . The greater part 6 f tho stock , together with 1 , 000 tons of charcoal ( worth 15 J , per ton ) , upwards of 500 tons of raw sugar , the whole of tho cylinders , and other costly machinory , aud the buildings , have been sacrificed . Tho firm wore insured to tho oxtont of 80 , 000 / .
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IRELAND . Them : has been a sorious riot at Limorick , arising out of tlio election . On Wednesday tho police wore assailed with stones and othor missiles . Tho Riot Act was read , and orders woro given tp fire . Two men were kllloU and five wounded . It was feared that , despite tho exertions of tho clergy and magistrates , together with tho police and military forces , some further sorious rioting would occur . Demonstrations are numerous in honour of the successful candidates , Messrs . Russell and Gavan .
At Dublin , on Wednesday , judgment was given in the Court of Queen ' s Bench on the application to admit to bail the prisoners in Tralee Gaol , awaitinc trial at the next assizes on a charge of beinff memhora of the . Phoenlx Club . . . The judges disagreeing * lordships delivered judgment in the usual form Mr . Justice Hayes and the Lord Chief Justice de * cided against the application , and Judges O'Brien and Perrin were in favour of it . The Court beine equally divided , the application fell to thegrouiid and the prisoners are to remain in gaol . '
At Kilbeggan , county Westmeath , Mr . Jessop of Tyrrel ' s Pass , had taken a . farm from whichi the former tenant had been evicted . Here he has since resided , never leaving home without being armed and almost invariably escorted by a policeman On Saturday , having been at Kilbeggan , he returned without his escort . Near his own house , he was fired at by a man stationed behind a wall by the roadside . The shot took effect in his abdomen , but he had time to observe the man who wounded' him and to return his fire before he fell insensible . The ball has been extracted , but little hopes of recoveryare entertained . , This outrage occurred in the broad daylight , at about four o ' clock in the afternoon , on the public road , in a populous neighbourhood , and witln ' n sight of a police barracks .
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^ w—Ms . Bersal Osborxe . —At the Dover election this gentleman endeavoured , amid a terrific row- between his . friends and those of the successful candidates , to address the electors ; and seldom has that eminent joker so vigorously sustained his reputation . He hinted that Sir Henry Leeke ( who appears to be as unhappy in his name as in his . principles ) was sailing " under sealed orders . " lie compared Mr . Birmingham , a gentleman who had brought forward another candidate who had not been heard of in politics for twenty-two years , to a " resurrection man ; " The candidate hirnself was one of those
" flowers borifto blush unseen * and waste his sweetness on the—Dover ^ -air . " Britannia was " a most respectable old lady who had formed an unfortunate connexion with Sir John Pakington . " The proposer of Sir Henry Leeke , a surgeon , was a " bungler with a lancet" and a " bungler with the tongue , " and was further held up to public ridicule as a rejected suitor of one of Mr . Osborne ' s relatives . Dover and the Conservatives were compared , to Susannah and the Elders ; the clergy of the establishment were " favourable at once to peace and
punch ; " Mr . Nicol was to " discount bills at one per cent ; " Sir J . Pakington was " a pocket Nero , fiddling while the empire was in flames ; " Leeke ^—inevitable arid unfortunate Admiral—was " a leek who would bring tears to nobody ' s eyes . " He then thanked the electors for the attention they had given him " under very exciting circumstances . " They reminded him , he said , of the description of an Irish election , which said , " the election concluded with a bonfire , a riot , aud other demonstrations of enjoyment . " He wished them all good evening , and he hoped , when next they caught him addressing them from those hustings , they would not wear in their hats so many gold laurel leaves . Tamworth the
Sir Boogrt PiiEt , M . P . —At , on day of nomination ( says a contemporary ) , SirKouert became humourous , and unaffectedly familiar . fc > ir Henry Leeke , who has been returned for Dover , he called a " leaky old Admiral ; " , like a comical Cassandra , prophesied that the " leaky" old gentleman was , at tho very moment ho was speaKyig being " skinned like an eel" by Mr . Osborno . As for Mr . Daniel , who ventured to oppose bir AWDcrr . ho was the « small beer candidate . " The First Lorq of the Admiralty ho styled a " bumptious sort ot a man , " and the Lord of Tamworth finally convulse " his audience with a jovial parallel ¦ totwoon J « John Pakington , and a « heavy swell at bpw ^ j M » iriTKAKHAU ) . M . P . —In tho hustings speech tnere
of tho Under Secretary for Foreign AflWrs , was a passago relative to Russia . IlCsaid tl uo vornment had put a question to Buss mi , asku g w direct terms , whether a treaty existed con in ng anything hostile to England . Princo Gor scltakoff replied in those words : — "I do not deny tlnthere oxistsa written engagement between , l ™ nuo n , n « Russia , but I can assure you in the most P ° »"" £ nmanor that such an arrangement contains 'Wining that , in tho most distant manner , could bo intoilwotea as constituting a hostilo allianoo against J ' -nff 1 * 1 ™ If Lord Malmesbury should bo ouostionQil on tno subject , ho may answor with confidence in tl o nbovo s , onso , and I give you my personal guaraii oo Umt tfto declaration will not bo falsified by tho facts . Rioht Won . Jambs Whxxbmub , M . I ' - --je w ¦ ni , hiin TTnivnrsitv election . this gontlomnn 6 «» i « >
The present dissolution of Parliament was impojujj because of the policy which it might inauffuro « J and because of fro crisis with which it would hove to deal . " Tho foroign afflvlrs of Engl «« wl | it * as , truu ,
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580 THE LEADER . ^ [ STo . 476 , May 7 , ^ 1059 .
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empirei and sufficient for any emergency . A Royal proclamation was issued on Saturday , regarding the manning of the navy ; an increased bounty of 1 OZ . to volunteers is offered , which will doubtless induce a large increase to this arm of our defences . At Woolwich and Chatham , the Admiralty have directed the whole of the Vessels , comprising the second division of the steam reserve , to have their sea fire-hearths immediately fixed on board , and are hastening the completion of the various new class steam-frigates in progress of construction ; augmenting the working establishments of every department . A great number of additional hands have been accordingly ordered to be taken on . forthwith . . We ( Times ') understand that there are at present no less than 700 vacancies for young gentlemen as cadets in the naval service . ' ¦¦ ¦
The Cape Tow ? i Argus says : —The search for her Majesty ' s brig Sappho , supposed to have been lost on her voyage to Australia , is , we are confidently informed , about to be renewed . H . M . steamer , Hermes , is immediately to be dispatched to St . Paul's , the Crozettes and Desolation Island , &c , for that purpose . ¦ . ¦ 11 Louis Napoleon ' s new cannon are internally grooved , as in arms " de precision . " The calibres are reduced to two dimensions only—12-pounders for siege guns , and 4-pounders for field batteries . For the navy the calibres remain unaltered . The
solid ball is done away with , the projectile being one which strikes like a full shot , and then bursts like a shell , thus having a double effect , It is fitted with waddings of lead , which enter into the grooves of the gun , and give the requisite precision to the aim . A mass of masonry , breached by a battery of the 12-pounder new guns , at a distance of 70 metres , proved that fewer rounds from the ruled gun were required to open the breach than from the old 24 , and at double the distance . The 4-pounder field piece is so small , that gunners can carry it on their shoulders without difficulty . Guardsmencalled in
A large detachment of Coast , for sea service , have arrived at Portsmouth , These men , the greater number of whom are good seamen , Will be drafted into the ships just commissioned , and form the nuclei of crews , to be completed by volunteers . Agents for the Admiralty , were during last week engaged in Liverpool , making arrangements for chartering first-class steamships : to convey troops and warlike stores to the Mediterranean . . According to a telegram from Trieste , a British squadron has left Malta for the Adriatic . It is added that another squadron is to cruise before Genoa .
We shall probably soon hear whether Government will respond to the patriotic feeling which has been awakened in the matter of volunteering . At a meeting of the Portsmouth Town Council a resolution was unanimously agreed to : — " That it is desirable to establish a volunteer rifle corps within the borough , and that the town council be requested to communicate with the proper authorities , asking for the necessary assistance . " On Wednesday , at Chatham , the screw liner , Hood , 91 , was launched . The ceremony of " christening the ship was performed by Miss Hood , d granddaughter of Lord Hood , after whom the vessel is named . The screw corvette , Charybdis , 21 , is ordered
to be launched On the 1 st of June . In consequence of a sudden order received from the Admiralty the whole of the seamen riggers at Chatham proceeded on Wednesday to Sheerness for the purpose of assisting in navigating tho line-of-battle screw steamer , Royal George , 102 , round to Portsmouth . Colonel Bloomfleld , R . A ., Second Commandant of Woolwich garrison , and Aide-de-camp to Her Majesty , has received his appointment as Inspector-General of Artillery . Sir Richard Dacres is name'd as the probable successor of General Williams as Commandant of Woolwieh . General Williams , in a few days , will proceed to his now appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the disti-ict ot Canada and Nova Scotia .
An Admiralty notice has been issued , inviting applications from duly-qualified persons to serve as Second Masters in tho Royal Navy . During . tho last fow days tho naval rendezvous on Tower-hill was besieged by hundreds of persons anxious to take service in tho Royal Navy under the now regulations , awarding a bounty for entering .
NAVAL AND MILITARY . The most onorgotlc stops have been taken by Government to furnish forth a naval forco worthy pf the
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GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS , Richard Bedford Allen , underwriter at Lloyd ' s , Who stands charged with forging a transfer of stock for 875 / ., has been committed for trial . It was stated that there was another similar charge against the prisoner which might be afterwards brought for"Wflifd ¦ A man is in custody , charged with the sacrilegious destruction of paintings at Marylebone Church that -was perpetrated some time ago . The prisoner is called James Hughes , an ex-policeman , and a discharged patient of a lunatic asylum . In the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Thursday , the case of Scullv t \ Ingram was again brought forward . Mr . Edwin James opposed the rule nisi for a new trial , which Mr . Bovill had obtained on Mr . Ingrain ' s behalf . The arguments , were not concluded when the court rose . At the Middlesex Sessions John Wilson , described as an " agent , " and Eliza Edwards , a half-blind woman , were indicted for stealing a copper boiler . It appeared that the male prisoner had been connected with a gang who hired houses and extorted money from the owners to give them up again , and committed various frauds on tradesmen . The judge condemned Edwards to four , and Wilson to twelve months ' imprisonment , remarking on the bad and cowardly conduct of the latter in inducing the former to commit frauds from which he ( Wilson ) derived all the benefit , and the poor woman all the risk .
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ELECTION SPEECHES .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 7, 1859, page 580, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2293/page/4/
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