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The Suspected Poisonikg at Richmond . Yesterday Mr . Thomas Smiethurst -was again brought before the magistrates on the charge of administering poison to Isabella Bankes . A great deal of additional evidence was heard . Professor Taylor and Dr . Todd were of opinion that arsenical poison had been administered . The case was adjourned till Monday . , Great Pipe i : sr the City . —Yesterday niornr ing , between six and seven o ' clock , a fire broke out to Hubbockin
in the premises belonging Messrs . ,- Lime-street . The building was filled with turpentine , paint , saltpetre , sulphur , &c . Some men were stacking away carboys filled with turpentine , when one of the bottles split , and the spirit running out came in contact with a light , and in an instant the turpentine was in aflame , firing in rapid succession various other carboys , which exploded one after another . The loss must be very considerable . Three men have been taken to St . Thomas ' s Hospital , where their wounds have been dressed . A young
man , named Watts , missing . Heliques ob- Molieke . —The discovery of three pieces of unpublished verse by MolicSre cannot fail to be interesting to all lovers of literature , and such a discovery is supposed to have been made . The pieces in question were found , some time since , amongst a mass of old papers , some of which had reference to Moliere , by the Marquis Henri dc la Garde , amongst the lumber of an old bookseller ' s , in the town of Avignon , where Armande-Grcsnide Bejart de Modone , who became the wife of Molidre , was born , . The papers referring tp Molidre consisted , first , and
of a number of epitaphs , epigrams , sonnets , on the death of the great comic poot ; and ' secondly , two epitaphs , followed by two madrigals , attributed to Moliere by the writer of the papers . With these were some other documents having reference to the family of Des Aclmrdg , with which family the : Marquis do Fortia d'Urban author of a «• Dissertation on the Marriago of the celebrated Moliore , " a " Dissertation on the Wife of Molidre , " and a " Supplement to the various editions of the Works of Molidro , " &c—was connected . — The Critic .
Tub Austrian QoBiMANPKR-iN-CxriEF .-rFranz Count Gyulai , of Miiros-N 6 mothy and Nadaskn , wa $ born on the 1 st September , 1798 . His family boast of , tho purest Magyar blood . His father fought ; m the battles of Dresden , Leipsic , Brionno , and Bjirsur-Aube , and had the reputation of being a skilful commander . The present Count Gyufti entered tho army in 1816 , rose in 1840 to the dignity of -Foldmarshall-Lieutonant , and during the rovolutionary troubles of 1848 scrvod with groat distinction in the capacity of Commander in Daimatia . Ho saved the Austrian navy from the attack of the . insurrectionists Trieste Polu , and othor Important points on tho coast were at that time fortified according to hia nlnns From Juno , 1849 , to July , I 860 , ho held the office ' of Minister of War , afterwards was sent to take tho command of the 5 th corps d' arviea at Milan , and procoedod by gradual steps to tho command of tho 2 nd Army corps , and , to . tho military superintendence of Lombardy and Venetia .
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The English are very ill-received just now in Ital y ^ and especially at Genoa , says a correspondent of the Indepandance JBelge . In order to hinder quarrels , the captain of a large ship , whose name escapes me , has several times kept his crew on board ; he has determined even uppn quitting the port and going towards Leghorn . The Early dosing Association got up a meeting on Thursday to shut up the Burlington Arcade an hour sooner than at present . Lord Shaftesbury presided . The shopkeepers are to " confer" on the subject .
Arrangements have been made for the erection of St . Helena into a distinct episcopal see , and the Rev . Piers Calveley Claughton , M . A ., of Brasenose College , Oxford , and rector of Elton , near Candle , has been nominated the first bishop . The Marquis de Campana , of Rome , noted for his fine museum , his defalcations , and his late con- ; demnation to iniprisonment , was last week set at liberty and exiled . He is about to enter a monastery at Florence , to which city he went on leaving Home . At the Mersey Dock Board , Mr . Bold moved a resolution in favour of the application of electricity to the clock on the summit of the Victoria tower , in order to ensure more perfect accuracy in the dropping of the time-ball on the top of the same tower . The resolution was adopted . ;
Cardinal Wiseman has returned to town , from Norfolk , where he has visited the Catholic chapels and congregations in Norwich and Yarmouth , and also proceeded to Norwich Cathedral . : The sum ot 3 , 0002 . has been voted by the corporation of Melbourne for this year ' s quota towards the erection of public baths and fountains . Arrangements nave been made for erecting twenty-four water taps at the junctions of the principal streets of Melbourne . ' It is rumoured that before the meeting in Parliament , Sir E . Lytton will formally resign the seals of the Colonial department , and his successor will be appointed from , the secondary ranks of . the administration .
The apprehension that blockades will be enforced at various foreign ports during the war ( says the Norfolk Chronicle ) has already begun to operate upon the prospects of the herring fishery , and many curers are inclined to have fewer boats than they contemplated . Mr . Gavan Dufly , Minister of Public Works , Victoria , has resigned . The Melbourne Age , in annouueing the fact , says that " Jonah has been thrown overboard , and the mariners who navigate the ministerial vessel are buoyant with hopes of fair weather and a calm sea . "
The Colombo Examiner notices the success of the pearl fishery at Aripo . The oysters were selling at £ 6 to £ 6 10 s . per l , 000 ,. and money was abundant . Bates , the chief of the European divers , was under water for three hours . The operations of the European divers are expected to produce very beneficial results , both in the discovery of new banks , and in determining the age of the oysters . The French Minister of State has permitted three writers to accompany the French army in Italy — M . Pierron , of the Ministry of State ; M . Dreolle , and a gentleman connected with an English journal .
The Court of General Sessions , says the New York Tribune , opens with a bloody calendar . Eleven prisoners are to be tried for murder arid four , for manslaughter . The death of the Right Hon . Francis Stuart , eleventh Earl of Moray , in the peerage of Scotland , and Lord Stuart , of Castle Stuart , in that of the United Kingdom , happened at Hayes-park , Middlesex , on the 6 th inst ., in the sixty-fourth year of his age . . ' . ¦ The Weekly Register says- —the fact cannot be disputed or denied upon any . ground whatever , of the conversion of the late Duke of Heeds to the Catholic faith , and we may also state that Miss Fox , a niece of the duke , was received into the Church at Everingham , on Maunday Thursday ,
The Nottingham Town Council , after a protracted and warm discussion , have agreed to a site of land being given in the Arboretum for the purpose of placing thereon a statue of the late Feargus O'Connor . This decision has created great dissatisfaction in the town . Mrs . Susan Cushman Muspratt died at her residence , near Liverpool , on Tuesday last . Mrs . Muspratt will be well remembered by most of our readers as the accomplished Susan Cushman , tho sharer of her sister ' s early popularity in this country , and the representative of Juliet , Pauline Deschapelles , &c , to her ' sister ' s Romeo , Claude Melnotte , &c .
Tho Earl and Countess of Erroll have lost their infant and only daughter . The Duke of Marlborough ' s infant son died on Thursday . The Earl of Fife ' s youngest daughter died , after a very short illness , on Sunday . . Tho Rev . O . V . King , Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge , has been appointed to tho rectory of St . Mary-le-Bow , Durham ; the Rev . 0 . P . Jones , curate of Peterston , to a minor canonry in St . David ' s Cathedral 5 the Rev . G . W . T . Carurthen to tho rectory of Ashprington , Devonshire . Mr .. Henry Drumnxond Woolf , private , secretary to Sir Edward Lytton , is named as Government Secretary at Corfu , in succession to Sir Thomas
A Turin correspondent -writes : — " This afternoon I was at the bankers N- . While waiting there a private soldier of the line , in his great coat and side arms , appeared at the counter and presented a letter containing a credit in favour , of Count _¦_*_; . on Milan , for 50 , 000 francs . The banker asked where the count was ; * I am he ^ was the answer . " , ' ¦ ' ¦ , „ Princess Clotilde has bought the celebrated fan which belonged to the late Queen of Oude . The handle * of ivory and gold , is ornamented with rubies and seventeen large diamonds of the purest water . In Munich , as well as in Stuttgardt and Dresden , female societies are forming for the purpose of pledging as many of the fair sex as possible to rer train from wearing crinoline , or any other article of French manufacture .
The Pope on receiving the Duke of Grammont , a few days ago , as the bearer of a letter from the Emperor Napoleon , promising him protection , his Holiness , holding up a crucifix , observed , " Behold my only support . " Some of the native gentlemen of Calcutta propose to establish a club on the European model , to be called the Union Club . They are assisted by several European gentlemen , who hope to make the club a point of union between Europeans and natives . _ . The anniversary meeting of the Royal Geographical Society wiil be held on the 23 rd inst ., at their house in Whitehall-place , when the gold medals will be awarded . . _
The members of the Mechanics' institute , Melbourne , have determined upon erecting a new hall , at an expenditure of £ 7 , 500 . A letter from St . Petersburg states , that the joy caused by the taking of Schamyl ' s stronghold was damped by the fact that he himself , and his principal supporters made good their escape . A squadron of dragoons ,. which pursued them , would have been entirely destroyed , but for the timely succour of a detachment of cossacks . The Augsburg . Gazette calls on the German ladies to give up purchasing any French articles of millinery . " We must not , " it says , " _ German money pass from our pockets into those of the French , and enable them to make war on us . " Among the passengers by the Arabia from New York , on Saturday , were Lords Cavendish and Cecil , and the Hon . E . Legge and E . Ashley .
Mr . Joseph Sturge , of Birmingham , died on Saturday morning . As the foe of slavery , as the friend of peace , as the promoter of temperance and education , and numerous schemes of benevolence , both local and general , his name stands on honourable record . Archdeacon Colquhoun Campbell has been nominated by the Crown to the bishopric of Bangor , wbrtli 4 , 5002 , a year , rendered vacant by the death of the Right Rev . Dr . Christopher Bethell , In consequence of the elevation of Archdeacon Campbell , the Crown will claim the right to the rectory of Merthyr Tydvil , worth about 800 Z . a year .
The ceremony of opening the new Homoeopathic Hospital , in Great Ormond-streeb , Bloomsbury , took place on Thursday , in the presence of a numerous assemblage of ladies and gentlemen , amongst whom were tho Earl of Wilton and Lord Ebury . The beautifUl church in Margaret-stre , et , the opening of which has been so long expected , is to be consecrated on Saturday , the 28 th inst ., when the Bishop of London will preach tho sermon . A young girl , named Susan French , was burnt to death at a fire which took place on Tuesday , on tho premises of Mr . Nicol , publisher , High-street , Edinburgh .
A return made to the Court of Aldermen of the traffic over London-bridge in 24 hours , ending at 6 p . m . on Thursday , the 17 th March last , shows that during that time 4 , 483 cabs , 4 , 286 omnibuses , 9 , 245 waggons and carts , a , 480 ,-other vehicles , and 54 horses led or ridden ^ inaking a total of 20 , 498 passed over the bridge . The passengers in the same period were , in vehicles , 60 , 886 } on foot , 107 , 074 . Total , 167 , 910 . On the 23 rd of April last the Iron Grown of Lombardy was solemnly removed by tho Austrians , under the protection of a strong body of horse , from Monssa to tho fortress of Mantua , The crown is made of gold , but has inside an iron ring , of which the legend relates that It has been forged from tho nails of our Saviour ' s cross .
Bowen , who is appointed governor of the new colony of Queensland ( Moreton Bay ) , in Australia . In oharging the Calcutta grand jury , Sir M . Wolls stated , that during the six weoks he had boon presiding as one of the judges of the Supreme Court , no had witnessed more perjury and forgery than during tho courso of eighteen years' practice at tho English bar . ' . Mr . G . V . Brooke has become the sole lessee of tho Theatre Royal , Melbourne . Mr . Hudson , the Irish comedian , hns appeared there . Miss Emma Stanloy seems to bo meeting with considerable success , and Mrs . Butler ' s readings " attract largo audiences . Letters from Liege state that the English Government is entering into contracts with difl ' eront manufacturers for the supply of 200 , 000 rifles .
Open the window , and let in more light ! " wove tho fast words of Goethe . Tho sun shone brilliantly in tho room whoro Humboldt died , and it is reported that tho , last words addressed to his nteco wore . ' < Wie herrllch diose Strahlen : sic soheincn die Erdo zum Hlmmel zu rufon 1 " ( How grand these rays s they seem to beckon Earth to Heaven 1 " )
The marriage of Mdlle . Hubner , daughter of the late Austrian ambassador at the French Court , with M . de Maupassant , a rich landowner , of the department of the Maine and . Loire , was solemnised on Wednesday morning in the chapel of the Pope ' s Nuncio , in the Rue Grenelle St . Germain , Paris . A new bishopric is spoken of for the North of England , toibe created out of the see of Durham .
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Politics . ] THE LEADER 643
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Leader (1850-1860), May 21, 1859, page 643, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2295/page/11/
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