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May 4, 1850.] ©!) * 3Lt*X(tV. 127
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MISCELLANEOUS. On Monday the Queen and P...
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The Duchess of Kent, accompanied by the ...
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The Bishop of Clogher (Lord Robert Totte...
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A deputation, consisting of the Duke of ...
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Murders And Murderous Assaults. Another ...
deceased had been in my service for twelve years . She was servant and housekeeper . She was , I believe , fiftythree years of age . She was generally healthy , but her constitution was not strong . She was a very sober woman . She was a servant , in the strictest sense of the word . I took her from conscientious motives . The deceased and myself were the only persons in the house . Yesterday morning , about twenty-five minutes before eleven o ' clock , she let me out to go to church . She appeared cheerful enough . I left her in the house alone . She locked the gate of the house as I desired her to do ; at least , if she did not it was her neglect , as I always ordered her to do so . After the church
service was over I came home . I suppose it was about twenty minutes or half past one o ' clock . Upon reaching my house I knocked at the gate for some time , and afterwards I discovered that the side gate was open , which was a very unusual thing . I was preparing to jump over the gate , and I then found it was not fastened , but only on the latch . I then went hastily down , for I suspected that something was the matter . I went into the kitchen , and there I found her . She appeared as if she had been dragged from the kitchen to the position in which she was found . Her head was laying on a heap of carpet . The carpet was not in the kitchen when I went out . I then ran out of the house and gave an alarm .
When I returned I went up stairs , and I discovered the frightful consequences of the state she was in , and I am satisfied she was murdered . [ Here the witness in a most excited state beat the table with his fists , and said , ' Murdered—murdered . You may return what verdict you like , but I say * murdered / It is frightful that neither life nor property is safe in this country . ' ] I found every place broken open . All my papers , deeds , banker ' s receipts , and other things were all thrown about the place . I missed a gold watch , about three or four pounds in money , and a coat . I cannot say what Ihave missed yet , as I have been so excited by the matter . I cannot say whether she had much money by her , but I think she had a pound or two by her . I had paid her wages about a week before . I paid her £ 2 10 s . I do not know that she had any followers . I did not allow her to have any .
I did not object to her friends coming if she did it openly . I do not know that she had ajiy enemies . It was not her that they came after . It was my property . " [ Here Mr . Maddle again went off into an incoherent strain of language , abusing the judges and juries for not hanging everybody that was brought before them . " Some old villain like Rush has done this , " said the witness . " This is giving the prisoner the benefit of a doubt ! I used to turn them round ! "When I was a young man , and used to be on juries , I would hang them . "] In reply to the Coroner , the witness added : — " An attempt was made to break open my house about two months ago . When I went out I ordered the deceased to prepare a dinner . There was no appearance of any preparation when I came home . There was no fire . "
At this stage of the examination , the inquest was adjourned to Monday week . It would seem that chloroform was used by the robbers to keep the housekeeper quiet , and that too large a dose was given her . A man was seen to leave the house of Mr . Maddle , and a person answering his description had been endeavouring to purchase chloroform on Saturday evening , at a chemist ' s in the Blackfriars-road . The police are satisfied that the robbery was not committed by regular hands . The drawers were forced by a small chisel , taken out of Mr . Maddle ' s own tool-chest . ^ Mr . Maddle appears unable to give the least assistance in tracing the property , not knowing what he has lost , and unable to describe even his gold watch , though he had had it for years .
An awful series of murders was committed on Tuesday , at Ingestre , in Staffordshire . Mr . Yarker , Earl Talbot's head gamekeeper , had been suffering from delirium tromen 8 ; the man who had charge of him incautiously allowed him to go out with him to shoot jackdaws . They had proceeded about a mile , when Yarker shot his companion , returned home and shot the servant girl who was at tea with an infant in her arms , fired at his sister and slightly wounded her ; then ran from the house , and , his wife following him , he shot her ; and he concluded by shooting himself . The wretched man and his three victims are dead .
A young woman , named Elizabeth Vicars , and her mother , residing at Belper , have been committed to prison for the murder of a female child , ten days old , of which the young woman was the mother . In the cottage where they lived the sum of £ 64 12 s . 9 £ d . in coin was found by the constable who apprehended them . The two women are said to have supported themselves by begging . Charles Jopling , an embosser , was charged at the Marylebone-office , on Tuesday , with an endeavour to administer choloform to his sweetheart , for the purpose of surprising her . The young woman stated that she was walking home with him at night from an
entertainment . " They stood talking for a short time in the road near her aunt ' s dwelling , and he afterwards took her down a yard , where he acted towards her in a very improper manner . She asked him what right he had thus to insult her , upon which he uncorked a phial , and , having poured the contents on his handkerchief , applied it to her nose and mouth . She immediately raised her hand , thrust the handkerchief from her , and then called as loudly as she could for the assistance of the police . The handkerchief was found to be saturated with chloroform . The prisoner declined saying anything then , and he was remanded for a week .
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May 4 , 1850 . ] ©!) * 3 Lt * X ( tV . 127
Miscellaneous. On Monday The Queen And P...
MISCELLANEOUS . On Monday the Queen and Prince Albert took a drive in an open carriage , and on Tuesday her Majesty and the Prince walked in Buckingham-gardens . On "Wednesday morning the Queen ' s physicians issued a bulletin announcing that she had been safely delivered of a pnnoe
that morning at 17 minutes after 8 o'clock . The Court newsman gives the following additional information on the subject : — " In the room with her Majesty were his Royal Highness Prince Albert , Dr . Locock , and Mrs . Lilly , the monthly nurse ; and in the rooms adjoining were the other medical attendants-Sir James Clark and Dr . Ferguson , and the Ministers and Officers of State summoned on the occasion . The Privy Councillors present were—the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Bishop of London , the Duke of Wellington , Lord John Russell , Sir George Grey , the Marquis of Breadalbane , and the Duke of Norfolk . Shortly before nine o ' clock in the morning the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Palace . The Duke of Cambridge , attended by Major Stephens , arrived at the palace in the forenoon to learn the state of her Majesty and her royal infant . The Duchess of Kent returned to the palace in the afternoon , accompanied by the Prince of Leiningen .
At three o ' clock in the afternoon a Privy Council was held at the Council-office , which was attended by Prince Albert and the principal Ministers and officers of State , and at which the Archbishop of Canterbury was ordered to prepare a form of prayer for the Queen ' s recovery . About eight hundred of the nobility and gentry called during Wednesday at Buckingham Palace to make their dutiful inquiries after the state of her Majesty and the infant Prince . Upwards of one thousand of the nobility and gentry called on Thursday at Buckingham Palace to read the bulletin of her Majesty ' s health . Her Majesty and the infant Prince are going on favourably .
The Duchess Of Kent, Accompanied By The ...
The Duchess of Kent , accompanied by the Prince of Leinengen , went to Kew on Monday and paid a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge . The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge went from Kew to Claremont on Tuesday , and paid a visit to the Count and Countess de Neuilly and her Majesty the Queen of the Belgians . The Queen of the Belgians visited the Queen on Saturday at Buckingham Palace . She was received on her arrival at the Vauxhall station from Claremont by Prince Albert , who accompanied her to the Palace . The Queen of the Belgians partook of luncheon with her Maiestv and Prince Albert .
The Court Circular of Thursday announced that his Royal Highness Prince Albert honoured the Duke of Wellington with a visit at Apsley House on Wednesday . It is now understood that his Royal Highness did so at the express desire of her Majesty , in order to convey to the noble duke the intimation that it was her Majesty ' s gracious intention to have the newly born prince baptized by the name of "Arthur , " as a testimonial of her high personal regard for his grace , and in commemoration of the great and important services he had rendered to his country . It will be remembered that the day in question was also the natal day of the noble duke , which gives a further interest to this determination on the part of the Queen . —Daily News .
The Bishop Of Clogher (Lord Robert Totte...
The Bishop of Clogher ( Lord Robert Tottenham ) died on Friday night week of inflammation of the chest , from cold . Clogher is the last of the suppressed Bishoprics . Its revenues , amounting to £ 13 , 000 , will be transferred to the Board of Ecclesiastical Commissioners . Lord Gough arrived in Dublin on Friday evening . A round of banquets in honour of his visit to his native country are in preparation in Dublin , Limerick , and Clonmel . _ „ „„ „ The remains of the young Duchess of Marlborough were interred on Friday week in the family mausoleum at Blenheim Palace . A letter of the 22 nd ult ., from Cannes , says that Lord Brougham has latterly astonished the natives by pleading his own cause in French in some trial before the tribunal of Grassechef lieu of the arrondissement .
, Letters have been received in Dublin from Mrs . Moore , stating that the condition of her husband is such as to leave no room for doubt that his case is beyond the reach of medical aid or chance of recovery . Mr . Gorham ' s son has addressed a letter to the newspapers denying that he is about to join the Church of Rome . On Tuesday afternoon , at half-past three o ' clock , the usual ceremony of betrothment and exchange of rings took place , at the palace of his Royal Highness Prince Frederick of the Netherlands , between her Royal Highness the Princess Louisa , eldest daughter of Prince Frederick , and his Royal Highness the Crown Prince of Sweden and Norway .
Miss Clara Novello , who married an Italian nobleman , the Count Gigliucci , has returned to the operatic stage , and recent accounts speak largely of her success . A private letter states that her engagement at Florence has terminated , and that before her departure she sang at a grand concert given by the Grand Duke—an unusual compliment , the practice ordinarily being to have no other than the two court singers . The Novello was iu treaty with the directors of the Opera-houses both of Naples and St . Petersburg , but , it is added , she is likely to visit England about the middle of May . Ludwig Tieck , the celebrated writer , is dangerously ill . The marriage of the Duke of Genoa with the Princess Elizabeth of Saxony was celebrated at Dresden on the 21 st of April .
It is reported that Prince Metternich is about to return to Austria , and that he will be appointed Chancellor of the Empire . The Countess Belgiojoso arrived at Smyrna on the 9 th ult ., with her daughter and twelve Lombard refugees ; the whole party immediately left for Constantinople . The Emperor Nicholas is expected to arrive at Warsaw on the 24 th instant . , . ., The American , Guell , who eloped with one of the Spanish King Consort ' s sisters , is to be made Duke of Tamarind . Tamarind is the name of one of his estates
in Cuba . . . , A morganatic , or left-handed marriage was concluded on Saturday last , between Prince Adalbert , the son of Prince Albrecht , and Ther & e Elssler , the sister of the
celebrated danseuse . The King , m giving his permission to the marriage , granted to the lady the title of Madame von Barnim . By this marriage a son of the Prince , seven years of age , is legitimised .
A Deputation, Consisting Of The Duke Of ...
A deputation , consisting of the Duke of Richmond apd a number of other noblemen and gentlemen , had an interview with Sir George Grey , at the Home-office , on Thursday , to deliver addresses to the Queen from several hundred places , praying for a dissolution of Parliament . A very large and respectable meeting of the inhabitants of Marylebone was held on Thursday in the Princess ' s Concert-room , Castle-street , Oxford-street , to adont measures for uromotine the Exhibition of 1851 .
The Right Honourable Lord Portman occupied the chair . Resolutions in accordance with the object of the meeting were moved by Mr . Cobden , Sir Benjamin Hall , Mr . Mackinnon , Lord Dudley Stuart , the Reverend Dr . Morris , Roman Catholic Bishop of Troy , and Mr . Van de Weyer . Mr . Cobden in moving a resolution expressive of an opinion that the funds should be provided by the voluntary subscription of all classes , said there were still some doubts in the minds of some as to the effect which the exhibition would have
on the trade of the metropolis : — " , what was this project ? In the first place , from May of next year till September , there would be an influx of at least 1 , 000 , 000 persons into the metropolis—such a gathering as the metropolis had never seen before . Who would suffer from that ? Would not the lodging-house-keeper , the hotel tavern-keeper , the tradesman , the cabman , the humblest artisan—would not all benefit by the influx of so many strangers , and the necessity of finding accommodation for them ?" A protection meeting , attended by between 2000 and 3000 landowners and farmers , was held at Ely , on Thursday . It was addressed by the Earl of Hardwicke , Mr . Elliott Yorke , M . P ., Mr . Townley , M . P ., and several other speakers in favour of a return to the protective
system . On Thursday afternoon a deputation , consisting of medical gentlemen of the metropolis and the larger towns in the United Kingdom , waited upon Sir George Grey , at the Home-office , for the purpose of representing to him the necessity which exists for the grant of a royal charter for the incorporation of general medical practitioners into an independent college . An active movement has been made in Hastings to petition the House of Commons for the repeal of the window duty . A committee , meeting at the Marine Hotel , consisting of gentlemen of all political parties ( Mr . Alderman Clift in the chair ) , unanimously passed resolutions
for this purpose . The petition having been adopted by the committee , and signed by ' * seven hundred " householders , headed by the mayor , and followed by the clergy , magistracy , municipal authorities , and the medical profession , & c , almost all electors sor the borough , has been entrusted to Lord Duncan for presentation . The members for the borough , and eastern division of the county , have been requested to support the prayer of the petition . The committee , before departing , unanimously expressed their great surprise at the unaccountable absence of both their members on the late division upon Lord Duncan ' s motion for the repeal of the windowtax , and requested the chairman to * communicate the
same . The British Museum was closed on Tuesday last , and will continue shut till Tuesday next , in order that the reading-rooms and museum may be thoroughly cleansed ; it will be then reopened to the public . In the Court of Common Council the other day , great objections were made to the brick building now being raised on the Surrey side of London Bridge , near the Bridge House Tavern . We do not wonder at it . It is an ugly pile , sadly in the way . —Builder . The authorities at the National Gallery have received the official instructions for the removal of the Vernon
collection from Trafalgar square to Marlborough House , the residence of the late Queen Dowager , where the collection will be opened to the public on Whit-Monday . At the suggestion of her Majesty , the Commissioners of Woods and Forests are about to make a series of important improvements in Kensington . The houses in High .-street , directly opposite the Queen ' s-road , newly formed , will be thrown down , and a road will be constructed therefrom into Brompton ; a direct communication from the latter place to Bayswater will thus be acquired . The old barracks at Kensington will be thrown down , and a new pile of buildings will be erected in lieu of them in another part of the grounds . —John
Bull . The mansion in Great Queen-street , in which resided Sir Godfrey Kneller , the celebrated painter , and which was designed and erected for him expressly by Inigo Jones , is announced for sale by auction . It appears surprising in a country like this that there shoul < be no memorial , not even an inscription , to mark the spot at Runnymede where the MagnaOharta of every Englishman ' s rights received the sign manual of King John , in the twelfth century , through the firmness of the barons . The site at present is occupied as a racecourse , with an unsightly stand in the centre . —Builder . The first stone has been laid of a handsome edifice near Emsworth , in the Elizabethan style , intended as an
asylum for six decayed merchants of London , and to be called Stanstead College . The stone was laid last week by Mr . Dixon . The estimated cost of the building is £ 6000 . Each of the inmates is to have £ 50 per annum , and a separate apartment , and " spiritual , medical , and domestic attendance . " The grounds contain about five acres ; there will be a handsome terrace ; for exercise in wet weather a noble vestibule , and for dinner a commodious entrance hall . The sum of £ 50 per annum will be provided for the domestics , besides board and residence in a house attached to the college . Messrs . Attwood , Spooner , and Co ., refuse to subscribe any money towards the Industrial Exhibition of 1861 . because they " consider it very unjust and very unfair to our own . manufacturers to encourage foreigners
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Leader (1850-1860), May 4, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04051850/page/7/
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