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THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE. Upwards of 100 seam...
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THE CARNIVAL AT ROME. A glance at Rome, ...
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EARTHQUAKES IN ASIATIC TURKEY. Every sch...
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Tayleur's Divorce. Mr. William Houlbrook...
mistress ' s anger . In the course of the night a signal was made- outside , Mrs . Tayleur said it was Lord Arthur , but the nurse , who remained firm , would not open the door to him , Mrs . Tayleur then called the housemaid , who opened the door , and his lordship walked straight into the lady ' s bedroom , where he spent the night , according to the evidence of both servants . The scandal having thus become notorious , the butler wrote off to his master , who instantly took the usual course under such circumstances . An action was brought . against Lord Arthur Lennox by Mr . Tayleur , who obtained £ 500 damages . He also obtained a final sentence of separation , a mensa et thoro , in the Ecclesiastical Court . The evidence presented nothing remarkable , and the bill was read a second time on Tuesday .
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The Seamen's Strike. Upwards Of 100 Seam...
THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE . Upwards of 100 seamen belonging to Hull paid a visit to Sheffield last week . They were met by a band of music , and marched in procession to the residence of Mr . Councillor Ironside , where they partook of an ample supply of bread , cheese , ale , and tobacco . A series of public meetings have been held , which were numerously attended , and of the most enthusiastic character . At one of the meetings it was resolved to petition Parliament to repeal or modify the Mercantile Marine Act ; at another , a memorial to the Queen was adopted to the same
effect ; and at another , it was resolved to memorialize the Government . On Tuesday last the greater part of the sailors left for Hull . They were accompanied to the Station by a band of music and a large number of the inhabitants . During their stay they were very kindly treated , having been gratuitously lodged and boarded in various parts of the town . They left . with heavy hearts , many declaring that they had never been in such a ship in their lives . They took with them a large quantity of provisions which had been given for their wives and families . A public subscription has been set on foot , which at present amounts to
nearly £ 150 . A meeting of the seamen connected with the port of London was held at the Temperance Hotel , Princes-square , on Wednesday , when it was resolved that the petition to be presented on Thursday should not be accompanied by a procession as was originally intended .
The Carnival At Rome. A Glance At Rome, ...
THE CARNIVAL AT ROME . A glance at Rome , during the Carnival , from a private letter of an English friend resident there , will amuse our readers . It will be seen that our correspondent is of a more hopeful character than most of our countrymen who date their letters from the Eternal City : — "Rome , March 4 , 1851 . " Rome has been during the last ten days a curious sight , the strangers in it having been attempting a spectre carnival , driving up and down the Corso , pelting each other with confetti and bouquets ; the people looking on , and taking little or no part in the diversions . In former days , when great cars full of costumes and every
the ignorance of all around them that they will never bring forward any liberal system of education , by which alone the people will become able to govern and be governed . " The upper classes here have been tried since ' 48 , and not one of them has been found to possess any capacity for public employment . Conscious of this inferiority and jealous of the liberal and constitutional party , they will always side with the reactionary party , and would prefer seeing the French or Austiians occupying Rome to a government of the middle and only educated class . The death of Rossi by assasination and the flight of the Pope destroyed the best chance for the Romans of passing through an imperfect form of government to one more durable and perfect .
" In spite of this , I have no doubt of the future success of the independence of Italy . In Piedmont , constitutional forms of government , the liberty of the press , and the honesty of the King give great promise of aid . Their army is excellent , and navy very respectable ; and Piedmont will give the proper example to the rest of Italy . The King of Naples , although the most abject of Absolutists , has been busily engaged in forming the means of destruction for absolutism . If he were to die , and the Count of Syracuse were to become Regent , there is a chance of things going on fairly towards improvement . Their army , in a good cause and well led , is good ; and all the material for war in good order . "
variety of masquerade used to promenade up and down the Corso , the scene was full of gaiety and animation . The fun had been this year done into English , and has not profited by the translation , being much more rough and coarse than when the Italians , who have a genius for everything buffo , took a part in it . Last Sunday night was the great veglione , when the large theatre used to be thronged with masks and dominos ; here all the intrigues and lovemakingo , began with bon-bons and bouquets , used to be accomplished , and a great deal of witty merriment . 1 went there about one o ' clock in the morning , and the theatre beautifully lighted , two bands playing , and everything prepared as usual ; but the
place was perfectly deserted by all except about twenty men in accurate ball-room costume , sent there by the police , many gendarmes and firemen , and a few Englishmen . The word had been passed that , aa masking had been foibiddenand the French were occupying Rome , it . was not becoming for the Romans to go ; and , accordingly , not a Roman man or woman was to be seen . One box had been hired by a respectable English family who stole in , thinking to have some unorthodox fun ; but they found the most harmless and unamusing spirit prepared for them . Altogether the attitude of the people in very dignified in their misfortunes , and there is very great unanimity in their abstinence from the amusements in which they used to take so much pleasure . is
" The Pope goes out oftener walking , but no notice taken of him ; and the prestige attached to the Papal authority is every day weakened . The Tope himself is zealously watched , as he is found every now and then disposed to relent , and would gladly try the system of gradual concession . I firmly believe that he is a good nan totully intuited for the age and for his place . The priest never ceases to be more powerful than the temporal Sovereign ; and when in difficulty be prays for insp iration—a method of escaping from difficulties which has hitherto been only moderately successful .
" It is very difiicult to conceive uny plan by which Rome could peacefully acquire the Government necessary for it . A mixed Government , half priest half lay , is , I am persuaded by the pant experience , impossible . No Pope will ever rule constitutionally , and the lay Ministers will only be so nominally . A conscientious 1 ope will be , as the present one ban been , bo tormented by hia confessor and the idea that he is undermining the spiritual power , that he will throw himself entirely Into the hands of the priesthood . Their power so completely depends upon
Earthquakes In Asiatic Turkey. Every Sch...
EARTHQUAKES IN ASIATIC TURKEY . Every schoolboy has heard of that great wonder of the world , the Colossus of Rhodes , which , we are told , weighed 713 , 0001 b ., and was thrown down by an earthquake in the year 234 B . C . That tremendous downfall has been called to mind by a succession of earthquakes which have lately taken place at Macri , a town of Natolia , in Asiatic Turkey , and also at Rhodes . At the latter place the first shock was felt on the 28 th of February . Between five and half-past five p . m . the upper part of the castle , which is at the entrance of the town , fell with an awful crash , overwhelming the offices of the Austrian Lloyd ' s Steam
Navigation Company , whilst the Tower of Arays-Kule , which commands the entrence of the harbour , and several other parts of the fortifications , sustained great injury , as did likewise many dwelling-houses , some of which were shaken to their very foundations , on the rock , others cracked throughout . The oscillations were from west to east . The lady of a foreign vice-consul was so alarmed that she rushed , with an infant in her arms , from her falling dwelling , and , jumping into the sea , made her way to a boat ; whilst another daughter , who attempted to follow her , got buried in the ruins , but , through the humane exertions of some neighbours , she was extricated , and ,
marvellous to relate , with no other injury than bruises . Slighter shocks succeeded almost daily , even up to the 7 th of March . At Macri , on the main land , and in its immediate neighbourhood , the consequences lave been most disastrous . The whole of the houses and dwellings , lately erected , have been levelled to the ground ; fissures have been formed in the very streets , from which bituminous vapours exude contitinually , almost suffocating the inhabitants ; many springs have suddenly dried up , whilst in arid localities new ones have gushed out , changing the whole
features of the earth ' s surface . The town of Levissy , which contained 1500 houses , has not one left standing , and no less than 600 human beings are reckoned to be under the ruins , which number would have been awfully augmented had the shock been after nightfall , when the inhabitants retire to their homes . The village of Chiorge nearly met with the same fate , the upper part of a huge mountain having fallen into , and blocked up , the small port of Ekengik , overwhelming all the dwellings round about its base . Another village , more inland , situated between two hills , has been buried under tlicm .
The survivors at Macri , alarmed b y the repeated shocks which were still occurring for five days after , though of a much slighter nature , had fled for safety on board small craft and fishing-boats , carrying with them what property they could from time to time dig out from beneath the ruins of the storehouses , most of which has been removed to Simi , Rhodes , and other islands . Letters from Trebizond ( the ancient Trapeaus ) , down to the 5 th of March , also make mention of two Hinart shocks of earthquake having been experienced thereat . Stove pipes got detached from the wuIIh of the houses , doors flew open , and many old tenements threatened to fall about the ears of the inmates , but no accident of consequence resulted .
The last Overland Mail brings intelligence of several earthquakes having taken pluoo throughout India , btitween the 4 th and 14 th of February , accompanied by great storms .
Called, He Wore, It Is Said, The Same Fo...
called , he wore , it is said , the same forbidden , senseless expression as when on his examination before the magistrates , combining in a remarkable degree the slight active figure of the accomplished burglar with a cast of countenance at once cunning , cowardly , and cruel . For a moment , on entering- the witness-box , he looked abashed , and unable to raise his eyes or to confront the furious glances which his associates darted at him from the dock ; but by degrees his confidence returned , and it was quite remarkable to observe the cool , easy style in which he surrendered himself to the examinationin . chief , and the half-petulant air of injured innocence with which he replied to the searching interrogatories of the counsel for the accused . He persisted that it was and
not he but Levi Harwood who fired the fatal shot ; said , after he left the house , he hoped to God he had not killed the man . He retired amidst hisses from the persons in and around the crowded court . The trial was brought to a conclusion on Tuesday . The counsel for the prisoners strongly dwelt on the circumstance that Mrs . Holiest identified Smith , the witness , as the man who shot her husband , and that the wadding and cap were found where he must have stood . The judge told the jury that , to convict the prisoners , it was not necessary they should be satisfied that one or all of them had discharged the pistol by which the fatal wound was given . The jury were absent nearly two hours , and returned a verdict of Guilty upon Levi Harwood and Jones—of Not Guilty upon Samuel Harwood . The
foreman said that the jury were unanimously of opinion that neither of the prisoners found guilty had fired the shot . On being asked if he had anything to say why sentence of death should not be passed upon him , Levi Harwood , his body stretched forward over the dock , said : " I am as innocent of the murder of which I stand indicted as any man in this court . I am as innocent as this man ( pointing to some person who stood near ) , or even as your lordship , both of the burglary and of the murder . " Jones also said : " I am innocent of the charge against me . I am quite innocent . " Levi Harwood , again speaking , and shaking his head earnestly , said : " The jury have not looked strictly into this matter . " The judge then pronounced sentence of death on the two ; and the third was arrested on another charge . _
. Daniel Gibbs Hathway , aged twenty-six , the keeper of a beerhouse at Chipping Sudbury , was tried at the Oxford Assizes , on Tuesday , for the murder of his wife , by poisoning her a few weeks ago . From the evidence given there was no doubt but the woman had been poisoned , and it appeared also that Hathway had kept up an improper intimacy with a girl who had been his servant at one time . The jury , however , not deeming the evidence sufficiently strong against the prisoner found a verdict of acquittal . A long investigation took place at Stonham Aspal , near Ipswich , before the coroner and a jury , on Friday labourer
and Saturday , to ascertain by what means a named Cage came by his death , suspicion having attached to his wife of having poisoned him with arsenic . Cage and his wife lived on the worst terms . He died on Saturday week , and was about to be buried , when from certain intelligence as to the cause of his death , the clergyman of the parish caused a postponement of the funeral , and a coroner ' s inquest to be called . The evidence of two medical men affirmed the fact of the presence of arsenic in the stomach , Sec , and it was proved that Mrs . Cage had employed a woman to purchase for her a pennyworth of arsenic . The inquest has been adjourned for a full analyzation of the contents of the stomach of the deceased to
be made . Patrick Lyons and his wife were found guilty at Liverpool Assizes , on Monday , of murdering a woman named Peegy Fahey , a poor Irish hawker , by striking her on the head with a hatchet , in a lodging-house at Warrington . They were both sentenced to death . At the reexamination of William Rowe , before the county magistrates at Ridgway , near Plymouth , on Wednesday , he was fully committed to take his trial at the next assizes for the wilful murder of John Bunker , a servant boy . An attempt was made by Rowe ' s family to obtain his liberation on bail to the amount of £ 5000 , but the magistrates refused to accept it , though it appears on the occasion of the first examination they accepted bail to the amount of Jb' 2000 , and the accused surrendered at the proper time .
Ah Mr . Robert Fisher , a gentleman residing at 78 , Bayham-street , Camden-town , was returning home on Thursday evening he discovered at the step of his hall door a fine linen bag , which was neatly sewn up , and contained something heavy . He immediately handed it to a police-constable , who ripped it open and found within it a fine male child , neatly dressed in a handsome coloured bedgown , and a rich lace cape ornamented with very splendid ribbons . Around the neck was a white handkerchief , so tightly fastened that it could not fail in producing strangulation . On the chest lay u note written in a neat hand , and which ran thus : — " The Lord have mercy on the child ' s soul . It is of noble parentage . " The body was conveyed to the workhouse , where it was examined by Mr . Robertson , the house surgeon , who pronounced it to be that of a fine child , upwards of a month old , and also declared that he had no doubt that tho child was murdered .
TIIK FH 1 MLKY AND OTIIKIt MUHDKH 8 . The trial of Levi Hurwood ( aged twenty-nine ) , James Jones ( nged twenty-four ) , and Samuel Harwood ( aged twenty-five ) , for the murder of the Reverend Mr . Holiest , on the 27 th of September last , commenced on Monday morning , at Kingston , before Mr . Baron Parke . Mr Chambers recited the facts , which are in the recollection of the public . Mrs . Caroline Holiest , the fimt witness , produced « great uejinution by stating , on cross-examination , her deliberate belief that Hiram Smith , tho Queen's evidence , was the man who struggled with » nd shot her husband . When Hiram Smith was
Miscellaneous. Tho Queen Held A Drawing ...
MISCELLANEOUS . Tho Queen held a drawing room in St . Jtur . es ' H Palace on Thursday afternoon . It was the first public reception this season , and was numerously and fashionably attended . The Queen and Prince Albert , attended by tho ladies and gentlemen of the royal suite , arrived from Buckingham Palace at two o ' clock . Before the drawingroom , her Majesty , according to annual custom , received u deputation ironi Christ ' s Hospital in the Throne-room . The Queen wore u white groa do Naples train , trimmed with white crape and white bugles , and ornamented with diamonds . The petticoat was of white gros de Naples ,
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Leader (1850-1860), April 5, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05041851/page/7/
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