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June 23, 1855.] THE LEABEE. 50£
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THE OXFORD COMMEMORATION. The past week ...
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AM IS RICA. The Perry and Soule quarrel ...
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AM IS RICA
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LETTERS FROM PARIS. (Extracts from Priva...
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Sir Ciiarjles Napiek And Sir James Graha...
hesitation in saying , liad I done what Sir James Graham wished me to do , plainly expressed in letters , both public and private , I should have lost her Majesty ' s fleet ; and J think Sir James Graham deserves impeachment for goading me to do in the winter what he was advising me not to do in the summer . Roebuck was so successful with his Sebastopol Committee that he ought to take up the Baltic . Sir James Graham has been publicly accused by ine of perverting vcxy ( query , his ?) letters , and of endangering the Queen ' s fleet , and that accusation ought not to lie dormant . Were I in Parliament , it should not sleep for twenty-four hours . I do not think it right to send you the papers , but would be glad to show them to you had I an opportunity . —I remain , yours very truly , _ Chaicles Napier . " Mr . Ironside ' s motion was carried .
June 23, 1855.] The Leabee. 50£
June 23 , 1855 . ] THE LEABEE . 50 £
The Oxford Commemoration. The Past Week ...
THE OXFORD COMMEMORATION . The past week has been Commemoration week at Oxford , and has been signalised by some events of note . Count Montalembert ; Mr . Buchanan , the American minister ; Sir JohnBurgoyne ; Sir DeLacy Evans ; Colonel Sabine ; Dr . Adams , the discoverer of the new planet ; Sir Charles Lyell ; Mr . R . M . Milnes , M . P . ; Alfred Tennyson ; and some others of less note , have received honorary degrees ; and Oxford has been even more than usually full of company illustrious in the aristocracy of mind .
On Monday , a bazaar was held at the Star Hotel , in aid of the funds for the restoration of the Abbey Church of Dorchester , Oxon . On Tuesday , a Horticultural Show took place in the gardens of Trinity College . The display is spoken of as not so good as on some previous occasions ; but , the day being very fine , the attendance was large . In" the evening , there ¦ was a conversazione in the Radeliffe Library ; the electric light was exhibited on the dome of the Library , followed by a display of fireworks ; and a Masonic ball was given at the Town Hall . Wednesday , however , was the great day—the Commemoration Day , emphatically—the day on which the annual commemoration of founders and benefactors to the University took place in the Sheldonian Theatre . At this Convocation , the honorary degrees
above mentioned were conferred . Count Montalembert was well received by the large audience which ¦ crowded every part of the theatre ; so was Mr . Buchanan , the American minister . Sir J . Burgoyne , the Crimean General , and still more Sir De Lacy Evans , met with a storm of applause , accompanied by waving of caps and hats . Sir Charles Lyell , Colonel Sabine , and others , were likewise received with cheers ; and the name of Alfred Tennyson , -which had already elicited tumultuous applause , was now once more greeted with acclamations so long and loud , that even the reception of Sir De Lacy Evans seemed to be surpassed . We are glad to see the Oxonians thus recognising the worth of the chief poet of this generation—the interpreter , in noble and liarmonious language , of the highest aspirations of the nineteenth centurv .
After all the degrees had been conferred , an oration was made by the Public Orator ; the Latin Essay and the Latin Poem , the English Essay and the English Poem , were read ; and the Chancellor { Lord Derby ) declared the Convocation dissolved . In the afternoon , the first stone of the New Museum was laid by Lord Derby . The company then sang the National Anthem , and dispersed .
Am Is Rica. The Perry And Soule Quarrel ...
AM IS RICA . The Perry and Soule quarrel proceeds , and seems likely to turn out " a very pretty quarrel" indeed . Mr . Soule has published a letter stating that there is not a word of trutkin Mr . Terry ' s assertions , charging Mr . Perry witli hypocrisy and cowardice , and threatening to " show him up" in tho history which Mr . SouM is about to publish of his ambassadorship . A letter from Paris is said to assert that Mr . Perry has obtained from the Spanish government a very satisfactory settlement of certain mutters in dispute . Nevertheless , Mr . I ' erry has been recalled . The " rowdies" liavc again been finding vent for their energies . At Columbus , Ohio , a procession of German turners was attacked , stoned , and beaten , apparently without any provocation ; and at Portland there has been a serious riot owing to a suspicion entertained by tho people that the mayor had been purchasing liquor to resell . Tho military wero called out ; but the captain in command of them refused to order his men to fire . Ultimately , tho door of tho liquor-room was burst open by the mob ; a portion of tho military fired , by order of the mayor ; and one person wus killed , and six or seven wounded . At Baltimore , twenty-live persons belonging to a marriage-party , anil including tho bride , have been poisoned by eating custard with which arsenic hud been mixed . They were not expected to live . Tho porpotrator has notl > een discovered . Tho Kane Arctic expedition has departed , lho cholera is raging at New Orleans .
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OUR CIVILISATION . A Swindler Exposed . —A short time since , the attention of Sir R . W . Carden , at the Mansion House , was directed to the proceedings of a most accomplished swindler . The practice of this worthy , who signs himself R . V . Fynn , is to insert advertisements in the newspapers for governesses to whom be promises large salaries , the opportunity of travelling through the greater part of the Continent , and other advantages . He pretends to be a married man , with children , whom the governess is required to instruct , ' and dates ise letters and advertisements from Wiesbaden , Frankforth on-the-Maine , and Cologne . Having got his victims into the trap , he induces them to place in his hands any
sum of money they may have with them , under pretence of his applying it to their travelling expenses ; hthen disappears . In this way he has sometimes got as much as between one and t \ vo hundred pounds from one governess alone . In several instances he has made attempts to ruin the poor creatures whom he has thus decoyed ; and once he asked a young lady , on the first day of their meeting , to marry him . The young lady observed tliat she had understood him to represent himself as a married man ; to which he replied , that such was the case , but that his wife was in . a consumption , and could not live two months . He has been pursuing this system for several years ; and the marvel is , not so much that lie should have escaped punishment so long
( which is -what chiefly surprised Sir R . W . CardeD ) , as that so many persons should be found simple enough to trust their money and their personal safety in the hands of a stranger . The father of one of the victims sent the man 60 / . in addition to ¦ what his daughter hsftl paid , simply upon Fynn writing to ask him for it ; and it was only upon a still further application that the suspicions of the father were aroused . The subject has been twice since brought forward at the Mansion House , and several letters setting forth some of the foregoing facts have been read . From one of these we gather the subjoined particulars of the rascal's biography : —" delinquent ' s real name is Robert Nicholas Fynn , a native of Galway , in the west of Ireland . He is a member of
the Irish bar . After four or five years practising as a briefless barrister , he was most unaccountably appointed about ten or twelve years ago to the office of chief justice of the island of Tobago , in the West Indies , through the influence of Lord Oranmore . At this time also , Fynn inserted in the papers a notice to governesses of something to the effect , as well as I recollect , that their position was to be more that of a lady in waiting than that of a governess , and that they were to have the same privileges as those attending on her Majesty . This having come to the ears of Lord John Russell , he immediately cancelled the appointment , after Fynn had all his luggage on board ship , and ready to sail , and emblazoned over with the broad R and the grand seal of
Chief Justice of Tobago . Some time after this Fynn left London for Brussels , where he managed to get introduced to some highly respectable families , and he passed himself off as Count Fynn , with many other etceteras , and contrived to get married to a beautiful woman , niece of a member of the House of Commons . " BiisiEGiNu an Englishman- in his Casti . k . —A case of disputed , possession , or rather an assault arising out of it , recently came before the Judges at the Middlesex Sessions . Edwin Mintcr had married the daughter of a retired tradesman , one Mr . Knight , who gave him a house in Evcrsholt-street , Oakley-square . No legal instrument of assignment , however , was made ; and Kniglit and his son-in-law speedily disputed as to who really owned the liou . se . On the 10 th of May ,
James IJucklin and Edward Baker , who were noiv - dicted for assault and forcible entrance , went—it is presumed at the instigation of Mr . Knight—to the house occupied by Mr . Mintcr , and laid positive siege to it , ultimately " obtaining ingress by scaling the balcony . Pokers , hatchets , and other weapons wore used , aud personal injury was inflicted . The men having been arrested , Mr . Knight was applied to for bail , which he refused to give . The Assistant Judge recommended the parties to conic to an amicable arrangement ; but Mr . Knight denied having countenanced violence . Ultimately the prisoners were ordered to enter into their own recognizances to come up for judgment when called upon , it being understood that , if they did not interfere with Mr . Mintcr , they would hour no more of the
matter . A Blow—ani > a Kims . —A man was charged at Worship-street , on Saturday last , with » uch violent treatment of his wife , wh . ) wus far advanced in pregnancy , that , when attending before tho ' inngi . stmte , she presented a pitiable . spectacle , and was scarcely able to speak , owing to her lower jaw being injured by tlie blown . she hud sustained . Tin ; only provocation appeared to bo that the wifo liad not got ready a clean Hhirt for her husband as soon nn ho desired . At tho conclusion of her testimony , tho woman who had boon hysterical throughout , was seized AvitU strong convulsions , and fainted . Having boon taken out of court , and restored by means of wine and wator , further evidence , on her return , was received , and tho piinoner was remanded . While bis wile was being curried away nearly Houseless , he stooped over the chair in which who was witting , and kissed hor cheek .
Samuel Seal , who has been from time to time remanded on a charge of stealing a quantity of granulated gold , was on Saturday last discharged from custody , no further evidence being produced against him . The Murder in Limehouse . —Jeremiah Foley , the Irishman charged with the murder of Hannah Bell , a woman of bad character , has been committed for trial . On the final examination , at the Thames police-office , evidence was given which showed that the accused premeditated the destruction not only of Bell , but of her female companion Macaulay also ; for he produced a hammer to a woman to whom he declared he would murder them both with it before he went to bed that night . Louisa Harrison has been sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour on the second charge of perjury . The facts of this singular case we gave last week .
A Returned Convict and his Brother . —At Clerkenwell , on Tuesday , Charles Henry Page , a fashionably-dressed young fellow , was charged with burglary , committed during the middle of the day on , Sunday . Another man , giving the name of Williams , was also in custody as an accomplice ; and one of the witnesses against the second prisoner , as connecting him with the first , was a police-sergeant , wlio on the day of the robbery , and about an hour before -its occurrence , had travelled in the same railway carriage with both , and had seen them afterwards enter a City-road omnibus . Two or three hours later , tlie sergeant happened to call at the Islington police station , heard of the apprehension of Page , identified him on the following day , and at the sauie time saw Williams at the police court , and took him into custody . Before the
magistrate , Page admitted his own guilt , but solemnly declared , as though he were " going before his God at that moment , " that Williams was entirely innocent , adding , after a little questioning , " The fact of it is , your worship , we are brothers . " ( Here Williams burst into tears . ) "I admit that I am a returned transport , and he lias not seen me for years . My name is Isaac Williams , and I do not care what consequence it is to me so as you believe me that he is innocent of this . He i 3 a hard-working young man with a family dependent on . him . I know he has never done a wrong action , and I hope your worship will believe me , although . I convict myself to save an innocent brother and fatlier of a family . " The magistrate expressed his belief that Page had drawn his brother into the affair , and therefore refused bail . — - If the story be true , it is both singular and affecting .
Henry Palmer , the escaped convict , who was remanded at Worship-street last week , has been committed for trial . Daniel Mitchell Davidson , and Cosmo William Gordon , who carried on business as general merchants and colonial and metal brokers at Mincing-lane and Cousin-lane , City , and as distillers at West Ham-lane , Essex , were on Tuesday placed at the bar of Guildhall for iinal examination on the several charges of not surrendering before the Commissioners in Bankruptcy , of obtaining under false pretences large quantities of goods on credit within three months of their bankruptcy , of concealing a portion of their effects , and of feloniously uttering fictitious spelter warrants with intent to cheat and defraud their creditors . The case lias extended over several weeks , the prisoners having been remanded from
time to time for the production of further evidence ; but the chief facts appear in the above statement of the charge . Messrs . Ovcrend , Gurney , and Co ., are great losers by the affair . The forged spelter warrants were placed in their hands , and it has been asserted that they should have made the matter publicly known , but Mr . Edwin James , Q . C ., who attended on their behalf , submitted that the warrants had all the appearance of being genuine , and that it would have been imprudent in his clients to raise a panic in the money market by expressing a suspicion of their validity . The prisoners wore committed for trial upon the bankruptcy charges , but on the other charges were remanded for a week , to enable the City Solicitor to make inquiries with regard to the frauds not connected with the bankruptcy , and to decide whether the City would prosecute or not . bound for the
Riotous " Nawiiss . "—Nine " navvies" Crimea Avere on Thursday remanded tit the Lainbeth police oflice , on a charge of riotous conduct at Penge , near the Crystal Palace . Two policemen were severely wounded , the left arm of one being broken . Kmityi «< j a Pimvatk Hujciai , Guow « i » . _ M r . llonry Jones , the proprietor of a private burial ground called the New liiinliiU Fields Hurinl Ground , won summoned at Clerkenwell on Thursday for having created a nuisnneo by removing the dead bodio * in consequence of the K roun « f having been closed under J , or < l Paliiiorstons act The details given by the witnesses of the horrible stench which infected the surrounding neighbourhood , ¦ mil of tho blttok slimy matter wind * was brought up iron , the graves , were most sickening Mr . . lonoa was lined -lO .-i . and costs .
Letters From Paris. (Extracts From Priva...
LETTERS FROM PARIS . ( Extracts from Private Corretpondence . ') On Saturday last alter Bourse hours , the speculators who uoiiKreimto in front of Tortonl ' a , were suddenly Mui » ed witli « IH »» c- Tuo funds fo 11 r * l /» rtud m
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Leader (1850-1860), June 23, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23061855/page/7/
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