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THE BURNING OF PARKHUBST PRISON. The bur...
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TWO BIGAMY CASES. William Augustus Sheen...
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MISCELLANEOUS. The royal trip to Ostend ...
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Lord John Russell and his family left to...
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A curious accident took place at Lyons d...
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Poacheu3 And Gamekeepers-A Skirmish. A S...
heap of stones which , had been taken off the land , and Barker was immediately assailed by a shower of these dangerous missiles , but he kept his ground and requested them to retire . A simultaneous burst of oaths and threatening was the reply ; and , one having struck him on the neck and another on the shoulder , he thought it prudent to commence the retreat himself . This he was doing very slowly , preserving a sidelook at his antagonists , and he had not got more than twenty or twentyfive yards away from them , when one of the fellows presented his piece , and taking a deliberate aim fired , lodging the contents principally in Barker ' s shoulder and about the armpit , a few shots in the cheek , and one very near the eye . We are glad to be able to add , however , that none of the shot reached a vital part . Immediately on receiving the shot , Barker discharged one of his
barrels at the legs of the gang , who were now making their way in the direction of Chapeltown , but he could not tell whether it took effect or not , as none of the men seemed to halt . None of the gang has yet been traced . Barker ' s wounds are progressing quite favourably . Though in his fifty-seventh year , and labouring under the effects of injuries sustained on former similar occasions , he seems as fearless and determined as ever . In the desperate rencontre between Lord "Wharncliffe's keepers and a band of poachers in the autumn of 1846 , he had a finger and a bone in his shoulder broken , his head laid open , and a knee permanently injured . Fourteen years ago , in a similar engagement , he had several ribs . broken , and was otherwise severely bruised . —Sheffield Times .
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The Burning Of Parkhubst Prison. The Bur...
THE BURNING OF PARKHUBST PRISON . The burning of Parkhurst Prison , on the night of the 30 th ult ., by which one of the wings of that building was totally destroyed , turns out to have been a case of daring incendiarism , as was at first suspected . A lad named Grimes has made the following statement respecting the part which he and others had in the affair . " He was at work on the land on the Tuesday preceding the fire , when Knott , another juvenile convict , showed him a flint and steel , and told him they were going to set fire to the C dormitory . They had previously talked about it , as it would enable them to get out , and it was arranged that he was to do it . Two other
prisoners , named Pcarce and Fortune , were there , they gave him some leaves which they had torn out of the chapel Bibles , prayers , and hymn bocks . These he was to place in the ventilator of his cell , together with some shirts and sheets which they had got concealed , and at twelve o ' clock that night the job was to be done . He attempted to fire the prison that night , but illness prevented him . The next day they again all met , when they drew lots who was to do it . Several pieces of straw were got , and the one that drew the shortest straw was to do it . Knott drew the shortest , but said it was not a fair draw . When they got back to the ward they drew lots again , when it fell to his ( Grimes ' s ) lot . This was on the evening of the 30 th of July . He lay quietly in bed in his cell till twelve o ' clock ; he then got up and climbed \ ip to the ventilator , and having laid in it the sheets and
shirts he ignited some prepared tinder and laid it on them and they instantly blazed up . He had no difficulty in getting out of the cell , having a night or two previously taken one of the buttons off the door . He ran out immediately , and went down stairs to one of the warders ' rooms , calling fire as he went along . Finding the iron gates locked he made his escape from the building by dropping out of the officer ' s window , and held a light of Mr . Naldred ' s while he let the boys out . " The other prisoners have also made voluntary confessions , and all of them confirm Grimes in his statement . Several convicts have been examined . It seems they were aware of the prisoners' plan to fire the prison , but never thought they would have carried it into execution . Some of them were dragged out of the cells by the warders , and appear to have had a truly miraculous escape from being burnt to death . The magistrates have committed five of the prisoners to Winchester Gaol for trial at the next assizes .
Two Bigamy Cases. William Augustus Sheen...
TWO BIGAMY CASES . William Augustus Sheen , aged thirty-four , a welldressed individual , wearing moustaches and an imperial , and described in the calendar as a gentleman , was indicted , at the Central Criminal Court , on Wednesday , for feloniously marrying Mary Whittaker Greene during the lifetime of Cecilia , his wife . The prisoner was said to have married a lady of large fortune , in 1838 , at Dover . She , however , was at the present time residing at Boulogne in an utterly penniless state . In the year
1848 he married a second lady , of a large fortune , who at that time was resident at Paris , and who , having heard , shortly after the marriage had tnken place , that he had another wife living , left him ; and the reason for these proceedings being taken by that lady ' s relatives were his incessant and imperative demands upon her for monoy . At the time of her marriage the second wife had between £ 10 , 000 and £ 15 , 000 . The counsel for the prisoner did not deny the second marriage , but he utterly denied that Mr . Sheen was or had been a fortune hunter . He had never received one
shilling from cither of the women in question ; nor was he in need of it . He had moved in the best circles in London , Paris , ami the Havannah , and his friends were of the highest respectability , and they had always kept him in a position of independence . He complained that an unnecessary degree of harshness had been exhibited on the part of the prosecution , and said the case was not that of a man of years decoying away and marrying a young woman for the sake of her money and then abandoning her , for the second wife was of mature age , and had not been deprived of one sixpence of her money by the prisoner . He was found guilty . Mary Fitzgerald , aged forty-seven , was indicted for feloniously marrying William Bickford , her first husband , William Fitzgerald , being alive . She was first married
in 1824 , at Marylebone . Soon after her marriage Fitzgerald deserted her and became a soldier , and went abroad . In 1842 he returned home , and found his wife living with Bickford , whom she had married in 1831 , and by whom she had five children . The case was put before the jury as a very discreditable one on the part of Bickford , whose object appeared to be to get rid of the prisoner and the children she had had by him . He had not lived with her for some time , and when they became chargeable to the parish , and the parish authorities made a demand upon him for their maintenance , he preferred the present charge against her , and she was apprehended . She was found guilty , but recommended to mercy . The Judge said the most predominant feeling of the court was one of compassion for the prisoner . He sentenced her to seven days' imprisonment in Newgate .
Miscellaneous. The Royal Trip To Ostend ...
MISCELLANEOUS . The royal trip to Ostend was deferred from Tuesday till the following day , on account of the boisterous state of the weather . On Wednesday afternoon , at half-past five , her Majesty and the royal party embarked from Osborne on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert . The Duke of Cambridge left town on Monday morning for Plasnewydd , Anglesea , where the Duchess of Cambridge and the Princess Mary , and the Hereditary Grand Duke and Grand Duchess of Mecklenburgh
Strehtz are at present staying . King Leopold arrived at Ostend on Tuesday evening , in readiness to meet Queen Victoria . The Prince de Joinville and the Princess Clementine , with the children of the latter , arrived the same evening . They took their departure on Wednesday by the steamer for Ramsgate , after a visit which they have been paying to their sister , the Queen of the Belgians , who , it appears , is at present in delicate health , and who will not , therefore , be at Ostend to meet Queen Victoria . King Leopold accompanied his relatives to the steamer , and on this occasion the carriages were not even put in requisition . Their luggage having been sent on before , the whole party walked down to the steamer , the Chemin de Fer , which was then about to embark .
Lord John Russell And His Family Left To...
Lord John Russell and his family left town for the north on Monday . The Premier has taken apartments in Birnam Hotel , near Dunkeld , for a few weeks , during her Majesty ' s sojourn at Balmoral . The communication with Balmoral is by Blairgowrie and Glenshee ; about five hours' ride . There are some inaccuracies in the notice of the will of Sir Robert Peel , which we copied from the Times . The original will recites the settlement of £ 100 , 000 . consols on the occasion of the marriage of the late baronet ; and , subject to the life-interest of Lady Peel , this sum is apportioned among the four younger sons of Sir Robert Peel , or such of them as should attain twentyfive . The omission of the bequest of any annuity to Lady Peel is thus explained . To Lady Peel is left also the use for her life of all the pictures and other property in the mansion in Whitehall-place . By the will also it appears that the late Sir Robert Peel was only tenant for life of the Drayton-manor estates , and these pass under the will of his father . By the codicil of March 24 , 1849 , all the profits which may arise from the publication of his manuscripts are to be applied for the benefit of literary men or for literary objects . The London Correspondent of the Manchester Examiner tells an anecdote of the late Sir Robert Peel , to the effect that when his son Frederick made the successful maiden speech on the Jew Bill , which was so much talked of at the time , the fond and proud Sir Robert presented him with a check for £ 10 , 000 ! It is understood that the three commissioners under the new Ecclesiastical Commission Bill have been nominated . The Crown nominates , as first commissioner , the Earl of Chichester ; the Archbishop of Canterbury nominates the Right Honourable Henry Goulburn , M . P . ; the third commissioner is Mr . John Shaw Lefevre . Prince de Joinville is on a tour in Scotland at present . Arbroath was honoured with a passing visit by him las week . The Prince , whose visit was perfectly private and unostentatious—having only one or two attendantsvisited the ruins of the Abbey , with the inspection of which he expressed himself much delighted . A correspondent of the St . Louis Intelligencer says that Lord Calthorp , Lord Breatley , Lord Cook , and some other English noblemen , are encamped with a swarm of California emigrants of Council Bluffs , Nebraska territory , on their way to the land of gold , all by the way of a summer pleasure jaunt . " Perhaps , " remarks the Tribune , ? ' they'll have enough of it before they get through . " "T . The Opinion Publique has the following : — "Is it known who at this moment inhabits the small house at Brompton , occupied some few months since by M . Guizot ? It is M . Ledru-Rollin . Thus , M . Lcdru-Rollin , an exile , succeeds at Brompton in his house of exile , M . Guizot , whom he succeeded at Paris two years before in the Government . " Dr . Wiseman , who for the last two or three years has officiated as Roman Catholic Bishop of the London district , left town on Friday week , en route for Rome , to discharge the functions of the office of Cardinal , to which he has been recentl y promoted . The last Englishman who was invested with the dignity was the late Cardinal Weld . The much-esteemed President of the Royal Academy , Sir Martin Archer Shec , F . R . S ., died on the 19 th instant , at Brighton , after a long and severe illness , at the venerable age of eighty years . In consequence of certain rumours having been afloat during the last few days to the effect that Mr . Rutherfurd is about to be raised to the bench , several meetings have been held amongst the electors of Leith , at which it has been resolved to invite Admiral Sir Charles Napier to contest the district , in case of a vacancy .
A Waterford paper states that the Reverend Henry Sadleir , nephew of the Provost of Trinity College , Dublin , has been appointed by the Lord-Lieutenant to the vacant deanery . The emoluments are over £ 1200 a-year . Another claimant has appeared for the earldom of Roscommon , in the person of 7 > . Wallace , J ^ sq ., proprietor of the Anglo-Celt Cavan newspaper , who not only entertains strong hopes of succeeding to the vacant coronet , but also of recovering a portion of the estate once attached thereto , and upon which his family had a
rentcharge up to the year 184 £ . Mr . John Gibson is engaged upon the decorations of the triumphal arch which is to be erected on the Berwick bridge , on the occasion of her Majesty ' s visit to the north , and the opening of that splendid structure . Dr . Shelton Mackenzie , author of Mornings at Mattock , and formerly editor of the Liverpool Journal , the Shrewsbury Chronicle , and other provincial journals , has beea appointed , through the influence of Lord Brougham , to the office of official assignee to the Court of Bankruptcy , Manchester .
MM . Halevy and Scribe have been commissioned to write another new opera and libretto for her Majesty ' s Theatre . Mr . Alderman Fox , of Derby , has carried a motion , to provide a gown and chair for the mayor .
A Curious Accident Took Place At Lyons D...
A curious accident took place at Lyons during the stay of Louis Bonaparte in that city . Amongst other illuminations of public edifices , that of the Hotel de Ville ( Mansion-house ) was remarkable for its costliness and taste . On its front were inscribed in fiery letters the words , " Vive la Republique ! " " Vive le President !" when on a sudden the decoration and the scaffolding took fire . All was completely consumed by the flames except the word " Republique , " which remained intact , and continued to shine .
The Emperor of Austria left Vienna , on the 16 th , on his journey to Ischl . He is attended by a numerous retinue , but General Count Grunne is his only companion . During the Sovereign ' s absence the collective ministry will remain in Vienna , with the exception of one of its members , who will join the Emperor at Ischl . No individual of the imperial family is now left at Schonbrunn . The Emperor of Russia has just purchased for 560 , 000 f , the celebrated Barbarigo Gallery , Venice , which contains , among other chefs d ' osuvre of the great masters , seventeen Titians , and the famous portraits of the Doge Barbarigo , of Philippe II ., & c . On the extinction of the Barbarigo family , the proprietors of the gallery offered it to the Viceroy , the Archduke Regnier , who caused it to be sent to Vienna . There it remained for several years , and at last , in 1842 , the Austrian Government declined
to purchase it . The King of Greece is about to visit his parents and relations in Bavaria , after an absence of fourteen years . A Regency is to be appointed , presided over by the Queen , until his Majesty shall return . The King of Denmark ' s morganatic marriage with Lola Rasmussen was celebrated by the Bishop of Jutland . Mademoiselle Rasmussen was formerly a milliner , and was well known to the Copenhagen corps of officers ; she then became acquainted with the King , and has now been raised to the rank of Baroness Danner . She has great influence over the King—persons well informed state that she exercises her influence in the revolutionary Danish sense , and was the person that induced the King to make such sudden concessions to the Casino Club in
the Copenhagen revolution of 1848 . This marriage is so far important that it confirms the extinction of the Royal House of Denmark . On this ground the Ministry opposed the Union till the London protocol was signed ; this done , the marriage was to the interest of Russia . The Hamburg Nachrichten says that in the last Cabinet Council the King expressed his determination that as soon as the succession to the Throne should be fixed , which he hoped would be within a month , he would abdicate , and resign the throne to his successor . Prince Carini , the Neapolitan Ambassador at the court of Madrid , having solemnly protested to General
Narvaez that the marriage of Count de Montemolin with a Neapolitan princess was prompted by no political motives , General Narvaez suddenly produced a copy of the marriage contract , the terms of which had been kept a secret by the court of Naples , and which , therefore , could only have been procured from some person intimately connected with it . In this contract the Count de Monteraolin is styled Charles VI ., King of Spain and of the Indies . Prince Carini appeared thunderstruck , and immediately wrote to his court , stating the circumstance , which caused great astonishment and
displeasure . M . Charles Dupin , in his capacity of President of the French committee for the Exhibition of 1851 , has addressed a voluminous paper of suggestions to the manufacturers and producers of France , advising them as to the best means of successfully competing with us . It behoves our committee to rival the commendable activity of our French neighbours . The celebrated romancist , M . do Balzac , died on Monday . He was buried on Wednesday with all the honours due to his name and fame . General Jung Bahadoor , Prime Minister of Nepaul , and Ambassador to the Court of London , has arrived in
Paris . A letter from Strasbourg states that the Princess Stephanie proposes to join the President . of the Republic there , and to remain during his stay . Musical and dramatic ceremonies in inauguration of the statue of Herder will take place at Weimar towards the close of this month . On the 24 th will be represented at the theatre the " Prometheus Unbound , " with overture and choruses by M . Liszt . On tho 25 th , after the inauguration of the statue , Handel's " Messiah " will be performed in the cathedral , where Herder used to preach , and where he lies buried . On the 28 th will be given at
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 24, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24081850/page/7/
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