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Ashby was the talk of the island , but he had no reason to believe that the latter knew that till the week before he left Madeira . On the day before his departure he came to Sir William Cockburn , and told him how miserable he had become from having been the happiest of men before his acquaintance with Mr . Stanhope . He had discovered that morning that Mr . Stanhope had taken his passage by the same ship in which himself and wife and her brother were going . Sir William Cockburn advised him to act like a man—to forfeit his and his wife ' s passage , and let Mr . Stanhope go . Mr . Ashby replied that he would , but she overpowered him , ' so infatuated was she with love" for that person that she would , in spite of him , go in whatever ship he went . The result was that they went next morning all in the
same ship for Cadiz . It was in the course of that voyage that Mr . Ashby one day , as he was walking in the cabin , picked up a pocket-book containing a letter which made him declare that he would never Hve with her again , and accordingly he sent her home from Cadiz in company with her brother , and on their arriving at Southampton Mrs . Ashby absconded from the hotel and went to live * with Mr . Scudamore Stanhope . The following is a copy of the letter : — " My Berth , Sunday morning .
" My own , own , own , for ever doated on , idolised , treasured , treasured , treasured Henry—I am in a fright , love , and consequently have had not one wink of sleep all the weary night through , and feel very queer , and more excited . I have been all but obliged , my own precious doated on darling , to have a regular open row with that brute this morning , as he is now putting on a sort of quizzing , triumphant air with me , as if he thought now that you , my own idolized love , were tiring of me , and shaking me off , and as if his turn for paying me off was coming . Darling , darling , darling Henry , ray blessing and treasure , tell me what I shall do . I do give it him in
every possible way , and stick up to him well ; but , darling one , if I tell him , as I long to do , that I am yours , darling , and yours only , now and for ever , in all and in every way , he will be locking me up , my own blessing , at Cadiz and Seville , to keep me from you ; or , dearest , dearest love , using some brute force or other , which will undo my daily increasing queer feelings and suspicions . Henry , love of loves , best and most precious of treasures , I could have murdered him last night and this morning ; and , as it is , I do not believe , my own precious love , 1 can bear his present horrid taunting way . "
Sir William Cockburn was examined at considerable length by Lord Brougham , in order to ascertain whether Mr . Ashby had acted with due carefulness towards his wife , or whether he had not unwarrantably thrown her into the society of Mr . Stanhope . From the evidence given it did not appear that Mr . Ashby had been at all to blame in that respect . Lord Brougham himself , at the close of the examination , was pleased to say that , although there was reason to believe that Mr . Ashby had acted with too much leniency towards Mrs . Ashby , it had been shown that he possessed great affection for her , and that he had been deterred from adopting a harsh course of proceeding from the fear that he should by those means at once drive her into the arms of her
lover . . On the motion of Lord Brougham , the Divorce Bill was read a second time , and ordered to be committed .
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In the Court of Queen ' s Bench , on Tuesday , Mr . Crompton opened the pleadings in the crim . con . case of Tayleur versus Lord Arthur Lennox . The Attorney-General was about to commence his address to the jury , on behalf of the plaintiff , when Mr . Hugh Hill , who appeared on behalf of Lord Arthur Lennox , the defendant , said that , as the inquiry would , if gone into , be painful to many parties , he had to suggest that he was ready to submit to a verdict for the plaintiff , with £ 500 damages . The Attorney-General having consented to this proposition , Lord Campbell directed the jury accordingly , and a verdict for the plaintiff was returned—damages , £ 500 . Lord Dunboyne ' s case , which has now been in litigation for some time , has at length been settled , in the Court of Queen ' s Benchbefore Lord Campbell and a
, special jury . Lord Dunboyne , who is eighty years of nRe , was privately married to Mrs . Vaughan , a widow , in 1842 , and again publicly married in 1843 , on which occasion he described himself as a " widower , " and Mrs . Vaughan as a ' widow , " contrary to the Marriage Act of William IV ., they being actually " man and wife . " The charge was that he had willfully made this ( also state , mcrnt for tho purpose of its being inserted in the marriage register . The defence urged was , that the second marrinKe could not be registered at all , unless " after that fashion ; " and Lord Campbell left the jury at liberty to find a verdict of " Not Guilty , " if they were persuaded that the defendant had been actuated by good motives . " After a fow minutes' consultation they returned a verdict of Not Guilty .
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Henry Page , a master bricklayer , was brought before Mr . Klliott , at Lnmbrth Police-office , on Monday , on a singular chaise of bigamy . Henry Clarke , plasterer , said he had known the prisoner for the last twenty or twenty-five years , and until within two years past they had been intimate friends . Within the last two years his ( Clarke ' s ) wife had been in the habit of absenting herself from her home for a night , or two at a time , and on one occasion us long as three weeks . Last Wednesday evening she left her home , and he did not sec her again
until Friday , when she returned quite mad , and it was with some difficulty that she could be restored ; and when she became more composed she burst into tears , and said , " You may thank my uncle and Henry Page for this . " A doctor was called in , and on Sunday night , having become a good deal better , she called him toner side , and said , " I have got a great burden on my mind . I was married to Page at Poplar Church on the 10 th of February , 1848 . " In answer to the magistrate he said his wife was quite in her right mind when she made this statement . He had been married to her eight years , and had suspected an improper intimacy between her and the prisoner during the last two years , from finding them drinking invariabl
together frequently . On these occasions he y gave Page a sound thrashing . Donald Briens , a policeman , said that about ten o ' clock , on Monday morning , the prisoner was given into his charge by Clarke , and , having been informed of the nature of the charge , he went to the doctor who is attending the prosecutor ' s wife , and learnt from him that Mrs . Clarke was labouring under the effect of some poisonous substance taken by her . He subsequently saw Mrs . Clarke , who told him that she had been married to the prisoner , who had given her some poisonous substance in some tea at a coffeeshop near Newington Church . She also expressed her willingness to attend and give evidence against the prisoner , but was in too weak a state to do so .
Page , who is a married man and whose wife is living , when asked what he had to say , declared that the whole statement was untrue , and that he had not seen Mrs . Clarke for months . On Wednesday the wife of Clarke was so far recovered as to be able to appear as a witness . She stated that she had been along with Page on Thursday week , and that he wanted her to leave the country along with him . She consented , and went away to get her clothes . On her way home she became very ill , and was out of her senses she ascribed to
till next day . This illness some poisonous drug which she accused the prisoner of having given her ; but , as it appeared that she had drunk a considerable quantity of ale and beer , and two glasses of gin , her illness may be accounted for without supposing that any other deleterious mixture had been administered . The charge of poisoning having broken down , Mrs . Clarke was placed in the dock along with the prisoner , on the charge of bigamy , of which it seemed clear that they had both been guilty , but , as the evidence was not deemed conclusive , they were remanded for a week .
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THE PRESS LAW IN PRUSSIA . The new restrictive press law in Prussia is being carried out with severe activity both in Berlin and in the provinces . Instructions have been issued to refuse transport to several democratic journals , among them the Berlin National , Abendpost , Vrwahler , and four or five of similar tendencies , as well as others published at Potsdam , Spandau , Konigsberg , Liegnitz , Glogau , Griinberg , Hamm , Arnsberg , Soest , &c , in all eighteen or twenty . The police have also received notice to prevent the distribution of such
Berlin journals as are forbidden to be circulated , a duty which the constables do not always perform with the moderation required by their orders . A circular of the police president , published June 16 th , reminds all book and printsellers , antiquarians , proprietors of circulating libraries , venders of flying sheets , pictures , prints , lithographic establishments , &c , that a special license for carrying on business is required of them , according to the 48 th article of the law of 17 th January , 1845 . All persons concerned are , therefore , required to provide themselves with such permits on or before the 1 st of July next . this
As another instance of the rigour with which press edict is enforced , the Constitutional states that a gentleman , a Government officer , was walking quietly about the gardens before the gates of the city reading a number of that paper . Just as he had finished reading , and had transferred the paper to his pocket , he was stopped by a constable , who demanded the immediate surrender of the National The gentleman denied that he had a National about him ; the policeman insisted that his eyesight had not deceived him , declared that he had been ordered to confiscate all papers read in the streets , and compelled the gentleman by threats of force to produce
the paper , and thereby showed that he ( the policeman ) had deceived himself . The gentleman in question endeavoured to procure some kind of apology , but in vain . The President of Police has notified to the publisher of the Constitutional that this story is partly incorrect . He appears to be ashamed of the affair , expresses his disapprobation of the conduct of his subordinate , and declares that no orders have been given by him for such proceedings . The letter concludes by stnting that a prosecution will bo instituted against the Constitutional for casting the suspicion on tho police of transgressing the law in their measures against the press .
According to the latest accounts , tho proprietors and editors of the public journals arc about to hold a meeting to deliberate upon the measures that should be adopted in tho present crisis of their affairs . To continue their labours under the repressive system was deemed by most of them to be both dangerous and ruinous . Tho suppression by tho police of the mechanics unions continues , together with the examination of the members of those which have already been suppressed . The police are not yet satisfied of the
nonexistence of the vast political conspiracies which have troubled their digestion and nightly repose since the late attempt on the King ' s life .
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INDIA . The last overland mail has not brought any political news of importance . Two or three mutinies are , indeed , reported , but these are of so frequent occurrence that they excite little interest . In the Punjaub it is said that robberies attended with violence or murder have become so frequent that it was considered necessary a few severe examples should be made of those convicted of these offences , and accordingly a number of the culprits had been hung at Lahore in the end of April . Respecting the outbreak in the gaol at Agra , we find some additional particulars in the Bombay papers : —
" It appears that amongst the inmates of the Agra gaol there were three hundred Sikh prisoners , collected from various parts of the Punjaub . A quarrel occurred between a Sikh and a Sepoy : the latter struck the former—others joined in the fray , when the guard without , attracted by the clamour , turned out and fired on the tumultuous mass . The prisoners , either wishing to shelter themselves from the fire , or to make their escape , rushed for the wicket , which they endeavoured to force .
Failing this , they seem to have thought it best to return to their cells . In attempting this they were again fired on , and seventy-five were either killed or wounded , —the soldiers of the guard not having suffered the slightest injury . The firing lasted about an hour , —the Sepoys discharging their muskets into the cells when all power of resisting or assailing them was over . Mr . Dennison , in his report to Government , states that the firing at the outset was perfectly uncalled for : the loss of life afterwards occasioned , he considered a merciless massacre . "
The Bombay Telegraph narrates a case of female immolation , or suicide from superstitious motives , a ceremony which is now becoming somewhat rare : — " The suttee occurred at a village about twenty miles from the Cutcherry . The husband was an old man upwards of sixty years , and the unfortunate woman quite young , say twenty-two or twenty-three . The patell of the village came in to the collector to give information that such an event was to be apprehended , and expressed a wish to have a guard sent with him to prevent the sacrifice . The guard was given to the man at once , who returned immediately and with all despatch , but found on his arrival at the village , that the woman ' s object had
been effected in his absence , and all that remained was a heap of ashes . All who were known to have been present at the suttee were apprehended and tried by the district judge . Nineteen or twenty were sentenced to various terms of imprisonment , from ten to two years . I heard the whole case , and blame could be attached to no one . The scene of the tragedy is an out-of the-way place , and the patell did all in his power to prevent it . No one seems to have advised the woman—it was her own act , dictated and carried through of her own free will . The parties were all of low caste ; the husband of the woman was a spurious Brahmin , a * id by no stretch of the Hindoo law , or rather traditions , could have been entitled to such a sacrifice on the part of his widow . "
A case of Thuggism is related m the Delhi Gazette . It appears that amongst the missing after the battle of Moodkee was Lieutenant Broekman , of her Majesty ' s 50 th Regiment . He was expected to overtake his regiment on the eve of battle , but did not . It is now discovered that he was waylaid and murdered by a party of Thugs , one of whom has confessed the crime , given the particulars , and pointed out the position of the unfortunate officer ' s remains , which have been identified by the presence of some regimental buttons . The 50 th having returned to England , the Quarter-Master-General has written home to the corps with a view to obtain such information relating to the affair as may throw light upon certain unexplained circumstances connected with it .
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THE AMERICAN MARAUDERS . The papers by the Europa steam-ship , which arrived on Sunday , bring further particulars regarding the disgraceful marauding expedition against Cuba . It appears that the American authorities are either not very able or not very willing to punish the pirates . The grand jury at New York charged with the investigations relative to the connection of persons with the Cuban invasion , have reported that no evidence has been presented to them sufficient for the indictment of any person in that city . A correspondence is said to have passed between Mr .
Clayton and the Spanish Minister relative to the imprisonment of certain Americans at Havannah upon unfounded suspicion of connivance with the invaders ; and also with respect to the forced enlistment of Americans into the Cuban " volunteer" bands . The Spanish Minister assured Mr . Clayton that the course which would be pursued by the authorities at Cuba would be such as could give no cause of complaint to the Cabinet of the United States , and that no Ameiican citizen should be imprisoned or put to death , unless on ample proof being given of tho violation of the laws of Spain , Cuba , and also of tho
United States . Tho Spanish Minister has remonstrated against the refusal of the American authorities at Key West to deliver up the money which the invaders had taken . Tho Spanish , commander had demanded the surrender
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Leader (1850-1860), June 22, 1850, page 294, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1843/page/6/
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