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the 26 th December , 1848 , the deceased was turned out of a public house in Cambridge for being drunk and disorderly ; and was found the next morning dead in a ditch adjoining the premises . Upon the inquest evidence was given that the deceased was " turned out of the public-house at eleven o ' clock , drunk , " and the following verdict was returned—" Pound drowned and suffocated in a certain ditch ; but how the deceased came by his death no evidence to prove . " The minister of the parish felt that , under all the circumstances of the case , he could not read the burial service over the
body without causing a public scandal . After much deliberation the son of the deceased agreed to have the body buried in the Dissenters' burying-ground , upon the condition ( offered to him an 4 accepted by him with thanks ) that the minister would defray all the expenses of the interment , together with other considerable charges . Notwithstanding this agreement , which the son never retracted , some other persons on the Sunday morning required the minister to bury the body at two o'clock on that day , which he then refused to do . The body was brought to the churchyard at the hour mentioned , taken back again , and buried elsewhere on the following day .
Proceedings , in consequence of Mr . JJodd s refusal , were instituted in the Court of Arches , not , as it is stated , by the son of the deceased , but by another person . After sixteen months * delay , Mr . Dodd has been condemned to suspension and to payment of the costs of the suit .
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THE CHURCH MOVEMENT . Mrs . Wilberforce , daughter of the late Reverend John Owen , of Fulham , and wife of the eldest brother of the Bishop of Oxford , has been received into the Church of Rome . — Church and State Gazette . The statement we are about to make seems very improbable , but for the accuracy of our informant , so far as facts come from him , we are ready to vouch . A gentleman was visiting last week in the North of England amongst highly-respectable Roman Catholic families , when he met some leading Romish clergymen , who were
speaking with the utmost confidence of the Bishop of Exeter being about to secede to the Roman Catholic Church , and , on his expressing very great doubts as to the probability of such an event , he was assured that the Reverend J . H . Newman , the well-known Oxford convert to Rome , and . who has a ministerial charge in that neighbourhood , had that morning left Torquay on a visit , by invitation , to the Bishop . Of course Mr . Newman may pay a visit to the Bishop , and the Bishop have no idea of going over to Rome ; still there is a startling significance about such a conjunction at this time . —Bristol
Times . The Reverend W . Maskell was received on Saturday into the Roman Catholic Church at the chapel in Spanishplace .
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A LITERARY THIEF . Much interest has been excited in the literary and scientific circles of Paris by the disclosures recently made in corroboration of the charge brought against M . Libri , a well-known savant , a member of the Institute , and a professor of the College of France , of having committed extensive thefts of valuable manuscripts and books in the public libraries of France . Ever since the charge was first made , M . Libri has strenuously protested his innocence , and has been warmly defended by a large portion of the press . Shortly after the revolution of February he deemed it necessary to seek refuge in this country . The investigation of the charges against
him was , however , proceeded with , and sufficient proof of his guilt having , in the opinion of the law officers , been obtained , an indictment was preferred . M . Libri not having surrendered on this indictment , the Court of Assizes on Saturday proceeded to try him par contumace . The indictment charged him with having , in 1842 , taken away several precious books and manuscripts from the public library of Carpentras , with having sent them to Italy to be bound and prepared in Italian style , and with having sold them in London—one for as much as 6000 f . One of these manuscripts was that of Dante ' s Bivina Commedia . The indictment further charged him with having taken away 150 valuable manuscripts and
autographs from the Bibhotheque Mazarine . At 'Iroyes , nineteen Italian works of the middle ages disappeared after he had visited the library . At Grenoble , six works of a similar character were taken by him . At Montpellier he also committed thefts of books , and he attempted to prevent them from being discovered by placing worthless books or inferior editions in the room of those he took away . From the same library he also took a good many of the letters of Queen Christina . From the Institute of Paris a great number of letters of Charles VII ., Charles VIII ., Francis I ., and the whole correspondence of Henry IV . with his wife , were , it was alleged , taken away by the accused , together with a number of letters o ( other distinguished historical
personages . The manuscripts of Leonard de Vinci , which are of such great value as to be only shown to persons specially authorized , were placed in his hands ; and sixty-six sheets of them were subsequently ascertained to be missing . The indictment further alleged that many of the books and manuscripts stolen from the different libraries were sold by M . Libri ; and that the others were preserved in his library . This library is estimated to be worth the vast stun of 600 , 000 f . ( £ 24 , 000 ) ; and , the indictment showed that M . Libri ' s regular pecuniary iesouroers ( the principal of which was his professorship of 4000 f . u-year at the College de France ) were totally insufficient to enable him to purchase such a collection , especially at the rate at which he lived . When he came
to France in 1830 , he was , added the indictment , in such distress , that his mother wrote to him that he did right to be economical , even of his sous . In his house it was further said that he had a number of instruments for scratching out marks , stamping , binding , &c , manuscripts and books . The court condemned M . Libri by default to ten years' imprisonment . This sentence , which is what the French law calls a peine afflictive et infamante , consists in strict confinement with hard labour in a house of correction ; it also carries with it deprivation of civic rights . —[ In a letter to the Times of yesterday M . Libri asserts his innocence , and promises to prove " utter groundlessness of the charges" brought against him . ]
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NATURAL HISTORY . A singular combat between two robins is related by Mr . Crosse , of Somersetshire , as having been witnessed by him , many years since , at his residence , at Broomfield : — " Attached to a house just opening into a pitched court-yard , is a room furnished with two windows , one of which is grated and open , and the other is glazed . Through this open window , robins and other small birds were in the habit of passing into the room , which , being kept generally undisturbed , and the door locked , afforded them an occasional refuge from the inclemency of the weather . At times you might see two robins , one being within and the other without the room , pecking at each other , with the glazed window between , and with their had
seemingly much amused play . One day I occasion in the summer time to look for something in this room , and accompanied by one of my sons , I unlocked the door with the intention of entering , when two robins , which were both within the apartment , being disturbed , fled out through the open grated window , and then making a circuit through the air , pitched together on the ground of the court on which we were standing , and at about ten yards distance from us . They then , apparently , commenced a most furious fight with each other , and shortly one of them fell on his back , stretched out his legs , and seemed perfectly dead . The other instantly seized him by the back of the head , and dragged him several times round and round a circle of seven or eight feet in diameter . My son , with a view to for
stop their savage amusement , was about to spring - ward , when I gently arrested him , to see the issue . Much to my astonishment , after being dragged a few rounds , the fallen and apparently dead , bird sprang up with a bound , and his antagonist fell in his turn upon his back , and stretched out both his legs with consummate adroitness , in all the mock rigidity of death , and his late seemingly dead opponent in like manner seized him ^ by the head , and after dragging him a few rounds in imitation of Achilles dragging Hector round the walls of Troy , they both sprang up and flew away . I have 6 een strange sights in my life , in which birds and beasts have been the actors , but none equal to this . How little do we know of their habitudes , and more especially of those who sport together during the night , when their tyrant masters are at rest . "
" A person in Largo , " says the Northern Warder , " who had heard it affirmed that rats would disinhabit premises where a goat was kept , had the curiosity to try the experiment , though with but little faith in the recommended antidote . Accordingly one of these longbearded mountaineers was procured , and lodged in the premises , when , unexpectedly , the long-tailed , ugly , devouring vermin suddenly decamped . The goat has been kept for many months , and nothing in the shape of a rat is now seen near the premises . Some may be apt to class this affair among the ridiculous , but we have been told it is a reality ; and surely this mode of making rats flit is as simple as it is singular . "
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RIOT AT DUNFERMLINE . For the last few days great excitement has been occasioned in the western district of Fife , by certain outrageous proceedings , which have assumed so alarming an aspect as to induce the civil authorities to apply for military aid . On Saturday evening last , about eleven o ' clock , a band of ' navvies , " armed with bludgeons and knives , made a savage and unprovoked attack on some of the inhabitants of Dunfermline , several of whom were severely injured—one , it is feared , fatally— - from a stab in the neck and fracture of the skull . "Ultimately the navvies were overpowered , and eleven of
them lodged in gaol . Again , on Sunday evening , two men were attacked and stabbed , in the suburbs of Baldrigeburn . The feelings of the townspeople had now become much exasperated , and a certain class resolved on summary retaliation . Accordingly , about ten o ' clock on Monday morning , a mob of four hundred or five hundred , principally very young men and boys , paraded the streets , vowing to send all the Irish out of the town , and , proceeding to the Irishmen ' s lodgings , turned them summarily out of doors , giving them time only to take their clothes with them . Only one man , we betownsmen
lieve , resisted , having struck at one of the with an axe , and cut open his arm , for which he was severely punished by a dreadful blow from a bludgeon , which laid his scalp open . The mob having proceeded to the works of the Stirling and Dunfermline Railway , about a dozen men were marched thence , and the whole paraded through the town for the purpose of being sent across the Forth at Queensferry . A gentleman who left Dunfermline on Monday afternoon saw from forty to fifty at North Queensferry , where the sheriff and fiscal had proceeded , and managed to protect them from any ill usage . A company of the Thirteenth Light Dragoons at uiuun **
passed inrougn n . cunourgu uuveu u . « u . « .. « - » night , to aid the civil authorities , as it was apprehended that the populace would rise against the Irish weavers and colliers in the district , of whom there are a good many . It was also feared that about 300 navvies who are employed on the Comrio section of the railway , would march in to aid their countrymen . — Edinburgh Adv * r-User ,
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( From the Morning Chronicle of Friday . ) We regret exceedingly to be called on to announce another cowardly and apparently meaningless attack upon her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen . The circumstances attendant upon the affair have been thus narrated to the reporter by eye-witnesses of the outrage : —About twenty minutes after sis o ' clock last evening , her Majesty the Queen , accompanied by three of the royal children , and
Viscountess Jbcelyn , lady in waiting , left Cambridge House , Piccadilly , on her return to Buckingham Palace . A crowd of persons had assembled without the court-yard gates to witness her Majesty ' s departure , and , as the royal carriage passed out of the gates , an individual respectably dressed , and about six feet two inches high , advanced two or three paces , and with a small black cane which he held in his hand , struck a sharp blow- at the Queen .
The blow took effect upon her Majesty ' s head , on the right side , and her bonnet , which was of a light texture , was driven in by its fowje ; though the only other visible effect for the moment was that it caused her Majesty to raise her hand and rearrange her bonnet . The act was witnessed by a great many persons , amongst whom , it caused much sensation ; and several individuals instantly rushed forward and seized the miscreant . Mr . James Summers , in the
employ of Messrs . Ordway , of 159 , Piccadilly , was the first to collar the fellow , but several others immediately rushed forward ; and one individual , whose loyal feelings were greatly outraged by the occurrence , dealt the miscreant a sound blow inthe face , which drew blood from his nose in copious streams . Others of the mob expressed great anxiety to exercise Lynch law upon the rascal , but the timely arrival of Sergeant Silver , of the C division of police , protected him from further violence , and he was speedily conveyed to the Yine-street police station .
As we have stated , her Majesty betrayed no feeling of alarm , and immediately drove on , up Piccadilly , on her return to Buckingham Palace , the spectators cheering her loudly as she passed along . When the prisoner was brought to Vine-street station , he was conducted before Inspector Whall , the officer on duty , who received the charge ; On being asked his name , he replied without hesitation , Robert Pate , " describing himself as a retired lieutenant of the 10 th Hussars , and adding that he resided at 27 , Duke-street , St . James ' s . The prisoner was asked what he had to say to the charge . He replied that it was true he had struck her Majesty a ha
slight blow with a thin stick , but he added emptically , in allusion to the witnesses , «« Those men cannot prove whether I struck her head or her bonnet . " The prisoner was then conducted in charge of two officers to one of the police cells , the charge being entered upon the police-sheet as follows : — *• Robert Pate , aged forty-three , retired lieutenant , charged with assaulting her Majesty the Queen , by striking her on the head with a cane , in Piccadilly , at 6 . 20 p . m ., on Thursday , the 27 th inst . " Upon being searched there was found upon the prisoner two keys and a pocket handkerchief . No money or weapon of any kind was discovered .
In order to correct an erroneous impression , it may be as well to state that the stick with which the miscreant struck the blow was not thicker than an ordinary goose-quill , measured only two feet two inches in length , and weighed less than three ounces . Her Majesty s appearance within two hours in the royal box at the Covent-garden Italian Opera proves that the personal injury sustained was , happily , not
serious . . , _ . „ __ After the offender had been placed in a cell , Mr . Otway despatched Mr . Inspector Field , the chief officer of the detective force , to search his lodgings . Mr . Field ascertained that the prisoner had lodged on the third floor ( an elegant suite of apartments ) of 27 , Duke-street , during the last two years and a half ; that he was a man of regular habits , and paid his bills with great punctuality . His father was described to be a man of large property at Wisbeach , where he formerly carried on business as an extensive corn-factor . ..... _
A reference to " Hart's Army List" shows that the prisoner entered her Majesty ' s service as a cornet , by purchase , on the 5 th of February , 1841 . He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant on the 22 nd of July , 1842 , and retired by sale of his commission a short time previously to the embarkation of the regiment for India in 1846 .
( From the Court Circular . ') After the attack on her Majesty on leaving the gate of Cambridge House , the Viscountess Jocelyn returned from Buckingham Palace to her lioyal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge , and * the Itoyal Duchess proceeded to Buckingham Palace to make enquiry after the health of her Majesty , Lord John ltusseil arrived at the Palace from the House of Commons after the Queen's return , and had an audience of her Majesty .
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ATTACK UPON THE aiTEEN .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 29, 1850, page 319, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1844/page/7/
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