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deck abaft the gangway was blown overboard , and the bulk-head fittings , cabin , &c , were torn to fragments , and scattered in all directions . Four nuMi were on board at the time , two of whom were seriously injured , and one was drowned . Had the accident happened fifteen or twenty minutes later , above 200 persons would have been on board , and the loss of life must have been tremendous . The company returned home disappointed of their journey , but highly grateful for their miraculous
deliverance . Mr . J . Loyd , Baptist preacher , of St . Clare ' s , having found his house infested with rats , borrowed a doublebarrelled gun of a neighbour for the purpose of destroying them . On Friday he was proceeding to clean the lock , being ignorant of the fact that one of the barrels was loaded , when the gun went off , and the whole charge passed through the heart of Mrs . Loyd , who was standing by witnessing the operation . The unfortunate lady died almost instantly leaving a family of children to mourn her loss .
A boy named Joseph Jewell , about fifteen years old , whose parents reside in George-street , Ratcliff , committed suicide on Sunday morning , at half-past one o ' clock , by throwing himself from the parapet of London-bridge . His parents say they can assign no reason for his committing this rash act . Ernest Charles Jones , the Chartist , whose period of imprisonment expired on Tuesday , entered into the required sureties to keep the peace for four years , and was liberated .
A short , stout , and gross-featured Italian , who passes as the Count Sevirius Bertola , and as Giovita Lazzarini , the ex-Minister of Grace and Justice to the Roman Republic , was brought before Mr . Burreli at Westminster Police-office yesterday week , by Horsford , the noted Mendicity officer , charged with endeavouring to obtain charitable contributions from Earl Fitzwilliam , under pretence of being the Giovita Lazzarini above alluded to . The prisoner said he was the Count Bertola , and he had never represented himself as Giovita Lazzarini . He was remanded to Thursday .
The " determined Chartist , " as he calls himself , who was charged with using seditious language in a publichouse , last week , was brought up at Guildhall on Wednesday , when he still declined to give any account of himself . Mr . Raven , from the office of Mr . Maule , Solicitor to the Treasury , attended , and said that the desire of the Secretary of State was that he should be bound over to keep the peace in sufficient securities . The prisoner , who entered into a rambling statement , said he was anxious to serve out the aristocracy , that he would think no more of killing 500 persons than he would of killing a fly , and that he should take time to consider the proposition as to finding bail , was removed in custody .
Samuel Hickson , a young man , who was brought up at Marylebone , on Thursday , charged with robbing his master , a hatter , in Camden-town , of £ 3 14 s ., told a marvellous story of the way in which the money had been taken from him . He had been sent with some goods to a lady , on Friday , the 14 th ult ., and his master had given him £ 3 14 s ., in order that he might , if required , give change for a £ 5 note . He delivered the property to the lady , and on his way home , as he . was passing the Camrlen-road Villas , he was accosted by a flower-girl , who asked him to purchase a nosegay . He declined to do so , telling her he did not want anything of the sort , but she thrust the flowers to his nose , when he
suddenly became insensible , and , on consciousness being restored , he found himself quite naked in a bed in a most miserable apartment . There was a man there , who said to him , " So you are not dead yet ? " and on his begging that he might be liberated the man said , "No , we have not quite done with you . " He was kept secured in the room until Thursday week , when two men and three women brought him down stairs and put him into a court , and he then found that he was near the Southwark-bridge-road ; the money had been taken from him , and the robbery was of course effected while he was in a state of stupefaction . The magistrate did not seem to place much reliance on this romantic narrative , and , as it turned out that Hickson had robbed his master on
previous occasions , he was committed for trial . Henry Page , a bricklayer , and Emma Clark were inflicted for bigamy at the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday . Page was placed at the bar first , when the registers of the marriages having been proved , the prisoner Clark was placed in the witness box , when she was sworn , and said , she knew the prisoner Page , but was never married to him in any church ; upon which the Judge stopped the case , and he was acquitted . Emma Clark was then placed in the dock , when similar evidence was adduced respecting the two marriages ; but the jury , after a short consultation , returneda verdict of "Not Ciuilty . " .. . „ .,
The news of a very serious robbery , in Southampton , was n-ceived , by electric telegraph , on Thursday . The burglary was committed on the premises of Mr . Ernanuel , pawnbroker and silversmith , and the property stolen consisted of silver and gold watches , gold rings Hnd chains , gold and silver tankards , silver spoons , 8 ih-nrs , and various other articles of plate and jewellery , Of the value altogether of between £ 800 aid £ 1000 . Miortly alter the execution of the Mannings all the property found on the convicts and in Scotland , and the railway shares , were delivered over to the Crown , to be flis |» oscd of . That portion belonging to the murdered man was paid to his relatives , and the remainder , which was clearly established to be the property of Manning and his wife , was retained until some settlement ould lie made respecting the expenses of their defence . Mr . Binns , the solicitor for Manning , and Mr . Solomons , the tune
solicitor for his wife , received instructions some ago to send in their respective accounts , and last week letters were sent to them , requesting their attendance at the Treasury . On Saturday these gentlemen had an interview with Mr . Maule , and received payment of their
accounts , but much reduced in amount . The other property has been handed over to Manning ' s relatives . There are 100 , 000 persons enrolled in burial societies in Liverpool : one-third of the entire population . So bright have the nights been of late in the far north , that any evening during the last fortnight small newspaper print could be read in the open air in Caithness after a quarter past eleven o ' clock . At Wick , a few evenings ago , a newspaper was read distinctly at midnight . The geographical position of Wick is betwixt the 58 th and 59 th degrees of north latitude .
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The Legitimist Parliamentary Club has pronounced against the prolongation of the government of Louis Napoleon beyond the time fixed by the Constitution . The Moniteur publishes a decree of the President of the Republic , dismissing thirty-six legal functionaries in the departments , and appointing others in their place . The bill for a credit of 50 , 000 f . to the French Minister of Agriculture and Commerce for the expenses relative to the great London exhibition of 1851 , has been adopted by 562 votes against 18 . At the opening of the French Assembly on Friday , M . Dupin , the President , having expressed great sympathy and regret at the death of Sir Robert Peel , passed a high encomium upon his public character , particularly with reference to his conduct towards France , which sentiments received a ready response on the part of all present . The speech of the honourable President was ordered to be placed on the minutes of the House .
The first number of the Proscrit , the new journal of Ledru Rollin and Mazzini , was seized in Paris before distribution . It is said that proceedings have been taken in the French Courts by the Duke of Brunswick to recover from the President of the French Republic the sum of £ 10 , 000 . Rumour further states that , when the Prince President was a prisoner at Ham , some of the officials offered to connive at his escape on receipt of £ 10 , 000 , that the prince wrote to all his friends in France and England , and finally obtained it from the duke , whom he now refuses to pay . _ _ . _
_ A journeyman hatter , named Benoit , a Socialist troubadour , was sentenced on Saturday by the Court of Assize of Paris to a year ' s imprisonment and 500 f . fine for writing , publishing , and singing a song insulting to the President of the Republic , entitled Les Massacreurs . An old French soldier has presented to the Hotel des Invalides the ball which killed the great Turenne , the candlesticks which lighted his tent , and his equestrian statue in gold and silver . all the of the
Two audacious thieves stole copper tops gas lamps on the Quai des Tournelles , from the Rue de Bievre to the Pont Marie on Saturday night ; one of the men ascended with a ladder , and another placed the stolen articles in a light cart . A sergeant de ville , who came up , asked the thieves what they were about . "Oh ! " said they , " these things have got out of fashion , and they are about to be changed ! " The officer went away , and the thieves quietly continued their
depredations . A woman named Segard was guillotined at Nancy on the 8 th , for having poisoned her husband and three Letters from Rome of the 1 st instant state that the Pope had granted authority to some of the Republican chiefs to return to the Pontifical States . A private letter from Bologna of the 29 th ultimo states that upwards of 100 robbers have been arrested in the provinces of Ravenna and Ferrara , and are likely to be shot . The Roman official paper advertises for two sopram to sing in the papal choir ; the sex of the candidates to be that usually required . the hitheatre mausoleo
In a new Grecian drama at amp ( ) of Augustus in Rome , one of the heroes exclaimed that he had overturned the foeman ' s altars and slaughtered the priests . Thunders of applause broke forth at once ; the actor Chighi was carried off to prison . A strange farce is related in a letter from Rome in the Univers . By prescription the Pope has to pronounce excommunication against the King of Naples ( the Sovereigns of that country having laid a sacrilegious hand on a part of * he domain of St . Peter ) . This year Pius the IXth wished to depart from the custom , but his Cardinals insisted on the ceremony , in order to keep up the rights of the Church . Immediately after the excommunication , however , the Pope , to destroy its effect , pronounced a magnificent eulogium upon the King of Naples as one of the dearest children of the Church , and one of its most valued columns .
The Gazetla Universal , Milan , of the 1 st , positively asserts that a general amnesty will be proclaimed on the anniversary of the Emperor of Austria ' s birthday . The official journal is silent on the subject . The Peace Congress at Frankfort is now definitively settled . The German Senate has given in writing their full authorization for holding the congress , and in the most courteous manner complied with the application marie for their permission . An active committee is also formed for making the arrangements both for the
meetings of the congress and the hotel accommodation of the delegntps and visitors who will attend it . Some of the most eminent men in Frankfort , including a number of the senate , are on the committee , and have engaged to do their utmost to secure efficiency to the proceedings . The sittings of the congress will commence August 22 , and careful arrangements are making to convey the English delegates and visitors from London on the 19 th of August . The movement has already secured a large amount of attention , and the friends of peace throughout tho country arc manifesting a deep interest in the
enterprise . A terrible firo broke out on the 28 th ult ., at Bartonstein ( Eastern Prussia ) , by which a third part of the town , and a great part of the suburbs of Angers and Lauenburg have been destroyed . Several lives were
lost . The fire broke out in the house of a butcher through the carelessness of his children . The Archbishop of Lemburgh has prohibited his clerg : from wearing long hair like the peasants , and fron smoking in public , " likedemagogues and sons of Baal . ' The St . Petersburgh Gazette publishes an officia statement of two serious engagements between the Rus sians and Circassians , in which both parties suffera immense loss . Prince Kubulow , Ensign Iwanow , anc Prince Erestow , with nearly 100 men , were killed in on of the engagements ; and six superior officers , and 14 , privates were killed and many others wounded in th ( other .
Preparations are making in the Spanish provinces and Madrid for the approaching general election . _ The Cabinet counts upon a host of employe ' s for gaining the victory , and the result of the struggle will probably bo as before—the return of a packed Parliament , and a minority of about eighty Progresistas and Opposition Moderados . The Spanish government has sent despatches to the Duke of Rivas , approving of his having protested against the marriage of Count Montemolin with the King of Naples ' s sister . A steam frigate is to be placed at the disposal of the duke , and he is to demand his passports in case the marriage is persevered in . Indeed , Narvaez contemplates the possibility of a hostile demonstration against that country in case that his Sicilian Majesty should not attend the ambassador ' s remonstrances .
Letters from Athens of the 28 th ult . announce that the Greek Parliament was to be dissolved in a few days , and writs issued for a new election . The Chamber had passed a law of restriction on the press in consequence of a scandalous libel lately published at Athens against the King and Queen . Letters from Greece mention the dreadful state of the country from the brigands that infest the continental provinces , and plunder and murder with impunity . In the Gulf of Volo a band , concealed behind a rock , fired upon the boat ' s crew of a Greek cutter , killed two officers and three seamen , and wounded three others . These bands have so increased in number that the inhabitants of Missolonghi cannot go a mile from the city . A party of brigands carried off two young men from Macresi , and hid them on the top of Mount Helicon until they were ransomed by payment of a hundred dollars .
The New York daily journals announce that " Two statuettes , executed with extreme fidelity by an artist of celebrity in composition , of Professor Webster , now under sentence of death for murder in Boston , and of his victim , Dr . Parkman , " are to be seen on the payment of a small sum . The American President has purchased a magnificent sugar plantation in Louisiana , on the right bank of the Mississippi , about twenty-five miles from New Orleans , at a cost of £ 73 , 000 . He was previously owner of an extensive cotton plantation , which he intends to abandon , and devote himself in his private capacity to the cultivation of sugar .
The grand jury at New Orleans have found true bills of indictment against the soidisant General Lopez , and several other persons well known in the South as holding , or having held , important offices under the local Governments of that district , for their participation in the Cuban invasion . Among other singular developments attending the investigation it was ascertained that arms had been furnished to the expedition from the State Arsenal . Not less strange to tell , the Recorder of the city has himself become bail for the appearance of the chief criminal , before the jury .
The scientific world , in the United States , is much excited by the supposed discovery of Mr . Payne , by which he decomposes water in a mechanical manner , producing light and heat by the evolvement of hydrogen and oxygen . A number of gentlemen proceeded the other day to his residence in Worcester to examine his apparatus , previously to paying him an immense sum of money for his patent right . They did not happen to be very scientific men , and came back as wise as they went . They found a cistern of water , a gasometer floating in it , and in his room a small cylinder , from which issued a jet of inflammable gas . No further explanation was made of the mode of producing it , as the payment of a large sum of money was required before the secret could be explained .
The American Senate has resolved to present a gold medal to Captain Cook , of the British brig Sarah , in commemoration of his heroic conduct in rescuing the passengers and crew from the conflagration of the Caleb Grimshaw . A shocking tragedy has occurred at Memphis , Tennessee , owing to a dispute in a court of justice about the assets of a bank . Mr . Gaines , Mr . Trigg , General Coe , and Dr . Fowlkes were killed , and one or two others wounded . Weapons , pistols and bowie-knives ; scene , the street , in front of the court house .
A shocking affair occurred in the Court-house of Douville , in the state of Vermont , on the 21 st ultimo , which threw that village into a state of great consternation and excitement . The felons Warburton , alias Bristol Bill , and Meadows were brought into court that day , to receive sentence for the crime of counterfeiting , of which they had been found guilty . Immediately after sentence was passed , to wit , ten years' imprisonment at hard labour , on each of the prisoners , Bristol Bill suddenly , and with the agility of a tiger , sprang upon Mr . B . N .
Davis , state attorney , and plunged the blade of a large case knife full three inches into his neck , just at the back of the right car , striking the neck bone , and glancing backward instead of forward , to which fortunate circumstance the state attorney is , no doubt , indebted for his life . The first intimation that anyone present had of the prisoner's intention was the sharp tinkling of his chains , as he suddenl y leaped forward to inflict the wound . Mr . Davis fell reeling to the floor , uttering but a faint cry , the weapon sticking in the wound . A bystander pulled out the recking blade , while
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July 13 , 1850 . ] & % t $ Lt& * tt * 369
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Leader (1850-1860), July 13, 1850, page 369, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1846/page/9/
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