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Leader (1850-1860), 17th August 1850, Edition Town of 1, Page 488, Untitled Article

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      manslaughter ; ' » and she was thereupon sentenced to be transported for life . A . yoking voman , named Amelia Georgina Snoswell , living at Eden place , Gravesend , during a fit of insanity , on Tuesday , murdered a child of eighteen months old , the daughter of her sister , Mrs . Cooper , by cutting its throat . It appeared that the wretched woman had been dejected and melancholy for some time past . About a fortnight ago she had struck her mother on the head with a poker , without the slightest provocation . She had always displayed the greatest fondness for the child . The whole of the evidence tended to show that the woman -was insane . She was committed for trial .

      At the Gloucester Assizes on Tuesday , Hannah Curtis , aged 55 , was tried for the murder of her husband by poisoning him with arsenic in April last . A few weeks before the death of her husband , she told a person in the village where she lived that she had been having her fortune told . The fortune-teller told her her husband had been bad , had got better , but that he would be worse , and be taken off very sudden , but she should not be a widow long , fox she would soon get another offer , and it would be her own fault if she refused him . She did her best to make the prediction a true one by poisoning her husband , and getting married the Sunday after his death , She was found guilty , but recommended to mercy , on what grounds was not stated .

      An excavator , named James Stamp , was brought up at the Thames-street police office , on Wednesday , charged with ill-using his wife . Two policemen had been passing at the time when he was beating her , and , hearing a cry of " Murder , " they went in . Having proceeded up stairs , they heard a struggle in the first-floor room . The door was fastened ; they burst it open , and found Stamp with a poker in his hand , striking the woman in a most savage manner at the side of the bed , which was stained with blood . As the policeman entered he struck her a severe blow across the back , which completely disabled her , and she fell upon the floor in a state of

      insensibility . He aimed a blow at one of the men , who parried it with his truncheon , and knocked the poker out of his hand . The two policemen then closed upon him , and , after a desperate struggle , took him into custody . It appeared that the poor woman had been frequently beaten ** within an jnch of her life " by the wretch with whom she lived , but her fear of him was so great that she was afraid to complain . Mr . Ingham said that , although it would be useless to send this case for trial at the sessions , the prisoner should not escape a severe punishment for the atrocious outrage he had committed , and , in default of paying a fine of £ 5 , committed him to prison for two months .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen and Prince Albert left Osborne at ten o ' clock on Wednesday morning , and arrived at Buckingham Palace about a quarter to two . The Queen held a Court and Privy Council at three o ' clock . The honour of knighthood was conferred upon Mr . Cockburn , M . P ., and Mr . Sandford ( from the tJape ) . At the Privy Council the Rjyal speech on closing the session of Parliament was arranged and agreed upon . In the evening the Queen went to the Haymarket Theatre .

      The Queen and Prince Albert honoured the Italian Opera-house with their presence on Thursday evening . Her Majesty and his Royal Highness were accompanied by Count Alphonse de Mensdorff Pouilly , and were attended by the Viscountess Canning , Lord'Elphinstone , General Wemyss , and Colonel Bouverie . The authorities of Edinburgh are engaged in making the necessary preparations consequent on the Queen ' s visit to the ancient capital of her northern dominions . It is , however , as yet uncertain whether she will enter the city during her short sojpurn at Holyrood on the journey northward , as it is understood to be her desire to make her present visit as private as possible ; and it has been determined , on the suggestion of the Lord Provost , to erect a temporary platform at the Meadowbank station of the North British Railway , at which her

      Majesty may leaye the train without entering the city , and proceed at once to the palace by the Queen ' s Drive . The Grand Lodge of Freemasons of Scotland has come to the resolution that the different lodges cannot walk in procession at the laying of the foundation-stone on ihe Mound , on the 30 th , Prince Albert not hemp one of the craft , and having scruples about being initiated . The lodges in England , from some strange notions of loyalty , consented to appear at the laying of the foundation-stones of the Corn Exchange and the Masonic Almshouse in London , but their sturdier brethren of the north have unanimously agreed to allow our Lord Provost and the other functionaries to manage the business themselves . Thus , one of the grandest features of the Queen's visit of 1850 will be done away with . —Edinburgh News .

      The colonelcy in chief of the 60 th Rifles , vacant by the decease of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge , has been bestowed on Prince Albert . The colonelcy of the Coldstream Guards , also held by the late Duke of Cambridge , has been bestowed on the Earl of Sirufford , who has resigned the colonelcy of the 29 th Regiment . The Duchess of Kent , who left St . James ' s Palace at eight o ' clock on Friday mornins , arrived at

      Edinburgh nt midnight , having travelled from London to the northern metropolis in about sixteen hours . On Saturday she visited the Castle , the College , Holyrood Palace , and CraigmiUar Castle . At the Palace she first proceeded to the state apartments , now in course of preparation for the reception of the Queen and royal family , in their apnronching visit to Edinburgh . Her Royal Highness afterwards visited the Picture Gallery , and viewed with interest the grim array of the portraits of he northern Kings . The party next proceeded to Queen tfary ' s apartments , where they examined , with the

      deepest interest , the various relics of the beautiful and unfortunate Queen . On Monday her Royal Highness left Edinburgh for Perth , en route to Blair Castle , on a visit to the Duke and Duchess of Athol . Mr . Leeman , York , was in Berwick on Monday , with the view of making arrangements for the ceremony of the opening of the Railway-bridge over the Tweed by her Majesty and Prince Albert on the 29 th , and these the directors of the railway have resolved shall be on the most magnificent scale . Their desire is that her Majesty will accept of luncheon in Berwick , and , should she assent to this , a splendid marquee is to be erected on the site of the ancient castle .

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      The will of the late Sir Robert Peel was proved pn Saturday , and probate passed for assets under £ 500 , 000 . , „ , The late Sir Robert Peel has , we hear , left full and specific directions in his will for the early publication of his political memoirs ; and has ordered that the profits arising from the publication shall be given to some public institution for the education of the working classes . As already stated , he has confided the task of preparing these memoirs to Lord Mahon and Mr . Cardwell . Their duty will , however , be comparatively light , though delicate , from the admirable and orderly state in which Sir Robert has left all his papers . —Daily News . Lord John Russell intends to pay a visit to his fatherin-law , in Roxburghshire , towards the end of the present month . His stay is likely to be for some time . The rumour relative to the intended elevation of the Right Honourable John Gam Hobhouse to the peerage , has set the politicians of Harwich on the qui vive . Mr . George Frederick Young has recently taken a house in Essex , chiefly , it is said , with an eye to Harwich . The East India Company entertained Lieutenant-General Sir William Gomm , K . C . B ., at dinner on Saturday evening in honour of his appointment as Commander-in-Chief of the Bombay Presidency . Sir George Anderson is appointed Governor of Ceylon , and is to be succeeded in the government of Mauritius by Mr . Higginson , now Governor-in-Chief of the Leeward Islands . Sir George Anderson is said to have earned his promotion by the ability with which he has conducted the government of Mauritius , where he has effected a considerable reduction in the expenditure , and

      introduced many useful practical reforms . The Right Honourable Thomas Francis Kennedy , Paymaster of Civil Service in Ireland , has been appointed one of the Commissioners of Woods , Forests , and Land Revenues , in the room of Mr . Alexander Milne , retired . Mr . Labouchere has recently purchased a marble bust of Milton , made , it is said , from the life by an Italian sculptor during the poet ' s visit to Italy . The sum paid—200 guineas—and the known good taste of Mr . Labouchere , speak in favour of the excellence of the bust as a work of Art , and also in favour of its authenticity . Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer arrived in New York from Washington on Saturday fortnight , and went immediately to Staten Island , where he has taken a cottage for the summer . It is said that his health has been

      impaired by the climate of Washington . The Right Hon . Charles Ewan Law , Recorder of the city of London , died suddenly on Tuesday morning , at his residence in Eaton-place . The hon . gentleman had been ailing some few days , but his illness was not of that character to create alarm to his family . He was son of the first Baron Ellenborough and of the Hon . Augusta Champagne , daughter of the second Baron Graves . He was in the fifty-eighth year of his age , having been born in 1792 . He filled the office of Common Sergeant from 1830 till 1832 , when he was elected Recorder . By his death a vacancy occurs in the representation of Cambridge University in Parliament . Mr . Russell Gurney

      ( son of the late Baron Gurney ) , Judge of the City Sheriffs' Court , is spoken of in the City as likely to be appointed the new Recorder . Dr . T . Southwood Smith , who was the medical member of the General Board of Health during the period of the Orders in Council , has been appointed the second paid member of the Board provided by the Metropolitan Interment Act . The Reform party in Rochdale have received a letter from Mr . Sharman Crawford , who states that , owing to his health having improved of late , he shall not at present resign his seat for Rochdale . It is reported that some Royal and official personages

      of this country will pay a visit to the French fleet at Cherbourg , during the forthcoming review by the President of the Republic , and that the Admiralty yacht will be placed at their disposal . — United Service Gazette . Mr . George Catlin , the Indian traveller , is to sail in a fortnight ' s time to Texas , from Liverpool , with the first body of settlers on the Universal Emigration and Colonization Company ' s lands , in Menam County . Jenny Lina arrived at Margate on Sunday evening , from Ostend , by the Princess Mary . Her first expression on landing was " God bless happy England once again . " She sails from Liverpool for America next week .

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      M . do Lamartine has taken his departure for France , visiting by the way the property which has been granted to him by the Sultan in the neighbourhood of Smyrna . M . de Lamartine has already completely inspected , in the company of two distinguished agriculturists , this extensive estate , which lies in the plain of Burgas-Orsa . The soil appears of great fertility , being composed of an alluvium several yards deep , and watered by the famous Cayster and abundant springs . It produces corn , sesame , cotton , mulberries , vines , < tec . There is a fail of water of sixty or eighty-horse power , and the estate comprises seven villages , together with a dilapidated mnnsion , which has been recently in part restored . Every peison who is acquainted with the drained resources of the poet , whose hands resigned the reins of power without having rubbed off any of the gilt , and who cherishes

      esteem for his character , will trust that the hopes built upon the munificent territorial grant of the Sultan may be realized . Paris is uncommonly empty of political celebrities at the present moment . The Assembly having adjourned , almost all the representatives have taken to flight . M . Mole" is at Champlatreux , M . Berryer at Wiesbaden , the Duke de Broglie in the department of the Eure , M . and Madame Thiers at Baden Baden , M . Leon Faucher at Villars-Coterets , General Cavaignac in Switzerland , General Bedeau at Angers , General Lamoriciere in

      Brittany , M . Dupin at his seat near Nevers , the Ministers either with the President of the Republic on his journey to Lyons , or at their country seats , &c . The Only Ministers remaining in Paris are MM . Baroche , Rouher , and de Parieu . The diplomatic corps are also scattered , most of them having gone to the German watering-places . Several journals have stated erroneously that M . Guizot had gone to Wiesbaden . M . Guizot only went to spend a day at Ems , whence he proceeded to Brussels , and on the 6 th dined with his Belgian Majesty at the chateau of Laecken . On Sunday he returned to Paris .

      The French Council of State has just decided that the Standish Gallery and the Spanish Museum in the Louvre , are the personal property of the ex-King Louis Philippe . M . Emile de Girardin has taken his departure for Strasbourg , having promised his constituents a visit at the close of the session . Then he goes to the Congress of Peace at Frankfort . The Gazette des Tribunaux announces" that M . Libri has ceased to be a member of the Legion of Honour , in virtue of ihe sentence of the Assize Court of Paris , pronounced on Saturday , and on the demand of the Grand Chancellor of the order .

      The new Emperor of Haiti has been a good customer to the tailors and jewellers of Paris lately . There is at this moment to be seen in the warerooms of a celebrated goldsmith a crown , a sceptre , a wand of justice , and a sword of state , manufactured expressly for his sable Majesty , at a cost of nearly £ 20 , 000 sterling . He has , moreover , commanded for his coronation a sky-blue velvet mantle , embroidered with bees and richly bound with gold lace . He has further ordered a court dress of scarlet velvet , lined with white satin , and trimmed with the most expensive point lace , and most valuable ornaments to match .

      The inauguration of the statue of Larrey , the famous surgeon of the imperial army , at the Val-de-Grace , took place in Paris on Thursday week . Among the assistants at this solemnity not the least interesting portion was a corps of 100 invalids upon whom Larrey had operated . The hero of the day was Dupin , who walked in to the flourish of drums and trumpets at the head of the commission of the monument . The statue of bronze , by David , of Angers , was unveiled amid the clang of " sonorous metal blowing martial sounds . " Old Dupin , in a fit of happy inspiration , jumped up on the chair from which he presided , and delivered perhaps the best speech

      he ever made . He drew , in lively touches , the mission of the man whose hospital is the battle-field , of his intrepid coolness and humane devotion . Larrey was wounded , while binding the wounds of others , in Egypt and at Waterloo , in the days of glory and of disaster . The President of the Assembly spoke with much feeling , and when he jumped down from his chair a general rush was made by his friends to embrace him . The Count de Hatzfeld , Envoy of the King of Prussia , has presented a letter to the President of the Republic , notifying the marriage of his niece , the Princess Frederika Louisa Wilhelmina Marianna Charlotte of Prussia , with Prince George of Saxe-Meiningen .

      The semi-official journals of Berlin state that there is no truth in the report which has appeared in certain journals that Chevalier Bunsen , Prussian Minister at London , has been recalled . M . Bunsen is only going to take the waters of Eisenach . The Princess Clementine of Orleans , wife of Prince Augustus of Saxe Coburg Cohary , and sister of the Queen of the Belgians , arrived at Brussels on Friday with her three children . The British claims in Tuscany are in a fair way of

      arrangement . Lord Palmerston reduces the indemnity to one thousand pounds . Madame de Bonisio , of Venice , mother-in-law of Colonel Graziani , and of Lieutenant Bandiera ( the latter , it will be remembered , was shot at Naples , in 1845 ) , committed suicide a few days ago , by throwing herself out of the window of her residence . Grief was the cause of this act . One of Madame de Bonisio ' s daughters became mad after the surrender of Venice , in consequence of the disappearance of her husband .

      General Dembinski has been ordered by the Porte to quit Broussa to join the Hungarian exiles at Kutayeh . it appears that this aggravation of the old general ' s lot arises from the inveterate animosity of the Austrian government , which has pressed the Porte not to allow . Dembinski ' s plea that he is a Russian subject . The Turkish officers and soldiers have treated the Hungarian prisoners with deference , and the Turkish , population with every mark of Oriental respect , Kossuth being with them the Jiral who had held for a time in his hands the destinies of Eastern Europe . This universal

      respect was especially evident on the occasion of Kossuth ' s reception of his children . Three of them , interesting and intelligent little creatures , were sent by the Austrian Government , not without foreign intercession , to share their father ' s captivity . He and Madame Kossuth were allowed to go and meet them — . under guard of course ; and the very guard of rude Turkish soldiers were affected to tears at the meeting . In the education of his children , the delving and planting of a kind of garden within the barrack wall , and an occasional game of skittles with the companions of his political and military struggles , Kossuth whiles away the time of his captivity .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 17, 1850, page 488, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1850/page/8/