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He was brother of two persons well known in the world of letters , M . Clement Brentano and the Countess BetUna d'Arnim .
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A THEATRICAL FINISH . A singular tragi-comedy was performed at the theatre at Oran , in Algeria , on Sunday , the 3 rd of February . During the performance of the second act of the Vie de Cafe , the report of a pistol was heard in a box on the highest tier , and at the same moment frightful shrieks were uttered by a young woman , who instantly fell to the ground . Frightful confusion arose ; some persons hastened to the box , found the door fastened ; and whilst they were attempting to break it open , a man , wearing d
the uniform of an officer of the Chasseurs 'Afnque , put his leg over the front of the box as if to throw himself into the pit . He would have succeeded had not a soldier of the Eleventh Regiment , at the risk of his life , clambered from the gallery , and seized him . The officer stuggled violently , and succeeded in getting the greater part of his person over the box ; in doing which part of his clothes were torn from his back . At last the soldier only held him by the foot , and by a violent effort the unfortunate man broke from his grasp , and fell heavily into the orchestra . The audience shrieked with alarm , and
as those nearest were removing him to the stage , he cried , " For the love of God—for pity ' s sake , do not take the pistol from me ! I belong to an honourable family , and let me save it from dishonour ! " As he was not much injured , he was ordered to the police-office ; but after proceeding some distance , he broke away from the gendarmes , and got clear off . He attempted more than once to drown himself , but not succeeding , went to the lodgings of a brother officer at Oran , wrote a long letter to his family , and then discharged a pistol in his heart . The young woman whom he attempted to kill was only
slightly wounded by the ball of the pistol , but a good deal injured , though not dangerously , by his having beaten her after she fell with the pommel of his sword . She is an actress , had lately belonged to the theatre of Mostaganem , and had been mistress of the officer , but had excited his furious jealousy by abandoning him for another . On the evening in question she went to the theatre with a female servant and a little child . The officer saw her , went up to her box , sent away the servant and child , and , after reproaching her with her conduct , endeavoured to murder her in the manner described .
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SlFKJl I ) KS . A respectably dressed woman , apparently about thirty yearH of agi 1 , ' Hung hcisclf into the river on . Saturday evening , from the third arch on the Middlesex . side oi London-bridge . Countable Hull , of the Thames police , wuh just . passing from under the bridge its she It'll . When taken out of the water she was alive , but her head was dreadfully shattered , us it . / struck a ^ oinst the but I reuses . She iviih taken to St .. I 5 ., rtholeiuew' .-i llo . spitul , but . expiied hooii alter her arrival there . iSamuel Undoes , formerly a jorkey , aged thirty , who had been u patient , at Charing cross j / ospilal for the last nix months , and had nearly recovered , threw himself from the window of the third-llonr on Sunday afternoon , in a fit . of despondency , jiimI died a few minutes afterwards of the injuries received .
A man . named John ( Joodiill . who had been taken up in a state of drunkenness , oil Saturday night , week , and placed in the K ing-street , station-lions . ' , slabbed himself in the hide with » penknife , in u Htute of drunken litnzy , untl died of the wound on the TliurKdny following . Mr . 1 ' ei kins , u porU-butcli < r , in . Kvcrsholt-M reet , Koiikth town , alter having frequently threatened , in letters to his wife , to take away his lift , actually did ho lant . week . llr . suspended hiuiHclf !> y a nilk handkerchief to a tree near the Wrestlers , High ^ i te . lit his pocket was a ¦ nU . cn of paper , on which he ha < l written : — " Since 1 have last gone down the lanes , and Been the beautiful thingH
Nature sends , I thought how happy we could be . —T . Perkins . " , , Mrs . Jeannette Bramby , aged forty-one , widow otfiir . Bramby , chemist of Woolwich , destroyed herself by taking prussic acid , last week , during a fit of morbid depression of spirits . A woman named Eliza May was brought up at Marylebone , on Thursday , charged with attempting to drown herself in the Regent ' s Canal on Wednesday evening . When asked what she had to say , she said it was entirely owing to her being in distress . She was remanded for a
week . Charlotte Benson , a respectable looking young woman , aged twenty-four , was brought up at the Thames-police on Thursday , charged with attempting to poison herself by swallowing sugar of lead . She had fallen into low spirits owing to the unkindness of friends and the absence of her husband , who is mate of a vessel , now at Belfast . The magistrate was about to commit her , but on the promise of her stepmother , who kindly promised to see that the poor woman was taken care of by her father , she was discharged .
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MUllDEllS . The newspapers of this week contain accounts of two murders produced by starvation . One was that of a young woman named Harriet Sparling , residing at Bath , who died of exhaustion produced by the want of food . Her husband was a groom , receiving 16 s . a-week , and it appeared that he left her frequently without either food or fire in the house . Previous to her confinement in November she supported herself by needlework , but since then she had been forced to pawn her weddingring , her shawl , and , indeed , nearly all her clothes for food , of which her hard-hearted husband came home and partook , although he did not give her a farthing out of his wa « es . She was " a meek , uncomplaining creature , " the neighbours said , and her husband seemed to have made up his mind to let her starve to death , which she did last week . An inquest was held on the body on Mondav , which was adjourned to Wednesday to give the police time to apprehend the husband . The police , have not yet succeeded in apprehending him , but . the jury has returned a verdict of wilful murder against Sparling . The other case of slow murder was that of a female child , in Cork . The mother had fed it upon dry bread and tea or coffee , till the child , sickening at such food , refused to eat it . The neighbours tried to persuade her to give it proper food , but she refused to do so , and expressed great indignation at their having gone into the room during her absence , and given the child some warm milk on the " night before its death . The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder" against the mother . Thomas Ash was brought up under custody of the borough police on Monday , at Windsor , for burglary and attempt to murder . Mr . Tucker and Ann Whittaker were well enough to give evidence . The prisoner deniec all knowledge of the outrage . He was , however , fully committed to the county gaol on both charges . The supposed accomplice , for whose apprehension a reward of £ 70 has bpcii offered , has not yet been taken . It has been ascertained that he is an itinerant tinker .
At the Northampton assizes , on Monday , a man named William Hurst was tried for shooting at his wife with the intention of murdering her . Hurst was said to be of a mild and inoffensive disposition , but he had been exasperated by tlii ! desertion of his wife , who lefr . him and went to live with another man . On the 8 th of February he went to the Wagon and Horses , at D . iventry , where she and her paramour were lodging , and , on meeting her , put his hand on her shoulder . The woman having turned round and looked him full in the face , he . said , " This is
the b- h ! " st . ept one puce back , deliberately fired a pistol at her , and then ran off . Several persons then ran after and overtook him . When taken into custody he said , " 1 am the man who shot the woman , and she is my lawful wife . I came , on purpose , and 1 hope I shall have a fair trial . " The woman , who had received twenty . shots in the head and twenty in the arm , is not yet out of danger , Her examination , taken before the magistrates , stated that she had been sixteen weeks absent from her husband ; that lie had asked her to return , and she had refused . A verdict of guilty was returned .
Lord Chief . Justice Campbell , in addressing the grand jury at Chehnsford assizes , said he was horror-stricken at the contents of the calendar . There were ; no lens than live charges of murder , twelve of arson , a great number of burglary , and , in tact , charges of almost every description of aggravated alienee known to the bar . Mellicent , Page , ageil forty-two , an inoflensive motherly-looking woman , charged with the murder of an infant in the latter end of 1 N-11 ) , was acquitted on tlie ground that the crime was committed while she was in a state ol insanity . At . the Lent assizes , last , year , she had been airaigned , but was at that , time insane and unfit to plead . Since that , time , however , . she had recovered , and is now in her right , mind . Sari . h <; hesliain , the woman formei ly accused of poisoning several children at . Clavering , has been found guilty of the minder of her hu . ib . ind , by administering arsenic to him .
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AN OLD THICK . M . G , a superior employe of a public administration , attended one of the recent masked balls at the opera , during the Carnival at Paris , and while seated alone in a box was joined by an elegantly attired domino . Presently he got into conversation with her ; she was very polite , consented to accept a supper , and then took off her mask . The gentleman saw that she was young and beautiful , and demanded to be allowed to visit her , but she refused to give him her address , and forbade him to follow her , because she said she was married . She , however , promised to write , and a few days after he received a letter , in which , after stating that her husband was absentand that she was going to a ball the next
, evening at Bourget , with one of her female friends , she gave him permission to accompany her , and said that her iriend would present him to the family by whom the ball was to be given , as a relative . The place of appointment she iixed at eleven at night , at the corner of the Rue L : ifitte , where she would be in a carriage . At the time appointed a carriage drove up , the gentleman , who was waiting , entered it and found his charmer and her friend . The vehicle drove off rapidly , and the gentleman got into Huch a delightful conversation that he did not notice the direction taken . All at once the carriage stopped , and the ladies saying " This is the place ! " alighted . The gentleman was surprised to see . no house , and to find
himself in a deserted road , but before he could speak he was seized by three men masked , who knocked him down , and seizing him by the throat , told him that , if lie moved they would strangle him . They then took his wutch and money , and even stripped him of his clot lies , after which they and the woman entered the vehicle and drove rapidly oif . M . ( i wandered about , some time , and at last found himself in the village of ISobigny . He knocked at the door of the house occupied by the deputy mayor , and that person , on hearing his story , gave him hospitaliiy . The deputy mayor also sent the gen diirmes in search of the thieves ; hut notwithstanding all efforts they have not yet been discovered .
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M 1 SC V . 1 , 1 . A N HO US . The Queen held a levee , the second of this season , in St . James ' s I' . ilacc , on Thursday . Her Majesty and I ' liiK . ' Albert le ' l ' i liueiiiiiu-Laiu Palace at . two o ' clock escorted by a party ol Life ( maids . 1 ' icvious to the level-, she gave audience to Ijonl John KhmscII . Several addresses against . l \ i |> al aggression were presented . Tli" Duchess of Kent . bit . Fioginoie on Saturday morning for Kew , paid a visit , to the Duchess of Cambridge , and afterward :, proceeded to town . In the afternoon she left Cl . tienc . e House , St . . Jame , s ' n , attended by Lady Funny Howard and Sir ( ieoigc Couper on her return to t'roginore . Lady John Russell hud a soiree on Monday evening at the privute renidcnco of tho Premier in
Cheahumn ' ace The reunion was by a circle of the aristocracy , including the leading members of all the great political parties , including the Duke or . Wellington , Lord Stanley , and Sir James Graham . The Reverend Arthur Perceval , one of the moat aristocratic of her Majesty ' s chaplains in ordinary , having addressed , on two several occasions , letters to her Majesty , protesting in the most solemn terms against the worldliness of the Court , he has been informed that Ss services will no longer be required at the Court , and that his name will be struck off the list of her Majesty ' s C A ^ cr ^ eThas appeared in the Neapolitan official journal which forbids persons to apply for arms for sporting purnoses . T his act anticipate- the removal of troops ; wno , it is said , will march to the Roman frontier The Government continues in a state of alarm about Mazzmi . There are all sorts of reports , in which Garibaldi figures at the head of a body of men who are to land in Sicily and Calabria
. A letter from Bologna states that since the creation of military committees in the Papal States upwards of 130 banditti have been shot , and that nevertheless robberies are increasing to a frightful extent . Ihe bands are mostly composed of youths of from seventeen to twentyfour years of age , who submit to death with a most astonishing ind fference . Great sensation has been lately caused at Florence by an intended duel with pistols between two countesses , in consequence of a political dispute . One of these ladies had taken an active part in the war of Italian independence , and the other is a fair daughter of the North , whose name is well known in the diplomatic world . The combatants were on the ground , and the pistols charged , when fortunately their husbands arrived , and put a stop to the affair .
The Austrian Government has replied to the Porte that it cannot allow the liberation of the Hungarian prisoners at Kutayeh . Dembinski ' s is an exceptional case , due to the special intervention of Sir Stratford Canning in favour of ihe aged general . An ordonnance has been transmitted by the Austrian Government to all the lieutenancies of the parts of the empire which are still in a state of siege , directing that no journal shall be allowed to mention , even incidentally , the titles of prohibited works or pamphlets at present secretly circulating among ; the public notwithstanding the vigilance of the police . Should they infringe this order , they will subject themselves to the punishment of being suppressed .
M . D , went to a farmer living at Claude , near Blois , a few days ago , and demanded the payment of a considerable sum of money , which had long been due to him . The farmer sent away his wife , and invited his creditor into an inner chamber to write a receipt . As he entered , the farmer discharged a gun at him , and wounded him severely , after which he cut his throat . He then placed the body in a cart , conveyed it to about a mile and a half from the village , and buried it in a field . His wife became aware of the murder , and reproached him in bitter terms . Fearing that she would inform the police of his crime , he left his home and came to Paris . A description of his person was sent up , and last week his dead body was discovered at the Morgue ; he had committed suicide by throwing himself into the Seine . — Qal ' uinanV ' s Messenger .
At the Carmelite convent at Pontoise , a picture by Murillo , called " Jesus Pasteur , " has recently been discovered . The painting is of great beauty , and belongs to the Abbe Trou , almoner of the Carmelites . A letter from St . Petersburg , of the 21 st ultimo , states that , on the joint proposition of the Imperial Academy of Sciences and the Historical and Philological Society of that city , the llus . sian Government has decided that the thousandth anniversary of the foundation of the Russian Empire , which , according to the historians of that country , dates from the year 852 , shall be celebrated next year with the greatest pomp in all the cities and large towns of the European and Asiatic provinces of llussia .
The Washington Monument , now in process of erection at New York , U to be five hundred feet high , fiftylive feet Kquare at the bane , and thirty-three feet square iit the top . It is now seventy-six feet high , and has cost 12 , 000 dollars , having taken two years to bring it to its present elevation . The Gresham Committee , in their repl y to a memorial of the merchants frequenting the ltoyul Exchange representing the necessity for some covering being thrown over the area of that building , way that " after due deliberation , they cunnot entertain the prayer of the memorial . "
. Active steps are taking throughout the metropolis to oppose the proposed bill to put down Sunday trading . A jmljlic meeting of upwardti of IIOOO persons took place , at the liiitish institution , Cowper-Htrect , on Monday eveniii ( 4 , for the purpowe of petitioning Parliament against it . Several resolutions were paused , characterizing it an oppressive and unjust . Mr . Williams , M . I' ., believed tin ; bill would be be . neficiul to their interests . Mr . Wiikley , M . P ., condemned it . Tho bill did not « o > to the root , of Ihe evil . Sunday work wuh the monstrous evil , hut it did not even allude to that . Me never-would support any mensuie that did not embrace , first mid t ' oitnioht , that most , important of all eviln , Sunday labour . A motion proposed in favour of the bill wuh IomL by a great majority .
Mr . Miller , a retired London merchant , has juHt founded four scholarship of £ 40 annual value < "ich , tenable for four yeaiH , to tho JSew College of the Free Church . A noble iustunce of how far individuals aro trying to make up for tho negloct of the State has recently been exhibited in JLumbeth . Mr . II . B . H . Beaufoy has expended £ 14 , 000 in the building and endowment of rugged uolioolu for tho poor children of Lambeth . A meeting
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Leader (1850-1860), March 8, 1851, page 220, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1873/page/8/
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