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Leader (1850-1860), 15th March 1851, Edition Town of 2, Page 244, Untitled Article

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      dinner to about fifty members of the Court of Common Council , and on the 9 th of April the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress will give a banquet in the Egyptian-hall to her Majesty ' s Ministers ( whoever they may be on that day ) and a number of peers and members of the House of Commons . Sir Alexander Hood , the Protectionist member for West Somerset , died on Friday week at his town residence in Wigmore-street , aged 57 . He was nephew of the late Admiral Hood , and only son of the late Captain Alexander Hood , R ; N ., who was slain on board the Mars , at the capture of L'Hercule , 1798 .

      The Emperor of Russia has sent to the King of Prussia the chain of the Order of St . Andrew , in diamonds . The value of it is upwards of 1 , 000 , 000 thalers ( £ 150 , 000 ) . Two diamonds in the middle of the chain to which , is suspended the decoration are alone worth 200 , 000 thalers . Mr . Thomas Russell , chairman of the bench of magistrates of the St . Pancras division , died very suddenly on Monday last . He was proceeding down Little Georgestreet , Hampstead-road , about three o ' clock , and on

      reaching a greengrocer's shop in Little George-street , a ihort distance from St . Pancras Female Charity School , he begged permission of the owner to go to the closet , which was granted , but as he remained there a considerable time the shopkeeper went to see what had become of him , and found him there apparently lifeless . Medical aid was procured , but life was pronounced extinct . The immediate cause of death is supposed to have been from a sudden attack of spasmodic diarrhoea or cholera .

      A royal decree in the Madrid Gazette of the 4 th relieves the Duke de Sotomayor from the post of Ambassador of the French Republic , " on account , " it says , " reasons touching the reorganization of the diplomatic career , submitted to the Queen by the Secretary of State of Foreign Affairs , in conformity with the advice of the Council of Ministers . " The decree , however , declares in tbe usual form that the Queen " is perfectly satisfied with the zeal and intelligence with which the Duke de Sotomayor had . fulfilled his mission ; and that she proposes subsequently to utilize his services . " The crime committed by the duke was his receiving General Narvaez at Paris with royal honours . The Marquis de Valdegamas , late private secretary to Queen Christina , is appointed in place of Sotomayor .

      The Queen of Spain has signed the Concordat , and a functionary of the Foreign-office is about to proceed with it to Rome for the ratification of the Pope . He will likewise be the bearer of handsome presents from her Majesty to his Holiness . The Queen of Spain and her husband have made up their quarrels , for the present . They are said to have taken the advice of Queen Christina and Senor Bravo Murillo , and made mutual concession , which has had the effect of increasing their regard for each other . A few days ago they took a carriage drive together in the Prado , an occurrence eo unusual as to excite a considerable amount of gossip .

      The Orleans i ' amily have determined upon quitting Claremont for the Continent during the period of the Exhibition . The ex-Queen is to go to Brussels ; the Duke of Nemours will visit his father-in-law ; the Prince of Joinville will take a trip in Portugal or Scotland ; and the Duke of Aumale is bound for Naples . Soulouque , Emperor of Hayti , has acknowledged the justice of the claim of three thousand dollars as indemnity for imprisoning the captain of the American brig Leander on aj » unfounded charge of smuggling , and has promised to pay it .

      South American papers state that the city of Carthagena is very healthy , and has become a favouiite resort ol invalids , especially those who have injured their health amid the exposures of California . Among the residents is General Santa Anna , with his family , who beguiles his leisure with the amusements of the cock-pit .

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      Letters from Clmrleville state that incendiary fires arc very numerous in the department of the Ardennes . The Morning Post of Wednesday contains a statement , copied from the HtundarU , to the effect that Union Rothschild has embraced Christianity . This will appear to every one too absurd to require even a . contradiction at our hands . —Jewish ( chronicle . There is a custom in Turkey which proves the high importance the Mussulman attaches to education . The first day that one of their children enters school is a day

      of great rejoicing ; there is a family fete , at . which all the friends of the house assist . There has been lately such a fete celebrated at the residence of Ali Pacha , Minister of Foreign AffairH . 11 is eldest son , a ^ ed five years , haw been sent to school , and on the occasion the Grand Vizir , all the Ministers and high functionaries , attended at . the houtte ot Ali Pac ) in , in order to participate in the family J ' ete , and to ex [» res » to the chit f of tlie house the sympathies of which he is in every respect ho worthy . Galignani .

      The Sultan has giveii strict orders that , all his Christian Protestant subjects / shall be allowed to conduct , their secular and religious / matters as they shall seem fit , witliout intrusion or inu / rriiptioii from any other ; , < ct whatever . / Accounts from *' the Levant , in the French pnpriN , represent tlie difl ' i renccH between the Sultan and the l ' aclia of Egypt as far from being appeased . The latter h . is culled on the powers who mimkmI ihe treaty of Julv , 1 H-I 0 ,

      for their interference ; at the same time the Pacha i » giving offence to I ' muce by dismissing the French who are employed in tho public service , in defiance of formal engagements . The unniversary of the birth of Washington was celebrated at New York , on February 22 nd , with groat pomp . All the public huildingn wen ; adorned with nujjH , and a procession , composed of all the mililia forces and the officers of the benevolent institutions , accompanied by tho Kreat majority of the population , perambulated th « city . The necond trial of General Henderson , at New

      Orleans , for taking part in the invasion of Cuba , has ter minated , like the first , in the non-agreement of the jury . General Quitman , having resigned the governorship of Mississippi , has repaired to New Orleans to await the decision of the court The magnificent bridge between Lewiston , in New York , and Queenstown , in Canada , near the Falls of Niagara , is so far completed that the engineer and a large n umber of people lately crossed to the American side , when , upon reaching terra jirma , they were enthusiastically received by the spectators who had assembled . This bridge is the largest structure of its kind in America . - The labourers on the Great Western Railroad Canada having struck , and armed themselves to resist the authorities , the people of Hamilton have called a public meeting , with the view of demanding from the Government a military force to preserve order , and protect those labourers who are disposed to work .

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      Buckingham Palace is about to be revealed to the gaze of oidinary people . The last portion of the alterations and improvements , consisting of the ornamental railing extending round the entire frontage of the building , and intersected by a central and two side entrance gates , having been completed , the greater portion of the hoarding has been removed , and will be entirely taken away in the course of two or three days . The meeting of the British Association , at Ipswich , is to commence on Wednesday , July the 2 nd , and extend

      over sjeven or eight days . As there will be many savans in England from all parts of the world during the ensuing summer , in consequence of the Great Exhibition , it is expected that this will be the most brilliant meeting the association has ever had . The local secretaries have already received the names of several hundred intending visitors , amongst whom are Lucien Buonaparte , Prince of Canino ; Sir R . Murchison , Sir H . de la Beche , Sir W . Jardine , Sir C . Lyell , Sir D Brewster , Professors Daubeney , Silliman ( of America ) , Owen , Ansted , and many other men of note .

      A lecture by Mr . W . J . Fox , the Member for Oldham , on " The true spirit of Reform , " was delivered at the second monthly soiree of the National Parliamentary and Financial Association , held at the London Tavern , on Monday . In alluding to the agitation for the Reform Bill he said : — " The support which the -working classes gave the middle classes on that occasion was an implied pledge that when the question cf their rights came on for discussion the middle classes

      would give therrrtheir support . Shame to the middle classes that the pledge was not kept ! { Renewed cheering . ) He did . not profess entire satisfaction with Mr . Hume ' s measure—it would leave unenfranchised half a million who had a peifect right to the suffrage ; but it would add 3 , 000 , 000 voters to the constituency , and what power could stand against that ? He called on Reformers from one end of the couutry to the other , imitating the example which had been set by the Chartists of Manchester , to make an end of differences , and to unite in tbe common object of obtaining- a wider representation . "

      The council of the Royal Agricultural Society of England , having determinedupon altering their original plan of holding their annual exhibition of live stock in H yde Park , the inhabitants of Windsor have given them an invitation to that vicinity , and offered to guarantee £ 600 towards defraying the expenses . A letter from Oxford in the Standard says , " The opinion of counsel on the university commission has been received . The counsel were Messrs . Turner , Bethell , Keating , and Kenyon ; and I believe I am tolerably correct in saying that they give a very decided opinion ' that the commission is neither legal nor constitutional ; that the university is not bound to yield obedience to it ; and that it cannot be supported by the authority of the Crown , either as visitor , or under any prerogative or other riffht . " *

      ^ We understand that it lRcontemplated to formaColonial Free Trade League , the object of which shall be tr > place our commercial intercourse -with the colonies , in so far as the requirements of the Imperial revenue will admit , upon the footing of a home or coasting trade . — Globe . Mr . Carter was elected Alderman of Cornhill ward , on Monday , in the plaee of the late Sir John Pirie . it , i . s rumoured that an intention exists , on the part of Government , of reuniting the civil government of Malta wiih the military command in the person of a general officer now in command of one of the districts . — United Service Gazette . Orders were received at Southampton , on Monday , to pet ready the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' h . s learner Singapore by Saturday ( to-dity ) , to convey a regiment of troopH to the Cape of (< ood 11 opt . ' . The Singapore i . s one of tlie fastest stwimi'rs afloat ..

      Lord Ciirlisle ' H hill to regulate the sale of arsenic , < leelart'H that , the unrestricted hh \ o of ars < nic facilitates the commission of crime , and provideH that on every « ale pan ii-nlais of the sale shall be entered by the . seller in a i ) iiok before the delivery of the arsenic , and th . it . every such entry hIuiII be Hif * uc < l by tlie person selling it .. Any prrsoii , selling iirsrinc , * ave as autlioiized by tins | H || and every person giving fal . se informatim ro obtain arsenic , i . s to be summarily convicted before ma ^ isrrules and to be liable to a penalty not . exceeding £ 20 . The bill is not- to prevent the sulo of arsenic in medicine under a medical prescription . of

      I he linr ^ cNHi's Sheffield declined establish a public libiaiyaud museum under M r . Kwan . ' s ad . They were polled on the . question , when out , of 1 () , !) 8 (> voters on the burgess roll , oniyVMW took tbe trouble to express an opinion . For the measure to be carried two thirtlHof the votes must be in \ y * favour ; that , not , being the < : a »

      The lives of sixteen persons at Bishop-Button , Somersetshire , were pl aced in serious jeopardy on Shrove Tuesday , by their partaking of pancakes in which aresenic had been used by mistake instead of carbonate of soda . It happened luckily that the pancakes were not deemed so nice as usual , so that they were partaken of very sparingly . In about a quarter of an hour after eating of them , the whole of the persons who had tasted them were seized with violent pains in the stomach and bowels , accompanied by the other symptoms which attend arsenical poisoning . Prompt measures were taken , however , and the whole of the persons are so far recovered as to be considered out of danger .

      Another steamboat collision took place on the Clyde last Sunday . About one o'clock in the morning the screw steamer European , on her passage for London , was run into by the Bchooner Castlehill , from Belfast , when off the Cloch Lighthouse . The schooner went down instantly ; three of the men were rescued , and one drowned . The husband of Harriet Sparing , who died from starvation at Bath , has been apprehended , and lodged in the Bath gaol , to await his trial at the ensuing assizes , on the charge of wilful murder . A man , named Daniel Mundy , has been lodged in Gloucester gaol on the charge of having murdered his wife . She had been in very delicate health , and he had been in the habit of cruelly beating and kicking her , and

      keeping her on a miserably short allowance of food , and while he himself lived , well , bread and water was the poor woman ' s principal diet . The trial of Drory , at Chelmsford Assizes , for the murder of Jael Denny , was brought to a close on Saturday . The case for the defence was made to rest chiefly on the unreliableness of the surgical evidence—on the " excessive zeal" of the police in getting up the prosecution—on the absence of motive in the prisoner ^ mind , since the girl had acquitted him in writing of her seduction—and on his being employed about the farm and otherwise from six o ' clock till past nine . Mr . John Thorpe , a surgeon of Maldon , and Mr . F . Pollock , a London practitioner , both of whom stated they had given much attention to cases of death by strangulation ,

      declared that the appearances of violence were compatible with self-murder , although , their statement was given rather doubtingly . The jury , after ten minutes' deliberation , returned a verdict of " Guilty . " The judge , in pronouncing sentence of death , intimated his entire concurrence with the verdict . The prisoner did not seem in any way affected by the awful sentence . He was speedily removed from the dock , and on being taken to the carriage to convey him to the gaol he was received with yells and hootings by the assembled crowd . The hope which bore him up through the trial forsook him on reaching the gaol after his condemnation . He was so exhausted that he was obliged to be assisted to his cell by two of the officials , and on reaching it he flung himself upon his bed and lay sobbing for nearly an hour .

      William Rowe , the son . of a respectable farmer at Brixton , near Plymouth , has been apprehended on the double charge of having committed a brutal crime , and of murdering his father ' s servant-boy , named John Bunker , because the latter had declared his intention of appearing as a witness against him . A meeting has been called for the 20 th instant to make a last desperate effort to retain possession of Conciliationhall , now abandoned by Mr . John O'Connell , that it may be used as a meeting place for some other association .

      It is stated that the rent and other debts accumulated up to the present do not quite amount to £ 100 . The sales under the Encumbered Estates Act appear to be rather flat lately . On Tuesday an estate in the county of Limerick , yielding a net profit rental of £ 264 per annum , had but one bidder , and the sum tendered being at about the rate of three-and-a-half yeare' purchase , the offer was declined . Subsequently the same person expressed his willingness to increase the bid by £ 500 , but the solicitor having the carriage of the sale was inexorable , and stated that a less sum than £ 3500 would not be

      accepted . Ihe residue of the estate of Mr . Lynch , of Hoseberry , in the county of Galway , the sale of which stood adjourned from a previous day , was next set up in five lots . Tho competition was extremely languid , and it was with some difficulty that one lot realized £ 2200 on a rental estimated at £ 192 a-year . At this stage of the proceedings the commissioner interposed , and said that the sale of the remaining lots must be adjourned , if better prices were not offered ; and a new valuation rnjght then be obtained , as with the present one the court was acting in tlie dark .

      lhere appears to be a scarcit y of hands in Belfast in . some branches . The Banner of Ulster says , " We understand several of our new / lax-spinning mills will be in active opeiation next month . Several of the millownem have raised their workers' wuges , as many had signified their intention of leaving , and going to the new mills , where linger wages are offered to them ; and we hear there is likely to he a . scarcity of uullivorkers . Several families have gone to MhucIu-bUt and Leeds , at a considerable idv . nce of wagon , and a few art-still leaving for Koglnnd . " A murderous attack was made last Friday upon limothy Cloian , bailiff to Captain Itic-hurdson , an excnHive l , u , d iifjent , at Rathbpg , in Kiiii /' h County , by

      two men named Patrick Morgjii and Patrick Moylan . I h < y wen ; lying in ambush n few yards Irom Clorari ' * house , and Morgan fired at . him when ho came neur , but fortunately without effect . Morgan then snatched a tfun from his confederate which he presented at Clorun , but it missed fire . He then struck Cloran with the butt end of his gun , upon which Cloran seized the ruffian by the breast , and called out "Murder ! police ! " This made Moylan run away , and brought Cloran ' s wife to tho aasintance of her husband . She took a large stone and wounded Morgan in the head so severely that he died that night . Moyjan has been apprehended and committed for trial . Morgan wa » a tailor , and had been hired to shoot the bailiff .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 15, 1851, page 244, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1874/page/8/