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      mistress's anger . In the course of the night a signal ¦ was made outside , Mrs . Tayleur said it was ilord . Arthur , but the nurse , who remained firm , would not open the door to him , Mrs . Tayleur then called the housemaid , who opened the door , and his lordship ¦ walked straight into the lady's bedroom , where he spent the night , according to the evidence , of both servants . The scandal having thus become notorious , the butler wrote toff to his master , who instantly took the usual course under such circumstances . An action was brought against Lord Arthur Lennox by Mr . Tayleur , who obtained £ 500 damages . He also obtained a final sentence of separation , a tnensa et thoro , in the Ecclesiastical Court . The evidence presented nothing remarkable , and the bill was read a second time on Tuesday .

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      THE SEAMEN'S STRIKE . Upwards of 100 seamen belonging to Hull paid a visit to Sheffield last week . They were met by a band of music , and marched in procqgMon to the residence of Mr . Councillor Ironside , < i $ ere they partook of an ample supply of bread , cheese , ale , and tobacco . A series of public meetings have been held , which were numerously attended , and of the most enthusiastic character . At one of the meetings it was resolved to petition Parliament to repeal or modify the Mercantile Marine Act ; at another , a memorial to the Queen was adopted to the same

      effect ; and at another , it was resolved to memorialize the Government . On Tuesday last the greater part of the sailors left for Hull . They were accompanied to the Station by a band of music and a large number of the inhabitants . During their , stay they were very kindly treated , having been gratuitously lodged and boarded in various parts of the town . They left with heavy hearts , many declaring that they had never been in such a ship in their lives . They took with them a large quantity of provisions which had been given for their wives and families . A public subscription has been set on foot , which at present amounts to nearly £ 150 .

      A meeting of the seamen connected with the port of London was held at the Temperance Hotel , Princes-square , on Wednesday , when it was resolved that the petition to be presented on Thursday should not be accompanied by a procession as was originally intended .

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      THE CARNIVAL AT ROME . A glance at Rome , during the Carnival , from a private letter of an English friend resident there , will amuse our readers . It will be seen that our correspondent is of a more hopeful character than most of our countrymen who date their letters from the Eternal City : — "Rome , March 4 , 1 S 51 . " Rome has been during the last ten days a curious sight , the strangers in it having been attempting a spectre carnival , driving up and down the Corso , pelting each other with confetti and bouquets ; the people looking on , and taking little or no part in the diversions . In former days , wlien great cars full of costumes and every variety of masquerade used to promenade up and down

      the Corso , the scene was full of gaiety and animation . The fun had been this year done into English , and has not profited by the translation , being much more rough and coarse than when the Italians , who have a genius for everything buffo , took a part in it . Last Sunday night was the great veglione , when the large theatre used to be thronged with masks und dominos ; here all the intrigues and lovemakingn , began with bon-bons and bouquets , used to be accomplished , and a great deal of witty merriment . I went th < re about one o ' clock in the morning , and the theatre beautifully lighted , two bands playing , and everything prepared as usual ; but the place was perfectly deserted by all except about twenty

      men in accurate ball-room costume , sent there by the police , many gendarmes and firemen , and a few Englishmen . The word had been passed that , as masking had been foibidden and the French were occupjing Rome , it was not becoming for the Romans to go ; and , accordingly , not a Roman man or woman was to be seen . One box had been hired by a respectable English family who stole in , thinking to have some unorthodox fun ; but they found the most harmless and unamusing spirit prepared for them . Altogether the attitude of the people is very dignified in their misfortunes , and there is very great unanimity in their abstinence from the amusements in which they used to take so much pleasure .

      " The Pope goes out oftener walking , but no notice is taken of him ; and the prestige attached to the Papal authority i « every day weakened . The Pope himself is zealously watched , as he is found every now and then disponeA to relent , and would gladly try the system of gradual conce .-fcion . I firmly believe that he is a good - nan totally unfitted for the age and for hm place . Iho priest m ver ceases to ' bo more powerful than the temporal Sovereign ; and when in difficulty he , prays for m-Hpiration—a method of escaping from diflioulticH which lias hitherto been only moderately successful .

      " It is very difficult to conceive any plan by which Rome could pei . e . fully acquire the Government necessary for it . A mixed Government , half priest half lay , is , I ^ ni " persuaded by the past experience , impossible . No Pope will wver rule constitutionally , and the lay Ministers will only be ho nominally . A conscientious Pope will be , the present one has been , ho tormented by hiu confcHsor und the idea that ho ia undermining the spiritual power , that he will throw himself entirely into the hands of the priesthood . Th « ir power so completely depend * upon

      the ignorance of all around them that they will never bring forward any liberal system of education , by which alone the people will become able to govern and be governed . " The upper classes here have been tried since ' 48 , and not one of them has been found to possess any capacity for public employment . Conscious of this inferiority and jealous of the liberal and constitutional party , they will always side with the reactionary party , and would prefer seeing the French or Austrians occupying Rome to a government of the middle and only educated class . The death of Rossi by assasination and the flight of the Pope destroyed the best chance for the Romans of passing through an imperfect form of government to one more durable and perfect .

      ' In spite of this , I have no doubt of the future success of the independence of Italy . In Piedmont , constitutional forms of government , the liberty of the press , and the honesty of the King give great promise of aid . Their army is excellent , and navy very respectable ; and Piedmont will give the proper example to the rest of Italy . The King of Naples , although the most abject of Absolutists , has been busily engaged in forming the means of destruction for absolutism . If he were to die , and the Count of Syracuse were to become Regent , there is a chance of things going on fairly towards improvement . Their array , in a good cause and well led , is good ; and all the material for war in good order . "

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      EARTHQUAKES IN ASIATIC TURKEY . Every schoolboy has heard of that great wonder of the world , the Colossus of Rhodes , which , we are told , weighed 713 , 000 lb ., and was thrown down by an earthquake in the year 234 B . C . That tremendous downfall has been called to mind by a succession of earthquakes which have lately taken place at Macri , a town of Natolia , in Asiatic Turkey , and also at Rhodes . At the latter place the first shock was felt on the 28 th of February . Between five and half-past five p . m . the upper part of the castle , which is at the entrance of the town , fell with an awful crash , overwhelming the offices of the Austrian Lloyd ' s Steam

      Navigation Company , whilst the Tower of Arays-Kule , which commands the entrence of the harbour , and several other parts of the fortifications , sustained great injury , as did likewise many dwelling-houses , some of which were shaken to their very foundations , on the rock , others cracked throughout . The oscillations were from west to east . The lady of a foreign vice-consul was so alarmed that she rushed , with an infant in her arms , from her falling dwelling , and , jumping into the sea , made her way to a boat ; whilst another daughter , who attempted to follow her , got buried in the ruins , but , through the humane exertions of some neighbours , she was extricated , and ,

      marvellous to relate , with no other injury than bruises . Slighter shocks succeeded almost daily , even up to the 7 th of March . At Mncri , on the main land , and in its immediate neighbourhood , the consequences have been most disastrous . The whole of the houses and dwellings , 'lately erected , have been levelled to the ground ; fissures have been formed in the very streets , from which bituminous vapours exude contitinually , almost suffocating the inhabitants ; many springs have suddenly dried up , whilst in arid localities new ones have gushed out , changing the whole

      features of the earth ' s surface . The town of Levissy , which contained 1500 houses , has not one left standing , and no less than GOO human beings are reckoned to be under the ruins , which number would have been awfully augmented had the shock been alter nightfall , when the inhabitants retire to their homes . The village of Chiorge nearly met with the same fate , the upper part of a huge mountain having fallen into , and blocked up , the small port of Kkengik , overwhelming all the dwellings round about its base . Another village , more inland , situated between two hills , has been buried under tliem .

      The survivors at Macri , alarmed by the repeated shocks which were still occurring for five days after , though of a much slighter nature , had fled for safety on board small craft , and fishing-boats , carrying with them what property they could from time to time dig out from beneath the ruins of the storehouses , most of which has been removed to Simi , Rhodes , and other islands . Letters from Trebizond ( the ancient Trapesus ) , down to the fith of March , also make ; mention of two smart shocks of earthquake having been experienced thereat . Stove pipes got detached from the walls of the houses , doors flew open , and many old tenements threatened to fall about the ears of the inmates , but no accident of consequence resulted .

      The last Overland Mail brings intelligence of several earthquakes having taken place throughout India , between the 4 th ami 11 th of February , accompanied by great storms .

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      April 5 , 1851 . ] W $ t- 'JLt&fret * 315

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      THK FRIMM' . Y AND OTIIKR MURDKKS . The trial <> f Levi Ilarwood ( aged twenty-nine ) , James JoneH ( i'ge < l twenty-four ) , and Samuel ilarwood ( aged twenty-five ) , for the murder of the Reverend Mr . Holiest , on the ' 27 th of September last , commenced ( in Monday morning , at Kingston , before Mr . lSuron l'arke . Mr ChuinbciH recited the factn , which art- in the recol lection of the public . Mrs . Caroline Holiest , the first witness , produced a great sensation by stating , on cross-examination , her deliberate belief that Hiram Smith , the Queen ' s evidence , was tti <* man who struggled with and fihot her husband . When Hiram Smith who

      called , he wore , it is said , the same forbidden , senseless expression as when on his examination before the magistrates , combining in a remarkable degree the slight active figure of the accomplished burglar with . a cast of countenance at once cunning , cowardly , and . cruel . For a moment , on entering the witness-box , he looked abashed , and unable to raise his eyes or to confront the furious glances which his associates darted at him from the . dock ; but by degrees his confidence returned , and it was quite remarkable to observe the cool , easystyle in which he surrendered himself to the examinatioriin-chief , and the half-petulant air of injured innocence with which he replied to the searching interrogatories of the counsel for the accused . He persisted that it was not he but Levi Harwood who fired the fatal shot ; and said , after he left the house , he hoped to God he had not killed the man . He retired amidst hisses from the

      persons in and around the crowded court . The ' trial was brought to a conclusion on Tuesday . The counsel for the prisoners strongly dwelt on the circumstance that Mrs . Holiest identified Smith , the witness , as the man who shot her husband , and that the wadding and cap were found where he must have stood . The judge told the jury that , to convict the prisoners , it was not necessary they should be satisfied that one or all of them had discharged the pistol by which the fatal wound was given . The jury were absent nearly two hours , and returned a verdict of Guilty upon Levi Harwood and Jones—of Not Guilty upon Samuel Harwood . The foreman said that the jury were unanimously of opinion that neither of the prisoners found guilty had fired the shot . On being asked if he had anything to say whjr sentence of death should not be passed upon him , Levi Harwood , his body stretched forward over the dock , said : " I am as innocent of the murder of which I stand

      indicted as any man in this court . I am as innocent as this man ( pointing to some person who stood near ) , or even as your lordship , both of the burglary and of the murder . " Jones also said : " I am innocent of the charge against me . I am quite innocent . " Levi Harwood , again speaking , and shaking his head earnestly , said : " The jury have not looked strictly into this matter . " The judge then pronounced sentence of death on the two ; and the third was arrested on another charge .

      Daniel Gibbs Hathway , aged twenty-six , the keeper of a beerhouse at Chipping Sudbury , was tried at the Oxford Assizes , on Tuesday , for the murder of his wife , by poisoning her a few weeks ago . From the evidence given there was no doubt but the woman had been poisoned , and it appeared also that Hathway had kept up an improper intimacy with a girl who had been his servant at one time . The jury , however , not deeming the evidence sufficiently strong against the prisoner found a verdict of acquittal .

      A long investigation took place at Stonham Aspal , near Ipswich , before the coroner and a jury , on Friday and Saturday , to ascertain by what means a labourer named Cage came by his death , suspicion having attached to his wife of having poisoned him with arsenic . Cage and his wife lived on the worst terms . He died on Saturday week , and was about to be buried , when from certain intelligence as to the cause of his death , the clergyman of the parish caused a postponement , of the funeral , and a coroner ' s inquest to be called . The evidence of two medical men affirmed the fact , of the presence of arsenic in the stomach , &e ., and it . was proved that Mrs . Cage had employed a woman to purchase for her a pennyworth of arsenic . The inquest has been adjourned for a full analyzation of the contents of the stomach of the deceased to he made .

      Patrick Lyons and his wife were found guilty at Liverpool Assizes , on Monday , of murdering a woman named Pes'gy Fahey , a poor Irish hawker , by striking her on the head with a hatchet , in a lodging-house at Warrington . They were both sentenced to death . At the reexamination of William Howe , before the county magistrates at Kidgway , near Plymouth , on Wednesday , he was fully committed to take his trial at the next assizes for the wilful murder of John Bunker , a servant , boy . An attempt wa . s made by Howe ' s family to obtain his liberation on bail to the amount of £ . 5000 , but the magistrates refused to accept , it , though it appears on the . occasion of ihe lirst examination they accepted bail to the amount of JJ 2 O ()() , and the accused surrendered at the proper time .

      Ah Mr . Robert Fisher , a gentleman residing at 7 o , Hayljuin-strect , Caniden-town , was returning home on Thursday evening he discovered at the step of bis hall door a fine linen ba ^ , which was neatly sewn up , and contained something heavy . He immediately handed it to a police-constable , who ripped it . open and found within it . a fine male child , neatly dressed in a handsome coloured bedgown , and a rich lace cape ornamented with very splendid ribbons . Around the neck was a white handkerchief , so tightly fastened that it could not fail in producing strangulation . On the chest lay a note written in a neat hand , and which ran thus : — " The Lord have

      mercy on the child's aoul . It . is of noble parentage . " The body wan conveyed to the workhoiiHe , where it was examined by Mr . Robertson , the house , surgeon , who pronounced it to be that of a fine child , upwards of a mom h old , and also declared that hi ; had no doubt that , tho child was murdered .

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      MISOKLUNKOUS . The Queen held a drawing room in St . James ' s Palace on 'Thin-sduy afternoon . It ' was the first , public , reception this season , and wuh numerously and fashionably attended . The Queen and Prince Albert , attended by tho ladies and gentlemen of the royal suit * :, arrived from Buckingham Paluce ut two o'clock . Before the drawingroom , her Majesty , according to annual custom , received a deputation from OhriMt ' n Hospital in tho Throne-room . The Queen wore a white f $ ros do Naples train , trimmed with white crape and white bugles , and ornamented with dihmonda . Tho petticoat was of white ypon de N » ple » ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 5, 1851, page 315, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1877/page/7/