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Boston Mail of May 26 has the following : — " Last evening , or late in the afternoon , our citizens were gratified ¦ with the sight of the new costume . A sweet Miss of some sixteen summers was out on promenade , ' the observed of all observers . ' She had on pink coloured pants , a coatee , a belt , and nice little hat . The Turkish dressed beauty was accompanied by a gentleman who , carrying a big cane , formed her protection . They inarched and counter-marched the streets , and went upon the common . " And the Hartford ( Connecticut ) Chronicle , of the same date , says : — " Several ladies appeared in our streets on Saturday with pantaloons , short dresses , and hats . As it was the first appearance in this city of this new costume , it naturally attracted much attention . "
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CRIME AND SUICIDE . An inquest is proceeding into the circumstances attending the death of Thomas Teasdale , alleged to have been poisoned in May by his wife . Suspicion is so strong against the woman , that the body of a previous husband , who died suddenly , ten years ago , has been ordered to be exhumed . Alfred Pressley has been committed for the manslaughter of Mr . Cole , who died from an attack made upon him during the late Isle of Wight election . The Hyde bench of magistrates , it is reported , excluded the press , and would not hear counsel in defence of the accused . Twenty-four men and four women were severely wounded by the police during the riot . Mrs . Mary Shaw , aged fifty-nine , killed herself by poison on the 30 th of May . She was living at the house of her sister , Mrs . Robinson , of Frith Bank , near Boston . She had formerly lived in Liquorpond-street , but being wholly incapable of taking care of herself , owing chiefly to " religious mania , '' she was , at the entreaty of Mr . Tuxfoxd , surgeon , of Boston , received at the house of her sister . At the inquest held on June 2 , it was satisfactorily proved that Mrs . Shaw had taken arsenic , but how she had obtained it was not proved . The verdict was Temporary Insanity . A family consisting of a gentleman named Thomas Jeffrey Hodges , his mother-in-law , and her daughter , went to reside at Brighton about a fortnight ago . They took lodgings in the Marine Parade . Mr . Hodges was
suffering from nervousness , and about a twelvemonth ago , had tried to kill himself by cutting his throat , at Hastings . During the night of June 1 , he called up Mrs . Hodges , and said persons were about to murder him . She bathed his temples till about two o'clock in the morning , and he then asked for some tea . The servant went into the kitchen to make some tea , and as Mrs . Hodges ' s child cried , and Mr . Hodges promised he would lie still in bed whilst she went to quiet the infant , she left him . On returning to the room she heard him say , "I shall murder my sister ; I must do so , that she may not have the suffering that I have had ; she is sure to go to heaven ; " and added , ' they are coming up stairs to murder me , I'll jump out of tbje window . " Mrs . Hodges hastened into the room , when she saw the
window open and deceased ' s shirt flying in the air , as he was descending from the window . She immediately ran down stairs , and found him lying on the gravel path in front of the house . He was sensible ; his right arm was broken , and shattered in two places . She lifted him up , and assisted him into the house . He said a young lady to whom he had been engaged had been the cause of it . He took hold of Mrs . Hodges ' s hand and said , " Teach me to say my prayers . " Witness knelt and held his hand , and he repeated the Lord ' s Prayer , and the blessing after her . The surgeon then came in . He lingered till about ten o'clock on Saturday night , when he died . The height of the window was about thirty feet from the ground . The jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity . . _
A man named Thorrington shot himself with a riflepistol on Monday , at Stroudon-the-Green , Chiswick . He walked into his wife ' s bed-room , holding a pistol in his right hand , and exclaimed , " Now , old girl , the time has come . " She , fearing that he was about to murder her , rushed towards him , caught hold of the pistol with one hand , whilst with the other she opened the front door , and ran into the front garden , and called out " Murder , police . " A policeman was passing at the time , and , as he was entering the garden , the report of a pistol was heard by both of them , and she returned to her husband ' s room with the policeman , and found him weltering in his blood , and the pistol grasped in hia right hand ; he was then struggling in the agonies of death . The husband and wife had lived separately for some time . The jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity .
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1 'OLI C K . Joseph Ady has been again in court . Mr . Peacock , the solicitor for the Post office , » ued him before the Lord Mayor on Monday for £ 17 16 » . for unpaid letters . Of 2130 sent by him , 1342 were refused . CO of the parties could not be ' found , and 177 were dead . The plea put in by Ady was that the Lord Mayor had no jurisdiction in the case ; Joseph alleging besides that he was " an infirm T » nn now nearly 80 yearHof age , that he had been unjustly imprisoned contrary to Magnu Charta , and that he should require somo dayB to examine nil the letters I his defence was overruled , and the Lord Muyor said he must proceed with the case .
Ady : Then I have to any that my debt , if I owe nnyr thing at nil , exceeds £ 20 , and that ( act takes the business out of your lordship's hands . The amount thoy charge me with being indebted to them is only £ 17 lo « - laey cannot go for part of my debt . ( Laughter . ' ) The Lord Mayor : 1 Imvc nothing to do with any amount except that before in a which is claimed by the Government . Ady : Ttihups your lordship would like to take time to consider my pbjections . ( Laughter . ) The Lord Mayor would not take time , and Ady pleaded
not guilty . But the charge was clearly proved against him ; and be was ordered to pay the money . Ady : I plead poverty . I have no money . The Lord Mayor : Have you goods enough in the City to be a satisfaction for the debt ? Ady : I cannot say that exactly . I wish to be allowed six months for the payment , and then to be allowed to pay by instalments . { Laughter . ) The Lord Mayor : Is there any objection to give him fourteen days ?
Mr . Peacock : No ; but we know the interval will be occupied in posting more letters . The Lord Mayor : Then the money must be paid in seven days . I cannot help feeling for an aged man who thus obstinately transgresses ; but there is no possibility of enduring such an interference with the business of so important an establishment . Ady : There is no law against me . The proceeding is altogether illegal , and I have suffered most severely for no offence at all .
Mr . Peacock here read a paper , signed " Joseph Ady , " promising tie Post-office most faithfully not to post any more unpaid letters ; and stated that the moment the paper was delivered and the defendant was discharged the persecution recommenced . Joseph , on leaving the justice-room , said that he would try to get the money , and discharge the debt which it was pretended was due . ( Laughter . ) Mr . Gordon Cumming keeps an African , not five feet high , nose flat , eyes sunken , and forehead squat ; and when this sable gentleman imbibes spirits he becomes somewhat like the beasts of his native forests . This exotic was brought before Mr . Broughton on a charge of drunkenness and assault . Mr . Cumming attended , and a singular scene ensued between the lion-hunter and the police magistrate . Mr . Broughton thought proper ^ to put a variety of irrelevant questions to Mr . Cumming about his African adventures : —
Mr . Broughton : When and where did you meet with him ? Mr . Cumming : About six years ago . He came to drink at a fountain close to which my wagons were encamped in the desert . Mr . Broughton : What was your object in going out to this part of the globe ? Mr . Cumming : My expedition had its rise with me in a thirst for further knowledge in natural history . Mr . Broughton : When your wagons were encamped , as you have stated , what number of persons were in care of them while you were pursuing your " sport" ? Mr . Cumming : Three men and two boys .
Mr . Broughton : And this was all the force you had with you , was it ? Mr . Cumming : It was , sir ; I neither thought of nor cared for any more . The prisoner at first concealed himself , thinking that those to whom the wagons belonged were Dutch boors ; and on my return from hunting I took him at his wish into my service , and he has been with me ever since . He was almost naked when he came to my wagons for protection , having nothing on him but a bit of sheepskin tied round his loins . He took a fancy to me , and has always stayed with me . Mr . Broughton : You have brought some animals over with you to this country , have you not ?
Mr . Cumming : Yes , sir ; dead specimens , but none living . Mr . Broughton ( to the African ) : Do you like England ? African ( who spoke English tolerably well ) : Not much , sir ; it is too cold for me . Mr . Broughton : Would you like to go back naked again to your own country ? Prisoner : I should very much . * Mr . Cumming : I understand he had been with the boors , and that he made his escape from them in consequence of the cruel treatment which he experienced from those in whose service he formerly was . Mr . Broughton : Do you give him any wages ? Mr . Cumming : I give him clothes and food , but he is rather fond of spirits , and I am therefore obliged to be cautious as to letting him have money .
After this conversation the case was heard . The African had got drunk on Monday , and desired to be driven home in a cab ; but the cabman refused to drive him without the money down . A gentleman named Ellis stopped to see the row , when the African , getting furious , struck him and others with a stick from within the cab . He next suddenly rushed out and attempted to bite several persons , and " the nose of the cab horse " ; and , after a desperate shindy with the police , he was eventually strapped upon a stretcher , taken to the stationhouse , and locked up . He made no defence , except remarking that some ale and beer given to him had taken effect " all on a sudden . " He was fined . ' H ) a ., which Mr . dimming paid .
A man named James Adams , and a woman named Jane Bessie Adams , have been arrested for swindling tradesmen under the names respectively of Lord and Lady Villiers . The plun adopted was ingenious . The confederates wrote to tradesmen at . Circncester in the name of that nobleman : to one for a gold watch and guard ; to another for a quantity of tea , coffee , wax candles , and mottled soap ; and to a third for a side of the best bacon which could be got . This Bide of bacon betrayed the fraud . The par . cel containing it was misdirected and subsequently sent to the real residence of Lord Villiers . The police were forthwith instructed , and the arrest of the alleged swindlers effected on Sunday morning last . They have been sent down to Cirencestei for examination . James Adams httB been imprisoned in France , Rome , versea he had written in prison to his " dear IJeHsie " being found in his pocket . The Reverend Charles Uloxam was brought , up for the lant . time on the charge of stealing a shilling out of the plate at the Church <> i All Hallows , Harking , on Monday . The gentlemen who attended upon tlu ^ part . of the prosecution stated that they had no further evidence to offer .
The Lord Mayor then said : Prisoner , I have made very close inquiries into your character since you first appeared at that bar upon the disgraceful charge of having stolen money from the p late of the church . I had hoped that the gentlemen might have made a mistake in believing that you had committed that offence , when 1 heard the particulars of the first day ' s examination ; but I regret to say that , from all I have since learned of the course you have been for some time pursuing , there is but too much reason to suppose that th ey were perfectly correct in their suspicions . It has been shown to me that you have been defrauding neoDle in the very neighbourhood
in which you have been officiating as a clergyman of the Church of England , and that you have been acting upon a regular system of imposition for a considerable period . In fact , the whole of the information which I have received convinces me that , although the evidence was not such as would justify me in committing you for trial , your moral guilt is beyond all doubt . It it needless for me to say that your conduct is incapable of extenuation , particularly regarding you as a member of a body , from the authority of whose sacred calling the most praiseworthy example might have been expected . You are now discharged , and I trust that you will earnestly beg forgiveness elsewhere .
Mr . Huggins , a solicitor , was charged on Tuesday with setting fire to No . 52 , Lime-street . This is a singular case ; bnt as the details are not yet fully before the public , and the accused is remanded , we refrain from entering upon it until it comes again before the court . The only points alleged against Mr . Huggins on Tuesday were , that a suspicious block , with a funnel containing a candle , and two iron troughs filled with wadding saturated with turpentine , were found in the cellar of the house , by the man who extinguished the fire ; and that the identical block had been made for Mr . Huggins .
The " gentlemen " who amused themselves by bespattering carriage and foot passengers with rotten eggs on the Derby day have not yet been apprehended . Mr . Elliot has directed the proper officer to apprehend the Dimsdales and Captain Williams without loss of time . Mr . Peat , the saddler , made an offer from Baron Dimsdale , the father of two of the culprits , to compound for the damage done ; , but Mr . Elliot refused to entertain the proposition . Pierce , the lodging-house keeper , and Saunders , the officer , swear to contrary facts—Pierce asserting that he did not seethe egg-throwing , SaundeTS declaring that Pierce told him that he had seen the eggthrowing .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The delegates of the metropolitan parishes' meeting , in Marylebone , have pronounced against the Government Water Supply Bill . TheSouthwark people have been bestirring themselves this week . They had one meeting to oppose the impracticable and unjust Water Supply Bill , and another to provide means for establishing baths and wash-houses . Eleven sermons were preached on Sunday in connexion with the Early Closing Association , by various ministers of dissenting chapels throughout the metropolis , on the spiritual and other evils of oppressive shop labour . The prizes to the successful students at the Merchant Tailors' School were given away on Wednesday , the election and examination day . In the evening a great company , comprising several foreign gentlemen connected with the Exposition , M . C . Dupin among the rest , dined together . The chief points in the evening were Lord Stanley ' s after-dinner speech in praise of the Ex position and M . C . Dupin ' s in honour of the Merchant Tailors' Company . Colonel Sibthorp ' s bill for further " improving" the police of the metropolis and City of London , proposes to prohibit advertising vans , and also poor musicians from playing in the streets , under a penalty of 40 s ., and of course commitment . A police constable seeing such an outrage is to be empowered to take the offender into custody .
A farewell entertainment was given to Sir Richard Armstrong , the new Commander-in Chief of the Madras Presidency , by the East India directors , on Saturday last . Several of the foreign commissioners to the Exposition were present . Sir James Sutherland Mackenzie has again got into prison for being drunk and abusive . A rule to show cause bus been obtained against the proprietors of Punch for a libel against Mr . Daly , a Roman Catholic priest . The alleged libel consists of a paragraph imputing to Mr . Daly u speech in which he ifl made to recommend the burning of the Urititsh fleet . Lord John MaimcrH was married to Miss Marley , daughter of the late Colonel Marley , at All Soul ' s Church , Lniiuhani-plnce , on Thursday .
An adjourned public meeting of the members and friends of the Westminster 1 ' reebold Land Society , resident in the neighbourhood of Iloxton , was held at the Rosemary Branch Tavern , Iloxton , last Tuesday evening , for the purpose of making arrangement !! for the transmission of subscriptions from members in that locality ; Mr . G . K . Demies in the chair . Mr . O . Iluggett , the secretary , explained fully the objects of the society , which he stated was formed in August , 18-19 , and enabled members to obtain land in Middlesex , Surrey , V . hhvx , Kent , Sussex , Hertfordshire , Uuokinghainshire , Herksliiro , and llumpbhire . The l »» 'l wan purchased and retailed to the members at the wholesale- price , the subscription being . ' * « . a fortnight . Two estates had been purchased and the committee were in treaty for ot hern . Mr . Farley was appointed agent , and arrangements made for holding monthly meetings in that locality .
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Mr . Johnntone has been returned by a majority of sixtyfive over hi » competitor , Mr . Adam , for Clackmannan and Kinroflfl . The election for Argyllshire took place on Friday week
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June 14 , 1851 . ] &t ) t % ta \ jtt . 555
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Leader (1850-1860), June 14, 1851, page 555, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1887/page/7/
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