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THE ASSIZES
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bat at Genoa the movement was not directed ^ Sainst he Pfedmontese Government , but that it was intended d turn tlie means of action which Genoa possesses to ccotmt , and to draw Piedmont into a / evolutionary rat . Mazzini concludes by declaring that he will not sase until he has attained his object . . The Neapolitan Government has authorized the esta-Hshtnent of two lines of submarine telegraph , uniting icily to Malta and Turin . A decree pronounces the sform of the postal system ; other decrees will complete lis reform , which is based on the French system . An neuie has taken place at Tsernia on the subject of the stroi . A body of 2000 peasants invaded the mumpality with cries of " Long live the / Bang ! The athorities soon restored order , and the ringleaders were
rrested . HOLLAND . The Government has presented to the States General proiet de loi having for its object the abolition of lavery in the Dutch West Indies . The basis of the Toject will be an indemnity which is calculated at 4 , 000 , 000 guilders , to be paid to the proprietors of aves . TURKEY . There has been a change of ministry in Turkey . At onstantinople M . de Thouvenel , the French Ambassaar , having received orders to break off diplomatic relaons with the Porte if the Moldavian elections were not Sclared null and void , and not obtaining a satisfactory lswer to that demand , at once prepared to leave the urkish capital . To prevent this step being taken , the ultan changed his Ministers . Mustapha Pasha ( of rete ) is appointed Grand Vizier ; Aali Pasha , Minister ' Foreign Affairs ; Redschid Pasha ( ex-Grand Vizier ) , resident of the Tanzimat ; Kiamil Pasha ( of Jedda ) ,
jraskier . RUSSIA .. The St . Petersburg Gazette publishes the text of a invention concluded at Berlin on the 14 th of last ibruary , and ratified on the 12 th of March , relative to j& construction of a line of railway from Berlin to onigsberg in conjunction with the railway between ; . Petersburg and Warsaw . The Russian Government gages to construct upon its territory a branch line > m the St . Petersburg and Warsaw Railwaj ' , which ill go by Kowno to the Prussian frontier near Eydkouin . Gn its side , the Prussian Government engages to nstruct on its territory , in continuation of the Russian le above mentioned , a railway from the Russian fron-; r near Eydkounen as far as Konigsberg , where it will in the Berlin to the KOnigsberg line .
PORTUGAL ,. A set of coiners of English sovereigns and other foreign eces at Braga , about thirty miles from Oporto , have en arrested . The number of the party was seven , and long them wna a priest . Another priest , who appears have been the leader , has escaped .
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . fearful explosion took place on the afternoon of iday week at a coalpit near Ashton , owing to which irty-nine lives have been lost . On the previous day , an explosion occurred at the lymney Ironworks , resulting in the death of two men , d injury to several other .- ? . So great was the force of a blast that one end of a case , weighing about If a ton , was blown in a straightforward direction a tance of one hundred yards . The other end was md among the ruins of the walls , the plates being rered as though they had been cut with shears . The ddle , weighing five or six tons , was blown over a tip ne tMrty or forty feet high , a distance of one hundred rds or more , and was loft standing nearly porpendicuin the soil , flattened out like a sheet of paper . A am pipo , weighing about five hundred weight , was o blown over the tip to a distance of three hundred
a fifty yards . kxi accident to Mies Gilbert , the well-known profesnal horsewoman , while riding in Rotten-row , has > n nearly attended by fatal consequences , but has jpily only resulted in a slight concussion of the brain . q cause of the mishap is thus stated in tlio doily > ors : —The horse wna a high-couruged hunter , ridden the first tirne by a lady . He went very quietly , but , being cantered down close to the rails on the loft side Rotton-row , he started with the wrong foot . Miss bert , wishing him to change his leg , touched the nenr 0 rein , lightly . The horao evidently thought ho was jump the rails ; on which ho rose in his stride tmleys , but , being too near to clear thorn , caught tUo iron above the knees , turned completely over , and fell on 1 other side of tho mils . It was one of ttio worst
s over seen ; and tlia lady ' s osoapo , tQ those who nessed it , still appears incredible , but-wns owing to » onuses—her fine riding and norvo—for nho novor ved her hands or stirred from her seat until » ho struck ground . The horse had turned so completely over t the pommel of the saddle was tho first point of tnot ; this waa broken to pieces , but appears to have wn tho horso beyond Miss Gilbert , and thus saved life . She wished £ o ride tho eamo horse again tho ; t days bat her medical attendant would not por-
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THB ASSIZES . Harriet Rudgo , a single woman , aged twenty-two , was charged at Hereford with tho wilful murder of Jainos Rudgo , hor illogUimato infant . When tho child was
three weeks old , Budge was seen carrying it alonga road which went by the side off a canal ^ " and shortly afterwards was found returning by the same road without the child , which has never since been seen . The body of an infant was discovered in the canal a few weeks subsequently ; but there was some degree of uncertainty as to whether-this was the child of Rudge . The wife of a police superintendent , and a gardener , swore that Rudge had confessed the crime to them ; but considerable doubt attached to the evidence of both , their statements having been unaccountably kept secret for a long time ; and the superintendent ' s wife appeared to be in the habit of extorting confessions from prisoners . The jury Acquitted the woman , on the ground that the identity of the Lody was not proved to their satisfaction .
James Ablett , a warder or nurse in , the workhouse of Yarmouth , has been tried at Norwich for the murder of Angus Steward , a pauper , under circumstances which w e detailed in our last issue . He was found Guilty of manslaughter , and was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude . Arthur Petty , a coal dealer , has been tried at Warwick on a charge of causing to be engraved on a plate the words " Hull Old Bank , "" and of thus forging a part of the promissory notes of Messrs . Pease and
Liddell , bankers of Hull . When Petty ordered the engraving of the plate , he said he was about to set up a small bank at Hull ; and the only similarity between the notes he desired to have produced and those of Messrs . Pease and Liddell consisted in the use of the words " Hull Old Bank . " Even these , moreover , were engraved in a totally different character . Mr . Justice Erie , having consulted with Mr . Justice Cresswell , expressed an opinion tliar , under these circumstances , the jrosecution had failed ; and a verdict of Acquittal was consequently taken . found at of
Thomas Pooley has been Guilty Bpdmin writing and uttering certain blasphemous libels . Previously to his trial , he expressed a hope that none of the jury were Christians , " and , " say the reporters , " conducted himself as a person of violent and unsound mind . " He was sentenced to a year and nine months ' imprisonment . On hearing this , he said the Judge had better hang him at once . George Campbell , engine fitter , was brought up for sentence at Maidstone just before the adjournment of the Criminal Court . "While an inmate of Maidstone gaol , he stabbed a fellow prisoner with a chisel , and , although the act was committed under circumstances which clearly indicated insanity , and although he was removed to the county lunatic asylum , where he remained upwards of
twelve months before he was considered in a fit state to be removed , Mr . Justice Willes , who tried him , ruled that , inasmuch as the surgeon was unable to state that at the time the offence was committed the prisoner Avas not aware that he was striking a blow ,, the jury would not be justified in acquitting him on the ground of insanity , and that the only question they could legally consider was whether the intent was to murder , or only to do grievous bodily harm . The jury , upon this ruling . •—evidently , however , with great reluctance—found tho prisoner Guilty of the minor charge ; but judgment waa respited . Mr ; Justice Willes now sentenced him to be kept in penal servitude for four years , at the same time informing him that the condition of his mind would be inquired into , and that the Secretary of State might interfere in the matter if he thought proper to do so .
A very horrible case of fratricide has been tried at Maidstone . George Kebble Edwards , a youth of eighteen , was living in that town in the early part of tho present year . He was an idle and dissolute 3 'oung fellow ; but he had an elder brother , named Thomas , aged twenty-four , who was a very hard-working , wellconducted person . Loth lived at homo with their parents and a youngor brother ; aiicl Thomas assisted in supporting the family in respectability . On the ICtli of March , the father told George he had got somo work for him ; but ho answered evasively that ho had something to do elsewhere . 11 is brother Thomas then said that , if he would not work , ho would turn him out of doors ; and this appears to hnvo roused a revengeful feeling in
the mind of Guorgo . Two nights later , Thoinns came homo early , and went to bed . George followed shortly afterwards . Both brothers slept in tho aamo room , ana , until half-past twelve o ' clock , all was quiet . But at that hour tho mother heard a moaning in tho bedroom , occupied by Thomns nnd George . Sim struck a light , and proceeded there , when she found hor eldest sou lying on tho bed , his lioad covered with gashes , a » J tho pillow and shoots saturated with blood . Goorye had gone , and it was evident that ho hurt jumpod out of tho window , which was still open , and two gardon pots
were knocked down in his hurried flight . An axo , of . great size and weight , nud covered with blood and hair , was found under tho bnd . Tho young man diod at dght o ' clock In the morning , and was unconscious from tliu first . Goorge had gone to tho houso of an uncle at JJrompton , naur Rochostor , and hnd remained thoro to tho evening of tho 10 th r but was onpturod tho next day at Rochester . Tho dofence on tho trinJ wh « an uttompt to show insanity ; but this failod , and tho accused waa found Guilty . Sontonco of death wa « pronounced by Mr . Justice Wllloa ; oud Edwards loft tho dock without showing' any emotion .
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ANOTHER CASE OF POISONING . A vert painful case was tried at Bodmin towards the close of last week . An old man , in humble life , named John Beard , was indicted for the murder , by poison , of his grand-daughter , a little girl three years of age . The child was illegitimate , and the grandfather appears to have grumbled at having to support it and to bear with the annoyance which it sometimes occasioned . The case for the prosecution rested mainly on the evidence of Grace Beard , the mother of the infant and the daughter of the man now accused of eausing the child ' s death ; and it amounted to this : —The old man frequently spoke harshly of the little girl , and wished it was dead ; and he often told his daughter that he would ' heave her and
her bastard out of doors , ' as he would not be troubled with them . This feeling was exacerbated when he found that his daughter was likely to become a mother again . On the 1 st of April , he gave her some money to purchase threepenny worth of arsenic , saying he wanted it to kill rats with . She endeavoured to procure it , but the chemist would not let her have any , and gave her a pot of paste instead . When she got home , she found her father and the child in bed , though it was unusually early for the former . In the course of the night , the infant was very sick and ill ; but soon got better . Two days afterwards , she was found eating something brown , which smelt like brimstone ; and that evening she was again very ill , and
vomited continually during the night . The grandfather , being waked by the sickness , and asked to light a candle , said , with an oath , " I'll have alterations in this very soon . I'll not be disturbed in this way . " Between nine and ten o ' clock the following morning , the child , while lying in Jts mother ' s lap , was seized with convulsions , and the eyes became fixed . The mother felt alarmed , and ran for her neighbours , who came in ; but the little girl was dead in ten minutes . Grace Beard was much afflicted , and said she was . sorry she had not had a doctor ; on which her father exclaimed , " D—n you ! what do you mean ? I Will heave you and your bastard out of doors . " She subsequently intimated to him the opinion of the neighbours that the child was
poisoned ; and he angrily replied , "Do you mean to hang me ? " adding that he wished , she and the child were in hell . At another time , he said to a neighbour , " Grace is determined to bring me to the gallows . " On learning that the body had been exhumed , he swore and cursed a great deal , and wished all the neighbours were in hell flames for not letting the child rest , and allowing everything to remain quiet . He also threatened to turn his daughter away from the house if she continued to grieve for the child ,- as it was better cared for than she could care for it . Ultimately , both father and daughter were arrested for the murder of the infant ; but the woman was not placed on her trial , there being-no case whatever against her . In answer to questions put to him by a superintendent of police , old Beard denied that he had purchased poison for rats , or that any of his family had done so , or that his house was infested by vermin . On
being apprehended , his wife asked him what it was for . He swore a dreadful oath , nnd told her to hold her tongue ; adding to the police , " Why did she keep on so ? She knows well enough what I am took up for . " Tho intestines of the exhumed body were analyzed by Professor Merapnth and others ; but phosphorus ( the poisonous ingredient in the composition for destroying rats ) was not found . It appears probable , howovor , that it would hnvo decomposed during the time the body was in the grave ; and the stato of the intestines was such as would ronult from tho employment of ah irritant poison . The symptoms of the illness , moreover , were those produced by phosphorus ; and , on the stomach being opened , a white vapour escaped , which is an indication of the presence of the poison in question . Portions of the remains of the child were given to insects , fishes , andrata ; and they all died .
It was sought to be shown by tho counsel for tho defence that the child might have been poisoned by phosphorus from sucking lucifer mutches ; and Mr . Herapath , in cross-examination , said : — "A child diod in two days from sucking matches . There is phosphoric acid naturally in the body . " On being re-oxarained , ho observed : — " There id a case of a woman having sucked throe hundred matches , without dying . " In the course of tho dofon . ee , Grace Beard was recalled by tho Judge ( Mr . Justice Coleridge ) , und said : — " I remarked to Z . Roberts that I had accused my father wrongfully , and I hoped the Lord would forgive me . She said ? l Why did you do so ? ' I said , ' 1 don ' t know . I thought my child had oaten what it ought not . ' I said so becnuHO I thought , if ho had given tho child anything ' , tho medical gentleman would Imvo discovered it , ami therefore I thought I had condemned my father wrongfully . This was uftor the inquost . " Th « jury , after an absenoo of twenty mlnutee , gavo a verdict of Not Guilty .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 8, 1857, page 751, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2204/page/7/
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