Current:

Leader (1850-1860), 27th February 1858, Edition 1 of 2, Page 199, Untitled Article

Page 199
Page 7
7 of 24

On this page

  • Text (6)
  • Transcript

    • Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software. The text has not been manually corrected and should not be relied on to be an accurate representation of the item.

      Additionally, when viewing full transcripts, extracted text may not be in the same order as the original document.

      Untitled Article

      Ifcese offerings , some of which are very ingenious as well ^ ThT prinee and Princess Frederick William have ettblfehed the following lines addressed to the whole £ ot > ulation df Prussia . — " From the very first moment If our setting foot on the soil of our country , after our marriage so many valuable proofs of sincere interest m our happiness have been shown us unremittingly , that the remembrance of them will remain indelible m our hearts for out whole lives . It has only been to very few that we could in person express our feelings , and Sufficiently thank for all the manifestations and presents . In speaking thus oar thanks to-day to the whole country , we do so with the ardent prayer to God that He will confer on our dear country His most ample blessings now and ever . — Fjuedbich Wilbelm , Prmce of Prussia . Victoria , Princess of Prussia . —Berlin , Feb . 19 . The Princess has quite recovered from her late indisposition , caused by cold .

      AUSTRIA . The plan for laying an electric cable between Ragusa and Alexandria is likely to be altogether relinquished . The English Government is not inclined to accede to the design .

      BEIXMUM . In the Belgian Chamber of Representatives , on Saturday , M . Charles de Brouckere called the severe attention Of the Government to the conduct of the Belgian Consul in London , who , he said , had carried on a " disgraceful traffic in passports . " The Minister of Foreign Affairs replied that measures had been adopted to prevent the Belgian consuls from delivering passports to foreigners . M . Delfosse , the representative of Liege in , the Belgian Chamber , died suddenly on Monday morning , at Brussels , of apoplexy .

      SPAIN . The masquerading during the Carnival at Madrid presented some political features . Narvaez and other well-known ex ^ Ministerial characters were caricatured -openly , and the public seem to have been highly amused . DENMARK . The King is ill of erysipelas . The inflammation has 3 pread a little , but without fever or further serious indisposition .

      Untitled Article

      AMERICA . A rumour is current in the United States of a fearful insurrection having occurred near Fayetteville , Arkansas , among the slaves . The outbreak is said to have been incited by two white men . The negToes are represented to have attacked two settlements , killing twenty-three persons , burning houses , and slaying cattle . The insurgents , it is added , were finally subdued by the organization of a force of volunteers , who killed seven and Captured eighteen of the black men . The truth of the rumour , however , is doubted . General Walker , Colonel Frank Anderson , and several other Filibusters have been arrested at New York for violation of the neutrality laws .

      During a hot and very prolonged debate in the House of Representatives on the Kansas question , an affray took place between two of the members , owing , it would seem , to one not being on the right side of the chamber . The partisans of each joined in the fight , and the Speaker had great difficulty in restoring order . The original assailant was a Pro-shivery member , and the person he assaulted was an Abolitionist . The Navy Department hus appointed the officers to the steamship Niagara of that department , and the vessel is again to be engaged during the coming spring , under the command of Captain W . L . Hudson , in the renewed effort to lay down the Atlantic telegraph cable .

      A bill providing for n constitution lias passed the Kansas Legislature . Writs have boen issued for the arrest of M'Lean and Sherwood , who have escaped . The Westport correspondent of the Republican states that difficulties have again broken out at Fort Scott , Kansas , and that a requisition has been made to the Governor for troops . The House of Representatives at Washington has adopted the proposition of Mr . Harris , of Illinois , to refer the Lccompton Constitution to a committoe of fifteen membora instead of the Committee on Territories .

      In the Now York money-market on the 8 th inst . there , was more activity ; but the rates of interest woro declining , and capital was freely offered . The Mexican insurgents have triumphed over tho Government forces , and Comonfort , being abandoned by hSs troops , has fled to tho United States . Zulonga , tho Insurrectionary chief , has boon proclaimed Provisional President , and is acknowledged within ft considorublo radius of the metropolis . Ho represents tho clerical interest , and hasropoalud tho laws for tho sulu of Church property and annulled the sales . A considerable force * J ! _ Jl !?_? sIi _ s i - SJ Jii ! Siji n iL 5 JisrsL-sCi . 'J . iL ^ ifliss Have uriltedio ' oppoao the now President . At San Lulu , Alfuro has pronounced in favour of Santa Anna .

      Tho steam-boat Colonel Crosaman , from Now Orleans to St . Louis , has burat her boiler , tnkon lire , « nd burnt to "ttro wator ' a edge . She had on bonrd two hundred jvnsaengora , from twenty to fifty of whom nro reported to bo lost , Among tho saved ore tho oaptutn , mute , and Hm ladles .

      Untitled Article

      STATE OF TRADE . Most of the manufacturing towns exhibited last week a falling off from that slight improvement which had been noticeable for some time previously . With the exception of the trades of Nottingham , which have been rather brisk , business has been very languid , and in sotae places perfectly stagnant . The Board of trade returns for the month of January were issued on Monday morning , and present a reduction of l , 83 G , 505 J . in the declared value of our exportations as compared with the corresponding month of last year , and of 753 , 186 / . even from January , 1856 . The chief falling off has been in Manchester goods and also in woollens and silks ; but there is scarcely a single item of any importance on the favourable side . Machinerycontinues to be largely shipped ; but this may be attributed to the fact that the orders for such work are usually g iven many months in anticipation , and that consequently the exports do not diminish until a considerable time after the cessation of purchases . With regard to imported commodities there has been no general falling off either in arrivals or consumption . Indeed , in the latter case there has been an increase as respects many principal articles , including sugar , coffee , tea , fruits , and spices . Wines and spirits exhibit a diminution . In grain and flour there has been no material variation . — Times . The general business of the port of London has continued very inactive during the week ending last Saturday . Owing ' to the easterly wind , many vessels are detained in the Channel , overdue . The number of ships reported inward was 131 , including 34 with cargoes of corn , flour , rice &c , four with cargoes of sugar , and one from Shanghai , with 14 , 706 packages of tea and 1593 bales of silk . The number cleared outward was 104 , including 11 in ballast . The number on the berth loading for the Australian colonies is 43 . —/ tfew * .

      Untitled Article

      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A boiler has exploded at a mine in the parish of Uny Lelant , Cornwall . The boiler-house was filled with hot water to the depth of some fret , and four persons were so badly scalded and otherwise injured that . they shortly afterwards died . Others were also a good deal hurt . The boiler was in admirable order , and the cause of the accident is unknown . A boat's crew of twelve men , belonging to her Majesty ' s ship Wellington landed on the Scotch coast a short time back , and dug up a quantity of hemlock , which they mistook for wild celery or parsley . Eight of them partook of this , and speedily became very seriously ill—S () much so that two of them died , -while the others still languish .

      Untitled Article

      IRELAND . The TiiiAi- of the Mayo Puiksts . —The trial of Father Conway was brought to a conclusion last Saturday . The jury were unable to agree on any one of the counts , and tho minority refused to give their reason for not coming to a verdict . The jurymen were accordingly discharged , amidst some cheering . The trial of the Rev . Luke Ryan was proceeded with on Monday , and ultimately a postponement of the case to the sittings after next Trinity Term was agreed to , at tho request of the counsel for the defence , who said that one of his most material witnesses was absent from Dublin . The Al . i , isuisi > Disthkss in Dosbo . vl . —It appears that tho statements with rcspoct to tho cxistenco of great distress in Donegal Ji . ivo been excessively exaggerated . Tub Tipimckauy Bank . —The Tippcrary Bank case came on oai Tuesday at Dublin before tho Master in Chancery for his final decision upon the ofFor made by tha English shareholders of 650 O ( . in full discharge of all claims against them in connexion witli tho bank . The Master sanctioned tho acceptance of tho offer .

      Untitled Article

      MURDER BY A MANIAC . Thomas Kersjiaw , n youth of nineteen , and Catharine lvershaw , the former son of tho latter , woro tried last Saturday at the Lancaster Spring Assizes on a charge of murdering Robert Kurttlmw , Uio fntUor of tho young man and tins husband of the woman , at Over Darwon , on tho 13 th of January . Both pleaded Not Guilty . Thomas lvurnhaw was also churged with a murderous assault on Charles Collins , a winder in tho liouao of Correction at Prpaton . To this ho ploaded Guilty . Tho particular * of botli cnwn hnvo already appoarod in this journal , those of tho latter , last week . Both mother and aon have boun for hoiiio timo disordorud in their mi tula . On the 10 th of January , tho father wns murdered ; and tho discovery of tho deed JX ^ iiJyi ^ jdjJiSiU ^ tho nialo prisoner , iu giving lii . s evidence ut the trial : — " When I ciinio home iu the ovoiilng [ of tho 18 th of January ] , my mother waa in thq house , und I asked her where my father wns , and uho said alto had . Boou nothing of him ttiuocj four o'clock . At nlno o ' clock , my brother Thomas ciwuo homo . Ho auld he was sleepy and wanted to go to bod . lie aakod mo to go to bod with him . Wo

      got our suppera , and went to bed rather earlier than usual . When we had got into bed , I asked hi : ii if he knew where my father was , and he said he did not know unless he -was looking after him . We then went to sleep , and after some time he awoke me and said lie had something to tell me that was awful . He then , said : — ' When I came from Blackburn , my father waa dead upon the hearthstone . I took him and dragged . him down into the cellar and covered him with coals . I believe my mother has done it , but you must not tell any one . ' Then he desired me to go with him at midnight , and take ship , as he had seeu an advertisement in the newspapers that a ship Was sailing the following day . I promised him all he required , but said I must go into tho cellar and look for myself . I ' did so , anti

      after turning over some of the coals , I discovered a man's leg . I then ran out of the hou 3 e to one of my uncle 3 , and told him what I had discovered . A cousin of mine named John Holden came down to the house * and I ran for a policeman . The policeman came with , me to the house , and the coals were taken away , and my father's body was taken up-stairs into the kitchen . My mother was in the habit of railing at my father for not looking , as she said , after her property . She imagined that the world was hers . There was no ground . for railing so at 1113 ' father . I-never saw my brother show anything disrespectful towards my father , but to me he has said that my father was a traitor , a villain , and things of that kind . He has said these things often . My brother latterly considered himself 4 great

      personage , and said he considered himself a person who would become the great deliverer of what he called the rotten constitution of the world . He said that we were living under a system of Gog , and that the prophecies mentioned in the Bible respecting the overthrew of Gog were about to be fulfilled , and that he was the party to bring it about . He said that men did nothing but study other people ' s injury , and gave themselves up to the worst passions of human nature , and that my father was the chief of them , and that one day he' ^ my brother ) should be able to bring all to justice . He said my father , under this feeling , was doing all he could to keep him down . ¦ Lie imagined that my father and my eldest sister had been plotting together to bring about an improper intimacy between them , and that the result was to be laid upon him in order to keep

      him down . He also . imagined that they were plotting together to take his life if that failed . He has said that to me scores of times , lie so firmly believed in what I have now told you that he durst not go to bed without first looking under the bed to see-if my father and sister were there . Jle lias named this for five months . I have never mentioned this before except to my relations the day after my brother first told me of it . The morning before my father was killed , Thomas got out of bed about two or three o'clock in the morning , and I heard a pistol discharged on the top of the stairs , He then at once came into bed . I asked him what ho was doing that for , and he replied , 'I ' m only frightening them ; go tell my father to fetch a policeman , ' and if ho was willing to do so , I should know by that they had some feeling against him . "

      In cross-examination , this witness gave several particulars of the wild delusions that his brother laboured under . He was in tho habit , as one of his . sisters said , of ' reading and brooding over books . ' He road u good deal in this Bible , chieily tho prophecies and tho Book of Revelations ; and ho took a fancy into his head that ho was commissioned by God to mussacro uli the Gogitos , of whom he said his father was one of tho worst . He stated that lie meant to overthrow the Emperors of Franco and Russia by means of tin urmy furnished by the Amuricaii President . He thought that tlio two Emperors me . mt to invade this country , and ho conceived that liis father hud a doaign on hia ( . Thomas ' s ) life . " Scores of times , " auid the brother , in oros-i-ox .-aminatioii , " ho lias expressed a wish thai ho hud never been born , and apponrod wretchedly miserable . On ono occasion , when he appeared to bo brooding , he ro . 10 up , struck the . table with his fuot and knocked a piucj right out of it , and wont down into the collar , and remained

      sometime sobbing and cryiiig . On Saturday afternoon , between threo ami four o ' clock , ho got u candle and wept up-fitairs , and was going t . o set lire to a bundle of books , but I persuaded liitu not to do so . I don ' t supiut . su thuro wns a bettor young inuii anywliorn before llioao lit « oaiuo on about twelve months ago . " Oil onu occasion tie o . vclaimod , " Oh , my lioad ! " and then added , " I'uthor , take mo to th' unylum , for I'm nooan root . " Ouuo ho tried to hung liimaelf . Tlio niyhl before tho murder , ho cried out , "Oh , dear ! I wish my head was out into a thousand piocoti . " On tho duy on which tho murdor was committed , his younger « istor saw him go into tho collar , whore the body ww lying' ; < md ho U 1011 "looked whlto and wild . " AVI 1011 tlio oorpoo was dieteovurtid , it was fou . lwUto _ baJ ' iMhtfuUy _ battoi ^ injui'ios 011 tho huail , tho ribn were frnoturod , an If aoina ono had jumped on thorn . " Tho probability , " s » id tlio medical man on tlio trial , "is , that tho person who infliutod tho wounds wits in a atata of frenzy . " Thoro boing no ovldenoo at till to Implicate tho mother , tho Judge diroutedau acquittal 111 horoaaoj auU Thomas Kcrnhaw was ixlao acquitted on tho ground of insanity . Ho will of courae bu kept in clone custody .

      Untitled Article

      No . 414 , Eebktjaky 27 , 1858 . 1 THE LEADER- 199

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 27, 1858, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2232/page/7/