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adames . The chief was betrayed and slain by one o s f ollowers , and 'his head has been brought into ripoli with great rejoicing . An Ottoman steam liner and frigate , having on iard 3000 troops from Constantinople , put into Corfu the 19 th , and left on the 22 nd cf March for Albania , suppress the depredations committed on the Turkish jntier in the Adriatic , and to protect it against an in-. sion from the Montenegrins . MONTENEGRO . Prince Danilo , being still in negotiation with the lltan about the cession of a strip of land in exchange his submission , has interdicted his subjects from comiting warlike acts , except in case- they are attacked , istria has sent more men to the vicinity of the disrbed districts , and the Montenegrins seem to look on it p ower as their natural protector . PRUSSIA . At a meeting of the shareholders of the Bank of ussia , held at Berlin on the 31 st ult ., a proposition is made to vote 8340 thalers towards the subscription building the Protestant cathedral ; but it excited so ach opposition that it was withdrawn . RUSSIA . Six more governments of the empire have applied : permission to form committees for the emancipation the serfs . As a matter of course , the authorization is at once accorded . Preparations on a most extensive scale are now being ide for a fresh campaign against the Circassians , iver before , it is said , have such powerful means of ; ack been brought into action against these poyula-
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TRIAZ , OF THE EEV . SAMUEL SMITH . b trial of Samuel Smith , clergyman , of Clifton , and ah Smith , his wife , for a murderous assault on John sell , took place on Tuesday at the Gloucester Assizes . 3 facts will be within . the recollection of the reader , as y occurred no longer . ago than the 3 rd of February ; ; hat it will be sufficient here to state that the charge inst the prisoners was that they had conspired to lure prosecutor down to a lonely common at Yate , on the stol and Birmingham Kail way , and that they there eavoured to murder him . This conspiracy was ried out by writing letters to Leech , in which Mrs . ith falsely pretended that her husband was dead , and t she was a widow , and willing , if Leech felt so < lis-Dd , to renew their former . acquaintance and to marry i . "When a single woman , some nine years ago , Airs , ith had been courted by Leech and by her present band , and finally she married the clergyman . Leech , rever , had often seen her since , and it would seem t he seduced her . Me was closely cross-examined on i point by Mr . Huddleston , Q . C ., counsel for Mrs . ith , and declined to say whether , on . several occaib referred to , he had had intercourse with the lady . Lt the conclusion of the case for the prosecution , the r . Mr . Smith , who was uiulefendod , addressed the f from a written statement which ho held in his d . He aaid " he should have to tell the jury his shame and of his wrongs , and to give the ory of his marriage . He would not conceal the h , but would reveal every circumstance that might the jury to arig ht conclusion . In September , 1848 , irst met his wife and proposed marriage , buing told ; she had boen in service at Swan and Kdgar ' a , and going to another situation . He would have married at once but for his circumstances ; but ho had been ; ed to labour for hU support since the age of fifteen . Irnd gone to Cambridge , whore lie gained a scholar-, and became senior optlme in 1818 . Ho married his in July , 1849 , but did not take her homo , because , laster of the Bishop ' s school at itristol , ho had but ' . a year . lie therefore thoug ht it bettor to leave for a time with her friends in Kent , whore ho on-; d to pay for her board . His wife wanted to e to him ; but , as ho was still reading for holy rs , ho could not roeolvo her in hit ) lodging , nnd osod that bIio should go to board at u milliner ' s at tol . Ultiinutoly his wife ciuno to livo with him at on , in lodging ** which ho took for her . In 1851 , was confined at her friend ' s Ijouho in Kent , and n in 1852 ; and then he took a house , when a third 1 was born , In 1854 . Ho then resiimod his situation Jishop ' s College , and opuned a school of his own , n ho had u fourth child born , lie did duty in ral places in the neighbourhood , and was earning it 400 / . when thia calamity ciuno upon him , and a bio disclosure was brought to his knowledge . He often—ob 8 Qrvert-that ^ thuro-WH »~ a-inoluuohol y ~» bout . " ivifo , and h !» o would sigh on his boaoin and toll him eho was not worthy of him . llo Imd ol ' iou oomiod of hor ataying ho much in Kent , anil that thoro t bo aomo roanon for hor nuilanclioly , though ho il not toll -what it was . Sho onoo i . old him of n r who had rooolvod from tha man Louuli , and monad other circumstances which tended ruthor to cx .-his Jealousy . But ho overlooked it , aa sho
continued to bear him children and managed the house well . At length , on the 22 nd of last January , she told him something which made him very unhappy ; but he said ho would forgive her if she would take an oath that nothing had happened since their marriage . She then knelt down , and told him of the circumstances under which the prosecutor Leech induced' her to meet him at Canterbury , and committed adultery with her , and that Leech afterwards met her in London and promised that , if she would go and live with him he would marry her in seven years . The idea racked his mind that perhaps the children were not his own . His wife , however , assured him that she had never done anything wrong since she had been living with him , and he told her that he would forgive her if she would bring the man to Bristol , in order that he might retaliate . It was under his directions that his wife wrote the letters , which he dictated . He insisted on his wife writing the letters , and disguising herself as she had done , on the promise which he made her that he would not do Leech any serious injury . He bought the revolver for his own protection in case Leech should draw a knife upon him ; but he solemnly denied that he had ever intended to use the pistol aggressively against Leech : had he done so , he would not have acted as he had , so as to lead to his detection . His only object was to do what lie had done—viz . to give Leech a good beating , in order to solace his outraged mind . He could not justify his conduct , which lie should uhva 3 's deeply lament ; but he hoped his acts would be justly appreciated by the judge and jury , who could not blame him for the burning indignation which had overcome his whole being . He implored the jury to put themselves in his place , and ask themselves what redress the laws of the land and courts of justice could have given him . lie took the law into his own hand ; but who could deny that he had sinned against human nature , or that Leech had had more than he deserved ? The jury might find j him guilty of an assault if they would ; but he implored them notto iind him guilty of a felony , which would ruin his prospects in life , and deprive his children of their bread . " Mr . Huddleston , in addressing the jury for the wife , described her as the victim of Leech when she was only sixteen or'seventeen years of age , and suggested that she was under the coercion of her husband when acting as she hud done on the day of the assault . AVith re- ' spect to the husband , he contended that , at the most , he could only be convicted of unlawfully wounding . The jury found both the prisoners Guilty of cutting and wounding with intent to disligure and to do grievous bodily harm ; but they added that the female prisoner had committed no actual violence , and that she had acted throughout under the coercion of her hnsband . On the following daj r , the clergyman was sentenced to four years' penal servitude , and the wife was allowed to go at liberty . She is described us a person of forbidding exterior . Mr . Smith is a muscular man , of very resolute aspect . He showed much solicitude for his wife , who was greatly overcome on the second day . . i i 5 > - l [ , i : | I
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CRIMINAL , RECORD . Mb . Samuel Wauuun on this Pkkvention of Chimb . —Mr . AVarren , in opening the Hull Easter Sessions , last Saturday , made some observations on the good efloctd produced by the reformatory system . A groat decrease has taken place in the number of juvenile male criminals in the gnol . At the beginning of tho year 1866 , the number was twonty-nine ; this fell to twentysix in the following June , and now there aro only six in tho prison . In tho course of his address , Mr . Warron spoko of tho necessity of controlling " those pest-houses called beer-shops . " Execution at Yoiik . —Joseph Shepherd , tho murderer of Bethel Parkinson on YVadsworth Moor , near Halifax , w , h hanged last Saturday at York . The criminal persistently denied his guilt , died imponitent , and conducted himself during his last days with tho utmost levity , lie laughod in tho fnoo of tho clergyman whunevor tho lattor conversed with him on religious subjects , nnd , upon boiug told tlint ho would have no rest in the next world if ho bohavod in that way , ropliwl , " If there ' s no rest for mo thero , I might as well have as much rest as 1 can hen ; , " and then laid down on tho bed . This was the day before tho elocution , nnd ho slept soundly during tho night . Ho was told that he would go to hfll if ho did not repent of his sins ; to which hu replied , " Never mind ! 1 shall bo all right in tho snowy weather ; I shall bo right during one half of tho your , whon thu weather ' s cold . " Ho inquired flippantly ahouL his oollin ; expressed a hope that ho should havo " " a good blow-out" before he was hanged ; and uttered l . hiHphoinioa which wo refrain from repoating . AlJs-latUoruv » aJiia-w » fo-v , isitod ^ l » iin- _ o , u _ tliia , 3 Vlctln « 8 . il » yr preoodlng his death . The wife was groatly attbetod , but thu father was as little niovod as tho criminal himsulf . On leaving , the old man intimated that ho should sue " tho finishing stroke " on Saturday . Ho saw his son again on the Thursday , and romarkod , on quitting tho cull , " ! think it is of no , uho stopping any longer : I only just wanted to look at Ihou . " Tho culprit , says tlio ' ncQount in tho daily papors , " was romovod from tho
| | condemned cell to a room on the opposite side of the Castle-yard , and adjoining the scaffold , at about six o ' clock in the morning . When the officers were ready to conduct him , he walked away quietly ; his nerves were unshaken , and he appeared determined to meet hi 3 fate with perfect coolness . On coming through , the office , in which there is a clock , Shepherd looked ' at it , and , observing the short , hand at six , remarked , ' When that gets to the top , I shall be done foT ; it will be all over then . ' On dressing himself , he was full of joke . and , fun . When the officers of the prison were conducting him across the Castle-yard , he was in high glee , and laughed as before . He looked at Clifford ' s Tower , and said , ' That's the old tower , I suppose . ' When he arrived at the apartment adjoining the scaffold , h& threatened that , if he had the chance , he would ' knock Jack Ketch over . ' The culprit , since his condemnation , had expressed a wish that he could obtain arsenic and poison himself , and had said that he deserved to be hanged , although he did not murder Parkinson . " Just before the lowering of the drop , he ejaculated , two or three times , "Lord have mercy upon me 2 " and in a . few moments afterwards he was dead . From ten to fifteen thousand persons were present . The Tragedy at Lerwick . —Further particulars are published in the Scotch papers of the horrible affair at Lerwick , of which we gave the main facts last week . Mr . Williamson appears to have armed himself with a heavy iron hammer or cleaver , a knife , and a razor , with which he murdered , one by one , his wife , his daughter and two sons , frightfully wounded another son , and finally killed himself . The wife and little girl slept together ; and , after slaying them , Mr . Williamson went into an upper room , where the three boys lay , and commenced an attack on them . The eldest boy , after receiving numerous wounds on the head and throat , escaped down stairs to the servant ' s bedroom , and , leaping , terrified and bloody , into the girl ' s bed , suddenl y -woke her to a scared consciousness of the horrors by which she was surrounded . The youngest boy was : killed instantaneously , and the middle one , after escap-; ing for a minute or two to a lower room , was pursued ! by the father and despatched . The murderer then put | his own throat , first sitting down upon the floor , laying j his neck against the leg of a table , and passing his arm round the leg of a chair , to ensure steadiness to the gash . When found , his throat was cut from ear to ear , and the razor had penetrated the bone . On the house being entered by some persons who had heard the noise of the massacre , Mrs . VVilliamson was still living ; but she soon , died . The son who escaped will , it is thought , survive his wounds , though he is probably weakened for life . There can be no doubt that the murderer was insane , but the cause of hi 3 insanity is unknown . On the evening before the tragedy he had been talking with some friends very pertinaciously on the subject of murders and of the best way to take life ; but he had transacted his business as usual . Middlesex Skssions . —A man named Thomas Jane * has been convicted at the Middlesex Sessions of stealing a watch from a Mr . James Slie in a carriage on the Camden Town Railway , while the train was in motion . The robbery having been effected , the thief leaped out of the window , and escaped , though with some cuts and bruises . He was afterwards arrested , and , at the policeoflice , assaulted some constables . Ho was now sentenced to penal servitude for live years ; on 'which , smashing his hat , he said he didn ' t mind its being known that he was a ticket-of-loave man . A Hksi'itk . —Tho day for tho execution of John Barwick for tho murder of Maria llluckmore , at Lin ton , in , tho north of Devon , was fixed for yesterday ; but tlio . culprit has been respited . Matiucidk . —A terrible crime has boen committed at Trieste . A young workman , who maintained himsslf and his mother by his daily labour , gained so little that they lived moat wretchedly , liy dint of privations , however , ho saved up sullicuont to purchase a ticket in a lottery . The drawing took place a few days ago , and his ticket gained a prize of 1 ( 5 , 000 florins . Wild with joy the young mnn hurried to hi 3 mother , informed hor of his good fortune , and askod for tho ticket . " Alas , my son ! " said sho , " I sold it somo time back . " AVithout a word , tho young man drew his Uulfo and stabbed hor until sho fell dead at his foot . Ho was arrested tho same day .
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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . John Caht-rii , a young man employed at an extensive linoiulrupery osttnblishmont in AVhitochapol , was tried on Tuesday on a chargo of stealing two shillings from hia employers . Tho thuft was one of a Horlos . Tho cuurso of business at tho hoii . nu in ( hat , when a customer purchases any ui'Liulo , two bills arc made out by tho shopman who servo ? , hi which tho amount is stated ; and onu of tlioso " bills is ' st imh ' oJTy TIu ) oasinBFnRa rofiirnoirCo'fho ' customer , ami tho othur in rulaluod by tho ca-mlor aa a oheek upon thu shopman , lt seoinod to have boon tho habit of Carter to place Hinallur amounts upon tho bills tliau tho goods sold actually amounted to ; and , wUoa one bill had boon titainpail by tho uashior , uud tho amount upon It . rooolvod by him , ho took tho otlior to tho customer , filling in tho actual amount , and pocketing
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No . 420 , Aprii , 10 3 1858 . 1 THE Ij EADEB . 34 S
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GREECE . George Canduriottis is dead , and King Otho has Lered five days' mourning for him .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 10, 1858, page 343, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2238/page/7/
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