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      The Polish And Hungarian Refugees In Liv...

      his letter addressed to Lord Dudley Stuart , inserted m the Times , not only said what I mentioned in ray previous letter , but , seeing that his inducements could not bend the determinations of the Poles , also requested him ( Lord Dudley Stuart ) to send M . Szulezewski , the secretary of the Literary Association , to Liverpool , in order to accomplish the mission he had himself been unsuccessful in , viz ., that of inducing the Poles to go to America . Now , Sir , I ask you whether , after such an officious proceeding , it was becoming M . Pulszky to say , ? As to the Poles we do not meddle with their views' ?

      " With regard to the wish with which . M . Pulszky concludes his letter , viz ., that the Poles would not ' assume the name of Hungarians , ' I beg leave to tell him , that if the Poles assisted the Hungarians and shed their blood for the Hungarian cause , it was merely to practically show that they well understood what solidarity amongst oppressed nations meant ( hence their reluctance to leave Europe with that readiness others manifest ) , and not with a view of relinquishing their nationality to adopt that of the Hungarians ; for their own is at least as glorious and as dear to them as is that of Hungarians to the people of Hungary ; and I can solemnly assure M . Pulszky , that there is not one true and honest , Pole who would exchange his nationality for any other . If there are some who do so , they are neither true nor honest Poles no more than individuals of other nations

      assuming to be Poles are true and honest men . 1 here are , indeed , many who under that name ' exploite ' the sympathy of the English people ; so that the Poles have repeatedly had to caution the public through the press against such impostors . " I am , Sir , your obedient servant , " Captain M . Domagalski , " A Pole , and not a Hungarian . "

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      The Essex Murderers. The Execution Of Th...

      THE ESSEX MURDERERS . The execution of Thomas Drory for the murder of Jael Denny , and Sarah Ch < sham for poisoning her husband , took place at Chelmsford on Tuesday , in front of Spring field Gaol . An immense crowd assembled to witness the harrowing spectacle . During the previous nig ht the tramp of feet was hsard throughout the town of persons anxious to be amongst the first to get a good place , many of them fatigued and careworn , from the distance they had travelled , in some cases upwards of thirty miles . The crowd consisted chiefly of labourers , farm-servants , and females , all dressed and decorated as if Chelmsford were for the day to be converted into a scene of gay festivity .

      Notwithstanding the prevaricating statements Drory had made on the subject of the murder immediately after his conviction , and the imputations he cast upon the unfortunate deceased , oa Monday night— at the eleventh hour—he penned a document , and subscribed it witli his name , in which , after admitting the enormity of his crime , and his hope that his victim w . is at lest in heaven , he described the murder as a malicious arid barbarous act , and prayed God that the forfeiture of his life might deter others from committing m > wicked and horrible an atrocity . The substance of the . statement was that he and J , u-1

      Denny met by accident , as far as he was concerned , at half-past live o ' clock on the evening of the murder , but he thought that she had put herself in his way purposely ; that he said ho could not talk to her then , but if she met him in ; m hour ' s time he would have some chat with her . They met as appointed , but in the meantime he hail gone to a cellar in his father ' s house and taken from it part of a rope left in their garden a . fortnight before by ft person who had / . 'onu : there to buy sonic damsons . The remainder , except what was used to strangle the girl , was afterwards found in the stable . On one occasion lie

      had curried the rope with which he committed the murder for several days in his bosom , on another lie carried it in his cuat pocket , and his last statement was , that immediately before the act he took it from the cellar . These stat ' . MiuMils certainly appeared inconsistent at a lirst glance , yet , it is quite possible that they may all be true . On meeting her for the Heeond lime , he said that . Ik ; and Jael Denny talked and walked about , after which , at . her suggestion , they sat , down on the bank . She had ( tome to urge him to imirry her . lie passed the rope gently round her as they were sitting , and had got the end into the loop before she perceived it . She jumped up at once and put up her hands to wive her throat ( which is proved by the marks on her lingers ) , but he pulled hard and -she fell without , n struggle . lie then left her lying in the field and went to Urentwood .

      Al :, er his conviction he hud several interviews with lii . s friends , but Ik ; showed lit tie " ^ emotion in their presence . When his fat her visited him , the Governor , Mr . Nealc , said " they looked astounded at each other . " Ili . ' -i last requi si . villa that the money found on his priNun ( £ N lls . Id . ) should be given to the mother of Jael Denny " as pail , restitu tiou lor I he grievous injury he might have done her . Sarah (! heshaiu tlenied her guilt to tin : lasl . The

      ntutemciit . that she eonfeNscd having . poisoned hei children having been utterly untrue . At l . liu bint moment , on leaving her cell , her proto . slut . ions were us firm as they had ever been . " 1 urn innocent , " Bhe said , "though my neck in put in the halter lor it . " After her conviction tiho steadfastly refused to mow out , ol' her cell either for l . lu ; purposed of exercise or reli ^ iouH devotion at the chapel . According to the chaplain neither Drory nor Chcwhain displayed any

      signs of genuine penitence . Drory , he said , seemed little able to comprehend the enormity of his crime , and its accompanying circumstance of cruelty and treachery . Both prisoners were very much unnerved on the morning of their execution . Drory quivered in every limb and joint of his body , and had to be supported as he ascended the scaffold . Sarah Chesham refused to move from her cell till told that she would be carried if she refused to walk . She was , however , so much overcome as to require the assistance of two persons . She was with difficulty placed under the fatal beam . In Drory all sign of animation was extinct in four or five minutes , but Chesham struggled for six or seven minutes .

      Miscellaneous. The Queen And Prince, Wit...

      MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen and Prince , with the whole of the royal children , left Osborne-house on Tuesday afternoon , at a quarter before two o'clock , on their return to Buckingham-palace . They crossed from Cowes to Gosport in the Fairy royal steam-yacht , and were conveyed to town by special train . On arriving at Nine Elms Station five carriages were in waiting for the royal party , and they proceeded to the palace escorted by a detachment of lancers . On Wednesday afternoon the Queen held a levee at St . James ' s Palace , which was numerously attended . tv £ 4 VlW Lit

      . Tv £4. Vlw Lit Lord Stanley Will Be En...

      . Lord Stanley will be entertained at dinner at Merchant Tailors' Hall on the 2 nd of April . Upwards of eighty peers , and more than 200 Members of the House of Commons , have signed the requisition to his lordship . In the Itoll ' s Court , on Tuesday , Mr . Turner said in consequence of Lord Langdale's intended resiguation he was desired publicly to express to his lordship how much the profession were indebted to him f <> i his exertions to simplify the process and practice of the court , and to lessen expences . Lord Langdale said'he was sensible of short comings . " At a cooler moment a more rigid scrutiny would be made of his judicial character : —

      " The reports would show what he had clone and what he had not done , and at the fame time would show how greatly he had been assisted by the learning , the industry , and the integrity of the bar . Little did people who only looked upon the surlace know liow very little could be done by a judge without the honest cooperation of those most useful assistants , a learned and honourable bar . He had to express his gratitude for the greatest assistance from a bar of that cuaracter , and lie retired with the strongest feeling- of gratitude and respect . " It was understood that Sir John Romilly would be sworn into office as Lord Langdale's successor yesterday ( Friday ) morning . The Honourable Frederick George Ellis , son of Lord Howard de Walden , is appointed au uupaid attache to her Majesty ' s mission at Brussels . Captain Warner has offered his services to terminate the Kaffir war cheaply and quickly—it is presumed by the long range . The offer has been politely declined by the authorities . —Daily Neics . The will of the lute Sir John Pirie has been proved at Roetors ' -commons , and the property sworil under

      £ 30 , 000 . The entire copyright of the novels , poetry , prose wiitirif » s of Sir Walter Scott , as well us his life by Loekhart , uiili ' the ? steel plates , woodcuts , and stert op type plates belonging thereto , were offered lor sale at the London ( Jolfee-house , Ludgate-hill , on Wednesday , by Mi . Hodgson , on account of the trustees of the lale Mr . Robert Cadell . Tin : conditions of sale stipulated that the purchaser of the above should take the remaining stuck , iu tin ? hands of the publishers , at the sum of £ 10 , 000 , or at 11 price to be determined upon by relerees . It wus stated by the auctioneer that the sale of the " Wavcrly Novels" during the last two years had amounted to 71 , 000 volumes . The bidding * commenced it £ . 0000 , ami advanccd to £ 14 , 500 . Those terms not being accepted , tin ; whole of the property was bought in for jL' 1- > , () 00 , by Mr . James JMylne , the agent of ihe ti us let h .

      On Friday , the' 21 st , the anniversary of his birthday , a m . isnive silver tea and collet ; equipage and Hiilver were presented to j \ lr . C . Mitchell , tin-well-known advertising agent and publisher , of Red Lion-court , Fleot-Ktreet . This very handsome present was purchased by the proceeds of a subscription enleied int'J by upwards of two hundred authors , proprietors , and editors of the provincial jireHH , with a few private friends . The subscription ( wiiich amounted to £ 170 ) was originated l > y Home gentlemen connected with the * ' country press , " w lio ielt deeply ucusihle of the nervines which Mr . Mitchell hud rendered their older in various ways , particularly 111 liin j ^ c . ivspajw . f I'rcss Directory , and 111 establishing a " Literary Agency , " by means of which 11 reiMilar intercommunication between London authors

      uml publisher : * and tin : propiieturs and editors ol I lie provincial journals is ki pt up . It wiik also intended to mark ill 1 i 1 " kciihc of his pi r . son . il 111-banil . y mid kindness . The presentation Look phice lit the JSustiex Hotel , IJuuvci ie street , Fleel .-sl . i eel , ill the presence of 11 helccl . circle of literary liirnds . T . Henderson , Km < j ., of the I ' ort , 0 / I ' orLsmoiilh (! uitnluui , occupied 1 lie chair ; and the testimonial wan prchfiited , with an appropriate uddn ss , by I ' , ( i . ToiiiIiiih , Ksq ., honorary treasurer . Mr . Mitchell , on receiving Uw gilt , leeliin < l y alluded to the pleasure which the events of Unit day alforded him , and expressed his gratification at , finding tliallns past services had been appreciated , unit hi a determination to endeavour to sl . iike out , if possible , Hew soun ch of u . selulness . MornitKi I ' ost .

      ¦ Samuel ( , 'hifncy , once the companion and friend of piiuces and iinnlcs , and who almost vied with them in the Ktylti of Ins living , figured in the Newinurket County Court on Thursday uh a petitioner for piotection under the Protection Acts . On ti lor me r occasion he wfeiS

      opposed on ihe ground that he had not given up his house and furniture . Mr . Naylor appeared as counsel for Chifney , and stated that a schedule of the furniture had been filed , which had been identified as belonging to other parties ; and as to the house , the will of the late Mr . Thornhill was also filed , Which showed that the insolvent has only a personal privilege in the use of it , and not an estate for life . The friendship of parties , who wished that the insolvent should spend the remainder of his days in peace , would enable him to pay £ 100 into the hands of the assignees . The case was adjourned , the judge advising the creditors to accept the offer Cambridge Chronicle .

      An Accident Happened To The Kin& Of Prus...

      An accident happened to the Kin & of Prussia ' * carriage as he was entering Berlin from Charlottenburg h ou the 20 th instant . It had just driven at a rapid rate through the Brandenburgh-gate , when in the Pariser Pla'z one of the hind wheels came off , the axle having broken . The carriage was dragged for some distance iu an awkward position before it could be stopped . The King alightsd , and waited in the house of General Wrangell till another carriage arrived . The Prince of Salerno , uncle of the King of Naples

      who has been for along time labouring under a nervous complaint , complicated with erysipelas , died on the 10 th instant , and was buried on the 14 th with great pomp , at the Church of Santa Chiara . He was born on the 2 nd of July , 1790 , and was consequently in his sixty-first year . He married Marie Clementine Francoise Josephine , Archduchess of Austria , daughter of Francis I , on the 28 th of July , 1816 . He has left a daughter ^ Princess Marie Caroline Augusta , born on the 26 th of April , 1822 .

      The Honourable Henry Clay arrived in New York on the 10 th instant , and was enthusiastically welcomed . A . ball was given on the same evening , in honour of hie visit . He left New York on the 11 th instant , for a visit to Havannah , and not less than 10 , 000 person * were presetit to witness his embarkation in the steamer Georgia . Fanny Wright Darusrnont has fired a bill in Chancery , in Cincinnati , containing 80 , 000 words , to recover back from her husband a large amount of property which she held at her marriage . The Havannah correspondent of the New York Herald says : —" Sttlvi , our ' gran tenore , ' goes to Europe in the next direct steamer . I am told that he has made an arrangement with Barnum to sing in London twenty nights with Jenny Lind , for 9000 dollars , and that there is a clause in the contract by which he is obliged to go to your city in case the ' Nightingale' should not cross the Atlantic next summer . " Jenny Lind had presented 4800 dollars to the charities of New Orleans . She will probably leave New York for Liverpool and London in July or August next .

      The Number Of Marriages This Year At Par...

      The number of marriages this year at Paris , amongst the working class , is said to be larger than usual . In the most populous arondissements of the capital , the boards 011 which the publication of banns are placarded are constantly covered . A letter of the 22 nd instant , from Berne , states that on , that day , at eight in the morning , eighty peasants made , a descent on the radical town of Fribourg , and succeeded in getting possession of some cannon in the old establishment of the Jesuits . The Government caused the tocsin to ring , and the generale to beat . The militia marched against the peasants , who occupied the upper part of the town . The affair was smart , but of short duration . Eight were killed or wounded . The eighty peasants iu question formed the advanced guard of a body of 2000 , which dispersed when they heard of the defeat of their nomriidf'H .

      The Jesuits ha ? e obtained the restitution of the Borromean College , at Koine . The Minister of Com * inerce , who inhabited it , has been obliged to leave it in less than decent haste , and retire to the custom-houte buildings . A plot of certain TJlemas to poison the sultan , was lately revealed by l ) t . Spitzcr , the sultan ' s physician , who pretended to listen to their proposals , and procured from the conspirators a written promise to pay him a million of piastres . The brother of the sultan , who was at the head of the plot , has since diBappeared- » -Home conjecture by the bowstring , and several of the Hitman concerned have met with the name late . Dr . Spitzer ,

      after having been well rewarded by the sultan , willidiew Inim the n a < : h of vengeance , and is now residing with his wife at Tiieste . The city of LeviHsi , in the island of llhodca , has been destroyed by an earthquake . Abbas Pasha has ollicially announced his intention of making a railroad between Cairo and Alexandria , thus bringing into close proximity the two principal towna iti Kgypt— a boon of incutiinuble benefit to the country , and winch will give increaHed facilities to the transit to India . It is confidently expected that ilie woiks will be commenced iu the courtic of the present year , under the ausniccH of Mr . Robert otepheuHon .

      Advices have been received onlu dfiy later than the hut date from the Cape oI Good Hope , but they bring little additional intelligent ; " A writer from Somerset B » yH that the Kallirn and BottentotH are committing gien't havoc . They have uuj . Mie . red very utrong at . a j > l » i <<« oall « d Waterkloot , not far from Ainnlies- |> lace . It i « inmoured that they intend to attack fcioim'inet . TJi « Dm eh settlers are tmid to bIiow very little willing" * " * " t 0 light under » Sir Hurry Smith . The Natal papers lately received represent the colony as being generally pii > H |> eioun . Civilization is extending itself in the leguliu English fashion . Omnibuuen aiU already in active iiho ill the capital , Pctermuritzbuig , ttt Ihi ! charge ol . 'id . for piiBSengcrs . The . Californian paperM contain account * of » ovoirftl * n ~ gugciucuttt with the Indiana , in , ono cu » o a party of lAtLXf

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1851, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29031851/page/8/