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hovse to the forei gn commissioners , as well as to those contributors who may receive marks of distinction . Agreeably with annual custom , the Judges , accompanied by the Lord Mayor and civic authorities , should have attended divine worship in state at S ' . Paul ' s on E * stpr Sunday ; but , by an arrangement with all parties , the ceremony this year has been postponed until Sunday , the 4 'h of May , in compliment to the opening of the Exhibition . The Bishop of London will preach on the occasion , and a full cathedral service be given . __ The illustrious Turks appointed to attend the Exposition have been entertained by Sir Stratford Canning . At the dessert Sir Stratford proposed the health of the Sultan ; and M . Mussurus , Minister from the Porte , that of the Queen of England . Peer Ibrahim Khan , another of those Indian subjects of the British Crown who have servpd our Government
with distinction , is soon to visit England . His employments havp been various , especially during : the insurrection and siege of Mooltan , when he rendered the most important services . He was first selected in 1836 to take charge of the Ferozepore territory , which had ' hen re-; ently lapsed as an escheat to the British Government ; and Fie was placed as our agent at Bh ^ ulpore in 1839 . He belongs to a family of Mahommpdan chiefs in the Punjaub long distinguished for their struggles with the Sikhs . Among the marriages of this week we observe that of Mr . John Stuart Mill , of the East Infli * -housp , to Harriet Taylor , widow of John Taylor , Esq ., of Kent-terrace , Regent ' s-park .
Miss Talbot ' s case bids fair to be finally settled at last in the most satisfaciory manner . The rumour that she was about to be married turns out to be a literal fact . In the Court of Chancery , on Wednesday , Mr . Rnundell Palmer appeared in support of a petition from Lard Edward George Howard ( second son of the Duke of Norfolk , and M P . for Horsham ) , which set forth the following facts . L- > rd Edward became acquainted with Mi ~ 8 Talbot in 1847 , to what purpose he does not state . He has lately , however , made proposals of marriage to that
young lady , which have been accepted by lur , subject to the approval of Chancery . Tue question now lies with the Master , to whom Lord Edward prays that the matter may be referred . If that official has no objection to the match , Lord Edward will then lay proposals before him for a settlement to be made upon the marriage . Mr . Rolt , on the part of Dr . Doyle , consented to the application , and the Lord Chancellor , not seeing any objection to the proposed match , directed the reference to the Master , whose consent will be given as a matter of
course . In the event of a vacancy on the Scotish Bench taking place , through the resignation of Lord Mackenzie , Mr . Duncan M'Neil , the present Dean of Faculty , will be elevated to the bench . —Edinburgh News . Sir Claudius Hunter , Bart ., so long familiarly known as the ' * Father of the City , " expired on Easter Sunday , aped seventy-six years . He filled the office of sheriff in 1808 , and that of Lord Mayor in 1811-12 , when he had the honour of baronetcy conferred upon him . He is succeeded by his grandson , Claudius Stephen Paul , born
1824 . The line of dead wall that frowned gloomily on the Bayswater-road is at length pulled down , and iron railing is now being fitted up instead . This will add greatly to the cheerful aspect both of the gardens and the road . It was one of the improvements recommended by Mr . Loudon , whose suggestions for labelling each shrub for the information of the people has already been adopted with such good effects . The churchwardens of St . Clement ' s Danes , having satisfactorily ascertained that a seat in the pew numbered eighteen in the north gallery of that church was regularly occupied for many years by Samuel Johnson , have caused a neat brass tablet recording the fact to be affixed in a conspicuous position to the pillar against which the doctor must often have reclined .
An interesting zoological novelty is now in the possession of Mr . W . Batty , of Astley ' s Amphitheatre , having been landed in the East India Docks the other day , viz ., an elephant and its infant sucking at the breast . The mother is an immense animal , stands about ten feet high , and the infant three feet in height . The animate are exported from Maxapore , East Indies , about seven hundred miles up the country , and were bought from the natives ; the infant , when purchased , being only two months old , was not able to walk , and the keeper had to provide a horse and cart to convey the little one on its way , the mother following close behind . They wore embarked at Calcutta , and wore r » ther more than five months on the passage ; consequently , the infant is now about seven months old .
The antiquities and other interesting curiosities at the East India House are now open to the public every Friday instead of Saturday , . is heretofore . This alteration has been made in the hope of accommodating a more intellectual cIuks than muiic of the former visitors , and the result is consider ! d satisfactory . A fire broke out on Sunday morning at the well-known tavern the Angel , at Edmonton ( cel .-biatcd as the hall ing nluce of John Oilpin ) which has canned the total de-itructi . m of the spacious assembly rooms . of Sir Walter Scott h
The whole cop ) rights , Moclc , Acs ., work * which were offend l <» r public competition in l . oiidon a few days ago , have been transferred to the lu . ndHof uiiother eminent publishing firm in iMiuiburgli — Mr « KrH . Adam and Chai les lilack-- who , in conjunction with lb . ir fiiimlH , Miwrs . Kichar < lM > n IJ . otlK ih liave become the puniiniMTH of thin extensive and valuable literary property . The cop ) ri lilH and stock are said to be acquired by ihe present , purchasers lor £ 27 , <»< H > wlucii in £ 10 000 under what . Mr . Cadell p : ii < l for the copyright *
alone . , , Large numbeiN of ( he working clause * now attend tne lecturen in Tiinity College Uiiiv « : n . iiy , Dublin—a circuuiiiuncc altogether novel . This wau particularly the cauo
in a course of lectures on botany which has just been brought to a close , and during which the audience was composed largely of practical horticulturists and working gardeners . Never were the Lent preachers in greater vocue in Paris than this year . The churches are more crowded than the theatres , and thronging auditors make queues at the great doors . Father Lacordaire at Notre Dame thunders against the greed of gain and the irreligion of science . Padre Ventura , in his broad Italian accent , introduces a dash of politics into his animated discourses .
Abbe" Bantain preaches to full audiences of fashionable people at the Madelaine ; and the Abbe de Laplace fills with his sonorous sermons the nave of St . Roch , the favourite church of Corneille . Never was pulpit eloquence at such a premium . But one feels too surely that for one person who goes to hear these preachers from a religious mo'ive , 100 go because it is the fashion . The gossip of drawing-rooms turns on the style of this or that pastor ; and instead of praising the warbling of Sontag , your fair partner in a quadrille asks you whether you have heard the striking discourses of M . Ravignon . —Paris Correspondent of the Daily New . * .
A duel took place near Troyes , on Friday , between M . de St . Pierre , the editor of the Mode , and a lieutenant in the navy , who is a friend of M . Felix Pyat . The quarrel arose thus : —M . F . Pyat lately published a letter , addressed to the Comte de Chambord , conceived in terms of familiarity , which gave great offence to the Legitimists in general . The editor of the Mode took up the affair with great warmth , and in a recent article declared , as he could not get hold of M . Felix Pyat himself ( who is an emigre ") , he would be rpady to chastise in an exemplary manner any one of his friends who would declare himself
responsible for the letter to the Comte de Chambord . The challenge was taken up by three of M . Pyat ' s friends , who drew lots who should fight , and , the lot having fallen on the lieutenant in the navy already alluded to , the meeting took place on Saturday , in the neighbourhood of Troyes . The parties fought with swords ; M . de St . Pierre was wounded in two places . He first received a slight wound in the forehead , and immediately afterwards a severe stab in the sword arm . The wound is serious , as the artery has been divided ; but there is no danger of life .
The Bishop of Barcelona has prohibited a drama which has been approved of by the censor of the press . The people of Barcelona have sided with the author , and the theatre was crowded at i's first representation . M . Taglioni , the ballet-master , has obtained the privilege of establishing an Italian Opera and a French theatre at Berlin . The latter will replace the theatre of Koeingstadt , which is to be converted into a barrack . The degrading act of homage annually performed at the beginning of Carnival by delegates of the Jewish community before the municipality of Rome , and concluding with their dismissal by a contemptuous kick of the foot on the part of the senator , has oeen definitively abolished since the accession of Pius IX . to the throne .
A well-educated native of India has just transla ed the tragedy of Othello into Bengalee . Othello ' s cognomen in the Oriental version is Moor Bahadoor ( General Moor ) . The city of New York at present abounds with public exhibitions . There are two French troupes of equestrians from Franconi ' s , a French vaudeville company , and a German company , a number of theatres in full operation , and panoramas and paintings without end . Julia Bennett continues to draw full houses at the Broadway Theatre . The circulation of the American Messenger , the monthly newspaper of the American Tract Society , is 186 , 000 in English , and about 15 . 000 in German .
New York appears to be in a thriving condition . Hundreds of large and commodious dwellings have lately been erected in the upper part of the city . No expense is spared in their construction . They are described as *> qual to most of the best houses occupied by the nobility in London , and are owned principally by merchants who have not been twenty years in business . A Mr . Staples died lately from excitement at Fall River , in America , in consequence of the influence on his mind of the mysterious " knocking " " rappings " of spirits , at Rochester and elsewhere .
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CRIMES AND ACCIDENTS . The execution of George Carnt , for the murder of Elizabeth Bainbridge , took place at Bury ! 3 t . Edmunds , on Tuesday , at nine a . m ., by which hour a largo crowd had assembled . Before ascending the scaffold , the firmness of nerve which had characterized the prisoner seemed to fail ; his face turned pale , and his whole frame was violently ugitu'ed . His death was almost instantaneous . Ho Imih left behind him no written confession , but he made frequent and unreserved coufosHioim of his guilt , to the governor and chaplain of the gaol . Tho subjoined narrative lias been drawn up from iiifonuutioii supplied by the governor , and is , in substance , Jill that he Htated on the subject : —
" On the afternoon of the 20 th of January , between three and four o ' clock , Kli / . abcth Kainbrid ^ p left the Harrow public-house , in Lawshall , to go to her father ' s , and be ( Curnt ) followed , and ndoii overtook hor . They were together in the fields two or three hours , during which time t boy were on the usual terms of friendship and inthnuoy with each other . In the course of their wnlk the deceased and he ' exchanged love t . ok us , he . giving to Iliinhridgc bis watch , and she giving him her iveddintc-rin < . » . This , the unhappy culprit said , wiih fur from being an uncommon occurrence . She liad often bad his watch for a week or foil night together , and be her ring , and this interchange of pledges , or love tokens , used to take place as a Hign of the intimacy . subsisting beiwee . ii tliern . When he left , the Harrow , no iden hud ever crossed hit ) mind of committing any act of violence towards the deceased , nor hud any unpleu
sant words passed between them during their walking and rambling about the fields . At length the deceased remarked that she was tired of living in the way they did , and , suddenly snatching a knife from the prisoner ' s waistcoat-pocket , declared she would destroy herself . This Carnt prevented by taking the knife away from her , when she exclaimed , evidently greatly excited , ' Then do you cut my throat . ' At this time they were approaching the pond , and the prisoner said , 'No , if you mean to kill yourself , we will both do it together ; we will both drown ourselves . ' Upon this suggestion the
remorse and excitement of the deceased appear to have suddenly subsided , and she exclaimed , ' For God ' s sake , George , don ' t think or talk any more in this way ; I'll think no more of it if you don ' t , and I will continue the acquaintance as it has been , and do all I can to please you , if you promise not to drown yourself . ' And now , the prisoner said , the thought first occurred to him of murdering her and then drowning himself—a thought which , he constantly rei'erated , would never have entered his mind if his passions had not been maddpned by his heing ' full of beer . ' Notwithstanding this appeal , Carnt declared that if she did not drown herself he would drag
her into the pond . Upon this hia victim , in a still more parnest and impressive manner , cried out , ' George , George , if you thus act , what will become of us hereafter ? I am not prepared to die , and I am sure if you do this you cannot be . For God ' s sake , don ' t attempt it . ' ' A <> d "h ! ' exclaimed the prisoner , when narrating this to Mr Mar-in tyre , ' if I had but listened to her arguments that night , both our lives would have been spared , an'l we might , one day , have lived happily together !' But , deaf even to this remonstrance , the prisoner in his frenzy seized her , and commenced dragging her into the pond , she struggling with all her strength to prevent him , and screaming as loudly as
she could . Just as he had dragged her through the bushes , and when she was par ially in the water , worn out with struggling and screaming , though a woman of considerable physical power , she fainted , and , resistance b < -ing suddenly withdrawn , he fell over her , and was quite as much in the water as she was . He caught her round the body , and holding her firmly by the arms ( thus causing the bruises under the elbows ) , retained her in this position until life was extinct . Whether the bonnet of the deceased was laid by the side of the pond by her , or was forced off in the struggle , does not seem , to be remembered by the prisoner ; he feels , however , certain that when he drowned her she had no bonnet on .
He then attempted to destroy himself , but the instinctive love of life prevented him . He even went back again to * the pond , and left it with the same result . He proceeded direct to the Harrow , and when his saturated clothes and missing hat and handkerchief attracted attention , he , as is well known , scarcely endeavoured to conceal his crime , and almost , to use the words of the learned judge in sentencing him , 'in express words pronounced his doom . ' The unhappy man describes the moral power
which the deceased had over him as generally capable of leading him in any direction , and he is confident that this crime is attributable to nothing else but the effects of drink operaiing upon a man of violent passions . About an hour before the execution the reverend chaplain said , ' Now , George , eternity is fast coming upon you . Have you anything to add to , to detract from , or to alter in the confessions you have made to me and the governor ?' The reply was , 'No , nothing ; I have told all the truth , and nothing but the truth , as I hope to be forgiven . ' "
The most impressive facts daily coining to light , display , in a painful manner , the anomalous state of the relations between the sexes . A young woman , only eighteen years old , was brought into the Royal Free Hospital on the l ( Jlh instant , partially insensible from the effects of poison . In twenty minutes , spite of Dr . Robertson ' s exertions , she died , exclaiming with ja shriek , "He has ill-used me . " What is her history ? Kleven months ago she married David Thomas Walden , desciibed as humpbacked and dwarfish . David Walden ' s evidence is a curious specimen of marital coolness and atrocity . On Monday he beat her , gave her a black eye , and caused her nose to bleed , because he sunpected that she had been drinking rather freely . During the five last weeks she was very dejected , and repeatedly exclaimed , " I cannot live ; I must die . " He asked her to explain what she meant ; and , upon being pressed to
tell the cause of her grief , she said , " 1 will tell all . About five weeks ago , while I was going down Brewerstreet , I was forced by a gentleman into a cab , which drove off with me . Soon after I was put in the cab I lost my Reuses , and when I recovered them I found myself lying in Oxford-street . The gentleman who dragged me into the cab is an artist , living in Portland-place . He dishonoured mo . I must die . I don't know where he lives . " David Walden , having learned this , promised to forgive her , and strove to quiet her—we suppose after his fashion—but lie could not succeed . She had twice attempted suicide , and twice she was saved . On the present occasion she bought , two ounces of oxalic acid "to clean bonnets , " and the dose was strong enough to destroy her . The jury , without hesitation , returned the following verdict : ' ¦ Deceased destroyed herself , but what was her state of mind when she committed suicide there is no evidence to prove " Mr . Yardley haB at length disposed of tho case of Harriett . Newman , by sending it before a jury . At the last healing , evidence apparently very strong was adduced , showing where William Day was , and how employed during the whole of the day when the offence wan committed , tracing him from the Curtain-road to tho Angel puulic-hoiiHc , K « ncliurcb-street , thence to l ' opl . ir by railway , and back to the Angel , where he is Hinted to have remained until twelve at night . But Mihh Newman swore positively to the identity , und to certain clothes found by a policeman at the lodgings of Day . There was un opinion in court that Miss Newman was nii » t . ikcii in rewr / cct of Day , and that he wan innocent . Murion Burllott , aged forty-aix , wife of tho proprietor
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April 26 , 1851 . ] , & %$ & * & »*?? 387
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Leader (1850-1860), April 26, 1851, page 387, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1880/page/7/
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