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      hands became benumbed , and her le ^ s weak she trembled violently , and was hardly able to support herself . She begged for heaven ' s sake that Barter would see her home , as she thought she was dying , and what occurred afterwards , and until she found herself at the Camberwell station the next morning , she had no idea . She complained that when in the station-house Constable Spratt had ill-used her , and made her improper proposals . That was her story . It appeared certain that , she had been ¦ violated , as a surgeon ' s certificate to that effect was put in as evidence . In addition to this , Mrs . Kearney , sister of Eliza Fitzgerald , declared that both Haines and Barter admitted the truih of the charge , and offered a

      compromise . In defence witnesses were produced , who made counter statements , the effect of which was that Eliza Fitzgerald was not a modest woman , that she drank rum at the Artichoke—which she denied , —and the bar-maid of the Mother Red Cap said that Fitzgerald was very drunk " when at that house , that she talked improperly , kissed Haines several times , and was finally carried away perfectly drunk . Sergeant Head said that she had made no complaint against Constable Spratt when bailed out . Mr . Norton , of the Lambeth Police Court , though of opinion that there was no evidence upon which a jury would convict , agreed to a remand at the request of the complainant's counsel .

      The case of Harriet Newman still continues to be the fruitful source of questionable stories . There is a fortuneteller at Limehouse , an old woman named "Woodfield . It was upon her authority that Mr . Talbot appears to have come to the conclusion that Harriet Newman had been imposing on the public by her romantic tale of cabs , chloroform , improper houses , drawn knives , and successful resistance to three " gentlemen . " Mrs . Woodfield came forward , when the reward was offered by Mr . Lewis , for the discovery of the writer of the letter which drew Harriet Newman to the alleged rendezvous , and declared she wrote the letters in conjunction with Newman and Roberts for the purpose of ruining Day . She came before

      Mr . Yardley , on Saturday , and impudently confessing her share in the imbroglio , applied for a warrant against both Newman and Roberts for conspiracy . But Mr . Yardley indignantly refused , telling her that she laid herself open to the charge of conspiracy ; to which she replied that " she -was not at all afraid of that . " Ultimately Mr . Yardley was obliged to order her to be put out of the court A new actor then came on the scene—the solicitor for the prosecution , Mr . Lewis , and in turn he applied for a -warrant against Woodfield , on a charge of attempting to extort money from him by false pretences—namely , that she had written the letters . Mr . Yardley refused this application , accusing Mr . Lewis of coming there to make the statement he had made that it might get into the

      newspapers . Ellen Mills , and Mary Ann Barcroft . two infants , the first two years and three months , and the second eleven , months old , died suddenly on Tuesday week at Haigh , near Ashton , in Cheshire . They had eaten of porridge , which made them very sick , and died soon after . Suspicion was excited , the constable made a stir about it , and ultimately , as the porridge-pot had been cleaned , and all traces of its contents had disappeared , it was found on a post-mortem examinalion that arsenic had been mixed with the children ' s food . An inquest is now sitting on the bodies . The cause of these murders is supposed to have been burial-club money .

      Mr . and Mrs . Keane had dined with Major Alcock , of Richmond , near Cappoquin , in the county of Waterford , on the 7 tti of May , and were returning home in an inside car , about ten o'clock , when a shot was fired at them from behind a wall . The coachman distinctly saw the flash , and heard the whizzing of the bullet . The horse was fresh , and trotting very fast at the time , and the assassin missed his aim . The police were speedily on the spot , but no trace of the person who fired the shot could be discovered . This horrible outrage took place within one hundred yards of the town of Cappoquin , and had any life been lost , it must have been that of Mrs . Keane , as she was sitting at the side from whence the shot had been fired .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . A document has just been printed and presented to the House of Commons , from which it appears that last year the sum of £ 2844 3 b . lid . wus paid under the bend of civil contingencies by the country on account of the funeral of her Majesty the late Queen Dowager , mid £ ' & [)' & 17 s . Id . on account of the funeral of the late Duke of Cambridge . The following memorandum has been circulated by Mr . Commissioner Muyne for the guidance of the Biipciintciidcnts of police : — " The police would be juHtifit el in stopping inuiiits playing in the streets , and , if necessary , removing the * pnrticti in cases wlure * , from the loud noise * , or other circumstances danger in caused to passengcrx in the wtreets , horses frightened , or the thoroughfares obstructed . Let instructions bo given accordingly for the guidance of the police . " A deputation of Jtwn had an interview with Lord John RushcII on Tuesday , at his official residence in Downingstreet , on the subject of Sunday trading . Nearl y £ 20 , 000 worth of land hits just been secured for the Ilirininuhuin Freehold Land . Society . Thin will make nearly 800 freeholds , in addition to the iM / i previoiiHly made by thin society , or ; t total of inor < - tlinn 1700 ! These ¦ purchu . ins furnish another proof of the immense power of association . The cliupel of the Most Holy Sacrament was opened in the Iteverand Mr . Oakley ' s church , by Cardinal YViseinun , on Sunday with great pomp anil ceremony . The proei'Hsion of the clergy amounted to about , one hundred . We stated lust we « 'k that rules fora criminal information aRuinnt the publishers of the Morning // tir aid nnd Advertiser , were obtained last week on the part of the ladies of the Olapham Convent , who complained thut they had been scandalously libelled in those journals . On

      Tuesday the counsel for the defendants retracted and apologized in Court , and with that , the plaintiffs being content , the rules were discharged . At a numerously attended meeting of vestrymen of St . Pancras parish , held in the Vestay-room , Camden-town , on Wednesday , a resolution was agreed to that a fresh inquiry shall be made into the charge of assault against the master of St . Pancras workhouse , and the whole evidence laid before the vestry forthwith . From a return , printed by order of the House of Commons , it appears that the total expenditure in the relief of the poor in the Unions in Ireland , for the year ended 29 th of September , 1850 , was £ 1 , 430 , 108 , of which £ 710 , 945 was spent in maintenance , £ 120 , 789 in out door relief , £ 151 , 055 in salaries and rations of officers , and £ 447 , 317 for other expenses . The number of persons relieved was 805 , 702 in , and 368 , 565 out of the workhouse ..

      In all the outports of Ireland , persons belonging to the constabulary are employed in taking down the names and occupations of all passengers , with a classification showing whether their departure is permanent or temporary . The Census Commissioners have determined to continue this branch of the enumerators during the summer months , in the hope of being thus enabled to obtain correct data on the subject of emigration . In no previous season , since the great failure of the potatoes in 1846 , were seed potatoes in such request in Ireland as in the present year . All classes of landholders , from the highest to the lowest , have had their confidence in their favourite esculent restored , and are determined

      on putting it again to the test , and that , too , on a very extensive scale . A commercial traveller , who recently passed through a considerable portion of the counties of Derry , Antrim , Armagh , Monaghan , and Fermanagh , states that everywhere he passed , planting potatoes seemed to be the order of the day—that he has not unfrequently seen so many as six or eight spades , as they are termed , busy sodding potatoes as in times past . He says that comparatively few , in some districts , are being put in drills , lazy beds or ridges being preferred . One of the Clare unions , that of Ennis , has sent off forty-four female paupers to Liverpool , thence to embark for Australia . Those poor females , who had been comfortably attired at the expense of the union , appeared much gratified at the prospect of independence opened to them . Other unions are making arrangements to lessen the fixed burden of pauperism by sending off portions of the female inmates in the workhouses .

      A large number of the best and most efficient workmen connected with the mining andiron districts of Rhymney , Blaenarvon , and Blaina are about to leave the country in the course of a few weeks , intending to embark as emigrants for the United States . Vessels are continually sailing from the various ports in South Wales with emigrants , and ere long a large body of Latter-day Saints will find their way , it is said , to Bristol , Liverpool , and other outports , for the purpose of emigrating to the great Mormon city or settlement on the banks of the Great Salt Water Lake . Many of these Mormonites are employed in the iron districts of Glamorganshire , and comprise some of the best and most experienced workmen .

      Mr . John Power , D . L ., J . P ., of Gurteem , put a period to his existence on Sunday night , at 12 o ' clock . On retiring to his bedroom that night , he took a duelling pistol , and placing the muzzle to his head fired the fatal shot , and instant death was the result . The Tipper ary Vindicator says Mr . Power was at the head of one of the noblest fortunes in the country when he arrived at age . He was chosen representative for Dungarvan soon after he became of age . He was subsequently representative for several years of his native county . He was of too confiding ;> nature , and much of the immense funded and landed property of which he was the possessor was lost , or is become in some degree embarrassed ; but we have not heard difficulties of a pecuniary description , or any other cause , alleged as the incentive to the rash and awful deed which has deprived him of life . He was about 35 years of age , and has left a wife and infant family .

      The northern papers bring accounts of the destruction by fire of Downhill Castle , county of Antrim , the residence of Kir Hcrvey Bruce , and considered to be one of the finest private mansions in the province of Ulster . The Constittizionale of Florence announces from Rome that on the 27 th ultimo Signor Baldasseroni and Cardinal Antonelli came loan agreement itbout the continuation of the Bologna Railroad to Pistoia . Nothing lias been decided as yet concerning the railway from Sienna to Rome . An English company has offered to the Sardinian government aelvantagce > us terms for the construction of a railway to cemnect Genoa with a French line from Marseilles , counting upon the Indian traffic , im the route te ) Alexandria , accoreling to the < al < ulatie > iiH e ) f the company , would be- thus tihe > rtcncd by five e > r six hours .

      Letters ( rorn Liberia , of the Kith e > f February , announce- that Mr . Miaw , the- agent , sent . out . from England to experimentalise on the growth eif cotton , was about to ship a cargo of bales to Liverpool . Liberia , it iu expected , will at no distant period become a large exporter e > f cotton . In imtieipation of the meeting of the Diet on the ' 22 nel instant , the garrison ( if Fiankfort . is to be : increased from /)<)()() to l /> , () 00 men , at , once . This corps will form the nuclcuM of a force which i . s destined to reach the number of l /> 0 , 000 m < -ii , elcstincel , according to the * latest arr . uigemgnts , to tie kepi itl the elispe ) sal of the' Diet .

      A letteT from Montreal says that the ) bunks e > f the river Yaniahka , twenty miles below Montreal , have fallen in , carrying away about tteventy- two ucrett of land , with three house's anel exitbuilelings , with a number of cattle ) and horncH . One : woman and two chilelieu arc nlao said to have been drowned . A thunder kIoiiii burst over Boulogne' on Sunday . The lightning ntiu k the domo of the new catheeirul , and broke down nome of the oriiame'titul work . It then broke into u house ud joining and killed un infunt in its cradle .

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      The House of Commons went into committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill last night ; the Irish opposition having quite exhausted its obstructive tactics for the present . The amount of business actually done was small , consisting only of a committal of the bill pro forma , in order that it may be reprinted in the form to which Ministers will adhere . Lord John Russell stated that no understanding had been come to between the Attorney-General and Mr . Walpole , the mover of the stringent amendments . The next critical moment for the Whigs will , therefore , be the division on these amendments . Mr . Disraeli distinctly stated his intention of voting for them , and any amendment which would render the bill more retaliatory and severe . A small episode of some interest was enacted between Lord John Russell and Mr . Disraeli in committee , which explains the ostensible reason why he is for retaliation . Mr . Disraeli said : — " The noble lord had told them he had no hesitation in saying the rescript of the Pope and the appointment of Cardinal Wiseman were part and parcel of a great conspiracy against the civil and religious liberties of this country . { Hear , hear . ) Did the noble lord correct him ? He would be sorry to misrepresent what the noble lord had said . He could not believe that the Minister could make such a declaration without well weighing his words . " Lord J . Russell observed that what he did state was , so far as his recollection enabled him to say , that it was part of a conspiracy to prevent the extension of civil and religious liberty in Europe , and that the influence of this country was felt to be that of a country advocating the cause of civil and religious liberty . He certainly did not mean to say that there was a conspiracy against the civil and religious liberties of this country . " Mr . Disraeli thought that statement materially altered the grounds upon which they were called upon to legislate . Would the bill before them baffle th « conspiracy mentioned by Lord John Russell ? It would not ; for it only provided for petty religious persecution . The Government had not proposed a measure equal to the emergency , as estimated by the noble lord . And it was because the amendment proposed went far to vindicate the national honour , and protect civil and religious liberty , insulted and endangered , according to the Premier , that he should vote for them . The bill was recommitted , after some discussion , for Monday . The only other matter of importance related to the Commissioners of Sewers . Sir B . Hall called attention to certain irregularities in the keeping of their records and accounts , observing that he had never eeen documents in any public department in so disgraceful a state . He recommended the abolition of the Commission as useless , extravagant , and irresponsible . Lord Kbhington denied some of the allegations of Sir B . Hall , gave explanations regarding the rest ; defended the proceedings of the commissioners in their discharge of an onerous duty , and challenged Sir Bcnjumin to bring forward his charges in a tangible shape . —The House adjourned at a quarter to eight o ' clock until Monday .

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      The following letter has been forwarded in reply to the John-street memorial : — 44 Foreign office , May 16 , 1851 . « Sir , —I am directed by Viscount Palmerston to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of the 14 th instant , enclosing a memorial from certain inhabitants of the . metropolis assembled at the Literary IiiHtitution , Fitzroy-squaro , praying the interference of her Majesty ' s Government in fuvour of the HungariuiiH detained in Turkey , and I am to request that you will acquaint the memorialists that this matter continues to engage the earnest attention of her Majesty ' s Government . 44 , sir , your most obedient servant , 44 . U . AnwiNOTON . " Thornton Hunt , Esq ., Broadway , Hainmerumith . "

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      462 SC t > * & * & ***? [ Saturday ,

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      TO BEADEBS AND CORRESPONDENTS . The letter of M . has been in type for some weeks , giving place as he will have understood , to matter of more passing interest . For that reason , and for that only , we stole a march upon him last week ; but we need not explain to one who bo wsll understands our own spirit and our obstacles . The paper of E . B . deserves , and shall have , a veil-considered reply . • . We shall also take time in replying to the grave question raised

      by our new and esteemed correspondent , Fakbwell ; not because we have to form our opinion , but because we would do justice both totbat opinion and to his . It i « impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . Communications should always *> e legibly written , and on one tide of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty o f finding space for them . « -. , „ . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 10 , Welhngtonstreet , Strand , London . _

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 17, 1851, page 462, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1883/page/10/