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Leader (1850-1860), 9th February 1856, Edition 1 of 2, Page 127, Untitled Article

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      M , Brail , the Minister of finance , will withdraw the project of la w respecting tlie import duties . ItiBin contemplation to establish , an impost on aiU spiritnoTXB liqttors . The < £ l 5 gence from Grenada to Madrid has been carried awEgp- "by "ttie current on attempting to cross a stream- ; and all—driver , postilion , and passengersperished . POETtraATi . The Councillor Hdefonso Leopoldo Bayard lias "been

      assassinated at bos own door at night , by some one who snot him from the inside , and who had opened the door in answer to the Councillor , wboviras returning from Ms club . ML Bayard had recently made a -will , in which , he bequeathed legacies to his servants . Suspicion fell on them , and the police entered the house . On this , the murdered gentleman ' s valet got hold of a razor , and cut bis throat so frightfully that he is not expected to live . Report speaks highly of M . Bayard ' s kindness and excellence of heart . '

      DSKUABE . The Provincial Diet of Holstein has passed , after a long debate , and by a majority of 40 to 6 , a resolution declaring its want of confidence in tlie Minister ScheeL A seeond resolution , carried by 41 to 7 votes , authorises Sclieel ' s impeachment . A decree of the King of Denmark , addressed to the Royal Commissioners at the Diet of Holstein , annuls this resolution . His Majesty has also refused to accept any address . HOLI 1 A . NDIt is veiy agreeable to have to . announce ( says a correspondent of the Morwing Post ) that the unhappy differences which , lately existed between the King and Queen have been arranged in a very satisfactory manner .

      ITALY . A demand has been presented to the Congregation , of Rites at Rome for the beatification of Queen Maria Ghris < 3 na of Naples , daughter of King Victor Emamiel I . of Sardinia , and first " wife of the reigning King of Naples . Her Majesty died in 1836-The despotic vagarieB of King B-omba , after slackening for a time , have again commenced , according to an account transmitted by the Neapolitan correspondent of the Daily News , who says : — " The history of the police in this country must always form a subject of interesting inquiry , especially after its notorious antecedents . I am assured , therefore , that Bianchini isregarded aB the ad interim director of police ; Mazza still exercises immense control , together with . Maddaloni and Oilardoni . Indeed , this triumvirate may

      be described a 3 being in opposition to Bianchini , who is really a gentleman and a man of mild character : by these it is said that Ms instructions are sometimes countermanded , and hence continual recriminations . iThe prisoners of Montefusco—whence Poerio and his associates were removed to Montesarohio—have of late , for some reason or other , been treated more harshly . A few days since , an advocate named Bascone was liberated from prison . He was arrested with Miguonna and a number of others , amounting to thirty-five , in the month of October last . The charge brought against them , was that they were members of the Mazzini party . Bascoae and Miguonna , it will be remembered , were cruelly beaten before any trial . The former has juBt been liberated , nothing having been proved against him ; whilst the latter is still in prison . It is a singular fact that the very man , Pierrot , by whose evidence they were arrested , has himself been imprisoned on the ground of his being a LaberaL It will awaken your surprise when I tell you that a hero has been found to defend the recent acte of the Neapolitan government . The name of this courageous individual is M , Jules Gondon , the editor of tlie Univere , and the form in which he has conducted his defence is in a series of letters to Mr . Bowyer , whose admiration of Rome and of Roman government and institutions created some sensation last year . " English Liberals will learn with pain that the

      editor of the Turin journal , the DiriUo , lias been sentenced to fifteen days' imprisonment and two hundred franca fine for publishing in his journal a severe article against Louis Napoleon . It is melancholy to find the only constitutional state of Italy thus abasing itself for the sake of currying favour with a powerful tutd despofcio neighbour . The Sardinian am . basHn . dor in to leave Constantinople in a few days . The Journal de Constantinople states that he has been recalled by his Government to take port m some important councils . He is replaced in the Turkish capital by tho Charge d'Affaires .

      TURKEY . The Sultan has approved of the project of roform ux tho internal administration of the empire , by virtue of which all Christians aro to be eligible to publio ftmotione . This project containei ninoteon articles . All other disabilities mo to bo removed , and tho Turkish administrations aro to be thoroughly reformed . Lord Stratford do Redoliffo haa drawn up along doouTaent , ombodying the general ideas of the Christian powers on this nubjoct : this document , with a few modificationn , was accepted by his colleagues .

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      piety , or modesty , or discretion . If we would have the hearts of our floeks , we must be tolerant , even -of their prejudices ; if-we would guide them , we mosfe rule ourselves ; if we would have them deferential , we must be ourselves subordinate . Above all , the laity must feel that the standard we propose to them we are willing , to have applied to ourselves . < Jreat scandal has been caused not only by flagrant instances of -clerical misconduct , but by the difficulty of dealing with these ; cases of notorious immorality have been left unpunished , criminous clergy allowed to retain their cares for years , to the almost irreparable detriment of the Church and religion , in consequence

      of the inadequate provision of the law , and the difficulty and cost of prosecuting the offender to convict ion . Under such circumstances , it is idle to blaane Church authorities . The doctrine of the- Churchy as recited in her 26 th Article , is indeed' plain and peremptory , but in practice it is a dead letter . How can we expect parishioners to impeach ., or church wardens to present , or bishops to call offenders to account , when the result may only be a ruinous expense to themselves , and the evasion of the culprit through the want of precision in the law ? . . . . For myself I will only say that the committing cases

      of clerical delinquency to a commission exclusively or mainly composed of clergymen , seems to me objectionable . It is , I believe , generally held that the clergy as a . body are not good judges of evidence ; at least , we have the recorded opinion of a distiuguislied legal authority to this effect . And though I believe that in our anxiety to avoid an appearance of partiality we should be apt to go into just the opposite extreme , it would be nearly impossible for us to escape a suspicion of favouring the accused . " When the Church is thus painted by itself , how are we to wonder at disseut in its manifold shapes ?

      Thk Prisons of England . —The twentieth report of the Inspectors of Prisons in England -was published last Saturday . It has reference to the prisons in . the southern and western districts , and mentions some disgraceful cases of mismanagement . At Brecon , one of the prisoners was so depressed in spirits ^ from long confinement that he was excirsed fr 6 m hard labour at the request of the inspector . In fixe Cardiff county gaol , the accommodation is most inadequate , and the prisoners are all associated together , without any "Work , iu the inost demoralising manner , in utter disregard of the law . At Haverfbrdwestgaol , the greater humanity of the FVench law of

      imprisonment for debt is forcibly called to mind , when it is found that an old man of seventy years of age is incarcerated in a noisome prison for a debt of £ 124 and interest . The gaol of New Radnor is a disgrace to the nation , and , although it ought only to used as a house of temporary detention , prisoners have been kepttiiere a whole fortnight . The " airing yard " was found to be occupied by two donkeys and a large bog , it being , too , evidently their ordinary abode . At the new prison of Wellsthere is no convenience for prisoners seeing their legal advisers in private— " a defecb" ( remarksthe report ) te of very serious magnitude . " At the Eseter county prison , the barbarous practice of cutting ; the prisoners * hair too short is condemned by the

      in-The late ! Bubgxaiiy at Pobtsea . —William May , a man dressed- like a sailor , is now in custody , charged with being concerned in the burglary recently committed on the pi'emises of Messrs . Emmanuel , jewellers , at Portsea . The Gold Robberies between London and Paris . —A Mr . John Hall , who is stated to be possessed of considerable property , has been charged at the Mansion-house with , having had in his possession

      fifty ounces of gold in bars , supposed to be a part of that which was stolen last May in its transit between London and Paris . A large amount of gold and notes was discovered by the police at his house , While they were searching , he fell down insensible ; and , during his examination at tho Mansion-house , ho fainted . He had been in the habit of selling the gold at the shop © f Messrs . Johnson and Walker , goldrefiners , of Aldersgate-street . A remand waa obtained by the police , and bail was accepted .

      Oou Clerical CivrcrsATiON . —Archdeacon Sandford has published a charge in which ho makes some very free , bufc extremely just , remarks on tho effect of clerical delinquencies , awl tho best mode of punishing thorn . He observes : —" Had we , the clergy , beon more blameless in out * lives , more apostolic in o \ ir labours and demeanour , more free from tho taint of fikhy lucre ; had our walk and teaching b « on bettor oxpononts of tho Christian Church , we should havo

      had fewer adversaries to contend with , more friends to rally round the cause wo advocate In 11 moasura wo a . ro Buffering , and the Church with ub , for tho fnulta of our own order . And it would teach iib caution , ovow in things apparently indifferent , if wo bore in mind that while by earnestness aud olmrlty , aud 11 holy fear of offending " , wo may uphold tho onuno of God ' s Church and truth in tho wornt of tinioH ; bo dooa it suffer in tho estimation aud affection oftlio pooplo by uny apparent donoiouoy on our part in

      spector . At the Exeter city gaol , the system is abominably defective , and ratlier adapted " to foster than to repress the growth of crime . " At Plymouth the large accession of prisoners for refusing to go to sea after signing articles is noticed , and at this prison a prisoner contrived to escape through , a hole twelve inches long by six and three-quarters broad . At Tiverton , a debtor complained of tb . e chaplain for refusing him the privilege of having one of his own books to read . This work , 30 dangerous iu the eyes of the chaplain , turned out to be Milton ' s great epic , whereupon the inspector reversed tho rev . gentleman's decision .

      Bad Money . —A very lamentable case of false accusation agaiiiBt an innocent person , in connexion with supposed bad money , haa been revealed withiu the last few < laj | p iu the law courts . An action haa been , brought in the ' Court of Queen ' s Bench against a shopkeeper in tho Regout Circus , for tho false imprisonment of Miss Eliza Groaves , a daughter of Lieutenant Greaves , one of the Assistant Poor Law Cpmniissiojuors . Hiss Greaves iw employed in a millinery establishment , and sho made a pui-chase at the shop in question . The chaugo was not immediately gi ven ; aud at length a policeman was introduced into tho shop , and Mis « Greaves w « s given into custody , charged with uttering false coin . She that she ht

      assorted lior innocence , and bogged wrng uot bo carried off in custody ; but tho shopman thought it was necessary to make " an oxamplo , " and Miss Greaves wan convoyed to the Btivtion-house . At night , howover , it was discovered that the naoney , after all , was not bad . Tho coin had beon accidentally placed iu contact with quicksilver , had got oovered with that metal , and in consequouoo presented t greaHy appearance , and sounded dull . At the station houaa , Miss Groavos was Bubjooted to great indignity Sho was stripped , iu order to find if a \\ o had any mop falso com about her ; and her mouth was violently oponod , with the same view . Tho defendants pleadot iu oourt that thoy had published un apology Iu th <

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      FEBRPA gy 9 , 1850 . 1 TKE LEA D : E 1 , i 9 y

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      A FAMILY MUEDEBED . A whole family- —consisting of a wife and her thpee children — has been murdered in Portland-street , Soho . William Bousfield—a French polisher by Ms ordinary trade , but who haa recently been employed chiefly aB a supernumerary at Covent Garden Theatre , at & shilling or eighteenpence alight—is the murderer . He has the appearance of being a dissipated man of about thirty-seven years of age ; but bia acquaintances say that lie is temperate in his habits . It is reported that his wife frequently

      upbraided him with being an "idle , worthless fellow , " and that he was jealous of her , and reproached her with being too free with the customers who frequented a little shop for the sale of snuff , stationery , toys , &c , which she kept . On the night of Saturday last , a neighbour went to this shop after it was closed , knocked at the door of the parlour occupied by Bousfield and bis wife and three children , and asked to be served with some wood . Mrs . Bousfield replied in a cheerful voice that they were in bed , and she asked her husband to get up and bring the wood . He muttered something inaudibly , but did not rise ; and Mrs . Bousfield said she would be up by six o ' clock the next morning . In the course of that night , however , she and her children were killed . The woman's father—a carpenter—lived in the same

      house ; but neither he nor any other occupant heard the least disturbance during the night . On the following morning , about seven o ' clock , Bousfield went to the Bow-street police station , and told the inspector he had kiiled his wife . The police -were sent to the house he indicated ; and there , in the back parlour , the door of which , the constables broke open , tie dead bodies of the wife and two of the children were found lying on a French bedstead ; the body of the third child being discovered in a press in the same room . All the bodies were shockingly mangled ; tie bedclothes were saturated with blood ; smears and splashes of blood were found on the floor , on the door and door-posts , and on articles of furniture ; and a bloody chisel and razor lay on the bed . Medical assistance was called in , but it was too late .

      In tile meanwhile , Bousfield was searched at the station-house ; and while this was proceeding he threw himself forward , and tried to strike bis head against the mantelpiece , crying , " Oh ! kill me out of the way !" ¦ He then added , " Fetch a doctor for ray poor wife . " A wound on his neck , covered with blood , and another on Ids wrist , were discovered . Jones , the father-in-law of Bousfield , had paid houserent , doctors' bills , and other expenses for the family , whom he had put into the business in Portlandstreet \ but it would seem that Bousfield was in needy circumstances . The woman was twenty ^ eight years of age ; the children , respectively , six years , four years , and eight months old .

      Bousfield was examined on Monday before the Marlborough-street magistrate , and was committed for trial . An inquest on the bodies has terminated iii a verdict of Wilful Murder .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 9, 1856, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2127/page/7/