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      OBITUA 11 Y . Mr . James Morrisojj .- —A man . -who was not only a millionnaire , but a millionnaire nearly four times over , departed this life on the afternoon of IMday week . James Morrison , one of the merchant princes of London , was a native of Hampshire , though the family-was of , Scotch descent , and was born about 1790 . Coining to London in early life , he was « mployed as a warehouse assistant at very low wages ; but in time he secured a partnership in the Fore-street business of the late Mr . Todd , whose daughter he married . He rapidly advanced in wealth , chiefly by tLe principle of ' small profits and quick returns , ' which he was the first to introduce . He speculated in many things and in many directions , and was almost always successful . He was likewise a large purchaser of land , in several English counties , as well as at Islay , Scotland , and was an admirable agriculturist . The Liberal party in politics always reckoned him as a faithful and enthusiastic member , and he has sat in Parliament for several boroughs . Though a self-educated man , he had an excellent taste in literature and art . He made several speeches in Parliament on the subject of railways ; and these were collected into a volume , and are mentioned by Mr . M'Culloch , in his ' Literature of Political Economy , ' having done the public good service . In 1846 , ho succeeded in obtaining the memorable select committee for better promoting and securing in Railway Acts the interests of the public . His wealth and estates are said to be equitably distributed among the members of his large family ; and it is stated that his far-seeing sagacity has prevented the likelihood of the amount being diminished by the recent American panic . For the last few years of his life , howeverstrange comment on the value of wealth !—Mr . Morrison was under the impression that he should die in poverty ; and his friends were obliged to invent a fiction of employing him in agricultural work , and paying him wages ! ACCIDENTS- AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Ma . William T . Shaw , of Shawbrook , near Forshall , Longford , has accidentally shot himself . He was out with a friend , and , in passing through a hedge , turned the muzzle towards himself , so as not to endanger his companion . The trigger caught in a twig , and in another moment Mr- Shaw wa 3 dead . Ho wna in his fortieth year , and has left a family of five young girla . A melancholy accident , which occurred during the . passage home from Quebec of her Majesty ' s stemn-lrigato Vulcan , has deprived the service of a gallant and rising young officer—Ensign K . N . Luard—who , while in his cabin on the 27 th ult ., was thrown by the rolling of the vessel into a passage below , dislocating his neck . Death was instantaneous . His remains were committed to the deep on the 28 th with military honours . four of the carriages belonging to a train on the Manchester , Sheffield , und ^ Lincolnshire Itailway ran ofi ho tails on Tuesday morning , the engine keeping the track at the points leading to the Mot train Viaduct . At

      the place of the accident , a ndw crossing was being- put in , and the signalman , who in cases of repairs and renewals is stationed eight hundred yards beyond the point at which the men are at work , neglected to give the proper caution to the driver of the train , who consequently went over the incomplete part of the road at the average speed of thirty miles an hour , instead of at halfspeed . No one was injured , and the passengers were sent on b y another train . The end of one carriage and the side of another were broken against the parapet .

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      Pressure ox the Iitisn Banks . —There has been something of a run for gold on the Waterford banks , jut the demands were promptly met . State of Ttpperary . —Agrarian outrages are again being committed in Tipperary . On the night of the 28 th ult ., some ruffians went to the house of John Hackett , a person employed on the lands of Mr . Matthew R . Gabbett , of Dublin , who some years ago purchased the ground in the Encumbered Estates Court , and fired - through the window . The contents of the gun ( broken nails ) passed through the closed shutters , and fell harmlessly near Hackett , his wife , and a neighbour , who were sitting by the fire . A Family Poisoned . —A man and his wife and child , living at Bilboe , about seven miles from Carlow , were discovered on the morning of the 30 th nit . suffering from the effects of arsenical poisoning . The wife is expected to die ; the husband is still in a precarious state ; but the child is recovering . It is suspected that the poison was wilfully administered by another person . The Orange Society . —Lord Dungannon , the Grand Master of the Antrim Orange Lodge , has made a very indignant speech , at a Tecent meeting of the Lodge , with reference to the letter of the Chancellor condemnatory of those Justices of the Peace who are connected with the Association . His Lordship hints at resistance , and advises a petition to the Queen . —The Grand Lodge of Ireland met on Tuesday , and appointed a committee to take the Chancellor ' s letter and other subjects bearing on the prospects of Orangeistn into serious consideration . Outrage ix Meatii . —Mr . Richard Connell . of Robinstown , while returning from service last Sunday morning in a car , with his mother and sister , was attacked by a party of ruffians , beaten about the head with sticks and whips loaded in the handle , and almost murdered . His mother was also a good deal hurt in endeavouring to save her son . ; but the sister was untouched . The miscreants escaped . StjddexDeath of Lord Charles Bl-tlek . — -Lord Charles "Wandesforde Butler has died suddenly of apoplexy , in his thirty-eighth year , at the residence of his mother , the Dowager Marchioness of Ortnond , at Marley , RatMarnham .

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      CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCE . " The report of the Minister of Finance , " says the Journal ( iesActionnaires , " indicates that measures are about to be concerted between the Government , the Bank , and the railway companies relative to the bonds to be Issued by the latter . We are assured that these measures consist in the Bank advancing to the companies sums more or less important on the deposit of their bond . - ' and that it will afterwards issue the bonds at the time and under the conditions which may appear most opportune . It is said that the Government will authorize the Bank to employ for the advantage of the companies the sum of 5 i ) , O 0 O , 000 fr ., which , it is said , are at it * disposition under the treaty made with the Bank . " ' ITALY . The telegraphic communication between Africa and Spartivento , in Sardinia , is now perfect . The Modenese ollicial paper announces the cessation of the Austro-Modenese Customs League at the end of October . The Prince and Princess deJoinville are now travelling in Naples . Many Milan families are reduced to . u All the elections for the Grand Conncil , " says a despatch from Berne , " are now known , except those for the canton of the Grisons . The general result will not change in any respect the federal policy . A small number of nominations which have remained undecided will necessitate a fresh , election . M . Barman , formerly Envoy to France , has been returned in the Valais . " The tunnel of the Haunstein has just been at last cut through . The Central Swiss Kailway will , therefore , soon be relieved from the unfinished piece which impeded the relations with Zurich , Lucerne , and Berne . AUSTRIA . A stamp of one kreutzer ( not quite a halfpenny ) has been imposed on each copy of the Austrian politic : il organs of the press . The same . stampduty is also to be levied on all foreign political papers which may cross the Austrian frontier . Advertisement sheets , not forming part of a periodical , are likewise to pay one kreut / . er stamp duty . It is calculated that the revenue will thus be raised about G 00 , O 00 fl . a year ; but there in no doubt that the great object is still further to restrict the liberty of the press . Horrible accounts are given of the atrocities committted by the Hungarian brigands , who not only rob but torture their victims . Very little i . s done by the authorities to check them . M . Guttman , a commission agent at Pe 3 th , Jibscondcd on the 22 nd ult ., leaving behind him debts to the amount of about 10 , 000 / . GliJtMA ^ V . The affair of Ilolstein has been referred to a Commission , at Frankfort . Hanover has demanded that the provisions of the constitution of Ilolstein , in so far as they may be opposed to the federal law , shall be declared not obligatory , if Denmark persist in Hiipporting them . This , demand has also been referred to the Commission . PRUSSIA . The King continues to recover health , and on tbo afternoon of Thursday week lie wuh able for the first time to go out into the open air . Leaning on the arm of the Queen , ho walked l ' or aornu few minutes on the terrace of Sans Souci . This lie has since repeated . SKHVIA . With reference to the conspiracy recently detected , the semi-official JSrbske Novinc publicly accuses the ox-IIo > npodar Milosch of being concerned in it , observing , " During the examination of the persons arrested , it wus proved that some of the conspirators had received money fro in Prince MiloHch . IIin plenipotentiary , Dr . l ' ntzel , brought 5000 ducats here , and 100 O of thorn were given to the hired assassin . " The genorul opinion « t Belgrade is flaid to be thut the Russian . ^ had nothing to do with the plot . mxoiUM . The ministers tendered their resignations on . Saturday .

      | Until the meeting of the Chambers , they will hold their offices ad interim . ir SWEDEN . The debate upon the bill which had been laid be * W the lour Estates of the realm in the Swedish Diet and the object of which was to efface from the legislative code certain penalties upon religious dissent , has iust terminated in the rejection of t he bill . ' tuimcey . ^ It is reported in Paris that M . de Thouvenel , the French Ambassador at Constantinople , has suspende d his relations with Redsehkt Pacha , though not with the Government . Louis Napoleon is said to be greatly enraged at the failure of his plans with respect to the Danubian Principalities ; and neither the Turkish nor Austrian Ambassador has been invited to take part in the festivities at Compiegne .

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      OUR CIVILIZATION . _ .. _ -. +. . ¦ CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . 'RoBEia ; Thomas Davis , a carpenter , aged forty , was trie . I last Saturday for fhe murder of his wife . The facts have already appeared in these columns , and may be briefly recapitulated . Davis was a man of drunken habits , and on the 6 th of October lie and his wife had been spending the day at public-houses . On going home at-night , the man was intoxicated , and picked a quarrel with the woman , whom he abused in unmeasured language , lie then locked her and the child into the / bedroom , and cut her throat , notwithstanding her screams and those of the child . Other inmates of the same house were roused , and found Mrs . Davis in the passage -with her throat cut , and her husband with the razor in his hand , aud himself splashed . with-blood . He gave himself up with an air of bravado , adding that he was a happy man , arid was ready to die for what he had done . Oa the road to the station-house , he said "it couldn ' t be helped ; it was all done in a moment . But , after he had been in custody some time , he exclaimed , on hearing that bis wife was dead , " " Good God ! a better wife nsver walked on 'English ground . " He also twice said he did not do it . The defence was that lie was so intoxicated that he did not clearly know what he was about , and that ' consequently the ' crime only amounted to manslaughter . The Judge , however , ruled to the contrary , and the jury found . Davis-Guilty of . murder . On being asked if . he had anything to" ur ^ o why ' sentence of death should not be passed , he replied , "I loved my wife and child too dearly to deprive either of them of life , but my senses were destroyed by the liquor I had taken . I loved her too well to hurt a haiT of her head if I . had been in my senses . " lie was then condemned to death . On hearing this , Davis trembled -violently , and seemed to endure great mental anguish . Alexander Moody , shoemaker , was tried the same day for the manslaughter of' Iiis wile . The only direct witness was a Mrs . Applcton , who it appears bad led Mra . Moody into drunken habits ; and it . scums that , on the night when the injuries were received , Mrs . Moody was intoxicated , having been out drinking with the other woman . Mrs . Applcton lived in the next room , and she swears that she heard a quarrel , and blows struck . The next morning , Mrs . Moody was . found much bruised and in an insensible state . She was ultimately taken to the hospital , and died there in rather less than a fortnight from the night when the contusions were received . Her husband was not then suspected ; but , after the death and burial , Mrs . Appleton ( who had hitherto been quiet on the subject ) so frequently annoyed Moody by calling after him in the streets that he had murdered his wife , that he summoned her before a magistrate , and she was fined forty shillings . She then made some statements to the police , who , without consulting a magistrate ( a course highly condemned by the Judge ) , apprehended Moody , and he was committed . ' It was now stated by an inspector of police that ho had stationed himself in the room occupied by Mrs . Applcton , while a constable was placed in the next room , and that he could not hear his voice unless when it was elevated to the utmost . When Mrs . Moody was in the hospital , Mrs . Appleton brought spirits in to her , contrary to the rules of the house . Moody and his wife had beou married fifteen years , and had lived happily until this woman took to drinking . Under all these circumstances , Moody was Acquitted . Two Irishmen , nainod O'Brien , have been found Guilty of a savage attack oa a policeman near ( Jholseabridge , on tho 2 iJrd of August . They won ! assisted by some , women , who held tho coastablo while the men subjected him to such injuries that he was nearly killed ; and the two O'Drions afterwards confessed to somu other policemen who opportunely came up that , had they not been interrupted , they would have killed their victim , and thrown him over . They woro sentenced to thrco years' hurd labour . John Bentley has been tried on a charge of feloniously assaulting Snnih Catherine Harding , a deaf and dumb woman , thirty years of age . Her evidence was interpreted to tho court by Mr . Downing , tlio secretary to the Deaf and Dumb Institution . For tho defend , wit-

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      1064 i THE LEADER . (" No . 398 . Novkt * ™™ . * i a **

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 7, 1857, page 1064, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2216/page/8/