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THE NEWSPAPER. 



[1844. 





>rs estimate that there are ur uuu> 



last season, and that many of the coveys 



to fourteen birds. There is alto every 



r— ' ft r rood sport on tne isi oepw»^'» -» , ;; , 

 l"!??*. ffaariTVtnd hares and partridges plentiful. 



'" of came in Glasgow this week is nearly 

 • k.t it was this time latt year, and in good con. 

 Grim* *re selling, at from St. to 8*. per brace ; 

 hires, 1*. 6a*. to 3*. each. 

 W*. -Within the last day or two letters have 

 !— li'^d at Dundee respecting the brig Hannah, 

 *?■ ^rTthat port, from which strong suspicions are 

 b-D ^2lS that the captain, Mr. Lowther, was mur- 

 appieM"* 11 , nurnose of possetsmg them- 



vesstl 



freftrat 



1 by the ship becoming leaky 



The boats 



, . -__ the crew were picked up by the bsrque 

 C ° a A an her voyage to Quebec, and the accoun 



aVthe crew were *o unsatisfactory, that the captain 

 ZiAm fcoUtni instituted an inquiry at Quebec, which 

 iiZ imprisonment of the men. A few days after 

 J^Litul a vessel that had pat into Quebec re- 

 2STK S wreck of the Hannah had been disco- 

 ESVnthe banks of Anticosti, and that it had, he 

 SSed I been uken in tow by another vette , to bring 



"•Si that port. Her arrival was looked for wi h 

 1-iiiSJtlPil on the 28th the Hannah was brought safely 

 iSTtiael th very little damage. It is needless to 



lit tba\t master, Captain Lowther, was not to be 

 Zand i any of the ship's papers. the prisoners 

 wwrc to undergo a second examination on the 12th inst., 

 tail in the meanwhile every possible inquiry was to be 

 The Hannah was heavily laden, but the nature 

 of her cargo is not mentioned. 



Th$ late licv. II. F. Cary — We recorded last week 

 the death of the Rev. Henry Francis Cary, whose 

 remains were on Wednesday last interred in Poefs-cor- 

 ner, Westminster Abbey. At the early age of fifteen, Mr. 

 iry published an ode on the death of Kosciusko, which 

 attracted public notice, and was mentioned in several 

 periodicals of the day as giving evidence of great youth- 

 ful genius. At the early age of eighteen he was entered 

 as a commoner of Christ Church, Oxford, where he 

 proceeded to the degree of M.A. While at Oxford 

 he pursued his studies with unremitting diligence, 

 and made himself conversant not only with the great 

 authors of antiquity, but with almost the whole range 

 of Italian, French, and English literature, as the 

 notes to the first edition of the translation of Dante 

 fully evidenced. In 1805 he published the " Inferno" 

 of Dante in English blank verse, with the text of the 

 original. An entire translation of the " Divina Corn- 

 media" appeared in 1814, but the work lay almost unno- 

 ticed for several years, until Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 

 forming at the same time an acquaintance with the trans- 

 lator and his great work, drew public attention to its 

 merits ; from that time the work has taken its place 

 among our standard English authors. To this Mr. Cary 

 afterwards added a translation of the Birds of Aristo- 

 phanes and of the Odes of Pindar. But, perhaps, the 

 not leas*, valuable part of his literary labours is to be 

 found in his continuation of Johnson's" Lives of English 

 Poets," and his " Lives of Early French Poets," all 

 wbich have hitherto only appeared anonymously in the 

 Old Lmdtm Magazine. In 1826 he was appointed as- 

 sistant librarian in the British Museum, which office he 

 resigned about six vears since. From that period he had 



continued his literary labours with almost youthful 

 energy, having edited the poetical works of Pope, Cow- 

 per, Milton, Thomson, and Young, together with a 

 fourth edition of his own •« Dante," to which he added 

 many valuable notes. The late Government marked its 

 sense of his literary merits, by granting him a pension 

 of 200/. a year. :. 



Dr. Wolfs Mission.— We regret to find by letters 

 from Constantinople of the 17th, a confirmation of the 

 nimour previously brought by the German papers of the 

 trrest and detention of Dr. Wolff by the tyrant of Bok- 

 J uri ' » nd *Qich we noticed on the 3d inst. The situa- 

 tion of the reverend gentleman is one to create great 

 *n»ety and alarm to all the friends of humanity. It 

 •Ppears a* if his fate were made to depend in some mea- 

 gre on the result of a war in which the Khan is engaged, j 

 Should the war be of protracted endurance, so must be 

 ™ captivity. Should the Khan be defeated, his fate 



"ill most pnbably be slavery or death. It i 



T7 r havin S fully informed himself of the details of the cap- 



is said that, 



men, t! labourers, and all around him, and 1 bel 6 be 



st no respect from that course; they loved him be 

 but they did not respect him less. I believe th; th< 

 themselves associated more with the lower classes of 

 so e Kingdom of England would be in a far safer, 



and society in a far sounder, con [tilt I could 



put it to the minds of all to think so, because 1 think it 



is true.'* 



Sir William Follett The Attorney-General left E 



land a day or two since, to try what effec: the more genial 

 climate of Southern Europe, as well as the total abstinence 

 from aH professional and political duties, may have upon 

 hi battered constitution. It is a melancholy thing to 

 contemplate this result, when we remember in the en- 

 ing of his well»known fame some ten or twelve years 

 since, when he entered the House of Commons the repre- 

 sentative of his native city of Exeter, and still more 

 melancholy to find, that now, when the very highest 

 honours of his profession, with its futurity of influ e, 

 fime, and wealth are opening up to him, he has 

 seeking them nearly destroyed thit health, w 

 all these great objects of honourable purs become 

 valueless. But the lesson is a moral one.— Cheltenham 



I miner. 



The King of th* French.— AYe extract the followl 



interesting piragraph, relating to His Majesty Louis- 

 Philippe, from the I I GeareWe, a Swedish journal :— 

 * On the 2J, Vice-Consul Burk c; brtted the i ann 

 versary of his birthday. On the same day he re ved a 

 letter from the King of the French, writi with his own 



nl, accompanying a gold medal, bearing on one ie 

 the profile of His Majesty, and on the other the following 

 inscription.—" Given by King Louis-Philippe to M. C. 

 Burk, as a memorial of the hospitality received at II im- 

 raerfest, in August, 1795.* The letter, which was da'ed 

 atNeuilly, June 6, is in these I rras:— 'It is always 

 agreeable tome to find that the traveller Muller has Dot 

 been forgotten in a country which he visited in simple 

 guise, and unknown ; and I always recal with pleasure 

 this journey to my mind. Amongst my r Elections, I 

 give the first place to the ho*] dity so frankly and cor- 

 dially granted me, a stranger, throughout Norway, ai 

 particularly in Norland and Finmark ; and at this mo- 

 ment, when a lapse of 49 years since I made this journ. 

 into Norway has left me but few of my old hosts l 

 maining, it is gratifying to me to be able to express to 

 all, in your person, what grateful feelings I still en- 

 tertain." " , 



Another Tom Thumb.— The Venetian journals notice 

 the discovery of a native dwarf, of very extraordinary 

 diminutiveness and unusual mental qualificatioi almost 

 unprecedented, except in the instance of the distin- 

 guished visitor, General Tom Thumb. This new genius 

 is named Pietro Bianchi, and is a native of 1 tna, being 

 born a fe* miles from the celebrated cape of that nam 

 and in a district which is somewhat famous for giving 

 birth to dwarfs ; for more than one has been noticed of 

 extraordinary restricted growth within the last few years. 

 He is above 21 years of age, and only 2 feet 10 inches 

 high, and weighs less than 211b. He is well-propor- 

 tioned, and agreeable in face and figure, and devoid of all 

 those deformities which generally distinguish dwarfs ; 

 the form of his head is particularly fine, and the deve- 

 lopment of his mind is in conformity with his age. He 

 has learned several languages wi.h great ease and speaks 

 fluently, besides his native tongue, the lllvnan, the 

 Italian, German, and Croatian. He is shortly to visit 



the European cities. 



Ascent of Mont Blanc.— A letter f.om Geneva gives 

 some details of a second attempt of Messrs Bravais and 

 Martins to ascend to the summit of Mont blanc, a 

 former one having failed on account of the objections of 

 the guides. On the 2d they set out, and reached the 

 Grands Mulets. A second party followed them, composed 

 of three young Englishmen and a Hungarian ; they all 

 slept there thai night, and on the third the latter part 

 set out first, and reached halfway from their sleeping 

 place to the summit, but were then compelled to return 

 from fatigue and fear of bad weather. T.ie servant of ^the 

 Hungarian, however, prevailed on two of the guides to 

 go on with him, and they all three reached the top 1 hey 

 remained there only 10 minutes, being alarmed by a 

 dense cloud floating below them. The descent was very 

 dangerous, the cloud having condensed into a coat ot 

 thick snow. Messrs. Bravais and Mart ns remained 

 below where they slept, and if the whole of the two 

 parties had not retired immediate^, they would have 

 been in great danger of perishing They returned in the 

 evening to Chamouni. 



— «j «.ucr ui i,ne jvnan,auu ivi« v..-- — 



^ lt tne country till a war which had just been de- 

 against Kokhan should have terminated. 



No 



?*ity and death of the unfortunate men of whom he went 

 insearch, Dr. Wolff was preparing to return, when he 

 ** crested by order of the Khan, and told that he mus* 



dared 



ifa^A ?° re effica cious than" those which have been em- 

 PJ°yM, fruitlessly, for the release of Stoddart and Conolly 

 and ° i8 P° siti <>n for saving Dr. Wolff from slavery, 

 .nrku P * from death - ^ is melancholy to think that 

 !!? 8hou,d be the result of the long travel, the dangers, 



■nh-> PnVatl0n8 which Dr - Wolff » with an indomitable 

 tn, i 7? re,y galled, has undergone, and for an end so 



WUI y Christian 



I** Ricli and the Poor.— Baron Alderson, a few days 





am V trough on the Circuit this time, I naa,wu»i 



went d l 8na!1 not have here— a dav of rest; and I 

 a m Til mr ° the countr y and had the pleasure of seeing 

 Li, ' h of crick et, in which a noble Earl, the Lord 



'tenant of hii county, was playing with the trades- 



Ha'co. 



rvvTRAi CBIMIXAt. Court.— The Stepney Poisoning Case.- 



At?he sluing of the Court on Wednesday i^**£* 

 At me »"""b n i ac ed at the bar to plead to the indict- 



5s wi e The indictment contained four counts. 1 he first 

 charged the prisoner with having, on the 8th June, le the pan*h 

 o?"t Duustan, Stepney, unla* iy •J"}"'^^^ 

 BeUny a large quantity of prnssic acid, ftem" »• •gStd 

 which she died, in the "cond count the pn aoncr^ w. s c large^ 

 with the same offence up-»o Kacbel SkelU.) • " c n ' * d the 

 varied the form of the charge, and the fourth c narg 

 prisoner with the murder of a y™» n JJ 1 ** b ' * ck , a,. 

 unknown. The prisoner, who "»*^d*JgSu>UM 



appeared p. ctly calm and ^f^^^li^m^& tonc - 

 reading of the indictment, ani pleaded not ^ n J ^ 



He was then arraigned upon the Coroner »»"J u £ , d , _, lilty . 

 wilful r of RachelBelany; to this heaWop ejdc B ^ 



The Solicitor ated the case for _ tuj V %he 



a few preliminary observations, J» ^J^ ial e \ «*. yet. 



that the case was one entirely of c ,rcun '^ al, ;;. a e „ on <»( 



nevertheless, they should equally a JJJ'JSiSSS of 

 donhts and difficulties, and the too re* ■J^g*^ ca , e M 



^ ^??o S he ^h^diulvld'e^rcctiug the attention 



particuls- wo wills prepared 1 



hefor »rought his v e proof ti bo 



on of Mrs. Ucls * pi health after her a >wn. 



be: subsaq -' s '*. si 



restortt a after one day's indisposition. H aen 

 ase of the prus* i other drug*, and l 



stances of the death of Mrs. Belaoy ; and h* then went 

 tcrs wi by the prisoner to Mr 



e, t 1 from the Euston Hotel worn he had 

 left that pla a the pre , sUting that Mrs. Bda« 



wai i one on ., dated from the same pm> 



e expressed a fear that what had happened before 

 ;o a miicarriajre which Mra. Belany ha affered a 

 s previously) would aga take p aca, a 

 be shown that she was qu.u- well a 



the very day a which Mrs. 

 andwh-i- be proved, was not po> i 



se; i it d-tv, tr between that and f 



d*y.whiehsu aat Mrs. BeUny was daa«c 

 and a- ed by two doctors, although it would be pi 



Ilea in whatever bad been a fhei a short, that 



1 in that letter was entirely I 'i'ae St 



the conr I several o and 



having im.ii i • .« 1 temperately cautioned tlic jn:> ag >. he 

 proceeded to « his v. c«ses. was t u at 



great length, hut a* th ved v e thae v j 



already given at vt. In oui i f tna It 



i at thr Police ( its i» i s nooaeeary 



ros s* the J 



He i imb< mis* fi rainds 



all i -.ird upon the subje< ag 



pri^ ors, an * any rumour* or 



avc coma to their k wlc a »«abjec » 



preju dry. II. then proceeded to »Utc 



be ii illy a I the cause of death, « was 



clearly occasioned by p'ti ,a i 



the Jury was, whe' "pi ad w 



th his wile, a wltl cot t 



iis was V had to dec. 



>ark dence nhowed n priseas 



a man <>f rcapectability— he had contracted what >■ pp aa r » 



••a happy marriage was no Imput m «.f t 



aft*.- -n ; an l yet, with any apparent 



rcc i to say that id com i moat 



x» < that poaali be < i by any 



h mg. I rge 



its there eoi any |ieeuni»ry « « act, 



r it was proved m the morr I of h mai s r e. the 



« bad hi - «i cd poa. 



s- ssion. Hh ty was handed ov« and 



te might have at he pleased w there 



id not have been any p< • -e ' ; uce him to 



The will iiiat had cned to gava 



the prisoner power over the prop poa. 



sceae<i b« fon . for by his marriage the and 



.( Ilia wif.' had <i « rtrst the whole wjuIu ha\ o de • d upon 



him. He begged t hem to recollect that, i« the i i had 



died, h ive been 1 among a- 



es, and it was therelorc «. t natural a urse 



fa imt ur to secure In m nt, the 



property which he had himsi As t will 



cdeccas. was mere waste paper, and was I in 

 every respect , and, if II had i in*\ 



would i at all have h« Wit cgard 



to the letters l ; dated li i the E i Hotel, wht he 



loner and hit wile had left that cat «ght 



be very easily ace cd by the fact, t e prisoner 



and his wise were n< t anxious to have It know e 



llvittf in a small apartment, bat dc*ii< d io have it thoug tat 

 they were atastilifth place like the Huston Ho i 1 



be recollected, also, that the place where the pnaoner did take 

 nphlsa was, of all others, the dy par wlnre 



lie 1 iy friends, and he would ask them if it wa at 



hi >uld have chosen such a spot for the coran of a c 



and d ierate mur The Learned Counsel then prooec 



to remark upon the other facts ol the case, and said it certainly 

 appeared that the prisoner's statement that two m< il men 

 were in atten ce upon his wile was not true, I the pr. 

 sorter's explanation wis, that if the illness Mr iany bad 



continued it was his intention to have called i. I- 



ance. As to the possession of the poisonous * he should 



be in a p n most sa* ictorily to ac< it for this circum- 



stance, from the fact that the prisoner had, for t .1 > cnci, 

 laboured u r dysp l the only means ol relief were 



the admin istn. n of strong acids ; and the i ge 



who had prescriht-il for the prisouer was in attend prove 



lact. lie then remarked upon the aaV« en it was 



oved existed between the prisoner and his wife, a > ' < kind 

 manner in which prisoner had ministered to h»-r comfort, and 

 asked the Jury whether they could reconcile h conduct with 

 the bcli hat the prisoner all along intei carry out a 



deliberate plan of murdi ? his unoffending victim, "tcon- 

 ten led that the pi n< r's story as to the man a the 



on i, a 1 been taken by the <!< ceased was most 

 that it was borne out by all the circumstances spoken to by 

 c witnesses. What was more probable than ' the unfor- 

 tunate deceased, after taking the salta, which it was proved she 

 had taken, should have got up to procure some water in order 

 . drive the taste of the salts from her mouth. 1 seeing the 

 glaaa upon the drawers that she should have employed it for 

 that purpose. He called upon the Jury to weigh all the facts 

 ol the case minutely, and he felt satisfied t e result would be 

 net they must acquit the prison and he co: .ced they 

 would think it Impossible for human nature to h 

 monstrous and aggravated a crime as that impu J 11 .?"^ 



tuuate client : lor if the charge were true he must be the blackest 

 fiend that ever walked upon the face ol the earth. It v • - 



"Se that he could be guilty. Prisoner had been acqamnted « ; 

 the deceased in earlv life : they hwi grown ay b her . were 

 united and during tnSir conjugal intimacy 1 

 a 1 he would igain ask what possible m e the prisoner 

 could have had for the commission of so h it a crime > 



His Learned Friend might tell them that he would exchange 

 5a ^interest for the fee, but what w 1 that be r H e cou 

 In tSL nrm.ertv and that was all. Was there the least evi. 

 SSoeWySfenui on bis part to dispose of the prop, 

 fe wool* «^k "iry, as husbands and as fa :rs, whe her 

 thev could believe it poasible that the prisoner had committed 

 rhi/ awful crime under such circumstances? He had a young 

 a!S lovelv wife—in the flower and bloom o e, and about to 

 Scomc a m-thcr. He had everything which should make him 

 due the existence of his wife, and how then was it possible 

 to believe In the truth of such an awful crime as his having 

 wilfully mur ed her. It was a moat mysterious inquiry. It 

 was the intention of their fellow man they had to inquire into 

 _an inten n known only to his God. And he, lore, 



implor ™> if they possessed but a single doubt, to re- 



n a verdict of acquittal. The evidence te. ' to the 

 prisoner*! innocence, but even if but the slightest doubt sug-- 

 Jccstcti itself to their minds, he implored oi t .em to give J 

 benefit of i o the soaer. At the conclusion of tl •"? 



cman'a speech, which occupied two hours anc la half » 

 delivery, the con. t aujourned at seven o'clock to^nW^^ 



,g. On Thursday the tn*l was resume^ 

 tami. for tne defence, chiefly to eat«Wjah. P 



character of the prisoner, and the terms of aff^ » oJ o?m _ 

 he lived with his i . Mr. Bodkin .J^^^^eon. th« 



to 



e 



charactv r of the prisoner, and .nc w™» ». -- d 



he lived with his wife. Mr. Bodkin then «• 

 mented strongly on the fact lhat alth nag 



pr ner did not adopt one of the we w . fe ti> die 



counteract th t of th ?,K 'to'aeataiaiw. and left the fact 



of its effects, without sending for assist*uv. , 



