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The National Register. — 1812-04-19 (London, England)

DISTURBANCES IN THE COUNTRY.  We have long stood in a particular situation : a separate people, visibly shielded against all dangers by the mercies of Omnipotence. When revolutions deluged the Continent with innocent blood, our lives were secure, for our Constitution remained unshaken. We heard the successive and awful fall of empires : we lamented, but did not share their fate. The events that crowded the stage of the world, seemed to pass before us for our instruction. From the contemplation of ravaged fields and towns in Barnes we turned, and beheld our vallies teeming with abundance, our cities with industry and wealth. Nation after nation sank enslaved—Freedom dwelt fixed on our shores. Anarchy threatened to overflow every land ; but loyal power sat on the waves and checked her progress. Succeeding years confirmed us in the exalted station which we occupied. Our prosperity encreased ; our dominions were enlarged, and Great Britain became net only the sanctuary of banished freedom, but the source of independence to others. Are we now to resign the honours of our glorious destiny ? Have we stood so long, unshaken by the hostility of a world in arms, to fall self-overthrown, self-destroyed, a dreadful instance of national. suicide ? Let those, who instead of joining in the arduous conflict with the common enemy, raise their misguided hands against the peace of their country ; let those, still more criminal, who, for the purposes of party, encourage sedition, reflect that such conduct must recall the vital blood of the State from the limbs which it now so powerfully wields against the toe, to the heart which their insubordination attempts to stab. Let them know, that such collected vigour will easily crush their blind attempts, but that the cause of our Allies must be sacrificed. Let them see, that they only turn aside the British sword from the bosom of the enemy, to plunge it into their own. And if not out of love for their injured country, and regard for their own interest; yet, out of cautious fear, let them forbear. The inflammatory speeches of our pretended patriots,' assisted by the difficultie:i of the times, have at last produced the effects which we anticipated. The disturbances which broke out at first in Nottinghamshire, are no longer confined to that county. They have spread far and wide ; and if the British Senate continue to resound With the declamations of men, who politically attribute every evil we endure, even the sterility of the ground, to thei supposed misconduct and impolicy of Government, the mi:guided populace, resting its justification on their authority, will endeavour to extend the sphere of its rayages, and sink still deeper into guilt. It is not at the tale we 'are contending for all that is precious to ninn, With a powerful external enemy, that our means of defence should be impaired by the want of unanimity at home- It is not at a period when the scarcity caused by an unfavourable harvest, both here and on the Continent, VQ/, V. No: CCXXv.
The National Register. — 1812-05-24 (London, England)

BELLINGIIAM THE ASSASIN.  FURTHER PARI ICUL ARS.  The more we contemplate the charatter of the atrocious assassin Bellingham, the more are we confounded, and perplexed to discover by what strange combination of ideas he could have worked up his mind to the commission of such a detestable and horrid deed. Surely never before was the human mind so strangely, so diabolically perverted ! Should there be a doubt as to the truth of this remark—let the following facts bring the question to the test. The public have already been informed that on the very morning of the day upon which this dreadful murder was committed, the assassin accompanied his landlady and her young daughter to the European Museum. After some time contemplating one of the pictures with the deepest attention, he called the young girl to him, that he might explain to her the nature of the subject. "'[his, my dear," continued he, " is a picture which you wlll not he able to comprehend without explanation. Observe it well. It. is a representation of the Day of Judgment. That figure which you see in the centre floating in the air, is our Saviour Jesus Christ, the only Sou of God, who came into the world fo save sinners. Those persons that you see upon his right hand are good persons, such, as by their faith, and good works in this world, have insured to themselves eternal happiness; on the contrary, the miserable and wretched persons which you observe upon his left hand, are the wicked of this world, such, as by their atrocious actions have drawn upon themselves just condemnation and everlasting punishment." Sometime after, the party quitted the room together, when he accompanied the mother and daughter as far as Cranbourn-alley, he then said, with great coolness, " Madam, you will now be enabled to find your way home without any difficulty, I must take my leave of you, as I have business to do at Westminster," ending with this speech, the monster departed with the fatal weapon, ready loaded in his bosom. Such is the rotten fruit of religion when learnt only by rote in cur riper years. Let us indulge a hope, then, that our regenerated and new Schools, as now carried on according to the principles qf the Established Church, will give an entirely new form to the rising generation; when, instead of that ignorance and vice which now so universally prevail among the lower orders, we shall, in due time, behold religion and virtue shine forth conspicuous, to the hononr and happiness of our country, and to the salvation of souls innumerable. Bellingham, after his condemnation, was allowed only bread and water. All means of suicide were removed—he was not permitted to be shaved. He complained seriously ut this last prohibition, as he thus could not be able to appear as a Gentleman ! The Ordinary of Newgate, and two other Clergymen, visited him several times in the course of Saturday and Sunday. He appeared naturally depte ssed by his situation, but persisted in defending what he bad done. l'here was no contemned sermon on Sunday. The Ordinary attended at his cell between eight and nine. :Bellingham seemed considerably thjected : but on be
The Press. — 1856-12-27 (London, England)

THE REV. DR. HARRIS, Principal of the New College, St. John's-wood, shied on Sunday last, in the fifty-third year of his age. Dr. Harris was a gentleman of great eminence and influence among the Nonconformists. He was a native of Ugborough, in Devonshire, and was educated in tho Independent College, then existing at Hoxton, but afterwards removed to Highbury, and finally merged in the New College, of which he was principal at the time of his death. He was brought to public notice by being the successful competitor for a prize of a hundred guineas, offered by Dr. Conquest, for the best essay against covetousness. This production, under the title of " Mammon," gained extraordinary popularity, and drew the attention of the religious world strongly towards the author. His services as a preacher were in great request. In 1837 he became professor of theology in Cheshunt College ; and when, in 1850 the various Independent colleges in and about the metropolis were consolidated into one, under the designation of New College, he was invited to preside over the institution. Besides the prize essay to which we have referred above, Dr. Harris was the author of several other works, displaying far greater compass and maturity of thought than " Mammon." One of these was the " Great Commission," also the result of a literary competition, in which he boss away the first prize. But, besides these, he published the " Great Teacher" (his earliest work), " Man Primeval," " The Preadamite Earth," " Pateorchy," tc. Some of these works display a lari.e amount of profound and patient thought, in the department of metaphysical theology, conveyed in a style of singular clearness. Ma. Hucat M taxa, the well-known writer on geolcgy and eili,or of the Witness newspaper. was found on Wcdre=dly morning lying dead on the floor of his bedroom, in Edinburgh, shot through the heart with a pistol bullet. That he died by his own hand there seems to be no doubt, but the circumstances under which the melancholy event happened do not lead to the supposition that his death was an act of intentional suicide. For some time past Mr. Miller had been in a somewhat indifferent state of health, brought on, we believe, by over-study in the preparation of a new work on geology. He auftWel eon. siderably from nervous excitement, and, though at all times a man of ecceuttio ;limners, 413 %MOW;
The Press. — 1856-01-05 (London, England)

GENERAI. TODTLEBEN, on his return to St. Petersburg, has been treated with marked honour and distinction by the Emperor and the Court. At the banquet given to him by the pupils of the Engineer School, the Grand Duke, the inspector-general of that branch of the service, proposed the health of the "Russian Vauban," and proclaimed him to ba the greatest warrior in the empire. PRINCE MENSCHIKOFF, whose retirement from public life to the seclusion of a convent was so often asserted last year, has just been appointed military governor of Cronstadt. The appointment is regarded at St. Petersburg as a marked triumph of the old war party in tho councils of the Emperor.  ~s, ,g  THE DUKE OF SOTOKAYOR, formerly Spanish Ambassador at London and Paris, and whose name will be remembered in connection with our disagreement with Spain in 1t44, when as Spanish Minister for Foreign Affairs he sent Sir Henry Bulwer his pass. ports, and ordered him to quit Madrid in forty-eig:q hours, committed suicide on the 26th ult., by sho-t•ing himself in the head. The cirsurnstances of hk death were extremely painful and singular. He is suid to have been suffering most severely from gout. PRINCE PASKIEWITCH, it is now stated, has hopes of recovery. Although not entirely out of danger, the brave old general is enabled to attend in some measure to the duties of his post.  COUNT MUNSTER, military representative of Prussia at St. Petersburg, who lately arrived at Berlin on leave of absence, does not return to his post. Various reasons are assigned for the count's resignation. Colonel Von Bergh, or Colonel Manteuffel, both notorious for their Russian predilections, are spoken of as the probable successor of Count M unster.  A RUSSIAN SECRET MISSION TO PARIS IS stated to have been lately very happily executed. A RussoFrench merchant, accompanied by his Russian partner, arrived about three weeks since at Lyons for the purpose of buying silk stuffs for the Imperial palaces. The partner proceeded on to Paris, and opened business with no less a person than Baron Seebach, the Saxon Ambassador. For some days this mysterious merchant was watched regularly to Baron Seebach's hotel, when suddenly all trace of him was lost. Baron Seebach immediately held several interviews with the French Minister for Foreign Affairs, on the 10th had a special audience of the French Emperor, and shortly after left Paris for Dresden and St. Petersburg.
The Press. — 1856-07-12 (London, England)

TENANT RIGHT (IRELAND) BILL.  On the order for going into committee upon this bill,  Mr. G. H. MOORE said that there was no reason. able hope that time could be found for considering the details of this measure during the present ses• sion. He should move that the order be discharged. He was willing to leave the Government in full possession of the advantage they had so honourably achieved:—  Of the personal explanation which I have been fortunate enough to elicit from the Irish Secretary it would be superfluous cruelty to say one word, because, though it waa most exceptional in tone and temper and was rather offensive than defensive, to attempt to refute it would be something like the undertaking of a well-known alderman "to put down suicide." If the right hon. gentleman should on any future occasion feel it his duty to oppose any measure of mine, I only hope that he will accompany that opposition with arguments and statements such as those he had advanced against this bill. According to the explanation which the right hon. gentleman had been ordered by the Government to make, the Government had voted for the second reading of this bill because they acknowledged the justice of its principle; but they opposed its further progress because they whaled to prevent that principle being carried into operation. It might be said that I had no reason to complain of this course, because it was precisely the course which the Government adopt with their own bills; but, as nobody that I know takes the slightest interest in their bills, while a whole people take a deep interest in this bill of mine, I may be permitted to object to the parity of proceeding. It is to be hoped (concluded Mr. Moore) that during the recess the right hon. gentleman will devote himself to a study of the geography of Ireland and of the habits and wants of the Irish people, of which he seems profoundly ignorant, and perhaps next session he will be able to furnish the house with some ideas of his own as to the justice of the principles on which this bill was founded. Instead, too, of engaging himself in importing into Ireland a scheme of English legislation which was as unacceptable an importation as himself, he might well employ his leisure in devising some scheme for the reformation of those Irish members by whom he was at once supported and besieged. The hon. member concluded by moving that the order be discharged.  Lord PALMERSTON said, his opinion! upon this question had never been concealed. Upon general principles he considered it undesirable and highly objectionable that Parliament should interfere in transactions between parties who made terms with each other ; but that it would be the duty of the Government respectfully to consider any measure upon the subject which might be brought forward next session.  The order was then discharged.
The Press. — 1856-03-22 (London, England)

FOREIGN MISCELLANEA. PRINCE GORTSCHAKOFF, since his assumption of the Viceroyalty of Poland, has done everything to ingratiate himself with the Poles. He visits their schools and charitable institutions, assists at public performances, has promised his special protection to the School of Arts, and makes a point to frequent the houses of the Polish nobility. A few days since, in reply to a hope that this new reign would inaugurate a period of relief for Poland, he ob served :—" The Poles have no idea of what the Emperor intends doing fur them very shortly." It is certain that important administrative changes are in contemplation. COUNT ORLOFF AND THE PRINCESS LIEVEN, according to some Paris gossip, are not very intimate at this moment. It appears that the Count upon his arrival in Paris for some days neglected to visit the Princess, who, becoming fidgetty, wrote a note to the plenipotentiary begging the favour of a visit from him. The great man, it is reported, came, but only to remind the Princess that a new regime now existed at St. Petersburg, that she must no longer look for the same indulgences under Alexander 11. as she enjoyed under Nicholas, that, in short, her position was entirely altered. One result of all this has been that the Princess has comparatively closed her salons, and now only occasionally receives a few of her most intimate friends. BERLIN last week rivalled London and Paris for the number and exciting nature of its incidents. On Sunday, says a letter, a dentist put an end to the lives of his two children, his wife, and himself, with chloroform; on Monday the Hinckeldey duel occurred; on Tuesday the suicide of the Geheimrath von Ramer; also the murder of his two youngest children by a cabinetmaker of the town (the murder of the two other elder children and his own suicide were only prevented by their determined resistance, in which all three were badly cut with a razor); on Wednesday the Canitz duel; and on Thursday the impressive funeral of the late President of Police. " Surely," adds the correspondent, " this was enough to turn stronger nerves than the Berliners have ; a Parisian could not have asked for more excitement than this; no wonder, then, that the waves of mental agitation roar rather high in this little washhand basin of a world called Berlin." TILE COUNT MORNY is mentioned in the correspondence fromiParis as being about to start for St. retersburg on a special mission.
The Press. — 1856-04-05 (London, England)

GEORGE BENTINCIC—a political name never to be mentioned without honour, for integrity of principle and commanding talent—conceived the noble design of benefiting Ireland by an advance from the imperial Treasury, for the construction of a system of railways. He proposed to do for Ireland what has been done with the happiest results for Canada—advance such loans as we have very recently advanced to Sardinia and to Turkey, but with much better security, and much better prospect of repayment. Thoughtful men hailed his proposal as a vast stride in the right direction, as tending to develop the resources of Ireland, and stimulate her industry. In Mr. CAYLEY'S " European Revolutions of 1848," he prints two letters from Lord GEORGE on this subject. Let Irishmen read this passage, and blush for the political profligacy of the men whom sht. sends to Parliament for her representatives :  It was not so much through the hostility of the English Members, as*throu gh the desertion and hostility of the Irish Members ( many of them Repeaters), that in Feb-nary, 1847, Ireland lost the opportunity of obtaining a loan of sixteen millions of English gold at 31. 7s. fill. per cent., to stimulate the construction, by private enterprise, of railways in your country. Unanimous in Palace-yard, on one Tuesday, in favour of the proposition I then brought forward on the Tuesday se'nnight. the same sixty gentlemen, having seen the Prime Minister at the Foreign office in the interval, voted two to one in the House of Commons against giving railways to Ireland. Out of a hundred and five representatives which Ireland possesses, twenty-eight only, if my memory serves me correctly, would vote for that loan to Ireland.  It was by the same malignant influence that Lord DERBY'S Administration (most favorable to the real prosperity of Ireland) was overthrown. Why do not the Irish independent party, the political patriots, set up a market for their sale and purchase ? We can tell the remnant of the faction something worth their knowing. It is not only in Ireland that their case is discussed. It is debated in every English hamlet, and there is rising a feeling against their practices, which should make them tremble for the consequenees. Their influence is gone. They will in future be a millstone round the neck of any party to which they cling, and as useless in the Legislature for any influential purpose as SADLEIR in his suicide's grave, or O'FIAHERTY in felonious exile. It will be " a proud day for Ireland " when she shakes herself clear of them altogether.
The Press. — 1856-09-13 (London, England)

WANTED A MINISTER. What ! nobody found for Naples yet ? Have the Government not contrived to get For the post some promising Liberal pet, Some acme of Whig perfection, To go to the land of volcanoes and soap, Fitted with Austrian wiles to cope, To bully the King and to worry the Pope, And give the rebels sufficient hope To send them by scores to the jail and the rope Through relying on Pam's protection?  Strange that they can't yet fix on one, With languages few and scruples none, And not with modesty overdone, Jaunty and not judicious! Strange that their papers still insist On putting forth such an awill list Of qualifications that no one w•ist Were required for that land delicious !  He must show (and he'll want both talent and luck) That Clarendon's full of genius and pluck, _ __.  And Pam a second Rienzi. As for the King, he'll consider him mad (And tell him so, too) ; when he's very bad He'll see if a good shower-bath's to be had To settle his Majesty's frenzy.  He must take 'gainst the " Amorites " each complaint, In the style of Baxter (that restive saint) ; He must coax the mob, and the King he must paint  A. few shades blacker than Nero. No doubt 'twill he au amusing affair— But unluckily Europe begins to declare That our Propagandists go everywhere, And our influence down to zero.  It appears to us that in the case of the unfortunate man, DAvis Sotomoris, who was found in the river at Hampton-court, the jury exhibited, in their verdict of last Tuesday, a sounder judgment than the Coroner. The latter appeared most anxious that they should bring in a verdict of suicide and temporary insanity. But against this view of the case are to be set—first, the disappearance of his property; secondly, the difficulty of accounting for his being found in the river with a fatal gunshot wound on his person at the same time; and thirdly, the curious fact that the shot which had entered his body had not passed through his clothes. No one of these facts, as the Coroner observed, is irreconcileable with the supposition of suicide, yet all three together may surely be considered to have afforded the jury fair ground for the open verdict which they agreed to. We have also to take into account the revengeful expressions uttered by the man GRAY, and his father's confused behaviour on the original inquiry. These of course do not amount to any evidence of guilt, but still we think that, in addition to the other suspicious circumstances in the ease, they are enough to make a man hesitate before finding that the deceased died by his own hand.
The Press. — 1856-11-22 (London, England)

SYSTEM OF TWO-LOOM WEAVING—that is, ono weaver attending two looms—has lately been adopted in Bradford. Mr. Taylor, a large mill proprietor, of Ilaildon, near Bradford, introduced the system a short time since. The operatives objected, attacked the mill, and created great disturbances. The out• break was suppressed, and the two.loom system was continued, compliant weavers being obtained from Bradterd. Last Friday week some ten or twelve of these men were returning home to Bradford, when they were brutally attacked by a mob of Baildonites, who vowed death to the " two-loomers." The twoloomer4 fought well, and at length got clear; but a straggler was soon after cut off, and was so cruelly beaten and ill-used that when rescued he was car tied to the hospital. The police are actively engaged n tracing the assailants. AN ABANDONED DANISH BRIGANTINE, laden with grain, from St. Petersburg to London, was found on the Gridler Sands, off Whitstable, last Sunday morning. A dead body, supposed to he that of the master, was found in the after-cabin. The body was taken ashore, and an inquest held— verdict, "Found dead." The crew are supposed to have deserted the ship after the master's death. A MAN UNKNOWN, last Wednesday morning, as the Great Northern 0 a.m. express was coming down between Hornsey and Southgate, suddenly ran on the line, faced the engine, and in another moment was struck down and killed on the spot,. The train was instantly pulled up, but the body was horribly mutilated and could not be recognised. It is believed to have been a deliberate act of suicide. As ACCIDENT occurred on the Manchester and Sheffield line on Tuesday. The 10.25 a.m. train from Barnsley to Penistone, on arriving at the junc. tion, instead of passing on to the main line, was, in consequence of the points being left open, driven into the siding, where several loaded coal-waggons were shunted. The collision was tremendous ; some coal-trucks were smashed, and several of the passengers, as well as the guard and fireman of the pas. senger train, were severely injured. AN ENGINE OF A PASSENGER TRAIN on the Western Valleys line, as the train reached the Aberbeig junction, broke the couplings, ran off the rails, and bumped with a complete summersault over the embankment, some forty feet deep. The stoker was killed on the spot. THE ART TREASURES EXHIBITION OF MANCHESTER has received the promise of a valuable contribution from Prince Albert of fac-simile photographs of a aeries of original drawings by Raphael. The Earl of Derby has also promised twenty-one valuable pioturea