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days with no food but musty bread , no drink but fetid water . " His first deposition was forced from him by the alternative of receiving two hundred blows . Muro ( a servant ) was kept for five days in complete darkness , and when on his way to be examined , a lieutenant in the army , who knew him , told him , as > if out of compassion , that unless he put his name to whatever the commissary
desired him to sign , he would be ruined for life . On being asked how it happens that he now maintains that he does not know Pironto , after having , when first confronted with that gentleman , at once recognized his person , Muro replies that the commissary had told him beforehand to lay his finger on the one of the four individuals standing in a row who had no mustachios ; and had obeyed . Sersale , a merchant , underwent such prolonged fasting , that his health is incurably
-undermined . ( The voice of the prisoner is faint , and he can scarcely stand . ) His wife was kept in prison for five days on bread and water , in order to frighten her into deposing to the truth of the charge against him . Cocozza , a solicitor , signed his interrogatory without reading it over , that being the condition of his release from a horrible criminate . The commissary required him to depose to Nisco ( one of his co-accused ) being the cashier of the sect of the Italian Unity . Caprio , a
carpenter , was urged by the commissary , in the presence of the head jailer and of the turnkey , Carmine Bisogni , to denounce JSTisco , and to declare on oath that he ( Caprio ) had received from that gentleman six thousand ducats , for the purpose of bribing the troops , and was promised his liberty if he did so . Errichiello , the master of a caf 6 , had been offered an employment worth twelve ducats a month , if he would second the views of the commissary . Bono , a chemist , was not once examined during the ten months of his incarceration . "
Passages from the Private and Official Life of the late Alderman Kelly , with Extracts from his Correspondence . By the Eev . C . Fell . Groombridge and Sons . — And pray , who was Alderman Kelly , that , before his remains are hardly cold in his grave ( he died on the 7 th September last ) , the Eev . Mr . Pell should rush with , express speed to the printer , and add one more to those nauseous
biographies in which every goose is made the swan of some narrowminded pharisaical circle ? He was the son of a poor but respectable farmer , who , from being shopman to a stationer in the Row , rose to be alderman and lord mayor . There is not one single incident in his whole life that raises him above the herd of others , who , passing through the same stages , have risen to the same elevation . If every respectable citizen is to be biographized by all the Fells who
may happen to have dined at their tables , we should soon labour under a plague worse than any of Egypt , The work itself is pompously written , with a great deal of the " I am more righteous than you " spirit , and the sooner it is handed over to the trunkmaker and cheesemonger the better for all parties . By the way , we see the title-page is dated 1856 , in accordance with a silly practice that it would be wiser to discontinue .
The Emigrant * sHomc ; or , How to Settle . By W . II . O . Kingston Groombridge—This little book , by the author of " Western Wanderings , " may be regarded as a sequel to his " How to Emigrate . " It is an interesting story of Australian life ; and as the former little volume was written to encourage emigration , the author confines himself in this to pointing out the class of persons who are unfit to succeed as colonists , and to those who do emigrate , the only sure means of success . Many of the characters are drawn from real life ;
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days with no food but musty bread , no drink but fetid water . " His first deposition was forced from him by the alternative of receiving two hundred blows . Muro ( a servant ) was kept for five days in complete darkness , and when on his way to be examined , a lieutenant in the army , who knew him , told him , as > if out of compassion , that unless he put his name to whatever the commissary
desired him to sign , he would be ruined for life . On being asked how it happens that he now maintains that he does not know Pironto , after having , when first confronted with that gentleman , at once recognized his person , Muro replies that the commissary had told him beforehand to lay his finger on the one of the four individuals standing in a row who had no mustachios ; and had obeyed . Sersale , a merchant , underwent such prolonged fasting , that his health is incurably
-undermined . ( The voice of the prisoner is faint , and he can scarcely stand . ) His wife was kept in prison for five days on bread and water , in order to frighten her into deposing to the truth of the charge against him . Cocozza , a solicitor , signed his interrogatory without reading it over , that being the condition of his release from a horrible criminate . The commissary required him to depose to Nisco ( one of his co-accused ) being the cashier of the sect of the Italian Unity . Caprio , a
carpenter , was urged by the commissary , in the presence of the head jailer and of the turnkey , Carmine Bisogni , to denounce JSTisco , and to declare on oath that he ( Caprio ) had received from that gentleman six thousand ducats , for the purpose of bribing the troops , and was promised his liberty if he did so . Errichiello , the master of a caf 6 , had been offered an employment worth twelve ducats a month , if he would second the views of the commissary . Bono , a chemist , was not once examined during the ten months of his incarceration . "
Passages from the Private and Official Life of the late Alderman Kelly , with Extracts from his Correspondence . By the Eev . C . Fell . Groombridge and Sons . — And pray , who was Alderman Kelly , that , before his remains are hardly cold in his grave ( he died on the 7 th September last ) , the Eev . Mr . Pell should rush with , express speed to the printer , and add one more to those nauseous
biographies in which every goose is made the swan of some narrowminded pharisaical circle ? He was the son of a poor but respectable farmer , who , from being shopman to a stationer in the Row , rose to be alderman and lord mayor . There is not one single incident in his whole life that raises him above the herd of others , who , passing through the same stages , have risen to the same elevation . If every respectable citizen is to be biographized by all the Fells who
may happen to have dined at their tables , we should soon labour under a plague worse than any of Egypt , The work itself is pompously written , with a great deal of the " I am more righteous than you " spirit , and the sooner it is handed over to the trunkmaker and cheesemonger the better for all parties . By the way , we see the title-page is dated 1856 , in accordance with a silly practice that it would be wiser to discontinue .
The Emigrant * sHomc ; or , How to Settle . By W . II . O . Kingston Groombridge—This little book , by the author of " Western Wanderings , " may be regarded as a sequel to his " How to Emigrate . " It is an interesting story of Australian life ; and as the former little volume was written to encourage emigration , the author confines himself in this to pointing out the class of persons who are unfit to succeed as colonists , and to those who do emigrate , the only sure means of success . Many of the characters are drawn from real life ;