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      Threatening Sir Richard Mayne. —A Discha...

      papers , giving accounts of burglaries , murderous highway assault ? , and otheracts of violence at Peckham , Gray ' s-inn-rosd , and the neighbourhood of Gordonsquare . In the latter locality , there has been an instance of forcible entrance into a house , about six o ' clock in tie evening , for the jurpose of extorting money by violence . At that time there , were only three -women , in the house ; but they contrived to get the ruffian out . As us ual , there was no jolice . What are we coming to ?

      1040 Ithe Leader. [No. 345, Saturday

      1040 ITHE LEADER . [ No . 345 , Saturday

      Suicides. A Young Servant-Maid, Living A...

      SUICIDES . A young servant-maid , living at Birmingham , named Elizabeth Barton , has committed suicide by drowning herself in a water-cistern attached to her master ' s house . Mr . Smith , her master , went out one morning to business , and returned home at five o ' clock in the afternoon , accompanied by a friend . He rang the door-bell , but was not answered , upon which his friend climbed a wall and entered the house at the back , -when he let Mr . Smith in from the street-door . They then searched the house , but could find no one . Mr . Smith , whose suspicions were now aroused , next went into the yard , where he discovered that the lid of the water-cistern had been removed . He sounded the vessel with a hoe , and found that it contained the body of some person . This was got out with the assistance of some of the neighbours , when Mr . Smith identified it as the body of his maid-servant . Life was quite extinct . The girl had been for some days past in a very low and desponding state in consequence of having learnt that a young . man who had been courting her for several years , and by whom she had a child , was just married to another woman in London . It ia supposed that this circumstance must have been the cause of her self-destruction . An inquest having been held , the jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity . An old man , living in the service of the Rev . Mr . Cartwrighr , rector of Butcombe , in Somersetshire , has killed himself by cutting his throat with a pocket-knife . The poor fellow , who had for some time past been troubled with disease of the heart , was one day taken

      very ill . His master administered the medicines which had been prescribed for him , and sent him to bed . Not long after this , he was discovered standing in the middle of his bedroom with a clasp-knife in his hand , bleeding profusely from a wound he had inflicted across his throat . Being asked by Mr . Cartwright why he had done so , he said that he had committed the action in a kind of drearn , and was hardly aware of what he had done . Every care and attention were paid to the sufferer , but he died a few days after the occurrence . At the inquest , the surgeon who had attended him during his illness said it was his . belief that the man ' s sufferings from the difficulty of breathing were so great as to bring oh a fit of momentary insanity , during which he lacerated his throat under the idea that he should relieve himself . The jury returned a verdict in accordance with this evidence .

      State Of Trade. The Board Of Trade Letur...

      STATE OF TRADE . The Board of Trade leturns for September were iss ued on Monday morning . Notwithstanding the extraordinary amount of our expectations during the preceding three months , which showed an average excess of 2 , 000 , 000 / . per month over the corresponding periods of last year , the total again presents a considerable improvement , the difference as compared with September , 1855 , being 1 , 144 , 012 ? . The chief increase has again been in metals , the foreign demand for iron rails , as well as for manufactures of iron , copper , and tin , haying been extensive . Cotton manufactures show no

      variation , but yarns of most kinds have been largely shipped . The total exports for the first nine months of the present year have amounted to 84 , 906 ^ 605 ? ., against 69 , 226 , 837 ? . in the same period of 1855 , showing an increase of 15 , 679 , 7 68 ? ., or about 22 per cent . As compared with the same period of 1854 , the increase has been 8 , 248 , 681 / . —With regard to imported commodities , the cliief feature continues to bo the large increase in the arrivals and consumption of wheat , flour , and rice . Other articles of food and luxury have also been , freely taken into use , especially coffee , tea , cocoa , sugar , wines , spirits , and tobacco . The imports of other goods have also been to a full extent . Of timber , both colonial and foreign , there have been full arrivals , and the consumption has likewise been heavy . —Times .

      The following resolution has been adopted by the Committee of the Stock Exchange : —" Resolved , — That , in consequence of tho extraordinary conduct pur-Bued by tho directors of the Crystal Palace Company in denying the validity of transfers of shares which had been registered at tho office of tho company , the committee will not recognize any further dealings in the shares , and direct that th « name of the company bo struck out of the official list . " This resolution stands for confirmation on Monday next . _ A letter has' shuse been addreosed by the Crystal Palace Company to tho Committee of tho Stock Exchange . It oxplamj that the refusal of tho company to admit tho validity of certain Bhares was not intended as a denial of ulthhato liability , and 8 tate 8 that , in accordance with the opinion of counsel , it haa now been detornnneu to recognize them without further question . It

      also announces an intention to change . all the shares of the company into stock . A few weeks ago , the workpeople at Messrs . Spencer and Horsfall ' s mill , Coventry , turned out for an advance of wages to the amount of one shilling each per week . Before leaving the mill , one of the weavers : cut two warps in tlie loom . Messrs . Spencer and Horsfall have offered a re-ward of 10 / . for the discovery of the offender ; and the weavers themselves , in order to show that they deprecate tlie act , have offered a farther reward of 51 . The firm laving persisted in refusing the advance , several hundred hands are thrown out of employment . The Coventry Herald mentions what it calls a cruel , if not an illegal act , on the part of the firm , namely , the printing of the names of the turn-outs , and sending a copy to each ¦ warehouse in the neighbourhood , in order to prevent the men obtaining employment .

      The suspension of Messrs . Fox , Henderson , and Co . took place on Wednesday . During the past year , the firm have experienced occasional difficulties , which were greatly increased by the reckless circulation of reports affecting their credit . By great efforts , they were enabled to maintain their position up to the present time ; but the renewed pressure in the money-market , and the discovery < of losses from heavy foreign contracts just finished , have now compelled them to call their creditors together . It is understood that upon the completion of their annual stock-taking and balancing , the house have found that they have suffered to the extent of about 70 , 0007 . by the construction of the Zealand ( Danish ) Railway . Their total debts are stated to be about 32 O , 000 L of which about half are unsecured . —Times .

      Naval And Military. Banquet To The Three...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Banquet to the Three Rkgimexts of Staffordshire Militia . —A couDty banquet to the colonels and officers of the three regiments of Staffordshire Militia ( the first of which las been doing duty at the Island , of Corfu , the second at Aldershotr , while the third has remained at home a . nd has sent 1000 men into the line ) was given at the Shi-re-hall at Stafford , early in last week , by the lieutenants and deputy lieutenants of that county . The Earl of Karrowby presided ; and besides his Lovdship , the principal speakers were— -Sir Harry Smith , Sir Robert Peel , Admiral Mainwaring , and the Earl of Lichfield . In the course of one of his speeches , Sir Robert Peel made some remarks arising out of his recent visit

      to Russia ; He remarked : — " In Earl Granville , Government had one who , though carrying courtesy to its utmost limits , was not anxious to impress the Russian Court , as another ambassador did , that a different feeling prevailed , towards Russia from what was really the case . ( Hear . ) He had seen assembled in Russia 120 , 000 of the finest infantry in the world . Those troops in stature and appearance exceeded anything he had ever before witnessed , and he had been over the whole of Europe ; yet he had no doubt that the pluck of the English army would be a match for them . ( Chters . ) He had visited the fortress of © ronstadtj and there was but one opinion , from the Grand Duke Constantine down to the youngest ' middy' on board the Vladimir , that , had tlie energy of the comnoander equalled the pluck of the British navy ,

      that fortress at the present moment would be crumbled in the dust . (_ ffear , hear . ) Sir Charles Napier liad been through the whole of the fleet and fortress , and he gave it as his opinion that it was impossible to destroy the fortress . It was certainly very clear that it was impossible to attack Cronstadt with success now ; but when the war commenced the case was very different , and if the man who commanded the licet at Copenhagen had commanded the Baltic fleet , or if a man possessed of the spirit and capacity of a Nelson bad commanded that fleet , he had not the slightest doubt that , as the fortress at Copenhagen yielded , so would Cronstadt ffave fallen . " ( 7 / ear , hear . ) Sir Charles Napier liaa since published a letter to Sir Robert Peel , in which he reiterates his old complaint of not being furnished with gun and mortar-boats and rockets .

      Piracy- and Murder . —Three Sicilian seamen , named Giusepp « Lagava , Giovanni Barbalalo , and Matteo Pottrich , have been examined at Portsmouth on the charge of piracy and murder on board tho barque Globe , of Alloa , of which wo gave tho details in tho Leader of October 18 . Bbdcction of the Abmv . —A board of commissioners , from Chelsea Hospital , assembled at the invalid establishment , Chatham , on Friday week and Saturday , for tho purpose of ordering the discharge of a large number of troops belonging to cavalry and infantry regiment * , consequent on tho reduction which is now being made in the army . Two hundred and fi fty non-commissioned officers and men were dismissed , chiefly on account of wounds received during tho Crimean campaign . Court-Maiitial . —A court-martini assembled on

      board tlie Waterloo flag-ship at Sheerness last Saturday to try William Forster , sailmukcr , doing quartermaster ' s duty in that ship . The charge ngainst tho prisoner was for having behaved , on repcutcd occasions between tho 1 st of May and the 6 th of Octobor , 1850 , in a scandalous manner . Tho evidence haa not been published , nor has the precise naturo of the misconduct been specified ; but it woul < l seem to bo of a peculiarly infamous character .

      The court wa 3 of opinion that the charge against th prisoner was fully proved , and adjudged to him twelve months" imprisonment ht the county gaol at Maidstone with hard labour ; after which he was to be discharged from her Majesty ' s service with disgrace . Tub American Frigatk Merrimac . —Mr . Andrewe Mayor of Southampton , paid an official visit to tha United States frigate Merrimac on Monday . He was accompanied by the Sheriff , Mr . J . White ; the President of the Chamber of Commerce , Mr . J . R . Stebbing- an ( i

      a number of civic officials connected with the corporation On arriving at and leaving the vessel , the Mayor received the usual complimentary salute from the guns of the frigate . Lord Palmcrston , who happened to bo i n Southampton last Saturday with the French Ambassador and a party of friends , also paid a hasty visit to the Merrimac , but did not go aboard , the hour being late On Tuesday , the ship was visited by Admiral Sir George Sevmour , the Port-Admiral of . Portsmouth .

      Miscellaneous. Princk Alfred, It Is Said...

      MISCELLANEOUS . Princk Alfred , it is said , will shortly proceed to the Continent for some months . It is believed that he will make liis principal stay at Geneva—a place offering peculiar advantage for the study of modern lan" -ua"es and for other branches of educatio-n .- — 'Daily News . ° Mr . Miles , M . P ., stated at the annual meeting of the Evercreech Agricultural Society , held at Shepton Mallet , that the opinion he expressed on the subject of agricultural statistics when examined before a committee of the House of Lords , was this—that the farmers would gladly publish the number of acres they have in different cultivation , but that they would not consent to give any further information . Ris \ VARi > for Couragkous Conduct .- —A boy , aged fourteen , named Edward Perrin , received , at the National School , Honley-on-Thames , a handsome bronze medal , awarded to him by the Royal Humane Society for his courageous conduct in saving the life of a girl by rescuing her from the Thames after she had twice sunk . Nearly 30 ? . also , have been subscribed for him in the neighbourhood . This sum will be invested for him in the savings bank . The Ducal Palace at Blenheim . —Some correspondence appears in the newspapers with reference to the alleged exorbitancy of the charges levied on visitors to lilenheim Palace and grounds by the head gardener and his labourers . Every party of six is obliged to have

      a Separate ticket of admission ; and on each ticket the head gardener , as he lets the party out at the gate , demands the sum of 5 s ., refusing to allow the visitors to pass unless they consent to pay that amount . " This he doe . ? , " says " One who has been Fleeced , " in -writing to the Times , "in addition to the moneys levied by the porter for letting you into the palace , by the housekeeper for showing you the state rooms , and by the porter ' s man for exhibiting the Titian Gallery , in which , by the way , there are no paintings by Titian . " Mr . Alfred S , Churchill , writing to the Illustrated London News on behalf of the Duke of Marlborough , says that the family are greatly inconvenienced by the large number of persons visiting the grounds , and have to give up most of the habitable rooms of the mansion during the two

      visiting hours of the three visiting days during the week ; that " the duke himself , "who resides the greater part of the year at Blenheim , is obliged to regulate his movements and his drives by the apparent proximity of any of these numerous parties ; " that visitors often smoke beneath the windows , lag behind , and otherwise misconduct themselves , and that " whatever may be charged goes entirely to the remuneration of those extra hands who are employed for the purpose of conducting the public round tho place . " Another correspondent of the same paper says , in reply to this , that " in one of the latest appeals to the judges against tho decisions of the Commissioners of Taxes , the following case appears to have been decided and printed for tho guidanco of the commissioners in future : —The Duke of Marlhorough was surcharged for extra gardeners . He appealed , and stnted that he gave his head gardener 200 / . per annum ;

      and the expenses of labour beyond that sum were to be paid by the head gardener , who was to reimburse himself out of the money received from visitors to the gardens ; therefore the extra gardeners did not belong to him ( the duke ) , but to the head gardener , who contracted with him . " Tins writer signs himself "A Commissioner of Taxes . "—Tho Duke of Marlboroiigli has written to to tho Times in answer to these attacks by " anonymous scribblers ; " but tlio effect of his lctlcr is little more than an admission of the truth of the allegations . His Grace says ho has made a rule to the effect that a fee of one shilling for each porson entering the yalacc shall be hold sufficient , and that lie h « s done his best to check exorbitant demands on the part of his servants ; but ho admits that these exertions appear to have been unsuccessful . With respect to tho garden ? , tho bead gardener has permission to charge twopence a head for each visitor , and no more .

      Literature at a Workhouse . —A few months since , it was decided by a majority of tho guardian * of a Welsh Union not to appoint a regular chaplain to « ' « house , nnd tho spiritual duties have since been performed by various Dissenting ministers of tho town . Tlio fol-

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 1, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01111856/page/8/