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      Ilii-Treating A. Girl.—Two Respectable W...

      Tvooden-legged man , with two aliases , is under remand at Lambeth on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences by means of letters purporting to come from the Rev- W . J . Irons , Vicar of Old Bromptony and stating that the b & arer had lost one of his legs owing to a fall from a scaffold , according to one letter , and to a wound received in the Crimea , according to another , and that he was endeavouring to collect 257 . to buy a cork leg with , that he might obtain a situation by which he would be enabled to support an aged mother and family . Embezzlement . —Mr . John Holder , late a lieutenant in the army , and paymaster of the Ro 3 * al Lancashire Militia , was brought up by warrant at Bow-street , on Wednesday , charged with embezzling upwards of 1000 ? . Mr . S . Kirby , of the War-office , said that Holder-was paymaster of the 5 th regiment of the Lancashire Militia , in which capacity he was entrusted with large sums of money . He resigned the appointment in February , 1856 , after which defalcations to the , extent of about 1800 ? . were discoveied in his accounts . These moneys ought to have been paid to tha army agents , Messrs . M'Gregor and Co . He was remanded . A Maw of Matty Aliases . — Charles Fould , alias De Henry , alias MTUahon , alias De Fleury , a Frenchman , is under remand at the Mansion House on a charge of having obtained by false pretences upwards of 1000 Z . worth of goods ' . from Mr . John Foster Sykes , a flannel and blanket manufacturer in Aldermanbury . It appears that he pretended to be acting as the agent of the French Government . _ Forgery . —Lambert Phillip Molledown , a commission merchant , carrying on business in Mark-lane , who ' had been remanded upon the charge of having uttered a forged indorsement to a bill of lading , with intent to defraud Mr . George Anton , cornchandler , of Fenchurchstreet , of 750 ? ., was on Wednesday brought up at the Mansion House for further examination . He was committed for trial , and was then examined and remanded on a charge of uttering a forged bill of exchange for 453 / . 19 s . 3 d . The Falkjuk Frauds . —William-Reid , the teller , and Thomas Gentles , the accountant of the lalkirk branch of the Commercial Bank of Scotland , were tried . on Thursday week at the Circuit Criminal Court at Stirling for purloining between 25 , 000 £ or 30 , 000 ^ . from the bank . The robbery was discovered last May , and Mr . Henry Salmon , the manager of the branch , was found to be mainly concerned in the appropriation . He absconded , " and afterwards hung himself at a publichouse at Conway , in Wales . He had heen a justice of the peace , an elder of the church , a prominent political leader , and a provost of the town . Reid and Gentles were found Guilty , but strongly recommended to mercy , on account of the high estimation in which they had been held by their fellow townsmen . Lord Handyside condemned them to eighteen months' imprisonment each in Perth Penitentiary . Burglary and Murder . —Mr . James Henderson , a farmer , living in Robin's-lane , Bramall , near Stockport , has been shot dead by some burglars who entered his house on Tuesday night , with a view , it is supposed , to securing 218 ? . which had been recently received from an annual sale of stock . Mr . Henderson ' s sons were roused by the report and fired at the miscreants , but thev cot clear off . . ' *

      No. 393, October 3,1857q The Leader. G^

      No . 393 , October 3 , 1857 Q THE LEADER . g ^

      Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...

      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . CnARLEs Geary , a person describing himself as the Rev . Mr . Geary , and unfavourably lenown to the public and the Mendicity Officers in connexion with the Indigent Seamstresses' Home—a society living on false pretence ;)—has appeared before Mr . Commissioner Murphy as an insolvent debtor . Tho eour-t could not grant an immediate discharge , but tho judgment was not severe . The insolvent will bo discharged at the expiration of a period « ten months from the date of the vesting order ( January 30 th ) . Vice-Chancellor Wood held a Court at the Great White Horse Hotel , Ipswich , on Monday , to dispose of a petition praying for a winding-up order in the mutter of illQ UlllVlW HVt n + r * IT «« » 1 n _~ . 1 T 7 * _ . j . " ¦* » » i * - — 1 jjmi

      _ .......,,.,. ; . u < jn mm i ^ uBiern J > amtii ) g company . Mr . Roxburgh waa heard at great length on behalf of X » o petitioners , and several Tosponsible affidavits were reau ; after which , the Vico-Chancellor , in giving judgment , observed that it was just possible some advantage might result from placing the concern under tho control or tuo court , but such a course appeared to be opposed to tho washes of tho great body of the shareholders . No « -ss than four thousand one hundred and seventy tiharcaoldora had given their promissory notes for the culls iinuo , and it did not appear that a single creditor hud commenced proceedings in order to recover payment of «» s claims The only creditors would bo tho Oriental K r 1 Othor Bmu 11 bftnkH i tho niattor wan , tlieicforo , reduced into tho hands of a very few persons all 1 I ™ b ° abl ° t () c <>™ "ler tho host course for aLroU C ? ' lh ° ™ wcronooauiticH between one set of noJfinn ' . t ' J * , " gainSt nn « thw . ° r « S « i «»» t any othor persons tlmn tho directors . Tho matter would . probably flW i m t 0 U q'mrro 1 uctwcoi the director * and the 8 aroholdern , and ho ditt not consider it necessary that x » o oxponslV o machinery of the law shuuld bo sot in

      motion by tbe granting ; of a windTng-up order and the appointment of an official manager , especially as there waa no charge of malversation in regard to what was being done . The petition was therefore dismissed with costs as regards the parties served . A curious point of law came up on Monday in the Insolvent Debtors' Conrt . The insolvent , Thomas R . C . Dimsdale , had been in the army , and could not attend on . account of serious indisposition . He was in custody ( in his house in Cambridge-terrace ) of the sheriffs ' officers , and had been some months . The present application -was under the Protection Act , and for his discharge ad interim till the day appointed for the first examination . The point raised was , whether the court could sustain a petition in the absence of the insolvent , and order his discharge from his own house . The question was whether the petitioner was 'in prison . ' Mr . Commissioner Murphy , after a long discussion , decided that the insolvent was entitled to his discharge , as he was , in the words of the Act ' in prison , ' being kept by the officers in his own house . In a later Act , the words were ' in custody within the walls , ' ' and there was a marked distinction in the two acts . He therefore ordered the discharge . Thi 3 is the first case of the kind , and establishes an important principle .

      The Revenue. The Revenue Returns For The...

      THE REVENUE . The Revenue returns for the year and quarter have been i published . The chief results are thus summarized in the Daily N ~ eios : — "The chief falling off is in the Customs , which show a net decrease of about 500 , 000 / . on the quarter , although they still exhibit a trifling increase on the year . The decrease in the Excise extends both to the year and the quarter , being , in round numbers , 340 , 000 / . for the former , and 150 , 0007 . for the latter . The principal pause of the falling off in the Customs has been the " reduction of duty on tea , coffee , and sugar , and also , as regards the latter article , the diminished consumption arising from increased price . In the Excise , the deficiency is mainly referrible to the Malt Tax , and it would have been very much more considerable had not increased consumption in some degree made amends for diminished duty . The Property-tax shows a decrease of 415 , 000 / . on the quarter , and about 187 , 000 / . on the year . This is , of course , owing to the reduction of the ' war ninepence . ' Among the other items of Revenue , the Stamps , which on the year show an increase of over 160 , 000 / ., exhibit a decline of upwards of 18 , 000 / . on the quarter . It is gratifying to observe that the Post Office returns display a solid and satisfactory increase of about 161 , 000 / . on the year , and no less than 85 , 000 / . on the quarter . An increase on the quarter of ' } about 113 , 000 / . ' Miscellaneous' is owing , it seems , to the sale of old stores after the termination of the Russian ' Avar . Comparing the year ending tlie 30 th September , ' 1857 , with that ending the 30 th September , 1856 , the 1 net decrease on the whole Revenue is close upon 170 , 000 / . Comparing the two quarters so ending , the net decrease is just under 890 , 000 / . " '

      ]Staval And Military. Geneual Havelock I...

      ] STAVAL AND MILITARY . Geneual Havelock is to be made a Knight Commander of the Bath ; and Generals Wilson , Neill , Chamberlain , Nicholson , and Van Cortlandt are to be companions of the same Order . General Havelock has also been advanced to the rank of Major-General . Bayonet Exercise . —The Coimnandcr-in-Chicf has directed that every regiment shall be instructed in the bayonet exercise , according to the system of the late Mr . Angclo . The Reinforcicmksts for India . —An order has been received at Chatham garrison for the depots of the 83 rd and 8 ( ith Regiments to furnish ( ifty non-commissioned officers anil men to join their service companies in India . —The transport sailing ship Lord Raglan arrived at Bombay on the 27 th of August with the left wing of tho 33 rd Regiment from Port Louis , whence she sailed on the 14 th , making the passage in a little more than twelve days . The right wing had previously been brought up by the Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s

      Artillery on board a Southampton steamer , on the lOtl last , for Alexandria , to proceed thence wa Suez md Point deGalle , for Bombay . Colonel Maberley , LSf h . B . Strange , 5 th battalion , as quartermaster , and aa adjutant of the Royal Artillery , also proceed by the sanw route . ** Military Inspection . —Gen . Sir John P . Burgoyne G . C . B ., R . E ., Inspector-General « f Fortifications , and Major-General Sir J . F . Love , K . C . B ., K . H ., Inspector-General of Infantry , arrived on Tuesday at the heaclquarters of the Royal Engineer establishmeat , Bromptan Barracks , Chatham , for the purpose of inspecting th . -e 4 th , 10 th , 11 th , and 21 st companies of Royal Engineers , who are about to embark for India . After being inspected , the companies marched past -i » otoV and quid time , and executed some other manoeuvres , at the conclusion of which General Sir John Burgoyne addressed the troops , and expressed the gratification it afforded him to witness their high state of discipline . General Burgoyne and General Love then inspected the 18 th company of Royal Engineers , under the command of Captain E . M . Grain , which only arrived from Nova Scotia the previous day . They next proceeded to Chatham lines for the purpose of inspecting the A mounted troop of the Eoyal Engineer Train , under tho command of Captain H . T . Siborne . Sir John Burgoyne and Sir J . Love also inspected a portable obsepvatory for the use of troops when on the line of march . The invention , we believe , is that of Captain Nobl ^ R . E ., and is constructed entirely with the scaling ladders used by the Royal Engineers . The observatory was erected near the slope of the glacis at Fort Anafaerst , and rose to a height of about fifty feet . Instruments for taking observations were placed on the top , bo as to enable a spectator to reconnoitre the movements of troops at a great distance . One of these observatories can be erected by about twenty ^ troopers in half an hoar , and when completed will accommodate as -many as half a dozen persons on the summit . —Times .

      steamer J ottinger , after a passage of more than fourteen days . —In consequence of a telegraphic ; despatch received at Chatham from the War-office , a draught of the 8 iJrd Regiment , numbering twenty non-commissioned officers and men , left , the provisional battalion on Wednesday , and proceeded to Cork , where they will embark on board tho Calcutta . steamer for conveyance to India for tho purpose of joining the service companies of that regiment in Bombay . Court Maktial . —A court martial has been held at Ply mouth on board the Impregnable to try Mr . Cornelius Samuel Prime , assistant ' engineer of tho third class , serving on board her Majesty ' s ship Orion , on a charge of refusing to perform certain work . He waa found Guilty , and sentenced to bo mulcted of all pay due to him from tho 3 rd of last July , and to bo dismissed tho service . Tine Ovkhi ^ vno Rouno to India . —Tho TTorHC Guards have decided on doHpntclung a portion of the Royal Artillery by tha ovnrluuil route to India . An order has boon received « t Woolwich for tho embarkation of Captain Thring ' fl and Cnptuiii Calvcrt ' s companies of Royal

      } ¦ ' ' 1 \ ¦ ' Miscellaneous. The Cotju...

      ¦ \ ¦ MISCELLANEOUS . The Cotjut . —The Queen , the Prince Consort , and the Royal family and suite , will return from Scotland on the 14 th instant , but it i 3 understood that , owing to the continued indisposition of Earl Fitzwilliam , theintendedL visit to Went worth House will he postponed . A Royal Visit . —It is expected that-th-e Queen will visit the Earl of Aberdeen at Haddo House before returning to England from Balmoral , which place it la thought she will leave about the 13 th of the present month . - Tikes . —A fire broke out on Sunday morning in a building called Sutherland-house , near the parish church , Ealing . The engines were quickly in attendance ; but the fire could not be got under till the house was burned do-wn , and the two adjoining ones were damaged . The three * were insured in the Atlas Fire-office . —Another fire occurred at Isleworth , in the warehouse of Mr . Be-rrey , wharfinger . The roof and upper part of the building were destroyed , and an adjoining warehouse was . damaged . The Metropolitan Medical Schools . —The medical . schools connected with the metropolitan hospitals were formally opened by inaugural lectures by distinguished professors on Thursday . Reform Demonstration at Bury . —A meeting took place at Bury ( Lancashire ) on Wednesday evening to celebrate the return of Mr . R . N . Philips as representative of tho borough at the last election . There were more than 4000 persons present , a wooden building ,. co-vering 2940 square } -ards , having been erected for the occasion , decorated with coloured calico , and brilliantly illuminatcd . Mr . T . Wrigley , the chairman of "Mr . Philips ' s election committee , presided ; and there were also on tho platform Admiral Sir Charles Napier , M . P ., Mr . J . A . Turner , M . P ., Mr . J . Cheetham , M . P ., Mr . G . Hudtiold , M . P ., Mr . J . Pilkington , TVLP ., Mr . M . Philips , Dr . M'Kerrow , and Sir J . Watts , of Manchester . Letters of apology for absence were read from Lord . Goilerich , M . P ., Mr . Roebuck , M . P ., Mr . W . Brown , M . P ., the Hon . F . II . F . Berkeley , M . P ., Lord Duncan , M . I \ , Mr . VT . J . Fox , and Mr . G . Wilson . The chief speech of the eveninrr was that of Sir Charles Nnnier = ¦

      and that had reference mainly to the Indian revolt , to the necessit 3 of constantly pouring in reinforcements , an < l to tho national responsibility in having for aevcral years past insisted on si reduction of our army . "TCUCCTION OK A PlUNCH'AL OF JlSSUH CoLLICOB . The Fellows of Jesus College assembled on Thursday morniny for tho election of a new Principle , in tho room of the late Dr . Foulkcs . There was a full attendance , and tha choice of the Society fell on tho Rev . Charles Williams , B . I ) ., formerly Fellow of tho Collogo , and now incumbent of Ilolyheud aiiul honorary canon of llnngor . Tina Wkst I . N-nius . —There iti no intelligence of importance from our own islandw . From San Domingo wo hear that General Suntanu bun reached tho army of tho Provisional Government of Santiago ami assumed its command . Two conference * , by meanfl offings of trace , hu-vo passed between Uio Provisional Army within tho walls or the city , and n cassation of arms for twenty-Tour ho Mrs lias lieoii dctoimincil on , in ordor to UBccrrtaiu Whether a pacific solution of the internal feuds could not . bo come to . Holland Iiuh announced her Intention of Abolishing' shivery in hoi * West Iudiun colonies .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 3, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03101857/page/11/