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      The Robbery At Messrs. Dearie And Co.'S....

      xefeoed . to giye his real place of , abode , because hedidi not * wishto , disgrace iris connexions ,, ¦ was chargeduat cKaawieh , oTsaturday , with stealingjme . silver sBOoasfrom a tavern , ami was committed for trial . Woman Beating . - John Rosa was charged ^ Worship-street with a ^ ferociott * a ^ uU ^ on Eliza HarringtonT ^ Tiie * woman had lived with the ^ man ; as Ins wife for two years , during the whole of which time she had been exposed to ill-usage . This reached its consummation a few days ago , when the prisoner ,, who was drank , beat , and ticked her with great violence . He hadisaid-on a previous occasion that , if site lefthim * he would " pufc her away on the quiet . " Before the magistrate , he wished he might " never enter Heaven " if ha had struck her ; but . the magistrate decided that ha should enter the House of Correction for six months , and- be there-kept to hard laboun . -

      Grvei / ty to a House . —Joseph Day , a- cab-driver , was on Saturday sentenced to one month ' s imprisomnoat ¦ with hard labour for ill-using his horse . He had been remanded from a previous day ; and , after a great doal of prevarication , admitted that he bad kept the horse out for thirty-two hours . It would appear , also , that the poor animal had not hadany food during that time ; but this was denied by Day , who asserted that he purchased corn for it three times in the course o £ > the time daring- which it was working . The horse , however , died in consequence of the ill-usage whick he had received . Sarah Mack , an oyster-worn an , has been committed for trial on a charge ofstabbing a customer iii a publiehouse with an oyster-knife . The woman had demanded more money ; and , this being refused ,- she committed the assault .

      Robbery . —At the Mansion House , "William M'Alister and Richard Neale , two men in the employ of Elizabeth and Jane Collinson , ironmongers , of Lombard-street , were charged with robbing their employers of ten table spoons and other articles . A police constable said' that on the previous evening he saw the prisoners in the workshop of Mrs . Collinson , with a small bundle lying on the bench . Suspecting something wrong-, he watched them , and saw them come out , when he inquired what their parcel contained . Their Tepliea not satisfying him , he > took them to the station-house , where ten spoons and several piece * of- copper and other metal were found tfpon them .- The-prison ers ,- who denied the charge against th « m , were committed for trial .

      Thb Irish- in Dttbham . —A series of calamities has , daring the last week , kept Durham in a state of great alarms Several Irishmen belonging to some ironworks began- fighting'among themselves , and , on the interference of the-police , a serious- riot ensued , and one of the constables'was so shockingly maltreated that his life is 'despaired : of . It was not' until a reinforcement of police-arrived with drawn cutlasses that the disturbance was-suppressed ? bnt another riot broke out on a later day . This , however * , was more quickly put down . SBfcrtly after this , a servant girl was found'murdered on tW'batakef'of the- Tees ; and ok one of the intermediate days , some Irishmen and women , while intoxicated ^ were drWwncd-i n'the river ;

      Thb RbCHDA-UE Murder . —The woman murdere * wMlst asleep in bed by her supposed husband , on Sundtry week , at a public-house in Rochdale , has been identiBed ' as Margaret Jones , a-widow , from Salford . She hid' three * sons-living in Manchester , and they fuMyidferntified the body on Saturday evening . There is reitson to believe that she left Manchester- on the day before the-murder with a " fettler" in 1 a foundry ; named Jonathan Heywood , about the age of the man ¦ now in custody ' , anft dressed-a good deal like-him . Heywood is said to have-taken her away under a promise of marriage , and the police are making inquiry after him . Highway Uobbeby . —James Taylor was charged at tlio Lambeth ' police-office , on Monday , with rdbbing and murderously fcssuultrngr Charles Powers , in Albert-street , Loftddn-roaaV He-was assisted by a woman of the town , wffo was not in custody . The case waa remanded .

      DANDEt , MlTCHEM . DAVIDSON , COSMO WtlXlAM GonnoN , and Joseph ' WtNDi . K Coins , were at length , last Monday , finally examined at Guildhall , and committed' for triol « ThbLate Riots . —James Hutchins and Walter F 6 rd , the Grenadier Guardsmen charged with inciting the mob to break windows on the 8 th of July , have not been brought up for trial , the grand jury ignoring the bill against them . The two youths concerned in the eame affair have been bound over to keep the peace for eix months .

      Strahan , Pa ui / , and Bates . —Another examination of Messrs . Strahan , Paul , and Bntea took place on Wednesday ; but , owing to the absence of a material witness on the continent , a further remand bocAino necessary . li appeared that four of Dr . Griffith's bonds had been traced to Messrs- Smith , ¦ Paynes , and Co ., who hold them on account of a gentleman named Sykes , by whom they aro claimed . A Mr . Boattio seems to have been the first person who received them ffbm the prisoners , and ho is not expected to return from abroad until September . Ab a final commitment is not likely to take placo until that month , the magistrate agreed to accept bail for tho prisoners if it should be tendered . Two saciirltloa for an aggregate of 0000 / . wilt bo required for each of them .

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      Navalv And Military News. General. Sir G...

      NAVALV AND MILITARY NEWS . General . Sir Gkobge Bbown ax LjsAantNGxoN . < - ~ The gentry of Leamington and tho immediate neighbourhood presented on Saturday last a numerously-signed address to Sir George Brown , who is at present residing at Leamington for the benefit of his health . The Hon . C B . Percy , in presenting the address ,. made- a grandiloquent speech , the chief point in which consisted of a fling at the " presumptuous and irresponsible press . " The address was of a piece with this introductory oratiou : in the course of it , tho coneocters stated they wera " ashamed to avow" that they had " a tear for those who have nobly fallen in their country ' s cause ; " but whether the said tear was there and then produced is not recorded . Furthermore , they hoped that " tho God of Battles" ( commonly called Mars ) would preserve the lifo of Sir George Brown to his family and " to a grateful

      and applauding country / ' In reply , Sir George Browu indignantly denied the assertion ( traceable to the aforementioned * ' unscrupulous press" ) that common soldiers are desirous of rising from the ranks ; contending , on the contrary , that the service would be much less popular if- the men thought they had any chance of boiiig rewarded for good conduct , and that they love their officers precisely because the latter are gentlemen . Likewise , he was of opinion that the wen , though ready to follow , always expected to be led ; that tho number of officers killed bears an undue proportion to that of the men ; that the ^ constitutioii of- the army must not be interfered with ; and that had French officers been examined on the Sebastopol Committee , a very different account 'would have been given of the state of our troops . Highly gratitied with these sentiments , the deputation withdrew .

      Lieutenant Fitzclakenck died ou W ednesday week , from the effects of his wounds , at the English hospital at Constantinople , to which place he had been conveyed from Balaklava . lie was serving as aide-de-camp to his colonel , the late Colonel-Yea , and with him took part in the unsuccessful attack on the Kedan , on the 18 th of June , when ho was dangerously wounded . He suffered amputation of the left leg and the right hand , and gradually sank . A few weeks previously , he had attained his eighteenth year . The Laitxch of thb Mablborough . —The longexpected launch of this gigantic vessel took place on Tuesday , at Portsmouth , under very unfavourable circumstances , the weather being extremely rainy . The Queen , however , was at her post , the Mayor aud .

      corporation were present in their robes of office , and there waa a great crowd of loyal and shouting people . Her Majesty liaving christened the ship , and bid "Success to the Marlborough ! " with the usual libation of a broken bottle of wine , the blocks were knocked away ; but , after moving two-thirds out of the shed , tlie huge vessel came to a stand-still—her very first performance thus proving to be anything but successful . About midnight , however , she was got off by the united exertions of two thousand men . —The following aro some of the dimensions , & c , of the Marlborough : —Length between the perpendiculars , 245 feet 6 inches ; length of keel for tonnage , 20 C feet 3 £ inches ; extreme breadth , 61 feet 2 i inches ; breadth for tonnage , 60 feet 4 j inches ; depth of hold , 25 feet 10 inches ; burden in tons , 4000 3 G-94 ; weight of guns and carriages , 3 C 9

      tons . The Qitken at toe Military Hospitat . at Poutsea . —After the launch ( if it may be so called ) of the Marlborough , tho Queen visited the Military General Hospital at Portsca , and remained there an hour and a halfy passing from bed to bed of tho wounded men , and asking each several questions , the kiudness of which drew forth from one of the sufferers the exclamation " God bless her !" Massacre of a Boat ' s Crew hy Savaoes . —Tho

      Jeuno Lucie , which arrived at Sydney , New South Wnles , on the 19 th of April , from tho Solomon Islands , reports thut a boat with seven men , belonging-to a vessel which had'been wrecked , had- arrived at a smu . ll inland south of Woodlark Inland , and that tho men wore massacred by the natives as soon as they landod . A missionary at the island had purchased a wpy ^ glass , on which " J . Penny" waa marked in pencil , from a native who stated that it had been found in tho boat . Tho remainder of tho shipwrecked crew was supposed to have gono to the inland of Toberand . of this

      The late CotoNWt , Lowm—The brothoT oilicor , who died on board tho Ilnmia transport « t Portsmouth , just after its arrival from th « Crimea , has written to tho Timett-to say that it wiw thought advi . iablo to remove tho Colonel from the ship , only a little more than half an hour before bin death , on account of tho ill-ventilated and " pestilential" Btato of hia < sabin . Tun TkkatIwent off this Woundeo akteii this 18 th of Junk . —Gcorgo H . B . Maclood , Surgeon to the Civil Hospital , Smyrna , and Honry J . L . Kooke , Civil Hnrgoon , have written from tho camp to contradict the BtatemontH of " M . R . O . S ., L . S . A ., " in tho Tinrra , with reference to tho cruel neglect of tho wounded nftcr tho attack of tho 18 th of Juno .

      Captain Cor . nv Maxwtctx , !> flrd Highland era , hns been cashiered " for having boon drunk oiv daty under arms , when parading for tho trcnehe » , on tho evening of the 10 th of July , at tho camp bolbro Sebastopol . " Capt .

      Charles Spencer Gaynor hte also' been cashiered on a similar charge ; and , in'both cases , a recommendation by the court' to- favourable consideration on aceount of long- services has merely elicited from General Simpson a promise to lay the cases before Lord Hardinge .

      Continental Nott2s. The Frknch Loan.—Tho...

      CONTINENTAL NOTT 2 S . The Frknch Loan . —Tho subscriptions for tho National Loan closed on Monday . The results , as stated to the Emperor by tho Minister of Finauce , are as follow : — The amount subscribed will be about 3 , 600 , 000 , 000 fr . The subscriptions of 50 fr . rente and below , declared not reducible , figure in this sum at from 230 , 000 , OOO'fr . to 235 , 000 , 000 ft * ; The subscriptions of < J 0 fr . and above , snbmitterl to a proportional reduction , will be about 3 , 80 O ; O 0 O ; O 0 O fr . The departments will have provided nearly 230 , 000 subscribers , and subscribed more than 1 , 000 , 000 , 000 fr . of capital . Altogether , 810 , 000 persons have taken part in the subscription . The subscriptions from nbrond , in Rurope , from England , Holland , Belgium , Germany , Switzerland , & c , exceed 200 , 000 , 000 fr .

      A sharp shock of an earthquake was felt at Lyons between twelve and one o ' clock in the afternoon of Wednesday week . Some houses were damaged , but no lives lost . The same shock was felt at Valence , on tho Khone , and indeed along tho whole of the cast of Franco . Some chimneys were thrown down , bells were set ringing , and a degree of oscillation and trembling was felt in the houses . Accounts receivedfrom Italy , Switzerland , and parts of ( Jemiany , agree in stating that the shock extended to all those countries . Great preparations are being made for the reception of our Queen at Parks , St . Cloud , ami Versailles . The theatre at the lattor place is being tittctl up . In tlie Champ de Mars , a grand review is to take place .

      TJio story of General Castcllnne , which is now exciting so much amusement in Paris , becomes important aud significative if attentively considered . Tho facts seem to be the . se : —In announcing the death of General May ran , killed before Sebastopol , the employe of thu telegraph nimle some mistake—used one t * i gu for another . Now the old soldier , who keeps Lyons under footforcing it to produce silk and satins to seem exceedingly loyal , and to treat the , " rights of man" with affected contempt under constant threat of bombardment—w .-is never remarkable for sense ; and is rapidly becoin ing blind , deaf , and furious . He read : — " Thu Emperor L > no more : communicate the fuct in appropriate terms to the army . " For a man of LLs calibre he reasoned rapidly .

      " The son of Jerome will never do ( not a remarkable effort by the way ) . As for tho Republic , I have shot too many of that sect without trial . What shnll it be V Henri V . or—a run for it . " Then ho dashed down a rather clever proclamation on paper : — " Emperor is dead—so is the Empire . Henri V . will give us liberty and order . Vive Henri V . ! " With this sketch he i > roceeded to the l * re * £ et , who , liaving received no despatch , was confounded . According to the usual habit of prdfets , he advised the General " to wait , just to see which way the wind would blow . "' But , says tho story , tho proclamation was- actually issued , and several copies were pasted up on the walls of tho city . The preTet telegraphed to his private friends , ascertained the truth ,

      became outrageously indignant and loyal , and actually ventured , for the first time in his life , to bully the General , who scratched his h « ad and told him to " to . " Meanwhile , at Pttris , great waa the rage of the unfortunate son of Jerome , for whom , by-the-woyj even hi » friend * can only say— Everybody thought Louis Napoleon a fool — he turns out to be a clever governor : everybody thinks this man a fool—therefore ho may bo a man of genius . " The King of the Exposition insisted that General GaHtellano should bo dismissed ; but hi * cousin , though somewhat di « guate < l at seeing his dynaBty pooh-poohed in thia manner , wLt « ly said — " If v / e got rid of all who are compromised with us , on whom shall we be able to depend ?"

      Aiffong tho interesting objects iu tho French Exposition iti a Hpcciinon of wiioat « ent from Drives , in the department of tho Correzo . It is a now spociea introduced from America by th « Count Hubert do St . Mar-Hault on hia citato of Puy , near Perpezac . The nicun height of tho Htalk is over hix . feet , and tho thiuknea .-i three times that of common wheat-straw . -An ear sometimes contaiiiH u hundred grains . This wheat grows in an ordinary noil , which it does not hcoiii

      to exhaust in proportion to its yield . Tho agricultural mind in slow to adopt novcltien however commendable , but so successful an experiment will Burely excite euuilatiojj . M . < lo St . Mnrsault ia the son-in-law of General L : ill « . » i » und of tho fainoun Ohauip d'Asile ; and a rclutivu by mnrrinfje , therefore , of the well-known Stephen Girarri , bencfaetor of Philadelphia . The " wheat of tho Puy , " nw it is called , proceeds from u small parcel brought away an a memento from tho Champ d'A « ilu itself .

      Tho condition of Auntrlun Italy in at present - what oininoim of approaching disturbance * . Tim army ifl to bo increased by 40 , 000 mon ; and tho Turin < ' <> rrespondent of the Timen unyn tlmt ' h « hoara on K «> o < l uuthoriLy that it in in contemplation to not up fornulo l » y

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 4, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04081855/page/6/