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      Mr . Lindsay , an hotel-keeper , brought an action in the Court of Exchequer for the recovery of 901 ., due to him from a young man of twenty-five , named Meiklam , ¦ whom he alleged to be indebted to him to that amount for the use of apartments , and for food and . goods supplied . He first entered the house in December , 1855 , and it was soon apparent that he did not live in the most respectable manner . " He used frequently , " said Mr . Xindsoy , in cross-examination , " to he drank . " He often had ' ladies' in the house , unknown to the hotelkeeper , and racing men frequented the place . " Young ( a friend ) and the defendant , " continued Mr . Lindsay , " used to have suppers at my house , and then they went out to their midnight revels . Young only had a

      bedroom at my house . Sometimes the defendant used to get into Young ' s bed , and Young did not come home until the nest day , -when he wonld arrive in a smart brougham— St . John ' s-wood , you know . ( JLaughter . ~ ) On one occasion , I lent a person 21 . ; that was for her to get a page r s dress for her maid . She was dressed as a queen , and wanted her maid to be dressed as a page to hold her train at a bal masque . I went to fetch the defendant from the theatre when . * arrived , but he was with somebody he liked better , and he would not come . I can ' t tell who ate the suppers I have charged for ; they were supplied to the defendant in his private room . " A verdict was given for Sir . Lindsay , for the amount claimed .

      A BURGXAR CATJGBriC IN A ChIMSEY . A thief clxnxbed a fe \ v nights ago on to the roof of a house in Baitffshire occupied by a widow , and attempted to descend the chimney in order that he might ransack tha house . But he stuck fast in' a * narrow . part , and could not get up or down . His struggles roused the old woman from her sleep , and she straightway kindled some straw in the grate , the result of which-, was that the thief was horribly scorched . He roared for assistance , and some navvies -who were passing got a ladder and ropes , aad drew- the intruder forth more dead than alive . Two policemen who were among the crowd then toot him into custody . ¦

      Middlesex Sessions . —The ¦ November- general sessions commenced on Monday , when Joseph . Boucher , a designer , was indicted for embezzling- the sura of 18 / . 1 2 s ., and a variety of other sums of money , which he had received on account of James Jacquier , a jacquard loom manufacturer in Bethnal-green , his master . He pleaded " GS-uilty , " by advice of counsel . It appeared that he had . committed the offence under the pressure of embarrassment , arising out of some foolish speculation . He became very repentant , and confessed what he had done to Ms master , whose opinion of him was so high that , notwithstanding the confession , he continued him in his service as collector for three weeks after he was aware

      of his offence , and then , after consulting some other person or persons , he gave him into custody . The Assistant Judge sentenced him to three months' hard labour . —Thomas King , a youth of seventeen , has been found Guilty of stealing some plate from the house of a clergyman at Hackney , and was sentenced to six years' penal servitude , it being shown that he was an old companion of thieves . Another young man , named Plane , was Acquitted of a charge of being concerned in the same robbery . He was able to prove an alibi . —Samuel Lane , a shoemaker , has been sentenced to six months' hard labour for a murderous assault on Eliza Mollov , an Irishwoman with whom he lived , and whom he used to

      ill-use and threaten , for being ' a heretic , ' he being a Protestant and she a Roman Catholic . The prisoner said , he did not care for six months , but he was entirelyinnocent of the charge which had been brought against him . He did not mind a little while in a Xondon prison after twenty-one years' hard service in India . —Maria Sitch , Louisa Harper , and Lydia Mayno , -were indicted , the first on a charge of stealing a sum of 80 / . from her master , a feeerseller in Holborn , and the others for receiving the sum , knowing it to have been stolen . Mayne was Acquitted , but Sitch and Harper were found Guilty . Tho first was sentenced to four , and the second to six months' hard labour .

      Fraud . —Tho charge against Alexander Steinberg of defrauding Mr . John Deportu of 1650 ?" . ( the particulars ^ of which were related in thia paper last week ) was again gone into at Guildhall on Tuesday , when a man named Collins was also put at the bar , charged with conspiring in the same fraud . Both prisoners were remanded , and bail "was refused . Mobk KoyalBkitish Bank Robberies . —Tho widow of Inspector Rumball attended at the Marylebono policeoffice on Tuesday , to say that she was loft witlx a family Of six children , and that she was in so distressed a state

      that she knew not what to do . A subscription had been 6 J J ? Pi after her husband ' s death , among tho inspectors k «? 8 eaeral police force , and a sum was collected , wwch , after payment of debts , & c , left in tho hands of SJnSf ^ V - Thia 8 h 0 P laoea in tUe Royal British w , J * * ° ^ ya before it stopped . She had since IST « £ SK ?? ^ i partwith many articlc 3 of tonituro & S ^« X r ; ' ^ 7 ^ K S £ ^ a »« ws » 2 an : DiarcoroRTioHA ™ Sektehcik ,. -Henry Tlmrlow

      and Francis Davenport have been sentenced at the Middlesex Sessions to four years' penal servitude for stealing small sums of money , the one from a Hindoo sailor , and the other from an Englishman .- ^ -At the same sessions , William Walsh was condemned to only eight months' hard labour for assaulting and seriously injuring a man who reproved him for insulting in the streets his ( the prosecutor ' s ) sister-in-law . Attempted Suicide . —Elizabeth Fogarty , a girl of nineteen , was charged at Worship-street with attempting to commit suicide by swallowing- laudanum . It appeared that about a fortnight before she flung herself off one of the bridges , but was dragged out . On that occasion she was taken to Bow-street . On being now asked the

      reason of these attempts , she replied : — ' My father is a woodcutter in Westminster , I have lost my mother , but I have a stepmother , arid , as my father would not do anything for me , and I have no place to go to , what can I do ? I yesterday went to the Mansion-house to ask for an asylum ; but the Mansion-house was shut up , and I therefore wandered on to Hackney , and swallowed the poison in . Mare-street . ' I bought the poison in the Strand , at a chemist's , where the gentleman asked me what it was for , and , on my telling him it was not for me , he served me directly . " The girl was remanded , and on the following day Mr ; D'lSyncourt , the magistrate , told her he had succeeded in obtaining for her an admission into the Elizabeth Foy Institution , for which she seemed very grateful .

      Riotous Boys . —For some weeks past a congregation of Dissenters , who meet fox worship at a school on Brixton-hill , have been greatly annoyed by a number of idle boys , who have persistently disturbed the service by making loud noises outside . One evening , a few Sundays ago , a member of the congregation , on going out to ascertain the cause of the clamour , received a severe blow from a brickbit . A " t length it was found necessary to obtain the services of one or two policemen ; and last Sunday , a youth of seventeen , the son of a Dissenter , was caught , and placed on the following morning before the Lambeth magistrate , by -whom he was ordered to find two sureties in 10 £ each , or one in 20 / ., to be of good behaviour for one month . ;

      Furious Driving . —A boy of fifteen , the servant of a market gardener , has been sent to prison for a week by Aldermau " Wire for driving a cart belonging to his master with such reckless speed as to knock down arid seriously injure an old man in Thames-street , City . The Knife again . —Giuseppe Sasella , a soldier iu the Anglo-Italian Legion , has attempted to stab a woman of the town in the streets at nighty and also a man who went to the rescue of the girl . He was intoxicated at the time . Having been apprehended , he was brought before the Guildhall magistrate , by whom the case was adjourned . Sasella denies that the knife was open . This Murderous Assault is Pakliament-street . — -The wounded man Cope is still unable to attend at the police-office ; but he is progressing favourablyj and no doubts ' are now entertained of his recovery .

      Moue Tick . et-of-Lea . ve Ruffianism . —John Parke , a sullen-looking young man , out on ' ticket of leave , ' has been committed for trial for a violent assault upon Edwin Hoyle , assistant to Mr . Milo , tobacconist , of Bullinn-court , Strand . The prisoner walked into the shop on Monday morning , and , asking for a pennyworth of snuff , took up a silver-mounted meerschaum pipe and a bundle of cigars , and concealed them under the sleeves of his coat . He was observed by Mr . Hoyle , and followed . He then handed back the cigars , but , on being detained by Hoyle , he struck him a violent blow on the head with some weapon , cutting open his temples , but happily doing him no serious injury . —A well-dressed

      man , with several aliases , is 3 ncustody fora garotte robbery committed some few nights ago on the person of Mr . Edward Mason , a banker ' s clerk in Blackmanatreet , Borough . Two other men ( not captured ) were concerned in the outrage . O n Mr . Mason calling out for assistance , the prisoner , who was engaged in rilling his victim ' s pockets , exclaimed to one of the others who was grasping him by the throat , " Pinch him tighter ! , pinch him tighter ! " which was accordingly done . He was then thrown on the ground , and all the men ran away . The chief of the gang , however , was stopped and secured by a constable . The police report biro , as an old offender ; and he has been committed for trial .

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      1064 THE I / EAPER . [ No : 346 , Saturdat

      ; Naval Anp Military. The Edinburgh Crim...

      ; NAVAL ANP MILITARY . The Edinburgh Crimean Banqukt . — " The banquet to the Crimean soldiers iu Edinburgh , " says the Times , " took place in the Corn Exchange there on the evening of Friday week .. The hall was decorated with a profusion of ornament , while with tho brilliant uniforms of the guests was combined tho still more attractive splendour of a large assemblage of tho fair sex . Tho spectacle was altogether one of tho most dazzling and magnificent which the city of Edinburgh has seen for many a duy . Behind the platform table was raised a huge military trophy , consisting in great part of spoils taken from our recent enemies , over which tho flags of tho gnllnnt regiments invited to the banquet waved . Surmounting tbc whole was emblazoned tho significant scroll' Welcome to Auld Reekie ! ' On cither side were tho ancient arms of Scotland and tho heraldry of tho city , as also the portraits of tho allied sovereigns , Tho walls and central

      pillars were almost concealed with flags and banners tfc latter inscribed with the names of Crimean heroes ' At the bottom of the hall were emblematic figures and illn urinations , surmounted with a scroll bearing the name nf ' Florence Nightingale . ' In the compartments of th « roof were armorial devices representing the allied na tions , the United Kingdom , and the city of Edinburgh * Ihe number present considerably exceeded 2000 Table . ' -were set in the body of the hall for 1420 . " The Risht Hon . the Lord Provost presided . The speeches were too long to permit of our reproducing them .

      Proposed Ciumean Monument At Sheffieid . —a movement has been commenced - among some of the working men of Sheffield to erect a monument in that toivn to the memory of our country men who fell in the Crimea . They have communicated with Miss Florence Nightingale , through her relative , Miss Shore , of Meersbrook Hall , Sheffield , requesting that she would consent to lay the foundation stone . Miss Nightingale "has replied as follows : — - " LeaHurst , Matlock , Oct . 23 , 1856 * — "My dear Lydia , —The purpose mentioned tome in your letter has my deepest sympathy . It would have been most congenial with my feelings , on my return from the deathbeds of so many brave men , to take a part in it . I shall be with the men of Sheffield in spirit whenever they execute their proposed plan . It is with

      real pain that I feel compelled to decline the privilege which they- offer to me , of laying the first stone . ButI believe I shall best honour the cause of those brave dead by abstaining from appearing to court that publicity which I consider to have been my greatest impediment in the work I have been engaged in for their sakes , impeding it by arousing in some minds care for worldly distinctions . . . . . Pray believe me , my dear Lydia ever truly yours , —Florence Nightengale . " - _ mj 8 s Nightingale has also sent a cheque of 20 / . towards the object , consisting of subscriptions of . ' 51 . each from herself , her father , Mr . 'Nightingale , and her uncle and aunt , Mr . and Mrs . Samuel Smith . The undertaking will be launched by a public meeting convened by the Mayor .. . * '' ¦ : "' ' ; ¦/'¦ ¦ ' . ¦ ' .-. - . ¦ : . ; '• •

      Grajjd Night Attack anjd Siege Operations at CHATiiAM .-r-Tfae whole of the troops belonging to the lloyal Engineers together with the East India Company ' s Sappers and Miiieri , * and a large party of troops belonging to the provisional battalion and the Royal Marine Light Infantry , were engaged until a late hour on Monday night iu a night attack and other siege operations , which took place on Chatham Lines , in the presence of several thousand spectators . The tactics , which included the tracing of parallels , the formation of trenches and "batteries , and the conducting and

      repulsing of sorties , occupied about four hours . , The points attacked consisted of those portions of the line of fortifications which surround Chatham Garrison , and which are known as the Spur Battery , the King ' s Bastion , the Prince of Wales ' s Bastion , and Prince Edward's Bastion . The whole force employed is calculated at 1200 . men . The effect of the lights and fireballs , which the garrison burnt in order to reveal the locality and doings of the attacking party , was extremely grand , causing the country to be illuminated for some miles round .

      Obituary. Sir John• Jekyis, Chief Justic...

      OBITUARY . Sir John Jekyis , Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas , died last Saturday night from atrophy caused by a distemper from which he had long suffered , and which had reduced him to a very delicate state . In early life , he served for some time in the army . He was called to the bar in 1824 . Having in time become a Queeu ' s Counsellor , he was made Attorney-General in 184 G , and in 1850 was raised to the Chief Justiceship of the Court of Common Pleas , in succession to Lord Truro , who became Lord Chancellor . Sir John Jervis was a Liberal in politics . lie sat for Chester from 1832 to ISnO . Dr . Haggard , Chancellor of the Diocese of Manchester , expired at Brighton yesterday week , in the sixty-third year of his age .

      Miscellaneous. Australia.—Some Interesti...

      MISCELLANEOUS . Australia . —Some interesting particulars of fresh gold-fields are contained in the Straits Times , which says : — " The discovery of new and rich diggings at Kocky River and Stony Creek , near the town of Bnthurst—which place has been deftrted for tho goldfields—has caused a complete panic ( sic ) . They wore rushing in hundreds from the older diggings to the new El Dorado , which we need not be surprised at when we aro gravely assured , on credible authority , that one party secured three hundred ounces and another one hundred and sixty ounces in the course of one afternoon . Many thousands were on the newly-discovored treasure spot , and among tho number about two thousand Chinese . By the way , the latter class of immigrants wcro pouring into Sydney and Adelaide by shiploads , and several steamers had been chartered to convey them along tho coast and up the rivers so as to enable them to reach tho diggings by the shortest pos-Biblo route . At Melbourne , they were seriously discussing tho propriety of removing the restrictions placed on , the landing of tho Chinese in that province , scciug that the influx into the colony , either viA Sy dney ot Adelaide , is greater than when tho Celestials were free to land at Melbourne and WilliamBtown . "

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 8, 1856, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08111856/page/8/