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    No, 407, January 9, 1858.] THE LEADER. 2...

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    stone tied up in a handkerchief , which he used as a sling and when Morgan endeavoured to arrest him , a shout was raised by the Irish of " Down with the police !" Kallaher was rescued , stones were thrown , and it was found necessary to send to the station for a reinforcement . A sharp contest then ensued , which-ended in the dispersion of the rioters and the apprehension of Kallaher and five others , including two women . Several of the police received very severe contusions and gashes ; but Morgan fared the worst . Besides other injuries , he had had a severe blow on the head from the sling wielded by Kallaher . This caused his death , after a week of lingering pain . On the rioters being brought before the Thames istrate the Monday following the Saturday

    mag in question , Kallaher was sentenced to two months' imprisonment , and the others were fined or bound over to keep the peace . Since the death of the constable , some other persons concerned in the riot have been arrested , and they , together with Kallaher , have been arraigned for the wilful murder of Morgan . Mueder in Cumberland . —Robert Irwin , an old man residing in a cottage at the village of Fenton , which lies in a secluded part of Cumberland , has been murdered on the high road . He lived with his married daughter , her husband , one Jacob Skelton , their three children , . and an old woman . On the morning of Christmas-day , the old

    man rose about half-past five o ' clock , in order to attend a prayer meeting in the village . Skelton also got up , and would seein to have lighted a fire ; but there are contradictory statements as to whether he went out or not . However this might be , the old man was found about an hour afterwards on the roadside , weltering in blood , and insensible . He was taken home , and died the next day . Skelton is said to have frequently ill used the old man , and expressed a desire for his death . He has therefore been taken into custody . Pauper Riot at Preston . —The pauper labourers at the relieving offices , Sanl-street , Preston , have created

    3 ome rather alarming disturbances on account of an attempt on the part of the guardians to make them work the entire day , on pain of receiving only sixpence pay instead of a shilling . The men resisted this endeavour to starve them to death , ' as they called it , and , flocking together in masses , made very inflammatory harangues . The police assembled , and tried to persuade the orators to keep silent ; but this request was not heeded , and at length matters looked so serious that it was determined by the guardians to concede the point until the end of the week , and in the meanwhile to make preparations for enforcing the new rule on the following . Vfonday . This was accordingly done . wellknown Shrews

    Conviction of a Burglar . —A - - bury burglar , who has been recently arrested in London , and who gave the name of Palmerston , though he is better known by the cognomen of Black Bill , has just been found Guilty at the Shrewsbury sessions of committing a burglary , and has been sentenced to four years ' penal servitude . He cross-examined the witnesses with great skill , and defended himself in a speech which the liecorder characterized as evincing great ability . The State op the Haymarket , & c , at Night . — A meeting has been held at the Chambers of the Society lor the Suppression of Vice , in order to consider the disgraceful state of the Haymarket , Coventry-street , Kegent - street , Portland - place , and the adjoining thoroughfares , which are thronged from an early hour in the evening to a late hour of the night by crowds of ubandoned persona of both sexes . Resolutions were passed , affirming that the evil should be dealt with by

    Government , and appointing a committee , with power to udd to their number , for the purpose of promoting and Hiding the efforts of Ministers to suppress the scandal to our public morality . The meeting then adjourned . A further meeting was held on Wednesday , when great discussion took place aa to the propriety of conlining abandoned women to one quarter of the town , as in some of the continental cities ; but this was for the most part discouraged . One of the speakers stuted that , although the parish of St . James ' s is only half a mile long and three quarters of a milo broad , there are no loss than one hundred-and-fivo brothels in it . A proposal was made to ostablish a Board of Moral Health ; but thia was overruled . A resolution waa linally agreed to , to the effect " that the meeting pledged thomsolvcs to use their best efforts to strengthen the committee , by bringing to its support such influential persons us they cun induce to join them in the object for which they are associated . "

    Affray with Poachers . —A desperate encounter between the gamekeeper and watcher of Lord Bagot ' s preserves , and four poachers , has taken place on soino grounds nonr Kuthin , Denbighshire . The keepers wore seriously hurt , and the poachers escaped ; but their identity is well known , and thoy will probubly bo apprehended . —Onc . of ^ thoJtcopors-l > ua . uin coalied . __ . — . „

    UonuicuY or Bank-notics at Livkhpool . —Two men , who slept a few nights ago at the coffee-shop of a Mr . Amiitago , in Dnlo-Htroot , Liverpool , absconded in the morning with 185 ? . in Bunk of England notoa and gold , together with two gold brooches . Owing to one of thorn having had a letter dirooted for him , while staying at the place , to ft college man in Greenwich Hospital , it was proeumed that the thieves might bo heard of in that quarter ; so Mr . Armltage and a poHco-ofucer immediately

    started for the spot . As they were sitting together at a tavern in Greenwich , the band of the Koyal Marines passed through the town playing . The attention of the officer and of Mr . Armitage was attracted , and , while they were looking on , the latter caught sight of the two men of whom they were in search . . Having obtained the assistance of other constables , the thieves were forced into a cab , and one of them threw something out of the window , which proved to be a 10 / . note . Another man and two women have also been apprehended ; and 64 J . in gold and seven 51 . notes have been taken possession of by the police from a man with whom they had been deposited , but who appeared to be innocent of all knowledge of the theft .

    A Drunken Mother . —Sarah Bennett , a middleaged woman , has been charged at Lambeth with causing such injuries to her daughter , a girl of sixteen , that she now lies in a highly dangerous state in the infirmary of Camberwell workhouse . The girl ' s deposition was taken down by the magistrate last Saturday evening . It reveals a most shocking story , and runs thus : —" About Monday fortnight , my father and mother were quarrelling . My father wanted to beat her , and I tried to prevent it , and she gave me a push and threw me down stairs . My father hit her , and gave her a black eye and set it bleeding . I was suffering then with erysipelas , and out

    was going to lie down on the bed , but she turned me of it , got into bed herself , and compelled me to lie on the floor . My mother was very tipsy at the time , and my father on coming up-stairs found me on the floor , and this was the reason for his hitting my mother on the eye . I was following down stairs and begging of my father not to have any more words with my mother , when she pushed me down stairs , and I fell with the back part of my head on the edge of the stairs . The push she gave me was a violent one , and mother always spat her spite on me when she had a quarrel with father . Immediately after the fall , I felt great pain in my head , and I have been no better since . I had . been ill a fortnight before this , and had not done anything to piovoke her . "When mother gets drunk , which she does at least once a fortnight , she is like a mad woman . She has struck me many a time , but not so badly as this ; but I hope you will not punish her , for she has a young baby . "

    Assaults . —A man named James O'Neale has been charged at Guildhall with a murderous attack on another man , named Richardson . There had been a dispute between the two men , and Richardson wanted to fight O'Neale , which the latter refused to do . Richardson then followed his adversary up into his room , but shortly afterwards exclaimed that O'Neale had got a poker . He then ran down stairs , bleeding from the head , and it appeared that his skull was fractured . He -was taken to the hospital , where he remains in a precarious state . O'Neale has been remanded . —Captain Crauford Crossman has been charged at Marlborough-street with violently assaulting Major-General George Warren . The latter , who had returned from India about six months ago in

    company with trie wife and children of Captain Crossman , was walking up the Haymarket , when , just as he was about to turn into Jermyn-street , he was suddenly confronted by Crossman , who , stopping in front of him , exclaimed " Now I have met you . Shall I tell you what I think of you ? " Major Warren replied that he did not wish to have anything to say to his questioner , and was proceeding on his way , when Captain Crossman said . that he would give Major Wiirren his opinion of him , " and immediately applied to him a very offensive epithet . Major Warren , however , took no notice of this insult , but still walked quietly on , hoping soon to get rid of his companion , but Captain Crossman struck him a heavy blow on the head witli a walking-stick , which cut the brim of his hat completely through . For the defence , it was urged that Major Warren had carried on a criminal acquaintance with Captain Crosaman ' s wife . The Major denied this ; he had only escorted her about

    London after their return from abroad , and had occasionally assisted her with money . Mr . Bingham ordered Captain Crosaman to find sureties to keep the peace towards Major Warren for tho next twelve months . —A young man , of tho name of Richard Birch , has been charged before Mr . . Broughton , at the Marylebone policeoffice , with severely injuring a gate porter at tho workhouse of that parish . Ho applied one evening at tho workhouse gate for relief , and tho porter , by order of tho relieving overseer , gave him a quartern loaf and a ticket for work in tho stoncyard . Ho refused to accept this relief , and struck tho porter a blow on the mouth which knocked him down , cutting his lip quite through ; ho then kicked and othorwiso ill-used him to such an extent , that ho was taken to tho workhouse surgery . The relieving overseer stated to tho magistrate that Jiirch _ waa-au . aasociat . o ^ piLtUicv . os , ^ anUJittd .. oftm _ Uvfor . Q boon convicted at that court of assaults and other offences .

    entirely disabled from attending in court to give his evidence . A policeman stated that Batchelor ' s wife had left him and lived with Taylor , who some time afterwards met Batchelor at a public-house at Peckham , where , a quarrel haying arisen between the two men , several blows were struck On either side , and , during the fight , Taylor pulled out a knife , with which he wounded his adversary five times on the head . Taylor said that the other man had very much injured him , and one of his hands was stained with blood . —He was remanded .

    The Case of the Coloured Girls . —The black man , father of the two coloured girls who recently excited some commiseration by their pretended story of being runaway slaves , died at Chelsea workhouse on the 30 th ult . The mother ( an Irishwoman ) called the following day , accompanied by one of the girls , to see the corpse , and acknowledged the deceitSvhich had been practised , and which she said had been suggested by others . These facts have been communicated to the Southwark magistrate , by whom the girls were befriended until the fraud was discovered .

    The Robbery from the Corn Exchange , Manchester . — Charles Browness , a foreigner , pleaded Guilty on Tuesday at the Manchester city sessions to a charge of having stolen in the Corn Exchange , Manchester , on the 10 th ult ., a pocket-book containing 3111 ? . 1 . 8 s . in notes , bills , & c , the property of Messrs . William and Frederick Thompson , corn-millers at Wakefield . The pocket-book was taken off a desk at the Exchange . Browness was sentenced to a year ' s hard labour . The late Murderous Assault at Torquay . — Jane Stone has given birth to a male child , the offspring of her seducer and assailant , Jonathan Roose , who was recently convicted . The deplorable condition of the poor girl has excited the sympathies of the inhabitants of Torquay , and a public meeting of sympathy was held there on Monday evening . Subscriptions have been opened at Torquay and at Exeter , her native city .

    Attempted Wife Murder . —James Murray , a labouring man living at Oldham , made a desperate attempt , on the night of New Year ' s-day , to cut his wife ' s throat with a table knife in a public-house . She had been assaulted outside by a man , and her husband afterwards accused her of improper conduct with him . He inflicted some slight wounds on her neck and hands , knocked her down , and kicked her . Previously to using the knife , he sharpened it on a stone . When brought before the magistrates , he said his wife was a drunkard . He was committed to prison for a month—surely , a too lenient

    . The Military Disturbance in Westminster . — The two privates of the Coldstream Guards , who ao savagely assaulted the police in the Broadway , Westminster , on Thursday week , while one of them was being taken into custody on a charge of felony , have been committed for trial . Illegal Treatment of the Dead Bodies of Paupers . —Alfred Feist , taskmaster of the Newington Workhouse , is under remand at the Lambeth policecourt on a charge of taking away the dead body of a pauper , named Mary Whitehead , for sale for anatomical purposes . The relatives attended what they conceived to be the funeral of the dead woman : but in fact the

    body had been removed . From the evidence of the undertaker to the parish , it appears that these sales of the dead bodies of paupers to the surgeons , and consequent imposition on the feelings of the relatives by the substitution of some other corpse or portion of a corpse , are very common in the parish . Card-sharping jln the North . —About ten or eleven days ago , as a French gentleman was walking about the environs of Edinburgh , he met a respectably dressed man , with whom he entered into conversation , tho latter discoursing on the beauties of the place . This after a time led to a proposal from the stranger to visit an old castle in the neighbourhood , in which Queen Mary had

    formerly reBided . The Frenchman having consented , he and his acquaintance wont together in a cab to the place mentioned , and were about to ascend on foot the hill on the top of which tho castle stands ,, when they encountered two men playing at cards . The guide , on seeing this , immediately forgot all about the castle , and joined the other men at their game , the Frenchman all the time looking on quite unsuspectingly . When , however , his friend requested him to udvunce 1 / . on his watch , he discovered tho kind of company ho was in , and therefore took to his heels and returned to tho cab in which he had ridden to tho spot . Ho proceeded to Edinburgh , and on his way ho found that he had been robbed of a valuable silver snuff-box .

    Stealing a Child . —Eleanor Emmcraon , a young woman of nine-and-twunty , has been tried at tho Middlesex Sessions on a singular ohurgo of stealing a child . Tho mo t her , a Ming . Richardson , haying to go out to work , ^ entrusiedTior infant , which w «* under ft year ordr"to ~ lho woman Enunerson . One day , it was found that Emmorsou and the child had both vanished . Information wan given to tho police , and tho woman wua apprehended . She then euid that tho child was dead and buried ; it had died " of moaslcs ; and though , as she stated , medical advice was called in , tho caso terminated fatally . Tho mother , however , conceives that the child diod for want of the breast . Emmersou was found Guilty , and

    sen-Ho was committed for trial , and , having pleaded Guilty at tho Middlesex Sessions , was sentenced to six months ' hard labour . —A third ease of this nature was brought before tho Lambeth magistrate , tho accused in thia instance being a licensed hawker of tho name of . Arthur Taylor , who was charged with stabbing a man named LJatohelor on the head and faco in five places , in consequence of which his life is endangered and he was

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 9, 1858, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09011858/page/5/