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    THE LEADER. £**<>. 407, January 9,1858. ...

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    GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURT...

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    in the Kiding-house Establishment to wit...

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    OBITUARY. General HAVEixKac.— We have no...

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    The Kinaiilky Poisonumu Cask.—Tho Inques...

    ' ** " ' ' — ¦ ' - ¦ ' . ¦ - ' tenced to seven years' penal servitude . Her motive for taking the ohild does not appear . Fraotvon the East abo > West India Dock Company . — Robert Walter Shanley , a youth of eighteen , lately clerk in a shippiag broker's office in the City , is under sesoand at the Thames police-ofl & ee , charged with forging an order for the delivery of goods by ^ wbich he obtained five cases , containing property of the value of 500 * ., belonging to Captain Lloyd , an ofiicer m the army , who sailed a few days ago for Rangoon .

    The Leader. £**<>. 407, January 9,1858. ...

    THE LEADER . £ **<> . 407 , January 9 , 1858 . on . **• ~^~ j - —¦— — ¦¦ ; "" ~ — . ^—^ i ^^^^^ M ^^ M ^^ " ^^ M ^^^ ^^^^^^ XUa Ql > nr 1 *\ £ * NTr » Xr ** TnKpr _ 1 ft / lift . Tn tllO mmiu . the 22 nd of November 1848 In the

    Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...

    GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Mb . Reed applied last Saturday to Mr , Commissioner Murphy in the Insolvent Debtors' Court on the part of Mr . Richard M . Sayer , for the assistance of the court under peculiar circumstances . The insolvent is secretary to Major Ouseley , the agent of the King of Oude . He petitioned under the Protection Act , but did not appear before the court , on the ground of ill health . Subsequently be was arrested , and is now in prison . The counsel applied to the court to grant a new order for hearing under the pending proceedings , or for the court to allaw an application to be made under the 28 th section of the Act for a ' protecting order . ' The insolvent states that his misfortune is owing to the mutiny in India , the imprisonment of the King of Oude , and the consequent stoppage of the usual supplies to Major Onseley . Mr . Commissioner Murphy granted leave to file a petition under the Prison Act , including all debts , on which the former petition would be dismissed . Mr . Samuel Warren , the Recorder of Hull , made some -observations , at the opening of the Christmas Quarter Sessions of the Peace for the borough , on the spread of commercial immorality , which he attributed to that * making haste to be rich' which is denounced in the Bible . The accommodation bills question was again brought before the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Monday , in connexion with the insolvency of Edward Tucker , an agent for the discount of bills of exchange , who on that day applied to be discharged . He was opposed on the ground of a general objection to his mode of conducting his business . He had been bankrupt in the year 1825 , and since then had petitioned this court on three several occasions , having been relieved from debts amounting on the whole to nearly 12 , 000 J . Upon this , his fifth , insolvency he owed 851 / . Many of these aebtfr were liabilities upon bills of exchange which the insolvent had endorsed , receiving no consideration beyond a commission for obtaining discount . Mr . Commissioner Phillips said that " the system of accommodation bills is becoming frightful . He had endeavoured to eheck it as much as lay in his power , but mtwe stringent measures are required . A very excellent suggestion had been made in the City article of the Times , to the effect that accommodation bills should be regarded in a criminal light ; and , unless something of that kind were done , the evil would remain unchecked . The insolvent would be discharged in six months from the date of th « vesting order . " „ , . , _ - An examination of the balance-sheets of the banking firm of Harrison , Watson , and Co ., who failed last September , took place in the Hull Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday , The liabHrtiea are about 560 , 000 / ., the as 8 efs about 180 , 000 / . ; and the private estates , of the wiH in logewuw " ¦ w

    two gentlemen bring »««< vx , VV .. Some questions were asked with respect to the advances of 90 , 000 * . to Taylor and Bright , the latter of whom was convicted at Tork , two or three weeks ago , for forgery ; of 140 , 000 ? . to Mr . Hassall ; and of 94 , 000 / . to a catnpbme company , consisting of Hassall and two other persons . The answers exhibited a singular amount of carelessness and mismanagement . Another meeting will be held on the 18 th . n ¦ , A charge was brought on Tuesday , at the Southwark police-office , against a Mr . Charles Burtwell , a master plumber , of having applied the proceeds of a promissory t _ j ?^_ . * AAI * Vti « , * vmi-r » ivoa -thrtvirrii t . Vlft "note 1 > eloil £ ? Cd Muvj # gj — — — —

    U 4 JLC JLUt JL . VV * ' HV »*¦» viy *» »»* w « - « - w to others . The proceedings were taken under the recently passed Fraudulent Trustees Act . The bill bad been deposited in the hands of Mr . Burtwell as security for the sum of 100 £ j but it was denied that he had any authority to use it . His counsel , however , affirmed that he "hatS done nothing wrong , and stigmatised the proceedings as oppressive . The prosecutor had been sued * i— me TOn «« -wnii nn t . hn note , and it was to stop thai ¦ - ¦¦¦

    WT J"B . ft ****** U « **™* »*¦¦ . — -- — — — j - coutbo that the holder was given into custody . The charge was ultimately abandoned * and Mr . Burtwell was discharged , the magistrate observing thert there was not the slightest pretence for apprehending him . Mr . PownaH Pellew Cotter , a master in the Royal "" T j ^ i ^ l ^ bei ^ leaving her chargeable to the parish . Ho paid 60 / . Into court ( part of which went towards remunerating the parish ) , and was discharged .

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    in the Kiding-house Establishment to witness the carrying out of a sentence of court-inartial upon James Stirridge , a gunner , who had been condemned to receive fifty lashes and one hundred and twelve days' imprisonment at Fort Clarence , and subsequently to be discharged from the Tegiment with ignominy . His offences were desertion and theft . —John Williams , a private in the 6 th Company of the Roy a ) Marine Light Infantry , received fifty lashes at Chatham on Thursday for absence from barracks and selling his kit . He is a notoriously incorrigible peison .

    NAVAL AND- MVLITA 11 Y . Wovam MnaTAKY Biotu *© . —Some men belonging to tho [ Dublin , Militia , -now quartered at Burnley , Lancashire , got intoxicated on New Y-eoT ' o Eve , and , sallying forth , struck Mtftn their 'belts all who opposed them . A picket ,

    aided by the police , got some to the barracks , and afterwards visitedsaveral parts of the town . The picket then became seized with the xiotous sptrrt , and began smashing windows right and left . Several persons were ehased about the streets at the point of the bayonet , and a good many were seriously stabbed . Some took refuge in houses , and the militiamen then thrust their bayonets into the doors in their baffled rage . At other persons bayonets were flung when they got out of reach of the plain thrust . After satisfying themselwss with these savage amusements , the Irishmen returned to their barracks . A detachment of the same regiment has committed similar outrages at Ashton-under-Lyne ; several of the men are in custody , and have been committed for trial . The whole regiment has been removed to Alder-8 Shipwkeck . —The barque Sibella , Captain Pizzey , with a valuable cargo , has been wrecked , while on her return voyage to London , off the rocks nearly opposite the lighthouse at Colombo , during a heavy gale . All the crew but four were saved by the exertions of the Governor and others . The loss exceeds 40 , 000 / . m value . —The Catherine Adamson , Captain G . Stuart , was wrecked inside the North Head , Sydney , on the 24 th of October . Twenty-five passengers are said to have been drowned . —The French ship France et Bresil , 645 tons , Captain Honasse , from Liverpool for Rio Janeiro , was wrecked on Monday night at nine o clock off Kingstown , Ireland . Some of the crew were saved , but others perished . The Lbvtathax . —A further attempt to launch this unfortunate ship , which was expected to take place on Monday , was postponed on account of the preparations not being sufficiently forward . In the course of the day , a barque coming up the river ran into the steam barge containing a large portion of the windlasses and gear used in operating on the giant ship , and sank it—another chapter in the long story of accidents . The launching operations were resumed on Wednesday and continued without interruption till night , when the signal board showed a further progress of ten feet aft and about nine feet six inches forward . Upwards of sixty huge fires were kept burning in the yard , to prevent the pumps and feed-pipes from freezing . Since then , the ship has made further progress , and there seems now to be a chance of getting her soon afloat . Weekly Steam Communication with India . — The Times understands that , consequent on the new postal arrangements for a weekly mail to and from India , which commence this month , the directors of the Peninsular and Oriental Company intend to despatch four steamers per month from Southampton to Alexandria , instead of two , as at present . The additional service is , it is said , to commence in February , the vessels leaving on the 4 th and 20 th of each month takin" - passengers and cargo for Madras and Calcutta , and those on the 11 th and 26 th , for Bombay , taking letters and papers only to Calcutta and Madras . Four or five additional steamers will be added to the Company ' s fleet during the next few months . Recruits fok India . —Upwards of 1600 recruits enlisted during the previous week for regiments serving in India . This number does not include ttie volunteers for the Royal Artillery or the East India Company ' s European troops—nearly four hundred for the last-named service having been enrolled during the same period . The Lash . —At eight o ' clock on Monday morning , tua , » , » . r . e » ha Qf-h TtnttnlLnn Roval Artillery assembled

    Obituary. General Haveixkac.— We Have No...

    OBITUARY . General HAVEixKac . — We have noticed elsewhere the doath of this noble soldier ; but it will be expected that we here briefly sketch the chief incidents of his life . He was a native of Biahopswearmouth , near Sundorland , wheve h « was born on the 5 th of April , 1795 . His father ' * family had been settled in Lincolnshire ever

    since the time of the Saxons , and it was . saul to be cwrived from Guthrwn , the Dane . The hero ' s immediate ancestors were largely engaged in trade and commerce . Honry Havelock himself was educated at tho Charter House School , London , where the gravity of his de-•> meano « r'e « nieu- * for-hitn-the > title-of- 4 -Gld-JpHlos ^ ~ ft-contraction of * Philosopher . ' He studied for a abort time under Mr . Chitty for tho law , and , thus formed an intimate acquaintance -with the late Judge Talfouxd ; but he soon gave up this employment , and was gazetted to a toe liuno itrrr k

    secona lieutenancy m migauo a w ««» after the battle of Waterloo , He obtained this favour through the influence of Ma brother William , who w *» already in the . army , and had dioUngnteuod himself in the great contest which opnshed the fortunes of N » pol « on . This fcrrtktcr im Wiled in ac « S » n with'the fiikha a *

    Ranvsovonty years , can oniy pe u . »« «~« columns . He entered tho Austrian army as a cornet us fur buck as 1784 , and first distinguished himself in tho war with Turkey in 1788-9 . Afterwards , during tho struggle with Revolutionary and Imperiul France , ho behaved on several occasions with conspicuous gallantry and skill , and was present at many of the most important and sanguinary battles of Ihoao stirring times . To . m . n ... _ t-. _ & . _ 5 i a . ^ ji ! . . v . . * . .,. v > . > 11 * l nurrnf * . t comnuuiuu iu siu uwBtv »

    nngger on , . year 1824 , Henry Haveloek , having by that time exchan ged into the 13 th Light Infantry , served in the Burmese I campaign ; and , at the conclusion of the war , he and two others went on a mission to the Court of Avo , and had ' an audience of the monarch , by whom the Treaty of Yandaboo was signed . In 1827 , Havelock published a short account of the war , remarkable for the freedom of I its comments . In 1838 , he was promoted to a company , and attended Sir Willoughby Cotton as one of his staff in the invasion of Affghanistan . Through the whole of the campaign he served with great distinction , anil was present at the storming of Ghuznee in 1839 . He published a memoir of this as well as of the Burmese war . He afterwards served as Persian interpreter in the Punjab , and in Cabul , and was present at the forcing of the Khoord Cabul Pass , the action of Tezeen , and the other engagements which occurred during the passage of the troops to Jellalabad . With some others he shared the chief direction of the memorable defence of that place , and wrote all the despatches relating it . These were highly praised by the late Sir George Murray . The services of Havelock were rewarded by granting him his brevet majority , and by his promotion to a Companionship of the Bath . Some few years later , ho accompanied the English army to Gwalior , and was present at the battle of Maharajpore ; and , having obtained the brevet rank of Lieutenant-Colonel , he proceeded , in 1845 , with Hardinge and Gough to the Sutlej , where he was actively engaged i : i the battles of Moodkee , Ferozeshah , and Sobraon . Strange to say , though he had many narrow escapes , he was not once wounded . At the conclusion of the war , he was appointed Deputy-Adjutant-General of the Royal troops at Bombay , and afterwards Adjutant ^ General of the Quee n ' s Forces in India , which post he held till the breaking out of the war with Persia towards the close of 1856 . He then commanded the land forces at Mobammerah , but hnd no opportunity of distinguishing himself , as the Persians ran away . Peace having been concluded , he returned to India " , and was wrecked off Ceylon last April in the Erin . Almost directly afterwards , he was drawn into the vortex of that tremendous rebellion which hiis proved his death . The details of his heroic exploits against the mutineers are burnt too deeply into the national mind to need recapitulation here . Havelock was a man of an enthusiastic and religious habit of mind , and was a Baptist . He was married in 1827 , and has left a faniily of three daughters and three sons . The eldest son holds a ' captain ' s '" commission in the 18 th Royal Irish , and served under his father in the present bloody struggle . Field-Marshal Rai > ktzky . —One of the most prominent and remarkable figures in the entire history of t . \ c present century , and even of a portion of the last , has at length disappeared from the stage which he had occupied so long as to seem almost like oimj of the elements of the European system . 'Field-Marshal Radetzky died at Milan on Tuesday morning at eight o ' clock . HLs illness , which appears to have been paralysis of the chest , lasted only about a week ; in fact , it may be said that ho died of extreme old age . He was in his ninety-third year , and his demise wns probably hastened by an accident which recently befel him . The Countess Wallmoden had called on him , and , when about to leave , thq old General rose to escort her out . She insisted that he should not do so , and left somewhat hurriedly to prevent him from stirring . She was still in tha ante-room when she heard a fall . Hastening bock , she found that broken aib lie

    urroiiy giunuuu \ im Radetzky had fallen and tuign . nnu probably risen again with the intention of paying the last courtesies to the countess , and had stumbled in his haste . The broken limb was not set , on account of the General ' s great age , and thenceforward ho was confined to his couch . Previously to this , however , he had been unable to mount his horse , and was compelled , much to his vexation , to witness from a carriage a review given in Austrian Italy during the late visit of the Emperor and Empress . On that occasion , tho Empress paid tlio old Field-Marshal the utmost attention . The incidents of Radetzky ' s public life , spreading over more thun

    ue success ox some uu uu «» . After the peace of 1815 , he occupied posts of mingled military and adiamiMtrativo responsibility in the Lombardo-Venetian territory and in Hungary , and in 1831 he was appointed Oommander-in-Chiof in Austrian 4 tiay . ^ Ina « 0 Gn hq ^ w < w-nm 4 « - ^ iflld = MarahaL ^ J ^ . ! l ! l >^ S _ . tho revolutionary movements of 18-18-9 , Radetssky oocupi « d the fl « ld in opposition to th © armies of Cliarlcu Albert , King of Sardinia ; and , though at first dofuutod , ho ultimately triumphed , and crushed tho hopes of tho T It 1 « ,.... *« tn f * . ^! . * An * Ka -A 4 <\ % ntt A n < # ll ( ir fill * Srif *"

    diuiuns were compullod to capituluto to RudoUky « vC Milan ; but tho war was shortly nfterwardH renewed , only to bo utfcorly extinguished , on the 28 rd « f March , 1840 , at th « disastrous battle of Novtira . The campaign bad only lasted a . weok . Honours of all kinds , from

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 9, 1858, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09011858/page/6/