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    3^ THE IiEADE^. QHo. 355, t B^TO^y ^

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    Miscellaneous. Emioration For 1856.—Tho ...

    "has been held atTrome . —Other meetings lave teen held at Leicester , Oxbridge , & c , against the continuance of ' thje present income-tax beyond next April . At Lancaster , Sir Joshua Walmsley was present , and spoke strongly upon the impolicy of continuing the tax in its present shape . itexaroNDSEY Purified . —Great efforts have recentlybeen , and are still being , made to cleanse and purify Bennondsey . Great changes for the better are already effectecl—a fact which those who knew Bermondsey as it was-will be rejoiced to learn .

    A Piece of Scotch Bkag . —The Glasgow Herald recently published the particulars of some large casting at tbe foundry of Mr . Neilson . After describing in glowing terras tbe vastness of the undertaking , the excited Caledonian penman spluttered forth this boast—' ' that "the * work just accomplished was " a -work which all the iron-workers in England refused , the like of which , none of the iron-masters of England ever saw . " Hereupon , Messrs . H . and M . D . Grissell , of London , write to the Times ( which had quoted the Boreal bluster ) 5 a these terms : — " No doubt the Glasgow Herald perfectly agrees with Professor Blackie ( now of some notoriety ) that we are an ' inferior nation . ' But I would add , that the Glasgow Herald knows nothing of English

    ironworkers or English iron-masters , and that we could easily find him ' fifty workers and masters who would make hut a light question of the task Mr . Neilson has no doubt so ably ^ performed ; and that , among many others , it was mot refused by , because not offered to , Yours very respectfully , & C . " Really , the vanity , the restless self-assertion , of these our noisy neighbours amounts to a kind of national disease , which might mak < s the subject of a very interesting medical discourse . Their vanity is not even , amiable , since it is allied to gratuitous impertinence . We are inclined to address our northern cousins in the words of an . old song , as the heat " advice they can receive :- — " Cease , rude Boreas , blustering ratter . "

    la- be Humphrey Brown , M . P .- —The petition for adjudication of bankruptcy in this case was disposed of in the Bankruptcy Court last Saturday . The Commissioner held that the petitioning creditor ' s debt ( that of the Royal British Bank for about 40 , 0007 . ) hail Tjeen proved , as also an act of bankruptcy . Adjudication of bankruptcy was accordingly made . Mr . Patrick Johnson is the official assignee . Messrs . Linklater and Hackwood are the solicitors in the case . The assets available for the creditors are said to be of inconsiderable amount .

    Paper Pexce . —The issue of packets of omnibus tickets , at a reduction of 10 per cent , on every sovereign's worth taken , commenced on Thursday week . In the course of that day , upwards of 10 , 000 tickets were sold at one place only , the central office of the company at Charing-cross . The inconvenience of carrying halfpence will by this simple means be entirely spared to omnibus passengers . Several large drapery firms have declared an intention of availing themselves of these tickets , as the pleasantest small change for their

    ladycustomers . , The Storm in the Hetbopous . —A violent storm of wind passed over London last Saturday . It had "been blowing ratber freshly all day ; and at evening the force of the wind increased , and continued until after midnight , blowing a perfect gale . The Thames was lashed iato a furious state , and a great many of the barges and small vessels were sunk , driven against one another , or sent adrift . Several persons in the streets were injured l > y falling tiles and chimney-pots ; and some of the trees in the parka were uprooted or seriously damaged . The gale was also very violent on the coasts , where it caused several casualties which we have chronicled in our Naval and Military columns .

    the Bankruptcy of Lyon SAiruEr .,. —Judgment in Ihis case , the facts of which have already appeared in the Leader , was given en Monday by Mr . Commissioner Goulburn , - who believed that the bankrupt and Peter Dipiond had been acting in confederacy for the purpose of cheating the creditors . Ho felt bound in duty to remand the bankrupt to prison . Samuel , who had been i v ?* y , n , 9 fey <> n previous occasions , received this judgment ¦ Jffith respectful silence , and notice of appeal was given tjy . his counsel . An Lnsolvknt through PoumcAr , Animosity . —An insolvent debtor , named Lucas , stated before " Mr . Com-Wfesioner Phillips on Monday , that over since the last general , flection , when he voted for the Conservatives "his . busjnejsa ( that of a licensed victualler ) had been gradually decreasing . Ho belonged to Macclestteld ; and the Commissioner said ho must bo removed to Chester at the creditors' expense .

    Christmas Hospitality . —Miss Burdctt Coutts , on the nJglit of New Year ' s Day , entertained to suppor a largo number of working men mid women n : ncl some seven hundred children belonging to tho parish of St Peter ' s Stepney . Suicidk at Woolwich . —A'frightful occurrence " took place on Monday morning at Woolwich Dockyard . One of the labourers employed in the chnin testing ; doparttnen |; , arrived at his place of labour at seven o ' clock a . m ., . £ ? j ~ ^ M ' flr 3 fc rnan t 0 whom a ticket was delivered . He-proceeded towards tho chain wharf , where , standing l > et ; wqen the ppstfl of fho marine sentry and tho police-« 0 t ! 8 tablo on duty , he was seen to draw a clnap-knifo dc-Jlberatdy from his pocket , with which ho inflicted a < W

    withdrawing . the weapon and casting it on the ground , he plunged , headforemost into the Thames . It being high watet at the time , the boSy was not discovered until the tide had receded , when it was found imbedded in the soil of the river , six hours and a half after its immersion . There appears to be no doubt that the man was insane ; and the morbid tendency of mind was probably excSted by the fact that his brother-in-law had committed suicide last week . Mr . Cockshott . —The Board of Customs has appointed Mr . Cockshott to the vacant office of Chairman of Surveyors in the port of London . This gentleman was the fiist to bring-the decimal system of weights into practical operation In . this country by its partial introduction into the Customs .

    The vicarage of Cripplegate . —Archdeacon Hale has resigned the living of the vicarage of Cripplegate , which he has held for the last ten years . In the early part of last week , the archdeacoa forwarded his resignation to the Bishop of London , and he has received an official notification that it is accepted . The living is 5 n the gift of the Chapter of St . Paul's , and is valued , it . is said , at 18002 . a year . Mr . Sidney Herbert . —It is now stated that there is no foundation whatever fox the rumour that . Mr Sidney Herbert has inherited . any part of the property of the lata Prince Woronzoff .

    In re Seacole ajto Day . —Thursday was appointed for the last examination of these bankrupts—the former being the lady so highly extolled for her , humanity and generosity to our gallant soldiers in the Crimea during the late war . The N examinatioa was passed without the slightest opposition . The Royal British Bank . —A private meeting was held on Thursday , in the Court of Bankruptcy , the object being to discuss a great number of proofs on the part of shareholders , who desired to . prove as creditors against the estate . The examinations were not concluded during the day . Australdv . and the West . Indies .- —The last mails from these colonies do not bring any news of importance . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦

    An American Forger . —A man , named Huntington , said to be descended from the " Pilgrim "Fathers , " is nowbeing tried in Ainerioa on several charges of forgery to an immense amount . The defence was that the accused was insane . He had been religiously brought up , and had at one time acted as a Sunday school teacher -, but he had exhibited a great propensity to destroy things , out of a morbid curiosity to know their composition . Setting up in business , he started a vast number of schemes , some of them of -the wildest character , but never lept long to anything . He then got into pecuniary difficulties , and committed the forgeries with ^ vlich he was charged . " His furniture , " said his counsel , " was of the most costly description , and he had an

    immense iron safe filled with expensive silver plate , and it was said even gold spoons . He purchased jewels worthy of an emperor , and gave them away with frightful prodigality . He sported . fine horses and equipages . All his forgeries , however , were bungled . He frequently left out one of the names of tho firm , sometimes put in an extra name , and sometimes reversed their order . He had signed names himself when he could have got the genuine ones by asking for them . He had raised money on forged securities at sixty per cent ., and lent it at eighteen and even seven . He kept no books during these transactions from ¦ which the extent of his affairs could be ascertained with any approach to accuracy . Ho used forgeries in some instances to obtain money

    on credit , when no security would have been required or asked . He took no measures to prevent his arrest in caso tho forgeries should be detected . His design was to remain in JTew York , or the vicinity . AJ 1 his extravagant purchases , with trifling exceptions , were mado for cash upon forged paper , when he might have mado them upon credit . He committed crime to pay debts from which he hud "been already released . He omitted to destroy evidence of his forgeries . Ho procured an honest , inox perienced person—a relative—to prepare notes which he ( subsequently converted into forgeries . He accumulated no property for himself or family . He made no preparation for defraying the expenses of hja

    defence in tho event of exposure . Sinco 14 a arrest , ho has sent to several persons wao liavo suffered "by him , soliciting money to aid him in his defence . Oa his first indictment ho was bailed wilU 20 , 000 dols . by two of his alleged victims as securities—one of whom was Charles Bolden and the other Harbcc-k . Ho was suffered to go at ljtrgo a whole day without making an effort to escape Ho met these two alleged victims by appointment , and admitted that nearly all tho commercial paper lio had delivered to them was forged . Ho wept over this stato of things , and Bolden andllarbcokwopt with him—probably tho first time in many years . Tho next morning , ¦ while yet at large , ho made a voluntary assignment to them , excluding nil othor creditors . "

    JJuiction . Nkws . — Mr . Bnillio Cochrano hna been returned for Lanarkshire without opposition . — 'By tho daath of Sir Edmund Filmer , Bart ., which occurred last . Thursday , a vacancy ia caused in Weat Kent . It ia eaid that Charles Wykoham Martin , Esq ., of , Lcoda Castle , noar Maidstono , father of P . W . Martin , HCaq , tho littoral Member for Rochester , will bo brought forward by . tho Liberal party , with a good prospect of success . — M * . A . W . J £ ii » £ luko , tho author of > 'ISO then , " j a a

    oandidate fqr . "N " ew , part ,. Isle . of "Wight ; , in -the . xaoai of Afrv Biggs , resigned . —The electors of , SaT | icjrd , jaxe . aaid tu ) be preparing a requisition . to' JTr . JE . JB . "iLaajgworthy , , to allow himself to be put in noirJunati » nEQr-fli . ejcepr , esejiJation of the borough , in the room of . "Mr . 3 xA £ her , ton , deceased . Dr . ~ "Wolff on Hebat . — "The iRey . J > . r . Wolff . 4 elivered a lecture last Monday evening , At Leamington , on the religious and political condition of , the countries of the East , in connexion with , the -second . icoming and personalreign of Christ . Speaking . of JHerat , he . said that the British Government " made an inlamoua treaty a dishonourable and disgraceful treaty , -with Y , aar Muhammad'Khan , tbe Chief of He wit , by which , treaty the British Government assisted Yaar Muhammad Khan in

    1840 , a £ ainst . the Persians , who besieged Herat in order to liberate their 300 , 000 slave 3 scattered in . aod around Herat , ' Bokhara , and Khiva ! They sent—^ he . repeated the British "Government sent—the skilfulofficers Majors Pottinger and Darcy Tod to Herat ,. in Qrder . not only to preventthePersiansfrom . liberating their coumtrymenf rom slavery , "but also in order _ to enable . Xaar M-uhannnad Khan and the . Turcomans to make jnoie . slaves , under the protection of the British , . artillery . flChe . pfiopb of Herat , of course , succeeded , and S aar'M ' ii"bammad ' jK * Jian , addicted to every crime not to he mentioned , and , a rour dererbesidtes , threatened to kill Diarcy Tod , . if . he should refuse to give him money . . Poor Tod . was . obliged , to fly from Herat , and on his arrival in India , the-Government most iaseiy disgraced that "brave officer as a coward , who died , most bravely afterwards in battle . against the Sikhs , under Generals Lord Gough . and ^ Hariinge . "

    Suicidb . —A Mr . J . Winter , living on Tower-lull , and but recently arrived from Brighton ,, has skilled himself by swallowing laudanum . He had been , in & very desponding state of mind for-some time . jaat ; but . the cause of his depression is not known . Loed Napier has "been appointed as Ej ^ glisk Ambassador to Washington . A ' Fast' Cihrsymahj—/ "Ehe reverend ^ gentleman from Xeieestersbire who was-robbed . last week in Stamford , after spending some . houns . in a , nublic * house vrJiere danciag was , gedng on , bas . not jyet recoverad Uie property stolen from him . Thus his , unseemlypx & dilactions have lost him his watch , and . also , it 4 s said ,, the respect of the tishop , who has been made acquainted with the whole of the ciicumstances . It , is fiurther stated that the rev . ; gentleman ' s selfrwilled conduct had previously attracted the notice of his , superiors in the Church . —Statnford Mercury .

    Bbigands at a Railway . Station . —rAs the omnibus which conveys passengers to the SerravaUe iand Gavi Rail-way ( Piedmont ) was on the 28 th ultimo turning a corner at no great distance from the .. station , it was suddenly attacked by five robbers , who , forced ¦ the passengers to give up all they had about them , -one parting with 600 f . in gold . Having made this capture , they proceeded to a nook at a short distance from tie road , where they thought themselves safe , to -divide the booty . Here , however , they were ; discovered by . two carbineers , which threw them into such , consternation that , without tho slightest attempt at resistance , though

    they were well armed , they , took to flight . The carbineers pursued them , and overtook 'two , with whom they commenced a struggle of life and death . One of the ruffians managed to get out his stiletto , . with which he dealt his antagonist a blow , which might have proved fatal had not the sheath fortunatelystu . ck . to tho weapon ; nevertheless , the carbineer was staggered by the violence of the blow , and let go his hold , ; so that hjs prisoner escaped . The other thief w . as overpowered and jnanacled ; in Iiis pocket they found a certificate of good conduct , signed hy the Syndic of Pozzuolo , for a passport to France . The others had not been captured , up to tho latest account . *

    Explosion op a Portable Gas Carriage . —The Paris papers describe a curious accident , i One of the large vehicles employed to convey , portable . gas-stopped at an early hour on Sunday . morning ; at the Cafifde Paris , in . tho . Rue Rambuteau , and delivered * supply . The man iu < -l } flrgo . of , tlie . vebicle rin order to ascertain the quantity given , imprudently placed , a lighted candle ao . near to frke vessel placed on the cart that tliAgae . in the pipe which coiumunionted with tlio reservoir caught fire . , Tw « eurgens ( Je-ville , -who happened to be , near , with great presence of . mind immediately caused the vehicle to be removed to the open , space at the entrance of the Kue Boaubourg , so as to isolate it ; and when this waa done tho horeea were unharnessed . A few seconds later a column of flame shot up to a prodigious height , higher than tho roofs of tho houses ; than a tremendous explosion took place ; and , lastly , a mass of . nanios burst forth .

    OjDONTOr-OCUOAL SOOIKTY OP LONDON . Tho first meeting of this society was ; held on . Monday evening , at 32 a , Georgo-atreet , Hftnoverwsquare , when a largo mustor of the leading practitionacrs of dental surgery , both in town and from the country , tn « ttogether . ( Sonic proliminary business having been gone ^ hrougli , > tho President , Mr . Cartwright , delivered an address , in which , aftor glancing at the jprogreea ; of dpntal surgery during the last century , he took a rdvloW of tho prosent position and ¦ prospec'fcd of 'the profession , and Strongly urged tho necessity of a liberal eliucalion , in conjunctioTi with tho Special qvttziincacticns required for thoso who would prafctfao tMs ' 6 oJ ) aiftnfient of surgery wltli credit and *! iieccss . "H & flWnicftarred to'flio

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• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 10, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10011857/page/10/