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      Political Foreshadowings. Mr. Miljseu Gi...

      number of representatives of the agricultural interest must be increased . Mr . Bright wished it to be quite another way ; he -wished for 10 / . voters , or even lower than that to have the election of the members ; but if this were allowed , the agriculturists instead of gaining would lose ; He hoped that the electors would see that the constituencies should be so amended , and the members so elected , that , whatever Reform Bill was passed , the agriculturists should not lose by it . They ought to gain a great deal more . He believed that no measure would be acceptable to the country which , while it redistributed the representation , did not also extend the franchise . He felt confident Lord Derby would never bring forward a measure on this subject which was not strictly Conservative . Conservatism did not consist in keeping things exactly as they were , but it was a movement in accordance with the tinies , in which care was taken that while the institutions of the country were preserved , they were also improved and strengthened . Mr . Bkigiit *—In answer to the Manhood Suffrage Association of Manchester , the honourable gentleman writes to say that he does not consider such an association as hostile to his own views . He , however , is desirous of establishing the suffrage on the basis which has existed in our parishes for centuries ; and he urges that the suffrage question is not the vital point in the coming bill . The vital point is the distribution of seats and members . " Unless this be well watched , " says he , " you may find that you have lost the substance and r . re merely playing with the shadow of popular representation . " Provincial Reform Movements . —The ^ Birnringham Reform Association has issued a manifesto addressed to the Reformers of the United Kingdom . This has been followed by the important town of Sheffield giving a demonstration of its feeling on the question . A meeting has been held and resolutions embodying the views of the Reform Committee of London were adopted , ! coupled -with a demand for a 10 / . franchise for counties . The members for Sheffield did not attend , this meeting ; letters were , however , read from Mr . Roebuck and Mr . Hudfield . The Northern Reform Union , which is daily increasing in strength and importance , has appointed a 1 doputation to test the feeling of the northern towns < that hav « not hitherto been visited , upon the subject of < Parliamentary Reform . The deputation addressed meet- ' ings at Ilawick , Ber-wick-upon-Tweed ,. and Aluwick 1 during the course of the week . At a meeting at Not- '] tinghani , resolutions -were passed declaring that the { Reform Bill should include manhood suffrage , vote by i ballot , triennial parliaments , and the equalisation of f electoral districts , and that the opinion of the meeting i should be communicated to Mr . Bright . The members for the borough wrote to say that they could not sup- t port so extreme a measure of Reform . At Norwich I there has also been a demonstration . It is contemplated t to hold another meeting in the same town . A meeting j t held at Rochdale on Wednesday went unanimously for ( manhood suffrage , and in support of Mr . Bright . Another e at Berwick-upon-Tweed ended in much the same way , a the demand being for manhood suffrage , and the other points of the Reform programme . At Preston , a large £ meeting in the Corn Exchange Assembly Room has gone s for Reform in the Guildhall Coffee-house sense . It was t attended by Mr . Grenfell , M . P . Tins Conservative Land Society . —This associa- ( tion affords an example of successful achievement * It s has been in existence six years , has purchased a number t of estates , and has succeeded in obtaining receipts of b more than 300 , 000 / . The cash receipts last year were b 40 , 893 / . This is the society whose operations , ns it is s understood , will cover a larger field on account of the h pasbing of the Corrupt Practices Bill of the Govern- t < meat , whioh allows candidates to pay the travelling ex- ti penscs of voter ? , no matter from what distance they may travel . It will bo remembered that an attempt was y made so to modify this bill that the payment of travel- n ling expenses would only apply to such as lived in the h counties where they voted . This , however , would huvo a almost entirely defeated the object which the measure £ was really intended to effect ; and so the bill passed in si its original shape . Consequently those who have freeholds guaranteed by the Conservative Land Society may s < bo c . mveyed up and down the country at the expense of Conservative candidates . p est ite r-er ; if ng tat 11- id , to ire e- he er ot in e- as re je m i- ; - is it g d ; , d ; - a ¦ 0 n - s ! , ! s . ¦ : y % s f - t c - 3 ' f f 1 - a i [ ; j ¦ , : : to

      No. 455, December 11,1858.] The Leadeb, ...

      No . 455 , December 11 , 1858 . ] THE LEADEB , 1341

      Gatherings From Law And Police T , Court...

      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE t , COURTS . ir At tlio Middlesex Sessions Mary Ann Davis and Edwin v Slwiylor wore placed at the bar to receive sentence : they C wore tried last session and convicted of robbing a police- * man of a 10 / . bank-note . Shaylor was a constant asso- j cria . c of housebreakers , and hud been several timos con- ' vk-tud . Davis , also , had boon three times convicted . ™ Shaylor yvna sentenced to seven , and Davis to three P yeiut . ' penal servitude . —George Menus was convlctod of w a robbery upon Sir W . G . Anstruthor , Bart . ^ who was looking Into" a shop window , when the prisoner robbed- J ) him of his purse . A policeman having been called to tl j . rove former convictions against him , he said he would v . aave them the trouble , und would admit all they could C say nynlast him . Sentence , bovcii years' nounl servitude , sn -r-Tlte notion which Mr . Mowbray Morris had Instituted ' T the v . Ci suit '

      against a Mr . Capron , a solicitor , for an assault mitted upon him the day before his marriage with Delane , was postponed until the next sessions . Capron alleged that he had not had sufficient time prepare his defence . —Thomas Sherwood was indicted stealing the goods and money of his master . It proved that the prisoner had been guilty of the basest conduct towards his employer , who had been his friend and benefactor . They had been schoolfellows , but sight of each other for some time ; the prisoner to the prosecutor one day with a tale of distress , which induced the prosecutor to take him into his service , which he took advantage to rob him . He was found Guilty , and the judge commented severely on his con duct , saying that lie had done his utmost to bring benefactor to ruin . He sentenced him to penal servi tude for five years . Two fresh cases of forgery were investigated before the City magistrates on Thursday . William Cory charged with having uttered two forged cheques upon the London and County Bank . Mr . Mullens prosecuted for the Committee of Bankers . Prisoner was remanded The second case was that of Thomas Singfield , latel carrying on business as a wine merchant , who was charged with uttering forged bills of exchange to the amount of 1000 / ., with intent to defraud Mr . Ford , publican . The prisoner had also sold him 200 ? . worth of what he called first-class sherry , but which was no thing but coloured water ; the sample was good . He was committed for trial . Elizabeth Martha White , wife of a master mariner was charged at Greenwich police-court with cruelty her step-daughter , six years of age . The poor child was found to be in a shocking state from bruises , exco riations , and cuts . These were proved to be the work the stepmother , who the father , notwithstanding , gravel affirmed was " a kind-hearted and feeling woman ! " The magistrate sentenced the wife to one month ' s hard la bour ; and the women assembled outside the court knocked the husband ' s hat over his eyes when he came out . In the Court of Common Pleas an action has been brought by the Earl of Shrewsbury against the trustees of the infant son of the Duke of Norfolk for the recovery of the extensive estates which had been bequeathed to hat child by the late Earl of Shrewsbury . The At torney-General contended that the late Earl had no power to alienate the property . The Chief Justice sug gested to Mr . Serjeant Shee , the counsel for the de fendants , that he should consent to a verdict being taken for the plaintiff , subject to tbe opinion of the Court above . This proposal was accepted . Messrs . Davidson and Gordon , who recently suffered long term of imprisonment for fraud , have appeared before Mr . Commissioner Goulburn to obtain their cer- tificate . The certificate meeting had been adjourned that the evidence of Mr . Chapman , of the firm of Overend , Gurney , and Co ., might be examined ; he was examined at great length with regard to all the trans- actions which his firm had had with the bankrupts . The petition of Mr . Salomons , charging M . F . W . Stevens , the sharebroker , with fraud , has been con- sidered at the Court of Common Council and dismissed the petitioner is likely to be prosecuted for perjury . The late postmaster of the town of Berwick , W . Cuthbertson , appeared at Bow-street in answer to a summons on behalf of the Crown , requiring him to pay the postage on a number of refused letters , said to have been forwarded by him , containing a sort of circular or handbill abusive of Mr . Rowland Hill , and soliciting subscriptions . The addresses were proved tg be in the handwriting of defendant ; and Mr . Jardine ordered him pay 1 / . 0 s . 2 d ., the amount of postage , and 81 . 10 s . travelling expenses of witnesses . A postman named Philp , who had been twenty-three years in the service , was charged with having removed new stamps from letters which had passed through his hands , nnd substituted for them stamps which had already been used . He was convicted and fined 40 s . He will , of course , lose , in addition , his character , his situation , and his superannuation allowance . Hlggins and Davis , charged with swindling the nur- serymau at Chelsea , have been again remanded . The cabman , Field , who attempted suicide , has had paid over to him the whole amount of the donations received on his behalf . The sum is 84 / . 16 a . 6 d . The litigation , involving a large sum of money , be- tween the London and County Bank and the official manager of the unfortunate Tipperary Bank , has ad- vuueed a step by the Judge of the Encumbered Estates Court iu Dublin giving judgment in , favour of the bank . The judgment exonerates the bank directors from the imputation of having beon aware of the late John Sad- loir ' s frauds , restores to the bank the advunces it had madu to Sadleir , and deprives the creditors of the- Tip- porary Bank of a fund which they relied on . An appeal will , no doubt , bo entered . A case has been tried this week in the Court of Divorce-which in one » hapQ or another has been before public for four you ™ . This is the old suit of Evans Kvans ami Jtobin ^ oii , which came before Mr . Justice 'OBSwcll at Liverpool . The shape it now naaumoa is a by Mr . Evans for the tlitswolutiun of the marriage , The onsiMvns brought to a close on Wednesday . Field ,

      ¦ com-Miss Mr . to for was lost came of - his - was . y a ; ¦ - ' < < , to i j - « of ] y < 1 - 1 j ^ jj i m- the detective officer , was examined , and recapitulated [ iss the evidence , with some slight variation , he had given Hr . on the former trials . Dr . Deane , who appeared for to Mrs . Evans , said he could not help expressing his for loathing for a man who , like the petitioner , could put ras himself into communication with such agents as had est been employed in getting up the case , and could in md these disgusting details expose his own wife ' s infamy . ost Mr . Huddlestone having replied , Baron Martin comme menced his summing up , in the course of which , he adch verted to the prejudice raised in the case by the employof ment of such a person as Field , and most properly nd raised , as the people of England had an uncontrollable n- hatred of the spy system ; at the same time that would lis not be a justification' for disbelieving his witnesses , who ' ¦ i- had given their evidence on oath . After deliberating for about twenty minutes , the jury returned a verdictre that Mrs . Evans had committed adultery with Mr . Roas binson , and that Mr . Evans did not desert his wife > n without justification . The plaintiff , therefore , has id secured a divorce . d . The Eastern Counties Railway Company have dis-[ y covered a system of fraud by which their servants have is been robbing them to a great extent . Henry Newman le | was charged at Worship-street with having obtained a from a Mr . Sproul a cheque for the payment of 20 / . 2 a ., h with intent to cheat the Railway Company , his masters . > - The lawyer said that although the company had thirteen [ e cases against the prisoner , they would proceed on three only . The accused was committed for trial , r , From the proceedings in the Court of Queen's Bench , ; o in the case of Vincent Scully v . Ingram M . P ., it-would d appear as if the public were never to hear the last of i- John Sadleir or his rascalities . Mr . Ingram , who ap-> f pears to have had business relations with Mr . Sadleir , is y charged with having made grave misrepresentations in e the matter of a certain Irish estate , called Castle Hyde , .- by which Mr . Scully sustained a severe pecuniary loss , t After having been locked up for several hours , the jury , e who probably for the first time in the history of British , i juries had been permitted to enjoy the luxury of a fire , a returned a verdict for the plaintiff , damages 300 / . s __^ ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦

      R ¦ ¦ ¦ »¦ Criminal Record. 5 The Murder...

      r ¦ ¦ ¦ »¦ CRIMINAL RECORD . 5 The Murder at Asdover . — At the close of the examination on Monday of Thomas Alexander Hanks , by the Andover magistrates , on the charge of murdert i ing , Mr . William Parsons , the prisoner was remanded t ' till Tuesday , the 14 th . The counsel for the prosecution states that he will be prepared with important evidence [ ' against the accused at that time . I The Exm ; oor Forest Mckder . —A man named William Burgess was apprehended at Swansea some [ time since , on a charge of having murdered his daughter , f a child six years of age . There was a strong suspicion ; that the body had been thrown into an old mine , filled with water , in Exmoor Forest ' , and has proved accurate . The mine has been pumped out , and at the depth of 207 feet the body of the unfortunate girl was found . Being ' . in a comparatively good state of preservation it was easily , identified , and , the remaining link being supplied in the case , the prisoner will be tried at the approaching Somerset winter assizes . [ Supposed Murder .-: —Last week the body of a man . named Michael Brown was discovered in the river j Irwell , three miles west of Manchester , under circumstances leading to a presumption that he had been murdered . His neckerchief was found stuffed in his mouth , the pockets of his trousers were turned inside out , and his coat was drawn forward over his head , as if he had been dragged some distance by the collar . At the inquest an open verdict of " Found drowned" was returned , - ¦* - e - | P I 1 ! t ; . S 1 a '' ^ ~ f * J ; u ° J ° *' s ( m IT 1 ?' ^ " re

      Ireland, Tub Packet Station.—The Movemen...

      IRELAND , Tub Packet Station . —The movement in Limerick having subsided , Kerry now occupies the abandoned ground . A memorial is going round the county for signatures , to be forwarded to the Lords of the Admiralty , praying for a fair inquiry into the merits of Valencia Harbour , in comparison with the other Irish ports , as to its suitability for Transatlantic packet purposes . Tub Murder of Mh . Elt . —The first instalment of taxes for the maintenance of the extra police forco stationed in the parish of Kyle is now being collected . The levy will fall heavily on the small farmers , who are the occupiers of almost all tbe parish , holding from Sir Charles Coote . The lands held by the late Mr , Ely and his brotlter are exempted from payment of any tax , which leaves the burden heavier on the remainder of the parish . There are throe temporary police-stations . No clue to the accused man has yet been discovered . Visit of Americans to Ihklahd . ' —In « letter re- colved on Saturday last from Now York by a person In Clonniol , the following passage ocours : — " I am sorry to toll you I will not bo able to carry out your suggestion tt > visit the old country with t « o ( lUth Irish Americans , as so mnny men carrying arms would not bo allowed to land in Ireland . " Mr . John Mitchell , in the columns of his journal , long since Informed those gentlemen iu green and gold tliat neither tlio American nor the British Go-Ti ht gj si ( m V pc pi ta ti < ] 0 < Oc Cl hi w ] pa cli cc Cl to ! ro as I'l l hi an

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 11, 1858, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11121858/page/5/