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      An Evening Burglary In The City. The Rec...

      was allowed the prisoner in addition . He begged to recommend him . to mercy on account of his previous good character , and promised fco endeavour to get some situation for him if a lenient sentence were pronounced . It further appeared that the lad had a Btepfather , who had driven him out into the -world to provide for himself . Judgment was respited till next

      . The late Escape from Pentonviuoe Pbison . — Henry Mitchell , one of the men -who recently made an extraordinary escape from the Pentonville Model Prison , has been again arrested , and is now under remand at the Clerkenwell Police Office . The Usbridqe Murders . —Elizabeth Ann Harris , a young woman twenty-five years of age , has been found giiilty of the murder , by drowning , in the Uxbridge Canal , of two of her illegitimate children . The crime took place on the 15 th of February , and the

      facts have already appeared in these columns . One of the witnesses against her on her trial was her sister , who was much affected . The woman was condernued to death ; and , on hearing the sentence , she shrieked out several times , " I am innocent—I am innocent ! Oh , do have mercy on me ! " S 3 xe was asked whether she had any cause for staying execution on the ground of pregnancy ; and , after some interval , during which she appeared hardly conscious , replied in the negative . She was then removed , still exclaiming , " I am innocent—I am innocent ! Mercy ! mercy ! "

      Christian Acrimony . —A case , exhibiting the singular tendency to virulence of language bo often observable in Christian elerymen , and of which the Bishop of Bangor has recently givenjsome most triumphant specimens , was tried on Monday at the Liverpool Assizes . The Rev . Dr . Hillcoat , a clergyman of the Church of England , of advance 4 . * period of life , brought * a action against a fellow-clergyman , a Mr . Cooke , for libel . Dr . Millcoat had been the incumbent of the district church in Scotland-road , Liverpool , but in 1835 was arrested on a claim fox £ 127 , " costs " in an ¦ unsuccessful suit in the Court of Chancery . Durin-Ms imprisoument in Lancaster Castle , he was intro duced to Mr . Cooke , and it was agreed that the latter should take the entire spiritual charge of the church and schools in Scotland road . He therefore continued

      to officiate till 1855 , when Dr . Hillcoat heard that Mr . Cooke had been reflecting on his character . An angry correspondence , "written with great bitterness on both sides , ensued ; and the Doctor , being liberated by the kindness of art unknown friend , proceeded to Liverpool , and gave notice of his intention to perfoz'm the duties at the church . Both parfcie 3 appealed to the Bishop of Chester , who decided in favour of the Doctor . Mr . Cooke then appealed to liis congregation , many of whom took his part . On this , Dr . Hillcoat ( according to the statement of his own counsel ) , wrote and printed a letter to the congregation , imputing to Mr . Cook fraud and falsehood

      in 1 he school accounts . Mr . Cooke replied by a pamphlet in his own exoneration ; and that pamphlet contained the libel complained of by the Doctor . When the case waa "brought before the Liverpool Civil Court , Mr . Justice Willes remarked : — " There has clearly been much provocation for the libel ; and now that we ave arriving at tlie acrimonious part of the case , I think it my duty to say it would be much better , for the sake of Christianity , to refer all matters in dispute to some arbitrator to be agreed upon between the parties . " The counsel having conferred , a formal verdict was taken for Dr . Hillcoat , subject to arbitration .

      BORGLAUV AND CONFLICT WITH TIIE POLICE . — Two men named Grimshaw find Filbert have been examined at the Worship-street police court , on a charge of breaking into the premises of a licensed victualler in High-street , Shoreditch . About four o'oloek in the morning , two police-constables wero on duty in that locality , when one of them saw a nitm go hastily away from the door of the licensed victualler ' s shop . His suspicions being aroused , ho « xamined the door , and found that the fanlight had been forced up so na to admit the entry of a full-grown , person . The policoman then hoard a noiso within , in consequence of which he rang the bell and aroused the inmates , when Filbert immediately threw open the door and rushed forth in tho endeavour to escape , but ho was seized and forced baok into tho house by the constable . The other man , Grimshaw , then attempted to run out of

      tho houso , but he was also stopped and foroibly thrust ba « k into tho houso by a second policeman , when tho two thiovoa wore detained in the placo by tho stroot door being fastened upon them . A floroo struggle then ensued between the thieves and tho polioomen ; and tho former were in the end , captured , but not until aftor they had made a desperate rewiatanco , in ¦ whioh one of them -was disabled by a blow lroni a a staff . Tho officer who apprehended Orimfjhaw hud ( i narrow escape of his life , a Tblow being aiuiorl at hit * head with a life-proBorvor , whioh fortunately miauod its mark and only utruok tho brim of tho policeman ' s hat . When the men were seized , they emptied their pookota . out of which dropped a quantity of money in silver and copper , amounting in nil to nearly £ & . Thin had bean plundered from thd till , wad a olothos ohoot had aleo boon broken opeu , and hotoo droeeoB

      and other articles stolen . The prisoners were both fully committed for trial . Spsfkoted Poisoning in Staffobdshibe—A report was recently current , in the -village of Burntwood , near Lichfield , that the body a woman who had been dead a year , was about to be exhumed / in consequence of some suspicions having lately arisen that death had not resulted from natural causes . This being represented to Mr . Ward , the coroner for Staffordshire , he wrote to the Secretary of State , Sir Georg « Grey , on the subject , and received an answer authorising him to disinter and hold an inquest on the body . The dead woman ' s name was Catherine Ashmall ; her husband being £ » fanner living at

      Ediall , near Licbfied . They had been married about twelve years , and , for some time before she died , Mrs . Ashmall ' s health had been bad ; her death , however , occurred rather suddenly . It was not suspected at the time that she had met with a violent death ; but , as it had since become known that no medical certificate ha . d been produced , stating the cause of death , although the registrar ' s certificate for the purposes of burial had been obtained , the present proceedings were instituted . Immediately ou the receipt of Sir George Grey ' s letter , Mr . Ward , the coroner , issued his warrant for the disinterinent of the body , and at seven o ' clock the following morning the coffin was

      taken , out of its grave by the police of the district , in the presence of the curate and two churchwardens . A jurv ^ of twenty-three was subsequently empanelled ; and , after they had viewed the body , which was in a very . advanced state of decomposition , almost every trace of personal identity being obliterated , the coroner said that a jpost-morteni examination would be necessary before an inquest could be held . Three' medical gentlemen ( one of them on behalf o » f Mr . Ashmall ) were selected for the purpose , and the post-mortem examination of the body was commenced at two o ' clock the sanie day . The result has not yet transpired .

      The Shot Robbery at Lambeth . —William Burns surrendered at the Central Criminal Court to take his trial for stealing a quantity of lead and iron from his employers . With the sanction of his counsel , he pleaded Guilty , and threw himself on the mercy of the Court , on the ground of his foz'mergood character , of his long service in Messrs . Walker ' s establishment , and of his having been tempted by others to the commission of the theft . His employers also pleaded for a merciful consideration of hi 3 ease . He had been about thirty-five years with the Messr 3 . Walker , and his salary was £ 150 a-year . Sentence was deferred . — A similar case was tfien tried ia the same court . James Mayland , described as a traveller , was charged

      with embezzling money to the amount of 41 , 000 from his employers . His counsel , Mr . Ballantine , said that all he could urge on behalf of the prisoner was that he had heretofore borne an unimpeachable character ; that at the time he entered the service of the i ) rosecutors he was embarrassed ; and that hi 3 creditors , finding he had got a good situation , pressed him so closely that he was induced to make use of the money he had received on account of his employers to relieve himself . In this case also , sentence was deferred . Charge of Forgery against a Railway Clerk . —• Mr . James Knighting , clerk in the Transfer-office of the Southern and Western Railway , Ireland , has

      lately been brought before the magistrate at one of the Dublin police-courts , on a charge of forging two transfer deeds of shares in that railway . These forged deeda , containing each twenty shares , were dated , March 12 , 1856 , ami wcro niado t , ransferable from a Mrs . Elizabeth Saltmarah to the Rev . Mr . Gordon . It was also stated that tho deeds were signed in tho presence of Mr , 13 . Wilcocks , clerk to the 11 rm of Messrs . Syines , TeesdiUo and Co ., of FcnchuTch-streefc , London . The signature of the Rev . Mr . Gordon to tho deeds was genuine . Mr . Knighting had been on torniB of intimacy with a gentleman of tliat namo , who was au Euglisb clergyman , mid to

      whom Knighting had applied by letter to yeoeivo transfers of shares from persons in ^^¦ hoso behalf respecting the sale of those shares , ho ( Knighting ) professod to act , Owing , however , to some irregularity as to tbo method by which ho hud disposod of shares iu favour of Mra , Salfcniarsh , Mr . Gordon suspected that all was nob right , and therefore instituted inquiries , which rosulteil in tho discovery of the fraud nnrt the arrost of Knighting , who has boon oxnnrinod twice at tho poHce-ofnco . Mr . Gordon , however , waa not in attendance ou cither ooansion , and tlio ease waa again rotnnuded , tho magistrate adding , that if further evidence was not forthcoming at tho noxb examination , ho should discharge tho acousod .

      * April 12, 1856.] The Leader. 345

      * April 12 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER . 345

      Obituary. Mit. Monma Barn Kit.—It In Wit...

      OBITUARY . Mit . Monma Barn kit . —It in with regret that wo imnoiHioo tlio death of Mr , Morrin Barnott , the actor , who expired at Montreal on tho 18 th ulfc ., after a lingering illnoBd of many montlm . "Wo may with truth Bay of him that ho nohiuvod a celerity b y one part —that of Monsieur Jaoquon , tho poor I'Youohmun In London ; but ho was eelobratoil for playing Fronw & U-

      men generally . He was the ^ author or adaptor of several pieces for the London stage , and was for some time the theatrical critic of the Morning Post . He had gone to America in the hope of realising by hia performances sufficient to enable him to retire .

      Miscellaneous. The Coxtbt.—The Queen Hel...

      MISCELLANEOUS . The Coxtbt . —The Queen held her first drawingroom , this season , on Thursday , at St . James ' s Palace . ' The Health of Mr . Bright , M . P ., we are happy to state , on the authority of the Manchester Examiner , is gradually , though slowly , improving . Fatal Boiler Explosion at Portsmouth Docky ard . —The Nasmyth steam hammers at Portsmouth dockyard are worked by some boilers which are situated in a shed specially set apart for them . One of these boilers exploded last Saturday , bursting in the side wall and killing three men who were at work in the adjoining smithy . Three others -were so seriously injured that two of them | iiave since died

      at the Harbour Hospital ; and the rest were " scalded and bruised . The boiler shed was demolished , and a portion of the boiler was hurled against the corner of the large building used as a sawmill , a few yards distant , in which it made an enormous breach . It then glanced off , and fell at a distance of about an hundred feet in the direction of the building slips : the weight of the piece was upwards of a ton . The exploded boiler was circular , four-and-a-half feet diameter , with semicircular ends , and without any flues or tubes throrigh it . On the top of this boiler there was a large steam reservoir of the same dimensions . This upper reservoir , with the other portion of the boiler , ¦ was blown to a distance of about twenty feet .

      The Bishop of Bangor . —Some more letters from this eccentric individual , with referen . ee to his . quarrel with the Hon . W . O . Stanley , M . P ., have been published . He charges that gentleman -with " a direct and palpable falsehood" in stating that his motive for refusing to mention the names of the clergy who signed the petition was that the Bishop had threatened to prosecute those clergy in the Court of Arches . The Bishop ' s own letter of February 9 th , * Jhowever , exists to substantiate Mr . Stanley ' s veracity . Mr . Stanley is also accused of "laying down as an incontrovertible principle that he must be right , and every one who differs from him in the wrong ; " of having a "distempered mind ; " of " weakness , vanity , insanity ,

      and folly . " The Bishop wishes to protect Mr . Stanley from " tlie serpent he has taken into his bosom , " the " evil spirit who has dropped evil counsels into his ears" —the serpent and evil spirit being the Rev . Mr . Ellis , who is taxed with " wicked and malignant falsehoods , " and with going to Mr . Stanley " like the devil to our first parents iu Paradise with a wilful lie in his mouth , which he well knew was a lie . " ( This refers to a statement made by Mr . Ellis with respect to the participation in the WelshTCkurchnmoveinent of the Bishop ' s " dear old friend , the dean / ' who , however , comes in for a Bharp rap on the score of being " vei-y fond of flattery , " which he " swallows with greediness , " and is thus induced by " toadeaters" to do

      " very silly and foolish things . " ) Mr . Ellis , moreover , has a " reckless and depraved mind , " and is guilty of " meanness . " " If ever , " adds the Bishop , " there was a child of his father , tlie devil , who was a liar from the beginning , this is the man . " He concludes by requesting Mr . Stanley not to make " any further attempts at explanation or rejoindei ' - "—A letter from , the eccentric prelate appeared iu the Timea of Tuesday , the object of which is to abuse the editor and his " underlings , " for " wicked and wilful falsehood ' in some recent comments on . the Stanley and Ellis

      crxse . Tho letter is -written with a most extraordinary confusion of the first and third persons singular ; but there is no lack of tho Bishop ' s-vituperative power . Addressing tho editor of tho Thncts , he Hays : —• " It ia now evident thut Mr . Stanley has retained your services . . . Mr . Stanley , I daresay , pays you well for doiug his dirty work . " To the Bishop ' s lettex , the Times appends one brief and pithy remark : — "Tho only comment wo noud make ujjou this curious production is to commend thia ngud and unfortunate prelate to tho caro of his reverend brethren on the bench . "

      Tun Case ov this Risv . J . C . W aid )— 'Thus gen-Woman , who appeared Hovoml timoa lately at Bowfitroot ; ou a olmrgo of lunacy , attended again on Tuesday , when it wnsintimated that , aa tho result oi a private nrmngomonifc botwoon tho lYeiiHUvy and the IVionda of Mr . Ward , no further procoutlhugs would bo taken . Tina National Sunday Lkaooe . —Wo liavo raccivod tho Monthly lleporb for Maroh of tliirf useful

      body , After briefly retailing tho circuinntiuioes attending tho vnrioua meetings of the League in the ooui'ho of tho mouth ( which woro highly fiuccoBsful ) tho report congratulates tlio publio on tho atop ii tho right dirocliou miulo by opening tlie Crysta l ' nluoo on Oooil Friday , when nuui'ly 18 , 000 porsoni n \ tended , amlbohuved with the utmotit clcourum am propriety . " It io hopod this ie butau augury of th urtvunb of Sunday optmiug ; when tho recreation thu oflerod nww Ue cnioyod with uioro propriety than oi

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 12, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12041856/page/9/