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      Our Civilisation. Iiocfssino And Roiuiki...

      mitted for trial , ana charge of stealing a great coat from the ball of a house , in Beaufort-street , Chelsea , into which she had been invited by the maid servant during a heavy rain . The prisoner confessed to the robbery , bat said that she was intoxicated at the time . Mubdeb by A Boy . —A murder , attended by circumstances of peculiar atrocity , has been committed at Hungerford . The murderer is a boy of twelve years of age : he is in custody , and has confessed . It appears from his statement that he was sent by his master , a rope-maker , to the downs to cut furze . On bis way , he met with a little boy , about four years of age , and invited the child to accompany htm , which he did . The bill-hook used by Sopp , the * lad who is now in custody , was loose at the handle , and , while it was being used , the

      blade came off and struck the child , Silas Rosier , on the bead , knocking him down . He kept rolling about ; and Sopp , being afraid it would be thought he had done it on purpose , cut the poor child repeatedly on the head with the bill-hook , and killed him . In the afternoon , Sopp worked with his master , and was observed to be agitated . When the news arrived that the body of the murdered child had been found , Sopp immediately observed , " It is little Silas Rosier , " and affected great sorrow , saying , " Any one must be very hard-hearted to kill a poor little boy " like that . " Having been seen in the child ' s company , however , on the downs , Sopp was taken into custody . He at first asserted his innocence , but seemed very much frightened , and the next day confessed to the facts . A verdict of Wilful Murder has

      been returned against him by the coroner s jury . Homicide . —A drunken quarrel took place on Friday week at the Fountain public-house , Mile-end-road . Robert Henshawe , who was much intoxicated , used very abusive language to a carman , named William Oliver ; and , according to one account , a fight ensued , after the fifth round of which , Henshawe was unable to fight any more , and he shortly afterwards died . Henshawe ' s son gives a different account . He admits that his father was drunk , and that he quarrelled with Oliver ; but he says that the latter knocked his father down , and he fell with his head against a fender , and was mortally wounded . Oliver is in custody . Fashionable Manxeih at the Garkick Theatre .

      —Mr . Levy , a baker of Petticoat-lane , appeared a few nights ago at some private theatricals at the Garrick Theatre for the benefit of an aged man who would otherwise have gone to the workhouse . The benevolent performer , however , had had a quarrel , shortly before , with one'Mr . Benjamin Meyers ; and this latter gentleman , on the appearance of Mr . Levy as Tom Tug in the Waterman , went into a private box , and threw some flour over the amateur actor . A general riot then ensued . Seats were torn up , ornamental glasses broken ; the men shouted , the women fainted ; Mr . Meyers , after a desperate resistance , was dragged out by the manager , and the tumult was such that the performances came to a premature close . Mr . Meyers was brought up at the Thames police office , and , after receiving a severe lecture from the magistrate , consented to apologise to Mr . Levy , and to pay 5 / . as compensation for the injury inflicted .

      A RoaiANTic Scene . —James Godfrey and Sarah Taylor were charged at the Mansion House with robbing the shops of silversmiths . One of the witnesses was a Mrs . Brown , who kept a disreputable house in Dean Street , Soho , and wbo said that the female prisoner , who lodged with her , -was one of the class of women called " unfortunate , " and that the man Godfrey had been several times to see her . The young woman passionately appealed to Mrs . Brown to withdraw this statement as not heing true , and asserted she had only seen Godfrey for the first time on the evening she was taken into custody , Mrs . Brown , shaking her head , replied , " O ! i , don't Mrs . Brown me ! I know ho is the

      men . " - -The girl rejoined , "The person who used to be with me is young Harry , and he has gone to seu . " At this point the mother of the girl came forward , overcome with shame , and said that her daughter had left her home , but that , if she would return , all should be forgiven and forgotten . The girl stated that she would go ¦ with her mother , and abandon her vicious life , if the alderman would permit her ; and Sir R , W . Carden , who gave credence to her story , allowed her to depart . The man was committed for throe months as a rogue and vagabond , there being no actual proof of any robbery having been effected , but only of several attempts at various shops .

      The Bbm-b-Isle Nuisances .- —Mr , James Odam , tho proprietor of a manufactory of manure near Maiden Lane , Islington , was summoned before the Clorkenwell magistrate for causing a nuisance . After the case had been argued for some time , Mr . Corrie recommended the inhabitants to send a memorial , with their signatured , to Sir George Grey . " This was agreed to , and Mr . Odam was ordered to enter into sureties for his future

      appearance . Aw Orirntaz . Fbay . — A Chinaman , who has assumed the English name of Join Roberts , was indicted at the Middlesex Sessions for cutting and wounding Amogotio , a native of Bengal . Tho prosecutor , whoso clothes were saturated with blood , and who was examined through an interpreter , stated that on Saturday h « was present at a quarrel with some Bengaloso and MiOayB in the street , when lie asked why they were ¦ hp-11- M ) . 1 ¦ . '¦ ¦

      quarrelling , and endeavoured to pacify them . The prisoner then pulled out a dagger and stabbed him on the side of the head . The weapon , which was about six inches long , and as sharp as a razor , had tho words " Liberty and Union" engraved on the handle , surmounted by the " Cap of Liberty . " It was found by the police coucealed in his boot . The prisoner denied having used it . The jury found him Guilty , and he was sentenced to six mouths' hard labour . Highway Robbkuv . —A roperaaker , residing in Bermondsey , was passing along Dockhead about seven o ' clock " in the evening , when lie was surrounded by two or three men , and robbed of his watch . One of them was seized , and giveu into custody , notwithstanding a violeut resistance . Subsequently , a woman was apprehended for being accessory to the robbery . Both have been remanded for a week .

      Starvation . —A woman in the last degree of starvation , and afflicted with disease , was brought in the course of Thursday to the Clerkenwell police court iu the workhouse van . " On being taken out and placed in a chair , she presented a most ghastly sight : her head dropped , and she appeared to be almost on the point of death . It appeared that she was the wife of of a compositor on one of the daily papers , who , though earning a very good income , left her to starve while he himself rioted in debauchery . He had communicated to her a disgusting complaint , under which she was still suffering ; and one of his daughters had attempted to poison herself in consequence of his ill-usage . The dreadful condition of the poor woman and her . children having come to the .

      knowledge of Mr . Dale , the vicar of St . Pancras , the overseer of that parish was communicated with , and went to the house , where the woman was found almost in a state of nudity , filthy , famished , and diseased . Before the magistrate , her shrivelled limbs were partially exposed , and the poor creature burst into tears . The man was in court , and was brought forward He asserted that the charge was made up against him by his wife ' s relations . Finally , he was ordered to pay ten shillings a week towards his wile's maintenance , and the poor woman was handed over to the care of her brother , the children to remain with the father under the eye of the parish . —Ann Wood , the wife of a Spitalfields weaver , is under remand at Worship Street , charged with stealing two loaves . The woman burst into tears before the magistrate , and said her children were starving , and that this was the first time

      she had disgraced herself . Her husband , an emaciated man , confirmed her statement , and begged for mercy . He admitted that he had not applied to the parish for relief , because , had he gone to the workhouse , he should have been unable to seek for employment . The magistrate , who thought he had done very wrong in not applying , remanded the woman for a week—with what object it would be difficult to say . —The decisions in these two cases are far from satisfactory . The brutal husband who starves his wife receives no punishment , and is allowed to retain his authority over those children , one of whom ho has nearly driven to suicide : the starving mother driven to a petty theft for the sake of her children is remanded for a week . Property must undoubtedly be protected ; but when will the law learn that it is less sacred than life ?

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      Naval And Military News. Two Russian Cad...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . Two Russian Cadicts escaped on Saturday from tho hospital attached to the War Prison at Lewes . New Inventions in Wakfarr . —It is understood that the late destruction ut Sweaborg was chiefly effected by means of bomb-shells charged with a liquid combustible . We are informed thut an invention precisely of the nature of these shells was communicated to Lord Hardinge , in April , 1854 , by Mr . William llutton , writer in Stirling . Mr . Hutton'a communication was remitted to the consideration o ( the Board of Ordnance , with several others bearing on the same subject ; and so lately as the 2 Uth August lust , the thanks of the board were

      conveyed to him for hi » invention . From the accounts supplied to their Government by the Russian authorities at Sweaborg , as to tho operation of tho nticlls charged with liquid , thrown into tho town by tho British neut , Mr . Hutton is fully satisfied thut tho Admiralty had adopted his suggestion . The effects of these shells will probably soon bo experienced at Odessa . Mr . Hutton has , ho believes , discovered another preparation for charging bomb-shells , of u nature so fearfully destructive to human life that ho has resolved not to divulge it . To the name gentleman wore the Government , it is Raid , chiefly indebted fur many useful hints with regard to alleviating the sufferings of tho army iu the Crimea during the course of the post winter . — { Scotsman .

      Loss op thic Lociimaubn Cautljs . —A long investigation , inutituted at Liverpool by tho Board of Trade , into tho circumstances attending the loss of this chip , belonging to Messrs . Jardine and Son , has been brought to a conclusion . The ship struck on tho Bird Rocks on the 3 rd of Juno last , wliila making for Quebec ; but , when near them , no soundings were taken . fc > ho was abandoned by tho captain , and ho sold ship and cargo for aol . Sho was insured for J . 0 , 500 / ., but cost 10 , 000 / . Tho inquiry took place before Mr . Mansfield and Captain Sohomberg , the emigration oOlcor at Liverpool . The rvault was , that , for evident inattention on tho part of

      Captain TdfBBr , "This ce ^ rtiScatTwas wftbheld , to be sent to the Board of Trade , together with a report of the case . Destruction op a Ship by Fxrk , —Intelligence has been received at Hobart Town that the Catkeriue Sharer , Captain Thomas , which left London for that port on the 13 th of February with passengers and a general cargo , took fire at Port Esperauce , in D'Entrecasteaux channel , on the 6 th instant . . Being unable to subdue tho fire , the passengers and crew took to the boats , and got safely on shore . There were about nine tons of gunpowder on board , which exploded , blowing the ship to atoms . One portion of the mast , weighing two cwt ., was thrown into the bush , and fell half a mile from the water ' s edge . The mail was saved , having been picked up two miles from where the vessel dropped anchor . The passengers were brought to Hobart Town on the 9 th instant in a destitute and most deplorable condition , and were received at tho immigration depot- One of the seamen is in custody on suspicion of having set fire to the vessel . A Vovaob rjc a Longboat .. —Tho South American mail brings news of tho manner in which the crew of the Enterprise escaped . The Enterprise was bound from Callao for Queerwtown , and left the former place loaded with guano on the 26 th of May . On the 25 th of July she encountered heavy weather , which carried away her rudder , and otherwise so damaged her stern , that she leaked to such a degree that it was found necessary to abandon her the next day . Accordingly , the » whole of the crew and passengers took to the longboat , with the intention of reaching Montevideo , eight hundred miles distant . During this perilous voyage , in a somewhat crazy boat , Mrs . Gardner was safely delivered of a daughter under circumstances of extraordinary

      privation and hardship ,. which continued without intermission for fourteen days—the period these unfortunate people were exposed to tempestuous weather , cold , wet , and their food saturated with salt water , and for the last day or two no fresh water to drink . ' This , added to the havoc that death was making among their small party—fifteen in all—must have been terrible The carpenter , Israel Powell , was the first victim , on the 5 th ; William Norie , cook , next ; and afterwards William Thompson , boy . Their sufferings arose from drinking salt water , and eventually madness carried them off . On the 9 th of August , the Oriente , Captain

      Antouio , of and from Valparaiso , bound for Marseilles , foil in with the sufferers in lat . 89 . 36 S ., long . 50 W ., took them on board , and treated them with every kindness in his power to bestow . On the next day , the boy James Ladson died . On the 14 th , the Oriente spoko the Cornelia L . Bevan , from Baltimore , bound for Montevideo . Captain Gardner and his party were transferred to her , and on the 25 th of August arrived safely at Montevideo . At the hospital at this port the boy Richard Oliver died from gangrene in his feet , caused by exposure . Through all this terrible trial , Mrs . Gardner and the child survived , and both arc improving in health .

      Irish Militia Disturbance . — Saunder-s s Xeics Lettercontains the following account of a serious mutiny in tho Kerry Militia , stationed in Limerick : — " On Sunday , when this corps mustered upon parade to march for chapel service , intimation was given that , by orders of General Chatterton , commandant of the district , they were not to be played to worship , as usual when in Kerry , by their band . As soon as this communication was made , the men became discontented , and a general disposition to mutiny suddenly sprang up from one end of the line to the other . Major Spring having called upon

      the most aggrieved iu tho affair to stand forward , a corporal of tho Kerry Militia did so , and was immediately placed under arrest , and conveyed to the guardhouse , having previously struck Major Spring . Tho entire body then revolted , broke from their position , proceeded to the guardhouse , and forcibly released the corporal , who was carried iu triumph through the barrack squure upon the shoulders of his comrades . Tho sorgeant-nmjor ( Godly ) was also struck on the occasion , and since then tho entire of tho Kerry Militia have been confined to barracks . "

      Loui > Eunkot Vank-Ticmmsmt , episodes of whoso souiul and military career have been occasionally before tho public , has junt left tho Second Life Guards for the Fourth Light Dragoons , now serving in the , Crimea . Military Honouuh . —Tho Queen ha . ** conferred the Order of Knight Grand Cross of the . JUuth on Marshal Vuillant , the head of the French army , who , us Minister of War , has had a large share iu tho organisation of the Allied expedition to the East . General Simpson has boon honoured with a letter from tho Sultan , congratulating him upon the

      result of the operations of the army under his command . Major-General Hugh Rose , C . B ., who has , since tho commencement of tho war , beon her Majesty ' s Principal Commissioner at tho head-quarters of tho French army , is awurded tho rank of Kuight Commander of the Hath ; and tho Companionship of tho Bath has been conferred on Lieutenant-Colonol tho Hon . St . George Foloy , Second Commistionor at the head-quarters of the Frtwcli army , and Lieutenant-Colonel Clurcmont , Military Coiuininsiuncr at Paris , both of whoin have served with the French army throughout the groatur portion of the Crimean campaign .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 13, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13101855/page/8/