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      The Respite Of James Harbour. Elsewhekk ...

      • watch and guard and pack . M'Lellan asked the deceased and the prisoner where they were going to in the afternoon , and the prisoner said he was going to show Robison some customers , that he was going with the deceased tonight , and that , after that , in a day or tivo , he was going to London , as trade was better there . All the men then left together , and parted at the bottom of the passage , M'Lellan and . Fagan going one way , the deceased and the prisoner the other , in the direction of the Queen's Tower . From two o ' clock until three , the prisoner and the deceased could not be traced : but at three o ' clock , George Hind , a

      farmer at Ncwfield-green , was coming to Sheffield , and sat down on some steps where the footpath crosses the field , not a quarter of a mile from where the body waa found , smoking his pipe . He saw two men coming up the lane , upon which he rose up , and said , " I'll give you room , gentlemen . " The taller man had a bundle under his arm , and a bundle in his hand . After they passed , the smaller man said to the farmer , " What are you doing here ? It ' s proper you were at some employment . " The farmer replied , " I have as much rig ht to be here as you have , " and then said to the taller man , "Let the young man carry your bundle . " The lesser man was the

      prisoner . Further on , they were met by a man named Christopner Corbett . This was between three and four o ' clock , and 375 yards from the place where the tiody was afterwards found . About that time , a young man named Charles Renton was in a field adjoining to that in which the body was found , and divided from it by a high hedge and brook , when he heard two shots fired quickly after each other . He was lying down in the next field , about 200 yards from the place where the body was . The deceased was never after that seen alive . About four o'clock that afternoon ,

      the prisoner entered the " Royal Standard" public-house , where , by a singular coincidence , the body was taken the day after . He was then alone , appeared heated , as if from walking very fast , and toas carrying a , pack . When last teen , he had no pack , but the deceased had ; token the deceased ' s body was found , there was no ' pack . He asked for threepenny-worth of gin , and asked the landlord , who was a stranger to him , to take charge of his pack , and said that he would call for it on the following morning . The prisoner never did call for it . This pack teas shown to be the paclc of the deceased , and Mr . Barbour ( the prisoner ' s cousin , and former master ) identified his private marks on some of tlie drapery goods it contained , and the goods in it were worth about 101 . At the time when the prisoner

      brought it to the " Royal Standard" public-house , there tcere spots of blood upon it . While at the "Royal Standard , " the prisoner wanted a cab ( an unusual extravagance for a man in his position ) . When the cab came the landlord went into the room where the prisoner was , and found him brushing his trousers , which were soiled with clay at the bottoms , and the . mud of the fields at the back of Queen's Tower was of the same description . At half-past four he left the Royal Standard in the cab and went to the Reindeer public-house , whero were M'Cormack and others , whom lie treated to beer . At a quarter to six o'clock he went to his lodgings , at 105 , Meadow-street , where he gave M'Oormaek 2 s . to go and fetch a pint of gin . James Pigott , William Pigott , and Miss Pigott , were present , who all partook of the gin .

      Some one asked what o ' clock it was , and the prisoner pulled out from his trousers pocket a silver watch and guard chain . James Pigott said , " Halloo , have you got a watch , Mr . Harbour P" and he replied , " Ye * , I ' had sold it some time since , but , not having got paid for if , 1 took it back . " That niglijb the prisoner and M'Coritmck slept together , and the prisoner put the watch on tho dressing-table . M'Cormack took it up , and said , "How have you got it F " and the prisoner answered , " J . ' vohml it in pledge , but did not like to tell you of it . " The watcli was tne murdered man's watch . On Friday evening Mr . Pigott observed ( hat he had not the watch-guard round his neck , and asked him what lie hud done with if , and lie replied that he hud had an accident with it , and had sent it , to the watrhniuker ' s . The next morning , which was Saturday , the prisoner asked lM'Cormac . k to meet him at the Jteiiuleor at two o ' clock ,

      which lie did , and having railed for a pint of porter , when they were alone , he asked M'Conniu-lc to pawn the watch for him at Host ' s , in West-street , which at first M'Cormuek refused to do , but afterwards contented , and did pawn it for . ' 50 s . lit the prisoner ' * requeHt in the name of W . Smith , ( Hossop-road . The ticket , he received lor it be gave to the prisoner . On the Monday following the prisoner whs taken into custody , and the pnwiitieket wiw found upon him ; upon its being shown to him ho said that , he had bought , it of a man in ( Jlossop-road . There are other facts more or lens weighty , but for our purpose perfectly needless . H will bo Been how impossible it in to escape fro in the conclusion to which this evidence bo irresistibly leads ; and if , iiiuisf , l > e noticed Umf , there is a marked distinction between whiitliiw been done since tho trial in this case mid in Kirwan ' s .

      All that- has been said in the latter has been supplementary , nil Mint has been said in Hie former has been contradictory , to what hud taken pJnco before , or wan adduced in , "( he defence . Tho landhdy nt . the Kemdeor Hivys that Harbour told her that ho henvd of Die murder on Friday night ; Harbour " confesses" that lie had no knowledge ' of the transaction before the Sunday following . The umfrist . raf . cH at Sheffield have instituted an inquiry , the result of which is the assurance that M'Cormack , to whom Harbour attributes the murder , was within doors at

      tho time when it , was committed . Thin investigation has not only completely exonerated M 'Carimu-k , but has furnished additional p ' roofs of Harbour ' H guilt . Harbour had described where he said M' < ' orinack concealed " the pistol thai , cooked Uobinon ' s goose . " The pistol has been found there ; but if , is proved that , Harbour wus seen near the spot , alonn ; while M'Cnrumcli wus actually nt church . Harbour tells us that lie ^ ot . the blood-fit nit ie < I piteli froyi M' (¦ orinack ; common hciikc tells us Hint he would not bo likely to run niennaf » oH for his asuiM-ant , nor to talio without hiquiry a pureol iiruui u wuu to wkoiu he kucvv it did nut belong

      Barbour states that he received the watch from M'Cormack unsuspectingly ; the evidence shows that he must have known to whom it belonged , it having not long previously been in his possession , and having been taken from him by his cousin expressly for the purpose of being given to Robison , now deceased . Where was this man between the hours of two and four ? Why w , as he silent when M'Cormack , whom he now charges with the murder , came into tho witness box against him ? If these facts , of which he confesses such a profusion , were suggested to his counsel , why were they not used ? It cannot have been without meaning that the judge said , he "thought it right to admonish the iury against being led to do injustice

      by the very powerful speech for the detence . let , atter diligent searching of local as well as London daily journals we can nowhere find a report containing as part of that defence the facts which appear now in the confession . Either then they were given as instructions to the prisoner ' s counsel , and by him rejected , because not believed ; or else they were not given , because not yet concocted . We do not see how Mr . Dickson , our correspondent , is to extricate his client from this dilemma ; possibly by importunity , he may win him a still longer reprieve , but , we very much fear , the proofs are too strong to admit the least hope that any such reasonable doubt can be raised as to avert the execution . B y making a false confession , Barbour has only deepened the dye of his guiltiness .

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      " Captain" Johnson. This Adventurous Per...

      " CAPTAIN" JOHNSON . This adventurous personage was again examined on Wednesday . Evidence was taken to prove that he choused the widow Stewart out of the shares ; and Mr . Elliott committed him for trial . Subsequently , however , Mr . John Haward , a gentleman residing at Bidenham , near Bedford , got into the witness-box and related another exploit of our Count Fathom . In the autumn of 1845 the prisoner took a house belonging to him at Bedford , representing himself to be the son of a Captain Johnson who had lived at Bedford some years before , but who was then a Minister in some of our foreign possessions . His story was believed , and his alleged father , but who Mr . Haward no more believed to be bis father than that Lord Palinerston was his uncle , having been a great favourite in the place , the prisoner got into excellent society , and without having paid-a single crown to a single soul , he managed to fleece the tradesmen in the town to the tune of upwards of 700 ? . On one occasion the prisoner did him ( Mr . Haward ) the honour—as no doubt he deemed it at the time—of paying him a visit , and , swaggering mto his counting-house , told him he should make him his banker , ( laughter , in which tho prisoner joined , ) and , by his specious manner , managed to do him out of 80 Z . besides his Upon this Mr . Elliott remanded Johnson to hear further eridence . _____

      Crime And Punishment. Nenry Horlcr Was E...

      CRIME AND PUNISHMENT . nenry Horlcr was executed on Monday in front of Newgate by hanging , at the hands of Calcraft . He entertained hopes of a reprieve up to the last . He admitted that he cut the throat of his wife while they were on the bod together j but ho said that it was quite a sudden thought . It will bo remembered that Horler ill-used his wife ; that he * mother came to fetch her from him ; that he partly consented to let her go ; and it was during a brief absence of the mother-in-law that he killed his wife . He is said to have learned to read while in Newgate ; and it is admitted that he had previously received no kind of education . Indeed his childhood was passed amid the worst circumstances . If is mother eloped from his father ; and his father kept another woman . Altogether it is a wretched case of almost criminal neglect ; and shows how that system works which leaves education to chance . On tho scaffold Jlorler made desperate efforts to escape ; but in a ii'Vf moments his body hung lifeless . The crowd is described " as more orderly than usual . "

      A lfred Waddinglon was hung at York on Saturday . Ho was the young man who cut the throat of his illegitimate child at ' Rheflicld . The crowd ia said to have been very " orderly . " Patrick Brady , a marine , has been sentenced , by a courtmartial held on Monday , to receive forty-eight lashes , and be imprisoned for eighteen months in Winchester gaol . Ho had threatened to kill Serjeant Sandersons superior ¦ oflicer . Hrndy is a bad character . Ho had just , been punished with the eat ; but it seems to have produced no effect ,. . ( Jarotting , English Thuggism , is becoming fashionable in the metropolis . Everybody who walks abroad at nig ht , in the worst , districts , Much as St . CJiles ' s , should carry effective weapons for punishing tho cowardly brutes who come behind and seize on the throat , half strangle , ana then rob their victims .

      A convict , confined on the silent system in the Millbank prison , cut his throat with a razor on Saturday . The weapon bad been given him for the purpose of shaving . Robberies are sometimes works of art . Huch an one occurred last Saturday at the shop of a watchmaker naihcd Prince in the Walworlli-rond . Tho plunderers seemi purposely to have selected Unit night , as on the night previousl y the intended victim had been up late , "keeping Christinas . ' So ( hey got over into a forecourt , in front of a house fivo doors off , situate in a deep recess formed by the shops which have been built out , on either side . Krom thin

      convenient spot they climbed up on to the flat roofs of the shops , and so from one to another until they reached that of the devoted Prince . ( > vor his shop is a ridge skylight , from the gable end of which they took out two squares of glasrt , and removed ii bar ; next a large gimlet was screwed into the frame of a skylight , and a rope attached , and down this Hie clever scoundrels easily dropped . Once in the nbo |> they made short work with the gold ami ftilver articles ; Hut , disturbed apparently , and leaving fiomo of tho booty behind , thoy uunuo thoir exit , nut by lneana of

      the rope , but by the shop steps which stood accommodatingly near . A man has since been arrested on suspicion . Newport Pagnell , in Bucks , has lately been repeatedly set on fire ; now stacks of wheat ; then ft stall of cattle ; and lastly , the whole village . Two lives have been lost . The Home Office has directed an investigation , and ottered a reward of 200 ? . for the discovery of the incendiaries . " Four gentlemen , two of whom wore the uniforms and swords of a captain and lieutenant in the navy , went to the Grecian Saloon on Saturday , and created » great disturbance . First they appeared m a " box , " and loudly quizzed tho " actors and actresses ; " then they descended into the

      pit , stalked up and down and insulted the audience ; calling the men thieves , and the women by a name to which we need only allude . Of course " the pit" would not put up with this ; and a general cry of "Turn 'em out" arose . Officers appeared , and a fig ht ensued between the rioters and the constituted authorities , ending in the victory of the latter . One of the four called to his companions , " draw your swords , gentlemen , and cut them down . " But it was too late ; the gentlemen were pinioned . In the policecourt next morning they expressed great contrition lot what they had done ; and were all fined forty shillings , except the gentleman who advised the use of the swords ; he was fined five pounds . T

      . .. . . Stories about Kirwan still appear in the Irish papers j but as the investigation before the authorities has not yet taken place , we are unable to place any authentic account of the disappearance of Boyer before the public . It is , however , understood that the new charge will be proceeded with ; as there is a strongly unfavourable suspicion against Kirwan . The bones of a child have been found m the garden of a house he formerly occupied . He has been removed to Spike Island . . Four men have been arrested on suspicion of being the murderers of Mr . Bateson , near Castleblaney , Ireland , in December , 1861 . _ . . . „ .

      An Irishman was subpoenaed at the last Galway Quarter Sessions as a witness in a dispute about property . He waa required to surrender a lease ; he refused " without the consent of his partners ; " although he was threatened with imprisonment . He was ordered to be searched ; and five policemen set upon him . He fought them all ; and it was not until tables , chairs / barristers , and all had cleared away in the scuffle , that he was thrown on his back and secured . Aa soon as the deed was taken from him , and he had recovered his legs , he laughed heartily , saying he "did not care about it , as they took it from him by force ; but he would not give it up without the consent of his partners . " While this scene , which lasted several minutes , was being enacted , the greatest confusion pervaded the whole court . the

      Letters from Malta state that Miss Drummond , eldest daughter of the London banker , was thrown while riding , and her jaw was broken by the fall . Nevertheless she kept her hold on the reins . Taken home , her jaw ires re-set , and she seemed going on well ; but in the interval of an hour" after she had shown the highest spirits , she was found dead . Some internal injury ia supposed to have been the cause of death . There were two small fires on Monday , and three on Tuesday , in London . One of the latter was at the " Royal Tent" tavern , Silver-street , Golden-square , and waa nofc extinguished until the premises , with the exception of the basement and front bar , were all but destroyed , and two adjoining buildings greatly damaged . The inmates , to the number of fifteen persons , had a most providential escape . They were roused from their slumbers with great difficulty by the police constable who first discovered the flames , and tho fire had then attained such a height , that they wero unable to descend the staircase , and had to make their

      escape through a trap-door in tho roof . Upon gaining that point , Mr . Wilcox , the proprietor of tho tavern , romembcrcd that he had left his cashbox behind ; lie therefore returned through the smoke to procure it , and in passing through one of tho rooms , discovered that a young woman , who served at the bar , was still unrouscd . Mr . Wilcox seized hold of her , and carried her in safety through the trap-door , the tiro following them as they proceeded towards tho roof .

      Miscellanbou S. The Queen Remains At Win...

      MiSCELLANBOU S . The Queen remains at Windsor . One by one tho new Ministers have been invited to dine with her Majesty ; and the personnel of the court in gradually Undergoing u change .

      The Duke Of Wellington Has, It Is Unders...

      The Duke of Wellington has , it is understood , been appointed Master of the Horse . The Daily News reports , that Lord John KusfcII hh-Hured a body of diplomatists whom lit ! received the other day in Downing-stroot , that lie only holds the Benin of thi ) Foreign Office ad interim , mid that in all probabilit y Lord Clarendon would shortly Irs his succchhoi-. We ii . ro , in common with all old Etonians , glad to hear tlint Dr . Huwtrey has been freely elected to the I ' l-ovostnliip of 101 , on College . His election wa . s confirmed , according to the usual eeroinonioH , by the fellows in College , Clmpel assembled , on Wednesday liifit . Dr .

      11 aw trey has been Head Master of Kton for upwards of eighteen years , having succeeded Dr . Keuto in that capacity . And we mo but echoing the respect and regard of all old Mfon men for one who has ko long and ho brilliantly presided over tho studies of tho royal Hchool , when we oll ' cr him our sincere coiigraf illation on his having received this recognition of his high character , distinguished ability , and nioritoHoiiH services . If , i , s believed that Dr . II aw trey hits , more than once , refused very high p romotion in the Church from bin generous devotion to tho oiioioum and responsible duties of . Head Mnutorahin . In tho more tranquil iuuo *

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 15, 1853, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15011853/page/8/