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No. 382, Jtot 18, ™ BT1 fffflE LEAPEB. ®...
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A "Viqilant Coastguardsman;.— Three men,...
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Middlesex Sessions. John Clioacoo, A You...
fourteen , his servant . He waa sentenced to eighteen months' hard lahonr . William Vincent was charged with stealing a -watcn and chain , value 10 / , , from Thomas Gilbert , a commer-< dal traveller , whom he induced to enter a public house and to bet on the meaning of a word . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to six months' hard labour .
No. 382, Jtot 18, ™ Bt1 Ffffle Leapeb. ®...
No . 382 , Jtot 18 , ™ BT fffflE LEAPEB . ® 83
A "Viqilant Coastguardsman;.— Three Men,...
A "Viqilant Coastguardsman ; . — Three men , one dressed as a soldier , were observed , about four o dock on the morning of Friday week , by John Baraett , boatman of the Southsea station , to be lurking in a suspicious ¦ way about the residence of Lord George Lennox . Barnett watched them , and shortly afterwards found that one had entered the house through an open window . He bade all three stand , or he would shoot them . Closing the window , he secured the one in the house , and then apprehended the other two . - Henext alarmed the family , and handed the men over to the police ; and the Portsmouth magistrate sent them to prison for two months each .
The Adventures of a Silver Snuffbox . —A policeman , some evenings ago , saw a young fellow pick the pocket of a gentleman iu St . Juhn ' s-road , Iioxton . The prize was a handkerchief ; but the thief immediataiy flung it away indignantly , and walked on , apparently looking out for another chance . The constable picked up the handkerchief , and found it to be cottoncause sufficient for the lofty contempt of the depredator . Following quickly in his wake , the policeman seized the thief , and that moment felt something hard up one of his sleeves . An inquiry -was made into the nature of this something , and it turned out to be a silver
snuffbox . The' youth said he had bought it in Petticoatlane for thirteen shillings ; but this was manifestly false . He was , therefore , apprehended . A night or two afterwards the same policeman was asked by a gentleman whether he had heard anything of a silver snuff-box of which he had been robbed . From a description he gave of this box , it was evident that the one taken from the disappointed thief was the property in question . The gentleman was accordingly conducted to the stationhouse , and at once identified the box . On the theif being brought on remand before the Worship-street magistrate , he pleaded Guilty , and was sentenced to six ; months' hard labour .
Ill-usage of Wives . —Two cases of this nature came before the Southwark magistrate on Tuesday . In the one case , James Neehan , an elderly man , was sent to prison for six months for severely injuring his wife as the climax of many years of drunken ruffianism ; in the other , John Burton , a shoemaker , was committed for four months for striking his wife with a hammer . This case also was the complement of a long period of ill-usage . HoMiaoE . — A woman named Alice Williams is under remand at the Lambeth police-office on a charge of killing Mr . Henry Rix , of Coburg-cottages , Neate-Street , Camberwell . She had a quarrel with , him outside his shop on Thursday morning , during which she threw stones at him , and attacked him furiously , from the effects of which he died almost immediately . Her motive is not yet known .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . An action for adultery has been tried in the Court of Queen ' Bench , and has occupied two days , though the facts lay in a small compass . Mr . John Hudswell is a clerk in the employ of Messrs . Quarlcs , Harris , and Co ., wino merchants . He and his wife appear to have lived on unhappy terms ; quarrels wore frequent , nnd violence wore sometimes resorted to by the husband to the wife , and at other times by the wife to the husband . Both was in the habit of indulging largely in drink , though each was undov thirty . They livod at Edmonton , next door to the Messrs . Tilloy , coach-painters . The younger Mr . Tilley becamo intimate witli Mr . ITudawell , and in a short time effected the seduction of hia wifo . When Mr . Hudswell first suspected her , he removed to Tottonliain ; but she nnd her paramour used to meot at Woodford , Essex , and , whon Mr . Iludswoll was away from home , at her own house . The fact of the husband being out was intimated to Mr . Tilloy by the upper sash of u window being pulled down . Tlielavcr would tucn enter , and the servant maid would bo seat out with the child . Mr . Tilloy often remained the grewtor pint of the day , and ho and Mrs . lludawell sometimes had spirits . Monday was the regularly appointed day for meeting at Mrs . lludsweU ' e own homo ; Wednesdays and Saturdays were the days appointed for having iuturviows at Woodford , where a room was ongugod ut a public-house . Sir .
lilloy twice gavo the sorvant the magnificent « um ol flixpenco not to toll anybody that ho wont to Mr . Hudg-¦ wcU ' s residence . Tlio wife ' s guilt foiling at length dourly ascertained , the Inihbund sent her homo to her 1 ' athor ' a , and commenced tliOHO proceeding's- Lord Cainpbull , induiuining up , oxprurittud hia regret Unit such an notion aathat for criminal conversation should over linvo been known to tlio law . It is uUonded with many objoetioiiH—among others , that the wife whoso reputation is involved Iiuh no power of vindicating hor olmraoter . Ho liopcd thin would be tlio laut action of the kind ho should cvor bo forced to try . A bill to abolish il hud panned oiiu IJouho of the Legislature , and ho truwtcd would soon pans tho
other , and receive the Royal assents—The jury gave a verdict for ± he plaintiff ; damages , 20 01 . At the Court of Bankruptcy * on Monday , a petition was opened on behalf of the assignees of the Royal British Bank against Mr . Loran de Wolf Cochran , shipowner and merchant , of South Sea House , and one of the directors of the Royal British Bank .
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" NAVAL AND MILITARY . Siegr Operations at Chatham . —The whole of the troops belonging to the Royal Engineers , and the East India Company ' s Sappers and Miners at present at headquarters , Chatham , together with the troops from the provisional battalions and those of the Royal Marine Light Infantry , were engaged until nearly midnight on Friday week in some siege operations , together with a night attack on a strongly fortified position defended by a large force from the garrison . A large number of persons assembled to witness this spectacle , which , was of a very striking character . On the following morning , the tracings and parallels were found to have been correctly made .
A Soldier Flogged at Chatham . —At an early hour on the morning of Friday week the troops comprising the Provisional Battalion , under command of Colonels -Phillips and Jarvis , were marched to the Spur Battery , to witness the flogging of a soldier , George Garrett , of the 93 rd Highlanders , in accordance with the sentence of a district court-martial . He received fifty lashes with agreat degree of bravado , and , on being released from the halberds , put on hiy clothes , laughing and swearing . He has been flogged seven times , and is marked with the letter D . He is also to undergo an imprisonment of one hundred and sixty-eight days in the military prison at Fort Clarence .
Adjciral Lyoks . —The Royal Albert , bearing the flag of A dmiral Lord Lyons , accompanied by the Brunswick , Conqueror , and Centurion , screw steamships of the line , Ariel , steam corvette , and Vigilant and Osprey , gunboats , arrived at Leghorn on the 27 th of June , and the Wanderer , steam gunboat , on the day p re ceding . Loss of the Erist Steamek . — The Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s steamer Erin has heeii totally wrecked between Galle and Colombo . She ran ashore soon after midnight on the 6 th of June . No lives were lost , and the mails and specie Were saved ; but all the opium was destroyed . The passengers were taken to Madras- by the Fire Queen . The Erin had left Bombay for China on the 1 st ult .
Fire on Board a Convict Hulk . —Smoke was observed on Tuesday morning-issuing from the hold of the convict hulk Defence , moored off Woolwich Arsenal . Nearly three hundred tons of coals were on board , and these had ignited . The persons in the vessel were hastily removed to another , and a large body of water was poured on the flames ; but it was several hours before they were got under . Collision in St . George ' s Channel . —The Austrian barque , Grazidio , Captain Bessanich , on her passage down Channel , bound to Trieste , was run into on Tuesday morning off Holyhead , by the ship Carlyle , Captain Simpson , from Liverpool to New York , and sank in two minutes . She had a crew of ten men , of whom six were drowned .
Loss of the Robina Mitchell . —The foundering at sea of the ship Robina Mitchell , Captain McLean , while on her voyage from Madras and Bimlipatam to London , with a cargo of rice , seeds , & c , has been reported at Lloyd ' s . The disaster occurred on the 17 th of May , the vessel at the time being about a hundred and forty miles south of False Point . Tho mate , carpenter , and nine hands saved themselves in the long boat , and wore picked up a few days after the event . Tho master and the rest of the crew made their way to Pooree , where thev arrived safely .
Tun Uuuning of this Montreal . —The Canadian papo : s ure full of lengthened accounts of this terrible catastrophe , -which we briefly notified last weekend byjwhich nearly three hundred Scotch emigrants havo lost their lives . Tho Montreal Weekly Transcript says : — If the statements of some of our contemporaries bo correct , the dironess of the calamity ia greatly aggravated by its cause . They assert—and many persons likely to know havo borno them out— that the ship was always unsafe ; that she was run at a most reckless speed ; and that so
susceptible wa » she of taking tire , and so constantly wore her boilers overheated , that a person had to bo stationed in a . particular part of the vohboI to give tho alarm mid extinguish the llamos . " The namo paper accuses tho captain and crow of having consulted their own safety without thiuking of that of tlio pasaongure , and says thut whon tho Connor was requested by one of tho pasHongei' 3 to run the boat ashore , lie bade him go to . that tlio steamer was not 1 ' uruUhocl with , life preservers j and that no efforts worn niatlo by the oiHccru or crew to preserve order .
M I S C E X. L Aneous. This Court.—Tlio ...
M I S C E X . L ANEOUS . This Court . —Tlio Duchess of Orleans , accoinpnniod by tho Count do Paris and tlio Duke of Chartrotj , viuitud tho Quoou last Saturday afternoon , , and al « o paid a visit to iho King of tho Belgians at Buckingham 1 ' ulace . — Tho Quooii Ima given a ra < io |> tioii to tho Queen ol' Oudo , hor son ami grandson , —Hor Majosty received tho Queen
of the Netherlands at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday . —A vihit was paid to Alderahot on Thursday by the Queen and Royal family ! Var'ous military evolutions were-perfor ned . The Prince of " Wal . es arrived at Cologne last Saturday , and thence proceeded up the Rhine to Konigawinter , where an hotel has been engaged and fitted up ' for him ami his suite . The Quken of Holland . —The Netherlands ' Government paddlewneel steamer Cycloopj bearing the Royal Dutch ensign at the main , arrived at Woolwich Dockyard mi Tuesday morning at ten o ' clock , having on board her Majesty the reigning Queen of Holland , and her second son , Prince Alexander of Orange , attended by a suite consisting of twenty-one persons . Her Majesty h . id assumed the incognita of Comtesse de & uren , and the yourg Prince , who is only six years of age , travelled , under the title of Le Comte Alexandra .
The Marquis of Ely died suddenly on Wednesday afternoon . He was in his-forty-fourth year . The Poisoning , at Hong-Kono . —Co / ies of papers connected with the confinement of Chinese prisoners at Hong-Kong , and with the trial of a certain baker and others on the charge of poisoning , have been published by order of ( he House of Lords . Mr . Laboiidiere wrote to Sir John Bowring on the 15 th of lu .-t . May a ' confidential' letter , stating that reports had reached the Home Government that great hardship and suffering were inflicted on prisoners apprehended in the recent poisoning cases , no official intelligence «> f which had been received , and requesting to be furnished with a report on the . suhject . New criminal proceedings will be instituted « guinst Allum and his confe ! erutes » , if sufficient evidence can be got up to warrant such a step . —« .
Txmes . Oxfo-ki > Citt Election . — Lord Monck met the electors in t .. e Town Hall , Oxford , la > t Saturday , and informed them that , finding it was the intention of a numerous and highly influential body of Mr . Card well s supporters to bring that gentleman forward , he ( Lord Monck ) should withdraw . from the contest . The friends of Mr . Card well are now exerting themselves to procure his return Mr . Thackeray , at a meeting of his supporters on Saturday evening , stated that the result of the canvass on his behalf had exceeded his mosfsanguine expectations . Mr , Neate , the late member , haa issued an address earnestly recommending the electors to vote for Mr . Thackeray . ;
Australia . —Lady Barkley , wife of Governor-General Barkley , died on the 17 th of April , at Soorak , from nervous exhaustion , resulting from a recent accouchement . Grea _ t sympathy was felt by all classes . The O'Shanassy Ministry had fallen by a vote of want of confidence , moved by Mr . tfelluwes . The majority was 34 = to 19 . The Governor sent for Mr . Haines to form a Ministry , but ho declined , and Mr . M'Culloch undertook it , and immediately put hinistlf ia communication with Mr . Michie and others . Business generally W ; is improving , though there was no particular advance in prices . The convicts accused of the murder of Mr . Price , at Melbourne , have been acquitted .
China . — We learn by the last mail- from China that the sufferings of the Chinese are frightful . Famine continues to increase in Canton and the interior . The gunboats have gone up the Canton river to attack the Mandarin junk < . General Garrett and his staff have arrived . Tea was going down freely to Foo-chow-foo , where all 13 quiet . A buttle has been fought between the Imperialists and the rebels above Foo-chow-foo , and it is believed that the Imperialists have been victorious . Sir John Bowring lias intimated that compensation lor loss sustained l >\ - Hritish subjects will bo demanded from the Chinese Government . Another disturbance hus taken place at Ningpo botweon the Portuguese lorchainen and the Canton boatmen , the latter of whom were assisted bysome French sailors . The cause of quarrel ia ati attempt on tho jiart of tho Portuguese to monopolize tlie convoy j ing system .
This Late Trial at Edinburgh . —A olovor contrv vanco was adopted for getting Mis « Smith away from tho court unnoticed after tlie conclusion of the late trial . One of tlio agents employed in tho case provided himself with tho dross worn by Miss Smith on tlio previous dnv « , and then inquired for ii girl of about her height who would undertake to personate hor , A police eergennt observed that ho know a girl who had Hrtld , during tho trial , tli-u she would give anything for nsiglit of tho aocusod . Thin girl wiih produced , and undertook , in oxchange for a sight of Mins Siui . h , ltan gift of lior dress , and a reward in money , to perform tho character of tho hor
young ludy . Who wuh then dressed l » y Mki Smith - solf , mid was taken out by polioo olllours ami put into a cab , wlik-li wan driven oll ' nt a furious pace , followed by tlio shouting mob . Miss . Smith then put on n different dross ami a coloured voll , and , accompanied by hor brother « nd another young goutlemiiu , walked quietly away for Homo distance ; then took n « nli ami drovo to tho OlaH K < i , v raihvi . y million , w co hI . o win . « ° » W « J by train to hor father ' s rwiiik-nco Tlio North UritiaU JhiUn Mai / , which tollrt tliin Htory , ro ale * a current anoodotc , to tho effect that kI . u wan asked , on the day ol tho Lord Advocate ' s luMtam for tho Crown * nut « ho thought of It . Slio voplkxl , " Whon I have l . e . ird the Dean oftoiiuiley" (!•«»• own oomwol ) " I will toll you . 1 never like to give nil onli-ibu till I l »« vo heard Iwtu
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Leader (1850-1860), July 18, 1857, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18071857/page/11/
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