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      Oo 0 The Iieadeb. [No R 465, February 19...

      oo THE iiEADEB . [ No 465 , February 19 , 1859 .

      Gatherings From Xaw And P Olice Courts. ...

      GATHERINGS FROM XAW AND P OLICE COURTS . The four individuals , Read aZias Campbell , Thompson alias Barnet , Samuel Thompson and Thomas Smith , who constituted the " Mercantile Loan Fund Association /' . have been again brought up at Clerfcenwell Police-court , when some further evidence was adduced against them . One of these capitalists , Mr . Smith , it seems , has been formerly convicted of stealing a copper ; the magistrate has , however , discharged him in the present instance , there not being sufficient evidence against him : The other prisoners are committed . for trial on the c harge of co nspiracy to defraud .

      The THellusson will case has been further heard before the House of Lords this week . At the conclusion of the counsel ' s arguments , the Lord Chancellor put certain questions to the judges , which the latter desired tiine to consider , and the case was adjourned sine die . The case of Dickson v . the Earl of Wilton , was concluded oix Tuesday , having occupied the time of the court for five days . The primary cause of the trial would seem to be a disagreement about mess accounts . Lieutenant-Colonel Dickson sued Colonel the Earl of Wilton for imputing misconduct to Mm in his office as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2 nd Tower Hamlets Militia . One act of slander and two

      libels were charged . The libels were contained in two letters written by the Earl o f Wilton , and addressed to his superior officer , Lord Cbmbermerei the Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets . Lord Wilton replied that the slander and libels complained of were true , and , moreover , that they were privileged communications . The jury found for Colonel Dickson upon ail three points , awarding to him 51 damages for the two libels , and 2007 . for the slander . It appeared from the evidence that Colonel Dickspu had kept his accounts in an unbusinesslike manner . According to the opinion of the military witnesses , he ought never to have meddled with the accounts at all . As commanding officer , he should have

      interfered to check obvious and palpable extravagance ; he should have called meetings to consider what should be done to free the regiment from embarrassment , but personally he should never have touched a penny . By the evidence given , we find Colonel . Dickson asking tradesmen for delay * prdmising ^ payr merit , and , in fact , placing himself in a false position . Starting with this false step , it next appears that Colonel Dickson obtained the ill-will of some amongthe officers under his command . Lord Wilton was informed that charges of pecuniary irregularity were made against his Lieutenant-Colonel , but for along time he took no action in the matter , and this was a weak point in his case . At length he

      caused the Adjutant to write a letter to Lord Combermere , which he himself signed , complaining of Colonel Dickson ' conduct in the matters alleged , and craving inquiry . Lord Oombermere thereupon recommended that Colonel Dickson should be removed from the regiment . The matter then fell into General Peel ' s hands . A court of inquiry was directed to sit , which does not appear to have made a report at all . Before this court Colonel Dickson . made his statement , and on the 28 th of December , 1858 , there appeared a notice in the Gazette to the effect that Colonel Dickson had been removed from the army . Nothing could have been more unfair than th ' at Lord Wilton and Lord Combermere should dispose of his case in his absence , and upon this circumstance Lord Campbell remarked , in the course of his summing up , with great , but not undeserved ,

      severity . Upon Colonel Dickson ' s dismissal , the Times remarks , " The proceeding seems moat unreasonable , for Colonel Dickson was at least entitled to know upon what grounds so serious a step as his dismissal from the service had been taken . If the result of the inquiry was unfavourable to Colonel Dicksonj it should bo known as the justification of General Peel ; if favourable , still more should it be known ns bare justice to Colonel Dickson . As matters stand at present a jury haye found that the accusations brought against Colonel Dickson . are falee . If so , it is to bo presumed that this ofncor ' a reinstatement in his military position will follow as a matter of course . If not , General Peel must inform tlio world what are his grounds for differing from a verdict which a jury have brought in under tlio diroction of iho Chiof Justice . "

      Criminal Record. At Hanwoll Asylum, A Lu...

      CRIMINAL RECORD . At Hanwoll Asylum , a lunatic patient , William Huberts , muvdorod a follow-su / Iurer with a heavy pitchfork , during an attack of frenzy last woolc . The men , with some twonty others , wore engaged in lmsbandvy at tlio time . The coronor ' s jury found tliat Roberts was not guilty , on tlio ground of Insanity , but ho was eommittod to Newgate tp ti \ Uo his trial . Mary Novell , who was tried at the winter Boi'UbuU'o assizes , and sentenced to death for tlio wilful jmmlev of hov child by drowning in tho river- Thnuios ,

      The Winlaton schoolmaster , who was taken into custody , charged with being accessory to the _ death of Elizabeth Hall , as we mentioned last week , has been remanded by the Darlington magistrates . The coroner ' s jury , however , have returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased died from mortification , resulting from violent means to procure abortion , but by whom tised it does not appear . _ . . , . ^

      near Reading , has become a lunatic . It is , however , hoped that she may recover . Her case has excited the deepest commiseration in the town of Reading , near which town the crime was committed . It is earnestly hoped , that the Royal clemency may be further extended to her . i ~ , The Newcastle Daily Chronicle says , —We understand that a man at present under sentence of four years ' penal ser vitude in Portland prison , has confessed to having shot poor Mr , Stirling , the young surgeon whose distressing death caused such a sensation hi this district three years ago . The Home Secretary has sent the statement of the person who declares he did the horrid deed , to the mayor of this borough , and no doubt his worship will take the necessary steps to investigate the correctness of the allegation .

      Ireland. The Affairs Of The Late John Sa...

      IRELAND . The affairs of the late John Sadleir continue to furnish employment for the law courts . There is an appeal now going on Jin Chancery against the recent decission of the Landed Estates Court hi favor of the claim set up by the London and County Bank , "In re Biirmester . " The case was opened on Thursday , is still proceeding , and when it will be concluded not even the lawyers themselves could hazard a guess . The tide of speculation , however , sets m favor of the English concern . It is announced that the Cork Phoenix prisoners ,

      having committed over tacts in Kerry , are to be taken to Tralee for trial with their Kerry associates , at the assizes for the county of Kerry . It is also stated that the Attorney and Solicitor-General will conduct the prosecutions in person . Several new arrests were made in the town of Kenmare' last week , but upon investigation before the magistrates nothing transpired to warrant a committal , ami the prisoners , after a few hours' detention , were released from custody . Mr . O'Hagan , Q . C ., is engaged special to lead for the defence of the clubbitesv Baron Greene aiid Mr : Justice O'Brien are the judges for the

      Munster circuit . . The promised Tipperary monster meeting in favour of tenant right , reform , & c , came off on Monday in the town of Thurles . There were between 2 , 000 and 3 , 000 people present . The Irish members mustered to the number of two , namely : the O'Donoghue of the Glens , and Mr . Blake , one of the representatives for the City of Waterford . The resolutions were framed upon the old model , with a few new additions . They called for the Tenant Right Bill whole and imadulterated , Mr , Bright ' s Parliamentary Reform measure , and the Ballot- ^ tO obtain all of which the game of independent opposition was to be played to the last card by the faithful few among the Irish Liberal members .

      Accidents. A Teaitrcr, Fire Took Place O...

      ACCIDENTS . A TEAitrcr , fire took place on Saturday , at the house of a grocer in Whitechapel , named Walton , which was remarkable for the awful rapidity with which tjib hoiise was destroyed , and for the courage shown by the fire-escape conductor , Samuel Wood . Having saved six of the inmates , this brave man , at the imminent risk of his life , crawled through tho names to rescue two maid-servants , who slept in a back attic . Before he could I ' each thorn the floor foil through

      and buried the poor women in tho ruins . ' Their bodies were afterwards found in the cellar ; and nt an inquest held , tho coroner and jury spoko highly in praise of Wood , who has been bo fortunate as to save eleven lives within nine days ; and altogether ninety persons in the sumo parish . With such testimony to tho value of tho Fire-osenpo fcJocloty , surely self-intovost , if no -higher motivo , should induce every ono who has tho power to subscribo to its support .

      Effb'rt&The French Government Are Making...

      effb'rt & the French Government are making- to increase the efficiency of . their navy both in material and discipline : of the latter a writer in the Dail y JVews says : —Itis not an unusual performance , even oh board a line-of battle ship that-has riot been more , than six months in commission , to heave in 9 O . fath 6 m of chain and make all sail , within fourteen minutes of the appearance , on board the flag-ship , of the signal to " weigh anchor . " A topsail will be shifted by an expert crew in little more than seven minutes and a half , and a whole squadron have been known in a gale , with a heavy sea running , to strike topgallant masts in nine minutes . The Bretagne , not long ago , was observed to lower her three topsails , to take :

      in a reef in each , and hoist them again , in rather less than two minutes and twenty-five seconds—a feat which probably the smartest ship ' s company in our own service would not readily surpass . Everything that was worth adoption has been scrupulously copied from English ships , at the same time that some few obvious improvements of various kinds have been introduced . By means of the " Inscription " a certainty of obtaining any requisite supply of men can be ensured , and if ever the two greatest nations of the world should unhappily be involved again in war , we shall find that , so far from acknowledging our supremacy on the oceaii , France will be fully prepared to dispute it . " The intended transformation of the steam line-of-battle-ship Jemma-ppes into a

      floating battery is , " says a letter from ; Toulon , " the commencement of a new and important application of the system of floating batteries , from which extraordinary results are expected . These floating citadels , " says the writer , " mounted with guns of the largest calibre , and manoeuvring under steam at the entrance of a port or roadstead , will , when two or three are together , keep off the whole of an enemy ' s squadron , and protect the arsenals and towns from the reach of any projectile . They will , moreover , render powerless the fortifications which command certain important maritime straits . Two of those vessels , placed on the coast ofCeuta , would completely paralyse the guns of Gibraltar , and would be masters of the pillars of Hercules : "

      In reference to a report that her Mnjeety ' s ship Orion was supposed to be lost , a . letter has been received from Admiral Fremantle , commanding the Channel squadron ; in which he mentioned that the vessel had parted company from him , but that he was under no apprehensions as . ¦ to her complete safety . ¦ . Lieut-General Sir H . G . Smith , commanding the Northern district , has been detained in town by a fall , an accident which has confined him to the house . The gallant general is nearly recovered from its effects , and will soon resume Ms duties in the district of his comrnand .

      On Tuesday Captain Norton again attended at the head-quarters Of the Ro 3 al Engineers' establishment , at Chatham ,, for the purpose of exhibiting' nn equally valuable invention of his , named the explosive peiciissi . on bolt-signal , which will be found of great use as a military alarm signal . In the trial of the invention yesterday , the signals wore taken in the hand , find bping allowed to full cither on iho onrrli ov even on the grass , exploded with a sullieiontly loud report to be heard a , considerable distance . ( . ' upturn Norton proposes to apply the same principle to signals to be used on the railways , so us to eimble passengers and guai'ds to communicate with tho drivers of engines . oonmiis

      The Government have resolved to issue n - sion to inquire into and report on the rci-miting system of the army .. In consequence of tho frequency of complaints that soldier ' s use their bolts as weapon * in street brawls , tho ' Commandor-in-Chief has issued ml order that soldiers . ' guilty of such conduct nrc not to no allowed to wear their bolts out of barrack * . Tho greatest despatch is exhibited in tilling «; Mt new stoarn lino-of-battlo ships at C'hiithnm . I lie Trafalgar , 120 , which has boon reduced (•> n !> I- ; : »;) screw steamer , will bo , put out of dock dm-lm . ; neM month , when her place will lie occupied by i " " - Rodney , 00 , whicli ia to bo Jit tod us a ( screw . ue'iiu-r . Tho Sovo . vn , . 10 , now sailing frig'ate , in to be ¦ u <" half and lengthened sixty foot , and flctcl : i" n -i'iv " steamer . A despatch roccivod at tho Admiruliy-.-iiai .-l , ' i ; i 11 tho Orion arrived at Borolmveii on ihe Hi" i" * - . All well on board . Lieut . Kobort J . Ktothord has heen tried by nnii'imartlal and djsmlssod from liin command > . i inn Ruby gun-boat , for having run into the I'l'Kr ^ "J ' - ' i on tho morning of tho 21 st of January lim , v \"" ' tho naid brig w . a » riding at anchor in tli . 1 nwi Mum bur .

      NAVAL AND MILITAKY . It was vecontly stated to bo expected that the forthcoming' report on tho manning of tho navy would ro ^ - commend uu ofHci ' ont system at a cost not involving an addition of more than 400 , 000 / . to tho prosent annual expenditure . Upon all tho figures being mado up , it is" now reportad , howovor , that this amount of increase will bo gxccodod by upwards of flO per cont . Tho Nankin , fiO , Commodore Hon . K . Stewart , is stripped and dismantled , and was paid ofTat Chutham on Thursday ; she will now go into ordinary in tho Moibvay . This ship , it will boromomborod , has just returned ft'om China in thohighost stato of discipline / and ofilcioncy . Evory day brings fresh aqcounts of tho onormous

      Unglaimhu Dividends.—Jlyftrotni'mjiiii J...

      Unglaimhu Dividends . —Jlyftrotni'Mjiiii JV , " \\' appear * that on tho BtU ult . tho unHnlmu . l ' ¦/ V , ' ' r lu ilio Bank of England amounted I , on \) ,: i 7 il . l-- ' m ¦ " » whioh 020 , 400 ? . 12 a . Od . was advanced to Uiu u » ui »" meat .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 19, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19021859/page/6/