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      Ceiminali Record. Manslaughter.—An Inque...

      Cronley and Patrick M'Mahan , -were quarrelling about a girl , in a court in Paul-street , Vauxhall-road , Liverpool , Ia 9 t Saturday morning , when they came to blows , and M'Mahan stabbed Cronley to the heart with a large pocket-knife , killing him on the spot . He also severely ¦ wounded another man , who endeavoured 1 o pacify him . M'Mahan was taken before the magistrates , and remanded . A Man Stabbed by a . Maniac—Mr . William Wylie , a gentleman about thirty-five years of age , nephew of the late Mr . Wylie , procurator fiscal for the county of f Renfrew , has killed a weaver at Paisley , while in a state of insanity . His conduct , for some time pa 3 t , has been such as to indicate mental disturbance ; but he has been suffered to go about at large . In the early part of the present week , he was observed in a state of excitement as if from drink . On Tuesday morning , le went to the Infirmary , and rang violently at the bell , but was not attended to , as the people inside knew his eccentric character . While thus applying for admittance , a weaver , who was passing with some friends , went to see what ¦ was the matter , when Mr : Wylie , fancying , as he afterwards stated , that the man was about to garotte him , stabbed him to the heart with a pocket-knife , and fled . The man died instantly . Mr . Wylie then went to the police-office , and said he had " done for a fellow who would not again disturb the " public peace . " He was brought the same day before Mr . Sheriff Glasgow for examination , but was so excited that it was found necessary to order an adjournment .

      No. 435. Jtti.Y 24,1858.1 The !L E A. P ...

      No . 435 . Jtti . y 24 , 1858 . 1 THE ! L E A . P E B . . 707

      The Assizes. A Boy, Named George Feltoii...

      THE ASSIZES . A boy , named George Feltoii , has been tried at the Worcester Assizes for the manslaughter of his sister at Oldbury on the 19 th of last March- Both worked at a colliery , and , having quarrelled , the sister beat the brother very severely on which he threw at her a lump of hard clay , ¦ which struck her on the head and caused almost instantaneous death . Mr . Justice Byles thought the case was one of justifiable homicide , the boy having only stood on his self-defence . He was therefore Acquitted . . ' Thomas Beech , miller , was indicted at the same Assizes for forging a receipt and acquittance for 1 / ., ¦ with intent to defraud . He was acquainted with a Mr . Breakwell , and knew that he had a sister living at Birmingham . To this sister lie wrote a letter in the name of her brother , saying that ho had got a situation , and wanted 17 . to set him up . He requested that she ¦ wo uld send him this amount by a post-office order ; -which she did . Beach signed it in the name of John Breakwell , and got it cashed at the Dudley office . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to three years' penal servitude . . *¦ Emma Sntton , a good-looking girl , only fifteen years of age , was tried last Saturday at Lewes on a charge of having : attempted to conceal the birth of lier illegitimate ehild . She had been committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder ; but Mr . Justice Willes , in his chaTge to the grand jury , said he did not think the ! medical evidence showed with sufficient clearness that the child had been born alive ; and a bill was therefore returned for concealment of birth . The girl was a se rvant , and one day , after she had been very ill , was seen to be carrying into the scullery something which had the appearance of an infant . As it had been previously suspected that she was pregnant , though she denied the fact * search was made , nnd the dead body of a female , child was found under the sink , with a piece of tape tied tightly round its neck . Emma Sutton admitted that the infant was hers , and that she had placed it where it was found-She made no defence at the trial , and the jury found her Guilty , with a recommendation to mercy on account of her youth . The Judge sentenced her to hard labour for six months . William Morrison , a farmer , has been , tried at Worcester , on a charge of embezzling 450 J ., the property of tlio Mnlvern Improvement Commissioners . He hud been employed by them as collector of tho rates , nnd hnd himself been one of the Commissioners . After ho censed to be a collector , a lnrgc balance against him was discovered ; but how it arose has never been clearly shown . It resulted , however , in this dmrgo ug-ninst Mr . Morrison . Mr . Serjeant Pigott ( who appeared for tlio prosecution ) saiil that the way in which he proposed to niako out the charge of felony wns tho prisoner ' s concealment of the stnto of the accounts , and his tnking a large sum of rnoney without informing liis employers ol the fact . Upon this , somo legal argument arose , the prisoner ' s counsel urging that a general deficiency in the nccounts could not constitute a charge of embezzlement . Mr . Justice Byles wns of tho samo opinion , nnd directed tho jury to acquit the prisoner , observing that ho stood in the position of a debtor to the Commissioners . A vordicl of Not Guilty was then taken upon this and upon i

      second charge ngainst the prisoner of tho same nature . Two cases of poisoning , in which an intent to murder was cliarged , wore tried at York nt tho close of last week . In one of thorn , the accused wns a girl of fourteen , named Hartley . She was n servant at tho house of a Wosloyan minister at Leeds ; nnd in tho samo house lived one lUiznbcth Woodcock . One day , eho reproved tho girl for Home misconduct ; nnd , a few days aftorwurds , when she was ill , Hartley gave her a cup of tea with some

      white arsenic in it . Slie subsequently confessed that she did this to prevent the woman telling her ( Hartley ' s ) mother of her misconduct . She was found Guilty , bu recommended to mercy on account of her youth , and wa g discharged on her father entering into recognizances for her appearance for judgment at any future period . —In the other case , Frederick Heppen 3 tall , a . young man of twenty-two , was charged with administering a certain quantity of croton oil to Benjamin Fawcett . Here also the motive was revenge , and the verdict of Guilty , as in the former case , was accompanied by a recommendation to mercy . Mr . Baron Martin ordered that he should be discharged on his own and other recognizances , to appear at the next Assizes for judgment if the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeal should be against a legal objection raised by his counsel and reserved by his Lordship . William Henry Norbury has been sentenced at the same Assizes to three years ' penal servitude for the manslaughter of ThomasKilner at Wakefield , by striking him on the head witli a coal-rake during a quarrel . The Grand Jury at Chelmsford have thrown . out the bill against George Blewitt , the man charged with being concerned in the Dagenham murder . Mr . Justice Willes , in his charge , called attention to discrepancies in the statements of the woman on whose evidence the accusation wholly rested , and to the fact of her . being evidently under certain delusions of mind . She fancied herself haunted by the ghost of her deceased husband , and by the devil , who always appeared to lier to snatch away her food -when she sat down to it . These facts appeared to influence the jury ; and the ose is consequently at an end .

      A Dutch Burglar. A Singular Tale Has Com...

      A DUTCH BURGLAR . A singular tale has come to light within the last few days . Some nights ago the shop of Mr . Greenliow , jeweller and silversmith , in High-street , Chehnsford , was broken into and plundered of a considerable portion , of its contents . When Itr . Greenhow came down stairs at six o ' clock in the morning , he found that the premises had been entered in the night , and that tlie inner shop ^ door had been left open . His wife immediately proceeded to the railway station , with the intention of sending a telegraphic message to the police at Scotlandyard , London ; but , finding the telegraph-office closed , she waited there while she despatched a boy for the telegraph official . After some time , a rather suspiciouslooking man entered the office , and asked a youth there for a bag which he had left with him early that morning . A large travelling-bag was handed to the stranger , and being very ponderous , Mrs . Greenhow was led to suspect that the bag contained the property which had been stolen from her husband ' s premises the night before . On receiving the bag , the , man carelessly placed it on a bench , and sauntered leisurely about the station ; biit Mrs . Greenhow called a policeman , and gave him in charge . The bag was then opened , and found to contain the whole of Mr . Greenhow ' s stolen property , which included an immense quantity of plate , jewellery , brooches , rings , watches , and numerous other article ? , amounting altogether to nearly 6001 . in value . The most singular part of the story , however , remains to be told . A short time previous to the Chehnsford robbery , the houses of twa gentlemen living at Clapham Rye were broken into , nnd robbed of a great deal of plate , jewellery , and other property . The police made inquiries , and soon learnt that certain articles of the stolen goods had been pledged at several different pawnbrokers' shops in the City , by a young woman , a foreigner . They could not , however , gain any further information respecting her than that she was of rather stylish appearance , and could scarcely speak English . When the man was apprehended at Oliehnsford on the charge of breaking into Mr . Greonhow ' s promises , Mr . Superintendent May , of the Chehnsford police , came up to London , and put himself in communication with Inspector Wichor , of tho metropolitan detective force . Tho hitter , assisted by a police-sergennt , made inquiries after the woman , and at length ascertained , that for tho last nine months she had been living with tho mnn in ' custody at Chelmsford , at a hou . se in the Borough-market . The officers accordingly went there and saw th-c woman , who at first denied all knowledge of the inalo prisoner ; but , being apprehended and taken to the residence of one of the gentlemen who had been robbed at Clitphnm , and who identified a gold ' seal , found at her lodging * among a variety of other i valuable stolon articles , she confessed that a quantity of i jewellery and plate had been given to her by the pri-, Honcr at ChclniHford , mid that who had pawned the good * in the City . She was examined before the Wnndsworth i magistrate last Saturday , and remanded . L Tlio man id a Dutchman , whose real namo is Van i PonU'r : but halmsbeon livhiKnoinetimoin Kntrlandunder

      ihe assumed names of 1 > uvis nnd Phillips , lie isu notorious thief , having' been tried fur burglary three- years ago at Muidslone , together with hi . s father , mother , wife , and brother . Ho wan then sentenced to four years ' penal servitude , hut whs released last year , when ho iiuiHt nji ' aiii liavn hail ri ' iiour .-ic to his old mode of lid ' , lie will be tried for th « ( Jlichnsford burglary » t tlie noxt Assizes , and , should he lie acquitted on tlint charge , will bo apprehended on thu Ciaphani robberies .

      Obituary. On Thursday Was Buried In The ...

      OBITUARY . On Thursday was buried in the cemetery at Mont-Parnasse , at Paris , a Madame Champagneux :, aged 77 , one of the most interesting of the links perhaps that have coupled the present epoch with the stirring one of 1790 . She was the daughter of Manon Jeanne Philipon , better known as Madame Roland , who , at thirty-seven years of age , was one of tlie moving spirits of the Girondist ^ party , and -was so necessary to her husband when Minis . terof the Interior , that Danton said of her , "If yon in-vide M . Roland you must also invite Madame . I know his virtues , but we want men who can see with , other eyes than those of their wives . " At this time the subject of our brief notice , who was born at while the respectable Necker was endeavouring vainly to stave off the Revolution , must have been eleven years of age , and have been in habitual and familiar intercourse with Brissot , Danton , Pe ' tion , Biubaroux , Vergniaud , Buzot , and , ) in fact , all the notabilities of tie party of which her virtuous and beautiful mother was the head . That mother , who , in the words of her biographer , died a martyr to conjugal fidelity , she lost by the guillotine in 1793 , and her father perisled a few days after by his own hand .

      Naval And Military. Chatham Dockyaud.—Th...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Chatham Dockyaud . —The Lords of the Admiralty paid their annual official visit to Chatham Dockyard on Wednesday afternoon , for the purpose of making aa inspection of that establishment . Mallet ' s -Mammoth Mojitar . —Special permission , having been finally accorded by the Secretary of State for War for another proof of the durability of Mr Mallet ' s mammoth mortar , the officers of the select committee of Woolwich Arsenal and various other persons assembled in the marsh on Wednesday morning to witness the experiments which were intended , for that day ' s trial . The result was very satisfactory ; but the experiments came to an abrupt termination , owing to the displacement of some portion of the mortar . Kewaso Improved Rifle . —A breach-loading rifle- : ¦ ' - . carbine , detachable so as to form a pistol also , the invention of Mr . Terry , of Birmingham , has been under test on board her Majesty ' s ship Excellent , under the superintendence of Captain Hewlett , C . B ., from May 10 th until the present time , during which time 1800 rounds have been fired from it with unprecedented accuracy at various ranges , without cleaning the weapon , which , not-withstanding , gives no recoil . Floating-Makijje School . —The efforts of the Liverpool Mercantile Marine Service Association to establish a floating training school for merchant seamen on the Mersey are in a fair way to be . . crowned with success . Tlie application to the Admiralty for one of tae unused ! vessels of tae Royal navy has resulted in th « granting of the Vestal frigate , at present lying at Chatham , for that purpose . The vessel , however , is not to be permanently moored in the river , but is to be fitted out for short cruises , thus giving the pupils on board & practical application of the laws of seamanship which are to be inculcated .- —Times * Volunteers from the Militia into the Line . — 14 , 117 persons volunteered from , the militia to the line regiments in the United Kingdom from the lstpf March , 1857 , to the 21 st of April last . 9549 so volunteer "'' into the line in England , 3676 in Ireland , and only 892 . in Scotland . . Aldehshot . —The Duke of Cambridge gave a grand field day on Wednesday , when a ' sham light and several very brilliant manoeuvres took place . Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary of Cambridge , and the Grand Duchess of Meck-Icnburg-Strelitz , were present .

      Miscellaneous. Thk Court.—It Is Now Defi...

      MISCELLANEOUS . Thk Court . —It is now definitively arranged that her Majesty is to bo accompanied , on tlio occasion of her visit to the Imperial dockyard and arsenal of Cherbourg-, by such members of tho iiou . au of Commons us may find it convenient to undertake the voyage . A committee of luonibers has been formed to umka the nece 3 sary arrangements . Dn . 'Inavers Twiss . —The Lord Bishop of London has appointed Dr . Truvora Twins to the oftico of Chancellor of tho Diocese of London , vacant by the advanceniont of the Right Hon . Dr . Lushingtou to tlio Judgeship of the Court of Appeal of tho Province of Canterbury . Tiir Koy-al Ritm . su Bank . —A further dividend of la . ( making 1 iia . ild . in the pound ) is announced by tho otliciitl ' manager of tho Itoyul lhaisli Bunk ; and , tho use of the Rotunda nt the Hunk of England liiiving boon granted to > Mr . Harding for tho lOrh , lltli , and 12 th of Awjrust . the nnvmaut will be mndo them on those days .

      Tine Wicht Inimks . —Tho West India i-iJituds woro generally healthy when thu lust ¦ mails loft . At I 3 ar-Uadocs , t , ho crop uiicratious wv . ru coining to u eloso , and little sugar remained to b «) niiidc . Tlio cr <»|> was expected to reach fit ) , 000 hogshead * . Dumerum was suffering through excess of rain . Sugar operations woro nt u stand-still . Tlio Msv « Tu iUv > u ;; -lit which had bucu experienced throughout Jiinwiiai for some months had given way to refreshing raiiid . 1 ' ruduco uunsttctions

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1858, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24071858/page/11/