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    January 26, 1856.] THE LEADER. 77

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    DIPLOMACY IN THE DESERT, A sort of supp ...

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    belonging to a farmer near Truro in Cornwall was recently taken from off a hedge where it had been put to dry ; and , from information given by the servant , Jane Allen , and one or two circumstances of a auspicious character , a man named William Cook waB arrested , committed for trial , found guilty , and sentenced to six months' hard labour . About a fortnight afterwards , another quantity of linen was missed from the hedge : this time , the inquiries which were instituted led to suspicion falling on the girl Allen herself . These conjectures being confirmed by the statements of a woman to whom Allen had taken some linen goods , the latter was arrested and taxed with the theft , which she acknowledged , and confessed that she had falsely thrown suspicion on Cook . She has been committed for trial . Cook ' s sentence ¦ will of course be remitted—that is to say , he will be " pardoned . " . Affray with Militiamen . — -An alarming riot between several members of the West Middlesex Militia and some Irish labourers occurred in the uiii poumuaj

    T-f— — . MB—MMMMMP—» P 1 J >¦ ¦ M ^™^ - ' " length he succeeded in disengaging himself from his rasp . Mr . Mackie then seized the thief by his coattail , but , in so doing , the coat was torn , and the man ran ' away . Although much bruised and exhausted by the previous scuffle , Mr . Mackie raised an alarm , and ran after Burn ; and . a waterman at the Whitechapel cab-stand joined the pursuit . The thief was ultimately captured , though not until after a savage resistance , in which he attempted to gouge out the eyes of the waterman and to throttle a policeman . A blow on the head from another constable ' s staff at length subdued him . At the police-office , Burn denied the charge against him ; and when a policesergeant in court said that he had but recently been imprisoned for three months , and that , if he was remanded , he believed a former conviction couid be proved against him , exclaimed , " Former conviction ! Nonsense ! There ' s nothing against me but that three months . I don't deny that--it ' s of no use ; but since then I have been working at the docks . " Mr . D'Eyncourt said that he should remand the prisoner p . ^ .. o maoV « .-Vn * n Vipi would be committed for trial .

    "Murder ! " brought the neighbours to his assistance , and the thieves were captured . They have been examined , and remanded for a week . The elder brother llegep starvation as . their excuse . Their father is at present suffering imprisonment for a robbery . Attack on Mb . Clarkson , the Barbister . —Mr . Clarkson was walking along the Bay 3 water-road , about one o ' clock in the morning of Thursday , when a man came behind him , put his arms round his neck , and , grasping his throat , attempted to throttle him . Another man then came in front of him , kicked him , and snatched away his watch , chain , seals , & c . Mr . Clarkson struggled , when one of the men called out to his companion , " Present your pistol at his head . " They were at length shaken off , and Mr . Clarkson attacked one of them with his fists , at which he ran away . The other followed at finding that his victim next turned upon him . They ran down the Bayswater-road ; and one of them shouted , " Shoot him , and do for him . " They then took up stones , and threatened to throw them . Mr . Clarkson once more attacked them , and they fled . Turning down a place

    neignbournooa 01 xiaver » touK .- uu evening . One of the latter received a serious wound in the cheek , probably from a bayonet . The cause of the quarrel is ndt known . Some of the labourers sought shelter in a brewer's yard close by ; and the combatants gradually left the field . Cheque-mated , —A gentleman was looking at a cheque for £ 26 19 s . 2 d ., in the open street near the Mansion-house , when a man snatched it out of his hand , and ran off . The owner pursued , caught the thief , and gave him into custody . When brought up at . tlfe Mansion-house , the prisoner said " the thing was iciuwu

    A Bed Republican Count and Swindler . — At the re-examination , on Monday , of Ernest Theophile Guignet , charged with defrauding Mr . Sleyffers and others of Paris , some revelations were made with re 3 - pect to the gang of foreign swindlers with which the prisoner was connected . Their chief was a man named Barrabe , a native of Orme , who first set up as an oil merchant in Paris under the name of " Vrai pere Duehesne" in 1848 . In 1851 , he started a Californian Company , after turning Red Republican and advocating the use of the guillotine like Robes-. nierre : and he succeeded , in robbing a great many poor

    where there was no thoroughfare , Mr . Clarkson again got up with them . At this point , a policeman arrived ; but one of the men escaped . The other told the constable the direction in which he had gone , and he was pursued , Mr . Clarkson in the meanwhile guarding the prisoner till another policeman came up , by whom he was removed . On the way to the station-house , he resisted -violently ; but , the first policeman coming back after a . n ineffectual pursuit of the other man , he was secured , and the stolen property was found , on him . He pretended that he had been helping Mr . Clarkson to protect Mmself , and he

    SCCiQcIUcM . , WU . 0 t * v * > vao ^ vw . Son against Father . —The son and heir of Sir William Hartopp has broug ht a » . action in the Rolls Court against his father . The son , who had been in the army , found himself , about a year before coming of age , in want of money . He wrote to his father's confidential solicitor , asking if he could suggest any means for raising money . The solicitor said that , if ho would consent to a re-settlement of some estates in "Warwickshire and Leicestershire , in which he was entitled to an interest on his father ' s death , as tenant in tail , the accommodaiioi might be obtained . He consented to this , and . an arrangement was subsequently made . But the son afterwards asserted that the terms' were not conducive to liis interests ; that he vtrrf » a ^ in / liil-cr i-n < l *« niuufl 1- \ , t liia 4 Vi £ Kf **» wl ^ r * f * # > f . £ > f 1 WI +. ll OJklfc ? fcVV ¦ ¦» ¦« - » »¦•¦¦

    persons of their money . He afterwards established what was termed the " Black Band , " which consisted of four different firms opened in Liverpool under the names "De L'Hunes , " " 3 ) 'Arcis and Co ., " "Steinhart and Co ., " and " Hallen and Co . ; " since which he had established a house in Bristol and adopted the title of " Count D'Alengon . "' In 1854 , he was agaiu found carrying on his operations in Walbrook-buildings under the name of" Cohen and Co . ; " in Broad street buildings under that of " Lipman and Co . ; " and up to tiie present time'in .-those of "Duncan and Co ., Dublin , " and '' Maurice and Co ., " in Great Winchesterstreet , City . ' . ' Barrabe met Guignet in Germany , and brought him to London to act as his clerk . The former then succeeded in obtaining : goods to the

    repeated the same story betore tae JVLaryieoone magistrate ; but he was remanded for a -week . The Murder in Bedford-row . — The adjourned inquest on Mr . Waazgh has terminated in a verdict of Wilful Murder against Westron , who has been committed for trial by the Clerken well magistrate . At the police court , a rambling letter from Westron to his victim was produced and read . It was dated Oct . 11 th , and contained a threat against Mr . Waugh , whose life was said , to hang oil a puff of smoke . On account of this letter , Westron was bound over to keep the peace ; and , two days before the murder , Mr . Waugh , seeing that he was dogged , near his residence in Bays water , by the accused , told a policeman to keep his eye on him . .

    TV OO . . VUAVLMJ . J AJ 4 4 A ^ AVL ( VD \ A * -J J ** - » vsa . y * • — — —— a Yiew to his own advantage ; that he did not understand the deed at the time he signed it- and that his father ' s solicitor interfered to a greater degree than wasjustifiable . He therefore brought his action . The Master of the Rolls ruled that the case failed ; but , being informed that Sir William did not wish to insist on costs against his son , he dismissed the bill without > sts . .. ' ¦ ' . . ¦ Scientific Coiners . —Some coinera have been arrested at Hackney . Inspector Brennan thus describes the coining apparatus which lie discovered in the house : — " On the table I found a galvanic battery , charged with a solution of acid ; two files , with white metal in their teeth , as though recently

    amount of £ 10 , 000 and more , which he had forwarded to himself in the name of Duncan and Co ., at Dublin , and some to Maurice an < l Co ., London . From information obtained by Mr . Sleyffers ( a commission agent of Paris , who had had dealings with " Duncan and Co . " ) , that gentleman went over to Dublin and made . Barrabe " , alias Duncan and Co ., a bankrupt . Barrabe had previously absconded . Guignet , when taken into custody , promised Mr . Sleyffera that , if lie was forgiven , he would turn Queen ' s evidence ; and he asserted that he did not participate in the profits . He was again remanded . Wpog Javal , another foreigner connected with the case , was also remanded , _ but admitted to bail on the : prosecutor saying he believed he and uis

    Djesiebate Labs . — -Three oases of desperate assaults by youths came before the magistrates on Wednesday . Thomas Bennis , about fourteen years of age , havin « committed a robbery , was arrested by a policeman in . the Victoria Theatre . The ruffian pulled out a pistol < euiulous , probably , of the feats of romantic villainy he had often seen on the stage before him ) , and snapped it in the officer's face ; but it missed fire . He then levelled another pistol at Ma captor , and would have fired had not the weapon been wrested from his hand by a bystander . Having been examined at Guildhall , be was committed for trial . —In the second case , Edwin Levy , fifteen years of age was sentenced to three weeks' imprisonment by the Bowtor t b u « u

    ased ; in a tumbler on the table was a battery plate , with , wires to it , and dipped in solution , but the wires unattached . I also found a bag , containing plaster of Paris in powder , and in the cupboard a lid containing lampblack and grease , which I believe are used for polishing coin . I found four galvanic battery cylinders and a pipe , used for the purpose of ladling tlie metal , some of which ^ now adhered to it ; and I alBO 'jEbund a bottle containing a solution for coating baao ' coin , and a piece of a broken dish , with plaster of Paria still stickim , ' to it . Altogether I discovered about three hundred pieces of base coin , of four different descriptions . " A Model Mother . —A girl of fifteen was charged at worship-street with robbing her mother . Only a

    was not mixed up with the trauds , signuying intention to abandon the charge against him . A Man not ashamed of his Trade . —Benjamin James , who on Tuesday was found guilty at the Middlesex sessions of stealing a watch , said on leaving the dock : — " I ' ve got four years' penal ; that I don't mind ; but I ' ve got it wrong , that ' s all I ' m innocent this time , anyhow . I ' ve been a thief all my life , that ' s right enough , and am a thief still ; that policeman knows it ; but he'took us wrong when this robbery was done . Why , that watch was stole twenty minutes before we went intotSaville-house , as I know ; so we didn't do it . I'd steal a dozen watches—two dozen , if you like , and if I'd half achauco ; but , take my word , I didn ' t have tliat . " wniie

    street magistrate Kicking sava ^^ y uu me » policeman who endeavoured , to arrest him for refusing to move cm when seen in suspicious company . —The third ca ^ e ( which was heard at the Thames office ) was against Patrick Mannitfg , an Irish lad of seventeen , who stabbed a waterman through the hand for demanding his just fare , of which Manning had cheated him . He was committed for trial . TaE Buoeley Poisonings . —The inquest on Walter Palmer terminated on Wednesday evening , in the following verdict , which the foreman delivered after the iurv had been absent two hours : — « We find that Walter Palmer died from the effects of prussic acid ; and that such prussic acid was wilfully administered bv William Palmer . We also append to our verdict jj

    few weeks ago she had been similarly . charged ; but , as it appeared that she had been driven to the theft by being left without food sho was dincharged . She onco more , while acknowledging the theft , made tho same defence ; and from a cross-exam . ina . tion of her mother , this appeared to bo true . The girl aobbod l > itterly , and said her' mother had driven her out of the house , and had told hop to take her chanco in the ntreeta . Under these circumstances , she was again j discharged , and tho warrant officer was directed to bring tho matter before the attention of tho parish authorities . The mother , who had endeavoured to evade the questions put to her , was eovorely reprimanded by the magistrate . Garotth Robbery . —A yo \ mg man , named Edward \ Burn , has boon charged , at Worrthip-atroot , with lughfi way robbery and violence . Mr . Mnclcie , suporinten-, | dent of Molars . Torry and Son ' s stonm-milla , Blaok-! j friars-road , who lives at Mile-end , -was returning I homo at half-past eleven o ' olook at night , and , when I close to his residence , auddonly folfc a man ' s hand i pasaovor hits nock , and stop up his mouth . The next ¦ , minute , ho felt another hand in his walBtooat pocket Owing to tho proamiro on his mouth , Mr . Mivokic won unablo to call for as ^ ifltanoo , but ho novortholoBs struggled violently with hm aaaiulnnt , whom ho etruok at several limoa with Ma walking-atiok , and at

    Highway violence . —A grocer at bnetneia , riding home along the Dore-nioor-road , was attacked by two men having tho appearance of " navvies , " one of whom struck him . over the head with a jagged oudgel , cutting open the skull to tho "bone ; but it does not appear that he was robbed . The ruffians fled , and are not ytt in custody . The Lad Hottlr . —This boy who was aent to prison for attending to his master ' s proporty , and shooting a pheasant to drive it from tho crops which it was injuring , has been further punished by being diamissed from his place , and sent homo to his father , who , with a Hmftll income , has aaiok wife and family to support . The dismissal is aufllciently acoounteel fi > r by tho fact of the landlord of the boy ' s muster being Mr . D'Aeth , ono of tho convicting inagistrntos . Robbeiiv and ATTicwrrttD Murder at LivKui > oor .. — The shop of Mr . Durandu , bullion-broker at Liverpool , has boon tho Hcano of a very doupomto outrage . Kobert and Henry ISyro , two brothers , watched tho shop ono morning " until they saw tho clork go to fetch tho cash-box from a jowollor ' n hard by , leaving a lad by himself in tho plivoo . They then entered , utruok tho youth on tho hoiul , and ilrapgod him houhoIobb into tho bnolc room . On tho return of the clerk with tho caahbox ( whioh ooutuiuod nearly , £ l , r > On | , tho ruffians attacked him with n pokor . IHh erica of

    the expression of our strong uiaapprouawou . < . me manner in which Thomas Walkeden gave his evi' ° EMBEZZLEME : tST ax Licehtield . — William Lawton , an old and infirm man , is in custody at LiohfieW on a charce of robbing his employers , bankers , of £ 7 , 350 . Tho money haid been given to a woman , whom Lawton thought would shortly be receiving a . Jorge amount of proporty from which ahe could repay what had been ^ olSnioSsly tent to her . The offender finding himself mistaken in thw suppositioi , ulti mately confessed the embedment $ bis employer * , and was given into custody .

    January 26, 1856.] The Leader. 77

    January 26 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER . 77

    Diplomacy In The Desert, A Sort Of Supp ...

    DIPLOMACY IN THE DESERT , A sort of supp lementary act to the late Kaffir war has just been performed between the President of the little udoponLnt Republic on the Orange River , and MoslioBh , ohiof of tho BuutoB . A conference with reference to eattlo-Btcalmg took place on tho 5 th of last October ; Sir Qoorgo droy , tho Uovornor of tho Cape , being presont . . koahoah exhibit od groat diplomatic nubtlety . "When tho President speaks , and then oaks tor u roplv , " aiwa an abstract of tho interview m tho Junta , " koehoah will way nothing until tho Governor ox-

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 26, 1856, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26011856/page/5/