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    Jg o. 0% May 29,.1.858. j THE LEADEB, 53...

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    NAVAL AND MILITARY. SiiAis Fight Ar Wool...

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    ME LICANTILE MARINE. A Brae Rusl)ov,\' i...

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    Gatherings From The Law Antv Police Cour...

    in an action brought and a judgment obtained by them for the purpose of making the company bankrupt , and tbat they might be ordered to witlulraw their demand , and that no further proceedings might be taken thereon . Tie Lord Chancellor , having taken time to consider his judgment , and after stating the legal bearings of the case with great elaboration , said he had come to the conclusion tbat , though the fiat in bankruptcy could not be -annulled , and the proceedings restrained , yet , under the provisions of 21 st and 22 nd "Vic , c . 78 , the bankruptcy was only available for certain purposes , and the assignees could only use their powers for the purpose of concurring with the official manager in the winding-up of the company . To that extent , therefore , there will b « an injunction to restrain their proceedings . The costs of both sides will come out of the estate .

    One hundred and seventy-three petitions for divorce ¦ or for judicial separation are at present pending in the Divorce Court . Messrs . Calvert and Go ., the brewers , have appeared in the Court of Bankruptcy under what are termed the GtU and 7 th clauses of the Bankruptcy Consolidation Act .. Their debts are said to be 1 , 485 , 000 / ., and sixsevenths of the creditors in number and value have assented to the business being carried on untler inspection . A fortnight is allowed for any dissenting creditor to object to tlie estate "being administered in accordance with the wishes of the six-sevenths of the creditors .

    A swindler on a large scale was examined at Guild-Iiall on Tuesday . " VVilliam Rawson , the person in question , lias been in the habit , untlor various names , of ordering considepable amounts of jewellery and other property to be sent to bis address ; of taking apartments expressly for the purpose of having the plunder sent to them ; and of decamping with it . as soon as it arrived . On one occasion , be selected a gold chain and watch from the stock of Mr . George Frodsham , Change-alley , Cornhill ; asked for a receipt , under pretence of at once paying the amount ; took it up , together with the property , and made off successfully . He has been committed for trial . ' ¦ ¦ :. ¦ . ¦ • ' :: . ' : . ' : ¦ . ' "' " - -.. ¦ . ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ : / ¦ '

    A dirty-looking fellow , named Thomas Lay , has been charged at the Mansion House -with neglecting his children . He left them for a month with only a few shillings , taking care , however , at the same time , to . provide him self with sufficient money to indulge in drink , to which he is greatly addicted . Had it not been for the eldest boy , a lad of fifteen , the younger children would have starved ; but he brought the case before the Lord Mayor , wlio relieved the destitute creatures and sent them to the workhouse . The eldest brother appears ' to liave acted the part of both parents to the younger ones ( for the mother is dead ) ; and the Lord Mayor complimented him on the cleanly state he had kept them in .

    In the course of tlie examination , the father sulleuily xemarked : —• " One day , that boy told me not to go to his home , for if I did he wouldn't have me there . " The Boy : " No father ; you came in one day , and , going ; to the cupboard , you took some of our bread , which was little enough for us four , ami I told you , if you couldn't bring us any money , you had better keep away . That was all . " The Lord Mayor : "And very proper , too , when you wanted to live on his small earnings . It is plainly proved that you have neglected your children , and I shall send you to hard labour for a month . It' you ever come here for the same thing again , I shall send vou for three . !'

    Ihe Lords Justices of Appeal were engaged on Tuesday in hearing un appeal from ati order made by the Master of the liolls , whereby he had declared that tliree Dissenters or Nonconformists might be included amongst the twenty new trustees appointed for the management of the funds of the Free Grammar School of Ilmindter , Somersetshire . It was contended that , as the instruction given at the school , pursuant to the directions of the founder of the institution , included religious instruction , in conformity with the doctrines of the Church of England , and the master of the school had always been a member of that communion , the twenty trustees ought all to be members of the . same Church . The

    Master of the Kolls had come to n iliil ' erent conclusion , on the ground , principally , that the trust or the balance ol the fund , left after providing for the requirements of the school , was given for purposes other than for religious education according to the doctrines of the Church ; namely , for the repair nml keeping in order of tlio highways and bywtiya of the neighbourhood -a trust in which Dissenters were equally interested with niemhsr . ol the Church . It appeared also that ever since the year i , 2 » there liad been usually a proportion of Disseuter . s ainongat the trustees . Their Lordships now revcr . cc this decision and ordered that the mutter should bo referred back to the chambers of tlio Muster ol the Lolls , - to appoint three new trustees in tlio i . h . co ' - >! the Dissenters . '

    John Iriull , a donkey-driver on lla . ap . stoad-heath , Ins b , m sentenced to the House of Crroction for three wwlw for cruell y beating his donkeys with n end-el . Hie Court of Queen ' s Bend , has given judgment in ofTl ! r ( Mt v " p T ° . (| 1 t ° ! V'luds of M" » ini , tlic collector or tlio Uty of London Union—fraud . * which Id to a dv Xn-Vth > ( ! ^ . 7 « » lioiw t () bu do ^ «««• . was vi 1 ? ° rl * ° h lmd l ) CL ' " mmlu ( o c " « th ( i ^ was valuJ , and whether a particular parish in the Union ,

    for which Manini was not collector , was liable . The court decided affirmatively in both cases ; and the whole of the Union will therefore have to pay . " William Charles Caslake , one of the assistant relieving officers of St . George ' s parish , Southwark , has appeared at the borough , police office on a charge of assaulting a pauper , named Helen Wcstrop and ¦ her child . The woman , who had been a . widow" for some years , stated to the magistrate tliiit ever since her husband ' s death the parish had allowed her a half-quartern loaf , which was delivered to her by the relieving officer a _ t the workhouse , three times weekly . A few days ago slits went to the workhouse to receive tlie customary donation , accompanied by her child , a little . girl , about seven vears old .

    ISot seeing the relieving ofKcer who generally attended to her , she asked his assistant for the bread . The latter , however , refused to . grant her request , and , when . th « applicant afterwards-begged ' -that her child might hav « some food until the relieving , officer came , lie not only denied it her , but roughly pushed the child some distance into the street , and caused her to fall down ami hurt her hand . Her mother went up to the man and attempted to remonstrate with him ; but . lie struck her violently on the nose , and . thrust her from ths door with such force that she fell backwards on to the ground . She

    had taken thfi present proceedings against Caslake at the advice of the acting inspector of the station-house , to whom she complained of the treatment she had undergone at St . George ' s workhouse . Caslake denied that he had struck the woman , and said that she was a very violent character , and had been extremely troublesome on the clay of her last application at the workhouse . To prove this , two women living opposite were called . The magistrate , however , considered the charge agair . it Cuslako . fully proved , and ordered him to pay a fine of 11 ., which was immediately done .

    A third-class certitieate was delivered on " Wednesday , in the Court of Bankruptcy , by Mr . Commissioner Yonbianque , to-Samuel I ' opuam , tambour-work «> r and wholesale milliner , of Marlborough-road , Dalston . There , were several causes of complaint against him , the chief of which was that , for a money consideration , he had accepted accommodation bills for M'Donalcl and Co ., and Wallace . and Co ., to the ¦ amount of SSS 1 ., though he was a man . of no means . The Commissioner- severely denounced this system ; but said that P 6 pham . was . not . the principal in the fraud . However , he suspended the certificate for a twelvemonth , bat . gave protection in the meanwhile . .

    Two Irish labourers , who had been in custody for about a week on a charge of killing Thomas Hanwell , in Laystall-street , St . Audrew's , by striking bin on the head during a druiiken scuffle , were examined on reraaiui , at Clcrkenwell , on Wednesday . One of' them was entirely discharged , and the other was ordered to enter into recognizances to appear again , if called on . He was also charged with assaulting another man , and was sent to prison for two months , in default of paying a fine .

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    Jg o . 0 % May 29 ,. 1 . 858 . j THE LEADEB , 53 3

    Naval And Military. Siiais Fight Ar Wool...

    NAVAL AND MILITARY . SiiAis Fight Ar Woolwich . —The ltoynl Horse Artillery and the lloyal ' -Marines- stationed at " Woolwich were engaged on Monday in a sham light on the common in honour of her Majesty's birthday . A largo concourse of holiday spectators assembled hi the vicinity ; but tlie raininess of the weather dnmpe-J . their enjoyment and thinned their numbers . Tiiis Lasii at Chatham .- —Two privates of the 53 rd Kcgimcnt were on Monday subjected at Chatham to fifty lashes , for iiidubonliiuUiou in the one case , and mutiny in the other . The men received their punishment with great bravado . They are abo to undergo eighty-four days' imprisonment . ¦ ' °

    T iiii IIoyai , Irish Laxckus . — Major-General Sir James Chattertoii , commanding the cavalry brigade : it the Curragh Camp , made an inspection of the 5 th lloyal Irish Luneers at Xe Abridge Barracks on Friday week . The whole of the regiment were drawn un on foot , with lances carried , and the-General expressed himself in the highest terms of tlio appearance and evolutions of the m «! ii . Continuous Sicuvk : k Mkn * . —Tim number of continuous service men who accepted their discharge from the navy under the circular order of tlie Uth of May , lJ-i . 37 , amounted , to : > 2 iSo . The nitinlx . T of the above who re-entered tlju navy and Coast-guard service ullont for live years , during tho operation uf the said circular order , amounted to ( J 3 .

    13 n . vv ' s Imimiovkd Tn . \< tio . n Kxtusu , tested ut Woolwich ubout a fortnight ago , laden with a . single gnu , wii . i uii Tuesday worked a . second time , dragging » throeI ' old load—nuniely , three heavy biege guns , weighing ninctocii Ions , eighteen hundredweight . It was i > ut to a severe loai , being taken up a steep , narrow , winding lane ; bul . it worked very Hntisfniitonly , and speedily overcame one or two temporary ob .-Uuelus . TJie pulling usual to steam engines , which i . s of grunt disadvantage ill |) iiblic roads , is in this invention iu ^ unioiuly obviated by exhausting the steam in the water-tank , thereby creating an ueuiioiny in fiu-1 , the consumption of -which is calculated at about si'voiipeuce pur hour . The boiler is mi JJnrun'ri cuj > surface jirinciplc , by Hughes , of Nu \ ycro > sti .

    1 » EA . B-Admiral . ¦ Slit Baldwin Walker , K ; C . B ., Xaval Aide-de-Gamp to the Queen , and Surveyor of tHe Fleet , inspected the ships under fitment at Woolwich on Wednesday . The . special object of the Surveyor-General ' s visit to Woolwich Dockyard was to ascertain the progress made in completing her Majesty ' s screw steamship Archer , recently commissioned by Captain Sanderson for service ? on the coast of Africa . " An extra number of shipwrights were consequently oidered to be employed thereon , and a colour sergeant , corporal , drummer , and twenty privates of lloyal Marines Light Infantry are to be told oft ' to ship oji board on Tuesday next . The Marines -will be : employed in getting in stores , scraping decks , splicing gun-tackle , & c .

    KxiciirrsiiitiDGJc 13 AnitACK . s . —Scarlatina is constantly raging in these barracks , and the -fourch and last child of one coll i de has ju . st . died of it . -A " . correspondent ' of the Times ' . remarks : — " The foul dungyard , the fouler latrines , the ' congregated . urine' tubs , concealed behind the dead Avail which divides the Kuightsbridge Barracks from the public road , and within a few feet distance from it , are enough , to iufect the whole neighbourhood . " Motjemenis i > - TiiE MjiDiTiiniiANE ^ iN ' . — There are some telegraphic despatches from Trieste and Malta which announce movements of ships of war- in the Mediterranean not f ^ uite of a pacific nature . ~\ Te thus learn that the British fleet-under Lord Lyons had entered the Adriatic , in consequence , no doubt—if the fact be

    true—of the movement of French ships of war into that , sea . Then it appears that the French steam liners assembled at Toulon are-about to mulce a demonstration against Morocco , and urgent orders have been despatched to Uritish men-of-war' to assemble at Gibraltar , to be close at hand . All this bodes no good .- —2 fornins /' Star . 2 f iew Lise-ok-Battlk Sciticw Stk . vmku . —The Lords of the Admiralty have directed a 91-gun line-of-battle screw steamer , to be called the Bulwark , to be laid dowu on ; N » , 2 slip at Chatham-dockyard . Owing to the larg ^ dimensions of the proposed steamer , the slip on which she is to be built will -lie lengthened about thirty feet . The first slip on -wjiidi the . Orpheus , ' 22 , screw corvette ,: has been laid down , is ordered to be lengthened inward tvventv-five feet .

    iiscAi'is' of Tiiiikk DKSEKXERi . —• 32 arly on Friday week ( says a Clonmel paper ) ^ an occurrence of a most daring character took place ut Fermoy , resulting in the escape of three soldiers from the guardhouse , where they were temporarily confined awaiting the sentence of a court-martial , before which they had- been that day tried and convicted of desertion . At about one o ' clock , finding the entire of the sergeant ' s party , on guardtwelve men—lying about the room fast asleep-one of tlie fellows , named Smith , put on his shako and overcoat and left the room , followed by the other two prisoners . They attacked tlie sentry , who alone was keeping watch , and beat him in a terrible manner . The three deserters—two ^ Englishmen and ¦ the other an Irishman—then scaled ths barrack-wall , and ett ' ected their escape . The sentinel lies in a m-eoarious stiite .

    Me Licantile Marine. A Brae Rusl)Ov,\' I...

    ME LICANTILE MARINE . A Brae Rusl ) ov , \ ' in Tiiii Tham . es . — -The Arab "brig , a collier vessel , with a full cargo of coals , was run into on Sunday morning , while lying at her moorings in the centre of the stream , near the Coast Guard station at Churlton , by thii iron screw steam vessel John Howe , which was racing with another vessel . The Lrig was split in two , and immediately went down . Threu of the cu ; ist-guurd men went ofF tu the assistance of tliti crew , who wore sleeping in their berths at the time ; and all were rescued with the exception of two boys , who , it is thought , must have been crushed to death by tlu bow of the steamer , which penetrated at least three yai \ ls into the timber of the colliur .

    'Jin-: L . VTi-: v \ uhck ok thio ItAriu' Stuamuu . —Portiosis of the cargo of the ltapid steamer ( which sank a , few weeks since on the Oro .-ss-snnd , oil ' Great Yarmouth , in oonsL'iuienue of a collision with another vessel ) have been recovered by divers . The liapLd is lying on hex broadditlo . ]> UKNiNt ; oi ^ ' a Ship . —Tho ship Majestic , fro-m Liverpool to Prince Ed . yard ' s Island , was discovered to bo on liru on the 27 Ui of April , some oakum in the hold having ignited . The crew and passengers set vigorously to work to put out the names ; but the two diiof ollioers were helplessly intoxicated all this time , and could do nothing . The female passengers bore u [> with reinarkablo fortitude , and u Miss Wiuburton suid Mrs . Tout did all in their power to keep m \\ the spirits of tho inon and to aupply them with refreshments . At length , nlu . 'ii the crew was exhausted , u ve .-wel hove in sight ;

    all hands were rescue .: and the burnintr shin was left ill I hands were rescue . ; and the burning ship was left in about hit . -itJ N ., loiifjf . 60 . 50 W . Mouu Sxiiiii . VnssiiLs . — A new pnddlu . steamer , ehriritenod tlio Haiuljow , wiw lauiichiul on U '^ ilriiwday from Mr . Liiird ' s yard , liirkunhead . h > ho ha . i liuun built by Mr . Laird for the navigation of the Niger , under his e . iutract with the Government , and « he i . s intended to replace the Day . spring , lost last year in that river . » Sha is the lir . st vusnol of any cii / . e built of steel plains . Tho plates used in this instance wero inude by Mr . W . Clay , ut the Mersey Steel and Iron Works . Tlie main ileek is also of iron , imd tho ve . sacl is divided into twelve com-

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  • Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1858, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29051858/page/7/