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    Forgery And Embezzlement.—John Hodges, A...

    engine had passed over an iron rail which had been plaeed across tho tip line . The circumstance having Been mentioned to' the proper authorities , the * pilotengine and several platelayers were despatched to the spot to remove the cause of obstruction , and the raQs were speedily cleared . Tfhifl is the second attempt of the same kind that had been made on this line -within a few * days ; A IStght Attack ra Water-lane , Strand . —A lad , named Benjamin Blakesley , was enticed some nights ago down Miifbrd-land , Strand , opposite the church of St . Clement Danes . He was induced to go there by a man who said he would show him something ; but , having

    turned into Water-lane , a second person , who pretended to be drunk and to pick a quarrel with the first man , turned round , and gave the lad so tremendous a blow on the face as to knock him down and to cause a great flow of blood . One man then held him while the other searched him . To save himself from further violence , he gave up his watch . They asked if he had anything more ; and , on his saying he had not , they ran off , pursued by the youth . One was at length caught , but the other escaped . This took place about nine o'clock . The man who was captured has been committed by the Bow-street magistrate for trial . 1

    A Well-dressed Thieb . - —Thomas East , a welldressed youth of sixteen , who was employed as a waiter at the Crystal Palace , has been sentenced by the Lambeth magistrate to three months' hard labour for stealing handkerchiefs from the pockets of visitors on the railway platform . Charge against a Liverpool Broker . —John Doherty , general produce broker , of Liverpool , has been charged at the police-court of that town with obtaining money tinder false pretences . Mr . Aspinall , who appeared for the prosecution , thus stated the main facts : —" Mr . Doherty , a little while ago , previous to his failure , was . carrying on a very large business in the corn trade , his liabilities at the time of his suspension being

    something enormous , and no doubt when this occurrence took place his difficulties were very considerable . He had been doing an extensive business with the Borough Bank . On the 23 * d of May , he forwarded to the bank , the bills of lading , representing that the produce had been sold to Messrs . Bingham and Co . That was untrue , the produce not having been so sold , which fact was ascertained when the drafts were sent by the bank to Messrs . Bingham and Co . for acceptance . The bank sent for Mr . Doherty , who made some explanation , saying there had been some mistake , and he took away the drafts , undertaking to get the acceptance of Messrs . Bingham and Co . to whom he took the drafts , and offered as security a bill of lading for certain goods by the Centurion— 1500 barrels of flour . At the time that he

    obtained from Messrs . Bingham and Co . their acceptance , they had already pledged one of the bills of lading to Mr . Hubback ( one of the largest corn merchants in the town ) , who was entitled to the benefit ; so that the bill of lading in the hands of Messrs . Bingham and Co . was ¦ w orthless . " A technical objection urged by Mr . Brett , counsel for Mr . Doherty , having been overruled by the magistrate , the evidence was received , and Mr . Brett then proceeded to argue that the case was simply a civil matter , but that , as the prosecutor saw some difficulty in obtaining a verdict in a civil action , he had turned it into a case for criminal prosecution . The duplicate bill of lading for the flour had been sent to Mr . Hubback in mistake . The magistrate sent the case for trial , but took , bail for the appearance of Mr . Doherty .

    Fobobby and Fraud . —Charles Miokleberg , a man dressed like a grazier , has been examined at the " Worship-street police-court on a charge of forging two cheques on the Unity Bank for 41 ? . and 197 . odd , by which he obtained some valuable goods from an auctioneer in Piccadilly . He was committed for trial . A 9 ava , qb Irishwoman , —Mary Ana Miers , an Irishwoman married to a German sugar-baker in St . George's in the East , has committed a savage assault on Margaret Bush , the-wife of a sailor , living in the same house . Mrs . Miers was in the habit of beating and ill-using her daughter by another husband ; and , on

    the 18 th inat ,, the girl took refuge in the room of Mrs . Hush . The , Irishwoman then burst open the door , and aimed a blow at tho other woman ' s head with a tableknife , Mrs . Rush held up her hands , which were severely out . She was then thrown down on the lamling-rnlaco , and bitten in the shoulder ; and finally Mr » . MierS beat her over tho head with an earthen jug till she fainted . Hor head was frightfully gashed , auA , she was taken to the hospital . Mrs . Miers has been examined boforo the Thames magistrate , and committed for trial .

    MUBDKR . OB" A WjFEJ BY HER HUSBAND . A POOr woman , living at Stourbridgo , named Eliza Hdrt , won murdered last Sunday whilo in bed by her husband , Edwnrd Hart . They both lived in a small house in Bell-lane , not far from the market-honse . The victim , ¦ who was forty-six years of age , had been confined to her bed for several days from a severe attack of Hiness , Hurt , who is a labourer , employed in harvest work , loft home on Wednesday last , and did not return . till ton o ' clock on the morning of the murder . He was then somewhat the worse for drink , and in the course of tho day . h * suffocated his wife by lying across her . He is nowito QU 0 tody . £ |

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    GATHERINGS 3 TROM ; TJBtEV LA . W AND POLICE COTJE r & VicB-CilANCBtxoB Woo » has given judgment in favour of the Great Northern preference shareholders in their suit against the directors to restrain them from paying any dividend to the ordinary shareholders without first paying in full the preference dividends accrued since June , 1866 . The directors , however , it i » said , intend to prolong the litigation by an appeal . Mr . Thomas Carey , fish manure manufacturer , who has lately taken possession of premises on the banks of the Lea-cut , or canal , leading from Limehouse to

    Bromley , appeared before the Thames magistrate on Tuesday to answer a summons taken out by Mr . Edward Fulcher , inspector of nuisances and sanitary inspector for the Poplar District Board of Works , which charged him with having a large accumulation of stinking fish deposited on his premises . He was also called upon to show cause why an order should not be made upon him to remove the nuisance and discontinue to make any further deposit . Mr . Yardley said he would adjourn the case for a week to enable the parties to come to some arrangement , but would strongly recommend Mr . Carey to get another place .

    Mr . Thomas Hough and Mr . William Innocent-, the former a butcher and the latter a fanner , residing at Whatton , in Nottinghamshire , appeared at the Mansion House on Wednesday on a summons charging them with having sent twenty-seven lambs' carcases to Newgate-market for sale , though in a condition unfit for human food . It seems that the animals had been accidentally drowned , and that the flesh was blanched , f labby , and offensive . The flesh of beasts thus killed is not unfrequently eaten , and is perfectly good if the blood is made to flow after death ; but it would appear that this had not been done in the present case . Messrs . Hough and Innocent , however , received an excellent character , and the summons was dismissed . A summons has been taken out in the Sheriff ' s Court

    by Arthur Macnamara , of the London General Omnibus Company , against William Robert Pope , the secretary of the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Company , for the sum of 11 . 3 s ., damage alleged to be done to one of the plaintiff ' s omnibuses , by reason of the negligent driving of one of the defendant ' s servants . It > ppeared on crossexamination , that the omnibus to vrhich . the alleged damage was done was put on by the London General Omnibus Company for the purpose of following the Saloon omnibuses wherever they went , and stopping where they stopped , and that i-Uo driver -of the London General Omnibus Company ' s omnibus broke the window himself by driving against the Saloon omnibus to prevent its passing . The judge dismissed the summons .

    Naval And Military. The Australasian Scr...

    NAVAL AND MILITARY . The Australasian Screw Steamship . —This ' magnificent iron steamer , built by Messrs . J . and G . Thomson , Clyde Bank , for the European and Australian Company , left the Broomielaw on Friday week for Southampton , whence she will soon make her maiden passenger trip . She was launched on the 10 th of last June . The Australasian is of 28 , 00 tons builders' measurement , is 360 feet over all , 42 feet beam , and will be propelled by means cf a three-bladed screw by two direct acting engines of 700-horse power . She has six tubular boilers , which are covered with felt and then with lead , by which heat is retained and fuel economized . These are fired by 80 furnaces . There are two 90-inch cylinders , with a 3 j feet stroke . These are also covered with , felt , overlaid with teakwood , which imparts to the ponderous machinery an appearance quite ornamental . *—Times . [ The vessel has since grounded in the Clyde , the channel of which was completely blocked up for a time ; but the ship was at length moved , only , however , to strand again lower down , though at a part of the river where the traffic ia not impeded , ]] 1

    Loss obthe JBarqujk Thomas . ' —Tho barque Thomas , of St . John , Scotland , 700 tons register , went on shore at Portnahavon Lighthouse , on the Rhins of Islay , on tho evening of Sunday week , at half-past eleven o ' clock , and has since become a total wreck . She left the Tail of the Bank on the previous Friday morning with a cargo of machinery for Halifax . On the Sunday evening , about five o'clock , a dense fog came on , and the master ordered the lead to bo hove every half-hour . Guns were fired for assistance , but the mist hindered the fishermen from finding the vessel . Mr . Murray , ship agent at Bowmore , and Mr . Lindsay , of the Customs , on hearing of tho disaster , neb off to tho vessel to render assistance ; but the crew , after stripping sails , & c , were unwilling to remain by the ship , were landed ia safety , and have since nearly all arrived at Greenock .

    Collision ow Algiers . —On tho 14 th inat ,, at three a . m ., off Algiers , tho Indus came into collision with the screw-steamer Florence Nightingale , of 700 tons , from Sundorland to Constantinople . The latter vessel struck the Indus on the starboard foresponson , carrying away her bowsprit , and stove in her bo > ya . Tho Indus received no damage by the collision . As the Florence Nightingale leaked , the Indus took her in tow to Algiers , and left her in sight of that port . The night was fine , with , moonlight . Tho Florence Nightingalo had masthead , but no ( tide lights . Low ov this British Sflie Walton Muncastbr . —

    A despatch has been received at Lloyd ' s froin the English Consul at Caldera , on the coast of Chili , stating that the ship Walton Muncaster , Mr . Mounsey , master of Whitehaven , was wrecked off that coast , having drifted ' upon a reef of rocks , in consequence of the wind failing and a heavy swell setting in upon the land . A boat was lowered , to ' convey on shore the captain ' s - wife , a Custom-house officer , and ten seamen ; but it was capsized , and all perished except the officer . Another boat , from the British ship Dennis Brundrit , with five men ' in attempting to rescue some of those on board , was swamped , and four of the men drowned . The governor and the captain Of the fort rendered every assistance ; but it is feared that several of the passengers and others of the crew have been lost .

    The Home Army . —The despatch of troops to India has lowered our home establishment of infantry of the line to fourteen battalions , instead of forty , the proper proportion for the United Kingdom . The arrival of four regiments from the Mediterranean in the course of a few days will augment the home strength to eighteen battalions ; but , on the other hand , it is more than probable that a further reduction will take place in consequence of the despatch of more regiments to India . It is quite obvious that for some time it will be necessary to maintain a considerable European force in that country , and whatever force is there must have a reserve of corresponding strength at home to supply casualties . It has therefore been determined to make a considerable addition to the army immediately , which will consist , at the least , of twenty new battalions of infantry . —Globe .

    Court Martial . —A very protracted inquiry is now going on at Chatham into the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel J . Clarke , who is charged with insubordination and inciting a mutiny among certain officers of his regiment while stationed at Sierra Leone . ItEiNB-ORCEMENTs for India . —The whole of the men of the 7 th Hussars and drafts from various regiments , to the number in all of 654 , with thirty officers , embarked on Thursday at Tilbury on board the clipper Lightning .

    Miscellaneous. Thk Court.—Her. Majesty, ...

    MISCELLANEOUS . Thk Court . —Her . Majesty , on Monday gave the annual fete in honour of the i Prince Consort ' s birthday to the seamen of the Royal yachts , at the Trinity House ,. Coast-guard men and detachments of Infantry stationed at East Cowes , and the labourers and workpeople employed on the Osborne estate . Dinner was prepared for nearly six hundred persons , who sat down at three o ' clock , in tents erected for the occasion . The Queen ancl Prince Albert accompanied by Prince Alfred , the Princess Uoyal , Princess Alice , Princess Helena , Princess Louisa , Prince Arthur , and Prince Leopold , came on to the ground and inspected the dinner , and subsequently took their places in a marquee to witness the rustic games and sports which took place . They left at seven o ' clock . The Court arrived ' at Buckingham Palace on Thursday ,.

    and yesterday left London at eight o'clock for Scotland . The Harvest . —The weather has again become fine , bright , and sultry ; and , although a certain amount of injury has unquestionably been done to the crops by the late heavy rains , the damage does not seem to be so great as was at first anticipated . The various corn markets , therefore , have shown but slight advances on tho former rates ; indeed , at some places , prices have been barely maintained . Harvest operations have been rapidly pushed forward , and a large amount of grain has been carried , and placed beyond the influences of the weather . The condition of the hop plant , which at one time looked bad , is now greatly improved , and the crops in Kent promise to be early and abundant . The com harvest in Ireland is reported as unusually magnificent and the early symptoms of blight iu the potato crop have disappeared .

    Madagascar . —News is said to have arrived in Pans from the Island of Madagascar to the effect that the Queen has recommenced tho persecution of the Europeans . The French Governor of the Island of Bourbon and the English Governor of tho Mauritius have addressed communications on the subject to their respective Governments . . Collisions at Sea , —A maritime conference or various European Powers is about to be hold at Paris to consider the subject of collisions j , at eoa , which have been nnmerous of late , and to adopt measures for tlioir prevention .

    . , Thk Early Closing Association held their second fotq at the Crystal Palace last Saturduy , when the I >* « - sure-scekers engaged in many athletic games . The weather was magnificent , tho palace nnd gardens crowuea with eight-Boers , and tho whole enlivened with military bands . Tho celebration was repeated on Monday . Australia . —Writing with reference to tho delays ok tho Australian mails , the Times Melbourne correspondent says : —• " The question is raised hero whether tho Wome Government will enforce tho contraot as to the forfeiture for delay . Tho duily forfeiture goes on increasing « t ' » ° ate of 50 * . Dor dlom . That is . it amounts to 001 . for tuo tuo

    first twenty-four hours , 100 / . for tho second , U 0 l . lor third , and bo on ; and . auoh penalties , Bays tho contract * rthall in no oaao bo relinquished . But It ia not to oxceea on one voyage tho sum of 7708 / . 6 s . 8 d . Tho penalty for seventeen days' delay amounts to 7650 / ., which w » a incurred by tho non-dellvory of tno February mail , xwt nouulty for tho nine days' uel * y of the March mail i »

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 29, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29081857/page/10/