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      Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...

      band had threatened to carry her off once more . She therefore sought protection . Sir Frederick Thesiger , now appeared on behalf of Mr . Cherry . He denied in general terms the truth of the allegations , and said the wife was neglecting her dnty to her husband . The rev . gentleman , however , was bound over , to keep the peace .

      No. 410, January 30,1858.] The Leader. 1...

      No . 410 , January 30 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER . 1 Q 5

      Obituary. Signor Lablache.—It Is With Gr...

      OBITUARY . Signor Lablache . —It is with great regret that we record the death of the most jovial and genial of singers . Signor Lablache expired last Saturday at Naples , which , despite his French name , was his native town . His health failed after his last return from Russia , and he therefore went to the shores of the blue bay in order to enjoy repose and change of air . Here for a time he rallied ; but it was only the last flash . In his final illness ( which he bore with great fortitude and calmness , notwithstanding his excruciating sufferings ) he was attended by his daughter , Madame Thalberg . He was born in 1796 , and made his first appearance in England in 1830 . Ever since then , he has been one of the great favourites of the London opera-goers , who seem to have regarded him with a kind of personal friendship . His comic acting and singing sparkled with all the happy vivacity of 'the sunny South ; ' but he was also very fine in tragedy . In private life he was greatly beloved for his cheerful and generous disposition .

      The Rev . Sir Henry Dunelinfield , vicar of St . Martin ' s-in-the-Fields , and well known for his extensive connexions with the charitable and religious institutions of the metropolis , died last Sunday evening at Eatonplace , after an illness of only two days , in the sixtyeighth year of his age . The Queen of Oude died on Sunday at the H 6 tel Lafitte , Paris . She had left England a few days previously in very bad health , intending to proceed to Egypt , and eventually , it is said , to Mecca . She rallied slightly after her arrival in Paris ; but the improvement was only of very brief duration . She was in her fiftyfourth year . The funeral took place on Wednesday , in the Mussulman part of Pere la Chaise .

      Naval And Military. Prussian Visit To Wo...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Prussian Visit to Woolwich . —Prince Adalbert of Prussia , attended by three gentlemen of his suite , and Lieutenant-Colonel Cavendish , one of the Equerries of the Prince Consort , visited Woolwich Dockyard last Saturday . The Late General Havelock . —A meeting of the inhabitants of Birmingham , convened by the Mayor , was held on the evening of Friday week , in the Town Hall , for considering in what inanner the town shall express its admiration of the character and services of the late General Havelock . Some fifteen hundred persons were present , and a committee was nominated . A large subscription is confidently anticipated . —A meeting ¦ with a similar object ( also under the presidency of the Mayor ) was held on the same evening at Sunderland , the General ' s native town . Resolutions were adopted in favour of a monument in the public park ; a subscription-list was opened , and a vote of sympathy with Lady Havelock was passed .

      The Leviathan . —A further advance of about eight feet was made last Saturday ; but it is not expected that the vessel will float before to-day or to-morrow . There was a large attendance of her Majesty's foreign visitors . —On Monday , another accident topic place , similar to that which gloomily signalized the first day of the launch . One of the immense baulks of timber , applied to connect the pressure of the largest ram with the aft cradle , flew from its position , striking several of the workmen , and hurling two into the air . They were removed to Poplar Hospital in a very precarious state . Gale in the Channel ,. —A very heavy gale prevailed in the Channel on the Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday of last week . Several vessels were wrecked , and some persons were drowned . The Monster Mortar . —The select committee of Royal Artillery officers have decided not to recommend the repairing of the monster mortar for future experiments .

      Inspection op Troops at Chatham . —The Commandant of the 1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd Depot Battalions at Chatham inspected the whole of the troops under his command on tho plains within tho lines of the fortifications , last Saturday ; tho number on the ground oxcoeded 8000 . Tho troopa forming tho Corps of the Royal Engineers alao had a general field-day on the Great Lines . Colonel Ross , Major and Adjutant Nugent , and a number of staff ofllcera , were on tho ground . Worthy Soldieuh . — -Tho whole of the officers and men of the Chatham division of tho Royal Marino Light Infantry now at head-quarters wore assembled on Mon-— dayin-thelr barrack = square , ' -for the-purpose of-vritneBsing tho presentation of two silver medals , together with gratuities of 1 A / . each , awurriod by the Lords of tho Admiralty to Sergeant-Mujor G . W . Lane and Sergeant'Major J . Morrison , both of tho Chatham division , for long service and meritorious conduct .

      Collision in tub Channel . — - The sorow steamer Acor , of London , entored Folkestone at four a . m . ou Sunday morning in a nlnking atato , having boon run Into between Folkestone mid Dover by tho sorow otcamor

      Warrior , belonging to Hull or Shields . The Acor has been cut dovm completely from her bulwarks to two feet below water line on the starboard side between the fore and main masts , and she . was just enabled to run inside the pier heads when her fires were put out , and she sank . Her cargo , is of a . general description , and much of it perishable ; She was bound for Gibraltar and Malta . Shipwreck . —The Excel , a brig of 250 tons burden , from Weymouth , has been wrecked off the harbour of Calais . Efforts were made , both by French and English seamen , to bring off the crew ; but the only life-boat on the spot was thirty years old and almost useless , and several attempts to reach the wreck entirely failed . One by one the poor creatures fell from the rigging and were lost ; but at last , on the following morning , the only one surviving was brought ashore , after having clung to the rigging for twenty-six hours . He was greatly exhausted , but has since rallied .

      Burning of a Ship at Sea . —The ship New England , Captain Pemberton , bound from New York to Glasgow , -with a crew of eighteen men including officers , and a cargo of naphtha , took fire on the 9 th of January when at sea , . owing to an explosion of the combustible . The vessel Lad encountered a tremendous hurricane , which caused her to leak so much that it was found necessary to throw the cargo overboard . While this was being done , one of the barrels of naphtha exploded , and a fearful scene ensued . The burning fluid flooded the deck with liquid fire , and all on board were threatened with an agonizing death , when the barque Cora Linn bore down on the New England , and ultimately succeeded in getting off all the crew , some of whom , however , were dreadfully burnt—one so much so that he died the next night . This man was found alight all over . Bucket after bucket of water was thrown on him , but he continued to burn for a considerable time . Prince Adalbert of Prussia visited Sheerness Dockyard on "Wednesday .

      Miscellaneous. The Court.—Prince Frederi...

      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —Prince Frederick William of Prussia arrived at Dover last Saturday , and received an address of congratulation from the Mayor and corporation at the Lord Warden Hotel , with which he appeared highly pleased . He then departed for London . A full account of the marriage ceremonial of Monday will be found in other columns . The Queen held a Court on Tuesday afternoon at Buckingham Palace . The Earl of Mulgrave had an audience of her Majesty , and resigned his Wand of Office as Treasurer of the Queen's Household . The Hon . Spencer Ponsonby had an audience of her Majesty , and kissed hands on being appointed Controller of Accounts in the Lord Chamberlain ' s Department , and

      Gentleman Usher to the Queen . The King of the Belgians , the Duke of Brabant , the Count of Flanders , and the Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen , took leave of the Queen on the same day upon their return to the Continent . Some of the other German Princes also departed on the same day . The Queen , Prince Albert , and the Royal family , left London for Windsor on Wednesday , to visit the newly-married couple . Her Majesty held a Chapter of the Order of the Garter at the Castlo on Thursday afternoon , at which Prince Frederick William of Prussia was made a knight . A grand banquet was given in the evening in the Waterloo Gallery : tho guests amounted to seventy-one . Last night , the Queen and her guests attended the last of the Festival Performances at Her Majesty's Theatre .

      The Westminster Abbey Services . —The fourth of the special services in Westminster Abbey was held last Sunday , when the crowds attempting to gain admission were even greater than on any previous occasion . The neighbouring church of St , Margaret ' s was also filled to overflowing . Tho sermon at the Abbey was preached by the Bishop of Oxford . Sir Robbrt Carden , M . P ., the Lord Mayor , sent a donation of 50 / . to the Benevolent Society of Gloucester , to bo expended in coals , blankets , & c , for the poor inhabitants , to bo distributed on tho day of tho marriage of the Princess Royal . The latk Douglas Jerrold . —Tho Government has granted to tho widow of Douglas Jorrold a pension of 100 / . a year .

      Mr . Bellamy , tub Lancaster . County Magistrate . —Mr . Bellamy , who , it will bo remembered , was tried at the lnat Lancaster Assizes , and convicted of appropriating to his own use a fine of 2 / ., lovied on two men do tee ted in poaching , and who was afterwards sentenced in London , by Mr . Justice Coleridge , to pay a fine of 200 / ,, and to bo imprisoned for a period of twelvo months , was on Wednesday liberated from tho Queen ' s Prison , whore he had boon undergoing his sontonce as a miadomennant of the first class . Tho ground of his roloaao ^ Yaa . a . BcrioH 9 JJlkgag-WJth w ) i , ich he w aa aoizud . Ho had been in prison rather more than two month ' s . ' ~ Tins Royal Marriage . — Tho Court of Common Council , at a special court hold on Tuesday , unanimously adopted addresses of congratulation to tho Quoon and Prince Albert , to tho Duchess of Kent , and to Princo Frederick William of Prussia und tho Princoss Royal , on tho murrlogo of tho two laat-numod . Other corpora to bodjea havo voted similar addresses . Di » tiuc 88 in London . —Tho Rov . Mattbow Churton ,

      Miscellaneous. The Court.—Prince Frederi...

      Curate of St . Mary ' s , Southwark , writes to the Ttmes to call attention to the fearful amount of destitution now in the metropolis . He speaks of several cases where families have been on the point of perishing from want of food . Suicide . —A woman living at Leicester , named Mary Stringer , the wife of a marine store dealer of that town , has lately committed suicide in consequence of her husband having entered into an improper intimacy with another woman . Having one evening missed Stringer from home , she and a friend went out together to search for him , and were on their way to a public-house in the neighbourhood , when Mrs . Stringer saw her husband standing in the street with his arm round the waist of

      a girl named Elizabeth Simmonds , to whom he was known to be attached . The wife was so exasperated at seeing this , that she accused Stringer of being false to her , and a violent quarrel ensued between them , at the end of which , the woman ran across a piece of waste ground , and threw herself into the river Soar , where she speedily sank , and was drowned . When her husband was informed of the fact , he seemed greatly shocked and exclaimed , " I have broken Mary's heart . " The inhabitants of the town were so much enraged against Stringer and the girl Simmonds , that they broke the windows of the latter ' s house , and the police were obliged to protect her and the man from the fury of the mob .

      Telegraphic Communication with India . —The Court of Directors have again had under their consideration the question of telegraphic communication with India , and have again expressed their willingness to grant to the Red Sea Telegraph Company such support and assistance as would enable them to raise the necessary capital for the undertaking . We believe that the amount estimated for a line of telegraph from Suez to Kurrachee is 700 , 0001 . ; and the Court , we understand , are prepared to join with her Majesty's Government in guaranteeing ; a revenue equivalent to five per cent , upon that sum , so soon as the work is finished and as long as it is kept in good order . The proposition now only awaits the ratification of her Majesty ' s Treasury , to whom , by-the-by , a similar plan was submitted four months ago without eliciting any expression of approval or support . —Daily News .

      Funeral of the Duke of Devonshire . —The funeral of the Duke of Devonshire took place on Tuesday at Edensor , near Chatsworth , and was of a private and unostentatious character . General Havelock . — " It the Havelock family is of Danish origin , " writes a correspondent , " the name may have been derived from the Danish hau-log , a sealeek , or have-lcg , a garden-leek . " Health of London . —The total number of deaths in London in the week that ended last Saturday was 1344 . In the ten years 1848-57 , the average number of deaths in the weeks coresponding with last year was 1207 ; but , as the deaths of last week occurred in an increased population , the average , to admit of comparison , must be raised proportionally to the increase , in which case it will become 1328 . From these statements it appears that the number of deaths in the present return slightly exceeds the estimated amount . —Last week , the births of 941 boys and 857 girls—in all , 1798 children—were

      registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1848-57 , the average number was 1563 . — From the Registrar-General ' s Weekly Return . Marriage of a Turk and a Christian . —A commission under the Church Discipline Act having been issued by the Bishop of Exoter , to inquire into certain charges against the Rev . W . J . St . Aubyn , rector of the parish of Stoke Damerel ( in which parish tho borough of Devonport is included ) , tho commissioners assembled at the Royal Hotel , Plymouth , on Monday , for the purpose of such inquiry . Tho commissioners were the Rov . Chancellor Martin , Rev . Prebendary Oxenham , and Reva . J . Yonge , J . May , and W . T . II . Eales . Tho offence with , which Mr . St . Aubyn ia charged ia that of having baptized a converted Turk without giving duo notice to the Bishop of the diocese . Tho commissioners , after taking an hour to deliberate , atated that they wore of opinion that there waa sufficient jtrima facie evidence to justify tho Bishop in a prosecution of tho case in the Ecclesiastical Courts .

      The Educational Conference . —The committee of this conference lmve determined not to hold a meeting this year . They hopo to havo one , however , next year . Colonel Phipps . —Much indignation and disgust has boon oxpressod on tho elevation of Colonel Phippa , tho Koopor of her Majesty's Privy Purae , to the honour of being a Knight Commander of tho Bath—tho same honour which at tho same timo ' ia conferred on auch men ns Colonela Groathed , Showers , Cotton , and Baird Smith , tho Indian herooa . But Colonel Phippa ia a man of noblo and influential family ; and wo all know that in England ' tho learned pato ducks to tho goltion fool . — ^ TiTirL ~ ATK ^ SiR-lIiON « Y ^ LAWRKNoE . r --A coiniflittc « Jjfla . boon formed in Calcutta for a Lawrence memorial , which is to tako tho ahnpo of an endowment fund for tho Military Asylum founded by Sir Henry Lawrence . Lota Canning Jivada tho list of aubacribora with a donation of 1000 /

      . AftkKNOMKNT OF THE LAW OF BANKRUPTCY . —A movement Inva commenced fi » tho woat of England with a view to uinond tho law of bankruptcy .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 30, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30011858/page/9/