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      iendanfcmsually , Sastaaing the door of the front room . Mr . l ! Mar $ y , n ,, psia . her « aks » vereign before the birth of the child towards expenses . He C-defendant ) was considered her accepted auitor , andiboth her father and another knew of it . Ihey ifirst became-awaie . ef her situation on the-8 th of July in the tpresettt-year . She ^ had mentioned the matter to Mr . and Mrs . Chetwyn . Emma Chawner took a note to the Rev . Mr . Jnarfcynibr her on a Saturday , and be met her in the evening when ihe , embraeed her . Mr . Clietwyn is one of the elders of ; the Presbyterian church , and Mr . Ma-rtyn expressed his sur-< prise < tfcat she should have so exposed him . The fiev . Mr . JMartyn was then sworn , and he positively denied everything ithat < tke complainant had stated , or that he had ever received a note from Emma Ghawner . Die Bench said that they felt bonod , from the evidence brought forward , to affiliate the ehild ; and ordered the Eev . Mr . Martyn to pay 2 s . 6 d . per fwaekatui the-costs .

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      Bishop , the-inroic-master at the Appleby seminary , has been tried this week for running away with the 'girl , Ward , a heiress , twelve years of age , and whom ' he ihf £ & -married , and Jhe has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment with hard labour . There can he but one opinion , as to the idiotcy of the parents in Imaging a bad case to such a worse result ; for the . marriage is indissoluble .

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      The woman Brough , the heroine of the " Esher tragedy , " haSibeen » tiied ) ttus ^ 'we ek for the murder ; of her children , andifound " Noti guilty , on the ground , of'insanity . " Dr . Winslovr gave evidence which , produced this result on the jury ; and what he says is of general application in all such cases : — "In answer to a question put by Mr . Bodkin , Dr . Winslov expressed an opinion , from what he had heard in the prisoner ' s case , that her brain was structurally disorganised , arid he said this-would render it much more disposed to be affected by any moral shock . He went 'on to say that the mere fact of an . < enormous crime being committed without

      any apparent motive would not alone induce him to- come , to . the . conclusion that the person committing it was insano ; but jhe said that if he found any one had lulled . a pear relation without , any motive , and that it appeared -they had , up to the time of the act being committed , been on ldnd . and affectionate terms , he should certainly think that prim& facie it . was an indication of insanity ; but he should not positively come , to , that conclusion without regarding all the othor surrounding circumstances . " Upon being're-examined , Dr . Winslow said he-was of opinion' that , , at this moment , the prisoner was suffering from . disoase of , the brain . "

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      At the Tipperary Assizes , two men have beon tried , ' < wd found guilty of being ringleaders in a riot of the Roman Gatholic population of'Nenagh against some Presbyterian missionaries , who were out that > way " prose . Jytising . " Tins -was the third time the men had been tried ; the two previous juries being so afflicted with religious , partisanship i \ s to be unable to come to any verdict . It appears that the prosolytiserawere " atoned" by the mob ; and impartial ¦ spectators cannot but approve of such treatment in Buohateaee .

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      At Ayr , one evening lately , a party 6 'f three women and one man were seen walking- together on the beach , and separated , the man taking his position barely out of pietdl shot ; and , to the surprise of onlookers , he commenced stripping as if going to bathe . JBut surprise-was succeeded by consternation on the , parfc of the spectators whon one of the women begun Jo divest herself < of her clothes . The man met the Judy half-way , , and , to the amazement of all who ( witnessed . thoiflpttcUelo , gave her his arni , and slowly land ceremoniously ' marched into the sen , knee deop . Adult baptismtwaa tholcoy to this proceeding ; for the runn , after-pronouncing aomo gibberish , immersed 'his'companion over head and cars , and , pronouncing ¦ a benediction , they Blowly returned to their rospeo-; tivo places . The party wont ott singing psalms aloud . Subsequent inquiry brought out the fucfc that the awper . iaaMornnonite , a diaoiplo of . Too Smith , and iV » Ot < uppeois . tt , jM > wlyanacle convert . —Orccnoc / t

      AdA Mr . O'JCeefe , alias O'Keel , " an . Irish gentlem £ n , " has been before the Marlborough-street magistrate on a charge of obtaining 500 / . on false pretences , from a spinster , Priscilla East , residing at Bedford-place , Russell-square . The false pretence was that the gentleman would marry her ; the fact being that the gentleman couldn ' t , being already married . They were opposite neighbours ; . and their acquaintance had been made by ogling one another across the street . The money had been obtained in small sums , from time to time ; the circumstance that the swain had a wife in existence not being found out till the last .

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      a . jvirs . isnggs , or , was a ^ unborn child : Mr . Briggs gave the body to a woman , with 2 s . 6 d . for its burial : the woman put the body into an old box , and walked to a conaetery . Meeting a friend on the way , they went to drink , spent the money , and , in a state of drunkenness , reeled about the street : the box falling , the child rolls but into the street , and a police ease is the result .

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      A . Bradford Jury , in an inquest on the body of a woman who died of cancer in the breast , have returned si verdict of Manslaughter . against the practitioner ( unqualified ) who had attended her . lie had . professed to cure cancer " without cutting , " and was largely-employed inrthe neighbourhood .

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      NOTES ON THE WAR . An expedition has sailed from Varna ; and , according to the Times i who speaks authoritatively , this expedition is to land " on theheights of Sebastopol , " which is to be besieged by sea and land . TNews is daily expected from the Baltic of the destruction of Bomarsund ; French , troops landing , English ships bombarding . The Russians have retreated beyond the Pruth ; and both Principalities are , probably , at this moment , free : of Ilussian soldiers . Oinar Pacha is in Bucharest . These are the great facts of the-war ; the diplomatic facts are supplied by the speech of Lord Clarendon in tlie 'House of . Lords on Thursday night .

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      This is Omar Pacha ' s address : — " Romanon , — When the Ilussian troops before Silistria learned that I was marching against them at the head of 80 , 000 men , they retired . I am now going to cross the Danube , and hope , by God ' s help , to drive back our and your enemy to Bessarabia . Be united one with another . Your situation will shortly improve . — Omak . "

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      Adlerberg arrived . at Mrateaohti at the time that Gortschakoff was drawing . up hie plan of retreat . At this'interview n rancorous and violent discussion took place between the two generals of the Czar . In the presence of his aides-de-camp , Adlorborg upbraided tho prince with an aimless neglect of his duty , and even intimated that he was guilty of cowardicp . Tho prince , who , like most Russian officers , ia very irritable , would heur no more , but said that Adlorborg boing merely the courier of tho Czar , his duty was to deliver his despatches , and rccoivo the answer ; further , ho hud no business in the camp . To this Adlerborg , who ia more of the courtier than tho warrior , answered tranquilly that ho would rather M bo a conscientious and faithful courier , than a beaten and rotroating general . "

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      In tho Black Son , a circumstance has taken place extremely disgraceful to tho ullicd navies ; a lluaaian war-steamer , tho Vladimir , got out of iSobu&topol , steamed to tho Boaphorus , making 1 an attempt to capture nu English « toamer ; destroyed some Turkish

      vessels on her way back , and got home unperceived and uncbased by either French or English ! It was a bold deed ; j » nd the captain of the Vladimir should be remembered amongnhe heroes of the romance of war .

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      " Private telegraphic advices from JLserhn , based on authentic information , state that it is the menaced situation of the Crimea and the other maritime provincesof southern Russia , and that alone > which has induced the Czar to withdraw his troops froia the Principalities . The . Russian regiments in . Bessar . ibia and Elterson are to move in all possible haste to the Crimea , . while ' , those in Moldavia march to occupy their places . "

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      Accounts from Belgium state that , as a proof of tho conviction of the allied Governments that the Avar withltussio , -will not finish this year , contracts liave beon made at Hamburg and other places for the supply of the shipping and troops , ( luring the whole season of 1855 . The King of Sweden , in an interview with Groneral Baraguay d'Hilliers , upon being greatly complimented by the latter , with « in expression , at tho'snnae time , of tho sincere desire of the allies to have bus Majesty's active co-oporation , is stated to have naked , in reply , whether it was expected that ho should set his army in'motion against Russia , and tear the brunt of any probable check in an enemy ' s country , when the allied troops had been five months coming to tho scene of action ? We are not told how this reasonable objection was mct .-r-Morning Advertiser ( City article ) .

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      Two Gujcjvt Shaving Qukstion remains in tliid wise—Xord Raglan will issue no order on the subject , hut tlio oiHccrs and men of tho first division may wear moustaches , though they must shave , their nftbis . Brigadier Bentinok was very anxious to restrict tho growth of the moustache to a week ' s produce , after which lio recomnmnUod clipping with Buissoraj but tho Guiirda havo got their own way , and tho nioustachoia to bo nlloweil to attain tlio grtmtost development nature- permits in each caso .

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      James BurreJ , a soldier , billeted at a public-house atWhvtehaven , got " friendly" with the landlady , made % er drunk , and then ravished her , ot attempted ¦— -sheiwas-nofetvepysure which . The case has been trie&'at Cumberland Assizes this week : the prisoner found guilty of-attempt , aiiU sentenced to twelve months ' -hard labour . At'the Giiildford Assizes , Ann TBerryman , a young girl , a dressmaker , has been tried on a charge of concealing the birth of her child , and acquitted . She had been seduced ; became pregnant ; there was a premature birth of a dead infam ) ,. and , to hide her shame , she burni ; the body aiid buried the bones !

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      At : the Jjambethupolice Court , Sarah Seymour . has been a character this ^ week . She is a young , girl in love with a young man ; being on board a Thames steamer she sees her young man , on one of the piers , in 'company with , -another young woman : in her jealous despair she throws herself into the river , « n& is © nlyisaved . after great efforts . The magistrate lectures her , she ' Cries , is Very sorry , and is discharged—to make'inquiries about her young man .

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      Miss Kau . 1 , a German lady , was walking along Long-acre , a " street boy " ran behind her , and put an ignited lucifer match under her petticoats ; they caught fire : Jind the flames were with difficulty extinguished . The boy had done it in the mere spirit of mischief : and he was sent to goal for fourteen days . The sagacious magistrate said : —" The boys of Iondon were London ' s greatest curse . They were brought up tto no trade or calling , and were encouraged in every species of mischief l > y their parents . If he had the power , , h . e * wQuld order this boy to be -well -whipped . "

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      A man of the name of Dean hung himself in Liverpool this week , because , for two or three months , he had been unsuccessful . an his search for employment . In the letter which he left addresseilto his wife , he excuses the act on the plea that he -wras starving .

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      Before leaving Bucharest , Prince Gortschakoff assembled the Boyards , and thanked them fox the manner in -which they had treated the Russian troops during their stay in Bucharest . The general addod , that strategic Teasons induced hint to quit the city , but that it was not improbable he might return at an early period .

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      The French admiral in the Baltic has addressed a very Frenchy proclamation to his sailors . The following is the most salient passage : — " The Ilussian fleet keeping close at home appears resolved not to accept the combat offered by the fleets of the allies . 'Before Cronstadt our work seemed to sink to the blockade of -500 leagues of coast . The Emperor was not willingtto allow this to be so . His Majesty has selected and designated an important-object for our efforts and our guns . I am hap ; py in telling you this . The brave General Baraguay d ' Hiiliers is at hand , with 10 , 000 of our valiant troops . fhe Emperor sends his eagles to join our ships , and . show the northern regions what the powerful will of France , armed for a noble cause—the right of the weakest , and the liberty of Europe—can do . "

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      The Constantinople correspondent of the Ost Deutsche Post gives a sad account of the Turkish army at Kars , Sarif Pacha , the commander-in-ehief , is represented . as a man without intelligence , energy , or the least military knowledge . There are sinister rumours that European officers have been fired at by the irregulars , and of some of them having been publicly massacred .

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      "In addition to Xady Erroll , who remains -with her husband at Monastie , the following ladies are at Varna : — -Mrs . Carpenter , wife of the Colonel of the Forty-first Regiment ; Mrs . Wrottesley , with , her husband , the Hon . Lieutenant Wrottesley , R . E . ; Mrs . Gal ton , wife of Captain Galton , Fiftieth Regiment ; IMtrs . Jubilee , wife of Captain Jubilee , &c . Mrs . Scott , wife of Colonel Scott , of the Guards , remains with her family at Therapia , where there is quite a little colony of English " grass widows , " principally attached to officers of the naTV . "

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      The UTaib , Sheik Emin , brother-in-law of Schamyl , reached Constantinople yesterday , per Scheisser , after having conferred at Varna with tho authorities and commanders of the auxiliary forces . The Sheik landed at Bakshe-Capon , with . a retinue of mountain warriors , and thence proceeded directly to the Porte , where he was received ¦ ¦ with open arms by the Grand Vizier and all the great functionaries . The object of this visit is unkno \ vn , but it appears that the Caucasus is in . a state of the utmost commotion—that it is impossible much longer to restrain the mountain tribes .

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      Four ^ French generals have . died-x > f cholera at Gallipoli .

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      A BENEVOLENT KXPJEMTION TO THE 'BALTIC . — The Mcs&aqcrtie la ChariU says : — "Wo are informed that five Sisters of Charity have set off for Boulogne to form part of tho expedition to tho Baltic . They are to be placed on board tho hosxrital ships , where they are to attend on tho siok . "

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      7 & 0 TEE LEADER . [ Satuedax ,

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 12, 1854, page 750, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2051/page/6/