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    refused , to giywhi * » e * l plaee « fc abode ,, because he did aofc , wi 8 bj W disgtaea his coawoiona ,. was cbargsd at GWwieh , oa Saturday , with stealu ^ some ^ sAve * SDmas from a tavern , aadt was icommitted for txaaL . Woman Beating , i- John Rosa W charged at WorahiBKstreefc -with , aifewMaous ? assault on Eliza Harringatpn-. Th *» woma » had lived with the man a » hiswife for two years , during the whole , of which time ish » had bete exposed to ill-usage . Thia reached its consummation « few days ago * when the prisoner , who was drank , beat and kicked- her with ; great violence . He had . said on a previous occasion that ; if she left hua * . he would " put- her : away on the quiefc" Before the magistrate , he wished , he might " never enter Heaven . " If Jiq had stiuck her ^ but the magistrate , decided that he ; should eater the House of Correction for sis . months , and be there kept to hard labour .

    CRtnsurx-to a Hoksk . —Joseph Day , a cab-drrver , was on Saturday sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment with hard labour for ill-using , his . horses He had been remanded from a previous day ; and , after a great deal of prevarication , admitted that he had kept the horse ont for - thirty-two hours * It would - appear , also , that the- poor animal had not had any food during that time ^ bat this was denied by Day , who asserted that he purchased corn for it three- times , in the course-of-the time daring . which it was wocfcjng . The horsey heweve * , died in consequence of the ill-usage which he hod received . . Sarah Mack , an . oyster-woman , has been committed for-trial on a charge of , stabbing a customer in a publichouse with aa . oyster-knife . The woman had demanded more money . ; and , this being ; refused , she committed the assault .

    Robbery . —At the Mansion House , William M'Alister and Richard Neale , two men in the employ of Elizabeth and Jane Collinson , ironmongers , of Lombard-street , were charged with robbing their employers of ten table spoons and other : articles . A police constable said that on- the previous evening he saw the prisoners in the workshop of Mrs . Collinson , with a small bundlo lying oarthe bench . Suspecting something wrong , he watched them , and saw them come out , when he inquired what their parcel-contained . Their replies not satisfying him , he "took them to the station-house , where ten spoons and several pieces- of copper and other metal-were found upon them . - The- prisoners , ' who denied the charge against them , were committed for trial .

    Th » Irish ; rsr Dctbkam . —A series of calamities has , Coring the last week , kept JDurham in a state of great alarm . Several Irishmen belonging to some ironworks began ; fighting' among themselves , and , on the interference of the police , a serious riot ensued , and one of tHe constables was so shockingly maltreated that his life is despaired of . It was not until a reinforcement of police arrived with drawn cutlasses that the disturbance waa suppressed ; but another riot broke out on a later day . This , however , was more quickly put down . Shortly after this , a servant girl was found'murdered on the banks of the Tees ; and on one of the intermediate days , some Irishmen and women , while intoxicated , were ditarwned in- the river .

    Thb Rochdale Mvbder . —The woman murdered whilst asleep in bed by her supposed husband , on Sunday week , at a public-house in Rochdale , has been identified as Margaret Jones , a widow " , from Salford . She had' three sons living in Manchester , and they folly identified th « body on Saturday evening . There ia reason to believe that she left Manchester on the day before the murder with a " fettler" in a foundry , ' named Jonathan Heywood , about the age of the man nonr in custody ^ a& 4 § dressed a good deal like him . Heywood is said to have taken her away under a promise of marriage , and the police are making inquiry after him . Highway Robbery . —James Taylor was charged at ibte ' liambetffc police-office , on Monday , with robbing and mttrdenmsly assaulting Charles Powers , in Albert-street ; London-road . * He . * was assisted by ft woman of the town , wbo ira » not ? in custody . The case- was remanded .

    Danbbx MrrcHBiiL I > avti > son , Cosmo WirxrAM Gordon , and Joskph WnrotE Comb , were at length , last Monday , finally examined at Guildhall ; and committed'for trial . Tim Latb Riots . —James Hutchins and Walter Ford , tlie Grenadier Guardsmen charged with' inciting the mob td break windows on the 8 th of Jury , have not been brought up for trial , the grand jury ignoring the biH against them . The two youths concerned in the same affair have been bound over to keep the peace tor six months .

    Stuahan , Faui ^ and Bates . —Another examination o £ Messrs . Strahan , Paul , and Bates took place on Wednesday ; but , owing to the absence of a material witness on the continent , a farther remand became necessary . 11 ' appeared that four of Dr . Griffith ' s bonds had been traced to Bfosare . Smith , Payna , and Co ., who hold thorn ott account of a gentleman named Sylcos , by whom they are claimed . A Mr . Beattie seems to have been the first person who received them from the prisoners , and he is not expected to return from abroad until September . An a final commitment is not likely to take place until that month , th « magistrate agreed to accept ball for the prisoners if it should be tendered . Two sacurltioB for an aggregate of 6000 ? . -will be required for each of them .

    NAVALASD MIMTARY NEWS . Gknehai . Sib Geobge . Baovircsr as Leaminqxon . —The gentry of Leamington and the immediate neighbourhood presented on Saturday last a nuinexously-signcd address to Sir George Brown ^ who is at present residing at . Leamington for the benefit of . his- health . The Hon . C . B . Percy * , in presenting the address , made , a grandiloquent speech , the chief point in which consisted of a fling , at the " presumptuous and irresponsible press . " The- address was of a piece with this introductory oration : in the course of it , the coneocters stated they were " ashamed to avow" that they had " a tear for those who have nobly fallen in their country ' s cause ; " but whether the said tear was there and then produced is not recorded . Furthermore , ; they hoped that " the God of Battles" ( commonly called Mars ) -would preserve the life of Sir George Brown to his family and " to a grateful

    and applauding country . " In reply , Sir George Brown indignantly denied the assertion (^ traceable to the aforementioned " unscrupulous press" ) that common soldiers are desirous of rising from the ranks ; contending , on the contrary , that the service would be much less popular if the men thought they had any chance of being rewarded for good conduct , and that they love their officers precisely because the latter are gentlemen . Lakewise , he wa& of opinion that the men , though ready to follow , always expeated to be led ; that the number of officers tilled hears an undue proportion to that of the men ; that the constitution of the army must not be interfered with ; , and that had French officers been examined on the- Sebastopol Committee , a very different account would have heen given of the state of our troops . Highly gratified with these sentiments , the deputation withdrew .

    Lieutenant FrrzCLARKUCE died on Wednesday week , from the effects of his . wounds , at the English hospital at Constantinople , to which place he had been conveyed from Balaklava . He was serving as aide-de-camp to his colonel , the late Colonel Yea , and with him took part in the unsuccessful attack on the . Redan , on the 18 th of June , when he was dangerously wounded . He suffered amputation of the left leg and the right hand , and gradually sank . A few weeks previously , he had attained his eighteenth year . The Lauxch of tho ? Mablborougii . —The longexpected launch of this gigantic vessel took place on Tuesday , at Portsmouth , under very unfavourable circumstances , the weather being extremely rainy . The Queen , however , was at her post , the Mayor and

    corporation were present in their robes of office , and there was a great crowd of loyal and shouting people . Her Majesty having christened the ship , and bid " Success to the Marlborough . ! " with the usual libation of a broken bottle of wine , the blocks were knocked away ; but , after moving two-thirds out of the shed , the huge vessel came to a stand-still—her very first performance thus proving to be anything but successful . About midnight , however , she was got off by the united exertions of two thousand men . —The following are some of the dimensions , &c , of the Marlborough : —Length between the perpendiculars , 245 feet 6 inches ; length of keel for tonnage , 20

    tons . The Queen at the Military Hospital at Portsea . —After the launch ( if it may be so called ) of the Marlborough , the Queen visited the Military General Hospital at Portsea , and remained there on hour and a half * passing from bed to bed of the wounded men , and asking . each- several questions , the kindness of which drew forth from one of the sufferers the exclamation " God bless her !" Massacre of a Boat ' s Cbbw by Savaobs . —The

    Jeuno Lucie ,. wfcicli arrived , at Sydney , New South Wales , on the 19 th of April , from the Solomon Islands , reports that a boat with seven men , belonging to a vessel which iliad » been wrecked , had arrived at a small island south of Woodlaik Island , and that the men -were massacred by the natives as soon as they landed . A missionary attho island had purchased a apy-glass , on which " ¦ J . Penny" marked in pencil , from a native who stated that it had been found in the boat . The remainder of the shipwrecked crow was supposed to have gone to the island of Toborand .

    Tub iuate CoMJNBt Lowrw . — The brother of this officer , who died on board the HanBa transport at Porksmonth , just after its arrival from th « Crimea , has written to the Time * to say that it wa » thought advisable to remove the Colonel from the ship , only a . little more than half an hour before hia death , on account of the ill-ventilated and ?? pestilential" state of . hjb cabin . The Treatment of the Wotjnded after the 18 th ob * JtmB . —Georgo HE . B . Macleod , Surgeon to the Civil Hospital , Smyrna , and Henry J . L . Rooke , Civil Surgeon , have written from the camp to contradict the atatementa of " M . R ' . O . S ., L . S . A ., " in the Times , with reference to the cruel neglect of the wounded after the attaokof the 18 th of June .

    CArTAm Couitr IMFAxwtcm ,, 98 rd Highlanders , been cashiered "for having been drunk oiv duty under arms , -when parading forthe trenches , on th © evening of the 10 ih of Jnly , at the camp before Sevastopol . " Capt .

    Charles Spencer Clayner has -also been caahiered on a Bimila ? charge ^ an 4 , in both cases , a recommendation hy the court to favourable consideration on account of long' service * has merely elicited from General Simpson a promise to lay the cases before Lord Haidioge ,

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    CONTIlTElSrTAL tfOTES . ThbFrench Loan . —The subscriptions forthe National Loan closed on Monday . The results , as stated to the Emperor by the Minister of Finance , are as follow : — The amount subscribed will bo about 8 , 600 , 000 , 000 fr . The subscriptions of 50 fr . rente and below , declared not reducible , figure in this sum at from 280 , 000 , 000 fr . to 236 ^ 000 , 000 fr . The subscriptions of 60 ft . and above * submitted to a proportional reduction , will be about 3 , 860 , 000 , 000 fr . The departments will have provided nearly 230 , 000 subscribers , and subscribed more- than 1 , 000 * 000 , 000 fr . of capital . Altogether , 310 , 000 persons have taken part in the subscription . The sub * scriptions from abroad , in Europe , from England , Holland , Belgium , Germany , Switzerland , &c , exceed 200 , 000 , 000 fr .

    A sharp shock of an earthquake . wa& felt at Lyons between twelve and one o ' clock in the . afternoon of Wednesday week . Some houses were damaged , but no lives lost . The same shock waa felt at Valence , on the Rhone , and indeed along the whole of the east of France . Some chimneys were thrown down , bells were set ringing , and a degree of oscillation and trembling was felt in the houses . Accounts received from Italy , Switzerland , and parts of Germany , agree in stating that the shock extended to all those countries . Great preparations are being made for the reception , of our Queen at Paris , St . Cloud , and Versailles . The theatre at the latter place is being fitted up . In the Champ de Mars , a grand review is to take place . which is

    The story of General Castellane , now exciting so much amusement in Paris , becomes important aud significative if attentively considered . . The facts seem to be these ;—In announcing the death of General Mayran , killed before Sebastopol , the employe of tha telegraph made some mistake—used one sign for another . Now the old soldier , who keeps Lyons under footforcing it to produce silk and satios to seem exceedingly loyal , and ^ to treat the " rights of man" with affected contempt under constant threat of bombardment—was never remarkable for sense ; and is rapidly becoming blind , deaf , and furious . He read : — " The Emperor is no more : communicate the fact in appropriate terms to the army . " For a man of his calibre he reasoned rapidly .

    " The son of Jerome will never do 0 lot a remarkable effort by the way ) . As for the Republic , I have shot too many of that sect without trial . What shall it be ? Henri V . or—a run for it . " Then he dashed down a rather clever proclamation on paper : — " The Emperor is dead—so is the Empire . Henri V . will give us liberty and order . Vivo Henri V . ! " With this sketch he proceeded to the PreTet , who , having received no despatch , was confounded . According to the usual habit of preTeta , he advised the General " to wait , just to see which way the wind would blow . " But , saya the story , the proclamation was-actually issued , and several copies were pasted up on the walls of the city . The preset telegraphed to his private friends , ascertained the truth ^

    became outrageously indignant and loyal , and actually ventured , for the first time in his life , to bully the General , who scratched his head and told him to " to . " Meanwhile , at Paris , great waa the rage of the unfortunate son of Jerome , for whom , by-the-way , even his friends caw only say— " Everybody thought Louis Napoleon a fool—he turns out to bo a clever governor : everybody thinks this man a fool—therefore he may be a man of genius . " The King of the Exposition insisted that General Castellano should be dismissed ; but his . cousin , though somewhat disgusted at seeing his dynaaty pooh-poohed in this manner , wisely said— " If v / e got rid of all who are compromised with uson . whom shall we be able to depend T

    , Among the interesting objects in the French Exposition in a specimen of wheat ue » t from Brivoa , in thu department of the Corroze . It i » a new speciea introduced from America by the Count Hubert do St . Mursault on his estnto of Puy , near Pcrpezac . The mean height of the stalk is over six feet , and the thickness three times that of common wheat-straw . An ear sometimes contains a hundred grains . Thia wheat grows in an ordinary soil , which it docs not seem

    to exhaust in proportion to its yield . The agricultural mind ia slow to adopt novelties however commondftbio , but bo successful an experiment will surely excite emulation . M . do St . Marnault is the 8 on-ln-lawof General Lallemand of the famous Champ d'Aailoj and a , rol « tivo by marriage , therefore , of the well-known » St « phon Girard , benefactor of Philadelphia . Tho » wheat of the Puy , " as it ia called , proceeds from a small parcel brought away o » a memento from tho Champ d'Asilo Itself .

    The condition ot Austrian Italy is at prosent somawhafe ominous of approaching disturbances The army ia to bo increased by 40 , 000 mo »; and the Turin Correspondent of the- Timwt aoyn that - he heare on tfood authority that it i « in contemplation to setup for . Hiile by

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 4, 1855, page 738, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2101/page/6/