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    December 29 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER . 1241

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    AMERICA . The Washington Legislature Lad not , up to the last advicss , decided upon its Speaker . Mr . Banks , Republican Know-nothing , had obtained the greatest number of votes—106 ; but the necessary number is 112 ; and , after forty-five ballots , the matter still remains open . Advices from Washington state that it has been ascertained , beyond the possibility of cavil , that a despatch has been received from Mr . Buchanan , relative to the Crampton difficulty , the tenor of which was , that the English Government , in a courteous but positive manner , declined giving such explanations as have been demanded by the United States' Government regardiug the alleged violation of the neutrality laws by English agents . The Boston International Journal has an article defending Mr . Crampton from the charges brought against him , in the course of which that gentleman ' s circular to his various agents is quoted , to show " how anxiously he sought to make all persons respect the law . " In this document , Mr . Crampton says : — " The information to be given will be simply that , to those desiring to enlist in the British army , facilities will be afforded for so doing on their crossing the line into British territory , aud the terms offered by the British Government may be stated as matter of information only , and not as implying any promise or engagement on the part of those supplying such information , so long at least as they remain within American jurisdiction . " Affairs at Kansas have assumed a serious aspect ; and a demand made by the Governor of the country to the Federal Government for the assistance of troops has been refused . Under date of the 6 th Last ., it is stated that 400 or 500 men , accompanied by artillery and . 1 , 000 muskets , had passed through the town of ^ Independence for the purpose of maintaining order . The Indians on the frontiers continue their depredations . An action has taken jjlace at Rouge River Valley between four hundred of the United States' troops , together with volunteers , and three hundred Indians , ending in the retreat of the former with a loss of eighteen men . The town called Canon City has been entirely destoyed by fire . It is reported that several fine diamonds have been found in the tunnels of the Table Mountain , California ; and and the accounts from the mines generally are highly satisfactory . The Governments of San Salvador , Honduras , and Costa Rica , have strongly protested to the United States' Government against the recognition of the present Nicaraguan Government , and declared themselves resolved to exterminate foreign adventurers who might invade their soil for revolutionary purposes . The United States' Government , however , having received information that an expedition against Nicaragua was being organised in New York , has taken steps to prevent it . In Nicaragua itself , the new Government is proceeding very successfully ; trade " and commerce are reviving ; and several families havo returned to their homes . Colonel j Parker H . French has been appointed Minister Pleni- j potentiary to the United States ; and it is said that he is vested with extraordinary powers , to enable him to settle the difficulties existing between the United States , England , and Nicaragua . From the New York commercial accounts wo learn that symptoms of a returning stringency in the mone 3 ' market were apparent . The stock market was quiet nd firm .

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    O . U R CIVILISATION . The Cudham Murder . —Robert Thomas Palin haa , been tried at Maidatone for the murder of Jane Beagley on the 25 th of last August , and has been acquitted . Mr . Denman , who defended Palin , commented upon the absence of any appearance of blood upon the clothes of the prisoner , although , according to the cnee for the prosecution , ho was aeon a very Bhort time after the murder h . ad been committed . He also observed upon the discrepancy in the evidence of the witnesses who wore called to prove that the prisoner was the man who was seen coming from the cottage after the murder , and said that , if . they were really satisfied that he was the man they saw , it was very extraordinary that they did not Hay bo upon their first examination , and that thoy should have waited until they wore aware that the clothes had been found in the possession of the prisoner before thoy expressed themselves positive with regard to his identity . A Youthful Ajjduotoh . —William England and Alfrod England , father and son , wore found guilty at the Central Criminal Court of taking away a girl under thirteen yearn of ago , from her mother . It appeared that the child , who looked at least seventeen , had been carried to a lodging whoro she lived with , the younger prisoner ( who wan nineteen ) as hia wife . The father of the youth had aided in [ the abduction of the girl . The girl ' s mother gave the following extraordinary particulars of the progroos of the courtuhip : — " Upon one occasion , the younger prisoner and hia eister stayed up in the bedroom with my two daughters all night . Thoro was but one bed in the room . The younger prisoner had ho

    barred and bolted the bedroom door that I could noi -, get in until the morning , when I fetched the youugei prisoner's mother and a carpenter , and broke oper , the door and turned him out of the house . Upor another occasion I found him and his sister , my twe daughters , and the servant , all upon the bed together They used to play together as children would . I uevei let him into the house again after he bolted hinisel : into the bedroom . " The father was sentenced tc two years' imprisonment , and the . son to six months ' Palin , is now in custody , aud under remand , chargec with the committal of a burglary . The Poisoning Case at IIugelev . —It is statec that Mr . Palmer , the surgeon now in custody on tkc charge of poisoning Mr . Cook , and lying under strung suspicion of having caused the deaths of several othei j persons , possessed a horse some years ago which h « ' called "Strychnine . " This horse , it is added , figured rather mysteriously on the turf . The bodies of Mr Palmer's wife and brother have been taken from then graves for the purpose of a post-mortem examination 1 Cruelt y to a Boy . —Thomas Weir , captain of tht ' brig Bells , of Blyth , is now in custody at Sunderlaud , charged with ill-using Horatio Bere , a boy twelve years old , who was an apprentice on board his vessel ; Besides severely beating and kicking him , the captair 1 had deprived the lad of his food for a considerable j time , had torn the hair from his head , and had taken away his clothes . The boy ' s life is considered in great danger . Daring Robbery at Oxford . — A number oi watches were taken from the window of Mr . Leir , 8 I silversmith at Oxford , whiLe that gentleman was j sitting in his back room . The window was broken . j and the property snatched through the gap , the thieves escaping , though the street was crowded . A Drunken Policeman with a Pistol . —A police man at Liverpool was found by his inspector drunk | on his beat , on Christmas-eve , aud was ordered to go j to the station-house , which he did . There he pulled out a pistol , and threatened the life of the inspector . The weapon , it appears , he carried to protect himself ¦ from some ruffianly characters against whom , he had ! formerly procured a conviction . The constable was Ixemanded ; but , considering his previous excellent condition , he will only be bound over to keep the peace . A Christmas-day Robbery . — Henry Williams , James Turner , and James Terry were charged at Worship-street with robbery . Mr . William Gascoyney is a master butcher , having a private residence at Dalston , and business premises in Curtuiu-road , Shoreditch , at which place the business was carried on by ' hid sister ' s husband , a Mr . Rawson , who with his family went to spend Christmas-day with another relative in Tower-street , City . There , between seven and eight in the evening , they were alarmed by a sudden intimation that their house had been broken into and plundered , and , on getting back to the house , they fouud it in a etate of confusion . Observing marks of blood on Borne of the bed clothes , and searching under them , they discovered beneath the counterpane a watch , rings , brooches , and other articles of jewellery , mingled with a quantity of silent matches , loosely thrown there by the thieves . The discovery of the robbery and the prisoner ' s connexion with it wore as follows : —Goss aud Eastman , two cabinetmakers , were standing , one in the front and the other in the rear of Mr . Gascoyne ' s premises , when the former saw five men , the prisoners and two others , watching the house . One did something to the street door , but went back to his confederates , and the three prisoners entered the house , shutting the door after them . Goss fetched a neighbour , as ho know the family were out , and Turner was then seen at the front window , with a light in his hand , pulling down the blind . Eastman at the same time Haw lights in tho second-floor back room ,, and accordingly fetched tho police , tho consequence of which was thut the house was completely surrounded by constables . Williams dropped from a wall , full twenty foot high , in the rear , and was secured by an officer . He was fallowed by Turner , who dropped tho samo height , and was immediately seized by Eastman . A police sergeant , in tho meantime , scaled a wall belonging to tho next house , and , breaking open tho fir . st floor window , got in , and made his way to one of tho top rooms , whoro ho saw Terry standing in tho contro of tha door , mid seized him , tho man offering no resistance . Threw skeleton keys were found in his pocket . On tho road to the station , his coat wan found to bo ripped up , and his left arm was blooding most profusely . On tho police asking tho cauuo , Terry replied that ho was making his way up through tho slaughterhouse to gain admission to Homo othor part , when his foot slipped , ho foil , and remained noino time suspended on a large moat hook , which had struok into his arm . Having lodged tho prisoner in tho station and returned to the house , the police found property strewn in all directions , while iunido tho slaughterhouse word a silver buttorknifo and finger-ring . Tho marks upon the doors , drawers , and olosots hftd evidently boon made by a powerful screwdriver , which for some time could not

    b j be found anywhere , but was at length discovered at r the bottom of the waterbutt . —All tho prisoners were i remanded . i Another Burglary . —A burglary waa committed > as far back as the 11 th of November , on the premiaes . of a jeweller in . Hollo way . Some policemen having i' received intimation of the fact shortly after its coni-£ mittal , went to the shop , which projects from tho ) front of the house , aud found three men on the roofl . One of the officers climbed up , when he was seized I by a man named Home , who flung him . down on . to the pathway , breaking his arm , and otherwise severely I hurting him . The burglar then got down himself , i seized the constable by the hair , and beat his head ; against the pavement aud some railings . Iu connexion * with thia robbery and assault , throe men were exs amined last Monday at the Clerkeuvvell Police Court ; L one of whom was discharged for want of sufficient . evidence . Another , named Impey , was committed for trial , and Home was sentenced to hard labour for . six months . s I Suspected Murder at N " KwcASTr . E-oN-TvNE . —Mi's . , Beardrnore , wife of the landlord of a railway hotel at s Newcastle-ou-Tyne , has died from the effects of a fall . from her bedroom window through the glass roof of i an arca . de beueath . Previous to her death , she s several times accused her husbaud of flinging her out i iu a fit of jealousy ; but Mr . Beardmoro has endeal voured to show that his wife threw herself out of the window in a frenzy of drunken passion . He has F been admitted to bail . i Cruelt y to Horses . — Three cases of working » horses while they were suffering from sores and , wounds were heard at the Marylebone police office on i Wednesday . Fines varying in amount were imposed . A Hard Case . —A sailor , uineteen years of age , who - only arrived from tho Crimea on Saturday last , entered : the Lambeth police court with his two sisters and little brother , the three latter being scantily dressed , while two of them were without shoes or stockings . He said that eighteen mouths ago he got appointed as ' i ordinary seaman on board a transport and sailed for i the Crimea . After discharging her cargo , his ship was sold to the Turkish Government , and , on leaving j her , he got a situation . as servant to an officer , and lived with him for some time . Having heard that hia | mother was in a very delicate state of health , he felt uneasy about her , and , being anxious to get home , hia master kindly proeuz-ed him a passage . On Saturday . - at mid-day , he reached home from . Portsmouth , and found his mother dead aud in her coffin , and the three children who accompanied him in a state of great destitution . On Sunday , his mother was buried at tho expense of a gentleman for whom his father , who died six year * ago , used to work ; and , on Monday , a broker waa put in by tho landlord who swept everything in the place away . The children wore removed to tho house of an aunt , and she , boing a very poor ' woman herself and totally uuublo to support them , took them to the workhouse of Newiugton parish ; but tho relieving officer , B . owmau , refused either to relievo or receive them , alleging as his reason that ' , they slept out of tho parish of Nowhigton and in that ' of Lambeth , aud thoy must , therefore , be passed in ! the regular way . In reply to the questions of the ' magistrate , the applicant said that his father and ! mother had for upwards of twenty years rented a house at £ 30 a-year , and paid taxes all that time to the parish of Nevvington . The magistrate directed that inquiries should bo made ; and on tho following day the summoning officer stated that , ufter a great deal of trouble , aud having overcome tho objection /* of tho parochial authorities , by causing tho children to sleep a night in tho parish of Nowiugtou , ho induced the former to tako tho destitute outcasts into tho workhouse . Mysterious Case op Swindling—boveral moiithn ago Messrs . Barton and Uuestior of Bordeaux were defrauded of £ 200 by a man unknown to thorn who presented a letter of credit which wan stolen last beta-* uary from Dr . A . R . Sutherland , while travelling from Malaga to Seville . Having hoard that two Spaniards , uamod Masip and Corta / . a , had been tried and convicted in this country for attempting to defraud several Spanish merchants , Messrs . Barton and Unentier wrote to Alderman Finnis , giving a description of tho person and dress of the man who had swindled thorn , aud inquiring if the uppoaranco of # jitlior ot tlio Spaniards at oil oomwpondod with tjint « l « woription Neither of them , however , iu any way ruBeiubied ttio person describe * in Mo , U IJarto » . « n « l " »«* £ " letter , and it was therefore evident that they were not guilty of tho fraud . Further stops wore then ? aken to discover tho culprit a » , l Mown .. ' * ' £ '" ™* Gnestior shortly afterwards learned that in AJgieiw , duringVo winter of J 863-54 , a K « ntl « inan named Lambert owning Lugo smelting works in Swansea , SrVS wo , uuoeromoi . ioi . Hly visited by « stranior whose name doos not appear . t seem * , howoJor ' that Mr . Lambert and Wh fa . nly Lked thi . mysterious gentleman ' s room hotter than his company , Se he greatly annoyed and disgusted them by hi . behaviour ! In tho winter following the same individual went to Malaga , where he took up hia abod .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 29, 1855, page 1241, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2121/page/5/