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      ^ eaia' penal servitude . The look of astonishment upon the countenances of the jurymen , whose "benevolenfc intentions had been thus properly frustrated , caused some little merriment throughout the court . The Hamburg Case . —A communication from the police of Hamburg was read by the Lord Mayor on Monday , the object of which was to deny the charge which lias been brought against them of placing obstacles in , the way of the English officer who lately wenfc ^ to Hamburg to bring back Susannah Evans , the English girl vvho > was lately decoyed away from London . They assert that they offered every facility , and that the English officer warmly expressed his acknowledgments . It has been said that the woman who took away the girl was a Jewess .

      recurred to this , and finally took away a false pair of whiskers and moustache , of dark hair . It would appear , however , that he did not use this disguise , for on Sunday he was apprehended in London dressed as a widow . . He was in company with , a woman witi whom he had formed a connexion , though he was a married man , with two children , and respectably related . His salary was £ 190 a-year , and a house rent free . The greater part of the money was found on him , and was recovered . He has been examined before tie Portsmouth Mayor , and committed for trial ; but his female companion has been discharged , as it seems probable that she knew nothing of the robbery until the arrest of the culprit .

      Mr . Baron Bramwell on the Virtue of Tariuxo and Feathering . —Mary Ann Rosser , a respectably dressed , rather elderly woman , was indicted at the Gloucester Assizes on a charge of bigamy . She was married twenty-four years ago to her first husband , by whom she had eight children . Nevertheless , he deserted her , leaving his house in company with the servant girl , with whom it was stated he was now living at Sydenham . He had suffered three months ' imprisonment for his desertion of his wife ; and , as soon as he heard of her second marriage , he wrote a letter io the prisoner , in which he claimed "'his goods /* adding , that she was " now in his power . " She was found G-uilty , but with a recommendation to mercy , on the ground of her husband ' s treatment of her . Mr . Baron Bramwell , iu passing sentence , said ,

      this was a most disgraceful ease—not on tie part of the prisoner so much as on the part of the husband . His . Lordship wished there was some law tliat would reach him , and , if he could be tarred and feathered , and paraded through Ledbury ( where the wife resided ) , or if his future life could be made in any way uncomfortable to him-, it would serve him right . He had put the law in motion , but he would have to pay for it , as the costs of the j > roseeution would not'be .. allowed . The wife , however , had broken the law , and must have some punishment , His Lordship then sentenced her to > four days' imprisonment . As the sentence dated from tte fir 3 t day of the Assizes , the effect was that the prisoner was at once discharged . Slie lef t the court with her second husband , who had been in court during the trial .

      Highway Robbery with Violence . —An attack was niade on Saturday night , between nine and ten o ' clock , in Itatcliffe-highway , on a man named Peter Fitz . He was stopped by three men , one of whom struck him . in the abdomen , while another grasped him round the waist , and a third snatched a watch out of his waistcoat pocket . They then ran away ; but one of the . three , finding himself closely pressed in pursuit , threw the watch over a fence into a yard , where it was afterwards recovered . The man was then secured , and at the Thames police office he wtis shown to be an old offender . He was committed for trial .

      . Assize Cases . —James Howell , a costermonger , has been tried at Tatmton for the murder of his wife on the 20 th of January at Ba £ h . The facts will be found reported at full in the Leader of January 26 th . The man , being jealous of his wife , appears to have kicked her in the abdomen , when she was far advanced in pregnancy , ajid to have killed botli her and her child . There was no evidence to show that the act was long premeditated , or that any deadly instrument was made use of . Mr . Justice Crowder , directed a verdict of Manslaughter , of which Howell was found Guilty . He was sentenced to six years' penal servitude . - ^ -John Moah has been sentenced at Chester to he

      transported for fourteen years for embezzling £ 560 , belonging to the Queen . —Two postmen at the Bristol office have been found Guilty at the Gloucester Assizes of stealing letter containing money . They were sentenced to four years' penal servitude .- —James Carr and Philip Wall have been found Guilty at Liverpool of murdering James House in the streets at night , by strangling him when in a state of intoxication . The evidence was merely cireurnstantinl ; but it would seem that the prisoners behaved with

      great recklessness after its committal , walking about in some of the dead man ' s cloth . es > and openly pledging part of his property at a pawnbrokers ' . They ¦ were sentenced to death . —John Ferguson has been found Guilty of the manslaug hter of Sarah Drummond , a woman with whom he cohabited , while the latter was intoxicated , and he was sober . Seeing his mother in court , he burst into tears ; but , after the judge had sentenced him to transportation , he said , addressing the jury , " Thank you , gentlemen . "

      Incendiarism Extraordinary . —A young woman , named Sarah Hunnibal ] , waa lately an inmate of the infirmary of the Yarmouth Gaol ; and on the ll ) th nit . she was heard , about eleven o ' clock at night , to ring her bell violently . On some persons running to tlie spot ., they found the woman standing in her night clothes ajul a blanket near the door , gasping for breath , and the room was full of smoke . The fire was soon extinguished , and oai the following morning

      Hunniball confessed to the chaplain that , after she had got into bod * on the night in question , she lay awake , thinking how she might destroy herself , till she recollected she had got a lucifer match , after which she got up , and , lighting the match , set fire to the bedclotheB , and then got into bed ; but when she felt the flames she did not like the pain , and got up and gave the alarm by ringing the bell . She was tried at tho Norwioh . ABaizes , and , being found Ouilty , sentence of death was recorded .

      Robbery by : a Government Cr . imic . —Portsmouth liaB been tho locality of a very ingeniously planned and b o ldly oxeoutod robbery of Government onsh . George Joseph Nathaniel Cluu-lier 3 b a young man about fivo-ajul-twonty , who lias boou a olerk for nine years in tho gan-whuif , or war doparbmont . Ho was considered a confidential clerk , and cheques for defraying tho salaries woro mado payable to him . On Friday week , ho wae sent , together with a messenger named Shappnrd , to tho lirandi Bank of England , to get cashed a ohoquo for . £ 1 , 130 . " Whon oppoBite tho bank , Ohiu-lior told Shoppnrd to ro to n certain oflioo

      , and diroot tho people to noud in thoir ( juartorly account . The mosHongcr aokod if ho nliould rejoin Uharlior at tho bank ; to which tho olork tuiMwerort "No ; go round by tho walls , and moot mo : if I ' m there first , I'll wait for you , and if you are thoro first , you oan wait for mo . " Shoppurd wont on liin emuul , and ( Jharlior , cntormg tho bank , obtained tho monoy for hia cheque , partly in oa » h , and partly in notoa ( tho nurnbuivj of which woro known und ' ntopped ) , and thon mudo oil " . Homo timo provioiwly , ho had boon to a iminlroHHor ' n , und atikocl for nomoiihing that would effectually ditiguino him . Ho frequently

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      H"AVAL AND MILITARY . The Fi-eet at Sfithead was augmented on Monday and Tuesday by the arrival of five sail of the line , a corvette , a frigate , and sundry small craft from Kingston , Queeustown , Plymouth , Liverpool and elsewhere . Some rehearsing for the grand naval review by the Queen , which is fixed for the 16 th , then took place . Loss of tub Clipper Ship Schombtjug . —Tins vessel has been lost near Cape Ofcway , wliile on her voyage from Liverpool to Melbourne . It appears that she went ashore ; but the crew were saved , and so was a large amount of merchandise .

      ference to the matters referred to them . The names of the officers whose conduct is to be inquired into were mentioned in a letter from General Yorke as being Major-General the Earl of Lucan , K . C . B . Major-General the Earl of Cardigan , K . C . B ., Major-General Sir Richard Airey , K . C . B , Quartermaster-General ; Colonel the Hon . Alexander Gordon , C . B . ( Grenadier Guards ) , Deputy Quartermaster-General . The proceedings were adjourned until Monday . The cage of Lord Lucan will be taken first ; and that of Lord Cardigan will next follow .

      The Auglo-German Legion . —It is understood that the British German Legion , which has been raised by Baron Stutterleim to meet the exigencies of the war , will be sent , now that peace lias been concluded , to the Cape of Good Hope . At the Cape , they will garrison the colony , and officers and men will receive grants of land for their military services . Colonel Worldridge ' s "brigade will return from Scutari , and form part of the force at Aldershott Camp , before embarkation for the Cape . The strength of the force will muster , by the 10 th of April , with all the recruits , about 9 , 000 men .

      Shipwreck . —The merchant sailing vessel Refomvsr ( crew , nine men ) , laden with wheat , from Alexandria to Cork , put into the Cleggau Harbour , near Clifden , a fow days since , under very painful circumstances . For nine days prior to reaching Cleggan , the supply of fresh water was completely exhausted , aud so trying was its want that three of the men bled themselves to satisfy their excruciating thiiv . t , -while none of the crew had strength sufficient to givo the least assistance to the pilot ( who joined off Boffin Island ) in casting the anchor , when they reached Cleggan Harbour . The supply of water boiug replenished , and the crew renovated , tho ship put to sea for her destination , at two x \ M . ; but the sumo ovoning she struck on it sunken rock off Shark ' s Island , wliorc she . ha ? become a wreck . Tho enptnin ' s brother aud two of tho crew were lost . —Qahvuy Vindicator .

      Dksthuotion ov a Siui" by Fire . —Tho Nonpareil , of Dartmouth , ftiiptnin Scirell , has been destroyed by firo on lier voyago from London to Balaklnva , about ninety miles from Capo Matapan . Tho orew were rosoucd by another ship . Tub Crimean 13 oa . RI ) oip Inquiry mot in the hall of the Cholson , Hospital for tho first timo on Thursday , at half-pasb cloven o ' olock , whon nothing xnoro than a fow preliminary formalities was adjusted . Tho military commissioners , who wore in full xiniform , wearing tho insignia of tho varioiis oi'dea's of which they are memboiB , woro Uonoral Sir Alexander Woodfurd , U . C . B . nr . d G . C . M . G ., General K « rl

      Beaucluuiip , Gouoral Sir George Berkeley , K . C . B ., Limit .-Gunernl Sir John Boll , K . O . B ,, Lieutcnant-CJUoioral Sir \ V . Howtui , C . B ., Major-Gcmoml Puol , M . P ., und Major Uonoral Knollvn . Tho hiibrttiUiUun ot * J- > ir Alexander Wood foul for Lord Soatou , aud uf Sir ( Joorgo llurknloy for Sir Tlmnmn M ' JMahon , mono Iron ) tlio iudisportition of the aUu'iib ollluora . Mr . LI 1 ' . Yillioi'H , ML I ' ., attended us Ju < lgoAdv <;< iato-Qc > xioral , nml Colonel DougluM re-pm-JoiiLuil Uio A > tljuUnl- () oncralVi ] . ) o }> i \ rtmuul ; liiuutcnaut-Colonul Hugut , olV \ - oiatod a « Secretary to the lioard . A lolloi * from Lord Paumuro ivafl runcl , conveying tho Qviucn ' ri coiuuuuuIh that tho Board uhouUl submit , to lior JMijodty " \ vliat , in thoir jiulumuut , may L > o bout to ); o tluuo with ro-

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      OBITUARY . Sir CHARtES Hotham . —Accounts have been received of the death of Sir Charles Hotham , Governor of Victoria . He had been suffering from choleraic diarrhoea , but was recovering , when the vexation experienced in his vain endeavcatrs to form a Ministry , brought on a state of nervous irritability which soon affected the brain , and ultimately he was seized with epileptic fits ( to which he had never before been subject ) , and became comatose . In this condition he remained till his death . He was bom in 1806 , and had erved with distinction in the navy , particularly in the Parana , against Rosas , in . 1845—6 . In virtue of the commission issued in his favour , he will be succeeded by the senior military officer , Major-General Edward Macarthur , who belongs to a family long and intimately connected with New South Wales .

      Mb , Justice Torrens . —The Hon . Robert Torrens , one of the Justices of the Court of Convmon Pleas in Dublin , died on Saturday last at Loughborough , after a few hours' illness . He was appointed as far back as 1823 , and had been called to the bar in 1798 . He was one of the Judges recently alluded to by Sir John Shelley , in his observations a few weeks ago in the House of Commons , on the great age of the Irish judges ; and only a very few days ago , in reply to an address of confidence and respect from the grand juries of the Northern Circuit ; , lie Baid he would not resign as long as he felt his powers unimpaired . The Right Hon . Henrt Watkint Williams Wy nn died on the 28 th . ult ., afc Llauvoida , Salop , in his seventy-third year .

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      MISCE 1 LAME 0 US . Health ov London . —Tho total number of deaths registered in the week that ended on Saturday , was 1 , 396 . In the corresponding weeks of the ten years 1846-55 , the average number was 1 , 285 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 1 , 413 . There is a difference of only 17 between the corrected average and the number actually registered in the week . The increase in the deaths regtitei'ad in the last week of March over those in the beginning of the month , when the number in a week wna about 1 , 10 <) , is not caused by an increased rate of mortality , but arises from more than a due proportion of coroneTs' cases beiug entered in the register books at the end of the quarter . In the present

      table , 5 deatha are referred to inteuaporauce , 8 to poison , 27 to burns and scalds , 6 to hanging , 10 to suffocation , 20 to drowning , 35 to fractures , 7 to wounds and other injury , and 40 are placed to sudden deaths . The deaths classed under those heads constitute a great majority of the cases on which inquests are held . Of 228 deaths produced by the zymotic or epidemic class of diseases , 65 woro causod by typhus and common fever , which cases occurred chielly in the eastern and southern divisions ; 51 by hoopingcough , 28 by Bcarlatiua , 23 by menslcs , 13 by smallpox , and only 4 by diarrhoea . PhthiuiB wns fatal in 141 caseB , of -which ' ^ 9 occurred to p orsoua under 20 years of ago , 01 between 20 aud 40 years , 41 between 40 and CO , and 10 to liurBotiM who luid passed that

      period of life . Brouoliitiii curried off 127 persons , nearly half of whom woro men and woman more than 60 years old . Twolvo women died after ohilrtbirth . Fivo persona died froxu intemperance , without inoludiiig iu tho number tliono who may have xe ooivod fatal iujury iu a state of intoxication . A smoker diud lVuiu mixing stramonium with hii tobuooi ) . 'J hoi'O woro alwo i ) deaths from ileliriw > trait en it . A boy of 9 years , diud in S alto r ' s-al ley , St Ooui'gu-iu tho-Hlaftt , from cretinism . Three person diud on the ISlh , 23 rd , and 281 U Muroh i-oHpcetively from -want . — Lnufc wock , the birthm of 0 i ) 4 boyw turn 1 ) 83 k ' h-Ih , in nil 1 , tf 77 children , woro vogiulorocl i London . In tho ten corresponding woolen of th yoai-H lS ' i ( i-BC > , tho avoragu » umber m'uh 1 , 044 . —Froi the Ucf / ialrur-UencruCs Weekly Jtieturn .

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      Aphil 5 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER . 321

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 5, 1856, page 321, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2135/page/9/