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    je Mitchell . The Assistant-Judge sentenced George lell to six -vreeks' imprisonment , and afterwards to it to Redhill Reformatory for three years ; Charles Mitchell to imprisonment for four months ; and Ann Mitchell for eight months . Mutinous Seaman . —An Italian seaman , named rio Blackman , was charged at the . Thames policewith assault and mutinous conduct while on board iiip Glenroy on her passage from Calcutta to Lon-Gn the day after he joined the ship ' s company , is ill , or pretended to be so , arid deserted . He was jht onboard , however , and the captain , in conside-1 of his apparently unhealthy state , gave him light about the decks . On the 11 th of last Ma 3 ' , he and

    nen of the ship had a quarrel , and Blackman tened the latter . He was ordered to go below , but snt to the cook ' s galley instead , where , he armed ilf witli an iron bar and two knives . With , these ons he went up to the fore topmast , and threatened b anybody who should attempt to bring him down . ; aptain having in vain fired blank cartridge at him , up the carpenter and some other men to fetch iown , and , after a hard struggle , during ¦ which he ed one man , he was secured and put in irons . These , ver , he got off , and again cameos deck , armed with avy iron bolt , and greatly alarmed everybody by Lurderous threats . After a desperate resistance , he seized and put below again , and at the request of

    rew , he -was then handcuffed and fettered . Shortly wards , the ruffian appeared repentant and submissive , was allowed to go on deck for a short time , but he previously armed himself with a knife and an iron and as soon as he was set free , lie used deadly its to everybody on board . He secreted himself in rk place ; and , on the captain going to him armed a loaded pistol , which he fired without effect at the an , the latter struck him a heavy blow over the left with his iron bar , which completely stunned him , he bled profusely from the wound . The fellow was i more secured and kept in close confinement for the ainder of the voyage . Mr . Selfe fined him 51 . or two iths' imprisonment , for the assault on the captain , passed a similar sentence on him for assaulting the

    Eerminez actually lived in lodgings with her as her husband . The mother deposed to the receipt of money at various times for the support of the child , which assistance had ceased for about eight months ; but the alleged father , -while admitting that he had given money , said it was only from charity . He also acknowledged that he gave the mother a shilling on , the child ' s birthday to make a plum-pudding ; but this was merely out of kindness . He was ordered to pay the half-crown a week usual in these cases . Assault . —Charles Bankes , the son of ' a woman who keeps a disreputable house , has been sent to prison for a month with hard labour , for assaulting a policeman , ¦ whom he savagely kicked in the abdomen , without provocation .

    The End op the Tragedy . —Mr . James Holmes Hopkinson , the chemist and druggist of Broad-street , Katcliffe-highway , whose wife was last week brought before the Thames magistrate for attempting to poison herself , owing to her husband's ill-usage of her , has since died under very dreadful circumstances . On the very evening of the day when his wife was discharged , he went with her to a coffee-house at Charing Cross , and , while drinking some tea , ruptured a blood-vessel , and vomited a large quantity of blood- He was taken home in a cab , and medical assistance was called in ; tut all in vain . An attack of delirium , tremens , consequent on Mr . Hopkinson's drinking habits , supervened , and , after making a will , in which lie left all his property to his wife , who attended him with great devotion , lie expired / He was only twenty-nine .

    Attempt to Drown . —A dreadful attack has been made upon a young woman residing at Kirn , in Scotland . She accepted an offer of a sail in a rowing-boat on Holy Loch * , The man who made the offer -was Hugh Murray , a mason and a married man . After they had proceeded some distance , the ruffian made dishonourable proposals to her , and , on her refusing to grant his requests , he repeatedly attempted to drown her . Her cries for help at length brought some boatmen to her assistance , and she was found nearly exhausted by her struggles in the water . Murray escaped , and has not since been apprehended .

    ' he Fatazj Case op Practical Joking . —A verdici lanslaughter has been returned by the corouer ' s jury inst Jacob Francis , the man who killed his fellowourer in a corn-field by throwing a barley-fork at i , as related in our last week ' s paper under the head " Accidents and Sudden Deaths ; " and he has been imitted by the magistrates for trial . It would seem was irritated against Burriclge at the time , but that liad no intention of killing him . Francis ' s father , an man , who was deeply affected , said his son had never n quite right in his mind from his birth , and that the er men -were in the habit of teasing him . Stabbing by A German Soldier . —A soldier belongto the German Legion has inflicted several deep stabs

    the shoulder and arm of one of his comrades , with om he had a quarrel in the village of Wivenhoc . 3 wounds , though very serious , are not mortal . The prit is under arrest . The conduct of the German liers has latterly been of great annoyance to the agers . L Fraudulent Bankrupt . — An adjourned certifie meeting , in connexion with the affairs of Charles ery , a colonial broker in Fenchurch-street , took place the Court Of Bankruptcy on Wednesday . He had ded from 1846 to 1855 , though without any capital , L had kept himself up by means of false cheques . He I been indicted for obtaining goods and money by le pretences , and also for obtaining goods three months he

    ore was adjudged a bankrupt , with intent to cheat creditors ; but he was acquitted , having evaded litity by petitioning the Bankruptcy Court under the angement Clauses . The Commissioner suspended his tificato for two months beyond the present time , withding protection ; and , for eighteen months from the e of the petition , there will be a further suspension . b bankrupt was arrested on leaving- the court . V . FFIUA . TION Case . —Thomas Preston , who described naelf as clerk to a conveyancing barrister , nnd who is o a Sunday-school teacher , was summoned at Lamh to show cause why a certain illegitimate c hild » uld not be fathered on him . The allegation of the ther was that he had seduced her under promise of ¦ rriag e . The two had been * keeping company' for ne time ; but Preston had latterly deserted the girl ,

    I is now engaged to another woman . The young n denied the imputed paternity , and produced diaries his ovna and of the young lady to whom ho is now ached to prove that ho was not with the mother at J timo 3 the intercourse is alleged to have taken place ; t it seems ho had admitted his liability to the parents , a no was ordered to pay 2 s . Cd . a week . —The Rov . U Jlerminoz , teacher of languages , and at one time lioman Catholic priest , has been adjudged by the irlborough-street magistrate the father of an illegitiite child , of which a young woman named Fanny len is the mother . Thoro have been several adjourned animations ; and the mother has throughout adhered the same statement , that the roverend gentleman luced her while she lived as servant with him ; that 3 intcrcourao continued and extended over several ars , at various places , and that , at one period , Mr ,

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    ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Ax embankment on the recently opened branch of the South Yorkshire Railway , running from Doncaster to Thome , gave way last Saturday while a passenger train with some coal waggons attached to it was going ¦ b y . Several of the waggons were thrown over , and the whole train came to a standstill . The passenger carriages fortunately retained their position , and the persons inside , about forty in number , received no further injury than a smart shock and some degree of fright . Most of the day was occupied in clearing the line ; but , as the accident happened at a place where t acre are two sidings , there was no interruption of the regular traffic .

    Nicholson and " William Isles ) lay smashed between the engine and tender—the head of one and a hand of the other being all that was perceptible to the bystanders . The force of the concussion heaped trucks upon trucks , and the mangled bodies of the animals they contained were scattered about .. Both engines continued to throw forth dense volumes of steam , and fears were at one time entertained that tie boilers -would explode , or that the station would be -fired . The station-master , however , acted with , great coolness . The Board of Health waterhose having been obtained and attached to a hydrant , a plentiful supply of water was thrown upon the engines to extinguish the fires . This was not accomplished without considerable difficulty , for , although the accident occurred about ha 3 f-past eight , it was nearly eleren before all danger was over . The passengers sustained no injury beyond a shaking .

    A fatal accident has happened at the St . Martin ' s Baths and Washhouses , near Leicester-square . Joseph Ensor , a man sixty years old , employed at the establishment as an engineer , was engaged last Saturday afternoon in repairing one of the pumps in the Artesian well connected with the building . He had descended on the seat , which was suspended as usual by four ropes . TJi ese he had himself fastened ; but one of the knots gave wav , and the man slipped off , falling on a stage a few feet from the water , and about one hundred and twenty feet from the- top . Another of the men employed at the place heard an exclamation of distress from below ,- . and , going down as soon as possible , found Ensor lifeless . Ah alarming affair occurred last Saturday night at Batty ' s Menagerie , Birmingham . A man imprudently approached too aiear the , ' dea of one of the tigers , ' when the animal suddenly struck him across the face with its paw , inflicting a fearful laceration .

    Richard Oliver , foreman of the Watchet paper-mill * , where a steam-boiler explosion recently took place , has died in consequence of the injuries he then received . An inquest has been held , and a verdict of accidental death was returned by the jury , who appended to their finding a rider , in which they expressed their conviction that greater caution ought in all cases , to be exercised by persons using old and second-hand boilers ; One of those accidents which often occur in mining districts happened on Tuesday ( says the Scotsman ') in the Steneston CuckoO Pit , nearto ilolytowii , by which two men were killed . Both had been engaged in filling a hutch at the face of the workings , when a portion of the roof gave way , and killed them on the spot .

    A serious collision Occurred on the South Wales liailway on Monday , soon after midnight . A trai n of twenty-two waggons of coal , from the Vale of if oath to Swansea , was l ) rougbt to a stand-still about threequarters of a mile to the eastward of Landore Station , and very near the crossing of the Swansea Valley Railway at Pwllma-wr , in consequence of the breaking of one of the valves of the engine . Owing partly to sonic misapprehension with respect to the signals , and partly to the steepness of the gradient and the slipperiness of the rails rendering it diiHcult to stop , another coal train of twenty-eight waggons ran into tlie obstruction , and the engine-driver and stoker of tho advancing train worn very seriously injured—so much so that the life of the former is despaired of .

    A passenger train from Manchester , last Saturday evening , ran into a goods train whiuli was being shunted on to a small branch near the viaduct of the London and North-Western Railway over the Ribble , and close to the Preston station . The former train was not going at a rapid rate ; but the collision was of sufficient violence to cause some injuries to the passengers . The driver and stoker were unhurt . An inquest has been held on Henry Benjamin Seal , engine driver in the employ of . Peto and Bctts , contractors for the New WestKnd and Crystal Palace Railway , who was crushed to death by the falling of an engine and part of a train of ballast wnggons , off Leighamlane bridge , near Norwood , into the roadway 'beneath . Several other persons , who were also on the engine at the time , and fell with it , were so seriously injured that three of them were taken to the hospital . The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death .

    As an express train from Blackburn to Liverpool was passing at full speed between Blackburn nnd Bambcrbridge , on Monday morning , two wheels of a first-class carriage broke down . The underworks of the carriage were at once demolished ; nnd the vehicle itself was cmbeddetl in the earth . Tho break having boon applied , tho train was immediately stopped , and tho passengers sustained no injury . Two men have been hilled on the Wilts and Somerset Railway , and a great many sheep have been destroyed , by a lamentable catastrophe , which happened on Monday evening . A train , 'consisting of thirty-live trucks filled with sheep , oxen , and heifers , and drawn by two powerful engines , dashed into the Wilton station ( owing ,

    it is supposed , to the steam not being shut off at the proper time ) , and committed terrible havoc . The foremost engine broke down tlio immense wooden piles and buffers at the end of the rails , carried away nine or ten feet of tho platform , nnd burst through the station , crushing doors , walla , and every other object in its progress ; even tlio outer wall towards Fisberton was broken down before the train came to a standstill , Mays , the driver , escaped unhurt through tlie breach formed by the engine , but tho fireman ( William Symonds ) was not so fortunate ; ho jumped out , and sustained a nuvero blow on tho head , which necessitated his instant removal to tho infirmary . Tho scone within tho station' was appalling . Tho driver and fireman of tho second engine ( Samuel

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    STATE OP TRADE . This accounts from the manufacturing towns throughout the kingdom continue to furnish remarkable' proofs that the trade of the country is upon a basis altogether independent of siny pressure in the discount market . There is every sign that whatever may be the rate to which the Bank must ascend in order to keep near the range of the continental biddings for money , it ivill produce no appreciable eflcct in checking the general industry or the profits of the countTy . At Manchester , during the week ending last Saturday ,, although the market is said to have been inanimate , a fair average

    business has been . transacted , and prices are well maintained . The 13 iriningham advices describe an improved tone in tho iron trade , and a satisfactory amount of employment in tlie other manufactures , of tho town . At Nottingham , some interruption has been caused by . lhcj occurrence of local holidays ; but the extent of it is to be attributed to the general prosperity of the population , which enables them to choose thoir periods of recreation . It is added that quotations arc firm , and that great confidence prevail * . In the woollen districts there has hven an active demand , and stocks aro moderate . The Iri . sk lincn-markcta liavo been steady . — Thnc . i .

    In tho general business of the port of London flurin ^ the same week , there has been little dmngo . The total of vessels reported inward was 170 , being !) more than in the previous week . Included in these were 34 with cargoes of grain and flour , 8 with fruit , C with , sugar , and 2 with tei * . The total of ships cleared outward was 132 , including- 1-1 in ballast , showing an increase of IS . The number of ships on the berth loading for the Australinn colonies is 02 , being 15 less than at the last account . —Idem . The Koynl Moil Steam Company have issued a circular to their shareholders , proposing to establish tho long desired connexion between Sydney nnd Panama . They recommend a , fleet of auxiliary sorow steamers , and calculate upon a satisfactory return , not only from

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    ) ctobe 31 II , 1856 . ] THE L EADEB , 969

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 11, 1856, page 969, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2162/page/9/