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      in the house soon after the man ' s arrival . Subsequently , to this Bright came to the door , where several persons were standing , and in reply to their question , " What is the matter ? " said , " Come in here , and see what ' s done . She's dead , she's dead ! she will never rise more , ' at the same time pointing to Mrs . Belton , who was lying- on th& floor in a pool of blood , -which was flo-wing profusely from her head . She was quite insensible , and -wa 3 only in her night-clothes . One of the neighbours immediately went to Croydon for a surgeon . He met Sergeant Hearne , who accompanied him . back to the house , in order , if possible , to secure the assassin , but by the time they arrived at the cottage , Bright had escaped , notwithstanding several persons were present at the time . An axe , covered with blood and matted hair , was found on the fioor . Mrs . Belton , who is about fortytwo years of age , and a very respectable woman , still lives , but her recovery is considered hopeless .

      Ftvb I £ x 72 n > BBi > Pounds Stolek by a Letter Carrier . —James Ingram , a letter-carrier , has been committed for trial at Manchester , for stealing a bank postbUl for 460 / . and eight 5 / . notes . A letter containing the money was found , on him . He admitted that , he and another' letter-carrier had intended to resign , but that before doing so tbey had arranged to steal a number of letters , and appropriate their contents . Thb " Great Northern" Robbert . — William Snell , the clerk , who stands charged with stealing a cheque for 500 / ., and other scans of a like amount , was again placed at tie bar for re-examination on Thursday morning , before Mr . D'Eyncourt , at Clerkenwell policecourt , farther evidence having been given with respect

      to the defalcation to the amount of 10 O 0 / ., Mr . Huddleston , who appeared for the Company , said : — " There is another case which arises out of the following circumstances . There is a fund called the Sick Allowance Tnnd , which is made up of deductions from the servants ' wages . The account is kept with Mr . Kennard . Mr . Keynolds , when le pays the men ' s money , either pays or deducts , as the case may le . It was Snell's duty to get cheques from the secretary for the amounts thus paid , and jay them into the accountant's drawing account . There is also another account at the Union Bank called the Great Northern Kail way Account . Instead of paying the £ 61 . 18 s . 3 d . in cash to the latter account on a certain day , he anade it up of the cheques of the Sick Allowance Fond . " The case was adjourned to next Thursday .

      ThK Case ok IkdecektExpos 0 Rk of the Regent ' s Park . —The trial in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , of Mr . Crosling , brother of the well known banker , on a charge cf inducing girls to expose themselves in the parks , came on on Thursday . The evidence is unfit for publication ; but , from the cross-examination by Mn Balantine , of the two chief witnesses ( Mitchell and Warren ) , who followed Mr . Gosling and gave him into custody , it appeared pronable , in the opinion of Lord Campbell , that they were -endeavouring to extort money . He did not think there vas sufficient evidence to go before a jury . The Solicitor-G eneral , who had charge of the prosecution , therefore withdrew the case . Lord Campbell then added : — "' I wish it to be known that , if these charges had been proved , I should have inflicted upon Mr . Gosling the most severe punishment which the law of England warrants . "

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      NA . VAL AND MILITARY . Ak Irish Mimta Mystery .- —The Kilkenny Moderator—generally correct upon military topics—announces that orders hav « been issued to each of the colonels of the various militia regiments to take steps for completing the quota of his respective corps . Major Maunsell , ad - jutant of the Kilkenny Fasili « rs , has already entered on the preliminary arrangement for the enrolment of men for that regiment . The local paper remarks that the object of thus filling up the regiments at present is only known , to her Majesty's advisers . —Times .

      Supposed Loss Or A Scotch Steamer . —A fearful gale passed over the German Ocean about a fortnight ago , and it is feared that the screw steamer Roslyn , of Glasgow , has foundered on her return voyage to that port from Stettin . She started on the 8 th of November , and has not yet been heard of , though she was due at Glasgow on the 12 th . Maritime : Law . —Mr . Cobden has addressed a letter to the Manchester Chamber of Commerce , in which he gives hia reasons for approving of the United States proposition that private property on the ocean during war should be exempt from seizure by

      Governmentwalking quietly up on the forecastle , drawing his sixbarrel revolver , and discharging all six shots into the water . He then came aft , on the poop , and delivered his revolver , with all his ammunition , to Captain Gwya and the other officers , for which he received a receipt . Upon the others seeing this done , they followed the example . Miss Nightingale at Woolwich . —Miss Nightingale , accompanied by Lord Punmure , paid an -unexpected visit to Woolwich on Friday week . She was received by Sir W . F . "Williams , who conducted her and the War Secretary over the various hospitals , &c . The visit was strictly incognito .

      armed cruisers as well as by privateers . ? ' I cannot help regretting , as an Englishman , " writes Mr . Cobden , " that the proposal did not originate with us . But the next best thing will be to give it a prompt and hearty acceptance , and aid in securing for it , if possible , a world-wide acquiescence . It is impossible to foresee all the consequences of such a revolution in the rules of war . It is , I believe , the first time in the annals of the world that the powers of belligerents will be restrained and defined in the interest of individuals by written international law . Who can tell in what other direction the precedent may be followed ? Wars will henceforward partake more of the character of duels between Governments

      than of the old contests of nations . Private citizens will cease to be held responsible or liable to injury , unless they become participators in the strife . There will no longer be plunder and prize money to add the stimulus of cupidity to the passions of hatred arid revenge ; and we shall have one pretence less for constantly increasing the burden of war navies in proportion to the growth of foreign commerce , on the plea of protecting our mercantile marine . " Major-General Sir H . W . Barnahd , K . C . B ., has , it is understood , been appointed a Major-General on the staff of the army of Bengal , vice Major-General Wyndham , who has resigned that appointment .

      A Tropjty of a Past War . — -A very interesting memorial of a celebrated event in naval history has been presented to the gunroom , officers of her Majesty ' s ship Shannon , at Portsmouth . This consisted of a box handsomely mounted in silver , and gilt inside , richly chased and embossed with the shamrock , rose , and thistle , and bearing the following inscription : — " Box made from part of a beam of the United States frigate Chesapeake , captured in single combat by her Majesty ' s frigate Shannon , in Boston Bay , United States , 1 st of June , 1813 . Presented to the gunroom , mess of the Shannon , as a perpetual memorial of that action , by Bear-Admiral Provo Wallis , senior surviving Lieutenant . "

      GBMXEtAtt Beatson . —The General Command ing-in-Chief has ordered a court of inquiry ( in connexion with the dispute between Generals Beatson and Shirley ) to assemble in London immediately , composed of the following officers : —Lieutenant-General Sir Colin Campbell , G . C . B-, President ; Major-General Lord William Paulet , C . B ., Major-General Lawrenson , C . B ., Major-General Cameron , C . B ., Colonel Norcott , C . B . Proposed Depot Battalion at Aberdeen . —Colonel Mudio , with , two engineer officers , has visited Aberdeen with a view to ascertain if sufficient accommodation could be found there for the erection of a barrack with rifle practice ground , for a battalion of 2000 troops .

      , DiaABMiNa ov Italian Legionaries . —Some of the Italian Legionaries who are about to proceed to Buenos Ayres having refused to give up their arms , consisting of revolvers , bowie-knives , aword-sticks , ani ammunition , the ship in which they were being convej-ed ( the Acadi& ) -wag towed into Sheemess harbour , when Captain I j ord Frederick Kerr , of the flagship Waterloo , and Fust Lieutenant Maunaoll , of tho same vessel , proceeded on board the AcadU , and addressed the Italians , telling £ ; .. ~ i ,. a * the *** of * ia country that emigrants should deliver up all deadly weapons on departing . After some converaatiwi among tho men , who formed in % f ^ o ^ S ^ ° ? *«*» & «*?* Giovanni , a privato of the 2 nd Rogiment of tho jfc gloh , set an example by

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      OBITUARY . Mb . Rejidel , C . E . —Mr . J . M . Rendel , F . R . S ., the Engineer cf the Admiralty and other public works , died on Friday week , from severe cold taken a few days previously , John Arthur Herbert . —English art has recently sustained a severe loss in the death of Mr . John Arthur Herbert , eon of the Royal Academician , which took place at Mouriac , in France , and was occasioned by an attack of typhus fever . He was tho painter of " Phillip IV . of Spain Knighting Velasquez , " one of the most admired pictures in the exhibition at the National Gallery this year . He was in his twenty-second year . Mr : Joiih Lamb , tho well-known Quaker correspondent of the Northern Whig , and writer of the ¦ «• Notea on the State of the Country , " died of apoplexy on Thursday week . Mr . Wiixiam LociurART , M . P . for the county of Lanark , died at his sent in Clydesdale on Tuesday morning . LlBUTENANT-GENERAfc ALEXANDER THOMPSON . The Dublin papers announce the death of Lieutenant-General Alexander Thompson , Colonel in Chief of tho 74 th Highlanders , now in India . His name has been long associated with efforts to improve and cultivate the wildest parts of tho far west of Ireland , Conncmarn . Ho died on the 28 rd inst . at his seat , Salruc House , situate on the Little Killcries .

      Mr . Angus B . Reach . —This gentleman , known to many as a witty writer and as an amiable man , for whom , under circumstances of affliction , Mr . Albert Smith and some other amateurs gave- a performance in the early part of last year , died on Tuesday at his residence , Denmark-hill . He had not quite completed his thirty-fifth year ; but overwork had produced softening of the brain and paralysis , and lie has added another to tho many sacrifices to the slavery of tho periodical press .

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      MISCELLA NEO US """ _ A Smgiit Difference :. —The telegraph opemta * * Vera Cruz , on the arrival of the bark PegwuTcn ?? 1 st orOctober , telegraphed to the city of M « & £ astounding intelligence of the failure of the "Bant , England . He fancied that the Royal British ] w could be aio other than the great national baniin ^ stitution of the British people . —American Paper The Bishop of Rochester . —It is now atata * the authority of the Bishop of Rocheatec luWf tW he has no intentioa of retiring at present . The Site of the Board of Work OFFicEa . -- . Ti , Board has determined , by 13 to 9 , not to make ¦ IS proposal for taking a portion of the site of tie JW prison foT building its new offices upon , the exteiul involved being too great . * ^

      Metkopoutan Finances . —The Board of Works cm Tuesday , devoted a long time to the consideration of » statement submitted to them on the 3 rd ult . Bhowinp the financial condition of the several parishes ' and dii txicts , with the particulars of outstanding loans and mortgages , and an estimate of the sums to be raised b * the Board for the year ending the 31 st of December 1856 . A question arose as to the mode ia which the City should be assessed under the Local Management Act

      la other parts of the metropolis the assessment is made according to the county rates ; but , as there are no county rates in the City , it became necessary to select some other mode of assessment . A resolution ( ro&ved by Mr . Turner , and carried by a majority of 19 to 12 ) was passed , to the effect that , in order that the City of Loa . don may be assessed for the purposes of the Jletropo- * litan Acton a like estimate as other parts of themetropolis , regard shall be had to the amount at which

      it is assessed for the property tax . After considerable discussion , it was resolved that the statement should be referred back to the finance committee for reconsidera-¦¦ ¦ ¦

      tion . ¦ : ¦;•¦ : . . . . > . . . . . . ¦¦¦ . . Horticultural Society . —A crowded meeting of this society was lield on Tuesday , Mr . J . J . Blandy , vicepresideut , in the chair , for the pnrpose of inspecting the collections of fruit and other horticultural objects which had been provided for the occasion . The display tras very brilliant . THE ItEl'RESENTATION OP SOUTHAMPTON . —A gMIt meeting of from four to five thousand of the supporters of Mr . Edwin James un the one hand , and of Mr .

      Weguelin o-n the other , took place at the Biding School on Tuesday , when resolutions in favour of the two candidates were proposed and seconded . The show of hands was very evenly balanced , but the chairman ( Bfr . Alderman Dusatoy ) declared the majority in favour of Mr . James . This being disputed by Mr . Weguelin ' s supporters , a scene of great uproar ensued . - The chair was then vacated ; Mr . Councillor Clarke was called on to preside ; when it was unanimously resolved that th « former decision should be reversed , aad that the vote * should "lie declared in favour of Mr . Weguelhx .

      The Statue op Sir Charles Jaxes Napier . —Mr . G . G . Adams ' s statue of this hero was placed on its pedestal in Trafalgar-square one night during the present week . The act was effected very secretly , and the neighbourhood , next morning , were surprised to see the gigantic , but still muuied , figure towering above its base at the south-west corner of the square . The unveiling took place at eleven o ' clock on Wednesday morning , but without any pomp or ceremony . Of course , however , there were several spectators , and of course they cheered loudly as the coverings were withdrawn . . The height of

      the figure , which is of bronze , not blackened over , bat showing all the colour of the metal , exceeds twelve feet , and tli-c granite pedestal , which is of the simplest kind , surmounted only by a plinth and moulding , stands seventeen feet from the ground . It may be remarked that the feet of the figure are planted immediately on the granite , without tho intervention of a metallic base . On the pedestal ia this inscription : —" Charles James Napier , General , born MDCCLXXXII ; die 4 MDCCCL 1 II . Erected by public subscription from all classes , civil and military , the most numerous subscribers

      being private soldiers . " A Ligiithousic on Fiue . —Information has been received at Lloyd ' s of the destruction , by fire , of too lighthouse at Seaham . The keepers of the lighthouse (« revolv ing one ) had a narrow escape of being burnt to death . In order to prevent accidents to tie Bteamen and shipping , orders have been issued that , until the revolving light is re-established , a fire-light shall be maintained on the cliff adjacent . The Weathek . —A heavy fall of snow covered We West Riding of Yorkshire on Wednesday morning , «»<* tho traffic ou tho Great Northern line was for a tione suspended . In tho metropolis , on the previous mgH « i there 3 iad been a considerable descent of tho same wotf ?

      visitor . Health of London . —The returns for tie week tnai ended last Saturday exhibit a decided increase of we deaths in London . The deaths , which at tho beginning of tills month were about 1000 in a week , and ivere afterwards 1090 , rose lust week to 12 G 1 ,. In « e ten weeks corresponding to last week of the years 184 C- < " > i tho average number was 1072 ; and tho same rate « mortality in tho present increased population would Mv produced 1179 deaths . There was therefore last w «<*

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 29, 1856, page 1136, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2169/page/8/