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      derable privation , the islanders' stock of food being nail but , on the 6 th of March , after seeing one ship is 9 they were taken off by another , the Nimroud , aptain H . Tilman , from London , for Kurrachee . This gel went some hundreds of miles out of her course , and mded the shipwrecked people at Table Bay on the 20 th ¦ March , when the Government authorities took charge rtbero and a public subscription was opened for their ¦ lief . ' Captain Elmstqn attributes the fire to spontaeous " combustion among the cargo . The ship and its intents , which were valued at 80 , 000 / ., were heavily sured .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . he New Cavalry College , Richmond . —The founition-stone of a new college for the practical and theotical instruction of gentlemen intending to enter the ivalry service was laid on Monday afternoon by Lady jmbermere , in presence of Viscount Combermefe and numerous assemblage of the aristocracy and of military ¦ ntlemen . Among the ladies was Lady Raglan . Bere the stone was laid , Mr . Stocqueler read an address , Lady Combermere , which pointed out the necessity [ at exists for the institution about to be founded , and id that " whatever was accomplished in the wars in bich we have been engaged must be set down to the . ring and discipline of our dragoons and the heroic exaples of their leaders . They offered their blood in

      onement of professional ignorance , and England acpted the sacrifice without taking a single step there-; er to avert so cruel a waste of energy , intrepidity , and triotism . " After the ceremony of the day had taken ice , the visitors partook of a handsome dejeuner . In iponding to the health of Lord and Lady Combermere , s Field Marshal said that " he most cordially approved s principle of the Cavalry College , and knew that it is thought of hopefully at head-quarters . He consired it as of vital importance that professional occupan should fill up the time between young men leaving iooI and entering the service . He trusted that initry officers who looked to being majors and adjutants uld attend the college , if only to learn to ride . "

      ; er the d € jeuner , quadrille parties were formed in the ture-hall and under a marquee on the lawn . Hhatham Dockyard . —The works in progress at atbam dockyard for improving and enlarging the sent slips and basins are in a very forward state , and is expected that the whole will be completed during present summer . The most important of the imvements now being carried out is that of constructing new tidal basin , which will be three hundred and ty feet in length , and capable of receiving the largest sels in the service . Phe Curlew , Coastguard cutter , is being broken up the beach , at the Isle of Grain , it having been ascerled that her damage was of so extensive a nature as

      to warrant her being repaired . Phe Bairam at Plymouth . —The completion of the mazan , or great IVlahonimedan fast month , has been : subject of much rejoicing on board the Turkish linebattle ship Peiki Zaffer , 104 , Captain Ismael Bey , v in Plymouth Sound . Cotal " Wreck of the Earl of Yarborough ' s cht Zoic . —As the Earl of Yarborough , the Hon . W . nson , and Dr . Duigan , R . N ., were cruising in the rth Sea in his lordship ' s yacht Zoe , on the night of 24 th inst ., the vessel , owing to the wind falling it , drifted by the tide on to the Haisborough sandik , about fourteen miles off the coast of Norfolk . The

      : ht , impelled by the force of the tide , struck the bank h great violence several times , and after some little e rolling over , became washed by the sea ; sufficient e , however , elapsed to enable the noble owner and friends , together with the crew , to betake themselves riedly to the boats , nnd thoroby to save all bands , tunately for the boats the water was smooth and the ither fine , which enabled them , after about three irs hard pulling agninst a strong tide , to reach the ist-guard station of Haisborough or Hnppisborough . > yacht , which was most magnificently fitted up , has jmo a total wreck , and nothing whatever of tho vnluis on board has boon saved . No lives hnvo been lost . 'Yraea .

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      OBITUARY . utknant John Wood Rouse , R . N ., of Greenwich jpital , died last Saturday at that asylum , in hi * snty-sccond year . Tho vacancy occasioned by hia th is to bo filled by Lieutenant Abraham Parks , K . N . 15 ) , additional Lieutenant of tho Saturn , Captain K . irt , K . H ., at Pembroke . The lato Lioutemint Rouso ired the navy in 1700 , nnd distinguished himsolf Ing tho wars . Ho was in receipt of a pension for tho of ono of his logs in action . [ r . D . Daviics , M . P . for Carmarthenshire , died sadly , at tho University Club , on tho evening of Fridny k . Ho was a bnrrlfltor-nt-lnw , nnd for ninny years Irtnan of tho Cardiganshire Quarter Sessions , nnd first returned for' Carmarthenshire in 1842 . In tics ho was a Conservative , and ho voted against Government on tho mibjoot of tho Chlnoso war . Ho in tho sixty-sixth your of lite ago . In . Rohisut Hall , tho Conaorvativp member for la , the Deputy Recorder of tho saino city , and tho

      Recorder of Doncaster , died on Tuesday morning . He " had undergone great labour and excitement during the late general election , and , after his efforts were crowned with success , a reaction came on , and he was seized with severe depression . He appears to have caught cold in the House of Commons from sitting near one of the openings for air . ' Influenza supervened ; then fever and delirium ; and finally death terminated his sufferings in the fifty-seventh year of his age . He was much respected . About two years ago he met with a railway accident , which had the effect of weakening his constitution .

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      ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER . A dreadful tragedy has occurred in the . neighbourhood of Covent-garden . James Geary , a silk-weaver , about twenty-three years of age , lodged with his wife in a single room on the second-floor of a house in Little Russell-street , Covent-garden ; and , shortly after ten o ' clock last Saturday night , as Mrs . Baylis , the wife of a policeman lodging in the same house , was going down stairs from her own room , she heard cries of ' Murder !' proceeding from the apartment occupied by the Gearys . Mrs . Baylis called the landlady of the house , and the two women then proceeded together to the room where the former had heard the cries . On going in , they perceived Geary and his wife struggling together on the

      floor in front of the fireplace , the woman bleeding profusely from a deep cut across her throat . The man was brandishing a small table-knife in his hand , and , on being separated from his -wife by the landlady , attempted to escape , with the weapon still in his possession . The wounded woman clung to the landlady , exclaiming , "Oh , save me , save me ! " while Mrs . Baylis , who was greatly alarmed , went out of the house to look for a policeman . It was not long before she met her husband , to whom she related what had occurred , and returned home with him . On re-entering the house , the constable took a light and proceeded up-stairs . When he reached the top of the second flight , he saw Geary on the landing , lying on his wife , just outside the clour of his own room . His left hand was upon her head , and with the knife , which he still held in his other hand , he stabbed the woman under the ear , turning the neckThe

      blade round after it was in her . policeman seized the assassin by the wrist , and drew the knife out of the wound ; a scuffle then ensued between tho two men , in the course of which the policeman dropped the candle which he held in his hand , and it went out , leaving the place in utter darkness . He nevertheless succeeded in capturing ^ Geary , whom he at once conveyed to the station-house . The man appeared to be perfectly sober . Another police-constable shortly afterwards went to the house in Little Russell-street , and with his aid the woman was removed to King ' s College Hospital . She waa then in a mangled and frightful state from the wounds she had received , and her clothes were saturated with blood . She was nevertheless perfectly conscious , and frequently expressed n wish to see her mother . The knife with which the wounds were inflicted was picked up on the second-floor landing , from the centre of a large pool of blood .

      Geary was examined at Bow-street on Monday , and appeared greatly affected throughout the proceedings . He cried during ' the examination of one of the witnesses , and merely stated in his defence that ho was driven to the commission of the crime . He was remnude I until the result of his wife ' s injuries is known .

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      Jualousy and Attempted Murdicr .- —An attempt hns been made on the life of a young woman named Frceborn , cook to Mr . Upson , a fanner , living at Withnm , Essex , by Charles Finch , a man to whom « ho had previously been engaged to be married . Tho intended husband , up to tho time of tlio marriago contract , had been a labourer on a neighbouring farm at Kolvedon , but soon after his betrothal he wont out to tho Crimou to join tho Army Works Corps , and has recently returned to this country . Tho young woman had formed an attachment to nnothor man in his absence , on loaming which , Finch was ho exasperated Hint ho determined to take tho life of hi * former sweetheart . Ho accordingly wont to Witham , nnd early last Sunday afternoon sat not far from

      down on a bank by tho romUido Mr . Upsoii ' h farm . Presently lio saw tho young woman leave tho houso and proceed in the direction of tho pariah church , about half a niilo distant . Slio of course almost immediately encountered Finch , and stared at booing him , n « she had believed him to bo in London . Tlio man waited until who was close , when ho rushed on her , nndj without uttering a word , cut her throat with a razor , nnd then ran away , but presently ^ returned and made a second incision in tho woman ' s throat , which cut tho windpipe complotoly through . Tho man thon again mndo oil" , but h » s ainoo beon npprohon < tad , nnd id now in prison . Although tho womnn is groatly injured , tho innin nrtoriau aro untouched , so that thoro U aomo uhimoo of nor recovery .

      Mimuicit xn Livicui'ool . —A man named Dnviee , a tailor , formorly in tho police force , nnd Robert Rcuhcs , n sailor , belonging to ono of llio'Cunnnl steamers , wore drinking together on Monday night ut a public-house in Liverpool . Rouses loft Davloa at tho plnco , and tho

      latter , at whose house Reuses lodged , on going home found his wife and the sailor together in the bedroom . He ran out , and came back accompanied by an acquaintance named Hodson . They found Reuses alone in the bedroom , and Davies stabbed him several times in the breast with a pair of scissors , crying out to Hodson , " Keep out of my way , or I'll serve you the same . " Reuses died in about ten minutes , without having uttered a word . Davies was brought before the magistrates the following day , when he admitted the murder , but urged that he had sufficient provocation ;

      The Canterbury Murder . —The magistrates of Canterbury having investigated the conduct of Inspector Parker , and Police-constable Elvey , in permitting the young man Fox to go at large after their attention had been called on the evening of May 18 to his murderous designs upon Mary Ann Hadley—designs which , through their neglect , he was able to execute on the following morning—the decision of the court was that Inspector Parker be Suspended for the space of six calendar months , and that Police-constable Elvey be suspended for one month . Ruffianly Soldikrs . —Two soldiers of the 5 th Dragoon Guards are in custody at Edinburgh for a rape committed at the Piershill barracks on a servant girl .

      Attempted Murder at Dartmoor Prison . —A convict at Dartmoor , named Charles M'Carthy , has just been commited to the Devon county gaol , at Exeter , on the charge of assaulting and wounding , with intent to murder , a warder of the prison . He has grossly misconducted himself since he has been lodged at Dartmoor prison , and has made three attempts to escape . Murder in Staffordshire . —rA Mr . T . Charlesworth , a farmer , of Bromley Hurst , near Abbotts Bromley , which is only four miles from Rugeley , was robbed and murdered last Saturday morning , about two o ' clock , as he was returning home from a place where he had been spending the evening . Three " persons are in custody under suspicion . One has since confessed that he struck the fatal blow , but he adds that the others assisted . The plunder only consisted of a 5 / . note and some cold and silver .

      Cukious Charge of Felony . —Mr . James Davenport , saw manufacturer , has been charged before the Sheffield magistrates AVith felony , the accuser being Mr . Charles Brown , a rival manufacturer . Mr Brown had recently received an order for a large quantity of matchet knives , ' of a peculiar pattern , used in the cutting of sugar canes in the East Indies , and it was alleged that Mr . Davenport , in order to copy the pattern and supplant Mr . Brown with his customers , had stolen one of the knives , which had been given out to a man named Hoyle to be ground . For the defence , evidence was given that , in consequence of great quantities of inferior goods having been sent from England , fraudently bearing the mark of the Collins' Company , of Hartford , United States , Mr . Davenport had' been applied to by the Sheffield agent of

      that firm to obtain evidence on which they might found proceedings against the parties . Mr . Davenport , having ascertained that an order fur a large quantity of cano knives , bearing an imitation of the Collins' Company ' s mark , had been sent to Mr . Brown from a firm in Birmingham , got possession of the knife in question , which was ono bearing the imitated mark , intending to submit it to the agents of the Collins' Company , and then return it . It was also shown that a bill in Chancery had been filed against Mr . Brown for fraudulently striking an imitation of the Collins' Company ' s mark on his goods . The magistrates dismissed the case , remarking that , though Mr . Davenport had obtained the knife in an unfair nnd unjustifiable manner , there was not sufficient ovidenco of felony to justify them in sending the case for trial . —Manchester Guardian .

      Cai'tuiib of a Runaway Convict . — Peter Hutchison , alias Klyth , alias Baillie , who recently escaped from Jodburgh prison while under sentence of fifteen years' transportation , has been recaptured , after being at larg . t for ten days . Wifh-Bkatino . — A powerful man , named John Springate , hns beon sentenced by tho Southwark magistrate to three months' hard labour for an assault on his wife . Extkssivb Frauds upon this Dukic of Rutland . — The Cambridge and Suflblk papers state that disclosures of a most astounding character have boon made during tho last few da . VH in reference to the management of tho estates of tho Duke of Rutland nnd Cheveloy ,

      nearNewmnrkct . Deficiencies nnd irregularities extending over n aeries of years hnvo been discovered ; and it has been ascertained thnt trndosinon ' s accounts , some of them very honvy , which wore supposed by his Grace to have been paid , " arc still due . Tho books , which wore submitted from time to time to tho Duko ' a inspection , were soninnagod ns to nvort nil suspicion . By those frauds , tho Dulto of Rutland will sustnin the loss of many thousand pounds . A'rncMiTwn Munmcit . —A young mun , nbout twentyfour yonrs old , named John Johnson , hns received n severe wound from his brother-in-law , which lints ' greatly

      endangered Ma life . Complaints having roneliod his onra that tho latter had frequently ill-used hid ( Johnson ») mother , and that nobody had interfered to protcoMior , Johnson went tct her bouse in Smjth ' a-p lnoo , Duvonfljiirostreet , Lninboth . Ho thero saw hlu brother-in-law I l-UBlng his mother , nnd ho desired him to doa st . iw othor refused to do bo , ou which Johaaon ooiisod him ,

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      OUR CIVILIZATION

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 30, 1857, page 513, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2195/page/9/