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      traded in service , and have left their families in reduced circumstances . The number of cadets , in all , is limited io twenty—those to be admitted from the army being fifteen , the remaining five being reserved for the Royal Navy and Royal Marines . Capture of a Slaver . — Her Majesty ' s steamer Sappho ; while cruising along the West Coast of Africa , observed a large ship , of suspicious appearance , to -which sdie gave chase , and drove her on to a reef . The boats of the Sappho were then ordered out ; on which the crew of the other vessel also took to their boats , and made for the land , after throwing overboard about eight hundred negroes . On the Sappho ' s boats gaining the slaver , four hundred more negroes were found on board . They were conveyed to Sierra Leone . The slaver was burnt to the water ' s edge 5 and , in doing this , the men of the Sappho were fired upon by the slave traders whohad gained the shore . Of the negroes who were thrown overboard , . about half reached the land : the others were drowned .

      Bakrack and Hospital Accommodation . — The Commissioners for inquiring into the state of the Barrack and Hospital accommodation in England and Walesthe Right Hon . Sidney Herbert , M . P ., Dr . Sutherland , Captain Galton , R . E ., Ac . —arrivnd at Portsmouth on Monday , and commenced their inspection . Earthquake at Sea . —Mr . William Cook , master of the schooner Estremadura , of Glasgow , observed indications of an earthquake at sea , near the Azores ( lat . 39 deg . 57 min . N ., long . 25 deg . 50 min . W . ) , at seven p . m ., Movember 25 th . A kind of mist or warm steam arose out of the sea , which boiled up as if agitated from beneath . This lasted for half an hour .

      The Leviathan . —The huge vessel has made a good deal of progress during the week . The full tide now gives about twelve feet of water under her fore and aft ; and the amount required to float her is fourteen feet nine inches . She will therefore not be moved again till the spring tides now at hand are past . After these , she will be pushed as far down the ways as possible , and then left to the action of the great springs of the 31 st , when in all probability she will float .

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      THE CONDEMNED CONVICT , CHRISTIAN SATTLER . Sattler still denies that he shot Thain purposely , though he admits that he harboured a design against the officer ' s life , in revenge for the handcuffs being put on him . He now states that the officer came on him suddenly while he had the pistol in his hand ; that a struggle ensued ; and that , on making a violent effort to release himself from the clutch of Thain , who had nearly overpowered him , the pistol went off . Sattler is a Deist in religion , and for some time refused to listen to the exhortations of the gaol chaplain ; but he has since attended the chapel , and read portions of the Old and New Testament . He affirms that he was a spoiled child , and that he afterwards got into the company of very dissolute persons . Having enlisted in the Anglo-German Legion , he got speedily advanced to the post of clerk , on account of his superior acquirements ; but was subsequently

      discharged , and since then has wandered about the country , begging . Since he has been in prison he has received from his father ( who does not reside in this country ) a letter exhorting him to reconcile himself with his Maker , and rather superfluously contrasting his state with that of some of his comrades in the Legion , who have returned to Germany with considerable sums of money . Owing to the marriage of the Princess Royal , which is to take place on the 25 th of January , the day originally mentioned for the execution of the convict , that mournfulevent was fixed by the Sheriffs for a week earlier—viz ., next Monday , the 18 th . This attempted curtailment of the wretched man ' s time in this world has led to considerable efforts in favour of a commutation of the sentence ; and a reprieve of three weeks has been ordered by Government , in order that the question as to whether Sat tier was legally in custody at the time of the murder may be determined .

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      Tub Charge of Cruelty against a Schoolmaster . —Mr . May , the master of the Brewers' Grammar-school , who was committed for trial by the Lord Mayor , upon a charge of cruelly beating a scholar of the name of Grossmtth , has been relieved from all further proceedings . The grand jury have thrown out the bill . The Annesley Poaching Cask . —John Draper was brought before Lord Bolpor and the county bench of magistrates , at the Shire-hall , Nottingham , last Saturday , charged with the wilful murder of George Winficld , at Annesley-wood , when , in conjunction with seven othw-inen , ~ his-accomplices ,-, he—w « u ~ , <; omimUed-to-take bis trial at the next Assizes on the capital charge .

      The late Murdur op a Pouokman . —The adjourned inquest on the body of Henry Morgan , tho constable who was killed on tho 20 th ult . in the Whitechapol-road , was concluded on Friday week , when tho jury brought la a verdict of Wilful Murdor against Kalluhor and other persona to them unknown . Kallahor and Murphy have been committed for trial ; three of the other tour persona accused have been discharged ; and tho fourth has been aentenced to a month's imprisonment for an WAult on ono of Morgan ' s brother conotablco ,

      Forging a Bill of Exchange :. —A man named John Barnes , alias Job Wild , has been committed for trial at the next Liverpool Assizes , by the Bolton magistrates , on a charge of forging a bill of exchange for 10 / . 10 s ., purporting to be accepted by one John Maskerry . Barnes is a notorious swindler . ¦ Execution of the Leigh Wood Murderer . — John William Beale , the murderer of Charlotte Pugsley , was hanged in front of the county gaol of Somerset at nine o ' clock on Tuesday morning . He exhibited to the last a composure amounting to stolidity . Neither the religious exhortations of the chaplain , nor his last interviews with his wife , mother , and sisters , moved him in the least . He appears to have behaved with decorum , but to the last denied his full guilt , though admitting that he was an accessary to the murder . A large crowd assembled to witness the execution , and several persons , after all was over , made application to be allowed to touch the dead man's hand for the cure of wens ! These requests were of course refused .

      Garotte Robbery . —A man named Robert Evans was going home to his house in Bermondsey about one o ' clock in the morning , and was just turning into Mermaid-court , near St . George ' s Church , when some one suddenly sprang upon him and knocked him down . Two other men then seized hold of him , one of whom gagged his mouth with his hand , while the other rifled his pockets of all the money they contained , amounting to 6 s . 7 d . His pocket-knife was also stolen . He was shortly afterwards assisted by a policeman , to whom he related the circumstance , and they then proceeded to the station-house , where they found two men in custody , and Evans , whose knife was in the hands of the police , said that he believed them to have been the men by whom he had been garotted . Both were known to the police as associates of a notorious gang of thieves and garotters , many of whom are undergoing terms of penal servitude . They have been examined before the Southwark magistrate , and committed for trial .

      Burglaries by an Escaped Convict . — A man named Butler made his escape from the Wandsworth House of Correction on the night of the 31 st ult . Two nights afterwards , he committed a burglary at Farnhatn Royal , near Slough , and , a iew nights subsequently to that , he broke into a house at Twyford , Berkshire . The next day he was apprehended bythe police , while pawning some of the stolen property at Reading .

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      for discount and interest . The detaining creditor , Mr . Joseph Joel , had a judgment for 2556 / . Of this amount the insolvent disputed 1500 / . The charges made by the money-lenders for discount , interest , and bonuses , amounted in all to 30 , 000 / . The age of the insolvent is thirty-two , and he himself made some extraordinary revelations in answer to questions put by the Court . He s )\ id there was a bill for 500 / . given to a Mr . Tollitt in 1850 , on account of a bet of 800 / . to one shilling about the weight carried by a horse in a race . He sometimes , when at Oxford , kept five , six , or seven horses in the hunting season . " A man hunting five days a week required at least four hunters and a hack . " The Commissioner here remarked that such an arrangement left only one day in the week for study . Some of

      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Monday being the first day of Hilary Term , the various Courts of Law resumed their sittings after the vacation ; but the business transacted was merely preliminary , and did not present any features of interest . " The old case , " as Mr . Sargood called it , " of a young gentleman of large property and expectations falling into the hands of the money-lenders , " was once more exhibited in the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Monday . A Mr . Edward Scratton on that day applied to be discharged . There was no opposition . The schedule exhibited a gross total of 96 , 444 / ., debts , of which 12 , 255 / . were twice entered , and 49 , 676 / . without consideration . The insolvent had debts owing to him to the extent of 5800 / ., all bad or doubtful . With respect to his own debts , he disputed some 8000 / . or 10 , 000 / ., which were

      the money lenders had charged the insolvent sixty and some eighty per cent , per annum for accommodation . Among the debts wore one of 276 / . to a tobacconist ( oxtending over between three nnd four years ) , and ono of 771 / . for an hotel bill in ono year . In reply to questions from tho Court , Mr . Sargood stated that tho inaolvent had received from his trustees in money about 20 , 000 / ., besides large sums on account of rents . His friends had also paid 10 , 000 / . to get him out of some former difficulties . About two years and a half ago he was arrested , and remained in prison for seventeen months ; at tho end of which time , tho money-lenders whohad him in custody , finding that

      his friends were not inclined to come forward again , re-Btorcd-hhn-to-liberty , rtaking-renowed » pecuriUea _ for-their debts payable in two years . That time had now expired , and the insolvent was again in custody upon those renewed securities . Mr . Commissioner Phillips , who said tho exhibition was ono of tho most dreadful ho had over witnessed , observed that " money-lenders form a class by themselves , who want no protection from tho Court . Ono of tho body , however , a little time since , had declared openly that ho waa a bonofactor to mankind , and further had the audacity to stato that he was the moans of keeping several Judges in their uowts , " The insolvent waa discharged .

      The Lord Chancellor some time back ordered a habeas corpus to issue , directed to the Viscomte and Gaoler Of the Island of JeTsey , to bring up the bodies of Robert Dodd , an attorney , and John Merrifield , his clerk , and to show cause why they were detained in custody . Dodd , who was a resident of Jersey , issued a writ out of the Court of Common Pleas in England against a person named Baltas , also residing in Jersey , -which writ was served by Merrifield . Upon this Dodd and Merrifield were arrested under a process issued out of the Royal Court of Jersey ; and it was to determine whether such arrest was legal that the writ of habeas was directed to issue . The case was argued in the Court of Chancery on Wednesday , when the Lord Chancellor said it was clear that Dodd was legally in custody on account of another matter . An order , however , would be made to release Merrifield , who was wrongfully arrested ; but nothing could be decreed with respect to coats .

      The Lord Mayor , on Wednesday , committed a notorious beggar to prison for twenty-one days . Another man—a miserable-looking creature , thirty-two years of age—was afterwards charged with the same offence . He said he had been in the service of the East India Company in India for the space of fourteen years , but was dismissed in consequence of habitual drunkenness . He added : — " lam doubly ruptured , and , if I attempt to do any labour , I become paralyzed inside , and am ready to drop with agony . " The wretched appearance

      of the man confirmed this account , and a policeman said that there ' , \ rere several persons in the justice-room who were ready to add their testimony to the same effect . The Lord Mayor , who spoke very kindly to the man , ordered that he should be sent home to his parish in Somersetshire , and remarked on the good effects of bringing beggars before a magistrate , as he had thus been enabled to send an impostor to prison , and to relieve a man who otherwise might have perished . He also relieved another man who appeared to be in the utmost distress .

      The new Court of Probate was opened on Tuesday morning , when there was a numerous attendance of the bar of Doctors' Commons and of Westminster Hall . Sir Cresswell Cresswell having entered the Court , Dr . Bayford , one of the Registrars , read the Royal Letters Patent appointing his Lordship Judge of the Court of Probate . The Queen ' s Advocate then delivered an address of congratulation , to which the Judge made a suitable reply . Only one CAse was heard that day , and it presented no points of interest . A low-looking , middle-aged woman , of repulsive appearance , was charged at the Westminster police-court

      with obtaining articles to the value of 24 / . under false pretences . She went to a Mrs . Miller , a retailer of provisions , and obtained articles on credit on the strength of an assertion that she had had a child by the Duke of Cambridge , and that his Royal Highness would pay her debts . This story seemed to be afterwards confirmed by a man who pretended to be the Duke ' s steward ; and the goods were therefore furnished . In process of time , however , the trick was found out ; but the Westminster magistrate thought it did not amount to a false pretence within the meaning of the law , and the woman was discharged .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —Her Mnjesty and the Court arrived at Buckingham Palace from Windsor yesterday afternoon . — The Duchess of Kent left Frogmore yesterday morning , travelled by special train on the Great Western Railway , and proceeded to St . James ' s Palace , attended bv Lady Anna Maria Dawson . " The Special Services at Westminster Abbey . — The second of these services took place last Sunday evening , and was again largely attended . Better arrangements had been mado than on the previous occasion for giving speedy , safe , and decorous entrance to the crowd of worshippers . Several doors were thrown open ;

      barriers were erected , and admission to the building was permitted half an hour before the commencement of the service . There appeared to be very few of the working classes among the congregation , which , as on the previous occasion , seemed to consist of ordinary church-goers . The Very Rev . Dean Trench read the lessons , and the Rev . Lord John Thynno preached the sermon . An altoration has been made in the order of preachers at theso services . The sermon to-morrow will bo preached by Archdeacon Sinclair , and that on tho 24 th instant by the Bishop of Oxford . The Dean of Canterbury will preach on aomo other Sunday . The

      The Exktek Hall Special Services . — Rev . Newman Hall preached on Sunday evening to tho congregation assembled at Exoter Hall . Tho building waa crowded to excess , and several of tho persons present Beemedao . be ] iongJp ,. tUojvL « rksing ^ ft 83 ej ?^ , , __ . The Niger Expedition . —Tho steamer Day Spring , which last summer proceeded up tho Niger , under the auspices of Government , with a view to oponing trade with the interior , haa been wrecked on a rock about a day ' a journey above Rabba , or nearly five hundred miles from the sea . Mr . May , the socond maator , however , made hia way tto Lagos , through the kingdoms of Nufl and Yoruba , a twenty daya' journey , during four of which lie stayed at Horin , a Jargo city of Yoruba , and a stronghold of Mahomodaniam . Three American miaalonarien had boon there just bofore ; but the king had

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      No . 408 , Janpart 16 , 1858 , ] T H E Ii E A I > E B , . 57 ;

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      OUR CIVILIZATION .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 16, 1858, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2226/page/9/