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      Cronley and Patrick M'Mahan , -were quarrelling about a girl , la a court in Paul-street , Vauxhall-road , Liverpool , Ia 9 t Saturday morning , when they came to blows , and M'Mahan stabbed Cronley to the hea-rt with a large pocket-knife , killing him on the spot . He also severely ¦ wounded another man , who endeavoured 1 a pacify him . M'Mahan was taken before the magistrates , and remanded . A Man Stabbed by a . Maniac . —Mr . William Wylie , a gentleman about thirty-five years of age , nephew of the late Mr . Wylie , procurator fiscal for the county of ^ Renfrew , has killed a wearer at Paisley , while in a state of insanity . His conduct , for some time pa 3 t , has "been such as to indicate mental disturbance ; but he has been suffered to go about at large . In the early part of the

      present week , he -was observed in a state of excitement as if from drink . On Tuesday morning , lie -went to the Infirmary , and rang violently at the bell , but was not attended to , as the people inside knew his eccentric character . While thus applying for admittance , a weaver , ¦ who was passing with some friends , went to sec what was the matter , when Mr : Wylie , fancying , as he afterwards stated , that the man was about to garotte him , stabbed him to the heart with a pocket-knife , and fled . The man died instantly . Mr . Wylie then went to tiie police-office , and said he had " done for a fellow who would not again disturb the " public peace . " He was brought the same day before Mr . Sheriff Glasgow for examination , but was so excited that it was found necessary to order an adjournment .

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      THE ASSIZES . A boy , named George Felton , has been tried at the Worcester Assizes for the manslaughter of his sister at Oldbury on the 19 th of last March . Both worked at a colliery , and , having quarrelled , the sister beat the brother very severely ; on which he threw at her a lump of hard clay , which struck her on the head and caused almost instantaneous death . Mr . Justice Byles thought the case was one of justifiable homicide , the boy having only stood on his self-defence . He was therefore Acquitted . . .. ¦ ¦ ¦ Thomas Beech , miller , was indicted at the same Assizes for forging a receipt and acquittance for 1 £ , ¦ with intent to defraud . He was acquainted with a Mr . Breakwell , and knew that he had a sister living at Birmingham . To this sister lie wrote a letter in the name of her brother , saying that ho had got a situation , and wanted 17 . to set him up . He requested that she ¦ wo uld send him this amount by a post-office order ; -which she did . Beach signed it in the name of John Break-well , and got it cashed at the Dudley office . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to three years' penal ¦¦

      servitude . , Emma Sntton , a good-looking girl , only fifteen years of age , was tried last Saturday at Lewes on a charge of having ; attempted to conceal the birth of lier illegitimate child . She had been committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder ; but Mr . Justice Willes , in his chaTge to the grand jury , said he did not think the medical evidence showed with sufficient clearness that the child had been born alive ; and a bill was therefore returned for concealment of birth . The girl was a se rvant , and one day , after she had been very ill , was seen to be carrying

      into the scullery something which had the appearance of an infant . As it had been previously suspected that she was pregnant , though she denied the fact ; search -was made , and the dead body of a female , child was found under the sink , with a piece of tape tied tightly round its neck . Emma Sutton admitted that the infant was hers , and that she had placed it where it was found . She made no defence at the trial , and the jury found her Guilty , with a recommendation to mercy on account of her youth . The Judge sentenced her to hard labour for six months .

      William Morrison , a farmer , lias been tried at Worcester , on a charge of embezzling 450 J ., the property of tho Mnlvern Improvement Commissioners . He hud been employed by them as collector of tho rates , nnd hnd himself been one of the Commissioners . After ho censed to be a collector , a large balance against him was discovered ; but how it arose hns never been clearly shown . It resulted , however , in this cimrgo iiyiiinst Mr . Morrison . Mr . Serjeant Pigott ( who uppenred for tlio prosecution ) saiil that the way in which he proposed to

      make out the charge of felony wns tho prisoner ' s concealment of the stnto of the accounts , and his Hiking a large sum of money without informing liis employers of the fact . Upon this , somo legal argument arose , the prisoner ' s counsel urging tlmt a general < le ( ioiencv in tho nccounts could not constitute a charge of embezzlement . Mr . Justice Dyles wns of the sumo opinion , and directed tho jury to acquit the prisoner , observing- that ho stood in the position of a debtor to the Commissioners . A verdict of Not Guilty was then taken upon this and upon a second charge ngainst the prisoner of tho same nature .

      Iwo cases of poisoning , in which nn intent to munlcr was charged , woro tried at York nt tho close of last week . In one of them , the accufied wns a girl of fourteen , named Uiirtloy . Sho was a servant at tho liouso of a Wosloyan minister nt Leeds ; nnd in tho samo house lived ouo lUiznl ) cth Woodcock . Ono day , elio reproved tho girl lor Home misconduct ; nnd , a fciv dnys aftor » v « rds , when olio was ill , Hartloy gave her a cup of tea with some

      white arsenic in it . Slie subsequently confessed that she did this to prevent the woman telling her ( Hartley ' s ) mother of her misconduct . She was found Guilty , bu recommended to mercy on account of her youth , and wa discharged on her father entering into recognizances for her appearance for judgment at any future period . —In the other case , Frederick Heppen 3 tall , a . young man of twenty-two , was charged with administering a certain quantity of croton oil to Benjamin Fawcett . Here also the motive was revenge , and the verdict of Guilty , as in the former case , was accompanied by a recommendation to mercy . Mr . Baron Martin ordered that he should be discharged on his own and other recognizances , to appear at the next Assizes for judgment if the decision of the Court of Criminal Appeal should be against a legal objection raised by his counsel and reserved by his Lordship .

      William Henry JSTorbury has been sentenced at the same Assizes to three years ' penal servitude for the manslaughter of ThomasKilner at Wakefield , by striking him on the head with a coal-rake during a quarrel . The Grand Jury at Chelmsford have thrown . out the bill against George Blewitt , the man charged with being concerned in the Dagenham murder . Mr . Justice Willes , in his charge , called attention to discrepancies in the statements of the woman on whose evidence the accusation-wholly rested , and to the fact of her . being evidently under certain delusions of mind . She fancied herself haunted by the ghost of her deceased husband , and by the devil , who always appeared to her to snatch away her food -when she sat down to it . These facts appeared to influence the jury ; and the ose is consequently at an end .

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      A DUTCH BURGLATL A singular tale has come to light within the last few days . Some nights ago the shop of Mr . Greenhow , jeweller and silversmith , in " High-street , Chelinsford , was broken into and plundered of a considerable portion , of its contents . When Itr . Greenhow came down stairs at six o ' clock in the morning , he found that the premises had been , entered in the night , and that the inner shop ^ . door had been left open . His wife immediately proceeded to the railway station , with the intention of sending a telegraphic message to the police at Scotlandyard , London ; but , finding the telegraph-office closed , she waited there while she despatched a boy for the telegraph official . After some time , a rather

      suspiciouslooking ; man entered the office , and asked a youth there for a bag which he had left with him early that morning . A large travelling- "bag was handed to the stranger , and being very ponderous , Mrs . Greenhow was led to suspect that the bag contained the property which had been stolen from her husband ' s premises the night before . On receiving the bag , the , man carelessly placed it on a bench , and sauntered leisurely about the station ; biit Mrs . Greenhow called a policeman , and gave him in charge . The bag was then opened , and found to contain the "whole of Mr . Greenhow's stolen property , which included an immense quantity of plate , jewellery , brooches , rings , watches , and numerous other article ? , amounting altogether to nearly 600 / . in value .

      The most singular part of the story , however , remains to be told . A short time previous to the Chelinsford robbery , the houses of two gentlemen living at Clapham Rye were broken into , nnd robbed of a great deal of plate , jewellery , and other property . The police made inquiries , and soon learnt that certain articles of the stolen goods had been pledged at several different pawnbrokers' shops in the City , by a young woman , a foreigner . They could not , however , gain any further information respecting her than that she was of rather stylish appearance , and could scarcely speak English . When the man was apprehended at ( Jliehnsford on the charge of breaking into Mr . Greonhow ' s promises , Mr . Superintendent May , of the Chelinsford police , came up to London , and put himself in

      communication with Inspector Wichor , of tho metropolitan detective force . Tho laitter , assisted by a police-aergennt , mado inquiries after the woman , and at length ascertained , that for tho lnat nine months she had been living with tho mnn in custody at Chelinsford , at a hou . se in the Borough-market . The oflicera accordingly went there and siiw th-c woman , who at first denied all knowledge of the innlo prisoner ; but , being apprehended and taken to the residence of one of the gentlemen who had been robbed nt Cliiphani , and who identified a gold seal , found at her lodgings among a variety of other valuable stolen articles , she confessed that aqunntity of jewellery and plate had been given to her by tho prisoner at ChelniHford , uuil thiituho had pawned the goods in the City . She was examined before the Wandsworth magistrate last Saturday , and remanded .

      Tho man ia a Dutdinmn , whose real namo i . s Van PojiU-r ; but helmsboon livingnoine time in England under the assumed nnmes of 1 ) uvis nnd Phillips . 11 u isu notorious thief , having b »; i > n tiioil for burglary throe years ngo at Mnidsionc , together with hi . s father , mother , wife , and brother , llo vuh then sentenced to four years ' penal HervUiule , but was rdeuHod last your , wh * en ho miiHt n ^ uin lmvo had ra : ourna to hU old mode of life , lie will be tried for thu Chelinsford burglary nl the noxt AsmIzcs , and , should lie he jio ^ uittcd < m tlmt charge , will bo apprehended on tho ( Jiuphuni robberies .

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      OBITUARY . On Thursday was buried in the cemetery at Mont-Parnasse , at Paris , a Madame Champagneux " , aged 77 , one of the most interesting of the links perhaps that have coupled the present epoch with the stirring one of 1790 . She was the daughter of Manon Jeanne Philipc-n , better kno-wn as Madame Roland , who , at thirty-seven years of age , was one of the moving spirits of the Girondist party , and -was so necessary to her husband when Minis . ter of the Interior , that Danton said of her , " If yon in-vide M . Roland you must also invite Madame . I know his virtues , but we want men who can see with other eyes than those of their wives . " At this time the subject of our brief notice , who was born at while the respectable Necker was endeavouring vainly to stave off the Revolution , must have been eleven years of age , and have been in habitual and familiar intercourse with Brissot , Danton , Pe ' tion , Barbaroux , Vergniaud , Buzot , and , ) in fact , all the notabilities of the party of which her virtuous and beautiful mother was the head . That mother , who , in the words of her biographer , died a martyr to conjugal fidelity , she lost by the guillotine in 1793 , and her father perisied a few days after by his own hand .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Chatham Dockyard . —The Lords of the Admiralty paid their annual official visit to Chatham Dockyard on Wednesday afternoon , for the purpose of making an , inspection of that establishment . Mallet ' s Majlmoth Mortar : —Special permission having been finally accorded by the Secretary of State for War for another proof of the durability of Mr Mallet ' s mammoth , mortar , the officers of the select committee of Woolwich Arsenal nnd various other persons assembled in the marsh on Wednesday morning to witness the experiments which were intended for that day ' s trial . The result was very satisfactory /; but the experiments came to an abrupt termination , owing to the displacement of some portion of the mortar .

      New . and Improved Rifle . — -A breach-loading rifle carbine , detachable so as to form a pistol also , the invention of Air . Terry , of Birmingham , has been under test on board her Majesty ' s ship Excellent , under the superintendence of Captain Hewlett , C . B ., from May 10 th until the present time , during which time 1800 rounds have been fired from it with unprecedented accuracy at various ranges , without cleaning the weapon , which , not-withstanding , gives no recoil . Floating- Maeinte School . —The efforts of the Liverpool Mercantile Marine Service Association to establish a floating training school for merchant seamen on the MJersey are in a fair way to be crowned witli success . Tiie application to the Admiralty for one of th . e unused ! vessels of the Royal navy has resulted in th « granting of the Vestal frigate , at present lying at Chatham , for that purpose . The vessel , however , is not to be permanently moored in the river , but is to be fitted out for short cruises , thus giving the pupils on board & practical application of the laws of seamanship which are to "be inculcated . — Times-Voi-ujnrEERs from the Militia into the Line . — 14 , 117 persons volunteered from the militia to the line regiments in the United Kingdom from the lst . of March , 1 S 57 , to the 21 st of April last . 9549 so voluntcerM into tho line in England , 367 G in Ireland , and only 892 in Scotland . . Aldehshot . —The Duke of Cambridge gave a grand field day on Wednesday , when a ' sham fight and several v « ry brilliant manoeuvres took place . Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cambridge and Princess Mary of Cambridge , and the Grand Duclioas of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , were present .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . Tun Court . —It is now definitively arranged that her Majesty is to bo accompanied , on tl > o occasion of her visit to the Imperial dockyard and arsenal of Cherbourg-, by such members of tho Mouse of Command as may find it convenient to undertake the voyage . A committee of luonibers has been formed to umka the necessary arrangements . Dn . Tit avers Twiss . — -The Lord Bishop of London liaa appointed Dr . Travora Twins to the oilice of Chancellor of tho Diocese of London , vacant by'the advanceniont of the Right Hon . Dr . Lushingtou to the Judgealiip of the Court of Appeal of tho Province of Canterbury . Tare Koy-ai . Ritm . su Bank . —A further dividend of la . ( making 1 Us . i » d . in the pound ) is announced by tho otUciul manager of tho Koynl Ur . tiah Bank ; and , tho use of the Rotunda nt tho Hunk of England lmving been g-rnntofl to Mr . Harding for tho lOrh , licit , find 12 th of August , the payment will bo inodo thuru on those days . Tine Wicht Ikimics . —Tho West India i . ilnnds woro gaiiarnlly healthy when thu hi * t mails loft . At JBarbndocs , t , ho crop Mpurntious wore coining to u eloso , and little Hugiir ri'inaiHcil to bo miidu . The cn »|> was expected to rendi 60 , 000 hognlwmh . Domonun wns suffering through oX ( .-ch . s <> f rain . Sugar operations woro nt » Htnnd-Hlill . Tlio Msvrro driniji'lit which hud bueii expuriitiiccil throughout Jaiunicii for . some mouths hnd given way to lvl ' rcdliuiij raina . I'luduco transactions

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      No . 435 , July 24 , 1858 ] THE LEADER . 707

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1858, page 707, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2252/page/11/