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      to make the most of their land , require a superior education , a knowledge of machinery and chemistry , I can eaytbat at least they ought to have a fair and just 8 bare in returning the representatives of this country .

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      CRIMINAL RECORD . The Murder in Bloomsburv . *—The adjourned inquest on the body of Canty , who was murdered by Tombi , in Gloucester-street , Queen-square , was resumed on Tuesday . The adjournment liad taken place to allow of an application to the Home Secretary to have the prisoner brought before the jury , which was complied with . The prisoner was produced , and the evidence already before the public was repeated . Mr . Lewis , who defended the prisoner , raised no question as to his state of mind , although it is evident the man was insane when he committed the act , and the jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against him . Tlie prisoner -was also re-examined at the Cierkenwell police-court , and committed for trial .

      Fatax Prize Fight . —An inquest has been held at Guy's Hospital , on the body of George Macdonald , aged seventeen ,, who died from injuries received in a pugilistic encounter with Samuel Asquith , alias Gosway , at Abbey Wood , on Sunday morning . Witnesses proved that the fight , which was for 51 . a side , lasted an hour , when deceased wished to give in , but his brutal backers , unwilling to lose their few shillings merely to save his life , nrged him on to continue the contest . The result was that the wretched boy in the closing struggle had his neck dislocated , which caused death . The jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against Asquith ; who has been brought up at Woolwich police-court and remanded for the apprehension of his accomplices .

      Poachers an © Gamekeepers . —On Saturday night last another conflict between poachers and gamekeepers , doubly fatal , occurred on the estate of Mr . Ackroyd , in Cheshire . A party of keepers met four poachers , and attempted to take them ; but the poachers fired , shot one deafl , and mortally wounded the other . The murderers have hot been apprehended . It is surely time that something were done to remove this perpetual source of rural warfare and bloodshed . The Murder at Ajtdover . —rAn inhabitant of Andover , named Thomas Alexander Banks , a retired publican in good circumstances , has been arrested on suspicion of being the murderer of the deceased Mr . Parsons . An examination of the aqcused took place at the policestation on Saturday afternoon before the borough magistrates . The examination was a private one , and more evidence was not gone into than was sufficient to justify a remand . The wife of the' prisoner is watched by the

      police . Attempted Murder . —On Tuesday afternoon a prisoner , named Simpson , in . the Coldbath-fields House of Correction , quarrelled with the officer in charge about his food , and then stabbed both him and another officer who came to the rescue . Both of the wounded men were seriously injured , and it was at first feared that one of them would not survive . SusriccTED Murder . —A servant-girl named Hannah King was found lying upon the railway near Dalston with her legs broken . She was convoyed to the German Hospital , but died after amputation had been performed . Before her death she made a . statement to the chaplain and to her aunt to the effect that she hud been met by a person in woman ' s clothes ( but whom ahe afterwards discovered to be a man ) who inquired the way to Porkroad , and thua got her into conversation . The stranger

      gave her something to drink put of a bottle he had with him , which'took away her senses . After awhile she found herself lifted over the railway-bridge ; she rolled down the embankment , and then got up and walked on the line , whan she heard a train approach her . Witnesses at the inquest deposed to seeing the deceased thrown over the bridge , and that a train passed immediately afterwards . The person who threw her over was in the garb of a woman , and immediately made off . In answer to the coroner the surgeon stated that some slight violence had been committed on her person . It further appeared that a person answering the description of the party perpetrating this outrage called on the same evening at a house \ n the neighbourhood of the occurrence , and , on the door being opened by a young woman , asked her if sho waa alone iu the house , but sho called her master , and the party ran away . The inquiry was ad- * journcd ,

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      DEATHS FROM GRIEF . We have a number of deaths caused by grief , recorded in Michaud ' s Biographie , for the truth of which he is responsible . The number of learned men who died of grief in consequence of various accidents is very considerable . Tribolp , a Florentine engineer of the sixteenth century , died of grief ( and of illness , adds the Biographie ) for having caused the inundations in the territory of Florence . Viglius , a German lawyer , died , in 1577 , at the age of seventy , in consequence of the ingratitude of the prince whom he served . An English writer died , 1557 , at the age of fortythree , for having been forcibly converted ; the famous heretic pf the twelfth century , Amaury , died from the same cause , having been forced to deny his belief . The Benedictine Lami ended his days at seventy-rfive because a young man whom he had converted from heresy , relapsed again into its fatal errors . Sibouyah , an Arabic grammarian of the eighth century , died , it is said , of grief , because the Kaliph Harounal-Rascbyd decided in favour of another savant on a . grammatical point on which they differed . The Spanish ; theologian "Valentia betrayed equal susceptibility $ ho died in 1598 , aged fifty-two , because the Pope had reproached him with falsifying a passage of Saint Augustin . The historian Avrigny , born at Caen , in 1675 , died of grief at sixty-six , in consequence of some

      alterations made by Lallement in his works . The Scotch Chancellor Elphinston died , they say , of grief occasioned by the loss of the battle of Flodden Field ; he was , it is true , eighty-five years of age . The Italian , philosopher Rhodiginus , died of grief in 1525 , because Francis the First was made prisoner at Pavia , he being at the time seventy-five . The English architect Jones , who could not survive the execution of Charles I ,, had attained the age of-sixty-nine . The physician Fabricius , whom the misfortunes of the King of Denmark made

      succumb , was more than seventy . Various persons died , they sny , of grief occasioned by the assassination of Henry IV . They cite , amongst others , the celebrated chief of the partisans of Vic . Duprat , Bishop of Clerraont , died , in 1560 , at seventytwo years of age , because the canons of his chapter wished to forco Uiiu to cut his beard . — 'Irish Quarterly Reviexc .

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      CENTRAL RAILWAY STATION . Pursuant to a requisition , signed by three hundred of the principal lirms in the Qity of London , and addressed to the Lord Mayor , a meeting waa held on Wednesday , in the London Tavern , to receive the report of Mr , Charles Pearson , City Solicitor , as to his recent proceedings to obtain improved railway accommodation for the City , and to considor the propriety of appointing o committee to inquire and report whether any and what measures oau bo adopted to diminish the overcrowding of tlio prinolpal thorough faros , nnd to obtain for the

      working classes bettor habitations than they are now able to prooure in the closo and ill-vontilated courts and alloys of tho City . Tho Lord Mayor presided , and was Bupportqd by a lurgo number of tho most influential merchants and bankare ; Lord John Russell w » a also present . Mr . 0 . Pearson , previous to prosontlng ¦ tue report , callod nttention to the objects contemplated Dy htm , and to tl ^ Advantages t luit % ould ariso fronii car-, ryinfi lib project into ofl'oct . Ono of tho speeches wa * mauobyLirTjonnRu 88 oll , who «« P * f'V ' tL ^ va ? contemplated . Tho first resolution spoke of tho ovorcrowdug of tho street * of London , and tho second of tho ovofoi-o vding of tho dwellings of tho poor . Tho Control Knllwny Station projoct was advocated upon tue

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      when printed copies of the despatches were lying on the library-table ^ On the part of the Colonial Office it is imputed that Mr , Guernsey was induced to takethe course he had done in revenge , not having received place and pay according to his application . It was further proved that the prisoner was the person who supplied the Daily News with the copies from which the despatches were published . The prisoner , who offered no defence ; was committed for trial , bail being refused . A thief , named Richard Barry , who practises childstripping , was placed in the dock of the Thames pohcecourt , where a crowd of his victims and their parents were in attendance to charge the rascal with his mea n villanies . A police-constable said he was prepared to substantiate a hundred cases of theft against him , perpetrated in all parts of the metropolis . Mr . Selfe sent the prisoner for trial , as he did not consider the highest in his to inflict adequate to the deserts of iuiiici utDi \

      penalty power penalty in ms power to aumjuatc w m » »* Q *» the case . At the Westminster police-court , a grenadier guardsman , named Hudson , was' charged wich having most I brutally assaulted a poor old woman , seventy yean of age , who came into a public-house where he was drinking , and asked him to buy a song . The prisoner was remanded . The frequency with , which assaults are perpetrated , by soldiers at the West-end calls for the exercise rigorous punishment . The disgusting case of March mont v . Marchmont has terminated in a verdict for the petitioner , and she is now , therefore , judicially separated from her husband . The judge , in his summing up , did not spare cither

      party—both alike received at his hands a well-merited castigation . Thomas Edis , grocer , Aylesbury-street , Cierkenwell , and Benjamin G-eorge Clements , Elder-walk , were each fined in the mitigated penalty of 25 / ., by Mr . Jardine , at Bow-street , for adulterating coffee with chicory . Thomas Higgins and George Davis were charged at Westminster police-court with conspiring to obtain the signature of Mr . Charles Grunberg , proprietor of Ashburnham Nursery , Kihg's-road , Chelsea , to a number of bills of exchange and a bill of sale for a large amount . The evidence , given at great length , was to the purport that the prosecutor ' s ignorance of English law had been taken advantage of to plunder him to the extent represented by the documents to which he had been induced to attach his name . Mr . Paynter found it necessary to remand the case , and refused to take bail .

      We regret to find that further evidence has been brought against the wretch Rutledge which leaves no doubt as to his detestable conduct to his daughter . He and his wife have been committed for triaL There -will be another indictment pr eferred against him , for the violation of a girl named Ellen Saltmarsb , who had lived as a servant in his house . At a meeting of the Middlesex magistracy on Thursday some discussion took place on the inuch-vexed question of the position and authority of coroners . A severe censure was passed on the Registrar-General for

      having in his report condemned the conduct of the magistrates in allowing certain fees claimed by the coroners for the holding of inquests , which they deemed unnecessary . Reference was then made to the measures adopted by Mr . Wakley and jury sitting on the body of the man recently murdered in Gloucester-street , to secure tho presence of the individual accused of the murder at the remanded inquiry . The right of the Home Secretary to authorise this infraction of the ordinary custom was stoutly denied . The subject then dropped .

      A remarkable ense of robbery and perjury by a boy has just come to light , by which a foul aspersion i $ re-/ moved from tho character of some innocent persons . About three weeks ago a burglary -was committed in the premises of Messrs . Kent nnd Co ., Great Marlboroughstrcet , when 51 / . in money was carried off . There was a boy , fifteen years of ago , named Edward Herbert , in tho service of tho firm , who , on oath before the magistrate , charged two men in the same employ with the crime , saying that he had receivod a sovereign not to speak of it . Tho police , however , had some suspicions of tho boy ; and , being watched , ho was observed the other day digging up some sovereigns in Hammersmith Churchyard , and , when brought before Mr . Bingham , confessed that ho was guilty of tho robbery . Tho prisoner was remanded for a week ,

      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Tub mystory regarding tho publication of tho Ionian dospatchoa was cleared up at Bow-street lnst Saturday . Otio William Hudson Guomscy , n parson iu the position of a gentleman , and who formerly hold a commission in the Turkish Contingent , was charged with having stolen ooptos of the despatched of SU' J . Young . This is tho man who sent thorn to tho oilloe of tho Daily News Tho pro 8 ooution is , of course , a Government one . Tho Ovldonco adduced wont to show that tho priaonor had frequently callod upon Mr , Millor , eub-Ubrurlau at tho Ooloiilnl Office , with whom ho hail some acquaintance , ana that uo had been loft tlioro alone on ono occasion

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      So . 454 , December 4 1858 . ] THE MADEB . 1309 three hundred of the most eminent and opulent

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      upon the ground that great inconveniences would arise from the precedent of sanctioning such undertakings as the one which has been carried to so wonderful an issue by Sir James Brooke ; secondly , because he is not clear as to Sir James Brooke's title ; and , thirdly , because he and his colleagues are opposed to territorial extension altogether . With regard to Sir James Brooke , he did not conceive he had a claim upon the Government in respect of what be had done for his own purposes and objects ; his was a half political and half commercial speculation . At the present time the views of the Government were not favourable to the adoption of any of the propositions laid before them . ¦ . „„« 4-Un / ri-ni . nrl tfiaf trroat . inrnnvfiriiflnfiPB would arise

      some firms of the kingdom , informed his lordship that they consider it would be much for the advantage of trade if the British Government would take possession of the territory of Sarawak , which is offered to it Upon any terms it may be pleased to name . : The Earl of Derby said he had listened with great attention to the statements made upon this subject , which was one of considerable importance , bat one of 1 considerable difficulty . He wished to speak of Sir James Brooke with the highest respect . He was a man of . great energy and influence , and there was cot the least doubt that to his personal influence and efforts the improvement was owing in the state of Sarawak . The propositions of the deputation his lordship met with a negative , refusing altogether to discuss the commercial points which they brought under his consideration . These he put aside , and based his refusal , first ,

      • THE STATE OF SARAWAK . A deputation , consisting of tho following gentlemen—Mr . Crawford , M . P ., Lovd Godovich , M . P ., Mr . Qregson , M . P ., Mr . Horsfoll , M . P ., Mr . Ewart , M . P ., Mr . Drunimond , M . P ., Sir Dnlrymplo Elphinatone , M . P ., tho Mayor of Manchester ( Mr . Maekio ) , Mr . William Fnirbairn , Mr . Thomas Fnirbairn , Mi \ Poiulor , Mr . Ross , and Mr . Simpson , from Manohoster ; Mr . CharlcBTurnor , Mr . M'Micking , and Mr . Adam Gladstone , from Liverpool ; Mr . Nicol , from Glasgow } Mr . Ingram Trovors , Mr , Coulson , and Mr . John Smith , —had an interview with tho Earl of Derby on Tuosdny , in raforouco to tho propriety of retaining tho State of Sarawak undor tlio protectorate of tltq English Government . Tlio proceeding * , which woro of groat length , may bo tlma summed up . Tho deputation , which represented

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1858, page 1309, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2271/page/5/