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      merit . —James Saunders was charged with forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange for 208 / . 16 s ., with intent to defraud , but he -was acquitted on a point of Jaw ; being , however , again arraigned . on a charge of obtaining coods by false pretences from Mr . Whitmee , and being found guilty , was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment with hard labour . , . * ¦ , *• ' ¦ ¦ ' •* '¦ At the adjourned inquest on the body of Mr . . Burrows , killed in a quarrel with Mr . Plewp , in his own shop , in the Hampstead-road , the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter . Plews was at once taken into custody , and brought before Mr . Long , at Marylebone Police-court , when he was committed for trial on the chargebail to the amount of 2 O 01 . being accepted .

      , At the Court of Bankruptcy a third-class certificate has been ordered to be issued to A . A . Couper , an East Indian merchant , of Old Broad-street , after a suspension of six months . The bankrupt , the Commissioner said , bad been engaged in a transaction very nearly verging upon the nature of fraud , and , indeed , but for a circumstance to which he alluded , it would have been absolute fraud , and a total refusal of the certificate , must have been the result . Protection was granted during the suspension . —A sitting for proof of debts was held in the case of the Maresfield Gunpowder Company ( limited ) , but all disputed proofs being adjourned for further consideration no discussion of importance arose .

      A batch of four persons , three men and a woman , representatives of the *' Mercantile Loan Fund Association , " underwent examination at the Clerkenwell policecourt before Mr . Corrie , on the charge of conspiring to defraud various persons but of sums of money . The prisoners , aware that the best way to make money is to represent yourself as possessing more than you require , announced themselves prepared to advance loans on the most advantageous terms , in sums varying from 2 QI . up to 500 Z . A considerable business , it seems , had been

      done , not , of course , in lending , but in getting remittances to institute the " necessary inquiries . " The case was remanded for a week , and bail refused . Sarah Ann Fry and James Durant were placed in the dock of " Westminster police-court , before Mr , Paynter , charged , the former with the wilful murder of her infant , and the latter with complicity in the crime , and unlawfully disposing of the body by throwing it into the Thames . Both prisoners were committed to the Central Criminal Court for trial , bail being accepted in two sureties qf 40 £ . each for their appearance .

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      CRIMINAL , RECORD . A man has been arrested for the , murder of Wilson , at Sheffield , which we mentioned last week . He is a brewer ' s traveller * named George Plant , and is said to have been intoxicated at the time . He had been seen flourishing a dagger in different parts of the town previously . An inquest has been held on the body of the murdered man , and the jury , after being locked up four hours and a half , returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder . " A horrible tragedy was enacted at Manchester on Tuesday . The criminal was a William Robinson , landlord of the Gross Keys beer-house , Albert-street , who algo acted as bailiff and carrier at funerals . On the day in question a woman , who lives in the cellar under the beer-house , observed blood dropping through

      the ceiling ; and some time after two men broke open the door of the house , when they found Mrs . Robinson lying dead with four stabs in the neck ; planks of burning wood wore piled up against the fireplace , the gas was escaping from the various burners ; and , to wind up tho horrors , Robinson himself was found suspended from a nail in the staircase , appropriately attired in the drois he bad worn at a funeral that day . Jealousy is assigned as the cause , although husband and wife had both roachqd the ago of half « century . An inquest was hold the next day . After hearing evidence , the jury , in tho ease of Mrs . Robinson , returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against her husband ; and in his case tho verdict was that he had hanged himself while in an unsound stato of mind .

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      IRELAND . The retirement of Mr . Justice Crampton , after twentyfive years' service in the Court of Quoon ' s Bench , has at length taken place in prosonco of a large assemblage of tho bar and tho public . Tho Attorney-General , on tho part of the bar , pronounced a glowing eulogiuin on the professional and private worth of tho judge , who briefly , but eloquently , ropliod . Ho then bid farewell to the Chief Justioo and to tho Judges , and on retiring from tue bonon was greeted with a hearty burst of applause . fho

      oampaign against tho Killarney clubbists is not yot terminated . Tho correspondent of tho Qorh Examiner , ¦ writing f rom Klllarnoy , announces tho rooominonceinont o » active operations on tho part of the constabulary Meantime a movement ia on foot In the south for colons subscri ptions towards tho defence of tho would-Do Robert Emmettu of 1869 . a no reward for the apprehension of Dolany amounts to upWWd 8 of 2000 J . TFhQ Clonmel Chronicle says j—* no constabulary between Dungarvan and Oappoquln «» t « bo « Mitg » gea In not pursuit tnrough tho broken

      country near Clashmore after Delany , who lias-just turned up in that district . The fugitive , it appeara , is armed to the teeth ; but we regret to state that his extraordinary activity enabled him to escape into the wood 3 of Ballintaylor ; in his passage through that thick plantation , he left behind him his shoes ., As the polide are how so close upon his trail / his arrest may aoon be looked for . " On Tuesday morning a fire was discovered in the extensive distillery of Sir James Power , Bart ., in John ' slane . The flames spread with fearful rapidity , andfin a short time a large section of the building was enveloped in flames . The damage done is estimated at many thousand pounds , but the premises are said to be fully insured .

      The Lord Mayor , who , as Alderman Lambert , lost the confidence of many of his Roman Catholic fellow-citizens , by bis aversion to Cardinal Wiseman , gave his inaugural banquet on Tuesday night at the Mansion House , the Viceroy , as usual , honouring the chief magistrate with his company . Numbers of gentlemen professing the creed of the Cardinal refused to dine with the Lord Mayor . Among the leading absentees were the Roman Catholic Judges Pigott , Monahan , Keogh , and O'Brien ; in fact , the only notable person of that persuasion present was Father Daly , of Galway . Lord Eglintoun-s reception was most nattering , and the standard toast of the evening was drank amidst prolonged cheering .

      Sawiders ' s News Letter contains a somewhat extraordinary storj- of a band of Phoenix clubbites having been discovered drilling by a passer-by , at a spot within three miles of Dublin Castle . This individual gave immediate information to the authorities .. Saunders adds : — " The source of our information is strictly reliable , and the fact that we have stated proves that illegal societies antagonistic to the institutions of the country exist in other localities than Belfast or Skibberecn . It has been remarked as extraordinary that the Dublin Metropolitan Police were unable to discover the nightly reunions of these men , assembled under such circumstances , and that the Government should be solely indebted for the information they have received to a private individual who accidentally happened to discover the circumstance . "

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      CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS . A remarkable , proof of the great influence of the public press , as well as of the benevolence of the public , is found in the following list of the amounts received during the last six weeks or thereabouts ' , ' in answer to the appeals made in the Times in behalf of the" Homeless Poor" and other deserving objects . The following is the list , up to Thursday , of the various sums which have been subscribed to charities or particular cases of distress naentioned in the Times : — £ b . < 3 . To the Field-lane Refuges 6 , 851 4 1 To the St . Giles ' s and St . George ' s Refuges , Bloomsbury ... ,.. ... ... 1 , 813 0 2 In reply to the Rev . Mr . Buck ' s appeal . behalf of a poor Artillery officer and his family , amount already received .... 750 0 0 To the Association for the Relief of

      Destitution in the Metropolis ... ... 115 0 0 Reformatory and Refuge Union , Pall-maU G 70 8 0 North-West London Preventive and Reformatory Institution , Euston-road ... 495 1 4 Dudley Stuart Night Refuge , Edgowareroad ... ... ... ... ... 275 12 3 Reformatory for Adult Male Criminals , Westminster ., 378 9 C For a Refuge in East London like that in Field-lane ... ,. 260 15 1 To the poor of St . Stephen ' s , Southwark ... 142 12 0 Whitochapol Probationary Homo . / . 327 1 0 In answer to Mr . Hingcston ' s appeal on behalf of a poor blind gentleman and -family .., 219 17 1 West-end Homeless Poor 120 2 0 Dispensary for Sick Poor of

      Bethnalgreon 100 17 8 To tho Westminster Night Refuge ... 91 0 0 Hospital for Diseases of tho Chest , Victoria Park 52 4 G To tho Cripplos' Homo 25 18 0 Refuge for Homeless Women , York-strcot , Westminster 80 10 0 Industrial School for Boys , Old Pyo-streot 20 8 0 Homo in the East Reformatory ... ... 4 4 0 To the Poor of St . Paul's , BermonUsoy ... 10 1 0 To founding a Ragged School hi Bothnalgroon ... ... ... ... ... 18 19 0 Jlouao of Chnvlty , Roso-stroot , Sohosquaro ... ... .,. .,, ... 10 0 0 Kofutfo for tho Destitute , Dalston ... 18 6 0 Westminster Foinalo Itofugo , Vincentsquare ... 27 2 G Poor of St . Philip ' s , Stopnoy ... ... 7 4 0 , Homeless Poor for distribution among apodal cases ... ... ... .., 19 t 0 Total amount received 12 , 800 17 3

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . A soldier of the 1 st battalion of Scots Fusilier Guards named Watts , while doing duty as . sentinel at the Bank of England , on Saturday , attempted to shoot himself with his musket . The man had earned honourable distinction in the Crimean war . A court-martial will be held to ascertain the cause of the suicidal act . Major-General Sir Edward Lugard , K . GsB ., has been appointed Secretary for Military Correspondence , at the War-office , vice Sir Henry Storks , K . C . B . The Government , it is believed , intends to propose a loan of ten millions , for the purpose of increased armaments . The increase will be almost entirely on the navy . ¦¦ . ' ¦ ¦ The Victoria Cross is to b « conferred upon Commander -Thomas James Young and William Hall , A . B .

      —Date of Act of Bravery , 16 th November , 1857 . — Lieutenant Young and William Hall were recommended by the late Captain Peel for the Victoria Cross for their gallant conduct at a 24-pounder gun , brought up to the angle of the Shah Nujjiffj at Lucknow , on the 16 th of November , 1857 . Mrs . Seacole , of Crimean celebrity , visited Sheerness on Saturday . She received a hearty welcome from the garrison . Previous to her arrival at Sheerness , she visited Chatham Barracks and Melville Hospital , at which places she was well received by officers and men . The attention of the public seems to be at length awakened to the necessity of putting the army and navy into thoroughly efficient condition ; and the daily and

      weekly journals , with few exceptions , make frequent reference to the subject of the manning the navy as one of paramount importance . Training-ships for boys , to be afterwards employed either in the royal or the merchant navy , cannot fail to prove of great value for this purpose , and the . Conway , a . former 28-gun ship , now about to proceed to the Mersey , is , we believe , only the first of a series of ships to be similarly fitted and employed . The Cohway will be employed as a trainingship for boys between the ages of thirteen and fifteen . The merchants of Liverpool have subscribed liberally for this purpose , and the Admiralty . have lent a ship well calculated for the service as a commencement , and have fitted her as for sea . After some probationary terms

      have been gone through , the most proficient among the lads will be allowed to choose between the royal and mercantile services , the Admiralty , we presume , undertaking to receive boys recommended by the Liverpool Association , into her Majesty ' s ships . The United Service Gazette remarks : — " We hope to find the Admiralty taking the hint from the Liverpool Association , and fitting-out a number of the . old men-of-war , now rotting in ordinary , as training-ships for boys . From five thousand to ten thousand lads should be trained annually . The merchant service would be glad of one moiety , and . the royal navy could dispose of the other . The boy of sixteen who leaves England for a foreign station usually

      returns a smart young seaman of nineteen or twenty , fit for anything , and from this stock we ^ derive the best men under the pendant . Were this principle acted upon , the cry of want of seamen would soon cease to be uttered ; for the boys who entered the merchant service would , in most instances , be true to their first masters , and enter freely in ships-Of-war were their services required ;" Captain the Hon . Swynfen Carnegie , C . B ., who is appointed a Lord of the Admiralty , is , we hear , well calculated for the position , being not , only an experienced officer , but one calculated for business . His career has been one of great activity—the last ship being tho ouly ohe he has ever had on the home station .

      Colour-Sergeant J . Hampton and Sergeant M . Richardson , 84 th Regiment , have each been presented with a silver medal , together witli a gratuity of 1 . 0 J ., by order of tho Commander-in-Chiof , for long service and meritorious conduct . The medals were presented at Chatham , in the presence of the whole of the officers and troops composing the 3 rd Battalion . A variety of experiments have just been completed on the rifle shooting ground of the Royal Engineers , for the purpose of testing the merits of a new description of rifle balls , tho invention of Captain Norton , the author of several valuable inventions connected with I'iflea and

      balls . The superiority of the bullet invented by Captain Norton is , thqt being coated with papor , and eovonil minor improvements being mado in it , a greater accuracy of aim is obtained , together with a much longer effective range . The experiments mailo fully bore out tho correctness of both thoso calculations . The Paris correspondent of tho IIoraM spoaks of Bomo now rifled cannon constructed at Vinconnos under tho eye of tho Emperor himsolf , who lias carefully : watched tho exporimonts . They combine groat powers of

      destruction with oxtromo lightness and portability , and roquiro n vory small ohargo of powder . A 12-poundor constructed on this model is said to bo more eflkient than an ordinary 82-poundor , With rogard to possiblo operations against tlio fortrossos of Mantua , Cremona , and Verona , the ' writer aaysj— " Wore tlto Froncli army obliged to drag after it a ponderous slogo train , its movements must necessarily bo so slow as to endanger tho success of tho campaign , whereas with this rlflod ordnanco it could roach the fortresses almost simultaneously with tUo retreating Auetrians , and in tho

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 5, 1859, page 167, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2280/page/7/