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< Srtract from a Calcutta letter deserves attention : — « There is nothing doing here . . . ^ ° for sailors , they are going about the -streets m hundreds , actually starving , and getting themselves into gaol for the sake of some rice and water . 1 my have been discharged from the Naval Brigade , and cannot obtain employment . "
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VOLUNTEER CORPS . The London Rifle Brigade is rapidly enrolling members . To its funds the Worshipful Company of Salters have transmitted 20 / . Messrs . Glyn , jMessrs . Morrison , Dillon , & Co ., Messrs . Hernes & Co ., and the Recorder of London are among the recent contributors . _ .., ¦ , . ^ The Freemasons' Lodge at Whitehaven , m Cumberland , have formed a rifle company of sixty men , armed and equipped at their own expense , who have already attained eflicieney in drill , and as marksmen . The Tynemouth Volunteer Artillery Corps lias been recognised by the Government , and will be immediately enrolled . ^ They will be trained to work the large guns at Tynemouth and Clifford ' s Fort , which comprise the defences of the Tyne . The Northumberland Artillery Militia are now stationed at Tynemouth garrison , and the whole of the defences of the south-eastern coast of that country are now intrusted to Northumberland men .
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IRELAND . About half-past 10 o ' clock on Saturday morning an explosion of gunpowder occurred at the Ballineolig Powder-mills , which was attended with the death of five workmen . As to the dusting-house or refining-house at which the catastrophe occurred , not so much as a stone of it remains * even from the foundation ; for the very ground on which it stood has been blown up and rooted away as if a mine had exploded beneath it . On the other side of the river ,
by the roadside , are four or five small slated houses ; the roofs of these were shattered and knocked away by the mass of stone from the exploded refining-Jhpuse . One workman is missing , but th ~ e five are probably the only sufferers . The Dublin Evening Mail says that the judgeship vacant by the death of the Hon . Patrick Plunkett has been conferred upon Mr . David Lynch , Q . C . The appointment is likely to be popular . Mr . Lynch is a Roman catholic , but has never taken a prominent part in politics .
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The Coukt . —Her Majesty and the Prince Consort , accompanied by the younger members of the royal family , intend to remain at Osbome until Monday , the 29 th , when they go to Balmoral , to pass three weeks or a month in the Highlands . The Grand Duke Constantine who is over here inspecting our arsenals and our navy without sailors , has been exr changing visits with the Prince Consort , and has been invited to dine at Osborne . Among other visitors , we note little Toussoun Pacha , who has been taken to pay his respects to her Majesty by Sir Moses Montefiore ; the Earls of Granville and Clarendon , Sir George Lewis and some German serene highnesses . The Queen and the Prince Consort embarked yesterday evening on board the Victoria and Albert royal yacht for an excursion for a few days at sea . In all probability her Majesty will , during the cruise , visit the Channel Islands .
Election Committees . —The Huddersfield Committee have decided that Mr . E ; A . Leatham was duly elected member for that borough . At the same time , the Committee mention the names of individuals who were bribed to vote for Mr . Leatham , but they acquit the hon . member of having any knowledge of such transactions . When the Beverley Committee met it was announced that the petition of Mr . Auchmuty Glover was withdrawn , but evidence was gone into in support of another petition . The Preston Committee decided that Mr . Grenfell had been duly elected . Dr . Michell , the member for Bodmin , has obtained the Chiltem Hundreds , and a new writ has been moved for to supply the vacancy . ., , ___ the committee
In the Pontefract compromise case , , under the chairmanship of Mr . Spencer Walpole , were to agree to their report yesterday . They have examined Mr ; Cbilders and Mr . Overend , the two gentlemen who contested the seat , and their agents Enough has been revealed to show that the head agents of the Liberal and Conservative parties in London are in the habit of making a complete traffic of the seats of members of Parliament . A commission under the great seal will be issued to inquire , under the Corrupt Practices Act , into the late election for Wakefield . Mercaxtiie Mari > e Association . —A numerously-attended meeting of the Association took place on Thursday , at which it was resolved to persevere in the attempt now being made to obtain an Act of Incorporation . .
Diminution of Raih . — " The annual rainfall is diminishing , and it is stated that the deficiency in the last five years is equal to the average fall of one year—viz ., 25 inches . — Quarterly Report of Registrar-General . —" From a careful examination of the fall of rain from the year 1815 , it would seem that the annual fall is becoming smaller , and that there is but little probability that this large deficiency will be made up by excesses in future years . —Mr Glaisher ' s liepQ 7 ° t on the Waather in the above Report , Board of Trade . —The Vice-Presidency of the Board , vacated by Mr . James Wilson , has been offered to Mr . More O'Ferrall , but wo understand that the right honourable gentleman has declined the offer . — Globe . .. ___ _
. . .. „ _ Public Healtii . — We have the satisfaction to find that the return of the Registrar General for last week exhibits afurther reduction in the mortality of the metropolis , the deaths being 1 , 337 , while in the two previous weeks they wore 1 , 605 ana Ml 9 . There waa a . corresponding'decrease of deaths from diarrhoea . The births registered last week : were
1718 * ' The Archaeological Institute . —This body has terminated its meeting at Carlisle . The papers read included one by Mr . Cory on the churches of Cumberland , a lecture by Mr . Newton on the discoveries at Boudroun , a paper by Mr . Hugh ^ aiilo on ancient remains , &c . discovered in the sowers of Oaehslo , one on Holmo Culfcan Abbey , by Rev . J . Simpson , and several others . Excursions were made to Aydon Castle , near Oordrldgo , to Corby Oastlo , the so ^ t of Mr . P . H . Howard , who on ertuined the company with " signal grace and a hearty spirit s' a-nd to Brougham-hull , near Ponrith . The Advertising * Column NuisANOB . ~ -Mr . Cowper ' e bill to put down those nuisances has been printed . Clause one is in those words : — "No advertisement , placard , or -notice shall bo affixed to or exhibited on any post , column , or lamp in any in
highway , or on any other erection whatovor cue crossing < of any carriage-way in the metropolitan police district 5 and any person' affixing or exhibiting ivny such fidVortlsomont . placard , or notice , contrary to this provision , shall bo liable to a penalty of no more than 40 shillings ; and all the provisions of
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mitted by a man called Joseph Castle , who , on Tuesday , had gone to Luton , to the house of his mother-in-law , for the purpose of inducing his wife to return to her home , which she had been obliged to leave on account of his ill treatment . Yielding to his entreaties , the unfortunate woman accompanied him , when it Would appear the man must have attacked her with a knife , as she was found in a field with her throat cut , and her hands dreadfully lacerated , showing the deadly struggle she had maintained with the assassin . Castle was soon after apprehended . .
An English sailor , named Gallagher , serving on board an American ship in Rouen harbour , was tried there on Monday , for stabbing a messmate named Hayter , who was killed on the spot . The jury found him guilty , with extenuating circumstances ; sentence , eight years' hard labour . A person named Hebb , described as a commercial traveller , was charged at the Mansion House with forging a transfer of 500 Z . Three Per Cent . Consols , and committed for trial . The prisoner was apprehended at Birmingham the same morning .
was cut in two , sinking immediately , and carrying to the bottom with her four out of the nine persons onboard .
At Warwick , one Bateman , a surveyor , sued Mr . Edwards-Wood for 901 . under peculiar circumstances . Bateman ' s suit was conducted by Mr . Wallington , one of the most respectable lawyers in the county . Fearing that the money was in jeopardy , Wallington arrested Wood ( who is said to be a man of wealth and position ) but offered to let him go and take his cheque for the debt if he will pay 101 . extra for expenses . This was refused , and the debtor locked up ; it should be mentioned that money had been transmitted by Wood in payment of the debt , but , by the carelessness of his agent , it had not reached Wallington ' s hands . It was alleged that in insisting upon the payment of the 101 . Mr Walof extortion the trial
lington had been guilty . On at the last assizes some months ago , in which Mr . Edwards-Wood sued his attorney s'for neglect in not paying Bateman , Lord Campbell , who tried the cause , at once denounced this seeming attempt to extort money , saying : — " I niust say Mr . Edwards-Wood has acted with , perfect propriety in all he did , and I think Mr . Wallington has disgraced himself and his profession . It is most disgraceful conduct . " Mr . Edwards-Wood did not fail to take advantage of the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice . He published a pamphlet , with an account of the proceedings , and " disclosing , " as its title alleged ^ *' the disgraceful arrest of the plaintiff ( Edwards-Wood ) ; solici
LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . At the Liverpool Court of Passage , on Saturday , a commercial traveller , named Robert Simpson ¦ , recovered £ 150 damages from the London and North Western Railway Company , he having been run over in Liverpool by one of the Company ' s parcel vans . He had been confined to his bed for thirteen weeks , and received various permanent injuries . The neighbourhood of Leeds witnessed a coldblooded murder on Saturday . An old man , named Mr . Richard Broughton , on his way to town for
the purpose of transacting some business , was attacked by two ruffians armed with bludgeons , and so beaten that he died next day . The murderers are not in custody , but a reward is offered for their apprehension . The man Riley , who had » been found guilty of the murder of his wife at Hull , was hung at York on Saturday , in the presence of 7 , 000 or 8 , 000 spectators . In the case of Worsey , also found guilty of murdering his wife at the Staffordshire Assizes , we learn that sentence has been commuted . He was
recommended to mercy by Ijhe jury who tried mm . John Benjamin Haynes , who was left for execution at Winchester , and respited last week , has had his sentence commuted to penal servitude for life . The report of the medical inspector as to his state of mind , and the absence of motive or premeditation , decided the Secretary of State in considering him a fit subject for the exercise of the royal prerogative of meroy . In the Oxford circuit Matthew Francis , a tailor and hawker , has been tried for the murder of his wi& , Sarah Francis ,, at Newport . The prisoner was found guilty , and sentence of death was passed
upon him . During this trial the Court was densely crowded , and among the crowd , as is too common on such occasions , there wore a great many ladles ., many of them very young . Notwithstanding the harrowing nature of the scene , which sometimes shook tho nerves even of strong-minded men , these ladies kept their places till the last , and only left the court when the distressing scene was over . In , the Court of Bankruptcy , Mr . 0 . W . Jones , of ipaob-lone , Hammersmith , has been appointed trade liquidator under the order lately granted for windtag up the ofifeirs of the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Company . Another domestic murder has just been copa ~
the judge ' s flagellation of R . A . Wallington , - tor ; and other flagrant particulars . " Mr . Wallington thereupon brought an action against Mr . Edwards-Wood for a libel . This was tried the other day , at Warwick , Chief Justice Erie presiding . After two days' investigation the jury came to the conclusions that the allegations of Wood were malicious libels , and that Wallington , in sending Wood to prison , had been actuated by no vindictive motives . Chief Justice Erie declared that had he been in Mr Wallington ' s position he would have followed precisely the same course . The result is that Mr . Edwards-Wood has been condemned to pay 750 / . by way of damages .
The trial of Dr . Smethurst , for the murder of Isabella Bankes , at Richmond , will be resumed on Monday next . During the interval which has elapsed since the last trial the solicitors for the prisoner have been untiring in their exertions to get up medical evidence in opposition to that of Dr . Taylor , and they express themselves confident that they shall be able to demonstrate the fallacy of Dr . Taylor ' s theory on which Dr . Smethurst was committed . Another man , Henry Williams , or Hudson , has been apprehended on suspicion of being concerned in the lat © daring robbery and attempted murder in Shoe-lane . The prisoner underwent a preliminary examination before Sir R . Carden , at the Guildhall , when it was stated that a quantity of plated goods , supposed to be the proceeds of a robbery , was found at the house where ho wa 8 taken .
Joseph Warmington , a journeyman bootmaker , was examined on his own confession , at Guildhall , relative to having absconded with a cheque and bank-notes to the value of £ 70 , the property of his master , Mr . Lloyd , of Newgate-street . The prisoner was committed for trial . A shocking murder and suicide took place on Tuesday , near Huddersflcld . A poor girl , from dread of the bitter pangs of poverty , killed her illegitimate child and herself . M , do Montmusard , a French gentleman residing at Sheffield , has committed suicide . He was in very comfortable circumstances , but he had boon labouring under mental depression , caused by real or imaginary calamities . Ha destroyed himself with a
razor . A sad occurrence took place in the Channel , off the North Foreland , on Sunday morning . The steam packet Ondine ana the collier brig * Robert Garden came into collision during a fog , when the collier
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" n ~ . ton . Ana . 13 . 1853 . 1 THE LEADER . 931
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 13, 1859, page 931, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2307/page/7/
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