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THE LEADER. 321
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N"AVAL AND MILITARY. The Fleet at Sfithh...
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OBITUARY. Sir Charles Horn am.—Accounts ...
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MISCE1LAME0US. Health of London.—Tho tot...
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Woman-Beating.—This Offence Has Declined...
^ eaia" penal servitude . The look of astonishment upon the countenances of the jurymen , whose ¦ benevolent intentions had been thus properly frustrated , caused some little merriment throughout the court . The Hamburg Case . —A . communication frorn the police of Hamburg was read by the Lord Mayor on Monday , the object of which was to deny the charge which has been brought against them of placing obstacles in . the way of the English officer who lately wfinf . to Hainburer to briner back Susannah Evans , the
recurred to this , and finally took away a false pair of whiskers and moustache , of dark hair . It would appear , however , that he did not use this disguise , for on Sunday he was apprehended in London dressed as a widow . He was in company with , a woman witi whom he had formed a connexion , though he was a married man , with two children , and respectably related . His salary was £ 190 a-year , and a house rent free . The greater part of the money was found on him , and was recovered . He has been examined before the Portsmouth Mayor , and committed for trial ;
English girl who was lately decoyed away from London . They assert that they offered every facility , and that the English officer warmly expressed his acknowledgments . It has been said that the womaa who took away the girl was a Jewess . Highway Robbery with Violence . —An attack was made on Saturday night , between nine and ten o ' clock , in Ratcliffe-highway , on a man named Peter Fitz . He was stopped by three men , one of whom struck him in the abdomen , while another grasped hiua round the waist , and a third snatched a watch out of his waistcoat pocket . They then ran away ; 1 j _ _ i ? J . 1 , — 4-V . «^« . £ « - » . r 3 inr *> V » T 1 Y » aol + * /» 1 rt « ae > 7 TT TMV » a CT Afi i
but his female companion has been discharged , as it seems probable that she knew nothing of the robbery until the arrest of the culprit . Mr . Baron Bbamwell on the Virtue of Tariuxo and Feathering . —Mary Ann Rosser , a respectably dressed , rather elderly woman , was indicted at th « Gloucester Assizes on a charge of bigamy . She was married twenty-four years ago to her first husband , by whom she had eight children . Nevertheless , he deserted her , leaving his house in company with the servant girl , with whom it was stated he was now living at Sydenham . He had suffered three months ' imiivisonmAilh for liia desertion of his wife : and . as f f
DUX One Ul uiiciuurcc , UUU 1 . U 5 xxiAitjwA * . vAvw ^ ij 2- " - ~~» - ' ~^ " - in pursuit , threw the watch over a fence into a yard , where it was afterwards recovered . The man was then secured , and at the Thames police office he wtis shown to be an old offender . He was committed for trial . . Assize Cases . —James Howell , a costermonger , has been , tried at Taunton for the murder of his wife on the 20 th of January at Bath . The facts will be found reported a-t full in the Leader of January 26 th . The man , being jealous of his wife , appears to have kicked her in the abdomen , when she was far advanced in pregnancy , amd to have killed botli her and her child . There was no evidence to show that the act was long premeditated , or that any deadly instrument was made use of . Mr . Justice Crowder , directed a verdict of Manslaughter , of which Howell was found Guilty . He was sentenced to six years' penal servitude . - ^ -John Moah has been sentenced at Chester to be transported for fourteen years for embezzling £ 560 , belonging to the Queen . —Two postmen at the Bristol office have been found Guilty at the Gloucester Assizes of stealing lettere containing money . They tioui j ^ 00 * muue : mi
a f E » | / A ^ Lf * s ' 1 i— r ¦ ^— ^ «^ m ^ ** ^ —^ ^ ™ ^ ^*— — — — ' — — — — — — — soon as he heard of her second marriage , he wrote a letter to the prisoner , in which he claimed "his goods , " adding , that she vaa " now in his power . " She was found Guilty , but with a recommendation to mercy , on the ground of her husband ' s treatment of her . Mr . Baron Bramwell , in passing sentence , said , this was a most disgraceful ease—not on tie part of the prisoner so much as on the part of the husband . His Lordship wished there was some law tliat would reach lim , and , if he could be tarred and feathered , and paraded through Ledbury ( where the wife resided ) , or if his future life could be made in any way uncomfortable to hitn , it would serve him right . He had put the law in motion , but he would have to pay for it , as the costs of the prosecution avouIA not be allowed . The wife , however , had broken the law , and must have some punishment , His Lordship then sentenced her to four days' imprisonment . As the sentence dated from the fir 3 t day of the Assizes , the effect was that the prisoner was at once discharged . Slie left the court with her second husband , who had been in court during the trial .
were sencencea . o ycAia um . . ^^ o Carr and Philip Wall have been found Guilty at Liverpool of murdering James House in the streets at night , by strangling him when in a state of intoxication . The evidence was merely circumstantial ; but it would seem that the prisoners behaved with great recklessness after its committal , walking about in some of the dead man ' s cloth . es > and openly pledging part of his property at a pawnbrokers ' . They were sentenced to death . —John Ferguson has been found Guilty of the manslaughter of Sarah Drunimond , a woman with whom he cohabited , while the latter was intoxicated , and he was sober . Seeing his mother in court , he burst into tears ; but , after the judge had sentenced him to transportation , be said , addressing the jury , " Thank you , gentlemen . " Incendiarism Extraordinary . —A . young woman , named Sarah Hunniball , was lately an inmate of the infirmary of the Yarmouth Gaol ; and on the 1 'Jth lilt , she was heard , about eleven o ' clock at night , to ring her bell violently . On some persons running to in
tlie spot ,, they iountt tne woman sonneting uer night clothes a , nd a blanket near the door , gasping for breath , and the room was fall of smoke . The fire was soon extinguished , and oi \ the following morning Hunniball confessed to the chaplain that , after she had got into bed ^ on the night in question , she lay awako , thinking how she might destroy herself , till she recollected she had got a lucifer match , after which she got up , and , lighting the match , set fire to the bedclothes , and then got into bed ; but when she felt the flames she did not Hko the pain , and got up and gave the alarm by ringing the bell . She was tried at the Norvvioh . ABaizes , and , being found Guilty , sentence of death was recorded . Robbery jjz a Government Cleuic . —Portsmouth
liaB been tno locality 01 a very ingeniously piuuuuu and boldly oxeoutod robbery of Government onsh . George Joaoph Nathaniel Cliavlier is a young man abotit fivo-and-twonty , who lias been a olerk for nine years in the gan-wharf , or war doparbmont . Ho -was considered a confidential clerk , and choquos for defraying tho salaries wore mado payable to him . On Friday week , ho wae sent , together with a messenger ntimod . Sheppnrd , to tho branch Bank of England , to get cashed a cheques for £ 1 , 130 . "Wlion opposite the bonk , Oharlior told Shoppurd to go to n certain oflioo , and direot tho people to pond in thoir quarterly account . The mosHongcr aukod if ho nhould rejoin Oharlior at tho bank ; to which tho olork an ' uwerecl " No ; go round by tho walls , and moot , rnu : if I ' m there ( lint , I'll wait for you , and if you are thoro first , you can wait for mo . " Bhoppnrd wont on Iuh errand , and Charlior , ontoring tho bank , obtained the monoy for hia cheque , partly in ou » h , and partly in notoe ( tho numborrt of which wore known and whopped ) , and thon uvula off . Homo timo pruvioiihily , ho had boon to uluurrtrotiBor ' it , uiul aiikod for Hometihing that would effectually dinguino him . Ho frequently
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THE LEADER . 321
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N"Aval And Military. The Fleet At Sfithh...
N"AVAL AND MILITARY . The Fleet at Sfithhad was augmented on Monday and Tuesday by the arrival of five sail of the line , a corvette , a frigate , aud sundry small craft from Kingston , Queeustown , Plymouth , Liverpool , and elsewhere . Some rehearsing for the grand naval review by the Queen , which is fixed for the 16 th , then took place . . Loss op tub Clipper Ship Schombuug . —Tins vessel haa been lost near Cape Qtway , wliile on lier voyage from [ Liverpool to Melbourne . It appears that she w ent ashore ; but the crew were saved , and so was a large amount of merchandise . Shipwreck . —The merchant sailing vessel Reformer ( crew , nine men ) , laden with wheat , from Alexandria to Cork , put iuto the Cleggan Harbour , near Clifden , a few- clays since , under very painful circumstances . For nine clays prior to reaching ¦ Cleggan , the supply of fresh water was completely exhausted , aud so trying si ™ „ . „ , * + 4-1-. O-I- tiiroB nf flip , men bled themselves iiivv — . T . . .
1 ference to the matters referred to them . The names of the officers whose conduct is to be inquired into were mentioned ui a letter from General Yorke as being Major-General tho Earl of Lucan , K . C . B ., Major-General the Earl of Cardigan , K . C . B ., Major-General Sir Richard Airey , K . C . B , Quarterinaster-General ; Colonel the Hon . Alexander Gordon , C . B . ( Grenadier Guards ) , Deputy Quartermaster-General . The proceedings were adjourned until Monday . The case of Lord Lucan will be taken first ; and that of Lord Cardigan will next follow .
THE AUGLO-UEBMAN J-iEUlUJX . U , 13 UlluerSLOOU . that the British German Legion , which has been raised by Baron Stutterleim to meet the exigencies of the war , will be sent , now that peace has been concluded , to the Cape of Good Hope . At the Cape , they will garrison the colony , and officers and men will receive grants of land for their military services . Colonel Worldridge ' s "brigade will return from Scutari , and form part of the force at Aldershott Camp , before embarkation for th « Cape . The strength of the force will muster , by the 10 th of April ,, with all the recruits , about 9 , 000 men .
i V i ** j J . liO W * \* 4 U * J kjl ** " - ' ^ ' w » _ to satisfy their excruciating thiiv . t , while none of the crew had strength sufficient to give the least assistance to the pilot ( who joined off Boffin Island ) in castni" the anchor , when they reached Cleggan Harbour . The supply of water boiug replenished , and the crew renovated , tho ship put to sea for her destination , at two vm . ; but the sumo ovening she struck on a sunken rock off Shark ' s Island , wliorc she ha ? become a wreck . Tho enptain ' s brother aud two of tho crew were lost . ^—Oalwoy Vindicator . Disstruotion ov a Sinr uy Firk . —Tho Nonpareil , of Dartmouth , finptmn Scirell , has been destroye by fire on lier voyago from London to Balaklnva , about ninety miles from Capo Matnpan . The orew ¦ ¦> n »«~ t vinnmirkyl Ktr nil /~\\ I * Al * ft ll 1 I * l _
Tub Crimean Board of Inquiry mat in the hall of the Cholaoa Hospital for tho final time on Thursday , at half-pasb cloven o'clock , when nothing ^ moro than a few preliminary formalities ) wns ncljitstoij . Tho military commissioners , who woro in full xiniforui , wearing tho insignin of tho various orders of which they are members , wcro Oonoral Sir Alexander Woodford , G . C . B . and G . C . M . G ., Qouentl Earl Koaueluunp , Gonoral Sir Gcorgo Borkeloy , K . C . B ., Litmt .-( lenuvnl Sir John Bell , K . C . B ., Lieutoiunit-Uuaiornl Sir W . Uowiui , C . B ., Mujor-Gcnernl l ' yol , M . P . ^ nud Major Uonoral Knollyn . Tho hubntiUiliun ot Mir Alo . xnndur Woodfonl Tor Lonl Beaton , and uf Sir ( Joorgo Uerkoloy for Sir TlmnmB M'JMahon , mono fro in tholudisportition of the aUtrnt olliuora . M . r . C . 1 ' . Villiom , M , l ' ., attended as Jiul ^ o Advcdato-Goiioral , mul ( Jolonol DouK »»« ropro . iDiit . oil the A . tljuU » nt- < kineml ' ri l . ) ei >;\ rtinon " l ; Liuutenaut-Culonol Hugut olnoiatod an Secretary to the ISoarrt . A lottoi- from l-ord Panuiuro n-afl rend , conveying tho Quccn ' n oonuniuulH that tho Board whould submit to hor W , ijo < 5 t , y ^ vliat , in thoir juilgmunt , may , be bent to be done with re-
Obituary. Sir Charles Horn Am.—Accounts ...
OBITUARY . Sir Charles Horn am . —Accounts have been received of the death of Sir Charles Hotham , Governor of Victoria . He had been suffering from choleraic diarrhoea , but was recovering , when the vexation experienced in his vain endeavovirs to form a Ministry , brought on a state of nervous irritability which soon affected the brain , and ultimately he was seized with epileptic fits ( to which he had never before been subject ) , and became comatose . In this condition he remained till his death . He was bom in 1806 , and had ¦ erved with distinction In the navy , particularly in the Parana , against Rosas , in 1845—6 . In virtue of the commission issued in his favour , he will be succeeded by the senior military © nicer , Major-General Edward Jlacarthury who belongs to a family long and intimately connected with New South Wales . Mb . Justice Torrens . —The Hon . Robert Torrent , one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas in Dublin , died on Saturday last at Loughborough , after a few hours' illness . He was appointed as far back as 1823 , and had been called to the bar in 1798 . He 10 oiijuuli
was one 01 the Judges recently auuaeu uy _ « Shelley , in his observations a few weeks ago in the House of Commons , on the great age of the Irish judges ; and only a very few days ago , in reply to an address of confidence and respect from the grand juries of the Northern Circuit ; , lie said he would not resign as long as he felt his powers unimpaired . The Right Hon . Henry Watkin Williams W-xnn died on the 28 th ult ., at Llanvoida , Salop , in his seventy-third year .
Misce1lame0us. Health Of London.—Tho Tot...
MISCE 1 LAME 0 US . Health of London . —Tho total number of deaths registered in the week that ended on Saturday , waB 1 , 396 . In the corresponding weeks of the ten years 1846-55 , the average number was 1 , 285 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 1 , 413 . There is a difference of only 17 between the corrected average and the number actually registered in the week . The increase in the deaths reguuiose
tered in the last week of JYiivrcn over xu mo beginning of the montl ) , when tho number 111 a week was about 1 , 100 , is not caused by an increased rate 01 mortality , but arises from more than a due proportion of coroners' cases being entered in the register books at the end of the quarter . In the present table , 5 deatha are referred to intemperance , 8 to poison , 27 to burns and scalds , 6 to hanging , 10 to suffocation , 20 to drowning , 35 to fractures , 7 to wounds and other injury , and 40 are placed to sudden deal / is . The deaths classed under those heads constitute a great majority of tho cases on which inquests arc held . Of 228 deaths produced by the zymotic or epidemic class of diseases , 05 wore cuusod by typhus and common fever , which cases occurred chieily in
the eastern and southern divisions ; <> i uy « u « qcough , 28 by scarlatina , 23 l > y menslus , 13 by-snaa lpox and only 4 by diarrhoea . PhtLiBW wns fatal m iJi ' cSi , of -which ' 29 occurred to parsons under 20 years ofago , 01 between 20 aud 40 years , 41 betwoeu 40 and Oof and 10 to V orHun » who had pnaaod that noriod of life Bvonol . itia carried off 127 povsonB , nearly half of whom wore men and woman more than GO years old . Twelve women died after childbirth . Fivo persons died from intemperance , without including iu tho number Uioho who may have reooivod i'atiil iujury iu a state of mtoxwation . A sinc . kor diud iVow mixing stramonium with hm tobacco . Ihuro woro ul » o 5 doathn from delirium tmncin . A boy of 9 years , died in Sal tor a-nlloy , St . OoorKwiu tlio-KoBt , from ci-cthiUm . Three persons < lioil on the ISLh , 23 rd , and 281 U Muroli rospoctively , lVoin Avant . —Lanfc wock , the births of 091 boyn nnd < m : J k " i 1 < 1 h » in rtU 1 ' ° ' " ol > il < lro "> wcro vogitttorocl in London . In tho ten covroiiponding wooIch of tho years lS' 10-55 , tho average number wuh 1 , 044 . —Front , the Jttci / iolrar-Cfencrufti Weekly Xletu . ru .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 5, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05041856/page/9/
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