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326 THE LEAP1B. [yo. 468, March 12, 1859...
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GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS, A...
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CRIMINAL RECORD. A communication from Fr...
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Imperial Parliament. Monday, March T. . ...
the special authority of an Act of Parliament . He aii-onjgly deprecated the permanent increase of the National Debt , and suggested expedients for relieving the Excheque £ -bill markets-Sir S . ! N 0 uthcOte explained that the funding operation alluded to involvedno increase in the . National Debt . He justified the course which the ; Government had pursued , contending that the responsibilities that devolved upon them in connexion with the savings-bank funds were administered strictly in accordance with the public interests . —Sir H ; Willoughbt insisted upon the necessity of establishing some control over the Government dealings with the large fund created by the savings-banks deposits . — Sir G . C . Lkwis ,
agreeing in this conclusion , remarked that the motion before the house pointed to no practical result . The only available method was to bring in a billon the subject . —Mr . T . Baring said it always appeared to him most objectionable that such a power of transferring unfunded to the funded debt , without any previous notification to the public , should be intrusted to the Government . —Mr . Gladstone observed that this whole subject was one upon which it was inexpedient for the House to come to any conclusion not founded upon a more thorough investigation . The powers entrusted to the Prime Minister , as trustee of the savings-banks funds , were most anomalous , and ; ver quired revision . Future changes of securities might , submitted to committee of
he suggested , be regularly a that house . ^ r—Mr . Henley dissented from certain views of MrV Gladstone regarding sayings-banks mo > ney . — - The Chancellor of the Exchequer , remarked that the motion was equiyalent to a vote of censure upon the funding of Exchequer bills , which he had himself authorised upon discovering that the savings-banks funds in their existing in-• vestinent entailed a loss upon the country , which that step would obviate . Deprecating the adoption of the motion before the House , he admitted that the position of the unfunded debt was most unsatisfactory * and required revision by the legislature . — Mr . Wilson having briefly spoken ^ after a few words of reply ,. Mr . Hankey withdrew the motion .
be appointed would pave the way to negotiations that would settle all disputes ^ Mr . ; Labotichebe described the complication with which the question had become surrounded through the conflicting claims and righ t s of England and France . He rejoiced to learn that hopes existed and means were being taken for an amicable adjustment of the controversy . Not to thwart their endeavours , he suggested that the motion for papers should be withdrawn . — Mr . M . Gibson expressed much suspicion that the rights of English subjects on the coast of Newfoundland had been sacrificed without necessity or equivalent . He agreed , however , that the motion should not be pressed while the negotiations were still in progress . —After a few words from Mr , Wyld , and some farther explanation of the diplomatic position of the question by Mr , S . Fitzgerald , the motion
was withdrawn . The Municipal Elections Bill passed through committee , after its clauses had undergone a very long debate . , „ . , The Law of Property and Trustees Relief Amendment Bill was committed pro forma .
CHURCH RATES . Sir J . Trelawny moved the second reading of his Church Rates Abolition Bill . —Mr . B . Hope protested against proceeding with so important a measure at that late hour ( half past twelve o ' clock ) . He moved the adjournment of the debate . —After some remarks from Sir J . Trelawnt , the House divided on the question of adjournment : for , 108 ; against , 173 ; majority 65 . The resistance to further progress was , however , renewed , and ultimately the supporters of the measure gave way , and the debate stood adjourned . The house also adjourned at one o ' clock .
MILITARY ORGANISATION . Captain "Vivian moved for a select committee to inquire into the effects of the alterations in military organisation regarding the War-office and Board of Ordnance ^ which were made ; in the yea * 1855 , and also , to inquire whether any changes were required to secure the utmost efficiency and economy in the administration of military affairs . —General Peel assented to the motion , and after Some discussion relating ; to various points of detail connected with the administration of the army , the * committee was ordered . .
CHURCH RATES . Sir A . Elton moved a series of resolutions affirming the expediency of discontinuing- churchrates , confiding the maintenance of the fabric of the church to the zeal and liberality of the clergy and laity ; of ^ empowering a corporation , formed of the ineumbent and churchwardens , to hold and administer property appropriated to the church ; and of transferring the powers of the present -vestry with reference to the parish church to a new vestry , consisting of contributors to the church funds ; , the church wardens to be chosen therefrom . He stated reasons why , in his opinion , the abolition of
churchrates must form the main ingredient of any measure on , this subject , and he proceeded . to discuss the resor lutions seriatim .. Those who desired to see the settlement of this painful question should , he said , provide some reasonable machinery that would enable tb , e churchmen , to bear the burden that > vould be cast upon them , and thereby secure the passage of the bill in another place . —The Home Sbckexary could not assent to the resolutions , at all events until the House had formally determined to abolish church ratos . i—Mr . Comumsk supported the motion , which was opposed by Mr . Newdegate . — -Sii- A . Elton then consented to withdraw his resolution .
TUB . NEWFOUNDLAND tflSlU-miJKS . "Viscount Burv called attention to tho Newfoundland fisheries , and moved < an address to her Majesty for copies or extracts of any correspondence botweon the English and l < Yonch authorities in Newfoundland ,, or between tho Governor of Newfoundland and tho Secretary of Stato for tho Colonies , or between the English and French Governments , which might show the construction placed by the French authorities upon tho treaties which now rogulato the Newfoundland fisheries . Tho French , ho
observed , " had advanced lavg-o claims , and obtained many concessions ; and ho thought that Parliament should know on what basis tho negotiations which were now said to bo in progress had boen framed . — wjbr E . Be I / jtttox said this was a subject ; on which h © had formed ft vory clqcJdcd ojiinion , but tho quostlon Involved very subtlo points , and aoino grounds of danger . JTo hoped that tho quostiou would bo fettled and tho danger provontccl by amicublo negotiation . Ho detailed / tno subfltanco of'communications botwoon tho two Governments , oxprossing a firm hopo that tho result of a commission about to
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Gatherings From Law And Police Courts, A...
GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS , At the assizes at Hertford ; on Saturday , Mark Wood and William Edwards , t \ vo athletic countrymen were indicted for poaching , and for grievously injuring a gamekeeper-, ^ -whose skull was fractured in the attempt to capture them . Baron Martin sentenced Wood to be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for twelve , and Edwards , to four months ' imprisonment . —Elijah Smith was indicted for night poaching and shooting at a keeper named John West . It was not clearly made out whether the gun was discharged by accident , or designedly ; and the jury therefore acquitted the prisoner . He was then tried for poaching , convicted , and sentenced to four months ' imprisonment .
and convicted , and were sentenced to various periods of penal servitude . ¦ ' ¦ - ' . ' On Thursday , at the Middlesex Sessions , Harriet Newman was convicted of obtaining by false prepreterices from Frances Hill a quantity of linen , she stating that she was a laundress . The case has been several times before the police courts , when the prisoner stated that it must have been her sister who committed the crime , and declared her own perfect innocence . On the trial it turned out , howshe and that she
ever , that was guilty , had been more than once "in trouble" before . The Assistant-Judge said it was evident she was a dangerous person to be at large , and sentenced her to four years' penal servitude . —William Davis and Ifary Ann King were convicted of stealing a purse containing money . It was stated that the man was well known ii | the prisons , and that the woman had been committed at least 200 times since 1847 . They were not sentenced , but remanded for inquiry to he made respecting their antecedents .
At the Court of Bankruptcy , on Thursday , the certificate ( third class ) of Captain George Washington Chasseaud , who was described as a merchant in Cornhill , was suspended for three years without protection ; and the Commissioner said that , if any naturally . indignant creditor chose to vindicate public jyistice by putting the bankrupt into prison , any application for discharge would be disregarded until he had suffered at least six months'incarceration .
A smith named Charles Da vies , living in Clerkenwell , was charged before Mr . Corrie with attempting to murder his wife . On Sunday morning the police , hearing cries of " murder , " entered the house , and found that the drunken savage had inflicted such wounds on his wife ' s head witha bill-hook that she lies in a hopeless state at St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , whither she . was conveyed . The prisoner was remanded for a week .
An examination took place at Clerkenwell Police Court regarding numerous charges brought against a man named William Heathooate , of preying upon advertisers for situations . The prisoner ' s mode of doing business appears to have been to reply to advertisements , representing that he could procure a situation , the very thing wanted , and then , under various pretences , squeeze as much money as possible out of his grateful victims . The prisoner was remanded , and bail refused :
At the Court of Bankruptcy , on Tuesday , a certificate meeting was hold in the case of Jonathan Hills , tho surviving partner in the firm of Hills and Hills , the Gravesend and Dartford bankers . He had left this country for Australia , in the hope , it was stated , of' raising money from some relations who had accumulated wealth in that colony . The sitting was adjourned sine tfie , it being understood , however , that no appointment for a now meeting should bo made without special leave and duo notice being given to tho creditors . Henry Gibson , described as a > merchant in Gracechurch-street , then appeared to pass his last examination . Tina bankrupt had been engaged in various transactions extending ovor several years with tho bankrupt Hills , and that , on
tho last occasion , tho sitting for Iub lust examination was adjourned for tho purpose of further inquiry being inado by the assignees into tho accounts of both bankrupts . The assignees in Hill's caso now sought to prove for a sum of 11 , G 72 Z . against the estate of Gibson , whereas Gibson contended that ho Was a oradltor upon tl » o eatJito of Hills . After a lengthened inquiry , tho Commissioner determined to suspend until the certificate mooting any further discussion of tho question whether there should bo a proof or a claim by tho assignees of Hills against tho ostato of Glbsonr , and allowed Gibson to pass his last examination , subject to' all questions tho assignees might raise at tho noxb sitting . . At tho Middlesex sessions , on Tuesday , several well-known thiovos and housebreakers wero tried
Criminal Record. A Communication From Fr...
CRIMINAL RECORD . A communication from Fremantle , Western Australia , announces the arrival of the celebrated convicts , Robson , Redpath , Agar , Tester , and SaVrard , alias Jem the Penman . They are all engaged on the public Works , making roads , & c . IJedpath and Robson are engaged wheeling stones ,. with shackles upon their persons . Their health appears to be good , but they seem wretched arid dejected , arid weary of their lives . T"he celebrated Rev . Dr . Beresford , who , with a living of 1 , 0 . 00 / . a year , committed fprgery to an enormous extent , has also arrived in the colony , and is _ employed sweeping the wards in-tlie new convict prison . .
On Sunday morning , at Manchester , a shoemaker named John Maekie scabbed two men with a knife , one of the victims expiring almost immediately , whilst the other lies in a dangerous condition in the infirmary . The murderer was drunk and quarreling with a woman , -when a man , John Wheeler , interfered , and . was deliberately stabbed in the back . William Benson , a joiner , followed the assassin , who turned upon him , and inflicted a mortal wound with the same \ reapon in the abdomen . Maekie made off , but hag since been apprehended , and committed to take his trial for murder in accordance with the verdict at ths coroner ' s inquest .
It has been intimated that , looking to the fact that by the Fraudulent Trustees Act lately passed the offence for which Mr . Strahan and Sir Jphn I ' aul were sentenced to fourteen years' imprisonment would now he visited by a punishment limited to three years , the infliction in their case will be commuted to a period of four years . Their liberation will , consequently , take place in October next . On Sunday a murder was committed in a house in North-lane , Aldershot , by a soldier of the 9 th , named , Henry Benjamin Haynes . The house was this
a beershop called " the London Tavern . " On oocasion some soldiers wore in the house , and , loud screams being heard , a rush was made to the room , when Hayries was soon with a razor m ins hand , and a young girl named Mary M Cowan , profusely bleeding from tt wound in the tlirotvt , ana in a minute or two she died . The soldier pynes was taken by some other soldiers , and on Auesuny an inquest was bold on tlje body before Mr . Clm inner , of Basingstoko , deputy-coroner . Tho j ury rotunieu a verdict of " Wilful inurdur /' and-Haynud was
committed for trial . John Buchanan , anclArchibnld Mitchell , eng ineers of thosteamorUogota , wove charged before tho -Uvorpool magistrates on Tuesday with causing tlio . ifiitiioi a firumnn named Launder . Several witnos . ^ H , ciiiuii , \ firemen , saw- tho man tiod to a ladder wiilnn inir jsix inohes of tha furnaces , and stntoil that lie ci cu most pitoously to be roloasod from his position , i " was tied-to tho ladderns a punishment lor "siuiiiving , " but according to tho ovirience of tho yvvnu ^ , ho oomplalnod Hint Iio could not perform Ins wai * on account of tho hoat . Life was Dourly w » ' »« whan ho was brought from tho stokq-nolo , «»"" , " subsoquont applloutions causpd Jilm to vnily . *» tnpn said they dared not intorforo lest tlioy sliouw ho punishoA . Tholr ovidonco ohlofly went to » now tm tho chiaf oincer , olthough 'ho said , " II 11 . o does not do his work , tio him / ' did no' An-Hi « torforo . Mr , Mnnsflold remanded tho cneo to I »» day , but admitted Buclmnan to bail in two suutus of 100 / , onoh .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 12, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12031859/page/6/
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