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ACCJ^)EIs[TS SUDDEN DEATHS. A strakge ' ...
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NAVAL AND MILITARY. New Army Clothing.—T...
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cnrsion to the south , and are uow in the palace of Aranjuez . The Queen has authorized the importation of cereals into Spain until the end of December . PORTUGAL . The Cortes were opened on the 7 th inst . The Royal speech , announced , the betrothal of Prince George of Saxony to the Infanta of Portugal , and spoke of the establishment of new railways , improvements in existing finance measures , and advantages accorded to navigation ; The oidium has reappeared . Earthquakes have taken place in the Azores .
PRUSSIA . There appears to be no doubt that the powers of the Prince of Prussia to act as Regent will be again prolonged for three months in July . It is very ; questionable whether the King will erer be able to resume the conduct of public business . His intellect seems to be hopelessly enfeebled . ; Austria . The Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian , Governor of Austrian Italy , arrived at Venice on the-1 st inst . from Milan . He went immediately to visit the works of the canal . ' .: ' . ¦'¦¦ . . ¦ ¦ .-. ¦' : ¦''¦ ¦ ¦ _ . ' ¦ . ¦' . - ¦ ¦ ' ¦; . ¦ .. ' ' ' ' : ' . ¦ ¦ GEKltANY . ¦ ¦ . ' . . ¦ ¦¦' ¦ . ¦ :. '¦ - The Germanic Diet has given its sanction to the proposition of the Grand Duchy of Baden for the construction of a solid bridge over the Rhine between Kehl and Strasbourg .
MONTENEGRO . . ; : Prince Danilo has given orders that a church shall be erected in memory of the victory of Grahovo .. He has also published a decree directing prayers' to be offered , up during a space o-f forty days for the Montenegrins killed in that engagement , and has \ forbidden any man to boast of having shown more bravery thaa the rest , all having behaved with the greatest gallantry . . ; ..:- ¦ . ' ; . ¦ ¦' . / . ; : , : ¦ Russia . .. ¦ '¦¦ . ' ¦/; .. . . A . Trans-Caspian Company has beenv formed , with , a capital of 350 , OOO £ , the object of which is to develop Russian commerce with Persia and Central Asia , by way of-the Caspian Sea .
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Accj^)Eis[Ts Sudden Deaths. A Strakge ' ...
ACCJ ^) EIs [ TS SUDDEN DEATHS . A strakge ' accident has occurred at Paignton , Devonahire . A poor single woman , residing in -a small cottage , was confined . Several neighbours , to the number of seven , ' were present , when suddenly the floor gave -way , and . all ( including bed and baby ) fell through to the ground floor . The leg of one of the women was broken . A main , after the fall , picked oat from the ruins the newly-born baby , which was uninjured . ¦ Three " boys belonging to the New College of St . Nicholas Lancing , Sussex , have been drowned -while bathing in the river Adur , about half a mile above Old Shoreham Bridge . The poor lads were unable to swhn , and had gone into the water contrary to orders . The current was very strong at the time , and , in the vain endeavour to rescue them , three more of the pupils nearly met the same fate . James Templeton , a labourer at the Heathfield Pire-Clay Works , near Garnkirk , Glasgow , was buried alive a few days ago by a fall of earth . Every exertion was immediately made to rescue him-, but il -was not until one hundred and eight hours had elapsed , that he was got out . He was still alive , but of course very much exhausted . On the day before the fall of matter took place , he had observed certain signs which looked suspicious ; but , though ' requested not to go back , he disregarded the danger , saying that , " if there should bo a fall , he had an outgute . "
Naval And Military. New Army Clothing.—T...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . New Army Clothing . —The Horse Guards have lately made a move in the right direction by clothing one of the West India regiments in loose wide trousers , coming in and fastening a little below the knee , a la Zouave or Chasseur de Tincennea . ; It ia suggested that these loose trousers might be adopted in out Highland regiments in lieu , of the kilt . They would be much , more manly , much more convenient , much less indecent , and . less obsolete than the kilt . —United Service Gazette . . Reinforcements for Imdxa . — Orders have been issued to the officers in command of the several cavalry and infantry depots of those regiments serving in India , directing them to hold in readiness reinforcements to the number of about 10 , 000 men of all ranks , to embark for India immediately .
' Military FuNEttAi *—The whole of the disposable troops' in Woolwich Garrison , ' consisting of the Horse and- Foot Artillery , the Royal Sappers and Miners , Royal Marines , the East Kent and Oxford Militia Reginj . ents , theMilitary Train , & c ., wore last Saturday mustered ' oh parade in front of tho Royal Artillery barracks to attend the funeral of the late Mr . Francis P " ellat ' t , ' principal military storekeeper of Woolwich , "whose death by an accident we noticed lost week . * Thb Casting Department at Woolwich . —A committee composed of Mr . Macartney and other members of the House of Commons recently assembled to inquire into various proceedings connected with the casting department of Woolwich Arsenal , as it had como to their
knowledge that a large amount of labour had not been satisfactorily accounted for . A return of the past year ' s expenses and produce has been consequently demanded in order to bring the matter before the House . Time has been asked for , to prepare the accounts , which , will not be ready before next session . It is said that among the articles in question , and which were cast in the Royal gun foundry , is a quantity o-f small fine castings , such as busts of the Royal families of Great Britain , France , Turkey , and Sardinia , all cast in gun metal , as well as various tobacco-jars , watch-stands , vases , and many other ornaments . The obelisk which was intended to commemorate the officers of the who fell
Royal Artillery in the Crimea , and which was laid aside in the metalstore , the committee have been informed , cannot now be found , —Times . . Tkstimonialto A Sergeant-Major . —The non-commissioned officers attached to the East India Company's depots at Chatham Garrison have presented Sergeant-Major J . Bramall , the senior non-commissioned officer of the 1 st battalion of infantry , with a massive silver goblet and cover , as a mark of the high respect entertained towards him , on the occasion of his retiring from the 1 st battalion , having received a staff appointment .
Her Majesty ' s Ship Comus , 14 , Commander Richard Daw kins , which was paid off at Chatham on Monday , has been in commission upwards of five years , having sailed from Sheerness in June , 1853 , where she was cornmissioned by Captain . W . A . Fellowes . During the whole time she has been in commission , she has been attached to the China squadron , under the command of Rear-Admiral Sir Michael Seymour , K . C . B ., and has been in succession in Hong-Kong , Canton , Shanghai , and Amoy , having been stationed at the last port seventeen months . The Comus was exceedingly successful in putting down piracy in the Chinese waters , and on one occasion destroyed eleven pirate junks which had for a long time infested the Formosa Channel , the crews being for the most part killed .
Capture of a . Silver . —Her Majesty ' s brig Heron captured a slaver on April 18 th off the west coast of Africa . The baTque at first showed American colours , but afterwards threw them overboard .
Criminal Recohp. Robbery At The Great No...
CRIMINAL RECOHp . Robbery at the Great Northern ; Rail watt . —A youth , named John Blagg , clerk in the coal department of the Great Northern Railway , has been examined at the Clerkenwell police-court on the charge of robbing the company to the amount « f Q & 01 . It was his duty to receive daily from the carmen the different sums of money which had been paid to them for coals ; and on the 24 th of May he received altogether the sum of 3502 . in gold and silver , bank-notes and cheques . He left his office shortly before ten o'clock at night , and about half an hour after his departure , a cash-box was discovered by a boy in the gutter in Stanmore-street . The lad immediately took the box home to his mother , by whom it was opened , when , seeing that it contained money and papers belonging to the Great Northern Railway Company , she took it to the police . station . An investigation was then made , and suspicion having fallen on Blagg , his box was searched the following morning , and 581 . in gold were found in it , which the young man said were his savings ; however , on making further inquiries , it was ascertained that a few days previously he had occasion to borrow 232 ., in order to make up the day's accounts . Blagg admitted this fact , but added that 9 / . of that amount he had borrowed for a friend , the remainder being to make up the accounts of the day , in consequence of the men having struck work . The young man was taken into custody , and , after bis arrival at the station-house , he was searched , and seventy-two sovereigns were found upon him . He was remanded .
Prizk-Fight by Women . —Two disreputable women were discovered on Sunday morning in the Pottery-iields , near Liverpool , stripped to the waists , and lighting in the manner of professed pugilists . The men with whom they cohabit -were acting as their seconds , and it was by them , that this disgraceful encounter was got up . They had been wagering on . the issue . The women were brought before the magistrates on Monday morning , and ¦ were committed to prison for a month . —Another
encounter between women ( arising , however , from a personal quarrel ) took placo some weeks ago in Hungcrfordstreet , Commercial-road , London . After a good deal of abuse , the women new at each other savagely , and fought with great vindictivenoss . Finally , the one who had got the worst of it went into her house , armed herself with a knife , and wounded her adversary Tory seriously in the face in several places . The injured woman remained in hospital for a fortnight ; and the other has just been sent to prison for two months . ,
MiiMiLKsux . Sessions . —The Juno Sessions has been held this week * , but not many cases of importance have coma beforo it . On Wednesday , two sailors , natives of Oude , woro tried for stealing -watches . They had obtained them , by pretending to act as agents of the Prince of Oudo ; but they were not so authorized . Having been found Guilty , they wcro sentenced to six mouths' hard labour each . —Bridget Sullivan wub
Portsmouth has been sentenced to nine months' hard labour for an assault on a man and his wife , with aa iron bnr . —On Thursday , John Lacy , a smith , was found Guilty of assaulting John Ryan , a blind boy by striking him on the head with a hammer so violently that there was an indentation on the bone . Xo provocation whatever was given . He was sentenced to two years'hard labour ; but inquiries will be instituted a * to the stateof his mind .
charged with a savage assault on Robert Bah who had offended her by not takin" her mri when her husband was beating her . She accordinel ? on the following day , threw at him a lar 1 kettle full of scalding watery in which she hid boiled foar candles , in order , as she told a police - man , that it might stick all the more to Baker addin * that "it was better for him" than pure water . B dipping his liead in time , Baker missed the greater part of the water , but , nevertheless , his face and arms were fearfully scalded . The woman was found Guilty and sentenced to hard labour for eighteen months . — -G ' eore-e
Gatherings Froxm The Law And Police Cour...
GATHERINGS FROxM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . The Firsi Division of the Court of Session , Edinburgli gave judgment on Friday week in the appeal of Ifr ' Wilkie , tlie agent hi Mr . Stephens ' s bankruptcy , against a decision of Mr . Sheriff Substitute Hallard , repelling tie objections made by him to answering certain questioaja in his examination , relative to the furniture of Gothic Lodge , Twickenham . In July last , Mr . Stephens fiat engaged the legal advice of Mr . Wilkie , a solicitor before the Supreme Courts in Scotland , and the latter at that time dissuaded the insolvent from taking out sequestration . In August , Mr . Wilkie-advanced to Mr Stephens . 1 UO 0 ? ., and had tho furniture of Gothic Lodge assigned to him in security . On the 19 th of October , Mr-Stephens at length took out sequestration in the Sheriff ' s Court at Edinburgh , and , in December , while under judicial examination before the Sheriff Substitute there * he absconded . The furniture of Gothic Lodge was advertised to be sold on the 9 th of February , and Mr . Binny , Writer ' to the . Signet , arid trustee on the sequestered estate , found on tracing the matter that this proceeding was at the instance of the bankrupt ' s agent . Mr . Binny immediately made application to the Sheriff for the examination of Mr . Wilkie . The Bankruptcy ( Scotland ) Act of . 1856 authorizes the Sheriff , onappli-, cation by the trustee , to order examination of " the bankrupt ' s wife and family , clerks , servants , factors , law
agents , and others who can give information relative to his estate ; " and farther provides that " the bankrupt and such other persons shall answer all lawful questions relating to the affairs of the bankrupt . " The Lord President said that , looking to the relation of the parties ,. and -without giving any opinion as to the case of a separate individual acquiring right to the property of the bankrupt , that the investigation was not to stop by reason of Mr . Wilkie having taken the character of an interested party , when he stood in the position of having to . give information relative to the bankrupt estate . The other Judges concurred , and judgment was given accordingly .
The case of Braine v . Braine was tried by a Special Jury in the Court of Probate last Saturday . Tlie late Mr . George Henry Braine , a builder in a large way of business , died of paralysis on the 4 th of last October , at the age of fifty-six , leaving house property of the nominal value of 45 , 000 £ , but reduced by mortgages to about 10 , 000 ? . He left a will , executed in duplicator short time before his death , by which he bequeathed the bulk of his property to an illegitimate son and daughter who had always passed by his name and been brought up by
him . This will vas disputed by the testator ' s brother , on . th « ground that , owing to attacks of paralysis , the deceased was not in a sound , state of mind at tho time ho signed the . document . The jury , however , pronounced for the will , and the Judges then decreed probate , and condemned the plaintiff in the costs . —In the course of tho case , it came out that the deceased was married several years ago , but had separated from his wife on the wedding-day , anil had never had any further communication with her .
Rear-Admiral Edward Stanley attended , last Saturday , at the sitting of the Court of Queen's Bench , and took the oaths of allegiance , supremacy , and abjuration . After the administration of the oaths Lord Campbell said ho hoped that before long they would get rid of tho profane inummcry of abjuring allegiance to the descendants of th « Pretender . A . first class certificate , to be issued after three months suspension , was nvrarded in . the Court of
Bankruptcy on Monday , to Mr . Uardgctt , of tho firm of lwo > gett find Picard , corn-factors ; and an immediate certincat « of the first class was given to Mr . Picurtl . Aho day beforo placing themselves in tho hands of their creditors , they lind drawn out of the concern the sum of 4 . 00 [ , Picard subsequently returned a portioa of mis sharo , and had not attempted to defend his act ; whuo Bardgott had not returned any part of tho monoy ? and had been guilty of disingenuous conduct , lienco tho difference in tho judgment an respects tho twft partners .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1858, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12061858/page/8/
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