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608 V THE LEAPEB, [No. 477, May 14. Ttao
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ACCIDENTS. On the Cornwall Railway, last...
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608 V The Leapeb, [No. 477, May 14. Ttao
608 V THE LEAPEB , [ No . 477 , May 14 . Ttao
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At "Worship-Street An Old Man Named Jame...
At "Worship-street an old man named James Scanes , occupying a workshop in White ' s-ro-w , Whitechapel , was charged with having wilfully set fire to his workshop , with the supposed intention of defrauding an insurance office , and with endangering the whole neighbourhood , there being extensive chemical works immediately adjoining . There seemed to be but little doubt of his mischievous intentions , but he was remanded for . further evic 1 ghc £ On " Monday the May sessions of the Central Criminal Court was opened . The calendar contained the names of ninty-seven prisoners . The Recorder , in his charge , said , although there were more prisoners than usual , there were few atrpcioua offences charged , and not one murder .- —William Newton was put on his trial for libel against Dr . Godfrey , but the trial was postponed , by agreement ,.- . tin-til the Poland to
GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE .. . . COURTS . A girl named Maria . Wilson , about seven weeks since , was taken into the service of a benevolent gentleman , from Lieutenant Blackmore ' s reformatory institution ; shortly afterwards several articles of value were missed , and 151 . in money disappeared in a mysterious . manner ; suspicion resting on the prisoner , she was dismissed from her situation , accused of the robbery , and given in charge . The prisoner admitted the thefts , and assumed an air of great contrition , but quite the reverse as soon as the examination was over . On searching her boxes for missing property , some MS . sheets were found in her own handwriting , being the introductory portion of lier " Memoirs . " She was remanded .
June sessions . —On Tuesday Mr . applied the Recorder to make an order for the payment of the costs incurred in the prosecution of a person named Xewis . Zu-cker , who had been convicted of making false answers on his examination , before the Commissioner in Bankruptcy . A doubt had arisen as to whether this amounted to perjury , and in that case the question arose as to whether the Court could order the payment of costs . The Recorder said he would consider the subject . —On Wednesday-Emma Fabqurd was indicted for setting fire to the dwelling-house of Mary Waldren , with intent to injure her . It appeared that no fewer than ten attempts had been made to set the-. premises on fire previous to that with which the prisoner was . charged . . Several witnesses were examined , and the judge summed up ; after Avhich the jury returned a verdict of Not guilty .
The case of " Gye v . Graziani and Smith " has this week been submitted for consideration to Vice Chancellor Page Wood , at Lincoln ' s-inn , Mr . Rolfc , Q . C ., opened the pleadings for the plaintiff , and was followed by Mr . G . M . Gifford on the same side . The case for the plaintiff having been finished on Tuesday , Mr . Daniel , Q . C ., addressed the Court for the defence . This was a motion for an injunction to restrain the defendant , Francisco Graziani , from committing any breach of his engagement with the plaintiff , and from singing in England during the present year without the written permission of the plaintiff ( except at private and gratis concerts ) , and , in particular , from singing at Drury-lane during the present season . After hearing the arguments , the Vice-Chancellor granted an injunction , to a certain
extent , as regards Drury-lane . At the Central Criminal Court , on Thursday , Foster , Bramwell , Humphreys , and Wagner were indicted for feloniously uttering a forged check for 265 ? ., with intent to defraud the Union Bank of iLondon . This case has been frequently before the police-courts . In stating the charge against tho prisoners , the learned counsel said that tXiqy had formed themselves into a corporation or association to defraud the bankers of the metropolis by mean a of forged cheques , and to attain their object had had recourse to the most ingenious contrivances . The prisoners were each provided with separate counsel . There were no fewer than forty-five witnesses to be examined , and only a few of these gave evidence . The proceedings were adjourned , the jury being taken to the London Coffee-house in charge of an
officer . On Wednesday , in the Bankruptcy Court , thero ¦ was a sitting for proof of debts and choice o * assignees in tho case of Messrs . White and Gregory , Juwt Xudia army agents , of the Haymarkot . The debts appear to amount to about £ 25 , 000 , with liabilities to the further extent of ^ S 0 , 000 ,. a portion of which only will rank against tho estate Ulio assets arc 4 JBtlmfttoa at botweon £ 18 , 000 and £ 20 , 000 .
The Charge Of Having Poisoned Miss Banke...
the charge of having poisoned Miss Bankes , the lady . with whom he had eloped . The additional evidence was of a very extraordinary character . It was proved that Dr . Smethurst had married Miss Bankes , although his wife , who is older than himself—is still living . An unposted , letter , addressed to his legal wife , and couched in affectionate language , was found in his . pocket . Further evidence was brought forward to show that while Miss Bankes was ill , he induced her to sign a will constitutinghim her sole executor and sole legatee . This , the prosecution contends , furnishes a clue to the motive which might prompt him to the commission of the crime . There was attempted to be proved extreme and suspicious precautions on the part of the prisoner against persons having free communication with the deceased during her illness . Both arsenic and antimony have been discovered in the body , and it is presumed the poison must have been administered
CRIMINAL RECORD . Ax the Richmond Police-court on Wednesday , Dr . Sraethuret underwent another long examination , on
in small doses . Another adjournment was ordered . Several very striking letters have appeared lately in the daily journals with regard to the mysterious death of the German or Russian sailor at Ranisgate . The evidence , and appearances of tlie body , and the surrounding objects when it was found have been very carefully considered , and too good reason is shown for suspecting a most brutal niurder—not a suicide—to have been committed .
Accidents. On The Cornwall Railway, Last...
ACCIDENTS . On the Cornwall Railway , last Friday , a train ran off the Grove viaduct , killing an engine driver , a stoker , and a guard . An inquest was held on Tuesday on the unfortunate men . The surviving guard of the train stated that had . it not been for the coupling chains breaking the whole train must have gone . As it was the engine and two carriages were thrown' over . The train was going about thirty miles an hour . The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death , adding that instructions should be given to enginemen as . to the speed which should be used in descending the inclines . At Kingswinford , on Sunday , a fatal blast-furnace explosion took place , by which two were killed on ' the spot , and four others fearfully and most dangerously hurt . The furnace was fully charged , and its contents were ready to be run off into the moulds prepared to receive it . To effect this escape of the molten iron , the workmen were about to commence to tap the furnace when a portion of its front was 'blown ' -out with a loud report , and many tons of the molten iron were forced out upon-them . The six men were in a moment enwrapped in flames , or shockingly mutilated by the burning mass . Three , there is reason to hope , will recover . A lamentable shipwreck occurred on Thursday night ) on the Ship wash Sands , fifteen miles off the Suffolk coast , to a large Dutch ship , named the Australia , outward bound from Shields for Cadiz , and there is too much reason to apprehend that every soul belonging to her perished . She was nearly a new ship , of 700 tons burthen , and is understood to have had several passengers on board .
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the English never had more than 209 pieceT ofartli lery employed at once throughout the whole S The - shot and shell expended was not more Zl could be now turned out by Woolwich in sixorseven weeks . Woolwich alone could supply warmJ ! ^\ sufficient for carrying on perpe ^ ua ^ L * ^ sieges as that ofthe great Russian stronghold' t the small-arm department the supply is bn an en ™ i scale . ^ Nevertheless , so great haFthe dem ^ d J 2 lately for arming the navy and storing the magaS of our various fortresses and defences that th ! shipments from the wharf have exceeded the t ™ duction . ' U 10 '
The United Service Gazelle says that Govern ment has a notion of calling out the whole of tC militia , and of adding fifty new battalions to theline Three military commissioners have been appointed by the Duke of Cambridge to attend the Austrian French , and Sardinian head quarters during the war ' namely Colonel Mildmay , Colonel Clerniont , and Colonel Cadogan . Orders have been received at Chatham dockyard for a 91-gun lirie-of-battle screw steamer to be called the Bulwark , to be immediately laid down on No . 6 slip , froin which the Hood , 91 , was recently launched . ¦ J
Recruiting for the navy is proceeding with the greatest activity in the port of London , and staffs for the enlistment of volunteers are established at Liverpool and Glasgow . A great number of A . B . ' s and Ordinary seamen have joined since the royal proclamation . The Watermen ' s Company have issued a notice warning their freemen of then * liability to serve in the royal navy , and many free watermen and apprentices liave taken the bounty and entered the Queen ' s service . A deserter from the Royal Engineers has been triedb y- ' court-martial at Chatham . The prisoner , George Goodall , deserted in the month of May , 1855 . The court-martial found him guilty , and sentenced him to be marked with the letter "JD , " and to be imprisoned , with hard labour , for 1 B 8 days in Fort Clarence , Rochester . The Xords of the Admiralty have ordered an inspection of all the naval and marine out-pensioners of Greenwich Hospital , to ascertain their fitness for further- service . s-Several officers of the Engineers have , during the last week , been surveying on both the east and west c liffs at Ramsgate , for an eligible site whereon to erect batteries , Lieutenant ^ General Sir AVilliam Godrington , K . C , 13 ., has left London for Gibraltar , ' to enter upon ,. his appointment as governor and commander-in- ' chief of that island and garrison . Sir William F . Williams , of . Kara , has also left to assume His command in Canada .
NAVAL AND MILITARY . Some interesting particulars are published of the Royal Arsenal , at Woolwich , which convey a very satisfactory impression of our resources in that department . The store of cannon of all calibres now in the Arsenal is sufficient to supply all demands for years to come , thero being between 15 , 000 and 20 , 000 pieces of serviceable ordnance on tho various wharves , which could be prepared and despatched at tho rate of 200 a week . The now workshops for tho Armstrong guns will soon be in a position to turn out those arms as fast as they can by any possibility be required . A great deal of mystery lias been thrown round this most destructive weapon , and Government have certainly done all in their power to prevent the secret of its construction from transpiring . Much has been said about the danger to which England would be exposed if any adverse power were
enabled to construct these weapons ; but it should bo remembered at tho same time that the knowledge of the principles upon which the gun is made will not of itself enable foreign Governments to construct it . The Retailed description of our machinery , our engines , and our small-arm rifles has . never been kept concealed from the world , and yet tho mechanical skill necessary for their manufacture lias never been found in foreign countries . The Armstrong gun is a piece of mechanism which would tax tho . skill of English artisans , oven when directed by the inventor , Little , then , nedd wo fear that foreign nations would be able to manufacture it , oven if supplied , as no doubt they all are , -with descriptive plans , and dra-wrlngs . The laboratory department are pro-,, duclng from 20 , 000 to 88 , 000 shot and shollper woola It would be possible , in case of an dmorgency , to produce at the rate of 80 , 000 per week . During the siege of Sebaetopol , tho most stupendous of mpdorn times ,
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VOLUNTEER RIFLE COEPS , The movement for the formation of rifle corps has been very heartily begun by the authorities of the University and town of Cambridge . This , as the Very Rev . Vice-Chancellor remarked , " mast be looked upon as a vary significant event . " There is no doubt that the proposed regiment will po a very fine one . Public meetings on this subject have been held at South . Shields , and also at Hastings , anil measures taken for the enrolment of volunteers from au classes . . - ' The Mayor of Bristol has issued a notice * inviting such of his fellow-citizens as are willing to . jowa volunteer corps to send in their names and wJ « 08 Bes . and , as soon as a sufficient number ore <> " » , "g necessary steps for the formation of the corps wiu be taken . .,. « , A public meeting , convened by the High BwUff , has been held at Reigate , for the purpose of taking stops for the formation of a voluntcor coins . uro > the platform were the Hon . J . ^ J ^ X , ' General Smee , Mr . G , P . Young , Mr . 1 ' ^ J ™ fi & o . Resolutions to tho desired oOoot wow carntu unanimously , and a committee was f P ™ °% conocic A subscription sheet has boon opened ^ Greo « w « for the reception of tho names oi gentlewen jjj propose to form themselves into a volunteer raw corns , for tho dofonoo of the district . , A circular from tho War office , ftMrofod to J . £ ^ Kr < Ki % » = r ° i S £° 2 S < £ ¦ 8 SSS £ - « r 3 S ^ 3 Members of a rifle corps must attend ft uonv »¦ --
day drill and oxerciae in tno yon' , u « y . „ tlri oath of allegiance j they must proviclo their arms and equipments , and ft 1 other ; oxponjo » . J ^ in the event of being nsaemblod for actual son whioh can only arieo in caeo of Invasion .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 14, 1859, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14051859/page/4/
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