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NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS. Sir Charles Nap...
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St . fJ *> on this wffi , about 2 ff , O 60 t was raised by way of mortgage ; ** d afterwards , by ttansfer , the property cameRinte ' the ^ possession of Messrs . Stuekey and Co ., baafcets , ofBristol . - On proceeding to sell the property , -the-Messrs . Stackey , to their great surprise , were informed-that a later will was in existence , rendering the fosmer entirely inoperative , and giving to Mr . John -Carter-a life interest in the whole of the property , with remainder to bis children , and with an annuity of only «> nevhandred a year to the other members of the family -for their lives . The first will contained the following rather singular passage : —" And now , not having a single real friend , having found that all I have met with through life are a set of toadies , I \ rill and desire , " & c . The charge of perjury was based on the fact of Mr . John Car-ter having proved the first will of his brother when' he knew that a second was in existence . According to the evidence of Mr . Francis Plumbley Lasbury , a brother-in-law of Mr . John Carter , the suppression of the second will was deliberately planned in his presence ¦ by the defendant and Mr . Garter , sen ., his father . This witness said he was perfectly willing that the second will should be destroyed ; but , in his cross-examination , he prevaricated a great deal , and resorted to the " non mi rioordo" manner of statement . The defence was that the family were aware of the second will , but , after a strict search , had been unable to find it . The case was adjourned for a week ; and Mr . Carter was liberated on bail . The Poisoning Case at Bath . — Thomas Tutton not Fulton , as stated last week ) , who recently fled from Bath under suspicion of administering arsenic to his fether , gave himself up at Dublin on the 5 th inst ., and was taken by the police back to Bath . It appears that the father is not dead , as at first stated , but that there is no hope of his recovery . Two attempts at poisoning would seem to have been made : one on the 19 th of August , when the prisoner , at dinner time , took away the jug of beer , under pretence of there being too nr aeh ; and the second on the 27 th of August , after Mr . Tutton , sen ., had had for his supper some fried potatoes , in the cooking of which the son assisted , on the plea of hastening the meal . After both these occasions , the father was seized with vomiting ; the second time more seriously than the first . On the first occasion , the prisoner himself fetched the medical man , but not until after a long time had elapsed . Some of the vomits on the 27 th were taken away and analysed ; and arsenic was discovered . The frying-pan , plate , knife and fork , have also been analysed , and have disclosed arsenic . The young man , who is only twenty-three years of age , has been remanded . Robbing the Crimean Hospital and Patriotic Fund . —At the Southwark police office , Jane Gibson , formerly a nurse in the Crimea , and subsequently in St . Thomas ' s Hospital , was charged with having in her possession a large amount of property belonging to the Crimean Hospital and the Patriotic Fund . A police -constable and an inspector went together to the prisoner's lodgings in Redcross-street . She was told to open four large boxes in the room , and she pulled out a great many articles , consisting of linen shirts , sheets , tablecloths , a flannel shirt , napkins , & c , all of which evidently belonged to the Crimean hospitals , as they had marks indicating where , they came from . Besides these , several books and a large waterproof sheet were found at her lodgings , which she said a soldier gave her . On being Interrogated by the policeman as to how she got the other things , the woman replied that they were given to her by Miss Nightingale , Miss Bracebridge , and Miss Stanley . This statement she repeated to the magistrate . She . had been sent out with other nurses to the East , but had * been discharged owing to intemperate habits . On her return to England , she went to St . Thomas ' s Hospital , which she afterwards left for a similar reason . On the police inspector saying that he wished to communicate on the subject with Government and with Mrs . Sidney Herbert ^ the woman was remanded for a week . The Sorrows of Mr . John Jacobs . — John Jacobs , tho Jew burglar , who objected to being tried before " old Serjeant Adams , " has been brought up at the Middlesex Sessions before Mr . Witham . He fulfilled his promise of pleading Guilty , and added that he should like to be sent out' of the country at once , as , being an old thief , the police had dodged him about from pillar to poBt , had prevented his getting an honest living , and had rejgularly hunted ! him down . Ho wae sentenced , however , tto six years' penal servitude . The Case of the Collins . —Thomas Collin has written , on behalf of himself and his brother George , to the Editor of the Times ,, stating that policeman Hicks , "wlio arrested them , had no warrant for so doing , though lo produced a piece of paper which at the time was , mistaken for one by the Collins . The chief constable for Ea » Gx , Captain M'Hardy , having inquired into the matter a 'warrant dated August 7 th was transmitted to him by tW , R « Y . Mr . Hemming , through Mr . Godwin , Superintendent of Police at Epping , ' thereby deceiving him , and making him believe that all was done regularly , which turns out now not to have been the oase . " Collin adds that ho believes tho clerk to tho magistrates at Epping Aiotei In parrying oat this deception . As soon as tho nwn canto out of prison , Mr . Brown Hold them that , if they did not go >« a . < with . th « lr work , he would send them
to prison again . They are consequently now working for him for four guineas , though , on their way home from Chelmsford Gaol , they were offered by other farmers six guineas for the same amount of work . Captain Samuel Hat , of the Hon . East India Company ' s Service , appeared at Marlborongh-street on Monday , charged with obtaining goods from two tradesmen by . fraudulent means . He had gone into their shops , ordered different articles , and given in payment cheques on Messrs . Alexander Fletcher and Co . In both cases , the cheques were returned with the intimation , " No effects . " He had offered , in the case of one of the tradesmen ( a tobacconist ) , a -cheque' for 301 ., and requested to have the difference handed- over to him ;
but this was refused . Captain Hay stated to the magistrate that he was not aware the Messrs . Fletcher had no money of his in hand , and that he had given them a power of attorney to receive his pay as an officer of the East India Company ' s Service , and the produce of some property he had in Scotland . He consented to return the goods ; and , under these circumstances , the complainants said they had no wish to press the charge any further . He was remanded , in order that inquiries might be made into the truth of his statements . On Wednesday he appeared again , and was discharged . No sooner , however , had he left the court , than several tradesmen entered , and made similar charges against him ; but they were too late for the allegations to be investigated .
Burglary . —George Wheeler has been committed for trial , charged with breaking into the premises of his employers , hat manufacturers in Great Charlotte-street , Blackfriars-road , and ¦ stealing valuable property . Sergeant Romaine said that on Saturday morning he examined the premises , and found that an entry was gained at the back of the Mitre public-house in Broadwall . The thief then must have climbed over two Toofs , then opened a window , which admitted him into the yard adjoining the counting-house . By means of a ladder , he
ascended the roof of that place , and on removing a square of glass from the skylight he gained admission into the counting-house . The prisoner , on being taxed with the robbery , confessed it , and said he had done it because his master did not pay him sufficiently . — Humphrey Delory , a returned transport , has been committed for trial on a charge of burglary in the house of Mr . Ballard , near the Old Kent-road . He was assisted by others ; and , after their toils , they regaled themselves in the cellar with wine and whisky .
Shocking Brutality . —Richard Dutton , residing in the cellar of a house in Tindle-street , Liverpool , went home drunk , and , after cruelly beating his wife , turned her out of the house , with her child at the breast , and two sons . The mother and child took shelter at a neighbour ' s house ; but the poor lads went and lay down on a brick-kiln , where they were found on Thursday morning at six o ' clock , one dead , -and the other insensible . The younger boy was immediately taken home , and he is likely to get better . The father was taken into custody .
Bank-note Robbery . — Samuel Franklin is under remand at the Mansion House , on a charge of stealing bank-notes to the amount of 45 ? . from Mr . Edward Ward , corn-factor . That gentleman was making up his cash and cheque accounts for his banker in the subscription room over the old Corn Exchange , when an accomplice , it is supposed , of the prisoner diverted his attention for a time by a question , and , on his again looking round , the notes had vanished . Franklin was sitting at his side at the moment . On being taxed with the robbery , he darted out of the room and fled , but was ultimately captured . The notes have not been recovered . Reckless Loan-contracting . —A case exhibiting
very reckless trading and contraction of loans to an extraordinary extent , has been heard at the Bankruptcy Court at Bristol . The bankrupt , Mr . T . W . Lawford , nephew of Mr . Edward Lawford , late of Drapers' Hall , and solicitor to the East India Company , was a solicitor and farmer , and , without < having any practical knowledge of such matters , engaged in speculations for supplying London with grapes from Carmarthenshire . He also undertook to hatch chickens by steam ; and he had a mining ooncern in Prussia . He speedily became embarrassed , and then commenced a system of borrowing , which appears to have been stimulated by tho facilities offered by various insurance offices , several of which are understood to have suffered heavily . At first , Mr . Edward Lawford , the uncle , was security
for these loans ; but afterwards they seem to have been made chiefly for his sake , and ultimately they reached a total of 80 , 000 / . Of this amount , 80 , 000 / . only was repaid ^ leaving 44 , 000 ? . due at tho time of tho bankruptcy in September laBt . Tho debts altogether amounted to 60 , 000 / ., and the assets scarcely exceed a shilling in tho pound . No books had been kept , and the transactions altogether exhibited great recklessness . The income of Mr . Edward Lawford wa » at one time 18 , 000 * . a year . As regards the nepherw , the Bankruptcy Commissioner arrived at tho conclusion , that his errors " wore caused rather by an over-sanguine temper and-extreme infirmity of Judgment than by want of rectitude . " He felt it his duty , however , to suspend * ho certificate for twelve months , and to older that It « hould th * a be of tho
lowest class . When commenting on the : case ; Mr . Commissioner Hill observed : ^ - " In comifclsskm to loanagents , ia solicitors' costs , in premwlms' of ififeuramee ott the life of the borrower paid- to the offices grafting--Qie loans , — which insurances were * as usual , suffered to drop when the day of ruin came , and cbnsequeiHJly can produce nothing for the benefit of the creditors , —and , finally , in interest on the loans , more than 25 } 000 ? . has been expended ; an outlay at the rate of 5000 ? .-per annum . "
Eliza Williams , a woman who had been-Kvitfg fcnder the " protection" of a " gentleman" who af terwards cast her off , got into a state of raging passion against the woman who , though married , had supplanted her . Breaking a glass tumbler , she struck her rival with it , inflicting a serious wound on the forehead . Williams was brought before the magistrate at Lambeth , and committed for six weeks . Having threatened the other woman after hearing this sentence , she was ordered to find bail to be of good behaviour for two months .
The Cudham Murder . —Robert Peeling has feeen committed for trial at the next assizes for the- county on the charge * of murdering Jane Beagiey . In the further examination , several witnesses stated that they had received different accounts from the prisoner of his whereabouts on the night of the murder ; but considerable doubt was thrown on all of these . Edward Frederick Wilks , Thomas Wilks , and John Waller , his clerk , have been committed for trial on the charges detailed last week .
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Naval And Military News. Sir Charles Nap...
NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . Sir Charles Napier ' s Plan for Abolishing the Admiralty Board . —In the course of some comments on the late bombardment of Sweaborg , Sir Charles Napier observes : — - " The Admiralty Board is not reformable . Abolish it altogether , and put an active , intelligent officer at the head of the Surveyor Department , with the title of Vice-Admiral of Great Britain ; put another at the head of the Victualling Department , - with the title of Rear-Admiral of Great Britain ( abolish the sinecures of that name , ^ and give those who hold them compensation ) , and let each be responsible for his-own . department , and make the Accountant-General
responsible for his ; put over the whole an Admiral as commander-in-chief , with , a captain of the f leet to assist him , and as many secretaries and clerks - as are necessary ; and if you must have a civilian to control the expenses , make him Minister of Marine , but let Mm have nothing to do with the promotions or the management of the navy , and change him with the ministry , if necessary . Let this be done , and the navy will be well conducted and millions saved . Take care the right men . are in the right places , and , if they do not do their duty , turn them out and get others . " Sir Charles is * of opinion that , had Admiral Dundas been furnished with . a sufficient number of mortar-vessels , Sweaborg must have been destroyed .
Prince Napoleon Bonaparte visited , on Monday , the Plymouth and Devonport Dockyards and the prison at Millbay , where one thousand Russians are now under confinement . The Prince ^ eft the Sound in the afternoon , under salutes from the citadel at Plymouth and the nag-ship Impregnable in Hamoaze . Militia Riots at the Curragh . — Some rather serious riots have recently occurred at the camp-on . the Gurragh of liildare ; but no courts-martial have been held , and there has been an " evident desire to hush up
the matter as much as possible . One or two of the Irish regiments have , it is said , been removed , and English regiments are to occupy their places . The Freeman ' s Journal attributes the disturbances to " the insulting rule of the WarjOffice which directs the regimental band to accompany and play the Protestant-members of the regiment to church , and back again to their barracks , and forbids the band to pay those military honours to the Catholic soldiers and officers . " Nothing , certainly , can be more scandalously unfair than this rule .
Woolwich Arsenal was visited on Wednesday by Lord Panmure , Mr . Frederick Peel , and Mr , Mongell , who afterwards repaired to the marshes , to view- the firework * which were displayed in honour of the victory at Sebastopol . An imperial salute of 101 guns was fired ,- and an immense bonfire was lit , which burnt till long nfter midnight . —Sir Charles Wood , Admiral Berkeley , and Admiral Richards visited Devonport Dockyard on Tuesday . The Dublin CUruison had a grand field-day on Tuesday , to commemorate the successes in the Crimea . The Lord-Lieutenant reviewed tho troops .
Dinner to Sir Geobge Brown at Elgin . —Sir George Brown having visited his native town of Jfilgin , the inhabitants honoured him on Tuesday with a public dinner . In the course of the speech which he dblivewa on thia occasion , ho remarked : — " I hope the n «™* T * have heard this evening will prove of groat iniporMnee , and that we shall bo able to do something d «^ lir ° 'J £ * hitherto we have been fighting with one """ JJeV Tetovo not been able to movo tho army , *» % ? ££££ stszzz sw ; « H £ 92 ssL ^ vi iss ^ rs s ^ s ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 15, 1855, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15091855/page/7/
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