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January 20, 185E.] THE LEADER, ffl
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OUR CIVILISATION. Seduction.—At the Tham...
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THE WARDROPER CASE. This matter is settl...
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THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE. We beg to call...
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NEW MAIL ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA. The followi...
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INDIAN NEWS. There is no news of importa...
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Continental Notes. France.—Louis Napoleo...
them at Naples by his Majesty ; and Father Becx , their general , -wished to publish a modification , in order to make his peace elsewhere ; but the court of Borne , upon mature deliberation , requested him to take no further trouble in the matter , but just " let well alone . " The Consul General of France , in Egypt , has been charged to present to Said Pacha the Grand Cordon of the Legion of Honour , accompanied by an autograph letter of the Emperor Napoleon . Thirty-five Turkish decorations have been conferred on the French army by the Sultan . Eighty-two officers and 2053 rank and file of the Imperial Guard have embarked from Marseilles for the Crimea . . VrNCENTio Gioberti . —The members of the
committee formed at Turin to examine the papers left by Gioberti have announced that they consist of fragments of works which the illustrious writer intended for publication , and entitled " On Catholic Reform , " "Preface to the Philosophy of Revelation , " and "New Corrections and Additions to the Vocabulary of La Crusca . " All these are to be published .
January 20, 185e.] The Leader, Ffl
January 20 , 185 E . ] THE LEADER , ffl
Our Civilisation. Seduction.—At The Tham...
OUR CIVILISATION . Seduction . —At the Thames Police Court a curious case has been heard . James Tilley , a mastermariner , was charged with being the father of the child of Emma Sophia Forster , described as " ladylike and well educated . " The defendant was husband to a cousin of the complainant . Her family had been in difficulties , and the defendant had been « very attentive . " The complainant was properly grateful . On the 28 th October , 1853 , Tilley requested Miss ITorster to accompany him to a house in Margaret-street , St . George in the East , where •* he had to transact some business . " She went , and they were shown to a room with a bed in it . The remainder of the evidence may be omitted , but it Bhould be remarked that complainant shouted so that defendant became alarmed . However , subsequently further connexion occurred .
The defendant cross-examined the complainant with considerable severity , imputing to her that she had had connexion with Mr . Roche , her mother ' s landlord ; a Mr . George Thompson , a clerk in the London Dock ; and the doctor who attended Her in her confinement , all of which she indignantly denied . She said that Mr . Roche , her mother ' s landlord , was very kind to her , and allowed them to quit his house without seizing-their goods , although a good deal of rent was owing to him . This drew forth a remark from the defendant that Mr . Roche was an officer of a loan club , and nothing would be squeezed out of him , and that he ( the defendant ) must
be a fascinating man to be preferred to all her suitors . He then asked the young woman if Mr . Roche had not set her on to swear the child to him to save himself , and put Mr . Pelham upon him , and she denied having been set on by Mr . Roche , or that he ever indulged in the least familiarity with her . The defendant said that Miss Forster had taken him to the back of Birchfieldterrace , Tullock ' s Side-rooms , and other places , three and four years ago , and that she would never let him alone ; " andit was singular -she- was - not -in -the ~ familyway then by him , and finished by saying , " May God strike me dead on this spot if it is not so ; and she knows two or three others have had the same favours as I have
had . " It appeared that Roche was an officer of the court , and Mr . Yardley gave him an excellent character . That part of the defendant ' s charge was utterly disproved . The defendant conducted himself in a very violent manner . He constantly called on God to witness the truth of his statements ; it was of no avail . The usual order was made . However , Tilley _ ascertained that ho was at liberty to appeal , and said ho would have a new trial if it cost him 500 / .
Assaulting a Woman . —A seaman named Win . Rowland , belonging to the ship Gallant , met Mrs . Halpin in Woll-close-square . Although as a seaman he had had the advantage of travel , he could not resist commenting on the weather , and on Mrs . Halpin requesting him to leave her , lie could not resist savagely assaulting her . Ho had clearly mistaken the character of Mrs . Halpin . Some evidence was given at the police-court to prove that the seaman was struck first , but this was very strongly denied , and Mr . Yardley sentenced him to three months ' hard labour .
William Barker performed every known method of boating his wife . He knocked her down , kicked her sovorely , dragged her out of the room by her hair , and threw her down stairs . An attempt to stick a knife in her throat was unsuccessful , but he contrived to wound her hand dreadfully . The only reason was that his wife wanted money to buy food for the children . He had only given her tenpence for three days , and yet he had that day spent six or seven shillings at a public-house . Ho was remanded . Desbrtino Children . — Harriet Nelson , the woman who left her cljild naked in the street , has been sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment . Keeping Companv . —Caroline Haynes appeared At Worship-street to complain of a young man with
Seven Men Shooting a Fowl . —Our Civilisation has been illustrated in a remarkable manner at Ashby-de-la-Zouch . Seven men—we are delighted to give publicity to honourable names—George Smith , Timothy Smith , George Severn , Thomas Choyce , William Atkins , Edward Shepherd , and Edward Needham—were charged , at the instance of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , the first with having " caused to be tortured , " and the other defendants with having " tortured a _ . „ . .,.
whom she had been " keeping company . " In some quarrel he had made a cut at her throat with a razor ! and failing in that , had severely gashed her arm . He has been sent for trial . The Folet-place Mdedeb . —The inquest has been resumed on the body of Mrs . Lambert ( or Latham ) , but has been again adjourned for a week , when it is expected that Mrs . Lambert will be sufficiently well to give evidence . Baranelli is progressing in health . ¦ ' ¦ ' '
domestic fowl . " From the evidence of Mr . Forster , on behalf of the society , it appeared that the seven defendants , with other persons , assembled in a field in the parish of Heather . George Smith brought with him a gamecock , which he tethered by a string two feet long to a stake driven into the ground . A distance of forty-five yards was then measured off , at which point the other defendants took their station , armed with three guns among the party . The owner of the fowl , George Smith , now agreed with the rest that for a payment of threepence each any person should be allowed to shoot at the cock , and is was further agreed that the fowl should become the property of the one who killed it . During half an hour the six defendants fired eight shots at the bird without inflicting upon it any fatal injury , but one of its legt
was broken , and several single shots had entered the head and different parts of the body . As the bird was struck by successive shots it flew up as far as the tether permitted it , and uttered cries of pain . At the moment the eighth shot was fired , the rector of Heather , the Rev . G . P . Belcher , who had learnt what was going on , arrived in the field and interfered to prevent a continuance of the cruelty . Finding that lie could not induce them to cease firing at the cock , Mr . Belcher released the animal from the tether , and was in the act of carrying it away , when the defendant , George Smith , followed him and demanded that ^ the cock should be given up to him as it was his property . Mr . Belcher , hqwever ^ handed the bird to the parish constable , but it died during the night . George Smith endeavoured to repudiate the ownership of the cock , and denied iaving fired at it . He did not consider-he had been guilty of
any cruelty . The other defendants said they wercnot aware they were doing wrong in shooting at the cock . They were all fined 2 / . each , with costs , or one month's imprisonment . White Slavery . —Mrs . Mary Cumber , " a welldressed , but hard-featured lady , " has been fined 40 s . for beating her maid-servant . The girl was perhaps rather " slatternly , " but Mrs . Cumber was really worse than that . She used to strip the poor girl naked , and beat her with a thick rattan cane . This occurred several , times ,. and the exposure of the lacerated back occasioned a shudder in court ;
King , the Thief-trainer . —A further examination has produced much corroborative evidence . In one instance a park-keeper observing some men earnestly congregated about a tree , examined the tree when they left . He found a purse concealed there , which was doubtless that which the former witness mentioned .
The Wardroper Case. This Matter Is Settl...
THE WARDROPER CASE . This matter is settled , but scarcely satisfactorily . The result is that Mr . Wardroper has abandoned his speculation—the alleged reason being , that the public calumny has destroyed confidence in his mercantile stability . He professes to be already a loser of between 200 ? . and 300 / ., and imagines that his arrangements for a vessel may involve a further loss of 1000 / . The Globe says : — " The explanation offered on Saturday by Mr . Parry in behalf of Mr . Wardroper was not altogether satisfactory , nor waa the tone of his comments upon the conduct of the magistrates and Mr . Aldridgo altogether just . Aa far as Mr . Wardroper ia concerned , wo are told that ho ia a man of good family ; that he was onco ,
in aomo sort , attached to tho household of the Duke of Richmond as a surgeon ; that he entered with tho beat intentions upon his Crimean enterprise ; that he had sold property value 1510 ? . to furnish capital for his venture ; that ho had practically chartered a ship called tho Sparrowhawk ; and that ho has not as yet received a farthing from any of her Majesty ' s subjects . But neither Mr . Parry , nor any one else , gave reasons for the strange course of proceedings adopted by his client in advertising for a storekeeper and a loan under varied initials . Sir Robert Garden's judicious questions also elicited tho fact that tho proporty sold for 1540 / . was subject to two mortgages , ono of 1000 / ., tho other of 100 / . —facts which , as tho magistrate observed , •* awaken a little suspicion . ' Still it does not appear that Mr . Wardroper engaged in
the enterprise with any bad intentions , although it would seem that he was not the fittest person to carry it bait . " With respect to Mr . Aldridge and Alderman Wilson , Mr . Parry would have done well to have abstained from casting doubts . upon the purify of the motives of the former , and the propriety of the conduct of the latter . Mr . Aldridge was perfectly , right , under the circumstances , in making a public statement on a matter affecting the public interest and the good faith of those who come forward to give legitimate aid to our gallant army . And certainly Alderman Wilson , presiding in a public court of justice , did no less than his duty in giving attention to the statement of Mr . Aldridge . We cannot but think that had Mr . Wardroper adopted a perfectly simple and straightforward line of conduct , his name would not have appeared in the records of the City police .
The Indian Civil Service. We Beg To Call...
THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE . We beg to call the attention of all those interested in imparting or receiving instruction to the rules laid down by the India Board for the examination for writerships , which is to take place in July next . These rules differ in many respects from the report already published . Each candidate must send in , before the 1 st of May , certificates of health , character , and of his being above 18 and under 22 years of age , together with a list of subjects on which he wishes to be examined . These subjects , as final ly settled , are—English composition ; English literature and history , including that of the laws and constitution ; language ,
literature , and history of Greece , Rome ; Prance , Germany , Italy ; mathematics ; chemistry ; electricity ^ and magnetism ; natural history ; geology and mineralogy ; logic ; mental , moral , and political philosophy ; Sanscrit and Arabic . The 20 best candidates are to be selected . They will be required to pass , after one or two years , at their option , an examination in law , Indian history , one Indian language , and political economy . After passing this examination they will receive their appointments . Such are the outlines of a plan destined probably to work greater changes in . the education of the upper classes than any which has occurred since the revival of classic learning in the 15 th century .
New Mail Route To Australia. The Followi...
NEW MAIL ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA . The following route to Australia has been suggested , by way of remedying the inconvenience-likely to arise from the withdrawal of other lines . The most direct , safe , and speedy means of reaching Australia from this country seems to have been entirely overlooked :: — "If the overland route to India be followed as far as Aden , and clipper sailing vessels be provided to run direct between Aden and Port Philip , it would place Australia within fifty to fifty-five days' passage from London , and bring the return of post in about 110 days .
" It will be seen on reference to a map , by following a line over land and sea via Paris , Marseilles , Alexandria , and Suez to Aden , that a passenger from England at the latter place would be nearly half way on his direct journey to Australia . A 3 it is possible , by existing means ofT 6 iit 7 ' rall 7 "ana " roadV " toTeach-Aden- 'On-the--19 th day from leaving London , allowing necessary time for rest and refreshment , it only becomes a question how soon the space of ocean intervening between Aden and Port Philip—say , 6720 miles—can be traversed by a sailing ship . Judging from antecedents , thirty to forty days would be a reasonable time to allow a fast vessel to effect
this distance . " The employment of steam-vessels , instead of sailing ships , would reduce the whole time between London and Melbourne to about forty-three days ; but , looking to the difficulty of coaling , and the enormous expenses attendant on steam navigation , it is doubtful if capitalists could be found to take the risk of providing them , until the traffic and other inducements could bo clearly shown as sufficient to justify the experiment . "
Indian News. There Is No News Of Importa...
INDIAN NEWS . There is no news of importance received by the last mail . A few mere scraps of intelligence Jand incalculable rumours make up the news . i'ho Bombay correspondent of the Times says : — " Friendly relations are now established between Dost Mahomed and tho Government of India , and it ia reported that a British envoy is to be sent to Cabul , and ono of the Dost's sons to the Governor-General . " The Khan of Kokan , who applied to tho British Oovernment for assistance to repol tho Russian force that has invaded hid dominions , is to bo allowed to entertain British drill sergeants . Government , it ia said , Has sanctioned volunteers being allowed ( from tho artillery and infantry of tho frontier regiments ) to proceed to Kokan as drill instructors . ¦
... " Wo know nothing of the strength of tho invading Russian forco on tho Juxartes , except that it has hitherto been strong enough to boat everything that the injvaded districts have been able to bring against it , and that the chief of tho patrimony of Baber and tho . successor of Maliinoud of Ghuznco luwo boon under tho necessity of
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 20, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20011855/page/9/
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