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IRELAND. The Law Appointments are at len...
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NAVAL AND MILITARY. Shipwreck.—The emigr...
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: OUR CIVILIZATION. —.— ' , MIDDLESEX SE...
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Murderous Assault.—A pitman, named Henry...
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Accidents And Sudden Deaths. Mr. John Ju...
iniured in SOme way , and that she was making a great deal of water . She was accordingly run aground on the Kentish shore , and the passengers passed over a kind of bridge of boats to dry land . . A puncheon of gin which was being lowered , a few , evenings ago , from a waggon in Colenian-street , City , fell against the kerbstone , when the bottom was stove in . The liquor ran in a flood down the kennel ; and a labouring man named Michael Fitzgibbon , who was passing at the time , seized a pint pot from the barrow of a costermonger , and , stooping down , began ladelling the Spirit into his mouth . After taking a great deal this way , he went dow n on all fours , and lapped up the gin with his tongue . One of his comrades endeavoured to dissuade him from drinking any more ; but he went on till he was unable to continue . He was then wheeled home in a state of insensibility , and a surgeon was fetched } but death by this time had ensued . While a salute was being fired at Dover last Saturday , in honour of the arrival of the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg , one of the guns prematurely exploded . Two artillerymen were blown over the parapet into the ditch , a depth of forty feet ; the arms of both were broken , and the bayonet sword of one was driven into his stomach , causing injuries of which he died on the following night .
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Public Meetings. The Indian Government Q...
PUBLIC MEETINGS . THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT QUESTION . A noisy and excited meeting was held at the London Tavern on Tuesday night , to consider the question of the future government of India . Mr . George Crawshay occupied the chair , and spoke in favour of the Company , but was frequently interrupted by the disapprobation of his auditory , which consisted chiefly of working-class men . Mr . Lewin proposed the following resolution : — " That the Court of Directors , by submitting to the coercion of the Eng lish Government , " have brought upon India and upon England the disasters and the dangers to which both are now exposed ; and that this meeting holds the prevention of the further aggravation of those disasters and dangers to reside solely in the Court of Directors asserting for the future their administrative independence , recurring to the rules laid down by the House of Commons in 1782 ^ and by 86 doing obtaining for themselves the support of the people of England . " Major Rowland seconded this resolution ; denounced the war against Afghanistan ; gave a dismal picture of Sir Colin Campbell ' s position in India ( at which there were cries of * Bravo ! ' ) ; asserted that our army is gradually wasting away in Oude , and that England is in danger ; and advised that we should restore the King of Oude to his -throne . Mr . Mead-spoke in favour of placing India under the direct Government of the Crown , and proposed the following amendment : —" That , in the opinion of the meeting , it ia desirable to obtain a responsible form of administration for India instead of the present double Government , and also such a reform of the representative system as will ensure an effectual Parliamentary Control over the Indian authorities . " Mr . Ernest Jones seconded the motion , which was opposed by Mr . Frost ( the Chartist ) , who thought that to transfer the administration of India from the East India Company to the Crown would be to make bad worse . At this , there were hisses , and cries of " You are a traitor ! " Mr . Ernest Jones begged the meeting to hear Mr . Frost , though " it was easy to see through the trick . " Mr . Frost hereupon retorted that he had no trick to play , 41 but could easily see the trick which that man ( Mr . -Jones ) was playing . " Groans and uproar succeeded this passage of arms , and the meeting concluded with the Almost unanimous adoption of the amendment . THE BAST rNDIA HOU 3 B MEETING , The adjourned meeting of the Court of Proprietors was held on Wednesday ; Mr . Mangles , M . P ., in the chair . Previous to the resumption of the debate , the Clerk read the letter addressed on the part of the company to Lord Palmdraton , and dated the 81 st of December . After acknowledging the receipt of his Lordship ' s letter , containing an intimation that it is the intention of Government to propose a measure to Parliament for the purpose of placing the Government of India under . the direct authority of the Grown , the writers observe that they feel it due to themselves , and to the constituent body they represent , to lose no time In offering such observations na suggest themsolvos on tho occasion . They state that tho Court proposo tliat a searching inquiry should be instituted into tho causes of tho mutiny of the Bengal army , and they have instructed tha Government of India to appoint a commission to make such inquiry . They concolvo that it would bo satis-^ foctory ^ to .. tUou % J [ f _ ft . fllinUarJ , niiuiiy ^ ojrq J > J £ P ^ dJn _ , Parliament , with power to oxtond tho investigation to an Inquiry respecting tho conduct of tho Homo Government . They express surprise that , without imputing bhvmo to tho Company , tho Government , ovon before tho mutiny is quelled , and while considerable excitement provalla In India , should propose tho entire suporscssion of the East India Company , which is ontltlod to tho « rodlt of having so administered tho govornmont In India that tho heads of states and tho people had
romained true to the Company ' s rule . The Court of Directors express their conviction that a change so important would be misunderstood , by the people of India , and submit that , if any such change should be really thought desirable , it should be introduced at a time of tranquillity , when the circumstances of India could be regarded without prejudice , and when the change would not , in the eyes of the natives , be connected with the late calamitous events . The Court asserts that they have always shown themselves ready to acquiesce in any change that would prove useful to the general interests . The directors would not object to relinquish their trust if a better sj'Stem could be devised for India ; but in 1853 the question was thoroughly investigated and exhausted , and the present system was the result . That system , it is admitted , is -doubtless capable of some improvement ; but the objections to the ' double Government' are rather nominal than real , as the duties of the Board of Directors are of an executive rather than of a deliberative character . The Secretary next read the following reply of the Prime Minister : — " Piccadilly , January 18 , 1858 . " Gentlemen , —I have had the honour to receive your joint-letter of the 31 st December , 1857 , on the subject and the measure it is the intention of her Majesty ' s Government to propose to Parliament , in reference to the future system on which the government of India is to be conducted . I beg to assure you that the observations and opinions therein expressed will be duly considered by her Majesty ' s Government . I forbear entering at present into any examination of those observations and opinions . First , because any correspondence on this matter would be most conveniently carried on through the usual official channel , the President of the India Board ; and , secondly , because the detailed arrangements of the measure which her Majesty ' s Government mean to propose will be best explained when that measure shall be submitted to the consideration of Parliament . —I am , & c , — Pax , merston . " The secretary then read the petition which it was proposed to present to Parliament , and which had been prepared by the directors and recommended by the proprietors . It is a very long document , but tha chief points are summarized in the letter to Lord Palmerston , of which an outline is given above . —After considerable debate , the discussion was further adjourned for a week . : ,
Ireland. The Law Appointments Are At Len...
IRELAND . The Law Appointments are at length finally settled . Mr , Serjeant O'Brien is to be the successor of the lat « Judge Moore in the Queen ' s Beiich , and Mr . Henry George Hughes ( a Roman Catholic ) succeeds to the Solicitor-Generalship in the room of Mr . Christian , the new judge in the Common Pleas . Mr . Richard Deasy , Q . C , and M . P . for the county of Cork , has been appointed third serjeant , in the room of Serjeaut O'Brien .
Naval And Military. Shipwreck.—The Emigr...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . Shipwreck . —The emigrant ship Windsor was wrecked off Bonavista , Cape Verd Islands , while on her voyage from London to Australia , on the 1 st of December . She struck on a reef of rocks ; but the crew and passengers , with the exception of two sailors , were safely landed , and were subsequently forwarded by a Portuguese war schooner to St . Vincent ' s . These facts have been derived from the first number of a small folio newspaper , called the A rff O , which was edited and printed from week to week on board tho steamship Argo , which took the left wing of tho 68 th Infantry from Portsmouth to Madras . Recruits for India . — The standard of recruits for all regiments of infantry serving in India ia reduced to five feet three inches until further orders from the Morse Guards . The Indian Reinforcements . —Tho transport York , Captain liedpath , which sailed from Plymouth on Tuesday for Madras , had a cargo of shot , shell , guns , and various stores . Sho embarked at Gravesend Captain Mure , in military command , and eight rank and ulo of tho 43 d Regiment ; Ensign Hoane , and thirty-seven of tho 44 th ; Dr . Elliott , 95 th , in medical charge ; Captuia Arbucklo ( and wife ) , Bengal Artillery 5 Mr . Wickhain , and fifty men 1 st Mudraa Fusiliers ; Mr . Crawford , Hon . East India Company ' s service ; thirteen men of the GOth Kifles , thirty-two of tho GOth Foot , and twelve of tho 74 th ; and at Plymouth , one sergeant and ton men of tho G 9 th , in charge of tho residue of tho baggage bolonging to that regiment . Thio C . « 8 ar , 91 , screw , is fitting out for the steam reaorvo at Portsmouth by the crow of tho steam depot uliip Blenheim . Tub Victoria and Ai . dbut Yaoht . — Her Majoaty ' B 9 t ¥ tT " 3 ^ 1 ftnrietom ~ rinU ^^ Douman , ia nearly ready to receive her crow , who will turn over to her next Tuesday . It is not oxpoutod that tho Royal marriage flotilla will leavo Portsmouth for Gravosond before tho end of the month . Every availablu vosaol that uun be spared will bo sent t , o tho run- ' dezvous off Gravosond , so as to make tho Royal 0111-barkation as imposing a spectacle as may bo under tho oiroumatancefl .
: Our Civilization. —.— ' , Middlesex Se...
OUR CIVILIZATION . — . — MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . Tiiomas Jones and John . Jones , brothers , both very respectably connected , who pleaded Guilty at the last sessions to a charge of assaulting some policemen , were on Tuesday sentenced to four months' imprisonment , reckoning from the 4 th inst . James Mackindcr , a coachman , was indicted for stealing two 507 . notes and three 10 j . notes , the property of his master , with which he had been entrusted to purchase some horses . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to penal servitude for three years . William Keen , a young man employed at the Builckr office , pleaded Guilty of stealing 9 s . 6 d ., the money of his employers . He appeared to have been pilfering for some time past . He was sentenced to eight mouths ' hard labour . The two guardsmen charged with assaulting the police in Broadway , Westminster , were tried on Tuesday . Thev were found Guilty , and sentenced each to six months' hard labour . An amusing incident was unfolded in the trial of Joseph Wilkinson and Henry Wilkinson , father and son , for having stolen a large number of fowls , the property of the Hon . Lady Selina Mason . Her ladyship resides at Willesden House , and the fowls in question were stolen from her premises on the evening of the 22 nd of December . On the following morning , a policeman named Macdonald found some of them in a sack concealed in a dung-heap in a field at Edgware , and , concluding that the persons who had placed them there would take an early opportunity of fetching them away , he hid himself in the dung-heap . After lie had been there , covered over , about seven hours , the prisoners came with a truck to remove the booty . One of them said to the other , "Be quiet ! Get over the gate ; there ' s no one about , and if anybody conies I'll whistle . " Henry Wilkinson then went to the heap , and was dragging the sack away when he trod upon the policeman , who jumped up , and Wilkinson ran off , crying out that it was the Devil that had sprung up from the heap . The father was taken , and the son gave himself up a day or t < vo afterwards . They earned a living by selling fowls in Portman Market . An alibi was set up for Henry , and the jury Acquitted him . The father was found Guilty , and sentenced to eight months' hard labour . Charles Carew , a Guardsman , pleaded Guilty on Wednesday to an indictment charging him with having stolen a watch , value 3 L , and another watch , value 1 / . 12 s . 6 d ., the property of Frederick Berry . Mr . Berry keeps two shops , one at Pimljco and one . in Parliament-street , the latter being the place where Marlcy committed the crime which led to his execution . Carew stole a watch from , the shop in Parliament street , and then went off to that at Pimlico , and stole another . The Court sentenced him to six months' hard labour .
Murderous Assault.—A Pitman, Named Henry...
Murderous Assault . —A pitman , named Henry EtUerington , residing near Bishop Auckland , has committed a very savage attack on Mary Venison , a married woman , who had been deserted by her husband , and who had recently lived with Ethorington . She had a child by him , but was desirous of parting company . Etherington wished her to return , or to let him have tha child ; but she refused , and he then struck her several times on the head with a pick . She broke away , ami was followed by him ; but her mother interposed , and held him back till he was apprehended by a policeman . Ho has been committed for trial . False and Truji Distress . —A man giving the name of John Reed , has been charged at the Westminster police-office with fraud and felony . Ho and a companion went to tho house of a gentleman in Ebury-street , Pimlico , with a bogging petition on behalf of one John Ward , who was said to bo the dustman of tho district . While the gontloman was reading over tho petition , a friend who was present observed Reed ' s companion ( who waa in the passage ) helping himself to a coat which was hanging up . The room door waa open ; but Rood atood in tho doorway , and , when the frioud endeavoured to rush out and stop the thief , tho confederate stopped him , and tho coat was carried oil " . A similar trick hud been performed in tho same neighbourhood a few day previously . Rood waa remanded . —A c « se of real distress , of a very singular character , has boon , brought before tho attention of tho Lambeth magistrate . Mr . Hoard , a practical chomist of some distinction , and tho author of tho discovery ( inado in the early part of tho present century ) by which , coal gas was mndo applicable to domestic purposes , was found to bo living in a stuto of ubject destitution in a house in South Lamboth . Though oiglity-oiio yuan * of . ago , Mr . Heard had a comparatively young wile and a -fnm 11 y-or-four- 'cliildroiir - tho-oldost-of-whpin ^ vad ^ ouJv fourtooii . Owing to old ago and infirmities , Mr . Hoard was tinublo to prosecute a diseovory he had patented a few ypars ugo , and so had fnUon into distress . A subscription has boon opened in his bohulf , and tho Lambeth . mntrlntfr . Uo hue given 1 / . from tho poor-box . Tiim Knipio . —A 0 rook sailor and an Irish labourer aro under remand « t tho Th / uno * polioo-olMce , on ft charge of atabbing another Irish workman In tho course ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 23, 1858, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23011858/page/7/
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