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December 29, 1855.] THELEADEK. 1241
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AMERICA. The Washington Legislature had ...
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OUR CIVILISATION. The Cudiiam Murder.—Ro...
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December 29, 1855.] Theleadek. 1241
December 29 , 1855 . ] THELEADEK . 1241
America. The Washington Legislature Had ...
AMERICA . The Washington Legislature had not , up to the last advices , decided upon its Speaker . Mr . Banks , Republican Know-nothing , had . obtained the greatest number of vote . 3—106 ; but the necessary number is 112 ; and , after forty-five ballots , the matter sbill remains open . Advices from Washington state that it has been ascertained , beyond the possibility of cavil , that a despatch has been received from Mr . Buchanan , relative to theCramiJton difficulty , the tenor of which was , that the English Government , in a courteous but positive manner , deeliued giving such explanations as have been demanded by the United States' Government regarding the alleged violation of the neutralit y laws by English agents .
The Boston International Journal has an article defending Mr . Crampton from the charges brought against him , in the course of which that gentleman's circular to his vaz'ious agents is quoted , to show "how anxiously he sought to make all persons respect the law » " In this document , Mr . Crampton says : — " The information to be given will be simply that , to those desiring to enlist in the British aririy , facilities will be afforded for so doing on their crossing the line into British territory , aud the terms offered by the British Government may be stated as matter of information only , and not as implying any promise or engagement on the part of tho 3 e supplying such information , so long at least as they remain within American jurisdiction . "
Affairs at Kansas have assumed a serious aspect ; and a demand made by the Governor of the country to the Federal Government for the assistance of troops has been' refused . Under date of the 6 th inst ., it is stated that 400 or 500 men , accompanied by ai"tillery and 1 , 000 muskets , had passed through the town of (^ Independence for the purpose of maintaining order . The Indians on the frontiers continue their depredations . An action has taken place at Rouge River Valley between four hundred of the United States' troops , together with volunteers , and three hundred Indians , ending in the retreat of the former with a loss of eighteen men . The town called Canon City has been entirely destoyed by fire . It is reported that several fine diamonds have been found in the tunnels of the Table Mountain , California ; and and the accounts from the mines generally are highly satisfactory .
The Governments of ban Salvador , Honduras , and Costa Rica , have strongly protested to the United States' Government against the recognition of the present Nicaraguau Government , and declared themselves resolved to exterminate foreign adventurers who might invade their soil for revolutionary purposes . The United States' Government , however , having received information that an expedition against Nicaragua was being organised in New York , has taken steps to prevent it . In Nicaragua itself , the new Government is proceeding very . successfully ; trade and . commerce are reviving ; and several families have returned to their homes . Colonel Parker H . French has been appointed Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States ; aud it is said that he is vested with extraordinary powers , to enable him to settle the . difficulties existing between the United States , England , aud Nicaragua .
From the New York commercial accounts we learn that symptoms of a returning stringency in the money market were apparent . The stock market was quiet nd firm .
Our Civilisation. The Cudiiam Murder.—Ro...
OUR CIVILISATION . The Cudiiam Murder . —Robert Thomas Palin has been tried at Maidstono for the murder of Jane Beagley on the 25 th of last August , and has been acquitted . Mr . Denman , who defended Pulin , commented upon the absence of any appearance of blood upon the clothes of the prisoner , although , according to the case for the prosecution , lie wan seen a very short time after the murder had been committed . He also observed upon the discrepancy in the evidence of tho witnesses who wero called to prove that the prisoner wan tho man who was seen coming from tho cottage after tho murder , and said that , if they were really satisfied that ho was tho man they saw , it was very extraordinary that they did not Bay ho upon their first examination , and that they should have waited
until they wore aware that tho clothes had boon iound in tho possession of tho prisoner before they expressed themselves positive with regard' to his identity . A YouthKor , AnnucTon . —William England and Alfred England , fathor and boh , wero found guilty at tho Central Criminal Court of taking away a girl under thirteen yearn of age , from her mother . It appeared that the child , who looked at leant seventeen , had boon carried to a lodging where sho livod with , the younger prisoner ( who was nineteen ) i » b his wife . Tho father of tho youth had aidod in [ tho abduction of the girl . Tho girl ' H mother gave tho following extraordinary particulars of tho . progress of tho courtship : — " Upon one occasion , tho younger prisoner and his sinter stayed up in tho bodroom with my two daughters all night . There was but one bed in the room , Tho younger prisoner luwl bo
barred and bolted the bedroom door that I could not get in until the morning , when I fetched the younger prisoner ' s mother and a carpenter , and broke open the door and turned him out of the house . Upon another occasion I found him and his sister , my two daughters , and the servant , all upon the bed together . They used to play together as children would . I never let him into the house again after he bolted himself into the bedroom . " The father was sentenced to two years' imprisonment , and the son to six months ' . Palin , is now in custody , and under remand , charged with the committal of a burglary . The Poisoning Case at Rugeley . —It is stated
that Mr . Palmer , the surgeon now in custody on the charge of poisoning Mr . Cook , and lying under strong suspicion of having caused the deaths of several other persons , possessed a horse some years ago which he called " Strychnine . " This horse , it is added , figured rather mysteriously on tho turf . The bodies of Mr . Palmer ' s wife and brother have been taken from their graves for the purpose of a post-mortem examination . Cruelt y to a Boy . —Thomas Weir , captain of the brig Bells , of Blyth , is now in custody at Sunderland , charged with ill-using Horatio Bere , a boy twelve years old , who was an apprentice on board his vessel . Besides severely beating and kicking him , the captain had deprived the lad of his food for a considerable time , had torn the hair from his head , and had taken away his clothes . The boy ' s life is considered in great danger .
Daring Robbery at Oxford . — A number of watches were taken from the window of Mi . Le ' r , a silversmith at Oxford , while that gentleman was sitting in his back room . The window was broken , and the property snatched through the gap , the thieves escaping , though the street was crowded . A Drunken Policeman with a Pistol . —A policeman at Liverpool was found by his inspector drunk on his beat , on Christmas-eve , and was ordered to go to the station-house , which he did . There he pulled out a pistol , and threatened the lift ; of the inspector . The weapon , it appears , he carried to protect himself from some ruffianly characters against whom he had formerly procured a conviction- The constable was remanded : but , considering his previous excellent condition , he will only be bound over to keep tho
peace . A Christmas-day Robbery . — Henry Williams , James Turner , and James Terry were charged at Worship-street with robbery . Mr . William Gascoyue , is a master butcher , having a private residence at Dalston , and business premises in Curtain-road , Shoreditch , at which place the business was carried on by his Bister ' s husband , a Mr . Rawson , who with his family went to spend Christmas-day with another relative in . Tower-street , City . There , between seven and eight in the evening , they were alarmed by a sudden intimation that their house had been broken into and plundered , and , on getting back to the house , they found it in a state of confusion . " Observing marks of blood on same of the bed clothes , and
Bearching under them , they discovered beneath the counterpane a watch , rings , brooches , and other articles of jewellery , mingled with a quantity of silent matches , loosely thrown there by the thieves . Tho discovery of the robbery and the prisoner ' s connexion with it were as follows : —Gosa and Eastman , two cabinetmakers , wore ( standing , one in tho front and tho other in the rear of Mr . GaBcoyne ' s premises , when the former saw five men , the prisoners and two others , watching tho house . Ono did something to the street door , but wont back to his confederates , and the three prisoners entered the house , shutting the door after them . Goss fetched a neighbour , as ho knew the family were out , and Turner was then seen at tho front windowwith a light in his hand , pulling down
, tho blind . Eastman at tho same time saw lights in tho Booond-noor back room ,, and accordingly fetched tho police , tho consequence of which was that tho house was completely surrounded by constables . Williams dropped from a wall , full twenty feet high , in rho roar , and was secured by an officor . Ho was followed by Turner , who dropped tho same height , and was itnruudintely seized by Eastman . A police Bcrgoant , in tho meantime , scaled a wall belonging to tho next hoiiHO , and , breaking open tho first floor window , got in , and made his way to ouo of tho top rooms , whore ho saw lorry standing in tho oontro of tho floor , and Hoi / . od him , the man offering no ronirftanco . Throe skeleton koyn road to the tation
wero found in hi * pocket . On the s , bit * coat was found to bo ripped up , and his loft arm was blooding most profusely . On tho police asking tho cause Tony replied that ho was making his way up through tho slaughterhouse to gain admission to some other part , whoa hi * foot slipped , ho foil , and remained some time mispondod on a largo moat hook , which had struck into his arm . Having lodged tho prisoner in the station and returned to the house , the police found property strewn in all directions , while inside the » laughtorliouf » o wore a silver butterknife and finger-ring . The marks upon tho doom , drawers , and closets lmd ovidontly boon made by a powerful Hcrewdrivor , which for some time could not
be found anywhere , but was at length discovered at the bottom of the w . tterbutt . —AH the prisoners v / ei-e remanded . Another Burglary . —A burglary was committed as far back as the 11 th of November , On the premises of a jeweller in Hollo way . Some policemen having received intimation of the fact shortly after its committal , went to the shop , which projects from the front of the house , aud found three men on the roof . One of the officers climbed up , when ho was seized
by a man named Home , who flung him down on to the pathway , breaking his arm , and otherwise severely hurting him . The burglar then got down himself , seized the constable by the hair , and boat his head against the pavement aud some railings . In connexion with this robbery and assault , three men were examined last Monday at tho Clerkenwell Police Court ; one of whom was discharged for want of sufficient evidence . Another , named Impey , w ; is committed for trial , and Home was sentenced to hard labour for six months .
Suspected Murder at . N ewcastle-on-1 yne . —Mrs . Beardmore , wife of the landlord of a railway hotel at Newcastlc-on-Tyne , has died from the effects of a fall from her bedroom window through the glass roof of an arcade beneath . Previous to her death , she several times accused her husband of flinging her out in a fit of jealousy ; but Mr . Beardinoro has endeavoured to show that his wife threw herself out of the window in a frenzy of drunken pa . s . su . n . He has been admitted to bail . Cruelt y to Houses . — Three cases of working horses while 'they were suffering from sores and wounds were heard at the Marylebone police office on Wednesday . Fines varying in amount were imposed .
A Hard Case . —A sailor , nineteen years of age , who only arrived from tho Crimea on Saturday last , entered the Lambeth police court with his two sisters and little brother , the three latter being scantily dressed , while two of them were without shoos or stockings , lie said that eighteen months ago he got appointed as ordinary seaman on board a transport aud sailed for the Crimea . After discharging her cargo , his ship was sold to the Turkish Government , and , on leaving her , ho got a situation as servant to an officer , and lived with him for some time . Having heard that his mother was in a very delicate state of health , he felt uneasy about her , and , being anxious to get home , his master kindly procured him a passage . On Saturday ,
at mid-day , he reached home from Portsmouth , aud found his mother dead and in her coffin , and the three children who accompanied him in a state of great destitution . On Sunday , his mother was buried at tho expense of a gentleman for whom his father , who died six years ago , used to work ; and , on Monday , a broker was put in by tho landlord whonwept everything in the place away . Tho children wero removed to the house of an aunt , and she , being a very poor woman herself aud totally unable to support them , took them to the workhouse of Newiugton pariah ; but tho relieving officer , Bowman , refused either to relieve or receive them , alleging as his reason that
they slept out of the parish of Nowington and in that of Lambeth , and they must , therefore , be passed in the regular way . In reply to the questions of the magistrate , the applicant said that his father and mother had for upwards of twenty years rented a house at £ '& 0 a-yeav , and paid taxes all that tune to the parish of Newiugtou . Tho magistrate directed that inquiries should bo made ; and on tho following day the summoning officer stated that , uftur a grout deal of trouble , and having overcome the objeotiona of tho parochial authorities , by causing tho children to sleep a night in tho parish of Nowiugton , he induced tho former to take tho destitute outcasts into
the workhouse , . MY 8 TK 1 UOU 8 Cabe oi > SWINDLING .- -Several montlw ago Messrs . Barton and Gnoatior of Bordeaux were defrauded of £ 200 by a man unknown to them who presented a letter of credit which was stolen last r-obruary from Dr . A . K . Sutherland , while travelling from Malaga to Hovillo . Having hoard that two SpaniardH , named Masip and ( lovUtxn , had boon tried and convicted in thi « country for attempting to defraud several Spanish merchant , Messrs . Barton and Uik-htier wrote to Alderman Finnis , giving a description who luwl swindled
of tho person and dross of tho man thorn , and inquiring if the ap | . oaraneo of «»« - «» or ° f '"> Spaniards at all corresponded with that . I « ho .-i nilon . Neither of them , however , in any wny mjomb ml i be person described in Mohhi-h . i : ) ' !\ Zl iZworv & SE 2 £ Sffi £ §& » J ^^^™^ v ^ Sfe ' - ^ . ~ " "" " ^ S ^^ r ^ ra iurs
, various gentleman ' s room hotter than his company , iKThJTreutly annoyed and disgusted tliom by hi . bohaviou ? . In tho winter following , tho » amo nullvfduaiTweut to Malaga , wher , ho took up km abode
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 29, 1855, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29121855/page/5/
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