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n , was that belonging to the deceased , Barber was , at 7 o ' clock on Monday evening , taken into custody . He was told that he was suspected of the murder of Robinson , but he denied the whole affair . On searching him , however ,, there was found in his pocket-book the pawnbroker ' s duplicate of the murdered man ' s watch . But , on being confronted with the pawnbroker , it was found that he was not the person who had pawned it . There was found also upon him 21 . 15 s . in money , and a post-office receipt for a reg istered letter , which he posted on Friday to a friend at Port Carlisle , Cumberlannd , ' and which it is thought contained a remittance of money . A young man , named George M'Cormack , who was traced to having been in B arber ' s company , was next apprehended . He was identified as the person who had pawned the watch ; and he at once admitted it , stating that he received it from Barber at the Reindeer Inn on Saturday night , and gave to him the ' money for which it was pawned .
Both Barber and M'Cormack were remanded by the magistrates . As to Barber ' s motive , a story is told which gives little assistance . Barber and Robinson liad both served a term of years under Barber ' s uncle , Mr . David Barber , of Doncaster . About two months ago Barber was discarded by his uncle , in consequence of embezzlement . Previously the uncle had given 91 . for a silver lever watch as a present for the prisoner Barber . His misconduct , however , lost him his uncle ' s favour , and the watch was given to Robinson . About six weeks ago Robinson ' s engagement with Mr . Barber terminated , and the latter , as is customary , provided him with a pack of drapery as a stock in trade , and he commenced travelling over the district which the prisoner Barber had previously perambulated . It was , no doubt , by the offer of Barber to assist him in obtaining customers , that he was lured into the secluded spot where he was murdered .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen continues at Balmoral , where she enjoys open-air-driving among the hills ; while Prince Albert goes on deer-stalking excursions .
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Mr . John Stuart , Q . C ., has been appointed Vice Chancellor in the Room of Sir James Parker . Mr , Stuart is a distinguished Tory , and an eminent opponent of legal reforms . Lord Eglinton and his wife visited Lord and Lady Londonderry , at Garron Tower , on Thursday week . They returned to Belfast on Monday , and thence set out for Armagh , on a visit to the Lord Primate . Dr . Blomfield and his family has lately been to Armagh on a visit to the Protestant Primate of Ireland . Before
he left , the Dean and Chapter of Armagh sent him a complimentary address , which he duly acknowledged . There was nothing of great note either in the address or the reply . Mr . Ord , late Liberal Member for Newcastle-upon-Tyne , was entertained by his late constituents on Wednesday . The principal speakers were , Earl Grey , Lord Carlisle , and the young Earl of Durham , who appears to have made his bow on the occasion . Eulogy of Mr , Ord and of Whig principles of reform formed tho staplo of the oratory . A dinner was given on Tuesday at Newcastle-on-Tyne to Mr . Liddell , M . P . for South Northumberland , by the Conservatives . It is stated that a Mr . Henry James Porteous Oaks will bo the Dorbyite candidate for Bury St . Edmunds , the seat vacated by Mr . Stuart , just raised to tho Vico-Chancollorship .
Mr . Jolm Oliver Hanson has been elected Director ot tho Bank of England in tho room of Sir John Pelly . Tho Queen has purchased a firo-proof-safo , as a birth-day present to her aunt tho Duchess of Gloucester . The sale was made by Mr . John Chubb ; it is composed of polished steel inlaid with gold ; and tho Society for tho encouragement of Art awarded to Mr . Chubb an honorary testimonial an a token of their approval . Tho Tenant Right Conference , attended by twenty-sovon Members of Parliament , several priests , and other notable persona , commenced its sitting at Dublin on Wednesday . ¦ At present only tho programme of tho resolutions are-
beiore uh . That tho Conference would decide to go for Mr . Sharman Crawford ' s bill , thero is littlo doubt ; but strictly speaking wo havo no official information of that result . A Mr . Ifornaman lias just been appointed Inspector ot Covernmont Schools , witk a salary of 600 L a-year . This is precisely oik ; of those appointments which , us wo have again , and again pointed out , literary men are tho best litted to fill , while they form tho logitimato means by ¦ which governments can extend thoir patronago to literary Men . Wo aro willing thoroforo to hope , in tho absence ot any knowledge ou tho subject , that Mr . Hornainun belongs ' ¦<> tho class for whom benefices and duties liko tho ubovo
ans most evidently appropriate ; but ho seldom do wo find tlie right men selected to lill up vacancies of tho kind , that we luivo always tho fear of a job or a political niotivo before our eyes , —Athmumim . -Mr . G . U . J \ , rt , or , tho well known author of tho " Progress of tho Nation , " and ono of tho secretaries of tho ¦| joard of Trade , died recently at Tunbridgo Wells . Mr . I ortor worked too hard and took too littlo relaxation . The King of Belgium has conferred tho order of Leopold w "h the civil decoration , upon Sir Henry Do la Bocho , of tho Geological Survey Oflico of London , as a public testimony of II is Majesty ' s ostoom and satisfaction for tho eminent services rendered by him to goology by liirt I'umerouH and valuable publications .
Mr . Ihiuu- Wilson , a gentleman of groat turn and genius j ° r mechanics , well-known and respected at . Bath , died l ) l « t week . Hi , WI 1 H the inventor of ii power-loom for ro-• wiving cotton in a raw state and turning it out a complete robno , fifty-six yoara ago . At that time , however , auch w »« the prejudice agalnit machinery , that Mr . Wilson " •« « om { i « Ut 4 to work In wretj and oae « , wh « n hi *
hiding-place was discovered , he was compelled to fly for his life and a barn , the theatre of his operations , was burnt to the ground . He afterwards became a dentist , but still continued to make machinery for his own amusement . Madame Poitevin safely descended in a parachute from a balloon on Monday . The parachute was so constructed that the air had free play through it , and thus the risk was greatly decreased . The JLeinster Express of Saturday last has the following paragraph : — Considerable excitement has been created in a south eastern county , by the elopement of a titled lady , the spouse of a wealthy commoner , with a gallant to relative of
captain belonging an adjoining garrison , a her own , and who wa ^ before on very intimate terms with her husband . " We { Globe ) believe that the parties alluded to are Lady Elizabeth Bryan , daughter of the Marquis of Conyngham , and wife of George Bryan , Esq ., of Jenkinstown , county Kilkenny , and Captain James George Hay , of the 92 nd Highlanders . Lady Elizabeth Bryan is in her 23 rd year , and was married to Mr . Bryan ( who possesses a very large property in Kilkenny ) some two years ago . Captain Hay , the partner of her flight , has been quartered , for some months past , at Carlow , with the dep 6 t of the 92 nd . Mr . Bryan is said to be in pursuit of the fugitives .
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Six farmers appointed by the Royal Agr icultural College at Cirencester , have issued a report on the trial of Hussey ' s and M'Cormack ' s reaping machines which took place lately . The machines cut upwards of one hundred acres of dinlrent kinds of grain . The gist of the report , which is long , is , that of the two machines thus tried , M'Cormack ' s has the advantage in lightness of draught , security of cutting and clearing itself under adverse circumstances , and in the more convenient delivery of the sheaves . They think , however , that the work of both was sufficiently well done . Nevertheless they are both susceptible of very great improvement , especially in providing for the cutting and proper delivery of heavy and laid crops , and for working without the risk of the wheels clogging in wet and soft ground ; points in which they are as yet defective .
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The Poor-law Commissioners have at length sanctioned the proposition of the board of guardians of St . Martin ' s parish for the emigration of a considerable number of their able-bodied poor , and the vessel has been selected which is to convey them to Port Adelaide . On Tuesday they were assembled in the schoolroom of the workhouse , and addressed by the Rev . H . Mackenzie and Mr . Cobbett previous to their departure . Galway will have a line of steamers at last . The Northern Whig reports that a New York company have got an Act through Congress , securing them 20001 . a trip for carrying the mails when they run over their vessels . A new steamer is being built for the purpose .
The Cleopatra , whose outfit we noticed some timo ago , started from Bla'ckwall , for Australia , on Saturday . She carries three hundred passengers , and anticipates reaching Sydney in sixty days . The steam-ship Australian , from Plymouth , arrived at Table Bay on the 19 th of July , and sailed on tho 22 nd for Adelaide , Port Phillip , and Sydney . She is tho first of the bi-monthly lino of mail packets . Tho Groat Britain was spoken at eight o ' clock in the morning of tho 25 th ult ., in lat . 42 . 37 , Ion . 12 , by the brig IAshon , from Lisbon . Tho Great Britain was crowded with sail , and going at tho rate of thirteen knots an hour . An estimate of time and distance gives her , so far , about ten knots an hour . —Liverpool Standard .
Tho Mining Journal speaks of a " startling project" devised by Mr . D . S . Brown , who proposes lo build a steamship which shall reach America in forty-eight hours ; and goto India and back in a fortnight ! His ship will not go through , but on tho water . Emigration from the port of Liverpool during July and August was considerable ; 21 , 385 , in . July , and 2 L , 1 ) 07 in August . Tho emigrants were bound for America and Australia , and are Government emigrants . Captain Reed , of tho barque Polly , of Newcastle , was unaccountably fired at by tho Turks in passing through the Dardanelles , on the . ird of July . Captain Reed published the facts in tho Gibraltar Chronicle , in order that notice- might be taken , and such occurrences in future prevented . _ _ „ , .. . called the
Tho German Immigration newspaper , Au . s wandcrer Zcitung , nays : — " One item of intelligence in the last South American mail is rather startling ; German emigrants to Peru are articles of sale , and are advertised in the papers as merchandise . They are the remains of a band of emigrants who Home time since were induced , by the representations of an agent , named Rodolfo , to sail for Lima ; the enterprise- totally failed , and sixty of the men took service in the army . General Mores had pur . chased 120 for the ICoiiador expedition ; a landed proprietor had bought 80 lor liin estate ; < U ) were working on the guano islands ; KM ) had died , and f >() , left in tho hands of tho agent , were advertised in tho paper as ' for sale . ' " We may , therefore , safely infer that those Gorman emigrants were nearly as badly oil" in America as in their native land .
What paupers can do with waste land is shown by tho following anecdote : —Several years ago two or three paupers pressed ho heavily on the rates of the parish of" St . Mary Extra , in Hants , tiiat tho parish authorities gave them pieces of land on a wild common , situated between ltchon Ferry and Botloy , to cultivate , in order to get rid of them . The men were looked upon as transports , and tho placo to which they were transported wan called in derision * " Botany Bay . Tho poor men , however , by industry did well , and Botany Bay now figures on tho OrdnAttoe mitpa , it ) haying become nn extensive hanikt ,
The Museum of Manufactures , in connexion with the Department of Practical Art , was re-opened on Monday . It consists of woven fabrics ; metal works ; pottery ; glass ; furniture ; and a miscellaneous of works in many materials . It will be opened to tho public on Mondays and Tuesdays ; tho other days being for pupils only . In the pottery department , besides the Queen ' s collection , there will be selections from the cabinets . of Mr . Thomas Baring , M . P ., Mr . Minton , Mr . Farrar , and Mr . Webb . The Museum is also very . well stocked with specimen ornamental casta of what is called the Renaissance period . Thirty volunteers were sworn in for tho City Militia , at tho Mansion House , on Tuesday . Volunteers are so numerous that the ballot will not be required , so it is stated . Since Monday last upwards of seventy young men havo been sworn in at Marlborough-strcet police-court to servo in the East and West Middlesex Militia . The term of service is five years , and the whole of them received ten shillings each , being tho first instalment of the bounty of 61 . Accounts from the provinces are varying ; in some counties volunteers come forward freely enough , in others there are none . Tho ballot after all " looms in the future . "
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Coal-mining accidents , of late so frequent and so fatal , havo at length spirited up the coal-owners to . prevent them if possible . We observe that an association has been formed , having its head-quarters at Newcastle-upon-1 ' yno , composed of coal-owners and mining engineers ; and called " The North of England Institute of Mining Engineers . " Another man injured by ihp explosion of the boiler at West Bromwieh , died lat el v , Three persons were killed and nine badly scalded , on Friday week , by tins explo . sion of a boiler in the bleaching works of Smith and Com pan v , near I 3 olton .
Mr . Philip Salomons , high sheriff of Sussex , bought tho centre house of Brunswick-terrace , West , Brighton , Homo months ago . It was undergoing a process of internal repairs and decoration , when on Saturday morning a fire broke out and destroyed it ; the houses on either side being at tho same time much damaged . Last Saturday night an old woman , named Mary Lewes , was killed on the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway . Sho persisted in walking on tho lino , and was run over by an excursion train .
Another railway accident is recorded . It took place on Wednesday . The express on tins Bristol mid I'lxetor ran off tho rails at Creech , beyond Bridgewater , from nomo cause at present unknown . Tho fireman wait lulled mid one passenger injured . Wo shall doubtless hear more at tho inquest . This train carried the Capo mails ; two hours were lost at Creech by the accident , and one at Langley Marsh , owing to delects in the locomotion . An engine drawing a passenger-train on the Midland Railway , near Nottingham , exploded on Friday week . A tube leading from the fire , which had recently been plugged , got deranged ; the plug came out , allowing tho water to rush on to the tire . Tho driver was much hurt , but tho stoker escaped .
Some soldiers of the Kith foot were practising with the Minio rifle , near 1 ' arsonntown , Iiih »; Monday , when one of the balls went through the mound , and shot N . ugent , tho bugler , dead . While out grouse shoot ing , Mr . Churlen Mdcs , brother of Mr . W . Miles , M . I ' ., has had bin thumb shattered by tho bursting of his gun . A groom was killed by the accidental explosion of u gun Hour llowdon , last week . The gun had been Htowed away in a dog-curt , but it slipped out , and exploded ua tho party were getting out of the cart . Jainoa Uuvlis , a labourer , living at Longford , in Gloucestershire , oftd taken ft loaded ffun , partly to pi ««*» > and
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September 11 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 869
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Caroline Shaw , one of the " ladies" who beg of Mr . Solly , has been sent to prison for fourteen days , by tho magistrate at Clerkenwell . Mr . Solly's butler said the nuisance was rather increasing . An old woman against whom a similar charge was brought , was discharged . John Gains , a constable who was wounded in assisting to arrest Thistlewood , and the Cato-street conspirators , has been found guilty of stealing some harness from a stable where he had been allowed to sleep for the night . Sir John Musgrove said , he should send him to prison for 14 days , and in the meantime make arrangements to insure his admission into the Union , on the ground that he had " served his country well , and was therefore entitled to some provision in his old age . " Gains , however , wanted sixpence , and to be turned adrift . Agrarian murder in a dreadful shape has appeared in Tipperary . Last Saturday , Mr . O'Callaghan Ryan was shot in the public road near Eilmanahan , dragged into a ditch , and cut about the head with an axe . He had been to Clashganny to prevail on certain tenants against whom he was about to issue a writ of ejectment to come to amicable terms . Strangely as it may sound in English ears , yet we read that Mr . Ryan had only just passed a policeman , who heard the shot and ran forwards , but too late . Five men have been arrested—four named Hackett , and one named M'Naghten . Edward Wcstwood , a stableman , who , according to tho testimony of his wife , " used to drink a good deal , but not to say get drunk , " quarrelled with Mr . David Sheward , his master , on Monday week . They wrestled together and exchanged blows ; Westwood fell to the ground , and was found by his wife " getting black in the face and insensible . " He was taken to St . George ' s hospital with a fractured skull , and died on Thursday morning . An inquest was held on Saturday , and the jury found " That the deceased died from the effects of a fall , but whether that fall was caused by a blow or otherwise , thero ia not suilicient evidence to satisfy the jury . " The Coroner said , he considered it was right to state that the jury had given the case a very attentive consideration , and although this was their ultimate decision , a majority of them were in favour of a verdict of manslaughter .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1852, page 869, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1951/page/9/
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