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      t&MttaMea Wfo ft i 6 ii > $ ti i ^ meMst&ep **» & * leading 81 » E ?« S l He ! ih& s ^ l < You daredto send a ' ^ gHg ) W f wi U brekfi :: ydtkinfernal neek * SttJutf 3 w > tt ¥ "fie iKe ^ me 'in a position that 1 must fall tJM ^ tdM . ? I 6 ndfiavjburci to ^ scape frota him ; ana said ; ' For Gbd'irsake rfo nbtkill me in c 61 d 7 bl 6 p d ! '' But be yrgpr nb £ Jet nife snrink , * htf hurled me from the top vrjfth-all bis' force , Fbrtnina&Iy , a y <» mg' man , hearing th i *" ni » i ^ :: c ^ a 7 f !>^ 'l * b )> 9 t * oni : ^ "j 1 *^ stairs aa I fell -arid bro ^ my , iE ^ ''' < i ^ death " J Hirbtdi 4 "" ' . Je ; 6 *^ certain . He ^ &lwascowardjy . <| nddgh to come and dash his fist in my ia ~ ee ";" asr , I lay . bri the ground ; but eventually his brotherOfficers arid WjieTpersons interfered and got him a ? vay from toe ! I may" men t ion that the soldiers , of v ? hdm there were manjrin front , hadieen informed , that their officers were being insulted , and were forcing their ¦ way 6 ii the ' stage : I am sorry to say that one of his brother officersi to whbm I appealed gave me no assistance , hut told me " to get him out of the ladies' room rnVself . Fearing a collision , between , the soldiers and civilians , Idid not give him into custody . " Attempts ¦ were ixtade ty his lordship ' si friends to compromise the niatter by a " money payment ; hut Mr . Nash , with a yery prbper'jspirit , ' rejected . these advances . —Mr . John Clode , tKe' ^ i yor of Wtndsd ^ , 'has written a long letter to the Tiling , / endeavouring ( to disprove the assertions of Mr . 27 ash , aijd to wjutifalise'Some remarks made in a leadrng ' iiH | cieTW < : he " Syme *; and Mr . Bedhorpugh , one of t ^< iy& ^ cl 6 ig ' magi 9 trate 3 , hWitiade a similar attempt . But their statements do riot m the least affect any of the esseiiteais of thei ' case . ' Anotherletter from Mr " . Nash , ajsa , has been published ,, in which that gentleman , in Snflwei ^ tO tiie Maybrj reiterates his assertion that efforts w ^ £ e - % ^^ to % tjB ^ up the ' master , and that the ' Mayor lui ^ l ^ in' an interview he had with him , suggested terms-© f accommodation . , . ''' -. Foraging . —Three brothers , powerful young men who lave been ^ for spine timepastlounging about Sydenham iraJLting , for vessels to take them out to the seat of war , ¦ w ^ pe charged , at -Lamboth writh attacking a taker ' s cart -vath intent to steal thp loaves , backing a grocer ' s cart . inta , a ditch , and assaulting the police who interfered ., Ti ^ weije fined ^ ,, in default , committed for a month . • . A EtesKBTEB .-T—A man named Julius Vallestein has leen . committed fctf , trialy charged . . with deserting from -the . German Foreign . Legion * , and of committing arobbery . A ; gentleman , who would nofi give his 'name , ' gave : information' at the Old-street / stationhoUse ^ ; thatia man , living ai a German hotel in FHzroysquare , had committed a serious robbery . A , , waf : ch ; was accordingly set on him ; and a . "p oliceman in . plain clothes subsequently arrested him . On finding himself dogged , t&e German rfledj endeavoured to rush into a house * and , ortibtiog . foHowed » ( Offered ) the policeman 10 ^ . to let him go . 'This was refused , and he was , captured . ' Affkat 'with-Poachers . —Six notorious poachers , all armed ; made a furious attack on Mr . William Bur--ton , a farmer , residing at Thickbroonij near Walsall , in consequence of which he 'remained in a very precarious state * ' for several' days . He was- 'going > ht » m » . < m-the morning of , fhe -6 th-of { September , between twelve attd ' ione i o ? clock , and ? < was . passingover a plot of land belonging to himself , when he perceived several p 6 a * h « rfl » who had covered somepartof the ground near ib'W plantation with a laTga net ; "On his asking the Men what' they were'doing there , one of' them , ' without replying ' to "his question , struck hiin violently ' on the head with an iron spike ' weighing-four pounds . Mr . Burton was knocked doWn by ^ the blow , but rose up , when 1 he : was ' again attacked by the men , whoi knocked him down a second tim © j and with such force as to make him ; senseless . After a While , he recovered his consciousness , and walked towards a cottage where one of his' labourers lived ) when he once more encountered iho poachers , Who beat : him about the head and bddy until they « hoiight they had murdered him . They then lefty land , after he bad lnin on the ground insensible for Mora than 1 two hours , he crawled to 'thei cottage of the labouWr , ' from ' which he was removed to his own house . Information was despatched the following morning to ihe ^ inBpectbr of police at RtWhall ^ and the poachers were ill '' * £ { krBnehaea . ^ - 'Another ^ casoi of poaching has oo-( s « ¥ rea ' near ' Dbncoete * , which' has terminated in the eWlHutfd'ttf'fciite' 6 f * h « offenders ; Three nletx were concerned ; an ' d they made a very ortvage i attack upon the gtvnteKec ^ et 1 And Uis assistants ^ •' ¦ . ''< . < . l ' - , u ii . r >''• ' ¦ ' ' JiMAti'iuH , } W ?^ : i * e «^ J ^ ThbMMrt Ans ( ell , ' ¦* ' Ittb ^ nrtt . beinW refilled admfeMoh int 6 a Hottae ho wanted Co ' ehWr , ' ' ^ iffWonte'ed ^ ia « hWg the ^ viWdow ' a , antl ^ hen' a policeman drrlVed ; a ^ a ^ tltetd ' him with the utmostfflorcenqss'boatliirtt Dii the Itead , nearly choked hinr , knelt dn Wa person ; arid nnWTjP'foVciHj'hlm'bvar aomW palings ' , and lnjurefd theoWne of hl ^ bdckeerldusiy : IWruftlah -wa * it'length 1 Surfed ; 1 ' dhd brought' before Hi a Olerktn ^ ll inaWstfafV b > ^ hbm'h ^' wos flneft fit ; ' or ^ ontetrccu ' tb'a month ' s jimnrisonriiteiiei , ¦ '"¦ ' '"' " ' " '"« ¦' ¦ ¦'""' Vi ' H" - ^ iB ^^ CBU slJLirr ^ Ay ^ t ^ a % ' t sM ^' Veafi of

      putaishabie'hylaw .- > He - pef to'take out a sttmmortSagairtst the ^ boy : ¦ !¦ : ^ i ^ augAiW- \^ isrro < i . ^ ' 'W ^ iHiain ^ MichaSel Walsbam a bricktayerj ihas- b ^ en' fined . 4 t'for an assault on Am Burrows , ' the ^ iTe of a friertdi He had beeri ^ with hii own wife' to Burrows ' s house , and , between eleven anc twelve o ' clock at night , follbwed Mrs . Burrows into hei bedroom . He exclaimed " Hushf-and kept advancing ; when , on Mrs . Burrows" endeavouring to escape ,. h « struck her a blow on the head , and kicked her . A short time previously , he had made improper overturesto her In his defence , he " said he had merely gone into the woman ' s bedroom to bid her good night , and she flew at him fiercely ; but this plea of course was not received . Alleged HdMicrDE .- ^ -By an accident last week , w « omitted to state that William Oliver , a man charged with homicide in a public-house , was brought up for further examination , when , as it appeared that the deceased died from injuries received from accidental falls during intoxication , the accused was discharged . Attempted Mdrder in Ireland . —Miss Charlotte Hinds , a lad j' who had purchased , some property in the Encumbered Estates Court , and who had given offence by enforcing payment of rents from-refractory tenants , was met in the avenue leading to her house by two men , who dragged her off the-car , knocked her down with loaded sticks , and fired three pistol shots into her face and head , after which , thinking she was dead , they quietly walked away . She was carried into the house in a dreadful state , a leg and arm being broken , in' addition to her other injuries ; and not the slightest hopes are entertained of her recovery * The most horrible part of the story lies in the fact that , some eighteen months ago , sworn information was given that this lady would soon be shot . She was therefore allowed a police escort , but only availed herself of it on one or two occasions . Government haa offered 1001 . reward for the arrest of the men , who for the present have eluded justice . The " Tickkt-pp-Leave" System . —This subject is receiving great attention just at present ^ and the observations recently made by Mr . Recorder Hall have been met by some remarks of Mr . Serjeant Adams , the Assistant-Judge , at the Middlesex Sessions . He said : — " After all he had seen and heard of the operation of the ticket-of-Ieave system , his opinion was still the same — that it was false in' prihcijsle and mischievous iti practice . He apprehended that there must be ' some mistake in the recentlv published address of the Recorder of Birmingham at the quartet sessions ' , fot it ' appeared that' the'Recorder spoke of ticfcet-of-leave as if it were established by the " a 6 t'which substituted penal " servitude for transportation . That was not so , and'be ( the Assistant-Judge ) believed that no person sentenced'to penal servitude ; ha 3 yet received a ticket-of-leave . The'system assumed throughout that the ' parties were simply individualsj arid not forming part ( as they did ) of a bbdy of thieves who were as regularly' trainfcd to their business as any tradesman of the metropolis vras to his : "' A case " Of burglary in which three young-men were concerned was then brought forward ; and the Assistant-Judge , in passing , sentence ,. said : — " It was almost beyond belief Ithat theorists should continue to act in jJbsitive opposition to' the pra ' cti 6 al experience of the working of the tjcket-of-leave system . ' Its results were of the most mischievous kind , Take the case of the prisoner Trelawney as an instance . He was a notorious thief ; arid in 1851 he was convicted as a burglar and sentenced to teh' years' transportation . O n the- 2 nd of last month , he vt&k set at : liberty' on a ticketJ-bP-leave / and in leas than three weeks afterwards he was found in the Company of a known companion of thieves , breaking into a house , And , when detected , making a savage assault on the landlady : In' one case ivhich camie before him , a man was found , two days after he had been liberated on ticket-of-leave , teaching a boy of thirteen the art of picking ppclcets in the street . Such was the result x » f letting thoso men go at' large . However he might differ with oth < ir authorities On the system itself , he thought thfey w ' 6 Uld all agree that , when these men abused the leriioftcy ' which' had been shown them and returned to their old habits , they should be severely punished . Ho should sentence Trelawney to seven yerirs' penal SQrvitude , and Roberts to six ; ' and if the ' authority thblight flt to redilco 'that ternrtj # hd agnlrt set thiem at' liberty , that lay with them . As tb WHli ^ ni ' d- he Would bo' remandedfor' further ^ inquiryinto , t ^ 'j irtivlbils' character . " - —On the sdmc day- , before Mr . ! Ithdtt , ^ dward Edwards , ' described o $ a pork buicher , ; is ^ sentenced to eighteen months hard labour for ' an \ aifonipled biirglkry ' at the housoof Mr . George Cruik-« fi'r ihk . "ihe alrtilt : It Appdared thitt'this inttri'Also was ! the holder df it ticket-bf-leaVo .- ^ M ' r . Recorder Jardihe , at"th ] o Bath Ouarte ) : Sessions , Has ftlsb beeh stronglir 'd ' ehouhclhg ihe ticket-bf-leavo' systeth ; ' btit it has found ' a defcitideV iri Golbriel' J . ebb , the chairman of the' Directors ifrCoHvlbt Frlsohs ; yiib caills' attention to thd fact that , ] bJafoVbihe ^ Wo ' seht Btite of tWa laS / i ; ^ risOrtera cohd © mned : ri iWdn '' yeo'fy > . '' tr |< nsTiort ; atibh w ^ sro ' setti 'to' ttt * hulWs , Wod' ^ lilQh ' th ^ f "WW , ' jfel « WW , " 'Mtli tt frW trt ^ dttri , dh i&M&fMMWHffl'mWHkr ^ W'WcMtn ^' flWem'tt 'WbfWWiMi HUiii lilSertyi ^ heWaB 'i » ey ' noW Trfe « feWjf ; bnW' % i ^ WcVlblb 1 j ^ ardoW' Ool oiWl feW ' concetV&'tgtit the ' 'HckBtt' 6 f * le ^ v * tmeWVho ' rolap-ftb AVo / crifAo ' at « cti ^ pii ^ iv ? ly fe ^ fV ^ thWnbt ' attdtta

      ) 2 f per ; have had theur licenaes revoked . He adds , however ^ * that ; this does not represent those who have been convicted of crime : The number of prisoners re * - leased on license between the ; $ th of October , 186 « fr , and the -present tiate , Colonel Jebb states to"be 8629 , leaviog only about 2000 of th « original number now in Enghind to be so released when they become -eligible ; Murder by a Motkuk , —Johanna Dutton , the wife of a farmer residing at Cairltbn , near Nottingham , has murdered her infant daughter ,-who was three years old by throwing her into a pond . The mother had for a long time beaten and ill-used the child , and the father had witnessed this treatment with the utmost indifference . On the morning of the murder , Mrs . " Button behaved with great violence to the infant , and had been heard to say she wished it was in . the well and drowned ; that many a child got drowned or burnt , but it was not her child ' s lot . In the afternoon she took the child out , and it was not seen again until the dead body was found in a pond- by the police . Mrs . Dutton has been committed for trial . Reformatory Institutions .- —Mr . W . Miles , M . P ., in his charge to the grand jury at the Somersetshire Quarter Sessions , made 1 some remarks on the subject of reformatories , andj regretting the want of accommodation that is often experienced , suggested that a bill should be introduced into Parliament giving the power to magistrates "to unite and erect a reformatory institution - for their several counties . : He " also hoped that Parliament'would give the magistrates assembled in quarter sessions the power to charge the expenses of such reformatories on the county rates , not compulsorily , but in such manner as the magistrates might think proper . —^ At the Quarter Sessions at Worcester ,. the same subject has been agitated , and Sir John Pakington has expressed his opinion ia favour of Government providing the funds for these institutions . Y MtfRDfcR At Southampton . — -A young woman , a servant-maid at Southampton , has been shot dead ia her master ' s house by a man who had been paying his addresses to her , but who , on account-of some offence he had given , bad been- discarded by the ^ girL ¦ A StRangev Trick ; — Mr . Cbllingwood , a master butcher of High-street , Ielingtonvis the contractor with thfe City of London for supplying Newgate With meat . On Saturday morning last , it was discovered that portions of a neck of mtttton ^ ia -a stat e of decomposition , had bfeeri concealed in boles cut in two pieces x > f beef , which were consequently rendered unfit- for'feod . " The contract obliged Mr . Collingwood ( who was summoned at GuildhM ) to supply the meat at about'fivepence" a pound without bone , while the market price is how sixpence a poundwith bone ; so that the butcher must be suffering a loss . It Was suggested that the trick had been played in order to disgust the authorities fit Newgate , and so lead to an abrogation of the contract ^ and it appeared that on a previous occasion the ^ hBat had been-sent with maggots itr it . " But , with respect to ' the present charge , Mr . Collingvvooid denied all knowledge of the tampering , and said that on the Saturday morning he had sent oxi « j the beef in a proper condition , and that the man -who conveyed it had also got -with him the pieces of mutton ; which werei sent "for a customer ' s dog , and which , Mr . Collingwood supposed , had been inserted by his servant . He suspected this maw of-other things f but he allowed him to leave his service unquestioned . Alderman Sidney ordered Mr . Collingwood to enter into recognizances to appear again , when * if possible , h ' e must produce the suspected persoii .-i-On a subsequent day the summons was dismissed , Sir James Duke being of opinion that the bad meat had been forced into the beef by some one who wished to do Mr . Colllngwobd ' s reputation an injury . The man who delivered the beef ' was brought forward , but denied'all knowledge of the fraud / ' Alleged Abduction .- —A strange ease > came before the Thames police magistrate on Wednesday . Mr . Stratford , a licensed Trinity House pilot for ' the North Channel , was charged with threatening' to Bhoot Mr . William Chesterton , a . photograpMc artist , living in Ratcliffo Highway ; It seenflfed that Mr . Stratford suspected Mr ; Chesterton of having sfeduoed his daughter , who wan missing . The latter vehemently denied this ; but Mr . Stratford repeatedly Went to hls ' hou « e , behaved very violently , and threatened to shoot tfce object of his suspicidns . ' Before thd magistrate ; ' Mr . Chesterton said he had made photographic : joftraita / ft » r exhibition at hia doors , bf Mr . Stratford ' s misstaigf . daughter , and of her sister , as ho considered thertigftbd / aabjects $ but he denied that 'lie had anything to ' tfowittt the disappearance of the' oho whom ' ho wBB'BBBpected : of > abducting . Before the' m « gibtrat » , M * i StifatPordOflaM'that he would shoot the man who seduced hia daughter ; t he would search England through for h 6 r ; 'Mrd ; iStaratlbrd also w < w very violent , ah"d / fre < juentl , v ' ihtorrdptwd ¦ the -witnesses . It npptiare ^ , ^ Tn « thately . (|" tl »« t ' MrJ-Stratford had no hotter readoifflir Isuapeciing'Mr . CheBtortonittian that eoroo one had told him sho'had deeil the'daughtbT ' hi'compony with a ' mari « 41 kb *' tlieconi [ ii »« rnftntiL- ' On'th » other hand , an assist ^ rit ih Mr . Ghosterkfltt ' s-eitablisHmdnt said ho h «« ' aBart'tHo ^ girl'Mtfnlght'ln « hw * H « hMnoflBot > ( slightly intoxi-V 5 tfted ^ a »* 1 *< ih"tt blacli ! oyi 9 , "arid < tbat aho sold' she h *< t ' ltt * ' ftbr X-homW ^ Cii'tttico ^ lt'oPtn-iuttk ^ o * ' ! Mt . Stratford , ^ oft'beirtg'iWlifld'if fca ^« Oi » aatis ««! vidai ( t , "I hcfpoMH * i irWove ' r « J < rtW « i hOnlo ^ 'Hiitl t llHU'dwes , ha wlU Buffer . ¦ iiv ( ;•«' . i . WA } , f \ n { jil , -f'J ' ' ¦/!! ' -. . 'lii-ni It ' mi ¦ ' ¦ : ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . ' !'

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 20, 1855, page 1004, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2111/page/8/