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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen held her first drawingroom this season , on Thursday , at St . James ' s Palace . The Health op Mb . Bkight , M . P ., we are happj to state , on the authority of the Manchester Examiner , is gradually , thought slowly , improving . Fatax Boii / EB Explosion at Portsmouth Docky ard . —Ths Nasmyth steam hammers at Portsmouth dockyard are worked by some boilers which are situated in a shed specially set apart for them . One of these boilers exploded last Saturday , bursting in the side wall and killing three men who -were at -work in the adjoining smithy . Three others were so seriously injured that two of them ^ have since died

      at the Harbour Hospital ; and the rest -were scalded and bruised . The boiler shed was demolished , and a portion of the boiler was hurled against the corner of the large building used as a sawmill , a few yards distant , in which it made an enormous breach . It then glanced off , and fell at a distance of about an hundred feet in the direction of the building slips : the weight of the piece was upwards of a ton . The exploded boiler was circular , four-and-a-half feet diameter , with semicircular ends , and without any flues or tubeB through it . On the top of this boiler there -was a large steam reservoir of the same dimensions . This upper reservoii * , with the other portion of the boiler , was blown to a distance of about twenty feet .

      The Bishop of Bangok . —Some more letters from this eccentric individual , with reference to his quarrel with the Hon . W . O . Stanley , M . P ., have been published . He charges that gentleman with "a direct and palpable falsehood" in stating that Us motive for refusing to mention the names of the clergy who signed the petition"was that the Bishop had threatened to prosecute those clergy in the Court of Arches . The Bishop ' s own letter of February 9 th , however , exists to substantiate Mr . Stanley ' s "veracity . Mr . Stanley is also accused of "layiiig down as an incontrovertible principle that he must be light , and every one "who differs from him in the wrong " of having a " distempered mind ; " of " weakness , vanity , insanity ,

      and folly . " The Bishop wishes to protect Mr . Stanley from " the serpent he has taken into his bosom , " the " evil spirit who has dropped evil counsels' into hi 3 ears "—the ^ serpent and evil spirit being the Rev . Mr . Ellis , who is taxed with " wicked and malignant falsehoods , " and with going to Mr . Stanley * ' like the devil to o-ur first parents in Paradise with a wilful lie in his mouth , which he well knew was a lie . " ( This refers to a statement made by . Mr . Ellis with respect to the participation in the WelshTChurchfimovement of the Bishop ' s ' " dear old friend , the dean , " who , however , conies in for a sharp rap on the score of being " very fond of flattery , " which , he " swallows with greediness , " and is thus induced by " toadeaters" to do

      " very silly and foolish things . " ) Mr . ELlis , moreover , has a " reckless and depraved mind , " and is guiltj' of " meanness . " "If ever , ' ' adds the Bishop , " there was a child of his father , the devil , who was a liar from the beginning , this is the man . " He concludes by requesting Mr . Stanley not to make " any further attempts at explanation or rejoinder . "—A letter from the eccentric prelate appeared in the Times of Tuesday , the object of which is to abuse the editor and his " . underlings , " for " wicked and wilful falsehood ' in sorno recent comments on , the Stanley aud EUia case . The letter is written with a moat

      extraordinary confusion of tho first and third persons singular ; but there is no lack of the Bisbop ' B vituperative power . Addressing the editor of tho Times , ho says : — " It ib now evident that Mr . Stanley has retained your sorvices . . . Mr . Stanley , I daresay , pays you ¦ well for doing his dirty work . " To the Bishop ' s letter , tho Times appends one brief and pithy roniM'lc : — " Tho only comment wo noud zuako upon this curious production is to commend this aged and unfortunate prelate to the euro oi' his rovoroud brothren on tho bench . "

      The Cask of Tina Rev . J . C . Ward—This goutlemail , who appeared sovonil time .-i iutuly at Bow Btroot on a charge of lunacy , attended again on Tuoridiiy , u'hou it wns intimated that , as tho rremilt oi a private arrangement ; between tho Troasuvy and the friondfl of Mr . Ward , no further procoodiug-s would bo tulcon . Tina National Sunday Luaguic . —Wo have ro ooivod tho Monthly Report for March of thirf useful body . After briefly retailing tho oircumatimoos attending tho various meetings of tho Loaguo in thi course of tho month ( which "woi-o highly Huoeesaful ) tho roporb oongratulutos tho public on tho atop ij tho right direction raado by oponlng the » CryBtn PiUaco on Ciood Friday , whon nearly 18 , 000 person aitomlotf , andbohavod with the utmont decorum an < propriety . " It is hoped this is but an augury of th udvont of Sunday opouiug ; whon tho rooroation thu ofl ' orod i £ »« 4 bo oajoyod with nioro propriety than o

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      and other articles stolen . The prisoners were both fully committed for trial . Suspkcted PoisoNixa is STAFFORDSHIRE —A report was recently cuiTent , in the village of Burntwood , near Lichfield , that the body a woman who had been dead , a year , was about to be exhumed , in consequence of some suspicions having lately arisen that death had not resulted from natural causes . This being represented to Mr . Ward , the coroner for Staffordshire , he wrote to the Secretary of State , Sir George Grey , on the subject , and received an answer authorising him to disinter and hold an inquest on the body . The dead woman ' s name was Catherine Ashmall ; her husband being- a farmer livim ? at

      was allowed the prisoner in addition . He "begged to recommend him to mercy on account of his previous good character , and promised to endeavour to get some situation for him if a lenient sentence were pronounced . It further appeared that the lad had a stepfather , who had driven him out into the world to provide for himself . Judgment was respited till next

      . The late Escape from Pentonville Prison . — Henry Mitchell , one of the men who recently made an extraordinary escape from the Pentonville Model Prison , has been again arrested , and is now under remand at the Clerkenwell Police Office . The Ux . br . idge Msrders . —Elizabeth Ann Harris , a young woman twenty-five years of age , has been found guilty of the murder , by drowning , in the Uxbridge Canal , of two of her illegitimate children . The crime took place on the 15 th of February , and the

      facts have already appeared in these columns . One of the witnesses against her on her trial was her sister , Avho was much affected . The woman was condemned to death ; and , on hearing the sentence , she shrieked out several times , "I am innocent—I am innocent Oh , do have mercy on me ! " She was asked whether she had any cause for staying execution on the ground of pregnancy ; - and , after some interval , during which she appeared hardly conscious , replied in the negative . She was then removed , still exclaiming , " I am inno ' cent—I am innocent ! Mercy . ' mercy ! "

      Christian Acrimony . —A case , exhibiting the singular tendency to virulence of language so often observable in Christian cleryme ^ and of which the Bishop of Bangor has recently givenlsome most triumphant specimens , was tried on Monday at the Liverpool Assizes . The Rev . Dr . Hillcoat , a clergyman of the Church of England , of advanced . ' period of life , brought n action against a fellow-clergyman , a Mr . Cooke , for libel . Dr . Milleoat had been the incumbent of the district church in Scotland-road , Liverpool , but in 1835 was arrested oh a claim for £ 127 , " costs'' in an unsuccessful suit in the Court of Chancery . Durinhis imprisonment in Lancaster Castle , lie was intro duced to Mr .. Cooke , and it was agreed that the latter should take the entire spiritual charge of the church and schools in Scotland road . He therefore continued

      to officiate till 1855 , when Dr . Hillcoat heard that Mr . Cooke had been reflecting on his character . An angry correspondence , written with great bitterness on both sides , ensued ; and the Doctor , being liberated by the kindness of an unknown friend , proceeded to Liverpool , and gave notice of his intention to perform the duties at the church . Both parties appealed to the Bishop of Chester , who- decided in favour of the Doctor . Mr . Cooke then appealed to his congregation , many of whom took his part . On this , Dr . Hillcoat ( according to the statement of his own counsel ) , wrote and printed a letter to the congregation , imputing to Mr . Cook fraud and falsehood

      in the school accounts . Mr . Cooke replied by a pamphlet in his own exoneration ; and that pamphlet contained the libel complained of by the Doctor . When the case was brought before the Liverpool Civil Court , Mr . Justice Willes remarked : — " There has clearly been much provocation for the libel ; and now that we ave arriving at ; the acrimonious part of the case , I think it my duty to say it would be xnuch better , for the sake of Christianity , to refer all matters in dispute to some arbitrator to be agreed upon between the parties . " The counsel having conferred , a formal verdict was taken for Dr . Hillcoat , subject to arbitral ion .

      Burglary and Conflict with the Police . — Two men named Grimshaw and Filbert havo been examined at tho Worship-street police court , on a charge of breaking into the premises of a liconHed victualler in High-street , Shoreditch . About four o'clock in tho morning , two police-constables were on duty in that locality , when one of them , saw a man go hastily away from the door of the licensed victualler's shop . His Huopiciona being aroused , he examined the door , and found that tho fanlight had been forced up so aa to admit tho ontry of a full-grown person . The poliooittttn thon hoard a noiso -within , in consequence of which he rang tho bell and aroused tho inmates , when Filbert immediately threw open the door and rushed forbh in the ondoavour to escape , but bo was seized and forood buck into the house by tho constable . Tho other mau , Grimshaw , thon attemptod to run out of

      the house , but he wns also stopped and forcibl y thrust back into tho house by a second poliooman , whon the two thieves wore detained in tho plnoo by the atroot door being fastened upon them . A fioroo struggle thon oitsuod botweon the thieves and tlio polioomon ; nnd tho former wore in the end , captured , but not until after they hud made- a desperate rouiatance , in which one of thotn was disabled by a blow from a a staff . Tho offlcor who apprehended Q riniHhaw had a narrow OBcapo of his life , a blow being aimed at his head with ' a life-preeorvor , which fortunately missed its mark and only atruok the brim of tho policamnu ' a hat . When tho inon were scizod , they emptied their pockotH . out of which dropped a quantity of money in tiilvor and copper , amounting in all to nearly £ 4 , This had boon plundered from tho till , and a olothos cheat had also boon brokon open , andl nomo drone ©*)

      Ediall , near Lichfied . They had been married about twelve years , and , for sonae * time befoi-e she died , Mrs . Ashmall's'health Tiad been bad ; her death , however , occurred rather suddenly . It was not suspected at the time that she had met "with a violent death ; but , as it had since become known that no medical certificate had been produced , stating the cause of death , although the registrar ' s certificate for the purposes of burial had been obtained , the present proceedings were instituted . Immediately on the receipt of Sir George Grey ' s letter , Mr . Ward , the coroner , issued his warrant for the disinterment of the body , and at seven o ' clock the following morning the coffin was

      taken out of its grave by the police of the district , in the presence of the curate and two churchwardens . A jurv ' of twenty-three was subsequently empanelled ; and , after they had viewed the body , which was in a very advanced state of decomposition , almost every trace of personal identity being obliterated , the coroner said that a post-mortein examination would be necessary before an inquest could be held . Three medical gentlemen ( one of them on behalf of Mr . Ashmall ) were selected for the purpose , and the post-mortem examination of the body was commenced at two o ' clock the saine day . The result has not yet transpired .

      The Shot Robbery at Lambetit , —William Burns surrendered at the Central Criminal Court to take his trial for stealing a quantity of lead and iron from hi 3 employers . With the sanction of his counsel , he pleaded Guilty , and threw himself on the mercy of the Court , on the ground of his former good character , of his long service in Messrs . Walker ' s establishment , and of his having been tempted by others to the commission of the theft . His employers also pleaded for a merciful consideration of his case . He had been about thirty-five years with the Messrs . Walker , and his salary was £ 150 a-yeai \ Sentence was deferred . —

      A similar case was then tried in the same court . James May land , described as a traveller , was charged with embezzling money to the amount of 41 , 000 from his employers . His counsel , Mr . Ballautine , said that all he eould urge on behalf of the prisoner was that he had heretofore borjie an unimpeachable character ; that at the time he entered the service of the prosecutors lie was embarrassed ; and that his creditors , finding he had got a good situation , pressed him so closely that he was induced to make use of the money he had received on account of his employers to relieve himself . In this case also , sentence waa deferred .

      Chatige of Forgery against a Railway Clerk . —Mr , James Knighting , clerk in the Transfer-office of the Southern and Western Railway , Ireland , has lately been brought before the magistrate at one of the Dublin police-courts , on a charge of forging two transfer deeds of shares iu that railway . These forged deeds , containing each twenty shares , were dated March 12 , 1856 , aud wore made t , ransferable from a Mrs . Elizabeth Saltnmrsh . to the Rev . Mr . Gordon . It was also stated that tho deeds were signed in tho presence of Mr . B . Wilcocks , clerk to the firm of Messrs . Symcs , Teesdale and Co ., of Fenchurch-stroot , London . Tho signature of the Rev . Miv Gordon to the deed * was genuine . Mr . Knighting had been on turws of intimacy with a gentleman

      of that name , who was an English clergyman , and to whom Knighting had appliod by lottov to receive transfers of sliaros from persons in whoso behalf respecting tho sale of thoHo slmrod , ho ( Kuighting ) profesaod to aot . Owing , however , to sotno irregularity as to tho method by which lio bad disposed of shares in favour of Mrs . Saltmarsh , Mr . Gordon suspectod that all was not right , aud -therefore instituted inquiries , which resulted in tho discovery of tho fraud and tho arrest of Knighting , who him boon oxamiuod twice at tho polico-oinoo . Mr . Gordon , howevor , was not in attondnuoo on either occasion , and the onso wa « again romnndocl , tho magistrate adding , that if further evidence was not forfchoonuog at the next osnminntion , lio should discharge the accused .

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      men generally . He was the . author or adaptor of several pieces for the London stage , and was for some time the theatrical critic of the Morning Post . He had gone to America in the hope of realising by his performances sufficient to enable him to retire .

      OBITUARY . Mu . Morris Ba . rni 5 tt . ' —It is with regret that wo announce tho death of Mr . Morris jjamott , tho actor , who expired at Montreal on the 18 th ult ., aftor « lingering illnena of many months . Wo may with truth Hiiy of him that ho aohiovoil a celerity by one part—that of Monsiour Jacques , tho poor Frenchman in London : but ho wasoolobratod for playing FreuoU-

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      April 12 , 185 & ] T HE LEADER . 345

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 12, 1856, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2136/page/9/