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RUtfftdby the beginning of May . The Paehahas already deepened the Canal of Damanour , which feeds the Mahmoudieh canal at lair Kile , and is making , or has ordered to be . made , several good roads in the interior , connecting the principal towns . He has also ordered a lighthouse to be erected at Suez , the lantern to be brought out from England *
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OUR CIVILIZATION . ¦ ? — SUSPECTEI > ROBBERY" JEWEIXERY . Three notorious thieves , named Thompson , Smith , and Brown , one of whom is a ticfcet-of-leave man , were charged at Worship-street with having in their possession a large amount of jewellery , supposed to have been stolen . Two police constables on duty in Thrall-street , Spitalfields , at twelve o ' clock at night , saw a woman keeping watch at the door of a house well known as a place of resort for thieves . No sooner did she see the policemen than she ran into the house and up the stairs , leaving the street door open , when one of the constables who followed heard her say , " Quick , quick ! the police are coming ! Put it away ! " The officers entered the
premises and seized Thompson and Brown , who were attempting' to make their escape . A struggle ensued between the police and the thieves , in the course of which one of the latter threw a package on to a bed in the room ; this package was found on examination , to contain a variety of watch-seals and keys , finger-rings , and numerous trinkets . While these were being inspected , Smith and Thompson leaped out of the windows on to an outhouse , and so escaped into the street ; but they were immediately pursued and captured in another disreputable house , where they were found concealed under a bed . A police sergeant in court stated that he believed he could ascertain that the jewellery had been stolen . ; and the magistrate therefore remanded the prisoners for a
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Mulder nsr Stakb-ordshire . —At the village of Alstonefield , Staffordshire , an old woman named Ann Edge has been murdered by her niece ,. Betty Edge . The two women were living at the house of a farmer named Bernsfbrd , who aaw Betty . Edge strike her aunt three times Qnjth ^ JjsaS ^ fyith an axe . On being interrogated as to ^ h y she did so , she replied in a vacant manner that she had quarrelled with the murdered woman . The murderess is believed to be disordered in her intelleo * * - . innnmat . Una fount "hoirt - — - » - " * _ - . .- — " ~ , — . - x ^ .- ' " ^—* " ¦ " ' --- jQ - w . -f ^ u . » veraict of Wilful Murder returned against " Betty Edge , who was committed for trial at the next Assizes . An Ikgknious Robbbrt . —A ticket-of-leave man has been found guilty , at the Middlesex Sessions , of robbing a butcher ' s shop in St . John-street , Clerkenwell , early m the morning , after this clever fashion : ~ Mounted on a companion ' s shoulders , he thrust a stick with a hook at the end of it between the bars over the door , and drew the meat through . The butcher was roused one mormng by the noise , gave chase in his night-shirt , and caught one of the offenders . The man was sentenced to four years penal servitude .
A False Hero , — Henry Mitchell , alias James Leigh , is under remand at Westminster , charged with obtaining 11 . 10 s . from the Earl of Orkney , on pretence of being a discharged corporal in the Sappers and Miners , just returned from the Crimea , and desirous to get back to his home in Gloucestershire . He was dressed in the proper uniform , had two stripes of merit on his arm , produced a regularly drawn-up certificate of discharge , and showed a familiarity with his Lordship ' s sons who were in the army . But he afterwards proved to be an impostor .
Bobbing a Brother . — Patrick Clifford , an Irishmate , has been found guilty at the Middlesex Sessions of stealing 110 ? ., the property of his brother . It appeared that the money Btolen was the result of the prosebutor ' a hard earnings for eighteen years , and he had withdrawn it from the savings bank but a short time baftnrift and kept it under the mattress of bis bed for safety ; The prisoner was sentenced to twelve months ' hard labour . Pious Abstbaotion . —John Gardner Fuller * a
sedatelooking , elderly man , described as a Dissenting minister at Dalston , was charged at Worship-street with having Btolen a psalm-book from West Hackney Church . It appeared ta be deliberately taken ; but the accused , when pursued and stopped , said he laid hands on the book in a fit of abstraction , to which he is subject , owing to' an affection of the head . Several hymn-books , however , had been missed from the Church , and Mr . Fuller had frequently been seen there . To the magistrate , the accused repeated the plea of inadvertence ; but he was rqm . and * d > and set at liberty on hia own
recog-Vjad&B AS flHjcpiBiqjpa .- —So many burglaries nave litftwWMjii coisttydtiiftd ' at Sheerness , and the place la so OTwtany jIAfteted , with a gang of ruffians , that a public m « eq ^ 'iM ^ bbe ^ . ^ fi | d . to devise means of protection , ^ WMrWolv ^ that an application should be made to ttU ) lopi ^ htyira " to 'engage an adequate number of congj « W # i and ' $ , qubsMpt ! on was entered into . - jfr < Wu * -fl » i * i « rp vf , an Attobwbx . —A Mr . Dorset tjlfitter" % * t > 4 * k « n attorney , owed a sum of money to Mr . 4 BUQ Hfty > p , a tradeofnan in the Kennln # ton-roftd . The nflf hi d ing £ one on a long time without payment , Mrs . KerifliBton went to the attorney ' s office , ana , seeing him
smokkig with two men in . a back room , though his deck said he was out , she entered and asked for the money . She was immediately knocked down . ; her clothes were thrown over her face , and she was beatea toll she became insensible . Mr . Neale wob summoned to the Lambeth police court and the case was adjourned .
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; STATE OF TRAIXE . Manufactures . —The accounts of the trade of the , manufacturing towns during the week ending last Satur-1 day give no signs of inconvenience being experienced from the continued pressure for money . At Manchester , the markets have been firm and healthy ,, at an advance corresponding with the rise in cotton . At Birmingham , the iron trade is steady , and , although the American orders are still below the general anticipation , confidence is felt as to the summer demand . The Nottingham advices state that both hosiery and lace are largely purchased at full prices . > In the woollen districts the orders are equal to the supply , and in the Irish linen-markets there has been a further improvement . —Times .
Some more banking disclosures , perfectly harmonious in their degree with those of Strahan , Paul , and Co ., the Aberdeen Bank , the Tipperary Joint-Stock Bank , the Westminster Improvement Commission , and the other cases of the kind by which the past , two years have been distinguished , have just been furnished during an examination in the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court of the surviving partner of the Lichfield Bank , which suspended at the commencement of the present year . The establishment was in the name of Messrs . Palmer and Greene , and it enjoyed the privilege of issu - ing notes to the amount of 22 , 786 ? . Mr . Palmer died in 1850 , and the bank had since been conducted by Mr . Greene , In his examination , Mr . Greene admitted that
the firm had been carried on with a gradually increasing deficit for about thirty years . His partner , Mr . Palmer , at his death , owed the concern 45 , 787 / ., and an estimate of its position at that time showed a deficiency of 62 , 570 ? . Nevertheless , the business' was kept up as usual , and would not have been disturbed at last but for the discretion of Massrs . Smith , Payne , and Smiths , who refused to make advances . From 1850 to the 31 at of December , 1855 , Mr . Greene maintained his personal expenditure at the rate of 2650 / . a year *» " - - ' --reduction having been discon ^** -- " ' —¦ attempted suspicion , and tf »»— ... ^ aea lest it should excite to of
* " *• " " ' _^ put a stop power expendi"__ ^ together . Here was a deliberate system of living on property held in trust ; yet the law provides no penalty for it . In the same way the parties to the delinquencies of John Sadleir in the Tipperary Bank are likely to avoid all inconvenience . In the case of the Westminster Improvement Commission and the Aberdeen Bank the creditors are openly defied , and the same system prevails in a multitude of minor instances that daily occur . Under these circumstances , the conclusion must be , either that Sir John Paul was a martyr , or that the scope of the criminal law should be greatly extended .
—Idem-The Board of Trade Returns for the month ending the 31 st of March were issued on Monday morning , but owing to the circumstance that tneperloa of 1 && 3 ~ with , which they are contrasted comprises only from the 6 th to the 81 st of March , they do not afford the ordinary means of comparison . Our exports are shown to have amounted to 9 , 448 , 570 ? . against 7 , 311 , 305 ? . during twenty-six days of March , 1855 ; and , if allowance be made for five days wanting , the latter total will be raised to 8 , 717 , 825 ? . The actual increase on the corresponding month of last year may therefore be estimated at 731 , 245 / .
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MISCELLANEOUS . Thb Court . —The Queen held a Drawing-room ( the second this season ) on Tuesday afternoon in St . James ' s Palace . The Court was numerously attended ,. the presentations of ladies exceeding two hundred and fifty . The Vacant Garters . —TheQueon has signified her intention to bestow the vacant garters upon Lord Palmerston and Earl Fortescue . A Pusetitb Row at Oxfobd . —Father Gavazzi has been delivering some lectures at Oxford , on hie usual topics . On the first evening , in accordance with an organised plan , there was considerable interruption ; but the Father contrived to get through his discourse . On
the following evening , when the more immediate subject of the lecture was Puaeyism , the opposition took the form of a veritablo row . Shrieks , hisses , hootings , the explosion of crackers , the stamping of foot , made a hubbub through which Gavazzi could scarcely bo hoard . At length , a proctor interposed to obtain for him fair play , but in vain . Nevertheless , ho announced a third lecture for the following evening . It was then found necessary to swear in special constables ; and , when the audience assembled , the rioters wore ejected . The lecture then proceeded in quiet . A fourth and concluding lecture was delivered on a subsequent day to a very enthusiastic audience . The townspeople are warm partisans of the Italian .
Samuel Bog . er 6 ' Collection . —The sale of the celebrated collection of works of art , the property of tho late banker-poet , commenced on Monday at Messrs . Christie and Manaon's . The Egyptian and Greek antiquities , which wore very beautiful and curloua , fetched largo prices .
Lord DAU 3 otnuis . T-. The steamfri gateTribane , having on board Lord Dalhousie * lefff for England on the 20 th ult . in tow of the furious paddlewheel frigate . Local Dues meow Shofpino Combotteb . This com mittee continues to sit , and , during the past week seve * ral witnesses have been examined , who all concurre d in objecting to the oppressive influence of the LiverpooL town , dues on the trade of the adjacent townships Thb American QuESTiona . — Several di plomatic papers with reference to the questions at issue between . England and the United States have been published during the past week . An analysis of them will be found in our leading columns .
Memorial Church at CowsTAimNOPiJs . —A public meeting was held at Willis ' s-rooms on Monday , to inaugurate a project for die erection and endowment of a church at Constantinople , for divine worship after the rites and usages of the Church of England , as an enduring monument to our countrymen who have fallen in the war with Russia . The Duke of Cambridge presided , and the resolution which he moved was seconded by Sir Edmund Lyons , and carried unanimously . The second resolution , which was moved by the Duke of Newcastle , and seconded by the Earl of Elgin , was also adopted without a dissentient . The meeting' wae likewise addressed by the Bishop of Oxford , Mr . Sidney Herbert , and Sir John Pakington . A sum of about 60 QI . was subscribed during the proceedings , the Duke of Cambridge , the Duke of Portland , and Mr . A . F . W . Montague giving each 100 / .
The Relics of an old Murder . —Some alterations were lately being made in an old house in Marketstreet , Lancaster , and the carpenter , in taking up the f looring on the ground story , struck against something immediately- under the boards , which , on examination , proved to be a portion of a skull . A broken knife , the blade ofyVhich . was thickly coated with what appeared . to be htood , and a cloth upon which there were evident blood * stains , was also picked up , and over all there seenfed to have been placed a layer of lime . The pre . mif ^ s for med part of a public-house known , t ^''„„*» , * ^ tlTl the . WMte Lion - T - ! lc inode of getting rid ? o bt ^ ° - - oj : - "e-w of th « device res ° rted ^ ie mannings . United Rackjed School Meeting . —The annual
meeting of the friends and patrons of the Huntsworthmews and HiH-street and the Lisson-grove Ragged Schools took place on Saturday evening at the Marylebone institution , Edwards-street , Portman-square , the Earl of Shaf tesbury presiding . His Lordship made some remarks on the progress of these institutions ( which he desired to see more Widely extended ) , and , alluding to the objection which some people had taken to the term " Ragged Schools , " said he protested against any alteration of the name , " which literally defines the nature and object of the institutions . " He added that , if they changed the name , he should request them to remove him from the Presidentship of the Union .
Australia . —A public meeting at Melbourne , with a view to address the Queen , praying her to allow the colonists to elect their own Governor , has proved a complete failure . The leading Liberals stayed away , and the mayor said tfe « t , tfcough , as a matter of duty , he had convened the meeting on receiving a requisition to that effect , he could not act as Chairman , as he did not approve of the objects proposed . Mr . Peter Lalor who loBt an arm on the side of the people in the riots of December , 1854 , moved an amendment to the first resolution , and the meeting broke up in some confusion , it not inal motion the
being apparent whether the orig or amendment were carried . Acting-Governor Mat-Arthur has succeeded in forming an Administration at Melbourne , and is consolidating the new Government to the satisfaction of the greater part of the colonists . Some riots had taken place at tho diggings , tho diggers being desirous to obtain the Government reserves of land , on which to carry on their mining operations . Mr . Gavan Duffy , late of the Nation newspaper , had arrived and been entertained at Melbourne ; the dinner ended in ft riot . Mr . Duffy has disclaimed all intention of carrying on agitation , professing to devote himself to his
profession— the bar . The Convicts under Sentence of Death . —mo sentence of death upon Celestina Sommer , convicted at the recent session of the Central Criminal Court of tno murder of her illegitimate child at Islington , has bee n , commuted to transportation for life . A similar commutation has also been made in the sentence of Elissabottt Ann Harrio , who was convicted at the same aoBMoiui or tho murder of her two illegitimate children at Uxbndgo .. Fatal Boiler Explosion . — A boiler in the colliery of Messrs . Bowes and Co . at Kibblesworth , Durham , has recently exploded ( it is supposed , from want oi and Beverai
water ) , and has killed two person injured others . The man who was ontrusted with tho care oi the bollerB , had duly examined them and found that tliey were then all well supplied with water . Ho was stanuing very near one of them about ton minuten aftorw « r < s , all being in lull operation , when tho boilor burst , witn tremendous violence , carrying away tho roof ol tno enginq-houso , displacing the adjoining boilers , »<""*? « ° » oiderable damage to the muchincry , and shattering t »» walls of tho surrounding bulldingH . Tho two mon wn » wore killed by tho oxploaion were engaged aa ilroinon i . tho colliery . An inquoat hua boon opened , ana au journcd for furthor evidence Ono of tho workmen w »
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Leader (1850-1860), May 3, 1856, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2139/page/10/
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