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October 4 , 1856 . j THE , LEADEB ,. 94 , 3
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . Collisions in the Mersey . — The scre-nr steamer Sillofch , Captain Acken , from Liverpool , bound for Whitehaven and Carlisle , came into collision on Tuesday morning -with the ship Admiral Boxer , from Quebec for . Liverpool , off the IFormby Light-ship , and had her funnel , main and inizen masts , linnacle , and steeringwheel carried away . She at once returned to port . The Admiral Boxer had lies figure-head carried away in the collision . —On the previous evening there was a collision between a Birkenhead ferry-boat and a Manx packet , when the port bow of the former was sto . ve in . The vessels were rounding a ship at anchor , and were coming in opposite directions . Owing to the interposing object , they did not see each other till it was too late to avert a crash . K " o lives were lost .
The Polish Legion . - —A Polish journal , the Wiadomoscl Pols 7 cie , contains an account , supplied by one of the officers , of the last days of the Polish Legion , and of their iinal reception at Scutari by General Storks , and at Constantinople by Lord and Lady Stratford de Redcliffe . They afterwards proceeded on board the Royal Albert , and were most cordially received by Lord Lyons . Having entered the Admiral ' s cabin , " the adjutant then requested us to sit down , and when , we were all seated , our gallant host rose , and , taking the General by the hand , thanked Jiini for affording him an opportunity of mailing the acquaintance of 1 ' olish officers , expressed Ms regret that ' a peace , Avhich we must not call unfortunate , and cannot call fortunate , 'has thrown the sword from our hands ; and . ended by advising us . to hope fox better things in the future . "
Fahewkll Review of the German Legion . — The final aeview of . the British-German Legion , previously to "being disbanded , took place at Wyvanhoe Park , neaT Colchester , on Tuesday . The evolutions beiug completed , Baron "Von Statter . heim , standing in a ihollow sfi « are formed by the soldiers , spoke in the German language to the following effect : — " This , iny friends , is the last great review of the German-British legion in Englaud . Tou may easily imagine , soldiers , how very sorry I feel in beiug obliged to part with so large a body of men , to whom lam under so many heartfelt obligations . However , I think I may be united with , a good many of you . for a longer period , as it is my intention to go out to the Cape of Good Hope , because I consider it a sacred duty to stick
to you so long as I see I can do any good for you . The conditions under which you will be allowed to go to . the . Cape have been already made known to you . You may accept them or you may not , just as you freely choose . No man will be forced to go . No man will be persuaded to go . I , for my own part , consider the conditions very favourable , as they give every niau an opportunity to gain a free and an independent existence . They are , I think , fair in every respect . You can only bo obliged to do your- own will . . Those of you who ¦ will agree to go to the Cape will be guaranteed 51 . each , as mentioned in Article 12 of the conditions , and you will receive an advance of 21 . while you remain in England , for the purpose of "buying some
trifling things for your comfort on the voyage , and I warn you not to spend that money in-waste . " The troope having given -three cheei's for the Queen and for the General , marched off the ground . —The terms to ¦ which the Baron alluded have been published . The men are to serve as military settlers for seven years , and to resist any attacks of an enemy . They will receive free rations for a year after their settlement , and pay up to the day of embarkation ; each man ' s cottage and iancV become absolutely his own ; any soldier wounded in the defence of the colony will receive a pension ; the wives and families of married men will be sent out by the Government ; and the land property of a married settler dying even before the completion of the seven years' service will descend to tiie wife and offspring .
Compensation for the Passage of Houses . — A -circular granting compensation to Crimean officers for the passage home of their horses has bean issued . The circular states that the Secretary of State for War , having had under consideration the question of granting compensation to officers who were not provided with a free passage for their horses on the return home of the army from the East , has decided to allow ' iOl . per horse ( exclusive of bat animals ) in lieu of such free passage , and to cover any loss sustained by staff and regimental officers in disposing of their chavgers witb reference to tho General Order issued oil tlio subject dated Headquarters , Sebaatopol , 2 Gth of April lust .
Lonu Cardigan- again . —Some letters which have passed between Lord Cardigan and Colonel Buck appear in tho daily papers . His lordship is oll ' endecl with the colonel for having insinuated doubts as to his courage in the famous Balaklava cavalry charge , in the course of a speech delivered at a dinner given at Torrington to Colonel Morris of the 17 th Lancers , who was also concerned in the charge . Entering into a minute account of thQ affair , Lord Cardigan says : — " For myself , having led this brigade into the battery , I pursued my direct course as leader , a course which one horse could take , but in which a lino « f troops could not well follow from the number of guns , limber carriages , and othor impediments -which stood iiv tho way . Thus , coming upon a large force of Russian cavalry , I was attacked by
two Cossacks , slightly wounded , and noarly dismounted . Tho survivors of tho brigade all went about as they came upon the masses of tho Russian cavalry , and retreated . The whole of tho remnant of the brigade was retreating at tho same time , and a few minutes only intervened botwocn the retreating from tho line of guns which wo bail attacked , of all tbo partios engaged in tho affair , including bho supporting rejg ' unciits whioh had come into the affray in suooe-ssion undor their respective commanding oflicora . I hnvo further to observe that the confusion was so great after passing tUo battery , that the 17 th Lancers and 18 th Light Dragoons revoraed . their position in brigade , and the remnant of thorn cavue out in the ratroat on the opposite aide of the volley to that in which thoy liad advunood . " Colonol Buck asserts that tho report in eouao . weufture minroiireaoiited JUun .
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DOMESTIC TRAGEDIES . Ax" attempt , of a paiuful nature , to commit suicide by means of opium has been made by a Mrs . Elizabeth Ana Hopkiiison , a . very young woman , the wife , of a chemist and drugrgist near Katcliffe-higlnvay . She obtained , the poisou from a surgeon who was in the habit of supplying her hushand with drugs ; but , tlie stomachpump having been promptly used , her life was saved , though after much suffering and danger . She stated as her reason that she -w-ais unhappy at home ; and , when brought before the Thames magistrate , it appeared that her husband was an habitual drunkard , and had induced her to drink to excess . Her husband , a young and rather small man , -was- " -put hi the box . He exhibited great agitation , and stammeringly . admitted that he was addicted to drink . 11 furthermore came out that he would often go into the country , on pretence of extending his business , and leave liis wife at home to make up and dispense drugs , though she was quite ignorant of them . The poor woman was discharged .
Another woman has been brought before the Lord Mayor , charged with attempting to poison herself with laudanum . Desertion by the husband was the reason alleged for the act . In all these cases of self-poisoning , it has appeared that there has been an undue facility in obtaining the drug ;; and Mr . Burch , resident medical officer at the London Hospital , called attention to the fact , both in the present and ; the former case , in connexion with which lie was examined . The Lord Mayor asked liow many persons suffering from the effects of poison had been taken to the hospital lately ; to which Mr . Burcli replied : — "A great number lately , and four within , the last-few days ; In nil these cases the poison has beeii sold indiscriminately at different shops . I . had a case only yesterday at- the Thames police-court . " ( This - \ v-iis the case of Mrs . Ilopkhiaon . ) The woman now cliargcd was dismissed oil expressing contrition , and was supplied with money to take her to her friends ) in the country . -
Mrs . Elizabeth Rowlings , the daughter of a gentleman , the wife of a captain in coinrmind of a large ship in the merchant service , and the near relative of a distiu- < guished historian , was brought before . the Lambeth magistrate on a charge of threatening to destroy her children . It appeared that the woman w : is parted from her husband ; thlit she was a thorough'drunkard ,, and that her mode of life was of the most disreputable kind , She was arrested in a bouse of ill fame , where she lived with her children . The magistrate called on her to find bail , herself in 40 Z . and two sureties in 201 . each , to be of good behaviour for one month ; but , not bein £ able to procure the necessary bail , she was sent to Horsemonger-lane gaol , and her children were removed without delay from the house where they had been living .
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Mr . Jardine charged with having stolen a diamond ring from Messrs . Debenhatn and Stori e s auction-rooms , in King-street , Covent-gurden . He continually interrupted the witnesses with absurd and indecent questions , and repeatedly referred to " his friend Admiral Digby , " aad spoke of the firm whom he is alleged to have robbed as Machin and Debenhanu He added , that he bad bought all his clothes there for twenty years ; "but , your worship , " he said , " I have been obliged to change , for Machin and Debenham have got so very dear , and Moses in Russell-court is so very cheap , that I hare gone to hun , and iny friend Admiral Digby was so pleased with this suit ( complacently examining -his ragged and dirty habiliments , amid soars of laughter , which the ushers
with difficulty repressed ) , tfcat he immediately transferred his patronage to Moses , apd buys his clothes there now . There was no evidence of the accused abstracting the ring froim the auction-rooms ; bat he had taken it to a shop to sell it . He alleged in his defence that he had found it , and had gone to Mr . Jardine , some days previously , to ask his advice , but had been ordered out of the court , and , as he had the greatest respect for the magistrates , he had goae . He conceived he had a right to apply the ring to his own uses . The testimony of the officers of the court in some measure confirmed this statement , the prisoner having applied , a few days before , to Mr . Hall , the other sitting magistrate , and been told to come again at a more fitting time . He was committed for trial .
Well Esouoh ro be Beaten . —A working man , named John Manby , was charged at Bow-street witli an assault on his wife , and also on his landlord and a neighbour , who went in to rescue the poor woman . The neighbour was seized by the throat by Manby , who nearly throttled him , leaving him insensible on the floor , when he . was at length dragged off by the police . The wife declined to confirm the evidence against her husband , and only adinitted being struck ouce . Mr . Hall , the magistrate , asked if the man was in the habit of beating her , to which the landlord replied that sueb . assaults were of almost daily occurrence , " when she was well enough to be beaten . " Indeed , she had hut recentlybeen an out-patient of King ' s College Hospital ever since his last attack on her . Manby was fined 47 . ; in . default , six weeks'imprisonment .
A Straxgje Act of Revenge .- —Tho wife of a master butcher , in opulent circumstances , trading in Highstreet , Whitechapel , lias been charged at the Thames ; police-court with setting fire to her husband ' s private house in Stepney . The flames were discovered , on Sunday evening , issuiug from a coal-cellar under the stairsy where a quantity of chips saturated . with turpentine were discovered . It also appeared that the stairs had been soaked with the same inflammable spirit . The fire was speedily extinguished ; but Mrs . Ordmay , the accused , on being spoken to in connexion with the affair , admitted that it was her act , and said she would do it again , as she was determined to burn the house down . She alleged as her reason that she did not like the house , aiid had attempted to destroy it because her husband would not got another for hor . She was remandod .
A Ruffianly Cabman . —Thomas Wiggins , a cabdriver , has been fined 18 s . and coats by the Lambeth magistrate , for dishonost and violent conduct to a lady who was about to ride in his vehicle . He demanded from hor Is . Cd . above his right fare ; and , being iefused , he kicked in the panel of the street-door . On a constable being sent for , he offered to take the lady for nothing ; but this was refused , and ho then demanded one shilling Tor his trouble in coming from the cabstand . To get rid of him , this was paid . lie then wont away , but was afterwards summoned to the police-court , where the magistrate sentenced him as already stated .
A ScKNE in a IXankhui'tcy Couht . —A Mr . T , Olliro appeared in the Bristol Bankruptcy Court a few daya a ^ o fo r linnl examination respecting certain transactions which ho had had with two other men and his aistor , by moans of bills of sale . The bankrupt , having failed to file his accounts , which ought to have beon done ten days before the present examination , was called upon to explain tho cause of his failure , which he did in a manner tlmt was not at all satisfactory to tho court ; upon which the accountant whom Olliver had instruoted to prepare bis account stated that the proporty which had been made a-vay with by the bills of sale that tho bankrupt had given was not accounted for . Tho examination on behalf of the assignees was thon proooetled with . In the course of tlia investigation , Ollivor ,
who was subjected to a very close imiuir-y , admittod that some statements in connexion with l \ iu bill of sale transactions , to which lie hiul sworn when under a previous examination « t Ipswich , -wore false . Much sensation was creatod in tho court by those admissions , and the Commissioner expressed his intlignation in st * ong terms , heing the more moved to do so as it was intimated that the bankrupt ' s object in making thosp statements was to midland tho court as to what was really sought to bo done by tho bills of salo . While tho court was engaged for n few minutes in examining Ollivor ' f papers , tho bankrupt suddenly darted to tho door , and hastily ran away . Ho was of course immediately pursued by the court messenger , but Ollivor easily outran him , and got oloar off . After a brief examination of hii
Garotte Iionuionv . —The practice of ' garotting , ' as a means of robbing 1 from the person , was practised in Doncaater , for the first time , a few nights , rigo . An inhabitant of llextborpe , situated about a mile from the former town , was returning homo , when he was suddenly seized by the neck from behind , at tho same timo receiving a blow \ rjiieh knocked one of his toeth out . After being held until ho boenmo insensible , his pockets were rifled of their contents , which were of no great value . Tun Alujqkd Tiiekt j » y a . Guardsman . —Robert
Sindall , tho private in the ( iuitrds , charged with stealing a 10 / . note from Mr . John Conke , a silk-merchant , under circumstances related in our hist week's piijier , was ngain brought up at ( . iuildliall on Saturday , and was ( Uncharged , tbo prosecutor ( wlio hnd probably departed on his voyage to one of the colonies ) not appearing against him . It appeared from the . statement of u City policeman thut the Bonk refuses to stop a stolun notu unless the clerks uro furnished with the date as well as tho number ; and , as Mr . Coolie could not recolleot the date , his money has beon irrecoverably lo . st to him .
A Cuazy Gionvi-kman . —An eccentric old gentleman named Alexander Lester Lawrence , a aolieitor of thirtytwo years' standing , and who is well known at Bowstrcet from his habit of postering the mngi . strtUo . s with absurd applications for warrants to apprelioiul people for porjwry , conspiracy , forgery , &e ., whs brought bufore
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OUR GIVILIZATION .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1856, page 943, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2161/page/7/
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