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papers , giving accounts of burglaries , murderous highway assaults , and other acts of -violence at Peckham , Gray ' s-inn-road , and the neighbourhood of Gordonsquare . In the latter locality , there has teen an instance of forcible entrance into a house , about six o ' clock in the evening-, for the purpose of extorting money by violen . ce . At that time there were only three -women in the house ; but they contrived to get the ruffian but . As usual , there was no police . What are -we coming to ?
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SUICIDES . A . young servant-niaid , living at Birmingham , named Elizabeth Barton , has committed suicide by drowning herself in a water-cistern attached to her master's house . Mr . Smith , her master , went out one morning to business , and returned home at five o ' clock in . the afternoon , accompanied by a friend . He rang the door-hell , but was not answered , upon which his friend climbed a -wall and entered the house at the back , when he let Mr . Smith in from the street-door . They then searched the house , but could find ho one . Mr . Smith , whose suspicions ¦ were mow aroused , next went into the yard , where he discovered that the lid of the water-cistern had been removed . He sounded the vessel with a hoe , and found that it contained the bodv of some person . This was got
out with the assistance of some of the neighbours , when Mr . Smith identified it as the body of his maid-servant . Life was quite extinct . The girl had been for some daj'S past in a very low and desponding state in consequence of having learnt that a young man who had been courting her for several years , and by whom she had a child , was just married to another woman ia London . It is supposed that this circumstance must have been the cause of her self-destruction . An inquest having been held , the jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity . An old man , living in the service of the Rev . Mr . Cartwright , rector of Butcombe , in Somersetshire , has killed himself by cutting his throat with a pocket-knife . The poor fellow , who had'for some time past been troubled with disease of the heart , was one day taken very ill . His master administered the medicines which
had been prescribed for him , and sent him to bed . Not long after this , he was discovered standing in the middle of his bedroom with a clasp-knife in his hand , bleeding profusely from a wound he had inflicted across his throat . Being asked by Mr . Cartwright why lie had done so , he said that he had committed the action in a kind of dream , and was hardly aware of what he had done . Every care and attention were paid to the sufferer , but lie died a few days after the occurrence . At the inquest , the surgeon -who had attended him during his illness said it was his belief that the man's sufferings from the difficulty of breathing were so great as to bring on a fit of momentary insanity , during which he lacerated his throat nnder the idea that he should relieve himself . The j ury returned a verdict in accordance with this evidence .
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STATE OF TRADE . The Board of Trade returns for September were issue ^ on llonday morning . Notwithstanding the extraordinary amount of our exportations during the preceding three months , which showed an average excess of 2 , 000 , 000 / . per month over the corresponding periods of last year , the total again presents a considerable improvement , the difference as compared with September , 1855 , being 1 , 144 , 012 ? . The chief increase has again been in metals , the foreign demand for iron rails , as well as for manufactures of iron , copper , and tin , having been extensive . Cotton manufactures show no
variation , but yarns of most kinds , have been largely shipped . Th « total exports for the first nine months of the present year have amounted to 84 , 906 , 605 / ., against 69 , 226 , 8372 . in the same period of 1855 , showing an increase of 15 , 679 , 768 / ., or about 22 per cent . As compared with the same period of 1854 , the increase has been 8 , 248 , 681 ? . — "With regard to imported commodities , the chief feature continues to bo the large increase in the arrivals and consumption of wheat , flour , and rice . Other articles of food and luxury have also be « n freely taken into use , especially coffee , tea , cocoa , sugar , wines , spirits , and tobacco . The imports of other goods have also been to a full extent . Of timber , both colonial and foreign , there have been full arrivals , and the consumption has likewise been heavy . —Times .
also announces an intention to change all the shares of the company into stock . A few -weeks ago , the workpeople at Messrs . Spencer and Horsfall's mill , Coventry , turned out for an advance of wages to the amount of one shilling each per week . the mill
Before leaving , one of the weavers cut two warps in the loom . Messrs . Spencer and Horsfall have offered a reward of 10 / . for the discovery of the offender ; and the weavers themselves , in order to show that they deprecate the act , have offered a further reward of 5 / . The firm having persisted in refusing the advance , several hundred hands are thrown out of employment . The Coventry Herald mentions what it calls a cruel , if not an illegal act , on the part of the firm , namely , the printing of the names of the turn-outs , and sending a copy to each warehouse in the neighbourhood , in order to prevent the men obtaining employment .
The suspension of Messrs . Fox , Henderson , and Co . took place on Wednesday . During the past year , the firm have experienced occasional ditficulties , which were greatly increased by the reckless circulation of reports affecting their credit . By great efforts , they were enabled to maintain their position up to the present time ; "but the renewed pressure in the money-market , and the discovery of losses from heavy foreign contracts just finished , have now compelled them to call their creditors together . It is understood that upon the completion of their annual stock-taking and balancing , the house have found that they have suffered to . the extent of about 70 , 000 / . by the construction of the Zealand ( Danish ) Railway . Their total debts are stated to be about 320 , 000 / ., of which about half are unsecured . —Tithes .
The following resolution has been adopted by the Committee of tho Stock Exchange : —" Resolved , — That , in consequence of tho extraordinary conduct purg ed by the directors of tho Crystal iPalace Company in denying the validity of transfers of shares which had , been registered at tho office of the company , the committee will not recognize any further dealings in tho Bharos , and direct that the name of the company bo struck out of the official list . " This resolution stands for confirmation on Monday next . A letter ha 8 since been addreosed by the Crystal Palace Company to , the Committco of the Stock Exchange . It explatm that ^| ie refusal of the company to ? K , i ^ V ^ 1 ? 1 ^ ° f cortaia aharea was not intended as adonial of ultimate liability ,, and states that , in accordance with the opinion of counsel , it has now been determined to recognize thorn without further question . It
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NATAL AND MILITARY . Banquet to the Three Regiments of Staffordshire Militia .- —A county banquet to the colonels and officers of the three regiments of Staffordshire Militia ( the first of which has been doing- duty at the Island of Corfu , the second at Aldershott , -while the third has remained at home and has sent 1000 men into the line ) was given at the Shire-hall at Stafford , early in last week , by the lieutenants and deputy lieutenants of that county . The Earl of Iiarrowby presided ; and besides his Lordship , the principal speakers were—Sir Harry Smith , Sir Robert Peel , Admiral Mainwaring , and the Earl of Lichfield . In the course of one of his speeches , Sir Robert Peel made some remarks arising out of his recent visit to Russia . He remarked : — " In Earl Granyille , Government had one who , though carrying coxirtesy to its utmost limits , -was not anxious to impress the Russian Court , as another ambassador did ,, that a different feeling prevailed towards Russia from what was really the case . ( Hear . y He had seen assembled . in Russia 120 , 000 of the finest infantry in the world . Those troops in stature and appearance exceeded anything he had ever before ¦ witnessed , and he had been over the whole of Europe ; yet he had no doubt that the pluck of the English army would be a match for them . ( C / eera . ) He had visited the fortress of Cronstadt , and there was but one opinion , from the Grand Duke Constantino down to the youngest * middy' on hoard the Vladimir , that , had the energy of the commander equalled the pluck of the British navy , that fortress at the present moment would be crumbled in the dust . (/ fear , hear . ' ) Sir Charles Napier had been through the whole of the fleet and fortress , and he gave it as his opinion that it was impossible to destroy the fortress . It was certainly very clear that it was impossible to attack Cronstadt with success now , but when the war commenced the ease was very different , and if the man who commanded the fleet at Copenhagen had commanded the Baltic fleet , or 4 f a man possessed of the spirit and capacity of a Nelson had commanded that fleet , ho had not the slightest doubt that , as the fortress at Copenhagen yielded , so would Cronstadt have fallen . " ( Ifear , hear . ") Sir Charles Napier has since published a letter to Sir Robert Peel , in which ho reiterates his old complaint of wot being furnished with gun and mortar-boats and rockets .
The court was of opinion that the charge against th prisoner was fully proved , and adjudged to him twelw months' imprisonment in the county gaol at Maidstoii with hard labour ; after which he " was to be dischareJi from her Majesty ' s service with disgrace . 6 « i
The Amkkican Frigate Merrimac . —Mr . Andrews Mayor of Southampton , paid an official visit to thp United Statea frigate Merrimac on Monday He-w accompanied by the Sheriff , Mr . J . White ; the President of the Chamber of Commerce , Mr . J . R . Stebbing - and a number of civic officials connected with the corporation On arriving at and leaving the vessel , the Mayor received the usual complimentary salute from the guns of the frigate . Lord Palmerston , who happened to be in Southampton last Saturday with the French Ambassador and a party of friends , also paid a hasty visit to the Merrimac , but did not go aboard , the hour being late On Tuesday , the ship was visited by Admiral Sir George ' Sevmour , the Port-Admiral of Portsmouth .
Piracy and Mukdku . —Three Sicilian seamen , named Giuseppe Lagava , Giovanni Barbalalo , and » Matteo Pettrich , have been examined at Portsmouth on the charge of piracy and murder on board tho barque Globe , of Alloa , of which we gave the details in tho deader of October 18 . Reduction op the Army ; — A hoard of commissioners , from Chelsea Hospital , assembled at tho invalid establishment , Chatham , on Friday week and Saturday , for the purpose of ordering the discharge of a largo number of troops belonging to cavalry and infantry regiments , consequent on the reduction -which is now being made in the army . Two hundred and fifty non-commissioned officers and men were dismissed , chiefly on account of wounds received during tho Crimean campaign .
Couht-jMahtiai ,, — A court-mnrtial assembled on board tho Waterloo flag-ship at Shcerness last Saturday to try "William Forster , sailmuker , doing quartermaster ' s duty in tlint ship . The charge against the prisoner was for having behaved , on repeated occasions between tho 1 st of May and the 6 th of October , 185 G , in a scandalous manner . The evidence lms not been published , nor has tho precise nature of tho misconduct been specified 5 but it would seem to bo of a peculiarly infamous character .
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MISCE L L A N E O U S . Princk At-fred , it is said , will shortly proceed to the Continent for some months . It is believed that he will make his principal stay at Geneva—a place offering peculiar advantage for the study of modern langfla ^ es and for other branches of educAtion . —Daily Neu-s . ° Mr . Milus , M . P ., stated at the annual meeting of the Evercreech Agricultural Society , held at Shepton Mallet that the opinion he expressed on the subject of agricultural statistics when , examined before a committee of the House of Lords , was this—that the farmers ivonld gladly publish the number of acres they have in different cultivation , but that they would not consent to give any further information . ¦ ¦ :
Rkwakd- for Courageous Conduct . — -A boy , aged fourteen , named Edward Penin , received , at the National School , Henl « y-on-Thames , a handsome Ironze medal , awarded to him by the Royal Humane Society for his courageous conduct in saving the life of a girl by rescuing her from the Thames after she had twice sunk . Nearly 30 £ also , have been subscribed for him in the neighbourhood . This sum will be invested for him in the savings bank . : The Ducai , Palace at Blenheim . —Some correspondence appears in the newspapers with reference to the alleged exorbitancy of the charges levied on visitors to Blenheim Palace and grounds by the head gardener and his labourers . ISvery party of six is obliged to have
a separate ticket of admission ; and on each ticket the head gardener , as lie lets the party out at the gate , demands the sum of 5 s ., refusing to allow the visitors to pass unless they consent to pay that amount . " This he does , " says " One who has been Fleeced , " in writing to the Times , "in addition to the moneys levied by the porter for letting you into the palace , by the housekeeper for showing you the state rooms , and by the porter ' s man for exhibiting the Titian Gallery , in which , by the way , there are no paintings by Titian . " Mr . Alfred S . Churchill , writing to the Illustrated London News on behalf of the Duke « f Marlborough , says that the family are greatly inconvenienced by the large number of persons visiting the grounds , and have to give up most
of the habitable rooms of tlie mansion during the two visiting hours of the three visiting days during the week ; that " the duke himself , who resides the greater part of the year at Blenheim , is obliged to regulate his movements and his drives by the apparent proximity of any of these numerous parties ; " that visitors often smoke beneath the windows , lag behind , and otherwise misconduct themselves , and that" whatever maybe charged goes entirely to tho remuneration of those extra hands who are employed for the purpose of conducting the public round the place . " Another correspondent of the same paper says , in reply to this , that " in one of the latest appeals to trie judges against the decisions of the Commissioners of Taxes , the following case appears to have been decided and printed for the guidance of the commissioners in future : —Tho Duke of Marlborong li was surcharged for extra gardeners . He appealed , and
stated that he gave his head gardener 200 / . per nnnum ; and the expenses of labour beyond that sum wore to be paid by the head gardener , who was to reimburse himself out of the money received from visitors to the gardens ; therefore the extra gardeners did not belong to him ( tlte duke ) , but to tlic head gardener , who contracted with him . " This writer signs himself "A Commissioner of Taxes . " —The Duke of Marlboroug h has written to to tho 'Times in answer to these attacks by " anonymous scribblers ; " but tho effect of his letter is little more than an admission of the truth of the allegations . His Grace says he has made a rule to tho effect that a fee of one shilling for each person entering tho pnlnce shall be Iield sufficient , and that ho has done his best to check exorbitant demands on tho part of his servants ; but he admits that these cx « rtion 3 appear to have been unsuccessful . With respect to the garden * , the head gardener has permission to chargo twopence a head fcr
each visitor , and no more . laTKitATUuu at a WoRicnousic . —A few months since , it was decided by a majority of tho guardians of n Wclah Union not to appoint a regular chaplain to tne house , and the spiritual duties have since been performed by various Dissenting ministers of the town . Tho fol-
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1040 THE LEADER . [ fro . 345 , Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 1, 1856, page 1040, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2165/page/8/
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