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Baron Bramwell ) , some convictions were affirmed and others quashed . Among the latter was the case of the Queen v . Lewis . The prisoner had been indicted for manslaughter . All the parties were foreigners , the vessel was foreign , and the cruelty was exercised on board that vessel . The court , therefore , had taken , time for considering whether this was an offence for which the prisoner could be tried at Liverpool , in which town the deceased had actually died . Mr . Justice " Willes said the court felt that , had the death occurred at sea , the case -would not have been cognizable in this country , and that the mere fact of the party not having died until he arrived at Liverpool did not alter the law . Therefore , the conviction must be quashed .
In the Queen v . Fitch , the prisoner had been indicted for stealing a bonnet and a pair of goloshes . It appeared that the man lodged with one Reeves and hia -wife ; and it was arranged between him and Mrs . Reeves that they should leave the house and live together . Fitch left the house , and afterwards -went to his work ; the wife then took a bandbox containing her bonnet and goloshes , and went from the house and joined her paramour . They were followed j Fitch was found carrying the bandbox , and he was apprehended for stealing the contents . He was tried before Mr . Justice Erie , and convicted ; but a point was reserved as to whether this was a larceny . The court now decided that it was not ; and the conviction was therefore quashed .
A curious bit of lawyer ' s morality was exhibited in the case of the Queen v . Sherwood . The prisoner had been charged with obtaining money under false pretences ; that is to say , with professing to sell eighteen hundredweight of coals when he had only given fourteen hundredweight . Mr . Kettle appeared for the prisoner , and urged that this was only a misrepresentation as to quantity , which was not punishable ; if it % oere , any misrepresentation would be a false pretence . —The Chief Justice : " Why should it not be ? It would be a very salutary application of the law ; it would be a most fortunate thing . There is , however , a case in point ; but I doubt very much whether at that time the subject had received so much consideration as it since has , or the Judges would not so have decided . " We are here only five ; and therefore it will be better that tlie case should be argued before the fifteen Judges . "
The cab case arising out of Sir Charles Napier s election for Southwark has again bejn brought forward . Syer , the man employed by the committee , was summoned bv a cabman , named Wise , for sixteen shillings . The magistrate ordered Syer to pay the amount , gave him a week to do it in , and recommended him in the meanwhile to apply to Sir Charles Napier ' s committee for the amount , and , failing that , to summon the parties in the County Court . The cabman on a subsequent day complained that it was very hard he should have to wait so long . He wanted the money for his family ; and he had actually paid the tolls on the election day out of his own pocket . —Mr . James , the chairman of Sir Charles Napier ' s committee , has written to the Times to say that Syer engaged more cabs than he was ordered to engage , but that Sir Cliarles will not allow the cabmen to suffer .
In the case of Denis , v . Morley and C ' obbett , which we related in our last issue , Mrs . Cobbett on Monday , in the Court of Common Pleas , moved for a habeas corpus to bring up the body of her husband , now in the Queen ' s Prison , in order that he . might be enabled to move for a rule for a new trial . The lady exhibited some technical knowledge of the mode of procedure , corrected the Lord Chief Justice when he said he feared ho hud no power to grant such a habeas , and observed that all the counsel she had spoken to on the subject had said that , though the was in the right , she would never succeed , because the Judges are against her . She did not succeed in her then applicationthe habeas being refused .
, At the trial the other day , in the Glasgow Spring Circuit Court , of an Irishman for robbing the tea shop of a Chinaman , the point was raised whether , as England is at war with China , the prosecution could bq sustained . The Judge decided that tho trial was perfectly correct , and the accused was found Guilty , and sentenced to four yeara' penal servitude . In tho Court of Bankruptcy , on Wednesday , Mr . G . C . Franghiadi , representing tho firm of C . Franghiadi , Sons , in the Greek trade , who suspended on the 20 th of February , passed his final examination . Tho assignees were quite satisfied with tho state of hiu accounts .
Tho choice of assignees under tho estate of Colonel Waugh , tho late Chairman of the London and Eastern Banking Company , waa perfected in tho Court of Bankruptcy on Thursday . It was mentioned that Colonel Waugh , though still absent , would surrender to his bankruptcy . —A petition was hoard on tlie same day for winding up tho London and Birmingham Iron and Hardware Company ( limited)—tho firat proceeding of thia nature under tho Joint Stock Companios Act of 1850 .
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . Safety ov thid Onieida . —A despatch , dated Alexandria , April 28 rd , saya : — " Tho European , with tho Australian mails , arrived at Suez on tho 19 th inst ,, bringing tho Oncida ' s passengers , together with her own , and gold of the value of 60 , 000 / . Tho Oneitla had put back
to King George s Sound . She broke ner sole-plate and crank-pin four hundred miles north of Cape Lewin . She arrived in the Sound thirty-six hours after the departure of the S imla , and left for Sydney on the 22 nd March . " Admiral Lord Lyons has been cruising with the Brunswick , Centaur , and Conqueror in the offing of Malta since the 23 rd . ult ., and was expected to enter port on the 30 th . . . The Sultan ' s Military Present to the Queen . — The gun which the Turkish Sultan has sent to Queen Victoria was landed on Friday week at Portsmouth . " It is of cast brass , " says the Times , " and reported to be about two hundred years old ; it is thirteen feet five inches in length , and fires a shot of between eighteen anil twenty-four pounds . It bears the following inscription in Turkish : — ' A present from his Imperial Majesty Sultan Abdul Medjid to her Britannic Majesty Queen Victoria , 1857 . ' The gun is of beautiful mould , and is covered with designs and emblems of great artistic execution , and with ornamental embossings , chiefly of Oriental flowers . There are other inscriptions upon the piece in the Arabic language . The carriage is of walnut , with -wheels of oak , all elaborately carved . " The Norman . —The screw steamer Norman , Captain Vallint , from Kio Janeiro , bound for Cowes , put into Falmouth last Saturday evening short of fuel . She left that port ( says a despatch from Falmouth ) on the 14 th of March ; Bahia , 23 rd ; and Pernambuco , 27 th . The fever , which was abating at the two former ports , had broken out with renewed virulence at the last-mentioned place , and the mortality was great . Captain Vallint reports having discovered the actual locality , on the 30 th ult ., of the Chapel Rocks in lat . 47-30 N ., and long . 8-5 W ., whicli he describes as about thirty feet long , of a flat surface , and immersed under the sea level to the extent of two or three feet . Twenty-four hours previously they had been falling in with a large quantity of timber within forty miles S . W . of the rock , which appeared to have been only a short time in the water . Coast Defences in Scotland . — The War Office is busied at present putting the coast defences of Scotland into repair and adding to their strength . At Aberdeen , three new batteries , manned by sixteen guns , are to be erected , by which the harbour and town will be defended from any attack on the seaboard . Lord Palincrston has sent a number of Russian guns as war trophies to Aberdeen , Elgin , and other towns in the north . Collision at Sea . — The tine American ship Andrew Foster , which sailed from New York for Liverpool on the 1 st ult ., came into collision with the Tuscarora , bound outward for Philadelphia on the 28 th ult ., between Holvhead and Tuskar , when the Andrew Foster sank .
The crew ana passengers , capcain s wue anu children , took to the boats , and were picked up by the schooner Little Fred , from Rio Grande for Liverpool , and wero subsequently transferred to the steam tug Sea King , which brought them to the latter port . Tlie Tuscarora was so much damaged that she was obliged to put back . The steamship Peninsula came into collision with the schooner Imperial Prince iff the Ovens on Friday week . The schooner went down in a quarter of an hour , with two of the crew on board . The Peninsula had her bows stove in . Another Encampment . —It has been deemed advisable tliat the troops in garrison at Pembroke should bo encamped this summer at a short distance from the dockyard , and for this purpose land has been selected at a place called Freshwater-east—a spot about seven miles from Pembroke . Tho customary tenders for the supply of tirewood and straw for bedding arc to be immediately sent in , so that by tlune it is likely the troops will be under canvas . The place fixed upon is exceedingly open and healthy , and adjacent to tho coast , so that there is every probability of tho health of the troops being properly kept up . Freshwater-east was the spot selected as tho sito for the new musketry drill , in -which the soldiers will doubtless be properly initiated . —Times . Moke Laiiou Steamers . — Tho Mersey , 40 , the largo steam-frigate building at Chatham Dockyard , is progressing rapidly , and already some idea can bo formed of her immense size . She will be tho longest steumfrigate in the service , being considerably longer than the Royal Sovereign , 181 , recently launched ut Portsmouth . Tho following are tho principal dimensions of tho Mersey : —Length over all , 38 Gft . Gin . ; length between porpondiculars , 800 ft . ; length of keel for tonnage , 2 G 4 ft . 4 in . ; extreme breadth , 52 ft . ; breadth for tonnage , 51 ft . 3 in . ; breadth moulded , 50 ft . 8 in . ; depth of held , 19 ft . lOin . ; burden , 8726 70-94 tons . Her engines will bo of 1000 horse-powor . —Two largo vessels , which have boon nearly constructed at Chatham , will bo launched during the present yea ; they are tho Howe , which was originally designed as a sailing vessel , but has been altered to a 90-gun screw steamer , and tho Charybdls , 21 , screw stoam corvette , which was commenced in March of last year , from tho designs of Captain Sir Baldwin Walker , Surveyor of tho Navy . —Idem . Mr . Fkicdisiuck Pkicl has resigned tho office of Undor-Sccrotary for tho War Department , in which ho will bo . succeeded by Sir John Kamsdon . Sir Robert Pool is aaid to huvo resigned hia position as a Lord of tho Admiralty . Reink-oroicmicn ' th for China . —Early on Monday nft . m . > . n ,. r > t 1 i /> Ti \ ..- ;/ -n , u utiinm-frirrnto loft Plymouth , for
an assistant-engineer , who repeatedl } -, at the risk of his life , set free the valves of the engine-pumps at a time when the water had risen to within a few inches of the fires , and when the deck-pumps were found totally insufficient , though worked for hours . In case , of extremity her boats would not have held one-third of the number of men on board . She put into Madeira on the 9 th , took up her screw in the trades , put her screw down again when the trades fell light , broke . « oine of the engine gear almost immediately after , took twenty-four hours to repair , tried again , and snapped again . Finally went into Carlisle Bay under sail on the 27 th of March . " This is confirmed by the letter of an officer belonging to the 49 th .
China , accompanied by the Surprise and Mohawk despatch boats , Cormorant , Algerine , Lee , Banterer Clown , Kestrel , Drake , Janus , Firm , Watchful , Woodcock , Slaney , and Leven gunboats , and Hesper steam transport . They will probably first rendezvous at Madeira . They left with fine wind down Channel . Another Troop-ship Disaster . —A correspondent of the Times thus describes the last voyage of the new steam troop-ship Urgent to Barbadoes , with the 49 th Regiment on board : — ' ^ She left Spithead on the 28 th of February , sprang a dangerous leak in the middle of the Bay of Biscay , put into Corunna on the 3 rd of March in a half - sinking state , and would certainl y have foundered , but for calm weather and the darin" - act of
A Boat Capsized . —A melancholy accident occurred at St . Thomas ' s on the lllh ult ., by which four lives were lost . The third bfficer of the Magdalcna ( Mr . Bushnan , son of Dr . Bushnan ) , and six of the crew , were sent ashore in the Wye ' s lifeboat for some sand for the use of the ship . The boat was loaded too deeply , and on coming off , about a mile from the shore , she upset and went down . Three of the men and the officer were drowned ; the other three succeeded in reaching the shore . The names of the men who were drowned are
Alfred Downton , David Kimber , and George Carter , all belonging to Southampton . Wkeck ov the Steamer Amelia . —A Court of Inquiry ordered by the Board of Trade sat yosterday at the Bristol Council-house , to investigate the circumstances under which the steamer Amelia , plying between Liverpool and Bristol , was lost off St . Gowan ' s-head , near Milford , on the morning of the 29 th of March . The main result of the inquiry was thus set forth : — " In the opinion of the justices , the accident arose in consequence ef the master either mistaking the land he made or misjudging his distance from it , and disregarding the use of tlie lead , which , with reference to the fog which then prevailed , ought to have been specially attended to . "
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen , who has been sufficiently recovered this week to take drives in the open air , left London for Osborne , Isle of Wight , on Thursday morning , and reached her place of destination at about halfpast two in the afternoon . She was accompanied by Prince Albert , the younger members of the family , and the Court . While briefly stopping at Portsmouth , the Queen looked at the brass gun which has been presented to her by the Sultan of Turkey . Prince Albert returned to London the next day ( yesterday ) , to be present at tlie funeral of the Duchess of Gloucester . National Education . — A deputation of the Metropolitan Church of England Schoolmasters' Association waited on the Right Hon . W . Cowper , Vice-President ol the Committee of Council on Education , at the 1 nvy
Council-office , last Saturday , for tho purpose of prescntin « - a memorial to the Committee complaining ot certain regulations established by the minutes of the Committee of Council , which materially affect the interests ol tlie schoolmasters of England . Tho memorial set lurth ivo distinct matters of grievance-first , that the amount of stipend pay able to male pupil teachers , s insufficient and tho mode of payment inconvenient , the teachers often having to wait for their money above hftctn months ; scconuly , that the school masters and miatiesbcs who prepare the pupil teachers are t "H" ^' , " j adequately paid ; thirdly , that the Committee of Council had laid down a regulation winch precludes tie pa ) - lenv life
mont of all sums duo to the schoolmasters on their schools , by way of augmentations and S ™ " ^ for a less term than one year ; fourthly , that the scloo - masters are not allowed to employ remuneratively tiuir time out of school hours ; fifthly , and lastly , tl »» tthoro is a degrco of unfairness in tho distribution o « no capitation grant since its extension to all the nation schools throughout England and Wales . M . Cowg assured tho deputation that all these pom ^ receive his most attentive and deliberate consult- tion but ho did not hold out any hope of tho « UefeJ * grievances being altered , and scorned upon tliu J ^ to consider that tho present arrangement * uro ju « t
"" C JU Dav o * « ... SKM . OJ .. - It anpoar- that tho statement which wo made last weak , upon i authority of a daily contemporary , that Loid JJ Russell was not pr « . ent on tho first day of the ¦ bojbw is' incorrect . It is now stated by tho same Joui nul t his Lordship , together with tho other memboiu lor
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44 lO T HJE LEADER . [ No . 3 * 72 , Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), May 9, 1857, page 440, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2192/page/8/
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