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The train in question was one of thelast , bringing back ^ menffnurnbers of holiday folks from /^ e ^ lebrated Fete des Loges , held annually m September , in the forest of St .. Germain . It consisted of the unusual number of forty carriages , and vfc is probable that the immense force , on a violent incline , was greater than the breaks were calculated to resist . The moral of this accident is , that all extra and pleasure trains are greatly to be dreaded . It is feared that the accident will turn oat to be more serious than the communication from the company would infer , several of the wounded having died . A party of market-women from the Halle , who had saved up their money to enjoy the fete , were the principal sufferers . M . Salles , tbe censor of the press at the Ministry of the Interior , was in one of the carriagesbut he escaped without injury .
, Explosions as well as railway accidents appear to be the order of the day . Yesterday an explosion , occasioned by an escape of gas , took place at the Independent Gas Works , Haggerstone . Many of the workmen -were injured , and it is feared that several of them will lose their lives . On Thursday a collier brig , heavily laden , by some means came into collision with another vessel , and sustained such injuries that she became perfectly \» aterlogged . The Thames police rendered every assistance m their power , and the vessel was with difficulty saved from going entirely down . The mishap occurred between Blaekwall and Charlton .
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' GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . On Saturday Mr . Henry Burbidge , formerly income and assessed tax collector for the Richmond district , was charged with having embezzled large sums of money , the property of her Majesty , and also wifh having obtained different amounts of money as income and property tax by false pretences . The defendant , wno declined saying anything at that time , was committed to take his trial on four several charges at the Central Criminal Court .
Alexander Monro , a man of genteel appearance , was placed 1 * at the bar of the Lambeth police-court , on a charge of stealing a small glass . jar , from a standing in "the Crystal Palace , and also the plated end of a scabbard from the Indian Court there . A constable saw him take the jar and put it in his pocket , and another said , on searching-him he found in his pocket the mounting of a sword scabbard which had been , sent to him from India by a friend . . The prisoner gave his . real name and address—bis father held high rank in the army , and he himself ( the prisoner ) had been an officer in the 42 nd Regiment- The prisoner said he saw the jar emptyi and thoughtlessly took it up . Mr . Elliott said there could be no doubt he intended to steal the articles found on Mm , and sentenced him to pay a penalty of 40 s ., or twenty fliys' imprisonment .
penal servitude , and lastly , since the expiration of his sentence , again imprisoned for six months ^ The Court now sentenced him to he kept in penal servitude for six years . A person named Basil Woodd Pike , described as a mariner , who had passed himself for an officer in the navy , and a member of the Junior United Service Club , was charged with uttering a forged draft for 85 / . The passing . of the instrument took place at the establishment called the Piccadilly Saloon , to the proprietor of which respectable establishment the prisoner had become indebted for 101 ., for two evenings ' supper and wine . The proprietor , named Goodered , oh tendering the cheque at the London Joint-Stock Bank , was informed that the signature which it bore , " E . B . Jupp , "
-was forged , and in consequence he ( Gopdered ) was given into custody until he could point out Pike to . the officers * Upon the latter ' s arrest , Goodered was set at liberty . Mr . Jupp , whose signature was forged , was ill , and could not attend the police-court ; but his clerk said that the signature was not Mr . Jupp ' s . He also said Mr . Jupp was a solicitor , and trustee to the prisoner ' s family , in which capacity he had paid the prisoner several sums of money . The prisoner was not now an officer in her Majesty ' s service , but was only an ordinary seaman . The prisoner pleaded guilty to the cheque being in . his
writing , but he had no intention to defraud the bank . He was committed for trial . After the prisoner was disposed of , the man Goodered made a complaint of the way in which lie had been treated , having been led through the streets in custody . The Lord Mayor , however , said that the officers were not to blame—as he had been found in possession of , and actually uttering , a forged cheque—in keeping him in custody until he satisfactorily proved how it came into his possession , and as he ( Goodered ) had been set at liberty the moment he did , that lie had nothing to complain of , nor was there any imputation resting upon the officers' character .
A pawnbroker , named Thompson , appeared before Mr . Ingham to answer a summons at the instance of a lady for knowingly , taking in a quantity of washing linen as a pledge from a laundress , who , in answer to questions from the magistrate , admitted that she had pledged the clothes * and added that she had often pledged her customers' goods with Mr . Thompson . The defendant said he had no knowledge of the things being washing at the time they were pledged . The magistrate said the defendant knew very well that the woman was a laundress , and ordered him to forfeit 27 . 10 s ., to deliver up all the articles , and to pay 4 s . costs .
¦ William Kelly , a horse-dealer , but pretending to be a corn merchant , was brought before Mr .. Combe , charged with being concerned in administering a narcotic to a greengrocer , of Le-vvisham , and stealing frpm him a horse . The prosecutor said he had a horse to sell , and the prisoner was introduced to him as a man who would buy . They went into the parlour of a publichouse . He there drank a little stout , and almost immediately lost his senses , and he only recovered them after he was taken home . When the prisoner was taken he aaid he had bought the horse in the usual way for 12 / ., but he had not paid all the money . The magistrate committed him for trial for hocussing and robbing .
At the Court ,, of ., Bankruptcy yesterday , the examijjatio ' n meeting in the case of Lewis Zucker , a jeweller , of Oxford-street , was adjourned , the assignees requiring time to investigate the circumstances connected with a robbery of 1294 / ., which , it was alleged by the banknipt , had taken place on his premises upon the 1 st of July last . J . Thomas , a builder , of No . 5 , Montpelierstreet , Walworth , passed his last examination . Knight , the cabman , the charge against whom excited bo much public indignation a few weeks ago , was tried . at the Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday . It will be remembered that he was charged with having first drugged a poor servant girl , and then with having conveyed her to a brothel in George-street , St . Giles , where he plundered her of her money , and would , as it was thought , have perpetrated a far greater outrage had it not been for the interposition of a servant in the house , a young man named Smith . The case was thoroughly investigated , and as the jury did not find him guilty on the more serious charges in the indictment , but convicted him ... of . .. petty ,, larcenyonly , he was sentenced to no heavier punishment than ten months' hard labour . A charge of robbery , rather singular in its nature , -was preferred by Mr . Samuel Jacobs , Jeweller , Knightsbridge , against a young girl , his domestic servant , at the pplice-cpurt , Westminster . It was stated that the prisoner had stolen a brooch and toothpiok , which wore both found in her box . The girl , in defence , declared it was a conspiracy against her , and that the articles wore put into the box during her absence . The result was that the prosecution was withdrawn , and Mr . Lewis , who appeared for the defence , stated his intention of bringing an action for false imprisonment .
The extraordinary charge of witchorait , which lias excited go much interest in the East-end of London , was ' disposed brotf ^ magistrate , Sarah Macdonald , the alleged witch , being sentenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment . The leniency of the sentence was occasioned by evidence tending to show that she had not carried oh her impositions to the extent that was at first supposed . > At the Middlesex , Sessions , George . Webster pleaded guilty to stealing a pair of shoes . It was then proved that the prisoner had been convicted of felony and punished , once in the year 1851 , twice in 1852 , and again , la 1854 , and at that time sentenced to four yearsj
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IRELAND . Rumoured Rksignatiox . —It is rumoured that Lord John Beresford intends resigning the Ardiblslu > iirk' of Armagh , and that in nil probability he will be sueeeeiled by the Rov . Dr . Singer , Bishop of Mcath , one of the leaders of the Evangelical party in Ireland . The Archbishop is eighty-five years of ago . Ho was conxccv .-ited Bishop of Cork in 1800 , translated to Rnphoc in I £ 07 ,. to Clogher iu 1810 , to Dublin , in 1820 , and to AnnntfU
in 1822 . CAnmNAx , Wiseman at Dcndalk . —Dr . Wiseman visited this town on the 8 rd inst . Ilia reception was not enthusiastic , A triumphal arch was erectod by somo zealous Catholics , but removed by a magistrate as nn illegal obstruction . A row was in consequence threatened , but did not come off . In the evening a banquet was given to" the Cardinal . Abdut 150 por ' sons , incluuiug several bishops , wore present . The Very linv . Deun Keiran presided . The toasts proposed wore tho healths of " The Pope , " "The Queen , " " The Koyul Family , " Cardinal Wiaoman , " " The Primnto , " " The Iris " Hierarchy , " nnd " Tho Catholic Laity . " Dr . Wiseman returned thanks in a speech of considerable li'iigtu-Upon this occasion tho position of tho Quoon vas n 0 " altogether forgotten , her Majosty being placed between tho Pope nnd Cardinal Wiseman . Tine Atlantic Tislkgkapu ENOiNisicn , Mr . Charles Bright , whose name ia so inthnntoly associated vrrtl 1 tho laying down of the Atlantia cable , was knigUtod on . Saturday by the Lori } -Lieu ton ant . , ATLANTiS ' ^ banquet was given at Killarnoy on Tuesday « 'b " ? tho gentry of tho county of Kerry , in honour of the aucoossful laying of tho Atlantic cablo . Tho chair wft » occupied by Golonol Herbert , the Into Secretary for »«" land , and tho ontortainmont was gracod by tlio preaoiwo of the Lord-Lioutonant of Ireland , togothor wit" " ° major portion of tho individuals whoso nainos aro inso " parably assooiatod with tho success of tho gront enterprise , The Lo' -a-Llouteuant iu tho course of uis epoocu ,
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appointed him to act as trustee under their wills . It is now discovered that for several years past he has been appropriating the funds of these trusts , and as his bankruptcy rendered concealment no longer possible , and the recent act against fraudulent trustees made punishment almost certain , he has sought safety in flight . Thomas Beet , who is not implicated in the frauds alleged against his brother , Jhad . prepared a balance-sheet , but of so unsatisfactory a nature that ah adjournment was ordered for amendments to be made . The parties interested in three of the trusts the funds of which have been embezzled by W . J . Beet , have filed bills in . Chancery , of which copies have been served on the official assignee . Notice was given that if W . J . Beet did not appear at the next meeting he would be outlawed . —Manchester Gxiardian .
Er . orEMENT . —Mr 3 .: Billett , the wife of a publican residing in Bethual-green , London , eloped recently with , a sawyer named Markham , only half her own age . In order to pay the expenses , the woman , it is alleged , robbed her husband of 2350 / ., and with it bought a large quantity of jewellery and other trinkets for the . adornment of the sawyer . The police were put on the scout , and the fugitives were traced to Liverpool , brought pro forma before the magistrates , and an order made for their transmission to London . Suicidk int -iiLE House of Detestiox .- —A suicide was committed during the night of Tuesday hi tbe
House of Detention , )> y an Italian named GuUeppe Frigerio , who was there on the charge of obtaining twenty pounds by false pretences . The deceased was of a cheerful disposition , so much so as to excite remark . An officer found the deceased suspended by the neck froin / the iron work of the window . He had by some means got a quantity of braiding off a coat he had with him : this he had doubled knotted in several places . One end of this he passed over a projecting bar , and made fast , and , to prevent the sharp edge cutting the braid , ho had placed a piece of thick cloth just where it passed over . When he was discovered the surgeon was at once sent for , but life had been extinct some hours .
Alleged Murdek , vnd Suicide . —On . Tuesday morning the young man Ruid , known as being connected with the Falkirk Bank defalcations , was - apprehended in Glasgow on a charge of murdering a-young woman , servant to his mother , who resides near Polmout . It is alleged that the deceased had been with child by Keid , and that the latter , assisted by a doctor named Kirkwood , had administered drugs and used 'instruments to procure abortion , the result of which was the death of the woman on Monday last . Reid immediately absconded ,
and arrived in Glasgow on Monday night . He was captured by a detective officer from Falkirk , who had started for Glasgow by an early train . It was rumoured in Glasgow that the doctor , on ascertaining the death of the unfortunate young woman , had poisoned . himself . It will be remembered that Reid was a young man for whom much sympathy was felt during his late incarceration in connexion jwith , the Falkirk Bank case , and that , on a strong representation having been made to the Home Secretary , ho was set at liberty . —Scotsman .
CRIMINAL RECORD . The Chbeoh Murders .- ^ -A week before the execution of Bucknell , for the murder , of his grandfather and grandmother , he was visited by his mother and sister , who were much affected , and Bucknell told his mother not to visit him again , for " he could stand no more of it . " Since the morning of the execution wo understand that the mother has taken no food , but gradually sank and expired of a broken heart on Tuesday morniug , a week within a few minutes of the time when the extreme penalty of the law was carried out upon her guilty offspring . The sister , a girl about eleven years old , we hear , is dangerously afflicted , and it is feared has lost her reason . —' Taunton Courier .
' Movements op OoNViCTS .- ^ Redpath , Burgess , and Tester , were despatched to tho Australian convict settlements last week , in the Edwin Fox . Rodpatb , a few days before his embarkation , had a farewell interview with his wife , and their parting is described as being very affecting . Owing to his feeble constitution , which had suffered considerably from the confinement of a prison , he was incapable of enduring tho severe labour of the quarries , in which most of tho convicts at Portland are employed , and he was consequently put to work in the " drying-room , " where ho had the light but undignified occupation of hanging up linen .
A Runaway BANKnupr . —The adjourned examination of Thomas and William Jonathan Beet was held ut ^ hTQ ' Shi 3 < fleld w Bankruptcy w < 9 oui < t }* on « 'Saturday ; » w . Uon ^ tlM ) fact was made known that one of tho bankrupts ( W . J . Boot ) , to escape the consequence of acts brought to light by his bankruptcy , has absconded to the Continent . Tho Beets , up to a short time ago , had a high character in the commercial world . W . J . Beet , who was tfie more active partner in tho Arm , ' was also for many years a director of one of the local banks , and up to the time of his flight held offices in the Wesloyan body , and was trustee for most of tho Wesloyan chapels in the circuit . So good a man was ho esteemed that many persons
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926 THE LMDEE . [ No . 442 , September 11 , 1858 ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1858, page 926, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2259/page/6/
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