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GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . The four individuals , Read alias Campbell , Thompson ali&s Barnet , Samuel Thompson and Thomas Smith , who constitiited the " MercantileLoan _ Fund Association , " have been again brought up at Clerkenwell Police-court , when some further evidence was adduced against them . One of these capitalists , Mr . Smith , it seems , lias been formerly convicted ^ of stealing a copper ; the magistrate has , however , disr charged him in the present instance , there not being sufficient evidence against him . The other prisoners are committed for trial on the charge of conspiracy to defraud . _ .
The Thellusson will case has been further heard before the House of Lords this week . At the conclusion of the counsel ' arguments , the Lord Chancellor put certain questions to the judges , which the latter desired time to consider , and the case was adjourned sine die . The case of Dickson v . the Earl of "Wilton , was concluded on Tuesday , having occupied the time 6 f the court for five days . The primary cause of the trial would seem to be a disagreement about mess accounts . Lieutenant-Colonel Dickson sued Colonel the Earl of Wilton for imputing misconduct to him in his office as Lieutenant-Colonel of the 2 nd Tower Hamlets Militia . One act of slander arid two
libels were charged . The libels were contained in two letters written by the Earl of Wilton , and addressed to his superior officer , Lord Combermere , the Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets . Lord Wilton replied that the slander and libels complained of were true , and , moreover , that they were privileged communications . The jury found for Colonel Dickson upon all three points , awarding to him 5 l . damages for the two libels ; and 2 QQL for the slander . It appeared from the evidence that Colonel Dickson had keptliis accounts in an unbusinesslike manner . According to the opinion of the military witnesses , he ought never to have meddled with : the accounts at ail . As commanding officer , he should have
interfered to check obvious and palpable extravagance ; he should have called meetings to consider what should be done to free the regiment from embarrassment , but personally he should never liave touched a penny . By the evidence given , we . find Colonel Dickson asking tradesmen & >* delay , promising payment , and , in fact , placing himself in a false position . Starting with this false step , it next appears that Colonel Dickson obtained the ill-will of some among the o&cers under his command . Lord Wilton was informed that charges of pecuniary irregularity were made against his Lieutenant-Colonel ;¦ ¦ but for a long time he took no action in the matter , and this was a weak point in his case . At length lie Lord
caused the Adjutant to write a letter to Com- * bermere , which he himself signed , complaining of Colonel Dickson ' s conduct in the matters alleged , and craving inquiry . Lord Combernaere thereupon recommended that Colonel Dickson should be removed from the regiment . The matter then fell into General Peel ' s hands . A court of inquiry was directed to sit , which does not appeal to have made a report at all . Before this court Colonel Dickson made , his statement , and on the 28 th of December , 1858 , there appeared a notice in the Gazette to the effect that Colonel Dickson had been removed from the army . Nothing could have been more unfair than that Lord Wilton and Lord Cpmberrnere should dispose of his case in his absence , and upon this circumstance Lord Campbell , remarked , in the course of his summing up , with great , but not undeserved ,
severity . Upon Colonel Dickson ' s dismissal , the Times remarks , " The . proceeding seems most unreasonable , for Colonel Dickson was at least entitled to know upon what grounds bo serious a step as , hjLa dismissal from the service had been taken . If the result of the inquiry was unfavourable to Colonel Dieksop , it should bo known as the justification of General Peel ; if favourable , still more should it bo known as bare justice to Colonel Dickson . As matters stand at present a jury have found that the accusations brought , against Colonel Dickson are false . If so , it is to be presumed that this officer ' s reinstatement in his military position will follow ns a matter of course . If not , Goncrjol Pool must inform tho world what are his grounds for differing from a verdict which a jury have brought in under the direction of tho Chiof Justice . "
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CRIMINAL RECORD . At Hanwell Asylum , a lunatic patient , William Ilobovts , murclurod a fellow-suJforci' with a heavy pitchfork , during an attack of frowzy last veok . Tho mcn > with somo twenty others , " wore engaged , in husbandry at tho time . Tho coronor ' s jury found that Roberts - fyas not guilty , on tho ground of insanity , but ho was commit tod to Nuwgato to tuko his trial . Mary Nowoll , who was ' tried at tho viator Borkshire assizes , and sentenced to death tbr tho wilful jnurdor of hor child by drowning In the river Thumos ,
near Reading , has become a lunatic . It is , however , hoped that she riiay recover . Her case has _ excitecl the deepest commiseration in the town of Reading , near which town the crime was committed . It . is earnestly hoped that the ltoyal clemency may be further extended to her . Wr j The Newcastle Daily Chronicle says , —We understand that a man at present under sentence of four years ' penal servitude in Portland prison , has confessed to having shot poor Mr . Stirling , the young surgeon whose distressing death caused such a sensation in this district three years ago . The Home Secretary has sent the statement of the person who declares he did the horrid deed , to the mayor of this borough , and no doubt his worship will take , the necessary steps to investigate the correctness of the allegation' . .
. . , _ The Winlaton schoolmaster , who was . taken into custody , charged with being accessory to the death of Elizabeth Hall , as we mentioned last week , has been remanded by the Darlington magistrates . The coroner ' s jury , however , have returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased died from mortification , resulting from violent means to procure abortion , biit by whom used it does not appear .
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IRELAND . The affairs of the late John Sadleir continue to furnish employment for the law courts . There is an appeal now going on Jin Chancery against the recent decission of . the . Lancled Estates Court in favor of the claim set up by the London and County Bank , "In re Burmester . " The case was opened on Thursday , is still proceeding , and when . it will be concluded not even the lawyers themselves could hazard a guess . The tide of speculation , however , sets in favor of the English concern . Tt is announced that the Cork Phoenix , prisoners ,
having committed Over tacts in Kerry , are to be taken to Traiee for trial with their Kerry associates , at the assizes for the county of Kerry . It is also stated that the Attorney and Solicitor-General will conduct the prosecutions in person . Several new arrests were made in the town of Kenmare J last week , but upon investigation before the magistrates nothing transpired to warrant a committal , and the prisoners , after a few hours' detention , were released from custody . Mr . O'Hagan , Q . C ., is engaged special to lead for the defence of the clubbites . Baron Greene and Mr . Justice O'Brien are the judges for the
Munster circuit . •; The promised Tipperary monster meeting in favour of tenant right , reform , &c , canie off on Monday in the town of Thurles . There were between 2 , 00 < and 3 , 000 people present . The Irish members mustered to the number of two , namely : the O'Donoghue of the Glens , and Mr . Blake , one of the representatives for the City of Waterfowl . The resolutions were framed upon the old model , with a few new additions . They called for the Tenant Right Bill whole and unadulterated , Mr . Bright ' s Parliamentary Reform pleasure , and the Ballot—to Obtain all of which the game of independent opposition was to be played to the last card by tho faithful few among the Irish Liberal members .
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ACCIDENTS . A FKAitFUX , fire took place on Saturday , at tho house of a grocer in Whitechapel , named Walton , which was remarkable for the awful rapidity with-which the house was destroyed , and for tho courage shown by tho firo-escapo conductor , Samuel Wood . Having saved six of the inmates , this brave man , at the imminent risk of Ins life , crawled through tho flames to rescue two maid-servants , who slept in a back at tj a Before he could reach them tho floor fell through
and buried the poor women in the ruins ; Their bodies wore afterwards found in the cellar ; and at an inquest held , tho coroner and jury spoke highly in praise of Wood , who has boon so fortunato as to save elevon lives within nine days ; and altogether ninety persons in the same parish . With such testimony to tlio value of tho Firo-oscnpo Society , Buroly solf-intcrost , " if no highor motive , should induce oyory ono who has tho power to subscribe to its support .
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . It was recently stated to bo oxpectod thut the forthcoming report on tho manning of tho navy would rooommend cm efficient systom at a cost not involving an addition of moro than 400 , 001 )/ . to tho present annual oxpondituro . Upon till tho figures being niaclo up , it is now reported , however , that this amount of Inorcaso will bu oxeuoded by upwards , of 00 por cent . Tho Nankin , r > 0 , . Commodore Hon . K . Stowart , is stripped and dismantled-, nncl was paid off at Chatham on Thursday } aho will now go into ordinary In tho Mod way , This ship , it will bo romomberod , has Just returned from China In thohighost-Htato of discipline and oflldonoy . Every clay brings fresh aooounts of tho enormous
efforts the French Government are making to increase the efficiency of their navy both in material and discipline : of the latter a writer in the Daily News says : —It is not an unusual performance , even on board a iine-of-battle- ship that has not been more than six months in commission , to heave in 90 fathom of chain arid make all sail , within fourteen rnjnutes of the appearance , on board the flag-ship , of the signal to " weigh anchor . " A topsail will be shifted by an expert crew in little more than seven , minutes and a half , and a whole squadron have been known in a gale , with a heavy sea running , to strike topgallan t masts in nine minutes . The Bretagne , not long ago , was observed to lower lifer three topsails , to take
in a reef in each , and hoist them again , in rather les s than two minutes and twenty-five seconds—a feat which probably the smartest ship ' s company in our own service would not readily surpass . Everything that was worth adoption has been scrupulously copied from English ships , at the same time that some few obvious improvements of various kinds have been introduced . By means of the " Inscription " a certainty of obtaining any requisite supply of men can be ensured , arid if ever the two greatest nations of the world- should unhappily be involved again in war , we shall find that , so far from acknowledging our supremacy oh the ocean , France will be fully prepared to dispute it . "The . intended transformation of the steam line-of-battle-ship Jemmanpes into a
floating battery is , " says a . letter from Toulon , " the commencement of a new and important application of the system of floating batteries , from wliieli extraordinary results are expected . Those floating citadels , " says the writer , " mounted with guns of the largest calibre , and manoeuvring under steam at the entranceof a port or roadstead , will ; when two or three are together , keep off" the whole of an enemy ' s squadron , and protect the arsenals and towns from the reach of any projectile . They will , moreover , render powerless the fortifications which command certain important , maritime straits . Two of those vessels , placed on the coast of Centa , . would completely paralyse the guns of Gibraltar , and would be masters of the pillars of Hercules . "
In reference to a report that her Majesty ' s ' ship Orion was supposed to . be lost , a letter luis been received from Admiral Fremnntle , commanding the Channel , squadron , in which he mentioned that the vessel had parted company from him , but that he was under no apprehensions as to her complete safety . . ¦ ' . Lieut-General Sir II . G . Smith , apmmamUhg the Northern district , has been detained in town l > y a fall , an accident Which has confined him to the house . The gallant general is nearly recovered from its effeets , and will soon resume his duties in the district of his command . ' -.- '¦
. On Tuesday Captain Norton again attended at the head-quarters of the lioyal Engineers' establishment , at Chatham , for the purpose of exhibiting nn equally valuable invention of his , named the explosive percussion bolt-signal , which will bo found of great use as'a military alarm signal . In the trial of the invention yesterday , the signals were taken in the hand , and behig allowed to fall either on the earth or even on the grass , exploded with n suflicienily l < niil report to be heard a considerable distance . < ' : iptain Norton proposes to apply the same principle to signals to bo used on the railways , so as to eiiiiMe pussengevs and guards to communicate with the drivers of engines . ' TUe Government have resolved to issue u commission to inquire into and roport on the recruitiiig system of the army .
In consequence of the frequency of complaints that soldiers use- their bolts as weapons iu street brawls , the Commandcr-in-Chicf has issued ' nn o'Mer that soldiers guilty of such conduct are imi to no allowed to wear their bolts out of bar nicks . Tho greatest despatch is exhibited in filing imt new stcaru line-of-battlo ships / it C ' . 'linilinni . I "i Trafalgar , 120 , which haa bcun reduce . I : ¦> i \ ' . ; W- '" screw steamer , will bo put out of dock il . iinntf . m . ^ i ' month , when hor place will bo occupied ' < : ¦ ' " Rodney , i > 0 , which is to bo Jit toil as a screw sicnu-.-r . Tho Wevurn , 50 , new sailing frigate , is '" '" ' iUl ! U half and lengthened sixty foot , and filled i . ' ' 1 ' " s beam or . " A despatch received at tlio Adniiruhv sni :-.- ! / l ' tho Orion arrived at 13 orehaven on , l ! u' IH'i 1 I 1 M >
All well on board . Lieut . Robert J . Stothord has been tried >> v lio " " nmrtijil and dismissed from his eoinninii ;! "i ''•« Ruby gun-bout , tor having run Into Hu- i'n ' . ; ' . || 1 ' on . tho morning of thu 21 st of January Imi . *\ " tho naid brig was riding at anchor - in i ^ " 1 lumber .
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UN 0 i . AiMicnPjviDKNr > 8 . T-By a return J n-t - , '' jj appoaiM that on tho' 5 th ult . tho uiu'lnlmo I <> M' l '" :, in tho Bank of England amountod l , « niM » 7-i / . , « - . "•• I whloh 02 . 0 , 450 / . 12 s . Od . was aJvanood to thu oo \ lw niont .
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2 SO T H E Ii E APE B . [ No , 465 , Febritary 19 , 1859 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 19, 1859, page 230, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2282/page/6/
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