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.- . . . . ,: : ¦ : the if Ayr- ; ¦¦ - . ¦¦ ¦ . " ¦'¦ . Sir C Napier , in moving for some correspondence between Sir B . Walker and the Admiralty , took occasion to reiterate his censure upon present and past Boards / for allowing the navy to fall into its present state of dilapidation . —Mr . Corry denied that the present Board of Admiralty deserved censure . —Mr . T . G-. Baking vindicated the late Board of Admiralty from the charge of neglecting the navy . After some explanations from Lord Lovaine , and a few words from Mr . Lint > say , Mr . Wuitbread , Mr . Hudson , and Sir C . Wood , the House divided : — -For the motion , 26 ; against , 177 ; majority , 151 . The House went into committee upon the Law of Property and Trustees' Relief Amendment Bill , and the Ecton and Wilton Exchange Bill . The Oaths Act Amendment Bill was read a third time , and passed , and other bills were forwarded a stage . The House adjourned at twelve o ' clock .
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GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Ai the Court of Bankruptcy on Tuesday a lengthened hearing was given to an application for certificates by Schlesingers and Purfitt , drysalters , of Basinghall-street . The inquiry not having terminated at the rising of the court , an adjournment to the 24 th inst . was ordered . . * Joseph Sutcliffe , cashier in the service of Messrs . Hill * Wood , and Hughes , Coal Exchange , was placed in the dock at the Mansion House , on Tuesday , charged with . embezzlement . According to the terms of the accusation the prisoner had been in the habit of leaving cheques for considerable sums unentered in his cash book , and in some , instances of altering entries : that had been made so as to show much less than the true amount . The total deficiency is not yet ascertained . No defence was offered , and the alderman acceded to the request fora remand . ¦ : ; ' ' . ,
At the Liverpool police-court , on Monday ; Buchanan and Mitchell , the engineers charged with roasting to death the stoker Landon , . were again examined . The evidence given on the former occasion was corroborated , and the prisoners were , committed to take their trial for manslaughter . The trial of the poachers concerned in the Bishop Burton murder was broaght to a close at the York Assizes on Tuesday . The particulars of this case , in which one of the Sleepers was killed and two others seriously wounded ^ have been so recently , and frequently stated , that they must be'well known The jury acqutted the prisoners Playforth , M-Grath and Stoveri ; the other four were found guilty . Of tliese Markham was sentenced to eight years ' , Franklin and Johnson to five years' each , and Marshall to three years * penal seryitude .
Mr . William Newton , the printer and publisher of a weekly newspaper , called the East London Observer , appeared on a summons before Mr . D'Eyncourt at Worship ^ street Police-court , to answer a charge of libel . Thecharge arises out of . the case " Grardner V . Godfrey , " tried at Nisi Pr-ins ' a short ; time ago , ; and the alleged libel is contained in certain continents on that trial , said to be defamatory to the character of Dr . Godfrey , the prosecutor in the present instance . The defendant pleaded . Not Guilty ; and after hearing , evidence , the magistrate intimated his intention to send the case for trial to the Central Criminal . Court . Bail to the amount , of 550 / . was allowed .
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CRIMINAL RECORD . Tub American papers bring us the account of a terrible tragedy at Washington op the 27 th ultimo . The parties concerned are not unknown in London . Mr . Sickles filled the post of Secretary of Legation during the mission of ^ Mr . Buchanan to England ; His young wife was there with him . Her husband , on returning , to New : York , succeeded in obtaining the Democratic nomination for Congress from one of the metropolitan districts . Being a personal friend of the President , aa well as a cool and ready debater , he easily took a prominent rank in the House . Mr . Philip Barton Key , was the nephew of the Chief Justice of the United States , and himself the Government District Attorney for the
Washington- district , A criminal connexion between Mrs . Sickles and Mr . Key commenced in April last , and tbeir intimacy appear * to have exoited some remark In Washington - , but the gossip appears to hare been fruitless . On the opening of the session this wjiiter the intimacy was renewed more systematically , Mr . Key hired a house where they might meet unsuspected : and thither ,. when the absence of her , husband would permit , the faithless wife , lured' ou , t by the signal of a waved handkerchief , would repair . On the 25 th utfo , while entertaining the President at dinner ; Mr . fiction learned these details from an anonymous correspondent . The next day was spent ip investigating the foots , and Inquiries proved their truth . The wife was then
, . unhappy husband , brooding over his wrongs , sat by the window facing the President ' s-square . Mr . Key just then came out of the club-house on the opposite side of the square , and made the usual signal . The . husband saw it , and in a frenzy rushed after him , exclaiming , , < c Villain , prepare to die ! ' * He then fired a pistol at Key , and a ball grazed the lover . Unarmed , he draws an opera-glass from his coat pocket , and throws it at his assailant . They then close together , and he endeavours to wrench the pistol from the husband ' s hand . He fails , ancl the husband , releasing himself , raises his arm again , to fire . "Don't kill me ! " prays the unarmed man . The merciless finger moves ; and the victim falls . Another shot insured the certainty of the work that had been before done . Sickles then saying "Is the — scoundrel dead ? " turned away , surrendered himself to the officers of justice , and went to prison a martyr . The affair created great excitement in Washington , and strong sympathy , we read , was manifested for Mr . Sickles , who was in prison , and in a complete state of mental prostration . At Pillgwemly , in Wales , a labourer named Francis lived unhappily . with his wife * and for beating her was summoned before a magistrate . Although she did not appear against him , she left his house , and refused his solicitations to return . On Saturday he went to the house where she was living , and on her repeating the refusal he cut her throat with a razor , causing almost instant death . The blade was tied open so as to prevent its closing when used . From this fact it is naturally inferred that the deed was a premeditated one . On being examined before the magistrates , he confessed the crime and was committed for trial . . The culprit Birkitt , who was sentenced at Nottingham Assizes to be hanged for the murder of William Whatmore at Barnby-in ^ th&TWillows ; has been respited during her Majesty ' s pleasure .
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . | At Sheerness Dockyard the following screw-steam- | ships will very shortly be ready , for sea . —Hero , 91 ; | Edgar , 91 ; Queen , 116 ; Forte , 51 ; and numerous | gun-boats . The workmen are engaged night and | day in pushing them forward . At Woolwich , two 1 new screw-steainers , the Wolverine and Bristol , fj have been laid down ; and at Chatham orders have fcj been received to commence the Rattlesnake , 86 . ' m Mr . W . Gosling , of Woolwich , announces that he W has succeeded in the invention of an unprecedented I piece of prdnance , which he is anxious to submit to ¦ any test , with a view to its adoption by the Govern- K ment . K The Moniteur de V Annie remarks on the Arm- ¦ strong gun , that , in the Baltic and Crimean cam- ¦ paigns , the English produced the Lancaster gun . ¦ On the practice-ground at home it threw to a great ¦ distance and with precision ; it launched fulminat- ¦ ing projectiles of terrible effect ; but in the field m and in an active war it did npt realise the ad- EL vantages which had been promised by the expen- m ments at home . The new cannon , like the Lancaster m gun , must < be definitively judged on the field of W battle . I We learn that five frigates of the French navy i are to be Sheathed with iron so as to make them shotpropf . The contract , for one is just concluded . , .. Mr . Whitworth has written to the newspapers to d correct an impression that cannon made by wf have failed in praptice . He says i— " My ©* PW » J ments have for some time past been mainly a ^ ctca to the subject of . rifled small arms ; but , as tie system which . I have adopted is equally W ica ^ < { to ordnance of all sizes , I bored and rifle . d several | pieces of cannon , which were supplied to mo in tno | solid by the Government . For the strength of these j guns I was in no degree responsible ; they were tjio | ordinary pieces made for the smooth-bored cannon , m used in the service , and proved , too weak to » « the strain of firing long rifled projeotxles . I nope m soon to be enabled to make trial of two guns whion , m on my own Responsibility , I am conatructjng ; ot . wo * requisite strength , and which , I doubt not , will CM < reaiiso the expectations entertained by those Jj ¦ witnessed the flwt experiments in April , } 85 ^ W "' . S | the 24-pounder brass howitzer . which I bored and | rifled . At tha * time projectiles , varying from two i to six diameters in length , having quick rotary i motion , were fired with great , success . 1
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ACCIDENTS . Two men who wexe trespassing on the line , of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , near Wigan , were caught between two trains . One man was killed on the spot ) the other ' miraculously escaped with a broken arm . Tho drivers of both trains saw the men , and sounded the steam-whistles , but they were not able to stop in time . 1 Wo have accounts of several disastrous shipwrecks on tho coast this week . At Shields , on Monday , a fearful gale caused numerous vessels to run for tho port , and while crowding in , three of them , the George , of North Shields , tho Elizabeth ,
of Boston , and the Sir William Carden , drifted on to Tynemouth Bocksv The lifeboats were got out and rockets were fired . An immense concourse of people lined the sea banks , and after most heroic exertions by the coastguardmen and the sailors on shore , the erews of the Elizabeth and the Sir William Carden were landed , though in a very exhausted state . Neither lifeboats nor rockets were able to reach the crew of the George . The master Mr . iieed , and the crew of four seamen , were drowned under the very eyes of the crowds on the sea banks , aid being impossible . ^ . & * r >^ . nx A . «« ^ k - » J \ 4 i «/ v Cfz sk ' . TTiTiiiis _ ^_— ^^ 1 . ^ t _ ¦ . ^ , _
The gales of last week on the Cumberland coast caused a great deal of mischief . The sloop Hope from Liverpool , struck on Selkirk Rock , and immediately went down , the captain and all hands perishing . She was laden Avitli vitriol . Another vessel , a schooner , was seen to go down near the same place , but farther out at sea ; name unknown at present ; all hands lost . The Mary Jane , of Fleet wood , was driven by , the violence of the gale on shore . The vessel being light , and the tide at flood , she ran up on the beach high and dry at Braystpnes , near Whitehaven . Several vessels have put into Wliitehaven , some dismasted , others with loss of sails .
. The Board of Trade have ordered an investigation , into the circumstances attending the recent casualty to the JJoyal Mail steam-packet , Prince Frederick William . ' From Weymouth we hear that the French brig Cinq Soeurs , of Bordeaux , was driven on shore near the , village of . Wyke , on Monday night , the master and one man saved ; the rest of the crew ( six ) drowned and from Jersey a correspondent writes that the cutter Eclipse Labey , sailed from Gorey on the 8 th inst . for the usual fishing-ground , and is supposed to have been lost on the same day off the Minquiers . There were on board , the master and his two brothers , with three others ; in all six lives were lost . None of the bodies have been found .
At Maidstohe Assizes ; on Thursday , John Norton and George Herbert , privates in the Ro ^ al Marines , were found guilty of robbery , with violence . The prosecutrix keeps a small shop at Frindsbury , neat Eochester , into Which the prisoners went to buy a loaf , and . took the opportunity to knock the poor woman down and rifle her pockets , and also to rob her shop . They were sentenced to penal servitude for 20 years , the judge telling them that if they had done the prose . cu . trix , any material injury he would have left them for execution .
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IRELAND . At the Phoenix dub trials last week , two of the witnesses refused to give evidence , and , all threats failing to induce them to change their resolution , they were ultimately committed for contempt of court . The vast mass of evidence which has been given adds but little to the facts already made known by the preliminary investigations before the magistrates , but some documentary proofs have been put in by the Crown which certainly tend to strengthen the belief that the conspiracy was more deep-rooted than the public could have supposed at the first discovery of the plot . On Monday Baron Greene summed up , and the jury retired to their room * At six o'clock they had not agreed , and his lordship adjourned until nine . At that hour the court was crowded . Counsels on both sides were in attendance . The High Sheriff intimated that the jury wanted another quarter of an hour , which was granted . At the expiration of that time they had not agreed , and Baron Greene adjourned the court until nine o ' clock on Tuesday morning . The jury were locked up , but could not agree in their verdict . The trial has been postponed till the 30 th of March , and the jury discharged . A true bill was found by the grand jury of the county of Kilkenny against Martin Ha we , one of the Phoenix Club waen . The Crown , however , were not in a position to try the case at- the present assizes , and an application was made to admit the prisoner to bail . Baron Richards said he would let the case stand for next assizes . r An inquest has been held upon the body of Edward Dourneen , the old man who > vas shot dead on Sunday week near the town of Gorey , and a verdict returned to the effect that he came by his death from a gunshot wound inflicted by some person or persons unknown . . _ ¦ At the Cork assizes on Wednesday , tho grand jury returned two true bills against the prisoners indicted for treason felony , in connexion with the Phoenix conspiracies . On the meeting of the court , owing to certain circumstances , the trials were postponed till next assizes . The judge refused the application for bail , dirocting that requisition should be made in the Court of Queen ' a Bench ' .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 19, 1859, page 358, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2286/page/6/
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