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      Gatherings From Law And Pouch Coluits. I...

      to witnesses . The prisoners will be sent for trial to < b An inqu was held on Tuesday upon the body of Mr . j C Williams , who died , as it was alleged , from the effects of an unprovoked attack made upon him in the street bv a gentleman nanied Le Lievre . The poor man ' s leg ' was broken , and a . portion of the bone was amputated , but su rgical skill was of . no use . Lc Lievre has been examined at the Thames police-court , and committed to take his trial for manslaughter . Bail was taken to the amount of i ) 00 * . _ _ . . . ¦ r ; ' ; . hbo h Bnxton

      James S aundcrs , of . Loug roHg-roa < T , , was placed at the bar of Clerkenwell police-court on the charge of uttering a forged and fictitious bill of exchange for 208 ' . lGs ., with the intention of defrauding Mr . Whitmee . The defendant had ordered goods of the prosecutor * and given the bill in payment , representing himself as a landed proprietor of Suffolk . Mr . Corrie remanded the case for a week . Two young men , John Harrington , a tanner , and Henry Bull , a porter , were brought up in custody charged with having acted as seconds to the boy Macdonald , who was killed in a prize fight at Abbey Wood on a S unday morning last month . The prisoners were sent to Maidstonc Gaol to await the . preparation of evidence .

      Calvocoressi , the Greek charged with forging Turkish piastre ? , was on Tuesday tried at Birmingham . Tlic particulars of the ca ? e have been lately detailed . Moss , his accomplice , was found Guilty at the last borough session ? , but sentence was deferred . Calvocoressi having now been convicted , the Recorder was about to pass sentence , when certificates of ill health were put in , and he was allowed a respite to next sessions -. but Moss was sentenced : to 100 / . fine , which was immediately paid . William Clark and his son , commission agents of Water-lane , charged wiih having forged ami uttered a cheque for 737 . 4 s . , 2 x 1 . on the Bank of London , have been committed for trial , bail being refused .

      On Tuesday morning the house of an aged gentleman , named Mellor , at WcsUhill , Wandswprth , was completely destroyed by fire , and on Wednesday Annie Collier , his servant-girl , was placed at the bar of Wand . sworth police-court , charged with having wilfully set fire to the house . The only evidence at present is that of a charwoman , who was supplying the place of an absent servant . Mr . Ingham remanded the prisoner for a week . : . Mr . Birchmore , the defaulting overseer of the parish of St . Paneras , has been apprehended . He has been to Hamburgj and only arrived iu London on Monday last . He was taken to the Clerkenwell police-court , charged with having embezzled various sums of money belonging to the board , and was remanded under bail to the amount of 1200 J . The prisoner's solicitor stated that Birchmore came home on purpose to meet the charge .

      An atrocious attempt was made on Wednesday to murder the master of St . Oluve ' s Workhouse , Bermondsey , by a injin named Dennis Mahoncy , who attacked him with a knife as he was entering the sick ward , anil inflicted several stabs before he could be secured . The assassin was brought up at Southwark police-court , and remanded . At the Court of Bankruptcy a dividend sitting waft appointed in the case of Colonel William Pctrie Waugh , the bankrupt brickmaker , of Branksca Island , whose connexion with the London and Eastern Banking Corporation has rendered him so notorious , At presont there arc but 1000 / . in hand , but it is expected that about 5000 / . or 6000 / . moro will soon be available for a dividend .

      Tjn 458. January 1,1859,1 The Leabee. _ ...

      TJn 458 . January 1 , 1859 , 1 THE LEABEE . _ g _

      Criminal Record. A Shocking Murder Was C...

      CRIMINAL RECORD . A shocking murder was committed at Derby , on thecveningof the 24 th , by a man named Arthur Bland , formerly in the militia . The name of tho victim is F . ilwards , and tlio two men , who were companions , had boon drinking together , when an old quarrel being revived , Bland struck at Edwards with a knife , stabbing him in tlio throat . The unhappy man died almost instantaneously , and the assassin was socureil on the spot . Tlio mystery enveloping the supposod murder at Enping Forest is Btill unsolved , notwithstanding tho careful investigation of tho coroner and his jury , aided by tho police authorities . Tho bodies of tho woman and child have not boon identified , and at the inquest , which was closed on Tuesday , u verdict of " Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown" was returned . Mary NowolJ , who was sentenced to death at tho Oxford Assizes for tho murder of her child has received a commutation of her sentence to penal Horvltudo for life . Tho two brotherH , Owen , and James Johnstono , have boon committed for trial , on a charge of wilful murder , at Liverpool , for having on Friday evening at ruck a carter , no mod James Toolo , over I ho hoiul with an iron bur , and injured him ao much that ho died shortly afterwards , tho doctor stating that death was caused by concussion of the brain .

      Ireland. Turn Prteonorb At Cork Oonnocto...

      IRELAND . Turn prteonorB at Cork oonnoctod with tho Secret Society wore brought un on Wednesday wools , when Sullivan , W > approver , underwent nn examination , which was

      resumed on Thursday . One of the constables contradicted the evidence of the informer as to the privacy of a room called the Phoenix-room , in Murty Downing ' s house . He stated it was always open to the public , and even the constabulary had taken refreshments there . The form of ' oaths-to he taken was not produced , but the informer stated it verbally in his . evidence . Three of the prisoner ? , M'Carty , Driscoll , and Stack , had not been examined , but were identified by the informer . M'CartvStackand Driscoll were discharged , on their

      , , own recognisances of 100 / ., to come up for trial when called upon . Duggan , Denis and Patrick Downing , M'Carthv , O'Shea , O ' Brien , aiid Cullinanewere admitted to bail— -themselves in 100 / . each , and two sureties of 50 / . each , to ' appear at the . assizes . Daniel M'Carthy , K . Sullivan , J . Donovan , M . Moynehan , W . O'Shea , and Murty Downing were committed for trial , without bail . The solicitors for the prisoners returned thanks to the magistrates and the Crown Solicitor for the manner in whk-h the proceedings had been conducted .

      The Lord-Lieutenant on Thursday morning received the deputation appointed , at the late City meeting , to present the resolutions adopted on that occasion in favour of a po .-tal packet station at Gnlway . A number of noblemen and gentlemen met a few daj-s ago in the Town Hall , Belfast , to consider the deficiency of educational institutions in the north of Ireland , and especially the want of a high class of public schools for classical and scientific instruction . A committee was appointed to arrange for a public meeting , at an ^ early date , of those interested in the establishment of intermediate schools , on a non-sectarian basis , with a view of memorialising the Government ; and of adopting such other measures as may seem best fitted to carry out their views .

      On Wednesday , Mr . Rae , on the part of the Belfast prisoners , appeared before the police magistrate of that town , and inquired when and where the investigation was to take place . He was told that the day fixed was Friday , that the inquiry would be private , and that the place would be the Gaol . Mr . Rae declared that he would throw up his brief rather than lower his profession bv defending the prisoners in such a clandestine

      way .. ; . -. ¦ , ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ The Gnhcay Vindicator has been given to understand , on good authority , that the report of the Commissioners presented to the Lords of the Admiralty is highly favourable to the port of Galway as a Transatlantic packet-station . Sir Allan M'Nab , one of the directors of the Atlantic Steam Navigation Company , has arrived in Galw . 1 v .

      Accidents And Sudden Deaths. The Christm...

      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . The Christmas merriment of London this year has been chequered by a terrible catastrophe , which occurred at the Victoria Theatre on Monday . There had been a crowded morning performance , commencing at one o'clock . The management had prepared for the arrival of the visitors to the evening performance before those of the morning had left the house . They had accordingly closed the door at the top of the gallery stairs , so as to prevent either ingress or egress till the morning occupants of the gallery should have cleared away . In order to facilitate this operation a side lobby leading down to the boxes was thrown open , the stream of people descending by which would have poured out at the principal entrance , without interfering with the ascending crowd . Tho genuine mob of a Boxing-night began assembling vevy en . rly at the doors . Long before the morning performance was over the gallery entrance was besieged by an eager crowd . These were admitted , ami the gallery staircase , which does not appear to have been doficicht either iu space or strength , but which was wholly cut off from all available communication with any other part of tho house , became densely crammed from tho bottom to the top . About five o ' clock- —while the people on tho stairs wero huddled together in a compact mass , rendered denser every moment by fresh arrivals from bulow—an alarm of firo was raised in tho upper port of tho staircase . From the manager ' s account it would appear that tho alarm was first occasioned by tho ignition of some fusees in tho pocket of a boy who sat in the boxes . Tliis occasioned a rush , and tho people pressing upon tho gas pipes caused an cscapo of gas , which exploded , and increased the alarm . The people about tho doors , ignorant , of what was going on above , continued toforco their way upward . Tho result was that when , nftor some ton minutes or a quarter of nn hour , the polieo wuro cnablod to clour a way to tho first landing , they found there a confused and motionless heap of bruised ruul trampled human bodies , among which no loss than sixteen wero corpses . It is s ' nid that at least forty others are moro or less Injured . Inquests have boon hold upon ( lie bodies of the slain , and tho juries returned n verdict of Accidental ' Death , with a recommendation that morning porformanuoa should tuko place nuffioiontly uaWy to enable , tho thoatro to be cloarcd before tho evening visitors wore admitted . Tliro ' o lives wore lout on Thursday morning at a flro Iu a wretched court Iu St . Luke ' s . The master of tho Iiouho , named Wrench , in escaping , loft tho atroot-door open , the draught from which drove tho flamoa to tho stairs , cutting oil' tho ooenno of his wife and two children ,

      When the flames were extinguished , the poor mother , with her baby on her arm , was found near the secondfloor window , and a boy , seven years old , in a corner of another room , all three burnt to a cinder .

      Naval And Military. Tin; Colonelcy Of Th...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Tin ; Colonelcy of the 88 th Regiment ( Connaught Rangers ) has become vacant by the demL-e of Lieutenant-General Robert Barclay Macpberson , C . B . and K . H ., who died on Saturday at a ripe age after military services extending over sixty-three years . Mr . Robert Warry , armourer-sergeant of the 3 rd Battalion at Chatham , is now completing a model of his breech-loading cannon of l ; irge dimensions , for the

      purpose of submitting it to the Duke of Cambridge . This gun is of wrought iron and 18 inches in length , the interior of the bore being rifled on the same principle as the ordinary Enfiold rifle musket . The ball to be u « ed will be the conical shaped rifle bullet , which , however , will be covered with a composition coaling of a psculiar character . The inventor expresses his confident belief that this cannon will'throw a ball fully two miles , doing effective execution at 1000 A-ards , the gun being loaded , and discharged at the rate . of five rounds per minute .

      According to the Xew York Herald the United States navy is composed of seventy-eight vessels , carrying 2225 guns . Only twenty-five are steamers , and of these three carry no guns . Her Majestv ' s ship Shannon , screw , fifty , Captain Marten . ( acting \ arrived at Spithead on Wednesday , having left Calcutta September 23 . It will be recollected that the Shannon took a conspicuous part in India , the Naval Brigade of which so signalised themselves under the ever-to-be-lamented Captain William Peel . Vice-Amiral Sir Andrew P . Green , K . C . H ., died on . Sunday last in his eighty-second year . He entered the navy hiore than sixty-five years ago , being a midshipman on board the Illustrious seventy-four , at the investment of Toulon in 1793 ; also at the reduction of Bastia , and in Hotham ' s first action .

      Dr . William Cruickshank , deputy Inspector-General of Hospitals , died at Simla on the 5 th ult . from the effects of illness brought on by excessive fatigue in the zealous discharge of his professional duties , particularly before and at Lucknow . He suffered severely in health , but it was thought repose and change of air would recruit his ' strength , and that before a Tew months had elapsed he would be able , to resume the arduous calls on his professional attention .. His de . ith will be deeply regretted by a wide circle in the army who had the pleasure of his friendship and

      acquaintance-General Williams , commandant of Woolwich garrison , on Wednesday , went through the half-yearly examination ^ the two battalions of the Royal Military Train , in command of Colonel Erskine .

      Dr. Livingstone. Intelligence Has Been R...

      DR . LIVINGSTONE . Intelligence has been received from Dr . Livingstone up to the 4 th of October . Writing on that date , from the Kongone river , to the Rev . W . Thompson , he states : — My dear Mr . Thompson , —I could not possibly write you by last opportunity from the Zambesi ; but there was so little to communicate , you were no loser . We have now had more time to look about us , and I think we have ascertained the point that entering this river at the time we did is nearly quite safe , if no delay takes place among the mangrove swamps . We have been favoured with fair health , and have had ailments more like common colds than fever . Two of the party ace now at Tete , and the others hope to join them shortly . We got a ' ton and a half of coals there , the first ever taken out of tho earth in that country ; and as the Portuguese have shown a great deal of public spirit , we are almost sure of a larger supply when wo return . My poor fellows received mo with joy . They had been taunted by tho Tete people that their Englishman would never return ; but they hoped on , and have amassed quantities of beads , to take back to their own country . Thirty of them died of smallpox , and six were killed by a rebel chief nt tho confluence of the Suenya . Tho confidential servant of Lekwebu is with mo now on board the launch , which is so small wo could not bring moro of them down , though they wore anxious to come in service . Wo found tho country in a state of war , and tho Portuguese woro too busy with that to help us with canoes . It is finished now , and my old friend , Major Laoard , ut once assisted us with luggage ; but it has quite depopulated the land adjaocnt to the river . We see the river in this month nt its very lowest ; and as it spreads out into from one to throe miles in width , tho broad parts are very difficult . Whon we got up to Lupatn our difficulties vanish , for abovo that point it in in one or two ebunuols of about 1000 or 1200 yards broad . I admire its si / . o moro than over . When I camp down in a canoe it was full , and I saw but ono channel whoro now aru two or throe . If tho Portuguese would bo nt tho expense of a few piles driven in , to ofioct what " enaga" sometimes do now , deep channels might lu > secured for the wholo year . TUoy aro going to build ft fort ami custom-house ut ' this or tlio Luol ' io . —With kin . V regard , & C , V . Liyinqstosk .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 1, 1859, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01011859/page/5/