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1050 THE LEADER. [No. 203, Satuijpay
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. The Milan Gazette pub...
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Highway Robbery .- —The unsafe condition of the XrOwdon streets is being every day made more and more apparent by case * which come before the police magistrates . At the latter end of last week , Mr . Sawyer , a retired tradesman , was walking through John-street , Smith-square , Westminster , -when he was pinioned behind by one man , while another robbed him of his gold watch , chain , and seals . Both ruffians then escaped , and Mr . Sawyer , being old and feeble , could not pursue them . From the suddenness of the attack , he is also unable to identify his assailants .
Adventoboos Thieves . — The house of Mr . Davis , a licensed victualler in High-street , Shoreditch , was broken open during the night , some weeks ago , and a large iron chest , weighing more than three hundred ¦ weight , and containing gold and silver money , was , by some extraordinary ingenuity , removed without any noise , though it must have required the efforts of several men . It happened , on the morning of the burglary , a lad met two men , named Thomas Johnson and George Gable , walking by the side of a truck , on which was placed a large iron safe . A police sergeant , accordingly , traced Gable to a public-house , and attempted to arrest him , but was beaten off by some of his companions . He was ultimately , however , taken into custody , together with Johnson ; and the two are now under remand at Worship-street .
A ButJTAt Step-mother .- * -Jane Mill was charged , at Clerkenwell , with cruelly beating her step-daughter , a little girl nine years of age . The woman was detected in the streets using a thick cane to the child , who screamed violently ; and an examination of the sufferer's person showed many bruises and wounds . Mr . Tyrwhitt ordered that the prisoner should appear that day month , 'when he would see how the child was ireated . Corious Confession . —A very singular instance of voluntary admission of theft in exoneration of another person taxed with the crime recently transpired at the Thames Police Court . A waterman named Isaac Cowderoy ( ° Corduroy ) was brought before Mr . Yardley charged with stealing a watch from Captain Jo-eph Hamsbaw , master of a ship in the London Docks . That
gentleman and his wife crossed the river from Horsely-< iown to the opposite shore in the prisoner ' s boat . On landing , Captain Hamshaw gave Cowderoy fourpence ( a penny more than he was entitled to ) , when he demanded sixpence . This being refused , he began violently abusing the captain , and followed him and his wife as far as St . Katharine ' s Dock . Here , after they had crossed the bridge , Cowderoy followed up bis vituperations by a personal assault on Captain Hamshaw . The latter knocked the man down , when he was presently suirounded and hustled by a gang of ruffians , and his watch was stolen 'from him . He managed , however , to hold the waterman until the arrival of the police , when he gave him into custody . Captain Hamshaw ' s solicitor having stated in Court that thewatch had not been traced , t he magistrate handed him the following letter on the subject , which is no less remarkable for its orthography and composition than for the motive which diotated it : — " Oct . 25 , 1855 .
——Sur , —i was passin bye Irongate woff me and my companons when i see a gentileman And a waterman have a Disput a Bout the Fare when High words Took place when the Gcntilemen struck the warterman , and the 'warterman' struck him Back a Gane They Closed and Veil . During the time me and my Oompanons apostracted his wach From his tope C * op ) pocket in His wescote and left the Chane and ring be Ilinde with thout injuring Eatlie for We have a Piticklar way in Dowing this Here Dodge bleeve me kind sur the warterman nowa apthen a Bout it Hearin hof this i thort i Wood send tjija to your Worshope the name of the Woch is pool Fenchurch street i thort it Wood be a Pity for an insont man to suffer that all your Worshorpo- " When the letter was read , the prisoner blubbered and denied having stolen the watch . Mr . Yardley believed this , but , for the aspault with which he was charged , lined him £ 2 , or twenty-one days' imprisonment .
Wifje Bejutino . —One of the worst cases of tins nature that have recently been brought forward came before Mr . Hardwick at the Marlborough-street Police Court . A cab-driver , named John Waddell , returned home one night and found his wife and child in bed , He sent tho latter out for some gin , and , as soon « s the child was gone , dragged the woman out of bed and commenced a series of unprovoked assaults upon her . Hctoro her hair , tried to throttle her , beat her head with a hammer , and fl ung uorno thick boots in her fuce . Some of the lodgers , alarmed by the cries of the child , interfered 5 but tho savage treatment wua repeated at intervals on the . following day and evening , when the lodgora again interposed ,
and found the woman s face streaming with blood . They -vraahed her wounds , and , while they were attending her , Waddoll was very violent , said that his wifo had done it herfiolf , and upbraided tho lodgora for interfering in his own affairs . At lust it was found necessary to send fora policeman , -who , with the assistance of two other ofticor . i , took the cabman into custody , while hia wife wns removed to , tho hospital . Tho poor woman , whoso head nnd face . "Were horribly disfigured from tho injuries she had re-< elTed ; could hardly glvo her oxidonce , owing to tho ftbets of her husband's violence . In hia dcfeiioo , Waddojl merely sold that he waa drunk nt tho tiiuo . The magistrate was going to send him to tho ai'saious for trial , but ,
at the intercession of his wife , who did not wish to press the charge against her husband ( probably from fear of the consequences ) , he sentenced him to six months' imprisonment . IIukdee and Remorse—A pit-owner at Ketiey near Wolverhampton , has committed a frightful critue . Some of the men below in the pit refused to work . Vaughan , the pit-owner , parleyed with them , and , or . being told they were coming up , said he would kill them . He then , in a lit of passion , hnrled down the shaft an immense mass of timber . The men below heard it thundering dowD , and five escaped ; but a sixth could not get away with sufficient rapidity , and he was killed . The others shouted up to Vaughan that he had slain the man ; upon which , says a Wolverhampton paper , Yaughan seems to have been seized with a paroxysm of fear or remorse , dancing about and tearing his ha " ir and clothes in a frantic manner . He then ran away , but has since been arrested and committed for
trial . Embezzlement . — -A young roan , named Robert Edwin Kobinson , is under remand , at Leeds , charged with embezzling monev to the amount of upwards or . £ 100 , and with purloining railway coupons , the property of his master , a sharebroker at Leeds . He had entered , ¦ in his master ' s name , into dealings in railway stock with a London house , and had appropriated mouey to pay for the shares he had ordered . On this being discovered Mr . Marshall , his employer , spoke to him , and he said he had made the purchases because he thought it would do his employer good , as the market was going up ; but he afterwards absconded . He is also charged with erabezz'ing about £ 100 from the Leeds Recreation bociety , of which he was secretary .
A . Txckee-of-Lkave Man . — Henry Simpson , a ticket of-leave man , and Henry Mitchell , a person well known to the police , have been sent for trial charged with a robbeey at the shop of a linendraper in Brunswickplace Old Kent-road . The prisoners were discovered in the shop during the night by a watchful police sergeant , who , with the assistance of two constables , apprehended them after a fierce and murderous assistance , Dkaung in Blind Women—Mr . Fergusson , the chief clrk of the Mendicity Society has brought under the notice of the magistrate at Lambeth , the proceedings be connected
of a certain Mr . Roper , who professes to with a Distressed Needlewomen ' s Society , and who has obtained large sums of money on behalf of a blindwoman who is strongly suspected not to exist . The names of the Queen and Prince Albert , according to Mr . Ferguson , have been falsely placed amongst the list of subscribers ; and it is said that the pet object of Roper for some years has been a blind needlewoman , a blind girl , or a blind child , the daughter of a needlewoman . In a letter produced by Mr . Ferguson , Roper says : — "W have two more blindwomen on our books . "
Isabella Ward , who was accused of an assault on a lying-in woman , has been discharged , the magistrate conceiving that she acted from motives of humanity rather than the reverse . It appears that the landlady , and not Ward , who is only a worker at the house , ordered the girl Joyce into the street . It also turns out that the birth was premature by some months ; which in some degree explains why the workhouse authorities conceived that the girl waa not near her con . finement . A Doubtful Case . —Considerable time was
consumed at Guildhall on Tuesday in investigating a atrange charge of forgery . William Radley , who described himself as a civil engineer , was accused of forging the name of Lord Colvill . The evidence showed that some iron safes , & c , had been obtained from Messrs . Milner and Son , by means of letters purporting to be signed by Lord Colvill , but in fact written by Radley . Lord Colvill asserted that he had never given him any authority to write his name , and that he had not received the goods ; but Radley said , before Sir Peter Laurie , " I have been greatly deceived by Colvill . He represented himself to me as Lord Colvill , and gave me a power of attorney to act for him , and I thought I was dealing with a person of respoctnbilily ; instead of that , I found out that in 1848 the House of Lords had decided against hie claim to the litle of Lord Colvill , and that his name had been struck off the list o f peers at Holyrood Palace . I
supposed I was authorized by a most respectable man to do what 1 have done . '' In © roes-examination Lord Colvill admitted ihut he had in fact given a power of attorney to Hartley to act for him ; that the house in Grove-hill-terruce , Camberwell , from which the alleged forgeries were dated , had been tuken in liia name and with hia consent , and that the rent had not been paid . Radley further atated that Lord Colvill had hod £ 800 from him , and that he hud given him into custody to prevent him offering evidence in an aotion , touching the prosecutor ' s disputed title , which was to have been tried that day . His lordship , if 00 he can be culled , was charged ut tho Munsion-houee , some months ago , with stealing a coat and a horsecloth ? but tho case broke down . It was alleged that ho then knew that Radley bud obtained the goods in his name , and thut ho had been seen since walking nrm-in-aroi with him * This he denied . Tho accused was remanded , but wub admitted to buil .
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Continental Notes. The Milan Gazette Pub...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . The Milan Gazette publishes an advertisement from the Imperial and Royal Delegation of Pavia , informi ng the people of that . province , that the twelfth instalment of the " voluntary" loan is due , and that payment will be exacted by appeal to law in case of delay in meeting the demand ! Johannes Evangelista Borscinsky , the Bohemian monk , who , for being converted to Protestantism , was for a long time shockingly prosecuted , has effected his escape from Prague , and is now safe in Prussian Lusatia .
Naples has apologized to France for the omission to hoist the Neapolitan colours at Messina , on the 15 th of last August ( the anniversary of the first Napoleon ' s birth ) , in compliment to the French ship of war , La Gorgone . The Neapolitan Government , like a good little boy , promises that it will not commit the same offence again . On the subject of the disguised retention of Mazza , the French and English Governments have again addressed communications to the Neapolitan Ministers . Cholera is rapidly decreasing in Sicily . An emeute has taken place at Catanea . The mob attempted to burn a distillery , under pretence that brandy contributed to increase the epidemic . Several shots were fired , but the troops finally succeeded in dispersing the rioters . Osman Pasha , who has been chosen by the Sultan of Turkey to replace the Bey of Tripoli , left Malta 011 the 21 st of October , with a numerous suite , for his destination . The Bey of Tunis has received a sword of honour from the Sultan , with the title of Muchir .
The Wiener % eitung contains the appointment of Baron Prokesch to be Internuncio and Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople , and of Count Rechberg-Bothenlowen to be Presidial Minister at Frankfort . The Verona Official Gazette contains a long article on the late differences of the Western Powers with the Court of Naples . The writer imputes to the Allies a desire to force the King of the Two Sicilies out of the strict neutrality he desires to maintain ; and he contends , that it is impossible that that monarch should wish to ally himself with Russia , who would be unable to render him any assistance . " Neither Naples nor Italy , " he asserts , " would become more worthy of esteem in the eyes of Europe , if foreign interference in the affairs of Naple 3 should take the character it has assumed in Greece . "
The late heavy rains , says the Times Marseilles correspondent , have caused serious injury in the departments of the Drome and the Isere . A great portion of the valley between IJurgoin and La Tour-du-Pin is inundated , and the road from Lyons to Chambery was covered with water , in some places to the depth of five feet . All travelling was interrupted for several hours . The houses in the village of Cessieux were completely inundated , and consequently abandoned by the inhabitants . The . waters of the Rhone had attained their highest elebation and flooded the low grounds . They are now beginning to fail The Saone still continues to rise ,
The prospect of renewed negotiations for peace are thus touched on in a letter from the Vienna correspondent of the Comtitutionnel . — " I am strongly inclined to believe that the late meeting of the principal diplomatic agents of Prussia at the Castle of Stolzenfels , on the banks of the Rhine , where they assembled at the invitation of the King , is connected with certain efforts of the Berlin Cabinet to renew negotiations of peace between Russia and the Western Powers Notwithstanding all the mystery observed at Berlin on the subject , it is undeniable that since the capture of Sebastopol secret negotiations have been carried on between the Courts of Prussia and St . Petersburg with regard to tho contingencies whicli the daily successes of the Allies no longer allow to be lightly treated . If we may form a conjecture from some conciliatory
expressions dropped by those statesmen who direct on tho part of Prussia the Secret negotiations just alluded to , it would appear that tho Emperor Alexander is by no means so opposed to the suggestions of a wise and prudent moderation as the official and officious organs of Muscovite diplomacy would lead one to believe . On tho contrary , it seems that the Empress Marie Alexandrowna , who has always exorcised a legitimate and salutary influence over the mind of her august consort , ia now earnestly labouring to secure to tho young Cs : ur an honourable medium of communication with the Western Powers . B y visiting tho theatre of war , tho Czar can satisfy himself by personal observation of many things onrefully concealed from him ; and hia sudden resolution to send to the hciw-Count do
quarters of Princo Gortschakoflj Generuls Staokelborg and Baron do BenkendorfT , tho first of whom is attached to the Russian embassy at Vienna and tlio second to the same embassy at Berlin , imparts grout probability to tho news juat arrived from the Prussian capital , to tho effect that tho Emperor Alexander would mako decisive overtures for peace , if Princo Gorlschiikou" couM not maintain hia position during the winter in tho Crnnea . On tho other hand , tho arrivul in Berlin at tho same time oi tho two Prussian Plenipotentiaries at tho Courts or B' - Jamos ' e and the Tuilori « a auggeata tho idea that somo new proposal ia to be made by Prussia to iho A \ eaten Powers , on the subject of which Baron do Bornsdorft ftiw Count Hatzfuld are to receive the verbal instructions 0 King Frederick William , as well as Baron do Ma « -
touffol . ' t Tho clorgyman attached to the English embassy "
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 3, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03111855/page/6/
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