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The Channel Fleet .- —The fleet under Admiral Sir C . Fremantle , consisting of the ' . priori , Renown , Caesar , Brunswick , Diadem , and the Pigmy gunboat , arrived off Plymouth on Tuesday from Torbay . Court Martial *—The finding of the court martial ¦ which sat at Portsmouth about three months ago to try Ensigns J . J . Dunne and J . J . Scotf , of the 47 th Regiment , has just been promulgated . The charges against Ensign Scott were om itting barracks without leave ; entering the quarters of a brother officer and playing sundry mischievous pranks there ; and for being drunk and disorderly . The sentence was that he be severely reprimanded and placed at the bottom of the list of in
ensigns . The charges against Ensign Dunne were , the ' . ' first' instance , ' disobedience to orders and various other irregularities , and secondly , for having paid his mess bili with a draft on Cox arid Co ., which was by them returned dishonoured , he not having any funds in their hands , or . having reasonable grounds for presuming that such draft would be honoured ; and for having raised a sum of money in another case by a similar worthless draft . He was sentenced to be cashiered . New Medai . —It is stated that a medal , in the style of that of the Crimea , is to be struck in England to commemorate the recent affairs with the Chinese , and to be distributed ,, not only to the English there engaged , but also to the French .
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Q 9 Q THE LEADER . ^ [] S o . 441 , September 4 , 1 S 58 . _ ^
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GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . At the Thames police-court , Hedmann Leeman , a foreigner ; was brought before Mr . Setfe , charged with stealing about 300 pairs of boots and shoes from Solomon Barnett . Both Leeman and Barnett are Jews . They were acquainted on the Continent s and when the } - came to England the prisoner paid " friendly visits " to the premises of the prosecutor almost daily . A few days since , however , the proseeutor missed a great quantity of boots and shoes ^ and employed a detective officer to ferret out the thief , who searched the prisoner's lodgings , and traced 286 pairs of boots which had been pledged by the prisoner . He admitted his guilt to the magistrate , who sentenced him to six months' imprisonment , and advised him to leave England on the expiration of his sentence . The pawnbrokers wished that a compromise should be made , by the prosecutor paying part of the money lent before he received the' goods back , but the magistrate ordered their unconditional surrender . A drunkard named John Quinling , in a train on the North Kent line , accidentally knocked down the guard , who fell between the carriages and the platform , but fortunately escaped serious injury , though for some seconds in imminent peril , having been dragged fifty yards before he recovered his footing . Quinling himself fell upon the line , and escaped almost by a miracle . He was taken before Mr . Traill , who refused to fine him , saying it was a case for prosecution . He was remanded for the attendance of the guard . A case has this week been brought before Alderman Wire at the Guildhall , in which have been bro \ ight to light some very questionable transactions between picture-dealers and their customers . A gentleman of property , Mr . Robert Henries Peter , charges William Thomas Barnes and Lucy Barnes , the son find the wife of a dealer in St . Paul's-churchyard , with conspiring to defraud him of between two and three thousand pounds ; this case being understood as merely a preliminary to other prosecutions of a similar character against a number of picture-dealers , who , it is alleged , have victimised the prosecutor lately to the extent of about i ( 5 , 0007 Mr . Peter , described by his counsel as " of very weak intellect , " went to the defendant ' s shop in St . P-aul ' schnrohyard , and bought some pictures to the amount of 7 Q / ., and within a very few days after Mrs . Barnes called . upon him at his house , and represented that she had a very valuable collection of pictures to dispose of , -which belonged to the widow of a cousin of the Duchess of Newcastle , which hnd cost 100 , 000 / ., and that the lady waa very desirous of converting them into money . She also said tbo lady waa in vory distressed cirouinstanoes owing to the extravagance of two sons , and that it was of great importance that the pictures should bo sold , and the lady had desired her to dispose of them to tho beat advantage . A week , afterwards Mr . Peter was favoured with a call from tho son , William Bnrnoa , who was accompanied by a van-load , of pictures . Ho repeated thia visit four or five times , and sold Mr . Potor some twenty pictures , which ho assured him wore all productions of i great niwatora , including a Rubons , a Turner , a Murlllo , " tiirnuoflrtntflrn ^ he » r , which had lately cost a deceased gentleman 500 / . For theso decided bargains , Mr . Peter only paid 1200 / , in cash and hi * acceptance for 1000 / . more . Upon various occasions Mr . W . T . Barnes brpught presents , ¦ with the widow lady ' s complImontH , find stating sho did not know how to be sufficiently grateful to him for purchasing her pictures . He also tiukl sho was having a handsome piece of plate engraved for Mr . Petor . A few days nfter giving his bill , tho piece of plate was presented to that gentleman . It was a largo , masslvolooklng silver-gilt cup , handsomely chased , and in-. soribod . on tho face with trio following words . —*¦»•
Presented to Robert Henries Peter , Esq ., by a dear and beloved friend . " Unfortunately another inscription was afterwards discovered upon the lid of the cup— " Newton Races , 1855 , the Gift of the Lord ' of the Manor , " showing that this handsome piece of plate which was engraved expressly for Mr . Peter , was an ordinary facercup . It was sworn by a person in the Duke of Newcastle ' s service that " no cousin of the duke ' s has during the last few years , been left a widow with a large collection of
pictures . With regard to the " Rosa Bonheur , " Messrs . Christie and Manson proved having sold it to Mr . Barnes for seventeen pounds , including the frame , as also the ¦ " Rubens" for ten pounds . The utmost value which could be put upon the so-called " ltosa Bonheur " was said by the same witness to be twenty-five pounds . He considered another of these valuable " old masters , " of which Mr . Peter had become the owner through the instrumentality of the defendant , to be four pounds . The case was adjourned .
Mary Callaghan was placed at the bar of Clerkenwell police-court , before Mr . Tyrwhitt , charged with committing a number of robberies by means of skeleton ke } -s . A few days previously the prisoner was found in the parlour of a Mrs . Benson , where she had packed up every portable article ready to carry them off ,. when Mrs . Benson happened to enter the room , and sent for a constable to take her into custody , but before he could arrive she had ill-treated Mrs . Benson . The prisoner impudently saitl all she wanted was justice , and justice she would have , asserting that the things were her own property . ' She was fully committed for trial .
An extraordinary instance of superstitious credulity was brought to light at Worship-street this week : A woman named Macdonald was charged with obtaining money under the following , circumstances : —Mrs . Gable , " a lady-like person , " having experienced much illness and trouble , became convinced that she was under a spell , ' and determined to go to this woman , who , she had heard , could give relief in such cases . Macdonald told her that a person was doing her an injury , and said , "If you have some of my powders ; they will relieve you—at sixpence apiece . " These magical preparations were not to be taken , away , but were burnt on the spot , with crackling and bounce , to the number of ten , for Which the victim paid . She afterwards felt herself much Tjetter . Being questioned by the magistrate , Mrs . Gable said , "It was not so much the powders which were efficacious as the words used at the
time . I think it s what she says when she . burns them that does yon good . " Whatever the incantation was , it appears the wise woman did not repeat it aloud . The witness added , that she had a relative who bore her ill-will , who was also a client of Mrs . Macdonald , and when powders were burnt in her interest , Mrs . Gable suffered " of course . " The foolish Woman had bceii'plundered seven or eight times by Macdonald . Her daughter , Eliza Gable , also had consulted the woman , and paid her money . The policemen who were present stated that there are numerous people in Bethnal-green who believe in the prisoner ' s powers of witchcraft ; and there is no doubt that she gains a large harvest from her dupes . The 'magistrate remanded her ; but there is no doubt she will eventually be sent to the House of Correction .
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CRIMINAL RECORD . Dkpravitv in tub PrtOViNCKS . —A man named Isaac Pyne , about forty years of aye , a shoemaker by trade , is in custody at Bristol on a clmrgo of murdering the illegitimate child of his daughter , Elizabeth Pyiie , a gir ] twenty years of ago . Pyne id married , with a ftunily of five children , the eldest of whom is tho mother of the deceased . Tho neighbours had observed the girl to ho enceinte . This sho denied ; but on Thursday morning she was seized with the pains of labour , and her sinter went for the midwife . On her return sho found the body of a child lying on tho floor of the kitchen , which by her father's . directions eho took away and buried at a secluded spot near the river Avon . It la alleged that Isaac P y" ° acknowledged U > his wife that he waa the father of the child . Tho fact of a child having been born became known to tho polico , nnd , inquiries wore commenced , which resulted in tho discovery of the body , and In the futher , his wife , and tho daughter Eliaa being taken into custody . Tho mother of tho infant wan uIho placed umlur surveillance . Tho inquest was commonoed on Suturduy , before Mr . J . B . Grindon , coroner for Bristol , when Dr . W . B . Horapath stated that he found several marks of vlolonoo about the throat , and that ho had no doubt that death wus caused by suffocation . Tho inquiry was adjourned till ^ ho ^ notheiwaf ~ tho , ohJUUa ^ auJikiiuiilhLJjoiip r v ercd to
bo examined . The police had tho greatest difficulty In Keeping tho infuriated populace from taking summary vengeance on Pyne . —A still worse cuso has bcoii brought to light at Nqwoastlo . A gluss-cuttoi ^ jnntned Goorgo Rayno , whoso wife died in Juno last , has a daughter , aged eighteen , who kept his house for him , On Tuesday night last ho , according to tho gill ' s evidence , doH ~" boratoly violated hor , under oiroumstancos of groat brutality , threatening to murder hor In oase of resistance . She succeeded in getting out of tho house tho next morning , nnd informod some rojntlvre , in coriflp . quonoo of which tho prisoner whs « m > rehondvd , Tho
poor girl s mother on her death-bed , charged tho people who were about'hor not to allow the father and daughter to be left alone together in the house ; as , if . thsy were , she feared the consequences . The prisoner was committed for trial . Tiirc Mii : i > i : n in Fxmook Foukst . —During the past week , the police ami labourers have explored the fustnesses ef Exmoor Forest and the adjacent mines , without being able to discover the . body of Hannah Burgess , the little girl who . has bean r . iis . sii ! g for about a month , and w hose ^ father . ( William Burgess } , is in custody on
suspicion of having murdered her . A mine , however , has been -examined , in which it is strongly suspected the remains of the child will be found , as soon as efficient apparatus have been procured . The prisoner has wellnigh recovered from the attempt he made to commit suicide , . ind on Saturday he was conveyed to Dulverton , examined by the magistrates , and remanded . ITe intimated his determination to refuse everything in tlie shape of food when he was in custody of the police ; but before he had been half an hour in gaol he asked to be supplied with a plate of mashed potatoes .
Absenci-: of C ' kime in the Nokth . —A correspondent writes to us { Ini ' . erness Advertiser ') from Dingwrill , of the date of Monday last , that the yrison of that place , a first-class one , was then without a prisoner , civil or criminal ; that the gates had been thrown open ; and that there was reason to believe that the prisons of Tain , Stornoway , and Cromarry were nlso empty . These facts : are . credit able to the counties of Ross ami Cromartv , which contain a population of about # 3 , 000 .
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GKKMANY . ( Front our own Correspondent . ) S «;) , r . . 1 . Tub correspondents of the English press in this couutrv generally confine themselves to the discussion of some local topic , or some transitory excitement ; few , if anv , venture to touch upon the . ill-absorbing desini of tlu present generation of Germans—noble ? , officials , shopkeepers in the - Residencies , and the lowest chisa of peasants , perhaps , excepted . That desire is , the union ol
all the kingdoms and priucipalitie . * , either under one sovereign or as a republic . Out of this ardent ilesin ; a feeling of bitter animosity has sprung towards their kings and princes , not ns ' individuals , for many possess the affection and respect of their subjects , but ::= > a liody of men whom they regard as the sole great obstacle to their union as a nation , and as the cause of the subordinate position of their country in spite of its superiority in population , intelligence , and wealth , over every other nation of the Continent . Of this state of the ( Jennan
mind tho rulers can scarcely bo ignorant ; yet , while some reflecting , far-seeing Conservatives are striving to arouse all the rulers to a sense of their own . interests br pamphlet .- - , and at meetings where the measure . * needful for the improvement of the country are debated in ( lie most modest and inoffensive style , it id on the other hind ' painfully amusing to observe the total indifference of tho government * to tlie lesson of 1848 , and the dangers of the proximato future . Their utter hcedk-Hsm-ss to tho direful storm-clouds which with every tick of the
clock upheave slowly and sullenly around thorn , u , iu truth , as to ami ing . Surely they must be aw : iii > t lint Germany and Italy are waiting and watching in L-rimin . il expectation for the . deposition , or dissolution , of one man . At ' present tho Government may iM ' y any popular outburst . They command enormous armies of soldiers and police , nnd are masters of all the means of communication , but if they imagine that they will bo ah \ o to resist tho torrent of passions that will ru- > h over tho Continent when nature or accident changes tin- government of France , they woefully deceive themNulvi' * .
Viewing tho conduct nnd indiffeivnco of tho ruler * fit this tiino , olio would bo inclined to " Suppose tlmt tlic dismal scenes enacted in 18-18 —tho slaughter , tho victory , of tho people—tho terror of tho prJncrs—their humble promisen- — thoir troinbllngly eager ncijuiesccncQ in ovary demand—are not written iu history ami mill fresh and grei-u in tho memory of tho nation , but Owl it was all the droum of aoino democratic poot long aliw condemned to tho trunk-maker . The people ivinemlwr it oil very well , but they are much ashamed nt & olr simplicity , and of thoir chlldbh ruliunoo upon ilio promises and solomn uasovorutions of royalty in distrciisf they feel inspired iu thoir persons und woumlt'il iu il"l f
feolinga that tho ncquioitiona gained iu ltil * Iiiivo hIikJ b ff ' tffnMllJ y ami Uioxunaably imlliilod . IS ' cxt to tin prlnco so griovoulIynfliTuto ^^ tho moat unpopular on this acuuiuil in ll >' ' K ' >> ' f Hanover , who hn . i lost tjio affection and ivoi |»< .-i . 't ° J " intelligent subjoclu by overthrowing the Hboi'ty w '''*" hit ) father grunted'In hi » hour of noed nu < t luiiliiuihio "' his hour of Strength . Tlio old'king , hy nh . Mvl » tf t >» 1 ho possessed one of tlio ' nttributes of a goulK ' -uiiui— "" of being truo to his war , I —won tho respect of lili o "" pooplo , and even did credit'to tho country of hto I } ' /'" for It was pungonlly said of him , that a tyrannical I'M ' Huh prlnoo wan nn honest niul llbonil ( iuriuaii Uhitf- J " , aoji , liQtYtivor , sooma to think that ho la hot hoiuul u )
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1858, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04091858/page/8/
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