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Octobeb 4, 18m.V Th E. Leade R. 94s _
OcTOBEB 4 , 18 M . V TH E . LEADE R . 94 S _
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . j Collisions , n The Mersey . — The scre ^ r st e amer Silloth , Captain Acken , from Liverpool , bound for WMteliaven and Carlisle , came into collision on . Tues- day morning with the ship Admiral Boxer , from Quebec for Liverpool , off the Tormby Ligiit-ship , and had her funnel , main and urizen masts , lrinnacle , and steering- wheel carried away . She at once returned to port . The Admiral Boxer had lie * figure-head carried away in the collision . —On the previous evening there was a collision between a Birkenhead ferry-boat and a Manx packet , when the port bow of the former was stove in . The vessels were rounding a ship at anchor , and were coming in opposite directions . Owing to the interposing object , they did not see each other till it was too late to avert a crash . No lives were lost , FAiiE-wiiLii Review of the German Legion . — The final aeview of the British-German Legion , previously to "being disbanded , took place at Wyvanhoe Park , neaT Colchester , on Tuesday . The evolutions being completed , Baron "Von Stuiterheim , standing m a hollow square formed by the soldiers , spoke in the German language to the following effect : — " Tins ray friends , is the last great review of the German-British legion in Englaud . You may easily imagine , soldiers , liow very sorry I feel in being obliged to part with so large a body of men , to whom 1 am under so many ieartfelt obligations . However , I think I may be united mtVa good many of you . for a longer period , as it is my intention to go out to the Cape of Good Hope , because I consider it a sacred duty to stick to you so long as I see I can do any good for you . The conditions under which you will be allowed to go to the Cape have been already made known to you . Yon may accept them or you may not , just as you freely choose . No man will be forced to go . No man will be persuaded to go . I , for my own part , con- siderthe conditions very favourable , as they give every mau an opportunity to gain a free and an independent existence . They , are , I think , fair in every respect . You can only be obliged to do join- own will . .... . . Those of you who will agree to go to the Cape will be guaranteed 51 . each , as mentioned in Article 12 of the conditions , and yon will receive an advance of 21 . while you remain in England , for the purpose of "buying some triEing things for your comfort on the voyage , and I warn you not to spend that money in-waste . " The troope ' having given "three cheeis for the Queen and for the General , marched off the ground . —The terras to ¦ which the Baron alluded have been published . The men are to serve as military settlers for seven years and to resist any attacks of an enemy . They will re ceive free rations for a year after their settlement , and pay up to tlie day of embarkation ; each man ' s cottage and iand become absolutely Iris own ; any soldier wounded in the defence of the colony will receive a pen sion ; the wives and families of married men will be sent out by the Government ; and the land property of a mar ried settler dying even before the completion of the seven years' service will descend to tite wife and offspring . Compensation for the Passage or Houses . — circular granting compensation to Crimean officers ^ for the passage home of their horses has bean issued . The circular states that the Secretary of State for War having had under consideration the question of granting compensation to officers who were not provided with free passage for their horses on the return home of the army from the Eust , has decided to allow Ml . per horse Cexclusive of bat animals ) in lieu of such free passage and to cover any loss sustained by staff and regimental officers in disposing of their chargers with reference tho General Order issued on tlio subject dated Head quarters , Seba 3 topol , 2 Gth of April lust . Loud Cardigan- again . —Some letters which have passed between Lord Cardigan and Colonel Buck appear in tho daily papers . His lordsliip is oil'ended with the colonel for having insinuated doubts as to his courage in the famous Balaldava cavalry charge , in tlio course of a speech delivered at a dinner given at Torrington to Colonol Morris of tlie 17 th Lancers , who was also concerned in the charge . Entering into a minute account of thQ allair , Lord Cardigan says : — " For myself , having led this brigade into the battery , I pursued my direct course as leader , a course which one horse could take , but in which a lino of troops could not well follow from the number of guns , limber carriages , and other impediments which stood iiv tho way . Thus , coming upon a large force of llussian cavalry , I was attacked by two Cossacks , slightly wounded , and nearly dismounted . Tho survivors of tho brigade all went about as they came . upon tlio masses of tho ltussian cavalry , and retreated . The whole of tho remnant of the brigade was retreating at . tho aamo time , and a few minutes only intervened botwocn the retreating from tho line of guns which wo hud attacked , of all the partios engaged in tho affair , including the supporting regitnents whiuh had come into the aft ' ray in auooe-asion undo-r their respective commanding ollicers . I have further to observe that the confusion wus so great after passing tuo battery , thut the 17 th Lancers and 18 th Light Dragoons * revoraeiL their position in brigade , and tho remnant of thorn came out in the ro treat on the opposite aide of tlio valley to that in which thoy liad advuaaotl . " Colonol Buck asserts that tho report in eoovo . measure misrepresented JUiin . \
Ti mosc the of tl and Rede Koy ; lvyoi jutaj all s by t tunii ex . pi call the ton The Polish Legkxn . — -A Polish journal , tlie Wiftdomosci PohUe , contains an account , supplied by one of the officers , of the last days of the Polish Legion , and of their linal reception at Scutari by General Storks , and at Constantinople by Lord and Lady Stratford de Redcliffe . They afterwards proceeded on board the Royal Al"bert , and were most cordially received by Lord Lyons . Having entered the Admiral ' s cabin , " the adjutant then requested us to sit down , and when we were all seated , our gallant host rose , and , taking the General by the hand , thanked Mm for affording him an oppor-. tunity of making the acquaintance of jPolisu officers , expressed Ms regret that ' a peace , Avhich we must not call unfortunate , and cannot call fortunate , ' hus thrown the sword from our hands ; and euded by advising us to hope for better things in the future . "
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- , . Gakottis Roimum-. — The practice of ' garotting , ' sis ; a means of robbing from the person , was practised in Doncnster , for the urat time , u few niylits ago . An inhabitant of Hoxthorpe , situated about a mile from tlie former town , was returning home , when he was suddenly seized by the neck from behind , at tho same funo receiving a blow vjiieh hnouliod one of liis teeth out . After being held until he bacamo insensible , his poukets were rifled of their contents , which were of no great value . The ' Alm : qi ! d Tiiekt j » y a Guardsman ' . —Iiobort Sindrtll , the private in the ( Junrds , charged with stealing a 10 / . note from Mr . John Conke , a silk-in « rcliant , under circumstances ruhitod in ouvbist week ' s puiier , was ngain brought up at ( . iuildlmll on Saturday , and wus discharged , tho prosecutor ( who hml probably departed on his voyago to one of the colonies ) not appearing against him . It appeared from the . statement of u City policeman thut the Hank refuses to stop u stolon uotu unless the clerks tiro furnished with the date ns well as tho number ; and , as Mr . Cookc could not recollect the date , his money Lias boon irrecovorably lost to him . A Cuazy Gionri . KM . VN . —An eccentric old gentleman namod Alexander Lester Lawrence , a solicitor of thirtytwo years' standing , and wlio is well known at Uowatreet from his habit of postering the magintnUea with absurd applications for warrants to apprehend people tor uorjury , conspiracy , forgery , & c , avhs brought bufore us in L , i ie | y o- it . its at irt ng ler iin « d , go p- he ire us ias inn ty- nv- itli Tor ore
: t J ^ BJBWI ^ SiW ^ BUBB ^^ MCm ^ BmBB ^^^^^ flB ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Mr . Jardine charged with having stolen a diamond ring from Messrs . Debenham and Storr's auction-rooms , in King-street , Co vent-garden . He continually interrupted the witnesses with absurd and indecent questions , and repeatedly referred to " his friend Admiral I > igby , " and spoke of the firm whom he is alleged to have robbed as Machin and Debenham , He added , that she had bought all his clothes there for twenty years ; " but , your worship , " he said , "I have been obliged to change , for Machin and Debenham have got so very dear , and Moses in--Russell-court ; is so y & xy cheap , tiiat I have gone to him , and my friend Admiral Digby was so pleased with this suit ( complacently examining his ragged and dirty habiliments , amid axjarsof laughter , which the ushers with difficulty repressed ) , that he immediately transferred his patronage to Moses , and buys his clothes there now . 11 There was no evidence of the accused abstracting the ring fro-tn the auction-rooms ; but he had taken it to a shop to sell it . He alleged in defence that he had found it , and had gone to Mr-Jardine , some days previously , to ask his advice , but had been ordered out of the court , and , as-he had the greatest respect for the magistrates , he had goae . He conceived he had aright to apply the ring to his own uses . The testimony of the officers of the court in some measure confirmed this statement , the prisoner having applied , a few days before , to Mr . Hall , the other sitting magistrate , and been told to come again at a iaore fitting time . He was . committed for trial . . Wei . i ^ Enough to be Beatest . —A working man , named John Manby-, . was ' charged' at Bow-street witli an assault on his wife , and also on his landlord and a neighbour , who went in to rescue the poor woman . The neighbour was seized by the throat by Man by , who nearly throttled him , leaving him insensible on the floor , when he . was at length dragged off by the police . The wife declined to confirm the evidence against her husband , and only admitted being struck once . Mr . Hall , the magistrate , asked if the man was in the habit of * beating her , to -which the landlord replied that such assaults were of almost daily occurrence , " when she was well enough to be beaten . " Indeiid , she had but recentlybeen an out-patient of King's College Hospital ever since his last attack on her . Manby was fined 4 ?«; ia default , six weeks'imprisonment . A Stkajtge-Acx of Revenge .- —Tho wife of a master butcher , in opulent circumstances , trading in Highstreet , Whitecbapel , has been charged at the Thames police-coutt with setting fire to her husband ' s private house in Stepney . The flames -were discovered , oa Sunday evening , ** issuing from a coal-cellar undertime stairs ^ where a quantity of chips saturated with turpentine were discovered . It also appeared that the stairs had been soaked with the same inrlammable spirit . The fire was speedily extinguished ; but Mrs . Ordmay , the accused , on being spoken to in connexion with the affair , admitted that it was her act , and said she would do it again , as she was determined to burn the house down . She alleged as her reason that she did not like the house , and had attempted to destroy it because her husband would not got another for her . She was remanded . A Kufpiastly Cabman . —Thomas Wiggins , a cabdriver , lnis been fined 18 s . and coats by the Lambeth magistrate , for dishonest and violent conduct to a lady . who was about to ride in his vehicle . Ho demanded from her Is . Cd . above his right fare ; and , being iefused , he kicked in the panel of the street-door . Oa a constable being sent for , he offered to take the lady for nothing ; but this was refused , and ho then demanded one shilling fur his trouble in coming from the cnbstand . To get rid of him , this was paid . He then wont away , but was afterwards summoned to the police-court , where the magistrate sentenced him " as already stated . A Scknk m a Bankruptcy Couut . —A Mr . T , Olliro appeared in the Bristol Bankruptcy Court a few days ago for linnl examination respecting certain transactions which ho had had with two other men and his aister , by moans of bills or sale . The bankrupt , having failed to file his accounts , which ought to have beon done ten days before the present examination , was called upon to explain tho cause of his failure , which he did in a manner Unit was not at all satisfactory to the court ; upon which the accountant whom Olliver had instructed to prepare liis account stated that tho proporty wltich had been made a-way with by the bills of sale that tho bankrupt had given wius not accounted for . Tho examination on behalf of the assignees was then proooeded with . In the course of tha investigation , Olliver , who iras subjected to a very close imiuiny , ndmittod that some statements in connexion with lib bill of sale transactions , to which lie had sworn when under a previuus examination at Ipswich , woro false . Much sonaatiou was created in . the court by those admissions , and the Commissioner expressed liis indignation in st * ong terms , being the more moved to do so as it was intimated thut the bankrupt ' s object in making those statements was to mislead tho court as to what was really sought to bo done by the-bills of sale . While tho court was engaged for n few minutes in examining OlUvor ' s papers , tho bankrupt suddenly darted to tho door , and hastily ran away . He was of course immediately pursued by the court messenger , but Olliver easily outran him , and got oloar off . After a brief examination of Uis
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1856, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04101856/page/7/
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