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    Jan 7, I860.j The Leader and Saturday An...

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    the Adeiphi , for the purpose of considering the whole question 6 f University local examinations . The feeling * appeared tcj be in favour of the holding of but one examination yearly , to take place at all the centres simultaneously . On the following day the ^ deliberations of the body had reference to the substitution of the titles of Literate of Oxford" or " Literate of Cambridge , " in place of " Associate . pf Arts .- " ultimately it was resolved that the matter should be Jeit to the universities themselves . —On Wednesday , Jan . 4 , at a meeting of his Greenwich constituents , Mr . Angers tern , M . P ., said he did not concur in the opinion that England should not send a representative to the Congress . He believed that the firm support given by Lords John Russell and Palmerston to the rights of the Italians

    were borne out by the evidence . On the following day , Mr . Hawkins for the defence , declared there was no evidence to support the charge of fraud on the part of the prisoner against his client . There was no evidence of trading as a money scrivener , and the bankruptcy proceedings were void ; he hoped the jury would divest their minds of prejudice , aiid confine themselves to the charge in bankruptcy . The jury returned a verdict of " guilty " of absconding with intent to defraud . The prisoner was then tried on another charge of * obtaining £ 570 from James Elems by false pretences , and was again found guilty . He was sentenced to one week ' s imprisonment on the last charge , and to ten years' penal servitude on the first An examination at the Thames Police Court disclosed an ingenious swindle , which , for the present , at least , has been successful . A Frenchman , Auguste Gilson , residing in London , writes to a well-known artist in Brussels , describing himself as an agent , and

    gives him an order for a valuable painting worth £ 240 in the name of a fictitious connoisseur , whom he calls " Lord de Hadford , " and who resides at St . Mary-at-HilL The painter foolishly sends the picture , which is brought away from the docks by the " Hon . M . Hadford , '' son of " milor . " Neither the peer , the youthful scion , nor the picture have yet been found . The prisoner was arrested through his own stupidity in writing to the General Post Office to have his letters forwarded to his latest address . —Some days back a person named Cole complained at the same police court that a sailorhis brother-in-lawhad been brutally ill-treated on board an

    , , American ship ( now in the London Dock ) while on her voyage to this country , and that eventually he was knocked into the sea by the mate and drowned . On Tuesday , 3 rd January , the captain of the vessel denied that the man had been ill-used- adding , that the man went aloft against orders , and fell overboard . On Wednesday the U 7 i , Mr . Cole again attended , with two passengers and six of the crew as witnesses , but the magistrate declined to hear him , deciding that he had no jurisdiction in the case . The American consul , who has been appealed to , is satisfied with the captain ' s explanation .

    Some remarkable Casualties are to be noticed .. On Sunday the 1 st January , very early in the morning , a fire broke out in Shoreditch , at a large tobacco manufacturer ' s named Hill . The two houses , with their contents , were completely destroyed ; but three people , who were the only inmates at the time , were saved by the dexterity and courage of the Royal Society ' s fire-escape men . — -On Sunday evening a collision took place on the Eastern Counties line , near the Tilbury Junction . One train had got partly round the junction , when the other dashed into it , smashing the last carriage ( fortunately empty ) into shivers ; some of the other carriages , filled with passengers , were overturned , ¦ ' and dragged along the line . Almost all the passengers are injured / but no fatal case is as yet reported . The blame , as usual , is said to rest with the signal-men but an inquiry will , of course , take place . _ ¦ ' ¦ . mails from London to land the

    The train conveying the Ney on 1 st Jan ., had a most miraculous preservation from disaster while on'its midnight journey over the South Wales Railway , at a point of the lino known as Peucoed Bank . The mail was travelling at a speed of forty miles an hour , and had a- number of passengers in the carriages . Nothing occurred to interrupt the transit of the train until it arrived at the point already indicated , where there . is a steep incline . At the bottom of this declivity the rapid motion of the mail received a sudden check , occasioned by something- standing on the line , and the result w , sis greatly to alsvrm the passengers , many of them suffering from bruises , and the shock incident to the concussion . The train still continued its course , propelling m its front the object which had considerably impeded its progress . Half a mile further on than the locality of the occurrence , it was found fihat the obstruction was due to the presence of an " empty

    engine , standing at the very dangerous part ot the lino already alluded to . The guard , the driver , and fireman of the .. mail were , however , most injured , the firoinun severely so . Riding- in the train whose progress was thus retarded , was the Government inspector . Meetings of sympathisers with the Pope continue to be held in Ireland . At Cm-low , on Sunday , the 1 st instant , Dr . Walsh tho Roman Catholic ^ Bishop of Ossory presided , when there was some vigorous speeeh-hiaking , sustained principally by the priests . In the city pf Cork , despite the unsuti * lnetory state of the law on the point , tho . inhabitants' have detormimod on the organization of volunteer rifle and artillery corps ; and on tho 2 nd instant , tho mavor promised to head the list with a thousand pounds

    subscription . Nothing has yet been heard of tho sheriff elect for the county of Limerick , Hugh Massoy " Grndy , Esq ., who disappeared mysteriously three weeks ago . On Monday tho 2 nd his family oltorod a reward of d 05 O for information about him . On Wednesday , Jan . £ appeared tho loiig-promiHod requisition to Archbishop Cuilen , to convene a great pro-papul mooting- in Dublin ; it contains 2 , 300 signatures , Tho Archbishop has iixod Monday noxt for the assemblage to take' place . The wookly return of the Rop-ifitrar-Gonoral , published on Tuesday , 3 rd Jan . shows tho Punuo Hbat , tix to have dotoriorutod by tho lato cold woathor , and tho following suddon olian ^ oR . Tho rule Ot mortality had vmon from 1 , 5 < L 8 to 1 , 077 , being 221 ovor tho avonigo rate T ? ho aiumbor of births duritw tho week wan l ; 05 H . Un l |» e samo day , at a mcottng of tho pnriwh authyritjos pt St .. FancniH , ic was stated that smallpox is on tho increase thoro , and measure * wore ordered with a vi'ow to its prevention . Tho groat national movement in favour of Vouvxvjsiw Oopvs $

    had rendered them masters of the situation . Of reform , he said that he was prepared to advocate a liberal extension of the franchise--he did not believe that the mass of the people had any desire to pull down the Constitution . Sir John Trelawny addressed a similar meeting , at Tavjstock , on Tuesday , Jan . 3 , and after touching on the various topics of the day , argued at great length in favour ot the abolition of church rates . If the Government ( said Sir John ) deal boldly with this measure they will secure a long tenure of power . —On Tuesday , Jan . 3 , was held the weekly meeting of the Ballot Society . Mr . J . Bontems was in the chair . Mr . C . J . Bunting ( Norwich ) , and Mr . Thomas Smith ( Enderby ) , two of the successful ««**«¦ essavists . were elected members of the council . The attention

    of the committee was called to Mr . Card well s speech at Oxtord , declaring that the ministry would forward any measures likely to put down corruption at elections by whomsoever brought forward , and ft was resolved that a letter should be sent by the secretary to Mr Car-dwell , inquiring if this declaration is to be understood as intimating the intention of the Government to forward the ballot during the coming session . Reports relative to various pending elections were received , and directions were given for forwarding the ballot cause at each of them . During the sitting a letter to Mr Berkeley , M . P ., from his Excellency Louis' Kossuth was read , in which the Hungarian statesman , in reply to a request of Mr . Berkeley , promises a communication respecting the working of the ballot in Hungary wlien it possessed representative institutions .

    In the Natal and Military intelligence , we notice the announcement , on Monday , the 2 nd of \ January , of the resignation of Admiral Bowles , Commander-in-Chief , . at . Portsmouth , of Capt . T ^ arquhar of the " Victory , " of Lieut . Robihson , and of the Admiral ' s secretary Mr . Fegen : this has arisen out of a correspondence between the Lords of the Admiralty and the Commander-in-Chief , relative to the publication of the papers in the case of the " Princess Royal , "' The admiral declares they have been published without his knowledge . —On Tuesday , 3 rd , at Portsmouth / was held a Court-martial upon Lieut . Simeon , of the " Perseverance , " accused of having- dishonourably induced a brother officer to become his security in a money transaction , by false and fraudulent representations . The court decided -that the charge was " not proved . "

    —On Monday , 2 nd , thirty-six soldiers , discharged from the Indian service , were accused before the Maidstone magistrates of riotous and disorderly conduct at Gravesend , during the previous two days . Twenty-one were fined ; the remainder imprisoned—rsome for a fortnight , others for a month .- —Tlie first ten guns made at the new rifled cannon factory , at Woolwich , were on Wednesdayy Jan ; 4 , iired at the proof-butt , under the superintendence of Col . Tulloh , inspector of artillery . Every gun having- been carefully examined , was pronounced faultless . The establishment will complete twenty Armstrong guns each week , until the steam-hammer is brought into use , when the number will be greatly increased . —On Tuesday , 3 rd inst ., the Town Council of Birmingham adopted a memorial to Government to fix the site of the proposed central arsenal of the

    kingdom in that locality . A remarkable case in Bankruptcy stands conspicuous in tho Law Reports ; Commissioner " Goulburn > on Monday , 2 nd inst ., pronounced judgment in the matter of one . David Barker , a cornchandler , of Millbank ; the certificate was totally refused . The accounts commence two years back , with a . deficit of £ 7 , 300 , . which has now reached £ 11 , 000 ; a disgraceful feature was tho bankrupt ' s having obtained possession of £ 500 , the sole property of his aged grandmother , which he squandered in speculation . Mixed up with this transaction , was a discounting attorney * named Sawbriago , of whom the judge spoke in severe terms ; tho bankrupt has paid in

    interest and discounts the sum of £ 1 , 600 , in eighteen months ; ho had also received and appropriated about . £ 28 since his bankruptcy . I Prominent in the Criminal Trials of this week are those of two prisoners in tho Middlesex House of Correction , on Tuesday 3 rd , for murderous assaults upon tho warders at different times . Ono of these men , named Jones , but nineteen years of age ) pleaded " guilty , " declaring that he had fully intended to murder tho gaoler ; ho waa sentenced to penal servitude for life . Tho other man , Hayes , whose brutality was less aggravated , was adjudged six years' penal servitude . —On Wednesday the 4 » lh , Charlotte Stubble , a domestic servant , was indicted for the murder of her female infunfcj the jury

    took a merciful view of t \\ Q case , and found her only guilty or concealmont of birth ; Judge Keating sentenced her to eighteen months' hard labour . —Oft tho same day , tho now celobrated case of David Hughes oamo on for trial . Tbiri person , a solicitor and money porivener , was indiotod for not surrendering to pass his examination after bying , adjudged a bankrupt j ho is also charged with ombcz / Aingthe money of his clients to ft very largo amoifnt . * "Mv . Bovill , who jproseontud , stated that an investigation of t ) io prisoner ' s affairs , phowod his afluira to bo worth £ 50 , 000 loss than nothing ; tho money hud boon got rid of in personal extravagance ; theso fiiots

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 7, 1860, page 21, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07011860/page/21/