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656 ._ Jgj* j* DEADER. [No. 433, _ July ...
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THE ATLANTIC CABLTS. ALti who desire to ...
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ACCIDENTS- AND 8UDDBM DKATUS. Three of t...
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THE STORY OIPETER THELLUSSON. A case, wh...
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Company, for fraud and misrepresentation...
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURT...
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The Queeist At Aldershot. The Queen And ...
noon , her Majesty drove leisurely round the whole of the camp , attended by General Knollys and a couple of aides-de-camp . The Duke of Cambridge and the Duke of Malakhoff returned to town by the express train which left Famborough station at half-past six o ' clock . The royal party were present at a field day of the Aldershot Division under Lieutenant-General Knollys , an Wednesday morning , and subsequently departed for Gosport , en route to Osborne .
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656 . _ Jgj * j * DEADER . [ No . 433 , _ July 10 , iSBfi .
The Atlantic Cablts. Alti Who Desire To ...
THE ATLANTIC CABLTS . ALti who desire to see the union of America and England rendered stronger by the humanizing means of science and of rapid intercommunication will regret to learn that the electric cable which was being laid across the Atlantic has again experienced the misfortune that occurred daring the attempt of last August . An account oi the disaster has been published in the Cork Reporter , from which we learn that" the Agamemnon and her tender the Valorous , and the Niagara and her tender the Gorgon , sailed from Plymouth on the 10 th of June ; each of the great vessels carri-ing about 150 O miles of cable , with anew and improved apparatus for paying it out . After having been three davs at sea , the expedition was overtaken bv
a fearful gale , which continued without intermission'for nine days . On jthe seventh day of this heavy weather , the ships , which continued to keep together , had to part company , and the Agamemnon , was obliged to sciul before the wind for thirty-six hours ; her coals got adrift , and a coil of the cable shifted , so that her captain for some time entertained serious apprehensions for her safety , and from the immense strain her waterways were forced open , and one of her ports was broken . Two of her sailors were severely injured , and one of the marines lost his reason from fright . Yet Captain Priddie was enabled to bring her to the appointed rendezvous , lat . 52 deg . 2 min ., long . 33 deg . 18 nun . All tie vessels liaving at length arrived at their central point of junction , the first splice of the cable was made on the the 26 th . After
having paid out two and a half mile 3 each , the cable parted , owing to an accident on board the Niagara . The ships having again met , the splice was made good , and they commenced to give out the cable a second time ; but , after they had each paid out forty miles , it was reported that the current was broken , and no communication could be made between the ships . Unfortunately , in this instance the breakage must have occurred at . the bottom . Having cast off this loss , they met for the third time , and recovered the connexion of the cable on the 28 th . They then started afresh , and , the Niagara having paid out over one hundred and fifty miles of cable , all on board , entertained the most sanguine anticipations of success , when the fatal announcement was made , on Tuesday , the 29 th , at nine p . m ., that the electric current had ceased to flow . As the
necessity of abandoning the project for the present was now only too manifest , it was considered that the opportunity might a 3 well be availed of to test the strength of the cable . Accordingly , this immense vessel , with nil her stores , & c , was allowed to swing to the cable , and , in addition , a strain of four tons was placed upon the breaks ; yet , although it was blowing fresh at the time , the cable held her as if she had been at anchor for over an hour , when a heavy pitch of the sea snapped the rope , and the Niagara bore away for this port . "
Accidents- And 8uddbm Dkatus. Three Of T...
ACCIDENTS- AND 8 UDDBM DKATUS . Three of the persons injured by the late accident at the Chilham station of the South Eastern Railway—two men and a boy—have died ; and an inquest has been opened , but stands adjourned for a week . The evidence tends to establish the original statoment Unit the breaking of the crank axle was the cause of the catastrophe . A boiler explosion took place last week at a mining village in South Wales , caused by one of the workmen seating himself on the top of the safety valve . Four men were killed , and several others aerioualy wounded .
About half-past four o ' clock last Saturday morning , James Bennett , engine-driver of the empty mineral train which fell down an embankment near Chesterfield , on Wednesday , tho' 23 rd ult ., died of the injuries which he then received . The stoker , llickling , was killed on the spot . The adjourned inquest on the body of Hickling was resumed at the Midland Hotel on Monday . Ambrose Blackham , who was given into custody charged with neglecting his duty by not giving the proper signal , was brought into the inquest-room , and made an explanation to the effect that lie had done nil lie considered it his duty to do , but thut he supposed the guard had not seen the signals ho made . 1 'he jury returned n verdict of Manslaughter against Blackham , who was commit tod for trial on that ohargc .
Madamo Pnlenikoff , a Russian lady occasionally residing in Paris , liua died nt Uorliu of thnt . dreadful disease , glanders . Sho was flighting nt the door of the Opera House at the latter city , whon bIio dropped ouu of h « r bracelets on the pavement . Sho stooped to pick it up , and afterwards remarked laughingly thnt ouo of the horses belonging to a carriage close by had put his head bo cloao to her face thnt ho hud touched it , " nn « l left a motet kias oil Ivor cheek . " In a fo > v days hIic was taken ill with glanders , and in n fow more days wan dead .
An old man , named Joseph Smith , about eighty years of age , has met with a horrible death in a Turkish bath nt Honley , near Huddersfield . Having remained an unusually long time in the bath , the woman who kept it knocked at the door , and heard a groan . She entered , and found the man lying stretched out in a dying state , with his head , arms , and hands' resting upon the heated flue . Those parts of his person were terribly burnt , and he died almost immediately . It is supposed that he was about to enter the dressing-room , that he felt faint at the comparatively cool air , and fell backwards . He was an eccentric , but harmless person ; had lived in strict seclusion for more than thirty years , expressing great annoyance when any one called on him ; and was a confirmed infidel .
The Story Oipeter Thellusson. A Case, Wh...
THE STORY OIPETER THELLUSSON . A case , which is being- heard on appeal before the law Lords , unfolds a strange story of real life . Peter Thellusson , of Brodswortli , ' Yorkshire , a merchant of the City of London , made his will in the year 1796 , at which time he was possessed of 000 , 000 / . in money , and of land of the annual value of 4500 ? . His eldest son , Peter Isaac , was heir to 85 J 0 O 0 Z . a year in money and lands ; and there were two other sons besides . Apparently desirous of being the founder , by means of his wealth , ot three grand families , he conveyed the bulk of liis fortune to trustees . These trustees were to stand seised of the hereditaments devised and to be purchased , in trust , during the lives of his three sons , of bis grandson , John ,
and of any other sons of the testator ' s three sons , or of the issuse of any of their ' sons-who should be living at the testator ' s death , or born in due time afterwards , and of the survivors and survivor of them , and to invest the same on the like purchases . After the expiration of this period of accumulation , the estate was to be divided into three lots of equal value , one of which was to be conveyed to the use of the eldest " male lineal descendant " of the son Peter Isaac in tail male , with remainder to the second , third , fourth , and air other lineal male descendants of Peter Isaac , in tail male , with remainder to those of his sons George and Charles in equal moieties in tail male . One otlier third part of the accumulation was to be conveved to the use of the eldest male lineal
descendant of his son ' George * in like manner , and with like remainders over in favour of the male lineal descendants of Peter Isaac and Charles . The remaining third part was to be conveyed to the use of the eldest male lineal descendant of his son Charles , in like manner , with like remainders over in favour of the male lineal descendants- of Peter Isaac and George . Upon the failure of such lineal descendant ? , the estates were to be sold , and the money to be paid to the Crown to be applied to the use * of the sinking fund . The will concluded with an expression of the testator ' s hope that the Legislature would not alter the document . Peter Thellusson died a year after the making of his will ; and , when its provisions came to be known , great were the astonishment and vexation of the sons and grandsons ,
and the case was lor a long time the topic of wondering conversation , not only among lawyers , but among the genervil public . A Chancery suit was instituted by the relatives , who of course desired to have the will set aside : this was met by a cross suit ; and the result was that the rule was confirmed . An appeal went up to the House of Lords , and the will was again established . The Legislature then took up the matter , and , while refusing to set aside the will by an ex post facto law , they declared that Peter Thellusson had exhibited " vanity , illibcrality , and folly , " and enacted , by statute 39 th and 40 th George III ., cap . 98 , that the power of devising property for the purpose of accumulation shall be restrained in general to twenty-one years after the death of the testator .
It was calculated by sovornl persons , about the time of these events , that the property , accumulating at compound interest , would probably roach the incredible sum of thirty-two millions . Bat they did not take into uccomit the insatiable vampire that was sucking at this enormous fund in the shape of endless lawsuits of every possible description . Tho last survivor of the nine lives died in lebruury , 1856 , and four new bills were immediately iileil . Tho property is now to be divided into moieties ; but a question is raised as to who is entitled
to Rhnre . Who were the eldest mule lineul descendants of Poter Thellusson in February , 1856 ? Two claim to bo eldest in point of personal ngc , and two others in respect of lincnge . Tho point now to be determined i * , us to which of thesu claimants aro entitled to share in the property . A decision was given by tho Master of the Rolls two yenra ago ; and tliii is now being appealed against in tho House of Lords . Tho case is postponed till next s «» sion , owing to tho pressure of other business .
Company, For Fraud And Misrepresentation...
Company , for fraud and misrepresentation in . regard to the value of certain shares . There was also a ° covmf for conspiracy . " It appeared that no shares in the Wheal Sion Com pany could be registered or transferred by the person * holding them Junta all the calls upon them had been paid . In January , 1857 , application was made to Mr Stockwell , the prosecutor , to discount a bill for 300 ? at three months' date , drawn by Jeffreeupon , and accented by , Lord Charles Clinton . Three hundred shares in the mining company , as well as several shares in other mines , were to be transferred to him , and deposited with him as collateral security . Mr . Stockwell advanced the money upon tbose terms to Jeffree , by whom the transaction was conducted . On the 5 th of April , the bill was dishonoured , and , after some negotiations , conducted by Jeffree , it was renewed for 500 / ., with an additional
A "SCANDALOUS PROSECUTION . " A « oi > r > deal of interest was excited in tho Court of Queen ' s Bench on Monday by an action in which Lord Charles Pelham Clinton was concerned . Tho iiulictmont was preferred by Mr . V . W . Stockwell , a mining agent of Old Uroad-. stroet , City , against Mr . Alfred Jeflroo and Lord Charles , the former boing the secretary and tho lutter a shareholder of tho \ Vheul Sion Mining
advance of money upon the security of some further shares which were deposited . There were also other transactions between the parties . Mr . Stockwell disposed of some of the shares , and it subsequentl y turned out that Lord Charles Clinton had transferred to him between three hundred and four hundred shares upon which the calls had not been regularly paid up . The prosecutor was then held liable , when he charged Lord Charles Clinton and Mr . Jeffree before the lord Mayor with fraud , but the case was dismissed on the ground of insufficient evidence . However , the prosecutor felt
himself aggrieved , and determined to proceed against tlie defendants by way of indictment . It seemed that the oalls upon the shares were ultimately paid , and that tlie prosecutor was no sufferer in a pecuniary point of view , all the money owing to him in respect of these transactions having been paid to him by Lord Charles Clinton . Mr . Serjeant Ballantine , at the conclusion of his statement for the prosecution , said it was very probable that Lord Charles Clinton , who was not a mart of businessj had been misled by the misrepresentations of others in regard to the shares .
Lord Campbell , after hearing some evidence , expressed Iris opinion that there was no case as respected Lord Charles Clinton , and , the jury being decidedly of the same opinion , a verdict of Not Gnilty as far as lie was concerned was taken . Evidence was then received with respect to Mr . Jeffree ; but here again the jury gave a verdict of Acquittal without hearing the counsel for the defence . Lord Campbell then observed : — " I must say , gentlemen , this is a most improper and scandalous ¦ prosecution , and reflects the highest discredit upon tlie ' prosecutor . - It is lamentable to see how charges of this kind-may be brought against most innocent and honourable members of society , and I hope some check will be given to such vexatious prosecutions . "
Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...
GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Vice-chancellor Kindeksley has made an order requiring payment from such of the shareholders of the Northumberland and Durham District Bank as have not met the call made by the court , the payments to be made by the 20 th of July . A very large sum is yet dno on the call . The calls of eight individuals in the list , alone , amount in the aggregate to upwards of 450 , OOW . The case of Robinson v . Robinson and Dr . Lane again came on in the Court of Divorce last Saturday , when it was expected that judgment would be delivered by Lord
Chief Justice Cockburn . His Lordship , however , said that lie and his fellow Judges had arrived at the conclusion that , it was desirable , both in the present- case and in future cases , that the Court should have tho power to dismiss a co-respondent , and make him a witness , if that were requested , as it had been in the present instance on the part of Dr . Lane . This cannot now be done ; but a bill is before Parliament for amending tho Inw , and , under those circumstances , the court refrained from expressing any opinion on tho facts before them until tliey were enabled to hear the doctor . Judgment was therefore deferred . —Tho court was crowded , and several fashionably dressed ladies wore present .
Judgment was given in tho Court of Queen ' s Kench last Saturday in the case of the Queen v . Goodcbild . The question was whetlier tho profits of tenants should bo allowed in making deductions from n tithe-ront charge . Tho Court decided that they should not bo allowed , and judgment was therefore given for tlio respondents . An action has been brought in the same court against the Phoenix Firo Insuranco Company to recover tho sum of 150 / ., the amount of a policy of insurance effected with them . Tho defendants resisted tho claim on tho ground of fraud , alleging that tho goods destroyed were in reality named
worth only 20 / . The plaintiff is a foreign Jew , March , working as a journeyman glazior . In August , 1857 , ho effected tho policy in question on tho furniture and effects in the houso , 17 , Seabrook-place , Islington . On tho 15 th of January , 1858 , a Uro took place , and tho house was entirely destroyed . March soon after Hunt in a list of goods destroyed , amounting to 1 G 5 / . 17 tt . In the list were included two watcliea and cliains , 191 . 10 s . ; two rings and a brooch , 81 . 10 s . ( 3 d . ; linen and clothes , 551 . Tho latter included 22 chemises , 9 pctticoiits , 12 shirts , 24 puirsof ladies' stocking , 12 embroidered collars , and a corresponding number of other articles of feinato
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Leader (1850-1860), July 10, 1858, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10071858/page/8/
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