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      " Mad Madge ." At Guildhaix. Matilda Bar...

      Madse - Well , I want you to have the kindness to aend me for three months to Bridewell . Alderman Lawrence : But you broke the windows when you were in there before . Madge ( raising her voice ) : And so I would again if they offended me . An angry word will have no effect upo n me ; but soothe me , and you may do what you like with me . Alderman Lawrence : What do you want me to do for you now , for you know I cannot send you to PI Madge : I know that unless I destroy the property of those who are disposed to be my friends , that you cannot commit me to prison ; but I hope you will give me money to get some new clothes , for I am now in a most filthy state for want of them . Alderman Lawrence : I shall not give you any money , for you only spend it in gin , your old enemy . You had money from the magistrates on Saturday , and again on Monday , and you do not seem any better for it now .

      Madge : Well , if you will not give me any money , my pet , do send me to prison again , there ' s a dear , and God will bless you for it . Alderman Lawrence : Suppose I lock you up in the cells beneath the court for a week , just to see how you would like three months of it ? Madge : "What ! would you put me there to play with the rats ? Oh , no , sir . I often go without food now , because I will not partake of that for which the people I live with work hard : and I will not steal from any

      one Alderman Lawrence : I know , Matilda , that if you were starving you would not do that . However , the only thing I can do for you is to send you to the House of Correction in Giltspur-street for fourteen days as a vagrant . Madge ( very much excited ) : Oh , don't send me there ; let me go to Bridewell . Alderman Lawrence : I know you will thank me after you have been there a week . Madge : But will you come and see me sometimes , as that dear man , Alderman Farebrother , does , God bless him ? Alderman Lawrence : Certainly . In the course of next week I shall visit the prison and see how youare treated , and how you behave .

      Madge : I have no shoes and stockings on , and cannot therefore walk through the streets . I must have a cab to take me to the Compter , or I will not go at all . Alderman Lawrence : Very well , you shall have one . Madge , who is remarkable at all times for being the most industrious and best-behaved woman in the prison , was then conveyed back to her old quarters .

      Oct. Ii, 1851.] Ffifk Vlt&Ittx* 963

      Oct . II , 1851 . ] ffifK VLt & ittX * 963

      Miscellaneous. The " Railway Board," Pur...

      MISCELLANEOUS . The " Railway Board , " pursuant to Act of Parliament , was dissolved yesterday . Their functions are handed over to the Board of Trade . A memorial has been prepared for presentation to Lord Carlisle at Liverpool , praying for an inquiry into the conduct of Mr . Ilamshay , the judge of the County Court . The honourable Captain Duncombe was elected member for the East Riding of Yorkshire , on Tuesday , at Beverley . He succeeds Mr . Broadley . There was no opposition . The specchmaking turned upon " protection , " but no distinct avowal on the subject passed the lips of the member elect . He seemed decidedly of opinion that , now protection is gone , taxation must be reduced , and " over-paid servants" receive diminished Balaries .

      Captain Ommanney Has Brought Home The Fi...

      Captain Ommanney has brought home the first relic that was found by him of the traces of Sir John Franklin ' s party at Cape Riley . It appears in the form of a rake , such as ie used by persons employed in collecting seaweed . The handle is about twelve feet long , and the gathering part about two feet six inches long , on which six teeth have been fixed , about five inches in length , formed of narrow hoop iron curved inwards . Captain Ommanney has also brought home a young man , about nineteen years of age , of the Esquimaux tribe , who inhabit the country beyond Cape York , and near to the p lace where the North Star wintered in 1849 . The Esquimaux youth is clothed in the same kind of costume as the other sailors , and appears remarkably goodtempered and stout for his height , with a face of an Asiatic cast , nearly like that of a Chinese , but very flat and more round . The * Esquimaux is very much attached to Captain Ommanney , and has been named Erasmus York , after the gallant officer who brought him to this country , and the name of the cape where he cnine from . The New York Tribune of the 24 th , contains the following interesting communication relative to yncht building : — " Darius Davison , writes us that it is his intention to build a yacht within the period of six months from this date , of a tonnuge and cost equal to the tonnage and cont of the yacht America . Said yacht to be built , ^ toddled , and rigged on a plan different from any vessel or yacht now afloat ; and to be held ready at any time within the period of one year from the date ( after being completed ) to sail against any vessel or yacht , or number «> f vrHHfls or yachtn , now afloat in this country or 1 ' j irrope , that may be entered for the race . The trial of speed and sailing qualities to take place at any time choHen by a majority of the owners of vessels entered for the race , and to bo run as they shall choose , for any distance , upon Hie ocean or inland waters , in a heavy or light breeze , '"ith or against tho wind . The owner of any vchhcI entered for the race , not satisfied with the time niidcircuni-Htaiu- «> n chosen b y a majority to make the trial of npeod and sailing qualities , shall be at liberty to withdraw his vesHel at any tirno before one week preceding the time chosen for the contest . This provision is not to apply to me vcsoel entered by the ¦ ubioriber : his yacht shall bo

      held ready to sail at any place and time within the period specified , and under any circumstances chosen by a majority of the owners of the other vessels . That only firstclass , well-tried sail vessel or vachts may be entered for the race . The prizes to be sailed for are as follow : — In case the subscriber ' s yacht win the race , the vessel which comes out second , and the vessel last out in the race , to be forfeited to him . And in case his yacht is beaten , he will deliver her , with all her appuitenances , to the winner of the race as a prize . "

      Letters from St . John's , New Brunswick , mention that the deposit of £ 100 , 000 ( 400 , 000 dollars ) for stock in the European and North American Railroad had all been paid in , and a meeting called for the organization of the company , on October 25 . This deposit was understood to secure , on the part of the company , the large bonus pledged by the provincial Government . The Vigilance Committee of California have placed themselves under the orders of the Courts of Justice , and act as a secret police .

      The Ceremony Of Laying The First Stone O...

      The ceremony of laying the first stone of the English church at Geneva took place on the 1 st . It was performed by the Bishop of Winchester , assisted by his lordship ' s chaplain , the chaplain of the English church , and the members of the committee . There was a large number of persons present , consisting of some English families of distinction who are staying at Geneva , and many inhabitants of the town . A singular fraud , just discovered here , has excited a great deal of notice , writes the Berlin Correspondent of the Globe . A man insured his life for £ 1000 at the

      Globe Office in London , and at an office in Copenhagen for a considerable sum ; perhaps also in other places as well . He then came to Berlin to his brother , a tailor , and formed with him a plot for defrauding the insurance companies by a feigned death and interment . A medical man was bribed to give false certificates , and the money was claimed and received . But the police got wind of the affair , and , on opening the grave , found only stones in the coffin , which had been buried in all form . The pretended defunct is not to be found , but the brother and the doctor have been committed to prison .

      As One Of The Late Trains From Catnden-T...

      As one of the late trains from Catnden-town to Blackwall was proceeding on its way , the stoker suddenly missed the engine-driver . The steam was instantly shut off , and seaTch made . The poor fellow was found barely alive , with his skull smashed , lying on the top of the nearest carriage . How he came there is , of course , unknown . A goods train run into a coke train at Burton Salmon station , on the York and North Midland Railway , on the 3 rd instant , and killed the guard of the coke train , who was on the last carriage . The jury considered " that there had been some negligence on the part of the driver of the engine of the second train in not sounding his whistle on approaching the coke train , and they trusted that the

      melancholy result of this accident would prove acaution to railway officials generally for the future . " ^ ut the verdict they returned was , nevertheless , " Accidentally killed . " The sitting of the jury on the Camberwell murder and suicide , concluded on Wednesday . The jury consulted together for about an hour and a half , when the following singular verdict was returned : — "We find that with respect to the deceased , Emily Fawcett , she was wilfully murdered by her father , Anthony Fawcett ; that with respect to the deceased , Frederick Fawcett , he was wilfully murdered by his father , Anthony Fawcett ; and that with respect to the deceased , Anthony Fawcett , we find that he destroyed himself while labouring under a state of temporary insanity . "

      Two soldiers have been arrested at Plymouth for robbing an Irishman and attempting to shoot a

      policeman An Excise officer died on Thursday week , from having incautiously tasted the contents of a bottle of aconite . The bottle was not labelled poison . The jury unanimously returned the following special verdict : — " That the deceived met his death accidentally , and they ( the jury ) would suggest to the Commissioners of Inland Revenue , that when any article of a poisonous character is imported , the permit should bear the word poison , as well as the nature of the article itself . "

      An old man , eighty-eight years of age , shot himself , but not mortally , in Acre-lane . He waa seen wounded there and information given to the police . Subsequently he appears to have strayed from Duhvich as far as Foresthill where the body was found near the railway dreadfully mangled . It was only known by an examination of the guard iron of an engine that the train had passed over him . The jury returned a verdict to the effect that the deceased had met his death from injuries inflicted on him by No 1 ( 52 engine of the London and South Coast Railway Company .

      It appears that it is a common , practice to entice German children from their homes by specious promises of improving their condition in this country ; but instead of such promises being performed , in addition to being half-starved , the poor creatures were sent out in all weathers to sell brooms and little windmills , and on their return they were beaten severely and . refused food if they did not bring home Huflicient to watisfy the cupidity of their task-masters . A case of this kind wua brought under the notice of Mr . Yardley on week

      Friday , by the Reverend Dr . Cappell , a Lutheran Minister . He charged Frederick IJolser with assaulting Catherine Diebel . Bolscr and the girl Diebel were both natives of Weiperfclden , in the Duchy of Nassau About the Easter of IH ., 0 , Bolser induced the girl h father to allow her to come here with him , promising to make good provision for her and to H , i / iVS " W ' K « " »»""»« , ' »« '' paHHauo paid , and 100 florins , equal to £ 8 of our money , at the end of eighteen months . She received no clothing except Home raga that she received from some humane persons . Her

      food was of the scantiest kind , and he beat her so unmercifully when she failed to bring home money that she ran away from him on the 4 th ultimo , since which time Doctor Cappell had provision mad e for her in the house of another countryman of hera named Conrad Shiruz . The girl stated that Bolser used to send her out with eighteen brooms and six windmills to sell , and after walking the whole day , if she did not bring ' home two shillings , he beat her with a leathern strap which he used to wear round the waist whilst working in the sugar factory . Bolser was on Thursday ordered to pay for the passage of the girl back to Germany , and to pay her arrears of wages .

      Our Circulation. "We Hare Been Requested...

      OUR CIRCULATION . "We hare been requested , by several disinterested friends of the Leader , to print the Stamp Returns of the London press , in the report of the Newspaper Stamp Committee . We know that we stand sufficiently well , in comparison with the respectable portion of the weekly journals ; although the return only includes the first nine months of our existence , in 1850 , and we have been increasing ever since . But we object to instituting invidious comparisons between our young success and the fortunes of respected veterans among our contemporaries . In some respects the comparison would be fallacious ; the value of some journals not being measured solely by their numerical extension . Those of our friends who are interested in knowing the comparative amount of our circulation last year , can see it for themselves , by getting the Report of the Newspaper Stamp Committee .

      Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Births. O...

      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 19 th of April , at Wellington , New Zealand , the wife of Lieutenant-Colonel M'Cleverty , Deputy Quartermaster-Genera ? , of a daughter . On the 1 st of October at Eaglescarnie , the wife of Captain the Honourable George Grey , R . B .., of a son . On the 1 st , at Ottery St . Mary , Devon , the wife of the Reverend John Coventry , of a daughter . On the 2 nd , at Albury-park , the Lady Lovaine , of a son . On the 3 rd , at Jesmond Dene , Newcastle-on-Tyne , the wife of Leopold Gritnston Pag-et , Esq ., Koyal Horse Artillery , of a son . On the 4 th , at Moncrieffe-house , Perthshire , the Lady Louisa Moncrieffe , of a daughter . On the 5 th , at Dublin , the Honourable Mrs . Abercomby , of a daughter .

      MARRIAGES . On the 23 rd of September , at Claines , near Worcester , the Ueverend John Parsons Hastings , M . A ., chaplain of Trinity College , Cambridge , and to the Bishop of Llandaff , to Constance Penelope , eldest daughter of James Best , Esq ., of Britanniasquare , Worcester . On the 1 st of October , at the Cathedral , Manchester , Henry Edward , youngest son of Martin Schunck , Esq ., of Chorlton Abbey , Greenheys , Manchester , to Judith Howard , youngest daughter of John Brook , Esq ., of Loyalty-place , Stockport . On the 2 nd , at the parish church of S waff ham , Norfolk , Robert Temple Frere , Esq ., of Queen-street , Mayfair , to Theresa Arabella Fanny , only daughter of the late llevercnd William Dowell , vicar of Horn Lacy , Herefordshire . On the 2 nd , at Harrow , by the Reverend John Nassau Simpkinson , A . M ., James Dixon , Esq ., of Droad-struet-buildings , to Mary Louisa , eldest daughter of the late Sir Francis Simpkin .-aon , Q . C .

      On the 2 nd , at St . George's , Hanover-square , J . J . faithful ! , Esq ., Bombay Army , eldest sou of the late Major-General II . Faithfiill , H . E I . C . S ., to Mary Anne , wide w of the late It . Frith , Esq ., of Bombay . On the 2 nd , at Langley parish church , Bucks , by the Reverend E . Hotliam , the Marquis of Chandos , to Caroline , only daughter ofR . II ; irvey , Esq ., of Langl « y-park . On the 4 th , at Eastbourne , by the Lord Bishop of Chichester , the Reverend Henry Owen , M . A ., rector of Ilevr . ninghnm , Suffolk , and one of her Majesty ' s Justices of the Trace for that county , to Anno , second daughter of the late Davics ( iilfoert , Esq ., of Trndrea , in the county of Corn wall , and of Eastbourne , Sussex , many years M . I * , lor lSodii > in , and President of the Royal Society . On the 4 th , Captain D . W . Ross , late of her Majesty ' * Thirty-fourth Regiment , of Kankeillor-Mreet , Kdinburgh . On the (> th , at St . John ' s , Hyde-park , Sir Charles Marshall , late Chief Justice of Ceylon , to Mary , widow of the late John Cox , Ksii ., of Hyde-paik-strect .

      On the 7 th , at St . Peter ' s Church , Katon-square , John Davies Gilbert , Esq ., of Trelissiek , Cornwall , and of Eastbourne , Hussex , to Ann Dorothea , eldest daughter of Uie lliglvt Honourable Robert Hhapland Karon Carew . On the 7 th , at St . Mary's , Bryan 3 tone-square , . Major M'Mahnn , eldest son of Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas M'Mahon , Hurt ., K . C . It ., to Dora Paulina , youngest daughter of Evan Hamilton UuiUie , Ksq ., of Gloucester-place , Portinau-square .

      DKATIIH . On the 12 th of August , at Calcutta , J . E . I ) . lSethune , F , Hq ., of Ballour , in the . county of Fife , Legislative Member of the Supreme Council . On tint DHlIi of September , at Edinburgh , Thomas Lowrey Skelton , AsuiHtant Commissary-Goieml , ; tged seventy . On tho I tit of October , at Wykehani Abbey , tin : Hon . Marmaduke Langley , in the fieventy-lifth year of his age . OnUiclirtl . alClaphum-i-. ommoi ) , William l . cvemin ( loner , V . m \ ., in his seventy-third year . On the aid , th « ltcverend Thomas Itiirnaby , M . A ., late chaplain of Trinity College , Cambridge , domestic chaplain to tho Marquis of Anglesey , and Vicar of ISlukesiley , Noi ihain |> ton , ii » the Hixty-Hixth year of his age , On tho : trd , at Basildon , Berks , the Lady 1 > . ( i . Ilidlylnii tun , nged seventy-four , widow of the Lord Douglas ( pinion llallyburtou , of 1 ' itcur , N . It . On tlio : trd , ut HuKt < -d- |> iuk , the Right Honourable the Kail of Liverpool .

      On the 4 th , at Hampton Court , the Right IlonouraMe (<' eoigii William Lor . l Stafford , aged eighty . On tho . > th , at Carlisle , William , infant . . 1011 of William WokIhwort . h , I '' h <| . On the f ) th , ut bis residence , Wiliniiitffoii-wmare , < . 'lei liemvitll , aged fifty-ejght , Henry Coojxir , Kn <| -. upivurda of forty yearn clerk to Lord Cun > pl > ell . On the f > tli , after a few d . iy * ' i / liiesis , at Iliirliiigham-hall , Norfolk , Jane , wife of Henry Negun lliiiT < in . <; lie . 4 , Km ) ., M . P . On U 10 M . I 1 . lit the UvcUny , l '» '' in Hi , Huhm-x , Anne I lanceii Lanni voui )«< 'st « l . iuglil . i < -f tl '" J .. te Keieiviid Ddivard lliiwtiey , Fellow of Kton , mid ni > tfer <> l ( he Jtevrrend i ) . C . Mawlrey , D . I ) . , Mauler of Eton School .

      On tho 7 lh , ut IVIilliinln ~ hill-houMo , I ' roine Kellwood , aged Bcvrnty-ttiifht . ye " "'"' ll " ''" ' C'M'o ' ino Amelia , widow of Admiral thuJJonouraWoHir Conrteniiy Boylo .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 11, 1851, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11101851/page/7/