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    .gggj ^ THE ilifjE.-A. P EB. gN*>. 286, ...

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    RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT READING. A eeabpci. ...

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    r*h«.l«8t few days have boen productive ...

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    jOUJI CIVILISATION. •*^TPa HoW3» OB" Lud...

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    The Irish In America. As An Indemnity Fo...

    ~ ' " The . English sergeant seeks recruits in vain , fox the peasant spurns the ' Saxon shilling , ' and turns with buoyant heart far reap the harvest with -which a bounteous " H ^ en ias ^ Hessed the land . He waits impatiently for-tf ^ iboment when the trumpet of instrrrectidn shall summon Mm to the rebels' camp . «' We-i . tio not eounsel you to form a filibustering league , or raise an army of invasion , under the shadow of the stars- and stripes , where ^ we have found shelter and protection . We deprecate the violation of any law of the land in which we live . You will from time to time- be advised of the course of action to pursue . We now ask you to form in each city and town in the United States a branch of the ' Irish Emigrant Aid Society . ' Assemble in each locality at once , avoid all useless speeching , go to work , communicate with us , we will forward you charters and instructions to form ' Auxiliary Aid Societies . ' Elect your own officers , appoint the most responsible men in your localities as treasurers . Avoid all useless expense and parade . Work diligently-and earnestly . Report to us the names of yoursubscfihfirs-and amount of money paid in . We , in turn , will report to the supreme directorvggwhen elected , and thus there will be unity of action , and we shall at all times know our strength and resources , and when the moment for action comes , our leaders will not be working in doubt and darkness . " This document is signed— " P . F . Slane , President ; P . Sharkey , 1 st V . P . ; P . Murray , 2 nd V . P . ; Owen tapper , Treasurer ; T . H . Smith , M . D ., Secretary . " The New York Herald speaks very contemptuously 4 > f the movement , and considers that , instead of Ireland ' s opportunity being now present , it has passed , on account of the concessions forced from the English Government .

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    Railway Accident At Reading. A Eeabpci. ...

    RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT READING . A eeabpci . collision , caused by a degree of negligence on the part of the engine-driver , now dead , which suggests the idea of insanity , occurred on Wednesday evening on the London and South-eastern Railway . A pilot , or empty engine , was sent to G / aildford to take up a train there \ and James Crossley , a man of considerable experience , and hitherto of remarkable steadiness , was appointed as the driver . This man , without waiting for any directions , without inquiring into the condition of the points which were to conduct the engine on to the np-line , without even waiting for the regular stoker , immediately started off . Contrary to the invariable rule , moreover , he refused to let the lamps be lighted until they

    should get to Wokingham . Both he , and a man named Ferguson , who acted as stoker , knew that a train from London was due at " 7 . 35 , and must infallibly be on the down line .. Crossley might possibly have supposed he was on the up-line ; but , however this might have been , . at a : place called Hathaway ' s Farm , about a mile and a quaver from Reading , the engine and the down train , the . latter of which was running at the rate of thirty-five hmiles an hour , came into collision . The train consisted , of a ; first-class carriage , a second-class , a compound ^ carriage , including both first and second , and a

    luggagevan . The two . opposing engines were dashed to pieces ; £ he . luggage-van and the Becond-class carriage were demolished ; but the first-class carriage did not sustain any material . damage . Mr . Hathaway , the possessor of the farm already mentioned , and a farm labourer , saw the collision , and both hastened to the spot . Joseph Crossley , the engineer of the pilot engine , was found dead at the foot of the embankment , having an oil-can in his hand , with which ho had Just been oiling the engine . Three other persons ( travellers ) were killed ; Ferguson was severely ¦ injured ; and seven others were fearfully ¦ wounded , one of whom is thought to be dying .

    An inquest has been opened , and is adjourned to Monday . The evidence already received does not disclose any additional facts to -the foregoing-, but exhibits 'with the utmost clearness that Orossley was groasly . remiss 'in not taking care that the points were properly adjusted , and in not lighting the lamps .

    R*H«.L«8t Few Days Have Boen Productive ...

    r * h « . l « 8 t few days have boen productive of other TattwajitMtoideats . At Dudley r . a- man -with his child in bis arms stumbled on getting out of a carriage , foil under thostrain , ' and was killed . The child , too , was ^ shoekipgly -injured . —vA . boy nine years , Jof age waa eaught by' the buffers of an engine while play ing . at the Nine Kims Station , and instantly kuled-jr—* Thomas ( ftTewstoad , a farmer , strayed on the York and , Scaxbro ' lino , hear York , while in a state of intoxication , an < J > was rutt > over andnkilled by amigii * touafironvVjonk , ¦ to iSoarbro * . On the * following . night , the . same enginq ran-through several horses between Knapton . and Heslerton , whioh had strayed upon the line from . & field , and killed-threo of them .

    Jouji Civilisation. •*^Tpa How3» Ob" Lud...

    jOUJI CIVILISATION . •*^ TPa HoW 3 » OB" Lud . "— -A puffing estabUshmontoha WMsaritly been opened on Ludgutw-hiU . under this title t -- ntf th # pn » pr * 9 tors , by moans-of placards and bandbULi inftttnunttole ) have called tho attention-of the emdulotu } H *« Mu"to-ttt <> lr ¦ aaaertlona of oaring for dale , , at > ruinous sacrifices , the stocks of bankrupt tradesmon r thcugmea

    of some of whom have been used with-the-joaost unwarrantable freedom and . even falsehood . The subject was brought before the , City magistrates ; but the enterprising . speculators who own the house with the . romantic title are determined to do battle , and have accordingly issued a series of . placards declaring deadly war against the neighbouring tradesmen , challenging them to mortal combat , and accusing them of a " malignant conspiracy , " a " rancorous trade combination , " and of propagating " vile insinuations and disgraceful falsehoods . " Furthermore , they threaten these malignant conspirators with the publication of a pamphlet which is to expose their " nefarious doings , " "the confederacy behind the counter , " & c . One paragraph , commencing with a strangely distorted quotation from Shakspeare , is too exquisite not to be : given entire : — " ' Thrice armed is he

    Whose quarrel ' s just . ' " H . F . and" Co ., feeling such to be their position in reference to their enemies , hereby make public avowal that , having resolved to accept the dastardly challenge to a commercial tournay thus" given , they will henceforth do battle with their utmost means against their cowardly and envious assailants . They crave not the broadsheets of the daily or weekly papers , but , armed with a camelhair pencil , a good goosequill , and ' quantum , suff . of ink , will take their chance with unvarnished truths and

    startling exposures of their enemies' doings outside ' Ye House of Luu . ' ' Shawlmen and mantlemen , drapers great and small , Silkmen and . hosiers , now have at you alL' " This is signed by the proprietors of "Ye House , "Hall , Fullalove , and Co . The exhibition of these placards has caused such great assemblages before the shop window that the responsible holder of the house has been summoned for causing an obstruction . He was out of town at the time ; and the consideration of the case has been adjourned .

    Gabqite Robberies . — "Violent attacks upon the person at night in the istreets of London , for the sake of robbery , are now bee « BQing extremely frequent , and raise uneasy . questions as to what our police are at to allow them . Tw < o < of these cases were heard at the Southwark police-court on Saturday last ; the circumstances in both being so precisely similar that a description of the one may serve for the other . In the first case , a French gentleman was the victim . He bad just come out of a

    public-house and was ( passing by the Surrey Theatre , when three men ( one of wiom be had seen at the publichouse ) came up and attacked , him . He was held by the arms and throat , nearly choked , and finally robbed of bis watch and chain . The culprits then made off ; but they were pursued , and one was caught . He was remanded . —The second case was that of Mr . Bagley , which was related in the Leader of September 1 . Thomas Jones , a cripple , was brought up on remand , and committed for trial . He also was concerned with two other

    men not in custody . —At the same police office , on the previous day , another case of highway robbery , unaccompanied , however , by personal violence , was heard . A woman , named Helen M'Cann , was charged with stealing , together with another woman not in custody , a- watch from Mr . George Wightman , an officer in the army . That . gentleman -was proceeding to his hotel along the Waterloo-road , when he was suddenly . and deliberately stopped by the two women . On his attempting to did himself of them , M'Cann pulled bis watch out of his pocket , detached , it from the chain , and ,

    before she could be prevented , succeeded in passing it to her companion , who escaped . Mr . Wightman , however , seized hold of the other ; but she managed to get away from him , and ran for some distance , until she was seen by a policeman , who took her into custody . The officer identified her as a well-known bad character , connected with a desperate gang of street thieves . She was remanded for .. a week , in order to give the police an opportunity of tracing out the other woman and the atolen property . —Daniell Driscoll committed a similar assault on John Tutbill , a master mariner , on board his vessel » t Pickle-herring Wharf , Tooley-street .

    Assault on a Father by a Sqjt . —An old man , named Thomas Dyke , has been nearly killed by a series of brutal assaults committed by his son . It appeared that . the father was drunk on the . first occasion , and had , previously to the assault , thrown a bottle at his wife . He is now lying in a precarious state in Lambeth workhouse . iThb Child Murder . at- Bristol . —A curious . and important fact lias just come to light in connexion with 'this , ocaumrence . When the child's remains were discovered , -su report was circulated that the murder had . been committed by a lunatic— -a suspicion which was

    caused by the fact of on insane man having boon seen near the spot , where he . had frightened several ladies , and children . About a week . ago , a young man , evidently not in hia right mind ,, and in a very sagged and disordered condition ., ) . waa seen near the Valo of Heath Railway . Several questions were asked him ,, but ho refaa « d ; i ; o answer , tn « m ,, ox give any account of himself , rand , all . tno < inibranatiou , -that could-, be obtained respooting-LUa > plaa & of , r « 3 ldenoo / wae . fromta fragment of a Bristol igsnwtor'a / blll f < xund . ux ; bJUi pooket . On . tko polico making ; inquJri « w they Jflarned , that a . father accontrio youngman had lately left the place , joafimwd , to indue bill , and

    bad been vainly sought after . This intelligence was communicated to the Neath Superintendent of Police , and-the young man-was apprehended , and brought by packet to Bristol . When they arrived above the Black Rock , mear to wiere the murder iwas committed , the prisoner , who had hitherto maintained a sullen silence , pointed to die . spot where the body was found , and said , " There ' s where a murder was committed . " ^ Who was murdered— -a man or a woman ? " asked the officer in whose custody he was , feigning ignorance . "A girl , " replied the lunatic . Although it is very possible that he may have spoken of the matter from having heard it , yet the circumstances have induced the police to make inquiries as to how the man was employed on the day of the murder . —AnotRer strange story is related , and one

    which is more like a chapter from a wild romance than a fact . On the evening of the murder , a washerwoman was passing across the downs , when she saw , comin g towards her in the dusk , a man in a state of great excitement , who ran up and said , " Which is Hell ' s gate ?" Not understanding him , she was about to ask for an explanation , when the man cried out , "Which is the mouth of Hell ? " and instantly darted off . The woman was greatly frightened , for , as she alleges , she saw blood on the cuff of the man ' s coat , and he looked very wild . — The Bristol Mercury mentions a rumour that Peeling , now in custody for the murder of Jane Bagley , was met in Bristol on the day after the murder , and gave some particulars of the crime , though the fact of the child ' s death was not known in Bristol until later in the day .

    Attempted Bcboi ^ ary . — -An attempt was made on Saturday evening last , at nine o ' clock , to enter the house of a son of the late Joseph Hume , living at No . 18 , Harley-street , Cavendish-square . The maid servant was in the back attic , when she heard the sound of footsteps in the adjoining room . She communicated her alarm to the butler , who went to the drawing-room , and informed his master of the circumstance . Mr . Hume proceeded to the front attic , and there , through the open

    window ( a padlocked iron grating by whieh it was secured having been forced ) , he perceived two men on the roof . He went out after them , and the thieves , finding themselves discovered and pursued , hastily retreated , and descended a ladder at No . 16 , by means of which their entry into Mr . Hume ' s premises had been effected . One of them got down safely , and escaped ; but the other fell from a great height , and broke one of his legs . He was captured by a policeman who came up at the time , and was taken to the Middlesex Hospital .

    Private Stills . — Thomas Smith , Charlotte Edge , and Charlotte Richards , have been committed to prison for three months , in default of paying the penalty of 30 / ., for working private stills at 22 , Southamptonstreet , Bloomsbury-square . Emily Leqg , the nursemaid , who has been several times examined and remanded on the charge of throwing a fork at a little girl , and seriously injuring her , has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment . Assaultino a Man in Possession . —A curious point in law was raised a few days ago at the Marylebone police court . Thomas Ellis , a broker ' s man , was put in possession of the house of Mrs . Burke , a widow residing in Lodge-place , St . John ' s-wood , for arrears of taxes to the extent of about 60 ? . A Mr . Pyecroft , a

    lodger in the house ( who said it was owing to his not having paid Mrs . Burke the rent that was due to her , that she was unable to pay the taxes ) , took up the matter , and told Ellis that , as his name was not mentioned in the warrant , he had no right to be there . Subsequently , he brought a man , by whom , with the assistance of Mr . Pyecroft , Ellis was forcibly ejected Upon Mr . Pyecroft being brought before the magistrate , his counsel contended that the broker should have been in possession himself , and that he had no right to depute another . The magistrate ' s clerk said it was always the custom for the broker to put in a man ; but he could not say whether it was legal or not . Eventually , it was determined that Mr . Pyecroft should be bound over to appear again at the sessions .

    The Haokett Family . — John and Robert Huckctt have been again brought up on remand , charged with robberies from carts . Another case was brought forward against them . This third case was a robbery from a vehicle in the Brompton-road , and was committed on the same evening as the two other cases , which occurred respectively in Rochester-row , Westminster , and Konnington-lano ; bo that their practice must have been pretty sharp . They were again remanded . — It ia currently reported and believed that George Hackett , who acquired such desperate notoriety between five and six ycara ago through hia daring aa a thief , and hia extraordinary succor in breaking out of prison , baa been rocentjy executed in America , where he had fled after obtaining bis liberty , , and that the offence for which ho waa hung was that of stabbing his gaoler .

    A DouBUii Wiwu-r-Mr . John Carter , jun .,, of Clifton , near Bristol , formerly a town-councillor of that ward , but recently a bankrupt , has appeared at Guildhall , London , charged with perjury . His elder brother , » lr . Edwin Carter , died at Chopatow worth from , 80 , 000 / . to 40 , 000 / . . By hia , will of the 12 tU of January , 1846 r » ° left the bulk of his property to Mr . John Cactor and w » brothers and . pis . toro itt , feo ,, witli Upright-of . disposing ° *

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 15, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15091855/page/6/