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    October 18, 1856.] _ THE LEA.DE B, 991

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    Pugilism On The Bkncu.—On Saturday Lnat,...

    Haslingden petty sessions , the magistrates had under ( consideration the propriety of granting a publican ' s t license , and two were opposed to it . A warm debate $ ensued , during which one of the magistrates used vulgar and abusive language relative to the other . In conse- ] < iuence of some reference being made to one of the magis- 1 trates having married a barmaid , the gentleman to whom t the observation referred struck the other on the face i ¦ with his cane , and a regular battle ensued in court . One f of the gentlemen , on . being conveyed home , fainted on t the way . The occurrence has been much , talked about £ in the district . — -Manchester Examiner . i A Female Receiver . — Thomas Kenwick , a boy of i thirteen , was indicted , at the Middlesex Sessions , for stealing a watch , and six pairs of boots , the property of i John Jackuian ; and Catherine Phillips , a married j ¦ woman , was indicted fox feloniously receiving the same . < The boy pleaded " Guilty . " He was then called as a i witness , and he stated that he stole a watclx belonging 1 to bis mother , which he and another boy sold to Phillips ) for two shillings , telling lier at the same time that they had stolen it . With part of the two shillings , they pro- i cured a picklock to get into the warehouse belonging to Mr . Jaekman , of Drury-lane . The boy there stole a 1 quantity of boots , which found a ready purchaser in the ; female prisoner , -who kept a shop in Tower-street , Seven Dials , and from the evidence there ^ vas no doubt that she had encouraged and persuaded him to persevere in a course of plunder , so that she might get the boots by giving but a few pence a pair for . them . Through the . efforts of her counsel , she was Acquitted on the charge of receivin g / the watch , but the jury found her Guilty on the other count . She was sentenced to four years ' yanal servitude . Assaults by Dkuxken SoLDrERS . —Three privates in , the Coldstream Guards have been brought up at the Marylebone office , charged with very savage assaults on some ladies and gentlemen who were returning at night from Notting-hill to Paddington . One of them i > ut his arm round the neck of a married lady belonging to the party , arid , on the husband remonstrating , the whole were pursued by the soldiers up to the railway bridge , Pad-¦ di ngton , when the ruffians commenced an indiscriminate attack , striking right and left Avith great violence , sparing neither women nor men , and laying several stretched and bleeding in the roadway . After some time , the police arrived , and were in their turn assaulted ; hut the soldiers were at length overpowered , and conveyed to the station-house , though not without great difficulty , . which was increased by a man in the crowd calling on the bystanders to rescue the prisoners . This man was also taken into custody , and was charged at Marylebone together with the soldiers . One of the latter , on being seized , said , with an oath , that . he had been fighting for his country , and would liave a fight with the policeman before he would be taken . Another said he would" serve out " one of the constables , " if it was twenty years to come . " A young woman was so seriously injured that she fainted while waiting to give hex evideuce at the police-office , and was taken away in & state of complete exhaustion . Her condition is very precarious . The other women were also horribly bruised and cut . All the accused were remanded . Theft of Railway Passenger Tickets . —Robert Hunt , a youth sixteen year 3 of age , and employed as a booUing-elcrlc by the South Eastern Railway Company , was charged at the Greenwich police-court with stealing a quantity of railway passengers' tickets and disposing of them with intent to defraud the company . He had been in the employ of the company but a short time ; but he found means to dispose of sonic of the tickets which it was his duty to issue at the Deptford station . The misappropriation was soon discovered , and the youth , on being taxed with the theft , confessed , after a little while , that he had taken the tickets . When brought before the magistrate , he pleaded Guilty , and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment with hard labour . AiTEm'TEl ) DOUHLK MUKDISEt AT LlVJHIirOOI .. A barber , named Thomas Willetts , has attempted to murder his wife and a man called Fisher . The wife was separated from her husband , who had ill-used her for many years , and who had latterly been living with another woman . A small shop was kept hy Sirs . " Willetts , and on Saturday night sho ^ vas serving a customer with a bottle of ginger-bcer , when her husbiuid entered . 1-1 is hat was slouched over his eyes , and she did not know him . He went round' the counter , and she said , " Eh , sir ! " He repeated her words mockingly , laid hold of her , and commenced "jobbing" her throat with a pocket-knife . The young man , William Kiaher , went to her assistance , and S \ illotts also cut him about the throat and chest . On being arrested by the police , the man said ho was sorry ho had not " got the job done , and cut his own throat too . " The wounds were not serious in either case . " Willetts has been committed for trial . ' Kevkhiond' TxnANNY . —Jano llile , an inmato of tlic St . Neota' Union , has been committed to Huntingdon gaol for twenty-one days for misbehaviour during Divine service at the workhouse on Sunday , the 5 th hist . This misbehaviour consisted in scribbling in a prayer-book with a pin , and indulging in suppressed laughter with another inmate . The magistrate who inflicted this cruelly aoverc sentence was tUo Rev . S . G . Fawcett , who is also the chairman of the Board of ¦ [ i i i t i f i 5 i i 1

    Guardians . How is it that the most hard and ques- s tionable sentences are always those of a ' reverend' magistrate ? 1 Robbery of Pictures from tiie Earl of Suf- folk ' s Gallerv . —Information has been received by < the police authorities in Great Scotland yard , of an ex- 1 tensive robbery of valuable paintings , which took place i at Charlton-park , Wiltshire , the seat of the Earl of Suf- 1 folk , on the night of Friday week . The thieves con- ' < trived to obtain admission to the picture-gallery , and adroitly took from their frames some valuable paintings , doubtless for the purpose of more convenient removal and to avoid recognition . 1 Extensive .-Forgery . —Mr . Alexander Duncan , late ) agent of the City of Glasgow Branch Bank at Coupar- 1 Angus , lias been apprehended and conveyed to Forfar , i charged with some very extensive forgeries , amounting 1 in all , it is said , to five thousand pounds . lie had only 1 held his appointment for a short time , and considerable < mystery hang 3 over the appropriation of the money . < When taken into custody he appeared to be under the influence of drink . i Swindling Tax Collectors . —Mr . Worley , income- ' tax collector for Dudley , has just absconded , and his accounts show defalcations to the extent of 3000 / . On Saturday , Mr . H . H . Cooper , property-tax collector at WestBromwich , Staffordshire , was apprehended under a warrant for embezzling something like 1100 / . ; he now lies iii Stafford gaol . " \ Vbrley is supposed to have gone to Sweden , a country with which Great Britain has no treaty under the- powers of which she can claim absconding criminals . Affisay with Poachers . —A desperate struggle with five poachers took place on the estate of Mr . Gilbert Greenall , M . P ., on the night of Friday week . The intruders threw heavy stones at the keepers , arid assaulted them with bludgeons , cutlasses , and daggers . Three escaped , and the other two were taken , one hy means of a mastiff , ¦ '; who dragged liim down . They were committed for trial on the following day . CiuarE xn Berkshire-- —The Rev . J . Field , chaplain of the model prison at lieading , stated at the Berkshire Michaelmas Sessions , op-ened on Monday , that , during the last twelve months , there has been a reduction of more than twelve per cent , in the number of prisoners committed to the county prisons . He added : —" I have thought it important for several successive years to show the age at which the recommitted , or worst class of cTiniinals entered upon their vicious course , arid were first committed ; and by referring to the tables of the last year it will be seen that of 112 previously in separate confinement not less than Gl ( more than -10 per cent . ) had been in gaol before they were 17 years of age . These have been committed 372 times—that is , o : i the average , more than six times each . " Burglaiiy . —The house of Sir . William Harrison , a magistrate for Staffordshire , and the proprietor of extensive collieries in that county , has been entered by five men masked and armed . The house was situated near the Brownhills Colliery , and contained the pay-office of the works . The only inmates were a clerk , an old housekeeper , and her daughter . The women were spcedily bound with ropes , and the young man was compelled by threats of instant death to point out the iron safe in which the money was kept . Having obtained from him all the information that they needed , they bound him , rendering bis custody yet more secure by placing over him one of their gang , armed with a double-barreled gun . Thereat of the band then applied themselves to the acquiring of booty , concentrating their early efforts upon tlie iron safe , the lock of which thuy tried to blow off with gunpowder , but they could not succeed . They lind then recourse to n more iinscicntHic procedure . From a neighbouring blacksmith's shop they fetched a heavy sledge-hammer , and eventually forced the safo . Here their booty' was not so largo as they expected to find it , the contents of tlie chest having been reduced to 18 / . by the colliers having been paid their wages only the day before . They helped themselves , however , to various portable articles , and concluded by regaling themselves with the contents of the lnrilur and cellar , after which they rode ofl'in a cart . The inmates of the house remained bound till a late hour of the morning , when their cries attracted the notice of some of the colliers . The burglarn have not yet been apprehended , though Mr . Harrison has offered a reward of 1001 . An Unhcicxsicd Cus'roai-iiousK Oiiacicn . —A young man named llichard Ware Avas examined at the Mansion House , before Mr . Alderman Wire , on a charge of having transacted the business of a custom-house agent without being duly licensed . On tho 8 th of last May , a lady at Hcrtberg , named Mrs . ( Jloudt , sent to England two cases of goods , containing a pianoforte and Home household furniture . Tho cases were brought over to this country in charge of-her ' daughter , Mis . Walter , to whom was delivered tho bill of lading . Shortly after her arrival , she went to the Custom House to obtain tlie cases , and there met tho accused , who , having discovered her business , induced her to give him tho bill of lading , promising to clear the case- * and send the goods to her . He said that the duty would amount to ' 2 / ., which the lady paid him . lie Biibsccuiently churned tho further sum of 2 / . 8 s . for the charges , which lie stated must be paid before the goods could bo given up . After making ' . ¦

    some inquiries at the Cu 3 tom House , Mrs . Walter paid War * this amount also . Her property , however , was not sent to her , and she was obliged to go to Brewers ' Quay , where it had been removed before she could obtain possession of it . Alderman Wire believed that the young man had acted in error , owing to inexperience , ' and not with any intention of contravening the law . He therefore convicted him in the mitigated penalty of 51 . and costs . . . ' The Kev . Mb . Gorham aitd his Parishioners . —• The Kev . Mr . Gorham of Bampford Speke , charged Thornas Vesey , landlord of the Agricultural Inn , lefore the magistrates of Exeter , with keeping his house open at an unseasonable hour . Ori the 25 th of last month , his premises were hired for the annual village festival , and a concert and ball were held in a large room attached to the house . The place was entered at eleven o ' clock by Mr . - ' Gorham and another reverend gentleman , accompanied by several constables , who were ordered to clear the house immediately . This was therefore done . A short time , previously , a young farmer from Exeter , named Baker , had hired a bedroom in the house , but , on the arrival of Mr . Gorham and the police officers , he went away to avoid an altercation , and returned after they were gone . The landlord then asked him to have a glass of grog , to which he consented , but-Mr . Gorham and the constables speedily came back . After reproving Vesey , the-.. reverend gentleman ordered Mr . Baker to drunk his grog and go home . On the latter refusing to do this , Mr . Gorbam ordered the constables to turn him out ; but this they were prevented from doing by Mr . Baker reminding them of the illegality of such a proceeding . A charge was preferred against this gentleman by the Rev . Mr . Gorham , - \ vho accused Mr . Uaker of throwing a turf at him . The summons was dismissed' in both instances , the last being considered in the light of a counter-charge to one which was expected from Mr . Baker for the assault that had been committed on him . . . A . ' . E-UFFIA 2 JL . Y- ¦ 'Butchek . — ¦ Decent persons passing through . Newgate Market have recently been much an'hoyiid by the insults and ruffianly conduct of several of the butchers . One of these fellows was . summoned before Sir Peter Laurie a few days ago for an assault on a Mr . West , an ironmonger , who , without giving any offence , was abused , insulted , pelted with fat , struck violently on the chest , and beaten with fat sacks . The chief offender was a young man named Charles Mat hews , the son of a . very respectable master butcher in tlie market ; and it was against him that the sum- . mons-was issued . His father compromized the matter by payi . Mr . Wcst . flJ . '; ' and so the scamp of a son . escaped without any punishment . Committal , ok Piuze-Figiitkhs .- —Two prize-fighters , their seconds , bottle-holders , and stake-holders , have been indicted at the Oxford County Sessions for riotously : ¦ assembling for the purpose of a prize fight on the 8 th of last July . They pleaded Guilty . The magistrates , considering the abettors more to blame than the principals ' , sentenced the former to twenty-one days ' imprisonment , and the latter to ten days . It appears that a sergeant and constable of the Berkshire police crossed into Oxfordshire , and witnessed the light for their own amusement . The magistrates expressed great indignation at this . Dog-fighting . —Three men have been fined 51 . each and costs at tlie Liverpool police-court , for being concerned in a dog-iight . The remainder of the people present , who include among them members of the ' Fancy ' , from-somo dozen towns round Liverpool , have all been summoned to _ appear . Dishonest Attounisys . —Some investigations were entered into before the Lambeth magistrate on Tuesday with respect to a charge preferred against Mr . Neale , an attorney , by a woman whoso son had been convicted at the Surrey Sessions of stealing a watch . The mother gave Mr . Neale 2 L , on his undertaking to prepare a memorial to the Home Secretary , with a view to a commutation of her son ' s sentence . However , he had done nothing in the matter , though he refused to return the money . Mr . Neale admitted to tho magistrate that ho had received tho 2 / .,. but added that he could not proceed in the affair for want of the necessary particulars , witli which he had not been furnished . Still , lie said , ho could not have nil his trouble for nothing . Mr . Elliot , tho magistrate , remarked that such conduct seemed to him like positive dishonesty . Ho advised Mr . Nealo to return the sum . This was assented to by the attorney , as far as returning part of the money was concerned ; but tlie woman shortly afterwards appeared iigjiin at the court , and suid she could not get anything . She was then recommended to summon the lavycr . — Tli is practice of victimizing the mothers of criminals has become very common of late . A . Timstf Dkxkctku . —Two men , one named Alfred Bliind , now in custody , went into the shop of Messrs . Benson and Co ., jowclhw , Ludgatc-hill , and aaked to look at some mourning-rings . While ono of them was looking at the contents of a tray , tho uhopman suspected that he had appropriated aome , and - therefore told another of the shopmen to fetch u policeman . Bland's companion seemed to apprehend Homething from tho whl . speringH , and hurriedly left the Hhop . Robertson , tht ) shopman , then taxed Bland with theft , and took a mourning-ring from his coat . He then told him that ho had got some more , and endeavoured to seize his

    October 18, 1856.] _ The Lea.De B, 991

    October 18 , 1856 . ] _ THE LEA . DE B , 991

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 18, 1856, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18101856/page/7/