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Another Great Railway Kobbery.—The Polic...
0 « mr a woman belonging to the town of Nantyglo , Glamorganshire , has been committed for trial on a cha rge of . murdering her illegitimate son , a hoy about ten years old . The evidence brought forward at the in- quest showed that the boy hud been starved and s hockingly beaten until death resulted . A Tickbt-of-Lkavb Max in Distbkss . —A man re- cently left the subjoined letter with Mr . Bingham , the Marlborough-street magistrate : ^ - " Sir , —I am a re- turned convict , released on a ticket-of-leave on the 8 th of October last . Since that time I have used every means to get employment , but have not been able to succeed . I am now very badly off , and have no means of living except I have recourse to something dishonest , which 3 never will , though my circumstances should be worse than they are at present . My object in applying to you is this . I have the offer of a free passage to New York on Thursday next by the New York Town ship , Captain Meyer , but being without a friend and destitute , I am at a loss how to act except some humane person would assist me . I have therefore made bold to lay my case befbreyou , trusting you will be kind enough to assist me under my unfortunate circumstances . —Your humble servant , Wiluam Pearson . " Mr . Bingham caused inquiries to be made into the case , and found that the man ' s assertions were quite true ; but it turned out that it would be impossible for him to go to America , as , by the United States laws , convicts are not allowed to be taken as passengers in American ships . Mr . Bingham suggested Australia , to the man , and relieved hitnbv ten shillings from the poor-box . Aixegkd Impostube . —Mary Anne Murphy , who was charged with obtaining various sums of money from a number of persons by fraudulently representing that she was the niece of the Bishop of Cloyne and Ross , and that she was entitled to a sum of 3000 / . in the Bark of Kngland , as heiress at law to her brother , Robert Murphy , to whose estate she was adm inistering , was on Tuesday again brought up at Guildhall , for further examination relative to those charges . The witnesses necessary to substantiate them , however , not being in attendance , the case failed , and tie accused was dis- charged , but was immediately rearrested upon a charge of obtaining a sovereign on false pretences . As this occurred at Clerkeinvell , she was removed to the police office of that court . •"' ¦ A GENTLEMAJrWiFErBEJVTEK . —Mr . Frederick Ashley Thompson , a sharebroker , residing at Thorpe Cottage EicLmond-road , Dalston , was charged on Tuesday , at the YVorsliip-street police-court , with , having maltreated his wife . Mrs . Thompson , who has been married about five years , has been frequently ill-used by her husband but on Monday evening his violence was so great , thoug he had no other provocation than that she had gone out shopping without his leave , that she felt compelled to go to the station-house , and place herself under the protection of the police . Here slie was followed b Thompson ,-who was intoxicated , and who swore that he would do the same again . He was fined 5 Z ., and ordered to find substantial bail to keep the peace for three months . Hedpath on the Stock Exchange . —The public have been taken somewhat by surprise by the details given in the Bankruptcy Court relative to the enormous speculative transactions in which Leopold Redpath was engaged . Between May and November , the amount his account floating in the market appears to have varied from 70 , 000 / . to 131 , 000 / . Transactions to the extent of 30 , 000 / . in Great Northern stock , and -10 , 000 in Consols , are mentioned . Making every allowance for the position of Stock Exchange brokers , we cannot help thinking that the system of thus extending facilities for excessive speculation to the clerks of public compa nies and other employ *?* is a serious evil . — Daily News ( City Article . ) . SAcniLKCiE . —The Church of St . Nicholas , Deplford has been broken into , and the chest containing sacramental plutc stolen .
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . TitRBE persons have been drowned close to Blackfriars bridgo . A party , consisting of four men and women , hired a boat last Sunday for a row on tlie river Tuoy remained on tho water till darkness . set in , one of the rowers turned the boat round and was making for the bridge , when the end of tlio boat struck against fhc pier-head of one of tho arches . The women , alarmed , sprang up and leaned towards one side of boat , which was tlms overbalanced , and the seven pants were immediately thrown into the water . Several boata put offto the rescue , and two men and two women were picked up in an exhausted state . Tho other I were carried away by tho tide . _ I A ticket-taker on tho Birkonliead and Cheater I way was run over last Saturday evening by an expr I train at Spittnl , and was cut to pieces . I A man and bis wife , occupying the cellar of a I in Raglan-street , Liverpool , were burnt to death I < ro which destroyed tho promises on Sunday morning I They were both intoxicated when last seen . I A largo sail-boat , with thirteen persons on board , I lost on Tuesday week 011 tho Lower Shannon , I I during tho terrific gale -which tlien raged . Every I was drowned .
isJ a wi Ja an ca be ba th he se ar oc th co at y < in Si st V w o b e a F t t "v < ¦ J ^> 1 J - ¦ ¦ ' \ , i | j the cal for in per - seek , ing : of [ s s : the i I ; . ' a | fit" j el r jr , i ? , e n d se I a : & y iid is eis ig in ' ' Five persons have been drowned near the Shetland . tal Islands . Four men and two women were proceeding in ! Mi a boat from . Lerwick to Bressay . One of ¦ the . ' . rowers | . mi was a man named William Duncan ; another was > th < James Duncan , a son of the former . James was drunk , ter and it se ems he is extremely passionate when intoxl- cal cated . Recollecting that he had left some things for behind him at Lerwick , he wished his father to put kn back , but this was refused . He then attempted to pull in the boat back , but was defeated by the others . He was inc held down for a time , and restrained . Directly he was pei set free , however , he leapt up , sprang towards his father , aft and attempted to strike him . In the commotion thus en ; occasioned , the boat upset , and only one person out of sis the six—a man named Peter Hunter—escaped . He sat contrived to get back again to the boat , and drifted in rei about two "hours to shore . nl £ Two melancholy catastrophes have occurred in De- tic vonshire . Four fishermen of Topsham vent out to sea co ; in a fishing boat , to follow their usual avocation , on see Saturday last . They had not been out long before a j inj stiff gale sprung up , " and the boat was capsized near the . of Warren , on the south coast . Three of tlie poor fellows st : were drowned , and . the other contrived , by the aid of one su of the oars which he secured , to get safely on shore . The body of one of the men was washed ashore the same th evening . The bodies of the other two have not yet been m discovered . On the same day , a similar accident occurred st at Appledore , in the north of Devon . A vessel was lying cl in the bay off Barnstaple Bar , which signalled for a j fr pilot . Two boats , each manned by sev « n men , put off jK to her assistance . The weather was rough , and there j h was a heavy sea . On nearing the bar buoy , a breaker j-li struck one of the boats and upset it . Four of the crew , ii three of whom were married men with large families , ^ were drowned , and the remainder were rescued by the other boat . n A man was killed on the ¦ South-Western Railway on k Thursday night . The up-traiu from Southampton had c just passed , the Woking station , when from some cause . ip which remains unexplained it came in contact Avith a'L tender at G ' oldsworth cuttings . The engineer sounded s his whistle on obser \ 'ing- the tender so close , and instantly i : turned off the steam ; but a collision took place , and t ' . Michael Knight , foreinau of the plate layers , who was a standing on the tender , was thrown out . His skull was 0 . fractured , and he died in a few hours . # $ A dreadful catastrophe has occurred at the Bowling 1 Iron-WoTks near Bradford , where a man has been 1 I ' crushed-tp > -death ' in the ¦ machinery . h ¦ ' . ¦ . ' . ¦ ¦ ¦ . '¦ .. ' . - ¦ " ... - ' . ¦ .. ¦ ' ¦ ' .. ' ¦¦ . ' / ' ¦' ¦ : - .- )
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MISCELLANEOUS . i rs- The Couht . —The Maharajah Dhulecp Singh has ar- J ree rived in this country on a visit to the Queen . —1 lie j er Queen and Royal Family returned yesterday morning to icii Windsor Castle from tliolale of Wight . _\ \ na Tub Recoiu > ekshu > of Bkistoi ,, — In consequence ol nst representations made by the town-council of Uiistol to inff the S « cretarvof State for the Home Department , the tht salary of the Recorder , with the concurrence ot Mr . cu- Serjeant Kinglnke ( who recently succeeded Sir Alex- Zl aX cockbum in the office , and w ho left the matter nen entirely in the hands of Sir George Grey ) , has been reiroe duced Trom 000 / . to 500 / . per annum . „ , ltKl-nKSKNTATIOS OF ljADlHNGTOXSHIBK . —Lord LU ail- cho has intimated to his constituents in La st Lo thian rcsa that lie has been ordered by lus medical nivwerto abstain from all business for the ncxt'Wvc months , > uso and tliat he is about to proceed to the continent in ordo . in a to re-establish his health . . _ ... iiiff . Scottish A anicui-TURAT . Statistics . — Mr . Ha S Maxell , Secretary to the Highland and AgncnUural was Society of Scotland , under whoso cure and direction ^ ami agricultural statistics of Scotland have now for three * ou year * been collected , has just transmitted his concluding report for 186 C to the Hoard of Trade along with the i ar- ¦ The , gto b ^ eof d to the P lex- utter re- El- hian > r to iiths order Hall turnl a tho throo iding h the - three . when being the occuthroe Kailess house 111 a -. was reland , soul
. . . ^ — ^ ^ ^ l ^ ^^^ ^ BIHaBBi ^ tabulated statistics for the year . In tins document , Mr . Maxwell says : ' - — " As regards details , the most prominent difference between the two years ( 1855-56 ) is increased area under wheat . Indeed , the rapid extension of that crop during the three years the statistiinquiry has been in operation is remarkable , and , but its operation , would comparatively have been unknown . In 1854 , there were 168 , 216 acres of wheat ; 1855 , 191 , 300 §; and in ¦ 1856 , 263 , 328 acres—an increase upon last year of 72 , 027 £ acresj and of 56 i cent , on the returns for 1854 . The information afforded by the acreage table for the current year enables us to account for this great excess , not only consistently , with the circumstances of the times , but satisfactorily as regards the progress of agriculture . The remunerative prices which hare been obtained for wheat make it natural that it should be substituted , where practicable , for barley and oats , and lead us to look for tha conversion of grass land into grain . "We may therefore to find the increase in wheat met by a corresponddecrease in the acreage of the other white crops , and grass under rotation ; as it would argue ill for the state of agriculture did any proportion appear to be a subtraction from the-area under green crops . " Fei-o-de-se I 2 f Prison . —An inquest has been held on body of Johanna Gumsnage , a German , -who committed suicide by hanging in a cell at the Collingwood station . He was given into custody on Sunday morning , charged with stealing a part of the communion service from St . Augustine's Roman Catholic chapel , Great Howard-street . He ate a hearty dinner in his cell at half-past two , and nbout a-quarter to three he was found hanging by the neck from a handkerchief fastened to an iron bar behind the shutters . A verdict of felo-de-st was returned . Fiues . —A very extensive fire burst out on Tuesday morning on the premises of a timber-merchant and cowkeeper in Somers Town . Five valuable cows who were confined in tiie cowhouses perished in the flames , and property to a very large amount was destroyed . The loss is covered by " insurance . —A very fierce and extensive fire occurred on Wednesday morning at a surgical instrument maker ' s in . Aldersgate-street , City , ending iu the destruction of the premises and of the stock ( insured ) ; and , on the afternoon of the same d 3 y , the premises of an engineer and barge-builder , situated in Upper Fore street-Lariibe th , and stretch ing down to the river sidty were the scene of a conflagration , attended with great lo-s of'property , also insured . ¦ . . . . -- ¦ Tiik GiiEiiswicii Ulectiox . —We understand that . a requisition is in course of signature , calling on -Major-. General Sir William ' Codrington , K . C . B ., to allow himself to be put in nomination for Greenwich . There is no doubt that General Codrtngton " will comply with s \ ich a requisition , if it is as respectably signed as is cxpected . —Times . ' " - ¦ ¦ ' . ' Iul > -es 3 ok the D « A > -of Canterbury . —1 he-Dean of Canterbury is suffering ' from a severe attack of par < :-lysis , owing " to which , he lias been ; speechless for ui > - wanls of a fortnight . The Ixcomk-tax Movement . —A meeting of the mhabitants of the various parishes comprised within the Ilolboni Union was held on . Tuesday evening at the .. y . orkhouse in Gray's inn-lnne , ¦ to consider what stej . s should be taken to alleviate the excessive burden of th j income-tax . After several speeches had been aolivereU a committee was nppointed to prepare a petition to Fnrliamciit —A large meeting to protest agaiii 3 t thecontinuance of tliewar ninepence took place on Tuesday at the ¦ Court-Iiouse of Kilmainhain , . Ireland , the High SheriiY presiding .. The meeting represented the wliolo county of Dublin . Resolutions condemning tho proposed prolongation of the increase until April , 185 « , and deciding that a petition shall be presented to 1 arliament , were adopted liRin . con . —A meeting has also been held , with the like result , at Birmingham , at which Messrs . Muntz ami Scholofteld spoke . —A passive rcsistancc to the payment of tha income-tax has commenced at Droghcda . . Tiuc Itvlian Co 3 iMirrKi :. —The . ltalian Committee in England is composed of the following gentlemen :--Douglas Jerrolil , 2 C , Circus-road , St . John ' s VVood ; Gcorgo Dawson , M . A ., Hirn . inglj . ini ; Joseph Cowen , jun ., Ncwcn . stle : W . S . Burton ,. S 9 , Oxford-street ; 1 . A . Taylor , Caroy-lane , Chcapside ; W . C . Bennett , OroenwicliV R . Moore , 25 , Hnrt-atrcet , Bloomsbury ; W . II . Ashurst , G , Old Jewry ; Edmund Benles , 4 , Stoua-buiUliiiKa , Lincoln's-inn ; . ^ . Etches , Derby ; Dr . Ei . us , 81 ) , Great Hussell-streot , Lloomsbury ; C . Furtado , « , Tercy-Mreet , Bedford-sqiurc ; Horace & . John , 352 , Strand ; W . Shacn , 8 Bed ord-row ; C 11 . Kit , IS , Iligh-atreot , Islington ; C . W . Dunford , 42 , High-street , Notti . » g-hiU ; T . Wilson , G Tottenhamstreet , Fitaroy-squaro ; J . Staiwfeld , Hon . Sec , WalUamorcen , Fulham ; John Bonnett , Chcapsule . NiAv Si'hkkt NoMKNCLATUiuc .-Mr . D-IflTanger and tho other members of tho committee appointed by the Hoard of Works to consider the best moans of carrying out that portion or tho section of the act wliich empowers tho board to name all the streets in the metropolis , so aa to prevent any two streets being called by the same name , produced at tho meeting on Friday week tho torat Inuta of their labours i « tho shape of a voluminous andt ntcresting report . The suggestion put { o J % \"^ JZ ' stilute , for tho names which arc now w *^ **^™* repetition in various parts of the town , terms Of d 13 t . 1 v ;
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 20, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20121856/page/9/
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