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      Suicides.—Mr. Carter, Coroner For East S...

      scheme , like the manager of the Royal British Bank ; that he committed habitual forgery , like the equally tasteful and sumptuous Liokei . Redpath ; that he forged and filched like the pious Paul or the aristocratic Stkahan ; or that he constructed a gigantic system of swindling , like Joseph Windie COXE . , Instead of assuming a resemblance between these cases , what the past evidence tends to establish is , the infinite variety in these incidents of our huge credit system . Endless are the wavs in which the law for the enforcement of credit can be turned into instruments for the conveyance of capital from one hand to the other , even so that the left hand knovreth not what the right hand doth . As in some other cases , ' protection' here appears to have the effect of defalcation .

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      T H E LEADE Bu __ _ JNo . > Jtot 25 , 1857 . _ ¦ _ — ¦ ¦ - - Agab—three IJL & __ . /

      Parties And Prospects. Signs Are Not Wan...

      PARTIES AND PROSPECTS . Signs are not wanting that Lord Paxmebston ' s majority is becom ing unmanageable The frequent divisions in the Lower House , the gradual consolidation of the independent Liberal party , and the Premier ' s reduced personal energy , are by no means good omens for the Government . Yet Lord Palmebston , from time to time , breaks out in his old manner ; last week he must have aiglilv nattered the noble statesmen of the Whig connexion by telling them that he cared not a straw for the opinions of Lord John Russeil . We congratulate the Bedford influence upon the contempt so discreetly enunciated by PAXMEKSTpN Victor . Mr . GtIiADSToite does not seem inclined to sit so tamely under the jeers of the strong Minister . He is returning to his former Parliamentary position , and what may he not tJo , with PaIiMEbston on the wane , if he will but cut his ecclesiastical clients adrift , and become a finance and reform politician ? As for the Tories , the peers have effectually closed the doors of office against them , and no doubt they regret the vote that excluded Baron Rothschild . Until the Jewish question is settled , a Debby administration is an impossibility . It is true that Lord John Russell and Sir James G-baham are building an arch over which the peers may retreat , but will they ? The only section in the House to which power is accruing is that of the independent Reformers . During the past week they appear to have been drawn together by some scheme of common action , and the stand they have made upon the estimates has been vigorous and serviceable . In the midst of the Liberal anarchy — the Premier being arcli-anarch—they have stood firm and united . Lord John Hussein competes with them ; Sir James G-baham makes it his business to declare for Liberalism upon a large scale ; Mr . Gladstone ' s torpor is obviously coming to nn end : —all these are hopeful indications .

      A. Orew I'Or The Plying Dutchman Gakbatt...

      A . OREW I'OR THE PLYING DUTCHMAN Gakbatt , the great gold-robber , was foi some years the leader of convict ton in Bermuda .. His associates regarded him witl admiration ; he was the master-spmt of then Yellow-coated confederacy , intimately , Mr , fciawAN , condemned ( justly or not ) lor the murder of hia wife in Ireland ' s Bye , amve <| in . the colony . G-akbatt at once reaignec the lead , and said , courteously , he could no tbiak of refusing precedence to Mr . Kmwan . Upon the same principle , the banks of the Swan , in Western Australia , may be expected to become the scene of a social flutter ; for an aristocracy is to be planted iu the soil . On the 25 th of August a good shij will sail from England , bearing to the 9 wai Sir Jqhn Djoan Faui ., Mr . Stbahajn , Mjp . Bates , Ux . Jjbopai . » Eiwpawh , Mr ¦

      Robson , Mr . Sawabd , Mr . celebrated embezzlers , three celebrated forgers , and the inimitable / vengeful Agab . " With the exception of Agar and Sawabd , between whom an antipathy may naturally be supposed to rankle , many mutual ieelings will harmonize this aristocracy ot detested crime . Common reminiscences and a common fate unite them . What strange contrasts in their lives ! Paul looking back through the gratings of Millbank to that happier time when he sat with Baron Aidebson on the bench of justice ; Stbahan to his ' elegantly planted park and residence in perfect taste ; ' Bates to the hour ot gratified ambition , in which he became the partner in a firm with a baronet at its head . Through Redpath ' s dreams may flit the auction at which he bid successfully against the French Emperor for a wondrous work m buhl ; through Robson ' s the triump h of his dramatic productions" Whither is fled the visionary gleam ? Where is it no-w , the glory and the dream ?" Neither Agab nor Sawabd can have sympathies with men or with regrets like these . The latter was for twenty years a miserable Jonathan "Wild , a master forger , a burglars ' agent , whose nightmare was Newgate ; to the former penal discipline has been the routine of years ; he knows what it is to labour in the hulks ; he must have calculated , half a lite ago , upon no euthanasia better than a ticketof-leave . But , in some respects , Redpath : and Robson stand upon a level with him ; they gambled every day , and hazarded liberty for luxury ; they could scarcely have looked for perpetual winnings . Depend upon it , many a time and oft did a prophetic shadow of penitentiaries and the Australian settlements obscure the glitter of Chester-terrace , and the gaiety of Kilburn Priory . We do not believe that the three bankers ever imagined such a possibility ; breaking the old bank in the Strand , and losing their commercial reputation—that was , uo doubt , the climax of fear in the minds of Paul ,

      Thft fwft * reanectable' individuals place . The five * respectable' individuals moved pretty much in the same ' sphere , except that their sympathies were different . Robson , although a poet , had not the delicate tastes of Redpath , and as for Sir John-Dean Paul , his ' seriousness' kept him apart from '• turfmen and p hilosophical virtuosi . ^

      . Stbahan , and J 3 ates . " With four hundred inferior criminals they go — these sociaL bankrupts ^— to Western Australia . " Well , there is something upon which to congratulate evea this criminal crew . It is a change—from the monotony of that hideous desert of brick and whitewash at Millbank , from the wards of Newgate , from the motionless hulk in the 0 . names . They cross the ocean ; they have a new lite before them ; there will be freshness in the sight of the Australian shores ; there is the prospect of tickets of leave . But how the population will crowd to gape at the convict baronet , and revive the story of Redpath a ' glory '—upon--which ballad-singers have so unctiously expatiated ! How will the old « leading men' of the Swan River Settlement resign their precedence in favour of five gentlemen so accomplished , and , up to a certain point , so flattered by society ? Agar . nnd Sawah-d will not be similarl y respected ;

      ! ¦ they have only their distorted talents to l recommend them ; they have never been r gentlemen , or sat on the bench , or in-. herited estates , or outbid Louis Napo-» leon , or achieved a dramatio success . But I let the captain of the vessel chartered at L Lloyd ' s look well to his navigation . There t is a story that the Flying Dutchman has for ages been wandering in search of a crew . j And would not the seven great convicts ) prefer the perfidious baric , built in the eclipse , and rigged with curses dark , to tho > grey soup , canary-coloured jackets , and dull > severities of a penal colony ? JSTever , pei-1 haps , was a more remarkable band of cri-, minals embarked together , or one in which , mutual regognitfpng were more likely to taHv

      Suicides.—Mr. Carter, Coroner For East S...

      Suicides . —Mr . Carter , coroner for East Surrey , hold an inquest last Saturday on the body of Mr . James Sebastian Yeates , a stockbroker liviug in the Crescent , Albany-road , Camberwell , who had died a few days previously from the effects of prussic acid . Mr . Yeatcs ' ti son went one morning to the house of his father to see him on a matter of business , and , after tapping several times at the door of his room without receiving any answer , informed Iris mother of the circumstance . The latter immediately proceeded to her husband ' s bedroom , and shortly afterwards raised an alarm , on which the son went again to the room and found his father lying dead in his bed . A surgeon was sent for , but neither he nor the young man could detect the smell of any drug in the room , and they did not notice at the time that there wa 3 any bottle in the place containing poison . However , about twelve o'clock the same day , Mr . Yeates , jun ., again went into the room , and he then savr on the dressing-table a small bottle not labelled , which smelt strongly of almonds . Mrs . Yeates declared that she had never seen any such bottle in her husband ' s possession . Another medical gentleman , a friend of the family , was sent for from Peckbatn , and , seeing the bottle , he took it up , and detected in it a powerful smell of prussic acid , half an ounce of which was afterwards found in the phial . A . post mortem examination of the body revealed the presence of that deadly poison . All the members of Mr . Yeates ' s family said that they had neither seen nor heard anything about the bottle of prussic acid until it wa 3 found on the dressing-table . The inquest was adjourned till Monday , when the jury returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity . —George Morley , a hairdresser of Gloucester , has drowned himself and his two daughters in the ship-canal of that town . The bodies of the father and the youngest child were discovered about a mile from Gloucester , at the distance of about six feet from the bank of the canal . The left arm of the father was passed round his daughter ' s waist , while his hand grasped her wrist , and his other arm was likewise curved , as if he had held his eldest daughter in the same manner as the younger . Her body was discovered some way off . The man , for some time past , had been suffering greatly , both from bad health and from the depression of his affairs owing to pecuniary difficulties . The jury , as in the preceding case , returned a verdict of Temporary Insanity . The Oxford Election . —The nomination of candidates for the town of Oxford took place on Monday in .. __ v ^ v « V 1 _ . _ — _ - - - * . U , Y A f mmm rt V * ^ V 1 BOO tl t ¦ liaii twu i

      ^ ^ the Town -yara , wnere upwwua w- m » u « . « . persons assembled . The candidates were the Right Honourable Edward Cardwell , and Mr . Thackeray , tha novelist . The former gentleman did not appear ; the latter addressed the meeting . He excused himself for not being a good public speaker ; but he made a dashing oration , after all . He spoke highly of Mr . Neate , the gentleman who has been unseated by an election committee of the House ; and then made a trenchant onslaught on the Peelite party , to which Mr . Cardwell belongs , and which he accused of endeavouring during the late war to make us lick the boots of the Czar , of encouraging the murderous Chinese in their insults to our flag , and of indirectly causing the present mutiny in India . Mr . Thackeray declared himself in favour of liberal measures , including the ballot , though he thought they did not want that in the coming election— ' they were too plucky , too honest . ' The show of hands waa groatlv in favour of Mr . Thackeray ; and a poll was then demanded for Mr . Cardwell . The election took place on Tuesday , when Mr . Cardwell was returned by 1095 over 1018 -who voted for Mr . Thackeray . The defeated candidate then addressed the electors in a speech conceived in n very generous and manly spirit . He highly eulogizod Mr . Cardwell , and said ho would bo

      likely to serve Oxford much bettor than ho himself could hope to do . In conclusion , ho attributed his defeat to tho unpopular opinions ho entertains "with rospoct to tlio propriety of alto-wing tho people a little recreation and sight-seeing on Sunday after church hours . Antiquities itrom Halioaunassus , — . Tho British Museum is , wo understand , Boon to bo onrichod by « new collection of antiquities . Thoso , tho fruit of tho roaoarchoB instituted at Budrun , tho ancient Halicarnasaus , by Mr . O , Nowton , her Majesty ' s Consul at Mltylono , have already loft Malta in tho Bteainor Gorgon , nnd are oxpooteel to arrive In this country in tlio course of a fow days . They all belong to tho renowned eepulobro of King Mausolus ; many slabs from which , found worked into tho walla of tho modern town of Budrun , have already been for some years in tho national collection . — Literary Gazette . This Norfolk . Rabbit Cash . —The quarrel between Mr . Tillott , editor of the Nor / bib Nexoa , and Low Hastings , with reference to tho celebrated ' rabbit case at tho latter ond of last year , has been adjusted by mutual apologies and rotrttotatlona of offoualvo w » - £ UOgO .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 25, 1857, page 17, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25071857/page/17/