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    insufficien * * tf ^ 1 fa . PP ^ -to imf : i ** r & ltel ^^ S * Sm » rri & £ m ^^ W ^ ctedl und ^ r the * Geo . IV ., c . 76 , p ? £ i ; i tie pffence being felony , punishable byfourteen ye » s ^ twrisportationi ^ " . ^ . A CbhtbchhORate has been : refused , by a majority of twentyreight votes , at Hastings ,. . , >* . , The Cjkxotal Paj ^ cb Company ( in accordance with , asiiggestwn' from Glasgow ) are about to invite the exhibttorr at Paris to transfer their goods to Sydenham at the dose of the Exposition , giving them space for their display free of charge . Ward

    Attempted MuKpr-u of Sja Hknby " . —An attempt to assassinate Sir Henry Ward , the Governor of Ceylon , has been made by a man who for several years has been , well known as a confirmed thief and bad character . On the morning of the seventh of last month , Miss Kate Ward was awakened by the noise of a man m feer bedroom , who , after bolting the door on the inside , talked about the apartment , examining various articles . Miss Ward raised an alarm ; upon which the man took up a knife which lay on the floor , threatened her ,, and . then darted along the passage . In so doing , he passed the governor's , room , and encountered Sir Henry , who , alarmed at the noise he had heard , had come out . Armed-toith a stick and a Colt ' s revolver , the governor

    pursued the man down into the drawing-room , when the fellow turned , round , and attempted to . stab Sir Henry with ., his knife . Cut , before he could touch him , his Excellency snot the ruffian through the shoulder with the' ' revolver ; and some of his guards arriving shortly afterwards , the culprit * after wounding two of them with therknife ^ was . secured and carried off in castody- The authorities , however , found it necessary to place him in , th ^ e hospital on account of the wounds he had received . It has been hinted that , judging from his general appearance and manner , he must be insane ; but those who are well acquainted with him state that he has been frequently in gaol for various offences—an assertion -which is borne out by marks of a former punishment on his back .

    'Criminal . Law in Malta . —A young man , named GiovaitrJi Agius , a Maltese , has been tried at the Criminal : Court ; at Malta , for having murdered , in March last , atGalata , near Constantinople , one of his own countrymen , named Vincenzo Zammit . The nature of the case , and the remarkable verdict returned by the jury at the trial , have called forth much eomment . Agius , some time since , opened a small shop at Galata in partnership with a man , named Micliele Borg , also a native of Malta . On the 17 th of last . March , Zammit called at their shop ! and asked theni to let him have credit for ; a lo ' af of bread . At first , Agius would not grant this request ,-but afterwards consented at the intercession of his partner- , No ^ sooner , however , had Borg left the shop , than . Agius again , refused Zaminit ' s wish , and

    immediately ordered him , with a torrent of objurgation , accompanied by a violent blow on the face from a sharp-edged instrument , to quit ' his premises . Zammit did not resist the attack , but sat down and cried on a bench , where , bejng again approached by the prisoner , he rushed out of t , l > e shop , and presently returned with pne of the Turkish police , to whom he gave Agius in custody . Zammit ' a wound was dressed by a surgeon , arid he was taken to the British Hospital , where he died the next day . The weapon by which his death-wound was inflicted was a yery formidable one , being a kind of short sword with two sharp edges . Notwithstanding that the charge against the prisoner was clearly proved by the evidence of seven witnesses , and that no extenuating cirenmstanoes -were shown , the jury returned tho following

    extraordinary and unlooked-for verdict : — " The jury unanimously / declare Giovanni Agius guilty of the murder indicated In the indictment , committed by Lim on the person of Vincenzo Zamtriit , under the immediate influence of a momentary passion , in consequence of -which , in , the act of committing the crime , he was incapable of reflecting . " After the reading of the above , the covlxif put the following question to the jury ¦ •—41 Whether it ' is ; piroved : that the cause of provocation g ! veri I | 1 ) yVincenfco' Zammit to Giovanni Agius -was slight , « nd that Giovanni Agius had acted so excessively and ; disproportionately to the cause of the provocation that the murder cannot , bo attributed to a mere heat of bltfoa ayfeing ftoin the mere provocation ? " The jundeclared ! " ' Proved ; ' eight ijgahlst one . The court , under the above circumstances , according to provisions in the Criminal Law , could only , condemn the prisoner to

    imprlsoniQent , and hard , labour for twelve years ; and a sentence to that ' effect was accordingly pronounced , AmBJbioX—^ Baltirnol * o has teen the scene' of a < lisgracelW outrage . ' The Democrats of tho 18 th Ward , on returning from a mass * meeting , w < ero , attaoked by , some persona , puppoaed to belong to tho Knpw . ^ riqthuig . body ; several pistol-ahota were fired ,, and a young man was killed . '' The flu ' spected jmurdetelr , is In cabiod ^ . Political eaffcitoment is running very high In Baltimore , and torchlfght : processions ami mass-meetings are , frequent . —^ Jjjq fugitive eluvca from , . Virginia , have arriye ^ , a , t Syrapuio on their way to Canada . Yejlp ^ y fever U , ? t ( U , verJTt ( Teyfuent iit'Norfolk and Portsmouth . —Intelligence froin'tf ) 6 riherri Mexico stated that General Castro was ' atflD la command of'Matamoras . Tho city'was embroiled inlir ^^ U } , while , ^ ho ^ cv 9 l , ua 9 ^«* y ftrco wa « without . TU ^ b , o 4 « pera pupfibef , COp to I' ^ QOj and demand the > i » . U' » ii O : ' . ! . , •¦ ¦ ¦ ¦¦ ::. , ¦

    unconditional surrender of the place .. General Vidaurra was also marching on ' itiejn . San Luis de Potosi had been captured by the insurgents , and General Giulan killed ^ Tampico had pronounced for the plan of Vidaurri , and driven out Cassanova . —In the New York markets , money was scarce at seven to eight per cent , on first-class business paper at sixty days , and eight to nine percent , on four months' paper of a similar grade . The stockmarket was somewhat easier . Advices from Honduras report that business was very dull on account of the

    revolution throughout the State . The different departments which had declared against the President , Cabanos , had all , however , yielded except the departments of Olancho and Yoro , which still held out , and General Alvarez , at the head of 500 Government troops , was marching against the rebels . The town of Truxillo has been attacked by a band of robbers . The inhabitants , however , were prepared and armed , and the brigands were defeated with considerable loss . —Dr . Kane ' s Arctic expedition has arrived at New York , -with , all on board safe and welL

    California . —We quoted a few weeks back an account of a dreadful contest between the Americans and the Mexicans at the Central Mines , California . The affair has beeti , at length concluded , and a letter from San Francisco says the catastrophe has . been the murder of about sixtir persons ' by shooting and" lynching , the robbery and spoliation of ; much money and other property belonging to the victims , and the forcible and unlawful expulsion of about one thousand Mexicans -and Chilians from Amador and two adjacent counties . Australia . —The accounts from Australia received by the last mail contain " little intelligence excepting that which relates to financial matters . Mr . Haines , the successor to Mr . Forster in the Melbourne Colonial

    Secretaryship , has discovered that he originally made a mistake of l , 5 O 0 , 0 O 0 Z . sterling in calculating the liabilities left him by his predecessor . By means of repudiating a loan from the land fund , Mr . Foster considerably reduced the national debt ; and the remaining portion he proposed to meet by laying an ad valorem duty of : ten per cent , on all imports , by a stamp duty , and an increased assessment on stocky The squatters , however , carried a motion refusing to entertain any scheme of additional taxation . The session was accordingly brought to a speedy close ; and , although the money required was offered ( at a high rate of discount ) by the banks , all public works were suddenly stopped . The Melbourne revenue for the year ending June 30 th , 1855 , shows a decrease of 70 , 729 / . 14 s . Od . on the decrease

    previous year ; while on the quarter there is a of 171 , ^ 17 ^ . O . s . 7 d ., as compared with the corresponding quarter of last year . This diminution , however , does not appear to be regarded with much anxiety by the colonists . Trade is dull , employment scarce , and wages lowered . Reports continue to be received of destitution at Collingwood , and a meeting of the unemployed has taken place at Geelong . It appears , however , that the complainants themselves admit that their-want of work is owing , not so much to inability to obtain it , as to their unwillingness to submit to a reduction in the rate of wages . The necessaries of life at Adelaide were very high in price during last July . The number of unemployed single women supported at Government expense in that colony was 519 , and on board ships at Port

    Adelaide 376 . —An expedition was about to start from Sj'dnoy to explore the interior of the Australian continent , under tho auspices of Mr . Gregory . Fatal Accident with a Gun . —Another of those accidents which are constantly happening from the careless use of fire-arms has recently occurred . A lad , aged fifteen , named John Lawn , of Gwennap , Cornwall , shot his younger brother through tho breast . An elder brother had been out shooting , and on hia return careessly left the gun in the kitchen , loaded . The lad , John Lawn , not being aware of it , took it up , and one of the children said , " Why don't you fire off the cap ?" He pulled the trigger , the guri went off , and the whole charge entered the right breast of his little brother , aged thred years . The poor child expired ten minutes afterwards .

    Railway Accidents . —As the down express train from London was running into Gloucester on the Great Weatiern line on Friday week , the drivei' was signalled to stop , as a train on the Midland lino , which joins the Great Western near Gloucester , was arriving . When tho driver had stopped the train , he doscended from hia engine to speuk to tho guard , and a train on tho up-line passed without his noticing its approach , knocked him d 6 wn , and Injured him in a shocking manner . He was . conveyedto the Gloucester Infirmary , where ho now lies , - —A , stoker on tho North Devon Railway , named Dennis

    Mullen ,, was killed on that line a few days ugo . He attempted to get on t | ie step while the train -was in motion , ' miyscd ' hlaf "footing , and was drawn under the wheels . This is another , instances of the danger of attempting to get on the train while in motion , oven by those most accustomed to the practice . Tiiit Missino C ^ jkroxman . —Tho Rpv . HV B . Farmer , thei Gloucestershire tileVgyman ' who mysteriously disappeared on the morning ' ' of his marrlugo , baa not been discovered ) - and there seems to be little dc-ubt that , ho has been , murdered . , A man is , , in . ^ ftatody under auatt **? ' ' , .. ¦/ . . ' , . "' . . -. '

    ™ ^ j ^ a » "' mSbto « 1 k Hyde PaS : B &— ^ T * rcgbu % n « meeting of working men tcr consult on the present higfi . price of bread took place' in Hyde Park on Sunday . The same bearded individual who addressed " the crowd oil the previous Sunday again held forth , directing his re--marks , however , less to the subject of the price 6 f bread than to the general vices , tyranny , and worthlessness of the aristocracy , and the virtues of the working classes ^ whom he described as the Atlas of the world . He denounced the speculators and money-mongers for keeping their grain out of the market -with a view to enhancing its' value ; and he recommended that the police should be brought over to the popular side by appealing to them as men and brothers , and circulating tracts among them . The address of this OTator was cut short bv a

    little practical amusement which the crowd had got up for themselves , and which consisted of hunting a young man in livery , who at length , by the aid of the police , escaped . The officers were then pelted with tufts of grass—a petty provocation which they bore with the utmost calmness ; and , after a little more oratory from one or two speakers ( one of whom advocated the principles of communism ) , the crowd' dispersed about five o ' clock ; their adjournment being accelerated by a drizzling rain which then set in . A determination , however , was previously come to , to meet -again on the ensuing Sunday .- —Some very riotous proceedings took place in the neighbourhood of the Edgware-road in connexion with -the * meeting . Large mobs paraded the

    streets ; breaking the windows , attacking , any well-dressed people whom they conceived to be obnoxious to them as not belonging to " their order , " and stoning the police * some of whom were much injured . Several youths were brought up at the police offices on Monday , and -were condemned to a month ' s imprisonment . Fatal . Accident on the Cboydon ani > Mitcham Railway . —A serious catastrophe has happened on the new line from Croydon to Mitcham , a distance of four miles . The branch , which was opened on Monday last , consists of only a single line of rails for about three miles and a half of its whole length , or ; in other words , until its junction with the Croydon and Epsom line , about half-a-mile from Croydon . On Wednesday night , at a

    point in the line at which there is a very slight curve , about midway between Croydon and Mitcham , an engine and three carriages ran off the rails , dragging the tender and passenger carriages after it for between fifty and sixty yards , where , falling over on its side , its career was suspended . One of the carriages was smashed to atoms , and the driver was killed on the spot . Sub-Inspector Webley , one of the company ' s servants , who was riding on the engine at the time of the accident , was thrown with gTeat violence into the centre of the road , and severely scalded by the escape of steam from the engine-boiler . The stoker sustained a dislocation of the shoulder . There were very few passengers in the carriages ; and of these none were injured , with the exception of a lady , who was severely shaken .

    Serious Charges against a Clergyman . — The parish clerk of St . Matthew ' s , Brixton , recently died , and his son , who , during the father ' s illness , had officiated in his stead , expected to be regularly appointed as his successor . But the Rev . Dr . Vaughan * the incumbent , nominated another man ; on which the expectant cleric raised some very grave charges against the Doctor . These were investigated by a committee of pew-renters and inhabitants ; and on Monday evening a public meeting was held , at which the report of this committee was unanimously adopted . This document states that , with regard , however , to the allegation of illegal interments , the committee find that many interments have taken place in the district churchyard in

    direct violation of the provisions of the Metropolitan Burials Act ; and that , notwithstanding the prohibition against burying persona belonging to other parishes in the metropolitan grave-yards closed under that act , and the remonstrances of the inhabitants of the parish , interments have taken place , double fees been charged , and the entries in the books of the parish to which the deceased belonged designedly falsified . Under an order in council of 1858 , no more than one body could be interred in the same grave in the district churchyard under a penalty not exceeding ten pounds :. The committee find that , according to the statement of Mr . Plummer , dork , and of tho gravedigger , many interments had taken place in violation of that provision . It is right , however , to Bay that the statement of the

    clerk and the gravedigger differ in this respect . Generally , the committee declare their opinion that the representations contained in the circular which had given rise to the previous meeting—that illegal interments had taken place—were wall-founledy and that the practice had'been frequently complained of by the inhabitants of tho district . Tho inquiry into the other matters referred to them ( the committee add ) discloses serious o / Fences against the law , demanding , as they conceive , the moat rigid investigation uefdro a legal tribunal r but as tho atfltcmehta referred td them upon the subject must be cdnsidered'to' a certain degTee ex partc , they do ' not / think it right' to create a prejudice against the portion Inculpated by reporting , £ he same in detail . —* Dr . y « ugh «» , it , appeared , rapped ,, to allow tho Committee to examine tho cash ledger , which ought to contain tho entries of burial , alleging that the committee

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• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27101855/page/8/