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NAVAL AND MILITARY. The New Cavalry Coll...
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Loss By Fine Of The Joseph Somes. The Jo...
~ Mprable privation , tlie islanders' stock of food being mall but . on the 6 th of March , after seeing one ship = s they were taken off by another , the Nimroud , rantain H . Tilman , from London , for Kurrachee . This vessel went some hundreds of miles out of her course , and landed the shipwrecked people at Table Bay on the 20 th f March , when the Government authorities took charge ftbem and a public subscription was opened for their lief- ' captain Elmston attributes the fire to spontaneous ' combustion among the cargo . The ship and its contents , which were valued at 80 , 000 / ., were heavily insured .
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Naval And Military. The New Cavalry Coll...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . The New Cavalry College , Richmond . —The foundation-stone of a new college for the practical and theoretical instruction of gentlemen intending to enter the cavalry service was laid on Monday afternoon by Lady Combermere , in presence of Viscount Combermere and a numerous assemblage of the aristocracy and of military gentlemen . Among the ladies was Lady Raglan . Before the stone was laid , Mr . Stocqueler read an address to Lady Combermere , which pointed out the necessity that exists for the institution about to be founded , and said that " whatever was accomplished in the wars in which we have been engaged must be set down to the darin ° - and discipline of our dragoons and the heroic examples of their leaders . They offered their blood in atonement of professional ignorance , and England accepted the sacrifice without taking a single step thereafter to avert so cruel a waste of energy , intrepidity , and patriotism . " After the ceremony of the day had taken place , the visitors partook of a handsome dejeuner . In responding to the health of Lord and Lady Combermere , the Field Marshal said that " he most cordially approved the principle of the Cavalry College , and knew that it was thought of hopefully at head-quarters . He considered it as of vital importance that profesional occupation should fill up the time between young men leaving school and entering the service . He trusted that infantry officers who looked to being majors and adjutants would attend the college , if only to learn to ride . " After the dejeuner , quadrille parties were formed in the lecture-hall and under a marquee on the lawn . Chatham Dockyard . —The works in progress at Chatham dockyard for improving and enlarging the present slips and basins are in a very forward state , and it is expected that the whole will be completed during the present summer . The most important of the improvements now being carried out is that of constructing the new tidal basin , which will be three hundred and sixty feet in length , and capable of receiving the largest vessels in the service . The Curlew , Coastguard cutter , is being broken up on the beach , at the Isle of Grain , it having been ascertained that her damage was of so extensive a nature as not to warrant her being repaired . The Baiham at Plymouth . —The completion of the Ramazan , or great JYlahommedan fast month , has been the subject of much rejoicing on board the Turkish lineof-battle ship Peiki Zafier , 104 , Captain Ismael Bey , now in Plymouth Sound . Total " Wreck of the Earl of Yarbokough ' s Yacht Zoe . —As the Eurl of Yarborough , the Hon . W . Monson , and Dr . Duigan , R . N ., were cruising in the North Sea in his lordship ' s yacht Zoe , on the night of the 24 th inst ., the vessel , owing to the wind falling light , drifted by tho tide on to the Ilaisborough sandbank , about fourteen miles off the coast of Norfolk . The yacht , impelled by the force of tho tide , struck the-bank with great violence several times , and after some little time rolling over , became washed by the sea ; sufficient time , however , elapsed to enable the noble owner and his friends , together with the crew , to betake themselves hurriedly to the boats , and thereby to save all hands . Fortunately for tho boats the water was smooth and the weather fine , which enabled them , after about three hours hard pulling against a strong tide , to roach the Coast-guard station of Ilaisborough or Happisborough . Tho yacht , which wns most magnificently fitted up , has become a total wreck , and nothing whatever of the valuables on board has been saved . No lives have been lost . —Times .
Obituary. Likutknant John Wood Rousic, R...
OBITUARY . Likutknant John Wood Rousic , R . N ., of Greenwich Hospital , died last Saturday at that asylum , in hia seventy-second year . Tho vacancy occasioned by his death is to be filled by Lieutenant Abraham Parks , R . N . ( 1815 ) , additional Lieutenant of the Saturn , Captain R . Smart , K . IL , at Pembroke . The late Lieutenant Rouse entered tho navy in 1799 , and distinguished himself during tho wars . Ho was in receipt of a pension for the loss of one of his logs in action . Mr . D . Davies , M . P . for Carmarthenshire , died suddenly , at tho University Club , on the evening of Fridajweek . lie was a barrister-at-law , and for many years chairman of tho Cardiganshire Quarter Sessions , and was first returned for Carmarthenshire ) in 184 : 2 . In politics , ho was a Conservative , and he voted against tho Government on tho subject of tho Chinese war . lie was in the sixty-sixth your of his ago . Mr . Robert Hall , tho Conservative member for Leeds , tho Deputy Recorder of tho same city , and tho
¦ Recorder of Doncaster , died on Tuesday morning . IT < had undergone great labour and excitement during th < late general election , and , after his efforts were crownec with success , a reaction came on , and he was seized witl severe depression . He appears to have caught cold ir the House of Commons from sitting near one of the openings for air . Influenza supervened ; then fever anc delirium ; and finally death terminated his sufferings ir the fifty-seventh year of his age . He was much respected . About two years ago he met with a railway accident , which had the effect of weakening his constitution .
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OUR CIVILIZATION . O ATTEMPTED WIFE MURDER . A dreadful tragedy has occurred in the neighbourhood of Covent-garden . James Geary , a silk-weaver , about twenty-three years of age , lodged with his wife in a single room on the second-floor of a house in Little Russell-street , Covent-garden ; and , shortly after ten o ' clock last Saturday night , as Mrs . Baylis , the wife of a policeman lodging in the same house , was going down stairs from her own room , she heard cries of 'Murder !' proceeding from the apartment occupied by the Gearys . ' Mrs . Baylis called the landlady of the house , and the two women then proceeded together to the room where the former had heard the cries . On going in , they perceived Geary and his wife struggling together on the floor in front of the fireplace , the woman bleeding profusely from a deep cut across her throat . The man was brandishing a small table-knife in his hand , and , on being separated from his wife by the landlady , attempted to escape , with the weapon still in his possession . The wounded woman clung to the landlady , exclaiming , " Oil , save me , save me ! " while Mrs . Baylis , who was greatly alarmed , went out of the house to look for a policeman " . It was not long before she met her husband , to whom she related what had occurred , and returned home with him . On re-entering the house , the constable took a light and proceeded up-stairs . "When he reached the top of the second flight , he saw Geary on the landing , lying on his wife , just outside the door of his own room . His left hand was upon her head , and with the knife , which he still held in his other hand , he stabbed the woman under the ear , turning the blade round after it was in her neck . The policeman seized the assassin by the . wrist , and drew the knife out of the wound ; a scuffle then ensued between the two men , in the course of which the policeman dropped the candle which he held in his hand , and it went out , leaving the place in utter darkness . He nevertheless succeeded in capturing Geary , whom he at once conveyed to the station-house . The man appeared to be perfectly sober . Another police-constable shortly afterwards went to the house in Little Russell-street , and with his aid the woman was removed to King ' s College Hospital . She was then in a mangled and frightful state from the wounds she had received , and her clothes were saturated with blood . She \ vi 3 nevertheless perfectly conscious , and frequently expressed a wish to see her mother . The knife with which the wounds were inflicted was picked up on the second-floor landing , from the centre of a largo pool of blood . Geary was examined at Bow-street on Monday , and appeared greatly afiected throughout the proceedings . He cried during the examination of one of the witnesses , and merely stated in his defence that ha was driven to the commission of the crime . He was remandea until the result of his wife ' s injuries is known . Jkat . ou . sy axi > Attempted Murder . —An attempt has been made on the life of a young woman named Freeborn , cook to Mr . Upson , a fanner , living at William , Essex , by Charles Finch , a man to whom sin ; had previously been engaged to be married . The intended husband , up to the time of the marriage contract , had been a labourer on a neighbouring farm at Kelvedon , but soon after his betrothal he went out to the Crimea to join the Army Works Corps , and has recently returned to this country . The young woman had formed an attachment to another man in his absence , on learning which , Finch was so exasperated that he determined to take the life of his former . sweetheart , lie accordingly wont to William , and early last Sunday afternoon nal down on a bunk by the rondsidu not far from Mr . Upson's furin . Presently ho saw the young woman leave the houso and proceed in the , direction of the parish church , about half a milu distant . She of course ulino . st imincdiateily encountered Finch , and stared at . seeing him , an « ho hud believed him to be in London . The man waitod until . she was clo . se , when'ho rushed on her , and , without , uttering a word , cut her throat with a razor , and then ran away , but presently ^ returned and made a second incision in tho woman ' s throat , which cut tho windpipe completely through . The man thon again made oil " , but ha . s ninco boon apprehended , and in now in prison . Although tho woman is greatly injured , tho main arteries are untouched , ho that there i . i some chanco of her recovery . MuiiDKii in Liverpool . —A ninu named Davits , a tailor , formerly in tho polioo force , and Robert Reuses , a sailor , belonging to one of tho Cunard steamers , wore drinking together on Monday night at a public-house iu Liverpool . Rousos loft Davios nt tho place , and tho
3 latter , at whose house Reuses lodged , on going home ; found his wife and the sailor together in the bedroom . 1 He ran out , and came back accompanied by an acquainti ance named Hodson . They found Reuses alone in the i bedroom , and Davies stabbed him several times in the 2 ' breast with a pair of scissors , crying out to Hodson , I i " Keep out of my way , or I'll serve } -ou the same . " i j Reuses died in about ten minutes , without having uttered ¦ : a word . Davies was brought before the magistrates the I following day , when he admitted the murder , but urged ' that he had sufficient provocation . j The Canterbury Murder . —The magistrates of Canterbury having investigated the conduct of Inspector Parker and Police-constable Elvey , in permitting the young man Fox to go at large after their attention had been called on the evening of May 13 to his murderous designs upon Mary Ann Hadley—designs which , through their neglect , he was able to execute on the following morning—the decision of the court was that Inspector Parker be suspended for the space of six calendar months , and that Police-constable Elvey be suspended for one month . Ruffianly Soldiers . —Two soldiers of the 5 th Dragoon Guards are in custody at Edinburgh for a rape committed at the Piershill barracks on a servant girl . Attempted Murder at Dartmoor Prison . —A convict at Dartmoor , named Charles McCarthy , has just been commited to the Devon county gaol , at Exeter , on the charge of assaulting and wounding , with intent to murder , a warder of the prison . He has grossly misconducted himself since he has been lodged at Dartmoor prison , and has made three attempts to escape . Murder in Staffordshire . —A Mr . T . Charlc 3-worth , a farmer , of Bromley Hurst , near Abbotts Bromley , which is only foul- miles from Rugeley , was robbed and murdered last Saturday morning , about two o ' clock , as he was returning home from a place whe-rc he had been spending the evening . Three persons are I in custody under suspicion . One has since confessed I that he struck the fatal blow , but he adds that the others assisted . The plunder only consisted of a 51 . note and some gold and silver . Curious Charge of Felony . —Mr . James Davenport , saw manufacturer , has been charged before the Sheffield magistrates with felony , the accuser being Mr . Charles Brown , a rival manufacturer . Mr Brown had recently received an order for a large quantity of matchet knives , " of a peculiar pattern , used in the cutting of sugar canes in the East Indies , and it was alleged that Mr . Davenport , in order to copy the pattern and supplant Mr . Brown with his customers , had stolen one of the knives , which had been given out to a man named Hoyle to be ground . For the defence , evidence was given that , in consequence of great quantities of inferior goods having been sent from England , fraudently bearing the mark of the Collins' Company , of Hartford , United States , Mr . Davenport had been " applied to by the Sheffield agent of that firm to obtain evidence oh which they might found proceedings against the parties . Mr . Davenport , having ascertained that an order for a large quantity of cane knives , bearing an imitation of the Collins' Company ' s mark , had been sent to Mr . Brown from a firm in Birmingham , got possession of the knife in question , which was one bearing the imitated mark , intending to submit it to the agents of the Collins' Company , and then return it . It was also shown that a bill in Chancery h : ul been filed against Mr . Brown for fraudulently striking ; ui imitation of the Collins' Company ' s mark on his goods . The magistrates dismissed tho case , remarking that , though Mr . Davenport had obtained tho knife in an Unfair and unjustifiable manner , there was not sufficient evidence of felony to justify them in sending the case for trial . — Manchester Guardian . Capture of a Runaway Convict . — Peter Hulchi-on , atids Blytli , alms Bnillie , who recently escaped from Jedburgh prison while under sentence of fifteen years' transportation , bus been recaptured , after being at largo for ten days . Wife-Bf . atinc . — A powerful man , named John Springate , ha . s been sentenced by tho Southwark magistrate to three months' hard labour for an assault on his wife . Extensive Frauds upon tiik Duke of Rutland . — Tho Cambridge and Suflblk papers state that disclosures of a most astounding character have been made during the last low dnvs in reference to the management of tho estates of the Duke of Rutland and Chuveley , near Newmarket . Deficiencies and irregularities extending over a ¦ series of years have been discovered ; and it has been ascertained that tradesmen's accounts , some of them very heavy , which wore supposed by his Grace to have been paid , " arc still due . Tho books , which were submitted from time to time to tho Duke ' s inspection , wcro so managed as to avert all suspicion . By these frauds , tho Duke of Kutlund will sustain tho loss of many thousand pounds . Atticmitkd MuitDKit . —A young man , about twentyfour years old , named John Johnson , lias received a severe wound from his brother-in-law , which hao greatly endangered his life . Complaints having reached his ears that the latter had frequently ill-UHed his ( Johnson ») mother , and that nobody had interferod to protect her , Johnson wont to her houso in Smith ' s-place , l ) avonalnrustrcot , Lnmboth . lie there saw bin brothoi-m-lnw ' »" using his mother , and he dosm-d him to iiuaint . w other refused to do bo , on which Johnson » ow « d him ,
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Leader (1850-1860), May 30, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30051857/page/9/
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