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Leader (1850-1860), 15th September 1855, Edition 1 of 2, Page 882, Untitled Article

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      " The-English , sergeant seeks recruits , in vain , for the peasant spurns the ' Saxon shilling , ' and turns with buoyant heart tff reap the harvest with -which a bounteois Hea ^ en has blessed the land ; He waits impatiently for / tKe ^ bment when the trumpet of insurrection shall summon hiin to the rebels' camp . "W ^ db ; not' counsel you to form a filibustering league , or raisean army of invasion ,. under , the shadow of" the stars and stripes , where we have found shelter and- protection . "We deprecate the violation of any law of' the land in which we live . You will from time to time be advised" of"the course of action to pursue . "We now ask' you to form in each city and town in the

      United -States a branch of the ' Irish Emigrant Aid Society . ' Assemble in each locality at : once , _ avoid all useless speeching , go to work , communicate with us , we will '' forward you charters and instructions to form ' Auxiliary Aid Societies . ' Elect your own officers , appoint the most responsible men in your localities as treasurers . Avoid all useless expense and parade . Work diligenfry and earnestly . Eeport to us the names of your subscribers and amount of money paid in . " " We , in . turn , will report to the supreme directory , when elected , and thus there will be unity of action , and we shall at all times know our strength and resources , and when the moment for action comes , our leaders will not be working

      indoubt and darkness . " ThiBf document is signed— " P . F . Slane , President ; P . Sharkey ,, 1 st V . P . ; P . Murray , 2 ndV . P . ; Owen Ii ' apperj Treasurer ; T . H . Smith , ML . D-, Secretary . " The New York Herald speaks very contemptuously of the movement , and considers that , instead of Ireland . '* - opportunity being now present , it has passed , oa account of the concessions forced from the English Government .

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      RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT READING . A FEAWfUL collision , caused by a degree of negligence on the part of the engine-driver , now dead , which sug . gests the idea of insanity , occurred on Wednesday eveniag on the London and South-Eastern Railway . A pilot , or empty engine , was sent to Gurildford to take up a train there ; and James Crossley , a man of considerable experience ^ , and hitherto of remarkable steadiness , was appointed as the driver . This man , without waiting for any directions , without inquiring into the condition of the . points which were to conduct the engine on to the up-fine , without even waiting for the regular stoker , immediately , started , off . . Contrary to the invariable rule , moreover , he refused to let the lamps-be lighted until they

      should get to Wokingham . Both he , and a man named Ferguson , who acted as stoker , knew that a train from London was due at 7 . 35 , and must infallibly be on the down line . Croasley might possibly have supposed he 'was- on the- up-line ; but , however this might have been , at a place called Hathaway ' s Farm , about a mile and a quarter from Beading , the engine and the down train , the latter of which was running at the rate of thirty-five miles an hour ,, came into collision . The train consisted oj& a first-class carriage , a second-class , a compound carriage *; including both first and second , and a luggage-¦

      van .. The two opposing- engines were dashed to pieces ; the luggage-van and-the second-class carriage were demolished \ but thefirat-olass carriage did not sustain any material damage . Mr . Hathaway , the possessor of the farm already mentioned , and a farm labourer , saw the collision , and both hastened to the spot . Joseph Crossley , the engineer of the pilot engine , was found dead at the foot of . the embankment , having an oil-can in his hand , with which he had just been oiling the engine . Three other persona ( travellers ) were killed ; Ferguson was severely injured ; and seven others were fearfully wounded , one of whom is thought to be dying .

      1 An inquest has been opened , and is- adjourned to Monday . The evidence already received does not disclose any additional' facf s to the foregoing , but' exhibits with the utmost clearness that Crossley was grossly remiss in not . taking care that the points were properly adjusted : and in not lighting th $ lamps :

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      - The- Host few daysc have- been productive of other railway aodtUmtUf At Dudley , a man with his child- inhis arms stumbled on getting out of a , carriage , fell under the train , and was-lulled . The child , too , was ahocWngry injured ;—A boy nine years' o& ag «« w « & caught by- the buffers of an- engine while playing at tho Nine Efcns Station , and inatantly killedij—Thomas Kewsfcead , a farmer ,-strayed' on the > York and Soarbro ' line , near- York ; while in a state of intoxication , and ' was ran over-and 1 killed by a night train-from YorJo to SCarbroV On the following nighty tno ; same , engine ran < throttgh-soveral horaeo between Knapton and Heslertonj whieh * had strayed upon the line froi » a Held , and killed three-of-them .

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      OUOi CIVILISATION .. '" Yli'UbuflK oir LtJX > . " —A puffing- establishment * has rtcenMybeew opened " on Ludgate-hill under-thifr title ; atodrttie pfoprietoray by means ofi placard * an * hnndbtlU ftMHttneMtftle , bare called' the- attention of the-credttUm * ptfMHi- ' to their aooertions-of oftfcring-for sole , at ruinou » BMrinces , the stocks of bankrupt tradesmen , the n « nt «»

      of some of whom , have been used with the most unwarrantable , freedom and even falsehood . The- subject was brought before the City- magistrates ; but the enterprising speculators who own . the house with the romantic tide are determined to dx > battle , and have accordingly issued a series of placards declaring ; deadly war .- agains * the neighbouring tradesmen , challenging thenx to mortal combat , and accusing them , of a ¦ " malignant conspiracy , " a " rancorous trade combination * . " and of propagating " vile insinuations and disgraceful falsehoods . " Furthermore , they threaten these malignant conspirators with the . publication of a pamphlet which is , to expose their " nefarious doings , " " the confederacy behind the counter , " &c One paragraph , commencing with a strangely distorted quotation from Shakspeare , is too exquisite not to be given entire : — " ' Thrice armed is he Whose quarrel ' s just . ' " EL F . and Co ., feeling such to be their position in reference to their enemies , hereby make public avowal that , having resolved to accept the dastardly challenge to a commercial tournay thus , given , they will henceforth do battle with their utmost means against their cowardlj and envious assailants . They crave not the broadsheets of the daily or weekly papers , but , armed with a camelhair pencil , a good goosequill , and ' quantum suffS of ink , will take their chance with unvarnished troths and startling exposures of their enemies' doings outside ' Ye House of Lud , ' ' Shawlmen and mantlemen , drapers great and small , Silkmen- and hosiers , now have at you all . ' " This is signed by the proprietors of "Ye House , " — Hall , Fullalove , and Co . The exhibition of these placards has caused such great assemblages before the shop window that the responsible holder of the house has been , summoned -for causing-an . obstruction . He was out , of town ab the time ; and the consideration of the case has been adjournedi Garotte Bobberies . — "Violent attacks upon the person at night in the > streets of London , for the sake of robbery , ar&now becoming ; extremely frequent , and raise uneasy questions as to ¦ what our police are at to allow them . Two , ofc these cases were heard at the Southwark police court oa Saturday last ; the circumstances in both being so precisely similar that a description of the one may serve for the other . la the first case , a French gentleman was the victim . He had just come out of a public-house and was passing 1 by the Surrey Theatre , when three men ( one of whom he had seen at the publichouse ) came up and attacked him . He was held ; by the arms and throat , nearly choked * and finally robbed of his watch and chain . The culpr its then made on ?; but they were pursued , and one was caught ; He was remanded . —The second case was that of Mr . Bagley , which was relatedin the Leader of September 1 . Thomas Jones , a cripple , was brought up on remandj and committed for trial . He also was concerned with two other men not in custody- —At the same police office , on the previous day , another case of highway robbery , unaccompanied , however , by personal violence * was heard . A woman , named . Helen M'Cann > . was charged with stealing , together with another woman not in custody , a watch from Mr . George "Wightman , an officer in the army . That gentleman- was proceeding to hi * hotel along the " Waterloo-road , when he . was suddenly and , deliberately stopped by the two women . On , his attempting to * ridr . himself of them , MKDann pulled bis watch out of hi » pocket ,, detached it from the chain ,, and , before she could be prevented , succeeded in passing it to her companion , who escaped . Mr . Wightman , however , seined hold of the other ; but she managed to get away fnom him , and ran for some distance , until she was seen by a policeman , who took her . into custody . The officer identified hen as a . well-known , bad character , connected with a desperate gang of street thieves . She was remanded for a- * week , in order to give the police an I opportunity of tracing out the other woman and the jstolen property , — -Daniell Driscoll committed a similar assault oh . Jolun Tuthill , a , master mariner , on board his ! vessel at J ? iekle-herring Wharf , Tooley-street . ' . Assault ok a Father » y a Sout ^ -An old man , named Thomaa Dyke , lias been nearly lulled by a . series of brutal assaults committed by his son . It appeared that the father was drunk on the first occasion , and ha « v previously to the assault , thrown a bottle at his wife .. Ho , is now lying in a precarious state in Lambeth workhouaew Thbi Ch * ld < Mukjob » ax Bristol .. —A curious and important fact has just come to light in connexion with this , occurrence . When the childte remains were disoovewsd , a , report was circulated that the murder had bean ? committed' by ai lunatic—a suspicion which was caused by the fact of an insaao man having boon seen near the spot , where he had frightened several ladien and children . About a , weak ago , a young ) man , evidently notiu his right mind , and in a , very ragged and disordered condition , was seen near the Vole / of Ncath Railway . Sovoral questions wore asked himfr , but he re-£ used to . answes them ,., or give any account oft himself , and all the infonaationi that could beobtaiued respecting hi * placet of : residence- waa . fcom a fragment of a , Bristol gvocttfo . bill , found , in biij . pook « t . On the police making inquiries ^ they ; loanwd that & . rather occenttdo young ; man had lately loft the place rofiMcrfld . to in tko blU ,. and

      ' - had been vainly sought after . This intelligence was jt communicated to the Neath Superintendent of Police , ¦ and the young man was apprehended , and brought by > packet to Bristol . When they arrived above the Black ' Rock , near to where the murder- was committed , the ; prisoner , who had hitherto maintained a sullen silence , l > pointed to the spot where the body-w ; asfoundj and said , " There ' s , where a murder was committed . " " Who was ¦ murdered—a- man ' or a woman ? " asked' the officer hi ' whose custody he was , feigning ignorance . " A girl , " replied' the lunatic . Although it is very possible that ¦ he may have spoken of the matter from having heard it , ¦ yet the circumstances have induced' the police to make inquiries as to how the man was employed on the day of the murder . —Another strange story is related , and one which is more like a chapter from a wild romance than a fact . On the evening of the murder , a washerwoman was passing across the downs , when she saw , coming towards her in the dusk , a man in a state of great excitement , who ran up and said , " Which is Hell ' s gate ?" Not understanding him , she was about to ask for an explanation ,-when the man cried out , "Which is the mouth of Hell ? " and instantly darted off . The woman was " greatly frightened , for , as she alleges , she saw blood on the cuff of the man ' s coat , and he looked very wild . — The Bristol Mercury mentions a rumour that Peeling , now in custody for the murder of Jane Bagley * was met in Bristol on the day after the- murder , and gave some particulars of the crime ,, though the fact of the child ' s death was not known in- Bristol until later in the day . Attempted BuRGOtAKar . —An attempt was made on Saturday evening last , at nine o ' clock , to enter the house of a son of the late Joseph Hume , living at No . 18 , Harley-street , Cavendish-square . The maid servant was in the back attic , when she heard the sound of footsteps in the adjoining room . She communicated her alarm to the fcutler , who went to the drawing-room , and informed his master of the circumstance . Mr . Hume proceeded to the front attic , and there , through the open window ( a padlocked iron grating by which it was secured having been forced ) , he perceived two men on the roof . He went out after them , and the thieves , finding themselves discovered and pursued , hastily retreated , and descended a ladder at No . 16 , by means of which their entry into Mr . Hume ' s premises had been effected . One of them got down safely , and escaped ; but the other fell from a great height , and broke one of his legs . He was captured by a policeman who came up at the time , and was taken to the Middlesex Hospital . Private Stills . — Thomas Smith , Charlotte Edge , and Charlotte Richards , have been committed to prison for three months , in default of paying the penalty of 30 ? ., for working private stills at 22 , Southamptonstreet , Bloomsbury-square . Emelx Lego , the nursemaid , who has been several times examined and remanded on the charge of throwing a fork at a little girl , and seriously injuring her , has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment . Assaulthm * - a Man nr Possession . —A curious point in law was raised a few days ago at the Marylebone police court . Thomas Ellis , a broker ' s man , was put in possession : of the house of Mrs . Burke , a widow residing in . Lodge-place ,. St . John ' s ^ -wood , for arrears of taxes to the extent of about 60 L A Mr . Pyecroft , a lodger in , the house ( who said it was owing , to his not having paid' Mrs . Burke the rent that was due to her , that she was unable to . pay the taxes ) , took up the matter , and told Ellis that , as hia name was not mentioned in the warrant , he had no right to be there . Subsequently , he brought a man , by whom , with the assistance of Mr . Pyecroft , Ellis was forcibly ejected . Upon Mr . Pyecroft being brought before the magistrate , his counsel contended that the broker should have been in possession himself , and that he had no right to depute another . The magistrate ' s clerk said it was always the custom for the broker to put in a man ; but he could not say whether it was legal or not . Eventually , it was determined that Mr . Pyecroft should be bound , over to appear again at tho sessions . The Haokect Family . —John and Robert Hackott have been again brought up on remand , chargud with robberies from carts . Another case was brought forward against them , This third case was a robbery from a vehicle in the Brompton-rood , aud was committed on the same evening as the two other cases , which occurred respectively in Rochester-row , Westminster , and Kenningtonrlane ; so that their practice must have been pretty sharp . They were again remanded .- —It is currently-reported and believed . that George Hockett , who acquired such deaperato- notoriety between , five and BlK years ago through Uis daring , aa a thief , and his oxtraordinary sucoeeft in breaking out of prison , has boen rocently executed : in- America , where he had fled after obtaining , hia liberty , aud that the offence for which ho was hung waa that of stabbing ; his gaoler ., A Double ! Wiuj .- —Mr . John Cartor , jun ., of Clifton , near Bristol * formerly a town-councillor of that ward , but recently a . bankrupt , has appeared at Guildhall , London , qko * g « d with perjury * His elder brother , Mr . Edwin Carter , died at Chepstow worth from 8 <* , 000 J . to 4 Q , 000 £ By fab , will of , tho 12 tt » of January , , 184 . 6 , ho loft the bulk of hte property to Mr . John Carter and Jiw brother * and . siotonj in & <* witn tho right of deposing oi

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 15, 1855, page 882, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2106/page/6/