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NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . Two Russian Caditts escaped on Saturday from tho hospital attached to the War Prison at Lewes . New Inventions in Warkauk . —It is understood tliat tho late destruction at Sweaborg was chiefly effected by means of bomb-shells charged with n liquid combustible . We are informed that an invention precisely of the nature of these shells was communicated to Lord Hardingc , in April , 1851 , by Mr . William Hutton , writer in Stirling . Mr . Mutton ' s communication was remitted to tho consideration of tho Board of Ordnance , with several others bearing on the same subject ; and so lately as the 20 th August last , the thanks of the board were
conveyed to him for his invention . From the accounts supplied to their Government by tho Russian authorities at Sweaborg , as to the operation of the shells charged with liquid , thrown into the town by tho Ilritish fleet , Mr . Hutton is fully satisfied that the Admiralty had adopted hia suggestion . The effects of these shells will probably soon be experienced at Odessa . Mr . Hutton lias , he believes , discovered another preparation for charging bomb-shclla , of a nature so fearfully destructive to human life that he has resolved not to divulge it . To the same gentleman were the Government , it is said , chiefly indebted for many useful hints with regard to alleviating the Bufferings of the army in the Crimea during the coiinjo of the past winter . —AJcotmnan .
Loss ov this Lochmabkn Casti . k . —A long investigation , instituted at Liverpool by the Board of Trade , into the circumstances attending tho loss of this nliip , belonging to Messrs . Janllnc and Son , ban been brought to a conclusion . Tho ship struck on the Bird RocIch on the 3 rd of Juno last , while making for Quebec ; but , ¦ when near them , no soundings wero taken . She was Abandoned by the captain , and ho wold ship and cargo for 067 . She waa insured for 10 , 500 / ., but coot 10 , 000 / . Tho inquiry took place before Mr . Mansfield and Captain Schomborg , the emigration ofllcor at Liverpool . The result was , that , for evident Inattention on'tho part of
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Captain Turner , * ia' certificate ww withheld , to be sent to the Board of Trade , together with a report of the case . . ' . ' ' ¦¦¦ .: ¦ ' •¦ / '¦• Destruction of a Ship by Firs . —Intelligence has been received at Hobart Town that the Catherine Sharer , Captain Thomas , which left London for that port on the 13 th of February with passengers and a general cargo , took fire at Port Esperauce , in D * Entrecaateoux channel , on tho 6 th instant . * Being unable to subdue the fire , the passengers and crew took to the boats , and got safely on
shored There wero about nine tons of gunpowder on board , which exploded , blowing the ship to atoms . Ono portion of the mosr , weighing two cwt ., was thrown into tho bush , and fell half a mile from the -water ' s edge . The mail was saved , having been picked up two miles from where the vessel dropped anchor . The passengerswere brought to Hobart Town on the 9 th instant in a destitxitc and most deplorable condition , and were received at the immigration depot . One of the seamen ia in custody on suspicion of having set fire to the vessel .
A Voyaoe in a Lonouoat . —The South American mail brings news of the manner in which the crew of the Enterprise escaped . The Enterprise was bound from Cnllao for Quecnstown , and left the former place loaded with guano on tho 26 th of May . On the 25 th of July she encountered heavy weather , which carried away her rudder , and otherwise so damaged her stern , that she leaked to such a degree that it was found necessary to abandon her the next day . Accordingly , the whole of the crew and passengers took to the longboat , with the intention of reaching Montevideo , eight hundred miles distant . During this perilous voyage , in a somewhat crazy boat , Mrs . Gardner was safely delivered of a daughter under circumstances of extraordinary
privation and hardship , which continued without intermission for fourteen days—the period these unfortunate people were exposed to tempestuous weather , cold , wet , and their food saturated with salt water , and for the last day or two no fresh water to drink . This , added to the havoc that death was making among their small partv—fifteen in all—must have been terrible . The carpenter , Israel Powell , was the first victim , on the 5 th ; William Norio , cook , next ; and afterwards William Thompson , boy . Their sufferings arose from drinking salt water , and eventually madness carried them off . On the 9 th of August , the Oriente , Captain
Antonio , of and from Valparaiso , bound for Marseille ? , fell in with the sufferers in lat . 39 . 30 S-, long . 50 W ., took them on board , and treated them with every kindness in his power to bestow . On the next day , the boy James Ladson died . On the 14 th , the Oriente spoke the Cornelia L . Bevan , from Baltimore , bound for Montevideo . Captain Gardner and his party -were transferred to licr , and on tho 25 th of August arrived safely at Montevideo . At the hospital at this port the boy Kichard Oliver died from gangrene in his feet , caused by exposure . Through all this terrible trial , Mrs . Gardner and the child survived , and both are improving in health .
Ikisii Miutia Distcubancb . — Savnderss Aetrs Letter contains the following account of a serious mutiny in the Kerry Militia , stationed in Limerick : — " On Sunday , when this corps mustered upon parade to march for cliapcl service , intimation was given that , by orders of ( jeiteral Chatterton , commandant of the district , they were not to be played to worship , as usual when in Kerry , by their band . As soon as this communication was nuule , tho men became discontented , and a general disposition to mutiny suddenly sprang up from one cud of the line to the other . Major Spring having called upon
tho most aggrieved in tho affair to stand forward , a corporal of the Kerry Militia did so , and was immediately placed under arrest , and conveyed to the guardhouse , having previously struck Major Spring . The entire body then revolted , broke from their position , proceeded to the guardhouse , and forcibly released the corporul , who was curried in triumph through the barrack square upon tho shoulders of hia comrades . The sergeant-major ( Godly ) was also struck on the occasion , and ninco then the entire of the Kerry Militia have been confinod to barracks . "
I , oki > Kknkst Vanb-Tb . mpk . st , episodes of whoso social and military career have been occasionally before the public , has just left the Second Life Guard * for tho Fourth Light Dragoons , now serving In the Crimou . Military Honoukn . — -The Queen has conferred tho Order of Knight Grand Cross of the Bath on Marahal Vaillant , the hoad of the French army , who , an Minister of War , has had a largo share in the organisation of tho Allied expedition to the Kast . General Simpson has boon honoured with a letter from tho Sultan , congratulating him upon tho
ri'nult of the operations of tho army under his command . Miijor-General Hugh Ko * n , C . B ., who has , since tho commencement of the war , bocn her Majesty ' s Principal Commissioner « t the head-quarters of the French army , in nwnrd « d tho rank of Knight Commander of the Bath ; nnd tho Companionship of tho Hath has been conferred on Lieutenaut . ColoiH ' l tho Hon . St . Gcorgo Foloy , Second Commissioner at tho head-quartan of the French army , niul Lieutenant-Colonel Olaromont , Military Conunia-Hloner at Paris , both of whom have served with tho Proneh army throughout tho greater portion of the Crinicmi campaign .
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raliM & £% & ; on a charge of starting a greaV coat from thebairofV hoWin Beaufort-street , Chelsea , intd which she had heeumvite ^ by the maid servant during a heavy rain . The prisoner ' confessed to ; the robbery , but said that she was intoxicated at the time . aftTKDEE by a Boy . —A murder , attended by circumstances of peculiar atrocity , has been committed at Hungerford . The murderer is a boy of twelve years of age : he is in custody , and has confessed . It appears from his statement that he was sent by his master , a rope-maker , to the downs to cat furze . On his -way , he met with a little boy , aboat four years of age , and invited the child to accompany him , which he did . The bill-hook used by Sopp , the lad who is now in custody , was loose at the handle , and , while it was being used , the blade came off and struck the child , Silas Rosier , on the head , knocking him down . He kept rolling about ; and Sopp , being afraid it would be thought he had done it on purpose , cut the poor child repeatedly on the head with the bill-hook , and killed him . In the afternoon , Sopp worked with his master , and was observed to be agitated . When the news arrived that the body of the murdered child had been found , Sopp immediately observed , "It is little Silas Rosier , " and affected great sorrow , saying , " Any one must be very hard-hearted to kill a poor little boy like that . " Having been seen in the child's compauy , however , on the downs , Sopp was taken into custody . * He at first asserted his innocence , but seemed very much frightened , and the next d : iy confessed to the facts . A verdict of Wilful Murder has been returned against him by the coroner's jury . Homicide . —A drunken quarrel took place on Friday week at the Fountain public-house , MiTe-end-road . Robert Henshawe , who was much intoxicated , used very abusive language to a carman , named William Oliver ; and , according to one account , a fight ensued , after the fifth round of which , Henshawe was unable to fight any more , and he shortly afterwards died . Henshawe ' s son gives a different account . He admits that hi $ father was drunk , and that he quarrelled -with Oliver ; but he says that the latter knocked his father down , and he fell with his head against a fender , and was mortally wounded . Oliver is in custody . Fashionable Manners at the Gabrick Tiieatrk . —Mr . Levy , a baker of Petticoat-lane , appeared a few nights ago at some private theatricals at the Garrick Theatre for the benefit of an aged man who would otherwise have gone to the -workhouse . The benevolent performer , however , Jiad had a quarrel , shortly before , with one Mr . Benjamin Meyers ; and this latter gentleman , on the appearanca of Mr . Levy as Tom Tug in the Waterman , went into a private box , and threw some flour over the amateur actor . A general riot then ensued . Seats were torn up , ornamental glasses broken ; the men shouted , the women fainted ; Mr . Meyers , after a desperate resistance , was dragged out by the manager , and the tumult was such that the performances came to a premature close . Mr . Meyers was brought up at the Thames police office , and , after receiving a severe lecture from the magistrate , consented to apologise to Mr . Levy , and to pay bL as compensation for the injury inflicted . A Romantic Scene . —James Godfrey and Sarah Taylor were charged at the Mansion House with robbing the shops of silversmiths . One of the witnesses was a Mrs . Brown , who kept a disreputable house in Dean Street , Soho , and wbo said that the female prisoner , who lodged with her , was one of tho class of women called " unfortunate , " and that the man Godfrey had been several times to see her . The young woman passionately appealed to Mrs . Brown to withdraw this statement as not being true , and asserted she had only seen Godfrey for the first time on the evening she was taken into custody . Mrs . Brown , shaking her head , replied , " Oh , don't Mrs- Brown me ! I know he is the man . " The girl rejoined , " The person who used to bo with me is young Harry , and he has gone to sea , " At this point the mother of the girl came forward , overcome with shame , and said tliat her daughter had left her home , but that , if she would return , all should be forgiven and forgotten . Tlie girl stated that she would go with her mother , and abandon her vicious life , if the alderman would permit her ; and Sir It . W . Cordon , who gave credence to her story , allowed her to depart . The man was committed for three months as a roguo and vagabond , there being no actual proof of any robbery having been effected , but only of several attempts at various shops . The Belxjb-Isle Nuisances . —Mr . James Odam , tho proprietor of a manufactory of manure near Maiden . Lane , Islington , was summoned before the Clerkenwell magistrate for causing a nuisance . After tho case had been argued for some tirao , Mr . Corrie recommended tho inhabitants to send a memorial , with their signatures , to Sir George Grey . This -was agreed to , and Mr . Odam was ordered to enter into sureties for his future appearunco . An Oriental Fray . —A Chinaman , who has assumed tho English name of Jem Roberts , was , indicted at the Middlesex Sessions for cutting and wounding Amogotie , a native of Dongal . The prosecutor , whose clothes wore saturated with blood , and who was examined through an interpreter , stated that on Saturday ho wo » present at a quarrel with some Bengalese and Malays in the streot , when ho asked why they were
quarrelling , atid endeavoured to pacify them . The pri- > sorter then palled out a dagger and stabbed him on the side of the head . The weapon , which was about six inches long , and as sharp as a razor , had the words " Liberty and Union" engraved on tho handle , surmounted by the " Cap of Liberty . " It was found by the police concealed in his boot . The prisoner denied having used it . The jury found him Guilty , and he was sentenced to six months' hard labour . Highway Robbery . — A ropemnker , residing in Bermondsey , was passing along Dockhead about seven o'clock in the evening , when he was surrounded by two or three men , and robbed of his watch . One of them was seized , and given into custody , notwithstanding a violent resistance . Subsequently , a woman was apprehended for being accessory to the robbery . Both have been remanded for a week . Starvation . —A woman in the last degree of starvation , and afflicted with disease , was brought in the course of Thursday to the Clerkenwell police court in the workhouse van . On being taken out and placed in a chair , | slie presented a most ghastly sight : her head dropped , I and she appeared to be almost on the point of death . It appeared that she was the wife of of a compositor on one of the daily papers , who , though earning a very good ! income , left her to starve while he himself rioted in dci bauchcrv . He had communicated to her a disgusting ! complaint , under which she was still suffering ; and one oflns daughters had attempted to poison herself in consequence of his ill-usage . The dreadful condition of the I poor woman and her children having come to the know-1 lcil ^ e of Mr . Dale , the vicar of St . Pancras , the overseer 1 of that parish was communicated with , and went to tho j house , where the woman was found almost in a state I of nudity , filthy , famished , and diseased . Before the magistrate , her shrivelled limbs were partially exposed , a ad the poor creature burst into tears . The man w ; is in court , and was brought forward He asserted that tho charge was made up against him by his wife's relations . Finally , he was ordered to pay ten shillings a week towards his wife ' s maintenance , and the poor woman was handed over to the care of her brother , the children to remain with the father under the eye of the parish . —Ann Wood , the wife of a Spitalfields weaver , is under remand at Worship Street , charged with stealing two loaves . The woman burst into tears before the magistrate , and said her children were starving , and that this was the first time she had disgraced herself . Her husband , an emaciated man , confirmed her statement , nnd begged for mercy , lie admitted that he had not applied to the parish for relief , because , had lie ijone to the workhouse , he should have been unable to seek for employment . The magistrate , who thought he had done very wrong in not applying , remanded the woman for a week—with what object it would be difficult to say . —The decisions in these two cases are far from satisfactory . Tho brutal hiu-baud who starves his wife receives no punishment , and is allowed to retain his authority over those children , one of whom he has nearly driven to suicide : the starving mother driven to a petty theft for tho sake of her children is remanded for a week . Property must undoubtedly be protected ; but when will the law learn that it is less sacred than life ?
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 13, 1855, page 980, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2110/page/8/
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