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Highway Bobbery . —The unsafe condition of the ( London streets is being every day made more and more apparent by cases which come before the police magistrates . At the lajter end . of last -week , Mr . Sawyer , a retired tradesman , was walking through John-street , Smith-square , Westminster , when 1 he was pinioned behind by one man , while another robbed him of his gold watch , chain , and seals . Both ruffians then escaped , and Mr . Sawyer , being old and feeble , could not pursue them . From the suddenness of the attack , he is also unable to identify his assailants . Adventurous Thieves . —The house of Mr . Davis , a licensed victualler in High-street , Shoreditcb , was broken open during the night , some weeks ago , and a large iron chest , weighing more than three hundred weight , and containing gold and silver money , was , by some extraordinary ingenuity , removed without any noise , though it must have required the efforts of several Mien . It happened , on the morning of the burglary , a lad met two men , named Thomas Johnson and George Gable , walking by the side of a truck , on which was placed a large iron safe . A polio © sergeant , accordingly , traced Gable to a public-house , and attempted to anest him , but was beaten off by some of his companions . He was ultimately , however , taken into custody , together with Johnson ; and the two are now under remand at Worship -street . A Bbutal STJEP-aiOTiiER .- * -Jane JVlill was charged . at Clerkenwell , with cruelly beating her step-daughter , a little girl nine years of age . The woman was detected in the streets using a thick cane to the child , who screamed violently ; and an examination of the sufferer ' s person showed many bruises and wounds . Mr . Tyrwhitt ordered that the prisoner should appear that day moatb , when he would see how the child was treated . Cubious Confession . —A very singular instance of voluntary- admission of theft in exoneration of another person taxed with the crime recently transpired at the Thames Police Court . A waterman named Isaac Cowderoy ( or Corduroy ) was brought before Mr . Yaidley charged with stealing a watch from Captain Joseph Hamshaw , master of a ship in the London Docks . That gentleman and his wife crossed the river from Horselydown to the opposite shore in the prisoner ' s boat . On landing , Captain Hamshaw" gave Cowderoy fourpence ( a , penny more than he was entitled to ) , when he demanded sixpence . This being refused , he began violently abusing the captain , and followed him and his wife as fur a 3 St . Katharine ' s Dock . Here , after they had crossed the bridge , Cowderoy followed up his vituperations by a personal assault on Captain Hamsbaw . The latter knocked the man down , when he was presently surrounded and hustled by a gang of ruffians , and his watch was stolen from him . He managed , however , to hold the waterman until the arrival of the police , when he gave him into custody . Captain Hamshaw ' s solicitor having stated in Court that the . watch had not been traced , the magistrate handed him the following letter on the subject , which is no . less remarkable for its orthography and composition than for the motive which dictated it : — " Oct . 25 , 1855 . -rrtSur , —i was passin bye Irongate woff me and raycompanons when i see a gentileman And a waterman have a Disput a Bout the tfare when High words Took place when the Gentilemen struck the warterman , and the iwarterman struck him Back a Gane They Closed and Fell . During the time me and my Companons apos-• tracted his wach From hia tope ( top ) pocket in His wescoto and left the Chane and ring be Hinde with thout injuring Eathe for We have a Piticklar way in Dowing this Mere Dodge bleeve me kind but the warterman nows Jiothen a Bout it Hearin hof this i thort i Wood send fchia to your Worahope the name of the Woch is pool . ^ feu ohurch street i thort it Wood be a Pity for an insont sman to suffer that all your Worshorpe . " When the letter ¦ was read , the prisoner blubbered and denied having stolen the watch . Mr . Yardley believed this , but , for the assault with which he was charged , lined him £ 2 , or twenty-one days' imprisonment . Wikb Bbating One of the worst cases of this nature that have recently been brought forward came bofore Mr . Hardwick at the Marlborougli-atreet Police Court . A cab-driver , . named John Waddell , returned home one night und found hia wife and child in bed . He sent the latter out for some gin , and , as soon as the child was gono , dragged the woman out of bed and commenced a Bories of unprovoked assaults upon her . Ho tore her hair , tried to throttle her , beat lior head with a hammer , and flung some thick boots in her fuoo . Some of the lodgers , alarmed by the cries of the child , interfered ; but the savage treatment was ropoatod at intervals on thu following day and evening , when the lodgors again interposed , and found the woman ' s face streaming with blood . They washed her wounds , and , while they were attending her , Wuddell was very violent , said that his wifo had done it hermvlf ' , and upbraided tho lodgers for interfering in his own affairs . At luat it was found necessary to send for a policeman , who , with tho usuifltunoe of two other oitlcerri , ¦ toali the cabman into custody , ¦ while his wife was removed to , tho hospital . The < poor woman , whoso head and face ¦ wore horribly disfigured from tho injuries she had rc-« ei * e <] , could hardly give her exidenco , owing to tho « ftt ! Ct » . of her huwbunu ' a violence . In his defence , Wuddvll merely said that he was drunk ut tho time . Tiio magistrate was going to send hint to tho sessions for trial , but ,
at the intercession of his wife , who did not wish to press the charge against her husband ( probably from fear of the consequences ) , he sentenced him to six months' imprisonment . . Mukder and Kejiokse . — A pit- ownor at Ketley near Wolverhampton , has committed a frightful crime . Some of the men below in the pit refused to work . Vaughan , the pit-owner , parleyed with them , and , or . being told they were coming up , said he -would kill them . He then , in a fit of passion , hnrled down the shaft an immense mass of timber . The men below heard it thundering down , and five escaped ; but a sixth could not get away with sufficient rapidity , and he was killed . The others shouted up to Vaughan that he had slain the man ; upon which , says a Wolvcrhampton paper , Vaughan seems to have been seized with a paroxysm of fear or remorse , dancing about and tearing his hair and clothes in a frantic manner . He then ran away , but has since been arrested and committed for trial . Embezzlement . — A young man , named Kobert Edwin Robinson , is under remand , at Leeds , charged with embezzling money to the amount of npwards of X-U-0 , and with purloining railway coupons , the property of his master , a sharebroker at Leeds . He had entered in his master ' s name , into dealings in railway stock with a London house , and had appropriated money to pay for the shares he had ordered . On this being discovered , Mr . Marshall , his employer , spoke to him , and _ he said lie had made the purchases because he thought it would do his employer good , as the market was going up ; but he afterwards absconded . He is also charged with embezzling about £ 100 from the Leeds Recreation Society , of which he was secretary . A Tickee-of-Licave Mas-Henry Simpson , a . ticket of-leave man , and Henry Mitchell , a person well kuown to the police , have been sent for trial charged with a robbeey at the shop of a linendraper in Brunswickplace , Old Kent-road . The prisoners were discovered m the shop during the night by a watchful police sergeant , who , with the assistance of two constables , apprehended them after a fierce and murderous assistance , Dealing in Blind Women . — Mr . Fergusson , the chief ckrk of the Mendicity Society has brought under the notice of the magistrate at Lambeth , the proceedings of a certain Mr . Roper , who professes to be connected with a Distressed Needlewomen ' s Society , and who has obtained large sums of money on behalf of a blindwoman who is strongly suspected not to exist . The names of the Queen and Prince Albert , according to Mr . h erguson , have been falsely placed amongst the list of subscribers ; and it is said that the pet object ofc . Roper for some years has been a blind needlewoman , a blind girl , or a blind child , the daughter of a needlewoman . In a letter produced by Mr . Ferguson , Roper says : — " W have two more blind women on our books . " Isabella Ward , who was accused of an assault on a lying-in woman , has been discharged , the magistrate conceiving that she acted from motives of humanity rather than the reverse . It appears that the landlady , and not Ward , who is only a worker at the house , ordered the girl Joyce into the street . It also turns out that the birth was premature by some months ; which in some degree explains why the workhouse authorities conceived that the girl was not near her confinement . A Doubtful . Case . — Considerable time was consumed at Guildhall on Tuesday in investigating a atrange charge of forgery . William Radley , who described himself as a civil engineer , was accused of forging the name of Lord Colvill . The evidence showed that 6 ome iron safes , < fec , had been obtained from Messrs . Milner and Son , by means of letters purporting to be signed by Lord Colvill , but in fact written by Rudley . Lord Colvill asserted tliab he had never given him any authority to write his name , and that he had not received the goods ; but Radley said , before Sir Peter Laurie , " I have been greatly deceived by Colvill . He represented himself to me as Lord Colvill , and gave me a power of attorney to act for him , and I thought I was deuling with a person of respectability ; instead of thut , I found out that in 1848 the House of Lords had decided against his claim to the title of Lord Colvill , and that his name had been struck off tho list o fpeers at Holyrood Palace . I supposed I was authorized by a most respectable man to do what 1 ha-ve done . ' In cross-examination Lord Colvill admitted that ho had in fact givea u power of attorney to ttadley to act for him ; that the house in Grove-hill-terrace , Cunabeiwell , from which the ulleged forgoriea were dated , had been taken in his nume and with his consent , and that the rent had not been paid . Rudley further stated that Lord Colvill had had £ 800 from him , and tliut ho had given him into custody to prevent him oft tiring evidonce in un action , touching the prosecutor ' s disputed title , which wus to have been tried that day . Hia lordship , if « o ho can be called , was charged at tho Mansion-house , ho me months ago , with stealing a coat and a horsecloth ; but the case broke down . It wus alleged thut he then knew that Rudluy had obtained the goods in his nume , and that ho hud been seen since walking urm-in-arm with him . This he denied . Tho accused was remanded , but was udutittcd to bull .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . The Milan Gazette publishes an advertisement from the Imperial and Royal Delegation of Pavia , informing the people of that province , that the twelfth instalment of the " voluntary" loan is due , and that payment will be exacted by appeal to law in case of delay in meeting the demand ! Johannes Evangelista Borscinsky , the Bohemian monk , who , for being converted to Protestantism , was for a long time shockingly prosecuted , has effected his escap e from Prague , and is now safe in Prussian Lusatia . Naples has apologized to France for the omis sion to hoist the Neapolitan colours at Messina , on the 15 th of last August ( the anniversary of the first Napoleon ' s birth ) , in compliment to the French ship of war , La Gorgone . The Neapolitan Government , like a good little boy , promises that it will not commit the same offence again . On the subject of the disguised retention of Mazza , the French and English Governments have again addressed communications to the Neapolitan Ministers . Cholera is rapidly decreasing in Sicily . An emeute has taken place at Catanea . The mob attempted to burn a distillery , under pretence that brandy contributed to increase the epidemic . Several shots were find , but the troops finally succeeded in dispersing the rioters . Osman Pasha , who has been chosen by the Sultan of Turkey to replace the Bey o £ Tripoli , left Malta on the 21 st of October , with a numerous suite , for his destination . The Bey of Tunis has received a sword of honour from the Sultan , with the title of Muchir . The Wiener Zeilung contains the appointment of Baron Prokesch to be Internuncio and Minister Plenipotentiary at Constantinople , and of Count Rechberg-Rothenlowen to be Presidial Minister at Frankfort . The Verona Official Gazette contains a long article on . the late differences of the Western Powers with the Court of Naples . The writer imputes to the Allies a desire to force the King of the Two Sicilies out of the strict neutrality he desires to maintain ; and he contends , that it is impossible that that monarch should wish to ally himself with Russia , who would be unable to render him any assistance . " Neither Naples nor Italy , " lie asserts , " would become more worthy of esteem in the eyes of Europe , if foreign interference in the aff . drs of Naples should take the character it has assumed in Greece . " The late heavj 1- rains , says the Times Marseilles correspondent , have caused serious injury in the departments of the Drome and the Isere . A great portion of the valley between Burgoin and La Tour-du-Pin is inundated , and the road from Lyons to Chambery was covered with water , in some places to the depth of five feet . All travelling was interrupted for several hours . The houses in the village of Cessieux were completely inundated , and consequently abandoned by the inhabitants . The waters of the Rhone had attained their highest elebation and flooded the low grounds . They are now beginning to fall . The Saone still continues to rise , Tho prospect of renewed negotiations for peace are thw touched on in a letter from the Vienna correspondent of the Conititutionnel : — " I am strongly inclined to believe that the late meeting of the principal diplomatic agents of Prussia at the Castle of Stolzenfels , on the banks of the Rhine , where they assembled at the invitation of the King , is connected with certain efforts of the Berlin Cabinet to renew negotiations of peace between Russia and the Western Powers Notwithstanding all tho mystery observed at Berlin on the subject , it is undeniable that since tho capture of Sebastopol secret negotiations have been carried on between the Courts of Prussia and St . Petersburg with regard to the contingencies which the daily successes of tho Allies no longer allow to be lightly treated . If wo may form a conjecture from some conciliatory expressions dropped by those statesmen who direct on the part of Prussia the Secret negotiations just alluded to , it would appear that the Emperor Alexander is by no means so opposed to the suggestions of a wise and prudent moderation as tho official and officious organs of Muscovite diplomacy would load one to believe . On the contrary , it seems that tho Empress Mario Aloxandrowna , who has always exercised a legitimate and salutary influence over tho inind of her august consort , is now earnestly labouring to securo to tho young Czar an honourable medium of communication with the Western Powers . By visiting the theatre of war , the Czar can satisfy himself by personal observation of many things c . irefully concealed from him i and his sudden resolution to send to tho headquarters of Prince GortschakofT , Generals Count do Stackolberg and Baron do Bonkendorff , tho first of whom is attached to tho Russian embassy at Vienna and tho second to tho same embassy at IJcrlin , imparts groat probability to tho news juat arrived from the Prussian capital , to tho effect that the Emperor Alexander would mako decisive overtures for peace , if Prince Uorlseluikoll' could not maintain hia position during tho winter in the Crimea . On tho other hand , tho arrivul in Uorliu at tho same time oi tho two Prussian Plenipotentiaries at the Courts of tit . Jumoa's and the Tuilorics suggests tho idou that some now proposal ia to bo in ado by Prussia to iho Western Powers , on the subject of which Huron do Borntidor / l «»" Count Hiitzfold mo to receive the verbal instructions ol King Frederick William , ns well as Baron do Mn » - toufl ' ol . ' Tho clergyman attached to tho English embassy «*
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 3, 1855, page 1050, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2113/page/6/
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