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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Sib Gha . ri . es Napier at Acre . —With reference to the recent debate ^ Sir Charles Napier writes to the daily papers : —" Sir James Grraham stated in his speech that I had advised Sir Robert Stopford not to attack Acre ; and . Admiral Berkeley-went further , and said that the night before I told Sir Robert Stopford that if he sent Mm into the position marked out fop him his ships would not Bwim for half an hour . My reply is not correctly reported , and I have to request you will give insertion to this letter . I stated in my reply that ; upon my honour I did no such , thing ; and I new beg to say that there is not one word of truth , or even a shadow of truth , in those statements ; they were got up to damage me . "

      " Redan Massez . "—Lieutenant Massey , of the 19 th , popularly known as " Redan Massey" on account of his singularly courageous conduct on the 8 th of September , has just arrived from the Crimea , by the steam transport Andes . He is slowly recovering froin the wound in -the thigh he received during th © assault , "but is not yet able to walk , The Military Court ob Inquiry . —The dining hall at Chelsea Hospital is being fitted up for the sittings of the Court . Ample accommodation for the press" and the public will be made , about 1 , 200 of whom will be admitted . The arrangements will bo concluded forthwith , and early next week the Court will assemble foinaaUy , and adjourn to about the end of the following week , when the business will be at

      once entered on . Sir Thomas M'Mahon has forwarded a medical certificate of his inability to be a membeu of fche board . Colonel Wetherall , Director-General of Land Transport in the Crimea , son of the Adjutan-t-Gfeneral , has been telegraphed to return to England to attend as a witness , and the Field Marshal Conamaqding-in-Chief has directed that several of tho officers who ore on leave of absence in England , from the Crimea , shall not return to the East until the breaking up of the board . The Earl of Cardigan has sought the assistance of Mr . Merewether , Q . C ., in proparing Ills answer .. Sir Richard Airoy ha » been for the last three weeks preparing his answer . He is ansisted by Mr . Kinglake , Mr . Towers , solicitor , Colonol Stoelo , and Major Haofc-ett . —Globe .

      General Cavendish and General IIaix . —A letter from Majjor-Goneral Hall , in answer to tho oora .-munioa-tion from Colonel Cavendish with reference to his father , General Cavendish , of whioh wo gave au abstract last week , has appeared in tho Times . Gonoral Hall aaserba that , bo far from his having made a secret charge against General Cavendish , that ofGoor had in fact done so against him , having in tho oourno of tho year 1847 written an anonymous letter , charging him with some offence " oFa . . very grave nature . " Tho letter was submitted to several pornone , including professional judges of handwriting , aud « n unanimous opiuion was given that it exhibited the penmanship ot General Cavendish . With tho sanction of Lord Cojmborraore , tho colonel of General ( then Colonel ) Hall ' s regiment , the whole case was laid to-

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      wards she ac knowledged it , saying she was " in a temper" at the time , but , if the magistrate would forgive her , she would not do it again . She was found Guilty of an attempt to set the house on fire , and was sentenced to hard labour for twelve months . More Floxtr Adulteration . —Mr . Joseph Crossley , miller and flour-dealer , was charged at the Rotherham court-house with adulterating his inferior flour with , a considerable quantity of gypsum—a mineral substance composed of lime and sulphuric acid . He was fined £ 18 3 s ., including costs . His solicitor gave notice of appeal .

      wards driven to the Paddington station , sent on the trucks to Windsor , and arrived at the Castl © at seven o ' clock , when Mr . Thumwood , on being informed of the robbery , returned to town with the man who had had chai * ge of the goods , to institute an inquiry into the affair . The two helpers and the , driver were subsequently taken into custody , but admitted to bail . The chest which was stolen -grasconsiderably lighter than the others , and consequently more easily removed . It contained a quantity of the royal nursery plate used by the . princes and princesses . The value of the plate stolen is under £ 500

      From subsequent discoveries it a ppears that this plate was packed in a very strange manner—petticoats , stockings , and other articles of female dress being employed to wrap round the various articles , instead of straw . The bos containing the plate has been found by a young man in Bonner ' s Hall Field near the entrance to the Victoria-park . The stockings , &c ., were found still in it , and also the blades of two dozen knives , from which the silver handles had been removed . A cab with two men in it drove up to the South Wharf-road , Paddington , just before the box was missing from tie waggon , and there is little doubt that the property was carried off in this vehicle .

      A Romance of Heal Life . —A singular application was made at the Westminster police-office by a young man , accompanied by his wife . He said that his wife's mother , an aged lady , who had resided at his house , died on Sunday , and , as he had no possible means of defraying the funeral expenses , he had applied to her family , who exhibited the most extraordinary apathy upon the subject , and declined to interfere . The deceased lady was the cousin of a viscountess , and her two sons possessed her wealth . Mr . Arnold said it was a matter in which he had no jurisdiction , Murder near Stourkridsje . —A working man named Daniel Taylor has been killed in an affray near Stourbridge . Joseph Chivers , a young man , appears to have been the dealer of the death blows ; and his father and brother are implicated as accessories .

      Kouse . ^ Thei owner the house was awakened by the proceedings of the antruder , and , with the a ssistance of a policeman , secured him . He was an old offender , &ria' £ ati-come of a family of thieves . The Southwark triagistrate , before whom he w as brought , sentenced Mm to three months' hard labour . A IilVELT Old Lady . —Mrs . Alcottis a lady past the bloom of life , and has but recently been " united in the bonds of wedlock" with a gentleman who has also entered into the shady part of life . Nevertheless , the gentle pair are jealous , and the cooing of the bridal month has been interrupted by a resort to hostilities . One night , Mr . Alcott came home drunk , and in possession of a dagger . He asked if it wae'the intention of his wife ' s son to give him a thrashing ; and the

      bride sweetly ans wered that her son w ould be very much to blame if he did not . Afterwards , Mr . Alcott ( having Lord Campbell in his mind ) said " there would be a row ; " and his bride rejoined , " I intend there shall be . " " Perhaps you will not he ahve in the morning , " said the bridegroom , and , taking a poker , he smashed the looiing-glass and part of the furniture . He was then given into custody . Before Alderman Wire at the Mansion-house , Mrs . Alcott said , " The feet is , my lord , there is a reasonable jealousy on my part . " The husband said the same , and added that he "felt uncomfortable about the business . " " Why , " observed the Alderman , " you don't say that you are jealous of this old la . dy ? " however , he did say so , and hei vvas bound over to keep the peace .

      MANSiiATrGHTBR . ^ -John Beauehamp , a publican at Lambeth , has been " found guilty at the Kingston Assiaes of the manslaughter of hia wife . The woman Vsras very intemperate in her habits , and the husband , finding her drunk , one day when , she was about to go out -with him , struck her with , his fist ( as it would seSnri- front * the evidence ) , and caused the rupture of a ^ blood-yjessel in the head , from which she died . Bjeaucnanip was sentenced to penal servitude for fo ' ur years ' .. ' ¦ . ¦ - . ' ' - "ipRATOTTLENT Debtors . —John Scott was indicted

      at the York Assizes for having , in contemplation of alid after bankruptcy , mutilated hisbooks of account , by tearing four leaves out of his ledger , arid also for making a false entry and ah alteration in his accounts , with intent to defraud his creditors . He was found Ctiiijty / buti- ; sentience was deferred . —Samuel Thomas Sloggatt . has been , found Guilty at the Exeter Assizes pf ; forging- ' a . letter purporting to come frona his father , and vpuchingfor the solvency of the son ; his object Being- tci satisfy one of his creditors to whom he was largely indebted , and who refused to give any more credit without a reference . He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment . ¦

      'DESERTibN o $ Parents . —Three young men , get ting good incomes , have been summoned before the Thames magistrate for jrefusing to support their old atid infirm , parents , ' . and leaving them chargeable to the parish . The sons made out no case to them-Selves , and were ordered to pay 2 s . 6 d . a-week each . ;^ A Clergyman and his Mistress . —The Rev . Mr , Harris , a clergyman of the Church of England , has been living for some years past with a Miss Oakford as his wife . A few mornings ago , however , the reverend gentleman suspected the fair lady of stealing his watch , and he brought a policeman to the house . The lady asked to be allowe d to go into her roo m to t her

      puon bonnet : this being accorded , Bhe lowered herself from the back window by means of a rope , and escaped . Calling on her solioitor , she directed him to vrrite to Mr . Harris , and say she would , be in attendance at the Lambeth police-office the following morning , to meet the charge . She did not . appear , however , but her solioitor did . An officer was then despatched to the - house , but > on his return , said he found the clergyman and the lady on most amicable terms , and the former said it was not his intention to pursue the case . " And thus , " observe the . reporters , " has ended this delicate , though , to o clergyman , not creditable affair : " whioh would seem to imply that it would be creditable to a layman . Murder in

      Sootiajntd . —An old woman , living by herself in a miserable cottage at Obsdale , Rosss-hire , has been murdered for the sake of some email sums which she had hoarded . The murderer out her throat with a knife ; but whether ho succeeded in getting any booty or not is doubtful , as £ Z 15 s . was afterwards found in a trunk . ' vjBMBszzunuBJra and Surar-MS . —Mr . Edward Burfield , actuary of the Criokho-well Savings Bank , has app , ropriq , ted various deposits , and made a number of trauchitent entries in the books . A police-inspector Went to his house to arrest him , when he wont up pttars as if to fotoh hie hat , and shot himself . —A l < ice "TO&ptWW ftt Manchester has killed himsolf with »» x < 5 aoid in a . fit of temporary insanity . WURNJN 9 o \ vx a Bbd-riddbn Mother . — Savah ¦ ^ QMUVMH , ' . a yOMUrWOman . wnn t . fWl of TTinrrats ^ ~« „

      < £ *« £ « of setting fire to the dwelling-house of l \ or Smfej ^ K * * ° d-ridclen invalid . She sot Sil Tk J ^ ttflMa ? a « ° al- » hod adjoining the S ^^ P , 3 b ; seejns that the latter diefnot catch SSBJS'S discovered in time . To a tetffii ^ S ^^ i ^ th < J yo « ng woman at ¦ . I ^ W- ^ BW . hftd committed the act ;

      ofter-BuRGLARY at Sheffield . —The house of Mr . Birtles , a stone merchant , living at Sheffield , has lately been robbed by a gang of thieves , under rather curious circumstances . His wife was awakened at half-past one o'clock in the morning by a noise as of some one boring a hole in the door of the kitchen cellar , which was immediately underneath the room in which she slept . Having alarmed , her husband , he get up , and the thieves , hearing Mm , ran off . Mr . Birtles , howevei * , though scarcely half dressed , pursued them , and caught one in a field , upon which the man called out for assistance , and one of his comrades arriving on the spot , the two together threw Mr . Birtles down . " While one of the ruffians

      watched over him with a life-preserver , with which he twice struck Mr . Birtles , on that gentleman endeavouring to escape , the other man proceeded to the house for the purpose-of robbing it . He accordingly entered the premises with five others , all masked and . armed , and , after some parleying with Mrs . Birtles , they finally succeeded in terrifying her into giving them her keys . They then proceeded to plunder the house , from which they stole £ 29 in notes and gold , a life policy for £ 200 , and a few smaller articles . In the meantime , the nian who was keeping watch over Mi ' . Birtles in the field without , beginning to suffer from the inclemency of the weather , asked him

      whether , if he left him with his hands tied , he would lie still . Mr . Birtle 3 replied that he would , and the man tied his wrists with strong cord . IN " o , sooner , however , was Mr . Birtles left to himself , than he raised an alarm , and ran in the direction of the stone quarries which were occupied by bis workmen . The burglar ran after him , but was soon obliged to give up the pursuit . Some of the men in the house hearing Mr . Birtles' cries for help , gave the signal to their comrades , and they all made off with what they had stolen , part of which , however , was afterwards found in a hedge near the house , where it had probably been dropped by the thieves in -feneir hasty retreat .

      Murder of a Private in tee British German Legion . —One of the men in the Jagar Rifle Regiment of the British-German Legion was murdered about ten days ago , by another man in the same corps , named Hans Hansen . The regiment is at present encamped at the Maker Heights in Cornwall . Jacobi , the murdered man , was a surgeon and of good family , although merely a private in the regiment . On the evening of Thursday week the two men were drinking together at a public-house at Millbrook ; about eight o ' clock they bought some penny loaves at a chandler ' s shop in the neighbourhood . They were soon afterwards seen proceeding towards their barracks , both in a state of intoxication , but more

      especially Hansen . It was twelve o ' clock at night before Hansen arrived at the barracks when he was placed' under arresb for being out after hours without leave . His captain , who arrested him , having remarked upon some spots of blood which he saw on his jacket , Hansen declared that he had killed nobody , but had had a bleeding at the nose . On the following morning , when the rauBtey roll was being called over , Jacobi was not forthcoming , and , shortly afterwards , information was received at the barracks that the dead body of a soldier had just been

      discovered in a turnip field on the heights near Maker Church . A picquet was therefore sent to tho spot , and the body of the murdered man was ascertained to be that of Jacobi , whose death had apparently been caused by numerous violent blows about the head and face . A few yards from the body , a great stone was found , smeared with blood ., and -with a few human hairs sticking to it , An inquest has been held and a verdict of Wilful Murder l'eturned against Hanson , who was committed to gaol , and who will be tried at the next Cornwall Assizes .

      Robbery ov Hotal PjiATH . —A ^ waggon belonging to Mr . Thumwood , who for many years has been employed to convey plate to and from London and Windsor Castle , left Buckingham Palace , on Saturday afternoon , with about twelve chests of plate and other avtioles for- tho Paddingfcon station under tho ohargo' * 6 f five men . On their way to tho station , these men stopped at a public-house in the South Wharfroad , and all went in to drink , and by their own statement they had not loft tho waggon , more thnn five minutes . On their return , they obsorv « d that tho rope won cut whioh had confined the waggon cloth placed over tho goods . This caused them to suspect that something was wrong , and , on looking ovor tho waggon , they discovered that a chest of plate , whioh hod been packed in the middle of it , and foqtenod to tho rail , had been stolen . The waggon was after-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 22, 1856, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2133/page/8/