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    tail and a cord with a noose were taken from his pockets . Wade and Doyle were subsequently apprehended , the former at the Sugarloaf . It was acknowledged by Williams , the landlord , that the house was frequented br dog-fanciers , and that appointments were often made there to g ive up dogs . He knew Wade and Doyle as associates of the dog-fanciers , but not as being concerned in ' theee transactions . The prisoners being brought before the Bow-street magistrate , and these facts having been elicited during various examinations , Roberson was sentenced to six months' imprisonment , and the other men were fined for the assault , . with the alternative of imprisonment .

    MtrTH-ATioir of a Pauper ' s Dead Body . —Edward Thomas , a surgeon by profession , but for the past twenty -years a pauper in Clerkenwell workhouse , where he acted as undertaker , was charged at the police office with having sawn off the head of a deceased pauper . Evidence of a criminatory character having being received , Thomas was committed for trial . The " Science" of Housebreaking . —Five burglars Briggs , Harrison , Brook , Tempest , and Ibbotsonhave been removed to the House of Correction at

    Wakefield to await their trial . Four indictments will be preferred against them— for two burglaries at Haworth and Idle , and two at Bradford . No less than twenty hams were carried off in one night at Shipley . At Idle , the plunder comprised thirty bladders of lard , several stone of sugar , groceries , &c . One of their comrades , a man named Carter , has turned approver , and has dictated a narrative of the various burglaries in which they were concerned . They appear to have gone to work in a very cool , systematic , and business like manner .

    Spectacle Robbery . —John Lassy , described as a . French-polisher , was charged at Worship-street with . assaulting an elderly lady in the streets by striking her on the face , and with robbing her of her spectacles . He escaped for the time , though the occurrence took place in broad daylight ; but was shortly afterwards apprehended . He was remanded for a week . The offence with which he is charged has become very common of late . Everything- in its Place . —The east end of London has for some time past been frequented by a zealous

    religious minister—the Rev . G . C . Smith , better known as u Boatswain Smith "— who will persist in " holding forth" in the streets , though greatly to the obstruction of the thoroughfares . He has several times been brought before Mr . Yardley , on which occasions he has inflicted tedious discourses on the magistrate . A few days ago , he was again brought up , when Mr . Yardley , to avoid the waste-of time consequent on the reverend gentleman ' s eloquence , discharged him , aud called on the next case ; but Mr . Smith was not to be balked . He is upwards of seventy years of age ; and , in a weak and husky

    voice , began : — " I am commanded by the great Captain o all , my Lord and Master , Jesus Christ , to go into , " Here Mr . Yardley interrupted him , but he contrived to struggle on — " the highways and by-ways »» Mr . Yardley : " Leave the court , Mr . Smith " The reverend gentleman , who would not stir , though an officer was pulling at his coat , finished the sentence in spite of all obstacles—" and preach the Gospel . " Mr . Yardley remonstrated with him , and again told him to go ; when Mr . Smith said that the immorality of Ratcliff-highway was frightful , and that it was very cruel to interfere with him . The magistrate . at length said : — " Everything in its place , Mr . Smith . I suffer no one to preach here but myself . " And , amidst much laughter , the wayeide " Gospeller" was hauled forth by his coattails .

    Cutting and Wounding . —Charges of this nature Lave become very numerous at Worship-street : two were brought forward on Monday . John Ostun , a young Swedish seaman , was remanded on a charge of attacking aud sorioualy injuring two Irish labourers with a knife iu the course of a quarrel ; and two Prussian seamen—James Fredericks and Frederick Silhey—were also remanded under similar circumstances . , Outuages at Manciiestbk . — Several bricklayers ' labourers at Manchester have lately struck work iu consequence of being dissatisfied with the rate of wages paid them by their employers . As many of their fellowworkmen refused to follow their example , the deserters took every opportunity to molest and assault their late comrades . Ono of these , a man named Cox , was repeatedly followed about and threatened , but the police

    protected him from harm in tho daytime ; at night , however , a party of men assembled in front of his house , and threw against his bedroom window u couple of boxes full of explosive matter , ono of which immediately burst like a shell . Aftor this , tho rufliuna escaped . Four panes of gluss were broken by tho explosion ; but neither Oox nor hia wifo received any injury , as tho boxes did not enter the window . On tho following day , more than a hundred of tno " tum-outa" went in a body to a building which is being erected at Pinmill brow , and attacked the different workmen there engaged with such vwlonce that three of them wero removed to the iufinnary . Many of tho othura wore nlno seriously hurt . Sixteen of tho men concerned in this lauL ull ' iiir were afterwards apprehended . They have boon brought before the magistrates , and remanded .

    The Extraordinary Case of Drowning at London Bridge . —William May was on Tuesday again brought up at the Mansion House on the charge ( related in last week ' s Leader ) of inducing a woman to throw herself , while intoxicated , London Bridge into the river—an act which resulted in her death . Several additional witnesses having been examined in confirmation of the previous testimony , Mr . Wontner , who appeared for May , asserted that his client was a .

    respectable man ; that the girl got on the parapet , in order to play off one of those dangerous " larks" common among women of her order ; that May had no idea she was going to leap off ; and that he stretched out his arms to save her . A lamplighter , who was one of the witnesses , said he had frequently seen women get on the parapet in the same manner . The case was further adjourned . An inquest has terminated in a verdict " That the deceased woman committed an act of felo de se , and that William May was an aider and abettor of the act . "

    Mb . Dunn Again . —Mr . Dunn , the barrister well known for his persecution of Miss Burdett Coutts , applied on Wednesday at Marlborough-street for a summons against that lady . He accused her of having turned him out of eleven lodgings ; of now desiring to turn him out of one he occupied in Piinlico ; and of causing him to be pursued by a lunatic . Mr . Bingham , on the ground that the alleged persecution was out of his district , refused to grant either a warrant or summons . " Then , " said Mr . Dunn , angrily , " I'll have a criminal information against you . " And , with these

    words , he quitted the court . —He has also made his appearance at Westminster , where he obtained a summons against the landlord of his lodgings in Palace-street , Pimlico , his object being to recover some " important papers and letters . " The landlord said that Mr . Dunn owed him rent ; and the magistrate , hearing from Mr . Dunn himself that the property he sought to recover was worth one hundred pounds , said the law only authorized him to order the restitution of property under the value of lol . Mr . Dunn , therefore , was again " put out of court . "

    Confession of a Murder . —A marine in the military prison at Devonport has confessed to having taken part in the murder of Mary White , of the village of Milton , in the parish of Buckland Monaehoram , about four years since , in company with the man Caber , who was tried at the time , but acquitted for want of sufficient evidence . The marine in question is named James Craze , and has been confined in the military prison for several weeks , having enlisted into the marines , after deserting from the Royal Artillery . He has appeared for some time to be labouring under a depression of spirits , and on Tuesday morning he burst into tears , and confessed to the Governor that he participated with Caber in the commission of the murder—Craze holding the woman , whilst Caber cut her throat . Her money , amounting to about 50 / ., they divided between them ; and Craze lived upou his half of the spoil for some time , and then enlisted into the Artillery .

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    AMERICA . The one step which was required to render still more ominous our relations with the United States , and to add to the probabilities of a hostile issue , has been taken by the Washington Cabinet , according to the Morning Post , which states that the American Ministry has directed Mr . Crampton to withdraw from the territory of the Union . This intelligence , however , is doubted by the a lobe ; and the Government , both in the Houses of Lords and Commons , speaks with hesitation as to the fact . A message was , on tho 15 th ult ., received by the Washington Legislature from the President , enclosing reports from tho Secretary of State , Secretary of tho Navy , and the Attornoy-General , in reply to a resolution of tuo

    Senate in March last , also a resolution of tho House , adopted May 8 , botli having reference to routes of transit between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans , through the republics of Now Granada and Nicaragua , and to tho condition of affairs with Central America . The President remarks that the narrow isthmus which connects the continents of North and South America has been an object of great interest to all commercial nations , but that it is of peculiar importance to tho United States and additionally bo since tho acquirement of Oregon and California . " Impelled by these considerations , tho United States took steps at an early day to assure

    suitable means for commercial transit by canal , railway , or otherwise , across tho isthmus . " After speaking ot the treaty with New Granada , securing the right ot transit , and tho uiiHuocossful endeavour to obtain from Mexico tho ritf ht of way at tho northern extremity of the isthmus , by way of Tehua . itopec , tho President allude * to the importance of tho narrower point oi the lathiniiH for transit , aud tho permanent interest the United ( States have in the security and protection of projected linos ol travel . The Government , he remark * , him ollon been solicited to extend its protecting power over tho islliimiHj but has refrained " out of respect for tho righto anU

    interests of others . " Having briefly referred to the possession by the English of the harbour of San Juan del Norte , almost immediatel y after the treaty oi Guadalupe Hidalgo , he observes that the frequent civil wars and revolutions of the Spanish-American States have rendered those states unable to protect foreign interests within their territory , or to defend their own soil against aggressions . England and France , he remarks , have been obliged to employ military power to enforce the rights of their citizens against the independent Spanish-American States . It would be as easy for the United States to absorb territory from Central America as it is for European Powers to do the same thing' In

    Asia and Africa ; but the Washington Government has abstained from considerations of right no less than of policy . The President adds that he has never failed to discharge the duties which he owes to himself , to his country , and to foreign Powers , and that he has not forgotten sternly to exert all the authority vested in him , to repress unlawful enterprizes , because they are in violation of the laws of the land which the coastLtution requires him faithfully to execute , because they are contrary to the policy of the Government , and because to permit them would be a departure from good faith with the American Republics in amity with the United States . The message , in allusion to the established policy of the United States in relation to the recognition of foreign Ministers , sets forth the following principles : —

    " We recognize all Governments , without question as to their source or organization , or the means by which the governing powers attain their power , provided there be a Government de facto , accepted by the people of the country . " We do not go behind the fact of a foreign Government exercising the actual power to investigate questions of legitimacy . " We do not inquire into the causes which may have led to a change of Government . To us it is indifferent whether a successful revolution has been aided by foreign intervention or not ; whether insurrection haa overthrown the existing Government , and another been established in its place according to the pre-existing forms , or in a manner adopted for the occasion by those whom we may find in actual possession of power .

    " All these matters are left to the people and the public authorities of countries respectively . During the sixty-seven years of our existence under our present constitution we have had occasion to recognize Governments de facto founded either by domestic revolution or by militar 3 invasion from abroad , in many of the Governments of Europe . " The principle is vastly more important as applicable to the Central American States , where revolutions are constantly occurring . Therefore , when the Minister from Nicaragua presented himself some months since , bearing the commission of President Rivas , if the facts which are now presented had existed , he must have been

    received . " The various objections to him were stated . Another Minister now presented himself , aud has been received , satisfactory evidence appearing that he represents the Government de facto , and—so far as such exists—the Government dejure of that republic . " Tho message further states that a special commissioner has been despatched to Panama to investigate tne facts of the late occurrences in that quarter . It suggests that other measures for the security of transit must be resorted to , and that , if the present constitutional power of tho President b * not sufficient , he will communicate to the Congress such recommendations aa tho exigency of the case may indicate . with

    Commodore Paulding is directed to proceed a frigate to San Juan de Nicaragua , as the circumstances which have there occurred are considered to render it advisable that tho American ilag should be exhibited . Tho American papers are for tho most part averse to the step taken by President Pierce with respect to Nicaragua inserting that the recognition of General Walker is Ill-limed ; and sonic of tho journals arc of opinion that his Government uhould have been acknowledged many months ago . Tho Jfew York Herald alludes to some alleged discourtesy exhibited by tho French Minister of War to the three American officers who were sent on a military tour of inspection in Europe , and who , it is stated , have been refused permission , in very rude language , to viait t » i © It is /

    works of fortification in France . " Miggeated . a the writer , " that the matter ought to form tho subject of a diplomatic correspondence . Wo do not think so . The lta » ich are the masters of their military work ., and in . iv refuse to iillow them to be inspected if they choose . They are entitled , moreover , to adopt what tone they please in conversing with foreign vi « it (/ rs , ami may exhibit groynes * and ill-breeding if that is their bent " Ho i » also inclined to think that the fttory , Uk » wine previous relation ., of a similar character may be false ; but he calls attention to the fact thafo lot * tho tone and attitude of tho French toward . ; the United State * have been far from worthy of the aneiont alliance between the two countries , " and that the Pan * paper * have abounded witlv HbelH on America ¦ uch n * used to be current iu Kn ^ land , but which experience and « ° n" » ° » sense long » i »< = o kicked into tho gutter and tho column * of tlio Morning Post . '

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    JimE ft * igSg jl THE LEADER , # & 5

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  • Leader (1850-1860), June 7, 1856, page 535, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2144/page/7/