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      Mr . Lindsay , an hotel-keeper , brought an action in the Court of Exchequer for the recovery of 90 / ., due to him from a young man of twenty-five , named Meiklam , ¦ whom he alleged to be indebted to him to that amount for the use of apartments , and for food and goods supplied . He first entered the house in December , 1855 , and it was soon apparent that he did not live in the most respectable manner . "He used frequently , " said Mr . Lindsay , in cross-examination , "to be drunk . " He often had ' Jadies' in the house , unknown to the hotelkeeper , and racing men frequented the place . " Young ( a friend ) and the defendant , " continued Mr . Lindsay , " used to have suppers at my house , and then they went out to their midnight revels . Young only had a

      bedroom at my house . Sometimes the defendant used to get into Young ' s bed , and Young did not come home until the next day , when he would arrive in a smart brougham—St . John's-wood , you know . ( Laughter . ') On one occasion , I lent a person 2 Z . ; that was for her to get a page ' s dress for her maid . She was dressed as a queen , and wanted her maid to be dressed as a page to hold her train at a bal masqiuf . I went to fetch the defendant from the theatre when she arrived , lmt he was with somebody he liked better , and lie would not come . I can't tell who ate the suppers I have charged for ; they were supplied to the defendant in his private room . " A . verdict was given for Mr . Lindsay , for the amount claimed . A Bukslar catcht is a Chdbiey . — A thief climbed a few nights ago on to the roof of a house in Banffshire occupied by a widow , and attempted to descend the chimney in order that he might ransack the house . But he stuck fast in a narrow part , and could not get tip or down . His struggles roused the old woman from her sleep , and she straightway kindled some straw in the grate , the result of which- was that the thief was horribly scorched . He roared for assistance , and some nawieS who were passing got a ladder and ropes , and drew the intruder forth more dead than alive . Two policemen who were among the crowd then took him into custody . .

      and Francis Davenport have been sentenced at the Middlesex Sessions to four years' penal servitude for stealing small sums of money , the one from a Hindoo sailor , and the other from an Englishman . —At the same sessions , William "Walsh was condemned to only eight months'hard labour for assaulting and seriously injuring a maa who reproved him for insulting in the streets his ( the prosecutor's ) sister-in-law . Attempted Suicede . —Elizabeth Fogarty , a girl of nineteen , was charged at Worship-street with attempting to commit suicide by swallowing laudanum . It appeared that about a fortnight before she flung herself off one of the bridges , but was dragged out . On that occasion she was taken to Bow-street . On being now asked the

      reason of these attempts , she replied : — "My father isa woodcutter in Westminster , I Lave lost my mother , but I have a stepmother , and , as my father would not do anything for me , and I have no place to go to , what can I do ? I ye 3 texday went to the Mansion-house to ask for an asylum ; but the Mansion-house was shut up , and I therefore wandered on to Hackney , and swallowed the poison in Blare-street . I bought the poison in the Strand , at a chemist ' s , where the gentleman asked me what it was for , and , on my telling him it was not for me , he served me directly . " The girl was remanded , and on the following day Mr . D'Eyncourt , the magistrate , told her lie had succeeded in obtaining for her an admission into the Elizabeth Foy Institution , for which she seemed very grateful .

      Riotous Boys . —l * or some weeks past a congregation of Dissenters , who meet for worship at a school on Brixtbn-hill , have been greatly annoyed by a number of idle boys , who have persistently disturbed the service by making loud noises outside . One evening , a few Sundays ago , a member of the congregation , on going out to ascertain the cause of the clamour , received a severe blow from a brickbat . At length it was found necessary to obtain the services of one or two policemen ; and last Sunday , a youth , of seventeen , the son of a Dissenter , was caught , and placed on the following morning before the Lambeth magistrate , by whom he was . ordered to find two sureties in 10 ? . each , or one in 20 / ., to be of good behavioiiT for one month .

      Furious Dkiving .-t-A boy of fifteen , the servant of a market gardener , has been sent to prison for a week by Alderman Wire for driving a cart belonging to his master with such reckless speed as to knock down and seriously injure an old man in Thames-street , City . The Knife again . —Giuseppe Sasella , a soldier in the Anglo-Italian Legion , has attempted to stab a woman of the town in the streets at night , and also a man who went to the rescue of the girl . He was intoxicated at the time . Having been apprehended , he was brought before the Guildhall magistrate , by whom the case was adjourned . Sasella denies that the knife was . '' open . This Murdekous Assauivt in Pakliamknt-stkeet . •—The wounded man Cope is still unable to attend at the police-office ; but he is progressing favourably , and no doubts'are now entertained of his recovery .

      Mohe Ticket-of-Leave Ruffianism . —John Parke , a sullen-looking young man , out on ' ticket of leave , ' has been committed for trial for a violent assault upon Edwin Hoyle , assistant to Mr . Blilo , tobacconist , of Bullinn-court , Strand . The prisoner walked into the shop on Monday morning , and , asking for a pennyworth of snuff , took up a silver-mounted meerschaum pipe and a bundle of cigars , and concealed them under the sleeves of his coat . He was observed by Mr . Hoyle , and followed . He tlien handed back the cigars , but , on being detained by Hoyle , he struck him a violent blow on the head with some weapon , cutting open his temples , but happily doing him no serious injury . —A well-dressed

      man , with several aliases , is in custody for a garotte robbery committed some few nights ago on the person of Mr . Edward Mason , a banker ' s clerk in Blackmanstreet , Borough . Two other men ( not captured ) were concerned in the outrage . On Mr . Mason calling out for assistance , the prisoner , who was engaged in rifling his victim's pockets , exclaimed to one of the others who was grasping him by the throat , " Pinch him tighter ! pinch him tighter ! " which was accordingly done . He was then thrown on the ground , and all the men ran away . The chief of the gang " , however , was stopped and secured by a constable . The police report him aB an old offender ; and he has been committed for trial .

      Middi ^ sex Sessions . —The November general sessions commenced on Monday , when Joseph Boucher , a designer , was indicted for embezzling the sum of 18 ? . 12 a ., and a variety of other sums of money , which he had received on account of James Jacquier , a jacquard loom manufacturer in Betlmal-green , his master . Hepleaded " Guilty , " by advice of counsel . It appeared that he tad committed the offence under the pressure of embarrassment , arising out of some foolish speculation . He fcecame very repentant , and confessed what lie had done to his master , whose opinion of him . was so high that , notwithstanding the confession , he continued him in his service as collector for three weeks after he was aware of his offence , and then , after consulting some other

      person or persons , he gave him into custody . The Assistant Judge sentenced him to three months' hard labour . —Thomas King , a youth of seventeen , has been found Guilty of stealing some plate from the house of a clergyman at Hackney , and was sentenced to six years' penal servitude , it being shown that he was an old companion of thieves . Another young man , named Plane , was Acquitted of a charge of being concerned in the same robbery . He was able to prove an alibi . —Samuel Lane , a shoemaker , has been sentenced to six months' hard labour for a murderous assault on Eliza Btblloy , an Irishwoman with whom he lived , and whom he used to

      ill-use and threaten for being ' a heretic , ' he being a Protestant and she a Roman Catholic . The prisoner said , he did not care for six months ,-but he was entirely innocent of the charge which had been brought against him . He did not mind a little while in a London prison after twenty-one years' hard service in India . —Maria Sitch , Louisa Harper , and Lydia Mayne , were indicted , the first on a charge of stealing a sum of 30 / . from her master , a beersellcr in Holborn , and the others for receiving the sum , knowing it to have been stolen . Mayne -was Acquitted , but Sitch and Harper were found Guilty . The first was sentenced to four , and the second to six months' hard labour .

      Fraud . —The charge against Alexander Steinberg of defrauding Mr . John Deportu of 1650 J . ( the particulars of which were related in this paper last week ) was again gone into at Guildhall on Tuesday , when a man named Collins wna also put at the bar , charged witli conspiring in the same fraud . Both prisoners were remanded , and bail was refused . More Royal British Bank Robberies . —Thowidow of Inspector Rumball attended at the Marylebone policeoffice on Tuesday , to say that she was loft with a family of Bix children , and that she was in bo distressed a state

      that she knew not what to do . A subscription had been got up , after her husband ' s death , among the inspectors vi K « neral police force , and a sum was collected , which , after payment of debts , &c , loft in the hands of the widow 90 * . This she placed in the Royal British cant just two days before it stopped . She had since SFJK c t 0 paTt with many articles of furniture ^^« S-ii f <> r the Bup * of h « r fam i ' y- Some pecufnno ? Tn thT ° ""¦ <* " » *> «>« Poor woman from the ™« M ? V M ^ agl 8 trfttO a hand 8 ' . and doubtless public S ? w aroased for th ! s victim of raacai V in Disproportionate Sentences . __ Honry Tlmriow

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      IT AVAL AND MILITARY . Tiik Edinburgh Crimean Banquet . —" The banquet to the Crimean soldiers in Edinburgh , " says tho Times , " took place in the Corn Exchange tlicro on the evening of Friday week . The hall was decorated with a profusion of ornament , while with tho brilliant uniforms of the guests was combined tho still more attractive splendour of a large assemblage of the fair sex . Tho spectacle was altogether one of the most dazzling-und magnificent which the city of Edinburgh has seen for many a day . Behind the platform table was raised , a huge military trophy , consisting in great part of spoils taken from our recent enemies , over which the flags of the gallant regiments invited to tho banquet waved . Surmounting the whole wns emblazoned tho significant scroll ' Welcome to Auld Ileekio ! ' On either side wore tho ancient nrma of Scotland and tho heraldry of the city , as also tho portraits of the allied sovereigns . Tho walls and central

      pillars were almost concealed with flags and banners th latter inscribed with the names of Crimean heroes '* At tbe bottom of the hall were emblematic figures and illu minations , surmounted with a scroll bearing the n ameof ' Florence Nightingale . ' In the compartments of tbi roof were armorial devices representing the allied ua tions , the "United Kingdom , and the city of Edinburgh " The number present considerably exceeded 2000 . Tatle were set in the body of the hall for 1420 . " The Right Hon . the Xord Provost presided . The speeches were too long to permit of our reproducing them .

      Proposed Crimean Monument at Sheffield . — . a movement has been commenced among some of the working men of Sheffield to erect a monument in that town to the memory of our countrymen who fell iQ the Crimea . They have communicated with 2 kliss Florence Nightingale , through her relative , Miss Shore , of Jfeersbrook Hall , Sheffield , requesting that she would consent to lay the foundation stone . Miss Nightingale has replied as follows : — " Lea Hurst , Matlock , Oct . 23 , 185 © " — " My dear Lydia , —The purpose mentioned to me in your letter has my deepest sympathy . It would have been most congenial with my feelings , on my return from the deathbeds of so many brave men , to take a part in it- I shall be with the men of Sheffield in spirit whenever they execute their proposed plan . It is-with

      real pain , that I feel compelled to decline the privilege which they offer to me , of laying the first stone . But I Relieve I shall best honour the cause of those brave dead by abstaining from appearing to court that publicity ¦ which I consider to have been my greatest impediment in the work I have been engaged in for their sakes , impeding it by arousing in . some minds care for worldly distinctions . . . . . Tray believe me , my dearLydia , « ver truly yours , —Fjlobeuce Nightingale . " — Miss Nightingale has also sent a cheque of 201 . towards the object , consisting of subscriptions of 5 £ each from herself , her father , Mr . Nightingale , and her uncle and aunt , Mr . and Mrs . Samuel Slnith . The undertaking will be launched by a public meeting convened by the Mayor . -. ' . ' •¦¦ . "' . . ' . ¦' . ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' . ; ¦¦

      ( jtranjd Night Attack and Siege Operations at CuATiiAat . —The whole of the troops belonging to the Royal Engineers together with the East India Company's Sappers and Miners , and a large party of troops belonging to tlie provisional battalion and the Royal Marine Light Infantry , were engaged until a late hour on Monday night in anight attack and other siege operations , which took place on Chatham Lines , in the presence of several thousand spectators . The tactics , which included the tracing of parallels , the formation of trenches and batteries , and the conducting and

      repulsing of sorties , occupied about four hours . The points attacked consisted of those portions of the line of fortifications which surround Chatham Garrison , and which are known as the Spur Battery , the King ' s Bastion , the Prince of "VVales's Bastion , and Prince Edward ' s Bastion . The whole force employed is calculated at 1200 , men . The effect of the lights and fireballs , which the garrison burnt in order to reveal the locality and doings of the attacking party , was extremely grand , causing the country to be illuminated for some miles round .

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      OBITUARY . Sir John Jervis , Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas , died last Saturday night from atrophy caused by a distemper from which he had long suffered , and which had reduced him to a very delicate state . In early life , he served for some time in the army . He was called to the bar in 1824 . Having in time become a Queen's Counsellor , ho was made Attorney-General in 184 G , and in 185 O was raised to the Chief Justiceship of the Court of Common Pleas , in succession to Lord Truro , who became Lord Chancellor . Sir John Jervis was a Liberal in politics . He sat for Chester from 1832 to 1850 . Dr . 11 aggai £ I > , Chancellor of the JDiocese of Manchester , expired at Brighton yesterday week , in the sixty-tlurd year of his age .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . Australia . —Some interesting particulars of fresh gold-fields are contained in tho Straits Times , which says : ¦— " The discovery of new and rich diggings at Rocky River and Stony Creek , near the town of Bathurst—which place has been deserted for tho goldfields—has caused a complete panic ( sic ) . They were rushing in hundreds from the older diggings to the now El Dorado , which we need not be surprised at when ive are gravely assured , on credible authority , that one party secured three hundred ounces and anotlier one hundred and sixty ounces in the course of ono afternoon . Many thousands were on tho newly-discovered

      treasure spot , and among the number about two thousand Chinese . By tho way , the latter class of immigrants wero pouring into Sydney and Adelaide by shiploads , and several steamers had been chartered to convey them along the coast and up the rivers so as to enable them to reach tho diggings by the shortost possible route . At Molbourno , they were seriously discussing the propriety of removing tho restrictions placed on , tho landing of tho Chinese in that province , fieeiug that the influx into the colony , cither via Sy dney or Adelaide , is greater than when tho Celestials were free to land at Melbourne and Williamatown . "

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      1064 THE iLE A 3 ) E B . [ No . 346 , Saturday .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 8, 1856, page 1064, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2166/page/8/