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      but they one and all declined . Sir . Jairet , one of the relieving officers , also offered the parties tickets for labour in the workhouse , for -which labour they would have been paid according to their necessities and the number of their families ; but they refused to accept them , and marched off in a body . Mr . Elliott observed that he was not surprised or disappointed at the result , believing , as he did , that the object of the parties was more display than actual want or a desire to seek parochial assistance . Robbery of Cows . —Five men have been charged at Worship-street-with stealing four cows from the shed of a milkman in East-road , City-road . The value of the animals was 90 ? . ; and the shed had been broken into in the course of the nigh * . The evidence of several witnesses fixed suspicion on all the accused , one of ¦ whom , appears to have been the receiver ; but , as there was more doubt in his case than in that of the others ,

      he was admitted to bail . _ The Double Murder in Walworth . — Mrs . Bacon has made further statements -with respect to the guilt of her husband , from which it would appear that , after cutting the throats of the children , he endeavoured to strangle her . This is confirmed by the fact that her throat , when first she was taken into custody , presented livid marks as of the constriction of a rope . Amongst the articles found on Bacon " at the time he was taken into custody was a square morocco case , containing the photographic likenesses of his murdered children as they lay in their coffins . TMs emblem he carried with him to Stamford , aud showed to all his friends and

      acquaintances , always expressing great gri « f at their loss . —Bacon and his wife were again examined at the Lambeth police office on Wednesday . Great indisposition to face the public wa ^ evinced by the man , and the woman showed an equal horror at being brought face to face with her . husband . The latter was therefore permitted to sit at the solicitors' table , with her back turned to Bacon ; and this position slie maintained during the whole of the proceedings . The vacant and wandering look which distinguished her when first she was in custody has now given place to a settled look of misery . Her husband also seemed very dejected and apprehensive . The chief additional evidence was that of a Mrs .

      Hyde , who had washed some shirts for Bacon , one of which was stained apparently with blood . This * witness also stated that Bacon had remarked to lier that if his wife said anything about him he would kill her- He had likewise exhibited great uneasiness , and this had caused her to " have her suspicions" about him in connexion with the murders . Blood has been found on some of Bacon ' s clothes and on Mrs . Bacon ' s dress . Both' the prisoners were again , remanded-The Attempted Burgla-ry ^ at Nottixg-hill . — The two men dexterously caught by the police last week in their attempt to commit a burglary at Nottinghill have been examined at Marylebone police-office , and sentenced , for that offence and for their assaults on the police , the one to six and the other to two months ' imprisonment .

      Cruelty to a Child . —A young man , named Hicknott , has been sentenced by the Clerkenwell magistrate to hard labour for three months for savage ill-treatment of his illegitimate daughter , aged sixteen , months . He admitted to having beaten it with a cane , and said that once it fell on the fire . It presented a mass of frightful injuries . The man was loudly hissed by the people in , court . A Gamekeeper's Morality . — Two gamekeepers , named Woollen and Sims , employed by the West Ardley

      Game Association , charged two men at the Wakefield Petty Sessions with shooting a hare . The fact of the hare being killed was doubtful ; and the counsel for the defence accused the keepers of getting up charges for the sake of profits , and of having once been poachers themselves . One of the prisoners was fined 1 / . 7 s ., but the other was discharged . Woollen then remarked , " I ' ve got the one I wanted ; " on which one of the magistrates said , " If you were a servant of mine , I would send you off . That expression will be remembered against you in all further evidence you give in this court . "

      A Buiu 3 lar ' b Descent through a Chimney . —A man contrived , about a fortnight ago , to climb on to the roof of a furmor ' s house at llyton , near Shifnal , Shropshire , "by means , probably , of a rope-ladder , and descending a chimney , made his . way into the house , but not without great difficulty in squeezing himself through the iron arch plate at the back of the grate . A fire was burning at the tiino , though it was night , and the fellow must ha , vo got scorched . Moreover , a pistol which he carried went off in the course of his gymnastics , and alarmed tho family , who , on rising , could not discover

      getting so wet that be would not be able to take another fare that day , the property would be damaged ; but Mr . Houghton refused . The driver then declined to take him any further , when Mr . Houghton told him to drive to Bow-street , which was done .. Mr . Jardine took time to consider the question , and on . Tuesday he gave his decision for Mr . Hougnton , while expressing his opinion that the case was very hard . As he had delayed bis decision , and caused the cabman to come up a second time , he returned him the cost of the

      sumonce belonged had their latch-keys of gold , so his lord , ship must . Another of his n « cessaries was a locket " "What is is a locket ? " asked Baron BramweU . Mr James said that , as he had . had a locket once , he could answer that question . A locket "is that in which yon put the hair of the lady to whom you are attached " " Then , " said Baron BramweU , " I have been without a necessary all my life . " Lord Ernest ' s mother the wealthy Marchioness of Londonderry , offered the jeweller five shillings in the pound for her son ' s debt , but this was not accepted . Mr . Hancock could not prove the delivery of more than 651 . 15 s . worth of goods , owing to the absence of au assistant in Egypt ; and the verdict was therefore given , for that amount .

      mons . The Bullion Robbery : Decision of the Judges as to the Property . — Mr . Baron Martin and Mr . Justice Willes sat on Tuesday afternoon in the Exchequer Chamber at Westminster , to decide on the right of the several parties claiming the Turkish bonds and other bonds found in the possession of Pierce , Burgess , and Tester . The applicants were—the South Eastern Railway Company , the Sheriffs of London and Middlesex , a Mr . Saward ( an attorney ]) , the wife of Tester , and the Crown . The claims of the Sheriffs , Mr . Saward ,

      and Mrs . Tester , were disallowed . Some further discussion then took place , and eventually the judges made an order that the company should have restored to them so much of the property as was shown to be the result of the robbery , and that the remainder should be giveu into the custody of Sir Richard Mayne , the Chief Commissioner of Police , to abide any future orders that may be given respecting it . In the course of the procesdings , Mr . Baron Martin expressed Ms opinion that Fanny Kay has an equitable right to the property , according to the request of Agar .

      Clever Identification of Thieves . —A few nights ago a party of burglars attempted to enter the house of Major Smith , at Woodcroft , near Partick . They first broke a pane of glass in one of -the windows , and then tried to wrench open the shutter , by unscrewing the snib with a clasp-knife . The knife , however , was broken in the attempt , and a bell , which was attached to the shutter then rang , and aroused the master of the house , who , jumping out of bed and arming himself with firearms , rushed to the spot and speedily put the thieves to flight . On examining the window next morning , a

      portion of the blade of the knife was found sticking in the shutter , and this circumstance subsequently led to the detection of the burglars . The fragment of the broken knife was given to the police , and it was not long before a constable saw two suspicious-looking men on his beat , whom he took into custody . At the station-house they were botli searched , and on one of them was found a knife with a broken blade , which exactly fitted the piece which had been discoTered in the window-shutter of Major Smith ' s house . The man on whom the knife was found was a notorious housebreaker .

      The Convict Thomas Mansell .- —This man , formerly a private of the 49 th Regiment , who now lies under sentence of death for shooting a comrade , is respited , as the reader will recollect , to the 5 th of February , for certain technical reasons connected with the trial . The matter will be argued before the Judges of the Court of Queen ' s Bench some time during next term ; but no day is yet fixed . There will be another respite ; and if the Judges should decide that tho jury was not legally empannelled , the convict "will be tried again at the next assizes .

      The Great Bank Frauds . —Anderson and Saward were again examined at the Mansion House on Wednesday , when the chief witness was Mrs . Margaret Hardwicke , the wife of William Salt Hardwicke . She was a very respectable-looking elderly woman , and gave evidence to the effect that Saward was intimate with her husband . Tlie witness was subjected to a very severe cross-examination by Mr . Giffard , who appeared for Saward , and who sought to show that Mrs . Hardwicke was well acquainted with her husband ' s dishonest modes of life . This she denied , asserting that , if she had been asked about his employment ,

      sho should have said he was ' a gentleman ; ' but it was very evident that sho Avas uot ignorant of his real sources of income . Sho admitted that he had been transported , and that once , when he was about to be tried , she " gave a sum . of money to some one , and ho was let out of prison . " Sho denied that this was ' escaping' from prison , and asked if she was to bo witness against her husband , or against whom . Afterwards sho said—qualifying the information by adding , " I am not certain "—that she gave the bribe to " some one belonging to the gaol . " Further evidence , strengthening tho prosecution , haying been received , tho prisoners were remanded till next Thursday ' .

      Juvbnilk ' Necessaries . ' — An action has been brought against Lord Ernest Vsine Tempest , of tempestuous notoriety , for 150 J . 19 s . in payment for jewellery and trinkets supplied to him by Mr . Hancock , tho jeweller , of Bond-street . His lordship hud the magnanimity to ploail ' infancy , ' # ud thus endeavour to avoid payment . Much fun wad made by Mr . Edwin James , counsel for Mr . Hancock , in connexion witli his lordsliip ' a 'infantine' propensities . Mr . James contended that oven ' infanta' are liable for necessaries , and tho meaning of the word lieccHsarics , ho said , must bo defined in relation to the po . sitiou in life of the 'infant ' Among his lordship's < necessaries ' was a gold latch-key . AU the ofhecra in tho xegimont to which Lord Ernest

      anything more tho matter than a great smell of soot . When , however , early in tho morning , a man servant entered tho kitchen , nnd opened tho outer door , to go to tho stables , tho burglar sprun g from umlcr a table and rushed forth . Ha was pursued , but ineffectually . It does not appear that ho succeeded in stealing anything . A Cab Question-. —A cabman has been summoned ut Bow-street under pcculiur circumstances . Mr . Houghton , a silk-morccr of tho Edgewaro-road , hired tho cab ( which was a Hansom ) on a vory rainy , slcoty day , and Bingularly enough , sat with tho window up . The cabman requested him to put it down , us tho seat was

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . The American Merchant Navt . —A charge was preferred on Friday week at Liverpool before Mr . Mansfield the stipendiary magistrate , against the first mate of the American ship Albert Gallatin , who , it was alleged during a voyage from New York to England , and particularly while entering the docks on the 11 th inst . treated with great brutality three foreigners , named Mliller , Zimmerman , andZills . These men had been induced to ship on board the vessel by an advertisement issued in New York , which stated that a passage to Liverpool and twenty dollars a month would be given to landsmen and others , who would be expected only to perform landsmen ' s duty on board . The mate was fined in one case 5 / . and costs , and in the other two cases 40 s . and costs .

      The Wreck , of theTthe . —The endeavour to pump the water out of the Tyne steamship , which ran aground on the south coast , has failed , and there appears now to be little chance of getting her off . The attempt has been abandoned untilthe weather shall be calmer . % . Resistance to the Lash . —A very unpleasant occurence took place on Monday at Portsmouth . A man who has only been one hundred and ninety-five days in the Royal Marine Artillery corps , and been confined several time 3 for bad conduct , incurred a debt of 8 s . for slops he had " taken up ; " this sum the captain of his company said should be put against his account on the books of

      the corps , whereupon the man used an . insulting expression , and said he would do no more soldiering until he was paid . This led to a court-martial last Friday week , which adjudged him to receive fifty lashes on Monday . On his being taken towards the place of punishment under escort , lie broke away from , his guards , rushed upon Colonel Parke ( the commandant of the corps ) as he was stooping to pick up a paper he had dropped , and gave him a tremendous blow in the face , knocking him to the ground and . cutting him in the face very severely . The man was speedily overpowered and led to the halberds , where the fifty lashes were inflicted . He will now be tried for striking the colonel . — 2 "imes .

      Wkeck in the Channel . —The Marian , for Antigua , owned by the Mayor of Liverpool , raa ashore on Sunday in Rbos Bay . She is in a very dangerous position ; but hopes are entertained that the will be got off . The Broadstairs Boatmen . —An amateur theatrical performance is to take place at the St . James ' s Theatre , on the 7 th or the 9 th of February , for the benefit of those brave men , th « Broadstairs boatmen . The New " Dreadnought . " —The new hospital ship Caledonia , which is to supply the place of the old Dreadnought at Greenwich , was en Monday lashed alongside tho latter vessel , which will be shortly removed and broken up . The Caledonia will then receive the name of the Dreadnought .

      The Mail Steamer Tiolet . —The identity of the passenger lost in tho Dover and Ostcnd mail packet Violet has now been proved . It is now satisfactorily ascertained that the deceased was a Prussian Baron von Issing , captain of the 7 th company of the 15 th regiment of infantry , in garrison at Minden . This oflicor obtained leave of absence to go over to London on family affairs , taking with him 500 dollars in cash , and bills to the amount of 2000 dollars . His wife is the sister of Sophie Cruvelli , now Baroneas Vigier . This Mortality on Board the Duke of Portland . —The Local Marine Board , sitting in Oornhill , have been investigating the frightful mortality o £ Chinese on board the British ship Duke of Portland . Every cure appears to have been talccn on board , aud a larger number of men were not shipped than the vessel

      was built to hold . Nevertheless , tho coolies were discontented , behaved in a very mutinous manner , plotted a general massacre , and were only overawed by a great exhibition of firearms . Several suicides were committed , and fever raged fearfully . At the close of tho examination of the witnesses , the Chairman announced tho decision of the board : — " That uo blame attaches to tho owner and master , or any ono connected with the ship . That Captain Seymour's conduct to tho emigrants appearH to have been kind and attentive , aud that every possible precaution was used by liiin to decrease tho mortality . Dr . Ludgato nppcurs also to have exorted himself for tho same purpose . It appears to this board that tho mortality was greatly aggravated by the great heat and unusual length of tho passage ( 150 days ) , caused by th « sailing of tho uhip in au improper eoaaon . Sho Bailed fulh one month Inter than

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 31, 1857, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2178/page/8/