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engine had passed over an iron rail which had been placed across the up line . The circutriStance having bfcen mentioned t < 5 the ptctper authorities , flier pilotengine and several platfr- 'layeTa-weire despatched to the spot to remove tile' cause' of obstruction , and tne rails if ere-speedily cleared . ' This is the second attempt of the Same kind that has been made on this line within a feVir days . A Night Attack mr Water-laste , Straitix— -A lad , named Benjamin Blakesley , Was enticed some nights ago down . Milfprd-land , Strand , opposite the church of St . Clement Danes . He was induced to go there by a man
who said he would show him something ; but , having turned into Water-lane , a second person , who pretended to be drunk and to pick a quarrel with the first man , turned round , and gave the lad so tremendous a blow on the face as to knock him down and to cause a great flow of blood . One man then held him while the other searched him . To save himself from further violence , lie gave up his watch . They asked if he had anything more ; arid , on his saying he had not , they ran off , pursued by the youth . One was at length caught , but the other escaped . This took place about nme o ' clock . The man who was captured has been committed by the Bow-street magistrate for trial .
A Well-dressed Thief . — Thomas Rust , a welldressed youth of sixteen , who was employed as a waiter at the Crystal Palace , has been sentenced by the JLambeth magistrate to three months' hard labour for stealing handkerchiefs from the pockets of visitors on the railway platform . CHARGE AGAINST A LIVERPOOL BrOEKR .- —John DOlierty , general produce broker , of Liverpool , has been charged at the police-court of that town with obtaining money tinder false pretences . Mr . Aspinall , who appeared for the prosecntion , thus stated the main facts : —" Mr . Doherty , a little while ago , previous to his failure , was carrying on a very large business in the corn trade , ' his liabilities at the time of his suspension being
something enormous ,, and no doubt when this occurrence-took place his difficulties were very considerable . He had been doing an extensive business with the Borough Bank . On the 23 rd of May , he forwarded to the bank the ; bills of lading , representing that the produce had been sold to Messrs . Bingham and Co . That was untrue , the produce not having been so sold , which fact was ascertained when the drafts were sent by the bank to Messrs . Bingham and Co . for acceptance . The bank sent for Mr . Doherty , who made some explanation , saying there had been some mistake , and he took away the drafts , undertaking to get the acceptance of Messrs . Bingham and Co . to whom he took the drafts , arid offered as security a bill of lading for certain goods by the Centurion—1500 barrels of flour . At the time that he
obtained from Messrs . Bingham and Co . their acceptance , they had already pledged one of the bills of lading to Mr . Hubback ( one of the largest corn merchants in ' the town ) , who was entitled to the benefit ; so that the bill of lading in . the hands of Messrs . Bingham and Co . was worthless . " A technical objection urged by Mr . Brett , counsel for Mr . Doherty , having been overruled by the magistrate , the evidence was received , and Mr . Brett then proceeded to argue that the case was simply a civil matter , but that , as the prosecutor saw some difficulty in obtaining a verdict in a ciyil action , he had turned it into a case for criminal prosecution . The duplicate bill of lading for the flour had been sent to Mr . Hubback in mistake . The magistrate sent the case for trial , but took bail for the appearance of Mr . Doherty .
Forgery anp Fraud . —Charles Miokleberg , a man dressed like a grazier , has been examined at the Worship-street police-court on a charge of forging two cheques on the Unity Bank for 41 / . and 19 / . odd , by Which he obtained some valuable goods from an auctioneer in Piccadilly . He was committed for trial . A Savaoe Irishwoman . . — Mary Ann Miers , an Irishwoman married to a German sugar-baker in St . GeorgeVin the East , has committed a savage assault on Margaret Rush , the wife of a sailor , living in the same house . Mrs . Miers was in tho habit of beating and ill-using her daughter by another husband : and , on
the 18 th inst ., the girl took refuge in the room of Mrs . Rush" . The Irishwoman then burst open the door , and aimed a blow at the other woman ' s head with a tableknife . Mra . Rush hold up her hands , which were severely cut . She was then thrown down oil the landing-place , and bitten in the shoulder ; and finally Mrs . Miers boat her over the head with an earthen jug till she fainted . Her head was frightfully gashed , and she was taken to the hospital , Mrs . Miers has been examined before tho Thamoa magistrate , and committed for trial .
Munprea of a Wiipa by grant Husband . ' —A poor woman , living at Stourbridgo , namod Eliza Hart , waa murdered last Sunday whllo in bed by her husband , Edward Hart . They both lived in a email house in Bell-lane , not far from the market-house . The victim , who waa forty-six years of age , had been confined to hoc bed for several days from a severe attaok of illness * Hart , who is a labourer , employed in harvest work loft home on Wednesday last , and did not return till ton o ' clock on the morning of tho murder * Ho was then somewhat the worse for drink , and in the course of the day he fluflocated hU wife by lying ; across her . He Is now in cuatody . yi
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . The Australasian Screw Steamship , —This ' magnificent iron steamer , built by Messrs . J . and G . Thomson , Clyde Bank , for the European and Australian Company , left the Broomielaw on Friday week for Southampton , whence she will soon make her maiden passenger trip . She was launched on the 10 th of last June . The Australasian is of 2800 tons builders' measurement , is 360 feet over all , 42 feet beam , and will be propelled by means of a three-bladed screw by two direct acting engines of 700-horse power . She has six tubular boilers ,
which are covered with felt and then with lead , by which heat is retained and fuel economized . Those are fired by 80 furnaces . There are two 90-inch cylinders , with , a 8 £ feet stroke . These are also covered with felt , overlaid with teak wood , which imparts to the ponderous machinery an appearance quite ornamental . — Times . [ The vessel has sinoe grounded in the Clyde , the channel of which was completely blooked up for a time ; but the ship was at length moved , only , however , to strand again lower down , though at a part of the river where the traffio is not impeded . !
Loss ov the , Barque Thomas . —Tho barque Thomas , of St . John , Scotland , 700 tons register , went on shore at Portnahavon Lighthouse , on the Rhins of leiay , on the evening of Sunday week , at half-past eleven o ' clock , and has since become a total wreck . She left the Tail of the Bank on tho previous Friday morning with a cargo , of machinery for Halifax . On the Sunday evening , about fivo o'clock , a dense fog camo on , and the master ordered the lead to bo hove every half-hour . Guns were fired for assistance , but the mist hindered tho fishermen from finding the vessel . Mr . Murray , ship agent at Bowmoro , and Mr . Lindsay , of the Customs , on hearing of the disaster , set off to tho vessel to render assistance ; but the orew , after stripping sails , &c , were unwilling to remain by the ship , were landed in safety , and have since nearly all arrived at Groonock .
Collision off ALCunms .-r-Qn the 11 th inst ., at three a . m ., off Algiers , tlio Indus came into collision with the screw-steamer Florence Nightingale , of 700 tons , from Sunderland to Constantinople . The latter vessel struck tho Indus on the starboard foresponson , carrying away her bowsprit , and stove in her bows . The Indus received no damage by tho collision . As the Florence Nightingale leaked , the Indus took her in , tow to Algiors , and left her in Sight of that port . The night was fine , with moonlight . The Florence Nightingale had masthead , but no « ido lights . Loss op xhk British Shu * Walton Mukoastkr . —
A despatch has been received at Lloyd's from the English Consul at Caldera , on the coast of Chili , stating that the ship Walton MuncasterV Mr . Mounsey , master , of Whitehayen , was wrecked off thatr coast , having drifted upon a reef of * rocks , hi consequence of the wind faflmg and a heavy swell setting in upon the land . A boat was lowered , to convey on shore the captain ' s wife , a Custom-house officer , and ten seamen ; but it was capsized , and all perished except the officer . Another boat , from the British ship Dennis Brundrii , with five men , in attempting to rescue some of those on board , was swamped , and four of the men drowned . The governor and the captain of the fort rendered every assistance ; but it is feared that several of the passengers and others of the crew have been lost . . ¦
The Home Army . —The despatch of troops to India has lowered our home establishment of infantry of the line to fourteen battalions , instead of forty , the proper proportion for the United Kingdom . The arrival of four regiments from the Mediterranean in the course of a few days will augment the home strength to eighteen battalions ; but , on the other hand , it is more than probable that a further reduction will take place in consequence of the despatch of more regiments to India . It is quite obvious that for some time it will be necessary to maintain a considerable European force in that country , and whatever force is there must have a reserve of corresponding strength at home to supply casualties . It has therefore been determined to make a considerable addition to the army immediately , which will consist , at the least , of twenty new battalions of infantry . — 'Globe .
Court Martial . —A very protracted inquiry is now going on at Chatham into the conduct of Lieutenant-Colonel J . Clarke , who is charged with insubordination and inciting a mutiny among certain officers of his regiment while stationed at Sierra Leone . Reinforcements for India . —The whole of the men of the 7 th Hussars and drafts , from various regiments , to the number in all of 654 , with thirty officers , embarked on Thursday at Tilbury on board the clipper Lightning .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —Her Majesty , on Monday gave the annual fgte in honour of the Prince Consort ' s birthday to the seamen of the Koyal yachts , at the Trinity House , Coast-guard men and detachments of Infantry stationed at East Cowes , and the labourers -and workpeople employed on the Osborne estate . Dinner was prepared for nearly six hundred persons , who sat down at three o ' clock , in tents erected for the Occasion . The Queen and Prince Albert accompanied by Prince Alfred , the Princess Royal , Princess Alice , Princess Helena , Princess Louisa , Prince Arthur , and Prince Leopold , came on to the ground and inspected the dinner , and subsequently took their places in a marquee to witness the rustic games and sports which took place . They left at seven o ' clock . The Court arrived at Buckingham Palace on Thursday , and yesterday left London at eight o ' clock for Scotland .
' The Harvest . —The weather has again become fine , bright , and sultry } and , although a certain amount of injury has unquestionably been done to the crops by the late heavy rains , the damage does not seem , to be so great as was at first anticipated . The various corn markets , therefore , have shown but slight advances on tho former rates ; indeed , at some places , prices have been barely maintained . Harvest operations have been rapidly pushed forward , and a large amount of grain has been carried , and placed beyond the influences of the weather . The condition of the hop plant , which at one time looked bad , is now greatly improved , and tho crops in Kent promise to be early and abundant . Tlio corn harvest in Ireland is reported as unusually magnificent and the early symptoms of blight in the potato crop have disappeared .
Madagascar . —News is said to have arrived in Pans from the Island of Madagascar to the effect that tho Queen has recommenced the persecution of tho Europeans . Tho French Governor of tho Island of Bourbon and the English Governor of tho Mauritius have addressed communications on the subject to their respective Governments . Collisions at Sea . — A maritime conferenco of various European Powors is about to be hold at Paris to consider the subject of collisions . [ at ee « , which have been nnmorous of late , and to adopt meauuros for their prevention . This Early Closing Association held their sooonu tfDto at the Crystal Palace last Saturday , when the pleasure-seekers engaged in many athletic guinea . The weather was magnificent , tho palace nnd gnrden » crowded with sight-seers , and tho whole enlivened with military bands The celebration was ropoated on Monday . \ VVAWVil t 44 Tf / f % ¦ - ¦<
. mw * mm ** m nv «^ w * VVIa-VM J * * r- * m * w ** vm ** -- ¦ w Australia . —Writing with reference to tho delays ot the Australian mails , the Timea Melbourne ) correspondent says :: — " The question is raised here whether tho Homo Government will enforce the contract as to tue forlolturo for delay . Tho daily forfeiture goes on increasing at tlio rate of 50 / . per diom . That is , it amounts to 501 . lor tno first twenty-four hours , 100 / . for tho second , 160 / . lor tno third , and so on ; and auoh penalties , says the oonlmct , shall in no ouao be rolinquiuhod . But it is not to oxooott on one voyage the sum of 7708 / , 6 s . 8 d . TUo penalty for seventeen days' delay amounts to 7060 / ., which \ w incurred by tho non-doUvery of tlio February mail . A « o ponalty for tho nine days' delay of the March wall is
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ley , appeared before , the Thames magistrate on Tuesday to answer a summons taken out by Mr . Edward Fulcher , inspector of nuisances and sanitary inspector for the Poplar District Board of Works , which charged him with having a lorgfr accumulation of stinking fish deposited on bis premises . He was also called upon to show cause why an order should not be made upon him to remove the nuisance and discontinue to make any further deposit . Mr . Yardley said he would adjourn the case for a week to enable the parties to come to some arrangement , but would strongly recommend Mr . Carey to get another place . ,
GATHERINGS FKOM £ HE . LAW AND FQTJICECO 13 RTS . Viob-Chanceexoh Wood has given Judgment in favour of the Great Northern preference shareholders in the }* suit against the directors to restrain them from paying any dividend to the ordinary shareholders without first paying in full the preference dividends accrued since June , 1856- The directors , however , it is said , Intend to prolong the litigation by an appeal . Mr . Thomas Carey , fish manure manufacturer , who has lately taken possession of premises on the banks of thin Lea 7 cutor canal , leading from Limehouse to
Brom-Mr . Thomas Hough and Mr . William Innocent , the former a butcher and the latter a farmer , residing at Whatton , in Nottinghamshire , appeared at the Mansion House on Wednesday on a summons charging them with having sent twenty-seven lambs' carcases to Newgate-market for sale , though in a condition unfit for human food . It seems that the animals had been accidentally drowned , and that the flesh was blanched , flabby , and offensive . The flesh of beasts thus killed is not unfrequently eate % and is- perfectly good if the blood is made to flow after death ; but it would appear that this had not been done in the present case . Messrs . Hough and Innocent , however , received an excellent character , and the summons was dismissed . A summons has been taken out in the Sheriff ' s Court
by Arthur Macnamara , of the London General Omnibus Company , against William Robert Pope , the secretary of the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Company , for the sum of 17 . 3 s ., damage alleged to be done to one of the plaintiff's omnibuses , by reason of the negligent driving of one of the defendant ' s servants . It _ appeared on crossexamination , that the omnibus to which the alleged damage was done was put on by the London G-eneral Omnibus Company for the purpose of following the Saloon omnibuses wherever they went , and stopping where they stopped , and that the driver of the-London General Omnibus Company ' s omnibus broke the window himself by driving against the Saloon omnibus to prevent its passing . The j udge dismissed the summons .
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8 $ & ff gf . li ! E A W&T& pfo ; 38 % JtQGtim 2 $ } 18571
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 29, 1857, page 826, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2207/page/10/
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