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Tvooden-legged man , with two aliases , is under remand at Lambeth on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences by means of letters purporting to come from the Kev- W . J . Irons , Vicar of Old Bromptony and stating that the be-arer had lost one of his legs owing to a fall from a scaffold , according to one letter , and to a wound received in . the Crimea , according to another , and that he was endeavouring to collect 257 . to buy a cork leg with , that he might obtain a situation by which he would be enabled to support an aged mother and family .
Embezzlement .- —Mr . John Holder , late a lieutenant in the army , and paymaster of the Ro 3 * al Lancashire Militia , was brought up by warrant at Bow-street , on Wednesday , charged with embezzling upwards of 1000 ? . Mr . S . Kirby , of the War-office , said that Holder tvas paymaster of the 5 th regiment of the Lancashire Militia , in which capacity he was entrusted with large sums of money . He resigned the appointment in February , 1856 , after-which defalcations to the , extent of about 1800 ? . were discovered in his accounts . These moneys ought to have been paid to tha army agents , Messrs . M'Gregor and Co . He was remanded .
A Maw of Mahy Aliases . —Charles Fould , alias De Henry , alias MTMahon , alias De Fleury , a Frenchman , is under remand at the Mansion House on a charge of having obtained by false pretences upwards of 1000 Z . worth of goods ifrom Mr . John Poster Sykes , a flannel and blanket manufacturer in Aldermanbury . It appears that he pretended to be acting as the agent of the French Government . ^ Forgery . —Lambert Phillip Molledown , a commis- sion merchant , carrying on business in Mark-lane , who ' had been remanded upon the charge of having uttered a forged indorsement to a bill of lading , with intent to defraud Mr . George Anton , cornchandler , of Fenchurchstreet , of 750 ? ., was on Wednesday brought up at the Mansion House for further examination . He was committed for trial , and was then examined and remanded on a charge of uttering a forged bill of exchange for 453 / . 19 s . 3 d .
The Falkiuk Frauds . —William-Reid , the teller , and Thomas Gentles , the accountant of the Palkirk branch of the Commercial Bank of Scotland , were tried on Thursday week at the Circuit Criminal Court at Stirling for purloining between 25 , 00 ( M . or 30 , 000 £ . from the bank . The robbery was discovered last May , and Mr . Henry Salmon , the manager of the / branch , was found to be mainly concerned in the appropriation . He absconded , " and afterwards hung himself at a publichouse at Conway , in Wales . He had heen a justice of the peace , an elder of the church , a prominent political leader , and a provost of the town . Reid and Gentles were found Guilty , but strongly recommended to mercy , on account of the high estimation in which they had been held by their fellow townsmen . Lord Handj'side condemned them to eighteen months' imprisonment each in Perth Penitentiary .
Burglary and Murder . —Mr . James Henderson , a former , living in Robin ' s-lane , Bramall , near Stockport , has been shot dead by some burglars who entered his house on Tuesday night , with a view , it is supposed , to securing 218 ? . which had been recently received from an annual sale of stock . Mr . Henderson ' s sons were roused by the report and fired at the miscreants , but they got clear off .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . CnARLES Gkaut , a person describing himself as the Rev . Mr . Geary , and unfavourably ltnown to the public and the Mendicity Officers in connexion with the Indigent Seamstresses' Home—a society living on false pretences )—has appeared before Mr . Commissioner Murphy as an insolvent debtor . The eoui-t could not grant an immediate discharge , but tho judgment was not severe . Tlie insolvent will bo discharged at the expiration of a period of ten months from the date of the vesting order ( January yoth ) .
Vicc-Chancallor Wood held a Court at the Great White Horse Hotel , Ipswich , on Monday , to dispose of a petition praying for a winding-up order in the mutter of the unfortunate London and Eastern Hanking Company . Mr . Roxburgh was lveard at great length , on belmlf of the petitioners , and several responsible affidavits were read ; after which , the Vico-Chancellor , in giving judgment , observed that it was just possible aomo advantage might result from placing the concern under tho control of the court , but such a course appeared to be opposed to tho wishes of tho great body of the shareholders . No less than four thousand one hundred and seventy share-Holders lind
given their promissory notes for tho calls made , and it did not appear that a single creditor hud commenced proceedings in order to recover payment of «» a chums . Tho only creditors would ho tho Oriental Jjank , and n few other small banks ; tho matter wan , tuercforo , reduced into tho hands of a very few persona , and they would bo able to consider the beat courno for all parties . There were no equities between one set of Shareholders aa against another , or against any othor persona than tho directors . Tho matter would . probably « o reduced to a quarrel between tho director * and the Bftaroholdora , and ho did not consider it necessary that xuo oxnonsivo machinory of the law should bo set in
motion by tbe granting ; of a windlng-up order and the appointment of an official manager , especially as there was no charge of malversation in regard to what was being done . The petition was therefore dismissed with costs as regards the parties served . A curious point of law came up on Monday in the Insolvent Debtors' Conrt . The insolvent , Thomas R . C . Dimsdale , had been in the army , and could not attend on . account of serious indisposition . He was in custody ( in his house in Cambridge-terrace ) of the sheriffs ' officers , and had been some months . The present
application -was under the Protection Act , and for his discharge ad interim till the day appointed for the first examination . The point raised was , whether the court could sustain a petition in the ahsence of the insolvent , and order his discharge from his own house . The question was whether the petitioner was 'in prison . ' Mr . Commissioner Murphy , after a long discussion , decided that the insolvent was entitled to his discharge , as he was , in the words of the Act ' in prison , ' being kept by the officers in his own house . In a later Act , the words were ' in custody within the walls , ' and there was a marked distinction in the two acts . He therefore ordered the discharge . Thi 3 is the first case of the kind , and establishes an important principle .
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THE REVENUE . The Revenue returns for the year and quarter have been i published . The chief results are thus suniniarized in the Daily N ~ eius : — * ' The chief falling off is in the Customs , which show anet decrease of about 500 , 000 ? . on the quarter , although they still exhibit a trifling increase on the year . The decrease in the Excise extends both to the year and the quarter , being , in round numbers , 340 , 000 / . for the former , and 150 , 000 ? . for the latter . The principal cause of the falling off in the Customs has been the reduction of duty on tea , coffee , and sugar , and also , as regards the latter article , the diminished consumption arising from increased price . In the Excise , the deficiency is mainly referrible to the Malt Tax , and it would liave been very much more considerable had not increased consumption in some degree made
amends for diminished duty . The Property-tax shows a decrease of 415 , 000 ? . on the quarter , and about 187 , 000 ? . on the year . This is , of course , owing to the reduction of the ' war ninepence . ' Among the other items of Revenue , the Stamps , which on the year show an increase of over 160 , 000 / ., exhibit a decline of upwards of 18 , 000 ? . on the quarter . It is gratifying to observe that the Post Office returns display a solid and satisfactory increase of about 161 , 000 ? . on the yeax , and no less than 85 , 000 ? . on tlie quarter . An increase on the quarter of about 113 , 000 ? . ' Miscellaneous' is owing , it seems , to the sale of old stores after the termination of the Russian war . Comparing the year ending tlie 30 th September , 1857 , with that ending the 30 th September , 1856 , the net decrease on the whole Revenue is close upon 170 , 000 ? . Comparing the two quarters so ending , the net decrease is just under 890 , 000 / . "
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3 STAVAL A . ND MILITARY . Geneual , Hayelock is to be made a Knight Commander of the Bath ; and Generals Wilson , N " eill , Chamberlain , Nicholson , and Van Cortlandt are to be companions of the same Order . General Havelock has also been advanced to the rank of Major-Geneval . Bayonet Exercise . —The Conirnanrfcr-in-Chicf has directed that cvcr 3 ' regiment shall he instructed in the bayonet exercise , according to the system of the late Mr . Angclo . The RrciNFonciciurcxTS for India . —An order has been received at Chatham garrison for the depots of the 83 rd and 8 ( ith Regiments to furnish ( ifty non-commissioned officers and men to join their service companies in India . —The transport sailiner ship Lord Raglan arrived
at Bombay on the 27 th of August with the left wing of tho ; 33 rd Regiment from Port Louis , ' whence she sailed on the l'ltli , making the passage in a little more than twelve days . Tho right wing had previously been brought up by the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Pottinger , after a passage of nioro than fourteen days . —In consequence of a telegraphic despatch received at Chatham from the War-oflice , a draught of the 8 Hrd Kegiment , numbering twenty non-commissioned officers and men , left , tho provisional battalion on Wednesday , and proceeded to Cork , whore they will embark on board the Calcutta stciuuev for conveyance to India for tho purpose of joining the service companies of that regiment in Bombay .
Couitr Maktial . —A court martial has been hold at Plymouth on board the Impregnable to try Mr . Cornelius Smmitil Prime , assistant'engineer of tho third clnss , serving on board her Majesty ' s ship Orion , on a charge of refusing to perform certain work . He was found Guilty , and Bontencd to bo mulcted of all pay due to him from tho 8 rd of last July , and to bo dismissed tho service . Tins Ovkhi ^ anp Rouno to India . —The TTorHC Guards have decided on despatching a portion of the . 1103 ' a 1 Artillery by tho avnrliiud route to India . An <» nl « r has boon received tit Woolwich for tho embarkation of Captain Thring ' n and Captuiii Culvert ' s companies of Itoyal
Artillery on board a Southampton steamer , on the 10 th inst ., for Alexandria , to proceed thence via Suez ai * d Point de Galle , for Bombay . Colonel Maberley , Lieut . F . B . Strange , 5 th battalion , as quartermaster , and aa adjutant of the Royal Artillery , also proceed by the sanw route . Military Inspection . —Gen . Sir John P . Burgoyne , G . C . B ., R . E ., Inspector-General of Fortifications , and Major-General Sir J . F . Love , K-C . B ., K . H ., Inspector-General of Infantry , arrived on Tuesday at the headquarters of the Royal Engineer establishmeat , Brompton Barracks , Chatham , for the purpose of inspecting tti-e 4 th , 10 th , 11 th , and 21 st companies of Boyal Engineers , who are about to embark for India . After being
inspected , the companies marched past -in alow and quiak time , and executed some other manoeuvres , at the conclusion of which General Sir John Burgoyne addressed the troops , and expressed the gratification it afforded him to witness their high state of discipline . General Burgoyne and General Love then inspected the 18 th company of Royal Engineers , under the command of Captain E . M . Grain , which only arrived from Nova Scotia the previous day . They next proceeded too Chatham lines for the purpose of inspecting the A mounted troop of the Royal Engineer Train , under the command of Captain H . T . Siborne . Sir John
Btegoyne and Sir J . Love also inspected a portable observatory for the use of troops when on the line of marchu The invention , we believe , is that of Captain Nobl ^ R . E ., and is constructed entirely with the scaling ladders us-ed by the Royal Engineers . The observatory was erected near the slope of the glacis at Fort Amfaerst , and , rose to a height of about fifty feet . Instruments for taking observations were placed on the top , bo as ' to enable a spectator to reconnoitre the movements ot troops at a great distance . One of these observatories can be erected by about twenty ^ troopers in half an hour , and when completed will accommodate as many as half a dozen persons on the summit . —Times .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Cotjut . —The Queen , the Prince Consort , and the Royal family and suite , will return from Scotland on the 14 th instant , but it i 3 understood that , owing to the continued iudispositionof Earl Fitzwilliam , theintended visit to Went worth House will he postponed . A Royal Visit . —It is expected that-the Queen will visit the Earl of Aberdeen at Haddo House before returning to England from Balmoral , which place it is thought she will leave about the 13 th of the present month .
Tikes . —A fire broke out on Sunday morning in a building called Sutherland-house , near the parish church , Ealing . The engines were quickly in attendance ; but the fire could not be got under till theihouse was burned do-wn , and the two adjoining ones were damaged . The three * were insured in the Atlas Fire-office . —Another fire occurred at Islew . orth , in the warehouse of Mr . BeTrey , wharfinger . The roof and upper part of the building were destroyed , and an adjoining warehouse was . damaged .
The Metropolitan Medical Schools . —The medical schools connected with the metropolitan hospitals were formally opened by inaugural lectures by distinguished professors on Thursday . Reform Dicmonstuation at Bumr . —A meeting took place at Bury ( Lancashire ) on Wednesday evening to celebrate the return of Mr . R . 3 ST . Philips as representative of tho borough at the last election . There were more than 4000 persons present , a wooden building ,. covering 2940 square } 'ards , having been erected for the occasion , decorated with coloured calico , and brilliantly ilhnninated . Mr . T . Wrigley , the chairman of "Mr . Philips ' s election committee , presided ; and there were
also on the platform Admiral Sir Charles Napier , M . P ., Mr . J . A . Turner , M . P ., Mr . J . Cheetham , M . P ., Mr . G . Hadticld , M . P ., Mr . J . Pilkington , M . P ., Mr . M . Philips , Dr . M'Kerrow , and Sir J . Watts , of Manchester . Letters of apology for absence were read from Lord . Goderich , M . P ., Mr . Roebuck , M . P ., Mr . W . Brown , M . P ., the Hon . F . II . F . Berkeley , M . P ., Lord Duncan , M . l \ , Mr . "W . J . Fox , and Mr . G . Wilson . The chief speech of the evening was that of Sir Charles Napier ; and that had reference mainly to the Indian revolt , to tlie necessit 3 r of constantly pouring in reinforcements , an < l to tho national responsibility in having for aevcrat years past insisted on si reduction of our array .
"KuserioN ok A PuiNcirAL of Jesus Colt-icchs . —The Fellows of Jesus College assembled on Thursday morning for the election of a new Principle , in tho room o £ the late Dr . Fotilkcs . There was a full attendance , and tha choice of the Society fell on tho Rev . Charles Williams , B . I ) ., formerly Fellow of tho Collogo , and now incumbent , of lloiyhoad « iul honorary canon of Uangor . Tmc Wi : st In » ihs . —There in no intelligences of importance from our own islands . From San Domingo wo henr that General Santuna has reached tho army of tho Provisional Government of Santiago and assumed ita command . Two conference * , by means of lines of trace , Iiuto passed between Mio Provisional Army within tho walls or the citv , and ii cessation of arms for twenty-four hours lias boon dciorininejil on , in ordor to asccrrtniu Whether a pacific solution of tho internal foudfl could not bo come to . Holland lias announced hor Intention of abolishing 1 slavery i » h « i * West Iudiun colonies .
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No . 393 , October 3 , 1857 /] T IE LEABEE . 947
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 3, 1857, page 947, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2212/page/11/
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