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. Ko . 409 , January 23 , 1858 . ] E HE X > JB _ AI ) E K . 79
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OUR CIVILIZATION . —•—
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MuRDEitous Assault . —A pitman , named Henry Etherington , residing near Bishop Auckland , has committed a very savage attack on Mary Venison , a married woman , who had been deserted by her husband , and who had recently lived with Etherington . She had a child by him , but was desirous of parting company-. Etherington wished her to return , or to let him have tha child ; but she refused , and he then struck her several times on the head with a pick . She broke away , an I was followed by him ; but her mother interposed , and held him back till lie was apprehended by a policeman . He has been committed for trial . False : and True Distress . —A man giving the name of John Reed , has been charged at the Westminster police-office with fraud and felony . He and a companion went to tho house of a gentleman in Ebury-stroet , Piml ico , with a begging petition on behalf of ono John Ward , who was said to bo the dustman of tho district . While tho gentleman was reading over tho petition , a friend , who was present observed Reed ' s companion ( who was in tho passage ) helping himself to a coat whioh was hanging up . The room door was open $ but lieod stood in tho doorway , and , when tho friend endeavoured to rush out and stop the thief , tho confederate stoppod him , and tho coat was carried off . A similar trick hud boon performed in tho sumo neighbourhood a few day previously . JUeed was remanded . —A case of xual distress , of a very singular character , has been brought before tho attention of tho Lambeth magistrate . Mr . Hoard , a practical chemist of some distinction , and tho author of the discovery ( made in the early part of tho present century ) by which , coal gaa was made applicable to domestic purpoaea , was found to bo living iu a state of abject destitution in n house in South Lumboih . Though eighty-one yuara of aye , Mr . Heard had a comparatively young wil ' o and a ~ funUly ~ o ^ four _ culAdr . Qn , _ a ^ o ^^^ fourteen . Owing to old ago and inflriniliofl , Mr . I-loam was unublo to prosouuto a discovery ho had patented a few years ago , and ho had fallen into dl » tra > M . A subscription has been opened in his behalf , «» Lambeth mnirlHtrato has given 1 / . from tho poor-box . Thk Knifjo . — A ( Jreok sailor and an Irish labouror , u-o uiulor remand at tho Thamoa polioe-olHoo , on a charge of stubbing another Irish workman in tlw oourso
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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . Thomas Jokes and John Jones , brothers , both very respectably connected , who pleaded Guilty at the last sessions to a charge of assaulting some policemen , were on Tuesday sentenced to four months' imprisonment , reckoning from the 4 th inst . James Mackinder , a coachman , was indicted for stealing two 501 . notes and three 101 . notes , the . property of his master , with which he had been entrusted to purchase some horses . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to penal servitude for three years . William Keen , a young man employed at the Builder office , pleaded Guilty of stealing 9 s . 6 d ., the money of his employers . He appeared to have been pilfering for some time past . He was sentenced to eight months ' hard labour . The two guardsmen charged with assaulting the police in Broadwaj ' , Westminster , were tried on Tuesday . Thev were found Guilty , and sentenced eacli to six months' hard labour . An amusing incident was unfolded in the trial of Joseph Wilkinson and Henry Wilkinson , father and son , for having stolen a large number of fowls , the property of the Hon . Lady Selina Mason . Her ladyship resides at Willesden House , and the fowls in question were stolen from her premises on the evening of the 22 nd of December . On the following morning , a policeman named Macdonald found some of them in a sack concealed in a dung-heap in a field at Edgware , and , concluding that the persons who had placed them there would take an early opportunity of fetching them away , he hid himself in the dung-heap . After he had been there , covered over , about seven hours , the prisoners came with a truck to remove the booty . One of them said to the other , " Be quiet ! Get over the gate ; there ' s no one about , and if anybody comes I'll whistle . " Henry Wilkinson then went to the heap , and was . dragging the sack away when he trod upon the policeman , who jumped up , and Wilkinson ran off , crying out that it was the Devil that had sprung up from the heap . The father was taken , and the son gave himself up a day or t . vo afterwards . They earned a living by selling fowls in Portman Market . An alibi was set up for Henry ' , and the jury Acquitted him . The father was found Guilty , and sentenced to eight months' hard labour . Charles Carew , a Guardsman , pleaded Guilty on Wednesday to an indictment charging him with having stolen a watch , value 31 ., and another watch , value 1 / . 12 s . 6 d ,, the property of Frederick Berry . Mr . Beriy keeps two shops , one at Pimlico and one in Parliament-street , the latter being the place where Marley committed the crime which led to his execution . Carew stole a watch from the shop in Parliament-street , and then went off to that at Pimlico , and stole another . The Court sentenced him to six mouths' hard labour .
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_„—^ i ^—i ^^—^ — iniured in some way , and that she was making a great deal of water . She was accordingly run aground on the Kentish shore , and the passengers passed over a kind of Abridge of boats to dry land . s ¦ A puncheon of- gin which was being lowered , a few . evenings ago , from a waggon in Coleman-street , City , SeO . against the kerbstone , when the bottom was stove in . The liquor ran in a flood down the kennel ; and a labouring man named Michael Fitzgibbon , who was passing at the time , seized a pint pot from the barrow of a costermonger , and , stooping down , began ladelling the spirit into his -mouth . After taking a great deal this wry , he went down on all fours , and lapped up the gin with his tongue . One of bis comrades endeavoured to . dissuade him from drinking any more ; but he went on itill he was unable to continue . He was then wheeled home in a state of insensibility , and a surgeon was fetched ; but death by this time had ensued . "While a salute was being fired at Dover last Saturday , m Tumour of the arrival of the Duchess of Saxe-Coburg , one of the guns prematurely exploded . Two artillerj' - ¦ men . were blown over the parapet into the ditch , a ¦ de pth of forty feet ; the arms of both were broken , and the bayonet sword of one was driven into his Stomach , causing injuries of which he died on the following night .
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PUBLIC MEETINGS . TFTE INDIAN GOVERNMENT QUESTION . A noisy and excited meeting was held at the London Tavern on Tuesday night , to consider the question of the future government of India . Mr . George Crawshay occupied the chah-, and spoke in favour of the Company , but -was frequently interrupted by the disapprobation of Ms auditory , which consisted chiefly of working-class -men . ¦ Mr . Lewin proposed the following resolution : —" That the Court of Directors , by submitting to the coercion of the English Government , have brought upon India and -upon England the disasters and the dangers to which * o th are now exposed ; and that this meeting holds the prevention of the farther aggravation of those disasters and dangers to reside solely in the Court of Directors asserting for the future their administrative independence , recurring to the rules laid down by the House of Commons in 1782 , and by so doing obtaining for themselves * he support of the people of England . " Major JBowland seconded this resolution ; denounced the war against Afghanistan ; gave a dismal picture of Sir Colin Campbell ' s position in India ( at which there were cries of ' Bravo ! ' ) ; asserted that our army is gradually wasting away in Oude , and that England is in danger ; and advised that we should restore the King of Oude to his tthrone . Mr . Mead spoke in favour of placing India under the direct 'Government of the Crown , and proposed the following amendment : —" That , in the opinion of the meeting , it is desirable to obtain a responsible form of administration for India instead of the present double < xarernment , and also such a reform of the representative system as will ensure an effectual Parliamentary control over the Indian authorities . " Mr . Ernest Jones seconded the motion , which was opposed by Mr . Frost >( the Chartist ) , who thought that to transfer the administration of India from the East India Company to the Grown would be to make bad worse . At this , there were hisses , and ories of " You are a traitor ! " Mr . Ernest Jones begged the meeting to hear Mr . Frost , though " it was easy to see through the trick . " Mr . IJroet hereupon retorted that he had no trick to play , "'' 'but could easily see the trick which that man ( Mr . Jones ) waB playing . " Groans and uproar succeeded this passage of arms , and tho meeting concluded with the 'Almost unanimous adoption of the amendment . THE EAST INDIA HOUSE MEETING . 'The adjourned meeting of the Court of Proprietors was tield on Wednesday , Mr . Mangles , M . P ., in tho chair . Previous -to the resumption of the debate , the Clerk read the letter addressed on the part of tho company to 3 jor 4 Pnlmerston , and dated tho 31 st of December . After acknowledging tho receipt of his Lordship ' s letter , ¦ containing an intimation that it is tho intention of Go- f ver ament to propose a measure to Parliament for the poTposo oF placing tho Government of India under the direct authority of tho Crown , tho writers observe that they feel it duoto themsolvos , and to the constituent ' . body they represent , to lose no time in offering such observations as suggest themselves on tho occasion . They state that the Court propose that a searching i inquiry should bo instituted into the causos of tho ' . mutiny of the Bengal army , and they have inntruotod tha Government of India to appoint a commission to i TnaTccauch inquiry . Thev conceive that it would bo satis- i ^ r ac ^ ry _^ thoinJ ^ aj > UM ^^^ Parliament , with power to extend tho invcfltigation to an i inquiry respecting the conduct of tho Homo Government . 'They express surprise that , without imputing 'blame to the Company , tho Govornmoiit , « vo » before Iflio'mutiny is quelled , and while considerable oxoltomont prevails in India , should propose the entire superae / ssiou of tho East India Company , which is entitled to tho credit of having bo admiuidtorod tho government in Xuula that the heads of states and tho ituoplo had ,
remained true to the Company ' s rule . The Court of Directors express their conviction that a change so important would be misunderstood by the people of India , and submit that , if any such change should be really thought desirable , it should be introduced at a time of tranquillity , when the circumstances of India could be regarded without prejudice , and when the change would not , in the eyes of the natives , be connected with the late calamitous events . The Court asserts that they have always shown themselves ready to acquiesce in any change that would prove useful to the general interests . The directors would not object to relinquish then ? trust if a better system could be devised for India ; but in 1853 the question was thoroughly investigated and exhausted , and the present system was the result . That system , it is admitted , is doubtless capable of some improvement ; but the objections to the ' double Government' are rather nominal than real , as the duties of the Board of Directors are of an executive rather than of a deliberative' character . The Secretary next read the following reply of the Prime Minister : — " Piccadilly , January 18 , 1858 . " Gentlemen , —I have had the " honour to receive your joint-letter of the 31 st December , 1857 , on the subject and the measure it is . the intention of her Majesty ' s Government to propose to Parliament , in reference to the future system on which the government of India is to be conducted . I beg to assure you that the observations and opinions therein expressed will be duly considered by her Majesty ' s Government . I forbear entering at present into any examination of those observations and opinions . First , because any correspondence on this matter -would be most conveniently carried on through the usual official channel , the President of the India Board ; and , secondly , because the detailed arrangements of the measure which her Majesty's Government mean to propose will be best explained when that measure shall be submitted to the consideration of Parliament . —I am , f tc ., —Palmerston . " The secretary then read the petition which it was proposed to present to Parliament , and which had been prepared by the directors and recommended by the proprietors , ft is a very long doenment , but the chief points are summarized in the letter to Lord Palmerston , of which an outline is given above . —After considerable debate , the discussion was further adjourned for a week .
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¦ NAVAL AND MILITARY . Shipwreck . —The emigrant ship Windsor was wrecked off Bonavista , Cape Verd Islands , while on her voyage from London to Australia , on the 1 st of December . She struck on a reef of rocks ; but the crew and passengers , with the exception of two sailors , were safely landed , and were subsequently forwarded by a Portuguese war schooner to St . Vincent ' s . These facts have been derived from the first number of a small folio newspaper , called the Argo , which was edited and printed from -week to week on board the steamship Argo , which took the loft wing of the 68 th Infantry from Portsmouth to Madras . Kkobuits for India . — The standard of recruits for all regiments of infantry serving in India is reduced to five feet three inches until further orders from the Horse Guards . The Indian Reinforcements . —The transport York , Captain Redpath , which sailed from Plymouth on Tuesday for Madras , had a cargo of shot , shell , guns , and various stores . Sho embarked at Gravesend Captain Muro , in military command , and eight rank and file of tho 43 d Regiment ; Eimign Heane , and thirty-seven of tho 44 th ; Dr . Elliott , 95 th , in medical charge ; Captain Arbucklo ( and wife ) , Bengal Artillery ; Mr . Wickham , and fifty men 1 st Madras Fusiliers ; Mr . Crawford , Hon . East India Company ' s service ; thirteen men of the GOth Kifles , thirty-two of tho (> 6 th Foot , and twelve of tho 74 th ; nnd at Plymouth , one sergeant and ton men of tho GOth , in charge of tho residue of tho baggage bolonging to that regiment . Tiiij CiitBAu , 91 , sorow , is fitting out for the steam reserve at Portsmouth by tho crow of the steam dop 6 t ship Blenheim . The Victoria add Alhisut Yaoiit . —Her Majesty ' s iret * o ~ yaOlit' * V lctorla '" niid- "Alb 9 rt 5- 'Gaptain- 'the- 'Hon 4--J »~ Dcmnan , is nearly ready to receive her crew , who will turn over to her noxt Tuesday . It is not expootod that tho Koynl marriage flotilla will loavo Portsmouth for GravoHond buforo tho end of tho month . Every available vessel that can bo spared will bo sent to tho rendezvous ofT Gravosond , so as to make tho Royal ombarkution na imposing a apoutaolo as may bo under tho circumstances .
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IRELAND . The ; Law Appointments are at length finally settled . Mr . Serjeant O'Brien is to be the successor of the lat « Judge Moore in the Queen ' s Bench , and Mr . Henry George Hughes ( a Bomau Catholic ) succeeds to the Solicitor-Generalship in the room of Mr . Christian , the new judge in the Common Pleas . Mr . Richard Deasy , Q . C ., and M . P . for the county of Cork , has been appointed third serjeant , in the room of Serjeant O'Brien .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 23, 1858, page 79, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2227/page/7/
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