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xbons , it was urged in reply to the charge that the com * panv was not in a position to register , as jtfr . M'Kenna , the ' manager , was the only bond fide shareholder , no others haying paid up their shares . The summons was according ly dismissed . - ,. ' ¦ Mr . Henry Burridge , late collector of taxes at Richmond , was tried on Wednesday at the Surrey Sessions on the charge of having ' fraudulently-collected taxes fefter he had ceased to be a collector . The jury acquitted the prisoner , who was , however , detained at the Suit of the Crown for debt .
A novel attempt at swindling is presumed to be indicated by a singular story about ahorse which was consigned to M . Soyer , after his death . A letter was addressed to M . Soyer , from Leith , apprising him that his "Crimean mare" had been forwarded by steamer to London , and asking for a draft for 222 . 16 s . in payment of the expenses of the keep , &c . M . Soyer ' s relatives are satisfied that he never owned such a niare , and accordingly they refused to receive her or to pay the bill . The view that they take of this transaction ^ obvious . The Central Criminal Court commenced its sittings on Monday and tried several ordinary cases . Thomas Ferryman and his wife were tried for coining on an extensive scale . The -woman was acquitted , but the
man found guilty , and sentenced to eight years' penal servitude . — 'On Thursday , Robert L ,. Wilson , Samuel JBeale , and John Bush ell , three Post-office letter-carriers , who had pleaded guilty to indictments charging them with stealing letters containing moneys , were placed at the bar to receive judgment . Mr . Baron Watson said , the integrity of letters passing through the post , must l > e protected ; and sentenced the prisoners to be kept in f » enal servitude for four years . —A lad named James Trench , was convicted of the offence of arson , committed -apparently from a feeling of revenge against his employer in-consequence of his having dismissed him from his
employment . He was sentenced to be kept in penal servitude for four years . —Angel Hv / ani Cohen , surrendered to take his trial , for , having in his possession Adimiralty stores . --The same evidence given lately at the Mansipn >| fouse was produced , but the Court consiti 5 TiSu -it insufficient to support the charge , and the jury accordingly acquitted the prisoner . —In the New Court , ¦ Joseph Ruscovitch was found . guilty of forging a bill of exchange for 4601 ., with intent to defraud the Messrs . < jrillespj % and sentenced to six years' penal servitude . — A brute , named William Sayille , was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude * for an assault on his own daughter , the result of which was the birth of a child :
William Steinthal ,. by profession sorcerer and commission-agent , was brought up at the Thames Policecourt , to answer the charge of obtaining . 18 / . from Andreas Mag , by fraudulent pretences . Both parties are natives of Prussia , and said to be well educated . The dupe was led to believe that by paying to his agent certain sums of money , in . certain coins , putting these -through certain magical manoeuvres , muttering the lord ' s Prayer , and performing several other mummeries , a valuable prize in the German lottery would
be secured to him . Mr . Yardley sentenced the man of magic to six weeks' hard labour in the House of Correction , w'here he has to carry with him the comforting reflection that another prosecution for a like offence Awaits him at the expiry of that term , , . At the Court of Bankruptcy , on Thusday , the exa' munition of the . Directors of the London and Eastern Banking Corporation was adjourned sine die , as under the order by the Court of Chancery np funds are provided for any inquiry in this Court .
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AMERICA . The following are some particulars of the destruction of ; the quarantine station on Staten Island ;—Many years age , when New York was much smaller and this island a wilderness , the quarantine was established there . Now the greater part of the island is occupied with ^ country residences , nnd , yjjljageskavegrown up about all the . stations , including * that of quarantine . The detention of all the yellow fover patients in the midst of such a population has created an excitement which has i several times threatened to break out in violence . The - Board-of Health of Castloton resolved that quarantine was a nuisance which the citizens might abate . This »/ wds the only excuse wanted . On the night of the 1 st inst . «» large moj > broke into the quarantine grounds , and destroyed BeyeraX of the hospitals . On the succeeding
-mighty finding that through culpable neglect no force had : boen aenfc to protect the buildings , they finished the work of the night before . The sick patients wore taken out uhy the mob into the cola night air , and left . 3 , 'he very b ^ dln / y on which the y ha d been l y ing wqa made a bon-^ iflre o f . AJEler the m ^ Kent down to take care of the ruins . Tho destruction of . the buildings and the brutal treatment of tho nick , have -elicited n very strong proclamation from the Governor of New York State . A number of persona occupying high •^ positions havo been arrested . The frjgato Sabino has . fieen Anchored' near tue shipping at Quarantine , to afford « rtny protection which might be required . It ia stated 'that , five , hundred of the National Guard had been -wrdbred to the Boonq of rJot . On the 8 th matters were fwnalrkably quiet . Tho military had not made their
appearance , and people at Staten Island thought Governor King ' s proclamation was issued merely for effect , and by innuence * of political motives . There was no abatement of the yellow fever at New Orleans and Charleston ; the disease was beginning to spread into-the country . At the former city the deaths for the week ending the 7 th were four hundred and fifty . ' . . . ¦ . •• • • . ¦ Two or three persons had been killed by an accident on the Hudson River Railroad . The laying do \ yn of the Atlantic cable was celebrated with great pomp on the 2 nd instant . In the evening there was a grand banquet , at which . Lord Napier was
present and delivered a speech which was characterised by admirable good taste . The suspension of the despatches by the Atlantic telegraph had . occasioned anxiety , and the following despatch was published : — " I have received from Newfoundland a despatch , informing me that although the insulation of the ocean cable remains perfect , no message has come over it for several days . The last telegraphic despatch that I received from England was dated Sept . 1 . What maybe the cause of cessation I do not know , but I conjecture that it is the change of shore end at Valentia , which I was informed was about to be made . —Citkus W . Fifcxo , New York , Sept . 8 . "
The Rev . Eleazar Williams , generally known on account of his claiming to be the son of Louis XVI ., died at Hogansburg , in the state of New York , on the 28 th of August . He lived very retiredj and nearly in a state of indigence . .
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THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE . We have received file 9 of papers from the Cape to the 28 th July . We take the folio wing from the Argus of the 27 th : — " The Governor left Cape Town , to mediate between the Boers and Basutns , yesterday morning , at ten o'clock . There could not have been fewer than 2000 persons present to witness his Excellency ' s departure . It was generally remarked that the appearance of the Cape Town Volunteers and . their conduct on this
occasion did themselves and the metropolis of the colony infinite credit . , His Excellency spent last night at the Paarl , at -which place , as well as at Beaufort and other places en rottte , the inhabitants . have made arrangements to give him an enthusiastic reception . We wish him r God speed . ' " Great hopes are entertained of the successful termination of his Excellency's mediation between the Free State and Moshesh , and it is expected that his visit to the frontier will be attended with other happy results .
A dispute with the Portuguese authorities in the Mozambique had occured , arising out of the seizure by them of a British vessel for not paying some local dues . The British Consul has left for England to represent the affair to the Foreign-office .
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . Admiralty Inspection . —The Lords of the Admiralty paid their ordinary half-yearly visit to Woolwich Dockyard on Saturday . They examined the ships in progress of construction and repair , and visited the saw-mills , testing-house , stores , rjgging-hou 3 O 3 , factories , and the new church . Sham Fight near Dublin . —A grand military spectacle , comprising a sham fight and subsequent encampment of the troops , similar to that which took place a month ago at Woodlands , tho seat of Colonel Henry White , M . P . for Longford , was repeated last week , and attracted a large concourse of spectators . There wore upwards of four thousand troops on tho ground , under the command of Lord Scatou . The Earl of Eglintoun was present .
Surely , therefore , it behoves our Government to adopt this formidable weapon . " New Mes-of-Wab . —The screwlihe-of-battle steamer Hood , 91 j which has been several years in building in Chatham Dockyard , is so far completed that she could if required , be launched during the present year . She is armed with the new description of guns of the heaviest calibre . The Admiralty authorities have ordered the line-of-battle sailing ship Trafalgar , 120 , fitting at Chatham , for a screw steamer , and the Orpheus , 22 , screw corvette , to be pushed forward with all despatch . ,
Tub Defences . —It has boon determined greatly to extend and strengthen the defences of Spike Island , at the entrance of CJueenstown harbour . It ia understood that all the defences at Quoenstown , including Carlisle and Camdon Forts , are to be placed in the highest stato of efficiency . Rarr . KD Cannon . —A correspondent of tho Daily Nevis writes : — " In addition to the fact stated on the authority of the Prince de Joinville , that tho rifled Bteol cannon is a " regulation weapon " of tjie French navy , I beg to state , upon tho authority of the Continental Review , that the Emperor Napoleon III . has ordered ninety batteries of six guns each of this formidable weapon for field Bervice . Mr . Armstrong , of
Neweastlo-6 n-Tyno , in 1854 , submitted his steel rifled cannon to the Duke of Newcastle , nnd hi » field-piece has been ronoatfldly-nArifirt aj ; , S ^ ooburynoaa . The g un ia on ly of 2-inoh bore , and Uio projectJle , uesoriTJBn afl"a' - poiiTeetl ' cylinder , weighs only 01 b ., and is tired with a charge of ten ounces ; yet , with an elevation of eleven degrees , its range wan 8000 yards ; and at 4 . 20 degrees it hit n mark at 1500 yards distance . It is quite possible that a 08-pound nhot may attain an extreme range of from 7000 to 8000 yards . In short , there oan bo no doubt but that rifled uteol cannon are as far superior to ordinary artillery as the Enflold rifle is to ' Brown Bess . ' The tremendous power of rifled stool cannon must prove destructive to any opposing force not similarly armed .
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FRANCE . ( From our oion Corresjwndent . ) Pakis , Thursday , 6 i p . m . The contest between Free Trade and Protection has assumed most singular proportions within the last few days . The battle rages fiercely , and the incidents have taken quite a dramatic turn . Algeria is , for the nonee , made the scene of contention . In the early part of the present month , the Minister of Algeria and the Colonies , tho Prince Napoleon ,, whose liberal views on commercial
and political subjects are no secret , presented a report to the Emperor . The length of this important document , and , probably , the press of other matters , preclude the daily jonrnals . from giving to it that publicity aiid attention which it merited ; It is for this reason , and in order to a clear comprehension of the present state of the question , that I return to its consideration . The condition of this province— -colony it cannot be calledr—is as strange as it is unsatisfactory . After twenty-eight years' . possession , the expenditure of at least a quarter of . a million of lives , and of untold millions of money , how . incommensurate are the results , is shown in the Prince-Minister ' s report . " And ,
nevertheless , colonisation is almost nothing ; scarcely two hundred thousand Europeans , of which the half arc . French , less than one hundred thousand agriculturists , capital scarce and dear ^ the spirit of initiative and- enterprise stilled , property j'et to be constituted in . the . greater portion of the territory , discouragement thrown among the colonists and capitalists who present themselves to fertilise tl ' . c soil of Algeria : such is Uie true situation . " ( , ) f the correctness of this statement there can be no doubt , and the nation ought to ; be grateful to the Minister , even though he be a Prince , who has had the courage and contempt for popularity-hunting to set before them their short-comings in the true light . Few Frenchmen are ao
well informed aa Prince Napoleon . a one are more ardent in the research after . the great truths of civilisation , or less encumbered with that falsu sentiment which here passes current for patriotism . To one so well informed and free from narrow prejudices , the contrast afforded by the different degrees of success which have attended the efforts of English and French races at colonisation cannot fail to have appeared amazing . During the same period , while Englishmen- —and 1 use the term in its broadest sense to include our kindred of the United States—have colonised the chief portion of the two Canudaa , Arkansas , Michigan , Florida , Texas , IowaWisconsinCalifornia ' Minesotu , Kansas , Oregon ,
, , , Utah , New Mexico , Nebraska , Tasmania , Australia , New Zealand , the chief portions of South Africa , nnd various smaller stations on the globe ,, increasing thwr colonial populations by millions , tho French have just managed to locate undor a hundred thousand colonists within a few hours' sail of their southern ports . Tliore Is nearly one soldiur to every colonist , and whilo the average emigration from Franco to Algeria has not been more than 8000 perapns . annually , to tho United Statoa it was nearly an niuctt lust year and more than double tho preceding year .
Yet Algeria may be more cheaply rouohocl , tho mm passago is much less , tho climate more congonial to tuo inhabitants of France , tho extent of territory enormous ( 500 inllos of eoa-couHt and reaching inland na fur as may be dosirod ) , and tho nmrkot for supplying lll ° consumption of 80 , 000 soldlors , ample . Why theimhouia tho colony remain in this stato of ponury , and h « ft ««>" stantdruin upon the renources of the metropolitan f > tflt 0 ' If French omigrato in such numbora to tho UiUtoa States «» they do , besides the emigration to South Aniorloa , and tho various countries of Europe , it b ov aoni that ^ heyH > are * no 6 ^ so * Arinlv . rootedaa ^ J ^ LjSluLiiL'ir oi
sorted . The Minister pointed to tho true cause row astounding feature , when ho said that , for a co » y * ° prosper , ?• thero . ia required , besides security , more tiberm and " tho successive emancipation of men ami t' \ t ., : ' Tho report of tho Prince could nay © but one wtfnlll ( j *" tion to the protectionists . Those gontlomon «»« a " £ coodod in converting tlio Mlnlfltor of War , M « rooB" » Valllttnt , to their views , whon , just in tlmo , h 0 w * ' ™ J Iloved of the difficulty of deckling by tho *> " »'"* " ; , of Algeria from , hio control . Under those oiroww
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994 THE Ij-. K A : P ; BR . _ _ [ No . 4 . 44 r _ SEPTEMBEii 25 , 1858 ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 25, 1858, page 994, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2261/page/10/
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