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The Week
cide . —A shocking accident occurred to a station-master on the Midland line-While reerossing the rail , after adjusting the signals , he was overtaken by a passenger train , by which he was killed on the spot . — - —A wooden bridge oh the Trent Valley railway has been entirely destroyed by fire . The traffic between Stafford and Rugby , is stopped by the calamity . The origin of the fire is not known . Two houses fell down near Liidgate Hill , on Thursday . We have not heard of any person being injured . —The cause of the panic in the Sheffield Music Hall , which
resulted in so terrible a loss of life , has not been satisfactorily made out though it seems to have proceeded from an unimportant explosion of gas , caused by a young man who lighted a match for his cigar . A fire took place in the sugar stores of Messrs . Leitch and Co ., of Blackstock Street , Liverpool . The sugar melted and blazed like oil ; and the casks , with the sugar-saturated floors , sent up a glare that was seen a long distance off . The stock and building ( which w ere quite destroyed ) were valued at about £ 6 , 0 00—— -There are distressing accounts from Limerick , Cork , Kerry , and Galway , of heavy floods , which arose oh Friday and
Saturday . There was great damage done by the overflowing of the river Feale ; which forms the boundary between Kerry and Limerick . Five or six persons were drowned . —— -A man named Tole has been arrested on a charge of deserting from the 7 th regiment in the trenches before Sebastopol . He is said to have given information to the Russians which resulted in an attack costing the English the loss of Captain Browne and thirty men . Another rascal deserted with him Who did not long survive his infamy . Satisfactory evidence having been given before the magistrate , Tole was handed over to the military to be tried by court-martial .
— -The convicts at Portland , 1500 In number , projected an outbreak , when they had arranged to murder their guards , to burn down their prison buildings , to plunder the villages in the neighbourhood , and then to escape as they best might . The authorities , put on their guard by one ofthe convicts , made such arrangements as enabled them to overpower the conspirators at the moment of their rising ; but their chance of escape has been a very narrow one . The cause of the threatened emeute was some fancied difference in the relative punishment of prisoners convicted under different modifications of the law in 1853 and 1857 .
mi . A \ nZ *~ ln . m ^ A « s » o . r * . n .. J .. nv ^ ** i-V . 4 . 1 k / % r « 4 >« . /\ A \ 4- -Pillt 14- C ( a 1 lrt « M r » 4- ' « II nn « ^ . ov . ¦••• r \ i-. ' I - » *< I n- ~* Jl The civic persecution of the street fruit-sellers still continues . The Lord Mayor gives an illustration of his ideas of justice , by fining each of these poor creatures a shilling , or committed them in default to three days' imprisonment . At the Central Criminal Court , Thomas Ferryman and his wife were tried fdr 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 Beale , and John Bushell , 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 be protected ; and sentenced the prisoners to be kept in penal 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 Hyam Cohen , surrendered to take his trial , for having in his
possession Admiralty stores . The same evidence given lately at the Mansion House was produced , but the court considered it insufficient to support the charge , and the jury acquitted the prisoner . In the New Court , Joseph Ruscovitch , was found guilty of forging a bill of exchange for £ 4 ( 50 , with intent to defraud the Messrs . Gillespy , and sentenced to six years' penal servitude . A brute , named William Saville , was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude , lor 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 charged with obtaining £ 18 from Andreas Mag , by fraudulent pretences . The dupe was led to believe that by paying certain sums of money , using certain magical manoeuvres , and performing several mummeries , a valuable prize in the German lottery would bo secured to him . Mr . Yardley sentenced the man of magic to six weeks' hard labour . On Friday W . Barns and Mrs . Barns , again attended before Alderman Wire , to answer the charge of conspiracy to defraud Mr . Peter , by the sale of certain pictures .
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The Week
cide . —A shocking accident occurred to a station-master on the Midland line-While reerossing the rail , after adjusting the signals , he was overtaken by a passenger train , by which he was killed on the spot . — - —A wooden bridge oh the Trent Valley railway has been entirely destroyed by fire . The traffic between Stafford and Rugby , is stopped by the calamity . The origin of the fire is not known . Two houses fell down near Liidgate Hill , on Thursday . We have not heard of any person being injured . —The cause of the panic in the Sheffield Music Hall , which
resulted in so terrible a loss of life , has not been satisfactorily made out though it seems to have proceeded from an unimportant explosion of gas , caused by a young man who lighted a match for his cigar . A fire took place in the sugar stores of Messrs . Leitch and Co ., of Blackstock Street , Liverpool . The sugar melted and blazed like oil ; and the casks , with the sugar-saturated floors , sent up a glare that was seen a long distance off . The stock and building ( which w ere quite destroyed ) were valued at about £ 6 , 0 00—— -There are distressing accounts from Limerick , Cork , Kerry , and Galway , of heavy floods , which arose oh Friday and
Saturday . There was great damage done by the overflowing of the river Feale ; which forms the boundary between Kerry and Limerick . Five or six persons were drowned . —— -A man named Tole has been arrested on a charge of deserting from the 7 th regiment in the trenches before Sebastopol . He is said to have given information to the Russians which resulted in an attack costing the English the loss of Captain Browne and thirty men . Another rascal deserted with him Who did not long survive his infamy . Satisfactory evidence having been given before the magistrate , Tole was handed over to the military to be tried by court-martial .
— -The convicts at Portland , 1500 In number , projected an outbreak , when they had arranged to murder their guards , to burn down their prison buildings , to plunder the villages in the neighbourhood , and then to escape as they best might . The authorities , put on their guard by one ofthe convicts , made such arrangements as enabled them to overpower the conspirators at the moment of their rising ; but their chance of escape has been a very narrow one . The cause of the threatened emeute was some fancied difference in the relative punishment of prisoners convicted under different modifications of the law in 1853 and 1857 .
mi . A \ nZ *~ ln . m ^ A « s » o . r * . n .. J .. nv ^ ** i-V . 4 . 1 k / % r « 4 >« . /\ A \ 4- -Pillt 14- C ( a 1 lrt « M r » 4- ' « II nn « ^ . ov . ¦••• r \ i-. ' I - » *< I n- ~* Jl The civic persecution of the street fruit-sellers still continues . The Lord Mayor gives an illustration of his ideas of justice , by fining each of these poor creatures a shilling , or committed them in default to three days' imprisonment . At the Central Criminal Court , Thomas Ferryman and his wife were tried fdr 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 Beale , and John Bushell , 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 be protected ; and sentenced the prisoners to be kept in penal 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 Hyam Cohen , surrendered to take his trial , for having in his
possession Admiralty stores . The same evidence given lately at the Mansion House was produced , but the court considered it insufficient to support the charge , and the jury acquitted the prisoner . In the New Court , Joseph Ruscovitch , was found guilty of forging a bill of exchange for £ 4 ( 50 , with intent to defraud the Messrs . Gillespy , and sentenced to six years' penal servitude . A brute , named William Saville , was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude , lor 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 charged with obtaining £ 18 from Andreas Mag , by fraudulent pretences . The dupe was led to believe that by paying certain sums of money , using certain magical manoeuvres , and performing several mummeries , a valuable prize in the German lottery would bo secured to him . Mr . Yardley sentenced the man of magic to six weeks' hard labour . On Friday W . Barns and Mrs . Barns , again attended before Alderman Wire , to answer the charge of conspiracy to defraud Mr . Peter , by the sale of certain pictures .