The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-04-18 00:00:00

THE CRIMEA

Camp. Sebastopol, April 1.
The extension of the armistice has been formally
announced in general orders, and no date for its duration
is mentioned. The suspension of hostilities is to con-
tinue until further orders. No change has taken place
in the relative positions of the hostile troops along the
line of the Tchernaya. The valley on the left bank is a
favourite place of resort for the English equestrians, but
the Russians seldom descend into their part of the plain.
Near the contracted valley of Inkerman, where the
Russian barracks and huts are comparatively close at
hand, there are always some groups of loungers—the
line of Russian sentries, and at a little distance off the
Russian pickets guard the right bank of the river, as the
allies do the left side, and no one, of either army, is now
seen to cross the fiver. It is rumoured in the French
camp, that the Russians have received news of the peace
negociations having been brought to a favourable con-
clusion. The English mail had been detained by rough
weather ; our London dates are to the 15th March.

SINGULAR ESCAPE OF A FEMALE

CONVICT

On Wednesday afternoon a female effected her escape
from the custody of the gaoler of the Southwark police
court in a most singular manner. The woman in ques-
tion, who is named Mary Ann Leonard, is known to be
connected with a gang of housebreakers and omnibus
thieves in and about the metropolis. She was tried at the
Surrey sessions in August last for picking the pocket of
Mrs. Sully, the wife of the printer of the Weekly Times, of a
purse, containing £1 lOs, in an omnibus, and tormer convic-
tions being proved against her, she was sentenced to 6 years'
penal servitude. She was then kept in the custody of the
governor of HorsemongPr-lane gaol, and in the early part
of February was placed in the infirmary to attend upon a
lady named Rider, who drowned her child in a pan of
water, while under temporary insanity. The unfortunate
lady was allowed to see her friends, and on the 19th
of February, the prisoner succeeded in disguising herself
in some of their outer garments, and escaped. She suc-
cessfully evaded the vigilance of the authorities until
Monday evening last, when she was discovered in a
lodging-house at Liverpoel with a man whom she
called her husband. It was ascertained that they
had taken their passage for New York, and would
have saPed on Tuesday morning. The prisoner
was accordingly brought up to London on Tuesday
afternoon, and charged before Mr. Combe at the
Southwark police court. After being committed for trial
she was locked up with other females by Downs, the
gaoler, in one of the cells at the rear of the police court.
During the afternoon several of her friends entered,
and requested to be allowed to see her in the gaoler's
room. The gaoler consented, and brought her out
of the cell, and carefully locked the door
leading backwards. While they were conversing he
was suddenly called into the court on business, and
on his return, after an.absence of a moment or two, he was
surprised to find that his prisoner
had made her escape.
The court was rather full at the time, and it is a mystery
to every one connected with the court how she could have
gone through. A number of hal characters were seen
about the court during the day; consequently, there
could be no doubt her escape was previously planned.
Information of this second escape has been sent to every
police-station in the kingdom.