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No. 497. Oct. 1.. 1850. " THE L E A P E ...
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GENERAL HOME NEWS.
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The Court.—With the exception that all t...
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Law, Police, And Casualties. Fbom Scotla...
that her marriage may be dissolved by reason of her husband having been guilty of adultery coupled with cruelty , or adultery coupled with desertion , the husband and wife respectively shall be competent and compilable to give evidence of or relating to such cruelty or desertion . ' ,..,. , Hu ghes , the absconding bankrupt solicitor , who was brought in custody from Australia , underwent another examination at the Guildhall Police-court , on Wednesday . The prisoner was again remanded for a week , to . allow of the evidence of certain witnesses , at present in the country , being heard for the completion of the case . — . '
„ At the Court of Bankruptcy a first-class certificate has been granted to Mr . Thomas Skeels Fryer , who had traded as a brickmaker and brewer at Chatteris , in the Isle of Ely . He had been in business for forty years , and during that period he had not only sustained a character of the highest respectability , but had been a magistrate for thirty years , chairman of the bench of magistrates , deputy lieutenant , and high sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire . The Commissioner , in awarding the certificate , said he felt bound to express a wish that Mr . Fryer might be again reinstated in the high position he
formerly occupied , and to declare that he left the court without the slightest stain upon his reputation . A very different kind of case was that , of J . Hayes , a wine merchant , who had carried on business in Old Broad-street , and who also applied for a certificate . He had been seven months in prison . The Commissioner , in awarding a certificate of the lowest class , observed that but for the imprisonment already suffered , he should have ordered a considerable suspension , in consequence of the bankrupt having permitted a single creditor ( the Union Bank ) to sweep off the whole of his property , leaving not a
farthing for the rest . A very curious case affecting the Bank of England was tried in Newcastle County Court on Wednesday . A mariner , on the eve of proceeding on a ten months ' voyage , deposited 83 l . in the branch bank of the Bank of England in Newcastle , at the suggestion of his brother-in-law , who is a cashier in the establishment . During his absence the wife obtained 40 Z . of the money through the influence of her relative , the cashier . TtiB mariner on his return repudiated the act of his wife , and called upon the bank to refund the money . The bank , endorsing the act of the cashier , refused to entertain the application , and set up a plea of ratification on the mariner ' s part . The judge commented in somewhat severe terms upon the conduct of the cashier and the proceedings of the bank , and expressed bis opinion that the mariner had never ratified the wife ' s act . The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff . _
.... The four men , Couch , Merridew , Bailhe , and Simpson , remanded at Clerkeriwell Police-court on a charge of stealing a large number of carts and vans in different parts _ of the metropolis , have been fully committed for trial . At Guildhall Thomas Stowell , so well known as a common informer , had to answer the charge of conspiring with others not in custody , to defraud a Scotch firm . Mr . Stowell is the special pest of licensed victuallers . The object of the present prosecution is to show that his dealings with tradesmen are of a roguish character , and Sir Walter Garden , who heard the case , and who enlivened it by his sage observations , seemed pretty convinced that the prisoner ought to be detained . He will , therefore , have to be brought up again on Monday .
Au important case connected with gas companies and their powers has been heard at the Westminster County Court . The Equitable Gas Company Had cut off their supply to an eating-house and tavern under such circumstances—tlie cooking having been done by gas—as prevented many customers from having their dinners . The case has every appearance of being a very hard one against the keeper . of tho tav ern , but the judge decided that the company had a right to make whatever terms it liked , and to cut off the , gas , if those terms were not complied with . ' , *
• In consequence of renewed disturbances in St . Goorge ' s-in-the-East , on Sunday , proceedings were taken at the Thames Polico-court on Monday against Mr . Robert Hosier , who was charged with exciting H mob to violence . It appears that the closing of the pariah church of St . George ' s was only the means of a still greater demonstration of popular ftiry on Sunday , and two ohurches in the neighbourhood , undor the control of the rector / and his curates , were entered and the services assailed . Mr . Hosier is known as a partisan in these unfortunate proceedings , and he was arrested , but Mr . Yardloy very much hesitated to inflict punishment , and adjourned tho hearing of the case for a weok . There was also a summons against one Mr . John Peterson , which'the magistrate only partly heard , but will have to hear Again . When ft was announced that this summons was issued under an Act of William and Mary , some individuals indulged In derisive tough -tor , and cries of » Oh , oh 1 " Mr . Yurdlcy asked
who had dared to give way to such a disgraceful ebullition of feeling in a public court of justice . He called upon the officers to point out the offenders . Roche , the gaoler of the Court , pointed out four gentlemen , who declared they had only smiled . Mr . Yardley : If there is another similar ebullition of feeling , take the offenders into custody , and remove them from the court . If that does not succeed , I will have the court cleared . I will have no displays here . Peterson was brought before Mr . Yardley again on Thursday charged with two distinct offences , committed oh the same day , in two of the churches under the same rectorship ; and after the case had been fully gone into was bound over to take his trial upon both accusations at the next Middlesex Sessions .
The adjourned inquest upon the bodies of the unfortunate men who were killed by the bursting of an agricultural steam-engine at Lewes sheep fair last week was held yesterday at Lewes , and further adjourned . Several witnesses were examined as to the state of the boiler , their evidence tending to show that the boiler was an old one , and constructed of an inferior material . Two more victims have been added to the list of killed . One of the men conveyed to the Brighton Hospital died yesterday . His name was Cox , and he was an agricultural labourer attending the fair on business ; the unfortunate boy Woodhall also died on Sunday night from the frightful injuries he received . This makes six in all killed by the explosion .
We have received intelligence from the Channel Islands that the South Western Company ' s steamer Express , which went ashore on the rocks off Jersey last week , has broken up , and various portions of the ship are floating about among the rocks . It is quite probable that no captain belonging to this company will undertake the passage between the rocks in future . It is due to the public that such an order should issue from the company . A Board of Trade inquiry into the matter will shortly take place . to
A fire took place in the premises belonging Mr . Goodwin , a picture-frame maker , in John-street , Fitzroy-square , on Tuesday night , Seven engines were quickly set to work , when part of the building fell , burying beneath the blazing timbers seven or eight of the firemen . The more fortunate of the brigade , nothing daunted , rushed into the middle of the burning property , and , by removing the red-hot wood , they managed to pull from underneath the beams Paul Jerrard , the engineer ; Johnson , the sub-engineer ; and Bradford , Stephen Martin , James Lee , and John Eilbeck , firemen . The poor men were all more or less injured by burns , dislocation , or contusions , and Eilbeck , who was one of the senior firemen , was found doubled up and quite dead . The remainder of the firemen , although exposed to great danger , still kept to their work , and eventually succeeded in getting tho fire
extinguished . A terrific explosion , resulting in great loss of life and property , took place on Tuesday morning , on the premises of Messrs . Pursall and Phillips , percussion-cap manufacturers , in Whittall-street , St . Mary ' s- square , Birmingham . Immediately after the explosion it was discovered that the remains of the buildings were in flames , but the engines of the various fire offices soon extinguished the flames . At the time of the occurrence it is supposed that there were between sixty and seventy persons on the premises , mostly females . Twenty of these have died of their injuries , and many others are seriously hurt . There were not more than ten men on the promises .
Mr . George Krehmer , the Russian Conaul-General in London , died suddenly this morning at seven o ' clock . Tho announcement excited great regret in the large mercantile circle in wluch tho deceased has for so many years moved . An Englishmen at heart , Mr . Krohmer has long laboured with untiring devotion in tho organisation and development of tho commercial relations between this country and Russia . A person named William Eade was charged at the Clcrkenweli Police-court with obtaining a number of watches by false pretences . Since the apprehension of the prisoner the constable in charge of tho case has recovered duplicates and notes representing value to between # 400 to . £ 500 . After tho examination of several witnesses Mr . Tyrwhitt remanded the case till Thursday next , and refused
to accept bail . The South-Western Company ' s steamer Despatch , which loft Southampton for Guernsey and Jersey at midnight on Wednesday , broke her intermediate shaft off tho Casket , and put into Aiderney , from whence tho mails and passengers wore sent to thoir destination by small steamer . This break down will not interfere with the usual arrangements of the company with regard to tho conveyance of mails . ana passengers . Tolegraphlo advicoa received In anticipation of the
coming Australian mail report the total loss , near Cape Northumberland , on the 6 th of August , of the screw steamer Ardmillan ( supposed to lie Admilla } from Adelaide , whereby no fewer than eighty-seven lives were lost , only twenty-five persons being saved .
No. 497. Oct. 1.. 1850. " The L E A P E ...
No . 497 . Oct . 1 .. 1850 . " THE L E A P E B . 1099
General Home News.
GENERAL HOME NEWS .
The Court.—With The Exception That All T...
The Court . —With the exception that all the royal family continue . in excellent health , there is little to chronicle of matters at Balmoral . The Queen and her daughters visit all the picturesque places within a drive of the Castle , and her Majesty ' s neighbours are frequently honoured witlr a calk On Monday , the Queen went to Alt-na-Gussacfc . ( wherever that may be ) , and . stopped there all night The Count of Flanders , Lord Elgin , and the Duke of Richmond are gone , and there appear to be no visitors at the royal residence , except Sir James Clark Prince Arthur has been learning the art at deer-stalking , under the eye of that mighty hunter , his royal papa ; the Court Circular , we regret to find , does not record with what success . The Court is expected to leave Balmoral on the 12 th of October for Holyrood Palace , Edinburgh , where the Queen , will pass the night , and on the following day will honour the inauguration of the New Glasgow Waterworks , which are to supply that city from Loch . Katrinfi . Her Majesty will return to Edinburgh , where she will pass a second night , and proceed to . Penrhyn Castle , Carnarvonshire .
The Fhankxin Relics . —It is understood that the whole , or the greater portion , of the interesting relics of the ill-fated expedition of Sir John Franklin , brought home last week by Captain M'Clintock , of the Fox , will be deposited in the Painted Hall ot Greenwich Hospital , and will thus complete the relics already exhibited in that establishment s ^ having belonged to Sir John Franklin and others at the crew of the Erebus and Terror , deposited si lev years ago . Safety from Fire . —Messrs . Taylor and Grimshaw , of Southampton , have patented an instrument which is calculated to add to our comfort ana
safety . It has a variety of action ; perhaps its most prominent feature is its fire alarum apparatus . Its action is perfectly simple and invariable , either in a dwelling or factory , or in the hold of a ship . It may be set to any degree of temperature ; when that is exceeded it indicates the fact—first , silently , then by its loud ringing alarm ; or , if required , it discharges a powder cell , with the report of a pistol or a nine-pounder , as may be required , either to alarm the inmates of a house or the neighbours of an uninhabited mill , church , or other edifice . A second form of its application is a ventilator . For common purposesit may be set to any required temperature ,
, as may be needed for your chamber , conservatory , or barrack-room . When the required temperature be exceeded , the ventilator opens , and so remains until the desired temperature be regained . As indicative of heat , it acts in the same manner , and can in the same way be tested for sea purposes : a long tube arising from the hold of a ship , or wherever required , having at its summit on deck a simple dial , which shows at all times the heat below , giving timely warning and adverting the sad calamity of a ship on fire at sea . It is susceptible of a variety of other applications : the above are all easily tested and understood . The principle upon which this variety enclosure oi
of useful application is based is tho common air within an air-tight metal cylinder , having on its upper side a firmly-fixed diaphragm at india rubber , upon which rests the spring winch works the indicator , Tho enclosed air expands or contracts as the surrounding air becomes hotter or colder , acting in its expansion or compression on a spring which causes tho indicator to show ^ upon the dial the temperature obtained , and giving its loud warning when the duugorous degree has .. boon attained .
Citt Matters . — On Tuesday a Court of Common Councilwal hold , the Lord Mayor presiding . After the transaction of some othor business , thotol owing motion was made by Mr . Henry Harris - ~ " T at this court should not consent to any bill in Parliament having for its object tho bettor regulation of tho Corporation of London that does n <* W ° tootto * rights and privileges of livorymon of- this City . To this proposition Mr . Abrahama moved the prevIoub question , whereupon a discussion ensued , after vfhich the amendment was negatived , and tho original motion carried by 49 to 33 deputy WhWo then brought up a ronorb from tho City Lands Convmittoo touching tho 6 ontral Criminal Court , which , after some discussion , was agreed to , and sent Dacfc for oxooutlon . Before tho court rose it agreed to ^« nt afc tho roouost of the Lord May or , tho use of
tho Guildhall to tho London Rifle Brigade . Alderman Gabrlol , of Quoonhithe Ward , and Alderman Phillips , of Jfurringdon Ward Within , tho gentlemen * olootod to fill tho oflttco of sliorifTs of London and
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 1, 1859, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01101859/page/7/
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