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      Accidents And Sudden Deaths. A Presbyter...

      with herself . Search was made on the following day near the place where the body of the child-was found , and the body . of . the mother was discovered , and was taken to the Turf Hotel , where an inquest was held the same day upon mother and child . It appeared from the evidence that deceased and , her husband had lived unhappily together , and had frequent quarrels . The 3 ' had some words on Monday , but not of a serious nature . She had afterwards left her home , and several persons had noticed her in the streets , going about in an excited manner , though not apparently intoxicated . No more was seen of her till she was found drowned in the Eden .

      .$6. 439, Atotjst 21,1858.] The Leader. ...

      . $ 6 . 439 , Atotjst 21 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER . 831

      The Assizes. A Breach Of Promise Case,-W...

      THE ASSIZES . A breach of promise case ,-which has excited unusual interest in the "West of England , came on at Bristol on Wednesday . The plaintiff was a young lady , named Miles , of humble birth , but of great persoual attractions ; while the defendant was Captain Magan , M . P . for Westmeatb . The love correspondence wa 3 of such remarkable length , that it had to be printed , and made a volume of considerable size . The curiosity of those present , however , was not gratified , for when the case wa 3 called on , counsel informed the court that the record would be withdrawn , as an arrangement had been effected . The terms of settlement were that the defendant should pay the plaintiff 20007 . and costs , and tlat all letters , & c , should be destroyed .

      Gatherings From Law And Police Courts. A...

      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . At the Lambeth , police-court , David Sullivan , an Irish labourer , was charged with biting off a large portion of the nose of Laurence Camidge . The prisoner and the irjtired man had been good friends up to Saturday night last , when a drunken quarrel took place , and the encounter that followed was described to be more like that of savage beasts than of human beings . The prisoner , in defence , said , Camidge commenced the fight . He was remanded for a Aveek . A homicide , the circumstances of > vhieh are Involved in some perplexity , occurred in the Uxbridge-road , Acton , on the 9 th instant . Two naval officers , Lieut . Clavering and Captain Miller ( according to their

      account ) , left the residence of the former at Bayswater , at ten o ' clock at night , for a constitutional walk . On their return they appear to have lost their way , and after wandering in a very lonely neighbourhood , and having observed several rough-looking men hanging about , they became somewhat anxious and on the alert . On regaining the high road they were intercepted by an apparently drunken man , who , after violently abusing them , sprang upon Lieut . Clavering . This officer states that in holding up a sword-stick which lie carried , the sheath or blackthorn stick came off . The man Ihen struck him with the sheath across the head and shoulders , each , time springing back . lie told him that he would defend himself with the sword . The man then

      sprang at him again , but this time he slipped and fell off the , path . Lieut . Clavering picked up the sheath and placed the sword in it . They walked away , and he remarked to his friend that he hoped he had not pricked the man . Before putting the sword in the sheath he looked at it and did not perceive any blood . After proceeding a short distance they met two men in a cart , and he told them to be careful , as there was a drunken man lying in the road . Ho then went home , and heard nothing more until ho read the account of the matter in the Sunday papers . He then immediately went to Sir Richard Moync ; and an inquiry resulted at the Hammersmith police-court ; the l > o < ly of a man having been found stubbed to the heart in tlio locality indicated by the lieutenant ' s statement . The deceased was identified

      to bo one John Gates , of James-street , Lisson-grove , and had been met , about ten minuted before the assault , dr unk , by a police-sergeant . Captain Miller had gone to Scotland . Liutit . Olaveriug was ' held to bail , himself in 200 / ., and u surety in 100 / . This magistrate said tliat there was nothing to have prevented tho accused from going to the Continent instead of giving himself up to the police . At present , the only evidence ngiunst him ¦ was that furnished by himself . A coroner ' s inquest has Binco been held , at which both Captain Miller mid Lieut . Clavoring were examined . Captain Miller corroborated » h friend's statement in every way , lidding , that hia conduct was most forbearing , and that neither olliccr li

      adtho least idea that the deceased wna injured , lie further sworo that Clavering did not draw tho sword from the stick . Tlio coroner bound them over to attend next Monday ; Cluverhtg »» 500 / ., and Miller * b 800 ? . —In a letter to tha Times , Mr . Clavering 8 ayfl ;—« j a <) lemnly declare beforo tho world , that I neither made a blow nor thrust at tlio unfortunate ^ A n . Tlio infliction of tlui wound was purely nccidontal , caused by tho deeciiHcd himself mailing- to close with mo in * tho dark , tho timo being neiu-ly JWdnignt , and neither moon , stars , nor gaslight visible . *« o flwonl-Htick is ouu -which I procured to carry at n'gut when abroad , where hoiuc tuich protection is ncces-**¦*)'> I never had it out beforo , « nd hud no object or intention whatever in taking it out witli me on tho night

      in question ; I merely did so because it was the first stick that came to hand as I was leaving my house to take the walk which has ended so disastrously . " The inquiry before the Coroner was resumed on Thursday . The jury returned an open verdict— " that whether the wound was inflicted wilfully or caused accidentally there is not sufficient evidence to prove . " Co vent-garden Market is infested with juvenile thieves who spend the day in plundering the dealers , employing their leisure in mischief of any kind that may occur to them ; and at nights sleep under the carts . One of these " town Arabs , " named Jones , managed to climb up

      to the roof of St . Paul ' Church , Covent-garden , and was making an effort to reach the hands of the parish clock , with the intention of putting the neighbourhood out of time , when one of the market beadles observed his movements , and quietly waited until he had descended . The boy , seeing that he was watched , made a hasty descent and a terrific leap , and bolted off . He was pursued and speedly overtaken ; but a number of his companions attempted to rescue him from custody ; an amide ensued , and the police were pelted with cabbage-stumps and offal . Three of the boys were sentenced to a week ' s imprisonment .

      A curious case was adjudicated upon by the Lord Mayor on Tuesday . A man who had not hired a cab , but who had ridden in it only a few yards , -was summoned by the cabman for the fare due on account of the whole time that the defendant's companions had engaged the cab ^ -a period of several hours . The Lord Mayor decided in favour of the cabman . At the Court of Bankruptcy , on the 17 th inst ., Joseph Bennett , of Bridge-row-wharf , Pimlico , contractor , passed his last examination without opposition . An examination meeting was also held in the case of Thomas

      Hutuhings , an extensive railway contractor , -who had been engaged in heavy works upon large public undertakings ; this was the seventh , application to pass , he having been eleven months before the court ; A strenuous opposition was offered on tlie part of the assignees , and a protracted investigation of the accounts was entered into , the result of which was that the bankrupt passed . A second-class ' certificate was granted to D ; M . Lyons , a general merchant , of Sydney , New South Wales ; and one of the third class to Francis Franco , a merchant , of 47 , Lime-street , and of Ladbroke ^ road , Notting-hill .

      At Rotherham , on Monday , the case of Mr . Eichard Sellars , farmer , summoned for " being on laud of the Earl of EfBngham in search of coneys , ' * came on for further hearing and decision before a bench of magistrates , of-which the Hon . and Rev . W . Howard ( brother of the Earl of Effingham ) was chairman . The case rested on the evidence of one of his Lordship ' s keepers ,, who merely swore to the defendant's walking with a gun through his own farm , and remarking on the " rabbits making bad work with the corn , and that he thought

      there would be no harm in killing a few of them . " For the defence it was urged that the farmer had a right to kill coneys , which are not legally " game . " It was further denied that Mr .- Sellars was in search of coneys , though he had a right to be ; he was merely there to frighten away the birds , which , along -with the rabbits , were greatly damaging his crops , and that he said , " I am . here to protect my corn , and if you came oftenei * to keep away the rabbits , you would be better employed than you sometimes are . " Tlie magistrates consulted together , and dismissed the charge .

      A person called Joseph ben Houhcl , who is said to have been an interpreter attached to tho French army in the Kast , having accumulated sonic property , was induced to purchase a considerable quantity of household property , chiefly at the east-end of London , and among them were several tenements in a plnce called Marlborough-court , Spitalilolds , inhabited by persons of the very lowest class of Irish . Ono of these tenants , named Peter Mucguirc , on the proprietor calling for sonic rent , violently assaulted Mm , striking him to tho ground , and otherwise injuring him . Tho Frenchman added , that this was not an unusual occurrence with his tenants . Tho Irishman was fined ol ., or Bix months .

      A man named James Barrett was , on Wednesday , lined five pounds for an indecent assault on a girl under eleven years old . Tho prisoner is a grocor at Limohouse , and had hireil tho poor child ( an orphan ) from tho workhouse to nurse his children . His wife and family being a way , at Gmvesoml , ho dosed the girl with beer and gin , ami shamefully abused her . In tho morning she escaped from his house , gave information , and proceedings were takon , which Tesultod as above . At the , Surrey Hussions , on Wednesday , James Hill , a sawyer , was convicted of assaulting a polico-conatable on tho !) th of July . The olliccr was brutally used by thu prisoner . Tho prisoner ' s only defence was that ha Wiis tipsy at tha Lime , and know nothing of tho nllair . Tlio chairman said such ivshuuUs must bo put a stop to , and that drunkenness was no excuse . He sentenced tho prisoner to twi-lve months' hard labour .

      At < ji < . ! cuwioh police-court , Ocorgo Poland pleaded guilty to a ehurge of forging a seaman ' s ccrtiticato of service , by which ho had incurred a penalty of 100 / . It appeared that ho had presented a ccrtiflcuto to tho Board of Trade on tlio tilth of January Iu 9 t , Btafmg that ho had served aa mate in the Littlejohn from Fob . 10 1850 , to Oct . 10 of tho Buino year . Such certificate

      would have entitled him to a certificate of service , as it happened prior to 1851 , after which an examination of competency would be necessary ; but it was found to be a . forgery , as he did not join the Littlejohn until early in 18 ol . He was fined 10 / . Henry Bunbury , the son of a deceased general , was tried at the Central Criminal Court for uttering forged bills of exchange . There had been some disputes between the prisoner and his relatives upon the subject of property , and at a time when he was in great distress he placed the name of the solicitor to his relatives as the acceptor to three bills of exchange , thinking that he should , by this proceeding , compel his family to do something for bun . The prisoner appeared to be under the impression that in so doing he had onl y committed a moral offence . He was strongly recommended to mercy by the prosecutor , and was sentenced to four years' penal servitude .

      Mr . Stevens , the stock-broker , was tried on Wednesday , for misappropriating a large sum of money that had been entrusted to him for the purchase of railway stock . He had been entrusted with about GO 00 J . to invest for trustees , and it appeared that he had invested a portion of that amount , and a sum of 47001 . was found upon him , leaving a deficiency of about 1100 / . That sum had since been paid over to the prosecutors . He was Acquitted .

      Criminal Record. Photography A Pouce Age...

      CRIMINAL RECORD . Photography a Pouce AGENr . — -On Saturday a fine male child about six months old was found in the Thames at Reading . A bag filled with stones wa 3 tied round its body . It occurred to Mr . John Peck , the superintendent of -the Reading police force , and also to the medical man who was called on to examine the body , to have a photographic likeness taken of the dead body , as a means of discovering the guilty party . This was accordingly done on Wednesday morning , and copies of the photograph were exhibited in different parts of the town . On the same afternoon the likeness was observed outside the police-station by Mr . Mortlock , the master of the Henley union workhouse , who recognised it as the

      illegitimate child of Mary Newell , who was admitted into the Henley workhonse in January last in a state of pregnancy , and was delivered of a male child on the 7 th of May following . Mr . Mortlock communicated his suspicions to Inspector Burton , of the Henley division , and the woman was apprehended at Ipsden on Thursday night , about half-past twelve o ' clock . To Inspector Burton she made a statement to the effect that between eleven and twelve o ' clock on Tuesday night last , whilst walking in the King ' s Meadow ( -which is near the spot where the body was found ) , along the towing-path , the child rolled out of her arms into the water . The magistrates remanded the prisoner for a week , in order that the case might be completed .

      Execution . —1 he convict Chernngton , found guilty of the murder of his paramour , his master ' s wife , was executed at Ipswich on Tuesday morning . He made a full confession , and expressed great penitence . Great exertions had been made to obtain a mitigation of his sentence , but tho authorities could find no ground for compliance . Tho scene around the gallows was most demoralising , the assembled youth cf both sexes vieing with each other in revolting mirth and profanity . Tni £ surrosEn Case of Bigamy . —Major Yelverton , apprehended on a charge of bigamy , was liberated front prison on Monday' on bail , which had been nixed at 1000 / . This proceeding has been allowed with consent of the Crown—the oflencc of bigamy being otherwise an

      unbailablo one by Scotch law . Major Yelverton , the second son of Lord' Avonniore , went through tho form of marriage in Ireland with Miss Longworth , an Irish lady of respectable family , and some private fortune , who had . formerly resided in Edinburgh , and had also acted as a lady nurse in tho Crimea , at the period when Major Yelvcrton was there on service . Tho marriage ceremony in Ireland was performed , it is understood , by a Roman Catholic priest , and theroaro more than doubts as to its legal eflieacy , Major Yelverton being a Protestant , although Miss Longworth had become a convert to tha Romish Church . Tho couple lived in Edinburgh , in the avowed character of man anil wife , which would

      constitute a legal marriage according to Scotch law ; and aleo travelled on the Continent as Mr . and Mrs . Yelvorton . In Juno last , Major Yelverton , leaving his supposed wife in Paris , came to Edinburgh , and on the 26 th of that month was married to tho widow of Professor Edward Forbes . Tho first wife , having got a hint of Major Yelverton ' a intentions , followed him closely from Paris , arriving cither immediately after tho hgcuimI marriage , or even beforo it , though unable to prevent itrf solemnisation , or perhaps to ascertain when and where it was to be performed . She ami her relatives took hucIi stops as lmvo now lod to tho an'cst of Major Yelvorton on the charge of biaamy .

      Central Ciumina.L Court. At The Central ...

      CENTRAL CIUMINA . L COURT . At the Central Criminal Court on Monday , Aloxandor Charles Horromci ) , mpid twonty-nine , who it will bo recollect oil as " Count" Horromoo palmed an account of un Italian confuroiict ) ( wliidi had only existed in bis own imagination ) on tho ' rimes uml Morning Star , for

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 21, 1858, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21081858/page/7/