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LAW, POLICE, A^D CASUALTIES. In the Cour...
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GENERAL HOME NEWS.
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The Couut. — The birthday of the Princes...
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Re-S*S"-I^M=Ra=E»Cpc«L" Volunteer Corps....
of St . Mary-le-Strand was held in the Hall of King ' s College , for the purpose of co-operatingr -with , the other parishes of the city of Westminster ia raising a corps of volunteers . A gentleman opened the proceedings hy observing that the meeting was one of the parishioner * of St . Mary-le-Strand , and not of the students of King ' s College , who were , he understood , about to " raise a corpse" for themselves . ( Great laughter among the medical students , owing to the speaker mispronouncing the word corps . ) If the parishioners were considered intruders , they would most willingly adjourn to their vestry-hall , and he teg > -ed leave to move a resolution to that effect . Tue resolution fell to the groun d , and eventually it was resolved to form two distinct corps , one for the parish , the other composed of the students , who will contribute at least 300 men . Subscription lists were opened , and Robert Low , Esq ., of the Strand , was appointed treasurer .
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Law, Police, A^D Casualties. In The Cour...
LAW , POLICE , A ^ D CASUALTIES . In the Court of Exchequer the case of "Swynfen v . Chelmsford , " on the question of misdirection of trial , is again in process of argument , and is not yet concluded . An action for breach of promise of marriage- ^ " Harris v . Thomas "—has been tried in the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday . The plaintiff was the widow of an innkeeper in Wales , and the defendant Was the son of a large landed proprietor , and on his father ' s death came into £ 2 , 000 a-year . Wealthy as he was he could neither read nor write . Soon after his father ' s death he married his cousinj and thus rendered impossible the fulfilment of the promise he had made to the prepossessing widow . Hence the present action- The jury gave . £ 1 , 000 damages . .
At the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday , Mr . Ernest Charles Jones , the celebrated Chartist , political writer and speaker , has passed his final examination . The Eev . Robert Maguire , a celebrity among the ultra evangelical Protestant Association section of the London " serious " class , has been accused of indecent behaviour in . a railway carriage . The " young lady " who was insulted , about whom a good deal was said in a mysterious manner in the beginning of the week , turns out to be a discharged lady ' s maid ; but it is right to say that , though . severely
cross-examined , nothing appeared to disparage her character . The alleged assault took place in the presence of other passengers ; and this and some other circumstances induced the magistrate to look in the best light upon the clergyman ' s conduct , and to dismiss the charge as untenable . The offer of the defendant to compromise the matter , which was sworn to , was taken as the natural impulse of a nervous man ; and great stress was laid upon the young woman ' s crinoline as the cause of this unfortunate mistake , by the counsel for Mr , Maguire ; the latter was accompanied to the court by a body of his admirers .
Mr . Day , the lithographer , appeared before Mr . Hall , at Bow-street Police-court , to defend a summons taken out against his firm , at the instance of the British Museum , involving a question of infringement of the Copyright Act . It was stated that a certain orthographic projection of the world , published by Messrs . Day , came under the description of a map in terms of the Act , and as sueh a copy ought to have been deposited in the Museum . The magistrate overruled the defence of Mr . Day 4
that it was a bird's-eye view , " and not a map , and inflicted a penalty of £ 8 , Dr . Sznethurst has been removed from Horsemonger-lane to Newgate , to await his trial at the Centra i Criminal Court fo ^ bigamy . His health has much . improved since the announcement of his free pardon . The trial will probably take * place next Wednesday , the 30 th , and rumour assigns Mr . Edwin James , Q . C ., and Mr . Sleigh as counsel for the defence .
A carpenter , named Billington , has been charged before Mr . Jardihe , at Bo-w > street Police-court , with mobbing a witness who had been giving evidence at the sessions Jn a case arising out of tho strike . The man was remanded and bail refused ,-A '' gentleman" was fined £ 4 , at Westminster Police-court , for smashing windows with stones , at one o ' clock in the morning- ' , in Belgravia . A ratepayer of the parish of St . Stephen ' s , Coleman-street , was summoned before the magistrate , at
Guildhall , for refusing to pay the ohigrch rate levied by the vestry . As the defendant objected that' tho rate was applied to other purposes than church repairs , the summons was dismissed . At the Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday the appeal of William Perham , a mason , was heard against a conviction and sentence of two months * imprison-TO 9 ^ t for intimidation , Tho evidence formerly 8 WJJ , neiore Mr . Corxle , at Glerkenwell , was reoapl-5 Sf ?*^ flj \« n & the case ably argued on both sides . Jn tpo ^ nd the conviction was unanimously confirmed oy a twi bench , ana the applicant was accordingly
committed to the House of Correction for two months . Mr . Edwin James afterwards applied to the Court of Queen ' s Bench for a writ of habeas corpus , that the defendant might be brought up and discharged on the ground that the cotmnitment was bad ; but that Court also on Wednesday delivered an adverse judgment on the motion . Mr . Justice Hill having reviewed the evidence in connexion with the Act in question , said the Court was of opinion that the conviction Was right , and refused the rule . Perham will therefore remain in the House of Correction for the term of the sentence passed on him . — viz ., two months . The Sheriffs of Xondon and Middlesex have received a further respite , until the 26 th day of December next , for the convict Annois , under sentence of death in Newgate .
Thomas Brooks , who has been examined at tho Mansion-house on a charge of forging an order for a cheque book from the London Joint-stock Bank , by means of which he is said to have defrauded many tradesmen , has been committed for trial . A seaman , named Francis Boland , was committed for trial on a charge of wilful murder , by Mr . Selfe , at Thames Police-court . The crime was committed at Lagos , jon the west coast of Africa , in the month of July , the victim being Edward Hyland , another
seaman . ^ A very important and influential deputation met the Premier and the Attorney-General on Tuesday , with a view to press upon Government the necessity of introducing a Bankruptcy Reform measure , based upon the same principles as the bill of Lord John Russell of last session . Lord Palmerston , while concurring in the general reform contemplated , remarked that those who read the newspapers would see that Lord John Russell had his hands full of the business of his own department , arising from the present position , of affairs in every quarter of the globe . Ths Attorney-General then proceeded to explain the principles of Bankruptcy
ceeded in burning his hands frightfully with the steel wires which served as flame conductors . The deceased was a strong woman , and rushed by his son and himself , although he tried to get a rug round her . She ran into the street , where in a fewmoments all her clothing was burnt off her person , hut her stays , and those a man cut loose . She was then dragged in again , where she died within sixteen hours . A disastrous boiler explosion occurred on Wednesday at the works of Messrs . Glydon and Shorthouse metal rollers , Eyre-street , Springhill , by which six or seven persons received serious injuries , and much valuable property was destroyed .
The fog on Wednesday is supposed to hare been the cause of an accident which occurred on the South-Western Railway , at the Fleetpond station . The driver of the express down train could not see the signals , nor were the parties at the station aware of the approach of that train ; for without any warning the express rushed past the station at a rapid rate , and ran into the back portion of a goods train . The collision was fearful , and it is surprising that the lives of a large number of persons were not
sacrificed . The locomotive belonging to the express train was broken to pieces . The tender and guard ' s van of the express train were also destroyed , as were likewise a number of the trucks belonging , to the goods train . It was found that although the passengers had received a terrible shaking , several were more or less bruised , no loss , of life had occurred . Some of the trucks of the goods train were heavily laden with timber , the weight of which materially assisted to check the impetus of the express train and thus prevented much further mischief ..
Reform in-a way that was acceptable to the deputation . The Premier also gives his word that the next session shall not be allowed to pass without some satisfactory arrangement for disposing of it . Sir Richard Bethell speaks of repealing all existing statutes , and replacing them by a single comprehensive Act . He recognises the important principle for which the mercantile community has so long contented , that while the legal relations of the debtor and creditor are things for the legal court to care for , the realisation and distribution of the bankrupt ' s estate can best be carried out by the creditors themselves . Of course , the Aftorney-General was compelled to speak with much reserve
of the features of his proposed measure , but if lie gives effect to the cardinal doctrine just noticed , and provides creditors in bankruptcy with every facility for administering the estates of bankrupts on strictly business principles out of court , he will have accomplished an important measure of legal reform . A telegram "received at Lloyd ' s states that the divers engaged at the wreck of the Uoyal Charter , recovered on Tuesday about 1 , 200 sovereigns . No bars were found . The weather being bad the diving operations were afterwards suspended . A number of tho young thieves who infest Covent-garden Market have committed , a robbery which has brought with it a condign and alarming punishment . It appears that a hamper containing
two jars of syrup of belladonna became an object of plunder , and , under the impression that tho stuff was liquorice , they helped themselves freely to it , upwards of eighteen boys having shared in tho booty . The consequence is that a number of them are seriously ill , and there is little doubt but that several . deaths will be the result . The inquest on the body of William Eaton , said to liave died from eating poisonous , sausages , was resumed this week ,, and Dr . Letheby , in reporting on Ms analysis , said he found the intestines to be in a state of high inflammation , caused by some powerful irritant , and sufficient to account for death . Another adjournment till Monday was ordered . At an inqnest held by Mr . Humphreys , on Saturday , on the body of an old lady who met her death '
at the Bow station of the North London Railway in getting out of a carriage , tho jury expressed an opinion that there was blame attributable to the company ' s servants . An accident of an alarming character , and attended with fatal consequences , has occured at . an extensive iron rolling-mill , near Wolvorhamptpn In the course of some alterations it appears that the driving wheel , of several tons' weight , flow in pieces , killing one man and injuring many others , and reducing the place to ruins . Another crinoline suicide has taken place at Hudderpfleld . The unfortunate victim o ? finery , named Sarah Steel , was dressing hor hair ueforfe the fire when her distended garments by an unltiotey turn ' were set in a blaze . A man in the house burst Into tho room to aid hor , but ho only suo-
General Home News.
GENERAL HOME NEWS .
The Couut. — The Birthday Of The Princes...
The Couut . — The birthday of the Princess Royal was celebrated at Windsor on Monday by a grand dinner and evening party , to which tlie Queen had invited a large number of guests . The Prince of Wales came from Oxford on Saturday to greet his sister , and returned to his studies on Tuesday morn-Ing . On Wednesday evening the first of the Castle theatrical representations took place , employing the abilities of the best actors of the Hay market and the Olympic . There were about seventy guests of the Queen present as spectators ; there have also been a great many visitors stopping at the Castle this week . It is" announced that , on the 5 th proximo , her Majesty and the Prince Consort , accompanied by the Prince and Princess Frederick William , and
their other children ' , will leave the Castle for Osborne . The Court will remain there until the 24 th , when her Majesty will return to Windsor for the Christmas holidays . The Prince op wales . —His Royal Highness has been , present at the debate on universal suffrage by the Union Society at Oxford . The Prince , in addition to his being a member of the Oxford University Boat Club , has also become a member of the Christ Church "Boat Club and the Christ Church Cricket Club . During the past week he visited Russell ' s Tennis Court and Tolley ' s Racquet Court , and played in each .
Loud Cowley . — The British minister at Paris has arrived in England , and has visited the Queen , nt Windsor , besides holding several consultations with the heads of the . Government . It is thought in many quarters that Lord Cowley visits England to confer with his Government on the subject of the naval and military preparations in both countries—some go so far aa to add that a simultaneous disarmament has-been proposed .. The Glouokbtbr Ejection Committkh . —J- '" 8 body-has resumed its sittings , not in the corrupt citv itself , but in a Committee-room of the House _
of Commons ' . Such witnesses as Sir 11 . w . Garden and SirW . G . IJfoy tor wore recalled and subjected to severe , but not xmjustiflable examination . Inese two individuals still persist in denying uny acquaintance with corrupt courses , and tho great advances vrliich Sir R . Carden gave were to hove boon , in Dm estimation , applied to purposes purely and entirely legitimate . Xot the defeated alderman acknowledges that his ignorance was acquired , or was rather , to speak more perfectly , the result of being determined not to have knowledge communicated to his mind . It was , therefore , a cunning and conniving ignorance on the part of this honourable
and upright gentleman . ., _ ,, The Stiuiu !! . —The Building News says : — "The master builders , although , as is asserted , thoy have held two meetings sinco our last , have not yoc ror turned a definite answer as to the withdrawal ox wo declaration , either tp tho masons , in roply to tnoir fresh propositions , or to the Conference , in reference , to tho Intimation that the strlko at tho establishment of tho Messrs . Trollopo ' s had boon wHlidrawi , It is stated , however , that a special genoral mooung of the mombors of tho Central Association of Master Builders will bo hold tliis ( Friday ) aftornoon , wtton
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 26, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26111859/page/6/
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