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Committal of a Solicitor fob Perjury . — A special borough bench of magistrates assembled at Guildford last Saturday , for the purpose of investigating a charge of perjury brought against George Smith , Esq ., solicitor , residing in ' Southampton-buildings , Chancerylane The alleged perjury took place at the recent Assizes held at Gaildford , in the cause of " Smith v . Winder" in which a verdict -was recorded for the defendant . In , that , action , Mr . Smith swore distinctly that , before the bond was executed by Mr . ^ Winder , his son , and Mr . Wakeling , he read it over to them , and told them distinctly that it was given as a collateral security . Mr . Matthew Winder and Mr . William Winder , his son , swore distinctly that Mr . Smith did no such thing , and that they did not know the nature of the bond before they signed it , and signed it without having it read over to them , as they had entire confidence in Mr . Smith , who was their solicitor . ' The accused -was committed for trial . Bail , in the sum of
2 OIJ 01 ., was taken for ms appearance . . Middlesex : Sessions . —" William Und . erb . ill and William Smith pleaded Guilty to a charge of burglary at Stoke Newington on the 27 th ult . They were sentenced to ten months' hard laboxuv—Three young men , of the names of Cooper , Miller , aad Williams , also pleaded Guilty to a charge of burglary . They broke into a warehouse at Limehouse , and packed up a large quantity of articles ready for removal 5 but they were disturbed , and the police found them on the roof , pretending to be asleep . When asked what they did there , one of them , said very candidly that they were " a-thieving . " Judgment was deferred . —George Adams , a cabman , was found guilty of stealing fifty doubloons of the Republic of New Granada , -value 1007 ., and a number of other doubloons , value 3 s . 4 d . each , the property of a South American gentleman . The money was left behind in ^ tia-prisoner ' s cab by mistake , and Adams immediately drove -off , and appropriated the coins jjga ^ f ownuse . A friend visited him in . prison a $£ ptie was arrested , and promised that the gentleman rt > whom tha money belonged would cot prosecute if the doubloons were given up ; and Adams then stated where they would be found . A part was thus recovered . The gentleman , however , - was compelled to prosecute ; but he felt anxious to recommend the man to mercy . Having been already in prison twenty-seven days , he was sentenced to one month's hard labour . —Patrick Carroll was found guilty of an indecent assault on Emma LufF , a girl under fifteen years of age . He induced the girl to stand on a dust-bin in the garden of her parents ' house , he himself being on a ladder placed against the wall of the next garden , belonging to his own house . He then took improper liberties -with her ; and , upon lier resisting , he forced down her throat a drink which appears to tave contained aconite . Directly after she lad swallowed it , her feet became numb , fire seemed to flash from her eyes , her head whirled round , and she fell 4 own heavily , lier head coming in contact with something which caused a severe contusion . She became in-Sensible , but ultimately she found herself in Carroll ' s T > ack parlour on a bed , and here the assault was committed . On . endeavouring to make a noise , he said he "would poison her if she was not quiet , and he tried to force a handkerchief into her mouth . She was at length found in a closet by her sister , to whom also Carroll wanted to give some of the liquor . The defence was that the girl had gone voluntarily to the house , and had been there seized with hysterics , and that all the rest was false . The prisoner was sentenced to ten . months ' hard labour . The case occupied the whole day . —Two women were charged with cheating the parish authorities ; in the one case by obtaining relief ¦ while the accused was in receipt of assistance from another parish ; in the other case , by borrowing a child to stand in the place of one of the / woman ' s own offspring which had died , and on account of -which she had been enjoying an allowance . The first case failed for want of sufficient legal evidence ; the woman in tlie second case pleaded Guilty , and , having already been in prison three weeks , was only sentenced to a further confinement of the like duration .
A Fbjialb " Utterer . "—A woman , named Mary Jones , hns been committed for trial on threo charges of uttering forged cheques . A SwIndx > er on a Larc ; io Scale . —George Brownman , otherwise Browne , a person of colour , describing himself as a surgeon just returned from India , and in the Hon . East India Company ' s service—the latter representation , being totally untrue—has been committed for trial , charged with various frauds and robberies . , Ho ¦ was paying his addresses to a young lady , with whom , on their marriage , ho proposed to go back to India ; and hia system appears to hare been to victimize several tradesmen by false representations and false cheques . Thb Society foii the Phevuntion op Ckwelty to Akimalb . —The charges made in the course of last ^ ° ? i [ w » ldhall against some of tho Sodoty ' s con-BtaDiea have boon thoroughly investigated by tho com-WndCua ^ M 8 Ult l 8 ' that tWOOf thcolIicers hav 0 ^ S 3 s £ SSft = Sapaeid , a glws-engraw , m a court turning Jut of
Bruton-street , Haymarket . An Albert chain , worth 27 ., : ' was taken away ; but the groans of Mr . Sapseid attracted the attention of the police , and the two men who had perpetrated the outrage were taken into custody , each protesting his innocence . At the station-house , and again before the Marlborough-street magistrate , one of them admitted that he had ' done the job , ' and asserted that the other was ignorant of the whole affair , ; and had been mistaken for-another man . Both were committed for trial .
Vy . AiM . UMci up Ai = ii 4 i « vi ^ o . . a . luuueiy uaviu ^ LUiieil place , about a month ago , at the warehouse of Mr . William Walker , draper , of Longwood , near Huddersfield , from which eleven pieces of cloth ,, value 1007 ., were stolen , the proprietor offered a reward of L 07 . for the apprehension of the thieves . The superintendent of the county constabulary , therefore , made an investigation of the matter , and , being led to conjecture that the stolen property had been secreted under cover of a false roof , he examined , in company with a police sergeant , all the false roofs of the district . He ultimately ascertained that the cloth was placed in the false xoof of Quarnby School , which was occupied by the Independents as a place of worship . Without communicating the discovery to any one , he from that night commenced a watch , stationing his nien . in a barn opposite the school . The watch was continued without intermission until the night of Wednesday week , when , about halfpast eleven o ' clock , two men came into the barn where the watch was stationed to search for a ladder . Not being able to find one they got a long plank instead , and being at this time joined by four more of their gang , they set one of them to watch in the garden , close to where the constables were concealed , while the others picked the lock of a door , and entered the house . They then placed the plank against the trap-door in the roof , no doubt intending to slide down the cloth which was hidden above . One of the constables being troubled with a cough , another went to give him a lozenge , and it is supposed that the watching burglar savr them , for he ran towards the school and shouted ' All away !' The constables ran to the school and met the five men just coming out . One of them was knocked down by a blow on the head from the staff of the superintendent , and was at once secured . Another had a desperate struggle with one of the constableSj but three other officers coming to his assistance , the thief was finally captured . The other four escaped . Two of them , however , were afterwards traced out and apprehended—one at Bradford and the other at Wibsey Slack . Wife Beatixg . — A bricklayer ' s labourer , named James Styles , lias been sentenced to a month ' s hard labour for assaulting his wife . He defended himself by bringing a counter-charge against his wife of pursuing a disgraceful traffic in the streets , contrary to his expressed wishes , and of haying , on the occasion in question , assaulted him ; but this was disbelieved . The Sorrows of a Ticket-of-Leavh Man . —A young man , who gave his name as George Everett , was placed at the bar of Guildhall , before Alderman Challis , charged with stealing a clock , value 107 ., from a mantelpiece in the board-room of the New Zealand Company's offices , No . 9 , Broad-street-buildings . He was shown to be an old offender j and was remanded . Shortly afterwards , however , he made an attempt to liang himself ; and , u&on being brought up ngain , he said , in answer to questions , that he had striven hard to obtain an honest living , but had not been able to get much ivork . When he had got into situations which he expected to be permanent , he was followed by tho police , -who informed his master that he was a cpnvicted felon , and he was consequently compelled to leave them . Ho did not complain of . the City police , but of the metropolitan . Tho summoning- officer and the gaoler of the court confirmed this testimony . The Alderman said the police were not justified in volunteering information against ticket-of-leave men ; they were only bound to watch them . The man promised not to repeat the attempt at suicide , and -was removed to a cell with some others . Subsequently , the gaoler was called by one of the prisoners , who said ho was afraid Everett was about to make another attempt upon his life , as he had taken his braces off , and was tying knots in them . They were tnken from him , and a cab was at once procured , in which he was conveyed to Newgate and placed there under strict surveillance . Ultimately ho said ho would destroy himself ; if prevented one way , he would do it another .
Retukn Tickets not Transferaiim ? :, —John Long , a resident of Leicester , has been fined twenty shillings by tho Marylebono magistrate for endeavouring to ride on the London and North-Westcrn Kailwny without paying his fnie . Ho was ofTercd half of a return ticket by a man who had been travelling on tlio line , mid ho purchased it for 2 s . Cd ., tho proper faro being 11 s . G& . Immediately afterwards , he was taken into custody . Tho practice of selling return tickots , it seems , is carried on to a great extent . Tho prisoner had in his possession 1 / . 12 a . 6 cl ., a gold watch , chain , &c , At tho police court , ho pleaded ignorance of tho law . Mr . Bingham observed that ho believed ho had some misapprehension of tho law , or ho would have fined him the full penalty . SnoruiJTiNa . — Jolinnn Forkolow , alias Edward Morkzccks , a well-dressed man , who described himself
to be a lieutenant of the German Legion , and Anne Sabine Bolow , a middle-aged woman , who stated herself to be the- wife of a colonel in the same service are " under remand at Southwark , charged with stealing silk and other property at various shoos At Lambeth , a respectable-looking woman , giving the name of Hannah Mann , stands charged with stealing a bracelet from a jeweller ' s stall at the Crystal Palace , which she ingeniously abstracted -while leaning over the stall pretending to admire a brooch . She also is remanded . The Supposed Murder at Hampton Cotjht —/ The adjourned inquest on the body of Lrewis Solomons the man whose corpse was discovered in the Thames ' near Hampton Court , was concluded on . Wednesday . As soon as the jury had been reassembled , the coro ner said that the information which had been given to a police inspector , respecting the deceased man having been seen on the night of the day on which he left home , had turned out to be incorrect . It must have been on ' the Thursday previous . The coroner further said ttat the stomach and intestines had been sent to Mr . Rogers of St . George's Hospital Medical School , with a view to discover by analysis whether any narcotic poiso n had been used that might have destroyed life , and that gentleman had reported that nothing of the kind wa 3 to bs found . After an elaborate summing up ( which was in favour o * a verdict of suicide , committed in a state of raving madness ) , the jury retired to a private room for about twenty minutes , when they returned into court with a verdict to the effect that thcywere unanimously of opinion that Solomons had died , in consequence of wounds caused by a pistol-shot , but whether sued wounds had been inflicted by himself or some other person there was not sufficient evidence to show . The Money-lending- Trade . —A very extraordinary case of bankruptcy has been made public . The affairs of William Tyson , late a corn merchant in Liverpool , were investigated before Mr . Commissioner Perry at the Bankruptcy Court in that ; town . It appeared that , during five years and a half , for which tame the bankrupt had carried on his business , his profits had amounted to 36357 . 2 s . lid . In the course of tie same period , lie had paid . 110 less a sum than 40727 . 17 s . 4 d . for interest on loans to a man named Pemberton , besides a smaller sum of 1857 . 5 s ; ' 103 ., for law expenses in his capacity as attorney . The usual interest paid by Tyson to Femberton was at the rate of seventy-two per cent , per annum ; but on some transactions even that monstrous rate had been exceeded . Peraberton's account alone was for 20 , 0007 . In it there was one charge for interest on money lent at no less a rate that one hundred and twenty per cent , per annum . The entry in Pemberton's account stands thus : — " 1 st of April , 1552 , lent you till the 13 th hist . 1007 . My -charge , 57 . " Another entry records the loan of 1007 . for four days , Pemberton's charge for the accommodation being 27 . Again , 37 . is charged for the loan of 1007 . for a week . The consideration of the case was adjourned for three weeks . — Times . . .
A Hakoing Exhibition . —The following is a copy of a placard which was extensively circulated at ' the recent races at WUtnslow : — " Wilmslow Races , September 2 nd and 3 rd , 185 C . John Fletcher , King ' s Head Inn , feels great pleasure in announcing to his numerous friends and visitots to Wilmslow Races , that he has secured tbe services of John Smith , ' of Dudley , the executioner of the late William Palmer , at Stafford ; and also been fortunate , through a friend , of procuring from Liverpool a cast of his face and features , forming an exact model of the culprit , dressed in corresponding clothes , as he appeared on the morning of execution . There will be the scaffold and beam , with a company of trained officials , who will perform and go through tho ceremony of Hanging twice each morning of the races . Performance commencing at ten and twelve o'clock . Admission Is . each , Od . to be returned in refreshments . "
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . The Amnr Kbductions . —The rules for placing tlie army on a peace footing have been published during tlie week . We Biibjoin the main features of the s « hemc from tho summary presented by the Globe , which states that " on the 1 st of October each of tho Crimean battalions , forty-nine in number , -will bo reduced in round numbers from 1500 or 1600 to 1100 men , of all runks below that of commissioned officers . " Tlie manner of the reduction will be such that " no good soldier -will bo lost to tlie country until all men below tlio old standard height of five feet six , all men physically unfitted for service , or whoso constitutions are likely to render them hereafter ineffective , and all men of incorrigibly bad . character , aro got rid of . To tho 49 battalions comprised in this category arc to bo added 88 who wore not in tho Crimea . Thus , exclusivo of tho corps on tlie East India establishment , our infantry force at home and in tho colonies wll
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 13, 1856, page 872, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2158/page/8/
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