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Denis ' house ; but those noblemen were in court , pre- pared to deny that Assertion . He had written to several noblemen and gentlemen , making similar demands ; and he had instructed a man named Barry , calling himself a solicitor , to inform them that he was in possession of the visiting book at Madame Denis ' s , and that he found their names down . This , in many instances , appeared to be false . A verdict was given for the Marquis of Bath .. Campbbli , v . Corley . — -This case was tried on Monday in the Court of Queen ' s Bench before Lord Camplell and a special jury . The charge against Mr . Corley was that , on the 11 th of December , 1849 , he delivered
to the superintendent registrar of Marylebone a false notice of a marriage about to be solemnized between him and Mrs . Con 3 tantia Campbell ( a widow ) , for the purpose of procuring the marriage ; and that he made some other false representations with the same view , one , for instance , to the effect that Mrs . Campbell was only sixty years of age , whereas she was alleged to be at least eighty . Lord Campbell instructed the jury that , as the prosecution had not been commenced within three years of the alleged offence , it could not be sustained ; and the defendant was therefore Acquitted .
The CjML ,-D-Mtnu > ER in Walwoeth . —A further examination of Bacon and his wife on this charge took place on Wednesday at Lambeth , when the case was strengthened against the man , and both were once more remanded . The wife again carefully avoided meeting her husband ' s gaze . Accidental Poisoning . —Joseph Burroughs , a young man employed by Mr . Budd , a chemist at Brompton , was on Thursday tried at the Central Criminal Court for the manslaughter of William Marcooley . The death « nsued-ftom a mistake committed by Burroughs , who gave prussic acid for castor oil . The jury Acquitted the accused , on the ground that the substitution was not wilful ; but they accompanied their verdict with an expression of strong reprobation of the careless manner in which poisons were generally dispensed .
The Trial of John Paul . —John Paul , the person charged with forgery and stealing orders for the payment off money , the property of the City of London Union , was on Thursday tried at the Central Criminal Court . Our readers are already in possession of the facts of this case . The defence ( by Mr . Serjeant liallantine ) turned upon a point of law , and also on the assumption that Paul only intended temporarily to apply the money to his own uses , and then return it by cheques of iiis own . Mr . Justice Wightman told the jury that , if they were satisfied that Paul , at the time he paid the Union , cheques into his own banker ' s meant to appropriate the proceeds , they were bound to convict him . He was accordingly found Guilty , and sentenced to fourteen years' transportation . This sentence he received ¦ with great composure .
Thb ALtKGKi > Manslaughter at Leeds . —The inquest -on George Bedford has been held before Mr . A . Horsfall , deputy coroner , when , after the examination of several witnesses , the jury returned the following vei'dict : — " That the deceased died from the effusion of blood on the under surface of the brain , by the rupture of an artery ( the large artery which supplied the brain ) , caused by the struggle , combined with the effects of liquor and passion . " Bird was immediately afterwards discharged from custody .
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . Shipwrecks . —^ The Preach sloop Honorine , Captain Letoy , was wrecked on tli « 26 th of January when twenty miles south of the Isle of Wight ; but the crew , consisting only of four men , escaped in the boat . However , they suffered greatly from want of food and from the cold ; and they would probably have perished but for the assistance afforded by the brig Amolie , from Dieppe , of and for Newport . Mr . Jenkins , the master , fed and clothed the unfortunate Frenchmen , took thorn into
Pland Clothing , and the salary attached to the former office is saved to the public . Mr . Ramsay , who has hitherto been Assistant- Director-General of Clothing , will be Assistant-Director of Stores and Clothing , and , in consequence of the amalgamation , will undertake other duties connected with army stores generally in addition to those hitherto performed by him . Sir Thomas Troubridge is appointed Deputy-Adjutant-General , and , undertime directions of his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief , will perform the multifarious duties connected with the arrangement for the patterns of clothing , accoutrements , and necessaries supplied to the troops , and those purely military duties formerly undertaken by the Board of General Officers .- — Times . The Factory Department op "Woolwich Dockyard . —A reduction of one-third of the officers and men of the factory department at Woolwich has been commenced . The Factory Pay Office is to be merged in the General Pay Office of the Dockyard .
A Young Gojimander . —The brig James , of Leith , has been navigated across the Atlantic by a boy of fifteen , assisted only by coloured , seamen , her captain and crew having all died of yellow fever at Dernerara , with the exception of the lad himself , the cook , and mate . In the course of the voyage the mate fell from the yard , and was killed .
y mouth Sound , and put them in charge of their consul . A French vessel , last Saturday morning , ran ashore " the eastward of Rye harbour , and went to pieces . Only ono out of a crow of six persons was saved . —A aad calamity happened at Wick last Saturday night . The goods and passenger boats of the steamer were overtaken by a sudden rise of the sea , driven from their anchorage , -and wrecked . Six men , live of them leaving widows and , families , were drowned , ami the goods , consisting of valuable merchandise , -were waahed ashore .
WuEoica ust January —Two hundred and eighty-six vessels were wrecked during the month of January just concluded . J J RicoitoANiZATiON or the Wau-offici :. —• The arrangements connected with the organization of the War-ollice arc now completed , and the offices of Clerk of the- Ordnance , Deputy Secretary-at-War , and Director-General of Aimy Clothing have been abolished . Colonel Mundy has been appointed Governor of Jersey , ' and Sir Benjamin llawea , the late Doputy-Secretary-at"VVnr , becomes the permanent Undor-Secretary of State ; Mr . Godley , the lato Director-Goneml of Stores , in appointed Assistant Undcr-Socrotary of State ; Sir Henry Stories , K . C . B ., is appointed Secretary for Military < Jorroepondonco ; Captain Caffin , at present Naval Direcfcor-Oonoral of Artillery , in appointed Director of Storua
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The Income-tax Movement . —Further meetings have been held at Berwick , Morpefch , Congleton , Worcester , Weston-super-Mare , and Chelsea . Bankruptcy of Messrs . Sters aW Co . — -The examination in bankruptcy of Messrs . Syers , Walker , and Co ., who failed in the India trade on the 4 th of last April , with debts for 146 , 000 / ., was adjourned on Monday . The balance-sheet has been prepared , but , under the advice of the official assignee , it has not been filed , accounts continuing to be received which alter the position of the estate . About 7000 J . or 80007 . are in hand , and a hope is expressed that a dividend of about 2 s . in the pound may be declared at the expiration of two months . PbesiA . —According to a despatch from Constantinople , Haidar Khan , at the head of a cavalry brigade , has taken Furrah , and is advancing to attack the Persian army under Murad Khan . An English division ,
under Sir John Lawrence , is said to be marching towards Candahar . This latter piece of intelligence , however , is a mistake , inasmuch as Sir John Lawrence is a civilian , and Commissioner of the Punjab . We believe Sir John has gone to Peshawur ( the extreme point , or nearly so , of our territories ) , where he expected a visit from Dost Mahommed . It is possible that , in order to do honour to the Ameer , he may have advanced some little way into his country to receive him , and thence may have arisen the blunder . It is quite certain that the civil administrator of the affairs of the Punjab cannot be the General in command of an army . —According to the French Moniteur de I'Armee , the most important province of Afghanistan has declared for the Shah , as well as the whole of Candahar ; and the tribes of the Douranecs'have . sent a deputation to Teheran , and offered their homage to the Persian sovereign . These statements must be received with , caution .
M ISCELIANEOUS , The Court . —The fourth dramatic performance at Windsor Castle , which consisted of Richard II , took place on Thursday evening . The Turner Watee-coloub Drawings . — One hundred water-colour drawings by Turner were privately exhibited , at Marlborough House last Saturday . " Big Ben" of Westminster , and the Big Clock . — " Big Ben" was tried last Saturday , when it sounded for several hours . The four quarter bells are on the point of being cast , and all five will shortly be elevated to the top of the tower . The great clock has also been made ; but , owing to a sort of Crimean blunder , it was made before the bells , notwithstanding that the Government was advised not to do so ; and the result is that the machinery is not strong enough for the bells , and must be altered .
Fires . —A very destructive fire broke out last Sunday evening on some large premises in West-street , Goldensquare , occupied by a milliner and piece-broker . The plugs were frozen tight by the extreme cold of the weather , and the delay in obtaining water caused the fire to get a complete mastery over the house . A man rushed into som e of the rooms , and rescued a woman and child , though he had to pass through a great deal of fire and smoke to do so . The engines having arrived , the flames were got under by half-past ten . —The ancient parish church of Wallasey , on tire Cheshire side of the Mersey , was totally destroyed by fire on Sunday morning . The catastrophe is supposed to have been caused by the overheating of the flues .
The British Bank Establishments . —The Strand and Holborn branches of the British Bank were sold on Tuesday ; the former for G 10 O / ., and the lease of the latter for 210 / . The Prince of Walks has been out bunting in the neighbourhood of Windsor ; and of course all ilunkeydom is in ecstasies of delight at his admirable way of ' taking the fences . ' The Wbather . —Notwithstanding a thaw which set in last Saturday , a great number of persons , on Sunday morning , on the strength of a return of the frost , ventured on the ice iu the parks , and several fell in , but no fatal cases occurred . Other ice accidents of the usual kind also took place . On Monday there was another slight thaw ; but the cold increased on Tuesday , giving place to a further thaw on Thursday , which continued all through yesterday .
biiAKSPisARE s House . —A meeting of the trustees of Shakspeare's house has been held at Stratford-upon-Avon , when several tenders were received for the demolition of the houses and cottages which surround the birthplace of the poet . The work will be effected through the munificence of Mr . John Shakspeare . The tender of Mr . William lloltom was accepted , and a contract entered into for the removal of the premises within one month . Tuic East Indlv Company . —Sir Frederick Curries will succeed to the Deputy-Chairmanship of the Court of Directors of the East India Company at the next election .
The Licensing System and the Billeting of Soldiers . —A deputation from the Liverpool licensed victuallers has waited upon Mr . W . lirown , M . I * ., Mr . J . C . Ewart , M . P ., and Mr . J . lirainley Moore , M . P ., with reference to these objects ; and each of those gentlemen expressed their disapproval of the proposed bill to throw open the trade of tho licensed victualler . This Last of an Olw Family . —Edward Joseph Canning , Esq ., the la . sfc male representative of . tho uneiont Roman Catholic family of tho Cannings , of 1 ' oxcotc , ia just dead , lie was descended from an ancestor of William Canuynge , tho founder of St . Mary licdclin ' e Church in Bristol , iu memory of whom our Turkish Ambassador haa received tlio title of Lord Stratford de ltcdclhlo .
The Political Dinners . —lords Palmerston and Granville , on the part of the Government , and the Earl of Derby and Mr . Disraeli , as leaders of the Opposition , gave their respective dinners , customary to the eve of the Parliamentary session , on Monday . Dr . Livingston , in writing to say that he cannot at present accept the proffered freedom of the city of Glasgow , mentions that he is engaged upon a narrative of his travels , and must get the work finished before the end of
April , as he has promised the Africans to visit them again in the course of the present year . But he adds that he shall certainly pay his mother another visit before leaving , and he shall then be happy to accept the offer of the Lord Provost , magistrates , and council of Glasgow . This will probably be about the end of April . The Liverpool , Chajibek of Coslmerce held its seventh annual meeting on Monday . The report , which appeared to be satisfactory , was adopted , and several speeches were delivered bv various members .
; The West Indies . —The mails for the West India islands speak of a continued depression of trade in Jamaica , and of an outbreak of cholera at Demerara , which , however , had not proceeded at any rapid or alarming rate , and was being held in check by energetic precautions . The House of Assembly at Barbadoes had met , transacted a few items of business , and adjourned for a fortnight . A great deal of > vet had fallen in Trinidad . The Council of Government had made a favourable financial statement . The health of the island of Grenada continued good-, the canes were in excellent condition ; and the cocoa planters were hardly able to answer the demand upon them with sufficient vapidity .
Ihe season at Carriacou has been unfavourable , and , though the island is healthy , the cotton crop is suffering . A most disastrous fire has laid waste the town of Gros " - Morne , one of the most important places of Martinique . The conflagration burst forth on Christmas-eve . A large number of houses , shops , and provision-stores have been swept away ; many families have been utterly ruined , and are almost starving ; and the town presents tho appearance of a vast encampment . The disaster is said to have originated in a child imprudently lighting some matches in a garret : the ' / Limes spread to a bundle of dirty linen , the house wns . speedily in a blaze , and it was found impossible to check the uiidchiuf until it had attained immense proportions .
Australia . — The Australian papers bring little news of interest besides reports of the death of three colonial celebrities—Mr . John Armstrong , of Grant county , Captain William Allen , and Mr . George Stevenson , justice of tho peace , and coroner of the city of Adelaide . The latter geutleman had been in the colony twenty years . He arrived out from England in nor Majesty ' s ship Buffalo , as private secetary to Captain Hindinarah , tho first governor of the colony , and was the first clerk to the Legislative Council , the first coroner , and one of the fir st bench of magistrates . Previously to leaving England , he had been connected with the " Globe newspaper ; and at Adelaide he set up tho first journal the colony possessed ; so that ho was not only regarded as ono of tho pioneers of the now settlement , but was looked on as " tho father of tho South Australian press . "
Alicia Racis . —The case of the child Alicia Race came before the Court of Chancery last Saturday , on an application for a lol ' eronco to chambers to approve of n proper person to bo guardian for the girl . Tlic case was postponed till noxt Monday , the child in the meanwhile to bo perfectly unrestricted in her religious devotions , and not to bo tukon to any church .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 7, 1857, page 127, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2179/page/7/
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