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      Friday week , a lady , who attended the ceremony with her maid-servant , was robbed in the aisle of her gold watch -as she was leaving the church . The person who is believed to bave committed the robbery was examined at the Greenwich police-court last Saturday , and is under remand . BuKGLARY . ^ - ^ Henry Simpson and Henry Williams — the latter a ticket-of-leave man—are under remand at Marlborough-street , charged with burglary , and Williams with ^ n -assault on a policeman . The con stable , about one o ' clock in the morning , saw the iron grating of a house in Goodge-street pushed iip , and Williams immediately after made his appearance . He was seized by the officer , who sprang . his rattle ; but the . burg lar dealt him a fearful blow on the head with a life-preserver , and then made off . He was caught , however , by another constable , when it was found that he and Simpson Lad robbed the house , though they had evidently been

      disturbed in the middle of their operations . Outrage with Vitriol . —The sons of two tradesmen living at Church-way , Somers-town , were fighting on Sunday morning , when the father of one , a broker named Eobinson , separated them . Brett , the father of the other , who is also a broker , exclaimed , " Take that ! That will warm you , " and threw the contents of a tin pot filled with vitriol over the head of Robinson . The latter thought at first it was water ; but he soon found he was burning , and he was taken to the hospital by his wife , who was standing by at the time , and was also slightly burnt . Brett was conveyed to the station-house , where he said , " I am glad I have done it , and I hope he will

      die / ' He was brought before the Clerkenwell magistrate on Monday , when a certificate from the hospital was put in , certifying that Robinson , though doing well , was unable to attend . A solicitor , who attended for the defence , in cross-examination of Mrs . Robinson , ascertained that , for the last five or six years , her husband and Brett , who are rivals in trade , have continually quarrelled , and that each has been to the Clerkenwell court to complain . On one occasion , the son of the injured man was charged with throwing vitriol over the dress of the prisoner ' s daughter , and was tried at the Central Criminal Court , but was acquitted . The case was remanded till next Mondav . Bail was refused .

      Betting Houses . —Mr .. Charles Thorpe , of Barneslodge , and 124 , Jermyn-street , appeared before Mr . Beadon , at Marlborough-street , on an adjourned summons , which charged him with keeping an oflice at 12-1 , Jermyn-street , for the purpose of betting on horse races . Mr . Beadon said , " It is my intention not to inflict a fine , but to sentence you to two months hard labour . " Mr . Thorpe appeared to be quite overcome by this sentence . Mr . Abrahams ( his counsel ) gave notice of appeal , and applied for bail . Mr . Beadon agreed to accept bail , the defendant in 300 / ., and two sureties in 1501 . each . —Robert East , the landlord of the Rising Sun , in Charles-street , Grosvenor-square , has been fined 30 £ . by the Marlborough-street magistrate for keeping a betting-office in his house .

      Burglary . — The house of Mr . Pindar \ Y orth , a farmer in the parish of Scotherne , Lincolnshire , was entered early on Monday morning . Mr . Worth and hid wife were aroused by a noise and light on the staircase . They opened the bedroom door , when three armed men presented themselves . The burglars demanded money ; but at this moment the eldest of the daughters , who had been aroused by their mother , rushed between the thieves and Mr . Worth , and declared they should not hurt him . This baflled them for a time ; but they soon replied that they did not want to hurt him if ho would give up all he had . He said ho had nothing more than 11 . in the house ; and tins they speedily took . They then swore

      that they would burn down the house and sift the ashes rather than not get all . In answer to ono of the girls , they said they would go to Mr . Worth ' s bankers , and get his money there . Mrs . Worth had secreted her gold watch in the bed , but who was compelled by throats of rough usngo , which ono of the fellows began to carry into off ct , to give it up . Miss Worth begged that a locket containing some of her mother ' s hair , which was appended to a valuable gold chain , might bo restored to her , when ono of the men broke it utX the chain and throw it to her . On her remarking that it was broken , she was told to got it mended . She replied that she must take it to Lincoln . u Lincoln ! " said ono of the

      men , " whore's Lincoln ? Wo know nought about Lincoln . Send to Sheffield or Birmingham , and } 'ou can got all the lot back ngain . " Tho burglars then proceeded into another bedroom , tho boxes and jewel-cases in which wore rilled . While those operations were going on up-stuirs , another party of burglurs wore plundering the house bolow , and every pluco likely to contain rnonoy or plate or portublo valuablea of any kind was thoroughly ransacked . Tho burglars then regaled thomsolvcH in tho lardor , and some wino , tobacco , and ton , wero taken away . Finally they loft , uttering throats of vongoanco if thoy wore followod . Some of th 0 rufflaiiH have trinco boon arrested .

      Atxkmi'tkd Mukdisk . —A man of tho numo of Thomnn Andrews , described as a shoomakar , warf last Saturday examined on remand at tho Woruhlp-ntrooC poliuo-ofllco , on a clmrgo of attempting to kill a young woman named Louisa Duulton , to whom ho was engaged , to bo married . At tho previous examination , tho cubo wau loft in a very unsatisfactory utato , tho young woman being apparently unwilling to press tho charge against tho

      accused , saying that she believed he had fired the pistol without intending to do her any hurt , and that he had merely done it to frighten her , on account of her perverse and culpable conduct . The solicitor who appeared in court on behalf of Andrews spoke to the same effect , and , no witnesses being present to appear against the man , although the names of several were down on the chargesheet , the case was remanded for the necessary evidence , which was accordingly now gone into . The man and the woman , it appeared , were standing talking together one night near the canal-bridge in Margaret-street , Hackney , when the former , who had previously quarrelled with his sweetheart in consequence of having just seen her in company with another man at a public-house ,

      suddenly pulled a pistol out of his pocket , and deliberately fired it at the woman . She fell to the ground , and the man then ran forwards , raised her up a little , and kissed her , saying ' , " It is all your fault which has brought me to this . " He afterwards felt her about the head , and , finding that it was wet with blood , he uttered an exclamation of horror , let go his hold of the woman , and ran away . He was , however , pursued by a man who had seen him fire the pistol at the young woman , and afterwards given into custody . When brought to the station-house , Andrews confessed that he meant to shoot the girl ; that he had previously told her he -would

      do so if he caught her talking to any one else , and should certainly have succeeded in the present instance if the pistol , which was half-filled with powder , and contained a large bullet , had not burst , and flown out of his hand into the canal . He made a contrary statement to the magistrate , whom he told that he never intended to kill the woman , and that there was no bullet iu the pistol . Andrews was committed for trial . On hearing this , the young woman , who was greatly affected during the evidence , followed the man out of court , and was shortly afterwards seized with a fit , from which she was only recovered with much difficulty .

      Wife-Beating . —Danish Lynch , a shoemaker living in Great Wild-street , Drury-lane , has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment with hard labour for a savage assault on his wife ; and Henry Peach , a coal porter , has been sentenced to similar punishment for a term of three mouths for the same offence . Robberies and Assaults . —Thomas Bryant , a man who is believed to be a holder of a ticket-of-leave , was charged on Wednesday at the Thames police-office with stealing a waterproof coat and assaulting a policeman . He took a coat from a shop in Ratcliff-highway , but the constable , receiving information of the robbery , followed him and took him in custody , after a fierce struggle . When they were near the station-house , Bryant , who is an Irishman , made a murderous attack on the policeman , whom he brought to the pavement , and then

      attempted to gouge out one of his eyes ; but several bystanders dragged him off , and he was locked up , remarking that , if he could have got out his knife , he would have plunged it into the constable ' s heart . He was sentenced to six months' hard labour . —Thomas Johns appeared at Lambeth on a charge of robbing William Hassick , a sailor . Hassick was inveigled into a skittleground in the Belvidere-road , where he was surrounded by sharpers . He won several games for small sums , and then staked his watch and chain , worth 81 ., against what he conceived to be a 10 / . note , but which was in fact only a flash note . He was on the point of winning again , when Johns knocked him down . A fight ensued , in which the sharper got considerably worsted ; but , by the time a policeman arrived , the sailor ' s watch had disappeared . Johns was remanded .

      Maternal Cruelty . —An inquest was held on Tuesday evening , in Islington , on the body of Amelia Owen , seventeen years of age . The girl was a servant , bur . being out of place , lived with her parents , a porter and his wife . About nine o ' clock on Monday morning , Mrs . Owen was very drunk and making a great noise- in the street . Her daughter wanted her to come into the house , but tho mother flow into a passion , and beat her ovor the head with a whip , and afterwards with n rail . On Monday evening , the girl was seen struggling in tho water of tho Regent ' s Canal , and was taken out , and conveyed to tho Ryder Arms , New North-rontl , whore

      sho died that night . Tho jury found that death was caused by congestion occasioned by tho blows inflicted , tho submersion in tho canal , and subsequent mental excitement ; and tho following addendum was road to Mrs Owen : — " And tho jurors ox press their groat indignation and disgust at tho conduct of tho mother of the said Amelia Owen towards tho deceased , and their regret that , not boing enabled by law to return any vordict criminating her on account of her conduct to hor daughter , thoy are Avithoi . it tho power to indict any punishmont upon hor . " After this wan road , tho father of the girl turnod round to tho witnesses , and said , " You soo , you can do no moro . "

      MuiiDicit and . Sijioidic—Tho wife of a nhoomako munori KIMhoii , at . Bunbury , Chosliiro , lian drowned ho child / lvo years old , and then hung horHolf .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . A Military Confirmation . — On Sunday morning , tho Bishop of London attended at tho Royal Military ChupcJ , St . Jiuihw ' h I ' uric , for tho purpouo of holding a confirmation of oHlcora and privates of the rauimontu stationed at

      the various London barracks who had not previous , dergone that ecclesiastical rite . "vwusiy uq Review ax Chatham , —A . ( grand . review of tie whol « of the troops a » artered-at Chatham : took , place on wJ ° f nesday on ^ e Xines in ^ the , presence of the Oonmaiuierl in-Chief ; who expressed Jumself greatl y pleased at Hi conduct of the men . He inspected the -cavalry at CaktT bury on Thursday . " Troops for China . —The Adventure and Assistance iron steam troop ships , embarked their respective allot ! ments of troops for China on Wednesday , at Portsmouth These consisted of seven companies of the 82 d Regiment in the Assistance , and three companies of the same ami three companies of the 23 d Royal Welsh Fusiliers in the Adventure .

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      OBITUARY . General Sir . James Macdonell , G . C . B ., expired on Friday week . He entered the army iu 179 c , and was at the battle of Waterloo , being then a liciilenantcolonel in the Guards , and attached to Byng ' s bri gade He had charge of the buildings at Hougoumont , and held them so gallantly and successfully that he received the special thanks and acknowledgments of the Duke of AVellington . Mr . Robert Burns , the eldest son of the poet , and himself a person of much thought and acquired knowledge , died on the afternoon of Thursday -tveek at Dumfries , in his seventy -first year . lie was only ten years old when his father died . His remains will lie laid beside those of the poet in the familv mausoleum

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      • M ISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —Prince Leiningcn arrived on a visit to tlic Queen at Osborne on Friday week . —The Gazelle of Tuesday contains a notification that the Queen has consented to a marriage between the Princess Royal and Prince Frederick William of Prussia . —The Prince of Wales returned on Wednesday from the Lakes , and joined the Court at Osborue . The Infant Princess . —We understand tliat the christening of the infant Princess will take . place iu the middle of next month , the sponsors being their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent , the Princess lloyal , and Prince Frederick William of Prussia . The Princess will receive tho names of Beatrice Mary Yicturiu Feodurc . — Times .

      The Reviews at Spitiiead and Aldersiiot . —The total expense of the naval review at Spithfad amounted to 910 £ , and that of the review at Aldershot , on the lGth of July , 18 . DG , to 2577 . At Aldershot , tho luncheon cost 1051 ., special trains 11 GZ ., and omnibuses 3 ( 3 / . The bulk of the expense at Spitheud was in comestiUoj , as all persons paid their own fares by rail . 95 S tickets were issued for the accommodation of peers and members of Parliament . The Cape of Good Hope . —On the 1 st vi next June , and thenceforward , the postage upon let tors conveyed either by packet or by private ship between the United Kingdom and the Cape of Good Hope- will be reduced to a combined luiglish and colonial rate oi" GJ . for a letter not exceeding io / .. in weight ; 1 .-. fora letter exceeding Ao /« , and not exceeding lo / .. ; "is . for c

      letter exceeding loz ., and not exceeding 2 oz . ; and so on , increasing Is . for every additional ounce or fraction of an ounce . Tho postage of letters to the Cane uf Good Hope may bo paid in advance , or the letters may ho forwarded unpaid , at tho option of the sender . Literary Association of the Friends or Polaxd . —The twenty-fifth anniversary of the friends of Poland was held last Saturday at Sussex-chambers , Dukestreot , St . James's , the Marquis of Townsher . il in the chair . The report stated that the association had afforded relief in six hundred and sixty-six cases during tho year , and , after noticing a contribution of 100 / . from Prince Czartoryski and other largo donations ni behalf of the Polos , said that their attachment l >» t-licir nationality was never more intense than nt the present time . The document concluded by expressing « UO 1 ' that tho Poles would for the present direct their

      attention to tho social wolfaro oi their country . An Opposition Shop to Mi :. Si-ukoeon . —VU' uayo reason to believe ( says the Union ) that a plan wlllic publicly advorti / . ed in a few dnys , under the sanction ol tho Bishop of tho diocese , for holding a service « m Muiday evening *! at Exeter Hall ( Mr . Arthur Kimmmt m tho chair ) , iu order to rival the celebrated Mr . Kpnrtfoon Tho Uishops of Carlisle and Jtipon , Dr . M 0 > eilo , m « other inombors of tho evangelical parly , have piombeu their support as preachers . It is said Unit tho liiaii \ will bo used before tho sermons , in addition to tho iw «» extemporaneous prayers . Tjik Wkht Inoiwh . — Thoro is no intclllHciioo «'' K ' '" - ' ral interest in tho last advices from thu " l"l llul " : ; Tho islands for tho most part arc healthy , W >• 'M canos proiniHO a good crop , and trade is Bonu-wlisit l"laU

      than it had boon of late . > „ Tiim National Sunday Leac . uk has hold « «»« » n j at Coventry , at which , aflor houio clrtrionl I'l'l" ^' ;; resolution was carried , approving of Sunday c . shi 'in of a rollning and intollectual kind . ,, _ A JtaKNuit Invention Patkntkd iiv oriMl " , ' ml misnt . —Tho Abbe Pauvcrt ,, a Kronch cluruvni " ( Jhovalior of tho Lotion of Honour , han at l < -ii ( , 'Ui *>• ^ tho problem of converting English iron into htC 1 ' ' ; V Moulin , acting on behalf of tho nbb . f , lias nuuio iui »«

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      r 490 TH E IiiE A B E R . [ JSTo . 374 , Saturday

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 23, 1857, page 490, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2194/page/10/