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fourteen , his servant . He was sentenced to eighteen m William Vincent was charged with stealing a watch ana chain , value 10 ? ., from Thomas Gilbert , a commer-53 traveller , whom he induced to enter a public house and to bet on the meaning of a word . Hew found Guilty , and sentenced to six months hard labour .
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A Vigilant Coastguardsman . — Three men , one dressed as a soldier , were observed , about four o clock on the morning of Friday week , by John Barnett , boatman of the Southsea station , to be lurking m a suspicious wav about the residence of Lord George -Lennox Barnett watched them , and shortly afterwards found that one had entered the house through an open window . He bade all three stand , or he would shoot them . Closing the window , he secured the one in the house , and then apprehended the other two . He next alarmed the family , and handed the men over to the police ; and the Portsmouth magistrate sent them to prison for two months each . .
The Adventures op a Silver Snuffbox . —A policeman , some evenings ago , saw a young fellow pick the pocket of a gentleman in St . John ' s-road , Hoxton . The prize was a handkerchief ; but the thief immediately flung it awayjjfldignantly , and walked on , apparently looking but for another chance . The constable picked up the handkerchief , and found it to be cottoncause sufficient for the lofty contempt of the depredator . Following quickly in his wake , the policeman seized the thief , and that moment felt something hard up one of his sleeves . An inquiry was made into the nature of this something , and it turned out to be a silver
snuffbox . The youth said he had bought it in Petticoatlane for thirteen shillings ; but this was manifestly false . He was , therefore , apprehended . A night or two afterwards the same policeman was asked by a gentleman whether he had heard anything of a silver snuff-box of which he had been robbed . From a description he gave of this box , it was evident that the one taken from the disappointed thief was the property in question . The gentleman was accordingly conducted to the stationhouse , and at once identified the box- On the theif being brought on remand before the Worship-street magistrate , he pleaded Guilty , and , was sentenced to six months' hard labour .
Ill-usage of WrvES . —Two cases of this nature came before the Southwark magistrate on Tuesday . In the one case , James Neehan , an elderly man , was sent to prison for six months for severely injuring his wife as the climax of many years of drunken ruffianism ; in the other , John Barton , a shoemaker , was committed for four months for striking his wife with a hammer . This case also was the complement of a long period of ill-usage . Homicide . — ' A woman named Alice Williams is under remand at the Lambeth police-office on a charge of killing Mr . Henry Rix , of Coburg-cottages , Neatestreet , Camberwell . She had a quarrel with him outside his shop on Thursday morning , daring which she threw stones at him , and attacked him furiously , from the effects of which he died almost immediately . Her motive is not yet known .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . An action for adultery has been tried in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , and has occupied two days , though the facts lay in a small compass . Mr . John Hudswoll is a clerk in the employ of Messrs . Quarles , Harris , and Co ., wine merchants . He and his wife appear to have lived on unhappy terms ; quarrels were frequent , and violence were sometimes resorted to by the husband to the wife , and at other times by the wife to the husband . Both was in the habit of indulging largely in drink , though each was under thirty . They lived at Edmonton , next door to the Messrs . Tilloy , coach-painters . The younger Mr . Tilley becamo intimate with Mr . Hudswol . ] , and in jv short time effected tho seduction of his wife . When
Mr . Hudswoll lirat suspected her , ho removed to Tottenham ; but she and her paramour used to meet at Woodford , Essex , and , -when Mr . Hudswoll was away from homo , at her own house . Tho fact of the husband being out was intimated to Mr . Tilloy by tho upper sash of a window being pulled clown . Tholover would then enter , and the servant maid would be sont out with tho child . Mr . Tilloy ofton remained tho greater pnrfc of the day , and ho and Mrs . I-Iudswoll sometimes liml spirits . Monday was tho regularly appointed day for mooting at Mrs . Hudswoll ' s own home ; Wednesdays and Saturdays woro tho days appointed for having interviews ot Woodford , whoro a room was engaged at u pnblic-houso . Mr . TUlo
y twice gavo tho sorvrtnt the magnificent sum of sixpence not to toll anybody that ho wont to Mr . HudswoU ' s residence . The wife ' s guilt boing nt length dourly aacortuinod , tho husband sont her homo to her father ' s , nnd commenced tlieao proceedings . Lord Campbell , in summing up , expressed I > ia rogrot that such an action as that for criminal convolution should over huvo boon known to tho law . It is attended with many objections—nmong others , that tho wlfo whoso roputiitiou is involved has no powpr of vindicating hor character . Ho hoped thin would bo the last action of tho kind ho should ovor bo forced to try . A bill to uboliah it had pabauiI ono Iloimo of tho Legislature , and ho trusted . " would aoon paaa tho
other , and receive the Boyal assent . —The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages , 200 Z . At the Court of Bankruptcy on Monday , a petition was opened on behalf of the assignees of the Royal British Bank against Mr . Loran de Wolf Cochran , shipowner and merchant , of South Sea House , and one of the directors of the Royal British Bank .
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NAVAL AND MIIilTARY . Siege Operations at Chatham . —The whole of the troops belonging to the Royal Engineers , and the East India Company ' s Sappers and Miners at present at headquarters , Chatham , together with the troops from the provisional , battalions and those of the Royal Marine Light Infantry , were engaged until nearly midnight on Friday week in some siege operations , together with a night attack on a strongly fortified . position defended by a large force from the garrison . A large number of persons assembled to witness this spectacle , which was of a very striking character . On the following morning , the tracings , and parallels were found to have been correctly made .
A Soldier Flogged at Chatham . —At an early hour on the morning of Friday week the troops comprising the Provisional Battalion , under command of Colonels Phillips and Jarvis , were marched to the Spur Battery , to witness the flogging of a soldier , George Garrett , of the 93 rd Highlanders , in accordance with the sentence of a district court-martial . He received fifty lashes with a great degree of bravado , and , on being released from the halberds , put on his clothes , laughing and swearing . He has been flogged seven times , and is marked with the letter D . He is also to undergo an imprisonment of one hundred and sixty-eight days in the military prison at Fort Clarence .
Atvmtrat . Lyons . —The Royal Albert , bearing the flag of Admiral Lord Lyons , accompanied by the Brunswick , Conqueror , and Centurion , screw steamships of the line , Ariel , steam corvette , and Vigilant and Osprey , gunboats , arrived at Leghorn on the 27 th of June , and the Wanderer , steam gunboat , on the day preceding . Loss of the Erin Steamer . —The Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s steamer Erin has heen . totally wrecked between Galle and Colombo . She ran ashore soon after midnight on the 6 th of June . No lives were l o st , and the mails and specie were saved ; but all the opium was destroyed . The passengers were taken to Madras by the Fire Queen . The Erin had left Bombay for China on the 1 st ult .
Fire on Board a Convict Hulk . —Smoke was observed on Tuesday morning issuing from the hold of the convict hulk Defence , moored off Woolwich Arsenal . Nearly three hundred tons of coals were on board , and these had ignited . The persons in the vessel were hastily removed to another , and a large body of water was poured on the flames ; but it was several hours before they were got under . Collision in St . George ' s Channel . —The Austrian barque , Grazidip , Captain Bessanich , on her passage down Channel , bound to Trieste , was run into on Tuesday morning off Holyhead , by the ship Carlyle , Captain Simpson , from Liverpool to New York , and sank in two minutes . She had a crew of ten men , of whom six were drowned .
Loss of the Robina Mitohell . — -The foundering at sea of the ship Robina Mitchell , Captain McLean , while on her voyage from Madras and Bimlipatam to London , with a cargo of rice , seeds , &c , has been reported at Lloyd ' s . The disaster occurred on the 17 th of May , the vessel at the time boing about a hundred and forty miles south of False Point . Tho mate , carpenter , and nino hands saved themselves in tho long boat , and were picked up a few days after the event . Tho master and tho rest of tho crew made thoir way to Pooree , where they arrived safely .
Tub Burning of the Montreal . —Tho Canadian papers are full of lengthened accounts of this terrible catastrophe , which we briefly notified last week , Jand byjwhich nearly three hundred Scotch emigrants have lost thoir lives . Tho Montreal Weekly Transcript says : — " If the statements of some of our contemporaries bo correct , the dironoas of tho calamity is greatly aggravated by its cause They assort—and many persons likely to know have borne them out—that the ship was always unsafe ; that she was run at a most reckless speed ; and that so
susceptible was she of taking fire , and so constantly woro her boilers overheated , that a person had to bo stationed in a particular part of tho vossol to give the alarm and extinguish tuo flames . " Tho same paper accuses tho captain and crow of having consulted thoir own safety without thinking of that of tho passengers , and says that when tho former was requested by ono of tho passengers to run tho boat ashoro , ho bado him go to — , — ; that tho steamer was not furnished with lifts preservers ; and that no efforts woro made by tho ofllccrs or crow to prosorvo ordor .
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MISCELLANEOUS , The Court . —Tho Duohoas of Orleans , accompanied by tho Count do Purls and tho Duko of Chart res , visited tho Qucun last Saturday afternoon , and also pnkl a visit to tho King of tho Bolginua at Buckingham Pulaco . — Tho Quoon has given a reception to tho Quoon of Oudo , hor Bon and grandson . —Hor Majesty received \ ho Quoon
of the Netherlands at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday . —A visit was paid to Alder-shot on Thursday by the Queen and Royal family . Various military evolutions were performed . The Prince op Wales arrived at Cologne last Saturday , and thence proceeded up the Rhine to Konigswinter , where an hotel has been engaged and fitted up for him and his suite . The Queen of Holland .- ^— The Netherlands'
Government paddlewneel steamer Cycloop , bearing the Royal Dutch ensign at the main , arrived at Woolwich , Dockyard on Tuesday morning at ten o ' clock , having on board her Majesty the reigning Queen of Holland , and her second son , Prince Alexander of Orange , at . tended by a suite consisting of twenty-one persons . Her Majesty had assumed the incognita of Comtesse de Buren , and the young Prince , who is only six years of age , travelled under the title of Le Comte Alexandra
The Marquis op Ely died suddenly on "Wednesday afternoon . He was in his forty-fourth year . The Poisoning at Hong-Kong . —Copies of papers connected with the confinement of Chinese prisoners at Hong-Kong , and with the trial of a certain baker and others on the charge of poisoning , have been published by order of the House of Lords . Mr . Labduchere wrote to Sir John Bowring on the 15 th of last May a confidential' letter , stating that reports had reached the Home Government that great hardship and suffering were inflicted on prisoners apprehended in the recent poisoning cases , no official intelligence of -which "had been received , and requesting to be furnished with ^ a report on the subject . New criminal proceedings will "be instituted against Allum and his confederates , if sufficient evidence can be got up to warrant such a step . —* . Times . et
Oxford Cm Election .- ^— Lord Monck mthe electors in the Town Hall , Oxford , last Saturday , and informed them that , finding it was the intention of a numerous and highly influential body of Mr . Cardwell ' a supporters to bring that gentleman forward , he ( Lord Monck ) should withdraw from the contest . The friends of Mr . Cardwell are now exerting themselves to procure his return . Mr . Thackeray , at a meeting of his supporters on Saturday evening , stated that the result of the canvass on his behalf had exceeded his most sanguine expectations . Mr . Neate , the late member , has issued an address earnestly recommending the electors to vote for Mr . Thackeray . '
Australia . —Lady Barkley , wife of Governor-General Barkley , died on the 17 th of April , at Soprak , from nervous exhaustion , resulting from a recent accouchement . Great sympathy was felt by all classes . The O'Shanassy Ministry had fallen by a vote of want of confidence , moved by Mr . Fellowes . The majority was 34 to 19 . The Governor sent for Mr . Haines to form a Ministry , but he declined , and Mr . M'Culloch undertook it ; and immediately put himself in communication with Mr . Michie and others . Business generally was improving , though there was no particular advance in prices . The convicts accused of the murder of Mr- Price , at Melbourne , have been acquitted . China that
China . —We learn by the last mails from the sufferings of the Chinese are frightful . Famine continues to increase in Canton and the interior . The gunboats have gone up the Canton river to attack the Mandarin junks . General Garrett and his staff have arrived . Tea was going down freely to Foo-chow-foo , whereall is quiet . A battle has been fought between the Imperialists and the rebels above Foo-chow-foo , and it ia believed that the Imperialists hate been victorious . Sir John Bo-wring has intimated that compensation for loss sustained by British subjects will be demanded from the Chinese Government . Another disturbance has taken place at Ningpo between tho Portuguese lorchamen and the Canton boatmen , tho latter of whom were assisted by some French sailors . Tho cause of quarrel is an attempt on the part of the Portuguese to monopolize the convoy j ing system .
_ . __ . The Late Trial at Edinburgh . —A clover contrivance was adopted for getting Miss Smith away from the court unnoticed after the conclusion of the late trial . Ono of tho agents employed in the case provided bimsolf with tho dress worn by Miss Smith on the previous days , and then inquired for a girl of about her height who would undertake to personate hor . A police sergeant observed that ho know a girl who had said , during tho trial , that she would give anything for a sight of the accused . This girl was produced , and undertook , in exchange for a sight of Miss Smith , tho gift of her dress , and a roward in money , to perform tho cliaraotor of tno Mtan Smith her
young lady . Sho was then dressed by - eolf , and was taken out by police oflicors and put into > a cab , which was driven off at a furious pace , followed by tho shouting mob , Miss Smith then put on a different dross and a coloured veil , and , accompanied by nor brother and another young gentleman , walked quiotiy away for somo distance ; then took a cab and drove to tho liluagow railway station , whence she vras convoyed by train to hor father ' s residence . Tho North British Jhilj , Mail , which tolls this story , routes a current anecdote , to tho effect that « l . o was asked , on the day of tho Lord Advocate ' s acUlross for tho Grown what she thought of it . Sho replied , » When I havei hoard tho Doaii of Faculty" ( her own counsel ) " I vr » U »«« v 0 » ' * never like to give au opinion till I have heard bottt
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No . 382 , Joty ™ 1 RB . I THE XBAP . BB . " 683
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Leader (1850-1860), July 18, 1857, page 683, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2201/page/11/
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