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      victed at a previous session of laving forged a label having reference to some patent baking powder . The conviction -was quashed in the Court for the Consideration of Crown Cases Keserved , the offence not being considered to amount to forgery . The prisoner nowpleaded Guilty to the charge of obtaining money under false pretences , and the prosecution consented ( considering that Smith had already been imprisoned some weeks ) to his being liberated on . entering into recognizances to appear and receive judgment at a future time , should he be called on to do so . John Seal ' , a brassfounder , was tried on a charge of being concerned with , some other men ( now undergoing sentence ) in a garotte robbery committed on the night of the 27 th of last July on a publican in Bear-street , Leicester-square . He was sentenced to fifteen years ' penal servitude .

      The Rev . George Katcliffe , a clergyman of the Church of England , was tried on Tuesday on a charge of forging the signature to a transfer , of stock ; and , being found Guilty , was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude . He appeared to be overwhelmed with anguish . Several forgery cases were tried on Wednesday . — Arthur Gramolt , a barrister ' s clerk , pleaded Guilty to three indictments charging him with uttering forged cheques ; and sentence was deferred . —George Wombveil , cattle-dealer , was found Guilty of uttering a forged 5 / . Bank of England note . For the -defence , an alibi was set up ; the chief witness for which , being asked in cross-examination if he had ever uttered any forged game certificates , said he should decline to answer the question . Mr . Justice Crowder , in summing up , made some severe , reflections on this man ; on which the latter attempted to address tlie court , saying that , lie " felt hurt" at the observations which had been made .

      The Judge said he could not help that , and ordered him to hold his tongue . Wombwell was sentenced to six years' penal servitude . —John Shield , a seaman , pleaded Guilty to a charge of forging an acceptance to a bill of exchange for 27 / . He was sentenced to four years' penal servitude . —John James Hall , a servant , was indicted for forging and uttering certain receipts for the payment of money . He was convicted , and sentenced to penal servitude for ten years . —George Hammond and George Barrow , stationers , were indicted for forging and uttering acceptances to bills of exchange with intent to defraud . Barrow pleaded Guilty , and Hammond was found Guilty . Both were sentenced to fifteen years ' transportation .

      John Jones was tried for the manslaughter of Thomas Blandell , near the New Cattle Market , Islington . Being found Guilty , he was sentenced to one week ' s imprisonment . —A Similar case , where one John Huston , a labourer , was indicted for the manslaughter of John Nelson , ended in a verdict of Guilty and a sentence of one month ' s imprisonment . Both deaths Tesulted from drunken quarrels after the parties had left publichouses .

      A boy , named William Selless , and an inspector of the Thames police , named Henry John Hanibrook , were tried for the manslaughter of John Thomas Bolton , a lad . The two youths were fighting , and Hambrook suggested to Selless to strike Bolton under the ear . He did so , and the boy almost immediately died . Both prisoners were found Guilty , and the hoy was sentenced to the nominal punishment of one day ' s imprisonment . Hambrook received a good character , hut was ordered to be kept to hard labour for three months .

      William Lakey , a mariner , was tried on Thursday on a charge of having wilfully sunk the Clipper , a vessel of which he was the master . He was convicted , and sentenced to eight years' penal servitude . Patrick O'Brien , the police inspector , was on the same day Acquitted of the charge of stealing two pieces of bacon from a shop-board . On hearing the result of the trial , he fell down in a fit . Louise Montet , the woman charged with robbing Messrs . Hunt and Roskell , has pleaded Guilty , and been sentenced to six years' penal servitude .

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      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW ANJ ) POLICE COURTS . The liability of husbands for the debts of their wives is a question which , has several times come before the law courts for decision . Tho Court of Exchequer has just delivered judgment in a case of this kind—that of Johnstone v . Sumner . An action was brought by a milliner at tho West-end against the defendant for goods supplied to hia wife . Mr . and Mrs . Sunnier were married an 1849 , and in tho following year separated by mutual consent , the defendant allowing "his wife 200 / . a year derived from her father . In 1851 , Mrs . Sumner waa introduced by her mother to Mr . Johnstonc , who supplied her with various articles of apparel in that year amounting to IGGl . Tho bills wore sent to Mrs . Sumncr through her mother , and no claim was made on tho defendant up to 1855 , nt which time his wife had gone to America , wliorosho had obtained a divorce , and married again . The defence at the trial was , that tho wifo had no authority to pledge her ^ husband ' s credit , and uio Judge ao directed the jury , who returned a verdict f »« n i . dofciulant - A rule nisi wan subsequently obtb « il T , ° . tl 10 Ve"Iict an < 1 for u now trial , on tno ground of misdirection . Against thi * mlo CnU

      had been shown , and the Court liad reserved judgment . Their Lordships were now unanimously of opinion that the wife , who had voluntarily left her husband ' s roof , had no authority to pledge his credit , and that the ruling of the Judge at the trial was right . The rule to set aside the verdict was therefore discharged . Henry Whetstone , Thomas De Puzey , George Cherry , Margaret Picket , and Samuel Benjamin , were again examined and remanded at IVTarlborough-s treet on Monday , on the charge of being concerned in the great robbery at Lord Foley ' s . The evidence was strengthened by the testimony of several other witnesses , including the driver of the cab in which the spoil was conveyed away . —Another man is also under remand as an accomplice in the robbery .

      Signoi Mario , the eminent vocalist , has been incidentally connected this week with a law case tried on Monday in the Court of Common Pleas . In September , 1856 , . one' Captain Cotton leased his residence , Park House , Fulham , for three years , furnished , together with the garden tools and implements and the services of the gardener , to Signor Mario , at a rent of 350 ? . aj'ear . A Dr . Beggi , an Italian medical gentleman , acted as a sort of manager for Signor Mario ; and at one time he made a complaint of Reeves , the gardener , to Captain Cotton , on the alleged ground that he had been talking to the maid servants and paying attentions to Madame Grisi's maid . The captain , having inquired into the matter , found that Signor Mario and Madame Grisi were well

      satisfied with Reeves , and that the charges were frivolous "; " for , " said Captain Cotton , " I should liave talked to Madame Grisi ' s maid myself , had I been a gardener . " The man , therefore , was not dismissed ; but Dr . Beggi appeared to entertain some grudge against him , and was not long before he found an opportunity of doing himan injury . Reeves was directed by Madame Grisi and Captain Cotton to sell some apples , and accordingly h e did so . Dr . Beggi -thereupon gave him into- custody , on a charge of having stolen the fruit ; but , after the case had been remanded at the Hammersmith ' Police-office , the man was discharged . Signor Mario was at that time in Prance . After Reeves was in custody , Dr . Beggi went to a man engaged in painting the

      greenhouse , and asked him if he had heard anything about the gardener , adding , " I have caught the thief , and will give him six months . " An action for false imprisonment wa 3 therefore commenced ; but , towards the close of the plaintiff ' s case , Mr . Edwin James ( who appeared for the defence ) said that with the assent of Signor Mario , who , "though not the defendant , would in all probability have the expenses to pay , he must express his conviction that the plea of justification could not be supported . There " -was no pretence for it , and he withdrew it with an expression of regret that it had ever been pleaded . He retracted altogether the charge of dishonesty ; and , with regard to the damages for the false imprisonment , his learned friend had assented to take a verdict for 10 / . . Mr . Justice Byles said that Signor Mario and the learned counsel had acted very

      judiciously and properly . A verdict was then taken for the plaintiff for 101 . damages . The Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes sat in full on Monday f *) r the iirst time , and pronounced in favour of dissolution of marriage in six . cases , four of which arose out of petitions by husbands against wives , while the other two were by wives against husbands . Among the former was one case in which the parties were in humble life , and the wife , besides committing adultery , had been addicted to drinking One of the cases in which tbe petitions were from wives was that of Mrs . Charles Horn , the actress and wife of the vocalist , whose husband had deserted her for some years , and had even been guilty of bigamy . —The Court has pronounced for a divorce of Mr . and Mrs . Tourlc , on the ground of adultery committed by the wife .

      A mother brought an action for ejectment against her son in tho Court of Queen's Bench on Monday . The son , George Bryan , kept a pork butcher ' s shop at No . 6 , Berwick-street , Soho ; and the mother , a Mrs . Twiner , was the lessee of the house . The arrangement was that Bryan was to pay each of his brothers 100 ? ., and his mother the same sum , for the good-will . The money , however , was not paid ; the brothers quarrelled ; and Bryan , the defendant , took sole possession of the pork business . Mr . Justice Coleridge directed the jury to find a verdict fox the plaintiff . Tho relations of a boy who was employed at a hemp manufactory at Poplar have recovered , 30 / . as damages for injuries received by ! the lad in placing some yarn in one of the engines . The machine was not properly fenced ; the poor boy w « s drawn in , and both his arms , besides one of Uis thighs , were fractured . The Irishman , who recently cheated some papers ' and gulled the publicb y pretending to bo an Italian and to givo reports of an Italian Conference > vliich never mot , lias been apprehended , and was examined on Thursday at Bow-atrect on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences from the Morning Slar . He was committed for trial , and bail was refused .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Movkmicnts ov Smi \ % &c . —Lord Lyons , in the Iloynl Albert , -with tho Centurion and Conqueror , has returned , pursuant to telegraphic order , from Corfu , and

      has been cruising in Malta Roads . The Princess Royal has left for Alexandria , -with 654 rank and file of the 57 th , for India . A reinforcement of 3700 Ottoman troops , in a steam line-of-battle ship and transport , passed Corfu on the 7 th for Kleck , on the Adriatic . Mb . Peter M . K . Godfrey , late Lieutenant on board the Formidable at Sheerness , has , by an Admiralty order , been struck off the Navy List , in consequence of his having deserted from his ship while under arrest in his cabin , pending a court-martial ordered upon him . Artificers at Portsmouth , &c . —The wages of the dockyard artificers at Portsmouth are to be forthwith increased one shilling per week . All the artificers at Sheerness are to be henceforth , until further orders , put on what is termed job and task work on unlimited earnings , and all labourers now employed , whether on the establishment or temporarily hired , whose weekly wages do not amount to 14 s . per week , are to have their pay- raised to that sum . All extra time to be paid for . A similar arrangement has been made at Woolwich , There the wages of 14 s . a week are to be raised one shilling . Capture of a Si ^ avbr . —The gunboat Jasper , Lieutenant and Commander H . Pym , has captured , on the north side of Matanzas , a full-rigged and fast-sailing slave ship , of 750 tons burden , with a full slave-equipment and provisions for their sustenance . She had also on board . specie in gold to the amount of 2260 ounces , or about 8500 ? . sterling . A chase of four hours and a half preceded the capture . On the previous day , the Styx had taken a prize .

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      MERCANTILE MARINE . The James Baines . —The wreck of the James Baines , partially destroyed by fire a few days ago in the Huskisson-dock , has been pumped dry , and is afloat ; but it is impossible yet to say to what extent the hull has been injured , or whether she can be rebuilt . The Loss of theCakdace .- —The steam-ship Candace , on her homeward passage from Africa , was lost , in consequence of a collision with the barque Ida Elizabeth , on the 4 th inst . The persons drowned were J . H . Rolt , commander ; James Kyall , second engineer ; Frederick Keen , boy ; Captain Goodhead and George Davis , passengers . The officers and purser were to proceed to Southampton in the packet on the 16 th insr .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen and the Queen of Portugal went on Saturday morning to the Crystal Palace , at Sydenkam , accompanied by the Prince Consort , the Prince of Hohenzollern , and Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern , and attended by the ladies and gentlemen in waiting . Their Majesties returned to Buckingham Palace at one o'clock . The Queen of Portugal held a diplomatic reception at three o ' clock . The Queen arid Prince Consort , with the Queen of Portugal , the Prince of Holienzollern , and Prince Leopold of Hohenzollern , went at twenty minutes before six o ' clock to the Palace of "Westminster to inspect the Houses of Parliament . They returned soon after seven o ' clock , aud subsequently went to Her Majesty ' s Theatre . —The Queen , on Monday evening , gave a State Ball at Buckingham Palace , to which a party of about 1900 were invited . —The young Queen of Portugal left London on Tuesday , to join her husband . —The Queen and the Prince Consort , accompanied by the Princess Alice , went on Wednesday morning to tho Iioyal Botanic Gardens , Regent ' s Park . The l ' rince Consort , attended by his Equerry , inspected in the afternoon the model lodging-house near the Strniul , opposite Somerset-house . The Prince of Iloheazollern . returned in the afternoon to Buckingham Palace , from Plymouth . Equalization of Poou-Rates . —A very numerous deputation , introduced by Mr . Ayrton , M . P ., waited upon the Earl of Derby , on Monday , in Downing-street , for the purpose of impressing upon him their views respecting the expediency of having one equal and universal poor- rate for the whole of the metropolis . Having listened to various speeches , the Prime Minister admitted that various evils , resulted from tho present system , but thought that the proposed reform would create even worse . If they altered tho area of ratenbility , ho foared that the interest in . good local management now felt by tho inhabitants of each district would disappear , and that we should soon return to all the frauds and abuses of tho old poor-law . Once establish a uniform system of rating in the metropolis , and ho did not see how it could long bo withheld from the whole country , when all individual interest in tho management of the rates would bo destroyed . Ho conceived that the President of tho Poor-law Hoard had promised to refer to a select committee , not Mr . Ayrton ' s act , but tho practical working of m \ net passed some years since , respecting- the rating , but which had since been allowed to bo a tlead ^ lettor . "Big Bkn . "—The ncwbellfor tho clock tower ut Westminster hixs been taken out of the mould in a perfectly sound state , anil promised to bo in every respect buccesrtful . I . oiu > Macau lay was inaugurated aa High Steward of Cambridge on Tuesday . The hirttoiiuu is in dclicuto health , and consequently spolco very briefly .

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      No . 425 , May 15 , 1858 ] THE LEADER . V 465

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 15, 1858, page 465, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2242/page/9/