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trol over . him » by a . union of threats , and kindness a& > ta influence-his .. mil : to the detriment of ; his relations .. How ? - ever that might he , there appears to be no . doubt that Sir . George ^ v as in a childish state of . mnid , at . the tim e the will was . ex £ cuted . ' Lord-Campbell gave judgment ; last Saturday in .-the : case of : the Tiverion . BurlaL Board .. The point to . bei decided was ,, whether a fence- of sufficient height had been eveeted between the consecrated and uneonsecrated
portions of the Tiverton burial-ground .: The fence wasi twelve . inches high , and th « Bishop of Exeter contended : that that was-not sufficient } and that it ought to be four feet ; in altitude . This the Board , refused to accede to j and the case -went before a . jury , -who found- a . verdicfcin ; favour of-the Board . To this there was a demurrer ^ ¦ which was- > argued before the Court of Queen ' s Bench .. The Court took time to consider * and on Saturday delivered ; judgmefit in favour of the defendants , thus confirming the . verdict .
The -case of the Queen v . the Justices of Leicestershire ¦ was also decided the same day . This was a rule for a certtQrari to . bring up a distress warrant ,. issued by three justicesi of Leicestershire against Joseph Nunley for-11 . 16 s ., being the amount cf a church rate levied upon him ,, which he had refused to pay , so that it might be quashed . Nunley was summoned before the magistrates , He told , them that , ho objected to the rate on the ground of its illegality , and he contended that the matter was
taken out of their jurisdiction . He declined , however , to state to the magistrates what his objections were ; but he said that one objection was , that the chairman of the vestry had refused to put an amendment . The justices decided that he did . nofc intend to dispute the legality of the rate . Lord Campbell now said that the justices , in their , affidavit , did not deny the truth , of the statements . They only had jurisdiction when the rate was undisputed ; in this case they had no jurisdiction , and the rule must be made absolute .
The " press prosecution" trials are postponed till next Tuesday . The " after , term" sittings in the Court of Queen ? s Bench commenced on Moitday . The only case of note tried that day was that of the Submarine Telegraphs . Gibbs . This was , an action to recover damages for injury done to the telegraph cable , off the coast of Kent , by reason of- th © fouling of tlae anchor of a ship belonging to the defendant .. The accident occurred during a severe gale in-January , 1857 , wlien many vessels were lost in the Channel . The case occupied the whole of the day , and , at the conclusion , tha jury returned a verdict for the defendant .
The ; Court for Divorce and Mat rimonial causes sat in full on Monday , and made orders for dissolution of marraige in three cases , on account of adultery and desertion by the husband ; In oue of the cases , the husband had also committed bigamy . The . Lord Mayor , at the Mansion House , on Honda }' , said he had received several communications of late rela-r tive to nuisances of various kinds , which it was wholly out : of his power to remedy or abate . Among them were complaints of the state of the Thames . One correspondent said : — "My Lord , —What is to be done ? The stench from the Thames , yesterday , even at high water , exceeded anything , I have ever smelt or noticed . before . On leaving , the Adelphi Pier , I was seized with
vomiting , and I really expected some injury would accrue to me . Can nothing bo done excepting speeches in Parliament , on . the subject of this fearful ' soworevil ?' When some dreadful . calamity shall brood its pestilential form over the great metrop olis , then shall we mourn tho destroying , effect' of our . culpable negligence . " His Lordship said he sympathized with . , the writors . of such letters . He had gone up to Westminster the day before ho . had received > the foregoing description , and certainly no stench that lie had ever encountered was comparable tothut which . assailed the jpassengcra on that occasion .
He would not try , the oxn&riment again . He knew that tbo nuisance was most aLominablo ,, and apprehended that it- was . most . dangerous ; but . lie . hoped the feare of . his .- follow citizens would mot be speedily realized . —On ; AVednesday , two master lightermen complained ) to tho Lord . Mayor , of tho foetid ,, stagnant , condition of tho water in the London amlSt . Katharine's Docks . They stated that a man who foil into tho London Docks a few days ago was . taken out dead , although he was only underwater two minutea . Tho Lord Muyoradvised tho applicants to make a representation to tho Board of Conservancy .,
r < W j | liamMaynow ,, a warehouseman , was charged at UuiUUuall , on Monday , with creating a disturbance on haturday evening in tho ohttrch of St . Bartholomew , Moor-lane ,, during , the performance of service . The chief wnncsa-. aaainst . him was a . Mr . Smith , a printer ; and he stated that Mr . Mavjiew called out nt one time Do you . call tllis religion ? This is Puseykm . Have you 8 een the pa-para of . to-day ? » ( alluding to tho-report or tha mooting nt St .. James ' s Hall with , reference ' lusoS ; iSm . at . St .. Barnabas ) ,. Ho also , according to Mr . ^ , ' 8 Wani ? aI > out u ' P aicel in a < ve » y irreverent man . ISn Af Tr , Ugly ' * SiniUl di » -ectcd tho verger , to da , h nil J \? i ? i ^ hHe k 0 f tchcd a P » "c « n « "i ; and , S £ ' ?! i ^' T Wfls fiiven into custody . Mr fTn , n f dd f ?' tUat ^ lli ^ urbance 3 had . become vary . 3 " * , ° " V , ' « e « r r l » owcver ,, whunboforotho i » agJetrate , oi 1 lyl 8 a , d that Mr . . Mayhow put on hia hat
{ while the Creed was being said , andwent towards the door .. Being , remonstrated -with , he . took his hat off . Another witness , wh »; was present in . the church , denied that there was any irreverence on the part of Mr . Mayhewj with the . exceptiou . of his putting on his hat and walking away when the Creed was repeated , at which time the curate and officials , turned to the east . "At the close of the Creed , he ( Mr . Mayhew ) turned round , as if inwardly offended , but said nothing . " Mr .. Smith , however , " bounced out of his pew , and ran . down the aisle after the defendant , calling out ' Stop him !'" " Then , in your judgment , " said Mr . Alderman Rose , " it was 'Smith . who created tlie disturbance , and not the defendant ? " " Precisely--so . " 7 Mr . Mayhew was accordingly discharged .
Frederick Noble , a . morose-looking youth , is under remand at Worship-street ,, on . a . charge of stabbing his father in the back with a kuifev The father , is employed at a factory in Stepney , ami . the son had just , arrived in town from Southend . He had some conversation with his fathei ; but no quarrel whatever was heard .. Suddenly , however , he inflicted the . wound ( which is of a very serious-kind ) ,. and rushed away , but was pursued and caught . To the policeman . who < took . him into , custody he said that he did the act in a moment of-
excitement , in consequence of his father having ill-used his mother some years ago .. When before the magistrate , the youth offered no explanation or defence . A- witness having been asked by the magistrate as to his ( Noble ' s ) disposition , the young man himself stopped him with , the remark , " I am af . rather a quick temper , sir . " He has evidently a strong affection for his mother , as , on the constable mentioning her name , he displayed great emotion . The father , it' appears , is in a very critical state .
An action : was brought in the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday , for the recovery of a sum of money , under an agreement entered into in March , 1856 , whereby the plaintiff ( an Oriental , named Abdoolah ) undertook to act as interpreter ^ at Gl . a month s to the defendant : ( the Rajah of Coorg ) . He was to be paid the sum of 500 ? . in addition if the defendant , with the plaintiff ' s assistance ; recovered possession of his pension of 100 / . a month from the East India Company . The defendant paid a sum of money into court relative to the salary , which was accepted by the plaintiff . The only remaining question was the plaintiff ' s right to recover anything , on the pension , the defendant denying thnt he obtained it through the plaintiff . After hearing some evidence , an arrangement was come to , under which a juror was withdrawn , the Rajah undertaking to pay the sum agreed upon , to the plaintiff ; . ,
A very remarkable "divorce case has been tried in the new Court of Divorce this week . The petitioner was a Mr . Robinson , who had already obtained a divorce it mensd e . t tTioro in the Ecclesiastical Court . Mrs . Robinson is now about fifty years of age , and in 1854 she was staying at the hydropathic establishment at Moor Park , near Reading , kept by a Dr . Lane . It would appear , from a diary kept by Mrs . Robinson ( the discovery of w . hich , last year , first opened- Mr . Robinson ' s eyes to the infidelity af his wife ) , that the lady had for some years entertained a passionate attachment to Dr . Lane . At length , one day , when the two were together in the park , the doctor remarked , in answer to some observation from the lady , "If you say that again , I'll kiss you . " To this she " made no opposition , " and in the course of a few daya the intimacy was carried 1 to > an extent which involved the deepest wrong it wasi possible forthewife to inflict upon
her husband . These facts ; and the tumultuous condition of the lady ' s mind , alternating between " blissful caccitemenfr" and nervous depression ) are recorded in the diary with' great minuteness * and' with , no small amount of literary power ; Extracts- from' the book have been liberally published ; but we . decline to follow the example . The defence was based on tliorassumption : that Mrs . Kobinson was subject to a malady which sometimes induces ladies to accuse themselves of transgressions of which they are not really guilty ; and the evidence of a Mr .. Thorn , a literary gentleman staying at the eslabliHumont , showed that ho hud been similarly credited ' with , improper conduct with Mrs . Robinson—an assertion whioh . he- denied ,, and attributed it to the lady ' s romantic disposition . Dr . Phillimoroi claims that l > r . Xinno bo dismissed , fromitho snit , in ordor that ho may be examined osrUiwitness . to deny the alleged intrigue . Tho court takes time to consider the point . thus . raised .
An action was brought iivtlio-Gourtof Quoen ' a Bench on Tuesday by tho executors of a person named , Butcher , will-owner ofi Wiukham Market , against' tho dofondunt ; a , medical man , to recover the sum . of 100 Z . The dofondant . pleaded that . the money wns < a , gift .. It appeared that tho defendant < n Mi-. Cochrano ) had . been-Butchec ' s medical man sinco 18 f > 4 > and ,, during that thuo lmtolior was oporutcd- upon for tho stone . It was contonded by Mr . Cochrano that the money was given , to him by Mr . Dutoher out of . gratitmUv for his attention and . tho relief he hml iiiftmlcd liim in , his illness . On tho counterpart of tho ohequo was written ^ m * Mr . Butcher ' s handwriting ,. tho words , "A gifti" TJio jury roturnod a verdioti for . tho defendant .
Mr . I ' crrins , an ironmaster residing nenr Birmingham , has . obtained , by an action in tho Court ofi ( iueen ' ri lioiioh , dinnngctt to'tlio extent of'SOOJ . from , the London and North-Western Railway Company , on account of
inja » esfrec ^ yed ; acei / Jeni pn , . tb « n . lio « jOii . th « jJl 19 a » i of ., laafc December . ; Xha . asfcjLoa , o £ Birch v . Hidgyruy ; , brought , by the , endorsed of , & . I ) iU . of . exchange . for : 225 / .. against the aocepfcor , ^ which ,.- waa tried someVrajonths ago , has been .. again , tried in the Court of Exchequer , with the same , result aa ., before— -the . discharge , of , the jury on their being ; unable ^ to agree to a -verdict ., ¦ The defsndant phjaded .. that . he did . nofc accept the bilL which ; was . one . ofi several , bills drawn-by Messr 3 . Sanders and Woollett . builders , andalleged . to havebeert accepted by the defendant , who was for sometime steward to the late Duke of Devonshire . This gentleman repudiated-the bill ; and the oaserwas further complicated , by the suicide , last November , of Mr . Woollett , who was greatly embarrassed . The evideace was ^ veiy conflicting , and the defendant , sworfr positively that the acceptance waa not . in hia
handwriting . A . n action for libel , unfolding a strange story , is now in course of trial in the Court of Queen ' s Bench . The plaintiff is , 'Mr . Hugh Robert H ughes , of EjinmeirPark , North Wales ,- a son of the younger brother of Lord . Dinorben , but not on good terms with the family . In July , 1852 , Mr . Hughes was engaged'to b ' e married" to a daughter of the present Lord . Ravensworth ; , and : at that period an anohyino \ is letter was addressed to . the young lady ' s father , describing Mr . Hughes a » extras vagant , "' " hard up , " seeking the match merely for . the sake of money , and affected with the king ' s evil . The family were , therefore , exhorted to have nothing . to do with . him . The prosecution alleges that this letter was written by Lady Dinorben ; and that , is the main point to be established . The case was not concluded yesterday . . " ' . '¦ . ' ¦ '' ¦ . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ' - ' ¦ ¦[ ¦ - . ... . .. . . '¦
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEA . THS . A gentleman named Dewdney was killed last week by ; the down express train , at Hele station , on the Bristol and Exeter Railway . At . an inquest which was . helcl befoTe Mr . Crossej coroner of the district , it was elicited that there is a . level crossing at the Hele station , whichi is a public highway , and that the entrance gate was not closed against the public previous to the arrival of the trains . The jury found-a verdict of " Accidental death , ' and added the following to their verdict : — " That there is not at Hele station a sufficient number" of policemen , to perform the necessary duty on the arrival of the trains , and to protect'the lives of the public ; and that . at the said station , the crossing being a public highway where there is a very large traffic ,, it is desirable that a bridge should be carried over the line . "
Mr .: Richard Stevenson , one of the Commissioners of the Liverpool District Court of Bankruptcy , died suddenly when on his way to [ attend to the duties of his . court . He resided at New Brighton , and left home to catch the half-past nine o'clock boat . Being rather late } he ran a short distance , and , when he got on board , he seemed to be very flurried . He sat on a seat on deck ,, but appeared to become very sick ; and , immediately after , putting Iris band to his heart , he fell off his seat , uttering some exclamation . He was sixty years of age . The occasion of death was disease-of the heart . A child , two years of age , residing with its parents in . Cary-street , Lincoln ' s Inn , has been scalded to death ,. ' owing to the upsetting of a large saucepan of boiling water .
A plate-layer on the Midland Railway was run down on the line last Saturday by a luggnge train , as he was going to his work . His head and one arm were nearly severed . We have more boner explosions to chronicle . Throe * men have been killed by one of theso dreadful catastrophes at the cotton-mills of Messrs . William Barlow and Son , near New Church , Rossendale ; and seven persons are severely scalded and otherwise injured by a similar accident which occurred on Monday at Messrs . Snowdon and Uopkins ' s iron works at Middlcsborougli .
A young man from Southampton , who was just about to be . married , lias been accidentally poisoned , at the villajL-e of Netlierby , near Beaminstcr , by swallowing ; a ~ cupful ' , of hydrocyanic acid , used by him in amateur photography , in mistake for beer . The cup was glvon . to him by the father of the young woman lie was about to marry . Tlie fathor--wa& . drunk , at tho time . The young man swallowed enough to kill forty men , and of course was dead in a > very short , time ..
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OBITUARY . Tnii . Lom > Justice Gucrki—The Right Hon . Joint Uo |) o ,, Lord Justice Clerk of Scotland , died at luB-resifdonco in Moray-place , Edinburgh , at half-past eleven , o'clock , oa Monday night ; Tiio doath was rathor sudden , and . resulted from iiuralyrtis . llc . wns bora inl . 78 < t r passed tho Scottish bur in 181 C ; ami wjiaohosaa Lord ; JuBtice > Clerk , in 1841 . Mil .. MiuiiAjiL . Wiuja . M 8 , M . P . for Wvat Caciivrall ,, died at Trovmco ,. noar Cornwiill , on Tueadoy , nftoorr * noon . ltoiiKUT BitowN , Ea < i ., F . U . S ., expiredion tho 10 th inst ., at , his town re . iidonce , DoaiWHtroot , So > hu-sq ) iaro . Ho was born in tho year 177 tt , and w » n formerly , Proflidont of tho L . liuuv > aii . yoi ; ii » ty , koepor of tho' BoliuiicaL ColLcctiouH in tho Hritisli MiiHuuin , and L ' orcign AwoclatQ . of tho Academy of Sciuiigod of tho inutituUii of UVuucc .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1858, page 587, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2247/page/11/
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