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    bankruptcy and insolvency laws , and appointed a subcommittee to prepare a bill . Mr . Hastings enumerated anaTommente d upon the evils of the existing system of bankruptcy law , and said it was sought by the bill to make the penal clauses of bankruptcy more stringent , in order to prevent fraud ! It was also intended to abolish the present distinction betw ^ n bankruptcy and insolvency ; to abolish the Insolvency Court in London , its functions being transferred to the Court of Bankruptcy ; to do away with the distinction between traders and non-traders , allowing any person , whatever his occupation or position in life , to apply for adjudication ; and to make various other useful amendments . Resolutions in favour of the bill were carried .

    _ ... „ ,.. On Thursday , in the Department of Public Health , the chief interest wa 3 in the reading of one paper by Miss Florence Nightingale on hospital instruction , in which she pointed out the necessity of selecting a healthy locality remote from towns , and of paying due attention to the influence of light and space . She recommended , too , that the wards should be larger m size if smaller in number than they were in existing military hospitals , and that the beds should not be placed against dead walls . She contended that there was no such thing as contagion or inevitable infection . A paper by tlie

    Rev . Charles Kingsley , on Sanitary Reform , asserted that that question would never be rightly settled until it had been made a question for the hustings . Mr . Chadwick read an able paper "On the application of Sanitary Science to the Protection ' of the Indian Army . " Dr . Milroy gave testimony from his own experience as to the extensive preventability of the diseases ascribed purely to tropical climates . The subject of privies and waterclosets was gone into at great length , being discussed by Messrs . Holland , Tite , M . P ., Chadwick , Marshall , Robinson , and other gentlemen conversant with the

    subject . . , . The most important feature in the educational section was an elaborate paper on Art-study by Mr . Ruskin . The -writer admitted the insufficient data possessed as to the compatibility of art with rude or mechanical employments ,, but expressed belief , though a peasant's opinion might not be made good evidence oil the merits of Elgin or " X-ycian marbles , that Art might be made a means of giving him helpful and healthy pleasure , and of gaining for him serviceable knowledge . He attached importance also to the oducation . of young females in Art , thinking that in England the nursery and the drawing-room were perhaps the most influential of that amateur

    all academies . He pointed to the fact , artists , though far advanced in showy accomplishments / were scarce able to draw to a scale , and he recommended that in Art education care should be taken to teach to copj- with mathematical accuracv . He also thoug ht that there should be some standard of Art fixed for all schools , and that the most serviceable examples which could bo set before youth might be found in studies , or drawings , rather than in the pictures of first-rate masters , and the art of photography . Put it within their power to obtain renderings of such studies , which for most practical purposes were as good as the originals on the walls of every school

    in the kingdom . The Queen ' s College . —Lord Brougham presided on Wednesday evening at" the anniversary meeting of the Queen ' s College , to which , as the proceedings formed part of the programme of the National Association , a great number of members and associates were attracted . Amongst others were present , Lord Johu Russell , the Earl-of Carlisle , Sir John PaUlngton , Sir James Stephen , Mr . Cowpcr , M . P ., Mr . BL Mil lies ' , M . P ., Mr . Thornoloy , M . P ., Mr . A . Kinnaird , M . P ., IMr . W . Brown , M . P ., Mr . Lawronco Hay worth , M . P ., II r . Cowan , M . P ., and Sir John Kay Shuttleworth .

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    CRIMINAL ZIECORD . Suicide at Dover . —Mr . Godden , corn factor , of Ash ford , about thirty years of ago , has for several months past boon a frequent visitor at a house of illfamo at Dover . He arrived from Aahford on Friday night , intending to proceed in the morning to Canterbury , whore ho had business . On his arrival he repaired to the houso above described , and there remained tho night . According to the statement of the people of

    the houso , ho was just upon the point of leaving next day , when ho returned to tho bedroom under the pro tenc ' o * of fetching something left behind , shortly after which they were startled by a loud report . On tho room being entered , the deceased , it is stated , was found weltering in blood , flowing from a wound in the side of his head inflicted by his own hand with a revolver that was lying by his side . Life was then scarcely extinct , but before medical assistance could arrive , ho had coascd to breathe .

    This Muitmcit at Rothriiham . —A coroner's inquost has been hold on tho body of Sully llaro , who , ns it is alleged , was murdered by her sweetheart , a man munod Whitworth . Boforo her death a etntomoiit of tho caso was takoit down from her lips in tho presonco of a ; h « & » 8-trato . From this it appoarod that tho prisoner dullberatoJy cut her throat without any provocation on nor part immediately after making improper overtures to her , which ah

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    five-piastre pieces ; and copper piastre and half-piastre pieces . The inquiry was again adjourned , liberty being granted to put in bail to the amount of 400 / . each . Mr . Thomas Moss , managing clerk for the house of Otho Hamson and Co ., of Birmingham , has been brought before the Birmingham magistrates , charged with being concerned with ! Antonio Calvocoressi , already committed , in the Turkish coining affair . —TCalvocorressi aivl- Moss were convicted on Wednesday before the Recorder of Birmingham . A respite was prayed : judgment was postponed till next session , and the convicts were liberated on bail . _

    In the Court of Bankruptcy , Mr , Commissioner Evans has confirmed the adjudication of bankruptcy against James Perkins , of New Cross , and of Grocers' Hallcourt , Poultry , auctioneer . It will be remembered that this person had received large sums of money as " differences" from members of the Stock Exchange , and that when the result of his speculations proved adverse , he refused to pay those due from himself . The adjudication of bankruptcy was made upon an acceptance which the bankrupt had given to one of his creditors . It was disputed on the ground that he was not a trader ; but the Commissioner , in an elaborate judgment , held that there was no pretence fur the objection ; and he further refused an application to stay the advertisement in order to . appeal . From the peculiar circumstances of the case , and the antecedents ' of the bankrupt , great interest is taken in the result bv members of-the Stock

    The woman was taken . The prisoner declared her innocence , but , finding the magistrate resolved to commit her for trial , she pleaded Guilty , and was sentenced to six months'imprisonment . At the Court of Bankruptcy , the examination meeting in the case of John Dale 3 and Benjamin Dales , builders , who carried on business at Great George-street , Westminster , at . Times Wharf , Pimlico , in South Lincolnshire , and in Canada West , has been adjourned for two months , for the purpose of enabling the assignees to make necessary inquiries respecting the accounts .

    The Lord Mayor persists in his persecution of street fruitsellers . On Wednesday , a poor girl , the daughter of a mechanic , and one of a familj- of nine children , was fined a shilling , or two days' imprisonment , for selling fruit in Cannon-street . A policeman was the only witness against her , not a single inhabitant of Cannonstreet appearing . Anybody who is acquainted witt Cannon-street during business hours , as well as at othei times , must know that to talk of creating an obstructioi with a fruit-basket in a street like that is a got-up story At Greenwich , two young men , respectably connected were charged with having trespassed in Westcombe Part for the purpose of catching rabbits . They were convicted and sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment with hard labour .

    At the Court of Bankruptcy , adjudication of bankruptcy has been given against Mr . David Laing Burn , a merchant , of St . Michael ' s House , Cornhill , St . James'sstrect , and ' Kensington Palace-gardens . The petitioner was Mr . T . D . Neave , merchant , of St . Michael's House , Cornhill . The liabilities , it is said , are . very heavy , inr eluding large amounts on account of a joint-stock company . Mr . C . J . Dillon , the late lessee of the Lyceum Theatre , has received a second-class certificate .

    Lieutenant Francis Higginson applied to Mr . Alderman Salomons at the Guildhall for a summons againsi the Atlantic Telegraph Company , on a charge of noi having made a return of their shareholders to the Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies . It appears that Mr . Higginson had not given the company notice of his in ? tention to apply for a summons , and Alderman Salomons refused to entertain his application until he had done so-The applicant got into a highly excited state , and was finally removed from the court .

    A meeting of Middlesex magistrates to © k place on Thursday for the despatch of county business ; The court was occupied in the first place with financial matr ters . The prison reports were favourable , and there had been a gradual decrease in the number of prisoners in Coldbath-fields Prison . The plan for tunnelling under the House of Correction , at Coldbath-fields , by the Metropolitan Railway , was stated to have been abandoned . Councill , the man who attempted to murder Mr . Budd , inspector at Woolwich Dockyard , by discharging a pistol at his head some days ago , has been brought up for further examination . It was expected that the wounded man would have been able to attend himself to give evidence , but the surgeon under whose care he is p laced stated that it would be quite unsafe for him to appear at present . The case was accordingly again remanded .

    About six years since , an Iriah gentleman , Mr . John Cordon , of Barnane , in Tipperary , was convicted of an attempt to forcibly abduct a Miss Arbuthnott , a Scotch ladv , of considerable property , and was sentenced to a justly lieavy punishment . He easily got certificates about his health , which led to his release before the expiration of tho sentence . He 13 again plotting to carry awny the lady , who entertains the greatest aversion to him , and if prompt steps had not been taken to arrest him , he might have repeated the attempt with his rough retainers , his firo-arras , carriage , and bottle o chloroform .

    E xchajige . Another man has been apprehended as being concerned in the fabrication of copper plates for tlie purpose of forging ten-rouble notes of the Bank of Russia , and on which charge three men were hist week examined at Lambeth police-court . The man last taken into custody is a brassfounder , named William Woiley , employed at the Woolwich Arsenal , who acknowledges his complicity in the' matter . All the four prisoners have been remanded , to allow of the production of further evidence , bail fjr one only , John Webster , being accepted . nth of

    The explosion of two firework shops in the mo July has excited the inhabitants of the neighbourhood where it took place to look , to their own-safety by taking measures to prevent the traffic in such dangerous merchandise . Mr . Samuel Drewell , aitist in- fireworks , whose place of business is-direc ' . ly opposite -the ^ scene of the Calamity referred to , was summoned by the Inspector of nuisances before Mr . Elliott , at Lambeth police-court , to answer a charge of selling fireworks ; but from a defect in the evidence the summons was dismissed . The Middlesex magistrates have heard and disposed of a vast number of new applications for licenses and renewals of licenses for music from proprietors of places of public amusement and public-houses . Many were granted ; several renewals were refused because the parties had not sent in petitions , or caused notices to be served ( as required by the standing orders ) for the license to be transferred .

    At Newcastle there has been a quarrel between the barristers and the recorder of the Quarter Sessions Court . The recorder , Mr . W . Diyhy Seymour , had fixed his own time for holding the sessions , and the barristers complained of this as most inconvenient . So when the recorder took his seat on the bench this week , there was only one barrister in attendance . The others had held a meeting , and had resolved not to go near him . All the prosecution briefs , therefore , foil into the hands of a solitary pleader , Mr . Lowers , who was robed , and into tho hands of two solicitors , who pleaded by permission

    of the-judge . On the grand jury returning with the last bill , the learned recorder said ho had a perfect right to fix the session to suit his own convenience , and justified himself in making tho change ho had . The conduct of tho bar on that occasion was most unprofessional and uncourteous , and was both a scandal and an outrage to public justice and decency . Ho had always been animated by a desire to consult tho convenience of the inhabitants of the town , and whatever course his professional brethren might take . towards him , ho trusted always to administer even and impartial justice

    Mr . J . P . Brown , Secretary to tlie National Brazilian Mining Association , was " summoned boforo Alderman Salomons to answer a charge of indecent assault upon an Irish servant girl out of place , named Catherine Pursoll . She represented thnt the defendant had enticod her into his ofllco , in Throginorton-strcct , under protenco of finding her a situation ; but her story was a perfect tissuo of contradictions . Tho complainant was supported in her charge by Richard Amor , a lawyer ' s clerk , whom she styled " her friend , " and who it scorns has supported her for tho last throe months . The ovidenco of tho " friend , " however , wns anything but fr i endly to her cause . Eventually tho summons was digmiesod , tho nldorinaa assuring Mr . Brown that ho left tho court without the . "lightest imputation on his cliarnctor . Tlioro appeared to ho 110 doubt that tho whole nd ' air was a vile conspiracy to oxtort money .

    GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Tim surgeon , Thurgood , and Rilcy , the agent , who have undergone several examinations at the Guildhall on a chargo of conspiring to defraud Mr . Christie , a distiller , of Liverpool , of nineteen hogsheads and 0110 puncheon of whisky , value QOOl ., have been committed for trial , and bail refused . At tho Ilford petty sessions , James List and William Savillo , grave-diggers , wore brought before tho magistrates on remand , charged with breaking into a vault

    under Christ ' s Church , Stratford , and stealing a copper cofiiu worth 10 ? . Since tho prisoners wore last examined List has volunteerod a confession , and was on this occasion admitted as approver , wlion ho stated that himself and his fellow prisoner had flret taken tho copper coffin , and afterwards a lea den one , both of which wore broken up and sold . Tho proceedings wore adjourned for a month . Meantime , in consequence of List ' s information , a marine storo dealer , namod John Brott , has boon apprehended as rocoivor of tho stolon property . Ho was romandod for a week , reserving his defence .

    Tho two natives of Marseilles , Antoine Aimd Hugpn and IFugon Bevordy , fatheriuid ' son , wore brought upon remand on Monday , charged with causing to bo made a press and sixteen dies for tho purposo of coining Turkish money . Tho scheme of fraud appoars to hoyo boon on ft very extensive eoalo , and tho dies aro out for silver

    Mary Ann William * was charged at Worahlp-stroet pt > lico-court with stealing a carpet-bag , containing property to tho amount of ltff >/ ., belonging to Mr . Wincey . Tho prosecutor had arrived per . train from Exotor , and went into a confectioner's shop , where he placed his carpet-bag against tho counter , and sat down . Tho prisoner immediately entered the shop , sei / . od tho bag , and handed it to a man outside , who mado oft * with it .

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    Tfti . 447 . October 16 , 1853 . 1 T H E ! L E A P E B . 1085

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1858, page 1085, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2264/page/5/