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that her marriage may be dissolved by reason of her husband having been guilty of adultery coupled with cruelty , or adultery coupled with desertion , the husband and wife respectively shall be competent and co ' mpellable to give evidence of or relating to such cruelty or desertion . . ,.. .. Hu ghes , the absconding bankrupt solicitor , who was brought in custody from Australia , underwent another examination at the Guildhall Police-court , on 'Wednesday . The prisoner was again remanded for a week , to allow of the evidence of certain witnesses , at present in the country , being heard for the letion of the case . ;
comp At the Court of Bankruptcy a first-class certificate has been granted to Mr . Thomas Skeels Fryer , who had traded as a brickmaker and brewer at Chatteris , in the Isle of Ely . He had been in business for forty years , and during that period he had not only sustained a character of the highest respectability , but had been a magistrate for thirty years , chairman of the bench of magistrates , deputy lieutenant , and high sheriff of Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire . The Commissioner , in awarding the certificate , said he felt bound to express a wish that Mr . Fryer might be again reinstated in the high position he
formerly occupied , and to declare that he left the court without the slightest stain upon his reputation . A very different kind of case was that of J . Hayes , a wine merchant , who had carried on business in Old Broad-street , and who also applied for a certificate . He had been seven months in prison . The Commissioner , in awarding a certificate of the lowest class " , observed that but for the imprisonment already suffered , he should have ordered a considerable suspension , in consequence of the bankrupt having permitted a single creditor ( the Union Bank ) to sweep off the whole of his property , leaving not a
farthmg . A very curious case affecting the Bank of England was tried in Newcastle County Court on Wednesday . A mariner , on the eve of proceeding ori a ten " months ' voyage , deposited 83 / . in the branch bank of the Bank of England in Newcastle , at the suggestion of his brcther-in-law , who is a cashier-in the establishment . During his absence the wife obtained 401 . of the money through the influence of her relative , the cashier . The mariner on , his return repudiated the act of his wife , and called upon the bank to refund the money . The bank , endorsing the act of the cashier , refused to entertain the application , and set up a plea of ratification on the mariner ' s * part . The judge commented in somewhat severe terms upon the conduct of the cashier and the proceedings of the bank , and expressed his opinion that the mariner had never ratified the wife ' s act . The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff .
, The four men , Couch , Merridew , Bailhe , and Simpson , remanded at Clerkenwell Police-court on a charge of stealing a large number of carts and vans in different parts of the metropolis , have been fully committed for trial . At Guildhall Thomas Stowell , so well known as a common informer , had to answer the charge of conspiring with others not in custody , to defraud a Scotch firm . Mr . Stowrell is the special pest of licensed victuallers . The object of the present prosecution is to show that his dealings with tradesmen are of a roguish character , and Sir Walter Carden , who heard the case , and who enlivened it by his sage observations , seemed pretty convinced that the prisoner ought to be detained . He will , therefore , have to be brought up again on Monday .
An important case connected with gas compauies and their powers has been heard at the Westminster County Court . The Equitable Gas Company had cut off their supply to an eating-house and tavern under such circumstances ^—the cooking having been done by gas—as prevented many customers from having their dinners . Tho case has every appearonce of being a very hard one against , the keeper of tho tavern , but the judge decided that the company had a right to make whatever terms it liked , and to cut off the gas , if these terms were not compiled with . la consequence of renewed disturbances in St , Georgo ' s-in ^ the-East , on Sunday , proceedings were taken at the Thames Police-court on Monday against
Mr . Robert Hosier , who was charged with exciting a mob to violence . It appears that tho closing of the parish church of St . George ' was only the means of a still greater demonstration of popular Utury on Sunday , and two churches in the neighbourhood , under tho oontrol of tho rector and his curates , wore entered and the services assailod . Mr . Hosier is known as a partisan in those unfortunate proceedings , and ho was arrested , but Mr . YardJey very much hesitated to inflict punishment , and adjourned tho hearing of tho case for a week . There was also a summons against one Mr . John Peterson , which tho magistrate only partly hoard , but will nave to hoar again . Whon ft wa , p announced that this summons was issued under an Aot of William and Mary , some individuals indulged in derisive laughter , and cries of " Oh , oh I" Mr . Yardley asked
who had dared to give way to such a disgraceful ebullition of feeling in a public court of justice . He called upon the officers to point out the offenders . Roche , the gaoler of the court , pointed out four gentlemen , who declared they had only smiled . Mr . Yardley : If there is another similar ebullition of feeling , take the offenders into custody , and remove them from the court . If that does not succeed * I will have the court cleared . I will have no displays here . Peterson was brought before Mr . Yardley again on Thursday charged with two distinct offences , committed on the same day , in two of the churches under the same rectorship ; and after the case had been fully gone into was bound over to take his trial upon both accusations at the next Middlesex Sessions .
The adjourned inquest upon the bodies of the unfortunate men who were killed by the bursting of an agricultural steam-engine at Lewes sheep fair last week was held yesterday at Lewes , and further adjourned . Several witnesses were examined as to the state of the boiler , their evidence tending to show that the boiler was an old one , and constructed of an inferior material . Two more victims have been added to the list of killed . One of the men conveyed to the Brighton Hospital died yesterday . His name was Cox , and he was an agricultural labourer attending the fair on business ; the unfortunate boy Wobdhall also died on Sunday night from the frightful injuries he received . This makes six in all killed by the explosion .
We have received intelligence from the Channel Islands that the South Western Company ' s steamer Express , which went ashore on the rocks off Jersey last week , has broken up , and various portions of the ship are floating about among the rocks . It is quite probable that no captain belonging to this company will undertake the passage between the rocks in future . It is due to the public that such an order should issue from the company . A Board of Trade inquiry into the matter will shortly take place .
A fire took place in the premises belonging to Mr . Goodwin , a pictnre-frame maker , in John ^ street , Fitzroy-square , on Tuesday night , Seven engines were quickly set to work , when part of the building fell , burying beneath the blazing timbers seven or eight of the firemen . The more fortunate of the brigade , nothing daunted , rushed into the middle of the burning property , and , by removing the red-hot wood , they managed to pull from underneath the the ineer ohnsonthe
beams Paul Jerrard , eng ; J , sub-engineer j and Radfqrd , Stephen Martin , James Lee , and John Eilbeck , firemen . The poor men were all more or less injured by burns , dislocation , or contusions , and Eilbeck , who was one of the senior firemen , was found doubled up and quite dead . The remainder of the firemen , although exposed to great danger , still kept to their work , and eventually succeeded in getting the fire extinguished .
A terrific explosion , resulting in great loss of life and property , took place on Tuesday morning , on the premises of Messrs . Pursall and Phillips , percussion-cap manufacturers , in Whittall-street , St . Mary ' s- square , Birmingham . Immediately after the explosion it was discovered that the remains of the buildings were in flames , but the engines of the various fire offices soon extinguished the flames . At the time of the occurrence it is supposed that there were between sixty and seventy persons on the prer raises , mostly females . Twenty of these have died Qf their injuries , and many others arc seriously hurt . There were not more than ten men on the premises .
Mr . George Krehmer , the Russian Consul-General in London , died suddenly this morning at seven o ' clock . The announcement excited great regret in tho large mercantile circle in which the deceased has for so many years moved . An Englishmen at heart , Mr . Krehmer has long laboured with untiring devotion in the organisation and development of the commercial relations between this country and Russia . A person named William Bade , was ohargod at the Clerkenwell Police-court with obtaining a number of watches by false pretences . Since the apprehension of tho prisoner the constable in charge notes
of tho case has recovered duplicates ana representing value to between £ 400 to . € 500 . After tho examination of several witnesses Mr . Tyrwhitt remanded the case till Thursday next , and refused to accept bail . The South-Western Company ' s steamer Despatch , which loft Southampton for Guernsey and Jorsoy at midnight on Wednesday , broke her intermediate shaft off tho Casket , and put into Aldornoy , from whence the mails and passengers wore sent to their destination by small steamer . This break down will not interfere with tho usual arrangements of tho company with regard to tho conveyance of mails ana passengers . Telographio advieos received in anticipation of tho
coming Australian mail report the total loss , nea Cape Northumberland , on the 6 th of August , of th screw steamer Ardmillan ( supposed to be AdmlHfc from Adelaide , whereby no fewer than eighty-sevei lives were lost , Qnly twenty-five persons bemj saved .
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The Court .- —With the exception that all the royal family continue in excellent health , there is litfefc to chronicle of matters at Balmoral . The Queen and her daughters visit all the picturesque places within a drive of the Castle , and her Majesty ' s neighbours are frequently honoured with a call On Monday , the Queen went to Alt-na-rGussaek ( wherever that may be ) , and . stopped there all night The Count of Flanders , Lord Elgin , and the Poke of Richmond are gone , and there appear to be no visitors at the royal residence , except Sur James has been l the arfcoi
Clark . Prince Arthur earning deer-stalking , under the eye of that mighty hunter } his royal papa ; the Court Circular , wie regret tc find , does not record with what success . The Court is expected to leave Balmoral on the 12 th of October ; for Holyrood Palace , Edinburgh , where the Queen will pass the night , and on the following day will honour the inauguration of the New Glasgow Waterworks , which are to supply that city from -Loch Katrine . Her Majesty will return to Edinburgh , where she will pass a second night , and proceed to Penrhyn Castle , Carnarvonshire .
The Frankxin Relics . —It is understood that the whole , or the greater portion , of the interesting relics of the ill-fated expedition of Sir John Franklin , brought home last week by Captain M'Glintock , of the Fox , will be deposited in the Painted Hall of Greenwich Hospital , and will thus complete the relics already exhibited in that establishment as having belonged to Sir John Franklin and others of the crew of the Erebus and Terror , deposited a fewyears ago .
Safety from Fire . — Messrs . Taylor and Grmrshaw , of Southampton , have patented an instrument which is calculated to add to our comfort and ? safety . It has a variety of action ; perhaps its most prominent feature is its fire alarum apparatus-Its action is perfectly simple and invariable , either in a dwelling or factory , or in the hold of a ship . It may be set to any degree of temperature ; when that is exceeded it indicates the fact—first , silently , then by its loud ringing alarm ; or , if required , it discharges a powder cell , with the report of a pistol or a nine-pounder , as may be required , either to alarm the inmates of a house or the neighbours of an uninhabited mill , church , or other edifice . A second
form of its application is a ventilator . For common purposes , it may be set to any required temperature , as may be needed for your chamber , conservatory , or barrack-room . When the required temperature be exceeded , the ventilator opens , and so remains until the desired temperature be regained . As indicative of heat , it aots in the same mariner , and can in the same way be tested for sea purposes s a long ; tube arising from the hold of a ship , or wherever required , having at its summit on deck a simple dial , which shows at all times the heat below , giving timely warning and adverting the sad calamity of a shin on fire at sea . It is susceptible of a variety of
other applications : the above are all easily tested and understood . The principle upon which this variety of useful application is based is the enclosure of common air within an air-tight metal cylinder ; having on its upper side a firmly-fixed diaphragm ot india rubber , upon which rests the spring which works the indicator . The enclosed air expands or contracts as the surrounding air becomes hotter or colder , acting in its expansion or compression on a spring which causes tho indicator to show upon the dial the temperature obtained , and giving its loud warning when tho dangerous degree has been attained .
Cjtt Matters .-On Tuesday a Court of Common Council was held , the Lord Mayor P " . ^ ! ^" * the transaction of some other business , the * ° » ° wing motion was made by Mr . Henry Harris : ~ £ That this court should not consent to any bill in larUament having for its objoct the bettor regulation of the Corporation of London that does not protcc the rights and privileges of liverymen of tins City . To this proposition Mr . Abrahams moved the previous question , whereupon a discussion ensued , after which tho amendment was negativod , and the original motion carried My 40 to 33 . Deputy White thon brought up a report from the City Lands Committee touohing the Central Criminal Court , which , after some discussion , was agreed to , and sent wick : «¦» . nvomiHnn . Before the court rose it agreed , to
grant , at tho request of the Lord Mayor , the use of tho Guildhall to the London Rifle Brigade . Alderman Gabriel , of Quoonhitho Ward , and Aldormwx Phillips , of Farringdon Ward Within , tho gentlemen . elected to fill tho office of sheriffs of London ana
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 1, 1859, page 1099, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2314/page/7/
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