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    WAV AX. AND MILIOPAH^JNEWS. Tiro late Si...

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    Our Civilisation. A Fbmalid Rufwan—Mary ...

    able ch ^ aicter , Mr . Saundera detejrnnned to ^ hut out . Tl £ Wd £ >; upon wHich , the woman , with ^ everalof be * nude companions ,, burst open the door witlnmledgehamnier , and afterwards kickedMr , Saunders so violently in the lower part of his person that he was nearly doubled up , and was rendered insensible . Lidden was committed to prison for two months . " . . ¦ . Bank-note Robberies . —Mary Ann Gonton and Mary Ann Pollett . were on Friday week committed for trial on a charge of robbing Mrs . Parsons of several bank-notes and other moneys ; and Edward , Foley ( a publican ) and Samuel Woodhonse were at the same time also committed for trial for feloniously receiving a 20 / . note , part of the stolen property . The robbery haa

    would seem to have been effected in a manner which recently been frequently and successfully employed . While near the London Bridge railway station , Mrs . Parsons , was > accosted by the two women and a little girl , #% <> asked several questions about the Crystal Palace railway . While these were being answered , the little girl busied herself about the pockets of Mrs . Parsons ; and , when it was too late , that lady discovered thatJbet notes and ¦ cash were gone .- — "William Arthur Buchannan ^ a well-dressed young man , was charged at Marlborough-street with stealing five 10 / . Bank of England notes , and a Post-office order for the payment of U . 13 s . 4 d ., the property of Mr . Joseph Bebb ,. solicitor . He confessed his guilt , and was committed for trial . recentl

    OotbagE o » AlPotJCEMANif—A disturbance y occurred ? at the Whittington- and Cat public-house , Highgate , when , the landlord and hia wife having been assaulted , a policeman was called in . He was speedily knocked , down , however , and dreadfully maltreated . A bystander interfered on the side of the constable , and was -himself assaulted with great violence , the house being filled with about forty navigators , who were all abettors of the fray . Further assistance was ultimately obtained , and two of the worst offenders were taken to the-6 tation ^ house . The policeman at present lies under medical care ; one of the prisoners has been sent to the sessions for trial , and the other sentenced to a month ' s imprisonment . —A similar ease has been heard at Marlbororigh-street , where the offender was sentenced to a fortnight ' s hard labour .

    The-- ; Alleged Matricide at Knightsbredge . — - Isabella Mary Jolley was on Friday week committed for trial on the charge of murdering her mother . Bail was refused . ¦ Forged Cheque . —A lad of . seventeen , named Robert Russell , was charged at the Mansion House with forging and uttering a cheque for -3 / . on the London Joint-Stock Bank . He had been formerly in the employ of .-Mr * Dudfield , of Lower Thames-street ,. Customhouse agent , from whose service he was dismissed about

    twp months ago . Shortly afterwards , ; he committed the forgery in theflama of his late emploj'er , who kept an account at the Joint-Stock Bank , and the cheque , which was' passed through Messrs . ( GUyn's , was paid at the clearinghouse on the 20 th of last July ,, The fraud was subsequently discovered by -Mr . Pudfield . seeing the cheque entered in his pass-book as having been . paid by the bank . At the Mansion House , Russell made a full confession , and ; expressed great sorrow . He was committed for trial at the Central . Criminal Court .

    Wife ; Boating . —/ The criminal records of the week present their usual number of instances of this offence . At : ; Clerkenwell , Luigi Massetti , an Italian , and at Lambeth , Joseph Martin , on . Englishman and an engineer , have been punished with imprisonment , and hard labour for violent outrages . committed on . their wives . Another Poisoning Casje . — -Mr . Fulton , a Bath tradesman and member of the municipal corporation , died recently ,, after an illness caused , by the administration of arsenic . Several circumstances fixed suspicion on his son , a young man of dissipated habits . Immediately after the , father ' s death the son fled from the house , and hats not yet b < jen arrested , The Opinion ' of Mr . John Jacobs , Burglar , on

    Mrt ; SEitrkAN't Ai > AM ^ . —At the Thames Police Court , on Saturday , John Jacobs , a notorious Jew burglar , was aetit . 'io trial for a robbery in Whitecliapel : It was stated t ^ a ' t , during the last twenty years ; ho has been cOrivlc ' teu ' BeWal Mii ^ ea before Mi : Setjeant Adams . On hearing that ho was committed , ho ' exclaimed to Mr . Ihgham , "Oh , sir , Bend me to the Central Criminal Cblirt ^ where I shall have a fair trial . " Mr . lngham : " No ; I shall send you for trial at the Clerkonwell Sessions . " Prisonor : "I would rather not go before Serjeant AdaVhsI" Mr . Ihgham . " " I had rather you should , as he knows you so' well . " Prisoner : * ' Before

    old Achunfl ! ' Why bid Scfrjeanff Adams convicts everybody ; The officer * get behind his chair and whisper to him , and BariVig him . ( JLawghter . y ¦ Why , old Adams would boriVict his own mother . " ( Renetoed laughter . ' ) Mr . Inghatn i " Notwithstanding your objection to Mr . Serjeant Adams ; I shall send you before him once more . " Prisoner : " The devil you will ! ' * Then I shall plead guilty at once . " ' A Family of Fklons . —John Haekett , ft " ticket ^ ofleftW' man , and Robert Hackott—both of them brothers of tiro notorious Gebrgo Hackett— -have been committed for tHal'bti a" charge of being concerned with a third man nyt'ttTcusWay ty stealing it package of goods from the back " if art Of a wiiggtai in Kennington-lnno , and also >» flmvfil v i , , , ; . > / ar ., ; \ ,:. fi . ' > ¦; ¦

    with stealing on the same evening a chest of tea from the shop-door of Mr . Fowler , a grocer in Rochester-row , Westminster . - An attempt was made to set up an alibi ; but it failed . A Tyrannical Father . —Mr . May , the Dutch consul , made' an application at the Mansion House on behalf of a gentleman of Amsterdam who sought to recover his daughter . The daughter , it appeared , had left her father and had come to London to-reside with a sister who is married to a tradesman here ; and before Sir R . W . Carden this sister stated that the fugitive , who is twenty-one years of age , and consequently her own mistress , had left her father's roof because she was no

    longer able to bear his tyrannical authority arid harsh usage . The two sisters clung together with an evident wish not to be parted . ' The father , who was present , said lie feared his runaway daughter was weak in her intellect ; but this was indignantly denied by the married daughter . Finally the Alderman declined to interfere ; and the sisters ieft the court in high delight . We have here a specimen pf " the skeleton in the family" brought forward for public exhibition .. A father throws doubt upon his child ' s sanity—one daughter openly accusing her father of ill-usage , and angrily contradicting his statements- ^ -another daughter running away from her father ' s house and her native countryhere are some strange unfoWings of domestic "

    civilisation . " ;) . : . ¦ - ¦ ••• , Monomania . —Jane Moseley , a young lady , . eighteen years of age , residing at Mornington-place , Hampsteadroad , was charged at Bow-street on Tuesday with stealing a papier maLehe' portfolio from a house in Hartstreet , Bloomsbury-square . It appeared that she called at this house , and asked to see the first-floor apartments , which were to let furnished . The servant showed her up into the rooms , and Miss Moseley then asked her to fetch a glass of water . On returning with the watery the girl saw Miss Moseley leaving the hoiise . Her suspicions being roused , she went up into the drawingroom , missed the portfolio , and pursued the young lady .

    Tlie latter first denied the charge of theft ; but afterwards produced the portfolio- from under her shawl , and offered five shillings to be allowed to go . A policeman , however , was called , and she was given into custody . Before the magistrate ^ she cried bitterly * The young lady ' s mother , a widow , who said she was in ^ great distress , owing to another daughter being then in the last stage of consumption , asserted that the one now in custody was subject , owing to ; causes peculiar to her time of life , to fits of mental aberration . Later in the day , a medical gentleman attended , who gave testimony to the same effect ; and , under these circumstances , Mr . Jardine discharged the accused . ¦ • ¦ ¦ ¦ '•'

    Private Gaming Houses .- * - Hannah Lockerj a to- * bacconist , of Great Windmill-street , St . James ' s , has been fined 50 / . for keeping a betting room in herhouse . —John William Cooper , a beer-shop keeper itt Fleet-street , and ; Mr . Beech , of the Rainbow" Tavern , Newgate ^ street , were respectively fined bl . and costs at Guildhall for the same offence . In the case of Cooper , it was sought to be shown that , his house being « licensed house and open to the public , the act had notbeen violated , and that , if the contrary should be declared , great injury would be done to several race- - clubs , including one which is attended by aldermen j but this defence was not allowed . Notice Of appeal was g iven in both the latter cases ; arid three similar informations were withdrawn until the opinion of the ' superior cotirt has been obtained . '

    A Sharp Lksson . —An engine-fitter , named Jeremiah Hogan , went , in a state . of intoxication , Into a public house on Tower Hill , and called for a pint of porter . Having drunk this , he called for another , with which the landlord , observing his intoxicated condition , refused to supply him . He then snatched up a glass , arid hurled it at the landlord ' s head . Fortunately , he missed his mark ; but the missile brokfe a large looking-glass to pieces . Ho was given into custody ; and Mr . Yardley , the magistrate , ' proposed that he should pay for the glass by instalments of ten shillings a week , his wages being thirty shillings a week , He begged hard that the sum might be lessened , , as be had a wife arid * children to' support : and , while admitting that' he " wds

    drunk on the previous ' night , denied that he was an ' habitual drunkard . Ultimately the sum of -five shillings a week was agreed to j and recognisances were ' demanded , that he should appear' tin a 'I future dayy the ' prospect of a committal for assault being he , ld interrdrem over his head , if the instalments were not duly paid . —A * - a comment on the leniency of ' the ma ^ istjpdte , Hbganwad the very r ie * t day brougnt up again , bhai ' ged with assaulting two police constables ^ Directly he Yfa ' s libo- ' rated on Tuesday , he got raving druhk ^ and engaged In a serious riot . Two policemen were very severely injured ; and- the prisoner conducted ' himself with : suoh fierce excitctnorit nnd aavageijess that six constables -were required to take him to the station . Ho was tfentonaed : to one month ' s imprisonment . . ¦

    ATTBMrTTb Utskt a Mail , Train * . —William Cooper , a platelayer in the Borvlco of the Midland Railway C 6 mpany , haa been committed for trial , ; charged with attempting to displace a rail on that lino . The only reason ho could g ive for thia attempt was that tho gauger had been casting reflections upon him , Arid that , if an

    acoident occurred , a ^ d the . rails ^ er « i afterward ^ jfound in an , improper state , ihe blaine wpiiia ^ T ^ " o ^ J Ife ^ gSpgfE : ' , Highway Robbpky hbab ^ X & uii ^ wSpl , r ^ - ^^ Charle ^ Gibbs , a boy : fourteen < y $ fX 8 ot ' ,. k & JWi $ & n ' cbmmittea ; for trial charged ^ with \ jcofibing M ^ Ji ^^ 1 * P « , JoneB of If . lYs . Sii . . H « ^ ^*^^^ % ^^® rPf ft ® dav in Charles-street , JJipuryrla ^ e , fhre ^ . Ja & cM <> px & oyer her head , twisted her , arm JS & , it ^ epiipC ^^ nuinbed , an 4 wrenched away ^ ; t \ ie money / " . ~ . ^ " V _ fr ... . " . . * A Drunken WxMtAN at 3 edii ! U ^ t ^ ir "J 6 ^ gui . he ' r hna-t band ' s throat for refusing to sleiep wtth'hef . '" 'Tliereseenm to be a chance for the , man ' s r , ecoyery , . rThe woman ; ia committed for trial , ' ¦' . ' . *" .. . ! : . ¦ . * -. , ~ .,. T . . -V' . ' ., ,.

    Alleged CoNSPiRACsr and ' Jpawd ,- A . case , whicE excited considerable ^ interest , f tiid . tfi & ' i ^ yestigatiou o ? which spread over a long time ^ was Jaeiaurd ^ t ; the West ^ minster poliee-oij ^ ce , on ^^ Thuiaday , " iwheu , Mr . Edward Frederick Wilks , proprietor ' , ^ tte ^^ c hflr ^ Brewery ; Chelsea , Thomas Wilks , * his son ,. aiq « l ^^ ^ Vatier , hia clerk , were charged with conspiracy , f ? a \ id , . and forgery ^ It appeared , from evidence gjhren , ^ y . hw ? elf , \ that Edwin Taylor , a . beershop-keejpier m St ., . GgojgeVria-the-East , had dealt for some time with ^ r . ' ^ i lks At length , ; however , Mr . "iSVilks , found his ^ " ^^ ij & S ^^ St and , desired to sell it . . He tlierefqie , , a

    though ; in iact he was . only paying .. . 12 / - a ponjh , and for about ten weeks paid nothing at . atl ,- T ^ ayjlor seas , tobe rewarded for ^ " t to , jfoguery \> y : certftin ; sums in ^ blqli he was indebted to Wilk ^ at beisg jwitten , 4 > ff ,. and i by a promise of putting him into another .-and Jbetjfer house . In the course of a conversation b ^ tweeil jthe conspirators ^ Waller said to Taylor , alluding to Mr- ^ oweu being i long time making up his mind whether ^ , he wpuld take the lease , " Give him a stray order JEjir . 3 > < M , " or 40 / . & upon which Taylor asked , " JBtow am I ,, to pay Mr . CowelL ? " . Waller replied ,. " < 5 d . through . thecourt , and we will pull you through . " "yhonjas ^ ilks added , " That ' s right , Taylor ; go thicqusb , / and we will put you in the way of getting r another .,.. ^ p / . oi ^ t hi him . " The plot succeeded " by means , of . falsa sum

    books . of -account ; , > and Mr . C ^ el ^ jpaid . a of money-for the brewery whic , h , had . he ,, been , aware . of the real value pf the ] business , he ; Tyjouid-niKthave giveni . One of the witnesses exhibited . great :., unwillingness to relate what he knew . He was . showjn a , paper which he had signed , purporting ito be an . account of what he iad witnessed of the transaction ; bijt he s % idl that he had signed without reading it ,, though he was . ^* really acting conscientiously in the matter . " Mr . Parry , counsel for the prosecution , askeoffhim if te had not told Taylor Jhat he could have 200 ? , ^ aiidiirmsejf $ 0 l . r for npt appearing in the matter . He replied , xio f but Mr . Parry sala he was certain he had Been tampered with . —Tha fcase Was aajourned for a week ;/ " aiid the 'defendants entered intd their own f ecoghisances to appear again .

    Letter-stealing . —John < 5 race , ? i } , e £ ter-carrier in the aWrvfce of the General Post-61 fice , ; wa ¥ on Thursday committed for trial on a fcharge of stealing . ' Uvo letter ? containing cheques . It would ' seerh' that he had de- tainedthem so long that beidi < J i \ fet'lSkfe' t 6 ueliver them , and : th ^ refore' tore th ( em to piecW . 'WHile bearing them , he saw cheques ; ' and became frightened ' atwhat ' he hai dorieV 'This was his own account '' of 1 the h ^ aiter ; and it was supported by the' fact or '' jjortijpna of ithe cheques bdfng rourtd ' at ' hislbdg ings . :: ' ' ' "" The Cudham MuRiikR . —A ^ rjbWt o ^ p Ttvq Men . —^ Paling and Clarke , the two men suspected of the murd er of Mrs . Bagley , hkve been arrested ^ th ' e '' , one' at th 6 village of Fairfidd , on the road , to Br ^ etol , the other at HaVant , in Hampshire . The fonjnier ;' was traced

    out through having been concerned with a ticket-of-leavo convict , named Wheeler , in a hiirglary at a gentleman ' s house . . He was arrested some time after midnight in bed dt [ Wheeler ' s residence . Some of tjie cldtheai fitblen from . Bagley ' s' premisias . w ^ ere discovered in his ' room . On hi * person was found a pflaliri which , he said was his owncomposition . ' It was in four" or five stanzas , each stanza ending witli the words , " Lord , thy will be done ! " He ia ( ftbout tweiity-fiveyeprpof age , arid'foii ' ^ years ago wad c ^ nyjctejfl of" burglary . Hie ^ as examined on Thursday } , the : chief witnesses against hiffi bemig two farm-laliourerftwiifl , ij \ the morjaing of the murder , aaw ^ a man running , from the direction of Bagley ' fl house , whom they believ 6 to be Palirig . Clarke , wild was arrested later , has not yet been examined .

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    WAV AX . AND MILIOPAH ^ JNEWS . Tiro late Sir Geomok Cathoart . — The colonial of Queon ' a Town , in the , colony , « tf tho Cape of Good Hope , have resolved to- ; establish a ,, permanent memorinl of Sir George Gathcart , who fell gloriously at Inkennw » shortly after . laying , ' down thoigoyonunont of the Cape ; Tho memorial will bo a public biailduig ' .. of hexagonal formy filled with ; booka , und forming , a public library . The external tablet will , record .,. the , victories of tho general , and the admiration of tho founders . ' AURiVAfciOF Wounkep frowc the GRiwuKA .-r-On Saturday afternoon ; the largest' number of invalid laoldiera from the Crimea who havo , been received at Chatham for some time arrived at Strood station by Bpecial train

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 8, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08091855/page/8/