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    appear in evidence that the prisoner himself had taken the property , the assistant judge said he could not be legally convicted of taking , and the jury acquitted him . The St . George ' s-in -the -East weekly rows are beginning to take a complicated shape . In the Consistory Court , on Saturday , Dr . Philiimore applied , on behalf of the Rev . Bryan King , rector of St . George * s-in-the-East , to allow the office of judge to be promoted against certain persons for the offence

    of " brawling '' in the church . The judge , observing that a primajacie case had been made out , granted the application against a defendant named Rosier . Another application , v . Barnard , was refused . This was followed by a man named William Jones applying to the magistrate at Thames Policecourt for a summons ap . ainst the Rev . Mr . Lowder , curate of St . George ' s-in-the-Enst , for assaulting him on Sunday last in front of the parish church . Mr . Selfe granted the summons .

    A man named Josiah Selwyn Brewer , calling himself a lecturer , was indicted , for fraudulently obtaining from Edward Robson a number of books & c , value £ 55 ; he was also indicted for defrauding James Rogers of £ 7 . 13 s . Evidence having been adduced in support of these indictments , the jury said there could be no doubt of his guilt , and returned a verdict to that effect . Mr Metcalfe then gave a short sketch of the prisoner ' s history , from which it . appeared that he had been living by swindling for the last 15 years . He was sentenced to three years ' penal servitude .

    At the Middlesex Sessions , John Price , a powerful man , was charged with assaulting and wounding George Hopkinson , one of Lord Enfield ' s gamekeepers at South Minims . Hopkinson detected the prisoner poaching on his lordship ' s park at Wrotham , and spoke to him about it , when he struck him on the head , and kicked him so that it produced hernia . The charge was clearly proved , and the jury found him guilty , on all the counts in the indictment . Mr . Metcalfe stated that the prisoner had been convicted no less than fifteen times of poaching , larceny and other offences . The learned ,. Assistant judge commented on the conduct of the prisoner in severe termsj and , as a warning to others , sentenced him to three years' hard labour in the House of Correction .

    Another instance of the brutality which prevails on board of American ships has come to light in a recent trial at Newcastle . In this instance the result has been the death of a seaman from the fearful usage to which he was subjected by the mate . Several cruel beatings , periodically administered , were brought to a climax by the mate knocking in the skull of the sailor with an iron bolt . He has been found guilty of manslaughter , and sentenced to penal servitude for life . On the case of the Rev . H . J . Hatch , to which we adverted last week , the Morning Post has some judicious remarks , the writer says : —" The vice of which he is alleged to be guilty is inexpiable ,

    because the injury done is irreparable ; the seeds implanted are beyond eradication . But , on the other hand , if he is not guilty , was there ever a calamity more dreadful than has befallen this clergyman ? Hurled at once from honour to reprobation , from sufficiency to poverty , from progress in his profession , to absolute ruin , from the charities of domestic life to the rigours of the gaol , and , far worse than all , ' from the esteem of the wise and good to the detestation of mankind . Here are all the sufferings of martyrdom with none of its dignity , none of its moral compensations . Every pang , but one , that can rend the moral nature , ana break a man down beyond all redemption as to this world ,

    is summed up in his conviction and sentence . Is he , then , guilty , or is he not ? If guilty , his crime is beyond the execration of human speech ; if innocent , no human compassion can console the uuspeakable hardship of this case . Now , we think that none of our readers will deny that , as far as it has transpired , theevidence against Mr . Hatch is very incomplete . Wo repeat that the case is the most unsatisfactory and inexplicable that we ever heard of ; and we subn : t that the circumstances earnestly demand a review of the trial . The Secretary of State can do this case as in that of Smethurat ; and though there are objections to such reviews by a

    mony ? And , if not , ought it to - sanction any lesser punishment ?" At a fire in Whitecliapel , on Tuesday morning , a fire escape conductor saved ten lives by his coolness and courage with the aid of his escape ; the brave man s name is Wood . On the names bursting but Wood arrived just in time . Ten persons presented themselves at the second floor window , and ( he most piteous cries for help were heard . Wood told them to remain for a few minutes and he would rescue them . He then placed his machine against the

    burning building , and first brought down six children . He again ascended , and placed Mrs . Jane Henry , aged seventy years , Mrs Susan Jacobs , Mr . Lewis Jacobs , arid the servant , in the machine . The poor conductor now sank under his great exertions , and if it had not been for the timely arrival of Edward Cooke , the conductor of another fire-escape , he must have fallen a victim to his courage . When Cooke brought his brother conductor down the ladder , Wood was in a state of insensibility , and it was upwards of half an hour before he returned to his senses .

    The coroner ' s jury reassembled , this week , at Long-alley , Finsbury , to investigate the circuhvstances of the death of Mary Ann Moore , who was so horribly murdered and decapitated on Monday week . Application had been made to the Secretary of State for the attendance of deceased ' s husband , who is charged with the commission of the crime , and the order was granted . It now appears that the prisoner Moore was discharged from the lunatic asylum in legal form on the 23 rd ult . He was found guilty of wilful murder by the coroner ' s jury , and was afterwards committed for trial , in due course , by the police magistrate .

    The coroner ' s jury have returned a verdict to the following effect , at the close of the inquest on the body of William Eaton , alleged to have been poisoned by eating sausages at Kingsland : " That deceased was seized with illness from eating sausages , and died shorty afterwards , the immediate cause being unknown ; and the jury thought that there ought to be an addition to the number of meat inspectors . " An inquest was held on Monday at the Gity-road ,

    to inquire into the death of a photographic artist , named Edmund Shirley , and a girl , named Rosetta Greenwood , who were found dead in bed at a coffeehouse on Thursday last . The evidence showed that death resulted in each case from poison in the form of cyanide of potass , which had been voluntarily taken by both the deceased . Family quarrels on the part of the man account for his commission of the Act , and the girl , being his sweetheart , had of her own will shared his wretched fate .

    The Peninsular and Oriental steam-ship Alhambra , when off Calabria , in a passage from Corfu to Malta , was going at the rate of eleven knots an hour , with single reefed topsails , foresail , and stern , topsails , wheriacry . of" a man overboard" was heard . The captain at once gave orders for the reversal of the engin es , and for a life-buoy to be thrown over , and the vessel gradually rounded to . The man overboard reached , the life-buoy , but was completely out of sight . Orders were then given for launching the boat , which was manned in charge of the third officer , but her tackle got jammed , and she swung broadside with a terrific crash , tearing her bows almost asunder , and precipitating those who were in

    her into the sea . Discoll ( A . B . ) was saved by seizing , some of the floating debris of the shattered boat . Eastman ( A . B . ) was swept to leeward . All attention was then drawn to the perilous position of Mr . Dodd , the officer , who having obtained a footing upon a portion of the boat , threw off his monkey jacket , and was again dashed into the boiling sea , and when told to hold on and ho would be pulled up , he said he could not , for his left arm was put of its socket . In the meantime , the second officer made a bowline , but it could not be got properly over him . It was evident that he was powerless to save himself , and Mr . Toll , chief officer , slid down the after fall , and wns immediately alongside him , placed the bowline under both his arms , and he was hauled up . Mr . Toll had a most narrow escape himself , but a

    friendly rope brought him safely to tlio ship The lifeboat during this time was being cleared away , and the other poor fellows wore speedily saved . The wreck of the American mail steamship Indian was attended with more disastrous consequences than were at first imagined . She struck on a sunken ledge , and parted amidships in half an hour afterwards ; one boat was capsized and several persons drowned ; another boat was stove alongside the hull , while two boats , containing n portion of the passengers and crow , drifted to soa , and had not been heard of at tho latest date . Twenty-four persons were saved by tho eohooner Alexander , and landed at Halifax . Tho breakers raged with force on all sides of tho steamer . The schooner Lutoa was also wreoked on the breakers , while running close to tho wreck of the Indian .

    eingletindividual , yet , till the country is provided with a Court of Criminal Appoal that will meet such oases , there is no other resource . The points which require to be satisfied refer to tho credibility of the girls , tho elder especially . What arc their antecedents ? Have they been truthful and ., good ? What books have they been accustomed to read ? Have they had access to newspapers , and divorce cases , and penny journals P Wltat character have their parents hitherto borne ? With what servants or others have they associated ? Did they communicate to tho servants of Mr . Hatch , or to any schoolfellows or others , what had occurred ? If Mr . watch ' s crime wore a capital one , would tho country consent that he should be hanged upon thio testi-

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    vented the Queen ' s departure for Osborne on Monday as intended ; but the journey' to the Isle of "Wight was accomplished in' , safety on Tuesday ; and the royal family remain at Osborne , all in good health . Death of one of the Judges . —Sir RichardB . ' Crowder , one of the Judges of the Common Pleas , died suddenly in the early part of this week . He was in Court on Saturday last , in , to all appearances , his usual health . The deceased judge was the eldest son of the late Mr . W . H . Crowder , and was in his 70 th year . He was educated at Eton , and completed his studies at Trinity College , Cambridge . In the rear

    The Court . —On Saturday morning tlrS Queen and the Prince Consort , accompanied by the Prince and Princess . Frederick William of Prussia , toeetW with the Prince : of Wales and the Princess Alice lef t Windsor Castle , and travelled by the Great Western Railway to Paddington , where the Prince and Princess Frederick William took leave , and passed through the metropolis to the Bricklayers Arms station , whence they were convoyed by a special train of the South Eastern Hail way . to Dover . They reached Calais about noon . The Prince of Wales returned to Oxford the same day . The tempestuous state of the weather

    pre-1821 he was called to the bar at Lincolu ' s-inn , and for a long series of years went to the Western Circuit . On the death of Sir Charles Wetherell , he was appointed Recorder of Bristol ,. which honourable position he held for close on eight years , when , in 1854 , he was promoted to be one of the puisne judges of . the Court of Common Plea ' s ; The deoeased was for a few years in the House of Commons , having represented Liskeard in Parliament from ^ January , 1849 , up to his elevation to the bench in 1854 , after unsuccessfully contesting Winchester in 1841 . Sir Richard was for some years counsel for the Admiralty and Judge-Advocate to the Fleet .

    The Gloucester Inquirv .- —The commission to inquire into the existence of corrupt practices at the Gloucester elections resumed their labours atFludyer-street , Westminster , this week . Several witnesses were examined , after ¦ which Mr . Julian Bernard was called . This witness was required to . produce his pass and cash books , but failed to put in- an appearance . The proceedings were therefore adjourned , to give Mr . Bernard another opportunity of answering . the summons . Harrow and Dr . Valoiian . —On Monday evening nearly 250 gentlemen , Harrow men and " Harrovians , " dined together at the Freemasons ' Tavern , to do honour to the Rev . Dr . Vauglian , master

    who has lately resigned the office of head . The chair was filled by Mr . C S . Currer , as having been captain of the school in Dr . Vauglian ' s first year . On returning thanks for his health being drunk . Dr . Vaughan , with much feeling , said ; : — ? ' In the ordinary course there were but three causes to terminate a head master ' s connexion with a school—death , failing strength , or ecclesiastical preferment . His ambition had been to exemplify a fourth ; he had wished to leave the school which lie had served at the very summit of its prosperity . It was a work of great difficulty and anxiety to control five hundred young human wills , subject to every crust * of temper and passion , and without experience

    to * keep them steady . In such a life , . teaching wan a relaxation , and the hours he spent with his awn form were the lightest , the most delig htful . He knew . The prosperity of a school was precanouB , and public opinion was not always just . Alter fifteen years of arduous toil and occasional dangers , he now claimed some repose—not a period ot idleness , but of domestic privacy . It had been the « x « a intention of his great master , Dr . Arnold , at w close of his fifteenth year at Rugby , to retire to ms home in the north , and occupy himself with u \ g charge of private pupils , for which lie refused ecclesiastical advancement . Death in tho fourteenth year prevented Dr . Arnold from doing what no { " * Vaushan " * was now permitted to do . Ho had never

    meant to wait till ho should be made a cftnon or oean , for no such preferment should tempt a sensible man from such a post as that of hood master ot . 1 Jnrro ^; Ho vindicated himself from any objection tun * might be raised to his retirement upon short nou " . by remarking that it was not good for tho acliooii undergo a long period of uncertainty . 1 * ° , ?" very warmly cheered . Later in tho evening «« proposed the health of his successor , tho uev . »• Montagu Butler , whom ho thought tho fittest man in all England to take his placo ns head master . The Royal

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 10, 1859, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10121859/page/8/