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      Nilddlesex Sessions. Joseph Petit, A Fre...

      cleric and collector . He bad been previously tried and i found Guilty of forging a bill of exchange . The sentence was seven years' transportation ; but he was liberated on ticket-of-leave , and Mr . Greatorex , out of kindness , and having received a good recommendation from the chaplain of Dartmoor prison and from Messrs . Grissell , with ¦ whom the man had lived previous to his conviction , took him into Ms service—a kindness which he-soon abused . He was found Guilty of the embezzlement , and sentenced to penal servitude fox six years .

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      Sacriinsgb At Derrford.—-The -Whole Of T...

      SACRiinsGB at DErrFORD . — -The -whole of the plate I ( amounting to 200 Z . worth ) has been stolen from the t church of St . Paul ' s , Deptford , which was broken into < on tha night of the l 8 t instant . A policeman whose heat c includes the church had neglected , contrary to orders , to 1 go through the churchyard once in every hour ; and the * thieves—who are supposed to have been four in number , < and who must have used great violence—were thus . 3 enabled to pursue their / work in quiet . —Some burglars ' at-Perth , on Friday , broke into the Session-house in the " hope of stealing the communion plate of the East i Church , which is generally kept there . But they were disappointed , for the plate , on that particular occasion , TVas not in the building . A . Hard Case is brought before the notice of the public by a correspondent of the Times . A poacher -was / recently " tried for the murder of a gamekeeper , but was found Guilty merely of manslaughter , though , had the testimony of one of the witnesses been received , he would have been convicted of the capital offence . But the counsel for the defence suggested , the Judge confirmed , and the jury apparently believed , that thi 3 witness had perjured himself for the sake of a reward which had been offered for the prisoner ' s conviction ; and the poacher was oiily transported for life , instead of being hung . The witness' character , however ^ was ruined , thoxigh the cross-examination of him ha . il not shaken his evidence . " He accordingly went to the nearest town to ^ the scene of the murder , taking with him several witnesses , and there proved to the entire satisfaction of the magistrates that every word he had said was true . Since the trial , the witness has lost his place ( his late master being an uncle of the prisoner ) , and- he is at present in very distressed circumstances , as , owing to the stain on his character , he is unable to obtain employment . " The correspondent suggests that a witness under such circumstances " ought to be allowed to appeal , and that , having proved the truth of his statements , his character should be publicly declared free from stain . " Murder of Two Children . —A Liverpool butcher , nanied John Gibbons , has cut the throat of his wife and of three of his children . Two of the children are dead ; and the other child is seriously wounded . The woman is the man ' s second wife , and is said to be a . drunkard . The man seems to bo insane , and is under the delusion that he will be dragged paraded about the town in an iron cage , attended by bands of music . Attesipt to Murder a Policeman . —A murderon 3 attack has been made on a policeman near the little hamlet of Denny , Somersetshire , by a tieket-of-leave man and his brother , who had a grudge against one of the constabulary , -and who mistook their man . The wounded officer was felled , stubbed , and left insensible , by a . [ cross-road , oai the night of Friday week . The policeman for whom the attack was intended afterwards arrested the Buspected parsons , and they are under roinand . A Painful Case . —William Stevens Ilayward , described as a gentleman , was charged at I 3 ow-street , on Monday , by Jane Bettison , servant at a lodging-house in Alfred-place , with committing a criminal assault upon heron the previous evening . The magistrate in vain endeavoured to extract from her a plain statement of the circumstances , and at last she burst into tears , exclaiming , " I oan ' t say it ; I really can't , sir . " The defendant ' s counsel suggested that the case should l > e adjourned to a future day , to give tho girl an opportunity of composing her mind , and Ilayward of communioating with his friends . Mr . Hall thought this was tho only course that oouldbo taken . Meanwhile , the accused was admitted to bail . A Card Sharper . — -The practice of card-sharping in railway carriages still continues , in Bpito of all the efforts of the public to put it down . Some gentlemen were in a second-class carriage on the South-Western Jtailway last Saturday morning , on their way to Mortlakc , to sec tho boat-race , when a man—who afterwards turned out to be a wcll-knovm sharper , named Michael Grantnskedono of tho passengers to bet on some cards which ho was . shaming . Tho gentleman bet a . penny , but apparently only with the design of making a case against Grant , and then giving him into custody . He won tho penny , which Grant oifered to pay ; but tho gentleman refused to take it , find said ho would give tho man into custody . Two of Grant ' s companions then began to bully tho gentleman ; but another person iu tho carriage au ]> ported tho latter , and tho sharper was given in charge when tho train roached Putney . His companions , howovor , escaped . Grant begged that ho might bo let go , on account of his "wife and throo children—an appeal ho rcjieatod when ho ^ iraa boforo tho Lambeth magistrate ; i i i ! ; i i t s i ) ) ) 3 , i ;

      but on neither occasion was it regarded . He -was re- * manded . ^ "A Soldier , and Aeeard . "—A scene of -violence 1 and abandoned vice at Woolwich , has terminated in the i death of a , gunner and driver of the Koyal Artillery , 1 named John Lawler . The soldier was at a disreputable * house in Hog-lane , together with a man named Walsh , < wlio had formerly been a bombardier , and who enter- < tained some old grudge against Lawler . Mrs . Coulson , the landlady of the house , was intoxicated ; and so were ' some of the women about the place . A quarrel arose between the landlady and the soldier , and she aimed a ] blow at him with the poker ; but Walsh warded it off , i though he struck Lawler with his £ sts , and turned him I oat . In a few minutes the artilleryman came back ; the door was opened ; Waleh and the landlady ( the ; former having the poker in his hand ) chased Lawler to some < stairs leading down to the river , and Walsh knocked his 1 cap off ; when , apparently through fear , the soldier j leaped into the water , and was drowned . The 1 andlady < wished Walsh to endeavour to get the man out of the water , but he refused . However , he afterwards gave information , at a neighbouring boat-station that a man was in the river . The case was brought before the " Woolwich magistrate , Walsh and the landlady being cliarged with causing the soldier's death ; but it was adjourned for further evidence . Theft by a Postman . —Charles Jackson , a postoffice bagman , has been committed for trial on a charge of stealing , on the 24 th of March , the way-bill of the Tewkesbury mail-bag , and two registered letterSj one containing a remittance of 571 / . 10 s . 5 d . Murderous Assault . — -An elderly gentleman , named Robert Robinson Tripp , having had a quarrel with his landlord , Mr . James Scott , of UitToi-d-strect , Caledonianroad , Islington , at half-past two o'clock ia the morning , stabbed him in . the side with a sword . He was given into custody ; hut Mr . Scott was so seriously wounded that he was unable to appear the following day . Tripp stated to the magistrate that Mr . Scott went up to his apartment at that unseasonable hour to ask for rent that lie swore at aud abused him ; and that he ( Tripp ) pushed him from the room with , the sword . " It was a case of villany , " he added . Tlie magistrate remanded Mm for a week . Mr . Scott has since died . Stabbing . —George Holies , described as a gas-fitter fcut who appears to get his Irving by theatrical performances , is under remand at tl le Worship-street policeoffice , charged with stabbing his wife iu the shoulder Lecausc she refused to make a pair of stage trousers for Mm on a Sunday . : De 3 peuatiox axi > . Cri 2 ME . —Two tickct-of-leavc men liave" been examined at Sh ' eftield , and committed for ¦ trial , on a charge of setting lire to a wheat stack . One of them admitted that he had done it , and said they were driven to desperation by want and the inability to get employment . When the ilames were discovered , they appeared to place themselves in the way of being Captured . . A Rkspf . ctabi / E TiiiER— -Mr . John Morse , a person carrying on an extensive business as a furniture broker and salesman in the Commercial-road , Peck ham , has been examined at-Lambeth police-court on- a charge of stealing a cruet-stand aiid some bottles from a shop in High-street , . Pcckham . The property was only ¦ worth about live shillings , and he was observed to talce it from the front of the shop ,. aud walk quietly away , lie w « is committed for trial . Poisonings . —A very melancholy event has recently occurred at Glasgow , a young I'Ycnchman in that town , named Pierre Emile l'Angelier , having been poisoned under circumstances which have caused a young lady to be taken into custody , on suspicion of having committed the crime . It seems that for some time past M . L'Angelior liad beon on terms of the closest intimacy with Miss Madeleine Smith , the daughter of an architect living in Dlythswood .-square . One morning , while stopping at the village of Uridge-of-Alluu , the young man received a letter from Mian Smith , ¦ saying that site wished to sue Mm immediately . He , therefore , started at once for Glasgow , and , on arriving thero , called sit his lodgings for a short time , and then went out , . saying that he should not bu home again until late . Ho returned about two o ' clock in the morning , and compluined of feeling vory ill . Medical aid was iinniediately sent for , and a surgeon prescribed for the young Frenchman , apparently without Biwpecting that any poison had been administered to him . TUo patient , nevertheless , continued to suffer very violent pains throughout tho night , and on the forenoon of the following day ho was so much worse , that tlio medical gentleman who had attended him the previous niglit was again sent for ; but by the time he arrived tlio young man was dead . A post-mortem examination of the body was made , and arsenic was discovered in tlio stomach . Miss Smith was subsequently apprehended on suspicion , when it transpired that she had purchased arsenic ; but it was » nid that flhe merely bought it to use as a cosmetic . Tho inquiry iu not yet completed . —Another case of poisoning has hnpponod in the village of Chorloy , in Lancashire ; thu suspected culprit iu tliia instance being a shoemaker « f tho name of Edward Hardmnn . His wife died about a month ago , and was buried in tho paribh church ; but , auspicious having

      : : aHa ^ a ^ n ^ ava ^^ BBM ^ OMHMMivOMBWMMBMal iftenvards arisen as to the cause of . her death , the body rras exhumed and the stomach examined by --an anaytica . 1 chemist , who detected the presence of antimony ind arsenic . He gave it as his opinion that the woman tiad < lied from poison , and Hardman . was , therefore , ipprelxended aud committed to Lancaster gaol on a ; harge of Wilful Murder . —Mr . Joseph Hodson , farmer , sf Collinghain , near Xewark , North Nottinghamshire , was discovered on the morning of Sunday , the 22 nd alt ., sitting upright in a chair in his house , quite dead . A portion of a mince-pie was found on the table beside him . He had evidently eaten of this ; and chemical analysis showed that it was poisoned . It had been sent to him through the carrier . The inquest was adjourned . — A case of poisoning is being investigated at Woolwich , where an artilleryman is charged with administering a ieleterious drug to a woman of the town with whom he had .-h ' att a quarrel . The woman is not dead ; but , on giviug evidence at the police-court , she was so ill anl overcome with emotion that she swooned , and the case was left incomplete . It is stated that tho artilleryman , is her husband . She said in her evidence that she ia married ^ but on being asked the name of he r husband , became so much affected that no answer could be obtained . ' Attejiited MuEDEr . at Maidstone . —A woman of light character at Maidstoue , has been nearly murdered by a bargeman , between whom and herself and sister there had been an altercation . The girl's akull is fractured , anil she lies in a very dubious state . Swindi / Ing . by Wholesale . — 'A moustached foreigner , styling himself Captain John Jonsen , a Hungarian , at liirkenuea-d , has for the past week or so been ordering goods from every one who Avould give him temporary credit in that town and . Liverpool . On Tuesday , ( Japtain Joivaen attended a public sale , and had knocked down to him goods to the value of ill ., for which , . however , ' -as-Tor . everything else he had ordered , lie did not pay . After liis departure from the saleroom , two valuable cups were missed , and he was traced by a . detective to his lodgings , where , on his pockets being Searched , invoices for goods which had not then arrived ¦ were found to the : amount of about 300 ? . Ho was taken before the magistrates on Wednesday , and . committed for trial . Gakottisg at 13 niaiiTON . ^ -r Several caso 3 of garotte robbery have occurred within the last two or three weeks in the neighbourhood of the Dyke l £ o : ul and the Upper ShoTeham-road , ' Brighton . Tin : SiiEi'FiiiLD Election Disturuances . —One of the oflicers engaged in the preservation of peace on Saturday week died on -. Wednesday morning , in consequence of injuries which he received by a stone , which ¦ was thrown by some of tha mob who assembled in front of the-Angel Hotel , -Shcilielu . The name of the deceased is Iiilward Prior . Riot . —Five men and a woman have been examined before . - the Worship-street magistrate on a charge of beiiig concerned in a furious' attack on the : police ; and a gentleman of independent property , named Cohon , was at the same time-charged-with inciting the mob to . resist the police . A constable had been arresting a , man for an assault , when Waggett , the ' principal of the portions" now charged , came up , and , after savagely assaulting thc . oiUccr , rescued the captive . The policeman , though severely injured , -followed Wagyctt , and seized him . A frightful struggle then ensued , audit , was found necessary to send -for a reinforcement of poliee , as a large mob ha < l . collected , Avho-m Mr . Cohen constantly ur ^ cd to attack the . policeman . The officer ' was found by his comrades stretched on tlie pavement , with Wnggett and the others surrounding him . Even then the riot was with diiliculty quelled , Jiml soveral of the constables were seriously Jiurt , Cohen nil the while hea . ]) ing abuse upon them . All tho prisoner . ) were committed for trial ; but bail was accepted . Mutiny ' . —Andrew George Gallagher , William Toilil , and John Williamson , seamen , were charged lit tha Thames police-olliee with mutiny and disobeying tho commands of Captain Alexander Andruw , the master of the barque Marchioness of Ailsn , and ul > tr > ¦ witli attempting to utalj Mr . John Pearson , the ehiesf ollicer , and Thomas Al'Lintock , n seaman belonging to the samu ves .-id , on its homeward voyage from Taljlo Hay , Capo of ( iood Hope . Tlio mutiny arose out of Home complaints about tho food . Tho men wcra ronmndod .

      Gatiikuings From Tlll-I Law And Police C...

      GATIIKUINGS FROM Tlll-i LAW AND POLICE COU 1 U \ S . A skuiohs defeet in law has been exhibited in n caso tried at the Liverpool Assizes , and hits ' called forth tloinn severe criticism from the Preston ( Junrdinn . A man named Astin , one of tho proprietors of a co-operatiYO association culled * ' The Pudiham Cotton League Company , " broke into the mill on tho night of the 18 th of last February , and cut and wantonly destroyed a groat quantity of cotton warps , worsted hoalds , cuxl machinery , inflicting damage to tho amount of 300 / . Ah well as being a shareholder in tho company , Astin had boon employed by it , but had been discharged . This had kindled his animosity , and he had been heard to utter throats against the members . Those facts having been stated at tho trial by Mr . Kdwiu Juntos , in hia opening

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 11, 1857, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11041857/page/7/