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      America. Tiirc Presidential Nominations ...

      ridate , Kentucky ^ W . . Dayton , Hew Jersey ; A . J . gSJefc ^ TenSssee ; W . F . Johnston , Pennsylvania , ; SnSRaynor , North Carolina , ; S , M'Farland , Eennyiyania > In the Bawe of Representatives , Mr . £ «*«»« r « Nieeer Worahipper" ) , of New York , had given notice 181 S wohibitfng the introduction or anmoetataan ot ^ . ZX ^^ L alatio . appropriating 4 O ' ^ ^ for the pansbase of the Briliah Arctic explormgabip SLSSetodtpa ^ ed . It is Signed to refit the vessel , a ^ restow hWto the Eng lish Gowmment . —GeBeral SdsdeThas arrived in Washington with the new treaty and convention -with Mexico . The Hon . James J . Strang , commonly called " King Strung , " the leader and propfcet of the Mormons located on Beaver Islands , has been shot by two of his followers , and received injuries from which he is not l ^ el 7 to recover . Strang was the ruling spirit among the Mormons , a large number of whom are Welsh . — It is saw ! fhat a communication has just been received m Nicaragua from the Government of Costa Rica , in which the latter State acknowledges the Government of President Rivas and General "Walker , puts forward its convietion that the war is at an end , and offers to become responsible for all tbe expense . Considering the recent critical situation of Walker ,, and the successes of the Costa Rican army , this intelligence must he regarded , as doubtful . Information has been received that the Ouatemala army of two thousand men has been ordered to invade Nicaragua . From Kansas , we hear that Colonel Strainer , to quote from a letter from " Westport , dated June 17 th , ** has put the California and Santa F «? routes , and all the priacipal roads leading through Kansas , under blockade . He has driven Buford , Jones , Shelb y * and all leading emigrants desirous of becoming peaceable settlers , out of the territory . " An attempt has been made to murder the new sheriff of Douglas county , Kansas . Three men went to his house at night , fired through the window at his bed , and broke open the door , when the sheriff shot one throngh the body , and the rest escaped . A band of Chenesen Indians , near Tort Kearney , having joined a party of Sioux , have proclaimed war . One white man has been killed . Great excitement prevails in the city of Mexico , owing to some differences between the Congress and Cabinet with respect to the reorganization of the Privy Council . The arrival of the Spanish squadron at Vera Cruz has also created no little commotion . The Cabinet positively refuses to receive the new Spanish minister as long as his demands are backed by the presence of a fleet of vessels of war . An alliance with the United States is advocated by many . Generals Santa Anna and Woll have been published as deserters by the military commission . The Jesuits are about to be deprived of their property , and the decree of Santa Anna for their restoration is to be revoked . Cuba is quiet . In reply to a letter from sympathizers in Charleston , accompanying the present o a cane , Mr . Brooks ( the ruffian who was very properly turned out of the House of Representatives for his cowardly assault on Mr . Stunner ) writes as follows : — " S . S . Farrar , Esq . —My dear : Sfc , —I beg to tender my respectful acknowledgments to yourself and the gentlemen associated with you , for the ; handsome oane received . a few days since by express . ; The » c 6 which , yon are plstUted to commend , jwas £ kfe . reatdt of • ehseioifAi ^ y— -a *«« jr ip & icA either qf my colleagues toautd hatoe cbeerfulhj < ^ evf < xrmedyhad they been in my precise situation . I accept the Palmetto cane as on evidence of the generosity of my friends in Charleston , and < pot for any anerit © f my own . I have the honour to-he , ffespeotftujy and truly , your friend and servant , P . iS . Bkooka . " The modest Brooks , it win be seen , says that the < caue is nao $ sent to him " for any merit of his own . " AsBuxedfyhe here epaaks the truth , and every hfioest . man will for once agree with him . « y « "private or personal " difficulties" -are reported in the INkfw York papers .: John 8 . Bradford , a broker , -was " ¦ cowWdea" in the streets 1 > y Benjamin Wood , 'brother of the If ay ot . The bitter struck fibe former a fearful blew aovesB'the-face , gashing » he flesh to a great depth . A-atn ^ ggle ensued , andcontinued until the ftiends of the ooirtbRtimtB separated them . The other affirir-was at-Hcthnesville , wherecone V . 5 E . MifLendpn , anatfcqrneyatt-law , attacked a Dr . H , J . Smith with a knife , und cufblm seriously about the face and neck . Smith then fired four tfnxes irith his revolver , which took but toWle oflfoot ; and so the matter seems to have -terminated . "i ! P # f « lrtiiea , " fiays 1 ffieiV « i 7 Tor % Times , « fc are gentlemen , of , character , and very much esteemed . " The Kansas' Investigating Committee have closed their labours at the JLaMn ^ fabuse , Hew York , and left for W *» MJ | g * fctn . ' Xh ^ objeot of their short session was to jgraoome jmtlttttoto' « rUmae relative to the doings tike XMseAGtMsetU'lOarigaMi * . Aid Society ,, about whloh tbwwt ^ fceaAa gaod dctfMJOlapiite . For this purpose , vtyMMBB von « al ^ gwi | ihe «&* ai Beaton , and testimony Hty hfhrii » g 4 w » fiMtmbJcBii wm < * iM «* from Amos A . ftMNtttfse , EM ThiffW , and J 3 > . 3 P . flbo-wiy . governor A . 3 L gaafttr furnished * fce . committee with « omfe evident * to mg * t &* o ether mbjecte coanectwd uritk the inxMMtimtfnn . ' ' . " : ¦'

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      ! 0 W % CIV ! LIZ ATI OK —•—QUARRELSOME LOVJERS . An action for breach of promise of marriage has been tried in the Court -of Common Pleaa . Mx . Woodfine , a brewer at Hornchurch , in Essex , paid court to a Miss Smith , the daughter of a retired clerk in the Audit Office- The suit was accepted , and the wedding-day fixed . Suddenly , Jfe Woodfine said the ceremonial must be postponed for various causes ; and , upon being questioned , it turned out that he was offended because , as "he supposed , invitations had not teen -sent to certain , relations of Ms , a Mr . and Mrs . Thompson . He was told that invitations had been sent ; on which he apologized , and fixed another day for the wedding . Again he broke off the engagement , saying that his mother had been neglected ; and , an interview having taken place between the fond couple ( previous to which Mr . "Woodfine locked Miss Smith ' s father into another room ) , the gentleman proposed that the marriage should take place privately , and that none of Miss Smith s family should ever cross his doorway . If this were agreed to , Mr . Woodfine's mother -would " forgive" Miss Smith * . So insulting a proposal was of course rejected , and the courtship came to an end . It appeared that Mr . Woodfine , though wealthy , was of humble origin ; and it was sought to be shown , in cross examination , that Miss Smith and her family conducted themselves with insultitig hangfitiness to the relations of the young lady ' s suitor . Mr . Smith himself stated , in his examination in chie , that when Mr . Woodfine , on the day that he locked him in , called him " fool , a liar , a placeman , and a clerk , " and at the same time shook his fist at him , he retorted that he should be ashamed to say what his ( Mr . WoodfWs ) father and grandfather were . It was also suggested in the cross-examination that Miss Smith had spoken of some of Mr . Woodfine's connexions as « vulgar relations ; " but this was denied by the young lady ' s sister . According to the evidence of another witness , Mr . Woodfine had said that Miss Smith had told him " she could look like a very devil ; and the gentleman ' s mother disapproved of her because , as she alleged , she was " extravagant and ill-tempered . The AttornejMxeneral ( who appeared for the defence ) pleaded for moderate damages ; but the jury gave 300 < M . Tb » MnKBBK by A Spaniakd . —The Spanish seaman , Bernardo Heoiiquez , who was convicted at the last session of the , CentTal Criminal Court xif the murder of one of his countrymen , aod who was . sentenced to death , has received the clemency of the Crown . An order was received on Saturday at Newgate , commuting the capital sentence to transportation for twenty years . Cjbnt & ax . Criminal Coubt . —The July session commenced on Monday , when . the first -case was that of Oscar SLingston . and Benjamin Allen Howard , the two Americans wiio were arrested between tw-o and three months ago on a charge of plundering hotels . The fcicts of these cases -were related in the Leader of April 2 fttb . Kingston was . found Guilty of stealing , and Howard of receiving , the money , which , in the case brought before the Kecorder , uras . the property of Mr . James Sandiland , a soHcxtar . They have heen sentenoed to five years' penai servitude . —Henry Stevens pleaded Guilty to a charge ofgJtffeling * large amount or property from a jeweller ' s she ^ K an Mark-ilane , about mx . o'clock in -the . « wendagT and with , using murderous -violence -towards the shopkeeper . He w : its . sentenced to tcaaaBportation for fourteen years . John and William George Wilson , described aa drapers , were found Not Guilty of receiving a . quantity of stolen goods , though knowing the same to have been stolen . —John Dugam , a ooalvhipper , was convicted of a savage assault on John Dwyer , and of biting off a pant of his noao . He was sentenced to eight months' hard labour . —John Simpson was found Guilty of . assaulting a Scotch seaman , xtao & ed William Falconer , after having tried to cheat him toy betting . —Edward Towers , Henry liorwood , and William , Fleckhar , have been tried for the singular burglary at the house of Mrs . Humphreys , on old lady living at Stamford Hill , on the 24 th of last April , the particulars of which -we lhave already published . John Peyton was charged at the same time with receiving part of the ^ plunder . The jury gave a verdiot . © f Guilty against Fleokhart , and Acquitted the . rest . Sentence of ( loath was recorded . The trial lasted eleven hours . —Herbert Croft Ryland , a clerk , has been Acquitted on a okorge of forging and ruttering a cheque . for 65 : 67 . —John Wilson , a prisoner in Coldbath Molds Gaol , has been found Guilty of a murdcroua assault on William Middleton , a warder . Ho was proved to be an old offender , and was sentenced to transportation for -twenty years<—WilHam Coombas > hua been Acquitted of a charge of sotting fire to a building ; and Koziah Osman , a widow ; , him been found iNot Guilty of attempting 4 * . murder her illegitimate child , by throwing it down a privy . It appeared . pxobablo ithat the child fall down . accidentally at its . birth . Tub : Trial . jOF Mjr . ¦& tuuefa for < ftuo oxiaiu ) lai | g > htor of a ( patient in < 1 ias Surray County iLunotio Asylum , Jaov Ibeen postponed to tbo next sesaioa of tho XDentmtl 'Criminal Coiuct . , . M . u > jyiMBKX . - SiEsaiONB . —The July / Geneva ! Quartor Sawiona b # gan on JMUuuUy . — 'Hanoiuh Kuox , ayoong

      macried woman , was aenteaoed to eight months' hard lafeMirfor beating an infiant placed under her charge with a bamboo stick . She ; pleaded ihat she was " . the worse for ^ k & ik . "— -A little boy , named Alfred Jftngleas , was charged with stealing a number of brass bearings , and Samuel Neile , a marine storeshop keeper , was accused of receiving the property , knowing it to have been stolen . Tie Assistant-Judge sentenced the boy to two years'hard labour , with the view to Iris being sent to the Reformatory Institution * . t Kedhill . As to Neile , he observed th ? * , didy considering the character he had received , tbe recommendjrtion to mercy of tbe jury , and the fact of the wife having had a share in the transaction , he should' pass upon him as light a sentence as he consistently could for such an offence , that sentence was six months' hard labour . Assizes . — -Maria Tarrant , a young married woman , was tried at the Oxford Assizes on a charge of murdering her infant by smashing in its stnlL The accused , who lived apart from her husband , was found guilty , and sentenced to death . During this trial , the seats beside the judge were crowded with ladies , most of them being in their teens . —Joseph Burton , a young man twenty-eight , has been sentenoed at the Northampton Assizes to four years' penal servitude for a rape , committed on an aged and infirm woman . Seduction and Manslaughter . —William CennelJ , a brass-founder , living in Ray-street , ClerkenweU , coming home one day and finding his wife in company with a man , with whom , it was but too clear , she had had criminal intercourse , took up a flower-pot , and flung it at the woman ' s head , after previously beating the man and turning him out of doors . The woman , in the course of about a week , died in hospital from tetanus , arising from injuries to the head , inflamed by drunkenness . Connell was tried on Thursday at the Central Criminal Court , on the charge of killing her ; but be was acqnitted . During the trial , the adulterer ( who bore -the singular Cornish name of Tregurtha ) was examined , and said he was a carpenter living in Peter ' s-terrace , Saffron-hill . He admitted that the disordered state of Mrs . Coxmell's clothes had been caused by his conduct , she having called him into the rooin . A Riot in Church . —Ann Stapling , a middis-agsed married woman , was charged at Bow-street with creating a disturbance in the church of St . Clement Danes . Her husband had gone to the church with his two daughters , the children of one of whom were to be christened . The ¦ wife , who was the stepmother of the young women , was not invited ; so , like the malignant fairy in the old nursery stories , she determined to destroy the happiness of the persons concerned , and to interrupt the ceremonj ' . She therefore drank to excess ; entered one of the pews , and , in the middle of the . service , b ^ gan abusing the young ladies . The sexton remonstrated ; hut Mrs . Sti r ling sprang on the unmarried daughter , tore her bonnet ofli scratched her face , and struck , her several times . She was given into custody ^ and before the magistrate she admitted that she had had . " a Itetle drop , " and added , that " she couldn't tell what . moved her to kick up a xow . " She was fined BI . iGakoxtje Robjrkkiks . —These atrocious outrages . have become one of the features of the tunes . Another case was brought before the Marlborougn-tsiraet magistrate on Monday , when -George Cooper and John Manley were charged with throttling Joseph Martin , a bricklayer , iii Rupert-street , Haymarket , about eleven o'clock on Saturday night . The circumstances -were very simEhir to those of previous cases , and the accused were committed for trial . The reporters in the daily papers observe : —>•** The locality of Rupert-rstreet appears to be infested with "bad characters . This is tho sacond charge of gar ottrng from the same street within a week , and the place is close to the cqfe whore Foschini stabbed several persona . " ¦ Qcsxt—Dool on Knavk ?—A yomth of seventeen , apparently the son > of a respectable mechanic , was charged at W « whip-street with thuonriBg stones nt a railway train at Kiagslaml . It appeared that the offence is "one of common occurrence . The young man 'denied , lri * guilt ; but , as the facts were clearly . established against him , he was fined forty BhiHingfl . Poljok liAW . —A singular exposition of police law was imdet few days * g » by aoonetable at ttouthwark police-office , who charged a young man , named William LhmUow ,-with BO'serdoUB an assault « n a . brother-officer that the latter was ooa & aed to the hotpiUl . The policonun who > gave ettiidemoe said that , . finding Liudlow brutally MH-treatimg fcbeother < con 0 tablo , hewent up to tuku him into onetodr , when & o'attempted to ran away . 'On this , the officer took out his truncheon , « tvuck 'him , ultimately Becnrod Mm . Mr . A'ttecleett , « ue magintp « te , ashed if the -won directed to knook any one down who ought wont to run away . He wnswwrod in the afSLrwam & ve . '" DVom whom did yoa receive thowc orders # " wdced Mr . A'Beckett . The jolicemau said lie received them from the GommisBioaers , « nd that they warn down-in lii » 4 nstruotioa book . Tfce -prisoner , 1 m added , woritd huwe 'escape * had / he not been struck . Mr . A'dBeokett tuavght th « case was oneibr inquiry , « s both the accused man , and the aonetaftflo originally aftMmfced , -were seriously hurt . The prisoner was therefore remanded . A « r LffJWKiAXBD Bvijuww . —rMr . George . Smith ., n

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 12, 1856, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12071856/page/6/