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      Wholesale Shoplifting.—Two Women, Sister...

      !"" very violent , and , taking up a gun , said he would StlSe one . After some parleying , he fired the gun rt ; the air , and laid it aside in the house ; but subse-S v he appeared with the weapon again ( having ap-SX reloaded it in the interval ) , and fired it at Mr . Snott , who fell to the ground , seriously wounded . Trash was then made on Moyce , and he was secured , nnr inff these proceedings , his sister , a Mrs . Scott , was ^ ceedingly abusi ve and threatening , and , as she ap-^ Ld to stimula te her brother ' violence , she also was Stan into custody . On being brought before the Thames magistrate , she was set at liberty on promising to appear again on Saturday ( to-day ) , until when Moyce was remanded . The defence of the accused was that he had been very harshly used by Mr . Hickmott , who had frightened his mother to death by his violence . —Mr . Hickmott was unable to attend , being too seriously wounded . The gun -was loaded with small shot , which penetrated his right side . ii & i

      Triai * and KjomvxxjxAAJ xu v » u «»* . wo *^** Manning Wilson , lately a merchant in Leith , was tfcarged at the High Court of Justiciary , Edinburgh , on Monday , with forgery and uttering six forged bills of exchange , to the amount in all of 2345 * . 18 s . 4 d ., betw een October , 1855 and January , 1856 . About the same neriod , several other bill forgeries were committed in Leith and a merchant there named Jacob Christiansen was apprehended and convicted in connexion with them in May , 1856 , and sentenced to be t ransported for Ufe In February or March , 1856 , Wilson had been examined by the Procurator-Fiscal in regard to the foreeries then creating so much uneasiness in Leith , but there was no evidence sufficient to detain him , and soon afterwards he absconded and took ship for Australia . In hia absence he was indicted for trial , and on not , app earing was outlawed by the High Court in May , 18 o 6 . He was at length , however , apprehended at Folkestone in November last by the superintendent of the Leith police , Mr . Grant , having just come ashore in a small boat from the vessel in the Channel , and awaiting the opportunity to proceed to America or the Continent . After a trial of eight hours , the jury brought in a verdict of Guilty , and Wilson _ was sentenced to transporm _ 1 * - . f ? A « 1 m # V \ ii

      lauou iui » c . Attempted Poisonings . —William Fogg , a diminutive haggard-looking man , working as a shoemaker , has been charged at the Worship-street police-court with swallowing oxalic acid , and attempting to make his daughter take the same poison , in which , however , he was prevented by the presence of mind of the girl s aunt a young married woman who did work about the house . To this woman , Fogg had paid improper attentions , wishing her to leave her husband and live with him- but she had refused . On the morning of the attempted poisoning , she had interfered to prevent the man beating his daughter with a strap . Fogg himself swallowed a large portion of the poison ; but a powerful antidote was speedily administered , and he recovered . He was remanded .

      An Irish Savage . —Roger Grogan , a ruffianly-looking Ir ishman , has been examined before the Southwark magistrate and committed for trial on a charge of assaulting and attempting to rob a Mrs . Counsell . The woman was going , late on Saturday night , to her home , in Cow-alley , Bermondsey , and was walking slightly in advance of her husband , when Grogan demanded her money , and assaulted her very indecently . Her husband , hearing her cries , came up ; but he too was attacked with great savagenesa . Another man , however , iuterfered , and Grogan was overpowere d and given into custody . at oaudiff

      Murderous Assault by an Italian . — \ Villiam Barry , an American sa ilor has been dangerously wounded by an Italian seaman named Antonio Firpo , in an affray between tho two men at Cardiff , where several vessels from various foreign ports are stationed . On Sunday night at a late hour , a considerable uproar arose at a house in Pendoylan-street , amongst a number of foreign sailors of different notions , in tho course of which a quarrel took place between Firpo and Barry . The Italian suddenly lifted his arm , his hand apparent y containing some sharp weapon with winch he evidently stabbed Barry , for tho latter immediately afterwards fell down , bleeding profusely from a severe wound m hia throat . Firpo and his comrndea then ran away , A ho tumult was dreadful , both within and without the house , and one of tho witnesses describes the scone ( though somewhat hyperbolically ) as having the appearance of a town in a state of siege . Tho police had much difltculty in suppressing tho riot , but they at length succeeded in apprehending Firpo-and hia accomplices , the former of whom was broug ht boforo tho magistrates tho noxt dny and remanded , that tho police might take the deposition of tho wounded man , who l ies in a very dangerous state , and it is feared will not long survive his

      injuries . Mukdibb at Dondmm . —James Coylo , a weaver employed at Dundee , entered , while in n state of intoxication , a cottngo occupied by an old woman , named Burnot or Quln , nn < l her married daughter . Ho mado an Infamous aaaault on tho latter , to whom ho acted with groat indoconoy , and tho old woman , after vainly endeavouring to prevent him , oxproBaod herself loudly on the scandalous nature of his conduct . Tho young woman at length got him out at tho door , but ho

      reentered at the window , and so savagely mal Mrs . Burnet that she died very shortly after . The murderer fled , but was subsequently apprehended by a policeman , after a desperate struggle . Extensive Swindling . —Manchester has recently been the scene of some swindling on a very extensive scale ; and several of the wrong-doers have been apprehended within the last few days . Strange Credulity . —Caroline Ramsden , a woman belonging to Leeds , has been sent to prison for two months by the Manchester magistrates for obtaining money from a young lady of Ardsley under the false pretence of freeing her from the influence of witchcraft . A . revolting-looking elderly man was then charged with administering grains of paradise to the same young lady , in order to procure abortion . She had been to him to consult him about her health , and the probability of her obtaining a husband . He undertook to procure lier a husband , extorted . 5 ? . from her , seduced her , and then administered the poison with the intent already indicated . He was committed for trial .

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      Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...

      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . A rule having been obtained in the Court of Queen ' s Bench for quashing a conviction under the Game Act , the facts were argued before the judges last Saturday . The question arose out of the case of Swinfen v . Swinfen , tried at S tafford at the Spring Assizes in 1856 , in which the title to estates of considerable value in the county of Stafford came in question . At the trial , a compromise was come to by the counsel for the parties , which Mrs . Swinfen , who was in possession of the estate , refused to ratify , and ultimately it was decided bv the Court of Common Pleas that the agreement was not binding upon Mrs . Swinfen , and the Court refused to enforce it . On the 29 th of September , 1856 , the day on which the claimant , Captain Swinfen , would have been entitled to have the estate conveyed to him , he ffave an authority to a farmer on the estate named Bacon , or any of his friends , to shoot over the Swinfen estate ; and Bacon , availing himself of this authority , went , with six others , on two several occasions , and killed game , destroying , as alleged by the other side , all the game en the estate , including tame pheasants , Ihe parties were summoned before the magistrates at Lichfield and were convicted ; but the convictions were-subsequently brought up into the Court of Queen s Bench , in order to their being quashed as being made without jurisdiction , and being bad on their face . It was alleged that the magistrates had refused to receive evidence of the right of the defendants to shoot on the grounds , and that one of them had said the accused were " a parcel of blackguards . " Lord Campbell said he was of opinion that the conviction was bad and mu-t be quashed . 1 he " terms of the conviction stated that each of the defendants was to be imprisoned in the common gaol for the space of one month , " unless the said several sums [> . < -., the fines ] and the costs and charges of conveying each of them so making default to the said common gaol construc

      shall be sooner paid . " The plain grammatical - tion of that was , that " each" yra * to be imprisoned till the penalty , & c , of " all" was paid . The form of conviction usually adopted pointed out that one should not be liable for the default of the other ; but that form had been departed from in this case . The other judges concurring , the conviction was quashed . William M'Gowan was charged at the Westminster police-court last Saturday with having written two libellous letters to M . Albert , an attache to the Prussian embassy . One evening , about a fortnight ago , U . Albert , who had previously been more than once accosted in the street by M'Gowan , was visited by the latter at his private house in Victoria Grove , West Brompton . -,., 4 . - ii . a ~ «„„ ., < , ;^ ., v » i-n / -iiir > o < 1 n letter in which it ¦ -

      „ JYJL \ jiowan on mm uvjt » ij » j" jiiv »«« .- . ill was stated thatM . Albert owed him 100 / ., which ho had borrowed of him under tho name of Charles Baron tie Eo , twenty years ago at Oxford . M . Albert denied all knowledge of the affair , and declared that M'Gownn was an utter stranger to him , and that lie had never assumed the title of Baron do IMerro . M'Gowan , howoVcr , persisted in saying that he was the Baron mid that ho owed him tho money . By tho advice ol Ins friends , M . Albert at last gave information of tho matter to tho police , and an ofllcer afterwards called on M'Gowan and told him that proceedings would bo immediately taken against him if ho troubled M . Albert any further . Notwithstanding this warning , ho again went to tho house of that gentleman , and left an abusive lottei respecting his alleged claim . Wishing tho matter tho-HJOI / OHIllj , « . " ,, / . „ AT 1 II ... 1 a .. n . rr .-r in tills ior »*««« »* --- ¦

      roughly invusligatca ^ . .,. * .. ... — — country until seven years ngo , and was a boy at sehoo in Germany in 1807 ) , complainant had taken tho present proceeding . In UU defence , M'Gowan stated that a man , greatly resembling M . Albert both m a , > - poaranco and manner , and calling himself tho Baron do Blorro , onmo to Oxford , where M'Gowan was carrying on business an n draper , about twenty years ago , borrowed numerous sums of money , and swindled several persons , M'Gownn among tho number Tho latter afterwards lost sight of tho supposed Baron untU two or three years ago , when ho mot him at Brompton , and had kept his eye on him ever since . Ho jtfU ilrmly bo . loved In hia own heart that M . Albert was the man , and he aaid that hits wife boHovod so likewise . Mr .

      Ingham thoug taken as to the identity of the Baron , and adjourned the case for a week in order that the whole matter migtt be thoroughly investigated . _ The case of Willcox v . Smith , which had been previously argued on petition in Vice-Chancellor Kmdersley ' s Court , was last Saturday brought on for judgment . The question raised was as to the liability to succession duty in a case where a tenant in tail , whose right was created under a deed executed prior to the Succession Duty Act did not come into possession until the death of the tenant at life . The Vice-Chancellor , after having entered into an elaborate statement of the facts , combined with a verbal criticism of the words of the law , observed that the case came , not only within the literal words of the act , but within the meaning and intention of it . The Legislature meant to make the accrual of interest in the survivor the circumstance which was to impose liability to the duty . Several of the sections contained inaccuracy of language . The fifth began by making a future verb apply to a past event . And there were not merely inaccuracies , but considerable ambiffuities . The Vice-Chancellor , however , had not any * : «„ .. oc ^ . Mo rimiht . as to the intention of the

      . „_ Legislature , that a party in the position of the respondent was liable to pay the succession duty . Some discussion then arose upon the claim of the Crown to costs ; but , this being resisted , the claim was waived . The legal members of the House of Lords sat on Monday afternoon to consider a petition of Mr . Henry Smith , barrister-at-law , of the Inner Temple , and of Belle Isle , " Wiadermere , Westmoreland , praying for a divorce on the ground of his wife having committed adultery with a M . Leopold Dutertre , a French gentleman , against whom an action was recently brought , when damages were given to the extent of 3000 ? . —a sum which the petitioner had been unable to recover . The Lord Chancellor , thinking the adultery had been clearly proved , saw no reason why the bill should not be read ^ a second time . This was accordingly done . —Campbell ' s divorce bill has been read a third time , and passed . The certificate meeting in the case of G- C . Franghiadi , a merchant of Old Broad-street , took place in the Court of Bankruptcy on Monday . The bankrupt traded in partnership with his brother and one Valeiiti .. They had three houses—one in England , the second at Trieste , and the third at Alexandria . The three houses were distinct , although consisting of the same individuals . The L ondon house is bankrupt , and the two other houses are insolvent and are being wound up at Trieste and Alexandria . The bankrupt ' s trading commenced on 1 the 1 st of January , 1853 , with a cap ital or surplus of 12000 / ., and closed with unsecured creditors , 96 , 4 J 8 / . ; ' liabilities , 41 , 000 / ., of which 25 , 000 / . are expected to become proofs against the estate ; and assets about 24 000 / . Mr . Peachy , for the assignees , was willing that the bankrupt should now receive a first-class certificate . Mr . Abrahams , who appeared for a creditor , prayed an adjournment of three months , to obtain information of the position of the firms at Trieste and Alexandria . Mr . Lawrance ( for the bankrupt ) pressed for immediate judgment . An adjournment , however , _ _ - — » 'w % » . ^ u _ n . « tav * 1 % ^ v li a i ^^ n fl /^ eistei *

      ** Adolphus Harrison Jb , a person w « u .. «« » .. ~ v ~ himself disreputably notorious in connexion with the house of Madame Denis into which Alice Leroy was entrapped a few years ago , and who recently brought an action against the Marquis of Bath and other noblemen for wine supplied to them at ' the establishment , appeared in tho Court of Bankruptcy on Monday , under the designation of a wine merchant , of 25 , Bucklerebury . The petitioning creditor is Mr . Benjamin Wootl , wine merchant , of Blackfriars , who , however , did not appear , and the choice of assigucua was deferred . Iho bankrupt ..,., „ o « .. f r . iw . r ., 1 tr > twr > vflnrs' iinnrisoinnent at Uie time

      that Madame Denis loft tho country . Mr . Barrow now implied for his release from prison . Mr . Lucas , for the Marquis of Bath , opposed , on the ground that the bankrunt was in custody for the costs incurred m tlie mischievous action against hia Lordship , which ended in Felstol being nonsuited ; imd that the bankruptcy was got up to obtain a release from those costs . Iho Commissioner said this was not an ordinary case . Ho should not interfere—certainly not at present . A person who uoi up sucli an action ought to suffer . A man named Joseph Mountain has been examined at the Leeds police-court on a charge of endeavouring to pnss himself off at tho north-cast polling booth , during the Leeds elections , as a voter named Wilham ¦ HaxUey . irom *

      Having obtained a voting-paper »» . » . »«» .. coininliteo-rooni , tho young man proceeded to tho Sir John l- ' MlstafT , whore tho poll was hold , and gave hia number . Ho was asked his name by tho ^ twn \ ns ofllcer of tho ward , and replied that it was William Hartley , and that ho voted for Beecroft . However , two of Mr . MiUs ' H committee-men who were pwswit , and hnd vrltncssod tho affair from tho beginning , know that Uiu iierson who represented himself to bo Willlnra Hartley wus not tho man in question , and they therefore Kuvu him into custody . Mountain was remanded . Mr . Alexander Angus Croll , engineer of the Groat Uunrnl Gaa Company ' s works , on Bow-coniinoii , appeared boforo tho Thainos magistrate on Wedno * lay io answer a summons taken out by , Mr . hdward * " » o >» f J Inspector of nuisances and sanitary « "fl' ° '' ""» 1 ' oJ . lar District Board of Works , which charged Hie do-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 13, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13061857/page/9/