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      teen opened , and stands adjourned , on the body of John Starkins , the Hertfordshire policeman , who was murdered last week by a thief whom he was endeavouring to arrest . A young man named Carpenter is in custody ; and a good deal of circumstantial evidence tends to connect him with the crime . . Robbery by a Mebchaxt's Clerk . — Information has been given to the police that William Jackson Wright , formerly clerk to Mr . Thomas Purton Chassereau , merchant , of Finsbury-place , has absconded , taking with him 15 , 000 / . Wright speaks several languages , and is very gentlemanly in his appearance . A handsome reward " is offered for his apprehension . Voluntaky Sta . kvatiox of a Murdekbr .--Baker , the man who about twelve days previously murdered his sweetheart , Helen Hatfield , at Beverley , died about six o ' clock on the morning of Wednesday week , after having endured great pain . He had determined not to take anything to eat , and this resolution , he kept , and was literally starved to death . On the following afternoon an inquest was held at Beverley over his body , when the jury returned a verdict of Insanity . —Leedi Mei'curg . ¦ ' ' „ ,,. r ^ l . ' . ~— 1 >^ Anrrnr \ r / i & HA 1 TTTnV . « M A TidrAW tLalll "

      day Carmichael , a surgeon recently practising at Mexborough , near Doricaster , has been committed for trial on a charge of procuring abortion on the person of a young woman who had been in his service as housekeeper . The proceedings having been privately conducted , no particulars have transpired . The accused is Said to be in a very dejected state of spirits , and the young woman is greatly debilitated . A Gentleman Convicted of Forgery . —Mr . Percy Robinson , a person of good family and education , has been convicted at Dublin of forging a cheque for 20 ? . on the Northern Banking Company , in the name of Mr . Aubrey de Vere Beauclerk , of Ardglass Castle , County Down , whom he had represented to be his cousin , and ™ u ~ « O in-fan * , n ^ iatnn * : »> nnnf > xion of his . A verdict

      of Guilty having been returned , the Chief Baron sentenced him to tliree years' penal servitude , taking into consideration the fact of his having been convicted by Mr . Baron Martin , in 1855 , of obtaining goods by false pretences to the amount of 17 ? . _ SuspECTKD Mukdeb of A Faemer .- —John Hampson , a farmer at Stonehouse , near Tyldesley , Lancashire , whiie intoxicated last Sunday , got on board a barge on the Bridgewater Canal , and was seen there by a man who wished to induce the bargemen to let him come _ ¦ __«_ . . » _ /* :. _ s a— J ^> . A « - » ir 1 avia r \ f tnpm llSftfl reiuseu 10

      —ashore . Tins tney uu , < mu « " > - ~ - - " --- - . -. threatening language to the person interposing . Shortly afterwards , Hampson was found in the water , from which the bargemen dragged him out ; but he was insensible , and shortly afterwards died . He . had gold about him when he set out ; but no money was found in the pockets of the clothes after his death . An Inquest has been held , tei-minating in an open verdict . Mysterious Disappearance . —A Mr . Edward Clegg , traveller for Messrs . James Thompson and Son , cornmillers , Bradley , Marsden , has been missing since the 30 th ult . He had a considerable sum of money with him when last seen ; and what has become of him is at

      Our Domestic ' Civilization . '—Mrs . Cherry , a lady whose misfortunes attracted attention rather more than a year ago , appeared personally and by counsel in the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Thursday , to ask for leave to exhibit articles of the peace against her husband . She seems to have been treated with great brutality ever since her marriage in 1853 . She left her husband last year , but was forcibly brought back , and kept in cusbody until she escaped . Lord Campbell directed that an attachment should issue .

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      No . «*» t ^™« BKr 14 . 1857 . 1 T H E L E A P E R . 1089

      Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...

      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . The case of Svrinfon v . Swinfen , which occupied so much attention last term , owing to Mrs . Swinfen , the defendant , refusing to bo hound hy an arrangement come to by her counsel , Sir Frederick Thesiger , in March , 1856 , ia again before the Master of the Rolls . It was decided by two out of the three judges before whom the matter was brought tliat the arrangement was a binding agreetne

      ment ; but , as the three wore not unanimous , caso w >« still left in an unsettled state . In this state of things , the plaintiff again reverted to the Court of Chancery , and prayed , among other things , that a receiver of the rents of the oatatea might bo appointed pending the disputes between the parties ; that the defendant might be restrained by information from receiving the rents , or carrying on any actions of ejectment against the tenants ; that the defendant mig ht bo decreed to exocuto tho conveyance of the estates to tho plaintiff , agreeably to the compromise of March , 1856 ; or that , in case tho Court of Chancery was of opinion that tho defendant ought not tn n-vnr > utA mir > . h nnnvnviuico . then that a now issue

      deviaavit vel jion , or a new trial of the former issue , might bo directed . The Master of the Rolls gave judgment on Tuesday . The bill for specific performance will bo dismissed without costs . A new trial will bo directed nt law , and the usual decree will bo made for administration . Shortly before the rising of the Vico Chancellor a Court for the long vacation , tho causes Wcllosloy v . Mornington , and Mornington r . Wullesloy , came to a

      hearing . The suits have for their object the carrying into effect the trust of & certain deed dated in 1834 , and the rights of the Earl and Countess of Mormngton , and of Viscount Wellesley , ia the property affected by that deed , are involved . These estates are of very great value , and a sum of 462 , 000 £ was directed to be raised to pay off incumbrances , & c , when several questions arose as to the construction of the trust instrument . One was -whether that sum bore interest . Vice-Chancellor Kindersley was of opinion that it did not . Another question was , whether the rents should pay the interest of encumbrances from the date of the deed ; upon this point there was some controversy as to what was decided . The Court also decided that the Countess of Mornington , although she had abandoned prosecuting her own suit , i wasnot now thereby precluded , and certain accounts ' ' were directed . After this decision was made , but before , the minutes could be settled , the sudden death of the 1 Earl of Mornington took place . During the vacation ! attempts had been made to arrange the decree , but without effect , and the minutes were discussed in court last r Saturday . The Vice-Chancellor said , with regard to the question of the rents bearing interest , what he decided wa 3 that they shculd exonerate the 462 , 000 ? . from eari nat

      the date of the deed up to the death . . . w he intended to do on the former occasion was to express an opinion on the various questions , but not then to make a decree , which could not be considered as made until the minutes were settled . If that were so , which , strictly speaking , was the fact , the late earl must be represented , and was entitled to be heard if he thought fit . The remainder of the minutes -were then gone through in detail , arid the suit will be revived against the representative , of the late earl . An organ-grinder was charged at Bow-street last Saturday with playing his instrument in University-street after being desired to moved on . The complainant was a Mr . Rawlings , a gentleman who had been in India , and who now conducts military classes . Having at one is

      time suffered from brain fever , ne now unusuaiiy eensitive to loud noises ; and the playing of the organ-man interrupted him in the discharge of his business . On the previous morning , he had requested the man to desist , but be refused ; and , on Mr . Rawlings going to look for a policeman , some loose women , living in a house at the back , who always encouraged the wandering minstrel , invited him into the passage of their dwelling , where he continued playing for a long time . He ¦ was released on promising not to go to University-street again . The women in question attended at the office ;

      asserted their right to have the man in the passage ; and said that such men as Mr . Rawlings would deprive them of all music if the } - could . —Another organ-man has been sent to prison by the Marylebone magistrate for continuing to play after he had been ordered to desist . Mr . Commissioner Fonblanque gave judgment in the Court of Bankruptcy last Saturday in the case of Kemp and . Clay , billbrokers in Nicholas-lane . Both bankrupts had failed before—Kemp in 1849 on his own petition , when he owed 14 , 000 / ., arid there were liabilities to the further amount of 700 ? . There was no trace of any dividend under that bankruptcy . A certificate of the uomniwsiuucr iiui

      second class was allowed Dy mr . - royd , after three months' suspension . Clay was bankrupt in 1847 , owing , as he now stated , 20 , 000 ? ., but more fortunate than Kemp , paying a dividend of 8 s . Sd . in the pound . There being no classification of certificates at that time , Mr . Commissioner Fonblanque had no clue as to what was the other Commissioner ' opinion of his conduct . The bankrupts were exonerated of any suspicion of fraud in connexion with the present bankruptcy ; but , considering the improvidence of the trading and tho large expenditure , Mr . Commissioner Fonwi ~ «« .. i , i mild mirnnl t . lift hnnkruuts third-class

      certificates , with a suspension as to Kemp of six months , and , as to Clay , of three months from the last examination . Protection will be granted . An order absolute has been made for windwg-up Groux ' a Improved Soap Company ( Limited ^ Some proceedings in the Court of Common Pleas have exhibited in a strong light the despotic nature of the laws of Jersey . Mr . Ballam moved on affidavits for a habeas conmx , directed to the Sheriff of Jersey , to bring .... ii .. i . » j .. „ # ¦ \ . v ; n ;< im C % n *\ ' Patrfi . now confined in the — — —j

      UII IILU UUUV U * »» *»«•*•»¦• -vwwv --- - " aol at Jersey for a debt of 19 ? . 2 s . Patch is a British subject , who went to reside in Jersey in 1843 , and , having got into debt , was arrested on tho 29 th of October , 1845 , under an order called an ordre jtrovimre , issued from tho Cour Royale , directing the amount of tho debt to be raised on the goods of tho debtor , and in default the person of tho debtor was to be . taken into custody . Patch was arrested , and ban been kept in prison until now . During his imprisonment ho has lost his health and become blind , and his wife has been obliged constantly to attend upon him . The order had therefore amounted to an imprisonment of both for twelve lnero aiso

      years for a debt of 19 * . 2 * . appears w w < some doubt as to whethor tho arrest was not agams ^ tho laws of Jersey , owing to some alleged informality , llio Court of Common Pleas , however , cannot interfere at present , for want of sufficient information . Mr . Bellow , tho well-known prencher , has again appeared before tho Canterbury County Court as an insolvent debtor . Tho case of tho Queen v . Goodwin came bolero tuo

      Court of Queen ' s Bench on Monday . The Court had granted a rule calling upon James Goodwin , the master of a small grammar schoolat Sefton , near Liverpool , to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for the publication of certain libels imputing to one James Bird , a guardian of the "West Derby Union , that , while a guardian , he had entered into certain contracts to supply the poor with flour and potatoes , and that he had supplied the same of an inferior quality , whereby he had defraud . ed the poor of the union . Sir ' Frederick Thesiger now showed cause against tbe rule , and urged that Mr . Goodwin had not been actuated by malice , but had simply desired to have an inquiry made into the facts . The Court adopted this view , and the rule was discharged with costs . Charles Pitcher , who described himself as part proprietor of the Berkeley Club , St . James ' s , and of the Betting-rooms , Doncastsr , also occasionally betting on the turf , petitioned in tlie Insolvent Debtors Court , on Monday , under the Protection Acty that being his third application to the Court . The debts were entered in the schedule as amounting to 2000 ? ., and the assets consisted of a bad debt of 125 ? . There was no opposition ; and the Court named the 7 th . of December for the final ¦» ¦»*• ¦ ' s ~ t . ' ¦ i _ " ¦ T ~ kL . Ml 2 « » nn « sl l * n ¦ »» r *» C' tt at * ir order commissione

      , mr . r jrjuiiifa » aw « o n <» »»»^ doubtful whether the Protection Act was ever intended for such persons as the insolvent , whose only means of living appeared to be by gambling . The usual number of charges of robbery at the Lord Mayor ' s show occupied the attention of the civic magistrates on Tuesday . Some of the accused were remanded ; others summarily punished . An application was on Wednesday made at chambers before Mr . Justice Crompton , by counsel , on behalf of several of the defendants hi the Royal British Bank case , for particulars of the charges to be preferred on the several counts of the indictment , which consists of general as well as of specific counts . The Judge was of opinion that so important a case ought to be taken to the /»__ TI t TT !» : MnHA . ^ niAn nroo nnrainct * . ftf !\ X \\\ T \ fT Lll £ 1 Vll

      IU 1 X UUUIU . £ 1 . 13 l ! UpiC 33 IT C * 9 « Jj »* ... " ~ O C » . order , inasmuch , as the counts , in his opinion , did not contain specific charges , but only varied in this , that some stated overt acts as -well as specific act 3 , while others contained specific charges only . It was then pointed out to his Lordship that the last count in each information was too general , as i t did not contain any specific charge ; and he made an order for particulars as to that count alone . —Lord Campbell , yesterday , granted a rule calling on the Attorney-General to show cause why he should not deliver up the particulars sought for . in vjoun uijciJi 41

      An action was Drougcu me . uncu . c «»* . Wednesday-, by one Cross , a kennel huntsman , against Colonel Shirley , comitiander of the cavalry division of the Turkish contingent during the late Russian war . The sum sought to be recovered was 156 ? . Cross went out to Turkey with the Colonel ; and it was for his services there that he no ^ v claimed . The jury gave a verdict for 138 ? . 7 s . 6 d . The Earl of Cardigan is always in hot water . On Wednesday , the counsel of Major Laurie , formerly agent of his Lordship , but between whom there had been an action at law , in which the Major obtained 300 ? , damages for abrupt dismissal , applied , before Vice-Chan-¦» . —

      ctJitor ? t uuiij 111 tuc j . ^ uifj' »» yw *** wj « v » -ww- - w- - - an injunction which was obtained ex partc against Major Laurie . The Earl accused the Major of an intention of publishing certain letters of his Lordship to him , containing allusions to private matters , which it would not be convenient to have put forth . The injunction had , therefore , been granted ; but Major Laurie now denied that he had any intention of publishing the letters , and consequently sought to have the injunction removed , as detrimental to his character . The Vice-Chancellor ordered that it should be dissolved with costs . •_— - . a sv . 1 __ ? -.. ll k n l ^ nth l ^^ rtiv m- ^ 4- Air St ^ - Ulf At * d in mi ^ j **

      * The certiiicate meeting mo uann- ^ - ^ jr *>* ,, » , Walker , and Syers took place before Mr . Commissioner Goulburn on Wednesday . The accounts show reckless trading . An adjournment was ordered .

      Naval, And Military. The Mimtia.—Twenty-...

      NAVAL , AND MILITARY . The Mimtia . —Twenty-one privates of the So \ ith Cork Militia have been committed to prison for periods ranging from six weeks to two months , for having enlisted into the North Cork Militia , and obtained the bounty . the

      The men affirmed , wlien brought before magistrate , that they had gone into the North Cork because they had heard it was destined for foreign servico , which was not the case with the South Cork , and that they were anxious to servo their Queen and country instead of remaining idle at homo . —A similar case , with a similar excuse on the part of the men , has been brought before the notice of the Southwark magistrate . John Baker , a vouth of eighteen , having previously enlisted in the East India Company ' s . sorvice , joined tho 8 rd Surrey Militia . On being brought to tho Southwark police-court to bo sworn in , Sergeant Quintan , of the Hast India Coin-„ .,.-.,, ' ., .... i * -.. uMtiiivlimn llnl « H * hnd enlisted , happonoil

      , to be present ; whereupon , Baker rushed out , but was pursued , and brought buck . On hi * being brought up fur examination , Serjeant ( Joyne , of tho Militiii , told the » mgi . 4 trate that latterly it had become a common practice for young men to cnli . it " in the Lino or tho East India Company ' s service , and , after receiving tuo shilling , to enrol themselves in the Militiii , when they receive 10 s . bounty . As soon as that is spont , they got attested , and join the

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 14, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14111857/page/9/