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      Tho Association Reassembled On Wednesday...

      bankruptcy and insolvency laws , and appointed-a-, subcommittee to prepare a bill . Mr . Hastings enumerated and commented upon the evils of the existing system of bankruptcy law , and said it was sought by the bill to make the penal clauses of bankruptcy more stringent , in order to prevent fraud . It was also intended to abolish the present distinction between bankruptcy and insolvency ; to abolish the Insolvency Court in London , its functions being transferred to the Court of Bankruptcy ; to do away with the distinction between traders and non-traders , allowing any person , whatever his occupation or position in life , to apply for adjudication ; and to make various other useful amendments . Resolutions in favour of the bill were carried . __ __ __

      On Thursday , in the Department of Public Health , the chief interest was in the reading of one paper by Miss Florence Nightingale on hospital instruction , in which she pointed out the necessity of selecting a healthy , locality remote from towns , and of paying due attention to the influence of light and space . She recommended , too , that the wards should be larger in size if smaller in number than they were in existing military hospitals , and that the beds should not be placed against dead Avails . She contended that there was no such thing as contagion or inevitable infection . A paper by the

      Rev . Charles Kingsley , on Sanitary Reform , asserted that that question would never be rightly settled until it had been made a question for the hustings . Mr . Chadwick read an able paper "On the application of Sanitary Science to the Protection ' of the Indian Army . " Dr . Milroy gave testimony from his own experience as to the extensive preventability of the diseases ascribed purely to tropical climates . The subject of privies and waterclosets was gone into at great length , being discussed by Messrs . Holland , Tito , M . P ., Chadwick , Marshall , Robinson , and other gentlemen conversant with the

      subject . ... The most important feature in the educational section was an elaborate paper on Art-study by Mr . Ruskin . The writer admitted the insufficient data possessed as to the compatibility of art with rude or mechanical employments , but expressed belief , though a peasant ' s opinion might not be made good evidence on the merits of Elgin or Lycian marbles , that Art might be made a means of giving him helpful and healthy pleasure , and of gaining for him serviceable knowledge . He attached importance also to the education of young females in Art , thinking that in England the nursery and the drawing-room were perhaps the most influential of to the factthat amateur

      all academies . He pointed , artists , though far advanced in showy accomplishments , were scarce able to draw to a scale , and he recommended that in Art education care should be taken to teach to copy with mathematical accuracy . He also thought that there should be some standard of Art fixed for all schools , and that the most serviceable examples which could be set before youth might be found in studies , or drawings , rather than in the pictures of first-rate masters , and the art of photography . Put it within their power to obtain renderings of such studies , which for most practical purposes were as good as the originals on the walls of every school

      in the kingdom . The Queen ' s College . —Lord Brougham presided on Wednesday evening at the anniversary meeting of the Queen ' s College , to which , as the proceedings formed part of the programme of the National Association , a great number of members and associates were attracted . Amongst others were present , Lord John Russell , the Earl of Carlisle , Sir John Pakington , Sir James Stephen , Mr . Cowpcr , M . P ., Mr . M . Milnes , M . P ., Mr . Thorneley , M . P ., Mr , A . Kinnaird , M . P ., Mr . W . Brown , M . P ., Mr . Lawrence Hayworth , M . P ., Mr . Cowan , M . P ., and Sir John Kay Shuttleworth .

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      Gatherings From Law And Police Courts. T...

      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . The surgeon , Thurgood , and Riloy , the agent , who have undergone several examinations at the Guildhall on a charge of conspiring to defraud Mr . Christie , a distiller , of Liverpool , of nineteen hogsheads and one puncheon of whisky , value 800 J ., have been committed for trial , and ball refused . At the Ilford petty sessions , James List and William Savillo , grave-diggers , were brought before the magistrates on remand , charged with breaking into a vault under Christ ' s Church , Stratford , and stealing- a copper

      coffin worth 101 . Since the prisoners were last examined List haa volunteered a confession , and was on this occasion admitted as approver , when he stated that himself and his fellow prisoner had first taken the copper coffin , and afterwards a leaden one , both of which were broken up and sold . The proceedings were adjourned for a month . Meantime , in consequence of List ' s Information , a marine store dealer , named John Brett , has boon apprehended as recoiver of the stolen property . Ho was remanded for a weekreserving his defence .

      , Tho two ,. natfvos-of Marseilles , Antoine Aime" Hugon and Hugon Bevordy , father and-fion , were brought up on ronvand on Monday , charged , with causing to be made a preas nnd sixteen dies for tho purpose of coining Turkish money . The scheme of fraud appears to have been on a very extenfllvo soalo , and tho dloa are out for silver

      five-piastre pieces , and copper piastre and half-piastre pieces . The inquiry was again adjourned , liberty being granted to put in bail to the amount of 400 / . each . Mr . Thomas Moss , managing clerk for the house of Otho Hamson and Co ., of Birmingham , has been brought before the Birmingham magistrates , charged with being concerned with Antonio Calvocoressi , already committed , in the Turkish coining affair . —Calvocorressi and Moss were convicted on Wednesday before the Recorder of Birmingham . A respite was prayed : judgment was postponed till next session , and the convicts were liberated on bail .

      In the Court of Bankruptcy , Mr . Commissioner Evans has confirmed the adjudication of bankruptcy against James Perkins , of New Cross , and of Grocers' Hallcourt , Poultry , auctioneer . It will be remembered that this person had received large sums of money as " differences" from members of the Stock Exchange , and that when the result of his speculations proved adverse , he refused to pay those due from himself . The adjudication of bankruptcy was made upon an acceptance which the bankrupt had given to one of his creditors . It was disputed on the ground that he was not a trader ; but the Commissioner , in an elaborate judgment , held that there was no pretence for the objection ; and he further refused an application to stay the advertisement in order to appeal . From the peculiar circumstances of the case , and the antecedents of the bankrupt , great interest is taken in the result by members of the Stock

      Exchange . Another man has been apprehended as being concerned in the fabrication of copper plates for the purpose of forging ten-rouble notes of the Bank of Russia , and on which charge three men were last week examined at Lambeth police-court . The man last taken into custody is a brassfounder , named William Worley , employed at the Woolwich Arsenal , who acknowledges his complicity in the matter . All the four prisoners have been remanded , to allow of the production of further evidence , bail for one only , John Webster , being accepted .

      The explosion of two firework shops iii the month of July has excited the inhabitants of the neighbourhood where it took place to look to their own safety by taking measures to prevent the traffic i-a- such dangerous merchandise . Mr . Samuel Drewell , artist in fireworks , whose place of business is directly opposite the scene of the calamity referred to , was summoned by the inspector of nuisances before Mr , Elliott , at Lambeth police-court , to answer a charge of . selling fireworks ; but from a defect in the evidence the summons was dismissed . The Middlesex magistrates have heard and disposed of a vast number of new ' applications for licenses and renewals of licenses for music from proprietors of places of public amusement and public-houses . Many were granted ; several ^ renewals were refused because the parties had not sent in petitions , or caused notices to be served ( as required by the standing orders ) for the license to be transferred .

      At Newcastle there has been a quarrel between the barristers and the recorder of the Quarter Sessions Court , The recorder , Mr . W . Digby Seymour , had fixed his own time for holding the sessions , and the barristers complained of this as most inconvenient . So when the recorder took his seat on the bench this week , there was only one barrister in attendance . The others had held a meeting , and had resolved not to go near him . All the prosecution briefs , therefore , fell into the hands of a solitary pleader , Mr . Lowers , who was robed , and into the hands of two solicitors , who pleaded by permission

      of the judge . On the grand jury returning with tho last bill , the learned recorder said he had a perfect right to fix the session to suit his own convenience , and justified himself in making the change he had . The conduct of the bar on that occasion was most unprofessional and uncourteous , and was both a scandal and an outrage to public justice and decency . Ho had alwayp been animated by a desire to consult tho convenience of the inhabitants of tho town , and whatever course his professional brethren might take towards him , he trusted always to administer oven and impartial justice .

      Mr . J . P . Brown , Secretary to the National Brazilian Mining Association , was summoned before Alderman Salomons to answer a charge of indecent assault upon an Irish servant girl out of place , named Catherine Pursell . She represented that the defendant had enticed her into his office , in Throgmorton-strcet , under pretence of finding her a situation ; but her story was a perfect tissue of contradictions . The complainant was supported in her charge by Richard Amor , a lawyer ' s clerk , whom she styled her friend , " and who it seems has supported hor for tho last three months . The evidence of tho " friend , " however , was anything but friendly to her cause . Eventually tho summons was dismissed , tho aidormnu assuring Mr . Brown that he loft tho court without tho slightest imputation on his character . There appeared to bo no doubt that tho wholo nfFair was a vile conspiracy to extort money .

      Mary Ann Williams was charged at Worship-street police-court with stealing a oorpot-bag , containing property to the amount of IBM , belonging to Mr . Wincoy . The prosecutor had arrived per train from Exetor , and wont into a confeotiouor ' s shop , whore ho placed his carpet-bag against tho counter , and sat down . Tho prisoner immediately ontorod the shop , seized tho bag , and handed it to a man outside , who made off with it ,

      The woman was taken . The prisoner declared her innocence , bat , finding the magistrate resolved to commit her for trial , she pleaded Guilty , and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment . At the Court of Bankrupt * , the examination meeting in the case of John Dales and Benjamin Dales , builders , who carried on business at Great George-street , Westminster , at Times Wharf , Pimlico , in South Lincolnshire , and in Canada West , has been adjourned for two months , for the purpose of enabling the assignees to make necessarv inquiries respecting the accounts .

      The Lord Mayor persists in his persecution of street fruitsellers . On Wednesday , a poor girl , the daughter of a mechanic , and one of a family of nine children , was fined a shilling , or two days' imprisonment , for selling fruit in Cannon-street . A policeman was the only witness against her , not a single inhabitant of Cannonstreet appearing . Anybody who is acquainted with Cannon-street during business hours , as well as at other times , must know that to talk of creating an obstruction with a fruit-basket in a street like that is a got-up story . At Greenwich , two young men , respectably connected , were charged with having trespassed in Westcombe Park for the purpose of catching rabbits . They were convicted and sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment with hard labour .

      At the Court of Bankruptcy , adjudication of bankruptcy has been given against Mr . David Laing Burn , a merchant , of St . Michael ' s House , CombiH * St . James ' sstreet , and Kensington Palace-gardens . The * petitioner was Mr . T . D . Ncave , merchant , of St . Michael ' s House , Cornbill . The liabilities , it is said , are very heavy , including large amounts on account of a joint-stock company . Mr . C . J . Dillon , the late lessee of the Lyceum Theatre , has received a second-class certificate .

      Lieutenant Francis Higginson applied to Mr . Alderman Salomons at the Guildhall for a summons against the Atlantic Telegraph Company , on a charge of not having made a return of their shareholders to the Registrar of Joint-Stock Companies . It appears that Mr . Higginson had not given the company notice of his inw-. tention to apply for a summons , and Alderman Salomons refused to entertain his application until he had done so . The applicant got into a hig hly excited state , and . was finally removed from the court .

      A meeting of Middlesex magistrates took place on Thursday for the despatch of county business . The court was occupied in the first place with financial matters . The prison reports were favourable , and there had been a gradual decrease in the number of prisoners in C . oldbath-fields Prison . The plan for tunnelling under the House of Correction , at Coldbath-fields , by the Metropolitan Railway , was stated to have been abandoned ^ Councill , the man who attempted to murder Mr . Budd , inspector at Woolwich Dockyard , by discharging a pistol at his head some days ago , has been brought up for further examination . It was expected that the wounded man would have been able to attend himself to give evidence , but the surgeon under whose care he is placed stated that it would be quite unsafe for him to appear at present . The case was accordingly again remanded .

      About six years since , an Irish gentleman , TVIr . John Carden , of Barnane , in Tipperary , was convicted of an attempt to forcibly abduct a Miss Arbuthnott , a Scotch ladv , of considerable property , and was sentenced to a justly heavy punishment . He easily got certificates about his health , which led to his release before the expiration of the sentence . He is again plotting to carry away the lady , who entertains the greatest aversion to him , and if prompt steps had not been taken to arrest him , he might have repeated the attempt with his rough retainers , his fire-arms , carriage , and bottle o chloroform .

      Criminal Record. Suicide At Dnveit.-^- M...

      CRIMINAL RECORD . Suicide at DnvEit .- ^ - Mr . Godden , corn factor , of Ashford , about thirty years of age , has for several months past been a frequent visitor at a house of illfame at Dover , lie arrived from Ashford on Friday night , intending to proceed in the morning to Canterbury , whoro ho had business . On his arrival he repaired to the house above described , and there remained tlio night . According to tho statement of the people o £

      tho house , he was just upon the point of leaving next day , when ho returned to tho bedroom under the pro ., tonoc of fetching something left behind , shortly after which they were startled by a loud report . On tho room being entered , the deceased , it is stated , was found weltering in blood , flowing from a wound in the side of his head inflicted by his own hand with a revolver tha ( T was lying by his side . Life was then scarcely extinct , but before medical assistance could arrive , he had ceased to broatho .

      Thk Muiumit at Rotherham . —A coroners inquest has boeu hold on tho body of Sally Hare , who , as it is nllegod , was murdered by her sweetheart , a man named Whltworth . Bofore her death a statement of tho case was taken down from hor lips in tho prosonco of a nngistrato . From this it appeared tbnt tho prisoner dellberutoly cut her ' throat without aijy provocation on her part imtnodiatoly iilW making Improper overtures to her , which she repelled . Tho prisoner , on tho other hand , made a statement , alleging that tho deceased snatched ft

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1858, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16101858/page/5/