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      Gatherings From Law And Police Courts. A...

      warehouse . Tlie girl admitted the theft ; said they had no bread at liotne ; end promised that her father would not do so any more . When brought before the Lord Mayor , the girl exhibited the greatest distress , tut the man denied his guilt . It -would seem that s ^ he had been put through the window of the counting-house , to get the keys of the warehouse . The Lord Way or expressed great commiseration for her , and said he should dismiss the charge as far as she w as cor . ceTned ; hut the father was committed for trial . The particulars of a horrible outrage came before the

      Bow-street magistrate on Monday . A . man named Megan lives in . a common lodging-house in Newcastlecourt , and has been for some time past on bad terms with Charles Danby , si fellow lodger . Last Saturday night , Danby came home helplessly drunk . Megan boiled a pot of wafer , and poured the contents over TJanby ' s head and face ; and then began kicking him ferociously , and beating him with a poker . At length , he -was assisted from the kitchen , but as he was goingup-stairs , Meg ; nn followed him , and struck at him with a shovel . The ruffian is now under remand , to wait the result of Danby ' s wounds . '

      William Brandt , a young man known to the police as an incorrigible thief , 'has been charged at Worship-street with a murderous attack on Mr . Eobert Howitt , a coffee-house keeper in the Bethnal Green-road . Brandt was seen lurking about How it t ' s premises , and vas warned off , when he made some threatening gestures towards Mrs . Howitt . The husband ran up , when Brandt drove the blade of a pocket knife completely through Mr . Howitt ' s wrist , lie immediately ran to a surgeon , ¦ who pulled out the knife , though not without great difficulty ; and the patient then fainted . Brandt has been committed for trial . .

      Another charge has been made in connexion , with the insane habit of getting out of railway carriages before they have stopped . This time , strange to say , the offender is a lady . "Mrs . Jane Dawson , who was stated to be the widow of an officer ; residing in Stewart ' s-lane , Battersea , was summoned at the " Watidsworth policeoffice , ori Monday , at the instance of ¥ r . Henry Anscomb , on bthalf of the Crystal Palace Railway Company , for leaving a train while in motion . She implored his worship not to be severe , as she had already been sufficient ^ ' punished by ; falling and severely bruising herself Mr . Inghani said he should only fine her 5 s . and 5 s . costs , and hoped it would be a caution to her in future . Tie money was paid .

      A strange trick resorted to by paupers was revealed on Monday at Guildhall . Two men , described as sailors , were charged with presenting themselves at the door of tie West London Union stark naked ; It appears that it has recently become a common thing for men to go into the arches of tlie new Victoria-street , tear up their clothes , and walk naked up to the door of the Union . They coire from adjoining parishes , and know that it is impossible for them to be turned back in the state they present themselves . For the last five or six weeks , the practice had been enrried en to an alarming extent . Sir Feter Laurie sent the two men brought before him to prison , " with hard labourj for six weeks . A matter connected with one of the Ca-wnpore victims came before tlie attention of Sir Crcsswell

      Cresswell in the Court of Trobate on Tuesday . The deceased ¦ was Miss Cnroline Ann Lindsay , who was with her mother and her younger sister , Frances , at Cawnpore , last July . From a pencil memorandum -which had been found in the handwriting of Miss Lindsay , it appeared that her mother had perished in the massacre on the 12 th of that month , and it was believed that her daughters had been murdered three days later . They had , in fact , been r . nnounced ns dead in the London Gaz < tte . Under the will of Miss Lindsay ' s father , personal property amounting to about 11 , 000 / . vested in heron tlie death of her mother . She had attained her majority in 1855 , nncl she had died inleslate . Dr . Robertson moved for a giant of administration to oneof her uncles , and in this nil the next of kin had expressed their concurrence . The judge granted the application .

      A young man named Matthew Plane , was charged before the Worship . street magistrate , last Saturday , with robbing Mrs . Powell , a lady living at Kingslund . She was walking alone in the evening along the Ilackneyvoad , -when Plane abruptly walked u \> to her , and , after looking hard in her face for a minute , snatched her velvet mantle from her shouldera , and ran off with it . He was Been and stopped , however , by a young woman whom he ran past , but b y violently struggling with her and threatening to etab her with n clasp knife which ho held in liis hand , ho succeeded in throwing her off and getting clenr uway with the stolen nroiiortv . Information

      or the robbery being given to the polico , the thief was shortly afterwards apprehended by a detective officer . Tlie latter told tlie , magistrate that Pluno had repeatedly been summarily convicted for felony and was once tried with several others for being concerned in n robbery of plate . In the last case , however , although w u C 0 mpanionB wero tmnsporlcd , Plane was acquitted When brought before tins magistrate on tho present , charge , ho vehemently protested his innocence of tho robbery , and protended to cry . Ho was nevertheless sentenced to 8 ix months' hard labour in the House of Correction . Tho officer who apprehended him stated that robberies HIto the present had become very common of late , on which Piano instantly chunged his manner

      and turning fiercely on the constable , exclaimed , " 111 kill you when I come out . ' Two City timber brokers , named Alfred Skeen and Archibald Freeman , appeared on Tuesday , at Guildhall , on a summons charging them with depositing in the City Bank , for their own benefit , a bill of lading of the value ot 1600 ? ., - * Vith which they hnd been entrusted by Messrs . Gavan Brothers , West India merchants . Mr . Skeen put in a paper denj'ing that he had ever seen the bill of lading until it -was produced in court . Both defendants were committed for trial , but allowed to put in bail .

      In the course of Tuesday , Lord Ingestre waited on Mr . Jardine , the Bow-street magistrate , and handed in a donation of 50 ? . as part of the proceeds of the fete at Cremome on the previous Friday . An equal sum , his Lordship said , would be given to three other policecourts . Michael Murphy , an itinerant musician , 'is undeT remand at Worship-street on a charge of killing Eliza Simpson , in a disreputable house , by kicking her .

      Cornelius Jlarney , a costernioiiger , has been fined 2 s . fld- by the Lord Mayor for causing an obstruction . In tlie investigation of lhe case , it c ;; me out that the man ; had so tampered vith his weights' and measures that his quarter-of-a-pound weight was found to weigh but two ounces , his pound weight seven ounces , and his half-pound weight only one ounce and three-quaTters . The man professed to sell cherries at an incredibly low rate per pound ; and this was the way he did it . The fine was paid .

      A man and two women are under remand at "VVandsworlh on a charge of robbing and savagely maltreating a beer-s-hop keeper , on Tuesday . afternoon , in Battersea Kew Park , wliile he was slightly intoxicated . Two other men were also concerned in the outrage ; but they escaped across the river in a boat . The victim is so seriously injured that he cannot for the present appear against the prisoners ; and so the case is adjourned . An extraordinary charge is being investigated at the Marjlebone police- office . William Vorley , a young man described as a merchant , was charged at the Marylebone police-office on Wednesday' with indecent conduct- He took a lodging in Camden Town , and was shortly afterwards seen by his landlady , and by two of

      her lodgers ( one of them a married woman ) , sitting at the window dressed in women ' s clothes , and conducting himself in a highly improper manner . At onetime , he went out dressed as a woman , with a wreath round his head . The improper conduct was in his own room ; but it was witnessed by the landlady through a crevice ( made by the female lodger ) , and from the street through a light crochet cuitain drawn across the lower part of the widow . The blind was down to within a short distance of this curtain . The indecent conduct had been witnessed some ten or twelve times . The defence was that the ycung man was assisting in tlie getting up of a private theatiical performance , and that he believed himself to be in privacy . He was remanded for a week on bail .

      lhe certificate of Joseph Heldmann , lace-ni anufacturer , of Gutter-lane , was wholly refused in the Court of Bankruptcy on Thursday , on account of reckless trading and dishonest conduct ; and further protection was disallowed . Mr . Phillips , the master of the West London Union , attended before Sir Peter Laurie at Guildhall on Thursday , accompanied by a Scotch girl , to ask hia advice nncl assistiince . Tlie girl had worked at a fishinynet factory at Muscelburgh in Scotluiid . At this place there were two English g , irls , who talked of going to Australia , and Margaret Robinson , the Scotch girl , thought she should like to go too . Her mother , however , disapproved , and fora time she gave up the design . But the l ' . nglitih girls at length induced her to como

      ( unknown to her mother ) to London , and she was then taken to the house of one Da bilva , whom she bad previously seen at Musselburgh visiting tlie English £ irls . It was a large house , splendidly furnished ; but Robinson could not say where it was . It is lH'Odleas to say that this dwelling was a place of tho woi > u description . The "housekeeper" endeavoured to drug the poor Scotch girl ; but Bhc refused to take anything to drinlc , and so saved herself . At length , thinking that she would bo about to return , they allowed her to go , and she wandered about tho streets until tho arrived at London-bridge , where she 8 [ ioko to a policeman , und ultimately wns tnken to the workhouse . It was decided that tho cane should be left in tho hand * of tho polico and the workhouse authorities .

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      The Assizes. Tins Summer Assizes Commenc...

      THE ASSIZES . Tins Summer Assizes commenced ycntcrdny week , on which diiy , George . Cunningham , ( Jcorgo Urown , and Krtward Summers , mates of tho American shi )> Gleaner , weiu tried nt Cardiff on a chnrtfo of wounding John ltiley , n block num . Another black man wan being illneed by Summers and Cunningham , on which It Hoy exehiimcd " l ' nir |> lny ! " Ho wan then beaten on tho lioiul with iron belaying pins until ho became insPiiKiblu . John llnrrifl , n Cardiff pilot , who remonstrated with the mffians , wiis threatened witli boin ^ thrown ovcrhonnl . Cininingluini Jm < i SuiiunerH'wera found Guilty of wounding with intent to < lo bodily harm , mid were sentenced

      to six years ' penal servitude . Brown was convicted of simple wounding , and was sentenced to hard labour f ™ . eight months . Ior Henry Arnold , a lunatic , was charged at Hertford on the same day with the wilful murder of Sarah Jane Butler . The facts were recently related in this journal and it will probably be recollected that Arnold metMn Butler one evening on the highroad' in company with her sister , and , without provocation , beat her so severelv on the head that she died the next morning . The man had escaped from an asylum . He was of course Ac quitted at the trial on tho ground of insanitv ; and he wil 1 be kept in safe custody . "

      At the same Assizes , last Saturday , a girl , thirteen years old , named Emma Read , was tried on a charge of maliciously and feloniously setting fire to some haulm and wood stacks . That she really set-fire ' to them appeared- quite clear , for she herself had admitted the fret but she said she did not know what she was dohv' at the time , and , as she received a very good' character for inoffensivencss , the jury favoured a charitable conclusion , and Acquitted her . Mr . Earon ' Bramw ' ell said hi ' was glad of this , as , had she been found guilty , he should not have known what to do with her . Mr . Justice Wightman , on arriving- at ' Oakham . ' Rutlandshire , found that there was neither civil nor criminal business to attend to ; and the grand and petty jurors were consequently dismissed . Mrs . Lewis , a widow lady residing at Laleston , near Bridgend , lias ' brought , an action at the Cardiff Assizes

      against the South Wales Uailway Company-for injuues received b y the collision at the Stormy station , nvar Pyle , on the 14 th of last October . The result of those injuries has been to make her a cripple for life . The jury assessed the damages at 600 / . In three special jury cases at the same Assizes , the Marquis of Bute recovered verdicts in ejectment against parties who had built cottages upon waste lands within his manor in the neighbourhood of Dovlais . —The same court has tried a black seaman named Alfred Collier on a . charge of stabbing a Greek sailor at Cardifiy and three other Greek sailors for beating and wounding the black . The case arose out of a riot near the IBute Pond on-the afternoon of the 29 th ult ., in which the Greeks were the aggress-ors . The trial was very tedious , as it was necessary to translate the evidence into French for the negro ( who is a native of a French colony ) and into their own language for the Greeks . Tlie jury convicted Collier of wounding-, without intent to do grievous bodily harm , and he was sentenced to hard labour for twelve month ? . They convicted the three Greeks of assault , and each was sentenced to hard labour for four months . The case of Bailey and Lobb , trustees of the Southampton , Bristol , and Soutb "Wales Railway Company , ¦ v . the lion . Sir Edward Butler , was tried at Winchester on Tuesday . The action was brought to recover the sum of 1500 / ., the amount of deposit on 1000 shares of the . company , for- which the defendant had subscribed . The pleas for the defence averred that the defendant was indemnified , and that he had paid the deposit when . certain moneys borrowed from the Hampshire Banking Company were lepaid . In summing up , Mr . Justice Watson pointed out to the jury that the plea or indemnification could not be made to avail , and that the pkn of having paid the deposit by means of the entry of 2250 / ., in the books of the banking company , under the arrangement for borrowing the 21 , 000 / ., when in truth the defendant had never paid one farthing , was too gross an assumption ( o be sustained . He therefore directed the jury to find for the plaintiffs , whi « h they did for the full sum claimed . At Oxford , en the same day , Mr . Shepherd , a civil engineer , brought an action against the London and North Western Railway Compnny , to recover compensation for injuries sustained on their line in tlie accident at Watford on the 22 ml of last March , occasioned (« s alleged ) by the negligence of their servants and tho imperfect construction of a new portion of tho line . The jury ( after the ense hud gone on for seven hours ) gave u verdict for the plaintiff ; ' damages , 7 DO / . John Doinincy uml Jnincs Fngan , two men in partnership us grocers at Southampton , / nnl also employed by the Oitlnancc-onice , wore tried at Winchester on Wcilncsday on a charge of extorting money from one "William Scott by threatening to accuse lii-i son of a theft . The lad was employed ns an errand bov by the defendants , and , suspecting that he had . stolen !>/ . l * . s . 7 d ., they accuKod him of it , and , by various threats , induced him to admit that ho had taken the monny . Tli « y then , by similar throatH , induced the father to p : iy tho sum alleged to have been stolen . Tho bray now swore ho liad not stolen the money , and had only ' said lie h '"' " so under fear . Duuiiuuy and l ' agim vvero Annulled , 1 ) llt the jury nt the , same time expressed thoiv belief tlmt nuithor Scott nor hit * son liad hud ttic money . William BlncUhum Daw . son haa Uuen tried at Voile on tho charge , of murd « rin < r Jamas Kdwuril . Incolif , « ' compositor on tho Halifax OunrtlUm . Tliv l ""' ' llllirs will bo within the recollection of uur ruudoiv . us tlu ' tragedy occurred loss than Unco months « K 0 > ^ young man was inniiifc .-it . ly insane , niul tlio jury Aiquitted him on that , ground . Tho ( Ji-and Jury nt Wiiw-hostor lmvo thrown out thfi bill ii tfuiimt Hart for tho alleged murder of liirt liiothi'V ( tt l ' ortHIKllltll , Charles Wonuurk , Matthew roimleton , nuil AV . N eoil-

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17071858/page/10/