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    GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURT...

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    Attempted Murder And Suicide.—A Woman Ju...

    to show t & at their books , & c , did sot come withini the meaning of the- Act ,, the learned' gentleman quoting- a definition ! of ' obscenity' from Cicero ,. JDe-Offieiis ; Mr . Jardine . decided that the -works -were obsceney andordered their destruction ,, subject to a delay- of seven days , in case of appeal , or in case Government should decide upon indicting the parties . In the four remaining cases , the same order was made in regard to the greater proportion of the articles , afew being excepted on the ground that tiey were not sufficiently indecent to come within the meaning of . the ; act . Among those excepted- were some copies of the paper called Paul Pry .

    Supposed Mukdee op a Wife . —A . man , named Alexander Moody , carrying on business as a-shoemaker in the North Bruton Mews , Bond-street , has been charged at the Marlborough-street police-court with the murder of his wife . At eleven o ' clock on- the night of the 17 th of August , Mrs . Moody was last seen alive at a neighbour ' s house by a woman named Mary Apple ton , who lived at ! No . 30 , Grosvenor Mews , adjoining the house occupied by Moody . The woman Moody seemed to have been drinking , but was not intoxicated . She asked Mrs . Appleton to have some gin , and , the latter consenting , they went together to a public-house , and Mrs .-3 Ioody shortly afterwards returned to her home . About two o ' clock in the morning Moody came home , and

    began quarrelling with his wife , and struck her three heavy blows . The blows and the words were distinctly heard , by Mrs . Appleton , whose room in the next house was close to that in which the quarrel between Moody and Ms wife took place . Mrs . Appleton only heard Mrs . Moody cry out once , and , after she had been struck , nothing further was heard until Mrs . Appleton got up in the morning , when Moody called her into his house and asked her to look at his . -wife . She went into the room where Mrs . Moody was lying on the bed , and her husband then taxed her with being very drunk when he came home the previous night . Mrs . Appleton denied this , and accused Moody of beating ' his -wife in the night . The man replied that he had only struck her with his

    hand , but added that he had a good mind to take a hammer , and finish her . Mrs . Moody was quite senseless , her right eye closed and greatly swollen , and the pupil of the other eye considerably dilated , with an effu-Bioa of blood on the lid , which was completely paratyzed . She was in other respects much injured . Mrs . Appleton spoke to her and asked her how she felt , but , although she breathed hard , she could not speak . The floor of the loom was wet , and Moody said that blood had flowed from his wife ' s mouth as she lay on the ground . About seven o'clock in the evening a policeman -was sent for , who- forced open the door , and Mrs . Appleton then went

    in with the constable . She again spoke to Mrs . Moody , who could then talk a little , and was able to drink some tea . When Mrs . Appleton left the house , she met Moody , who was returning home from a fishing excursion , and he told her that he had been praying all day to fiiad his wife a corpse . Ultimately , at the request of Mrs . Appleton , medical advice was sent for ; but the injured woman continued to get worse , and at length died in Si . George ' s Hospital , without giving ; any explanation of the cause of her wounds . Moody , who asserts that his wife fell down and hurt herself in an apoplectic fit , has been committed for trial .

    The Bieicenhkab Stabbing Case . —The three men concerned in the death of John Drury at Birkenhead , under circumstances which have already been related in these columns , were on Wednesday committed for trial . Middlesex Sessions . — -During th « sittings in the present week , a case casting great discredit on the police was tried . A man nanui Diedrich Rathgen was charged with having assaulted two policemen . They found him , as they alleged , quarrelling with some other

    men during the night in Spitalfielda , and one of the officers , according to this account , was beaten about the head with a poker by Rathgen , and was compelled to use his truncheon . According to the evidence for the defence , the constable had first insulted Itathgeu ' s wife , and then behaved , together with the other officer , with outrageous violence to > the man himself , striking him and another man on the head with hia staff . Oa hcarthis evidence , the jury stopped , the case , aud Acquitted Uathgen .

    Outrage on The Eastern- Countxk 3 Raiiavav . — Professor Rogers has been struck by a stone thrown at the down express train near Wynaondham , It ha * been ascertained that the lower jaw-bone has been splintered , and that the upper jaw has received a severe fracture . The injured gentleman is progressing towards recovery in a very satisfactory manner . " Myotjbiuous Death in this ltEGENT ' a-CArNAt ,. — Shortly before six o ' clock on Wednesday evening , considerable alarm was crented in consequence of the discovery of the body of a rnule person in the Kegent ' scanal at Twig Tolly-bridge , Green-street , Bethnal-green , under very auspicious circumstances . A young man named George Goathy ,- a labourer , wns Htanding on tho hank of tho Kogent ' a-canal , immediately at the rear of tho Queen ' s Arms public-house , when ho muldenly saw a human body rise to tho surface of tho water in front of him . He raised an alarm , ami called seVerul men to hia

    nasiatonco , when tho body waa got on tho towing-path . It exhibited several gashes and contiiHiom . Tho polico hovo ascertained , from persons living near the sp-ot that , on Monday morning , between one and two o ' clock , they

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    were aroused by cries of- " Murder I" and " Police ! " and ,, although several of the neighbours , left their beds , they were unable to learn the- cause . o £ the outcry , or to make any discovery .-

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    GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS ; Eight seamen belonging , to the- steamship Holy rood have been convicted by the Leith magistrates of being on board that vessel at the same time that it contained several pounds of smuggled tobacco . According , to an act passed in 1855 , every one oa board a vessel containing- smuggled tobacco is liable to a penalty . In the present case it was shown that the tobacco belonged to a seaman who had absconded ; . but this did not alter the law . Baillie Lindsay , in giving judgment , said it would , no doubt , be a great hardship in some cases to apprehend and fine every one found on board a- ship

    where goods liable to seizure were found ; but in the present instance there was no great hardship , for only those who had been eating and sleeping in the forecastle ( the place where the tobacco was found ) were before them , and it had come out in evidence that some of the defendants had a guilty knowledge of the tobacco being concealed on board . He fined them 1001 . each , with costs , and , failing payment , to be imprisoned during her Majesty's pleasure . Of course the fines could not be paid , and the men were carried off to gaol . Whatever may be said of this particular case , the law is iniquitous , and should be at once amended on the reassembling of Parliament .

    The alleged misconduct of the porter at the Charingcross Hospital in connexion with a recent case of attempted suicide received its final explanation last Saturday , when one of the gentlemen employed at the hospital waited on the Bow-street magistrate , and said that Mr . Sprague , having attended the investigation hefore the committee , professed entire satisfaction with the result . Among the resolutions agreed to by the committee was the following : — " That it is proved beyond doubt , and fully admitted by Mr . Sprague , that the porter was perfectly sober , but , having an impediment in his speech , and being suddenl y aroused from his sleep ( his previous night ' s rest having been unusually broken ) , an entire stranger was not unlikely during a momentary interview to have regarded him as under the influence of drink . " An instance of the defiant disregard of magistrates ' orders commonly shown by parish authorities has

    recently been brought forward at the Thames police-orfice . The relieving oflicer of the Whitechapel Union refuses to give out-door relief to a woman who is a native of , and resident in , the parish , because her late husband was an Irishman . On this ground , he insists on transferring her and her children to Ireland . She therefore applied to the magistrate , Mr . Selfe , who wrote a letter to the relieving officer , pointing out that he was not justified in what he was doing . The officer , immediately on receiving the letter , tore it in fragments , said he did not care for what any magistrate said , refused to let the woman go before the board of guardians , as she wished to do , and repeated that she must go to Ireland . On the woman again appearing before Mr . Selfe , he told her the parish could not pass her to Ireland without previously obtaining a magistrate ' s order , which of course would not be i . iven under the circumstances . He advised the

    woman to go with her children into the union , , and disregard the . threats of the relieving officer . The way in which the poor are treated by relieving officer * and guardians he condemned as most disgraceful , and he regretted that the complaints against the Whitechapel Union had been very numerous . He then , directed that half-a-crown , which had been forwarded for the woman ' s use by some benevolent individual , should be given to her , and remarked that her caee waa a very hard one . Mr . Holder , late Captain and Paymaster of the 5 th Lancashire Militia has been finally examined at Bowstreet , and . committed for trial , on a charge of misapplying the balance of 1153 £ 10 s ., due from him at the expiration of his service .

    The bankrupt i'Vistel , who was concerned some months ago in several actions against noblemen for wines supplied by him on their account to a certain notorious house—all of which failed , as they appeared to be a means of extorting money—has now been released from prison by order of the Bankruptcy Court , on account of being extremely ill , and appa » ently on the point of death . A contributor to the Householders' Genuine Bread and Flour Company ( limited ) has petitioned tli « Bankruptcy Court for a winding-up order . Mr . Commissioner Holroytl has fixed November 12 th for tho hearing of tho petition .

    Mr . William Tyler , described as a dealer in foreign animals and birds , until recently the proprietor of the Royal Surrey Gardens , passed hia examination meeting in the Court of Bankruptcy on Wednesday .

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    THE TRANSATLANTIC TELEGIlAril . ( Cormnunicated . ') Tuia inoat striking characteristic of tho present age is unquestionably to b « found in the marvels which have been wrought in tho subjugation of the powers of nature to the wants and u « es of mankind . Whenever mini finds nny instance in the natural world of greater power ,

    velocity is required , such as in locomotion and most of the arts and manufactures . The discovery of the action ' of the light of the sun upon certain chemical substances combined with a knowledge of the laws of optics , enables him ; to produce a picture with much greater fidelity and detail than could be accomplished by the most practised art . The- noxious and dangerous exhalation from coal mine 3 supplies him . with & plentiful and efficient means of artificial illumination , and the swift , though often disastrous , lightning becomes a medium for transmitting . his ideas to distant places with a rapidity far exceeding the wildest dreams of ancient mythology . °

    quickness ,, or precision than he himself possesses ha endeavours to employ it in such a manner as to furtheT his- own ends ,, and is always ready to make use of that which would-otherwise . be an obstacle to the successfor accomplishment off his desires . For instance , water ' When highly heated , shows so great a tendency to assum £ tihe gaseous form that it will burst through the strongest Barriers which may oppose it , and we find this enormous ' force employed by him in work for which hi 3 own physical , strength , ox that of the animals subject to him ' would bo insufficient . He finds , also , that by means of the mechanical powers he can exchange strength for quickness , and hence we see steam used where great

    Electricity , or lightning , was first proposed as a means of communication about the latter part of the last century . About six ; hundred years b . c . Thales , the-Milesian philosopher , observed that a piece of amber ( called by the Greeks electroii ) possessed , when rubbed the remarkable property of attracting any light objects which were near it ; and it was from this circumstance that electricity obtained its name . In later times light . was observed to accompany these effects , which it wa & found were not confined to amber ; but it -was not until the eighteenth century that Franklin proved the identity of electricity with lightning .

    One of the most remarkable properties of electricity is that it travels over and through certain bodies almost instantaneously , wliile it is altogether stopped by others ,. the first-mentioned bodies being called conductors and theothers insulators , ox non-conductors . If , therefore , electricity be applied to one end of a wire , which is a conductor , and proper means be taken to insulate it or prevent it from reaching the ground , it will be diffused . equally over the whole length of the wire , and producethe same effects at the other eud as it does at that at

    which it is first applied . It was this property of electricity which was first made use of in electro-telegraphic experiments , the electricity being conducted from place to place by moans of wires ; but these experiments were unsuccessful , except at short distances , in consequence of tlie great tendency of the fluid to fly off from the conductors , and it was not until Volta discovered the means of producing steady currents of electricity that it could be successfully applied to telegraphy .

    The wires in England arc generally stretched on poste by the side of railways , but in London and some other large towns they are laid underground . The insular position of England prevents her from communicating with neighbouring countries by either of these methods . The only way by which an . electric communication can be effected between two places separated by water , is by laying a wire properly insulated and protected , on the bed of the sea which divides them . The first important attempt of this nature was made in August , 18 . 00 , when . a wire , coated with gutta-percha , was sunk across the channel from Dover to Cape Griznez r on the French coast . This was for a time successful , but the coated wire was too weak to withstand the action of the waves at the parts near the shore , and soon becamo imperfect . This experiment proved , however , that a submarine telegraph was not an impossibility , and that all that was

    required to render it successful was to invest the wire with an iron covering strong enough to protect it from injury , but still sufficiently light and flexible to enable it to bo laid without difficulty . This was accomp lished by Messrs . Newall and Co ., of Gateahead , who succeeded in surrounding the insulated conducting wire with a . number of atout iron wires , thus forming a strong aud flexible cable . Such a cable was laid down between . Dover and Calais , and tho communication established , between those places on the 17 th October , 1851 . Jfc contained four copper conducting wires , each coated with . gutta perclia , which were enveloped in a muss of tuned yarn , and round the whole were twisted ten iron wires , each a quarter of an inch in thickness , and galvanized , or coated with zinc . The thickness of the cable itaelt was l £ inches , its length 25 miles , and the cost DOUOt , being at the rate of « 50 ()/ . per mile . Its weight wns <

    tons per mile . In consequence , of the success of this enterprise ,. numerous aubnuirino telegraphs were established in different partH of the globe , and the project l ' i » r connecting the old world with Hie new by meana of «» <^ ltllc cable is now very near its realization . The cubUs wn * completed some -weeks since , but a considurnhlo potuoiihaa been lost in consequence of an accident »•> h » yi » K » down . One half was manufactured lit Messrs . Nc . wul s works at Birkeiilicad , and tho other at GIhms and Who '* at Kant Greenwich . The conducting wiro i » n *> t « lll o as in othor Hubmarino , cables , but in cotnpos < : < I of heven flue copper when twisted together , funning <»» l - stl ' . " onewuxteonth of an inch in diameter . This cuilauiy apiieara very mnnll to convoy an electric current i >

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 17, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17101857/page/10/