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      " Free Trade-hall , Manchester . " 7 15 P . M . T—Mr . Bright is up , and smiling' affably . " Sir . Punch dipped a pen into ink , and prepared for action . « 7 30 . —Mr . Bright announces that he will not dethrone the Queen , whom he compliments . " Mr . Punch despatched a message to Osborne to relieve the minds of the Royal . party . u 7 45 . —Mr . Bright will not touch the House of Lords , and , indeed , considers it beneath the notice of practical men . It is moribund . " . Mr . Punch wrote brief notes to the aristocracy , congratulating them . " 8 p . m . - —Mr . Bright reminds the audience that it is not he and his friends who have raised the question of Keforr . i . Mr . Punch made a comical face . " 8 5 . —Mr . Bright states that he never saw the

      British Constitution . " Mr . Punch made a contemptuous face . « s 15 . —But considers that it was not meant solely for the monarch on his throne , or the peer in his gilded chambers . " Mr . Punch nearly yawned , and thought of replying " Get on . " « 8 20 . —Mr . Bright abuses the county proprietors . " Mr . Punch observed , " Connu . " " 8 30 . —Mr . Bright abuses the boroughs . " Mr . Punch quite yawned , and sent out for some snuff . « s 35 . —Mr . Bright abuses the House of Commons . " Mr . Punch took a good deal of snuff . « 8 40 . —Mr . Bright abuses the Game Laws . " Mr . Punch agreed , but didn ' t see how hares could

      vote , even with the protection of the liallot . " 8 45 . —Mr . Bright announces that Reform is not only necessary , but inevitable . " Mr . Punch again took up pen . " 8 46 . —Mr . Bright states that it is the Independent Liberals who habitually save the country by making Government impossible . " Mr . Punch smiled intolerantly . " 8 50 . —Mr . Bright has decided that he will grant the Ballot . " Mr . Punch took a note , but wished to hear more . " 8 53 . —Mr . Bright hasdecided that He will grant Household Suffrage . " * Mr . Punch , who only lives in splendid lodgings , felt furious .

      . " 8 55 . —Mr . Bright taunts the aristocracy with being afraid of American institutions , when they gladly paid 10 / . to the American , Mr . Rarey , for teaching them the Becret of horse-taming . " Mr . Punch remarked " Bosh !" * ' 9 p . m . —Mr , Bright compared himself to M . de Montalembert , whose praise of England was treated as Mr . Bright ' s praise of America is . " Mr . Punch repeated ' Bosh I " u 9 10 . —Mr . Bright admits that he has only given the faintest sketch of his intentions . " ., Mr . Punch growled .

      « 9 £ 0 . ^ - Mr . Bright strongly urgos upon the people of England to consider whether they really want Reform , q , nd , if they do , what- Reform ; and then to hold meetings , and petition , and let him know what they would like , as he sees great difficulties in his way . " Mr . Punch cast off the wire , and mixed himself an exceedingly strong glass of brandy-and-water , during the imbibition whereof ho uttered several significant sentences , touching fish out of water , promises and performances , case of real distress , & c , and finally got rather maudlin in his compassion for J . B . —Punch .

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      Gat Herings F Rom Law And Police Courts....

      GAT HERINGS F ROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Tub Court of Queen ' s Bench was engaged on Saturday ¦ with two cross actions , " Weatherloy v . the Duke of Beaufort , " and " The Duko of Beaufort v . Wpatherley ;" the first for assault , and tlio second for false imprisonment . Mr . Woatherloy was present nt the last Brighton races . He -was on . horseback , and la endeavouring to make bis way through a crowd , his horse pushed his Grace of Beaufort , who was engaged in playing at the game of " Aunt Sally . " The Duko immediately struck at tho horso nnd his ridor , and evontually unhorsed him . Mr . Wentherloy thereupon sought for a policeman , who brought the Duko bofore tho chief constable of tho town , and tho mattor resulted in these triuls . Tho jury found a verdict for tho plaintiffs in both Caeca ; for Mr , Weathorley jn tho action for assault , damages 100 / . ; and for tho Duko of Beaufort in the action for false imprisonment , damages one farthing .

      In tho Court of Probate and Divorce an important caao , Keats v . Keats and Montozuma , has been tried . Mr . Keats , who was recently Shoriff of London , Bought a dissolution of his marriage with Mrs . Keats , on the ground that she had committed adultery with a Spanish music teacher namod Don Pedro do Montozuma . Tho defence sot up was that tho conduct : of tho lady arose mainly from ill-treatment on tho part of hor husband , and that ho hud forgiven aud condonod tho ofloneo . Tho Judge ' s summing up was strongly in favour of the petitioner , and tho jury , After a considerable delay , arising from a difforonco of opinion on tho

      part of one juryman , returned a verdict to the effect that Mrs . Keats had committed adultery with Don Pedro de Montezuma , that Mr . Keats had not condoned the offence , and that Montezuma should pay to that gentleman damages to the amount of 1000 / . —The Rev . Henry Cherry , rector of Burghfield , near Reading , has instituted proceedings against Mrs . Cherry for the restitution of conjugal rights . Some time ago Mrs . Cherry exhibited articles of the peace against her husband , accusing him of violent and brutal conduct towards her , and declaring that to protect her life she was compelled

      to conceal herself for two years . The husband was ordered to enter into sureties to keep the peace , and he now seems to have brought the case before the Divorce Court in order to defend liis own character as well as to get his wife back again . ~ Mr . Cherry ' s petition was decided , in favour of the reverend gentleman . — A most revolting case came before this Court on Tuesday . A man petitioned for a dissolution of his marriage on the ground of adultery on the part of his wife , but the jury actually found that the petitioner had condoned the offence , and had received knowingly the wages of her infamy . the conduct of the

      A very important case as affecting police has been brought before the police magistrates . Two young men charged two constables with having improperly interfered with them in the . streets , and with having locked them up on a trumped-up charge . The case was investigated with great care by Mr . Corrie , who sharply reproved the policemen for their conduct , and fined the one who ivas chiefly responsible for the outrage . Robert Johnston , the individual charged with inhumanity towards his children , and especially his daughter Frances , by which she was driven to attempt suicide , having completed his term of imprisonment , made a

      tion of guilt , tlie case might be attributed to the overcrowded dwellings of the poorer classes of the metropolis , and to this point he wished specially to direct the attention of the benevolent and the humane . He also spoke of the evil of prize-fighting , and remarked that the parties who employed men to fight were the most deserving of punishment . — -The boy , Edward . Herbert , who was committed for breaking open his master ' s desk and stealing 51 V ., and then by a pretended revelation implicated three old and faithful servants , was sentenced to four years ' penal servitude . —James Baylis was tried on a charge of uttering a forged bill of exchange . He had applied to some agents to discount two bills , one for 2 . 0 ? . and the other for 40 / ., offering as a collateral security a policy

      of assurance which was admitted to be worth 72 / . The charge of forgery could not be supported , and the judge directed an acquittal . Baylis was permitted to have the bills impounded , with a view to proceedings against a person named George Marshall , of whom he was stated to have been made the dupe . —Mr . William Hudson Guernsey was arraigned on the simple charge of stealing a few sheets of printed paper belonging to our Lady the Queen , or to the Secretary for the Colonies ; and after it had been proved that he did so , just in the same way as it was proved before the police magistrate , his counsel , Mr . Serjeant Parry , contended that there was no case to go before the jury , as there was no evidence of felonious intention in the act of taking the

      papers . This was an admission that the prisoner certainly did take a copy of the despatches -from the desk of Mr . Miller in the Colonial-office . In reply , the Attorney-General contended that the act was a larceny ; but the jury did not think so , and the gentleman was acquitted . —Samuel Asquith , who killed George M'Donald in a prize-fight , has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment . —The trial of Roper , on the charge of defrauding the insurance company , arising out of the burning . of his house at Greenwich , has been

      postpublic appearance in the City on Saturday afternoon , and stated the case from his point Of view , in a way which impressed the audience in his favour . It appeared pretty evident that Sir Robert Garden , who condemned him , had done so hurriedly , and , by refusing the application for an adjournment of the investigation , had prevented the defendant from calling evidence in his favour . The defence which Johnston made imputes bad conduct to his children . Before the meeting closed he replied to a number of questions put to him by the audience ; and the proceedings terminated with a resolution expressing the conviction of the meeting that he had not recommended his sons and daughters to lead a

      poned till next session . —Henry Rudledge was charged with a felonious assault upon his own daughter , and his second wife , the girl's stepmother , was charged -with aiding and abetting him . The girl ' s evidence was of the most revolting character , but the jury discredited it , and returned a verdict of not guilty . —George Simpson was charged with stabbing Henry Goodwin , one of the warders of Coldbath-fields Prison . The jury found the prisoner guilty of intending to do grievous bodily harm , and the judge sentenced him to twenty year * ' penal servitude .

      life of infamy . The police report affords another instance of the danger of jumping from trains while in motion , -which occurred on the Greenwich line . The promptness of the station-master , in all probability , saved the offender , a female , from being crushed to death . The magistrate fined her 10 s . A mother and daughter have been charged before Mr . Selfe with poisoning a child with gin . They had given the poor infant five or six glasses , when it fell down motionless . The child is represented to be dying , and the prisoners were remanded for a week . At the Marlborough-street police-court , Mr . Rarey , the horse tamer , attended to complain of the conduct of a firm at the West-end , who had used his name in connexion with some new food for cattle . He stated that his name had been improperly used .

      At the Court of Bankruptcy , the choice of assignees has been determined in the case of W . Lemon Oliver , stockbroker , of Austin-friars , whose case has been recently before the public in connexion with the fraud upon Miss Dance . It is stated that his debts exceed ! 10 , 000 / ., while the assets are but of trifling amount . — -An application for certificate by Mr . Payne , formerly lessee of the Strand Theatre , made bankrupt as a bookseller , was totally refused . — On Wednesday , a renewed bearing was given to the application for certificate by Davidson and Gordon . Further evidence was given , eliciting , however , nothing of a novel or material character , and the sitting was again adjourned to the 23 rd inst .

      At the Liverpool Assizes , Stadtmuller and Wilhelm were arraigned on the charge of murdering a young woman at Manchester by attempting to procure abortion . Stadtmuller was admitted as approver against Wilhelm , and the facts of this tragical and revolting crime were then proved . The prisoner was found guilty , and sentenced to death ; but as it appears the jury would have returned a verdict of mnnslaughter had such a verdict been possible , it is not likely that the capital sentence will be carried into effect . —Pollard , the proprietor of the Wigan Exaityner , pleaded guilty to the charges of forgery preferred against him . Sentence , eight years ' penal servitude .

      At the Mansion-house , W . H . Cory was committed for trial on serious charges of forgery and fraud . At the Guildhall two men , Perry and Browning , were charged with renting a house , and then removing and soiling the fixtures and everything in the house that it was possible to make away with . Even the lead on the roof was not spared . The prisoners were remanded . Kochanowsky , tho Russian Baron , and his alleged confederate , have been committed for trial on the charge of being in possession of three engrossed plutes intended for the manufacture of forged Russian notes . Higgins and Davis have been charged with attempting to defraud and swindle Mr . Grunberg . Committed for trial .

      An attempt was mado to murder a wife on Tuesday , at WeUington-streot , Stepney . The victim , Sarah Goodoy , has been separated for some two or three months from her husband , and was in bed when ho gained admittance to her room , locked tho door , and attacked her with a razor . She mado her escape after being severely wounded , and was conveyed to tho hospital . Tho man was apprehended and taken bofore the magistrate at the Thames police-court , when ho was remanded for a week . Tho Rev . Alfred Poolo lately took proceedings ngainat

      the Hon . nnd Rev . Mr . Baring , with a viow to obtain a public investigation into the charges brought against him . His solicitors made an application that tho writ served upon Mr . Baring should remain in aboyanco until it was known whether tho rulow ' st obtained against tho Archbishop would induce his Grace to investigate the ease . Wore that done , there would bo no necessity of another investigation in a court of law . This proposal was doollnod by Mr . Baring , but upon a hearing at Chambers timo was granted upon tho plea .

      The sessions of tha Central Criminal Couit have boon opened . In commenting upon tho calendar , tho Recorder mado somo important observations . With regard to one oaso of alleged Immorality ho said that , upon tho ftssurap-

      Criminal Record. Suspected Foujl Pj*A Y....

      CRIMINAL RECORD . Suspected Foujl Pj * a y . —An inquest has been held at Waltham-cross on the bodies of a 3 oung woman and an infant which were found in a pond . There can bo no doubt , from the medical evidence , that both had met with foul treatment . This AndijVisk Mukdicr . —Thin crime is still wrapped in mystery . -Emma Banks , the wife of the man already in custody , has been arrested , and both prisoners have

      been committed for ' trial , protesting their innocence . The theory of the prosecution seems to bo this : —Mrs . 13 aiiks had attempted to steal a dress out of Mr . Parson ' s shop . She wan anxious that he should dony the fact , tho rumour of which had gone abroad . They had interviews on tho subject , tho result being thnt on the night of tho murder Parsons had gono to moot nor in a retired spot for an immoral purpose , and that there tho husband , who was cognizant , with tho wife ' s privity , came stealthily upon himnnd killed him .

      , Thk MuitDicKoua A / rritMiT at BiuanNaruni . —At the Warwick Assize * a young man named Timins was tried on the charge of having attempted to murder Mrs . Owen , a young woman to whom ho was ongjigod , Ho was conviotod , and sentenced to penal ncrvitudo for life . Muhduk at JSTprnNONAW . — A Mr . Woodlioad , landed of a pub | io-liou 8 o nciir Nottingham , was foiled dead n hla ow houao , on Tuoaduy night , by some uuknowa assassin , who hud conooulod himself in ono of tho top rooms .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 18, 1858, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18121858/page/5/