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      Law, Police, And Casualties. On Siuurdny...

      seem at all surprised , but treated it as a matter of course . He is now , therefore , merely in the position of a prisoner under committal upon a charge felony , and he is , of course , relieved from all the restrictions to which he was liable , under the gaol regulations , as a convict under sentence of death He will remain in Horsemonger-lane Prison until within a few days of the next session of the Centra Criminal Court , when he will be removed to jNew gate , and take his trial in due course for the oftence of bigamj ' . The utmost punishment that can be awarded for this is penal servitude for four years An application for leave to put in bail was made at Southwark Police-court on Thursday . It was urged by his solicitor that as Smethurst had now received a free pardon for the murder of Isabella Banks , that good recognisances might be accepted for his ap pearancebut Mr . Combe refused the application .

      , At the Court of Bankruptcy , a first-class certifi cate has been awarded to John Bagshaw , late M . P . for Harwich . A certificate of the third class was granted to B . F . II . Carew . This bankrupt was de scribed as a cab proprietor in Lisson-grove , but he had been mainly engaged in accepting bills to the amount of . £ 58 , 640 for the notorious Colonel Waugh , who was his step " -father and guardian , and who , while in England , allowed him £ 2 , 000 a year . A breach of promise case , " Newman v : Hemming , was tried in the Court of Common Pleas on Monday . The plaintiff is the daughter of a publican now deceased , and resided with her mother at Moreton-in-the-Marsh , where they kept a public- ' '

      house , and the defendant is a farmer near the same place .. It appeared" in evidence that the parties had been acquainted from a very early pei-iod of life , but had not met since childhood till , three years since , when the defendant met the plaintiff at her father ' s house , and the acquaintance was renewed and an -engagement formed ; which progressed with apparent satisfaction until the defen-, dant changed . , his min d * without any assigned ; reason , forsook his early love , and married another lady . The defendant is possessed of property amounting to 2 , 500 / . ; and the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff , with 200 Z . damages . Mr . _ Edwin James endeavoured to obtain a mitigation of

      damages without effect . At the adjourned Middlesex Sessions Mr . Gordon Allan made an application for a day to bo fixed for hearing an appeal against a conviction by Mr Corrie , , the magistrate , of a person named Pereham , upon , matters arising out of the builders' strike and lockout . After some discussion the appeal was arranged ., to be heard on the 22 nd instant . A savage-looking man named Newman was < charged with robbing a boy of twopence-halfpenny . ; the

      The prisoner , in presence-of fifteen others , put i boy on a table , tied his legs , held one hand over his j mouth , and with the other picked his pocket of 2 £ d ., < which was all he possessed . The jury acquitted the { prisoner on the ground that the boy ' s evidence was ¦> not corroborated . Tho judge ridiculed such an idea , ' f and on inquiry it appeared that the prisoner had i been convicted ten times , and , having been sen- ] tenced to ten years' penal servitude , ho was at that c time a tickot-of-loavo man . The judge ordered him t to bo detained , in order that his ticket of loavo might i

      be revoked . At the Court of Bankruptcy third-class certi fieatcs i ¦ were granted tu Arthur Edward Windus , a tie and scarf manufacturer , currying on business in Alder- manbury , and T . A . NlcoU , an upholsterer , in Sloanc-street . ^ . Tlio commissioner observed that , but for the absence of opposition on the part of tho assignees in the . caso of the former bankrupt , ho should have felt it his duty to , order a suspension of his certificate ; and tluit the latter bankrupt did not quit I the court reputably , for- > ho owed matiy hundred pounds , and brought just as many . noughts for his Creditors . " .

      • An important oase has boon introduced-to tho t attention of tho Lord Chanepllor and tho Lords I Justices , this week . The question was whether , under the provisions of tho 32 nd section of tho Trustees Relief Act of lust ' session , a trusteo is on- titled to invest triust funds in tho Now India Stock . Vieo-Chancellor Wood had remitted this question to their lordships , being one of too much importance or intricacy for himself to decide . An order had been applied for , sanctioning tho investment of a sum have rofusod

      ol . l - f the Lords in its amended shape , it was at a tirf * J i when he , Lord St . Leonards , could not ask the f House of Lords to disagree with the change made by s the Commons ; . Now the change in question makes 1 it legal to invest in the New East India Stock , and yet Lord Campbell , has decided , in concurrence with 1 the Lords Justices , that the Court cannot sanction , 1 such an investment . We leave it to lawyers to say - whether the Lord Chancellor and' the Lords Justices 3 are empowered to set aside the decisions of the 2 Legislature .

      . - - - At the Sheriff ' s court in the City this week , a t case was heard by his Honour , in which the plain-1 tiff and defendant spoke in French , and his Honour 1 delivered his judgment in that language , t William Henry Jay , income-tax collector , Kings-- land road , has appeared on bail at Worship-street Police-court , to answer a charge of obtaining money by fraud in the collection of that assessment . - Evidence in several cases was adduced , where it was i alleged an overcharge had been made , or the tax [ imposed where there was no liability . The . prisoner was again remanded , Mr . l > 'Eyncourt [ refusing on this occasion to accept a renewal of the ' bail .

      On Saturday , in consequence of the efforts of the police to effect the capture of Dotteridge , the incometax collector , of Hoxton , -who has gone off with a large amount of public money , having all failed , the Commissioners of Inland Revenue offered a reward of . £ 50 for his capture . Dotteridge , who carried on business as an undertaker at Huberdasher-place , Hoxton , on finding the officers after him , had himself carried out of his house as a corpse sent there for burial , taking the place of a real " stiff ' un , " He thus got clear away . A young man , named Augustus Scott , said to have been lately a captain in the army , was charged on remand , at Marlborough-street Police-court , with uttering forged checks , in order to defraud certain hotel . proprietors . Mr . Bingham committed the prisoner for trial . .

      . At the Middlesex Sessions , Rosina Dyer was convicted of having robbed a servant-girl of her money and clothes , at the Servants' Home , Edgware -road . In consequence of the pertinacious and vehement manner in which the prisoner asserted her innocence notwithstanding the most conclusive evidence , the Assistant Judge ordered that she should be put on her trial on another charge of robbery . * A verdict of , guilty was found in this case also , and she was sentenced to three years' penal servitude . A person named Reynolds was yesterday fined £ 3 by Mr . Yardley , at the Thames Police-court , for an assault committed on one of the choristers of St . GeorgeVin-tlie-East , while proceeding to the said

      Kingston having attacked his wife , from whom he had been living apart , and with a clasp knife firsfc stabbed her and then cut her throat . The murderer is in custody . The perpetrators of the horrible atrocities on a defenceless woman near Halifax , have been committed for trial by the bench of magistrates . ¦ The inquiry into the facts attending the loss of the Duke of Richmond steamer has resulted in . the suspension of the chief officer ' s certificate . An inquest has been opened by Mr . Humphreys .

      at Kingsland , yesterday , on the body of William Eaton , a cariiian , whose death it was alleged had been caused by poisonous matter in some sausages he had eaten . The surgeon who attended deceased , and-subsequently made a post-mortem examination of the body , stated the nature of the symptoms during illness , and the appearances after death ; also that a portion of the intestines were sealed up . for analysation . That this might be performed , and a portion of the assumed poisonous sausages submitted to scientific tests , the inquiry was

      adjourned for a week . The Secretary of State has stayed the execution of the mad Portuguese sailor wlio committed murdei on the high seas . A boiler explosion of a most alarming charactei took place on Tuesday morning at West Cramlington Colliery , about ten miles north of Newcastle , resulting in the death of one man , in dangerous injury to another , and in the destruction of property to a considerable amount . The most serious part of the loss will be that sustained by nearly 400 men and lads , who will be thrown idle for some weeks , while the necessary repairs are being effected . As to the cause of the occurrence nothing is as yet satisfactorily ascertained .

      A veteran officer , Captain Dodgin , late of the 20 th regiment , shot himself on Saturday evening . Captain Dodgin had been for fifteen years in command of the police on the Island of Barbadoes—a service of considerable responsibility , and requiring great energy . After this long term ot service lie was dismissed by the local authorities without a retiring ; pension . This treatment preyed upon his mind .

      ] Mission Chapel on Sunday last . Mr . Yardley to the defendant— " There is no doubt you formed part of this disorderly mob , and there is no doubt you committed an act of violence . There can be no greater folly than this . It was n ot only absurd but very cowardly . There were 2 , 000 persons pursuing these gentlemen . Whatever their conduct as ministers , or whatever opinions they may entertain , I don ' t presurno to state anything or to make any declaration , but they are not to be hounded down and ill-used . If you fancy the complainant a bad minister , as you called him , stay away from the place where he officiates—there arc plenty of good ministers you can follow . "

      ( ] i i \ i < c J James Rielmrdson and Charles Willcs wore reexamined at Marl borough-street Police-court before Mr . Binyhum , on Wednesday , on a charge ofobtaining a quantity of goods , consisting of silvor plate , silk , & c , from differe nt London tradesmen , by means of fictitious letters and forged choquos . Both prisoners wero committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court . ' ' Tho pfftciul inquiry into tho causes of the enlnmity of the Royal Charter , commenced , on Tuesday at Liverpool . This inquiry promises to be a much more satisfactory investigation than that taken boforo tho Coroner . "

      t r I s f { Sir R . W . Bulkeloy has addrossed a communication' to tho Hoard of Trade , urging more prompt measures for recovering tho bodies of those who perished in the wreck of the Royal Charter . Ho says that , as yet , only some oiyhty bodios have been found . On Saturday night somo thiovos broke into St . Andrew ' s Cliurch , Plymouth , burst open the money boxes for tho poor , took away tho handsome velvet tho volvot t '

      covering of tl » o communion tablq , covers of tho cushions thoro and in tho corporation sauts , and tho vergers' cloaks . Tho gold fringe anil ornaments wore stripped from tho cover and cushions , but tho greater portion was dropped , apparently by accidont , in tho alslo ; the cloaks wore found in tho yard . Tho communion table covor is of Hcarlet Gonoa velvet , valuod at about £ 25 , and supposed to bo fifty yoara old . Tho churchwardens | , avo oilbred a reward of £ 30 for tho discovery of tho culprits . A frightful imirdor has beon committed , in tho streets of Coventry on Saturday , n militiaman nameu c a n n u -b t C v r s

      of money in this Stock , Their lordshipB the noMtion prating for tho investment ; and in loading the judgment of the Lord Chancellor on this subject .-one oanrtot . . fail to ' notice that i this high authority rested his argument more upon tho inton- fcion of him who drew up tho law than upon tho words of tho law itself . It seems that tho Lord Ohanoollor had writton to Lord St . Leonards , tho author of tho Trustoos Relief Act , asking him to explain Its meaning , and Lord St . Leonards replied that the special clause upon which tho question rested had been introduced Into tho bill , not by himself , but by the Commons , and when tho bill roaohed '

      No. 504. Nov. 19, 1859- The Leader. ' __...

      No . 504 . Nov . 19 , 1859- THE LEADER . ' __ 1267

      , I Ge2tor.Al Home News.

      , I GE 2 TOR . AL HOME NEWS .

      Is Holding.A Little Court Of His Own At ...

      is holding . a little court of his own at Oxford , whence his dinner and evoning parties arc duly reported by the daily journals . The visitors at Windsor this week have been numerous : among the names are those of the Duchess of Wellington , the Portuguese Ambassador , the Marquesses of Ailesbury , and Abercorn , Lord Malmesbury , Lord St . Germans , Lord John Russell , Karl Spencer , Mr . Hyducy Herbert and their wives , besides some German Serene Highnesses with most portentous titles .

      ; The Court . —With the exception of the launch ; at Portsmouth , on Saturday , nothing particular has occurred to vary the usual routine of the royal household . The Queen and her family are all in good . health , including the venerable Duchess of Kent , who has been visited twice this week at JTrogmore by her royal daughter and grandchildren . The Prince Consort came to town on Wednesday and presidedl at a meeting of the British Association , which washeld at Buckingham Palace . The Prince of Wales

      PuiWCE Au'Rkd . — -The Levant Herald of tho 2 nd instant , says ;— "On Sunday evening his Excellency Sir Henry Uulwcr If ft the JJospliorus for Volo , whore lie will meet his Royjil Highness Prmce Alfred , who was expected there yostyrday or to-day in tho' Euryalus . Private Idlers inform us that both at Volo ami Larissa , which tho Prince was also to visit , great preparations wore being made by the . authorities and private residents to give tho Royal midshipman a brilliant reception . ANOTiinn Guhat . Kxhiditiojt . —The Council of the Society of Arts have decided to carry out ; their » i . ni . » . t-. n / an Exhibition ot : the Industry ol All

      Nations ' in 186 : 2 . without any reference to the state of tho political atmosphere . Tho subscription list for the Guanmtoo Fund of 45850 , 000 ( which is confidently expected to bo obtained without difficulty ) , will bo opened immediately * Tlio Council will also annly to tho lloynl Commissioners for tho Inhibition of 18 /> 1 , to grant a convenient portion ol the 'around purchased at Kensington out of tho surplus fund of tho last exhibition for tho next and future international Exhibitions . Pw . vTir in mis PiflisitAon . —EarldoGroy , K . G . oxi ) jreel at his residence in St . Jamos ' s-squaro on Monday morning . His lordship was lord lieutenant ant * custos rotulorum of Bedfordshire , llout . colonel commandant of the Yorkshire Hussar Yeomanry , and aide-de-camp to licr Majonty . Ho is succeeded in hia title and large estates by tho Karl of itlpon . _

      . . Cxtv Mattijhs . —At tho Court of Aldermen this week , at which the now Lord Mivyor took tho chair for tho flrst time , a voto of thanks to the Jato Low ! Mayor ; Aldormim Wire , for tho able and efficient .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 19, 1859, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19111859/page/7/