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    Our Civilization. ¦ -—? Central Criminal...

    quite unprovoked , and was clearly the result of a disordered intellect . . The grand Jury have found a true bill against Antonio di Salvi , the . Ifcalian ; charged with wounding Sir . Robertson in the Queen ' s Bench Prison . The bill -with respect to Mr , 0 ower , in connexion -with the same offence ,-was thro-wn out . Three men and two women were charged with a garotte robbery committed on the person of the landlord of a publics-house in Bear-street , Leicester-square . The jury convicted the men ( who were sentenced to ten years' penal servitude ) , and acquitted the women . A reward of 21 . was given to a . policeman who secured one of the ruffians . . „ "

    George Morley and James Smith were found guilty of a burglary In the house of Mr . Proctor , a solicitor , living in Cambridge-terrace , Regeut ' s-park , on the morning of the 2 nd inst . They were caught by the police in the act of escaping , and it was found that they had endeavoured to burn through one of the doors which stopped their progress . Morley was sentenced to ten , and Smith to six , years' penal servitude .

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    MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . A distressing ease was tried last Saturday . Richard Payne , a youth of eighteen , was indicted for stealing fottr shirts . He had selected them at the shop of a widow in Drury-lane , > and had ordered that they should be sent to his residence in Uolywell-street . This was donjs , -bat instructions were given to the bearer not to leave them -without being paid . However , the youth , on reaching the place , took them from the girl , and told her to run = ba < Jkland fetch two more . She went on this errand , bait , on her return , Payne had left with the four shirts in his possession . Sotne days afterwards , he was given mto custody . The proseeutrix , in her eross-r examination , admitted that she went to the Strand

    Theatre and saw the young man ' s father , who is the lessee of that establishment , but denied that she ; went there to obtain payment for the goods . She wanted to know where the youth was to be found . Mr . Metealfe , for the defence , urged that the matter ought to have been treated as one of debt , and that the prosecution had been instituted to ' screw' the money-out of the father ^ -a highly respectable person—when it was found that it could not be got out of the son . Though the latter had done wrong in getting these things in the way he had , still it was but a fair conclusion that he did so in the belief that he should obtain the money from his father , and was not actuated by the felonious

    intention imputed to him by this indictment . Mr . Payne , the prisoner ' s father , in answer to the court , said his eon had been leading a very irregular life latterly , and he had done all he could to reclaim him . He had promised to furnish him with everything he might require if he would leave London , and there was an arrangement for him to go to Southampton . The prosecutrix applied to him at the theatre for the money ; but theseproceedings had been hastily token , or it would have been paid . The prisoner pleaded * Guilty' to a second charge of a similar kind . Mr . Payne said he would send him out to Australia at the expiration of the sentence the court might impose . Mr . Bodkin sentenced the prisoner to six months' hard labour .

    John Macarthy , a young man of nineteen , was found Guilty last Saturday of stealing from the Imperial Loan Society a / n iron safe containing 216 / ., and one hundred pounds of Ibacon . The booty had been removed from the room in whioh . it was placed , but was not carried away , the thieves being apparently interrupted in their work . The evidence to connect Macarthy * with the robbery , or rather the attempted robbery , was in itself very Blight ; but it was strengthened by a kind of confeffaton which too made to the policeman who took him into- •¦ oustody ; This he now contradicted ; but the jury found him 'Q-ullty , and he was sentenced to twelve moBrtHip'i'hard labour . He was known to associate with bad characters ; but . he had never before been in custody .

    The Assizes. > Q Eeannah Smith, A Single...

    THE ASSIZES . > Q EEannah Smith , a single ' woman , aged forty-four , was indicted at Liverpool for the murder of her infant child , nfne months old * The woman worked In a factory . At fire o ' clock in -the morning of the 29 th of May , she went to the'houee of a woman who usually had the care of the child ; 'her hair xvaa dishevelled , and the whole of the upper part of her body dripping with wot ; and she Bald , ¦ " I have attempted three times to go with my oWla , but I could not 5 I have been in the water three timea , but the Lord has pulled me back , I went into Dhe crater-with the child nt myboaoni . " The woman to wh

    • om'tflfcla was told screamed , and the noise brought up persons' who went to Hannah Smith ' s house , and found her sitting on a chair , and the child in a mug of water , its Icgp hanging out , and the face downwards . For tho defonoe , it was contended that : death might have boon cauflad by the mother embracing , her child and causing srtffooatlon before she attempted to destroy herself ; and thnt , even if It -were not bo , she was not in that state of mjnd which made her responsible for hop actions . It jraashqwn that , in order do pay off some debts , she had W " !]* ? almoBt on'bread Rnd water ; that elmhad fallen ° » ntOTa > jJtate of deep , ' hopeless despondency as early as OT * rcnj and tJhat her conduct was tlint of nn irrational

    and irresponsible agent . She was accordingly Acquitted on the ground of insanity , and wiH , of cowese , be-kept in safe custody . ¦ " . ' An action for breach of promise of marriage has been brought at the Liverpool Assizes against a master dyer of Saddleworth , near Oldham , named Garside . About four years ago , when Garside was rather more than thirty years of age , he fell in love with a Miss "Wood , a . farmer ' daughter , then only seventeen . The girl's father objected to the match , on account , partly , of disparity of age ; and the girl herself was at first very shy , and would have nothing to say to her suitor . He pressed his case , however , and appears to have enlisted the services of a male cousin of Miss Wood , and of the sexton of the parish . The latter said in his evidence : — " Garside inquired if he could be married at

    G-retnagreen , or at the Isle of Man , as he didn't want his folks to know of it , for they were very rich . He seemed very serious in the matter , as they generally ^ are in those matters . " QLcnifffit & rJ )—Gross-examined : " What occupation were you ? " Witness : " I was sexton . "—Mr . Hill ( eounsel for the defendant ) : * ' WeM , but a sexton is to help people to get into the grave , not to help to get them married . "—Witness : " Brat we have to get a population before we ean bury them . " iiboud Zauffhter . ') Ultimately Garside obtained possession of the girl's affections and confidence , which he basely abused , for he seduced and abandoned her . The father then called on him , and said his daughter was fretting very much ; to which he replied , " I don't me « n to do anything ; I have had all I wanted . " Old Wodd told him he was a scoundrel , and left him . The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages , && QI .

    A sentence strangely disproportioned to the offence was passed at a trial for manslaughter at Liverpool , on Friday-week . James Davies is a Liverpool tailor , and oa 1 the night of the 25 th of May he entered a publichouse , drunk and highly excited , and asked a man , named Robert Hodson , to . go with him to his house , as a man was then with his ( Davies ' sj ) wifa . He added that he would show Hodson ' some fan . ' The man went with Davies to the house , and the wife was found by herself in a lower room . Her husband struck a / ad abused her , and then went up-stak-s ; and , in a garret , lying in a bed on the floor ,- apparently asleep , but with his elothes on , was discovered the man of wi » om Darvies was in search—a man named Robert Reuses . Da-vies immediately jumped on his face , and the man turned and fell on the floor . The next moment , Davies palled from his pocket a pair of scissors , and plunged them he meant to kill

    into Reuses ' s side . Hodson asked if the man ; to which I > avies answered , " Stand back , or I'll serve you the same ! " Davies then went down stairs , and Hodson ran for a doctor ; but Reuses died in ten minutes . Two wounds were found in the left breast , and some contused wounds on the face . It was satisfactorily shown on the trial that the seduction really had taken place ; and Baron Watson , in summing up the evidence , called the attention of the jury to the law as laid down by the text writers , that a man who kills another caught in the act of adultery with his wife does not commit murder , but manslaughter in the lowest degree ; and it was for them to say whether tho circumstances of this case warranted such a finding . The jury found the prisoner Guilty pf manslaughter of the lowest degree . His Lordship sentenced him to four days' imprisonment . This is virtually an acquittal 5 but , though sanctioned by law , it is clearly against reason and justice .

    An action to recover money , which was brought at the Bristol Assizes a few days ago by a young man of seven-and-twenty years , of age , named Robson , against a Mrs . Botheridge , aged forty-eight , brought out some amusing details . Two or three years ago , Mrs . Botheridge , though no longer in the bloom of youth , was a very handsome woman , and Robson was deeply in love with her , she being at that time a widow . She kept the Anchor public-house at Tewkesbury , to which tavern Robson would often resort , and get drunk . He would then go to bed in tho house , and the widow ( according to the plaintiff ' s statement ) would take the money ¦ from his pockets , and return it to him in the morning , minus certain sums , which she would admit she had appropriated , observing that what belonged to tho one belonged to tho other also ; and to this he would assent . However , at last t / hoy quarrelled . Robson went to the house drunk , and wanted half a pint of rum . She rofugod to lot him have it ; on which he made a

    disturbance , and was given intp custody . Some time afterwards , having reason to believe that ahe was favouring the addresses of another man , ho enlisted in a frenzy into the Hussars , and yfont to the Crimea , on his return from which be was discharged from the army , not being up to tho required standard . By that time the widow had married her present husband . The dofonoo was that , bo far from Mrs . Botheridgo owing Robson money , ho owed her some . This was confirmed by tho ovidgnco of two witnesses . Mrs . Botheridgo gavo aomo particulars of the courtship in her evidence : " Ho said ho ahould like to make her his wife . She said she should not like him for a huabnnd . He said lie should like to bo ft landlord . That was a fortnight after he came . He continued wooing for five years . He asked her a good many times to beoome Mrs . Robson . She did not know of his Bighing ; 5 that was behind her back . Would not awoar he did not got ft marriage 11-censo , but ho gavo her a bit of paper and told her if he

    did not have her he would cut his throat . She put the paper in the fife ; She did not read it . Be said be w-onld buy another . He came and lived in her henae for some time . He still went on courting ; but , if the lady had bo mind for it , it did not go on very smoothly . " The $ nry gaare a v-erdiet for the defendant . Thomas Fox Lings has been found Guilty at Liverpool of embezzling between eight and nine thousand pounds from his employers , Messrs . Kershaw , Leese , aad Sidebottom , of Manchester ^ in whose-service he had been for nearly twenty years . For twelve of those years , he

    had been cashier at an annual salary of 2701 . ; but at length alarming deficiepces were discovered , and Lings admitted his guilt . Mr . Hampson , the prosecutors' solicitor , asked him what he had done with the money . and he said he had lent it to two persons , a man named Glover being one ; and he produced vouchers for neatly 16 , 000 ? ., part of which he said was paid off , bat he had not given back the vouchers . He offered to assign these vouchers , and make all the restitution in his power . Glover has since petitioned the Court of Bankruptcy , and is offering 8 s . in the pound . Lings has been sentenced to a year ' s hard labour .

    George Withatn has been found Guilty of endeavouring to blow up a house with gunpowder , and has been sentenced to four years' penal servitude . Henry Rogers , master mariner , William Miles , mate , and Charles Edward Seymour , second mate , were iadicted on . Wednesday at Liverpool for the wilful murder of Andrew Rose , seaman on board the ship Martha and Jane , on the high seas , on the 6 th of last June . Rose was half-witted and dirty in his habits ; and , during the voyage , he was subjected to the most horrible brutalities , from which at length he died . All the prisoners were found Guilty , and condemned to dearth . The verdict was received with loud , cheering .

    Seeeiitro A Wife.—A Strange Tale Eanae O...

    SEEEiitro A Wife . —A strange tale eanae out at the Worship-street poliee-office last Saturday , when Thomas They , a bookbinder , attended to establish the settlement of his wife , who had become chargeable to the parish . The marriage bad taken place in 1849 ; and the husband gave this extraordinary account of the affair- r—His first wife had been dead barely a month when "he attended a public-house raffle , and there met the woman whose settlement was now in dispute . She fell on love with him at first sight , or at any rate affected to-do so , and at once offered to marry Trim . He objected on the ground of expense ; but she * borrowed as much money as would pay for a license , and they were married . In less than a week , she made off while he was out one evening-, taking every movable thing with her , and he heard nothing of her until recently , when he received a message from a Scotchman named Robertson , inviting him to a

    public-house . There he found the man in company with his wife . Robertson , offered to purchase his wife for baflf a pint of gin ; th « offer -was" accepted ; the gin was drunk , and more was ordered and paid for 'by the husband in the joy of his heart at thus disposing of h 5 s spouse ; and finally the Scotchman marched off with his lovely prize . It would seem , however , that he goon abandoned her . The husband had since ascertained that , after leaving him , the woman had cohabited with several other men , by whom she had had several children , but who had all abandoned her ; and she then until the

    came worrying her husband for assistance , trouble became so unbearable that he was rejoiced when compelled to give evidence aa to her settlement , as the only apparent means of getting rid of nor for ever . The St . Luke ' s beadle confirmed this account of the profligate life led by the wife , who was the mother of four or five children during her eight years' separation from her husband . An order was made out , transferring- tho who to her settlement in the country . Her own account © 1 her reason for leaving her husband was that he had used her with great cruelty .

    MURDBR OF A CjHM > BY ITS MOTWEIt AT LINCOLN . — A cork-cutter , named Woolfitt , living hi Beryford-lane , Lincoln , left his house for a few minutes on Sunday morning , when he was recalled by his neighbours , » nO , on' going back , found that his wife had cut off the neiw of one of his children , » b » by about seven months out . The woman stated to the people who orowded into tuo place , that she loved her children , but that , if eho naa not been prevented , she would have killed thorn M . She is said to have been lately in a low and doaponding way . The child had been placed on the hearthstone , ana its head chopped off with a cork-hatchet . Ribpobtdd Forgejribs at LrvBRPOOi .. —A niorcliftnri recently deceased at Liverpool , is said to have left liabilities reaching 800 , 000 / ., af which , 100 * 000 / , « o through forged acceptances to bills of exchange «» fl losses are believed to have been caused by heavy speculations both in cotton and shares ; and it is rumoured that he . committed suicide .

    Twin Jovjcaj ; Burglar . —Mr , William Gilbertson , nn o ! l and colourman in the Hackney-wad , was wilted about half-past tbreo o ' clock on Sunday morning witji pnina in his baok , and his wife got out of bed to fowl * some oil with which to rub M . Suddenly she Btumblod over something on the floor , and screamed out w «> alarm . Mr . Gilbertaon jumped ouib of bod , and found the room door open , though it was shut when l > o went to eleop . Heaving a nolae on tho ataira , ho looked over tlio banisters , and saw a m « n . Ho thon went to tho * "L room window and called tho police , by whom tho tnloi

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 22, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22081857/page/10/