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    meet with his deserts . A mail named Gloucester Gale ¦ was apprehended at Eghani , on Sunday , on a charge of having married six wives . The prisoner is thopght ^ to be identical with the soi-disant mate of a ship regarding whom an application was made to the late Lord Mayor , ¦ when it was stated that the ; scoundrel referred to had contracted marriage with several young ladies of most respectable station , deserting them almost immediately afterwards . On being placed before Mr . Ueadon , at Marlborough-street , his worship directed the inquiry to ' be transferred to Glerkenwell police-court , as it was within that jurisdiction the second matrimonial ceremony was performed .

    Tuttlebee , Ash ton , and Irving , who are in custody charged with stealing a bell , valued at 2000 guineas , from the grounds of Alderman Finnis , at Wanstead , were brought before the magistrates at Ilford on Saturday . All three were committed for trial . The Assize intelligence of Monday records two capital convictions . At Tauhtoh , William Burgess was convicted of the murder of his little daughter , aged six years , in Extnoor Forest ; and at York , John Whitworth ,-quite a young man , was convicted of the murder of his sweetheart , Sally Hare . Both are sentenced to death . At the Court of Bankruptcy , on Saturday , Mr . J . Townsend , described as auctioneer , and late M . P . for Greenwich , applied for a certificate . After a lengthened hearing , the Court deferred judgment .

    At the . Court of Common Pleas , Mr . M'Geacli , a respectable tradesman of Shrewsbury , has obtained 1000 / . damages against the North-Western Railway Company for having been nearly killed in consequence of an accident on the 5 th . October in last year . The alleged conspiracy of the General Omnibus Company against the / Saloon Omnibus Company was proceeded with this week . One or two additional witnesses were heard in support of the charge of conspiracy , and

    another remand took place . Higgiris and Davis , charged with swindling Gruneberg , the nurseryman , have been committed for trial . It came out on . the examination of Mr . Denis , the execution creditor in this business , that Higgins , unwilling doubtless to leave things half done , had made use of his liberty by bail to endeavour to get an execution in on Gruneberg ' s goods , although without success . Higgins was conveyed to gaol in default of bail , and Davis only walked but of court to be arrested for debt .

    In the Court of Queen ' s Bench an action was brought by oue Mr . Smith against the Great Northern Railway Companv to recover damages for injuries which the plaintiff " sustained by an accident on that railway . Lord Campbell ordered the jury to be locked up , and lpckfcdup they were all night till ten o ' clock next morning , without fire , food , or drink . When called into Court , they all looked very ill , unwashed , Unshaven , and unkempt , and one of their number had to be attended by a doctor during the night . When asked , they said they had not agreed , and could not agree ; and then Lord Campbell told them it was clear when they gave in the verdict of a farthing damages overnight , that they were not then agreed , that the ridiculous unreasonableness of such a verdict , when substantial

    damages were due , was a proof that they were not agreed , and that for that reason he had refused to accept it . His Lordship having further lectured the jury , discharged them . Both Lord Campbell and the Lord Chief Baron have lately expressed their opinion strongly in favour of an alteration in tlio law as regards the trial by jury . Several petitions for dissolution of marriage on the grounds of adultery and desertion came before the Court of Divorce this week . In the Marchmont case an application was made to the Judge Ordinary to give effect to the finding of the jury by pronouncing a decree of judicial separation . The counsel for Mr . Marchmont , in reply , intimated that such a decree , if made , would be therefore declined to

    appealed from . The judge pronounce it , preferring that a now trial should be moved for before the whole Court , a course which Mr . Marchmont * s counsel said ho should adopt . Charles Hodgson , the chemist from whoso shop the arsenic was suppliod which caused so many deaths * when eaten in the form of lozenges at Bradford , was tried for manslaughter at York , before Baron Watson , on Tuesday . The evidence having shown that ho had frequently cautipnod tho shopman wl \ p sold the poispn to bo careful , and particularly regarding arsenic , tho judgo held that thoro was no proof of negligence , and directed a verdict of acquittal . His Lordship exprossod no opinion ns tp tho practice of selling " daft" ' or terra alba for tho purpose of adulteration , which was tho actual cause of tho mischief .

    In tho Court of Common l'loas an action has been brought by tho proprietor of tho Sheffield Daily Noxos , and two other papor-a , against the proprietor of tho Sheffield Daily Telegraph , for publishing a aeries of libels , these libels consisting of attacks upon the plaint ill ' , arising out of a claim between him and tlio Pi-Inters ' Combination Society . Tho trial ocoup lod two days , and resulted hi a verdict for tho plaintiff , damages 500 / . Tho Tweed salmon question has again turned up in tho Mansion-house . Roaotta Meyer , wife of Mr . Moyor , of BUlingHgato , was charged with boing in unluwful

    possession " of sixty-four salmon after the season had closed . Sir R . Carderi imposed a heavy fine . A gang of coiners were captured in St . Luke's on Wednesday , and brought up before the Clerkenwell magistrate , by whom they were remanded . As a man named George May was being conveyed to Wahdswoith itouse of Correction , in the prison van , from South wark police-court , where the magistrate had sentenced him to a month ' s imprisonment for deserting his wife , he cut his throat . The wretched maa now lies iii the infirmary at the point of death . At the Court of Bankruptcy this week , a dividend sitting under the bankruptcy of Leopold Redpath , notorious as the perpetrator of the frauds upon the Great Northern Railway Company , which lately excited so much public attention , was adjourned in consequence of the non-receipt , through technical obstructions , of a considerable sum of money .

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    Ireland. The Affair Of The Arrests Conti...

    IRELAND . The affair of the arrests continues nearly at a standstill , and since Saturday last the authorities seem to have made but little progress in the unravelnaent of the plot—for a plot there undoubtedly has been , though its precise objects are as yet by no means made clear . The idea of a special commission , if ever entertained , is wholly abandoned . With the exception of the principals , all the prisoners have been admitted to bailbound over , however , in heavy recognisances to stand their trial at the ensuing spring assizes . The evidence of the approver , it seems , has been sustained by other parties , whose voluntary appearance in the capacity of " informers" forms the strangest episode in the whole proceedings .

    Naval And Military. By Pur Advices From ...

    NAVAL AND MILITARY . By pur advices from Australia it appears that up to the time of the despatch of the mail nothing whatever has been heard of the Sappho , 12 , Commander Fairfax Moresby , which sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for Australia in the month of January last . Her Majesty ' s screw steamer Cordelia , 11 , Commander C . E . 'H « Vernon , had arrived from making a careful search along the whole track the missing vessel was supposed to have taken , but without meeting with any traces whatever of her . There is , therefore , too much reason to fear that the vessel has foundered at sea , and that all on board have perished .

    The Secretary pf State for War has 1 directed that the contribution for messing , to be paid by officers of all arms of her Majesty ' s service , including officers of the cavalry and staff officers , for the entire passage to and from India to this country , whether proceeding by the overland or by sea route , be fixed at the uniform rate of five pounds for each officer . A court-martial was held on board the Victory flagship on Tuesday , to try the captain and master of her Majesty ' s screw frigate Curacoa , 31 guns , when at Smyrna , for allowing that ship to get ashore . The witnesses having given evidence , Captain Mason read his own defence ; the master simply handed in certificates . The court " recommended the captain and master to be more cautious for the future . "

    The half-yearly examination of the gentlemen cadets belonging to the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich , took place on Tuesday . The whole of the students , to the number of one hundred and thirty , were drawn up on the arrival of the Duke of Cambridge , by whom they were inspected . His Royal Highness subsequently distributed the prizes to the following gentlemen ;—Messrs . Anderson , Carroll , Woodward , Grover , Johnson , Haig , E . Harvey , Deshon , Marshall . Jesson , Featherstpnhaugh ,

    Macphcrson , Bailey , Wilspn , and Hepper . Tho Duke then addressed the cadets , expressing his satisfaction at their conduct , and the progress they had made in their studies . He also complimented the professors on the satisfactory result of their instruction . His Royal Highness afterwards inspected the on tire corps of artillery , which wero mustered for the purpose , and entered tho Gymnasium , where a number of inon were put through a courso of attack and defence with the carbine and fixed swords .

    Novel Religious Views.—Tho Israelite, An...

    Novel Religious Views . —Tho Israelite , an American journal , says : —'" In this vicinity ( Sioux City , lown , United States ) an American farmer , with tho wholo of his family , has embraced the religion of Mosoa and the Prophots . The pious man performed circumcision on himself , and now lives strictly according to Judaism , as fur as he knows . Camiuudok Mxuui . k Class Examinations . — The University has sent examiners to Birmingham , Brighton ,

    Bristol , Orautham , Liverpool , Loitdon , and Norwich * , and tho examination would begin on tho samo day in all the above places , and thus tho eamo net of papers , printed at Cambridge , would servo for all . Whon tho examination is over—it will last six or seven days— the answers of tho candidates will bo brought up from all tho dillbront places , and tho panors will be examined , and tho pkti'ut * determined , in Cambridge . It will be about a month before the list comes out . In all thoro are nearly 450 owndidutou . —Cambridge Independent .

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    CONTINENTAL NOTES . FRANCK . There 13 a settled impression in Paris that war in Italy is a probable event for next spring . The question is continually recurring in the French journals ; one says there " is " nothing in it ; " another affirms that "there is something ; " while a third says , "it is the great question of the moment . " A new political journal of great pretensions is about

    to appear in Paris , under the auspices of MM . Debraux and Gucheval Glaiigny . The paper , which is to be a weekly one , is to be called the Memorial Diplomatique ; the first number will appear on January 2 . It is probable that it will advocate the maintenance of the statu quo in Lombardy in the interests of the peace of Europe and so far support Austrian policy . A good many Parisian journalists of ability and experience are likely to cast in their lot with this attempt to establish an independent journal destined to treat mainly of foreign policy . . ¦

    ... ... M . Rigault , the eminent ex-professor and writer of the De ' bats , is seriously ill . While writing an article , hi * brain gave way , and it was found that he was—temporrarily , it is hoped—afflicted with a total loss of memory . M * Gondon , formerly a writer in the Univers , bnt who seceded from the * staff of that journal about two years since , lately attempted to found a new religious journal under the title of the Universe ! . The Government has , however , refused the authorisation , in consequence of a suspicion that M . de Montalembert might

    possibly write in it . The commission with which Prince Napoleon has surrounded himself to advise him in the government of the colonies of Algeria has met for the first time in Paris . The Prince presided , and delivered an opening speech , which seems to have made a very favourable impression , on the audience . The commission has divided itself into three sections : one for public works in general , one for railways , and one for questions of colonisation and for the tenure of land .

    The Grand-Duke Constantine arrived in Paris from-Toulon on Monday , under the travelling name of Admiral Romanoff . Prince Jerome gave a grand dinner on Sunday , at the Palais Royal , on the occasion of his entering his 75 th year . Although it is hardly probable that the Emperor will risk a quarrel with England by continuing the slave trade , reports are abroad from which it is to be inferred that some temporising on the subject is to be practised . It is said that in the event of the immigration , of negroes not being abandoned , a superior functionary , with four inspectors , will be posted at the different slave-market stations in Africa , in order , to superintend the transactions in black flesh . The legislative labours of the session will commence on February 7 .

    The Emperor went this week to the Russian Embassy , where the Grand Duke Constantine was at the time . His Majesty remained about half an hour . Count de Kisselef , in honour of the Grand-Duke ' s arrival , gave a grand dinner , at which were present Count Walewski , M . Fould , ? and a number of French and Russian personages . SPAIN . General Prim , the leader of the Liberals in Spain , ljfls opposed in the Cortes , in the boldest possible ^ way , that war against the Mexican Republic into which Queen . Isabella ' s Government wants to engage . The Ministry ,

    in rei . ly to General Prim , said that the passage in the royal speuch that brought the General out did not mean what he understood it to mean , but simply asserted that , in case the negotiations still carried on with England and France , and through them with the Republio , remaim d without result , then Spain was prepared for-war . The journals state that in the sitting of the Senate , on GLMieral Prim ' s amendment , the absence of many of the senators was . remarkable . The opposition press had weized upon the fact , and had observed that , though favourable to the Government policy in Mexican affairs , yet they desired to withhold their countenance frotn the

    Ministers . Tho Spanish fleet which ia to act in case of hostilities against tho Moors is to remain at Algesirua till the result of tho negotiations with the Court of Fez is known . . The Count do Paris arrived at Seville on the 17 tn , on a visit to tho Pul < o do MontpenBior . Tho Snuiriah Senate has approved tho nMreaa in answer to the Speech from tlio Throne by 108 against ; 28 votes .

    Viwa , Arrest * have boon modo in tho matter of tho tfnorgno which tho city of Cologne tf ftV 0 th " Princess Frederick William mii her nmrrfutfo . Hotter still , the whole pf tho precious niut . il , or vury nearly Uio ¦ whole , has been reoovormi , although molted down , no that tho costly work * iimnthij ) of the piece In lost . It was stolon during tiro night of tho 4 tli , but was somehow not missed tm several duyu later . Tho poisons In custody are a aer-

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 24, 1858, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24121858/page/5/