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      Trial Of This Comte De Montalembert. Tup...

      showed his love for his country when he expressed his belief that France was worthy to enjoy light , liberty , and freedom . At six o ' clock the judges retired to deliberate , and at seven returned into court and delivered their judgment , which sentences M . de Montalembert to six months' imprisonment and' 3000 . fr . fine ; -while M . Douniol , the editor of the Correspondant , is sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment , and lOOOfr . fine . It is said that M . de Montalembert has appealed against this sentence .

      1278 The Leader. Ftj[G^P 3 > November 27...

      1278 THE LEADER . ftj [ g ^ P > November 27 , 1858 .

      Admiral Lord Lyons. Another Of Eng-J^D'S...

      ADMIRAL LORD LYONS . Another of Eng-J ^ d ' s bravest sons has passed away from amongst us . After a life nobly spent in the service of his country , in the ripe autumn of his . years , Lord Lvods , the daring sailor , the accomplished diplomatist , the scholar and the gentleman ,, is dead , at the age of sixty-eight . - ' ' „ Edmund Lyons was born on the 21 st of November , 1790 , at White Hayes , Burton , near Cliristchurch Hants , and was the second son of John Lyons , Esq ., of Lyons , in Antigua , and of Lymington , Hants . At the early age of ele \* en years he joined the iiavy as a volunteer of the first class on board the Eoyal Charlotte yacht , and after seeing service in different vessels on various foreign stations , towards the end of 1807 , being then barely seventeen , -we find him on board the Monmouth , 64 , on his way to the East Indies , where he remained for the next five years , and where he attained the rank of lieutenant .

      Before he had reached his twentieth year his name had become honourably associated with some of the moat gallant deeds of the day ; and his dashing bravery had made him conspicuous amongst the crowd of naval leroes who then sustained the honour of our flag . In the storming of the Castle ofBelgica , and in the capture of Fort Marrack , in Java , the young officer evinced a skill and intrepidity which gained for him at once the admiration of his comrades and of his country . The interval of peace which followed the close of the great European war in 1815 was not altogether barren of laurels to our hero . In 1828 we find him displaying all his earliest gallantry before the Castle of Morea , in the ^

      PelopomiesuSj and exhibiting that tact and courtesy towards , his French allies , and the Greeks in whose cause he was combating , -which paved the way to the honourable positions he subsequently held at the Court of Greece , and as Commander of the Black Sea fleet iu the late war with Russia . In 1840 bis services-were required in a new field . He became the liritish plenipotentiary at Athens , arid there acquired the esteem and even the affection of all political parties . From thence he was called in the course of his , diplomatic career to Berne and to Stockholm . From the latter he vras . - ' surin * - moned to take the place of second in command to Admiral Dundaa before Sevastopol , and eventually to succeed him .

      Tho part taken by Admiral Lyons in that recent struggle is fresh in our recollection . Not only in the matter of the transport of the troops , but also in every subsequent stage of the expedition , Sir Edmund Lyons gave the most valuable assistance to Lord Kaglan and his successors . Having conveyed our soldiers to the Crimea , he saved them from being compelled to leave it <—baffled , if not vanquished . A day or two after the battle of Balaklava Sir Edmund Lyons learnt , to his astonishment , that orders had been issued to the Naval Brigade to embark as many guns as possible , for Balaklava was to be evacuated at night—of course- surrendering to the enemy the greater portion of the guns . On his own responsibility the Admiral & t once put a Stop to the execution of this order , and went in search

      pf Lord Raglan . Sir Edmund pointed out that tho engineers , by whose advice Lord Raglan was led , had been mistaken once , and might bo wrong again ; and clinched his argument by saying that ho was entitled to pronounce an opinion as to the insufficiency of Ivamiesch as a harbour for the allied armies ; that this harbour was utterly inadequate ; and that tho abandonment of Balaklava meant the evacuation of the Crimea in a week . After pome conversation Sir Edmund obtained leave to countermand the orders which had been issued ; Balaklava was maintained as our base of operations , and the army was saved from what might have proved on ing lorioua defeat , if not a terrible disaster . Thid was poraps tho most important of all the services rendered by the Admiral , and ho well deserved the peerage which it earned for him .

      His personal appearance and bearing are thus described by a writer in the Times s — 44 It was impossible oven to look at Lord Lyons without being intoroated in him ; ho was so like Nelson , tho hero whom more than all others wo regard with a sort of poraonul attachment . Ho had the same features , tho Bamo complexion , tho same profusion of gray inclining to white hair , tho same eager and half melancholy look , No one could see him without being struck with this re-BQmblanco . Not only in appearance , but also in reality there was something of Nulson in Lord Lyons . Ho bad tho same devotion to bis profession ; ho had tho same activity in duty ; he hud the same free and frank bearing ; ho had tho same art of winning tho affuotion of aeeociatos and subordinates ulikc ; ho liiNpirod a fllinllur confidence in All with whom he oame in contact . "

      Gatherings From Law And Police Courts. A...

      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . A man named William Johnson -was apprehended by the police on the 19 th , when it was found that he had in his possession counterfeit coin to the amount of 140 shilling and twenty half-crown pieces . It would appear that he had brought them for the supply of his customers , as a number of persons known to be purchasers of base money were congregated at the house where he was taken into custody . The prisoner was committed for trial . At the Court of Bankruptcy an adjournment of a dividend meeting was ordered in the case of L . Franghiadi , a merchant , of Gresham House , Old Broad-street , whose "bankruptcy occurred some time ago . The question arose whether proof could be made against two estates of parties carrying on business at different places , and the decision would depend on the result of an appeal at present pending before the House of Lords ; hence the adjournment . A remarkable action for damages , arising out of a case of false imprisonment , has been tried in the Court of Exchequer . Mrs . Truss , the wife of a commission agent , was given into custody by one Smith , a fruiterer , at Deptford , on a charge of having attempted to pass at his shop a bad half-sovereign . The defendant ' s daughter , having applied it to " the tester , " a piece of it broke off , and without any further examination of the coin the poor woman was given into custody . After her arrival at the police station tlie half-sovereign was sent out to

      be examined , and the result was that it was discovered to be a good one . The lady was therefore released , and Smith offered her a sovereign if she would let the matter drop . But Mrs . Truss determined to bring the case into a court of law , and the jury , in consideration of the great outrage she had suffered , and the week ' s illness ^ hich sh e subsequently endured , gave her damages to the amount of 20 / . The judge , in summing up , said it was the duty of every policeman , under such circumstances , to go with the parties charged to persons to whom tliev referred , and ascertain if the representations

      were correct . At the Central Criminal Court , it was arranged , on ¦ application , that the trial of Roper , for burning liis bouse at Greenwich , should be postponed till next session . — Issac Harmond , who threw his wife out of window in Westminster some time ago , was found guilty of manslaughter , ami sentenced to penal servitude for life . The pensioner who attempted to murder Inspector Budd , at " Woolwich , from motives of revenge , was also found guilty , and sentence of death was recorded against him . —William Lemon Oliver pleaded guilty to several indictments , charging him with having appropriated certain stock and securities , entrusted to him for a specific purpose , to his own use . He was then removed

      from the bar . He was brought up for sentence on Thursday , and condemned to twenty years' penal servitude . —The two foreigners , Hugon and Beverde , were tried for having attempted to make coins resembling the Turkish piastre for unlawful purposes . A most skilfully conducted conspiracy on the part of the prisoners acting in conjunction with one Boisserolle ( not in custody ) was laid bare . A great number of witnesses were examined and documents read , after which the learned judge charged the jury , telling them that they could not have any reasonable doubt that the prisoners wore aware that they were engaged in an illegal transaction . Tho jury found them guilty , and tlyj Court sentenced the firstnamod prisoner to six , and tho latter to twelve

      months' imprisonment . — Lewis , a draper , was tried for feloniously omitting to surrender after having been declared a , bankrupt , and also for having concealed and removed his books . The prisoner flod to New York , where he was captured by a detective officer . —tucker , a jeweller of Oxford-street , was tried for having mado false entries in his books . Both prisoners were convicted , and sentonced to six years' penal servitude . — Edward Attwood and John Kegan wore indicted for breaking into tho dwelling-house of William Frederick Cookand stealing his property . Rogan

      , pleaded guilty . The evidence against Attwood was clear , and the jury found him guilty . Attwood had been sentenced to four years' penal servitude in 1854 , and ho was now sentonced to the same punishment for tho term of six years . Began was condemned to twelvo months ' hard labour . —Thurgood , a surgeon , and Rikoy , a commission agent , wore tried on tho charge of conspiring to defraud Mr . Christio , a Liverpool merchant , of a krgo quantity of whisky , Tho circumstances of tho enso were recently detailed . Both prisoners wore found guilty , and sentenced to eighteen months'

      imprisonment . At the Southwark police-court , the Rev . Honry Hnrrlson was charged with having throntoned to stab Ms wife , and to cut his daughter ' s throat . The evidence was of a very painful oharactor , « nd appeared to indicate that the prisoner ' s mlaoonduot was tho result of intemperance The magistrate required tho prisoner to find one surety in 20 ? . to koop tho ponco for throo months . This ho declared he > v « s unablo to do , and ho was accordingly looked up , A fellow was charged at tho Mansion House with being in tho shop of Mr . Stoveneon , commission agon t , Cannon * street , on Wednesday morning , at five o ' clock , where

      he had goods to the value of about 230 / . packedT ready for removal , when the entrance of the police ™ terrupted his operations . His lordship committed A prisoner for trial . w' 'ae Alexander Kochanowski , represented to be a Russian noble , Myers Goldberg , and Jacob Goldwater we , » charged before the Lord Mayor on Saturday , with e * t ting engraved certain plates for the purpose of forcing Russian bank-notes . The discovery was made bvth engraver employed communicating the fact to the polio ? His lordship remanded the prisoners for a week to allow of evidence being procured to complete the case ag ainst them .

      The Lord Mayor has adopted a policy in regard to costermongers somewhat different to that which was pursued by his predecessor . Five persons of this class were brought before him on Monday , and in dismissing the charge he said that in all such cases be should re ? quire the police to bring an inhabitant of the district as a witness to the offence . This is as it should be . At the Southwark Police-court , Dell , the cab proprietor , who stands charged with , having stolen a lar ^ e quantity of boots and shoes from a person called Staunton ,. who , however , admitted that his real name was Steddon , underwent another examination . The magistrate announced his intention to commit the prisoner ° for trial .

      Captain Webb , of the Commodore Perry , from Calcutta , appeared at the Thames police-court to answer a charge of cruelty brought against him b y the Lascar crew of his vessel during the homeward voyage . The magistrate intimated bis intention to send the case for trial at the Old Bailey , as he considered it of too serious and complicated a nature to be decided in a police-court . The personal recognisances of the defendant > vere accepted for his appearance , and the seamen , fifty-four in number , are in the mean time to be boarded at the Strangers' Home , the captain paying something towards their maintenance , and the balance to be defrayed from the funds of the poor-box .

      Cumroodeen Tyabjeej a native of India , appeared in the Bail Court in a magnificent turban , amoiig the attorneys to be sworn . This gentleman had been regularly articled to an attorney in London , and had gone through the usual examination , and now came to be admitted . A question arose as to the oath this gentleman should take , but be was eventually admitted ' b ' y the Court of Queen ' s Bench . The court was of opinion that it was unnecessary for him to take the oath of abjuration ( " on the faith of a Christian" ) , but only the oath of allegiance and the attorneys' oath . Cumroodeen was accordingly sworn on tho Koran , in Mussulman fashion , and admitted . IIu received the Lord Chief Justice ' s express wishes for success in his profession .

      The Court of-Divorce was occupied during the greater part of the week in bearing the case of Mrs . Caroline Maria Marchmont , who petitions for a judicial separation from hor husband on the ground of cruelty . lae ladv , who was the widow of an hotel-keener named Locket , had 5 0 , 000 / . in hor own right when she became acquainted with the Kcv . Henry Marchiuont , an Independent minister , and ultimately married him . Ihc petitioner was examined , and stated that Mr . Marchmont , shortly after marriago , extorted largo sums of money from her by threats and violence , and even strueK'ier on the forehead , for which he was bound over to Keep Marchinont

      the peace . Mrs . Davis , the sister . of Mr * , waa examined , and deposed to variouo nets ol mi ouensive nature on the part of tho defendant , bomo servants corroborated several matters in tlie eu deuce of the petitioner and her sister . Jlf . w «' mialey , a merchant , and friend of tho no won , upoko to several acts of violence coininllt « d bj "r . Morclimoiit . In hor cross-examination , Mrs . Marcl on admitted enough to show that she indulged in contui m potty annoyances against her husband , and that ¦» called him a fortune-hunter , who cured g » h «« »«• money . The Kov . Henry Marchmont , tho m > ondent , was then examined , lie stated that , so far &™ ™ £ a noedvmonev-huntor , ho had previous to t ion , ''» ' 3 / i

      achapolinLowor-streot , Islington , wl . johy . « iuoa . u ,.- « - » a year . Ho also made nn income by 1 . 1- 1 ornry labour having 1 " one year realised 1200 / , and ho y ™ $ ™ hi 8 marring , 700 / . In addition , ho l . nij « b ° " J ^ year . It was by lib wish that M *^ " " ° ^ - settled on licv . Tho witness then entered Into a am tivo of a series of humiliating acts toward * 1 ' , 8011 a which ho alleged tho potiUotior had been gu } , assorted tliat hU wifo ' a love of money was Iwr « w « w g passion i that sho refused to allow ft » u ( Hcloi t sum tho legitimate expenses of a respectable household , W that her unfounded jealousy with rognnl to' "" Uer other women was constant and unbqarnwo . «« ' cr , doposod to * uots allowing tho violence ol 1 < m J" i and while admitting himself to bo occnalo y < i » g denied having ill-u ^ od or struck her , oiit nin , n # guilty of foul language . Mrs . MarcLmoi t , 1 w » ' » lo suited and sworo at him in tho prosonco ot »» u | 11 , children ami his sorvnnta . IIo bol ovod lie io ] jor tho Influence of relations , who had « w »« 8 nH ., dfly property . Tho case was then adjourned to »« ( Saturday ) . , ,. . „ , ... in ( iemon-Art ncouaatlon which , if fl « l » tiinllntoi 1 , » " < ^ strato nn amount of depravity almost iaoreoiw " .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 27, 1858, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27111858/page/6/