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      Gatherings From Law And Police Courts. S...

      been -brought before the . Bow ^ street police magistrate . Henry J . David , against whom proceedings have been pending since 185 7 , was charged with having- forged a bill for 1000 / . sterling , in the , name of the real Mr . Henry J . David , of New York . The fraud was alleged to have been committed on a Mr . Kean , now in America . The magistrate decided that the evidence was insufficient to justify his sending the prisoner to New York , but he would detain him until Mr . Kean came over to prosecute . An application to bail the prisoner was acceded to , but sureties to a very heavy amount were required .

      George Gibson , or Elliott , who is charged with being concerned in the burglary and extensive robbery at Stamford-bill , above two years ago , has been again brought up for examination . Evidence was adduced to Show that the prisoner , subsequent to the robbery , was ¦ well supplied with money , and that he had in his possession articles of plate , part of the proceeds . He was committed for trial . " During the performances at the Strand Theatre

      several young gentlemen conducted themselves in a disgraceful manner . When Mrs . Selby made her appearance on the stage , they threw at her a large funeral wreath such as in France is placed upon corpses . Notwithstanding ' thatshe was much shocked , and the audience manifested great indignation , another and a larger wreath was thrown . Their expulsion was then demanded and effected . Mr . Selby has since written to the daily papers stating that he has received a manly and satisfactory apology . ¦

      In the Court of Criminal Appeal , on Saturday , a somewhat curious question was decided . A person named Robinson became the pretended purchaser of two dogs , which he sold , and applied the money to his own use- -He was tried for obtaining money under false pretences , and sentenced to seven years' penal servitude . The question to be decided was whether the dbg was " a chattel . " The Court decided that it was not , and quashed the sentence , at the same time expressing surprise at its severity . The appeal case of Nicoll , re the British Bank , has been disposed of by the Court of Chancery . The Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices were of opinion that Mr . Nicoll was not relieved from his liability as a shareholder on the ground of misrepresentations made to him of the state of the affairs of the bank before he purchased shares . But their lordships were of opinion that Mr . Nicoll was entitled to be struck off the list of

      contnbutaries . They dismissed the appeal with costs . ... ' r "Wednesday the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices sat in the Court of Chancery , for jthe purpose of delivering judgment in the intricate case of " Havilaud v . Mortiboy , " which occupied so large a space in the journals of last week . The Lord Chancellor said the only question the Court had to decide was , whether Mary Sheppaf d was the legal widow of John Sheppard . They lived together a long time , and they parted in . consequence of incompatibility of temper . She lived twelve years after his death , and was on good terms with the whole of the family . When she died she left the property to Mortiboy ' s children , and this led to some disappointment on the part of Mr . Sheppard ' s rela-¦

      tions . It appeared that they found a previous certificate of a marriage with a map : named Masters , and then for the-first time it was suggested that she was not Sheppard ' s legal widow , the certificate having been found on examination to be a correct document . On the one side it was held that Masters and Sheppard were one and the same person , while , on the other hand , it was alleged that they were different persons , Looking to subsequent events , he could not see what motives Masters could have in becoming an actor in this ceremony , or what motive the woman could have in incurring the risk

      of the transportable offence of bigamy . He said ho had no doubt that Sheppard took the name of Masters in the first instance , the woman having committed irregularities under that name , and especially as he was to be introduced to a business which ultimately realised for him 60007 . After payment of all his debts . He considered that Sheppard was married twice to the same woman , and that « ho was , therefore , his widow , and entitled to tiler share of hjs estate . Under these circumstances the appeal . ihuflt bo allowed , and the bill dismissed , but without costs .

      The obnoxious paper duty again turned up in the Court of Exchequer on Thursday . Mr . Barry , a papermaker of Brompton , makes a species of parchment from hides and » kin , and as the Board of Inland Revenue contended that this was paper , and therefore subject to the higher duty , they brought an action against him , wWcb ^ came on for tria / 1 on Thursday . The arguments on'both' aides having been heard , the Court took time to consider its decision . At the Westminster police-court , on Thursday , two

      private soldiers , belonging to the Grenadier Guards , were charged with having seriously assaulted two la-Wourlnjg men with their bo ] te . We are glad to find that thennagistrate committed the prisoners for trial . ' "At 1 wj Thames police-court , a recruiting sergeant and 4 -prostitute were committed for trial on a charge of B 4 Vinff stolen the sum of thVco pounds from a recruit , the * tto prisoners acting In concert for the purpose of leading tfceir victim into debauchery that they might accomplish tUoir object .

      The Irish Landlords Have Bowed Before Th...

      The Irish landlords have bowed before the 1 ZA THE LEADEE . [ No . 462 , January 29 , 1859 ^

      Earl Of Chesterfield, Six Gamekeepers We...

      Earl of Chesterfield , six gamekeepers were on the watch , when they discovered twenty poachers , in the attempt to capture whom a regular melee took place . The keepers let loose their dogs , when some of the poachers shouted out " Stab them ! " and three dogs were injured . One of the keepers , named Woodward , was seriously wounded ; some of the poachers also received dangerous hurts . One of them , named Ward , got some severe blows on the head , and was captured . The keepers also succeeded in taking another , named Woolaston . ¦

      CRIMINAIi RECORD . At Newcastle-on-Tyne , a butcher named Scott , in company with three other men ; entered the house of a woman named Tulloch , who formerly kept a publichouse ; On their demand for drink being refused , a quarrel ensued , which resulted in the cruel death of Scott , who appears to have been treated by the woman and her brother , Matthew Wilson , in a most brutal manner . At a coroner ' s ; inquest , the jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against these two persons . At Salford , near Nottingham , on the preserves of the

      On Wednesday evening two tradesmen in the Hampstead-road , neighbours , named Burrows and Plews , disagreed over their liquor at a tavern , and left the house quarrelling . It appears that they continued quarrelling , and Mr . Plews followed Mr . Burrows into his shop . In a few minutes their altercation became very violent , and Plews , who is a tall , powerful man , being incensed at some observation Burrows had . made , struck him a blow . Burrows fell forward , and his fore--head coming in contact with the handle of an oldfashioned chest of drawers , he received such injury as caused instant death . At the Marylebqne police-court on Thursday , Mr . Plews was examined oh the charge of having occasioned the death of Mr . Burrows . The evidence tended to show that he acted under some , provocation , and that it was impossible for him to see what would be the fatal result of the blow . He was

      remanded . . At Sheffield , on Wednesday night , a labouring man named William Wilson was going home very late , when three or four men , who came out of a passage opposite the Post-office , which is known as the Hairtshead , ran at him , and one of them plunged a knife , or some other pointed instrument , into bis abdomeni The menimmediately ran away . From the effects of the stab the man fell to the ground , and lay totally incapable of moving . He retained consciousness , and called out . to ; the best of his ability for assistance . Two or three persons who were passing that Way took him to the , infirmary , where he expired , but not until he had given the particulars of his assassination to the surgeons .

      Accidents And Sudden Deaths. We Hear Of ...

      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . We hear of further , accidents frqm buildings in an insecure : condition . A house has fallen down in Harpurstreet , Kent-road j two men and two horses were buried under the ruins . By instant and praiseworthy exertions the unfortunate men were released from their perilous situation , both of them very seriously injured . An accident happened on the Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire Railway , on Sunday evening . An express train ran off the line about eight miles from Sheffield , the engine and carriages falling on the top of an embankment and across the line . Many of the

      passengers were severely injured , but are expected to recover ; The accident seems to have arisen from the train going at too great a speed when passing overacurve . It is surprising that no one was killed . Mr . Wakley and his jury assembled on Tuesday , to conclude the inquiry into the accident at the Polytechnic . The jury found that the death was accidental , and that the fall of the staircase was occasioned by cutting the steps fpr the insertion of the trellis work . A presentment ' was signed , suggesting the propriety of an inspector being appointed by Government for the purpose of periwtecally examining all buildings used for public assemblages .

      T1?1?T . ^^ ¦ ¦ ??

      rebukes administered from all sides , and have abandoned their proposed meeting to inaugurate coercive measures . They now merely propose to memorialise the Lord Lieutenant . ¦ .. .. - ¦ : ¦ ¦ ;¦' . ; . ' . The Liberal members of Parliament belonging to the sister isle have issued a declaration in which they affirm that life and property , are as secure , that justice is aa effectually administered , in Ireland as in England ; they deprecate coercive measures ; consider secret or exclusive political societies—which means the Orange society as well as ! tho Phoenix clubs , or . Ribbon lodges- ^ , dangerous to the peace ; and express their conviction that the law of landlord and tenant requires immediate and material amendment .

      IRELAND . The directors of tho National Bank have declared a dividend and bonus for the past half-yeur at the rate of six per cent ., making , with a like dividend and bonus declared for the half-year ending Midsummer last , a return to the shareholders for 1868 at tho rate of twelve per cent , per annum on the paid-up capital of tho conlpany , The Nation announcos that Mr . W . S . O'Brien will leave Ireland for America vi & Galway in a fow weeks . His stay on the American continent will probably last for a few months , during which time it is his intention

      to visit every place of interest in tho States . In tho King ' s County concealed arms continued , to bo seised by the police . On Saturday a search was made in the baronies of Ballyhit and Olonllsh adjoining Bullaghuito Castle , the residence of tho late Mr . Ely , ana Mountbutlor , the seat of . Lady Garden , who within tho last few days received two threatening letters . Sovoral guns , pistols , and bayonets , a quantity of powdor , a grpat number of balls * and sovoral stocks of guns in an infiomploto state , together -with many'looka , & c , for firearms , wore found .

      Lord Eglintoun held his first levee for the season oa Wednesday afternoon . The attendance , though respectable , was not as numerous as it was expected to be , tho falling off , perhaps , being ascribable to the inclement state of the weather in the earlier part of the day .

      Dr. Bartlett's Invention Tor Economising...

      DR . BARTLETT'S INVENTION TOR ECONOMISING- FUEL AND CONSUMING SMOKE . Djj . Bartlett , of King ' s-road , Bedford-row , has recently matured an invention which promises fairer than mostof its predecessors to solve the long-vexed question how to apply practically and advantageously the well-known principle of smoke conlbustiou to private dwellings . We regret that our arrangements do not permit us to show an engraved diagram , which would assist the reader to a comprehension of the doctor ' s ingenious scheme ; but we must do our best to . describe as briefly as possible the fireplace we have seen in successful operation . This fireplace is , in fact , a double oiie , being divided midway by a horizontal set of

      lirebars . A fire is laid on each of the gratings , and that in the upper of them is lighted first . The lower lire is gradually warmed , and in course of time ignited by the upper one , and thus all the products of its combustion are consumed and utilised effectually as they are evolved . When the fuel of the lower fire has boen pretty well burnt out , it is transferred into the upper one , where its destruction is completed . The lower grate is replenished at the same time , which the inventor provides for by making one o £ the usual front bars of the stove to draw , out , or in the' case of a kitchen range , to flap down . Our description of the invention may not be verv lucid , but we are satisfied if , by having

      made the attempt , we can draw some trifling amount of attention to the contrivance . We have seen it in successful operation directed by an ordinary servant-maid , and we are convinced that the slight alteration required in adapting it to common fire-grates niust be very sooa paid for by the value of . fuel saved . It has been , wo believe , put in practice in the . royal household , and its economy has been so clearly demonstrated to the authorities at the New Houses of Parliament that we understand a kitchen-range on a large scale in that building is being fitted with it . The subject of economical smoke combustion being doubtless an interesting one , we shall inquire further into this , and report on a future occasion the results we may arrive at .

      The Late Henry Haixam. The Constellation...

      THE LATE HENRY HAIXAM . The constellation of writers who shed a radiance on tlio early part of the present century is fast vanishing away . Not the least remarkable of these , the historian of the Middle Ages ., of the Revival of Letters , and of the tinglish Constitution , Henry Hallam , died on Saturday last , at the great age of eighty-one . Ho has left but few of his companions behind him , and , more than this , it was his bitter fate to outlive those who should have come after him , to see two sous of rare promise , who should have preserved his name , go before him , the pride of his life snatched from his eyes , the delight of his old ago

      laid low in the dust of death . One of these was that Arthur Henry Hallara , who died in 1833 , and to whom Tennyson dedicated the remarkable series of poems which have been published under the title of In Mcmoriam . The parent ' s hopes revived as his younger son grew up to manhood , and seemed to promise not less than the accomplished youth whom his father had regarded , and not without reason , as an only one without a fellow . But this eon also , Henry Fitssmaurioo Hallani , was takon from him shortly aftor ho had boon called to the bar in 1850 , and the poor boreavod fathor buried him in Clovedon Church , in Somersetshire , by the side of his brother , and his sister , and his mother .

      Among historians wo doubt whether there is to bo found one equal to Mr . Hallam in impartiality . Thora have been historians as erudite , not leas acute , raoro inspiring as thinkers , more elegant as writers ; but for stow justice lie is probably without a rival . His unflinching integrity , his subjugation of personal prejudice , his determination to speak the truth under all circumetancoa is ono of tho rarest things in literature . Thia perfect frankness novcr takes in him tho form which it assumes In minds loss accurately balanced , of an impatient desire to speak unpalatable truths in season and out of season . Perhaps there novor was a critic who was bo little of an egotist , and wUqbo Judgment was bo ttttlo swayed by personal feelings , oithoy of regard for himself or of regard , for others . Ho belonged to tuafc

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 29, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29011859/page/6/