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      " I ba ^ -wf * ftppainttftiant with a man tOgget some work . Wfe . met ^ , * l * ewiiJ ! p < near « rt Lomdon Docks . * W * dranfesome pitt * a « f beer an * > thea laft . The ; man said he had a card for a raffle . I . teloVMm my wife would da no g ©« d'With ( tha raffle . He asked me to go . I said < 2 fo ; ' and h * tiwn ' said , , * If . yon -will go , I ? willigo with you . ' Xltbeni p »«» i 8 edito ' go . We went to the Green Dragon ^ foeershop ¦ in - Hialf Mooa-strefet ,. Bishepsgate , vrtiere a : «» r took place . One of my wife's' brothear * threatened oto throw me down- stairs . I then came towardshome , and sawiit was dark in the passage , and I heard a'man named , Kingston talking to my wife on the stairs . I don ' t know whether I spoke first or not ,

      but several 1 blows were exchanged between Kingston and me . - < He Aggravated me , and I fait him with a poker . > X then left the house—sawa City officer * and toldhim the . people wished to waylay me . He desired me togoaway . I went home , laid on the bed , and believe took : off my coat . In the morning , my wife called the two boys . I Went down stairs and spoke hastily to her , and then went up-stairs again and laid down . She came in soon after , and I asked what she did there . No farther words ensued , and I put my head under the tick , took out the knife , and inflicted the wound which caused her death . I nave no- more to say . " He has been remanded for a . week . A verdict of " Wilful Murder " has been ¦ re turned . against him at the inquest .

      On the same morning , George Pemble , a shoemaker , residing ; ia Pepper-street , Union-street , Southwark , had a qnarrel in-the Street with Mary Ann Latimer , a woman with whom he bad for some time cohabited . The woman was drunk ; : the xnan appears to have been sober . The former was-very violent and abusive , and some mention ia made-of her having flung an iron bar at Pemble's head . This , however , is not known with certainty ; but it would seem that , even before any such attack , the woman was bleeding : from the nose , and was upbraiding the man with ill-using her . Ultimately , he struck her a fearful blow , and she fell , and expired almost directly . Pemble was then seized with remorse , and said he did not mean it . -He was given into custody , and has been remanded .

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      OXTR CIVILISATION . Throwing a Wife out of Window . —Outrages by men xrpon their 'wives , or upon the unfortunate women with whom they live , are , as the readers of these columns know , so common , that one account may serve fora hundred . A case of more than ordinary savageness , however , has been heard at the Thames police-court . George Rosey a labourer at the London , Docks , ; has been married for fifteen years ; and during that period his wife ' s existence has been one long agony and martyrdom . She has been half-starved and frequently beaten and kicked ; and . on one ' occasion a miscarriage was the result of » -the injuries she sustained . The ruffianly husband' has been impr isoned for a month for neglecting

      to support his family ; and the greater part of his earnings is spent in drink . About a week ago , he oame home very druuk , and threw his child from one end of the room to ithe other . The mother interfered , when he threw oold water over the infant , and , seizing his wife by the throat , tried to strangle her . In his drunken frenzy ,- he - said that' ihe was determined to be ¦ strung up attiie gallows for her , and that her time was come . He dragged her along the -floors trampled on her body , and beat her With liis fists . The poor woman , to save her child , threw . open the window , and cast it out to the people below ; when the husband lifted his wife over the sill , in an almost fainting state , andthrew her down into ' the street . The room was on' the first floor , and the

      woman would probably have been killed had' she not been caught by a neighbour . Mr . IngTam , the magistrate , sentenced the ruffian to six months' hard ' labour , and regretted ' that the daw did not admit of his inflicting a more severe' punishment . He also called upon him to enter-into Jus own recognizances in the sum of 100 / . to keep the peace towards his wife for twelve' months after the termination of his imprisonment . The poor woman was sent to the workhouse , with a special charge that she should be well treated .- —Why does not the law authorise the'traasportation for life of such a miscreant as this ? Mr . Ingram was sotry that he could not ¦

      inflict a iyeat '» Imprisonment ; but this would ' , have been nearly a * -4 ispcoportioned to the offence aseix montha . A man so-fiendish in his ruffianism ,, or so dangerously insane ,, is clearly unfit to' be at large . Temporary imprisonment * will bat inflame and irritate his savage disposition c onr coining out of jaU ^ his first act will be to get fraatioAlly drunk ; his next to revenge himself upon ' his w 4 f « . His V recognizances'' are-, of course not worth the breath with which the word is uttered ; and it will not surprise us if , six months henoe ,. we should havo to reooxd Bother act of ferocity i committed by this ntanupon bia victim ^ and peribapswith a more tragical result .

      glass of water ) , to make o 1 F > with such Articles : Aa . he could < convenieatly purloin . At the Sessions ,- he admitted hia guilt , -and read a curioas piece of seK-criminatory biography . He said he had left his native country because he-would-. not- enter- intoithe service of the detestable Nicholas . He confessed himself to be deeply involved ? in-- knavery ^ and love , the tender passion having been excited in him by a charmer living in Oakley-street , Camden Town . He " had beensome months in' a county prison , was a perfect prince of scoundrels , according to hia own showing , and . desired nothing so much-as to be'transported for >> life . This request , however , was not complied with ; but he was sentenced , to four years' penal servitude . Extensive Seizure of JLiaoET Spirits . —During the last few days an enormous seizure o £ smuggled brandy has taken place at the port of Teignniouth . Upwards of one hundred and fifty barrels were discovered by the coastguard , and were safely secured . The parties-who brought them into the port and secreted them in the place where they were found have not yet been discovered . An extensive seizure of illicit tobacco has also been made off Salcombe , an 6 lin this case two men were apprehended , and have been sentenced to . a long term of imprisonment . The Attempted Parricide at Bath . — Thomas Tutton has been committed for trial on the charge of attempting to poison his father . Suicide through Despondency . —A woman has cut her throat at-Liverpool , owing to despondency resulting from the accidental death of her husband about a month previously . Bank-jstote Forgeries . — A prosecution has been instituted at Berkeley against Mr . John Sampson , surgeon , for- uttering counterfeit Bank of England notes , with intent to defraud several parties . No fewer than four charges , three of uttering BL notes , and the other of uttering a 10 L- note , nave been made against the accused . Prolonged examinations were taken before two justices of the peace acting for the Berkeley petty sessional division , on Wednesday and Wednesday se ' nnight ; but the case has ; not yet been decided . Irish RtrcsraANisM :. —William Bell , of Gorton , Lancashire , has been killed outside a public-house by Michael and Patrick Heeley , two Irishmen , one of whom had been heard to swear he would stab the first Englishman who came up . The murderers are not in custody . —A quarrel broke out at Leeds between some Irishmen , and resulted in Patrick Reynolds stabbing Patrick Brasil , Patrick Dorsay , and Michael Larkins , a militiaman . Brasil is since dead , and Larkins is not expected to recover . Plate and Jewel Robberies . —Three large plate and jewel robberies were effected on Monday morning in St . John ' s Wood , Peckham , and Camden Town . The police are making inquiries . A Very " Un&enti . emanlike" Act . —A clothesdealer , named Lipman , was charged at the Mansion House with striking a Dutch Jew in the Jew market in Houndsditch . It came out in evidence that the Dutchman had spat in Mr . Lipman ' s face ;—" right in my teeth , my Lord , " said the unfortunate recipient ; "it was well it wasn't in my eyes . " Another Jew , who saw the act , said he and' Ms fellow-Israelites thought it " very ungentlemanlike . " From the account given by others , it appeared i that it was a common habit of this beast ; and Mr . ILipittan , by way of explanation , said he was a Dutchman ; " '&nd liked to do it . " The victim of this abominable outrage was ordered to find bail '' to be of good behaviour , " because he had struck a man old enough to be his father ; but the person whose " behaviour" certainly moat requires coercion was dismissed with a half-jocose hint to get rid of his nasty habit . Letter Stealkto . —Several oases of robbery of letters by postmen have recently come before the magistrates . Richard Wallow , a sorter in 'the General Post Office , is under remand at JJow-street , charged with stealing two otters . supposed to contain money . Grace , a letter- * carrier , land Charles'Simpson , the Barnot letter-carrier , have been committed for trial for tliq same offence . A Rascally Policeman . —John Connolly , a constable in the ! P division , 'has been sentenced at the Lambeth police court to pay a penalty of 31 , or be imprisoned for twenty days , for assaulting and unwarrantably taking into oustody a . respectable married woman and her husband . He had taken them to the stationhouse on a charge of disorderly conduct , which was entirely disproved ; and ho had added to this charge an accusation of indecent' behaviour on tho part of the man ( and the wife of a' friend . These persons brought a counter-charge of drunkenness against the policeman . This was negatived by other policemen ; but it is certain that tho conduct , of Connolly was very infamous . Nothing is said about his dismissal from the force . Surely he will not bo allowed to purchase immunity for 81 . ? The Child Mvjrdkr at Bristol . —The inquest on the 1 ' body of MettMa- Payne 1 has' been concluded . The coroner said thlat , 'although since tho jury had last met the most strenuous exertions had been made by the police and others to discover the murderer , they had been unable to obtain any satisfactory duo . Tho jury , therefore , returned an open verdict . A Strange Hfvseirayr . —* At tho Thames police-office , a notorious thief , named James Essex , was charged with

      A 'KzTAvata Awtoobioorapky . —Staniiiaus Saerawinski , a Pole , . has ¦ been' tried . at the Middlesex Sessions for stealing * a'timepiece and case , value 71 ., together with otfcer proporty . The plan pursued by this 1 Individual was totonter gentlemen ' s houses when they were out , pretend to * write a note , and , profiting by tho absence of the servant ( which was generally procared by asking for' a

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      committing , together with an . accomplice , the following audacious robbery . iHe ^ went : to . a house in TarKngstreet , St . George'srin-the-East , inhabited by an infirm oia . woman , named Alden .. On ier . opening the door , the man , ; to her great surprise , said , " How d'ye do , aunt ? " She replied that sheididnot know-him ; upon which he told her that he had married ner niece , Jeannet . As Mrs . Alden really had a niece of . that : name , whom she had not lately seen , she believed Essex ' s 'statement , and admitted him into her house , ' where , after some conversation on the subject of the marriage , which greatly

      contributed to allay the suspicions of bia hostess , the prisoner informed her that her niece was waiting in the street . Mrs . Alden expressed- a wish to see her , and Essex then went to the door and opened it ; but , instead of the young lady , he admitted an accomplice , who , while the other man engaged Mrs . Alden in conversation , ransacked the parlour of every portable article . A lodger , who had watched the whole proceedings , raised an alarm . Both men immediately fled , and Essex for a time escaped ; but Jones was pursued and captured . He has been sentenced to four months' impr isonment and hard labour , under the new act . Essex , who has since been apprehended , stands committed for trial .

      Attempted Suicide . —A respectable-looking man , named Robert Campbell , described as a commercial traveller , was charged at Guildhall with an attempt at suicide . A policeman stated ,. that about a fortnight ago he was called into the prisoner ' s house to see him , and found him lying on the floor , apparently in a very sick and exhausted state . It appeared he had taken laudanum , and it was found necessary to send him to the hospital . He told the policeman that his reason for attempting to kill himself was that he had spent some money of which he had been made trustee , and that he had been called to account ; but to the alderman he stated that his health was bad , and his spirits low , on which account alone he had swallowed the drug . He was discharged , on his wife undertaking to place him in the care of some friend .

      Connubial Morality at Halifax . —At the Halifax Borough Court , last week , John Thomas , a sawyer , was summoned by the relieving officer for having left his wife and family chargeable to the union . The relief given had been after the rate of 7 s . 6 d . per week . The officer pressed for a conviction , on the ground that there were no fewer than five hundred deserted wives within the Bradford union , with 1017 children , involving an annual expenditure in relief of nearly 20 , 000 / . The defendant - was allowed a week to repay the amount of relief which had been given to his family . Thb Morality of Insurance Offices . —Some singular revelations touching the easy morality of insurance offices -came out at the Central Criminal Court on

      Tuesday , when Henry Coe Coape , a person of gentlemanly appearance , surrendered to take his trial upon indictments charging him , jointly with another person , named James Dewsby King , who was not in custody , with obtaining the sum of 8000 ? ., by false pretences , from Henry Porter Smith and Sir ' John Wilson . It would seem that Coape , who was formerly a person of considerable property , possessing large estates in Essex , had given accommodation acceptances to a very serious amount to King , who was a betting , man , and very much involved . In the course of last June , King was in' want of money , and he induced Coape to be his security for a sum which he desired to borrow . Upon the faith of offer ing his estates in Essex as security , Sir John Wilson

      and Mr . Smith advanced 40 00 /• each , and the money was handed over to Coapo and King . The charge of false pretences was based on the allegation that the estates were disposed of at the time they were given as security . A money agent , named Rogers , on the part of the borrowers , and Mr . Kirby , of the Albert Insurance Company , Waterloo-place , on tho part of the lenders , negotiated the business . Upon the cross-examination of Kirby ( who received 400 guineas for his trouble in tho ( matter ) , he admitted that he was aware , from Coape ' a I own admission , that the property had been encumbered to the extent of 16 , 000 / ., but he took no pains to ascertain anything further . Mr . Rogers also wished that i Mr . U ? eesdale , whom ho knew was Mr . Goape ' s private solicitor , should know nothing of what was going on , and it was solely , he said , on that account that he rei trained ' from making any farther inquiries , and allowed the 8000 / . to be advanced . Perhaps , ho added , if he

      had gone himself , he should havo made some inquiries of the tenants ; but he was quite satisfied with what hia clerk told him upon tho subject . If he had made the inquiry ho should , no doubt , have found out all they knew at present . It was the'restriction put on him by Mr . Rogers which prevented his making inquiries . The Recorder ^ upon hearing this assertion , remarked , " Why , I should havo thought that that very fact would havo excited your suspicion . " Mr . Kirby , furthermore , had the cftndour to confess that " he did not tell either Mr . Smith or Sir John Wilson that he received four hundred guineas out of tho transaction . He had not return e < l any of the money since he had discovered what a bml job 1 * was . ( A . laugh . ) It had not occurred to him to do so . " In addition to the four hundred guineas , Mr . Kirby received a testimonial and lOdQl . from tho company , ' ? for his services in thoir behalf . " For the defence , it waa contended that Mr . Coane ' s property ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 22, 1855, page 906, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2107/page/6/