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    County Court action lately brought by the Doctor against Malby for money lent to him . TW jvbBbatino . —Charles M'Intosh , a milliner , supplying some of the wholesale warehouses in the city , was charged with a murderous assault on his wife , whose person , besides being bruised , was severely cut in several places by some sharp instrument . The man was remanded . —James Hall was charged at Southwark with ruffianly conduct to his wife . This case presented another instance of reluctance , on the part of the wife , to give evidence against the husband , out of fear . A witness , however , testified to the excessive ruffianism of the man , and he was sentenced to three months' hard labour . Apparently thunderstruck at this termination to the case , he was removed from the dock amid the cries of his wife , who had vainly besought that he wight be set at liberty for the sake of his children . Foreign Legion Desertehs . — Ernest David Woener and Richard Rotzell , lieutenants , and Cou-Stantine Von Brodzynski , an ensign belonging to the third battalion of the British German Legion at Shorncliffe , were brought before Mr . Ingham , at the Thames Police-office , charged with deserting from their regiments ; and there was a more serious charge against Woener , of stealing 60 / . of the public money , which had been intrusted to him to pay his company . It appeared that . the prisoners , who are all natives of Germany , and tall , martial-looking men , respectably connected , deserted at the same time a fortnight ago . A short time before , 602 . had been intrusted to Woener to pay his company , the greater portion of which , if not the whole , he had appropriated to his own use . Another of the prisoners was also stated to have embezzled some of the public money . They -were arrested j ust as they were about to embark for America , and have been committed to the Clerkenwell House of Detention , whence they will be removed to Shorncliffe . Forged Uot . es . —A respectable looking woman , named Mary Ann Cox , was charged before Alderman Carden , with having attempted to pass two 51 . notes at two different shops , knowing them to be forced . She went to Messrs . Baker and Co ., silk mercers , ofLudgatestreet , where she ordered some things to be sent to her house in Union-street , Borough-road . One of the assistants took the articles ordered to the above address , and on receiving them , the prisoner gave him a 51 . note in payment . Suspecting the note to be not genuine , he would not give her the change , but requested permission to take it away with him , promising to send her the change in an hour . The woman consented after a little hesitation , and both the notes and the goods were taken back , when the former was sent to the Bank of England , and returned , marked " forged . " The prisoner called for the change in the course of the day , when the note "was shown her , and she then said that a sailor who had since gone to the Crimea had given it to lier , and she believed it to be good . The other 51 . note she tried to pass at a shawl warehouse , also in Ludgate-street . where she tendered it in payment for a mantle she bought , and though the master of the shop suspected that the note was a forgery , ho gave the woman the full amount of change , and he saw no more of her until after she was in custody . Sir R . W . Carden remanded the prisoner , a detective officer in the court Baying he believed ho could bring forward another case of the kind against her . An Infernal Machine . —A bottle , with a lighted fusee attached , and charged with- explosive matter , was thrown into the bedroom of Mr . 13 ooth , hook and sickle manufacturer , of Conisborough , a village in the north ; the window having been previously broken by some one who had reared a ladder against it . Mr . Booth wus in bed with his -wife at the time ; but ho got out of the room together -with her before ( ho explosion took place . The ceiling , walls , and woodwork of the- room were greatly damaged , and the bed furniture caught lire . Assistance being speedily procured , the flumes wero extinguished ; and a reward of 120 / . has been offered for tho capture of the culprit . These crimes , wo regrot to say , are very frequent among tho artiasa , ns in tho locality indicated Thk Ex-Pkovost ov Luitei . —Mr . Robert Philip , lately provost of tho burgh of Loith , baa been found . guilty by tho High Court of Justiciary at Edinburgh of indecent and libidinous practices and behaviour towards young girls , and also of a criminal assault . A sentence of fifteen yours transportation hus boon passed . Before the trial , a public meeting of working-men was hold , at which , on tho ground that a public magistrate should be above suspicion , Mr . Philip was called on to . resign . his provostshlp ; and with this request ho complied . Query—a Maniao?—A foreigner was char-god at Marlborough-stteet , with stabbing ono man and breaking the arm of another . From tho ovidenco of Mr . Edward Thorpe , it appeared that , about seven o ' clock iu tho ovening , ho was passing down Little Windmill-street , with his wife and her slater , whou ho recollected ho hud occasion to call in Sllvor-stroot , and left them for that purposo In the street . He had not left his wife moro than a minute when ho hoard loud screams of " Murdor ! " Ho run book to her assistance , and found that tho prisoner had forced nor down a court , and wus brandishing what appeared to him to bo a dagger over hor . Just aa ho was in tho not of striking , Mr . Thorpo rushed forward and warded off tho blow with ilia arm , on which a serious oat or wound was inflicted . At thut moment , a friend

    came up ; and the prisoner struck him a violent blow and broke his arm . Mr . Thorpe immediately called a policeconstable , and gave the man into custody . Before the magistrate , his defence was , that the ladies were committing a nuisance : down the passage ( which was denied ) , and that they abused and spat on him before he struck any ¦ one . The case was remanded . The Case of Unlawful Dissection . — Robert Henry Parrott , the surgeon at Walworth , charged with unlawfully dissecting the dead body of a pauper , and indecently exposing the heart and a portion of the lungs in a public-house , has been found Guilty , at the Surrey Sessions . The chief facts of this disgusting case have already appeared in the Leader . The prisoner , who read his own defence , admitted having made the examination , but said that it was in fulfilment of a premise he had given to the man when alive ; that he had acted for the sake of suffering humanity ; and that , in exhibiting the heart , &c , to the friends of the deceased , his only object was to prove to > them the cause of death , and to collect subscriptions for the burial . In consideration of Parrott having been some time in custody before the trial , he was only sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment without hard labour . He was removed , evidently considering himself an injured man . The Old Stoky at Jullien's . —Two young men have been fined 3 Z . each for creating a disturbance in Covent-gartlen Theatre on the first night of Jullien ' s Promenade Concerts . The plan consists in forming a ring , into which hats , halfpence , &c , are thrown , and any one who attempts to pick them up is crowded upon and hustled ; the result being that the swell-mobsmen are the gainers in the confusion that ensues . Assault . —William Collins was charged at Lambeth with violently assaulting his wife , and inflicting on her arms and chest several severe wounds with the edges of a broken wine-bottle . A constable was called into the house , and took the man into custody , the -wife making a charge against him at the stationhouse ; but , before the magistrate , she did not at first appear , and , when at length she came forward , she made every effort to get her husband off , being evidently in great fear of him . Collins , however , was held to bail to appear on a future day . A Thievish Royal Footman . —Stanley Eooth , a young man of twenty-five , has been sentenced to six months' hard labour , for stealing clothes and other articles . He had been in former years a servant of the Duke of Devonshire and the Duke of Wellington , and at the time of the offence was a footman of the Queen . The prosecutors "were his fellow-servants in the Royal household ; and it appeared that Booth , had been engaged in betting transactions , and had become involved . He pleaded Guilty , and his counsel promised he would emigrate as soon as his term of imprisonment should have expired . He has yet to be tried on another charge of theft . Dramatic Conclusion to the " Lord Colvill " Case . —William Radley having been brought up on remand , charged with forging the name of Lord Colvill , that " nobleman" admitted his handwriting to the power of attorney , but said it was got from him by fraud . At this announcement there was a burst of indignation in the court , and many of the persons exhibited different securities , upon which they had advanced money , but which were of no value . Several of them stepped forward in succession , and taxed " his lordship" and Radley with cheating them , adding brief particulars of their wrongs ; and the scene was like the conclusion of a farce . There was no evidence , however , to convict Radley of the forgery , and ho was , therefore , discharged . Wokkiiowse Amenities . — Between ten and eleven o ' clock on tho night of Friday week , tho forlorn condition of a boy attracted tho notice of a gentleman , who found him wandering , homeless , friendless , ai d destitute , in the neighbourhood of Long-acre . He wns inquiring the wny to Durham ; and , on being asked how he came to bo in London , he stated that ho had been brought from North Shields by the captain of a collier , who , requiring his services no longer , had put him on shore at ono of the bridges , and left him penniless , to shift for himself . Conscquontly he wanted to find his way back to Durham , intending to walk home . Tho gentleman , after giving tho lad some refreshment ut a . coffce-houso in Wilaon-streot , sent him under tho charge of a constable to the Bowstreet station . Inspector Mackenzie kept him there a short tiino , tho weather being such thut he would not , as ho suid , Lave sent out a dog to encounter it ; and oventully he despatched a . constublo with tho boy to St . Mnrtin ' a "Workhouse , requesting tho porter to givo him shelter for tlie night . Tho porter refused to admit him , alleging that " Wilson-street" was not in his district ; but Inspector Muckon / . io , on hearing this , sent tho boy a aecond tinio , with an intimation tltat both Wilson-street and Long-acre ( whoro ho had beon found destitute ) woro in tho pariah , of St . Martin , and tho case was ono which ought to have their attention . On this occasion , howovor , tho portor declined to opon tho door ovon , and , speaking to tho countable through tho iron grating in ono of tho punela , desired him to bo off and tuke tho boy back again to whoro ho found him . Under those oircumstuncea , tho Iuspcotoi gavo tho lad bucu shelter and food aa tho atmicu afforded for tho night , and ( submitted the cuao to tho magistrate the next morning . Mr . Kingston ,

    the relieving officer , was sent for , and excused the conduct of the porters on the ground that the house was over full , and not the least atom of room remained . Mr . Jardine said , as he understood the law , the workhouse authorities are bound to provide accommodation for the casual poor , even if they hire it , in which case they are empowered to charge the expense on the ratepayers ; but the relieving officer replied that in that case there would be no end to the applications- Ultimately , it was decided that the boy should be taken care of until arrangements could be made to forward him to his destination . A Tragedy at Brighton . —A Prussian doctor of philosophy , named Hermann Francks , , vho had amassed a large fortune , and who possessed considerable literary talent , having once been editor of the celebrated German newspaper , Allgemeine Zeitung , arrived at Brighton on Friday week from Portsmouth , where he had been for some time past studying for the naval profession . He was accompanied by his son , a youth of fifteen . They were visited , on the evening of their arrival , by a refugee countryman , who saw nothing unusual in the appearance or manners of either Dr . Francks or his son . The former , however , was subject to frequent attacks of dyspepsia , and since his death it has been discovered that he also suffered from an immense goitre in his neck , a fact not previously known . But on Friday night he seemed much better than usual , and he and his son went to bed soon after their visitor left , at a little past eleven o ' clock . On . the following morning , at six , the housekeeper was aroused by the noise of some heavy body falling against the area railings , and on looking out fovmd Dr . Francks lying prostrate , in the area . An ¦ alarm being raised , two medical men were immediately sent for , but when they arrived the doctor was quite dead . They went up stairs to inform the son of the occurrence ; but , after knocking several times at the door , and receiving no answer , they burst it open and entered the room , when they found the window thrown up and the son lying dead in one of the beds with a scarf tied round bis neck , with which he had probably been strangled . As the body was yet warm , he could not have been dead long , and from the general appearance of things , it has been supposed that the father must have killed his son , and committed suicide immediately afterwards by leaping out of the window . Dr . Francks was connected with the Prussian blood royal , having married at Rome the daughter , since deceased , of Prince Henry of Prussia , by whom he had the son now deceased . An inquest has been held on the bodies , and the jury returned the following verdict : —" That the son was found strangled in bed , but whether by his own hand , or by the hand of another , there was no evidence to show ; and that the father destroyed himself by throwing himself out of window while in an unsound state of mind . " A letter appeared in the Daily News , suggesting that the son died from natural causes , and that the father , who was known to have doted on his child , committed suicide out of despair . The writer imputes great haste to the coroner , m assuming that Dr . Francks had killed his son , and regrets that a more strict medical investigation was not made . Guy Fawkes' Night at Peckham R-se A rather awkward disturbance took place on Monday night at Peckham Rye , resulting in a charge at the Lambeth police-office against two pawnbrokers' assistants , named Samuel Hawgood and William Smith . Mr . Superintendent Lund aaid that the inhabitants of Peckham had subscribed a sum of 250 / ., as he was informed , for the purchase of fireworks and to defray the necessary expenses of a grand demonstration on the anniversary of Guy Fawkes and of tho battle of Inljerniann ; and Irom the fact of intended grand doings having been made known by printed handbills , extensively circulated , there were assembled on P eckham Rye , on Monday evening , no fewer than from 25 , 000 to 80 , 000 person : ! , the greater number being " roughs , " coster mongers , and thieves , collected from all parts of tho metropolis . At about seven o ' clock in the evening a procession was formed , consisting of three or four carriages , drawn by four grey horses in each , with a band of music , and at least two hundred persona carrying lighted torches . This euvnlcade was headed by men on horseback , in military uniforms , to represent Lord Raglan , Marshal Polwsier , « n < l the lurkish and Sardinian generals , and in the centre a fullsteed effigy of the Emperor of Russia , At ibo top ol tlio Rye was a large bonfire , nnd a display of fireworks tooK place , during which , as Mr , Lund understood , iho eftigy of the Emperor was burnt amid loud choiring . 1 ho procession being again formed , it was intended that it should pass through the village of Peckham ; but Mr . l ^ aa objected to their doing bo , nt least in procession , lie therefore despatched a mounted sergeant to tho turning loading to the town to atop tho procession , and aftw a shore parley he succeeded in doing bo . Tho procession anu crowd then moved towards the King ' s Amis lavorn , which faces the liyo , and , on halting in front of i t , some persons upstairs woro indiscreet enough to throw squibs among the crowd . Tho consequence wus , that thoao ImjIow m * an immediate attack on the house , throw into it a quantity of fireworks of different descriptions , and forced tho door off tho hinges ; and at ono time ho thought that nothing less than tho destruction of tho premises would Jiavo been the consequence . J 3 y groat exertion on tho part of tho

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    1074 THE LE AJD-fiR . [ No . 294 , Saturday ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 10, 1855, page 1074, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2114/page/6/