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Leader (1850-1860), 9th February 1856, Edition 1 of 2, Page 128, Untitled Article

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      newspapers , and had tendered indemnity to the amo-unt . of £ 10 . The court did not consider tibia sufficient , and awarded £ 20 damages . —Another action for false imprisonment has been , brought in the Court of Queen's Bench . The complainant -was a young Frenchw oman , named Louise Greasier , a corset-maker , who Was wrongfully given into custody for stealing some silver spoons . In this case , also , the young woman was stripped and searched at the station-house . £ 1 -was offered as a compensation ; but the jury awarded £ 15 . —Two men have been

      separately charged at the Mansion - Louse with passing bad money . The facts were strongly against them ; but , as the Mint refused to prosecute , they were discharged . The practice of passing bad money has increased to an alarming extent in the City ; and the Lord Mayor expressed great surprise at the refusal of the Mint to aid in punishing the offenders , lie recommended that a public meeting should be held on the subject . ' Eight persons , men and women , have been found guilty at the Central Criminal Court , of coining , and have been sentenced to various terms of imprisonment . Mr ^^^^ ^^—4 A 4 A 4 I A ^ k Mtf * ^ . m ^ b

      Mr . Giffard conducted the prosecution . The prisoner was defended by Mr . Ballantine , Mr . Metcalfe , and Mr . P . H . Lewis . Shotong his Talons— -Anthony Bush and George Tallon have been found guilty of burglary . On hearing the verdict , Tallon , who is a little , high-backed , evil-looking fellow , about nineteen years of age , exclaimed , " Tou cannot find me guilty ; there was no mark of violence on the place I broke into . " He was told that made no difference , as the unlawful opening of a door constitutes burglary . Upon being sentenced , together with his companion , to six years' penal

      servitude , Tallon exclaimed , " Do you call this a fair trial ? " and , drawing from his pocket a piece of coal about the size of a large apple , threw it with great force and precision at the head of the Recorder . Fortunately , the Recorder observed the movement , and , by quickly moving his head upon one side , escaped a blow which would have done him a serious injury , for the missile struck the wall close by the side of his face and broke into pieces . The prisoners were then secured and taken away , the Recorder directing that , for the future , prisoners should be more carefully searched before being placed in the dock .

      The Attack on Mr . Clarkson . —Edward Basley , a porter , has been found guilty of the highway attack on Mr . Clarkson , the barrister , who is even yet suffering in the neck from the grip with which he was seized . He has been sentenced to fourteen years' transportation . ! 5 » = !* S | Moke Railway Plateobsi Robbebies . —James Godfrey , and Emily , his wife , fashionably dressed persons , have been sent to prison for three months each , for picking pockets on the platform of the Waterloo Road station of the South Western Railway . Cruelty to Animals . ^—Some cows were sent up to Paddington by the Great Western Railway a few

      days ago , and , on their arrival , it was found that they were in a state of great fear and agony from the motion of the train . Some of them being in calf at the time , the railway officials provided for their comfort by putting them into separate pens with straw ; but , in about half an hour , they were removed ( while still in great pahx , and while one had not full y calved ) by James Waterman , a drover , who used a stick towards them to drive them out of the pens . A railway porter remonstrated ; but he persevered , though the people outside called "Shame ! " Waterman was summoned at Marylehone by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ; but the case is remanded .

      Central Criminal Court . —Thomas Stevens has been acquitted of the charges of forging and uttering an acceptance to a bill of exchange for £ 35 , and of obtaining goods by false pretences . The facts have already appeared in the leader . —George Saunders and Edmund Everson , young men , have been found guilty of a robbery , with great violence , on Mr , Walker in Stanhope-street , Hampstead-road , between three and four o ' clock in the afternoon . They were sentenced to four years' penal servitude . —William Edward Smith has been found guilty of the manslaughter of James Price , an elderly man . Price went into a public-house , drunk , grossly insulted Smith , and struck him . off his seat . Smith then knocked down Price , who fell upon the edge of the tap-room table and was killed . The jury recommended Smith to

      mercy , on account of provocation ; and he was sentenced to two months' imprisonment . The City Forgeries . —John Windle Cole , Cosmo William Gordon , and Daniel Mitchell Davidson , were again placed at the bar of the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday , charged with conspiracy to obtain goods by false pretences . The proseoution , however , was abandoned , as , in the event of a conviction , they could not receive any further punishment than that which they are already suffering for the offenceB of which they have previously been found guilty .

      The Religious Impostor . —John Marioni , the Italian imago boy who , by pretence of being very religious , imposed upon a Mr . Ford of Great Georgestreet , Westminster , has been sentenced to three months' hard labour . On his re-examination , it was shown that he had imposed on many other gentlemen in a similar manner—some of them clergymen , on whose credulity he worked by asking for the loan of Bibles , or for money to buy Bibles , and attributing his conversion to Protestantism to a Bible presented to him by a daughter of Dr . Hook of Leeds .

      The Shot Robbery in the Bdlvidbrb-road . William Bums and Xsaac Jonas have been committed for trial on the charge ( already detailed in this paper ) of stealing shot from their employers . Winter and Smith havo been discharged .

      Burglary made Easy . —William Norton , Thomas iforton , Louisa Norton , a woman of the name of Enxiglit , and a man named Kelly , are under remand at Guildhall , charged with breakinginto the warehouse of a silk merchant in Crown-court , Old Broad-street . Some detective officers watched the premises , and saw William Norton , a boy , assisted by his mother , place a ladder against the house , climb up to one of the windows , wrench it open , and enter the warehouse , the ladder all the time being steadied by the mother . They were subsequently arrested , together with the otters , who appealed to have been privy to , the entrance ; but Enright was discharged . The others were remanded for a week . ' ^ pr ^ . ^^^^ v - ^ --- « The WiLii Fobgery AN 3 > Poisoning at

      Manchester . —James Monaghan , Edmund Dunn , Terence M'Loughlin , and James Keefe , have been committed fojp trial oi » the charge of forging the will of John Monaghan . George Barry , another of the accused , has-been discharged . The MtTBttER in the Minomes .- — -Thomas William John Corrigan has been found guilty of the wilful mnirder of his wife . The facts will be fresh in the recollection of our readers ; and we may therefore confine ourselves on the present occasion to the defence suggested "by Corrigan ' s counsel . This was that , Owing to delirium , tremens , the accused was in a state of temporary insanity , and unaccountable for

      his acts . It appeared from evidence that there was no immediate cause of quarrel between Corrigan and'his wife ; that he was generally a quiet harmless man , though his Wife was sometimes violent , and Tvoiuld strike him ; that he -was subject to fits of delvriwnti' 6 m . cns , owing to habits of intoxication , though h ^ . was only twenty-nine ; that on these occasions he would get his wife to Bit up all night , because he fancied something was hanging round the bed j that some few . days before the murder , while intoxicated , he struck a young man out of doors without any motive ; and that , at the time of the fatal attack on his wife , he appeared in a perfectly \ rild and frantic

      state , and not to have any clear conception of what he was about . Mr . Justice Wightman , however , summed up in favour of a conviction , as it did not seem to him that there was sufficient evidence of the accused being actually out of his mind . The jury therefore found him guilty , and he was sentenced to death . He was removed froon the bar greatly affected . In a . letter written to Mrs . Fearon , one of the persons lie wounded , he observes , in a somewhat mechanical spirit of weighing murder , " My God ! if I had -wounded you in a . vital part ., as well as my wife , what ¦ w ould have been my torture to know that I had committed two murders !"

      The Murder in Bedford-bow . —Charles Broadfoot Westron , aged twenty-five , and described as a clerk , has been tried at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of George Waugh . jpn being required to plead , he at firat said " Guilty , " " ut hurriedly corrected himself , and added " Not guilty . " The fact 8 having recently appeared iu these columns need not now be repeated . The defence was insanity j and several witnesses were examined to show that Westron habitually exhibited signs of a disordered intellect . The jury , after consulting for some time in the box , retired , nnd were in deliberation about three-quarters of an hour , when they returned with a verdict of ' ? Guilty of wilful murder , " but x'ocomraended the

      prisoner to meroy , on account of hia atrong predisposition to insanity . Under these circumstances , Mr . i ^ i ?* Wightman , having consulted with Mr . Justioe ^« 8 , abstained from passing sentence of death , and m £ rel y . ° rdered judgment of death to be recorded . w ^ i * ? $ w n th ' Stepped in front of the dock , SSr' * "P Ver mode any defence : I novor gave Rw »» y i yrUt thoy havo done they have done fW +, ? C 08 ^ e ^ ; 3 havo *> een perjured away . " Ho the whoTe ^ r ^ r lked ^ *» ™ S suw&ffcs ^ "ssfir . foeKa

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . A Niiw Ordeb of Valour . —A new naval and military decoration , to bo styled " the Victoria Ci-obs , " and to consist of a Maltese cross of bronzse , with the royal crest in the centre , and underneath an csoroll , bearing t 3 ie inscription " For valour , " is to bo instituted . In the royal proclamation announcing this new decoration , the preamble sets forth that , in the case of medals granted to aoldiera after a remarkable action , a . 11 share equally in the boon , and therefore there is no distinctive reward for particular acts of more than ordinary valour ; the third claaa of the Order of the Bath being limited , except in very rare cases , to- the higher ranks of both serviooB . Tlw ohiof provisions are as follow : —¦ " It in ordained that any ono -who , after having received the Crosa , shall again perform an act of bravery , which , if ho hud uot received such Cross , would havo entitled him" to it . suoh further act shall bo recorded by a bur nttaohou to the riband by which the Cross is uuflponded , < ui < l for ovory additional act oi bravoiy on additional bur may bo added . It is ordained , with a view to place all persona on a perfectly equal fo oting in relation to eligibility for the decoration , that lioithor rank , nor long service-, nor wounda , nor any other ciroumiituuco

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      the iron-market show no material alteration , although prices are in come degree weakened by underaeUuiff on the part of needy firms , who find it difficult to contend with the present rates of discount . With regard to the general occupations of the place , a tendency towards improvement continues observable . The half-yearly meetings of the various banking companies have passed off well , and in the case of the Dudley and Westbromwich Company a better result has been shown than was expected after their losses a year ago .

      The Nottingham report is highly favourable as regards-the demand both for lace and hosie ry . In the woollen districts there is fair employment , stocks are moderate , and the home and export orders are alike show signs of improvement . The Irish linenmarket is without alteration , and reliance upon the prospects of the year is undiminished . The suspension of Messrs John Scott Busseli and Co ., the firm at whose works at Millwall the great ship for the Eastern Steam Navigation Company is in course of construction , has been announced . Then :

      liabilities are stated to amount to £ 180 , 000 , and the value of their assets will depend much upon the suc » cess of arrangements in progress to prevent the abandonment of some of their principal contracts . Measures have already been taken which , will secure the building of the Eastern steamship from being impeded , and it is said that , if similar means can be adopted with regard to the completion of other vessels and works on hand , a comparatively favourable ^ result may be anticipated . A meeting of creditors is " called for next Tuesday .

      Railway Rivaxry . —Another feud has just broken out between the directors of the Great Northern , the Midland , the London and North-Western , and the Manchester ,- Sheffield , and Lincolnshire Railways . Substantially the contest lies between the directors of the two great lines of railway which run f rom London to the North . Iii 1851 , when the Great Exhibition was open , these companies conveyed passengers to the metropolis at ruinously low ; fares ; but , ultimately , then ? differences were adjusted by referring the matters in dispute to the arbitration oi the Right Hon . W . E . Gladstone . Under the " Gladstone Award , " as the arrangement was called , the traffic to and from ten towns , or competing points , at which

      rival claims arose , was divided between the companies in certain proportions , receipts in excesB having to be handed over to the company entitled to it , subject to a , deduction at a fixed rate for working charges . This agreement has just expired , and , it appears , the traffic managers of the several companies concerned recently had a meeting , at which the terms of a fresh , agreement were drawn up . It is said , that the directors of the Great Northern refused to sanction this arrangement , and thus the companies were left in the same state of open competition they were in before Mr . Gladstone made his award . The terms of this award the Midland , the London and North-Western , and the Manchester , Sheffield , find Lincolnshire companies were willing to

      renew , but the Great Northern decline to do so . The great bulk of the through traffic between London and the North has been carried over their line , and they haye had to pay over to the Midland Company some-¦ thing like £ 26 , 000 per annum , receiving for working expenses twenty per cent ., the actual cost being fortyfive per cent . ; the directors of the Great Northern therefore demand another reference , which tlie other companies refuse to accede to , and the Midland directors have already resumed a competition at ruinously low fares , with extra fast trains . At present , the Great Northern directors have not folio-wed this example ; but it is said by the officials that , if they do enter into competition at all , it will be in such a manner as to compel the shareholders in all the iuv dertj » king ; s concerned to interfere .

      STATE OP TRADE . Thb advices respecting the trade of the manufacturing towns during the wook ending last Saturday ( says the Timea ) are all satisfactory . At Manchester , the demand for finished goods has been sufficiently steady to sustain quotations , while in yarns n very active business has taken place , owing to tho revival of confidence among the continental , and especially the German , manufacturers , consequent upon the expectation of peace . From Birmingham , the accounts of

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      128 THE LEADEB , [ No . 307 , SaiurDa y . — - '

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 9, 1856, page 128, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2127/page/8/