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    Mr . Elliott * t ( the Lambeth police-office , the person aocused . bemg in this instance the wife . Mrs . Elxsabeth Wood was charged with marrying a man named John luC ^ fc heViirst husband , John Wood , was still living The main facts of the case were very similar to those of the preceding' one . After the woman was taken into custody , she stated to the inspector at the rtati ^ -hZuse that she believed that her first husband , whoTas a sailor , and bad been abroad twelve years , was dead . In the course of last May , she became acquainted with Kiley , whom she soon afterwards married . Wood , her former husband , being in court , and having stated to the magistrate that he could produce witnesses to prove this marriage with the prisoner , Mr . Elliott remanded her for their attendance .

    Assaults . —The hot -weather seems to have made violent attacks on the person even , more than usually common . At Marlborougb-street , Cornelius Collins , an Irishman , has been committed for trial on a charge of biting off the nose of Charles Marsh in a St . Giles's public-house . The prisoner was drunk at the time , and the attack appears to have been wholly unprovoked . — William Corkin and William Daly , two men well known to the poliee , have been charged at the Westminster office with a garotte robbery , committed about midnight in Peter-street . They were sent for trial . —Richard Glover and William Breen , two notorious thieves , were

    brought before the Clerkenwell magistrate on a charge of being drunk and disorderly , and assaulting the police . These men iave been in the habit of hanging about the Angel at Islington , insulting the passengers , and preying on any ladies they may see alight from cabs . They ¦ weresentenced to-two months' hard labour . —At Lambeth , Thomas Doyle has been sentenced to a month's hard labour , and ordered to find sureties to keep the peace , for an assault on Martin Briggs . The accused had married Mr . Briggs ' s daughter , whom he ill-used . She accordingly fled to her father for protection ; and the ruffian then turned his wrath upon Mr . Briggs ,

    saying that , if he could not beat his wife , he would beat him . Subsequently , he flung a stone at his head , which was cut open . —Michael M'Cormaek , manager to Mrs . Dawson , . a fruiterer in Co vent-garden market , has been fined forty shillings and costs for assaulting a Mr . Jeffson . The gentleman had asked the price of some cherries , and bad eaten one while so doing . The price not suiting-him , ie declined to purchase . M * Cormack then abused him , and , though he paid a halfpenny for the cherry he had eaten , the man assaulted him . —William Berryman ; has teen sent to prison for six months for a murderous assault on his wife ; and James Crawley , -a notorious ruffian , is committed for trial . on a charge of inflicting -serious injuries on a policemati who was assisting in turning him out of a public-house where his conduct had been disorderly .

    Fbaud . —John Lahow -and Thomas Carey are under remand at the Mansion House , on suspicion of fraudulently uttering' a dividend warrant of the South-Eastern Railway Company , which had been lost by the proprietor , a Mr . Dashwood . A duplicate having been issued , the money was not paid to Lahow when he presented the warrant , and , inquiries having been made , he and Carey were apprehended . They gave several contradiotory accounts of the way in which they became possessed of the document . Assize Cases . —Thomas Fothergill has been found guilty at Newcastle of the manslaughter of John Smith , whom lie struck on the Lead with a pickaxe , after having been greatly provoked by some taunts which the deceased

    had flung at him . He was sentenced to transportation for life . —ArnxGwilliin , aged thirty-eight , pleaded Guilty at Hereford to a . dhargo of concealing tho birth of her illegitimate infant . She was sentenced to three months ' imprisonment . The Judge ordered her to be well taken care of , as she was suffering from extreme debility . At the time of her delivery , she was a nurse at the workhouse of the Weobley Union , and she had reduced herself to her present state of weakness and disease by walking six miles out and six miles home again on the very day she was delivered . This effort she -was supposed to have made in order io conceal the fact of her delivery . — Eliza Davia , a young single woman , was tried at the same assizes for "the -wilful murder of her infant .

    The bod y ¦ of . the child was found floatingin a well , and one or j two circumstances seemed to render it probable that themother ihad thrown it down purposely . But Mr . Justice Wightmam thought the testimony was not sufficient to make a conviction safe . She was therefore declared Hot Guilty , but was immediately afterwards tried on . a aharge . of larceny , and , being convicted , was sentenced to imprisonment witli hard labour for three montha .- *—Thomas Giblin was found Guilty at Warwick of ' » h » iimniflaughter of John Joseph Tunnicliff . The

    daoaaae 4 , 4 nuM 0 Bii | g ihooifl in the evonuig , wlien lie encountonad < G 4 tbttn , * rho was one of a party of Irish labooraaa . A . iquanel . ensued ; Giblin struck TunnioliiF a wtolcat-blow ,. wad encouraged anothor man to do the same , iwbiohtlM'dld , and employed a brickbat to make theblowih «« rter t death shortly ensued . The very lenient sentaaoe of four monUwMiwd labour was pronounced on OMia . —« Eive < men . («> neof them « , block ) wore indiotod at Ipswich for being concerned in a prbze-fight . The mtt flMMlad Guilty , and threw themselves on the mercy of < th * . < Mm * t . It appeared that , o& the police tailing

    them to desist , they did so , aud refrained from offering any < ob&truction > to the clearance of the ground . They were therefore merely ordered to enter into recognizances to come up for judgment when called on . Indictments were then preferred against Mr . Edward Dorling and Mr . Yarminski , two officials on the Eastern Counties Railway , for refusing to aid the police in . puttiug a stop to the fight . Upon being called , neither answered , and warrants were granted for their apprehension . —Michael Allen and Robert Swales ( the former of whom was tried and acquitted at the last assizes in connexion with the JIatfen murder ) have been tried at Newcastle on a charge of robbing , and attempting to " garotte" a sailor in the open streets of North Shields at night . Allen

    was sentenced to transportation for life , and Swales to eight years' penal servitude . —Mary Ann Roberts was tried at Bodinin for the murder of her infant . She was a married woman , but her husband has been away three years , and , being about to return , the accused , as alleged by the prosecution , was anxious to conceal the result of her faithlessness . She was sleeping one night with another woman , and with two of her children , all in the same bed , when a choking noise was heard , and Roberts seemed to be crying . She replied evasively to questions that her companion put to her , and shortly afterwards she went down stairs ; the cry of a baby was heard ; and the dead body of an infant was afterwards discovered in the kitchen , bruised and apparently strangled . For

    the defence , it was suggested that the child was accidentally killed in the process of delivery . Mr . Baron Martin directed an acquittal , and the jury returned a verdict to that effect . —A precisely similar case ( with the exception that the accused was a single woman ) was tried at Warwick , and the prisoner , Sarah Harris , who was only eighteen years of age , was Acquitted on the same defence . —Another case of alleged child-murder was also tried at Warwick . Catherine Murphy , a very young married woman , whose husband was in gaol , lived in a state of great poverty with her mother-in-law . One day , her infant fell into convulsions , frothed at the moutli , and finally died , the prisoner showing the greatest

    distress , and running about for assistance . It was afterwards found that aquafortis had been placed in its mouth , and the mother was suspected to have done this . The juxy however , found her Not Guilty . —James Hollis hasbeen sentenced to four years' penal servitude for inflicting some severe wounds on several cows belonging to his recent employers , on 4 > eing discharged from whose service he threatened to be revenged . —The Rev . Patrick King has been Acquitted of the charge ( already detailed in this paper ) of attempting to drown his illegitimate infant . He then pleaded Guilty to an indictment charging him -with exposing the child , and he was sentenced to six months' imprisonment .

    foot . " Garnham alleged that he had treated'Uis apprentices as well as lie could , but that his circumstances had altered from what they were formerly . The niagiatrate said he should order the indentures to be cancelled , and that 21 . out of the 51 . premium which hud been paid with each girl should be returned . Tiik Casb of Mark . Boyd again . —A petition lias been presented in the Court of Appeal by Mr . Wryg hte the official manager , under the Wiuding-up Act , of the Royal Bank of Australia , against a decision pronounced by Mr . Fane on the 2 Gth of June last , whereb y hu allowed the bankrupt an immediate certificate of the first class . The petition prayed the reversal of that judgment ; and further , that the bankrupt might be

    refused any certificate whatever . 1 he principal objections which were made by the petitioner to the allowance of any certificate at all were that , as he contended , the bankrupt hail , hi two instances and more , been guilty of fraudulent preference ; and also , as a monibur of the board of directors of the Royal Bank of Australia , had sanctioned the payment of dividends out of capital when he knew that its affairs were in a state of hopeless insolvency . In support of the charge of fraudulent preference it " was stated that the bankrupt in one case received 1000 ? . from Air . Hudson , out of which he paid Messrs . Black and Co ., on the day of his bankruptcy , tiOOl . as

    creditors of the firm of B . and M . Boyd , stockbrokers , although the Messrs . Black had not issued any process against him , or were not very pressing in their demands . Another charge of fraudulent preference was with regard to a sum received in respect of the purchase-money of a debenture of the bank . The debenture was sold three days before tlie bankruptcy , and the bankrupt stated that bis reason for selling- it was because , seeing the hostile attitude Mr . Wryghte bad taken against him , he was making arrangements " to wind up aud transfer a business that had existed for twenty years in the City of London into other bauds . " Some other instances of

    dishonest conduct were alleged , and the case is now being argued . A Wokd and A Shot . —Some lead robberies having been receutly committed on the roofs of houses in the village of Ashton , near Bristol , a man was set to watch , and saw four rneu on the tiles of one of the dwellings , stripping away the lead . He challenged them , and tb * s answered by pelting parts of the coping stones at hi'jj . He then fired with a gun he carried , and two of them were wounded , and captured . The other two escaped . An Elaborate Falsehood . — Our readers will

    recollect the strange story recently told by a boy employed by Mr . Weakley , a tradesman of Whitechapel ; how he had been drugged , rendered insensible , carried off in a chaise into the countrj-, and threatened with violence , which he escaped by running away and hiding himself . The result of a very painstaking inquiry by the police appears to be , that the talc was an entire fabrication . invented by the boy as an excuse for leaving bis master and getting employment in the country . He repented

    A Goor > Begh ^ ing and a Bad Ending , —a lad named John Wick w as brought before Mr . Henry at Bow-street , for refusing to perform his allotted task of stone-breakings at the Strand Union Workhouse . The porter , who also acts as labour-master , and who kept repeating to the magistrate that the lad was a very bad character , evinced , as Mr . Henry remarked , great eagerness for a conviction ; but the youth asserted that ho had received an injury when he was young , and that he was afraid of bringing on a dangerous attack if ho overworked himself . He had done as much ad he could . Mr . Henry asked the labour-master if this were the

    after travelling nearly to Barnet , and returned with this story to account for his absence . This is con firmed by the fact that the lad could not point out th <; shop at which the gentleman stopped and took him into his gig , and numerous medical gentlemen , who have been consulted by the police , all agree in the impossibility of a youth beiny made insensible for so many hours without a fatal result , independently of no policeman or toUgatekeeper on the whole distance travelled having seen on that day any vehicle with corresponding occupants .

    cose , and , after some evasive replies , the man admitted that the accused had boon injured , u a little . " Up to this point , the magistrate seemed to be taking a very reasonable and considerate view of tho cflne ; but now , wlicn the boy ' s assertion was found to be correct , lie advised him for tho future to perform all the work that might be assigned , whatever it might be , and then discharged him . In other words , tho overseer is privileged to work him to death , if he please . Surely some limitation might have been placed on the amount of toil . Mb . Joiinstonk , the person charged last week with unlawfully arresting and locking up a Mr . K . ay , has been committed for trial .

    An Ingenious Tiiikk — A young bwiss woman , named Fnnchette Elise MaurhafT , who has been living as a kind of servant at a lodging-house at Brighton , has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment ami hard labour for several robberies . On being suspected , she was searched , and the missing property , including jewels and article .-J of clothing-, were found most cleverly secreted in various parts of lier dress . Emuezzlejiksu' n y a Bank Manaoikk . —Mr . Cornelius Evans , manager of tho Tewke&bury brunch of the

    A Druhkiw Tveant . —A case of gross ill-usage of a number of apprentice girls has been brought before the Worship-street magistrate . Some timo « go a certain Charles Garnham , a horaohair-woavcr and Bicve-manufacturer in York-street , Botliuul-green , appeared , in order to make a complaint against some of his girls for not doing their work . From one or two things that than came out , tho relieving overseer of tho pariah was directed to make inquiries ; and ho now brought forward several of tho apprentices to show that the master and his wife , while indulging in excessive intemperance themselves , uaod the girls with great cruelty , confining

    Gloucestershire Bunking Company , has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling money to the amount of tt , 2 C 0 l . He had been manager nearly si-von ywir . s , but resigned in t ' ho course oi" last April , owing to ; i disagreement with the general manager of the bank . 'Ihu new branch manager , on ttirikin ^ the quarterly balance : at the end of Juno , discovered the deficiency ; ami it appoarcd , from the evidence of ono of tho clerks , that Air . Evans , before his resignation , had directed him ( the clerk ) to fulmfy , or " cook , " tho accounts .

    Sui'i'OSiU ) JMcnmcn . —A dead body has been found m tho river at Thames Ditlon , bearing marks of several mortal stabs . In tho pockctu ol' tho clothes fi'J l )/ . wm worth of Now South Wales notes . An inqiieel !»«» '" 'cU opened , but in adjourned for tho purpose of nniking inquiries , as there is no doubt thu man lius boon mindmed . A Sicjtioim Chauou . —Mr . Thomas Gosling a W ~ tleman of fortune rouiding in l ' ortlund-p luri ; , was <>» Thursday charged before tho Murylebone miigislrulo witli having incited certain girls of tender iu ?« l <> < : N |> ' > " thoir poreoiiH publicly in tho KogcntV * l ' nvli . Complaints of ofl ' onceH of thin naturo havo recently boon very frequently made to tho Commissioner !) of Woods and Forests . The evidence against Mr . Gosling was siWl' - ciontly strong to induce Mr , ihotiKliton ' to commit , him ( or trial ; but bnil wan accepted for his future appearance

    thorn in cloao and squalid rooms , half starving them , and boating thorn with a Btrap . Ono of the girls said , " Neither my master nor mistress over go to a plaoe of worship . We have not boon ourselves for the last twelve . months ; wo had not clothes to go in . " Anothor stated : — " I have not slept between shcota , nor boon to a pluoo of worship , for two years . Our bods are vory dirty , and I have seen both master and mistress drunk . " A third , who described herself as a marriod woman , said that tho ^ irla could earn tenpenco a day at their work ; out of 'this , they paid thoir employer oightponco for food . 8 ho added , " I am twonty-throc , but have often slopt in tho same bod with my master and his wife , I bleeping at tho

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    XHE LEADER , [ No . 332 , Saturday , 72 o —_ ,-, - ¦ — _

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 2, 1856, page 726, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2152/page/6/