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    some inquiries at the Custom House , Mrs . Walter paid " War * this amount also . Her properly , however , was not sent to her , and she was obliged to go to Brewers ' Quay , where it had been removed before she could obtain possession of it . Alderman Wire believed that the young man had acted in error , owing to inexperience , and not with any intention of contravening the law . He therefore convicted him in the mitigated penalty- of 51 and costs . . The Rev . Mb . Gobham aitd his Parishioners . — - The Rev . Mr . Gorham of Bampford Speke , charged Thomas Vesey , landlord of the Agricultural Inn , fcefore the magistrates of Exeter , with keeping his house open at an unseasonable hour . On the 25 th of last

    month-Ins premises were hired for the annual village festival , and a concert and ball were lield in a large room attached to the house . The place was entered at eleven o ' clock by Mr . Gorham and another reverend gentleman , accompanied by several constables , who were ordered to clear the house immediately . This was therefore done . A sliort time i > reviously , a young farmer from Exeter , named Baker , had hired a bedroom in the house , but , on the arrival of Mr . Gorham and the police officers , he went away to avoid an altercation , and returned after they were gone . The landlord then asked him to have a glass of grog , to which he consented , but Mr . Gorhara and

    the constables speedily came back . After reproving Vesey , the reverend gentleman ordered Mr . Baker to drink his grog and go home . On the latter refusing to do this , Sir . Gorbam ordered the constables to turn him out ; but this they were prevented from doing by Mr . Baker reminding them of the illegality of such a proceeding . A charge was preferred against this gentleman by the Rev . Mr . Gorham , -who accused Mr . 35 aker of throwing a turf at him . The summons was dismissed in both instances , the last being considered in the light of a counter-charge to one which was expected from Mr . Baker for the assault that had been committed on him .

    A . KUFFiAiJLYBuTCHiin . —Decent persons passing through ISTewgate Market have recently been much annoyed by the insults and ruffianly conduct of several of the butchers . One of these fellows was summoned before Sir Peter Laurie a few days ago for an assault on a Mr . West , an ironmonger , who , -without giving any offence , was abused , insulted , pelted with , fat , struck violently on the chest , ami beaten with fat sacks . The chief offender was a young man named Charles Mat hews , the son of a . very respectable master butcher in tlie market ; and it . was . against him that the summons was issued . ¦¦ His father compromized the matter by payicg Mr . West . ' 51 . '; ' and so the fecamp of a son escaped without any punishment .

    Committal ok PiuzE-Fi&iiTKits . —Two prize-figliters , their seconds , bottle-holders , and stake-holders , have been indicted at the Oxford County Sessions for riotousl y assembling for the purpose of a prize fight on the 8 th of last July . They pleaded Guilty . The magistrates , considering the abettors more to blame than the principals , sentenced the former to twenty-one daj-s' imprisonment , and the latter to ten days . It appears that a sergeant and constable of the Berkshire police crossed into Oxfordshire , and witnessed the light for their own amusement . The magistrates expressed great indignation at this . DoG-i'iGHxiNU . —Three men have been lined 51 . each ; and costs at the Liverpool police-court , for being concerned in a dog-iiglit . The remainder of the people present , who include among them members of the ' Fancy' Jfi-om some dozen towns round Liverpool , have all been summoned to appear .

    Disiionicst Attoh ^ eys . —Some investigations wero entered into before the Lambeth magistrate on Tuesday with respect to a charge preferred against Mr . Neale , an attorney , by a woman whoso son had been convicted at the Surrey Sessions of stealing a watch . The mother gave Mr . Neale 21 ., on his undertaking to prepare a memorial to the Home Secretary , with a view to a commutation of hcv son's sentence . However , he had done nothing in the matter , though ho refused to return the money . Mr . Ncale julmittcd to the magistrate that ho had received thu 21 ,, but added that he could not

    proceed m the altair for want of the necessary particulars , with which he had not been furnished . Still , lie aaid , ho could not have nil his trouble for nothing . Mr . Elliot , the magistrate , remarked that such conduct seemed to him like positive dishonesty . Ho advised Mr , Noalo to return the sum . This was assented to by the attorney , as far as returning part of the money vran concerned ; but the woman shortly afterwards appeared iigjiin nt the court , and suid she could not get anything . She was then recommended to summon the lavyer . — This practice of victimizing tho . mothers of criminals has become very common of late .

    Haslingden petty sessions , the magistrates had under consideration the propriety of granting a publican's license , and two were opposed to it . A warm debate ensued , during which one of the magistrates used vulgar and abusive language relative to the other . Inconsequence of some reference being made to one of the magistrates having married a barmaid , the gentleman to whom , the observation referred struck the other on the face ¦ with his cane , and a regular battle ensued in court . One of the gentlemen , on . being conveyed home , fainted on the way . The occurrence has been much talked about in the district . — -Manchester Examiner .

    A Female Receiver . — Thomas Renwick , a boy of thirteen , was indicted , at the Middlesex Sessions , for stealing a watch , and six pairs of boots , the property of John Jackuian ; and Catherine Phillips , a married woman , was indicted fox feloniously receiving the same . The boy pleaded " Guilty . " He was then called as a witness , and he stated that he stole a watch belonging to bis mother , which , he and another boy sold to Phillips for two shillings , telling lier at the same time that they had stolen it . With part of the . two shillings , they procured a picklock to get into the warehouse belonging to

    Mr . Jaekman , of Drury-lane . The boy there stole a -quantity of boots , which found a ready purchaser in the female prisoner , who kept a shop in Tower-street , Seven Dials , and from the evidence there-was no doubt that she had encouraged and persuaded him to persevere in a course of plunder , so that she might get the boots by giving but a few pence a pair for . them . Through the efforts of her counsel , she was Acquitted on the charge of receiving the watch , but the jury found her Guilty on the other count . She was sentenced to four years ' yanal servitude .

    Assaults by Dkuxken Soldi : ers .- —Three privates iu , the Coldstream Guards have been brought up at the Marylebone office , charged with very savage assaults on . some ladies and gentlemen who were returning at night from Notting-hill to Paddington . One of them ^ ut his arm round the neck of a married lady belonging to the party , and , on the husband remonstrating , the whole were pursued by the soldiers up to the railway bridge , Pad-¦ di ngton , -when- the ruffians commenced an indiscriminate attack , striking right and left : vith great violence , . sparing neither women nor men , and laying several stretched and . bleeding in the ro-adway . After some time , the police arrived , and were in their turn assaulted ; but the soldiers were at length overpowered ,

    Guardians . How is it that the most hard and questionable sentences are always those of a ' reverend' magistrate ? Robbery of Pictures from tiie Eakl of Suffolk's Gallerv . —Information has been received by the police authorities in G-reat Scotland yard , of an extensive robbery of valuable paintings , which took place at Charlton-park , Wiltshire , the seat of the Earl of Suffolk , on . the night of Friday week . The thieves contrived to obtain admission to the picture-gallery , and adroitly took from their frames some valuable paintings , doubtless for the purpose of more convenient removal and to avoid recognition . .

    Extensive Fokgeky . —Mr . Alexander Duncan , late agent of the City of Glasgow Branch Bank at Coupar-Angiis , lias been apprehended and conveyed to Forfar , charged with some very extensive forgeries , amounting in all , it is said , to five thousand pounds . He had only held his appointment for a short time , and considerable mystery hang 3 over the appropriation of the money . When taken into custody he appeared to be under the influence of drink .

    SwixDLrsG Tax Collectors . —Mr . Worley , incometax collector for Dudley , has just absconded , and his accounts show defalcations to the extent of 3000 / . On Saturday , Mr . H . H . Cooper , property-tax collector at West Bromwich , Staffordshire , was apprehended under a warrant for embezzling something like 1100 / .-, he now lies iii Stafford gaol . "NYorley is supposed to have gone to Sweden , a country with which Great Britain has no treaty under the- powers of which she can claim absconding criminals .

    Afpisay with Poacheiis . —A desperate struggle with five poachers took place on the estate of Mr . Gilbert Greenall , M . P ., on the night of Friday week . The intruders threw heavy stones at the keepers , and assaulted them with bludgeons , cutlasses , and daggers . Three escaped , and the other two were taken , one "b y means of a mastiff , ' ' ; who dragged him down . They Were committed for trial on the following day . Chime ln Berkshire . —The Kev . J . Field , chaplain of the model prison at lieading , stated at the Berkshire Michaelmas Sessions , op-ened on Monday , that , durin « -

    the last twelve iiionths , there has been a reduction of more than twelve per cent , in the number of prisoners committed to the county prisons . lie added : —" I have thought it important for several successive years to show the age at which the recommitted , or worst class of criminals entered upon their vicious course , and were first committed ; and by referring to tlie tables of the last year it will be seen that of 1-12 previously in separate confinement not less than Gl ( more than--10 per cent . ) had been in gaol before they were 17 years of age . These have been committed 372 times—that is , ' o : i the average , more than sis times each . "

    and conveyed to the station-house , though not without great difficulty , which was increased by a man in the crowd calling on the bystanders to rescue the prisoners . This man was also taken into custody , and was charged at Marylebone together with the soldiers . One of the latter , on being seized , said , with an oath , that . he had been fighting for his country , and would liave a fight with the policeman before he would be taken . Another said he would" serve out " one of the constables , " if it was twenty years to come . " A young woman was so seriously injured that she fainted while waiting to give hex evidence at the police-office , and was taken away in ¦ a state of complete exhaustion . Her condition is very precarious . The other women were also horribly bruised and cut . All the accused were remanded .

    Burglaiiy . —The house of Mr . William Harrison , a magistrate for Staffordshire , and the proprietor of extensive collieries in that county , has been entered by live men masked and armed . Tlie house was situated near the lirownhills Colliery , and contained the pny-office of the works . Tlie only inmates were a clerk , an old housekeeper , and her daughter . The women were speedily bound . -with ropes , and the young man was compelled by threats of instant death to point out the iron safe in which the money was kept . Having obtained from him all the information that they needed , they bound him , rendering his custody yet more secure by placing over him one of their gang , armed with a double-barreled gun . Thereat of the band then applied themselves to the acquiring of booty , concentrating their early efforts

    Theft of Railway Passenoisu Tickets . —Robert Hunt , a youth sixteen year e of age , and employed as a booking-clerk by the South Eastern Railway Company , was charged at the Greenwich police-court with stealing a quantity of railway passengers' tickets and disposing of them with intent to defraud the company . He had been in the employ of tho company but a sliort time ; but he found means to dispose of soiac of the tickets which it was his duty to issue at the Deptford station . The misappropriation was soon discovered , and the youth , on being taxed with tho theft , confessed , after a little while , that lie had taken the tickets . When brought before the magistrate , he pleaded Guilty , and was sentenced to four months' imprisonment with hard labour .

    upon the iron safe , thu lock of which thuy tried to blow off with gunpowder , but they could not succeed . They hnd then recourse to n more iinscicntHic procedure . From a neighbouring blacksmith ' s shop they fetched a heavy sledge-hammer , and eventually forced the safo . Hero their boot } ' was not so largo as they expected to find it , the contents of tlie chest having been reduced to 18 / . by tlie colliers having been paid their wages only the day before . They helped themselves , however , to various portable articles , and concluded by regaling themselves with the contents of tho Inrdor and cellar , after which they rode ofl ' in a cart . The inmates of the house remained bound till a lute hour of the morning , when their cries attracted the notice of some of tho colliers . Tho burglarn have not yet been apprehended , though Mr . Harrison lias offered a reward of 1001 .

    ATTE 5 I 1 'TEI > DOUULK MUKDISEt AT LlVMJKl'OOL . A barber , named Thomas Willetts , has attempted to murder his wife and a man called Fisher . Tlie wife was separated from her husband , who had ill-used her for many years , and -who had latterly been living with another woman , A small shop was kept by Mrs . " Willetts , and on Saturday night sho ^ vas serving ; a customer with a bottle of gingcr-bcer , when her husbmid entered . Mis hat was slouched over his eye * , mid she did not know him . He went round' the counter , and she said , " Eh , sir ! " He repeated her words mockingly , laid hold of her , and commenced "jobbing" her throat with a pocket-knife . The young man , William Kiaher , went to her assistance , and Willolts also cut him about tlie throat and chest . On being arrested by tho police , the man said ho was sorry ho had not " got the job done , and cut his own throat too . " The wounds were not serious in either case . Willetta has been committed for trial .

    An Unncicxsicn CusToai-iioirsii Oiiacicit . — -A young man named lliehard Ware was examined at the Mansion House , before Mr . Alderman Wire , on a charge of having transacted the business of a custom-house agent without being duly licensed . On tho 8 th of last May , a lady at Hertberg , named Mrs . ( Jloiidt , sent to England two cases of goods , containing a pianoforte and nomu household furniture . Tho cases were brought over to this country in charge of'her ' daughter , Mrs . Walter , to whom was delivered tho bill of lading . Shortly after her arrival , she went to the Custom House to obtain tlie cases , and there met tho accused , who , having discovered her business , induced her to give him tho bill of lading , promising to clear tho case- * and send the goods to her . He aaid that the duty would amount to 21 ., which the lady paid him . lie Niibscciueiitly claimed tho further sum of 21 . 8 s . for the charges , which ho stated must be paid before the goods could be given xip . After making

    ' KKVKitBNo' TxttANNY Jano llile , an inmato of tlie St . Neota' Union , has been committed to Huntingdon gaol for twenty-one days for misbehaviour during Divine service nt tlie workhouse on Sunday , the 5 th hist . Thia misbehaviour consisted hi scribbling in a prayer-book with , a pin , and indulging in suppressed laughter with another inmate . Tho magistrate who inflict ed this cruelly aovero sentence was tUo Rev . S . G . Fan-cett , who is also tho chairman of tho Board of

    A , Tun-: * ' Dkxkctku . —Two men , one named Alfred Blund , now in . custody , went into the whop of Messrs . Benson and Co ,, jeweller . ' ' , Ludgatc-hill , and aaked to look nt some mourning-rings . While ono of them was looking at the contents of a tray , the uhopmnn suspected that he had appropriated aomc , aud-thcrcforo told another of the shopmen to fetch u policeman . Uland ' s companion seemed to apprehend Homething from tho wlil . speringH , and hurriedly left the Hhop . Robertson , the shopman , then taxed Bland with theft , and took a mourning-ring from hia coat . He then told liim that ho hud got some more , and endeavoured to seize hia

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    Octobeb 18 , 1856 . ] THE LEA . DER . 991

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 18, 1856, page 991, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2163/page/7/