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    till night , -wheu it partially recovered , but still remained in a very wretched state . The man made the ordinary , excuse of drunkenness ; but Mr . Jardine very properly

    said that a person who would do such a thing wheu drunk -would be very likely to do so when sober likewise . He was committed for a month . BdBGtAKY . —Philibert Fish , a young man well known to the police , has been apprehended under suspicion of being concerned in a burglary committed on the night of t"he 17 th inst . on the premises of Mr . Edminston , a waterproof manufacturer in the Strand . Inspector Checkley went on Sunday night in private clothes to Fox-court , Gray ' s-inn-laiie , which is near Fish's lodgings in Holborri-courfc , and waited till he came that way . The officer then stopped him , and said , " Phil , I want you for the robbery in , the Strand . " Fish protested -with a fearful oath that he knew nothing about it . The

    iuthorities of the Strand Union Workhouse and King ' s College Hospital for not showing that attention to the deceased of-which she stood in need .

    spector replied , " That wou ' t do for me , Phil ; I must search your lodgings . " Fish then led the way to his lodgings , which they entered , accompanied by Sergeant Chown , who had been posted there to watch the house . The room door was locked , and there was no key ; but Chown forced the door and searched the room , where he found two railway rugs and a strap , identified by Mr . Edminston . On reaching the street again , Fish made a desperate attempt to escape , in which he -was aided by a crowd of his companions assembled from the neighbouring alleys . Ghown , however , mastered him , and Inspector Checkley overawed the mob by producing a pistol from Iris pocket- They ultimately got him into a cab and drove to the station . On being brought before the Bow-street magistrate , the accused was remanded .

    A Iight-with a Burglar . —Robert Bertram , a returned convict , -with a ticket of leave , -was charged on Tuesday , at Bradford Court-house , with having committed a burglary at an early hour that morning . Mr . William Ingham , a shopkeeper in Caledonia-street , Bowling , Bradford , locked up his premises , and retired to rest at eleven o ' clock on Monday night . At a quartet past two on Tuesday morning , a policeman named Holmes was on duty in the vicinity , and heard the tinkling of the shop bell . Bertram then came out of the shop , and was followed by Holmes and another officer ( Riley ) to his brother ' s house in Bloomfields . The police

    -when the foreman said that the jury had unanimously agreed to a verdict of Wilful Murder against William Gay lor , and also a verdict of Felo-de-se against Elizabeth Gaylor . The Coroner then issued a warrant foi the committal of the accused to Newgate , to take hit trial at the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Court ; and a similar document was placed in the hands of the summoning officer of Hackney for the midnight burial of the body of the wife , which was performed without the funeral service . Dr . Letheby , in the course of his evidence with respect to the post mortem examination , said : — " Sulphate of potass is not much used as medicine in this country , except for the preparation of a

    composition called Dover's powders ; but on the Continent it is a very popular medicine for producing abortim and has often been the subject of legal investigation . " ' A False Character . —A young man , named " William Wheeler , lias undergone examination at the Westminster police-office on a charge of obtaining a situation by means of a false recommendation . Mr . Johnson the prosecutor , a gentleman living in Wilton-place , admitted that he had no fault to find with the man during the time , lie retained him in his service . Wheeler now appeared on remand . On the previous examination , it was shown that the letter of recommendation , purporting to be written "by a Mr . Austwich , bore the Croydon post-mar t , and Mr . Arnold , the magistrate , ordered that inquiries shouUTbe made into the matter ; but it now

    appeared that two letters directed to Mr . Austuichbad been intercepted at the Croydon post-office , and take n away by a young man to whom the postmaster delivered them up . Mr . Arnold said this was highly reprehensible . / Wheeler -was convicted in the penalty of 20 ? . ; but , being of course unable to pay this , he was committed for three months with hard labour . He then asked what was to be done about his wages for the time he was with Mr . Johnson . The magistrate said he must refer him to the County Court , -where he had no doubt the Judge would hold that , as he entered tue service Ly fraud , he was not entitled to anything . Wheeler then turned to Mr . Johnson and said , "A ' ou'U find I shall trouble you as you have troubled me . I am much obliged to you . "

    Thkft upon Theft . —Eliza Taylor , a woman well known to the police as a notorious thief , has been tried at the Middlesex Sessions for stealing a purse from the pocket of a Mrs . Wilson , as that lady was coining out of the Adelphi Theatre at the dose of the performances . A policeman observed Taylor moving about among the crowd , and , suspecting she had robbed the lady , he followed her as she was walking off . . Perceiving that "the officer-was on her track , she threw the purse into the gutter ; but it was picked up by the constable , who took

    the woman to the station-house . Mr . Gent , who appeared for the prosecution , said , in opening the case , that it was rather an extraordinary one , inasmuch as he should be unable to produce the purse , which had been stolen from the policeman who liad charge of it after it had been produced and identified by Mrs . Wilson . The prisoner liad been defended by a person , known in that court and also at the Old Bailey , who acted as an attorney , although he was not one ; and lie obtained an order on the police , who had charge of some money belonging to the prisoner , directing that it should be given up for the purpose of her defence ; and this was done . In a few minutes afterwards , the police sergeant who had charge of the purse missed it from a desk at the station-house where it liad been placed , and , as he would swear that it was safe a few minutes before he was waited upon by the prisoner ' s friends , there could be no doubt that it had been stolen from him , so that it should not be produced in court . Evidence having been adduced in support of the facts , the woman was found Guilty , and sentenced to penal servitude for four years ; and the Judge directed that inquiries should be made with respect to the persons "who are supposed to have abstracted the purse .

    Flogging Young Misn at Eton . —In the Coventry Herald of the 17 th October ( says a correspondent of the Daily News ) , is a letter from Mr . Morgan Thomas , describing tho dismissal of his son , a young man of eighteen , from Eton , because he refused to be Hogged for the ouence of smoking , alleging at the time that his father had forbidden him to submit . It appears , too , that there was no proof of the fact but his own confession , forced from him by his tutor , Mr . Day ; and that

    the tutor , perceiving a scent of smoke about the young man , deemed it necessary first to extort tho confession by questions , and then to reveal the fact to the judicial executive authority , Dr . Go / odford . The Provost has since -written to the father of the young man , stating that the flogging is a part of tho ' system' the school , and cannot be abandoned , and that his secon d son ( aged fourteen ) can only be retained on that condition . The writer in the Daily News is justly indignaut at this wretched and degrading tyranny .

    Statk ov Ciume in Norfolk . —The liev . J . I * Brown , Chaplain of Norwich Castle , the county gaol for Norfolk , has just presented hia annual report to the magistrates . He observes : — " I have again much p leasu in being able to notice a decrease in tho number of prisoners committed , the numbers for tho yonrs 1855 a "" 1856 being reepectively 519 and 477 . I doubt not but that the discipline- of your gaol , very distasteful to those subjected to it , is . one cause of thia decrease , as the

    demanded admittance , and after some delay the door was opened . They charged Bertram with the robbery , and attempted to effect his apprehension . Bertram seized Holmes by the throat with his left hand , took up a butcher ' s knife in the other , and was in the act of making a murderous onslaught , when Riley , by a welldirected blow with hia stick ( for the Bradford police are allowed to carry a weapon of this kiud ) knocked the knife from his hand . Bertram caught up a second knife , but it was wrested from his grasp by Riley . A desperate struggle for the mastery then ensued , and , with great difficulty the burglar was conveyed to the police-office . He has been committed for trial .

    Embezzlement . — - Charles Ashton , ex-clerk to a Copper Miners' Company , was charged at the Mansion House with having defrauded his late employers of . ' sum of 95 ? . Mr . Frewen , secretary to the company , stated that the accused was book-keeper to their firm in January last , and was in the habit of receiving money daily , for which it was his duty to account to his principals . In April , he left his situation , at which time he was deficient in his accounts to some extent . ^ Nevertheless , he paid 201 . to the company ; but they did not then knoAv that he had received 95 £ . from Messrs . Thomasset and Co ., lnerchants in Great St . Helen ' s—a sum which was due from that house to the Copper Miners'Company . This last fraud was not discovered until several

    months afterwards . One of the partners in the firm of Thomasset and Co . said that last January he paid the sum of 95 / ., by a draft upon the Bank of England , in exchange for a receipt which was given him for the money . He believed Ashton to have been the person who presented the receipt , but he could not say positively . One of his elerks , however , swore that Ashton was the man to whom the cheque was paid . The draft was in course of time returned to Messrs . Thomasset through the Bank , as having been duly paid . After hearing some further evidence in support of tne charge , the Lord Mayor committed the accused for trial . — ' -William Rose , who had been remanded . but admitted to bail , appeared again on Tuesday before Mr . Alderman Wire ,

    upon a charge of embezzling several hundred pounds belonging to Mr . Hunt , a miller residing atSranstead , in Hertfordshire , to whom he had for the last eight years acted in the capacity of traveller and collecting clerk . He was committed for trial ; tut bail was again accepted . —Edward William ? , a commission agent , and member of the Society of Friends , who for years has resided in the Bristol-road , Birmingham , has been charged before the Mayor and the stipendiary magistrate of that borough ¦ with embezzling 4 S 8 / ., the moneys of Messrs . Johnson , soap-boilers ^ of Run corn , Cheshire . He was engaged between eight and nine months ago as a commission agent for the Runcorn house , in Birmingham and the district , and during that period had embezzled various sums of

    money , lhe investigation terminated in the committal of Williams for trial . A Candid Thhsf . —John Freeman , late a private in the Tower Hainlctd Militia , was charged at Worshipstreet with robbery . At two o ' clock in the morning , a tradesman named Simmons was on his way home through the Whitechapel-road , when he saw Freeman advancing towards him with a very huge bundle . He thought it suspicions , and was looking at the bundle , when the man walked boldly up to him and offered to sell him tho contents . These turned out to be a bolster , pillow , and bedstead furniture ; and , feeling now convinced they formed the produce of some robbery , ho immediately seized the stranger , and , in spito of a stout resistance , firmly hold him till a constable came up , who took him into custody , and . was conveying him to tho station , when , while passing tho shop of Mr . Harris , a

    furniture broker in . Goulston-atreet , he saw a large piece cut . out of the corner shutter , ao as to admit of the introduction of an arm to draw back tho holts . He therefore handed the prisoner over again to Mr . Simmons while he knocked at the door and alarmed the inmates , at the same time observing to Mr . Simmons that a burglary had been committed there apparent ^ -, to which Freeman , who had given no account of himself before , said , " Why , yes , of course there has ; that ' s where I got in . " On the appearance of Mr . Harris , the thief again acknowledged his guilt , and said ho had taken the things because he was sorely in want of clothes . He was committed for trial . Tub Cask ov Death from Proouuino Abortion . —Tho adjourned inquest on tho body of Elizabeth Gay lor , who died from taking a large quantity of aulphato of potass , administered by her husband with a view to procuring Abortion , terminated on Tuesday ,

    AssAui / rs on Women . —A savage attack was made last Saturday evening , and again the following morning , on Eliza Lloyd , by a shoemaker named Samuel Lane , with whom she had lived for six years . This woman had discovered that Lane was a married man , and that his family were in the workhouse . Having taxed him with the fact , and told him that under the circumstances she could not think of remaining with him , he struck her two violent blows on the eyes , and on the morning of the next day renewed the attack , kicked her till she was insensible , and cut her severely about the hands arid arms with some sharp instrument . He was charged with these offences at Worship-street , and was

    remanded . — -Thomas Neale was sentenced by the Lambeth magistrate to she weeks' hard labour for a murderous attack on his wife , followed by an attempt to cut his own throat . The outrages were committed on the very day on which a term of five months , during which he was bound over to keep the peace towards his wife , expired . At the police court , the husband said he was perfectly heartbroken , as his wife had left him to live with another man . — -Charles Paillaclt , a costermonger , has been sentenced to six months' hard labour for beating his wife about the head with one of his heavy nailed shoes , having previously outraged her by bringing a loose woman home with him , and misconducting himself in her very presence . .

    A Revelation of Whitecross-street Prison . —A Mr . Sutheren , who had been shut up for about a month for debt in Whitecross-street prison , has applied at Guildhall for a warrant against two of the prisoners , ¦ wh o had violently assaulted him as he was leaving the gaol , because ho refused to submit to an exorbitant charge for the use of some sheets . It seems it is tho custom among certain disreputable inmates of the prison to levy various taxes upon new comers , and to annoy them very seriously if they do not . acquiesce . Aldermen Laurie and Copeland said they had understood that tho Whitecross-street prison is one of tho worst of debtors '

    prisons . The latter Alderman observed : — " It is a notorious fact that there are fellows in the prison who neglect to file their schedule , though having ample means to obtain their discharge , and that they live upon the money extorted from the other prisoners , in defiance of Mr . Burdon , the Governor . " The Aldermen were of opinion that it would be useless to grant a warrant against tho offenders ; and Mr . Burdon said that , in the case of any complaint being made to him , he had power to pnuish the evil-doers by confining them in the strongroom upon the prison diet , bread and , water . Tho warrant was therefore refused .

    Death prom Destitution . —Mr . Wakloy has held an investigation , at the board-room of the Strand Union Workhouse , respecting the death of Louisa Kegun , aged twenty-five . She was found in the streets at nine o ' clock in the morning , in a very feeble state . It was raining hard , and a" policeman , seeing that she was very ill , took her to King ' s College Hospital . She was carried into the surgery , and placed upon a table , and about ten o ' clock w « 8 seen by Mr . Way , the liouse physician , and another medical gentleman , who decided that she was

    Buffering under consumption , and' could not bo admitted into the ¦ hospital ^ as there was no accommodation for consumptive patients . Accordingly , she > vas removed from the ^ hosphal in a cab to the Strand Union Workfiouue , where eho received very little attention , and died IE !! ™? « r ^ oon . The jaoat mortem examination !¦« « Tf thalanga veto much diseased , hat there was ^ fPP ^ . ^ ^^ tto ^ ount fo * dea «» - The ver-2 L % ? " **}*** the-wotoan died from disease and destrtauon , and-that-they wort , unanimously of opinion that a great deal of blame , attached to the au-

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 25, 1856, page 1016, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2164/page/8/