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    on-Tyne of the manslaughter of Ann Fleming , a . woman ¦ with whom he lived as his -wife . They were often drunk and quarrelling , and one day the man carried his illusage to an . extent -which resulted in the woman's death . He was sentenced to four years' penal servitude . John Burrows-was tried at Oxford for the murder of William Fisher , but was found Guilty of manslaughter only . This was a case of jealousy . Burrows had . paid certain attentions to Fisher ' s wife . Fishex became enraged , and ill-used the woman . The other man then interfered , and , after much -wrangling ( the parties being intoxicated ) , Burrows seized a poker , and inflicted such injuries on Fisher that he died very shortly . The j udge sentenced Burrows to four years' penal servitude . Several other eases of less importance have been tried in the course of the week , arid a good many prisoners have pleaded Guilty .

    Giuseppe Legava , Giovanni Barbalano , and . Matteo Pettrich j three Italians , were arraigned at Winchester on six different indictments—one for the wilful murder , on the high seas , on the 5 th of last July , of Joseph Pattinson ; another for feloniously stabbing and . wounding , with intent to murder , John Scotland and Daniel Cullen ; another for piratically stealing eleven sovereigns and a half-franc piece , with other things , the property of John Scotland and others , on board the British , barque Globe . The particulars of this case have recently appoared in the Leader . They were all found Guilty , and were sentenced to death , though loudly protesting their

    . Michael Cawthorn has been found Guilty , at Newcaatle-on-Tyne , of the manslaughter of Mark Cunningham , by stabbing him in the course of a drunken quarrel *

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    The Bullion Robbery . —A further examination of Pierce and Burgess took place at the Mansion House on Thursday ; but the evidence was not important , except in a confirmatory point of view . The prisoners were remanded till next Wednesday . From the evidence of Mr ,. 'Sees , a gentleman connected with , the . company , it appeared that the gold which , according to the evidence of Agar , was concealed in a hole in the pantry of Pierce ' s house , had been removed , though apparently- but recently , the cavity being filled with ashes , &c , which seemed quite fresh . —Tester is not yet in custody . Affray with Poachers . —Four poachers have been committed for trial at the next ' Stafford Assizes for a murderous assault upon some gamekeepers on the estates of Mr . John Davenport and the Earl of Macclesfield . Three of the gamekeepers have been nearly killed .

    The Murdkrous Assault at Croydozt .- —Statues , olios Bright , the man who cut open the head of Mrs . Belton with a chopper , gave himself up to the police on Monday . He said that Mrs . Belton had been insulting Mm . •; . ¦ ; . ¦ ¦ : .. "¦ ¦ ¦ " ¦ . - ' . ¦ . ' . . . A Strange Case . —Beresford Augustus Christina ? , a ycung man highly connected , was brought before the ITarlborough-street magistrate on Tuesday , charged with stealing 1 a number of very valuable old books from the library of Brampton-hall , the seat of Lady Olivia Sparrow . His cousin , William Kortright , at a previous examination , was included in the charge , but , as a

    subsequent explanation pTovetl tliat he had no participation in or knowledge of the offence , lie was discharged , and the magistrate said he left the court -without a stain on his . character . Christmas pleaded Guilty , and two letters from him to Lady Olivia were read , in tlic latter of which , ivith many expressions of penitence , lie admitted the theft , prayed for forgiveness , complained of the dreadful misery to which he was reduced in being obliged to remain in a prison ^ and , acknowledging tlio innocence of his cousin , begged that he might be saved from the horrors and ignominy of gaol . The magistrate sentenced Christmas to six months' imprisonment .

    A Case of Misekv . — With reference to a recent case of destitution brought before the * attention of the Thames magistrate , a letter containing a contribution , and dated from tlie Samaritan Institution , Victoria-street , City , was handed in on Tuesday . It ran thus : — "For a ' poor woman named Louisa Davison , No . 1 , Clare-hall-gardens , near Stepney Church , who waited upon the sitting magistrate , and stated that her husband and her son , thirteen years of ago , wero both lying dead , and that she had no means of burying them , having parted with everything during their illness . A gentleman , a

    member of the committee of this institution , having seen this statement in the newspapers , and having visited many such scenes , at once took a cab and went to the scene of ndaory , and found the woman and a large family in a most deplorable condition , and that the statement of distress was scarcely half told befovo the magistrate . The wretchedness of the hovel , in which wero contained the starving children and the dead bodies of the father and boy , was indeed a aad sight , and drew compassion and assistance from the cabman ( No . 1885 ) , "who went up ¦ with tlie gentleman , ho being almost afraid to enter tlio place alone . The surn of 10 s . was at once handed to the

    poor woman to relieve her wnnt . f , and I now enclose the sum of 21 . 16 a . Gd ., tlio gentleman having mentioned the oircumstanco aftor dinner to somo friends , who at « nca Hubscribed for her enso . " The Ooius who Livks cm Bund NjcK ]> L . nwoMi 3 x . — It will be recollected that Mr . Ferguson , tlio chiuf clork of tho Mendicity Society , brought under the notico of tho Lambeth mngistrnto , about a year ago , the tricks of

    a Mr . Roper , who pretended to be connected with a society for relieving distressed needlewomen , and . who obtained large sums of money from , the benevolent , on the strength of ' melancholy cases' which had no existence except in his own imagination and the deluded faith of the donors . After an interval this same person has again appeared , in his former character , and , notwithstanding the disclosures which have been publicly made with respect to him , has once more obtained large sums of money on fraudulent pretences . Mr . Ferguson has , therefore , brought the matter before the attention of Mr . Norton and of the public , that the latter may be placed on their guard .

    Apprehension of a Scotch Merchant on Charges of Foegeby . —Joseph Manning Wilson , recently a wellknown corn merchant and shipbroker at Leitb , has just been apprehended on charges offorgiug bills of exchange to the amount of between 2000 ? . and 3000 / . He had gone to Australia after the commission of the offence , but he returned early last week , and was apprehended in Folkestone . Hi 3 intention was to go to Germany shortly . He cheated the captain of the vessel which brought him home out of the passage money , by giving him a bill on the Bank of Scotland , payable at Coutts and Co's , London , which was dishonoured on presentation . In his original frauds , he was connected with one Jacob Christiansen , also a shipbroker at Leith who has been already convicted .

    Octavius King , who at the last session of th& Central Criminal Court , pleaded guilty of uttering forged acceptances , has teen sentenced to eighteen months ' imprisonment . A . 'Woman-Bent on Self-Destruction . — -A woman was charged at Guildhall on Monday , with stealing a purse ; and , in the course of the evidence , the gaoler said she had been there twice before , once on account of an attempt to poison herself . She was remanded ; and shortly afterwards screams were heard proceeding from the cells . ' . ' " The gaoler ran to the place , and found that the woman had torn off part of her petticoat , and twisted it so tightly round her throat that , had not assistance speedily arrived , owing to the outcries of some of the other occupants of the cell , she would have died .

    A Noisy Chastist . —Mr . Daniel William Ruffey , formerly known as a Chartist , was charged at Bowrstreet , together with Mr . John feeorge Dron , with creating a disturbance at the entrance of St . Martinis Hall on the occasion of the Saturday Evening Concerts . Both were the worse for liquor , and endeavoured to force their way in after the ¦ cheque-taker had refused to acknowledge ail order which they had offered . Dron , who was the worst of the two , threatened the policeman who took them in charge ; but his courage speedily failed him . He . was fined fortv shillings , and Ruffey twenty shillings .

    A Pretty Specimen ok oi / k Game Laws . —Two labouring men have been indicted at Holt , Norfolk , for a trespass in catcliing rabbits-on a ' -common called the Lows , the right of shooting over -which had been let by the rector , churchwarden , and overseers ( though their right to do so is very questionable ) , to ; a neighbouring gentleman . The offenders we re brought before the bench of magistrates , one of whom ( W . II . Cozens Hardy , Esq . ) refused to concur in a conviction , as he doubted the right of the trustees to let the shooting over the common ; but the others imposed on the men a fine of three shillings each , and expenses , making in all 28 s . ; in default , a month ' s hard labour . Of course , the men could not pay the lrio . iey , and they have been looked tip . The

    wife ainl . ckildre . i of the one , and the motherless children of the other , have . been obliged to go to the workhouse ; but subscriptions havo been opened on behalf of these victims of feudalism . Notwithstanding the magistrates ' decision , a considerable mimber of the occupiers of houses entitled to the Lows have since gone in a body , but peacefully , to their estate , and captured rabbits in the presence of a police officer , who looked on but did not interfere . — Tho Norfolk News having miule somu severe observations on Lord Hastings , the chief of tho convicting magistrates , his Lordship has threatened to inflict personal violence on tho editor . It is needless to say that this ruffianly menace has not tied our contemporary's tongue .

    A Flight ani > Pursuit . —Two men , named Thomas Sweeney and Goorgo Williams , were charged at the Worship-street police-office ] with stealing a large quantity of lead from the roof of hit . uninhabited house in Lansdowne-plnce , Hackney . The inmates of tlio adjoining dwelling heard one evening a subdued hammering in tho next house , and , knowing that it was untenantcd , and that several robberies had recently been committed in tho locality , their suspicions - \ vcro aroused , and ono of the family went out into tho ynrd behind the house to see whether the back part of tho ndjoining promise *

    > vns secured . IXe found that ono of the windows wna open , on which ho raised an alarm , and tho buiglars , finding themselves detected , ran out at the front of the bowse , and fled across tho opposite fields . They were pursued , however , by the gentleman who discovered them , and subsequently by n policeman and a fishmonger ; but , having got conaiilonibly the start of their pursuers , the thuwes would probably have escaped , had they not beon scon by n surgeon , nnnied Thccd , who had just got into Ilia gig , after visiting one of his patients , and who hearing tho erica of " ¦ Stop thief ! " immediately joined tho chase . Tho fugitives here separated , each

    taking a different coarse ; but Mr . Theed succeeded after a hot pursuit , in capturing Sweeney , whom lie forcibly lugged by the neck into his gig . He then , started off after Williams , whom he found engaged in a desperate struggle with the fishmonger ; and he secure ham likewise . It was subsequently discovered that the two men had completely stripped off all the lead from the roof of the empty house . They were both committed for trial . The Ticket-of-leave System ht the West-Riding . —At the West Riding Quarter Sessions opened

    at Sheffield on Tuesday , Mr . Wilson Overend , the chairman , in his address to the grand jury , referred to the great increase of crime in the district , and to the ill effects attendant upon the release of convicts upon tickets of leave . He remarked that the number of prisoners for trial at these sessions was thirty-two , making , with twenty-five summary convictions , no less than fifty-seven convictions for felony in this district of the West Riding since the last sessions—a period of about six weeks , or an increase of twenty over the average number of cases at these sessions for the previous five

    years . - , : \ A Youthful Criminal . —A girl , fifteen yeara old , living at Springfield , in Essex , drugged her father and sister ' s tea with opium a few days ago , rifled her father's pockets , while he was in a somnolent state , ransacked the _ house , and made ' off , starting by train for London . This is not the first time she has absconded with property . ' ; ; . . ; ¦ ¦ ¦ - , ¦ . . . ... . ....- ¦ . . ¦¦ - . . ¦ •¦ ¦ ¦ . .. THE jRoBBEaY ON THE GREAT NORTHERN HAILWAY . - —William Snell , late tlie chief clerk in the accountants ' department of the Great Northern Railway , -was again examined on Thursday on the charges of theft and embezzlement which have been made against him , and he was committed for trial .

    Criminal , Assault . —Jacob Israel , a Jew , has been brought up at Worship-street , charged with criminally assaulting Julia Cohen , who is between seventeen and eighteen years of age . The young woman was seated at the iirst examination in a chair by the side of the -witness-box , but appeared to be quite unconscious of everything passing around her . She now and then exhibited indications of pain and suffering , and rocked herself backwards and forwards on the seat , uttering short , sharp cries , and , there . being reason to believe that she would be seized with fit 3 , she was gently led out of court . The evidence was then gone into , and it appeared that the poor girl was idiotic . Israel was committed for trial .

    ¦ Burglary and Ikcenmabisji . —A burglary , presenting some new and revolting features , was committed at Stifford Parsonage , near Grays , Essex , early on \ Wednesday morning . The house is occupied by the Rev . AY . Palin , rector of the parish , and a county magistrate . He retired to rest at one o'clock on the moming in question , leaving a sharp dog in one of the loTver rooms . At six o ' clock , the servants found the library window open , the glass having been smashed , and the shutters broken ¦ away by main force , sufficiently to admit a man ' s body . The secretary and drawers were found open , and a few small articles had been stolen . Tlie worst remains to be told . On the carpet , within a loot of the window-curtains , a heap of ignited papers , books , &c , was found half consumed . It is considered remarkable that the house was not set on fire . —A

    burglary has been committed at the house of two old people , man and wife , the former a house-agent , at Pleaselfty .- Having ransacked the house of money , the burglars left , and the old people next day were very ill with the fright . Escape of a Pkisoner from the House op Detention . —A prisoner , named Davi 3 , who was confined in the House of Detention , awaiting trial at the [ next Middlesex . Sessions at Westminster on a charge of stealing

    a watch , succeeded an . Thursday morning in escaping by getting over the wall during tlie prevalence of tho fog . It appeared that he had strung a number of hammock straps together , and at the end he tied the ' goose * belonging to tlio tailors' shop . This he throw over the wall , where it is presumed , by a preconcerted plan , some one was ready to hold it , so that the prisoner might pull himself to tlie top of tho wall . The escape was discovered at once , but the man had got clear off , and no tidings have as yet been heard of him .

    Highway RonnKuv in London . —Between two and three o ' clock on Thursday morning , a young man , engaged in the machine department of a daily journal , was proceeding through the London-road , Southwark , on his way to the City , when ho was suddenly attacked by two ruiliaiis , whoiullicted a severe blow upon his head , which rendered . him perfectly insensible for a time . When he recovered himself , he found lie had been robbed of Us . and tlie thieves had effected tlicir escape .

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    OBITUARY . Gi 3 ? miAL , Sin IIknuy J . Gumming , K . C . IL , unti the lust few days one of the few remaining Peninsula ollicer . s , has died at tho advanced age of eighty-five . II entered the 11 th Light Dragoons in 1790 . Ki « au-A » miual 13 EUC 1 I 1 SY , President of tho Geogra pineal Society , and ono of tho heads of tho Mariiv Department of the Board of Trade , died on Saturday , " his sixty-second your . Ho iraa ono of tho explorers o tho Arctic regions .

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1856, page 1161, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2170/page/9/