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    < jreek-street , Soho , a crowd collected about him , the members of which , both men and women , stared at him a& in abhorrence , and made threatening gesticulations Not understanding English , he could not gather from what they said any idea of liis offence ; but he was at length relieved by the appearance of a policeman , who parleyed with , the crowd . The constable was informed that the mob were justly indignant with the French gentleman for endeavouring to trepan a girl , fourteen years of age , from her home ; but no one person in particular

    term , a verdict was found for the plaintiff , with 7001 damages . In last Michaelmas term , Mr . Serjeant Byles obtained a rule calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why a new trial should not be had , upon the ground that the action would not lie , and that the cause of damage was too remote . Mr . Manisty and Mr . Watkin Williams now appeared to show cause , when Bfr . Serjeant Byle 3 announced that it had been arranged by mutual consent that the rule should be discharged , and the damages be reduced to 300 ? . George Augustus Hamilton Chichester , the prospective heir of an Irish marquisate , passed his examination in the Court of Bankruptcy on Tuesday , the assignees making no objection . He was described as a commission agent , of York-buildings , Adelphi , and he deposited in court eight shillings as the residue of his estate .

    Three men belonging to the Fusilier and Coldstrearn Guards are now under remand at the Westminster police-court on a charge of assaulting a tradesman and his wife , and also the police . One of them had misconducted himself at the house of a newsvendor in Tothill-street , and , being spoken to , attacked the . tradesmaa and his wife with the belt which he wore . The police were sent for , and the soldier was taken in charge , when the two other Guardsmen , together with one who is not in custody , attacked the constables , and rescued the prisoner , who , however , was soon retaken . Two of the rescuers then went into a public-house , outside which the police waited , until a gniard had been fetched from WeUington Barracks , whither the rioters were taken . The case was adjourned for further evidence . On Wednesday , the original offender was sent to prison for three months , and the other men for two months and one month .

    Dr . Lushirigton , in the Consistory Court on Wednesday , delivered judgment in the case of Campbell v . Campbell . This was a siiit for a divorce on the ground of adultery committed by the lady . The evidence produced on the part of Mrs . Campbell sought to show that the offence had been condoned by the husband having again had conjugal intercourse with her , and been on terms of affection with her , after the commission of the adultery . These averments were contradicted in plea by Mr . Campbell ; and Dr . Lushington therefore pronounced for the separation .

    The ecclesiastical case of Denison v . Ditcher has been argued before the Arches Court this Week , on an appeal by Archdeacon Denison . The point to be determined was , whether the suit which had been brought by Mr . Ditcher against Archdeacon Denison for heterodoxy , and -which had been decided against the Archdeacon by the Archbishop of Canterbury , sitting as and for the liishop of Hath and Wells , was brought within a proper legal time from . the commission of the . alleged offence . Sir John Dodson came to this conclusion : —¦' " That the suit or proceeding , or whatever it was to be termed , . hail not been brought within the time required by the stutute ; that more than two years had elapsed from the lime of the commission of the allowed offence , and it was- therefore the duty of the court to pronounce for the appeal , to reverse the decision appealed from , and to dismiss the Archdeacon from , all further observance of justice in this suit . lie would make uo order as to costs . "

    lho case of Baring v . Gordon was brought forward in the Sheriff ' s Court on Thursday , on a writ of inquiry to assess the damages in an actiion . brought in one ' of " superior courts against the defendant for having had criminal conversation with the plaintiff ' s wife . Judgment had been suffered to go by default , and the defendant did not now appear , 'i'hc jurv guve a verdict for 3000 / . ¦ " A wretched-looking man , dressed in a suit of dirty black , was charged at the Southwnrk police-court with

    being drunk and incapable in the Blaoklriura-road . Ho was found by a policeman lying on the ground , almost insensible , while some boys were blacken ing his face with soot and grea . se . This adornment of his physiognomy was still visible when he was brought before the magistrate . It appeared that lie is . a clergyman , the lfccv . William Gray , of Cireat Guildfunl-street ; and a letter was found on him from a . Dublin clergyman , enclosing five shillings' worth of stumps , which it -would seem the ltov . bacchanalian had converted into drink . lie was discharged , a ft or a lecture from the magistrate .

    Eleven out of the twelve Irish Judges . sat in Error on Wednesday for tho purpose of giving judgment on the application for a third trial of tho case of JJutlor v . Mountgurrett . The cjucntion turned upon this alleged illegitimacy of tho defendant , and whether or not ' lie was entitled to the estates . By a majority of only one , tho Judges decided again . st tho application for a new trial , thus confirming the verdict given at tho Ashiz-cs in favour of Lord JUoiuUgaiTctt . An action was brought iu the Court of Qnoun ' s Bench

    on Thursday , by a depositor in the Jttoyal British . Bank against an individual ahiiruhuldiir , to recover a sum of 38 / ., which was tho balance remaining , at his credit when the compiiny stopped payment . At a i > reviuua trial , a verdict was given for the plaintiff , with liberty to tho defendant to move to cuter it in hU favour . A rule was accordingly obtained U enter tho verdict for the defendant , and on Thursday it carati on for argument when Lord Campbell decided tluit tho uutiou \ yaa not maintainable .

    had . seen the act . While this explanation was going on , a young Irishman , named John Kelly , -was observed to snatch away M . Renaud ' s watch , though the policeman was standing close by . He was taken into custody and the watch recovered . He is Inown to the police as a bad character , and it was pretty certain that the charge against the Trench gentleman was invented , in order to create a confusion favourable to Kelly ' s design . The case was brought before the Worship-street magistrate , and remanded ;

    French gentlemen , however , are not the only victims of street tricks with , an eye to theft . A Mr : James Covran , a '' serious" gentleman , has been hoaxed , if we may believe the facts as they stand at present , by a transparent " dodge , " into which , according ; to his own account , he was entrapped by his spiritual zeal . His story , as told by himself at the Clerkenwell policecourt , is most ludicrous . He said— " On Friday night , I was in Cheapside , when I was accosted by the prisoner ¦ jQl young woman , named Margaret Ashburn ) , who commenced speaking to me on serious religious matters , which so much interested , my mind and feelings as a Christian teacher that I was tempted to encourage and continue the discourse- Sire , said there was an awful

    responsibility attached to us , as far as regarded our conduct in tMa world . We conversed , together until we came to Finsbury , when I gave her a half-crown to get rid of her ; hut , still feeling strongly inclined to liear more of heTdiscourse , having been influenced by it to an extraordinary degree , I walked further on with her , ¦ when she invited-me to accompany her to her own . private apartments , to which I acceded , and I went with her to the hoiise iu Cherry-tree-court , where a woman demanded one shilling for the room . I suspected then vrhat sort of place ! was in . I took out my purse to pay the shilling , ¦ when the prisoner made a snatch dexterously at the purse and took it from me . I then gave her into custody . " She was remanded for a week .

    Two butchers of Newgate-market have been fined each twenty shillings and co 3 ts for exposing for sale meat that was -unfit for human food . One of them said he had given twopence-halfpenny ; a pound for the carrion vhich he attempted to retail to the public , and that he ¦ was told it had passed the inspectors . ¦ Sir Frederick Thesiger moved in the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Monday for a rule to sho-w cause why a "man dam-us should not issue to the Justices of Gloucestershire ,

    commanding them to order payment of certain fees and allowances to Mr . Gaisford , one of the coroners for the county . The learned counsel said that the present application had been rendered necessary by ' the circumstance that coroners were obstructed in the performance of their-duty by the narrow view taken by the magistrates of that duty , and tlteir disposition to disallow the coats of holding inquests except in a limited class of cases . Lord Campbell told Sir Frederick that he might take a rule .

    A meeting for the choice of assignees in the case of J . B . Wavell , billbroker , of Adam ' s-court , Old Broadstreet , took place in the Court of Bankruptcy on Monday . The bankrupt is the person who was summoned by the parish authorities for neglecting to maintain his wife and three children , he being living at tho time with a Miaa Collins . An angry , altercation now ensued between the deserted wife , a ladylike person , and another lady , understood to be her siater , who evidently took part with the bankrupt . Interference was necessary on tho part of the messenger of tho Court . It appeared that th& . bankrupt had fraudulently appropriated a bill of exchange which was entrusted to him . The

    commissioner said it was a case of fraud . The bankrupt , hoirever , having been eight months in custody , he would suggest that the opposition should for the " present bo withdrawn . The opposing creditor might hereafter have an opportunity of arresting tho bankrupt . This suggestion ivn « adopted , and tho discharge was ordered . Mrs Wavell - wished to make a statement , but tho commissioner would not allow her . Tho debts of the bankrapt , are 2700 ? ., tho assets merely nominal . The celebrated c * ae of Campbell vt Corloy came before tho Court of Common Pleas on Tuesday . Mr . Corley ifc may ho remembered , had been secretlv married to

    Mr . Campbell ' s mother , an old lady upwards of eighty y « araof age , upon whoso death Mr . Corloy took * out administration , and also instigated certain persons to"iilc bills , in Chancery against the plaintiff and his trustee , claiming to bo next of kin to Mrs . Campbell , upon the gTound that Mri Campbell was an illegitimate son . Tho plaintiff afterwards brought an action against the defendant foi maliciously , and without probablo grounds instigating these suits , and also laid a claim to compensation for being compelled by the defendant ' s wrongful conduct to nlo a bill against hia own trustees to enforce lm right ; and , oh tho trial at Guildhall last Trinity

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    A MURDER IN THE NORTH . The materials for wild poetry and tragic drama exist as strongly in the northern parts of this island at the present prosaic period of our general histo rv as in . the days of Ossiau himself . Primitive life " and manners , ' a ' primitive style of language , and the passious in all their original force and intensity , combined with a capacity of poetical j'et earnest relation of tremendous facts , are exhibited this week in a trial for murder which has take n place at Inverary . Heetor M'Donald , a labourer , aged thirty-two , ' living hi one of the islands on the coast of Argyleshire , was

    charged with killing his wife . The evidence consisted al most entirely of the testimony of the wife's mother , an old woman , and a widow , named Christina M'Donald , or Seaton . Her account of the affair is so singular and grand that we give the greater part . It was given in Gaelic , through an interpreter . She said that her daughter Jane was between twentyfour and twenty-five years of age , had been married to the prisoner three ' years , and a month , and had two children . Jane was a strong young Woman , and was in good health on the day before she died : —•

    " The prisoner and she did not agree . The younger child is now about a year old . Neither of the children is baptized , and prisoner denied that they were his children . Prisoner and his wife lived under the same roof with me—a wooden partition separated the two houses . That partition only reached to the top of the side walls , not to the roof of the house . The prisoner and his wife slept in their own end of the house , while I slept at the other . I have a son named John . He was sometimes since last New Year's-day sleeping- in my house . It was a straw bed the prisoner and his wife slept on . The straw was spread ' on the-ground , with eight stones laid along outside to keep the straw in its place . These stones were about the size of a man ' s hat . The

    prisoner was at home on the evening of the 12 th of last February , where he generally was . Ilis wife came home that evening about the time of lighting candles . She said she had been that day at Balephetrish , a good mile distant . She came home quite well , and took a small bowl full of supper , consisting of thin , porridge , made of whelks and oatmeal . That meal was not common to her ; it was the first time she had . taken , it that year . Prisoner and his wife went to bed that night between eight and nine o'clock . I heard them Scolding before going to bed . She said , 'Hector , keep the child ( the younger ) , or else make the bed : ' and

    then , shortly afterwords , 'Ob ! you have killed the boy ; ' and he answered , ' Then raise or lift you the boy . ' The wife said , ' Tea , I will do so when I bring down the cruizie ( light ) from my mother ' s . ' lie then got up , and put his hack to the end of his own house , and said , ' You luwe said to many a person that I have thrashed you ; say the fourth part again , and—hell to my soul—I will crush you . ' After they went to bed , I went to bud also . There was a door which entered , directly through the partition fiom the one house to the other . 1 was sitting in my own house "when I heard the conversation deferred ' , aud the door was open . "

    The old ¦ woman and M'Douald had some angry conversation , previous to thtnr going to bed , the former telling the latter that she would get some trustworthy people hi tho house to bear witness against him with respect to Iris violence to his wife . He answered , Little do 1 care wlmt you do , old ¦ woman . ¦ ¦ Go away and seek them ; the door is open . " On going to bu < 3 , the old woman took tho elder of her grandchildren Avith hcu ; the younger slept with its parents . Iii tho course of tho night , there was moro < iiiarrelliiig between Hector aud his wife ; but , a little ni ' tL-r twelve o ' clock , they became quiet , ami the uld woman loll asleep .

    " About daybreak , I heard a noirio a . s if tho outer door had fallen down . I remained in bod till I heard a second sound or stroke liko to a heavy buy falling out of a cart on to the ground . This noise came from the iloor of the prisoner ' s hoiwo , and from where the straw-hod was . The house linn an earthen floor . I got up and went to the prisoner ' s end of the house , and opened the partition door , aiul there saw the prisoner standing on the floor with his . shoes , trousers , and braces on . I don't know whether ho had those ou when ho went to bod , but if he had it was unusual . Ho had his wife O uy daughter ) in his amis , with her shift on , and his hands were either at her throat or opposite her heart , I cannot aay which . Her head rested on his left shoulder , and his head leant over h «! r head , and she had a small . sluiwl on her head .

    I said , ' O God ! what is here ? ' My daughter inado no answer . Tho prisoner said , ' June has fallen . ' 1 asked , 'O God ! what is here ? ' as my heart was frightened from tho language lie had used before going to bud . 1 said to him , l Lut go my daughter , ' and ha answered mo , ' I won't . ' Then my son John , who woe behind me , tsaid ,. ' Let go Jane , Hector , ' or ' Lot her go , Hector . ' Prisoner then let her go , and fjho fell down on the floor . [ Hero the old woman came out of tho witueaa-box tu tho centre of the court floor in front of tho bench to give practical illustration of the manner iu Avhich her daughter had fullon ou tho nighl in question , ttho there made a . staggering circular movement , fell softly on tho court floor on her face , aud uttered a . low , deep moan , TheHolcmu and dramatic

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    Apbix 25 , 1857 . j THE LEABEE , 391

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page 391, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2190/page/7/