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      • y violent , and , taking up a gun , said he would ne one . After some parleying , he fired the gun air , and laid it aside in the house ; but subselie appeared with the weapon again ( having apreloaded it in the interval ) , and fired it at Mr . t who fell to the ground , seriously wounded , ras t hen made on Moyce , and he was secured , hese proceedings , his sister , a Mrs . Scott , was gly abusive and threatening , and , as she ap-» stimulate her brother ' s violence , she also was ; o custody . On being brought before the Thames te , she was set at liberty on promising to appear Saturday ( to-day ) , until when Moyce was re-The defence of the accused was that he had

      • y harshly used by Mr . Hickmott , who had d his mother to death by his violence . —Mr . ; t was unable to attend , being too seriously The gun was loaded -with small shot , which ed his right side . and Conviction fob Forgery . — Joseph ' Wilson , lately a merchant in Leith , was at the High Court of Justiciary , Edinburgh , on with forgery and uttering six forged bills of ; , to the amount in all of 2345 / . 18 s . 4 d ., betober , 1855 and January , 1856 . About the same iveral other bill forgeries were committed in id a merchant there named Jacob Christiansen rehended and convicted in connexion with May , 1856 , and sentenced to be transported for

      February or March , 1856 , Wilson had beenexy the Procurator-Fiscal in regard to the foren creating so much uneasiness in Leith , but 3 no evidence sufficient to detain him , and soon Is he absconded and took ship for Australia . In ice he was indicted for trial , and on not apras outlawed by the High Court in May , 1856 . it length , however , apprehended at Folkestone nber last by the superintendent of the Leith r . Grant , having just come ashore in a small i the vessel in the Channel , and awaiting the ty to proceed to America or the Continent , trial of eight hours , the jury brought in a " Guilty , and Wilson was sentenced to transporlife .

      pted Poisonings . —William Fogg , a dimmugard-looking man , working as a shoemaker , charged at the Worsbip-street police-court Uowing ox alic acid , and attempting to make lter take the same poison , in which , however , revented by the presence of mind of the girl ' s oung married woman / who did work about the Fo this woman , Fogg had paid improper attenihing her to leave her husband and live with ; she had refused . On the morning of the I poisoning , she had interfered to prevent the ing his daughter with a strap . Fogg himself 4 a large portion of the poison ; but a powerful was speedily administered , and he recovered . emanded .

      bh Savage . —Roger Grogan , a ruffianly-looking , has been examined before the Southwark mand committed for trial on a charge of assaulting npting to rob a Mrs . Counsell . The woman ig , late on Saturday night , to her home , in r , Bermondsey , and was walking slightly in > f her husband , when Grogan demanded her ind assaulted her very indecently . Her husiring her cries , came up ; but he too was with great savageness . Another man , however , , and Grogan was overpowered and given into

      : rou 3 Assault by an Italian at Cakdiff . — 3 arry , an American sailor has been dangerously by an Italian seaman named Antonio Firpo , in between the two men at Cardiff , where several : om various foreign ports are stationed . On ight at a lato hour , a considerable uproar arose so in Pondoylan-streot , amongst a number of ailors of different nations , in tho course of quurrel took place between Firpo and Barry , in suddenly lifted his arm , his hund apparently » some sharp weapon with which he evidently Jarry , for tho latter immediately afterwards

      bleeding profusely from a severe wound in his Firpo and his comrades then run away . Tho as dreadful , both within and without tho house , of tho witnesses describes tho scene ( though , hyporbolically ) ns having tho appearatico of a state of siogo . Tho police had much clillisupprcssing the riot , but thoy u . t length sucapprehemling Firpo and hia nocompHcex , the whom was brought before tho magistrates tho and remanded , that tho police might take the i of tho wounded man , who lies in a very danate , and it is feared will not long survive hid

      iit at Dunpkic—Jamas Coylo , a weaver om-Dundco , entered , whilo in u state of intnxioaottago occupied by an old woman , named Quin , and her married daughter . Ho made ous assault on tho latter , to whom ho acted t indecency , and tho old woman , after vainly ¦ ing to prevent him , expressou horaulf loudly ndalous nature of his conduct . Tho young length got him out at the door , but ho

      reentered at the window , and so savagely maltreated old Mrs . Burnet that she died very shortly after . The murderer fled , but was subsequently apprehended by a policeman , after a desperate struggle . Extensive Swindling . —Manchester has recently been the scene of some swindling on a very extensive scale ; and several of the wrong-doers have been apprehended within the last few days . Strangk Credulity . —Caroline Ramsden , a woman belonging to Leeds , has been sent to prison for two

      months by the Manchester magistrates for obtaining money from a young lady of Ardsley under the false pretence of freeing her from the influence of witchcraft . ^ A revolting-looking elderly man was then charged with administering grains of paradise to the same young lady , in order to procure abortion . She had been to him to consult him about her health , arid the probability of her obtaining a husband . He undertook to procure her a husband , extorted 5 / . from her , seduced her , and then administered the poison with the intent already indicated . He was committed for trial .

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      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . A rule having been obtained in the Court of Queen ' s Bench for quashing a conviction under the Game Act , the facts were argued before the judges last Saturday . The question arose out of the case of Swinfen v . Swinfen , tried at Stafford at the Spring Assizes in 1856 , in which the title to estates of considerable value in the county of Stafford came in question . At the trial , a compromise was come to by the counsel for the parties , which Mrs . Swinfen , who was in possession of the estate , refused to ratify , and , ultimately it was decided by the Court of Common Pleas that the agreement was not binding upon Mrs . Swinfen , and the Court refused

      to enforce it . On the 29 th of September , 1856 , the day on which the claimant , Captain Swinfen , would have been entitled to have the estate conveyed to him , he gave an authority to a farmer on the estate named Bacon , or any of his friends , to shoot over the Swinfen estate ; and Bacon , availing himself of this authority , went , with six others , on . two several occasions , and killed game , destroying , as alleged by the other side , all the game on the estate , including tame pheasants . The parties were summoned before the magistrates at Lichlield , and were convicted ; but the convictions were subsequently brought up into the Court of Queen ' s Bench , in order to their being quashed as being made without jurisdiction , and being bad on their face . It was alleged that the magistrates had refused to receive evidence of

      the right of the defendants to shoot on the grounds , and that one of them had said the accused were " a parcel of blackguards . " Lord Campbell said he was of opinion that the conviction was bad and mu-t be quashed . The terms of the conviction stated that each of the defendants was to be imprisoned in the common gaol for the space of one month , " unless the said several sums [ i . e ., the fines ] and the costs and charges of conveying each of them so making default to the said common gaol shall be sooner paid . " The plain grammatical construction of that was , that " each" was to be imprisoned till the penalty , &c , of " all" was paid . The form of conviction usually adopted pointed out that one should not be liable for the default of the other ; but that form had been departed from in this case . The other judges concurring , the conviction was quashed .

      William M'Gowan was charged at the Westminster police-court last Saturday with having written two libellous letters to M . Albert , an attache to the Prussian embassy . One evening , about a fortnight ago , M . Albert , who had previously been more than once accosted in tho street by M'Gowan , was visited by the latter at his private house in Victoria Grove , West Brompton . M'Gowan on this occasion produced a lottcr in which it was stated that M . Albert owed him 100 / ., which ho had borrowed of him under tho name of Charles , Baron do Biorro , twenty years ago at Oxford . M . Albort denied all knowledge of tho affair , and declared that M'Gowan was an utter stranger to him , ami that ho had never assuinod tho title of Baron do Uiorrc . M'Gowan ,

      however , persisted in saying that ho was tho Baron , and that ho owed him tho money , By tho advice of his friends , M . Albort at last gave information of tho matter to the police , and ait oflicer afterwards called on M'Gowan and told him that proceedings -would bo immediately taken against him if ho troubled M . Albort any further . Notwithstanding this warning , ho again went to tho hoiiHO of that gentleman , and left an abu » ivo letter respecting hid alleged claim . Wishing tho matter thoroughly invobtigutcd ( for M . Albort was never in thia country until novoit years ago , and wns a boy nt school in Germany in 1887 ) , tho complainant had taken tho

      prosout proceedings . In hi * defence , M'Gowan Htated that a man , greatly redoubling M . Albort both in ojipoarauuo und manner , and calling h ! im > clf the 13 a roil do Uiurro , came to Oxford , where M'Gowan wan carrying on burfinoaa an n dnipur , about twenty yearn ago , borrowed numerous suma of money , and swindled aovoral persons , M'Gowan among tho number Tho latter afterwards loat night of tho supported Uaron until two or throe years ago , whim ho inut him at Brompton , and had kept his eye on hint ovor since . Ho Htlll firmly believed in his own heart that M . Albort was tho man , and ho said that hia wife bollovod bo likewise Mr .

      Ingham thought that M'Gowan was altogether mistaken as to the identity of the Baron , and adjourned the case for a week in order that the whole matter might be thoroughly investigated . The case of Willcox v . Smith , which had been previously argued on petition in Vice-Chancellor Kindersley ' Court , was last Saturday brought on for judgment . The question raised Was as to the liability to succession duty in a case where a tenant in tail , whose right was created under a deed executed prior to the Succession Duty Act , did not come into possession until the death of the tenant at life . The Vice-Chancellor , after having entered into an elaborate statement of the facts , combined with a verbal criticism of the words of the law ,

      observed that the case came , not only within the literal words of the act , but within the meaning and intention of it . The Legislature meant to make the accrual of interest in the survivor the circumstance which was to impose liability to the duty . Several of the sections contained inaccuracy of language . The fifth began by making a future verb apply to a past event . And there were not merely inaccuracies , but considerable ambiguities . The , Vice-Chancellor , however , had not any fair or reasonable doubt as to the intention of the Legislature , that a party in the position of the respondent was liable to pay the succession duty . Some discussion then arose upon the claim of the Crown to costs ; but , this being resisted , the claim was waived .

      The legal members of the House of Lords sat on Monday afternoon to consider a petition of Mr . Henry Smith , barrister-at-law , of the Inner Temple , and of Belle Isle , Windermere , Westmoreland , praying for a divorce on the ground of his wife having committed adultery with a M . Leopold Dutertre , a French gentleman , against whom an action was recently brought , when damages were given to the extent of 3000 / . —a sum which the petitioner had been unable to recover . The Lord Chancellor , thinking the adultery had been clearly proved , saw no reason why the bill should not be read a second time . This was accordingly done . —Campbell's divorce bill has been read a third time ' and passed .

      The certificate meeting in the case of G . C . Franghiadi , a merchant of Old Broad-street , took place in the Court of Bankruptcy on Monday . The bankrupt traded in partnership with his brother and one Valenti . They had three houses— -one in England , the second at Trieste , and the third at Alexandria . The three bouses were distinct , although consisting of the same individuals . The London house is bankrupt , and the two other houses are insolvent and are being wound up at Trieste and Alexandria . The bankrupt ' s trading commenced on the 1 st of January , 1853 , with a capital or surplus of

      12000 / ., and closed with unsecured creditors , 96 , 498 / . ; liabilities , . 41 , 000 / ., of which 25 , 000 / . are expected to become proofs against the estate ; and assets about 24 , 000 / . Mr . Peachy , for the assignees , was-willing that the bankrupt should now receive a first-class certificate . Mr . Abrahams , who appeared for a creditor , prayed an adjournment of three months , to obtain information of the position of the firms at Trieste and Alexandria . Mr . Lawrance ( for tho bankrupt ) pressed for immediate judgment . An adjournment , however , was ordered .

      Adolphus Harrison Feistel , a person who has made himself disreputably notorious in connexion with the house of Madame Denis into which Alice Leroy was entrapped a few years ago , and who recently brought an action against tho Marquis of Bath and other noblemen for wine supplied to them at ( tho establishment , appeared in tho Court of Bankruptcy on Monday , under the designation of a wine merchant , of 25 , Bucklorsbury . Tho petitioning creditor is Mr . Benjamin Wood , wine merchant , of Ulackfriars , who , however , did not appear , and tho choice of assignees was deferred . The bankrupt

      was sentenced to two years' imprisonment at the timo that Madame Denis left " tho country . Mr . Barrow now applied for his release from prison . Mr . Lucas , for tho Marquis of Bath , opposed , on tho ground that the bankrupt was in custody for the costa incurred in the mischievous action against his Lordship , which ended in Feistel being nonsuited ; and that tho bankruptcy was got up to obtain a release from tho « e costs . The Commissioner said this was not an ordinary enso . Ho should not interfere—certainly not at present . A person who got up such an action ought to suffer . hus boon examined

      A man named Joseph Mountain at the Leeds police-court on u charge ' of endeavouring to puss liiniHulf off at the noith-oaat polling booth , during tho Leoda elections , as a voter named William Hartley . Having obtained u voting-paper from Mr . Boeoroft ' a committee-room , tho young man proceeded to the Sir John Falalaff , where tho poll wan hold , and guvo hid number . Ho was askud his name by the returning officer of tho ward , and replied that it was William Hartley , and that ho voted for Bcceroft . However , two of Mr . Milhj ' ts commiUee-mon who wero present , and had witneaaod tho uffair from tho beginning , know that the person who represented himself to bo William Hurt-Icy wad not tho man in qucatlon , and thoy therefore gavo him into custody . Mountain was remanded .

      Mr . Alexander Angus Croll , engineer of tho Groat Central Ga « Company ' s works , on Bow-common , appeared boforo tho Thames magintruto on Wednesday to answer a summons taken out by Mr . Kdward I'ulehor inspector of nuisances and aunitary inspector to the Poplar District Hoard of Works , which charged tho do- <

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      ere 13 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . 561

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 13, 1857, page 561, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2197/page/9/