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      made his escape through the roof , after committing the murder . She assisted to conceal the money , and she further states that the bag of silver found was Spollen s , and that the bag- was placed in the trunk by him ; that the hammer found -was her husband ' s , and she believed the razor also , as he appeared very nervous the day it was found , and said he had thrown it in -with the case on , and , if the case were discovered , it would no doubt be identified . The woman promised to show the police the place where the money was concealed ; and at two o ' clock on Wednesday , Superintendent Guy

      accompanied the woman , and found between two walls , within the precincts of the railway terminus , some of the money , consisting of gold , notes , and silver . The notes were nearly destroyed by the damp . On being examined before the magistrate , Spollen ' a wife was present , and appeared to be greatly affected . She said , addressing him—" Confess your guilt , you unfortunate man ; what I have done was to save your soul , and that you may repent of your crime . ' On the charge being read to him , he only said , "I deny it . " He ^ was then led back to his cell . Mrs . Spollen , and Spollen s ather , are in charge of the police .

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      IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE LATE MR . DOUGLAS JERROLD . Committee : John . Blackwood , Esq . ; Shirley Brooks , Esq . ; John B . Buckstone , Esq . ; Peter Cunningham , Esq . ; Charles Dickens , Esq . ; John Forster , Esq . ; Charles Knight , Esq . ; John Leech , Esq . ; Mark Lemon , Esq . ; Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton , Bart ., M . P . ; William C . Macready , Esq . ; Sir Joseph Paxton , M . P . ; William H . Russell , Esq . ; Albert Smith , Esq . ; Clarkson Stahfield , Esq ., R . A . ; William M . Thackeray , Esq . ; Benjamin Webster , Esq . ; W . Henry Wills , Esq . Honorary Secretary : Arthur Smith , Esq . Office at the Gallery of Illustration , Regent-street , Waterloo-place , handsomely placed at the disposal of the committee by Mr . Willert Beal « .

      The committee , in remembrance of their deceased friend , beg to announce the following occasions :- ^ - On Saturday ( this ) Evening , June 27 th ^ a Concert will take place in St . Martin ' s Hall , at wfiich Madame Novello , Mr . and Mrs . T . German Reed , Miss Louisa Vinning , Herr Ernst , Mr . Albert Smith , Mr . and Mrs . Weiss , Mr . F . Robson , Signor Bottesini , Mr . Osbprne , Miss Mary Keeley , Miss Dolby , and Mr . Sims Reeves will assist- Conductors : M . Benedict , Mr . Frank Mori , and Mr . Francesco Berger . To commence at eight precisely . Prices of admission : Stalls , five shillings ; body of the hall , centre gallery , and orchestra , each two shillings ; back seats and side galleries , each ae shilling . . _ .. ' _ '_ .

      On Tuesday Evening , June 30 th , Mr . Charles Dickens wfll read his Christmas Carol in St . Martin's Hall . The reading will commence at eight precisely , and wilj last two hours . Prices of admission : Stalls , five shillings ; body of the hall and the centre gallery , each two shillings ; back seats and side galleries , each one shilling . On Tuesday Evening , July 7 th , Mr . W . H . Russell will deliver his Personal Narrative of the late Crimean War in St . Martin ' s Hall . To commence at eight precisely , and last two hours . Prices of admission : Stalls , live shillings ; body of the hall and the centre gallery , each two shillings ; back seats and side galleries , each one shilling . On Saturday Evening , July 11 th , will be represented at the Gallery of Illustration , Regent-street , Mr . Wilkie Collins ' a new romantic drama in three acts , The Frozen

      Deep , performed by the amateur company of ladies and gentlemen who originally represented it in private . With the original scenery , by Mr . Stanfleld , B . A , and Mr . Telbin , and the original music , under the direction of Mr . Francesco Berger . The whole under the management of Mr . Charles Dickens . To conclude with a farce . Prices of admission : Stalls , one guinea ; area , ten shillings ; amphitheatre , five shillings . On Wednesday Evening , July 15 th , will be represented , at the Theatre Royal , Haymarket , the late Mr . Douglas Jerrold ' s comedy , in three acts , The

      Housekeeper . To conclude with the late Mr . Douglas Jtrrold ' o drama , The Prisoner of War . Represented by Miss Reynolds , Mr . Buckstone , Mr . Pltelps , Mr . Howe , Mr , Chippendale , Mr . and Mrs . Keeley , Mr . W . Farren , Miss Marie Wilton , Mr . Rogers , Miss M . Ternan , Mr . Compton , Mies M . Oliver , Mr . Benjamin Webster , Miss Fanny Wright , And the company of the theatre . Prices of admission : Stalls , ten shillings and sixpence . The rest of the house as usual , except the private boxes , which may be had at the Committee ' s office , or at Mr . Sams ' * Library , St . James ' s-street .

      On Wednesday Evening , July 22 nd , Mr . W . M , Thackeray wlH deliver a lecture on Week-day Preachers , ' in SU Martin ' s Hall . To commence at eight precisely , and lost one hour and a half , Prices of admission ; Stalls , five shillings ; body of the hall , and centre gallery , each two shillings ; back seats ¦ end side galleries , each one shilling . On Wednesday Evening , July 29 tli , will bo represented at Ahe Theatre Royal , Adolphi , the late Mr . Douglas Jerrold ' s drama , in throe acts , The Rent Day . To conclude with the late Mr . Douglas Jerrold ' s drama , ptdok-vyed 8 wan , Represented by Mr . T . P . Cooka

      ( who returns to the stage for one night , for the purpose ) , Madame Celeste , Mr . Benjamin Webster , Miss Wyndham , Mr . Wright , Miss Mary Keeley , Mr . Buckstone , Miss M . Oliver , Mr . Paul Bedford , Mrs . Chatterley , Mr . Billington , Miss Arden , Mr . Henry Wallack , and the company of the theatre . Prices of admission : Stalls , ten shillings and sixpence . The rest of the house as usual , except the private boxes , which may be had aft the Committee ' s office , or at Mr . Sams's Library , St . James's street . Tickets for any or all of these occasions are now on sale at the Committee ' s office , at the Gailery of Illustration , Regent-street , every day between the hours of twelve and four .

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      CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The court on Friday week and last Saturday were occupied in trying John Hind May , William Taylor , and George David Myers ( the last two of whom surrendered in discharge of their bail ) , for conspir ing to obtain property to the value of nearly 1000 / . from Thomas Gorman a , nd Alexander Lawson . The prosecutors are Irish cambric handkerchief manufacturers , at Lurgan , in Ireland , and Taylor was an agent for the sale of goods of that description , and was considered a highly respectable man . Mr . Gorman took him some samples of handkerchiefs last February , and asked him to endeavour to dispose of them . He agreed to do so , and shortly afterwards Taylor wrote to him stating that he had found a

      purchaser in Mr . May , of Huggin-lane . Owing to inquiries made by Mr . Gorman , he refused to let May have his property , and Taylor then wrote to him , stating that Myers and Co . ^ late of Ludgate-hill , would purchase the han kerchiefs upon certain terms , and he advised him to let that firm have them . He assented , and the goods were sent to London . All the defendants looked at them , and they were then removed to May ' warehouse in Huggin-rlane , and two days afterwards were sold to Messrs . Meeking , of Holborn , by May , for little more than half the price at which they had been invoiced to Messrs . Myers . There was some evidence that May had

      paid two cheques , one for 100 / ., and the other for 50 / . to the account of Myers , after this transaction ; but it was admitted that Taylor had always been looked upon as a most honourable man . Several witnesses gave him a very high character ; but he was found Guilty , as also was May . Myers was Acquitted . Baron Channell ( who said he perfectly agreed in the verdict , and who condemned the conduct of the Messrs . Mcekirig in buying the goods at half-price , as being a course ' calculated to strike at the root of all honest and fair dealing in trade' ) condemned May to a year ' s imprisonment , without hard labour , and Taylor , on account of liis being a dupe of Ivlay , to half of that term .

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      MIDDLESEX SESSIONS . A singular imposture was revealed in the course of a trial last Saturday , when Con . Bayley and Thomas Doyle were indicted for stealing three loaves of bread , and also for a fraud . The men were in the habit of going into the shops of various retail tradesmen , pretending that the scales were out of order , and saying that they were sent by the proper authorities to repair them . They would * then do something to the scales , and make a charge of a few shillings . One day , they went to a baker ' s shop at Haggerstone , knocked a piece of lead into the goods scale with a hammer and punch , and demanded Is . 6 d . The baker said he would send the

      money , but they insisted on having it then , and finally , saying they would take it out in bread , walked off unmolested with three loaves . On the same afternoon , they were taken into custody . They were now found Guilty , and were sentenced to eight months' hard labour . Mark Collins , John Collins , and Thomas Eastman , were found Guilty of stealing two 51 . notes from Thomas Thomas , a sailor , whom they inveigled into a publichouse , and induced to make bets . On his producing the notes , they snatched them from him and made oflf . Mark Collins and Eastman , being old offenders , wero sentenced to foar years' penal servitude ; and John Collins , against whom there was no previous conviction , was sent to prison , with hard labour , for six months .

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      A STRANGE HISTORY . Ant action for criminal connexion was tried on . Monday in tho Court of Common Picas . Mr . Armitugo , the plaintiff , is a solicitor , not now in practice ; and about ten y «» rs ago ho was married to a Miss Maodonald . There was a' disparity in their years—Mr . -Armitago being thirty-seven , and tho young lady only seventeen . For some unexplained reason , sho refused hor husband tho conjugal privileges . His conduct appears to have been very kind and forbearing , and sho returned his affeotion with sooming gratitude , but persisted In her strange conduct . He therefore provided her with a homo at the houeo of , hia brother , a clergyman in Herefordshire ; and hor letters to her husband , written to him from that house , showed nothing but affection for him , but also expressed her determination not to live with him , In ono letter she says she would rathor bog j in

      another , that she would sooner die . She afterward "~ to the house of a relation in Scotland ; and Sh ?!*™ received from her husband—soWmes at h * request—various presents in the way of articles of * ° Towards the ** ose of 1850 , she wrotet ? Z ? £ fywas going to W » nm to England , and that * h « ~ T ? fulfil all her dutfe » as a wife , and do all she LW please her husba * rtL In 1851 , Mr . Xrmitage loS stS of her , but afterwards discovered that shf waT ? n ? k * habit of visiting the defendant , Colonel SnaM * who ia aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cambria . * . ' Notwithstanding the identity of name , it does not am ^ that the Colonel and the young lad y are relatea Sh visited him frequently at his chambers in the Albanv and he visited her at her apartments . About this time ! she was acquainted with a Mrs . Pugh , who figured about a year and a half ago , in an action which she brought against a Mr . Rosenthal , the facts of which

      appeared in the Leader of December 8 th , 1855 , under the head of ' A Gay Lady . ' This person would accompanv Mrs . Armitage to Colonel Macdonald ' s chambers and used also to see her at the house of a Captain Burslem Two or three cousins' also used to come and see her" not old ones , " said the landlady of the house in which Mrs . Armitage then resided . " When the Colonel going to the Crimea , " said Mrs . Pugh in her evidence " she and I went first to St . James ' Palace to see him ' and then to the platform of the South-Western Railway ! Many were there taking leave of their friends . Colonel ' Macdonald kissed her ; she was much affected . He had her in his arms , and might have kissed her twenty times , for what I know . There were officers of rank in the saloon carriage . Colonel Macdonald got in . She ran up and said , ' Here Jemmy , is my marriage handkerchief , ' and threw it to him wetted with her tears "

      This account of what passed at the station was corroborated by a written statement from ' a distinguished personage , ' as the reporters phrase it , who was at that time in the saloon carriage , and which was read , by consent . In 1855 , after his return from the Crimea , Colonel Macdonald again frequently visited the lady at her lodgings , till one Sunday evening * when he stayed ten minutes ,, went away , slammed the dour , and never came again . " Several gentlemen , " said the landlady , " called on Mrs . Armitage , but none walled out with her but Colonel Macdonald , and that was to church . " In May , 1856 , Mrs . Armitage—then calling herself Mrs . Macdonald—gave birth to a male chili at Little Stanhopestreet , May Fair . Here Colonel Macdonald again visited her , and she seemed glad to see him . She afterwards lived at Albert Terrace , and was found one day crying over a religious book .

      The way in which she was traced by her husband was thus narrated by Mr . Shaw , the plaintiff ' s attorney , and his cousin : —•* We went all over London after her , and employed detectives , and advertised in the Times Mr . Armitage had seen her at the theatre with a young man , fair and with sandy hair . He went to the box and called him out , and said , » Are you aware that the lady with whom you are is my wife ? ' The fair man said , ? No ; our meeting was purely accidental . ' Mr . Armitage demanded his card , and he gave him one with 'Mr . and

      Lloyd' on it . Mr . Armitage asked for the address , he wrote Palace-chambers , St . James ' s , ' on it While this was going on , Mrs . Armitage left the theatre in a cab with an elderly gentleman . He gave money to the waterman on the stand , and found that the cab had taken her up to Lord Aberdeen's , but she went m at one gate and out at the other . We found this out from tne porter , for , having traced her t « Lord Aberdeen s , we inquired there . We saw Colonel Gordon , but he was not the man . The 10 th or llth of March , 1861 , was

      the date of the theatre business . , Mr . Serjeant Shee , for the deftnee , said that Colonel Macdonald was entirely ignorant of the fact of » n . Armitage being married , and that , at any » te » ™ ° « SJ « only to be obliged to pay very small damages , iue jury found a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages , 1 UW .

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      • CELESTIAL' PROFLIGACY . A glimpse into the horrible profligacy of the Chmejo colony established at Bluegate-flelds , ShadwoU , wos afforded on Tuesday at the Thames po ] lce * sourt , jww Lemin Apoo , a < Celestial , ' was charged with assaultwg a countryman , named Sangtoo , by striking W « nJ > n u » head with a hammer . Apoo kcejs certain » " > u 808 o ™ fame for the accommodation of hla ° ountrymon ~ h ° u « M to which they give a very stralfi htforyrord des gnaUon . Sangtoo formerly lived in one of them ; * t WttjVJ has sot up business on his own account . This leu w blood ; and at length Apoo set upon Sangtoo , M mm , and dually knocked him down "with a han . nor . x assault was fully proved . Tho Chinese beggars . It « P pears , often collect from two to four «' if J ^ S Sangtoo keeps two disreputable houses , w ^ ^ % hQ in each , for tho special society of tho Cinnamon , vru

      spend their evenings with thorn . atrnnaa feature Mr . Yardloy said , this oaso disposedL a ¦* " » £ * „ % in our social system , but it was not t Uotart ' ^ ° or hoard of and commented upon it . lh f \ , * " . ac ds , nest , of from fifty to ninety Cliiuamon In MluogJ o » o . who leave that vile and vfllthy plooo ovory inomws Bolicit alms , distribute themselves and rove abw weat-ond of London In tho daytime , « nd com Duck

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      OUR CIVILIZATION

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 27, 1857, page 608, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2199/page/8/