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      ASSAULTS . : ck QuiN , a journeyman , glazier , has been exa-. at the Mansion . House on a charge of attempting Lb Mr . J . Tatton , a sack-manufacturer , with a Quiu pushed rudely against Mr . Tatton en > u-bridge ; then picked a quarrel ^ Yith him , pulled a glazier ' s knife , and attempted to stab him . He red to be drunk , and at the Mansion House he examined the witnesses with great impudence , and t to make it appear that they were the aggressors , as sent to prison for three days in default of payfine of live shillings . . rfcha Westford and Ann Green , two low -women , jareHiug- a few nights ago , outside a public-house , another woman . They then made an attack on vhen her husband went to her assistance , and -was cd on the head and face . He appears to have very seriously wounded by the two woiv . en . The were examined at Lambeth on Thursday , and committed for trial . orge Groundwell , a labourer , has killed a man in a He afterwards gave himself up to the police , on beiiiL ; examined on Thursday at the 3 Iarylepoliue-office , exhibited great grief , lie ~ was reled .

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      iddlesex Sessions . —John 1-Iealey has been senid to ten . months' hard labour , as a rogue and vaga-, for having obtained money under the pretence that rife was dead , and he wanted means to bury her , l in fact she was alive . —After the trial on Tuesday of se of assault , in which the accused was found Guilty , rife complained to the Court that she had paid a itor , Mr . John Pater , of 33 , Argyle-squure , a sum loney for the purpose of obtaining counsel to ' deher husband , but that he had not appeared at the and the prisoner was consequently undefended . I ' ater , who was in court , protested ' upon the honour gentleman' that lie had been taken by surprise , and ed the case to be reheard . Mr . Creas \\ the

      pros' judge , told him not to talk to him about the our of a gentleman , ' or he should have to say thing he might not wish to hear , for it was quite that lie had taken the woman ' s money , and yet the had been tried -without counsel . ] Mr . Pater then ed to address the jury , but Mr . Creasy imperatively ¦ ed him to quit the court , or he would commit him , instructed the prisoner ' s wife to put the ease into rands of the county solicitor . —John Harris , a boy , William Snoxhill , a young man , were tried on Weday for firing a loaded gun at a train on the Great hern line . The former , it appears , was the actual der , and the latter was accused of encouraging him . is had been sent into a field with the gun to scare

      i ; and the defence was , that , seeing a bird on the hgickv . —Charles Stewart Mills , a young man about ty years of age , formerly clerk to Mr . A . T . Hewitt , itor , of Xieholas-lane , was brought before the Lord or , on Wednesday , charged with having feloniously d and uttcred . a cheque of his master ' s for-2 oO / ., with it to defraud Messrs . Ilankey and Co ., the bankers . uitDKit at Mekthyu Tydvil . —An Irishman , named elius Donohue , has been killed in an aiVray at Mer-Tydvil . Two of his countrymen and one of his try women have been committed for trial on the

      £ e . Another Irishman , who was accused of partiein , has been set at liberty . rri'osiiJD Hocussing and Kobijeuy . — A avcIIicd elderly man was discovered by a policeman , late Saturday night , lying in a state of insensibility , frothing at the mouth , on the pavement in Dium-1-street , liuaton-square . He was removed to Unity College Hospital , where ho died on Sunday , ious to his dentil , he stated that his name was Ed-. Ashton , that he was a woollen factor at Leeds , e he had a wife and family ; and that he had only in London a few days . His symptoms tin ally were > of delirium tretnans , and it is thought that he had drugged . From tho fact of there being uo watch , Jy , or other property about his person , it would that ho had been robliiul .

      * othuu Cash ov Cuuicivrv at Ska . — George £ ht , captain of the brig Stanley , of Wliitby , has sentenced to eighteen months' ' hard labour by the btrates sitting iu Quarter Sessions at Boston , Linshire , for prolonged cruelty to a ship boy while on . me ward voyage from Itiga . 3 MBKUV uy a Militiaman . — As Miss Smith , ; hter of Mr . Laurence Smith , of tho Wellington Inn , caster , was retiring to her bedroom on tho night ot ay week , she , discovered a militiaman deliberately mg himself to all tho valuable- articloa in the room , as rings , wntchgunrds , brooches , bracelets , &c , all well were of gold , and had been collected into a Userchi « f by the thief ready for taking awaiy . Mis . ; h seized him by tho arm and asked wlmt lie was fl lliure , when tho thief struck her a violunt blow on

      the head , and ran down stairs . An alarm was promptly raised , but he eilected his escape . He succeeded in taking away with , him five sovereigns , a fi ve ^ shilling piece , 17 s . 6 d . in silver , two gold rings , and some penny , twopenny , and fourpenny pieces . One of the ltitter coins was remarkable from having a figure of four on the reverse side , instead of the figure of Britannia . There was also a shilling of the reign of Elizabeth , with a cross on the back and a hole through it , and a spade ace guinea . Escai'k from Gaol . —A youth of eighteen , named Grieves , escaped from Stamford gaol , on the night of yesterday week , by climbing up the walls . The feat has astonished everybody who knows the prison . Grieves was captured the following morning about three miles

      from Stamford . Five weeks ago , he made his escape from the same gaol . Tub Mystekious Death ix the Regent ' s Canal . — -An inquest has been held on the body of the man who was pulled out of the Kegent ' Canal , near Bethnalgreon . The upshot of the evidence was against the supposition of the man having been murdered , and in favour of that of his having been accidentally drowned . The -wounds on the head were of a superficial character , and did not appear to have caused death . They might have resulted from a barge passing over the body , or from the corpse being bruised in getting it out of the water . It was picked up in a part of the canal easily accessible to the public . No money was found in the pockets . A verdict was returned of ' 1 ' ound dead . '

      SVITOSED MfliDKR NEAR AvEHVA UK . — file body of a man has been found on the mountains near Aberdare , Wales . The name of the man was Evan Thomas ; he Avorked as a miner at one of the collieries in the neighbourhood , and had been missed from his home for abuut ten days . Nothing was heard Of him until his body was found in a somewhat advanced stage of decomposition on the top of one of the mountains . Ajiost mortem examination has been made , -which , besides showing that Thomas had leceived a heavy blow on the bead , disclosed the fact that death had been caused by strangulation .

      The Watekuio B . iudge 'Murder . —Mr . Patterson , the gentleman supposed to be missing , has turned up in Ireland ; the young man from Sawbridgeworth , Hertfordshire , also believed to be the murdered person , ' ha ^ s likewise been found to be alive ; and the story with respect to the tidewaiter appears to be wholly false . . Til-.-:. Mukdek -neak NOTTINGHAM . —The jury appointed to investigate the circumstances under which the boy recently found murdered in a forest near Nottingham came by his death , have returned a verdict of ' Wilful murder against some person or persons unknown . ' The police are still prosecuting their researches , and a reward of 100 / . has been offered by the Government for the apprehension and conviction of the murderer .

      Thk Mukdek at Leigu Woods . —A shawl and carpet-bag , containing a hairbrush , pomatum , and other articles , discovered iu lieale ' s room at Bartby House , by Paine , the Daventry j ) jlicenian , have been identilied , through the instrumentality of the Bristol police , as having been observed in the possession of Charlotte Pugsley when she was hist seen iu company witli the prisoner . A portion of the wire frame of a bonnet and a blood-stained piece of the fabric -with which it was covered have also been found in the grate of lieale ' s room , and are in the possession of Inspector Sansome . It is asserted that these relics also are capable of identification as having boon worn by the murdered woman .

      Cituia / ri- to a Cat . —Two youths have been fined forty shillings each at Guildhall for setting a dog on a eat , and finally beating the poor animal to death with a brick . A policeman said it is a constant practice on tlie part of boys to bring dogs out on Sundays for the purpose of worrying stray cats , and that sometimes they will even bring a cat with them for this execrable purpose . A ltEviciiENi ) Swindlku . —George Berriugton , D . D ., a tickot-of-leave man , was brought up at Bow-street on Tuesday to be recommitted for the remainder of the term of his original sentence , lie had been a clergyman of the Church of England , and in 1852 was condemned to Hcvon years' transportation for obtaining the sum of 20 / . from a young ladv , who had answered an

      advertisement of Bernngton ' s in which he described himself as a clergyman about to proceed with his family to Australia in hi . i own vessel . ' To this young ludy he promised a liberal salary , and obtained the 20 / . on pretc-nccs of laying it out to her advantage . He had also victimized several tradesmen , llu obtained his ticketof-loave in April , ltfoij ; but it was recently discovered that he had returned to his old practices . The police succeeded by a trick in gaining admission to tho D . D . ' s house , where they found him in company of a pipe , n bottle of gin , and a lady in her night-dress , who expressed herself much shocked at tho intrusion of the constables . Mr . Hall , the magistrate , committed him for the remainder of hia term .

      Static ok Ckimk in Bkkk . hiiiuu . —An elaborate report on this subject , by tho Rev . J . Field , M . A ., who lm . i ibr many years held the oilico of chaplain , to the model gaol at Rending , was rend on Tuesday at tho opening of the Berkshire Scsaioaa . The rev . gentleman

      6 aid : — " In my reports of the last two years I had the pleasure of showing that a considerably less number had been committed to your prisons . I am sorry that my statement with reference to the year just completed caanotle equally satisfactory . The statistical statements which I have prepared slaow an increase of about sixty on the former year , although the number does not exceed the average of seveTal preceding years . Various circumstances may account for the increase ;—first , the facilities of transit , which have caused a greater influx of London thieves ; next-, the retuTn and disbanding of many regiments ; but still more , the vigilance and general efficiency of our new police force , which have loeeu evinced particularly in the apprehension of those guilty

      of petty offences . Henee the fact , which may be in some respects satisfactory , that the increase is found entirely among those -whos-e crimes were punished by imprisonment not exceeding one month . Indeed , the last year has been marked by an extraordinary proportion of such offences—only eighty-six—not ten per cent- of the entire number of your criminals—having been sentenced to a longer term of punishment than three months . " Kef erring to the reformatory question , Mr . Field observed : — " The importance to the community of providing for the effective correction of our younger criminals is evinced by the number committed of those no"W forming that class ; but it ; is yet more forcibly shown by a reference to the time of life when confirmed and often

      convicted offenders enter upon their criminal career . Of this class in your prison during the last year I discovered not less than sixty-six— -that is , more than forty per cent , were under seventeen years of age when first committed . During t \ vo > years preceding , the number had been one hundred and two , and of these 163 had been imprisoned nine hundred and twenty-four times , being an average of five and half to each . Your schoolmasters have performed their duties with diligence , and the usual amount of instruction has been imparted . As respects other officers of the prison , I have further pleasure in referring to their conduct as showing a high tone of moral and , I trust in the case of several , of truly religious principle . In concluding a report upon your prison discipline and < its effects , which -will probably be the last I shall have the privilege of presenting ,

      my thoughts recur to the condition and treatment of your criminals when nearly eighteen years since you entrusted them to my spiritual care .. Truly the contrast is such as to excite my heartfelt gratitude for the improvement which has taken place . "When first I entered upon my labours as your prison chaplain , I felt disheartened , but sustained Tjy hope that the justices of this county would not suffer the continuance of a system so shocking in its operation and consequences that it was too truly described by oaie sent to prison , who was less debased than his companions , ' like coming to hell itself . ' I determined , rather than desert my post , to represent its condition and strenuously to plead for an entire change of plan . I thank God the effort was successful . Your investigation and discovery of such malignant evils were the sure earnest of remedial measures . " Charges ok Fokgekit agaxnsx a Hull Coun

      Merchant .-, —A meeting for the choice of assignees and proof of debt . s , ' in ro Henry Smith Bright , ' was held at the Hull Bankruptcy Court on Wednesday , when debts to the amount of 101 , 437 / . 18 s . 2 d . were proved . Inconsequence of disclosures made at this examination , tho bankrupt was placed in the prisoners' dock at the policecourt at three o'clock in the afternoon , on a charge of forgery in ^ the endorsement of six bills of exchange , and also with uttering those bills with a guilty knowledge of their being forgeries . He was remanded for a week . Kltkfianlv- "Waiters at the Manchkstjsk Exhibition . —The Art Treasures Exhibition at Manchester was the scene , on the day but one before its close , of a disgraceful riot , which took place in one of the refreshment rooms of tho building , and was caused by an overcharge made by the waiters ii » direct violation of the terms lixod by the tariff . Numerous complaints of this system of extortion liave for a long timo past been made to Mr . Deane , general commissioner , and a gentleman stated to him . that ho liad been charged 3 d . for a glass of ale , the price of which , according to tho authorized tarill " , ought only to have been 2 d . By the advice of Mr . Deane and the executive committee , this gentleman resisted the demand made by the waiters , upon which the latter roughly seized and attempted to detain him until he paid the amount asked . The gentleman nevertheless succeeded ultimately iu arriving at the ollice of Mr . Dcanc , to whom ho told the outrageous conduct

      which ho lnvd just experienced from tho waiter . Mr . Deane , in consequence , immediately went to tho refreshment room , requested tlio public not to pay more than was sanctioned by tho executivo committee , and at tho same time ordered a printed notice to that etlect to bo posted up in all the refreshment rooms . Notwithstanding these cautions , tho -waiters still persisted in making overcharges , and behaved in an insolent and insulting manner- About lour o'clock on tho afternoon of Thursday week , as two men engaged by tho committee - were employed in puLling up tho placards of prices in tl » o first cfads rofroHhinont room , a largo bodv of waiters , evidently acting on a preconcerted plan , " suddenly ruslu-d into tho placo , and began attacking tho inun . While some of tho follows tor «

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 24, 1857, page 1015, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2215/page/7/