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      CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . Tjse November session commenced on Monday . The ¦ chief case that day -was a charge of misdemeanour , consisting in the publication of certain , indecent and libellous placards , brought against James Cowan , an elderly inan . He pleaded , guilty , on an . understanding that he should merely be required to enter into his recognizances to come up and receive the judgment of the court on a future occasion , if called upon to do so , but that no such proceeding should be taken if the offence were not repeated . It appears that he is a medical in an , carrying on business in Westminster , and 'in a moment of excitement , ' as his counsel said , lie put forth certain indecent placards outside bis shop . Mr . Bodkin , - who

      appeared tor the prosecution , said that these placards were ' calculated to create dissension among the Queen's troops , and to prevent persona enlisting ; and the exhibition also caused crowds of persons to assemble , thus occasioning a public nuisance . " Some doubt was entertained by Mr . Bodkin ajs to whether Cowan was acting in good faith ; indeed , it was said that offensive placards were still being exhibited outside his shop , one of which ' contained a most indecent attack upon an illustrious personage . ' Mr . Serjeant Parry ( who appeared for Cowan ) said that the placards now exhibited were simply medical . Mr . Bodkin did not make any

      objection to the arrangement that had been come to , and Cowan , having entered into his recognizances , was discharged . . A young man of respectable appearance , named Mark Nicholas rowles , was tried oa a singular charge . Two Journeymen tailors were last July committed for trial on a charge of forging two orders for the payment of money ; and Powles and another became bail for their appearance at the Central Criminal Court . One of them absconded ; and it was then found that Powles had given a false Christian name , and that he bad since been committed to Holloway Prison for some offence . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to hard labour for

      fifteen months . ; John Kirby Richards , clerk , pleaded guilty on Tuesday to an indictment charging him with obtaining a chequebook front the London and Westminster Bank by a forged order , and to > three others which charged him . ' with forging cheques for different amounts . He said that distress had induced him to commit the offence . The brokers were in the house , and his family had nothing to eat . It appeared , however , that he had committed previous offences , and he was sentenced to six years ' penal servitude . John Colbraith , a prisoner at Coldbath Fields House of Correction , has teen found guilty of an assault on Charles Alldis , one of the warders , and sentenced to four years' penal servitude .

      David Rees Davis , a schoolmaster at a ragged school , has been found guilty of obtaining 5 / . 5 s . by false pretences . His counsel urged that ' he had been in very great distress ; but he was sentenced to six months'imprisonment . James Sankey , polico-constable ; Matilda Ross , spinster ; William Burnett , labourer ; and Ellen Mills , widow , were indicted , Burnett and Sankey with stealing property valued' at 500 / ., the property of Rosabella Robertson Aikman , Itoss with aiding and abetting in the

      commission of the felony , and Mills with having feloniously received part of the property . Sankey was put into the house of Mrs . Aikman , in Portland-street , while the family were away , to take cure of the property ; and the . way he took care of it was to appropriate it to himsel f , and abscond , lie was subsequently taken into custody , in company with the woman Ross , at&liddlcton . in the county of Cork , Ireland , ltoss was Acquitted , but the others wero found Guilty . Sankey was sentenced to aix , and Burnett and Mills to four yours penal servitude .

      John Marl « , Samuel Marks , and Abraham Sinunonds , were tried on Wednesday ( on a charge already familiar to our readers ) of felony , in having , after John Murks had been adjudged u bankrupt , concealed and embezzled a portion of his effects , with intent to dufraud the creditors . All were found Guilty , and sentenced to penal servitude for eight yeara—a sentence with which they wore greatly astounded . The caso occupied the "whole day-Henry Znehariali Jorvis , a well-educated man , was indicted for obtaining by false pretences from a Mrs .

      Parker 21 . 10 s . Mrs . Parker is insane , and subject to strange delusions , one of which is thut she is kept out of an enormous fortune . Jcrvis , who eaid he was a lawyer , the son of the lato Sir John Jervis , tbo brother-iu-law of the Turkish ambassador , and a man of largo m « nna , undertook to recover thin fortuno , and , oa the faitli ol " doing so , obtained money from Mrs , Parker . That lady woa put into tho witness-box , but she wiw evidently demented . Jorvis was found Guilty , and sentenced to eighteen months' hard labour . Ho exclaimed , " 1 am innocent ; but God ' a will be done !"

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      RoMiuatY and ArruMiTnaj Muiudkb ov a . Policeman . —A singular double charge was brought at tho Mansion House oa Tuesday agaiust a Uuvariuu named Christian Sattlor , who formerly aorved . hi tho ITrotteh

      army in Algeria , and afterwards as a private in the Auglo-German Legion , but who appears ' to'be a person of good education . He was recently at St . Ives , Huntingdonsbire , and , while there , seems to have possessed himself of a carpet-bag , containing money and shares to the amount of 284 / ., belonging- to a Mr . Ballantine . This matter was put into the hands of the London police ; and Sergeant Thain , the detective officer , was despatched to Hamburg , where Sattler was supposed to have gone , and where he was discovered and captured . On the way back to England , -while on board the ship Caledonia , Sattler said his handcuffs pained him , and asked to have them taken off . This was done , and the man went to his berth , where be seems to have torn

      down a piece of metal from which a lamp was suspended , and thus broke open a corner of his box , from which he took a pistol . Tliain entering shortly afterwards , he shot him in ' the breast ; alleging subsequently that he liad done so because the officer had promised not to fetter him , and he would shoot any man like a dog who broke his word . He said he had bought the pistol at Hamburg in order to shoot a man who owed him 25 / ., adding , with reference to the present offence , " I suggested to myself that I would take my own life ; but the officer came upon me rather suddenly , and I told him the contents of the pistol would be as well in his

      breast as in mine . " He asked the engineer if he thought Thain would die ; and , being answered in the negative , observed ,. * . * Then he ought , for there were shots sufficient in the pistol . " He also observed ,. " I am a Deist , a robber , and a murderer- I have shot the man , and I suppose I shall be tried for it . " To the captain , of the vessel he said that the shot was not meant for Thain at all ; it was intended for himsel f ; but the officer came in unexpectedly , and so received the charge . Sattler ( who asserts that the witnesses have sworn false ) has been remanded . It is hoped that the wound received by Thain is not mortal ; but it is serious .

      The Ashovek Muisdjeu . — An inquest has been held at Ashover on the body of JameS : Simpson , the farmer , who was murdered on the ' 13 th . inst . on ° t the high road , under circumstances already detailed in this paper . The jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder against some person or persons unknown . Embezzlement . — Josiah Foot , a young man of eighteen , who has been employed as a clerk ia the long roonvof the Southampton Custom House , has been apprehended on a charge of misappropriating funds to a considerable amount . The Charge of Violence against the Police . — The seaman Williams , who was recently injured by two policemen in llatcliffe Highway , has died , and the two constables were brought up before the Thames magistrate on Wednesday- The case was remanded to next Monday ' .

      Mukpekous Attack on a Policeman . —As Policeconstable Thomas Carsoii was proceeding on the turnpike road near the village of Todwick , about seven miles from Rotherhain , at one o ' clock on . Monday morning-, he was shot at from behind a hedge , and was wounded in the right fore-arm . He drew his pistol and fired into the place whence the sound had proceeded , and then commenced a search ,, but without finding any one . Becoming faint from loss of blood , he returned home , and was found on medical examination to have sustained very severe injury .

      Allkged McuuKit oa this High Seas . —Captain J . A . Christie , commander of the barque Elizabeth , and James Millard , iirst ollicer of the same vessel , are under remand at Liverpool on a charge of causing the death of Francisco Rodriguez , a Spanish seaman , on the voyage from New Calabar to England . Rodriguez one day broke the binnacle hunp , and the captain then knocked him down , kicked him for live or six minutes all over the . body , and . stamped with his heel on the lower part of the man ' s back , so that a portion of bone protruded . Ou subsequent days , the captain and the iirst oiliccr beat and kicked Rodriguez -with fearful violence , nearly throttled him , and forced him to do his work , though scarcely able to move . At length he died , and the body was thrown into the sea . Christie and Millard have been arrested on the evidence of some of the crew .

      DiSTL'itiiiNtt l ) j ;\ i > Douius , —Mr . Thomas Piper , junior , builder , of 173 , Bishopsgatc-street , and Air . John Young , . architect , of 35 , King-street , Chcaps ' , wore summoned at the Mansion llousu on Monday , ou a charge of disinterring the dead bodies of several persons in llloomfield-sLrcet , Moorliclds , and leaving them exposed to the open air in a state of decomposition , so that the neighbourhood was annoyed and imperilled by horrible oilluviu . A school is about to be elected adjoining the Roman Catholic chapel , Moorlioldn , and a part of it will bo erected over a portion of tins burial-ground .

      Several bodies havu therefore been di . sintorrod , but sulliciunt care has not been taken-to avoid offensive smell .-, and it is even asserted that a vast quantity of human bones have been taken away , and sold to dealers in mnrino stores . Tlio City Solicitor said lie acquitted tho defendants of any cognizance of tbe . se transactions ; but tlity had been done by those in their employ . The counsel for tho defendants hero denied their knowledge of the fncts alleged ; asked for an adjournment ; and promisod to ussist in tl » o inquiry . Tho adjournment was agreed to . The subject bus been brought before

      the attention of the City Commissioners of Sewers by Dr . Letheby , and steps were ordered to be taken for the abatement of the nuisance . Destitution in the Streets . —The approach of winter is bringing the usual number of cases of lamentable destitution haunting the streets , applying ia vain to the worldiouses for relief , and driven into committing petty offences in order to get shelter and food at the police station . An Irishman , named Timothy Bagler has been twice examined at the Westminster police-office on a ' charge of breaking windows at Chelsea workhouse . He is a cripple , and ^ presents a miserable -aspect ' poverty . One evening , he went to the workhouse doors , and demanded a night ' s lodging ; but he was informed

      that ' tramps' were not admitted there . The door was then shut , and the poor wretch , being reduced to desperation , broke the windows on purpose that he might , be given into custody . On the second examination of the mail , Mr . Eagles , the relieving officer of the parish , attended , and , in a very fli ppant and almost impudent manner , justified his conduct . Mr . Arnold , the magistrate , said that , the man were not admitted , he ought at any rate to have been relieved . Mr . Eagles thought not .- The man had gone about from parish to parish , living upon the public , and had left Shoreditch -workhouse on the very day when he applied at Chelsea . The magistrate , however , still insisted that , as the man was destitute , he ought to have been relieved somewhere .

      " If the parish of St . Luke , Chelsea , was right in refushig tramps relief , every other parish would be justified in doing the same , and what would become of the class of paupers termed tramps who , according to the showing , would not be entitled to relief any where . ?" . Mr . Eagles said that the police had orders not to bring ordinary tramps to either his house or the workhouse . Mr . Arnold apprehended that the parish authorities had no power to give any orders to the police . Mr . Eagles complained that his house was nightly beset with tramps . Mr . Arnold said , he did not wonder at it if they were refused relief at the workhouse . Finally , he discharged the ; mart ,, who had already undergone sufficient imprisonment for his slight offence .- —Four ¦ children- —two boys and two girls—of ages ranging from three to ten . were

      charged at the Mansion House with begging in Old Broad-street . Their father is at present in prison for stealing" a cash-box , and the mother does not attempt to work , but sends the children out to beg . "When taken into custody , they were without shoes or stockings ,- and seemed perishing from hunger and cold . The Lord Mayor said : — "Two of these children I saw myself yesterday , and told a policeman to go after them , but they escaped . Their legs were perfectly red from the cold , and looked more like pieces of raw beef tban portions of the human frame . The smallest of these children has a cough , which must necessarily destroy it in a mouth or two . I am-determined that there shall be no little boys or girls begging about the public streets . The officer inust take these four children to the Union , and serve the mother with a summons . "

      Suicide and Autismi-ted Mukdku . —On the afternoon of last Saturday , a young unmarried woman named Maria Lewis , living in Union-street , ' Coinmerciul-roadeast , weiit into her bedroom , accompanied by a little girl of three ye . irs old , apparently with the intention of retiring to rust . A . few hours afterwards she was found dead , and the child was suffering greatly from pain and sickness ; but , an antidote being administered to her , she ¦ was in some degree recovered . Two teacups , one of which was still partly filled with oxalic acid , while the other had evidently contained tho same liquid , were found on the table in the room . A letter , without signature or date , was likewise found , in which it was stated that the writer had taken the child ' s life as well as her

      own , in order that she might not bea burden to anyone . According to the account which the child gave on tho following morning , the woman drank a cup of tho poison , and gave some to herself , but as she was ill at the time she did not .-swallow it . The woman had been in a very depressed state of mind for some time past .

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      . GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AITD POLICE COURTS . A . ca . sk was beard at tho Aylesbury County Court on Friday week , involving tho point whether the owners of bulls are permitted to turn them out without taking proper care to prevent their breaking through the fences and herding with other graziers' stock . The plaintiff was a Mr . Senior , of Broughton Hall , near AyloMbury , u magistrate for the county , and a well-known grazier ; the defendant was Mr . Self , the manager of tho London and County Manic at Ayle . ibury ; and tlie iwlioii w « 3 brought to recover 11 )/ . IDs . duniugi 1 * . Mr . . Senior ussurtcil that ho pus . sesstul a breed of puro Devons , and that a bull from Mr . Si'lf ' . s neighbouring grounds broke liis way through the fence , and led to tliu degeneracy of tho breed . Witnesses were called on tho part of Mr . Self to show that thorn \ vm nothing extraordinary in the breed of Mr . Senior ' s . stock ; anil tho jury , in giving a verdict for the pluintili ; only awarded one . shilling damages . This result was rueoivod by the public in court with noisy applause . Sir Frederick TJiesitrur ( on behalf of the Solicitor-

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      OUR CIVILIZATION

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      No . 401 , November 28 , 1657 . ] THE LEADER . 1135

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 28, 1857, page 1135, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2219/page/7/