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      notorious omnibus and railway thieves , and that she had been in prison before . She lodged , at the time of her capture , at the house of an omnibus conductor . She was remanded . Thieves at the Royal . Wedding Festivities . — A number of charges against professional pocket-pickers , arising out of the royal events of last week , have been disposed of at the Bow-street office , by the committal of the offenders to various terms of imprisonment . In one case , a young lady had gone into the Park with her gold watch temptingly displayed at her waist . Of course it was taken , but the thief was taken also , having been watched by a constable in private clothes . Seeing his danger , the prisoner dropped the watch upon the ground , in the thick of the crowd . Shortly afterwards a

      policeconstable happened to be on the spot and picked up the treasure . He saw at once that it had been stolen , the swivel-ring being snapped ; and he therefore took it to the police-station in Vine-street , where the proseoutrix was making out the charge and lamenting her misfortune , the property being deemed irrecoverable . In another case , an older and wiser lady , whose pocket had been picked of 2 s . 2 d ., said , " I know'd , your worship , that 1 should be robbed , so I only put a couple of shillings in my pocket . " In a third case , the prosecutor was a smart detective officer , who , having put on a showy pin for the occasion , was robbed himself while watching the movements of a suspicious person in another direction . It appears that there were no charges of drunkenness or assault at that office arising out of the Royal

      marriage . Prosecution for Sedition . — John F . Nugent , printer and publisher , of 35 , Cook-street , Dublin , has appeared before the magistrates at the head policeoffice , to answer a summons arising out of certain alleged seditious , libellous , and blasphemous passages in an almanack issued b 3 ' him , and called ' Nugent ' s Correct and Genuine Moore ' s Mercantile , Weather , and Prophetic Sheet Almanack for 1858 . ' The proceedings did not indicate in any precise manner the nature of the passages complained of . On the defendant promising to suppress the sheet , he was bound over in his own recognizances in a sum of 300 ? . to keep the peace and be of good behaviour for seven years ; and . so the matter terminated . .

      Robbery of a Jeweller ' s Stock . —Nearly the whole of the stock of Mr . Fisher , watchmaker and jeweller , of Old Bond-street , J 3 ath , was carried off by thieves last Saturday morning . The booty , which Consisted of watches , plate , and jewellery , amounted in value to 1500 / . Mr . Fisher had been awakened in the course of the night by the barking of his dog ,, and , looking out of window , he saw a policeman standing near . Fancying that the man had been teasing the animal by passing over the railings , ho threatened to report him in the morning ; on which the constable , denying the imputation , walked off . At that very moment it would appear that the thieves were engaged in the house . Nothing , however , was known of the matter until next morning .

      Committal for Manslaughter . —Some labourers on the railway line , near JNTormanton station , quarrelled during last July , and one of them , Samuel Carter , struck another , Edward Dunnill , over the head with an iron bar . The injured man was taken up senseless and speechless , but he so fur recovered as to be able to do a little work three weeks afterwards . He died on Wednesday we . , however , and the medical evidence at the inquest proved that doath . was caused by the injuries received in July . The jury returned a verdict of ' Manslaughter , ' and Carter has been committed for trial . ; Robbery of Jewels . — The shop of Messrs . Fattorini and Sons , jewellers , Bradford , wan entered between ten and twelve o ' clock last Sunday morning , and about 1800 / . worth of jewellery waa stolen . The proprietors were attending mass at the time , and the shop was unguarded . The thieves appear to have entered through an adjoining empty house ,

      well that she did her ordinary work , and went one night to the theatre with her husband , who showed her great attention . But at length erysipelas set in , and the woman died last Sunday . When being examined before the magistrate , Laws appeared to be overwhelmed with grief . A Jew Cannibal . —Lewis Abrahams , a silver refiner , has been examined at Worship-street , on a charge of assaulting Charles Newhouse , a groom . Newhouse went one evening , at the close of his day ' s work , to a publichouse in the neighbourhood of his employer ' s residence , and was reading the newspaper , when Abrahams ,

      together with another man and a woman , began quarrelling with him about the possession of the paper . Newhouse offered to give it up , but Abrahams ' s male friend threw some ale in Newhouse ' s face . Angry words ensued , and at length Abrahams knocked Newhouse down , and bit a piece out of his ear , ' about the size of a penny , ' as one of the witnesses said . It is thought that he afterwards swallowed this horrible morsel , for it could not be found anywhere . He then rushed out of the place , challenging everybody he met to fight him , and subsequently attacked another man , but was taken into custody , after considerable resistance from himself and his comrade . He was remanded .

      The Convict Sattler . —Sir George Grey has refused to accede to the memorial praying for a commutation of the capital sentence passed on Christian Sattler , the German who shot the police-officer Thain . Robbery at the London Docks . —Charles Barry , a labourer at the London . Docks , and two women , named , Ellen Seabor and Matilda Dennis , the former of whom was Barry ' s married sister , have been examined on remand at the Thames police-office , Barry being charged with stealing a chest from the Docks , containing plate to the value of 801 ., and the women with receiving some of the stolen property . In the course of last May , a lady living at Dover sent the chest containing the plate to Messrs . Royden and Read , her London agents , , with orders to ship it off to Madeira for her son , who was about to proceed there . The chest was therefore deposited at the London Docks , but , as the son died suddenly , his mother directed her agents to send the box back to her , instead of shipping it for Madeira . It was

      accordingly returned by rail to Dover on the 19 th of October , but was not opened until the 5 th of November , when it was discovered that the chest had previously been forced open , and that all the plate that it contained was stolen . The robbery was accidentally discovered by a pawnbroker , to whom a woman , an accomplice of Barry , pledged some table forks with a crest upon them .. This circumstance exciting the pawnbroker ' s suspicions , he gave the woman into custody , and Barry was subsequently apprehended , and convicted of stealing plate from some unknown person . It afterwards transpired that the women Seabor and Dennis , and the other woman , had been engaged by Barry to pawn several articles of the plate that had been stolen from the cheat at the London Docks . Only 40 / . worth of the property has yet been recovered . Barry and Seabor were committed for trial , bail being accepted for the latter on account of her children being ill . The woman Dennis was discharged , the evidence not being sufficiently strong against her .

      The Wadswortii Moor Murder .- —The inquest on the body of Bethel Parkinson was resumed on Thursday week , when the jury returned a verdict that Parkinson had been wilfully murdered by Joseph Shepherd , the mjjn in custody . A Clerical BicaoAit . —John Elliott lladlow , said to bo an ordained clergyman of the Church of England , was charged on Tuesday at the Southwark police-court with begging iu the streets . He admitted the charge , saying he had been unfortunnto and reduced to distress . The magistrate discharged him , with a warning . This , wo fancy , is not the first time that Mr . lladlow has been so charged . The case is very distressing , whatover may have boon tho cause of the degradation . On Thursday , Mr . lladlow was brought before tho Bow-street magistrate-on-tho-enmediarge . —rllo-was-eontcncod-to ^ four . teen days' imprisonment .

      A Wifk Killici ) nx nitre Husband , —Francia Henry Laws , an ironmonger anil tinman , of Cartarot-strcet , Westminster , it ) undor remand at tho local polico-oflico on a charge of causing tho ( loath of his wifo . They had been out drinking , and both onmo homo intoxioatod . A quarrel took place , owing , i t would sooni , to some irritating language on tho part of tho wifo ; and at length tho Husband Htruok her over tho hoad with a saucepan . Immediately afterwards , ho showed groat sorrow . Tho wife ' s wound waa drossod , and for some duya she waa so

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      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Judgment was given on Monday in the Court for the Consideration of Crown Cases Reserved , in the case of the convict Aaron Mellor , who was tried at the last Liverpool Assizes for tho murder of his wife , and found guilty . One juryman had been substituted for another by mistake ; and it was contended that the prisoner was in effect deprived of his right of challenge , on account of being under a false impression with reference to tho identity of tho juror in question . Tho case appeared to bo involved in great difficulty , some of tho Judges even doubting whether tho court had jurisdiction to consider it . Tho Chief Baron was decidedly of opinion that it had not . The Lord Chief Justices Campbell and Cockburn , Mr . Justice Coleridge , Mr . Justice Wightman , Mr . Baron Martin , and Mr . Baron Watson , wore in favour of a now trial ; while tho Chief Baron , Mr . Baron Channell , and Justices Erie , Williams , Crompton , Crowdor , Willos , and Bylos , were of tho contrary opinion . Tho majority therefore , being against directing a now trial , tho conviction was affirmed . Tho case of tho Messrs . Fairoy , sugar refiners , who wore recontly tried at Westminster for creating noxious exhalations in carrying on their trade , camo up for judgment in tho Court of Queen ' s Bench on Monday . Mr . Knowlos , who appeared for tho prosecution , said tho defendants had addressed themselves to removing tho . nui 8 anco , ain . d . accordtogly _ ftjr ^ was imposed . In tho similar caso of tho Queen v , Bovill , an arrangement of tho samo kind was come to . A * very pretty quarrel' botwoon two legal gentlemen liua found its way into tho Guildhall police-court . An action at law is ponding between Mr , Cyrus Jay , un attorney , having chambers at Serjeant's Inn , Fleet-, ? street , and Mr . Ifanry Lindua , a solicitor , of Augustaplace , Pockham . The lattor gentleman is tho plaintiff , and tho former tho defendant , in this action ; and last Saturday night Mr . Lindua wont to Mr . Jay ' s chambers , accompanied by a former clerk of that gentleman ' s , and

      said , " This is the man who forged the bills . He will tell you that he did so , and , unless you give me the order to pay the debt and costs in the action coming on , I will give him into custody . " Rice , the clerk in question , confirmed this statement with respect to the forgery , and added that Mr . Lindus knew it . On this , Mr . Jay collared Mr . Lindus , and called out for the police . Mr . Lindua got away , smashed some glass doors which obstructed his flight , and was again seized by the other gentleman . After some further struggling , Mr . Lindus was allowed

      to go , but was given into custody , and charged with attempting to extort money to compound a felony . Mr . Jay , however , being informed that he could not make that charge before a magistrate , it was altered to a charge of breaking windows . Mr . Lindus , on being brought before Mr . Alderman Hale , denied that he had made any attempt to compound a felony . In the cross-examination of Mr . Jay that gentleman stated that the bills in question were drawn by Rice , -who forged his father-in-law ' s acceptances ; and that Mr . Lindus had discounted the bills for 51 . in 201 . Mr . Lindus was

      discharged . A Mr . Samuel Griffiths , apparently a bill discounter , has been examined in the Birmingham Bankruptcy Court , at the instance of the Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Bank , which suspended last November , and has recently resumed . He has been insolvent on two previous occasions—in 1846 and 1853—and is now indebted to the bank in question 22 , 000 / . His own account of his liabilities was thus given in the Court : — " When the bank had not means to discount , they sent their rotten customers to me . I used to discount their bills and give my oWn at fourteen days' date . The bank could then discount my bill by giving theirs at fourteen days' date , and with the money I met my bill with , they paid their own . " He added , that on many occasions he has saved the bank ; and he is reported to have been * much moved ' in saying this . The emotion , however , soon passed into a triumphant sense of

      power ; for , according to the account of the local paper , he rubbed his hands with great animation , " and declared that he would show his quondam allies no mercy . He then told a little anecdote to the discredit of the bank directors' judgment :-: — "A meeting of a person ' s creditors was called ; 2 s . 6 d . in the pound was offered ; the directors were urged to take it ; they refused , and lent the party 100 , 000 / . to carry on , every penny of which they have lost . " And yet they have been " paying dividends of eighteen per cent , out of capital . " Mr . Griffiths having been taxed with conspiracy , he exclaimed , " Talk about conspiracy ! who are the conspirators ? I am the largest shareholder in tiKe bank , as I hold two hundred shares , and , instead of the bank examining me , before long they shall be examined themselves , and then their solicitor , with his high-flown morality , promulgated by these spotless directors , may preach his doctrine for their sanctification . " The inquiry stands adjourned to the 10 th instant .

      An action for assault and libel , involving a singular story , was brought on Tuesday , in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , against Mr . James Nicholls , an attorney , by Mr . William Pocock , a medical man . Both gentlemen were married and lived at Brixton ; and Mr . Pocock professionally attended Mrs . Nicholls previous to and during her confinement in August , 1856 . Mr . Nicholls is about forty-five years of age , his wife some twenty years younger ; and it would almost appear that this discrepancy of ago had led to an outrageous and insane feeling of jealousy on the part of the husband . Bo this as it may , he soon accused Mr . Pocock—seemingly without the least cause—of an improper intercourse with Mrs . Nicholla . This was emphatically and solemnly denied by both tho persons implicated ; but Mr . Nichplls

      continued his assertions , wrote violent letters to Mr . Pocock , spoko disparagingly of his character , and finally wont % o his house and assaulted him with a stick . Ho also behaved with groat cruelty to Mrs . Nicholls ; threatened her at one time with a knife ; and altogether exhibited tho irrational violence of a madman . Ho had personally onterod appearance at tho trial , instead of employing counsel 5 but he was not present , and , after some observations by Lord Campbell , who said that Mr . Pocock was evidently a moat respectable and honourable man , tho jury gave a verdict for tho plaintiff , with 250 / damages . In tho caao of tho bankrupt Henry Hino , lacoman and outfitter , Mr . Commissioner Holroyd on Tuesday suspended the certificate for twelve months , directing at the samo time that , when grunted , it should bo of the second

      class , and in tho meanwhile allowing protection from arrest . The bankrupt had been onguged in heavy bill transactions , and had given hia acceptances to a largo amount without receiving any consideration . Ho had also gone on trading when ho waa in insolvent circumstances , and his expenses had much exceeded hia profits . thlTcorirricTft ^ wT ^ Simoa , a painter in Goorgo-atroet , Portman-aquaro . Simoa had inducod a pereon named Colson to discount a bill for 150 / ., upon tho promise that lie would pay him out of tho unit inonoya ho received from a Mr . Mooro . Ho received 220 / ., and other money * , but did not keep hia promise . His oxponsos and loasoa also greatly exceeded his profits . Tho certificate ( sooond class ) waa suspended for aix montlia . An adjourned application was made in tho Court of Bankruptcy , on Wednesday , for tho diachargo of tho

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      No . 411 , February 6 , 1858 . ] THE LEADER . 129

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 6, 1858, page 129, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2229/page/9/