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      line down to the quay by the Pont an Change , and is described as being truly fine . All Paris was on foot on Monday , when the inaugural ceremony was attended by the Emperor- on horseback—far in advance of his splendid suite ^ -and . b \ y the Emguess in an open carriage . Iioaufi -were the gpaetihgSj . and among the multitude no outward sign w »» given of inward doubts or anxieties as to the ffifcture of the great man who is * filling Paris ¦ wdilr gorgeous mementoes .. Almost at the time that Paris was shouting itself loarse with cries of " Vive l'Empereur / ' Bernakd , the presumed accomplice of ORSixr , was preparing to answer for liis alleged complicity in the act of the 14 th of January , which had so nearly struck the pulse , if not the heart , of Fiance . The Special Commission appointed to try Bernakd has commenced its labours , and Lord Campbell has charged the grand jury in a way that will show to French minds , imperfectly acquainted with the dispassionate administration of the law in England , that no amount of clamour , least of all of threats , can stir the hand that holds the balance of justice . The law will not be strained one hair ' s breadth for or against Beknakd ; he will have pure right done him , according to the law . Lord Campbeix has even tegged that , until his trial is completed , the press , " while giving the fullest reports of the proceedings , will refrain from offering any comment ; we will undertake to say that his wish will be respected . The trial of the Reverend Samuel Smith and his wife has given us a complete stdry , equal in surprising interest to the strongest novel of real life that has heen written in late times . Samuel Smith wastried for attempting to murder , or to do grievous bodily harm , £ o a man who , years previously , had teen on terms of the utmost intimacy with Mrs . Smith , before her marriage , . and under peculiar circumstances , for a very short period , after her marriage . Years passed away , children were born , and 3 JIrs . Smith performed the duties of a wife blamelessly ; but she was haunted by the memory of the wrong she had done her husband ; became melancholy ; accused herself of being unworthy of him ; and , finally , confessed the long-past offence , praying to him , on her knees and surrounded by her children , for mercy and forgiveness . The course then taken by the husband was the most extraordinary conceivable . He forced his wife to renew her long-broken correspondence witli her former lover j to inveigle him down into the country under pretenee that she had become a widow and desired to renew her intercourse with him ; forced her to lure the victim on to a wild common at night ; and then and there fell upon the unsuspecting man and boat him with a bludgeon until he was nearly dead—the wife standing by and escaping with her husband when the act of vengeance had been so far accomplished . The barbarity of tho whole of this Reverend man ' s proceedings is amazing . The point of honour is held in England , we know how sacred ; but the verdict which condemned Samtjel Smith to fouy yc . ars ' penal servitude will find very few objectors . Wo do not , at this time of day , admit tho right of private vengeance- —whatever the wrong .

      Gatherings From The Jiaw And Police Courts.

      infamous ^ , a should always come hold the law up to toe > contempt of the world . Having ! informed theMaagistrate that lie was about to take the house on a lease , his worship propounded a singular piece 1 of casuistry .. Could not Mr . Tilley compound with his landlord . ? : * ' Suppose some o £ the money he paid went for r tw purpose of paying , some one to singr psalms to an idbll ?* ' Mr . Tilely thought that question quite irrelevant . He "' did not recognize the Church at all , and should 1 very much like to- know wiiat equivalent he got for hifl money . " Dr . Worthington said he could , go to the church .. " -But , " retorted tfae inexorabkt raasoner " why rooeive the fees- through such an iniquitous course ? "Why should I be called upon to pay for what I never use , or for what I never receive ? Do you think that the reverend gentlemen who receive my money in the shape of tithes -would like to pay me for hats they never had ? ( .-1 laugh . " ) They would protest and say they never received any hats , and , on the same principle , I protest , and say that for the money I pay I receive no benefit . " Mr . Corrie , the magistrate , said he should be obliged to make an order for payment ; but , as an error had been made by the collector , costs would not be enforced . Mr . Tilley said he would at once pay the money , but complained that one of the gaolers of the court had called on him , in an attempt to settle the matter , and to tamper with the persons who had summoned him . He should always oppose the paying of tithes . Dr . Worthington here said , in an excited manner , that it was a disgrace to Englishmen to oppose such a law , which is the oldest on the statute book . Mr . Tilley rejoined , that it was a disgrace that the Church should not support the poor , which they are bound to do . The matter then terminated , and the other summonses were adjourned . Reuben Hickox , a general dealer , has been examined at Southwark on a charge of committing an assault in a carriage on the London and Brighton railway . Just as the train entered the first tunnel from Brighton , he sprang on one of the passengers , without any provocation , dealt him a tremendous blow on the head with a stick ( the force of which was fortunately broken by the hat ) , and cut his hands with a knife . He also struck another of the passengers , but was eventually overpowered and given into custody the first time the train stopped . He was fined 57 . for the two assaults ; or , in default , six weeks' hard labour . A case of pilfering , heard at the Marlborough-street police-office last Saturday , was amusing on account of the cool audacity of the culprit . Henry Atkins , a young man of twenty , dressed in a complete suit of sober black , was charged with attempting to pick pockets at the Warwick-street Roman Catholic chapel , on Good Friday evening . A servant girl and a detective officer proved the case , which was clear enough , but the prisoner said that both the witnesses were mistaken : he waa an exceedingly honest young man if they did but know it , if they did not , he was sorry for their ignorance . He was at chapel to perform his roligious duties . What the first witness took for the skirt of a lady ' s dress was nothing more than the tail of his own coat . Mr . Bingham asked if he usually carried his tail in his hand . Tho prisoner said he had that knack when he wanted his handkerchief . He was sentenced to six weeks' hard labour . The bill preferred at the Clerkenwell Sessions against Mr . W . J . Aitchison , a clerk in the Bank of England , and Mrs . Hill , the wife of an architect in Great Jamesstreet , pn the charge of pocket-picking , has been ignored . The facts of the case , as far as they came out before the Bow-street magistrate , were related in this paper of March 20 th . Mr . Kowland Miller , tho attorney for the defence , says , writing to the daily papers : — " The prosecutrix no doubt entirely mistook the parties who first addressed her , and probably robbed her for those whom she subsequently gave into custody . Had the case been suffered to come before a jury , tho impossibility of the accused parties having committed tho robbery would have been cloarly proved . " A man named Alexander Koss is under reinand at tho Marlborough-streot police-office on a charge of stabbing a woman in tho head . Tho woman had been living with him , and , on the evening in question , she waa intoxicated ; but she has no precise recollection of how the injuries were inflicted . There appears to be no doubt , however , that tho man almost murdered her , and that Bhe then escaped into tho street . Here she was I found by a policeman nearly fainting ; and Rosa was I immediately afterwards approhended . ' Garotting bus greatly decreased of lato , but a case i came before tho Worship-street magistrate on Monday . ' An elderly man , named U ridge , -was seized by two men , ' between twelve and one o ' clock at night , in tho neighbourhood of Spitnlflolds , and , while one pinioned hia I arms and another grasped his throat and mouth , a iwomaii-riflod-hi 8-i ) ookots . r- ^ A . n () anT . and _ liia _ uifo _ flroJu ; custody , and under remand ; but bail has boon aoooptcd for tho man , about whom thoro is some doubt . Charles Murray , a young man , tho son of a baronet , i who has frequently boon brought up nt tho Mansion I-Iouso on charges of drunkenness and assault , was j ohargod on Tuesday boforo tho Lord Mayor wllh tho I same offences . Ho stood in the dock with no other ¦ clothing than a pair of trousers and a shirt \ his boots had boon taken from him on aoaount of hi » kicking tho ¦

      GATHERINGS FROM THE JiAW AND POLICE COURTS . The : church-rate question yro 8 well ' aired' last Saturday at the Clerkenwell police-office , -whore tho Iiev . Dr . Worthington , of tho Trinity Chapel , GrayVinnjrond , und two other clergymen belonging to the district and parish of St . Andrew ' s , Holborn , attended to BUpport- ^ thirty-four' —Hummonsos ' — takon—out » , ^ at _ , tlioir instance against defaulters who had not paid their tithes . The first case called on was that of a Mr . Tilley , who , after showing that different sums woro put down in the flutn mouses to those charged him In tho collector's notices , said ho did not wish tho cubo stopped on any technical objeotion , but should like to aak what oubrifamial benefit he got for the money ho puid for tithes . He objected to tho payment on conscientious prinoiplea , JM » d considered tho law for their support Iniquitous and

      , : 1 police-, * ; his shirt was torn and covered withbinnT """ j mud ; and be was handcuffed . JIe had been fLU ? a early that morning , in Aldgate , beatine an fti , i ' 3 about the head with his fist . He was taken into cuJT 1 by tha police , after a desperate resistance ; and a rn t panion of his—a labouring man named Holley wTj , " > whom he had been drinking—attempted to rescue hi but was likewise arrested , and placed at the bar lie ^' I his high-born friend . Murray ' s violence was « u h i that the police were obliged to , carry him to the Mansion i House on a steetcher . Holley was sentenced to ha 1 , Itebour for fourteen days , while Murray , on the followin ! 1 day , was sent to prison for three weeks , with ^ _ S ; labour . 1 Three young Addiscombe cadets , named Mackenzie Campbell , and Marriott , were brought before Mr . Norton ' ' at Lambeth , on Tuesday , on a charge of creating a riot ¦ at the Crystal Palace on the previous day , and of 1 assaulting the police ; and Williahr Wilcox , a gardener was at the same time charged with , interfering with the constables . The young gentlemen , together with their friends , were making a great disturbance at the south corner of the centre transept , and Mr . Superintendent Lund , on going to the spot , saw the cadets knocking people ' s hats off . He remonstrated with them , but as he alleges , they struck him two blows on the head from behind in rapid succession ; after which , Mr . Mackenzie seized him tightly round the waist , and , assisted by others , raised him some distance , and dropped him suddenly . Being troubled with an affection of the heart , he was so much hurt by the shock that for a time he scarcely knew what he was about ; but , on recovering , he saw the young gentlemen rushing along the nave , and heard them hallooing " Fire ! " to the great alarm of the bystanders . They next made their way to the railway station ; but Mr . Lund and a body of constables went round by a shorter cut , intercepted the cadets , and took three of them into custody . It was then that Wilcox interfered , and he too was apprehended . Such was Mr . Lund ' s version . On the other hand , tha students asserted that the superintendent had been unduly officious ; that he had threatened to send for the cutlasses if the noise did not cease ; and that the police behaved with wanton violence . The cadets in custody received a very good character , and so did Wilcox . Mr . Lund said he talked of sending , for the cutlasses simply in order to intimidate the rioters ; ho never intended to use them . Mr . Norton observed that he fully believed this , from his long knowledge of the character of Mr . Lund ; and he fined Mackenzie , 3 £ , Campbell , 2 / ., Marriott , 1 / ., and Wilcox 10 s . Mr . Commissioner Fane decided on Wednesday that Mr . Townsend , M . P . for Greenwich , had been legally declared a bankrupt , a point that had been disputed in his favour . Mr . Townsend , however , may still succeed in getting the commission superseded , and in retaining his seat . A petition in bankruptcy was opened on Thursday against Mr . Charles Dillon , the actor and manager of the Lyceum Theatre . John Thomas , a police constable , has been fined twenty shillings , with the option of twenty days' imprisonment , for a brutal assault on a Mrs . Reynolds , a respectable married woman . He wns drunk whilo on duty , and was observed by Mrs . Keynolds dragging along a woman , who was also intoxicated , and using her with great violence . Mrs . Keynolds said in his hearing that his conduct was disgraceful ; on which , ho seized her , dragged her for about a quarter of a mile , and tlien let her go , and ran off , being apparently intimidated by a mob which had collected , and shown somo signs 01 anger . Tho scoundrel will of course be dismissed trom the police . A Mrs . Susan Bragg , tho wife of a person who formerly carried on business at Dulston as a dentist , applied to tho Worship-stroot magistrate on 'I hursihiy wr protection to her property , under the now Matrimonial Causes and Divorce Act . For fourteen years she ana her husband had lived happily ? but in tho your iwo , tho man began a series of assaults on Ins wile , am 1856 ho deserted her , his business being then in a « « ' ° ™ insolvency and himeolf in danger of arrest , in iw « , ho returned , sold the furniture , and loft hia wife alimwi destitute . Mrs . Bragg then borrowed money , set up a small way of business , and lias now CO / , w i > ci « Bought to protect . Tho husband threatens to soil nil »¦ things ; hus advertised the business for sale ; , ftIltt " said lie will stab his wife , or bring Uer to rum . D'Eyncourt granted tho required protection . The Lord Mayor , on Thursday , tuiid he tho'uj lit it well that tho public should bo made aware ofol u >» ' that " II . andC , " to whom ho had ulludcd some W back as being engaged in decoying young mon u > , ' . of oirqulars into betting , and robbing tlioin of tin- « nro ^ its 1 7 woromffnin * pursuing-tlieir-old- « y . ttt . oin . ol 4 Ui ! i »^_™ John Murray , an Irish labourer , was « " « " * S ^' Tly before tho Hammersmith magistrate on i ' »"' JJ ^ charged with being concerned with others In oon until . b a murderous assault upon Mr . William «««»«» JJ landlord of a public-house , in the U ™; ; " ^ Turnham-greon . Tho outrage was oommltum on 20 th of last Decombor , and Murray was Mont to p for two months .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 10, 1858, page 338, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2238/page/2/