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      she discharged herself ; and nothing more -was heard of her nntil she appeared before Sir Peter Laurie . On being again brought before the Alderman , she seemed ranch abashed , and was seat back to the West London Union , to which she appeared desirous of going , rather than to the Westminster ^ Reformatory . . Two letter-carriers were last Saturday examined , by the Bow-street magistrate , and committed , for trial on separate charges of stealing letters with money in them . A poor woman named . Bridges , the wife of a wheeler , residing in Little Duke-street , Waterloo-road , applied

      last Saturday to Mr . Elliot , the Lambeth magistrate , for some assistance from the poor-box to enable her to bury her daughter Caroline , a girl eleven , years of age , who was one of the sufferers at the explosion in the Westminster-road on the previous Monday . The child was playing about in front of Madame Coton ' a house when the explosion took place , and the injuries she then received resulted in her death . The body decomposed so rapidly that it could not be kept unburied any longer ; but the family were uosble , for want of means , to get the funeral performed . Another of Mrs . Bridgets children was much burnt at the same time . Mr . Elliot

      ordered ten shillings to be given out of the poor-box to the applicant . A charge against the police has arisen , out of a case brought before the Worship-street magistrate last Saturday . Some constables accused Mr . Frederick Bendon and Mr . William Tapley , two tradesmen , with having ¦ violentl y assaulted them in the execution of their dnty . According to their assertions , two women were found in the Hackney-road , late at night , or early in the rooming , very intoxicated , and sitting on a door-step . At the request of the owner of the house , the constable who found them there removed them ; on which Bendon .-struck him in the moat * , causing a great deal of blood to flow . A cab which 'was passing was hailed by the women , -who got into it , followed by Bendon ; but the

      policeman seized and detained him . A disturbance ensued ; a mob of many hundred persons collected ; brickbats were thrown ; and , when the police were reinforced , a fight took place , -which caused the locality ( according to the rather grandiloquent expression of one of the sergeants ) to " resemble a field of battle . " The accused told a very different story . They affirmed that they were treated with savage brutality by the police , who bad no excuse for so acting . The two women concerned « iid that Mr . Bendon iras returning * with them from a party , and was seized with sudden illness . They had not committed any offence , but were grossly maltreated by the constables . This was confirmed by other witnesses ; but the magistrate said he must commit the accused , for trial , admitting them , however , to bail .

      William Davis , collector of Queen's Taxes for Feck-Ham , has been tried at the Surrey Sessions on a charge Of assaulting Mrs . Bress , the wife of a teacher of music . While collecting taxes , he went to the house of that lady , forced bis way in , used her with great violence , tore her dress , and broke one of the windows of the house . All this time , lie made no demand for taxes : had lie done so , he would have been paid at once . It appeared that this was not the first time he had so ' mia--cmducted himself ; and he was now condemned to pay a fine © f 25 ? . This was immediately done ; and the man will probably lose his situation as well .

      In the Divorce Court , on Monday , Snr Creaswell Cresswell decreed judicial separation , on the grounds , respectively , of desertion and of cruelty to his wife , in the cases of Mr . Oudlipp , attorney , and of Thomas Robinson Botson , a master naariuer . His Lordship refused to grant separation in the ease of Bostock and Bostock , though there appeared to be no doubt that the husband had often used the wife with great violence . But it seemed that they had lived a life of mutual antagonism for thirty years ; that the wife often gave the husband great provocation ; and that every instance of assault by the latter on > the

      former had been condoned by the -woman continuing to reside with her husband . The law does not xacognize incompatibility of temper as aground for divorce ; and so the suit was refused . —Sir Cress well Cresswell , on Tuesday , gave judgment in the case of Thompson v . Thompson , The separation was prayed on the ground of desertion ; but it appeared that the husband had only left his wife to eeok for employment , and that he met her from time to time , and constantly wrote to her , until hot continued withholding of any answers caused him to cease writing . Th « Judgo said he could not regard this as desertion within , the meaning of the act .

      . The details of an ill-fatod newspaper speculation enmo before the Insolvent Debtors' Court last Saturday . Alexander Owen Christie , a solicitor ' s clerk , applied under the Protection Act , and was opposed by Mr . Reed for Mr . Lawrenca Levy . The insolvent stated that last March he purchased the Atlaa for 600 / . of Mr . Boalo , an auctioneer , of Piccadilly . He paid 250 / . down , and bills were given for tho balance . This paper was tlie first purchase of * ' The London Newspaper Company , " In which Mr . Angolo Bennett , a short-hand writer , and Mr . Henry Brinsloy Sheridan , of ttelfleld House , Panorasgreen , were concerned . Bennett transferred to tho insolvent a numbor of shares in tho company , and ho bad also shares in the Dudley and Midland Countios Nonapaper Company , -which , last January , ho transferred to Mr . Sheridan , to relieve him from his liability , lie considered he had bat 800 / , by the newspaper speculation .

      Hfs uncle had paid Mr . Angelo Bennett 600 / . for a share of the partnership as a short-hand writer , and he had given up an agreement for his creditors , by which Mr . Bennett undertook to pay him 12 / . a month on dissolving the partnership . He now had a situation as solicitor ' s clerk of 37 . a week . He attributed his insolvency to his connexion with Mr . Angelo Bennett . He said it had been the intention of the London Newspaper Company to purchase other newspapers ; but , as the Atlas was a lo&s , they could not . Some property had been sold under a bill of sale . The Chief Commissioner named the 15 th of September for the final order , and recommended a settlement with Mr . Levy . The protection was rene-wed .

      A . murderous attack -was made on a policeman at the London and . Blackwall Railway terminus on Sunday night . A sailor named Huggins was there , helplessly drunk , and a young man was observed taking a silk handkerchief from his pocket . Barry , the constable in question , was called to the spot , and attempted to apprehend the pickpocket . The latter beat and kicked the officer in a savage manner ; but Barry said he -would not relinquish his prisoner while he - had life . On this , the fellow- took a large clasp-knife from his pocket , opened jt , and cut Barry ' s wrist , turning the knife round as he did so , and making deadly thrusts . The officer still held on , and the ruffian was about to plunge his knife into Barry ' s body , when others interfered , took the knife from him , and secured him . He has been examined at the Thames police-court , and remanded .

      The affairs of John Smith , a warehouseman of Bowclurchyard , were finally adjudicated on in the Court of Bankruptcy last Saturday . The application for a certiEcate was opposed by Mr . Bagley , chiefly on the ground of a vexatious defence to an action . Mr . Commissioner Goulburn , in giving judgment , said he was of opinion that the defence wa * vexatious , and the judgment of the court therefore was that the certificate should be withheld for six calendar months . Had it not been for the facts that the assignees did not oppose , and that the books had been remarkably -well kept , the suspension would have been . much longer . Protection TYOiild . be refused for the same period ; but the court -would withhold the issuing of an execution certificate for twenty-one days , or , if the bankrupt appealed , until the appeal was disposed of . The certificate , when it issued , would be of the second class .

      Otto Frederick Homeyer , described as of Wolgast , Prussia , is under remand at the Mansion House on a charge of forging two bills of lading for corn , to the value of 37507 . The person victimized is Mr . Rudolph Fernando Tiedmann , a merchant at Newcastle-on-Tyne . A young woman , named Susan Myers , was found Guilty on Tuesday , at the Middlesex Sessions , of kidnapping ; a little boy , three years and a half old . The mother , on the 20 th of May , had left the child playing in front of the Middlesex Hospital , while she herself went in . On coming out again , the child was gone . Some weeks passed without the child being recovered ; but at length a Mr . Attenborough kindly undertook to

      get up a subscription for 20 / ., to enable the mother ( who is in humble life ) to offer a reward for the recovery of the little boy . The advertisement attracted the attention of the master of Chelsea Workhouse , as the description of the child answered to one then in the house , which had been left by the woman Myers , who said it was her brother . The parents were communicated with , and the child was recognized as theirs . Its body was found to be marked with bruises and sores ; and it seems probable that those were intentionally given to excite compassion when the little fellow was taken out to be ^ . The sentence of the Court on Myera was deferred .

      The ense of Lord George Townshend -was again brought on in the Insolvent Debtors' Court on Tuesday- Several creditors appeared , and reiterated their complaints that their debts had been contracted without any expectation of payment . The Commissioner was of opinion that the imprisonment which tho insolvent had undergone ( seven or eight months in duration ) -was a sufficient expiation , and therefore granted a protecting order . John Miller , tea-dealer and grocer , Olevolanil-street , has been fined 52 . by the Marlborough-street magistrate for ferociously kicking and assaulting a boy of fourteen , who had asked to have some tea ho had bought at the shop changed . Tho outrage appears to have been quite unprovoked , and tho ruffian ought not to have had the option of a fine , which he at once paid , and relieved himself from all further consequences .

      John Bennett , a young man of nineteen or twenty , the son of a tradesman at Mile-end , wai on Tuesday charged at the Worship-street office with nn assault on hid parents and sisters . Tho history is a melancholy ono . Though very young , the accused is a confirmed drunkard , and iVas recently turned out of a situation on the Eastern Counties Itailway on that account . He has constantly assaulted both his father and mother , and has threatened tho former with poison . Tho parents were in great distress while giving these , particulars , and said they did not want the youth punished . Mr . D'Eyncourt , howover , ordered him to find sureties to keep the pouco for the next six months . Of course ho tould not do this , and was therefore locked up . William Brandt was tried on Wednesday at tho Middlesex . Sessions on tlio charge of wounding a Sir . Kobor

      Howitt , which we related in our last issue . Hewn , found Guilty , and sentenced to eight months' hard labour . Something wild in his appearance seemed tn denote disturbance of mind . A costermon ^ er- and hawker has been fined ten ahil lings by the Thames magistrate for an assault on * policeman arising out of a riot outside a Mormon chapel- in North-street , J ubilee-street , Whitechanel An attack was made on the chapel , and the " Saints " were hooted , pelted with stones , and subjected to the grossest insults , from which the women were not exempt . During the examination at the police-office the friends of the prisoner hooted the Latter-Day Saints mustered in front of the court , and called them murderers and adulterers , and said that every Latter-Dav Saint ought to be extirpated or burnt .

      The young man charged last week with indecent conduct was agjun examined on Wednesday , on which occasion the women did not appear . Mr . Br . ougb . ton the magistrate , attributing this to-what he called the gross insults heaped on them by the defendant ' s counsel at the previous examination , and hinting that they might have been bribed to keep out of the way , again adjourned the case on baiL Thomas Smith , a tall , gentlemanly-looking man , late assistant schoolmaster at the classical and commercial academy , Bow , which is under the superintendence of the clergy of the parish , -was charged at the Thames police-office , on Thursday , with stealing a large quantity of valuable books , the property of the Rev ^ S . Byrth , curate of Bow . He was remanded .

      The madness of drunkards was painfully illustrated on Thursday at the Lambeth police-office . Mrs . Sarah Collins , wife of the landlord of a beershop ia the Lower Marsh , Lambeth , is in the habit of indulging in intoxication , and , her husband being at present out of town , she took the opportunity , a few nights ago , of drinking till she was raving mad . She then went into a front room on the second floor , and began throwing the furniture out of window . A gentleman was passing at the time , arid , a lage dressing-table struck him so violently on the head , that concussion of tlie brain ensued , and he lies in some danger . The woman is under remand .

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      CRIMINAL RECORD . Manslaughter .- ^ An inquest has been held before Mr . Wakley on the body of Mr . Hassell , artificial florist , of Islington-terrace , Barnsbury-park . He was in the Newroad one night , when a borse and cab , left unattended , ran away . He stopped the animal , but , on the driver coming up , refused to deliver the cab to him , and demanded his number . He was then surrounded by a mob of ruffians , who knocked him down , kicked him , and subjected him to such ill usage that he was taken to the University College Hospital in a state of insensibility . It was found necessary to amputate one of his legs ; after which , mortification ensued , and he died , though not before he had related the incidents of his encounter . The cabman and bis companions effected their escape ; and the jury were compelled to return an open verdict , as there was no evidence to show who struck the fatal blows . ¦

      Tjie Charge of Deoavbiho a Seaman . —George Menham , or Maynard , tlie captain of the Reliance , and Edwin Fox , captain of the Schiedam , have been examined before the Sundcrland magistrates on the charge of drowning a seaman , named Barron , which we related last week . Tlie evidence did little more than confirm what has already been set forth . John Ramsey , the principal witness , after relating the facts connected with the drowning , said that , on seeing Barron sink , he turned round to the two captains , and , clenching his fist , exclaimed , " You have murdered that man 1 What do you call that but murder ? " Neither replied to this question , "but Menhum cried out , ' Oh , my God ! my God ! I am a murderer , ' several times for about live or six minutes . Fox did not look over tho ship ' s side beforo

      the man had sunk ; but , after I " said they had murdered Barron , he walked to the bUIo and looked over . Tho man laid gone down . Menhmn was in an awfully distressed state , and was crying . He went to his own ship , and thence into the boat at the ship ' s stern , and sat about ten minutes , and cried . Fox was sober ; Menlinm was drunk—just as much as he could cleverly walk about Avi ' . h . It was done in the height of passion . At tea time , Fox said to mo , 'Miud , I have nothing to do with it . ' I replied , ' That does not belong to me ; it belongs to the magistrates . ' I afterwards told Fox to go on shore , and report the matter to the consul . I afterwards saw Menham go on shore , and also Fox . " Both the accused were committed for trial on the charge of Wilful Murder .

      Murder in St . Pancras . —A man named Smith , a painter , residing at No . 8 , Hastings-street , liurtoncrcscent , St . Pancras-road , has killed his wife by a ferocious attack which be mndo on her lnat Saturday morning , lie ia a man of very intemperate habits , who neglected his family and had frequently beforo ill-used his wife . After making the fatal assault on her , ho left her bleeding and insensible , und she wua romovml to tho workhouse , where who soon died . In tho moan while , tho murderer got off ; but the police are looking after him-MuiiDiut in Livkiu-oOl . — Two seamen , nuincdJ aincfl

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      706 THE IEADEB , [" No . 435 , Jtjlt 24 , 1858 .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1858, page 706, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2252/page/10/