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      nelebrated case " Hughes v . Lady Dinorben , ' were resumed and at the close the Court discharged the rule . Esther Griggs , who has been in custody some time for throwine her child out of window , was again examined » t Marvlebone police-court . The surgeon states that fbe infant is now out of danger . Mr . Broughton announced his intention of committing the prisoner for trial as in bis opinion it would be fraught with danger to admit the plea of the influence of a , dream in such cases Two sureties of 301 . each were accepted for her

      James Durant , a bookbinder , was brought up at Westminster police-court , charged with throwing the dead body of a child into thfe Thames . The prisoner is a married man , but has been cohabiting with a woman not his wife , this woman , it appears , was lately delivered of a child , which died under circumstances of sbm e suspicion , and the body soon afterwards disappeared . Durant confessed that he had tied it up in paper , and dropped it over Vauxhall-bridge . The magistrate has remanded him for a week . h been again grossldeceived by

      The public ave y a pretended case of virtue , in distress . The ballet girl , over whose hapless fate so much sympathy and benevolence have been expended , turns out to be far from a legitimate object of public compassion , at . least , if we may judge from her own evidence given before the police magistrate . It is one of the most depraved cases that it ever was the misfortune of a magistrate to hear , and perhaps the worst feature of it is that the mother , whose application to the magistrate was so plausible ( and which has been warmly responded to by the charitable ) ,

      has been living upon her child ' s infamy for some months . George Gibson , or Elliott , who stands charged with being ah actor in the Stamford-hill burglary , has been again brought before Alderman Humphery ^ at Guildhall . Important evidence connecting the prisoner with that crime was produced , and the counsel for the prosecution promising to close the case next week , another remand was agreed to . . .. At the Surrey sessions , James Manning was charged with stealing a handkerchief . The prosecutor did not appear , and an inquiry as to the cause was instituted , when it was stated that the friends of the prisoner had called at Jthe bouse of the prosecutor and said he need not appear at the sessions , as . the magistrate had dealt with the case . The Chairman said it was a new trick

      to frustrate the ends of justice , and remanded the prisoner until , the next sessions , when the prosecutor with his witnesses must be in attendance . The prisoner , to his great disappointment , was sent back to his old quarters in the gaoj . * Emma and Ellen Smith , in the service of Mr . Cremer , proprietor of , the German Fair Bazaar , arid Emma Smith , their mother , were brought before Mr . Beadon , charged , the daughters with stealing and the mother with receiving , a quantity of goods , the property of the prosecutor . Mr . Cremer stated that having accidentally found a number of articles on one of the girls in the bazaar , he was induced to accompany them home in the evening , when he found an immense amount of property belonging to him of every description disposed of in all parts . of the house . The prisoners were remanded for a week .

      At the Court of Bankruptcy , on Thursday , some business of a private nature was transacted under the the bankruptcy of Colonel W . B . Waugh . A trader debtor ' s summons , that had been issued against Messrs . Calvert and Co ., brewers , was dismissed without conditions , on the ground that they having filed a deed of arrangement , signed by six-sevenths of their creditors , it formed a good defence to any action that might be brought by the summoning creditor , provided its validity remained unquestionable , a matter which should be decided by another court .

      A . boy named Henry Barton , thirteen years of ago , who pushed a woman over aa he was making his escape from a shop at Bayswater , where ho had beon attempting to rob the till , causing injuries which resulted in her death , has been committed for trial on the charge of manslaughter , by Mr . Long , at Marylcbone police-court .

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      IRELAND . Op Baron Ponnefathor , the retiring judge , the Dublin Daily Express says : — "As a judge ho is universally known and appreciated throughout the country . Among men of all classes and creeds his talents and character have been the objects of the highest admiration . His name has been associated with , all that is pure and exalted in tho administration of justice . A nobler example of tho porfoot judicial mhuLwas never exhibited on tho

      Engliah or Irish bench . Ho had well-donned political principles , whioh ho hold firmly , but novor allowed them to intorfqro with tho pure administration of justly A ho Roman Catholic felt ns confident that ho would receive juatico nt his hands as the Protostant , No man understood the principles of jurisprudence bettor , and no man ovor applied them with more judgment and discrimination , or with greater freedom from any sort of bias . " A no / 'Vee ? rtan ' a Journal adds!— " Ho was emphatically & great judge , " A groat judge la a groat man and a good man . To deservo the titlo a man must bo richly

      endowed with the finest gifts of mind and the most ennobling virtues that adorn humanity . These were possessed by Baron Pennefather in a measure very rarelyexceeded . The fifteen prisoners in custody in Belfast , on the charge of being connected with an illegal society , have been discharged on security to appear at the next assizes . Bail was given—themselves in 100 / ., and two sureties of 50 / . each . "¦ _'¦¦ " . , ' m ^ . ' ^ ' « 4 " ¦ ' 4 am *'' . __ . .

      Black , the murderer of his wife , is said to be in a very precarious state of health since his committal to prison . At times he raves fearfully , and his recovery is regarded as problematical . It is pretty generally reported that jealousy laid the foundation of the fearful crime which lias jeopardised iris life . The unhappy wife , unfortunately for herself , was remarkably handsome , and in his drunken savageness the husband frequently taxed her—unjustly , it is believed—with levity of conduct .

      A number of letters are published in the Dublin journals from members of Parliament and other influential parties , in reply to the circular invitation to attend the meeting of landlords against Ribbonism on the 27 th instant . Mr . Bagwell , the member for Clonmel , and Mr . Loftus Bland , promise to be present , but with a view of proposing , amendments and resolutions . Mr . Hugh Morgan Tuite , formerly member for Westmeath , and Mr . Bernal Osborne , peremptorily refuse to have anything to do with the matter .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . His Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief will hold a levee at one o ' clock on Wednesday , the 26 th instant . In the proposed reorganisation of the corps of the Royal Artillery , which it is intended shall be formed into four divisions , each with a separate staff" , the authorities propose to make the head-quarters of one of the divisions at Chatham , in which case the various branches of the service , with the exception of cavalry , will have their stations at that garrison . The extraordinary efficiency to which years of careful training have brought the navy of France is excitiug great attention among British officers ; and the folly Of disbanding the crews of our men-of-war as soon as

      they have acquired proficiency in their duties as seamen and artillerists is constantly and forcibly pointed out by the press . It is obvious that energetic measures must be no longer delayed to prevent the loss of our naval supremacy . The Observer remarks : — " Hitherto our weak point has been the slowness with which we have manned our ships ; and as impressment , whatever Lord Hardwicke may think , will never be permitted by this nation to be again resorted to , we have to find some other means of promptly manning a large fleet in case of emergency . No suggestion with this view appears to us to be equally feasible with that of Sir Charles Napier . Unless the commission now sitting can deyise a better plan , and we doubt if they can , we hope the Admiralty will adopt the gallant admiral ' s , recommendation , and put only half the usual number of marines on board the line ships of the Channel fleet in time of peace ,

      dispensing altogether with ordinary seamen , landsmen , and boys , and filling up tho complement with A . B . 's . Then another fleet of an equal number of ships could be at any time provided with crews , by drafting off half the able seamen , and replacing them with the marines , ordinaries , landsmen , and boys , who can always be got hold Of ; while , for able seamen , unless we have them ready provided , we must wait . It is an excellent suggestion , and may be carried out without much additional expense . The adoption of this plan , and keeping ¦ always a fleet of eight . or ten ships of the lino on the home station , to serve as a Channel squadron , would , we fully believe , be quite sufficient to secure our coasts against the possibility of invasion . For the rest , our Admiralty must be always on the alert to take advan * tago of real improvements , such as that of tho Armstrong gun , and wo may then have no fear for the permanence of England's naval supremacy . "

      A letter has been received at Melbourne by the Governor , from Commodore W . Loring , C . B ., of her Majesty ' s ship Iris , 26 , dated Sydney , October 16 , 1858 , which states that he hnd just learnt from a merchant at Sydney that her Majesty ' s' sloop Sappho , 12 , wad spoken on tho 18 th of February last , twenty miles south of Capo Nelson , and that tho inference was that the Sappho had either foundered at sea , or that she had been wrecked in the vicinity of King ' s Island ., which lies immediately in her track from the Capo of Good Hope to

      Bass ' s Straits . Tho first supposition—that the vessel had foundered at sea—was not entertained by nautical men in Australia ; there is little doubt that she has been wrecked on ono of tho islands , probably tho one mentioned . King ' s Island is not believed to be inhabited . Hopes are entertained that she might have , gone ashore at tho spot indicated , and that somo of ; her officers And crew wore saved , Th 0 Governor had' given directions for tuo despatch of a sloop-of-war from Melbourne to soaroh along tho ahoro of King ' s Island and tho adjacent

      coast . A powerful and most effective weapon , known as Terry ' s patent breochrloadlng rifle , ie , by order of the

      Secretary of State for War , to be supplied immediately to several cavalry regiments . . The peculiar advantage of this weapon is to . make one man equal to ten ; the carbine may be loaded with facility at the time of a horse being at full gallop , because neither biting the cartridge nor a ramrod is required , and there is no risk of blowing off the hand while loading . The Small Arm Committee have submitted the carbine to the severest tests , making a most favourable report on . its peculiar advantages , and hence its adoption in the army . A rumour was prevalent this week in the dockyards that the disordered state of Mexico , and the continual insults and exactions to which English subjects have been Subjected there , have at length aroused the serious attention of the British Government to that country , and measures of a severe and effective nature are , it is believed , in contemplation . . , ' . '• . . ^ t _ J-1 — _ '~^ — & C 9 A ^» X _ . ^ ^ fc \ 1 T ! a * a A > k . I * . A A « ^ wfe ^ 12 A-J 3 * —^ _ J f '_ I ^

      A court-martial was held at Devonport on Tuesday on board the Impregnable , to try the assistant-engineer , Mr . John Forster , of the Leopard , 18 , paddle frigate , Captain J . F . B . Wainwright , for breaking his leave at Greytown and frequent disobedience of orders . He was found guilty of all the charges , and sentenced to be imprisoned for six months , and then dismissed the service . Notwithstanding the pacific language of the Ctihstitionnel and the Pays the other day , it appears that the steam engines at Vincennes are still at work manufacturing rifled cannon .

      A series of experiments have recently been made by direction of the Admiralty , with a view to ascertain by what apparatus the largest and best supply of water can be obtained for the use of ships when at sea . The experiments have been made upon the apparatus invented by Sir R * Grant and that by Dr . Normandy . The quantity of water produced by Dr . Normandy ' s apparatus was ninety-two gallons , with a specified quantity of coals . With the same quantity of fuel , under the same conditions , and with the same boiler , Sir R . Grant's apparatus ( under the superintendence of Mr . Miller , of the condensing department ) was tested , and the result was the production of only thirty- two gallons of water . Sir R . Grant ' s is purely-distilled Water , whereas the other becomes aerated in the process of distillation , and is perfectly cold and fit for use when it leaves the apparatus . ¦ . _

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      ^ ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . The adjourned inquiry into the cause of the fatal acci-r dent at the Polytechnic took place this week * The scientific evidence , for which the . proceeding ^ have been , delayed on two previous occasions , was presented for the consideration of the jury , and tended to show that the original breakage was attributable to the bottom landing having given way . Mr . Nelson particularly animadverted on its construction , which he declared " ought never to be allowed in a public building , " , since , " sooner or later this one would have given Way under such a heavy . traffic , even if the iron trellis had not been let into it . " The inquiry was again adjourned , it being understood that on the next occasion they meet solely to consider their verdict .

      At a meeting of the Whittington Life Assurance Company on Monday , Mr . Charles Browne , the secretary , fell from his chair in a fit . Dr . Pavey , of Guy ' s Hospital , and Mr . Critchett , surgeon , ytlid were present , paid every attention to him , but without effect , as life was extinct . The deceased gentleman had previously appeared perfectly well . He was very much respected . An inquest has been opened oh the bodies of Joseph and Charles Philip , young boys , the circumstances of whose death have given rise to a suspicion of their having been accidentally poisoned by some paste used to kill rats . After hearing what evidence could be furnished , the coroner ordered an adjournment of the inquiry for a fortnight , to afford an opportunity of having the stomachs of the deceased submitted to . chemical analysis .

      A deplorable accident occurred on Thursday by the full of some houses in the course of erection , resulting in serious injury to a number yf workmen . The scene of the calamity was Kentish Town Fields , where several houses had so far approached a state of completion that tho bricklayers were in the act of affixing the usual decorations , when one of the chimney stalks , with a poor follow on it , gave way . The falling material of course brought a large portion of tho wall , and . all the scaffolding with , it , in its descent , to the ground , burying tho workmen under tho ruins . They wore quickly convoyed to the hospital , where somo of them lie in a precarious state .

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      ANGLO-FRENCH MARRIAGES . The following scandalous oaso i $ the subject of remark by all tho Paria correspondents of tho daily press . A retired hairdresser , named Normandin , who is possessed of somo property , sent his eon In 1856 to London , to bo apprenticed to a watchmaker . Tho young man thero made tho acquaintance of a young woman who called herself Madamo Loopor , but who afterwards turned out to bo unmarried , and tho daughter of a Belgian consul , deceased , named Van Nyvol . Normandiu conceived a passion for her , and on the 22 nd June , 1867 , they were married at Woolwich . He did not ask his . parents' concent , and did not oven announce tho marriage to them until May , 1868 , The parents

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 22, 1859, page 101, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2278/page/5/