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ence of Jealousy . The woman , it appealed , had formed Itt fflicit ^ nnexion , and given birth to an infant , durin * her husband ' s absence at sea . The Attempted Murder in St . Martin s-le-Gband . —George Cox was brought up at Guildhall on Thursday for further examination , upon the double charge of wounding Caroline Cox ( his wife ) and William Fbrtey , her paramour . This investigation was adiourned on the last occasion in consequence ^ of the wounded woman not being sufficiently recovered to undergo an examination . She now attended , and Cox was committed for trial—The man Pendry who was , held to bail in his own recognizances in 50 / ., for interfering with a witness under examination , and prompting him to swear to facts he was ignorant of , was then brought forward , and , having expressed regret for his misconduct , was discharged . . The Outrage m the Queen ' s Prison . —Antonio de Salvi , an Italian , and Mr . Jabez Samnel Gower , an auctioneer in Barbican , have at length , after several remands , been committed for trial , charged , the former with stabbing Mr . Robert Henderson Robertson , a gentleman confined for debt in the Queen ' Prison , and the latter with inciting him to do so . As there was some doubt with respect to Mr . Gower , who appears to have been stricken with the utmost horror at the deed , he was admitted to bail . De Salvi was removed to gaol . Manslaughter . —Alice Agnes Williams has been tried at Croydon for causing the death of Henry John Rix , a tradesman at Walworth , with whom she had some dispute about a score which her father owed the deceased , who had caused him to be committed to prison for non-payment . This enraged the young woman , and she struck Rix on the breast with a stone , owing to which he died . She was found Guilty , and sentenced to six years' penal servitude . Burglary . —GeoTge Sparrow has been found Guilty at the Gloucester Assizes of a burglary in the house of William Holborrow , a farmer in the village of Leighterton , accompanied by . great violence . Sentence of death was recorded .
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GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . An action for slander , of . a very complex kind , was tried by Lord Campbell at the Norwich Assizes . It was brought by Mr . Palmer , a solicitor at Upwell , Norfolk ^ against Mr . Reeve , a farmer ; and the alleged slanders consisted mainly of assertions by Mr . Reeve that Mr . Palmer had induced a Mr . Tuck , while in a state of imbecility , to annul a will he had inade in favour of Mrs . Reeve ; and that he ( Mr . Palmer ) was a dishonest man who could not he trusted with money , having already forged a promissory note , by altering the word ' seven ' into * twenty . ' The defendant pleaded Not Guilty and a Justification . As regards the will of Mr . Tuck , it was satisfactorily shown that that gentleman , at the time he made the second disposition of his property , was perfectly sane and competent . Reeve , however , disputed the will in the Prerogative Court of Norwich , but without effect . As regards the alleged forgery of the bill of costs , it appeared that Mr . Palmer had been given into custody by a Mr . OUard on that charge ; but the case failed , and Mr . Palmer commenced an action for malicious prosecution , which was afterwards suspended . In another action brought by Mr . Palmer , the defence was a repetition of tho charge of forgery . It then appeared , and was admitted now by the plaintiff , that the 20 / , note had been painted or touched up , several of the letters having been re-written , and Mr . Palmer accounted for it by the supposition that ho had used ink from two inkstands to write the note , and that , tho ink in the one which -was of metal having corroded , he had been obliged to touch up the defective letters ; but he then and now positively swore that the note had not been altered in any way by him , and that ho liad not converted seven ' into ' twenty . ' On tho present triaL Mr . Palmer stated that ho had been told by one of his old clerks that he had an involuntary habit of mechanically touching up or painting over documents lying before him when in conversation , and he added that he was now conscious of tho fact . In addition to this evidence , Mr . Adlard , a gentleman of great experience in such matters , gave it as his unqualified opinion that tho 20 / . note had not been altered in tho manner contended for by the defendant , on whoso side no ' expert' was called . The parties concerned , however , wore called , and expressed their conviction that tho amount had been altered . The jury returned a vordict for tho plaintiff , with 200 / , damages . Tho case of two bankrupts , William Wilson and Henry Wilson , bookbinders , of 19 , Foloy-place , came before the Bankruptcy Court last Saturday . Tho oounsol for tho assignees applied for leave to adjourn tho dividend meeting sine die , and to prosecute tho bankrupts for not having surrendered tp their bankruptcy ; also for having concealed and embezzled a portion of their estate . The bankrupts , on tho affidavit of one of the assignees , wcro charged witli having committed forgeries to a large amount . Mr . Commissioner Fano made the order for tho prosecution , tho expenses to bo defrayed at tho cost of tho estate . —E . Price , an upholsterer , of West Ham , Plntetow , wus mado on outlaw on tho same day , for having secreted , property , and neglected to surrender ,
The affairs of Mr . J . De Wolf Cochran , a shipowner , and one of the directors of the Royal British Bank , came before Mr . Commissioner Goulburn on Monday . ; The meeting was for the proof of debts and choice of assignees . Mr . Linklater sustained a proof for 7 O 0 O / . as due to the Royal British Bank on a cash credit account ; and Mr . Tresham Burke , of Gresham-street , one of the assignees of the bank , was appointed assignee . Ihe bankrupt , who is one of the directors against whom an indictment has been preferred , has not yet surrendered . The absurdity of burking a criminal inquiry because of the peculiar tenets on religious questions of the prosecutor was again illustrated on Tuesday at the Marlborough-street police-court in a case of alleged robbery . Thomas Briant was chaTged with stealing a gold watch from Baron Ernest de Gleichen , of Tottenbourn , and 32 , Harrington-street North , Hampsteadroad . On the Bible being tendered to the latter to be sworn on , he declined to take the oath , from religious scruples . Mr . Beadon , the magistrate , asked him what his religious tenets were . He answered that he was neither Protestant nor Roman Catholic . In reply to further questioning , he said : — "I am an Atheist—a perfect Atheist . " * Then , " said Mr . Beadon , "there is an end of the case . " And the charge was dismissed . A suit for divorce , by reason of adultery , has been promoted in the Consistory Court by Major John Theodore Ling . The facts of the case have already appeared in this journal in connexion with the action for adultery . Dr . Lushington pronounced for the divorce , and Mrs . Ling ' s proctor asserted an appeal . There is an imputation of adultery on the part Of Major Ling . Charles Mickleburg , a respectably-dressed man , has been charged before the Worship-street magistrate with obtaining possession of a quantity of property vested in the official assignees of the Court of Bankruptcy , and which was being sold by auction , by means of a cheque for 41 / . 3 s . on the Unity Bank , where there were no effects . Several cheques with the same number as that given by Mickleburg had been sent into the bank ; and it is suspected that there is a deep-laid conspiracy to defraud at the bottom of the business . The accused stated to the magistrate that he was employed to give the cheques , and had no evil intention or knowledge . He was remanded for a week . Vice-Chancellor Kindersley , on Wednesday , gave judgment in the case of Mr . Brockwell , a shareholder , in the Royal British Bank . On the bank stopping payment , it was endeavoured to be established against him that he was de facto a partner , and that he should be placed on the list of contributaries . To this he demurred . His Honour , having gone through the objections and evidence , decided that the report , not being rejected by the company , was adopted ; consequently it was an authorized statement , and therefore the company were bound by it . The bank was commenced and continued in fraud ; and , even if he were not supported by authority , he would decide that Mr . Brockwell should not be placed on the list of coutributaries . His Honour , in reply to an application for Mr . Brockwell ' s costs out of the estate of the company , said he would consider that matter .
Naval And Military. Sardinian Medals. — ...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . Sardinian Medals . — General Sir John F . Burgoyne , G . C . B ., Inspector-General of Fortifications , delivered on Friday week to the officers and men of the Royal Eng ineers the medals awarded by . the King of Sardinia for their conduct during the late war . The Troops for India on board the Lady Jocelyn and James Bainos transport ships were inspected by the Qqeen , accompanied by Prince Albert and the Princess Royal , on Tuesday . The inspection took place partly in the Portsmouth Dockyard ; partly on board tho Lady Jocelyn . The Lords of the Admiralty visited the Royal Marine Barracks at Plymouth on Tuesday , and inspected those portions of tho force destined for China . Military Education . —Tho first report of the Council on Military Education was issued on Tuesday . The council recommond the holding of quarterly examinations in Lonflon ( to begin in January next ) , under their own direction , by examiners to bo annually chosen by tho Commander-in-Chicf and tho Secretary for War . Tho age of candidates for direct appointments is to be . from tho lat of January , 1858 , not under seventeen years , and after January , 1859 , not under eighteen , tho latest limit being twonty-one years . Tho candidates , after producing medical and religious certificates , & c , will bo examined in classics , mathematics , English , Fronch , other modern tongues , history and geography , geology and mineralogy , chemistry , heat , electricity , and drawing . Certain marks will bo allotted , tho minimzim of tho ' indispensable' oneB being 1800 out of 2400 , of which 1200 are allotted to mathematics , and 400 each to English , Fronch , and history ; of the othor ( voluntary ) subjects a sufficient number of marks must bo attained to raise tho total number necessary for qualification to 8 Q 00 . No marks in tho voluntary aubjecta will count unless ono-flfth of tho whole number allotted bo attained . No candidates will bo allowed moro than two trials , but tho second ' go' may toko place at any interval from tho first within tho limit of ago .
OBITUARY . Eugene Sub , the celebrated novelist , died a few days ago at Annecy , in Savoy , where he had been residing for some years past . His disease was an affection of the spine . It is said ( writes the Times Paris correspondent ) that he has left memoirs which are not without interest , and a romance complete . Mb . W . F . A .. Delane , for many years chief manager of the Times , to the building-up of the greatness of which paper he largely contributed by his skill and energy , died last week at the house of his son at Norwich . At the time of his decease , he filled the office of Treasurer of the County Courts of Kent , to which Mr . James Coppock has now been appointed . Bishop Blomfield died on Thursday , having survived his resignation of office barely a year . He was bora in May , 1786 , and was therefore in his seventysecond year . He was the son of a humble schoolmaster at Bury St . Edmund's ; but he worked his way up with indomitable perseverance ; obtained a good education at Trinity College , Cambridge ; and , rapidly rising in the Church , became in time Bishop of Chester , and then of London . To the latter see he was appointed in 1828 . Bishop Blomfield did a good deal towards Church extension , and excited considerable alarm in the minds of many persons , some years ago , by what were considered to be Popish tendencies . He was an excellent scholar , and has published several learned works . —An excellent bust of the deceased Bishop , executed by Mr . Bohnes , of Osnaburgh-street , Regent ' s Park , is now in possession of the family .
Miscellaneous. The Court.—The Emperor An...
MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Emperor and Empress of the French arrived off Osborne in the Seine Hortense at half-past eight o ' clock on Thursday morning from Havre , and were received with a royal salute . The Queen and Prince Albert , accompanied by Prince Alfred , the Princess Royal , and Princess Alice , attended by Lady Churchill , the Hon . Beatrice Byng , Lord Charles Fitzroy , and Captain Du Plat , had proceeded to the pier . The Prince , with Prince Alfred , immediately went on board the Imperial yacht ( which was bright with parterres of f lowers ) in the Queen ' s barge , which conveyed the Emperor and Empress to the landingr-place , where the Queen received them . The roj'al party were then conveyed to the house in four of the Queen ' s carriages ; the Queen and Prince , with the Emperor and Empress occupying the first carriage . The Delay in the Indian Telegraph . —It is understood that the Government has been unable to obtain any satisfactory information regarding the causes of the delay last week in the Indian telegraph . The director at Trieste cannot give any explanation , except that many messages sent about the same time experienced equal or greater detention . A thunderstorm Somewhere between Trieste and Munich is still said to have occasioned the interruption . There is , however , a difficulty in accepting this solution . A thunderstorm might stop a succession of messages , but it is not easy to see how , when communication was resumed , it should cause them to arrive in different order from that in which they were originally transmitted . Thus , it seems , that the despatch addressed to Lord Clarendon from Trieste at 11 5 A . M . on the 28 th of July did not arrive in London till 12 35 p . m . on the following day , whilo a message despatched between three and four hours later arrived nt the India House more than an hour sooner . Probably the whole can be made clear , but the subject is hard of investigation , the ways _ of telegraphs being often as incomprehensible as the majority of messages they contrive to pervert . There is reason to conclude , however , that , if any fault is to be found in the present instance , it does not lie with the English company . — Times . Suicides . —The Rov . G . R . J . Tryon , who has been recently inducted to the livings of Old Weston , Brington , and Bythorn , near Huntingdon , cut his throat during the night of Monday week . On the previous day , ho had officiated for the first time . The cause of the act does not appear . —A licensed victualler , named John Reed , proprietor of the Stamford Arms , Stamfordstreet , has committed suicide by shooting himself through , the head with a revolver . He had for some time past been in the habit of drinking to oxcoas in consequence of which he was subject to fits of delirium tremons . Ho was found dead one morning by hia mnid-sorvnnt . An inquest was held and the jury returned n verdict of Temporary Insanity . Fike . — -The Elleamere Worka , near Dawson-street , Hull , occupied by Mr . Harrap , joiner and builder , were burnt down last Saturday morning . The damage is estimated at nearly 10 , 000 / ., of which only a small Amount ia insured . This Quicen op the Netherlands anu suite viaitcd the Munchoater Exhibition on Monday . Her Majesty has also boon to Liverpool . Tub Srno ov this National Gallkhy . —1 ho report of the National Gallery Site Comrnitiaion , anil the minutes and evidence , were published on Monday , it appoara that thirty-four witnesses ini all wore examined , including Sir C . Eaetl « l < o , P . B . A ., W , Mulrcady , Esq ., K A Sir O Barry , B . A ., B . Wostmaoott , I ' - » q ., » . A ., BftVon M « roo ^ . ctti % n Hwkln , Esq ., tho Chancellor of
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 8, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08081857/page/9/
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