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No. 429, June 12,1858 j T HE L EADEli. 5...
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MISCELLANEOUS. The Court.—The Queen and ...
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At the sitting of the Court of Queen ' s Bench on Monday , Mr . Justice Coleridge took the oaths on lis appointment . is a member of her Majesty ' s Privy Council . ¦ ¦« Thas & idge Ordinary of the ~ Divorce and Matrimonial Court , and a common jury , were engaged ore Monday in investigating a petition for divorce presented by Mrs . Sarah Peacock on the ground of adultery committed by her husband . It was alleged that Mr . Peacock , who is a silk manufacturer in Spitalfields , had had a child by his servant maid : and the girl herself gave evidence to
this effect . On the other hand , it was contended that the offence had been condoned by the wife , -who , though knowing of the fact , had , after a sbort separation , again cohabited with , her husband , on his expressing his contrition , ' and begging forgiveness . To this the wife replied that she had only returned on the solemn disavowal by her husband of the imputed infidelity . Sir Cresswell Cresswell said he did not think the return to cohabitation could be looked on as condonation ; and the jury , after , deliberating for two hours and a quarter , returned a verdict for the petitioner on all the issues . .
Henry Keene Smithers , secretary to the Commercial Dock . Company , has been examined at the Mansion House , and committed for trial , on a charge of having embezzled 251 ? . 8 s . 9 d ., the property of the company . Jonathan Mirehouse , a well-dressed young- man , employed . at Messrs . Knight and Co . 's shawl and mantle warehouse , < Regent-street , was charged at CSuildhall on Monday with being found in the unlawful possession of a gold chronometer , value 48 ? ., and a " gold guard-chain , value 12 / ., which had been obtained of Messrs . Parkinson and Frodsham , of Change-alley , Cornhill , by fraudulent means . He has heen committed for trial .
Tuesday was appointed for a credit and dividend meeting in the Court of Bankruptcy under the estate of Strahan , Paul , and Co ., formerly bankers in the Strand . A . dividend of one shilling in the pound was declared on the separate estate of Strahan ; but there are not funds in hand sufficient for a dividend on the joint estate . . The indictments preferred against Mi . Truelove , publisher in the Strand , and M . Tcherwiski , for alleged libels on the Emperor of the French , are fixed for trial next Friday , the 18 th inst ., the first week of the after term sittings . The trials will take place Lei the Court of Queen ' s Bench , before Lord Campbell and a special jury . The Attorney-General , the Solicitor-General , and Mir . Welsby will conduct the prosecution on behalf of the Crown ; and Mr . Edwin James , Q . C ., Mr . Phinn , Q . C , Mr . Hawkins , and Mr . Simon , have fceen retained for the defendants .
Three women have been examined at police-courts this week on charges of attempted suicide . Two of the cases arose from drunkenness ; the third from jealousy . - The case of Wilkins v . Roebuck , in connexion with the Western Bank of London , was heard before Vice-Chancellor Kindersley on Thursday . The plaintiff was a shareholder in the hank , and the bill was filed by him to set aside a certain deed as fraudulent against the shareholders of the bank . ' Previous to the formation of the company , an arrangement had been made between the intended directors and the defendant , Henry Tucker Clark , that he should be the general manager of the concern at a salary of 1500 ? . a year , with the possession of a house and furniture . He was not to be dismissed
without notice , or for any cause other than misconduct ; but lie was in turn to bind himself , under a penalty of 2000 / ., not to take any other similar appointment while employed by the bank . It was also recommended that an additional income should be given to Clark when a bonus of 5 ? . per cent , should be declared on the paid-up capital . This bank was duly incorporated , and then a deed -was prepared , in October , 1856 , and engrossments were subsequently made of it . It did not appear that either of the engrossments in the prepared deed were over read over to or sanctioned by « ny general board of the directors . The charter of the bank enabled them to grant a superannuation to their officers , but it was contended that the proposed deed wa 3 not within the terms of the bank charter . The seal of
the bank was , howevor , it was stated , affixed by the defendant Roebuck ( the member for Sheffield ) and others to the deed . The plaintiff , on behalf of himself and tho shareholders ( other than the defendants ) , sought to have the deed declared fraudulent and void , as contrary to the charter , and unaanctioned by the director * of the bank . The bill also charged other circumstances tending to Bhow a fraudulent concealment of the arrangement from the general body of the shareholders . The Vice-chancellor dismissed the bill with costs . William Pilchor , formerly a cab-driver , was charged at Lambeth on Thursday with stealing from Charles Earl a silver watch . Tho prosecutor , who described hi msulf
as a map mounter , said that on that morning about one ? i ! Zu . . . amone a crowd of P ° " «« 3 assembled at the Obelisk at tho top of tho Blackfriars-road , listening to a discussion between two persons , one an infidel and tho other a Christian , and , having been appealed to , ho took part with the Christian . Mr . Norton : "Do you mean , to aay that these discussions took place at one o clock in tho morning ? " Witness : " Yed , sir , nnd there were a good many present at the time . While I was arguing in favour of Christianity , PilcUer , who stood close to mo , turned mo round nnd said , l How much do you get a week for preaching hero ? ' I told him to mind his own business ; and at thnt moment I found that my watch had beon wrenched from tho gunrd . 1
mentioned the fact of my watch having heen stolen , when Pilcher , in a sneering tone , said , ' You don ' t say so—I must see if I cannot find it ; ' and began to feel in his pockets . 1 subsequently saw lim at the Crown public-house , and gave him into custody on a charge of stealing my watch . " The man was remanded . The certificate meetings in the bankruptcy of Joseph Heldmann took place on Thursday before Mr . Commissioner Fane . The bankrupt , a German , was a lacemanufacturer of 15 , Gutter-lane , Cheapside , and 23 , Adelaide-road , North , St . John ' s-wood . His accounts , prepared by Mr . Pettis , commence March 1 , 1854 , with an estimated capital of 100 ? ., as brought a short time previously by him from Germany , and close December 24 , 1857 , with unsecured debts 19 , 000 ? ., and assets about 1300 ? . The assets include household
furniture and horse and carriage ( 1543 ? . ) , as estimated to realize 900 ? . Messrs . Oliver and Co ., of Nottingham , for whom the bankrupt acted as London agent are sufferers to the extent of about 16 , 000 / ., including . upwards of 3000 ? ., the result of the bankrupt having sold their goods from October to December , 1857 , at a loss , and concealed the fact by means of making to them false returns of his sales . Several of the bankrupt ' s letters to Messrs . Oliver were read in court . They show a union of shrewd worldly wisdom and pretentious piety . An adjournment was ordered to the 21 st instant .
The town of Worthing has refused . to pay a Mr . Friend and his partner the balance of their account ( about 1100 ? . ) for draining the place , and making waterworks . The local Board of Health do not dispute the validity of the defence ; but there is a legal Haw in . the contract , and through this they have the in redible meanness to creep out . The case has been brought before the Justices of the Common Pleas ; hut they can do nothing- ^ -except express their opinion ,
which they have done pretty ; strongly . " It is quite clear , " said lord Chief Justice Cockburn , " that we must decide this case upon the abstract principles of law brought before us ; but I do not think we go beyond our province in saying that this is a scandalous and dirty defence . " Mr . Justice Willes concurred with , the Lord Chief Justice , adding ;— - " This is not the first instance of fraud proceeding from the same source which has come under my observation . " The townsfolk of Worthing owe it to themselves to take the matter
Up . V . .. : . . •;¦ . ; - . ., . : ,-.. . .. ., The first , second , and third mates of the United States ship Gleaner , have been examined at the Cardiff policecourt , oh a charge of brutally assaulting the ere . v , consisting chiefly of negroes . The cruelty appears to have been of the most savage kind , and it was committed systematically . The three prisoners were committed for trial .
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Miscellaneous. The Court.—The Queen And ...
MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen and Royal Family left Osbornc on the afternoon of Friday week , and returned to Buckingham Palace , which they reached at seven o ' clock in the evening . Accompanied by Prince Victor of Hohenlohe , her Majesty visited the Haymarket Theatre the same night . —On Saturday the Queen held a Privy Council and Court at Buckingham Palace . At the Council , Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton and Sir John Taylor Coleridge were sworn of her Majesty ' s Most Honourable Privy Council . The Right Hon . Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton was sworn her Majesty ' s Secretary of State for the Colonies . Sir Edward kissed hands upon his appointment , and received from tlie Queen hia Seals of Office . Her Majesty visited the Italian Opera in the evening . —The Prince Consort ha 3 been visiting the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia at Bab « lsbcrg , near Potsdam . —The Hereditary Grand-Duchess of Mecklenburg Strelitz arrived at Buckingham Palace from the Continent on Monday afternoon , on a visit to the Queen . The Prince Consort left Babelsberg on Sunday evening , and arrived tho following day at Dusseldorf , where his Royal Highness visited the Prince of Hohenzollern . The Prince continued his journey via Belgium , and was accompanied by the King of the Belgians from Malines to Ost « ind , where his Royal Highness embarked on board the Vivid on Monday evening about five o ' clock , nnd arrived at Dover at ten p . m . It ia said that , while at Coburg , the Prince signed a document by which he
makes over hia hereditary rights in the Duchy of Coburg to his second son , in order to avoid the inconvenience of the future King of England being also reigning Duke of Saxe-Coburg nnd Gothn . The young Prince is shortly expected at Berlin , and will remain some time in Germany to prepare himself for his position as a German ruler . During his stay abroad , Prince Albert had a long interview with the King of Prussia . —The Qusen gave , on Wednesday evening , at Buckingham Palace a Stnte Ball , to which a party of about 1900 were invited . An Exfknsivk Elkction Contest . —Tho election auditor has recently made bis return of the expenses incurred by Lord Henley and Colonel Cartwright in contesting the representation of South Northamptonshire . Tlio expenditure on account of tho former amounted to 6024 ? . 9 s . 6 il ., and of tUe latter to 10 C 9 ? . Os . 0 d .
Loiii > Ei . ciio ' s Koai > Bii-, 1 ,. —A meeting of the county of Hnddington was held on Friday week for the purpose of considering Lord lilcho's bill , " to enable counties in Scotland to abolish tolls and statute labour ,
and to maintain their public roads and bridges by . assessment . " A report was unanimously agreed to , approving the principle of the bill , and suggesting for Lord Elcho ' a consideration various amendments' in the details . - — The . Red Sea Telegraph Routk . —Captain Pullen , in a letter dated "H . M . ship Cyclops , Suez , May 15 th , ' " says : — " I shall proceed , and get as many soundings as possible on the line proposed along the eastern shores of the sea to as far as Jiddab , thence to the Straits of Babel Mandeb and Aden . Trom information gained here learn
I that a route for telegraph wires is practicable and safe along the eastern shores of the Gulf of Suez . I mention this circumstance , as it may possibly be of service to the company , and suggest that . in . the event of the eastern route being adopted , they ( the wires ) should terminate at a station in one of the small harbours north and east of Ras Mahommed , the pilots stating that Sheraus Shikh and Ul Moyah are the best ; thence by cable to Jiddah , or any intermediate port the company may decide on , by which means , I conceive that the distance tlirough the deep water is very much shortened . " v ~ .
Newspapers sent Abroad . —On the 1 st of next July , and thenceforward , the postage on . all newspapers sent abroad must , like the postage on inland newspapers , be prepaid in stamps ; otherwise the newspapers will not be forwarded . . .. ' . . The iateJIb . Dymock ' s Cabinet of Coins . —This choice collection , -which comprised some select pieces rarely to be met vvith , especially in the Saxon series , has just been disposed of by Messrs . Sotheby and Wilkinson at prices much beyond all precedent , many of the pennies averaging at the rate of 700 ? . per ounce .
The Corporation Reform Bili ,. — -A special Court of Common Council was held last Saturday at Guildhall , the Lord Mayor presiding , to receive a report from the Corporation In quiry Committee relative to the Corporation Reform Bill now before Parliament ; This report loudly condemned the confiscating and centralizing character of the measure ; and , after considerable discussion , it was unanimously adopted . . : The Breach ov Privilege Case . —Mr . Washington Wilks appeared , on Friday week , at a meeting at the Carlisle Athenaeum , to explain his motives and conduct in connexion with his recent collision with the House of Commons . He justified himself by calling attention to the fact that , when his informants refused
to come forward to support their statement , and when Mr . Clive denied the truth of that statement , he had withdrawn the imputation ; and he denounced the essential injustice of converting a prisoner into a witness , and interrogating him after the French plan . He had refused to give the names of his informants or to retract the whole of his article ; and in this he thought he had only acted as a man of honour . Mr . Wilks repelled the language used towards him by Mr . Roebuck ( at the mention of whose name there Avere hisses ) , and acknowledged the obligation he was under to Mr . Gladstone , Mr . Milner Gibson , and others . The second statement
which he made was substantially the same as the first ; yet the one was held to be unsatisfactory , while the other was accepted . " The fact is , " said Mr . Wilks , "I was committed on false pretences and liberated on false pretences . " At trie conclusion of Mr . Wilks ' s speech , a resolution , expressive of the approval and satisfaction of the meeting with his conduct , and congratulating him on his liberation and return home , was unanimously passed . A second resolution , which was also carried unanimously , thanked Mr . Gibson , Mr . Gladstone , Mr . Ayrton , and the Hon . Mr . Elliott , for their services , and expressed strong disapprobation of the language used by Mr . Roebuck in tlie debate .
SuicIdk . —Mr . John Marlow , a respectable inhabitant of Old Windsor , about seventy years of age , has terminated his existenco in a singular manner . He was being drawn by two boys in an easy chair on the banks of the Thames , when he sent one of the boys with a shilling to a noted fishing-house , for some ginger-beer . He then deliberately gave liis hat and stick to tlie other boy , said to him , " Good-by , William , " and quictlj rolled himself down the bank into the river . The lad gave an alarm , and a search was instantly made for the body , but it was not recovered until the following morning , when it was taken out of the water not fur from Magna Charta Island .
San Domingo . —Civil war still rages in the Republic of San Domingo , and Baez is in possession of the port , which his rival Simtana is besieging . The batteries of the latter having accidentally nearly sunk a Sardinian vessel , and seriously injured two ships belonging to France and Spain , the Powers in question have made demands for reparation . Funeuai- op a French Kkkugkb . —The remains of the French refugee , Dr . Quoval , were burk-cl on Sunday in the Kensal Green cumcteiv . Tho proccsbion started
from 1 H , Wardour-strcct , with banners inscribed with devices oxprcssivo of republican feeling' ; and , after tho corpse was lowered into the grnvc , speeches were delivered by M . E . Couturat , M . Taflery , and M . Louis Blanc . The last named of these gentlemen said he thought tiio prospects of tho Republic were beginning to look inoro hopeful . Opposition is beginning to awtkc in Franco , and tlie people aro beginning to ( Uncover thnt , oven in a materialistic point of view , tho Kmpim has not benefited them ; that thoy aro not getting wealthier , but Imve to
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Leader (1850-1860), June 12, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_12061858/page/9/
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