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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS. A gentleman...
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. tool ovenhioo . b y . a union of . threats And kindness . as to influence his .-will to the detriment of his relations . However that might be , there appears to be no , doubt . that Sir George , w . as in a , childish state , jof minxl . at .-the . time the will was executed . . Lord Campbell gave judgment last Saturday in -the ( Case of the Tivartbn Burial Board , fine ; point to be decided was , whether . a fenee of sufficient height had been erected between ; tho consecrated and unconaecratal
portions of ; tlie Tiverton-burial-ground . The fence "was twelve inches high , and the Bishop of Exeter contended that . that : wasnot sufficient , and that it ought to be four feet in altitude . This the Board refused to accede to ; and the case went before ajjury , who . found a , verdict in favour of theJJoard . To this there was a demurrer , which , was argued before the Court of Queen ' s Bench . The Courtltook time to consider , and ion Saturday delivered ijudgment ' in favour of the defendants , thus coniirmiag the verdict . of
Tlie <^ e Queen v . Justices Leicestershire was also decided the same day . This 'Wfts a ; rule for . a certiorari to bring up a distress warrant , issued by three justices of Leicestershire against Joseph Nun ley for 11 . 16 s ., being the amount . of a church rate levied upon him , . which he had irefused to pay , so that it might be quashed . Nunley was summoned beforethe magistrates , lie : told them that he objected to the rate on the ground of its illegality , and he contended that . the matter was
taken out of their jurisdiction . He declined , however ; to state to the magistrates what his objections were ; but lieaaid that one objection was , that the chairman of the yestry had refused to put an amendment . The . justicesdeeided that he didjnot intend to dispute . the legality of the Tate . Iiord Campbell now said that the justices , in their affidavit , did not deny the truth of the statements . They only had jurisdiction when the rate was undisputed ; in this case they had no jurisdiction , and the rule must he made absolute .
The " press prosecution" trials are postponed till next Tuesday . ; . . The " after term " sittings in . the Court of Queen ' s Bench commenced on . Monday . The only case of note tried that day was that of the Submarine Telegraph v . Gibbs . This was an action to recover damages for injury done to the telegraph cable , off the coast of Kent , by reason of the fouling of the anchor of a ship belonging to the defendant . The accident occurred during a severe gale in Jauuary , 1857 , when many vessels were lost in the Channel . The case occupied the whole of the day , and , at the conclusion , the jury returned a verdict for the defendant .
The Court for Divorce and Matrimonial causes , sat in full , on Monday , and made orders for dissolution of . marrajge in three cases , on account of adultery and desertion by the husband . -In one of the cases , the husband had . also committed bigamy . The Lord Mayor , at the Mansion House , on Monday , said he had received several communications of late relative to nuisances of various kinds , which it was wholly out of his power to remedy or abate . Among them were complaints of the state of the Thames . One correspondent said : — "My , Lord , —What is . to bo done ? . The stench , from the Thames , yesterday , even at high water , exceeded any thing I have ever smelt or noticed before . On leaving the Adelpbi Pier , I was seized with vomiting , and I really expected some injury would accrue to me . Can nothing be done excepting speeches in
Parliament on the . subject of this fearful ' sewer . evil ?' When some dreadful calamity shall brood . its pestilential form aver the great metropolis , then shall we mourn the destroying . effect of our culpable negligence . " His Lordship said ho sympathised with the writers of such letters . He had , gone up to Westminster . the , day before ho hadrreceived the foregoing description , and certainly no stench that he had ever encountered was comparable to that which assailed . the passengers on that occasion . Ho -would not try the experiment again . lick new that the nuisance was most abominable , and apprehended that it was most dangerous , ; but . he hoped the -fears < of his fellow citizens would ; not be speedily realized . —On Wednesday , two master . lightermen complained to the Lord Mayor of the footid , stagnant condition , of , tho water in the London and St . Kutheriuo ' s Docks- They stated that a man who fell into the London Docks a few
days ago was . taken out dead ,. although ho was only under water . two . minutes . Tho Lord Mayor ad vised . tho applicants to make a representation to the JBctard of . Conservancy . William Mayhoyr , a warehouseman , was charged at UuuuUall , on Monday , with creating a disturbance on Saturday evening in tho church of St . Bartholomew , Moor-lane ,, duriug tho . performance of service . The chief wiuions against him was a Mr . Smith , a printer ; and ho stated . that Mr . Mayhew called out , at pno time . call this
"Do yjou religion ? Thiajs Pusoyisin . Have you seen the ipupors of to-day ? " ( ulbading . to tho report of the meeting « t St . James ' s Hall with reference to 1 usoyjera ut Bt . Barnabas ) . JLIo also , according . to Mr . . Smith , swung nbout . a . parcel in a very irrcverout onan" ? " iAacord » nel y » Mr ., Smith directed tho verger to dotaln . Mr . Mnyhow while ho fetched a policeman ; and , lmally , Mr . May-how was given into custody ,. ' Mr . & nutU added ,. that theso . disturbances luul bucuino vory lroquent oj late . The verger , however , when before the magistrate only said that Mr . Mayhew nut on his hat
while the Creed was being . said , and went towards , the door . Being » emoostrated iwith , he . took Jiis hat off . Another witness , who was . present in the church , denied that there was any irreverence on . the , part of ' . Mr . Mayhew , with the exception of his . putting on bis hat and walking away when the Creed was repeated , at which time the curate and officials turned to . the east . " At the close of the Creed , he ( Mr . Mayhew ) turned , round , as if inwardly offended , but said nothing . " Mr . Smith * however , "bounced out of'his . pew , and ran down the aisle after the defendant , calling out ' Stop him !'" " Then , in your judgment , " said Mr . - Alderman Rose , " it was Smith who created the disturbance , and uot the defendant ? ' * ' <' Precisely so . " Mr . Mayhew was accordingly discharged .
iFrederick Noble , a morose-looking youth , is under remand at Worship-street , on a charge of stabbing his father in the back with a -knife ¦ . The father is employed at a factory in . Stepney ^ and-the son kad just arrived in town from Southend . JEEe . had some conversation with his father ; but no quarrel whatever was heard . Suddenly , however , he inflicted the wound ( which is of a very serious kind ) , . and rushed away , but was pursued and-caught . To the . policeman who . took him into custody he said that he did the . act in a moment of
excitement , in consequence of Ms father having : ill-iised his mother some years . ago . When before , the magistrate , the youth offered no explanation or defence . A witness having . been a 3 ked by the magistrate as . to his ( Noble ' s ) disposition , the young man himself stopped him with the remark , "I am of rather a quick temper , sir . " He has evidently a strong . affection for his mother , as , on the constable mentioning her name , he displayed : great emotion . The father , it appears , is in a very critical state .
An action was brought in the Court of Exchequer on Wednesday , for the recovery of a sum of money , under an agreement entered into in March , 1856 , . whereby the plaintiff ( an Oriental , named Abdoolah ) ' undertook ; to act as interpreter , at 61 . a month , to the defendant ( the Rajah of Coorg ) . He was to be paid . the sufn of 500 ? . in addition if the defendant , with the plaintiff ' s assistance , recovered possession of his pension of 100 / . a month from the East India ' "Company . The defendant paid a sum of money into court relative to the salary ,, which was accepted by theplaintiff . The ohly . remaining question vras the , plaintiff ' s right to recover anything on the pension , the defendant denying that he obtained it through the plaintiff . After hearing some evidence , an arrangement was come to , under which a juror was withdrawn , the Rajah undertaking to pay the sum agreed upon to the plaintiff .
A very remarkable divorce case has been tried in the new Court of Divorce this week . The petitioner was a Mr . Robinson , who had already obtained a divorce « inensu ct thoro in the Ecclesiastical Court . Mrs . Kobinson is now about fifty years of age , . and in 1854 she was staying at the hydropathic establishment at Moor Park , near Reading , kept by a Dr . Lane . It would appear , from a diary kept by Mrs . Robinson ( tho discovery of which , last year , first opened Mr . Robinson ' s eyes to the infidelity af his wife ) , that the lady had for some years entertained a passionate attachment to Dr . Lane . At length , one day , when the two were together in the pork , the doctor remarked , in answer to some observation from the lady , " If you say that again , I'll kiss you . " To this she " made no opposition , " and in the course of a few days the intimacy was carried to aniextent wuhich involved the deepest wrong it was -possible . ^ for thoiwifo to inflict upon
herihuabtuHI . These facts , and-the tumultuous condition of the lady ' s mind , alternating between " bliaiful-excitement" and-nervous depression , are -recorded iu the diary with great minuteness , and with no small amount of literary power . Extracts from the book have been liberally published ; but we decline to follow . the . exnmplc . The defence was bused on tho assumption : that Mrs . Kobinson was subject to a mulnily which sometimes induces ladies to accuse themselves of transgressions of which they arc not really guilty ; and the evidence of a Mr . Thorn , a literary gentleman staying at tho establishment , showed that ho : had been eiinilarly credited with improper conduct with . Mrs . iltobinaon— « u , abortion which lie denied , and attributed it to the lady ' s romantic disposition . Dr . Phillimore claims tlmt L ) r . Xnne bo dismissed from Uie suit , . in ordor that he may be . examined us a witness to deny the , alleged intrigue . The court : takea time toconsider the point thus : raise < L
An action was . brought m the Court of viucou ' s ueuoli on Tuesday by tho executors of . a , poraan . named Butcher , mill-owiior of Wiukbum Market , aguinst the defendant , m . modiual imun , to iveoover , the Bum of 100 / , The defendant pleaded that the money was a . gift . It ivppearad that tho defendant ( a Mr . Oochrano ) luul . beon lJutoher ' f ) . medioal man since 185-1 , and , duri « g-jtUat itime ButuUer was operated iitpou > for the stone . Jt wns < ionitcndedby Mr . Coohrano that . the moivey was given > to . him by Mr . Ilutchor out of gratitude fur his attention nud the relief he hud afforded , him in bin illnosn . d ) i » the countoi ; pnrL of the ohequo was written , in Mr , dButahur ' tt thandwritiug , tho words , " A gift . " The jury rotumacl . a verdict [ for the defendant .
Mr . I ' ei'rins , an ironmaster residing- near Birmingham , has obtained , by nu . action iu tho Court . of tiueen ' n Benoli , damagen to tlio extent of <) 00 / . ii'om tli-o London and North-Western itailwny Coinpain ' , on account ol
lajurjes , received in an accidant on their line kot th » Jl » Wi « f -last ^ December . , The naBtiaa of Birch , v . . Ridgway , i brought -by the eadorseeof a bill ofnoxQhange for 225 ? . against the acceptor , which was , tried -same anoaths ; ago , has been again tried in the Court of Exchequer , . with the same result * s before—^ the : discharge of the juTy on thtiirbeiqg uaable to agree to a verdict . The defendant pleaded that lie did i not accept the bill , which was one . af several bills drawn 'by . Messrs . Sanders and "Woollett builders ,. and alleged , to . ha % r e beeaacceptedby the defendant , who was for some time steward to the . late Duke of . Devonshire . This gentleman l-epu-diated - the bill ; and the case was further . complicated by the suicide , last November , of Mr . Wbollett ,, who was . greatly embarrassed . The evidence was very conflicting , and the defendant swore positively that the -acceptance wa 3 not in his handwriting .
An . action for libel , unfolding a strange story , is now in course of trial in the Court of Queen ' s Bench . The plaintiff is Mr / IIuglt Robert Hngh . es , of TCimmell Park , North Wales , a son of the younger brother of Lord Dinorben , but not on . good terms . with the family . In July , 1 S 52 , llr . Huglies was engaged to be married to a daughter of the present Lord Ravens worth ; and at that , period an anonymous letter was addressed . to the young lady ' s father , describing Mr . Hughes > as extra-. vagant , " hard up , " seeking the match merely 'for the sake of money , and affected with the king ' s evil . The family were , therefore , exhorted to have nothing to do with him . The prosecution alleges that this letter wa 3 written by Lady Dinorben ; and that is the main point to be established . The case was not concluded yesterday- . ; ¦ .. ' ¦¦ . ' ¦ ¦ ... ¦ ; ¦/ ' .- '• - '; " .
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A gentleman named Dewdney was killed last week by the down express train , at Hele station , on the Bristol and Exeter Railway . At an inquest which was held before Mr . CrOsse , coroner of the district , it was elicited that there is a level crossing at the Hele station , which is a public highway , aiid ,: thatthe eh trance ; gate was not closed against the public previous to the arrival of the trains . The jury found a verdict of " Accidental death , " and added tlie following to their verdict : —" That there is not at Jlele station a sufficient number of policemen , to i ^ erform the necessary duty on tbe arrival of the trains , andto protect the lives of the public ; and that at the said station , the crossing being a public" highway where there is a very large traffic , it is desirable that a bridge should be carried over the line . " Mr . Richai-d Stevenson , one of the Commissioners of the Liverpool District . Court of Bankruptcy , died suddenly when on his way to ' attend to the duties of his court . He resided at New Brighton , and left home to catch the half-past nine o ' clock boat . Being rather late , he ran a short distance , and , when he got on board , he seemed to bo very flurried . Ho sat on a seat on deck , but appeared to become very sick ; and , immediately after , . putting his hand to his heart , lie fell off his seat , uttering some exclamation . He was sixty years of age . The occasion of death was disease of the heart . A child , two years of ago , residing with ita parents in Cary-street , Lincoln ' s Inn , has been scalded to death , owing to tliG upsetting of a large saucepan of boiling water .
A plate-layer on the Midland Railway was run down on the line last Saturday by a liiggnge train , as he was going to his work . His head and one arm were neatly severed . Wo have more boiler explosions to chronicile . Thrao incn have been killed by ono of these dreadful catastrophes at the cotton-mills of Messrs . William Burlow and Sou , near Now Church , Rossendale ; and seven persons arc severely scalded and otherwise injured by a similar accident which occurred on Monday at . Messrs . Snowdon and Hopkins ' s iron works at Middlcsborough .
A young man from Southampton , who was just , jthoufc to he married , has been accidentally poisoned at tho village of Netherby , near Beaminstcr , by swallowing ji cupful of hydrocyanic acid , used 'by liitn in amateur photography , in mistake for 'beer . The cup was given to him b y the father of the young woman he was about to marry . Tho fatlior -was dmnk at tho time . Tlia young man swallowed enough to kill forty men , and of course was dead in a very short time .
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OKITUARY . The . Lain ) Ju & tice Ci-iouc . —Tho Right Hon . . John Uqjic , iLord Justice . Clerk of Seutland , died at aia roeidonce in Moray-plncu , [ Edinburgh , at / half-past . eleven p . ' cl « ckon Monday . night . U'ho douth \/ tm ratlior « udden , mid resulted li ' roin purulynin . -lie wus born in l ! T 9 tt , paused tho . Scottish bar in 1 KK > , and wua ulioaou . Lord JaiaUue Clerk in . 18-1-1-Mu . Miohakl Wh . maai 8 , RI . P . for West CoffiiwttU , diud , at frwivinco , mour Cornwall , on Tuoadajy « fb « rlioon . liUiticit'i : Buown , 1 £ hq ., RR . S ., oxpircil on ' tho wLOtli i « at ., at his town nssidonue , I > eun- » ti : eot » Soho-aquaw . lie was born iu the year 17715 , and was formerly Prwidout of the Limiiuuii . Society , koepcr of , tlm UoUuiwid Owllcctiona in the Hritinh Mutsuiini , . and Koiveign Jk » e , o ~ cbto of tho . Academy of Huionood of tl » o . JnMtiUiho of France .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1858, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19061858/page/11/
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