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GEXERAL HOME NEWS.
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Tiik Court.-—On Wednesday, the privacy w...
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before Mr * Paynter . The defendant in the case was till lately the wife of the plaintiff ; and the perjury ¦ was said to'have been committed in giving evidence in a suit instituted by her for dissolution of marriage on the ground of cruelty . The case was adjourned till Tuesday . Mr . Rowley ' s evidence , which occupied the entire hearing , consisted altogether of a series of denials to specific charges of cruelty towards his -wife , which had been brought against him . Another adjournment was again ordered , that the solicitor for the defendant might be furnished with copies of a number of letters required . Braisher in
At the Middlesex Sessions , John was - dicted for feloniously receiving a gold watch and chain , value £ 15 , the property of the landlord of the Great Western public-house , in Hampton-street , Harrow-road . It was proved that the prisoner had tempted , a boy in the service of the prosecutor to rob his master , and to give the property to him ; it ¦ was also proved that he had tutored four other boys to thieve for his benefit . He had been previously convicted of felony . He was found guilty on the present charge , and the Assistant Judge , say-ing it would be a waste of words to dwell on the enormity of his . conduct , sentenced the prisoner to . penal
servithat he would do this ; and Mr . ; made the best explanation that lay in his power . One of the letters read was from Mr . D . Dunbar , the eminent shipowner , who said he invariably refused all applications for his name in such cases , upon the principle that he would not take a part in " robbing the public . " On Sunday night last a fire broke out in the roof of St . Matthew ' s , the ancient parish church of Bethnal-green , which by 4 a . m . had destroyed the fine peal of eight bells , organ , pulpit , pews , and all the church furniture , leaving nothing but the tower , denuded of its valuable clock , and the four outside walls , entirely gutted . The church is insured in the Imperial for £ 5 , 000 , and all the parish registers , going back nearly 200 years , were rescued from the flames , and safely depo ' sited in the Eectory-housa ' ^ . * ^ ^ ^
The English sloop Hope , of Dover , foundered at sea on Wednesday night not far from Calais . This calamity is attributed to a hurricane which blew from the north , accompanied by thick snow , which prevented the captain from seeing the Calais lighthouse . It is feared that the crew perished while endeavouring to save themselves in a boat , as one was picked up in a shattered state on the French coast . On Saturday morning , about one o ' clock , a fire
tude for fifteen years . —Felix Newman , who was convicted at the last sessions of stealing a cash-box , containing £ 232 in notes and money , from the shop of Mr . Moore , Lisson-grove , and assaulting Mrs . Moore , was brought up for sentence , when it was shown that the prisoner had . been previously sentenced to seven years' transportation for thieving , and the Court now sentenced him to ten years' penal servitude .- —Henry Hawkins , convicted of robbery and housebreakiiig , received sentence of penal servitude for' li'fi \ the learned judge reirfarking that he was one of that desperate class of persons who would scruple at nothing to carry out their designs of plunder , violence , and outrage .
broke out on board the American ship , Sea Belle , 900 tons register , laden with coal , lying in the floating harbour at Bristol . The origin of the fire is variously attributed to spontaneous combustion , and to have proceeded from the galley . Water had but a trifling- eifect in staying the conflagration , and the shipwrights set to work to scuttle her . At ten o ' clock , however , she was still burning furiously , with no chance of the fire being subdued . She is a perfect wreck .
At the Surrey Sessions , William "Laurence and John Lazarus , two lads , were convicted of stealing a shawl at the book-stand of the terminus of the Scutli-Eastern Railway . Lazarus had been convicted six times of felony . Lazarus was sentenced to four years' penal servitude , and Laurence to twelve months ' hard labour . Laurence said if he was not sent with Laznrus he should go a thieving again as soon as he came out . An officer of the Surrey Volunteer Rifle Corps made complaint to Mr . Norton , at Lambeth Policeourt , yesterday , of a member of the corps , that he had pawned his rifle and somehow disposed of his uniform . A summons is to be issued against the delinquent for illegal pawning . Will there not be another required against the pawnbroker for receiving an article having the government stamp impressed upon it ? ,
Sir . J , S . Mansfield , at present stipendiary magistrate of Liverpool , will take his seat on the bench of Worship-street ( London ) Police Court on the 5 th of January . A scoundrel named John Davis was fined 40 s . by Mr . Haroroill , at the Worship-street police-court , on Tuesday for raising a false alarm of fire at the Britannia Theatre . He ? ' only did it for fun . " Kington , a young man , aged , 22 years , pleaded guilty at the Warwick Assizes , to the Avilful murder of his wife . He had ill-treated his wife , and appears to have nourished suspicions as to her conduct . He met her in the streets of Coventry , took her to a
field , knocked her down , and cut her throat . Mr . Widdrington , the gaol chaplain , informed the judge " that the prisoner had acted under his advice in pleading ' Guilty . ! and that otherwise his spirt tua ministrations would have been unavailing to the prisoner . " He thereby deprived the wretched man of the only chance for his life . The prisoner wanted a paper road that he had put in , containing grave imputations on others , but consented , by the persuasion of the judge , to its being forwarded to the proper quarter , the judge intimating that'he could not hold out any hopo of its mitigating the sentence of death lie passed upon him .
At the House of Correction in Coldbath-flelds , a prisoner , named Hayes , while engaged in work , threw' a large stone at one of the warders . This fortunately missed him , but the prisoner , not content , threw another , which struck the warder such a violent ; blow that it knocked him down and injured him very much . While down , the prisoner rushed on the warder , and attempted to strangle him ; and had it not been for tho immediate assistunco of some of the warders and prisoners , murder
might have been committed . The prisoner , who did not deny the charge , -was fully committed to tho Central Criminal Court for trial . At tho Guildhall Police court Mr . Alderman Copeland made a . further statement respecting what is called the Equitable Investment and Reversionary Company ( Limited ) . It is a case in which tho names of influential individuals have been used without their consent . Mr . Alderman . Copoland read letters , showing that such was so . Ho had given notice ta Mr . Harris , who represents tho company ,
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Tiik Court .- —On Wednesday , the privacy winch the Queen has been enjoying at Osborne was terminated by the return of ' the Royal family and suite to Windsor Castle . Immediately on their arrival the Queen and several of her children visited the Duchess of Kent at Frojrmore , The Prince of Wales arrived home from Oxford' for the vacation , on Saturday , and is now at the Castle . The only visitors announced this week have been the P rince and Princess Leiningen , and the Baron de Loewenfels , the latter being the bearer of the insignia of the Ducal order of Saxe-Cbburg , from Duke Ernest to his nephew and godson , the Prince of Wales .
Sewers met on Tuesday , Deputy Christie in the chair ; A deputation , consisting of the churchwardens of St . Michael ' s , Cornhill , and a number of the inhabitants , presented a memorial , in which they protested against the project of placing a public indicator in the Royal Exchange-buildings . Mr Bailey * the churchwarden , addressed the court on " the subject , and described the indicator as an intolerable nuisance . Permission having been formerly ivto erect the indicator Harrison ^ 1 . _ . . ¦ .. _ - . 1 ^_ f fc 1 __ - _ ' ^ , 1 X _ __ ¦ ¦ ^^ t « m - _ . -
gen , Deputy now moved that that permission be revoked . Motion agreed to . After disposing of the remaining business the court adjourned . The municipal elections in the various wards of the city of London took place on Wednesday * The discussions which took place were almost exclusively of a local character , and had reference to such questions as Corporation Reform the proposed new lunatic asylum , and th e free drinking fountains .
Novel Entertainment . —A new service was commenced in the Britannia Theatre , Hoxton , on Sunday , So far as numbers went , the inaugural night of this series was a decided success . The building , which is said to contain 4 , 000 persons , was crowded to overflowing , and multitudes went away unable to obtain admission . The scene outside was very unlike that usually witnessed among persons anxious to join in worship . Before the preacher made his appearance there was some unseemly noise , but throughout the service the utmost decorum prevailed . The Rev . W . Brock , of Bloomsbury Chapel , officiated .
A . " jSi'eav Ligiit . —An improved form of the lime light , originally experimented upon by Captain DrumnioiKi , some years since , was shown by Sir Charles Bright in the Exchange News-room , Liverpool , on Saturday last . A single jet of the improved lime light ( which is of enormous power ) is estimated as equivalent to forty argund , or eighty fishtail burners , each consuming five cubic feet per hour , or to 400 wax candles of four to the poiiud , and its power , unassisted by a reflector , was stated
to be forty times greater than the present oil lamp ; and for coast lights , under the same circumstances , should the light be as economical and capable of as easy manipulation as it was on this occasion , there can be no doubt it will effect a considerable change in the lighting of lighthouses , public rooms , large thoroughfares , and probably of factories , and other crowded places , where the present system of extracting the oxygen requisite for respiration from the air is so objectionable . - ' '
St . George ' s-in-tue-East . —For the first time these five weeks the morning services on Sunday were conducted by the rector himself . There was but a thin attendance and little interruption . A considerable number of persons left the church at the commencement of and during the sermon . The Litany service in tho afternoon passed off with the usual interruption , in the shape of coughing . The rector was again present , but the Kev . Mr . Maconochie officiated . In the evening tho rector was not present , and the services were conducted by the llev . Mr . Lowder . There were now and then during the prayers . considerable interruption by , means of coughing , but during the sermon that description of annoyance seemed to have reached its climax , for so violent was it that the preacher had frequently to
pause until it subsided , the noise completely drowning his voice . A public meeting of tho inhabitants has been held at the school-room of tho district church of St . Mary , in the same parish , for the purpose of considering the present ecclesiastical condition of the parish , and the conduct of tho rector in calling to his aid the police constables ot tho district , to enable him to perform divine service , Resolutions were passed condemnatory of the innovations made by tho rector , and pledging the meeting to do all in their power to abolish " Puscy i t o" practices . Mr . Stephens , Mr . Compton , Mr . Younghusbtuul , and other gentlemen having spokon , a petition to Parliament and a memorial to the Queen were unanimously agreed to . The former document embodied tho substance of tho resolutions , and prnyeu
that some remedy may bo devised whereby tho mity , as the integral portion of tlio church , may have a cheap and speedy mode of rcdross of such grievances as those under which tho petitioners suffer . In t / io absence of any effectual means for restraining or removing an erring or wrong-minded incumbent oi a parish . Tho latter document prayed her MajOBty to command tho Royal Commission also to nuuueu a Protestant catechism and hymn-book . SxitrATMISERB WITH THE Poi' 13 . —A body Ot gO" " tlomon , dating their cpistlo from l . 'J , CUfrord-strooc , London , and subscribing thomselves ^ 1 } l ?" Catholics of England and Scotland , have innup tue roQocrniflQd ororan of tho Pannav ill Great UritaW ,
tho Tablet newspaper , tho medium for a lengthy «» £ solemn declaration , protesting against tho rebellion in tho Romagna . This accuses tlio people or uw Legations of , having risen iu unjustifiable robolllon , and assails tho Governments of other countrlos ios having stood by and suffered tho Holy Father to w despoiled of his possessions . They doelaxe tnw
The Public Health . —Judging by the rate of mortality , the health of the metropolis was not affected by the cold of last week , the deaths that occurred during that period being exactly the same as in the preceding week—viz ., 1 , 289 . ' Of this number 164 persons died from bronchitis , and 134 from phthisis . Last Saturday was colder than any day since Dec . 22 , 1855 , the mean temperature of which day wa . s 21 -5 , whilst that of last Saturday was 22-8 . The birtliBlast week amounted to 1 , 831 . Dr . Letheby reports the state of the public health within the City to be highly satisfactory .
Lono JIollam ) . —This nobleman died at Naples on Sunday , after a short illness . The deceased peer was born on the 7 th of March , 1802 , and married on the Oth of Llay , 1833 , L : \ dy Mary Augusta Coventry , only daughter of tho late Earl of Coventry . On the death of his father , in October , 1840 , he succeeded to the title and family estates . His lordship not leaving any issuo , tho barony becomes extinct , and the valuable family estate at Kensington goes to his only sister , Lady Lilford . The Late Chief Commissioner op Woitics . — Tho Bight Hon . Henry Mtstroy died at Brighton last Saturday , after a long"illness . Ho was tho Bpn of Lord Southampton , and heir presumptive to that
barony . He was born in London in 1807 , and married , in 1839 , a daughter of Baron N . M . Rothschild . Prom January , 1845 , to July , 1840 , ho filled the post of a Lord 6 f the Admiralty , and . was Under Secretary of Stato for tho Homo Department from December , 1852 , to February , 1855 . In thab year he was appointed Chairman of Committees for tho House of Commons , a position which ho filled with groat ability . Mr , Pitzroy sat for tho borough of Great Grimsby in 1831 , and in 1837 was returned for Lowob , which borough ho represented from April , 1837 , to March , 1841 , whon ho was an unsuccessful
candidate , but succeeded in unseating his opponent on petition , and again entered tho House in 1842 , When Lord Palmorston was called to tlio " holm of State , " Mr . JTitzroy received tho appointment of First Commissioner of Works , which no hold to tlio day of l » ls death ., In . early life Mr . JTltzroy advocated moderate Conservative principles , but latterly expressed himself strongly In favour of Liberal measures , and uphold reform and progross . Tho doath of Mr . ITitzroy causes a vacanoy in tho representation of tho borough of Lewes . City Maxthjis . —Tho City Commissioners of
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 24, 1859, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24121859/page/6/
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