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      •Celestial' Profligacy. A Glimpse Into T...

      the evening to their city of refuge , where they have an establishment for indulgence in luxuries not to be named , bat suitable to their peculiar tastes . A dreadful state of things exists , and , if not curbed by vigorous and rigorous measures , the . Chinese vagrants will make themselves known to all the world by a horrid pestilence . As far as his duty and his authority went ; he would not hesitate to do all in his power to put * down such a nuisance , which exists only through the mistaken charity of-people at the west-end , who give money to Chinese mendicants , which they expend in the infamous houses described by the witnesses . The charitable people at the west-end do not know the incalculable mischief they cause by giving money to Chinese vagrants ,

      who ought to be closely looked after by the police . He knew that serious crimes were committed in Bluegatefields . He was not disposed to be lenient to Apoo , although he was a" foreigner , after the revolting details he had heard ; and , considering that the defendant was the proprietor of two houses in which he kept women for the especial solace of fifty or ninety Chinese beggars who resort to them nightly , and considering also that Apoo had been most ably defended , and . that he was realizing large gains by his immoral and pestilential trade , he did not think he should be treating him with excessive rigour if he ordered him to pay a fine of 3 / ., or be imprisoned for one month . —The penalty was instantly paid .

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      Murder In Essex. Chingford Hatch, Situat...

      MURDER IN ESSEX . Chingford Hatch , situated a few miles from Woodford , Essex , has been the scene of a very mysterious murder and robbery . On Sunday morning , Mr . and Mrs . Small left their house to attend the parish church at Chingford . As they left , they observed a man standing near the house ; but , having previously seen him at or near the same spot , they took no notice of the circumstance . Th « house was left in charge of an old woman of seventytwo , who acted as a confidential housekeeper and cook . This woman , -whose name was Mary White , had previously sent an invitation to her niece , who reached the house between eleven and twelve o ' clock . The niece passed iltrongh a back gate in the lane , and , having entered the back kitchen on the ground floor , found her

      aunt with her head nearly severed from her body , the throat being cut in two places , and the wound extending almost from one ear to the other . The body was lying in a pool of blood , and , from the general appearance of the room , there was evidence of a violent struggle having taken place between the murderer and his victim . On the floor were marks of blood , and the clothes of the woman were torn to pieces . These circumstances were not at first observed by the niece , who thought her aunt was lying in a fit . She therefore called in a woman who was in the garden , when , an alarm having been given , several of the neighbours came to the spot , and the police were also soon in attendance , as well as medical aid . The poor creature , however , was quite dead , but the body was still warm .

      The police then searched the house . It would seem that the murderer , after committing the act , must have gone to Mr . Small ' s bureau in one of the upper rooms and taken from it a hammer and chisel , with the aid of which he forced open the whole of the drawers and robbed the place of money , watches , and jewellery . The constables , while prosecuting their search , found a knife smeared -with blood in a salt-box , and a claspknife with a buckhorn handle , rather rusty , in a bowl ; * nd it is supposed that , failing to accomplish his purpose with the aid of the first-named weapon , ' the murderer had recourse to > the second ; hence the two wounds in tb . Q throavSgChte London police were at once telegraphed to , anq efforts wereset on fool to trace the assassin . An Inquest wan cpenea & a-Jilonday evening , and was adjourned . % * - ^ .

      Ill-Usage Of Wive*. —Several Cjwbs-Of Il...

      Ill-usage of Wive * . —Several cJwBs-of ill-usage of wires have come before the magistrates within the last few days . Isaac Saunders was charged at Westminster with assaulting his wife . It appeared that he entirely neglected her and the children , ' and that the wife had to find tie means of subsistence for thorn . "He also boat her with great severity . He was sentenced to six months ' hard labour , —Mr . George Young , the landlord of the Trinity Anns Tavern , Trinity-street , Borough , was charged with a ferocious assault on his wife , who presented the appearance of being constantly ill-treatod .

      He could only allege in his defence that ho had been in the cellar , drinking champagne , and that ho was very sorry . He was sent to the House of Correction for twe months . —Thomas Ives , waiter at a tavern in the vicinity of the Southwark police-court , has been sentenced to aix months' hard labour for stabbing his wife in the face . On hearing the sentence , he exclaimed , laughing , " That's just -what I want . That'll serve her out I "John Snow , a labourer , was on Tuesday condemned by the Weitmloatcr magistrate to a couple of months' hard labour for an assault on his wife .

      T » H DlK » 0 TOU 8 OB THIS ROYAL BRITISH BANK . — Tho directors of the lute Royal British Bank already in custody or liberated on ball are at present * five in , number . Mr . Owen , Mr . ( Jtaploton , M . P ., and Mr , Maoleod hare put in ball for their appearance ; Mr . Humphry Brown la at present in tho Queen ' s Bench Prison * npt having completed hla bail . Mr . Alderman Kennedy js on his way to this country , in custody .

      The Mubdkb on the High Seas . —Henry Rogers , the captain , William Miles , the chief mate , and C . E . Seymour , the second mate , of the British bark Martha and Jane , of Sunderland , have been committed for trial at the Liverpool Assizes , charged with the murder of Andrew Rose , one of the crew of that vessel . The facts of the case were related by us last week . ' Mubdeb near Hackhey .- —Michael Crawley , a labourer , aged sixty-two , has . murdered his wife , a woman of the same age , by beating in her skull with a bill-hook . He was of drunken habits , and frequently quarrelled with

      the woman , who went about selling small parcels of greengrocery . On Saturday , he had a dispute with her , owing to her refusing to give him eighteenpence he had asked for . At night , she was found by her daughter in her bedroom , lying in a pool of blood , with her head fearfully battered and mangled . She was still breathing , and lived till Sunday morning , when she died . On Monday , Crawley was apprehended , when he observed that it was ' a bad job , ' and that he was going to give himself up . He was remanded . The inquest has terminated in a verdict of ' Wilful Murder . '

      A Dbdnken Teetotaller . —A tall , raw-boned man , named Andrew Morton , was charged at Lambeth , on Monday , Iwith creating a disturbance at the Obelisk . He was lecturing on teetotalism , and was at the same time practically exhibiting the evils of intoxication , for he was himself excessively drunk . After enlarging for a considerable time on the virtues of total abstinence , and calling the crowd to witness how well he could do without spirituous liquors—to all of which his auditors only answered with jeers , laughter , and hooting—he

      was taken into custody and locked up . He then abused the police in very filthy language . When asked by the magistrate what he had to say , he admitted that he was intoxicated ; and he was fined twenty shillings . —It was mentioned by some of the witnesses that the Sunday preachings at the Obelisk are an intolerable nuisance . The different partisans shout and howl at one another , abuse their mutual doctrines , and make blasphemous and impure observations . Crowds of disreputable characters assemble , and robberies are of frequent occurrence .

      Forging a County Court Process . —A singular case was heard before the Exeter magistrates a few days ago . A respectable tradesman , named William Downey , of Topsham , was committed for trial on a charge of forging the name of Mr . John Daw , registrar of the Exeter District County Court , to an illegally concocted summons . It was stated that persons travel about the country and make a good living by selling documents in imitation of County Court summonses , which are

      printed in Holy well-street , London . These are pur-« hased by small tradesmen , who send them to tardy debtors in order to frighten them into payment . To make the process complete , it is necessary to forge the signature of the registrar . This Downey did , and posted the letters in Exeter , so that it might appear to the debtor that they came from the office of the registrar . By the County Courts Act , the offence is one of felony . The magistrates committed Downey for trial at the ensuing Quarter Sessions .

      Assault ox a Husband . —Mary Anne Barton has been examined at Marylebone on a charge of striking , kicking , and biting her husband . She was furious with drink at the time , and , on being taken into custody , she wore she would ' remember her husband when she came out . She was sent to the House of Correction for a month . Murderous Attack on the Police . —James Harrington and James Waltho are under remand at Southwark , charged with a murderous attack on tbo police in the course of a drunken row outside a public-house in Kent-street . The officers wej » unable to attend , being in hospital in a serious state ; and the case was remanded . The landlord of the public-houae behaved very courageously in defending the police , and all Itis windows were broken by the mob .

      ¦ -BOKBERY THROUGH BeTTINO TRANSACTIONS . — - A young man of twenty-one , named Thomas Somerville , was charged at the Worship-street police-court with robbing an alehouse-keeper iu the neighbourhood , with whom he lodged , of 4 J , One night , about eloven . o ' clock , he suddenly absconded from his lodgings , when the landlord ' s suspicions were oxcitod , and lie went to his bedroom , and found that his cas-hbox had been broken open and a considerable portion of its contents abstracted . He then proceeded to Somervllle ' s room , where ho saw somo money amounting to 5 s . lying on the bed . Ho informed tho police of the occurrence , and , about an hour afterwards , Somervillo was brought back to tho housewhen 11 . 15 s . more of the landlord ' s money

      , was found on him . Somorville confessed to tho magistrate that he had committed the robbery . Ho had done ao because he was quite penniless , having lost all bio money through being persuaded by a mnn to go into a public-house , where probably there was also a bettingoffice , in Bishopagato-streot , and whore ho had been induced to moke beta on tho Hampton Ouj > and some handicaps , Having lost all these bets , «»

      relinquish in consequeuce of being affected with violent palpitations of the heart . Mr . Hammill sent him for six months with hard labour , to the House of Correction . . Assaults .- —Two Irish labourers named Thomas and James Fletcher , brothers , were charged at the Westminster police-office with committing a ferocious assault on a charwoman named Mary Anne Lawiey , and likewise severely injuring a man who came to her assistance . Mrs . Lawiey was sitting one night by the bedside of her mother , who was dying , when she heard a knock at the street door , and , en opening it , saw the two brothers Fletcher , who rushed into the house . They then knocked the candle which the woman held out of

      her hand , and one of them then struck her on the head with the poker and otherwise ill-used her . A friend who was in the house , hearing her cries , ran down stairs to her assistance , when he was also savagely attacked by the two ruffians . While endeavouring to force the poker out of the hands of one of them , the other struck him a violent blow with a pair of tongs . Mrs . Lawiey said that the assault on herself was wholly unprovoked , and she could only account for it by supposing that one of the Irishmen ' owed her a grudge' in consequence of her endeavouring , on a previous occasion , to defend -her sister from his violence . Both men were remanded until Thursday , when they were committed for trial . —A Frenchman of the name of Laacelles was charged at Marlborough-street with assaulting and attempting to garotte Pierre Sartori , manager of the Turkish Divan in

      the Haymarket . The latter was proceeding down that street about two o'clock in the morning , dressed in Turkish costume , when Lascelles suddenly grasped him round the throat with both hands , from behind , apparently with the intention of committing a garotte robbery . His victim , however , contrived , after a brief but violent struggle , to shake him off , and he then called out for the police . A constable shortly afterwards came up , and took Lascelles into custody . When brought before the magistrate , the Frenchman declared that he never meant to rob the other man , adding that the whole affair was nothing but a joke , and that he only intended to frighten Sartori by pinching him . Mr . Bingham believed this , but , as Lascelles had nevertheless committed a rather serious assault , he must either pay a fine of 51 ., or be imprisoned for two months .

      Card-Sharping . —The man recently taken into custody for swindling two foreign gentlemen on the Windsor Railway has been sentenced by the Windsor-magistrates to three months' hard labour . Notice of appeal to the quarter sessions was given , and bail was accepted by the bench . Murder and Suicide . —A Mrs . Corner , the wife of a postman at Wallingford , has drowned her three children and herself in the river . She was a very respectable and industrious woman , and the motive for the act is not known .

      Embezzlement of 1000 / . —Mr . George B . Gurney , principal salesman and cashier to Mr . Milner , a manufacturer at Liverpool , has been committed for trial on a charge of embezzling 1000 £ from his master . His wife was some time ago charged by a boot and shoe seller with stealing a pair of boots from his shop . The case was dismissed at the time , and Gurney subsequently recovered damages in an action for false imprisonment . The Late Assault Case at Birmingham . —Mr . Collis , solicitor , has been found Guilty at the Birmingham Borough Sessions of the assault on Mr . Hodgson , another solicitor , which we related in our paper a week or two ago . He was fined 50 / ., which was paid .

      Betting Gentlemen in Tboublb . —A large number of peraons were placed before Alderman Wire at the Mansion House on Wednesday , charged with being found in betting-houses . They were placed at the bar in batches , and some were discharged , while others were fined 257 . and costs . A Story of Norton-street . —A man and a woman named Osborne , and another woman named Jane Henrick , were brought up at Marlborough-street on Wednesday , char / red with committing a murderous assault

      on William Ward , an engineer . Ward , who is quite a young man , picked up Henriok in the neighbourhood of the Haymarket , and accompanied her to a notorious house in Norton-street , whore , fancying he bad been cheated of some money , he attempted to leave , but was attacked so savagely that he lost his consciousness . The people outside , hearing his ories , at length made their way into the house . He was beaten on the head with a poker , and Henrick tried to throw him over the bannisters . The case was adjourned till Monday .

      Serious Charge against a Butuer . —Mr . Arnold was occupied a considerable time in investigating charges of a revolting description against Stephen Fryer , between fifty and sixty year * of age , butler to Mrs . Gordon , 47 , WiUon-oroscent . Tho practices complained of would appear to hove been carried on for a considerable time . The caso was adjourned for a week .

      Gatherings From The Law And Police Court...

      GATHERINGS FROM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . At tho sittlngofthe Court of Queen ' s Bonoh on Monday morning , tho Priuce of Wale * accompanied Lord Campbell Into court , and took hln » o « t ty » ' « Lordship a side . His Royal Highness remalnod during the trial Of % Wh c / vjo of SldebpHoro v , AOUlne , ' and paid groat UttlRW *

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), June 27, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27061857/page/9/