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      Central Cimilnal Court. At Tho Central C...

      which he was prosecuted by the conductors of the latter paper for obtaining money under false pretences , and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment , was charged with numerous cases of bigamy . It appeared that the prisoner who calls himself an Italian , though it is believed he is an Irishman , and his real name Charles Tucker , married a lady of the name of Mary Ann Sadlier , at Chelsea , in 1842 , when he appeared to be about nineteen years of age , and after Irving -with her about four years , deserted her in 1847 , married Miss Anne Maria Froggett , of Preston , proceeding to Gretna Green for the purpose . The brother and sister of the first wife proved , the marriage took place at Trinity Church , Chelsea , but the prisoner denied that he was so married , and

      declared the witnesses must be mistaken in his identity , Miss Froggett proved the marriage with herself , the prisoner representing himself as a Frenchman , and using the name of Marco Emile de St . Eilaire . She lived with the prisoner , until 1851 , and had one child by him , a girl now about nine years of age . He had frequently ill-treated her , and deserted her at Liverpool in the year last named . The prisoner declared he was in Paris at the time the first marriage was alleged to > have taken place , as he could prove if allowed time to obtain witnesses . The jury found the prisoner Guilty , when he was again indicted for having married Miss Margaret Murray , at Sligo , in 1851 . Miss Murray stated that the prisoner married her in the name of Borromeo , though he was also known in Sligo as Dr . Tucker . Onechildwasthe result of this marriage , andafter

      ill-treating the poor woman and obtaining from her 2501 . to which she was entitled , he deserted her , and it is believed , subsequently married one , if not more other ladies . The prisoner was also convicted on this charge , and the Common Serjeant sentenced him to four years ' penal servitude , to cotnmenee from the close of the twelve months' imprisonment which he is a present undergoing . The prisoner , when taken into custody on the charge preferred against Mm by the proprietors of the Morning Star , was lecturing at Beading as Dr . Tucker , on . Electro-biology . The cases of the poor ladies who were duped by this scoundrel , and reduced to the greatest distress , have been investigated by the sheriffs of London , who have headed a subscription list , and expressed their willingness to receive donations . The Rev . Mr . Davis , the ordinary of Newgate , is treasurer to the fund .

      . John Jervis , formerly clerk in the banking-house of Scott and Co ., was found guilty of embezzling three several sums of- ' money , the property of Messrs , Scott . The prisoner had carried on his practices with much art , and the evidence fully bore out the several charges . He was sentenced to fimr years' penal servitude . William Bowyer Bennett surrendered to take his trial , charged with the manslaughter of Sarah Ann Williams , who perished in the late dreadful explosion of fireworks in the Westminster-road . The prisoner ' s counsel took several objections to the indictment , and the prisoner haying been found guilty , the learned judge said he would defer passing sentence upon him until referred to the judges of the Criminal Court of Appeal , and allowed him to be out on bail to appeaT for judgment when called on .

      832 The Leader. [Jsb. 439, August 21. 1 ...

      832 THE LEADER . [ JSb . 439 , August 21 . 1 SKa

      Naval And Military. Sham Fightatportsmou...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Sham FightatPortsmouth . —A splendid brigading of the Portsmouth Garrison troops took place on Thursday on Southsea-common , under the command of Mujor-General Sir James Scarlett , the lieutenant-governor , supported by a brilliant staff of officers . The troops comprised the Royal Horse Artillery , loth Itegiment of the Line , Royal North Lincoln Militia , Royal Lancashire Militia , and Royal Marines—in all about 3000 men . The Southsea Castle guns were maimed , as well as the flank earthwork batteries , and which gave notice of the approach of the supposed enemy wliich was attempting a landing at Lumps Fort . Skirmishers wore immediately thrown out from the right and left flanks ( the 15 th of the Line and the Royal Marines > , with their . supports , and fallowed by the main body and reserves . . Shot and shell practice now commenced from the castle , latteries , and 9-pouncler field-pieces , with good effect , at , 1000 yards range . Still the enemy forced a landing , and the troops retired , covered by skirmishers , and » up-, ported by the Horse Artillery . They were at length driven into garrison , when a rapid fire commenced from the redoubts and bastions , which effectually checked the enemy ' s advance . The thousands of well-dressed visitors were highly gratified , and tlio troops retired to their respective , quarters without the losa of a man , or an accident of any description .

      Deaths . — -Two distinguished naval officers have been removed by death this week , Rear-Admiral Sandom , and Captain John Molesworth . The Admiralty Inspection at" ! Deyonfoiit . —On Tuesday Sir John Pukington and the other commissioners proceeded to Keyham and commenced tlieir inspection . They mustered thb factory people nt one o ' clock r . M ., givinjr them the afternoon for a holiday . Their lordships made a most minute and particular inspection over nil the yard enclosed , as well as the now works , and after thoir inspection remained at the office in deliberation till nfter three r . w . From thenco they went on board the Royal William and mustered the ship's company , and then visited the Impregnable ,

      where they were received with a salute . Admiral Martin and Lord Lovaine landed at the dockyard and went through the storehouses . They visited the Naval and Military School at five p . m . on Tuesday , and dined with General Eden in the evening . Yesterday they visitqd the Royal William Victualling Yard , Royal Hospital , and Marine Barracks , giving a dinner in the evening at the Royal Hotel , Plymouth . The Scientific Department of the Admiralty . — The Princess Alice , iron paddle-wheel steam vessel , is ordered to leave Woolwich on the surveying service , for the purpose of ascertaining the best points for the construction of breakwaters on the north-eastern coast of Scotland . A favourable report having been forwarded to the Admiralty as to her capabilities , she will embark Captain Washington , F . R . S ., principal hydrographer , and otter officers of the hydrographic and harfcour

      department of the Admiralty , who will inspect the harbours of Wick , Pcter tiead , & . C ., and the Caithness coast , in order to report as to the construction of breakwaters . Death of Colonel W . Morbis , C . B . ( 17 th Lamcehs ) . —We regret to learn that this meritorious officer died on the llth ult ., at Poona , to the extreme grief of his brother officers and the men under his command . The gallant colonel entered the arm y in June , 1842 , and during his professional career liad seen much service . He served with the 16 th Lancers at the battle of MaTirajpore ; al ; = » in the Sutlej campaign in 1846 , including the affair of Buddiwal and the actions of Aliwal ( where be was wounded ) and Sobraon . During the late war , at the outset of the campaign he acted as deputy-assistant quartermaster-general , but on the death of Major Willett he resumed his regimental duties , and commanded , the 17 th Lancers at the battle of Balaklava , on -which occasion he was severelv wounded .. He had

      received a medal for Mahrajpore , a medal and clasp for Sobraon , and a medal and clasps for Balaklava and S « - bastopol . On his return to England he was presented with a sword of honour oy the townspeople of Torrington . In 1855 , in recognition of his distinguished gallantry , he was made a Companion of the Order of the Bath . ¦"¦ " ¦ . ¦¦ ; ' : ' , .. . ,, ' ' ¦ : ' ¦ ' . ' : ¦¦

      The Bombardment Of Jeddah. In Consequenc...

      THE BOMBARDMENT OF JEDDAH . In consequence of the massacres at Jeddah , fhe Turkish Government despatched to the spot ,, as special commissioner , a distinguished officer , Ismael Pasha , with instructions to bring the murderers to condign punishment . There is no doubt that the Turkish Government were thoroughly in earnest , and would gladly have hanged all the Jeddah murderers on whoni they could have laid their hands . The } - 'despatched a steamer with some five hundred Egyptian troops on board to . support the authority of the Pasha . Before the special commissioner could arrive , H . M . steamer 'Cyclops , Captain Pullen , arrived off the town , on the 23 rd July . Hainilc Pasha , Governor of the town , was at Mecca . Captain Pullen then sent in a despatch to the Knirnnkan , announcing that if within thirty-six hours he did not receive a satisfactory answer to his requisitions , he would proceed to bombard the town , notwithstanding the

      Turkish . Pasha was liourly expected to investigate matters . At the expiration of four hours beyond the time named , the bombardment commenced , and was continued at intervals until the evening of the 26 th . The next day the Turkish troops arrived . The officer in command sent word to Captain Pullen that he had arrested and confined the murderers , but could , not execut « them until the arrival of Ismail Pasha , not having power of life and death . This answer was not deemed satisfactory , and on the 5 th of the present month the bombardment was resumed . The same day Ismail Pasha arrived with 4 & 0 Egyptians . The next morning eleven of the murderers were executed in sight of the town nnd shipping , and four others were sent to Constantinople An impression prevails that the conduct of the British officer was not altogether judicious , unless indeed , ns is surmisod , lie wns acting under direct orders from home .

      Inventions. Filteh8 Fok Tiik Million 1 ....

      INVENTIONS . FILTEH 8 FOK TIIK MILLION . As we walked the other day along Fleet-street we were attracted by the picture of a traveller sucking water from a pool through , a tulje attachod to a submerged sphere , This turned out to represent the application of Ruining patent moulded carbon to the manufacture of llltors , and wo were induced to inquire farther into the nature of moulded carbon and the peculiarity of its uso in filters . It struck us naturally enough that charcoal filters had been in uao for ages , und that therefore there could ho fur be no claim on the unknown Uuhrhiy ' rt part to have made nny wonderful dtacovery . We hud heard , too , of compressed cliarconl , and fondly imagined we had plucked out the heart of Kiiliring ' s i « ystory . How amusingly wo illuotratod in our own person tlits saying of tho wise man of GIchhcii which applies to diHcovories In art as well as to thoso in nclonce : — " livery diHcoveo ' , every improvement , every now truth in science , as in life , has two ordunls BucecBHivoly to pass through . In the first period of it . i oxirttanco it is proved that the new thing it » not true , or of r . o value . ( let ua call to mind the circulation of the blood ,

      gaslight , cow-pox , steam-engines , & c . ) After is W » c " * natelygot through this period ! it i /» , « plo \ £ VZT new tlnng is not new , that it has been long known t if more than a hundred years ago there were people Soul who knew it perfectly . It is only in a third period tH the new truth bears its fruits . " P a that . 'Now dirty water is remarkabl y common where water works do not prevail Travelling also is verv com * " " and every man who has made a journey worthy of ? i ' name has sometimes sighed for a pocket filter Sn vinced were we of this- car / , eWo crcrfe , gentle reader " " and , moreover that the stoneware filters of conScT are not portable , nor lias any portable adaptation * them become popularly known , that we vere captiv ated by the filtermaker ' s little woodcut . Por the benefit tho fore , of all whom it may concern , and they are ' not a few , we resolved to learn more , if ™> ssibl

      \\ e found that a small sponge at the end of an indii rubber tube would answer all the purposes of these useful little instruments , if it only had the properties of carbon It is as light , as absorbent , and as portable , but it will not purify water . The discovery of KUhring—of , as hundreds perhaps may profess to have known and kept the secret for years , his publication—consists in the method of consolidating charcoal or carbon without destroyi ng its porosity ; to solidify dry wood , or bone , or peat ashes , would of but

      puzzle many us ; , like other tricks , it is very easy when found out . As well as we can understand it , without reference to tlie Patent-office , the inventor having first made wood , Lone , or peat charcoal in the ordinart manner , pulverises and mixes it with certain proportions of pitch . The mastic is thus formed , id moulded into any form desired , and then carbonised again in gas retorts , or other suitable description of oven . The most unscientific reader will observe that all the hydrogen of the pitch will thus be got rid of , and its carlun alone

      remain m intimate combination -with that of the origirinl charcoal . And thus Mr . liuhring , or the Patent Filter Society , who we presume stand in hU shoes , is enabled to produce a filtering absorbent hollow sphere of coherent , though of course not strictly solid , charcoal . If a pipe be connected witli its interior , an admirable filter is the rer suit , whicli , when its clarifying power requires renewal , may be revivified , as is now the charcoal of the ' sugar refiners , by re-buriiing . Por the manufacture of filters , animal oi bone charcoal , the most depurative form of carbon is combined with wood or peat , as well as with the hydro-care bon , and for other articles , other carbonaceous substances

      are employed . It is more than probable , if the attention of the right persons can be drawn to this invention , that some nearer approach may be made to the solution of the old Electric Light problem , namely , the " earLon points" which have hitherto been too destructible or too costly . It is well known that non-conducting casting tables have long been a great' desideratum in all glass works . The iron tables in use cause tliat roughness ot the uiigrouml plates which wastes material and grinding labour ; and this , if the moulded carbon -will only resist the heat of the molten " metal , " may probably be now

      obviated . Mr . Edwin Pettitt , C . h ., some years ago patented the use of refractory or non-conducting casting surfaces for casting tables , and lias had small success in procuring the-adoption of his views by . the manufacturers , or we ought rather , perhaps , to say the acknowledgment of their mloptioii . We hope ,-although as regards the majority of even valuable inventions it is almost hoping against hope , tlmt ' the Patenteeof the Moulded Carbon may be more succe .-sful . Wo have somewnat

      indulged in speculations about his process beyond our depth , in the hope that tho ' ; practical man , ^ who is even nt hand " to polish oft now fangled scheme , will do his office at once , nnd onvhuie vis that very portable and very cheap ill tors cannot bo wade as we have Httemptrid to describe . Wo will take upon ourselves the responsibility of this honest attempt to bring the question to an issue , anil of stating also that sucUa thing lias been long wimtc . l , and tliat , if long known , it Ims been kept a close secret union : * a . very few punons .

      M I S C E L L A N ,K <) U S. Tine Court....

      M I S C E L L A N , K <) U S . Tine Court . —Her Majesty nml tlio rrinco Consort , accompanied by the Princci of Prussia , arrived nU "i » - dam on Thursday evening . Thuy wiw rceoiveil *«» enthusiasm by an immense crowd . Her Miijcs *?' lunclt nt tho cnstlo of Ikmnhiiusfiii , near llal JJl J partaking of the King of llnnovur'a hospituliiy . ¦» Potsdum tlio royal party , with tUo Pri »< - '« '"' yJT :, Frederick William of l'Vussia , proiuudiirt t «> ll »" ., . " ^ whoro they arrived tlio same evening . Tint royal l ) l "" > joyciln degroa of t . rivacy on the ful \»\ t \ nti « l » vff « "v "

      ruptedby a drive through the « tri ! e-ts of Potsdam . < - m day lier Majesty visited Horlin , niul was 4 'UlhiiSKisi " ^^ welcomed , nfter whicli b 1 i * s rctuiiK'il to I ' ntinm " - , . following morning wiih devoted to a Hplondid » w ' i ^ proHi'iico of the KiikI ' ihIi and l ' ru . ^ iiii ) voynl l ' . iuul ' ' ' " | iu , < iuecti passed down the linen in mi opi'it <\ ini . > W ( : > door .- ) of which wore , l . ho lViiu-e of I ' hhmu ami ^ Albert in tlie li -rniid uiiiiofin of lield Inlll ' " ' ' ; ., , | , troops salutud her Majtssty tlu-onf- ' hoiit . tlm J" 131 "' 1 '' ' ^ ,,,, ! loud luirrnH ; mid the baii ' ds played the Ki ^ lir . l ""^ ^ anthem . Afti-r the iv . virtv the nugusL parly yi « < toml ) of Frederick tho ( Jrcut , nntl rcturiud l . o 15 n " " .. ' * On Wcdnwilny the Qiiei-u wna to pay iiuolliei >>»

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 21, 1858, page 832, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_21081858/page/8/