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proceedings , deliberately lifted up the dress of Mrs . Harriet Harding , took her purse containing £ 2 . 2 s . 6 d . from her pocket , and ran away . She was captured by a police-sergeant and committed for trial . An aggravated case of criminal assault is reported to have occurred last week at the house of a widow lady of property , Mrs . Samuels , City terrace , City-road . She had a servant , aged sixteen , Elizabeth Davey , who attracted the notice of Joseph Samuels , the widow ' s son . In giving her evidence before Mr . Arnold , she related how the young man had taken trifling liberties with her ever since she came to the house , about three weeks ago ; that he had bought her a gown , which she refused ; that on Saturday night , on going to her room , he took away the key and made an attempt to kiss her , which she
resisted , when he assaulted her so violently that she lost her senses . On awakening from sleep , or stupor , in the morning , she descended to the Jkitchen in a shocking state , and with her dress all torn down the back . Her mistress scolding her for getting up late , she told Mrs . Samuels in general terms of the violent conduct of her son . She was ordered t : > fetch the milk . She went straight to her grandmother and told her story . The evidence of the poor girl was corroborated by that of the surgeon ; and , though Mrs . Samuels was examined to invalidate the testimony of Elizabeth Davey , who was severely cross-examined by Mr . Clarkson , her testimony was not shaken . To " complete the medical evidence a remand of one week was ordered , and Joseph Samuels admitted to bail .
It appears that chloroform was used to stifle the cries of Harriet Newman , the young woman whose sufferings were detailed last week . When Mr . Yardley wished her to describe the smell of the handkerchief passed over her face , she said it was a very unpleasant smell , and caused a sensation as if she were choking . All manner of things appeared before her eyes , and her sight left her . There was also a ringing noise in her ears . Mr . Lewis asked , on Saturday , for another remand , as the inquiries of the police had been hitherto unsuccessful . The prisoner was remanded in default of bail . The only new fact elicited is , that the three men Miss Newman saw in the house , appeared to her like " well-dressed gentlemen , and much above the rank of the prisoner . "
Marylebone workhouse seems lately to have been given over to the paupers . Two able-bodied fellows were charged with having stolen a handkerchief . One Briggs said he bought it of Dance , and Dance averring , that he found it " in his perambulations over the house , seeking after bits of bread . " The master stated , that the " ablebodied vagabonds had broken down the door of their department and burnt it " ! The guardians propose to have a " kind of internal police , " for the restoration of •« order . " A fiercer insurrection broke out on April 1 , in the East London workhouse . For some reason unexplained , the
female inmates , while at dinner , suddenly commenced showering potatoes , plates , pots , pannikins , knives , forks , old shoes , and broken pails upon the head of the master , who retreated before this culinary tempest to his own house . The insurgents , having driven off the master , broke 240 squares of glass , and five dozen of plates , and did other damage . One of them declared she would be master , and it was not until the police arrived and drew their truncheons , that the riot was put an end to . Five young women were tried on Saturday for this riot , and being found guilty , one was sentenced to eight months , and each of the others to one year ' s imprisonment , with hard labour .
Jilizabeth Richardson was living servant to Mr . Jackson , of Clifton street , Finsbury . On Sunday night she was supposed to have gone to bed as usual . Something , however , induced Mr . Jackson to go into the kitchen , where he found the girl beating herself about the head with a hammer , the blood trickling down her face and staining her clothes . She was brought before Mr . Cooinbe on a charge of attempted . suicide , and remanded for a week . Disappointed love is supposed to have thus temporally deranged her mind . Mr . Kiton , tlie master of St . Pancras workhouse , liaa
been accused byone of the inmates , named liliza Smith , of having carried her in a cab to a private house and forcibly committed a capital assault . The charge wan denied , and the denial corroborated by the evidence of the inafltcr of the Hampstead Union , who proved that Mr . Eaton left Humpsteudat a quarter to eight , andlhe porter , who declared that he arrived at St . Pnncras about half-past <> ight . The case wua sent before the Ole . kenwell Police Court by order of the board . Mr . Eaton appeared before Mr . Cooinbe on Wednesday , and though remanded for a week , the evidence seems tmilicieiitl y strong to make it probable that lie will be committed to take his trial .
The Douglases , who have achieved a name in the annuls of swindling , have been found guilty before the Recorder , and sentenced , the father to twelve , and the « onu to three months ' , imprisonment . The defence Hot up was , that they were persons of good family and expectations , and had intended to pny tlieir debts . IJut the fraudulent intention wan too plain , and the . Recorder inexorable . Sarah Collins was committed on TluirKday to take her trial for the wil / ul murder of her illegitimate , child , by drowning it in the . Regent ' s-canal ; and another young woman , named Mary Ann Conter , wiih also committed lor drowning her child , ulso illegitimate , in a pail of dirty watvr .
John Ihuuch , the captain of the desperate ; band of Huhhcx burglars , was apprehended at Frome , in SoiunrhiUhIihc , on Friday hint , brought before the inagiHtmleH at Tunbiidge WcIIh on Thursday , and committed for the b ur ^ laiy at the house of tho Misses Farneoinbe , near Uckh ' eld , iu December last . The HcriouH crime of criminal assault , upon women and children neeina ou the increase . Three young men , Henry Young . ( W ge Wood , and W . Swan , were committed on Saturdny , at , Jlford , for the violation of Eliza Moore , uu . 0 . om > U . A ' uviu W » being ticcowory . » Uo hud
been drugged by them . The poor girl was so distressed in mind that she had attempted suicide by drowning . At the little village of Rosemarket , near Haverfordwest , on Saturday week there were great demonstrations of joy , broaching of ale barrels , and flaming of bonfires . Mr . Lort Phillips was the giver of the feast , in celebrationof his taking possession of theestates of the late , Sir W . 0 . Barlow . When the festival was over , a jovialfarmer , named Stevens , who had lingered to take a parting
glass , left the " New Inn" with a friend for his home . They had barely proceeded twelve yards on their journey when Stevens received a tremendous blow , which felled him to the ground , and he never spoke afterwards . He lingered in the most excruciating agony until the following day , when he died . A man named Jones had been observed loitering around the " New Inn , " and he had waylaid Mr . Stevens , apparently with intent to kill him . Jones was captured , and the jury have returned a verdict of wilful murder against him .
Ignorance and crime but too often go hand in hand . A young man poisoned himself last week at Lincoln at a resort of the profligate of both sexes . There is nothing very unusual in the act , but its attendant circumstances are very significant and not at all creditable to the city of Lincoln , where such ample provision is made for the salvation of souls . The suicide was only twenty-four , his mistress was but twenty-one ; the witnesses were twentyone and twenty-two . The girl who kept the house was twenty-two . Neither of these witnesses knew the nature of an oath , and one only could read " a little . " The state of the county is shown by the fact that , according to the evidence of the druggist who sold the poison , " there is a greater demand for opium and laudanum in Lincolnshire " than in any other county in England . " The jury
returned the barbarous verdict of felo de se . The mother of the self-destroyer fainted on the pavement when the verdict was given , and possession of the body was refused . A chemist at Eastwood , near Nottingham , is asked to sell arsenic for the purpose of destroying " mice and rats" on a Sunday morning , about amonth ago . Again , on the 13 th instant , another chemist is applied to upon a similar pretext . On the 20 th March , a man named John Barber , who has been , ill for some time , suddenly dies . An inquest is held on the body , suspicion falls on his wife , and a man named Ingram , said to be her paramour . The wife had persuaded her brother to purchase the poison . Mrs . Barber , and Ingram , her paramour , were at once arrested ; and the inquest has resulted in their committal for -wilful murder .
Mr . Thomas Trench Cooke , late Mr . T . Trench , of the county of Kildare , committed suicide on Wednesday week . He rose early in the morning , and , wrapt in his dressing-gown , retired to his library , where he was found , stretched forward on a table , the left arm extended , a bloodstained razor firmly grasped in the hand , and the throat cut deeply and fatally . Though the body was warm , life was entirely extinct . The coroner , Dr . Hayes , of Naas , held an inquest in the afternoon , verdict insanity . Mr . Cooke was aged about sixty-five . He has left a widow , one son , and four daughters .
The authorities of Kirkdale prison received on Wednesday a reprieve for Bridget Lyons , who was found guilty of the murder of Peggy Fahey , at Warrington , on the ground that she was not directly implicated in the commission of the crime . No respite has arrived for her husband , Patrick Lyons , whose execution is fixed for the 26 t . li instant . There is strong evidence that Maria Clark- * , who buried her child alive , and whose real name is Shulver , is insane . On her trial she denied all knowledge of persona with whom she had been at service ; but on being confronted with tliem in prison , at once knew them and burst into tears . Her insanity was , indeed , so evident , that petitions were written out and signed on Sunday last by great numbers , including the mayor , eight magistrates , and twenty-nine members of the corporation .
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A V I LI A . U A B 1 ) U C T I O N . A lady whose name is unknown , liut who is eighty years oM , " possessed of considerable property , " and on the point of being married , has been residing for Home time in St .. Mary ' s-road , Canonbury -square . Another lady lived in the same house , also " elderly . " On Friday wet k these two ladies went out to take a walk before dinner , and were walking quietly through Canouburysquarc when cab No . 1025 drove up , a young lady opened the door , leapt ou to the pavement , and , being powerful , seized the would-be married lady , lifted her into the cub , and dashed away . Now it happened that the lady bo carried off had a daughter living in Belgium , and she ; it was who , on hearing of her mother ' s intended marriage , had hastened to England and taken this forcible way of coming by at least luir mother ' s person , if not her property . The dutiful daughter thus abducted her parent ou the ground that she was mad ; an acr . usat . ioii to which she was apparently liable ; for the quest ion of the houudne . su of her intellect had been " four times investigated , " always with u decision in favour of her sanity . Of course the parlies with whom she had l > c < -u living , as well asher betrothed , were in " a state of gr «( at excitement , " ; ind in this utat . e they appeared before Mr . Tyrwhiu , who said he could do nothing ; for them . They leiL the court with the determination of applying to i . lie judge at . Set-joanls ' -inn for a habeas corpus , and get the old lady buck agiiin , if poasible , to the classic retreats of Cnuoiihury .
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M ISCKLLANKO US . The Queen and Prince Albert went Io her Majruty ' H Theatre on Saturday evening . In the course of the evening the . Prince went , to the St . James '« Theatre to wit - ness the representation of the Merchant , of Veuve by amateur performers , for the benefit of ( fie p , inu ., H ' lViiHiou Society . The Queen held a Court and 1 ' rivy ( Journal , at Uuckingham Palace , on Monday . At tho Court the AicUbiBhim v ( Cttulcrbury prweuted nn uddrtuu
to the Queen on Church Extension . Mr . "W . P . Wood , Solicitor-General , and Mr . G . J . Turner , "Vice-Chancellor , had the honour of Knighthood conferred upon The Queen and Prince Albert paid a visit to the Duke of Devonshire on Saturday , at his mansion in Piccadilly . Her M ajesty had never previously seen the interior of this magnificent edifice , and the noble duke , having received an intimation of her intention , caused the necessary preparations to be made for the reception of the Queen , and Saturday was appointed for the visit to take place . They arrived at a few minutes before two o ' clock . The Queen was received , on alighting from her carriage , by the Duke of Devonshire , who conducted her through
the entrance-hall and up the grand marble staircase to the ballroom , the magnificent paintings on the walls and decorations of which were inspected by her Majesty and the Prince . The royal party made a tour of the suite of apartments , and were at length conducted to the grand saloon , where a most recherche dejeuner had been prepared . A few distinguished members of the aristocracy had been invited to meet the Queen at the dejeuner , among whom were the Duke of Wellington , Lord and Lady John Russell , the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Constance Leveson Gower , the Marchioness of Ailesbury , the Marquis and Marchioness of Breadalbane , the
Marchioness of Waterford , the Marchioness of Clanricarde , the Marquis and Marchioness of Douglas , the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Yilliers , the Earl of Aberdeen , the Earl and Countess Granville , the Earl and Countess Grey , the Earl of Carlisle , Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston , Viscountess Jocelyn , Viscount and Vicountess Canning , Sir Augustus Clifford , Sir William Somerville , and Mr . Erskine . The interior of the mansion was very tastefully ornamented with a profusion of the choicest flowers from the conservatories at Chiswick and Cuatsworth . The Queen and Prince Albert took their departure shortly before four o ' clock . — Abridged from the Morning Post .
The Queen has given £ 2 £ 0 to the " Queen ' s College , London . " On Monday and Tuesday the customary bounties were issued to the aged and meritorious poor at the Almonry , in Whitehall , under the direction of the Lord High Almoner and the Sub-Almoner ; and on Maunday Thursday , the ancient and royal charities were distributed to thirty-two aged men and thirty-two aged women , with the usual formalities , in Whitehall Chapel .
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Lord Bury ( son of the Earl of Albemarle ) is about to discharge the functions of private secretary—without salary —to Lord John Russell , in the place of Mr . W . R . Grey , M . P . for Tynemouth , lately appointed one of the secretaries of the Poor-law Board . Miss Talbot attended the soiree given by the Countess of Jersey on Friday night , in company with the Countess Newburgh . She is a visitor at the residence of the Lord Chancellor and Lady Truro , and all her proceedings are closely watched by the Chancellor , who seems determined that no undue influence shall be exercised towards her .
The case of this lady , which has excited so much attention , is likely , it is said , to receive a very happy and legitimate solution . It is currently rumoured that Miss Talbot is about to be married to Lord Edward Fitzalaa Howard , M . P . for Horsham , second son of the Duke of Norfolk , Hereditary Earl Marshal , and Premier Peer of England . His lordship holds the office of Vice-Chamberlain to the Queen , and is in hia thirty-fourth year ; is heir to a property in Devonshire of the value of £ 25 , 000 per annum , so that the £ 80 , 000 would not be thrown away . It , perhaps , need scarcely be added that Lord Edward is *»¦ Roman Catholic . —Standard .
Miss Fent'lla Fitzhardinge Berkeley , daughter o /* Rear-Admiral Berkeley , M . P ., : > nd Captain Henry Armytage , of the Life Guards , son of Colonel Armytage , late of the Grenadier Guards , were married on Saturday last at St . Martin ' s Church , Charing Crosa . The ceremony was performed by the Reverend Mr . Molyneux , and the bride given away by Lord Fitzhardinge . After breakfast the happy couple departed to spend the honeymoon at Brooinhill Bank , Tonbridge Wells , the seat of Colonel Armytage . The bride is eighteen years of age and the bridegroom twenty-five . Lord Groavenor , the Honourable Lcveson Gower , and Mr . Egertou , who are at present travelling in India , have been received on a visit by the King of Oude .
It is said that the office of Vice Chancellor of the county palutine of Lancaster , vacant by the promotion of Mr . Page Wood , will be conferred on Mr . Headlarn , of the Chancery Bar . The Reverend J . Garbett , M . A ., professor of poetry in the University of Oxford , and rector of Clayton , Sussex , has been advanced to the archdeaconry of CtiicheHter , vacant by the resignation of the Reverend II . E . Manning . We perceive that in the course of the present month , the eminent German lecturer , Professor Kinkel , proposes to commence , in London , a course of lectures upon the History and present , position of the Drama in Europe .
Our readers will remember that Mr . Berkeley in his " charge" against the Yeomanry in the House of Commons , alluded to a Captain , not Shoot but Shute , who had command of the Bcdniinster troop of Yeomanry during the Bristol riots of 1831 . This allusion han been construed by the gallant captain into an imputation on bin " pcrtjoiiul courage , " and he demanded an explanation . Mr . Berkeley replied in a manner not nutisfuctory to Captuin Shute , whereupon that gentleman rushed
up to London and wrote another letter . To this Mr . Berkeley agitin replied : — " I expressed my belief that you were the gallant leader of u miserably uinall number of gallant men . I am not aware , therefore , that I am called upon to muke . further admins ions of your pcruouul courage , which lhave never impeached . " This was held by the warlike captain to be natiafactory , and tlie whole affair ended peacefully . From tho amount already collected towards a fund for a testimonial to Mr . J . tu « Utyu , tho lute lamented Liver-
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Leader (1850-1860), April 19, 1851, page 362, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1879/page/6/
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