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      simply by an apology such aa you offered at the stationhouse to make . Mr . Bigge : I protest , sir , against your view of the Mr . Broughton , "who had been interrupted while making his obs ervations , sentenced Mr . Bigge to pay £ 3 , or to be imprisoned six weeks , in addition to which he Was ordered to enter into bis own recognizance in £ 50 for his keeping the peace towards Sir George Armytage for two months . .

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      MUEDERS . The inquest on the Wandsworth murder ended on Saturday , in a verdict of "Wilful Murder being found against William Eastwood . The story is briefly this : —Mrs . Sarah Taylor was taking in some clothes in the yard " common to all the houses " at Point Pleasant , on the night . of the 4 th of June , when her attention was attracted by the cries of children in Eastwood ' s house . She naturally listened , and heard Mrs . [ Eastwood swearing at her husband , who had been from home some time , and saying , " You promised to behave better when you eame home . " Another round of swearing ensued , then a scream of children , and a voiee was heard exclaiming— " O father , you have killed mother ! " . _ . . . _

      Mrs . Taylor ran into the house the back away , and found Mrs . Eastwood lying onthe floor of the front room . " He has stabbed me , " she said , pointing to her husband . " 1 did not do it ; she ran against the knife , " said the husband . Another neighbour , Mrs . Staples , had entered , and the two women carried Mrs . Eastwood up to bed . When she was undressed , a wound , an inch wide , from which the blood flowed freely , gaped beneath her left breast . The miserable husband kissed his wife , hoped she would " do well , " and begged the women to do what they " could for her . " The result of this dreadful scene was , as reported last week , that the police received information of the occurrence , and arrested

      Eastwood . He persisted in his first story ( he had been a policeman ) that his wife had rushed upon the knife as he held it . Mrs . Eastwood , in her dying declaration before Mr . Beadon , the magistrate , averred that her husband had stabbed her in a fit of passion and drink , as she sat in her rocking-chair . The evidence before the jury was remarkably decisive , and a verdiet of Wilful Murder accordingly found . It may be stated that Mrs . Eastwood was a second wife ; that she and her husband were always quarrelling ; that she was jealous of her step-daughter , a girl of sixteen , without , as the girl said , there being " any pretence for it ; " and was always taunting her father , and charging him with having criminal connection with the daughter .

      John Lawson , a boatman , and Catherine Morris were sitting in the kitchen of the Brown Bear , public-house , Wolverhampton , when James Jones ( who had been living with Catherine Morris ) came in and askedfor his things . She took off a handkerchief , and placing it on the table , said , " Here ' s your handkerchief ; now go into the house , and Sally will give you the remainder of the things belonging to you . " Jones replied , No , I shan ' t ro ; you come and co along with me . " Morris then got

      up and went with him . Lawson followed , and in half a minute's time saw the right arm of Jones round the woman ' s neck , and he pretending to kiss her , when he drew his left arm over her neck very sharp . She gave one scream , and partly fell . " So you ' ve done the job , have you ? " said Lawson . " Yes , I have , " replied Jones . Lawson added , Why , she ' s dead ! " when he replied , " I hope so , " and don ' t care how soon I am also dead . " Jones was fully committed on the capital charge of wilfully murdering the deceased .

      Another agrarian murder has been perpetrated in Louth . A young man , named Bernard M'Integart , while walking with his sister through the fields , was beaten to death with bludgeons . He had recently come into the possession of land whioh had been the subject of litigation .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress gave a splendid entertainment to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts , on Wednesday . There were upwards of 170 persons present . The thirty-fourth festival of the Royal Caledonian Asyhim was held on Wednesday , at the Freemasons ' Tavern . An exhibition omnibus , heavily laden with visitors going home , upset in Cheapside , on Wednesday . Beyond fright and bruises , no serious injury waa done to the passengers . The only two candidates at present in the field for Greenwich , are Mr . Alderman Salomons , and Mr . Alderman Wire . Sir Edward Buxton has distinctly declared that he is prepared to offer himself again for South Eskcx when the proper time arrives , though he does not seem to anticipate an early dissolution . He terminates as follows a latter addressed to the electors : — " I am bound , moreover , to « ay that I am fully convinced of the benefits conferred by the measure of free-trado cm the working-classes of thin country , and whatever protectionist orators muy tell you , I am satisfied that the people of England will never conaent to return to that system of high protection which you are sometimes meouraged to expect . "

      The annual meeting for " Improving the Dwelling of the Industrious Classes " was held at Willis ' s Rooms , on Saturday . Sir Ralph Howard presided . At present the enterprise is not paying ; but during the last yenr the capital invested has begun to be reproductive . Out of 234 rooms for single men in Albert-street , Bpitaliielda , 120 are occupied . The association pays £ 226 per annum for window tax , anil Lord Ebrington hoped they might consider the abolition of that tax " nearly an good an deelded upon . " Also , Sir Charles Wood had been prised to treat each of the dwellings as a separate house , and ho relieve the association from the proposed house tax .

      There was some discussion as to whether the speculation was commercial or philanthropic , an opinion prevailing that even if philanthropic it ought to be self-supporting . The report was agreed to which recommended that no dividend should be declared . Two important public meetings , in support of Mr . Cobden * B motion in favour of arbitration , were held on Monday , at Manchester and Leeds respectively . The former was called at the requisition of 200 inhabitants , and held in the Town-hall , with the Mayor ( J . Potter , ISsq . ) in the chair . Mr . George Hadfield submitted the following motion : —" That this meeting cordially ap « proves of the motion about to be submitted to the House of Commons by Richard Cobden , M . P ., with the view of producing feelings of confidence , amity , and peace , between the Governments of England and France , and of effecting a mutual reduction of armaments . " The Reverend Mr . Tucker having seconded the resolution , Mr . G . Mantle moved an amendment , but the original motion was carried by a large majority . The Reverend William M'Kerrow moved a petition to the House of Commons , to be presented by Mr . Milner Gibson , founded on the resolutions . Mr . Binyon seconded the motion , which was carried . —The meeting at Leeds was the largest and most influential hitherto held in that town on this subject , and the sentiments expressed by the movers and seconders of the different resolutions were received with much enthusiasm . The Mayor ( George Goodman , Esq . ) presided . Resolutions approving of Mr . Cobden ' s motion were carried unanimously . A petition in accordance with the resolutions was also adopted , and a vote of thanks to the mayor . At the close of the proceedings another meeting was held , with J . G . Marshall , Esq ., M . P ., in the chair , to appoint delegates to the Congress intended to be held in London .

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      The suit of Metaire v . Wiseman has been compromised , by the division of the £ 7000 claimed by the school of St . Eloysius , at Somerstown , in the proportion of £ 4000 to M . Carre's next of kin , and £ 3000 to the charity . Sometime ago arule was grantedby the Court of Queen ' s Bench , calling upon William Seymour Blackstone , M . P ., to show cause why a criminal information should not be tiled against him for a libel on Messrs . Hedges and Son , solicitors , Wallingford . The alleged libel was contained in a private letter addressed to his cousin , the Reverend Harry Lee , who had bought , in 1845 , an estate of Mr . Blackstone . This private letter , intended as a caution , Mr . Lee had kept a twelvemonth , and then had shown it to Mr . Hedges , who forthwith brought his action . The rule was discharged on the ground that there was reason to believe that Mr . Blackstone believed all he stated , and that in writing to his cousin he acted from a sense of duty .

      The libel case between the Reverend Mr . Daly and Punch has been terminated by an apology being tendered , and an explanation made on the part of Punch , that the incriminated article had been founded upon an incorrect report of the meeting at which the alleged speech was made . Rule discharged , with costs to the defendants . Captain Helsham has agreed to accept an apology from the proprietors of Blackwood ' s Magazine , for an article which appeared in that periodical upon a duel in

      which Captain Helsham was engaged . The apology accepted was worded as follows : — " We are ready , on the part of Messrs . Blackwood , and the author of the article in question , to withdraw every imputation upon Captain Helsham of anything like unfairness with reference to the duel , and , in particular , to Btate that , having made inquiries relative to the expression attributed to Baron Bayley , and the statement that Captain Helsham had practised pistol firing previously to the duel , we believe that the statements in the article relative to

      them are unfounded . " A rule nisi , for an attachment against Lord Adolphus Vane for disobeying a subpoena and using contemptuous expressions regarding the Court had been issued , and the trial came off on Monday , in the Court of Common Pleas . The story is simple . Lord Adolphus waa required to give evidence in a railway case ; and the process server , Oakes , was sent with a subpoena . He seized the moment when the noble lord was leaving his cabriolet , and entering his house , to present the obnoxious document . On being told by Oakes the object of hia coming , Lord Adolphus said , " You may be damned ! I shall not attend . " Oakes then explained the consequences of

      nonattendance to him , and placed the subpoena and a shilling on hia lordship ' s arm as he was entering his door , when his Lordship refused to tuke it , and said , " Damn you , the Court , and all of you . " As hi » lordship did not afterwards attend at the trial , the record was obliged to be withdrawn . For these contemptuous expressions to the Court , the rule ni » i for an attachment was granted . Lord Adolphus denied the expressions insulting the Court , and also that the original had been shown him . Lord Campbell said it was clear that Lord Adolphus Vane might damn the process server , but not the process . Hehad purged hia contempt , however , and the Court wan of opinion that the rule ought to be discharged without COHtU .

      Count de Bocarm 6 has been found guilty of the wilful murder of ( Juatave Fougnietf ; but the-Countess de Bocarme' has been acquitted . A return to the llouuc of Commons shown that the declared value of Britinh produce inutiufacturcb exported from the United Kingdom during the last two yearn , ending lunt January lut , waa £ 69 , 934 , 312 . According to a late return the urrcarfl in the Court of Chancery at Hilary Term last numbered 983 tippualu , demurrers , cause * , further directions , and ulaiuiH . During the month of Muy , 477 vessels arrived in Now York from foreign ports , with an aggregate of 38 , 346 immigrants . Of those vessels , 79 were under the British flag .

      Great exertions are being made to establish a line of steamers between Galway and New York . The North America was to leave New York for Galway on the 17 th , her first trip , and bring x > ver 150 passengers . It is expected that two more steamers will make the same voyage in August . The America left Galway for New York on Tuesday . The Dublin and Galway railway is proceeding rapidly to completion . It is proposed to pass a new statute in convocation at Oxford , for the purpose of raising the salaries of some of the professors and readers . The lowest stipend now received is £ 100 . This would , under the proposed statute , be augmented to £ 250 . The highest is £ 228 , and this would be raised to £ 300 . There is also a project for building a new museum , and providing lecture-roorns thereat , for the University .

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      The Spanish " Concordat" was laid on the table of the Chamber of Deputies on the 14 th . The Austrians have entered Spoleto . The French court-martial at Rome pronounced on the 4 th sentence of death against four men convicted of having-fonnedpart of a Roman patrol which some time ago attacked a French patrol in the streets at night . One . man has , besides , been condemned to hard labour for life , and three to five years of the same punishment . The rest of the prisoners , eleven iu number , wer . acquitted . By the Africa we have Jamaica dates to May 27 . The House of Assembly was prorogued by the governor on the 23 rd . The cholera still lingered in Jamaica . It had appeared in several localities which have been hitherto exempt . At Mountain Valley the people have refused to bury the dead .

      Petitions were presented in the Legislative Assembly of Toronto , on May 29 , for a charter to enable a company to build a railroad to the Pacific , and to be allowed to purchase land along the line sixty miles wide , at the price it was purchased at by the Government from the Indians . The Falcon steam-ship , employed in carrying the mails between Bermuda , St . John ' s Newfoundland , and Halifax , Nova Scotia , was wrecked at the end of May , off the Isle de Bois . The mails , most of the property , and all on board were saved .

      A fearful earthquake took place at Valparaiso . on the 3 rd of April . There were several shocks ; but the second was the most severe , and caused some loss of life , the falling of many buildings , and the destruction of much property . Occasional shocks were felt for the succeeding three days , doing more or less damage . A letter from Abbeokuta , dated M . aTch 4 , mentions the defeat of the Dahoman army , in which many female warriors fought , before the walls of Abbeokuta , a town about sixty miles inland from Lagos , in the Bight of Benin . The invasion , it is said , was wholly unprovoked ; and their discomfiture is likely to have an important bearing on the decline of the slave trade .

      A terrible fire occurred at Geelong , in Australia , on the 6 th of February . The crops , stacks , live stock , and homesteads belonging to upwards of thirty farmers had been reduced to ashes , but the aggregate amount of the losses sustained had not been ascertained up to our latest dates . The loss of life was frightful . Among others the wife" and four children of a settler named M'Lelland , residing on the banks of the Diamond Creek , one of the tributaries of the river Plenty , had been burnt to death ; and eight persons in the Geelong district had suffered in like manner . Extensive fires had also broken out in the forests on the Cape Otway coast , and at Portland and Point Fairy . The Chinese insurrection is becoming so formidable as to threaten the existence of the imperial dynasty . It so much disturbs trade on the south that the intervention of foreign powers is being talked of .

      The Russian possessions in Europe , Asia , and America , cover an area of 262 , 251 square miles , with a population of 65 , 935 , 000 . The annual expenditure of the Russian States amounts to £ 20 , 000 , 000 , and the public debt is £ 122 , 000 , 000 . Notes to an amount of £ 62 , 000 , 000 are in circulation . The Kussian army numbers 700 , 000 men , and the fleet consists of 715 vessels , with 5500 guns . The mercantile marine haa 1100 vessels , of 100 , 000 tons . The average value of annual exports is £ 28 . 1 ' 20 , 0 U 0 ; and of Imports £ ' 22 , 000 , 000 . Austria has £ 12 , 158 square miles and 37 , 900 , 000 inhabitants . The expenditure is £ 33 , 000 , 000 , and the public debt £ 183 , 000 , 000 . Bank notes in circulation £ 42 , 000 , 000 . The army numbers 500000 men , and the fleet h » a 156 vessels and 600 Runu .

      , There are 560 merchant ship * with a tonnage of 162 , 4 ' 26 tons . Imports , £ 14 , 000 , 000 ; exports , £ 13 , 000 , 000 France , minus her colonies , has 9748 square miles , with 35 , /> 00 , 000 inhabitants . Expenditure , £ 64 , 000 , 000 - , debt , £ 221 , 000 , 000 ; noteH , £ 17 , 000 , 000 ; army , 265 , 463 men ; fleet , 328 vessels—8000 guns ; mercantile marine ships , 4353 —joint tonnage 316 , 084 tons ; imports , £ 40 , 000 , 000 ; export ' s , £ 47 , 000 , 000 . Prussia , 6104 square miles , and 16 , 400 , 000 inhabitants . Expenditure , JC' 16 , 000 , 000 ; debt , £ 30 , 000 , 000 ; bank notea , £ 9 , 000 , 000 ; standing army ( minus the Landwehr ) , 217 , 200 men ; fleet , 38 vetjHeln , 84 guna , and J ) 77 merchant vessels of a joint tonnage of 40 , 977 tons . —Kolnischc Zeitung .

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      KNCU . IHH ULl ' . KS AND MA 1 MUOAI . H . Among the peculiar entertainments of 1851 , one of the moHt interesting is the revival of the uucient glees and madrigals of England , and their presentation by K « : »» emen truly worthy of their performance At Willis s Itoomti on Saturday , and ag "'" " « Wednesday , selections of glees were given by Men » n » . FranciH , Hobbs , Lookey , Land , and II . Phillips . We have not apace to-day for a detailed oritioicm ; but it was most gratifying to find such fashionable audiences , and that our essentially Jjnglinh muhio wuh listened to with suoh thorough appreciation . The performances , which « r # under the the patronage of her Majesty and Prince Albert , will be continued on Wednesday next , and on Saturday .

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      June 21 , 1851 . ] $ Eft £ & * && *? + 581

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 21, 1851, page 581, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1888/page/9/