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AN EPISODE IN TOWN LIFE . Cjjtaik Shephbbb , B . N-, residing at Woodbine-cottage , Baling , attended at the Marjlebone court on Thursday in support of a summons which he had taken out against David Hart , 4 , Edward-street , Hampstead-road , for unlawfully detaining a portmanteau , two hats , a cap , and other articles belonging to the Captain . Mr . Broughton ( to defendant ) . —What are you ? Hart . —I am a " gent . " ( Laughter . )
Mr . Browghton . —Why do you detain these things r Hart . —I know of nothing more than the portmanteau , which I detain for money which I have lent to the captain at different times , to pay for cigars , brandy , &c . I once had him before a magistrate at Brentford for stabbing me with a fork at Ealing , and for that offence he was confined ; this proceeding , on his part , has arisen entirely through spite . He owes me 10 s ., and he left the portmanteau with me as security for the debt . The fact is , your worship , he is mad ; there can be no mistake about it . not mad
The Captain . —Mad , do you say ? I am . " When the wind is southerly I know a hawk from a handsaw . " Hem 1 Shakspeare ! Mr . Broughton . —Have you any witness , Captain Shop-™ JO The Captain . —Oh , yes ; I ' ll call a lady , Mrs . Hartley . Mrs . Hartley , a stylishly dressed woman , about 35 years of age , was then sworn . Mr . Broughton . —Are you a married woman , ma am , or a widow ? . Mrs . Hartley . —I am a widow , sir . ( She here drew aside her lace veil , and a face by no means unhandsome was fully exposed to view . ) Mr . Broughton . —What do you know of this business , and where do you live ? Mrs . Hartly . —I am living at the same house as Mr . Hart . He is not the landlord . I know that the portmanteau was left with Mr . Hart by the Captain , and I also know that he ( Mr . Hart ) had lent him money .
Mr . Broughton . —What do you know of Captain Shepherd ? Mrs . Hartley ( blushing ) . —I lived with him , sir , for two or three days at Ealing , the same as if I had been his wife , but I ran away from him because he beat me severely , and shot at me often with bow and arrows . One of the arrows entered my leg . He is a most strange man , for during the short period I was with him he amused himself by biting dogs' tails off , and pulling flowers from other people's grounds . The Captain . —Now , about our first acquaintance . Didn't I meet you one day in the street and ask you to take a ride in my " vehicle ? Mrs . Hartley . —Yes .
The Captain . —And have I not visited you at Hart's house frequently ? Mrs . Hartley . —Certainly . The Captain . —I believe you once went to a masked ball with me ; did you not ? MrB . Hartley . —I did . The Captain . —Of course you enjoyed yourself there ? Mrs . Hartley . —Indeed I did not ; I was never in my life in so much misery before ; your behaviour was so extremely strange and annoying . The Captain . —Hadn't you a pretty dress ? Mrs . Hartley . —A very pretty one indeed . Mr . Broughton . —In what character did you go ? Mrs . Hartley . —In that of a " Greek boy . " The Captain . —Didn ' t you and I in the course of the night change dresses ? Mrs . Hartley . —Oh ! I don't recollect . Mr . Broughton . —Who paid for the " Greek boy's " dress ?
Mrs . Hartley . —It has not been paid for at all , sir . The Captain . —Did I not at one time pay the defendant Hart 31 . on account of your rent ? Mrs . Hartley . —You paid him something , but what it was I cannot tell . The Captain . —Did I not give you a pair of boots ? Mrs . Hartley . —You did—are they paid for ? Tho Captain ( addressing the magistrate ) . —They are as good as paid for , for I have given my promise to Mr . Patterson who made them . The price of them is three guineas ;
they are small and of beautiful make , and were in tho Great Exhibition , where they attracted considerable notice . They lit tho lady exactly ; and this I can nay , that nho has the smallest and most elegant foot of any woman in England—have you not , Mrs . Hartley ? The lady curtseyed , and bogged po l itely that she wight bo excuHca from giving a reply to any such questions . Mr . Broughton . —You were not exhibited as well as the shoos , woro you ? ( Laughter . ) Mrs . Hartley ( mnilmg ) . —No , Sir , indeed I was not .
Tho Captain . —Tho model of her foot , your worship , is Sone to China , to let them soo thero what we linglitih can o without the aid of bandaging and cruelly strapping up from infancy . Her foot is the most lovely thing you ever eaw in your lifo . ( Iionowod laughter . ) Mr . Broughton was requested by the gallant captain to satisfy himself thereof by ocular doinonHtration , but his worship had no inclination to do anything of tho sort , inasmuch as tho question at issue had nothing to do with the foet of which tho lady was tho proprietress . Tho magistrate told tho captain that according to his own witness ' s showing money had been lent to him by defendant , in whoso hands tho portmuntcuu now was , und the case was decided by tho summons being dismissed .
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" WHAT'S IN A NAME ?" Bomk person calling himsolf tho Honourable Henry Cavendish , and pretending 1 to bo a relativo of the Duke of Devonnhiro , wrote- in February lust 4 o M . Caillie ^ , proprietor of tho Hotel Mourieo , to engage an apartment and to hav « a carriage sent lor him to the railway station . Jle arrived on the day appointed , with a lady whom lie represented au hiu wif « . He had a reapoctablo appoarunce , ami Boemod to bp about forty-livo years of ago . Ho Uvod
there in great style for abpve a month , and having promised M « Caiffiez a cheque for the amount of his biU , which then came to l , 200 f ., he went out and never returned . He left behind some articles of small value . A complaint being made to the police , it was ascertained that the pretended Mr . Cavendish had obtained shirts and g loves to the value of 476 f . from one tradeswoman , and goods to the amount of I 78 f . and ^ 73 f . from two dressmakers , for none of which he had paid . It was afterwards found that he had been living at the Royal Hotel at Dover , kept by Mr . Hughes , out of money obtained by a forged cheque on MM , Ferrere and Laflitte . He next appeared at Dunkirk , under the name of William Bentinck , where he obtained goods on cheque which were afterwards dishonoured . Here the police took him in chargejust as ne was about to make another migration . The Tribunal ot Correctional Police at Paris have condemned him to a year ' s imprisonment and a fine of 60 f .
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CAPTAIN ATCHERLEY AGAIN . Captain Atchebwey was summoned before Mr . Bingham on Wednesday to show cause why he detained certain papers belonging to Pierre Basquet , an Indian chief . The chief had explained to the magistrate , on previous applications at this court , that he had certain claims upon , or representations to make to the Colonialoffice on behalf of himself and tribe relative to certain lands , of which they had been dispossessed ; that he had come to England about thirteen months ago to
prosecute those claims ; that unluckily he was seen in the street on his way to the Colonial-office by Captain Atcherley ; that he was induced to place himself and papers in the bands of Captain Atcherley , who undertook to use bis influence with Government to get . justice done to himself and people ; that he bad discovered , after some months' delay , be had made a mistake in allowing Captain Atcherley to have anything to do with bis business ; and that being now desirous of returning home , he had applied , but in vain , for the restoration of his papers , some of which were official .
Captain Atcherley came to the court at an early hour , and obtained summonses against several gentlemen connected with the Colonial and Government offices . The only summons which police-constable Roberts could serve was a summons addressed to a gentleman named Elliott . At three o ' clock , Captain Atcherley having made bis appearance with a considerable bundle of papers , Mr . Bingham requested he would tell him shortly why he detained the papers ?
Captain Atcherley proceeded to say , tbat in 1851 he met the man Pierre Basquet in the street , and'bearing in mind tbat in 1820 he bad been sworn in sponsor for the Indians , tbat on the occasion of taking an Indian to the Bay of Exploits he had been told to pull off his uniform , and to perform service as a clergyman , tbat be had so performed service for some time , but in consequence of the Indian being turned out into tho open air , death ensued ; and having sent a report to Lord Dalhousie , and afterwards received bis commission as lieutenant , be came to England , and was put into the rules of the peace for Middlesex and Worcester . At this point of the story Mr . Vaugban interposed , and reminded the captain it would be advisable to come to the case of Pierre Basquet without further
delay . Captain Atcherley said , he saw Pierre Basquet in the street , and being of opinion his duties as Indian sponsor came into * rcquisition , he took charge of the applicant ' s business . He corresponded with the Colonialoffice , and ascertained tbat Earl Grey had recognised the position of the applicant , g iving him tho medal ho then woro , and a union-jack to hold as his emblem of authority connected with tho fisheries . Being desirous that the correspondence should be conducted in a regular way , bo had taken charge of it . Some of the correspondence was regular and some irregular . In
soiiKi of the letters tho applicant was described as " Bosquet , " and in others as " Basquet . " Tho con sequence of this was , that tho American Government would not recogniBH him at all , and refused to defray about 20 W . expenses , to which ho ( Captain Atcherley ) hud been put for the maintenance of the applicant , and for tho projHir prosecution of bis claims . Ho was , however , desirous of carrying out conscicntiouHly tho trust confided to him , and only waited for tho magistrate ' s orders to givo up tho paperH , as ho was anxious to prevent an impression from going abroad , that ho hud thrown the man otfj und hud acted unfairly
towards him . Mr . Bingha . ni . —You do not approach the point I liiive to decide . Yon detain tho papers of Vicorro Basque ! , and you inutit show mo some reason why you do ko . I presumed tho reason you would offur would bo tlmt you had done hoiiio meritorious services , and that you returned the papers until you woro paid . Captain Atchorley . —That is tho real ineaning of the thing . Mr , Bingluun . —Well , then , iw I lmvo correctly « ui >
mised the truth , there is an end of the matter . No person has a right to detain papers for expenses in . curred except an attorney for expenses in a suit of law and you are not an attorney . ' Captain Atcherley . —Oh , but I am an attorney . Mr . Bingham . —Not an attorney such as the law contemplates . If you have any claim for expenses you must proceed in a civil court . You cannot detain the papers on that ground . Captain Atcherley . —I have no claim against this man . My claim is against Government for mileage . Mr . Bingham . —Then my decision is , that you give up the papers . You have shown no right to them , and it is not disputed they belong to the applicant .
Captain Atcherley immediately restored the papers , and then asked if be was still bound to maintain , the applicant ? Mr . Bingham said the applicant bad no claim upo ^ Captain Atcherley for maintenance . The course for Captain Atcberley to take was to deliver the applicant to the relieving officer , who would no doubt do his duty . The chief having expressed no reluctance to accede to this proposition , Captain Atcherley left the court with him .
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CHEAP FUNERALS ! Ah undertaker , named Avis , of High-street , St . Giles , was charged before Mr . Henry , on Tuesday , with having buried an infant without the Registrar ' s certificate . The grandmother of the child had engaged Avis to provide a coffin and bury the child for the sum of three shillings . The child was accordingly placed in a coffin and carried to Avis ' s house , where a certificate of the death was , according to the grandmother ' s statement , left with the body . Two months after the deputy registrar , Mr . Faulkner , suspecting that all was not right , made some inquiries but could obtain no satisfactory information . The infant ' s mother had also bee n to the undertaker since the summons was issued , but could ascertain nothing . It now came out , by the evidence of a man employed by Avis , that the child had not been buried at all , but had been kept for the whole two months in a sort of vault or coal-cellar , under the undertaker ' s house . According to the undertaker's version of the story , the body was kept there because there was no certificate with it . Mr . Henry considered this a case of great importance . If the undertaker could clear himself of this charge , he might probably be indicted for improperly detaining the body . The case was adjourned to obtain further evidence , and to secure the attendance of the surgeon who gave the certificate .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen and the Royal Family , accompanied by the armed escort of war-steamers , set oat early on Tuesday morning in the Royal yacht Victoria and Albert , from Osborne , and steamed eastward , her destination being Antwerp , and her object a friendly visit to King Leopold . After a fair passage , she put into the Downs , and remained all night , steaming away early in the morning across the Channel . She reached Antwerp in the evening , about half an hour before tho arrival of the King . When be came , he went on board the yacht , and dined with the Royal voyagers . The next morning the Queen landed , and set out for Brussels , reaching the palace of Laecken about eleven o ' clock .
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The lush prisoners were found guilty of the various charges brought against them for their share iu tho Stockport riots , on Thursday . There was nothing new in the evidence adduced before the Judge of Assize , Mr . Justice Crompton . News from tho River Plate has reached us by tho Severn , which lyings papers to July 2 . Buenos Ayrca was again placed under a , dictatorial government , tho duration of which , it was impossible to foretell . General Urquiza bad effected a cowp-d ' etat , d , la Louis Napoleon , ami tho community of Buenos Ayres was much alarmed and exasperated . Tho public press was effectually gagged , the Chamber of Representatives unsolved , and four of the most popular and inlluentiul members ordered to quit tho country as demagog" **' Such was tho sorry prelude to tbo anticipated national organization .
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772 THE LEADER- [ Saturday ,
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Lie utenant-Gonoral Sir Thomas Downman , commander of tho garrison at Woolwich , died suddenly on Tuesday . The offices of tho Masters in Chancery closed On lu <™ - day , lor the long vacation . Bir William Ilorno will « " " Vacation Master . John Doe nnd Richard Hoe made their final appearance , as it in Huppoeod , on tho Oxford Circuit , at Gloucester , w Wednesday . . , _ Tho Htatomont modo a few days ago , that a Ioa < 11 " £ Traetariun divine in London had made an improper u » of the confession in regard to a young lady , haA boon cw ** trodieted by tho rolattvo of tho lady in a letter io v \ Daily Newti of Tburoday . . . y « , Mr . J . It . Hind states that the now planet which no << covered on tho 24 th of Juno , has been nmnod "M " ? " ¦ " by tho Astronomer Jtoyul . Bo states thmt if is tb « no « « to us of tliv group botwoon M » rs and J . W » V *» . ; t JSwO 0 M of revolutionising 1 , 201 ) days , which places it bptwww Flora and Victoria .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 14, 1852, page 772, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1947/page/8/
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