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further information on the subject if the surmise is ; correct that the two most important witnesses who could 1 nave been called , if the ease had been brought fo ^ *' ^ Surrey Sessions , have left a country where they were sate from danger , to watch the present aspect of events on tne Continent . "
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COLLEGIATE AUTHORITIES . The -case of the Rev . Lionel Buller , kto Fellow of King ' s Collese , Cambridge , seems one of great ^ hardship ? The facts have been stated before Mr . Justice Wightman this week . In 1845 , a suit in chancery was commenced against Mr . Buller , to obtain a charge on his fellowship . On the first of December , 1848 , Mr . Buller was summoned before the provost ; and fellows of the college to answer a charge of fraud and perjury ; and , accordingly , on the 5 th of that month he appeared , when he was charged with having committed pei jury in the answer he had put in to the bill in chancery , which was then read . Mr Buller requested an adjournment to enable him to answer the charge , and accordingly the further hearing was adjourned until
the 19 th of the same month , on which day his answer to the bill in chancery was again read , and compared with two letters which had been written several years before the said answer was put in ; these were read and compared with certain statements in the answer , and in some particulars they differed . Mr . Buller was then ordered out of the room , and about twenty minutes after was recalled , and told by the provost that he had been unanimously found guilty of fraud and perjury , and was expelled from his office of fellow of the college . It was now submitted that this was a most monstrous proceeding , and wholly unjustifiable . The provost and follows assumed to act under the authority of the statutes of the college . One of these statutes set forth on account of what crimes and misdemeanours the scholars
and fellows ought to be removed from the college , amongst which is the offence of " perjurium manifestum . " Then the mode in which he may be convicted is pointed out ; that is , first , if he have confessed the charge made against him publicly , or that he shall have appeared to be clearly guilty by the evidence of good and proper witnesses , or by evidence of the fact , the words in the statute being " per evidentiam fucti . " In the present case the provost and fellows assumed to act on the last of these three categories , and held that the mere production of the answer in Chancery put in by Mr . Buller , and also two letters written by him several years before , which in some particulars didered from a statement made in the answer , was
" evidentia facti" of the crime of " perjurium uiamfestum . " Now this was a most monstrous decision , and one that was the more unjust , as Mr . Bnller had no opportunity given him to explain or answer the charge made against him . Mr . Buller lias commenced proceedings at law against the provost and fellows to compel n restoration of his fellowship ; hut the judge has suggested the intervention of the bishop , as visitor of the college . An application to the bishop is accordingly to be made .
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HNGLISII SOClKTV . Tiik Law Courts and ( ho Police Offices again roveiil bits of English society beneath the surface . Mr . J . JI . Jlewelt is a greengrocer in Wych-Htreot , a nmn of property also , lie contmels a kind of marriage with n young woniun , nllowa her ( o use his name , allows her as hi . s wife to live at his lodgings , and then , a lew weeks since , deserts her , leaving lira to support his family of . six children . Jn Scot hind the . evidence given us to bin constant visits , and his u )> penrnnee , on several occasions , in tlio chaructor of a husband and father , would establish a logal marriage : but in Knglund it is otherwise . Tho unmarried l ' wifo" lias obtained 2 , v . <> . a week , for tho support , of the youngest of tho children , mid must go to law again lor tin- same ]> it ( uuco Cor eneh of this rest . —
Another en so reads like a bit of exaggeration in u story of low life . Thomas Deadnmn , a prosperous market , gardener in Hammersmith , hoiiio time ago , seduced a poor girl named Mary Hurl let , f , niid retained her iih Iiin mistress . He gave her a key to his garden back gate , that she might enter it when she pleased , and take vegetables for her . selt and Iwv I ' mnily . lint "Mi . s . s Dendnuin , " tho market gardener ' s sister , u lady of fashionable attiro but violent , manners , finding one day that the young girl and her old mother had taken some spinach from the garden , luul thoni arrested for thieves . ( Shu had some lime before txmten the young girl inost < Tiiclly , ( luring her pregnancy ) . When the magistrate heard tho story he nt once discharged tho prisoner . A third r . ano , instead of a deficiency iu
matrimonial solemnities , shows too much of the marriage bond . The fuels on ( he first trial thus appeared . Thomas Intdnlo left , his wifonnd married Klizubel . h Vcrndl . Tho indignation of I he deserted wife exhibited itself in liostilu proceedings against , the now " wile , " who was finally obliged to leave Iredulo and live by herself . There were , thus thrcei " boiiK ! . ) " ; one , whom lrcdalo lived alone , and two others , in ouch of which lie bad a wifo and family . Hut , the discord did , 1 ()| , on , | . Mr ( li Inxlal . ' ( the first wifo ) Hindu an irruption into Klizabetb Vcrrall ' M rooms : struck at her with u penknife , and openl y took nwny several valuables , claiming them as her husband ' s property . 'For Jim robbery nil ,, w , ie acquitted on this defence ; " but- for tho asyault was tjontcuc . ud to threo months
imprisonment . Another police case on Tuesday exposed the facts in a different light . Iredale committed a ^ . violent assault on a carman , named Hambrook , for-insulting " his wife . On being chared , he said , " Hambrook insultedmy wife : she can prove it , " and he pointed to a" respectably dressed WOman in court . "A wife cannot be witness for her husband , " said the magistrate . " I am not his wife , said the woman immediately , " I am onl y his mistress This was Elizabeth Verrall , the persecuted " second wife of the former case , and it was shown that she had , seconding Iredale , used the foulest language towards the carman . X or the assault Iredale was fined . In Glasgow , the wife of a collier , named Dawson , was given to drink ; still they lived rather quietly together . On Thursday evening the wife returned home helplessly drunk . There were some lodgers in the house . At night , when they were all asleep , the husband got up , went mto t ^ o ™™ where Carril . one of the lodgers , slept , and took a
razor from a drawer . Returning to bed , he cut into the throat of his still insensible wife , making a two-anda-half inch gash in the windpipe . He then lay down to sleep , the woman bleeding to death beside him . Thus they were found in the morning , the wife not quite dead . The man expressed sorrow for not having killed her at once ; but there is no hope of her recovery . Other cases of wife desertion or wife-maiming—cases ot common ruffianism—are recorded in the daily papers . We give one of them . The policeman at Cheyne-walk , Chelsea saw a " miserable-looking woman" sitting on the bank of the river . She refused to answer his questions . He lifted up her shawl and saw an infant beneath . He
told her to go " home " to " her husband ; " but the poor woman , in a burst of bitterness , refused , exclaiming , " I have five more children , and I would drown them all sooner than , go home . " She stepped forward to fling the infant into the river , but she was prevented . She then flung the child on the ground , and rushed towards the river , but was stopped . Her story lias been told , and found true ; she was industrious and well-conducted , and had been in the habit of going out to daily labour , to assist in the support of her family . On returning home , the evening before , she found that her husband had gone off with a girl of nineteen ; leaving his wife to support the children . Her misery had made her mad . She is still in
custody . Another case appears in to-day ' s papers . A costermonger named Parker has had four wives in successionhe was tried some time ago for the murder of the third , and acquitted . On Wednesday evening , he turned his present wife out of the house , but sent for her on Thursday morning . As soon as she entered the door , he sprang upon her , and struck her a terrible blow on the right eye . She fell . He then struck her again and again ^ J * J _ > m —_ . _ . ^ ¦ . fill 1 led out of the house
upon the face and head . She strugg . She did not venture homo again , but he met her in the court , where she was lurking about . He again struck her a heavy blow in the face , and knocked her senseless , the blood streaming from her head . On coming before the Court , " her right eye was shockingly contused and extravased , she had a severe bruise on the side of her nose , and a cut on her temple , and her whole features were swollen . " This is tho ninth time that her husband has thus beaten her—but she has always
forgiven him before the Court . The husband was fined KM ., or imprisonment for four months . Not having the money , ho was imprisoned . " He was locked up in one of the cells , where the bruised wife shortly after presented herself with a cleun shirt for him , and burst into tears on being refused an interview with him !" Tho utter savages—both men and women—who surround us , seem more numerous than those driven to vico or erimo by necessity . For instance , two " stout , healthylooking young women" smash tho gloss in tho Fullium Workhouse , brave tho magistrate with fierce , disgusting language , and , on being sentenced to imprisonment , one attempts to strangle herself by twisting her garter round her throat . J Lad not a policeman visited tho cell at tho
time , she would have killed herself . The " homo' habits of some of the lower orders arc worse- than " savage . " Tho polieo found on Saturday , in 11 , Coopor ' s-court , in one dark , dirty , and unwholesome room , thirteen lulults of different sexes sleeping on tho floor . There were two other cases of the same class , with all the additions urising from poverty uud moral degradation . Tho usual fines ot 4 O . s . were imposed . Such localities aid crime , as a Glasgow story shows . Alexander JJoyd returned from Valparaiso to Glasgow , 1
his native place ; . On last Saturday eveningho mot mi old friend , and for old acquaintance sake they drank freely together , until tho night wore away . At ono o'clock they were mot in tho street by two women , who prevailed on them to outer a house in tho New Vennol , a dark don in a bad street . Hero , in a narrow room ( eight feet wido by six feet four long ) , another drinking match took place . The liquor was " drugged . " When l ( o _ y < l and his companion were insensible , the women stripped tliein of their clothes and watches . Jioyd , half conscious , faintly struggled , and threatened the police ; they drugged him to tho window and threw him out headforemost . lid fell a
height , of three stories ; his skull was fractured , niul ho was killed on tho spot . Two little boys woro hidden under I lie Led ; they saw the scene : soino lodgws , looking through a chink in the dour , also witnessed it . Tho women and a iniilo accomplice uro in guol . Some efforts are made to reclaim our offensive outcasts . An institution for reforming young criminals has lately been founded : Lord Shal ' tcslmry patronises if . But it really hooiiis to do hoiuo good . it , took in 71 j boys ; / Sii of these , disgusted with the bard-work , meagro fare , and strict discipline ol the place , left , in ii hliort , tium , but . 'JO young fellows ( between 10 and 17 years old ) roinain , taught to make desks , dressing cases , and , of all things in tho world , " pocket , books . " 11 tho boys pass well through twelve months probation , the society will got them permanent employment . Wilson has been sentenced to twelvo months
imprisonment and hard labour for his conduct towards Mr . Glad stone . The case suggests the character of a very large portion of London life . Wilson ' s offence was but an accident , but the circumstance which suggested it is common and constant- The humiliation and misery on ono side are , at least , but too patent ; perhaps the redeeming kindness is as general , though not as well known . Other offenders , noticed last week , have been awarded punishment . Ann Mack , for cutting at Mary Anne Fitz , ( a wife die had been accused of wronging , ) has been sentenced to imprisonment for one year . Irancis Mead , the man who murdered his wife , has been transported for ten years , while John Yates , who attempted to murder his wife , has been transported for twenty years .
The " adventurer" is a distinct sinner , with very aristocratic associations . Mr . Basil Wigan was a clerk in a bank ; but he got tired of that life and betted on the turf . He was lucky in the year 1851 ; he won 3 , 0002 . He then lived in a " stylish ' way , at a hotel , and drove about in a carriage . Thus accredited , ho obtained jewellery and clothes to a great extent . He broke down , and , in December last was put in jail by his creditors . The other day he botted again , won 501 . on the Chester Cup , and then hired counsel to plead his release . But he failed , and has been ordered an imprisonment of nine months more . A little foreign feature comes into our record . M . Francia Napoleon de Soozostakowsky went to Vauxhall
on Sunday evening with a friend . He saw a foreign gentleman , and , as he saw him , talked at him , saying to his friend , " That ' s a Portuguese I have been looking out for for seven years . "— " What for ? " asked the stranger . — " You know right well , " answered the Pole -with the long name . " You are a gambler ; I have met you in Paris . " — "You are mistaken , " said the stranger . "I ' attache of the Portuguese Embassy in Paris . Here is my card ; my name is Richard do Chamouse Browne . "— " I don't believe it , " said the positive Pole . Both went out into the open air from the amphitheatre , and , after somo further parley , the insulted Portuguese struck the other a , severe blow on the head . Before the magistrate , the case was arranged by the assailant paying for the surgical dressing of the cut head , and for the damage to the broken hat .
The morality of the Bar wa 3 illustrated at the Central Criminal Court on Monday almost as effectively as by Charles Matthews at the Lyceum . John Richards , a burglar , stole into a house with a latch-key , was found in the bed-room of a lady lodger , and could give no credible account of himself . Mr . Sleigh , in defending "his burglar , " considerately suggested ( of his own imagining , no hint of the kind being given in his brief ) that the burglar was in the room by the appointment of the lady ! The judge and jury condemned this defence as unfounded and unjustifiable ; " there was not the slighest evidence to support the insinuation . " The burglar himself ( who was transported for ten years ) disclaimed the defence of his ingenious advocate .
The following incident illustrates humanity of not any social phase . Captain Harding , of Newington , went to Australia two months ago . His wife , a lady highly educated , grew nervous and distressed at his absence , and on Thursday week quiotly drowned herself in the water-butt .
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MISCELLANEOUS . QtrEEX Victoria has been gay as the gayest , this week . She has given a ball , held a drawing-room , and twice visited the Italian Opera . The King and Queen of Hanover arrived , in a royal yacht , on Thursday . The Duke of Cambridge received them at Woolwich , and drove with them to the Hanoverian Legation . As they were on their way to call on tho Queen , Her Majesty and Prince Albert met them , and all then proceeded back to the Legation .
There was u state ball at the palace on Wednesday ; nineteen hundred guests assembled . The Dukes , Earls , Marquises , and men of title present were very numerous . Aiiion ; . j the men of Science and Art present were Sir . Roderick Murehiaon , Sir II . T . De Lu Bcche , Sir J . llerschol , Sir C . Eastlake , Sir 1 ) . Brewster , Lyon V \ ayfair , Michael Faraday , Austen Luyurd , Henry Ilallam , mid Alfred Tennyson . It may interest some of our readers to be told ( after tho Court Circular ) that tho Queen wore " a dress of pink silk , covered with pink tulle , ornamented with pink satin ribbons , and bunches of pink roses and diamonds . "
Wo liuve Jigain to state , for the information of tho polieo authorities , that tho Queen and Prince Albort culled on the Duke and Duchess d'Aunmlo , on Saturday . It must bo within the recollection of Lord Palliierstoii that this lndy mid gcnfcloiium are political refugees . The Duko of ( iiciiou left town for Brussels on Tuesday , after taking leave of tho Queen at the drawingroom . Wo have also to notice that tho Duko and Duchcsa of JVeniours visited tho Queen , yesterday .
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The first stone of an asylum for idiots was laid by Prince Albert , on Thursday . Tho site is IWlswood , near Jteugnto , whoro 1 . 'Macros have boon purchased . It is a very picturesque , and beautiful snot . The ceremony wub interesting ; corn , wine , and oil were scattered on tho stone . Tho ladies present then advanced , and passing tho Htone one by one , left each a purso of money on it . Of tlio lair donors , threo or four hundred presented purses containing livo guineas each . Tho building ia to cost . IfijOOt )/ ., and to have accommodation for 1 ( K ) adults , 130 hoys , and 70 girls . Sir Marry Smith is alvrayri ready to boar genorous touti many to tho sterling qualitios of the people . At an jigri-
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Leader (1850-1860), June 18, 1853, page 586, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1991/page/10/
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