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th ^ -he ^ mntdtted' ^ HJie -ilajtiStffiSBle outrage on Mr . GamadEaamt -SJvana , « i » a © r an idea ( whether right orvnoQeihattthe' © ommifesioBer ought to-assist him . We > tfreiveiy > wfel 4 award that a counter statement will a £$ en entirely change the aspect of a case , and therefotenvreufiredrthe : qu 6 lifydng « xpresaion , "On the face ofit , " &c . B « it , judging from the fects'then known , theu « ase w * s hard ; acid We have not yet seen any statements calculated to alter * that impression . Howeveiy as < it does not' clearly-appear that Mr . Commis-8 Eouer . Evans-- was the caiaee of the ( alleged ) illegal seizate , he has really no occasion—or none that we know of—» -to -oonueet himself wi * h oar imptttation of hardship . 'His friend -was at rather unnecessary pains to < exporund the truism that a judge must be protected from outrage on the bench ; hut this is a paint ' -upon'which there can be no two opinions , and which iB quite beyorid'the necessity of discussion . ¦ Robbery and nAtte : mmhi > Mtjkder . —Mr . Seeker , housekeeper to Mr . Crtsssland , bookseller , Fenchurchstreet , -went into his mester ' aeeHar on the evening of the lBt of January , said , folding the coal-shovel removed and placed agaiaBt the door of a cupboard in the cellar , he suspected something -wrong . He took up-the shov-el , and % heu discovered three youths in the cupboard , one of "whom immediately said , •*¦ ' Murder him ! " They accordingly rushed at him , beat him with a stick till he was insensible , and then escaped from the house . Mr . Seeker pursued as soon -asuha came to his senses , and a pussenger in the streets secured ' one of the lads . The othertwo got off , but liave since been captured ; and all are now under re iftandat tbe" Mansion house ; together with an accessory before ^ the fact . The lads say they were encouraged to enter the premises by some of Mr . Crossland ' s boyB , and that they ¦ should not have assaulted Mr . Seeker hadvhenot struck at them with the shovel . Baelway ^ Station 'Robberies . — William Jones , John Underwood , and'William King , " swell-mobsmen , " are tinder remand at Lambeth , charged with picking pociets at the Waterloo station of the Southwestern Railway . Oa being taken into custody , the two former'made a desperate resistance , and a large l ^ b of disreputa bl e characters attempted a rescue . Base Money . —The New Court ( Central Criminal Court ) was occupied the principal part of Tuesday trying pr isoners for passing base money—a crime which , notwithstanding the severe sentences generally passed , i s most fearfully on the increase . Although so short a time has elapsed since the last sessions , seventeen prisoners ^ or nearly one-third of the persons committed , were charged with this class of offence ; only one prisoner out of the seventeen tried ¦ was acquitted , and the others were sentenced to terms of imprisonment varying from b ! k to eighteen eionthg . It appeared from tlae evidence adduced during the day that there have " been in circulation a great many spurious half-crowns struck hi hard metal and electroplated : They will not , however , bear a close inspection , being a very rough imitation . They will not bend , in the detector , but , being rung upon a hard substance , sound very dull . The Wife Murder at Newcastlu-on-Tyne . — The inquest on Beardmore has terminated in a verdict of manslaughter against her husband . Insane Homicidal Mothebs . — Mary M'Neill , spinster , lias been tried at the Central Criminal Court for the murder of her two children , under circumstances described in the Leader of December 8 th . She was acquitted on the ground of insanity , which is hereditary in her family . —Sarah Allen , a marz-ied woman , has also been acquitted , on the same ground , of the murder of two of her children , whom she threw into tho Thames lato at night , close to the Cadogan pier , Chelsea . She took three of her children out in a fog , throw them into the water , and afterwards went to tb . « house of a friend in groat din . tress , and said she had lost her children . It was two o ' clock in the morning before she returned to her husband , and bIig then appearod iu an sigony of grief . By tho time sho reached home , two of her children had been rescued , and wore with their father ; but oneoftlieso subsequently died , aud the third child was not recovered until < l « ad . The woman was afflicted with a fear that sho , her husband , aud hor children , wero scrofulous , ond this appears to have upset hor reason . In this case , also , madness was in tho family . Game Law Cases . —Stephen Qoodsoll , a labourer in tho employ of a farmer at Ewhurafc , Sussex , was convicted at tho latter end of last November of setting traps for taking g * wno . " Within tho last fow days , ho has appealed to fcho Quarter Sessions against tho doczbiou of the county magistrates ; and tho court has quashed tho conviotion , and ordered tho magistrates to , pay the coats , amounting to £ 26 . Henry Hoilo , a youth about seventeen years of ago , was charged at tho Wxughaui Potty Sessions with shooting a pheasant , the property of Mr . Rico ,, M , P . for Dover . The bud had tttrayod onto tho land of the boy's nuiater , a tanker . ; ai «* Woilo said licaUot at it to scare it away aa tUe . ro were " ft terrible umny" birds about tho land and ho was told to drive thorn off H « w « h / a - ri * ' »' « dl 7 s . Cd . costs ; one of tho Wftgiatratea ( air r »* ookBndgofl ) observing , " It will bo a vo ^ -y good
warning to you . " The lad asked ! for a time to pay the money ; imt was refused / and he wair . a . etuaJly sent to prison for one month , with toatfd labom * . Lord LondesboTOugh , having sent £ ' & to the lad , received the following insolent letter from one of the bench : — 4 C My Lord , —Being one of the magistrates on the bench at the time that Henry Hdile was fined 20 s ., and 17 s . 6 d . costs , for shooting a pheasant , I feel that my decision , in conamon with that of the other magistrates present , is called in question , in a manner not the most courteous , by your extraordinary freak of sending £ 5 to the boy as a reward for his misconduct , without being yourself at all cognisant of the merits of the case . Into those merits I do not choose to enter . Suffice it that a decision was come to , and on it the magistrates are content to stand , your lordship ' s objection notwithstanding . Whether the ease was one which ouglt to hare been prosecuted , I know not , and shall not stop to ihquire . My object in writing is to request that your lordship w ill be good enough , should you require any outlet for your liberality , to bestow it on some one worthier of it , and , at the same time , to extend your mistaken criticisms to some other bench than that of Wingham ; and , by your lordship ' s permission , I would suggest that one to which your lordship belongs . —I have the honour -to remain , your lordship ' s obedient servant , Narb . Hughes D'Aeth . Knowlton-court , Dec . 20 , 1855 . " A Poetical and Keligious TicKEr-of-Leave Man . —The holder of a ticket-of-leave , a young man named James Donovan , who someti mes calls himself John White , has been examined before Mr . Yardley at the Thames police-office , on a charge of burglary . He has been convicted of robbery several times before , and other cases against hi m are now pending ; but i t was stated that , while in confinement in Portland prison , his conduct was " exemplary , " and in other confinement good . Some letters to bis parents were produced , arid on one of them the following lines were written in faia own hand •—* ' Fain do I wish the day was come For me to see my native home , My fathor and my mother dear , Their hearts to comfort and to cheer ;" But faith is weak , affection strong , And time appears to be so long . " On another of these letters , announcing the death of his brother , Donovan had written some verses , copied from a child ' s book of poetry , and called the " The First Grief : " — " Oh , call my brother back' to me , w I cannot play alone ; , The summer comes with flower and bee—Where is my brother gone ?"' When , before Mj \ Tardley , Donovan made a loag defence in a whining tone , and cried , bellowed , and roared . He said it was hard , very hard , he should be taken into custody for an offence of which he was innocent , and all his former delinquencies brought up against him by the hard-hearted police . He had behaved well in Portland prison , and his papers proved he was a good man there . He . was inclined to do good and walk in the ways of righteousness ; but some persons got hold of him on New Year ' s night and made him drank , and a man gave him the box to carry ( be had been found in tbe middle of the night carryiug a box which contained stolen property ) . He begged for mercy , on account of his father and mother . This affair , he said , would carry them to the grave if he was committed for trial . He "was committed for trial , nevertheless , and , having been found guilty , was sentenced to six years' penal servitude . Diiownep while Thieving . —A man at Manchester , whil « endeavouring to steal lead from a roof , missed his footing , and , falling into the l tochdale canal , which flows underneath , was drowned . —Another man iu the neighbourhood of Kingston , Surrey , was drowned in a well , while stealing apples from an orchard early last November . Ho was intoxicated at the time . Tho body has only just been discovered . ATTEMPT TO liSOAl'K P 11 OS 1 HERTFORD GOAL . John Williams , alias Goodeuough , a burglar , bus endeavoured to escape from Hertford Goal . Ho was discovered while removing tho iron bars at tho window of his cell , and madq a desperate resistance . Ho threatened to destroy himself , and for sixty liouva rofused food . Ho was then romoved to Millbank , when he consented to receive nourishment . The fMuno man onco attempted to escape from Reading gaol ; and ouo of Ilia comrades says thoro in no building in England strong © novigli to keep liim in or to keep him out . TuiiMii' Steaunu . —Throo women at Strntford-oni Avon hnvo boon Houtenced to a week ' s imprisonment i for stealing a fow turnips . t Evmuett Ca . iu . ton , an old mnu nearly seventy years : of ago , surrendered at the Central Criminal Court , to , take his trittl for mnnalaughtor . Ho had fceoiu oom-1 mittcd upon the coroncx- ' a warrant , and had , it npi penvrod , unnkilfully sot u copper , the result of which , woe thatufiro took plaoo , cauaing a Iosh of lifo . Ho i was acquitted . i Tub Hyok Paiuv Riots . —Chwdoa Madgott , William , i Gearing , ivnd William . Kouloy , tho throo aoiiMtabloa [ I who wore r « j ) ortod by tho Hydo Park Pwlioo
Commission to ' have misconducted themselves on ' the 1 st f' / i ! ^ ^! , ai ^ ed - , W ™*** * ' take their trial at th « Central -Criminal Court . Madgett was found guilty ^ and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment but the others were acquitted . ' 'MOHE Chud-starvtog . —John Satchwell , an excavator , and'Maria Satchwell , hi 3 wife , were charged at Southwark with neglecting to provide proper nourishment for their children , aged five , seven , ten , and eleven , years . These , it appeared , were only the children in law of the man . Two children whom the woman had had by her pi-esent husband were well provided for . Th « details were veiy similar to those in previous cases , and exhibited deliberate brutality on the part of the parents , -who generally fared sumptuously while their offspring starved . A woman who lodged in their house on one occasion pledged a pair of boots for Mrs . Satchwell for sixpence , with which she purchased bread and bacon , and sent it to her ; but no portion of thi 3 reached her children . The man . and his wife wei-e committed for trial . —Edward Harvey and Harriett Bay have been tried on the charges detailed in our last week ' s paper . The latter was acquitted , and the former found guilty , and sentenced to imprisonment and hard labour for a year . —Claries Butler and his wife , indicted for the murder by starvation of their child , have been acquitted , since it appeared that they were in so abject a condition of poverty that they were unable even to supporfc themselves . Cruelty to Animals . —A farmer named William Pevowne was summoned before the Guildford . Bench of Magistrates , at the instance of the Society ior the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , for working two horse 3 which had sustained serious injuries in the legs , and which he had bought of a man to whom they had been entrusted to be killed . The bench said they were unable -to decide upon a question which was simply one of opinion as to whether the animals were or were not At to work ; and therefore the summons was dismissed , to the surprise of the court . A Monoilhstac . —Joseph Berridge , a man who recently pleaded guilty to a charge of threatening to shoot the Eev . Mr . Brown , under the impression that he had seduced his wife , and who was liberated oh finding bail for good "behaviour , has been again brought before the Central Criminal Court . Since tbe former proceedings , he has sent threatening letters to the committing magistrate , and also to Mr . Brown-He has therefore been again ordered into custody , and sentenced to eighteen months' imprisonment . Juvenue Beggars . —Some revelations with respect to the child beggars who crowd about bakers ' and eating-bouse windows , came out on MLonday at the MTuisiom-houBe , vfb . « xa a - little-boy , aibout niuo yeara of age , -was charged with begging . A baker's shopman said he had oftea tested tbe alleged hunger o-f the children by giving them bread ; but he had disr « covered they did not eat it . Whea bread had been given to them by passers-by , they had often asked biin to buy it at a reduced price ; and had he given this , it would have goue to the patents for- the purchase of drink . Sir II . W . Carden , who stated his opinion that begging would never be put down until the givers as well as the recipients of alms are punished , said that some beggars to whom a lady of Us acquaintance bad given three or four pounds of beef steaks went into the shop of tbe butcher where the meat was bought , and , laying down tlxe steaks , said , " You know we doix't want this . Take it back , and give us the money you got for it ; or buy it from \ is at any price you can aiibx-d . " In the present case , the boy was detained , and the police were ordered to look after Ms parents . KnOck-Tujrwal Amusements . —Mr . K . H . Cornish , a medical student of St . George ' s Hospital , has been fined £ 3 for wrenching , off" a door in Eburystreet , Pinilico , a knocker and n bell-pull . It appeared that ho had been at some Christmas entertainment , and wan returning lato at night , intoxicated , when he was seized with a vehement desire to wage war upon the lenoekers and bell-pulls . Even alter he waa in tho custody of tho poljtco . he ruahod towards a door and said he would have tho knocker .
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AMERICA . Tue " difficulty" with Sir , Crauipton seems to be growing less and loss every dny . It id thought that tlnvt gentleman Avill not bo compelled to retire , but that tho United States Govorumont . will recognise the fact that ho only acted uudor tho iuspication of the homo ministry , and will rocolve ( ho explanations oi that ministry ns wAtisfaotory . Tho Speaker w not yol elected at Washington ; « nd in tho meanwhile th « President lma caused i «» hpoeoh to bo put into type in his own mansion . Abuse of oonfidonco on formei occasions is alleged aa tho caueo of this extraordinary proceeding . u ( Jrout intercut aud agitation bavo been aroxisod b ; j tho Hoiisuro at Now York of tho stoamnhlji Northom Light , on a charge of being o » g « ged in a " nllibuHtor ing" expedition to Is icoragun . Sho woh brought t ( by a nhot fvoux tho United States revenue , outtoi '
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 12, 1856, page 31, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2123/page/7/
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