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^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^¦^^^(^^ m ^ hpgimbbbwbmmwb ^^**^""^ " ^^^^^^^^^ odtre , Kentucky * W . I * . Dayton , Hew Jersey ; A . J . Donelaon , Tennessee ; W . F . Johnston , Pennsylvania , ; Kenneth Raynor , North Carolina , ; S . M'Farland , Eennjgrlvania . In the House < £ Representatives , Mr . Lakemaa C » Nigger Worahipper" ) , of Kew York , iad given notice if his Itrtentiw to introduce a fcill , amending Jfceact of 181 « , prohibiting the introduction or imP 0 ^*™ 5 ? . ° * slaves . —A joint seaolutioa appropriating 40 7 < KM ) daHars for the ponshase of the Brdlidh Arctic exploring ahip Resolute had passed . It is designed to refit the vessel , and . restate her to the Eng lish Government . —General Gadsden £ as arrived in Washington -with the new treaty and convention -with Mexico .
'The Hon . James J . Strang , commonly called " King Strung , " the leader and propfcet of the Mormons located on Beaver Islands , has 'been shot by two of his followers , and received injuries from which he is not likely to recover . Strang was the ruling spirit among the Mormons , a large number of whom are Welsh . —It is said fhat a communication has just been received m ^ Nicaragua from the Government of Costa Rica , in which the latter State acknowledges the Government of President Rivas and General "Walker , puts forward its convietion that the war is at an end , « . nd offers to became responsible for « 1 I the expense . Considering the recent critical situation of Walker ,, and the
successes of the Costa Rican army , this intelligence must he regarded as doubtful . Information has been received that the ¦ Guatemala army of two thousand men has been ordered to invade Nicaragua . From Kansas , we hear that Colonel Stnnner , to quote from a letter from Westport , dated June 17 th , ** has put the California and Santa F < e * routes , and all the priacipal roads leading through Kansas , under blockade . He has driven Buford , Jones , Shelby ^ and all leading emigrants desirous of becoming peaceable settlers , out of the territory . " An attempt has been made to murder the new sheriff of Douglas county , Kansas . Three men went to his house at night , tired through the window at his bed , and broke open the door , when the sheriff shot one through the body , and the rest escaped . A band of Chenesen Indians , near Tort Kearney , having joined a party of Sioux , have proclaimed war . One white man has been killed .
Great excitement prevails in the city of Mexico , owing to some differences between the Congress and Cabinet with respect to the reorganization of the Privy Council . The arrival of the Spanish squadron at Vera Cruz has also created no little commotion . The Cabinet positively refuses to receive the new Spanish minister as long as his demands are backed by the presence of a fleet of vessels of war . An alliance with the United States is . advocated by many . Generals Santa Anna and Woll have been published as deserters by the military commission . The Jesuits . are about to be deprived of their property , -and the decree of Santa Anna for their restoration is to be revoked . Cuba is quiet .
In reply to a letter from sympathizers in Charleston , aocon ^ panying the present of a cane , Mr . Brooks ( the ruffian who was very properly turned out of the House of Representatives for bis cowardly assault on Mr . Sumner ) writes as follows : — " S . S . Farrar , Esq . —My dear Sir , —I bog to tender my respectful acknowledgments to yourself and the gentlemen associated with you , for the handsome oane received . a few days since by express . The ftci winch you axe planted to « coimnend was flie
reflet of • ehseioif * 4 y— -a « fc « y tphicfi . either qf my col- , leagues idovM have cheerfully ¦ performed , had they been *» my precise situation . I accept the Palmetto cane as an evidence of the generosity of my friends in Charleston , and < pot for . any merit © f my own . I have the honour to be , ^ respectfully and truly ., your friend and servant , P . ( S . BB 0 OKA . " The modest Brooks , it will be seen , says that the < caue is « no $ sent to him " for any merit of Ills own . " AsBuxedfyhe here epaaks the truth , and every henedt man will for once agree with him .
'Wyrt > "private or personal "difficulties" -are reported in ' the ! Ntew York papers . John 8 . Bradford , a broker , " was " . ctrWbidea" in the streets 1 > y Benjamin Wood , ' brother of the If ay or . The bitter struck tibe former a fearful blow Boreae'the-face , gashing &he fleeh to a great depth . A-struggle ensued , and / continued until the frlenda of the oorrtbatmitB separated them . The other «* ffWicwas at-Ho-hnesville , where'one V-3 E . ttfiLendpn , an attorney- ' att-law , attacked a Dr . H , J . Smith with a knife , rod cnt'bmi seriously about , the face and neck . Smith then fired ¦ four ttmea with his rwvlrer , which took but trMtle ' dUfcit ; and so the matter seems to have terminated . "JlR ^ patrtiieB , " flays tihe JPwo Tor % Times , " -are gentlemen ^ of , character , and very much esteemed . " ; The Kansas' Investigating Committee have closed their labours at the AatorJlibafie , New York , and left for Wart fo flWiu ' . aCne-obJect of their short session was to opvoottra jsitlttaUtf ' ovUnat welative to the doings , tike Mt ^ cimmU * t &mAgm * , Aid Society ,, about which tb « iwiJa 4 feema oodd « MUtf'aiftp « to . For this purpose ,, -wtyMMBB wew ^ dagMphettwwa Button , and * esthnony n&tomtmims U > fibetmbjefii , ww' «**»« tn > m Amos jL ' \ EMM *** , ' E » TOww . ana & . P . 'flE **^ . governor , A . J& Kewfter ftunlsked * fce ootnmittee with « owb evident * - ! w mt * t Ato . other mbjecte coan « jtwd i ^ itk the imrertjgwHon . ' - ¦ :, ' ¦ .
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Tjecb Miikbbk bt A Spaniakd . —The Spanish seaman , Bernardo Hemiquez , who was convicted at the last session , of the , CentTal Criminal Court xif the murder of one of his countrymen , j uad . who was . sentenced to death , has received the clemency of the Crown . An order was received on Saturday at Newgate , commuting the capital sentence to transportation for twenty years . Ckhtrax . Criminal Coubt . —fae July session commenced on Monday , when . the first . case was that of Oscar Kingston and Benjamin Allen Howard , the two Americans wiio were arrested between two and three months ago ou ji charge of plundering hotels . The facts of these cases Tvere related in the Leader of April 26 th . l&ingston was . found Guilty o £ stealing , -and Howard of
receiving , the money , which , in the case brought before the Recorder , was . the property of Mr . James Sandiland , a soKcitar . They ( have heen sentenced to five years' penal servitude , —Henry Stevens pleaded Guilty to a change of , e ^ fmUng a large . amount . or property . fr om a jeweller ' s shop an JVLark-Jbtne , « bowt mac o ' clock in the . « vendng T and with . using . murderous violence towards the shopkeeper . He TOM . sentenced to tcaaaaportation for fourteea years . —John and W £ Uxam George Wilson , described aa drapers , were found Not Guilty of receiving a -quantity of stolen goods , though knowing the same to have been , stolen . —John Dugam , a coalwhipper , was convicted of . a savage assault on John Dwyer , and of biting off a past of -his . nose . He was senteoacod to eight
months' hard labour . —John Simpson was found Guilty of . assaulting a Scotch seaman , named William Falconer , after having tried to cheat him by betting . —Edward Towers , Henry Horwood , and William , Fleckhar , have been tried for the singular burglmy at the house of Mx » . Humphreys , on old lady living at Stamford Hill , on the 24 th of last April , the particulars of which wo [ have already published . John Peyton was charged at the same time with receiving part of the plunder . The jury gave a yerdiot < of Guilty against Fleckhart , and Acquitted the . rest . Sentence of death was recorded .
The trial lasted eleven hours . —Herbert Croft Ilyland , a clerk , . has been Acquitted on a ohorge of forging and nattering a cheque . for 6567 . —John Wilson , a prisoner in Coldbath Fiokls Gaol , has been found Guilty of a murdcroua assault on William Middleton , a warder . Ho was proved to be an old offender , and was sentenced to transportation for . twenty . years<—WiUUani Coombes Jius been Acquitted of a charge of sotting fire to a building ; and Koziah Osman , a nvidow ; , him been found iNot Guilty of attempting *• murder Jier iUugitimate child , by thuowing it down a privy . It appeared . pxobabla ithat the child foil down accidentally at its . birth .
Turn Xkial . £ / b Mi . Shaoeyu for ttUo anoiu ) lai « g > htor of a ( patient in < 1 ias Surwy County Lunatic Asylunv , Jatut 'been / postponed to < tbe next sessiloa xtf tha XDentmtl 'Criminal Coiuct . , , M . umxlmiukx . -Skssionb . —Tha July / Geneva ! Quartor Ssafliona began on jytanOay . —^ Hannah Knox , « voasuc
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macried woman , was « igmow labour for beating an infant planed under hi with a bamboo sticlc She pleaded ihat she : worse for < brkik . " —A little hoy , named Alfred was charged with stealing a number of brass and Samuel Neile , a marine storeshop keeper , oused of receiving the property , k « owi 3 igit to 1 stolen . Tie Assistant-Judge sentenced the be years'hard labour , with the view to hisbeinj the Eefbrraatory Institution -at Redbill . As he observed that , < dvly considering the characiH received , the recommeneUrtion to mercy of the j the fact of the wife having had a share in . the tra he should' pass upon hhn as light a sentence as sistently <» uld for such an offence , that sent six months' hard labour .
Assizes . — -Maria . Tarrant , a young marned was tried at the Oxford Assizes on a charge of ing her infant by smashing in its skulL The who lived apart from her husband , was foun < and sentenced to death . During this trial , i beside the Judge were crowded with ladies , mas being in their teens . —Joseph Burton , a young twenty-eight , has been sentenoed at the Nort Assizes te four years' penal servitude for a rw mitted on an aged and infirm woman . Seduction and Manslaughter . —William a brass-founder , living in Ray-street , Clexkenwel home one day and finding his wife in companj
man , with -whom , it was but too clear , she had initial intercourse , took up a flower-pot , and ft the woman ' s head , after previously beating the turning him out of doors . The woman , in the < about a week , died in hospital from tetanus , aris injuries to the head , inflamed by drunkenness , ¦ was tried on Thursday at the Central Crimina on the charge of killing her ; but lie was a . During the trial , the adulterer ( who bore tbe Cornish name of Tregurtha ) was examined , and was a carpenter living in Peter ' s-terrace , Safi He admitted that the disordered state of Mm . i clothes had been caused by his conduct , she havii him into the rooin .
A Riot in Church . —Ann Stipliag , a mid married woman , was charged at Bow-street with a disturbance in the church of St . Clement Dane husband had gone to the church with his two da the children of one of whom were to l > e christene wife , who was the stepmother of the young won not invited ; so , like the malignant fairy in nursery stories , she determined to destroy the h af the persons concerned , and to interrupt the ce She therefore drank to excess ; entered one of t ! and , in the middle of the . service , b ^ gan abu young ladies . The sexton remonstrated ; h Sti r ling sprang on the unmarried < 1 * M # titar , , bonnet off ^ scratched her face , and struck her times . She was given into custody ; and be £ ure gistrate she admitted that she had had " a Ii £ t 3 and added , that " ahe wouldn't tell what movei kick up a xow . " She was fined BZ .
GAxtoxTE Kobsksiss . —These atrocious ontraj become one of the features of the tunes . Anat was brought before the Marlborough-t&traet mi on Monday , when George Cooper and John Hani charged with throttling Joseph Martin , a briokJ Rupert-street , Haymarket , about eleven o ' c Saturday night . The circumstances "were very to those of previous cases , and the accused -wen mitted for trial . The reporters in the daily pa ] serve : — >¦ ** The locality of Rupert-rotreet appeaT infested with "bad characters . This is tbo saconc of garotttng from the same street within a week , place is close to the cqfe where Foschini stabbed persons . "
iQuhjkx—Uooii on Knavk ?—A yo > nth of sei apparently the ^ on > of a respectable Baechani charged at W «» hip-stroet with thioiving vfeon railway train at Kiagshuad . It appeared that th < is one of common occurrence . The young -ma ? his guilt ; but , as the facts were clearly esti against him , he was fined forty ahiHingfl . PouiCR JJawt . —A singular exposition of poli was imdet few days * g » by aoonetable at ttoi polioe-ofiioe , who charged a young man , named ' Lmdlow ,-with eoiBerdouB an assault on a . brotbei that the latter was ooajfilaed to the hoapital . Tht naan who < gave etviidemoe said that , ilndisg , brutallyWl-trenrting theo £ lierconetablo , lewent up him into onetodr , when ino 'attempted to ran awa
this , the officer took out his truncheon , « tvuck 'hi ultimately Beonrod Mm . Mr . A'Uoclcett , « ue tcate , asked if lie was directed t « knook nay an < who miglrt want to run away . He wnsiperod afSLrramta . vB . '" From whom did you receive orders f" wdceA Mr . A'iBeckett . The jolicomau reoeived tliem from the CommisBioaecs , mud t ) u won 4 tow 9 t << in lii » 4 nstruotion book . UTbe frrasoi ordded , woiAd ha « re eso » pe « had / he not been Mr . A' « Beokett rthoaght the case was oneibr inqv bot ^ . the ocoused man , . and tbe oonstafWo « ri aeeewkeO , -were aeriously hurt . The priwmer wac lore romandod . Ajr IsirvKLAxma Buixa > jtii . ~ 'Mr . Qtorac 0 x
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QUABRELSOME LGVJERS . An action for breach of promise of marriage has been tried in the Court . of Common Pleaa . Mr . Woodfine , a brewer at Hornchurch , in Essex , paid court to a Miss Smith , the daughter of a retired clerk in the Audit Office . The suit was accepted , and the wedding-day fixed . Suddenly , Jlr . Woodfine said the ceremonial must be postponed for various causes ; and , upon being questioned , it turned out that he was offended because , as "he supposed , invitations had not been -sent to certain relations of Ms , a Mr . and Mrs . Thompson . He was told that invitations had been sent ; on which he apologized , and fixed another day for the wedding . Again he broke off the engagement , saying that his mother
had been neglected ; and , an interview having taken place between the fond couple ( previous to which Mr . Woodfine looked Miss Smith ' s father into another room ) , the gentleman proposed that the marriage should take place privately , and that none of Miss Smith's family should ever cross his doorway . If this were agreed to , Mr . Woodfine's mother would " forgive" Miss SniitUt So insulting a proposal was of course rejected , and the courtship came to an end . It appeared tbat Mr . Woodfine , though wealthy , was of humble origin ; and it was songht to be shown , in cross examination , that Miss Smith and her family conducted themselves with insultitig hangfitiness to the relations of the young lady ' s suitor . Mr . Smith himself stated , in his examithe that
nation in chief , that when Mr . Woodfine , on day he locked him in , called him " a fool , a liar , a placeman , and a clerk , " and at the same time shook his fist at him , he retorted that he shouM be ashamed to say what his ( Mr . Woodfine ' s ) father and grandfather were . It was also suggested in the cross-examination that Miss Smith had spoken of some of Mr . Woodfine's connexions as " vulgar relations ; " but this was denied by the young lady ' s sister . According to the evidence of another witness , Mr . Woodfine had said that Miss Smith had told him " she could look like a very devil ;" and the gen tleman ' s mother disapproved of her because , as she alleged , she was " extravagant and ill-tempered . " The Attorney-General ( who appeared for the defence ) pleaded for moderate damages ; but the jury gave 300 < M .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 12, 1856, page 654, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2149/page/6/
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