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sister ( Miss Olliver ) and a Mr . Packwood respecting the disposal cf a bill of sale and a sum of money , which had bee * paid into the hands of each , the Commissioner ordered the last examination of the bankrupt to be adjourned sine die . Murder at Staffordshire . —A man named William Fisher , an excavator , living at Ogley Hay , aiear Shenstoae , Staffordshire , has . been murdered by his fellow-labourer , John Burrowes . Fisher had seen the other man pat his arm round his wife ' s waist , through the window of a shop in which they both were , and , when
the woman came out into the street , her husband , in a fit of passion at what he had witnessed , knocked lier down and afterwards kicked her . He then struck Burrowea so violent a blow on the face that his lip was cut , in consequence of which he lay in wait for Fisher with a poker in his hand . With this weapon he felled his yictim to the ground and beat his skull so as to drive one side completely in . Fisher died the next morning . An inquest was held , and a verdict of ' Wilful Murder ' returned against Burrowes , who was committed for trial at the next Staffordshire Assizes .
Attempt to Mcbder . —George Martin , ofOdding-r ton , farmer , was charged on the 18 th ult ., before the magistrates assembled in petty sessions at Oxford , with attempting to discharge a loaded gun at Captain William Polhill , with intent to murder him , on the 10 th ult ., at Broadwell . The man , who was drunk at the time he committed the offence , had been irritated by Captain Polhill refusing to let him shoot over his ( the captain's ) land . Assault bt a Churchwarden in a Church . —A Mr . JoTm Mortimer , one of the churchwardens of Eippenden . Church , near Halifax , has been , fined 1 / . Gs . for attempting to drag a Mrs . Helliwell out of a pew . He alleged that the pew belonged by right to some other persons ; but this seemed to be doubtful .
street near uny-roaa , was apprenenaeu . consequence of a statement made by the boy to the effect that Griffin had seen him passing on « day near the stall , and , after treating him to rum , induced him . to steal articles of the kind , which led to the commission of several other similar offences through the same instrumentality . Barclay was placed in the witness-box , to testify to these facts , which he did ; and both he and the man Griffin were committed for trial . Bail was accepted in the case of the latter . The boy alleged in his-defence that his wages ( eight shillings a -week ) were not enough for him to exist upon . :
arrived there addressed to liim , but neither of the prisoners was the man so representing himself to be Mr . Hart . The prisoners were both , committed for trial , Mr . Mullins , counsel for the prosecution , intimating his intention to prefer another charge against them on a future day .
A Lawyer akd a Lady . —Mr . Arthur Henry Welch , a member of the bar , residing in Stone ' s buildings , Lincoln ' Inn , attended before Mr . Jardineupon a summons , charging him with a libel upon a Miss Colquhoun . Mr . Bodkin , who appeared in support of the summons , said , in his opening statement : — " The late Mr . Colquhoun ., the father of the lady , admitted Mr . " Welch to his house , regarded him as a friend , and became so attached to him that , when he died , he made Mr . Welch one of the executors to his will , in conjunction with his eldest
son . There was at that tune an understood or anticipated engagement between the defendant and the eldest daughter of Mr . Colquhoun . Shortly after the father's death , however , some circumstances occurred which made it desirable , in the estimation of the familj-, and with the entire consent of the lady , to break oiFthe connexion . Mr . Welch-was forbidden the house . In a spirit of revenge , he immediately threw the affairs of the family into Chancery . Finding , that even this course of conduct failed to produce the effect anticipated , he commenced a system of annoying the family by
The Crystal Palace Share Frauds . —A petition in bankruptcy was opened on Tuesday in the Bankruptcy Court against William James Robson , lately in the service of the Crystal Palace Company , whose fraudulent transactions in the shares of that undertaking- have attracted much public attention . He is described as an antimony smelter , of Bowling-green-mews , Kenningtonoval ; and the petitioning creditor is Mr . Gv S ; Clements , of Bank-buildings . —The Committee of the Stock Exchange , on Tuesday , after farther deliberation upon the questions arising out of the recent frauds in Crystal Palace shares , adopted the following resolution : " Resolved—That where shares in the Crystal Palace
Company have bean duly registered and acknowledged by the company , the committee decline to interfere . " As regards a considerable numtier of shares in respect of which , although transfers have been sent in to the company , certificates of registration have not been issued by the company ' s recognized , officer , we understand ( says the Daily News ) that the committee have come to the resolution to trace such bargains to the original seller , who will then be required to supply other shares of acknowledged validity . The decision of the committee appears to be based upon the view that the buyer of these shares considered that he was baying the genuine stock of the company , and that consequently his right
must be maintained . The Newcastle Commercial Bank . — Trader debtor summons have , it is stated , been taken out against Mr . Alderman R . II . Kennedy and Mr . Farmery J . Law , with regard to an alleged claim of this banking company for 4000 / . with interest . The summoning creditor is Mr . C . Garbutt , of Dunston-lodge , Durham , one of the registered officers of the Bank . The validity of the demand , however , has yet to bo decided . Clerical Misappropriation . —A painful case has been heard at the close of the proceedings , in the Lancaster Insolvent Court , against the Rev . Arundol Terity , late incumbent of All Saints' Church , Ilabergham . Eaves , near Burnley , Lancashire . The insolvent was opposed on the grounds that he had preached a sermon in his own church , in May , 1855 , on behalf of the Patagonian
every means in , his power . He addressed letters to them ; he waylaid them ; indeed , be used every effort to interrupt their peace and happiness . Letters known to be in his handwriting were returned to him unopened ; other letters , written in a feigned hand , were opened , and also returned on their authorsliip being ascertained . At last , on the 14 th of July , there came a letter which , forms the subject of these proceedings . To that infamous letter I will now direct your attention . Here , Sir . Welch , rising up , said , — ¦ " ¦ For God ' s sake , Mr . Bodkin , don ' t read that letter . Mr . Jardine , I do entreat you , for the sake of the lady , do not allow that letter to be read . " Mr . Bodkin replied that the disgrace rested on him , not on the lady . After a good deal of discussion , in the course of which Mr . Welch repeated that the case must be terminated rather than that the letter should be read , an agreement was drawn up , with the consent of Mr . Bodkin , which . Mr . Welch promised to sign ; but shortly afterwards he disappeared , and it was found necessary to let the summons stand over for a week . ¦''¦ ¦' . . ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ . ' . ' . ... ¦ . ; ' . '¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - .. '
Homicide by a Soldier . —A soldier , named Wilson , belonging to the 1 st Dragoon Guards , now stationed at Exeter , has killed one of his comrades , who was also an old friend . The men were about to exchange into another regiment , and there was some trilling quarrel between them . Shaw , the man who has been killed , and who was slightly intoxicated on the occasion alluded to , struck Wilson a blow in the face . He , being irritated at this , seized a poker , and said that if Shaw repeated the blow he would knock him down . The other , however , advanced , and Wilson dealt him a severe blow with the poker on th e head . Blood flowed from the wound , which was dressed by some of the men , and Shaw was put to bed , no serious consequences being apprehended ; but , on the following morning ( the occurrence took place on Monday evening ) , alarming symptoms set in , and the man died after being removed to the hospital . Wilson -was then arrested . Charge of Robbings Employers . —Benjamin Norris and William Kennedy , who have been charged at the Mansion House with having aided and abetted a man not in custody in robbing his employers , Messrs . White and Brice , wine-merchants in the City , of upwards of 10 0 / , have been discharged . Burglary . —A burglary has been committed at the house of Mr . Kidson , at Essington Sneed , in the parish of Bushbury , near Wolverhamptan . Four men , masked , entered the house , ransacked the premises , and departed . The inmates were not injured ^ -tliough at ono time a pistol ( supposed to bo without ball ) was discharged at them .
A Seriqus Charge . —A Mr . John Marsh , for twenty years a first-class weigher in the Customs , lias been committed for trial on a charge of indecent conduct with a man who is not in custody , in the Boroiigh-road on Monday night . He was set at liberty on bail . Foiioery . —William Salt Hardwicko , mariner , and Henry Attwell , wcio brought up at the Mansion House , charged with uttering and forging a cheque for 410 / - 7 s . 4 d ., with intent to defraud Messrs . Gosling and Co ., bankers , Fleet-street . Evidence was tendered to show that false names mid addresses had been given by the prisoners in thoir transactions with Mr . Turner , solicitor , Red Lion-square , by -whom the false cheque purported to be signed ; and it was nko shown that a Mr . Wait , to whom Mr . Turner was instructed to write by Attwell for an I O U for 1007 . ( and which was paid in consequence ) , had ncvor lived at 6 , Melton-street , E » iston-8 quaro , although ho engaged a room thero for a week , and called for and took away three letters which
Missions , and afterwards appropriated the amount of the collection made on that occasion to his own purposes ; and that ho had received 150 / . from the Church Missionary Society , partly as salary in advance , and partly for his outfit . It would , appear , moreover , that lie had applied other moneys dishonestly to Ilia own use . Among his debts were 26 / . for wines , and GO / , for an outfit for the Crimea , to which ho had gone . He was remanded by the Judge for six months . Extensive Frauds by the Secretary to an Odd Fellows' Lodge . —Bills have been issued in Birmingham , offering a rewnrd for the apprehension of a man named William Fowler , who had absconded , having plundered an Odd Follows * Lodge of "between GOO / , and 700 J-, partly by means of embezzlement , and partly through , a fraudulent mortgage .
A Boy-Thieb" and his Tempter . —Honry Barclay , errand-boy to Mcsara . Meyers , of Bow-lane , ( Jhoapside , was . brought before Mr . Alderman Cubitt , charged with having ^ obbeQ ^ ia employers and Thomaa Gritlin was charged with having received the , goods , well knowing hr ^ l / Tn b °° t 0 len ' Th 0 errand-boy had been S ? ri ? nZ . w f £ T ° Cca 8 l ° « Having been detected on . the promises with two umbrellas concealed about his person , and aubsequently Griffin , vao ke t ft stall in a
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MISCELLANEOUS . Tiie Court . —The Duchess of Kent leaves Abergeldle for England on the 8 th , and it is expected that the Queen will leave Balmoral on the Wednesday or Thursday following , travelling by the Spittal of Glenshee to Coupar Angus , where the Royal train will be in waiting but no positive arrangements have yet been made . ° ' The New Loud Mayor . —In accordance with oldestablished custom , the Lord Mayor for the ensuing year was elected on Michaelmas-day . The choice fell on Mr . Thomas Quested Finnis , alderman and bowyer The present Lord Mayor , in returning- thanks for the expression of the approbation of the liverymen , said " He hoped he might at least be regarded as one who in this country had done something for ^ he Nonconformists . Ho did not mean for any particular section of Nonconformists , but for that large body some of whom were
altogether separated from the communion of the Established Church , while others differed from that Church in various respects . He had endeavoured to show that a man might be a Nonconformist without offending the religious feelings of others . He had felt it his duty on all public occasions to pay that respect which he thought was due front a man . in authority to the established religion of the country . He had endeavoured to evince on every occasion , not only the respect due to the established religion of the country , but also the re gard due to the principle of religion ; for he conceived that , unless a man ' s conduct were regulated by religious principle , he was utterly unfit to be a leader of others or to hold high office in this country . He must say that it had afforded him the greatest pleasure and delight to find himself so well supported as he had been by the clergy of various religious denominations . "
The New Sheriffs , Messrs . Mechi and Keats , were sworn in at Guildhall last Saturday . The presentation to the Barons of the Exchequer , for the formal approval of her Majesty , took place on Tuesday , when the usual childish ceremonies of faggot-chopping and nail-counting were gone through , and the result was declared quite satisfactory . The Recorder , in addressing the Lord Chief Baron , gave a few particulars of the lives of the sheriffs . Those relating to Mr . Mechi are interesting on account of that gentleman's jachievements as an agricultural reformer : —" Mr . John Joseph Mechi , senior sheriff , and citizen and loriraer , who was connected with the eastern division of the metropolis , was a gentleman of Italian extraction , but although he had sprung from the Italian race , who were remarkable for the cultivation of the arts and sciences , he was proud to be enrolled amongst the merchants and men of business of this
country . His father was born at Rome , but early in life changed the scene of liis pursuits , and was fora long time employed in business in France . During the Reign of Terror , he , with many others , quitted that country and toolc refuge in England . In this country he attracted the attention of the royal family , and was soon afterwards enrolled in the royal household . His son , in consequence of his proficiency in the Italian language , was taken into a house in the City , and his career might offer an example to the young men of the present day . Ho pursued his business for twenty-nine years ; he had been selected to preside over a large banking corporation , and be now stood on the footing of one of the first citizens of London . " The inaugural banquet was given by Messrs . Mechi and Keats in the evening at the London Tavorn . Cambridge University Commission . — The
Commissioners named in the Cambridge University Act of last session held their first meeting last Saturday at No . C , Adelphi-terrace . The commissioners present were—the Bishops of Lichfield and Chester , the Jiight Hon . M . T . Baines , the Riglit Hon . Sir L . Peel , the Dean of Ely , and Dr . Vaughan . Mrs . Stowe on English Intemperance . —An invitation was recently sent to Mrs . Stowe to attend a temperance meeting at Derby . She excused herself on the ground of her husband being about to leave England . In her reply to the Earl of Harrington , through whom the invitation had been sent , sho says : — "It is my belief , from observation and travel in England and Scotland , that almost all the poverty and misery of ' the
lower classes now arises from the traflic in" intoxicating drinks . In no country lias benevolenco been more energetic and the progress of social reform more rapid . The benevolent works of England strike a stranger as really stupendous , yet this one cauao seems to nullify all and keep up misery , vice , and distress . It sccins to me that there is now scarcely any cause of poverty und distress which the suppression of the liquor traffic would not remove . Since emigration to the colonies has equalized the population , it would seem aaif there might be money enough and work enough to support the whole labouring population , were it not ( or the enormous taxation and drain of ardent spirits . The view of your great cities flaming nightly with signs of * Rum , brandy , and gin , ' Is to the eyes of an American ns appalling as the slave-
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1856, page 944, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2161/page/8/
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