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• was that Messrs . Simpson had until the last moment led Mr Woodfine to believe he could be examined on his own behalf , and that they had refused and neglected to caD any witnesses to prove the amount of his property , which had been grossly exaggerated by the witnesses for Miss Smith . The chief counsel for Mr . Woodfine in the previous action was the then Attorney-General , Sir Alexander Cockburn , now the Lord Chief Justice of the Common , Pleas . He gave evidence on the present trial , and said he observed ho want of skill or attention on the Messrs . Simpsons' part , and that it was he himself who determined on calling no witnesses with respect to property . —After a trial of three days , the case was concluded on Wednesday by the withdrawal of a juror . i , , . ' s ,
At the Court of Bankruptcy , on Tuesday , an offer of 2 s . 66 . in the pound , in addition to the Is . 6 d . already paid , in the case of Mr . C . J . Mare , shipbuilder , on condition that the bankruptcy should be annulled , was refused . Mr . Maskell , agent of the Protestant Reformation Society , has brought an action in the Court of Exchequer against a Mr . Tebbutt , of Croydon , for false imprisonment . In the course of last October , Mr . Maskell went to Croydon for the purpose of attending a meeting of the Protestant Society which was to be held there , and with a view to endeavouring to promote the sale of the Society ' s publications as much as possible . On the day of his arrival , he called on an old friend named Hamilton , who ;
was a tailor , but who had also just set up in business as an auctioneer , in which capacity he had entered into partnership with a Mr . Chilcot . * Mr . Maskell spent the evening with his friend , and passed the night at his house ; and , the next morning , Mr . Chilcot , to whom he had previously been introduced by Mr . Hamilton , borrowed of his guest a small sum of money , giving him at the same time a draft for 101 ., signed ' Hamilton and Chilcot , * with a request that he -would get it cashed , when he might repay himself the few shillings he had lent Mr . Chilcot , and hand him over the balance . Mr . Maskell took the cheque to Mr . Tebbutt , landlord of the Fox and Hounds Inn , to whom he had been recommended by Mr . Chilcot as being the most likely person
to accommodate him with the money . Mr . Tebbutt at once cashed the cheque , but , on the same day , Messrs . Hamilton and Chilcot left Croydon , and it was afterwards discovered that the cheque was a fraud , and that several persons besides Mr . Tebbutt had been swindled in a similar way . Mr . Maskell , nevertheless , paid over the balance to Chilcot , and , having finished his business at Croydon , returned to London . A little more than a fortnight after the transaction of the cheque , as the plaintiff and Mr . Hamilton , who at that time was living with him , were Walking along the street , they were accosted by a police-constable and informed that they were wanted . ' The policeman was accompanied by Mr . Tebbutt , who identified Mr . Maskell as the person who
brought him the cheque to get it cashed . He likewise charged his companion , Mr . Hamilton , with being concerned in the business . They were both taken into custody and conveyed to Croydon , where the plaintiff was had up before a magistrate on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences , but was discharged after a remand . The policeman who apprehended Mr . Maskell , and the inspector who took the charge , both of whom appeared in court for the defendant , stated that Mr . Tebbutt had only gone with the constable for the purpose of identifying the . parties , and that he had signed the charge-sheet entirely by mistake , and at the request of the inspector , owing to the sergeant , who had really made the charge , being absent at the time . Mr . Maskell ' s evidence was also contradicted in many particulars . The jury returned a verdict for the defendant .
Lord Mostyn , on Wednesday , brought an action in the Court of Exchoquer against a Mr . and Mrs . Griffiths and a Mr , Edwards for illegally seizing his goods . Ihe defendants ( who were creditors of the plaintiff ) pleaded that hia Lordship had been adjudged bankrupt , and that the goods wore seized under a judgment . To this , Lord Mostyn rejoined that he was not a trader when the judgment was obtained . The whole case turned upon this point . Lord Moatyn had carried on certain collieries for some years , but had given them up at the time ho was made a bankrupt . It therefore remained to bo determined whether he ought to have been made a bankrupt under the circumstances . The Chiof Baron inclined to the negative , and the jury gave a verdict for Lord Mostyn , as they hold that the trading was ancillary to the position of landed proprietor , and not for the purpose of gaining a livelihood .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . — . The Qucon and tho Prince Consort , accompanied by tho King of tho Belgians , tho Princess Royal Princess Alice , Princess Charlotte of Belgium , tho Prince of Wales , Prinoo Alfred , Prince Frederick William of Prussia , tho Count of Flanders , and the Prince of Hohonssoilorn Sigmaringon , honoured tho amateur performance , under tho mamtgomont of Mr . Charles Dickons , of Mr . WillUo Colllns ' s drama of ' Tho Frozen De « p , ' at tho Gallery of Illustration , in Uogontfltreet , with their presence last Saturday evening . —Tho Quflon , on Monday afternoon , mndo Earl Gran villa and tho Marquis of Westminster knights of tho Order of tho Garter , and Lord Kinnalrd n knight of tho Ordor of tho TWstloi—In tho evening , tho Queen honoured tho
Prust sian Minister and theCountess Bernstorff with a visit at the residence of the Legation on Cartton-terrace . Her Majesty and Prince Albert , accompanied by the Princess Royal , the Princess Charlotte of Belgium , Prince Frederick William of Prussia , the Count of Flandera , and - their respective suites , went in state to the Count s mansibn , which was brilliantly illuminated . —The Queen , on Thursday -evening , gave * a state balKat Buckingham Palace , to which above 1900 of the nobility and gentry were invited . . General Sir Chari . es Bulkeley Egerton died on Wednesday at his town residence in his eighty-third VfiflV Mr . John Bright . — The Liberal electors of Chorltonupon-Medlock , Lancashire , held a meeting on Thursday week to congratulate Mr . John Bright on his return to England . . The King of Prussia has forwarded to Mr . Henry Bradbury ( of the well-known printing firm ) the large Prussian gold medal , in acknowledgment of a presentation copy of the work entitled ' The Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland , illustrated by Nature Printing , published by Bradbury and Evans . The South Kensington Museum . —Earl Granville s secretary has informed the secretary of the Lord ' s Day Society , by means of a letter , that it is not the intention of the Government to open the South Kensington Museum on Sundays . The Western Bank of London . —A circular to the shareholders of the Western Bank of London has been put forth by Mr . J . S . Rymer , whose connexion with that establishment as solicitor has been summarily terminated . Mr . Rymer alleges a number of irregularities on the part of the Board , and that his dismissal has been consequent upon his having protested against them . — Times . The Murder of Mr . Price at Melbourne , Australia . —We cited last week the opinions of some writers to the effect that Mr . Price , the late Inspector-General of Convicts at Melbourne , brought his own death on his head by his cruelty to those whom he had to overlook . We expressed no views of our own , having merely chronicled the criticisms of others ; but it is only fair to state that , in the judgment of the majority of the colonists- —the men who are probably best able to form an opinion—Mr . Price was a man of eminently just and humane principles , who , though he maintained discipline with a strong hand , was fully alive to the necessity of acting in a considerate manner . In the opinion of these authorities , therefore , Mr . Price was the victim of a relentless and unreasoning fury . Her Majesty ' s Counsel . — -Mr . Fbrsyth and Mr . Monck , both of the Northern Circuit , have been promoted to the rank of Queen ' s Counsel . The Duchess of Bedford died on Friday week after a brief illness , in her seventieth year . She was much loved and respected for her many virtues . Crinoline Armouk . —A firm in Sheffield has taken an order for forty tons of rolled steel for crinoline , and a foreign order has been given for one ton a week for several weeks . Fires . —A large range of premises , belonging to Mr . Fish , tanner , and leatherseller , Tyer's Gateway , Bermondsey , caught fire on Tuesday morning , and a large part was burnt down . Four adjacent houses were also severely damaged . —The Claxton Cotton Mills , in St . George ' s-square , Hoxton , were partially burnt down on the forenoon of Wednesday . The total loss will amount to nearly 30 00 £ , and unfortunately the property is uninsured .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS . IRISH MILITIA . In answer to Lord Claude Hamilton , Sir Ramsden said it was not the intention of the Gover ment to call out any regiment of Irish militia this yes AFFAIRS IN THE EAST . In answer to Sir J . Pakington , Sir C . Wood sa that when the last advices left China on the 10 th Ma no further hostilities had taken place , but that reinforc ments were momentarily expected . No troops going China had been ordereclto India , nor had the Governo General sent for any troops to Ceylon . In answer to Captain "Vivian , Mr . "V . Smito sa that all the troops going out to India would go in sai ing ships . PROBATE AND ADMINISTRATION BILL . The House went into committee on this bill , wine mainly occupied the rest of the sitting .
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THE CONTINENT , On Wednesday , a gentleman of large fortune blew h brains out in Paris because he had lost a sum of 30 , 0 C francs at the Bourse . Another gentleman walked ini a shooting gallery and likewise shot himself . A worl man threw himself intotbe Seine , and was drowned . C the previous day , three men destroyed themselves b hanging ; two young girls killed themselves by tl fumes of charcoal ; an officer on half-pay , aged seventy one , and a workman , destroyed themselves by the sana means ; another workman drowned himself , and finall a detected forger threw himself from the gallery < Notre-Dame on to the pavement below . —Globe .
A French Mr . Montague Tigg has been detected b tho police . This speculative character had established caisse which he called the ' Caisse de Speculation , an which was created for the purpose of gambling in tl public funds on ' unerring principles . ' The public cam forward with great relish , to the support of these prin ciples , and money flowed , into the caisse in abundance ' Monsieur' Tigg has fled to Belgium . —Idem . We are informed ( says tho Express ) that on Tuesda ; six persons were arrested at Boulogne ou a charge o having used election tickets deficient in the requisite lega formalities . The printer of the tickets was . among th number of tho persons seized . Upwards of 200 vote were tendered for Carnot at Boulogne . M . Be " ranger appears to be sinking .
A supplement of tho Neapolitan official journal , o the 5 th , announces that the insurgent band of Saphi was attacked at Pudula by tho civic guards , the gendar merie , and tho 7 th regiment of chasseurs . One hund dred insurgents were killed , thirty wounded , and di many taken prisoners . Almost all the insurgents whe had fled wore in custody . Calabria was tranquil .
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The Jew Debate in the Lords . —While Lor < Lyndhurst was speaking , Lord Derby handed him i glass of water , which , he took , smiling , and said , " Thai is a Christian act . " Election Commitvbms . —The Lainboth , Bath , and Galway committees sat for tho first time yostcrday ( Friday ) . The Municipal , Contests in New York ( say the last despatches from America ) are drawing to a close , Two of tho many litigations which have sprung out ol tho recent conflicts wore finally disposed of on tho 2 Gtlj ult . Tho charge of contonipt against Mayor Wood , in
tho case of alleged avoidance- of proceaa of the superior court , was decided by Judge Hoffman . Tho Court , in its opinion , entirely exonerated the Mayor from any knowledge of tho process , and from , any wilful disregard of tho authority of tho law . Tho prouuodings before tho city Judgo Russell in the habeas oorjma case wore brought to a conclusion , and resulted in tho discharge oi tho Mayor from the wurrnnt of unrest issued by tho Recorder , on tho affidavit of Mr . Conovor , charging Mr . Wooil with inciting a riot . In giving his deoiwion , Judgo Russell alludod particularly to tho malico of tho Recorder in this matter , and liis uttor want ol'jurisdiction in the case
Mb , Thackeray fob Oxford . — Accounts from Oxford stale that Mr . Thackorny ia canvassing tho constituency of that city with n view to supply tho vacancy cuuaod by tho uiitfoating of Mr . Noato . ( JnrsTAij Palacm . —ltoturn of admissions for six ilay . ending Friday , July lOlh , 1807 , Including season ticket holders , DG . bTB
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——*¦ — Leader Office , Saturday , July 11 . LAST NIGHT'S PARLIAMENT . HOUSE OF LORDS . OATHS HILL . Earl Granville moved the second reading of this bill , and urged the obsolete character and absurdity of tho present oaths , for which by tho bill a modernized form had been adopted , and which would entitle Jews to seats in tho Legislature , a stop which would for over terminate any barbarous relio or religious persecution . Tho Earl of Dmhiiy niovod tho rejection of tho bill . Ho urged that tho Jews wore . a distinct nation , who Mover could thoroughly amalgamate thomsolvos with any other people . He contended that tho representation of tho people was not a right but a trust , nncl that tho admission of Jews to Parliament would uucliristianizo the Legislature , inasmuch ns it was impossible that future legislation should bo wholly based on Christian principles , and bojir a Christian character ; the Jew being of necessity a standing obstacle to such legislation . Ho donlod that there was any suoh danger now existing with roforonco to this measure as had at times coin polled statesmen and Parliament to resort to expediency in thoir moasuros rathor than hold fust by principles of abstract right and justice Loud Lymdiiuisst supported tho bill , nnii gave an historical sketch of tho syutqm of Parliamentary oaths , beginning with tho revolution of 1088 , and polntod out tho progress which had boon mario in religious toleration
—the removal of proscription on relig- grounds . urged that as Jews were now admitted to offices in 1 State , and were admitted to legislative functions every British colony , it was impossible to say that th admission to Parliament would unchristianize the Leg lature- . , An animated discussion followed , in which the Du of Norfolk , who supported the Bill ; Lord Du gannon ; the Earl of Shaftesbury , who support the second reading , but- who said he would propose Committee words which would exclude the Jew Lord Brougham , the Bishop of Oxford , and the Du of Argyll took part . The House then divided , when there were—For t second reading , 139 ; against it , 173 : majority , I The Bill was consequently lost . The House then adjourned .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 11, 1857, page 658, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2200/page/10/
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