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formed , and money paid , in connexion with the defendant ' s unsuccessful endeavours to becom ? a legislator . Mr . Edwardes appears to have introduced himself to Mr . Smith on hearing that the latter-was desirous of a seat in Parliament . He was engaged to manage matters ; and he persuaded Mr . Smith that he had a better chance ( it Bedford tlian at Bridport , for which he originally stood . Mr . Smith therefore presented himself to the electors of that town , and Mr . Edwardes went down there as his agent . He wrote several placards , which were read in court , and which were written in a somewhat bombastic style . In the course of his evidence , Mr . Edwardes riaid : " One of iny objects at Bedford was to ascertain what prospect there was of effecting a coalition with the waited lesthe
Tories . Accordingly , I upon Mr . Eag , agent for the Conservative party , and afterwards informed Mr . Smith what arrangements I had made with that gentleman . Mr . Eagles observed very properly , that he did not agree with the coalition , as being inconsistent with his character and position . I saw him almost every day after that . We had no coalition , but we received very considerable support from the Tories . There was nothing binding upon the Tories as a party , but about one hundred and fifty voted for the defendant in consequence of my interview with the Tory agent . " , Captain Stuart , the Conservative candidate , refused to have anything to do with the coalition ; but several Tories voted for Mr . Smith because they were determined to defeat the . Whig candidates . When Mr . Smith presented himself at Bedford , the bells were ringing , and the inhabitants appeared to take great interest in the
. arrival . " He came down in his own carriage , ' said Mr . Edwardes in his evidence . " Did the people , " asked Lord Campbell , who tried the case , " take the horses out of his carriage , and drag him into the town ? " Mr . Edwardes replied , amidst some laughter , " They did not degrade themselves to that extent , although it is often done at elections . " In cross-examination , Mr . Edwardes said : — " I remarked during the election that I thought the defendant was very distant , and appeared to think I was of no use to him , and that I would pack up my things and go ; but Mr . Smith would not allow me . After the Bedford election , I wrote to the defendant requesting an interview of ten minutes . I wanted him to give me a handsome letter to Lord Chelsea ' s committee , stating also that I wanted some money to enable me to make a proper appearance . I never received any reply to the half-dozen letters I sent . " Mr . Edwardes also
undertook some business with respect to the Bodmin election ; but Mr . Smith did not stand after all . The case for the defence was that Mr . Edwardes , though a person inexperienced in such matters , and in fact * a mere adventurer , * had induced Mr . Smith to desert Bridport for Bedford , Mr . Edwardes asserting that he could get him in there , though it appeared by his own confession that he was a stranger in Bedford at the time . It was denied that , as asserted by the plaintiff , a retainer fee was paid , the money advanced being only for the necessary expenses . Mr . Smith , however , had since paid 40 / . to the plaintiff , and discharged his hotel bill ; and it was contended that this was quite sufficient remuneration , as Mr . Edwardes had done little el 3 e than smoke , drink
lonionade , and read novels . This was confirmed by a good many witnesses ; and even one of the plaintiff's witnesses spoke to the same effect . Mr . Shelton , a Bedford elector , came up to London during the election , in company with Mr . Edwardes , went to Drury Lane Theatre , and seems to have * male a night of it . ' He stated on the trial :- — " We had some champagne , saw tho performances , and looked at the dancers , behind the curtains . After the champagne , we went to Evans ' s and heard some capital singing there . I was not introduced as a Bedford vocalist , nor did I propose the health © f the Queen of Oude ; but we had some capital fun . " The jury gave a general verdict for tho plaintiff , which was eventually entered for the sum of 66 / . and a fraction .
Another Royal British Bank case has appeared in the law courts . The point to bo decided came before Vioo-Chancellor Kindersley last Saturday , and was to this effect—whether tho name of Mr . Brockwell could legally be placed on the list of contributors upon the reference under the Winding-up Acts . Mr . Brockwell had purchased three 100 / . shares in the bank in March , L 855 , and waa registered and returned as proprietor , and in June ho paid 50 / . deposit on each share . In tho
December following , ho rocoived ono half-yearly dividend ; in Juno he rccoivod another . Tho bank stopped payment last September . Mr . BrockwoU's case was , that , when ho discovered tho real nature of the dealings of tho bank , he claimed to bo entitled to repayment of his subscription , into tho payment of which ho had boon led by fraudulent representations , And especially by tho reports issued from time to time by tho directors . After much argument , tho case was postponed till a subsequent day ,
" O ' rtUota with heavy , damages liavo been given , or taken by consent , in the case of two railway companies on account of aooidonts on their linos . Tho Midland Railway Company has had to pay IQOOt . to tho oxooutrix of Thomas Bnteaon ( a surgeon at Lancaster ) on behalf of hia children , Mr . Batoaon having boon killed by an accident on tho lino last February . Tho verdict waa agreed to after consultation between tho respective lawyers . A Mrs . Halatead , who accompanied him on *|» flt occasion , was alao severely injured , sho and Mr . watopon , being run over by a train at tUo Settle , option j
but an action which she intended to bring was also settled by compromise , with damages to the extent of 2501 The other company similarly amerced is the Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire line . Mr . Parkinson , a manufacturer at Barnsley , received a concussion of the brain from an accident near Penistone . He therefore brought an action ; the company paid 150 / . into court , and the jury awarded 750 / . over and above that sum . All these actions came on at the York Assizes on Thursday week . A singular specimen of our diseased love of associations with great crintrihals came out in an action tried at the same Assizes . Mrs . Davis , a widow , was induced to take the Griffin Inn at Halifax on the representation of one Prest , tho owner , that the regular receipts of the house were 24 / . a week , and that the establishment had a good connexion . She gave 80 / . for the goodwill ; but
the average receipts per week proved to be only 11 . She therefore brought an action against Prest : and it was proved that , some time before the house was transferred to her , its business had been falling off , and that Prest , in order to get custom among a certain class , had hired as a waiter a man from Rugeley who had , it was said , acted as the executioner of Palmer , the murderer . This was made widely known , and special trains crowded with passengers came from Rochdale to see this man , and receive their beer at his hands at the Griffin Inn . The ' chawbacon , ' as he was described , waited on the customers in a smockfrock ; but so far from restoring the custom of the house , the proceedings , after the first novelty was over , appeared to disgust and drive away the regular customers . The case occupied portions of two days , and concluded with a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages , 8 OZ .
A rather remarkable action for libel was tried at tho same city last Saturday . A person , named John Ellis , living at Goole , had published and posted up a placard containing a covert allusion to a Mr . Alfred Small , printer and publisher of the Goole arid Marshland Gazette , in which it was said that that person ( designated in the placard as Mr . Alfred Little ) would receive subscriptions for a rope to hang one Burke , a retiring superintendent of poli-ce . Mr . Small being annoyed at this , published in his paper the following advertisement : —" John Ellis , plumber , glazier , and bill-sticker , Ouse-street , Goole . Dirty jobs done at all hours of the night . " Ellis ' s brother , an attorney , at Leeds , then wrote a letter to Mr . Small , demanding an apology in the newspaper . To this Mr . Small replied by a letter , justifying the libel , asserting the strict accuracy of the Ellis
statements , and adding that John was an open professor of infidelity ; that his commonest speech was a ' damn ; ' that lie was ready at any time to say that all religion is ' a damned humbug ; ' and that he was generally known as ' Blackguard Ellis . ' Hereupon Ellis rought his action . Witnesses were called by him , who stated they did not know him to be irreligious , though he did use the word ' damn' sometimes , but only ' like other people . ' One witness , moreover , had heard him called ' Blackguard Ellis . ' The plaintiff himself admitted that he never went to church at Goole , but said that was because he did not like tho clergyman . Baron Watson , in summing up , condemned the foolish conduct of both parties , but added that Mr . Small ' s letter was clearly actionable . The jury , gave a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages , one shilling on each count of the declaration . Tho Judge granted a certificate to carry
costs . Phillip Solomons , a trimming-seller in Bishopsgatestreet , waa charged at Worship-street on Tuesday with a cruel assault on a boy . Some fragments were being swept out of the shop into the street , and tho lad picked a few of them up . He waa told several times to go away , but , being rather deaf , ho did not hear , and therefore remained . On this , Solomons seized the broom , and struck tho boy so violently over the head that ho bled profusely , and it was found necessary to take him to a surgeon ' s . His mother was just confined , and , on hearing of the circumstance , sho waa so excited that sho was thrown into a dangerous state . Solomons , on being brought before the magistrate , expressod his sorrow , and the caso was settled by tho father accepting a pecuniary compensation .
Mr . Gordon Gumming , the Lion-hunter of South Africa , has appeared at the borough police-office , Liverpool , on a charge of assaulting two persons in the Grand Junction Hotel , Lime-street . Ho is at present giving his entertainment in tho great northern city , and , on tho 14 tli inst ., was supping nt tbo hotel , when , according to his version , two gentlemen got into conversation with him and two of hia friends about the American frigate Niagara . Ono of tho strangers made some insult-1
ingobservations on tho English flag , and challenged Mr . Gumming nnd his friends to light , saying he would * take the bounce out of all three of them- ' Mr . dimming accepted the chullongo , and gave tho man a sound thrashing j for , as ho explained to tlio magistrates , ho never does things of that kind by halves . On tho pthor Imnd , tho complainants said they wore attacked without provocation . Tho magistrates , however , dis . believed thorn , and diamlsscd the summons .
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MISCELLANEUU S . The Court . —The Queen is at present staying at Oaborne . The Globe believes there is no foundation for the statement that her Majesty will visit France in tha autumn . The Representation of Woodstock . —Tho death of the Duke of Marlborough , and tho consequent elevation to tho House of Poors of tho Marquis of Blnndford , creates a vacancy in tho representation . Lord Alfred S . Churchill , a brother of tho present duke , who was M . P . for Woodstock from December , 184 . 5 , to July , 1847 , has therefore issued nu address to tho electors . It is exceedingly vague in its proinisos , but seonis to indicate a general adherence on tho part of his Lordship to moderate Conservatism .
The Land Transport Corps . —The report of the Soloct Committee of tho House of Commons on tho Land Transport Corps has been handed in and published . The committee declare that tho discharge of tho corps immediately on its return from tho Crimea wns not in violation of the terms of its enlistment ; but they think , 6 n the other hand , that tho mode of discharging tho men was , with few exceptions , not in accordance with tho usual rules and regulations of tho service . They regret that tho service , regulations woro not move strictly
observed , nnd advert to tho impolicy , to say nothing worse , of alienating tho goodwill of our artisnus , whoso sorvloe-i may bo again needed for the support and furtherance or tho moBt important Interests of tho country , by any act of injustice or «» y display of an » ll ff euorou * " 7 ^ , ^ : wards them . They recommend that tho unsettled claims if the Land Transport dorp * -houM *™ "g »« y « Jmlnod by tho department which employed thorn and that nil those justly made should be frankly ncknow-1 « aLA LdTenorou « ly discharged . They oono udo by
coning attention to tho want of uni y » " « 2 S 2 S tor whloh characterised the relations of tho Secretary for \ V « rwUU the Com mmulor-in . Chiof with reference to tho formation of the Laud Transport Corpu .
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NAVAL AND MIL 1 TAUV . Naval Education . —A now system of training nnval cadets la about to coma into operation afloat , in
pursuance of the provisions of an Admiralty circular dated the 23 rd of last February . The Illustrious , 72 , Captain Robert Harris , is being fitted with accommodation by the dockyard artificers at Portsmouth for the first instalment of naval cadets who received nominations on the 1 st of May to pass on the 5 th of August . The Illustrious is , we believe , to be stationed off Block-house , near the Gosport shore , which , affords room alike for nautical observations and aquatic exercises . The appointment of the Rev . R . M . Inskip , chaplain and naval instructor on board her Majesty ' s ship Victory , to be chaplain and first naval instructor to the cadets has been remain in the Illustrious diffe
made . The cadets are to - rent periods , proportioned to their ages , those of thirteen remaining twelve months , and those verging upon fifteen only six months . Their course of study comprises Euclid , algebra , nautical astronomy , French , and drawing , and their practical course ( which Ls the primary object of the placing them in a training ship before sending them on sea service ) will consist of instruction in rigging ships , managing boats , and the general principles of manoeuvring ships at sea , thus furnishing the ground work on which their future professional knowledge is to be based . —Times .
The Sardinian Medals . —Colonel Uloomfield , aidede-camp to the Queen , and commandant of the Woolwich garrison , distributed the Sardinian medals , last Saturday , to the Royal Artillery regiment . The Queen at Aldershot . —Her Majesty and the Court paid another visit to Aldershot last Saturday , when various military evolutions were performed . Rapid Voyage from New York . —The Persia ( Royal mail steamer ) has reached Liverpool from New York in nine days , one hour , and fifteen minutes , being one hour and twenty-five minutes shorter than the . celebrated trip last August , which was then unparalleled .
The Bengal Army .- —Some correspondence has passed between Sir William Gomm and Lord Melville with respect to the observations , derogatory to the Bengal Native Army , made by the latter in the House of Lords on the 13 th inst . Sir William Gomm asserts that , when he left the command' of that array , in January , 1856 , it fully deserved the encomiums he passed on it ; and he quotes the opinions of the Duke of Wellington , Lords Hardinge and Gough , and Sir Charles Napier , as confirming his own views . The Santal insurrectionhe observes , was suppressed by the
, Bengal army , " without the assistance of a corporal's guard of British troops , or any other auxiliaries . " Lord Melville replies by supporting his statements by various facts , and by the assertion that the opinions of Lord Hardinge and Sir Charles Napier were on his side of the question . He also remarks that Sir Edward Paget , thirty years ago , formed a correct estimate of the morale of the Bengal army ; and that the late General Anson , ever since he had the command , represented the necessity of an increase of the European force ., Nevertheless , Lord Melville does not think Sir William Gomm in any
svay to blame for the bad discipline of the army . Troops for India- —Large bodies of troops continue to depart for India . Chatham Dockyahd . —The Lords of the Admiralty paid their annual official visit of inspection to Chatham Dockyard on Wednesday .
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No . 383 . July 25 , 1857 . 1 ' THE REAPER . 705
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Leader (1850-1860), July 25, 1857, page 705, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2202/page/9/
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