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to show that their books , &c , did not come within the meaning of tie . Act , the learned gentleman quoting a definition of . ' obscenity' from Cicero , Be Qffidis . Mr . Jardine decided , that the works were obscene , and ordered their destruction , subject to a delay of seven days , in case of appeal , or in case Government should decide upon indicting the parties . In the four remaining cases , the same ordei was made in regard to the greater proportion of the articles , a few being excepted on the ground that they were not sufficiently indecent to come "within the meaning of the act . Among those excepted -were some copies of the paper called Paul ' Pi' y .
Supposed Mubdeb of a Wife . —A man , named Alexander Moody , carrying on business as a shoemaker in the North . Bruton Mews , Bond-street , has been charged at th « Marlborough-street police-court with the murder of his wife . At eleven o ' clock on the night of the 17 th of August , Mrs . Moody was hist seen alive at a neighbour ' s house by a woman named Mary AppLeton , ¦ who lived at No .. 30 , Grosvenor Mews , adjoining the house occupied by Moody . The woman Moody seemed to have been drinking , but was not intoxicated . She asked Mrs . Appleton to have some gin , and , the latter consenting , they went together to a public-house , and Mrs . Moody shortly afterwards returned to her home . About two o ' clock in the morning Moody came home , and
began quarrelling with his wife , and struck her three heavy blows . The blows and the words were distinctly heard by Mrs . Appleton , whose room in the next hous e was close to that in which the quarrel between Moody and his wife took place . Mrs . Appleton only heard Mrs . Moody cry out once , and , after she had been struck , nothing further was heard , until Mrs . Appleton got up in the morning : , when Moody called her into his house and asked her to look at his wife . She went into the room where Mrs . Moody was lying on the bed , and her husband then taxed her with being very drunk when he came home the previous night . Mrs . Appleton denied this , and accused Moody of beating his wife in the night . The man replied that he had only struck her with his
hand , but added that he had a good mind to take a hammer , and finish her . Mrs . Moody was quite senseless , her right eye closed and greatly swollen , and the pupil of the other eye considerably dilated , with an effu-Bion of blood on the lid , which was completely paralyzed . She was in other respects much injured . Mrs . Appleton spoke to her and asked her how she felt , but , although she breathed hard , she could not speak . The floor of the room was wet , and Moody said that blood had flowed from his wife's mouth as she lay on the ground . About seven o ' clock in the evening a policeman was sent for , who forced open the door , and Mrs . Appleton then went
in with the constable . ' Shs again spoke to Mrs . Moody , who could then talk a little , and was able to drink some tea . When Mrs , Appleton left the house , she met Moody , who was returning home from a fishing excursion , and lie told her that he had been praying all day to find his wife a corpse . Ultimately , at the request of Mrs . Appleton , medical advice was sent for ; but the injured woman continued to get worse , and at length died in St . George's Hospital , without giving any explanation of the cause of her wounds . Moody , who asserts that his wife fell down and hurt herself in an apoplectic fit , has been committed for trial .
The BiRiuiNHiiAD Stabbing Case . —The three men concerned in the death of John Drury at Birkenhead , under circumstances which have already been related in these columns , were on " Wednesday committed for trial . Middlesex Sessions . —During the sitting 3 in the present week , a case casting great discredit on the police was tried . A man namal Diedrich Rathgen was charged with having assaulted two policemen . They found Lira , as they alleged , quarrelling with some othor men during the night iti Spitalfields , and one of the officers , according to this account , was beaten about the head with a poker by Rathgen , and was compelled to use his truncheon . According to the evidence for the defence , tut ) constable had first insulted Rathgeu ' s wife , and then behaved ,, together with the other officer , with outrageous violence to the man himself , striking him and another man on the head with his staff . On hearthifl evidence , tho jUary atopped the case , and Acquitted Rathgen .
OimcA . au on 'Che Eastebn Counties Railway . —• Professor Rogers baa Been struck by a atone thrown at the down express train near Wymondhara . It has boon ascertained that tho lower jaw-bone has been splintered ) , arid that the upper jaw has received a sevore fraoture . Tho injured gentleman ia progressing towards recovery in a very , satisfactory manner . Mys / tickious Death in this Rkgent ' fj-canai ,. — Shortly before six o'clock on Wednesday evening , considerable alarm was created in consequence of tUo discovery of the body of . a . mulo person in the Regent ' acanal at Twig Folly-bridgo , Greon-street , Bothrial-green , under vory suspicious circumstances . A young man named (* oorgo tioutiiy , a labourer , wus atanding on tlie bank of the ltegont ' s-canal , immediately nt the rear of tho Qucuu ' h Anna public-house , when ho suddenly saw a human body riao to tho surface of tho wuter in front of him . Ho rained an alarm , and called several men to liis assistance , when the body was got on tho towing-path . It exhibited several goalies and coutuuionR . Tho police have ascertained from persons living near the Hpot Unit , on , Monday morning , between one and two o ' clock , they
were aroused by cries of " Murder ! " and " Police ! " and , although several of the neighbours left their beds , they were unable to learn the cause of the outcry , or to make any discovery .
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Eioht seamen belonging to the steamship Holyrood have been convicted by the Leith magistrates of being on board that vessel at the same time that it contained several pounds of smuggled tobacco . According to an act passed in 1855 , every one on board a vessel containing smuggled tobacco is liable to a penalty . In the present case it was shown that the tobacco belonged to a seaman v ? ho had absconded ; but this did not alter the law . Baillie Lindsay , in giving judgment , said it would , no doubt , be a great hardship in some cases to apprehend and fine every one found on board a ship where goods liable to seizure were found ; but in . tho present instance there was no great hardship , for only those who had been eating and sleeping in the forecastle [ the place where the tobacco was found ) weTe before them , and it had come but in evidence that some of the defendants had a guilty knowledge of the tobacco being concealed on board . He fined them 100 ? . each , with costs , and , failing payment , to be imprisoned during her Majesty ' s pleasure . Of course the fines could not be ' paid , and the men were carried off to gaol . Whatever may be said of this particular case , the law is iniquitous , and should be at once amended on the reassembling of ' Parliament . I The alleged misconduct of the porter at the Ckaringexoss Hospital in connexion with a recent case of attempted suicide received its final explanation last Saturday , when one of the gentlemen employed at the hospital waited on the Bow-street magistrate , and said that Mr . Sprague , having attended the investigation before the committee , professed entire satisfaction with the result . Among the resolutions agreed to by the committee was the following : —" That it is proved beyond doubt , and fully admitted by Mr . Sprague , that the porter was perfectly sober , but , having an impediment in his speech , and being suddenly aroused from his sleep ( his previous night ' s rest having been unusually broken ) , an entire stranger was not unlikely during a momentary interview to have regarded him as under the influence of drink . " An instance of the defiant disregard of magistrates ' orders commonl y shown by parish authorities has recently been broug ht forward at the Thames police-office . The relieving officer of the Whitechapel Union refuses to give out-door relief to a woman who is a native of , and resident in , the parish , because her late husband was an Irishman . On this ground , he insists on transferring her and her children to Ireland . She therefore applied to the magistrate , Mr . Selfe , who wrote a letter to the relieving officer , pointing out that he was not justified in what he was doing . The officer , immediately on receiving the letter , tore it in fragments , said he did not care for what any magistrate said , refused to let the woman go before the board of guardians , as she wished to do , and repeated that she must go to Ireland . On tlie woman again appearing before Mr . Selfe , he told her the parish could not pass her to Ireland without previously obtaining a magistrate ' s order , which of course would not be given under the circumstances . He advised the woman to go with her children into tho union , and disregard the threats of the relieving officer . The way in which the poor are treated by relieving officers and guardians he condemned as most disgraceful , and ho regretted that the complaints against tho TVliitechapel Union had been very numerous . He then directed tlmt half-a-crown ,. which had been forwarded for the woman's use by some benevolent individual , should be given to her , and remarked that her case was a . very hard one . Mr . Holder , late Captain and Paymaster of the 5 th Lancashire Militia has been finally examined at Bowstreet , and committed for trial , on a chargo of misapplying tho balance of 1153 £ . 10 s ., duo from him at the expiration of his service . The bankrupt Feistel , who was concerned some months ago in several actions against noblemen for wines supplied bj- him on their account to n certain notorious house—all of which failed , as they appeared to be a means of oxtoiting money—has now been released from prison b y order of tho Bankruptcy Court , ' on account of being oxtrcincly ill , and apparently on the point of death . A contributor to tho Householders' Genuine Bread and Flour Company ( limited ) has petitioned the Bankruptcy Court for a winding-up order . Mr . Commissioner Holroyd has fixed November 12 tli for the hearing of tho petition . Mr . William Tyler , described as a dealer in foreign animals and birds , until recently tho proprietor of the Royal Surrey OnrdoiiH , passed lii . s examination meeting in the Court of ' Bankruptcy on Wednesday .
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THE TRANSATLANTIC TELEGRAPH . ( Communicated . ') Tins most striking ch .-inietori . stie of tho present ngo in unqucHtiorinbly to b
quickness , or precision than ne nf tnaelT possesses Be endeavours to employ it in such- a manner a » to further his own ends , and is always ready to make use of tbat which -would otherwise be an obstacle to tho successful accomplishment of his desires . For instance , water when highly heated ' , shows so great a tendency to assume the gaseous form that it will burst through the strongest barriers which may oppose it , and we find this enormous force employed by him in . work for which his own physical , strength , or that of the animals subject to him would be insufficient . He finds , also , that by means of the mechanical- powers he can exchange strength for quickness , and hence we see steam used wliere Teat velocity is required ; , such as in locomotion and most of the arts and manufactures . The discovery of tlie action of the light of tile sun upon certain chemical substances combined with a knowledge of the laws of optics , enables him to produce a picture with much greater fidelity and detail than could be accomplished by the most practised art . The noxious and dangerous exhalation from coal mines supplies him with a plentiful and 1 efficient means of artificial illumination , and the swif t , though often disastrous , lightning becomes ^ i medium for transmitthi" - his ideas to distant places with a rapidity far exceedhi" - the wildest dreams of ancient mytholog \\ &
Electricity , or lightning , was first proposed as a means of communication about the latter , part of the last century . About six hundred yeaTS B . C . Thales , the Milesian philosopher , observed that a piece of amber ( called by the Greeks electron ) possessed , when rubbed , the remarkable property of attracting any light objects which were near it ; and it was from this circumstance that electricity obtained its name . Xn later times light was observed to accompany these effects , which it was found were not confined to amber ; but it was not until the eighteenth century that Franklin proved the identity of electricity with lightning .
One of the most remarkably properties of electricity is that it travels over and through certain bodies almost instantaneously , while it w altogether stopped by others , the first-mentioned bodies being called conductors and theothers insulators , or non-conductors . If , therefore , electricity be applied to one end of a wire , which is a conductor , and proper means be taken to insulate it or prevent it from reaching tlie ground , it will be diffused equally over the whole length of the wire , and produce the same effects at the other end as it does at that at
which it is first applied . It was this property of electricity which -was first made use of in electro-telegraphic experiments , the electricity being conducted from place to place by means of wires ; but these experiments were unsuccessful , except at short distances , in consequence of the great tendency of the fluid to fly off from the conductors , and it was not until Volta discovered the means of producing steady currents of electricity that it could be successfully applied to telegraphy .
The wires in England are generally stretched on posts by tho side of railways , but in London and some other large towns they are laid underground . The insular position of England prevents her from communicating with neighbouring countries by either of these methods . The only way by which an electric communication can be effected between two places separated by water , is by laying a wire property insulated and protected , on the bed of the sea which divides them . The first important attempt of . this nature was made in August , 1850 , when a wire , coated with guttarpercha , was sunk across the channel from Dover to Cape Griznez , on the French coast . This was for a time successful ^ but tho contort wire was too weak to withstand tho action of the waves nt the parts near the shore , and ' soon became imperfect . This experiment proved , however , that a submarine telegraph was not an impossibility , and that all that was required to render it successful was to invest tho wire with an iron covering strong enough to protect it from injury , but still sufficiently light and flexible to enable it to bo laid without dlllVculty . This was accomplished by Messrs . Newall and Co ., of Gateshead ; who . succeeded in surrounding the insulated conducting wire with a number of stout iron wire * , thus forming- a strong and flexible cable . Such si cable was lnid down heUeen Dover and Calais , and tho communication established between those places on the 17 th October , 18 f > l . _ It contained four copper conducting wires , oach coated with gutta percha , which were enveloped in a mass of tarred yarn , and round the whole were twisted ten iron \ vire « , each a quarter of an inch' in thickness , and galvanized , ' or coated with zinc . The thickness of tho cable itse . lt jwaa l £ inches , ita length 25 miles , and tho cost 1 ) 000 / ., ' being at the rate of 3001 . per mile . Its weight wus 7 tons per mile .
In . consequence of tho success of this enterprise , numerous submarine telegraphs wore c « tul > lislic- ( l in different parts of the globe , ami tho project for connecting tho old world with the new by means of an I'li'i'trw cubic is now very m >« r its realization . Tho cabin ^ yu ! ^ completed some weeks smicc , but a considerable portion lias been lost in consequence of Jin accident in laying ' ¦ down . One half was manufueturcd at Wishhis . . Nf . ivall . s * avoiIch at Uirkcnheiul , mid thu other at Glass ami Kllict * at East Greenwich . Tho conducting wir « i » not _*'" £ '" «« in other submarine cables , but jh composed of ^ 'veii fluo copper wires twisted together , forming <>" m 11 ' "'' oiifl-. sixlconth of an inch in diameter . Thia ( vrlninly appears very small to convoy an electric currriit lor
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99 & TIE IiBADEl . TNo . S 95 A October 17 , 185 ' 7
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 17, 1857, page 994, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2214/page/10/
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