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¦*• named jg woman it Worship-\ g a young . i-road . She friends at the : new there voler home to her As they could the lady was addrn while he went jine time , however , * en the lady , feeling m . Her terrified and icted the notice of several mischievous street ooys , who began to insult and mock her ; and thewomanMoorsoncomingup shortly afterwards and observing how the lady was treated by the boys , offered to protect her from further annoyance . Her aid was accepted , and the woman then fabricated a pathetic story of distress , ¦ which so wrought upon the lady ' s charitable feelings , that she gave her companion all the loose silver she had about her , and afterwards accompanied her to a public-house , where a strong glass of mixed spirits was ordered by Moorson , and the lady was induced to drink a small quantity . She soon became quite senseless , and on . recovering , found herself close to the bridge of the canal at Haggerstone , with Moorson and the man Marshall standing ; beside her . She called aloud for help and endeavoured to run away ; but the man struck her a heavy blow , -which knocked her down , and Moorson , having robbed her of her veil and the skirt of her dress , ran off with her comrade . They were apprehended soon afterwards , within a short distance of the spot , and are now under remand .
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GATHERINGS FHOM THE LAW AND POLICE COURTS . An insolvent debtor , named Cattling , failed , last Saturday , to obtain his discharge from custody , owing to having made a vexatious defence to an action , and thus involved himself in costs to the amount of 39 / ., over and above a certain payment which he disputed . The opposing creditors , Messrs . Higgs , are dairymen at Kensington , and employ a number of men to carry out milk to their customers . In order to prevent these men from availing themselves of the acquaintance with the customers thus acquired , Messrs . Higgs require each man to sign an undertaking not to enter into business on his own account within two miles , under a penalty of 251 . Cattling had been in Messrs . Higgs ' s service , but after
some time chose to regard the ' walk as his own property , and set up for himself . Upon being sued for the penalty under his agreement , the insolvent defended the action . The judge said there was no defence at all to the action , and a verdict was returned for the plaintiffs , ¦ whose costs were taxed at 391 . The insolvent now said he had not employed any counsel in- the action , and that he set up for himself because three others of Messrs . Higgs ' s men had done the same . Mr . Commissioner Murphy said he had clearly been guilty of a vexatious defence , and therefore would not be discharged until he had been in custody fora period of four months from the date of the vesting order .
Messrs . Owen and Gutch , late bankers of Worcester , applied in the Birmingham District Bankruptcy Court on Friday week for their certificate . It was reported by the official assignee that the total deficiency was 40 , 865 / . ; a dividend of 10 a . would be made , and the affuira would very shortly be wound up . The books had been very regularly kept and balanced half-yearly . Tb . e official assignee alao stated that the property of the bankrupts was entirely unencumbered , and that they might huve gone on trading had they wished . There waa no opposition on the part of the assignees , and the bankrupts asked for a certificate of the first class . One of the bankrupts waajoighty-three years of age , and the other more than seventy . The Commissioner awarded a certificate of the first class .
Lord Campbell has been lecturing , with proper aeverity , the bench of Leicestershire Juaticea for not pro-Tiding 1 adequate accommodation for him and others at the Asoljsea . There is actually no box for the grand jury , who are obliged to atand at the bar ! " It so happens , " eato hie Lordship , " that two years ago I had to try in this court a case of murder which lasted a day—a long day , and , when the jury retired , it would have been agreeable to me , after such n long and anxious duty , to have had a little repose . But , during the whole time the jury were deliberating , I had to stay hare amid the noise and confusion which necessarily arose in a
. cxpjy ^ ed ^ oj ^ judge . I want no splendour or luxury , but I should like decent accommodation . " His Lordship has made tho same complaints in previous yours , but to no eflViot . Mrs . Mary Eberhardr , a widow lady , residing at Stourbridgo , has brought nn notion at the Worcester Assizes against one Joslah Mason , a partnor In the firm of Elldngton and Co ., the olcotro-platorB , for ( ho breach of a warranty of a number of pictures . Mr . Marion hud several pictures for sale , which ho alleged -wore by painters of groat note among the old uiul modern masters , and Mrs . Eberhardt bought some of them to the amount of 2000 / ., under the impression that they
were really the works of the painters whose names were set on them . Mr . Mason warranted them ; but it afterwards turned out they were mere imitations , and some very bad even so considered . They were consequently not worth anything like the amount paid for them . The jury found that there was a warranty , and gave a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed—viz ., 5191 . Dr . Mitchelson , of 31 , Chester-square , Mr . Mitchelson , of Ashley-place , Pimlico , and Dr . Rodwell , of Dr . Forbes WinsloVs establishment ,-appeared at the Westminster police-office on Monday , to summonses obtained against them for assault , by Colonel Ouseley , chief agent to the King of Oude . A long statement by Dr . Mitchelson was handed in to the magistrate , and afterwards to the reporters . It contained a recital of facts clearly showing that the Colonel is insane , and he was put under confinement as a matter of safety . Mr . Alfred Firminger , a City merchant , has been committed for trial on a charge of assaulting Mr . William Muggeridge , a fellow-merchant , on the Old Corn Exchange , in the course of a dispute . An adjourned certificate meeting in the bankruptcy of Hermann Busch , a German , took place before Mr . Commissioner Goulburn on . Monday . The report of Mr . Nicholson , the official assignee , stated that the bankrupt had begun in September , 1856 , with a capital of 800 ? . ; he now owed to unsecured creditors 1135 / ., besides liabilities of 6715 Z . Only 150 / . of assets had been realized . The liabilities consisted entirely of mutual accommodation bills between the bankrupt and one Gandolfi , a Genoese . There were no profits . The losses and expenses ( in eleven months ) amounted to about 200 OJ . The bankrupt in his balance-sheet stated that bills were accepted by him on Gandolfi ' s account , who opened credits for him from time to time at London bankers , and also made remittances to meet those liabilities . Mr . Hollams , for the assignees , said the case was a very unsatisfactory one . The only assets in hand were 59 £ , after paying the fees of the court and the costs of his own solicitor . ¦ He had come to the court under a petition for arrangement , and thus avoided the payment of the 150 / . which must have accompanied his own petition for an adjudication . All the accommodation bills between himself and Gandolfi were dishonoured ; and the Genoese has since absconded . The bankrupt said that Gandolfi , when he first knew him , gave excellent letters of introduction , and seemed to be a moneyed man . He had entire confidence in him . The Commissioner thought this confidence justifiable , and granted a second class certificate .
Bichard Whiting Burton , an auctioneer in Invernessroad , Paddington , appeared in the Insolvent Debtors ' Court on Monday . He was opposed by Mr . Sargood for a widow lady named Massey . The opposition was for a breach of trust , and the insolvent , who had filed two petitions under the Protection Act ( the first having been dismissed ) , had been protected from arrest for nearly three months . Burton had collected rents for Mrs . Massey , and sold some furniture . She obtained a judgment in the Bloomsbury Count } ' Court at an expense of about 9 / . He disputed that claim , but it now turned out that in his account was a charge for paying upwards of 81 . in parochial rates , when in fact he had never paid it , and Mrs . Massey had been called upon to do so . The insolvent said he had given an undertaking to the collector to pay the money , . and , when asked some months afterwards , had not the means . Mr . Commissioner Phillips , in giving judgment , said the debt had been incurred fraudulently , and the protection would therefore be withdrawn , Ho presumed that those who object to imprisonment for debt would not wish to see it abolished in such a case as the present . The punishment was not for owing the debt , but for contracting it fraudulently . Tho case was then adjourned sine die for a broach of trust , and tho insolvent was arrested outside , after a three months' protection .
The new Court for Divorce and Matrimonial Causes is shedding some light on our domestic history . Mr . Cracknall , on Tuesday , moved on the part of a wife for an order protecting her earnings and property from her husband . It appeared from the affidavits that the parties were married in August , 1847 ; that they had two children ; that in 1849 tho husband joined tho Mormons and became a priest of that sect ; that lie travelled about England , propagating his opinions ; and that at last , in 1855 , ho left his wife , and wont to the Salt Lake . He had since written to her , stating that ho had taken another wife . Sir Crosswell Cresewell granted an order in the usual form .
Michael Brennnn , a rcapeotablo-looking young man , has boon charged at the Liverpool polico-ofnco with robbing a gentleman named Wainowright , in a first-. fil « 9 e ^ aJbyay _ garrjttgQ , _ botiv . ficu _ Mairclioator _ , ftnU _ Littlo borough . Mr . Wainowright waa proceeding to tho railway station at Manchester , when n friend stopped him and offered to pay a small debt lie owed him , amounting to about 10 / . As he was rccoivlng tho money , ho was jostled by the prlsonor , and , just before tlio train started for Liverpool , Bronnan got into tho onrrlaga in which Mr . Wainowright had previously taken hid Heat . When they had gone about half wny on the road , tho man presented a pistol nnd demanded Mr . Walnowright ' w monoy , and , on tho latter refusing to glvo It up , Bronnan aoizod him by tho tlirrmt nnd rendered him Insensible On recovering , ho found that ho hud been robbed of his
money and watch . The police being informed of the robbery , the thief was apprehended at Liverpool bv tZ detectives . He was remanded , in order that he miX be taken before the Rochdale magistrates . —A well known swell mobsman is under remand at Worship-Street on acharge of stealing a neck-chain from a passenger on the Camden Town Railway . He first diverted th « gentleman ' s attention by wild conduct and by kiekinehis > hins ; then , opening the carriage door , he seized hold of the chain , and leaped out while the train was in motion . He fell to the ground , but got off .
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . Reinforcements for India . —Upwards of live hundred meu of all ranks left Chatham garrison on Wcdnesdav for the purpose of embarking for Kurrachee , to join the service companies of their respective regiments in India . Brompton Bakkacks . —Several cases of small-pox and scarlet fever have lately broken out among the troops quartered in the south wing of Brompton " Barracks , Chatham , lately converted into an hosp ital for the sick and wounded troops from India . Gale on the Coasts . —The east and north-east coasts were on Monday devastated by a very heavy gale , in which several vessels perished , with loss of life in one case- —that of the schooner Jane , of Ipswich , tho whole crew of which were drowned . The Rhyl lifeboat , on the previous day , rescued three men from a sloop which had been driven on the shore , and which split directly they had been removed .
The Burning of the Saraji Sands . —The Duko of Cambridge has issued a general order acknowledging the services and devotion of the officers and men of the 54 th Regiment during the conflagration of the Sarah Sands steamship , at sea , on the 11 th of November . Sailing of the Livingstone Expeditiox . — The Pearl , with Dr . Livingstone and his coadjutors on board , sailed for Sierra Leone on . Wednesday . Besides Dr . and Mrs . Livingstone , the Pearl has on board their little son ; Mr . Livingstone , brother to Dr . Livingstone , and assistant-commander ; Captain Bedingfield , R . N " ., Government surveyor and nautical commander of the expedition ; Dr . Kirk , of Edinburgh , the botanist and medical officer ; Mr . Thornton , the geologist ; Mr . Rae , the engineer of the launch ; and Mr . F . Barnes , the artist of the expedition , all of whom have signed articles under Government for two years' service .
Coast Defences . —Orders have been issued from the Ordnance-office for the formation of a line of fortifications at Hjlsea , near Portsmouth , to be carried round to Port Cumberland ; the creek at Portsbridge is also to be deepened and widened to enable the gunboats to pass completely round the island . Orders have likewise been issued for the old 24-pounders , in the fortifications on the south-coast , to be replaced by 74-poundeis . It is intended to establish electric telegraphic communication between the whole of the fortifications forming the soutb . and eastern-coast defences .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen and Royal family continue at Osborne ; and nothing has occurred during the week to break the routine of domestic life . The Cape of Good Hope . — " During tho past month , " says the Cape Town Mail of January 29 th , " few events of any great importance have occurred within the Cape colony . Peace and general contentment continue to prevail . The grain harvests , which have just been secured , are unusually abundant , and tho quantity of wine promises to equal , if not exceed , that of any former year . " Finn . —A fire burst out at the Bricklayers Arras station of the South-Eastern Railway on Tuesday evening . It was extinguished , however , by tho engines on tho premises before tUo metropolitan engines eoula arcrivo * The Ward of Cheap . — Mr . Sheriff Allon has been elected Alderman for the ward of Cheap , in the room of Mr . Konnedy , one of the convicted of tho Royal Untian Bankers . „ _ , Tub Case op this Caomaiu . —An opinion oi £ > r . Phillimoro on tho soizuro of tho Cagliari by Naples nns been published . It is altogether against the assumcu right of Naples to make tho seizure , which is strongly condemned by the Doctor . . , Marriaok of Omarmcs Mathbws . — Mr . L \™ ; Mathows has boon marriod at Now York to Mrs . * ; J Woston Davenport , lately tho wife of Mr . A . H . ^ ° » port , of Wallack ' B Theatre . Tho docreo of court "" ' » " " ing Mr . and Mrs . Davenport was pronounced a tuw <»«^ ¦ "Tfi S ^^ Commerce havo received a letter from Lord Uoilu on , M . P . for the West Riding , acknowledging tho ruoo > t oi a copy of a resolution passed by tho Chnmbor on imo subject of the reclamation of partnership .., and liiiioi n ing thorn that an hln lordship finds it to bo iho go ««» wish of Uls constituents Intorattod in commonilnl mni w that ho should introduce n Bill for that purpose " ' » determined Xo do so . Tlio Chamber have umlortn o rnlHo a ( subscription of 100 / . for tho purposo oi « » tho movement to obtain nn amendment ol w « ruptoy Laws .
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THE LEADEB , ^ jNo . 416 , March 13 , 1858 .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 13, 1858, page 250, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2234/page/10/
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