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large a sum as 1000 ? . at one time . The largest sum I ever recollect him to hare lent me at one time was 6001 . The money was lent me for my convenience , and possibly some of it was to pay losses I had sustained on the turf . I had borrowed money , of the plaintiff both before and after this transaction of 1850 . In 1856 , 1 -was a defaulter on the turf for about 5000 £ , and since that time I have been abroad . I have been out of the way of my creditors . I only came in their way last Monday . ( A laugh . ) I intend , of course , to get out of their way again as soon as this trial is over . ( Renewed laughter . ) I did not * show ' at Tattersall ' on the settli ng day after the Derby of 1856 . I did show on the Monday , and received some bets , but did not pay any . I received 284 t for bets . One bet was paid mo by Mr . Richard Tattersall , another by a gentleman named Maxwell , and * third by Mr . Whitbum . I did not pay a farthing of the bets I had lost myself . The money I received did not pay my journey to Jersey . I received the money on the Monday , and started for Jersey on the following morning . I believe this is what is called on the turf levanting . * " ( Laughter . ) The contention on the part of Mr . Hill , the plaintiff , was that the loan was of the ordinary kind ; to which it was replied that there was merely " colourable pretence of its being so . The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount of the bond and interest ; together , 2559 / . A man named John Devine was tried at Chester on Wednesday for the wilful murder of Thomas Flannegan , in a street fight at Birkenhead . He was found Guilty of manslaughter , and sentenced to penal servitude for life .
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GA THER I NGS FROM THE LAW AND POLIC E CO U RTS . Mb . Commissioner Goulburn gave judgment in the Bankruptcy Court , on Monday , in the case of a bankrupt named Munn , who was one of the seventy or eighty retail traders who have been led by the Macdonalds of Glasgow to accept accommodation bills in their favour . His Honour , having referred at great length to the judgments of Messrs . Commissioners Evans , Fonblanque , and Holroyd in other cases of the kind , concluded by saying that it was desirable that the judgments of the Court should , as nearly as was practicable , be uniform . Acting upon this view , the certificate of the bankrupt ( third class ) would be suspended twelve months , with protection . William Lakey , a master mariner , is under remand at the Thames police-office , charged with feloniously sinking the brig Clipper , of Dartmouth Cof which he had the command ) , at sea , near Dungeness , with intent to defraud the underwriters at Lloyd ' s . The mate is also involved in the same charge . —The authorities at Gibraltar have been investigating a similar charge against the master , mates , and carpenter of the Swedish barque , Gerb , from Newport for the West Indies . Copies of the depositions have been forwarded to the Earl of Malmesbury , Lloyd ' s , and the Swedish Government . Three writs of certiorari have been received by the clerk of arraigns at the Old Bailey , removing into tbe Court of Queen ' s Bench the trials of Tmelove and of Stanislaus Tchorzewski for libel , and the indictment for conspiracy against Dr . Bernard . The trial of Dr . Bernard will take place at the forthcoming sessions at the Old Bailev .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Cocbt . —The Queen and the Prince Consort , accompanied by the Princess Alice , honoured Baron Marochetti with a visit to his studio last Saturday morning . —Prince George of Saxony arrived at Windsor Castle on Wednesday afternoon , and had an audience of the Queen , who has been staying during the week at Windsor . —The ancient charities associated with Maunday Thuwday were distributed , the day before yesterday , at Windsor , to thirty-nine aged men and an equal number of aged women , with the usual formalities . The number of each aex corresponds with the age of the Queen . —The Prince of Wales having been examined on Wednesday by the Dean of Windsor , was confirmed on Thursday at the Castle in the presence of the Queen , the Prince Consort , the Ministers , and other company . The Bishop of Oxford read the preface , and the Archbishop of Canterbury performed the ceremony , concluding tho service with an exhortation . The Queen and Royal family then entered the Green Drawing-room , where hor Majesty received the congratultttlonB of the company . Tina French Embassy . ¦—Sefton House , the mansion bfahe . EarUof ^ Sef tQn ! aJfa ^^ been token for Marshal tho Puko of Maiakoff , and . will be the future residence of the French Embassy . Australia . —Mr . Haines ' s Reform Bill is making progress in tho Lower House of Victoria . A modified form of providing for the repsesontatlon of minorities wfls uanctioned by tho Assembly on tho llth of February by a majority of twenty-four to seventeen . THE WeBX-BWD AND CltYBTAL PAIAflE ItAILAVAY . — Tho remaining portion of this new lino , designed to conheot the went end of London with tho Crystal Palace and
Brighton li nes , was finally inspected , last Saturday , by the directors , accompanied by several gentlemen connected With the railway interest . Some months ago , the line was opened from the Crystal Palace to Wandsworth-common ; the remaining portion is that running from thence to the terminus at Battersea . " The line , though promoted and carried out by an independent proprietary , will be worked , " says a contemporary , " by the London and Brighton Railway Company under a working agreement , one stipulation in the arrangement between the two companies being that the London and Brighton shall pay for the use of the line and stations a fixed charge or rental of 8000 / . a-year , or something like one per cent , on the outlay , instead of a toll upon the London and Brighton West-end traffic that may come over this new line . This is a condition from which the public is likely to be largely convenienced . " Drunken Lusatics . —Professor Qhristison has read a paper on 'The Relations of Habitual Intemperance to the Civil Law' before the President and Fellows of the Royal College of Surgeons at Edinburgh . His object was to show that an insatiable craving after drink is a kind of disease or insanity , and that ( in accordance with legal forms ) it should be competent for relations to send habitual drunkards to a sanatorium such as already exists for voluntary patients in the Isle of Skye . Commission of Lunacy . —An inquiry into tho state of mind of Mr . Deeble Peter Hoblyn , a gentleman of property residing at Plympton , near Plymouth , took place at Exeter on Tuesday and Wednesday . The decision was that he was insane . The Earl of Morton died on Wednesday , after a short illness . Royal Theatrical Fund . —The thirteenth anniversary of this Fund was celebrated at the Freemasons ' Tavern on Monday evening . Mr . Thackeray was in the chair , " and humorous speeches were made by him , by Mr . Dickens , and Mr . Buckstone . It appears that the society has already accumulated 10 , 0002 . Chelsea Suspension Bridge . — This new bridge ( over which the Queen passed on Friday week ) was first opened to the public on Monday . Mr . Hooan , the celebrated Irish sculptor , died last Saturday morning in Wentworth-place , Dublin , after a short illness , in his fifty-seventh year . Mr . Bright , M . P ., on Finance . —The unemployed of Birmingham having passed a memorial to the Queen , praying for . some gigantic system of free emigration , authorized their chairman to ask Mr . Bright to present the memorial . The following reply has been received from Mr . Bright : —" London , March 25 . —Dear Sir , —When your memorial reaches me or Mr . Scholefield'we will at once take the usual course with respect to its presentation to the Queen . I am sorry to find that the * unemployed' should be so numerous i n Birmingham as to induce them to unite , with a view to some public measures for their relief . At this moment the unfavourable condition of the markets of the United States and of the continent of Europe will account for much of the suffering which is being endured by the working men of England . I confess , however , that I can see no remedy for a large portion of the mischief complained of , so long as we find our taxes constantly on the increase , and our national expenditure augmenting . We are now spending 20 , 000 , 000 / . a year more than we were spending only a few years back , and our military expenses have doubled since the year 1835 , when the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel were in power . This year , I suppose , we shall raise in taxes at least 50 , 000 , 000 / . sterling more than will require to be raised by an equal population , living , not in England , but in the United States of America . Surely this will account for much of the evils which you and the memorialists and the working . classes generally suffer , and I am not surprised that sensible men should wish to quit a country where the burdens are so heavy and the political privileges of three-fourths of them are so few . Every man who is not prepared to compel a butter and more economical Government ; at home should emigrate , or the pauperism of his day will be deeper and more without remedy in the days of his children . I wish I was able to come to Birmingham and talk to you about these great questions . — 'Yours very respectfully , John Bright . " Mr . Dickens in Edinburgh . —Mr . Dickens read his Christmas Carol to the members of tho Philosophical Institution , Edinburgh , on Friday week . There was an audience of at least 2000 persons , who expressed tlioir delight and sympathy in tho most enthusiastic manner . At tho close , tho , Lord Provost , in the name of the directors , presented to Mr . Dickens a silver Christmas wassail bowl of elegant and elaborate workmanship . This was acknowledged by tho noveliBt in terms of great cordiality . ¦ EoKr >~ "STANHOPiD" * wa 8- installed-on—Friday-week-a 8-Lord Rector of Mariachal College and Univorsity , Aberdeen . Ho delivered a long Address on the good effects of systematic study and mental discipline , and of tho cultivation of oratory . The Artists' GknbralBknkvolbnt Institution . — Tho forty-third annual festival of this association took place last Saturday at tho Freomusons' Tavern . Lord Elcho , M , l \ , presided . Tub Vocal Association will give a grand
performance at St . James s Hall , Regent-street and PiccZ dilly , on Wednesday evening next , April 7 th , when tt £ programme will be entirely Mendelssohn , and comDitw the following works : —The First Walpurgis Night Lor * . ley , Violin Concerto , Cappriccio Brilliant , &c . ' jT band and chorus united will number four hundred ne » formers . p Monday Evkning Concerts for the People —it is intended to commence a new series of these popato concerts , on Easter Monday , in the theatre of the He chanics' Institution , Southampton-buildings , Holborn " when , in addition to the usual vocal performance , a new musical and pictorial entertainment will be introdnced the designs for which have been kindly co ntributed by several artists . Mr . S . C . Hall will preside as chairman on the occasion . The Crystal Palace . —The Directors of the Crystal Palace Company have unanimously elected Mr . Robert K . Bowley to fill the office of general manager to the company . Mr . Bowley is already known to the public as having been one of the officers of the Sacred Harmonic Society , Exeter-hall , for the last quarter of a cen . tury . The Asylum for Idiots . —The eleventh anniversary of this institution was held at the London Tavern on Wednesday evening ; the Duke of "Wellington in the chair . There are at present a greater number of applications for the admission of sufferers into this noble charity than the institution can provide for ; and an appeal is therefore made to the public for more funds . A sum of 35 O 0 Z . was subscribed during the evening . The Reform Agitation . —Reform meetings continue to be held . One at Nottingham on Monday evening was largely attended , and addressed , among other speakers , by Ernest Jones . Watt , the Engineer . —This unfortunate victim cf Neapolitan tyranny is now under the care of Dr . Forbes Winslow . He will talk sensibly on some subjects , bnt forbears to allude to the question of his imprisonment , being apparently under the belief that he is still in the power of the Neapolitan Government , and that he may criminate himself . His physical condition is very good . The Late Abstraction of Income-tax Returns . —The official correspondence on this subject was published on Monday . The clerk to the Commissioners of Income-tax , who was inculpated in the affair , is acquitted of any evil intention , but regret is expressed by the Commissioners that greater care was not taken in preserving the returns . ( It will be recollected that some of them were found to be used by fishmongers in their business . ) No specific measures seem to have been taken for guarding against a recurrence of the evil ; and the upshot of the correspondence is of a very negative kind . Health of London . —Under the influence of fine weather , the mortality is much reduced . The deaths in London were in two previous weeks 1487 and 1431 ( last week , they fell to 1268 . In the ten years 1848-57 , the average number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week wa 3 1217 ; but , as the deaths returned for last week occurred in an increased population , they should be compared with the average after the latter is raised in proportion to the increase—a correction which will make it 1339 . The present return is , therefore , so far favourable , that it shows the number of deaths less by 71 than that which the average rate cf mortality towards tho end of March would have produced . —Last week , the birtha of 1000 boys and 924 girls , in all 1924 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1848-57 , the average number was 1616 . —From the Registrar-GeneraVs Weekly Return . Emigration . —A meeting was held on Tuesday evening , at the school-room , Whitcchapel road , for the purpose of forming a committee for raising and applying funds towards assisting workmen of good character belonging to the British Workman's Emigration Association for facilitating emigration with loans to enable laeiji to emigrate to such of the British colonies as nrny nflora openings for their employment . Tho Rev . W . « - Champnoys , rector , presided , and resolutions were adopted in accordance with tho objects of tho meeting . Tins Main Drainage Scheme . —A deputation fro » tho several vestries and district boards in tho metropolis waited , by appointment , upon tho Right Hon . W » John Manner , her Majeaty'a Chief Commissioner <* Public Worka and buildings , on Tuesday , on the suWW of tho main drainage and Bowernge interception ot »»« metropolis . They expressed a strong objection towwj achemo , tho sanitary necessity for which they contoaaea had not beon proved . Lord John Manners promiscui w give tho subject tho most minute attention , but decline " to express nny definitive opinion . ., The Trial or D « . BKitNAitn . —At tho court oUU Chancellor , announcing hia intention to nprTolnt n » poo » commiBBion of Oyor and Tormlnor to try V ^ ^ Tall and to include in tho commission tho Lord Mnjor , •» tho AUlonnon , and tho legal ofllcora of tho corporation . M » . Layabd ' s Pjiooiucss . —Mr . Laynrd , who wnfl « Indoro curly last month , was about to hrnvc that ciiy Agra . From Agra ho will descend to Calcutta " . FUNMRAI , OUATION ON OlUMNI . —A P «> W >» " « V " P himflolf 'IconoclaBt' delivered at tho Literary Institution ,
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320 THE LEADER . [ No . 419 , April 3 , lggs .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 3, 1858, page 320, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2237/page/8/
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