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has taken place before the magistrate , and brought out some strongfacts . The moat important evidence is that given by Mrs . Emma Vich , in whose house the murdered man lodged . Her testimony gave a very striking account of the strange affair . She stated that on the night of the murder she opened the door to a man who asked to see Mr . Hart . She described this man as having a dark red face , with a peculiar look down the left side . " I did not see any whiskers . ( This agreed precisely with the prisoner ' description . ) Mr . Hart cune down in about five minutes . I was standing in the hall as he was coming down ; and I said to him , ' Make haste , Dan ; he is a strange man ; he has gone now . ' When Mr . Har t came down , he stood at the front door , and I remained with him . Before opening the door , which I had left on the latch , the deceased asked , What does he want with me ? ' I replied , ' I don ' t know ;• I think he is mad . * He opened the door , when I saw something thrust in
like a gentleman ' s umbrella in a shiny case . As soon as I saw this , I turned round and went towards the parlour , and immediately heard a report . Mr . Hart was standing in front of the hall door as it opened . The man called out with the report , ' Mr . Hart ! ' It was all instantaneous . Mr . Hart called out , ' What has he done?—what did he do it for ? ' I said , ' I think he must have shot you , Dan . ' He did not fall immediately , so that at first I thought he was not much hurt . He said , ' Oh , Dick ! Oh , Dick ! ( meaningBarnes ) , send for Bloxam' ( a surgeon ) . The report was like that from a boy ' s popgun . On Barnes coming down stairs , Mr . Hart again said , * Dick , go for Bloxam . ' He then gradually sank down on his knees ; he did not fall . " The witness here fainted . The prisoner appears to have talked a good deal about the murder , and to have said frequently he knew the man who did it , the way it was done , and the motive . He bad bad some quarrel with his brother in connexion with money matters . The
magistrates have committed him for trial . Attempted Murder axd Suicide . —A little girl , eleven years of age , living at Clifton Manor Farm ' , placed a baby , which had been left in her charge , in a horse trough , and afterwards cut her own throat . Death , however , has not ensued in either case , and the girl is in custody . The Case of the Rev . S . Smith . —In the course of last week , a memorial , having for its object to obtain a mitigation of the severe sentence passed in this case , has received the signatures of the High Sheriff , several of the magistrates , and a great number of the clergy and respectable laity , and has has been forwarded to the Lord-Lieutenant of Gloucestershire , Earl Ducie , for presentation , together with others from Gloucester and Chipping Sodbury .
Attempted Highway Kobbert . —A fly was being driven from Dover to Deal a few evenings ago , for the purpose of conveying five ladies to a ball . They wore necklaces and other valuable ornaments ; and , as the vehicle reached a dark and lonely portion of the road , a scratching was heard at the back . The ladies called out to the driver , who drove on with greater rapidity . Shortly afterwards , the ladies raised a second alarm , and a gentleman who was riding on a box with the coachman got down ; but the would-be thieves had escaped . They had left marks of their handiwork , however , in certain long incisions in the leather head of the vehicle ; but the padded lining had barred all further progress . The attempt reminds one of what used to be successfully practised in London in the early part of last century , when thieves would make an opening in the backs of chariots , and pluck off the valuable perukes of the riders . The Convict Lani . —A statement has been made to the effect that Lani has made a species of confession . According to this , he did not seek the woman Thaubin with any intention of doing her an injury ; but in the course of the night he detected her rifling his pockets , and , to prevent her succeeding in this attempt , he grasped her round the throat , after being scratched by her in the face . Ho states that he did not even then intend to kill her , but thnt ho grasped her throat too hard . The robbery of her jewels , &o ., was an after-thought . Thb MAN 8 t . AuaHTBR at Islington . —John Jones , the man charged with killing Thomas Blundell , near the New Cattle Market , has been committed for trial . Kiot near Newcastle . —Thoro hns been a rather alarming feud near Ncwcustle-on-Tyne , between some English and Irish labourers employed at the ironworks in the neighbourhood of Dlnckhill and Consott . A public-house has been completely sacked and pillaged by the Irish , who have thrown tho surrounding district into a state of great torror . The military have been called in , and some arrests have boon made .
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GATHERINGS FROM THIS LAW AND POLICE CUUHTS . Tioje-Chanobli-ou Stuart delivered judgment last Saturday in the case of Brook v . Brook , and decided that the marriage of a man with bin docenoed wifo ' s sister , both boing BrltlBh subjects , performed in n foreign country , tho Iaw 9 of ¦ which recognize anch m / irringoa , is null and void according to the law of England . Tho law Lords sat in tho House of Peers last Saturday to hoar certain appeals . One of those was
from a judgment of the Court of Exchequer Chamber affirming a judgment of the Court of Queen ' s Bench , in the case of Croft p . Lumley . The action was an ejectment brought by the plaintiff , Faithful Croft , against Benjamin Lumley , and a number of nominal defendants , to recover possession of the Opera-house in the Haymarket . The questions at issue were as to whether ,. Mr . Lumley had not broken certain covenants ; whether the plaintiff had not thereby acquired a right of re-entry ( he being the proprietor of the house , which he had demised to the defendant on stated conditions ); and whether that right ( if any ) had not been waived by the plaintiff in error . The Court of Queen ' s Bench decided that there had been a forfeiture of the lease , but that it had been waived by the acceptance of rent . The Exchequer Chamber decided that there had been no forfeiture of the lease ; and , on the 15 th of Februar } --, the House of Lords , assisted by nine of the common law judges , delivered an opinion , by which it appeared that a majority of them agreed with the Exchequer Chamber . That opinion was now again affirmed by Lord Cranworth and Lord Wensleydale . Judgment was therefore directed for the defendant , with costs . Another writ of error argued before their Lordships on the same day , was also an appeal from the Court of Exchequer Chamber , reversing a judgment of the Court of Queen ' s Bench . The action was for penalties under the " Corrupt Practices at Elections Prevention Act , 1854 , " and was brought by the plaintiff against Frederick William Slade , Q . C ., for having paid the travelling expenses of a voter of the borough of Cambridge in order to induce him to vote for the defendant at the said election . Lord Cranworth was decidedly of opinion that , as the law stands , the giving money to a voter , to indemnify him for certain expenses incidental to his going to vote , is bribery . It might , be observed , be a question whether the law ought not to be altered ; . but , deciding judicially , the act is bribery . He had also no doubt that the act in question had been committed by the defendant . As the plaintiff had stated that he would enter a nolle prosequi as to one of the counts , he thought that judgment might be entered for the plaintiff on one count only . Lord Wensleydale concurred , and the judgment of the court below was reversed . Arthur Glead , otherwise Prescott , and Richard Haigh —the two persons found Guilty last week of obtaining goods by false pretences—were brought up for judgment at the " Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday , and sentenced each to eight months' hard labour .
In a case brought before the Lord Mayor during the week , the attention of the civic magistrate was called to the disorderly state of Petticoat-lane on Sunday morning . Immense multitudes assemble to sell various articles ; plunder and violence are resorted to ; and the police are not strong enough to keep the peace . A detective officer said that on the preceding Sunday at least two thousand thieves were present , and that the inhabitants often assist the escape of malefactors . The Lords Justices decided on Monday in favour of the appeal for a compulsory winding-up of the Northumberland , and Durham District Bank . Mr . Commissioner Goulburn , on Monday , gave judgment in the case of Baker and Green and Baker and Baker . The bankrupt , William Buker , was in partnership with Green as staymakers , of Newgate-street . He was also in partnership with his sister as milliners at Camberwell . The firm of Baker and Baker drew upon that of Baker and Green , and altogether there were accommodation-bill transactions to the amount of severul thousand pounds . His Honour was of opinion that Baker had acted fraudulently in procuring the discount of waste paper . There would be a suspension of his certificate ( third class ) for twelve months , and protection would bo withheld ( unless the assignees consented ) until tho bankrupt had been three months in prison . The other two bankrupts ( who were considered less blameworthy ) would receive third class certificates , after six months' suspension , with protection . Alfred Gramolt , a well-dressed young man , has been examined at Bow-street , on a chargo of forging and uttering cheques to the amount of 170 / . upon the bank of Messrs . Coutts and Co . He had been a clerk in tho employ of Mr . Montague Bernard , bnrristor-at-law , of Old Square , Lincoln ' s Inn ; and , after been dismissed from his aituation , he procured a blank cheque-book from tho bank by moans of n forged order in his late omployor ' e » name . He then filled up and uttered several cheques . Ho has now beon committed for trial . Samuel Benjamin , aged 52 , described as a general dealer , but who after winds called hi msolf a dealer in bullion , was charged at Mnrlborough-Htreot , lus . t Saturday , with having in his possession a portion of nilvor plate , part of a bulk of 2000 / . worth , stolen from No . 20 , Grosvenor-Bquure , the property of tho Right Hon . Lord Foley , and diupoaing ^ oiVtlio-Bamo-witlii-a-guilty-Uaowludgo , - ^ Tho evidence aguinat him ia strong ' , and ho has bcon remanded . , Mr . Patrick O'Brien , a well-known Inspector of polico , ia under remand at tho Hiimmormnith poliue-oflico , ohnrgod with having utolon two pieces of bacon from tho ohopbonrd of a -cheoHomongor in Wentbourno-grovo , Paddlngton . Tho evidence iiguiiiBt him ia rather strong ; but ho allegoH Hint it in tho rcuult of aconHplrucy , and it appears thnt lie has recently made , hlmHoli' dibliltcd by tho tradesmen of tho neighbourhood on account of frequently Hiimmoning them fov obstructions . Ho baa
received an excellent character , and bail i 8 acceotedT his future appearance . wpiea for In the Court of Bankruptcy , on Monday , the choice of assignees was perfected in the case of Messrs nT Snow , of the Blandford Bank . The debts are " stet J ^ be 48 , 792 ? . ; the assets , 18 , 267 / . toted to A motion has been made in the Court of Q ,, e > Bench for a new trial in the case of the late K ?? British Bank Directors , on the grounds of misdirect ' of the verdict being against the evidence , and of sum •' The Judges have intimated , that they will consider tho case before giving their decision . e A rule for a criminal information for libel was ref in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , on Thursday to Jf John Gougb , the celebrated teetotal advocate , who com plained that a certain Dr . Lees , also a teetotal apo-tle " had charged him with being habituall y intoxicated ' with opium and other narcotics , which he deniedon affidavit . Lord Campbell conceived that Dr . Lee was not actuated , by malice , and that the case was not one for the court . —An application was also made for a rule calling upon the publisher of the Times to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against him for publishing a libel upon Mr . Edmund Denison , the Chairman of the Great Northern Railway Company . The alleged libel reflected upon Mr . Demson's conduct in regard to the competition going on between the Great Northern and the London and North-Western Railway Companies : This application ( together with another having reference to a libel in the Cheater Observer ) was also refused . Some secrets of the shop have come out in an action for libel tried in the Court of Exchequer . The plaintifr a Mr . Goodson , and the defendant , a Mr . Lloyd , are rival mantle-sellers in Shoreditch . Fierce war has long raged between the two ; and at last Mr . Lloyd sent a young lady to Mr . Goodson ' s to buy a mantle displaj-ed in the window , marked , " Only one guinea ! " This was afterwards displayed in the rival ' s window , crushed and creased , with the inscription— " As bought at Goodson's for 21 s . Compare with ours at 19 s . 9 rt . " Hence the action . In cross examination , Mr . Goodson ' s shopman , and Mr . Goodson himself , coolly admitted that the young lady had not been served with the article in the window ; that those articles are never sold even when asked for ; that the things thus displayed as baits are dropped as the bamboozled purchaser goes out , that the trick may not bo seen ; and that the tradeis all show , and cohM not exist without it . " Th ^ thing is so general , " said Mr . Goodson , " that it is not worth taking notice of it . The defendant knows all about it , for he does just the same thing . " This was denied by Mr . Lloj'd . Mr . Baron Watson described this modu of procedure as cheating , for which punishment might be awarded at the Old Bailey . The jury found a verdic for the defendant .
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NAVAL , AND MILITARY . Camp at Chatham . —The authorities at the Horse-Guards have decided on forming a camp on Chatham lines for a portion of the troops belonging to the East India corps now at that garrison . The camp will be formed early in the approaching summer , und it is proposed that about 1000 troops shall be encamped ns . sooa as the necessary arrangements shall be completed . The Atlantic Cajilk . —The process of restowmg the Atlantic cable is' proceeding simultaneously on board the United States screw steam frigate INiagara and her Majesty's screw steamship Agamemnon , botli in the tidal basin at Kcvhain . Collision at Ska . —Tho barque Annie , Captain Bnllen , from Sicrrn Leone , came in collision , on bunanj night , tho 11 th instant , with the schooner 1 ' orest l ^ iicon , outward bound from Cnnlifl " , with iron . Tho schooner went down immediately ; but the crew were tmvo , though with the loss of nil they possensed . / f , suffered loss of bowsprit and jib-boom , anil « " « utr quarter bulwarks stove in . „ i A FltRNCH CltUISEH IN TIIK "WlXS" C f ASI < shipmaster , " writing to tho Dally Tvleyraph , sajs . " The French Admiralty yacht Pelican ( tlw mmt W accompanied the Emperor Napoleon to England in iu * v arrived in Cardiu road * last night ( the Otli mat . ; , « entered tho Bute East Dock this morning , in ? T of Captain Ilnmolin , son of the French M | nl"w Marino , and a staff of hydrogrophers , for tlio p"rpoa replenishing fuel . This vosnol hns been in tho t an for some daya , and was first seen , I am Informed , on M » Cornish coast , somewhere near Ponzunco ; «' stretched away to tho Welsh coast , nnd » PP « ° 3 " Swansea , carefully noticing tho coast , and tiom i stretched away to BrMgwntor bay , nnd ncro ? v ! muoh roads . Her reappearance hero had given ri « o ^ ^ Bpooul « tion-n 8-to 4 ioiw . oi'ruiid .- ^ M «» y ^ niW 4 H ^ . ^ fflIl and Channel pilots that pnflscd her took liur i' ¦¦ . ' ,,, „„ tho manner in which sho hugged tho coast , i' > atoam-tundor , or ono of II . M . V . steam survey 'Wgjj putting down , buoys , niul it was not until «'" - ' \ in Penarth roiuln , and unfurled her llntf , tlml " ^ chiimctor w « h known . " _ a , i , imiiy loft ADMIBAL- Silt HKNKV ClIADH , K . C . B ., * ' ' « « » £ , ^ for England to take commune ! of tl » a mi tin Y , ! V . ol-I . «¦ to Llrtbon for the KIiik ' h marriage . J o wl" n 0 , y flng In tha screw ship JRouown , 01 , Curtain l orui , lying at Portsmouth .
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394 THE LEADER . [ No . 422 , Aprh , 24 , ISfis
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Leader (1850-1860), April 24, 1858, page 394, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2240/page/10/
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