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th « son of a deceased medical man at Frome , 3 iained Bnsb . The defence in this case -was very singular . It ¦ waB that B ush , at the time he made the proposnl of marriage , and ! ever since , was mad . Indeed , he is at this moment under confinement . It appears that he was given to excessive and habitual drinking ; but the point on ¦ which the contention turned -was , "whether his state of mind amounted to madness . Dr . Buchanan 8 ai < l he was Of unsound mind " on all matters connected with drinking . " Mr . Justice Branvwell . observed that that was a new mania . " A sort of bibomania , " said Mr . Edwin James , who appeared for the plaintiff . " Tipsbmania , " said the witness . " That is , " pursued ! Mr . James , " when he saw a . bottle of gin ,
he -went mad . " These witticisms shook the court ¦ With , laughter . The doctor Went on to say that Mr Bush left his ( Dr . Buchanan ' s ) house suddenly , " and ¦ Was found by his aunt in the Haymarket . " " Is there anything , " asked Mr . James , " so unusual in a anedical Student being found in the Haymarket , though not often Dy his aunt ? " To be brief , the derangement seemed to be simple delirium , tremens ; so the jury found for the plaintiff , and salved her disappointment with . 400 / . Three more actions against railway companies for compensation for damages have been , tried during the week . The executors of a Mr . Cox have obtained 10 " 00 ? . from , the Great Northern on account of an accidemt at the Colney Hatch station , on the 20 th of last
August , which resulted in his death . He was getting out of a carriage , when the train suddenly moved on ; Mr . Cox was thrown' down , and the -wheels literally decapitated him . He left a widoSv and six children . —The same damages have been given to Mr . Kerby , a solicitor , who was injured in the accident , on the 22 nd of last March , at the Watford station of the North-Western Railway . —An action was brought on Thursday in the Court of Queen ' s Bench by a Mr . Taylor agaibst the same company for injuries done to his wife by reason of the alleged improper construction of the Camden-town station and of the carriages . The lady , in getting out * fell between the carriage and the platform , and was much bruised and shaken . The jury fJound a verdict for the company .
An examination meeting in the affairs of the London and Eastern Banking Corporation took place on Thursday before Mr . Commissioner Fane , but was adjourned to the 23 rd of September . Mr . Low , the landlord of the celebrated " Discussion Torum" in Fleet-street , appeared as a bankrupt on Thursday , when assignees were chosen . Mr . Anthony Patrick M * ahon has been charged at Bfarlborough-street with an assault in Kensington Gardens on Mr . George Horatio Brand , whom he had previously abused " in good set terms . " He was under an impression that Mr . Brand had falsely represented himself as a member of the Dacre family , and had endeavoured to supplant him ( Mr . Mahon ) in the affections ef a lady . Ho was ordered to find heavy bail to keep the peace .
An action was brought in the Court of Queen's Bench , on Thursday , against the Phconix . Fire Insurance Company , in the name of the secretary , to recover 371 ? . 17 s . under a policy of insurance for 800 ? . effected in that ofl 3 ce by a Polish Jew , who carried on the business of a pawnbroker in what was styled in the course of the trial ' * a very poor little house , in a very poor little street , amidst a very poor population , with people of the very poorest description , in the town of Newcastle . " The plea in answer imputed fraud , and the jury found a verdict for the company .
A Mr . Daniels brought an action in the same court as trustee in a bond by which the defendant , one Lowden , Covenanted to pay an annuity to a young woman named Martha Edlin . In 1850 , the defendant , wiio lived at Chalfont , Buckinghamshire , and was separated from hi wife , entered into a connexion with Martha Edlin , the daughter of an innkeeper in lite neighbourhood , and they lived together . After some time , a child was born , and Miss Edlin'a father called upon Lowden to make a provision for her , and an agreement -was drawn up by the father . The parties continued to live together and had
several children . Daniels is an attorney , and was consalted l > y the defendant , and eventually an agreement was entered Into between them . In the course of 1857 , JLowden determined to put an end to the connexion , and a d « ed was prepared whereby he agreed to pay Mies Edlin 507 . a year , and to provide for the children . However he became embarrassed ; but a claim was made by Daniels for arrears of tlio annuity which Lowden had intended should only be paid her in case of his leaving her . The defendant therefore refused to pay , nnd the action was brought . A verdict was given lor the plaintiff for 275 / .
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CRIMINAL KECORD . A Robdkr Shot . —An attempt was made by two men a few nights ago , to break into the warehouse of Messrs . John Wilson and Son , shocknife manufacturers , Shof-• ftdd . Some Information which hnd reached Mr . Kawson © no of the clerks , induced him , together with two of the workmen , to watch . The thieves were discovered in the net f raising the saeh of a -window ; but , seeing Mr . RnwBon and his companions , they made a backward tn « voment , and Mr . Rowson then discharged nt them a twn which was lightly charged with small uhot . Ono
of the men was wounded ; but he and his companion escaped . The wounded man was apprehended the next day , and confessed his share in the transaction . The Dangers or the Streets . — "An Unprotected Female" writes to the Ti ? nes to give an account of an attack that was made on her in the Borough-road , Southwark , at eleven o ' clock in the morning . A ruffian sprang on her , and endeavoured to seize a handsome card-case . After a severe struggle , the lady beat him off with an umbrella ; and he then walked away very coolly and leisurely . The Confession op Wife Murbeu . —An inquest was held on Monday morning on the body of a woman named Hoare , the wife of a man now in custody on his own confession of having murdered her . The jury returned a verdict of Manslaughter against the man .
The Dagenbam Murder . —George Blewitt , the mau charged with participation in the murder of the policeman at Dagenbam , twelve years ago , has been again examined and remanded at Ilford . ISTo additional facts of importance came out . Assault in the Plymouth Prison" . —Robert Guswell , one of the criminals confined in the Plymouth Borough Prison , has committed a violent assault on the chief warder of the gaol . About nine o'clock in the morning , Mr . Holberton , the warder , unlocked the cell in which Guswell was confined for the purpose of conveying him , with the other prisoners , to the chapel , to attend service . After Mr . Holberton had let out Guswell , he turned to unlock the next cell ; but , as be did so , Guswell struck him a heavy blow on the back of his head with a piece of slate , and inflicted a wound nearly
three-inches long , which extended to the bone . Mr . Holberton , however , was not disabled , but immediately closed with his assailant , and , with the aid of the governor of the prison and another warder who witnessed the assault , succeeded in overpowering and disarming the ruffian . It is not thought that the wound will be attended with any serious consequences . Guswell was afterwards examined before tbe visiting magistrates , to whom he stated that he meant to kill Holberton for preventing him from having his revenge on the gaol schoolmaster , whom he had assaulted a short time since for having slightly offended him , and for which he ( Guswell ) Was undei-going a month ' s imprisonment . He was remanded . Guswell is not above twenty-two years of age , and is now a carpenter , bat he has been in the army . He was sentenced at the last sessions to twelve months * imprisonment for felony .
Middlesex Sessions . —John Dooley has been found Guilty of , an assault on a Mrs . Lee , the particulars of which have already appeared in this journal . He was sentenced to six months'hard labour .
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CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT . The Central Criminal Court has been sitting during the present week . On Tuesday , Lay ton Ashton , a young man of gentlemanly appearance , was tried on a charge of having forged and uttered cheques for large amounts , with intent to defraud Joseph Esdaile , the public officer of the London and Westminster Bank , in whose service he had been employed for some years . A legal flaw in the case led to a complete break-down on the first indictment , and tho Recorder accordingly directed an Acquittal . It was then arranged that tho other indictments , should stand over till next session ; but ultimately the prisoner pleaded Guilly to an indictment charging him with stealing a cheque . The theft appeared to be far from the only transaction of the same kind of which the young man had been guilty ; and tho Recorder therefore sentenced him to penal servitude for
years . The Grand Jury enmo into court in the early part of the day , stattd that they had concluded their labours , and made tho following presentment : — "In concluding our labours for this session , we , the Grand Jury of tho Central Criminal Court , bog to present that we have found the cases so thoroughly investigated by the police-magistrates that in general our duties have been superfluous . "We would suggest , as most other Grand Juries havo dono before us , that the ancient jury of this court should for tho future only tako cognizance of cases not committed by police-magistrates and also cases of political offences . It may appear difficult to draw tho line of distinction betweon political and other offences , but we recommend that an examination before
tho Grand Jnry should bo at once conceded to ovory person claiming that right upon those grounds . " They also recommend that an enhanced severity should bo given to tho laws with reference to criminal assaults on women nnd young girls , which have become frequent of late . George Trigg pleaded Guilty < o a charge of bigniny . There wcro alleviating circumstances in this case . Tho first wifo had left hor husband nine years ngo , and hnd since lived in profligacy . Tho second wifo had been well treated , nnd wns not n party to the prosecution , although compelled 1 o give evidence . The man wns found Guilty , nnd sentenced to n month ' s imprisonment .
Robert Powell hnsbcon indicted on a charge ( nlrcndy detailed In the Leader ) of murdering a fellow inmnto of Peckham Lunatic Asylum . Itolng tumble to plund , tho enso of course enmo to an end , and Powell will bo Itopt in safe custody .
William Dobson was found Guilty on Wednesdav of feloniously wounding his wife , and sentenced to th ™ years' penal servitu . de .. & William Wilmskurst has been found Guilty of felo niously forging nnd littering a cheque for 457 ; iQg with intent to defraud the London aud County Bank ! A previous conviction was proved against him , and he was sentenced to ten years' penal servitude . The trial of John Francis Grossmith for the assault 011 the Rev . Edward John ftlay took place on Wednes day . He was found Guilty , but was simpl y ordered to enter into his own recognizances iu 100 ? . to appear and receive judgment , if called on to do so . John Thompson , clerk , pleaded Guilty to an indictment charging him with having embezzled the sum of 70 ? . 8 s . 9 d ., the xnoney of Ins master . He was sentenced to a year' ? imprisonment .
James Blagg , clerk , was indicted for stealing the sum of 3881 . 4 s . 6 d ., the money of the Great Northern Railway Company , his employers . He was found Guilty , and sentenced to three years' penal servitude
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OBITUARY . Loud Gower , —Uarl Gower , the eldest son of the Marquis of . Stafford , was suddenly attacked with illness on Sunday at Lilleshall , Shropshire , and expired on the following day . He was only eight years of age . YiscOuntess Falkland . —This lady , the youngest of the five daughters of William IV . by Mrs . Jordan , died on the night of Friday week , in the fifty-sixth year of her age . She possessed considerable literary talent , and was the author of Chow-Chew , a work recently published .
Her Ladyship was married in 1830 to "Viscount Falkland , by whom she leaves issue an only sou , Captain the Hon » Lucius W . Cary , horn in 1831 . Death of Mr . Macready ' s Daughter . —We deeply regret to find that the last surviving child of Mr . Macready , the tragedian—a daughter just entering into womanhood—has recently died . This is only one out of many real tragedies which Mr . Macready has had to endure ; and wo are convinced that all who honour his genius and his estimable private character will join in our condolences on this his last misfortune .
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NATAL AND MILITARY . Tnic Greenwich Hospital Schools . —The usual Midsummer examination of the pupils of the Greenwich Hospital Schools took place last Saturday in the presence of Sir John Pakington , First Lord of the Admiralty , Lord J-ovaine , and Admiral Martin ( also of the Admiralty ) , Sir James Gordon , Governor of Greenwich Hospital , and a numerous company . Great satisfaction was expressed at the progress the boys had made in their studies . TnE Royal Engineers . —The authorities at the "War Department having decided , with the concurrence of the
Secretary of State for War , to make a considerable augmentation in the Roynl Engineers , by the addition of four more companies , two of the companies have been alrendy formed at the head-quarters of the corps , Brompton-barracks , Chatham . Each company numbers one hundred and sixteen non-commissioned officers and men , and has been formed chiefly from the troops who have recently joined that corps ; the two new companies are numbered the 33 rd and 94 th . As soon as the two remaining companies have been formed , tie strength of the Roynl Engineers will be raised to nearly five thousand men .
Cooking for the Amrr . —An extended branch of Captain Grant's method of cooking for the armynamely , a pontoon cooking apparatus—was tested last Saturday at the Royal Artillery enenmpment on "NVoolwich-common , in tho presence of Lord Ebrington , M . P ., and Lieutenant-General Sir William Codrington , M . K for the purpose of exhibiting the facility with which an efficient kitchen can be afforded in the field for the accommodation of any number of troops , and by which all
tho operations of baiting , boiling , steaming , nnd frying may be carried on witU as little inconvenience as in tho permanent burrocks . The cooking vessels arc made of galvunizod plato iron , in th « form of long cylinders , laid horizontally in trenches cut in the ground , which form the fiuea ; those flues terminate in one chimney innde of turf or clay , which encloses an oven capable " baking for about one hundred and fifty men . Frying-pnns aroalso provided to fit the flues , and the vegetables are steiuned in emptied powder-barrels .
Tkoops iron India , '—Furthor reinforcements for India have left England during tho present week . Thk Penklopb , IS , pnddle-whcel fiignte , Cnptain . Sir W . Wisoinnn , has "been put out of commission , It is believed slio will shortly be broken up . SI 10 was originally a 42-gun frigate , but wns lengthened nixty feet amidships , nnd converted into a stoamer of -wartho first change of tho kind ever attempted . Tun Wini > sou Castj / u . —Tho launch of the Windsor Castle , 116 guns , is to take plnco on tho 20 th of August . Stkei , STKAMitn . — Some time ngo , a small pcrow steamer , of 1 70 tons , named the Rainbow , nnd built of puddled HtceL plates of ono eighth of a inch thick , was constructed by Mr . John Laird , of Birkonhead , in connexion with tho Niger Exploring Expedition . She « 1 B 0 feet long , sixteen foot beam , and is supplied vfith
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658 THE LEAME L _ _^^ .. tyg ! _^ g . i . J 1 P ^ yl 0 » i 858 ,
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Leader (1850-1860), July 10, 1858, page 658, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2250/page/10/
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