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      meet with his deserts . A man named Gloucester Gale was apprehended at Eghain , on Sunday , on a charge of having married six wives . The prisoner is thopght to be identical with the soi-disant mate of a ship regarding whom an application was made to the late Lord Mayor , when it was stated that the scoundrel referred to had contracted marriage with several young ladies of most respectable station-, deserting them almost immediately afterwards . On being placed before Mr . Beadon , at Marlborough-street , his worship directed the inquiry to be transferred to Clerktnwell police-court , as it was within that jurisdiction the second matrimonial ceremony was performed .

      possession of sixty-four salmon after the seasou had closed ; Sir R . Garden imposed a heavy fine . A gang of coiners were captured in St . Luke ' s on Wednesday , and brought up before the Clerkenwell magistrate , by whom they wore remanded . As a man named George May was being conveyed to Wandsworth House of Correction , in the prison van , from Southwark police-court , where the magistrate had sentenced him to a month ' s imprisonment for deserting his wife , he cut his throat . The wretched man now lies in the infirmary at the point of death . At the Court of Bankruptcy this week , a dividend sitting under the bankruptcy of Leopold Redpath , notorious as the perpetrator of the frauds upon the Great Northern Railway Company , ivhich lately excited so much public attention , was adjourned in consequence of the non-receipt , through technical obstructions , of a considerable sum of money .

      Tuttlebee , Ash ton , and Irving , who are in custody charged with stealing a bell , valued at 2000 guineas , from the grounds of Alderman Finnis , at Wanstead , were brought before the magistrates at Ilforcl on Saturday . All three were committed for trial . The Assize intelligence of Monday records two capital convictions . At Taunton , "William Burgpss was convicted of the murder of Ids little daughter , aged six vears , in Exmoor Forest ; and at York , John Whit-Vorth , quite a young man , was convicted of the murder of his sweetheart , Sally Hare . Both are sentenced to death . At the Court of Bankruptcy , on Saturday , Mr . J . Townsend , described as auctioneer , and late M . P . for Greenwich , applied for a certificate . After a lengthened bearing , the Court deferred judgment .

      At the Cotirt of Common Pleas , Mr . M'Geach , a respectable tradesman of Shrewsbury , lias obtained 1000 / . damages against the North-Western Railway Company for having been nearly killed in consequence of an accident on the 5 th October in last year . The alleged conspiracy of the General Omnibus Company against the Saloon Omnibus Company was proceeded with this week . One or two additional witnesses ¦ were heard in support of the charge of conspiracy , and

      another remand took place . Higgins and Davis , charged with swindling Gruneberg , the nurseryman , have been committed for trial . It came out ori the examination of Mr . Denis , the execution creditor in this business , that Higgins , unwilling doubtless to leave things half done , had made use of his liberty by bail to endeavour to get an execution in on Gruneberg ' s goods , although without success . Higgins was conveyed to gaol in default of bail , and Davis only walked out of court to be arrested for debt .

      In the Court of Queen ' s Bench an action was brought by one Mr . Smith against the Great Northern Railway Company to recover damages for injuries which the plaintiff * sustained by an accident on that railway . Lord Campbell ordered the jury to be locked up , and locked up they were all night till ten o ' clock next morn-Ing , without fire , food , or drink . When called into Court , they all looked very ill , unwashed , unshaven , and unkempt , and one of their number had to be attended by a doctor during the night . When asked ,

      they said they had not agreed , and could not agree ; and then Lord Campbell told them it was clear when they gave in the verdict of a farthing damages overnight , that they were not then agreed , that the ridiculous unreasonableness of such a verdict , when substantial damages were due , was a proof that they were not agreed , and that for that reason he had refused to accept it . His Lordship having further lectured the jury , discharged them . Both Lord Campbell and the Lord Chief Baron have lately expressed their opinion strongly in favour of an alteration in the law as regards the trial

      by jury . Several petitions for dissolution of marriage on the grounds of adultery and desertion came before the Court of Divorce this week . In the Marchmontcase an application was made to the Judge Ordinary to give effect to the finding of the jury by pronouncing a decree of judicial separation . The counsel for Mr , Marchmont , in reply , intimated that such a decree , If made , would be appealed from . The judge therefore declined to pronounce it , preferring that a now trial should bo moved for before the whole Court , a courso which Mr . Marohmont ' a counsel said ho should adopt .

      Charles Hodgson , the chemist from whoso shop the avsonic was supplied which caused so many denjb . 8 when eaten in the form of lozenges at Bradford , was tried for manslaughter at York , before Baron Watson , on Tuesday . The oviilence having shown that he had frequently cautioned the shopman who sold the poison to bo oareful , and particularly regarding arsenic , the judge hold that thoro was no proof of negligence , and directed a verdict of acquittal . Hia Lordship exprossod no opinion as to the practice of soiling u d « ff " or terra alba for the purpose of adulteration , which was the aotunl cause of tlio mischief .

      In the Court of Common Picas an notion has been brought by the proprietor of the Sheffield Daily Wcw 8 } and two other papers , ngainat the proprietor of tho Sheffield Daily Teloymph , for publishing a sorios of libols , these libots consisting of attacks upon tho plaimlft " , arising out of a claim between him and the Printers ' Combination Society , Tho trial ocoupled two days , uml resulted in a verdiofc for tho plaintiff , damages 000 / . Tho Tweed snlmon question has again turned up in tho Munaton-houno . Rosqtta Meyer , wlfo of Mr . Mayor , of Billingsgate , was charged with being in unlawful

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      , IRELAND . The affair of the arrests continues nearly at a standstill , and since Saturday last the authorities seem to have made but little progress in the unravelment of the plot—for a plot there undoubtedly has been , though its precise objects are as yet by no means made clear . The idea of a special commission , if ever entertained , is wholly abandoned . With the exception of the principals , all the . prisoners have been admitted to bail — bound over , however , in heavy recognisances to stand their trial at the ensuing spring assizes . The evidence Df the approver , it seems , has been sustained by other parties , whose voluntary appearance in the capacity of 11 informers " forms the strangest episode in the whole proceedings .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . By our ad vices from Australia it appears that up to the time of the despatch of the mail nothing whatever has been heard of the Sappho , 12 , Commander Fairfax Moresby , which sailed from the Cape of Good Hope for Australia in the month of January last . Her Majesty ' s screw steamer Cordelia , 11 , Commander C . E . H . Vernon , had arrived from making a careful search along the whole track the missing vessel was supposed to have taken , but without meeting with any traces whatever of her . There is , therefore ; too much reason to fear that the vessel has foundered at sea , and that all on board have perished .

      The Secretary of State for War has directed that the contribution for messing , to be paid by officers of all arms of he * r Majesty ' s service , including officers of the cavalry and staff officers , for the entire passage to and from India to this country , whether proceeding by the overland or by sea route , be fixed at the uniform rate of five pounds for each officer . A court-martial was held on board the Victory flagship on Tuesday , to try the captain and master of her Majesty ' s screw frigate Curacoa , 31 guns , when at Smyrna , for allowing that ship to get ashore . The witnesses having given evidence , Captain Mason read his own defence ; the master simply handed in certificates . The court " recommended the captain and master to be more cautious for the future . "

      The half-yearly examination of the gentlemen cadets belonging to the Royal Military Academy of Woolwich , took place on Tuesday . The whole of tho students , to the number of ono hundred and thirty , were drawn up on tho arrival of tho Duke of Cambridge , by whom they wore inspected . His Royal Highness subsequently distributed the prizes to the following gentlemen : —Messrs . Anderson , Carroll , Woodward , Grover , Johnson , Haig , E . Harvey , Deshon , Marshall ) Jesson , Featherstonhaugh ,

      Macphorson , Bailey , Wildon , and Hopper . The Duke then addressed the cadets , expressing his satisfaction at their conduct , and the progress they had made in their studies . Ho also complimented the professors on the satisfactory result of their instruction . His Royal Highness afterwards inspected the entire corps of artillery , which wore mustered for the purpose , and entered the Gymnasium , where a number of men were put through a course of attack and defence with the carbine and fixed swords .

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      CONTINENTAL , NOTES . FRANCE . There is a settled impression in Paris that war in Itah is a probable event for next spring . The question i continually recurring in the French journals ; one sayi there "is " nothing in it ; " another affirms that " there is something ; " while a third says , "it is the gre » question of the moment . " . A new political journal of great pretensions is abou to appear in Paris , under the auspices of MM . Debraua

      and Cucheyal Clarigny . The paper ^ which is to be J weekly one , is to be called the Memorial Diplomatique ; the first number will appear on January 2 . It is pro bable that it will advocate the maintenance of the stati quo in Lombardy in the interests of the peace of Europe and so far support Austrian policy . A good many Parisian journalists of ability and experience are likelj to cast in their lot with this attempt to establish an independent journal destined to treat mainly of foreign policy . ¦ . ... and writer of the

      M . Rigaulr , the eminent ex-professor Debats , is seriously ill . While writing an article , his brain gave way , and it was found that he was—temporarily , it is hoped—afflicted with a total loss of memory . M . Gondon , formerly a writer in the Univers , but who seceded from the staff of that journal about two years since , lately attempted to found anew religious journal under the title of the Universel . The Government has , however , refused the authorisation , in consequence of a suspicion that il . de Montalembert might possibly write in it . has

      The commission with which Prince Napoleon surrounded himself to advise him in the government of the colonies of Algeria has met for the first time in Paris . The Prince presided , and delivered an opening speech , which seems to have made a very favourable impression on the audience . The commission has divided itself into three sections : one for public works in general , one for railwaj'S , and one for questions of colonisation and for the tenure of land . The Grand-Duke Constantine arrived in Paris from Toulon on Monday , under the travelling name of Admiral Romanoff . Prince Jerome gave a grand dinner on Sunday , at the Palais Royal , on the occasion of his entering his 75 th year . the will

      . Although it is hardly probable that Emperor risk a quarrel with England by continuing the slave trade , reports are abroad from which it is to be inferred that some temporising on the subject is to be practised . It is said that in the event of the immigration of negroes not being abandoned , a superior functionary , with four inspectors , will be posted at the different slave-market stations in Africa , in order to superintend the transactions in black flesh . The legislative labours of the session will commence on February 7 . The Emperor went this week to the Russian Embassy , where the Grand-Duke Constantine was at the time . His Majesty remained about half an hour . Count de Kisselef , in honour of the Grand-Duke ' s arrival , gave a grand dinner , at which were present Count "Walewski , M . Fould , 3 and a number of French and Russian

      personages . SPAIN . General Prim , the leader of the Liberals in Spain , has opposed in the Cortes , in the boldest possible way , that war against the Mexican Republic into whica _ Queen Isabella ' s Government wants to engage . The Ministry , in reply to General Prim , said that the passage in the royal speech that brought the General out did not mean what he understood it to mean , but simply asserted that ,

      in case the negotiations still carried on with England and France , and through them with the Republic , remained without result , then Spain was prepared for war . The journals state that in the sitting of the Senate , on General Prim ' s amendment , the absence of many of the senators was remarkable . Tho opposition prosa had seized upon the fact , and had observed that , though favourablo to tho Govornmont policy in Mexican affairs , yet they desired to withhold thoir cbuntenanco from the Ministers .

      Tho Spanish fleet which is to act in caBe of hostilities against tho Moors is to remain at Algosiras till tho result of tho negotiations with tho Court of Fez ifi known . Tho Count de Paris arrived at Seville on tho 17 th , on a vit . it to the Duko do Montponsior . The Spanish Senate has approved tho addross in answer to tho Speech from tho Throne by 103 against 28 votes .

      I'RUSSIA . Arrows have been made in tho matter of the opergno which tho city of Cologne gavo tho Princess Frederick William on hor marriage . HaHo * still , tho whole of tho precious motal , or very nearly tho whole , has been recovered , although nu-Jtod down , so that tho costly work mwiHhlp of tho pioco Id lost . It was stolon during tho night of tho 4 th , but waa aomouow not missed till several days later , Tho persons In custody are a sor-

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      No . 457 , December 24 , _ 1 S 5 S . ] ^ T H E LB A DE R . _ _ _ _ 1405

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      Novei , Religious Views . —Tho Israelite , an American journal , says : — - "In this vicinity ( Sioux City , Iowa , United States ) an American farmer , with tho whole of his family , bus embraced tho religion of Moses nnd tho Prophots . Tho pious man performed circumcision on himself , nnd now livos strictly according to Judaism , as far as lie knows . CaMUIUDOIS MlDDl . K CLA . B 8 EXAMINATIONS . — TllO University lias sent examiners to Birmingham , Brighton , Bristol , Grantham , Liverpool , London , and Norwich ; and tho examination would begin on tho sumo day in all tho above places , and thus the same not of papers , printed at Cambridge , would sorvo for all . When tho oxumlnntion is over—it will last six ovsovon days —the answers of tho candidates will bo brought up from all tho dlfl'oraut places , and tlio papers will bo examined , nnd the nlugOH dutprminod , in Cambridge . It will be about n month before tho Hat comes out . In nil there are nearly 460 candidates . —Cambridge fndependtnC .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 24, 1858, page 1405, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2274/page/5/