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been brought before the Bow-street police magistrate . Henry JVDavidi against whom proceedings have been pending since 1857 , was charged with having forged a bill for idp . OJ . sterling , ; in the naine of the real Mr . Henry JV David , of New Yorki The fraud was alleged to have been committed on a Mr . J £ ean , now in America . The magistrate decided that the evidence was insufficient to justify his sending the prisoner to New York , but he would detain him until Mr . Kean came over to- prosecute . An - application to bail the prisoner ¦ was acceded to , but sureties to a very heavy amount were required .
George Gibson , or Elliott , who is charged . with being concerned in the burglary and extensiv e robbery at Stamford-hill , above two years ago , has been again brought up for examination . Evidence was adduced to show that the prisoner , subsequent to the robbery , was veil supplied with money , and that he had in his possession articles of plate , part of the proceeds . He was committed for trial . During the performances at the Strand Theatre
several young gentlemen conducted themselves in a disgraceful manner . When Mrs . Selby made her appearance on the stage , they threw at her a large funeral "wreath such as in . France is placed upon corpses . Notwithstanding that she was much shocked , and the audience manifested great indignation , another and a larger wreath was thrown . Their expulsion was then demanded and effected . Mr . Selby has since written to the daily paper ? stating that he has received a manly and satisfactory apology .
In the Court of Criminal Appeal , on Saturday , a somewhat curious question was decided . A person named Robinson became the pretended purchaser of two dogs , which he sold , and applied the money to his own use . He was tried ibr obtaining money under false pretences , and . sentenced to seven years' penal servitudei The question to be decided was whether the dog was " a chattel ; " The Court decided that it was not , and quashed the sentence , at the same time expressing
surpriseat its severity . The appeal ease of Nicoll , re the British Bank ,: has been disposed of by the Court of Chancery . The Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices were of opinion that Mr . Nicoll was not relieved from his liability as a shareholder on the . ground of misrepresentations made to him of the state of the affairs of the bank before he purchased shares . But their lordships were of opinion that Mr . JSTicoli was entitled to be struck off the list of contributaries . They dismissed the appeal with costs .
• On Wednesday the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices sat in the Court of Chancery for the purpose of delivering judgment' in the intricate case of " Haviland v , Mortiboy , " which occupied so large a ; space in ; the journals of last week . The Lord Chancellor said the only question the Court had to decide was , whether Mary Sheppard was the legal widow of John Sheppard . They lived together a long time , and they parted in consequence of incompatibility of temper . She lived twelve years after his death , and was on good terms with the . whole of the family . When she died she left the property to Mortiboy ' s children , and this led to some , disappointment on the part of Mr . Sheppard ' s relations . It appeared that they found a previous certificate of a marriage with a man named Masters , and then for the first time it was suggested . that she . was not Sheppard ' s legal widow , the certificate having been found on examination to be a correct document . On the one side
it was held that . Masters and Sheppard were one and the same person , while , on the other hand , it was alleged that they were different persona . Looking to subsequent events , he could hot see what motives Masters could have in becoming an actor in this ceremony , or what motive the woman could have in incurring the risk of the transportable offence of bigamy . He said ho had no doubt that Sheppard took the name of Masters in the first instance , the woman having committed irregularities under that name , and especially as ho was to be introduced to a business which ultimately realised for him 60001 , afypr payment of all his debts . He considered that Sheppard was married twice to the same woman , and that « he was , therefore , his widow , and entitled to
her share of his estate . Under these circumstances the appeal * must be allowed , and the bill dismissed , but ¦ without coots . . . * The ' obnoxious paper duty again turned up in the Court of Exchequer on Thursday , Mr . Barry , apaperxAtSset of Brompton , makes a species of parchment from hides and skin , and as the Board of Injand Kovenue contended that this was paper , and therefore subject to tike- higher duty , they brought an action against him , -rtWch came on for trial on Thursday . The arguments on- both sides having been heard , the Court took time to
consider its decision . At the Westminster police-court , on Thursday , two private soldiers , belonging to the Gronodior Guards , ¦ wero chnrged with haying seriously assaulted two labouring men with their bolts . We are glad to find that . the magistrate committed tho prisoners for trial , ' 4 kt the Tbaroes polioq-court , a recruiting sergeant and » prostitute were committed for trial on a charge of having stolen the sum of three pounds from a recruit , the t yfQ prisoners acting in concert for tho purpose of loading tfccirwlctiii * into debauchery that they might accomplish tbo jj object . i . ;; : jA *» . ; .... ¦ ¦ * l .: ¦¦¦ ¦ ¦ .
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CRIMINAL RECORD . At Newcastleron-Tyne , a butcher named Scott , in company with three other men , entered the house of a woman named Tulloch , who formerly kept a publichouse . On their demand : for drink being refused , a quarrel ensued , which resulted in the cruel death of Scott , ; who appears to have been treated by the woman and her brother , Matthew Wilson , in a most brutal manner . At a coroner's inquest , the jury returneda verdict of Manslaughter against these two persons . At Salford , near Nottingham , on the preserves of the Earl of Chesterfield , six gamekeepers were on the watch , when they" discovered twenty poachers , in the attempt to capture whom a regular mele ' e took place . The keepers let loose their dogs , when some of the poachers shouted out "Stab them ! " and three dogs were injured . One of the keeperSj named Woodward , was seriously wounded ; some of the poachers also received dangerous hurts . One of them , named Ward , got some severe blows on the head , and was captured . The keepers also succeeded in taking another , named Wbolaston .
On Wednesday evening two tradesmen in the Hampstead-road , neighbours , named Burrows and Plews , disagreed over their liquor at a tavern , and left the house quarrelling . It appears that they continued quarrelling , and Mr . Plews followed Mr . Burrows into his shop , in a few minutes their altercation became very violent , and Plews , who is a tall , powerful man , being incensed at some observation Burrows had made , struck him a blow . Burrows fell forward , and his forehead coming in contact with the handle of an oldfashioned chest of drawers , he received such injury as caused instant death . , At the Marylebone police-court on Thursday , Mr . Plews was examined on the charge of having occasioned the death of Mr . Borrows . The evidence tended to show that he acted under some provocation , and that it was impossible for him to see what would be the fatal result of the blow . He was
remanded . At Sheffield , on Wednesday night , a labouring man named William Wilson was going home very late , when three or four men , who came out of a passage opposite the Post-office ; which is known as the Hartsheadj ran at him , and one of them plunged a knife , or some other pointed instrument , into his abdomen . The menimmediately ran away . From the : effects of the stab the man fell to the ground , arid lay totally incapable of moving . He retained consciousness , and called out to the best of his ability for assistance . Two or three persons who were passing that . way took him to the infirmary , where he expired , but not until he had given the particulars of his assassination to the surgeons .
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . We hear of further accidents from buildings in an insecure condition . A house has fallen down in Harpurstreet , Kent-road ; two men and two horses were buried under the ruins . By instant and praiseworthy exertions the unfortunate men were released from their perilous situation , both of them very seriously injured . An accident happened on the Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire Railway , on Sunday evening . An express train ran off the line about eight miles from Sheffield , " the engine and carriages falling on the top of an embankment and across the line . Many , of the passengers were severely injured , but are expected to recover . The accident seems to have arisen from tho train going at too great a speed when passing over ^ a curve . It is surprising that no one was killed .
Mr . Wakley and his jury assembled on Tuesday , to conclude the inquiry into the accident at the Polytechnic , The jury found that the death was accidental , and that the fall of the staircase was occasioned by cutting the steps for the insertion of the trellis work . A presentment was signed , suggesting the propriety of an inspector being appointed by Government for the purpose of perferflcaUy examining . all buildings used for mblic assemblages .
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IRELAND . Thjb directors of the National Bank have declared a dividend and bonus for tho past half-year at tho rate of six per cent ., making , with a like dividend and bonus declared for tho half-year ending Midsummer last , a return to the shareholders for 1858 at the rate of twelve per cent , per annum on the p « id-rup capital of the company . The Nation announces that Mr . W . S . O'Brien will leave Ireland for America vid Gal way in a fow weeks , His stay on tho American continent will probably laat
for a few months , during which time it is his intontion to visit every place of interest in the States . In tho King ' s County concealed arms continued to bo solved by the police . On Saturday a soaroh was made ( tar the baronies of Ballyhit and Olonlish adjoining Ballaghure Castle , tup rosidonop of tho late Mr . Ely , an , d MounfcbuUor , tho seat of Lady Garden , who within the last few days received two threatening letters . Sevoral guns ,, pistols , and bayonets , a quantity of powder , a groat number of bulls , and several stocks of guns In an incomplete state , together with many looks , &o ., for firearms , wore found .
The Irish landlords have bowed ; before the rebukes administered from all sides , and have abandoned their proposed meeting to inaugurate coercive measures . They now merely propose to memorialise the Lord Lieutenant . . , : . ¦ " ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' . '' ' ¦ ¦ . ¦ .- . ¦ ... . . ¦ ¦ The Liberal members of Parliament belonging to tne sister isle have issued a declaration , in which they affirm that life and property are as secure , that justice is as effectually administered , in Ireland as in England ; they deprecate coercive measures ; consider secret or exclusive , political societies—which means the Orange ! society as well as the Phoenix clubs , or Ribbon lodges ;—dangerous to the peace ; and express their conviction that the law of landlord and tenant requires immediate and material amendment ..
Lord Eglintoun held his first levee for the season on Wednesday afternoon . The attendance , though respectable , was not as numerous as it was expected tb be , the falling off , perhaps , being ascribable to the inclement state of the weather in the earlier part of the day .
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DR . B ARTLETT'S INVENTION FOR ECONOMISING FUEL AND CONSUMING SMOKE . Da . Barti , ett , of King's-road , Bedford-row , has recently matured an invention which promises fairer than most of its predecessors to solve the long-vexed ques- ^ tion how to apply practically and advantageously the well-known principle of smoke combustion to private dwellings . We regret that our arrangements do not permit us to show an engraved-diagram , which would assist the reader to a comprehension of the doctor ' s ingenious scheme ; but we must do our best to describe as briefly as possible the fireplace we have seen in successful operation . This fireplace is , in fact , a double one , being divided midway by a horizontal set of
fire-bars . A fire is laid on each of the gratings , and that in the upper of them is lighted first * The lower fire is gradually warmed , and in course of time ignited by the upper one , and thus all the products of its combustion are consumed and utilised effectually as they are evolved . When the fuel of the lower fire has been pretty well burnt out , it is transferred into the . upper one , where its destruction is completed . The lower grate is replenished at the same time , which the inventor provides for by making one of the usual front bars of the stove to draw out , or in the case ; of & kitchen range , to flap down . Our descriptipn of the invention may not be very lucid , but we are satisfied if , by having
made the attempt , we can draw some trifling amount of attention to the contrivance . We have seen it in successful operation directed by an ordinary servant-maid , and we are convinced that th . e slight alteration required in adapting it to comriion fire-grates must be very soon paid for by the value of fuel saved . It has been , we believe , put in practice in the royal household , and its economy has been so clearly demonstrated to the authorities at the New Houses of Parliament that we understand a kitchen-range on a large scale in that building is being fitted with it . The subject of economical smoke combustion being doubtless an interesting one , we shall inquire further into this , and report on a future occasion the results we may arrive at .
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THE LATE HENRY HALLAM . The constellation of writers who shed a radiance on tho early part of the present century is fast vanishing away . Not the least remarkable of these , the historian of the Middle Ages , of the Revival of Letters i and of tho J £ nglish Constitution , Henry Hallam , died on Saturday last , at the great age of eighty-one . He has left but fow of his companions behind him , and , more than this , it was his bitter fate to outlive those who should have come after him , to see . two sons of rare promise , who should have preserved his name , go before him , the prido of his life snatched from his eyes , tho delight of his old age
laid low in the dust of death . One of these was that Arthur Henry Hallam , who died in 1838 , and to whom Tennyson dedicated the . remarkable series of poems which have been published under tho title of In Mc ~ moriam , Tho parent ' s hopos revived as his younger son grew up to manhood , and seemed to promise not less than the accomplished youth whom his father had regarded , and not without reason , as an only one without a follow . But this son also , Henry Fitzmaurico Hallam , was taken from him shortly after ho had boon called to the bar in 1850 , and tho poor bereaved father buried him in Clovedon Church , in Somersetshire , by the side of his brother , and "is sister , and his mother .
Among historians wo doubt whether therp is to bo found ono equal to Mr . Hallam in impartiality . There have been historians as erudite , not less noute , moro inspiring as thinkers , moro elegant as writers ; but for atom justice ho is probably without a rival . His unflinching integrity , his subjugation of personal prejudice , his ' determination to spoak tho truth under all olro . urastangos is . ono of tha rnroafc things In literature . This perfect frankness npvor takes in him tho form which it assumes in minds loss accurately balanced , of an impationt desire to spoak unpalatable truths in season and out of season . Perhaps there never was a critic who was so littlo of an egotist , and whoso judgment was so lsitlo swayed by personal feelings , elthov of rogard for UiWelf : or of regard for . others , Uo belonged to that
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134 V THE IiiBABER , [ No * 162 , January 29 ^ 1859 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 29, 1859, page 134, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2279/page/6/
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