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seem at all surprised , but treated it as a matter of course . He is now , therefore , merely in the position of a prisoner under committal upon a . cliargejoi felony , and he is , of course , relieved from all the restrictions to which he was liable , under the gaol regulations , as a convict under sentence of death . He will remain in Horsemonger-lane Prison until within a few days of the next session of the Central Criminal Court , when he . will . be removed to j Newgate , and take his trial in due course for the oftence of bigamy . The Utmost punishment that can be awarded for this is penal servitude for four years . An application for leave to put in bail was made at Southwark Police-court on Thursday . It was urged by his solicitor that as Smethurst had now received a free pardon for the murder of Isabella Banks , tliat good recognisances m . ig-lit be accepted for his appearance , but air . Combe refused the application .
At the Court of Bankruptcy , a first-class certificate has been awarded to John Bagshaw , late M . P . for Harwich . A certificate of the third class was granted to B . F . H . Carew . This bankrupt was described as a cab proprietor in Lisson-grove , but he had been mainly engaged in accepting bills to the amount of . £ 58 , 640 for . the notorious Colonel "VVaugh , who was his step-father and guardian , and who , while in England , allowed him . £ 2 , 000 a year . A breach of promise case , " Newman v . Hemming , was tried in the Court of Common Pleas on Monday . The plaintiff is the daughter of a publican now deceased , and resided with her mother at Moreton-in-the-Marsh , where they kept a
publichouse , and the defendant is a farmer near the same place . It appeared in evidence that the parties had been , acquainted from a very early period of life , but had not met since childhood till three years since , when the defendant met the plaintiff at her father ' s house , and the acquaintance was renewed and an engagement formed , which progressed with apparent satisfaction until the . defendant changed his mind , without any assigned reason , forsook his early love , and married another lady . The defendant is possessed of property amounting to 2 , 500 / . ; and the jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff , with 200 * . damages . Mr . Edwin James endeavoured to obtain a mitigation , of damages without effect .
At the adjourned Middlesex Sessions Mr . Gordon Allan made an application- for a day to be fixed for hearing an appeal against a conviction by Mr . Corrie , the magistrate , of a person named Pereham , upon matters arising out of the builders' strike and lockout . After some discussion the appeal was arranged to be lieard on the 22 nd instant . A savage-looking man named Newman was charged with robbing aboy of twopence-halfpenny . The prisoner , in presence of fifteen others , put the held hand his
boy on a table , tied his legs , one over mouth , and with the other picked his pocket of 2 &d ., which was all lie possessed . The jury acquitted the prisoner on the ground that the boy ' s evidence was not corroborated . The judge ridiculed such an idea , and on inquiry it appeared that the prisoner had been convicted ten times , and , having been sentenced to ten years' penal servitude , he was at-that time a tiekct-of-leavc man . The judge ordered him to be detained , in order that his ticket of lea-ve might be revoked .
At tlic Court of Bankruptcy third-class certificates were granted to Arthur Edward Windus , a tio and scarf rfinnufaeturer , carrying on business in Aldermanbury , and T . A . Nicp ll , an upholsterer , in Sloane-street . The commissioner observed that , but for tho absence of opposition on the part of the assignees in the case of the former bankrupt , he should have felt it his duty to order a suspension of his certificate ; and that the latter bankrupt did not quit the court reputably ]; for he owcclmany hundred pounds , and brought just as many noughts for his creditors .
An important case has been introducod to the attention of the Lord Chancellor and tlio Lords Justices , this week , The question was -vvhother , under tine provisions of the 32 nd section of the Trustees Relief Act of last ' session , a trustee is ontitled to invest trust funds in tho New India Stock , Vico-Chanccllor Wood had remitted this question to their lordships , being one of too much importance or intricacy for himself , to docide . An onlor had been applied for sanctioning tho invostmont of a sum of raonoy in this Stock . Their lordships have refused and in
the petition praying for tlio investment ; roading tho judgment of tlio Lord Chancollor on this subject , one cannot ) full to notice that , this high authority rested his argument more upon the intention of him who drew up the law than upon tho words of tho law itself . It seoms that tho Lord Chancellor had written to Lord St , Leonards , tlio author of tlio Trustees Relief Act asking him to explain , its moaning , and Lord St . Leonards replied that tho special clause upon which the , question rooted had boon introducod into tho bill , not by himfcolf , but by the Commons , and when tho bill reached
the Lords in its amended shape , it was at a tirf . when he , Lord St . Leonards , could not ask the House of Lords to disagree with the change made by the Commons . Now the change in question makes it legal to invest in the New East India Stock , and yet Lord Campbell has decided , in concurrence , with the Lords Justices , that the Court cannot sanction such an investment . We leave it to lawyers to say whether -the Lord Chancellor and the Lords Justices are empowered to set aside the decisions of the Legislature . At the Sheriff ' s court in the City this week , a case was heard by his Honour , in which the plaintiff and defendant ' spoke in French , and his Honour delivered his judgment in that language .
William Henry Jay , income-tax collector , Kingsland road , has appeared on bail at Worship-street Police-court , to answer a charge of obtaining money by fraud in the collection of that assessment . Evidence in several cases was adduced , where it was alleged an overcharge had been made , or the tax imposed where there was no liability . The prisoner was again remanded , Mr . D'Eyncourt refusing on this occasion to accept a rcnewa-1 of the bail .
On Saturdaj r , in consequence of the efforts of the police to effect the capture of Dotteridge , the incometax collector , of Hoxton , who has gone off with a large amount of public money , having all failed , the Commissioners of Inland Revenue offered a reward of £ 50 for his capture . Dotteridge , who carried on business as an undertaker at Haberdasher-place , Hoxton , on finding the officers after him , had himself carried out of his house as a corpse sent there for burial , taking the place of a real " stiff ' un . " He
thus got clear away . A young man , named Augustus Scott , said to have been lately a captain in the army , was charged on remand , at Marlborough-street Police-court , with uttering forged checks , in order to defraud certain hotel proprietors . Mr . Bingham committed the prisoner for trial . At the Middlesex Sessions , Rosina Dyer was convicted of having robbed a servant-girl of her money and clothes , at the Servants'Home , Edgware-road , In consequence of the pertinacious and vehement manner in which the prisoner asserted her innocence , notwithstanding the most conclusive evidence , the Assistant Judge ordered that she should be put on her trial on another charge of robbery . A verdict of guilty was found in this case also , and she was sentenced to three years' penal servitude . fined
A person named Reynolds was yesterday £ 3 by Mr . Yardley , at the Thames Police-court , for an assault committed on one of the choristers of St . George ' s-in-the-East , while proceeding to the Mission Cliapel on Sunday last . Mr . Yardley said to the defendant— " There is no doubt you formed part of this disorderly mob , and there is no doubt you committed an act of violence . There can be no greater folly than thi 3 . It was not only absurd but very cowardly . There were 2 , 000 persons pursuing these gentlemen . Whatever their conduct as ministers , or whatever opinions they may entertain , I don ' t presume to state anything or to make any declaration , but they are not to be hounded down and ill-used . If you fancy the complainant a bad minister , as you called him , stay away from the place where he officiates—there are plenty of good ministers you can follow . ' , '
James Richardson and Charles Willes were rocxaminod tit Marlborough-street Police-court beforo Mr . Binghain , on Wednesday , on a charge of obtaining a quantity of goods , consisting of silver plate , silk , &c , from different London tradesmen , by means of fictitious letters and forged cheques . Both prisoners wcro committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court . The official inquiry into the causes of the calamity of tho Hoyal Charter , commenced on Tuesday at Liverpool . This inquiry promises to be a much more satisfactory investigation than that taken beforo tho Coroner ,
Sir R . W . . Bulkeluy lias addressed a . communication to tho Board of Trade , urging- more prompt measures for recovoring tho bodies of those who perished in the wreck of tho Royal Charter . Ho says that , as yot , only some oighty bodies have boon found . On Saturday night somo thieves broke into St . Androw ' s Church , Plymouth , burst open tho money boxos for tlio poor , took away tho handsomo velvet tho olvot
covering of tho communion tablo , v covers of tho cushions thoro and in tho corporation scats , and the vorgors' cloaks . Tho gold fringe and ornaments wore stripped from tho cover and cushions , but tlio greater portion was dropped , apparently by acoidont , in tho aislo $ tho cloaks wore found in tho yard , Tho communion tablo cover is of scarloc Gonoa vclvot , valued at about £ 2 ( 5 , and supposod to bo fifty yours old . Tho ohurchwardons have offorod a reward of . £ 80 for tho discovery of tho culprits . A frightful murder has boon oominittod , in tno atroots of Coventry on Saturday , a militiaman named
Kingston having attacked liis wife , from whom he had been living apart , and with , a clasp knife first stabbed her and then cut her throat . The murderer is in custody . . The perpetrators of the horrible atrocities on a , defenceless woman near Halifax , have been committed for trial by the bench of magistrates . The inquiry into the facts attending the loss of the Duke of Richmond steamer has resulted in the suspension of the chief officer ' s certificate . An inquest has been opened by-Mr . Humphreys , at Kingsland , yesterday , on tlie body of William Eaton , a carman , whose ... death-it . was alleged had
been caused by poisonous ; some sausages lie had eaten . The surgeon ' who attended deceased , and subsequently made a post-mortem examination of the body , stated the nature of the symptoms during illness , and the appearances after death ; also that a portion of the intestines were sealed up for aualysation . That this riright be performed , and a portion of the assumed poisonous sausages submitted to scientific tests , the inquiry was adjourned for a week . The Secretary of State has stayed the execution of the mad Portuguese sailor who committed murder on the high seas .
A boiler explosion of a most alarming character took place on Tuesday morning at West Cramlington Colliery , about ten miles north of Newcastle , resulting in . the death of one man , in dangerous injury to another , and in the destruction of property to a considerable amount . The most serious part of the loss will be that sustained by nearly 400 raent and lads , who will be thrown idle for some weeks ' , while the necessary repairs are being effected . As to the cause of the occurrence nothing is as yet satisfactorily ascertained .
A veteran officer , Captain Dodgin , late of the 20 t * regiment , shot himself on Saturday evening . Captain Dodgin had been for fifteen years in command of the police on the Island of Barbadoes—a service o € consider Able responsibility , and requiring great energy . After this long term oi service he was dismissed by the local authorities without a retiring ' pension . This treatment preyed upon his mind .
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The Court . —With the exception of the laundt at Portsmouth , on Saturday , nothing particular hast occurred to vary the usual routine of the royal household . Tlie Queen and her family are all in good ? health , including the venerable Duchess of Kent , who has been visited twice this week at Frogmore by her royal daughter and grandchildren . The Prince ? Consort came to town on Wednesday and presided at a meeting of the British Association , which was held at Buckingham Palace . The Prince ' of Wales is holding a little court of his own at Oxford , whence his dinner and evening parties are duly reported by the daily journals . The visitors at Windsor this week have been numerous : among the names are those of the Duchess of Wellington , the Portuguese Ambassador , the Marquesses of Ailesbury , and Abercorn , Lord Malmesbury , Lord St . Germans , Lor # John Russell , Earl Spencer , Mr . Sydney Herbert and their wives , besides some German Serene Highnesses with most portentous titles . Prince Alfred . — The Levant Herald of the 2 nd instant , says ;— "On Sunday evening his Excellency Sir Henry Bulwer left tlio Bosphorus for Volo , where ho will moot his Royal Highness Prnicp Alfred , who was expected there Yesterday or to-day in tho Euryalus . Private letters Inform us that both at Volo ami Larissa , which tlio Prince was alsoto visit , great preparations wore lielnff made by the authorities ami private residents to give the . Royal midshipman a brilliant rooention . Another Ghkat KximJrnox .-The Council of the Society of Arts have decided to carry out theirprbiootof an Exhibition of the , industry . ot All Ems in 180 B , without any reference to tho state of the pdlilical atmosphere . Tl . o subscription list for tho Guarantee { Tumi of £ 200 . 000 ( which is confidently expected to bo obtnlneil without difficulty ); 5 ill be opened immediately . Tlw Council will also , apply to the Royal Commissioners for tho Inhibition of 1851 , to grant a convenient portion of thegoud purchased at Kensington cut of tho nurpltui Fund of tho last exhibition for tho next and future international Exhibitions . Disatii in tub PioisiaoK . —Earl < loGroy , K . G . oxnlrod at his rosidonco in St . . Tnmos ' s-squaro on Mon-Iiv morning . His lordship was lord lieutenant and Sosrotulorum of Bedfordshire , llout . colonel commandant of tho Yorkshire Hiwbiit Yeomanry , ana do-Voamp to her Majes ty . lie is succeeded , hv his title and largo estatea by the Karl o Ripon . CYi ' v MAWJiTa . -At tho Court of Aldermen this week , at which the now Lord Mayor took tho chair for tho fli'flt time , a vote of thanks to tho Jato I > w « Mayor , Alderman Wire , for tho able and cmcient
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 19, 1859, page 1267, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2321/page/7/
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