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appear in evidence that the prisoner himself had taken the property , the assistant judge said he could ndt be legally convicted of taking , and the jury acquitted him . The Sk George's-in-the-East weekly rows are beginning to take a complicated shape . In the Consistory Court , on Saturday , Dr . Phillimore applied , on behalf of the Rev . Bryan King , rector of St . George ' s-in-the-East , to allow the office . of judge to be promoted against certain persons for the offence
of " brawling" in the church . The judge , observing that a prima-Jade case had been made out , granted the application against a defendant named Rosier . Another application , v , Barnard , was refused . This was followed by a man named William Jones applying to the magistrate at Thames Police- , court for a summons against the Rev . Mr . Lowder , curate of St . George ' s-in-the-East , for assaulting him on Sunday last in front of the parish church . Mr . Selfe granted the summons .
A man named Josiah Selwyn Brewer , calling himself a lecturer , was indicted for fraudulently obtaining from Edward Robson a number of books &c , value £ 55 ; he was also indicted for defrauding James Rogers of £ 7 . 13 s . Evidence having been adduced in support of these indictments , the jury said there could be no doubt of his guilt , and returned a verdict to that effect . Mr Metcalfe then gave a short . sketch of the prisoner ' s history , from which it appeared that he had been living by swindling for the last '¦ 15 years . He was sentenced to three years ' penal servitude .
At the Middlesex Sessions , John Price , a powerful man , was charged with assaulting and wounding George Hopkinson , one of Lord Enfield's gamekeepers at South Mimms . Hopkinson detected the prisoner poaching on his lordship ' s park at Wrotham , and spoke to him about it , when he struck him on the head , and kicked him so that it produced hernia . The charge , was clearly proved , and the jury found him guilty on all the counts in the indictment . Mr . Metcalfe stated that the prisoner had been convicted no less than fifteen times of poaching , larceny and other offences . The learned Assistant Judge commented on the conduct of the prisoner in severe terms , and , as a warning to others , sentenced him to three years' hard labour in the House of Correction . .
Another instance of the brutality which prevails on board of American ships has come to light in a recent trial at Newcastle . In this instance the result has been the death of a seaman from the fearful usage to which he was subjected by the mate . Several cruel beatings , periodically administered , were brought to a climax by the mate knocking in the skull of the sailor with an iron bolt ?* He has been found guilty of manslaughter , and sentenced to penal servitude for life . 4 On the case of the Rev . H . J . Hatch , to which we adverted last week , the Morning Post has some judicious remarks , the writer says : —* ¦ The vice of which he is alleged to be guilty is inexpiable ,
because the injury done is irreparable ; the seeds implanted are beyond eradication . But ; on the other hand , if he is not guilty , was there ever a calamity more dreadful than has befallen this clergyman ? Hurled at once from honour to reprobation , from sufficiency to poverty , from progress in his profession to absolute ruin , from the charities of domestic life to the rigours of the gaol , and , far worse than all , from the esteem of the wise and good to the detestation of mankind . Here are all the sufferings of martyrdom with none of its dignity , none of its moral compensations . Every pang , but one , that can rend the moral nature , and break a man dojgn beyond all redemption as to this world ,
is summed up in his conviction and sentence . Is he , then , guilty , or is he not ? If guilty , his crime is beyond the execration of human speech ; if innocent , no human compassion can console the unspeakable hardship of this case . Now , we think that none of our readers will deny that , as far as it hastranspired , theevidence against Mr . Hatch is very incomplete . We repeat that the case is the most unsatisfactory nml inexplicable that wo over heard of ; and we su ' v . it that the circumstances earnestly demand a review of the trial . The Secretary of State can do this case as in that of Sraethurst ; and though there are objections to such reviews by a single individual , yet , till the country is provided
with a Court of Criminal Appeal that will meet such oases , there is no other resource . The points whioh require to be satisfied refer to the credibility of the girln , the elder especially . What are their antecedents ? Have they been truthful and good ? What books have they been accustomed to read P Have they had access to newspapers , and divorce cases , and penny journals ? What character have their parents hitherto borno ? With what servants or others have they associated P Did they communicate to the servants of Mr . Hatch , or to any schoolfellows or others , what had occurred ? If Mr , Hatch ' s crime wore a capital one , would the country consent that he should , be hanged upon this
testimony ? And , if not , ought it to sanction any lesser punishnieht ?" At a fire in Whitechapel , on Tuesday morning , a fire escape conductor saved ten lives by his coolness and courage with the aid of his escape ; the brave man ' s name is Wood . On the . flames bursting out Wood arrived just in time . Ten persons presented themselves at the second floor window , and the most piteous cries for help were heard . Wood told them to remain for a few minutes and he would rescue them . - He then placed his machine against the
burning building , and first brought down six children . He again ascended , and placed Mrs . Jane Henry , aged seventy years j Mrs Susjan Jacobs , Mr . Lewis Jacobs , and the servant , in the machine . The poor conductor now sank under his great exertions , and if it had not been for the timely arrival of Edward Cooke , the conductor of another fire-escape , he must have fallen a victim to his courage . When Cooke brought his brother conductor down the ladder , Wood was in a state of insensibility , and it was upwards of half an hour before he returned to his senses .
The coroner's jury reassembled , this week , at Long-alley , Finsbury , to investigate the circumstances of the death of Mary Ann Moore , who was so horribly murdered and decapitated on Monday week . Application had been made to the Secretary of State for the attendance of deceased ' s husband , who is charged with the commission of the crime , and the order was granted . It now appears that the prisoner Moore was discharged from the lunatic asylum in legal form on the 23 rd ult . He was found guilty of wilful murder by the coroner ' s jury , and was afterwards committed for trial , in due course , by the police magistrate .
The coroner's jury have returned a verdict to the following effect , at the close of the inquest on the body of William Eaton , alleged to have been poisoned by eating sausages at Kingsland : " That deceased was seized with illness from eating sausages , and died shorty afterwards , the immediate cause being unknown ; and the jury thought that there ought to be an addition to the number of meat inspectors . " An inquest was held on Monday at the City-road ,
to inquire into the death of a photographic artist , named Edmund Shirley , and a girl , named Rosetta Greenwood , who were found dead in bed at a coffeehouse on Thursday last . The " evidence showed that death resulted in each case from poison in the form of cyanide of potass , which had been voluntarily taken by both the deceased . Family quarrels on the part of the man account for his commission of the act , and the girl , being his sweetheart , had of her own will shared his wretched fate .
ThePeninsularand Orientals team-shipAlhambra , when off Calabria , in a passage from Corfu to Malta , was going at the rate of eleven knots an hour , with single reeled topsails , foresail , and stern topsails , whenacry of" a man overboard" was heard . The captain at once gave orders for the reversal of the engines , and for a life-buoy to be thrown over , and the vessel gradually rounded to . The man overboard reached the life-buoy , but was completely out of sight . Orders were then given for launching the boat , which was . manned in charge pf the third officer , but her tackle got jammed , and she swung broadside with a terrific crash , tearing her bows almost asunder , and precipitating those who were in
her into the sea . Discoll ( A . B . ) was saved by seizing some of the floating debris of the shattered boat . Eastman ( A . B . ) was swept to leeward . All attention was then drawn to the perilous position of Mr . Dodd , the officer , who having obtained a footing upon a portion of the boat , threw off his monkey jacket , and was again dashed into the boiling sea , and when told to hold on and he would be pulled up , he said he could not , for his left arm was out of its socket . In the meantime , the second officer made a bowline , but it could not be got properly over him . It was evident that he was powerless to save himself , and Mr . Toll , chief officer , slid down the after fall , and was immediately alongside him , placed the bowline under both his arms , and he was hauled up . Mr . Toll had a most narrow escape himself , but a
friendly rope brought him safely to tlie ship . The lifeboat during this time was being cleared away , and the other poor fellows were speedily saved . The wreck of the American mail steamship Indian was attended with more disastrous consequences than were ut first imagined . She struck on a sunken ledge , and parted amidships in half an hour afterwards ; one boat was capsized and several persons drowned ; another boat was stove alongside the hull , while two boats , containing a portion of the passengers and crow , drifted to oca , and had not been heard of at the latest dnte . Twenty-four persons were saved by the schooner Alexander , nnd landed at Halifax . The breakers raged with force on all sides of the steamer . The schooner Lutea was also wrecked on the breakers , while running close to the wreck of the Indian .
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The Court . —On Saturday morning the Queen and the Prince Consort , accompanied by the Prince and Princess Frederick William of Prussia , too-ether with the Prince of Wales and the Princess ° Alice lef t Windsor . Castle , and travelled by the Great Western Railway to Paddington , where the Prince and Princess Frederick William took leave , and passed through the metropolis to the Bricklayers Arms station , whence they were convoyed by a special train of the South Eastern Railway to Dover . They readied Calais about moon . The Prince of Wales returned to Oxford the same day . The tempestuous state of the weather prevented the Queen ' s departure for Osborne on Monday as intended ; but the journey to the Isle , of Wight was accomplished in safety on Tuesday : and the royal family remain ait Osborne , all in good health . Death of- one of the Judges . —Sir Richard B . " Orowder * one of the Judges of the Common Pleasj died suddenly in the early part of this week . He was in Court on Saturday last , in , to all appearanceSj his usual health . The deceased judge was the eldest son of the latp . Mr . W . H . Crowder , and was in his 70 th year . He was educated at Eton , and completed his studies at Trinity College , Cambridge . In the year 1821 he was called to the bar at Lincoln ' s-inn , and for a long series Of years went to . the Western Circuit . On the death of Sir Charles Wetherell , he was appointed Recorder of Bristol , which honourable position he held for close on eight years , when , in 1854 , he was promoted to be one of the puisne judges of the Court of Common Pleas . The- deoeased was for a few years in the House of Commons , having represented Liskeard in Parliament from January , 1849 , up to his elevation to tlie bench in 1854 , after unsuccessfully contesting Winchester iu 1841 . Sir Richard was for some years counsel for the Admiralty and Judge-Advocate to the Fleet . The Gloucester Inqcirt . —The commission to inquire into the existence of corrupt practices at the Gloucester elections resumed their labours at Fludyer-street , Westminster , this week . Several witnesses were examined , after which Mr . Julian . Bernard was called . This witness was required to produce his pass and cash books , but failed to put in an appearance . The proceedings were therefore adjourned , to give Mr . Bernard another opportunity of answering the summons . Harrow and Dr . Vaughan . —On Monday evening nearly 250 gentlemen , Harrow men and " Harrovians , " dined together at the Freemasons ' Tavern ^ to do honour to' the Rev . Dr . Vaughan , who has lately resigned the office of head master . The chair was filled by Mr . C . S . Currer . as having been captain of the school in Dr . Vauglian ' s first year . On returning thanks for his health being drunk . Dr . Vaughan , with much feeling , s : \ id : ¦—" ¦ In the ordinary course there were but three causes to terminate a head master ' s connexion with a school—death , failing strength , or ecclesiastical preferment , His ambition had been to exemplify a fourth ; he had wished to leave the school which he had served at the very summit of its prosperity . It was a work of great difficulty and anxiety to control five hundred young human wills , subject to every gust of temper and passion , and without oxpenence to keep them steady . In such a life , teaching was a relaxation , and the hours he spent with his sixth form were the lightest , the most delightful , lie knew . The prosperity of a school was precarious , and public opinion was not always just . Alter fifteen years of arduous toil and occasional dangers , he now claimed some repose—not a period oi idleness , but of domestic privacy . It had been the flxea intention of his great master , Dr . Arnold , at tne close of his fifteenth year at Rugby , to retire to ms home in the north , and occupy himself witn . tng charge of private pupils , for which ho refused ecclesiastical advancement . Death in the fburtoMwn year prevented Dr . Arnold from doing what he ( v * Vaughan ) was now permitted to do . Ho had never meant to wait till ho should be made a canon or dean , for no such preferment should tempt a sensible man from such a post as that of head master of . Harr ° ^; He vindicated himself from any objection tiias might be raised to his retirement upon short notice , by remarking that it was not good for the icliooi xo undergo a long period of uncertainty . " Wo i »«» very warmly cheered . Lnter in tho evening i >« proposed tho health of his successor , tho Bev . «• Montagu Butler , whom ho thought the fittest man in all England to take his place ns head master . Thh Royai . OiiAnxnn . —Tho value of the ww recovered from the wreck on Monday wus £ iw , uw ' the whole of which has safely orrivod nt Mv « P J ; A telegram was received at Lloyd ' s from CftP , "" Foil , who Is superintending the diving opomilonB , stating that the starboard quarter had bei ^ n ll'ie " ' and that twelve boxes , twelve bags , and ft n . r * of ingots of gold had been recovered . It " . *\ expected that nearly the whole of tho bullion win io recovered .
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1340 THE LEADER . [ No . 507- Dec . 10 , 185 9 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 10, 1859, page 1340, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2324/page/8/
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