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1 ;:e1 ranee those who had been allowed t spend their money in pur• chasing were entitled to have their rights continued ur tutu. peneatad. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff. Lord CAMPBELL SSA be had never known a melon) proved by clearer evidence. It wee then agreed to make the verdict aperitif, In order to raise questions ea w tho right of the rorponition to depart Irons the intnieniorial custom and the right of the plaintiff to cow• prianatinit. A THREATENING LETTER, according to the interpre tation of Mr. Reynolds, solicitor to the Treasury, was sent to Lord Aberdeen by Thomas Whitehe►ud, an artist. The charge was investigated at Bow-street on Wednesday. Proof of receipt and handwriting having been given, the letter was read. It was very long, and composed apparently under the impression that the writer was subjected to persecution, from which successive Governments had refused to relieve him. It stated that " The Goveniment seem to have wanted to make a victim of me, and conse quently have done everything they can to provoke me to crime," and proceeded : " I have been by them miners! to the greatest depths of misery : for live year's and a half I have endured Mese Ineffable privations with a patience and N fortitude that I believe there would Gelseiweely found one in a thousand to do the same. lint human patience has its bounds, and theme bounds have already been passed. Beware, my lord, what you do in this matter; for if the saying be true that ' self-preservation is the tint law of nature,' then, my lord, you have reduced me to a most painful alternative. Your policy, my lord, like your predecessors in this affair, has been, and still is, most pernicious and subversive. have taught a leasing of implacable vindictiveness and of un preeedented pertinarious cruelty that will be cherished by thou punishn with a MIIVIIWN till the latest day of their death. You have' sown the wind,' and, if your lordship should persist the Neale suicidal course, you must not be surprised if you should one day ' reap the whirlwind.' I can only say that If this 'wrote+ flood of evil Is to coal then, my lord, you will compel me to retaliate out of seltdefence; and if I should be goaded on In do that out of seltdefeuee, which my soul abhors, remember, lily tool, that the guilt will be upon your head and the heads of your colleagues." The examination of the prisoner led to the impres sion that he was a monomaniac on the subject of the police. Although in other respects of quiet habits, and apparently sound mind, he believed that a con stant system of espionage Was kept up on his account, and which he had vainly endeavoured to escape. Ile was consequently sent, under a remand, to St. Giles 's workhouse, where he will be watched and tended until the suspicion of his insanity is confirmed or disproved. FEW CASEA OE ANRAULT, out of the many com mitted by husbands upon their wives, equal in bru tality that, for which Samuel Deighton stood charged at Worship-street Police Court on Monday. The prisoner, when brought to the bar, appeared well dressed, but bore a morose and dissipated look. It ap peared that he had been earning an excellent salary, while his wife contributed also her gains in the mil linery business, which she carried on. Latterly he had fallen into drunken, dissolute habits, and had lived in idleness upon the produce of her labour : Os the night of Thursday week she was sitting In her Atop *waiting him return, with her infant ht her arms, when the pri mmer suddenly entered with a can of beer in his hand, and with out the slighteat 'innovation eminuenced otomailing her with the moat threatening and opprobrio u s epithets. After drinking the beer he hurled the empty vim at her head with all his force, but missed his aim. Ha then rushed upon her, and, de/lathe; that he would murder her at olive, struek her a terrible blow, and knocked her out of the chair. Int hearing her cries her •se hastened into the situp, and endeavoured to allMllage the fury of the prisoner, but he Ming her aside, 51141 renewed his attack with Increased brutality. After knoeking her down a ' w o o time h e continued beating her until the blood streamed down her face, and both her eyes were closed up and an dresdnally bruised that she was einarletely depri‘o4l of sight for upwards of twenty-hour loon's. She managed at kilt tit ~ape into the street, mot oh- Wiwi, minim in the house of a neighbour, under whose protec tion the had remained, but she was still suffering extroue pain from the ill•treatment she had refeh ed. Sarah Baldwin, a young W4llll/tll who assisted the coluphattatit in her 111114111411444, 1.0174111411 - 1114.41 her evidence, and stated that the brutal attack of the prisoner eflnti 1 , with o ut h itenn i nn i no . fi n . 'Nearly an hour; and Mr..lolin 11111. we attorney's clerk, residing sit adjoining street, deisisisi to the extrvitte ggiely I. hiauatieat wide,' the poor woman exhibited when sin r to his house mid implorisl protection. On twang asked if he winheil to say anything In answer to the charge, the prisoner, who hail repeatedly interrupted the witness with the coarsest invectives, insolently exelaiiiiisl," What is the use of my saying anything? 1 know you itietut to convict and I shall not waste my breath about it Mr. 11AMN111 , 1. ordered him to i.e emanated to hard labour for 1 1 11% 111.11111114, 111111 then to find Istil for his good behaviour for six months. . . The prisoner was quit• wit 1441 at the sentence. THE BAS-EELIEFm Tel THE NEISON COLUMN in Trafalgar-square have lately been discovered to be fraudulently constructed, inasmuch as the weight and solidity which by the contract they should have pos. Aesmed were fictitiously contrived by means of iron bars, lead pluggings, and fillings-in with plaster of Paris. Messrs. Tressange and Moore, the contractors, were summoned to answer the charge of fraud and conspiracy against the tiovernment before the Queen's Bench on Monday, the prosecution being conducted by the Attorney-general. Some curious details were Riven in the opening address of the learned eoun- The defendants had agreed to make three of the tuts-reliefs of the battler of Mt. Vincent, Copenhagen. and the Nile. They were to have 7471. low. for each relief, and the work wets to eon. shit of a certain quantity of metal to give it the required solidity, and also to be executed in a certain utuouer. The defendants exe cuted two of the bas reliefs, 'llllkil were moi...xed to the coluuut. Before the third way atlhed, the Board of Work's reeeiveil su anouytuous letter, %hid* lad to further iuquiry. They wrote to THE PRESS. the defendants stating that they had received such a letter, and adding that au examination must take place. The metal was weighed, and the weight of three and a half tons was cornet ; but there were certain cirt•nnistances which created suspicion. The relief war examined, and it was then found that instead of the metal being real bronze* large quantity of iron had been intro duced. It was then intimated that the whole lutist be taken to pieees. One of the defendants (John Moore) upon this asked Mr. Fitieliam, the party who attended for the Man! of Works, to step aside, and he then admitted that they had loaded the reliefs, and put in a quantity of iron, at the same time stating that if they had not done so they could not have made them at the price. There were nineteen hundredweights of iron in the three end a halftone of metal. The defenthuots also admitted that as regarded the other reliefs they had made up the weight by ingots of cop per. The defendants had the weight which was used with the steelyard made false, made hollow anal of tin, but painted to re ',regent ruety iron. The whole thing, instead of being a work of which we might be proud, was thus formed no as rather to dis credit than te honour us, anal, as this had been the guilty set of the defendants, the Government had felt bouutl to institute this prosecution. 'lhe jury returned a verdict of guilty ; and Lord Campbell, after commenting on the gravity of the offence, sentenced the two elder defendants to three months' imprisonment, letting off the third, the younger Moore, for one month. In consideration of their respectable station in life, however, he did not send them to the House of Correction, but allotted them the less disgraceful prison of the Bench as their place of confinement. A SEREEs of BILL TRANSACTIONS, involving an ag gregate amount of 3,171/., besides a sum of 140/. due on a running account, became the subject of invests , gation before the Court of Common Pleas on Tues day. The claimant was one Simmons, who had, it appeared, dealt in horses, jewellery, racing, and other articles requiring tact and address to render them profitable. The defendant was a young man of the name of Parkinson, who only last October came of age and into possession of about 10,1100/., which he was rapidly squandering. The two coming together lied dealt largely, with the result of placing in the plaintiff's hands the acceptances for payment of which he now sued, in exchange for fast-trotting horses, watches, bracelets, necklaces, and other pro perty, some of which the defendant had used him self, and the rest he had given to lathes of his ac quaintance. Very early in the course of the trial Chief Justice Lord Campbell pronounced his official wonder " that there could be found two such persons —one such a fool and the other such a knave." Mr. Simmons, in his evidence, related the history of the several bills constituting his claim, stating the nature of the value received for them, and maintaining the integrity of the several transactions and the moderate amount of the profit which they had produced to himself : tie became acquainted with the defendant in December, 1852, by meeting him accidentally at Perry'oe stables, in Itoretentotiger lane. On that occasion he sold a horse named Click-up to the defendant for 4511. They thee went to a public-house and had a glows of sherry, and witness, in the public-house, sold his watch from out of his pocket to the defendant for W. Witness hail a horse called Reliance, and as he was bringing I • lip to town he maw the defendant, who purehased him for 20111., and also purchased a chaise. Defendant purchases! the Oneida Clitef of him for NO gt • 101, and shortly alterwarde killed it la g legatee a cart. The defendant purchased three brilliant Huge for 751. On the 11th of Felontary lie purchased two snake die m ttttt I hrawelets and two cluster diamond lines for Mil. les. There were two more rings and a gold watch. Witness had Iwo horse', which he bought at Tattersall's for 106!. anal 65/. This was on the 7th of February, anti in the seine month lie "arranged" to sell them to the defendant for 2t5/. They were very fast bermes. He sold defendant a bracelet bar 2101., a necklace fur 4501., and four diamond rings for 110/. Altogether the amount of his claim was :1,:100/., of which 20/. was for cash. He was very willing to take hack the jewellery, and to make an allowance for the horses. He bawl received perhaps 1,000/. of Mr. Par kinson. For the defendant pleas of fraud, false practie,es, de., had been put upon the record, and he gave in due course his own narrative of the transac tions between himself and the plaintiff:— lie received 0,700/. on coming of age, in October last. When lie purchased Click-up, doe defendant maid it. was useless to have a fast horse tiniests lie had also a stop-watch, and he accordingly Weight the philistine watch fair 15/. Um Subsequently he lett that watch end abet another at the plaintiffn to be repaired, and had never area either sinew. The Oneida e'hier, the plaintiff solid. would go live miles in 121 lunettes. The plaintiff lent him the Chief, and wittiest,' drove bite taut, hut. mits%er bargained bar the horse until it was deed, and Own lie bargained whet he was to pay for it. The defendant was then examined as to the al leged false repreeentations in constsinenee of a Well the bills had been given. As to the !dil bar twit horses, the plaintiff repo , melded that the home were quite fresh from America, anal gave them a very high diameter. lie agreed to sell them to witness, and said that lie would get his money bark by trotting-nuttches. I hit of every 100/. well the plaintiff was to give witness 201., and witness was to be at HO P7<III.IISP whatever. As to the lOC/. bill, that was in part given for a watch. which the plaintiff said alms worth Ng., but willed' in about a week witness had to take to get repaired. As to the bills for 3001. anslsoo/.. part of the ceoneitler anon was a diamond lotweelet. Plaintiff said be had given 650/. for it, and witness should have it for 66111. Witneses said it was too a' erosive, met that he had nobody to give it to, when the Witness amid he could give it to Pussy (meaning Miss Graham). never agreed to buy it, and lie slid not know that Miss Graham hail it until two er three alma elements. Pert of the consideration far the slog. bill was a lonss•li, %%Welt I . l , llillitiell what the plaintiff called sus emerald, snit which he said had been given by the Queen to Sir Robert Peel. Neither of the two bonen sold for 1,2601. etatild go eighteen miles em hour nor any thing like it. corroborative evidence was pnshiced as to the value of the things sold. The bracelet which the plaintiff had charged 1:601. for Wall said to be worth from 1001, to 120/, ; an d t h e - emerald .• in the brotwh Was only paste. Am to the horses. it was stated that both had been bought at their full value at Tattersalfr for 1041/. and WA, although they had been afterwards sold to the de fendant for 1,260/. The Attorney-Ueneral, on behalf of the plaintiff, SATURDAY, urged to the jury that at all events his client was en titled to " something." The verdict was, however, returned for the defendant, to the great satisfaction of that part of the public which happened to be pre sent, and whose tokens of approval somewhat exceeded the hounds generally prescribed within the precincts of a judicial tribunal. A Mrt.Loooosy., managing a brick and tile manufactory at Bristol, brought an action last week against the celebrated analytical chemist, Mr. Hera path, for kissing plaintiffs wife against her consent. Mr. Wildgoose and the family had some property to dispose of, which Mr. Herapath undertook to sell. On the 6th of December last Mrs. Wildgoose called upon Mr. Herapath, at his office in Clare-street, a conversation took place, and the lady was about to retire, when Mr. Herapath laid hold of her by both shoulders and kissed her. Mrs. Wildgoose became immediately very indignant at his conduct, and said, " Sir, this is very improper ; I am a respectable mar ried woman," upon which Mr. Herapath said some thing to this effect, " Pooh ! pooh ! you must not consider yourself as a married woman at all ; you are a mere girl; come, shake hands and give it me back again." A verdict for plaintiff; damages 51., was returned. THE EXTENSIVE Fust7ns committed or attempted on certain bankers by altering the inscriptions of a letter of credit, obtained from Messrs. Shearman, of New York, were investigated on Thursday at the Central Criminal Court, on the trial of Gabriel Sans Garrett. The details have already been published in the police reports. In the indictment the prisoner was charged with a felonious attempt to obtain 500!. from the Union Bank. His previous successful frauds to a large amount on several foreign banks could not be brought under the cognisance of the English tribunal. An objection was urged in his behalf that the locus of the offence was in a foreign country, but Baron Parke overruled it, and a verdict was returned. Sentence is deferred until the judges have decided on the technical plea. ►ttiDcnxs AA Offtncts. A DARING BURGLARY, accompanied by an attempt to murder, was committed last week near Bristol. at the house of an aged gentleman named Williams, Four men, finding a ladder on the premises, entered the house by an upper window, and found their way to the old man's bedroom. One of them, who had his face covered with a mask, jumped on the bed, seised Mr. Williams, gagged his mouth, and threatened to murder him if he did not at once dis close where his property was, or made the slight est disturbance. The others began rifling the house, searching every spot where they thought it likely property of any kind might be concealed, and suc ceeded in possessing themselves of a gold watch worth twenty guineas and some money. Meanwhile the man with the mask stood over Mr. Williams and beat him several times with his fist on the face and head. Upon his struggling, all four villains com menced ill-treating him, until he became insensible from their blows and violence, when they quitted the house, no doubt supposing that he was dead. As the bandage was kept over his eyes, Mr. Williams could not give a full description of the men, but he recognised four different voices, and believed that the man with the mask was a rough fellow, but the others had the appearance of gentlemen. The burglars must have gone cautiously to work, for they had removed all the bells from the fastenings to lessen the chances of alarm, and opened all the doors so as to admit of easy flight. A FRIGHTFUL. SUICIDE was perpetrated by Mr. Fre derick Cope, jun., the only son of Mr. Frederick Cope, of Chorlton, near Manchester, yesterday week. On the previous Wednesday his eldest sister was married, and amongst the guests invited was a young lady to whom the unfortunate gentleman was engaged. Since that day he had been observed to be very melancholy, and on the Friday went up into his bed room, and shortly afterwards shot himself through the heart with a gun. A Coi.r.mtv F.xetosrox, followed by the loss of eighteen lives, occurred at Oldham on the Ist inst. There would appear to have been no neglect on the part of the men, or disorder in the ventilating system adopted in the pit, which was always considered sate and admirably worked. At three in the afternoon, however, a sudden explosion of firedamp took place, while nearly eighty persons were at work in the va rious shafts, and eighteen were either found dead in the workings, or have died since froni the injuries they received. A SUICIDE, with some affecting circumstances, was committed by Jane l'apson, who at the same tune destroyed the life of her illegitimate infant. The bodies of mother and child were found in the River Thames. On the police inquiring at the address written on a paper found in the woman's pocket, they learnt that she had suffered long and severely from distress. For some weeks she had lived on