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London, England, 1856-11-01 00:00:00

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THE PARLIAMENT-STREET ASSAULT CASE was pre
lirninarily examined into by Mr. Jardine, on Tuesday'
at Bow-street. 'l".te injured man, Cope, is still
living, but was, of course, unfit to undergo an
examination. Other witnesses of the cowardly
assault gave evidence.
James 'Pickling said :
On Monday evening, last week, I was passing up Puha.
ment•street, at about halt•past nine, and my attention was
drawn to Mr. Berry's shop. There were several persons
there, and I stayed awhile myself. I could see a man in•
side, and I saw him strike a blow, but I could not see the
person he struck. Presently a man came out with a cigar
in his mouth and a parcel in his hand—either a black
leather bag or a parcel done up in black leather. He
pulled the door to after hint, and hat hardly let•t when
the door went open, and I saw a man lying on the Boor
bleeding. . _

Henry Croft said :—I live at Wrokingham, and was
formerly in the police :
On Monday night, the 21:h inst., at about twenty
minutes past nine, I was passing through Parliament-
street with a young woman, when I heard a faint cry of
murder from the shop of Mr. Berry. It sounded to me
like a woman's voice. I saw the prisoner inside, and saw
him strike a blow, but could not see the person who was
struck. He repeated the blow four or five times. He
struck over the counter. Some man who was there said,
" It is only a man beating his wile," and walked quickly
away. The prisoner, when he left off striking, took up a
parcel, and came out smoking. I watched him for about
ten yards. I then looked into the shop, and tom the
man behind the counter push the fiap of the counter up
with both hands, and tall back covered with blood.
Some people went in, and carried him out. Afterwards
the prisoner was brought back. lam quite sure he is the
Same wall.

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Mary Walsh said that on Monday night, a little
after ten, she was passing with her husband from
Millbank-street to Parliament-street, when she
picked up the life-preserver now produced. On
Wednesday her husband read the report of this
case in the paper, and supposing it might affect the
case, she took the life-preserver to the police.
station. It was when she found it in the same state
as now.

The life-preserver, which is of unusual sizo and
weight, is slightly cut in two or three parts of tho
knob.

The prisoner wns remanded till Wednesday next.
About nine o'clock the same evening the prisoner
was taken to Westminster Hospital in order to be
identified by Cope. Mr. Jardine and Mr. Burnaby
were present at Cope's bedside. The prisoner
having been placed at the foot of the bed, Cope at
once identified him, and in reply to the few ques-
tions permitted by the house-surgeon, said that
Marley had struck him with a life-preserver. lie
had never seen Marley before. Cope's articulation
now benniing imperfect, he was assisted to attest
the deposition, and the prisoner was removed to
prison. Fron► what has been gleaned of Marley's
career, it would appear that he was the son of a
colonel of marines ; that he received a good educa-
tion, but, being the scamp of the family, was dis-
carded, and eventually, in 1839, enlisted into a re-
giment of dragoons, and went out to the Cape; he
obtained a high character, but suddenly failing into
his old scampish habits, deserted twice ; was ulti-
mately caught, tried, branded, and dismissed the
service. He then beesme a confirmed rogue ; was
sentenced to transportation for burglary a short time
since; obtained a ticket of leave, and made that ass
of it which brings him into his present position.

AN Imsn Row more frequently ends in broken
heads than stabbing, but a gross case of the latter
result was brought before Mr. Seeker at Southwark
on Monday. The quarrel, which appeared to be of
some standing among those engaged, broke out li.st
Saturday evening at a public-house in Bermondsey.
'Ulm three prisoners, Ryan and the two Burchells,
were charged with cutting and wounding one Griffin,
who was in hospital in too dangerous a state to ap-
pear, but the.following deposition was read

On Saturday evening I came to see my brother at Willow-
grove, Bermondsey. I had a pot of beer or better with
him, two brothers named Leary, and the wife of one of
them. My brother was fighting with Richard Burchell.
He went to fight him at his own house, and I followed him
and put him back, and wanted him to leave Burchell's
place ; and as I went a second time to get my brother
back I was struck on my eye with a part of a poker
or part of a brick. I do not know who did it. I was
outside the house and was knocked down, and when
down I caught a man by the feet to save my face
from three or four who were over me. My brother
was there and saw what happened. 1 held my arms up to
save my face, and held his legs at the same time It was
then I was stabbed in my side. Two strange men pulled
me up. When I was on the ground I felt a knife enter
my side, and the man whose legs I had hold of stabbed me.
I thought it was a bit of a stick he had when I first saw it
in the man's hand. I was not drunk, but I had been
drinking. The prisoner Richard Burchell was near me,
beating and kicking me all the time I was on the ground.
I afterwards saw that it was a black handled knife, and I
heard the spring when it was opened. I know nothing of
Abraham Burchell and Ryan.
The prisoners were remanded for a week.

THE RECORDER OF LONDON opened on Monday
the October sessions of the Central Criminal Court.
In his charge to the grand jury the learned recorder
remarked the heaviness of the calendar in roint of
the number of the cases. The character of the crimes
was comparatively light.

THE LEEDS WIZARD, HARRISON, charged with a
rape upon one of his women dupes, has been re-
manded again this week for further evidence.
ALDERMAN FAREBROTHER, at the Guildhall on
Monday, made a few general remarks upon betting.
One Charles Adams, a well-dressed man, was charged
with conspiring with another man not in custody to
defraud Richard Mott, 8, Princess street, Barbican.
The prosecu:or said he was a carpenter, and that on
Tuesday week last he saw the defendant at 7, Fleet-
lane, and there made a bet with him upon a horse-
race. He had won the bet., and could not get the
money.

Alderman FARPIROTHER : It is disgraceful from begin-
ning to end. You had no business to bet. You will ruin
yourself and faintly. We heard the other day of a noble-
man running away because he could not pay his debts,
caused by betting. I would have them all whipped round
the coarse.

The defendant said he had nothing to do with the
room where the betting was going on, though he let
it out to other people.

Alderman FAREBROTDIFII : I cannot deal with the case
You had better go home and attend to your family. Yon
are a fool, and he is a rogue. You are a fool to take his
word. You meant to cheat him, but he, having rather
more cunning, cheated you. In my opinion all bettors are
rogues, and ought to be sent to the treadmill. I cannot in-
terfere in the case.

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A CASE OF MOCK-AUCTION SWINDLE was brought
before the Recorder of Birmingham last week. The
question arose upon a gold watch and chain, which
had been bought for 101. by a Mrs. Hyanis at one of
these auctions. The watch and chain proved to be
worthless. For the defence it was contended that the
four prisoners bad been guilty of nothing more than
what took place every day in ordinary business and
by every auctioneer in the country, by giving a hyper-
bolical representation of the goods which they were
selling. The prisoners were found guilty of a con-
spiracy to defraud. In sentencing the prisoners, the
recorder satd the verdict was a most important one to
the public, inasmuch as it was impossible to be
ignorant of the fact that a great number of persons
were being defrauded from time to time in that town
at what were known as " mock auctions." The
present case would show the view which a jury took
of such proceedings :

It was so desirable to put a stop to these dishonest
practices, that he should not pass a slight sentence in the
present case, and he hoped the fact would go forth to the
public, and have the effect of shutting up all such places,
and that parties who might be defrauded would confer
with the excise and police authorities.
Nicholson and Maxwell were eac'i sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment, Ellen Duff to nine months,
aud Kirby to six months, with hard labour in each
ease.

WILLIAM JACKiON, charged with the murder of his
two children by cutting their throats, and afterwards
burying them, was finally examined at Chester on the
27th ult., and fully committed to take his trial on the
charge of wilful murder.
_

A -HORRIBLE MURDER has been committed at
Dover. A young laundress, Frances Wallace, aged :29,
some five years since hal a child by her sister's
husband. During the last few months the woman
made the acquaintance of a young carpenter in the
town, one Thigh. To him she confided her secret of
the parentage of the child. She appears to have
bsen afterwards alarmed at this rashness. She feared
that Bligh would tell her sister of the intrigue. Last
Sunday an unaccountable notion that Bligh had gone
to London by the six a.m. excursion train to tell her
sister the fact appears to have impressed itself upon
the poor woman's mind, and about seven a.m., when
the child got up, the mother took it into the front
r iom and deliberately cut its throat with a carving-
knife, and then rushed out screaming that she had
murdered her child. The neighbours, of course,
satisfied themselves of the fact, and seized the un-
happy woman, who, in the course of the day, was fully
committed for trial.

A CURIOUS CASE OF LIBEL, " Salter V. L IWe,'
was tried at the Old Bailey before the Recorder
oar Tuesday. The facts of the case were
these : in 1814 a gentleman named Hood died
at Chard, leaving certain properties devised by
will, which will was duly proved by the exe-
critors. The solicitor on this occasion was Mr.
S titer's employer. About fourteen years ago the
defendant, Joseph Lowe, set up claims to some of
the property, commenced carrying on a series of
petty annoyances against the prosecutor, and indicted
him for forgery. The bill was thrown out, and then
Vie defendant harassed the tenantry in every possi-
ble manner, by actions of ejectment, distresses, and
•arious acts of violence, such as driving their cattle
aid sheep off, and other forcible proceedings. He
eintinued his annoyances for a series of years, keep-
ing within the law. In August last be, however,
went beyond bounds, and deliberately published in
the hue and Cry an advertisement characterising
Mr. Salter as a thief and forger, and offering 501.
reward for his apprehension. This was the libel.
Tne case was proved in evidence, and the jury re-
turned a verdict of " Guilty." The Recorder respited
sentence till next session to consider what should be
done ; the prisoner to remain in Newgate.
Gt-ISEPPE LAGARVA, GIOVANNO BARBALANO, Italians,
and Motto Peltrich, an Austrian, three determined-
looking young fellows, were brought before the mayor
and other magistrates sitting at Portsmouth Court-
house on Saturday, charged with committing a most
desperate act of piracy on board the barque Globe,
of Alloa, and murdering Joseph Pattinson and Evan
Evans, English seamen, on board the ship. They
were further charged with wounding two more of the
crew, Daniel Cullen and David Thomas, with intent
to murder. The facts have already appeared in print.
The murder took place in the Black Sea. The cabin
boy. Nellegan, described the circumstances of this
horrible case. He said that he slept in the forecastle
of the vessel, and on the night referred to had turned
into his bunk, and had been I)inr, some time awake,
when he aaw twu men come down into the fore-
castle :

Joseph Pattinson and David Thomas were then in their
bunks. When the men came down, they had a piece of
lighted candle, and they went to the bunk of Joseph
Pattinson. A few seconds afterwards the candle was blown
out suddenly. After that he heard a heavy substance fall
out of Pat:inson's berth on to hia chest, and from that roll
on to the deck. He then heard a groan, and a noise as in
s person's throat, and a noise of struggling. After Pattiz).
•on had fallen out of kw bunk the two men came and set