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London, England, 1854-02-18 00:00:00

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WIFE-ASSAULT, that common crime, was charged
against John Bollard, an ivory-turner, at Worship-
street I'olice Court. He had been drinking profusely,
and, when the unhappy woman endeavoured to lead
him home, threatened to give her "another good
prop," or blow, showing that the act was habitual ;
and following up his threat by actions which resulted
in covering her face and clothes with blood. The
wife, nevertheless, refused to prefer any charge
against the brute, but a policeman who witnessed
the cowardly act took him into custody, and gave evi
dence which induced the magistrate to commit him
for three months' hard labour in the House of Cor
rection
The wife, with a battered face, was waiting outside the court
in much tribulation for her brutal husbatid's appearance, and,
on his being brought out by the guoler to be placed in the van,
she rushed forward, and, eagerly grasping him by the hand,
kissed him with unabated affection.
A MAN WHO CALLED HIMSELF MARTIN DIAZ, with
the aliases of Echevarria and Peat, was charged at
the Guildhall with obtaining money by means of a
forged letter of recommendation purporting to be
signed by the Spanish Ambassador in London. The
letter was couched in the following terms :

Spanish Embassy in London.
I recommend Martin Diaz (Spaniard) to all honourable per-
sons that may see this paper, so that they may assist him in
anything. JAVIER iSTERIE.
Given in London, Feb. G.
That the letter was a forgery was clearly shown to
the presiding alderman ; and the principals of two
Spanish mercantile firms in the City stated that the
prisoner had paraded the surreptitious document in
their offices, seeking to obtain money on the strength
of it. The paper on which the letter was written
had a lithographed headline and address ; and Sir
11. W. Carden in committing the prisoner for three
months naturally observed that the attempted fraud
" looked very much like a system." This hypothesis
the solicitors for the prosecution confirmed, stating
that the prisoner was one of a gang who were always
simulating a desire to get back to Spain, but never
really returned thither. The Spanish Ambassador
caused it to be intimated to the court that he would
test the prisoner's sincerity in the present instance,
and procure his transmission to his own country if ho
really wished to go there.

A SINGULAR CASE, entitled Bishop v. the Countess
of Jersey,WßS decided on Tuesday last, after two days'

FEBRUARY 18, 1854.

argtunent before Vice-Chancellor Kindersley. The
plaintiff was a widow lady who had for years kept
money in Messrs. Child's bank, of which the
Countess of Jersey is a principal partner, and seems
to have occasionally consulted the managers of the
establishment on business subjects, investments, Jcc.
In 1847 Mrs. Bishop, being possessed of certain
Dutch bonds, was advised by a Mr. Wood, then a
partner in the firm, to sell those bonds and invest
them upon some etter security. He also repre-
sented that his son was in a good way of business,
and, the bonds being sold, 5,0001. was accordingly
lent to Mr. Wood, jun., on a promissory note for five
years :
Two payments of interest were male in respect of this note,
but in July, 1849, Wood absconded and went to America, and it
turned out that no investment had ever been made, but Wood
had appropriated the 5,0001. to his own use. The present suit
was instituted to make the firm liable for the 5,0001., upon the
ground of such a recognition of the transaction by the firm, by
the entries in the books, by the employment of their own broker,
and the authority which Wood had to act for the firm generally
by the firm, as to constitute a complete liability on their part.
On the other hand, the defendants contended that the transac-
tion in question was out of the ordinary course of business, and
did not render them liable for the default of Wood.
The Vice-Chancellor expressed much sympathy for
the plaintiff, who had suffered a severe loss, but WAS
forced to give effect to his legal conviction that no
liability for Wood's proceedings could be established
against the other members of the banking firm.
Judgment was, therefore, given for the defendant.

LOUIS BkSSY, residing in Amwell-street, Penton
ville, has been examined and remanded at Worship-
street Police Court for having forged a medical
diploma. The forgery seems to have been connected
with a series of attempts upon various insurance
companies, and the prisoner had succeeded in
getting his name inserted, with the distinctive letters
of " M.D. of Edin., L.A.C.," into the " Medical Direc-

tory."
THE ALLEGED FRAUDS ON THE NORTH-WESTERN
RAILWAY COMPANY, said to have been committed by
Mr. Goalen, late chief officer in the audit department
of the company, were investigated at Marylebone
Police Court on Wednesday. The charges against
the prisoner involve two sums of 2,1841. and 1,5011.
respectively. Evidence was adduced to prove that
such moneys had duly passed into his hands from
other departments of the vast concern with which
he was connected, and that they had never been pro-
perly accounted for. Prisoner was apprehended on
the Ist day of the year at his own residence, near
Haverstock-hill. He was committed for trial.
Ax ITALIAN ORGAN-GRINDER, named Lancellotti,
sued one Berni, a chocolate-maker, residing at King's-
cross, for 61. 10s., due, as he alleged, for wages, cal
culated at the rate of 10s. per month, for practising
his itinerant profession about the streets :
Plaintiff stated that the defendant, being in Italy in the year
1850, engaged him to come over to England to play the organ in
the streets, which he represented as a most lucrative calling.
He complied, but having to travel the whole distance on foot
endured the greatest privations, sleepingin sheds and outhouses,
and not unfrequently in the open air. On reaching England he
was duly initiated as to the course be was to pursue in levying
contributions on the benevolent public. The plaintiff accord-
ingly commenced his operations, which eventually proved pretty
successful, the proceeds arising from which the defendant took
good care to secure to himself, while the plaintiff was most
wretchedly fed and housed, there being no less than forty-three
of hie unfortunate countrymen in one house, who slept three
and sometimes four in a bed, every two of whom were compelled
to subsist on two pound of bread with a quantity of water, into
which a small portion of tea was infused to give it a colouring.
Ifo wages were ever paid him, according to the understanding
when he set out from Italy.
The defence set up was that the speculation, as it was termed,
was a partnership, the proceeds of which were to be equally di-
vided between them; and that the defendant had made several
payments on the plaintiff's account, which he claimed by way of
set off.
This statementhaving been corroborated, his honour,
after commenting with much severity on the conduct
of such men as the defendant, who inveigled boys
to this country, often deprived them of their bard
earnings, and left them but too frequently in the
most abject and destitute state to shift for themselves,
thought a partnership had been established, which
left him no alternative but to direct a verdict for the
defend ant.

CITY, Saturday, One o'clock.
Consols, 911 # ; Mexican, 241 51; Spanish, 401 1;
ditto Deferred, 191 ; Russian Five per Cents., 104
6; ditto Four-and a-half per Cents., 89 91; Exche
quer Bills, 19 22 pm.; Birminghams, 104 4 ; Leeds,
66 ; Yorks, 23 ; North of France, 291 I ; Cale-
donian, 261 ; Strasburg, 281 1; Lyons, 221 ;
Peruvian, 66 8.

The Queen held a Privy Council at Buckingham
Palace this (Saturday) afternoon.
Some excitement was occasioned last evening
• within the House of Commons by the painful cir-
ollimitenee of Mr. Brisco, M.P., having fallen down
Wilbeassinbers' vestibule, in an apoplectic fit. For•
Mr. Brady, the member for Leitrim, who is
was at hand ; and by his care Mr.
Brisco was slowly recovered, and then removed to
his residence.

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Upwards of one-half of the Royal Sappers and
Miners who only returned a few weeks. ago after
their long service in the Kafir war at the Cape of
Good Hope have volunteered for service in the
companies under orders to proceed to the Medi-
terranean stations. 2,000 Minis rifles have been
drawn for the Royal Artillery, and all the gunners
ordered for foreign service are to be supplied with
that arm.
P, The 4th Regiment, now stationed at Edinburgh
Castle, are under orders for Portsmouth at the be-
ginning of next week. A number of recruits have
been obtained in Edinburgh.
At Southampton the greatest activity prevails.
Already the Ripon, the Manilla, and the Orinoco,
are nearly ready for troops.
The Government has also resolved on chartering
the Australasian Pacific Company's steamer Emu for
the conveyance of troops to the East. The Ripon
and Manilla will take one regiment, 1,133 strong,
which will be thus divided, viz.' the Ripon, 877, and
the Manila, 236. The Orinoco will take out a whole
regiment, 1,096 strong. There will be 32 officers and
11 horses to each regiment.

All the arrangements for the transport of the
troops to Malta are pushed forward with the utmost
despatch. The Guards will embark first, then the
regiments of the line in England and Scotland, and
lastly those in Ireland. The announcement of the
intention to send out a cavalry force is, for the
present, premature, There will, however, be five
squadrons of picked men, in all 500 sabres, included
in the division, for staff and escort service.
Besides Mr. Dunbar's ship, the Canterbury, the
Government have chartered for the transport of
stores to Malta the Orient, of 1,050, the Sir John
Pollock, of 640, and the Georgiana, of 780 tons.
For the transport of their heavy stores, horses,
and munitions of war, the Government, from the
tenders recently sent in, have selected the following
ships for survey :—The Pyrenies, Resolute, Her Ma-
jesty, John Mastertnan, Palmerston, Alipore, Manger-
ton, City of Carlisle, Earl of Shaftesbury, St. Hilda,
John Blake, and Countess of Loudon.

It is understood that Lord Raglan refused the
command of the British contingent for Turkey
unless it were made up to the number of 20,000
men—anything short of this he considered ineffective.
His opinion has been approved of, and six addi-
tional battalions were at once warned for active service.

The Government, having advertised for tenders for
the supply of 50,000 gallons of rum, five tenders were
made on Thursday, and all were accepted, making in
all 250,000 gallons.

LATEST FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.
TURKEY. _

Mehemet Pacha, formerly Ambassador in London,
has been named Capudan Pacha, in the room of
Riza Pacha, whose nomination to the post of Seras-
kier has been very well received by the public and
the army. The new Seraskier has decided on turn-
ing 30,000 Bashi Bozouks, or irregulars, into regular
troops, and on sending them to the army in Asia.
He has also decided on admitting Christians into the
service.
Seven large English and four French steamers
went into the Black Sea on the oth instant, convoy-
ing eight Turkish steamers and ten sailing -vessels,
with 7,000 troops and ammunition, to Batoum. One
English and one French steamer have gone to Varna.
The attitude of Persia is again stated to be dis-
quieting. M. Khanikoff had returned to Tabriz from
Teheran, where he had left his large staff of officers.
Prince Dolgorouki seems to recover his old influence
over the Shah.

Advices from Bucharest revive the often-repeated
rumour that Prince Gortschakoff is to be superseded
as Russian Commander in the Principalities. Such
reports are common of generals whose success ham
not equalled expectation. This time his successor is
stated to be the Crown Prince of Russia.

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