The Press.
London, England, 1856-04-19 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

&bouts. On the face of the deed there wos no
evi lence that Ilra. Booth designed the gift of
" 0001. lawful money of Great Britain "to be re-
duced under any circumstances whatever. The
decision of Vice Chanc.llor Stuart was, that this
sum must abate rateably with the original legacy;
and, as twenty-three years have elapsed since the
deed; was made, nineteen since it took effect,
nineteen also since this sum of 30,000/. was assigned
by Mr. Booth in satisfaction of a mortgage debt, and
sevoral years since his own death, new interests have
The conn el who attended at the hearing
indicate the number of parties concerned: there
appeared Mr. Bacon, Mr. Malins, Mr. Elmsley, Mr.
Craig, Mr. Selwyn, Mr. Sliebbeare, Mr. Hardy, Mr.
MactieSoll, and Mr. C. Hawkins.

THE EASTER TERM commenced on Tuesday. On
Wednesday the Attorney-General moved for a rule,
under the recently-passed statute, that the prisoner
Palmer be brought from Stafford and tried at the
Central Criminal Court. Lord Campbell said there
ought to be no delay, and that the prisoner might to
have notice. Rule granted. Mr. Grey then, on the
part. of Palmer, moved for copies of Dr. Taylors re
port upon his test made "for antimony and strych
nine." Rule refused by the court., after consideration,
on tho around that the prisoner could elicit such in •
formation on cross examination.
AIRS. MARY ELIZA M`NAIR, widow of the late
Captain M'Nair, of the 19th Madras Native Infantry,
who died in 1838, was brought before the Lord Mayor
on Tuesday, charged with defrauding the East India
Company by representing herself as a widow, and
continuing to receive as such the widow's pension
since her remarriage in 1846 to a Mr. Miniken. l'he
evidence of Mr. Mason, clerk in the military depart.
ment at the India•house, was to the effe:t. that. Mrs.
Miniken came on the sth instant, represelted her-
self as Mrs. M'Nair, gave in the usual declaration
that she was a widow and unmarried, and received a
warrant for the payment of her pension. Mr. Han-
vard, clerk to Messrs. Grindley, agents to the military
fund, said he had examined the registry at St. Mary
Bdw, and found an entry of the marriage of M'Nair,
widow, in 1840. The solicitor for the prosecution
requested that his lordship would remand the defen-
dant. The solicitor for the defence hoped the bail
required would be of moderate amount :

The LORD MAYOR: 1 shall be satisfied with two sure•
ties to the amount of 1001. I suppose the lady's husband
can come forward and bail her without difficulty.

The Solicitor for the Defence : Our defence-is that she
has no husband.
The case was then remanded.
AN IMPORTANT CASE OF RECEIVING STOLEN GOODS
was brought before Alderman Carter at Guildhall on
Tuesday. Henry Edwards, landlord of the Blue
Posts, Holborn-bars, was charged with receiving a
quantity of silk goods, knowing them to be stolen.
Evidence was given to prove the finding on the pri-
soner's premises of a vast quantity of silk tassels,
girdles, gimp, silk twist, reels of silk, etc.; all of which
wai recognised, besides two desks, by Mr. Potter,
silk merchant, of Ball-court, Smithfield, as part of
his property, stolen from his premises on the 28th of
March last. The prisoner was remanded.

MR. CHARMER, the Ordnance clerk at Portsmouth.
who lately absconded with 1,1301. of the officers' sale-
Hs:, was tried last Saturday before the Recorder of
Portsmouth, and sentenced to five years' penal ser-
vitude.

THREE CHILDREN HAVE BEEN POISONED at Long-
benton, Newcastle, it is supposed by doses of adul
terated 11 .ur of sulphur. They were suffering from
some cutaneous disorder, called by the villagers the
" water jogs," for which an old woman in the villages
recommended and sold to them doses of flour of sul-
phur. The children died within a few hours after
taking these doses. An investigation is being held.
A SCHOOL ASSISTANT, George Henry Sipple, was
charged on Wednesday before Mr. Henry, at 13.-ev-
street, with stealing a blanket off his bed at a Hol-
born coffee-shop, where lie bad slept the night
before. The prisoner admitted the theft, hut. said he
had stolen the blanket to buy breath. He was out of
employ anti starving. Committed for trial.

A CrtuEt. ATTEMPT TO POISON was made at Old-
bury, Worcester, last Tuesday, by a man named
Reynolds forcing some biehoride of mercury down
the throat of a woman he cohabi•ed with. The man
appears t) have been alarmed at d.-ath no:. imme-
diately taking place, and to have calle.l in assistance.
Reynolds was arrested, and the woman is at present
under medical treatm.nt.

MR. WOOLER, OF DARLINGTON, appeared in the
Darlington C.unty Court, on Wednesday, for refusing
to pay Dr. Jackson 161. 124. 6d. for attendance on
the deceased Mr 4. Wooler. The jury returned a
verdict for Dr. Jackson for the full amount. The
court was crow:led, and the e'idience manifested
no little against Mr. Wooler during the
proceedings, and drew home Dr Jackson in his
carriage in triumph Mr. Wouler declared in court
that he would not pay a farthing—" it was his wife's
blood•money."

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A TERRIBLE CASE OF ASSASSINATION °Ma% ed iD
Riipk rt street, Haymarket, on 'lllur.day evening. It
appears that at No. 45, a low lolging-house, the
lower rooms were used by an Italian, Stucchi,
as a French and Italian cafe. Stucchi went
into the country about a fortnight hack, leaving his
rooms in charge of his waiter Rouelli. On Thursday
evening four friends of Rouelli—Rossi, De Rudin,
Chieza, and Foschini—were holding a kind of parting
fes ival in honour of Runelli, who was about tr
return to Italy on Saturday. Suddenly Foschini
either felt or feigned illness, and lett with Rossi to
go to a chemist's shop. On their route thither Rossi
accidently felt a poignard in Fosehini's pocket, and
asked him whir, lie meant by carrying such a w apon
about with him. Fuschini appears to have made no
reply, but to have turned back to the restaurant,
Rossi going with him. Th!), reached the house,
and just as Rossi was opening the uoor, Foschini
rushed at him and struck him the regular assassin's
colpo di coltello, aiming straight for the heart over
the shoulder. Luckily the blow was stopped by the
upper ribs, but Foschini withdrew his poignard and
struck at Rossi a second and third blow as he re-
treated into the house. Chiesa and Rudio hearing
his cries ran to his assistance, and Rouelli, coining
in from the passage, was instantly attacked by
Foschini. Rossi escaped out of the room, when Fus-
chini, deliberately turning off the pas, attacked the
three men lelt, and striking Rouelli and Rudio to
the ground fled from the house, followed by Mesa,
who grappled with him in the street, but rece'ving a
terrible stab in the stomach let go his hold, and
Foschini escaped. An immense sensation was of
course created in the neighbourhood. The poor
sufferers were speedily removed to Charing cross
Hospital, and Rouelli, who was thought dying, was
induced to make a brief statement of the affair, which
was taken down by the police authorities, assisted by
the interpreter of Marlborough street. Various
reasons are assigned fur the attack by Foschini :
one is jealousy of some French femmes; another—
and the more likely one—that Rouelli was known to
he possessed of 5/. to pay his expenses to Rome.
The police are in active search after Foschini, but
as yet have not obtained a trace of him. Up to a
late hour last night Ruielli still lived and the others
were going on favorably.