The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-11 00:00:00

THE LATE REGENT'S PARK AFFAIR

(BEFORE MR. JUSTICE CROWDER.) .
THE QUEEN v. THOMAS GEORGE GOSLING, ESQ.—In this
case, the facts of which have been so recently before the
public, in the report of the procee4ingi before Mr. Bropgh,
ton, at the Marylebone police court, an application was
made to the learned judge for a writ of certiorari3O remova
the depositions and subsequent Troceedings from the Middle-
sex session to the central criminal court. The affidavit in
support of the application seth ftrth tharthe defendant, T,
George Gosling, had been giveranto cuSto4;in'tlie Regent's-
park, by one John Mitchell, a licensed drover, upon
a charge of enticing divers females of ten

to expose

their naked-persons to his -sight, when he gave his correct
name and address, and he was suffered to depart, and no
further proceedings were had until he was summoned before
Mr. Broughton at the Marylebone police court, on the 23rd
of July, who, after hearing the witnesses, held the defen-
dant to bail to ar.swer the charge at the sessions. An
indictment fer misdemeanour having been preferred, it was
urged that as the offence charged was an offence at' common
law, depending upon nice shades and distinctions in the
evidence in support thereof, and that nice and intricate
points of law of more than usual difficulty and importance
might arise on the trial of the said indictment, which would
render it important that the same should be tried before one
of the learned judges of the superior courts. It being usual
to send cases of that description to the central criminal,
court, where some of these judges preside— as no doubt had
the worthy magistrate been asked would have been done—the
removal of the proceedings by certiorari was asked. The
learned judge ordered the writ to issue forthwith, the bail
to enter into fresh recngnisances in that court. Duri

day Mr. Thomas George Gosling, the defendant, toot,
with his bail, Mr. Gosling and Mr. Bo2tb, attended biefore
the judge, and entered into their recognisances, the de-

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fend-antin £4,000, and the bail in £2,060 each, to give the
required notices of trial and appearance at the Central
Criminal Court on the removal of the proc

from the
Central

!cesslry. by t

clerkenwell Sessions, that being
Criminal Court Act. It is, however, understood that an
application will still be made to remove the indictment into
the Court of Queen's Bench, to afford the opportunity of a
trial by a special jury.

The heat of the weather during the last month had a
material influence on the receipts of the theatres and other
places of public amusement in Paris The amount received
shows a decrease of 371,9451. as compared with the month
of June, and of 714,228 f. as compared with May.
The Sisters of Charity have purchased a large property
at Baktcbe Pasha, on the Bosphorus, for the purpose of
establishing an hospital for the aged of bosh sexes. The
Ottoman Government has rendered them every facility in
the conclusion of the affair, and has promised to give them
every protection and assistance they may require.
HALF-YEARLY MEETING OP THE ULSTER RAILWAY.—
The shareholders were not content with the dividend pro-
posed by the directors, but carried a resolution increasing
it to 255, instead of £1 per share, as proposed. The retir-
ing directors were re-elected with the exception of Mr.
Scott and Mr. Winder; and Mr. Bell was reappointed
auditor.

THE BALTIC MEDAL. —We understand the medal for
Baltic services will not be ready for distribution for nearly
three months. No definite arrangement has yet been
made as to clasps ; bat we cannot conceive it possible
that such an unmeaning thing as a Baltic medal without
them will ever be decided upon. In order to give value
to the medal, it is essential that clasps for Bomarsunfl,
Sweaborg, or boat service, should be added to it.—United
Service Gazette.
WrroteseLe DESTRUCTION OF. Doos..—At the Borough
Court of Bolton, on Thursday, about twenty persons were
summoned for allowing their dogs to be at large in the
streets, unmuzzled, after the notice from the mayor.
Several of the parties were fined 5s and costs, and the
remainder were required to destroy the animals. After the
sitting of the court thirty-six dogs were brought to the
police court and destroyed, in addition to those for which
the persons were summoned.
Telegraphic accounts from Constantinople to-day report
that the government had announced their plan for the
establishment of a State bank. The capital (says The
Times city article) is to be 43,000,000, and the bank is to
have the privilege of issuing lams to a like amount. .It is
to undertake, however, to negotiate a 5 per cent. loan for
£5,000,000 at 90, to be applied to take up inconvertible
paper and debased currency, the interest on which, to-
gether with 1 per cent. for a sinking fund, into be provided
for by the revenues and tributes of the Danubian Princi-
palities. The concession for the bank is to be granted to
those among the competitors who will offer to take the
whole or the largest portions of the loan ; but as at the
present value of Turkish bonds in the London markets that
transaction would involve a loss of about 4 per cent., and
it is also alleged that further large sums are likely to be
required to clear off the elpenses of the war, there seems
little probability of any respectable capitalists being willing
to entertain the project.
MANSLAUGHTER WITH A SCYTHE.—On Monday, an in-
quest was held by Mr. Dinsdale, at Smeaton, in the North
Riding of Yorkshire, on a farm labourer named Cockfield.
It appeared that Cockfield and a party of mowers, who bad
been working for Mi. Fisbbourne, of Smeaton, were drink.
ing on Saturday -night at a public house, and after leaving
it they were met by three other mowers, of whom Thomas
Bowes was one. Cockfield and Bowes quarrelled about
mowing. and Bovrea struck Cockfield with his scythe, and
the second blow inflicted a terrible wound on Cockfield's
knee, of which he died. Thomas 'Pease and Wm. Maise
deposed that the men had taken three pints-of ale each.
After inflicting the wound, Bdwes was running away, but
was seized by the other mowers, He was sober. George
(4alilee deposed that there had been an angry feeling
between the two men ; that Bowes used to jeer Cockfield
for keeping a lodging-house, and called "filthy."
Margaret Towler said she heard some one call out" kill him,
kill him out," but she did not know who it was. Mr.
Gibbs;-surgeon, said the wound was five inches long, and
passed through the principal artery vein and nerve. The
wound caused death in a few minutes. A verdict of man-
slaughter was returned, and Bowes was cenemitted far trial
at the next York assizes,
BRUTAL CASE oF. WIFE KILLING AT Pun ow NEAR
BRISTOL.--An A inquest was held on Friday, at the village
of publow, Somersetshire, on the body of a middle aged
woman, who had been killed in a fit of drunken jealousy
by her husband. The deceased, who worked at the farm
of a Mr, Wait, had been invited to take part in a merry-
making at that house. The husband, it would appear,
offered some objection to her going; notwithstanding
which, however, she went and took a share in the enjoy,
went. On her return home at night, she went by the way
of the King's Arms Inn, Publow, iutedding to take home
a pint of beer to her husband. At that place the husband,
who had been drinking somewhat freely, met her and began to speak harshly to her, telling her to "go with
Daniel Flook and his cronies." From this allusion, it is
supposed that he was jealous of Flook. Further words
,passed, and he struck her when in the parch of the house
one or two heavy blows. They then went into a room,
and he again struck her on the, head, and she fell, striking
hor head against one of the tables. She was taken up
insensible, and her head was washed with vinegar, but
she died. On the prisoner being told of her death, he
said to thC woman who told him, " say two words to me,
and I'll serve thee the same." The coroner's jury
returned a verdict of " Manslaughter " against the hus-
band, James Ford ; but it is understood that the magis-
trates purpose preferring an indictment against him for
the graver offence of wilful murder.
LAW AS TO POLICEMEN TAXING. ]?ER4ONS IN CHARGE.
—At Bow-street, on Friday, Mr. Robert Holland, Museum-
street, charged Thomas Platt, 311 A division, with &breach
of duty. He said that on the 29th ult, at nine o'clock at
night, his shopman was interrupted in closing the shutters
by a man who leaned against them. The man used abusive
language, and refused to go away. A policeman was sent
for, but he declined to take the man in charge, and the man
laughed, and said, "I have lived seven years in St. Giles's,
and I think that will lick you," The man was the
worse for liquor, bat not so much so as to justify a
charge of being drunk and incapable. The defendant
said that when told to take the man in charge he replied
that he could not take him on such a charge, but that he would
tell the man to go away, and he would take him if he
refused. He (the defendant) had not heard any bad lan-
guage. Ile had been in the force for ten years, and this
was the first complaint against him.—Mr. Henry said that
the law does not allow a constable to take a man in charge
for using bad language, unless he (the constable) heard it
used. He had replied rightly that he would speak to the
man, and would take him in charge if he repeated his mis-
conduct. It would be most mischievous if a constable had
the power to take people into custody on such charges, for
if so, people in low nighbourhoods would be continually
giving each other in charge.—The complainant admitted
that the magistrate's view was right, and acknowledged
himself mistaken. The charge was dismissed.
SHAMEFUL TREATMENT OF SEAMEN.—Mr. john May,
second mate, and several of the crew of the ship Kenilworth,
from Bombay and the Mauritius, now lying in the London
docks, appeared before Mr. Corrie, at the police-
office, to sustain claims for wages against Captain Frederick
Bristow, the master of the ship. The ship came into dock
thirteen days ago, and in consequence of the master refusing
to keep his appointments, sonic of the seamen, to whom
sums varying from £l2 to £3O each were due, were reduced
to the deepest distress. The excuse for not paying the
seamens' wages was that the ship was mortgaged,
and there - was a dispute between the owners and
the mortgagees. The man said they had navig
case soa•
ted the ship, laden with a most valuable
car ,
to thisharpdo, he rt,
at an
once d th
issued
summonses for the attend-
ance of the master and mate of the ship, but they had not
attended. The magistrate Elaid the Payment of the wages
had nothing to do with the dispute between the owner and
mortgagees. It having been proved that the master signed
the seamen's accounts, the captain was ordered te pay Mr.
May 419 16s, and £2 12s 6d costs, and the amounts due
to the other men, with co to,
anti in default, within twenty-
four hours, he Should issue distress warrants against the.
goods and chattels, &c ,
on board the ship. The magis-
trate also ordered that each seaman should be paid thirteen
(14,1' pay as costs. If the whole were not settled, the costs
would be doubled,

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MANSLAUGHTER AT PRESTON

- On Friday, at the Lancaster Assizes, berore Mr. Justice
Willes, Richard Dngdale, an old man, 65 years of age,
was charged with the -thauslauibter of his wife, Mary
Dugdale, at Preston. Mr. A, Cross prosecuted, and the
prisoner was defended by Mr. John Cross. The evidence
showed that the prisoner and his wife, up to the time
in question, had lived- upon the most amicable and
peaceable terms, and there appeared to be no failing,
except. that when one got something to drink the other
must drink too. On the 22nd May, they had been off
drinking together, and had been at home for soma time
when, about half-past six o'clock, a lad named R.
Burscon, hearing quarrelling, went to thee window of the
prisoner's house, and saw him take up a pair of tongs
by the mouth end and hit his wife on her head with
the knob. She fell to the floor immediately on being
struck. The boy who witnessed it went home and told
his grandmother,., and shortly after some neighbours
came in, lifted her up, and carried her to-bed ; but she
never spoke, and sbetl:the following morning, air. Bernard Halden, surgVor4 assisted by Mr. John Rigby,
afterwards made " postmortern " examination, and
the appearances then fougd, were such as would be likely
to be made with a blow froth a poker, there being a livid
'ring with the- centre untouched, The appearances
could not have been procitteed by a fall down stairs,
as the fall must have been directly perpendicular to
cause them, they being exactly ou the crown of the head,
Thejudge summed up in the most careful and impartial
map'ner, and the jury, after a careful consideration, re-
turped a verdict of " Guilty." 1-1 s Lordship, in passing
Sentence, said be ba,l been convicted of the manslaughter
of his wife, by striking her on the head with a pair of
brings. When he looked at the depositions it appeared
to amount to murder. He had consulted his brother
judge.as to whether he could save him from the extreme
punishment .for manslaughter, but found. it r,P. ;--
sible to do so, for he had struck a woman v
deadly weapon, and the sentence war
ported for the term of his natural life

We read in the New York 7'intea of the 25th ult. :
" Mrs. H. Beecher' Stowe sails on Wednesday next for
Europe. She will bring out her book, On the Influence
of Slavery upon the White Population,' during her absence,
both in England and in the United States."

There stands on the old market-place of Madgeburg
the statue of Emperor Otto the Great, almost 1,000 years
old, beside which are the statues of his two wives.
Remarkable for their great antiquity, and as thev have
withstood even the destruction of the city in 1631, they
are undergoing a thorough renovation.

JUDICIAL PLEASANTRY.—During the trial of a cause
before Mr. Baron Alderson, at the Stafford Assizes, Mr.
Huddlestone was obliged to leave the court in consequence
of his nose bleeding, on which the learned Baron faceti-
ously remarked that this was the first instance he knew
of a learned counsel shedding his blood in a cause. (Much
laughter.)
TAUT VALE RAILWAY. —At a meeting. of the directors of
this railway, held on Friday, it was resolved to recommend
the shareholders, at the approaching annual meeting,
to divide 4 per cent for the half-year, or 8 per cent per
annum. After payment of this dividend, and paying
also the usual amount to the depreciation fund, there
will be a very amplet.

alance

An
extranrdinary circumstance has occurred in a villag'e
not far from King's Lynu, Norfolk. A clergyman, who
had been missed for three weeks, was found a few days
since in a field of corn in a dreadful condition ; he was
just alive, but Ries and insects had actually eaten his akin.
It is supposed. that the unfortunate gentleman who is
insane, had passed the three weeks in the geld, and that he
had derived a scanty subsistance from the soarcely ripe ears
of corn.

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JUDGMENTS DEFAULT IN THE COUNTY COURTS.—In
the New county Courts Ac', which will come into force
on the ht of October, an alteration of considerable
importance will take effect in actions, wherein judgment' is suffered by default. It is enacted by the 29th section,
that in any action in a County Court for a debt exceeding
..20 the plaintiff may require a defendant to give notice
of his intention to defend, otherwise judgment to be called
up without proof of the demand.

TEE SCOTS GREYS AT COVENTRY.—The Ovventry Herald
contains an account of a public dinner given on Wed.
nesday last, by the inhabitants of Coventry, to the Scots
Greys. The officers and men of the 10th Hussars, now
quartered in the barracks, and the pensioners of the
district, were also amoag the guests. Tee company at
dinner numberd about .1.50, of whom 300 were privates,
3.0 othcers, and 120 civilians. The chair was occupied
by the Mayor,

THE BISHOP OF DURHAM'S EPISCOPAL RESIDENCE..—
Whoever may be Bishop of Durham, he will not, in all
probability, be long the occupant of Auckland Castle, it
being understood that the Ecclesiastical. Commissioners
have determined to apply that stately palace, with its
extensive park and lands, to purposes that will augment
the funds for the creation and enlargement of benefice's elsewhere, in which case a suitable epi.copal residence for
our dioebsan will have to be provided in or near the city
of Durham. The park at Auckland is believed to be full
of valuable minerals.—Sunderland Herald.

Ronnenv ON ROYAL DOMAINS.—On Thursday evening,
at a quarter past nine o'clock, Matthew Ray, butler,
while walking in the Home Park, Windsor, was met by
two men at a place not 200 Ards from the residence of
three nark keepers. He was knocked down by one of
the villains, and whilst he lay on the ground partially
stunned, his pockets were rifled of six sovereigns, a purse,
and some silver. Immedlatel
money they made offthey got, of possession the
tow
which is near to one of theards Charier Tull's Lock,
keeper's res, Had
Ray sufficiently recovered to have given thelidence alarm the
robbers would have been captured, as the only way' of
escaping was by crossing the Thames.
SINGULAR DEATH.—On Monday, a telegraphic mes-
sage was received in Barnsley, to the effect that Mr.
Henry Cordeaux, a young man of great promises, aged 23
years, son of Mr. John Cordeaux, linen manufa.cturer,
Barnsley, who was out on his journey at Biddesford.
Devonshire, had left his inn on Sunday morning for a
walk on the sands, and that one of his boats had been
found embedded in the sand, but his person could not be
found ; there was no doubt that he had been fast in the
sand when the tide came in and swept him into the sea.
Mr. Calvert, clerk to Mr. Cordeaux, was at once
despatched to the place. On Tuesday morning another
telegraphic message was received, stating, his body had
been washed on shore and recovered. Deceased was
a young man universally respected and esteemed wherever
he went. His loss is much lamented in Barnsley.
ACCIDENT B 1 Macritisenx.—Another dreadful accident
from machinery has occurred at Holton Beckering. W.
Bratton, a steady young man, owner of one of Clayton
Co.'s steam engines, was thrashing, and got upon the top
of the engine to scrape off the R heat that :had alighted
there. By some mischance his foot slipped, and his
right foot got entangled in the machinery at the drum,
The accident was one of the most fearful and excruciating
character, and at the same time one of the most astonish.
ing. There was a space not more than an inch and a half
broad for the foot to go into, yet the strong nailed
boot and foot were drawn in; the boot was torn to pieces,
and the foot crushed horribly. The sufferer screamed
out, awl slowly the leg was drawn down, the bone crushed
and the flesh torn up to beyond the knee and halfway up
the thigh.. The strap was thrown eft and the engine
stopped. The unhappy man, suffering torments indeste-•
bable. begged to be extricated, but no one
the part of the machinery to Pieces which t was neces,
sary to remove to get 'him out. Mr. Baker, surgeon, of
Wragby, was sent for, and he arrived 'three-quarters
of an hour after the accident, and aided in getting the
limb removed from the dreadful vice. Very little blood
was lost, but the shock was so fearfully intense that the
injured man did not survive more than two hours.
THE Aus•rniaNt NAVY.—The Pays says :—Austria is at
present making very serious efforts to increase her navy.
The first line.of- battle ship (90 guns) which she ever
thought of possessing was put on the stocks at Pola a
few days back, under the name of the Emperor, and is
to have a screw propellor, with an 800 horse power.
Two other ships of the line of the same dimensions are
likewise to be immediately commenced, and according
to orders sent from Vienna, are to be urged on as rapidly
as possible. Independently of these first-rate vessel; twq
screw frigates, the Adria and the Danube, are being ter-
minated in the yards of Illoggio, as well as a screw corvette
at Venice, which has received the name ofthenVa Vice-Ad.,
mini) mind Dandolo, in honour of the admiral of that
died lately. At the same time the armament of a screw
despatch-boat, the Prince Eugene of Savoy, is so nearly
of
completed that she will be ready for sea in the beginning
August. To complete these measures, Austria is
about to found two maritime arsenals, one at Fiume,
and the other at Lussin. Since the war in the East, all
the nations of Europe perceive clearly that a naval force
is indispensable to enable them to preserve their rank
and power in the world.
LEFATAL COLLIERY ACCIDENT. —,A Melancholy occurrence
took place on Friday at the Neachell Colliery, Ball Plea)
a short distance prom Willenhall. At six o'clock in the
morning seven men, including Henry Hodgkiss! the
butty, ' and two lads, descended a stone pit belonging to
Messrs, Sparrow, Five of the men and the two boys pro.. ceoded at once into the workings, and two of the men,
France and Hayward, remained at the bottom. France
soon perceived the presence of foul air, and called to
Hodgkiss, the "batty," to withdraw the other Men and
the boys from the headway. The men at the bottom gave
the parsecs on the bank.,
the alarm by shouting to
Hodgkiss soon after reac.hed the bottm, dragging the
boys, one by each hand.
then
,e Whole party, with the
exception of the " buttY, erl became insensible. In the
meantime the men on the bank lowered a skip, and the
insensible men and boys were placed in it to be taken up.
When the skip was about eight or nine yards from the
ground, one of the insensible men, William Burns, fell from
it. On reaching the bank the others were taken out, and
the usual means to restore animation were applied, we are
happy to state, with perfect success. The skip was again
lowered for the purpose of finding Burns, but twenty
minutes elapsed, in consequence of the stifling gas, ere the
men could reach the bottom. The body of the unfortun-
ate man was found dead, with a fearful wound ni the left,
side of the head. He had been ailing for some time past.,
and the gas probably had a greater effect upon him than,
the other men.

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