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Article SUMMARY OF IE¥S FOR JANUARY. ← Page 2 of 7 →
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Summary Of Ie¥S For January.
commemoration of the Prince of Prussia having on the 1 st ult . completed his fiftieth year of service in the Prussian army . To give greater effect to this military display , a special mission attended from this country to invest the Prince with the Order of the Bath .
In connection with this . quarrel , the conduct of the government of the little kingdom of Wurtemberg cannot be too highly lauded , in having refused a passage through its territories to the Prussian troops . In Sweden there ha . s been a vigorous stand made by the people in opposition to an attempt of the government of that country to do away with the blessing
( purely Masonic ) of religious liberty . On the 1 st of the month , the King of Portugal opened the Cortes of his kingdom with a speech from the throne , in which he directed their attention to the necessity of opening up the resources of the country by railways and other public works .
On the 3 rd , the Archbishop of Paris was sacrilegiously assassinated by a fanatic priest named Verger , who was tried for the offence on the 17 th , and sentenced to death . The funeral of the murdered prelate took place with great pomp on the 10 th . On the 9 th , the King of Sardinia opened his parliament at Turin , and congratulated the representatives of his kingdom on the position which Sardinia occupied in the councils of Europe .
The lull given to the expression of public discontent at Naples by the attempted assassination of the King has completely worn away , and fresh arrests are the order of the day in that capital . We learn also of the circulation of a new coinage among the people , bearing the effigy of Prince LucienM . urat , whom some parties are desirous to place on the throne once occupied by his father .
JUDICIAI
On the 5 th Mr . Russell Gurney opened the Central Criminal Court , for the first time , in his capacity of Recorder of the city of London , and sentenced to eighteen months'imprisonment an impostor named Philip Henry Arthey , who had defrauded several tradesmen by passing as Lord John Hay . On the 6 th , at the Middlesex sessions , two women , one possessed of < % ticket of leave , were found guilty of burglary , and sentenced to four years' penal servitude . On the 7 th several of the post-office servants were convicted of opening letters committed to their care , and of embezzling their contents . On the 8 th a policeman named Compton was convicted at the Central Criminal Court of burglary , and sentenced to transportation for life .
The 12 th was the first day of Hilary Term . Judgment was given in the case of Swinfen v . Swinfen , affirming that a client is bound by the arrangements made for him by his counsel at his own discretion . The same day there was opened a special sessions of the Central Criminal Court , when true bills were found both in the case of the bullion robbery and the Great Northern frauds .
On the 13 th , Pierce , Burgess , and Tester , were indicted for the gold-dust robbery , and were , after a trial of three days' duration , convicted , and sentenced , the former to two years' imprisonment , and the two others to transportation for fourteen years . On the 16 th , Bedpath was convicted of his frauds upon the Great Northern Company , and sentenced to transportation for life ; Kent was acquitted .
On the 23 rd , was tried in the Court of Exchequer , Hancock v . Lord Ernest Tane , with a verdict of £ 135 . 1 fts . for the plaintiff , who claimed £ 150 . 196 * ., for jewelry supplied to the noble defendant , who pleaded infancy . ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES . The last week of the old year was , as far as the town of Cardiff is concerned , one of horrors ; wrecks , suicides , sudden and accidental deaths , and attempted murders , swelling the dismal catalogue of casualties . On the 30 th of December , an inquest , the details of which were of a most harrowing character , was held at the University College Hospital , on the body of
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Summary Of Ie¥S For January.
commemoration of the Prince of Prussia having on the 1 st ult . completed his fiftieth year of service in the Prussian army . To give greater effect to this military display , a special mission attended from this country to invest the Prince with the Order of the Bath .
In connection with this . quarrel , the conduct of the government of the little kingdom of Wurtemberg cannot be too highly lauded , in having refused a passage through its territories to the Prussian troops . In Sweden there ha . s been a vigorous stand made by the people in opposition to an attempt of the government of that country to do away with the blessing
( purely Masonic ) of religious liberty . On the 1 st of the month , the King of Portugal opened the Cortes of his kingdom with a speech from the throne , in which he directed their attention to the necessity of opening up the resources of the country by railways and other public works .
On the 3 rd , the Archbishop of Paris was sacrilegiously assassinated by a fanatic priest named Verger , who was tried for the offence on the 17 th , and sentenced to death . The funeral of the murdered prelate took place with great pomp on the 10 th . On the 9 th , the King of Sardinia opened his parliament at Turin , and congratulated the representatives of his kingdom on the position which Sardinia occupied in the councils of Europe .
The lull given to the expression of public discontent at Naples by the attempted assassination of the King has completely worn away , and fresh arrests are the order of the day in that capital . We learn also of the circulation of a new coinage among the people , bearing the effigy of Prince LucienM . urat , whom some parties are desirous to place on the throne once occupied by his father .
JUDICIAI
On the 5 th Mr . Russell Gurney opened the Central Criminal Court , for the first time , in his capacity of Recorder of the city of London , and sentenced to eighteen months'imprisonment an impostor named Philip Henry Arthey , who had defrauded several tradesmen by passing as Lord John Hay . On the 6 th , at the Middlesex sessions , two women , one possessed of < % ticket of leave , were found guilty of burglary , and sentenced to four years' penal servitude . On the 7 th several of the post-office servants were convicted of opening letters committed to their care , and of embezzling their contents . On the 8 th a policeman named Compton was convicted at the Central Criminal Court of burglary , and sentenced to transportation for life .
The 12 th was the first day of Hilary Term . Judgment was given in the case of Swinfen v . Swinfen , affirming that a client is bound by the arrangements made for him by his counsel at his own discretion . The same day there was opened a special sessions of the Central Criminal Court , when true bills were found both in the case of the bullion robbery and the Great Northern frauds .
On the 13 th , Pierce , Burgess , and Tester , were indicted for the gold-dust robbery , and were , after a trial of three days' duration , convicted , and sentenced , the former to two years' imprisonment , and the two others to transportation for fourteen years . On the 16 th , Bedpath was convicted of his frauds upon the Great Northern Company , and sentenced to transportation for life ; Kent was acquitted .
On the 23 rd , was tried in the Court of Exchequer , Hancock v . Lord Ernest Tane , with a verdict of £ 135 . 1 fts . for the plaintiff , who claimed £ 150 . 196 * ., for jewelry supplied to the noble defendant , who pleaded infancy . ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES . The last week of the old year was , as far as the town of Cardiff is concerned , one of horrors ; wrecks , suicides , sudden and accidental deaths , and attempted murders , swelling the dismal catalogue of casualties . On the 30 th of December , an inquest , the details of which were of a most harrowing character , was held at the University College Hospital , on the body of