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Summary Of News For August
On the 21 st , the Lords advanced several bills a stage , and ordered the production of some papers Connected with the recruiting of the Indian army . In the Commons the Divorce Bill was read a third time and passed . On the 24 th , the Lords took the Commons' amendments of the Divorce Bill into consideration , agreeing to some , and departing from others .- In the House
of Commons Sir De Lacy Evans made some inquiries with respect to the employment of the German Legion at the Cape , v On the 25 th , the Lords forwarded several bills a stage , and the Commons agreed to the Lords ' amendments upon the Divorce Bill . On the 28 th , Parliament was prorogued by Royal Commission , and so terminated the first session of the new parliament .
FOREIGN . With respect to foreign affairs , we have still to regret the continuance of the Indian mutiny , with all its attendant horrors of plunder , rape , and assassination . There has been in France a mockery of a state trial to try the shadows of some imaginary conspirators against the life of the Emperor ; the whole was a thing manifestly got up by the Parisian police according to order . The question of the elections in the Danubian Provinces has led to a misunderstanding between the Porte and several of the Powers— -parties to the treaty of Paris . From Italy We
learn that the pope has been making a personal inspection of the condition of the estates of the church , much to the annoyance of the king of Naples , and is now about to pay a visit of ceremony to the Grand Duke of Tuscany . A marriage has been arranged through the good offices of Prince Albert , between the king of Portugal and a German Princess of some territory we never before , in our ignorance of geography , heard of , and we question if its existence is known to eithei ^ Wyld or Arrowsmith . A royal marriage has been celebrated between the ArchduJ & e : Maximilian and the daughter of Kingv-Leopold * of Belgium—a princess of surpassing beauty . Prince Albert was present on behalf of the queen at the royal espousals .
JUDICIAL . On the 27 th of July , Messrs . Fox and Henderson obtained a first-class certificate in the Birmingham district bankruptcy court . On the 29 th , at the Derby Assizes , the Rev . M . Highmore obtained a verdict for £ 750 damages for slander against the Countess of Harrington . On the 7 th of August , James Spollen was put upon his trial at the Commission Court , Dublin , for the murder of Mr . Little . The trial lasted three days , and resulted in the acquittal of the prisoner . He has been since re-arrested on the charge of robbery .
On the 10 th , at the Cornwall Assizes , a man named Thomas Podley was sentenced to imprisonment for blasphemy . . On the 11 th , an action for crim . con ., tried at the Surrey Assizes , the plaintiff obtained a verdict , with one farthing damages . It will be known in history as Lyle v . Herbert , and remarkable for being not only the last of its kind , but for the depravity of morals which it exhibited , and for the licence assumed by the counsel for the plaintiff .
On the 17 th , Charles Harrison was sentenced at the Old Bailey to eighteen months'imprisonment ; and Ryder Durant and Roger Durant each to six years ' penal servitude , for extensive sugar robberies in the City . On the 18 th , S . R . Clarke was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to twelve months' imprisonment , under the Bishop of Oxford ' s Act , for the abduction of a young girl under sixteen years of age , the daughter of a Jew .
On the 25 th , George Cox was found guilty , at the Central Criminal Court , of stabbing with intent . Sentence was deferred , the jury having recommended him to mercy , as the victim of his violence was the paramour of his wife . On the same day also , at the Central Criminal Court , John Payne was acquitted , on the ground of lunacy , of the murder of Richard Empson , in . St . Martin ' s workhouse . On the same day , in the same court , an Italian , named Salvi , was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude , for a murderous attack with a dagger
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Summary Of News For August
On the 21 st , the Lords advanced several bills a stage , and ordered the production of some papers Connected with the recruiting of the Indian army . In the Commons the Divorce Bill was read a third time and passed . On the 24 th , the Lords took the Commons' amendments of the Divorce Bill into consideration , agreeing to some , and departing from others .- In the House
of Commons Sir De Lacy Evans made some inquiries with respect to the employment of the German Legion at the Cape , v On the 25 th , the Lords forwarded several bills a stage , and the Commons agreed to the Lords ' amendments upon the Divorce Bill . On the 28 th , Parliament was prorogued by Royal Commission , and so terminated the first session of the new parliament .
FOREIGN . With respect to foreign affairs , we have still to regret the continuance of the Indian mutiny , with all its attendant horrors of plunder , rape , and assassination . There has been in France a mockery of a state trial to try the shadows of some imaginary conspirators against the life of the Emperor ; the whole was a thing manifestly got up by the Parisian police according to order . The question of the elections in the Danubian Provinces has led to a misunderstanding between the Porte and several of the Powers— -parties to the treaty of Paris . From Italy We
learn that the pope has been making a personal inspection of the condition of the estates of the church , much to the annoyance of the king of Naples , and is now about to pay a visit of ceremony to the Grand Duke of Tuscany . A marriage has been arranged through the good offices of Prince Albert , between the king of Portugal and a German Princess of some territory we never before , in our ignorance of geography , heard of , and we question if its existence is known to eithei ^ Wyld or Arrowsmith . A royal marriage has been celebrated between the ArchduJ & e : Maximilian and the daughter of Kingv-Leopold * of Belgium—a princess of surpassing beauty . Prince Albert was present on behalf of the queen at the royal espousals .
JUDICIAL . On the 27 th of July , Messrs . Fox and Henderson obtained a first-class certificate in the Birmingham district bankruptcy court . On the 29 th , at the Derby Assizes , the Rev . M . Highmore obtained a verdict for £ 750 damages for slander against the Countess of Harrington . On the 7 th of August , James Spollen was put upon his trial at the Commission Court , Dublin , for the murder of Mr . Little . The trial lasted three days , and resulted in the acquittal of the prisoner . He has been since re-arrested on the charge of robbery .
On the 10 th , at the Cornwall Assizes , a man named Thomas Podley was sentenced to imprisonment for blasphemy . . On the 11 th , an action for crim . con ., tried at the Surrey Assizes , the plaintiff obtained a verdict , with one farthing damages . It will be known in history as Lyle v . Herbert , and remarkable for being not only the last of its kind , but for the depravity of morals which it exhibited , and for the licence assumed by the counsel for the plaintiff .
On the 17 th , Charles Harrison was sentenced at the Old Bailey to eighteen months'imprisonment ; and Ryder Durant and Roger Durant each to six years ' penal servitude , for extensive sugar robberies in the City . On the 18 th , S . R . Clarke was sentenced at the Central Criminal Court to twelve months' imprisonment , under the Bishop of Oxford ' s Act , for the abduction of a young girl under sixteen years of age , the daughter of a Jew .
On the 25 th , George Cox was found guilty , at the Central Criminal Court , of stabbing with intent . Sentence was deferred , the jury having recommended him to mercy , as the victim of his violence was the paramour of his wife . On the same day also , at the Central Criminal Court , John Payne was acquitted , on the ground of lunacy , of the murder of Richard Empson , in . St . Martin ' s workhouse . On the same day , in the same court , an Italian , named Salvi , was sentenced to fifteen years' penal servitude , for a murderous attack with a dagger