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The Week
Australian gold fields is the failure of the Fitzroy diggings at Port Curtis . A great rush had taken place to that spot , and the disappointment was excessive . The parliament of Victoria opened by Sir Henry Barkly on the 9 th October . The fate of the reform bill in the upper house was looked forward to with much interest . It was understood to be the intention of the ministry , in case this measure is again rejected , to demand a dissolution of Parliament , -r —~
At tl > e Central Criminal Court last week Mr . William Hudson Guernsey was arraigned on the charge of stealing a few sheets of printed paper belonging to our Lady the Queen , or to the Secretary for the Colonies . His counsel contended that there was no case to go before the jury , as there was no evidence of felonious intention in the act of taking the papers . This was an admission that the prisoner certainly did take a copy of the despatches from the desk of Mr . Miller in the Colonial Ofiice . In reply , the attorney-general contended that the act was a
larcsny ; but the jury did not think so , and the gentleman was acquitted ,- ™ Samuel Asquith , who killed George McDonald in a prize-fight , has been sentenced tr > three months ^ imprisonment . —The trial of Roper , on the charge of defrauding the insurance company , arising out of the burning of his house at Greenwich , has been again postponed . — -- —Henry Rudledge was charged with a felonious assault upon his own daughter , and his second wife , the girl ' s stepmother , was charged with aiding and abetting him . The girl ' s evidence was of the most
revolting character , but the jury discredited it , and returned a verdict of not guilty , —— -George Simpson was charged with stabbing Henry Goodwin , a warder in Coldbath-nelds prison ; The jury found the prisoner guilty of intending to do grievous bodily harm , and the ; judge sentenced him to twenty years' penal servitude . — --An attempt was made to murder a wife on Tuesday , at Wellington-street , Stepney . The victim , Sarah Goodey , has been separated for some two or three months from her husband , and was in bed when he gained admittance to her room *
locked the door , and attacked her with a razor . She made her escape after being severely wounded , and was conveyed to the hospital . The man was apprehended and taken before the magistrate at the Thames police-court , when he was remandedfor a week . — - ^ -The Rev . Alfred Poole lately took proceedings against the Hon . and Rev . Mr . Baring , with a view to obtain a public investigation into the charges brought against him . His solicitors made an application that the writ served upon Mr . Baring ^ should remain in abeyance until it was known whether
the rule nisi obtained against the archbishop would induce his grace to investigate the case . Were that done , there would be no necessity of another investigation in a court of law . This proposal was declined by Mr . Baring , but upon a hearing at chambers , time was granted upon the plea . At the Marlborough-street policecourt , Mr . Rarey , the horse tamer , attended to complain of the conduct of a firm at the west end , who had used his name in connexion with some new food for cattle . He stated that his name had been improperly used . At the Guildhall
tvvo men , Perry and drowning , were charged with renting a house , and then removing and selling the fixtures and everything in the house that it was possible to make away with . Even the lead on the roof was not spared . The prisoners were remanded . ——Kochanowsky , the Russian baron , and'his alleged confederate , have been committed for trial on the charge of being in possession of three engrossed plates intended for the manufacture of forged Russian notes . In the Court of Probate and Divorce an important case , Keats v . Keats and
Montezuma , has been tried . Mr . Keats , who was recently sheriff of London , sought a dissolution of his marriage with Mrs . Keats , on the ground that she had committed adultery with a Spanish music teacher named Don Pedro de Montezuma . The defence set up was that the conduct of the lady arose mainly from ill-treatment on the part of her husband , and that he had forgiven and condoned the offence . The jury returned a verdict to the effect that Mrs . Keats had committed adultery with
Don Pedro de Montezuma , that Mr . Keats had not condoned the offence , and that Montezuma should pay to that gentleman damages to the amount of I , 000 Z . The Rev . Henry Cherry , rector of Burghfielcl , near Reading , has instituted proceedings against Mrs . Cherry for the restitution of conjugal rights . Some time ago , Mrs . Cherry exhibited articles of the peace against her husband , accusing him of violent and brutal conduct towards her , and declaring that to protect her life she
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week
Australian gold fields is the failure of the Fitzroy diggings at Port Curtis . A great rush had taken place to that spot , and the disappointment was excessive . The parliament of Victoria opened by Sir Henry Barkly on the 9 th October . The fate of the reform bill in the upper house was looked forward to with much interest . It was understood to be the intention of the ministry , in case this measure is again rejected , to demand a dissolution of Parliament , -r —~
At tl > e Central Criminal Court last week Mr . William Hudson Guernsey was arraigned on the charge of stealing a few sheets of printed paper belonging to our Lady the Queen , or to the Secretary for the Colonies . His counsel contended that there was no case to go before the jury , as there was no evidence of felonious intention in the act of taking the papers . This was an admission that the prisoner certainly did take a copy of the despatches from the desk of Mr . Miller in the Colonial Ofiice . In reply , the attorney-general contended that the act was a
larcsny ; but the jury did not think so , and the gentleman was acquitted ,- ™ Samuel Asquith , who killed George McDonald in a prize-fight , has been sentenced tr > three months ^ imprisonment . —The trial of Roper , on the charge of defrauding the insurance company , arising out of the burning of his house at Greenwich , has been again postponed . — -- —Henry Rudledge was charged with a felonious assault upon his own daughter , and his second wife , the girl ' s stepmother , was charged with aiding and abetting him . The girl ' s evidence was of the most
revolting character , but the jury discredited it , and returned a verdict of not guilty , —— -George Simpson was charged with stabbing Henry Goodwin , a warder in Coldbath-nelds prison ; The jury found the prisoner guilty of intending to do grievous bodily harm , and the ; judge sentenced him to twenty years' penal servitude . — --An attempt was made to murder a wife on Tuesday , at Wellington-street , Stepney . The victim , Sarah Goodey , has been separated for some two or three months from her husband , and was in bed when he gained admittance to her room *
locked the door , and attacked her with a razor . She made her escape after being severely wounded , and was conveyed to the hospital . The man was apprehended and taken before the magistrate at the Thames police-court , when he was remandedfor a week . — - ^ -The Rev . Alfred Poole lately took proceedings against the Hon . and Rev . Mr . Baring , with a view to obtain a public investigation into the charges brought against him . His solicitors made an application that the writ served upon Mr . Baring ^ should remain in abeyance until it was known whether
the rule nisi obtained against the archbishop would induce his grace to investigate the case . Were that done , there would be no necessity of another investigation in a court of law . This proposal was declined by Mr . Baring , but upon a hearing at chambers , time was granted upon the plea . At the Marlborough-street policecourt , Mr . Rarey , the horse tamer , attended to complain of the conduct of a firm at the west end , who had used his name in connexion with some new food for cattle . He stated that his name had been improperly used . At the Guildhall
tvvo men , Perry and drowning , were charged with renting a house , and then removing and selling the fixtures and everything in the house that it was possible to make away with . Even the lead on the roof was not spared . The prisoners were remanded . ——Kochanowsky , the Russian baron , and'his alleged confederate , have been committed for trial on the charge of being in possession of three engrossed plates intended for the manufacture of forged Russian notes . In the Court of Probate and Divorce an important case , Keats v . Keats and
Montezuma , has been tried . Mr . Keats , who was recently sheriff of London , sought a dissolution of his marriage with Mrs . Keats , on the ground that she had committed adultery with a Spanish music teacher named Don Pedro de Montezuma . The defence set up was that the conduct of the lady arose mainly from ill-treatment on the part of her husband , and that he had forgiven and condoned the offence . The jury returned a verdict to the effect that Mrs . Keats had committed adultery with
Don Pedro de Montezuma , that Mr . Keats had not condoned the offence , and that Montezuma should pay to that gentleman damages to the amount of I , 000 Z . The Rev . Henry Cherry , rector of Burghfielcl , near Reading , has instituted proceedings against Mrs . Cherry for the restitution of conjugal rights . Some time ago , Mrs . Cherry exhibited articles of the peace against her husband , accusing him of violent and brutal conduct towards her , and declaring that to protect her life she