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The Week.
very serious disturbances . An Irish rabble , cheering for the pope and shouting " Down ivith Garibaldi ! " made a rush upon the mound on which the promoters of the meeting ivere standing , and attempted to drive the Garibaldians from their position . A violent struggle , which lasted some time , took place , and ultimately the meeting had to be adjourned . Five of the pope ' s champions were secured by the police , and were fined by the Mai'lborough-streefc magistrate . Three men were
suffocated in a coal-pit near Tunstall , on Saturday ; an equal number of men met a similar fate in a deep well , in the neighbourhood of Bath , on AVednesday ; while , on Monday , five poor fellows were dreadfully injured by an explosion which occurred at one of the collieries worked by the Dowlais Iron Company . Mr . AV . F . AAlndham appeared at the Hammersmith Police Court , on a charge of threatening to cut his ivife ' s throat . Ifc seems
that while afc Boulogne , recently , he invited two gentlemen to visit him , at his house , in London . The invitation was accepted , aud , on Tuesday night , his guests went out with his wife . They returned about midnight . Mr . Windham was found asleep oil a sofa , and it was thought proper to pour some water into his cars to awake him . He seems to have resented this treatment , and after his wife and two friends had retired , he went upstairs
and threatened to cut their throats . He afterwards apologised to his friends , and , iu court , expressed sorrow for his conduct . The Magistrate ordered him to enter into his own recognisances in the sum of £ 500 , and to find two sureties in the sum of £ 250 each , to keep fche peace for six months ; but , as he was not provided with the necessary bail , he was " removed by the gaoler . " Mrs . A yse , of Ludgate-hill , tried on the charge of
murdering her children , has been removed from Newgate to Fisherton Lunatic Asylum , near Salisbury . Luther Yeates , who hacl forged away from the family nearly the whole of the Lambeth property of the late Admiral Sir John West , was brought up before the Lord Mayor a few clays ago . Several witnesses were examined , tending to bring home the charges againsfc the prisoner , who was committed for trial .
Tliree men and two women have been brought up at the Thames Police-court , charged with conspiracy to defraud a number of persons in the country . The prisoners had advertised money to lend , in the country papers , and directing applications to be
made to "R . H . Twining , 23 , Richard-street , London , E . C . " The house is a wretched tenement in which one of the female prisoners lived , apparently only to receive the letters which came to the extent of eighty or 100 per clay . The system was this—when an application was made for a loan , " R . H . Twining " wrote for a reference , and the person referred to having answered the inquiry addressed to him , the original applicant was told that the loan would be granted to him . A stamped form for a
promissory note ibr the amount was for warded at the same time , ivhich he was to return with the first year's interest on the loan and the cost of the stamp . The interest was sent , ancl there the matter ended . The victim never saw a sixpence of the loan . The prisoners ivere remanded for further examination . The scoundrel who defrauded some forty or fifty ladies , under pretence of engaging them to superintend the affairs of his " hotel in
the Isle of Wight , " has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude at the Central Criminal Court . About " a week ago a gentleman fell clown in the New North-road , just after he hacl complained to a policeman of having been robbed by a female . There was nothing upon him by which he could be identified , hut from a name ill his hat it was supposed that he was from Stourbrid ge . One of the coroner ' s jury , Mr . Pearce , took
photograp hs of the dead man , and by means of one of these he has heen identified as a person named Charles Roberts , of Rye , who had come up to London to see the Exhibition . The inquest on the body has ended with a verdict of " Died from apoplexy . " - —Henry King , who stabbed a woman in Lambeth , to whom he _ had been married ( bufc she had a prei'ioas husband still living ) , was brought up again before the magistrate . The
prisoner ' s counsel threw much blame on a constable who was drinking tea with the deceased when the prisoner called , ancl who , he said , excited his jealousy . The magistrate committed him 1 JTJ ^^ muv ' * * Another woman lies under sentence of "eath . Constance AAllson , who is suspected of a whole series ot fflnrders , was , on Saturday , found guilty afc the Central w-inimal Courtof her friend
, having poisoned , Mrs . Soames . she was sentenced to death , and , of course , the second charge against her , the murder , by similar means , of Mrs . Atkinson , of Kirkb ' y Lonsdale , ' will not ' be proceeded with . f » iondaj % the 20 th of this month , has been fixed for the execul ° n . The announcement was made to her on . AVednesday , by
the under sheriffs and the goal chaplain , and was received with the utmost coolness . The execution will take place at the Old Bailey . A shocking occurrence took place afc Kirkham , near Preston , on Sunday night . A noisy party of Irish reapers had with some difficulty been ejected from a public-house in fchat town , and while two police officers , ivhose assistance had been obtained , were engaged in pursuing a woman and two men who had attempted to rescue a boisterous fellow , named Garrett ,
who had been taken into custody , some person in the street , — no doubt one of the rioters who had been turned out of the house , —flung a poker at the landlord , Mr . Henry Rawcliffe , as he was looking through one of the upper windows . The poker pierced his right eye , and became firmly fixed in his head . Th poor fellow died soon afterwards . Garrett has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment for assaulting the police , but the three persons who attempted to rescue him were remanded .
Two men charged at Brentford with illegal netting in the Thames were on Saturday fined 40 s . andcosts . Itisevidentthatthese men care little for a fine of 40 s ., as one of them has been convicted a great number of times in the full penalty , and is stated to be the most notorious poacher on the river . In opposition to several decisions which have been given under the New Poaching Act , fche magistrates afc Leicester , acting upon the advice of then-Clerk , have decided that a person found on the highway in possession of game , suspected to have been unlawfully obtained , is not bound to show how he became possessed of it . Ifc rests with the prosecutor , in their opinion , to prove the charge of unlawful
possession by distinct affirmative evidence . The British Association for the Advancement of Science entered on its annual labours on AVednesday , at Cambridge . The chairmen of the various sections were appointed , and Professor AVillis , who is president for the year , delivered his inaugural address in the course of the evening . According to annual custom the medical schools of the metropolis were opened on Wednesday with addresses from one of the professors in each separate
establishment . The London school of medicine has now taken a high place among the educational establishments for the promotion of medical science , and every year appears to be adding to its celebrity . The Government have made up their mind to a farther inquiry into the extraordinary case of murder committed at Glasgow , and especially to examine whether any corroboration can be found of the statement read on behalf of the prisoner after the jury had found her guilty . The inquiry is to
be conducted by the Sheriff in the usual manner ; and several persons who profess to have something to tell , but who were nofc called afc the trial , have been summoned to give evidence . Three important inquests , and each of a painful character , Avere held on Thursday : one on Mrs . Amelia Castle , who , it is alleged , had formed an immoral connection Avith a married man , had been slighted by her , and consequently had committed suicide ; a second inquest on a girl , whose death , it is alleged , was the result of sucking artificial grapes containing arsenic ; and the third on fche body of Eliza Keef , who is said to have met her death by lier husband , a blind street musician , kicking her when in a critical state of health .
FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The marriage of the Princess Maria Pia , the youngest daughter of King Victor Emmanuel , with the King of Portugal , ivas celebrated by proxy , at Turin , on Saturday . The Prince de Savoie Carignan Avas the representative of the bridegroom . The King of Italy and all fche Royal Family ( including Prince Napoleon ) were present . The ceremony was performed ivith great pomp , a grand fete was given afc Court in the evening , and the city was brilliantly
illuminated . Perhaps the most remarkable circumstance attending these festivities is the boldness with which the Marquis Pepoli spoke respecting the Italian cause in an address delivered in the presence of Prince Napoleon . The new Queen , accompanied by her brother , Prince Hubert , has embarked at Genoa for Lisbon ; and Prince Napoleon has likewise taken his departure for France . From many quarters come rumours of an amnesty for political offences having been decided upon at
Turin . The marriage of the Princess Pia was to be the occasion , hut no authentic announcement has yet appeared . As everybody who sympathises with Garibaldi , ancl who nevertheless cannot deny that his recent ; act was a violation of the law , ardently desires to see him and his adherents relieved from the indignity of a trial , these rumours may be taken to be the expression of a general desire . Undoubtedly an amnesty would prove the easiest way out of a perplexing difficulty for the Italian Government The Moniteur has published an official account—which after all only states officially what
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The Week.
very serious disturbances . An Irish rabble , cheering for the pope and shouting " Down ivith Garibaldi ! " made a rush upon the mound on which the promoters of the meeting ivere standing , and attempted to drive the Garibaldians from their position . A violent struggle , which lasted some time , took place , and ultimately the meeting had to be adjourned . Five of the pope ' s champions were secured by the police , and were fined by the Mai'lborough-streefc magistrate . Three men were
suffocated in a coal-pit near Tunstall , on Saturday ; an equal number of men met a similar fate in a deep well , in the neighbourhood of Bath , on AVednesday ; while , on Monday , five poor fellows were dreadfully injured by an explosion which occurred at one of the collieries worked by the Dowlais Iron Company . Mr . AV . F . AAlndham appeared at the Hammersmith Police Court , on a charge of threatening to cut his ivife ' s throat . Ifc seems
that while afc Boulogne , recently , he invited two gentlemen to visit him , at his house , in London . The invitation was accepted , aud , on Tuesday night , his guests went out with his wife . They returned about midnight . Mr . Windham was found asleep oil a sofa , and it was thought proper to pour some water into his cars to awake him . He seems to have resented this treatment , and after his wife and two friends had retired , he went upstairs
and threatened to cut their throats . He afterwards apologised to his friends , and , iu court , expressed sorrow for his conduct . The Magistrate ordered him to enter into his own recognisances in the sum of £ 500 , and to find two sureties in the sum of £ 250 each , to keep fche peace for six months ; but , as he was not provided with the necessary bail , he was " removed by the gaoler . " Mrs . A yse , of Ludgate-hill , tried on the charge of
murdering her children , has been removed from Newgate to Fisherton Lunatic Asylum , near Salisbury . Luther Yeates , who hacl forged away from the family nearly the whole of the Lambeth property of the late Admiral Sir John West , was brought up before the Lord Mayor a few clays ago . Several witnesses were examined , tending to bring home the charges againsfc the prisoner , who was committed for trial .
Tliree men and two women have been brought up at the Thames Police-court , charged with conspiracy to defraud a number of persons in the country . The prisoners had advertised money to lend , in the country papers , and directing applications to be
made to "R . H . Twining , 23 , Richard-street , London , E . C . " The house is a wretched tenement in which one of the female prisoners lived , apparently only to receive the letters which came to the extent of eighty or 100 per clay . The system was this—when an application was made for a loan , " R . H . Twining " wrote for a reference , and the person referred to having answered the inquiry addressed to him , the original applicant was told that the loan would be granted to him . A stamped form for a
promissory note ibr the amount was for warded at the same time , ivhich he was to return with the first year's interest on the loan and the cost of the stamp . The interest was sent , ancl there the matter ended . The victim never saw a sixpence of the loan . The prisoners ivere remanded for further examination . The scoundrel who defrauded some forty or fifty ladies , under pretence of engaging them to superintend the affairs of his " hotel in
the Isle of Wight , " has been sentenced to five years' penal servitude at the Central Criminal Court . About " a week ago a gentleman fell clown in the New North-road , just after he hacl complained to a policeman of having been robbed by a female . There was nothing upon him by which he could be identified , hut from a name ill his hat it was supposed that he was from Stourbrid ge . One of the coroner ' s jury , Mr . Pearce , took
photograp hs of the dead man , and by means of one of these he has heen identified as a person named Charles Roberts , of Rye , who had come up to London to see the Exhibition . The inquest on the body has ended with a verdict of " Died from apoplexy . " - —Henry King , who stabbed a woman in Lambeth , to whom he _ had been married ( bufc she had a prei'ioas husband still living ) , was brought up again before the magistrate . The
prisoner ' s counsel threw much blame on a constable who was drinking tea with the deceased when the prisoner called , ancl who , he said , excited his jealousy . The magistrate committed him 1 JTJ ^^ muv ' * * Another woman lies under sentence of "eath . Constance AAllson , who is suspected of a whole series ot fflnrders , was , on Saturday , found guilty afc the Central w-inimal Courtof her friend
, having poisoned , Mrs . Soames . she was sentenced to death , and , of course , the second charge against her , the murder , by similar means , of Mrs . Atkinson , of Kirkb ' y Lonsdale , ' will not ' be proceeded with . f » iondaj % the 20 th of this month , has been fixed for the execul ° n . The announcement was made to her on . AVednesday , by
the under sheriffs and the goal chaplain , and was received with the utmost coolness . The execution will take place at the Old Bailey . A shocking occurrence took place afc Kirkham , near Preston , on Sunday night . A noisy party of Irish reapers had with some difficulty been ejected from a public-house in fchat town , and while two police officers , ivhose assistance had been obtained , were engaged in pursuing a woman and two men who had attempted to rescue a boisterous fellow , named Garrett ,
who had been taken into custody , some person in the street , — no doubt one of the rioters who had been turned out of the house , —flung a poker at the landlord , Mr . Henry Rawcliffe , as he was looking through one of the upper windows . The poker pierced his right eye , and became firmly fixed in his head . Th poor fellow died soon afterwards . Garrett has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment for assaulting the police , but the three persons who attempted to rescue him were remanded .
Two men charged at Brentford with illegal netting in the Thames were on Saturday fined 40 s . andcosts . Itisevidentthatthese men care little for a fine of 40 s ., as one of them has been convicted a great number of times in the full penalty , and is stated to be the most notorious poacher on the river . In opposition to several decisions which have been given under the New Poaching Act , fche magistrates afc Leicester , acting upon the advice of then-Clerk , have decided that a person found on the highway in possession of game , suspected to have been unlawfully obtained , is not bound to show how he became possessed of it . Ifc rests with the prosecutor , in their opinion , to prove the charge of unlawful
possession by distinct affirmative evidence . The British Association for the Advancement of Science entered on its annual labours on AVednesday , at Cambridge . The chairmen of the various sections were appointed , and Professor AVillis , who is president for the year , delivered his inaugural address in the course of the evening . According to annual custom the medical schools of the metropolis were opened on Wednesday with addresses from one of the professors in each separate
establishment . The London school of medicine has now taken a high place among the educational establishments for the promotion of medical science , and every year appears to be adding to its celebrity . The Government have made up their mind to a farther inquiry into the extraordinary case of murder committed at Glasgow , and especially to examine whether any corroboration can be found of the statement read on behalf of the prisoner after the jury had found her guilty . The inquiry is to
be conducted by the Sheriff in the usual manner ; and several persons who profess to have something to tell , but who were nofc called afc the trial , have been summoned to give evidence . Three important inquests , and each of a painful character , Avere held on Thursday : one on Mrs . Amelia Castle , who , it is alleged , had formed an immoral connection Avith a married man , had been slighted by her , and consequently had committed suicide ; a second inquest on a girl , whose death , it is alleged , was the result of sucking artificial grapes containing arsenic ; and the third on fche body of Eliza Keef , who is said to have met her death by lier husband , a blind street musician , kicking her when in a critical state of health .
FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —The marriage of the Princess Maria Pia , the youngest daughter of King Victor Emmanuel , with the King of Portugal , ivas celebrated by proxy , at Turin , on Saturday . The Prince de Savoie Carignan Avas the representative of the bridegroom . The King of Italy and all fche Royal Family ( including Prince Napoleon ) were present . The ceremony was performed ivith great pomp , a grand fete was given afc Court in the evening , and the city was brilliantly
illuminated . Perhaps the most remarkable circumstance attending these festivities is the boldness with which the Marquis Pepoli spoke respecting the Italian cause in an address delivered in the presence of Prince Napoleon . The new Queen , accompanied by her brother , Prince Hubert , has embarked at Genoa for Lisbon ; and Prince Napoleon has likewise taken his departure for France . From many quarters come rumours of an amnesty for political offences having been decided upon at
Turin . The marriage of the Princess Pia was to be the occasion , hut no authentic announcement has yet appeared . As everybody who sympathises with Garibaldi , ancl who nevertheless cannot deny that his recent ; act was a violation of the law , ardently desires to see him and his adherents relieved from the indignity of a trial , these rumours may be taken to be the expression of a general desire . Undoubtedly an amnesty would prove the easiest way out of a perplexing difficulty for the Italian Government The Moniteur has published an official account—which after all only states officially what