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before Baron Martin , which is destined to take a prominent place among the causes celebres of England . The history of Mr . Koupell , ex-M . P . for Lambeth , must still be fresh in general recollection . His sudden and extrordinarypopularityin the borough > jjjs unbounded liberality , his mysterious disappearance . The trial recounts the sequel . Mr . Roupell himself appeared in the
witness box , and confessed to a series of fraud , forgery , and perjury , planned with a coolness , conducted with a dexterity , and persevered in for a course of years , that can hardly be paralleled in our criminal annals , except , perhaps , in the case of the late John Sadlier . He forged a deed of gift of an estate from his father to himself , and then sold the
estate ; destroyed his father's will , forged another , and ran through " t ] ie property in an extraordinary manner . The present action was brought by his younger brother Richard ( William being illegitimate ) , as heir-at-law , to recover the property so sold , and on Tuesday a compromise was agreed to , by which the cost of Wm Rotipell's fraud was to be equally borne by both parties , by a
division of the property , and on that understanding a juror was withdrawn . Roupell was , by direction of the judge , taken into custody , was examined before the borough magistrates , and committed to take his trial at the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Conrt . Mr . Driffield , the county coroner for the Prescot district , has been fined £ 10 , by Mr . Baron Wilde , on
account of the illegible manner in which some depositions were written . His Lordship said the illegible manner in which some depositions were written . His Lordship said the illegibility of the writing interfered so much with the administration of justice , that it amounted to a contempt of court ; and , if th e offence were repeated , a heavier penalty would ho imposed . A very curious application has just been made to the Court of Chancery by the Bishop of Exeter . It appears that a clergyman
in his diocese conceived the idea of writing the bishop ' s life , and that nothing might be wanting to the completeness of the work h «; -with more sense than sensibility , applied to the bishop for copies of so much of his correspondence as would tend to illus " trate the work . In reply the bishop justly described the applicant as probably the only person who would announce to bim such an intention without first asking his assent . As the
pertinacious biograpber stood upon his right , the bishop has applied to the Court of Chancey for an injunction restraining the publication , and ordering the restoration of all letters and papers written by the bishop that may be in the intending author's possession . At the Central Criminal Court the man who made the ridiculous attempt to extort money from the Messrs .
Rothschild , by sending threatening letters , has been brought to trial , and the ease having been fully proved against him , he was sentenced by the Court to four years' penal servitude . The woman , Taylor , or Wilson , who is accused of so many murders by poisoning , was brought before the magistrate at Lambeth Police-court , on Saturday , when a report was read from Dr . Taylor , on the
examination to which he had subjected the bodies of some of tho suspected victims with a view to discover the causes of their death . He stated that there was no trace of mineral poisons in their systems ; they might have died by vegetable poison , but that could not bo traced at the distance of time that had elapsed since their death . The causes of their death must , therefore , be
sought for from other evidence than chemical analysis . The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute , and tho prisoner was remanded till the completion of the depositions . Cox and his wife , the supposed murderers of the old woman , Mrs . Halliday , near Chester-le-Street , were , on Monday , committed for trial by the Durham county magistrates , on the capital charge . Both prisoners strongly asserted their innocence . On Monday night , an attack of a most ferocious nature was made upon an
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infant at Leeds , by a man named Appleton , who , without any provocation , tore the child from its mother ' s arms , dashed it upon the pavement , and kicked it several times . The child has remained insensible since the occurrence , and is not expected to live , The brutal assailant is in custody . A murder of a most wanton and brutal nature was perpetrated at Newcastle-upon-Tyne , on Saturday . A poor old man ,
familiarly known in Newcastle as " Needle Jack , " was first grosslyill-used by two ruffians , and then thrown down the bole of a public privy into the Tyne . There appears to be no assignable motive for the act . The murderers were apprehended shortly after the occurrence . — -The Dublin Freeman ' s Journal announces another agrarian outrage in Ireland . A man , named
Anthony M'Donald , was digging potatoes in a field at a place called Croagh , when he was fired at by Thomas Fahy from behind a railway ditch , and several grains of shot were lodged in M'Donald's body . Fahy has been arrested and committed for trial at the Roscommon assizes . The cause of tho outrage is supposed to be a misunderstanding between Fairy's master and
M'Donald . The man Bishop who was recently so barbarously scrubbed with sand in the cells of Woolwich garrison , has been tried by court-martial , found guilty of being a deserter , and sentenced to fifty-six days' imprisonment . The soldier John Flood , who was found ^ guilty at the Lewes assizes of shooting one of his comrades , has had his sentence commuted into penal
servitude for life . The ground of the lenity shown in the case is that the prisoner had been goaded into the commission of the crime by a series of petty persecutions , and the remission was not made till the Home Secretary had consulted and obtained tho sanction of the Commander in Chief . John Doidge , who was lately sentenced to death for the murder of Roger Drew , at Launceston , Cornwall , on the 7 th of June , has been
executed at Bodmin . It is stated that he made a full confession of his guilt , and died in a penitent state of mind . A terrible accident , and one which , wo fear , may terminate fatally , has happened to the female Blondin , who now lies in a dangerous state at St . Bartholomew's Hospital , she having fallen from the tight-rope at Highbury Barn , and broken her thigh , besides sustaining other injuries . Two " gymnasts , " employed at
the Leeds Amphitheatre , have also met with serious accidents , O 7 io of which , at least , will probably prove fatal . A fire took place , early last week , at the house of Mr . W . Barrett , Park » lane , Cumberland-street . Mr . Barrett and two of his daughters were burned to death . An inquest was opened on Saturday on tho bodies . The coroner and jury proceeded to view the
premises , when it was found that though the fire had originated in the front kitchen , yet the fire on the ground floor had been most active in the back premises ; and it was not till it reached the upper part of the house that both front and back rooms were found to be consumed . There is something remarkable in the circumstance of Mr . Barrett ' s death , as it appears he was
the first to hear and to answer the alarm given by the police , so that ho had time to save his own life at least , if not the lives of his daughters ; but having returned into the house , he appears to have lost his presence of mind , bolted the ball door , and thus caused the death of himself and one of his daughters by suffocation , The other daughter ( a cripple ) was suffocated at the
upper part of the house . An inquest has been held on the body of a young married woman who was burned to death in her own apartnients on Sunday forenoon last . The cause of tho calamitous accident was the crinoline which the poor woman wore , and which , as she passed in front of the fire , brought her muslin dress in contact with the flame . Assistance was speedily rendered , but all effort to save her life was unavailing . The jury returned a verdict iu accordance with the
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before Baron Martin , which is destined to take a prominent place among the causes celebres of England . The history of Mr . Koupell , ex-M . P . for Lambeth , must still be fresh in general recollection . His sudden and extrordinarypopularityin the borough > jjjs unbounded liberality , his mysterious disappearance . The trial recounts the sequel . Mr . Roupell himself appeared in the
witness box , and confessed to a series of fraud , forgery , and perjury , planned with a coolness , conducted with a dexterity , and persevered in for a course of years , that can hardly be paralleled in our criminal annals , except , perhaps , in the case of the late John Sadlier . He forged a deed of gift of an estate from his father to himself , and then sold the
estate ; destroyed his father's will , forged another , and ran through " t ] ie property in an extraordinary manner . The present action was brought by his younger brother Richard ( William being illegitimate ) , as heir-at-law , to recover the property so sold , and on Tuesday a compromise was agreed to , by which the cost of Wm Rotipell's fraud was to be equally borne by both parties , by a
division of the property , and on that understanding a juror was withdrawn . Roupell was , by direction of the judge , taken into custody , was examined before the borough magistrates , and committed to take his trial at the ensuing sessions of the Central Criminal Conrt . Mr . Driffield , the county coroner for the Prescot district , has been fined £ 10 , by Mr . Baron Wilde , on
account of the illegible manner in which some depositions were written . His Lordship said the illegible manner in which some depositions were written . His Lordship said the illegibility of the writing interfered so much with the administration of justice , that it amounted to a contempt of court ; and , if th e offence were repeated , a heavier penalty would ho imposed . A very curious application has just been made to the Court of Chancery by the Bishop of Exeter . It appears that a clergyman
in his diocese conceived the idea of writing the bishop ' s life , and that nothing might be wanting to the completeness of the work h «; -with more sense than sensibility , applied to the bishop for copies of so much of his correspondence as would tend to illus " trate the work . In reply the bishop justly described the applicant as probably the only person who would announce to bim such an intention without first asking his assent . As the
pertinacious biograpber stood upon his right , the bishop has applied to the Court of Chancey for an injunction restraining the publication , and ordering the restoration of all letters and papers written by the bishop that may be in the intending author's possession . At the Central Criminal Court the man who made the ridiculous attempt to extort money from the Messrs .
Rothschild , by sending threatening letters , has been brought to trial , and the ease having been fully proved against him , he was sentenced by the Court to four years' penal servitude . The woman , Taylor , or Wilson , who is accused of so many murders by poisoning , was brought before the magistrate at Lambeth Police-court , on Saturday , when a report was read from Dr . Taylor , on the
examination to which he had subjected the bodies of some of tho suspected victims with a view to discover the causes of their death . He stated that there was no trace of mineral poisons in their systems ; they might have died by vegetable poison , but that could not bo traced at the distance of time that had elapsed since their death . The causes of their death must , therefore , be
sought for from other evidence than chemical analysis . The witnesses were then bound over to prosecute , and tho prisoner was remanded till the completion of the depositions . Cox and his wife , the supposed murderers of the old woman , Mrs . Halliday , near Chester-le-Street , were , on Monday , committed for trial by the Durham county magistrates , on the capital charge . Both prisoners strongly asserted their innocence . On Monday night , an attack of a most ferocious nature was made upon an
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infant at Leeds , by a man named Appleton , who , without any provocation , tore the child from its mother ' s arms , dashed it upon the pavement , and kicked it several times . The child has remained insensible since the occurrence , and is not expected to live , The brutal assailant is in custody . A murder of a most wanton and brutal nature was perpetrated at Newcastle-upon-Tyne , on Saturday . A poor old man ,
familiarly known in Newcastle as " Needle Jack , " was first grosslyill-used by two ruffians , and then thrown down the bole of a public privy into the Tyne . There appears to be no assignable motive for the act . The murderers were apprehended shortly after the occurrence . — -The Dublin Freeman ' s Journal announces another agrarian outrage in Ireland . A man , named
Anthony M'Donald , was digging potatoes in a field at a place called Croagh , when he was fired at by Thomas Fahy from behind a railway ditch , and several grains of shot were lodged in M'Donald's body . Fahy has been arrested and committed for trial at the Roscommon assizes . The cause of tho outrage is supposed to be a misunderstanding between Fairy's master and
M'Donald . The man Bishop who was recently so barbarously scrubbed with sand in the cells of Woolwich garrison , has been tried by court-martial , found guilty of being a deserter , and sentenced to fifty-six days' imprisonment . The soldier John Flood , who was found ^ guilty at the Lewes assizes of shooting one of his comrades , has had his sentence commuted into penal
servitude for life . The ground of the lenity shown in the case is that the prisoner had been goaded into the commission of the crime by a series of petty persecutions , and the remission was not made till the Home Secretary had consulted and obtained tho sanction of the Commander in Chief . John Doidge , who was lately sentenced to death for the murder of Roger Drew , at Launceston , Cornwall , on the 7 th of June , has been
executed at Bodmin . It is stated that he made a full confession of his guilt , and died in a penitent state of mind . A terrible accident , and one which , wo fear , may terminate fatally , has happened to the female Blondin , who now lies in a dangerous state at St . Bartholomew's Hospital , she having fallen from the tight-rope at Highbury Barn , and broken her thigh , besides sustaining other injuries . Two " gymnasts , " employed at
the Leeds Amphitheatre , have also met with serious accidents , O 7 io of which , at least , will probably prove fatal . A fire took place , early last week , at the house of Mr . W . Barrett , Park » lane , Cumberland-street . Mr . Barrett and two of his daughters were burned to death . An inquest was opened on Saturday on tho bodies . The coroner and jury proceeded to view the
premises , when it was found that though the fire had originated in the front kitchen , yet the fire on the ground floor had been most active in the back premises ; and it was not till it reached the upper part of the house that both front and back rooms were found to be consumed . There is something remarkable in the circumstance of Mr . Barrett ' s death , as it appears he was
the first to hear and to answer the alarm given by the police , so that ho had time to save his own life at least , if not the lives of his daughters ; but having returned into the house , he appears to have lost his presence of mind , bolted the ball door , and thus caused the death of himself and one of his daughters by suffocation , The other daughter ( a cripple ) was suffocated at the
upper part of the house . An inquest has been held on the body of a young married woman who was burned to death in her own apartnients on Sunday forenoon last . The cause of tho calamitous accident was the crinoline which the poor woman wore , and which , as she passed in front of the fire , brought her muslin dress in contact with the flame . Assistance was speedily rendered , but all effort to save her life was unavailing . The jury returned a verdict iu accordance with the