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Lloyd's Weekly Newspaper

SINGULAR CASE OF PERSONATION

... SINGULAR CASE OF PZRSONATION. A very singular case occupied the last session of the court of assizes of the Bas-lRhin. A man, named Anselme Stierling, was tried for baving personated one Seraphin Kauffmann, of Oswald, having got money in his name, sold his land, and forged his name. This Kauffmann, it appeared, left his family at the end of 1851 to go to Amiens to better his fortune. In tie ...

CITY MALVERSATION AND OPPRESSION

... I CITY MALVERSATION AND OPPRESSION' I A new case of abuse and Mismanagernert 11s Deen brought forward against the unhappy corporation of Lsndon, and its history is a curious one. It dates from the reign of James ?? when the public mind was proba. bly as deeply engaged with tbe then recent rebellion and contemplated colonization. of the province of Ulster, as it is at this moment with our ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... PoLICE INTELLIGENCE. - 0 - IMANSION -H OUSE . TITIHE PIOsECscIuOSx.-Several persons, inhabitants of the parish of All Hallows Staining, were summoned before the lord mayor, under the old statute of Henry VII., for nonpayment of certain tithes due to the rector in pursuance of that statute, and the decree which had been mode under it. Mr. Ballantine ap- peared as counsel for the Rev. Mr. ...

SERIOUS CHARGE

... ' DonsirwG, Monday.-This little village has for the past few days been in a state of great excitement, in consequence of Mr. George Elton, aged fifteen, bro- ther.in.law of the Hon. and Rev. A. Sugden, of New- digate, Surrey, and George Elpbick, aged twenty, groom to the hon. gentleman, being charged before Mr. Charles Barclay and Mr. George Cubitt, county magistrates, with having committed a ...

THE PROVINCES

... THE PROVMCES. CARMARTHENSPHRE.-Mrana 02 i' WIF BlY HER HUSIBAND, - Qi Satmrdey, the 21st lt., a man'named Daniel Jones, horse-.dealer, a native of Kilrhedin, but latterly living in aplace called belly- dufach, in the patlsh of Ilanddareg, went to Carma- then to sell coal. He remamed drinking about tbe town far a lengthened period, and eventually reached his home between twelve and one ...

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS

... MONDAY. - The February general session was resumed this morn- ibg at the Guildhall, Westminster, by adjournment from Clerkenwell. There were 189 prisonersfertrbl, of whomn 125 were charged with feleny, and forteen with misl demeanour. TRIFa 0 A CARIsAGaz.-Gearge 'Macdff, alas Jakni James, forty-three, was indictd for havine stolen a clarnee carriage, value 301., the property of Bradford Wihnei ...

THE ABDUCTION CASE

... i . Z THE ADIUATION CASE. Adolphz8 Feiutel, alias Harrisou, and Alezxander Desaex, the father of Madame Denis, alis Lrwe Labou. eheres, were brought up on Mondaj1 at the Westminster poliea surt, for r-examinatiolL Tbe court was, as be- fore, densely crowded with persons, there being several gentlemen upon the bench, and there were hundreds as- sembled in the atreet and about the approaches who ...

IRELAND

... A CuRIous GROST STOBt.-1r. John Francis Ma- gure, in his correspondence to the Cork Examiner, gies the fallowing detailed account of midnight doings ksone of the metropolitan g~aois. It is very long; but it is (in its way) worth reading:- I shall now wind Up with a-ghost story ! Yes, a real ghost story, as improbable and as incomprehensible as ever made the heart beat, or the knees knock ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... POLICE IBTELIGENE. - | GUILDEALL. USRARAMID CH&AnBG AGAINST A TRADBS13. Mr. Steadmaan, an engineer, ni ES, West mi thfield, was cbarged with stealing certain fixtres frsm the housme D eapied by him, the property of the landflord, Pfr. Ser- eant, oi Bath.-The premises, 89, West Sittlfiald, mera aeld byB Mr. Hartil, under a lease granted on the 20th of October, 1838, wh;aci covenanted that at ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... PLICE INTELLIGENCE / A, . r ?? ?? MANSIONLIF ยข MNscG AN ALDOERXA1.,_r loa~fiqr r 0.9. Eastcheapte~2'Mg Thomas Pot'isaer, used insulting and abots ?? was charged with leaving of the peace might 1 Wive language, whereby a breach Challis, M.p. s lave been occasioned. Alderman - , was the ?? Challis drill!?. ' s~'.ietundrng yesterday from the Brighton raiivay stat~ioln, at a little after four ...

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS

... The Jhly Quarter session commenced on Monday at I Clerkenwell-green. WHOLESAaE C3rAISE STREALIN .-Jam es Kay, twenty-nine, labourer, was indicted for stealing a chaise value 81., the property of James Hipper.-Witnesses deposed that they saw the theft committed by the pri- soner, and the jury found him Guilty.-Sergeant Harvey, 14 G, said that on their police divisiqn about twenty chaises had ...

A FEMALE POISONER

... The court of assizes of the Cote ?? has just been occupied three days (says Galignani) in the trial of a woman named. Cagey, aged thirty-five, for poisoning. An old man named Doagerolles, formerly a workman at the Impexial printi-g-office, lived for some years at Semnr on a pension of 6O0fr., and had besides. a cen- siderable sum in his possession. In September last Year he resolved to remove ...