silversmith in the Strand, that a Duel was about to take
place between him and Charles Law Fox, Esq., of the
Guards. Mr. Samuel now said that, since he had made
the application, he had reason to believe that he had
been misinformed, and Sir R. Clifton said, that to the
best of his belief, the quarrel, he expected, would be
amicably settled. The magistrate called him to give his
own recognizance to keep the peace for twelve months.
As soon as the parties had left the court, one of Sir
Robert's military friends suggested the expediency of
giving the reporter £10 to keep the matter out of the
newspapers, but the defendant's solicitor said that would
not do, as £10 had been offered on another occasion, and
had not only been refused, but the circumstance had
been mentioned in the papers.

An Absconded Delinquent from Liverpool has been
Captured in Australia. James St. Albin Quinn, a
young man about 22 years of age, absconded from Liverpool
in July 1852, with about £1300, the property of the
Messrs. Train and Co., in whose establishment he was
as collector. For a long time nothing was heard of him,
until a gentleman told his employers he had met him in
Melbourne-street. Warrants for his apprehension were
instantly transmitted by the Secretary of State to
Australia, where he was captured and brought home in
the Eagle, which arrived at Liverpool on the 22d inst.
After committing the robbery he went to London, from
thence to the continent, and afterwards had the hardihood
to come to Liverpool, where he succeeded in
eluding the police and embarked on board the Great
Britain on the 21st of August, 1852. He was brought
before the Liverpool Police Court, the cashier at Messrs.
Train and Co.'s proved the robbery, and at the request
of Quinn, a remand was granted for the purpose of
receiving legal advice. He states that he has made
£5000 in Melbourne as a general merchant, but he was
taken away so suddenly that he has been forced to leave
it behind him. When arrested he had only £30 and a
valuable gold watch.

On Saturday night, the 22nd inst., a brutal Murder
was committed in Charles-street, Williamson-square,
Liverpool (a place almost entirely frequented by the
lowest prostitutes, thieves, &c.) Two sailors, named
Crispin and Crimp, were standing with two females, and
were slightly intoxicated, when they were suddenly
attacked by a foreign sailor, named Emanuel Montero,
a Spaniard, who stabbed both men in the left groin,
almost in the same place, and without the slightest
provocation. Crispin died from the effects of the wound
shortly afterwards, and Crimp lies in a very dangerous
condition. The ruffian made off after inflicting the
wounds, but was arrested on Sunday night. A coroner's
inquest has returned a verdict of wilful murder and he
has been committed for trial.

At the Southwark Police Office, on the 22d, Mr.
John Stokes, a person of considerable property, carrying
on an extensive business as a wholesale hardware dealer
in Kent Street, Borough, was charged with committing
a series of aggravated Assaults on his Wife. The
complainant, a respectable middle-aged woman, who
exhibited a black eye and several bruises on her face,
stated that she had been married to the defendant
fifteen years, and had had eleven children by him.
About 12 o'clock at night she was sitting in the
kitchen with one of the younger children, when he
rushed into the room, and pulled her out of the chair,
and struck her on the face and eyes. She escaped from
the house and ran to the stationhouse, when a constable
returned with her, and she was again admitted into the
house. Shortly after 7 o'clock her husband came into
the room and pulled her out of bed with the bedclothes.
She opened the window and called out "Police!"
but no one came to her assistance. He then struck
her several times on the back and ran away. On the
previous afternoon, after she had obtained the summons
against him, she went to her brother's house, and,
hearing that her husband had called after her, she hid
herself in the coal cellar. He came there and pulled
her out by the hair of her head. The defendant here
stated that she tormented his life out. She was either
caressing him or quarrelling, and then she would at
times call his mother vile names.—The wife denied his
assertions. He brought bad women into the house
among the children when she was away, and all she did
was to chide him for it.—Jane Meaking, a married
woman, residing at 11, Fox's-buildings, said she saw
the defendant pull his wife out of the coal cellar by
the hair of her head. In answer to the charge, the
defendant said his wife was in the habit of keeping out
late at night, and then she came home generally the
worse for liquor, when she always abused him and
aggravated him so that he could not help striking her.
He knew that he had struck her repeatedly, but he
could not help it, and he was sorry for it. He called
his son, a lad about 14, to show that his mother aggravated
his father and threw things at him, but he
corroborated her testimony as to the frequent assaults. Mr.
A'Beckett, after carefully investigating the case, said it
was very distressing to have such a one before him, and
he was glad to say that it was a considerable time since
he had had to adjudicate in such a matter. To his own
knowledge, the defendant had been in the habit of
ill-using his wife for years, and he had been called on
several times to adjudicate between them; and, although
he had held him to bail, and done all the law then
allowed him to do, he still persisted in his brutality.
The law was now altered, which enabled magistrates to
punish such persons with severity. Therefore he should
exercise the full power that was invested in him by
committing him to the House of Correction for six
months, with hard labour. The defendant seemed much
surprised at the decision, and on leaving the court
declared that he was a ruined man, and would never
live to return home again.

At the Clerkenwell Police Court on the 22nd, William
Green, a dissipated-looking man, was charged with a
most revolting Assault on Hannah Oseman. The
complainant, a well-dressed young woman, had features of a
frightful appearance, occasioned by the inhuman treatment
of the prisoner. Her evidence created much
sympathy and indignation. A few years ago she was
seduced by Green, and, being discarded by the members of
her family, went to live with him as his wife, and by
needle work contributed to their joint support. Her
health failed, and, consequently, she was unable to
labour as formerly, which unhappy circumstance the
prisoner took advantage of, and in her weakness and
fear of him she became a prostitute to maintain him,
notwithstanding which, he commenced a system of
cruelty almost unprecedented, finishing on that morning
by beating her with a red-hot poker, burning her face in
the dreadful manner it then presented. Her neighbours,
hearing her cries, rushed into her apartment to assist
her, but were driven back by the ruffian, who broke the
poker against the stone mantelpiece while striking at
random. A police officer said that he was fetched from
the station-house, and arrived in time at the place
described to prevent murder. It was with extreme
difficulty he captured the accused—in fact it was a life
and death struggle, and he eventually managed to fell
the prisoner by a blow on the head with his staff. The
magistrate complimented the constable for his courageous
behaviour and sentenced the prisoner to hard labour
for six months, and at the end of that period to find two
responsible sureties to keep the peace for six months, or
be further imprisoned for that time.

A respectable looking middle-aged man, named
Crawley, was charged at the Thames Police Court on
the 24th instant, with cruelly Ill-treating his Wife. A
police sergeant stated that about 4 o'clock on Sunday
morning he was passing by the prisoner's house, when he
heard the screams of the woman, and cries of "murder."
He knocked at the door, and it was opened by a little
boy, who directed his attention to his mother, who was
lying on the floor in the middle of the room, in a state
of nudity, in a most lamentable condition. Her hands,
legs, and feet, were made fast by handkerchiefs and
cords, the blood was flowing from her eyes, nose, and
mouth, and there were extensive bruises and contusions
on her face, back, and abdomen. He immediately
released her, and covered her over with his great-coat. In
answer to his questions, she said her husband had
ill-used her, and that she had been laid up for five weeks.
He, therefore, took the prisoner into custody. The
woman had since been in the workhouse. The prisoner
said he had been almost driven to a state of madness by