no more temper on her part, and that she would try to
win back that affection that seemed to be gone from
her. Friends were deputed to bring about a reunion
of husband and wife; but in the meantime, Sir Henry
Seale, a married man with a family, appeared on the
scene, and won the wife's affections. Mrs. Hawker
lodged at the house of a Miss Spurling at Clifton. Here
Sir Henry paid her frequent visits; occupied a dressing-
room adjoining her bedroom; dined with her; staid in
the house until midnight, sometimes all night. On one
occasion his red sash was found on Mrs. Hawker's bed.
Miss Spurling said, that so long as her rent was paid,
what went on did not concern her. The evidence, in
one instance direct, led to the belief that the husband
had been wronged. He only sought damages sufficient
to enable him to obtain a divorce. The defence was
limited to the efforts of Sir Frederick Thesiger to make
out that the evidence for the prosecution was weak and
inconclusive. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff,
and awarded him £100 damages.

The Court for the Consideration of Crown Cases
Reserved has Quashed the Conviction of Cosmo Gordon
for Felony in not surrendering to a fiat in bankruptcy.
At the trial, eight legal objections were reserved; the
judges soon decided seven against the prisoner, but
they took time to consider the eighth, and even had it
reargued before them. The eighth objection was, that
only one copy of the notice of adjudication of bankruptcy
was left at the counting-house of Davidson and Gordon,
whereas there ought to have been two, one for each
partner: on the back of the document was a form of
protection from arrest; "each bankrupt," said Mr.
Chambers, "had a right to a copy which he might carry
in his pocket." Lord Campbell, Barons Parke and
Alderson, and Justices Cresswell, Williams, and Crompton,
held that two notices should have been left at the
bankrupts' place of business; Lord Chief-Justice Jervis,
Baron Platt, and Justices Erle and Willes, thought one
notice sufficient. After this acquittal, they were
indicted for obtaining goods under false pretences within
three months of their bankruptcy. The charge was
sustained by the evidence, and the jury returned a verdict
of guilty. In passing sentence, Mr. Justice Coleridge
said, that in the present case he saw no circumstances of
mitigation to call upon him not to pass the extreme
sentence under the act of Parliament upon which the
indictments were framed; and it was therefore his duty
to pass upon them the full sentence of the law—that
they be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for two
years.

At Stafford Assizes, on the 3rd inst., the Grand Jury,
to the astonishment of every one, Ignored the Bill of
Indictment against Alice Grey. Mr. Scotland applied
to Mr. Justice Williams to detain the accused till another
indictment could be prepared; her counsel resisted this
as quite unprecedented; and eventually the judge
ordered her to be liberated. She was immediately
arrested on a charge of perjury at Birmingham. When
produced before the Birmingham magistrates on the 5th,
charged with committing perjury in accusing a man of
robbing her in October last,—she was remanded, as a
government notice had been received that she was to
be taken to Wolverhampton to meet a charge there.

A most daring Robbery with Violence has been
committed at Walworth. Mr. Towell, a middle-aged gentleman,
at four o'clock in the afternoon was asked for alms
in the street by a man of colour; he gave it; a few
minutes after, as Mr. Towell was opening his gate at
Brunswick-terrace, he was knocked down by a tremendous
blow on the head, which rendered him insensible;
and then his gold watch, chain, and seals were violently
torn from his pocket. Two boys saw the man of colour
and three other fellows knock down Mr. Towell and
run off with the booty. The coloured man has been
apprehended. Mr. Towell was suffering from nervous
headache at the time of the robbery, which gave him
the appearance of having been drinking, and doubtless
induced the robbers to select him as a victim.

The Reverend Vladimir Petcherine has been tried at
the Dublin Commission Court, on the charge of Burning
the Bible at Kingstown. A boy named James Hamilton
was included in the indictment. The trial began on
the 7th instant, and occupied two days. In his opening
speech for the prosecution, Mr. Keogh described how
Petcherine had exhorted the people of Kingstown to
abandon and bring to him books of an immoral tendency.
Among the numbers of books brought in were several
copies of the Bible and New Testament. Were these
volumes included in the attacks made on the licentious
press? Why were they brought, unless included? The
books were burnt, the Bible and Testament among
them, in the most open manner; and if they were
knowingly burnt, the law was so clear that there could
be no doubt Petcherine had committed an offence. The
attorney-general then described at some length the
relation of the Bible to the administration of justice.
"From the humblest individual who is called to attest
to any fact, to the sovereign who sits on the throne,
there is no security for anything except what is based
on the authorized version of the Scriptures. The law as
laid down by our greatest authorities, and as it has been
recognised and established in our recent cases, is thus
stated—'Offences immediately against God are by
common law indictable; as all blasphemy against God,
denying His being or providence; all profane scoffing
of the Holy Scriptures, or exposing any part thereof to
contempt or ridicule.'" The offence was equally
committed whether the Bible were the Douay version, the
Rhenish version, or the authorised version. The
evidence for the prosecution was then taken. Christopher
Duff, a boy engaged in the business, deposed, that, "at
the request of Father Petcherine, he had wheeled a
barrow full of books from the Father's lodgings to the
courtyard of the chapel. Another boy wheeled a second
barrow. When Father Petcherine arrived, the books
were tumbled out; and the Father, giving order that
they should be set on fire, went away towards the
vestry. A crowd of persons had collected. The fire
was not lighted until the Father had gone. When the
Father came back, the books were well burnt, but not
consumed. Henry Lawson, labourer, said that he saw,
among the books, Byron's Poems, some tracts, a New
Testament, a Prayer-book, and a Bible. Mr. W. T.
Darkin, a Sub-Inspector of Factories, and Policeman
Halpin, deposed that they saw a Bible and Testament
in the fire; and the Reverend R. Wallace, Dissenting
minister, produced a portion of the books of Deuteronomy
and Joshua which he had rescued from the flames.
For the defence, Mr. O'Hagan described the accused as
one who, though a stranger, had resided in this country
long enough to make him one of ourselves. For fourteen
or twenty years he had been an alien from his
native land, where he had abandoned a high position
for conscience sake. The indictment charged against
the accused a matter of fact and a matter of intention.
The counsel resisted both. His client had only
endeavoured, in discharge of a religious duty, to put an
end to the circulation of immoral publications in
Kingstown, and had required them to be delivered at his
lodgings. They were sent in multitudes, and he directed
them to be burnt. It would have been better had they
not been publicly burnt. There is not any evidence to
show that he was cognisant of the presence, among the
many books that were consumed, of the Bible and
Testament—the only Bible and Testament that had been
distinctly referred to. He was for a few minutes a not
very close witness of the burning; and all the fragments
in the world proved nothing against him, when it was
considered that great opportunities existed for other
persons to have thrown Bibles into the heap. Mr.
O'Hagan denied that the Roman Catholic Church is
the enemy of the Scriptures. From the time when the
early Christians took shelter in the Catacombs at Rome
to this day, the Church has preserved the Scriptures.
The monks perpetuated and spread them through the
earth; and the Church called it preeminently "the
Book." When printing was invented, the first employment
of the press on any great and important scale was
in the production of that Massarene Bible which is a
miracle to later times. The only witness produced on
behalf of the accused was called to show the nature of
those discourses in which he had asked for books. But
this testimony was rejected by the court; and the
counsel for the defence therefore closed their case.
Baron Green summed up; and, after deliberating for
three-quarters of an hour, the jury returned a verdict