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of people became wedged together , and at least twelve people were crushed to death ^ suffocated . It is said that fifty more are seriously hurt .-----A serious military riot took place at Woolwich , on Thursday , arising from a bad feeling between the artillery and the marmes , as against the An ^ soldiers have been wounded , and the public houses of the town severely damaged . - — -The fifth hearing of the dispute between the metropolitan omnibus companies
has occupied the attention of Mr . Paynter at the Westminster police-court , and again was the case adjourned , but under more hope than before that the companies will come to an understanding The magistrate gave it as his opinion that art Act of Parnameht will alone be able to meet other disputes of the same kind , that will be sure to arise . It is understood that the present case will eow / be settled by calling in such an arbitrator as Sh : Richard Mayne would make , ——
Higgins and Davis , charged with swindling Gruneberg , the nurseryman , have been committed for trial . It came ovit on the examination of fe execution creditor in this business ^ that Higgins , unwilling doubtless to leave things half done , had made use of his liberty by bail to endeavour to get an execution in on Gruneberg ' s goods , although without success . Higgins was conveyed to gaol in default of bail , and Davis only walked out of court to be arrested for debt . ——In
the Court of Queen s Bench an action was brought by one Mr ; Smith against the Great Northern Railway Company to recover damages for injuries which , the plahitiff sustained by an accident oil that railway , Lord Campbell ordered the jury to be locked up , and locked up they were all night till ten o ' clock next morning , without fire , food , or drink . When called into Court , they all looked very ill , unwashed , unshaven , and unkempt , and one of their number had to be attended
by a doctor during the night . When asked , they said they had not agreed , and could not agree ; and then Lord Campbell told them it was clear when they gave in the verdict of a farthing damages overnight , that they were not then agreed , that the ridiculous unreasonableness of such a verdict , when substantial damages were due , was a proof that they were not agreed , and that for that reason he had
refused to accept it . His lordship having further lectured the jury , discharged them . Both Lord Campbell and the Lord Chief Bai * on have lately expressed their opinion strongly in favour of an alteration in the law as regards the trial by jury . .. _—Several petitions for dissolution of marriage on the grounds of adultery and desertion came before the Court of Divorce this week . In the Marchmont case an
application was made to the judge ordinary to give effect to the finding of the jury by pronouncing a decree of judicial separation . The counsel for Mr . Marchmont , in reply , intimated that such a decree , if made , would be appealed from . The judge therefore declined to pronounce it , preferring that a new trial should be moved for before the whole Court , a course which Mr . Marchmont ' s counsel said he should adopt . Charles Hodgson , the chemist from whose shop the arsenic was supplied which caused so many deaths when eaten in the form of lozenges at
Bradford , was tried for manslaughter at York , before Baron Watson , on Tuesday . „ Tke evidence having shown that he had frequently cautioned the shopman who sold the poison , to be careful , and particularly regarding arsenic , the judge held that there was no proof of negligence , and directed a verdict of acquittal . His Lordship expressed no opinion as to tho practice of selling " dafT" or terra alba for the purpose of adulteration , which was the actual cause of the mischief , In the Court of Common Pleas an action has been brought by the proprietor oi
the Sheffield Daily News , and two other papers , against the proprietor of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph , for publishing a series of libels , these libels consisting of attacks upon the plaintiff , arising out of a claim between him and the , Printers ' Combination Society . The trial occupied two days , and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff , damages 500 Z . -At the Court of Common Pleas , Mr . M'Geach , a respectable tradesman of Shrewsbury , has obtained 1000 Z . damages against the
North-Western Railway Company for having been nearly killed in consequence of an accident on the 5 th October in la & t year . A gang of coiners were captured iu St . Luke ' s on Wednesday , and brought up before the Clerkenwell magistrate , by whom they were remanded . As a man named George May was being conveyed to Wandsworth House of Correction , in the prison van , from Southwark policecourt , where the magistrate had sentenced him for a month ' s imprisonment for de-
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of people became wedged together , and at least twelve people were crushed to death ^ suffocated . It is said that fifty more are seriously hurt .-----A serious military riot took place at Woolwich , on Thursday , arising from a bad feeling between the artillery and the marmes , as against the An ^ soldiers have been wounded , and the public houses of the town severely damaged . - — -The fifth hearing of the dispute between the metropolitan omnibus companies
has occupied the attention of Mr . Paynter at the Westminster police-court , and again was the case adjourned , but under more hope than before that the companies will come to an understanding The magistrate gave it as his opinion that art Act of Parnameht will alone be able to meet other disputes of the same kind , that will be sure to arise . It is understood that the present case will eow / be settled by calling in such an arbitrator as Sh : Richard Mayne would make , ——
Higgins and Davis , charged with swindling Gruneberg , the nurseryman , have been committed for trial . It came ovit on the examination of fe execution creditor in this business ^ that Higgins , unwilling doubtless to leave things half done , had made use of his liberty by bail to endeavour to get an execution in on Gruneberg ' s goods , although without success . Higgins was conveyed to gaol in default of bail , and Davis only walked out of court to be arrested for debt . ——In
the Court of Queen s Bench an action was brought by one Mr ; Smith against the Great Northern Railway Company to recover damages for injuries which , the plahitiff sustained by an accident oil that railway , Lord Campbell ordered the jury to be locked up , and locked up they were all night till ten o ' clock next morning , without fire , food , or drink . When called into Court , they all looked very ill , unwashed , unshaven , and unkempt , and one of their number had to be attended
by a doctor during the night . When asked , they said they had not agreed , and could not agree ; and then Lord Campbell told them it was clear when they gave in the verdict of a farthing damages overnight , that they were not then agreed , that the ridiculous unreasonableness of such a verdict , when substantial damages were due , was a proof that they were not agreed , and that for that reason he had
refused to accept it . His lordship having further lectured the jury , discharged them . Both Lord Campbell and the Lord Chief Bai * on have lately expressed their opinion strongly in favour of an alteration in the law as regards the trial by jury . .. _—Several petitions for dissolution of marriage on the grounds of adultery and desertion came before the Court of Divorce this week . In the Marchmont case an
application was made to the judge ordinary to give effect to the finding of the jury by pronouncing a decree of judicial separation . The counsel for Mr . Marchmont , in reply , intimated that such a decree , if made , would be appealed from . The judge therefore declined to pronounce it , preferring that a new trial should be moved for before the whole Court , a course which Mr . Marchmont ' s counsel said he should adopt . Charles Hodgson , the chemist from whose shop the arsenic was supplied which caused so many deaths when eaten in the form of lozenges at
Bradford , was tried for manslaughter at York , before Baron Watson , on Tuesday . „ Tke evidence having shown that he had frequently cautioned the shopman who sold the poison , to be careful , and particularly regarding arsenic , the judge held that there was no proof of negligence , and directed a verdict of acquittal . His Lordship expressed no opinion as to tho practice of selling " dafT" or terra alba for the purpose of adulteration , which was the actual cause of the mischief , In the Court of Common Pleas an action has been brought by the proprietor oi
the Sheffield Daily News , and two other papers , against the proprietor of the Sheffield Daily Telegraph , for publishing a series of libels , these libels consisting of attacks upon the plaintiff , arising out of a claim between him and the , Printers ' Combination Society . The trial occupied two days , and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff , damages 500 Z . -At the Court of Common Pleas , Mr . M'Geach , a respectable tradesman of Shrewsbury , has obtained 1000 Z . damages against the
North-Western Railway Company for having been nearly killed in consequence of an accident on the 5 th October in la & t year . A gang of coiners were captured iu St . Luke ' s on Wednesday , and brought up before the Clerkenwell magistrate , by whom they were remanded . As a man named George May was being conveyed to Wandsworth House of Correction , in the prison van , from Southwark policecourt , where the magistrate had sentenced him for a month ' s imprisonment for de-