RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day. (Before C. D. R. Ward, Esq.,R.M.)

Evening Post, Issue 272, 21 December 1865, Page 2

RESIDENT MAGISTRATE'S COURT. This Day. (Before C. D. R. Ward, Esq.,R.M.)

James Sweeney was fined ten shillings for drunkenness. Anderson v. Minifie, debt £5 2d— settled out of court. , Same v. Turnbull, debt £4— judgment for defendant, with costs. Turnbull v. Tregarthen, debt £10 16s lOd —judgment for plaintiff with costs. Walden v. Pinnock, debt £3 15s—judgment by consent. Calders v. Thompson, debt £18, 17 6d— judgment for plaintiff, with costs.

Thb Quaker in the Jury Box. — A member in the Society of Friends at Manchester was much scandalised on reading in the papers that Mr. Joseph Carson took off his hat on the second occasion of his appearance before Mr. Baron Bramwell as a juryman at Liverpool. He therefore wrote to Mr. Carson himself on the subject and received the following reply :— " Respected friend, — I have jnat received thy letter, and may inform thee that I did not appear in court uncovered, as stated in the papers, my hat having been removed and taken away by an officer of the court. It was also stated in the public prints that I addressed the judge as • My Lord' — also an error, as I could not conscientiously thus address any humau being. I must regret that the circumstance has been so incorrectly brought before the public mind ; but I am favoured with the feeling of peace from the conviction that I have acted in accordance with my conscience and principles throughout. — Thy friend, Joseph Carson." Six Sets op Children. — There is a family in Detroit of quite unusual composition. The father and mother have each been married three times, and have had children by each marriage ; and all are now living happily together under one roof— six sets of children. The Modern Father. — The British father has undergone a great metamorphosis of late years. He has relaxed his old severity of aspect, and become more numan. He plays Jove no longer; he has cast aside his tinfoil thunderbolts, and come down from his pasteboard Olympus. He stands confessed a man — a man with the same heart and the same sympathies as those which animate the breasts of boysIt may be said that children have compelled their autocratic fathers to give them a constitution. When they know how to use a knife and fork — which is their qualification for the franchise — they are allowed to sit at the same table with their parents. They are permitted to have a voice in the house, and to exercise their right respectfully, to think and have opinions of their own. Love and sympathy and intelligent communion have taken the place of a cold and senseless severity and children, who formerly were little better than mechanical dolls to be pushed up and down a stick like monkeys, or squeezed for a bark, like toy dogs, are treed from artificial restraints, and their intelligence is allowed to expand with the natural growth of their minds and bodies. — Dickens's All the Year Bound. Poisoning a Husband. — The Court of Assizes of the Gar rone has just tried a woman named Soques, aged 30, charged with having successiyely poisoned her two husbands, the first in 1863, and the second

in March la9t. It appeared from the evidence given on the trial that the prisoner was married in 1855 to a blacksmith named Lacoste, and that they lived happily together for several years. In 1860, however, she formed an illicit connection with a man named Cazaux. The husband soon discovered his wife's infidelity, and did all he could to bring her back to her duty, but in vain. In 1863 Laco9te surprised his wife in company with Cazaux under very suspicious circumstances, and in his fury he gave her a sound beating. About a month later the husband died after a short illness, and there was a general suspicion among the neighbours that he had been poisoned ; but no inquiry was made into the cause of death. The prisoner then endeavoured to induce Cazaux to marry her, but as he refused she married a man named Soques in September last. For two months she conducted herself pretty well, but before the end of the year she had renewed her connection with Cazaux, and from that time she and her husband Jived on very bad terms. ' In March, Soques, who had always enjoyed good health, suddenly fell ill and died before the end of the month, -with every : appearance of having been poisoned. A post-mortem examination having shown such to be the case the prisoner was arrested. Her first husband's body was also disinterred, but decomposition was too much advanced for the chemists to discover traces of poison. With regard to the second husband, the presence of poison was, however, clearly proved. The jury accordingly found the prisoner guilty, but allowed her the benefit of extenuating circumstances, and the Court sentenced her to hardflabour for life.