taken part in the publication of L' Homme are of such a
character that, allowing them longer to print this paper,
would be a disgrace and a stigma on this island, so famed
for its loyalty, and the warmest attachment to the
Queen and Crown of England, which has been so
scandalously assailed personally, and her rule and government
brought into contempt." Resolutions were then
moved and carried, to the effect that the journal called
L' Homme, having for its objects the suppression of
Christianity, the propagation of socialism, and the
destruction of all thrones, including that of our own
Sovereign, and being the vehicle of gross abuse of the
Emperor of the French, and scandalous aspersions
against the Queen, is an outrage on the moral laws of
hospitality and the feelings of a Christian and loyal
community; and that the meeting, therefore, trust that
immediate measures will be taken for its suppression.
A deputation was appointed to wait on the Lieutenant-
Governor with the proceedings. Having done so, his
Excellency assured them that he should take immediate
measures to carry out the wishes of the inhabitants.
Accordingly the Constable of St. Hélier verbally
communicated to MM. Piancini (the proprietor), Ribeyrolles
(the editor), and Thomas (the distributor of the journal
L'Homme), his Excellency's commands, that they should
quit the island on or before Saturday, the 20th inst.
The proceedings of the meeting have been communicated
to the French and British Governments. The above
persons have left Jersey and taken refuge in Guernsey.

At a meeting of the Court of Common Council of
London, on the 18th inst., Mr. Anderton brought
forward his annual motion in favour of petitioning
Parliament to Abolish the Oath of Abjuration. Mr.
Parker moved the "previous question," but, after a
long discussion, the amendment was negatived by 30
to 6, and the original motion was carried.

       NARRATIVE OF LAW AND CRIME.

Cases of Brutal Treatment of Wives continue to be
of daily occurrence. The police reports of one day, the
2nd inst., contain four such cases. They all occurred
on Saturday night—the drunkard's weekly festival of
vice and brutality. In three cases out of the four, it
was not the first, but the second, third, and fourth
recorded offence. These are the cases:—Michael Newman
returned home on Saturday, maddened by drink.
He took his supper and went to sleep. His wife carried
home some laundry work, and on returning found the
ruffian asleep on the ironing-board. She asked him to
rise—she tried to lift up his head. This roused him, and
he then struck her, dragged her about by her hair,
kicked her in the eye, and when she got up he locked
the door, and repeated bis brutalities until neighbours
released his victim. Michael Newman had been
married twenty-five years, and was the father of eleven
children. The brutality displayed on Saturday was the
climax of years of similar conduct, varied occasionally
with the flourish of a carving-knife, and threats to "do
for her." "He has been," said his wife, "four times
charged with assaulting me; in fact, for years he has
behaved in this way to me."——Thomas Toome, "in
the constant habit of ill-treating his wife without cause,"
came home and beat his wife's head against the wall,
and kicked her until neighbours and the police came to
the rescue. The poor woman was suckling a child, and
the injuries she received made her incapable of giving
it further nourishment. Mrs. Toome said that "she
had been beaten by her husband before, but had
forgiven him on a promise to behave better." In the
former case, the cause seems to have been sheer love of
brutality, in the latter "jealousy" is the ground set up
as a defence.——The third case was that of David
Stubbs and his wife. Here there had been drinking on
both sides. Stubbs, "a quiet man when sober," knocked
his wife about, and she, with her daughter, dropped
out of the first-floor window into the street. Stubbs
had ill-used his wife before, and was once in custody,
but the woman refused to prosecute.——Edward
Gellings, a "strolling player," finding that Mrs. Gellings
had not paid the rent, beat her and knocked her through
the window. In this case the husband alleged the
"temper" of his wife, who it seems mainly supported
him, as a provocation.

A Shocking Case of the same kind came before the
coroner's jury at Wigan, on the 2nd inst., when an
inquest was held on the body of a young woman named
Bridget Ashcroft, whose death was alleged to have been
caused by the violence of James Ashcroft, her husband.
The evidence was to the effect that on the 21st ult. she
and her husband went to a funeral, and on returning from
it remained drinking with other company at the Angel
Inn until midnight. They took away with them some
liquor, and drank it at the house of a neighbour, after
leaving the Angel. There was no evidence as to the time
they proceeded homewards, but at a late hour in the
morning the husband was seen beating his wife in a
passage leading to their residence. In the encounter
she dropped her infant child, which he took up and held
under one arm while he struck her with the other hand.
Ultimately he knocked her down, and then kicked her
repeatedly. The unfortunate woman was sitting on the
ground for a time while he was kicking at her, but at
length fell senseless on her back, and in this condition
was carried home by a policeman and other persons.
The jury found a verdict of "Manslaughter" against
the husband, who was committed for trial at the next
South Lancashire assizes.

The colliers of Pencywaun, in South Wales, have
applied a sort of Lynch Law to the case of Wife
Beating. A collier having struck his wife, a number of
fellow workers seized him, set him astride a plank, and
paraded him round the neighbourhood, while an
accompanying crowd caned him. Then he was
admonished on the wickedness of his conduct, and induced to
fall on his knees and promise never to beat his wife again.

A case illustrative of the hardship of the present
Law of Divorce came before the Thames Police Court
on the 6th inst. A respectable mechanic addressed the
magistrate and said, that he had the misfortune to have
a very bad wife, who had become a prostitute on the
streets, and had threatened to sue him for a maintenance.
—Mr. Yardley: If she has proved faithless to you, you
are not bound to maintain her.—The applicant said his
wife, by a long course of dissipation and profligacy, had
ruined him and her children, and had got in debt in all
directions. He asked if he could not marry again, for
the purpose of obtaining a person to take care of his
children.—Mr. Yardley: No; you cannot marry again
until her death. If you do, you will be liable to an
indictment for bigamy.—The Applicant: Can I not be
divorced from her?—Mr. Yardley said there was no law
to enable a poor man to obtain a divorce from a faithless
wife; it was a long, expensive, and tedious process,
beyond the reach, of a mechanic or labourer.—The
Applicant: Then I can obtain no redress?—Mr.
Yardley: I am afraid not. Let her take her own
course, but you are not bound to maintain her if she is
a prostitute.

A child of four years old has been Murdered by a boy
at Hungerford. On the 9th inst. the body of a little
boy was found on the Downs, with his head fearfully
mutilated. It was discovered to be the body of a child
named Rosier, whose father is a labourer. It was
subsequently ascertained that a boy named Sopp, twelve
years of age, was sent on to the Downs by his master to
cut some furze, for which purpose he took a billhook.
At eight o'clock in the morning he was seen walking
hand-in-hand with the child. Sopp was apprehended,
and confessed that the billhook slipped out of his hand
and struck the child; he was afraid he should be
blamed for this, and therefore killed the child outright.
Sopp bears a very indifferent character, having been
before the magistrates several times for petty offences.
An inquest held on the body on Wednesday, resulted in
a verdict of "Wilful murder against William Sopp."
He has been committed for trial.

At the Wolverhampton County Court, a Russian
Subject lately Sued a Jew for Wages. But when the
complainant admitted that he was born near Warsaw, the
charge was dismissed by the judge—the rights of a
Russian in England being in abeyance in time of war.

The Roman Catholic priest of Blarney, the Rev. Mr.
Peyton, having Refused to Pay his Income-tax, the
Commissioners ordered his horse to be seized and sold