On the last day of Trinity Term, Reuben Gale, a highly respectable tool manufacturer, resident in Holborn, was tried at the Old Bailey on a charge of burglary and assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm. The case excited considerable interest, and the court was crowded. The air was charged with grit and oil, and the judge, the counsel, the jury, the ushers, the warders, and the public were one and all in a contradictory condition of being weighed down with languor and stimulated by the mystery of the case. The prisoner was decidedly unlike a...