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Ociobbk 1$, 18S3] THE LEADER. 993
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CURIOSITIES OF JUSTICE. When Sheridan's ...
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CRIMINAL RECORD. On Saturday night a hou...
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FEARFUL SHIPWRECKS. The Annie Jane was a...
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MISCELLANEOUS. The Queen and her family ...
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There have been four Cabinet Councils wi...
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An important declaration has,, during th...
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Tjik Woltfung Olahheh. Wk Commence Thin ...
have gone out on strike . They demand an advance of Id on " all hose , " and 3 tf . on '' half liose . " The North Shields hand-looni weavers have given notice that in a few days they will go out on strike , unless their Wages '" are advanced . The shoemakers of Norwich contemp late going out on strike , unless an advance is made . The plasterers of Kensington , near . London , have struck , not for an advance of wages , but owing to . the length of time they are kept waiting
for their money on Saturday evenings . The dyers strike at Manchester still goes on . The London shoemakers persist in their partial strikes . Whena master refuses the advance , -they ; pay his men to leave town , and then watch the shop to prevent others getting work . The London bricklayers persist in demanding an advance ofGd . per day . The hairdressers are preparing a movement for short time and better wages . The cheeeemongers , oilmen , and tallow chandlers , now shut up their shops at 9 instead of 10 o' clock .
Ociobbk 1$, 18s3] The Leader. 993
Ociobbk 1 $ , 18 S 3 ] THE LEADER . 993
Curiosities Of Justice. When Sheridan's ...
CURIOSITIES OF JUSTICE . When Sheridan ' s father threatened to cut him off with a shillingj he rejoined , " You do not happen to have the fining about you , do you , sir ? " A Yorkshire surgeon has carried the wit into a county court . William Theakstone , who is a surgeon , residing at Halifax , in Yorkshire , brought im action in the Liverpool County Court , against his brother , Henry Theakstone , of Xinacre , to recover the sum of 51 . Is . The sbilling , it . appeared , was the amount of a legacy bequeathed to the plaintiff by his father , and the 51 . was claimed for the trouble and expense he had beenTJut to in professional services in applying for pay-.
ment of the legacy . The defendant paid the legacy , together with Is . lid . costs , into court . Mr . Wilfred , ' on the part of the plaintiff ,, applied to the Court for costs , upon the whole amount sued for , which his Honour declined to grant , observing that he hoped it would be the last time he should / be called upon to try a cause for a snilling . There was no pretence lor the claini of 51 ., and the jud gment must be for the defendant . The judge remarked , that he once tried an action of trover brought to recover a shilling , and nonsuited the plaintiff , who brought a fresh action for ninepence . The pleadings in both actions were drawn by counsel , and the cause ultimately went to the court above , at an expense of about 50 ? . on each side .
The inclosure of Waste lands is aided by the Greneral Enclosure Act , but the provisions are considered insufficient . A * vriter in the Daily News says—" What is generally complained of in the act is , that whereas two third parts in number and value of the parties interested are sufficient to carry any inclosure into effect , yet a power of veto is given to the lord , and he has the poAver of entirely staying the proceedings , even if ( as in some known cases ) he has not an inch of land , or any other interest in the parish . The consequence of this undue preference is , that many extensive and valuable wastes are doomed to a state of comparative perpetual sterility ; or , in cose of inclosure , the lord may secure to himself superior privileges by making them a condition to his assent , but to which he has no real rio-M . "
A working man has just recovered 51 . compensation for loss of liino , from the South Wales Company , in consequence of detention arising from an irregularity in the arrivnl of the company ' s train at Ghopstow . The sale and use of the new penny stamp for receipts Iiob been very considerable , and promises to more than realise the expectations formed of its probable operation . In some cases , its evasion , where practicable , has been adopted ; but , in general , the stamps have been used quite as freely as was expected , and the result of this change in one of the sources from whence the revenue of tho Government is derived will most probably bo found to bo ominently satisfactory .
Criminal Record. On Saturday Night A Hou...
CRIMINAL RECORD . On Saturday night a housebreaker stealthily broke into a jeweller's shop , in Manchester , and wont through the premises , collecting many valuables . But ho found a bottle of brandy , and , drinking it , fell asleep , until it was broad daylight , on Sunday morning . Then , coming out , ho was caught by the police . ^ A " poor follow out of work" stayed in St . Clement's Church , after oervice , last Sunday , anil stolo 6 s . lid . out of the poor box . Ho waa caught "b y the- box ton . Mr . Hamilton and his family , living near Glasgow , came down to broakfaut on Saturday morning , and to their BurpriHo found tho first floor parlour windows open , and a lijddor standing upon the road , right against tho casement , " hat , tho houHO had bl- 'ou burglariously entered was undoubted , for tho floor bore marks of dirty footprints , and rnoreover , tho carpets were strewed with luoifer matches .
¦ Mr . Hamilton wan almost nfraidto begin tho investigation i' » to his probable loss , for silver plato aiul other valuable articles lay within reach of tho thieves , which they might invo removed wiUi little more trouble than that of putting jorth their hands , tftvango to tiuy , nothing was removed , » wo except a bottle of ketchup , which ; liad likely been Milf <« . ii for brandy , and a c } j , ina pinto with ¦ confectionarieHY »« pinto itnolf being found on tho grrtsH plat before tho ! , . *• ^ 'ov tiiuo tHo famil y was pu # ssU . Ml to account , for I'Jhh singular exemption , till it way' agreed on all bauds ' ¦ ' tit thoir pron ^ ryatioii froi u plunder wan owing to a cockfttoo which belongs to the Iiouho , and which , has a voice of Peculiar potency and harwhrnmn in tho crojikiug lino . It in ATOutitnniod to raise ii . H notes whenever fcny ununual Hound ' ¦ J hoard during tho night ; and it is accovdini'ly proHiimod " "it he hud hold fprth tho moment the atoiUthy tread of * 'io iutruilcirH fell upon its oar . Tho thiovon Loarlng houimIh H (> wild and unnatural mu « fc have ooncoivod that tho ovil
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Hfe wandered about the country , and cut bis throat . He is now in Glasgow , under surgical care . In Birkenhead , a drunken husband caused much grief to his wife , a lady of respectability ; lately she has been almost driven mad by his conduct . One . morning last week she got out of bed where she had been lying with her husband and child , got a razor , returned to bed , and plunged the razor in the baby ' s throat . She then took the Weeding child out of the room , and handed it to a person in the house . The child had two gashes in the throat , and is not yet dead . The event has caused a painful sensation in the town .
There have been five cases of woman-beating this week . Samuel Bakin struck Ms wife on the face , knocked her down , and pressed her chest with bis foot . She rushed from the house covered with blood , and in a fainting state . { Some months ago her husband broke her arm with a poker . ) Before the magistrate the husband excused himself by saying he was drunk : but he was sentenced to six months and hard labour . A most disgusting savage , named Barry , assaulted his brother ' s wife . He flung himself down and bit her on the thigh , and then bit her finger . " The finger had a sickening look as if it had been chewed . " The bite on the thigh is pronounced dangerous . " Six months" was the sentence . William Howard flung a plate at his wife , and wounded her terribly on the temple . This was without any provocation . He also beat
her severely . The surgeon said it was a miracle that the woman had not been killed ; and on examining her , he found her one mas of bruises and cuts , from the crown of her head to her chin . " Four months" was awarded . Daniel Hoach beat his wife about the head , and kicked her in . the face with his thick heavy boots . When the woman , appeared in court , " the right side of her face , from her eye to her chin , presented a most frightful appearance , and her head was one mass of bruises . She had a bandage over her right eye , round her forehead , and she seemed scarcely able to move her head . " John Davis i an old grey-headed man , beat his wife , a decrepidold woman . The beating was slight , and partly provoked . He was fined twenty shillings .
Fearful Shipwrecks. The Annie Jane Was A...
FEARFUL SHIPWRECKS . The Annie Jane was a large vessel , and sailed from Liverpool for Quebec and Montreal on the 9 th of last month , with some 450 emigrants , most-of them Irish families . It is presumed that she had made some progress across the Atlantic , when she encountered the fearful south westerly gales , which disabled her , and rendered her unmanageable , and in that hopeless condition waa driven back and dashed on to the terrible coast of Barra , one of the Hebrides . With a point called Vatersay , where the wreck occurred , the island is six miles in length , and two and a-half broad , and lies some five miles south-west of the next island , Uist . The inhabitants are mostly employed in the cod-fishing trade . There is a lighthouse on the heads , which is the highest in the United Kingdom , being 080 feet above the level of the sea . Such is the terrible character of the coast , however , that there is little chance of a vessel being rescued when once it is entangled amongst the reefa . Several of tho survivors contrived to get a passage from tho island over to Tobermory , a small seaport on the Islo of Mull , and from them the authorities learned that 348 passengers wero drowned ; 102 , with Mr . Bell , the chief officer , and 12 of the crew , were saved . Tho story of tho wreck is very terrible . Tho ship struck on tho reef during the night , when moat of the passengers wero asleep . Many rushed on deck in a state of nakedness ; wives clung to their husbands , and children clung to both , some mute from tenor , and
others utteringappalling screams , and eagerly shrieking , "Is tliero hopo ? " In fact , the scene is described by the survivors as the most agonising which it could enter into the heart of man to conceive . Tho poor creatures had not long to wait for tho catastrophe After the first shock was over the passengers rushed to the boatfi , three of which wore placed between tho mizonmartt and the poop , and tho lourth lay on tho top of tho cooking-house forward . Tho lilb-boat had already been lost . But , an happens too commonly m such melancholy cases , tho boats wore of no earthly use , for they wero all fixed down and secured , or lay bottom up . While tho passengers wore thus clustered
round tho boats , and within a very tew minutes after the ship had grounded , flh <; was struck by a sea of frightful potency , which instantly carried away tho denflo mass of human benign into tho watery waste , and boatH and bulwarks wont along with them . The wild wail of tho sufferers wjih hoard for a moment , and then all was still . But tho great , majority of tho women and children , hh well as hoiuo of the malo passengers , romainod below , either paralysed by terror , or ' afraid that they would bo washed away in the event of their eomiiu' upon dock . Thoir lime jiIho had come . . Tho
frightful thumping of tho groat ship , takon in connection with h « r cargo of railway iron , imiHt have immediately bt » itoT )* tho bottom out of her ; and while In r fabric wan in thin weakened and disrupted state , another dreadful hoil broke on board , and literall y crushed that part of tho deck situated bowoen tho mainmast and tho inizonmant , down upon tlio berths below , which wore occupied by terror-stricken women and sleeping children . They wore beaten to death rather than drowned , m < wjih fully evidenced by tho naked , mutilated , < u » d gashed bodies , which wpro afterwards onsfc on shoro . The main and mjsaunnioHts wont ufc tho vamo moment . Tho most of tho remaining seamou and
passengers now took refuge on the poop , which was a very high one , and each succeeding assault of the sea carried away its victim or victims . In short , within one hour after the Annie Jane struck , the remaining " stumps of her masts went b y the hoard , and she broke into three pieces . The remains of the mizenmast were still attached by the shrouds to the wreck of the poop , and by the help of the islanders it was placed so as to form a sort of bridge or ladder between the poop and the shallow water ; and , as the tide had now fully ebbed , all the survivors got on shore without much
difficulty by seven in the morning . Almost all the cabin passengers perished . Only one child was saved . It belonged to a humble Irishwoman , who , with her two children , was about to join her husband in America . She struggled hard to preserve them both , by binding one on her back , and grasping the other in her arms ; but when the ship parted the one in her arms was dashed into the sea . Soon after reaching the shore the survivors repaired to a farm-steading , or cluster of houses , which was not far from the beach , and repaired their exhausted energies by rest .
Another wreck happened nearer home on Tuesday morning . The Santipore , a ship of 650 tons , left London for Hobart Town . The late severe gales drove her back into the Downs , and on Monday evening , after another attempt to get down Channel , she struck upon a reef near Folkestone and lost her rudder . Boatmen boarded her , and though the ship Was fast filling , though the masts were bending like whipcord , and the danger very great , the captain would not give up the ship , but still worked on . Steam-tugs came to pull him ofE The first succeeded , but the rope
broke . A second then attempted , but it was too late . The ship , drifting rapidly inwards , scraped the ground , and directly afterwards stranded upon her broadside on the spot above indicated , heeling over to the seaboard with a tremendous list , threatening the momentary destruction of the vessel . Captain Jewell instantly gave orders to cut away the masts , each of which fell in rapid succession , and the ship , being thus cleared of her top weight , lay comparatively quiet on the beach , within 150 yards of the Pavilion Hotel . The cargo has been mostly saved .
Miscellaneous. The Queen And Her Family ...
MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen and her family left Balmoral on Thursda y morning , arrived safely at Edinburgh in the evening , and were expected at Windsor on yesterday .
There Have Been Four Cabinet Councils Wi...
There have been four Cabinet Councils within the Jast eight daya . The first was held on Friday . All the Ministers , excepting Sir James Graham and Sir William Molesworth , were present . The Times says , " Sir William Molesworth was not present , owing to an error of the officer whose duty it ia to summon the members of the Cabinet . " The Council sat three hours and a half . The second Cabinet Council took place on Saturday : the Ministers not present wero
the Duke of Argyll , Sir William Molesworth , a . nd Sir James Graham . The Council sat two hours . On Monday a third Cabinet Council w ; is held . The Duko of Newcastle , Mr . Gladstone , tho Duke of Argyll , and Sir James Graham , were absent . Tho Council sat two hours and a half . On Wednesday a fourth Cabinet Council was held . The Marquis of Lansdowne , the Duke of Newcastle , tho Duke of Argyll , and Mr . Gladstone were absent . Tho Council Hjit five hours .
An Important Declaration Has,, During Th...
An important declaration has ,, during the present month , received tho signatures of a largo number of influential . Dissenters of various denominations , expressive of a conviction that " more genoval and united action for tho liberation of religion from State interference is imperatively called for by the present condition of parties and l , lu > character of events . " Public opinion , it , is said , " loans more decidedly than ever to a settlement of the occlesiaotical affairs of the country upon principles of Christian equity . The subscribers deem the forthcoming Triennial ( . 'onforonco of tho British Anli-Stute-Clmrch / VHnodation , to bo held on the 3 rd of . November , a suitable opportunity for
securing thin desideratum , and accordingly recommend the utmost eil ' ort to make it hm eH'ective as possible , by the appointment of suitable delegates . There am attached tho HignaturoH of 3 ( X ) persons rewiding in above . 700 cities and towns of JOngland , Walon , Ireland , and Scotland , and among thorn aro the names of Mr . Tvernhaw , M . I' ., Mr . lladlield , M . I . * ., Mr . Seholeftold , MVP ., Mr , Pollatt , M . P ., Mr . Jfdyworth , M . I' ., Mr . HiggM , M . I ' ., Mr . ( Volley , M . P ., Mr . ( hook , M . V ., Mr . Hell , M . I' ., Mr . Miall , M . P ., Mr . Samuel Moiloy , Mr . Kdward Hiiincs , Dr . ilarrin , Mr . TH . UN Halt , of JJnidloivl , Dr . ILuHon , P . A , Taylor ,. Knq ., and W . Jl . . A . HlmrHt > , Ksq .
Tho . Leicester gaol inquiry haw been resumed at tho instance of ( , ho vinitiiig magistral . * *) . They have produced ovidenco " to nho \ v that the inon . In taken from priKonerN have been only three per emit , of the full number ; they impench the accuracy of tho jail bookn , and by thouiHolvoM and ot her vmtora they doposo to entire ignorance of any canon of cruelty towards tho primMinrH . But they admit that , tlioir inspection was not " particular ; " they mado general \ nquirieN of tho governor and surgeon . One . of the wifcnoHtiing maffiHlrates wnn Hnrl Jlowe , and when closel y examined , ho Hujd he was " taken m much by nurnriko in being ankod any quontionn , that ho really could not Hpeak accurately on the Hubjool . " Afterward * bin lor < Mii }> having recovered liin ourprifU ) , he " wihIkkI to add , that ho hn 4 boon constantly in tho habit of questioning prisonerw , « ud Hint ho luvd hoard of no cruelty . " Mr . Bonllold . tho tmr ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 15, 1853, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15101853/page/9/
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