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' - S" ^ ^ ¦ —— T-= = diedalmost ^ immediately . r He has left a wjfe and seven cMdren quite destitute—John Robinson Carter , living ne fcKevid to be paying improper attentions to his wife , little hope is entertained of his recovery ^ _ RtriPBiANLY Husbands . — At the Thames pohcedourt , a seaman ndmed William Bone has been sentenced id three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction for attacking his wife while he was in a state « rf intoxication . Having received his wages from the Sailors' Home at Poplar , after committing the assault , ne refused to give his wife any money , although her child was ( starving . —William Wellard is under remand at ClerKenwell , charged with assaulting his wife , on whom ^ he has inflicted a very severe scalp-wound , extending to the bone , the result of which cannot at present be determined . The poor woman , who was very weak and faint when examined , endeavoured to excuse her husband on the plea that he was drunk . * She added i " He is a gilder . We have just commenced in a small way of business , and if he is sent to prison I snail lose all ; it will bring us to ruin . When he drinks he is mad , but when he is sober he don ' t beat me . He lias beaten me before , but I have forgiven him . " Ten shillings were given to the poor woman out of the poorbox . ^ Several other cases of brutal assault by men upon women have been heard in the course of the week . FBAtnx—^ -James Barney , a warehouseman of Addlestreet , is under remand at Guildhall , charged with obtaining , by means of false pretences , goods to the value of about three thousand pounds on credit , within three months of his bankruptcy , with intent to defraud his creditors ; Georges Pembijb has been committed for trial on the jcfcaJgVbFmuraeririg the woman with whom he lived .
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NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . Collisions between the Foreign Legion and the MAEiNES .-r-Gosport has been : the scene of some very serious disturbances arising put of a quarrel between the Germans belonging to the Foreign Legion , recently recruitedinAmerica , and the Marines of the vessel which brought them over .. The disagreement arose on Friday week , pufeida ' a public-house where the Germans , were Spicing . A fight ensued ; but , as the combatants were not armed - ^ ith their weapons , no great mischief was done . Sergeant Howard , of the cqnstabulary , requested neii day . that the men might be kept in barracks ; but this was nofe compUed with , ancj , on Saturday n ^ ight the distutbanpes we ' re renewed ' on a much more alarming scajel , The Germans armed themselves with iron rails , andwith , knifes $ .. the Marines had , nothing , . but their beitfl- 'Eact side numbered from fifty to . sixty combatants ; and several of the . marines were wounded . One , who was not joining in / $ he fray , was , stabbed , so deeply in the forehead that his life is despaired of ., Blame , howeyer , does not rest solely with the Germans ; for a marine has been arrested for having , according to his own confession , thrust one of the Legion down a privy , and smothered him . Another batch of . recruits , has recently arrived ; and it appears that the Germans composing it were in a state of such fierce animosity with the marines during the , voyage , that ; fifty Royal Artiller rymen who were on board had to mount guard , and but for them . tbe . ship . could ^ hardly haye . heenvbroughtpver . — , Majpr , B ow ^ es , ! the J Commandant , of the Foreign Legion , has consentedr at the jfiqussfc -of **»» magistrates ^ tP keep his men within barracks ; and Colonel ^ Graham ,, t he Cpmmandant of the Marines ,, has refused a similar request , in , a lpttei ; , which was . considered , highly discourteous to the bench- ( The facts , howeyeir , having been laid before the LieutenantrGovernor of the , garrison , MajorrGeneral Bretpn , the i inarines have been confined to barracks , and the ; offensive letter has been forwarded , ' to the Admiralty . . ' . Two Barque GKORaw Wqolfb was lost on tho morning of the , 14 th offiNew , Romney . . The oaptain and crew took to the , boats , and got s , « fely to shore . Commander Woodriff , who , though sixty-six years oijjftge , leaped overbpard , and rescued John Brown frpm drowning at Gibraltar on the 3 rd inst ., has received frpmfleveral , aub ^ p ribers a gojd watch aa a , token of admiration . , ; . .
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MISOELEAN'EOUS . AiteRiOA .- ^ Cenitaif i ^ nd 'Sojuth 'America [ continue to eil & roB ' s ' t'h ' e'bhief news of 'interest from the other aide of the Atlantic . Colonel' Kmnoy has " completed the purchasefor flVc'humored ' thousand dollars of M . essrs . ShoppaMond HaleV * 8 yijjnts \ ln the >' landsgranted them by the M 6 squi , to GovernmentIn . 1 & 80 , so that' lie possessed thik fertile' ' tract ; da ' re ^ pfded ; ' 'in : addition to 1 , 700 , 000 acres more . On the 28 th ulf ;' , ' Oolo ^ el Walter landed at San Juan del Sud wUh ' jismiiU ^ arljy , whorewpn the ¦ na ' tii # s , ^ it "h' tho excofcttoii Of , £ hcj captain of the port ; , and afew " bth ' erfl , oyacuatqd the place , taking their mufjjf ? , wit » them , they wore , hbwevpr , induced to retpii and " mtelflt ' the ' California pfl $ sohgo ' ra irt the r ' , transit aorpaa Mikimui .-A btbqdy batpoVas fought on the 19 th , lWWteek ' th > Oa 8 tellan 6 party under Murnos aud . -JMyarez an'aV'body of 'damprbW adherents , under , Guar < Il p Ma . Gw ^ plWwais beaten and fled to the mountains , while . 1 11 ¦ ., ¦ ¦ i . ¦ 11 . * ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ . ii ¦ ' '
MunoswaSrepbrtedamong , the slain . Colonel Walter was ineriacedlbyk strong force of the Chormorro party , posted at Ribas , only fifteen miles from San , Juan , Mexican advices to the 2 nd inst . report affairs unsettled . General De la Slade had taken possession ofVera Cruz , refusing allegiance to the Provisional Government . Alvarez had not reached the capital . —Yellow fever in Norfolk is unabated . Mr . Buchanan , the United States Minister at London , will not , it appears , return home on the 1 st of October , as at first intended , on account of certain complications with respect to Central American affairs . It is stated that the Russians intend to negotiate a loan in the United States . The demand for money continues active at New York : business is somewhat depressed . —With respect to compensation to sufferers in the Gr ey town b ombardment , a letter from Mr . Marcy , Secretary of State to Mr . Wetherbee a merchant , affirms that "the claims cannot be settled or paid without the sanction of Congress . " A communication from the principal manager of the Nicaragua Transit Company to Mr . Fabens , exhibits the animus of the attack on Grey town—namely , a desire to seize the place for commercial purposes . The writer hopes that no mercy will be shown to the town or the people . California . —The murderous atrocities common in the American land of gold would seem to have reached their climax in a most fearful massacre both by and of the Mexicans . It it stated that an attempt was made to arrest some Mexicans who were suspected of robbery : they escaped , f led to a smaU mining town , massacred the inhabitants , robbed the place , and made off . The whole country soon rose in arms ; three Mexicans were tried by Lynch law , and hung ; all the houses belonging to Mexicans were burnt ; a struggle took place between the Americans and their enemies , in . which several were killed and wounded ; and some houses into wkich the Mexicans f led were fired , the fugitives being shot as they issued forth ; and , at the last advices , the excitement was by no means over . Some have been found to say that the Mexicans are not in fault , and that the original outrage was committed by Americans . ^ Settling a Debt in California . —The San Francisco Correspondent of the Times has the following story , as an illustration bf Californian " life : "—> ' A Frenchman of the name of Briant owed asumof money to a . moneylender of the name of Bitter , a Swiss established mSaa Francisco . The debt was overdue , and the creditor threatened to foreclose , a mortgage which behead upon ; Brianfs property : The Frenchman determjned . to resist this proceeding in a manner . as * novel as it was like to be effectual . " At three o ' clock in the afternoon , he went into Mr . ititter ' s office , where he found him and two brokers , whom the former is in . the habit of employing in his business of procuring loans , & c . On entering , Briant handed to the clerk a manuscript paper , which on reading he found to be an intimation that he was going to blow up the house with gunpowder in five minutes . The paper warned the clerk , a boy * to escape , and to warn the other persons in the house and the neighbours , so that they might fly . The boy rushed off fast enough no doubt ; but before he got up-stairs he heard the crash of the explosion . It afterwards appeared that , as soon as the clerk left , Briant approached the two brokers with a . carpet-bag in his hand , smoking . a cigar , and coolly told them of hia intention . to blow them up . They naturally enough fancied he was joking orma & and $ at still ., He then threw hia cigar into the bag ! which contained some pounds of gunpowder . The explosion was terrific . The Frenchman ' s hands , face and head , were , badly burnt , and the two brokers were also injured , but no one was killed . Hitter was more frightened than hurt . The ground story of the house was considerably damaged , the doors and windows blown out ; and the walls badly cracked . Windows across the alley at the side of the house were broken , and men outside knocked over by tho shock . How the inmates of the office escaped being killed no one can tell . Briant has been in the hospital since the occurrence till tho other day . By this time , all parties have recovered . " The St . Lawrence Submarine Telegraph . —An attempt to lay down the submarine telegraph across the Giilf of St . Lawrence , seventy miles in length , to St . John ' s , Newfoundland , which would have reduced the interval for newa between Liverpool and . Now York to six or seven days , had proved unsuccessful . After forty miles of the cable had been run out during a period of heavy weather , which had already occasioned many interruptions , the line parted , and was obligod to bo abandoned . Tho season being now over , tho enterprise cannot bo renewed till next year . It appears that , instead of a large atoamor being employed , the cablo was shipped on board a sailing bark , which was towed by a small steamer , and that tho disaster is to bo attributed to the difficulty of their keeping together in a rough eca , — Tirnes City Article . The B ELL'tetsLiK Nuisances continue to engage the attention bf tho papers ; but it does not appoar that any stops' have been taken for their removal . , Hisa ' ltti of London .- —In' the week that ended on Sftturttaiyj the 'deaths' of 981 norsonii ' ( namely , 4 GG males * hd 4 C 5 fenidloH' ) ' wore' roma'terdd ! in' the metropolitan ' districts , a number whieh ' enoyrs a'decrease of About 100 on eaclv bf the . tlifoe ' proyloua wo ' plis , ' ahd Indicated a , satisfactory condition of the public health ' . ' in ; the '
corresponding weeks of 1350 and 1852 vw : hen 'the population was less than at present , the deaths wererespectiveljr 858 and 913 . Except in these instances , : the number : bf > deaths in corresponding weeks since 1846 was greater ; than that which appears in the present return . The diseases of . zymotic character produce at this tune more than a fourth part of the mortality . Of 253 deaths referred to this class last week , 76 were caused : by diarrhoea , 63 by typhus and other fever , - & 0 by scarlatina , 16 by hooping-cough , 11 by small-pox , 9 by cholera ^ 7 by erysipelas , 5 by measles , 5 by croup , 5 ( of which . 3 occurred in the Paddington Workhouse ) by syphilis fix infants , 3 by dysentery , 2 thrush , 1 influenza . Diarrhoea continues to fall rapidly ; the mean weekly temperature having also fallen considerably since the period in which the disease attained its maximum . Fever has prevailed to some extent in the sub-district of Mile ^ end Old Towin Lower ; and the Registrar of Mile-end New Town records the death of a child , on whom an inquest was held , from neglect , and from the unwholesome and overcrowded state of the house in which it dwelt . —Last week , the births of 841 boys and 817 girls , in all 1658 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 , the average number was 1361 . —From the jRegistrar-General ' s WeOeltf R & tiAflffom , ¦ ' Agricultural Meetings . —The sixth Annual Show of the Padiham ( Lancashire ) Agricultural Society was held on Thursday week . Sir J . P . Kay Shuttlewortb made a long speech on the occasion , in which he enlarged on the superiority of English modes of farming over French , and asserted that French farmers are rapidly coming round to our principles . —The Royal -Bucks Agricultural Association had its annual meeting on Wednesday at Aylesbury . Prizes to the amount of nearly 50 * . were distributed to deserving labourers by-Mr . Disraeli , who at the dinner which ensued made a speech congratulating the Association on the benefits it had effected , and defending the giving away of prizes from the charges that had been brought against it . The Case of Nathaniel Williams has excited universal indignation in Worcester , and a subscription for defraying the fine and costs , and for presenting the poor man with some small sum in compensation for hisjEnjuries , has been opened , and received contributions from the Mayor downwards to the humblest . The chairman of the bench of magistrates who convicted Williams is the dergynwm of the parish * ithe Rev . John Pearson . It is but right that his name-should be known . - - * Woruhousk CRtfELTY . ^ -Sdme children" far the Newcastle-on-Tyne Union were recently afflicted with the itch . They were placed in a room which was only four feet by twelve , and was within a larger one ; twenty were placed in a bath without changing the water ; the sick and healthy were bathed together ; and they-were often loc & ed in the room without water or any conveniences for the necessities of nature . An inquiry has been made , the result of which is that the master and matron of the workhouse have resigned , on the alleged ground of old age ; the warden has been dismissed , and the surgeon was informed that his conduct had been highly reprehensible . The chairman , however , and several guardians dissented from the latter expression of opinion . - ' , The Weatheb and the Wa » .-M . Le Maout , _ tne chemist who has acquired some celebrity at St . Brieuc ( C 6 tes-du-Nord ) , his residence , for his observations of tho barometer , as affected by a distant cannonade , states in the Publicateur tie St . Brieuc that ho announced the cannonade and the assault of Sebastopol from the changes effected in the mercury . He adds that it takes an hour and forty minutes to receive the impression of the guns of Sebastopol on barometers in France . How to Procure Railway Accidents . —A correspondent of the Times— "A Commercial Traveller "—calls attentions © the dangerous practice of " treating railway officials to drink in the refreshment-rooms at the stations . He says : — " Only the other day , at a certain station , I had occasion to talk to several guards and porters , and found almost every one of them to amell strongly of the bottlo . Travelling by a night train lately , I observed several gentlemen trdatf the guard to drink . This very day , I have counted nearly a dozen railway servants in a refreshment-room , all drinking . I would , not attribute any of tho late accidents to this cause—though , certainly ,. Buspicion is justifiable—but the custom'fs really getting so common , and the possible , nay , probable consequences so awful , ad to demand the attention of railway companies , or , still better , of the Government , to consider whothor , notwithstanding tho inconvenience to the public , it would not bo advisable to prohibit the sale of spirits at the railway stations . Fancy flin engine-driver or a pointsman drunk . " Surely , by a proper supervision of tho higher authorities , tho evil could be prevented Without imposing Such a restriction as that proposed on the comforts of travellers . " Colliery Ac ^ mnNTJ- ^ Three men haver been killed in the Caprington Colliery * Ayr , by an iriroUd of water , which made its way through the iabtidf coal , ' tearing an aperture of from five to flix foot wide . ¦ " ' ' ¦ _ . . AeoDDKtoTXt , HoMion > H ritf' Mfti' ORE & wicrc . - ' -Tho . actor arid lessee of thVs Surrey'ThWatr "© , ' Mr . CroawicK , was ' Bhboting in a field near 'Reigat < 5 'bn FrfdAy week . ' in company with Mr . Shepherd ; dpuMicafii and the brother
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1855, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29091855/page/8/
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