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Jp^^^SSb.] THE LEADER. 7*1<
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WORKMEN AND WAGES. The results of the la...
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MISCELLANEOUS. •ipE public wore informed...
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Tho muil steamer Queen of the South, Cap...
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The Summer Poultry Show on Wednesday was...
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The police of London cost the inhabitant...
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teheed to thxep months' imprisonment . —James Buxton , working j & weller in Hoxton , beat his wife so savagely , that on . her appearance in the witness-box her face was alt blackened an 4 swollep . Ypt she entreated the niagistrajfce to forg iy © her husband . He has been sentenced to six months' iniprisonmenfc . —Another case appears , in Wednesday ^ papers . It is not the only one of the kind this week . . Charles Davies , a filthy-looking man of dissipated appearance , was charged with cruelly beating his wife . —r Hannah Dalies , the wife , a care-worn looking woman , said her husband had been away from homo / several weeks . About three o ' clock that morning he came home : he broke open the door of the room in which her two children and in bedthen 1 towards heri
herself were , rushing , sezed the poker , and aimed a blow at her head , but she avoided the injury as well aa she could , and escaped with only the skin being torn away fr 001 her face , He then struck her a violent blow o » the nose , which he had previously broken , and seizing a knife , swore he would rip her open . She managed to get out of the house , and remained in the itreet until she could procure the protection of a constable , when she gave her husband into custody . The poor woman horrified the Court in her details of the brutality to which she was constantly subjected by her husband , who was a confirme d drunkard , by stating that within the last eight weeks , among other injuries , he had broken her thumb , and twice broken her nose . —The case of Robert Obram ,
in Thursdays papers , is of equal brutality . He first attempted to strangle his wife , and then flung her from the top of the kitchen stairs tp the- bottom . Her back and throat were fearfully marked with bipod and bruises . The woman stated before the magistrates that she had been married to Obram for seven years , and she had endured nothing but sorrows , troubles , and privations , ever since , in consequence of the violent and intemperate habits of her husband . Ever since she had been married he had been repeatedly in the practice of ill * using her , and she had marks on her person which she would carry to the grave . He had broken up five good homes , and Bold off one home . On the magistrate asking her to explain this more fully , she said that her husband had actually chopped
up their furniture and effects five tunes , and left her with- ? out anything , and he had also destroyed her clothes ; and on one occasion called in a broker and disposed of everything . She had been often driven from her bed-room by the violence and thieats of her husband ^ and compelled to sleep or sit on the stairs all night , or seek refuge in a neighbour ' s dwelling . In the two hist cases the now usual " six months' imprisonment" has been awarded . An unusual ending to conjugal quarrelling is recorded in Thursday ' s papers . Charles Thomson and his wife lived unhappily together , and they agreed to separate , and that he should marry another . The second wife was aware of the separation and agreement . But Thomson having also ill-treated the second wife she has given him into charge
for bigamy . A more tragic termination was exposed at the Leicester Assizes . John Hubbard , a man of 68 , married to a young woman of 25 , quareifed with her . She resolved to leave him . This he vehemently opposed , and in an altercation on the subject he got so enraged as to draw a knife across her thrpat , dangerously wounding her . Sentence of death has been recorded against him , but his life will be spared . There have been published this week many cases illustrative of the necessity for Lord Shaftesbury ' s Act . It has been shown that boys of ten and twelve are regularly encouraged to thefts by men and women , who buy from them the stolen goods , but never put themselves in danger of actual detection in theft . Two attempts at suicide by women have been made this week . Domestic misery was the cause in both cases .
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Jp ^^^ SSb . ] THE LEADER . 7 * 1 <
Workmen And Wages. The Results Of The La...
WORKMEN AND WAGES . The results of the late strikes have been by no means favourable to the men . The masters hold out firmly . The Stockport strike in still unsettled . The piecers have returned { to most of the Manchester mills , but the dyors ¦ till hold out . Manyother unsuccessful strikes have taken place throughout the country . Five thousand miners at Dowlas are out on strike , demanding 10 per cent , advance . The Hull police , * Q the number of 80 , refuse to do duty without higher pay j and 30 have finally resigned . Five hundred of the London corkcuttora demand higher wages in consideration of the rise in rents and the prices of provisions . The railway labourers in the south of Ireland demand 10 s . instead of 8 » . a week . The labourers at the Southwark docks , hitherto receiving 3 d . per hour , and two pints of portor in the day , bow ask 4 / d . an hour with the same gratuity . The Leeds ' carpent ers ask an advance of 1 * . per wook , and two hours ldisuro time on Saturday . The masters are willing to give the increased wages , but not the additional time . The bri cklayers at the new Houses of Parliament havo struck for an advance of wages . The only successes wo noto this wook aro few . In Suffolk the agricultural labourers havo obtained an advance of w . pop week j and the carpot-weavers of Scotland and the Wort h of England havo got an advance of 10 per cent .
Miscellaneous. •Ipe Public Wore Informed...
MISCELLANEOUS . ipE public wore informed on Monday . of the convalescence of tho Queen , which wns announced on Saturday morning in an official bulletin ; nnd on thufc |!» y tho Duchess of Kent and Sir Henry Holland loft Uf »> orne . Wo havo further evidence of her Majesty ' a j ^ turn to health , that on Wednesday she wan able to take u drive in an opon curringo .
Tho Muil Steamer Queen Of The South, Cap...
Tho muil steamer Queen of the South , Captain W . *> -Norman , arrived at Plymouth at four o ' clock ye « - £ « ny morning , wjth tho mails from India and t |» o "Po » after a splendid passage . Tho jJinvB from tho ftpo U mtisfactoiy .
question is stated , on good authority , to be a simple dissent from Dr . Whately ' s view of the subject , and not by any means a personal rebuke to the Archbishop . Unless matters can be amicably adjusted , even at the sacrifice of " prejudices" on both sides , the apostolic delegate will , says the Evening Mail , " have an opportunity to assume the supervision of the entire secular education of the country , and the unchecked control of at least 140 , 000 ? . of public money . " The places of two of the ex-commissioners have , it is said , been already filled up by the appointment of the Right Rev . Dr . Knox , Bishop of Down and Connor , and Mr . Abraham Bre water , the Irish Attorney-General .
An item of importance appears in the Irish news . The Evening Mail says it has " good reasons for believing that Mr . Baron Greene has resigned his seat as a Commissioner of the Board of Education , " and that Archbishop Whately and Mr . Blackburne have also retired from the board . The Times reports that at a meeting of the clergy of the diocese ofDuhlin on Wednesday morning , the Archbishop formally announced that he was no longer a member of the . National Board , his Grace having received a letter - whfeh ' he could regard in no other ligut than as a "dismissal" by the Government from an office which he had filled for a period of over twenty years . The letter in
The Summer Poultry Show On Wednesday Was...
The Summer Poultry Show on Wednesday was suceessful . The " extraordinary size of the Cochin-Cbina chickens " was again remarkable . A single egg was valued at from one to five guineas . The artists of London , with whom Hampstead-heath has been a favorite haunt , are alarmed at the rumour that Sir Thomas Wilson wishes to build on it , thus destroying a landscape that has afforded suggestions to many British painters . Sir William Newton , Stanfield , Pickersgill , Pye , Lucy ^ J . Doyle , and other artists of eminence , held a meeting on Saturday , to devise means to stop the threatened desecration . It was finally resolved to petition the Queen to preserve Hampstead-heath for art study .
The concertindoinggood which our benevolent societies continuously illustrate , was strikingly shown on Wednesday at their new asylum at Balls-pond . . This institution has long been a home for the aged protegis of the various beneficent societies in London : 126 persons have been permanently relieved , and 32 are at present comfortably placed . On Wednesday there was a pleasant demonstration , signifying a substantial progress in the institution . A procession of the members was made ; they walked with banners and music on the ground ; and there Lord Robert Grosvenor laid the first stone of a new wing to the building . Speeches for the occasion were well made , and at the dinner m the evening 200 ? . was subscribed .
Dr . Barlow , an English medical gentleman visiting Berlin , experienced " brutal treatment at the hands of the Berlin police . " According to the instructions of the Foreign-office here his passport was not vise"A by any Prussian authority in London . Wanting this he was arrested at the railway station : —" I was sent , under extremely annoying and vexatious circumstances , after halfan-hour's detention in a guard-room , in the custody of a policeman , to the head police office , where I was kept in durance vile , among a set of itinerant vagabonds , for nearly three hours , and was subjected to all the brutality of looks and words which the menials of the office , short of personal violence , could well inflict ; after this I was told I might go where I liked , and received back my passport . "
A " flower show at tho Surrey Zoological Gardens , on Tuesday , was remarkable for the display of heaths and the great show of fuchsias . Tho show altogether was very successful . Dr . Newman has handed over the balance of his defence fund—36 O 0 ? . —to tho new Roman Catholic Universit y in Ireland , with the exception of a few hundred pounds given to one of the religious houses in this country . Tho Baltic , which sailed on Wednesday from Liverpool for the United States , carried M . Jullien , his family , and a corps of performers . Sir William Molesworth is really a Reformer in office . Hia latest good work has been to take Holyrood Palaco into the keeping of Government , fixing an uniform fee of sixpence for -visitors , in lieu of the discretionary extortion hitherto practised , and opening the palaco free of all charge on Sundays . At Pimliep a kind of Protestant Convent or Sisterhood
of Morey lias boon instituted . It is called tho " Nursing Sisters Hospital . " It has boon established at St . Barnabas ? , with the concurrence of tho Hon . and Rov . Robert Liddoll , in order to provide for tho sick poor in our church that care which can only bo given , by those who devofco themselves entirely to such a work , and tend them for love nnd not for hire . A paper wo havo been sent Bays , — " sistors visit the poor in their own homes and receive a smull number of patients into the house . It remains to bp scen ^ vhefchor wo can find help and sympathy to onablo us to carry on such works and enlarge them . Wo trust to do so , and eventually to replaoo tho paid nurses in our hospitals and amongst our poor by those who will bo dovoto themselves from a religious motive . Tho hospital may bo visited on any week-day between two and five , and persona
who wish it may attend tho prayers of tho House at two , and visit tho Hospital afterwards . " Tho following letter from Archbishop Whatoly , addressed to Mr . Lloyd Jamieson , appears in t ho Boston XAberator : — "Dublin , 10 th Juno , 1853 , —Sir , A copy lias casually fallen into my hands of the Boston XAbarator ( 4 th March ) , in which I anv described as „ tho author of a review , in tho ' North British , ' of ' Uncle Tom ' s Cabin . ' I am not the author . I happen to know that it ia from tho pon of a lady—a clergyman ' * widow—in tho south of Ireland . As I wish for neither credit nor diner edit that is not fairly duo to mo , and aa I prosumo you do not moan to mislead your roadors , ploaso to give notice and correction of tho mistako . — Your faithful , hurnblo servant , Richard Whatoly , Archbishop of Dublin . " \ Vtyilo Mr . WalpolO'Wati at the Homo Office , tho policemen of U ><> metropolis woro generally informed Unit oach man was ojepocted to go to hiu proper placo of worship on
Sunday . This was felt irksome by some of the police , and laVfc week a deputation waited on Sir Richard Mayne , to know were they obliged to go to church . The commissioner i ntimated that under the new reign o f Palmerston no such " request from the authorities" had been made , and that going to church was at the option of the men .,. . -: - - . ' - '•" , . - '¦ - . ¦'¦ " The New York Herald states that Mr . Buchanan has definitely accepted the embassy to England . •' . /•„ ¦ . The New York Crystal' Palace was opened on the I 4 th inst ., in the presence of an immense concourse of spectators . The President of the United States and General Scott were present ¦ ¦ ¦ h
. . _ ,,. « - „ a . ___ The steamer Empire , on her downward trip from Albany to New York , on the morning of the 16 th , was run into by a sloop , and one of her boilers was thrown overboard . Two persons were killed , and eig ht or ten severely injured . The damage done to the steamer is estimated at 6000 dollars . The coroner ' s jury on the victims of the Gavazzi riot at Montreal , concluded , its sittings pn the 10 th inst ., after a long charge from the coroner . Instead of a verdict , special returns were handed in by the divided jurors . Eight jurors found that the mayor ordered the soldiery to fire upon a crowd , while there was no riot or disturbance to justify the
such order , and that the order of the mayor , aa well as firing of the soldiery without the orders of their officers , were unnecessary , culpable , and unjustifiable acts . Ten . jurors found that one man was kitted , by some person supposed to be one of the defenders of Zion Church , and that those killed by the soldiery were killed in consequence of military words of c ommand uttered b y a person unknown after the riot act had been read . The jurors agreed onon point , that the mayor read the act unnecessarily , and that , immediately after ' he was done reading , a firing took place on the part of the military , and that several parties not concerned in the riot were killed .
The Police Of London Cost The Inhabitant...
The police of London cost the inhabitants in rates . 400 , 0002 . a year . There are over 500 , 000 volumes in the British Museum . A new office , for the collection of the Income-tax is tp be established in Ireland . Irish tax-gatherers are bold and ingenious men . On the Dublin and Belfast Junction the other day the tram was arrested" for county cess due to the Company , and although steam was ' ? up , " and the passengers furious , the tax-gatherer stood firm until the debt was paid . A new and large Military Barrack is to be built at Brompton . ... The Liberals of Lancashire have added 2000 new claims to the registry for the northern division , and 1000 new claims to the registry for the southern division of the county . .
„ , Last Saturday was Election Saturday at Eton . Many old Etonians of rank attended , and the election speeches were good . At York Assizes a breach-of-promise case , remarkable in the result , has been tried . Mr . John Ramshay is the steward of the Earl of Carlisle , and a gentleman of 2000 ? . or 3000 J . a year . He made love to Miss Tweddle , a young lady of gentle manners and good education . She was but the daughter of a tenant-farmer on the estate , and when Mr . Ramshay made his proposal she represented the difference between them in station , and was becomingly
reluctant to accept his suit . But Mr . Ramshay was ardent ; the young lady finally accepted his proposal ; and at hia desire the fact was published as a matter equally honourable to both . After a courtship of nearly two years , Mr . Ramshay cooled , and finally broke off , alleging as an excuse a " prior engagement with a young lady at Trentham . " But in a few months the gentleman married not " the y oung lady at Trontham" but a Miss Lacy . Miss Tweddle lias suffered severely in health from the pain and annoyance of this desertion and its notoriety , and as " compensation " has been awarded 3000 Z .
The number of workmen lodged in Paris from , the 16 th to the 23 rd of July has been 36 , 481 , of whom 1 , 254 had arrived in that space of time . Of the wholo number only 1 , 013 were without employment . In the banliou tho numbor unemployed has been 217 , out of a total of 16 , 134 workmen . Mr . Richard Dunn ' s persecution of Miss Burdett Coutta extended on Wednesday to compelling her appeoranco as a witness at the Insolvent Court , and detaining her three hours by an irrelevant examination . Tho lady has been so continuously annoyed by this man that she is afraid to go to any place of worship save a chapel near her own house , and ia obliged to keep a policeman in tho house .
A now scrow , tho spiral propellor , has been tried with success at Liverpool lost week . "The saving of fuel by tho spiral was shown to bo upwards of sixteen per cent . Tho upiral propellor ia formed on the principle of obtaining as much propolling surface on the outer edge of tho blado as possible , at tho same time allowing tho greatest liberty near tho centre , bo as to offer tho least resistance in tho passage of tho scrow through tho water . Tho propeller has two blades , something roscmbling tho blades of the old-fashionod scrow , with a pieco cut out of each , thus giving them tho shapo of an elbow , being diametrically opposed to Griffith ' s , whore tho outer edge has tho least flurfiinn . "
Respecting tho supply of corn fcho Economist says : — - " Wo look to tho United States and to Canada for largo Hupplicfl , and al'tor Amoricn we may look to Russia , for a largo Bupply . Tho reports from OdosHa of tho harvest pros * pectfl are oxtromoly favourable . J Tithorto , from tho North of JOuropo wo liavo not received much grnin this , year , and thoro will bo the moro to come . Effypt and Turkey will probably supply us as usual . Without presuming to measure tho exooj ; quantities wo shall bo able to procure from any ono or all tho different countries , or tho prices wo shall be obliged to pay for broad-corn on a pinch ( high prices bring so much forward from different countries , that all previous calculations are likely to bo erroneou s ) - ^ we oro natiuKod that from some or all tho countries bf . thi * globe which now contribute to supply us , wo shall obtuJj * fts much u « wo bhull require ufc moaortito prices . "
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Leader (1850-1860), July 30, 1853, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30071853/page/11/
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