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      thereby have afforded an opening for the insertion of the fingers or hand . This effected , there remained a slip or opening through which it would be difficult to pass an infant ,- but , using the iron plate as a battering-ram , he knocked off the stone rybits or facings of the loop-hole , until he had made an opening 9 £ inches in width . According to his own account , he then squeezed his head and shoulders with great difficulty through the opening , and by the grey dawn of the morning looked down upon the lane which bounds the western side of the police buildings ,

      Irom a height of three lofty storeys . He then wriggled his body forward and downward , and hung by his feet till he was able to touch with his hands the outer cornice or entablature of the great window of the police court , which is situated immediately below the wicket from which he made his escape . As he could not have attempted to rest his body on this cornice without falling over , when his hands rested upon it , he threw a summersault , and lighted upon the street below . In whatever way he escaped , it is the wonder of all that he reached the pavement without being dashed to pieces . "

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      A LONG CHASE . The case of Spriggs , the city bankrupt , is known . He absconded , starting in the Cleopatrg , for Australia . Falconer , the police-officer , followed him in the Sarafi Sands , which arrived six days before the Cleopatra . When the Cleopatra anchored in Hobson ' s Bay , while Mr . Spriggs was preparing to land , thinking that between him and his creditors there were at least sixteen thousand miles of sea , he was accosted by a stranger boarding the ship from the shore . The police-officer thus tells the story : — " I raised my hat and said to him , ' Mr . Spriggs , I am very happy to see that you have arrived safely at William ' s Town . ' He replied , { My name is not Spriggs , but Steward ; you are mistaken in the person , , ' I told him whether he was Steward or Spriggs I was very glad to see him , for I was convinced he was the same person , and I produced niy warrant , and told him I should apprehend him on a charge of felony . He requested permission to go into his cabin , and I followed him . with the local police . I searched him there , and found in-his waistcoat pocket some gold studs , of which I had received a description , five sovereigns , and some silver . He then wished to go into his bed berth , and I asked him when there to point out all his own property , as I intended to remove him on shore . He showed me a portmanteau , a dressing-case , and a large bag full of wearing apparel . In the portmanteau I found 1401 . in gold , and a letter of credit for 750 ? .. dated 6 th September , 1852 , and made payable to

      Frank Steward . I also found a gold watch and chain , and some small articles of jewellery . I then took the prisoner on shore . His nephew was with him , crying very bitterly , and the prisoner said to him , ' Don't cry , Sam , ' and began to cry as well . He shortly afterwards said , still speaking to his nephew , ' I had placed such a distance between us that * I never thought it possible they would have sent after me . It ' s true I laid my hands upon all I could get hold of ; but when I established myself in the colony I intended to remit every shilling of it home again to England . ' I took the prisoner to the watch-house that night , and in the morning before the magistrate at William ' s Town , who committed him to prison . " He is now in England , and has been committed for trial .

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      ASCOT EACES . Tuesday was n genial g lowing day , with happy weather tor the thousands who started from town for Ascot Heath—somo by rail , while others dashed , along the road from Windsor , dusty but delighted excursionists . The Queen did not come ; but the Duke of Genoa and a large muster of fashionable people were in the principal stands . The weather , which made the trip so pleasant for the holiday people , made the course " hurdgoing- " for the nags : it wan dry and hard , especially at the road-crossings ; and , although improved by the tan spread thick in some parts , it was still a trying bit of around . The contest for the Queen ' s Vase was the horses started

      great event of the day . Nine : Grapeahot leading . At the Swinley course he was still first : Dove and Rattle next . At the turn , into thy straight Dove took the lend , and kept it to the distance . Rataplan then ctuno first , Pelion followed ; and tho struggle between the two was very close ; but Rataplan won cleverly by a length . Itachapelt was a good third . Grapesliot and Rattle the next two . Mr . Tholussiii is tho owner of the winner ; and the vaso he bears away is very beautiful in workmanship , all-hough tho design might bo more novel and appropriate . It represents The tin bringing his armour to Achilles ; nnd the handles arc female Tritons disporting with Cupids . The Ascot stakes were also well contested . Thirteen

      horses started : Herbert led oil '; but at tho top turn Lady Evelyn ( tho ring favourite , and largely backed to win ) took up the running . At the old mile -post , Buckthorn ( Lord Pulmerston ' M horse ) , who hud hitherto been lying in tho rair of the ruck , began to draw forward , and on passing the liino kilna was well up with Lady Evelyn . At the turn into the straight Buckthorn »> e < witu al disappointment ; but recovering it sho Hiioii appeared again in front , and at the half distance Lady Evelyn was quite beaten . Buckthorn then went a-hcad in gallant style , and won by half a iriiKth—Ki » K l * ci > in and Waterfall second and third . This result much surprised the « knowing ones / ' who had freely bot 100 to iJ against Buckthorn . I ho Irml

      Stakes were won by Ariosto ; the Ascot Derby Stakes by Ninnyhammer ; the Welcome Stakes by Sittingbourne ( who waited until they were within 100 yards of home , then went up , made a good race , and won by a neck ); and the Triennial Stakes , by Ilex . On Wednesday , the Royal Hunt Cup was won by the Friar from a field of thirty horses . She won by a length . Pelion and Corybantes , second and third . Catherine Hayes ( conceding 71 b . to her rivals ) , won the Coronation Stakes by a head . The three-year old Triennial Stakes were won by Lord Exeter ' s Filbert . Sittingbourne and Reiver at starting flew open-mouthed at each other , and before either could start well the field was far ahead . The quarrel caused some amusement . The course was not crowded—few private carriages being present .

      Thursday was the great day . The Emperor s Plate was run for , and the Queen and Court , with the Duke of Genoa , witnessed the running . The morning was cloudy , but the day cleared up ; and the course was still as hard as granite . The contest for the Emperor ' s Plate caused a first-rate race . Seven horses started . Indian Warrior led the way . At the old mile course he gave way to Stockwell ; Teddington now drew

      forward , and at the turn into the straight pressed close on Stockwell and Kingston ; at the distance he passed Kingston ; at the half distance he reached Stockwell , and now the struggle commenced . Teddington swerved a little to the left , but won by a head . This contest between the Derby hero of 1851 and the St . Leger hero of 1852 excited much interest . The Emperor ' s Plate is valued at 500 sovereigns , and is the gift of the " Emperor of all the Russias . "

      Yesterday , the closing day , there were spirited contests for the Borough Members , the Wokingham , and the Great Western Stakes . Of six races , three were won by horses belonging to Lord Exeter ; and during the meeting , his horses have been six times second . On the whole , this year ' s meeting was most brilliant and successful throughout .

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      CRIMINAL CUSTOMS OF THE ENGLISH . Domestic misdemeanours form a class of offences ; they have become so common of late that the police courts present a panorama of English homes and society . Charles Bowie , returning home drunk , is offered cold supper ; in revenge he breaks the plates and dishes , beats his wife most brutally , leaving terrible wounds on her face and arms , and is stopped by the neighbours and a policeman . Before the magistrate tho wife begged him to " forgive " her husband ; but the fellow has been imprisoned for two months . A parallel instance of female brutality is recorded in Monday ' s papers ; Mary Davis , separated from her husband , finds him taking tea with two women ; she breaks the crockery and knocks him down with a poker . The two following cases illustrate womanly feelings . Elizabeth Little having had a quarrel with a young man with whom she lives as wife , gets excited , and swallows a largo dose of laudanum . She was found insensible in her room , but with some difficulty was restored . Miss Eliza Hare was attached to " a young man in the Customs Department ; " and was to have been married to him next Sunday ; sho saw him walking with Jemima Steward ; got jealous , and in her excitement leaped into tho water of the London Docks . The poor g irl was drowned . At Hartlepool , Donald McGregor strnck on the head with a poker , a woman living with him as his wifo : bIio was ill lor six weekw , and then died of the blow . Up to her death tho poor wrotcli would not accuse him .

      A very different woman is Anno Mack : being suspected of nil intrigue with tho husband of Mary Ann Fits ? , sho moots tho wife in the street , and attempts to cut hor throat with a razor . Jano Bird , " a notoriously bad character , " applied to tho magistrates on Wednesday for somo relief ; nho was starving , and she was ashamed to go homo to her own parish . Tho magistrates refused to givo hor anything , and sent hor away . Sho went out , deiiboratoly smashed tho windows in tho justico-room , and then was brought in and sent to prison . . Ann Garvins , ayoung and good looking girl of eighteen , tho daughter of respectable parents , was driven to vice . But the poor girl did not long boar it ; on Tuesday sho sprang fnmi a wharf into tho river . Sho sank , was nearly drowned , but was saved . Sho was sorry for being saved . She is anxious to load a bettor life , and tho magistrate

      bun written to hor puront . fi . Tho private affairs of Mr . Culmor , tho manager for { founders and OMoy , publishers , liavo boon singularly exposed . Ho wan a most trustworthy and respectable gentloinniiV « till young , being but thirty-four years old . Ho allowed bin mother an annuity ; but sho still postered him continually for money , threatening again and again to " expose liim to his employers" if ho did not give it . This conduct frottoil him . Ho was oubjoct to violent palpitations-of tho heart , which in addition in ado him very oxt-itablo so much so , that a young lady to whom he was enquired broko oil" all correspondence . Those things proyoil upon him . - At an inn in Durtford ho out his throat from cur to oar nearly severing tho head from tho body . boon

      At IJolpor , ( Derbyshire ) a whole family havo poisoned . Thoy all partook of rice pudding , and all Buffered severely , tho mother huving since died . A man iiamod Sheldon hud boon paying his uddros . sos toonoof tho daughters - ho was forbidden tho houses and was hoard to vow rovontfo . H" was since hoard enquiring for prusaic ucid ,

      and some hours before the family was poisoned he was seen in the house . John Yates , for no specific cause except his own murderous nature , presents a pistol at his wife ' s breast ; having first thrown her down . It does not go off , through chance . Ho expresses surprise at the fuss about a " wife , " he was sorry he did not quietly " use a razor . " William Roberts , " a stamper in Somerset House , " suspecting his wife of stealing his money , caught her by the throat , tried to strangle her , and then flung a heavy bedrail a | her . He has been put in jail , not finding bail to keep the peace . ,.,,, _ week has occurred at le

      But the worst case of the Marybone . People who lodged in the same house with Henry Mead and his wife , heard screams from their room . They entered , and saw the wife stretched on'the floor , the husband standing over her . Then , after using the most disgusting language , " he caught her by the hair of the head , as one would a cat by the skin , and flung her across the room . " The woman was bruised all over ; her eyes were so swollen , that she could not see . The husband went to bed , and left her crawling about the floor . In the morning a doctor was sent for , and he found her in a fearful state : she was of a weakly frame , had been recently ill , and was now wounded in the head , face , and arms : her ribs were also fractured . Her brother came to see her ; but she did not even once allude to her husband ' s conduct . She died that night , and when dying , she said to her husband , " Francis , I forgive you ; take care of the children , and do not beat Frank . " The husband has been committed for manslaughter . "

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen held a Court on Saturday , and received addresses of congratulation on the birth of a Prince from the Corporation and the Lieutenancy of London . On the same occasion , Dr . Jackson , the New Bishop of Lincoln , had an audience of the Queen in the Royal Closet , and did homage on bis appointment . On Tuesday the Queen left town for Windsor Castle . On Thursday the Queen and Prince Albert , accompanied by the Duke of Genoa , and a distinguished party ,

      drove over to Ascot Heath , and witnessed the race for the Emperor ' s Plate . On Wednesday and Thursday Her Majesty gave grand banquets in the Waterloo Gallery . The company included the D uke of Genoa , several ministers and military men . On Friday , the Queen and Prince Albert returned to town . Yesterday her Majesty dined at Stafford House , with the Duchess of Sutherland ; a brilliant company of the aristocracy assembled to meet her . The Duke of Genoa and several foreign ambassadors were also present .

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      Tho Duke of Genoa has been visiting many places of national interest , and has been entertained ia high official quarters . On Saturday morning , he inspected , the arsenal at Woolwich , and witnessed rifle and rocket practice . In . the evening , he dined with Lord Palmerston at a " magnificent banquet , " wont from thence to the Italian Opera , and afterwards to the Countess of Jersey ' s reception . On Sunday he " eat a whitebait dinner" at Blackwall . On Monday he breakfasted at tho " Star and Garter , " Richmond , drove to Hampton Court , and in the evening dined with Lord Granville at another " magnificent banquet . " On Tuesday ho went to Ascot races , in the evening dined with Lord Clarendon , and stayed there " till midnight . " On Wednesday morning ho wont to " tho City , " visited tho Lord Mayor , " as a mark of respect , " inspected the Bank of England , and in tho evening left town for Windsor , on a visit to tho Queen .

      Princo Albert presided for the first time at tho annual dinner of the Trinity House , on Saturday . Nearly all our distinguished statesmen wore present . Tho Princo waa very happy in his briof introductions to the toast , and spoke gracefully in returning thanks . Lord . John liussoll raised some laughter by boasting that , in tho House of Commons , tho members of Lord Aberdeen ' s Administration " flattered themselves that in point of long speeches they wore equal to the Administration of his ' noble friend , Lord Derby . ' " The rest of tho speeches wore not remarkable , being marked by tho usual ( low of complimentary expressions . Joseph Cottlo , the early friend of Coleridge , Wordsworth , and Southoy , died at Bristol on Tuesday , in his 84 th year . His own literary labours won liim repute ; and lie was much loved .

      Thoro lh a " Ragged Kirk" in Aberdeen—a place of worship for tho very poor . Her Majesty had given two donations to it , und this week lias given a third donation of 50 J . Lord Shaftesbury and the Anti-slavery party in this country , aro collecting money to aid fugitive slaves in their escape into Canada . Nelson ' s ilorutia hius received im instalment of national gratitude . Tho Lord Chancellor has appointed one of hor sons to a situation in tho Itegintrar ' n office . Thoro aro now 1 <><> Institutes ( Mechanics , Literary , and Scientific ) in connexion with the Society of Arts . They Hont their representatives to a nocotid Conference on science connected with the

      Thursday . The chief men of Society met thoro ; nnd somo of the many Mayors now in town joined tho mooting . Conversation of a practicnl mid useful kind occurred . l ? i the evening thoro was a dinner : Lord Grunvillo presiding . Suitable and spirited MMiclwtt wore jnado . Yesterday , Prince Albert distributed the nrizos at tho Society ofc ArtH . In tho morning , tho mayoral delegates in town visited tho Crystal Palueo tit Syaonham . Wo may remind our readers that tho iirst of Mr . Ilaimay ' s lectures on Satire and Satirists is to bo dolivorod on Wednesday ovoning next , at tho Literary Institution , IMwurda-streot , Portman-squure .

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      June 11 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 563

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 11, 1853, page 563, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1990/page/11/