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      masters talk of revoking the 10 per cent , advance which they had given . There has been no strike at Blackburn yet ; but it is thought the masters would not fail to take advantage of any victory which might be gained , at Preston , and the other towns . The colliers have not returned to work at Wigan . In Manchester the dyers and fustian workers have gone back to work at old prices . The operatives gallantly support their brethren on strike . The Preston men received 3001 . more last week than in the preceding week ; the contributions having amounted to 20007 .

      The seamen at the northern ports have hitherto been held back from a strike . They have entered into amicable communication with the owners , and a friendly settlement of differences seems probable . Here the struggle ie not for wages ; but for a certain control over the manning of thft ships .

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      THE BURNHAM ABBEY MURDER . Moses Hatto , the groom of Mr . Goodwin , has been committed to prison on the Coroner ' s warrant , the jury having found a verdict of " Wilful murder" against him . The closing sitting of the jury was held on Tuesday , and the various circumstances were stated to them which warranted the verdict . Thus , Mr . Goodwin stated that neither his bed-candle , nor the rushlight from which he lit it , had been prepared for him on the night of the murder ; clearly showing that the housekeeper had not completed her day ' s work when the attack was begun . Then the plate had . not been taken up stairs . Dr . Roberts , a medical man , showed that there was a bruise on . Hatto ' s forehead , and several wounds on his hands ; but the former , Hatto said , had been caused by a stick springing up ,

      and the latter by naptha . Both his assertions were sustained . A broken poker with human hair on it was found under the fire-grate in the bedroom . There were spots , probably blood , on Hatto ' s wide-awake , and on his trousers , but then he had been employed to fetch water to extinguish the fire , and he had helped the next day to carry down the fragments of the body . Bunce said , that aroused by the noise in the yard , he went out , and thinking some one was there , posted Hatto outside the gate while he went round the yard . Hatto left his post , and most unaccountably got into a pool of water , the drainings of a dung-heap . This led , of course , to the washing of his trousers . These trousers were found to have spots on them , and Dr . Taylor , the Jwell-known chemist , said they were spots of blood , but appeared to have been there

      some time ; ho added , that the manure water would make them , look like old spots . It also came out that Hatto had ridden his master ' s horse on the Thursday night after the murder over to Maidenhead . Why , was not known . It was thought , to destroy some inconvenient proofs . The articles stolen from Mr . Goodwin are insignificant . Perhaps the most important evidence against Hatto is , that the murder must have been either completed in the kitchen , or begun there , and finished up stairs ; but under any circumstances , it is a matter of certainty that , unless the victim did not scream through fright , Hatto must have heard the struggle , as his beclrooni was near at hand . This is all the material evidence at present collected , and on this evidence Hatto has been sent to prison .

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      CRIMINAL RECORD . The police courts furnish the usual stories of crime , and illustrate fearfully the habits of the lowest classos . There have been three cases of wife-beating—one almost amounting to murder . A loud quarrel in the lodgings of Patrick M'Namara is succeeded by a heavy fall . ' The ne ighbours , who know the fellow habitually ill-uses his wife , arc alarmed . At length an old woman , oppressed by 'ho quiet , knocked at the door . Receiving no answer slio tried the door and found it locked . Hearing a faint moan inside she burst tho door open and found the wife dreadfully wounded and apparently dying . M'Namara was arrested at a bcenmop , witli tho blood on his hands . Ho said it had all happened through his wife ' s tonguo that sho had got , what hIio had , and if she had got as much more it would havo nerved her right . Mr . Yardloy remanded tho savage .

      In tho second case , John Wilson , a wood-cutter , seized hold of hin wife by tho liuir and dragged her up and down the place , ulio having at the same timo her infant , only tlireo months old , in her arniH . Ho kicked her upon the Bjdo and punched her upon tho head , and taking ofF tho tliin shoos which ho had on , called out for his heavy boots . On the provioua ni pjht ho ( prisoner ) ill-usod her in a very BunouH way , by boating and kicking and smashing nearly everything in tho room , for no other reason ( ban that of W having expended a Cow pence out of fis . which « ho had obtained

      on pledge for liis coat . 8 he had been recently flmidned , and was . still Hiifloring from the ill-linage which « 'i <> had miUero . d from her brutal partner . The iwodnim-liw'i' « of the brute inado Himiliir charges . Maria J ' on en Interfered . — . " For CIocFh mike , don't murder her ; you'll kill your wife , and you know who haw only just been confined . " " <¦ con tinued to drag hev along , and called for 1 h " h nailed hIioon and a chopper . A I , length a policeman hearing' ( bat " womiiiiwiiH being murdered in Burn'H-phieo , went , there , " ¦ 'id fo und a mob of nearly iJOO per « onn anHembled . Ho "aw WilHOn standing ovevhift wife an if in the act of nl . rik-> iiir her with bin clenched fiat . For the assault , upon Inn wile WilHon wiw Hont to liard labour in the House of n <» r .

      I'oel . ion for four moinUifl , in each of tho other canon 25 or ]( f < IIIVH . Mr . A'Beckol . t niirprined a coffee-house lieepor , named KeiiHon , by Htintencing him to nix montlm hard labour for «> waking a eliuir over tho head of Iuh wife . It Wiin bin ' ¦¦ inIoiii of an evening . ' •> the diNtrict of the Thames over which Mr . Yardloy pivmdeH , two shocking canon occurred on Monday . Two A-niorie-iu i eailoro qiyirrcllod , whereupon one of thoiu ,

      appropriately named Stickman , stabbed bis adversary three times . Mr . Yardley said , if the two seamen had exchanged a few blows with the fists , that would have been most probably excused , or passed over with a slight fine ; but persons could not be allowed in this country to be using knives against each other . It was a most savage and atrocious practice . He fined the prisoner 51 . ; and , m default of payment , sentenced Mm' to two months' imprisonment . Margaret Adams , an unfortunate , broke a thick tumbler over the face of Casey , a sailor . The woman first attempted to rob him . Two months ' imprisonment ; David Sullivan has been committed for trial , on a charge of biting off the lip of Timothy Leaky . It was done in a drunken row , at a public house in Kosemarylane .

      Robert Langley married a young woman of Odiham , in Hants . She brought him 1001 . He had not been married seven weeks before he left bis "wife penniless . Found again , she preferred a complaint to the police . The magistrate was the Honourable George Capel Norton ; and reeling to the full the impropriety of deserting a wife , he ordered Langley to give up 40 ? . out of 451 . found on him , or go to prison . Langley gave up the money . Two swell mobsmen have been charged with committing robberies at railway stations . One was James MacGregor . "William Fisher , a detective officer attached to the railway , said , that on Monday afternoon last , he was on duty on the railway , near the terminus , King ' s-cross , when he saw the prisoner attempt to pick a lady ' s pocket . Fisher watched him , and on the arrival of the train from York , the porters

      removed the luggage from the carriages , and the prisoner proceeded to ' a portmanteau , and was about to take it away when Fisher seized him , and took him to the stationhouse . On his road thither , the prisoner said , " I suppose we can settle this business on the quiet ; I don't mind a dragger ; I'd rather do that than spout you in the court . " In answer to a question from the bench , Fisher said the term " dragger" meant three months' imprisonment , with hard labour , in the house of correction . The prisoner said nothing in his defence , and he was sentenced to three months' imprisonment with hard labour . The other was Charles Williams—a more ingenious

      professor . Williams was in a crowd at the Eastern Counties Railway station . Suddenly a woman called out to her husband that Williams had just picked her pocket . The husband seized Williams , but assuming a dignified air he Said , " she must have dropped it , " and the husband let him go . But Charles Rees , a railway porter , saw his left hand at the lady ' s pocket , and seized hold of him . Whereupon he said , in broken English , " That he was a gentle - man and going to Lea-bridge . " He struggled hard , and said , "he would not go Avith Rees , " who , however , while dragging him away , saw him drop tho purse . Committed for trial .

      An impudent thief , who gave the name of Henry Devine , but withheld his address and occupation " out of regard for his family , " was brought up at Bow-street on Saturday , charged with stealing a quantity of plate from Mr . J . Chapman , the bookseller , 142 , Strand . About two o'clock one day the housemaid saw the prisoner coolly walk down from tho drawing-room , and out into the street ; she called out to her master , who at onco set off after him . Tho prisoner ran off at full speed , but Mr . Chapman , attracted by tho glitter of his own plate , with which tho thief in his flight was now strewing tho street , ran faster after him , and eventually tripped him up on his face on tho pavement . On appearing before tho magistrate , prisoner said , with tlio greatest effrontery , ho " meroly took the plate to

      enable him to raise money sufficient to go to Australia , and intended to reimburse Mr . Chapman when he got to the gold diggings . " He considered he had been very badly used by Mr . Chapman , who , instead of offering him a glass of ale after his fall , had seized him by the throat , and nearly choked him . lie considered " such conduct anything but gentlemanly , but was willing to forget and forgivo , if Mr . Chapman on his part would do tho same . " Mr . Henry committed him for trial . A little girl has been murdered at Loscoe , Derbyshire , by her grandmother , an old woman of sixty , by name Ann Martin . Sho took the child from its young uncle , who was nursing it , and throw it into a wo 11

      at tho back of tho garden . Iho old woman said , on bein g questioned , that " the devil bad tempted her to drown tho child , " and began to cry , saying , " Oh , dear ! whatevor made me do it P" A verdict of wilful murder was found against her at tho coroner's inquoHt . Tho murdered infant was an illegitimate child of her daughter . A little girl , twelve yearn old , was loft in tho caro of a lonely cottiigo , near . Bunstor , Someraet . A young man , named Builly , won in tho house . When tho girl ' n mother and brothor returned , the daughter wan not thoro . A search wnn instituted , and the body of tho girl , with the throat cut , was found in an adjoining barn . Bailly has decamped .

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      " POVERING , " AND OTHER CITY " MYST . I 5 ItI . ES . At the clone of the night charges at tho Guildhall , , on Thuralny , about twenty waiters , who word engaged to attend iliii Lord Mayor ' s banquet , applied to Sir P . Laurie for bin nnH . iHta . neo and advice under tho foil owing eirouin-HtancoH : —They ntated theywere engaged l > y Mr . Burrell ( who held the contract ) , of l , ho Brid ge IIouho Hotel to attend Iho banquet / it Guildhall on Lord Mayor ' H day on that to

      the undorHf andmg they were bo paid ( JH . o ., ir ) i for their norvicofl , but , after performing their very arduous duty , Mr . BnrreH ' n brother had pnid them only C > n . each , which they received in part payment , and , on expostulating with him , ho told them to munmon Mr . liurrell for the balance , which they were unwilling to do if they could avoid it , as it would entail an enormous oxponao upon Mr . Burroll , benidoH canning thorn to Ioho mueh of their timo . Blr P . Laurie . —How many are there of you in thin position P A Wffltpy , —Thoro aro eighty of ua in , all ; bufc tho

      pecuhar hardship of the case is this—we had to go up to Mr . Burrell on the day previous to the dinner to be engaged , and to come up the day after to be paid , besides being in attendance from 8 o ' clock in the morning until 12 at night ; at the banquet and in the hall ; so that we have lost three days for 5 s . Another Waiter . —And there was not the slightest complaint against us , for we were all sober . First Waiter . —Sober ! I should think so , for all we had during the 16 hours we were there was one half-pint of beer and some meat ; bufc we had no knives to cut it with . ( Laughter . ) Sir P . Laurie . —But had you no wine ? Second Waiter . —Oh dear no , Sir ; they looked too sharp after it for that . ( Laughter . ) Sir P . Laurie . —What became of the opened bottles , then ?

      Third Waiter . —Oh , they were collected b y the winemen , and went into the cellar for what we call "Dover . " Sir P . Laurie . —What do you mean ? Third Waiter . —Why , Sir , the half bottles are used to fill up others , which are sent up to table again as unopened bottles ; and that is -what we call " Dovering . " ( Renewed laughter . ) Sir P . Laurie . —Well , I believe Mr . Burrell is a very honourable and upright man , and I do not think he would break his word ; so you had better apply once more to him personally . Fourth Waiter . — -He promised us a good dinner , but we never got it . ( Laughter . ) Sir P . Laurie . —what was the number of waiters there on Wednesday ?

      Second Waiter . —There were 80 ; and it is customary to have 100 ; but we had less on this occasion and a great deal more company . Fifth Waiter . —And we all had distinguishing collars to our coats , and because some of us did not return them , which is a very unusual thing , a shilling was deducted for it in each instance . Sir P . " Laurie . —I am sorry you should have had any dispute with Mr . Burrell , but as it is not a criminal case I can only recommend you to apply again to JVfr . Burrell , or go at once to the County Court . The waiters then retired .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen , living still at Windsor , opened the theatrical season , on Thursday , with Henry V . A gay company were present at the performance , Mr . Plielps being the hero of the night . The King of the Belgians , the Count of Flanders and his sister , left Windsor Castle , on Saturday . The Duke and Duchess of Brabant remain .

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      The meeting at the Mansion House to organise a machinery for erecting a memorial of the Great Exhibition of 1851 , and making a statue of Prince Albert , a " principal feature" in the monument , was held on Monday . Some tln-cc hundred persons attended—tho chief person present being the Bishop of Oxford . The speaking was not worth reporting . A committee to carry out tho objects of the meeting was appointed . Nearly 5000 Z . is already subscribed . Among the subscribers are the Earl of Aberdeen , 501 . ; the Duke of Norfolk , UK ) L ; the Duke of Sutherland , 601 . ; Lord J . Russell , 50 / . ; the Lord Mayor ( treasurer ) , 60 / . ; Marquis of Brendalbane , 50 Z . ; Earl Spencer , 50 Z . ; Lord Ashburlon , 501 . ; the Duke of Bedford , 50 / . ; tho Marquis of Westminster , 501 ; the Duke of Argyll , 30 Z Mr . W . Beckett ( Leeds ) , 100 / , ; Lord Campbell , 10 / . ; Mr . Brunei , C . E ., 50 / . ; Sir J . Baylev , 50 / .., &c .

      Wo understand that a meeting of tho English residents and visitors will be held on Tuesday next , the 15 th , at Mem-ice ' s Hotel , for tho purpose of contributing to the testimonial to the memory of the late Lieutenant Bellot . Subscriptions arc already being collected by a provisional committee , and there m ovory ' reason to believe that , tho meeting will bo both numerous and influential . —Galignani . The statuettes sent in by the artirifs who liad been invited to compete for the execution of tho Wellington Momorial at Manchester , have been on primte view for

      two days at tho Royal Manchester Institution . Tho committee liavo selected a mjuare pedestal , and Htaluctte sent in by Mr . Noble , the sculptor who produced tho Peel statue in Salford . The Puke in attired an a civilian , and tho groate-nt simplicity of treatment pervades the whole , both pedestal and statue . Thoro arc four ( iguivH upon bases that are projected from tho corners of Iho pede . stal , and bas-reliefs will ornament it . s four faces , two representing tho DuIco ' h victories , and two great civic hcoiich in bin life—tho CongrenH at Vienna , and bin appearance before ) tho Commonn at the Pence of 1 HI 4 .

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      At a General Assembly of Itoyal AcadomiciuiiM , held on Monday , Mr . John JKvei'otl ; J \ fillain wan duly elected an Associate . Mr . If .. HnndyKide , Solieitor-Uoneral for Scotland , m appointed one of the LoivIh hiHtieiary of the Oiifor Court , in the room of Lord An < lernon ; Mr . InineH . CVaufurdj Hhorifl ' - Dopiilo of . 1 ' oW . hnhire , is u | T |) oiii ( c < l Solicil , (> i-- ( Jon ,, ruj for ( Scotland , in the room of Mr . llandyHi'de . Tho office of f / lHter Kin ^ -al .-ArrriH linn been conferred o n the dinMngUNhod geneulogint , topographer , antiquarian , and Ifonoml neholar , Mr . John Bernard \ Un' \ n \ - ~ (} l obo . It , i . s mud that , instead of allowing the ' Karl of IC ^ linton to remain Lord Rector of fjlliiHgow for two yearn , Mm umuuI practice , JV 1 r . Alfred Tonnynou will be put , forward to op _ pone bin formal re-election .

      The Duke of Norfolk haNaccopfcd theo / Iieoof President of tho Kurroy Archaeological Hoeiety . The Karl of 1011 (> hmere , tho Di . Mhop of Winebowl or , and Mr , Krenhfiold , 1 M . P . havo become vice-prenidontn . it , in proponed to liold tho inaugural mooting in Houtliwark during tho mouth of January next . Tho foundation ntone of tho monument about to bo erected to tho memory of X ) r . Moir , of Miwaolburgli

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      i ¦ ¦ - . ¦ ¦ : . . . . . . . . ; . . . ¦ ¦ : ¦ ¦ , ¦ ¦ . . . November 12 , 1853 ] THE LEADER . 1087

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 12, 1853, page 1087, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2012/page/7/