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9580 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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THE PUBLIC HEALTH . —THE CHOLERA . The cholera has not subsided so rapidly as was expected . It appears from the Registrar-General ' s report—that it is slowly retreating from London ; but it destroyed last week 1284 lives , and 19 persons died from the allied disease , diarrhoea . The deaths from all causes in the three -weeks ending September 23 , have been 3411 , 2836 , and 2504 , including the 2050 , 1549 , and 1284 deaths from cholera . The deaths by cholera in the ten -weeks of this eruption have been 8593 ; the eruption of 1849 broke out earlier , and by the same date , nearly , had destroyed 12 , 664 of the inhabitants of London .
The Board of Health fights under the same disadvantages in London as a War Minister -would if he could only oppose the invasion of an active enemy by the force which every parish and public company would vote and "consent to bring into the field ; yet we may hope , now that the local machinery is , under due supervision , set in motion , and judicious precautions are issued , to see the mortality decline at an accelerated rate .
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A case has occurred in which some striking facts in relation to the sanitary condition of Clerkenwell , have been brought to light . An inquest has been held on a child called James Hinckley , who died of cholera , at Uo . 3 , Allen-street , Clerkenwell . The street in question is one of the filthiest in that filthy district . On either side of it are two yards -which are used by tripe-dressers and preparers of dogs' and cats' meat . The effluvia arising from these places is enough to kill any person who has not become acclimatised . Offal and other ftetid matter are permitted to be collected until the maggots , literally crawl about the neighbourhood . The privies , drains , and gutters are in a most disgraceful state . Fever is scarcely ever absent from the locality , and , in short , the only wonder is that human beings can live in it The evidence showed great neglect on the part of the parochial authorities , notwithstanding the pressure put on them by the Board of Health .
The jury , ho doubt ' believing that the cholera was gone , delivered the following verdict : — " We find that the child died of cholera ; but still we find that the guardians are not responsible in this case , firmly believing that the Board of Guardians had acted as -well as they could up to the present time . Likewise that the Board of Health , had done their duty . But we still recommend the guardians to act with promptness with the Board of Health in removing nuisances . We consider that the nuisance in Bailey ' s-yard should be forthwith removed ; and that thanks should be given to Mr . Uoacher for his prompt attention in the case , and to Mr . Goddard for the way in which he has acted in the matter . "
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There has been an increase of cases of cholera in Edinburgh , and it continues to rage in Liverpool . It is declining at Belfast , and has almost disappeared in Dublin ,
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LAW REFORMS IN ACTION . Ok and after the 24 th October an important alteration will take place with respect to now trials in the superior courts . No new trial ia to be granted by reason of the ruling of any judge that the stamp upon any document is sufficient , or that the document does not require a stamp . In every rule ittn for a new trial , or to enter a verdict or nonsuit the grounds upon which such rule is granted shall be shortly stated therein . This ia a decided improvement , as parties will know the grounds on which the rules are obtained , and the plaintiffs will have to confines themselves to the points net forth . In all cases of rules to alter a verdict or nonsuit , upon a point reserved at the trial , if the rule to show cause be refused
or granted , and then discharged or made absolute , tho party decided against may appeal . No appeal is to bo allowed unless notice be given in writing within four days of the decision , or such further time" as may be allowed . Notice of appeal ia to be a stay of execution , provided bail bo given to pay the sum recovered and costs in like manner , as bail in Error , within eight daya of tlio decision complained of , or before execution ifl delivered to tho sheriff . The Court of Appeal is to have power to adjudge tho payment of costs , and to order restitution , and to have the name powers oh tho Court of Error . Tho Court of Error , the Exchequer Chamber , and tho Houao of Lords , are to bo tho Court of Appeal under the act .
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At Worship-street , John Murcott was imprisoned Tor six weeks for deliberately knocking' down his wife with'his fist . As usual she wa 3 dependent on him , and had eight children .
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THE SABBATH AT DOVER . A correspondent has forwarded a Mil , which is largely circulated at Dover , which lie tirges is more likely to cause breaches of the Sabbatli , by the propagation of informers , than l > y the doing of the acts which it condemns in penalties . The magistrates might at least state the statute under which they issue their proclamation . " Lord ' s Day . —Sunday Trading . —Borough of Dover , in the County of Kent . — -No tradesman , artificer , workman , labourer , or other person , shall do or exercise any wordly labour , business , or work of their ordinary callings , upon the Lord ' s Day , or any part thereon ( works of necessity and charity only excepted } . And every person being of the age of fourteen years or upwaTda , offending in the premises shall , for every such offence , forfeit the sum of five shillings .
And no person shall publicly cry , show forth , or oxpose for sale , any wares , merchandize , fruit , herbs , goods , ot chattels whatsoever , upon tho Lord ' s Day , or any part thereof , upon pain of forfeiting the same . N . B . A portion of penalties may be paid to informers . Thia caution is put out by order of the mayor and magistrates . —Matthew Kennett , Clerk to the Magistrates . "
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A NATIONAL PARTY VXA THE COALITION . The Glasgow Commonwealth observes : — " There seems no doubt that the country is universally tired of the experiment of a coalition government , constructed on the principle of tho present—that is , on tho principle of combining men together so as ofl ' ectually to destroy the power which thoy would have aa individuals . From all quarters , in all ' retrospects of tho session , ' whether in Whig , Tory , or Radical organs of opinion , we have had a sentence of condemnation on tho coalition government , and a declara tion that tho country ought not to tolerate it any longer .
Either , then , tho coalition must change ) Us tactics next session , and find o \ it real public work which its members can harmoniously and energetically curry out ; or it must be dissolved , and ita olcmontn re-arranged in new combinations Tho first is unlikely , wo look for the second . Tho formation of a Htrong liberal party out of the bo » i material *} of tho coalition , with such othor 3 mlopendont ' materials an Parliament odors , is tho want of tho country . Lot tho country jiuiHist , in itn clamour for tho formation of suoh n party , and ansittt in preparing tho programme of moumircfi on which such n party ought to incorporate itsolf . Thin is tho homc-Avoak of tho tccohb ; and , amid all our excitement about Crimea expeditions and the like , it ought not to uo neglected .
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At ITaverfor& ' west , the Itev . Patrick Kelly , a- Roman Catholic priest , was charged with committing a rape on Mary Sullivan , a girl of fourteen . jFrom the evidence it appeared that he induced her to come to him in the vestry-room of his chapel , under the pretext of sending her to buy him some whisky , threw her on the door-mat , and violated her . The offence was strongly denied . The medical evidence was contradictory—one surgeon being of opinion that there had been recent violation , and another tha ^ there-had riot . The girl ' s character for veracity was impeached . The magistrates differed equally in opinion , came to no decision , and the prisoner was 1 st free .
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ULTRA-PROTESTANTISM IN IRELAND . Thkke is a paper published in Dublin on high Protestant Principles , whose . watchfulness over those principles is indicated by its name — the Sentinel There is reading in thia journal suggestive and instructive as regards religious feeling in Ireland . It seems that " Dissent" is not always necessarily true Protestantism , for the Sentinel is not by any means d ' accord with Mr . Miall , whose " New Lights " do not kindle a sympathising flame in the heart of the Protestant journal . It
declaresyv « have tried , the champion of " Independency , and we pronounce liiin wanting—in truthfulness , honesty , and simplicity . lie cannot succeed in his object—he never will- He is the creature of circumstances , lie has no real depth of view or earnestness in him- His hope is based on the power of clamour , the zeal of Papists , the prevalence of prejudice , ignorance , and selfishness . In short , good Mr .- Miall is nothing more than a pretentious quaok ; and the ago ia just as likely to sweep away the College of Physicians and the Surgeons Hall , and proclaim Professor Holloway the Surgeon-General , or Mr . Moat Physician to tho State and to tho Quecia'a
household , as to swallow the moral nostrums of the editor of tlio Nonconformist . Absolute absurdity—aye , verily absurdity , constitutes no small clement in tho disquisitions of our phifosopfte ? : There Are many Pistols in tho world besides tho bombastic ranters of fustian and of Gasconade who frequent tho hostolries of tho Mrs . Quickly or tho Doll Tcarshuts ; and of these , one iB most certainly the honourable member for Rochdale and factotum of the anti-State Chuioh Association . Ho bus a lingo different , indeed , in its terminology from that of tho ancient hero of tho Poet , but , in point of mouthing and emptiness , quite equivalent to his .
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ELECTIONS . 1 TROME . Tiiuiixs is to bo a contest in this borough . It appears that there is to bo ( in attempt to get rid of the influence of tho Earl of Cork . Tho lato Colonel Boyle wns personally popular , but ho was a son of tho Karl of Cork , and on his death , tho first person in tho field waa Lord Dungarvon , tho grandson of the enrl . A largo number of the constituency object to this , and thoy have entered into communication with Mr . Sidney , the present Lord Mayor of London . Mr . Wilcock , tho Chuivccry barrister , who wua n candidato at the last election , ia also announced a » a candidate . A member of the Thynno family is spoken of , who will represent the Marquis of Bath , and tho Itcv . Mr . Bonnet and High Church principles .
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ASSAULTS ON WOMEN . The working of the recent act for the protection has been illustrated by Mr . Han . rnill , in a letter to the Home-office , on the occasion of his being charged with undue severity in one of his sentences . He says : — " I announced , immediately on the passing of the act , that I should adopt such a course of severity on the first case being brought before me , and I have since freauentlv reneated it . thinkintr that such announcement .
by means of the press would deter from what I must almost characterise the common practice of ill-using women in this district . With regard to women of the town , I have continually laid down as to them , that as long as they conduct themselves quietly in the streets they are as much entitled to protection as any other class of her Majesty ' s subjects , which seems to cause astonishment to the people who hear it , se accustomed have the brutal population of this region been to knock down these poor creatures as if they were so many ninepins , and without feeling . Notwithstanding the severity with which I have administered the act , I regret to . say that such cases are as numerous as ever , and therefore I don ' t conceive that the time has arrived for me to change the view I have taken of my duty in carrying out tlie provisions of the act . It can 6 nly be , I fear , a remedial measure , until the moral and industrial training of the population is put under a more effectual system than is now permitted . Existing disposition to violence can only be held in check by fear of personal suffering . I assure you , sir , this state of things , daily exhibited before me , has long filled me with anxi « ty and perplexity , and I don't , under'the existing system of * what is called education , see much hope of the . next generation being better than this . " Wife-beating continues . There hav « been several cases this week .
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OUU CIVILISATION " . Marcaret Gjllei . and , of West Rainton , Durham , lived unhappily with her husband . They agreed to separate . She was going to Ireland , and wished to leave her child , a month old , with her husband . She attempted to give it out of the window of the railway carriage to her husband , who pushed it back . She threw it out of the train , and the carriages passed over and killed it . She has been committed for manslaughter .
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The total number of deaths from cholera in all France amounted , up to tho date of the last accounts , to 88 , 626 .
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The cholera has broken out over the whole of Bavaria . Twenty victims fall daily in Munich itself .
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Undor tho iwxt Common Law Procedure Act , a witness in any cauao may bo questioned as to whether ho has been convicted of any felony or mJadomounor , and if ho donioa the fact or refuses to answer , tho opposite party may provo tho conviction and put in a certificate , which upon proof of tho identity of tho person , is to bo evidence of Uw > conviction , without proof of tho oflloinl character of the person oigning it .
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At Lambeth , Henry Perry , a bricklayer , was committed for two months for brutal ill-treatment of liis wife . —Both these cases were in one day .
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At Hammersmith Police-court , James " Wilson , a smith , was accused of committing a severe assault on his uncle , Thomas Allen , by knocking him down and beating him . The uncle ' s story was that it was done out of revenge for a refusal to lead the nephew money . The nephew recriminated , stating that the uncle had seduced his sister , a girl of sixteen . The uncle denied it , and said the only ground for such , a suspicion was that lie had assisted the girl and hvr mother , who were in great distress . The prisoner was locked up till he could find sureties to keep the peace .
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Michael Keating was a Dyke watchman , at Mardyke , near Cork . He was found a day or two ago dead , with his throat cut . His head was nearly severed from his body . It was at first supposed-that he had committed suicide ; but a bloody razor , wrapped in part of a newspaper , was found by his side . . His . wife' was taken into custody . on suspicion ,, as there had been differences between them on account of her intemperate habits , and she often had threatened his life .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 30, 1854, page 920, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2058/page/8/
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