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      The Strikes. Two Most Important Combinat...

      « S affirms that the employers have widened the breach , SThat every moral and constitutional P ^ erof distance should he used to bring the nine hours movement to a successful termination . The strite VissrbSrlE ^ ss S S ^^ Sn ^^ Sas ^ eV ^^^^ tetfSnmade to prevent the threatened rupture Stween themasterbuilders and the ogive s . have been attended with any success , and it > s to _ be feared that after this day there ^ Ol be a ^ cessation in the progress of most great 1 ^ SSJ ^ . ? ^ . in the course of erection m the metropolis . Ihe Sen adhere to their determination not to signjhe " document , " and the masters are equally firm in their resolution to close their works until Messrs . TroUope ' s yard , where the dispute originally commenced , is full . A modified proposition put forward by the employers , substituting for the signature of the workman his pledged promise not to belong to any society , has met with no favour , as the men are fixed in their adherence to the nine hours' movement , " pure and simple . "

      *R» : *W. Ano. 6. 1859.1 The Leader. 9q7

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      Ireland. At The Antrim Assizes, After So...

      IRELAND . At the Antrim Assizes , after some discussion , the Belfast Phcenix conspirators were discharged on their '' own recognizances , Judge Christian concurring in the course adopted by the Crown . The traversers all pleaded " Guilty . " They are required to take the oath of allegiance when called upon . A judgeship in the Court of Bankruptcy has become vacant by the death of the Hon . Patrick Pluriket , one of the numerous sons of the late . Lord Plunket , who expired on Sunday at Kingstown , in the 60 th year of his age . He succeeded his colleague , Mr ; Macan , but a few weeks ^ and wanted but a year of service to entitle him to his full retiring pension .

      Law, Police, And Casualties. A.T The Mid...

      LAW , POLICE , AND CASUALTIES . A . T the Middlesex Sessions on Monday John West , a police-constable , was indicted for stealing a watch , value 2 E , from the person of John Green , while lie was sitting half asleep at his own door . He was found guilty , and sentenced to 12 months' hard labour . Jones has been acquitted of the murder at Ledbury after a patient investigation . On the delivery of the verdict of " Not guilty " the prisoner , who had been led up in a state of exhaustion , was seized with a fit , and it required the utmost exertion of three strong men to restrain his violence . At length he articulated— "I am innocent—I am—I am innocent ! " He appeared not-to , comprehend the verdict until it was repeated to him by the governor of the goal , whom he clutched by the hand , and said , " God reward you for your kindness . " He was removed from the dock with difficulty , his face wearing an expression of terrible ghastliness , and his whole demeanour presenting the idea of a man whose reason was suddenly lost . The fraudulent rate-collectors are at length to reap the reward of their industry . Alfred Cooper , collector for St . Giles ' s , Camberwell , and William Wellington Turner , collector of . Islington , were again examined on Saturday , and committed for trial . A respite was forwarded on Saturday night from the Secretary of State to stay the execution of Henry Benjamin Haynes , who was convicted at tho late Winchester Assizes for the murder of a woman at Aldershott . About ten o ' clock on Monday night , James Linley , saw-grinder , was shot while sitting at the Crown Inn , Scotland-street , Sheffield . Tho ball entered his left temple , and lodged behind the eye . He is expected to die . Linley has previously been shot at , and attempts have beon made to blow up his house , and he has now no doubt been shot for refusing to join tho Saw-grinders union . A man named . Brown has been apprehended on suspicion . A pistol , supposed to be theono which was * wea on the occasion , from the peculiarity of the bore and the similarity between the size of the bore and the size of the hot © made in the frame of glass by the ball , has been found in his possession . He was in the room in which Linley was sitting , both » few minutes before and a few minutes after the shot wan flred . A desperate attempt at murder has been made at Bradford , a xnajster shoemaker , named BuiBeld , having inflicted several stabs in the body oft his wife , who has . barely escaped with life . " An extraordinary case of burglary was tried at Mwdatone on Saturday . A man named Weir , who had been a warder in Chatham convict prison , was convioted of having taken part in a number of daring burglaries which had been perpetrated \ n that locality

      during the last few months . The singular part of the case was the excellent character which the prisoner had enjoyed as a soldier , and which procured for him the post of warden in the prison . At the time of his arrest he was on his way toLandport , where , owing to his good conduct , he had been appointed barrack sergeant . He was sentenced to ten years ' penal servitude . :, ' ¦' ... \ a . Michael Herring , one of three men who attempted to strangle the female servant of Messrs . Devey and Dale , Shoe-lane , was brought up at Guildhall and committed for trial . The prisoner was also committed on the charge of burglary in a house at - Holloway . . , . .. A cause of " Patrick v . Drane " was tried m the Sheriffs' Court yesterday . It was an action to recover compensation in damages by the widow of Patrick , for ' herself and five children , for the loss ot her husband , who was killed by his master , Drane , a person of unsound mind . The damages were laid at 500 ? ., but the jury awarded 300 Z ., to be divided among the widow and children . The Peninsular and Oriental Company ' steamer Alma , which recently went on shore m the Red Sea , has been altogether lost , having parted " amidships . " She registered 2 , 160 tons , with engines . 450-horse power , and was worth about . 70 , 000 * . The cargo consisted almost entirely of silk , ot which 1 , 4001 bales , worth about 120 , OOOZ ., have been lost . ,, At South Shields , on Monday afternoon , the ceremony of laying the foundation stone of a chapel , which was partly erected , had collected a number ot spectators on a platform . One of the beams suddenly gave way , precipitating 150 persons to the ground , many of whom were seriously injured , though we do not hear of any fatal cases . On RMonday afternoon a serious collision took place at the Fenchurch-street railway terminus , which caused much injury to several passengers . It seems that just as the Tilbury engine was _ passing clear of the station it came into violent collision with a North Woolwich train which was coming in . There was an extra number of passengers , and their cries were fearful . The force of the collision threw , the Tilbury train off the line , and the carnages were reported to be shattered . Medical assistance was promptly rendered . _ , ,. Considerable alarm was-caused on Wednesday to the passengers of a train on the London and North Western Railway by a quantity of luggage on the top of a carriage taking fire . Fortunately , the engine-driver ' s attention was attracted by the cries of the passengers , and the train brought to a stand near Wigan , when the flames were extinguished without any personal injury havin . g been suffered .

      General Home News.

      GENERAL HOME NEWS .

      The Coukt.—There Is No Incident Whatever...

      The Coukt . —There is no incident whatever . tp relate this week of the sojourn of the royal family at Osborne , where they are all in good health ; and remain in a sort of semi-privacy . The Queen has received as visitors this week , the Comte de Paris and his brother , the Due de Chartres , the Princess Ganromma of Coorg , Lord Palmerston , and the Duke of Newcastle . The stay of the royal family in the Isle of Wight will bo prolonged till late in the season . „ ,, ¦»«¦• • * . i Prorogation of Parliament . —The Ministerial Whitebait dinner will take place next Wednesday , the 10 th inst ., at the Trafalgar , Greenwich , and it is anticipated that the business of the session will be brought to a close on the following Saturday , the 13 th . " , Council of India . —On Thursday , at a meeting of the Council , Sir Honry Bartle Edward Frere , K . C . B ., was appointed an ordinary member of the Council of the GovernoriGeneral , ' Election Committees . — The Aylesbury committee appointed to consider the charges against Mr . Bernard and Mr , S . Smith have fully exonerated those gentlemen . The Norwich inquiry has terminated in the unseating of the sitting members , Lord Bury and Mt . Schneider . Two now committees commenced to sit on Saturday — those for Cheltenham and Limerick . The Cheltenham committee declared that Colonel Berkeley was duly elected . It has been decided that Mr . Lee and Mr . Button were duly eleoted for Maidatone at the last general election , and that Mr . Wontworth was not eleoted for Aylesbury . At Aylesbury , as will bo remembered , Mr . Bernard stood at the head of tho poll , while Mr . Smith and Mr . Went worth polled an © quality of votes . The committee had thus to go into a scrutiny of the votes , and this ended in striking off the name of one voter on Mr . Wentworth ' a sjldo . Tho committee also found that there had been bribery on the part of Mr . Wontworth ' s agents , but without his knowledge , There was also bribery at Maidstone , managed inthoBftmo way i but , as wo have intimated , tho o potion oi tno two Liberal members stands good . Tho inquiries

      into the Hull and Preston contests will now begin , as the committees have been nominated for them . The Bridgwater petition has been withdrawn . On Thursday the committee decided in favour of four non . members who had been petitioned against—Mr . E ; A . Leatham , the member for Huddersfield Major Gavin , the member for Limerick , and Lord John Manners and Mr . C . Hartopp , the members for North Leicestershire . .. Election News . —Both parties are busypreparing to supply the vacancy created by the unseating of Mr Leatham for Wakefield . It has been announced that a gentleman would be brought forward on Conservative principles / The Liberals _ have already brought put Mr . Childers , the late high sheriff . A writ will also have to be moved for to supply a vacancy for Devonport , in consequence of Sir krskine Perry ' s acceptance of office in the Indian Council . So will there will have to be a new election for Taunton , Mr . Labouchere having been made a peer the Conservatives prevailed upon Mr . George Cavendish ' Bentinck , the unsuccessful Tory candidate for Taunton at the general election in April last , to come forward . Mr . Bentinck issued his address on Tuesday . Mr . Alexander C . Barclay , of London , issued an address the same morning . The candidates for Dartmouth are Mr . Stuart Donaldson , on the Liberal interest , and Mr . Dunn ( who contested Totness at the general election ) , on the Conservative . The Liberals of Gloucester contemplate soliciting Viscount Monk and Mr . Bernal Osborne to contest the two vacant seats with Mr . Scbreiber , the conservative . Sir Michael Seymour has come forwarafor Devonport as as a supporter of Lord Palmerston Ppblic Health . — The Registrar-General ' s ^ return shows a decrease in the mortality ot the metropolis during last week , the total number , of deaths being 1 , 419 , a decrease as compared with the number last week , which was 1 , 605 . The births during the week were 1 , 803 . . Government Schools in Ikdia . — A deputation , having for its object the introduction of the Bible , into these schools , had an interview with Lord h ' almerstonandSir Charles Wood on Saturday . Both the Premier and the Secretary for India urged that the adoption of the measure proposed by the deputation would have the effect of exciting the prejudices of the natives against Christianity . bir Charles , however , stated that voluntary _ Bible classes either before or after school hours were permitted under the present system . Rotal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear . —• The Annual Meeting of the governor and toends of this Institution was held on Wednesday , at the Dispensary , Dean street , Soho-square . The Kev . J . Davis Lamb in the chair . The secretary read the report from which it appeared that in the long list of diseases to which the human frame is subjected , none are so distressing , none entailing more misery and annoyance to the patient , or requiring greater skill or attention on the part of the medical man , than those which deprive one of the sense of hearing 1 . During the past year the number of patients admitted were 1 , 734 , of whom 354 . were discharged cured and 200 relieved . A large portion of the cases were traced to living in damp localties , to bad , drainage , intense headaches , noises in the head and ears , dyspepsia , catarrhal affections of the throat , rheumatic deafness ; in childhood , measles , scarlet fever , small pox and dentition which being neglected frequently resulted in deafness . The advantages which this institution holds oufare that it treats these diseases in a constitutional manner , and does not resort to surgiciai operation except in cases of the greatest urgency . An appeal wasmadetothebonovolent and wealthy to place this institution in its proper position amongst tho many which distinguish and adorn this vast metropolis . After a vote of thanks passed to Mr . Harvey , the surgeon , and to the chairman , tup meeting separated , l « . - » - „ on Inpian Finance Ministers . —The ^'"^ announces that the Right Hon . James Wilson < has consented to go to India as a Member of Council , ana also ap Chancellor of the I * " ™ ^* "gj £ j Wilson ' s position towards tho G . ° / ™? £ S : and the Cabinet in tho latter f ^^^^ i ^ e ' lar to that which tho Chancellor / of JhoJgJJJg ^ r boars at home to tho Government and tho «*» " »« . mMWtm the , ureflSt unsatisfactory state of tlto finances of India * renderedfit impossible to touch the revenue derived Toin " tho opium trade . Ho was not sure that the evils of tho trade woro so bad as they had b % fflrS 0 P « v , ««» r-Th « Sneaker has roceivod a telegraphic message , dated Dublin , fron * Colonel Goseott , the Deputy Serjeant-a ^ Arms , informing hiai that ho has Colonel Gronville » n custody , and the hon . member will be brought up this

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 6, 1859, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06081859/page/7/