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    Octoberil, 1856.] „ THE LEABEJ 969

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    ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS. An embankme...

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    STATE OF TRADE. The accounts from the ma...

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    More Womem Suicides.—A Young Irishwoman ...

    George Mitchell . The Assistant-Judge sentenced George Mitchell to six "weeks' imprisonment , and afterwards to be sent to Redhill 3 tefonnatory for three years ; Charles John Mitchell to imprisonment for four months ; and Mary Ann Mitchell for eight months . A Mutinous Skamaw . — -An Italian seaman , named Antonio Blackman , was charged at the . Thames policecourt with assault and mutinous conduct while on board the ship Glenroy on her passage from Calcutta to London . On the day after he joined the ship ' s company , he was ill , or pretended to be so , and deserted . He was brought on board , however , and the captain , in consideration of his apparently unhealthy state , gave him . light work about the decks . On the 11 th of last May , he and the men of the ship had a quarrel , and Blackman

    threatened the latter . He was ordered to go below , but he went to the cook ' s galley instead , where he armed himself with an iron bar and two knives . With these weapons he went up to the fore topmast , and threatened to stab anybody who should attempt to bring him down . The captain having in vain fired blank cartridge at him , sent up the carpenter and some other men to fetch him down , and , after a hard , struggle ,, during which he stabbed one man , he was secured and put in irons . These , however , he got off , and again came on deck , armed with , a heavy iron bolt , and greatly alarmed everybody by his murderous threats . After a desperate resistance , he was seized and put below again , and at the request of the crew , he was then handcuffed and fettered . Shortly

    afterwards , the ruffian appeared repentant and submissive , and was allowed to go on deck for a short time , but he had previously armed himself with a knife and an iron bar , and . as soon as he was set free , he used deadly threats to everybody on board . He secreted himself in a dark place ; and , on the captain going to him armed with a loaded pistol , which he fired without effect at the Italian , the latter struck him a heavy blow over the left eye with his iron bar , which completely stunned him , aud he hied profusely from the wound . The fellow was once more secured and kept in close confinement for the remainder of the voyage . Mr . Selfe fined him 51 . or two months' imprisonment for the assault on the captain , and passed a similar sentence on him for assaulting the 'mate . / ' ' . •• ¦ ¦ . "¦ .. . ' :. \ . " . ¦ -. " . . - . . .

    The Fatal Cask of Practical Joking . —A verdict of manslaughter has been returned by tiie coroner ' s jury against Jacob Francis , the man who killed his fellowlabourer in a corn-field by throwing a barley-fork at him , as related in our last week's paper under the head of " Accidents and Sudden Deaths ; " arid he has been committed by the magistrates' for trial . It would seem he was irritated against Burridge at the time , but that he had no intention of killing him . Francis ' s father , an old man , who was deeply affected , said his son had never been quite right in his mind from his birth , and that the other men were in the habit of teasing him .

    Stabbing by a . German Soldier . —A soldier belonging to the German Legion has inflicted several deep stabs on the shoulder and arm of one of his comrades , with whom he had a quarrel in the village of Wivenhpe . The wounds , though very serious , are not mortal . The culprit is under arrest . The conduct of the German soldiers has latterly been of great annoyance to the villagers . A Fraudulent Bankrutt . — An adjourned certificate meeting , in connexion with the affairs of Charles Avery , a colonial broker in Fenchurch-street , took place in the Court of Bankruptcy on Wednesday . He had

    traded from 1846 to 1855 , though without any capital , and had kept himself up by means of false cheques . He had been indicted for obtaining goods arid money by false pretences , and also for obtaining goods three months before he was adjudged a bankrupt , with intent to cheat Ms creditors ; but he was acquitted , having evaded liability by petitioning the Bankruptcy Court under the Arrangement Clauses . The Commissioner suspended his certificate for two months beyond the present time , withholding protection ; and , for eighteen months from the date of the petition , there will be a further suspension . The bankrupt was arrested on leaving the court .

    Affiliation Case . —Thomas Preston , who described himself as clerk to a conveyancing barrister , and who is also a Sunday-school teacher , was summoned at Lambeth to show cause why a certain illegitimate child should not be fathered on him . The allegation of the mother was that he had seduced her under promise of marriage . The two had been keeping company' for some time ; but Preston had latterly deserted the girl , and is now engaged to another woman . The young man denied the imputed paternity , and produced diaries of his own and of the young lady to whom ho is now attached to provo that he was not with the mother at

    the times the intercourse is alleged to have taken place ; but it seems ho had admitted his liability to the parents , and he was ordered to pay 2 s . Cd . a week . —The Uev . 1-. L . Hcrminez , teacher of languages , and at one time n Koman Catholic priest , has been adjudged by the Marlborough-stroet magistrate the father of an illegitimate child , of which a young woman named Fnmiy Allen is the mother . There have been several adjourned examinations ; and the mother has throughout adhered to the same statement , that tho reverend gentleman fltiduccd her while she lived as servant with him ; that tho intercourse continued and extended over several years , at various places , and that , at one poriod , Mr .

    Herminez actually lived in lodgings with her as her husband . The mother deposed to the receipt of money at various times for the support of the child , which assistance had ceased for . about eight months ; but the alleged father , while admitting that he had given money , said it was only from charity . He also acknowledged that he gave the mother a shilling on the child's birthday to make a plum-pudding ; but this was merely out of kindness . He was ordered to pay the half-crown a week usual in these cases . Assault . —Charles Bankes , the son of a woman who keeps a disreputable house , has been sent to prison for a month -with hard labour , for assaulting a policeman , whom he savagely kicked in the abdomen , without

    provocation . The End of the Tragedy . —Mr . Jame 3 Holmes Hopkinson , the chemist and druggist of Broad-street , RatclifFe-highway , whose wife was last week brought before the Thames magistrate for attempting to poison herself , owing to her husband's ill-usage of her , has since died under very dreadful circumstances . On the very evening of the day when his wife was discharged , he went with her to a coffee-house at Charing Cross , and , while drinking some tea , ruptured a blood-vessel , and vomited alaTge quantity of blood . He was taken home in a cab , and medical assistance was called in ; but all in vain . An attack of . delirium tremens , consequent on Mr . Hapkinson ' s drinking habits , supervened ,

    and , after making a will , in which he left all his property to his wife , who attended him with great devotion , he expired . He was only twenty-nine . Attempt to Drown . — -A dreadful attack has been made upon a young woman residing at Kirn , in Scotland . She accepted an offer of a sail in a rowing-boat on Holy Loch . The man who made the offer was Hugh Murray , a mason and a married , man . After they had proceeded some distance , the ruffian made dishonourable proposals to her , and , on her refusing to grant his requests , he repeatedly attempted to drown her . Her cries for help at length brought some boatmen to her assistance , and she was found nearly exhausted by her struggles in the water . Murray escaped , and has not since been apprehended .

    Octoberil, 1856.] „ The Leabej 969

    Octoberil , 1856 . ] „ THE LEABEJ 969

    Accidents And Sudden Deaths. An Embankme...

    ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . An embankment on the recently opened branch of the South Yorkshire Railway , running from Doncaster to Thome , gave way last Saturday while a passenger train with some coal-waggons attached to it was going by . Several of the waggons were thrown over , and the whole train came to a standstill . The passenger carriages fortunately retained their position , and the persons inside , about forty in number , received no further injury than a smart shock and some degree of fright . Most of the day was occupied in clearing the line ; but , as the accident happened at a place where there are two sidings , there was no interruption of the regular traflic-A passenger train from ^^ lanchester , last Saturday evening , ran into a goods train which was being shunted on to a small branch near the viaduct of the London and North-Western Railway over the Ribble , and close to the Preston station . The former train wns not going at a rapid iatc ; but the collision was of sufficient violence to cause some injuries to the passengers . The driver and stoker were unhurt . An inquest has been held on Henry Benjamin Seal , engine driver in the employ of Pcto ' nnd Betts , contractors for the New West End and Crystal Palace Railway , who was crushed to death by tho falling of ah engine and part of a train of ballast waggons , off Leighamlane bridge , near Norwood , into the roadway beneath . Several other persons , who were also on the engine at the time , and fell with it , were so seriously injured that three of them were taken to the hospital . The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death . As an express train from Blackburn to Liverpool wns passing at full speed between Blackburn and Bamberbridge , on Monday morning , two wheels of a first-class carriage broke down . The underworks of the carriage were at once demolished , and the vehicle itself wns embedded in the earth . The break having been applied , the train was immediately stopped , and tho passengers sustained no injury . Two men have been killed on tho Wilts and Somerset Railway , and a groat many sheep have been destfoyed , by a lamentable catastrophe , which happened on Monday evening . A train , consisting of thirty-five trucks filled with sheep , oxen , and heifers , and drawn by two powerful engines , dashed into the Wilton station ( owing , it is supposed , to the steam not being shut off at tho proper time ) , and committed terrible havoc . Tho foremost engine broke down the immense wooden piles and buffers at tho end of tho rails , carried away nine or ton feet of the platform , and burst through the station , crushing doors , walls , and every other object in its progress ; even the outer wall towards lftsherton was broken down before tlio train enino to u standstill . Mays , the driver , escaped unhurt through tho breach formed by the engine , but the firemanX'Williani Symonds ) was not so fortunate ; he jumped out , and sustained a sovero blow on the head , which necessitated bis instant removal to the infirmary . The soone within tho station was appalling . Tho driver and fireman of tho second engine ( . Samuel

    Nicholson and William Isles ) lay smashed between the engine and tender—the head of one and a hand of the other being all that was perceptible to the bystanders . The force of the concussion heaped trucks upon trucks , and the mangled bodies of the animals they contained were scattered about . Both engines continued to throw forth dense volumes of steam , and fears were at one time entertained that the toilers would explode , or that the station would be fired . The station-master , however , acted with great coolness . The Board of Health waterhose having been obtained and attached to a hydrant , a plentiful supply of water was thrown upon the engines to extinguish the fires . This was not accomplished without considerable difficulty , for , although the accident occurred about half-past eight , it was nearly eleven before all danger was over . The passengers sustained no injury beyond a shaking .

    A fatal accident has happened at the St . Martin ' s Baths and Washhouses , near Leicester-square ! Joseph Easor , a man sixty years old , employed at the establishment as an engineer , was engaged last Saturday afternoon in repairing one of the pumps in the Artesian well connected -with the building . He had descended on the scat , which was suspended as usual by four ropes . These he had himself fastened ; but one of the knots gave ^ vay , and the man slipped off , falling on a stage a few feet from the water , and about one hundred and twenty feet from the top . Another of the men employed at the place heard an exclamation of distress from below ; , anil , going down as soon as possible , found Ensor lifeless . An alarming affair occurred last Saturday night at Batty ' s Menagerie , Birmingham . A man imprudently approached too near the den of one of the tigers , when the animal suddenly struck him across the face with its » aw , inflicting a fearful laceration .

    Richard Oliver , foreman of the Watchet paper-mills , -where a steam-boiler explosion recently took placey lias died in consequence of the injuries he then received . An inquest has been held , and a verdict of accidental death -was returned by the jury , who appended to their finding a rider , in which they expressed their conviction that greater caution ought in all cases to be exercised by persons using old and second-hand boilers . One of those accidents which often occur in mining districts happened on Tuesday ( says the Scotsman ) in the Steneston Cuckoo Pit , near to Holyto-wn , by which two men were killed . Both had been engaged in filling & hutch at the face of the workings , when , a portion of the roof gave way , and killed them on the spot .

    A serious collision occurred on the South Wales Kailway on Monday ; soon after midnight . A train of twenty-two waggons of coal , from the Yale of Neathto Swansea , was brought to a stand-still about threequarters of a mile to the eastward of Landore Station , and very near the crossing of the Swansea Valley Kailway at Pwllmawr , in consequence of the breaking of one of the valves of the engine . Owing partly to some misapprehension with respect to the signals , and partly to the steepness of the gradient and the slipperiness of the rails rendering it difficult to stop , another coal train of twenty-eight waggons ran into the obstruction , and the engine-driver and stoker of the advancing train were very seriously injured—so much so that the life of tho former is despaired of .

    State Of Trade. The Accounts From The Ma...

    STATE OF TRADE . The accounts from the manufacturing towns throughout the kingdom continue to furnish remarkable proofs that the trade of the country is upon a basis altogether independent of any pressure in the discount market . There is every sign that whatever may be the rate to which the Bank must ascend in order to keep near the range of the continental biddings for money , it will . produce no appreciable effect in checking the general industry or the profits of the country . At Manchester , during the week ending last Saturday , although the market is said to have been inanimate , a fair average

    business has been transacted , and prices are well maintained . The Birmingham advices describe an improved tone in tho iron trade , and a satisfactory amount of employment iu tho other manufactures of the town . At Nottingham , some interruption has bcon caused by the occurrence of local holidays ; but tho extent of it is to bo attributed to the general prosperity of the population , which enables them to choose their periods of recreation-It is added that quotations are firm , and that great coiifidenco prevails . In tho woollen districts there has been an active demand , and stocks are moderate . Tho Irish linen-markets have been stead }' . —Times .

    In the general business of the port of London during the same week , there has boon little change . The total of vcbboIs reported inward was 170 , being 9 more than in tho ' provious week . Included in these were 81 with cargoes of grain and flour , 8 with fruit , G with sugar , and 2 with tea . The total of ships cleared outward wns 132 , including 14 in ballast , showing nn increase of 13 . The number of ships on the berth loading for tho Australian colonies is ( 32 , being 15 less than at tho last account . —Idem . Tho Royal Mall Steam Company have issued a circular to their shareholders , proposing to establish the long desired connexion between Sydney and Panama . They recommend ft fleet of auxiliary Horcw steamers , mid calculate upon a satisfactory return , not only from

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 11, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_11101856/page/9/