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Leader (1850-1860), 18th January 1851, Edition Town of 2, Page 57, Untitled Article

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      A seizure was made on Saturday of an extensive illicit distillery in Eagle-mews , Eagle-street , Red Lion-Rauare The lower part of the premises had the appearance of a stable and coach-house . The place was well adaDted for the purpose for which it was intended , and the Baeans of retreat , if circumstances required , had not leeif lost eisht of , for the tile * bad been removed from tEfSo'Sr * and a rope attached to a beam , which formed a readTrneans of escape to the roof , and from tfcenwU * the adjoining houses . It was evident that , whi * th o&eS * were breaking into the place at the fowrtf , thft nTrXi working the still used taUplan , and es ^ ed tefewW eo * W g * i * adtami ^ a . The * txU ww a . large o ! v wi . & k * pA ia ** tt « p * mti « m w * s «*» We of produSuft * Jfi « i < mfc spirit *<* *» frau 4 tb * «*« " » *» amouat of £ 5000 per waum .. ^ , ^ . . ^ v : _ LamibetU left hw

      MrTGWto ««>*« . ° * -mw . ^ shoo en Saturday night , accompanied by his son ( twelve years of age ) for his evidence , 2 , Lona * er ~ tewa , ce , having about biro a considerable «*«» of money . On reaching SLuar-pbse , Walwoxtlwoad , he faneuMi h « steps were dojraedby fcwasuspicious-k > oki » g mea ; aad , anticipating n % 2 & kept » bk guard . At *» m »» where Weststreet is isteraected by Caateraury-place , the m «* a ^ peared to leav e * but suddenly returned , aud striwk Mr . Wi «« violently on the back of hi * head wtfh some heavy instrument . Mr . Wigs aad his so * called out " Mittder I as loudly as they could , when the former again received two or three violent blows also on the back of his head , and some blows were also inflicted upon the head of the child A policeman , who was on duty near the place , ran to the spot ,, and found Mr . Wigg leaning against some palings and the blood flowing profusely from wounds in his head . Be , however , contrived to tell the

      constable that the villains had fled along Caaterbuiyplace , and accordingly the policeman , went in pursuit of them . He apprehended one , but the other made his escape . Mr . Wigg and his son were within twenty yards of home at the time . The thieves had not succeeded in abstracting any of the property . Mr . Wigg was very seriously injured by fou * large deep woands at the back of his head . Near the scene of violeace was discovered a short riding-whip , formed of gutta pereha , the head ^ of which was loaded with four ounces of ruetaL Messrs . Buck and Wooton , of the Post-office , Mountstreet , Lambeth , gave the following account of a recent attempt to break into their premises : — " Thi » morning ( Monday ) between three and four o ' clock , we were

      , awakened by a noise in the lower back part of the house . Thieves had broken a pane of glass , andr cut through the top of the shutter , athough partially lined with iron , which enabled them to unfix a bolt , and remove the shutter bar . Having entered the kitchen , their further progress was stayed by a strongly-bolted door leading to the upper part of the premises . This defied their ' jemmies , ' as the marks testify ; and it is well for the burglars it did ; for , on the other side , we were prepared with loaded firearms , and should most certainly have given them a warm reception . Thi 3 is the second time ,

      within two years , that the house has been broken into . In May , 1849 , the loss exceeded £ 200 ; and since that period we have kept firearms loaded and ready . The thieves failing to force the door , or perhaps hearing us , retired by the window ; but the morning being very dark we could only trace them by their footsteps after daylight . We are glad to say they took nothing of much value . We shall now adopt other fastenings , as this p lainly shows that the oidinary bolts and bars are not insurmountable impediments to the experienced erucksman . "

      A poor woman named Dinah Embury , aged fifty years , residing in Southampton , was taken ill lately . The parish surgeon attended her , and she was allowed temporary relief . As soon as it was found she was likely to be a pennauent burden to the ratepayers , the guardians of the poor ordered her into the workhouse . The poor creature had an invincible objection to go into the workhouse , and the relieving officer gave her relief in opposition to the wishes of the guardians . The latter

      threatened to disallow it , and it waB discontinued . The surgeon" appealed personally to the guardians to : continue the poor creature assistance out of the house , but the latter were inexorable . The woman died , ; and her death was accelerated , according to the Burgeon , by destitution . An inquest was held on the body , and , after nearly a fortnight's investigation , the jury returned the following verdict on Thursday :- —•• Died from natural cauties , and the guardians of the poor are censurable for not affording her relief in the last stage of her disease . " ¦

      A oaRe having Homething of the features of that of the unfortunate Jane Wilbred has just been brought before a bench of Worcestershire magistrates . In this case the ill-used domestic was a young girl named Hannah flint < m , aged Hixteen yearn , who at Michaelmas last wan hired at the statute fair , by Mr . John Lee , a farmer , of KeinpHey , near Worcester , as nursemaid to his children , at the- wages of £ 2 per year . On her appearance before the magistrate b . U « appeared much emaciated , and her features appeared pinched and careworn , her general appearance being that of a person much older . She deposed to frequent castieatioim inflicted by her mauler and ttiiHfrettH , but especially the latter . She also represented that the food winch wiih given to her wan ticauty ,

      and when she had meufc , or dripping upon hen bread , it wiih stale- and ofri'Huivo . to the nose and ptilato . Mrs . 1 owoll , a neighbour to the Lees , gave evidence as to the iU-tru ( ttmen . t of tho girl . She had often heard Mrs . Lee threaten to kill the girl , knook her brains out , tto . Matilda Mumi , a dreattniiiker , upoke of Heveral acts of eruth / y exurciood by Mrs . Lee towards the girl , who had oriea complained that nhe wan kept short of food , beaten , ""' "" -UHed . Had known Mrs . Lee beat her with a walking Htifllc , and heard- tho girl ncream out . The mu-KiitrtueB fined Loo and his wilo £ 2 each and costs ; and in < U * liverir » K « -ho jutty-mont of the cowrti tho chairman « . « aracter u « a . tho cm ae 0110 oP «» W reu 6 nnd unnecessary

      Three notorious robbers xoade their escape on Saturday morning from Carlisle gaol . The prisoners affected illness , and One was supposed to be suffering from epileptic fits . They availed themselves of the privileges allowed tl » ena for the purpose of accomplishing their object , which was done with so much skill that they have hitherto evaded detection . A reward of £ 20 has been offered for their apprehension . As three young men , named George Darley , William

      Chew , and John Major . Bennison , were outpoaching , yesterday week , near Ganton Dale-house , in Yorkshire , they were seen by Sir T . D . Legard ' s gamekeeper , who went after them , accompanied by six assistants . On coming up with the poachers a scuffle ensued , in the course of which Darley , one of the poachers , was shot , and died in a few minutes . At the inquest on his body ic was stated by all the witnesses that the gun had gone off by accident . A verdict of " Homicide by misadventure " was returned .

      In the county of Bueks . crime appears to be on the eacrease , an 4 pauperism on the decrease In the county prison at Aylesb-ury there are no less than 19 & prisoners in that establishment at the present time . Last year , at this time , there were but 150 prisoners in the gaol—thus showing an encrease of 48 . On the other hand , in Aylesbury union-house , on the week ending the 4 th of January instant , there were 127 paupers ; at the corresponding period last year there were 171 . We should like to know how many of the paupers have become poachers during last year .

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      The Cork Reporter announces , on what it considers " perfectly good authority , " that the decrees of the Thurles Synod ' * will not be confirmed by the Sovereign Pontiff , and will , consequently , not take effect . " The Freeman , however , throws cold water on the statement of its southern contemporary , and is led to believe , fs&ra its own sources of information , that Pio Nono has come to no such sensible conclusion as that put forward by the Cork paper .

      By a decision in the Court of Delegates , at Dublin , on Saturday , announced by Mr . Justice Crompton , the right to an immense property , £ 3000 a-year real estate , and £ 250 , 000 personal and funded property , has been transferred from the widow of the testator , to whom , by will , he had left it , to Miss Elizabeth Thewlis , his first cousin and next akin . The testator was Mr . Edmund Kelly , of Merion-f quare , Dublin , and the widow and administratrix was a lady whom he accidentally became acquainted with and married , but had no issue .

      A coroner ' s jury , in the county of Cork , has returned a verdict that a poor man , named Daniel O'Brien , died on Saturday last " from starvation , through the neglect of the guardians of the union . " In the union of Ennistyraon , where the commissioners have dismissed the ordinary board of guardians and appointed salaried guardians to take charge of the union , a shocking case of death from starvation is reported in the local journal . The jury at the inquest returned a verdict that death was caused by " starvation , through the neglect of the guardians . "

      The Belfast papers contain an account of a serious accident in the neighbourhood of that town on Saturday , from the falling of a new mill . The building had been roofed , and the workmen had just commenced their operations , on Saturday morning , when the whole edifice , three stories hit > h and eighty feet long , came down with a crash . Thirteen men were at work on the premises when the accident happened , and twelve of them were killed . A verdict of " Manslaughter" was brought against Mr . Mager , the contractor , who has been committed for trial . The body of a young woman was found impaled upon the railings of Gilbert ' s Hotel , Weatland row , Dublin , on Sunday morning . An inquest was held on the body on Monday , when it appeared that she had thrown herself out of the window in a fit of insanity .

      On the night of the 3 rd instant , an armed party attacked the house of Michael Leffan , who resides in Coolyliune , in the county of Carlow . They fired several shots through the windows , vvliicU they demolished , and posted a threatening notice on the house threatening him with thb death of Marum , who was shot some years since inthu county of Kilkenny , if l \ e took a farm in the townlajul of iiahuna , from which , some persona had been ejected four years since . Some families , were lately ejected for non-payment of rent , and at the present period there are 400 acres uutcnanted .

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      Tho recent statement in reference to Dr . Kitto ' s infirmities—that lie is both deaf and dumb—is corrected , on " the beHt authority ; " only the former of tlu'se misfortuneH is suffered by bim . Cincinnati , the " Queen City of the West , " has n , populiition of U 5 , / 3 . )() . Jiy the hint < : ( . 'mhus , in LH-10 , it was 4 () ,. 'i 82 , showing an enureu . se of <>' . ) , ' 20 o ' , or about ISO per cent , in tea yearn . A few days ago at the HritH station , the ticket-clerk forgot , to attend to his duties , and tho people who wished to journey were obliged to take their places in the train without payment and without tickets . A Newcastle ; Protectionist paper itllirms that , many of Marl ( Irvy ' ti best farms are unli . t ; , and that , otheis of . his tenants threaten to leave their farms unless he reduce their rents considerably .

      N . Rimicri , a painter of som ' . > reputation , died lately at Uuardidgrrle , iu tlie Abru / . / . i , at . tho advanced ago ot 101 . lie never drank wine , and his diet wum extremely nimple . Mr . Loach , of Manchester , stuttd at u Chartist . HoijV-e , at SlK'dield , lately , that . " he l » ' » d spent eighteen of the beBt years of bin life in spei-ch-miikiiig , buL he- would bo norry to waste the next , eighteen years without , making a more sensible and manly efl-irt towards doing good . "

      Mr . Muntz , in his last letter , which appears in the Morning Post , says he is informed that " the Times and the Morning Chronicle are the same property , and that the principal proprietor of the Times is the house of Rothschild . Therefore , the Times took Marshal Haynau under their protection , together with all the Austrians . " The case of a fugitive slave , now pending before the courts in New York , excites a great interest throughout the United S , tates . Every effort is made by able counsel to give him all the protection which the law affords . The cause is managed with great zeal on both sides , but with no demonstrations of violence .

      Two apparently respectable women applied at the surgery of a public establishment in Devonport , the other day , to be permitt ed to place the hand of a man who had been drowned on the previous day on the knee of one of the women as a cure for the King ' s evil , with which she was afflicted . Pio Nono does not seem capable of governing his own small dominions , much less this country . A letter from Rome says : — " The other night the diligence from Rome was plundered near Ancona , and , notwithstanding the vigilance of the Austrian Chasseurs , the people cannot 50 from one town to the other in the Romagna without le danger of being robbed and murdered . "

      The Gazette de Lyon , in relation-to the recent sham miracle , says : — "We learn that the commission appointed by the Archbishop of Avignon , to examine into the facts affirmed with regard to the picture in the chapel of St . Saturnin-les-Apt , has decided unanimously that there are no grounds / or proceeding any further in the matter , as the facts have nothing of a supernatural character in them . " An old man at Gloucester , on New Year ' s Eve , went to a party "to see the old year out , " when he was observed in a corner apparently asleep . It was agreed not to disturb him until after the last stroke of the old year had ceased to reverberate upon the clock bell , in order to hare some badinage at the expense of his drowsiness ; but when the party strove to awake him , as they had designed , he was found to be dead .

      The churchwardens of a parish in Yorkshire have returned the following answer to the circular received by them from the National Club , which has taken up the work of Church Reform : — " The churchwardens of know their duty too well to require instructions how to perform it from London clubs and preaching dukes . Therefore , after reading Mr . Bellamy ' s printed circular , they have unanimously resolved to burn it , and have burnt it accordingly . " A manufacturer at Balbriggan , named Appleyard , means to exhibit at the " World ' s Fair , " in London , the perfection to which he has brought the manufacture of cotton in stockings of as fine a texture as silk , and with as beautiful a gloss and appearance as would make them available on any court occasion . A dozen pair of ladies full-sized stockings , of this manufacture , which he has in readiness to forward to the exhibition , weigh only nine

      ounces . The books in the Imperial Library at St . Petersburg , founded by Catherine II ., and which the Emperor Nicholas has thrown open to the public , have just received a new classification . It appears from the new catalogues that it contains 563 , 420 volumes and 15 , 471 manuscripts . The duplicate copies amount to about 20 , 000 , part of which are to be given to the Geographical Society of St . Petersburg , and otlu-rs to the Archaeological Society of St . Petersburg . Such works as remain over are to be sold publicly .

      An Italian , named Formigt » ini , belonging to an old and wealthy family of Milan , committed suicide last week by means of laudanum , at his hotel , Hue de la Muctte , at Passy . Not having received any reply to his knocks at the door , the hotel-keeper caused it to bt > broken open , and found the unfortunate man lying dead on the bed . On a table was a letter addressed to Mine . O , for whom he appears to have entertained a profound passion ; in this letter he began giving an account of his si nsations on taking the poison , and continued to write until the pen fell fi om his fingers . StxitGowns . — We understand thata more than usually lar ^ e number of applications have been made to the Lord Chancellor by ^ cntlem * n of the bur for silk gowns , but that at present his lordship does not intend to accede to any of the applications . — ( Jlobv .

      ( jikiujhalumk Li it liRAi'A .. — It is reported at Vienna that the Catholic powers contemplate uniting for regaining the sanctified spots in tin : Holy L ; uul ( by purchase and treaty , of course ); and that the Order of the Holy Sepulchre shall be restored under the auspices of the 1 ' opo ixa CJrand Master . Ki'incui'Ai . Frauds . —The IWshop of Oxford , in a late reply to one of the addresses from his clergy , is . said to hav silent . io . — Iixaniiuvr .

      Honknt Skkvanth . —The society formed at Frankfort on the Maine for the encouragement of faithful . services in servants , lias just held its Hitting . Twenty gold inedalu wcic given to servants living with the same master for miiri ! than twenty year * , fifteen silver one-i for more than ten yearn , and fourteen lor more than right , years . This speaks well for the morality of the place , aa tho poniil .-uiou is only . 05 , , and the uum . ber of servants not Kreut .

      Tim Di . HTi i , t , i : i ) Kmsicnch ok tiik Yan iusk . — 'Mr Collins , of Hteain-Bhip celebrity , is thus described by tho Vnit , a phrc nologiral journal :-- " He has a general «<)•• alnaditivoies . t of eh / n neti i . He \ -i emphatically U steumb > at in breeches ; pof . m . 'SMing in himsi If , in 11 very hi ^ h decree , ull the trails thai , constitute the Yankee . He is a living repi f-Hcntal . iv « of the best written de .-mrip " tion of the real American eharactor curried out to itM ultiniates to repletion . "

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  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 18, 1851, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1866/page/9/