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      the defendants were liable , and should be made responsible . The Lord Chief Baron said the court would take time to consider their judgment .

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      FAST WOMEN IN HYDE PARK . An amusing episode occurred at a meeting of the ¦ vestry of St . Marylebone on Saturday . After some talk regarding an opposition to the sewer ' s rate , Mr . Nicholay called the attention of the vestry to the infringement on the public rights by the appropriation of an equestian drive in Kensington-gardens . They were told that it was only for a time ; but once let the horsemen into the gardens , and they would find it very difficult to put them out . He wished Sir Benjamin Hall to say what course they ought to adopt . Sir Benjamin could give no advice . Lord Seymour had wished to make the drive on the north side of the Serpentine , but the Duke of Wellington declared that he could not give up any portion of that side of the park .

      Sir Peter Laurie said he had met a gentleman on the previous day in the Crystal Palace who was in a position to know something about it , and he told him that the drive in Kensington-gardens would not be persevered ¦ with . It would be no doubt a great injury to foot passengers . He ( Sir . Peter Laurie ) often took a ride himself in Rotton-row , and he thought the aristocracy could do there very well without a ride in Kensingtongardens . ( Hear . ) He had heard a great deal about improper women in the metropolis , but he thought the most improper women , and whom the Government or the authorities of the parks ought to look after , were what he callpd fast women . Mr . Broughton ( the police magistrate ) : Will Sir Peter tell us what a fast woman is ? ( Laughter . )

      Sir Peter Laurie : I have already stated from the bench that the police ought to look after these fast women , who ride through the parks at a furious rate , but who have always a " snob" to ride with them . ( Laughter ) In Hyde-park there are plenty of these women , and " snobs " to accompany them ; and what I want is to see a stop put to the riding of these women and their " snobs" in the park . ( Continued laughter . ) Mr Broughton : Sir Peter Laurie charged me with having been afraid to deal with his " fast women" and " snobs . " ( Great laughter . ) I deny the charge , for I always have the courage to deal with Chairman ( the Reverend Dr . Spry ) : It is a most improper subject , and if persevered in I will quit the chair . It ' s a subject not fit to be heard . Mr . Broughton : I did not originate it .

      Chairman : I don ' t cars for that ; they who continue it are as bad as those who originated it . ( Hear , hear . ) Mr . AVhitmore said then he would move a resolution expressive of indignation at the attempt to deprive the public of the promenade recreation which Kensingtongardens afforded , and for which it was destined . He moved— " That this vestry desire to express its indignation at the attempt which is about being made to form an equestrian drive in Kensington-gardens , since , in its present condition , it is peculiarly adapted , and especially advantageous , for the comfort and convenience of children , invalids , and pedestrians generally . " The resolution , having been seconded , was carried unanimously .

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      RIBANDISM IN IRELAND . Agrarian vengeance is again stalking forth over Ireland , leaving a track of death and blood over the fertile soil . Some weeks ago Samuel Coulter , who farms 100 acres at Shorstoue , about three miles from Dundnlk , caused notices of ejectment to be . served on several of his tenantry . On Friday -week he mounted his horse and set out at nine o'clock to go to the fair at Crossmaglen . He took with him money , to the amount of £ !) , to pay for his purchases at the fair . The road on which he travelled runs between high hedges of blackthorn , and beyond them are clumps of furze or whinbnshes , and here and there short stone walls , Hometimes half broken down , connect the scattering bushes . As Samuel Coulter rode

      through this ugly place on that morning , a man run heel out upon him , armed with a bayonet , and impetuously attacked and wounded him . lie turned about , and made towards home , when another man leaped from behind the bed :, ' * armed with a brass pistol and a musket . A fierce struggle began , tin ; wounded man defending himsi If with ins whip , and his assailants beat ing him with the firearms . They rolled on the ground together , the blood dripped from the back of Coulter ' s head , one of bis ears was nearly torn away , he fell insensible , and wus left lying in a ditch . All this terrible scene happened within a mile of Mr . Coulter ' s residence , within ' 200 yards of two houses , and a little further on a clump of cabins . When the body was found his money was untouched , lie wan curried back to Shortitoue , and where ho died .

      Beside the murder of Mr . Coulter , the Nr . wslctter gives an account of other HeencH of violence near Dundalk : — " Scarcely had the public mind calmed into repose from the painful excitement produced hy Mr . Coulter ' * murder than its feelings ure again roused by the . perpetration of it fresh outrage on the life of u fanner ami his wife . On Saturday night a party of eleven armed ruflliins entered the house of a farmer living between CiiHtleblimcy , in the county Monahan , and Kedy , in the county of Armagh , umi beat him and hia wife unmercifully , inflicting severe wounds on the old man ' s bend , him ! telling him thnt if he did not . give up the land he had lately taken they would return and kill him . A

      neighbouring farmer , who heard the cries , ran to the Carragh police station , a short distance off . The party promptly arrived , but found the villians had fled , leaving the old man weltering in his blood . The police heard the barking of dogs , and at once proceeded to the place where the barking came . Upon arriving at the bog , close to where the omnibus driver was lately fired at , they saw light in a house . They went to the window and looked in , when they saw eleven ruffians in the act of swearing the man of the house , who was on his knees . The police , though few in number , at once entered , just as the oath was administered , and arrested the eleven men . They were handcuffed and conveyed to the old . man s housewhen he and his wife at once identified

      , seven of them as being the persons who broke into their house and nearly murdered them . I conceive this to be a most important arrest . It will , I trust , deal a death blow to the infamous Riband system , now in vigorous operation in this locality , and , as I am credibly informed , for miles round . Mr . Mauleverer ' s murder , the murder of the Clarkes ( brothers ) , the attempt to assassinate the omnibus driver , the dreadful tragedy of Friday , and the present outrage—all occurring within a circle of hve or six miles Since my coming down here I have driven for some miles round , and my different conversations with the peasantry forced me to know that they imagine they ought to pay no rent at all . " these horrible

      The writer in the Newsletter gibbets deeds as the natural and efficacious consequences of the pitiful and abject principles of rank Communism in reference to the tenure of land . " Surely the gentleman has a short memory , or he would remember that deeds akin to these have happened in Ireland for the last hundred years . The Tenant-Right League agitation may not he perfection ; but neither it nor " rank Communism" are guilty of having produced the chronic disease of Ireland—agrarian outrages . These have existed as long as landlord oppression has existed , and they will exist until landlord oppression be done away . They are , indeed , the natural consequences of a system of relation between landlord and tenant ,, infamous beyond conception .

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      CRIMES AND ACCIDENTS . A crime of the Sloane species , though not quite equalling that infamous instance in atrocity , has been committed in the Isle of Wight . Eliza Cox , only fourteen years old , is the daughter of a peasant residing at Kingswood , near Bristol . Two years ago , Mr . Henry Brown Boll , Wesleyan minister , and Eliza , his wife , actuated , no doubt , by charitable motives , undertook to keep and maintain little Eliza Cox , who in return was to serve and wait on them . Shortly

      after entering into this engagement the Bells went to Ryde , and the male Bell obtained the ministry of the Wesleyan chapel there . These people behaved very well to Eliza Cox for some time , and then they began to ill-use her . This iD-treatment ultimately drove the girl from their house into the fields , where a woman named Mrs . Scott spoke kindly to her , and informed the police of the case . The consequence was , that the Bells were brought before the magistrates at Petty Sessions and tried for the offence . Eliza Cox Raid : —

      " They beats me most every d iy—missus beats me most . Last Saturday she got up , and came down and found fault , witli me . She heat me with a whip handle . I had no stockings on . I never was allowed stockings in doors—only an old pair of boots of master ' s . A little while afterwards I was going up stairs , and left my boots at the bottom . 1 went up to work , and by-and-by missus came up and beat me about , the head with one of the hoots ( produced ) , and 1 had nothing but bread and water all that . day . On Monday I was washing down stairs , and n > y missus came down and took me by my hair and dragged me about . The same day she cut a stick in the shrubbery and beat me with it . She gave me a piece of dry bread about nine , and another piece about , three , and that , was all I had on that day . On Tuesday Mr . Urown threw three buckets of water over me because I drank a little beer that was left over-night , iiolh of them locked me up in the hack kitcken at nine in the morning till nine at . night , and 1 had nothing but a piece ol bread and some cold broccoli , and I stopped in my wet clothes all that , time , and the water kept dripping down to my legs . On Wednesday I was called at . five , and went , dowiiiind was ordered to go a washing ; 1 had nothing but cold suds ; I asked for smut hot water , and missus said that master should t ; ive me some more cold on my head directly he came down ; 1 then ran away , and was spoken to bv MrK . Scott , who told me not to cry , for the policeman would take me up ; she dried rnycloihs and guve- me some vir . t uals , and then the policeman came down and took me before the magistrate . " Mm . Scott , then gave evidence as to the state of the girl . There appears to have been no serious attempt at a defence . 'The magistrates regretted that they had not . power to . send the case to the assizes ; and that they could only line each of the Ik'lls fiv « pounds . Of eouiuc this trilling mini was instantly paid . liut . tlie mob wen : not ho easily . satisfied an the law . Mvrry p ; ine of < dnH » in the house of the . liells was broken , and fiul . lier damage only prevented by the coming of a strong police force ; . It in superfluous to add , that , the ltrovvn Itells have thought , lit to leave Hyde . A party of noisy gas-labourers and coal-porters were proccedin . ' down V . mxhdl walk about one o'clock on Sunday morning . They came up with a policeman named

      Chaplin , on duty there , who told them that if they did not go on quietly he should lock them up . Some went off , armed themselves with large stones , returned again , and without more ado violently issaulted Chaplin . The case was brought before Mr . Elliott , at the Lambeth . Police Court . The chief witness was a policeman named Newton , who tells the story : —On coming near to Chaplin the prisoner Hickey flung this stone at him and struck him on the mouth . ( The . witness here produced a clinker , a missile weighing nearly 41 bs . ) , and proceeded to say that the effect of the blow caused the deceased to stagger against a window shutter , near to which he stood , but ° he soon appeared to recover , and was enabled to draw his staff and strike Hickey on the

      forehead , the blow producing the wound which that prisoner bore . The instant that Chaplin struck Hickey the prisoner Cane came up to him , and struck him ( Chaplin ) a desperate blow with a large flint stone on the left side of the head , or temple , and at almost the same moment another of the party , but who I cannot recognise , also came up and struck the deceased on the right temple , and he instantly fell on the foot pavement . I instantly rushed at the prisoner Cane , aud laid hold of him for the purpose of securing nirn , but at that instant I received a violent blow from a stone on the shoulder which knocked me down on the pavement . I got up again , and laid hold of Cane a second time , but he knocked me down and got away before I got up . I then ran along Salamanca-place , springing my rattle , and immediately after returned

      a sergeant and some constables came up . I with them to where Chaplin was , and found him lying on the pavement all in a gore of blood , and bleeding profusely from the mouth , nose , and some wounds on his head , and assisted in removing him into the Queen ' s Head public-house , he all the time remaining in a state of perfect insensibility . Soon after I accompanied the constables to a house in Vauxhail-walk , and knocked at the door several times before it was opened , and on entering it I saw the prisoner Hickey standing at the kitchen door bleeding from a wound on his forehead , and his hands were also bloody . Cane was taken in a coal cellar , and M ' EUigott afterwards in the Vauxhail-walk , on the spot of the assassination . James M'EHigott , John Hickey , Patrick Cane , Dennis Harrington , John Fahey , William Burke , and Dennis Shanahan , have been arrestedand stand remanded .

      , Dundalk and Sheffield share the horrors of the week . The homici e in the Vauxhall-road being more like a sudden than a wilful murder . The Sheffield police learned early on Sunday morning that a carter , named John Wilkinson , had been found dead in his house . Inspectors Astwood and Linley immediately went to the spot : they discovered John Wilkinson lying on the floor with his throat cut , but not sufficiently as to cause death On other parts of the body were dreadful bruises ; on the back of the head was a large wound , penetrating through the skull . The thumb of the right hand was also broken , and probably this injury was received while endeavouring to shield himself from the blows of his murderers . The struggle

      no doubt , commenced in the kitchen , for the walls of that and the adjoining room are covered with blood . There is also blood on the ceiling of the two rooms . Two stockings , covered with blood , were found concealed in the flue of the oven ; and a pair of fustian trousers , smeared all over with blood , was found hidden in the garret . One remarkable circumstance is , that though the house is situated in the centre of a crowded court , no noise was heard sufficient to arouse suspicion . The only noise heard by even the next door neighbour was one like that caused by dragging a chair across a floor . A coal-rake , however , stained with blood , was

      found in the house . On the previous evening Mrs . Wilkinson had entered a neighbouring house late , asserting that she had quarrelled with and fled from her husband ; and , it is said , that in the morning she desired to go back and fetch her boots , which led to the discovery of the murder . She h ; is been arrested , together with ft man named Battersby . There is some reason for believing that the wound in the throat was inflicted after Wilkinson was dead , in order to suggest the idea of suicide . The cause of the murder is stated to be jealousy—Battersby , Mm . Wilkinson ' s cousin , and lodging in the house , having usurped the . place of Mr . Wilkinson .

      Peter llolden , a notorious poacher , bad lost , his hand and replaced it by a wooden one . On Wednesday week the house of Mr . Harvey , draper , at Marmingtree , was entered by thieves . A policeman discovered them at their work , and gave the alarm to Mr . Harvey ' s shopmen , but be /«» re they could come to hi » assistance a man rushed from the cellar , whom he knocked down . A robber on the watch then joined his companion , and a desperate fight ensued between them and the policeman , in the course of which the thief from the cellar attempted to Htah the policeman , and succeeded in cutting through the breast of his coat in two places , but without wounding

      him . The policeman knocked him down three times , but w . iB unable to prevent tho escape , of the two thieves . On examining the premises they found the brim of a leather hat and a wooden hand , covered with a glove . It was Peter llolden ' n , who was at once arrested . The coroner ' s jury called to investigate the circum-Hfan < : en attending the sudden death of Mary Hardy , alias Wnddington , have found a verdict of " Wilful murder " multilist James Waddington , her stepfather , and Ann Waddiugton , her mother . They poisoned tho girl for the sake of £ 7 due from a burial club ; and received the money on the day of her death .

      John Henry hnton , tho master of the St . Pnneras workhouse , charged with a criminal asnault on Klizn . Smith , was discharged by Mr . Combe on Wednesday . Mr . Balhwitine applied for the discharge . Some doubt wan cast upon the state of the girl ' s mind , and it was fdt by Mr . Hullantico thu a jury wumM not . e , livid M - Kat . on .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 10, 1851, page 438, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1882/page/10/