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Leader (1850-1860), 30th July 1853, Edition Town of 2, Page 731, Untitled Article

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      . ce _ to three months' imprwonmeniu-T-Jamea Buxton , ^ working jeweller in Hoxton , beat bis wife so savagely , that on her appearance in the witness-box her face waa all slackened ana swollen . Yet she entreated the magistrate to forg ive her husband . He has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment . —Another case appears in Wednesday ' s papers . It is not the only one of the kind tbia week . Charles Daviea , a filthy-looking man of dissipated appearance , was charged with cruelly beating his wife . ^—Hannah Davies , the wife , a care-worn looking woman , said w hu sband had been £ way > , from home , several weeks . About three o ' clock that morning he came home ; he broke open the door of the room in which her two children and herself were in bed , then rushing towards her , seized the out avoided the

      poker , and aimed a Wow at ner nead , sue injury as well aa she could , and escaped with only the skin , being torn away from her face . He then struck her a violent blow on the nose , which he had previously broken , and se izing a knife , swore he would rip her open . She managed to get dut of the house , and remained in the street until she could procure the . protection of a constable , when she gave her husband into custody . The poor woman horrified the -Court in her details of the brutality to which she was constantly subjected by her husband , who was a confirmed drunkard , by stating that within the last eight weeks , among other injuries , he had broken her thumb , and twice broken her nose , — The case of Robert Obram , in T hursday ' s papers , is of equal brutality . He first

      attemp ted to strangle his wife , and then flung _ her from the top of the kitchen stairs to the bottom . Her back and throat were fearfully marked with blood and bruises , The woman stated before the magistrates that she had been married to Obram for seven years , and she had endured nothing but sorrows , troubles , and privations , ever since , in consequence of the violent and intemperate habits of her husband . Ever since she had been married he had been repeatedly in the practice of ill-using her , and she had marks on her person which she would carry to the grave . He had broken up five good homes , and sold off one home . On the magistrate asking her to explain thia more fully , she said that her husband ha d actually chopped up their furniture and effects five times , and left her withand

      out anything , and he had also destroyed her clothes j on one occasion called in a broker and disposed of everything . She had been often driven from her bed-room by the violence and thieats of her husband , and compelled to sleep or sit on the stairs all night , or aeek refuge in- a neighbour ' s dwelling . In the two last cases the now usual " six months' imprisonment" haa been awarded . An unusual ending to conjugal quarrellingis recorded in Thuraday ' s papers . Charles Thomson and hia wife lived unhappily together , and they agreed to separate , and that he should marry another . The second wife waa aware of the separation and agreement . But Thomson having also ill-treated the second wife she has given him into charge for bigamy . the Leicester

      A more tragic termination waa exposed at Assizes , John Hubbard , a man of 68 , married to a young woman of 25 , quareiled with her . She resolved tojeave him . This he vehemently opposed , and in an altercation on the subject he got so enraged as to draw a knife across her throat , dangerously wounding her . Sentence of death has been recorded against him , but hia life will be spared . There have been published this week many cases illustrative of the necessity for Lord Shaftesbury ' s Act . It has been shown that boya of ten and twelve are regularly encoura ged to thefts by men and women , who buy from them the stolen goods , but never put themselves m danger of aotual detection in theft . Two attempts at suicide by women have been made thia week . Domestic misery waa the cause in both cases .

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      WORKMEN AND WAGES . The results of the late strikes have been by no meana favourable to the men . The masters hold out firmly . The Stockport strike is still unsettled . The piecera have returned to most of the Manchester mills , but the dyers ¦ till hold out . Many other unsuccessful strikes have taken place throughout the country . Five thousand miners at Dowlas arc out on striko , demanding 10 per cent , advance . The Hull police , to the number of 80 , refuse to do duty without higher pay ; and 30 have finally resigned . Five hundred of the London corkc utters demand higher wages in consideration of the

      rise in rents and tho prices of provisions . The railway labourers in tho south of Ireland demand 10 » . instead of 8 < r . a week . Tho labourers at tho Southwark docks , hitherto receiving 3 d . per hour , and two pints of porter in tho day , now ask 4 d . an hour with the same gratuity . Tho Leeds ' carpenters ask an advance of la . per week , and two houra leiauro time on Saturday . Tho masters are willing to givo tho increased wages , but not the additional time . The bricklayers at tho now Houses of Parliament havo etruck for an advance of waeos .

      Tho only successes wo note this week aro few . In Suffolk tho agricultural labourers havo obtained an advance of < W . per week ; and the carpot-woavora of Scotland and tho ¦ North of England havo got an advance of 10 per cent .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . Tun public wore infonnod on Monday of tho convaleac onco of tho Qucon , which wua announced on Saturday -morning in « n official bulletin ; and on that < l » y tho Duchess of Kent and Sir Honry Holland left Oaborno . Wo havo further ovidonco of her Majesty ' s return to health , that on Wednesday aho was ablo to hike u drive in an open carriage .

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      I'ho mail steamer Queen of the South , Captain W . W . Noriniin , arrived at Plymouth at four o ' clock yestardny morning , with tho mails from India and tho C « po , after a splomlid puusnge . Tho nowB from tho C « po in mitiflfactory .

      An item of importance appears in the Irish news . The " Evening Mail says it haa " good reasons for believing that Mr , Baron Greene has resigned his seat as a Commissioner of the Board of Education , " that Archbishop Whately and Mr . Blackburne have also retired from the board . The Times reports that at a meeting of the clergy of the diopeae of Dublin on Wednesday morning , the Archbishop formally announced that he waa no longer a member of the National Board , hia Grace having received a letter w hich he , could regard in no other light than as a " dismissal" by the Government from an office which he had filled fora period of over twenty years . The letter in

      question is stated , on good authority , to be a simple dissent from Dr . Wbately ' s view of the subject , and not b y any meana a personal rebuke to the Archbishop . Unless matters can be amicably adjusted , even at the sacrifice of ? ' prejudices" on both sides , the apostolic delegate will , aaya the Evening Mail , " have an opportunity to assume the supervision of the entire secular education of the country , and the unchecked control of at least -140 , 000 ? . of public money . " The places of two of the ex-commissioners have , it is said , been already filled up by the appointment of the Right Rev . Dr . Enox , Bishop of Down and Connor , and Mr . Abraham Brewster , the Irish Attorney-General .

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      The Summer Poultry Show on Wednesday waa suceessf ill . The " extraordinary size of the Cochin-China chickens " was again remarkable . A single egg waa valued at from one to five guineas . The artists of London , with whom Hampstead-heathhas been a favorite haunt , are alarmed at the rumour that Sir Thomaa Wilson wishes to build on it , thus destroying a landscape that has afforded suggestions to many British painters . Sir William Newton , Stanfield , Pickersgill , Pye , Lucy , J . Doyle , and other artists of eminence , held a meeting on Saturday , to devise means to stop the threatened desecration , It was finally resolved to petition the Queen to preserve H&mpstead-heath for art study .

      The concert in doing good which ' . our benevolent societies continuously illustrate , waa strikingly shown on Wednesday at their new asylum at Balls-pond . This institution has long been a home for the aged proteges of the varioua beneficent societiea in London : 126 persons have been permanently relieved , and 32 are at present comfortably placed . OnWednesday there was a pleasant demonstration , signifying a substantial progress in the institution . A procession of the members was made ; they walked with banners and music on the ground ; and there Lord Robert Grosvenor laid the first stone of a new wing to the building . Sp eeches for the occasion were well made , and at the dinner in the evening 200 Z . waa subscribed .

      Dr . Barlow , an English medical gentleman visiting Berlin , experienced " brutal treatment at the hands of the Berlin police . " According to the instructions of the Foreign-office here hia passport waa not vised by any Prussian authority in London . Wanting thia he waa arrested at the railway station : — " I was Bent , under extremely annoying and vexatious circumstances , after halfan-hour ' a detention in a guard-room , in the custody of a policeman , to the head police office , where I waa kept in durance vile , among a set of itinerant vagabonds , for nearly three hours , and was aubjected to all the brutality of looks and words which t he menials of the office , short of personal violence , could well infliot ; after thia I was told I might go where I liked , and received back my passport . " A " flower show" at the Surrey Zoological Gardens , on Tuesday , was remarkable for the display of heaths and the great show of fuchsias , The show altogether waa very sucoessful .

      Dr . Newman has handed over the balance of hie defence fund—36001 . —to tho new Roman Catholic University in Ireland , with the exception of a few hundred pounds given to one of the religious houses in thia country . Tho Baltic , which sailed on Wednesday from Liverpool for tho United StateB , carried M . Jullien , his family , and a corps of performers . Sir William Molesworth is really a Reformer in office . His latest good work has been to tako Holyrood Palace into the keeping of Government , fixing an uniform fee of sixponce for visitors , in lieu of tho discretionary extortion hitherto practised , and opening tho palace free of all charge en Sundays . _ _ „ . „ . . , Convent Siatorhood

      At Pimlico a kind of Protoatant or of Mercy has been instituted . It is called tho " Nursing Sisters Hospital . " It has boon established at St . Barnabas ' , with tho concurrence of tho Hon . and Rev . Robert Liddoll , in order to provide for tho sick poor in our church that care which can only bo given by those who devote themselves ontiroly to such a work , and tend thorn for lovo and not for hire . A paper wo have been sent says , — " Tho sisters visit the poor in their own homos and rocoivo a email number of pationta into tho house . It remains to bo aeen whether wo can find help and Bympathy to enablo ua to carry on such , works and onlargo them . Wo trust to do so , and eventually to replace tho paid nurses in our hospital *) and amongst our poor by thoso who will bo devote themselves from a religious motive . Tho hospital may bo visited on any woek-day between two and livo , and persona who wish it may attend tho prayora of tha Houbo at two ,

      and visit tho Hospital afterwards . " Tho following letter from Archbishop Whatoly , addressed to Mr . Lloyd Garrison , appears in tho Boston lAbem « or .- —" Dublin , 10 th Juno , 1853 . —Sir , A copy haa casually fallen into my handa of tho Boston lAborator ( 4 th March ) , in whioli I am donoribcd as tho author of a . roviow , in tho ' North British , ' of ' Uncle Tom ' a Cabin . I am not tho author . I happen to know that it is from tho pori of a lady—a clergyman ' s widow—in tho south of Ireland .- Afl I wish for neither crodit nor discredit that is not fairly duo U ) mo , and aa I presume you do not moan to minload your readers , ploaso < 6 givo notico and corruption of tho mistako . — Your faithful , humblo eorvant , Richard Whatoly , Archbishop of Dublin . " Whilo Mr . Walpolo waa at tho Homo Office , tho pohcomon of the motropolis wero generally informed that each man wae expected to go to hia proper place of worship on

      Sunday . ^ Thia waa felt irksome by some of the police , and laatweek a deputation waited on Sir Richard Mayne , to know were they obliged to go to church . The commissioner I ntimated that under the new reign ¦ of Palmerston no such " request from the authorities" had been made , and tb , at going to church waa at the option of the men .

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      The New " Pork Herald atates that Mr . Buchanan haa definitely accepted the embassy to England . The New York Crystal Palace was opened on the 14 tn inst in the presence of ah immense concourse of spectators . The President of the United Spates and General Scott were present . k , The steamer Empire , on her downward trip trom Albany to New York , on the morning- of the 16 th , was run into by a sloop , and one of her boilers was thrown overboard . Two persons were killed , and eight or ten severejy injured . The damage done to the steamer is estimated at 6000 dollars The coroner ' s jury on the victims of the Gavazzi riot at Montreal , concluded its sittings on the 10 th inst ., after a long charge from the coroner . Instead of a verdict , special J&i

      returns were handed in by the divided jurors . gnt jurors found that the mayor ordered the soldiery to fire upon a crowd , while there was no riot or disturbance to justify such order , and that the order of the mayor , as well as the firing of the soldiery without the orders of their officers , were unnecessary , culpable , and unjustifiable acts . Ten jurors found that one man was killed by some person supposed to be one of the defenders of Zion Church , and that those killed by the soldiery were killed in consequence of military words of command uttered b y a person unknown after the riot act had been read . The jurors agreed on on point , that the mayor read the act unnecessarily , and that , immediately after " he waa done reading , a firing took place on the part of the military , and that several parties not concemedin the riot were killed .

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      The police of London cost the inhabitants in rates 400 , 000 £ . a year . . There are over 500 , 000 volumes in the British Museum . A new office , for the collection of the Income-tax is to be established in Ireland . . Irish tax-gatherers are bold and ingenious men . On the Dublin and Belfast Junction the other day the train was " arrested" for county cess due to the Company , and although steam waa " up , " and the passengers furious , the tax-gatherer stood firm until the debt was paid . A new and large Military Barrack is to be built at Brompton . . ^ .

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      Satttbday , July 30 . The terrible Indian Bill has at length passed the House of Commons . Mr . Bright ' a amendment , to unite the two offices , waa again defeated by 100 to 72 . Sir Charlea Wood met with a similar fate , when he proposed that the salaries of the Chairman and Deputy-Chairman should be 1500 Z . each , and of eacli Director 1000 ? . a-year : 99 to 83 rejected hia proposition . The salaries were therefore fixed at 1000 Z . a-year for " the chairs , " and 500 Z . a-year for each , of the Directors . The Bill then passed amid loud Ministerial cheers . The Scottish Universities Bill passed through Committee last evening . An attempt to introduce the word 3 , " on the true faith of a Christian , " in the declaration by Professors , was defeated by 81 to 37 .

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      The news respecting the Turkish difficulty is of the usual character . Wo are promised peace through the mediation of Austria . It is ostentatiously paraded that the fleeta will not retire from Besika Bay until Russia evacuates the Principalities . It further appears from the telegraphic despatches of this morning that all the Powers aro anxious for peace , with the exception of Russia . At Constantinople , the four Western Powers and the Porte aro reported aa being thoroughly in accord , and all they have got to do is to obtain tho consent of Russia to evacuate the Danubian Principalities .

      News from India and China roached town early in tho week . From Burmali tho intelligence is that no advance is to be made on Ava unless our troopa or civil servants aro molested ; and our present position there is to be maintained . Many officers havo died . Tho Empire of China is divided , and Nankin is independent of tho Tartar dynasty . Great anxioty waa cntertaiued for Canton , and a rising was daily expected there .

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      Tho committee of Cab owners sat ngain last evening , and at olevon o ' clock camo to tho following rusolution : — " That tho Committee of tho Metropolitan Hackney Carriage Trade , having observed that cort tin amondmonts havo boon proposed to tho Haoknoy Carriago Act , tako this opportunity of earnestly recommending thoir followtradoBinon to return to thoir usual avocations . " , . . The result of this resolution will bo that thici ( Satnr * day ) morning London will bo in possession of it « usual supply of calxi . '

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      The Bow-Btroot reporter of tho Thnos has again convicted Lord Palmorolon of defeating tho Houso in tho matter of cabman 1 'hillipn . lln hIiowh , from tho onfcry by tho olork of tho court , that tho cabman wan " offered to Ivwo tho ground measured , but had not 6 * . for the puvpoue . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 30, 1853, page 731, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1997/page/11/