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Leader (1850-1860), 15th October 1853, Edition Town of 2, Page 993, Untitled Article

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      have ffone out on strike . They demand an advance of Qd on " allhose , " and 3 d . on " half hose . " The North Shields hand-ldom weavers have given notice that in a few days they will go out on strike , unless their wages ate advanced . The shoemakers of Norwich contemplate going out on strike , unless an advance is made . 'Hie plasterers of Kensington , near I , ondonj have struck , not for an advance of wages , but owing to the length of time they are kept waiting

      for ' theif mcSney on Saturday evenings . The dyers strike at Manchester still goes on . The London shoemakers persist in their partial strikes . When a master refuses the advance , they pay his men to leave town , and then watch * the shop to prevent others getting work . The London bricklayers persist in demanding aft advance of 6 c £ per day . The hairdressers aie preparing a movement for short time and better wages . Th ~ e cheesemongers , oihnen , and tallow chandlers , now shut up their shops at 9 instead of 10 o ' clock .

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      CURIOSITIES OF JUSTICE . WhbiC Sheridan ' father thre atened to cut him off with a shilling ; he rejoined , " You do riot happen to have the shilling about youy db you , si * ? " A' Yorkshire Surgeon has earned the wit into a county court . William Theakstorie * who is a surgeon , residing at Halifax , in Yorkshire ., brought an action in the Liverpool County Court , , against his brother , Btenry Theakstone , of Linacre , to recover the sum of 51 . Is . The shilling , it appeared , Was the amount of a ; legacy bequeathed to the plaintiff by his father , and the 51 . was claimed for the trouble and expanse he had heiem nut to in professional services in applying for

      payment of the legacy . The defendant paid the . legacy , together with Is . lid . costs , into court . Mr . Wilfred , on the part of the plaintiff , applied to the Court for costs , upon the Whole amount sued for , Which his Honour declined to grant , observing that he hoped it would be the last time he should be called upon to try a cause for a shilling . There was no pretence for the claim of 51 ., and the judgment must be for the defendant . The judge remarked , that he once tried an action of trover brought to recover a shilling , and nonsuited the plaintiff , who brought a jfresh action for liinepence . The pleadings in both actions were drawn by counsel , and the cause ultimately went to the court above , at an expense of about 50 ? . on each side .

      The inclosure of waste lands is aided by the General Inclosure Act ,. but the provisions are considered insufficient . A writer in the Daily News says—" What is generally complained of in the act is , that whereas two third parts in number and value of the parties interested are sufficient to carry any inclosure into effect , yet a power of veto is gi-ven to the lord , and he has the power of entirely staying the proceedings , even if ( as in some known cases ) he has not an inch of land , or any other interest in the parish . The consequence of this Undue preference is , that many extensive and valuable wastes are doomed to a state of comparative perpetual sterility ; or , in case of inclosure , the lord may secure to himself superior privileges by making theni a condition to his assent , but to which he has no real right . " A working man 1 ms iust recovered hi . compensation for

      loss of time , from the South Wales Company , m consequence of detention arising from an irregularity in the arrival of the company ' s tram at Chepstow . The sale and use of the new penny stamp for receipts has been very considerable , and promises to more than realise the expectations formed of its probable operation . In some cases , its evasion , where practicable , has been adopted ; but , in general , the-stamps have been used quite as freely as was expected , and the result of this change in one of the sources from whenco the revenue of the Government is derived will most probably bo found to bo eminently satisfactory-

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      CRIMINAL RECORD . On Saturday night a housebreaker stealthily broke into a jeweller ' s shop , in Manchester , and went through tho promises , collecting many valuables . But ho found a boltlu of brandy , and , drinking it , fell anleop , until it was broad daylight , on Sunday morning . Then , coming out , ho was cau ght l > y tho police . A " jioor follow out of work" stayed in St . Clement'h Church , after service , lust Sunday , and stole £ > s . \\ d . out of tho poor box . Ho wftB caught by tho sexton . Mr . Hamilton and his family , living near Glasgow , camo down to breakfast on Saturday morning , and to their surprise found tho firat floor parlour -windows opon , and a ladder standing upon the road , right against tho casement . That tho house had been burglariously entered wits

      undoubted , for tho floor boro marks of dirty footprints , and moreover , tho carpets woro Htrowod with luoifor matches . Mr . Hamilton was almost afraid to begin tho investigation into his pi-obublo lo . ss , for silver plate and othor valuublo articles lay within reach of tho thieves , which they might have romoved with littlo more trouble tlian that of putting forth their hands . Strange to say , nothing was removed , if wo owopt ; a bottle of ketchup , Which hod likely boon taken for brandy , and a china plato with oonfectionaries' ¦ ho plulo itoolf bohi" found on tho grass plat beforo the door . For a timo tho family was puzszlod to account for

      • Ins singular exemption , till fr woh ngrood on all hands 'hat thrtV preservation from plundor wiw owing to a tfookatoo whidi belongs to tho house , , and which hius a voice o { l >« ouliav potency and harshnOHtf in tho oroaking line . It jh ( woustomed to raiso its noton whenever any unuaual sound > m hoard during tho night ; and it in aooordtngly presumed that h « had noitl forth tho moment tho Htealth y troad of 'lio intviulorn foil upon its oar . Tho thitivoB hoaringHound « «<> wild and unnatm ' al raunt havo ooneoivod that tho ovil onlo hiniHolf was denouncing them , and they mado a rapid < or < lingly , 1 ho Itevorond A . P . Patorson , lato minisl ; or of tho Scotch Ohuvoh at Gibraltar , wont' mad while slaying at Madrid .

      He wandered about the country , and cut his throat . He is now in Glasgow , under surgical care . In Birkenhead , a drunken husband caused much grief to his wife , a lady of respectability . Lately she has been almost driven mad b / % ss conduct . One morning' last week she got out of bed where she had been lying with her husband and child , got a , razor , returned to bed , and plunged the razor in the baby ' s throat . She then took the bleeding child out of the room , and handed it to a person in the house . The child had two gashes in the throat , and is not yet dead . The event has caused a painful sensation , in the town .

      There have been five cases of woman-beating this week Samuel l ) akin struck his-flofe on the face , knocked her down , and pressed her chest with his foot . She rushed from the house covered with blood , and in a fainting state . ( Some months ago her husband broke her arm with a poker . ) Before the magistrate , the husband excused himself by saying he was drunk : but he was sentenced to six months and hard labour . A most disgusting savage , named Barry , assaulted his brother ' s wife . He flung himself down and bit her on the thigh , and then bit her finger . " The finger had a sickening look as if it had been chewed . " The bite on h the thigh is pronounced dangerous . " Six months" was the sentence . William Howard flung a plate at his wife , and wounded her' terribly on the temple . This was without anv provocation . He also beat

      her severely . The surgeon said it was a miracle that the woman had not been killed ; and on examining her , he found her one mass of bruises and cuts , from the crown of her head to her chin . " Four months" was awarded . Daniel Eoach beat his wife about the head , and kicked her in the face with his thick heavy boots . When the woman appeared in court , " the right side of her face , from her eye to her chin , presented a most frightful appearance , and her head was one mass of bruises . She had a bandage over her right eye , round her forehead , and she seemed scarcely able to move her head . " John Davis , an old grey-headed man , beat his wife , a decrepid old woman . The beating was slight , and partly provoked . He was fined twenty shillings .

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      FEARFUL SHIPWRECKS . Thk Annie Jane was a large vessel , and sailed from Liverpool for Quebec and Montreal on the 9 th of last month , with some 45 ( L emigrants , most of them Irish families . It is presumed that she had made some progress across the Atlantic , when she encountered the fearful south westerly gales , which disabled her , and rendered her unmanageable , and in that hopeless condition was driven back and dashed on to the terrible coast of Barra , one of the Hebrides . With a point called Vatersay , where the wreck occurred , the island is six miles in length , and two and a-half broad , and lies some five miles south-west of the next island , "Uist . The inhabitants are mostly employed in the cod-fishing trade . There is a lighthouse on the heads , which is the highest in the United Kingdom , being 680 feet above the level of the sea . Such is the terrible

      character of the coast , however , that there is little chance of a vessel being rescued when once it is entangled amongst the reefs . Several of the survivors contrived to get a passage from the island over to Tobermory , a small seaport on the Isle of Mull , and from them the authorities learned that 348 passengers were drowned ; 102 , with Mr . Bell , the chief officer , and 12 of the crew , were saved . The stoiy of the wreck is very terrible . Tho ship struck on the reef during the night , when most of tho passengers were asleep . Many rushed on deck in a state of nakedness ; wives clung to . their husbands , and children clung to both , some mute from terror , and

      others uttering appalling screams , and eagerly shrieking , " Is there hope ? " In fact , the scene is described by the survivors as the most agonising which it could enter into tho heart of man to conceive . The poor creatures had not long to wait fou tho catastrophe . After the first shock wan over tho passengers ruuhed to the boats , three of which wero placed between tho mizonmast and tho poop , and tho fourth lay on tho top of tho cooking-hoiiHo forward . Tho life-boat had already boon lost . But , as happens too commonly in Htich melancholy cases , the boats woro of no earthly use , for they Avoro all fixed down and Mecured , or lay bottom up . Whilo tho panHongers Woro thus clustered

      round tho boats , and within a very low minutes after tho ship had grounded , who waH struck by a sea of frightful potency , which instantly carried away tho denso m . 'iHH of human beiiigH into tho watery waste , and boatH and bulwarks wont along with them . Tho wild wail of tho nufForerB wan heard for a moment , and then all was utill . But tho groat majority of the women and children , an well as some of tho male passengers , remained below , either paralysed by terror , or afrai d that they would bo washed away in the event of fchoir coming upon deck . Their time also" had come . Tho frightful thumping of tho great aliip , taken in

      connection with her cargo of railway iron , inunt havo immediately beaten the bottom out of her ; and while lu-r fabric wiih in thin weakened and disrupted Htato , another dreadful noa broke on board , and literally crushed that part , of tho dock situated bowoon the mainmast and the miKenmaHt , down upon tho bortliH hnlow , which woro occupied by terror-Htrickon women and looping children . They woro beaten to death rather than drowned , as was fully ' evidenced' by tho nakod , mutilated , and gashed bodies which -wore affcorwavd « cant on shore . Tho main and nrnonniUHt-t wont at tho same moment . Tho mowt of tho remaining eoamon and

      passengers now took refuge on the poop , which was a very high one , and each succeeding assault of the sea carried away its victim or victims . In short , within one Hour after the A nnie Jane struck , the remaining stumps of h « r masts went by the board , and she broke into three pieces . The remains of the mizenmast were still attached by the shrouds to the wreck of the poop , and by the help of the islanders it was placed so as to form a sort of bridge or ladder between the poop and the shallow water ; and , as the tide had . now fully ebbed , all the survivors go t on shore without much

      difficulty by seven in the morning . Almost all the cabin passengers perished . Only one child was saved . It belonged to a humble Irishwoman , who , with her two children , was about to join her husband in America . She struggled hard to preserve them both , by binding one on her back , and grasping the other in her arms ; but when the ship parted the one in her arms was dashed into the sea . Soon after reaching the shore the survivors repaired to a farm-steading , or cluster of houses , which was not far from the beach , and repaired their exhausted energies by rest .

      Another wreck happened nearer home on Tuesday morning . The Santipore , a ship of 650 tons , left London for Hobart Town . The late severe gales drove her back into the Downs , and on Monday evening , after another attempt to get down Channel , she struck upon a reef near Folkestone and lost her rudder . Boatmen boarded her , and though the ship was fast filling , though the masts were bending like whipcord , and the danger very great , the captain would not give up the ship , but still worked on . Steam-tugs came to pull him off . The first succeeded , but the rope

      broke . A second then attempted , but it was too late . The ship , drifting rapidly inwards , scraped the ground , and directly afterwards stranded upon her broadside on the spot above indicated , heeling over to the seaboard with a tremendous list , threatening the momentary destruction of the vessel . Captain Jewell instantly gave orders to cut away the masts , each of which fell in rapid succession , and the ship , being thus cleared of her top weight , lay comparatively quiet on the beach , within 150 yards of the Pavilion Hotel . The cargo has been mostly saved .

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      MISCELLANE O U S . The Queen and her family left Balmoral on Thursda y morning , arr ived safely at Edinburgh in the evening , and mere expected at Windsor on yesterday .

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      An important declaration hart ,, during the present month , received the signatures of a largo number of influential Dissenters of various denominations , expressive of a conviction that " inoro general and united action for the liberation of religion from State interference is imperatively called for by the present condition of parties and the character of events . " Public ; opinion , it ih said , " leans more decidedly than ever to a settlement of the ecclesiastical affairs of the country upon principles ' of Christian equity . Tho subscribers demi the forthcoming Triennial Conference of the British Aiiti-Ktato-Church Association , to ho hold on the 3 rd of November , n suitable opportunity for

      securing thiH dosidcratitm , and accordingly recommend the utmost effort to mnko it as effective an possible , by the nj ) - pointmont of suitablo delegates . There are iittnched tho signature !) of 3 ( M ) pontons residing in above 100 cities ami towns of lOnghmd , Wales , Ireland , and Scotland , and among them are tho names of Mr . Kersliaw , . JVI . l * ., Mr . lladlield , M . I ? ., Mr . Seholeliold , M . I . * ., Mr . f \> llatt , M . I . ' ., Mr . Hoyworth , M . l \ Mr . BiggN , M . I ' ., Mv . (/' rossley , M . l \ , Mr . Crook , ' M . I' ., Mr . Moll , M .. I . \ , Mr . Minll , M . I * ., Mr . Samuel Morley , Mr . JOdward Hiiines , Dr . Harris , Mr . TitiiH Salt , of Bnidlonl , Dr . 1 Culton , I ' . A . Taylor , Km \ ., and W . . I . C . Anburst , IOh < j .

      Tho Leicester gnol inquiry has been resumed at the in-Ntanoo of tho visiting mngintrateH . They havo produced evidence to show that t \ w meals taken from prisoners havo boon only three per cent , of tho full number ; ( Jioy impeach the accuracy of the jail books , and by kheiuNolvos and othor vinitora they depose , to entire ignorance of any ennoH of cruelty towardu tho pri « onern . But tlioy admit that their inspection wan not " particular ; " they mode general inquirioH of tho governor and surgeon . Ono of tho witnessing magistrates wiih Earl ilowo , and when clonnl y examined , ho Haid ho wiih " taken ho much by mirprino in boing acikod any question * , that ho really could not apeak , accurately on f ) bo Hubjed ; . " Afterwards bis lordshi p having recovered his surpris ' o , lie " wished to add , that he hod boon oonBtantly in tho hubifc of questioning pi'iHoners , and that ho had hoard of no cruelty . " Mr . JJonlioid , the aur ~

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      Q&T&Bm 15 , 1853 . ] THE 1 EABER . 99 %

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      There have been four Cabinet Councils within the last eight days . The first was held on Friday . All the Ministers , excepting Sir James Graham and Sir William Molesworth , were present . / The Times says , " Sir William Molesworth was not present , owing to an error of the officer whose duty it is to summon the members of the Cabinet . " The Council sat three hours and a half . The second Cabinet Council took place on Saturday : the Ministers not present were the Duke of Argyll , Sir William Molesworth , and Sir James Graham . The Council sat two hours . On Monday a third Cabinet Council w : us held . The Duko of Newcastle , Mr . Gladstone , the Duke of Argyll , and Sir James Graham , were absent . The Council sat two hours and a half . On Wednesday a fourth Cabinet Council was held . The Marquis of Laiindo ^ ne , the Puko of Newcastle , the Duke of Argyll , and Mr . Gladstone were absent . The Council nafc five hours .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 15, 1853, page 993, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2008/page/9/