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Leader (1850-1860), 29th October 1853, Edition Town of 2, Page 1039

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      not obtain upper rooms . Landlords on these occasions objected to receive them as tenants . In the five years all the children have had the measles and hooping-cough ; six have had small-pox ; and that is all , excepting the infant ; and now four , if not five , have had scarlet fever . " The grand remedy for these evils , but one which will require time to enforce , will be the establishment of model lodging-houses for the poor . Soon or late , this must be done . In the provinces , the cholera is rather slackening its

      fire in its old quarters . Not one death was registered in Newcastle on Tuesday ; but it is still felt in the filthy localities of the Gateshead , South Shields , and Bedlington Unions ; and it has stretched away northward to Dundee , where three died on the 20 th ; has appeared at Cockermouth , and has carried off some victims at Luton and Hemel Hempsted . It would appear , also , that the scourge has not ceased at Liverpool ; German emigrants have mainly suffered hitherto , and there has been no serious outbreak .

      No time should be lost by the municipal authorities to take advantage of the winter , and prepare for the spring .

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      THE WAGES MOVEMENT . LONDON " . In the metropolis the relations between masters and men axe still unsettled . The carpenters have made a new move They met last week at Exeter Hall , and adopted resolutions against systematic overtime . On Saturday they gave notice to their employers that it was their intention to discontinue working systematic overtime . In cases of emergencyj when contracts require to be completed ,. or when extra hands cannot be obtained , the men will continue to work overtime as heretofore . The men have come to this determination for two reasons—first , to afford themselves necessary relaxation from labour and social comfort ; secondly , to effect a more equal distribution of the labour , aystematic overtime keeping hundreds of men continually out of work . The carpenters' daily working time is now fixed at 10 hours—wages , 5 s . 6 d . *

      The basket-makers accepted the offer of an advance of * J \ per cent , made- by the masters , instead of 10 per cent ., and are returning to work , having sold the material purchased to form their co-operative association . The hair-dressers have resolved to put their short time movement , and close on Sundays at 2 o ' clock , A . M ., instead of 9 P . M ., and one hour earlier in the week .

      THE COTTNTBY . Preston chimneys are still cold and cheerless , and at ? resent we do not see the end of the strike of the masters . 'he men have held several meetings this week ; and have shown considerable spirit . At a meeting of the weavers on Wednesday , Mr . Tonge , of Stockport , the chairman , announced that the committee had this morning received a cheque for 5001 . from a gentleman in London ; his name our correspondent was unable to ascertain . Mr . Walton stated that a communication had been received from the Archbishop of Dublin , expressing his approval of the conduct of the unemployed operatives of this town , With reference to the cheque before mentioned , Mr . Walton remarked that that was a piece of bad news for the manufacturers of Preston ; but they might rest assured that that would not "be the only contribution towards the support of the factory

      hands of this town . Mr . Waddington mentioned the receipt of a letter from Aberdeen , requesting particulars of this movement , prior to the formation of an association in . that town , from , which pecuniary assistance might bo expected towards the closo of the week . Mr . Rhodes was of opinion , considering the advanced prices offered for Preston goods in the Manchester market , that the manufacturers of this town would soon be glad to re-open their mills at the required advance of 10 per cent . At the spinnors ' meeting on Tuesday , tho secretary ( Mr . Gallahor ) announced that tho committee were paying the hands connected with that branch 7 b . per head , and they expected to bo in a position to allow them 8 s . oach next week . Tho following resolution was unanimously adopted : — " That it is tho determination of this mooting to stand firm and united for a 10 per cent , and a strict adhoronco to our union . "

      At Wigan apparently tho mills aro also closed , and tho dispute unadjusted . But according to tho North . British Mail , tho master l > lot : k-printers , and about 7000 men havo become " reconciled . " "At a numoroiiHly attended eonforoncoof tho employers nnd employed , hold at Paisley last week , at which delegates were present from JCihnarnoek and Barrhoad , a compromise was effected , tho masters agreeing to pay tho men fortnightly , instead of monthly , on and after tho 1 st of January , 1854-, at tho sumo time Hignif ying their willingness to grant reasonable advances on tho earnings of tho employed for tho intermediate fortnights up till that date Tho strike is consequently now at an end . "

      J . h « colliers havo not boon pacified . Lord Bulearres Roetnn dispo . sod to be chivalrous on tho Hubjeet , and desirous of taking a " material" guarantoo , alter tho fashion of the ' Czar . The leading coal owners , with tho Karl of JJnlcarros at their head , aro resolved to resist the demand of tho eolliorH , and iH understood that fio ' determined in" the bellicose Earl in his opposition to tho present movoirionfc

      of the men , that ho has given hiHtruetionn to Iuh agents to eject from their occupancy of tho cottages on the Haigh estate , all the col horn who aro mixed ' p with tho present moveniont . Meanwhile ? , by the < vKw ( ionH of boatmen , and others , who havo aomo nli ht knowledgo of tho colliery businosn , wo learn that nboufc 100 tons of coal aro now being raised daily on tho JI nigh estatoH . Tlie master colliers meet on Friday next , nt Wigan , and until that time , tho probability h , that notlung further will bo decided uuon .

      The master shoemakers have resolved to make a stand against the " unreasonable" demand of the men for increased wages . The masters say trade will not permit a rise ; and declare that they will standby the scale of fifteen years ago . ,

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      JBEF 0 BM CLUB DEBENTtJRES ; An" action was brought in the Westminster County Court this week by Mr . Featheratone against Sir Benjamin Hall , to recover 13 ? . 10 s ., being the amount of some five-and-ahalf year ' s interest due on a debenture for 501 . issued by the Reform Club . The defendant was sued in his character as one of the " general committee" signing the debenture . Mr . Peteisdorff , with Mr . Duncan , appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr . Hawkins for the defendant . The learned counsel for the plaintiff explained the difficulties which surrounded actions on similar documents , and then stated the facts of the case , from which it appears that , in the year 1840 , a Mr . Alexander Galloway , an engineer , since deceased , advanced 200 Z . to the Reform Club , and for which he received four debentures of 501 . each . Two of these securities were afterwards paid off , and the remaining two ( on one of which the present proceedings were founded ) were given by him to his youngest daughter about twelve months previous to his death . She transferred them to her brother , and he sold them to the present plaintiff . The Reform Club refused to pay the interest , alleging that the executors claimed the debentures , and the present action was the result . Three of the executors , John A . Galloway , Richard Hodgson Galloway , and George Washington Galloway , axe illegitimate eons of the deceased , and they grounded their claim upon the fact of the

      debentures haying been assigned by mere delivery , although the bonds state that interest should be paid to the " holder . " Mr . Petersdorff hoped that the case would be decided upon its merits , and that he should not be met with technical objections ; but on the debenture being handed in , Mr . Hawkins contended that , as it was unstamped , it could not be received in evidence . At length it was discovered that the document was stamped , when Mr . Hawkins objected that the present application was a " chose inaction , " and therefore not maintainable at law . The Court concurred in this view , and the plaintiff was nonsuited .

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      CRIMINAL RECORD . The records of the criminal justice give us the usual number of illustrations of the modes of life of the classea who are not only untrained , but uncared for . Mobbs , the murderer of his wife , is now a condemned felon . Hia trial took place at the Central Criminal Court on Thursday . The story of the tragic event was most completely told by the witnesses . One showed that Mrs . Mobbs came to her house for shelter on tho day before ; another , Julia Ayling , that Mrs . Mobbs sat up all night with her ; and that her husband came and inquired for her in the morning . I stood before her , but did not make any answer . The prisoner looked round the room , and , when he saw his wife , asked her to fetch him some beer , and she refused , and said she was going before the Lord Mayor in the course of tho day ' for proof that he should not murder her . ' The moment she said this the prisoner laid hold of her , and dragged her out of the room by her clothes . I saw him drag hor afterwards along the court , and ho dashed her into their own house . The deceased said , she would not go upstairs unless I went with her , and I wont into their room and stayed there about 10 minutes . While I was in the room I heard tho prisoner accuse his wife of having been with a policeman all night , and tho deceased said sho was not , and that she had been in my place all night . I went away , and about 10 minutes afterwards I heard the deceased scream , and also heard her call out , that if ho would not leave her alono , she would jump out of tho window . Sho opened tho window and

      called out to mo , ' Was I not in your place all night , my dear ? ' I replied , ' Yes , ma ' am . ' Sho then turned to her husband and said , ' Now , are you satisfied ? ' The prisoner did not jnako any answer to tins that I heard . Several heard screams of murder , Frances Lancaster among them . "As soon as I got into the court I heard the deceased cry ' Murder' several times , and sho also faintly cried ' Help !' I also heard the youngest child cry out ' Oh ! mother !' Upon hearing these cries I and some of the other neighbours went to tho door of tho prisoner ' s room , and Mr ? . Jones knocked , and I heard a noise as of a box being moved from tho door . Directly afterwards tho deceased oamo out . Hor thront was cut and she was covered with blood , and hor hair wrs hanging about her shoulders . Sho

      walked up the court past one or two houses , and I saw no more of her . I wont upstairs again , and there flaw the prisoner lying on the Jloor of his room , and tho child aitting by him . There won n pool of blood near whero he was lying , but I did not olisorvo that his throat waa out . I saw another pool of blood clone to tho fireplace . When tho prisoner was drunk ho and his wife used to livo very unhap - pily . The deceased was a sober quiet woman . " Lastly the policeman camo arid found the prisoner lying on tho floor with his throat out . ile had a ( lark-handlociltnifo in his hand , and witnetm said to him , ' I Hunposo this in the knife with which tho deed waa doriop' lie replied 'No it was not ,- it was dono with a white-handled knife which in in that cupboard . ' Thoro was a large pool of blood near tho lace whero tho l

      p prisoner wan ying , and another pool of blood was upon the iloor , near tho firoplaco . When the Burgeon arrived witness opened tho cupboard tho prisoner had roferrod to , and ho thoro found a white-handled knife covered with blood , which appeared quite frc » h . Tho darkhandled knife was also bloody . Before tho prinonor was taken away to tho hospital ho gave witness 22 duplicates , and also said that ho Hhoulil not . havo dono it if ho hiul not Been his wif ' o in company with a policoman upon tho night when flhe loft him . Upon searching tho room he found a whetstono which appeared to havo boon recently used . " Ah thoro was no doubt of tho guilt ; of Mobb « , tho jury found a verdict to that effocfc , and tho Judgo solemnly paasod sentence of death .

      No less thanfourteen prisoners were tried at the Central Criminal Court for uttering bad money . Two of the prisoners convicted , being old offenders , were sentenced to four years penal servitude . It appeared from one of the coses that a new trick has been adopted . A woman , 4 Pith apparently a sick infant in her arms , had in several instances gone into a chemist ' s shop , and succeeded in passing some bad silver in payment for a trifling article of medicine for the relief of the child . Morence Driscoll was tried at the Middlesex sessions on a charge of indecently assaulting Emma Gooding . The young woman had been out at a Sunday evening party on the 2 nd of October . On her way home alone , three

      o clock the next morning , Driscoll met her in the Commercial-road , and seizing her , forced her against a wall . A policeman on duty heard a woman's voice crying , " Let me alone , or I will scream for protection . " He went towards the spot in consequence , and heard the sound of running as he went there . When that stopped there were screams of " Police ! " and * ¦ Murder ! " He went up and found the prisoner with his arm round the prosecutrix ' a neck . She was trying to get away as hard as she could , and appeared to be very exhausted . He pulled the prisoner away . When the constable took Driscoll into custody , he said to the woman— " Why did you take my money ? " This exclamation a juryman connected with the fact that Gooding did not know the name of the persona

      who gave the party , and desired to know what kind of house it was where the party was given . But no information on this , head was forthcoming . Mr . Sergeant Adams could not help being struck with the circumstances of the case . She went to this house with her sweetheart , ? and did not even know the name of the person to whom tne house belonged . Then , although the young man lodged in the house , he went away , leaving her alone , instead of walking home with her . It seemed so contrary to the usual habits of young people , that he should lite to know something niore about it . Nothing was established except that the sweetheart and the brother of the woman were both respectable . The charge of an indecent assault was withdrawn , and that of a common assault preferred . Driscoll was sent to prison for one month .

      William Green seduced Hannah Osenam , and her parents turned her adrift . She was not without resources ; and had Green been anything but a scoundrel , the mischief done by her parents might hare been obviated . She could earn a living with her needle , and did so—keeping both . But by and by she fell sick , and could earn no longer ; and Green compelled her then to adopt the last and lowest means of earning a living . Not content with this , as usually happens , he commenced beating her , and finally he assaulted her with a red-hot poker , and burnt her severely . Fortunately a policeman rushed into the room , and knocked the ruffian down with his staff . Mr . Tyrwlvitt sent Green to prison for six months' hard labour , with a further imprisonment for the same period , unless sureties come forward who will give bail that he keep tho peace .

      But this kind of conduct is not confined to the lowest classes of society in point of means . John Stokes , described as " a person of considerable property , " appeared at the Southwark office to answer a charge of endangering the life of his wife . Mrs . Stokes is the mother of eleven children , and has been married fifteen years , The assault was brutal in the extreme—tho husband pulling tho poor woman out of bed and beating her . Mr . A'Beckett , who , it appears , was aware that Stokes had been accustomed to beat Ilia wife , sent him to prison for six months—a sentence which greatly surprised him . He had been repeatedly bound over to keep tho peace .

      " William Smith , " a medical student , " annoyed" a lady in St . Paul ' s Churchyard , by putting his arms on her shoulders , and offering to carry her parcel . Sho appealed to a policeman ; , Smith knocked him down . He was drunk , and three constables were required to carry him to the Btation-house . , Sir Robert Carden reproved Smith . Ladios must bo protected ; and he thereforo fined the prisoner 40 s . for the assault on tho officer , 20 s . for that on tho lady , and 6 s . for being drunk . The fines wero immediately paid . Cool impudence has long been a charaelorintic of tho

      whole race of London thieves . JVo less than four charges wore preferred against William Wood for stealing sheets and clothing . His plan was to take apartments in a " straightforward" manner , then rino extremely early next morning and carry olf everything ho could . Hia victims , of course , were landladies . Mrs . Herring has tho merit of cutting short his career for a while . Being a prudont woman , she went up "to see that Wood had put out his light , " and caught him in tho act of ransacking the contents of a box . Wood , the innocent , wtin " stretched on liiw bod pretending to bo asleep . " Mrs . Herring locker ! him in , find woke him with a policeman . Wood had " nothing" to say , and tho Worship-street magistrate lias committed him ibr trial , for Tuesday week .

      A fihocking caso of depraved and wanton cruelty wan diseloued at tho Lambeth police court on Tuowday . Anno Bull , who filln an o / Iico which it is loathsome to name , wad charged with cruelty to hor niece , who in only eleven , yearn old . Her actn wore those of a pamioiinto beast . SometiincH she beat the poor littlo thing , breaking her head with a Naueopan or anything that ranio to hand . On Saturday , tho monster stripped tho child of every rag of clothing , and made hor ncrub Uio stairs . A policeman naw tho naked girl through a window and interfered . Anne Hull was sentenced to six wooks' iinpriHonmcnt with hard labour ; and tho magistrate ordered the officers to tuko tho child to tho workhouse , ho that nhe might be sent to hor parents in tho country , and rescued from that " don of iniquity . "

      John Lansky , a foot guardsman , was chargod ^ by Edward Gerard , dottcritnng himself m an artist ., with Btoaling hia watch . Gerard represents that he took Lantik y homo to nit aa a model ; and that whilo Gerard was m another room Lansky took the watch . Thoy Hubsequontly went about drinking together until Gerard gave tho man into ouetody . Liuiflky said Gorard wanted him tq atay all - " ^ yjf" 7 >' -f i . . . , -., ...,, ,-W 11 I . . . m ~ ,- * - . l l . ll , C

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      October 29 ; 1853 . ] ffHE LEADER . 1039

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 29, 1853, page 1039, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2010/page/7/