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      M ^ MHHHMHMHBM mg ^ pg ^ mBHRI Tll > Ul . i liTm I ii 1 , 11 f ITr ' 1 ftrT Hulme , he toek l * er alobg Uae « mal-side 1 -Aiter going some distance ^ Jong tlie wislied to return home , but lie said she back any more , for he intended to g&t hold of her round the waist , and into . the canal , bat . she elung to his neck - ' . ' ^ iljgi&aegrebief with , one hand , » and to has body with the other , and struggled with him . "She said , where « he vent he should jgo ; but he said he could swim , and did sot care if he did go into the water 'with her . She straggled with him . a . long time . lie had her down on

      the ground many times to loosen her hold , and . she prayed him to have mercy on her . She asked him to have mercy for her mother ' s sake whose only child she vms . She said , ' Oh , Edward , what have . I done that you will not spare my life ¦? ' She said many more things . She said , ' Somebody ' s curse must have come over you . ' She told him she would not care so much if she had been in a club so as to have the means of being decently buried , and that in taking her life he would be taking two Hves , for her mother had no other child , and she would not survive . " At length , two boatmen came tip and rescued her . The motive for the attempt was Jealousy . The prisoner was committed for -trial at the

      as . Joseph Parmenter , the police sergeant on the G * eat Northern Railway recently accused of stealing a portmanteau , has been acquitted at the Middlesex Sessions . Murder and Suicide . —A woman living near Canterbury , murdered her child by hanging , and afterwards hung herself , a few days since , owing to sheer poverty . Her husband died a little more than a year ago ; and , about six weeks since , the parish stopped an allowance of 2 s . a week which they had previously made . She

      then sold almost everything she possessed ; and at length , being reduced to utter want , became desponding and incoherentC A third rope was found , evidently intended for her other child , a little girl , who escaped and gave the alarm . Each of the ropes had attached a slip of cotton velvet , which it would seem the poor creature had placed there "for the purpose of mitigating the sufferings cf her children . An inquest was held , at which the jury , who expressed themselves strongly against the parish authorities , returned a verdict of " Mental derangement . "

      Wi fe Kttxtttg . —A woman has been killed at Manchester by her husband , who , while drunk , beat her with a poker . She lingered for a short time in the worktouse , where she gave premature birth to her child , and then died . The man , Hayes , has given himself up to the police . William Harrtngtokt , the militiaman charged with causing the death of a potman , has been sentenced to hard labour for four months , the jury having recommended him to mercy on the ground of the provocation he had received . More Militia Brutality . —Two miliatiamen haye teen convicted at the Central Criminal Court of committing a rape upon a girl at Kensal New Town .

      Layton Edward Hopper , the man charged with setting fire to the steam battery in Mr . Russell's yard , lias been again remanded . His legal advisers say that they can prove the most complete alibi .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . Shocking Mvkdsr . —The Dudley Advertiser reports a dreadful occurrence , which took place at Kale ' s-bilL , near Dudley , on Saturday morning . A young man , named Meadows , had been paying court to a young woman named Mason , but , becoming jealous , he determined that she should die . He borrowed a carbine , and , having loaded it , proceeded to the public-house where the girl lived as a servant . He called for something to drink , and , watching his opportunity , he shot her . The principal portion of the charge lodged directly under the left ear . She only lived a few minutes after . The murderer made no attempt to escape . He said " Revenge is sweet ; I have had mine , and the Jaw must take its own . " The Russian Prisoners at Lewes Twenty- ? five of the ringleaders in the recent outbreak at the War Prison were sent off to the Devonshire prison-ship , at Sheerneaa , on . Friday week . The remainder exhibit the greatest contrition for their misconduct , as a punishment for which only one-half of them were allowed out of their wards at one time until Thursday week , and no visitors axe now allowed to see them ; consequently , their toy trade is at an end . The ronl cause of the outbreak was that the eightcen-younkers ( gentlemen who are obliged

      to serve as non-commieflioned oracors before obtaining commissions ) were allowed 3 d . a-day ouch for looking after the men , and seeing that they kept thoir wards clean ; and the men demanded the same remuneration for pumping water for their own use . Thin the Government denied them ; and they refused to go to the pumps , and even attacked the prison guard with knives , causing great consternation , untiln detachment of militia restored order . Two of the prisoners have lately died—ono of pulmonary consumption , tho other of erysipolaH .

      " Tub Gbicat Kennedy Cahm . "—Mr . Kennedy , late of the Woqds and Forests , whoso enso was recently before Parliament , has published in tho daily papers a document , from which it appears that some sympathising friend boa bestowed upon him an annuity of 1200 / .

      Accident at the Camdjen Town Station . —* A . porter on the London .. and North-: Western line has been crushed ito death by being wedged between the buffers of some Approaching trucks and . another truck in front . Banquet , at the Mansion House . —The Lord Mayor on Wednesday gave an entertainment in the Egyptian HaH of the Mansion House to the Ministers . The speakers were—The Lord . Mayor , Lord Hardinge , Sir Charles Wood , Baron Cetto ( on behalf of the Foreign Ministers ) , Lord Pahnerston , the Duke of Argyll , Lord John Russell , and Lord Clarendon . The speeches were of the complimentary and washy character common to such occasions .

      The Overland Indian Mail . —By extraordinary express the public has been placed in . possession of dates from Calcutta to April 10 , and from Bombay to April 17 . Some sharp fighting has taken place around Peshawur . A field force , under Colonel Craigie , attacked , on the 9 th of March , the tollmen stationed about nine miles from Musha Khail ; and , having slain nineteen of the insurrectionists , and burnt some villages and stacks of wood , retreated with a loss of nine sepoys killed , and twenty ^ seven wounded . On the 24 th of March , the Momunds came down in

      force from the hills in front of 'Mutta , and attacked the garrison of Abuzai . An action ensued , which lasted several hours ; but the Momunds were beaten . On the 30 th of March , a treaty of friendship and alliance with the Cabul government was signed by Sirdar Gholam Haidur Khan , on the part of Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan , and by Mr . John Lawrence on the part of Lord Dalhousie . — There have been some disturbances of late on the Burmese frontier . The state of Lord Dalhousie ' s health is stall unsatisfactory , though it has improved : he

      remains at the Nielgherries . Trade is depressed , and money is tight and scarce in all quarters . Testimonial to Lord Dudley Stuart . —The committee appointed for this object have determined that " the funds shall be applied in establishing an independent charitable institution , if sufneientfor that purpose ; but , if insufficient , the committee shall again deliberate respecting their application . "

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      Leader Office , Saturday , May 19 . HOUSE OF LORDS . THE PEACE MOTION . Earl Grey postponed the motion of which he had given notice for Monday , with reference to the negotiations for peace , till Friday next . .

      ARMY REFORM . Lord Panmure rose to bring forward his statement on Army Reform . He commenced by alluding in suitable terms' to the distribution of the Crimean medals that day . The changes which he proposed did not require legislative sanction , but he thought it his duty to lay them before Parliament . He did not mean , in dealing with the departments in which changes were to be made , to cast any imputation on the officers connected with them , but only to deal with the system . While he was Secretary at "War he found great delays and inconvenience arose from the system at the Ordnance—a system which

      committees and commissions had long advised should be altered , but no Government had yet attempted it . It was said that this , a period of war , was not the proper time for changes in the government of the army ; but he did not agree in that opinion , but he thought that in time of war everything should be done to give efficiency to the military departments . It was proposed in the first place to abolish the Master-General and Board of Ordnance altogetherthe offices in which were held by letters patent from tho Crown , and when those letters patent were revoked they would cease ; and all that the Legislature would be asked to do was to enable the Secretary

      for War to hold certain lands belonging to the Ordnance . That department had control over matters civil and military . Tho military department comprised the command of the Royal Artillery and Engineers , which it was proposed to transfer to the Commander-in-Chief , those corps being adjutantgenerals' departments , which could act ns at present , under tho Commander-ih-Chief . With regard to the civil department , which now consisted of the Master-General , who though not a member of tho Board of

      Ordnance , was supreme in everything except in Finance , the Lioutenant-Goneral , Surveyor- General , Clerk , and storekeeper formed tho Board . When tho Board was abolished , tlie Secretary for War would be supreme and responsible for tho whole department of tho Army and Ordnuncc , and ho was to hlivo under him a Chief Civil Officer , who could receive all orders with respect to tho civil administration of the Army from the Secretary of State . That officer was to bo a momber of tho Houso of Commons , and he was to movo all the Estimates of the . Army , Ordnunce , and

      Commissariat an oae . Estimate . It would be his duty to-see i the orders of the Secretary for War in all branches of Mthe < Army , a daily record of which was to . be tept » i 8 O AB-at once to be able to see where the fault lies ^ hen . they were not carried out . The InspectoiwGen « alo £ Eor , tifications would be retaine d as would . be ,-the Ddtector ^ General pf Artillery , -with * whom -wfould < be . associated a Director of Naval AxtiUeary-Talltof whom would be members of what was mow called ike Scientific Committee . The Superintendent of Stores , as it now existed , was entirely acivil office , and , the department ought to be conducted more an « omnxercial ] pri | iciples than it now was . The duties of the office of Superintendent of

      Contracts had not hitherto obtained the confidence of the commercial world . The remedy seemed to him to establish a department having the control of ail the contracts of theArmy and Ordnance , and he pro . posed to place at the head of it a man who lie thought would be pronounced to be the right man in the right place . With respect to ihe clothing of the army , which required a proper -adjtninistration , he proposed to have a superintendent of clothing , and to do away with the board of general officers , which now regulated the uniforms of the Army . All the departments relating to manufacture would be

      under , civil control , while they would remain at Woolwich or Enfield as before , although the officers charged with the details would be officers of artillery . The noble lord went into further minutias of the proposed changes , -which were purely matters of detail . He then recapitulated his plan , which , in its main features , was the concentration of all the military departments under the Secretary of War , assisted by an under-secretary and another officer in the House of Commons ; who would have charge of the civil departments of the Army , Ordnance , and Commissariat .

      The Earl of EiiiENBOROUGH doubted whether , under the proposed system , the Secretary of State for War would be really responsible for the working of the department . If he were to be so he never could discharge the duties which devolved upon him ; but if the responsibility were to be merely nominal , things would be no better under the new system than under the present . Earl GKEy thought the proposed alterations ought to have been brought before the House in the form of a resolution . After some conversation , Lord Panmure said that he was still open to receive suggestions for further alterations . The House adjourned at a quarter-past seven .

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      HOUSE OF COMMONS . At the sitting several questions were asked , among which were the following : — THE FOREIGN LEGION . In answer to Mr . Ewart , Mr . F . Peel said that between 3000 and 4 U 0 O men had been enlisted for the Foreign Legion , and that the success in recruiting had been such that 5000 men would be engaged in addition to the 10 , 000 originally proposed . ORBEK OF MERIT . In answer to Lord Elcho , Lord Pai . jierston said that the institution of an order of merit had been delayed till reports of tho practice on the Continent in similar orders had been received .

      THE EARL OF DUNDONALD ' S PLAN . M . F . Frkncii complained that the commission to which the plan of the Earl of Dundonald for the destruction of Sebastopol had been referred had not met . Lord Dundonald was prepared to destroy every port in tho Baltic for less than 200 , 000 / . When could Lord Dundonald get an explicit answer * Lord Palmbrston said that the difficulties of the plan seemed to increase the more they were considered , and he was not prepared now to give an

      answer . MR . LAYABO AND CA 1 TAIN CinUSTIK . Mr . Fergus called attention to certain allcgeti mis-statements made by Mr . Layard with regara to the ago and services of the late Captain Christie , who he ( Mr . Fergus ) declared was , during tho time ho was in office at JJnlakl . va , in a vigorous state of health , and who I ml nothing to do with the internal arrangements oi im . harbour . Such statements might have been inativu - tently made , but it was only just that the person m no made them should retract them on thoir being bIio « j to bo incorrect . H « adked Mr . ^ nyard rt hujm received letters from tho relatives of Captain W > rlb" ° contradicting his statements , and whether he nun imlied to them f

      p . ...... . . p „ ,. mPT Mr . Layaiu > inquired if tho , scene of u former evening was to bo repeated , and deprecated i » u House being mado the arena of personal «»«"""*• He then explained tho statements ho had made regard to Captain CUriatie , whom ho had seen uiiuy while ho was at Ualaklava ; and both from Jus own observation and from the opinion of others , ho ca' »« to the-conclusion that that gentleman wua unitf ' <¦"

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 19, 1855, page 466, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2091/page/10/