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Leader (1850-1860), 29th September 1855, Edition 1 of 2, Page 932, Untitled Article

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      dtedaum ^^ ediate ^ . " W ^^^ ^ ^ djeven children quite . 4 $ stiiufe .-- John Robmsoir Carter , living in ijhancer-rBtrhei , Liverpool , < has , stabbed a man whom he believed to be paying improper attentions to his wife , little hope is entertained of Ms recovery ^ JRoFBiANiT Husbands . —At the Thames policedourt , a seaman named William Bone has been sentenced to three months' imprisonment in the House of Correction for attacking his wife while he was in a state of intoxication . Having received his wages from the Sailors' Home at Poplar , after committing the assault , Ire refiised to give his wife any money , although her child was starving . —William Wellard is under remand

      at ' Clerfcettwell , charged witli assaulting his wife , on wtoifl'hdnas inflicted a very severe scalp-wound , extending to the bone , the result of which cannot at present be determined . The poor woman , who was very weak and faint when examined , endeavoured to excuse her'husband on the plea that he was drunk . * She added i " He is a gilder . We have just commenced in a small way of business , and if he is sent to prison I shall lose all ; it will bring us to ruin . When he drinks he is mad , but when he is sober he don't beat me . He has beaten me before , but I have forgiven him . " Ten shillings were given to the poor woman out of the poorbox . ^ Several ot her cases of brutal assault by m upon women have been heard in the course of the week .

      FaAUPi— -James Barney , a warehouseman of Addlestreet , is under remand at Guildhall , charged with obtaining , by means of false pretences , goods to the value of al > out three thousand pounds on credit , within three months of his bankruptcy , with intent to defraud his creditors ! Geobge Pebible has been committed for trial on the jctarge ' Sfniurdering the woman with whom he lived .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . Collisions between the Foreign Legion and the MABJBTES .-rGosport has been the scene of some very serious disturbances arising Put of . a < l u l arrel between the Germans . belonging to die Foreign Legion , recently recruited in America , and the Marines of the vessel which brought Ithem over .. The disagreement arose on Friday wpek , o , utsida apublics-house where the , Germans , were drinking . A fighi ensued ; but , as the combatants were not armed ^ ith , their weapons , no great mischief was done , -&igeant . Howard , of the cqnstabulary , requested next day that . the men might be kept in barracks ; but th ^ j ^^ Jtipit , compjied with ,, and , on ; Saturday night the disturbances we ' re . renewed' on a much more alarming scale ., The Germans armed themselves with , iron rails , ¦ and with ^ ives ;; .. the M arines had , nothing , . ' but their

      belts . Each side numbered from fifty tp : sixty combat , ants ; and several of the ^ marines were wounded . One , who was apt , joining in , the iray , was , st ; abb , r so deeply in , the forehead that his life is despaired of ., Blame , however , does not rest solely with the Germans ; for a naarine has been arrested for having , according to his own confession , thrust one of the Legion down a privy , and smothered him . Another . batch of . recruits , has recently arrived ; and it appears that the Germans composing it were in a state of puch fierce animosity with the marines during the , voyage ,, that : fifty Royal Artille r rynien who were on board had to mount guard , and but for th ^ ni , the . Bb , ip . could , hardly haye . been ; br 9 ught , < 9 ye ' r . — , Majpr , Bpw ^ e 8 , | th | ejCommandant , of the Foreign Legion , haa consented , at the request of the magistrates v tp keep

      his men within barracks ; and Colonel ^ Graham , ; the Commandant of the Marin ^ , haa reseda similar request ,, in ,, a letter ,,., whj , cb . was ; considered , highly discourteous to the bench- ; . ( The facts , however , , having been laid before the LieutpnontrGovernor of the , garrison , Major-General Breton , the . marines have been confined to . barracks , and { he ; offensive letter has been forwarded ' to the Admiralty . , , , , ' . Two Babqtje GKORaw Wqolfb was lost on the morning of the , 14 th offiNew , Romney . , The oaptain and crew took to , the , boats ,, and got safely to shore . jQommandkb Woqdbiff , who , though sixty-six years cl ^ tge , leaped averbpard , And rescued John Brown from drowning at Gibraltar on the 3 rd inst ., has received frpm ^ eyer ^ l , aub ^ cribeira a gold watch , aa a , token of admiration . ,

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      Munos w ; as reported among . the slain . Colonel Walker was menaced by a strong force of the Chormorro party , posted at fobas , only fifteen miles from San . Juan , Mexican advices to the 2 nd inst . report affairs unsettled . General I > e la Slade had taken possession of Vera Cruz , refusing allegiance to the Provisional Government . Alvarez had not reached the capital . —Yellow fever in Norfolk is unabated . Mr . Buchanan , the United States Minister at London , will not , it appears , return home on the 1 st of October , as at first intended , on account of certain complications with respect to Central American Russians intend to ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ¦ ¦ 1 t ¦ 1 _ . / \ r ^ 4 i >' - / 'iir- " - " ^ 'w " »* " * -- * '

      affairs . It is stated that the negotiate a loan in the United States . The demand for money continues active at New York : business is somewhat depressed . —With respect to compensation to sufferers in the Grey town bombardment , a letter from Mr . Marcy , Secretary of State to Mr . Wetherbee , a merchant , affirms that " the claims cannot be settled or paid without the sanction of Congress . " A communication from the principal manager of the Nicaragua Transit Company to Mr . Fabens , exhibits the animus of the attack on Grey town—namely , a desire to seize the place for commercial purposes . The writer hopes that no mercy will be shown to the town or the people . atrocities in

      California . —The murderous common the American land of gold would seem to have reached their climax in a most fearful massacre both by and of the Mexicans . It it stated that an attempt was made to arrest some Mexicans who were suspected of robbery : they escaped , f led to a small mining town , massacred the inhabitants , robbed the place , and made off . The whole country soon rose in arms ; three Mexicans were tried by Lynch , law , and hung ; all the houses belonging to Mexicans were burnt ; a struggle took place between the Americans and their enemies , in which several were killed and wounded ; and some houses into which the Mexicans f led were fired , the fugitives being shot as they issued forth ; and , at the last advices , the excitement was by no means over . Some have been found to say that the Mexicans are not in fault , and that the original outrage was committed by Americans .

      Settling a Debt m California . —The San Francisco Correspondent of the Times has the following story , as an illustration of Californian " life : "—> ' A Frenchman of the name of Briant owed a sum of money to a moneylender of the name of Ritter , a Swiss established in San Francisco . The debt was overdue , and the creditor threatened to foreclose , a mortgage which b , e he ^ d , upon Briant ' s property . ] The Frenchman determinedto resist this proceeding in a manner . a& novel as it was like to be effectual . ' . At three ' oclock in the afternoon , he went into Mr . Ritter's office , where he found him and two brokers , whom the fornxer is in . the habit of employing in his business of procuring loans , &c . On entering , Briant handed to the clerk a manuscript paper , which

      on reading he found to be an intimation that he was going to blow up the house with gunpowder in five minutes . The paper warned the clerk , a boyj to escape , and to warn the other persons in the , house and the neighbours , so that they might fly . The boy rushed off fast enough no doubt ; but before he got up-stairs he heard the ,, crash of ,. the explosion . It afterwards appeared that , as soon as the clerk left , Briant approached the two brokers with a , carpet-bag in his hand , smoking a cigar , and coolly told them of his intention , to blow them up . They naturally enough fancied he was joking or rnad . and $ at still . { He then threw his cigar into the

      , bag , which , contained some pounds of gunpowder . The explosion was terrific . The Frenchman ' s hands , face and head , were , badly burnt , and the two brokers were also injured , but no one was killed . Ritter was more frightened than hurt . The ground story of the house was considerably damaged , the doors and windows blown out ^ and the walls badly cracked . Windows across the alley at the side of the house were broken , and men outside knocked over by the shock . How the inmates of the office escaped being killed no one can tell . Briant has been in the hospital since the occurrence till the other day . Sy this time , all parties have recovered . "

      The St . Lawbenoe Submarine Telegraph . —An attempt to lay down the submarine telegraph across the Gulf of St . Lawrence , seventy miles in length , to St . John's , Newfoundland , which would have reduced the interval , for news between Liverpool and Now York to six or sevepi days , had proved unsuccessful . After forty miles of the cable had been run out during a period of heavy weather , which had already occasioned many interruptions , the line parted , and was obligod to bo abandoned . The season being now over , the enterprise cannot bo renewed till next year . It appears that , Instead of d large etoamor being employed , the cablo was

      MISOELXAN'EOUS . A * tBRioA .- ^ Centtat a * nd 'Sojath 'Ariierica [ continue to erij ^ roB ' s ' tliie'bhief neWs of ' interest from the other aide of the Atlantic . ' Colonel' Kiiinoy has ' completed the purchase - ' for flvc'huiAared' thousand dollars of Messrs . ShoppaM and Haley B rights \ ih " the lands / granted them by the Mosquito' Governra . bnt in 168 $ ) , so that' lie possessed thiT fertile' ' tract ; an ' wtopflieci ; ' m : addition to 1 , 700 , 000 acres more . On the 28 th ult ., ' Colonei Walker landed at San Juan del Sud . with d small part ly , whorewpn the napi ^ es , ^ ith . tho excoptip ' rt' pf ' £ hej captain of tine port ; and afow others , evacuated the place , taking tlieirmu | p ^ , with them , They word , hpweVojr , ' fySjuce'd to ret p n l ^ iicl , aflslat ' the California passohgors irf tn ^ eity iransit across flMttttimW—A' blpqdy Dtttjlp was fought Oii the To , th , bdWteeii'tno ' Caatellarid nArty tinder MuJTiosand' ^ yaii-cz atfaV bocly of , clarn , ioroua adhorehta' under , GuardloUa . Gtti # «! plli * w ' A 8 beaten , and fled to the mountains , while ; , !'„ ¦ ¦ ,. ¦ ii .. i ¦• ' ¦ , ' :,, . ¦ '

      shipped on board a sailing bark , which was towed by a small steamer , and that the disaster is to bo attributed to the difficulty of ^ hoir keeping together in a rough eca . — Times City Article . The BELL' < stsLiDi Noisanobscontinue to cngngo the attentiPn of tho pnpors ; but it does not appear that any 9 tons' have boeri taken for thoir remoyal . U HEALbm op LONppN , — -In ' tl ^ o week that ended on Sft-MoiV , the' doafliH of 981 porsPnd ( hamoly , 4 CC males ? lid ' 465 fenlaloH ') ' ¦ ivoi ' o regifl ' terdd ' . ' in ' th ' o nTiotropbluAh districts , a number which' ^ h ' o > vs a decrease of about i , 6 b on eaclv bf the . tlifoe '' pr , ovwiis woplis , ' ahd lhcllcdtefl a BAtisfdotory conditidh of the public ' h ' ea'U ' H . In the ' ebi :-

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      responding weeks of 1850 and 1852 , wheti the population was . less than at present , the deaths wererespectiveljr 858 and 913 . Except in these instances , the number : off deaths in corresponding weeks since 184 . 6 was greater than that , which appears in the present return . The diseases of zymotic character produce at this time more than a fourth part of the mortality . Of 253 deaths referred to this class last week , 76 were caused by diarrhoea , 63 by typhus and other fever , 50 by scarlatina , 16 by hooping-cough , 11 by small-pox , 9 by cholera ^ 7 by erysipelas , 5 by measles , 5 by croup , 5 ( of which ) 3 occurred in the Paddington Workhouse ) by syphilis fix . infants , 3 by dysentery , 2 thrush , 1 influenza . Diarrhoea

      continues to fall rapidly ; the mean weekly temperature having also fallen considerably since the period in which the disease attained its maximum . Fever has prevailed to some extent in the sub-district of Mile ^ end Old Town Lower ; and the Registrar of Mile-end New Town records the death of a child , on whom an inquest was held , from neglect , and from the unwholesome and overcrowded state of the house in which it dwelt . —Last week , the births of 841 boys and 817 girls , in all 1658 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 , the average number was 1361 . —From the Registrar'General ' s Weefcty Return * . .,

      AgriculturaIi Meetings . —The sixth Annual Show of the Padiham ( Lancashire ) Agricultural Society was held on Thursday week . Sir J . P . Kay Shuttleworth made a long speech on the occasion , in which he eiblarged on the superiority of English modes of farming over French , and asserted that French , farmers are rapidly coming round to our principles .- —The Royal Bucks Agricultural Association had its annual meeting on Wednesday at Aylesbury . Prizes to the amount of nearly 50 * . were distributed to deserving labourers by Mr . Disraeli , who at the dinner which ensued made a speech congratulating the Association on the benefits it had effected , and defending the giving away of prizes from the charges that had been , brought against it .

      The Case of Nathaniel Wiluams has excited universal indignation in W OIceater > an ^ subscription for defraying the fine and costs , and for . presenting the poor man with , some small sum in compensation for his ia ~ juries , has been opened , and received contributions from the Mayor downwards to the humblest . The chairman of the bench of magistrates who convicted Williams is the clergyman of the parish ,. rthe Rev . John Pearson . It is but right that his name « hould be known . - - < ¦ ¦ •; Woriohousk CR 0 KLTr .-rr-Sdme ' children" far the Newcastle-on-Tyne Union were recently afflicted with the

      itch . They were , placed in a room which was only four feet by twelve , and was within a larger one . ; twenty were placed in a bath without changing the water ; the sick and healthy were bathed together ; and they were often loclfeed in the room without wiater or any conveniences for the necessities of nature . An inquiry has . been made , the ' result of which ; is that the master and matron of the workhouse have resigned , on the alleged ground of old age ; the warden has been dismissed , and the surgeon was informed that his conduct' had been highly reprehensible . The chairman , however , and several guardians dissented from the latter expression of

      opinion . - The Weather and the Wab .-M . Le Maout , _ tho chemist who has acquired some celebrity at' St . Brieuc ( C 6 tes-du-Nord ) , his residence , for his observations of tho barometer , as affected by a distant cannonade , states in the JPublicateur de St . Brieuc that he announced the cannonade and the assault of Sebastopol from the changes effected in the mercury . He adds that it takes an hour and forty minutes to receive the impression of the guns of Sebastopol on barometers in France .

      How to Procure Railway Accidents . —A correspondent of the Times— "A Commercial Traveller "—colls attention-to the dangerous practice of " treating" railway officials to drink in the refreshment-rooms at the stations . He says : — " Only the other day , at a certain station , I had occasion to talk to several guards and porters , and found almost every one of them to smell strongly of the bottle . Travelling by a night train lately , I observed several gentlemen tr 6 at ? the guard to drink . This very day , I have counted nearly a dozen railway servants ia a refreshment-room , all drinking . I would not'attribute

      any of tho late accidents to this cause—though , certainly ,. Buspicion is justifiable—but the custom'fs really getting so common , and the possible , nay , probable consequences so awful , as to demand the attention of railway companies , or , still better , of the Government , to consider wh . oth . er , notwithstanding tho inconvenience to the public , it would not bo advisable to prohibit the sale of spirits at tho railway stations . Fancy dn engine-driver or a pointsman drunk . " Surely , by ' a proper supervision of tho higher authorities , tho evil could be prevented without imposing such a restriction' as" that proposed on the comforts of travellers . ( ¦ "

      Colliery AcommNTJ- ^ Three moh have" been killed in tho Caprington Colliery ; Ayr , by rin Iriroud of water , which mud © its way tlirPugli the Uotid coal , ' tearing an aperture of fi'oin fivb to flix ftfot-Wide . ' ' . Acoidkntal HoMion > E jit 1 ' Miti' OrhSswiok . —Tho actor arid lessee of th'o SUrrdy'ThWaWe , ' Mr . Croawicfc , was ' Bhboting in a field nettr 'Reigatri'bn Friday week . ' in oompany with Mr . ShiepHer ' d i al ' pUWicajilJ ' ahd the brother

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1855, page 932, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2108/page/8/