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THE WORKING CLASSES. No improvement has ...
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A WIFE. The following story is not singu...
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GREAT FIRE.—DESTRUCTION OF A PRINTING OF...
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COhK v. WOOD. " Tun ropnvhiff of Mint. h...
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. CEIMINAL EECOED. The inquiry into the ...
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A Convict Pill Son. Now That " Penal Ser...
means of instruction ai"e afforded them , in the shapa of schools , a chaplain , and a ¦ well-chosen library . It may bo supposed , however , that the labour to which they have been put for twelve hours does not leave much mental energy for following intellectual pursuits . The food which they receive is on alow scale ; their breakfast consists of stirabout and milk ; their dinner also chiefly consists of liquids , on Sundays alone are they allowed to partake of a small morsel of animal food . It is ( says the correspondent of the Morning Chronicle ) the practice . at Portland and other places where convicts are employed in England , that an account is taken of the actual value of their labour ,
and that , after deducting the expense of their own maintenance , a small percentage is set apart for the convict , to be given to him when his period of servitude is expired , and he leaves the prison . Whether this be the case in England or not , there is no provision in the Act of Parliament for allowing any sum to the Irish convicts . They are , in the strictest sense of the word , slaves—with no will of their own—with no power to change their employment , and with no interest in the produce of their labour . They are reduced to that degrading condition by their own crime , it is true ; and it would not be well for society if they
were not made to ieel the full force both of the pain and the degradation of their condition ; but still it may be a question whether it would not be desirable to allow them a small portion of their own earnings , to be given to them in an accumulated form when they leave the prison . The knowledge that such a sum was accumulating for them , would prove one drop of sweetness—there are not many more—in the bitter cup they are called to drain , and the possession of it , when they step out of their prison into society again , would place them above the temptation of having immediate recourse to their old practices from sheer despair of any other mode of gaining their next meal .
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The Working Classes. No Improvement Has ...
THE WORKING CLASSES . No improvement has taken place in the aspect of the quarrel at Preston ; 2000 hands are still on strike , and serious as this state of things may be , it is probably but a foretaste of what is coming , for it is expected soon that the employers intend , in their turn , to take aggressive measures , and to turn off all hands and cease all work , till labour can be obtained on reasonable terms . On the other bnnd , au immense co-operation of the operatives seems to be organising in the neighbouring towns . At a monster mooting hold at Preston , on Saturday , one of the speakers , stating the result of a tour of sympathy lie hnd made , congratulated his hearers upon the fact , that the various districts he had visited had promised double or treble the amount they had yet contributed , if it should be required : —
He had addressed one of the largest meetings ever held in Staleybridge , and they pledged themselves , unconditionally , to support Preston , until this question was settled . Oldliam gave a similar pledge , intimating that they would remain at work for the sake of Preston , although they had not yet got their own wagcH advanced . Ashton and other towns expressed a like determination . Judging from the spirit evinced throughout the various districts , he thought that from 2000 / . to ' . WOOL a week could be obtained , if needed , to support the operatives of Preston . " Under these encoumgementH , the following resolution was proposed , seconded , and carried b y universal acclamation at this meeting : —
" That we , the power-loom weavers of Preston , do hereby pledge- ourselves never to resume labour until our employers comply with our just demands . " At Bury , our large mill , employing six or seven blind red bands , has been entirely brought to a standstill by a strike of the spinners for twopence extra per thousand hanks . No . similar demand lias been inado in the other firms of tlio town . At Manchester , after a twelve week ' s turn-out , neither masters nor workmen show any palpable si ^ ns of yielding . New bauds are
coining in , but very slowly . Other strikes have taken place amongst the tin-plnteworkers at Birmingham the colliers at Burnlcin , Staffordshire , nn < l the reelei-H and spinners nt Wig / in . The police of Birmingham haves also resolved , at ; i public meeting , to strike on . Friday , if their demand of « n advance of ' 2 a . a-weck bo not complied with . Tin .- strike of the journeymen shoemakers at Plymouth and Devonport luis terminated hy a general compliance of the masters with the demands of the men . An imineiiKo 'demonstration of
colliors ;» nd sailors took place at Shields on Monday . Tlieae two classes of nien aro co-operating with each other to raise tho rate of their respective wages , tlio colliers refusing to procure , and the sailors to convey , eoalu , till their demands ; ire complied with . Near . " $ <)(>(» persons paraded tho ntreets of Shields on the day in question . A still inure numerous meeting Avas held in the afternoon , on the nca-shoro , n , t which tlio tcrniH to bo insisted on for manning colliers were do imniiK-d on , mid several miners and sailors addressed the concourse , urging the necessity o £ fraternisation botween tho two classes . «
A Wife. The Following Story Is Not Singu...
A WIFE . The following story is not singular . Daily lessons teach us that it is but one case out of many . A Custom-house officer , named Mears , doing duty in the London Dock , on Wednesday night saw a woman on the swivel-bridge , leaning over the rails , ' with her head resting on her hand , and looking towards the water . She was crying , and appeared to be in great trouble . The officer , suspecting her intention , asked her what she was doing there ; but she refused to satisfy him , or give airy account of herself . She then moved awav . and about ten minutes afterwards
returned to the same spot , and resumed her former attitude . The Custom-house officer called the attention of a policeconstable to the woman , and he spoke to her . She went away , hnt soon returned again , and was in the act of getting over the rails of the bridge into the entrance-lock , which is there 2 i or 26 feet in depth , when a boy seized her dress , and held her suspended over the water until assistance was procured . If the woman had got in the water , as she was nearly doing , 100 men could not have got her out alive . When brought up before the magistrate ,
Mr . Jngham asked the woman what account sae had to give of herself ? Woman ( abstractedly , and with a vacant stare)—What is it , sir ? What is it ? Mr . Ingham—What have you to say for yourself ? The woman ( suddenly recollecting herself)—Last night , sir , I was at home with my four little children , with no food . I went out , scarcely knowing -what I did ; ' but I had no intention to throw myself over the bridge . ( Here she sobbed loudly . ) ; Mr . Ingham said he would remand the prisoner to the House of Detention for a week , and she would be properly taken care of . Inquiries must be made concerning her , and her means of obtaining a living . The prisoner—What is to become of my poor children ? Mr . Ingham—I will issue orders for them to be properly taken care of in the workhouse .
The prisoner implored of the magistrate , not to send her to . prison , and said she never had a key turned on her before . The mother of the prisoner hero stepped forward , and said sho lived in the same house with her daughter , who struggled bard to maintain four young children , and had a very bad father to them . Her daughter ' s husband was a very drunken , brutal man , who had been in the practice of healing his wife . ¦ Mr . Iirghnm—Then why did-she not come hero to complain of her husband ? -The doors of this court are always open to receive complaints Jrjni women who are maltreated by their husbands . The Mother—I don ' t know , sir ; but , indeed , I can assure you , iny daughter works very bard .
Mr . Inarhain—I think the best course will be to sond her to prison for a week , and sho will' have time to rellect ; and l ( -t the p ; rrish oiliccrs take care of-the children , and feed them . The Mother—Sho lias a shop of work ( slop-work , ) and will lose it if shcj is . sent to prison ; she works enjly anJ kte . Mr . Inghiim—Has she bad relief from tlio parish ? The Mother—Onen only . Mr . Ingham— - Has her husband struck her lately ? Tho Mother—Not within the last fortnight . Mr . Ingham—If lie strikes her npiin , como hero for a wni-miit . If you will take charge of hor , and protect her , I will let her go . Tho Mother—I will , sir . Mr . Ingbiun—Then take hor away with you . The poor and njiparently heart-broken woman left tho dock , crying loudly .
Great Fire.—Destruction Of A Printing Of...
GREAT FIRE . —DESTRUCTION OF A PRINTING OFFICE . On Friday morning , about half-past four o ' clock , a most serious fire- took placo on tho promises of Mchbi'h . Savill and Edwards , printers , Chandos-strcot , Strand . Tlio fuo broke - out in n room on tho neeoud floor , and raged unnoticed for Homo timo . Homo men wore at tho machinein tlio floor bonoath . and tlio noiflo of tlio working precluded thorn from hearing tho rush of tho flamOH . Tho neighbour - * hood wan noon arouso dby tlio torr ^ lio / spreading of thonmncH , and ton ongincn wore quickly on tlio spot . Tho flro chiefly made ; progroHH in tho conipoHitorH' rooniH ; tho inoltod load of tlio typeH poured together in ono mam of intciiHoly-hoiited liquid , and tho difllcultius of putting down tho flro Hooinod
almost , insurmountable-. A purty-wull divided tho front warehouse from tho rooniH whoro tho typo , winch , and machines ntood—and by Llio exertions of tho onginuH tho firo wan Ht . oppod , ' ho that tho warehouse roinaiiiH uninjured . Hut , tho machinery , profiHOH , and hack ooinpo . sing -rooniH woro oiitircly destroyed , and t'ovonil uliopti and hounun in ChandoH-Htroot woro injured . , Tho ox tent of tho Iohh in on ( , imatcd an hi tfh rvn JiUO . OOO . Tho mattur intended l ' or t , ho forthcoming numbor of tho Leader , tho J / Uerar // Oazelte , tlio Lancet , and other paporH printed in tho ollicii wan onUroly destroyed ; and U 00 molt h .-ivo boon thrown oul ; of employment ,. It i : i fiomowhal ; consolatory to noto that . Mchm-h . Navlll . imd Mdwardn woro inmirod , and that no Iohh of l | f 0 or mirioui ! bodily hurl ,, who received by any poi-son .
Cohk V. Wood. " Tun Ropnvhiff Of Mint. H...
COhK v . WOOD . " Tun ropnvhiff of Mint . hooUoii of Oxford-Htrwit lying bol , woi ; n ( MiarlcH-ntivol , Nobo-squaro and 'J ' ottoiiliain-court-roiwl , hint boon completed , and wii . h oponod on Monday hint , for t . ralllo . Tho workn jn pioffioitH ut , tho \ tp }> or portion of t . ho Htroot , boyond Jtogont-ntroofc , aro procoudiiitf , and tlio wotHt-pai'in ' u haii ulniudy boon roj > lacud by granit . o blocks , an far as II unovor-Knlofi ; and the lomainlng portion of Mm Htroot , tin far an Hond-iitusdt , ban boon olomid for tlio namo purpono . It , iN infondml 1 , 0 rophu ; ,, //„ . md by fbo HiibntlUifionof « mnll . o bloultH liotwoon tho pointrt mentioned , mid when it , is oomj > lol , ud , tho wholo of Oxfoid-iitroot , from ono end to t | 10
other , -will be entirely paved with stone of a substantial a durable character , instead of tho former Macadaminprt „ a ¦ wood-paving . " ~ and Such is the paragraph which has appeared in some of our contemporaries , and we have reason to know , from on p our own correspondents , that the information is correct Upon this we have to remark , that two years ago (" lath A * i 1851 , ) we took occasion to support Mi-. ' Colo in his end vours to get rid of the wood-paving , He was the only J ^" eon we know of who took upon himself trouble and e * pense in support of that object , and vre believe we were in advance in the same cause . It shows tlat both Mr . Cole and we were right , and that the substitution of stone for wood , is an acknowledment in our favour . ^
The experiment of paving our streets with wood was probably well-intentioned , but certainly it was ill-advised , it cannot bear the' traffic of the metropolis , nor the humidity of the climato ; and was a considerable source of loss to those who had the misfortune to traverse its riippery surface There is a piece remainuig in that terrene isthmus , known as Middle-row , Holbom , in which , upon an average , there are ten downfalls every wet day . But it is understood , and we trust faithfully , that the time is not far distant when the whole of the wood pavement , as the contracts run out , will disappear , and a verdict entered for the complainant in the heavy cause of Cole v . Wood .
. Ceiminal Eecoed. The Inquiry Into The ...
. CEIMINAL EECOED . The inquiry into the circumstances which occasioned the late fall of a house in the Strand , was resumed on Monday . The report of the surveyors was presented , in which they say : — " With reference to the question , ' Whether any means might have been resorted to which wouldhavehadthe effect of preventing the falling of the house in question ? ' weave of opinion that , provided the floors of No . 184 had been shored up on the west side of the party wall , to take off the downward px-essureand provided also additional shores had been -m
, j ^ t ^ - — — — n r w ^ _^ ^^ ^« ^ 4 placed under those fixed in tho east side to secure the ground and basement walls of the east party wall from pressing out , and that the wall had been underpinned to the depth of footings of the intended new building , the accident would not have happened . " After the conclusion of lengthened additional evidence , the jury retired , and returned , after an hour , with the following important verdict i—
"Wo find -unanimously that Robert Thompson , Sarah Thompson , Ccorgo Dunn , and Georgo Rowo , came to their respective deaths by the falling of the house , 18-1 , Strand , and that tho falling of such houso is to be attributed to tho gross negligence of Henry Robert Abraham , the survoyor to the Duko of Norfolk and to Messrs . Bmith , in not causing the party wall to bo sufficiently shored up and underpinned boforo tho excavations for tho new buildings wero
commonccd . " The coroner intimated that this involved a vordict of manslaughter against Mr . Abraham , and some confusion ensued , tho jury saying that they woro anxious that tho vordict should not amount to manslaughter against tho surveyor , but that at tho eamo timo thoy did not wish to have tho vordict altorod . Tho jury rotirod a socond timo , and on thoir rotum tho foreman said : —¦ " Wo all feel that there- has been gross noglgonco , and wo cannot retract it , although wo did not intend to impute
manslaughter to Mr . Abraham . " Tho coroner replied , " Then that amounts to a vordict of manslaughter agahiHt Mr . Honry Itobort Abraham . " Tho vvitnosaoH and police woro , thoroforo , bound over to prosoou o at tho next BOSHion of tho Central Criminal Court , and tho coronov iwmod bin warrant for tho approheiittiou of Abraham-Goorgo TyHon , tho conductor of a Cholflon omnibus , ww > charged at Westminster , on Saturday , with liohaving m ft Hcaiidaloun mannor to a lady piiHHongor . When tho lac y U ° out of fcho omnibus , having paid hor faro , «< 1 . extra wo «
domamlod by tho conductor for a bag « ho had with b"f , a" < when who romoimtratod , tho demand wan repeated in a i »< ° and ollbiiMivo manner . When at hint tho conductor h «< bulliod tho lady to givo him 2 < L , ho kicko < l llio luwkot into tho h 4 reot , ' ana , upplyinK to tho Wly a dlHguflOwflr ^^ « maliflod by nn equally dinguMfchig adjootivo , « tartod onmibuH and loft hot-. Tho wife of tho prlHonor hid ^«» called upon tho la . ly , and endeavoured to make tho n > a ^ up . Dofondiuit , however , " wan r . ot tho man ; tlio !•«»/ " ^ l ) o under a mlaUiko . " Tho maff intrato commlttod J » i »«
hard labour for a month , and revoked hid . A cam ) wan fcrturi at tho JIiunmorHinitli Court «>» lh ° " " ^ day , which oxomplifloH in a way which to llkoly t « X > ° *™ ^ to ovwylxxly , the pnwlnlonH of tho now act on t !« o " 'j ^" Dr . William Wood vvau chargod by an < iniiilbu » con < u
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 1, 1853, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01101853/page/10/
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