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SIR CHARLES HOTHAM'S DILEMMA. By the las...
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FOREIGN LEGIONS IN THE UNITED STATES. Se...
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LIBEL.—THR " TIMES" AND THE SOUTH WESTER...
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THE PUBLIC HEALTH. (From the Registrar-G...
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MISCELLANEOUS. The Court.—Her Majesty lo...
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Lord Cardigan. — A numerous meeting of t...
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Our Civilisation.. Tins Week "Our Civili...
"' Jfm » tfHXTHi ^ -On Monday , an age * ' iSSrSSjr rt independent means , ™ found with ShwdtSttexed t o ^ eces . In the cettar , a chopper ; c ^ eied with blood and brains was lying neat sotne , ffof wood . Elsewhet ^^ he arrant giil was ^ nd with her throat cut .. She was not killed , tpwaver but said that two dustmen bad come m , done Aedeeds , and escaped . The neighbours saw nothing oTthem j and it is said that some of the ^ nibrtunate lady ' s rings were found on the girl . The London detectives have taken up the case , and a coroner s inquest has been held and adjourned . . A . PoUCEMAK STABBED BY A CABMAN . A dlSDttte occurred between a gentleman and a cabman as ^ to wWW the vehicle was engaged , A policeman
interfered , whereupon the cabman stabbed him twice in the face with a clasp "knife . Fortunately , the bone was struck , and the blade broke . The cabman was very drunk . He has been sent to trial . . Frailt y , tut name is Woman . —Two women had a auarrelabout a charitable ticket for obtaining bread . They became excited , and one of them seized a knife and stabbed the other " more than once" in the face . She was an " elderly -woman , and the ( possibly elderly and sympathetic ) magistrate " disposed" of the case by a fLne of 5 / ., or two months' imprisonment .
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Sir Charles Hotham's Dilemma. By The Las...
SIR CHARLES HOTHAM'S DILEMMA . By the last mail from Australia we hear of a curious state of things in this remarkably wide-awake colony . From the Times we learn the peculiar " fix . " in which Sir Charles Hotham is placed by his new Convict Bill , which proposed to establish commissioners at Launceston . Hobar ^ and other places , to grant certificates of good conduct and passports . to such men . Sir Charles seems to have forgotten that he was legislating out of his jurisdiction , and that the other Governments would thwart him in every possible way . " The Legislature of Van Diemen ' s land has taken the matter vp , and a bill has been introduced 'for the prevention of fraud by persons assuming to be commissioners for the issue of passports . ' By this bill SuvC . Hothain ' s commissioners are subjected upon conviction to imprisonment , with or without hard labour or solitary confinement , for one month for every offence . ' All persons assisting them are to be subject to a fine of 1001 . '?* Of course it cast great difficulty in Sir C . Hotham's ¦ way , and the gentlemen who surround him are not the people to aid him with wholesome advice . The expedient hit upon was this : —A member named Nicholson brought in a new bill , and it is supposed Sir Charles will allow his own bill to drop and accept the new one as the voice of the people .
" While all this was going on the Council of Van Diemen ' s Land was petitioning the Queen to convert all the conditional pardons into free pardons . Nicholson ' bill meets this , by extending the penalties of the former act to persons at large in Victoria who had before been convicted of any _ crime . _ This bill will pass by largeilnajoritiei ~~ at eVery ~ stage . Tt brings Sir Charles Hotham into conflict either with the Colonial-office or the people of Victoria ; but Van Diemen ' s Land will
throw its weight into the former scale . There is a good deal of speculation as to how Sir Charles will act . He is very close on the matter . If he accept Nicholson ' s bill , he embroils himself with the homo Government , backed by Van Diemen ' s Land ; if he reject the bill , he comes into conflict with his own colony . How will he decide ? His position is certainly one of considerable difficulty—a legacy left him by the Government of his predecessor , and one which may yet wreck his Administration . "
Foreign Legions In The United States. Se...
FOREIGN LEGIONS IN THE UNITED STATES . Seven military companies of Boston and vicinity , composed mainly of Irishmen , have surrendered their charters and been disbanded by Governor Gardener , the recently chosen Know-nothing Executive . The strong remarks of the Governor in opposition to organisations of foreigners , contained in his inaugural address , led the soldiery to adopt this step . Every attempt on the part of foreigners in that State to enrol themselves permanently in the militia has proved a failure , causing either an outbreak of popular disapprobation or the stinging rebuke of some public functionary .
Libel.—Thr " Times" And The South Wester...
LIBEL . —THR " TIMES" AND THE SOUTH WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY . Thd " leading journal" has been punished in the Court of Queen's Bench . Some time since , at a publio meeting of the Company , some dissension arose , and the characters of the Hon . Francis Scott , chairman , and also of the directors , were somewhat rudely assailed . ' The Times reported the case in a leading article , and in that form of publication , every accusation had the effect of coming from the journal rather than from the discontented shareholders . The Issue wns an action for libel—the result a verdict against the Times , in the person of tho printer , Mr . Harrison , and 300 / . damages .
Sir I-rederick Thesiger , in mitigation of punishment , said that , . " Their lordships , m considering the sentence , would recollect that a question of great public importance was involved . The piAlic press Aad clearly a nght ^ to < $ omment on the conduct of public men ; and if tfie article had kept within its proper limits , there could be no objection to it in point of law . This article was not ^ a mere fabrication , but was the reiteration of charges made at the public meetings of the company , on which the writer had expressed his opinion . K o person who read it could believe that malice lurked under the expressions doubtless said
used against these directors . It wonldbe that it was an aggravation of the offence that another article had been written , in which the accusations had not been retracted . All that the Times in that article said was , that it was sufficient to say that they had not brought these accusations on their own authority— -that the matter was one between the shareholders and the directors , on which they were incompetent to form an opinion—and that they regretted any expressions hastily written , unpalatable to Mr . Scott and his brother directors . Could a journalist be called upon to withdraw a charge not emanating from himself , and to apologise for accusations preferred by others ?"
Mr . Justice Coleridge , with the entire Bench , differed from this view . He said : — " While it is of the greatest importance that the public press of the country should possess the power in the fullest , the freest , and even the severest sense , to discuss the conduct of public individuals , yet , on the other hand , no one , as the consequence of his becoming a public man , can be ' called upon to submit his private character to the censure of the public press . The course which has been taken to-dayl and not for the first time
by those whom you represent , is to deny that they ever intended to make any insinuation against the private honour of the prosecutors . I think it would have been more consistent in those who have made that defence today if they had taken a course which was open to them at an earlier period . It may be true that the writer of the article did not intend that it should affect the personal honour of the prosecutors , or was actuated by malice towards them . Everybody , however , on reading such an article , must consider , not what may 4 > e passing in the mind of the writer , but the effect on the public mind
of the language used , and when such articles are written by writers of great ability in the columns of a public journal , it is not too much to say that a rule such as that to which I have alluded must be applied with some degree of strictness . It is also to be observed that where the language used may not _ impute in categorical terms any direct charge , yet it is easy to insinuate a charge indirectly so as to make it tell with greater bitterness , and that I find to be the case in one or two passages of this article . ( Here the learned judge read some pas- \
sages . ) We have now to consider what sentence we are to pass . All concur in representing you as a most respectable man ; it is admitted that you are not the writer of the article . Such a consideration as that could not weigh in the determination of the punishment , but it-may-influence-the-kind-ofpunishment , ; -and- therefore the sentence of the court is that you pay a fine into her Majesty ' s Treasury of 800 / ., and that until that fine be paid you be imprisoned , in the first class for misdemeanants , in the Queen ' s Prison . " The fine was immediately paid , and the defendant left ; the court . ; .
The Public Health. (From The Registrar-G...
THE PUBLIC HEALTH . ( From the Registrar-General ' s Report . ) The present return- shows that the high mortality announced in recent reports -has undergone a further
increase . In the first three weeks of the current month the deaths registered in London were 1404 , 1466 , and 1649 ; in the last week they rose to 1630 . Of males , whose deaths are now returned , the number is 791 ; of females , 889 . In the four weeks that ended January 27 , the mean weekly temperature was 46 . 6 deg ., 89 . 8 deg ., 28 . 9 deg ., and ( last week ) 29 . 8 deg . In the corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 , tho average number of deaths was 1102 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 1212 . Hence it appears that there were recorded last week 418 deaths more than the rate of mortality that prevailed in tho fourth week of the last ten years would have produced .
Seven hundred and eleven persons under 20 years of age , 205 at that ngo and under 40 , 289 aged 40 years and under 60 , 847 who were 60 years old but under 80 , and 77 octogcrmrinns , died last week . If these numbers are compared with the numbers at the same ages in the previous week , it will bo seen that the increase is confined entirely to persons who had completed thoir fortieth year , the deaths of those in the earlier periods showing a decrease . 'Deaths arising from diseases of the organs pf respiration , increased from 886 to 427 in the last two week $ ; tho average of tho ton weeks corresponding to last week Is only 264 . Bronchitis , was fatal in 289 canes , pneumonia in 127 . Hooping-cough and influenza , which stand in the epidemic class , were fatal in 78 and 28 cases ; 174 persons sunk under phthisis . Scarlatina destroyed 75 lives , measles 48 .
A Metmcalit) Viser. Uxdbb The Unattracti...
A METMCAL ) . Uxdbb the unattractive title of " The Queen mrsum Cooksey" we have one of the most curious stories of modern times . The Court of Queen ' s Bench was the theatre . Sir P . Thesiger moved , on behalf of a widow lady , Mrs . Alice Payne , residing at Chipping Camden , Gloucestershire , fox a rule ( which was subsequently granted ) calling on John Afexander Cooksey , a medical gentleman residing at the same place , to show cause why a criminal information for libel should not be filed against him . The story is as follows : — . Mrs . Payne was a widow lady , who had for some time been suffering from uterine disease , for which she had been attended by a Dr . Thompson , of Stratford-on-Avon , and Mr . Cooksey , a surgeon , of Chipping Camden . It appeared that some scandal had arisen , which caused Mr . Edge , the clergyman of the parish , to write to the lady ' s brother , and also to the lady herself , advising her to abstain from coming to the holy table until the scandal was removed . The lady and her brother at once gave an indignant denial Of the truth of the scandal , and Dr . Thompson and Mr . Cooksey , on being applied to , gave certificates Which tended to rebut the charge . The . clergyman , however , was not satisfied with the certificate given by Mr . Cooksey , as it merely stated that he had attended Mrs . Payne for ' an enlargement of the uterus , ' and he required to be satisfied that the illness had nothing to do with gestation . At Mrs . Payne ' s request , Mr . Cooksey prepared a certificate in those terms , and then waked upon Mrs . Payne with it , and having exhibited it to her , he offered to give her the means of at once putting an end to the scandal but only on the terms , as Mrs . Payne deposed , of her yielding to the wishes which he ( Mr . Cooksey ) said he had long desired to gratify . This infamous proposal was at once rejected . Upon this Mr . Cooksey threatened that if Mrs . Payne would not yield to his wishes he would ibrthwith make an affidavit before a magistrate to the effect that she ( Mrs . Payne ) had miscarried . Finding that he could not succeed in his object , he went before a magistrate , and made the affidavit which he had threatened , and published the same libellous charge in a letter addressed to a Mr . Kennaway . The lady now came before the court for its protection , and in the most distinct terms denied that there was any ground whatever for the libellous imputation upon her honour , and she produced copies of several lettera written by Mr . Cooksey himself , while acting as her surgical attendant , in support of her denial .
, \ Varieties. I-Ords Palmerston And Abe...
VARIETIES . I-ORDS PALMERSTON AND ABERDEEN . Thk Times stated lately that Lord Palmerston was a year older than Lord Aberdeen . " Harroviensis , " writing to the Globe , says the contrary is the fact . Lord Aberdeen was born January 28 , 1784 , —Lord Palmerston , October 20 , in the same year . In September , 1796 , they were both at Harrow . Lord Palmerston ( then Mr . Temple ) was head of the 2 nd remove of the 4 th form . Lord Aberdeen ( then Lord Haddo ) was the 7 th boy of the 3 rd remove of the same form . THE OAI . IM . NT BGTJLEKS . Captain C . G . Butler , died at Bombay on the 18 th of December . He served during Sir C . Napier ' s campaign against the mountain and desert tribes situated on tho right bank of tho Indus , early in 1845 , with a detachment of 200 men . He was Commandant of the Military Sanitary Station at Poorundhur , and was brother of tho two Captains Butler , one of whom fell at Silistria , and the other at Inkerman .
Miscellaneous. The Court.—Her Majesty Lo...
MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —Her Majesty loft Windsor for Buckingham Palace on Wednesday , rnd again on Friday . On Thursday tho Marquis of L ^ msdowne had an audience by command . On Wednesday the Earl of Derby had an audience by command , and again at Windsor on Thursday . H . R . H . tho Duko of Cambridge visited hor Majesty on Wednesday . ^ His Highness tho Maharajah Duleep Singh took leave of her Majesty on Monday . Baron Von Usedom left Dover on Saturday for Brussolls . Cabinet Councils wore held on Saturday last , and on Wednesday .
Lord Cardigan. — A Numerous Meeting Of T...
Lord Cardigan . — A numerous meeting of tho tenantry of Lord Cardigan , residing in Leeds , met and agreed to an address of congratulation to his lordship on bis return from the Crimea , and admiration of his gallant conduct there . Chelsea Hospital—Military men say that General Sir Edward Blakoney will be permanently appointed to Chelsea Hospital Governorship , and if so , his loss will be severely felt in Ireland , especially in Dublin . —Limerick Chronicle . New Regimentals , —The new regimental tunic substituted by Her Majesty ' s warrant for the swallow-tailed coatee of the infantry is now being Issued to the brigade
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 3, 1855, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03021855/page/10/
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