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630 JC ft t & £ * & £ t\ [Saturday,
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THE KNIFE. Three cages of stabbing in Lo...
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I-'IUKH AND A CO I 1) !•'. NTH. Three, s...
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FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION. As an engine was...
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MISCELLANEOUS. The official statement o£...
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Large numbers of Chinese have lately arr...
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From ...
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630 Jc Ft T & £ * & £ T\ [Saturday,
630 JC ft t & £ * & £ t \ [ Saturday ,
The Knife. Three Cages Of Stabbing In Lo...
THE KNIFE . Three cages of stabbing in London , and one in the the country , appear in the journals . Stabbing is a mean , cowardly , utterly unmanly atrocity . Something should be done , not to make our population feel less strongly , but to make them act more manfully . The metropolitan cases we single out as examples , are all against women . They are of the lowest kind which occur , and show a proportional moral depravity . Thomas Fletcher felt some kind of affection for the sister of Mary Ann Bragg , which was not returned . Fletcher , on the 19 th of June , saw Mrs . Bragg talking to a lodger , and immediately came up and requested a minute ' s private conversation . This being granted , they both went into the parlour . Fletcher exclaimed in an
angry tone : — " I have heard that your sister is coming home in six weeks , and you have not told me ; your husband has , but you have not . " At the same moment she caught sight of a large clasp-kife , which Fletcher held in his hand with the blade open , and attempted to move away , telling him not to be silly ; but before she could finish the sentence , he seized her firmly by the right shoulder ; and , while struggling with him to extricate herself from his grasp , he ran the knife into her left side under the armpit . Fletcher then ran away . Mrs . Bragg undressed herself , and the compression of her stays being removed , blood began to flow . The wound was very severe , and Mr . Bragg fortunately coming in , he conveyed her at once to the London Hospital , where she is still a patient . remarkabl
David Lamb , described as a " little man of y mild aspect , " stabbed two women on Wednesday week , his wife and her sister . On that day David , who was separated from his wife , thought proper to pay her a visit , and entering her apartments at Poplar , sat him down in a chair . Mrs . Lamb told the story of what followed before Mr . Inghara at the Thames Police Court . She told him several times to quit the room , which he refused to do , and she at length asked her sister and another woman , who were in the room , to assist her in putting him out . She took him by the shoulders and attempted to put him out , but she was unable to accomplish her object . As a last resource she took up the fire poker , and struck him twice on the hat . The hat did not fall off his head , and she then struck his hat a third time
with the poker and it fell off . She picked up the hat and put it outside the window , and asked her husband to go after it , with a view of getting rid of him , on which he caught hold of her , and , after a violent struggle , forced her on the side of the bed in the room , and threw her down upon it . He kept her down with one hand , and put the other hand in his pocket and took something out . She looked in his face and saw him change colour several times . Suspecting his intention , ghe . jjaught hold of the bedpost " , by a violent effort got up , and was running towards the door ; when her husband ( who she then saw for the first time had a knife andwith
in his hand ) caught hold of her by both arms , , terrible oaths and maledictions , swore he would murder her . She tried to get the knife out of his hand , and stooped down for that purpose , on which he made two attempts to stab her , and said he would run her through . He was making a third plunge at her , when hfr sister caught his hands and pinioned him . He threw them both off , made a desperate plunge , and cut her under the right ear with the knife . She was trying to get out of his reach when he darted upon her nnd drew the knife risrht across her throat . In a . moment she felt herself " all in a gore of blood , " which was gushing from the wounds in her neck . She became insensible , and had
been under the care of n medical man ever since . But if we may believe David Lamb , nnd there is evidence to back his statement , he was not without provocation . He said that he went into his wife ' s house quietly and found a man she was living with in the room , and told him to leave quietly , which he did . lie then told told his wife that he was willing to live with her and work for her , nnd he could not be content without her , on which she took up a poker and beat him cruelly with it . The landlady interfered and saved him from a great many blows . He refused to go out , and his wife took up a knife , and in the struggle she was cut with it . He would rather be dead than live without his wife .
The last case is briefly this : —Mr . Jeremiah Sullivan is obstinately bint on taking fiign ;\ l vengeance on Julia Sullivan , for an alleged infidelity to him . He is a drunken , brutal , swearing fellow . Julia was living separated from him , i ' w Ferdinand-place , llampstead-road , and to her lodgings came Jeremiah with intent to induce her to live with him again . She refused ; but by coaxing nnd force ho got her and Hridget Bryan into the street , where , his passion having made him athirst , the party went to have a pot of beer . When they cleared out of the publichouse , Jeremiah suddenly made an upward blow nt Julia , who exclaimed to Budget Bryan " Oh , 1 am stabbed : " drunken Jeremiah had thrust a clasp knife into the bottom of her abdomen . The wound was frightful to look upon . Of course Jereaiiiih was arrested , » ind . 1 uh . i taken to the hospital . The case ; < :: une before Mr . lhoughton , and J ereiniah was remanded .
Two young men , named Muir and Anderson , were quarrelling in a house in ( Ji > il > iiln , Glasgow . They begun to wrestle . Muir , in the seiiiHe , neeniH to have grasped his opponent l > y the neckerchief , when Anderson , to free himself , it ia thought , drew a clasp knife , and stubbed I he other in the right hreint , the blade penetrating to the depth of more tit ;> it an inch in an oblique , direction . The poor li How sank back , the blood gushing out of the wound . On net ing tlie consequences of his rashness , Anderson , ( supposing that he had killed his companion , attempted to draw the blade across bin own throat , but was frustrated by a woman who observed his movements ' and arrested his hand .
I-'Iukh And A Co I 1) !•'. Nth. Three, S...
I- 'IUKH AND A CO I 1 ) !•' . NTH . Three , separate fircH , one niter another , broke out in the house of Mr . Woodn , of Burnabury-rond , on Sunday
night . He has brought a charge of arson against his servant . A wherry containing five young men was capsized on the Thames , by a steamer , last Sunday ; but the whole were saved . All at once two boys , who had been watching the rescue , fell off the edge of the sewer leading to Fleet-ditch , and were drowned . Whilst a workman was painting a large brick and timber building on Monday , in Rpupell-street , Lambeth , and which is used for a stabling and provender stores , he experienced a strange sensation , similar to a vibration of the earth . At once suspecting that the building was about to fall , he ran down the ladder , and had just time to remove the children who were playing under the wall ,
when the whole building fell with a fearful crash . Had it not been for the activity displayed by the painter , it is quite probable that most of the children would have been buried amidst the rubbish . As it was , about fourteen cows that were on the lower floor were buried under the debris ; but a number of men having been set to work they soon succeeded in rescuing the affrighted animals some of them being much cut and bruised by the fallen materials , but none were killed . On Tuesday morning a similar erection , but in a more distant partof the yard , also fell , but fortunately was not attended with more disastrous results than the first occurrence . The sinking of one of the end walls , it is presumed , caused both
buildings to settle , and hence the cause of the mischief . A flood of water on Tuesday invaded the streets around Westminster Abbey . It poured in steadily for more than an hour , the areas * courts , and basements of the buildings were quickly flooded , and laid several feet under water . The police-station and barracks in Gardener'slane were quite swamped , the men driven out of the mess-room , and the fires put out . This sudden visitation was occasioned by the waters of the Thames forcing the flood-gates of the recently constructed great Westminster sewer , up which it ascended , penetrating the houses on each side . Considerably difficulty was experienced in getting rid of the water ; in some instances engines had to be got to pump it out .
In the fire which recently took place at Charix , department of the Ain , by which a great number of houses were destroyed , the damage amounted to 69 , 000 f . ; and , in addition to the two aged females who it is known wera burnt to death , the remains of an old woman have been dug out of the ruins . Several other fires have lately taken place . At Innimont , near Belley , in the same department , the fire , fanned by a strong wind , spread with extraordinary rapidity , and destroyed twenty-seven houses , thirty barns , thirty-two stables , and one shed . Another fire broke out near the bridge of La Guillotiere , at Lyons , which destroyed fp » r houses , a great quantity of hay , the stables of an omnibus establishment , and four horses . At Chambery , a few days ago , eight houses were destroyed by fire , and a number of persons perished in the flames ; eight bodies were within a few hours after discovered in the ruins . Four persons were so much injured that they had to be taken to the hospital .
Fatal Boiler Explosion. As An Engine Was...
FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION . As an engine was backing in to take away a goods train , at the Liverpool station , on Thursday , the boiler burst with a thundering report , pitching the driver to a great distance , tossing the stoker on to the top of a roof with force sufficient to send his body through into the space between the roof and the ceiling , bruising policemen , breaking goods waggons , and depositing its shattered self and appurtenances on the other side of a wall close by . The stoker is reported as dead , and the driver ia not expected to live . It is believed that the catastrophe waa occasioned by the sticking of the valve , which threw a heavier pressure on the boiler than it was capable of bearing .
Miscellaneous. The Official Statement O£...
MISCELLANEOUS . The official statement o £ ~ the poll at the Greenwich election gives Mr . Alderman Salomons a majority of 887 over Mr . Alderman Wire . A coroner ' s inquiry has been made into the recent great fire ; but as yet no verdict has been given . The Solicitor , Huggins , charged with arson , whose case we mentioned some time ago , was fully committed for trial on Monday . Eliza Smith , who preferred a charge of criminal assault against the master of Si . Pancras workhouse , died on Saturday last . The board of directors resolved that the coroner should be requested to hold an inquest oa the body . The inquest was held on Thursday , and the jury were of opinion that Eliza Smith died of consumption . A hearty meeting was held at the Lectureyhall , Viiuxhall-ioad , Wcstminter , for the purpose of forming a People ' s Institute , the main feature of which should be secular education .
The last exhibition for the present Benson of ( he plants , flowers , and fruits exhibited for the prizes awarded by the Botanical Society , took place in the grounds in the Regent ' s purk , on Wednesday . At the midsummer examinations of the Institute of Actuaries of Great Britain and Ireland—Kxaminers : David Jones , Esq ., Universal Life-office ; Arthur Seratchlcy , M . A ., Western Life-office—the following candidate * * have passed for their certificates of qualification as Actuaries ( names being arranged alphabetically ) : —E . Cheshire , Institute of Actuaries ; C . Child , Alliance Assurance-office ; A . Colvin , United Mutu il A « suianc ( v » ifiice ; J . Meikle , Scottish Provident Assunincc-officc : 11 . Thomson , Northern Assurance-office .
There is now in the United Service Museum a pistol , supposed to be 200 years old , which , with the exception of the lock , is constructed upon the name principle as the weuponti exhibited by Mr . Colt , iih will be perceived by the following description , extracted from the valuable catalogue , of the institution , published in l'M /> : — " ll (> 0 . A ( Snnphaunco self loading pttrontl , probably
so y , they provided hours such admirable entertainments and means of instruction as this institute affords . The lecturer discoursed to an intelligent and apparently highly delighted audience , on the spirit and meaning of the old balladso full of narrative , pathetic incident , and dramatic power—passing on to the time when the opera opened a more extended field for the talent of those who could make music the exponent of the passions , feelings , and events of human life He contended the modern song might still be made attractive , and have a beneficent influence , whenever the writer clothes some gentle thought or passing fancy in poetic numbers , and the composer makes them enduring by allying them to melody . Several of this class were sung , in a very pleasing manner , by
toil lustil should have for their leisure of the time of Charles I . The contrivance consists of a revolving cylinder , containing seven chambers , wit h touch-holes ; the action of lifting the cock causes the cylinder to revolve , and a fresh chamber is brought into connection with the barrel . Six of the seven chambers are always exposed to view , and the charges are put in without the need of a ramrod . " At the Mechanics' Institute , Gould-square , . Mr , Collet gave a lecture on Monday evening last , on Modern English Ballads , assisted in the musical illustrations by Miss S . Hincks . We could not help rejoicing in heart , as we found ourselves among the tall warehouses of Crutched-friars and the Minories , that so close to the doors of these places , where the men of the present dav
Miss Hincks , from the compositions of Barnett , Loder , C . Horn , & c . Mr . Collet sang Barry Cornwall ' s King Death ; " Campbell's " Last Man , " " Philip the Falconer , " and others , to illustrate the fact that the sterner thoughts and the humorous may alike find expression in modern song . For the miserable rhymsters who string stanzas together , to the utter discomfiture of . common sense and the rules of Grammar , Mr . Collet has no mercy . The recitation of some specimens of this sort of poetrj ' , perpetrated by the unlucky genius of Alfred Bunn , constituted the comic part of the evening ' s entertainment , and was exceedingly diverting . Miss Hincks sang the concluding song , " The Lost Heart" ( the fifth encore of the evening ) , which was heartily enjoyed by the auditors .
Large Numbers Of Chinese Have Lately Arr...
Large numbers of Chinese have lately arrived at San Francisco . The iron steam-boat Falkland has been wrecked within fifty miles of Kurrachee , on the Indus , on which river she was destined to ply . On the 13 th of May , the clipper Ariel was burnt off the mouths of the Hooghly , when cargo to the value of £ 100 , 000 was destroyed . The Buckinghamshire , Kurramany , Ardaseer , and Ariel , have all been burnt in these 6 eas within a period of two months , and all , save the Ardaseer , which is doubtful , have been destroyed by incendiaries , at a loss of little short of a quarter of a million pounds sterling .
The Washington correspondent of the New York Herald , writing relative to postal arrangements , mentions that , from the GUi of July next , there will be a regular exchange between the United States and the British provinces of New lirunswick , Cape Breton , Nova Scotia , and Newfoundland , at the same rates established for the United States and Canadian mails . The old Swiss coinage is to be replaced by an entirely new money . Circulars have been sent by the Federal Council to foreign Governments , announcing this change , in order that the holders of Swiss money may be warned . The Berlin post direction , contrary t > the assurances in a communication addressed some dnys back to the British legation , continues , and has declared that it must continue , the surcharge on English journals .
The expense incurred by the Bavarian Government in maintaining the Bavarian army on a war footing during the last three months of the year 1850 lias amounted to nearly three millions and a half of florins , the sum voted by the Parliament for the purpose being about two millions eight hundred thousand . The present strength of the Bavarian army is about 45 , 000 men . The Second Chamber of the States of Wurtemburg , on the ' 28 th ultimo , decided , by 48 votes to 38 , th . it the fundamental rights of the German people cannot , he repealed or modified except in a constitutional form . The Chamber al * o resolved unanimously that the resolution of the First Chamber , to the effect that the laws voted since the 29 th of May , 1849 , when that Chamber was dissolved , could be called in question , was unfounded .
Health Of London During The Week. (From ...
HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . ( From the Registrar-General ' s Iteport . ) In the week ending last Saturday the deaths registered in the metropolitan districts amounted to 1032 . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1811-50 the average number was 924 ; if , for the suke of better comparison , this average be raised in the ratio of increase of population ( which during the list 60 years was 1 ' 77 « S per cent , annually ) , it will become 101 ( 1 , an amount which difk'rs not materially from the number now returned . It . will he obscrtcd that there is an increase of more than ( 50 on Lhe week immediately preceding , when the deaths wero
90 S . But this excess is not the effect of increased mortality ; it is due to cmbos ivheic coroners have held inquests , in many of which , though they occurred at earlier dates , the registration had not been completed till l ' end of the quarter . The present return shows that tho mortality from diseases of the organs of respiration continues to exceed the usiinl amount , at thin period ; I ' d « atha in this c . I . ikh were 121 , while the corrected av < rag « is 98 . Phthisis was fatal to M . O persona , winch diflci « little from the estimated number . The births of 71 <> boys , and Till girls , in all M , ' 59 children , were reg istered last week . The average number iu nix coiie . spondinK weeks of 1845 < ) 0 wan 1123 .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 5, 1851, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_05071851/page/10/
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