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DEATH 0F LORD TEURO. This-eminent lawyer...
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BOILER EXPLOSION ENT BATCLIFF HIGHWAY. A...
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T2UE MANCHESTER OPERATIVESThe self-actin...
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The Case Of »R. Fbanck And His Son. T,I....
the * ve » ing of the catastrophe :, the father arid son -irad beenv in coinpany , a t' ttoeir own bouse , with Dr . Itiige , a fellow-couhtrynian . They Had been playing chess ; theirconversation , had been tranquil : V 'there was no qaariel betweeiJ tiem ; and , although the doctor had always regretted his son ' s desire , to go to sea , he had lately consented to it . After retiring to rest , it would seem that the son had been reading one of Sir Bulwer Lyttort ' s novels till he fell asleep ; and every circumstance indicated placidity of mind on the part both of parent and child . Mr . Reeve adds : ^~
"We learn from Dr . Carter ' s evidence that , on entering the bed-room , ' the deceased son was found lying on his back on the bed—his face livid , and a silk scarf ( or rather black-silk handkerchief ) very firmly knotted in bows , but not very tightly fixed , round his neck . ' Two fingers could be introduced between the neck and the handkerchief , which was not tied in a running knot , but in a bow , and the witness added , as a surgeon , 'that it was so lightly tied that he did not believe the stricture so caused could produce death . ' It is evident that nobody intending to take away life would merely knot a silk cravat in a bow lightly round the neck , lior , indeed , is it easy to conceive how strangulation could so be produced , either by the hand of the deceased , or by that
jit another person . The suggestion I submit to- the .. consideration of persons qualified to pronounce on sueh subjects is , whether it be not possible that , supposing rthe , young man to have retired to rest with a silk Jbiandierchief thus strongly tied round his neck , the effect ofiuih = a ' stricture' round the throat might not have beea . to choke him while the body was recumbent , the head low , and the neck relaxed by the influence of sleep ? He probably slept ( as is not uncommon in Germany ) in the shirt he had worn daring the preceding day , and without taking off his cravat ; otherwise it must be imagined that the cravat was put on and tied in a bow while he was asleep . Had it been put round his neck for any sinister purpose it must have
presented a very different appearance . I apprehend that a degree of pressure Which would be innocuous to a man-- awake and erect might become dangerous , if not fatal , to a person spending a night in heavy sleep and under the gradual influence of this pressure ; for to use the -words of Dr . Carter , ' a slight pressure on the surface and veins , by retarding the How of venous blood from the brain and stopping the afflux of arterial blood to it , tvould have the effect of poisoning the brain with impure and carbonized blood . ' It is a common observation that , when any cause exists to surcharge the -vessels of the brain with venous blood , a very slighH pressiire on , tire throat may choke the patient ; arid the first measure taken in such case is to loosen the
cravat . " Dr . Forbes Winslow signifies his agreement ¦ with . Mr . Reeve , and thus sums up : — " I am inclined to believe , from an attentive consideration of the facts of the distressing and remarkable case under review , that Dr . Franck ' s son died a natural , but a sudden death , and that , if the body were exhumed and a post mortem examination instituted , such would be found to be the fact . The father , I think , destroyed himself while in a paroxysm of temporary delirium , frensy , or mental aberration , induced by the mental shock consequent upon , tae appalling discovery of his son ' s awfully sudden death . "
Dr . Winslow , however , grants the possibility of Dr . Pranck having killed his son " while under the influence of a nocturnal vision , or some horrid phantasy originating during a troubled dream ; , " And' he quotes some cases in point , of a very singular nature : — " A . person has been suddenly roused by a frightful dream , and while under ita influence has b « en known to takeaway human life . Suicide has been committed trader analogous circumstances . * A person , apparently well has gone to bed without manifesting the slightest tendency , to seU-desfcruction ; he has wakened sud-4 enH / and destroyed , himself . An old lady residing in '• -London awoke in the middle of the night , went down ^ Btairny and threw herself into a cistern of water , where - ¦ slier was found drowned . It ia supposed that the suicide
waa the result of certain mental impressions conjured top in the mind during a dream . . Dr , Pagan refers to the following interesting case to prove that murder muy bo committed by a perjon . when under tlie effects of u frightful vision ;—Bernard Schedmaizig suddenly awoke at . midnight . At the moment he saw a frightful phantom , or what hia imagination represented as such—a fearful epectre . lie twice called out , ' Who ib that ? ' and receiving no answer , ond imugining that the phantom was advancing upon him , and having , altogether lost hia eelf-posaeaaion , ho raised a hatohot which was besides him and attacked the spectre , and it was found , alas ! ^ Mrhb'had murdered his wife . A pedkr , who was in the'habit Of walking about the country armed with o tfffard stick , was awakened one evening while lying dtlvep on the high road by a man suddenly seizing him md ranking hiru by tho shoulders . The man , who waa INuVclntf' by with some companions , hiul done this
jocosely , The pedler suddenly roosed from his sleep , drew his sword and stabbed the man , who soon afterwards died from the effects of tnie wound . He was tried for manslaughter . His if responsibility was strongly urged by his counsel , on the ground that he could not have been conscious of his act in the halfwaking-state . He was , however , found guilty , and subjected to imprisonment . " Mr . J . K . O'Grady believes that the father slew his son under the influence of temporary
insanity . He suggests that the father , upon retiring to rest , may have lain brooding upon the hardships and premature death which possibly await his son on going to sea ( a thought perhaps encouraged and maintained in the mind by " the monotonous war of the billows as they wasted themselves upon the beach hard by "—it will be recollected that the tragedy occurred at Brighton ); and that from this condition of brain insanity may have arisen .
" The doctor is a learned man , a & d bis books have taught him how to take away the jewel 1 of life without injuring the casket . Madness has now possessionof the doctor ' s faculties , and renders him the more acute in obeying its murderous suggestions . Ib were but to constrict the veins * genbi-y press upon * the sleeper ' s neck . There is- contagion in the thought j- so—' done . He has destroyed his darling child ; - but the demon of insanity demands yet another victim * He rushes from the bodside , thrower himself headlong from the window , and the tragedv is complete . " to
Dr . Arnold R ^ ge written Times to say that it was the boy ' s constant habit t « x wear a handkerchief round his neck at night , on account of suffering from a relaxed throat . He adds that a post mortem examination has been mader and thafe all the symptoms are those of a pers © su who has died a natural death .
The Case Of »R. Fbanck And His Son. T,I....
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Death 0f Lord Teuro. This-Eminent Lawyer...
DEATH 0 F LORD TEURO . This-eminent lawyer expired on Sunday evening at his town residence ; in . Eaton-sqiiare in the seventy-fourth year of his age . Dropsy and disease of the heart , fronx which he had long suffered , were the causes of his decease . Thomas Wilde was of legal descent , being the son of arLondon attorney . He was- called to the bar in 1517 ; became Solicitor-General and a Knight in December , 1839 , Attorney-General in 184 L under the Whig Administration , and Chief Justice of the Commoa . Pleas in . 1846 ; received the Great Seal , suid was elevated to the Peerage in July , 1850 , bat only held that office till the fall of the Russall Administration in February , 1852 i The following summary of his public services appears in . the Times : —
He appointed . , a commission t <* inquire into the jurisdiction , pleading ,, and practice of the Court of Chancery . They , recommended , among other measures that the servicastof the-twelve masters should be dispensed with altogether ^ Lord Tr u ro bad great doubts on this point , but , after the question had . been discussed in Farlimaent , yiuldtd . and bills were pit pared according to the recommendation of the commissioners . JLord Truro quilted office before they could be carried ,, but he supported them in Parliament , and , they were passed . They bad tho effect of reducing by 20 , 0002 . the amount of fees of the Court , which before was 179 , 5010 / ., collected by ninety different officers , over none of whom was there any check . By another , act , somo offices in
Chancery were abolished , others consolidated ; the practice of receiving fees by officers for their own use was suppressed , and an effective pi n was . devised to keep a check on those still received lor tho maintenance of the Court , while the salaries of the Judges wore charged on the consolidated fund . The estimated saving to the suitors by thune measures is 60 , O 0 OZ . per annum . Another reform of Lord Truro was that which relieves the Lord Chancellor of some of his judicial labours by the appointment of the Court of Lords Justices . This enables the Chancellor to attend to his duties in the House of Lord" and his otlu-r functions as a member of the Administration , without interruption to
the business of Uie Court of ( Jhuncery . Another legal change we owe to Lord Truro ia the reform of the procedure in . the Courts of Common Law ; the Act by which it was effected having been prepared under hia direction . Wo believe the luBt-nnmed change has been fully appreciated by the public j but the Chancery reforms ' , folt only 1 ) y a emitll number , have not affected the mode of procedure , or mucli expedited the progress of suits—the incredible slownoss of thu Court being the great evil . The ; huve , therefore , not perhaps guined Lord Truro so much credit as the profession may consider he deserved . Certain it ia there ia much lclt to be done . " d
Boiler Explosion Ent Batcliff Highway. A...
BOILER EXPLOSION ENT BATCLIFF HIGHWAY . A tebrific boiler explosion occurred on Monday afternoon at the manufactory of Messrs . Hall and Boyd , sugar-refiners , St . GeorgeVstreet , better known as Ratcliff-highway , in consequence of which four persons have lost their lives , and several others have been injured . The boiler which exploded had been erected four months previously , and was constructed by Messrs . Millar , Ravenhill , and Co ., of Blackwall , with a view to comply with the Smoke Prevention Act . About sixteen of the workmen—all , with one exception , Germans—had just returned from dinner , when a tremendous motion was observed in the roof of the furnace , followed by two violefft explosions in rapid succession . The plates of the boiler w « re ripped up like so much paper ; the bricks in which it was encased were torn into large fragments , and hurled several yards , many of them ascending to the roof , and breaking the tiles ; and the whole building was filled with scalding steam and dust . The greater number of the workmen employed at the place ( amounting to about one hundred and seventy ) were employed at the time in the lower part of . the manufactory ; and these escaped on hearing the explosion . As soon as the hot steam had cleared away a little , Inspector & unn , accompanied by several policemen and assistants , entered tie building . Seven persons were found struggling in the ruins , and the steam had scalded them so dreadfully that in some cases the flesh of the poor fellows came off ia the attempt to pull them out of the debris . One of these men died in the arms of a policeman while being conveyed to the hospital- ; another expired immediately after entering the hospital , and two more died in the course of a very few hours . After removing the sufferers , a careful examination was made of the premises , when it was discovered that the whole boiler , some tons in weight , had-been lifted out of its bed , and forced eight or tea yards in the direction of the opposite boiler , its progress only being arrested by a large heap of coals , which were ground almost to powder by the foree of the blow . The whole of the end of the boiler was ripped up , and in some places the iron plates had been reduced to shreds ,- while a piece weighing at least , two hundred weight had been completely blown , off" by the violence of the explosion ,. The remains of tb , e boiler were surrounded by a heap of bricks itnd dust , mixed up with pieces of iron , the copper coating , and portions of the pipes ; but , from the fact of the principal damage being at the end ,, the great connecting steam , pipe was untouched-
T2ue Manchester Operativesthe Self-Actin...
T 2 UE MANCHESTER OPERATIVESThe self-acting winders and piecers in the cotton factories at Manchester have given notice to the public that their employers are contemplating a reduction of wages at the present time , " when the price of the necessaries of life are exceedingly high , " equal to 10 . or 12 per cent . They go on to say : —" Before ,, however , any proposition of a reduction can l ) e entertained , it is sight not only that the workpeople , but ihe public , should be satisfied of its necessity , and that it would be a remedy for the evil complained of .. Tho facts of tlie case appear to ua to be these , — that the price of tho raw material is high , and the demand for goods and yarns may not be such as to
yield the usual pronrs , when tlie present stute of the money-market is considered , but that a reduction of wages is a remedy for these evils we moat emphatically deny . If the cotton ie dear , let the consumption be diminished . If the cotton trude is not remunerative , the evil to be remedied is over-production , tho remedy for which muy be expressed in . two short words—short . time . Let the musters adopt this obviously prudent course , and we will go with them ; but we never can consent to advise our fellow-workmen to listen to any reduction of their hard earnings , inasmuch as it would only aggravate tho evil which it professes to remedy . " An address from the operatives to their employers 1
contains the followingpassages ; — " You have thought proper to yivo us notice ox a reduction in our wuges . Before that notice expires wo bog respectfully to suggest tlio expediency of adopting another course , viz ., a temporary reduction in the » nj e of working , say from sixty to forty hour * in tho vvcoK . Wo aro fully aware that your truilo has , general ? , been unprofitable during tho uroseul year , and aro » iuiw willing to joiu you in any ineusure that may bo calculated to alter this state of things , but wo subn ut that a reduction of wages is not ano of them . 11 It is remarkable that while you propose to relievo youraelvesby a reduction of yvuges , which , however iw-
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 17, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17111855/page/6/
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