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o ' clock , she left home with him to go for a walk . After going through Hulme , Be took her along the canal-side " towards Stretford ' . After going some distaste' along the canal-side , she wished to return home , but he said she would never turn back any more , for tie intended to drown her . He got hold ! of hei round the waist , and tried to put her into tlie canal ,- but ; sne clung to" his neck handkerchief with one hand , and to his body with the other , and struggled wifft aim . She said , where she went he should go- but he said he could swim , and did not care if he did go into the water with her . She struggled with him a long time . He had her down on
the ground many tunes to loosen her hold , and she prayed him to have mercy on her . She asked him to have mercy for her mother ' s sake whose only child she was . She said , ' Oh , Edward , what have I done that you will not spare my life ? ' She said many more things . She said , ' Somebody ' s curse must have come over you . ' She told him she would not care so much if she had been in a club so as to have the means of being decently buried , and that in taking her life he would be taking two lives , for her mother had no other child , and she would not survive . " At length , two boatmen came up and rescued her . The motive for the attempt was jealousy . The prisoner was committed for trial at the
. Joseph Parmenthr , the police sergeant on the Great Northern Railway recently accused of stealing a portmanteau , has been acquitted at the Middlesex Sessions . MtntDER and Suicide . —A woman living near Canterbury , murdered her child by hanging , and afterwards hung herself , a few days since , owing to sheer poverty . Her husband died a little more than a year ago ; and , about six weeks since , the parish stopped an allowance of 2 s . a week which they had previously made . She
then sold almost everything she possessed ; and at length , being reduced to utter want , became desponding and incoherent . A third rope was found , evidently intended for her other child , a little girl , who escaped and gave the alarm . Each , of the ropes had attached a slip of cotton velvet , which it would seem the poor creature had placed there for the purpose of mitigating the sufferings of her children . An inquest was held , at which the jury , who expressed themselves strongly against the parish authorities , returned a verdict of " Mental derangement . "
Wife Killing . —A woman has been killed at Manchester by her husband , who , while drunk , beat her with a poker . She lingered for a short time in the workhouse , where she gave premature birth to her child , and then died . The man , Hayes , has given himself up to the police . Wtt . lt am Harrington , the militiaman charged with causing the death of a potman , has been sentenced to hard labour for four months , the jury having recommended him to mercy on the ground of the provocation he had received . More Militia Brutality . —Two miliatiamen have been convicted at the Central Criminal Court of committing a rape upon a girl at Kensal New Town .
Layton Edward Hopper , the man charged with setting fire to the steam battery in Mr . Russell ' s yard , has been again remanded . His legal advisers say that they can prove the most complete alibi .
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MISCELLANEOUS . Shocking Murder , —The Dudley Advertiser reports a dreadful occurrence , which took place at Kale ' s-hill , near Dudley , on Saturday morning . A young man , named Meadows , had been paying court to a young woman named Mason , but , becoming jealous , he determined that she should die . He borrowed a carbine , and , having loaded it , proceeded to the public-house where the girl lived as a servarit . He called for something to drink , and , watching his opportunity , ho shot her . The principal portion of the charge lodged directly under the left ear . She only lived a few minutes after . The murderer made no attempt to eflcapo . Ho said " Revenge is sweet j I have had mine , and the law must take its own . " Turc Russian Prisoners at Lewes . —Twenty-five of tho ringleaders in the recent outbreak at the War Prison were sent off to tho Devonshire prison-ship , at Sheorncss , on _ Friday week . Tho remainder exhibit tho greatest contrition for their misconduct , as a punishment for which only one-half of them were allowed out of their wards at one time until Thursday week , and no visitors are now allowed to see them ; consequently , their toy trade is at an end . Tho real cause of tho outbreak was that tho eighteen j'ounkcrs ( gentlemen who are obliged to servo as non-commissioned officers before obtaining commissions } were allowed 3 d . a-day ench for looking after the men , and seeing that they kept their wards clean ; and the men demanded tho same remuneration for pumping water for thoir own uso . Thin tho Government denied them ; and they refused to go to tho pumps , and oven attacked tho prison guard with knives , causing groat consternation , until a detachment of militia restored order . Two of the prisoners have lately died—one of pulmonary consumption , tho other of erysipelas . " Tiik Great Kknnkoy Ca « io . "—Mr . Kennedy , lato of tho Woods and Forests , whoso unna was recently before Parliament , has published in tho daily papers a document , from which it appoara that sonio sympathising friend has bestowed upon him an annuity of 1200 / .
AcdiDftsrr at th * CJcupefK' -Twm StfXMcW . — -A porter oh tire XondoW sttd iftMrth ^ WeWtem Hfta fcddS' been crashed td death by beittg wedged bfttweto the buffers of Some approaching trucks afld another truck in front . BAiTQtJEtf J & thbJ Mansion Hotjs «*~ -The Lord Mayor on Wednesday gave an entetfainmeirt in the Egyptian Hal ! of the- Mansion Hoti ^ e ; to thfr Ministers . The speakers * were —The lord Mayor ; Lord Harding ^ Sir Charles Wdod , Baroff Cetto ( on behalf of the Foreign Ministers ) , Lord Pahnerstori , the Dttke of Argyll , Lord John Russell , and Lord Clarendon . The speeches were * of the complimentary and washy character commott to suc & occasions-.
The OverIuAnd Indian Mail . —By extraordinary express the public has been placed in possession of dates from Calcutta to April 10 , and from Bombay to April 17 , Some sharp fighting has taken place around Peshawar . A field force , under Colonel Craigie , attacked , on the 9 th of March , the hillmen stationed about nine miles from Mnsha Khail ; and , having slain nineteen of the insurrectionists , and burnt some villages and stacks of wood , retreated with a loss of nine sepoys killed , and twenty-seven wounded . On the 24 th of March , the Momunds came down in force from the hills in front of Mutta , and attacked the
garrison of Abuzai . An action ensued , which lasted several hours ; but the Momtfnds were beaten . On the 30 th of March , a treaty of friendship and alliance with the Cabnl government was signed by Sirdar Gholam HaiduT Khan , on the part of Ameer Dost Mahomed Khan , and by Mr . John Lawrence on the part of Lord Dalhousie . — There have been some disturbances of late on the Burmese frontier . The state of Lord Dalhousie ' s health is still unsatisfactory , though it has improved : he remains at the Nielgherries . Trade is depressed , and money is tight and scarce in all quarters .
Testimonial to Lord Dudley Stuart . —The committee appointed for this object have determined that " the funds shall be applied in establishing an independent charitable institution , if sufficient for that purpose ; but , if insufficient , the committee shall again deliberate respecting their application . "
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Leader Office , Saturday , May 19 . HOUSE OF LORDS . THE PEACE MOTION . Earl Gret postponed the motion of which he had given notice for Monday , with reference to the negotiations for . peace , till Friday next .
ARMT REFORM . Lord Panmure rose to bring forward his statement on Army Reform . He commenced by alluding in suitable terms to the distribution of the Crimean medals that day . The changes which he proposed did not require legislative sanction , but he thought it his duty to lay them before Parliament . He did not mean , in dealing with the departments in which changes were to be made , to cast any imputation on the officers connected with them , but only to deal with the system . While he was Secretary at War he found great delays and inconvenience arose from the system at the Ordnance—a system which
committees and commissions had long advised should be altered , but no Government had yet attempted it . It was said that this , a period of war , was not the proper time for changes in the government of the army ; but he did not agree in that opinion , but ho thought that in time of war everything should be done to give efficiency to the military departments . It was proposed in the first place to abolish the Master-General and Board of Ordnance altogetherthe offlees in which were held by letters patent from the Crown , and when those letters patent were revoked they would cease ; and all that the Legislature would bo nsked to do was to enable tho Secretary
for War to hold certain lands belonging to tho Ordnance . That department had control over matters civil and military . The military department comprised the command of tho Royal Artillery and Engineers , which it was proposed to transfer to tho Com . mander-in-Chief , those corps being adjutantgenerals' departments , which could act as at present , under tho Commander-in-Chief . With regard to the civil department , which now consisted of the Master-General , who though not a member of the Board of
Ordnance , was supremo in everything except in Finance , thoLleutenant-Gcneral , Surveyor- General , Clerk , nnd storekeeper formed the Board . When tho Board was abolished , tho Secretary for War would he supreme and responsible for tho whole department of tho Army and Ordnance , and ho was to havo under him a Chief Civil Officer , who could receive all orders with respect to tho civil administration of tho Army from the Secretary of State . That officer wan to bo a member of tho House of Commons , and ho was to movo all tho Estimates of the Army , Ordnance , and
CdtnmishWBria * in or * ' Estimate . It would bo his dirty HO seer the ordeWf of the Secretary for War ia alt braiittlies of ? fee- Artny , a daily record of which wS 0 t <> be kepfy *» a # «« once to be able to see where the fault lie * * 4 fetf tfcey were not carried out . The Insjpeetw- 'GteHetttt of Ftfritfteations would be retained aa wotrfd ? biE » « h # Birecfar-CJeneral of Artillery , with whom W < yaW be tfsfeocfewed a Director of Naval ArtUfeny-i ^ fcH-of' # hon * wou * d be members of what waa now cabled thff Scientific Committee , The SuperiHtettdettt ) of Stores , arifcnow existed , was entirely a civil office , ancftfie department ought to be conducted nttore on commercial principles than it now was . The duties of the office of Superintendent of
Contracts had not hitherto obtained the confidence of the commercial world . The rethedy seemed to him to establish a department having the control of all the contracts of theArmy and Ofdnance , and he proposed to place at the head of it a man who he thought would be pronounced to be the right man in the right place . With respect to the clothing of the army , which required a proper administration , he proposed to have a superintendent of clothing , and to do away with the board of general officers , which now regulated the uniforms of the army . All the
departments relating to manufacture would b & under civil control , while they would remain at Woolwich or Enfield as before , although the officers charged with the details would be officers of artillery . The noble lord went into further minutire of the proposed changes , which were purely matters of detail . He then recapitulated his plan , which , in its main features , was the concentration of all the military departments under the Secretary of War , assisted by an under-secretary and another officer in the House of Commons , who would have charge of the civil departments of the Army , Ordnance , and
Commissariat . The Earl of Eixenborough doubted whether , under the proposed system , the Secretary of State for War would be really responsible for the working of the department . If he were to be so he never could discharge the duties which devolved upon him ; but if the responsibility were to be merely nominal , things would be no better under the new system than under the present . Earl GREy thought the proposed alterations ought to have been brought before the House in the form of a resolution .
After some conversation , Lord Panmure said that he was still open to receive suggestions for further alterations . The House adjourned at a quarter-past seven .
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HOUSE OF COMMONS . At the sitting several questions were asked , among which were the following : — THE FOREIGN LEGION . In answer to Mr . Ewart , Mr . F . Peel said that between 3000 and 4000 men had been enlisted for the Foreign Legion , arid that the success in recruiting had been such that 5000 men would be engaged in addition to the 10 , 000 originally proposed . ORDER OP MEKIT . In answer to Lord Elcho , Lord Palmf . uston said that the institution of an order of merit had been delayed till reports of the practice on the Continent in similar orders had been received .
THE EARL OF DUNDONALli ' S PLAN . M . F . French complained that tho commission to which the plan of the Earl of Dundonald for the destruction of Sebastopol had been referred hnd not met . Lord Dundonald was prepared to destroy every port in tho Baltic for less than aoo , i > 00 / . When could Lord Dundonald get an explicit «»«*«' Lord Palmkkston said that the diflieultios ot tnc plan seemed to increase the more they were considered , and he was not prepared now to give an
answer . MR . LAYARO AND CAPTAIN CHRISTIE . Mr . Fergus called attention to certain alleged mis-statements made by Mr . Layard with rcgam to tho ago and services of tho late Captain Christie , who he ( Mr . Fergus ) declared wns , «« r ring tho time he was in office at Ualukl . nn in a vigorous ' state of health , and who 1 u » nothing to do with tho internal arrangements oi imharbour . Such statements might hi we been »><« < T tently ma < lo , but it was only just that the person w no made them should retract them on their boins siio { to bo incorrect . IIo nuked Mr . Layard li ho l > vi received letters from the relatives of Captain C , ln ^ contradicting his statements , and whether He iuui
plied to them . f m (> r Mr . Latard inquired if tho scone of a loim l evening wns to be repeated , and deprecate I > i House being nmdo the arena of personal di « F » : ' lie then explained tho statements he had mnut w regard to Captain Christie , whom ho Imil «<¦« '" "'" £ while he was at Balaklava ; and both from his " " observation and from tho opinion of others , »< - <•««" to tho conclusion that that gentleman was unlit
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Leader (1850-1860), May 19, 1855, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19051855/page/10/
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