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THE KNIFE . Three cases 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 .
David Lamb , described as a " little man of remarkably 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 . Ingham 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 , she caught 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
in his hand ) caught hold of her by both arms , and , with terrible oaths and maledictions , swore he would murder her . She tried to pet 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 her 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 and drew the knife right 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 a medical man ever since . But if we may believe David Lamb , and 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 . He then told told his wife that ho . was willing to live with her and work for her , and he could not be content without her , on which she took up a poker and beat him cruelly with it . T : » e landlady interfered and saved him from a great many blows . lie refused to go out , and his wife took up a knife , and in the struggle Bhe was cut with it . Ho would rather be dead than live without his wife .
The last case is briefly this : — Mr . Jeremiah Sullivan is obstinately bent on taking signal vengeance on Juliu Sullivan , for an alleged infidelity to him . He is a drunken , brutal , swearing fellow . Julia was living separated from him , in Ferdinand-place , Ilampalead-road , and to her lodgings came Jeremiah with intent to induce her to live with him again . She refused ; but by coaxing and force ho got her and Bridget Bryan into the street , where , hia pasHion having made him uthirnt , the party went to have a pot of beer . When they cleared out of the puhlichoufic , Jeremiah nuddcnly in ; ule an upward blow at Julia , who exclaimed to Bridget Bryan " Oh , I am Htabbcd : " drunken Jeremiah had thrust a clasp knife into the bottom of hor abdomen . The wound was frightful to look upon . Of course Jeremiah was arrested , and Julia taken to tlie hospital . The euae came before Mr . Brought on , and Jeremiah was remanded .
Two young men , named Muir and Anderson , were quarrelling in a house in Gorbalfl-Glusgow . 1 hey began to wreBtle . Muir , in the HCuflle / BeeniH to have gripped bin opponent by the neckerchief , when Andernon , to { rvc himself , it 18 thought , drew a clasp knife and Htublx-d ilie other in the right breast , the blade penetrating to the depth of more thun an inch in an oblique direction . The poor fellow sank back , the blood gushing out of iho wound On seeing tho consequences of Ilia raHhncHH , AndcrHon , supponing that he had killed his companion , attempted to draw the blud . acrcms bin own throat , but wan frustrated by a woman who observed hia movements and arrested his hand .
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KHIK 8 A NO ACOIDKNTB . Three scparutc fi res , one after another , broke out in the house of Mr . Woodfl , of Burn » bury-road , 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 Roupell-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 ddbris ; 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 part of 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 begot 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 four 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 ruina . Four persons were so much injured that they had to be taken to the hospital .
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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 hia 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 is not expected to live . It is believed that the cata-Btrophe was occasioned by the sticking of the valve , which threw a heavier pressure on the boiler than it was capable of bearing .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The official statement of the poll at the Greenwich election gives Mr . Alderman Salomons a majority of 887 over Mr . Alderman Wire . A coroner's inquiry lias been made into the recent great fire ; but as yet no verdict has been given . The Solicitor , lluggins , charged with arson , whose case wo mentioned some time ago , was fully committed for trial on Monday . Eliza Smith , who preferred a charge of criminal assault against the master of St . Pancras workhouse , died on Saturday last . The board of directors resolved that the coroner should be requested to hold an inquest on 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 Lecture hall , Vauxhall-road , Wemminter , for the purpose of forming a People ' s Institute , the main feature of which should be secular education . The last exhibition for the present , senson of ihe plants , flowers , and fruitH exhibited for the piizes awarded by the Botanical Society , took place in the grounds in the Itegent ' rt purk , on Wednesday . At the inidHuinmer examination ** of the Institute of Actuaries of Gnat Britain . md Ireland—Examine ™ : Diivid Joiich , Kmj ., Universal Life-office ; Arthur Scralrhl ) y , M . A ., VVenlern Life oflice—the following candidates have paused lor their certificates of qualification as Actuaries ( naiiuM being urranged alphabetically ) . —K ( Mwflhirc , Institute of Actuaries ; C . Child . Alliance Assurance-office ; A . Colvin , United Mutual Astmrance-oilice ; J . Miikle , Soottiah Provident AhsuraucC'Oflici ; II . Thomson , Northern Assurance office .
There iH now in the United Service Muceuin a pistol , HuppoHed to t > e 200 years old , which , with the exception of the lock , in constructed upon the iiume principle n « the wcapoiiH exhibited by Mr . Colt , us will be perceived by the following description , extracted from the valuable catalogue of the iiiHtilution , publiHlrcd in 1 K 4 ;> : — " 11 G 0 . A Snaphaunco » eli-loading petronel , probably
of the time of Charles I . The contrivance consists of a revolving cylinder , containing seven chambers , Wj t v : 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 cha mbers are always exposed to view , and the charges are put j n without the need of a ramrod . " At the Mechanics' Institute , Gould-scfuare , Mr . Collet gave a lecture on Monday . evening last , on Modern English Ballads , assisted in the musical illustrations bv 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 toil lustil should have provided for their
so y , they leisure 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
Miss Hincks , from the compositions of Barnett , Loder , C . Horn , &c . Mr . Collet sang Barry Cornwall ' s " Kins ? 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 poetry , 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 .
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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 liver 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 , Kurramanj , Ardaseer , and Ariel , have all been burnt in these seas 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 6 th of July next , there will be a regular exchange between the United States and the British provinces of New Brunswick , 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 , m order that the holders of Swiss money may be warned . The Berlin post direction , contrary 11 the assurances in a communication addressed some days 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 m maintaining the Bavarian army on a war footing during the last three months of the year 1850 has amounted to nearly three millions and a bnlf 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 46 , 000 men . The Second Chamber of the States of Wurtemburg , on the 28 th ultimo , decided , by 48 votes to 38 , that the fundamental rights of the German people cannot be repealed or modified except in a constitutional form . The Chamber also resolved unanimously that the resolution of the First Chamber , to the effect that the lawn voted eince the 29 'h of -May , 1849 , when that Chamber was dissolved , could be called in question , was unfounded .
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . ( From the Registrar-General ' s Report . ) In the week ending last Saturday the deaths registered in the metropolitan districts amounted to 103 * 2 . 1 " *' ten corresponding weeks of the years 1841 50 the average number wan 924 ; if , for the sake of better comparison , thi . s average be raised in the ratio of increane of population ( which during the 1 ibi 50 yeara was 1-778 per cent , annually ) , if will become 101 G , an amount which diff « r < j not materiall y from the number now returned . It WI " be observed that there is an increase of more than CO <> " ¦ the week immediately preceding , when the deaths wer «
1 KJ 8 . But this exccBB is not the , c fFect of increased mortality ; it in due to c » hch where coroners have held u > - que » tH , in many of which , though they oceuncd at ran * * ( lutes , tho registration hud not been completed til' 'J ' end of the quarter . The present return hiiowh that 'no mortality from diseases of the organs of rest itution '" """ tinues to exceed the uhuiiI amount at this period ; t " - deaths in this class were 124 , while , the corrected av ' ; J ' K '' is 98 . Phthisis wuh fatal to l < l /> pcrHonH , which di" «' » little from the estimated number . The biitha <>« «' boyu , and 723 K ' rl » , in all 143 !) . children , were rcgiM < ' <•« * last week . The average number iu nix correspond " !* woeka of 1846 " 50 was 1423 .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 5, 1851, page 630, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1890/page/10/
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