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acimit the body of a child . A person of small stature was lifted through the hole , and opened the outer door . The thieves , having obtained admission into the parlour , forced open an inner door and thus got into the shop . Their subsequent conduct is inexplicable . They were literally surrounded by valuable property of the most easily portable nature , spread out in tempting 1 array , and yet not a tithe of it did they in the least disturb . They ' stole from the shop window 19 silver and 12 gold watches , a tray of gold
seals , keys , and chains , and containing upwards of 60 gold pencil-cases ; and another tray bearing- a gold bracelet , three carbuncle drops , and a quantity of gold brooches . Several rows of watches equal in value to those taken away were allowed to remain in the window . In the money drawer , which was not locked , there was a sum of 61 . in silver . That also was left untouched . The burglars conducted their operations so adroitly that none of the inmates of the house were disturbed , and they got away from the premises unobserved . -
Mrs , Catherine Grieve , a lady of fortune living- at Caraberwell , came home drunk , and then took a pint of gin . She fell on her face on the bed , and was suffocated , being too drunk to get up . In the cottage she occupied there formerly lived a foreigner , who cut the throats of his three children and then cut his own . So that the little cottage has two tales of horror attached to it . The Globe—evening organ of the Ministry and of the Chelsea Ghost—should take possession of the place . A young woman named Brown went to Surgeon
Hamilton , 3 , King William-street , Strand , for advice . He told her she was enceinte , and after making inquiries , which she evaded , as to the young man who had kept her company , he made improper overtures , telling her at the same time that it was necessary for her cure . He then committed an indecent assault . In evidence the woman and her " young man" contradicted one another ; and Hamilton asserted that the young- man called on him and endeavoured to extort money . He has been committed for trial .
John Wright was robbed of Lis watch . Walking through Petticoat-lane—a bad place—he saw it hanging for sale , and insisted upon having it . The shopkeeper demurred , but the Lord Mayor , on hearing the case , awarded the watch to the owner , advising the shopkeeper- —amid the laughter of the court—to keep a hook of the names and addresses of those who sold him watches . Henry CunlifFe , a labourer , was a drunkard , and his wife was for ever raving about religion , saying her soul would be lost , and other nonsense of the kind . Her little child slept with her : she cut its throat , and then tried to cut her own . A woman who came to the bed in the morning said , " The child was lying on the pillow quite dead , but not cold . I saw a large wound in its throat , as
it a piece had been cut out . The mother was besmeared with blood , and had a night-dress on and two petticoats . She was bleeding from a large gash in her throat , and I heard the wind rattle in the wound . I found an open razor sprinkled with blood beneath her pillow . The blood appeared dry . I said to her , ' Oh ! Elizabeth , what hast thou been doing ? and who has done this ? ' She opened her eyes , whir-h before had been shut , and said , ' What is to do ? ' I replied , ' There is plenty to do . Who has done this P' She whispered , ' Myself ? She intimated that she hiul something to say to me . When I listened , she said , ' I must bo hanged on a tree . I must be cut in lumps and whipped . God will not look upon mo . '" A " ci-owner ' s quest" verdict of " wilful murder" has been returned against the poor wretch .
Some additional evideneo has been given respecting ( ho murder of his wife by . Tames iliiycs . The . sister of the deceased woman Kaid , —• " My sister had not lived with her husband for the last eighteen months . When they lived together they lived within two doors of the Stnr and Garlcr , in JiWl-street . After that they went , to livo at . Kensington . She had not received a penny from Hayes fiiiH-o they parted . II e took her clothes away from lier , and left her without anything . I knew that the- accused was living with another woman at JS otl . ing-hill . He often ill-used both me and my sister . Ho never . struck me , but ho often threatened to kill his wife . —The Coroner .- Do you blame any one on neeount of the death of your sister
Juizabcth Hayes?—Witness ( emphatically ) : Yes , I do . I am sure Hayes was the murderer of my sister ; and I blame ( he woman he Avas living with , for she incited him . " After the inquest , the wilneMHe . s nttended to give ( ho samo evidence before the magistrate . Jlnye . s himself was also brought up . Ho said , in defence , Hint , he was ko tipsy on tho night of ( he murder that he did not Know what ho ¦ was doing : ho remomborn nothing of what occurred . Ho ban been committed for trial on tho wilful murder of bin wife . He is described hy ( ho reporters an " a good-looking fresh-eoniplexioned man , with Jij ^ ht . blue eyes and fair hair , apparently about , thirly-iive years of nisi ' ,. '
An Italian organ-grinder occupied Chelsea , and , n . obstinate an tho Czar , refused to ovaouate , playing deadlylively ( . lines opposite people ' s windows . Tho police had at length to arrest , him . Mr . IIunhoII , an old ^ ontlrinan lately objected to ( ho " music" of tin ; Italian , and shortly after received ( ho following " nol . tr , " which looks very Jik ' o an nlt . ' nnutvm : ——" iSignior Russell—You aro ono very great , vickeil ole man—you are ono vory roohled lninerablo man . Why you will hcrt . ( ho pore hnrgnn man thai . < ry « to get a honest living for you luivo plenty yourself money . Why you stop
( he poor horgan man to get a little money . You are a very ole feeblo man and cannot lifo rnimh longer—when you die where will your guilty Hole go to—you have no charity for tho poor liorgi'ti man what charity will God have for ' in the next , world what mercy will ho havo ( or you ; ho will l > n an hard o you in ( he next world , nti you aro to ( ho poor man in thin . You will go to purgatory and nlop for ever nntl over if you do not repent ; of your wickodncHM you brown breached , blue coated brilo button old scarecrow . ! No \ v in eornhinion three or four of m truo norm of . Italy J >(> yo uwprn by ( ho Holy Virgin to Jliako of you rito ovoV
upon the top of your own dore steps one p itefullest to martyr . " Sined Antonio G . " Gttido R . " Juan B . " Opposite the names were three daggers , and then followed a postscript—" The Capitaine and the ladies at number 4 are very goot to us . " Poor Mr . Russell is nearly dead with fright . The organ-player has been fined seven shillings . Pardington and Woods , the driver and stoker of the express train which Caused the Hornsey accident , have been held to bail to appear at the Central Criminal Court .
Things were mysteriously stolen for some time from the " Eastern Counties" carriages , and a guard was concealed in the luggage van to detect the thief . One night , " a man jumped up from the line into the van . " On being tried , this man confessed that he had been in the habit ot springing into the vans of luggage-trains , from which he flung out packages at spots which were agreed upon between him and his confederates , and that when the train reached the station , he contrived to escape . Cotterill , jun ., was one of the warders whose cruelties were investigated lately at Birmingham . He was to have been examined before " the Commissioners , but he got excited , and died from nervous debility , brought on by mental anxiety . Freer , the chief warder , has been dismissed by the Justices , and it is said that the surgeon , Mr . Blount , has resigned . An advertisement for a new governor , and new chief warder , appear in the Birmingham papers of Monday .
A respectable stranger , on crutches , gave a Windsor shopkeeper a 101 . Bank of England note in payment of a 31 . silver watch . He got 71 . change , and immediately left in a cab . The note was forged . Kirwan , the Irish " artist , " convicted of murdering his wife , has been found out as a bad man in many ways . At the late auction of his property , it was found that many of the books had been stolen , and that many of the drawings with Ms name inscribed as " artist , " were stolen drawings done by other persons—some by painters of eminence . The mean tone of the man ' s mind is also shown by his possession of several valuable books given as College premiums to other persons , but with Kirwan ' s own name substituted for the rightful owner of the premiums .
Edward Rutter made a murderous assault on the mate of a steamer at Woolwich . He pitched him over the side rail , and tried to throw him over a lower rail into deep water . Rutter has been acquitted of intent to murder , but sentenced to a year ' s imprisonment for a common assault . The Jewess , Sarah Liepman , accused of killing her newborn baby , has been found guilty , with a recommendation to mercy . She was subject to hysterics . A surgeon swore his belief that the child was born dead . The charge against Mrs . Kelly , related in our " Story of a Will" last week , has been further investigated this week . The evidence for the prosecution seems to establish the facts that the letters were written by her , and that through Mr . Despard Taylor and Colonel Smith she paid Malone to allow their destruction .
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The Queejst has passed another quiet week at Balmoral , She dined with her mother on Sunday last at Abergeldie , and has taken drives about tho neighbourhood of Balmoral almost every day . Lord Palmerston has relieved Lord Granvillo in attendance . On Friday evening of lust week , tho Queen and her family were startled by a fire , in one of the mason ' s cottsiges , near the royal home . The flames were quickly put down , without serious injury . Prince Albert is said to have worked " shoulder to shoulder with a sturdy Highlander , " in conveying water to the building , and tho Queen herself directed the operations . The hoy princes also willingly gave what help they could . Our pictorial cotcniporary has thus got a good subject for an " illustration , " to relieve the usual sameness of ita pictured " fires . "
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Sheffield linn spoken out on the Eastern question . It held a public meeting of some importance on Tuesdtiv evening , in the Town Hall . Tho Mayor had called the meeting , on a requisition signed by 140 persona , headed by Mr . Overend , Doputy-Lientenunt of the Wt'Ht Riding . Mr . Isaac Ironside was tho chief speaker , and his speech was well toned and well worded . A memorial to Lord Clarendon was adopted , calling on the Government ; to take steps towards compelling Russia to quit the Danubian Provinces .
The evidence taken before the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the management of Leicester gaol , shows that what was done in Birmingham through personal partiality has been done in Leicester as part of a system . The crank labour appears to havo been very severe , but regularly and impartially imposed . If a man would no !; work ' got nothing to eat . Ono man was kept strapped to the wall for thirty-three days ! Tho results of the Burnstnple inquiry would he surprising if any exposure of electoral corruption could
now surprise any pen-son . There were . 250 elector * bribed : 140 firemen and 110 householders . As tho freemen number entirely but i > G 2 , wo thus see that more than one-half of them aro corrupt . The householders number 510 , so that only ono in five were bribed , Lord Kbringlou spent IQl , in bribery , done
through an unauthorized agent ; the Tories 2400 ^ ., exclusive of the costs of defending the seats
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Much interest exists at Lloyd ' s , the Jerusalem , and other coffee-houses , in reference to the race now pending between the British clipper-built ship Stornoway and the American ship Challenge . The Stornoway , while under the command of Captain Robertson ( now of the Cairngorm ) , made some extraordinary passages , beating on ono occasion this very vessel , the Challenge ,- —which , however is three times her tonnage , and consequently spreads an enormous quantity of canvas . The Stornoway , under her present commander , Captain Hast , has made the quickest passage of the season from Bombay to China ; and it is therefore hoped that , although the Challenge had the start of him from Macao Roads , he will yet overhaul his colossal competitor , and make his appearance off the English coast as the winner of the match .
The Wyvern R . Y . S . schooner yacht ( 205 tons ) , belonging to the Duke of Marlborough , has sailed for Australia , having Lord Alfred Churchill , and Captain Cathcart , late of the 10 th Hussars , on board . The R . Y . S . cutler . Corsair ( 87 tons ) , so celebrated afc Cowes for her sailing qualities , has reached Australia after an excellent passage , making good weather of it all tho way out . The Solent , new steam-ship , has run from Southampton to Carshot Castle , seven miles , in twenty-eight minutes . We lately described this vessel as a new timber ship , built on diagonal lines . It has other improvements . Tho engines arc built with oscillating cylinders , and tubular boilers , and have attached paddle-wheels constructed upon the feathering principle . Owing to tho valves being laid with India rubber , as well as tho ship being of its peculiar construction , tho vibration usually felt in paddle-wheel
vessels is entirely prevented , and therefore renders this vessel more easy and comfortable in every respect . Thero is an additional advantage in tho construction of these ships beyond that of saving about half tho amount of fuel required in working ships of equal tonnage ; they aro rendered equal , as far as room is concerned , to iron-built ships , without the connecting disadvantages . Tho ironbuilt ships in hot climates feel so intensely tho heat of tho atmosphere , that it has become necessary to provide them with an inside lining of wood , leaving a spaco of about nine inches between that and their outward sides . This lining not only encourages damp , which is detrimental to the health of those ; on board , as well as to tho room afforded , but from the condensation which naturally takes place between tho double sides , that lining soon becomes rotten , and is therefore obliged to bo replaced hy new , wiicli causes no inconsiderable amount of expense and delay .
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Tho Queen , whilo in Ireland , spent 80007 . in tho purclmso of Irish fabrics . She has sent through Lord 1 ; umerston this week another oflicial letter , expressing , with n warmth and at a length unusual in oflicial documents , her entire satisfaction with her lalo visit , and her admiration of the Exhibition . TT . Tho three Queen ' s Colleges of Ireland form ono University , called ( ho Queen ' s University . Tho Senate ot tnw University has ordained an examination for degrees " Art and Medicine , and tho examination baa tiiltcn pJfl " this week , with norno state , in St . Patrick ' s Ilall , Uu """ Cnsl . lo . About sixty students havo been examined . stateot
The CnniiruHHioiulrs for inquiring into tho - my nooth College , met , for the first timo , on Tuesday insM ' - Dublin Castle . Thero are five Commissioners , -- ^" llarrowby , ( ho Lord Chief JJaron , Mr . Long held ;[ M » mksionor of Encumbered Estates ) , Mr . Jaw * / * . , ' ' and Mr . Twins . Mr . West ; and Mr . O'JIagiui , bo" » ' » mtoi-H , tho ono being Protestant ; and the other Jtoin Catholic , havo been appointed secretaries . ^ jj )() An Order in Council has been passed , putting , Nuisance Removal Act , of 1848 in forco throup » " *' . whole of Ireland for six monthn . No (! UH 'Y ,,, " 1 Itrh cholera has » h yet been reported from Ireland , lU ^^^ there have boon many eases of tho common «> cholera «
. . . . „ .. A religious " miracle" is reporled in tho lriw Vl \ The Roman-O . itholio parish priest of Wowlowii , t ^ Cork , ban , at the head of hit * parishioners , ¦ 0 X P , j ' , for u warm ( hanks t , o Llio ProloHtunfc rector of thopMiw liberal donation in aid of a new tthapol . , Hfli '' "' It is n . ( lurioiin fact , ( bat LhomaiiHionin . Itiiim" . " || . <) I 1 < IO Dublin , recently occupied by tho Itotimn . V ' , , » , t ,, HK » l ) ti Aywoiation , jo no \ y ju tho posupawW 9 * '
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922 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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Lord Brownlow died last week at his house near f % o tham . He was an old man of seventy-five . He was rem i ' able as a supporter of the Pimlico Paseyism , nraeM ^ i St . Barnabas by the Reverend Mr . Bennett * S& ? son ; a boy of eleven , is now Earl Brownlow , ana is n ] the inheritor of the yast property settled by the lateT ° cision in the strange will case of Lord Brid gwater . On Wednesday a Court of Directors was held at th East India-house , when Mr . Frederick James Hallidn was appointed a provisional member of the Council t India . or Sir James A . Gordon , the present Lieutenant-Governor of Greenwich Hospital , has been mentioned as the probablA successor of the late Governor . Sir Charles Adam
The East India Directors have commissioned Mr . Noble of Bruton-street , to make a statue of " the Duke" in th ' finest marble . The site of the statue hasnotbeen announced The proposed Lawson University still wants 3200 Z * public subscriptions . Government has promised to procure a grant of 2000 £ . from Parliament . The agricultural dinners , once ban quets eat en to tho sound of a political tocsin , have now settled down into useful meetings of farmers and their friends . At Watford on Wednesday , the- Herts Agricultural Association thus met . Mr- Mechi attended , and spoke at length on the practical points of agriculture . He more especially emphasized the advantages of machinery , pointing out that by steam-ploughs alone the agriculture of the kingdom might save nearly 10 , 000 , 000 ? . sterling .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 24, 1853, page 922, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2005/page/10/
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