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lines a fast tram approached , at a speed of twenty miles an hour , although , warned by fog signals , the driver had slackened speed . Into the Batricroft train , however , lie ¦ went , broke the break van , dashed against ¦ a-carriage , and Beverely injured its occupants . . Tuesday— -Accident from a fall of earth on the South Wales Railway . Groing ^ hrough , a cutting in the ni ght , the engine and-tender suddenly turned over . A g reat quantity of earth had fallen on the line . Driver killed , stoker escaped . Passengers carriages did not go over , and no one was injured . Wednesday . — "Spindle rod connected with the valve snapt in the centre / . ' bringing a heavy luggage train to a stand at Methley station , on the Midland Railway . Up came coal trains , but were warned in time ^ an d fortunately no further accident happened .
Thursday . —Accident owing to axle breaking . Official report : — -On Thursday morning a serious accident occurred on this line near B ^ rkhamstead . The engine of the ' train leaving Euston station at 9 a . in ., owing to the breaking of an axle , was thrown - off the line , together with the leading guard ' s-van and the two following carriages . The rear guard immediatel y adopted the necessary precautions , and stopped an \ the trains following from London , but the upexpress train from ¦ 'Birmingham , which was passing at the moment , struck . the guard ' s-van of the disabled train , killing the guard , William Blaney . Several passengers suffered contusions from the shock , but all , with the exception of one lady , an invalid , continued their journey . TJie line was clear in about three hours .
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A '' NICE" STEAMER . Several actions are pending against the Australian Royal Mail Steam Navigation Company for breach of contract ; , It is alleged that the passengers brought home by the notorious Melbourne , in her last trip , were supplied with provisions which could not be eaten , and with accommodation of the worst kind . One action , brought by a Mr . George Smith , has been partly tried in the Court of Common Pleas . Mr . Smith took a second-class passage from Australia to England in the Melbourne , for which he paid i 2 l . 10 s . But as soon as he got on board with his luggage his troubles , began . Jn the first place he was taken into the steerage among the third-class passengers , some sixty in number , and there and throughout the voyage he greatly endured .
" The pigsties were close to the forecastle and one of the skylights , and the soil was continually tumbling down into the room , and on to the table ; and one of the piga fell down on the table . There were two watereloscts , which , from neglect or misconstruction , overflowed the deck , and he had to tread in it to get to his cabin . Ho complained of it many times . He was obliged to go to the waterclosets in the second-class once , aa it was blowing hard and he could not go where the sailors did , at the heads , without danger of being washed overboard , when a midshipman came , threw up the Venetian blind , and put a bull ' s-eye in his face , saying , " Como out of that ; you know you have no business there ; I will report you to the captain . " Ho insisted on being taken to the captain , and complnined of the condition of the waterclosets—that ho could not go to them—and the captain said , "Do you exnect mo to clean them
up P Tho jrig . sties and scullery stank abominably , lie could not sleep in his 'bunk' in the forecastle—a place ior bun like a coflin—because there were millions and millions of bugs in it . Ho slept under a form several nights , till ho was bo cramped ho could not bear it any longer . Ine iloor was covered with passengers , and he had to step over them , oil mixed together . He could not sleep there , am } slept several nights in tho boat on dock . Ho com-Plained about ifc so often ho was at last considered a troublesome fellow . "
' lite cheese was some of it good , but short in quantity . J-aero was good butter on board , but tho seoond-clnNs pasfionfrei'H were not allowed to have it . They could not touch Y'Kit they had . Tho saino dish came on the table day after day untouched . There was good rice on board , lmf / it waH ho badly cooked it was almost uneatable . TJioy complained to tho cook , and ho vra . s very abusive . The preserved potatoes they never hat I . The" tripe Blank most awfully , lie ' ¦ "ought the preserved meats stunk , but they > voro nothing ' <> the tripe , 'j'ho hauiH wvm ( | ( , i ; v < im | , m (; ( , h () rL T | l (( oa Dieal was alive , lie wanted some gruel , but could not eal , it . JI
Mr . Deighton , a passenger similarly situated , complained to tho steward that tho beef had tho hair on it , <•> . " ( I he was told it was buffalo hump and they ou ^ hl !•> ehargu for it . If the biscuits woro placed " on thci i ; U . lo Ulo . y 1
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c n i m i n a l n k o o n i > . A \ - \ » ' wn'CM "ppeurs to have been tho product ; bi 1 , I ruriKivo Methodism , loofie habits and paHHion , ban i ' (! " ! l r '" "'""' ' ¦" ' ""¦ ' 'i '"'< ' . ' Itcnoli , ii village near ¦ ' tfW . oii Hu / , / , urd . Abel Burrows , a married agricultural Avhnr ' 7 ° lml <' llllr ' " " > returned homo from Watford , and " i '"'( ' ' ) <>( m living the pant week in drunlionnoHS tin , 1 " ^ lllK " ' . > ' lo llifl vvifo al , Heath mid Reach . Homo and " ( i '' ° lla ( l ^ ° > l ) n ( l lm l ) o" » lo 'H- " lliH wile , Uev »!!"'' ' "' ' '" . '" g her by tho throat , attempted tostrunglo « nd " | "" v ' olonl , struggle who escaped from his gnwp , Tin , I I allnoHt ' '"> ked out of the houNo to his father ' s . Went < ]" . "" "earing what hail taken place , got up and io lua hoh to try uud pacify'him , in . which for ii timo
he succeeded ; the two lying down on the bed together . Suddenly , however , the son began to abuse him , and , pushing him violently off the bed , swearing he would kill him , beat the poor old man ' s head upon the floor till he was insensible . He then sallied out in pursuit of his wife , expressing his determination to do for her , but she , hearing him approach , slipped unperceived out of the house and took shelter in a passage close hy . It was now about four o ' clock in the morning . Not finding his wife at home , the villain began , to wreak hia vengeance on his mother—an old woman who had been confined to her hed with illness for six months—and having brutally ill-treated her , safe down to breakfast in her house . Whilst he was eating , a poor old cripple who lodges in his mother ' s house , ventured
to make some remark of pity for his wife , when the savage broke out into a storm of passion , and seizing hold of a stone-breaking hammer , aimed a blow at the poor creature ' s head . So great was the old woman ' terror , that she rushed , unassisted by her crutch , out of the house in tho dark up into the bedrooni _ of a man named Adams , and locked £ h . e door .. Burrows rushed up after her , knocked tho door" down with his hammer , and while the poor old creature was in Adams ' s arms literally beat out lier brains with three tremendous blows , which killed her instantaneously . He then turned upon Adams , and aimed a blow at his skull , which the latter providentially avoided , and rushed past him down stairs , and out into the street . Burrows followed still , again striking at Adams with the ham - mer , and some of the neighbours coming up , he brandished ! i 3 hammer at them , swearing that he would have his wife ' s life yet , and threatening any one with instant death
who approached him . At length three working men came upon him from behind , threw him down , and bound him with a strong rope ; and presently a constable arrived , and secured him in hand-cuffs and leg-irons ; the -wretched man making a variety of grimaces , and affecting to be insane . The poor old woman they found where she fell , quite dead , and surrounded by such a pool of blood , that it seemed that it had all oozed from her body . She was a widow , and leaves several grown-up children . It is supposed that the prisoner had a premeditated intention to murder his wife , he having lately run away with a woman who had supposed him to be a single man ; and , ifc is said , he met this woman on the night of the murder . The inquest on the body of the murdered woman , whose aiame is Charity Glenister , was held on Monday , and a verdict of " Wilful murder , " without hesitation , returned against Abel Burrows .
Nearly three days have been occupied in the Third Court at the Old Bailey , in dealing with what are called " Mint cases , "—in other words , the uttering of forged coin . Some of the base coin are of very beautiful workmanship . The sentences in some instances have been heavy , such as " four years' penal servitude , " and " two years' hard labour . " Grinney , the man who used three knives in tliree separate attempts to murder his wife , was tried on Wednesday . The evidence adduced was tho same as that we have already reported ; and the jury found a verdict of " guilty of wounding with intent to murder . " In passing sentence , Mr . Justice Talfourd said that there was no doubt tho deed had been committed " in a moment of
brutal passion , consequent upon a delusion as to bis -wife ' s infidelity ; " he should therefore only record a senteneo of death against Grinney ; the facts would all be taken into consideration in the proper quarter . A clever burglary was perpetrated afc Loighton Buzzard last week . The shop of a jeweller , named Matthews , situate in one of the most public thoroughfares , was entered from tho first-floor front window and robbed of goods worth 1000 ? . The thieves lit up the shop and proceeded with a business-like promptitude . Early in tho week Mr . Matthews caino to London to look after his property , and in a shop in tho Barbican ho met a man , a jew , selling some of it . Tho man is in custody .
Cases of wife-beatipg have again boon brought before the police-courts ; but ; they aro not nuiliciently distinctive in character from those already reported to need recounting . Winter brings the garotte again into play . Imsl ; wook , a elovgyimm going homo with his stipend in his poekot , was garolted , and a great part of his money taken from , him ; a gentleman at Manchester wan attacked by livemen on Saturday , half strangled , mid robbed . Incendiary ( ires are beginning to attract attention . A short time ago we noticed two near Tiverton , in . Devon . Another bun since occurred in the same locality .
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Two county divisions—East Gloucestershire and South Staffordshire—arc now in want of a member . Tho Marquis of Worcester becoming Duke of Beaufort , by ( ho death of his father , leaves vacant the Cornier , " and Viscount Lewisham becoming from a similar eauso Marl of Dartmouth , throws open the latter . Liberals' and Conservatives aro actively engaged in looking up candidates . Tho Blue Ribbon , vacant by the death of the Duke of Beaufort , is to be given to tho ' Eurl of Carlisle . We hear that Sir . Edward Parry is to bo tho Deputy-Governor of Greenwich 1 tospital . Sir Thomas Bradford and Sir Augustus do Butts , both generals in tho British service , died on Monday ; tho former seventy-six , tho latter eighty-throo years of ' n > n > The Itoverend
Septimus Grover , for forty yearn fellow of Eton , and until within a few months Vice-Provost of ( ho Colloge , died on Monday , at tho ago of eighty-Heven . Mr . Buskin , who is Haid to . dross quito ' in a clerical fashion , and who almost intones hi . s lectures , has Uwn holding forth in Edinburgh against Greek architectmv , and on the favourite themes of Turner and the I ' re-Waphaelitea . His condemnation of tho Greek mvhilreturn was , especially when wo consider that lie nnoko in lOdinburgh , bold and unsparingly severe . — ( Jlasi / ow (' on / ii / oulocalth . The Synod of Lothian and Tweeddale , determined tohavo a day of humiliation , fixed on Tuesday hi . st . Tho ChuivheH of Edinburgh were opened , and the law ooiirtH cloned ; but ; the factories and workshops and nonio public ollicort carried on buHine . sa > ih iimihi . 1 .
A large amount of money lias been subscribed by tho Missionary Society to Heixl missionaries to ( 'liinii . The ijovdn of tlio . Admiralty have determined to talco forthwith tho most vigorous rnoiiHurcs f > r improving tho sanitary nrrungomentH of the Royal dockyards . An official inquiry bus been ordered ut Woolwich . Mr . Rauliiison , of the itoaivl of Health , in holding an . 'inquiry at !> evonport , to collect information as to the sanitary condition of that town , with a view to obtaining a proviHuinal order for applying th , > Health Act . Tho Hoard of Customs navo issued a notice , announcing 1 an open court for the jnirpoHoof hearing and deciding complaints , and for investigating matters relating to the ouhtonirt' revenue . A room in the cuHtom-hoiiHo' has hoon . set apart for the purpose , and tho new court in to »[\ , ini TuemlayKiind J < riduyn , awry week , when necesMu . ry . MrSamuel Warren of Lord DoiIiv Oviwi MHuiiuii triiri ii
. , one - ' m .. «»• . .-c . , one oi . liom IJorby h Oxford Doclorn , and Kccorder of Mull , \ um hrought li ( , rd |» , d inorHtondown upon him . Some gentlemen of Hull nu . ro " sented to tho Homo Secretary , that iA 1 r . Warren sentenced Imyft to whippings ruthnr freely , nnd mentioned oHpoeiallv tho ouho ol a boy named Regan , who , for a trivial oflcnci . was sontoneod to eighteen months imprisonment and Jlvo whipping . Lord Polmowlon Jiaa remitted , Iho Vlm >
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MISC E L L A N E O 17 S . I Tino Court is now at Oaborno , whither it removed on ( Saturday , I Parliament was prorogued in duo form , on Tuesday , l . y Koyal ( ' ' onnnisHiou , until tho ' , ) i d of . January , 18 /> I . In like manner tho Convocation of tho province of Canterbury , wart , on Wednesday , prorogued until tho 4 th of January .
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The ceremony of consecrating the bishops appointed to the newly-constituted sees of Natal and Graham ' s Town took place , on Wednesday , in St . Mary ' s , Lambeth . Tho officiating prelates were the Archbishop , of Canterbury , the Bishop of London , and the Bishop of Oxford . The church was crowded , although admission was obtained only by tickets . Long before the hour appointed for the ceremony the church bells rang a . peal , and the church organ played appropriate music . The reverend divines elevated were the Reverend Dr . John William Colensoof St . John ' s
, Cambridge , and the Reverend Dr . John Armstrong , of Lincoln College , Oxford ; the former nominated to the bishopric . of' Natal , . and the latter to the bishopric of Graham's Town . Divine service was performed by the Reverend Charles Dalton , the rector , assisted by the Reverend Messrs , James , Ensom , and Gregory ; after which the Bishop of Oxford ascended the pulpit , and delivered an impressive sermon . After the ¦ service , the new bishops were duly admitted to their sacred ' office b y the imposition of hands . The proceedings occupied several
hours . The Gazette having published tho names of th Indian Law Commission , the Morning Chronicle tells us something about the Commissioners . "The Master of tho Rolls ; the Chief Justice of the Common Picas ; the Right Hon . Sir Edward Ryan , Chief Justice of the Supremo Court of Calcuttafrom 1838 to 1842 ; Charles Hay Cameron , Esq ., ( who succeeded Mr . Macaulay and Mr . Amos as fourth or legal member of the Supreme Council of India , and as President of the Law Commission afc Calcutta ) John M'Pherson M'Leod , Esq . ( who served as secretary to the government of Madras under Sir Thomas Munro , and as a member of the Law Commission at Calcutta ;) John Abraham Francis Hawkins , Esq . ( who was ten years registrar and two years a-judge of the Sudder Court of Bengal ); Thomas Flower Ellis , Esq ., and Robert Lowe , Esq . ; have been appointed Commissioners to consider and
report upon the Reform of the judicial establislunents , judicial procedure , and laws of India , ' under the SStli sec . of the Government of India Act . Frederic" Millctt , Esq . ( who was employed in 1833 to revise the civil regulations of the Bengal code , and afterwards filled the offices of secretary to the Law Commission at . Calcutta , and member of the Supreme Council of India ) , has been ap ]) ointed secretary to the commissioners ; and we understand that the services of Weil B . E . Baillio , Esq ., who has practised for many years in the Sudder Court at Calcutta as vakeel ( a profession which includes the duties of barrister and attorney with us ) , and who is well known as the author of some valuable treaties on Mahomedan law , has , been secured as assistant secretary . Mr . James Grant Lumsdcn has been appointed provisional member of the Council at Bombay .
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The Russian corvette , JVavar-in , twenty-two rnmn was to liavo been docked , a (; Portsmouth , on Thursday ' and all wan ready , when a telegraphic mossago oamo down , " Iv ' iiHsian corvotfco not to bo ' clocked . " Tho Navarin was then making fivo inches of water per day . Mr . Jo-men Wyhl , of ( Jharing-oronH , has publishoil jui admirable and cheap map of tho nojifc of war liolli in Europe and Artia , and its relations to surrounding oountrioH . Ono of the chiof points of intoi-osl ; on this map will l )« t }<} i \ "l i » j-l >« fsuit , that tho dates of tho . Russian acquisitions of territory aro marked .
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Tho strikes seem coming to a , close , and t . radoseoniH growing worso at tho samo timo . T . luiro aro indications that , l-lio ProHton inoii musl ; noon givo way , although they got , - 20001 . hwt week .. Hovoral mills in olhor towns are working four dayH a-wook . The paper war between liuuitorn and , men goea on vigorously .
In consequence of mobbings at Blackburn , and the general semi-riotous state of the town , Lord Palmcrston , complying with the demands of-the manufacturers , has permitted a company-of the Thirty-fourth from Preston to he quartered in that borough . Some Preston hands had gone there recently to mob the masters .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 3, 1853, page 1163, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2015/page/11/
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