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on the 11 th ; decreased to 29 . 50 in . by 9 h . p . m . on the 13 th , and increased to 29 . 64 in . by the end of the week . The mean temperature was 37 . 5 deg ., which is 2 . 3 deg . above the average of the same week in 38 years . On Sunday , the 8 th , the mean temperature was 41 . 8 deg . which is 6 . 9 deg . above the average of the same day . It was on other days rather above the average , except Wednesday , when it was 34 . 9 deg ., which is Blightly below it . The highest temperature was 47 . 9 and occurred on Sunday . The dew-point temperature was 34 . 4 cleg . The temperature of the Thames rose to 36 deg . at the end of the week .
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POLICE MATTERS . Three assaults upon wiv « s by their husbands have come under the notice of the Courts this week . Francis Spring , in the habit of leaving his home for days and weeks with oat provision , replied to a question of his wife Mary , as to why ne was out late on Saturday , by first spitting on her and then beating her until she was insensible . The excuse of the husband was that his wife scratched him and struck him with a poker , which the wife denied . Sentence , three months' imprisonment . John Schuster , constantly in the habit of ill-using his wife , and playing bagatelle . His wife came to fetch him from the public-noose one night and he ordered her home . IJowever , she disobeyed , and waited two hours in the street .
When Schuster came out lie threatened to cut her throat , but bystanders and the police interfered ; and advised him to go home . He pretended to go , but soon fell upon his wife and beat her severely . Before the magistrate ne said ,, " don't know- what to say ; I struck her , and I am sorry for it . " . Sentence , six months' imprisonment and hard labour . Bobert Pugsley has been married to Rebecca , his wife , nineteen ytars , and has " occasionally ill-treated her ever since their marriage . " The latest beating , however , exhausted the patience of Bebecca , and she summoned Pugsley . He said ler temper . was bad ; she tried to beat him , and he beat her . Ordered , at the wife ' s suggestion , to find bail to keep the peace towards her . \ "Two gentlemen" —what a pity their names are sappressed—were brought before Mr . Hardwicke , at
Marl-Mrs . Prinna--Well , sir , I think that a friend who was in my company with me must have struck me . Mr . Norton—A drunken friend , I suppose . Mrs . Prinna—Yes , sir , I will admit it ; but the fact is that I got into a horrid place with the owners of a penny gaff , and the place being no better than a common brothel , so that I , was so anxious to get out of it that I made up my mind to go to the station , and they hare got my things there . Mr . Norton—Then why g et among such people ? The fact unquestionably is that this horrid gin has gradually brought you down lower and lower , so that they would not admit you into any decent place , and yoti are therefore obliged to go into
-tow places . Cook , the gaoler—That is the case , sir ; aad I ' never recollect the prisoner being brought here that she has not com plained of somebody or other robbing her ; but the fact is , that she gets drunk and loses her property . Mrs . Prinna—I have burst a blood-vessel , and I thought I should have died in the station last night . I wish to go to prison , sir , and I wish you would send me there . Mr . Norton—When a person feels grateful for being sent to prison it bespeaks the last stage of misery ; and as it is your wish , I shall send you tkefe for 21 days . Mrs . Prinna—Thank you , sir : I am very much obliged to
you . Burglars have inventive minds . A man dropped his spectacles down an area , and knocking asked a page to pi ck them up . The lad did so . But meanwhile the house had been robbed of aguantity of jewellery . ' A man aad his wife are in custody for stealing 300 / . worth of bottles , and 1570 gallons of wine , during the past year . It would appear that a marine store dealer had the bottles . .
drabbled with mud . She has been brought to this court at least fifty times on charges similar to the present , that of being found in the streets in a state of speechless drunkenness . On the hist occasion , -when found lying in the kennel , a wine bottle half full of gin was found under her head . At that time she begged hard to be discharged , as she did on all occasions , promising that she would at once startaffifrl Dover , where she had an old friend , nnder whose ctf& $ tffr would place herself , and never more taste gin . Ja ^^ fl&Bftl ^ was soon forgotten , and her promise broken , anothWwonder is that she is at present alive . ¦ / R * " ¦ When the prisoner was put to tho bar , Mr . '' Norton addressing her , said—Well , SLrs ^ Prinna , here you are again , and in such a dreadful state too . How on earth * have you come by these frightful black eyes and awfully swollen cheeks ?
borough-street , charged with being drunk and violent . They gave the names of Brown and Smith—if they had been working men the police would have found out their real names . John Randall , waiter at Scott ' s oyster and supper rooms , 1 $ , Coventry-street , said , about half-past 11 on the previous night the defendants came into the shop and were served with supper in the first-floor room . They hadT some beer with their supper , and Brown ordered more , but seeing they were intoxicated , be refused to let them have any more beer . Brown swore he would split his —— head if he did sot obey his orders , and got up from bis seat and smashed one of the door-pannels , declaring at the same time that he would serve everybody in the place in the same way unless be was supplied with what he wanted . Witness and another waiter tried to get Brown away , upon which Brown lifted a stick he lad in his hand and struck him several times over
the body and head with it . The other waiter was also stru k by Brown . At last the defendants were pushed as far as the door , and then Brown turned about , and * seizing one of the waiters by the throat , and at the same time laying hold of a knife which stood on the sideboard , swore he would stick the knife into the first person that touched him . The damage done to the door was 10 s . Mr . Hardwicke asked what they were ? Brown said he was a doctor—Smith that he was a private gentleman . Neither of these statements are entirely correct . Brown is not known to the police . Smith is well known , and his real name was mentioned by
Mr . Scott in court . Mr . Jiardwicke said it was impossible to bring a series of more discreditable acts against persons ia the position of the defendants than what had just been detailed in evidence . The defendants were proved to have been mixed up in a vulgar night brawl in an oyster shop , assaulting waiters , threatening one with a knife , using filthy and disgusting language , and not sober . He inflicted the highest fine on each for the assaults , namely , 52 ., and ia addition , required Brown to pay the damage . The fines aad damage were paid . Would it not have been a greater punishment to have posted their names ?
The drama does not look well when it niakts the policeoffice its theatre . A well-dressed female , whose air and manner were most affected and theatrical , presented herself in the witness-box of the Lambeth Polico Court , and , addressing the magistrate , said she had come to claim his worship ' s protection against the threats and violence of her husband ; but as her husband had thought proper to attend also , and expressed his willingness to be boundover to keejp the peace towards her , she should be quite satisfied by his doing so . Tho husband replied that he had no objection to be bound over , but should wish to be heard first . He said that five weeks ago his wife , without any provocation on hia part , had left him , and it was on Thursday last that he diaxovered where she resided . He went to look after her . bat the door was slammed in his face by a man be found there . He inquired from his wifo who thia person was , or what his business in the house was , but all ho could learn from her
was , that he was a friend and a gentleman , and this ho did not consider at all satisfactory . —Mr . Norton : I should think not . It is the duty of your wife to satisfy you who and what this person is . —Wife ( in a most dignified tone ) : He ' s a friend and a gentleman . —Mr . Norton : That is not sufficient for your husband ; and it striken mo that if you left off those assumed airs of ^ yours , and attended more to your husband and child , you should do much better . 1 advise you to retire and see if you cannot arrange matters . The parties here left the court , but in going out the female , with a most theatrical flourish , declared that no person would induce her to live with her husband again . Mr . Norton is not happy in adjusting matrimonial quarrels . Mrs . Prinna , formerly Miss Healy , an actress and singer , has be « n sent to prison for twenty-one days , at her own rcquost . She ia a thorough and incorrigible sot . She was brought before Mr . Norton , her eyes black , her cheek bwoIlen , aad draped simply in a throadbaro black garment , be-
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IMPRISOlOdENT AT EDINBURGH TOB REFUSING TO TAKE AN OATH . [ We have received the following statement from a correspondent , whose testimony we regard as unimpeachable . We shall certainly not pass over without comment so glaring an instance of a public wrong which ha 9 already been fully dealt with in these columns . Where there is no standard of infallibility , there can neither be " faithful" nor " unfaithful . " The idea of << infidelity" implies infallibility . It does not belong to Protestantism to say , " thus far shalt thou go aad no further , ' * in the exercise of a free mind . There is but one sense in which Protestantism can denounce " infidelity , " and that is—infidelity Jo conscience , a . question that rests between the man and his Maker . 1
Last Friday certain persons were tried before Sheriff Gordon , for theft from the shop of Mr . Richard Alexander , draper , Lawnmarket , Edinburgh . The evidence of Mr . Alexander was necessary to conviction , but on religious grounds he declined to take oath . The sheriff allowed him till Saturday to consider the step he had taken , and what would be its consequences . On Saturday , a 9 might have been expected , Mr . Aiexa-uder intimated in court that he continued in the same mind , and was forthwith sentenced to imprisonment for thirty days . The sheriff might have given a sentence of imprisonment even , for a few hours only , as wa 9 some time since done in an
English case , where a la < ly refused to swear ; but he has given a measure of punishment that has already created disgust , and awakened indignant feelings in many minds . Men blush for their country when they hear of such official conduct , and of individuals suffering still in this manner for conscience sake . It ought to be known that this victim is not merely deprived of his liberty , but is actually now clothed like a felon , living on felon ' s diet , and doing felon ' s work ; and to a Bimilai lot every man , unless a Quaker , Separatist , or Moravian , is exposed tomorrow , should he refuse to swear in court , either on religious or any other considerations . In many
respects this new case , for we have had examples before of legal vengeance , is a hard one . Mr . Alexander has just recently commenced business , and by refusing to swear actually lost his own property , which thft thieves had taken from his premises , the goods having been confiscated to the Crown , while the criminals were allowed to go free . Here is an excellent young man now in prison for refusing to re-obtain his own goods by violating his conscience ; and when he comes out any thief may enter his shop , lift what he pleases , and for Mr . Alexander to call the police is , in other words , to insure his speedy return to the Calton gaol ! Can such , a state of things laat , and how long ?
A memorial , signed by a number of respectable citizens , has already been sent to Lord Palmerston , praying him to restore Mr . Alexander to liberty ; and the reply is waituJ for with anxiety .
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MISCELLANEOUS gasp loterr ^ rr Jb ^ sador and the ( founds wSS *? ftHSw ^ Castle the Marquis and MarchSnew of wl ? -minster , the Earl and Countess of ShafteaburyThe Earl and Countess De La Warr and Lady Arlbeut West , Viscount Canning , Mr . and Mrs . Sidney Herbert , Mr . Spencer Walpole and Mrs . Walpole , and Major-Genexal Wetherall . ^^
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Sir Robert Inglis has announced bis intention of accepting the Chiltern Hundreds at the opening of Parliament . He has represented the University of Oxford for twenty-five years ; and now retires oa the ground that his health will not enable him to devote that attention to the interests of his constituents , in the struggle against University Reform , that the importance of the subject requires . The chosen candidate of Mr . Gladstone ' s party is Sir William Heathcote , and a committee has already been formed to conduct his election . Lord Robert Cecil and Sir John Pakington have been named by the opposition .
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In consequence of information received , the Home Secretary addressed a circular to the mayors in all the towns on the banks of the Tyne and Wear , inquiring whether it was within their knowledge that any war vessels were building in those waters ft * the Russian Government . Ia the large ship-building town of Suaderland no such orders were executing , nor have any been received ; but in . the Tyne , the Mayor of Tynemouth , who is also Lloyd ' s surveyor
having made careful inquiries , has ascertained that two iron vessels , 140 feet each in the keel , are , building at Messrs . Towood ' s at St . Peter ' s , ostensibly for a Russian house , but it is surmised for the Governmentof that country ; and that Messrs . R Stephenson and Co ., of Newcastle-on-Tyne , are fitting up the engines for them . Lord Palmerstonr will be put ia possession of the facts , and , no doubt , the whole matter will be inquired into .- :
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The following letter appeared in the Times : — " Sir , —As a rumour has obtained general circulation that the Princes of the House of Bonrbon intend to have a meeting at this mansion ia the month of March ^ I have authority to inform yoa that no Buch intended meeting is known to the persons most Interested in such a circumstance . " I am , Sir , your most obedient servant , " Edward Cost . " Clareraont , Jan . 18 . " .
The election for East Gloucestershire terminated in tie return of Sir Michael Beach , Tory , who , however , goes to Parliament" unpledged , " The contest was a trial of strength between the Tones and Liberals . Sir Michael polled 3363 m » n , and his opponent , Mr . Holland , 2844 * The Scotsmen assures us that the new Reform Bill is nancompleted , with the assent of Lord Pahnerston and Lord Lansdowne . About fifty , perhaps seventy , small boroughs are to be disfranchised .
Mr . Hadfield , M . P ., made a speech to the Sheffield pepple on Thursday ^ giving an account ot his Parliamentary stewardship daring 1859 . Sir Edward Balwer Lytton delivered his inaugural address on Wednesday , as President of the Associated Societies of Edinburgh . At its close ,-an allusion to the coming conflict with Russia , " the Alaric of the North , " drew down thunders of applause . * . The Marylebone Free Library has successfully commenced ha career . It was attended on the first five days by 677 undoubted mombersof the working-classes , among whom fourteen were women . The number of -books lent amounted to 68 Q . Liverpool , of course , coujd not escape the poultry mania . The first annual show was held there on Wednesday . Thirteen hundred fowls were entered for competition .
Pi otestantism broke out into a tea party at Liverpool , on Monday . The concert-hall was decked out with a profusion of orange ; ths stewards wore prange scarfs , the ladies oraoga * rosettes . Mr . Liddell , the borough member , came late , but Kentish fires tokl him he was welcome . This portentous assembly had met to comfort itself against the deadly hostility of Popery . ' 1 he remains of Lord Beresford were buried at the district church , near Bedgebury Park , 'on Tuesday , in the same vault with those of his wife . The servants , tenantry , neighbouring gentlemen and clergymen , Lord Hardioge ,
Count Lavradis , Sir R . Harvey , Lord Talbot , the Duke of Montrose , and others followed the corpse . For two hours it lay in stato in the schoolhouse . John Blunt , a veteran soldier , who in the bloody battle of Albuera lost a leg , cast the earth upon the coffin of his . general . Last Saturday a soirie was given at the Manchester Athenamm , for tho purpose of presenting Mr . Ogden , the honorary eocretary , with a piece of plate , and library , on hia retirement from the office .
Mr . Daniel Whittle Harvey , Commissioner of the City Police , is about to be presented with apiece of plate by the force , as a testimonial to him for his afiorts to increase their pay , and for his attention to their interests . On Wednesday evening Dr . Bowring delivered a very interesting lecture to a numerous body of the members of the London Mechanics' Institute , Southampton-buildings , on " National , social , and domestic huppiness , as influencod by the progress of knowledge . " At the conclusion of the lecture , a vote of thanks was accorded to Dr . Bow ring by general acclamation , upon the motion of Mr . Birbeck seconded by Mr . Lane . In briefly returning thanks , Dr .
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January 21 , 1854 . ] THE LEADS R . 57 '" ¦ ¦ — . ^
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 21, 1854, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2022/page/9/
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