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      he uttered * an oaJth * nd Ordered me out of the house . The children were screaming in the greatest terror and running into the-street . After dragging the prisoner from his Wife , I raised her in my arms , bat she was perfectly- -speechless and insensible , remained so for at least « quarter of an hou * , Mad when she did return to consciousness she trembled e » - cesavelf . I placed the wife in a chair , and while supportin g her in it the prisoner ran up to me exclaiming , ' Sne is my tatfe and I will dto whit I lite with her , ' but I sent for a Burgeon and transferred the husband to the station . " The wife , a respectably-dressed woman , who was accompanied by two or her daughters , all" three in the greatest grief , gave a similar detail of the outrage to that before related , stating that she had been -married to the prisoner for ) aimdue

      neany myears ana aaa naa eigui cauaren vy , aaaea that she had been subjected to the most scandalous usage for the whole of the last three Tears by her husband , who had repeatedly threatened to murder her , and she was fearful that lie would do so . The poor woman at length became violently agitated , feinted , and was carried oat senseless in the arms of the gaoler . The prisoner ' s defence was— I was intoxicated anti don't recollect much sibout it , bat believe that all € h& witnesses hare sworn falsely ; however , I shall take care for the fotnsa , and I am now sorry that it occurred . " Mr . HammilL— -Frequently as- cases- of this kind are

      brought before me , I do before this to be th « worst . T am lisgpy that in tlis instance the .-victim of suck cruelty will not suffer from wanftor be inconvenienced during the punishment I shall inflict upon her assailant , and tay sontonce upon you ( the prisoner ) isy , that you ; be committed to- the House of Correction for « ix months , with hard labour ,, and at the « xpisatioa of that sentence provide two sureties id 2 ©? . each to be responsible for jour , peaceable behaviour for a farther term of like duration . The prisoner nailed contemptuously , and left the bar without a word .

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      it is cisziiJL n E'o tr s . Queen Victoria , left X / onien yesterday morning , in order that she wight review her gallant fleet before it sets sail for . the Nortik -During the week a Privy Council has b « ea held , and an Order issued , warning gtrsons infringing the Foreign Enlistment Act . Sir arrulton Seymour nas had an audience of the Queen on his reftrrn from Russia . Janong ^ the numerous guests at the Qeeen ' s table hav « been some of our soldiers and' sailbrs—Cord Seaton , SirGharteB Napier , Sir Colin Campbell , and Colonel CatoK Prince Leopold of Saxe Coirarg . is a guest o € the Queen , anclhaa , with her Majesty andiPrinee Albert , visited at . the Haymarketand I < yceum theatres ..

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      Many are the * fashionable gatherings now . Lord ; John . Bnssell gives Parliamentary dinners ; , the Speaker entertains , hie weekly batch of members ; Lord Palmerstou feasts 1 royalty , and Lady Palmerston gives a cosmopolite reception ; . the Duke of Somerset gives a dinner to the excluded young statesmen , Layard , Milner , Gibson , Lord Seymour , Charles "Villiers ; now and . then the fossil Fox Club meets , and * Brookes ' s , rivalling White's , gives a banquet to the Duke of Cambridge . Sir Hamilton-Seymour arrived at . Dover from St . Petersburg on Sunday . The Onyx steamer in which he came grounded in a iog , and he was . landed , with his family , in a boat .

      Sir Peregrine . Maitland presided over a meeting at Willis ' s IRooms on Tuesday , to devise means for assisting the wives and children of" the soldiers sent to the East . Amon g thespeakers were Lord Shaft « sbury , Mr . Hume , Lord St . Leonard' s , Dr . Cumming , and Lord Ingesrre . It was resolved to form an association , and to collect subscriptions at once . The Hon . Captain Maxwell , one of the representatives for Cavan , has issued an address to his constituents , informing them thab- he has been ordered to join his regiment ( the-^> 9 th ) , now under orders for war service in the East . The Ion . and gallant member trusts that his necessary absence from his Parliamentary duties may not be of any lengthened duration , but in the mean time he has " paired" for the remainder of the session with an officer who is placed in ¦ precisely similar circumstances with himself .

      It is proposed to fortify Leith Harbour by the- canny folk in those parts , who are < apprehensive of a rude morning call from some of the Russian frigates- at large . The defences axe to consist of a revolving battery of twenty-four 68-pounders set up on the Island of Inchkeith . When the Retribution dashed into the harbour of Sebastopol so gallairtly the other day , one of the officers , Lieutenant O'Reilly , took a sketch of the forts , and subsequently made a plan tierefrom . On the 6 th ultimo he presented them to the Sultan .

      It seems that , not abashed by the fate of the famous hat , Prince Albert has invented a coat for the officers of the Guards . But the design is laudable . He wishes the officers to substitute a coat the colour of the great coat of the men , so that they may not be auch conspicuous marks fox the rifles of the Russians . The harbour-mnater at Shields received instructions on Wednesday to clear away bertha for two French war Bteamers , expected in the 1 jne ov « ry tide . They were coming down to nnalco arrangements for a supply ot" steam coal for tho war steamers to bo employed in the Baltic fleet . An English war vessel is also expected there . The troops in Turkey lire to bo supplied with first-rato London porlor at 3 d . a pot .

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      Ihe following is a liat of gonllumen appointed by tho Court of Directors of tlie Hunt India Company on tliti HLh of March , lbS-1 , to be directors under the Act Kith and 17 th Vic , cap . vr > : —Mr . Charles Mills , MY . Kuasol ! Ellioe , Mr . Rutterworth «« yl < 7 , Mr . John Shepherd , Mr . Martin Tucker Smith , M . P ., fair Henry Willock , Sir Jam « n Weir Hogg , M . I ' ., Lieutermnt-Colotml W . 11 . Sviceb , Mr . Elliot Murnughteii , Major James Ulipliaut , tlio lion . W . li . L . Melville , Mr . Kosa Duiiclly

      Mangles , M . P ., ; Mr . William Joseph Eastwick , Mr . John H . AsteU , and Mr . Henry T . Prinsep . Mr . Baines , tbe President of th <* PooTliaVr Board , has been besieged by tie metropolitan guardians of late . They urgently insist that bis new law abolishing compulsory removal will be very Injurious to London , A-t ^ present he remains firm . At a Court of Common Coaricu , held on Thursday , a discussion arose in reference to tbe proposed bfll for theabolition of the law of settlement and poor removal . Mr . Whiteside moved that pfttitwns should be presented to both Souses in favour of the bill . The prqpbsal , which Was second ** bjr Mr . Abraham , was met by aft amendmenfc mdved by Mtf . Lott , escpRjssbt * of the distrust of tbe bill by tbe © oor \ inasmuch as it would lead to a national rate for the relief of

      the poor , or to the charge <« f their maintenance upon the consolidated fund . The amendment was seconded by Mr . Perkins , and on a division wa&carjtied by 46 against 42 . Sir John FalungtoB announc ^ in ajetter to ian-d Lyttleton , that he intends to preside as ohaufnan of Quarter Sessions , for the last tima , at Easter . H « finds that his Parliamentary duties prevent his attendance . The proctors of the Prerogative Court are filled with "dismay" at ihe proposal of faoted Cirmnwtoth to transfer testamentary jurisdiction to the Court of Chancery , at least they tell his Lordship so . He , in reply , meel % states that he cannot abandon the TalL bat if the proctors can suggesta mode by which they wiH lie benefited , and the bill carried out , he will—consider it I

      Government nave instructed tne General' Board of Health to prepare suggestions for a Buildings Bill , to serve for the country as well as for the metropolis . —

      mend some young gentlemen , of provedaptitttne Tor the acquisition of foreign languages , wnt > are or Wave'lteen students in the college * for appointments' t& pubHo offices under the Government at Hongkong ; The salary which will be allotted to those who may be successful is 200 f ; a-yewr , to commence on their arrival in China ^ their passage being provided at the public expetisei Their advaacemdnt in thepnbltc employment in China will depend entirely on 4 heab " iilty and steadiness which they- may maniiest in . conducitih ^ the affairs which may be committed to > their charge . - The distribution o £ medals to the maLVanAfemnle students

      of the Central School took place on Saturday ; afternoon , in the Theatre of the Department of Science and'Aft . Edward I Cardwell , M . P ., presidont , and Lord Stanley ,, of Alderley , \ the vice-president ,, of the Board of Trade , were present ,, among a numerous-body of students and tneirdfriends . Mr . < Cardwell and Jtr . Redgrave , tie art superintendent , delivered ) appropriate addresses . Cholera has broken out In Ireland . The unfortunate 1 towns are Linaerick and Camckfergus . Withii eight days , ! at the latter , xine persons died , out of sixteen attacked ; News'has been received from the Isthmus of Darienre- ! latihgto thfrfixploration going on there . On-the 24 th ! the j French and English party Bet out } they hod " - been ; preceded ! by the- American party . Afc present me statements ^ are toi the effect that the route-proposed is impracticable for a shipi canaL

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      The case known as the Burnbam murder is the distinctive ) feature of the Aylesbury assizes . The trial of the groom , ! Hatto , took place on Wednesday and Thursday , and resulted ! in his conviction fot murder . Our readers will remember that , in November last , a Mr . Goodwin , tenant of the Burnham Abbey farm , found on arriving at home clear signs oft murder . In tho passage lay a tooth , on . the matting were spots of blood , up the staircase he found amote ; and after , ; with the groom ' s assistance , he had . extinguished the fire * finding the body of his servant lying with the face to thel floor , and half burned from the ancles upwards . Questioned ^ Hatto said he had retired' to his bed after taking , supper from the woman servant ; that he heard a rumbling noise about half-pa « t ten , roBe in bis bed , but lay down again . Stil 1 restless , he got up on hearing the dogs bark , and called the

      farm-bailiff ; both went round the yard—Bonce , the bailiff , placing Hatto at a gate while he searched . On returning : he found Hatto had . strayed from tbe gate and had , as he said , fallen into a . pool of manure water—the pool being ; only ancle deep , and the ground nearly level . Of course ,, the ; murder , unaccountable aa it seemed , caused a great stir . On examining the body , it was found that the skull was fractured ; and one of the witnesses stated that he found a broken poker , besmeared with . hair , and : blood , under the grate . Hatto ' s behaviour was strange . He washed his trousers ; he had wounded hands , for which he aocounte d , yet not [ satisfactorily ; he made a night journey on his master ' s liorse shortly after the murder , to the railway station at Maidenhead , as he alleged , to

      SS ^^ ssaaMawBfts jromen . The dekn ^ oentssrembsay youwr nj ** "SttoHnnA mstance , tried at Cheirirfopa , in wHcfttfoew fe ^™ h * L *^ Harriet Worth « nd her lo » eV , JMbpb'cSL S ?« &S hc ? l ^ J * " ^ Ofl ^* " * ST ***** ^ ff wSJiK watched them , suddenly attacked Cant , ana laiMfc&a < ifin dovvn ; he got up , and was knocked down KMta . Fttrflltf resistance being hopeless , he ran for aid . Before he ^ wi HoM with some neighbours , two of the W » tch «» , tlio thirS Aifflate had violated the poor girL Oae was transported for life , the other two for fifteen years .

      receive a parcel ; but it is surmised it was to hide something incriminating . All theso things weighed with , the J ury . Moreover , evidence was adduced to show that a parson screaming in tho kitchen , under Hatto ' s bedroom , and in . tho passage , on the staircase , and in the bedroom of the murdered woman , could bo heard in Hatto ' B room . After more than two hours ' deliberation the jury returned a verdict of " guilty , " and Lord Campbell passed a aonbenco of doatti ., Buckiugharnshire produces a real , but not a gallant high ^ wayman . Cheese , an excisoman , waa walking home , when two men , with pistols , rushed out of a hedge . One , Spalcher

      by name , presented a pistol and cried , " iouf money , or your life . " Cheese thought thev were larking ; but he was told to bo quick , or a bullet would settle the question . Then he Jiandeu some silver , wiJbli which tho fellows boltecL Spalcher was subsequently captured in a chimney . Ho had two pistols , but did not use them . Tried nt AyleBbury he was transported for 20 yoara ; his companion imprisoned for two years . The asBizes throughout the country show an average amount ol ' crimo . of which criminul assaults on women tur-

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      Sdine advance has been made in the ease of jftice ESfefe An old Frenchinan named Desaux , ^ ne faster ot £ [ adam w Denis , is in custody , charged with being iinsuM ^ ad " m , wft conspiracy . It is clearly shown by an Iriaa servant . <^ no Weald not live in tlfe ^ housfew % eii sMe'feyRf ' o ^ WrfUfc o « , 1 * at £ Hjsaux , acting under Madame ^ s ofders / i « t ) t AKsi m'ct £ 8 tt . av . Her clothes were taken frortt " fer . The rMl nkt ite of Madamm ttenis is Latire Laobuchere : T £ e « # 6 | M ^ f th « Jew , Feifchtal , 6 Tice krot tiitihoufie ii ' wfifch ^ Eftl J ^ m ^ i tViM / i'i " I tii ? tri ~^ 'i ^ ! tASi- « Xii ra- ' . ' l' ' - - ¦ ' ' vfTilfiWOCm w « w JEuur ( IGF 0 Cl « .,-TfVi ' rit ^ i ¦ Jr ^ I ' liriirl ¦¦ t frtf ih * "il ¦ ¦ ¦ lifffrif ' ^ fWfr ' - ^ fi j £ > i iV ii £ &' 44 " - < U ' - ' f ± i&J £ i £ : iyni % IHiluy x * uO \ l , Tifwy Hi movrHyffXj ^ flff OIu SSVXIuE jnOHpOGEiUljE . * .- in / j- ^ u ^• ¦ wl *' £ * -m ij ¦¦ v-aaj " -Ji ... * :. < 'VatfLwfeftara-i 1 r * - £ tL ^ Jjj ^ S 3 iis ? 34 fe ^ . ?^* iH& jS 11131 DS clllu DSCK ttOPo Q ^ ffffMTTi ^ Mr PiTiHJWl » HTlfl v 1 jP 9 QIACUT wb wiwTflacfcene * fflferfiame- 'lEliPE ^^ i ^ \ & §^ &t Mtw mbiiraii ; . . _ _ , . ¦ ¦ . - ~ , " ' ¦ » ¦'' ' . '¦ .

      .. & Mr . Pre ^ ericS de Mofy ^ fai ^ SnjrljacwClw | ntK tia ^ raw ® committed tb trM by the £ bfa limw ^ mwi a forged power df Attoniey , aM ob ^ MJ ^| hWn | i 3 upwaks oYlSOG ? . W . d ¥ ffajfts declar ^ m : na d rioCi t ended anything ; bate . The mon % MolpFlo * fmf ( u&W had taken that means of obtaining it . Refractory cabmen still abound , in spite of .. the Etaw panacea . Mr . Alfred Wig « h Iras bes'tt cTSmp ^ fied fc suimfioa a batch of cabmen , plying for hire in Drury-lane . It seems they were accustomecl wn 6 ft Mri'Wigin and bis wife left ; the theatre , and waritectf to * ' \ fc > "driven : nfome , to sneak off , ea that their numbers might not- be taken . The man who acted as ringleader said : "Qh , ah ! Bromptonfor eighteenpence . Don't you wisli you inayeet it ? The practice of the rank / according' tb a-cdtefeDlb , wfi * Jae ^ fxK ^ tftktPfaMi UJfileUs fljere weie five of eixt ^ t ' ikimi- ThefmeKjSmoiSt JUte JataihiBi .

      The ; eiglit ^ oaxfed galleys beliroging . ^ to the r tfcafOe « 8 t 6 er Vfyikm fo chased- and <^ tured > ajsb ^ jr fitet ^ fling ., ^ oraflfc nmmed the ChaHotU i of Londo % , hiivwit , on bosird 2 ( wO : lbj ^ of'tobaooOf . ' -. T ' . ' ¦ " . . ' . , . ' ""'/ '" : A man named Elmes , at Sout | M | t ^ h ^ b ^ en c ^ rfee ^ with , the attempted" starvatibri Of iiis daugnrer . ' Ble'M ^ taAir iaa room on dry bread , and allowed her no firev Wftteb broudit beforo the magistratt * ,, th * peop l * >* er « - strife'Jiro pared'to EynohhUn . s ,. Funnell , the ^ detective ofic * rif vawlvedffewtt Axnanoa ^ otii S « tnraay , havitig-seenithe not (} n 6 ua > barg | lard HaelEett ) -in tbe New Jersey State Prison . . Hecbad ; beei ^) colqnutt |^ rthemJi Br Btotglwry- \ a \ New York . Eunnell . made : ihe ^ neceiaajry arwuigementa for h » removal toJSugUrodjafllser UDB ^ xpiratktn of . hi&vOonfinenMnt in America .. * .

      Lord , Londesborough has determined' to dbcontihne , iiita great measure , the preservation of , game oavhis extensrte estates . He has taken this determination cm atbcouht ^ o ^ Wi unfortunate accident which happened t < y iW' HolderoeMt hounds , when at LondesboroughUately , arilingfrom « the * versrealof a keeper . ¦¦¦ < - ¦ ¦ -

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      m ^ ^—mmm ^ mmm ^ i ^ a ^^ m , T t , * , Afire-broke out at Messrs . BidefieW ^ R ^ pftpievrmaohC ^ rat ^ - hous ^ a * lofty pile of buildings , at , the cori ^ r . ofJWelliijijtoitstreetlforth and Exeterrstreet , Strand ,, oa Thursday . iwgbf . When , first discovered the fi ^ e ^ was r ^ jan ^ Iai the uppfer . ' root , tmd speedily the flames burst through ; thtfrobf ; Theengities oi the . London brigade and West or Engboid'Company arrived on the spot in rapid succession , but from want of waafer and the combustible nature of theVtbcfc it was some tixkxe before the firemen obtained t the mastery , over the flames ^ The upper part of Mr . BielefteldJa premises wm deatrov < ed . and tile adjoining Tiouses considerably damaged . Mr » . Alp ^ rt Smith was in the orowd , recounting to Mr . JIdwin Janxes , Q . G ., hia experience of afire he Baw at Perft , when iu CoaatantinoDle , and Mr . Charles Dickens was encouraging , the

      firemen in their labours . Mr . Charles Mathews was herp , there , and everywhere . The warlike spirit of th « mob was curiously expressed during the fire by t&e men enmlQyed at the engine pumps singing in chorusf by thouMnds ^ I ( Ralo Britannia , " and other national Bongs * , The inquiry into the oolBery explosion ab Wigan was brought to a close on Thursday . The iory returned this verdict : — "Wo find that tho deaths * ot' the' eighty -nine persons under consideration-were occasioned , by an e * p lo « jo > n « £ fire-damp ocourring witliin the , workings of the ArJW Mine , at tho Ince-hall Colliery on Saturday , the 18 th ujf . We find that the explosion occurred in or close to PiUringtan a

      drift , and was ignited , as wo conceive , from PnkiDgtoa s shaft . The oiigination of the gas which exploded was , t « believe , from a sudden and accidental outburet from flOHWT point not far from the seat of the explosion ; and we would point to the fall in Woodcock's p lace as the only likely source shown for the emanation of such an outburst . We give it-as our opinion that the general management and ventilation of the mine in question from the time of the former lamentable explosion to the present has beon satisfactory , and th&system of working under the peculiar ciroumstancos of the pit ujloonflurable . Under tho circumstances of theao awftd explosions we would strongly recommend to the managers that as fur as possible tho use of gunpowder in tho working placoa within tho mine bo wholly discontinued . "

      Mr . Jamos Haywood , teacher of chemistry , at Sheffield , has suffered a shocking death . In lifting a large bottle- of sulphuric acid without supports , the glass broken the aeid ran on to Mr . ITay wood's olothcs , ho dropped the bottle and foil on hia face amonp the fluid . Ho was carried away , bat soon died . One of tne pupils was injured . Two Jives wcro lost by tho explosion of fireworks at a firework factory in tho Westitjijaator-road , an . Monday Tho proprietor , Colon , waa killed .

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      MARCH : li , 1854 . ] THE LEADEI . gyy

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 11, 1854, page 227, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2029/page/11/