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tafik . lM * iM * # n (} -for each fctath he charged 2 s . 6 a . and ! 24 . * wibe towei , and it was part of the practice that A » . 1 »(* fcii ^ t © l » idtewed to keep aajr m < mey then * mm * , li « t dtt i *« UP little MPriogs were to be entrusted fe ttwiw 1 htf £% 8 Riketv Bvery moTanng at breakfast * tbeyhad to stfttettt Max what they had earned < m tft ^|» irt ^ BM g ^^^ htit 1 M tfaia money feadUbeen paid to ^^ jrajta !^^ to interrogate b ^ fclt o ^ t-. ^ i ^ - . tl ( ie Iadie 8 » wad bo made one ft check aw ^ totflte qithisr . JLtt ^ h * regretted to say that on eyeiy Suriday morning the eatabUshroeat met , and then there w-ftsa reguktc ptateroent by them of the sum * ^ yihafl retceiVeet in the x * eeedm £ week , and whiehthose sums were
pEaEerean ^ M ^| . wil | i chargejB ^ &me . Weift ^ aae . TCile « irls , however , were not lilW ^ i an * money , not to see any friend , and he w < mT 4 not alfow them to receive any letter : $ && £ & $ ! &&& ti&gl *** * sWhou ^ i gusy were ^ ilo ^« d to receive letters from France . He was their t ^ i ^ ri a ^ 0 ey wer * not allowed to go shopping , ^^ wiU § 0 t ^ vci the ar&dles they wanted , and when in ^^ w ^ l ^ inoney coming to them , he had some ¦ B ^ i ^ m ^ oimt »^ to fhow them * and to induce them " iSi ^ iiiw ^' r ^ fcat of ^ tnose gijrjs were very ignorant ; bf » t "if ' bdxtoeD&i : that nls client was able * o write , and $ ri@ * itf 0 ito k * k for fcewfelS * she wraM ;
m > an Sfaj ^ to tefllhem exactlyAvhat amount she had tiacexved during every week , and what had ten * ^ i r | C ^ d her slor , ^^ 8 ^ 8 , N « n 4 fiwt wooM leave a 1 » iinc « dlue to ^ she sought 1 » renter tytihieyeraictofthejHry . . . - ] 'W ^^' ^ M ( Sm ^ i : '' 0 LO ; appeared for Xe Srun , tried to stop the case for the " benefit of the public ;" but ; the Chief Baron said time would not he thrown away in disclosing 1 <« eh- a- dreadlut state of things . So the case went on . Witnesses proved thatMarm aV ** atfriHtted lie owed 392 :, and that notice to the had been
fclt * er «^ Tiding habit claimed served . t&m ome the plaintiff , Margaret Reginbal . Site deposed tbjtt » he h « d been sent to England b > a 5 L ¦ W ® Nm& not knowing what sort of t >! ace she was ton ^ ftol : tHa , t she landed on the 27 tli of December U ^^ 0 m ^ m ^ flm ^ w-t ^ m Xonaqn , * he remained - « ii £ tB . ;!) M cAl ^^ one half the money ^ afew-tt ^ e ??^ tot ^ bees And one half bis \ but from her half her earp « nse » were to be paid . She remained the **•»•» : tiwej never allowed to go cut withoort a fem&fccoiifitoicei neve * allowed way money , neves afiowe * to receive letters . What she wanted te
Bnm ; sTrp | iiietf her with . Sometimes the gentlemen p » i * iDfeney-to # ltnesig , ana soraetimes ^ o the /««< < fc co ^ mr ^ in witnesa ' s presence . When witness received money she gave it to the / emme « fe confiancv ; and every morning she wrote down -what she had done the night before , and- tirnt book she now produced .- Germain , the defendant , inquired of Hermandlni * itfr sister , every morning what had been earned , and she fold Mm , and gave him the money bef&rfc witness . Evetr Sunday morning-they made tfiefr accounts up for the whole week with Herman-6 ! ine ; and then it was settled how much was for the defendant , how much for the girls , and how much was for expenses . Witness while there was called
Btanfcbe . She received various sums from gentletten ^ - ^ otnetimes 17 ., sometimes 21 ., sometimes 31 Front the 27 th of December , when she arrived at iGtie defendant ' s , until the end of the month , she earned 7 f . The first week in the new year , from the 1 st of January to the 7 th inclusive , she earned as follows : —The first day , 3 / . ; second day , 3 L ; third day , 8 / : ; fourth day , 4 / . ; fifth day , 4 L-, sixth day , 3 £ j and ttje seventh day , 3 / . ; making ; for tire week , SSt Occasionally she hud been called up several times itt ther night . Tho defendant never explained the expenses , but said they were so much . The first ? eek In tlie year the expenses were 41 . Qs ., and the
expenses were always kept back . The defendant h * d never given her any money at all , and , deducting € he expenses , he now owed her , according to her account , 70 / . She left him on the 3 rd or 4 th of April , and asked for some money and her clothes "before she left . He said he had none to give her . She asked for her Tiding-habit , and he said he had none to give her . She wanted the riding habit , but he refused to let her have it , and she never had had it . She left him because one day she asked him for money , and he would not give her any . She was only allowed to take her clothes and a few things away . The defendant told her if she wanted to go away
from him he would put her in prison . He had not shown her her accounts entered into a book every week . She saw him write , and he said to her , "You have so much ; there is so much for expenses , and then ther « is so much for you and so much for me . " Mr . Sergeant Miller , in cross-examination , cried to " throw dirt , " as the judge expressed it , upon Mr . Leviney the attorney of the plaintiff ; but was rebuked by the Chief Justice . He , however , elicited the facts that Reginbal had lived at Pnris , Lyons , Havre , a « d Marseilles , under the surveillance of the police , fta ia the custom in France . At length the case was brought to a close by the counsel forReginbal agreeing to accept a verdict for 30 / .
The Cliief Justice « aid he thought that the evidence entirely justified the statement of his brother Byles . He did not sny thut the defendant kept a
house -where young women were seduced ; but he did aay tiiat Be carried on the disgusting practie ^ of having young women in Mb house , and eheatsog them out of all they got , by keeping their mon « y , and not allowing them to purchase anything but Of Sim It had been proved that these statements were justified ; and if the case hud gone on , and it had been nroved that the defendant kept a house of this kiadL he should have ordered him to tie lBdieted for keeping such a house , and to be kefct in prisoa m , the meantime . ** T * * , ' a « . Tius announcement of bis lordship was ioltowea oy * burst of applause from the audience , which wias , however , at once suppressed by the officers of the court . A verdict was then entered for the plisiritiff for 30 t , and the case was brought to an end * -
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MXSCE LI * A . BTEO V S . Min <» jwg busiaess and pleasure , the Court goes < m Us dignified way . At a Court held , at Buckingbwn Palace , « n Tuesday , M » , Stiutfe resigned , and Earl i&cflfcviUe received , the seals of the Doehy of 2 Lancaater . On Wednesday the Queen gave » grind state "ball . Bwiag the week she has v » ited _ the ; St . Jahwa ' a Theatre twice , and the Italian . Opera once ; aod once tto Botanic Oar 4 eos m fiegantb-* afik . qph * royal geBtlemeiv from Portugal eem detefmined to see all thing * . Th * y have vwt « d Oxford , the City kions , Woolwich , th « Crystal falace , and Portsmouth . - . . . The S > acfae 8 ftrof Gloucester again appears m puldio . She &reve out on Tuesday .
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The loftg expefeted brevet made its appeavoned oa Thuraday . Frona its great length it aeeaata lilsfeLy to diflfu * e satisfaction very widely through the ht £ ber grades of the army . A large number al * o of oficefB wfe the East Indi * Gonrpany ' s forces ohtttin brevet tmak in her Majesty ^ army .
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Prince Albert presided at the osaal aanosl TnnityEonSe braqaet on Wednesday . Several Ministers werejpre&pnb * We believe that tHe Colonelcies of the 19 th anf 84 th Kegtments , vacant by the deaths of General Tttrnerf and'Sir Loft os Otway , will be tSbttferred on Sfajor-Geiienil Itowan , G . B ., eof titoandYng the troopein Canada , and M » j <> r- € ifla « MlJaittcs Sbsw Kennedy , C . B ., both distinguiahed Waterloo offlccps ^—0 toiK . Iho Beverend Getald Wellesley , domestic chaplain of the Queen , has been appointed by her Majesty to the v * £ * rit deanearg of Windaon Sir Georjge Grey names Lord Hobart and Mr . Wliitlread , M . P ., as his private secretaries . Sir Greorge Grey went through the fortfi at re-election by the ** free abd indeuendent * ten-oounders of Morneth , on
Saturday . He made a long speech to them , containing a great deal about his connexion with the Government , and about the war , but nothing new and Interesting . Above all , notwithstanding the fact that Sir George is Colonial Minister , he made not a smgle remark About the colonies . The directors of the Crystal Pabic 0 celebrated the entente cordials , on Saturday , by giving a sort o-f dinner , called a breakfast , to the French Commissioners in the basement story of the Palace . Among the guests were the Bishop of Oxford , Sir John aod Lady Falrington , tLe Earl and Countess of Shafcesbury , the Duchess of Sutherlancl , Lord Harrowby , Lord- Stanley , and the Earl of CarHsfev This is the first appearance of the last-named peer since his return from the East .
MM . Jerome Bonaparte , father and son , the son and crandson of Marshal Prince Jerome by his first wife . Miss Fatterson , Lave just arrived at Paris on board ' the Franklin , from the United States . The grandson is said to be a striking likeness of Napoleon I . King Bomba , it will be remembered , denounced the Exhibition of 1851 . Will it be believed that be has now sanctioned the formation of a company proposing to bdfild a Crystal Palace and Winter Garden at Naples !
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Yielding to tho objections expressed by a deputation of mimieipjil authorities , at an interview with him , on Wednesday , Lord Paltnoraton has consented to withdraw his Police Bill . The deputation included the Mayors of Manchester , Salford , Liverpool , Birmingham , Nottingham , and Blaokburn . The Society for tho Propagation of tho Gospel in Foreign Parts held iib 16 Srd anniversary meeting at Willis's Rooms , on Wednesday . Tlio Archbishop of Canterbury presided , and a great array of bishops were present . More funds are asked for . The annual mooting of tho Law Amendment Society was
held on Wednesday , and was unusually wull attended . Lord Brougham presided , and amongst those prosent were Lord Beaumont , Mr . A . < ldcrley , M . F ., Mr . Baring , M . P ., Mr- Commissioner Fane , and Mr . Commissioner fclifl . The report of the committee , after congratulating tho society on the progress made by the question of luw reform during a yenr of great public excitement , proceeded to enumerate tiieeubjocte which had chiefly - occupied their . attention since tho last unnual meeting , viz , the chunks in the eccle » inntical courts , the reformation of junenile offenders , the assimilation of com merciul lawn , tlio eommibsion on the inns of court , and the
uppuintment ol 11 public prosecutor . Tho report was unaniuiou *> ly adopted , aa wcreuUo two resolutions founded thereon , and the proceedings terminated with a vote of thaukt * to the prutiident . A meeting of literary men of tho metropolis was lield tit the Freemasons' Tavern on W « Jdnetid » iy , to consider tho best means of iidvancing their social position and their central inUroHta . Mr . ScYiolefieW , M . l \ , occupied the choir . A motion having bt-on agreed to affirming tliat it wu » desirable to form the literary body into a corporate institution to
protect their rig hts and interests , Mr . Tomlms dilated at considerable length tipon Che disadvantage * experienced by men of kttcm , ftotn the ^ ircumatance of their profession having IM f ecogsused position in society . He ooBolttded by momng » resoltition in favon * of th « Atheniaum Inatitute , i > ot tie propo « ftl norfc meetkig with uoaninrwms appiovftl ^ the meeting , after a wry prolix diecu 8 sion r agreed , to appoint a committee to Consider and report upon the beat course to purste in order to carry out th « principle affirmed in the first regolfitidn . Government fcas . prainfe « a to sapport tlie movemrtit , \ Mtiat « u br th * Iwtkntb < I 9 British Architects , tor keeping VWttnt ftoe opeti-space « ottth-ea * t of St . Paul ' s .
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Tbe relics of the " olden time , " Shrewsbury Show , and tbe Godiva Procession at Coventry , have been celebrated this week . The former consists air a procession of trades to a , place called Kingsland . Saving formed , it proceeded to th « Ma * feeVSquare , vhere it was joined by fhe mayor irad corporation , and at batf-part tw-o it started for Kingsland . Hetiry J ., tvho granted the first chatter to Shrewsbury , vws reptesvsuted ; Edwaawt Vl » ( the founder of Shrewsbury sCuooT ); aft Indian < hief , followed by several of the trades ; Vulcan ( in iroa at moor ) follow-ed hy tbe - « mkb »; Qaeen Eliaabetbr followed by the hairdressers ; Crispin , followed by ihc stwemaketB ; Rubens , followed by the painters } a fiMMB-eogtoe , -followed by the engineers ; Jenny Jones and Edward MorcjUa . Copid and the stag , followed by the taalora
and akinnera , ; a knight of tlie cleaver , followed by the tutchera ; and fh «* e were representations of the s « sa « tfns ^ ^ ad a grogp chtu-acteristic df me battle of Shrewsbury ^ , tachtditig Sot * pttr in \ <* afft Gtramr . About 30 , 000 pewple wete » rt » ettti Tfee- ^ Mi ^ witfes iidwetkined the ne * t day . TFbe -Wfetwitf ^ wxwsaiett « t Owentry was remarkable for ma uMU > v « t » m . Theroiwera i , iro Godivas . One wore the ? ofee »« f »«« a&teaa « f ^ Mt « Vie ^ i time ; the other more netrly artproaAed the Jttde » ^ Th « latter , irho wa » rapturously « heefdd , w « a jpreceded by a ^ Bpleiidid banner , bearing the word *— " 'WtiS . the pore-aft things are pure / 1 Both ladies , BUstabaeJ' ^ i e character ad « ftirAb ^ ? Iftit tfefe one who adopted the original coatotria was most tttuaistaikabry the belie Of the day .
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Six et < a « A < wt 8 are buiWiftfc M me Th » mes for Baltic setvfc » . Th » &wt ir « e lattadnd iaat week . It bad only been « ight weeks on the attttkfc . ^ bese bb « ts are to carry two large yifeotr guns ^ *» d' aiitbtioatlaide guns * They wUl be the fisete&t and strongest v « wel » ja th « fleet . The Board of Ordnance hav » jurcbased , on the part of the Government , a large number ^ amounting to upwards of 2000 , oTreyptviMg ^ tttk / feom CotoneltJoit , for thetaeof the trtablic service . The proposals fer the Itasrfatt loan Jft Hollaad have jtrst been pat fmk . The * n »« it i * W ^ WC ^ 0 © 9 of silver ro » bles or nearly « , ( M ) O , 00 Ofc Bterlittg , m a 6 p * # c «* nt . stock , with . : diwdend fi-6 ni' ttfe 1 st of Apnl r < t * price equal to about 9 S | . iThe harases by whom it is toCrMlttced are Messrs . Stieglifa ; . at St . Peterebutg , and MesstB . Hope , at Amsterdam ; and it is said £ bat ia the latter city a good amount has been subscribed . , _ . A child , three years aqd a half old , named Ricnardson , wassome time sinceoperated upon for the stone , at the
, , Tree Hospital , by Mr . CotokB ana air . Wakley , junior . It is said the child was under the operation erne hour and forty minutes . It died . Tbe parents , dissatisfied , proceeded to obtain bm inquest ; and aa fettle * for one ^ as made . " When tbe mother called on Mr . Wakley , she says he asked her if she bad been bribed to take that course , and she replied no . Before the inquest could take place , the attorney employed by the parents induced them to forego the inquest , offering 20 / ., which they refused to accept . It is alleged that 100 * . were given to him to stop the proceedings . At all events they were stopped . The fatheT declaring himself deceived , obtained an order from Lortf Palnaeraton for an investigation . That is now pending before Miv Baker , Coroner , sitting on behalf of Mr . Wakley . As jet no evidence has been heard for the defence . TMr . Wakley , junior , writing to the morning journals , denies that he operated at all ; and that he neitlier used knife or forceps . !
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A tremendous Itoiler explosion took place , on Friday week , at Snsethwick , near Birmingham . The boilers were in the centre of a pil © of buildings ; being out of repair , tire machinery was stopped , and repairs were ttiadto ; but as the ensineman was about to set it in motion again , one of the boilers exploded , blowing the building to pieces , and injuring , it is- feared fatally , sis persona . Fortuaately , the great number of workers were absent at the time . On Sunday there was a tire at Chatham Dockyard ; and the saw-mill was totally destroyed . Visited half an hour
befoie the fire broke out , no sign of combustion was discovered , yet in half an hour the fire was so intense that the whole middle portion of the building was in flames . The chief efforts were directed to saving the neighbouring buildings ( and this was effected . There was a great lire , on "Wednesday , in tho Uew-road , St . < 5 eorge ' s-in-tl )« -East , by which the greater purt of the premises of Paichin and Johnston , oil-merchants , was destroyed . Tho oil on fire trickled down the gutters . Three arches under the Blackwttll Riiilway were cleaned out by the flumes . A large quantity of Government stores wero burned . The firm was insured .
M . Latour ascended in ft parachute , attached to a balloon , on Monday evening , und descended in safety at J $ lrooter ' ahill . l $ y the upsettinp of a bout In a gust of wind wliicli avcept over tlio Frith oi Forth , three Newhaven pilots have been drovned .
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Another illustration of tlio folly of not currying arms of some kind ia furnished thia week . Samuel Adcock , a young farmer , six feet liigh , was shot dead on Siilurdny , oa his return from marker , when within two iriilea of hw houses . The place was lonely . His money was gone . The body had been carried from the road and flung into n ditdi . Jle was shot from behind . As the emigration ngont waa clearing tho Fidelia , an American uhip , tbe crow mutiniud , und one triad to stub Lh *
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Leader (1850-1860), June 24, 1854, page 586, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2044/page/10/
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