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thajb feyejrhad } bee ^ % he y&fiyfy . yhillipg , the nurse , h % d $ & > a s . eyer ^ { $ ' $ ? && , Ql&le : ill by the foulness of the room ] , and sh © beraelf had suffered from it . The rqpms , w £ re . go crowded that niajay had no beds or even ftcks . tp sleep pn $ a . tjie . y had , to lie on the floor , the ,, tft ^ H- or fa " * -. Tk ? occasional ventilation in some , of tfce ward . s , by opening the windows , alone prevented the inmates dyjqig of suffocation . In the men ' s casual ward , iij is , reported by the sturgeon that
ten m , enhad passed the night ; lying nakedj as close as possible , on one of the plonks . The stench in the irigjit-nurs . es' sleeping rooin is described by Mrs . Gray as . terrible . Testing the air , it was found to contain 2 * 75 per cent , of carbonic acid . The men ' s dayrooms and insane wards ., are mentioned as being fearfully overcrowded . One sleeping apartment is described as a cellar , where fifteen persons sleep . There was HO chimney to the rqom , and no means of ventilation , except one small window in the door . The arrangement for the administration of out-door relief is
depicted as most defective . As many as nine hundred are sometimes relieved in one day . The applicants are crowded into pens , the air being most offensive , frequently causing women to faint . "At half-past five o ' clock , as many as one hundred and fifty still remained unrelieved , They had no food all day , and many of them stated that they did not expect any upatil seven o ' clock . Mr . Birchinore , the relieving qvergeer , states that his predecessor died from the effects of the foul air of this underground office , into which the directors were unwilling to come . " Dr . Jones adds— "I cannot ; sufiSciently strongly express
the opinion I have formed of the evils which result from the cold , wet , foul air , and fasting , which the poor endure . While endeavouring to obtain out-door relief , they are exposed to disease , and even to death . " 2 S " p attempt was m . ade at the parish meeting to deny these assertions— -indeed they were admitted to be trueij and the adoption of the report , as well as of another report by the vestry committee on . the same subject , was agreed to . A committee appointed to take the report into consideration has recommended several sanitary reforms .
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is paid , of adulterating flour . This substance—chemically termed sulphate of barytes—is admirably adapted for the adultera tion of flour , being an impalpable powder , of perfect whiteness , and great density , its weight being nearly equal to that of lead . It is not poisonous , tut , being quite indigestible , its effects on the animal economy must be prejudicial if taken in large quantities . Some of it is used for a more laudable purpose—the manufacture of earthenware , for which , in conjunction with other clays of a siliceous character , it is well adapted . Manganese is also said to be exported to England to some extent , for the purpose of adulterating black lead .
Assize Cases .- —John Kenyon , a plasterer , has been found guilty at Lancaster of the manslaughter pf bis wife by continued ill-usage , while she was suffering from consumption . He was sentenced to transportation for life . — -William Brown , a letter-carrier , has been convicted at the Appleby Assizes of stealing a post letter containing eight half-crowns and a half sovereign . The money had been returned by the prisoner ' s friends ' shortly after it had been stolen ; but he was sente-nced to . six years * penal servitude . A SPlEri-ED Thief . —Patrick Collins ( the boy who formerly acted as one of the agents of King , the exdetective policeman ) has been found guilty , together with another boy , at the Middlesex Sessions , of stealing a purse . The two were sentenced , the former to four years' penal servitude , and the latter to four months' hard labour . The prosecutrdx , in giving her evidence , addressed herself to the bench , when Collins
said , " Look at me , ma ' am , will yoUj , and not there . " On . the Assistant-Judge remarking that he had been punished on other * occasions , Collins interposed" My lord , my having been in prison , before does not make me guilty of this charge . " Robbery and Attempted Mubder . —Burglarious entrances into houses on Sunday evenings while the family is at church have been ray common of late ; and an instance is stated to have occurred last Sundsmat a house in Sutherland - square , We' - -j Three men entered the lu »— * ~* worth - road , keys , and com *— , ¦ r- « F means of skeleton no - . _ oacecl plundering the rooms . The t + V . . ¦ :
A Widow Bewitched . —A painful case of wrongful accusation came before the Lambeth magistrate on Wednesday . The names of the persons concerned have been suppressed in the papers , and the initials onlf are given . Mrs . G . ( a widow of high respectability ) was riding in a Clapham omnibus with Mrs . H ., another wido w equall y well connected . The former lady accused the latter of stealing her watch ; and , though a } l the passengers avowed their disbelief in any such things she persisted in the charge . Mrs . H . then consented to go to the station-house ; and here the inspector suggested that Sirs . G . ' s watch might have got concealed in her dress , and reeqmaijended a searchbut vras cut short bv ' <¦>' - ' !;
were remarried according to the ri $ es of tjie Church of England ; and this was subsequently done , without the publication of the banns and withput licence . Mr . Benson was admitted to bail . ' The Spirit ov Murder works , in the very Means of , Life . "— -Tennyson ' s terribly true line has received many confirmations lately ; but none more full of a cold-blooded , mechanical , systematic villany than is afforded by a new trade which has sprung up between Ballydehob , in the county of Cork , and Liverpool . * ' It consists , " says a Cork paper , " in the exportation of large quantities of a material called baryte § , which is sent to Liverpool for the purpose , it
little chaise , and soon became a great favourite with the family- It was also s , good deal noticed in the work called " Our Village , " by the celebrated authoress , Miss Mitford , who lived in the nei ghbourhood , anjd by another literary lady who used frequently to borrow it . This much-cherished family pet remained in the possession of Miss Wheatley until 1851 , in the August of which year Miss Wheatley one morning discovered that it was stolen . The lady happened at that time to be living in London , and was much concerned on hearing of the loss of her favourite . She could not by any means recover it , and had long since given up all hopes off seeing it again , when one day , about a fortnight ago , she beheld the animal in tie streets harnessed to the
cart of a costermonger . A mutual recognition immediately took place between the two friends . The young lady , however , although she greatly noticed and caressed the donkey , would net at that time claim him as her own property , but continued talking with the man until she saw a policeman , io whom she stated her case , and afterwards took out a summons . A solicitor in court on behalf of the costermonger , attempted to prove that a donkey was not , strictly speaking , a chattel ; he also stated , in order to show how difficult it to identify people or property , that in another police-office , not long since , a woman had sworn tp a wrong man as being her husband . The father and mother of Miss
Wheatley , as well as a friend ^ both declared that the donkey belonged to their daughter . Mr . Jardine finally ordered the donkey to be given up to Miss Wheatley Hopeful Lodsebs .- —At the Worship-street police court , a young man named John Crockett was charged with , having committed two audacious l-obberies . The first was at the house of Miss Hudson , a maiden lady , living at Dalston , where , about two months ago , he called with , an accomplice who was not then in . custody and asked to look at sonie apartments that were to let . Having taken a view of the rooms while he left
his friend in the parlour , he promised that his " Ma should call the next day , and then quitted the house with the other man . His "Ma , " however , did not come at all , and no sooner had the two visitors departed , than Miss Hudson missed , a gold cratch that had hung up in one of the rooms . Thinking it possible that she might have left ifc in the parlour , she went there to look for it , but then found that both it and . another from the parlour mantelpiece were goneu They were both in their usual places be ^* " " . .. entered the house . Mis « " *? -. " ¦ ¦ -w . ic cne men ¦
either of + ¦*» - " , «~ . " . uqson . saw no more pf «« o tnieves until after Crockett was in custody . The other robbery took place , under similar circumstances , at a house at Dalston , vyhere Mrs . Head , the wife of an engineer , lived . When , Mrs . Mead left the court after these two cases" had been heard , she met in Biskopsgate-street a man whom she recognised as the associate of Crockett , She accordingly gave him in custody . The two prisoners , who were both identified by a constable in court as notorious and convicted thieves , were remanded for a- week .
Silk Robbery , — -A large amount of silk velvet , &c . has been taken from the premises of Mr . Thomas Marshall in Spital-square , during the absence , for about half an hour in the middle of the day , of that gentleman . From the account given of two men who ¦ were seen driving away from the premises in a spring cart , they were arrested and , on being taken to the station-house , one of them , named Stuart , asked to be shown to the watercloset . Here he was observed to tear up some paper , which , however , he could not get rid of ; and the fragments were found to contain the word " "velvet" in writing , and to correspond with the paper which wrapped round tho misBiug goods . Stuart ( who is described as a commercial traveller ) , and his accomplice Hopkins , have been remanded at Worship-street .
A SaxrEE without being : a Widow . —A woman , in a stato of stupefaction from habitual drunkenness , was brought before the Worsbip-streot magistrate , oharged with attempting to burn herself to death- A policeman Btated that , on the previous night , tho woman ' s husband ran towards him in tho streets , with a petticoat in flames in hia Iiand , Buying that his wife had set fii-e to tho bod aha wan lying on , with tho determination to burn herself to death . Going to tho house ho found that such was tho case , the bod-clothes nnd tho woman ' s own linou being in flames . Tho woman in her drunken way , swore that slio would destroy herself ; but she was " rosouod from death by foreo . " She is a confirmed drunkard and has inado tho snino attempt sovornl times before . Tho nuigistrnto remanded hor .
Model SiaTEiis .. —Mary Ann Prior , a young woman belonging to tho class seif-doaoribod as " unfortunate , " lirtH miule a murderous attack on her Hiater , who belongs to the sanio ordor . . They woro in a boor-shop whon tho one sinter detected tho othei ( who , though living an abandoned life , is a married woman ) in tho not of robbery , for whioh she reproved hor , and coinpolled roHtitution of tlio property . PrioJ wan groatly onrngod at this , and tho sister ( Hanunl Kendall ) returned homo . Hore sho wn » followed bj Prior , who bunt her with hor fists , and , Hoisting « knife , rushed at hor . She eil , but w <\« purwuocl ixnc
, , „ , „ -. 11 ' , ;¦ .,, , — * ~ j - ^ c iaav c " tS&n ^ - pern - - - ^* wfih S search himself . > Jttrs , H . wa 3 given in cll bufc was admitt ^ ct to baU ; and at night , on going to bed , Mrs . ^ . discovered the watch concealed in her dress , wne therefore offered an apology on the following morning before the magistrate ; and the accused was dischaTged . Bonded Stores Robberies at Bristol . A custom-house officer at Bristol has recently been convicted of participation in the robbery of Mr , Alfred Phillips , wholesale wine and spirit merchant ; and further investipations have been mode by Mr . Brown one of the surveyors-general , Mr . Weale , chief locker , and
Mr . Beverley , solicitor to the Customs—investigations whioh have terminated in the suspension of thirteen Custom-house officers , and in an examination conducted with closed doors . A report lias been presented to the Board of Customs , and their deoision is m substance as follows : — " Dismissed summarily with forfeitm-6 of all arrears of salary , Henry Pallin , first-class established locker , who for tUe last three or four years has been aoting as a r « -dippor ; T . B . Francis James Oliver , aud Richard Matthews , established weighers . These four officers were aooueed of having carried away wino and spirits from tho collar of Mr Phzlhps . The following have heen reduced , with forfeiture of all arrears of salary : —Richard Weaver , inspector ,, of patrol in tide-surveyor's department , to tne
bottom of tho hat of second-class tidewaiters Thomas Green , aoting - inspector of patrol to tho bottom of tho list of second-clas s tidowaiters : £ Jatkomel Bedford , first-dasH establitihed looker , Miles * «? S ° * ^^ WiH * ain Godfrey , James Hamilton , William D . Sage , and William Elbxooko , established woiglxevB ofthe flrat and second classes , to bo severally reduced to the bottom of the Hats , and to bo removed to other port » . Acquitted , —Peter Popo , flrat clerk in tlxo warehousing department . " Committal on a CLKUovatAN von an IinEaAi MAaHiAOE .-The Rev . B , M . Benson , M . A ^ , stuS of € hrwt Church College , Oxford , aud perpetual curate of Cowley , hwH boon committed for trial on a ohw « o of marrying a , couplo without duly publishing tho hanns
ftna without any licence . Tho oouplo had boon inairiod at tho offloo oi ; the suporiqtondont-rogiBtrar . After tho "birth of twin » , the woman applied to bo ohurohed but Mr , Bouson rofueod uiiIobh pho and hor husband
~~« . vanJJlrJ * "r "~ Trie ; V , ;; noi-oniT T . ani ^ + ^ ,-1 « . » .. Uu ¦"" ***"" t l > ""« " * «» i > y nerseu , resisted the men with great courage ; but they knocked her down , and inflicted a severe wound in her neck . They then departed . On the return of the family , the girl was f ound bleedi ng profusely , and was taken to St . Thomas ' s Hospital . Such was the girl ' s first account ; but she has since confessed that the house was entered during her absence , and that she inflicted the wound on herself to prevent suspicion falling on lier .
Responsibility op Parents . —The magistrates in petty sessions at Chester have made an order of payment of four shillings a-week upon the father of a boy who lately absconded with his clothes from a workhouse , but who is now in the reformatory at Bradwall . The parents , though in prosperous circumstances , had neglected the boy ; and the Homo Secretary , in accordance with the act rendering such parents liable for the support of their criminal offspring , made a demand which resulted in the order just described .
A " Rowdy " Magistrate . —Ono of tho borough magistrates of Nottingham , and the ex-mayor of that town , has mode an attempt to shoot a sheriff ' s officer , named Colfcon . Z > r . Pigott , tho gentleman in question , has been under considerable peouniary difficulties , and a few days ago Col ton and anothe r officer went to hia houeo to seize his effects . Tho Doctor , presenting a pistol aud threatening to Bhoot thorn , ordered them to leavo the house ; but Colton seized hold of the pistol , and got his finger under the trigger . The other officer then seined a pokor and
struck at Dr . Pigott , who received a blow on hia head , and was knooked down ; after which the pistol waB wroetod from him , and was found to bo loaded with ball . A wan-ant hm boon grafted for bis approhenaion ; but his injuries are such that for the proscnt ho lies under medical treatment . Tho man who struck him with » poker has boon apprehended on u charge of attempting to murder Dr . Pigott ,, who affirms that ho wan struck when ho had not got tho poker . Tho sheriff" b officer has boon admitted to bail .
A Tauh of a Donkmy-. —Some days niuco , a very nraunag cuho , relating to tho rightful ownurnhip of a donkey , wafl heard at tho Bow-stroot poliooottloo . Miss Whentloy , a young lndy , whoao father Icoopa a farm near Heading , became poHBoasod , about fourteen youra ngo , of a young donkey just foaled . Tho animal wa » omnloyod to draw her nbout in a
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Leader (1850-1860), March 1, 1856, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2130/page/7/
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