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Europe must say of ns , that , when another Italian army has covered itself -with so much glory , we are only kept in guard over our brethren , who in . every point desire ¦ what we desire , that which brings general prosperity , and hence also the prosperity of our families . Now that cries are uttered everywhere in behalf of this unfortunate people , must we point at their breasts our bayonets and our swords ? and can such a state of things Ions continue ? Tour Majesty ¦ will certainly provide , according to reason , and prudence , for the future ; this , we repeat it , is the desire of the whole army , which wishes to preserve its honour and its conscience , but does , not think it can do so as long as your Majesty refuses to satify the common desire . " Some citizens of Modena and Reggio have presented Count Carour with a medallion . On one of its faces is
stamped the effigy of the President of the Sardnusiu Council , round which is inscribed—" To Count Camille de Cavour , Modena and Keggio , " and on the other a group of allegorical figures , representing the towns of Modena Reggio , to which Piedmont , armed , is extending her and hand , and under-which are the words , " Quod JDeus conjtmxit , homo non separet . "
GKKECE . The Senate has rejected the financial arrangement concerted with the protecting powers . The Ministers , having deliberated thereon , communicated the opposition of the Senate to the representatives of those powers . .
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THE WORKHOUSE SYSTEM . A . poor slan , named Frederick Taylor , appeared before Mr . Selfe , at the Thames office , to make a complaint against Mr . Kirsting , one of the relieving officers of the Stepney Union . He stated that he had been out of employment for six months , and was in very great distress , and his wife was far advanced in pregnancy . He had applied to Mr . Kirsting at the Eatcliff Workhouse-for a midwifery order , and told him that he could not afford to pay for a doctor , and his wife's accouchement was expected hourly . He was directed to call again in the evening , which he did . Mr . Kirsting tlien said he could not give him the order , as it was not an
he was ruptured , he told him to wait until the doctor came , instead of which he left the place . Mr . Burcham said that the charges against Millbank had not been proved , and he must therefore dismiss tb . c case .
urgent case . He abo a 3 ked * Mr .- 'Kirsting for a little ' relief , and told Mm that he and Ms family were without bread . Mr . Kirsting refused him any relief , ' but said he must come again on the following Monday ( it was then Thursday ) , and in the meantime he would visit his family . The officer , however , had not been to him , and he was in continual expectation that his wife would be taken in labour . Mr . Selfe caused inquiries to be made , and the result was that the chairman of the Board of Guardians . attended , and expressed his disapproval of Mr . Kirsting ' s conduct . The magistrate , who observed that he often beard of cases from the Stepney Union which ' stirred Lia blood , " gave the man five shillings from the poor-box .
Two old men , named Campbell and IBethell , inmates of St . Saviour ' s workhouse , preferred a charge at the Southwark police court against Millbank , the porter of the Union , whom they accused of ill-using and violently assaulting them . Campbell , who seemed to be about sixty , and who trembled excessively , apparently from illness and want , stated that he had formerly carried on the trade of baker and confectioner , which he had been compelled to give up in consequence of a severe attack of palsy . One night , about a week ago , feeling extremely ill and faint from want of nourishment and aheltor , he went to the Union workhouse and requested admittance . After waiting two hours , the porter at length admitted him , and ( according to the man ' s
statement ) put him to sleep in a miserable bed . On the following morning , when Millbank and another man came into his room to tell him to rise , ho complained of being ruptured , and begged that the doctor might be fetched . Millbank told him that this was all nonsense , and that he must get up ; and at the same time he forcibly dragged him out of bed , while his companion struck him several violent blows , from the effects of which he was still suffering , and almost tor « oft" the little clothing that ho had on him . He had since voluntarily left the worichouso , partly in consequence of this ill-treatment , -and partly owing to the very scanty quantity of food ho had been supplied with while he remained at the Uniou . The other complainant , William Bethell , made &
very similar charge against Millbank , who , ho said , had scarcely given him any bread with his bone soup , and , when he complained to tho master , Millbank thro w him dowa stairs , and so severely injured him , that the blood gushed from his eara . Tho porter entiroly denied the statements of tho two old men , the latter of whom had but a short time previously been sentenced to a week ' s imprisonment from this court , for disorderly behaviour in the workhouse , and , on the present occasion , had threatened to strike with a red-hot poker the man who kept the workhouse bread . A eounterchargo was likowiso made against Campbell , whom ¦ "Iillbank denied having used , while ho was in bed , in tho wanner he described . Ho had merely oenrchod him on wearing him rattle sonic money , and , when the man e « id
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A . BUEGLxlR SHOT BY A CLERGYMAN . The residence of the Rev . Mr . dodder , near Ash over , Derbyshire , was broken into about a week ago by two men , supposed to belong to a gang of burglars infesting the neighbouring county of Nottingham . Mr . Nodder's house is situated in a lonely and secluded spot , at the distance of half a mile from the village . It happened that , about one or two o'clock in the morning , Mrs . Nodder was awakened by the cries of her baby , who slept in a cot in the same room with herself , and , while attending . to it , heard a . low , slight noise , which she thought at first was occasioned by her husband poking the fire in the room adjoining . She therefore took no heed of it , hut present ! v afterwards hoard the same noise
again , and , looking through her bedroom window , saw a man standing close to the casement . Mrs . Nodder thereupon hastily withdrew , and , catching her child up in her arms ,- tushod out of the room , and closed the door , which she afterwards fastened on the outside . In the meantime , several panes of glass , and a portion of the framework of the window , were broken , and -two men entered the house , having climbed to the window of Mrs . Nodder ' s room , by means of a ladder which they bad taken from the stackyard . A Misa Hecly , niece . of Mr . Nodder , who slept in a room , adjoinhv . r , which the thieves subsequently entered , was so alarmed , that she got out of the window of her apartment into tho yard , fell a height of fourteen feet , and van in her night-dress-to
the rectory-house in the village , three-quarters of a mile distant . Mrs , K . oudcr , after -. securing the door ¦ of ¦ her bedroom , went into that in which her husband slept , and aroused him , on which he got up and armed himself with a pair of loaded horse-pistols , with . which be threatened to shoot the burglars , who bad by this time succeeded . forcing the door of Mrs . Nodder ' s room and 'gaining the outer passage . The men , nevertheless , broke open the door , which had likewise been previously locked by Mrs . IN ! odderj and one of them walked into the room , ' when , after a little parleying , Mr . 2 \ fodderfiredone of his pistols , ami
shot him in the abdomen . The thieves fled directly , and effected their escape by jumping into the yard from a window adjoining the one by which Miss Hecly hud already retreated . No traces of them could be discovered at the time ; but a short time afterwards ,-a butcher , travelling from Kirksworth to Chesterfield market , overtook a man lying by the roadside , -who was severely -wounded , and who was probably the burglar shot by Mr . Nodder . This person the butcher took into his cart , and drove to Chesterfield , whence the -wounded man rode by omnibus to the railway station , and there took a ticket for Derby .
The wounded burglar has been tracked to a house where he lived , and been arrested in bed . Ho . is budly hurt . Miss Ileely , the young lady who escaped by the window , and who was much hurt , is recovering .
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the third was a Malay seaman . Tho jury expressed great indignation at the closing of the casual relief ward of the' YVhitechn ' nel workhouse . MiDi 3 Li : si : x Sessions . — Frederick Goodwin , a boy who pleaded Guilty of throwing : » brick at an express train on the London and Xorth- "Western Railway , has been sentenced to three months' hard labour , tho first and hist weeks to bo solitary . This was a mitigated sentence , on account of tho boVs years and of this being a first offence . Tho full punishment-would liavo been two years' imprisonment . — William llritton and Alfred " Wheeler , llie -two boys convicted , on the evidence of an accomplice , of robbing a beer shop in the neighbourhood of St . John ' s Wood , have boon sentenced to twelve months' hard labour encli , [ This case was erroneously referred , in our last week ' s impression , to the Central Criminal Court , which was not sitting , ' instead , of to the Middlesex Sessions . !
Ciari . i / TY to Glum . — An inquest has been held at Dawlish , Devonshire , ' 071 tho Lpily of a girl , aged fourteen , who was alleged' to have died through the illtreatment which she received from her father , a shoemaker , nnnicil Newbcrry . The coroner ' s jury did not consider the evidence s ' utliuicnt to justify them , in returning a . . verdict of manslaughter ,, but requested tho coroner to censure : Newberry for bis conduct to tho child , Since then , the muigistraW's for the division have
caused him to be apprehended ; mid last Saturday , after hearing . evidence , they coinniitted him for trial at tho ensuing Assi / . cs on the . ehargtr of manslaughter . — - Mr . Walker , tlie haberdasher in the -neighbourhood of Shbrcditch charged with cruel neglect imd ill , treatment of bis orphan niece , was finally i-Xainined by the " Worship-street magistrate on " Wednesday , and discharged , Sir . D'Eyiieourl observing' that be did not . think an indictment could be . supported . At the same time , he highly reprobated the man ' s inhumanity .
A ( Janc ; oi - lJuTi < ii , Ai : s—consisting of two men and two women , who arc Hiippospd to Lave been concerned in several- ' recent robberies—were , arrested on , 3 'Viday week in a . house , at the foot of Chatham lines / * One . oC the women-has bcrn set at liberty on becoming an approver ; the rest are committed fur trial . AssizKN . . — The Spring Assizes of kohic . of the . provincial towns have opened this week . ' At Ajipleby , throe young men have been tried for night poaching-, and for an attack , on the gamekeeper of the JCarl of Lonsdale . liioy were found Guilty , but recommended to mercy by the jury , on account , of their youth . - Two were sentenced to two months' imprisonment , and tho third to four ' months ' . — Johii Jackson has been found ( Juilty at Carlisle . , of uttering a forged r > t . note , and was sentenced to traiiujjortnlion i ' oi- iifteen yvurx ..
AuiAXiKl ) JC . IUlKZZl . KMKiNT DY A TaX-Coi . USCTOU .- — Mr . J . Cope , recently collector of taxes at Darlaston , has been committed for trial on u . ' charge of obtaining money from several-persons on jrelence of its being duo for land-tax . He ' was admitted to bail . KoimunY at JCiHNiMiiaiii . — The . shop of n jeweller and' optician : it J- 'dinburgh w . m broken open ' in tho course of tin ; night of Kriday work , and property to tho amount of nearly 150 O / . was carried olV . _ Ai . i ; k <; ki > Am-tkmi't to J ' oikon a Motiiku . — Catherine Speed , fin exceedingly ugly young woman ,. of such
dwartish stature thai her head barely reached the . top of the bar , was charged at How-Hi reel , on Tuesday , upon suspicion of having administered to Catherine Wpecd , her mother , a dos <> of twenty grains of antimony , Avith intent to poison her . The mother was n lodgiiiy-houso keeper in ( iml ' ton-slri'et Kasl , and wan seventy-seven years of ago . The daughter lived ^ villi her , but they were not on very friendly terms , and it was alleged that the accused put tin : antimony into tho mother ' * hoer . Considerable sickness ensued , but no mortal result was fi ' .-ind . The ea . se w .-w adjourned . pro
The Moumoxitks at Ciii :. sTKuriKr / r > . —Several Mormonitcs were baptized by night a few days ago in the . river Rot her , ju . st outside Chesterfield . The scene is described as having been most disgraceful . The men were naked , and they walked down to the river side through rows of women , some of whom were -waiting their turn to be dipped by tho " priest , " who r . tood in ihe middles of the stream . A groat deal of indecent jesting went on , and he hanks echoed with shouts of laughter . This ceremony was conducted by the light of a few candles stuck into the mud In- the river side .
Tiik Gakottk . —A garotte adventure is thus narrated in the Times by the Miflcrer , a IMr . T . II . Lea : — " I had occasion on Tuesday evening last ( tho 17 l . h inst . ) to cross the neighbourhood of llainpst . cjid-heatli . I therefore proceeded well armed on my journey , keeping my e . yes on the alert . 1 had gone ahtmt half tho distance when 1 was startled on perceiving a lantern about twelve yards in advance of in <> , with the rays directed full on my bod } -. 1 immediately pulled a revolver from my . pocket , and advanced towards the light . I Imd , however , only time to stop about a < : oupl
disappeared , and i felt a violent blow on the head . J remember no more ni ' Ler this till finding iiiyndf lying on the ground experiencing an uncomfortable tieu . Maliou in my throat . The money which J had ubonl inc . —viz ., two at . notes and some silver , with a gold . sniid ' -hox — had been stolen . "—Lieutenant iireiil , of tin ; Koyal Marines , was attacked , on the night of Thursday week , in the High-street , Chatham , by lliree men , one of whom seized him by Die throat from behind . Tho lieutenant , liOM'cver , escaped from his grasp and had a rievere struggle with the men , one of whom lie secured , and the two others have been , sin < :
Dkatiis iko . m Stauvatio . v .- ~ Throe inque .-tti have been held at the London Hospital on the bodies of men who have died from destitution . Two were workmen
l'i : o < i : i : iN < i Aisoution . A ^ ciitleiniin laiy ^ o - perty , named Joseph Hopgood , who was niicii in practice ) as u . surgeon , was clini ';' , cil bcl ' ori ! the niiiyor and inugiHtrates of Tiverlon on Momlny with adiniiiislcring to jSIi-m . (! raze , tin ; widow < tf mi i loniuonger of the muno town , and lor whom the aeen . s < id was acting an trustee , a noxious drug , with intent to urocuri ; abortion . It wan admitted by iMr . i . Crax . c . thai , befons ami after her husband ' s death Hhe liait hud criminal intercourse with Mr . lloi > good . . Slie had liciHelf iciiuestwl him to give , her something which would induoo . -ihortion , mid lio guyu hvr two iiills ; -but they were not of u noxious diameter . Keverlbcle .-s , lie was coiimiiUml for trial ; ljut bail to tho extent of 11 ) 00 / . was accepted . , . Skvkkai , l !(; itcii . AKiKn have been connnil . tcd within tins hist few il : iys in Vorksliiru .
_ I ' m-: Hui : hi : i . ics . s INxiu . Tin ; Lord Mayor , uecoinpanied by some other gi ^ nthnica tonnc . cfed with tho City , has heuii again inquirin . -j into the . night accommodation provided , for tlie hoinelesH poor of London . On Monday night they visited the liefugniii I'layhoUHC-yard , Wliitecro . ss-street . J Jure , they JoidkI between five nud tilx hundred men , women , and young persons , including infants , boused for lh < : night , Tlmhc individuabt receive half a pound of bread mi their admittance , and tho finims amount when they Iouvo in tho morning . TIio visiting ] iarty t , h < : n proceeded to the Cjity of London Union at liovv , where they found only nine persons in the ward for the reception of the casual poor . It wan
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February 28 , 1857 . ] THTB LEADER . __ _ _^_ l ^ g
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 28, 1857, page 199, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2182/page/7/
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