The Press. — London, England, 1856-01-05 00:00:00

JANUARY 5, 1856. I have been married to the prisoner about two years, d ur ing which period his emiduct towards me has been one of continued ill-usage. Shortly after our marriage he corn. nienced knocking me about ; and when he was drunk he would often Caine home, pull me down on the floor, and then drag me about the room by the hair of my head. On o ue occasion he pulled me from the top of the stairs to t h e bottom by the hair of my head. He went out on Friday last, aving me without any food to eat, and no money in then ouse to get anything with. I saw nothing further of him until yesterday afternoon, about half past two, when I saw him iu the Lamb and Flag, publichouse. kept by Mr. C ollins. 1 then said to him, " I thought you we re going to stop here for dinner," when he ordered me to leave the house. 1 did so, and on getting outside my husband said, " I will give yon a ticket for this, and will learn you to come to a publichouse after me." lie then went home, and kicked me in the ribs, and afterwards commenced breaking up the furniture. He afterwards said, taking up a knife, " I will settle you shortly, and then you won't want to eat either dinner or tea." I went out. side, and he then threw the knife at me, and finding that did not hurt me, he took up a brick and hurled it at my head. I then went into the house of Mrs. Dobson, a near neighbour, when the prisoner followed, knocked me down, dragged me across the room by the hair of my head, and kicked me both on the head and arm. I was twenty-four years of age last Tnesday, and when I married the prisoner I had a good box of clothes, but owing to his drunken and dissolute character lam not fit to be seen. I have always endeavoured to keep myself respectable, and have tried to get my living by washing and chafing. Several other witnesses, having corroborated the fact of the assault on Friday last, the prisoner, when called upon for his defence, said :—" I have nothing t 9 say. She is lazy, and won't give me a clean shirt!" Mr. Collie sentenced him to four months imprison ment, with hard labour, and ordered that 20s. should be given out of the poor-box, for the purpose of pur chasing some clothes for the complainant, and to assist her in her endeavours to obtain a respectable livelihood. —At the same office, on Tuesday, William Kellard, a tailor, was charged with assault ing his wife. From the evidence adduced, it appeared that the prisoner was of a most violent temper, and was constantly ill-using his wife and children. With respect to the assault in question, his wife stated that on Monday afternoon, on her interposing to pre vent him striking one of the children, he knocked her senseless to the ground, seriously injuring her. The prisoner, it appeared, had but shortly come out from two months' imprisonment for a similar offence, and Mr. Corrie, after reminding bim of his former pro mise of amendment, committed him for four months, with hard labour, and directed that 2s. ad. a week be granted to the wife and children, during that term, from the poor-box. A BLACKSMITH ATTEMPTING TO POISON HIS WIFE was detected and brought before the magistrates at Newcastle-on-Tyne on Monday last. It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner, Thomas Robson, was a deserter from the Coldstreams, and had been on bad terms with his wife, who lived in service, and had threatened to report him at the barracks if he did not allow her more money. On the evening of' December the Ist the prisoner visited his wife, and on leaving gave her a lemonade bottle full of a whitish liquid, which he said was milk and whiskey, and recommended her to take some at night, and give her fellow-servant some also. When the women went to bed they both drank a little of the mixture, but it burned them so much, and made them so sick, that they suspected something, and, seeing a powdery deposit at the bottom of the bottle, threw away the liquid and carried the powder to a doctor. Dr. Richardson, of the town, then deposed that there was sufficient arsenic to kill three persons. The prisoner, who had tied to and besn arrested at Hexham, protested his innocence, and denied that ho had been to the house on that night. The bench remanded him for a week. AN INQUIRY INTO THE ALLEGED STARVATION OF Two CHILDREN AT HACKNEY was concluded 011 Thursday, when the evidence of Dr. Letheby on the analysation of the intestines of the children was taken. Dr. Letheby being examined, deposed that he had found nothing to lead him to suspect the pre sence of poison, and, from the total absence of fatty matter in all the tissues, attributed death to starva tion. After other evidence to the same effect, the coroner summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of "Wilful murder" against Edward Harvey and Harriet Ray." SOME EXTENSIVE ROBBERIES OF BONDED SPIRITS AT BRISTOL, to the amount of 3,000 gallons of spirits and wine, have led to the examination of the Custom house docker and receiver, and the apprehension of one Bendale, a retired perfumer and money-lender in the town. A the close of the investigation on Thursday Bendale was cominitteed for trial, and the other prisoners remanded till this day. THE PRISONER CORRIGAN, remanded last week for the murder of his wife in the Minories on the 26th ult., was brought before Mr. Yardley for re-examina Lion on Thursday. The evidence given was simply a repetition of that given before Mr. Conic last week No new facts were elicited beyond the strange and reserved conduct of the prisoner towards his wife mmediately before the murder, his having led a ! THE PRESS. dissolute life for weeks past, and ill-treated his wife on many occasions. The prisoner, on being asked if he had anything to say in his defence, replied, "I have no recollection how it happened, or how it was done." At the conclusion of the evidence at seven p.m., the prisoner was fully committed for " Wilful murder." As a curious coincidence connected with the murder, the knife with which Corrigan stabbed his wife he bought at the same shop where a few years since PAakesley the murderer purchased the butcher's knife with which he committed his crime. A subscription has been got up for the benefit of his four children. Two NOTORIOUS SWINDLERS AND BEOGING LETTER IMPOSTORS, William Strauges and Thomas Bew, were apprehended and committed for trial at Eton on Saturday last, charged with having forged the naive of the Earl of Digby to two cheques of 501. and 1001. on his lordship's bankers. The prisoners, who were successful in changing the 501. cheque, were cleverly captured at Eton when culling for the letter they expected to receive from Messrs. Hoare, the bankers, inclosing the money for the 1001. cheque. Fortu nately the suspicions of the firm were first aroused, and then confirmed, and successful steps were immediately taken for the apprehension of the swindlers. Corrtsponttuct. ANALYSIS OF WAR OBJECTS. TO THE EDITOR OF " THE PRESS." Sir,—lt is admitted by all parties that in the pre sent war a goal, whether near or distant, must be fixed. It will not do to carry on war for we know not what, and for a period we know not how long : whatever, therefore, our views on the war may be, we ought to be able to state the objects we wish to secure by that treaty of peace which even the most warlike fanatics must look to as the ultimate end of the present struggle. It has occurred to me, there fore, that, in order to facilitate in some respect this precision of opinion, au exhaustive analysis of the political ends which may be served by the war in its different phasis of development if it continues, and a statement of the motives by which the allies are likely successively to be actuated, and of the advan tages and disadvantages incident to the several views which may be taken of a treaty of peace, might be of use. The pcssible views of peace naturally divide into two broad and distinct classes : I. A peace in harmony with existing circum stances. 11. A peace other than what present circum stances will allow. I. The conditions of a treaty of peace in harmony with existing circumstances must be an embody ment of the minimum the allies have a right to ' demand. Luckily this minimum is now stated by a neutral power, nor have we any fault to find with the Austrian programme. I remark, however, that it differs from the former attempt in this, that the material guarantees, so far as regards the safety of Turkey, are already secured by the destruction of Sebastopol and the Russian fleet, and that the free navigation of the Danube, proposed to be secured by the cession of Russian territory, is on Austrian rather than on European interest, and might as well have been excluded from the ultimatum ; that, as to the paper guarantees sought to be exacted, they might have been framed in a way inferring somewhat less humiliation on Russia; and, lastly, that Austria and the allies have wisely excluded any demand for in demnification, doubtless thinking that the result of the war did not justify the infliction of this bitterest humiliation on Russia.• The advantages of such a treaty of peace as Austria proposes are, .first, that it is the only ode whereby an immediate termination can be put to the war ; second, that France and England may carry out such a ' treaty in unison, as it does not evoke any rival interests betwixt them. The disadvantages are, (1) that, as such a treaty leaves the territorial preponderance of Russia very much where it was, and does not arrest the decay of Turkey, it can only be regarded as a truce till Russia recruit her losses, which, according to all historical precedent, she will do in a few years ; (2) that it puts a conclusion to the war just when we have accomplished the develop ment of our resources, but before we have been able to bring them to bear effectively on the enemy, so as to obtain results in some degree commensurate to the enormous expense we have incurred; (3) that we may never again have such au opportunity of effectually checking Russian aggression, but, on the contrary, Russia may select a time for renewing her attempt on Constantinople when the " alliance" is no longer in existence. 11. But suppose the present negotiations to be abortive, several distinct views may be taken of the future treaty of peace. These may be conveniently arranged under three heads : * Has Turkey been made a patty to the present proposals? 11 1. The English point of view. 2. The French point of view. 3. The cosmopolitan point of view. 1. The English point of view. The safety of England depends on her naval supremacy and her Indian army. The first is endangered by the possi bility of a coalition between two or more European powers whose combined navies may equal ours; and it, is from Russia alone that any attack on our Indian possessions is to be feared. Now, manifestly, the destruction of the Cronstadt fleet would indefinitely postpone the first danger; while the continuance of the war, by weakening the military power of Russik will increase the relative strength of our Indian army, meantime wisely kept intact. The English point of view, therefore, is not to make peace tilt the Russian fleet in the Baltic be destroyed. The ad vantages of this view of a peace are already stated. The disadvantages are, (1) the continuance of the war, and (2) the difEculty of carrying France along with us in such a policy—the destruction of the Russian fleet being rather against her policy, and the security of our Eastern possessions being to ber a matter of ii.difference. 2. As the interest of Napoleonic France is to be the paramount continental power, the principal ob stacle to which is the military strength and great ter ritorial possessions of Russia, the interest of Louis Napoleon is that Russia be dismembered. But, owing to the geographieal position of France and Russia, this cannot be done by annexing to the former what is taken from the latter ; nor, according to the traditions of the Napoleon dynasty, can this be done by the reconstruction of Poland, which, at all times a semi-republican State, would evoke revo lutionary passions which it is the function of Louis Napoleon to repress. This difficulty was felt by the first Napoleon when on the eve of his Russian inva sion. "J'aime," said he to Narbonne, " les Polonais sur les champ de botaille mais quant I leurs as sembles deliberantes leur liberum veto, leurs IJietes cheval subre, nu je ne veux rien de tout cela. resurrection de la Pologne semi.republicaine sera% un bien autre embarras quo su dure3 sans interrup4 tion. Je veux dans la Pologne un camp et pas de forum." Acting, therefore, in conformity with the " Idee Napoleonienne," the present Emperor of the French would probably try to effect the dismemberment of Russia by the creation of military kingdoms sub ordinate to France, like Westphalia and Italy under the first empire. The advantage of such an arrange ment would be that it would effectually stop the career of Russia. The disadvantages would be, (1) the increased power of France, (2) the difficulty of maintaining the English alliance, and (3) the cer tainty of a European war. J. The cosmopolitan view contemplates the recon struction of the kingdom of Poland and the cession of Finland to Sweden. The advantages of such O view are, (1) that, while thoroughly stopping the career of Russia, it does not imply the dangerous aggrandisement of France, and (2) that, in the coarse of carrying it into effect, the English interest in the destruction of the Baltic fleet would probably be realised. The disadvantages are, (1) that the reconstruction of I'oland would, by entrainment, occasion a revolution in Italy and anotherin Hungary, which would imply a general European war, and (2) that, independent of the sufferings of such a crisis, the irruption of so many passions and conflicting interests would bring about a statc , of things the ultimate result of which it is impossible even to guess.—Yours, obediently, J. A G. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Tuesday, Jan. 1. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED.-Moms PARKER WARM, Salvador-house, Bishopsgate-street, City, wool broker and banker. BANKRUPTS.--•WILLIAM Ez.sam, Heyford and Rugbrook. Northampton, ironstone master—RowLesn HILL BLACKER, Ludgate-street, City, importer of foreign silk goods, mantle raanufactxrer, and warehouseman—LEONAßD Larnmas, Chan cery-hthe, Middlesex, law stationer—WlLLlAM VitoutNs, Hawley. mills, near Dartford, Kent, paper manufacturer—James HARRI. sow, City, commission agent--Gisosoz WAGNER, Bernard-stresi e Russell square, Middlesex, auctioneer and house agent—WTl. SKAGER WHITE, Soho-street, llandsworth, Stafford, chemist and druggist—Jewess' Noses, Lower Hospital-street, Birming ham, glass cutter--GEORGZ TAYLOR, Derby, silk manufacturer— mcri:a itauxes, York, innkeeper—lsa►c FIRTH, Thomas-street, Manchester, victualler and coffee-house keeper. SCOTCH SEQUKSTRATIONS.—CorLum and BRICKYA) , W. Dundee, ship brokers and general commission merchant: — PETER STOIIO, Norfolk-street, Glasgow, smith and izonniongex-h. Maxwerd. Nltt.Les, Glasgow, coppersmith. Friday, January .1. BAN KRU rTs.—KOTILIiT LAWRENCE PHILLIPS, and GEORGE: DOUGLAS PuttuPs, King William-street, City, general mer. chants—Mom CutoutAa, East Donyland, Essex, shipowner— MALCOLM RONALD LUNG MEASON. Manchester-bllildiEgS, City. merchant—THomAs 5/1111WIN, Loughborough, Leicester, COLAS! —HENRY L &risks, Manchester, money scrivener—Roust= WELLS, , Kingston•upon-Hull, taiIor—THOMAS FOULDS, Bing ley, Yorkshire, coach proprietor—ALstirr Pairrsit, Weldon. super-Mare, brewer RICHARD GREENE, Lichfield, bankft —THOMAS BAaiF, Harrogate, Yorkshire, notel-kef per DA. .10 JOHN VAT:GRAN, Flshguard, Pembrokeshire, maltater-i. EDWARD GAUNTLYTT and RODENT LIVING, Camden-town, Middlesex, builders WILLIAM TGWELL, Walworth-road, boot-waker WILLIAM MOORE, Bradford, blue and medley dyer. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.—JOHN Cumie and Om r.amr, Glasgewlgrain merchants. Ail