The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-12-20 00:00:00

publics, will seek the privilege of being admitted
within its " safe ancl happy bosom, transferring with
themselves, by a peaceftii and healthy pirtlceSs of
incorporation, spaciCius regions of virgin and exube-
rant soil, which are destined to swarm with the
fast-spreading millions.of our race."

These considerations, it is contended, fully jus
tify the presumption that the la* aboVe stated will
continue to act with tindithinished effect, through
at least the next half century, and that thousands
of persons who have already arrived at maturity,
and are now' exercising the rights of freemen, will
close their eyes on the spectacle of more than one
hundred millions of population embraced within
the majestic proportions of the American Union.
The views are not indulged in as topics of specula-
tion,
but they are discussed as subjects having a
positiVe practical bearing on the great political
duties of the American Government. " Heretofore,"
the President says, " Our system of government
" has worked on *lilt may be teinied a Miniature
" scale, in comparison with the development, which
0 it must thus assume, within a future so near at
" hand, as scarcely to be beyond the present of the
" existing generation."

In this elaborate exposition of the progress and
policy of the great American Union, there are
many points of paramount importance to this
country, and to which we shall not fail to draw
especial attention.

THE mania for women-beating and wife-murder
still continues. Every day it assumes some new
and aggravated features. Deeds unknown to
savage nations are coolly and recklessly perpetrated
in Christian England ; whilst the utmost punish-
ment that the State can inflict, so far-from dimin.
ishing, only seems to have called forth these
demoniacal passions, and increased the number
of dastardly, villanous, and brutal delinquents.
During the past few weeks, several scoundrels
have been brought before the Metropolitan magis-
trates, charged with ill-using, maiming, and other-
wise endangering the lives of their respective
wives or paramours. The ingenuity of torture
they have employed, almost outvies that for which
the Inquisitiorial Familiars have been renowned.
The very narration of them is quite enough to
harrow up one's feelings—torture one's sympathies
—and turn one's blood to ice ! We read of one
wretch—a gentleman! maiming his inoffensive
wife with a red-hot poker! Another causes his
wife to go to bed stark naked, then rips up her
stays with a pen knife, takes the bone out, and
beats her on the body until it is broken in pieces!
He then makes use of a hair-brush, with which he
inflicts severe blows. Aftqrwards he pulls his
unfortunate wife out of bed—seizes a large square-
cut stick with which he belabours her heartily._
and then attempts to strangle her with his hands;
threatening the while that if she should make
the least resistance, or outcry, he would dance
upon her body. Upon being interrogated by the
LORD MAYOR, the poor afflicted woman states that
she- has been married only a few mouths,
during which time she has been subjected to
every kind of ill usage ; and concludes her
brutality of her husband.
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Another miscreant, a tailor by trade, inflicts terri.
ble wounds on his wife's head, by cutting her skull
open in two places with a sleeve board !. Vaunting
that he shall yet hang for her like the culprit
Moms, who lately suffered the extreme penalty of
the law. This miserable creature has been three
years a wife, and her statement is, that for every
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Another wretch commits a violent and savage on-
slaught upon his wife, the mother of three children
which causes her to lose a large quantity f blood,
whilst the victim of his atrocity refuses to appear
against him! Another scoundrel, a "navvy," comes
home in the evening, and inquires of hie wife what
she has got for supper. Upon her intimating that
having no money she was unable to procure
anything, he immediately kicks her with his
heavy boots violently about the legs and
body. He then commands her to take
off his boots—a task she agreeably and quickly
attempts to perform, when the monster makes a
savage attempt to kick her (whilst in the act of
bending) in the face; which she fortunately parries
with her arm—receiving a severe bruise in con
sequence. This woman likewise confesses to syste

inatic ill-usage from her husband, to whom she has
been married several years. Another brute de-,
scribed as a tall and powerful man,when maddened
by drink strikes his wife whilst carrying an innocent

babe in her arms, a desperate blow in the face with
his clenched fist, which makes her fall senseless on
the floor—causing blood to flow profusely from her
mouth. This woman has been married fourteen
years ; and she solemnly affirms that, during the
whole of that time she has lived most unhappily.
Another rascal almost chops off his wife's arm with
a cooper's adze—when she is taken to the hospital,
where her life is pronounced in danger. Another
wretch, while seated at the fire partaking of tea,
suddenly-seizes the poker and strikes his wife with
it across the thighs. She then flies from the house
with her children. Upon her return home (supposing
her husband to have gone out) he first secures the
door, and next inflicts heavy blows upon his victim's
body, both with his fists and a heavy chair—with
which he strikes her across the eyes. He then
demands the little money she had for the support
of her family for the week, and seizing a large
knife swears he will run her through if she fails
to comply with his request ! She gives the brute
the money, and then runs to the doctor to get her
wounds dressed—fainting from loss of blood ! A

young savage, only 14 years old, upon being
refused some coals, without the money, by an
elderly and infirm woman who keeps a coal store
at Stepney, seizes the poor creature by the throat
and draws a knife across her neck, inflicting a
wound from which the blood flowed copiously.
Another monster meets his wife in the street, who
had been parted from her husband in consequence
of his cruelty. Her face was banged at the time.
He asks her the cause. She answers that she has
got -the face-ache. Whereupon he coarsely ex-
claims : " I'll make your - cheeks ache a little

more ;" and follows up his cowardly and ruffianly
threat by vigorous execution, striking her senseless
to the ground ! He then raises her head from the

pavement—what refinement of brutality !—and
inflicts a succession of violent blows upon either
side of her face with his clenched fists until the

poor creature is left stupified and half-dead! Ano-

her miscreant who has been living for some twelve

months with a poor young woman, is brought
before the magistrates charged with aggravated

cruelty to her. She reluctantly states, that for the
the whole of the period during which she has lived
with this brute, he has treated her badly. One
afternoon he goes out and does not return until

the next morning at an early hour. He then
shouts at the bed-room door, demanding to
be let in. She gets out of bed to obey his
will, when she hears him use dreadful oaths,
and threaten to cut her scull open with a
poker when he could have the opportunity. He
then bursts in the door whilst the miserable woman
rushes to the grate to secure and conceal the
instrument with which he had just threatened her