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paragraph briefly notices the Common-law Pro-
cedure and the Oxford University Bills, and ends

abruptly with some vague hopes about the

ffectea

4 /W ti

good to

Bribery Bill—remarks which

might well have been spared, considering that it
d by a bare majority, and is limited in

was pass,

duration to one year, so that it may never
experience the trying ordeal of a General Election.
The Speech is commendable for its brevity, but
the few' who still entertain any lingering favour
for the Ministry will agree with us that they have
not made the best use of the materials at their
disposal. They might have enlarged more on the
part which they had taken in providing for the
efficient carrying on of the war ; and it would have
been more satisfactory to the country had they
taken the opportunity of stating their determi-

nation not to consent to a conclusion of hostilities
until satisfactory guarantees had been obtained for
the future peace of Europe. As it is, they have
left the question as doubtful as ever, as though the
PREMIER had been solely entrusted with that
department of the Royal Speech.

THE BRITISH PREMIER, A RUSSLIN SUBJECT,

A RUMOUR has reached us, that the Earl of Aberdeen
has large possessions in Russia i We can scarcely believe
this to be the fact, though our information is from a quar-

ter which assures us that these possessions have been
visited by persons now in England. If it be true, that
the " travelled thane" has such a standing in the country
of his apparent adoption, the reason for his complaisance
towards the Czar may not merely be on account of a

friendship of forty rears' standing. The evident bias of
the Earl of Aberdeen towards Russia has never been
rightly explained. It is time that it were so, and that it
were at once a'ad for ever made known why he has been
so averse to die war with the great Northern Autocrat.—
Bell's _Messinger.

In reference to the above, the John Bull says, we can
ruth of which is all

scarcely give credit
but vouched for by a weekly contemporary, according to
which the Earl of Aberdeen is, to a large extent, a Rus-
sian -landed proprietor. The information, it is asserted
tomes endorsed with the statement that the possessions
of Lord Aberdeen in Russia have been visited by persons
now in England.. If this should prove to be the fact, the

to a repoit, ti

reluctance of the Earl of Aberdeen to act decisively against
the Czar would at once be accounted for. In such a case
the utter unfitness of the IS'ohle Earl to be Prime Minister
of England during a war with Russia,—which, as it is,
nobody doubts,—would be established beyond the possi-
bility of contradiction. If the Earl of Aberdeen is, as a
Russian proprietor, pro tank a subject of the Cgs; he is
not a fit or proper person to advise Queen Victoria how to
carry on war against the Autocrat. Lord Aberdeen owes
it to himself, as well as to the country, to give to this
report the earliest and most unqualified contradiction, or,
if that is out of his 'power, at once to resign the office
which he holds under the British Crown.

SOUTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES
(Continued from our 2d page.)

CROWN COURT-YESTINIDA.Y.
[BEkOILE MR. BARON PLATT.]

'STABBING AT MANCHICS'TER

Inike Herbert, aged 26, an Irish.labourer, pleaded not
guilty to stabbing Charles Dooley, a piecer, in the back,
on the 21st of May last. Mr. Cebbett prosecuted; the
prisoner was undefended. Soon after four o'clock on the
morning 'in question, the prosecutor, meeting the pri-
soner in the-streets of Manchester, asked him what time
it was. The prisoner replied offensively, and a quarrel
ensued, inAhe course of which the prisoner stabbed him
four times 'in the back.—The prisoner, in his defence,
-said the prosecutor and a gang of other fellows attempted
to rob him, and "being in the street at that hour of the
night, .with no christian with him but himself, he used
the knife in his own defence." He then called Atm
M`Dernsett, who stated that on .the morning in question
she was st her own door in Oldham-road, and saw the
squabble -between the prisoner and the other men, who,
she said, were the aggressors, and that the prisoner did
not strike.—Guilty of unlawfully wounding.—His lord-
ship to.the prisoner : This is a very bad act on your part,
Herbert.—Prisoner: No, it is not, zir.—Baron Platt:
Yes, it:is ; and it is all owing to your being drunk. You
must be committed to prison Tor twelve calendar months,
with hard labour ; and mind, .when you come out, keep
your knife in your pocket.--7iisoner : Why didn't I do it
to some person since I was born ! (Laughter.) He was
then removed.

A.ITIDIPTED 2,iITRDER OP •A'WIPE AT 11A.NCH.E611M

REVOLTIRO REVELATIONS.

George Hudson, aged 23, rope-maker, a man of sinister
appearance, pleaded not -guilty-to having, at Manchester,
on thalsth May, attempted to murder Elizabeth Hudson,
his wife, by cutting her throat-with a razor. There•were
countslor-the minor offence. Mr. Assheton Crosse prose-
cuted. The-prisoner was married to his wife about the
beginning of 1852, and they:lived together until early -in
the present year, when, owing to his repeated illztreat-
ment, :they separated, and she obtained employment at
the thin of Sir Elkanah Arniitageand Co., Manchester. On
the llfb of May, the prosecutrix. ',wanting new clothing,
called on the prisoner, and asked 'him to buy her some.
He treated her very kindly, and expressed a wish that she
Would-return and :live with-him again. She agreed to,do
so, and-they went together to the house of the prosecu-
trix's mother, for the purpose of :remaining there two or
three days. On the -morning of tie /sth of May, the
prism. er and she went out, about eight o'clock, to
buy some clothes ; while out, they met her uncle,
whom they accompanied Ito a .public-house, and the
prisoner had some drink. They returned to the mother's
house about eleven o'clock, the ,prisoner being somewhat
in liquor. He asked her to take a walk with him by the
canal-bank, when she refused, but went a little way with
him on Pendleton-road. About one o'clock, the prosecu-
trix's sister.abusedtheprisoner for his idle-conduct, and told
him to go away, as she would not support him in his idle-
ness. About 8 o'clock in the evening, prosecutrix went out
to look for bins,and succeedain finding him .at Wormhill's
beerhouse. On first seeing .her. he ran after her, and at-
tempted to kick, but on her paying for a pint of beer,
they sat drinking together on the settle, until a man in
the room offered her some drink out of a glass. While
she was drinking, the prisoner went close to her, put his
arm round her neck, drew a razor from his pocket, and
cut a severe gash an the right side of her throat. Eliza-
beth Ward, who was in the room, nulled to the prisoner
,and took the razor from him. The prosecutrix was then
conveyed to the infirmary, and the prisoner was taken into
custody. When at the-lsolice-station, he said, "she had
been going with other men, and I thought I was doing
her justice : I shall suffer for it."
The prosecutrix having deposed to the abOve facts, was
cross-examined by the prisoner, and a revolting history
was ,elicited.

IPrisoner.—Didn't your unde, on the Monday, get
severgl half-gallons (meaning half-quarterns) of gin ?
Yes.—:Mid did we all get drunk; and, on Monday morn-
ing, I was quite sober ? That's true.—And while I was
asleep In‘the house, on Sunday,,didn't you go up stairs
with your uncle; and rob him, while you were with him,
of £2 ?

The Protecntrix.—Rob him, my good man I What of ?
What I hadof my uncle he gave me, my good man. My
father and Imcle went up stairs with mc. And I tell you,
(continued the miserable wife, with considerable 'excite-
ment,) I'll swear my life against you. I'll giveyou no mercy,
for it's not the,first time yon tried to Rio it. So I'll tell
you " plump and plain," and she struck her clenched fist
on the front of the witness-box.

The Prisoner : I have witnesses in court who will state
that her uncle said he was robbed.

The Prosecutrix (defiantly waving her hand.)--Well,
then, call them.
Prisoner.—When her sisters came home, they
brought her down stairs and turned her out. When we
gokont, she asked me to put my razor in my pocket, as I
wanted shaving. And I did, bad, for I hadn't been shaved
for nine days then ; And that was the reason I had the
razor vith me. This was not the first time by twenty
that she had left me. She ,has gone and lived with other
men, and after being with them several weeks, she has
comeback to me in rags, and I have taken to her time
after time. She is nothing bel a common woman off the
streets.

The ,117DGIt (o the prosecuttlx.)—ls it true that he
took you off the streets ? When lie married me he did.—
And did you go on the streets after you were married ?
Some little time, I did, because of his ill-usage.
The prisoner was about to put some irrevelant qfiestion,
when he was requested, by the Judge, to apply himself to
the material matter In the case. _

The prisoner then proceeded to explain how the "acci
dent" occurred. While sitting by his wife, lie drew the
razor out of his pocket to show her that he had got it.
He put his hand between her neck and the wall, for the
purpose of showing it, when she suddenly threw her head
back, pressing the razor against the wall, and as he drew
the razor away it accidentally cut her. His wife immedi-
ately jumped up, and exclaiming, "You b-, you've cut
my throat," struck him in the eye, which was black for
several days afterwards.

The JUDGE.—Then it was a mere accident?
Prisoner: Yes ; a mere accident, and all from drink.
And she knows very well that it was. It's known in
the neighbourhood that I have been a good husband
to her, and if she had been a good wife to me we
should have lived comfortable together. It is only
twelve months last December, while she was working at
Parker's factory, she gave me a foul disease, and T was
twelve or fifteen weeks in the Infirmary in consequence. I
have talked to her about her bad conduct for a week
together.
Prosecutrix : My good young man, I've only stated the
ill-usage from the beginning of this year, because I don't
think it is quite requisite to answer more questions of
falsity:
priso• der : You have said nothing but what's false and
lies.
prevented further recrimination between
[His lordbthil,
the depraved coziple, and the case proceeded.]
Elizabeth Ward corroborated the evidence of the pro-
secutrix as to the • prisoner cutting his wife's throat. In
reply to the prisoner. witness did not deny that the pro-
secntrix had gone with ether men.
His Lordship : If she fi3cl converse with all mankind,
it would not Justify you ii! murdering her. However
unchaste she was, you had no rjed to deprive her of her
life.
Mr. Heath, house-surgeon of the Manchester Royal

Infirmary, described the nature of the injury, which
said, was a clean cut wound, about three inches in est
and about half an
secutrix remained in

inch in depth, in one part

Le Infiritary a fortr

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The Prisoner, in his defence, reiterate
he had made while conducting 1
viz., that she had been u

ne to him, and that the I
.cident. He then called
who stated that he had always been a

workir

us young man, and had I

husband to the prosecnirix
His Lo:
The ju

having summed up,
,ired, and after an absence of half an hour
y returned with a verdict of " Guilty of intent to mur-
der," accompanied by a recommendation to mercy.
The JUDGE.—I cannot listen to that. I have no power
but to direct sentence of death to be recorded.
Sentence of death was recorded, and the prisoner was
removed.