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the Czar rot:

atter unfitness of the Neble 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 contradiction. If the Earl of Aberdeen is, as a
Russian proprietor, pro 'canto a subject of the 'Czar, 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.

SOTJTH LANCASHIRE ASSIZES
(Continued from our 2d page)

CROWN COURT—YsitTERDAT.
BETORE MR. BARON PLATT.]

STABBING AT 3IINCEIESTER.

Luke-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. Cobbett 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
The prisoner replied offensively, and a quarrel
n the 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 hits, 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 Ann
M`Dermott, who stated that en the morning in question
she was at 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 stnike.—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 prisonlor twelve calendar months,
With hard labour ; and mind, when you come out, keep
your kitife in your pocket --Prisoner : Why didn't I do it
to some -person since I was ! (Laughter.) He was
then removed.

it was,

ATIFITTED MURDER OF J. WIFE AT MANCHESTER,
REVOLTING-REVELATIONS.

'George Hudson, aged-23, rope-maker, a man of sinister
appearane", pleaded not guilty to having, at Manchester,
on the Ifith May, attempted to murder Elizabeth Hudson,
his wife, iv cutting her throat with a razor. There were
counts for the minor offence. lifr. Assheton Crosse prose-
cuted. The prisoner was married to his wife about the
beginning of 1852, and they tic ed together until early in
the present year, when, owing to his repeated ill-treat-
ment, they separated, and she obtained employment at
the mill oiler Elkanah Armitage and Co., Manchester. On
the llth 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-
trues mother, for the purpose ,of remaining there two or
three days. :`,On the morning of the 16th of May, the
prisoner and she went out, 'about eight o'clock, to
buy some clothes ; while out, they met her uncle,
whom they 'accompanied to a public-house, and the
prisoner • had scene drink. They returned to the mother's
house about cloven o'clock, the prisoner being somewhat
in liquor. Reasked 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 proseen-
lrix's sister abuse the prisoner for hie idle conduct, and told
Jam to go away, as she would not support him in his idle-
ness. About 8 o'clock in the evening, prosecutrix went out
look fer him,andareceeded in finding him at Wormhill's
beerhouse. On first seeing her. he ran after her, and at-
tempted to- kick, hut on her paying .4-or a pint of beer,
they sat drinking together on the settle, until a man in
tile • room offered her some drink out of a glass. While
she ViaS drinking, the prisoner went close to her, put his
arnkfround her neck, "drew a razor from,his pocket, and
cut A.severegash on thf.right side of her throat. Eliza-
beth l'irnrd, who was inthe room, rushed to the prisoner
and lock the razor from _him. The proseentrix was then
conveyed to the infirmary, and the prisonerwas taken into
custody. When at the police-station, he said, "she had
been gvirig with other men, and._ I thought I was doing
her j
ustice: I shall suffer for it."
The prowcutrix having deposed to the above.facts, was
cross-exanimed by the prisoner, and a revolting history
was elicited.

Prisoner.—Didn't your made, on the MandaY, get
severtd half-gallons (meaning half-quarterns) of gin ?
Yes.—And did we all get drunk; and, on Monday morn-
ing, I was qnite sober ? That'a 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 Proseeutrix.—,Rob him, my good man ! What of ?
What I had of my uncle he gave me, my good man. *y
father and unelement up stairs with me. And I tell you,
(continued the miserable wife, with considerable excite-
ment) I'll swear toylife against you. 15,1 give you no mercy,
for it's not the first ,time you tried to ;do 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 bye witnesses in court who will state
that her uncle said he was robbed.

The Prosecutrix (defimatly waving her hand.)—Well,
then, call them.

Prisoner.—When her sisters came home, they
brought her down stairs and turned her out. When we
got,out, she asked me to put my razor in my ket, as I
wanted shaving. And I did, ba been d, for I hadn't shaved
for nine days then ; and that was the reason I had the
razor with me: This was not the first time by twenty
that she liar. left me. She has ,gone and lived with other
Men, and aftei being with them several weeks, she has
come back-to me in rags, and,l have taken to her time
after time. Sbe is nothing but a common woman off the
streets.

The JUDGE :Sto the prosecutrix.)--Is it true that he
took you off the streets ? When he married me be 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.ebont to put some irrerelant question,
when he was requested, by the Judge, to apply himself to
the material matter in the case.

The prisoner then pruceeded to explain how the " acci-
dent" occurred. While sitting by his wife, he 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 jIIDGE.—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 J 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.
Prisoner : You have said nothing but what's false and
lies. _ _ . . -

[ills lordship prevented further recrimination between
the depraved couple, 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-
secutrix had gone with other men.

His Lordsliip : If she had converse with all mankind,
it would not justify you in murdering her. However
unchaste she was, you had no right to deprive 'her of her
life.
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