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320 THE L EADER. [Saturday ,
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. The mo...
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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. MIRTHS. O...
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In The Register Of Deaths For Tho Month ...
a mrl nine years . ' old , named Clara Thompson . On Thursday morning he was found hanging from the bars of tic window of his cell in York Castle , by a belt which he used to wear . Life was quite extinct . ... He lived with his daughtor , and hearing she was about to jret married , and thinking he would be deprived of his home , he endeavoured to dissuade her , and fading an doing so , he mixed arsenic with her food , and altogether , it is said , upwards-of a dozen persons innocently partook oi it , the deceased woman Cowell dying from the effects ot it . When sentenced he was removed from the dock in apparently a dying state , and it is considered a matter of much doubt whether he will live until the sentence of the
lawcan be carried into effect . Abel Ovans and Eliza Dore , both under twenty-three years of age , were tried at Mohmouth , before Mr . Justice Wightman , on Saturday , for the murder of their child , an infant six weeks old * - They had been living together for some time , though not married , and were in very distressed circumstances . On Sunday , the 11 th of January last , they were turned out of their lodgings for non-payment of rent . They were seen by different persons wandering about the town of Newport for several days , and the 14 th of January was the last day the infant was seen alive . The next morning its body was found in a pond . They were arrested on suspicion , and in a few days Eliza Bore confessed voluntarily that Ovans had thrown the child into the pond to be
They were both found guilty , and sentenced hanged . About ten o ' clock on Monday morning , as Mr . John Giles Pilcher was crossing the roadat the foot of the inclineof the railway terminus near St . Thomas ' s Hospital to the corner of Duke-street , leading to Tooley-street , in which his extensive warehouses are situated , one of the Paddington omnibuses knocked him down , and the wheels passed over his body . He was instantly conveyed by the railway officers and some bystanders , to the hospital . At his own request he was removed home to his . family , among whom he expired on Tuesday night at seven o ' clock . An adjourned inquest was held at Barnsley on Tuesday , by Mr . Lee , one of the coroners in the West Riding of Yorkshire , on the bodies of Annis Smith , aged 24 , and Emily Smith , her daughter , aged 10 months . The bodies of the mother and the child were found with their throats cut
on the highway at Smithies , near Barnsley , on the morning of the 24 th ult ., and a man of the name of James Gledhill , a damask-weaver , with whom the deceased " woman ( who was separated from her husband ) had lived for upwards of a year , was taken into custody on suspicion of being the murderer of the woman and child . The evidence , however , tended to show that the woman had first cut the throat of her child , and then had in a similar way committed suicide . The deceased and her paramour often quarrelled , and she had been brutally struck by him The day before she was found as described , she told two or three neighbours that she would kill both herself and her child . The fatal deed was perpretated with a razor . The jury , after a long and patient investigation , which occupied two days , returned an open verdict , declaring that thero was not evidence to show by Avliom tho throats of the woman and child were cut . After the inquest Gledhill was set at liberty .
320 The L Eader. [Saturday ,
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Health Of London During The Week. The Mo...
HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . The mortality has been great in tho London districts during tho whole of March . In the first week of the month the deaths registered were 1128 , in the two following they rose to 1232 and 1208 , and in tho last week , as shown by the present return , they were 1219 . It must he observed , however , that the small increase which now appears over tho preceding week arises from more than an average number of coroners' cases . Excluding from tho returns deaths from poison , injury , and other external causes , of which inquest-cases principally consist , tho numbers in tho last threo weeks stand thus : 1160 , 1183 , and 11 G 1 . In the ten corresponding weeks of 1842-51 tho average number of deaths was 1120 , which , if raised in a certain proportion according to increaso of population , is 1239 . The deaths registered last week differ , thcrcforo , little from tho calculated amount ; but this as a comparative test of tho actual mortality is disturbed at tho end of tho quarter , whpn cases on which inquests liavo been held , and many of which occurred at previous rtatoH , arc entcrod in more than « , fair proportion in tho register books .
Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Mirths. O...
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . MIRTHS . On Rundny , tlio 28 Hi "It , at 13 , Bloomsbury-squnrc , tho wifo of W . 1 ' . Jlrodribb , Esq ., Hurpoon : a hoii . On Bttmluy , tlio 2 Hth ult ., in Harowood-Bquaro , Mrs . Alfred Howard : it hoi » . . ., .. . _ On Mm : j () th ult ., at BmnllJiritlco-houao , Cambridge , tho wife of H . T . "W . Thonms , I'lsq ., of Cams Collo ^ o : a daughter . On tho HOIh ull ; ., at Oliiridgo'u Hotel , Brook-Htroet , Liuly Olivia OuHuiuton : a son . MARTtlAGE . S . On tho 27 th ulfc ., nt tho iwiriHh church of St . Mnrmirot , Loc , . Kent , Alexander i [ iuiiifih , of N < 5 wliouHC-iJcld , lliidclorsfleld , to Mona Loiuhii , fourth dimghlor of the lato William ilrook , ol Olodholli , near JIuddorHllold , E « q ., , 1 . V . On I . I 10 80 th ult .., at Trinity Ohuruli , Marylobonp , AHrod WiIIch DravHon , Hwq ., Itoyal Artillery , to Mary On « . lierinn , fourth daughter oi'W . M . I ' reooo , JOsq ., of » pvo » Hhlr « - » trcot , rortlmidplftC ° ' ' DEATH 8 . On Tlmradiiy , tho 25 th nil ,., ninoeroly rogrotled and ronpeoted , Piivid Jlillw , Jiwq ., of fit . Faitli '» -laiie , Norwich , in tho H 1 h < . year ° OnVriday , iho 20 < Ii ult ., William Hydo , JSuq ., of Iioutb , Wncolnnhirc , aged H 7 . . On TiiOHday hwt , tlio 30 l , h ult ; ., nmoorcly roffr « ttod by Jiin family mid i \ ionilH , . John QUoh 1 'ilolior , linq ., at JiIh rowdeiuio , Htooliwoll , Hiirroy . . On tho 30 Mi ull ., at . lior liouoo , m rnrtutfal-ntropt ., GroMVOiujrflquuro , Mnria' Wli / . alxitli fiothaby , tho vldvnt dauflhlor of tho lato William Hothoby , K »(\ - , „ „ . . . T ., , On tho yOth ult ; ., at hw ronidonoo , 05 , llogont-Htrflot , Edward l ^ jtjswilliuin . Uaq ., tho pojxilitr flomodiiui and voouHmI , ngod ( 57 . OnthoiilHtiiffc ., at hin roHidonoo , Troflpoot-pliieo , . Deptlord , William Hoolcoy , Knq ., Into Timber and Store Rccwvor ol her Miyouty ' ij J > ocltyarU at that pliwo , tiged H « .
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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS , It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters wo receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . ^ ; __ Ifo notice can be taken of anonymous communications . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and , address of the-writer 5 not necessarily for publication , but ' as a guarantee of his . gobd faith . _ We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . All letters for theEditor shouldlie addressed to 10 , Wellingtonstreet , Strand , London . . . ... ^ Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them .
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\ The following appeared , in our Second Edition of last weeh . ]
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Sattxbday, March 27. Last Night, On The ...
Sattxbday , March 27 . Last night , on the order of the day being read for going into Committee of Supply , Mr . Slanet made a statement to the effect that land was overtaxed in various ways , particularly specifying the taxes on legal documents relating to the transfer of real property ; and he found a remedy for these grievances in a simplification of the law in that hehalf , and a repeal of the law of unlimited liability . The House then went into Committee of Supply , through which the ordnance and commissariat estimates were speedily passed ; and in a Committee Of Ways and Means , the house agreed that
17 , 742 , 8002 . should be raised in Exchequer Bills for the service of the year 1852 . The other business of the evening consisted in reading a second time , after a smart talking opposition , a till enabling Government to give up foreign seamen who had deserted from theirships . The house also went into committee on the Charitable TrustsBill . The Attoeney-GeitebaIi said , that the bill proposed to establish a hoard of five commissioners , two of them to he paid , power being given to the Lord Chancellor to appoint a third paid commissioner . This board was to have no jurisdiction over charities , *—only powers of supervision control , and advice ; and it was
prqposed _ that no suit or proceeding should be instituted in respect to any breach of trust with reference to charities without the consent of the hoards It was proposed to give jurisdiction in respect to small charities to the County Courts and district Courts of Bankruptcy . Provisions were inserted to enable trustees and others interested in charities to obtain the advice of the commissioners ; and persons acting under such advice would be indemnified , though the decision of a Court should hold the advice to be erroneous . The commissioners would have power to send questions relative to charities
under 30 / . a-year to County Courts and district Courts of Bankruptcy , and to interfere and stay proceedings which they might think improperly conducted , and , by way of check , they would have no control over the Attorney-General acting ex qfficio . It was proposed to tax charities having 101 . a-year and upwards 2 d . in the * pound , no charity to pay more than 501 . This rate , it was computed , would raise 8 , 500 ? . a-year , a sum sufficient for tho support of the Board and its staff . The bill would exempt from its operation the universities , collegiate and cathedral churches , the British Museum , and institutions supported wholly by
voluntary contributions . An attempt was made to exempt the Royal Hospitals and the City Charities , but it failed , both sides of the house agreeing in pressing forward the measure . In tho House of Lords , tho bill for shortening tho interval between the dissolution and meeting of a new parliament , entitled Proclamation of Parliament Bill , was read a hccoihI time ; the Loud CiiANCNiiiiOit reserving his opinion until tlio bill should ho in committee .
Among tho names who voted against Mr . Hume ' s motion are Viscount Caatloroagh , Viscount Ebrington , Mr . Gladstone , Mr . Gonlburn , Mr . Hatcholl , Mr . Hayter , Lord Alfred Hervoy , Viscount Palmcrston , Frederick Peel , Lord John EushcII , tho Earl of Sholburne , and Lord Seymour . Tho Radicals voted with Mr . Humo . How is it that Mr . Georgo Thompson was not among Jihom ?
Tho Duke Of Argyll Was Inhtnllod On Thur...
Tho Duke of Argyll was inHtnllod on Thursday , in his chair as Chancellor of tho Xlnivorsity of St . Andrew ' s . Mr . Douglas Jorrold presided < ovor tho annual festival of tho Printers' Penwon Society , on Thursday . Tho mooting was highly successful , and ft sum subscribed groator than at any previous gathering . ' Sir James Graham addressed tho electors oi Carlisle , in conjunction with Mr . Ferguson , on Thursday , na a Parliamentary ltoformor and FrooTTrador : — " I do not know how ifc in in , Oarlifllo , but in London , Binco Lord Derby ' s nccoHHion to powor , tho difficulty in to find a frank Protectionist . ( Laughter . ) I will illuHtrato tho matter in a familiar manner , uu ^ g oHtod by Lord John KuhhoH . I eay from him as a prooi of our returning conlidonco and friondtthip . ( Choorn and laughter . ) Ho flayH , wero an owner of two race-horsos about to start two Iioi-boh for a Blake , ho is bound to ntnto belbrojiand with which
horse he means to win the race . ( Laughter ;) Now observe , Lord Derby and Lord Lonedale , the President of the Council , are great jockeys . ( Laughter . ) They are leading members of the Jockey Club , and this ride or previously showing with what horse it is intended to win the race is a standing rule at Newmarket itself , for the purpose Of preventing frauds . ( Laughter . ) Now , we will calfthe corn-law a race-horse ; . tye will call that horse the "Screw" ( laughter ) and c 6 mpensatio . n to the agricultural interest through theinedium of - - . direct taxationj will call the ^ Artful Dodger / ( Loudlaughter . ) At Carlisle we like arace , and are anxious to know the names of the owners and colours of the riders . The name of the owner of both the ' Screw and the ' Artful Dodger' is the Earl of Lonsdale . ( Loud laughter . ) The colour of the rider—Ithink— ( turningto Mr . Mounsey—I think they call it yellow . ( Shouts of laughter . ) Who is theiockev ? ( Lauffhter . ) I think I need not sav
( Cheers and laughter . ) We are about to , have two plates —the county stake and the city-plate ; ' ( Loud laughter . ) I tell you I think the "Screw" will be started for the county stake , and the " Artful Dodger ! Vfor the cit y plate . Mr . Hodgson is an extremely good jockey , and a very good man ; but we are too far north ( Loud laughter ) to have any such crossing and jostling ; but we must come to a distinct understanding , and it must be p lain what are the real intentions of that gentleman . I think we have a horse in our stable that will beat them for the city plate ( loud laughter ) , and if I were not afraid of losing the election , I think I dare bet two to one I nanie the winner . What is the name of that horse ? It is a well-known name , and we call it' Bonny Blue . ' ( Uproarious applause . )" Sir James considers himself pledged to stand for Carlisle , and nowhere else .
The United States Steam Ship, -Franklin,...
The United States steam ship , -Franklin , arrived off Cowes , yesterday . She left New York on the 13 th , but she brings no news of any importance . A disgraceful scene , in the House of Representatives , at Washington , between two members for Mississippi , is reported in tho New York Journals . Mr . Brown attacked his colleague , Mr . Wilcox , who sharply retorted . The bone of contention was the Southern right movement . "My colleague , " says Mr , Wilcox , " says there was no party in Mississipp i in favour of secession . I had thought that the gentleman had too hig h a regard for truth to make a declaration bo baseless of truth . ( Sensation . ) Mr . Brown asked if his colleague charged him with falsehood ? Mr . Wilcox : I have spoken boldly . My language cannot be misunderstood on that point .
Mr . Brown : Do you mean to say that what I have stated is false ? ( Looking sternly at his colleague . ) Mr . Wilcox : If you mean _ to say there is nobody in Mississippi in favour of secession , it is false . The last word was scarcely uttered before Brown drew off , and planted a blow in Wilcox ' s face , Wilcox returned it , and both clinched . The scene of confusion that followed was most terrific . Brown was dragged off to a distance , and Wilcox jumped on his desk , shouting that he could whip him . Calls , in vain , were made for the Sergeant-at-Arms ; the Speaker rushed into tho house , took the chair , and rapped to restore order , which was partially obtained , after a long effort . The Chairman of the Committee reported progress . Both members then made very humble apologies to the House , asking forgiveness , and entreating the countrys pardon for their most disgraceful conduct .
Two Cases Of Cruelty Came Before The Cou...
Two cases of cruelty came before the Courts yesterday . Dennis M'Nally , a labourer , was charged with cruelly illtreating and neglecting his Bon , Edward M'Nally , a child ten years old . Tho poor boy , who looked weak and haltstarved , made the following statement : — " I went into tho workhouse on last Tuesday fortnight . I have a stepmother ; my own mother has been dead five years . 1 lived at homo with my father , and had two meals a day , and sometimes only one , consisting of a piece ot bread ; oiu D
but it was not enougn . JViy oca was some vya ™ « v » w-I was once shut up in a dark room by myself for a tortnight . There was a bed in the room , but I could not gee on it because I was chained to tho bedpost so tight that tho chain was not long enough . Tho last time I was kept like that was from tho night of Saturday , March 13 , untu tho morning of Tuesday , March 16 , when I was takon t > y
my father to tho workhouse , and during that tune x »«« a Bmall basin of sop onco a day . I have frequently asicca for more , but could not got it . I was chained by tho Jcg , and tho chain was passed several times round tho bedpost , bo as to shorten it nnd provont my moving . I ho * V ° *} treated many times like this , and have been obaitu ^ up for a fortnight and three weeks at a tune . j t y father has often takon all my clothes off , and wm my hands and foot to tho bedpost , and beaten mo wiu « a penny cane . Ho did not give me a whacking t » o » " \ time I was locked up . Ho UBcd to beat mo bocauso A was naughty by running away from him . I was obliged
run away , becauao ho lockod mo up in a ciarjc """"' , nothing to cat , I ran away a groat many times , our . in Btayod away moro than a week , and then I always »«* in tho Btroots at night , as I was afraid to go homo . This Avaa backed up by crodiblo witnoflBCN , and the huwi h Alderman dpformined to pond tho caso to a jury . ft Tho otb- * r case was very curious . Jane Bronnan jh « v daughter , Alice , and being herself somewhat edu ™™ V boon instructing tho little thing " in tho languages . j * u . ing French , Gorman , Italian , nnd Irish . Jut poor > UW AHco has not always boon able to remember nnm "" 1 ( , nt words , and whenever tho memory or tho avaali b failed , Mxu . Bronnan boat her bo cruolly , that at long ™ nuig ' hboura interfered . Tho mother was Vf n r before Mr . Yardley , at Clorkonwoll , and oviden co w ^
ablo proficiency in Jfronch on tho port of tiny Miaa j Mr . Yardloy , desirous of eooing Mr . Bronnan , a paw y and hearing what ho has to say , adjourned tho caeo » ( ho husband could bo brought up .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 3, 1852, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03041852/page/12/
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