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innfciecK onTtfce © tiers , with fourteen days or a ^ month h » pr « toi » ra « nV indefault br payment . The sentences * n earn * cSSe were accompanied by an order , to abate the nuisance . ., „ , *¦ EsfcteftanttilirigfT at Pbkston . —The manager of a coftofr mill , atPjceston has been brought before tfie magistrates ofthat town on a- charge of having , ( it is th < rtl £ frtf'for several ^ ears ) carried on an extensive systeitf ^ of swindling . Robert Parkinson , the person accused ,-haa ^ een Tecently in the fiab'it of charging his employer for oVe ^ -houxa on the part of some of the -workmen , whelT tfifere had been no over-hours : -while , at other
times , when the men really had been worked over their nstial tlmeV P ' axldrisdri Bad ' charged more than was due . Heri & tt'appropriated the entire money to hia own use in the first instance ,, and- the overplus in the second . Pariflnson erected several houses with the money of ¦ wfiieh Ke Had thus defrauded bis - employ er , in whose Badtortb . 6 various materials were purchased . Having appDiirte & ' a . ffiettd , with whom he was about to negotiatepfo ^ tnVsale of ' his houses , to meet him at an hotel in Fishergate ^ street , Preston , the prisoner was traced thert ~ b y" the police , and apprehended . He was remanded for at week .
^ SOtte" Robber *' . —A gentleman named Dean , ¦ while'passing through D ^ -aycott-terrace , Chelsea , on his wijt honiei on Tuesday night , between eleven and twelve o'dofc & V was" accosted' by two men , who' asked the way to Sf 6 sne =-street . Having answered their-inquiries * he yr & 8 about' to" proceed' oh his way , when one of the rafi & ns ~ suddenly seized him by the throat and nearly thtdttiett' him , while the other struck him two violent blbttfe , the one on the mouth and the other on the abdomen . The result was that he was deprived of conseEStfsriess ; and , on recovering his senses , some twenty miirtlteB afterwards , he found himself lying on a heap of dirf , deprived , ' of course , of his watch and chain and © tfiejr valuables . Another P ' oxsoning Cabe . — A farmer living at
"Wihkbpurn , a village- about three miles north of South-¦ welf , Nottinghamshire , has been committed' for trial on the'coroner ' s warrant , charged with the Wilful Murder of Mary Clarke , his housekeeper . Thomas Johnson , the accttsed , is a widower , and he had contracted an improper intimacy with the woman . She became addicted to drink *; and , whether from this or some other cause , Johnson suddenly changed his manner to her , and , according to . his own account , treated her with great brutality . She was known to have threatened to poison herself ; but it would appear that , when she fell ill , Johnson was a good deal about her , and he was heard to say that" he was determined to get rid of ler . He refused to have a doctor sent for—a refusal in which she
herself joined . The post-mortem examination revealed a large quantity of sulphate of copper , or vitriol , mixed with sulphate of iron , in the large and small intestines . Traces of these poisons were found in the cups about tner ' rbom , and some powders of the same nature were disco'vered in one of Johnson ' s boxes . Ak " ActAFEitoNB" Suicide . —An inquest has been opeHed at Blacfcshole Farm , Enmore , Somerset , on the boi ~ t ^ r ~ of 1 MisS Mary Maber , an inmate of the notorious religious association called " the Agapemone , " or " Abode ofXbve : " ' THe lady , who was about fifty years of age ,
had beeri depressed ifl spirits for some time , as she feared that ' she " was not a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ . " It -wtould appear that she slipped away during the night or the ' early morning , and drowned herself in a pond at the bottom of a pit : This being the second case of a BimJJUflf" nature connected with the Agapemone , the coronet'has dbmtnunicated to the Home Secretary , to aB & nlrfi tb depute some one who may watch the case oirbeh ' alf of the public . The inquest was adjourned till yei ^ day '( Friday ); but the further details liave not yofct & en published .
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BIRTHS ,, SiAItftlAGEg ; ATSTV DEATHS . The seventeenth annual report of the Registrar-General of Births , Deaths , and Marriages in England supplies the following statistical information in a series of tabular statements .- — Hie population of England in 1851 being estimated at 17 , , 609 , it is found that the total number of marriages registered ' in that part' of the United Kingdom during tlie year 185 * 4 amounted to 169 , 727 , including 25 ^ 28 ' in , the London district . Of thetae-, 15 were so leipnfced by special license ; 21 , 048 by common license ,. 105 . 050- tiy bah *; # 811 ' by Superintendent Registrars ' certificates ; . and' 4185 '' not stated ; " making the tota
number celebrated accordingto the rites of the Church of . England , ^ 84 , 109 . There were 7188 Roman Catholic nwittip | M »; , 9878 marriages between Dissenters-, 7598 * Q ) MMmm b ^ D the ^ uperintendent Registrar ( not accord-M fewJBtt ^ ' rites . of iherChurch ) , 52 marriages of Quakers , 8 ¦* £ ? ? $ & ,. ^ * ' Tlie-number of marriages registered * " * S «' TJr i | H ** * , , year . " * # 8 , 284 ; in the m & B ?> . 4 Xi , 51 » * ^ jyfi . th ' o-third ,. 8 B . X ^\ and in th « fourth , 47 , 7 sf 8 , . ' , - ¦ ljp ? l , I 41 marriages were contracted between bachelors an ^ L «> ln 8 tors j 6828 between ,. bachelors and widows ; 14 j tB 0 between widowers and spinsters ; and 7571 betwJBn ?/ widowers and' widows * There" werb 2 i , 760 nfflWWIW ana 14 , 897 widows remarried , besklea 9220 mtom ; a ^ a 2 $ , 097 females under age . No lena than
47 , ' 84 S men aina . > G &\ Vt $ women slgned ' ttie ; rfeglster ^ witH ' marks . Of 9 l , 3 te 2 couples married ill 1 G 6 & ; 1 man - aft * 28 ' women were 15 years of age ; 7 meiratad i 87 'womi 6 ri , ' 16 years ; 35 " men and ' 8 ' 47 -women , 17 ' years ' \ # 70 nieii and 3312 women , 18 ' years ; 18 C 0 men and 6733 wonieW , 19 years ; 42 ^ 682 men arid ' 45 , 077 womenj 20 ' years ; 28 , 767 men and 18 , 820 women 25 years '; 905 O men and 7468 women , 30 years ; 4850 men arid 3755 women , 35 years ; 3081 " men and 2468 women , 40 years } 1816 ' men and' 1339 women ,- 45 years ; 1483 men and 753 women , 50 years ; 766 men arid 3 ' 43 ' women ' , 56 years ; 492 men and 188 " women , 60 yeark ; 192 meri and 42 women , 65 years ; 101 men arid l & Vomen , 70 yearS ^ , 30 men and 4 women , 75 years ; and 9 men ,. 80 years ofageand ' upwards . . _ _ ___ __ .. .
___ _ ,, The total number of births in 1854 was 634 , 405 , urcluding 324 , 069 males- arid 310 , 336 females . THefe were 40 , 735 illegitimate births—20 , 976 males , and 19 , 759 females . The number of deaths amounted to 437 , 916—viz :, 222 , 422 males , and 215 , 494 females . The ages of the deceased are riot given . Health op London during the Week : —In the week that ended last Saturday the deaths from all causes registered were 1068 , of which 539 were deaths of males , ' 529 those of females . To the people of London , the month of June is the healthiest in the year , and probably the mortality is now nearly as low as it will be this season . The average number of deaths in the first week
of June during the ten years 1846-55 , was 956 ; but , as the deaths of last week occurred in an increased population , it'is necessary for comparison tb apply acorrection to the average , which makes it 1052 . The present rate of mortality , therefore , exceeds the average , though " onlyin a small degree . For six weeks , though the mean daily teiriperature has been occasionally above the average , the mean weekly , temperature Kas been constantly below it . East week , 2 ^ 9 persons died from diseases of the ' zymotic character , of -whom 174 were cmldren ; the corrected average for deaths at all ages in this class is 245 . Tb diseases of the tubercular" class , comprising scrofula , tabes mesenterica , phthisis , arid hydrocephalus , 2 ffO deaths are referred , ' the average being 210 ; tb diseases of the nervous system , 109 , the average being-129 ' ; to
diseases of the respiratory organs , 119 , the average being 133 ; to diseases of the digestive organs , 67 , the average being . 68 ; to diseases of the heart ; 62 , while the average is 41 . Ten cases of small-pox are returned , 41 of measles , 42 of scarlatina , 44 of hooping-cough , 13 of croup , 58 of typhus and common fever . Three deaths from " febris" occurred in the workhouse , Mile-end Newtown , on the 3 rd inst ., and one on the 4 th . Tw o persons died from intemperance , besides a young woman who was killed by falling down stairs when intoxicated . Last week , the births of 866 boys and 881 girls , in all 1747 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number was 1454 . —From the Registrar-General s Weekly Heturn .
State Of Trade The Reports Of The State ...
STATE OF TRADE The reports of the state of trade in the manufacturing towns during the week ending last Saturday show , on the whole , a tendency to dulness . At Manchester , th « market has been heavy , and there has been a gradual decrease in the amount of business . At Birmingham , the demand for iron has been limited , and prices are affected by the uncertainty of the American question . The Nottingham accounts describe increased purchases of lace for home consumption , and steady transactions , also , in hosiery . In the woollen districts ; there is an absence of activity , and sales have not kept pace with production . The Irish linen-markets continue to exhibit great animation , but the advices from New York are watched with anxiety . —Times .
The Scotch Miners * strike is virtually at an end . The men , after enduring great misery and privation , have been obliged to succumb , after a loss in wages alone of 500 , 000 / . They return to their work in a gloomy and resentful mood , not only on account of the successful resistance of their terms , but because of the supercilious blearing which they allege their employers always Exhibit towards them . They also say that they are plundered at the pit mouth by the understrappers of the masters , who compel them to give a largo quantity off over-weight . The original quarrel resulted from the proposal of the masters to reduce the wages from 5 s . tb 4 s . per day , in consequence of the reduction in the , p ri * o of iron and of other causes incident to the
conclusion of the war . In this , the employers urged that they only rovorted to the terms—namely , 4 s . per day—which ruled before the war had advanced the scale of romunerhtion , arid which had only subsisted for a few months ; The' miners resolved to resist the reduction , and in consequence tlio strike in Lanarkshire became general about the 8 tH of March last . In a few weeks it extended to Renfrewshire- and Ayrshire ; and , when it was at its hWght , ubout six weeks since , at least 40 , 000 men were engaged in it . The " turn-outs" were obliged to sell what furnituro and clothing they possessed , and for some time they lived on borrowing ; but at length all their resources were completely dried up . While the strike lasted , large quantities of coul wore brought'into Ghiwgow from England and the cast couat of Scotland , and
immense sums ofnitoey'l ^ e ' -lJefctfstn ^ tb ^ a distance Which ; btrt'for ^ tK 6 Btfriggle , ' * m & ' naW been' retatffen tiirtKW district . Tfifr-strike ttegatTtb Weak dowtt attotit three- wefekB'tfgoy whfeh ttiriffenr r © tu * hed to the pits in detached b ' bdieB ; immense numbers' rfesumed' work oh ; Friaay week arid the fbUdwing dayi and ttie remainder so far as Lanarkshire' is ~ concerned , turned' in : ori Bifefi dayv There ¦ are still a few hundreds out in Ayrttfirg-^ where the' strike was later in COTritnettcing , and ' -where the men have consequently endured less ; but all admit that the contest is substantially over .
Narviaaj Atfr> Jairjtaiiy. A New Mortaft...
NArViAaj Atfr > jairjTAiiY . A New MORTAft : —Important expeWmerits have been made-with a" lJf-iri " ch mortar , ' under the directions of a party of the Royal Marine Artillery Corps , at Port Cumberland , one of tbie outposts of P 6 rtsinouth . The object of the trial was to test the utilit y of a peculiar contrivance for the purpose of preventing the mortar becoming heated and damaged by any lengthened firing , as was the case at S-weaborg . At one day ' s trial three Hundred shells were discharged , the time occupied being nine hours , giving two minutes only as the average of each round . On another trial , one hundred and fifty shells were fired in equally rapid time , and three hundred more are still to be experimented with . The mortar , though subjected to this severe test , seems to have received no material injury from the fusion or cracking of the metal .
The Repohted Loss of the Dido , on the Pacific station , is contradicted ; She was thrown with great injury on some coral reefs while on her passage from Tahiti to Pitcairn ' s and other neighbouring islands ; but was towed off without - any lossofmen . The hurricane by which she -was damaged has been felt with terrific violence in the islands . The Patriotic Fund . —The Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund have put forth a document , in which they state what they propose to do with the money confided to their hands . They state : — " It was decided , at a meeting of the Royal Commissioners , on Tuesday , the 27 th of May , that there shall be a perpetual endowment of 50007 . per anTiiiTn for the maintenance and education of about three hundred daughters of soldiers , sailors , and marines . That there shall be a perpetual endowment for a school for about one hundred boys * the sons of soldiers ,, sailors ; and marines ; That the sums to be set apart [ for the purposes specified ] shall be considered
and held ' as a fund appropriated to those objects ; but until such schools shall : be in full 'operation the dividends and interest of the sums so appropriated , or so much thereof as shall not be expended in- the schools ; shall be applied in aid of the general fund to the support and education of soldiers ' , sailors ' , and marines ' boys and girls entitled to relief from the fund . —Also a perpetual endowment in the Wellington College to the extent of 25 , 000 / .,, for sons of military officers . A like endowment in the Cambridge Asylum , to the extent of 3000 ? ., for widows of non-commissioned officers and privates . A like endowment in the Royal Naval School at New-cross , to the extent of 8000 / ., for the sons of naval officers . A like endowment in the Koyal Naval Female School at Richmond to the extent of 5000 / ., for the daughters of naval officers . A like endowment in the Naval and Military Schools of Portsmouth and Plymouth , to the extent of 5000 / . —2500 / . in each — for the children of soldiers , sailors , and
marines . " Engujsh and American Yachts . —" A member of a Royal Yacht-Club , " writing to the Times , reverts to the 11 roasting" wo received in 1851 when we were beaten in 3 'achting by the Americans , and thinks it but right that it should be known that the American yacht Sylvie , celebrated for her speed , has been fairly beaten by one ot our own cutters of little more than half her tonnage Viz ., the Julia . Tub Coast-guard at Fowky . —The Admiralty authorities have been pleased to mark their approval of the ino
gallant conduct of Commander Norcock ana »» - » under his command , in recently saving life from tlio wreck at Fowey . The commissioned boatman Hcnwood is promoted to bo chief boatman , and the man lrtppen tb bo a commissioned ^ boatman . In addition to this , iweach have been awarded to Hen wood and Johns , an « . 81 . to Pappen . Tho Controller-General of the Coastguard has extended tho time of Commander NorcocK b present appointment from five to tin years . This oMccr a gallantry is also to bo marked by tho presentation ol a sword from tho Hoard of Trade , and by tho silver mcuai from Lloyd ' s , Piunck Albert add the Piuncio of 1 uussia a Woolwich . — Tho arsenal at Woolwich was viHitwi on Monday by Prince Albert and tho Prince of PrusBin , wno looked over tho various mechanical contrivancen m « bo fbr performing tho military and other work of the ^
lilishmont . ,...,, ExiusniMicNTAi , Tun- ofthk Stmam-Packkt haviii--i-A new steam-packet ,, called tho Havre , and int ; . ' fbr traffic between tlio city from which it derives ^ riamo and Southampton , made an experimental tni Monday . Tho speed woh accurately tested by s ^" ilo rtnifl , with and against tho tide , over tho moatim-cu ^ llolow Gravesend , and tho uvorugo result wan y ^ tfnotH , or about fifteen measured inil « H , l > or ho " " - rbHult from a vessel drawing over nino foot w « i « i ,
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Leader (1850-1860), June 14, 1856, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14061856/page/10/
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