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December 29, 1855.] THE LEADE B. 1245
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Mi S C K L L A N K O U «. Extraordinary ...
rience , as well as reasonable in itself to believe , that some time will elapse before the effects of a change of temperature are fully jnanifested in the registration . This return includes the deaths of 634 males and 623 females . Forty-four men and women died whose Hve 3 had been prolonged to 80 years or upwards . The deaths produced by bronchitis received a considerable accession ; for , having been 119 in each of the two previous weeks , they rose last week to 161 , of which 45 occurred to persons under 20 year ' s of age , and almost exclusively infants ; 9 between the ages of 20 and 40 ; 39 in the period of 40-60 ; 60 at the ages 60 to 80 ; and 8 were deaths of octogenarians . The deaths from pneumonia or inflammation of the lungs , amounting to 80 , and , falling principally among children , are not so numerous as in some previous weeks . Against 60 from bronchitis in the period of life 60-80 years , are to be set 60 from phthisis ( or consumption ) , which occurred in that period of greater vigour , 20 to 40 years , being about half the total number from this disease . Fatal cases of typhus rose from 45 to 65 , of which there were 10 in Shoreditch ; of these 10 four occurred in Haggerstone West . Typhus , measles , Avhooping-cough , and scarlatina prevail now more in the East districts than in the other divisions of London . Four deaths from scarlatina occurred hi Hoxton Old Town . Three deaths were registered aa caused by intemperance , 4 by delirium tremens , 3 by carbuncle , 1 by want of the necessaries of life . Last week , the births of 759 boys and 763 girls , in all " l , 522 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 , the average number was 1 , 434 . —From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return . Novel Subjects of Taxation . —A bill has been presented to the Legislature of Tene 3 see , levying a tax of five dollars on every gentleman who wears a moustache , and a fine of five dollars upon bachelors over thirty years of age , for the purpose of raising money to increase the school fund . —New Yorh Journal of Commerce . The late Samuel Rogkrs . — "We have , withm the last dozen years , " says the Athenxeum , " heard Mr . Kogers describe how he had seen Marie-Antoinette dance and illustrate the same by himself walking a minuet . There is also an anecdote of his having left an early poem at Dr . Johnson ' s door only a day or two before the Doctor ' s death . Till an accident confined him to his chair , Mr . Rogers continued to be an attendant ' at the Opera , the Ancient Concerts , and , when these died out , at the Exeter Hall Oratorios . Till a very late period he might be seen at midnight feebly hurrying home from these on foot—no matter what the weather—thiuly dressed , and as resentful of the slightest offer of attendance as was " the Diike when he was scarcely able to mount his horse . The passion for pleasure did not forsake him till a very Lit 3 period . Only a few years since a street accident caused by this imprudent manner of wandering home alone , sentenced him to a chair for the rest of his days" Mr . Rogers has bequeathed to the nation three well known pictures from his collection—the Titian " Noli me Tangere ; " the Giorgione , a Small Ticture of a Knight in Armour ;' and the Guido , "Head of Christ crowned with Thorns . The remainder of the collection will , it is presumed , be sold in the course of the ensuing spring . Strange Present to an Officer in the Crimea . —Mr W . Thomas , of Ratton , Sussex , has despatched to his brother , Major Thomas , of the Royal Horse Artillery , now in the Crimea , a pack of fox-hounds , for the purpose of hunting the Russian foxe . s . Baking Companies —Two joint-stock bread associations have existed in Birmingham for several years . A correspondent of a contemporary says that , iitty or sixty years ago , the older of the two companies embarked . € 8 , 100 in the trade , divided into as many shares . They havo saved a surpl" « capital of kctwoeu £ 40 , 000 and £ 50 , 000 . They sell their bread at the market price , and yet divide cent , per cent , per annum on thcii subscribed capital . So much for the commercial stability of this concern , tested by the experience of more than half a century . The junior oompany is also prosperous , its shares selling ior more ? han twice their original value . The Birmingham poor thus obtain genuine bread made of good flour , and their loaves arc of full weight . No sinister interest exists , furnishing motives to fraud in tno . io particulars ; and , with regard to price , competition i » all powerful to bring that to the lowest point . A Cnii'iM . K BuiiNKD to Death . —A widow with Hovoral childivn baa boon burnod to death at Preston . Tlio poor creature was a cripple ; and there wera evidences that , being quite alono at the tune , hIio had wandered over the greater part of the house ( probably in HOftrch of assistance ) while her clothes wore on lire . Finis at tub Duick oc Lkinstku ' m Mansion . —An extensive conflagration , reuniting in the destruction of one wing of the Duke of LeuiHtorn mansion at Carton , Ireland , broke out on Friday week , biitwiis got under in time to Have tho rest of the building . It i » supposed to have originated in a hot-air fliio m one of tho uppor rooms of tho wing , nnd to have « moulderod for flomo days .
Death prom Fire . —Mrs Mary Brown , who was ' recently injured in a fire which occurred at Bristol , and whose legs aud ribs were broken in endeavouring to escape , has died in the Infirmary . She was iu her sixty-fourth year . Fire in a Prison . — The following shocking particulars of a fire in a prison at Baden are from the Cologne Gazette : —" The fire broke out on tho ground floor , and , Laving immediately after caught the wooden staircase , cut off all communication with the upper floors . The gaolers had gone their usual rounds at nine o ' clock and at eleven , but saw nothing wrong ; and they were themselves roused from their sleep by the flames . The prisoners on the first floor succeeded in escaping , some of them by tearing away the iron bars from the window of the water-closet , but many of them were severely hurt in their attempt . Those on the second floor were not so fortunate , as the flooring being burnt through gave way beneath them . In consequence of the severe frost , the engines could work but very imperfectly , and the fire continued burning during the whole day . Fifteen carbonized bodies have already been got out from the ruins , and the body of one unfortunate man was found jammed in the pipe of the water-closet through which he had endeavoured to force a passage . " , The Fire in Mint-Street *—An inquest has been held on the bodies of Lydia Robins and her children , who were burnt to death in the fire in Mint-street , Southwark . on Tuesday week . The circumstances were peculiarly tragic , inasmuchas the poor woman was > pproaching her confinement at the time of the disaster , and it would seem that the infant was actually born durin the conflagration , perhaps prematurely from the a ^ or -y and terror of ? the mother . Thefire appears to have " originated from a beam of wood having ignited owing to the bad setting of a copper . The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter against the man who set the copper . He was taken into custody , but admitted to bail .
Christmas-day . — Last Tuesday was tho second Christmn . s-day since the commencement of the war ; and of necessity there were many households , from the highest to the lowest , where mournful recollections ° the absent and the dead precluded the accustomed festivity . The weather , also , though mild was gloomy ; the streets were encumbered with mud aud dirty puddle , from the recent thaw and heavy falls-of rain ; and London , consequently , did not present the most holiday aspect . But it may he safely stated that , as usual , a vast amount of eating and drinking , laughing and toast-pledging went on as usual and in the workhouses the really Christian custom of looking after the comforts of the poor was not forgotten . We are sorry to add , however , that the returns with respect to the pauper inmates , and to those receiving out-door relief , show a lamentable increase of poverty as compared with last yean R \ ilway Accidents . — The mail train on the Las tern Counties line which was proceeding on Monday night , from Peterborough to Ely , struck down two men named Thomas Motta and David Knight , who died almost immediately from the injuries they received The train was on the down line—an arrangement which is adopted while a bridge is being repairedabout eight miles from Ely . The driver of tho engine whistled , and it was a moonlight night , but the men had been drinking aud were heedless of the sicnal The bodies of both men were much injured . The wife of Mott , who lives close by the spot where tho occurrence took place , is a young woman with four little children , aud the other man had a wife nnd family . —Owing to the negligence of a switchman on tho North Kent Railway , a train from London on Christmas-day ran into a Biding at the btrood Station and dashed against several empty carriages , in consequence of winch the engine and a Portion of tho tram ? vero thrown off tho Hue , and several ot the passengerH were severely bruUcd . One of those a widow who was going to spend her Christmas at Shoornc ^ , was o seriously injured in the spine thatfe «; hopca are entertained of her recovery . Edward Kingto . i tho switchman , is in custody . It is stated that ho had neglected to turn tho points from the direction oi the S » K -A catastrophe of a very fearful nature , but happny not attended by loss of life , lias bceu . ro . l on one of tho branch Hues belonging to tho St . Helen » Railway Company , a short distance from Liverpool . The line in a hIi . & o lino , and thoro , a n swing-bridge over a canal . Au engine with a train of empty con trucks was pacing along tho rail , and , having cleared thomviW down the lino Tho fonnor ongino wna rovowocl , to avol a collision ; but tho nwing-bridgo had b .-on S or tho pa « Hii ; , 'O of a boat on tho o : uml , ami the ongincdrivor / nut seeing this , allowed tho onyino to Ko \ lu-ough tho aperture and fall on tho boat oonoath Tho c-Mipling-ehains snapped , bo that tho ruokn did not follow . The driver and stoker aavod thomwlvcH , and no biirious injury rertultod . A , " lCOKI > goBOINcif OK A OKnT . « OATJ O » LUNAOT . —Mr W . -It . Wilkinson , asHwtaut to Mr . It . U . H » rton Buwon of Leeds , h «» been committed for trial on a olmr l of signing tho name of his employer ( Without tho loave or knowledge of that gentleman )
to a document stating that a young woman named Ann Ash was insane ; in virtue of which certificate , the woman has been placed in a lunatic asylum . There seemed to be no doubt aboub Ann Ash's insanity ; and in defence it was stated that Mr . Hort ' on , being too ill to attend to business , had -given Mr . Wilkinson a general permission to sign for him , ¦ though it-was not contended that ho bad any knowledge of the present act . The accused was admitted to bail . Postal Convention with France . —A Convention with France , dated General Post-office , December , 1855 , has been published . It contains the following notification : — " The entire postage , British and French , chargeable \ ipon newspapers and other priuted papers posted in the United Kingdom addressed to France or Algeria , or , when they are convoyed by the French Mediterranean packets , to any of tho places in Turkey , Syria , and Egypt at which Franco maintains post-ofiices , must , on the 1 st of January next and thenceforward be paid in advance , and no further charge of any kind will be levied upon their delivery . Under the new arrangement , many kinds of books and other printed matter , which have hitherto been liable to the letter rate of postage , will be forwarded at a greatly reduced charge ; and , as the charges on newspapers and other periodical literature levied on delivery in France have , in most instances , been much greater than that now to be paid in advance , a considerable reduction of postage will be made m thencase also . " . Goldsmith on Russian Augression . — A correspondent of the Times has pointed out the annexed passages in Goldsmith ' s " Citizen of the \ S orld as an interesting evidence of the long-standing apprehensions of Russia as an encroaching power : — 1 cannot avoid beholding the Russian empire as the natural enemy of the more western parts of Europe -as au enemy already possessed of great strength , and , trorn the nature of the government , everyday threatening to become more powerful . It was long tho wish ot Peter , their great monarch , to hare afoot in some of the Western parts of Europe : many of his schemes and treaties were directed to this end ; but , happily for Europe , he failed in them all . A fort m tho power of this peop le would be lite the possession of a floodgate : and whenever ambition entered , or necessity prompted , they might then bo able to dolugo the whole western world with a ¦ barbarous . inundation . Believe me , my friend , I cannot sufficiently condemn the politics of Europe , who thus make tlas powerful people arbitrators in their quarrel . "
December 29, 1855.] The Leade B. 1245
December 29 , 1855 . ] THE LEADE B . 1245
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Leader Office , Saturday , December 29 . LATEST NEWS FROM THIS KAST . Niswa from Constantinople up to tho 17 th innt . been received , and contains some facts of interest . The Crimean submarine telegraph is broken . — Several English gun-boats arc cruising in the Sea of Azof , destroying , where the ice docs not hinder them , all the Russian fiHheries . —General Williams and the piwoner of Kara have been sent to Tiflin . — Colonel Schwartaenberg has auccecded in reaching Erzoroum . —Count Prokesch has arrived at Constantinople . —Tho conferences on tho settlement of tho Danubiim Principalities will soon open . —A note of Lord Stratford proposes the union of Moldavia and Wallachia , to bo governed by an Hereditary Prinoo , with a national anny . Advices from Trobissomle , of tho 11 th of December , state that Omar Pacha has iMtabliahod hi hcad ^ quartora at Rodout-Kaleh . Stukkt Roddery near London TSnn > aic . —A ruffianly looking man , named Edward Channor , was examine . ! yentorday at Southwark on a charge of smutching a watch with great violonoo from tho master of a vchhoI in tho port of London . Tho timo was bqtwoon seven and eight in tho evening , aud tho hcoiio tho crowded thoroughfare of Wellington-street , South wark . Tho man in committed for trial . OUTIIAOB ON THE CoM MIHHlONKIl OK JlANKI » 0 ITCY -A Btrango Boeiio occurred in tl . o Court of Lankn . ptcy yoHtorduy morning b « l » voo ., twelve and one o ' clock . A roHj . oota My . l . ^ . l „«» W ,,, lo il . « ^ rx zx ^ ^^*^ There L every appearance of Lb . being < lWor . U . red m hirf intellect .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 29, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29121855/page/9/
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