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      that a vehicle in attempting to pass over , broke in , with severe injury to the horse and driver . Several persons standing in a passage were struck by the lightning , one of them being killed and the rest severely injured . The electricity passed over two persons standing at the door without doing them any injury . Some days ago a strange looking object was observed on the stone banks in Mill Bay , near Harwich harbour . On closer inspection it was found to be a fish , which spurted up a stream of water to the height of twelve feet . The creature was attacked by means of a knife fastened to a pole , and the wounds inflicted on ifc weakened it so far as to enable the men to pass a rope round its tail and so to haul it up upon the beach . A scythe was then brought , and with this they inflicted a mortal wound , but the dying struggles of the monster were so violent as to drive back the crowd of spectators . It is supposed to be a fin-backed or rock whale , and measures twenty-one feet in length and fifteen in girth .

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      The body of a fine infant , which seems to have met its death from violence , was found on Wednesday night on the roof of a stable in Salisbury Wharf , Adelphi . Mr . William Cooper Robinson , an attorney of Hull , has been charged with forging an I O U for 1000 £ ., Mr . Pritchett , by whom the document purported to be signed , denying all knowledge of it . Three women were brought before Mr . Henry on Tuesday , charged with attempting to destroy themselves . They seem all to have been more or less drunk . They were all rmnfindrd .

      On the arrival of her Majesty's yacht at Osborne , from Antwerp , on account of some information given to the revenue officers , it was searched , and about eighty pounds of tobacco were found there . Considerable quantities were found on board the other yachts of the Royal Squadron . Abcre two tons of contraband tobacco was found on board the cutter Elizabeth , belonging to Yarmouth . She was captured off Tilbury , having apparently nothing but bloaters on board . The tobacco was concealed under a second deck , beneath the ballast . Two prisoners in Appleby gaol , named Moor and Thexton , attacked the turnkey on the morning of Thursday week , when he came to open the doors of their sleeping cells , and threatened to murder him , if he refused to give up the keys . The cries of the turnkey brought assistance , but not before he was seriously injured .

      Thomas Jones and William Williams were tried at Liverpool on Saturday , before Mr . Bliss , Q . C ., for obtaining money under false pretences from persons intending to emigrate . It Avas proved that they had received 14 > l from a man named Pridham , and 201 . from another named Mills , on the pretence of finding them a passage on board a vessel . The jury found them guilty , and they were sentenced to six months' imprisonment , with hard labour . Two Irishwomen appeared before the Lord Mayor on Wednesday to dispute the maternity of a baby nine months old . The complainant , Mrs . Toohy , stated that her baby had been stolen from her in February , when in the charge of her little girl . The daughter recognised Mrs . Mooney as the woman who had stolen the child , and Mrs . Toohy was sure it was her baby . On the other hand tin ; prisoner declared it was her baby , and had been born and baptized in Cork . Alderman Challis said ho . was in a dillicnH

      position , and remanded the case in the hopes that the police would throw some light on it . It seems he had not sullicii-nt confidence in Solomon ' s mode of treating such cases . Mr . Oardiner , the landlord of the George Tavern in I'Yiiohureh-streel ., of which house he 1 ms been in possession for above nine years , having observed that the drain beneath Ihe cellar had liecn choked for some days , had the newer opened . ] t was found that the obstruction was caused b y a metal case ; , about the size of an ordinary housepail , which was hermetically closed . This singular receptacle was opened , and in it were found the lower parts of the body of n woman . The origin of this . strange deposit . is altogether mysterious , but it i . s believed to have remained there ? for several years .

      Throe houses were broken into on Sunday , in the neighbourhood of KtiirniiiiMtrr Newton . The house of Mr . Thomas Kowc , brick-maker , was taken during tlie morning nervier , the family being at church , and a considerable quantity of plate was carried oil " . Another house was attacked during the afternoon service , and two others were disposed of during the evening nervier . Some strange and auspicious persons , who were ween lurking about at the time , of i \\\ y robbi-rics , have been captured at , the house of William llobbs , a tailor of Shrrbornc , having in their pnsMosnion various houHcbreaLing implements , but noniuil the articles ntolen on the occasions . specified above ; . Some circumstances have been discovered which afford it clue to the identification of some of the prisoners .

      Dr . Doc Id has at length a rival . The Keverend . T . Ni . sbctt , who wa . s Kiimmoned before the niagi . stnitoN at Worcester nome weeks ago , on a charge of forging a bill of exchange , wa . s again brought before Mr . Sidebottorn on Monday . One of ( . lie signatures to the bill purported to bo that of Itichard Mitchell , who wa . s stated by Mr . Wished , to be it . clerk in Mm goods department at the Nine Khns station of the South Western Company . It was proved on thin occasion by Mr . . 1 . I * . Newman , a clerk at ( hat station , that there wa . s no person of tho name of Itichard Mitchell cmployed ill . that , station from September 1 H 47 up to tho present time . Mr . Klgie , who appeared for Mr . Nisbelt , declined to enter upon any defence at ( hut time . The prisoner was commit tod for I rial . It , was decided that ( he prisoner should be admitted to bail in the tmm of KMM )/ ., with two sureties in HOO / . each .

      Mr . ( Icorgo Frederick Cardon , tho barrister , who has become notorious , for his vexatious complaints against policemen , charged Konjamin Ituyloy , at tho Middlesex KcHKioiis , with stealing a quantity of printed paper and prints . Tho stolen troods coimiutod of old numbers of tho

      Court and Ladies Magazine , of which Mr . Carden was the editor and proprietor , which had been sold by Bayley as waste paper . A good deal of altercation took place between Mr . Carden , who conducted his own case , and Mr . Parry , who appeared for the prisoner . Mr . Carden admitted , on cross-examination , that a confectioner ' s business was carried on . on his account in his house in Rathboneplace , where he left Mrs . Bayley and three other , young women" to conduct the business , although , as he said , t h ere was little or nothing for them to do . There seemed some doubt whether the charge had not been made on account of Bayley ' s having accused Mr . Carden of improper familiarity with his wife . The jury returned a verdict of

      acquittal . Two Irishwomen , named Margaret Mills and Mary Madden , were brought before the Lord Mayor on Wednesday , by Horsford , an officer of the Mendicity Society . It was stated that they had followed Mr . Solly , whose charitable disposition seems to have rendered him a ready victim to importunate beggars , from Great Ormond-street to the city , speculating in an omnibus fare in order to obtain alms from him . On his leaving the omnibus at the Mansion-house they had followed him to the Union fire office , such a crowd of beggars collecting around him that in order to clear the

      the police were obliged to interfere road . The elder woman , Madden , was stated to be an expert and experienced beggar . Storey ( the detective officer ) said it was actually the feet that a dozen beggar-women have gone into an omnibus the moment Mr . Solly has entered it , and it was a common practice of beggars of all kinds to ride on the top of his omnibus wherever he was going . He said that the beggar-women follow Mr . Solly in Lombard-street like a flock of sheep , and it is impossible to prevent it . The women were discharged , as it was not proved that they had solicited Mr . Solly for alms .

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      As an express train was passing Carnegie park , near Port Glasgow , on Saturday morning , a man was observed a little in advance about to cross the line with a little girl . The girl ran across at once , but the man hesitated , as in doubt whether he could cross safely . At last he made a rush for it , and had cleared the width of the engine within one inch , when the edge of the buffer caught him and dashed him off the line . He was found to be quite dead . Shortly before three o ' clock on Thursday morning , a terrible conflagration broke out in the East-end Assembly Rooms , Mile-end-road . In less than half an hour seven of the Brigade and West of England engines had reached the spot . Notwithstanding all this powerful aid , the Assembly Rooms were doomed to destruction ; and the firemen then directed their efforts to the adjoining tavern , also belonging to Mr . Phillips , and were partially successful .

      James Devcrell Gibbon , seventy-four years of age , who in his earlier days was a popular singer , but has now for some time been an inmate of the Lambeth workhouse , fell , on Saturday , from a flight of stairs upon a pavement sixteen feet below . He seems to have lost his balance in leaning over the rails which were three feet high . His head first struck the stones , and the concussion is described by a bystander as resembling the " breaking of a cocoa-nut with a hammer . " He died in about eight hours . Mr . Edward Pratt , paymaster of the 99 th Regiment , was found dead , floating in Kingstown Harbour , on Monday morning , his feet as well as his wrists were tightly tied together , and a rope bound his neck to his feet , so that his body was completely doubled up . His servant girl stated that his conduct had been such as to lead to the belief that he was not in his right mind . It was believed that he had lost a sum of 800 / . Ho had several times said that ho

      could not live any longer . A man named Parker attempted to cross the York and North Midland Railway , with a horse and cart , on tho afternoon of Wednesday week , in tho neighbourhood of York , as a train was approaching . Ho miscalculated , however , upon the speed of tho train , and the engine caught the front of tho cart , crushing the horse and shafts and throwing the man , who was sitting at the back of tho cart , to some distance . He was much injured , but is oxpected to recover . A cab was driving down the Waterloo > -road from tho

      bridge , when tho bit broke , and the horse set off at full gallop . After going Home distance , the horse took fright , ami turned upon tho imrcnieiit , and run along tho fuotway , till he came to the shop of Mr . Tough , a grocer . Ho here rushed at , the shop-window , and drove his head through the glass , at tho name time breaking the near shaft ,. He then turned round and kicked till his hind legs went through tho window and stuck fast , there . Tho driver was thrown from his seat , and his head was cut open . An old gentleman was inside the cab , but ho escaped uninjured . The horse was drawn out of the window by means of the ropes of a brewer's dray which was passing at , the moment . Tho horse ; was terribly cut .

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      HKALTII OF LONDON DURING THK WEEK . Tun health of London is still depressed by tho prevailing epidemic , and 10 H 4 deaths have been registered in the third ¦ week of August . In the corresponding week , three ; years ago , IMfiO of tho inhabitants died , while in other years tho deaths ranged from 84-2 to 1057 , and were , after correcting for increase ! of peculation , lOlil on an average . 208 deaths were refcrml let eliarrheea , lHio cholera ; of tho latter 10 , of tho former 170 , ware children under tho ago of lfi . Two old pee > plo died e > f cholera , 10 of diarrhoea , which was nine ) fatal te > 111 permms of the middle ago of lifo ( 15- ( MU Scarlatina , that enemy of t , lie > young child , was fatal to 27 boys ami 22 girls , of whom two wcro 15-20 , tuwnti / -two wero 4 i and under 10 years of ago . Forty persons , comprising 25 adults , died of typhuH , 4 onl y of iiumihIob , 13 of hooping-cough , 14 . of small-pox . Within tho lout throe wcoke small-pox has declined . In tho week no death from

      influenza , scurvy , or ague was registered , andonlv 2 fr « infantile remittent fever . Consumption destrovWl ii ^ lives , tabes 29 , hydrocephalus 37 ; 41 person ? It * , disease of the heart , 41 of pneumonia , 21 of bronchi *;* «*> of cancer , 29 of violence—namely , 2 b y burns or scald * t by hanging or suffocation , 4 by drowning , 16 by fracture and contusions , one by wounds , and one by other violpn ? Of childbearing 8 mothers died . . Vlol ence . 681 males and 603 females—606 children under the of 15 , 316 men and women under , and 162 above the « of 60—died in London in the week from all cause ' s onf % e about 2 , 420 , 000 living . This mortality is much below tW experienced in the other large cities of the world ; but th untimely age at death , as well as a comparison with other places in Engl and , shows that in this city there is still great waste of life , health , and energy , which may be saved by draining London , and by other hygienic arranjrement * cholera is in t

      While Warsaw hose measures Bhould be carried out which experience has shown cannot be attempted when the epidemic is in London . * Last week the births of 850 boys and 789 girls in a 1639 children , were registered in London . The a ' vera ee number in seven corresponding weeks of the years 1845 fi was 1300 .

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 14 th of June , at Portland , Cape-town , the Hon . Mrs Henry Barrington : a son . . ' On the 27 th of June , at Kirkee , the wife of J . Percy Smith Esq ., Lieutenant and Adjutant , 10 th Royal Hussars : a daughter . On the 18 th inst ., the wife of William Shaen , Esq ., of 8 , Bedford-row : a daughter . On the 18 th inst ., at Southill , Beds , the wife of Commander Hon . Mark Kerr : a son . On the 21 st inst ., at 9 , Eaton-terrace , Eaton-square , the lady of the Hon . Sir Arthur Buller : a daughter . On the 23 rd inst ., at 18 , Savile-row , Burlington-garden , tho wife of Joseph Toynbee , Esq ., F . R . S .: a son . MARRIAGES . On the 17 th inst ., at Walmer , Kent , the Rev . C . E . Fewtrell Wylde , of the Uplands , Bridgenorth , Shropshire , to Cecilia Elizabeth , only child of Captain Charles W . Bell ( H . E . I . C . S . ) , of Richmond , Surrey , and granddaughter of the late Sir Thos . Bell , of Cranford * , Middlesex . On the 17 th inst ., at the parish church of Chesterfield , James Brotherton , Esq ., of the Middle Temple , barrister-at-law , Eeceiver-General of Her Majesty ' s Inland Revenue , and only son of Joseph Brotherton , Esq ., M . P ., to Mary Hannah , eldest daughter of John Roberts , Esq ., R . N ., of Chesterfield , Derbyshire . On the 17 th inst ., at Brighton , Henr , y Ellio * Bayly , Esq ., of Her Majesty ' s 54 th Regiment , second son of lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Bayly , K . H ., of Burly-villa , Lyme Rpg is , toThomasine Charlotte , eldest daughter of the late 'Xhonfas Oliver , Esq ., of the Royal-crescent , Bath . I On the 17 th inst ., " at Christchurch , Bfcker Smith , Esq ., solicitor , eldest son of Peter Baker Smith , jEsq ., of the Middle Temple , to Caroline Elizabeth , only daughter of E . Perkins , E 8 q . ofCamberwell .. _ _ _ / _ _ .

      , , On tho 17 th inst ., at Thenford , Chas . Heriry Rouse Boughton , Esq ., eldest son of Sir W . Rouse Boughlton , Bart ., to Mary Caroline , second daughter of J . M . Several , Esq ., of Thenford , Northamptonshire , and Wallop-hall , Salop . On the 18 th inst ., at Leamington , Frederick Shelton , Esq ., Captain in the 93 rd Highlanders , to Jane , daughter of the Veu . John Timbrill , D . D ., Archdeacon of Gloucester . On tho 19 th inst ., at Richmond , Yorkshire , Edmund Jolin Jenings , of tho Inner Templo , to Elizabeth Janet , seconel daughter of the late Rev . William Plues , formerly Head Master of the Royal Grammar School of Philip and Mary , Bipon . On the 19 th inst .. at St . Georee ' s . Hanover-square , Captain oi

      Lloyd , Grenadier Guards , of Aston-hall , Shropshire , ana Chigwell , Essex , to tho Lady Frances Hay , third daughter oi tho Earl and Cemntess of Kinnoul . , On tho 19 th inst ., at Seotscraig-house , Fifeshire , Margaret Dougall , second daughter of tho Tato William Stark *>™ igaii , Esq ., of Scotscraig , to Captain Henry John Curteis , ot 11 . J » - 37 th Regiment , youngest son of the lato Edward Curteis , Jwq ., of Glenburno , county of Antrim . TT „ On the 10 th inst ., at St . Mary's , Cheltenham , Robert , HeMey , Captain in Her Majesty ' s 62 nd Regiment , eldest son ot « ° ' » [* ; Hedley , Esq ., of Long Bonton , Northumberland t <\ ™" Emma Catherine Coote , daughter of tlio late Charles Coote , Esq ., of Bellamont Forest , county of Cavan , and mcco oi mo lato Lord Cremorne .

      DEATHS . On the 9 th of Juno , at Velloro , Madras Presidency , in his 22 n <| yoar , Ensign Alexander Egorton Gumming , ol the i 5 m » £ -jj meat M . N . I ., eldest son of the late Colonel Alexander Gum On ' tho 4 th inst ., at Athol-strcet , Douglas , We of M . "; k 1 ' ** - tho beloved wife of H . H . Prichard , TSsq ., _ I » to . IjU '"VTColonel commanding Hor Majesty's 66 th Regiment , ulc « i . . On tho 12 th inst . f at Fosbury-fiouRO , WiH » , Bhn « r 1 U / "W '' Johnson , relict of Colonel John M'Combe , C . B ., la ™ oi «¦ 14 th Regiment , in her H 2 nd year . _ :,, » in T On tho 14 th lnst ., at Uurrow-lodgo , Ilfracombo , 1 I < MH "" , Howen , daughter of th « lato Rear-Admiral Jumea

      On tho 15 th hint ., at Uad-Woilbaeh , near Mnywion , "i Rhino , Dr . Herbert Maya , formerly Honior Surgeon to ' . " «' dlesox Hospital , and Professor ol Physiology at King b g <» fe London . . . . „ th o On tho 15 th inst ., at Bangor , in the 57 th year ol l >» "b . Rev . John Warron , M . A . and F . K . 8 ., chancellor of tho eue > of Ilungor nnd rce ; tor of Gravely , Cambridgeshire . pi liu . i (> tio On tho Kith inst ., at Wronthiim Rectory , »(?«"« 5 71 " , lirhter Matilda , wife of tho Rov . Stephen Clisnold , and »<*<•;>" '' ' * } of of tho hito Sir Thomas Goooh , of Ueimeirc-hiiH , » n tins < - <>»> J Hunolk , Hurt ,. . .., i T . iniffl On tho 17 th iiiHt ., atRamsgate , aged 40 , Cap tain lMv " ' ' ^ Want , one of tho Elder Brethren of tho Tnnity-110 '"' j ^ ,. second Hem of tho lato Itov . James Ward , D . D ., <>« ^<

      hall , in thei county of Ne > rfolk . . , ; i | n ,. « H Mft > T » On tho 17 th ii » Ht ., at Fulham , after a protracted i " **" ] u ,. , wife of J . ifivan Thomas , Esq ., F . S . A ., of Low ** U «« K «* 1 ( l'inilieo . . t \ ,, ; 1 ' ro-On tho lHth inst ., at 8 , Eecloston-squaro , Kelwwu lm f tlioroo , Esq ., aged 54 , / onnorly M . P . for Ilahiax , ami tho Record CommisHionors . . w n M-T > - » On tho 18 th inst ., at Edinburgh , John Kmnift , wq ., , i 0 F . M . 8 . B ., and Deputy Inspeotor-General of H ospitals , 6 i ) th year of his ago . * - ™ rn ;«™ HoU < h > I > i At Barbados , Dorothy Griffith , daug hter J ^ Wi lbam iv j Km ., and widow of Ibooo Skiuner , &o . ., tooths ot ue » Richard Skinner .

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      822 THE LEADER . [ Saturday , . — ~ '—I— . ——^—^—^ mmmm ^ mm ^— m ^ mmm ^^^ ^ - —

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 28, 1852, page 822, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1949/page/10/