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going to the Isle of Wight , until after the royal accouchement , which is expected to take place in April .
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Accompanied by Sir " William Molesworth , Prince Albert viaited St . Paul ' s , on Monday , to inspect the site of the Duke of Wellington ' s tomb . It seems that his remains cannot be placed beside those of Nelson ; and it is therefpre proposed , subject to the Queen ' s approval , to place the tomb between those of Nelson and Cornwallis . Prince Albert and the Royal Commissionersfor arranging the commencement of the contemplated new National Gallery , are in future to hold their meetings at Gore House , a wing of which has been fitted up for their reception . Sir Charles Barry and Baron Marochetti have been already professionally consulted by the Boyal Commissioners respecting the new building . Lord Carlisle is to be made a freeman of the City of Aberdeen .
{ t is reported that } ix . Chiahohn Anstey is about to enter the Calcutta , bar . Colonel J&oyle , lately unseated on petition , on the ground that he held a post of profit under the Crown , has been again elected at Frome . Mrs . Harriet Becher Stowe , with her husband , Dr . Stowe , and some other members of their family , proceed direct to Scotland by the steamship Glasgow , which sails from New York on the 26 th . Liverpool , not unmindful of the greatness of her literary hero , " "William Eoscoe , celebrated the centenary of his birthday on Tuesday , by publicly eating breakfast in his honour , and making speeches thereafter . There were among the company the Earl of Sefton , tie Bishop of
Chester , Mr . W . Bathbone , and Mr . W . C . Roscoe , the son of the hero of the day . T \ 1 > - Layard having refused the English Consulship in Egypt—for what particular reason we are not aware , —has , at the request of Lord Stratford de Bedcliffe , and on the recommendation of Lord John Bussell , consented to accompany the English Ambassador to Constantinople , — though not , it is said , with any paid or particular appointment in the Embassy . Mr . Layard started for the East on the day of the publication of his new volume about Nineveh , reviewed in our paper of this day . He has not resig ned his seat for Aylesbury . —~ Athenceum , March 6 . This week the jubilee of the British and Foreign Bible Society has been celebrated by a large meeting at ExeterhaJL and a service at St . Paul ' s , with the Archbishop of Canterbury for preacher . The society have in fifty years
distributed 43 , 000 , 000 Bibles among 600 , 000 , 000 persons ; such is their calculation . The sum subscribed at Exeterhall on Tuesday was 10 , 000 Z . Among those present were Lord Carlisle , Lord Shaftesbury , the Bishop of Winchester , the Duke of Argyll , and the ex-Rajah of Coorg . A meeting , attended by several members of Parliament and other gentlemen interested in the affairs of India , was held on Wednesday night at the St . Alban ' Hotel , Charlesstreet , when it was agreed that any precipitate legislation on the subject of the future government of" India was to be deprecated , and that another meeting should be held on Saturday next , at which members of Parliament will be invited to attend , and an association will be formed for the purpose of obtaining and disseminating complete information respecting the administration of India , and the mutual interests of that country and of England-
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We see by the foreign journals that that eminent champion of Romanism , the Grand Duke of Tuscany , has conferred the honour of knighthood of tho Order of St . Joseph upon the Jew Rothschild , in consideration of the service oi that wealthy unbeliever in negotiating a loan . Can liberality go beyond this ? A Jew admitted to an order dedicated to the husband of'the Blessed Virgin , and conferred by a prince who imprisons men and women for daring to read the " Testament" of tho Divine Son of that blessed Virgin ! I ! [ We cut this from the Standard ; one of Mr . Disraeli ' s warmest admirers . ] When a ship may bo cleared out from , any port of tho United Kingdom under tho British flag , and manned by foreigners , it will become easy for refugees or political propagandists to make a descent on the shores of any
friendly state . By destroying the nationality of our chipping , the door will bo oponcd to marauding oxpoditions , and our flag will shield—like a passport—all who may bo disposed to avail themselves of the protection of our naval forces to revolutionise tho kingdoms of Europo , Piracy will bo indirectly encouraged under the British ( lag . for it is an easy matter to register a ship as British undor an alias or fictitious name , © von though that ship bo foreign built . Tho vessels chiefly manned by foreigners , as in tho case of loscars , Malays , and others , will meet with more frequont destruction , and , to crown all , piracy and insurance will rise to a promium . —Morning Herald . [ la this on jd «» of my Lord Viscount Maidstono PI
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As an ovidonco of tho vnluo tlioy sot on his services , tho City Commissioners of Sowers havo increased tho nalury of their modioal oflioer of hoalth from 500 J . to 80 O £ . a your . At tho last mooting of tho City Court of Common Council , Mr . Anderton carried a resolution , uffirming tho desirability of ostaMishing a froo library in tho city . Lord Palmerston has announced that St . CJloment'u Danes-churchyard will bo olosod as Boon as tho proper forms have beon gone through . Thoro is a rumour that Sir 'Richard Mayno , tho Chiof CommisBionor of Police , has resigned hisoflico ; and that ho will bo succeeded by Mr . IFonry from Bow-Nlroot . Tho American Arctic exploring expedition , under Lieut . Kane , is announced to Hull on the 10 th of April .
Throo thousand miles of tolcgruph , connecting tho prottidoncios and tho Punjaub , are to bo laid dawn in India , under tho direction of tho Indian Government . Dr . O'ShuuglmeBsy , finding that tho tempestuous winds of India would break the ordinary posts and wires , proposes bamboo and gutta poroha tubes . An experiment has been successful on a lino of eighty miles . Are ? he disasters of tho Australian ovor ? Hhe Hailed roBolutoly out of port on Thursday for Auntralia ; but
before she started certain passengers signed two strong protests ; one expressing regret and disappointment at delay and expense ; and the other certifying that while the ship Ws in dry dock at Plymouth , they had , with their own hands , " pushed up and down many of the iron bolts and rivets in her bottom , the same being perfectly loose 3 and from which the water poured in continued streams . "
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A young fellow has been sentenced to nine months imprisonment for abduction . He induced a young girl of sixteen to quit her home , and , proceed to London under pretence of going to Australia . Although they travelled they did not sleep together , or in any way live as man and wife . Why he acted as he did seemed quite unaccountable . Another case was peculiar . A ^ oung woman , half blind with inflamed eyes , and an idiotic expression of coun tenance , was brought to a union workhouse last November , and there a child was born . One day the mother , in suckling her child , purposely squeezed it against her breast until it died ! She thought her hands would be at liberty again . She was tried at Nottingham ; found guilty , and sentence of death , with recommendation to mercy , passed on her .
George Dumper , Joseph Rann , and Tom Wearn were drinking together . Joseph Rann was very old , and becoming tipsy first he set out homewards . Dumper and Wearn followed . They came up with Rann leaning against a gate ; he was quarrelsome ; but they helped him . along . At last , however , they came to blows ; and Rann was knocked down , by Wearn .. Finally they propped him up against a gate and left him . But Dumper , urged by some insane idea that they would be found out , went back , after he had got home , to " finish him . " Next day the body was found , and Dumper arrested . He confessed the whole thing in prison . His trial came on last week afc Winchester , and he was found guilty of " aggravated manslaughter , " and Mr . Justice Crampton passed a sentence of " transportation for life . "
There were three cases of child murder tried last week at the Reading assizes . In one case the child of the victim had been born in the house of the seducer , and was found wrapped up in some carpet in a pond . In another , the mother , immediately after the agonies of birth , cut off the head of her-child . And in these two cases the former failed because it was not clear that the child was born alive ; and in the latter it was held that the mother was insane at the time . Verdicts of acquittal were returned . In the third case the mother was acquitted of the charge of murder ; and found guilty of concealing the birth . Punishment : eight months imprisonment . The ages of the poor girls were 16 , 18 , and 21 , respectively . Unwin
Perseverance takes strange shapes . Thomas was robbed of a watch in August last by a girl , named Mary Hill , in the street . Some days af ter he saw her outside a public house ; gave her into custody ; but a gang of thieves rushed out at a signal and rescued her . Afterwards he met her in Betbnal-green ; she again eluded him . At last , months afterwards , he again saw her in company with thieves ; and a constable had some difficulty in arresting her . The close of her trial at the Middlesex Sessions waa marked by a novel proceeding on the part of the bench . Mr . Sergeant Adams sentenced her to seven years' transportation . Hill , who had gone down on her knees imploring mercy , on hearing this roso up , and in a towering rage screamed out ; to the policeman , with many oaths" You pig ! oh , you pig ! you perjured thief ! " The Assistant-Judge : The sentence upon you now is , that you be transported for ten years . Thus adding three years to the original sentenco , as a punishment for calling a policeman a " piff ! " .
Townsend and Waite havo been sentenced to ten and seven years transportation for a burglary at Bowood , the seat of the Marquis ofLansdowno . Two persoua havo been arrested and imprisoned as they were about to escape from their creditors . Their names are Dunno and Venablos . Dunno was a passenger in tho emigrant ship SaUette , Vonablos master and part owner , and they proposod to mako for Port Phillip . They had froightod tho ship , obtained a cargo of emigrants , sent tho ship round to Portsmouth and joined her there , whon tho creditors got scent of their intentions , and their arrest was ordered by Mr . Commissioner Goulburn . Venables was
cloverly though not sufficiently disguised . Both persons had been previously arrested for debt , but had got their liberty . [ Mr . Venablos lias written a letter to tho editor of tho Shipping Qazcttc , ' \ n which lie contradicts the statement that ho wanted to defraud his creditors by emigrating to Australia . Ho states that thoro aro suflicient funds in London to pay all persons having any claims upon tho Safsetto , and that an application ih to bo mado to suporsede the bankruptcy docket . Mr . Venables furthor roquosts that tho fullest contradiction should bo given to tho statement that tho firm had obtained goods from Messrs . Doano , Dray , and Co ., without paying for them . ]
John Stilt' went to that peculiarly well managed thoatro , tho 'Princess ' s , to « ook an evening ' s entertainment , lie could not find accommodation in tho pit ; ho ho wont to tho boxes , being told there was room there . Ho paid bin money , and seeing a front soat in tho dress cirelo unoccupied , he sat him down in it . Tho box-keeper wished him to move ; ho declined ; tho box-koopcr was about to pull him out ; ho gave tho box-keeper a punch on tho head . Mr . Hard wick fined John Stiff 20 * . for the assault ; but lie said if managers " took monoy for a good part of tho house , they had no husineHs to mvo an inferior place . 11 is a species of unfair dealing to do ho . " Very consolatory philosophy for Mr . John btiff . What a pity it had not been Mr . Ilardwick . ' I ' Mwarrf I ' oitiurs was on tho moot intimato terms with Elizabeth ITodgoH , who herself was on tho most ; intimate terms with the West , End pavement soon after tho goingdown of the nun . But Edward grew tired of his friend , and quitted her for another . Ho v / an at the Argyll Hoonm <>» Monday , " with a young lady . " I lodges saw hint , and " conducted hontolf in a violent way , " whatever that choiceponny-u-liner phruso may * mown . Hodgoa waited outside
Scott ' s supper-rooms at a subsequent stage of the evening , having in the mean time bought somo vitriol . Poitiers came out , got into a cab , and Hodges then threw the vitriol over him ; Poitiers gallantly throwing himself between the infuriated Roxftlana and tho " young lady . " The assault was clearly proved . Hodges vindicated her conduct . She said Poitiers had deserted her ; her rival had " sneered at her , " and in reyenge she Aung the vitriol . Committed for trial . . Kinch , the railway-guard in the great accident at Oxford , who was arraigned for the manslaughter of seven the who i
persons , has bee n acquitted by grand jury , gnored the bill . ' , ,.- xi . George Wellborn , the driver of the goods train in the accident near Stockton some time ago , and in which Mr . Grainger of Edinburgh was killed , has been found guilty of manslaughter , and sentenced to six months imprisonment . Wellborn drove on in the face of a signal . While Dr . Lindley was practising rifle shooting on Thursday in his garden , the gardener incautiously got in the line of fire , and was severely wounded . Miss Lindley had adjusted the board ; her father raised his p iece , and just as he was firing the gardener rushed out to readjust the board .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 4 th of March , at Apsloy House , Ardwick , Manchester , the wile of Henry Sigiflm Straus , Vice-Consul of tho JNother-On the 6 th , at 59 , Eaton-square , tho Lady Gilbert Kennedy : a daughter . _ On tho Oth , at 29 , Lower Belgrave-placo , tho wife of iionry Weekes , Esq ., A . It . A . : a son . On tho 8 th , at 11 , Gordon-street , Mrs . Mark lemon : a daughter . ¦• On tho 9 th , at tho house of her father , St . John ' s-wood , tho wife of Philip Antrobus , Esq ., Royal Scots Grays : ft daughter . On the 9 th , at Statfbrd-houae , tho Duchess of Argyll : a son . MARRIAGES . On tho 1 st of March , at St . James ' s , Piccadilly , Francis Horsley Robinson , Esq ., second son of tho Jate Sir Georg-o Abercrombie Robinson , Bart ., to Anna , widow o £ Arthur Koikes , Esq ., late of the Uongal Civil Service . On tho 4 th , at Calais , tho Buron von Hoffman , to Anno , youngest daughter of the lato Lieutenant-Colonel James Wright , Hon . East India Company's Service , Madras Presi-0 * 11 tho 5 th , at tho British Embassy , Paris , Alox . Edward Kolbo Hamilton , Esq ., eldest son of Alex . II . Hamilton , - Kan-, ol ' tho Retreat , Devon , to Jane-Harriet , only surviving child ol Lieutenant-Colonel Lano , C . B . On tho 8 th , at Christ Church , Turnham-greon , Charles James Wealo , Esq ., Lieutenant 53 rd Regiment , B . N . I ., second hoii of Robert \ VimUo , Khq ., Inspector of Poor Laws , to Heho Khzaboth eldest daughter of J . P . Bull , Esq ., Arlington IIoubo . At at Mary ' s Elland , J . C . V . Minnott , Esq ., Captain in 11 . M . Royal Oiinudian Miles , to Mary , daughter of John . Uiildwm , of Clayo House , in tho county . of York , Esq ., J . P .
D RATH 8 . On tho : K ) t . h of Pooombor lust , on board tho steamer from Panama to Kim lYnuciaoo , the Hon . Brownlow Bertie , lato of tho Second Life Guards . On tho 23 rd of February , at hid ronidonoo . BariiHtapIu , Devon , Kdmund Lookyer Pym , lCsq ., second and only surviving hou oi Admiral Sir Huniuol Pym , K . O . I ) ., &o . On tho 25 th , at Tours , Lieutonant-Oolonol Hawthorne . On tho 2 nd of March , N . J . Bporlo , tho eminent l >» ll « t « i composer , aged forty-ono . . On the ilrd , lit Wykoham , of scarlet fever , Alon CliarloH , third Bon of tho ViMoonnt and Viaoouiitefls Downo . On tho 4 th , at his house , Uuthind-guto , ll . ydo-po . rk , Admiral
the Hon . Hir llladon Capol , G . C . B ., in his 77 th year . On tho 4 th , at his residoneo , 83 , Park-ntroot , Gronvunor-¦ quare , Kredoi-icke Robert Manson , M . D ., JLR . C . P ., M . R . C . B .,. physician Northern Dispensary , An . ,,, „ ,., cll On the 6 th , in Thistlo-grovo , Urompton , Mr . Frederick Shoberl , sen ., in hid novonty-oighth voar . On tho 5 th , at his Heat , Tiohborno-park , Hants , Sir Edward Doughty , Hart ., apod m >\ onty-ono On tho Oth , nt Woyinouth , of soarlot fever , Thomaeiin Oliver , wife of Sir ' William B . Thomas , Bart ., Commander , lloyal Navy . On tho Hth , aftttr a ahort illness , at Villa Etruriu , St . John ' awood , aged thirty-nine , James M'Adam , Ehh ., of Tiudon-ond Ehbvx , only "on of the lato Sir James Niool M'Adwn .
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . Though the weather has lately assumed a milder character , the high mortality that prevailed throughout last month discovers no abatement ; on the contrary it exhibits a great increase . The deaths in London were 1011 in the last week of January ; since that time they have steadily increased till the number registered in the week ending last Saturday amounts to 1427 . The present return shows an increase of 83 above that of the week immediately preceding . Persons of all ages have suffered ; of the 1427 460 had at
who died . 573 were children under 15 years , - tained that age , but were under 60 , and 379 were 60 years old and upwards . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52 the average number of deaths was 1045 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , gives a mortality of 1150 for last week . The actual number , therefore , exceeds the estimated amount by 277 . Taking the same three periods of life as above , it appears that the mortality of the young is 13 per cent ., of the middle aged 22 per cent ., and of the old 44 per cent ., above the corrected average . in all
Last week the births of 861 boys and 810 girls , 1671 children , were registered in London . The average number in eight corresponding weeks ( 1845-52 ) was 1469 . Afc the lloyal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29-663 in . The mean temperature of the week was 35-3 deg ., which is 4-6 dcg . below the average of the same week in 38 years . The mean daily temperature , which was 31 * 6 deg . on Tuesday , when it was lowest , and was 8-4 deg . below the average , rose to 43-9 deg . on Saturday , or 4 * 1 deg . above the average . It was below the average on every day except Saturday . The mean dew -point temperature was 29-2 deg . The wind , which blew from the north or north-east at tho te ginning of the week , changed on Tuesday to south-west ; on Thursday it again blew from north-east , and at the end of tho week returned to south-west .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 12, 1853, page 251, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1977/page/11/
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