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On Wednesday evening last , at the MaryleW Literal y Institution , a very influential meeting was held to » consic er the benefits to be derived by the working classes ^ m Lile Assurance , more especially as carried out by tno JJirkDet . K Xife Assurance Company . Several resolutions in Javour of the objects of the Company were spoken to by Mesa * . Stevens , " Neil , Hibbard , Howell , Hurst , Austen , and other well-known advocates of the interests of the working classes . Mr W . H . Brows , M . R . C . S ., in the chair . Sienor Filopanti , late Member of the Roman Constituent Assembly , and Professor of Hy draulics Tn the University of Bologna , is to deliver three Lectures in Willis ' s Rooms on " The Secret Traditions of Rome , m vindication of the authenticity of its early History , against "Viphuhr . " The first Lecture is on Monday , the 13 th mst .,
at two o ' clock . In his prospectus , Signor Filopanti says , " I happen to be in possession of hitherto secret traditions purportin" - to have been handed down to now living men from the " remotest antiquity . According to these traditions , the destinies of the Eternal City were , from the earliest a ^ es , powerfully influenced by a secret society , founded by a man of genius , who was father to . Romulus by his lawful , though secret marriage with Ivhee by ! via . The proposal of an attack on Niebuhr cm such grounds holds forth an intimation of matter that will be at least tU a ' meeting of the proprietors of the East India Company the Government plan , ' was considered . Some correspondence between the Government and the Company was read , by which it seemed that the Directors entertain doubts " as to the propriety of reducing their numbers , and Imvfi ohififttions toother portions of the Government plan .
Mr . Hume suggested that the consideration of the matter should be adjourned , and in doing so passed some general comments on the affairs of India . He attributed the evils of that country to the ignorance and interference of the Board of Control , and to the many wars they had set on foot , and eulogised the Directors as haying generally done theu * duty towards India . Mr . ' Horsman is a candidate for the seat at Stroud , vacant through the death of Earl Ducie , and the promotion of Lord Morcton to the peerage . He has addressed the electors in person . He favors the ballot , thinks education and enfranchisement should go together , and altogether approves of Liberal principles and steady progress in reform . Mr . Merryweather Turner is spoken of as an
opponent . . The withdrawal of " strangers" from the House during the divisions has been reported on by a ; Select Committee . They recommend that , unless otheryviso ordered , _ the strangers shall be allowed to remain during divisions , with the exception of those below the bar and in the front gallery . . Mr . Chambers ' s bill for the inspection of nunneries has provoked an active opposition in Ireland . Several Roman Catholic priests have joined the agitation , and the movement seems very general .
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At the Henley Royal Regatta , the University boat race haB been , wpn by the Oxonians . ' .. / iJfcpijlifTangcments of the Chobham encampment avo Mrakmg speedy nnd steady progress . All the men are t : > be on tlicjyrouim . by Tuesday next . The Queen intends to wLtmpiMWeyBriu of the movements , and the old Royal PaviHilihygtrired' in Woolwich , is to be creeled for her ac *» OWinodation . Lord Hardinge visited the camp on Mon-3 ay , and w | WO * ecl of the progress made . The well-sinking has bctm ^ aeccsHful . No spirituous liquors nro to be sold in the camp , and the best feeling is said to exist between the soldiers and the people of the locality . The recruiting for the navy proceeds with activity , but there is rather a lack of able seamen among the new recruits .
The largest war-steamer in the navy , the new and mngnilicent Duke of Wcllhujton , lms had a second trial at Portsmouth . Nearly 15 , 000 persons assembled to witness it . Tho trial was . satisfactory ; against tide her speed was one mile in soven minutes , nine seconds . When complete her crew will consist of eleven hundred men .
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Tlio Bank of Ireland has followed tho Bank of England n raising its . nito of interest to three-and-a-half per cent . The Dublin Exhibition . is steadily improving . Tho arrangement of tho articles is now nearly completed , and Hie general appearance of the interior of the building is very pleasing . I'ino wont her lias favoured tho Dublin Mght-Mec'rK . This week ; tho prieo of admission has been one shilling . On Monday , tho expected increase , in tho nttendance did not take place , but onTuesday , H ( XK ) persons entered . Tho expectation of the Queen's coming awakens great interest throughout the country ; several inansionn iii-o limned as likely to l > 'o honoured by a Royal stay . Tho report of tho Royal visit , is confirmed by a paragraph in tho niivnl news of the Tiwrs of Thursday . Tim . jtlack h ' ttt / lo has boon ordered to roinuin at Portsmouth in readiness to accompany tho Royal yacht to Dublin . Prince . Louis liiicien lionnpnrlo in announced uh another Royal visitor already on his way to Dublin . In tho Greenwich workhoiiso there died a pauper over 100 yvtu-H old . Tim lately published returns of tho Hoard of Trade indiealo progress in the industry and flu' condition of the people . The oxj ) or ( H t ' ov A \ tril of I his yrur were 2 , ' M ) S ) , iW . V . more than the oxporl . s of Anril , 18 f > 2 . Tho inerense in tho quarter is more remarkable . The lirst quart or of 18 . "> , 'l has excelled that of lHf > 3 by <> , 12 r > , !) 70 / . worth of rxports . Tho artieleu in which this . inijroiiso Jms taken plaecieompriso a very general list ; the wjy important exceptions boing oiiHt-irou , uiiwroiight tin , ftrMLwoollcii yarn . , Tho imports nIiow a largo inorriiHo of tho ^ Mftlu- ' tHni * tho people . There has been an increased ooiiKmiHftwi of eoi ' n , Hour , wiuo , tolmreo , Hpiribi , and provisions oTNify ' lfjiHls ; I fjoU » er with mi ineroiuui in the iimo of llax , hides , ^> o <} i ; i ,.. Nlloj ' > HJr | j ( lo ' vi > s , IoiiIIkt , and woollen manufactured . Tuo , arliole 4 . of lipi ' uo niiKiurueturo coiujuhmhI at , hoiiio liuvu also iiirri'aao *! , ospooiuUy mult , paprir , ' uinl spu-itis ) . Tho shipping oln ' iiijeil
in the foreign and homo trade has also increased by 57 interest of Eng lish commerce in the apprehended "Eastern war are extensive . The countries of the Danube supply us largely with corn , and at this moment 600 grain-Hdenl vessel * -with about 1 , 000 , 000 quarters ( worth 1 . 600 , 000 ? . ) from eastern ports are on their way to STm ' essages by the submarine telegraph are on the increase , the interest in the Eastern question tending Xereto . ' Last week , 821 messages were sen , ( 176 coming in one day . ) . The gross receipts were , 3971 . 13 s . 9 d . At a mcetinc of the directors , the chairman anticipated the time when India would be within a few minutes' communication of London .
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It has been decided , this week , that a legacy to the " children" of any person includes the illegitimate children , provided the father is . dead , and can therefore raiso no legitimate children to compete with them . The poor pay of milliners' work girls was explained m the Bankruptcy Court last Saturday . The profits on an order for G 0 £ . worth of millinery goods are only bl ., according to east-end prices . . The power of county court judges to imprison debtors for successive periods of forty days , in default of payment , has been confirmed by the Queens Bench . A bankrupt distiller at Newcastle has absconded , taking with him much ready money . He is suspected of haying placed a box of valuables in Clapham Convent . 1 he Lady Superior is to be examined
Persons constantly steal flowers from the graves m the Brompton Cemetery . One of the thieves has been detected and fined forty shillings . Several captains of Thames ships have been fined tor carrying an illegal number of passengers . Penury is on the increase in this country . The convictions in ' 49 were 18 ; in 1851 the number was 29 . The contradictory statements before the Dockyard Committee are not included in this account . Three idle fellows broke a lamp on Tuesday , that they might get supported in gaol . They obtained their In Ross ( Herefordshire ) a constable who dispersed a riotous drinking party was murdered by them . They arc in gaol . at
_ _ , . „ . ^ . The murder of ^ tho old housekeeper Bacton Rectory has been investigated . A brooch , a knife , and other small things belonging to the Rectory , have been found with a family named FJack , and they have been traced as coming from John Flack . He has been committed for trial . A cabman on the South Eastern Railway cab-stand refused to take a fare . He said , without explaining himself , that the Company would fine him five shillings for taking tho fare ; but the magistrate fined him forty shillings for his refusal .
A gentleman , passing through Shoreditch was startled by a cry , Look at that -woman , she is carrying a dead child , " and some boys , with horror in their looks , pointed out the woman . The gentleman turned his head to sec her , and , as he turned , " his watch was gone . " Tho boys darted across tho road ; they were chased ; and one , an artful looking urchin , was captured , the gentleman having seen him pass the watch to his associates . The boy loudly ' protcsted his innocence , and declared that ho was not " the man . " ' He has been remanded .
Some remarkable thefts have been lately traced . Four fellows wont to the Swan Inn , Tottenham , and having obtained admission to tho bav parlour , they took refreshments , and then on being left alone in the room , broke open the cupboards , and stole the cash-box containing 170 sovereigns . At a tavern in Dalston , l ( X ) l . was thus taken ; and at a fancy biscuit-baker ' s in Islington , 7 OI . was stolen in the saino way , and , it is . suspected , by tho sarao party . Two men , who have been arrested under suspicious circumstances , are in custody , and are all but identified as tho principal persons of tho partj " .
JfunesHindley offered a shopkeeper , in payinentfora fourpenny article , a ' sixponcc , gilt over , and looking like a halfsovereign . The shopkeeper detected the fraud , nnd charged iriiidloy before the magistrate . Hut Hindlcy argued thut ho had ' said nothing ; harl expected only twopence change ; and could not be prosecuted , as he had not pretended tho coin was a half-sovereign . Tho Holicitor for tho Mint agreed with Ins legal defence , but as the prisoner is '" known to tho police , " ho was detained . Tho titetooj'ts , an English vessel , has boon wrecked near Cadiz . There wan a fearful storm : tho vessel was hurled on a reef of rocks , and noon dashed to pieces . Seven of the crew peri :. lied . Lust week severe- litorinn prevailed on tho f . outheru const of England and . in the Mediterranean . Some harm wan dono to shipping , and hoiiio injury to commerce , by tho delay of ships with perishable < : iirtjoon .
Jiiist week a painful accident occurred on board a steamer in Dublin harbour . ' The boiler burst , and the boiling wider showered on tlio poor' deck passengers , scaldin g several to death . Kloven portions have already died , and many uro suffering severely . On tho inquest on twool ' tho bodies they have attributed tho hurst ing to " ! he gross noglovt of . Innieii Jlaig , Government Kngineor Surveyor , in not making a proper inspection of tho boiler of the said steamer in April Just . " Mr . Mniy has boon committed to prison ' on ; i eliiiriyo of manslaughter . A great , fin ; took place ' nenr tho AWuilork-basin , Cilyroiid , on Sunday . 'Jho guttn prrclm factory was' almost entirely burned down : n firewood factory was seriously injured , and several warehouses and factories in tho neighbourhood ho \ ere ] y nuilon . 'i ] . Tho damage dono ifi e . stiinntod at 100 , 000 / . One hundred and twenty pounds was fohnd on tho body of a pauper who died lately in SI . PimcrW workhouse . News papers form by I ' nv 'ho largest portion of tho mail to Australia . In a Into mail there wore 3 / $ 8 U » jio \ vnpn ]> era to 780 letters ; and in tho ( huintvs mail bng « them ivero l «> 0 () newspapers aiHl no lot torn .
The singular phenomenon of the * instantaneous blossoming of flowers has been exhibited at Brompton . The roses Mid geraniums placed in mould had some liquid composition poured on them , and blossomed in ten or fifteen minutes . This is an old conjuring trick common in the East , and not unknown in this country .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIETHS . On the 21 afc of April , at Bombay , Lady Yardley : a daughter . On the 2 nd of June , at Parkhurst , Isle of Wight , the wife of George Hall , Esq ., Roverhor of the Reformatory Prison : a son . On the 2 nd , at No . 8 , the Grove , Kentish-town , the wife of Coventry Patmore , Esq . : a daughter . On the 5 th ,. at Eccleston-square , tho wife of Lieutenant-Colonel Cotton : a daughter . On the 6 th , at Marsden Villa , St . John s Wood , the wife of Birket Foster , Esq .: a son . On the 8 th , at 47 , Upper Brook-street , the Lady Sarah Lindsay : a son . A On the 8 th , at 31 , Grosvenor-place , the wife of E . Homes Baldock , Esq ., M . P . : a son . On the 9 th , the Hon . Mrs . Frederick Byron : a daughter . MARRIAGES . On the 10 th of February , at Melbourne , Australia , William Ravenecroft , second son of Sir George Stephen , to Mary Anne Sarah , daughter of Richard Walkden , Esq ., formerly of Pinner , and granddaughter of the late Frank Chatlield , Esq . On the 26 th of May , at the Chapel , Lochgilphead , Argyleshire , by the Right Rev . llishop Ewing , of Argyle and the Isles , the Rev . William Radclj'iFo Hallett , eldest son of William Hullett , Esq ., of Candya and Eling Grove , Hants , and grandsou of Robert Radclyffe , Esq ., of Fordenton-hull , Lancashiro , to Annie Elizabeth , daughter of William Forlong , Esq ., of Erins , Argylcshire , and pranddaughter of the late General Gordon Cumming Skene , of Pitlurg and Dyce , Abtrdeenshire . On the 1 st of Juno , at Mortlake , William Reade , Esq ., of Brook-street , Grosveuor-squarc , third son of the late lledmorttt Rcade , Esq ., of Kilkenny , to Julia Macdonell , second daughter of William Brown Kitchincr , Esq ., of Wilton-place , Bclgruvesqu : iro .
On the 2 nd , at Tiinoleague Church , county of Cork , by the Very IJov ; llornco Newman , Dean of Cork , Horace Kewman Tr . ivers . Estj ., Commissariat Staitf , son of tho late Major-General Sir Robert Travers , to Rosamond St . Leper Shirley , relict of tho lutt >> Joiihs Hamilton Travers , Esq ., of Timoleagiiehousp , Lieutenant Third Li ^ ht Drngoons , and dau ghter of tho late Major-Gi'nernl Sir Dudley St . Leper Hill , K . C . B . On the 2 nd , at Htono Church , by tho Venerable tho Archdeacon of Rochester , His Honour Charles Henry Strutt , Pro-Hherifl ' of the county of Bcrhifo , Colonial Stipendiary Magistrate , and one of tho Justices in Her Majesty ' s Commission of the Pence , to Eleanor Martha , eldest daughter of John Walter , Esq ., Woodland-house , Kent . On the 6 th , at Ht . George's , Hanovor-square , Frederick Thomas Cruse , to Catherine Harriet Frunoes , third daughter of tho Into Lieutenant - General Bir William Henry Prinele . G . C . IJ .
On Uio 7 th , at St . George's , Hanover-square , Major MaeDonnoll , Twenty-ninth Kegiment , hoii of tho Rov . j ) r . MucDoniiell , Provost ., Trinity College , Dublin , to Rllen , youngest daughter of John Cotter , Esq ., of Anhton , county of Cork . ¦ At Ht . James ' s Church , Piiddiiigton , by tho Very ltev . thn Dkiui of Einly , Towley Fillguto , Enq ., of Lincoln H-inn , and WcHtbouiTie-ternico , to Miirlhn KUen , oldest , daughter of Georgo Macartney , Esq ., M . I ' ., of Jjissuuouro Castle , county of Antrim . At Whitehall Chapel , by tho Hon . arid Rov . Orlando Forester , the Lord Oolville , of Culross , to Cecilo Katharino Mary , daughter of Loril Cariiigtou .
DEATHS . On tho 2 nd of May , at Dominica , of yellow fever , Mrs . Bliicknll , wife of tho Liouteiiimt .-Govornor of that , inland . On the Hud of . hum , at Tortworth-eouit , Gloucestershire-, Hoary Georgo 1 'Yiuiein , / Carl ])( i < -it \ On tho 2 nd , in Un-ni . Cuiaherlaiid-jilace , Gohcriil Lord Daero nged seventy-Hiv . ' On the 2 nd , very suddenly , at , Oxford , at . tho house of his sonin-law , j \ lr . UiMimgU'i , Tluuimn Ovgor , KHq ., LL . l ) ., in his Heventy-sevent h year . . . " , !'! 2 nd , at" Leghorn , Floreneo Lookluirt , third daiiL'htorof Nir WilJmm M . llcr , Hurt ., of ( Jlcnlee , aged two years ana hovou months . On tho-Mil , n | , Soiii ]> tii ) p 1 te ( : tory-li <> un <> , Husneic , the iron . J ' rimcm Ljiko , youiipesl surviviup daughter of ( iernnl , / irst Vimiount JiHke , Huron of Delhi and Laswiirree
On the fith , -at hin non ' n bonne , 11 ) 1 , Gloooster-torrneo Hydoimrk Hir John Hope , of (; r « i hiiH , Hurt ., M . P . lor the county iMiinlMirgli , in his Hnveiity-thinl year . n \ ' ¦{" A . . " ' . '" ' t ) llt '"» . of " l > ronehilin , nged twenty-four , Kilwanl Oklnoll ltiiHMPH , ' : K «| . ;« , Ul «!« t . H ,, oltho lato Hh- Williun . Oldnnll Unroll , Chief . ) uutiec of H <« ng « J . On the HIh , at Oliriwl . 's lloMnili . l , in ' tho tlnity-llllh yenr of bin iige , tlio Uiv . John Colliagwood , ono of tho cliuviiicnl minsters o ) Ohrist ' B HoupjUl . - Oa tlio ^ tli , nt 2 » , Clii-stor-aqimrp , . tUe Hon . Mro . Goro , nued
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . The present Eeturn exhibits a lower amount of mortality in tho metropolis than has been observed in any previous week since January . The deaths registered last week were 1023 which is about one hundred less than in the week immediately preceding . In the' ten corresponding -weeks of the years 1843-52 the average number was 892 , which , with a correction for increase of population , becomes . 981 . Hence it appears that tho 1023 deaths now returned exceed the calculated amount by 42 .
Tbe recent decrease is generally apparent throughout the Table of Fatal Diseases , but is most considerable in those affecting the respiratory organs . This class has declined in the number of fatal cases to 129 , of which 63 are referred te bronchitis , and 42 to pneumonia . Phthisis , which numbers 152 , maintains its preponderance in the list . Typhus has declined in the last two weeks from 53 to 41 ; diarrhoea from 32 to 21 ; measles increased from 19 to 28 ; with there exceptions zymotic diseases discover no important fluctuation .
Last week the births of 758 boys and 686 girls , in all 1444 children , were registered in London . The average number in eight corresponding weeks of 1845-52 was 1384 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29-880 in . The mean temperature was 51 * 8 degs ., which is 4 * 8 degs . less than the average of the same week in 38 years . The mean daily temperature was below the average on every day of the week . The % ind was in the north .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 11, 1853, page 564, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1990/page/12/
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