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rularly in the form of erecting a pier upon it ; and this view of the case went more to the root of his opinion than anything else . —Lords Murray and Wood concurred ; and the interdict craved was according ly refused . \ . .. 4
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HEALTH OF LONDON . ( From the Registrar-GeneraTs Returns . ') In the \ week that ended on Saturday , the total number of deaths registered in London was 1358 . Increased coldness of the weather has acted unfavourably on the public health during recent weeks , and the present return shows that its effect , an advanced rate of mortality , has not abated . In the ten weeks corresponding to last week of the years 1843-52 , the average number of deaths was 1210 , which , if raised in . proportion to increase of population , becomes 1331 . The 1358 deaths of last week sho # an excess of 27 on the calculated amount .
Zymotic diseases are in the aggregate scarcely more fatal than usual , but the mortality of hoopingcough is high , 64 children having died from it . Small-pox was fatal in only 3 cases , measles in 39 , scarlatina in 33 , croup in 10 , typhus in 56 , diarrhoea ia 27 . The number of deaths from cholera was 11 . JTatal cases arising from diseases of the respiratory organs amount to 319 , whilst the corrected average of ten corresponding weeks is 299 . In this class bronchitis was most fatal , numbering 163 ; pneumonia carried off 121 persons , nearly all children ; asthma 20 , laryngitis * 4 . The deaths from phthisis were 144 .
Last week the birth of 77 . 1 boys and 786 girls , in all 1557 children , were registered in London . In the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average number was 1413 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29-512 inches . The mean temperature of the week was 32-7 degs ., which is 7 * 3 degs . below the average of the same week in 38 years . On Friday , " a painfully cold day , " the mean temperature fell 13 degs . below the average of the same day ; and on four other days it was 8 degs . or 9 degs . below it . The mean dewpoint temperature was 29 * 4 degs . The wind blew for the most part from the north-east .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Court returned to "Windsor Castle on Thursday to keep Christmas .
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It is currently reported that Mr . Disraeli has prepared tho outlines of a measure of Parliamentary reform . —Sun . Mr . John O'Connell was elected for ' Clonmel on Wednesday without opposition . This is a triumph over the Duffy and Lucas party . Lord Paget has finally resolved to contest South Staffordshire . He has this week issued an address to the electors . Ho is for " a well-considered measure of Parliamentary reform . " * A largo meeting was held at Bristol on Friday week , and resolutions were adopted in favour of the ballot . Colonel Thompson made a good use of old arguments on tho subject in a speech ho made . The meeting was full of spirit . Another enthusiastic meeting on tlio subject of tho ballot has been held at Bath . Tho borough Members , Mr . Pliinn and Captain Scoboll , and Colonel Thom pson addressed tho mooting .
Scottish rights were vindicated once again last week . Tlie association for their -vindication met in tho City-hall , Glasgow , in great numbers . Lord Kglinton , Professor Aytoun , ° lr . BaiHio Cochrane , Sir Archibald Alison , wore again the orators . But tlie only novelties in their orations were j" ° . pointed declaration that no hostility is meant to tho " " ( 'X and the quasi surrender of tho " lion" grievance . * n loss than twelve hours after tlio mooting broke up , news «»; hod Glasgow of the death of Lady Kglinton ! Lord A ? t in 8 ^» ntl / left for Eglinton Castle , r l , u lne ° t > ng ( the last under tho present system ) of the •«» t India Company , on Wednesday , the papers relating to [ Bo ' { itmissal of Mr . Grant and Mr . Lo Geyt from tho Bomv buddor administration , woro ordered to bo . produced ; » o Hom ,, papors reiatjjwr to tlie conduct of tho late Sir U Napier , in India .
oreiT i mil 8 "edington haa boen appointed to tho nowly-M « ° ^ ice of ponnanent secretary to tho Board of Control . . ' . <• • VVjUimns , Member for Lambeth , attended a meeting and 7 COnstitll e »* 8 « t tho Horns , Konnington , on Monday , r i n " ITa ted , in a speech , the doings of last session in gmieam hla ( Wn worira in particular . vm ,, g ^ rd Palmeraton has refused to close tlio Gosolvlii " oflic 03 < " > Monday next , tho Admiralty havo rerj « to give the Woolwich hands a holiday on that day . | > y » J a f "rwH meeting in Marylobono a proposition was made " n « n n Uchdl t 0 ¦ kco P Monday aa a holiday by shutting Sndeii * ' totho HU T""iso of many , Mr . Jacob Hell and Mr . Iwa , n PP 08 ed ll f an ( l *»« motion Was lost ; nevertheless the f « roiZ ' - y * grubl ) in e Portio " ° f t « ° P «« 'wh will uhut up shop vutj o in u way .
Some time ago , it will be remembered , Sir Culling Eardley called a meeting at his house , to consider the propriety of draining the Kent and Essex marshes . That meeting resulted . in the . appointment of a committee to consider and report upon the subject . The report has been prepared , and was sanctioned b y . a meeting at the Bridge House Hotel , London-. bridge . f lie report shows at once tho desirability and the practicability of the -project ; and Lord Palmerston , with characteristic sense , has made some valuable suggestions . Mr . William Smith O'Brien has escaped from Van Diemen's Land ! The clergymen and parishioners of Islington desire that they may be saved the immense nuisance of having-herds of cattle driven through tlieir parish on Sundays , on their way to the Monday Smithfield Market ; and they have memorialised the Lord Mavor .
The Marchioness of Wellesley , widow of the elder brother of the late Duke of Wellington , died at Hampton Court Palace last week . . Lord Robertson , one of-the Judges of the Scotch Court of Session , was suddenly taken ill while on . the bench last week , and carried home . He has since recovered . - The Scotsman understands " that Lord Aberdeen has just announced to the late Mr . Simpson ' s family , that in consideration of their father ' s public services , her Majesty has been pleased to grant them a pension , on the Civil List , of 100 / . a year . Mr . Simpson's unwearied services for the advancement of the great cause of national education , and his exertions in aid of every movement of a philanthropic character , are well known ; and a very large circle will be glad to learn that the public gratitude due to his life-long labours has been thus suitably given expression to by the Crown . "
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Dr . A . M Caul succeeds the Beverend Frederick Maurice as Professor , of Ecclesiastical History at King ' s College ; and Mr . George Dasent as Professor of Literature and Modern History .-A rumour having spread that Mr . Maurice had offered his resignation to the benchers of Lincpln ' s-inn , an address to the rev . gentleman from members of the society , and members of the congregation of Lincoln ' s-ina Chapel , expressive of their sympathy with him under the circumstances connected with Ins dismissal from his professorships at . King ' s
College , London , and of their hope that he might continue his ministrations amongst them , was drawn np , and was in course of being numerously signed , when the further circulation of it was stopped in deference to what is understood to have been the feelings of the benchers , that the continuance of his connexion with Lincoln ' s-inn is a sufficient evidence of the satisfaction of the society with , his labours . The thronged attendance in the chapel at the same time unquestionably shows the sense which the public entertain as to their value . —Globe .
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Advices from Gibraltar to the 8 th inat . state that when the Governor , from some unexplained cause , suddenly removed liis land cordon on the 27 th of November , the Spaniards established theirs on a liberal footing , and traffic in supplies proceeded satisfactorily until the following Saturday , tlie 3 rd inst . But on that day an order arrived from the Real Consejo de Ministro ( supposed to be in consequence of Sir Robert Gardiner ' s measures , tiie rescinding of which was not known in Madrid ) ordering an immediate clo . sing of all communications by'land , excepting tlie post , anda a rigid enforcement of ten days' quarantine by sea . Notice to that effect was promulgated , at once to be put in force from 4 p . m . the same day . At the time of the cordon a most
painful spectacle was seen . Many hundred persons on each side the ropes were assembled , and much weeping and wailing going on . Great efforts wero made to get in a-3 many supplies as possible , but these were wholly inadequate to tho demand . Straw and charcoal rose-to prodigious prices . Straw was sold at eight ami nine dollars per lior . se load , being a rise of 300 to 400 per cent . ; charcoal in tho proportion of 200 to 300 per cent . Butchers' meat has iisen 50 per cent . Tlio stock of cattlo in private hands was only three or four days' consumption . Tho Government contractor had 300 or 400 head of cattle , but had little or no straw for them , it was reported that tho Government contractor was to be indemnified by a grant of tlie public money for tho losses incurred through the Govemjr ' ei mis chievoua measuro .
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A singular case of breach or contract was tried bofcro Tho Court of Queen ' s lionch this week . Mrs . Moysey , the wife of a Somersetshire clergyman , engaged a Miss Albrassant , ji Belgian , i \ s governess , at 50 / . a year . Soon after tho contract was made , Mrs . Moysoy heard that Miss Alerassant was an infidel ; that filio thought tho Bible an obscene book ; and said that Jesus Christ had been too intimate with Martha and Mary . Direct evidence was-tendered on tliia point . Miss Alorassant , however , expl » ined that she had called Lcrsclf an infidel in jest , and denied tho other statements . Tho jury believed licr , and gave tho full damages claimed . Court of of
A trial is pending in tho Irish Exchequer home interest . At tho last Cnrlow election , a . man named Dowling , was arrested for a judgment debt , upon a bond oi indemnity hold by a man named Crott }^ , who period with it to one Lawlor . Mr . Sadleir , Lord of tlio ' 1 roasury , itml Member of Parliament , was mixo . 1 up in tho alf . iir . Dowling auoa Luwlor for false imprisonment . Two cases of conflicts betweon poachers and keepers were tried at tin ) York nsxizus . In both , the presiding Judges refused touts to the . prosecution . Mr . Jiiaticw ( Joleridgo said that preserving game iu such quantities was a direct iumitivo to tho commission « f crime ; and Mr . Justico Wightman u wondered how any man could purchase pleasure at « uch a
a price" ... A WcHlity . 'ui Indoj > ondo » . t nnnwtor , kcopor ot n school at Walwtrth , named GUwon , charged u Mr . Samuel Kelly with assault . The fracas took placo in tho school-room ; high words ensued , followed by blow » on both sides . In bin defence Mr . Kelly alleged that Gibson had seduced liwwifo ; rfho b ' oiug at tho timo an attendant at his chapel . Gibson declined to answer tho question whether ho hud or not ueduccd Mrs . Kelly , or lived with lar . Mr . Norton , btforu
whom the charge was brought , remanded the case , but accepted bail for Kelly . _ The naked body ' of a youth , with marks of violence upon it , was found on Monday , near East Acton . It is presumed the . boy was murdered . A man named Hall attended the hoi » se fair at York this week . __ He drank too much , and suffered two low women to lead him to a lonely place beside the Ouse . There they tried to rob him , and before assistance arrived , they thrust him into the water , and he was drowned . The women have been arrested for " murder . " Mr . Hall was " a man much respected . "
Some Scripture-readers , vulgarly called " soupers , " have been serenaded with , pots , kettles , . and . pans at Graigue , Kilkenny . The police were obliged to surround and protect the proselyUsers . A Dr . Smith , of Peterhead , is in custody , on a charge of shoot ing a blacksmith . Suspicion rests on him because he had , unknown to the blacksmith , insured his life . Whylic , the soldier of the 2 Gth Regiment who fired upon the mob in the Gavazzi riots at Montreal , has been discharged from his military arrest , under a writ of habeas corpus , and has entered into recognizances to appear before the Colonial Court of Queen ' s Bench , to answer the charge .
A great excitement has been created in Havana by a most brutal murder perpetrated by an actor attached to the Taeou Theatre on his wife , Matilda Dominguez , prima donna of the Spanish Opera , also belonging to the same company , and a great favourite in that place . With a . poniard he inflicted thirty-two wounds on bis victim , and then stabbed himself eleven times , but without effect . In his wounded state he was taken to prison , where lie now remains , and is recovering . Sentence of death has been passed upon him , and as soon as he has sufficiently recovered he will be garrotted . The cause assigned for the murder was jealousy , and the refusal of the wife to furnish him with money .
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The cholera has taken a stride westward , and entered Glasgow . Railway accidents take every form . On Monday , a train from Exeter for Crediton was stopped by the floods ; of the I classic Exe . The water flowed over the rails ; they gave ( way , and the engine was speedily embedded in mud . Of I course the passengers were dreadfully alarmed . It was not until midnight that they were dragged back to Newton by horses . This part of tie country has suffered severely from floods . The Great Northern Rililway is becoming too notorious for accidents . There was another on Tuesday near Peterborough . It appears that the night fast goods train for the north , which leaves London at ten in the evening , procecde I from King ' s-cross at its usual time , and when it arrived at
Peterborough a coal train was approaching from the junc tion in an opposite direction , when both trains ran into oacli other witli great violence . The goods train sustained considerable damage , no less than eight waggons being smashed , I and tlieir contents , consisting of tea , sugar , brandy , oybters , &c , were strewed about the line . Both engine-drivers eacaped with a few superficial bruises . From some mistake , the Sylph , a sea-going steamer , ran into the Meteor , a well-known Gravesend boar , going dj . v : i the river on Tuesday night . The Meteor was broken almost in two ; but the Sylph , sticking close to her , saved her pisscngers and crew . 'Ihe Humboldt , one of the American liners , struck on n rcok at tlie entrance of Halifax harbour , and was destroyed , on tho 6 th instant . The fault lay in tho pilot . Sho win run ashore . Passengers and crew saved .
There were no less than seven fires iu London on Saturday night , and a great deal of property was destroyed , but none of them were of sufficient interest to call for a statement in detail . The Irish coast was visited by a very severe storm last week , causing groat destruction .
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Letters for officers , seamen , and marines , serving in hi'i Majesty ' s ships J'hilerprise , Rattlesnake , and Plover will In in time to bo forwarded , if sent to the Admiralty on or before the 1 st of January , 1854 . Sixty heavy guns arc to bo mounted at tho battery no . v erecting at ' Sconce Point , on the Islo of Wight , to guard tlie entrance of tho Solent Sea . Thirty guns arc mounted at Hurst Castlo battery , opposite tho l . sle of Wight , on the Hampshire coast There i-t also to bo anotiior bat ' ery erected about a mile , and a half distant from Sconce I ' oinr , at a place called Cliff-cud . This battery will bo directly opposite that of Hurst Castle . These- fortifications , when completed , will render tho passage of the Solent by a hostilo fleet impossible .
^ A cannon , loiulod at tho breech , has been invented by Dr . Church . It has Ihmmi successful on trial at Birmingham , and will bo sent to Woolwich , tty this process of loading , heavy ship guns can bu fired five , times in a minute by two men , and a field-picxo m ' x timea in a minute . Tho Russian squadron in tho Chinoso . seas has recently paid a vi . sit to Japan , and tlio crews ofthu ships are said to have l > e .: ii well received . Tho Kqutidrou consists of four vessels . Tho » S 7 « r of the /' Just has made- tho passage out to Tort Philip in seventy-five days nnd a half .
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Good news for professors of spirit-rapping reachofl us from America . Tin ; Fox girls , Hiiys a New York paper , having rapped a I ' -irgo fortune out of the pockets of tho pooplo , have purchased a fino place ill Htinnonia , and retired to privatu ( i / e . If Hpiritualisni is u humbug , they have found it u profitable omi at loast . Olio day last week , a . s Mr . Delevan , formerly in tho Coastguard norvke , was * walking near Cross-g » U , near Mr . Bigg ' s farm , Mhustcr , Shoppy , ho flaw . something glittering on tlio ground ; ho jacked it up , and found it to bo unuggot of gold , attached to a stone , which ho sold for 31 . —South-Eastern Gazette . A slave hunter recently followed Homo runaway slaves into Canada , to permimlo .. thorn to return . They ncizod him , bound him to u tree , nnd gavo htm a hundred lashes 1 A largo quantity of tho bono of some gigantic unimid has
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The strike question remains unsolved at Preston ; the operatives remaining out , and the masters obstinate . Some of the Wigan hands have gone to work . We regret to observe that recourse is had to intimidation in the collection of contributions . The leaders of the operatives should do all they can to restrain collectors—even to the extent of disavowing them—who commit outrages .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 24, 1853, page 1233, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2018/page/9/
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