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The President of the Board of Health has issued a circular to the medical profession , asking their cooperation in the formation of a record of cures of choleraic diseases , their treatment , and results , and states that a form of return has been prepared , and ¦ will be issued to all qualified practitioners .
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OUR CIVILISATION . At MaflbOTOUgh-street , James Buckton , No . 14 , Castle-street , eating-house keeper , has been committed for trial , charged with having forcibly violated Harriet Wynn , a girl sixteen years of age , his servant .
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At the Westminster Police-court the second act of the Drama of the Courier and the Farmer ' s Wife has "been -played . On the day appointed for the re-examination of the alleged Massey Edwards , charged with robbing a Mrs . Skirvins , of 4 i 10 s ., the ptosecutrix and her witnesses , accompanied b y Mr . ] Busseil , her solicitor , attended at twelve o ' clock . The accused , when called uponj was not in attendance . . Mr . Eussell regretted the accused was not thore , as he had very little doubt that he could show-that he was a person of notoriously bad character , and had recently undergone nine-months' imprisonment' fora felony . Mr . Broderi p intimated that from tlie-intelligenee that had reached him there could be very little doubt , either , about the character of Mrs . Skirvins , although she had pretended to be so-respectable . He did not think that when the history of Mis . Skirvins's former habits and life was revealed there would be nnuch chance of prosecuting the accused with ¦
success . .. .- .-. Mr . Bussell said that tile accused bad been guilty of gross misrepresentations , and he was armed with evidence to confirm- Mr& Skirvins ' s account , and it was * due-to the proprietor of the house where this had occurred to say , that she was not aware of what was going on . Mr . Broderip observed that if the accused ' s recognizances were estreated , and if , as Mr . Bussell wished , proceedings should "be taken to recapture the accused , both prosecutor and accused were such bad characters that no jury could be espected to Convict . Mr . Bussell insisted on going on with the prosecution . The necessary instructions for the apprehension of Edwards wore tlien issued .
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At the Lambeth Police Court , on Monday , Mr . William Smith , of John ' s-hill , Wandswoxth , sixty years of age , who described himself as a commission agent , was placed at the bar on a charge of stealing three , gold rings , of the value of 20 s ., and 5 s . 6 d , in cash , the property of Miss Louisa White , at a coffeehouse , No . 51 , in the London' -road , SoutUwark , The complainant , a fashionably-dressed and rather goodlooking female , who described herself as a cap-maker , residing at 38 , Uxbridge-street , Newington-causew&y , deposed that on the preceding afternoon she went as far as Greenwich , to take the fresh air , and on her return islio met the pr isoner dloso to the Elephant and Castle , when he addressed her , and after some conversation they went together t « a coffee-housa in the London-road , and then lie proposed to remain with her for the night , anu they engaged a bed there .
The witness horo went into a long and minute detail of what transpired for upwards of an hour whilo they remained thero , and concluded by saying , that when tho prisoner was going away in an hour , though ho liad arranged to stop for the night , slio missed three gold rings , which slio had placed on tho table , and , subsequently , 5 s Gd ., which lwd been taken from tho ' poeket of the dress she had taken off . The accused ( a married man ) , and who seemed rather disturbed by -the publicity of tho affair , principally on account of his wife , denied that the charge was anything but nn attempt at extortion ; and stated that it was preferred only out of revenge for his having detected tho " lady" in robbing him . Certain doubts being thtown on tho character of the complainant by tho police , tho ma-gistrato believed Mr . Smith ' s story , and discharged liirn .
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At Clorkenwcll , a case of violated domestic happiness , ending in an attempt at a novel mode of suicide , has been brought forward . William l'ickles , aged 33 , residing at 44 , Smilce-streot , Kent-road , was charged with Attempting to commit suicide . Ho had thrown Jliimself on fclic mils of tho Northern Bailwny , at King ' a-cross Station , awaiting destruction by the first train : — Tho prisoner crioil , and said , in defonco , ho was very florvy ; but tho ( hot vrna thai ho was dolingly and foolishly fonu ofhia wifo , who hiul run aw » y with another mnn . and nut being able to find Iicr , ho boon mo miserable , had drunk rather Ircoly , and wandorcd about until ho arrivod at the railway , when , boiug tired of hid life , and tsot . 'iug tho train apprimohing , he thought lying on tho lino would bo u spoetly n . o . hodof BOlWcstruotiDn .
Ihe magistrate advised the prisoner to pluck up a little p hilosophy , . and despise one who seemed to car * so little foi iiim as his wife had done . The pris 9 ner wa 6 discharged on putting in bail to keep the peace .
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A singular case of suicide has occurred in Chelsea . Miss Phoebe Todd was celebrated as " the most brautiful " girl in Chelsea . " Her father insisted on her marrying a man of great wealth , who was to take her to India , . glie disliked the match , but her father was relentless , and with the bridegroom went to Doctors ' -cornmons for the license . " Whilst they had gone for this instrument the unhappy young lady retired to- the water-closet and ended Tier miseries by nearly severing her head from her body . An inquest was held on tlw body , and a verdict of ' Temporary insanity' was found . The neighbours who applied for a . < 3-• missipn at the inquest were refused , on the plea of tbe drawing-room being full . The unfortunate young lady was buried at St . Luke ' s Church , Chelsea , on Tuesday , and long before the tiour of iutetment the space opposite Mr . Todd's house was crowded with females of all classes . As spon as Mr . Todd showed himself , the females hissed , and this conduct was followed throughout : to the church , when , the police had to use their staves to keep the women from actual violence . '
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At Preston , Owen M'Culloch , a tailor , killed his daughter , a child of ten years old . He came home one night , and being provoked because a man had fetched away a ferret during Ms absence , M'Culloch rose , with a stie'k in his hand , to strike his daughter , ¦ who sat on a chair nursing aa infant . The mother stepped between them and received a blow on the eye . She says she did not see whether her husband struck deceased or not . In the affray , however , both the child and ihe chair she sat on fell . When taken up the child was found to be insensible , and death ensued immediately . lie has been committed for trial .
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Another offering yrns about to be made to the domestic Moloch according to the records of the Marylebone Police Court . Ann Parker , a married woman , was charged with having attempted to drown her two children , Henry Parker , aged six years , and Thomas Parker , aged four years , by throwing them into the Regent ' s-canal , fiegent ' s-park . The prisoner , Who was of short stature , and whose right eye was blackened and swollen , as if from the effect of some severe blow , was accompanied by her children , who stood on either side of her , and exhibited the most sincere affection to their parent , winch was plainly reciprocal on her part . —A policeman stated-that he saw one child in the water , and the woman
about to throw in the other . He interposed , awl she offered some resistance , and said that if he had not-made his appearance at the _ time he did , it was lier intention to have urowned the child she had in her arms and then to have thrown herself into the canal . When he got to the top of the bank she tried to release herself from him , and partially succeeded to run down the bank . He had much difficulty in taking lier to the station-house , where , wliile the charge was being taken , she ngain . said that she intended to do for the two children . She wag : there very violent , and it took three policemen to place her in her cell . She afterwards said sheenme from PJaistuw , in Bsspx , and that her husband Jmd deserted her , and that he had done so several tlmod .
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The Working Man ' s Emigration Society is gaining an unenviable notoriety . A complaint was made by an intended emigrant at Clerkenwell Police-court , that he -was unable to get back some subscriptions he had made to the society , for the purpose of being conveyed to Australia . A summons was granted against the secretary . Shortly after this complaint was made , Mr . Francis Coleinan Sopor , the secretary of the society , was placed at the bar charged by Mrs . Eliza SJdnrier , a handsorno young woman , with having violently and indecently assaulted her as follows :
" I live at No . 18 , Bedford-street , Tied Lion-square , whore tho Working Man ' s Emigration Society U hold . I lodge with my liuaband nnd family n , t tho top part of the houso The defendant is the landlord of tho houso . On Fridny last I was in the wash-houso when Mr . Sopor cmne in ana took hold of mo . I pushed him away . Ho wimtod mo to lcias him , « na ho asked me to kiss him ; I told him of his brutnl conduct -towards me , and siiiU it was cruel , I asked him whether lvo had forgotten hi » cruelty towards mo on tho Monday tieforo . Ho said ho did not remember . I told Iiim
his condwot had been cruol to mo all tho week . Ho fluid , ' What dirty potbreoafcs you hiwo got on , ' and ho pullod mo nboutnnd broko my stay-bone , and bruised me . Ho raniiway Ho thon wont nwivy into his oflice . My child , thrco ycura of ago , was in tho yard when ho ilUused mo , « nd scronmed . On Monday ho pulled mo into his oilico , iiiulsliut mo in . I aiuv no rnoro of him until Friday . My husband was upstairs And heard the screams of tho child , ond saw tho dufendnnt ill-using me . My husband spoko to Iiim , and ho denied it , and Haul it wua an attempt to extort money from him . I had complained to my liuaband of tho dufendmU ' ti conduct towards mo . "
Tho defendant denied the charge , said it waa trumped for the purpose of extortion , and accused Mrs . bkhinor of provious levity . Ho ailso sought to prove » n " alibi . " The case was remanded for inquiry . On a ( subsequent day witnosses wococallod , who proved an " alibi , " apparently not very much to the safcisfnclion of tho magistrate , and Mr . JJopur waa discharged .
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The Kev . Henry Herring , a clergyman of the Church of England , and formerly curate of North Piekenham , Norfolk , was charged before the Norwich magistrates with begging in the streets . On Sunday morning , as the congregation were leaving the cathedral , the prisoner was standing in front of the great west door with the following placard suspended in front of him : — " ' The Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel . ' The Church or England withholds from me the justice of that tribunal which the civil law grants to the common murderer ! Huch is the spirit of that Clmich which , professedly , invites the prodigal to repentance . I have spent 1800 Z . in her service , and . have been driven to pass three nights in the streets of Norwich , and six nights in tlte lock-up ( a hole where there is only straw laid ' upon tlte stone floor ) , solely for the want of better and proper accommodation . The mayor and magistrates have encouraged iwe to apply to every one that has a heart to feel for the miseries of a fellow-creature . I earnestly solicit
the sympathy andchr . rity of an enlightened public , to enable me to live day hy day , and to defend mystelf from the tyranny and persecution of the Bishop of Norwich ;— . Nor wich-street , Sept . 9 . —Hknory Hbhrfno . " The cause was alleged to be the stvuillness of the prisoner ' s salary ( 42 ? . a year ) , as usher ia a school . He was discharged on promising to give up vagrancy . ¦ The following appears in the Corli Examine . * : — " An investigation of a-private nature was held on Saturday at the Police-office , in wrJiicha man named Noonan , who was stated to be a farmer living at Silverspring , was charged with baring violated the person of a young girl named ja ne Taylor , on the evening of Wednesday last , about four or five o ' clock . As the witness herself described it , the prisoner cpminenced '' romping' with Irer and the other girls , but after the romping' had-ceased tlve other girls went away , and the proseeiitrix was salso preparing to leave , when the prisoner locked the gate upon her , and , as she swore , forcibly effected Ik ' s purpose . The case is not yet decided .
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OVER-LEGISLATION . . The magistrates are still being called on to decide questions under the new Sunday Closing Act . At the Thames Police Court , on Monday , Mr . George Rix , the landlord of the King George public-house in Night- , ingale-lane , which separates the London-dock from the St . Katharine-dock , in the parish of St . Botolph Without , Aldgiite , appeared before Mr . Ingham . to answer a summons taken out by Inspector March , of the E division , which charged him with unlawfully opening his hotisc for the sale of wine , spirits , foeev , and other fermented and distilled liquors , after the hour of ten at night , on Sunday , the 3 rd instant . It was proved that the defendant , his wife , and three other persons , were in the house : on the table
was a glass With gm-and-water . In his defence he said that about half-past nine o ' clock a gentleman introduced a respectable married lady into Jthe house , and said that a relative had died of the cholera , at No . 44 , Burr-street , close by , and 3 ' eq . uested him . to shelter the lady , while lie went to the house , which tho lady , who was labouring under illness , did not like to visit . Of course , he could not refuse such a request , and tbe lady went into the parlour , and was supplied with three-penny worth of brandy . At tea o ' clock ho closed his house , and shut the door ; but ho allowed tho lady to rein-ain until her friend called for her , and said she was at liberty to join him and his family . A customer , named Nolan , was also
permitted to remain , and join the family circle , but called for nothing after ten o ' clock . They wore discussing religious topics and tho new Boer"Act until twenty minutos after eleven , when tho lady ' s friend , who was accompanied Iby his cousin and two ladies , knocked at tl > e door , avud wore admitted , and were followed by the policeman , but none of thorn called for , or wore served with , anything whatever , and immediately afterwards quitted tho house . The gin-smd-wator in the glass was tlto remains of some ho had been drinking himself . This was confirmed by tho persona present , and the police stating that thoro had nover been a , complaint against the house , tho summons was dismissed .
The licensee ! victuallers' agitation against the act continues . Tho Metropolitan and . Provincial Licensed Victu » llors Defence Association had another meeting at Dnlry Lime Thoutro on Thursday , won they agreed to tho rules of the society and appointed its officers . Similar organisations are going on in tho provinces , and especially in Imncaahire : audit is understood that moat of thoso bodies aro in communication with the how metropolitan society ; and thoro is a probability of an organisation of the trade all ovor tho ki ngdom . ' Tho editor of tho Morning Advertiser announces liis return from abroad , aim promises to break tho sllonco of that journal im that flubjuct by u auries of nniotea whioh « ro to aofc oyartything right .
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A forward youth of fourteen , named Thomas Dennis , was charged at Guildhall with -taking 51 from his mother ' s tea-caddy . He was apprehended at the Victoria Theatre , but attempted touhootthe policeman with a pistol loaded with small shot , which he stated "' he had bought to shoot his father with . " He was remanded .
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present-season , and also a comparison of the deaths during , the years 1 R 32 , 1834 , 1849 , and 1854 . The number of deaths in 1832 , for . a period of twenty-two waeks , was 1895 ; in 1 S 34 , seven weeks , 913 ; in 1849 , seven weeks , 406 ; and for eight wedes in 1854 , tie deaths were 1186 . The Herald says : —T * he disease in each case appears to have shown the greatest violence within a short period of its appearance . In 1832 , the day of the greatest mortality was the 19 th of June , and the ninth or tenth day of the plagne . The number of deaths that day was no less than 149 .
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870 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 16, 1854, page 870, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2056/page/6/
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