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STATE OF TRATJE. The reports of the trad...
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Sanitary Matters. A Small And Compact Bl...
females ; 2125 ' -were ; mere infants ; 127 ^ 75-1 . maerJages ¦ wer e cetebcated according ; to ' the iritea- of the : chaweh o £ EogJaodV « ndfa 4 , 36 a in . other wajffa . © fiOfr marriages * about ! 84 tafce place in . the : churches and chapele-of the Establishments Only 14 s -were soifenroized by ' special license ^ ' m < w « thaw 20 y 38 & by license-, 99 t , & 4 & *&«* banns , and 3804 by certificates ia £ superintendent-Mgiatwos . la . 1865 ,. 83 S 6 K young- me * aod 2-7 , 207 yjenng -women married as- minors * The number o women who nsaroy aa minors has . increase * rapidly within the last saptennium . 21 , 940- -widowers . an * £ 14 * 435 . widows- remarried ; 14 , 2-80 widowers marriedspinsters , aad > £ 660 maaried widow 3 ; . and 6775 widowsmuwriedi bachekwsv .
The march of intellect is not very ¦ foeeibly exhibited by the fact tha * 44 , 846 busbamds and & 2 T & Z 2 wives were unable to write their names , in toe registers , but signed a » * mazksmenf aitdl' ^ mawkssvomenv' It isciwiousr however , that a > ' certain , number' ofi the blushing ; bride * who * make theitf marks' aire * actually deterred by timidity or nervousness from writing their names , asad many of those vrh » do- write them are anything bat adepts in the art of calligraphy . But the- number of ' naadtsnien' and jaarfcawomen' is . on . tbe decline .
As regards the births , the ratio to the population , ra greatest in DHujban * and . Staffordshire among the collieries . It is least in Batland , I > evron > Hereford , Westmoreland ,. Bevk 3 > Somerset , Herts-, aad Oxford , f the births . have decreased ; in these eight counties ainc & 1850 . 323 , 960 = boys and 311 , 083 girls were- bom ia the' year—104 boys to every 10 O girls . Ia London , the proportion of boys is . greatly below the average of England and "Wales- 40 y 78 e ehildBen < i 20 * 821 boy » and 1 $ , 9 * 2 girls ) were bom out of wedlocisy giving , tlie proportion of fr' 4 .
bastards to every 100 cfaikirea bom alive , or nearly 1 to li >» The counties to which this- stigma most , attaches are Norfolk , Hereford , Cuanberiandy Salop , and . West - moreland . 42 & r 70 » deaths oecmrred in the year ; the annual rate was 2-266 per cent . The-winter of 1855 was remarkably cold ; the deaths amounted to 13 > 4 r r the ; comparative statistics show that the severity of the weather ( a > hard , frost having , prevailed for full six weeks at the beginning : of the yesw > -was the cause of more than aOvOOft deaths . —Times .
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State Of Tratje. The Reports Of The Trad...
STATE OF TRATJE . The reports of the trade of the manufacturing towns for the . week ending last Saturday show no alteration . The markets generally have been quiet , but firm . At Birmingham * the orders for iron from . America liave not been so large as was expected . —Times . In the general business of the port of London ; during the same week there has not been much activity . The number of ships reported inward was 167 . The number cleared outward was 136 , including 21 in ballast . The number on the berth for the Australian colonies is 57 , being three less than at the last account- Of these , five are for Adelaide * four for Geelong , four for Hobart Town , four for Launceston > six . for New Zealand , 20 for Port Philip , three-for Portland Bay , 10 for Sydney , and one for & wan River *—Idem .
The, Atlantic Telegraph. Tim Great Teleg...
THE , ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH . Tim great telegraphic cable which is- io unite the old sad new world in bonds—let us hope—of perpetual amity and goodwill , i » now fairly on its way thrdngh the vast deep yrhieti lies between the coasts- © f Ireland a ; nd America . This profoundly interesting enterprise was inaugurated ow Wednesday week by a banqoet given by- the Knight of Kerry to the Lord-Lieutenant and tiro gentlemen connected with the Company in a large storehouse * tastefally fitted up for the ocfea-1
sion , and adorned with flags , wreaths , evergreens , and flowers . This was aitnated on the western strand of the island of "Valentia , from which the telegraph starts . Admirable speeches were- delivered ! by the Lord-Lieutenant and the Roman Catholic Bishop of Kerry , the latter of whom spake of his Protestant follow clergymen in terms of truly Christian friendship and esteem , « md alrtafod enthusiasticall y to '' the representatFves of a power whose-emiTiro fa greater tfctm that of Rome or of BriCftin—the power of science . "
The cable fnw Bttccoaafally landed on the shores of "Vptentfa Bay an the > previous day , and signals were passed under the-water from the temporary atwtiow on land tferottgft tno whole length of the cable on- board 1 off < Hk « f Niagara , H 2 & Qi miles' m length-. The landing- of tfter « aMarwn * effected By the- sailors of thV American- ship ?; ¦ who * brought it on shore , and * tariff ft before theJLord - 3 Lieutonsn « . HIa > tordsntp an * every one present' who v « enabled to- gat nearff , were anxiows to touch the caMe withe theft- hands ' . After the JaWdiiTg , tfw sailors 1
¦ rreira * assembledround ! the Lord-Lieutenant and the- dfc . rectory and « apedfcl prayer for the success of tfro enterprfiwwaa offered up- by tlie Rev . John © ay r after which , the- araembly- was addressed by hw Excellency ; who demanded ? twervw cheers- for the success or the cobl ^ wMcft iwere 1 toeartily gjvon . l W »< flqrarerrott starfedB with tfto t ^ ognrph on Tttarstfay HTWky bw ^ , Boon after the-oWps-rolled , and when at tire dftfiwce or rfrnrmllca front the finrafng » -pn » cx 3 i an nrjefcBmrt ftappened' to- the thiefcost ahqro end ; of the-cable , ¦ # WW i IDoonwo entttnrfWf ytitbt tttff nachlnorydnd brokv
at th ^ -point ^ The . ships ? boata wens : engaged : the aftemoantof the = following : diay hx uadaTOtroniag the cablei imm the share to- tha > pltetce : waece itwas tornktoy aadt there : joining ; the two end * again . TtiisE' onefaiion ; - was sacCessfBlljys peBfosmedyaad the squadron ; again : set ana at about sunset , and kept - vbq > eoraturaedi interoourse througbj ^^ tb » wm » pa- the sbxttst afYaientia . The depfchio 6 water in . whiuhi I & e tehjgraph v & suib ' - merge * ia afooarfr 17 fl 0 fathoms , or ta » o miles f : amd tha cable is pawfc © at a * th « rafeof fi > v « mites ; an hoar- The transition ) from * the-shallow to the greater dfeptha waa effected without , difficulty ? But , em Tlrarsdayr her Morjesty ' saMp Cyeiopsy onaofi the squadronv retuTned- The Atlantic c * bie > had beent injtnted r and a . length of ahout three hundred ! miles ia lost for the presen * . A consideiv able part of this r hewever , may yet be recovered .
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ACCTDEjTTS ANTJ SUDDEN D . EATIIS . Mrsi Abese . Eseoarry -widoiw of the late Mr . BicMiani : Eseotfrr formerly M . P . for Wiirohestar-, ^ » dt © m " Wedne * - d ! ay week firona ; poisoa- administMredi bjr herself in-mistake for a dose of medicine ; A bottle eoretaiaing' solution , o £ acetate : of morphia ( whidi JVlra ^ . Bseott was in the habit of taking ia small tBosea Gceaaionally ) . atood on tlie taaxttelpiece in , her bediroom ^ close by another medicine bottle , which was the same kind of phial as that containing the morphia ; and , in the absence of the nurse , the lady took a quantity of the latter , thinking she was taking the right medicine . She discovered : her error immediately , and , as the servant entered the room , cried out , "Oh ! I ' have taken the wrong medicine . " Mr . Henry , the medical attendant , who happened to be in the house at the time , was summoned to the room , and he applied the stomach-pumpv emetics , & c , bfit without effect . HXeath ensued in a few hours . The coroner ' s inquest has concluded in a verdict In accordance with the facts . There has been another death ( say 3 the Lancet ) from the new anaesthetic amylene . It occurred on Thursday week at St . George ' s Hospital . Dr- Snow administered the agent . The patient was a man who had a fatty or some other benign tumouT on ; the back , ' and it was in consequence : o € the operation / about to- be undertaken for its removal that , the anaesthetic was adiniriisfceredv
We are not yet informed what eomMtion of the organs of eireidlatLon .- aad respiration waa discovered at . die autopsy . This is now the second , death , fcom . amylene . Thomas Powell , a foun < aryman in . the employ of Messrs . Hennett and Cot , contractors , was killed by the explosion of an iron tube on Thursday week . Several workmen * were engaged in repairing a large shaft © r tubeused ia boring ? rocks at the work * of the Brendon-hill Iron Company , and . a piece having been welded to one end of tlie shaft , it was again , put into the fire , and almost immediately a plug ( o € the existence ofi whieb . up to that time the men were entirely ignorant ) was forced out by the gas which the heat- generated ia the bore . The plwg , a heavy piece- of irony struck Powell in the abdomen , and inflicted such injuries that he died ia less , than , an hour . Another man was . much . hurt , but not
serioualy . A gwnner of . Captain Gibbon ' s Q battery Royal Artillery , stationed at the cantonment on WoolwichrComnDon ,. and nnder orders for India , was on Tuesday morning discovered by a eomorad » dead in . bis hot . The poor fellow i «> Bivppos « i to httr & died of disease of the heart , and has- left a- widow and fiamily .. A fatal aeciden * . happened on the evening : of Friday week , on the Sfovth- Lwndon . Railway T to a gentleman named Martin . He statrfted firom the JPenchurch-atreat station for Hackmey , by the train wbicbu leaves about ten o >' clo « k at nighit ^ and it i * thought that be . moist have fallen aaleep oa hi * passage anti not nave waked nntfl the train had jro » t again , started afteir stoppimj at
the H * ckney station , whan he opened the tfoor of the earriogo h » ocewpied and attempted to * jnmp : outv in doing ; whirfi' it i » suppesed that be nvoafc harer lost his footing < m $ fallen on to the- railsr None of the cMBSciala of the- train witnessed the-accidea * ,, bwt a . few rmmtttea afterwards the porters at the station wero a * artl * by hearing cries ofi " -Gi » daar , oh dear I" and presently they saw JMr . Martin lying near the > nuia witbu both hm legs horribly- crushed 1 and almost oevuted foiom hi » body . He had evidently- been , draggad a ^ mm distancealong- « he H « ev ond had pcofeably hong , on to the footboard : until tie vra » compelled to loose hi * liold from exhatwtioflv He waw invmndiatety cowveyed to > tbebx >» - prt » l a * Dalftton , where hi * l » g » were ounpntatod ; . ; bat he dwd a day or twot after' Ki » wdwisalbn .
Tfte deputy eQroner foar Westminatcir has . holdi an iarr quiry at Kingf * Collegu- Hospital respocting the chiauni ^ » tance 3 ' attencRng thttd ^ ath of Ann Sfcowqr , aged ; saxtaeqv who- it wasr . alleged lw « k di « d nwloB the . influence of oUok roform administered to her previous to und « rg » ing , a . surgical operation .. Tho . JNny laturned a vosdic * of u Ptoath from th < v adminiottratiua of ahlovofiwn ^ " and the ftrremnn added th « t no * blanne < w » attached ta the hoapftal anthorftlea , A distressing iwoident occwrrad afc Bod « on ,-withhi . twa milos of BoiTisokano , Ireland , on Monday .. Mr-Joaophi JFalkinw , of Kbdieen , wa » wirfMng- wfter dtonon ttlong a ntmoyr toad nwwr hi « m & d « n ( Kiv aoam •< hi * onMla . driinsk .
by-bisjheird ,. - wet £ f cooiiag dewtn the roatL towards huu ,. wham a . hei £ ef rubied , at bint with , eonaiderable fetty , knocking him down , trampling on him , andgcaaag him . in several , partas of the- body ,. Hi » sou waa > quickly on the spot , and hastened into Borriaokane for medical assistanca ^ but the wounds inflictedi -were of ao » serious a nature- that . Mr . , Ealkiner survived only / - a very short tixne .
The Trtajl Of Ispoulen. The Trial Of Jar...
THE TRTAJL OF ISPOULEN . The trial of Jarrre ? SpoHen for trre mtmJer of Mr . Little commenced at Dublin on Frfday weefc , and conGruded oh Tuesdjrjr . As we Frave a ; rready , from fmre to time , described the cnieTfacts agarrrst Spollen as they carae out during- the police investigations , we shall here eontoe ourselves to the defence delivered on Monday hy Mr . Curran , whicftis thus reported ; : —> " He called on the -pufy seriously to observe the cool levity of manner in which the children of the prisoner had come forward- to swear away the life of their father .. This he aseribed to an external influence operating ou their young minds . On what evidence did the case for the Crown depend 2 He defied any one to say that
either Lacy or Joseph SpoIIen ( the chiTdcen ) had told the truth . He would prove to demonstration that neither could be believed . The swivel window , of -which they had . heard so much , was capable only of being opened from the inside . ; and how could a man then get in . by it ? A man corning along the roof could net fail to have hid footsteps observed by Mr . Little . Again , looking to the sum of money found , considerable strength would be required to carry it , and ,, if borne away at the time deseribed , the prisoner ,, or any person bearing it , would have the very great probability of meeting some drovers or ather persons . If the carotid artery of the deceased had . Been cut , as averred by the Crown a spout of blood would most probably have bespattered the assassin , who
would then he sure to leave some trace of his mode of egress . But , strange to say , no speck of blood was found near the a ^ vivel window , -which , was only ten inches •\ vMe , so that the murderer would have rubbed theframework , and left some trace of his passage . What weight could they put upon the fact that the money was found in a linen bag in the workshop ? Everybody had . access to the same premises . The Crown did not even try to trace the bag to him . If SpoIIen owned the article , could it not be proved ? Neither is it clear that this money ever belonged to the railway . Any person might have placed it there . Now , Lucy Spollon is an
intelligent child , and might easily be tampered' with . Thej all knew what a woman could do , and was it beyond probability that both , these children were tutored by some one who did not appear in the evidence ? It was necessary to fix . dates . They found tlie children giving their evidence unhesitatingly ; but could they state the important things they did , merely from recollection ? No one could believe this .. And was it on their testimony that the- prisoner was to be consigned to the grave ? Lucy SpoIIen had sworn that she possessed a lilac bonnet a- year anterior to Christmas ,, and j-et she could not remember whether Mr . Little waa killed at the end or
beginning of last year Vfhy was not Julia Lyous produced ? [ Julia Lyons had given Lucy SpoIIen a bonnet , a portion of the stuff of which was presumed to have been used by SpoIIen to > wrap up the money that was found . ]] Was it not . fair to presume that Julia Lyons could not identify the- remnant of this bonnet ? No mark waa on it by which it could be recognized - and yet these children identified it without any hesitation . Complicity waa here . Who fixed the date at which the bonnet was seen before Mr- Little ' s death ? Why was to
every dote aettl ^ d by reference this crime ? TTho taught the ; children to fusteu their thoughts upon this event exclusively ? He ( M *' - Curran ) impeached this evidence for the . prosecution , as the result of the basest of . conspiracies , between tlie wife of the prisoner and those , children , —between the wifo ofi his bosom , and the children , his offspring ; and aid not the very probability of thia unfit them , for belief in , a court of justice ? [ At the allusion-to hia wife , the prisoner evinced considerable qmotiony and lowered ! Ida hcadoxv to hia hands , and hia face become auffuaed with , a- reddish colour , whiJo large
ueaola-or porspuration Hung on . ma xxu » however , recovered his composure ] Did any human 0 } fft save thoso of . the two : unfortunate cluldron , » eo tho pr-i & owes on tlie evening of tLe > murder going to or coming from the teBminua ? Was he met by any ojiq—any ot Ui » feMow-warlimen . 2 Not ono . Had not ovory ouo about the premises , access to where the money was found ? Tho . finding of , tho lock had been- looked upon by the-Attoraoy-Qenoral aa of paramount importance in MtA / iniia !¦»••* . n 1 ~ a 1 » ' a . 4 ? i . l . ! n / 1 n / innln <
being ; proved , A groat deal in tho > prisoner ' s favour turned upon the hammor aad . razor found in tho canal . WImwvob wa * tOw hand , that wielded it ,, the hammer founu in tho canalwauy lw firmly heliovod , beyond yea or » ay , the instrmnent with which the murder waa com » i » ttq «; u flttediBwictiy to tlve wound . But what reason was there to . aiwpect it waa . SpolleB . ' * bAmmer—that it was over floeu-in his powiesaion . ? . Jit ivoa a renwkablo hainmor , and had ) been greatly oacd , I « Spollon .. had used it , « would have ! beea known to . havQ ; boon hw . H' they ue-Heved tho boy . thahamaner did , not bolonft to Sj ? oUcu ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 15, 1857, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15081857/page/6/
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