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      Sanitary Reports. Health Of London Durin...

      diabetes in one ; one person died of intemperance ; and two men—a house painter and a labourer at leadworks —of colicapictorum , af ter tw o and five days' illness . Last wee £ the births of 853 boys and 801 « prls-m all 1654 children—were registered in London . In the ten ^ rtT j ^ i' ' ^ - r ^^ z ^ F ^^ ' £ ^ mtAK-GENEBAL ' S QUARTERLY RETURN Of Marriages , Births , and Deaths for England is generally favourableMore than the average > number of

      . children were born , and the deaths were much below the average number in the winter quarter that ended on March 31 1856 , the marriages returned for the last quarter of the year 1855 were below the average number . 303 548 persons were married in the year 1855 , so that the ' rate of marriage was as 1616 persons to every 100 000 of the population living , whereas the average in the ten years 1846-55 was 1682 . The births of 169 , 252 children , were registered in the winter quarter that ended on March 31 . This number is absolutely the

      highest that has ever been returned in a winter quarter ; and the rate of birth is 3585 in 100 , 000 , or much above the average , 3499 , of the season .

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      Our Civilization —?—Forgeries By A Shipb...

      OUR CIVILIZATION —?—FORGERIES BY A SHIPBROKER . Jacob Christiansen , shipbroker of Leith , has been tried at the High Court of Justiciary , Edinburgh , on a charge of forging and uttering seven bills of exchange , amounting in all to about 3770 ? . These bills were all accepted in the names of several eminent firms in England and Scotland , and were either drawn by the prisoner , or ¦ were forgeries of foreign merchants on the Continent , purporting to be in his favour . They had been discounted at the Leith branch of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Bank , and , on one of them , for 473 ? . 12 s ., being presented there , the managers of the bank , before making payment , wrote to their agent at Hull ( the bill being forged in the names of some merchants of that town ) , and shortly afterwards a telegraphic message was received in Leith from the alleged acceptors of the bill , to the effect that it was a complete forgery . Subsequently , it -was discovered that all the bills were forgeries , and Christiansen was therefore apprehended . Besides committing the forgeries , the prisoner had contrived to have fifty blank bills lithographed , fortyfour of which were found in his possession when he was given into custody . The counsel for the defence endeavoured to prove that Christiansen was the innocent dupe of two men named Wilson and Peterson , by whom the forgeries were in Teality committed . The former of these men , who had had business transactions with the prisoner , and had given him several accommodation bills , had been outlawed by that court but the day before , for forgery . Peterson had been obliged to leave the country . The Lord Justice General said that the defence was not

      supported by any evidence , and not even countenanced by the prisoner in his declarations . The jury , therefore , unanimously returned a verdict of Guilty against Christiansen , who Tvas then sentenced to transportation for life . The Lord Justice General , in passing sentence , declared that it was altogether the most extensive case of forgery that had ever come within his experience . Assault on Wives . — Dennis Cavanagh , an iron bolt-plater , residing in Limehouse , was sentenced at the Thames police-office to six months' imprisonment with hard labour for stabbing his wife with a pocket-knife in several places . The witnesses against the man were his

      wife and daughter ; but they endeavoured to screen him , and the magistrate , seeing that it would be useless to commit the prisoner for trial , dealt with the case summarily . —George Gerrard , a carpenter , at Stepney , has also been sentenced by the Thames magistrate to hard labour for six months , for a savage assault on the - woman who lived with him as his wife . —A third and fourth case of a similar nature have been brought forward at the same office . Joseph Doylo , an Irishman , and William Rayson , a coffee-house keeper , have been sentenced in tho same way as the preceding offenders for atrocious outrages on their wives .

      Duping " Detectives . "—Even tho race that boasts of Mr . Bucket as its patron saint can be cheated . Caleb Smith , a painter out of work , was indicted at the Middlesex Sessions on four charges of fraud . The victims in all the cases were detective officers , and he obtained money from them undor pretence of giving information with respect to the robbery of the Queen ' s plate and other recent depredations . AH his assertions , however , were raise ; and he pleaded Guilty on his trial , and said , in palliation , that ho was starving . He was sentenced to hard Inborn- for Ion months . OsnoatoH Eobiibky . —A man ban been charged at tho Mansion Houeo with stealing a quantity of horsehair from « he cushions of the seats in the churoh of St . Mary Woolmoth . He waa committed for trial .

      Siuror STHALiwa . —A master butcher of St . George's Market , Southwark , named George Mean , has been charged at tho Southwark police-office with having stolen , together with others not in custody , forty-six sheep , some of which belonged to a butcher in Whitechapel , and eoino to the lessee of Victoria Park . Mr . S « al *» , of Higli-fttreet , Aldgate , stated that on a certain

      dav he had three hundred sheep grazing in the park , fifteen of which he missed the following morning , as well as thirty-two of those belonging to the keeper of the park . He afterwards saw thirty of their skins in the Borough Market , which he at once identified as having been taken off the missing sheep . He called on Mean at his house , and asked him if he had lately received any sheep . Mean told him that a friend of his , named Johnson who was a farmer living at East Grinstead , had just the to be killed

      sent him up forty-six from country , , which he had done and afterwards sold the skins . The sheep themselves he had also sold to different salesmen , and he handed Mr . Scales 43 J . of the proceeds . A police sergeant who was with Mr . Scales when he called on Mean , went down by rail to East Grinstead , accompanied by the prisoner , but , not being able to learn anything there confirmatory of Mean ' statement , they returned to London . After this , Mean was given into custody . Mr . A'Beckett remanded him , but accepted baiL

      Divorce . — The Consistory Court has pronounced in favour of a divorce in the case of Mr . and Mrs . Davidson , on the ground of adultery on the part of the latter . —Judgment has at length been given in the case of Mrs . Talbot . The Lord Chancellor summed up on Thursday morning in the House of Lords , and pronounced in favour of the divorce . Lord Brougham and Lord St . Leonards agreed in believing Mrs . Talbot guilty of adultery -with Mullan , the groom , and the bill for the divorce wa ^ then read a second time .

      Cheating the Poor . —Alderman Copeland on Tuesday handed in to the Court of Aldermen the report of the Inspectors of Weights and Measures , and spoke in strong terms of their activity , at the same time regretting that that activity had brought to light a vast amount of plundeij committed by tradesmen amongst the poorer classes . He moved that it be referred to the General Purposes Committee to consider the propriety of advertising upon the second conviction , the names of the fraudulent tradesmen . The motion was carried

      unanimously . : Starving a Horse . —A wealthy farmer of Beverstone , Mr . Robert Kelmister , has been summoned at the Petty Sessions held in the Town Hall , Tetbury , on a charge of starving * horse to death . Mr . Kelmister had found the horse on a field of his , and ordered it to be confined in a hovel . It was there neglected for ten or eleven days , and was at length found dead in a shocking state of emaciation . From the evidence , it would seem that Mr . Kelmister had not neglected the horse from wilful cruelty , but from forgetfulness . He was sentenced to pay a fine of 31 ., and costs , in addition to 21 . compensation to the owner . The case was brought forward by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals .

      Obituary. Lord Aik>Lphus Fitzclarknce—Th...

      OBITUARY . Lord Aik > lphus Fitzclarknce—the third son of William IV ., by Mrs . Jordan—died on Saturday night , at Newburgh Park , Yorkshire , the seat of Sir George Wombwell . He had had a paralytic stroke on the preceding Thursday , from which he never rallied . He was born in 1802 ; served in the navy ; and , until 1853 , was the commander of the Queen ' s yacht . Major - General Sir W . II . Sleeman , K . C . B . — This distinguished Indian General , who for many years was the English Resident at Lucknow , who in

      some degree led the vay to the annexation of Oude to the British dominions , and who more especially deserves honour for the large part he took in the suppression of tho infamous system of " Thuggee , " died on his homeward passage from Calcutta on the 10 th of last February , in the sixty-eighth year "of his age . He entered the military service of the East India Company aa far back as 1808 , and was only made a General and a K . C . B . -within the last few months . He was the author of a work entitled " Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official , " published about eight or ten years ago .

      Miscellaneous. The Court. — Tho Queen La...

      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . — Tho Queen laid tho first stone of tho Royal Military Hospital at Southampton on Monday . A shocking accident occurred as tho gunboats in the Solent saluted ut the moment of the ceremony . A gun belonging to the Hurdy prematurely went off , by which two seamen were blown to pieces , and several others were injured . —Prince Frederick William of Prussia arrived at I > over from Oatend at midnight on Tuesday . — Tho Queen on Tuesday reviewed tho militia at Portsmouth .

      Sir Edmund Lyons Was Presented With Tho ...

      Sir Edmund Lyons was presented with tho freedom of tho City of London at a General Court of Common Council lield on Monday . ExpI / Obion at Woolwich Arsenal . —Anothor accident , with deplorable results , has happened at Woolwich . An explosion took place , about half-past threo in the afternoon of last Saturday , in a temporary shod , some ten feet Hqunro , in which was being conducted tho process of mealing the detonating composition with which tho percussion caps are charged , and which ia much more ignitablo than ordinary powder . A man and a boy were in tho shod at tho time , and wero killed instttiitaiioouHly . Two other persons ( a carpenter and a labourer ) , who were at work noar the spot , wero nl « o

      struck dead at once . The right leg of one of the men was blown off at the hip , and was discovered afterwards on the roof of some of the departmental offices , about one hundred feet distant ; and the windows of these offices were dashed in with the violence of the shock . A part of the roof of the mealing shed was cast into the air , and fell into the Thames , two hundred and fifty yards distant . Seven other workmen were injured , some of them very seriously . An inquest has been held , and the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental Death , " accompanied by the following remarks : — " And this jury cannot disperse without expressing pleasure at the assurance given by the Government officers that the buildings where all dangerous operations are now carried on will be as speedily as possible removed to the marshes , where the danger will not be so great . "

      General Holiday fob the 29 th . —The Lord Mayor has been in communication with some of the principal public companies and the representatives of the mercantile and manufacturing interests , and there is everv reason to believe that a general holiday will be arranged for the 29 th instant , so far as it is possible to effect that object without the aid of the Government . It is also hoped and believed that there will be no suspension of wages . A Disgraceful Imposition in connexion with shipments of brandy to the colonies and elsewhere is stated to be largely practised . The system is to buy up empty

      brandy casks bearing the brands of the most noted Cognac houses , ' and send them to Hamburg , Antwerp , and other places , to be filled with inferior spirit and reshipped to this country in transit , "whence they are trans-shipped on board vessels bound to Australia , the Cape of Good Hope , & c , where the brands of these Cognac houses are in good estimation . It therefore behoves merchants trading with the various colonies to be careful to get their supplies from respectable sources , and to caution their correspondents against the receipt of any consignments on which they may be unable to place absolute reliance . — Times .

      Ancient Relics . —Some portions of a human skeleton , and of the skeleton of a horse , have been discovered beneath the surface of the grounds of Woolwich Arsenal , where excavations are now being made . A large part of an earthern jar , supposed to belong to the fifth century , was also dug up . It is thought that some ancient warrior and his horse were here buried . The Bishop of Bangor Again . — A correspondence has taken place between the Bishop of Bangor and the Rev . Bulkeley Jones , warden of Ruthin , Denbighshire , in connexion with the movement for multiplying services in Wales . The Bishop , having ascertained that the warden had invited several of the clergy of the

      deanery of Dyffryn Clwy d to join the movement , wrote to the reverend gentleman on the 26 th of February , and threatened him with prosecution if he did not retrace his steps . The warden replied , when the Bishop returned a second answer : — " You have sent me a sheet of foolscap paper full of nonsensical and impertinent trash , as might be expected from a young man of your calibre . It is to be regretted that this sheet of foolscap cannot be applied to its original use—that you cannot be sent , with a foolscap on your head , and a fool ' s rod at your breech , to be whipped through the precincts of Christ ' Hospital , and the main street of the town of Ruthin . " After a further correspondence , the Uishop closes the subject with a notice that at the exp iration of three months ho shull revoke the reverend gentleman ' s license .

      The Amateur Pantomime . —Monday , the 2 nd oi June , has been fixed on for the representation of tho new amateur pantomime . Tho Queen , it is said , has retained her box , and a very brilliant audience in anticipated . The burlesque prologue , the opening , and the epilogue , have been constructed by Messrs . Albert Smith , Tom Taylor , Shirley Brooks , Talfourd , and Hale , and the " comic business" by tho gentlemen whose efforts last year were so singularly successful . The prologue , which is called " The Library of Time , " gives nu opportunity for the appearance of the representatives ol all the great epochs from the yeur 1 to 18 f > r > to be reviewed by Time . Tho opera , entitled " William Tell , or tho Strike of tho Cantons , " embraces all the historical doings of the Swiss patriot ; and the epilogue lies between Shukspearc and the Spirit of Pantomime ( Miss Oliver ) of last yeur . Miss Rosina Wright makes her first appearance as a speaking actress on tho occamon .

      Mr . Justick Willks was married last Saturday at St . Peter ' Church , Enton-aquarc , to tho daughter ot tlie lato T . Jennings , Esq ., of Cork . Likuticnant Cowkll , a young and very intelligent ofllcer of Engineers , has received tho appointment oi What in called " Governor" at continental courts to Prince Alfred , but for tho duties of which we hayo no corresponding name at our own . Prince Alfred is too young to have an equerry ; but whenever he Hljrs abroad on public occasions , ho will bo attended « y Lieutenant Cowoll . , Fiurc . —A mill at West Deeping has boon d ™ M <> j mi by flro , and two men who wero oleeping in tho building havo lost thoir lives . ... .

      . ... DlSMIHSAL OP THIS GoVKRNOIt OF THK CONVK : T M ' < Stirling Cabtijc . —Complaints having been made ny tho invalid convictH on board the Stirling CaMie ai PortHinouth , in which Mr . Hope , tho Hhip ' n mirgeon , v > a » murdered a few month * flgo , threo prison inHpmrloin ,

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), May 24, 1856, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24051856/page/10/