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order of the 14 th of December , 1852 . This is the amended order issued by Sir John Trollope . Thirty members of Parliament accompanied the deputation , including Mr . Cobden , Mr . Bright , Mr . Tatton Eg erton , Mr . Wilson Patten , Mr . Walter , Viscount Godench , Mr . W . J . Fox , Lord Hotham , Mr . Edward Miall , and Mr . H . G-. Liddell . Their complaints are various , but the sorest grievance is , that the order takes away the discretion of the guardians . In reply to the speakers , Mr . Baines promised that the order should be carefully considered . The order and amended order were issued before he entered office ; and but a short time had elapsed to show its working . He mentioned a great improvement in the practice of the Board . In future twenty-one days before the issue of an order , it will be submitted to all boards of guardians .
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Two landlords at Hampton-court have been convicted and fined , on an information from the inspector of weights and measures , for selling G uinness ' s stout in quarts and pints deficient in measure . ~ We understand that , the Metropolitan and Joint Stock Brewery Company , to meet the fraudulent practices connected with the bottling of ales and porter , have made arrangements for supplying these articles in bottles of the standard imperial measure , at the following prices : — Quarts , per dozen , 6 s . ; pints , 3 s . 6 d . ; half-pints , 2 s . A comparison of these bottles with those commonly sold as quarts and pints will at once show the moderation of the Company ' s charges .
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Surgeons are not often the victims of conspiracy to defame their character or to subject them to punishment . Apparently such a case has occurred at Carshalton . Anne Duff accused Mr . Shorthouse , a surgeon in good practice , of committing a criminal assault on her in his surgery by the use of chloroform . That assault led to the birth of a child , which died , and Anne Duff demanded the payment of the funeral expenses from Air . Shorthouse . He refused , She then told her story to some respectable gentlemen , and made the charge . Mr . Sliorthouse denied the whole affair in every particular . She had applied to him for advice when the victim nf a shameful nisfiasft . JTo was
acquitted with an unblemished character . A charge of perjury was then preferred against Anne Duff . The body of a woman , quite naked , was found in a backyard in Xambeth , on Sunday . Some articles of clothing were found by her side , as well as a basket containing provisions , which consisted of bread , meat , tea , sugar , &c , and sufficient in quantity to maintain an adult for at least a week . In the basket were 16 s . 6 d . in silver , and 4 s . 8 % d . in copper , -wrapped in small sums of about 6 d . in various pieces of dirty nag and paper . She was immediately taken to the workhouse , but died a few minutes after her arrival there . Her name and history are as yet unknown . A
jury have decided that she died from exposure . it has long been a question whether persons accused of murder can be brought beforo a coroner ' s inquest . The police magistrates deny the right of the coroners to call tor them ; and the coroners sometimes appeal to the Home Secretary for their production . In tho case of Mackett , who is charged with the murder of Eliza Lea , Mr . Wakley required his appearance , and tho police magistrate demurred . Lord Palmerston , however , when appealed to , ordered that Mackett should be produced . The j ury found a verdict of "' Wilful murder" against him ; the coroner highly praised Lord Palmerston ' s conduct , and tho jury passed him a vote of thanks .
Tho officials of the Inland department of tho post-offico accidentally discovered , on Monday , bank notes and jewellery to a very largo amount , supposed to bo tho proceeds of a series of letter robberies which occurred two years since . Tho objects of the discovery were found in an extra office only used under a pressure of business . Some of tho notes wore entire , and others in halves , and all of thorn wen ; creased , as if they had been enclosed in letters . A list will bo issued shortly with tho view of enabling tho persons by whom the various articles wore transmitted to identify and recover them .
It seems that a mimleror of hin slaves does not always come ofFnoofc froo in tho United Statoa . Clark , a planter , near Pnulding , MissiHwippi , carried on a scries of atrocities almost too revolting for narration . Ho flung a knifo at a negro woman point foremost , compelled her to draw and return tho knifo to him many times . Ifo pricked his wife over the head with tho knife . Thon ho Bent hor to fetch a negro man , and on hor returning without him ho whipped her . Subsequently ho Hhot tho negro . Disgusted at theso proceedings , tho citizens arretttod , triod , and Rontenccd Clark to bo hung . Tho great danger of leaving orango-peol on tho pavement was fatally illustrated last week . A poster was walking along Arl . nur-nt . rnol . with u bag of sugar on his head , when ho sot hifi foot , upon a pioco of orango-pool , Hlippod , and fell heavily to tho ground , fracturing hiMHkull in a' shocking manner . Ho wiih picked up and removed to Guy's Hospital , whoro ho di <« l on Monday .
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OhriHtchuH'h , Oxford , in rather famous in university traditions for itn tovvh , practical jokes , general insurrections . HomefcimoH tho ntudontH liavo a bonliro of everything they can lay hands on , at othors th « y paint a doath ' H hoad on tho dean ' H door ; on Monday ni ^ ht they blocked up an arch with a Hplendid barricade composed of hiiow , coalbiriM , doors , tables , and all manner of furniture-. It wan bo dtronpjly built ( . hat Hoveral workuion woro occupied hours in milking a liolo for tho " dohn" to pitHH through to chapel . It has boon naid that ; , although " Tom quod" in well garnished with " canons , " yet in their teeth tho iiiHurgonts contrived to erect a magnificent , harricado . JutiicH YutoH , tho celebrated nodoHtrinn , completed the taHk of walking one thousand miles in one thousand
halfhours , ut , IJury , Lancashire , on Monday . Tho hint mile wiih ucooui ]> liHh < Mi in woven minutes ami forty hocoihIh , Ho Hppcaro < i the hiiiiio evening at , Mm Theatre Royal , 'Bury , in ii Keen ,, from Toman , ! . Jvn-i / , or , JAfo in London ; and ollorod to mufoh lilmnolf againut nny man in tho worM fo \\ m tvyo thoiMHTut mUc » In two tf » duei « ul hour * .
A striking instance of the mutability of human affairs has recently occurred in the person of a stoker ,, on board her Majesty ' s ship Valorous , lying at Devonport . By some contretemps the individual who has now fallen so unexpected ^ - into the lap of fortune has been condemned by the fickle goddess to pass his life up to the present moment in the humble and obscure position of a stoker or fireman , the immense property of which he has now , it is said , become the inheritor , having been lying in the Chancery courts for many years . A few days ago this begrimed and sooty son of itfeptune was visited on board tho said vessel ( we are told ) by a gentleman , who , after making the necessary inquiries , communicated to the object of his visit the astounding intelligence that he was entitled to the earldom of Stockport , and the immense property attached to the title—of the value of some 34 . 000 Z . per annum . — [ This is one of those stories that require confirmation . ]
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . The increase of mortality announced in the previous return appears to have been fully maintained last week . In the -week that ended Saturday , 5 th February , the deaths registered were 1220 ; in the week ending 12 th February they were 1235 . The effect of the cold weather has been to shorten the lives of more than 450 persons in a fortnight ; the number who died in January , weekly , having been less on the average than 1000 . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1843-52 , the average number of deaths was 1054 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , would give 1159 foivthe last week . The present return shows , therefore . that the deaths of last week exceed the estimated amount by 76 . Last week the births of 849 boys and 804 girls , in all 1653 children , were registered in London . In the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average number was 1427 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 - 225 in . The mean daily temperature was below the average on every day of the week except Monday , when it scarcely exceeded the average . On Friday and Saturday it was less than the ¦ BveTage , by 6 deg . and 8 deg . The mean of the week was 34 -8 deg ., which is less by 3 * 6 deg . than the average of tho same week in 38 years . The mean daily temperature , ¦ which was 38 * 8 deg . on Monday , foil to 30 ' 7 deg . on Saturday . Tho wind , which blew from the south at the beginning of the week , blow from the north or north-east on the last four days . . The mean dow point temperature was 29-2 . deg .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On tho Oth of February , at tho Chateau do Middachton , in Holland , tho wifo of Major-General Oharlea Bontinck : a son . On tho Oth , at Carlton-gardens , tho Lady Broolco : a son . On tho 11 th , in Choator-plaoo , Hyde-parlc-squaro , tho wifo of Adrian do Bruyn , Esq . : a . daughter , stillborn . On tho 13 th , iu Groavonor-street , Mrs . Kobort Capel Cure : a son . On tho 13 th , at 6 , Audloy-squarfl , tho Lady Rodney : a diuifthter , fltillborn . On the 14 th , at Wimbledon , tho wifo of Major Oliphant : a son . On tho 14 th , at Southaoa , tho wifo of Commander Alexander Boylo : a daughter . MAERIAGEH . At Madras , on tho 6 th of January , Edward TVArcy ICvozard , Esq ., non of tho Tlov . Goor ^ o Evezard , minister of 8 t . James's Chapol , St . Marylebone , to Mary Juliana , daughter of tho lato Thomas Hnviland Burke , Esq ., and grand-nieco of tho itight Hon . Edmund Burko . On the 27 th , at Her Majoaty ' fl Legation , Washington , William Wobb jfollott Ryngo , Esq ., Attach ^ to tho Locution , to Henrietta Mary , youngest daughter of tbo lato Colonel Wuiuwright , of'thn N . 8 . Marino Corps . On tho 10 th of February , at Wall ' a-ond , Waltor Johnnon , Kuq ., of Trench-hull , to Margaret Ulizaboth Hontor , only
daughter of tbo lato Lioutenitnt-Coloncl William Jounstono , C . B ., of tbo Twenty-Hixth ( or Cninorouiun ) liojjiinont , and uioco of tho ltfto Oeorgo Johnson , Knq ., of Willington . On tho 10 th , at HI .. Mary ' s , Itroinpton , Captain IT . Wilson , of irortiford-squaro , formerly of tho First Dragoon Guards and Thirteenth Light Dragoons , to Catherine Jano , onlv child of Captain John Cook , of tho Royal Wontminster and Middlesex Light . Infantry , nnd great grand-daughter of Henry , Huron Toy nh am . On t . ho l'lth , at HI .. Michael ' s Church , Limerick , John Jorvis l ' alnior , Ktq ., Commander lt . N ., oldest hoii of the late Captain Kdmimd I ' nhnor , U . N ., C . II ., to 11 ' onrictta Fitzgorahl , youngest daughter of JaiuoM Baiinal . yno , Ksq .
DKAT 11 S . On tho 2 nd of February , at Alexandria , on his way homo , of fovor , Charles Kobort Mooro , youngest non of tho lion , mid Itov . Kriwiird Moore , canon of Windnor . On tlui 5 tli , at the residence of C . M . Kigg , Khci ., M . I ) ., Northampton , tho Itov . James Flainauk , M . A ., uiul Hoiiior follow of King ' s College , Cambridge . On tho . Ii 4 l . li , at . Toigumouth , Henrietta Maria , eldont daughter of the lato Hir Henry Hugh llonro , Bart ., In thosixty-Heoond year of her age . On tint IUth , at Moooas-oourt , Herefordshire , Lady Oornowull , in her Hixty-seeond year . On tho i . 'Uh , at Inn residence , hi Mount-pleasant , Liverpool , In the Mi'voiitloth year of his ii |/ i \ Mir Thomas Hrutiokor , Knt .
On tho lfil . h at Norton-oourl ., Mtophon Ooorgo LiiHtiiuglou , liiiq .. Into one of tho OominiKHionora of ( Jm 4 oniw , < pld . « wt jioq t > i f , h f » 4 < l | j ; l ( t Jlon , 0 , Jt . lAwluudon .
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THE KING OF KINGS . If there is any one thing certain in the future of Europe , it is Revolution . As to the greatest powers now triumphing , who of us can pronounce their future P What insurance office would grant a policy on the life of ttie Emperor of Russia ? What stock-broker of average intelligence and prudence , would give an , English price for stock depending on the permanency of the House of Hapsburg ? Who would even lay a bet on the position , or even the lodging-place of Louis Napoleon next year P None but a person who would
go to a betting office . But that there will be some sweeping change ; that these things which are maintained with so much effort , and which rest upon the flesh and bones of great peoples , who are incessantly betraying the torture they endure , must be displaced j that the region of despotism , in short , is only the region of a postponed revolution , such is the one thing certain . The outbreak in Milan was not a riot : it was only the irrepressible voice of the Revolution which has lived in Italy for so many years , which the Austrians know to exist amongst them , but
whose whole extent they cannot compass . Like a great phantom , at times they see it in parts , but they cannot discover it . The revolution , indeed , is the only established power in Italy ; for it is no construction of burs , but a plain historical fact , that in Absolutist Italy , not one of the Governments has been able to re-establish itself since 1848 . They are only defending their possessions by an immense military force ; in Rome , by the aid of foreign allies , whose troops remain in position . We have the Pope ' s formal
declaration to the Austr i an minister , so long ago as 1849 , —and he would not alter a letter now , — that if the foreign troops were to abandon his capital , he would be at the mercy of the fury of his own people .. And we have the vain proclamations of Radetzky and his subordinates , heaping threat upon threat , as a means of frightening the revolution that they cannot extirpate . They cannot command the actions of the Italian people : the Secret Government of Ital y c ( tn so far command it , that even after a popular movement has been prepared , it can be kept back , with the one exception of the rash men in Milan . There is the same uncertainty in other
countries . Neither Turkey nor Russia , nor Austria , can dictate to the little province of Montenegro . Turkey sends an army against it , and dares not lot that army conquer . Austria can only forbi d Turkey , and dares not seize it herself . Russia offers to tako it for Turkey , or for tho Montenegrins themselvoa , but dares not grasp it on her own account . In Hungary , the people are all on tho qui-vivc , looking out for movements in Italy , and eager for tho news that Louis Napoleon has ceased to exist ; . And in Paris , as wo learn by our own correspondent , they are already discussing tho next revolution , which is said to bo close at hand .
Wo do not know whether tho immense armies of tho despots have not somewhat ; broken from command . They uro becoming too big to be fed according to their appetites ; wherefore they aro growing dissatisfied ; for your strong irmn with a hearty appetite likoH to lie full , and if ho is not full , ho in angry . There- is many an officer in tho armies of Austria and Franco , who thinks that ho has boon passed over ; and , in retaliation , he is inclined to i » ihh over . Independently of the possibility that Hungarians could not bo calculatod upon to coerce Italy w of old , and vice vfirsd , there are ambitions in the heart of
those armies , that may turn them against , thoir own ( -iovernmentn . 'flietus aro thiugH not to Ikj calculated beforehand ; but luujucNtiojiably tlio people do not gYQrywliovo yoi ^ avcl tho tuqiueb ^
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The navy estimates for the current year hare just been printed , and are to be moved on Friday . The sum required is , 6 , 236 , 493 ? ., being an increase of 399 , 905 ? . on the preceding year , when they were 5 , 835 , 588 Z . According to a return to the House of Commons , obtained by Sir W . Molesworth , ( printed on Tuesday ) there were in the colonies , on the 1 st of April , 1851 , employed 1608 officers , 2076 sergeants and drummers , and 34 , 558 rank and file . On the 1 st of April last there were 1706 officers , 2735 sergeants and drummers , and 35 , 530 rank and file . In 1851 the duty on coals brought by land into the port ' of London , as appears from a Parliamentary paper , amounted , after deducting the expenses of collection , to 12 , 071 ? . 5 s . 5 % d ., and on sea-borne coals , to 165 , 461 ? . Is . 3 d ,
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there ia nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Da . AbnoIiD .
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SATURDAY , FEBBtTABY 19 , 1853 .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 19, 1853, page 182, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1974/page/14/
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