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PREVALENCE OF PERJURY . JVR the Winchester Assizes ,, Mi * . Justice Erie gave the following rather alarming account of the state of public morals in relation to oath taking : — He said he had been completely misled by the evidence of a clergyman of the Isle of Wightj who , in a case of highway robbery , had come forward and stated that he knew the prisoner , and that he was a man of excellent character for honesty he hod inquired his character in the parish , and he defied any one to say aught against him , He ( Mr . Justice Erie ) had thought , upon such a testimony , that the prisoner must be innocent , and he had therefore charged the jury to that effect . It had , however , since cotne to his knowledge that the man was a
notorious poacher , and of bad character , and he should have been obliged if those facts had been stated at tike time . Of course , when he sat as judge here at a future time he should recollect the circumstance , but other judges would not be aware of it . He wished they should krioyr it , that they might not be misled as he had been . Perjury appeared to him now to be so commofi that he was very strongly in favour of the appointment of a public prose * cutor , who might be directed by tlie judge to take proceedings against persons who had evidently given false testimony , in order that a stop might be put to acts of so grogs a nature as had recently come before him . ¦ Surely the clergyman will demand an explanation , as he must be known ?
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MISCELLANEOUS . "The Queen and Prince Albert drove over to Sydenham last Saturday , and , under the guidance of Mr . Owen Jones , inspected the works of the iiew Crystal Palace . Her Majesty has also visited the French Plays twice this week . The circle at the Palace has included Lord and Lady Eglinton , Lord Malmesbury , Sir James and Lady Graham , Sir John and Lady Pakington , Sir Charles and Lady Wood , and Lord and Lady Cranwortlu
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A public meeting of ' the young men , shopmen , clerks , dnd other employes of London , will be held at the London Tavern , Bishopgate-street , Cornhill , on Wednesday next , the 23 rd instant , at eight p . m . Let the friends of Sunday Reform be early in attendance .
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Dobson , the murderer of the girl Sheridan at Wakefield , has been Sentenced to death . The most celebrated and most widely-accepted authority on poison and the law of poisons , M . Orfila , died on Saturday , at the advanced age of seventy , at Paris . Mr . E . Knatchbull Hugessen , son of Sir Edward Knatchbull , the late Sir K . Peel ' s Paymaster , is a candidate for the representation of Canterbury in Parliament . He was formerly a very strong Protectionist . He now cornea forward professing himself to be an independent supporter of the present liberal-Conservative Ministry . The tea-duty reformers held a meeting on Monday at the liondon Tavern . They agreed to a memorial to Mr . Gladstone , praying for a " liberal and prompt revision of the tea-duties . " Their suggestion is to reduce the duty to ode shilling a- pound . There was a unanimous objection to ad valorem duties .
Apprehensive that Government intended to intrust the Board of Customs with the framing of the measures intended to reform the management of the Customs , a deputation comprising fifty members of Parliament , antt gentlemen from nearly all the important ports and manufacturing towns , waited on Mr . Gladstone on Saturday . They presented a memorial praying for open , uniform , and simple management , clear , expeditious , and cheap law . One of their main objects was to obtain a promise that the draft bills should be submitted to the various Customs Reform committees , before they were laid before Parliament . The oxperience of the members , however , was against this ; and Mr . Gladstone having suggested that after the bills about to be brought in had boon read a second time , amendments amendedit
should be made , and the bills reprinted as , was agreed to . In compliance with a requisition , signed by about one hundred of the leading mercantile firms of the town , tho Mayor of Manchester has convened a meeting of bankers , merchants , and manufacturers of tho borough , to bo held ott Tuesday next , to consider what suggestions that community ought to make to the Government or to Parliament for the better development of the resources of British India , and tho consequent amelioration in . tho condition of tho people . It is almost incredible , and in a romance would not , indeed , bo credited , but the * Australian has again returned to Plymouth . This trip she went about two hundred miles beyond tho Eddystone . Then the pipos which supply the boilers would not work ; they wore found to bo choked up with coal ; there was three foot of water in tho ontfino room , water in tho cabins ; no fires anywhere ; not
only the crow but tho pasHOngors at tho pumps ; and a calm ! Ultimately a brcaze sprung up j both pipes worn turned on to one boiler , tho ship wan put about , and on Monday reached Plymouth . Tho passengers immediately held ft mooting , and agrood to a memorial declaring their utter want ofconfldenco in tho Company ; complaining that the vohsoI waa unsoaworthy ; that there wart a lack of pumpn , and no accommodation for the passengers ; that they had suffered greatly from annoyance , delay , and expense ; and demanding tho return of their fares , *» d compensation for loan and dotontion . At tho eamo firno they tendered their thanks to Captain JfosoaRon , his officers , and crow . Singularly enough , thoro wero fourteen paaHongora who wont out in tho Mmbourne on board th « Australian ; of oourBa they concurred in the protoit . What will the company do : or , what is a moio poxteutoiu ) question , wiuib
will Government do about the contract 2 On Wednesday , after an official inspection , the Australian was ordered back to London ! The company have agreed to return passage money . The Australasian steamer , Sydney , arrived at Plymouth , on Wednesday . She brings a cargo of gold , in value nearly 700 , 0002 . She left Sydney on the 4 th of December . Her mails were over due , and have been anticipated .
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Mr . Baron Parke hist week tried Thomas Morgan , whose name has become notorious in the course of the Parliamentary proceedings respecting the last election for the borough of Derby . He pleaded " guilty" to a charge of having bribed Henry Sharratt . Mr . Macaulay , who appeared on behalf of Morgan , stated that his client had by his advice confessed himself guilty of the charge , but he repeated his assertion that he originally came to Derby without any unlawful intention , though he had afterwards fallen into the hands of persons who had persuaded him to violate the law . Mr . Serjeant Miller , on the part of the prosecution , did not desire that any severity of punishment should be inflicted upon the prisoner , who was , no doubt , a tool in the hands of more guilty persons ; but if those
who had supplied Morgan with the money could be discovered they certainly would be prosecuted . Mr . Baron Parke thought that nnder the circumstances justice would be satisfied by requiring the defendant to enter into his own recognizance for his future good behaviour , and the defendant was bound accordingly . [ Is not this pleasant and amicable ?] Last week a woman , who gave the name of Xangley , was brought before Mr . Arnold , charged with attempting to drown herself . She told a- pitiful story ; how that she had seen better days and had been reduced ; how that once work
in bitter extremity bus had pawned some given her , and had repented it ever after ; and how , at length , bereft of all hopdj she had plunged in the Thames . With its usual alacrity the good public forwarded cash for her relief , ted on Monday it amounted to 60 * . In the meantime revelations had been made . It turned out that Mrs . Langley was really Mrs . Fry , supposed wife of George Fry , labourer , that she had not once but repeatedly pledged work j in short that she was depraved ana criminal . The contributions now amounted to 72 Z . Mrs . Fry or Langley had caught sig ht of the woman who gav e this evidence , and had bolted .
Exeter Assizes has famished an astounding case , peculiar as it is amazing ; but the nature of it precludes us from venturing dee ply into the evidence . Captain Delafosse , a sprightly old gentleman of sixty , with a wife , but no family , lived at Eimpstone , in Devon . In the same village there also lived the Eeverend Mr . Fortescue and His family , including Miss Pitts , a governess . Captain Delafbsse was seen so often walking with the young lady , that certain curious villagers determined to set a watch on them . Without going into details , suffice it to say that several men and women deposed to having witnessed the most intimate relations between Captain DelafosBe and Miss
Pitt . At last it came to the ears of Mrs . Fortescue , and she interrogated the Captain . He point-blank denied the allegations . Mr . Fortescue met with the same success . Still ! it was the talk of the village , and at length Mrs . Fortescue sent away Miss Pitt to her sister , writing the reasons . This came to the knowledge of Captain Delafosse , and he instituted an action for libel . At the trial , which occupied two days , Miss Pitt and Captain Delafosse BWotfe to the most direct contradictions of all the other witnesses . But the j ury found for the defendants , who had pleaded the truth of the libel as a justification .
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Batea , an artist , who has been unfortunately deranged in mind for some yeirs , and who is well known at Bowstreet , who ™ he has been brought up several times tot sending threatening letters to Prince Albert , has died in prison , whither he had been taken on the usual chargo against him . He was accustomed to mako " demands" for money to assist him in magnificent schemes . A maniac has beaten his mother to death with a poker , in a village in South Durham . When shall we have maniaca properly confined P Isaac Tucker , a respectable master shoemaker , at Clifton , near Bristol , has cut the throats of bis two children , with a razor , and then hia own .
Mistaken generosity has met with severe punishment in tho case of MTaggart , a warder at the Pontonvillo Model Prison . Ho secretly Landed a letter to a prisoner . The magistrate fined him 6 CM . That is a pretty story , isn't it . But what if we add that M'Taggart got money for his services ? The Womersley poachers were convicted , at York , of shooting with intent to murder ; and two havo beon respectively sentenced to fiftoon and aovon years' transportation , in this caso , Lord Hawko ' s keepers wore dreadfully mutilated . While Judge Perrin was trying a priaonor at Traleo , the ruffian suddenly got upon the seat of tho dock and hurled a heavy stone at the judaro . Fortunately he liad hia eyo on tho fellow , and dodged the stono , which , however , struck him on tho HhouldorH . How tho prisoner camo by the minnilo Heorncd doubtful ; but tho Governor declared he had boon Hcnrehod j and that he had picked it out of the wall of tho dock .
Seven liven havo boen lost in a colliery near Newport , by an explosion , caused by tho neglect of a collier to place a " sheet which regulated tho auminHion of air . Consequently tho air was shut out ; the gan accumulated ; and coming in contact with naked candles , exploded .
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An experimental removal of troops and artillery took placo on Wednosday morning from the Bricklayers' Arms Station of the Houkh Eastern Railway , for tho purpose of Ascertaining the tiuio required to load and unload heavy artillery , with horses , ammunition , Ac , for conveyance
by railway . A portion of a battery of the Royal Artillery with the full complement of men , horseB , guns , ammunition , wagona , &c , were loaded in a train at the Bricklayers ' Arms Station , conveyed to Woolwich , and there unloaded , all in two hours and thirty-eight minutes ; thirty-five minuted of which were occupied in constructing a temporary platform to " unload the guns .
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Mabch 19 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 275
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HEALTH OF LOtfDON" DUEWG THE WEEK . It is subject of regret that the public health , as measured by the rate of mortality , is still in a very unfavourable state . Since the third wee k of February , when it fell to 29-8 deg ., the mean weekly temperature has continued to rise , having been successively 3 & * 8 deg ., 35-3 deg ., and last week 44-6 deg . In the same periods the weekly mor tality of London shows a constant increase , the deathhaviig been 1344 , 1427 , and in the week that ended lass Saturday 143 f . The deaths in the present Return ocfc curred at the following ages : —600 under 15 years , 466 at-15 years and under 60 , 369 at 60 and upwards .
In the ten weeks corresponding to last week of the years 1843-52 the average number of deaths was 1078 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 1186 . . Therefore the excess of last week ' s mortality above the estimated amount is 250 . Last week the births of 892 boys and 924 girls , in al £ 1816 children , were registered in London . In the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average number was 1473 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height
of the barometer in the week wag 29-926 in . On Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday it was above 30 in . The mean daily temperature waa above the average of the same days in 38 year * on every day of the week ; it was highest on Sunday and Monday , when it was 8 deg . and 7 deg . above the average . The mean temperature of tha week was 44-6 dee ., or 4-4 deg . above the average . The wind blew from the south-west generally , but was calm during great part of the week . The mean dew point temperature was 38 * 7 deg .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AITD DEATHS . BIETHS . On the 24 th of December , 1852 , at Santiago de Cuba , the wifo of James Forbes , H . B . M . Consul : a son , stillborn . On the 6 th of March , at Corby Vicarage , Lincolnshire , tho wife of the Rev . C . Farebrother , S . C . L ., rector of Irnham-cum" on the 7 th , at Huntroyle , the seat of J . G . N . Starkie , Esq ., the wife of Henry Armytage , Esq ., Coldstream Guards : a son . On the 7 th , th ' e wife of Adolphe de Chastelain , Principal of the French and German College , Merton , Surrey : twin sons . Oti the lOtn , at Money-hill , Bickmanaworth , the wife of the Eov . J . W . Conant : twin sons . On the 10 th , at 15 , Curzon-atreet , the Lady Guernsey .- a On the 12 th , at Hursley-park , the wife of Sir William Heatlicote Bart .: a daughter . On the 14 th , at d , North-end-terrace , Fulham , Mrs . George Hooper : ft son . _¦•
__ , ___ , _ - - <• o On the 16 th , at 18 , St . Helen's-place , the wife oi Samuel ° On' 16 th , at Tilney-atreet , the Viscountess Newark : a * aI Orton Longueville , Hunts , the Countess of Aboyno : a son .
MARRIAGES . On the 5 th of May , 1852 , at the church of St . Marylelxsno , New-road , London , Henry Sidney Myrton , fourth son of Sir David Cunynghame , Bart ., to Mary Anne , eldest daughter of On the 3 rd of March , at Corfu , Trophine George Gordon , of the Seventy-sixth Regiment , youngest son of the late Sir James and the Bight Hon . Lady Frances Webster Wedderlmrne , to Caroline , daughter of William Dixon , Esq ., late Captain in tho ° < &n the 10 th , " at Trinity Church , Clapham , Patrick Comrie Leckie Baq ., of Gopthall-court , to Elizabeth , second daughter ; and at the same 'time , Howard John , third son of Kobert W . Een ' nard Esq ., Theobald ' 0 , Herts , to Ellon , youngest daughter , of John B . Bousfleld , Esq ., Claphani-park .
On the 10 th , at St . Mary ' s Church , Woolwich , Captain N 8 K Bayly Royal Artillery , to Henrietta Charlotte , daughter of Colonel H . W . Gordon , Royal Artillery . On the 14 tfi , at St . Peter ' s Church , Eaton-square , and at the Catholio Chapel , Cadogan-terrace , T . Marcelino Hurtudo , Ksq ., son of the late Minister Plenipotentiary of Columbia at Uio Court of St . James ' s , to Ida , daughter of William Perry , Esq ., H . B . M . Consul at Panama . On the 15 th , by special license , at St . George , ' * , Hauovoraquare John Dunn Gardner , Esq ., of Chattorin , Cambridgeshire , to Ada , eldest daughter of William Pigott , Esq ., and granddaughter of the late General JoaHeraon and tho ViHcoimtdsn GormanHton , of Dullingham-houBe , in the name county .
DEATHS . On the second of March , at Sandiwajr , Cheshire , Mrs . Thornycroft , widow of tho latoRev . Charles Thornyoroft , and daughter of tho late Hon . Booth Grey . On the 6 th , at her reHidenco , on Woolwich-common , <> f l . i-onohitis , after only six days illness , Caroline Proctor Caddy Hobo , third daughter of tho late Colonol Sir William Kobe , K . C . It ., K . T . S ., and K . O . H ., of tho Royal Horso Artillery . On tho 8 th , at Torquay , Juno Emma , » et ; ond daughter of John Payne Collier , Ksq . On the Oth , of bronehilis , after a very diorl . iIIiiohm . I •« ''v . / IK ( Jlltl I / HA V A **«» - •"" - W ¦ * ah , i I ¦ ¦ I of ltutlaiulHhiri J
Thomas Kerehover Arnold , reotor Lyndon , « . late Fellow of Trinity College , Cambridge . On tho flth , in tho eighty-fourth year of lior wo , Mi-h Aiiih 1 i « , the mother of tho B « v . ltobert Anwho , <> i **«» ri » mK toii-n , uu , ReKent ' s par k , and of Tromer-lodgo , Down ,,, Itont . On tho Oth at his residence , 13 , Great Hhinhope-ntroot , G ^ eral Bir Edward Kerrison , Hart ., K . O . I ) ., G . C . H ., iu hi « seventy-eight 1 * year . O » tho 10 th , at Mansel-houBO , in tho county ol lloroford , Caroline , only daughter of the late Hir Uvedalo I ' rieo , Hart ., mid Lady Caroline Prioo , of Foxley , irerelorrtHhiro . aged seventy . On the 12 th , atSanbiiry , Middlesex , Colonul William llanki b , H . K . I . O . B ., Madras l ' ronidenoy , iu hut seventy-eighth year . On tUo 14 th , at No . 14 , Uyue-park-Huuaro , Kathariuo lili / . a , tbo eldest daughter of tho Vloo * CnancoUor Kiadoruley .
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Leader (1850-1860), March 19, 1853, page 275, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1978/page/11/
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