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** near" the pocket of a person robbed . She was charged with the robbery . She gave a false name at Sessions , not wishing to have the accusation made known . She was acquitted , the suspicion not having been established . Miss Bosa Cribb and her mother having examined some things at a linendraper's in Oxford-street , went out without buying . The indignant shopkeeper ran after Miss Cribb , seized ner by the arm , ( not with counter action we presume ) and said gruffly , — " I believe you are a couple of prigs , and only come to my shop to get what you can . " He also caught hold of Mrs . Cribb ' s bonnet strings , and said no lady would have such dirty strings . This was in the open street . The shop-keeper was fined 51 . for his conduct .
Miss Alleyne Goode advertised a concert , and a person named Reeks went to her agent and asked tickets " for the Morning Chronicle . " Eeeks had no authority to do so , and he was charged with fraud . But as neither Miss Goode nor the Morning Chronicle wished to be vindictive , and as the prisoner pleaded " desperate circumstances , " he was discharged on his own bail for his good behaviour . M . Lafont , the distinguished French comedian , missed from his lodgings a diamond pin . A female servant was suspected and discharged ; and the pin was soon afterwards traced to a private soldier in the Guards , who admitted that he had received it from the servant girl ,
" with whom he was acquainted . " The servant was sentenced to one month ' s imprisonment , tne magistrate awarding this light punishment in the belief that she did not know the value of the pin . Mary Ann Pienotti was a milliner , and dealt constantly at a linendraper ' s in Tottenham -court-road . On coming out of it one day , the shop-walker suspected her , and privately charged her with having a pair of stolen stays under her cloak . She produced the stays , and said they Were her own . The evidence on this head was not clear , and the character of the lady is excellent . But , on trial , she was , convicted . She fainted on hearing the verdict , and was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and hard
labour . One day last week , Mrs . Smith , lodging in the Strand , found her bedroom window broken , her drawers opened , and a gold watch , a chain , and a mantle taken . The window opened on leads , and a burglary was suspected . But the cunning eye of the policeman saw- that the glass was broken from the inside : the servant-girl was therefore watched . Five days after , on a Sunday evening , the girl left the house stealthily , tracked by the policeman . On reaching Duchy-place , a dark narrow court , opposite Catherine-street , the g irl took from under her shawl a mantle and put it on . It was Mrs , Smith ' s mantle . She is a young Irish girl ; has been of good conduct and character for some time ; and was led into this offence by a " disreputable connexion . " She has been sent for trial . invented design
Mr . George Fitt , a respectable man , a , and made specifications and drawings of it . He lodged them in the Patent-office last November , with the object of setting » patent , and went the other day to get them out and proceed with the patent . But as he had not mven twenty-one days' notice , his drawings , according to law / were forfeited to the Crown . Mr . Pitt did not know this : on being allowed to look at them , he seized them , and refused to restore them , swearing he would knock down any clerk who would attempt to take them . Mr . Buscoe and Mr . Forrester rushed at Mr . Fitfc , and a scuffle ensued . Mr . Forrester was wounded in the eye ; but both clerks got Mr . Fitt down , and finall y had him taken off by a pouceman . The magistrate considered the cbarffo " serious , " and committed the choleric inventor for trial Mr . Fitt being from the country , and without friends in London , he could get no bail , and was sent to
^ Brutal husbands do indeed look like a British " institution " William Taylor struck his wife a terrible blow in the foco ' and after boating her moat savagely , caught her hand in his mouth and bit it ferociously . Tins was done without anv provocation on tho part of the poor wife , ( who has bcon clo&rfccd by tho ruffian ) and in the presence ot a paramour who hounded on tho husband to tho brutality . Not being ablo to pay 51 ., Taylor has been imprisoned for two months , and tho wife , whose hand has been seriously injured by tho bite has bcon sent to hospital . Another husband , an iMa . ' anA rfn . nkon follow , of no calling , got angry because
his wife , a laundress , would not give him money to go to tho Derby . Ho got a pistol , and putting it to her head , puUod tho trigger . Ho was arrested by tho neighbour * . Tho pistol wa ^ ound loaded , but fortunately lt had a bad flint and could not have gone off . Tho husband seemed iurprS at " the great W ho " should havo cut her Hat with a razor , and there would have been an end to hor . " Ho han boon remanded .
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On the l , oo ( l $ Kailway tho tiro of an engine wheel broke and havhig fallen off , it struck against the guard ' s van and oWturneJifc . The guard was thrown out and tho von Zsed over him , having been dragged along : the hne . He W killed on tho spot , tho body being frightfully mangled . A remedv for railway collisions ia suggested by tho New York Tribune . — " Two or three , or lour preventer cajm iould bo placed on the train between the bagaoffo i > nd Kongorcaw . They might bo stoutly eonHtrudWl , and , Kmeabs of a stuffing of cotton , or tho use of india-r « 1 » bor Kmo other elastic Bubatance , bo made a perfect protection to tho pMHengen , in cases like tho lato fatal oatastcctionio 1 h tho mow recont deplorable plunge * - —j — -
iro | M * w ****** v » - « -. *\ w Ydlowinff story is told by tho IdncoltuMre Ckroniclo . Wo ffive tho exact words of the paragraph m our 00-to mporary , aa the value of tho tale ari « e « mainly from the auThority for tho foots , and the circumstantial ! y < f tho Snount ¦ - " Mrs . WilkinHon , of . Kyncrfwiry , near St . Noot s , JoWlotoly lost hor sight twonty-fivo years ugo , notwith-Sdinff tho best medical aid . Alx > u » ix w «« k « back « l . « Slontally fell down stair * . Fortunately sho sustained no mtiry from tho full , but tho « huek occasioned by it Heemn t ? have led to tho recovery ot hor sight . A ( fay or two
after this accident occurred Mrs . Wilkinson fancied she could see a little , and so stated to her husband . At first he was , naturally enough , inclined to doubt the fact ; but her sight daily grew better , and she is now enabled to distinguish colours , and to see pretty well . The joy of Mrs Wilkinson and the different members of her family may be well imagined . A son , twenty-three years old , Bhe has just been enabled to look upon for the first time . "
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HEALTH OF LONDON DUEING THE WEEK The Returns of mortality do not yet indicate that improvement in the public health which may have been anticipated from the more favourable character of the weather . The following are the deaths registered in London in each week of May : —1159 , 1099 , 1098 , and ( in the week that ended last Saturday ) 1128 , showing a small increase in the present on the two preceding returns . The mean weekly temperatures of the month have been 47 ' 9 degs ., 45-3 degs ., 55-2 degs ., and 59 * 7 degs . In the ten weeks , corresponding to last week , of the years 1843-52 , the average number of deaths was 890 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , will give a mortality for last week of 979 . The actual result is there-149
fore in excess of the estimated amount by . Diseases of the nervous system appear to have supplied more than the ordinary contingent ; for 155 cases are found in this class , while the average is 120 . Taking some particular diseases , cephalitis was fatal in the last three weeks in 14 , 11 , and 10 cases successively ; apoplexy 25 , 23 , 24 ; paralysis 17 , 23 , 33 ; delirium tremens 3 , 2 , 4 ; epilepsy , 3 , 9 , 13 ; convulsions 40 , 35 , 43 . Pneumonia shows a decided decrease , the deaths from it having fallen to 57 ; hooping-cough also is not quite so fatal , while diarrhoea slightly increases . The last-mentioned complaint numbers in the last three returns 18 , 28 , and 32 . Last week the births of 782 boys and ? 779 girls , in all 1561 children , were registered in London . The average number in eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-62
was 1371 . , , . _ At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29-696 in . The reading of the barometer decreased from 29 * 96 in . at the beginningof the week to 29-45 in . by noon on the 26 th , and increased to 29-60 in . by the end of the week . The mean temperature of the week was 59-7 degs ., which is 4-7 degs . above the average of the same week in 38 years . On Thursday and Friday , when the temperature was highest , the mean was about 64 degs ., and 8 degs . or 9 degs . above the average . The highest temperature was 78-8 degs . on Friday , the lowest 41-6 degs . on Sunday . The wind blew from the north-east on the first four days , it was calm on the two following , and on Saturday it blew from the south-west , the only day on which the mean temperature was below the average . The mean difference between the dew point temperature and air temperature was 10-9 degs . ; the greatest was 17-6 degs . on . Svm . day tmd Thursday ; tbe least 1-1 degs . on Friday .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 24 th of May , at Panfleld Rectory , near Braintree , Essex , the wife of the Rev . E . J . Hill : a son . On the 26 th , at Clewer-lodge , near Windsor , the Hon . Mm Charles Grantham Scott : a son . On tho 27 th , at 135 , George-street , Edinburgh , Lady Scott Douglas : a son . . On the 27 th , at Hampstead , the Hon . Mrs . Maurice Drummond : a daughter . On the 27 th , Lady Sebright : a son . On the 27 th , at No . 7 , Great Cumberland-street , Hyde-park , tho wife of Thomas Chambers , Esq . M . P . : a daughter . On tho 30 th , at 27 , Park-street , Groavenor-aquare , tho . Lady Olivia OsBulston : a son . MABRIAGKE 8 . On tho 14 th of April , by special license , at Trinity Church , Cape Town , Edward Herbert Nightingale , Esq ., Twenty-third Regiment , M . L . I ., oldest son of A . Nightingale Esq ., lato of H M Twenty-third Fusiliers , and grandson of the late Sir Jiaward Nightingale , Bart ., of Kneaaworth-haJl , Cambridgeshire , to Sophia Carlleii Hell , youngost daughter of Colonel R . Blackal On tho latof ' juno , atMortlake , George Chandler Karonsliaw , EBd aeooml son of John Hurdis RavenBhaw , Esq ., of Sulheldhouw , Richmond , to Eliza , second daughter ol Sir Henry Willook k . L . 8 ., of Casteluau-houao , Morthike , Surrey On tho l » t , at 8 t . Matthew ' s , Brixt on , John . MeNeill Esq Bombay Army , second son of the late Brigadior-Goneral MoNeiil , to Hester Law Howard , second daughter of tho l . tto Forbes MoNi-ill , Esq ., und nieeo of the Right Hon . Lord Colormay , ot Colonsay , and Sir John McNejll , QLCV . 13 . On the lsLatreterBham-churoh , Richmond , the Rev . William Parsons Warburton , to tho Hon . Isabel Mary LiBtor .
DEATHS . On the 14 M > of December last , ut Bingarn , New South Wales , tho Hon . ThomaB Montolieu Murray . On the 10 th of April , ut Gallo , Coylon , Robert Honry Hyan , linn of the Bombay Civil flervice , fourth son of the Right Hon . Sir Kdward Ryan , of Garden-lodgo , Kensington . On the 17 th of May , at Naples , Louisa , ComteBso do Truguot . On tho 25 th at tho Rectory , Middloton-Chonoy , near Banbury Oxon , the Rov . H . Hall , B . D ., rector of MiddloUm-Chen ' ov a » d rural d « an of Uraekloy , Jbrmorly Vioo-Principal of llraHonoso Collogo , and chaplain to H . R . H . tho Duke of Olaroncu . On tllo 20 th , at Boaufort-houne , Arliugtou-Btreot , Culling nii , rli'H Hinitli , Kn < l ., aged sevonty-eight . _ __ __ _ _ Bir FranoiH Muflon
, On tho 27 Ui , »<¦ Eiu » tlmuni 0 , Vic ! O Admiral , \ i C B olWholor-lodgo , Loioentorshire , aged Hovonty-four . On Iho 27 th in London , aged eleven years and uevon months , Frederick Cookayuo Dudley Ryder , oldcmt son of tho Hon . ifriMhwiok Dudley Rydor , ami Marian Charlotte jfinl , iy hw wife , and grai . dHon of tho late Thoinaa Oookayno , Jfisq ., o £ loklefordllO () n W tlwVStl " i , at Tottoridgo , llorta , in her 8 « th year , Charlotte Marv youngeM daughter and last mirviving child ot tho lato Krai ilJW . Sir Alexander Maitland Bart . tin ( ho Mill at 12 , Houthwiok-cresoent , Hy de-park , Major I odiH Mackenzie , lato of tho Hcotn Greys , aged « . i * ty . four . On iho 30 tf « . »«¦ I ' wtnoy , after a fow days ulnesa , Geonp Ayl-IIM m « Kho . of Colonel an , l tho Hon . MrB . A . roy , aged fliirteen
< » n " tho 1 st of Jun « , at the residence of hit ; aon-m-law , tho Kov . i / litMingV Kovul-oreHuent , Bath , Hir ( Jliurlea Abraham Kitii , llanKof Clovedon-court , Bomorset , ia th « « evonty-Uf tii your of hid ago .
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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . It ia impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted , it ia frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . No notice can be taken of anonymous communications . Whatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 7 , Welhngtonstreet , Strand , London . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them .
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FAIR-WEATHER STRENGTH OF RUSSIA AND AUSTRIA . Overwhelming as the two great Powers of Europe may Lave appeared to be during the last five years , their strength subsists only by favour of circumstances ; and althoug h , they remain almost unchallenged in a period of prosperity , even then there have been signs of influences already existing that would become destructively energetic in periods of adversity . Mutually incompatible in their all-grasping pretensions , Austria and Russia have been accomplices , but ever rivals . The present moment is favourable to the advances of Russia ; so favourable , that if she misses it , she may never have an equal chance again , and her complete advance would be destructive to the supremacy of Austria . Yet if Austria were to resist , she would resist that patron who restored to her Hungary , and must be content to take the terms dictated by those whom she has hitherto coerced . If we may trust the demeanour of Prince Menzschikoff , it is to be inferred that Russia considers herself already equal to the task of confronting the whole of " Europe in a contest for territory and power . She may reckon upon the want of preparation , upon her own intrigues to effect secret advances , upon the apathy of some states that have hitherto kept aloof from European contests ,- but if so , singularly discrediting tho reputation that she has hitherto obtained for astuteness , she must overlook the distinction between a time of peace and one of active struggle . England , for example , is apathetic in peace time , even to assaults upon her honour ; she would bo more terribly sensitive in time of war than more mercurial Powers might bo . Present appearances , however , are in favour of Kuseia . On his own ground tho Sultan is feeble ; the agents for llussia have x > rocured her a degree of support in Sclavonian Turkey that must at all events have greatly impressed tho employora of those agents ; Hungary , which was given to Austria by Russia , might bo rendered independent by the same power ; Sclavonian Bohemia owns many relations with Russia which have been loosened with Austria . And so tho colossal Power , which has fleets in its own ports , North and South , which can half encompass Europe with an army , may for tho timo feel ready to seize upon tho supremacy of Europe —may attempt a European empire which Napoleon dreamed , and Ctaear scarcely had tho geographical knowledge to imagine . Xii hucIi a case , Austria would bo dismantled , wit }» threat of further spoliation . Tho position of that ompiro is indeed , in many respects ,
more critical than it appears . Her bost pro- * vinces aro retained only b y tho state of siego . Hungary , which hna furnished her gold , Ixmibardy , which has furnished tho largest proportion of her revenue , kept down by armies ; the commerce of the ompiro in tho most tottering condition ; trade " stagnant } " prices so high thut the ministerial organs are obliged to lind apojogios for tho . fact in ' the bad harvest , " tho " unseasonable weather , " tho ' unsuccessful fairs , " tho prevalence of smuggling ,
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JtmE 4 , 1853 . ] THE LEAD ER , 539
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is 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 . —De . Aenoi- » .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 4, 1853, page 539, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1989/page/11/
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