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      that most horrible and degrading of all pollutions—. our own fermenting excrement ? , j- ; This , Mr . Ward proceeded to say , was the more to be desired , as this very refuse , so loathsome and baneful in the town , became an article of value , and might be made a source of' municipal revenue , when applied , td-thefeeding of crops in the couhtry . Our limits , however , ' preclude / our' following the speaker to-day into this his concluding topic ; which we , accordingly * reserve for a separate report next week . ; - M&mwhile , we are bound to say that there sppearertoJusgreat : force in Mr . Ward ' s objections to the Main : Intercepting Drainage scheme , as it now stands ; and that we shall await with much interest the development of his views as to the true solution of this momentous problem .

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      SURPLUS REVENUES . A statement has been going about that the Bishop of Sfc . David ' s was about to bestow his " Surplus Revenues" for the last fourteen years , amounting to 14 , 000 ? ., for the benefit of the poorer clergy of his diocese . In a letter to the Morning Chronicle , the bishop refers the public to the following extract from his charge of 1851 , as the true version of the

      case : — " Since my appointment to the see , I have been entitled * trader an arrangement to wMch I was not a party , to an uncertain and fluctuating income , which has sometimes exceeded and sometimes fallen short of its computed average amount .. As I had no claim to compensation from any other source in case of a deficiency , so I owe no one an account of the surplus which has actually accrued . But with regard to the future the state of the case is now materially altered by the recent Order in Council , by which I am enabled to fix my income at the exact amount which was originally thought sufficient I should gladly have availed myself of this very salutary provision , if I had not been restrained by one

      consideration . When I reflected on the urgent wants and die scanty resources of the Church in this diocese , I hardly felt myself at liberty—I could not bring myself to transfer to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners any portion of the funds actually - placed " my disposal . I have preferred incurring soine ^ risk of inconvenience and loss in order that the diocese niay exclusively reap the benefit of any surplus which may arise during the next septennial , cycle . With this view I have made , an arrangement . by which the whole of such surplus" wiD 1 Tjir ~ appiie 4 ^ to-- * he augmentation of small

      livings in the diocese . The class of livings to which the benefit will , in the first instance at least , be confined , will be those in the bishop ' s patronage of value below 150 ? . a year . At the same time I must observe that , as the sole ground of this arrangement is the present probability of a surplus during the next seven years , if at the end of that time circumstances should be so far altered as to present the prospect of a deficiency rather than of a surplus , I should then feel myself not only warranted , but bound , on the very same principle , to take advantage of the provision by which I am enabled to secure the full amount-of-the- income-allotted -to-the see . "— - — ,

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      MR . CARD WELL AT OXFORD . The President of the Board of Trade ( Mr . Cardwell ) spoke at a dinner at Oxford on Monday . He said in . conclusion : — " If he inquired from the annual official returns , whether they had experienced a diminution in their foreign trade , he would find that although 1853 was a year without precedent in the extraordinary increase over all former years , that increase had been maintained in 1854 . He ( Mr . Cardwell ) was not quoting statistics , nor giving them precise figures , but he spoke in general terms , and was enabled to say that great and unexampled as their prosperity had been before the commencement of the war , it still continued and prevailed at the close of 1854 . Their enemy would find , too , that their colonies , the sources of their permanent wealth , continued to grow , and to prosper , and to become the foundations of future empires , and of free governments in distant parts of the world . He would find also that the revenue was maintained—no mean evidence of the prosperous condition of the people at home , and an u » - complaining people , cheerfully submitting to any sacrifice to carry on a war which he had entailed upon them , and showing more energy as the pressure of the war became greater . It was under such circumstances that they closed the year 1854 and began 1855 ; and if the year 1855 should be a year of darkness and of war , they at least knew that England would' exhibit an example of ^ which Englishmen might well be proud , furnishing , as she was doing , pages of future history worthy to be associated with those of Marlborough and Wellington . "—Mr . Cardwell resumed his seat amid general cheering .

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      THE HOPE CASE . Tub Hopo affair lms given work to the French lawyers . The Tribunal do Premiere Instance ot tne Seine has been engaged in deciding who is to have the custody of Mrs . Hope ' s children . The advocate for Mr . Hone pointed out that the Lord Chancellor of England haul decided that the children should remain in some neutral domicile , and asked m the name of Mr . Hope , that , pending the suit of separation de corps , tho children should be placed in a school whero they would reco ' ive tho care which they may r Tho president pronounced in concurrence with tho Lord Chancellor ' s decision , and tho children will bo provided for in tho manner requested .

      Ottr Pivtt Isattow Our Civilisa Hon.

      OUR CIVILISATION . Murder through Jealousy . —Harriet Ardran was a young woman between twenty . one and twenty-two years of age , the eldest of five children , and daughter of William Ardran . a farmer ' s man living at Thorpe .

      She was a girl of pleasing appearance and manners . Several young men living in the locality were anxious to " pay their addresses" to her ; but she recognised no one in the character of suitor except a person named George Anston , a moulder at Chapeltown . Amongst the individuals who it would appear were disappointed by this preference was Daniel . Hawksworth , a collier , about twentyJthfee years old , living at Chapeltown , and a companion- of Anston's . At any rata it would appear from the girl's statements suffered of

      that Hawksworth hai a disappointment this kind , though he was never observed to make any advances to her , and certainly she had given him no encouragement . On the fatal occasion Hawksworth , when he met her , told her that if she would not go with him he would take care that she went with nobody else . She turned round to go away from him , upon which he cocked his gun and threatened to shoot her , and upon her continuing to move from him he fired . She has since died in great agony , and he has been arrested .

      More Wife-beating . —The following miserable story was told , by a woman at a police-court : — "At midnight , on the 14 th ult ., I and my four children were sitting round a very little bit of fire , trying to keep ourselves warm , as the night was very cold , when my husband came home very drunk , and said , ' Oh , that ' s the way you ' re enjoying yourselves , is it ?' I said , ' Surely it is time you came home before to give us more fire ; ' upon which he exclaimed , ' It is fire you want , do you ? Til soon give you that , ' and immediately struck me such a violent blow in the face as to knock me into the fireplace and bruise one of my eyes dreadfully . I made my escape as he was trying to hit me again , and ran out of the house , and on finding I had done so he dashed out with water what little fire there

      was , and on one of the children , eight years old , entreating him not to do that , as they were' all so cold , he grasped him by the arm , f lung him on the bed , and injured him so that one of his veins started ; up , from the twist , and has formed into a lump . I have been married to him fourteen years , and been treated by him the whole time most cruelly . He spends all his wages upon himself , has only given me for the support of the family one shilling the -whole of the last three weeks , and a little while ago beat me shockingly , tore my hair out of

      my head , and flung me across a pail , which so much injured my side that I was a hospital patient in consequence for three weeks . The doctor said my ribs were very much injured . I told my husband what the surgeon said , but he replied that it was only ill-health , and not ill-usage , I was suffering from . At another time before that he stabbed me in my arm and in my neck with a knife . — -I cannot say how often he has ill-used me , but I can say I have had fourteen years of wretchedness and misery . "

      The magistrate sentenced him to six months' hard labour , and also required sureties for better conduct for the next six months . The unfortunate woman was also relieved from the poor-box . Bitin g off an Ear . —Jacob Hull is becoming curious in his savageness . He had a quarrel , and a iight to foUow ,-withGeorge . Kemp ,. at-a . pubHc-hQuse somewhere in Camden-town . Kemp then left and went to another public-house , where he was quietly

      seated drinking beer , when Hull came in , and , suddenly seizing him by the collar , bit the greater portion of his ear off , and the piece was seen to drop from his mouth . The prisoner then made an attempt to fix his teeth into the complainant ' s nose , but his cries brought other men * to his assistance , and the prisoner was with the greatest difficulty removed and secured . Two months * imprisonment , or 5 / . fine , appears to be the legal value of so valuable a feature as an ear !

      Wife Killed by her HtrsnAND . —Joseph Bruin , a day waiter at the Albion Hotel , Manchester , went home on tho night of the 30 th ultimo in a state of intoxication ; n quarrel ensued between him and his wife , in the course of which he became much exasperated , and threw the tea-kettle at her head with such fatal precision that the spout entered the scalp on the left side of her forehead . She was afterwards conveyed to the infirmary , where erysipelas ensued , of which she died on Tuesday evening . Suspected Murder of a Soldier . —A sergeant and a private soldier having captured a deserter , were conveying him to Winchester . Near Salisbury they had beer , and subsequently other things ; but the soldier was taken very ill , and could not move .

      At this portion of tho journey they were " having a lift" in a cart , and so they got on . When the cart arrived at the Fishorton turnpike-gate tho sergeant handcuffed the deserter , and ordered deceased . to get out of tho cart . He complied with difficulty , whereupon the sergeant told him to " Stand up , and walk to the station liko a man . " His accoutrements were put on him , nnd the sergeant placed a musket in his hand , but the poor , follow could not stand , and immediately foil on his face . Tho sergeant then had him placed in the cart and conveyed to tho infirmary , where he died soon after his admission . From the evidence of tho house surgeon , the symptoms exhibited by tho deceased wore undoubtedly caused by some strong poison . In answer to inquiries , tho

      deceased stated , that when they wefe three or four miles from Chippenham they entered a public-house , where they had sofne beer , which was brought by the deserter to his bed , where he h ad gone to rest , being greatly fatigued . Ten minutes after drinking the beer he was seized with vomiting , which continued at intervals of ten minutes , with hickupping the -remainder of the night . He . declared-he was quite well before drinking the beerj and distinctly said he firmly believed he had been poisoned by the beer which the deserter had given him . Thesergeant and the deserter are both in custody to await the result of a post-mortem examination .

      The Mordeks in WARREN-sTREET .-r-Barthe'lemy , who shot the unfortunate men , Moore and-Collafd , has been tried for the murder of the latter . The evidence was very clear , and of course he was found guilty . However , for some inexplicable reason , the jury accompanied the verdict with a recommendation for mercy . A Policeman in Plain Clothes . —Charles King , a policeman who always wears plain clothes , has been found to be the preceptor of the most expert

      young thieves in the country . Some boys , imprisoned in the Westminster Bridewell , voluntarily gave information , and King was taken to Bowstreet . The evidence is amusing . King , it seems , was always looking on when the pockets were picked , and divided the plunder . The proceedings read like a chapter from Defoe ' s * ' Colonel Jack . " A boy of fourteen appears to have been valuable to King , " as he has very small hands . " In his evidence he says : —

      " King pointed out a lady to me in Berkeley-street * and I picked her pocket . I got a purse containing 31 . 15 s ., all gold except 5 > s . King told me that he knew I should get a skin from her . I got it by putting my hand into her dress . . 1 gave the money to King as well as two other purses wnich I succeeded in getting from ladies , one just before and one afterwards . The money was equally divided between King , me , and the two other boys , about ah hour after , at a public-house where we took refreshments . After this we went to the Serpentine , and King took us up to the bridge , where a great many ladies and gentlemen were looking over at the skating which was going on there . He said there were plenty of people there that I might get something from . He pointed with his stick to a ladyland gentleman who

      were leaning over the bridge , and I andithe other boys went up to them . Ipicked the lady's pocket of a purse , containing half a sovereign and 7 s . King was about four yards off at the time , and saw me do it . He then beckoned to us with his stick , and when we were a little way off he took the purse from me , emptied it , and put it into the hole of a tree . He told us it would not be safe to stop any longer on the bridge ^ but said we might do something under the bridge , where there were a great many people un&r the arches . We went down there , and I picked a lady ' s pocket of a handful of loose silver . I could not do anything more there . King said it was a measly sort of place , and it was no use stopping . " Mn Hall : What was the largest amount of money you ever obtained in this way in one week ?

      ™~ ""Witness ! " ~ I havergot ~ between 90 ? r-and 100 / . in one week by pocket picking . King shared that money with me and the other boys . " Mr . Hall : How did you spend all this money , then i At penny theatres , I suppose ? " Witness : Oh , no . At Astley ' s and Drury-lane . I laid some of it out in clothes ,-and so forth . " Mr . Burnaby : And didn't you buy a horse ? " Witness : I bought a pony at Smithfield for 5 / . 15 s ., and kept it for about six months , riding about with it . " Mr . Hall : Where did you usually ride ? " Witness : In the Park , mostly . "

      Mr . Hall commented severely on ° the prisoner s conduct , and hoped the authorities would have legal assistance in conducting the prosecution . It may be added that the prisoner is the officer who Mas concerned in an extraordinary case at Bow-street in October last . On that occasion a servant girl was charged with concealing the birth of an illegitimate child , and a lady named Butler , the girl ' s mistress , accused the officer of having conspired with tho girl and another person to extort 20 / . from her to prevent the disclosure of circumstances which were alleged to implicate her as an accessary on the occasion .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 6, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2072/page/9/