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of ffcis &ther ? s T ^ p rimftnds that the punishment was uaflicted . The ywuth eBdeavoured . in the first instance to escape - from Sis father ; but , being followed , he turaed , aud ; struck the &tal blows . Mr . Lowe , the deceased , had fi * st used a stick ; but , upon that being wrested from .-him , he beat-bis soa about the head with his fiats withigreat severity , and , in the language of a witness , seized 'the youth by the hair , and "jolted " bis head against the wall . Some of the younger children , who were crying , besought their father to desist , or he would
kill then-brother ; but Mr . Lowe , who , though ordinarily a mild and quiet man , was apt to be very violent when excited , would not listen to them . The case is moat lamentable and dreadful , and the son is evidently a person of ungoverned passion ; but it must be acknowledged that to administer personal correction to a young man of eighteen was highly injudicious . An inquest has been . held , atwhieh a verdict of " Manslaughter" has been returned against the son , who has been apprehended at Bristol and committed to prison .
Another case of parricide is at least suspected to have taken place . A labouring man , of the name of Williams , died lately ' at Carnarvon under suspicious circumstances , and a post-mortem examination revealed the presence of arsenic in his stomach . It seems that the family have lived together on very unhappy terms ; and about : five months . ago the mother died , not without certain sinister rumours . The only persons in the house at the time of the father ' s death were his daughter and . two sons . Ap inquest has been held , at which a verdict of wttfnl murder against the daughter has been found .
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OUR CIVILISATION . JIuedke wni Out . —A young woman , named Hannah DowelL living at Eastbourne , near : Lewes , has confessed to a knowledge of the murder of her grandmother , as far back -as December , 1852 . The woman was taken suddenly ill , and died during- the night ; and it would now seem , from the statement of the girl Dowell , that Stephen Peters , a man . who served in the deceased's shop , put some arsenic into her supper beer , and afterwards broke open her money-box . Peters is now in custody , awaiting his trial . For some time past , TTamTigih Dowell had been in a state of moody melancholy , and had uttered obscure hints of dreadful secrets which she could reveal ; but it was thought that-her mind was affected , and her statements were not heeded until recently .
Alleged Robbery of Gold . —Samuel Seal , a diamond and bullion dealer , living in Little St . Andrewstreet , Seven Dials , has been charged at the Mansion House with unlawfully . possessing a quantity of granulated , gold . He had taken a sample of this gold , which he professed to be Australian , to the house of Messrs . Samuels and Montague , bullion merchants , of Cornhill , saying that he had a parcel of it which he desired to have melted and assayed . Australian gold , however , is never granulated , and presents a totally different appearance from the sample exhibited . The suspicions of the partners were also aroused by some contradictory statements , and by the fact of a largo quantity of gold having been recently stolen in trcm&itu to Paris ; and Seal was therefore given into the custody of a detective policeman who had been sent for while , the accused was detained in conversation . He was remanded , and bail
was denied . A Receiver of Stolen Goobs , in a Large way of business , has been examined at the Lambeth . Policeoffice , and committed for trial . Ilia nominal calling in life was dealing in building materials ; but a vast amount of stolen property was found in his house , including watches and jowellery , ladies' dresses and shawls , remnants of cloth , « &c . lie offered the two constables who arrested him as much as 100 ? . and the lease of a house each to compromise the matter ; but this was refuaed . Stealing CnnvDnKN ' s Clothes . —A woman has been sent to trial , after examination at Worship-street , for enticing children in the streets , and stripping them of a great part of their clothing .
jSavage Assaults . —A disturbance took place , some days ago , outside a public-house in Hackney , between a drunken sailor and two militiamen . The sailor , who was the aggressor , having got knocked down , a man named Barker , who was employed in the publie-houae , ran out , and struck one of the militiamen ho violent a blow on the face , that , in the langungo of a woman who was present , and who gave evidence before the magistrate at Worship-street , " it sounded very much . " Ho then , to continue the account given by the namo witness , 11 knocked him down , and on the second militiaman
interpoetng to protect him , tho prisoner struck him about the head and face , flung him down , seized him by his Poet , ' brutally beat the back of his head upon tho pavement , 'then dragged . him along by tho legs like a wheelbarrow , and kicked' him repeatedly » o savagely that tho nwul'H 'body'rolled over and over from tho force of tho kicks . " Other witnesses said that the kicks were heard three houeea off , And that they " sounded like kicking a hollow tree . " For tho defence , several peraons were called ; but they prevaricated so much , that their testinwwy rather eerved to confirm the utftteinonta of tho
militiamen . Barker was therefore sentenced to pay costs and penalties to the amount of 57 ., or to be committed to the House of Correction for six weeks . Drunkenness and Mukder . — A woman , named Caroline Bartoli , has been charged with the murder of man named Masfield , who interfered to protect a Mrs . Holland , with whom he was taking tea in Clementfs-lane , Glare-market , from a savage attack by the prisoner . Bartoli , while " raving-mad drunk , " haJ broken open the door of the room * and rushed at the objeet of her rage . To save Mrs . Holland , Masfield , and a woman with whom he cohabited , attempted to get Bartoli
away ; when she threw some earthenware dishes which she had with her at the heads of both the interferers . Each was severely wounded , Masfield ' s head being completely battered in . He was taken to the hospital , where several pieces of the dish were extracted from his forehead ; but , after lingering for a short time , he died . A policeman who was called in said all the parties concerned had been drinking . The prisoner stated that she had been provoked by Mrs . Holland , who had assaulted her while she had a dying child in her arms . She was Temanded .
The Fagging System at Ttjnbkidge . —A youth , named Skipworth , was a few days since charged before the Tunbridge bench of magistrates with brutally assaulting a fellow pupil at a free-school founded for the instruction of the boys of the town and adjacent country . Shepherd , the boy who had been ill-used , was ordered by Skipworth , forwhom it would seem he " fagged , " to go into the cricket-ground ; but , having been forbidden to do so by his father , he refused . On the following day , Skipworth seized him , and beat him most severely with a cane , causing a very bad bruise on" the arm , and rendering it necessary that he should be placed under
medical care for many days . This castigat ion took place in front of the residence of the master , Dr . Wellden . Shepherd ' s father , a clergyman , wrote to Dr . Wellden for redress , but received very evasive answers . He consequently brought the matter before the magistrates ; but the bench , to the great surprise and indignation of all present , decided that it-was a matter for the authority of the Head Master only , and therefore dismissed the case . From the commencement of the proceedings , these worthies had exhibited a great leaning towards the accused , and had made an ineffectual endeavour to prevent the charge being heard .
Shocking Treatment of a Lunatic . — Edward Lancey , a lunatic , about forty-five years old , has just been rescued from a horrible imprisonment of seven years in a cell eight feet by six , and five feet nine inches high . His father died insane some years ago , and his mother for a time was in the same condition of mental bereavement . Anthony Huxtable , living in the north of Devonshire , was the man by whom the lunatic was kept ; and it is asserted that he is the very reverse of a cruel man , and that his treatment of this poor creature is the result of dense ignorance and stupidity—a state of feeling with respect to lunatics which at one time was universal , and which classed them with criminals . Some intimation of the sufferings of the lunatic having come
to the ears of a neighbouring clergyman , he went in company with a relieving officer to Huxtable ' s house , and there ; found Lancey in a state the details of which are almost too horrible for repetition . Suffice it to say that the room , which was locked on the outside , had no fireplace ; that the floor was covered with ordure ; that the stoncli was such as to provoke retching ; that the window was nailed down ; and that the lunatic was found lying on some straw , with nothing on but a shirt . He was emaciated , as if from insuilicicnt food ; and he had lain so long in one position that tho muscles and tendons of the leg were contracted . One of his legs also was fractured , though no one was aware how the injury was inflicted . Tho case was brought before the county
magistrates ; and a medical gentleman who Avas examined said , " My impression is that the Iluxtubles thought they were treating him well , and did not know what they could do better for him . I have no reason to believe that they wore wilfully ill-treating him as a matter of punishment . " Huxtublo received 21 / . a year for tho " care" of tho wretched man ; and he assertod that ho built the cell expressly for him , and had always washed him himself , and changed his things . The filthy state of tho cell ho attributed to tho lunatic always breaking- his chamber utensils ; but the physician of tho asylum to which Lancey was removed said that ho never destroyed anything . —Huxtable was committed to trial at tho next assizes ; but bail was accepted .
An Inwsknal Machine . —At Guildhall , on Wednes day , Pietro Foloj , an Italian , described us a confectioner , in Flect-streot , was committed for trial on a charge oi sending through tho Post-oflico a email paper parcel , containing- about four ounces of compressed gunpowder , Homo liuiifor-mntchoH , and sand-paper , with intent to injure Natali Itarari , also a confectioner , living on IJolborn-hill . Tho two Italians had formerly boon partnoi'H ; and tho present act arose out of Homo disagreement botween thorn . Bail was accepted for tho accused . GAnoTTH RoHHKnY . —Two men have boon committed for trial for a garotto robbery committed upon an elderly gentleman at Mile End , about ten o ' clock at night , and for a burglary a few hours later .
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THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S QTJARTEKTv RETURN . ^ itLr We have received the Registrar-General ' s " Quarterly Return of the Marriages , Births , and Deaths " registered in the Divisions , Counties , and Districts of England" ( Marriages , October , November , December , 1854 : Births and Deaths , January , February March , 1855 ) . Want of space has prevented our hitherto noticing this interesting and rather elaborate document ; but we now append a few extracts , which will place the reader in possession of a brief epitome of the chief facts . The unusually severe winter through which we have passed ( if , indeed , we can be said to have quite passed it even yet ) gives to the present Return an extra degree of interest . It will be seen that the terrible frost of January and February has " written strange defeatures" in the population of the country .
MARRIAGES . 47 , 666 marriages were celebrated , or 95 , 332 persons were married , in the last quarter of the year 1854 . Although the number is less than the number for the corresponding quarter of 1853 , it exceeds the average . The marriages in the year 1854 were at the rate of 856 in every 100 , 000 of the population , and at the rate of 1-013 in the quarter which includes Christmas , and is the season in which there is the greatest predilection for
marriage in England . The marriages have fallen off in London , in the parts of Kent round Maidstone , in Portsmouth , Plymouth , and the seaports , which have been affected by the absence of seamen in the war ; in Northamptonshire , Huntingdonshire , Cornwall , Shropshire , Staffordshire , Worcestershire , Warwickshire , Yorkshire , Cumberland , and Westmoreland . The marriages in Manchester and Ashton declined ; but in the aggregate the marriages in Lancashire were not below the average .
BIRTHS . 1 GG , 186 children who were born alive had their names inscribed on the registers in the three months of January , February , and March . This number exceeds by twenty thousand the numbers that appear in the return for the preceding quarter , and by five thousand the numbers in the return for the corresponding first quarter of 1854 . The rate of births was 3-60 per cent . The increase of births is chiefly in London , in the West Midland Counties , in the Northern Counties , and in Wales .
INCREASE OF POPULATIONAs the number of births was 166 , 186 , and of the deaths 134 , 605 , the excess indicates that the natural increase of the population was 31 , 581 in the first three months of the present year . In the same period , 36 . 677 , or , exclusive of 2217 foreigners , 34 , 460 emigrants , left the ports of the United Kingdom at which the Government has Emigration officers . About 15 , 80 G of the emigrants were of English origin ; so that the natural increase by births would be diminished to this extent , if there were no compensating immigration of the Irish and Scottisli population into England .
The emigration from the United Kingdom to the United States bus fallen from 51 , 929 in the winter of 1851 to 36 , 067 in the winter quarter of 1854 , and 18 , 427 in the corresponding quarter of the present year . The emigrants to the Australian colonies were , in the quarters that ended on March 31 , 1003 in 1817 , 2912 in 1851 , and 17 , 441 in 1855 . The remarkable diminution in the number of emigrants from Ireland to tho United States deserves attention .
STATE OF THE J'UIILIC HEALTH . The health of tho population generally has been bad ; and the mortality has greatly exceeded tho average . 134 , 605 death * have beon registered , which is 2 o , OU 0 in exceaa of tho corrected average of tho winter quartern . Thin addition to the ordinary mortality of winter , which is in England tho most fatal season , is referable to the low temperature , with the consequent hard times , ngninst which it is difficult for the wagos classes to make an adequate provision ; aud in other countries , whoru there is no such system of relief an is administered under tho English poor-law , the suffering and tho mortality are much greater in sovero seasons than they uro in England .
Persons of advanced ages among all classes have boon cut off in great numbers , and have thus fallen before they had pussod through tho evening of lifo . ~\ oung children have also died in considerable numbers . Uronchitia and tho congestion diseases of tho lungs have beon tho immediate causes of death . Tho frost , which braces the nerves of tho hardy and strong , chills Iho veins oi tho aged and weakly . Tho tempomturo of the night fulls , as Mr . Glaiaher shown , 11 dogs , on an average below the tempornturo of tho day ; and it is in tho mglit undoubtedly that the respiratory organs aru most lre-( juvntly injured , when tho water freezes in tho bedrooms of houses that are not wanned by 11 res , or by warm nir diflused by Dr . Amott ' H und other admirable inventions . , Tho mortality in the country districts was at tno annual rate of 20 deaths in 1000 living ; »>» tho town districts at tho rato of U 2 in 1000 living : out ol equal populations , thero woro eix fuuorals in tho towiw to
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Leader (1850-1860), June 2, 1855, page 510, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2093/page/6/
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