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inflicted on * he others , with fourteen days or a . month imprisonment , in default of payment . The sentences in each case -were accompanied by an order to abate the nuisance . EMBKZzrEaakNT at Preston . —The manager of a Cotton mill , at Preston has been brought before the magistrates of that town on . a charge of having ( it is thought- for several years ) carried on an extensive system of swindling . Robert Parkinson , the person accused , had been recently in the habit of charging his employer for > over-hotirs on the part of some of the workmen , when -there had been no over-hours ; while , at other
times , when the men really had been worked over their usual-time , -Parkinson had charged more than was due . He -had appropriated the entire money to his own use in the first instance , and the overplus in the second . Parkinson erected several houses with the money of which ! he had thus defrauded his employer , in whose name the various materials were purchased . Having appointed a friend , with whom he . was about to negotiatefor-the sale of his houses , to meet him at an hotel in Fishergate-street , Preston , the prisoner was traced there by the police , and apprehended . He was remanded for a-week .
Gakotte Robbery . —A gentleman named Dean , while passing through Draycott-terrace , Chelsea , on his way home , on Tuesday night , between eleven and twelve o ' clock , was accosted by two men , who asked the way to - ^ Sloane-street . Having answered their inquiries , he was about to proceed on his way , when one of the ruffians suddenly seized him by the throat and nearly throttled him , while the other struck him two violent blows , the one on the mouth and the other on the abdomen . The result was that he was deprived of consciousness ; and , on recovering his senses , some twenty minutes afterwards , he found himself lying on a heap of dirt , deprived , of course , of his watch and chain and other valuables .
Another Poisoning Case . — A farmer living at Winkbourn , a village about three miles north of Southwell , Nottinghamshire , has been committed for trial on the coroner ' s warrant , charged with the "Wilful Murder ofMary Clarke , his housekeeper . Thomas Johnson , the accused , is a widower , and he had contracted an improper intimacy with the woman . She became addicted to 'drink ; and , whether from this or some other cause , Johnson suddenly changed his manner to her , and , according to his own account , treated her with great
brutality . She was known to have threatened to poison herself ; but it vrould appear that , when she fell ill , Johnson was a good deal about her , and he was heard to say that he was determined to get rid of her . He refused to have a doctor sent for—a refusal in which she herself joined . 'The post-mortem examination revealed a large quantity of sulphate of copper , or vitriol , mixed with sulphate of iron , in the large and small intestines . Traces of these poisons were found in the cups about the room , and some powders of the same nature were discovered in one of Johnson ' s boxes .
An Agapemone" Suicide . —An inquest has been opened at Blackshole Farm , Enmore , Somerset , on the body of Miss Mary Maber , an inmate of the notorious religious association called " the Agapemone , " " Abode of Love . " The lady , who was about fifty years of age , had been depressed in spirits for some time , as she feared that she ¦ " was not a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ . " It would appear that she slipped away during the night or the early morning , and drowned'herself in a pond at the bottom of a pit . This being the second case of a similar nature connected with the Agapemone , the coroner has * communicated to the Home Secretary , to aBk him to depute some one > who may watch the case on behalf of the public . The inquest was adjourned till yesterday ( Friday ); ¦ but the further details have not yet- been published .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . The seventeenth annual report of the Kegiatrar-Gencral of Births , Deaths , and Marriages in England supplies tho following statistical information in a aeries of tabular statements : — The population of England in 1851 being estimated at 17 , 927 , 609 , it is found that tho total number of marriages registered in that part of the United Kingdom daring the year 1854 amounted to 159 , 727 , including 25 , 928 in the London district . Of these , 15 were so
lemnized by special license ; 21 , 048 by common license ,. 106 , 050 by bans ; 8811 by Superintendent Registrars ' certificates ; and 4185 " . stated ; " making tho tota number celebrated according to tho rites of tho Church ofBngland ,, 184 ; 109 . There were 7188 Roman Catholic maxjriages ; 1 > 878 marriages between Dissenters ; 7598 marriages'by the Superintendent Registrar ( not according to the kites of tljo . Church ) , 52 marriages of Quakers , and 287 of J . ewa . ,- Th . e number of marriages registered in tho first matter of tho year was' 88 ,-284 ; in tho second , 40 , W 8 S jp tho third 88 . 1 $ 2 : ami in tho fourth ,
, 47 , 798 . / 1 ,-81 ; 141 marriages were contracted betweou bachelors fl » d spinsters ; 6 H 2 G between bachelors and widows ; 1441-89 'between widowers and spinsters ; and 7671 between widowers nnd widows . Thoro wore 21 , 700 Tfiaoweia and "i 4 , 807 widows remarried , boBidos 9220 xi » A ) ea and 28 , 097 femiilys under age . No Ions than
47 , 843 men and 68 , 175 women signed the-register-T * ith marks . Of 91 , 382 couples married in 1864 , 1 man ami 28 women were 15 years of age ; 7 -men and 187 women , 16 years ; 85 men and S 47 women , 17 years ; 870 men and 3312 women , 18 years ; 1800 men and 6733 women , 19 years ; 42 , 682 men and 45 , 077 women , 20 years ; 23 , 767 men and 18 , 820 women , 25 years ; 9050 men and 7468 women , 30 years ; 4850 men and 3755 women , 35 years ; 3081 men and 2468 women , 40 years ; 1816 men and 1339 women , 45 years ; 1433 men and 753 women , 50 years ; 766 men and 343 women , 55 years ; 492 men and 188 women , 60 years ; 192 men and 42 women , 65 years ; 101 men and 18 women , 70 years ; 30 men and 4 women , 75 years ; and 9 men , 80 years of aee and upwards .
The total number of births in 1854 was 634 , 405 , including 324 , 069 males and 310 , 336 females . There were 40 , 735 illegitimate births — 20 , 976 males , and 19 , 759 females . The number of deaths amounted to 437 , 916—viz ., 222 , 422 males , and 215 , 494 females . The ages of the deceased are not given . Health of London during the Week . —In the week that ended last Saturday the deaths from all causes registered were 1068 , of which 539 were deaths of males , 529 those of females . To the peop le of London , the month of June is the healthiest in the year , and probably the mortality is now nearly as low as it will be this season . The average number of deaths in the first week
of June during the ten years 1846-55 , was 956 ; but , as the deaths of last week occurred in an increased population , it is necessary for comparison to apply a correction to the average , which makes it 1052 . The present rate of mortality , therefore , exceeds the average , though only in a small degree . For six , weeks , though the mean daily temperature has been occasionally above the average , the mean weekly temperature has been constantly below it . Last week , 249 persons died from diseases of the zymotic character , of whom 174 were children ; the corrected average for deaths at all ages in this class is 245 . To diseases of the tubercular class , comprising scrofula , tabes mesenterica , phthisis , and hydrocephalus , 200 deaths are referred , the average being 210 ; to diseases
of the nervous system , 109 , the average being 129 ; to diseases of the respiratory organs , 119 , the average being 133 ; to diseases of the digestive organs , 67 , the average being 68 ; to diseases of the heart , 62 , while the average is 41 . Ten cases of small-pox are returned , 41 of measles , 42 of scarlatina , 44 of hooping-cough , 13 of croup , 58 of typhus and common fever . Three deaths from " febris" occurred in the workhouse , Mile-end Newtown , on the 3 rd inst ., and one on the 4 th . Two persons died from intemperance , besides a young woman who was killed by falling down stairs when intoxicated . Last week , the births of 866 boys and 881 girls , in all 1747 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number was 1454 . — From the Registrar-General ' s WeeJdy Return .
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STATE OF TRADE The reports of the state of trade in the manufacturing towns during tho week ending last Saturday show , on the whole , a tendency to dulness . At Manchester , th « market has been heavy , and there has been a gradual decrease in the amount of business . At Birmingham , the demand for iron has been limited , and prices arc nfTected by the uncertainty of the American question . The Nottingham accounts describe increased purchases of lace for home consumption , and steady transactions , also , in hosiery . In the woollen districts , there is an absence of activity , . and sales have not kept pace with production . The Irish linen-marketB continuo to exhibit great animation , but the advices from New York are watched with anxiety . —Times .
The Scotch Miners' stnko is virtually at an end . The men , after enduring great misery and privation , have been obliged to succumb , after a loss in wages alone of 500 , 000 / . They return to their work in a gloomy and resentful mood , not only on account of the succennful resistance of their terms , but because of the supercilious bearing which they allege their employers always exhibit towards them . They also say that they are plundered at tho pit mouth by the understrappers of tho masters , who compel them to givo a largo quantity of over-weight . The original quarrel resulted from I lie proposal of tho masters to reduce tho wages from 5 a . > to > 4 s . per day , in consequence of tho reduction in tho pri « o of iron . and of other causes incident to tho conclusion of the war . In this , tho omploj'crs urged that they
. only reverted to tho torms-i-namely , 4 s . per day—which ruled before tho war had advanced tho scale of rcmunctration ,. and which had only subsisted for a few months . iTlio minors resolved to resist tho reduction , and in coniscquenco tho strike in Lanarkshire bocamo general about ¦ the 8 th of March lust . In a fow weeks it extended to RcnfroAVHhiro and Ayrshire ; and , whun it won at its height , about six weeks ttiuco , at least 40 , 000 men wore lOngHged in it . Tho " turn-outs" woro obliged to » ell wliat furniture and clothing they po . SHOSned , and for . some . tlnio they lived on borrowing ; but at length all their ro-. BoitrcoB woro completely dried up . Whilo tho ntriko lasted , largo quantities of coal woro brought into Glnagow from England and tho cast coast of Scotland , and
iniimense sums « f money have'feeen -sent to a distance which , but for t the struggle , would have been retained in the district . The strike began to break down about three wee&s-ago , when the men returned to the pits-in detached bodies ; immense numbers -resumed work on Friday-week and the following day , and the remainder so far as Lanarkshire is concerned , turned in on Monday . There are still a few hundreds out in Ayrshire * where the strike . was later in commencing , and where the men have consequently endured less ; but all admit that the contest is substantially over .
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NAVAX A < NI > MILITARY . A New Moktab . — Important experiments have been made with a 13-inch mortar , under tie directions of a party of the Royal Marine Artillery Corps , at Fort Cumberland , one of the outposts of Portsmouth . The object of the trial was to test the utility of a peculiar contrivance for the purpose of preventing the mortar becoming heated and damaged by any lengthened firing , as was the case at Sweaborg . At one day ' s trial three hundred shells were discharged , the time occupied being nine hours , giving two minutes only as the average of each round . On another trial , one hundred and fifty shells were fired in equally rapid time , and three hundred more are still to be experimented with . The mortar , though subjected to this severe test , seems to have received no material injury from the fusion or cracking nf t . hfi inetal .
The Reported Loss of the Dido , on the Pacific station , is contradicted . She was thrown with great injury on some coral reefs while on her passage from Tahiti to Pitcairn ' s and other neighbouring islands ; but was . towed ofF without any loss of men . The hurricane by which she was damaged has been felt with terrific violence in the islands . The Patriotic Fltsd . — The Commissioners of the Patriotic Fund have put forth a document , in which they state what they propose to do with the money confided to their hands . They state : — " It was decided , at a meeting of the Royal Commissioners , on Tuesday , the 27 th of May , that there shall be a perpetual endowment of 5000 / . per annum for the maintenance and education
of about three hundred daughters of soldiers , sailors , and marines . That there shall be a perpetual endowment for a school for about one hundred boys , the sons of soldiers , sailors , and marines . That the sums to be set apart [ for the purposes specified ] shall be considered and held as a fund appropriated to those objects , but until such schools shall be in full operation the dividends and interest of the sums so appropriated , or so much thereof as shall not be expended in the schools , shall be applied in aid of the general fund to the support and education of soldiers ' , sailors ' , and marines ' boys and girls entitled to relief from the fund . — Also
a perpetual endowment in the Wellington College to the extent of 25 , 000 / ., for sons of military otlicers . A like endowment in the Cambridge Asylum , to the extent of 3000 / ., for widows of non-commissioned oilicers and privates . A liko endowment in the Royal Naval School at New-cross , to the extent of 8000 / ., for ( he sons of naval officers . A like endowment in the Koyal Naval Female School at Richmond to the extent of 5000 / ., for the daughters of naval oflicers . A like endowment in the Naval and Military Schools of Portsmouth and Plymouth , to the extent of 50 U 0 / . — 2500 / . in oaoh — for the cliildrcn of soldiers , sailors , and
marines . " , Enoi . isii and American Yachts . — "A member of a Royal Yacht-Club , " writing to the Times , reverts to tho " roasting" we received in 1851 when we wcro beaten in yachting by tho Americans , and thinks it but right that it should be known that the American yacht Sylvie , celebrated for her speed , has been fairly l » oaten by one uL our own cutters of little more than half her tonnage viz ,, the Julia . Tin ? Coast-guard at Fowkv . —The Admiralty authorities have been pleased to mark their approval of the und tho
gallant conduct of Commander Norcock men under his command , in recently saving life f » ' « " wreck at Fowoy . The commissioned boatman Ilenwood is promoted to be chief boatman , and the man 1 | im l' « - ' to bo a commissioned boatman . In addition to this , Vl ) f . each have been awarded to Hcuwood and . Johns , and 5 / . to Pappcn . Tho Controller-General of the Coastguard has extended the time of Commander ^ Noivockrf present appointment from five to ten years . This oflieera gallantry is also to bo marked by the iiresentatum ol ij sword from tho Hoard of Trade , , and by tho silver maim
from Lloyd h PltlNCIC Al . UKRT AND THIC FlilNCB OV PllWSI . V Al Woolwich . —Tho arsenal at " Woolwich aviih visited on ' Monday by Princo Albert and tho Prince of Prussia , who looked over tho various mechanical contrivances " IISO for performing tho military and other work of the establishment . T | Exi'KituiKNTAi- Tiur ov this Stkam-Packict I' - " '•• A now Hteam-pnckct , called the lluvie , and inlcnciui for traffic between the city from whidi it denvon >^ iname and Southampton , made an experimental trip ; Monday . Tho speed was accurately tested by m ; .. ruiiH , with and againat tho tide , over tho inenMiro . mil below GravoHond , and the . average roault was l- - ' ^ knots , or about Hftoon measured wileo , pur hour . ¦ roHiilt from a vessel drawing over nine feet water ,
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Leader (1850-1860), June 14, 1856, page 562, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2145/page/10/
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