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the we * endin ? last Saturday , 1 , 000 deaths werercgi in London . Iu tea corrcsponfng . JJ ^^ iin , ^ 1 S 4251 the average was 1 . 188 . ™« J * abecomes 1 , 253 ; portion to the increase of PnP "' atT , ' week exhibits a compare ! with which the "O ^^ ianito of the predecree of 157 . Aa « m » f ^ «* JJ 10 thf ) the present riousra : Urn { f , rweekendmg Xma ^ J ^ Y fr ( jm lAte Aw < a small im - ? ° }™ % ™ ea of the respiratory so : ne epidemic *^/ - 'f ^ J , sy stem , andthose of organs , from d-s ^ ses o ^ the ^ a o 1 . ^ ( jn ^ the digestive organs wh ^ nw ^ ^^ Thj ^^ tubercular c . w !« j l e preceding week were 103 ; last fr ° T ^™ K A Onthe otLr hand the mortality gZSSSZ ^ Hned from 121 to 109 , and that from
pneumoniaha 3 " faI ! en fromS 6 to 70 . I » the Royal Hospit * l Greenwich H pensioners died between the 9 th Janmry and 15 ih inclusive ; the youngest was 60 years of age , and the oldest S 7 . and the age- of all averaged 75 years . 0- -V a"ed 79 years died of " cholera ( the attack six months haforedeatb £ diarrhoea , atrophia progressive . " Four women also die ! in the Greenw . ch , Workbonse , the © West of -whom was Oi v « a-s , and wh < ve ages averaged nearly SO years . List w ^ i-k the births of 762 boys * and 727 girls , in »! I I , 4 S 3 children , were registered in London . In seven corresponding weeks of 1845—51 the average was 1 , 424 . At the Royal Observatory . Greenwich , themean reading of
the barometer in the week was 29 467 in . The mean temperature was -iO' 3- Aoz ., which is 95 deg . higher than the average of corresponding weeks in ten years . The mean daily temperature was higher than the average on every diy of the week . On Sunday and Monday it was above 47 degrees , which is alwut 11 degrees above the average ; on TMnosdav it wasli rfcrrecs ; on Thursday the mean was 496 deir ., " tbe highest in the week , and nearly 13 degrees above ihe average of the same day ; on Friday it was 4 i dee . ; and on Tuesdav and Saturday it was abovei 43 degrees , © Mahout 5 degrees above the average , on which two days the lowest means of the week occurred . The wind blew ^ eneraliyfroa . the south-west , butoa Saturday changed to north-w-st . The amou-i . t of rain which fell during tfie week 1 * TG in
was . . ...... ,, * ires .-Uu Sun . laf morr-ing the premises occupied by the Old Woolwich Steam-pacset Company , m Wobe-lane , Woolwich , ware consumed . The ftal loss is estimated at nearly £ 3 , 030 . Fortunately the premises were insured . The houses of Mr . Burke , abater , in Berwick-street , Soho , and Mr . Gwynn , cheesemonger . Hackney-road , were also destroyed bj fire oa Sunday morning . _ __ EsTExsivs Bur . G ? . AttiES . —On Saturday morning information was received at : he different metropotitan police stations of a daring burglary at the shoe warehouse , 20 , Great Portland-street , Oxford-street , which was entered and plundered of several hundred pairs of Wellineton boots , sixty-eight
pairs uf women ' s boots and shoes , a large quantity of manufactured leather , aa-J other property , in value , upwards of £ 500 . Information was also received of an equally audacious burglary at 4 , Stepney-renis , Hackney-road , from whence the entire stock in trade of a butterrran and cheesemonger , rtonsfa-ing of firkins of salt butter , eight dozen lumps of fresh butter , sides of bacon , fifty-six tons of salt , and a large quantity of fresh pork . Cheshire cheeses , & c ., were carried off , the unfortunate proprietor being left without a single thing to supply his customers . These daring acts of plunder Lave caused much sensation , and the constables on duly where the-e audacious robberies were committed have been
suspended by order of the Commissioners of Police . Attfjipteo Sdicide is as Omnibus . —On Saturday last , as two boys were playinc on the premises cif Mr . Sawyer , livery-stable keeper , of Curtain-road , one of them opened the dio r of au old Richmond omnibus that had long been in disuse , and was horrified at seeing a man without his coat lying on the floor of the vehicle with his throat cut , and to all appearance quite dead . An alarm being giren , Holland , one of the officers of the Worship-street Police Court , came tn the spot , and recognised the injured person to be Mr . Edwin Ilarrrw , a potato salesman , of High-street , Shoreditch . On taking ; the body from tho vehicle , faint
signs of iife were apparent , and the officer instantly convey & i him to St . Bartholomew ' s Hospital , where , altbotmh the w : aJpi ( ie was nearly fevered , he during the night sufficiently revived to scrawl the word "Thursday" on a piece of paper , at the same drawing bis handacrors bis throat , thus implying that the attempt had been made ou that day . The uu ortuiia ! e man must thus have l « id for at least forty hours in this fearful state . lie died on Sunday evtning . A coro :. er * s inquest was held on the body on Tuesday , when a verlict of "Temporary insanity" was returned . It appeared from the evidence that difficulties in trade induced the unfortunate man to commit this rash act .
Ausuisg Fine axd Miracclocs Escape . —On Monday night a fire broke out on the premisfs of Mr . William Brown , No . 4 , Taylor ' s-court , Bsdfordbury , Chandos street , in the first Soar . It became known that a yonng child was therein , but owius to the sufibca ing nature of the smoke none of the residents were able to enter the room Mr Wilkinson , the head engineer of the . station , and Dalrymple , one of the firemen , notwithstanding jibe density of the smoke , rushed into the apartment , when they found a quantity of wearing apparel and same of the furniture in a blaze . They instantly groped thron ^ h the lire and smoke , and at great risk succeeded in saving th ? life of the child . A spark fiom a lighted caudle , it is presumed , was the cause of the dsaster .
1 ' cEicnise rsDEn Episcopal Isnmiiios . — On Sunday , notwithstanding the inhibition wbh-h has been served on him during the past week by the Bishop of I / mdon , the Rev . G . E- GladYune ( inci m ' .-ent of Long-acre Episcopal Chniel ) officiated as usual at lhat place of worship . He preached a very energetic sermon for the Dorcas Society , from Colossians , chap , i ., v . 10 , but only indirecly alluded to the position in which he i-s placed . The inhibition is founded ou a pa-sage iu a sermon preached on December 7 ib , ia wlrcJi hzsuiJ , "Soma of the bishops—God forgive them—are traitors ; " and further remarked , " that he would say much more plainly to his face than behind bis back , lhat the bishop of this diocese is alarmingly responsible and culpable for what pass-.-s ia it . " Thrsc sentiments he has since distinctly refused to retract . Mr Gladstone is first cousin to the Right Hon . W . E . Gladstone , M . P ., and has not long been the minister of the above chapel .
SoictnE of ax Esciseek ,. —On Sunday as cue of the Citizen staun-boats was proceeding np the river several p . isieigcrs discovered the body of a man lying in the mod off ths Middks- 's side cfVauxbaJl-bridge . An alarm was accordingly raised , when two watermen repaired to the spot , and with e-msi-ienhU difHnulty Exceeded ia dragging ' the deceased on to the causeway . A large number of persons soon congregated mi the bank , 1 at a shell having been procured , the body was taken to the d « -ad house of St . Margaret's " Workhouse , Dean-street , Westminster , ihe deceased wag apparently about twenty-nine years of age , and
had a scar on the right temple . He was dressed in a black velvet coal , mole & ia vest , cord trowsers , Oxonian shoes , black silk neckerchief , and blue cap . The police authorities immediately circulated notices round the district , and iu a -few hoars a female identified the body as being that of a man named John Leach , an engineer , laiely in the employ of Messrs . Maudsfcy and Field , of Westmiuster-bridge-road , Lanibc'h . The deceased had been missing since Friday from his home , and the female suited that he had been in a low state of mind since his dismissal on account of the employers ' sTike .
Death rnosi Scuavr at Sea . —On Monday an inquiry ' was held relative to the death of William Thomas , a seamen on hoard the Ilainilhi Mitchell , merchant vessel of Glasgow ( Captain William JJdnies ) , which took place last week on ihe ship ' s return from China to the port of Loudon . The inquu-y was instituted in consequence of a report that twelve of the crew died on the homeward passage from an attackof scurvy , and which arose on account of that number of men haviu-2 been removed , frova tt >© vessel on her avrival ia St . KstJicrlue ' s Dock , suffering from that disease . —It arte-irt-d feo ; u the evidence , that the vessel had touched at no place between Siiangiiae and St . Kitherine's Docks , whii'h was reached on the ~ 14 th inst ., the day on which the
deceased died . Same days previous to reaching the British Channel there werj oniy the capt : iin , the two mates , the cookt # the e-irjienter , ihe steward ' s boy , and a seaman , to navigate the vessel , the crew at starting having consisted of twenty-one . One man died at sea , and the deceased was attacked with scurvy shortlv after the departure of the vessel from China . On tho * 20 th of November he was confined to his bed . Successively the other seamen were attacked with the same disea-c , and they were eventually confined to their beds . —It was stated that six of the crew removed nn board tfie Dreadnought , aud tlwt the remaining sax were conveyed to their friends : a brother of one of the tofw stated tbat he was dying . Verdict— ' Yisitation of God .
Fatal Accioest at Bauclat Axn Perkins ' s Brewert . — On Monday an inquest was held on the body of Daniel Jones , a labourer in Barclay and Perkins ' s brewerv . On the 12 th inst ., as the men ia one of the departments ' of this extensive brewery were Waving their employment , the deceased fell down the Ftairs leading to the stage on which be Iiad been at work , fracturing his skull , and producing other ii . jaries , iu consequence of which he died on Sunday morning last . The accident is supposed to have arisen from the stairs being very wet at the time , a quantity of malt having iiecn carried over them that day . Verdict— "Accidental death . " Great Fire is LAMnEtn . —On Tuesday night a fire of a very destructive chrtractcr , and attended with a considerable destruction of property , broko out in the extensive range of premises belonging to Mr . Allen , a dairyman , So . 26 , Little Paris-street , Limbetb . The fire was discovered by .-i lad in passing . The whole of the residents were out at the time of tho misfortune . The flames had entered
every room ia the place , and de-troyed the whole of the ¦ valu able contents . The origin of the fire remains a mystery Fortunately the sufferer was insured . Fins at Baixios . —A fire broke out on Tuesday morning in the premises of Messrs Clarke and Co ., cheesemongers . The discovery was made by a gentleman ' s servant , who , in passing tbe building perceived smoke issuing through the Sautters of the shop . He ' aroused the inmates , all of whom T * tu tt <* exception of Mr . Clarke , managed to effect a re-Mr oi ? unt 'l *^ ev wt ' near ' y stifled with smoke , to w * bein" cocfined " to his bed by illness , and unable flvnes I ' EOmeof hh friends removed him in safety . The able s « o * fc ? ? extin gnish d until the whole of the valu-Miseuw ^ 6 ?? s creat , - imaged , davr ' onthen ^ w r « * Pa ? neheld an » q «« t <>* Trmsix years kentlLp , - ^ l hcnus ^ seli , who . for tnc last ani espi «/ W & 2 T \ Miton * ? y i P 1 e ^ ' eioaed by a vio ! ent a , i ,, iV . ' ?* * w « wJ «»* fcU < ww Jh custody , whiUtina ^ nVp - adDU P ° n nJcn &/ 3 n , an now deposed to « eem-depe « £ , < ? iratlon - Thomas Webb in ffilsoa-st-cet , ° FiaSv ru ? donFriday * f ™™™ , ' {• Tne leased enleavoured to
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ward ofi the blows ; and in the strugg le he and h » utnbnt fell , his right thigh being fractured by the fall : he was picked up and conveyed to the hospital in a cab , and his assailant taken into custody , and " conveyed to tho stationhouse . The deceased went or very well until Sunday , when deUrhminmuu ensued , and the deceased gradually sunk and expired on Tuesday morning . —The jury returned a rerdiefc of " Manslaughter , " and the coroner forthwith issued his warrant . . , , ., .. _ Cosverts to Protestantism . —Wo are mformeoVthsiton Sunday evening , the lSth instant , twenty-seven adult persons publicly renounced the errors of Popery in the churcu of St Paul's , Bcrmondsey . , Collision os the RivER .-GnAVESESP , Jan . 20 .-A very serious collision happened on the river last night , neariy abreast of the entrance of the Thames and Mad way Canal , which ended in tho foundering of a fine brig called the Spray , Mr . Turubull , laden with coal , and bound from Newcastle to London . About eight o'clock tho Kojal Victoria steam . shio . from Leith . was observe d coming up
the channel , and onnearing this place it is customary wnen practicable for them to sheer a little to the Kent side in order to take on hoard-the usual river pilot . The llojat Victoria is said to have done so on this occasion , and at that particular moment a smack under canvass bad got so in the way of the brig as to entirely prevent its being seen bv the steamer until they were close to each other , me engines of the steamer were with all despatch stopped ana reversed , but the way she had on aud the sharp tide wmen was running drove her on to the brig with considerable force . It was soon found that she was fast filling witn water , and the crew lost no time in saving what they could , and making their way on hoard the Royal Victoria . Shortly afterwards the Spray went down in several fathoms water . Had the vessel not been laden and lying at anchor , it is thoueht tbat she might have been got nearer in shore ,
where her chance of being raised would bare been greater . Captain Rowland , the harbour-master , has already made arrangements to remove the wreck out of the way of tne navigation of the channel . It will be blown up if other means fail . The steamer did not sustain any injury . - Accident at the Lyceum Theatre . - On Wednesday evening , during the heavy gale , the frame-work of glass plate recently erected to protect the line of gas letters which announce the pit entrance of the Lyceum to the frequenters of the Strand was carried away by ft gu « t of wind , and came down with aloud crash . Fortunately no one was hurt . # AnuLTERATEU PEreER .-On Wednesday the following fines were inflicted by the Court of Inland Revenue upon grocers found in possession of adulterated pepper :-t 50 upon John Stotfc . Ia , Gray ' * ion-lane ; £ 10 , J . b . Chad well , Great Suffolk-street , Southwark ; £ 5 , Henry Smith , 23 . Bermondsey-street ; John Reynals , Union-street , Southwark ; and Thomas Hart , of the same locality . . . ..
The Mrjimv . —Since the discovery of the mummy in the crv t of St . Stephen's , a great number of persona visited , by permission , the spot where the relic lies . It is stated that the remains will not be removed for fear tbey should , by being disturbed , become entirely destroyed . It is intended they should remain in their present resting p ' ace , end that the wall should be so rebuilt as to admit ot the curious in such matters having a view of the ancient relic . A general opinion prevails that several other bodies will be discovered in or near the crypt , and the speculative suppose that treasure of a more substantial and lucrative nature must also be deposited in tbe vicinity of the ancient dead . With view to
The Early Closixo Association . — a relieve this society of an old standing debt , amounting to nearly £ 300 , Mr . Hitchcock , the silk mercer , of St . Paul > churchyard , recently stated tbat ho would double any sum that the association might raise within a month from that date ( 5 th of November last ) . Encouraged by the munincence of this proposal , the members at once commenced a vigorous canvass , which resulted in their raising withis the period specified £ 406 . It is stated that , although thin sum exceeded what was anticipated would be collected , Mr . Hitchcock readily handed over his check for the same amount , thus placing a balance exceeding £ 500 at the disposal of the association towards defraying the expenses of its future operations .
Destructive Fire . —On Wednesday morning a serious fire broke out at Old Ford , near Bow Church , on the premises known as tho Wick-lane Works . The buildings were nearly 200 feet in length , about sixty feet wide , and from fifty to sixty feet high , and were in the tenure of Mr . James Allen , paper stainer . The firemen succeeded in getting the mastery over the flames , but not until the promises , with the exception of one house , were all but destroyed . The stock-in-trade and buildings were insured in the Alliance Fire-office . Dbath rnou as Exflosiox 0 T $ AFini . - ~ Mr . Goole expired
in the Middlesex Hospital on Wednesday morning , in consequence of tho injuries he received from the accidental explosion of Naptha at his residence in Wardour-atreet , Oxford-street , after experiencing the most dreadful agonies . Every effort was made to alleviate the poor man ' s sufferings , but the injuries he had sustained were of so serious a nature as to counteract the medical skill of tho establishment , and mortification ensuing , death put a period to his existence . It was most wonderful that more fatal results have not attended this explosion , as the whole family of tho
deceased were present at the time , all watching with apparent interest the preparations of charging the naptha lamp . At tbe moment of the ignition the room presented an awful spectacle , resembling a burning cauldron , in whioh were confined several human beings of both sexes , and all more or less on fire . Tho wife and children were dreadfully burnt , but the flames were fortunately extinguished by tfio persons who rushed to their assistance . The deceased was a steady , hard-working man , and he has left a largo family bereft of all mjfes of support by this distressing calamity . ^
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Os Saturday , a woman named Alice Lacy was run over and killed by an engine at Sileby , near Leicester , on the Midland Railway , where the line is crossed by a footpath . Dabixo Leap . —A convict , under sentence of transportation for ten years , made a daring attempt to escape last week from the Sew Bailey prison in Salford , by leaping from the outer wall , which is guarded on the top by a chivauxde-frise , and is about nine yards in height . Ifc alighted with such force as to stun himself completely , and was instantly recaptured . The only injury sustained was a severe bruising , and , stran ? e to say , no bon ^ s were broken .
Os Sus » ay rooming the Jane and Margaret , a collier brig of Newcastle , was discovered to be on fire about a mile off the shore from Yarmouth . The brig was t « n ou shore , and by the assistance of a number of the beachmen the fire was extinguished . The stern , bulwarks , sides , and afterdecks , were entirely consumed , as was also the lower part of themainm .-isfc . fluE AT MSSSIIS . LaWSOX ' s FoUSBR ? . —A fire broke out on the IGtii inst . in the mode ] house attached to the foundry of Messrs . Lwson and Son , machine-makers , Mabgate . After the engine had been playing about five minutes upon the flames , the roof of the building fell in , and it was evident that the whole erection would inevitably be destroyed . Bv this time two of Phillips ' s patent fire
annihilators had heen prepared by Mr . Superintendent James , and were discharged by him into tho lower room , by which the flames were extinguished almost immediately , and the air was so purified that the firemen were enabled in less than a minute to enter the building , and play the engine with effect upon the burning embers , all appearance of flime having been completely destroyed . As it was found utterly impossible to provide means to get the annihilators into the upper room , Mr . James resolved to discharge four of them in the room below , in the hope that they would havo an effect upou the fire which was still raging above . This he accordingly did , and the result was such as far to exceed his expectations , as the flimes were at once extinguished , and in a short time afterwards the fire was got completely under .
Flight of a Merchant . — A good deal of interest has been created at Bristol in consequence of the absconding of Mr . William Wood , provision merchant , who had carried on a very extensive business in Xicholas-street , in that city . Report states that the liabilities are to the extent of £ 10 , 000 , and that immediately before his departure , Mr . Wood raised large sums of different parties under very equivocal circumstances . It is expected that his intention is to embark with his family for America or Australia , and officers are gone to the outportsin search of him . Areward of £ 100 has been offered for his apprehension . Lamentable Accidest at Matlock . —We record with much sorrow a most dreadful accident which occurred at
Matlock , on the loth inst , and by which a most respectable professional man , practising as a surgeon at Buxton , and his son , a boy of ten or twelve years of age , lost their lives . Mr . Gumming happened to be at Matlock for the day , and in the afternoon took a pleasure boat in order to indulge his son with a row on the river Derwent ; the recent rains had much swollen the river , and the rowers seem to have approached too near to tbe weir near Mason Mill ; tbe force of tho current carried the boat over the fall , but Mr . Gumming and his son appeared to be uninjured by the descent , and the boat grounded at its foot . The unfortunate parent made the most desperate efforts to save bis child , and repeatedly gained his feet after being drawn down by the current , but the power of the stream proved too great for Jong resistance , and the father and son were washed away to the depths below before the eyes of the anxious spectators . Mr . Cumtning has left a wife and seven children . —Derbythire Courier .
Rkmirve op Sarah Axn Hill . —Sarah Ann Hill , who was convicted at the late winter gaol delivery for this county of the wilful murder of her illegitimate child , at Wakefield , in the month of October last , is not to die on the scaffold . An official document has heen received at the Castle , directing that the sentenceof death passed upon the ill-fated criminal , shall be " respited until the further signification of her Majesty ' s pleasure be known , " which in fact means , we believe , that sentence will be commuted to transportation for life . Illicit Distillery i ' x a Coal-pit . —Staffordshire . — The constabulary of Hanley and an Inland Revenue officer proceeded last week to ironstone pits on the estate of Mr . R . Sneyd , situate between Hanley and Cobridee , called
The Hollies , " in search of a suspected illicit' whMcy dis tillery . Without following them through all the windings of their search , of some hours' continuance , we may state that no less than four stills were found concealed in various parts of the workings , but the chief laboratory was at tbe bottom of one of the shafts . Through a somewhat ingeniously concealed entrance ( which they broke down ) a sort of labyrinthine passage was entered , wbich after various turnings and Windings , lei Ihe officers of justice into the whole of the secret . Here was found a still set up , which had evidently that day been at work , with fifteen tubs , containing at least from 400 to 500 ealbns of wash , bottles , cans , and in fact all the requisites of a complete whiskv distillery , and about five quarts of whisky . The whole stock in trade was of
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course seized , and three young men , two of whom were m the pit , and the other acting , as banJnn » D , were taken into custody . Their names are Joseph Chadwick , James Nixon , and Jonathan Nixon . The defendants wero taken to the Fenton police-court , and were severally fined £ 30 each , for aiding , assisting , & c , In the contraband manufacture . In default of payment they were seat to prison for three months . ¦ .- '• _ . „ '• • ¦ , r , Emigrants .-Tue Liverpool Dock CoMPANY .- ( From our Liverpool correspondent . ) -The committee have now taken up the cause of the emigrants arriving at this port in so effective a manner that the " runners , ^ "land-sharks , mv 4 other towpies who have to long preyed « p « vu \ estt destitute people are bullying , threatening , and petitioning , in order to induce the corporation not to interfere between them and those whom they call their " customers .
The Late Boiler Explosion at Gkbai-bbidge . —The Jury , after hearing much contradictory evidence astothe construction and strength of the boiler which exploded , eventually concluded their labours by returning the following verdict : — " That the deceased came by their deaths through the bursting of a boiler , but what was the precise cause of the boiler bursting there was not sufficient evidence to show . " n _ , , ., Mtstkriocs Death at Rochester . —On Wednesday . the coroner ' s inquest , touching the death of the man found in the Medway , near Rochester-bridge , on the morning of the 10 th inst ., and who , it is supposed , had not comefavvlj by his death , from the suspicious manner in winch the body was found , having a rope tied round the head , with a stake affixed theretowas brought to a close . Since the
adjourn-, ment of the inquest , it had been ascertained that the deceased ' s name was James Brown , aged about thirty-eight years , a private belonging to the Chatham division of Royal Marines , and in November last was stationed on board E . M . S . London , lying at Sheerness , which be left for the purpose of claiming his discharge from the corps , after a servitude of twenty-one years , expressing his intention to return to that ship as a " bluejacket . " This , however , he did not do , and after being discharged , at which time he had about £ 8 in his possession , and he received farther between £ 6 and £ 7 at Chatham Dockyard , nothing more was seen of him by his comrades until picked up dead . No traces whatever of the mon ey have been discovered , and so far at least the matter is still a mystery , which the evidence adduced did not tend in the least to clear up * and the jury
returned an open verdict of " Found drowned . ' Post Office Peculations . —SuNnKRLAND . —A considerable degree of public excitement was produced in this town on Monday , in consequence of Thomas Marshall Dunn , a clerk in tbe Post-office , being apprehended on a charge of fraud . For a considerable time , past articles of value and money transmitted to and from this town , through the post , did not arrive at their destinations . An arrangement was made by a detective officer from London , who on Sunday last posted a letter containing a marked sovereign , destined to Carlisle . There being no direct mail to that town the letters are resorted at Gateshead . By previous arrangements the non-arrival of the letter at Gateshead was telegraphed
to this town . The detective officer , attended with a police sergeant , proceeded to the Post-office , where tho accused and another clerk were on duty . The officer stated his business , and required tho accused to turn his pockets inside out , which being done , the letter opened , and wanting the sovereign , was found upon him . They instantly proceeded to his house , where a search was made , and a gold watch was found which had been sent sixteen months ago to a watchmaker in this town , also two silver watch cases , a pair of gold framed spectacles , which were also sent by post , and tbe marked sovereign . The accused had been at home to dinner after tho Gateshead mail was dispatched , when he had the opportunity of leaving the sovereign ; he had put the opened letter again into his pocket . He was brought before tbe bench , and , after a short examination , the ease was remanded .
Distressing Suicide at Newport , Isle of Wight . —Mr . Robert Bryant , the landlord of the Star Inn , committed suicide on Tuesday morning . He rose as usual , and , after giving some directions to his men about the horses , & e ,, he went up to his office . Not coming down to breakfast , nor answering when called , the door was forced open , when he was found suspended and dead . He was agent to the Isle of White and Loudon Shipping Company , and to various other concerns as accountant and agent . lie had the property of a great number of persons in his hands . His widow was unfortunate in her former husband , who died by his own hands . Her distress now cannot possibly be described . This and the heavy failure of one of our oldest and most respected townsmen last week for a sum of little short of £ 20 , 000 , has thrown a gloom over the town which will not be soon removed .
Clever Detection of Coiners . —For some time past there has been a considerable quantity of base coin in circulation in Nottingham , and within the last twelve months several persons have been , convicted of uttering it . From information which came to the knowledge of the police they wero led to suspect that packages of counterfeit coin were transmitted by railway from London to a man named Litchfield , living in the lower part of the town . On Saturday morning last a small parcel , directed for " W . M . D ° . xon , at Mr . Litchfield ' s , Cherry-place , Coalpit-lane , Nottingham , " was received at the Nottingham railway station , from London , and between three and four o ' clock in the afternoon it was taken by the porter to tho suspected man ' s house , where he found Litchfield and his wife . He told them he had a parcel for "Mr . Dixon , " and the woman replied— " He ' s up stairs ; call him down ; " but the husband exclaimed , " Oh . it ' s all right ; I've been
expecting this . He took possession of the parcel , paid the carriage , 9 d ., and went up stairs . Tho porter left the house , when inspector Iiaynor and two other officers , who had been watching , entered ; and on going up stairs they found Litchfield and another man , who gavo his name as Thomas Walker , standing against a table , on which was an unopened brown paper parcel . Thoy apprehended the men , and took the parcel to the superintendent , who found it to contain twenty-five counterfeit halfcrowus and forty counterfeit shillings , the former bearing date 1814 aud the latter 1816 They were taken before the mayor on Tuesday , when tho depositions of the witnesses were taken and ordered to be forwarded to the Solicitor of the Mint previously to their committal for trial-at the assizes . In his evidence the porter stated that on the 7 th inst . he delivered a similar parcel , with the same handwriting , at the house of the prisoner Litchfield . The men reserved their defence for a jury .
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Extexsivr Failure . —The extensive firm of William Macewan , Sons , and Co ., tea merchants and sugar refiners , Glasgow , has become bankrupt . The liabilities are estimated at £ 120 , 000 . Tbe creditors expect to get a settlement of lOs . in the pound .
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The Special Commission . —The precept has been issued notifying that a special commission and gaol delivery will be held for the county of Monaghan on Tuesday , the 27 th of January . Two persons named Kelly , for some time in custody , are to be tried for the murder of Mr . Bateson , and there are several other offenders , who will have to stand their trial on the scarcely less heavy charge of implication iu the Riband conspiracy and other ciimes of aft agrarian character . The Defenders axd the " Proselytisers . "—An advertisement in the " Freeman" and "Tablet" notifies that a public meeting of the members of the Defence Association is * to be held on the 29 th inst ., "for the purpose of exposing the system of pvoselytism carried on in Ireland ; and thatthe secretary be requested to enter into immediate communication with the prelates and such clergymen and laymen throughout the kingdom as may be supposed able to supply authentic information upon this most important subject . "
The Statutes op Thurles Repudiated . —The Right Rev . Doctor O'Donnell , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Galway , wrote three letters within the last week to the Rev . Doctor O'Toole , the Vice-President of tfee Queen ' s College , iu Galway , calling on him to resign his situation , and to give up all connexion with the college , in compliance with the decrees of the Synod of Thurks , which prohibits all clerics to hold office , as deans" of residence or otherwise , in those insti utions ; but the rev . vice-president has not since taken the least not ce of them and still retains his vice-presidency , by which act he has , ipso facto , incurred suspension . The bishop was always a firm supporter ot tho Queen ' s Colleges and of the principle of mixed education iu general . The enlightened Roman Catholics of Galway consequently feel that the worthy vice-president has acted disrespectfully towards his superior . There is also a strong feeling on the subject among the Catholic students , who , it is supposed , will refuse to attend the lectures of the vice-president , who fills the chair of history and English literature .
It is expected that the next general election will bring about a complete change in the representation of tbe county of Galway , and an active canvass of the constituency has already commenced . The Hon . R . Daly , brother of L'ird Dunsandle , a Conservative ; Cnptaia Bellew , son of Sir Michael Dillon Bellew , a liberal Roman Catholic ; and Mr . M'Gregory , of Cool Park , a Conservative and Protestant , but a great favourite with the Roman Catholic clergy , are expected to be candidates . TheJlOth of June has been fixed for the opening of the Munster exhibition at Cork . Orders are issued to the Coast Guard stations round the coast of Ireland to have all the men of that force whose term of service does not exceed five years in readiness to go onboard ships cf the line .
MUBDBR OF TWO CHILDREN Br THEIR MOTHER .-Un the 15 th inst ., ; the wife of Head-constable Cosgrave , Lougbrea police , under some maniac frenzy of the moment , seized a table knife and cut the throats of her two little children , after which she attempted t < rdestroy herself by a desperate incision in the neck . The wretched woman was living on Sunday , but the innocent victims are both dead . ( Ihe Depopulatio n op Ireland . —The union of Dingle in the county of Kerry had in 1841 , 33 , 512 inhabitants ; in ISal , there were but 26 , 725 . Some of the electoral divisions have lost upwards of forty per cent . of their people . Lord Palmerston
' s Irish Sympathisers . —A meeting was held on Monday , at the Rotunda of the Dublin Protestant ( Orange ) Association , and of " Protestants generally , " for the purpose of addressing the Queen on the dismissal Of Lord Palmerston . —The chair was taken by Mr . Thomas II . Thompson , and the meeting was addressed at Considerable length by the Rev . T . D . Gregg . Resolutions in accordance with the tones of the requisition were unanimousiv adopted . . ' 0 n ? L r - ' P ursuan * i 0 the requisition of two " Roman Catholic pastors , representing in a ministerial capa-
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city the Fortescue estates in Louth" ( whatever that means ) , a very numerous meeting of the tenants on this property was held in the Court-house of Dundalk—a very spacious building , which was crowded to inconvenience in every part . Several Roman Catholic clergymen were present , and two of the " ministerial representative ? " were the leading speakers of the day . One of them , the Rev , Mr .. Marmton , delivered a creditable speech , in the course of which he denied the existence of any conspiracy against the life tfMr . ' ForteKue . " The Irish Exiles . —A meeting was held , at Wrexford on Monday at which the mayor presided , when a petition to the Queen was passed praving her Majesty to grant a free pardon to Messrs . W . S . O'Brien , . Meagher , Mitcliel , and the other Irish exiles concerned in the troubles in 1 S 48 .
The Action Agavkst tub Chief Secretary . —Mr . James Birch the great champion . of "law and order , " and the strict observer of all the amenities of public and private life , has obtained a temporary rule in the Queen ' s Bench , their lordships the judges being of opinion that the conditional order for a hew trial should notbe refused . : Tub Muhderop Mb . Bateson . —The committee appointed to carry out the object of the late public meeting in Berry have offered a reward of £ 1 , 000 for tho conviction of the perpetrators and abettors of the murder of Mr . Bateson , £ 000 for the conviction of any one of them , and £ 100 for such private information as may lead to such conviction .
iVusiiraft ot i . MfcaiMBXia w Lot 3 th . —The " Dublin Daily Express" announces the murder on Tuesday night of Meredith Chambro . Esq ., J . P . He was shot near Dundalk , on his return from sessions .
Governmental Socialism In Ireland. To Th...
GOVERNMENTAL SOCIALISM IN IRELAND . TO THE EDITOR OP THE NORTHERN SXARi Dear BiR ,-We have , in this city , a prosperous and popular society , called the 'f Board of Manufacture and Industry , " who appear to be not only talking , but doing :. They have invited a " Meeting for Consultation , " to be composed of some of the best aud most influential men from all parts of Ireland , and to assemble the last week of this month , for the following among other purposes : — " 1 . To adopt measures for converting the workhouses into self-sustaining establishments . . " 2 . For extending the means of education , and directing its chief force to industrial instruction , in all places , whether collegesschools , prisons , or poorhouses .
, " 3 . For organising an extensivo and available system of banking and currency , to represent tho labour of the people . " 4 . For takine steps to remove tho duty off the manufacture of paper , off newspapers , and off all agencies for disseminating knowledge . ' My object in now addressing you is to draw your attention to the " Suggestive Report" of the council of this society , on the subject of Education , which seems to me so good as to deserve a wide dissemination . I enclose a copy , and respectfully ask its insertion in the " Star . " Yoursj truly , William Pare . Seville Works , Dublin , 13 th January , 1852 .
" The first thought of every people should be to educate their young . The first duty of a state is to educate its people . This education should be wide-spread , accessible , and practical . The cost of the people ' s education , should be the first charge upon all property . It should precede the tax for the government—for the poor—for tho policefor the army , and for the public creditor . Upon education , as' the basis , all the other interests of society rest . If the systems of a people be defective , so also will all be their education of agriculture , manufactures , commerce , industry , finance , morality , religion , and government . "The question naturally follows , what should be deemed ' education ? ' Education to be useful should teach more
than the use of letters and the use of figures . A mere literary education' will prove a broken staff to the roan who depends upon it for bread . The worst paid men in society , and generally the poorest , most shifting , having least personal credit , are literary men . "Education should begin with children when thoy aro crawling round their cradles , Before they can speak they may be taught ! That is the age at which the first and most lasting conceptions and ideas are formed in the young brain , and if tho child be mismanaged around the mother ' s knee , it is the next thing to ' impossible' to recover it to regularity , or subject it to discipline oyer after . St . Paul relates that he saw upon a mother's bosom , a pair of twins , one of which only at one time could she supply with milk
and observed that one of the babes grew pale with rage at the preference given to the other . Mothers are the great educators of society . How careful , then , should tho state be about the education of all the females iu its jurisdiction 1 " This is the vulnerable part of a nation . This is the critical point whence a nation's destiny radiates . The mothers of every family in the land should be reached by the agents andjigencies of education . Theology or the mode of worshipping the Deityshould not he meddled with in the most remote way by the agents of general education . All reli g ious education should be left to the various missions of religion already on foot . Tho nation , which is composed of all religion ? , should not suffer its agents to meddle iu any way with the great theological disputes of the age . A strict neutrality on this point must be observed by the educators . *¦ " Familiar educational papers should be scattered and read in each fat'm-house and cottage of the island . Mothers
should be taught how to rear their children . They should bo made aware that to beat thein when they cry or misbehave—to curse and damn them , and call them ' brats , ' ' puppies , '' little villains , ' when thoy aro perverse—to set them to ' play' to get rid of their importunities or their care—to let them -amuse themselves in torturing a cat , a dog , a bird , Ac—to eat and drink all things and everything that comes in their way—to go from day to day unwashed , uncombed , with filthy , ragged dress —to have no ideas implanted in _ their minds but those of coarse tumbling , cruelty , unbridled appetites , thumping , boxing , wrestling , swearing , gasconade , and bravado , prepares their children to become ruffians , These tendencies take root in the child before the age of three , are confirmed at seven , and never after can by any system of moral , religious , or collegiate education be eradicated . After education only hides these tendencies , which are sure to break out at intervals even in persons occupying the highest places in every station of life !
" Education must reach tho cradle and the nursery , or it fails in its mission , and leaves us just where wo are , and where we have been for many a year . It must teach mothers how to rear their young—yea , every mother in the lind ! To accomplish this requires a very different , and a far more comprehensive staff of teachers than we at present possess in Ireland , and therefore requires tbat the nation should bo called together through its trusted thinking men , to assume and begin tho great duty of educating tho people . " Assuming these our premises we proceed to ' suggest ' tinder this head : —
" In tho first place , we should require of the state the annual appropriation of £ 500 , 000 to the purposes of education for the next three years ; and one million a-year for each six millions of the population ever afterwards . To fortify-this demand we havo only to . show the governing powers what ia going on in tho United States , to which our countrymen are flying . In the State of Massnchussets ( whose capital is Boston ) , tho population is 900 , 000 ; tho annual sum levied for , and applied to , education , is 750 , 009 dollars , at Is . 2 d . tho dollar—that is , one hundred and fifty thousand pounds sterling , or about 3 s . 9 d . a year to each person . To Ireland , with a population of six and a half million ? , only ono hundred and twenty thousand annuall
pounds aro y appropriated for education ; or did . a year to each person . In the State of Kew York , with a population of three millions , there arc 15 , 000 paid teachers , besides inspectors and state officers of education . In Ireland , with double the population , there are but 5 , 000 teflchei' 8 , including all superiors , inspectors , and officers ; so that the Americans estimate education beyond us in the ratio of about thirty-five to five . When we add to their schools their teeming , untaxed newspaper press , throwing out its million of newspapers every morning , at a halfpenny and a penny each , we may then estimate the immense distance we are behind them , and bo made aware of someone of the reasons why , and to what , our people are daily flying .
" If wo would make one stop towards arresting the wasting ' Exodus '—one available stop towards raising up this fallen people—we must look this great question steadily and at once in tho very face . " If we are told by tbo authorities that' money Is scarce , ' we answer , ' you find two millions one hundred thousand pounds per annum to support " paupers , " who aro paupers merely because they wero educated ; ' we answer , ' you find ono million sterling a year for arresting , trying , condemning , and transporting " criminals , " who are criminals only because they were not educated '—wo answer , ' you find five hundred thousand pounds a year to pay ,, maintain , and discipline twelve or thirteen thousand policemen , who are required merely because the people are not educated 'we answer , « you fi nd two millions a year to support the
onethird of the whole British arxay permanently in Ireland under tho plea of law aud order , who demoralise our younopeople , and which law » nd order would never 1 ) 0 disturbed if the people wero educated . ' We arc told that money is scarce at the very moment the Lord Chancellor gels £ S 000 per annum , tho Chief Baron gets £ 0 , 000 ger annum , ' the judges got eaob £ 4 , 000 to £ 5 , 000 a year for trying felonsat a moment that chairmen of sessions get £ 800 to £ 1 000 a year for trying petty thieves-tbat seventy-one stipendiary magistrates get from £ 300 to £ 500 a year enoh for punishing turnip stealers , and that thousands of others are getting from two hundred to two thousand pounds a year T flZ ^ TL n mi smice 9 ' ^^ it is said they are pertormingfor the people . of I « S * - "' ° resource 3 a PP Iied under theaccount
For supporting thtspoor ( i . e ., the ignorant ) .. . £ 2100 000 F 2 * B a ' tauMporting criminals ( i . e „ the ' ' o iiorauij .. .. .. .. i nnn nnn For supporting the police in Ireland ' . ' . ' . ' " ' sKo For supporting the army in Ireland " i 730 « 00 For supporting the judges , stipendiary mag strate ' s ' ' ' and other persons principally occupied ™ totai er . minals' ( t « ., the ignorant } .. .. J D m 0 flfl Plw W" 8 2 °° PWef i < llers ^ bout O" cour ' ts and ' public offices , under pretence of serving the public at salaries ranging from £ 250 to £ 750 £ , L u Z . . 100 , 000 « . d- •»• c , £ 5 , 550 . 000 Five millions fivo hundred thousand wvmda a \ 4 iv for Z \ Sln r ^^^ ' the forty-sixth $£
. " LOOK OX TI 1 IS PICTURE ; " C 0 ERC ™ 0 " T ? EMOR . UISATION- £ 5 , 500 , 000 "AND ON THIS . ' " ron * wiunm-dSm . QW .
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« This is the present condition of Ireland fr ^ TT ^ turn with loathing . This accounts in some nW ,, ^* e unparalleled emigration to America . Ure f ot tfcj " We expect to hear no more pleas of « poverfv > quarter , wheD w ask for tho necessary su PPiies f' J Atl y our people . As we increase our means of edunr at ° diminish on all hands tbe expenses of coercion 5 ?" ' * ° cent , added to our knowledge will diminish twentv *„ I" * of our poverty and crime . Uk ' PWcent "And now let us consider , the means being n hifw our command , how we would recommend the neonh . t ?' educated ; We would suggest that every public Lv 9 especially in tho agricultural districts , have attart ^ , » a small farm and a large garden . l 0 't " In the denser cities and towns , the male schools c ) . > be established in tho outskirts , where at least the v * modation of a tola-able garden and park could hiTh ?" The female school should bo quite separate and di »» ' from the male school , and have in every casea ^ ' Every school should have baths , which can now-a-d r ! u easily fitted up , and be well supplied with water II ? towels , combs , brushes , & o . ' Pi "Physiology ; or the law of our bodies , should h * t . ^ .
,, in every Softool to tho dhildron-ajwpier mocJe skeS or mamhn-mnle and female-should be had in each riTt the male skeleton for tho male school , to bo Tectared t '• by the schoolmaster ; the female manikin io the feS sehool . to be lectured upon by the schoolmistress 1 ! teaching tho growing generation tho laws of life and heilfV we would dimmish irregular and filthy habits , uncleann , V and a world of that sickness for which the working chill ' of Ireland { . ay so dearly in time lost and money to dochW The first element of wealth in a nation is the health Sul inhabitants . We never can have our people healthy un ? they are made to understand in their youth the nature of lifo food , air , clothing , ex-rciso . ventilation , drinks , & c Thi people of Ireland , taken as a mass , know less of tW things than any people of earth—they destro y their health with stimulants , thinking they are ' strengthening ' them selves at the very moment they are destroying thestrenoii
ot their bodies aud of their minds . A proper knowledge of physiology would make them know how ridiculously Usc . less , nay how dreadfully injurious are tobacco , whisky wines , brandies , ale , porter , & c .- —how directly their use leads to exhaustion of tho body , indolence , diseases , awl idiotcy of mind . Education , or book learning , given to a people , unless with this first great rudimental lesson is greatly defective , and is just what wo see it in Irelandsimply a nullity . "Wo would next havo primary female monitresses attached to each school , who should visit the cottages and houses of the people in a given district , and give kind imd patient instruction . 'to mothers about the management of their little children—about cleaning , dressing , and managing them—abou ventilation , food , exercise , and chastisement . These monitresses should be very carefully selected , having themselves been properly instructed in the district
model schools . They should bu imperatively enjoined against interfering vfitb the religious ideas of the people in any way ; but to devote their sole energies on their mission , to reasoning ^ and explaining with the mothers of young children against chastising , boating , scolding , and cursing their little ones , and teach them that children should be talked or reasoned out of their evil tendencies / and should not be either beaten or caressed , or purchased into good behaviour . Inese latter practices do more mischief to a people than the worst laws over enacted by the worst tyranny recorded by history . '
Next to reasoning with the very young , instead of coercing them , is the importance of employing them . Now , very little children will much sooner and much rather learo to make a bab y-house , or a oar , or a doll , than learns tUSL ' -i ?* lm P « l « e of construction is an instinct which shews itself the first . Tho child must be doing something orma & n ^ Bomething all the time that it is not asleep or taking food ; and instead of allowing it to use its brawny arms thumping its mother or its nurse , the said nurse or mother should teach it to make something , to construct something even while the child is yet a nursling . A thousand plana and toys can be invented for the uso of children tending to develop tho natural impulse of construction . . We see that the bee and tho beaverwithout
-and-, any pen ink education , become , by the natural impulse of construe tion , excellent builders . The bee observes a strict mathematical calculation in all his beautiful architecture ! The beaver manifests the forethought and caution of a military chieftain in erecting his house ! The human species is eminently endowed with the instinct of constructionand , therefore , there is the less difficulty in teaching each mortal to provide for all his or her wants—it only requires that they be taught all the way up from the cradle to construct something useful , and then wo havo a nation of the best artificers in the world . Little girls of the age of four or five years , can be taught to knit , sew , plait straw , make baslcets , at tho same school or by the same person who teaches them their alphabet . Little boys of the same w ,
should oe taught to build little houses , little ships , make little chairs , tables , ploughs , gates , waggons , wooden spades , wooden knives , wooden forks , wooden spoons , cloth boots , hats , and caps . All these exercises miiy be taught with the al phabet to children under five years of age , instead of " playing , " and will prove a relaxation , and , indeed , a source of recreation to their minds . "Wo have so far considered the little children disciplined by their mothers and nurses , under the direction of tha visiting monitress , whose call at each house should be at least an hour s duration . " We shall now follow them to the public school , where they should be sent at the ages of six or seven . Every public school for males should have a loom , a turning
lacne , a small furnace , a modelling room , a bench and vice , files , and sundry other tools for making tinware , & c „ wooden ware , & o ., chisels for stone cutting , & e „ together with the skeletons or manikins already alluded to ; the baths , tho large garden , and the small farm ; three hours a day for book education , and three hours a day for learning to make and use machines , for learning the chemical components of earths , metals , and vegetables ; learning to cultivate the f arm or the garden as a recreation , aud relief from study , or tho exercise of the memory ; to draw and copy the flowers in the garden upon a thousand tablets and
objects . This kind of education would give us , in a few years , a different order of people to what we have at present—an order of men and women that would not ' gke much employment to judges , juries , lawyers , or policemen , nor to transport ships or poorhouses—an order of men auJ women that wonld improve the character of the nation and encourage the historian to record its proud annals . " Submitted to tbe Board by order of the Council , "Bartholomew O'Connor , Chairman of the day . " Thomas Moonet , Secretary . " January 5 , 1 S 52 . "
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The Impossible 7 , 439 , 210 . —Among the many extraor » dinary circumstances connected with the present revolution 1 in France , it is not the least of such that M . Louis Bom . — parte has been able to gull the people into the belief of hiss having received tho affirmative votes of more that 7 , 400 , 00001 persons . That he should seek to deceive in this , as he tes s in many other ways , should not surprise us ; but that lea should have so completely forgotten the prudent advica : a offered to a deceiver in the fable , " . to keep probability ioii view , " is extraordinary , since he has laid himself open ttti detection in his falsehood by every one who will be at thihi pains to examine his figures in connexion with the populsds tion returns , which are free to the inspection of every onew The numbers advertised in the " Moniteur" as having votete on tbe question of his dictatorship , Qui or Nan , are—Oui 7 , 439 , 216 Non 640 , 737 Anmdes ... 36 . 820
Total who voted ... 8 , 116 , 773 The total population of the eighty-six departments of Prance at the last census , in 1846 , was 33 , 401 , 701 From which must be deducted the inhabitants of Corsica , not included in the return of voters 230 , 271 35 ym 5 o Of this number onc-tourth only ore men twenty years old and upwards ... 8 , 792 , 82 Deduct further tho number given in tho French tables as between twenty aud twenty-one years 303 . 500
Leaving 8 , 489 , 372 as the greatest possible number inscribed as elector-foe capable of voting , being only 372 , 599 beyond the nuniW >|> who are asserted to have voted , and consequently allofftoifiii only about one in each 100 of adult males to havo abstainnim from voting . More than one-fourth of the above nunibcibm viz . 97 , 023 , are stated in the census returns as bctocii above eighty-fire years of age , and may on that account U assumed as unlikely to have voted . In addition to ihi itt there are the sick , and those absent during the days of eteell tion from tho district in which tbey were inscribed . A vei vf < moderate allowance on these accounts would more th : til make up the above-named excess of 372 , 599 , vritliotlm reckoning any of the very numerous class who . unon pri pn
cipfe , abstained from voting on the question , and who , hO ) the department of the Seine alone , are stated to hare hej bb 96 , 819 out of 394 , 0-19 , the number inscribed in the depaepa ment . If the proportion who thus abstained is assumednefl correct data for the whole of France , then the number % v did not vote would be 2 , 085 , 863 ; leaving 6 , 403 , 509 »« J «; extreme number whose votes were recorded , or 2 , 7 l 3 ,. l 3 i fewer than the number asserted by M . Bonaparte to b « oW been given . The number of negative votes is stated in j ini " Moniteur" to have heen 640 , 737 , of which num ber WW were given in the single department of the Seine-a " - ** one to three of tho total number said to have voKvoV whereas , in the rest of France , the adverse votes arc sta ; stt to have been only 544 , 226 , or only one in twenty of the tha leged voters ! Credat qui vult .-Examincr
, In * Ages of the principal Reigning Sovereigns -is Royal Princes in Europe are as follows -.-The Kin M " Wurtemberg , 70 ; the King of the Belgians , 61 ; the I ^ . H ' 69 ; tho Ring of Prussia , 50 ; the Emperor of » o » "V ? t ' the King of Sweeden and Norway , 52 ; the King of ^ f J mark , 43 ; the President of the French Republic , 43 ' 13 i ! King of the Two Sicilies , 41 ; the King of Bavaria , 40 > 40 King of tho Netherlands . 34 ; tho Queen of Engl * " - ' £ «*¦ the Queen of Portugal , 32 ; tho King of Hanover , 3-13- i Kmg - of Sardinia , ' 81 ; the Sultan , 28 ; the EmP ^ * Austria , 21 ; the Queen of Spain , 21 . The ages < oh on French princes are : —The Duke do Nemours , f 5 > 3 ») Prince do Joinville . 33 ; the Count do Chambord , 31 ; 311 Duke d'Aumale , 30 ; the Duke do Montpensier , 2 < J 2 / 1 Count de Paris 13
, . , ,, An Innkeeper at Yarmouth hr . s been committed for few on a charge of cheating at cards in his own house . , detected , ho was playing at cribbage for £ 16 the gauie . inicc
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Northern Star (1837-1852), Jan. 24, 1852, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ns/issues/ns2_24011852/page/6/
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