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      Two Casks Of Parricide. A Rum Ioan In Ui...

      ottea , father ' s reprimands that the punishment was inflia ** L The youthendeavoured in the first instance to escawT-JWia . hi » father ; but , being : followed , he turned , and ^ stanck . the fatal blows . Mr . Lowe , the deceased , had ) fiKrt used a stick ; but , upon that being -wrested from , iam , he beat his son about the head with bis fists wiihcgreai severity , and , in the language of a witness , seized the youth by the hair , and "jolted" hie head agaitwt the walL Some of the younger children , who desist he would

      were crying , besought their father to , or kill . their brother ; but Mr . l-owe , who , though ordinarily a miid and quiet man , was apt to be very violent when excited , would , not listen to them . The case is most lamentable and dreadful , and the son is evidently a person of ungoveiiaed 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 , at which a verdict of " Manslaughter" has beaa returned against the son , who has been

      apprehanded 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 Willia » s , died lately at Carnarvon under suspicious circumstances , and a post-mortem examination revealed the presence of arsenic in his stomach . It seems that the fanwjy have lived together on very unhappy terms ; and about five months ago ; the mother died , not without certai « L , sinister rumours . The only persons in the house at the lame of the father's death were his daughter and two soap .. An iaquest has been held , at which a verdict of wii & J murder against the daughter has been found .

      G^ The Le1dis. [Saturday;

      g ^ THE LE 1 DIS . [ Saturday ;

      Our Civilisation. Mwrdbewffil Out.—A You...

      OUR CIVILISATION . MwRDBEWffiL Out . —A young woman , named Hannah DawelL living at Eastbourne , . near Lewes , has confessed to < acknowledge 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 after wands broke open her money-box . Peters is now in custody , awaiting his trial . For some time past , Hannah Dowell had been in a state of woody 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 . Andrewstueet , 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 Cornbill , 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 large quantity of gold having been recently stolen in trwisitu 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 Goods , in a large way of business , has been examined at the Lambeth Policeoffice , and committed for trial . His nominal calling in life was dealing in building materials ; but a vast amount of stolen property was found in his house , including watches and jewellery , ladies' dresses and shawls , remnants of cloth , & c . He 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 refused . Stealino Children ' s Clothes . —A woman has been sent to trial , after examination at Worship-street , for enticing children in the streets , and stripping thorn of a great part of their clothing .

      Savagk 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 public-house , ran out , and struck one of the militiamen ho violent a blow on the face , that , in the language of a woman who was present , and who gave evidence before tho magistrate at Worship-street , " it sounded very much . " He then , to continue the account given by the huiuo witness , " knocked him down , and on the second militiaman

      iatorpouing to protect him , the prisoner struck ban ubout the-head and face , flung him down , seized him by his feet ; brutally boat the back of hi « head upon the pavcmeufc , then dragged * him along by tho logs like a wheolbarnovr , and kicked him repeatedly ho savagely that the raandsi body rolled over and over from tho force of tho kioka , " Other witnesses said that tho kicks were hoard tht » o houses off , and that they " Bounded liko lucking a hollow , tree . " For tho defiance , several persons woro called ^ but they prevaricated so much , that their tostinwawJ rdtfior twryed to confirm tho statements of tho

      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 , be died . A policeman who was called in said all the parties concerned had been drinking . The prisoner stated tliat sho had been provoked by Mrs . Holland , who had assaulted her while she had a dying child in her arms . She was

      militiamen . Barker was therefore sentenced to pay costs and penalties to the amount of 51 ., or to he committed to the House of Correction for six weeks . DRiraKBSNEas and McBDEB . — A woman , named Caroline Bartoli , has been charged with the murder of a man named Masfield , who interfered to protect a Mrs . Holland , with whom he was taking tea in Clement ' s Jane , Clare-market , from a savage attack by the prisoner . Bartoli , while " raving-mad drunk , " hail broken open the door of the room , and rushed at the object of her rage . To save Mrs . Holland , Masfield , and a

      remanded . The Fagging S-tstem at Tunbridge . —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 , for whom 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 und « r medical care for many days . This castigation 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 , hae 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 stato 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 stench 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 insufficient food ; find ho had lain so long in one position that the muscles and tendons of the log were contracted . One of bid legs also was fractured , though no one was aware how the injury was inflicted . Tho case was brought before tho county

      magistrates ; and a medical gentleman who was examined said , " My impression is that the Huxtnblea thought they were treating him well , and did not know what they could do bettor for him . I have no reason to beliove that they were wilfully ill-treating him as a matter of punishment . " Huxtable received 211 . a year for the ' ? care " of tho wretched man ; and he asserted that ho built the coll expressly for him , and had always Avashed him himself , and changed bin things . Tho filthy state of tho coll ho attributed to tho lunatic nhvays breaking his chamber utensils ; but tho physiciun of the asylum to Avbich Lancoy was removed said that ho never destroyed anything . —Huxtable was committed to trial at tho noxt assizes ; but bail Avas accepted .

      An Infkknal Machine . —At Guildhall , on Woilneaday , Pietro Foloj , an Italian , described as a confectioner , in Floot-Htreot , Avaa committed for trial on a charge of Bonding through tho Post-oflico a small paper pureol , containing about four ounces of compressed gunpowder , some luoilbr-matchort , and sand-papor , with intuut to injure N a tali Forari , also a confectioner , living on llolborn-hill . Tho two Italians had formerly been partners ; and tho proucnt act oroao out of sumo < li«—ngroemont botwoon thorn . Bail was aocoptod for the acauHdd .

      Gakotth Romukry . —Two men have been committed for trial for a garotto robbery committed upon an elderly gent Ionian at Milo End , about ton o ' clock at night , aud for a burglary a few houru lator .

      The Registrar-General's Quartfptv Return...

      THE REGISTRAR-GENERAL'S QUARTFPTV RETURN . ^ We have received the Registrar-General ' s " Qua rterly 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 Ave now append a few extracts , whi ch will place the reader in possession of a brief epitome of the chief facts . The unusually severe Avinter through Arhich Ave 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 th e 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 avei-age . 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 Avhich iucludes Christmas , and is the season in Avhich 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 , CornAvall , 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 . 166 , 186 children avIio Avere 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 POPULATION . As the number of births was 166 , 186 , and of the deaths 134 , 605 , the excess indicates that the natural increase of the population Avas 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 Avhich the Government has Emigration officers . About 15 , 806 of the emigrants aa'Cic of English origin ; so 4 l -it the natural increase by births Avould be diminished to f -his

      extent , if there Averc no compensating immigration of the Irish and Scottish population into England' - Tho emigration from the United Kingdom . ') the United States has fallen from 51 , 929 in the vTnter of 1851 to 36 , 067 in the winter quarter of l &' .- 'J , and 18 , 427 in the corresponding quarter of the pro . *« - '"t year . The emigrants to the Australian colonies avci' < ' , in th » quarters that ended on March 31 , 1003 in 18-1 ? , 20-12 in 1851 , and 17 , 444 in 1855 . The remarkable diminution in tho number of emigrants from Ireland to tho United States deserves attention .

      STATE OF THIS l'UBLIC HEALTH . The health of the population generally has been bad ; aud tho mortality has greatly exceeded the average . 134 , 605 deaths have been registered , which is - 20 , 000 m excess of tho corrected avorage of the Aviator quarters . This addition to the ordinary mortality of Avintur , avIjicIi is in England the most fatal season , is referable to tho low temperature , with the consequent hard times , against which it is difficult for the wages classes to make au adequate provision ; and in other countries , where there is no such system of relief as is administered under the English poor-law , the Huiloring and the mortality are much greater in severe seasons than they are in J ) -ugland . c-

      Persons of advanced ages among all classes havo teei . cut off in great numbers , and have thus fallen bQlom they had paused through tho evening of life . 1 qusg children lmvo also died in considerable number * . J > rouehitin and tho congestion diseases of tho lungs have b . » e » tho immediate causes of death . Tho frost , which htfm the norvea of tho hardy and strong , chillo the ven » <> tho uged aud Aveakly . Tho temperature of < - " « " 1 « 'IUl fulls , as Mr . Glaiahor shows , 11 degH . on an average below the temperature of tho day ; and it is in thu i >» a " undoubtedly that tho respiratory organs arc u >«* i ' " quontly injured , when the water freezes in tho 1 « mI » ouiim of houses that are not warmed by ilrou , or by warm 1 u uiflusod by Dr . Arnott ' a and other admirable mvui tions ' i

      . . ,.. Tho mortality in tho country districts Avas at u « annual rate of 26 deaths in 1000 living , " "i tho town districts at tho rato of 82 in 1000 living : out of equw populations , thero woro six funerals i" t » o towns

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), June 2, 1855, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_02061855/page/6/