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      N Proposing The Health, Of Her Majesty's...

      and by a late telegram we learn that it has conceded ' all that has been demanded of it by the Germanic Confederation . What has been done is the abrogation of the whole state constitution with reference to Holsteiu . A letter in the Gazette du . Midl gives an interesting account of the progress making by ' the Russians in taking possession of Villafranca and Nice . They are driving out the English colony at the latter place , and at the former place the Itussian ilng was flying from twenty-four ships at the date of the letter , and a large reinforcement was expected , to greet the arrival of the Admiral Prince Coustantine . Not a bad display of naval power to be drawn thither by the attraction of " a few coalsheds !"

      Turkey , both European and Asiatic , is in a very disturbed state , with threatemngs of the outbreak of a bloody and desolating religious war . At Genoa , for some time past , agents , both Turkish and Christian , have been buying arms and despatching them to the Levant . And from Beyrout we have intelligence of an absolute insurrection . Omar PashaNvas at Bagdad " surrounded by difficulties , " and the mail communications cut off . In tlie home news the appointment of the Prince of Wales to be a Colonel in the army is a notable event . His Highness attained his seventeeth year on Tuesday , and his brevet was published in the Gazette of" that evening . At present , it can only he said that he has a splendid career laid open to Mm ; if he will follow it greatly there is no limit to the popularity he may win , both with the army and with the country at large . -

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      1212 THE LEAD Ell . [ No . 451 , November 13 , jj 58 . ¦

      Where Are The Police ?—The Fire Season I...

      Where are the Police ?—The fire season in the metropolis witnessed one on Wednesday morning which raged with great fury in Fleet-street * destroy ing much property . A feature connected with this conflagration deserves to be noticed—we mean the difficulty of obtaining the assistance of the police , and yet we perceive that in some of the papers credit is . given , to the police " for having made the discovery of the fire . That mistake must have arisen , we imagine , from the police having themselves put our contemporaries'iii possession of the information . On the occasion of which we speak the fire was discovered by a passer-by , who aroused the inhabitants of the burning houses , and shouted "

      Police ! " loud enough to be heard in St . Paul s-churchyard , but a long time elapsed before any of the force made their appearance- There seems also not to have been the usual promptitude on the part of the fire brigade . It too frequently happens , especially in long and cold nights , that the police are found in groups , and not dispersed up and down , their beats as they should be . It is also observable that our night police are too much in the habit of holding conferences with notorious women when they should be attending to their duty . Another feature of this fire which should be specially noted was that the supply of water dropped off for a time at the most critical period .

      Desecration of the Dead at Camden Town . — - Whilst the public mind is so justly excited by the painful and disgraceful incidents attendant upon the ¦ wholesale removal of bodies from the burial-ground of St . Martin ' s-in-the-Fields , at Camden-town , the fact appears to be overlooked that that occurrence is but a sample , upon a comparatively small scale , of what must before long take place in every district around the metropolis , unless timely steps be taken to prevent it . The establishment of suburban cemeteries , some years ago , was but a temporary expedient to meet an urgent requirement ; but it served only to postpone the adjustment of an important sanitary question , and to transfer the

      evil complained of , in accumulated bulk , from the various parish burial-grounds within the metropolis to other places in its immediate neighbourhood . These cemeteries are upon every ground -wholly inadequate to the purpose they assume , and have been supposed to meet . The Board of Health , in Its report to Government , dated 1850 , stated " that the existing cemeteries cannot be used permanently for burials , not one of them possessing the conditions essential to places of sepulture ; that tho soil is unsuitable in nil but one ; that the chapel accommodation is wholly inadequate ; that the position of six out of the eight is urban rather than suburban ; that the remaining two hav « an increasing population

      surrounding them , and that thoy must all be closed . " Of course from this swooping condemnation must be excepted the London Necropolis or Woking Cemetery , which , though not in immediate contiguity to town , Is within an easy railway distance of it . In this ground , so extensive in its dimensions , overcrowding or desecration of tho dead by romoval of bodies is impossible , it being amongst tho provisions of tho act of Parliament under which tlio company is empowered , that a separate grave shall bo provided for each interment , and that it shall not bo reopened , except at the request of the friends of the d ' ocoaaod , for tlio purpose of tho interment of another member qf tlio family . Tho question is one deserving serious attention . —Morning Chronicle .

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      COURTS . At Worship -street , on Monday , a chemist named Griffin was charged . with being intoxicated while mining up medicines . Had the woman for whom he had made some pills , while he was in this state , taken them , she must have been poisoned , for they were found to contain fifty-nine grains of morphia , instead of nineteen . The magistrate justly regarded the offence as a serious one , and required the prisoner to find bail . He was locked up in default . and the

      Richard Koper , charged with arson , causing loss of his children ' s lives , underwent another examination on Saturday . A portion of the burnt stair was brought forward * by one of the firemen , to give proof of the place where the fire had its origin . The gasman who attended on the morning of the lire described the condition of the meter , and stated that the burners were partly turned on . Mr . Trail ! said there could be no doubt the fire was not the result of accident , and the prisoner must be remanded for the completion of the depositions .

      A cab-driver of the name of Field lately attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself from "Waterloobridge under circumstances of great distress , as appeared from the inquiry that followed . It was further ascertained that the man had all along borne a respectable character . In consequence of the publicity given to the facts at the time various small sums of money have been received by the magistrate of Bow-street for the u ^ e of the unhappy sufferer , and Mr . Jardine has announced that these had now amounted to nearly 70 / .

      At the Guildhall , on "Wednesday , Oliver , the sharebroker , was examined on another charge of tampering with shares entrusted to his charge . In this case his victim was Mr . Swan , a gentleman of property , who appears to have sheen one of his most intimate friends , and to have reposed unlimited confidence in him . Oliver sold a large quantity of Australian and Crystal Palace shares for his own benefit , and forged the deeds of transfer . lie was committed for trial in this case on a charge of forgery and larceny .

      Sir William Magnay , late ah Alderman of the City of London , came before the Insolvent Debtors' Court under the Protection Act . His petition was opposed on various grounds ; among others , that lie was a trader , the debts on the schedule amounting to 50 , 000 / . The Court decided that the insolvent was entitled to have a day named for a final order , and appointed the old December for the purpose . At the Court of Bankruptcy , Mr . Henry John Hall , of Mark-lane Chambers , a ship and insurance broker , applied for his certificate . The Commissioner , in consideration of the bankrupt having traded for nearly two 3 * ears when he must have known that he was insolvent , suspended the certificate ( third class ) for six month . * , and granted protection in the mean time , observing that the suspension was not for a longer period because the bankrupt had kept his accounts in a proper manner .

      At Marylebone , Mr . Broughton has shown that the opinions held by the City Shallow with regard to the very poor who strive to get an honest living , are not participated in by his fellow-magistrates , who do not all look upon costcrmongcrs and shoe-blacks as mero " obstructives , " to be cleared out of sight without mercy . On Tuesdaj r , 364 S brought a decent lad before Mr . Broughton , charging him with obstructing the footpath in the exercise of his professional duties as a shoeblack . The chief clerk remarked : You don ' t take up parties wheeling perambulators along the pavement , and yet they take up a deal more room than these boys' boxes . Constnblo—But they " move on . " Mr . Phillips—That

      don ' t matter . They take up as much room . Mr . Broughton—These boys' boxes do not take up much room ; not so much as an umbrella , or a , a a Welshwoman with her pair of milk pails . I don ' t understand the principle upon which you arc going ; but this I know , that some of theBe boys are supported by some of tho first gentlemen of tho land , such aa Lord Shaftesbury and others . Constable—But they belong to the brigade , and keop off tho footpath . Mr . Broughton—That matters not . These boys must bo allowed to got a living . You said , constable , you had orders from your superintendent to lock these boys up ? Yes , sir , if they don't " keep moving . " Mr . Broughton—If they keep moving thoy can t black boots . I shall discharge tho boy , but ndviao him to keep off tho pathway .

      An official inquiry , instituted by tho Board of Trade , has boon held at Greenwich before Mr . Traill , assisted by Captain Harris , concerning tho loss of tho schooner Jane May , on tho 19 th ult . Tho vessel sailed from Antwerp for Venice with a cargo of railway iron , and sunk to the eastward of Dungeucss , and became n total wreak . It woa alleged that tho commander , Captain Hay , was incapacitated by intoxication for managing the ship . T / Uo magiatrato directed an adjournment of tir o case . A magisterial investigation began at tho Westminster polico-court on Saturday , and which may occupy n good deal of time . It ia tho case of tlio Saloon Omnibus

      Company of the metropolis against the General Omnibus Company , and involves the question whether one com pany is at liberty to put down the other , and thereby to secure a monopoly of transit in the streets of London The Saloon Company charge the General Company with conspiring to ruin them , first by the " nursing" system with respect to omnibuses ; and , second , by slanderous reports and other unlawful behaviour . Free-trade in omnibuses is a principle which the people of London will be anxious to see maintained , and ' is to be hoped that the issue now brought into court will succeed in the full establishment of that principle . The evidence given against the General Omnibus Com-^^ . . _ _ L . _ ^^ m W . _ m ^ ¦ - . ^ * ___ . _ ^ * _ ¦ A . ' t „ k i i ¦ ° ^^^^^ ^^ B

      pany was certainly damaging to that Company but their reply to it has not yet been heard . The case was again proceeded with on Thursday ; little progress was made ; and again was it adjourned for a week . The magistrate , amid a good deal of squabbliii " declared his opinion to be that the . nursing system was an evidence of conspiracy , unless it could be shown that steps had been taken by the General Omnibus Company to discontinue it ; and accordingly evidence of that nature was again tendered . The efforts o £ the counsel for the defendants to shift the question were stopped by the magistrate , and the latter-was therefore cheered'by the lookers-on .

      On Wednesday , John Pollard , of Wigan , proprietor of the Wigan J-Jxamiiier and the Colliery Guardian waa committed for trial on a charge of forging scrip , representing shares in the Wigau . Building Society . It is supposed that the prisoner's robberies amount to 200 o / . A question affecting a considerable portion of house property subject to the powers of the New Building Act was brought before Mr . i 3 eadon , at Marlborough-street . The act requires a certain space for light and air to be left in the rear of a house . The defendant summoned in this case—Mr . Higgs , Charles-street—it appears , had covered over with a skylight the space required ' to be left open ; and it was contended that , as provision was made for light and air , the spirit of the act had been complied with . The magistrate , however , seemed to think otherwise , but adjourned the case for further consideration .

      At the Mansion House , another prosecution has been instituted by the Tweed Fishery Commissioners against a fish-salesman for being in possession of salmon caught in the lliver Tweed after the season had closed . Mr . Meyer was the person summoned , but the case against him could not be sustained , and a summons against his wife was refused . At the Southwark police-court a man named Mathews was charged with haying unlawfully disposed-of the dead body of a child by placing it on the steps of

      Southwark-bridge . The child was an illegitimate one , placed in the prisoner ' s care by its parents , they paying him a small weekly stipend . The poor littla creature died a few days ago , Lut the corpse could not be sent to the parents , as their residence was unknown . To avoid the expense of buiial himself , the prisoner placed the body on the steps of Southwark-bridge . The offence is a misdemeanour , and the magistrate intimated that he would bo indicted at the sessions by the parish authorities .

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      CRIMINAL RECORD . The Bkadforij rui . soNiNGS . ~ On Monday , Hudson , the chemist , who sold tho poison , Ooddurd , his assistant , who actually served it out , and Neil , the comfit-maker , who bought it and made it into lozengos , were again brought before the magistrates , when Mr . Kimuiiiifjton , the chemist , gave in evidence the result of his analysis . It appeared that one-third of each lozenge was potion . The prisoners were fully committed for trial on the charge of manslaughter . Hail was accepted . On Saturday , three more deaths were added to the fearful list ot calamities arising out of this awful catastrop he , making the total numbor of deaths amount to 20 ; while upwards of 200 people are knowu to bo ill from tho Hleots of tho lozenges . Tho totul amount of injury caused l » y this villanoua transaction will probably novev lie

      known , . Tub Auohtion Case at Stikmng . — 'Iho trim 01 " William Reid wus opened on Wednesday at tho Jlig'j Court of Justiciary , Edinburgh . It will be rcmcuibua-u that in tho month of September tho death of a sorvaiitgirl took place at I ' olmout , near Stirling , through ilio attempt to procure abortion , and that tho present prisoner and a young surgeon , named Thomas Uirdwoou , were charged with tlio crime . Immediately after tlio fatal result , Girdwood committed suicide , and Koid wna captured in endeavouring to muko his escape . Tlio bum of tho ovidoncc taken wus that of tho medical men wiw had examined tho body of tho deceased , and its tendency was to show that tho operation had been performed by a professional person . Tho trial wuh »« - journed

      . . , Bioamy . —U is said that tho institution of a orlminnl chargo of bigamy against tho Hon . Major \ ' ' , ' / Imh been found uutoniiblo bytlio authorities . — Kdut \> ar < jn Express . , . Tim Muniiifiii by a Maniac—Mr . Greon , tlio >» ikutunato madman , who recently murdorod his aunt «»" sister at Pooaton , nenr Luvonlmm , Suflblk , m « - uee " removed from tho county gnol at Bury St . luiniunua to Hoxton House Luuatlo Asylum .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 13, 1858, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13111858/page/4/