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      A™™*™* 20.1866.1 The Hadeb. 399

      a ™™*™* 20 . 1866 . 1 THE HADEB . 399

      Depots Of Regiments.—The Authorities At ...

      Depots of Regiments . —The authorities at the Horse Guards have it in contemplation to remove the depots cf regiments on the British establishment from the Provisional Battalion at Chatham to various parts of the country , -as it is at present . intended to concentrate the depots of those regiments serving at the Cape of Good Hope , at Colchester , and those stationed in New South Wales-and the other Australian colonies , at Templemore . -CouOT-MAicnAii . — Mr . John Francis Perry , thirdclass Assistant Engineer ( acting ) on board the Cyclops , steam frigate , at Sheerness , has heen tried by a courtmartial on board the Waterloo , flag-ship , at the same place , on a charge of violent and outrageous conduct , and of seriously assaulting Mr . Mngford , second master , wlose right eye was so much hurt by a tumbler thrown at him by the accused , that it is feared the sight has been irreparably injured . The charges naving been fully ' proved , Perry was sentenced to be imprisoned in the gaol at Maidstone for eighteen months , to be kept to hard labour , and to be dismissed from the service . In his defence / the prisoner , through his advocate , said he had been drinking for some days , and he threw himself on the mercy of the court .

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      ~ ' ¦ ¦ ~~ si MISCHLIANEOUS . ^ The Court . —The Queen and Prince Albert were present o : at the Braemar gathering of Highlanders , who assembled si for their customary athletic sports . They were accom- t ( panied by their Royal Highnesses -the Princess Royal , o the Princess Alice , Princess Helena , Princess Louisa , y a 3 d his Royal Highness Prince Alfred . . tl The Haxvest . —The crops are now nearly all housed p in the English counties ; in some localities , indeed ; c hiarvest operations are entirely'finished . The reports , o Sot the most part , are cheering ; but in the neighbour- c hoods of Nottingham , Norwich , and Reading , the wheat o lias been damaged a good deal by rain . There is a c pretty general tendency , however , to decline in the p market prices . a The Health of Boulogne . — Some French and c English medical gentlemen , residing at Boulogne , again \ vrrite to the Times to assert that the general condition of d that town is healthy . ' 1 Manin ani > the Guns for Alexandria .. —Signor r Manin ,. under date Paris , September 12 th , writes to the c Times to deny the truth of the rumour that the sub- a scription he had set on foot for the purchase of guns to t te mounted at the fortress of Alexandria in Piedmont ( ¦ Bad been prohibited by the French Government . i - The Early Closing Movement . —The Hon . Secre- i . tary of the Early Closing Association has transmitted to 1 us a long document liaving reference more especially to 1 the late hours observed in chemists' shops , and the un- j necessary habit of keeping those shops open on Sundays . ; Me also quotes the following statement made by a young jnan engaged in the trade alluded to : — " I have been about eight years in the chemist business- My father was an independent man , but , dying when I was young , and there being . a largeish family of us , I was put to the "business early . I was apprenticed to a country druggist Jbr six years , with a premium of 100 / . During that period , I had no opportunity of improving my mind , and therefore remained just as I left school—or , rather , I retrograded . I then took a situation in the town of : — at a salary of 601 . per year , having to board and lodge myself . I remained there two years . I then came to London , and , after a search of six weeks , obtained a situation on the borders of the city at a salary of 307 ., with bed and . board . In the fashionable Westend chemists' shops , they consider it quite a favour to take a young man from the country without any salary at all for the first year or two . In this , my first London situation , the hours were , all the year round , from seven till ten , and occasionally it was later ; on Saturday night the hour of closing -was always twelve o ' clock . ( Iu the town trade , one can scarcely ever get a comfortable meal , being subject to constant interruptions through customers coming in ) . After remaining tliere for a year and a half , I took my present situation at the West-end , at the same salary of 301 . If a young man asked more , ho would scarcely be listened to . Our liours hero « to from seven till eleven , and till twelve on Saturdays . On Sunday , wo begin at eight in tlie morning , and keep open till eleven o ' clock at night , and have , I think , raoro customers than on any other day ; but chiefly for small quantities of articles , such as tooth and seidlitz powders , patent medicines , scents , hair oil , and carmine . I l ) clievo my case is by no means an exceptional one ; in fact , I know a largo number of young men who are similarly circumstanced , many of them being personal friends of mine . "—Mr . Lilwnll , the Secretary , suggests that chemists' shops should be closed on week-days at eight in the evening , or , at the latest , nine ; that persons thould make it a point of conscienoo to chop in the course of the day ; that physicians , whenever it is practicable , should write their prescriptions early ; that chemists ' shops should bo closed on Sundays , one person remaining in the house to sorvo any customer who may have an urgent occasion formedicino , and who in that case would ring at the bell ; and that on tho day of rest , people should refrain from purchasing merely frivolous and unnecessary articles . With theso suggestions we entirely concur , and trust tlicy mny bo carried out . Thb West Indikb . —Jamaica is tranquil , and there is _ . but little news stirring in the island . The weather has of to ¦ . ¦ i ; ; I t I i - r - o Y a a t e e Ii ir 1 , is , : o n ip ro II s , j- in ro al ts at ns so le , ts' n- an ild ) lo in- jly is las

      , ¦ heen intensely hot , and one or "two sudden deaths have prc occurred in consequence . Fever is prevalent . —A terrific the storm passed over some of the islands on the 13 th ult ., rec doing immense damage . It was felt principally at sta Grenada and Barbadoes . "The wind blew aperfect hurricane , and a gentleman , -writing : from Carriacou on the th « following day , says that the storm was . one of the moot bee violent on record since the great hurricane of 1780 . It am does not appear that any loss of life has resulted ; but »• , numerous houses were unroofed or quite destroyed , and sel the shipping in the harbours has suffered . —The Deme- fin rara Court of Policy has been occupied -with various Btr important measures ; among them , one for amending the pri laws relating to vagrancy , and another for raising a loan © oi for the payment of bounty to Indian emigrants . The thi former measure is said to be much needed on account of * el the number of idle Creoles who prefer begging to work- m < ing . —A serious riot between two rival parties of coolies , ao who were celebrating some religious festival , has oc- h © curred at plantation Blackenburg , on the West Coast , ear Many persons were severely wounded , but no Iive 3 were at lost , and the disturbances were put down by a body of lai rural constables . 6 * The Admhsustbaoton of Jv & blce . —Some corre- ( f < spondents of the Times have been discussing the evils m which arise from the want of a public prosecutor . Oae ** them —* 'An Attorney" — -writes ; —" There are in- h « stances of magistrates clerks resorting to intimidation P obtain prosecutioiis , and there is a case of very recent occurrence where the clerk of a district where an offence m was supposed to have been committed , advised that ^ there was not sufficient evidence even to justify an . ap- f prehension ; notwithstanding this , either the magistrate's * clerk of another district ^ or his jackall , the policeman , obtained a warrant to apprehend , under-which the ac- a : cused was committed for trial ; the policeman was bound tl over to prosecute , the magistrate ' s clerk wlio advised the *] committal of course conducting the prosecution , and 4 he ? policeman in another character subpoenaed the witnesses ei and got tip the evidence . Mark the sequel . The ac- p , cu 3 ed was incarcerated in prison for three months pre- ti vious to trial ( it not being a bailable offence ) , the in- E dictment , under the direction of the judge , was ignored n bv the grand jury , the magistrate ' s clerk , as of course , Cl received the reward of his labour , the costs of the prose- h cution , and a subscription was opened in the parish , to tl which every respectable inhabitant subscribed , to pro- n vide for the defence , thus making a martyr of the ac- s cused . Other means of jobbing in prosecutions are re- c ' sorted to . We often see the evidence of tlree policemen a upon the depositions where , under different management , ^ the evidence of one -would suffice . One policeman takes ^ the accused , another finds the stolen property , which he r gives to a third to take charge of , and a fourth has some < particular link in the chain manufactured for him , and then all four are bound in recognizances-to appear at ( the trial . This bv stem of multiplying witnesses 3 s a 1 crying evil , and ought to be discouraged .. Cases , too , < have arisen of policemen enticing young persons into the ¦' commission of crime merely for what they get out of the ] prosecution . " ¦ ¦ ] The Mysterious Fires ts Bedfordv—Dr . Herbert < Barker writes to the Times on the subject of the strange " fires which burst out in a house in Bedford some few weeks ago , an account of which appeared in the Leader ' of the 23 rd ult . After repeating the theory promulgated at the time—to the effect that the ignited sulphur and the phosphorus from the lucifer matches used in the fumigation , and which overflowed the basin , charged the house with inflammable vapours whichv burst spontaneously into flame at various intervals—the writer proceeds : —" During my experiments on -this question , I have become acquainted with a compound , by which any textile fabric may be so affected as to- ignite spontaneously when exposed to the air ; and I bave been struck by the resemblance of this combustion and its accompanying odour to the phenomena observed in the bouse in Horne-lane . For obvious reasons , I reserve further explanations ; but it appears to me very probable that ere 'long it will be discovered that , under certain favourable circumstances , a compound may be formed , readily capable of producing such fire 3 as those which wore recently witnessed in this town . " The Park for Finsbury . —Tho committee , consisting of deputations from the vestry of Islington , tho Board of Works for the Holborn district , the vestries of Clerkenwell , St . Luke ' s , and other parishes within tho borough of Finslmry , appointed to confer as to th o measures to be adopted for obtaining a park for tho borough of Finsl > ury , have received a communication / rom Lord Palmeraton asking to be furnished with a plan of tbe proposed park and an estimuto of tho cost of the undertaking . The committee , in compliance with tho request of Lord Pairnerston , have resolved that n survey and estimate bo forthwith prepared of the land as near Ulighbury station as possible for the formation of the proiiosod park . Tho vestry of Isliugton have voted 100 Z . to covor the expense of making the survey and eotimate , but suggested at the same time that other parishes and boards advocating the proposed measure should contribute proportionately towards the expense to bo incurred . Wt-comjik Churchyard . —Iu a few days , the tnrnpike-road will pass over tho whole of the western side of High Wycombo churchyard . The ecclesiastical outhoritioB , together with several of tho friends of tho persons interred , are understood to have consented to tUo im-^^ the re the been and S ., self fined i ( pray i , i the . ! heen j at f . ( 3 8 . her ii tt tt , _ * j , l d ie » ei * _ i _ t d » _ o i _ > 1 f t es ie ae ! d at a ) O he ho } rt ge « v ler ed nd he be " la r 0 _ T ' nv ta- lck ) m use hor hat ) ur _ Hlv re , tine , > k _ uffh j be t , rv jton ) ark Thc p l _ s bo tfon Tho enae t tue ' the \ t 0 _ , _ lc of tho- sons im-

      . ' \ ^^^ . B ^ BB ^^ nBB ^ B aBiBW ^ aM provem * nt . It is also in contemplation -to 1 teow bade wall which encloses this bnrial-groun . d towards the ctory , in order to ibrm a new street to the railwaystation . Modekn Diablerie . —A long rigmarole' is told hy Court Journal , based on a . pamphlet said to have « printed on the Continent hy the " Princess de S ., " setting forth that " the young Princess Eleanore de 1 ' thedaughter-hirlaw of the other ^ r inoees , soiifcerto the devil at about fifteen yeara of age , while conin a nunnery at Hammersmith , or T ? aa Hinder A strong impression that she did so ; that fihe -was Snmd . ing one day " with a most fearful expression © f countenance" ( to his Satanic Majesty ) for releafle firom nunnery , which , ehe had-vainly requested from-her . . relatives for some time ; that , on hearing at the « ame moment that her guardian had arrived to remove her , she accepted the fact as a token that her unholy prayer had heard ; that she rushed do-wn . the stairs " with an unearthly shriek ; " that she thenceforth said she Bhould die twenty-one years of age ( that being the time atipalated for ) ; that she became very melancholy and religions in consequence ; that her parente and husband for she afterwards married ) tried in vain to relieve Ler mind by " dissipation ; " ( ! ) and that finally she did die two days before her twenty-first birthday , " suddenly in chair , full dressed , for a ball . " This is certainly a pretty little romance for the dull season . The National Sunday League . —A . meeting of the members of the National Sunday League was held on Monday evening in St . Martin ' s Hall . The object of the society , as set forth in the advertisement convening the meeting , is " to obtain the opening of the public museums , libraries , and gardens on Sunday , in London and in the towns of England , Ireland , aad Scotland , for the instruction , recreation , and innocent amusement of the working classes . " Sir Joshua Walmsley , M . P ., President of the League , occupied the chair , and about ght hundred persons , many of whom were ladies , wer » present . There were also present delegates from JNottingham , Northampton , Edinburgh , the Potteries , and Eastbourne . Several speeches were delivered , and a motion in accordance with the proposed objects was carried by a large majority , only twenty hands being held up in favour of an amendment seeking to pledge the meeting to existing arrangements , combined with the more frequent opening of places of amusement and xnstruction at times on the week days when the working classes may be enabled to attend . A further resolution , affirming , '' That this meeting is of opinion that the music in the Parks of the metropolis and in other towns of tho kingdom on Sundays has been productive of great moral good , " was agreed to , and the meeting then came to a conclusion . . Health of London . —The deaths registered m London , which in the previous week were 1100 , were , m the-week that ended last Saturday , 1087 . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number of deaths was 1355 , and the average rate ot mortality of that period would produce in the present increased population nearly 1500 deaths ; but , if the deaths caused by cholera at two periods in whicb . it prevailed be withdrawn from the calculation , it will appear that tho health of London , as measured by the mortality , is now ns good as is usual in September . Diarrhoea shows a further decrease , the deaths last week being 116 , of which 97 were among children not two years old . Four deaths are returned as caused by cholera m London . There were only six deaths from small-pox ; but one of these , the case of a child who died at 1 , Tripp ' s-buildings , Tufton-street , Westminster , occurred in circumstances which the medical attendant relates as follows : — " Tho whole family , consisting of eight persons , eat , drink , and sleep in one very email room ; four of them are ill with small-pox , none , apparently , have been vaccinated , and it is stated that tlic same disease carried of four children , in the family on a former occa-Bion . " The deaths from scarlatina , which , for some previous weeks have been about 30 , rose last week to 51 . Thirteen children died from want of breast-milk and from inanition . One person died of intemperance . A mendicant , aged 30 years , died in tho Chelsea Workhouso of scurvy . —Last week , the births of 814 boys and 7 * 39 Birla . ™ all 1553 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-65 , tho average number was 1416 . —From tlie Regutrar-General ' s Weekly Return . The Newcasti-e Commercial Ba . nk . — Letters from Aldonnan Kennedy and from Mr . F . John Law , who , it will be recollected , were concerned in tho recent purchase of tho Newcastle Commercial Bank , have boon pub- - lished , exonerating Mr . Robert Keating , M . P ., fronx any knowledge of James Sadlcir ' s misappropriation of tho funds of tho bank to the purposes of tho Tipporary Bank . Mr . Law also asserts that he too was mot consulted -with respect to tho appropriation in question . Mr . Kennedy states that ho knew nothing of tho act till the 5 th of March . These letters have drawn forth one from Mr . Walker , the Newcastle manager of tbe bank , addressed to tho Gateshcad Observer , in which , the writer quoto 3 from a letter of Mr . Kennedy to himself distinctly charging Moss / e . Keating and Law with participation in tuc alleged discounting , which , tho alderman adds , was unknown to him . dou > in Tasmania . —Some very oxtensivo &>\ a . aig-6 'nKB have been discovered iu Tasmania .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1856, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20091856/page/11/