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      _ ___ ' who escaped ^ bufc -mas > afterwards , and broug t * be # re the magis-^ steeet He state ^ a * an excwse < to frighten , tba-misstonary away , but P ay s * -t ok bovcanarnifcted to the ijaua © fortwo ^^ rkenweU police court , on Tuesday , two were charged with , riotous conduct in ground of Trinity Church , Gray ' s Innroad . They had accompanied- the body ofi a friend ' s child to the ground ; and , being : Roman Catholics , they objected to the ; clergyman reading the ^ Protestant service . They therefore knocked the book out of Ms hands , and , commenced shovelling in the oai » tVi whioVi led tn a contest . between . them and the

      sexton and his assistants ,, and to their being given into custody of the police . A gentleman present ex * plained to the magistrate that , as the law prevented a Romanist minister from officiating in a Protestant burial ground , their custom is to have the- service read previous to nailing down the coffin ,. and after a portion of consecrated earth . has been placed with the body , the frienda of the deceased haveno . object ti on ¦; to burial in the parish ,, churchyaixfc but tljey object to the reading , of the , Protestant service . The magistrate expressedan , opinion that in . such -casea the service might be dispensed with -y but , the clergyman said that he was bound to deliver . it ; . The case was then adjourned , in order that application might , be made to the Bishop of . Londanibx the . discontinue , ance of the Protestant service in such cases ;

      John and Elizabeth Rogers were charged at the CierkenweH pplice-court on Tuesday , with cruelty to their child . It appeared that , the childr-a . little girl _ had been thrown on the parish four - times through the harsh treatment of its . parents . On Sunday evening , the landlord of the house , in , which the defendants lodge , sent ! his child , down the kitchen stairs to fetch water , and , as she was passing the coal-cellar , she . heard a slight knocking- at the door , and a . voice from within said , " Little girl , little girl , open the door ; I am so cold and hungry . " The child , being frightened , ran away and told her father , who went to the cellar , and found a little girl huddled in a corner , shivering , and praying ; for something

      to eat . Hejtook care of her , and sent an officer to investigate the matter . According : to the statement of a married wbman ^ wKcflive " s in the house ,: the . child was once brought home in a very bruised state ,. and with a sore finger ,. "I washed and cleaned her , " said the witness ,, " andput a poultice on her finger ; I left her in my room , and went down stairs . As ; I came tip I found that Mrs . Rogers had taken her from my room , and locked her up , and she was crying very much . Mrs . Rogers , however , forgot that she had not secured the second door , and the poor child put her hand out , and then I saw that the poultice was off the finger , and that it was bleeding . Although I'have frequently heard the child crying , I never

      saw anyone beating it . " The father stated that up to three o ' clock on Sunday the child had been' in ~ his Toom ,- and- that she -had—had—a-good dinner at one . In answer to this , the child herself ( who was very ragged and dirty ) stated that , after her breakfast , about the time " when the sun began to come out , " her mother put . her in the coal cellar ; that she had no dinner— " only some bread-and-butter which the . gentleman gave her "but that she was not whipped ; and that she . was shut up u because a gentleman and lady came to have their likenesses done" ( the father is a photo-, craphert . Mr . Birchmore , overseer of St . Pancras

      Union , said that , about six months ago the child ' s arm was broken , or seriously injured , by a blow from the female prisoner , who is the mother-in-law ; and the child said this was done in aiming a blow at her head with a poker , and that no one did anything fox the hurt , as she was always locked in the room ., An elder brother was produced for the defence , but his evidence only substantiated the charge . Eventually , it was determined that the child should be taken into the Union ; and , upon the father agreeing to pay a weekly sum , the two prisoners were discharged without any punishment for their long and Bystematio cruelty .

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      ALTERING A PARISH REGISTER . A ' < snreuLAR , case was tried on Tuesday at Oxford before Lord Campbell . The Reverend John Allen Giles , D . C . L ., was charged . with having married " Richard Pratt and . Jane Green on the 5 th of October , 1854 , and feloniously made in the marriage register-book of the said parish a certain false entry respecting the partloulara of the said marriage . The said , entry was alleged to be false in three particulars —firstly , in stating that the marriage took place on the-3 rd of October , whereas it took place on the 56 h , { secondly , in stating that the marriage took place by license , whereas there was no license ; and , thirdly , in stating that one Charlotte Tate was prenontuAt the marriage , and signed her mark . in , the regiiter-baok . as a witness , whereas the said Charlotte Tate was not present at the marriago , and did not oign ilver ro » rk in the regieter . " . Dr . GUm ( whoitaxnan . of . considerable literary

      attainments ) was curate of- Bamptcw in Oxfordshire , and Jane Green-was in his service . Tn& gjrl was engaged to Richard Plfatt , andon . the , 5 th of Octofcer , 1854 , Dr . GUes . marriedthemat the parish church at 6 o ' clock in the morning . They were ^ seen to enter the church by a farmer named Edwardes , and , from what he said , inquiries were made . On the 2 nd of the month , Dr . Gileahad obtained the keys of the chest where the registers of marriages were kept , and , on returning them to the parish clerk on the 5 th , he told him , as a secret which was not to be repeated , that a wedding had taken place there on that morningaddingthat the clerk should have

      , , a double feeif he kept the secret . Subsequently , the clerk found , an entry stating , that Pratt and Green , had been married on the 3 rd , and that Charlotte Tate ( alao a , servant . of Dr . Giles ) waa a witness . The afrair having led to a great deal ot gossip , Dr . Giles wrote , to the Bishop of Oxford on the 11 th of October , stating that he had in . fact married the couple on the morning of the 3 rd ,. but that , one o £ the entries being incomplete , they went to the church again on the morning of the 5 th , and that" a gossip of the village spread the report that they went to be married . " On the 24 th of October after an inquiry before the magistrates had . taken

      place , Dr . Giles wrote again to the Bishop , admitting that he had misrepresented the facts in his former letter * , and stating ; that , he had performed . the marriage on the 5 th , but that he did not know that it was uncanonical to marjry before eight o ' clock . He also acknowledged that there was no license , but said that he thought " the parties were answerable for the license . " He wrote again on the 26 th of October , explaining that his false statement arose out of * ' the dreadful prospect of felony , with fourteen years' transportation . " la the same letter he solemnly averred that no . " gain or advantage" to himself influenced him .

      " May I plead , my lord , _ that . when I recovered from the first pang of madness I forhade every one to . speak of misrepresenting the . facts , and . gave an account of the whole affair . to him , who stated it before the magistrates ; The sole cause of my so acting was that reckless rashness to which I have evertbeea liable ! in . doing the ? first thing that suggests itself to me ^ . . This was my impulse then . It . was notorious to all my family that this young woman was going to be married to the young ; man . I was at the time ~ overwlielined . with hard-work from various causes . Mr . Adams , being away , I had additional sermons . Iliad six pupils preparing for Oxford and the army , withjwhom . 1 "was . occupied six . hours a day ; and thirdly , my dear child belonging to , Christ Church . School , had been seat home in a fever , and with his life despaired of ; six nights had I sat up with my wife , watching his sufferings , "

      Further on , Dr . Giles thus explains his ignorance of his professional duties : —¦ " During the twenty-three years that I have been in orders I never practised my profession until , the last few years at Bampton ; - and even , there I have beenregarded as a mere help to others , leaving to them all parochial matters . The cause of this was the necessity of being ordained in orders to hold , a fellowship ; and so I am bitterly expiating , the crime ( too common ) of making holy orders a qualification for worldly advantages . " The letter concludes with an earnest appeal for meroy , the writer undertaking to perform any penance the Bishop might please , to impose , to give up his literary occupations , and devote himself to the Church , and to yield the proceeds of his labours for any length of time to the poor .

      Besides these facts , the evidence proved that Dr . Giles had for some time after the marriage paid Pratt 5 s . a week . through the medium of another person , and that subsequently he paid the passage-money to Australia of' Pratt and his wife . On the Doctor being taken into custody ^ , he said to Charlotte Tate ( after having whispered something to her ) , " Can't you swear that Richard . Pratt and Jano < Green were married on Tuesday ( the 3 rd ) between-teight and nine . o'clock ? " The girl answered ,

      Yea , I can ; " but the Doctor afterwards said to the police officer , " I will tell tho truth . It was intended that they should , be married on Tuesday , the' 3 rd , and myself , my son , Jane Green , and , I believe , Charlotte Tate , were at the church , waiting ; while > waiting and expecting Riohard Pratt would come , I made , the entry in the register . Richard Pratt , did not come , and I afterwards married , them on . the . Thursday morning , before eight o'clock , at their : request , because Pratt ' s master would scold him if he was

      away from his work . The defence was that the Dootor was . bo overwhelmed with literary labour , that , through utter recklessness , he had made mistakes . Several clergymen and . publishers spoke highly of his character ; but the jury returned a verdict of Guilty , with n recommendation to mercy . Lord Campbell said there appeared to be no foundation for the suspicion that las desire to get Jane Green married and out of the way arose from some immoral act . He sentenced him , however , % o twelve months' imprisonment but without hard labour .

      KBAI / ER . OE J ^» D 0 J »> DURef& , TfiiB > WiEBB * i (^ Ftem the > ll&gistntr ~ Cteneral ' -&Iiepor { i ' ) TttEr-winter's ^ odd t >! as passed'away , but its effects still appear in t * te registers , on . which ,, during the week that ended on Saturday , last-, the . deaths of 1560 persons are inscribed . ' Ttie deaths in the last seven . weeks have been 10 , 968 ' and have thus exceeded the weekly averages of the year , round by 2288 ; If we revertr to the six cold weeks , when , the mean temperature was . 28-4 deg ., the varying influence of cold on . life at different ages becomes more apparent than it was in the calculation that was based on five weeks . Thus , after deducting the average deaths ; at each age , an excess remains referable to the extreme cold i n the numbers of 419 under the age of 20 ; of 200 at the age of 20—40 ; of-892 'at'tb © age of 40-60 ; of 752 at the age of 60—80 ; and of 2 O 5 attbe age of 80 and upwards . »

      The cholera , m six weeks or 1854 was four times as fatal as the cold in 1855 , and , although , its fatality i ^ - creased as age advanced , it followed a different law : thus in 10 , 000 living at the age of 20— 40 , the epidemic cholera . was < fatalto 24 ,. the cold to 2 ; in 10 , 000 persons of-the- age of 40- —6 fr , cholera was fatal , to 39 , cold to 9 ; at-the age of 60—80 , the proportions to the same number ( 10 , 000 ) living were , cholera , 64 , cold , . 51 ; at the last age ( 80—^ 100 ) the . proportions . changed to cholera , 9 G ; cold , 207 / ^ The average deaths from pneumonia ,, bronchitis , and asthma in six weeks are 951 j ; the deaths from these causes rose to 2349 in-the six , cold weeks . Influenza , hooping-coughy croup , and a few other diseases of the zymotic class , mortification , cancer , scrofula , apoplexy , paralysis , epilepsy , heart disease , terminated fatally in proportions above the ! average ; so did , consumption , but to a slight extent only . ; The cold , therefore , brings quickly to a fatal end many chronic diseases which it does not induce . Last week the births of 838 boys and 888 girls , in all 1726 children , were registered in Lbndon . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 the average number was ; 1551 ,

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      MISCELLANEOUS . Crystal-Paj ^ ce , -SroENHAM . ^ Tha su ccess which has attended the establishment of a news-room in the Crystal . Palace , has induced the directors to commence the formation of a free library ( available to visitors ) in connexion therewith , . The artistic : and scientific works already collected forthe use * of , the company ' s staff -will form . the nucleus : of . the new library . The extension of the company ' s plan has , called forth , large : donations from Messrs . W , and R . Chambers , and other great publishers , . as well as : liberai . promises of . support from , many distinguished friends of education ..

      Fatal Gun Accu * esx . —Mr , Brpw » j a solicitor of Walsingham , was snipe shooting in , company with his nephew , a boy about . fifteen years of , age , when the gun of the former accidentally went off ,: and . shot the youth , who-at first was not aware ,-o £ . the . iact »_ .. ThCLHext minute he sank into the arms of his . compapion , observing , " Never mind , uncle—you could not help it . " He died on the evening of the same day . Earl Stanhope expired on the 2 nd of March , in his seventy-fourth year . He is succeeded in the earldom by his only son , Viscount Mahon , the well known author and literary executor of the late Sir Robert Peel .

      Shipwreck and Loss of Life . The schooner Statlra , Captain Williams , has been wrecked on the Laugharne Sands j not far from the spot where the Queen of the West recently met a similar fate . The captain , the mate , and two seamen were drowned ; and from the testimony of a lad who survived we gather the particulars'of the case . The weather was foggy , and the sea . heavy ) the captain and crew , immediately upon the vessel going ashore , took to the boat , which , however , capsized ; and all except the boy perished . Even he was three times washed from th ' e boat ; but eventually reached the shore , in safety ^ though greatly exhausted . Upon examination , it appears that the vessel , having struck upon sand , received no serious injuries , and that tne captain and crew would have had a good , chance of saving , their lives had they remained .

      Obstruction by Firk of an English Steamer — The Bona journals announce tho total destruction by liro of tho English steamer Petrel , of 820-horao power , which had arrived there a , few , days before from Sobiiatojiol to load a cargo of hay , and at tho same time to tnko in tow . an Austrian vessel , also laden with buy . JJ ? t » veasola had their cargoes on board , and wore preparing to sail on the 14 th or 16 th ult . ; on tho 12 th , at haltpast Bix in the morning , a thick smoke was seen to issue from the Petrel , on perceiving which , tho Inspector ot Customs instantly boarded her with nil tho men lie could muster . It ia not aa yet known what occasioned the fire , but it showed itself first in tho hold whoro the coal , was . stowed , ; thenco it gained tho galley , and afterwards tho hay , when , the flame 3 spreading rapidly , all hope of saving tho vessel was abandoned . Visit ok tub Qukkn to the Wounded Soldikus at Chatham . —Her Majesty and Prince Albert , on Saturday last , proceeded to Chatham , and visited tho hofpital at Fort Pitt . Tho number of wounded in tat >

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    • Leader (1850-1860), March 10, 1855, page 226, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2081/page/10/