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      who was herself of very bad character . On Monday night deceased was iu "her house , and with her two men and two women ; ( street-walkers ) . The prisoner , who appeared to be mad drunk * rushed , in , in a violent passion , and , attacked one of the men , whom he threw from the , top of a flight of stairs to the bottom . He then [ furiously assaulted the two women , and , on the deceased interfering , he struck her violently on the bosom w ith his fist ,, and also kicked her . She fell to the ground groaning heavily . The prisoner afterwards continued his ill-usage , kicking the woman until she was nearly insensible . The result was that she died a few hours afterwards . —The- prisoner was remanded until

      today . WnxiAM Winchelsea Bevan , lately a clerk in the Deposit and General Life Assurance Company , has been acquitted at . the Central Criminal Court on a charge of stealing certain orders for the payment of money . It appeared probable that an implied authority had been given to the prisoner to deal with the moneys of the company as his own , and that he had paid the accounts in question , although not at the time expected . Several other indictments were brought » forward , to all of which the prisoner pleaded Not Guilty ; and he was retained in custody , in order to give the prosecutors time to consider whether or not they would proceed with the charges .

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      TERAT / TTT OF LONDON I > UBING THE WEEK . ( From the Registrar-GeneraVs Weekly Return . ) The mortality of London is still higher than it should be in the beginning of June , a month which is usually the . healthiest in the year ; but the returns of the last two weeks prove that the public health is approaching a more satisfactory state . Last week , 1087 persons , of whom 565 were males , and 522 females , died . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 , the average number was 931 , and , if this be raised in a certain proportion as allowance for increase of population , it becomes 1024 . There was an excess in the deaths of last week of 63 above the estimated amount . Of the 1087 deaths , 515 , or nearly half , occurred under 20 years of age ; only 25 occurred at 80 years and upwards . Of 235 deaths , which are ascribed to diseases of the zymotic class , 186 were amongst young persons not more than 20 years old , 25 occurred at the ages 20—40 , 12 at 40—60 , 11 at 60—80 , and one at a more advanced age . Of diseases in that class , scarlatina , which was fatal in 5 , 3 cases , is at present the most prevalent . Next in the number of cases referred to them are typhus and hooping-cough ; from each of these , 43 deaths have been registered . Small-pox numbers 22 , diarrhoea 16 , and measles 10 . Three deaths from scarlatina occurred in the sub-district of Gray ' s Inn-lane , and 3 in that of Poplar . The deaths of 2 persons are returned as caused by intemperance . Last week , the births of 870 boys and 840 girls , in all 1710 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845—54 , the average number was 1414 .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . The Camp on the Curragh of Kildare progresses rapidly . There is now accommodation for more than 3500 men . Two streets , each , forty feet wide , extend a distance of about three-quarters of an English mile ; and there are * also two cross-streets , about fifteen or eighteen feet in width , with a . square in the centre . The hflta aro plainly but neatly furnished ; those of the officers being divided into small apartments , the size and number of which are determined by the rank of the occupants . The streets aro to be macadamised , and some , as well as a portion of the huts , will bo supplied ¦ with gas . Altogether , the encampment will have quite the aspect of a little town ; and its appearance will no doubt be , as a writer in a daily contemporary observes , " magnificent . " The buildings will extend over about two miles in length . Sekqisant-Majok Thomas Lawrence , of the 51 st King ' s Own Light Infantry , has been presented with a sword by the non-coinmissioncd officers of that regiment as a mark of their esteem . The ceremony took place at Salford Barracks , where the regiment is now quartered . On presenting tho sword , an appropriate address was made by Quartermaster-Sergeant John B . Hide . Sergeant Lawrence , in returning thanks , said that , although he had been twenty-two years in the service , and might claim a pension , yet , as his regiment was ordered to the Crimea , ho should go out with it . Tho declaration , was much cheered . RiciNFOucKftiKNTS continue to bo sent off to tho CrJ , mca .

      The Cash ojg 1 Cornet Baumgartkn . —Tho Commandor-in-Chief has communicutcd to the regimental authorities his decision in thin well-known cuae . Cornot Eyaus , of tho 6 th Inniskillings , in to bo cashiered . Lieutenant Webster , of tho lot KoyalH , is to rotiro from tho service by tho solo of hia commission . Lieut . Hortop is most severely reprimanded , and his conduct is to bo reported every three months by hia commanding officer , for tho information of tho Coinmunder-in-Chief . Lox ; d Ilardingo coneulora Sergeant Brodie ' a conduct in provonting the duel : moat , prwjlaowiorthy } but it . would

      have been better if he had reported his apprehensions to bis commanding officer the previous .. night . ^ Cornet Baunigarten is directed to-be . more on , his- guarantor the future , and his attention is called , to certain sections in the Articles , of War . Captain Fitzwygram ' s name , is not mentioned , —A letter from General Yorke to . Lord Seaton , commanding the forces in Ireland , haa . been published . It has-reference : to the an&logoua case of Ensigns Sanders and Neville of the , 30 th Regiment , and states that Lord Hardinge . could not think of recomr mending those officers to her Majesty for promotion on of the 30 th Regiment

      the occasion of two lieutenancies , being about to be filled up . The two " frolicking ensigns" are likewise informed that , « until their conduct may have been favourably r eported upon tor at least two successive quarters , they need not look for any promotion ; but as it is not just that the other ensigns junior to them should suffer for their misconduct , these will successively pass over them whenever vacant lieutenancies may be filled up in the regiment till the period of probation as above laid down shall have expired . I am further to add , that it is his Lordship s determination to take this course in every similar case

      that may not appear to require a still more severe proceeding . " Wreck op a Londonderry Steamer . —The Londonderry steamer , Maiden City , on her passage from Liverpool , struck on the rocks inside of Maughold Head , Isle of Man , during a thick fog , on the night of W ednesday week , about eleven o'clock , and speedily filled . No lives were lost . The steamer had a full cargo of guano , Indian corn , and other merchandise . A Reverend Oxd Collier . — The Conference , of North Shields , captured and burnt by the Riff pirates , was one of the oldest collier brigs belonging to the Tyne . She was employed as a transport at the siege of Quebec , and has been in use ever since .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . More than two hundred members of the House of Commons have signed a memorial , recommending a public monument at the national expense to be erected to Hume . Stoppage [ of Messrs . Straiian , Paul , and Co . ' s Bank . —The Morning Chronicle announces the stoppage of this old-established firm . On Monday morning , checks drawn upon them were returned , marked " Cannot be paid . " Later in the day , a commission in bankruptcy was opened by Mr . Commissioner Fane against " William Strahan , Sir John Dean Paul , Bart ., and Robert Makin Bates , of 217 , Strand , bankers ; and navy agents , of 41 , Norfolk-street , Strand , trading under the style of Halford and Co . " The cause of the failure is thus set

      forth by the Morning Chronicle : — " The firm of Messrs . Strahan , Paul , and Co . have unfortunately become involved in railway speculations . The house some time back became connected with a firm which undertook contracts for the construction of railways in Italy . The latter firm had previously failed in the provinces , but soon afterwards recommenced business with scarcely any capital . Their place of business being at the west-end of London , they kept a banking account at Messrs . in

      Strahan , Paul , and Go . ' s . Their operations in time - volved a loss to tho latter of 1500 / . In order to recover this small sum the house very unwisely , and unfortunately , as it has turned out , themselves ' went in' very extensively into tho Italian railway contract business . Various heavy bills were drawn upon them from abroad , and finally in London , until tho ' acceptances' of Messrs . Strahan , Paul , and Go . were very freely current in the City . " The firm was one of tho oldest in London , having been established nearly two hundred years .

      An Election Agjcnt . —Political Morality .- — In the Court of Common Pleas , on Wednesday week , an action was brought by Mr . Grant , a parliamentary ugent , to recover 140 / . 15 s . 3 d . for work done and money paid for Mr . Guinness , one of tho members for Barnstaple , as his agent during his election . The defendant pleaded never indebted , and that the plaintiff had not sent off his account within a month , according to tho terms of the Corrupt Practices at Elections Act . Mr . Grant having stated his own case , the upshot of which is contained in the above allegation , Mr . John Laurie , who was elected for Barnstaplo at the same time as Mr . Guinness , and afterwards unseated , gave tho following unblushing evidence , at which ( of course ) their was " much laughter : " — " He had paid lf > O 0 / . to Mr . Carnsew ( a lawyer and

      election agent ) without being aware that there wus anything wrong in doing ho . Witness understood it wub the amount of tho expensoa of tho commission , and tho solicitor ' w bill . Witness -was introduced to Grunt throe or four weeks before tho election . Witness employed Mr Carnsow , but could not flay whether ho employed Grant . Grunt made himself very effective , and witness wan returned ut the heud of the poll , lie won so wurvdy received that he nvust go there again . ( A laugh . ) It was true he had paid 1 , 600 / . ; but nothing is done without payiny in this world ; ( A Inugh . ) Mr . Guinness kept bin neat , and witness lost 1 i ! h—moat unexpectedly . ( A lnugh . ) lie did not spend any money himself at JJuriiBtaplo , except that he made name jnurohaaea ; one must patronise one ' s constituents . " ( A laugh . ) Mr . Guinness denied Mr . Grant's statements , nad thet validity of hit ) claim ; but

      the jury , after deliberating for an hour and three-quarters r , gavea . verdiftt . ior the . plain tiff , for 69 / . 3 s . . 9 ( 1 . The ' Postage , of Newspapers and Books .. A recent Gazette , contains a Treasury warrant , altering the rates of postal transmission for books and other works of literature and . art , as they were fixed by the warrant of the , 3 d of last . January . The following are the new arrangements : — " Oni every such packet , if not exceeding 4 oz ., in weight ,, there shall be charged and taken one uniform rate of postage of Id . And on every such packet , if exceeding 4 oz , and not exceeding 8 oz , in weight , there shall be charged and . tak , en one uniform rate of postage of 2 d . And . on every such packet , if exceeding 8 oz .,. and not exceeding lib . in weight , there shall be charged and taken one uniform rate of postage of 4 d . And on every such packet , if exceeding lib . and

      not exceeding lib . and one-half of another pound in weight , there shall be charged and taken one uniform rate of postage of 6 d . And on every such packet , if exceeding lib . and one-half of another pound , and not exceeding 21 b . in weight , there shall be charged and taken one uniform rate of postage of 8 d . And for every additional | lb . in weight of any such packet above the weight of 21 b . there shall be charged and taken an additional rate of 2 d . And every fractional part of every such additional ilb . in weight shall be charged as £ lb . in weight . And we do further order and direct that no such packet which in length or width or depth shall exceed the dimensions of 2 feet shall be forwarded by the post under the provisions aforesaid . " The packets are to be sent open at the ends or sidee . This warrant came into operation last Monday .

      Australia . —An open-air meeting was held at Melbourne on the 12 th of March , for the purpose of considering the extraordinary conduct of Government in postponing the trials of the Ballarat rioters . Resolutions condemnatory of the course pursued by Government were passed , and a subscription was entered into for the defence of the remaining prisoners . The insult offered to the jury by the Attorney-General was also censured ; one of the speakers , Mx . Aspinall , stating that it was ' understood the Attorney-General intended to resign as soon as he was able to pass a measure prohibiting trial by jury . —The Legislative Council of Melbourne are turning their attention to railways . Mr . Deas Thompson , says the Melbourne Morning Herald , has expressed the hope that he shall live to travel by railway from Melbourne to the Gulf of Carpentaria . The spring trade in the Sydney markets has been very dull .

      True Protestantism . —The Archbishop of Dublin , in a charge delivered on Thursday week , during his annual visitation in St Patrick ' s Cathedral , Dublin , made the following admirable and conclusive remarks on the subject of the papal " aggression" which threw all England into a fever some four years and a half ago . Their logic is as irresistible as their spirit is large and houest . If Protestantism were always the exponent of similar views , it would be the real and legitimate antithesis to Papacy—the representative of tolerance and inclusiveness , of genuine " Catholicism , " as the Roman church is the embodiment of bigotry and proscription j whereas Protestantism is in fact often nothing more than another kind of Papacy , equally denunciatory , secular , and uncandid . The Archbishop observed : — " On a late occasion , I came forward , as you will remember , in

      opposition to the prevailing feeling at that time among my countrymen , to point out of how small consequence are empty ecclesiastical titles , when applying claims not already admitted by tho persons concerned . Tho title for instance , of ' King of France , ' retained for ages by our sovereigns , gave no uneasiness to the French people , and only exposed ourselves to ridicule , till it was , within our own memory , wisely dropped . And the last Stuart Prince who , to the last , called himself ' King of England , ' excited ao little of either fear or resentment , that he was actually in the enjoyment of a pension from our own royal family . In like manner , i the people are not Romanists , or inclined to be such , in a ccrluiu English or Irish city , the assumption by a Romish Bialtoj ) of a title from that city will not make them so . And if they are , from other causes , Romanists , the pohibition by law of that title will never convert them to the Protestant faith . In

      tho present case also , as there is not , us I can see , any ground for special indignation at the arrogance of a claim which has been made for many ages by the Romish Church , to dictate articles of fuith to all tho world , so neither in there any ground for alarm at tho recent exercise of that claim , nor any reason lor our making n special protest aguinst it . " Tiie Sunday Biskr Bill . —A meeting was recently hold ut Halifax , with tho design of passing resolution * in favour of the Sunday Boor Bill . After n very stormy scene in the Market-place , where about live or six thousands persons assembled , an amendment denunciatory ot tho Act wus curried by an iimnciiHu majority . Die . Lococic . luiH proceeded to Paris , having been telegraphed for by tho Emperor . It seem * that tho Empress again gives her hunbuud some pro » poot of tli «

      chance of an heir . „ Tiikisu CiiiLimicN wickis ihjbnmo to dicatu lust fc » iturday , in a bonne at Hackney . They hud been looked into tho room by their mother , who hud loft the h <> une for a short time ; and it in Huppoacd that one ol tliom rniiHt have played with tho lueifor matches , and net me to tho bed , under tho remains of whioh their bouios were diauovorod . Tho loud whrieks of tho children hnu

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 16, 1855, page 562, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2095/page/10/