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      iridalryj and thfe public are at once startled , scandalised * and entertained , at finding the representatives '' of anold-established 'firm figuring before the bar a * Bow-street . -On Wednesday , Mr . John Meakin Bates , the third partner in the fallen firm , was placed before Mr . Jardirie , to answer the charge of having , in conjunction with Messrs . Strahan and Paul , unlawfully negotiated or otherwise disposed of certain deeds or securities of the value of 22 , 000 / ., which had been entrusted to them for safe keeping by Dr . Griffiths . Mr . Bates was apprehended on Tuesday evening in Norfolk-street , Strand ; after which the officers 5 » roceeded by the Brighton railway to Nutfield , near ieigate , the country residence of Sir John Dean Paul ,

      They found Sir John at home , and succeeded in serving the -warrant upon him ; but , it being too late to return to London the same night , they allowed their prisoner to go to bed , and , sitting up all night themselves , within view of Sir John ' s room , arranged to accompany him to London by an early train the next morning . Accordingly , they conducted the prisoner , oa " Wednesday morning , from his residence at Nutfield to the Reigate Station , a distance of a few miles , arriving at the latter barely in time to save the train . Tickets were procured hurriedly for the three , and , according to the statements of the warrant officers , the train was actually in motion -when Sir John took his seat in a second-class carriage . The constables were in the act of following him into the same carriage when a railway porter pulled them back , exclaiming , " The train is in motion , and you can't get in . " The officers replied ,

      " We are police-constables . He is our prisoner , and we must accompany him . Resist us at your peril . " To this the porters merely rejoined that they were only carrying out their orders , " to prevent any one entering a carriage -while the train was in motion ; " and , having closed the carriage door against the officers , the train went off -without them . The constables state that they immediately represented the facts to the superintendent and showed him their authority , but he refused to " signal" the train to stop , although consenting to send a telegraphic message to the London station . This was done by desire of the officers , who proceeded to town by the next up-train , -which reached London-bridge only ten minutes after the one they had missed . On inquiry , however , of the stationmaster at London-bridge if their prisoner had been detained , he replied that he did not know Sir John Paul by sight , and , of course , therefore ,

      had taken no steps in the matter . Mr . Bates was remanded " until Friday , and in the meanwhile was removed to the House of Detention . The above proceedings were taken under the 7 th and 8 th of George IV ., chap . 29 , sect . 49 , and any person convicted of unlawfully disposing of securities is liable , according to the words of the act , to be transported beyond the seas for any term not exceeding fourteen years nor less than seven years , or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three years , and , if a male , to be once , twice , or thrice publicly or privately whipped ( if the Court should think fit ) ia addition to such imprisonment . "

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      At n meeting of the creditors of Messrs . Strahan and Co ., on Tuesday , at which between fifty and sixty persons were present , chiefly belonging to the legal profession , Mr . Lawrence , the representative of the petitioning creditor , stated that , through the run on the Friday and Saturday , the funds of the establishment had been diminished between 22 , 000 / . and 24 ; 00 O / . 5 and , notwithstanding their promptitude with the petition , the shurilf ' s officer entered on behalf of the Crown , and secured 2000 / ., the remainder of the available cash , besides which it was

      necessary to give him an undertaking to pay-700 / . or 800 / . additional , to prevent him seizing the books and closing the premises altogether . An important question would arise as to the source of the hints which may have induced many to withdraw or reduco their balances ; and , if it coulJ be clearly proved tlint any intimation had been given , the Court would interpose its power and order restitution . At the close of the proceedings , it was agreed to Bupport Messrs . Barwis , Montagu Tathani , and Appleynrdas assignees .

      , Another meeting of creditors of the bankruptcy was hold on Wednesday at the office of Mr . Brandon , solicitor , lissex-streot , Strand . On this occasion , several casea were referred to , showing that , while flome favoured creditors had receivod private notice Of tho approaching collapse in time to draw out , others were allowed to puj in money within a few minutes of the stoppage being declared . Ono nobleman received the hint tho day before , and managed

      to 9 ayQ 5 , 000 / . Tho solicitors of tho neighbourhood , together with their clients , arc great sulierers ; and tU « i , meeting expressed ita determination to sift tho afralr ^ Qf the bankruptcy with respect to no other fflwjngs than thoso of the injured creditors . - > Ir . 'W illinm Strahan was apprehended on Wed netfclay evening tit the residence of u friend in the nei ghbourhood of Grosvenor-square , and on Thursday appeared at Bow-street . Tho Itov . John Griffith , I > . D ., to whom tho property belonged ,

      having given evidence , Mr . Ballantine , for the accused , stated that it had been the full intention of Mr . Strahan to surrender himself , but that he was captured before he could do so . He was remanded until Friday . On Thursday night , Sir John Dean Paul surrendered himself at Bow-street . He stated that he had had no intention to elude the police officers , and that he thought they were following in another train . The three prisoners were brought up for examination yesterday , when Mr . Bodkin , on behalf of Dr . Griffith , said : —

      " With respect to Strahan , he ( JVIr . Bodkin ) should prove that , in the hope—vain as it turned out to beto arrest the progress of these proceedings , he saw Dr . Griffith after the warrant was taken out at that Court , and a conversation then took place , the object of which , on the part of Mr . Strahan , was to influence Dr . Griffith to abandon the prosecution . In the course of that conversation , Mr . Strahan voluntarily made a statement which -was conclusive , morally speaking , as to the charge against the house . He stated that , about six weeks ago , those securities having been kept in some private place , Sir J . D . Paul and himself abstracted them and

      conveyed them to Overend , Gurney , and Co ., or to some other house , where money was obtained , and 100 , 000 / . securities lodged by different parties were there lodged as security for loans . But , of course , that statement , being made in Sir . J . D . Paul ' s absence , could not be made legal evidence against him . " Dr . Griffith having stated these facts in his evidence , the prisoners were remanded till Wednesday , when it is thought they will be merely placed at the bar as a matter of form .

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      HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK { From tlie Registrar-GeneraFs Weekly Return . ) Ix the week that ended on Saturday , the deaths of 999 persons—viz ., 529 males and 470 females , were registered in London . In the corresponding weeks of ten years , 1845-54 , the average number was 915 ; and if , for the purpose of comparison , this be raised in proportion to increase of population , it becomes 1006 . The number of deaths returned last week is , therefore , rather less tlian the estimated number—a more favourable result than the bills of mortality have for some time disclosed .

      Last week , the deaths caused by diseases of the respiratory organs ( exclusive of phthisis and hooping-cough ) declined to 132 , which is nearly the same as the corrected average of corresponding weeks . During the first quarter of this year , the deaths from this class of diseases were , on an average , to those from all causes , in the proportion of 1 to 4 . Last week they were as 1 to 7 . During the same quarter , the deaths from the zymotic class of diseases were to the whole number as 1 to 5 ; last week , when 207 died from zymotic complaints , they

      were in the proportion nearly of 1 to 4 . Of those 207 deaths , 27 are due to small-pox , 18 to measles , 45 to scarlatina , 26 to hooping-cough , 10 to croup , 1 to thrush , 17 to diarrhoea , 1 to dysentery , 2 to cholera , 2 to influenza , 1 to purpura , 1 to infantile fever , 33 to typhus , 5 to puerperal fever , 1 to rheumatic fever , 12 to erysipelas , and 5 to syphilis . Four deaths from fever occurred in the sub-district of Hoxton New-town ; G from scarlatina in Woolwich . Ono person died of disease caused by intemperance , besides 2 who were suffocated in a state of intoxication . One person died from want . Last week , the births of 718 boys and 766 girls , in all 1474 childron , were registered in London . In tho ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-64 , the average number was 1346 .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . Aldbrshott . —Tho Queen paid a private visit to the Cami ) at Alderahott on Saturday . Tins Hospitals at Font 1 ' itt and St . Mauys BarkacivS , Chatham , were on Tuesday visited by tho Queen and Prince Albert . About 520 wounded and invalided soldiers were present at the former hospital , and 270 at the hitter . Loiu > Kustack Ckoii-. — It will bo recollected that when , some six or seven weeks ago , Mr . Luyard adverted to Lord Eustace Cecil ' s promotion i \ a an instance of mere aristocmtioal birth obtaining with wiso wh . it is denied to merit and service , Colonel Lindsay declared in tho House of Commons that hia lordship ' s promotion without purchnse into tho Guards , was on account of his unxioun

      dosiro to bco active service ; that ho bud returned hastily from India to join tho 88 th , which was on its way to tho Crimea , and that ho had previously exchanged into tho d 3 rd , to take a share in the Kuflir war . Colonol Lindsay further assorted that Lord Straflbrd , who mndo tho aolcotion , had Hcurcoly any personal knowledge of Lord Salisbury , tho father of Lord Eustaco Cecil , and tlint signal merit alono had been his guide . A correspondent of tho Tiintw , writing undnr tho signature of " An Englishman , " pointed out at tho time that tlio . so auditions wore not correct ; and Colonol Lindsay himself on Monday night , after a ailenco of novornl wcokfl , admitted that Lord Eustace did not oxduuigo into tno 42 rd at all in order to engage in thoKallir war , and tnut ho returned from India after a sojourn there of u vory

      few months , not out of any'desire to go to the Crimea , but because of a liver complaint from which he ia suffering . The " Englishman , " again writing to the Times , adds to this , that he is credibly assured , though he is not prepared to prove it , " that Lord Strafford , so far from being a comparative stranger to Lord Salisbury , has long been on terms of the most friendly intercourse with that nobleman . " ¦ Colonel Lindsay now declares that he only gave the facts on the authority of others , without himself vouching for their authenticity ; but ho such disclaimer appears in published reports of his speech , and we have , at any rate , a right to ask whether such vague hearsay justified Colonel Lindsay in joining in the currish howl against Mr . Layard for a rashness of statement of which he was himself at that moment guilty in a very gross degree .

      The Army Works Corps . —The Government have established an Army Works Corps . This body is 1000 strong at present , but -will probably be increased if found to answer the objects for which it has been formed . There are 800 " navvies , " organised into gangs of 26 , 70 carpenters and smiths , and 65 artificers , including in that term shoemakers , tailors , harnessmakers , barbers , and other special crafts . The staff consists of a chief officer , Mr . Doyne , who is a civil engineer of high promise : a superintendent of works , Mr . Pope , who has

      participated in some of the most remarkable undertakings that have been executed in this country ; six assistant-superintendents , - all tried men ; a superintendent of stores and commissariat supplies , a secretary , paymaster , chaplain , two surgeons , and a dresser ; an assistant-storekeeper , five clerks , eleven foremen , and two gangers . The organisation of this corps is entirely the -work of Sir Joseph Paxton , who has given his time , skill , and trouble gratuitously . Lord Panmure inspected the men at Sydenham on Wednesday , and expressed himself satisfied with the result .

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      MISCELLANEO Us-Flowery Festivities at , St . Barnabas , Puilico . —" We read in the Morning Post : — " The anniversary of the dedication of the Church of St . Barnabas , Pimlico , was recently celebrated by an entertainment in the schoolroom adjoining the church . About four hundred of the poorer parishioners were supplied with an abundant dinner , by the subscriptions of the more wealthy , who also attended , and participated in the festivity . The schoolroom was tastefully decorated with garlands of flowers , evergreens , and coloured scrolls , containing texts from Scripture . In the centre of the principal table , an enormous plum-pudding was displayed , over which was erected the model of a temple , surmounted by a figure of St . Barnabas , the patron saint of the church and college . A portrait of the Rev . Mr . Bennett , suspended in this portion of the room , was crowned with a chaplet of white flowers . In tho church adjoining , the screen , the puJpit front , and other portions of the furniture , were decorated with fresh flowers and green boughs . The Cross formed a prominent object in these pious adornments , and over the screen was inscribed , in letters formed of red carnations , on a white ground of pink blossoms , the words , 1 Comfort ye , my people . ' " Tho Cliair -was taken by Mr . Liddell , who , on proposing the liealth of Mr . Bennett , said that that was " the toast of the clay . " Then Mr . Beresford Hope made what on the whole can only be designated as a funny speech , and was greeted with as much laughter as though he had been a member of Parliament " in bis place . " He concluded by proposing

      the health of Mr . Liddell , who , in xeply , made a brief polemical discourse , in which he said that ho was " advocate for any extravagances in religion ; " that his sect , so far from leading men to Koine , had led them from it ; and that , though they are not Jloman Catholics , they are not ashamed of the name of " Catholic" without the " Roman , " because they are members of the universal church . After that , the Rev . Mr . Skinner took that festive occasion for publicly thanking tho congregation for tho earnest prayers which they had offered up for him during his late illness ; and , having been a traveller , he that Micro

      paid be had come to the " solemn conviction in nothing like St . JJarnabiiH . " " Noiliiiitf like leather . This was followed by another < -onilc . speech from the funny man , Mr . Hope , in n-ply to his health being drunlc ; and , shortly nftorwanl " , tlio company parted . — There i . s a degree of < -hnritabIo consideration for tho poor , and of imlustrioiia labouring fur their improvement , in the part of the 1 ' u . s . yitc ., which is much to t l . cir ^ crcch . ; but thoso rfiowy vnptrioH , in wind , tonst-drinkui « ia combined with iudoliottlo J . arn . ling . s of the devotional nspi rations of the heart , and with sectarian vaunting * move in us no other fooling than that of contempt 111 US II * ' UIMUI A * ' * - ••••( - > -- * 1 1 J . 1 uinwho has latel

      ANnv Fi «« IC . scAi-io .-A gcntki ., y licon onffiigcid in carrying on some . successfu l experiments h 0 projeetileV hi . invention luu . shown us a I re-cdcai . e « , f novel construction . Ho describes it as JwHnble ' to every hou . se , and . so contrived that even aged i . eoplo or dclicnto females may prcsorvo not only their lives but al . so muoli of their most valuable property , nt ivhaVovcr time , or however suddenly , firo may break out In their residences . The superiority of this now firoonenpe over others which have nt various times boon In-ouirht before tho public , ia said to consist in tho perfect o « ho mid Hccurlty with which tlio very old or veryyoung may u » o it—tho privaoy in which people may

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 23, 1855, page 597, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2096/page/9/