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    Sepiobmber 2 Q , 1856 , ] THE LEADED £ 99

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    Depots or Rbgiments . —The authorities at the Horse Guards have it in contemplation to remove the depots of regiments on the British establishment from the Pro visional 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 Goad Hope , at Colchester , and those stationed in New South Wales-and the other Australian colonies , at Templemore . ComEcr-MAKnAi ,. — Mr . John Francis Perry , thirdclass Assistant Engineer ( acting ) on board the Cyclops , steam frigate , at Sheerness , has been 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 , wiose 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 having been fully ' proved , Perry was sentenced to be imprisoned in the gaol at Maidstone for eighteen months , to be fc-ept to hard labour , and to be dismissed from the service . In his defence , the pr isoner , 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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    ¦ MISCELLANEOUS . The Coukt . —The Queen and Prince Albert were present at the Braeinar gathering of Highlanders , who assembled for their customary athletic sports . They were accompanied by their Koyal Highnesses the Princess Boyal , tLe Princess Alice , Princess Helena , Princess Louisa , and his Royal Highness Prince Alfred . The Harvest . —The crops are now nearly all housed in the English counties ; in some localities , indeed , hvarvest operations are entirely finished . The reports , . for the most part , are cheering ; but in the neighbourhoods of Nottingham , Norwich , and Reading , the wheat huts been damaged a good deal by rain . There is a pretty general tendency , however , to decline in the market prices . The Health of Boulogne . — Some French and English medical gentlemen , residing at Boulogne , again write to the Times to assert that the general condition of that town is healthy . ;

    MANIN AND THE GUNS FOR ALEXANDRIA .. —Signor Manin , under date Paris , September 12 th , writes to the Times to deny the truth of the rumour that the subscription he had set on foot for the purchase of guns to te mounted at the fortress of Alexandria in Piedmont fi ' ad been prohibited by the French Government . The Early Closing Movement . —The Hon . Secretary of the Early Closing Association has transmitted to us a long document liaving reference more especially to the late hours observed in chemists' shops , and the unnecessary habit of keeping those shops open on Sundays . 3 £ e also quotes thefollowing statement made by avoung 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 youni ? ,

    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 , 1 had no opportunity of improving xny mind , and therefore remained just as I left school—or , rather , I retrograded . 1 then took a situation in the town of — at a salary of GQl . 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 30 / ., with bed and board . la 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 roundfrom 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 307 . If a young man asked more , ho would scarcely be listened to . Our liours hero uto from seven till eleven , and till twelve on Saturdays . On Sunday , ivo begin at eight in the morning , and keep open till eleven o ' clock nt night , and have , I think , more 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 bclievo my case is by no means an exceptional one ; in fct

    a , I know a largo number of young men who are similarl y circumstanced , mnny 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 conscience to ehop in the course ot the day ; that physicians , whenever it is practicable , buouM wxito their prescriptions earl y ; that chemists ' shops should bo closed on Sundays , ono person remaining in the house to sorvo any customer who may have nn urgent occasion for medicine , and who in ( hat case wonld nng at the bell ; and that on the day of rest , poopio should refrain from purchasing merely fr ivolous and unnecessary articles . Witli theso suggestions wo entirely concur , and trust they mny bo carried out . Thb West Indikb . —Jamaica is tranquil , and there is out little news etiiring in the island . The weather baa

    been intensely hot , and one or + wo sudden deaths have occurred in consequent * . Fever is prevalent .- —A terrific storm passed over some of the islands on the 13 th ult ., doing immense damage . It -was felt principally at Grenada and Barbadoes . "The wind blew a perfect hurricane , and a gentleman , writing from Carriacou on the following day , says that the storm was one of the moot violent on record since the great hurricane of 1780 . It does not appear that any loss of IHe has resulted ; but numerous houses were unroofed or quite destroyed , and the shipping in the harbours has suffered . —The

    Demerara Court of Policy has been occupied with various important measures ; among them , one for amending the laws relating to vagrancy , and another for raising a loan for the payment of bounty to Indian emigrants . The former measure is said to be much' needed pa account of the number of idle Creoles who prefer begging to working- —A serious riot between tyro rival parties of coolies , who were celebrating some religious festival , has occurred at plantation Blackenburg , on the West Coast . Many persons were severely wounded , but no lives were lost , and the disturbances were put down by a body of rural constables .

    The ADMDttSTKAOTON op Jusmce . —Some correspondents of the Times have been discussing the evils which arise from the want of a public prosecutor . Oae of them —* 'An Attorney "—writes ; —" There are Instances of magistrates clerks resorting to intimidation to obtain prosecutions , and there is a case of very recent occurrence where the clerk of a district where an offence was supposed to have been committed , advised that there was not sufficient evidence even to justify an apprehension ; notwithstanding this , either the magistrate ' s clerk of another district ^ or his jackall , the policeman , obtained a warrant to apprehend , under which the accused was committed for trial ; the policeman was bound over to prosecute , the magistrate ' s clerk who advised ihe committal of course conducting theprosecution , and the policeman in another character subpoenaed the witnesses and got up the evidence . Mark the sequel . The accused was incarcerated in prison for three months previous to trial ( it not being a bailable oflfence ) , the

    indictment , under the direction of the judge , was ignored bv the grand jury , the magistrate's clerk , as of course , received the reward of his labour , the costs of the prosecution , and a subscription was opened in the parish , to which every respectable inhabitant subscribed , to provide for the defence , thus making a martyr of the accused . Other means of jobbing in prosecutions are reeorted to . We often see the evidence of tlxee policemen 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 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 as a 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 . " ¦

    provement . It is also m contemplation -to throw back the wall which encloses this burial-ground towards the rectory , in . order to . form a new street to the rauwaystation . Modebh Diableiue . — -A long ' rigmarole' is told by the Court Journal , based on -a pamphlet said to have been « printed on the Continent Tyy the " Princess de S ., " and setting forth that " the young Princess Eleanoxe de S ., ' the daughter-in-law of the other prinoeefl , soiifcerself to the devil at about fifteen years of age , -while confined in a nunnery at Hammersmith , or tras under ia strong impression that she did so ; that she was found praying one day " with a most fearful expression © f countenance" ( to his Satanic Majesty ) for release from

    the nunnery , which ehe had vainly requested from J » ex 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 been heard ; that eh o rushed down the stairs " with an unearthly shriek ; " that ehe thenceforth said she Bhould . die at twenty-one years of age ( that being the time stipulated for ) ; that she became very melancholy and religious in consequence ; that her parents and husband ( for she afterwards married ) tried in vain to relieve her mind by " dissipation ; " ( ! ) and that finally she did die two days before her twenty-first birthday , " suddenly in her chair , full dressed for a ball . " This is certainly a pretty little romance for the dull season .

    The Mysterious Fires nsr Bedford .- —Dr . Herbert Barker writes to the Times on the subject of tbe strange fires which burst out in a house in Bedford some f « w weeks ago , an account of which appeared in the Leader of the 23 rd ult . After repeating tbe 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 whiebv burst spontaneously into flame at various intervals—the writer proceeds : —" During my experiments on -this question , 1

    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 eight lundred persons , many of whom were ladies , wer » present . There were also present delegates from Nottingham , 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 instruction at times on the week days when the working classes maybe 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 the » 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 in . London , which in the previous week were 1100 , were , in 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 of mortality of that period would produce iu 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 the health of London , as measured by the mortality , is now as 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 . Tour deaths are returned as caused by cholera in 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 occasion . " 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 " Workhouses of scurvy . —Last week , the births of 814 boys and 739 girls , in all 1653 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-65 , tho average number was 1416 . —From tlie Regislrar-Ceneral ' s Weekly Return .

    have become acquainted with a compound by which any textile fabric may he 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 house 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 Finshury . —The committee , consisting of deputations from the vestry of Islington , tho Board of Works for tho Holborn district , the vestries of Clcrkenwell , St . Luke ' s , and other parishes within the borough of Finsuury , appointed to confer as to th o measures to bo adopted for obtaining a park for tho borough of Fins"bury , have received a communication / rom Lord Palmerston asking to be furnished with & plan of tuo proposed park and an estimutc of tho cost of the undertaking . The committee , in compliance with tho request of Lord Palmerston , have resolved that a 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 Islington have voted 1 QQI . to caver the expense of making the survey and eutimate , but suggested at the same time that other parishes and boards advocating the proposed measure should contribute proportionately towards the expense to bo incurred .

    The Ni £ wcasti , e Commkroial Ba . nk . — Letters from Aldonnan Kennedy and from Mr . F . John Law , who , it will be recollected , were concerned in the recent purchase of tho Newcastle Commercial Bank , have boon published , exonerating Mr . Robert Keating , M . P ., from any knowledge of James Sadleir ' s misappropriation of tho fnn < ls of the bank to the purposes of tho Tipperary Bank . Mr . Law also asserts that he too was not consulted -with respect to tho appropriation in question . Mr . Kennedy states that lie knew nothing of tlio act till the 5 th of March . These letters have drawn forth ono from Mr . Walker , the Newcastle manager of the bank , addressed to tho Gatcshead Observer ^ in which , the writer quotes from a letter of Mr . Kennedy to himself distinctly charging Mossr * *) . Keating and Law with participation in the alleged discounting , which , tho aldonnan adds , was unknown to him . Oou > in Tasmania . —Some very « xtcnBivo gold diggings have been discovered iu Tasmania .

    Wyoomjik CmmcHYAKD . —In a few days , the turnpike-road will pass over tho whole of tho western side of High Wycombo churchyard . The ecclesiastical authorities , together with several of tho friends of tho persons interred , are understood to have , consented to tho im-

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 20, 1856, page 899, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2159/page/11/