The Express. — London, England, 1867-12-26 00:00:00

POLICE C 01; 1;:l a. (THIS DAY.) CLEIIKENWELL. E rrIANIANI AND WILFI'L DAFACE. , a rough, powerfublooking Irishman, was c • , •re Mr. Barker with being arm anddir • •• wilfully brelking two win,lowso,,llo. . ,etts, of Frederick-street, Cray'..-inn-ro,ol, r,..,...•,' ‘ :1 t:rown, of the Alhion Tavern, in the York % said that about half- p out 4 o'clock on • . moon th... def. :atilt canto but a his house tplainant) refused to serve him. :out then ated a disturbance, far a I.Mt Im was • and on the second occash.n he pull. •d I struck it through two windows value samsbed thetu. He then said he was .1 would rut the tile through anyone • 'dm. It was after a struggle tl. st Vie file frmo him. and be then drew a dinnerdcnife to stab Pe . ..ernl people. He had pre . !led with some of the customers through ! their beer. • 7,1 he was rou, ; ;ltly used and umelt , h a was the n a,mt be broke the windons. '2IN., and the amount of the damage, or MARLIiOHOI%III-STREET. ~N T)IF. rtol.l(l.—A IiEt;GAR.s . and lir• P. Cr.inpit,le, two rot: ‘ •%-i.oking 11 efore Mr. li:nox with he!: lying in a ~ er, Crompton being further clint,;,, with ,c-zonetable John Moore. 14;; C. ge Appletou, C, em id—About o'clock tttention teat called to the 3:elfish Stoics ImM-street, Soho, Ly hearing a 17:at ! saw about fifty persons, neney 01 of th•tn • as beggars, drunk, Ird!uoing. and f. ,ht , soon as I entered the honse with a was a general onslaught on us and • t I• , wn at us. Finding we could not cope with ,• . •f .ent Un- some of the inhabitant-. and they -• ••t t Ind we got the persons out. Wilson then re sy, mitt I ordered him to he tak. •i into cos. Wils..n wAs gene to the d -tip• Cr.mpton ' •' - ate of his coe.p.mions and s , :t t., s houting . . Were loth the prisoners ' , env rned in the OL he police. and were they both drunk" • Aplit.fit They were. • , l'.:C -.1.t 9 o'cloek last night I synnt with th.• • I:t . .t;.!t Stores. and saw a r.nntber of •'y ;4.r , n 4. On getting them into the • t and hallooing, and would not go , . W t il.on to the station I rvturned and tau ..t.stotly ; and on the way to the station and plunging violently, and kicked my 7 . •• o under me, and we had great difficulty in getting t tli.• station, and he nearly tore the nail off ono of 1111 in:•N. _ _ _ Yeomans, an inhabitant of Cerrard•street, • hen stnt for by the sergeant, I wrat to reit b.l, atoms, and them aaw between It) and :A of tie powoas in London. I persuaded the persons to lea‘t.. ;LS 1.0011 as they got outside they began quarrel. LI N :AA shouting at the top of their voica! , . Wdsor. tar, ',tying that Le had killed many a better man th h....mud Crompton said that he had paid for a pot of beer, : , ..4 lie was if he would not break every pane of it the place. iI r. Knox—llas the attention of the authorities been earn d. to the house Appleton—lt has. They had mode the place nn tie- , lace ye,terday, having got plenty of money, •uvl got2l-eunk. 16. Ya.Kostans—l am told that they beg all day, and le:we the money they get with the landlay on their leaving the lio-i•c to get a bed in the casual wards, and thrt they ali f r their money the next morning. Mr. lino.. fined each of the prisoners 40s. or a month for their el . ..orderly conduct, and committed Crompton for a month without a tine for assmilting the constable. alias Braun, cne of the a.one class as the other ;prisoners, was charged with behaving in a disorderly manner and breaking a pane of glue of the value of 405.. the property of Mr. Bentley, of tho Intrepid Fox, War. dour•street. _ _ The pr;soner went into Mr. Bentley's house, insulted the et.ct,eners b.seanse they would not gire him becr, sod on being Put out of the house deliberately smashed a pane of gime , in the window. . . . Mr. Kt.ox committed the prisoner for month without • fine. A number of persons were brought before Mr. Knox to-day charged with being drunk and incapable, and with being drunk and disorderly • where the charge was only for drunkenness the offenders were dischar..etl, and in the other ea.ses Mr. Knox, taking the festive season into con sideration, iniposed light fines. WESTMINSTER. VIOLENT ASSAI•LT IN A PRISON. Margaret Grace was charged with assaulting Mrs. Char lotte Howe, the chief warder at the Wcatmiuster House of Correction, Toth'll.fields. . . . . A solicit'or appeared from the visiting justices to prose. ow. Min. Howe said on the 14th of November she passed into No. :t prison, C section, to see the work taken by warder Lambert, . od the prisoner passed into the room to the oakum mile. She was suffering • term of two years' imprisonment. When she got to the scale she had not picked her two days' oakum, and the warder at the rrale asked her if she was excused. She said no, she had been "slated" for the doctor. She turned round to the warder and directed her to put the prisoner down as "no work until inquire;" prisoner was then told to stand by tho scale, she did so for a minute and then suddenly picking up • 21b. weight, threw it with all her might at witness, stnking her on the arm ; she picked up a 11b. weight and also threw it, but witness ducked her head, and it passed over Ler head. By Mr. Arnold—Could not suggest any motive for it, except that prisoner bad been reported before by another warder for having forbidden things without permission. Her character was bad during the whole time. Mr. Arnold inquired why the prisoner ha not been brought up before. Mr. We'ley, the solicitor, said the visiting justices con sidered the matter on the 10th and thought it too serious for any punishment they could inflict, and ordered her to be brou.,„ht up at the carnation of her term. Dlr. Arnold said it was just • case that came under Jervis' Act, where the prisoner should have been brought up at once, end at the expiration of the term inflicted for the offence sent back to finish the original term. He found that when the prisoner was sentenced to two years, she had ibsulted awitness In court , and was ordered to find bail for these months ; prisoner seemed to he • person of ungovernable temper, and it was necessary to repress exhi bitions of this sort in • prison where the utmost dis cipline shanld be kept. He sentenced the prisoner to three months' hard labour. WANDSWORTH. SCANDA4OCS THREATS. _ llamas Smith, a young man who had the appearance of a navvy. was charged with begging and using threatening language. • Samuel M'Gill, in service at the Rifleman, Battersea fields, raid that on Tuesday night the prisoner en- tered his master's parlour and begged of the customers to help him on the road. Witness told him that begging was not allowed there, and desired him to leave. He replied that if he was not allowed to beg he would fire up the house. When he got to the bar door he said he bad done it before and would do it again. Knowing that the gasworks in the neighbourhood were being watched he called the attention of one of the workmen who was in tit., house to the threat the prisoner had used. He followed the prisoner , and when he heard him whistle to the police he ran away. Witness pursued him, when he sou tripped up by some person, and he fell. He, however, taw the prisoner running towards the shore, which was afterwarl 4 searched, and he was found lying behind some timber. The prisoner, who frequently interrupted the witness, denied u,in l the wor d s . Wh a t h e sa id was th a t h e h a d fed a hou ,ry man and would do it again. Witner•,—He said he would fire the house up. John 1! odett said be was employed at the London Gas Works, it.e Elms. He was in the house, and on the last witness c tiling his attention to the threat, the prisoner replied " Yea, we have fired you once tend we'll do it again !" Witness remarked that it was strong language to use, and having heard the rumours that it was intended to blow up the gas works he thought it was time to take .P'- - Ingham—Quite right. Police-, anstable Syred said he waa on special duty at the works. On Tuesday evening the minister, who lives near the gas works, informed him that be had heard it was intended to blow up the works. He took the prisoner into eustod7, when be said he Lad nothing upon him. On searching him he found 2s. 9r1., part of a cotta -- 'e loaf, and some cheese. The prisoner was very viol, it, and tried to incite persons to rescue him from coatody. The prisoner, in a crying voice, said be had never spent inch a Christroas before. He was a stranger and had been on the road for three weeks. He lied been employed me. the p works, and he merely went into the public. ho Mr. Ingham remanded the prisoner for inquiry. TEP.^'FIC Ott EXPLOSION.--Last night about 10 &doel there was a tremendous explosion of gnu in the dwelling.house of Mr. Samuel French, No. 46. Exmouth street, late Hohnes-street, pnwy. There was en swipe of gas in tbe back our Ind Mr. French went into the apartment with a iiishted candle. A loud re, ert followed, the front oor was blown off the binges into the street, nearly every pane of glass in the aandows smashed, a panel of the shutter covering the front window shattered, out.' the back of the house blown out. Mr. French, who is upwards of 60 years of u6e, was seriously injured by the explosion, and his face and head were scorc h e d . Great fears ire entertained ' that the calamity will prove fatal. He has been in the service of Giesler and Co., the wine merchants, in Fenchurch. street, for 35 years. MiTkOPOLITAN FR EE HOSPITAL, DEVONSHIRE "WARE, ('ITT.—The aggregate number of patients relieved &nag the week ending Dec. 21 was—Medical, 826 ; mfr. 1 6 4 823; total, 1,419 ; al which 651 were new cam. BOXINC-DAY. Nothing could have been more uninviting for the movements at-the holiday folk than to-day's weather ; but, despite a thick and ad atmosphere and the filthy condition of the leading thoroughfares, large numbers hash) as usual proceeded to the various places of amusement. At about 8 o'clock a fog began to collect, and by 9 its density was experienced in all parts of London :and the suburban districts. Crest caution bad to he exercised with regard to the traffic in the London streets, and considerable delay was occasioned. The fc% had not entirely cleared away by 1 o'clock. The steamboat trans was suspended during the whole of the morning, and above bridge the absence of steamboats and the stoppage of the works in connexion with the Thames embankment gave the river a rather melancholy appearance. As a holiday, Boxing-day appears to bare become increasingly general, and the entire sus pension of business on the Stock Exchange and among the City firms is now au established fact. In all the principal streets the shops arc mostly closed. Not only are the law courts and other public establish ments shu., but the chambers of the legal profession in the several inns of court appear to be quite deserted. Tue banking-honses have been open, but scarcely any business has been transacted. The pantomime at the Crystal Palace will, doubtless,!abe witnessed by some thousands this afternoon, judging from the fre quent departure of trains carrying passengers to Sydenham from the scrotal railway stations, where, it is stated, the trat‘ic is more brisk than was anticipated. As the bill-posting stations around London testify, there are many other amusements provided; and, regardless of cheerless weather, people are flocking in every direction with a determination to enjoy themselves. TAE FENIAN CONSPIRACY. The authorities of Manchester are going to swear in a large number of special constable•. There Li no special reason for adopting this oourse,which istaken as a precautionary measure only. The premise* of the branch Lank of Howland in Castle-street and Cook-street, Liverpool, were closely watched yesterday, some appre hensims heir; entortainctlot molestation by local Fenian*, but the Liverpool police arc CO well-informed and vigilant with respect to Fenian operations that, fortunately, there is little scope for the perpetration of mischief. The Mayor of Bradford (Mr. James Law) has issued a placml in which he " Call. upon and requires all loyal and well-disposed inhabitants of the borough" to cotue to the Court House at Bradford, on Friday and following days, to be sworn in and enrolled as special constables. He states that this course is adopted in oon sequetioe of his having received from the Home-office a circular to the effect that her Majesty's government have received information which renders it, in their judgment, desirable that all local authorities should be prepared to most any disturbances that may arise during the winter. CALCUTTA, CHINA, AND AUSTRALIAN MAILS.— G.u.LT, DEC. 17.—The Ennui, from China, arrived porter. day, and the Bombay, from Australia, to-day. The Candi& leaves fur Suez to-day. Outward mail of 20-26 Sept. —The Geelong reached Melbourne on the 14th, and Sydney on the 17th Nov. Outward mail of 4-11 Nov.—The Nubia arrived at Calle on the Bth instant. CALULTTA AND CHINA MAILS.—MARSEILLES Dzr. 'N.—The Nyanza arrived at 8 a.m. to-day. The mails leave for London at IL3O a.m. The Lancashire Cotton Famine Committee have decided to divide the surplus fend remaining in their hands, amounting to nearly 10,0001., rateably among a given number of the principal towns in lAneashire in which the famine was most severely experienced, to go in aid of public infirmaries and dispensaries, taking population as the basis of the apportionment, and they intend to apply forthwith to the Court of Chancery fur its sanction to the scheme. The Emperor will receive on New Year's Day, at the Tuileries at 1 o'clock, the corps diplomatique, the constituted b odies, and civil authorities ; at 2, the officers of the national guard, army, and navy. Their Majesties will not receive on the 2nd January. _ _ Marshal Niol, at the close of tho sitting of the Legislative Body on Tuesday, received the intelligence, by telegraphic despatch, of the death of his elder brother, President of the Imperial Court of Toulouse. " The greatest activity," says the Jonrgal du Earn, " prevails in the French maritime arsenals. There are at present thirty-nine ships in course of being built, of which four are armour-plated frigates, four coast-guard iron-plated vessels, an armoured floating battery, a screw wooden frigate, air corvettes screw and not plated, and a screw transport. The fleet really ready for sea comprises 343 steam vessels and 116 sailing ships ; with the thirty nine in course of construction the whole will amount to SGI navels. FENIANISNI IN WAPRINGTON.-0E Monday even ing last the Mayor of Warrineton, Mr. Alderman Blackly, received a telegram from the Home-office, intimating that some mischief was cootemplated by the Fenian in that town, and earning the authorities to be on the alert. A meeting of the resident magistrates was immediately called, at which precautionary measures were adopted for the preservation of the peace and to prevent any attempted destruction of property. The members of the Fire-brigade, who hays been on duty night and day since the attempt was made to blow-up the gas works, were, together with 100 citizens, sworn in as special constables, 20 of the latter being attached to the local pslioe force of the borough,and placed on permanent special duty. The arms and stores belonging to the 4th Royal Lancashire Light Infantry Militia, the head-quarters of which are at Warrington, have been removed to Chester Castle, and a strong guard has been placed at the armoury of the 9th Lancashire Ride Volunteers. All the Roman catholic Irish who were employed at the gas works—many of them for a considerable number of years — were discharged on Monday evening. A report at present prevails that a number of large manufacturers in the town have received notices from the offices in which they are insured that the companies will nut be accountable for damage if they con tines to retain the services of Irishmen in their , employ. A reward of 50f. has been offered by the • Warrington Gas Company for information which will lead i to the apprehension and conviction of the person or per , eons who removed the ping from the purifier on Sunday night. The services rendered by Mr. Robert Paterson, jun., assistant engineer, are commendable, who, in • most poisonous atmosphere, discovered the escape, and after searching for seine tine, found the plug and replaced it. The foreknowledge possessed by the authorities of • Fenian meeting being held in Warrington, the presence in town of llicAubiffe, " the lecturer," and other persona who have no " visible means of subsistence," together with I the attempt to blow up the gas works, have created an alarm in the public mind to allay which the local autho rities have applied to the House Secretary for a small military force to be stationed at \Farrington. The Warringtvis Guardian of to-day announces the arrival of a company of the Highlanders this morning. A re spectable man and woman have sworn to seeing 50 men drilled in the outskirts of the town just before the attempt at the gas explosion. A supply of revolvers has arrived. THE FENIAN OUTEAGE AT CLERICENWELL.— ANOTHER DlATlL—During the course of Tuesday night the old man Humphrey Evans, who was with his wife and daughter so severely injured by the late explosion in Clerkouwell, expired in the B ward of the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's-inn-road. For souse days past Mr. Gant, one of the staff surgeons of the hoepitid (assisted by Mr. J. H. Hill and Mr. C. H. Hopkins, house surgeons), had entertained no hopes of the recovery of the deceased, whose wife, it will be remembered, expired last week at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, and hie daughter, who is an inmate of the Royal Free Hospital, is still suffering from the very severe injuries she received, but we are glad to say that she and the other patients under Mr. Gant are pren., ceasing satisfactorily. FENIANISII AT WOLVERTON.—AYLEISBUEY, TUES DAY ECENING.—The two prisoners, James Connerty and Gladwin Meehan, who were arrested at Wolverton to-day on a charge of treason-felony, arrived here by the last train this evening, in charge of a strong body of police, under the command of Captain J. C. Tyrwhitt Drake, the chief constable of Rucks. They were brought before Mr. J. T. Senior, one of the county magistrates, in the waiting room of the railway station, and the information of Superintendent Brear 7 was read over, which stated that meetings had been held at the houses of each of the pri soners, at New Bradwell, which he believed to be of a seditious and treasonable nature. Some other important facts were stated in the information, which it was not con sidered expedient to make public. Connerty denied in the moat emphatic way that any meetings of an illegal nature had taken place at his house, or that he bad had anything_to do with Fenianiam in any shape or form. He bad been reared in this country, and hoped he bad too much sense to do anything of the sorts It was an extraordinary charge altogether; he had always conducted himself to the satisfaction of his em plovers and those with whom he worked. Meehan also positively denied that there had been any meetings at his house, and asked whether bail would be accepted. He said it was a serious matter to bring a man up without any foundation for • charge. It would probably end in his being discharged from his employment and the ruin of his family. Connerby asked that bail might be taken, and on being informed that this could not be granted, he asked fora copy of the charge against him to send to his friends. lie was informed that he could write whatever be pleased, and that he might have a copy of the information. The prisoners were then remanded until to-day (Thursday). TEE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 26, 1867. CHRIbI4GLI DAV IN THE WORKHOUSES. beef, 130 loaves, with 2 oz. tea and 8 oc. auger to welt. Rae : n oz. roast beef, lib. potatoes, llb. plum pudding, and 1 pint of porter; pudding, 1401ba. of ratans, 751 b. cur rants, with sugar, spice, eggs, Izo. Increase of poor, 54. The subjoined report will show the state of pauperism in the various parishes and unions, with other interesting and useful statistics. It will be se,ni that the ratepayers have some :10,0911 or 10,000 more poor to main tain than they had last Christmas : ST. MAST ABBOTS, ICTAIBINOTON. Population at last census, 70,106 ; inmates, 624 (last year, 531); males, 190; females, 314 ; children, 120. Out door poor, 1,977 (last year, 1,379) ; adults, 1,001 ; chil dren, 976. Out relief in money and kind for week ending Doc. 21, 237/. rie. 101 ; last year, 1154 16s. 11d. Christ mas fare : lb. roast beef ; nb. plum pudding, potatoes, and 1 pint of Barclay's porter. Children proportionately, who are farmed out at St. George's Industrial Schools, Plasket, viz., 152. Snuff and tobacco for aged, and apples, oranges, sweetmeats, and toys for the children. Comparative contract prioe of provisions between this and last year ox beef and mutton per stone of 141b5., legs and shins, 2s. 11d. ; bread, 16s. 3d. per cwt. ; flour, 48s. per sack. This year beef and mutton, 9s. 2d. ; bread, 12s. 10d. ; flour, 41s. The celebrated Mr. Ranting has, with his usual liberality, presented to the guardians 251. for distribution amongst the poor. As regards casnalpoor Mr. Iflackwell, the master, remarks " The number of trumps in this house have very much decreased, owing to the police being apppointed assistant relieving oflicen." The numbers ending the week Dec. 21 were ih2 ; at corre sponding period last year, 428. Increase on in-door poor, 9.1 ; un out-door poor, 511$, Total increase, 691 ET. 0101111 E THE MARTTE, SOCTHWARE. In-door poor, 430 ; last year, 424 ; out-door poor, 3,ZIR; last year, 2,5531 lilaster'a clerk states, " No time to search for statistics." Each inmate, roast beef, plum pudding, and porter, ad libitum, for dinner; tobacco, snuff, oranges, M the evening. Diniug : hall tastefully decorated fur music and dancing. Guardians very liberal to aged sick and infirm. Children at schools, imbeciles at Eagle House, Mitcham, fare the same. Increase in in-door poor, 12 ;in out-door poor, 6SC. ; total increase, 697. ST. NAITLXIIOVIL Population at last census, 161,609 ; total of in door poor, 2,341 (last Christmas, 2,100). In the work house, 1,881, viz., men, 685; women, 1,0;;:i ; children, 141 ; children at schools nt Southall, 460 ; number of out door poor, 6,434 (last year, 5,634). Ratio of paupers to population, 1 in 25 ; last year, 1 in 28. Christmas-day fare for each inmate :-11b. plum pudding, 4b. roast beer, vegetables, 1 pint of porter, and tobacco and snuff for tho adults, cad fruit, with Christmas tree and other enter tainments, for the children. Ingredients of the Maryle booe workhouse pudding, 457ths. ; suet, 356115.; raisins, 2801b5.; currants, %tabs.; sugar, 1781ba ; 950 eggs ; milk, 13 (cations ; ale, 13 gallons ; mixed poll, 301Iss. ; spice and ginger, 191bs, ; gross weight, about 2,00011 e. Contract price of some of the leading articles of provisions : —Meat, 4s. Bd. per stone of Sibs. ; flour, per sack, 455. 9a. ; potatoes, 98e. per ton ; tea, la 71b. ; sugar, 325. per cwt. Last year:—Mot, 4a. Sd. ; flour, 385. I.d. ; potatoes, 74;5. ; tea, IS. :kl.; sugar, 3•23. Mr. Douglas, the master, remarks with reference to Mr. Hardy 's Metropolis Poor Act that its effects have as yet been scarcely felt. With the exception of meat provisions are dearer, and with a large increase of poor generally, and the dearnos of dour, 4;c., the rates he fears must be raised all over the metropolis. He also mentions as a singular fact that whilst the casual poor are on the increase in other parts of London in Marylebone there had been a wonderful decrease, and one night the female casual ward was quite empty. Increase in in-door poor 181, in out-door poor 798 ; total increase 979. ST. PANCRAS. Area 2,716 acres, population 220,000. This parish was the first in the metropolis in which Mr. Hardy's Metro polis Poor Act was brought into operation, and there is no doubt its tendency will be to produce an enormous increase in the rates. The guardians have purchased a site for an infirmary at Highgate for 500 inmates, at a cost of 4,3001. Thirty-seven :acres of land have also been purchased at LsavesdenWoodside, near Watford, at a cost of 4,0001., for the erection of schools for 700 children, for whom tempo rary accommodation is being provided at Plaistow. A wonderful saving has been effected in the workhouse stores without reducing the food of the poor. Inmates of workhouse, 2,097 Hart year, 2,064) ; men, 735 ; women, 1,6a9 ; children, 273 ; and 343 children at schools at Han well. Christmas fare : 240 stones of beef, divided, '.lb. cooked and free from bone, to each adult ; 11b. plum pudding, and 1 pint of porter each adult ; children in pro portion. Ingredients of St. Pancras plum pudding : NOlbs. flour, 651ba. suet, 3•_'olbs. raisins, 3201ba. currants, 30th.. orange, 20th.. lemon, and 141ba. citron peel, 31bs. of spice, 15 gallons of milk, and 1,60t1 eggs ; gross weight of pudding, about 2,3001 be. Contract prices for beef and mutton, 4s. 51. ; potatoes, ss. per owt. ; flour, 49e. 6d. per sack. Last year, meat, ss. 2.1. ; potatoes, 4s. 641.; flour. 9d. Out-door poor, 6,320 (last year, 6,795) ; decrease, 476. MILMEND OLD TOWN. Area, 641 acres ; population, 84,000; houses, 12,000 ; poor-rate, 9d. in the pound per quarter ; vestry rates, 6,1.; gross rates, fie. in the pound per mourn ; inmates, 674 (last year, 638); men, 189; women, 270; children, 213; lunatics, 151 Bast year, 141) ; out-door, 2,308 (last year, 1,792); weekly out-door relief, 1311. 9s. 11d. (last year, 1001.10 s. Gd. ; irremovable poor, 73/. ; settled poor, 58f. Fare: 1 lb. roast beef, 1 lb. baked potatoes, 11b. plum pudding, and one pint of porter; anuif and tobneeo for aged and apples, oranges, nuts, toys, lie., for children. Of a ide-bodied applicants for out relief set to work at stone breaking and oakum picking, 31 per cent. die under 20 years of age, and described as labourers. Contract price of provisions: Bread, 175.; flour, fils. ; meat, aver age Gs. Last year : Bread, 16e. 2.1. ; flour, 473.. 61. ; meat, 7s. Id. Increase of in-door poor, 36 ; out-door poor, 716 ; total increase, 752. Increase upon out-door poor of 186.5, 1,281. The number is now more than double that of 1863. Casual poor in 1864, 7,343 ; in 1863, 9,876 ; in 1866, 15,698; and during same period this year, 19,814. sr. esSIBEKWELIa 'Population, Mil census, 5-1,663 ;at 1861 census, 71,4k1, ihcrewse, 16 , e21. Inmates, 911 (last year 524): men, 266 ; Wolnlla, 27 ohihlren, 7d • children at Sutton, dO9. Out door .4034 (last year, 2,15 d) ; adults, 1,536 ; children, 1;196. Out relief in money and kind tor week ending Dec. 214, 218/. ss. 61. ; last year, 2921. 4s. Td. Fare : Roast bed, plum pudding, and porter ? and in eveningH cake and tea ad adant, and by subscription of oranzes, tobacco, snuff and punch in the evening for aged, and toys for children. The master also opens his soup kitchen for outdoor poor. Vagrants relieved in year ending September, 12,660 ; in previous year, 10,109 ; in crease 2,121; and during the pest y ear , 300 vagrants suf feringm fro illness bad been admitte d into the body of the house. Flour, 475. 9d., last year 395. Gal, per sack. Slant, 4s. Rd., last year Ss. per stone ; week's consumption: dour, 52 sacks ; meat, 160 stone. Increase on in-door poor, 104 ; on out-door poor, 581—total increase, 665. BT. lIAET. TADDINGTON. Area, ips acres; population, over 90,000 ; inmates of house, 48: (last Christmas, 459)—viz., 127 men,asiwomen, and 14.1 children • receiving out-door relief,l,279(last year, 997). Christmaii-day fare : Boast round of beef, mashed potatoes, and porter, with 2.1 b. plum pudding On Boxing day the men are to have beer Auld snuff and tobacco, and the women egg-flip, in the evening. Ingredients of Pad dington parish pudding 1121 b. flour, 2241105. fruit, 1491b5. suet, with sugar, spice, peel, &c. and weight about 5 cwt. Contrast prices of provisicins : Bread, 7d. per 41bs. ;• meat, 7d. psr lb. ; butter, 90s. per cwt. ; eggs, 7s. per 120. Laid year : Bread, 62,1. ; meat, tl,l. ; batter. 100 a. ; and eggs, 9s Increase in the in-door poor. 28 ; in outdoor poor, 282. Total increase of paw, 310. WAIMBWOTITH Ain) CLAPHAM MON. Population, 70,403. Inmates of workhouse, 075 (last 613)—viz., men, 290 ; women, 2%1; children, Irt. Number of out-door poor, 10,802 (last year, 7,990). Christmas fare for inmates : Soz. roast beef, Ilb. potatoes, 11b. plum pudding, and two pints of beer for each adult ; tobacco and snuff for aged and infirm, and oranges, antics, nuts, ka, for the children. The extraordinary number of out-door poor in this union is somewhnt astounding, being larger by nearly two-thirds than St. Pancras with a popu lation of three times its number, and the large increase of 1867 over the previous year is still more so—viz., increase on in-door poor, 02 ; on out-door poor, 2,902. Gross in over previous year, 2,904. FULHAM UNION. This union consists of the parishes of Fulham and Ham mersmith. Acreage, 3,9x1; population, 51,000; inmates, 377 (lest year, :,59) ; males, 13." ; females, 141 •, children, 101 ; outdoor poor, 1,575 (last year, 1,286). The dinner consisted of 600 lbs. of roast rounds and ribs of beef, with plum pudding And one pint of beer to each adult. Chil dren and imbeciles, apples, oranges, nuts, kc. Those who smoke or snuff, one ounce of each. Ingredients of Christ mas pudding, 140 lbs. of dour, 70 lbs. of suet, 91 lbs. raisins, 77 lbs. currants 300 eggs, 70 pounds sugar, 14 lbs. of candid peel, albs. mixed spice, 1 lb. ground ginger, 1 lb. nutmegs, b gallons milk. Beef last year 7A. and suet 101 per pound ; this year, Old. and 9d. Flour per sack, last year 55e., this year 625. Mr. H. IL Rowe, the master, affords some valuable information in reference to Mr. Hardy's Poor Act, and that referring to homeless poor. Mr. Hardy's set does not effect the union, but ultimately it wiU, jointly with St. George, Hanover-square, and Pad dington, erect a district school ; and as to hospital accom modation, the infirmaries are shortly to be enlarged. He remarks: " The act is certainly a step in the right direc tion, if due care be exercised that the expenses in carrying it out do not press too heavily on the poorer class of rate payers, who really are themselves, so far as dietary is con cerned, worse off than the inmates of workhouses." The Homeless Poor Act, he says, does not su ffi ciently distin guish between the professional beggar and the poor indus trious man without a home in search of work. There should be • ward for temporary reception of casuals afflicted with sore and swollen feet, skin disease, and such like ailments, to whom a few days' rest would prore a great boon. At present, unless totally disabled for tra velling, casuals are required to leave in the morning. To the professional tramp the utmost rigour should be shown, and if able-bodied and in good health he ought not to be allowed to sleep in the tramp ward oftener than once in two months. The professional tramp now sleeps in the casual ward five or six times a month, and this to the exclusion of three who ue really in search of work. lucre ise on in-door poor, 18 ; on out-door poor, 287 ; total increase. 305. BT. crimgesAxn BT. GinAGE'S, BLOOWSBUItT. Inmates, 90G (last year 785) : men, 286 ; boys, 107 ; women, 441 ; girls, 72 et schools at Holme.court, 107 (last year 99); out-door poor, 1,964 (last year 1,367: ; adults, 960 ; children, 1,014 ; tramps, 114 (bust year 2.1.)). Christmas fare : Ilb. roast beef ; potatoes ad lib. ,• plum pmliing, Mb. • porter. 1 pint each ; tobacco and saic IT, 1 oz. each; °nage', .5*.c., to children. Inmates allowed to visit their friends. Increase on in-docr, 127 ; on out door poor, 597 ; total increase, 724. STRAND VNION. This union may be said to be in a transitory state. It is believed that, under the new Metropolitan Poor Act, St. Anne's, Soho, will be dissevered from it, and be attached to St. Oiles's and St. George's, Bloomsbury, and to unite St. Martin's-in-the. Fields with the remaining parishes of the union, viz., St. Clements Danes, St. Mary-le-Stand, St. Paul (Covent-garden), Precinct of the Savoy, and Li berty of the Rolls. The present area is 106 acres, and po. pnlation 42,808. In the workhouse, Cleveland-street, 44 (last year 490) ; at schools at Edmonton, 3M (last year, 234): at Roman Catholic Rome for Adults and Schools for Children, 54 (last year, 20) ; lunatics in asylums, 143 (last year I 41); outdoor poor, 1,747 (last year, 1,729). Fare: 6 oz. boiled pork, carrots, and potatoes; ills. plum pudding. 1 pint of porter, snuff, tobacco, and fruit, tea money, and evening. Ingredients of pudding: 30011*. fruit, 20011 m. floor, and 1201bs. suet, mixed with 40 quarts of milk, spice, Re. Provisions this year: Flour, 40s. per sack ; beef and mutton, 7s. and 4. llkl. per atone; cheese, aq,.. per cwt.; butter, 845.; potatoen, 955. per ton. Last year: Flour 42a .; beef and mutton, 9s. 4d. and 15. Gd.; cheese, 65.; butter, 98a.; potatoes, 80s. Muter remarks:—" Ope ration of Houselces Poor Act much the same as last year, affording too witch encouragement to idle and dissipated 2oung men." Total number of poor, 2,784 (last year, ,642); total increase, 142. BT. GIORGI. HANOVER-SQUAB/C. Population in 1861, 87,711 ; inmates of workhouse, 779 (last Christmas, 104) ; males, 2116 ; females, 326 ; children, 187 ; out-door poor, 1,867 (last year, 1,271); adults, 1,043 ; children, 824. Fare : Baked beef and potatoes, ad libitum, and pint of beer each. A similar entertainment on New-year's-day. Tobacco and snuff to the old people. The pudding is given on New-year's-day in consequence of the great number being out on Christmas-day visiting their friends. Increase on in-door poor, 85 ;on out-door poor, 596. Total increase, 68L 6T. XA*TIN•LN-TH6-FIILDB. 2 2 ,64); exten t , 30{ •CIMM ; Indoor Copulation, 22,r4); extent, jut acres ; _ -4. poor, 437 Oast year, 430); men, 161 ; women, 243 ; children, 33; moss of children at school, at Hanwell; outdoor, 285 Oast year, 24). Dirtributed for out relief, 2601 b. ST. GliOltGleB.l3l.lltll-IAIT. Extent, 222 acres ; population, 50,000 ; inmates, 1,212 (last year 1,102): nien, 3Uti ; women, 54:i ; children, 36 ; at school at list Ham, 303 ; out door, 4,114 ilastyear, 3,623). Fare :—Roast pork, of pigs from the school farm ; plum pudding, potatoes, and one pint of porter each adult ; fruit for children, tobaaro and snuff for aged. On Boxing. day an entertainment in evening, with cake and wine. Increase on in-door poor, 110; on out-door poor, 491 total increase, 001. STEPISZT oinoll. Arca 576 acres, population 1,861, census 56,572. Indoor poor, 1.167 (last year 1,e24) ; men 312, women 333, chil dren 472. Out-door poor, 4,5t10 (last/ear 2,303). Christmas fare: roast beef, potatoes, plum pudding, with beer, to bacco, and 'muff for altdts, and apples, oranges, and nuts for children. Ingredients of pudding flour 340th.., suet 134 stone milk 32 gallons, raj/IW' 2931 b.., currants 1461b5., peel 19tdba., spice lithe., egg, 34 dozen, sugar 1741 b a. Contract prices of provisions : dour 50a., meat ss. Id, tea ls. Rd., oatmeal 17s. t A., potatoes fie. 11d. lost year: flour 475. fid., meat 6s. 76., tea 25., oatmeal leo., potatoes 3s. 6d. The Metropolis Poor Act only having been in operation in this union 3 months, arrangements under its provision' are not yet complete. Increase on in-door poor, 123 ;on out-door, 2,117. Total increase over correspond int; period last year, 2,a10. WHITT-CHAPEL UNION. Inmates, MI (last year 8)3) ; men 403, women 510, chil dren 70. The majority of the children at the schools at Forest•gate. Fare, beside allowances of tea, sugar, and butter, 41b. baked beef, Ilb. potatoes, 1 pint of Truman's porter, and lib. plum pudding; children in proportion. Ingredients of pudding: flour 4110, suet 240, raisins 560, currents 44, peel 28, spice 2, sugar 72, and salt 511ra. ; together 1,92111 is ; milk 144 quarts, eggs 140. No return of out-door. Increase on indoor poor, 175. BT. LEONARD, SHOREDITCH. Area, 620 acres ; population at last cense% 129,139 ; inmates, I,liki (last year 904); men, 441 ; women, 583 ; children, 81 ; outdoor poor, 3,9thi (last year, 2,708) ; 420 children at Brentwood. Fare : bread and butter and tea for breakfast and in the evening; dinner—resst beef, plum pudding, alb. ; bread and potatoes ; 1 pint of porter. Ingredients of Christmas pudding : Flour. 2241b5. ; plums, 220Uhs. ; currants, 140 lbs. ; suet, 1121bs. ; 500 eggs ; 12 gallons of milk, with peel, &c. Contract price of m :mons : Flour, 4711.; meat, per stone, is. 45. ; bacon, 68e.; butter, 88s.; cheese, 525. per cwt.. Last year : Flour, 475.; meat, Ss. 6d. bacon, 70s. ; butter, 945. ; cheese, sns. Increase on in - door poor, 201; on out-door poor, 1,255 ; total increase, 1,460. or. sevioun'suximr, SOUTHWARK. Inmates, 422 (same as last year). Christmas fare; flos. roaat beef (free from bone), 11b. potatoes, 11b. plum pud ding, 1 pint of llarclay's porter, and extra ten and sugar, with fruit, Le. and tobacco and muff, for children su e e let The pu dding consisted of 9011 m. flour, 1121ba. suet, s. raisins, 112165. currant., 561bs. sugar, 121 be. mixed peel, Ob. mixed spice, 2uo eggs, and 6 gallons milk. The sick and children properly taken care of. BT. M.tRY, ISLINGTON. Area, 3,030 acres ; populatiou nearly 200,000 ; Inmates of workhouse 668 (last year 513), men 2' 4 6, women 311, children 31. Out-door poor, 4,10; (last Chriattuas, 3,190) ; adults, 2,123; children, 1,984; children at school at Hornaey, 266 (last year 221). Christmas fare, Gm. roast beef, 12oz. potatoes, 4cs. bread, 10oa. plum pudding, 1 pint of porter, los. of tea, and tot. sugar. Ingredients of pudding :-1681bs, ruins, 1681bs. currants, 101 b. peal, albs. spice, 8 barn gallons milk, Zilbs. sugar, suet 1401 M., and :WO eggs. Contrast prices, 1867 :—Bread, per 1001bs., 14s. 6d. ; Lour, per sack, 4M. ; meat, per 141b5., 4d. ; butter, :Sit. ; cheese, 465 . ; oatmeal, 17e. ; rice. 16e. per cwt. ; peas, per bushel, is. 64. l ast year—Bread, 11s. 101 ; flour, 375. ; meat, SAL ; butter, 89a. ; cheese, 44e.; oatmeal, 15e. lA.; rice, Va.; p e as, 6s. 0,1. Increase on in-door poor, 1.i.1; on outdoor poor, 981; total increase, ST. Jllllll . B, WESTIIINSTIIL A rea , 165 acres ; population, 36,420 ; inmates, 742 (last year 08); men, 332 Iwomen, 425 ; children, 55 ' • children at schools. Battersea, 207 (Inst year 204) ; fare, 8 oz. roast beef, 12 oz. baked potatoes, 1 lb. plum pudding, 1 pint porter ; holidays for three iays to suit friends ; children at schools supplied with fruit and toys ; amusing enter tainment in the evening enlivened by the boys' hand; in gredivute of Christina. pudding—raisins 260, currants 200, dour 290, suet 200, sugar 12, peel 30, and mixed spice 3.t lip., and 240 eggs. The New Metropolis Act has not yet come into operation in St. James's. The alteration of the law of settlement from three to one year has tired on the metropolitan parishes a great burden ; this, combined with the Bottomless Poor Act, has tended maiuly to the in crease of paupers in the metropolis. Increase on in-door poor, 44 ; decrease on out-door poor, 35 ; total increase, 12, EDMONTON MON. Extent, 46.607 acres ; population. 60,000; inniesa, 433; men, 2n7 • women, IG4 • children 22; at Enfield '230 chil dren; out:door , 1,550 (list year, 1, ' 4191. Fare: bak‘d beef, mutton, potatoes , ' I lb. plum pudding and 1 pint of porter, oranges, tobacco, snuff, le. Number of tramps greatly in creased. Increase of out-door poor, 131. BT. WAROAIIET AND BT. JOHN'S, WESTWINSTF.B. Area, 917 acres. Population at last census, 66,177. This parish has two workhouses, one in " Petty France," and the other in Kensington. Inmates of Petty France work ; house, Z 32 (last year, 187); men, 10d; women, 82; children, 42. Kensington workhouse: inmates, 803 (last year, 7431; men, 274 ; women, 373 ; children, 154. Out poor, 4,116 (last year,2,510) ; adults, 2,041 ; children, 2.073 ; weeks relief in kind, ' 116!. sa. M.; in money, 681. 10". 11d.; last Christmas, in kind, 104 f. Lis. 11d. • money, W. Ca. Upward" of 900familise on out-door extra allow ance of meat, tea, and sugar. Christmas fare in work houses: roast pork or roost beef at ontion, potatoes, plum Pudding, and tobacco and snuff, with fruit for children, of whom there are 52 at an industrial school. Weight and ingredients of pudding at Petty France workhouse, viz. : Hour, 70; suet, 54; raisins, 100; currants, 10U; ale. 18; sugar, 20 ; milk, 21 ; eggs, 13 ; peel, 12 ; spice and ginger, 1:1b. ; gross weight, about 400165. Kensington podding : flour, :AO ; raisins, 2 4 0 ; currants, 224 ; suet, 200 ; milk, 210 ; treacle, 54 ; eggs, 43 ; peel, 14 ; sugar, 112 • spice, 3; ale, 361bs. ; total weight, about 1,-1891b Cont ract pries of provisions bread per 1121b5. 1 16s. 81. ; meat per Slba, 41. esL ; butter, 101'. ; cheese, 48s. per cwt. Last year: bread, 13s. 641. ; meat, ss. Id. ; butter, 109 x. ; cheese, 50.. Increase in in-deer poor, 105 ; in out-door poor, 1,606 total increase, 1,711. During the year the number of 1 tramps admitted to the casual wards has been 26,734. I BT. MARY MAGDALEN, BERMONDSEY. Ares. 420 sores ; population, 66,200 ; inmates, 570 (last year. Li 77; ; males, 214 ; females, 291 ; children, 74. Christ mas fare : 2241b5. boiled pork ; 6001 W. of plum pudding, with one pint of beer for each adult. Out-door poor, 1,250 (last year 1;1X); adults, 576; children, 674. CENTRAL LONDON DISTRICT SCHOOL. This institution belongs to the City of London rubes, the guardians of which set as its governors ; and here, several other parishes farm out their children. The gross numbers at present in the establishment are 1,217 Oast Christmas they stood at 982) belonging to the follow ing : —City of London tinioo, 2&;: East London, le7 ; St. Saviour's, 140 ; West London, 91 ; St. Martin's-in-the. Fields, 68; fit. Pancras, 343; Bethtud%rven, 82. The children were regaled with rout beef and roast pork, with potatoes, bread, and plum pudding, and coifee in the evening. There were two full ser. ices in the chapel, and two sermons preached by the Rev. S. V. Uvalde, D.A., chaplain to the school. The dining-room was tastefully decorated with evergreens and appropriate mottoes, and a variety of amusements took place and dancing to the music of the band composed of boys in the school. In crease of numbers as compared with last year, 235. BT. MART, LAMBETH. Population at last census, 161,005. Only further in. formation supplied by muter. Fare for paupers : 11b. plum pudding, 6or. rout pork with apple sauce, and baked potatoes, a pint of porter, with a supply of tobacco and snuff for aged. Numbs; of paupers in the workhouse, 1,300, nearly all adults. CITY OF LONDON UNION. Reply of master to application—Numbers in workhou , e, g. 30, SAWN as last year ; of the schools and out-door poor know but little. Christmas fare for inmates, roast beef, roost pork, and plum pudding ; "12 pigs and 1,5001b5. of pudding provided, in addition to which puler, tobacco and snuff for the healthy ; fruit for children ; and 2os tea and tkas. loaf sugar for each of the old and Mir women and sick." NT. LURE, CREL-SE.t. Information derived from the office of the master of workhouse—" The usual Christmas dietary to the In mates of this workhouse as reported to you but year.'• WM' LONDON 11,101. Inmates of New Union Workhouse at Holloway, N 76 (last year, 516). Nen, 166 ; women, 345 ; children, 67. Claris:lnas fare, Goa. beef, 12m. pudding, 12oz. potatoes. with port v . , tobacco, and muff, oranges, So. ; 24 cwt. of raijra, 11 . c w t. of currants, 1 owt . of sugar, 2 net, of flour, 1 1 b. of peel, Ms. of spice. Contract price of pro._ visions : Bread, 16s. per cwt. ; flour, 475. per sack ; beef and mutton, 14. lid. per stone ; tea, Is. 3d. per lb. ; sugar, 335. ; butter, 60s. ; cheese, 525. per cwt. No ro tura :laallu of oat-door pour. Increase of in-doorpoor, 62. HOLDOILY VAION. Inmates of workhouse, 610 ; n I return of out-door poor- Fare, roast pork and plum pudding ad libitum, and a pint of porter each adult, with tobacco, snuff, fruit, &c., for children. Ingredients of padding : flour, 1401ba. ; fruit, 1961b5. ; suet, 1201ba.; pee 4 61ba. ; sugar, 1121te. ; milk, 13 quarts ; eggs, 180 ; spice, Wm From some extraordinary and unexplained cause, not withstanding that two applications were made for informa tion, the muter* of the following parishes and unions have not had the courtesy to supply it :—East London Union, St. John's, Hampstead ; Hackney Union, Ilethnal. green • St. Luke, Cit-read ,• Greenwich Union, Poplar, St. 011ie's, Southwar k ; and Clerkenwell. EfEcient, however, remain to *bow that there is a tremendous in cremio in metropolitan pauperism, and it is also a remark able fact, as will be observed, that the largest increase has taken place in the out‘kirt unions and parishes. Wands worth and Clapham Union appear to bear the unenviable palm in this respect, having the enormous number of 10, , 02 out-door poor to relieve, as compared with 7 ,990 last year, being an increase el very nearly 3,000 poor in one district alone. THE lIORRIBLB OUTRAGE AND MURDER IN SHROPSHIRE. SHREWSBURY, CHRISTMAS DAY. Yesterday, on the very day the Alton murderer was adjudged to be banged, a crime singularly resembling his in its character was brought to light in Shropshire. The victim in the present instance is a little girl named Catherine Lewis, nine years and eight months oil, and the man now in custody on the charge of wilful murder is an agricultural labourer named John Mapp. The scene of the outrage is a field situated between Longden village and Longtlen common, a quiet, agricultural district about seven or eight miles from this town. From the particulars already in the possession of the police, it appears that on Sunday morning last the de ceased left her home, which is situated on the common, for the house of a person named Davies, who lives in the village, and whose baby she occasionally nursed. She re mained there till six o'clock in the evening, when she started to go to chapel. On leaving chapel, she was ac companied by Mapp and a woman, a mutual acquaintance, who lived at Loagdcn-wood Farm. When the three reached the lane which led to the farm, the woman turned aside and went home, Mapp and the deceased keeping on the high road which led to Longden common. This was a little after eight o'clock. sod the deceased was never seen alive again- On Monday morning the prisoner went to his work in the fields as usual, and towards noon a ploughboy who was working near him called out that he hail found a girl's bat all covered with blood, at the san.e time observing that there had been a row somewhere. Mapp told the lad to put the hat in the furrow and cover it up with the plough, but instead of doing so he threw it over the hedge Into the high road. A woman named Hartshorne, who had been at chapel on the previous evening, and bad seen the deceased there, happened to pass along the road shortly after, and pinking up the hat recognised it as the one then worn by the deceased, and at once carried it to the father of the child. Up to this time no anxiety as to the absence of the deceased bad arisen, either oe the part of her parents or the l)svieses, the one ooncludh g that she had stayed to sleep at the village, and the other believing that she had gone home. Let when the Lit saturated with blood was brought to him, Mr. Lewis at once started for the village, and learning that his daughter had not been seen since S o'clock on the previous night a diligent search was made in the neighbourhood that lay between the two houses. Following certain traces found in the field where the bat Lad been discovered, Mr. Lewis went to an old and distilled hovel which stood in en adjoining field, and on opening the door a shocking sight was presented to him. Lying on her back upon the ground, with some of the litter lightly covering her, was the body of his child, wish her throat cut from ear to ear, and so deeply as almost to sever the head from the shoulders. A shawl which sue hail worn on Sunday was tied round her neck, and one end thrust tightly into ber mouth. There were several scratches upon her person, tut though there is no doubt as to the object of her murderer, it is not known, pending the medical inquiry, whether or net he effected it. On the discovery of the crime suspicion was at once directed towards the prisoner, who strongly pro tested his innocence, but at the same time made several inconsistent and damaging statements, which will he duly deposed to at the adjourned examination. On visiting the scene of the murder yesterday Superintendent Caerswell made an important discovery, which throws consider able light on the affair, and forms a strong link in the chain of evidence which connee• s the prisoner with is. It appears that on Saturday Mapp was engaged in spreading manure over the stui.blo field where the hat was found, and returned on Monday nioruing to complete the job. Instead, however, of following on with the manure at the place where he had left off on Saturday, he commenced at &place fifty yards further on and here he up two large heaps. On noticing this yesterday gtt i erintendent Caerswell raked away the manure, and underneath each heap he found a large pool of blood, and close by he picked up a veil belonging to the deceased. Following up this clue, Caerswell traced the path of the murderer as he had dragged after him the - body of the child along the hedgerow skirting the highway, through a gap in the hedge, and across a grass field up to the hovel, a distance of about five hundred yards. The trail of the body, which bad become covered with soil from the ploughed field, was plainly discernible on the grass. The ploughed field is skirted by the highway, along which ' the prisoner and the deceased (who were nest door neigh bours) would pass on their way home, after leaving their companion at the farm, and the precise spot where the murder appears to have been committed is close by a gate which leads off the road into the field. The inference, from the evidence already obtained, clearly is that the murderer suddenly 'wailed the child in the road, and gagging her by means of her shawl, carried her into the field, and fearing the coui.equenoe of the sure detection which must follow on her return home, bud been led into the committal of murder. Supposing the prisoner to have been the perpetrator of the pre liminary outrage, he had • special reason for keeping out of the hands of the police, for he had only lately returned hoe is with a ticket-of-leave, after serving seven of a term of ten years' transportation, to which he had been sentenced for a repo upon on old woman, coin. milted under peculiarly atrocious circumstances. Mapp was brought here yesterday in custody, and charged before the county magistrates with the wilful murder of Catherine Lewis, but uo evidence was taken beyond such as was eeceasary for • remand. On the usual question bein,; put to him the prisoner made a statement to the effect that the deceased had been murdered, but that he was not the man. lle was remanded for a week. (se etscrue TZLIDDRAPH.) SHREWSIILTRY, TneRSDAT MORNING. The inquest on Catherine Lewis is proceeding this morn ing. Medical evidence shows tlist she wet not v inlated previous to the murder. The setae of the murder was visited by thousands yesterday. FIRE SNP LOSS OF THREE LIVE- AT BELFAST.— A very aid calamity occurred in Belfast on Monday night, in the burning of a hone in Church•street. Two children were burned to death before they could be incued.awl their mother died shortly after removal to the General Hoe vital, while two other girls of the same family lie there so 6dly injured that they are not expected to live. The house where the fire occurred was a small three-story one, and the lower portion was occupied by a maker of fancy boxes. He and his family occupied the upper part es a dwelling-house. From the nature of the goods in the ground floor the fire there must have spread very , rapidly, but surely not so very fast that the inmates of the upper storey could not bare been rescued in time. There swears to have been considerable bungling some where. Why wee neither of the two fire-escapes taken to the scene of the fire? So far as we can hear, there seems to ho a dispute as to who should drive these napes from Police-spare to wherever they may be wanted ; and if there be any truth in the rumours afloat, some inquiry into the matter is urgently needed. With the firemen, however, no blame can rest. They did all they possibly could to save life, and two of them, Moorhead and Nelson, took a noble part in rescuing the unfortunate inmates of the house.—l'Verthern Whig. 1 P, AfONBY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) 0111 o'CrAxrc. To-day is observed as a holiday on the Stock Exchange, by order of the Committee, and in every department of business the attendance is very limited. MINES.-(THIS DAY.) OAK O'CLOCK. Loth the Mining Exchange and tl;eTock Exchange being closed to-day, business in mining securities is suspended. METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET. (THIS DAY.) We have a very short supply of all kinds of stock, but this being a holiday market, it is quite sufficient for the demand. Prices Rie about the same as on Monday hut, and a fair clearance is effected. Our foreigu supply tou stets of 45 beasts, and 470 sheep. Per stone of 40 ad.s. d. I Per dons of 8,114 d. d. Wet 00044, Lierobla 6 0 5 4 Best Dasdalf.baissh 0 0 0 0 bud short-hems 4 10 6 2 Best Ltvg.wools.... 4 5 0 00,000 gust besets S 4 4 01 Do. .10. :thorn—. 0 0 0 0 C dyes PUP hest Ons&111/b.reds 5 0 6 4 Lamb! _ _ . -- Beasts at market, 550: PIP. 4u. and lambs. 9.,=/; calvLs, ILI PROVINCIAL SHARI MARKI!S Itrm.lV, DSC. ^_4.—Three per Cent. Consols, 99.! —New Three pet Vent. Mock, VI I—bitto foe account, Jan. 7, 917 / Ditto tor new account. 9 , 1 1 2-11ank of Ireland pakt lilbertlau Bank (zr, 8.5, art ea div.— National bank p Cl GOI—Nn canal of Liverpool (Limited 1 - 115 I aid., 114—koyal Bank (C.lO 33;—Cniun flank ,Llvdtu.j ,t Paid:, 17. HEALTH OF LONDON. - It appears from the weokly return issued by authority of the Registrar-General that in the week that ended on Saturday, Deo. 21, 4,317 birth,, and 3,31 d deaths were registered in London and in twelve other large towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of mortality was 28 per 1,000 persons living. The annual rate of mortality last week was 26 per 1,01.00 in Loudon, 29 in Edinburgh, and 29 in Dublin 33 in Bristol, ;',O in Birmingham, 33 in Liverpool, 35 in Man chester, ell in Salford, 23 in Sheffield, 2:1 in Lewis, 31 in Hull, 22 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and 25 in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna was 26 pe r 1,110) during the week ending the 14th inst., when the mean temperature was 101 deg. Fahrenheit lower than in the same week in Lon don, where the rate was 29. In London the births of 1,136 boys and 1,025 girls, in all 2,161 children, were registered in the week. In the cor responding weeks of ten years 1357-66 the average number, corrected for increase of population, is 2,613. The deaths registered in London during the week were 1,561. It was the fifty-first week of the year ; and the average number of deaths for that week is, with a correc tion for increase of population, 1,467. The deaths in the present return exceed the estimated number by 74. Seven hundred and seventy-eight persons died under 20 years of age, 172 were 20 and under 40, 240 were 49 and under 60, 302 were 60 and under SO, and 69 were 80 years of age and upwards. Zymotio diseases in the aggregate destroyed the lives of 301 persons, 241 of whom were under 20 yearn of age. Whooping-cough wee the most fatal disease in the zymotlo class, and caused the deaths of 56 children ; 9of tin e cases occurred in the west, 13 in the north, a in the central, 12 in the east, and 14 in the south distrims. Fifty-five deaths occurred from iuemles : It in the west, 7 in the north, 9 in the central, 12 in the east, and 11 in the south districts. Forty-eight deaths oocarmd from scarlatina : Gin the west, 19 in the north, 3 in the central, 3 in the east, and 17 in the ninth districts. nicety-we deaths from small-pox, 4 from diphtheria, 44 Iron. typhus, and 14 from diarrhea% were registered last week. k rem diseases of the respiratory organs (exclusive of phthisis) 409 persona died ; of this number bronchitis car ried off 244 persons, pneumonia 111, and asthma 14. One hundred and fifty-nine persons died last week front phthisis, 67 from diseases of the heart, and 169 from dis eases of the brain and nervons system. Seven children noel one adult died Irons injuries caused by burns or scalds ; one of these cases was that of a boy, aged 3 years, from " burns of body and limbs when playing with lighted paper." No deaths from carriage accidents in the streets were reg istered in the week. One hundred and sixty-four deaths from injuries caused by horsey or vehicles in the streets have been recorded during the ',twang year. Ten persons were killed by horses, 3 by carriages, 7 by multi. buries 17 by esbe, 32 by vans or waggons, 5 by drays, 43 by carts, mid 47 by vehicles not descri bed. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 210 - 615 in. The barome trical reading increased from 29 - 35 in. on Wednesday, 16th December, to 29.69 in, on Friday, 20th December. The moan temperature of the air in the week was 41 0 deg., which is L 6 deg. above the average of the Mlle week in s') years (as determined by Mr. Glaieher.i The highest day temperature was 531 deg. on Sunday, 15th December. The lowest night tempe rature was 2411ileg. on Friday, 20th December. The en tire range of temperature in the week was, therefore, 29'3 deg. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Themes was 37., deg. ; that of the lowest was 31.9 deg. The difference between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 2'5 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 91, complete satu ration being represented by 100. On Sunday, Lich De cember, the humidity was as great as N. Rain feU to the amount of 0 . 50 in., 0 - 21.1 in. of which was measured on Sun day, 15th December. The direction of the wind was variable. According to a return furnished by the engineer of the Metropolitan Board of Works, the average daily quantity of sewage pumped into the river Thames at the outhern Outfall Works Crossness, was ) 6,172,369 gal ' lons or 300,651 cubic metres, equivalent to about as many tons by weight. A legal certificate of any birth, death, or marriage regis tered in England or Wales since let July 163 7 , may be ob tained at the Gemmel Register-office, Somerset-house. WEATHER DEPORT.-(TEILS DAY.) TITURADLT, DICCEMIZIL 96, II LW Ir., Istreeas :boa. B . LI W . Rio ...--.A.--, w. P. I 'I. to 127. D. lk , ..............—. .. —....... 7 ---....— —,—. Name .O2T S' , &it W. 1, 4 S, W. e— 1 Aberdeen .0.0il 441 W.S.W. 1, 1 W.N.W. be 1 Leith - 171471 W. 112 6.6.1( be - Ardresaan u 4.2lt 17 S. 4.W. 414 S.W. co —. 3 Groeueast:e 4./110 ari W.S.W. 1 3 B.W. co I— I - Valenti& r. 4. !it-'4 rt .5...... bi 4/ W. 3 4 W. cl : 3 Rulystoo4 3,2.1 t 44 h.W. 2 1 W. be 4.22 1 Pentanes ...w.3+4 ...I Z. 0 2 N.N.W. c,I 12 Stoat .—. SO 2,.. VI N.C. 3 2 41.8.1: 10 i 0 4 Lorleui v. ap 45 N.N .E. 1 0 Z. etc 2 Rooketort - . - Warromoh . 0..:. :y 40 N.N.W. 1 I E. oc 2 Peetanouth 5J.321 as N.N.E. 2 2 E.S.E. to —• 1 I.A.Aut 10.311 33 Z. 0 2 W. I.: 0(1 - Yarmouth. £ 0 31r 30 W. 3 4 W.S.W. f. 2 11 •2212222811.30.2.3 f ss W.S.W. 2 2 W.N.W. b' 2 I ~....3 . 4.•:::r 36 W. 2 2 LW. el . I 2 Re-., - -t— I 2 Skukleaurcv 30.17 30 &L. 2 2 W. c .- 3 - -- - - - Barometer corrected and reduced to 33 deg. at sea level. The letter, r ,risi. g , f I:Mica , . a istvr..ly., luditste dir,lloo of flarometer corrected and reduced to 32 deg. at sea level. The letter, r .risb , f faltlur. a istra,ly , , indiente direction of mottos of the mercury wittda last 12 hours. Thermometer exp, , sed in sha.tc. Extreme force, with its direction during la.t 24 boars. Z.—calm. Wen-her b. - Idu o oky ;r. - anode (detached f.— frrr h.—hail : unary; : o—oterzost r —ruin ; ; —thutaler. Rabafall, anew or hall ;melted;, during but :3 bouni. Oat diaturbance. REMAI.K~. yesterday's reports sh 7re tt fncrease of p!cvsore 'thee the . prht i.ets morning, Illllolintinl to half an Inch at I:reel'. tastle. M.: that time vay tut; tVCIIIIIA, hut this nwrittns a thallium...a 11.:x cotnnienct-4 nt Nairn and Valencia. Tempt retort.* had deercuted yesterday, and were very varied but ta,lay they have risen spin on our north slut west c•taste at net.: ‘ r tiara frost :a rep trted. The a hots have been, lied sail rid inue, Mlat, atni are generally south.westerly. except in the Channel. halo hat fallen in places, and fog b aptin prevalent ea ~at souiit and east eq.:lsta Pil. engines are now sent in advance of some of the foreign mail trains in consequence of information that mischief has been threatened by the Fenian. - - - The ltev. R. W. Jelf, who fur 24 years has dis charged the onerous duties of Principal of King's C.Alege, London, Las sent in his resignation of that office. FATAL ACCIDIENT AT A THEATRE.—This morning the authorities of the Royal Free Hospital forwarded to Dr. Lankester the particulars of the death of Joseph Sbepperd, a • trimmer, of Nobitestreet, St. Luke's, who met his death through injuries he received r. tau Cabinet Theatre, Liverpool street, King'seross, on Tow day last. It appears that • fellow-workman asked the unfortunate deceased to leave his own work to go to the roof to assist him in remming a chandelier. This he did, and instead of win, i:ng on the planks he stepped on to the canvas or temporary roof of the theatre. He had no sooner done so than ne fell through into the pit, a great distance, and was, it was stated, impaled on the spikes that are on that portion of the pit that separates it from the orchestra. He was at once picked up and taken to the Royal Free Hospital, Grareinn-road, where he was admitted an in•patient by Mr. J. D. Hill and Mr. C. Hopkins, house surgeon. Notwithstanding that everything was doors for Lisa that human skill could suggest he lin gered in a great deal of agony until 1 or 2 o clock this morning, when death put en end to his sufferings. The deceased, it was stated, was a sober, steady man, had been in the employ of one master for 16 years, and has kit a wife and family to deplore his untimely loos. Tan Nsw FACTORY Act. —On Wednesday, the Ist proximo, the new act on factory extension will take effect, and has reference to factories in the United Kingdom where 50 or more persons are employed. There are tem porary and permanent modifications in the statute. I ucc vho the the bey )n!y I by a to e in lbcr h who told 'rat t: e bar aibt taly the /11l y asti- 'pas sin- )use, t-try, dale. TA.; bam. it