The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-26 00:00:00

TIM FRAUDS ON UNDERWRITERS BY A
BRITISH CONSUL.

CONSTANTINOPIS, Frs. r.

Mr. Calvert, late her Majesty's Consul at the
Dardanelles, was yesterday convicted at the Supreme
Court, Constantinople, on the charge of conspiracy and
attempting to defraud the underwriters at Lloyd's of •
certain amount of insurafices,l2,ooo/., effected by him on
• certain ship named Poesiedon, laden with oil, which had
loaded in Turkish waters for the United Kingdom, and,
which he falsely alleged was desttoyed by fire off the
Island of Lemnos. The frauds, it will be remembered,
were committed in the early part of the year 1862, the
' waned, Mr. Calvert, then holding the important office of I
her Majesty's Consul at the Dardanelles. It was in con.
sequences of the pressing demands he made on the
underwriters to settle the loss with him that excited
suspicion, and • special agent wee at one despatahed
to Constantinople to make inquiries, the result of
which disclosed • most novel and original baud,
whereupon the Foreign Office issued • warrant for
the apprehension of Mr. Calvert. However, before it
reached Constantinople, Mr. Calvert absconded, and for
five years he contrived to glade the vigilance of the police,
till lei Neasoltes, whoa he wee mance& and telly cont-
ained to take his trial on the Aimee preferred. • The at-
tempted frauds were shown to have been carried out by
means of official documents bearing herMajecty's consulate
seal, and upon whin he founded his claim upon the under.
writers. He had represented that he had been employed
to effect the 12,000!. insurances on the I'ouiedon and her
cargo by • person named Human Aga, a Turkish friend of
his. Ono document professed to be • certificate from the
harbour muter at Tcnedoe, to which port the Possiedon was
represented to belong, and certifying the departure of the
vessel. Theseconddocantent was "certificate from theconsu•
tar agent at Tondos confirming the departureof the Poste-
don. The third document was the prisoner's certificate as to
the cargo onboird the vessel. And the fourth document pro-
touted to be the statement made to the agent at Samos by
• certain captain who bad pasted • vessel at sea on fire,
and which was supposed to be the Possielon. A chain of
evidence, however, showed that there was no such psalm
as Hussein Aga, and no such ship as the l'oesiedoe—
neither shipper, agent, nor cargo ; but that the whole was
a frond to obtain the amount of insurances. The court
found the prisoner guilty, and he wee sentenced to two
years' penal servitude. The prosecution in the first in-
sane was taken by Lloyd's Salvage Association, but the
proesedisp at the trial were conducted by counsel by order
of the Foreign Wes.

BLUM° OP TEN LONDON OPERATIVZ Tallow.
—Last even=g a well-attended meeting of the operative,
be caging to the London Tailors' Protection Association
eme held at Cleveland•hall, Fitzroy-square, for the per•
pies of re-ceganising the =iodation on the suns pm=
pies as those adopted by the Amalgamated Engineers,
Amalgamated Carpenters, and other similar bodied'. About
800 members were present, none being admitted but those
who were clear on the books of the society at the close of
the late strike, and elicits= slam paid their contributions
regularly. Mr. Neal, president of the association, wow
pi= the chair. Mr. G. Druid, the secretary, re= a letter
from site seeretery of the Tailors' International Union of
the United States, in favour of a general union of
operative tailors in all countries. The chairman said the
se feel sesonsinse bad called the present meeting to lay
belies the trade a code of rules, which, if adopted, would,
to tensval, plan the London Tailors' Aesociatron in a more
infiential position than that which it occupied previous to
tie We *Mike. The result of the strike had been in some
ueseenre to disergasiee the society ; but out of evil often
seas and grti,pli::
be before
sod by
et=
gridid the ersessee, the association would again
sterns sod pewerfuL Mr. Druid then reed the sow
ado of mdse. midst presides he sick and funnel benefits
as well es lee Mode poopres, es the manse plan aa that
=by the ingthosees, sad ether large saidgertated
Having expleinsd at some length the =seise
the videas rules, be Illiededid by moving their
Mr. Milas seconded the moties, and after a lone
don they were agreed to, with some verbal 'Mentions.
Tee Idiralrooi RZTOILNATORY SCHOOLS. —The
Mayor of Liverpool yesterday presided at the animal
meeting of the friends and 'importers of the Liverpool
Sefammicry ANOOLMIIOO, which was 11•14 in the Town
Hell. It appeared frets the annual report that daring
the pest year the varlets institutions connected with the
emoditien had medic sedikekey mimes, while the state
el the imams was equally gratifying. During 1867 there
were 07 boys admitted to the reformatory ship Akber, sad
el these 33 wild neither reed nor write. During the
year 80 boys had been discharged from the ship, of whom
51 had gore to use, leaving situ me board 19t. The new
brilliant Si Newton wee revered se likely to be reedy
gar canagalsn this spas& tlib number of inmates in the
• fens embed =in 110, in the girls' reforms,
=5 lamatse. The various eshools,ke., had been carefully
rilliseli=errsilest. teppeared°lllfillabtiewfittecillatmw:nr;
that the yew the Abhor bed met 3,743/. Se, 3cL ,• the
6rle sated, LOGI Os. ; the boys' farm school 1,81301.
3s. W. ; sad the sew school at N 2,180. Ss. 7d.
The ,swipes diming; the year frees snbswiptiana and
theadems, faeledlog 3,024. 18a, beteg the giant from the
serpsrallen ler the now ,shed, stewed a Wane* in the
km& of the tousether el 3161. 11a. ft The report was
alegied sem. OR In gm • vote of Grath to the
Fthe Rem A. 0.1 otor of Weasel, seg-
tied the salinities should Ma a 5W-
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SO WM en very orthodoxy sad in wide the eihildree
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might be font* these lea hie • heaven end hell
b erter they might this be for besemdeg semee-
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Leal Isaathogisa List for MT, whit& boa
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Awe that the filbert Middle-elme Ocliegs,
Sulfolk, established in 1865, has in its oeseed examine•
tima pared lie bop, as compared with 16 of last yew.
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ME HEALTH OF LONDON. t

It appears, from the return published by •
authority of the Registrar-General, that in the week that
ended on Saturday, February 22, 4,6:05 births and 2,..055 •
deaths were registeretl in London and in 13 other large. •
towns of the United Kingdom. The annual rate of rour-
tality was 24 per,) 000 persons living. The annual rate of
mortality last week was 22 per thousand in Lyndon. 25 in
Edinburgh, and 33 in Dublin ; 24 in Bristol, 21 iu Bir-
mingham, 23 in Liverpool, 28 in Mthelwater, 23 in
ford, 21 in Sheffield, 23 in Leeds., 23 in Hull, 20 in New- •
castlempon-Tyne, and 28in Glasgow. The rate in Vienna
was 33 per 1,0(10 during the week ending the 15th inst.. •
when the mean temperature was 3.5 deg. Fahrenheit lower
than in the same week in London, where the rate was 22.
In London the births of 1,130 boys and 1,156 girls, in all
2,315 children, were registered iu the week. In the cor-
responding
weeks of ten years, 1858-177, the average
number, corrected for increase of population, is 2.2. a. The
deaths registered in London during the week were 1,335.
It was the Bth week of the year ; and the average number
of deaths for that week is, with a oorreotiou for -
increase of population, 1,579. The deaths iu the present .
return are less by 243 than the estimated number. The
deaths from emetic, diseases were 261, the corrected
average number being 321 Twenty-six deaths from small-
pox, 28 frum memies,.l4494l2zhn scarlatina, 11 from di h-
Iberia. 50 from
diantices were registered. Ono death front sinall-pria
occurred in the West, 10 fatal cases were recorded in the
North (where the Small-pox Hospital is situated), 6 in the
Central, 4 in the Kist, and 5 in the South districts. Three
deaths from suiell•pox were registered iu tbu sub-di.trict
of St. Andrew Eastern Holhoru, and 4 in the suh.distriet
of Woolwich Arsenal. Two deaths from scarlatina were
recorded in the West, 8 in the North, 4 in the Cenkral,
in the East, moil 7 in the South diorites. Fourteen deaths
from whooping•cough were registered in the West, Gto
the North, 2 in the Central, 13 in the Ent, sad 15 in the
South districts. The widow of a Milo., aged 02 1 ears,
died on 13th February, at 9, Sutton street, Soho,
of "choleraic ilia:thine." The deaths from feser wore
at the annual rate on 10,000 living of 5 iu Weat
London, 4 in North London, 15 in Cetera) London, 3in
East London, and 11 in Mouth London. In calculating
these results, the deaths in the Loudon Fever Ho•pital
were referred to the districts from which the patents
were brought. The annual rate of mortality was 2'. per
1,000 in West London, 21 in North Landon, 21 in Coatral
London. 23 in E sat London, and 23 iu South Leeman.
One hundred and forty-one deaths occurred from
143 from bronchitis, 73 from pneumonia, and 32 from dis-
eases of the heart. The deaths of 3 children and 3 adults
from burns or scalds, of 3 persons from drowniug, of
infants from suffocation, of 2 persims who were killed by
bores or vehicles in the streets, and of 4 persons who tem-
milted suicide, were seen il. The wife of a Laker,
aged 61, died on Feb. 3, i i elcrkenwell workhouse, of
" paralysis, accelerated by fright from the explosion at tho
Housed Detention on Deo. 13, 1;167." A female died on
Feb. 14, at St. Joseph's Home, Nuttinthill, as the ago (as
stated) of 102 years

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