The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-24 00:00:00

N°. 22.360.

i+ ~

THE SUN, LONDON WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1864.

HEALTH OP THE METROPOLIS.

of the officers of the commission, whom, he thought,
should ha subject to re.election annually, as was
the case with reference to the appointment of the
Corporation. This view was concurred in by a ma-
jority of the members of the Court, and a motion,
that the appointment of the officers should be at
once proceeded with, was agreed to. The whole of
the officers were reappointed without opposition.

THE NEW NOVEL,-AT ALL LIBRARIES,

BELLAD O N N A;
or, The Cross before the Name.

From the Spectator.—" Jenny, the apotheosis of pretty
plumpness, is the central figure of this story. Mr. Dyce pos-
sesses rare power. One of the most successful novels of the
season."

From the Examiner.—" This story of plump Jenny Bell Is
told with much cleverness by the lightest of touches."
From the Reader.—" A remarkable novel, and worthy of
admiration. Some of the chapters are In the very best style
of novel-writing. The author's power of evolving and de-
picting character is rare."
Richard Bentley, New Burlington street.

Now ready at all Libraries, in 3 vole„
THE SECOND EDITION of THE SHADOW
OF ASHLYDYAT. By the Author of "East
Lynne."
" The best novel Mrs. Wood has written."—Athenteum.
Eiehard Bentley, New Burlington-street.

Now ready, No. 2, to be continued Weekly, price One

Penny,

THE ANECDOTE LIBRARY.
Consistine of Anecdotes, Original and Selected;
Ancient and Modern, English, and Translated from all
Languages.

Charles White, publisher, 80, Fleet-street.

(From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.)

The present return exhibits a lower mortality than has
been recorded for any week since the commencement of the
year. The deaths in London in the week that ended last
Saturday were 1,586. The average number in correspond-
ing weeks of ten years 1854.63 is, with a correction for in-
crease of population, 1,409 ; it appears, therefore, that the
metropolis is still far from being in a healthy state, as the
deaths of last week were 177 in excess of the estimated
amount.

The deaths by zymotic diseases were 323, the corrected
average for corresponding week being 292. Fatal cases of
small-pox rose from Bin the previous week to 20 last week.
Measles, on the contrary, decreased from 32 to 18. Scarla-
tina carried off 55 persons, diphtheria 11, whooping-cough
56, and typhus 63.
Of the deaths registered last week from diseases of the
respiratory organs, 248 occurred from bronchitis, 102 from
pneumonia, 4 from pleurisy, and 23 from asthma. Phthisis
or consumption was fatal in 182 cases.

One hundred and sixty persons died from diseases of the
brain and nervous system ; of these, 47 children are returned
as having died from convulsions, 42 persons died from
apoplexy. and 29 from paralysis. 693 persons died under
20 years of age, 493 were 20 and under 60, and 400 were 60
years and upwards. The deaths of 7
nonagenarians are re-
corded, the oldest of whom was a widow, who had attained
the age of 93 years. 59 deaths occurred from accidents, 11
persons, 7 of whom were children, died from burns or scalds,
14 children were suffocated, and 27 persona
were killed by
fractures or contusions, Many of these lives were probably
sacrificed through carelessness, and by the neglect of ordi-
nary precaution.

The son of a schoolmaster, aged 12 years, died at De
Beauvoir-square, West Hackney, from effusion on the chest
from want of proper food, The daughter of a sawyer, re-
siding at 8, New-square, Lireeffite; died from effusion of
serum into the pericardum from want of food and clothing,
and exposure. A female, aged 39 years, employed as a
collar-stitcher, died at 33A, Baltic. street, St. Luke's, from
inflammation of the lungs, caused by destitution and ex-
posure to cold. The daughter of a weaver, aged one year,
died at 15, Collingwood-street, Bethnal-green, of emacia-
tion from want of proper nourishment. The infant son of
a labourer died suddenly at 3, Latime cottages, Mile-end,
from cold and exposure. A greengrocer, aged 40 years, died
at the Westminster Hospital from tetanus, the result of an
injury to his chin by a whip lash whilst striking his horse.
Last week the births of 1,086 boys and 1,036 girls, in all
2,122 children, were registered in London. In the ten cor-
responding weeks of the years 1851.63 the average number
(corrected) was 2,044.

Shortly will be published, in Tito Vols. Smovith an Original
Introductory Notice and Map,
MEXICO: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
By MICHEL CHEVALIER,

Member of the Institute and Senator of France.
London: John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street

Now ready, In Two Vols., Bvo., price 325.,

FORTY YEARS IN AMERICA;
By THOMAS LOW NICHOLS, M.D.
"No one in America has had wider or better opportunities
for observing the Life,Progress, and Disruption of the Nation
than Dr. Nichols has enjoyed for nearly half a century."

London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-Street.

Now ready, in Two Vols., Post Bvo., price 215.,
THE SMUGGLER CHIEF.
By GUSTAVE AIMARD.
London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet-street.

NEW POPULAR WORKS.
To be had at every Circulating Library. Subscribers
should not experience any delay in obtaining copies.
MADEL vINE GRAHAM. By Author of " Wbitefriars."

Three Vols.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF AN ENGLISH DETECTIVE.

Two Vols.
ETON SCHOOL DAYS. One Vol.
FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE. Two Vols.
A TERRIBLE WOIIAN. Two Vols.
SACKVILLE CHASE. By C. J. Com,rrat. Three Vols.
STRONGHAND. By GUSTAVE AIMARD. Two Vols.
BREAKFAST IN BED. By GEORGE A. SALA. One VoL
REV. ALFRED HOBLUSH AND HIS CURACIES. 1 VoL
SECRETS OF MY OFFICE. One Vol.
THE CROSS OF HONOUR. One Vol.
London : John Maxwell and Co., 122, Fleet .street.

THE WELLINGTON THREE SHILLING
DINNER, consisting of Soup, Fish, Entrée, Joint,
Sweet, &c., is served daily from 3 to 9, and on Sundays from
5 to 8.30.
Private Rooms for large or small parties.
JOHN CATES, Manager.
The Wellington, St. James's-street.
Entrance, 160, Piccadilly.

T H 0 X F OR D,
A, OXFORD STREET, W.

THIS EVENING, will be performed the new and success-
ful Cantata KING CHRISTMAS, and other Alusioal Enter-
tainments, supported by the following talented artistes:—
Misses Russell, Fitz-Henry, Tyrrell, Walmsley ; Messrs.
Morley, Tivoli, Green, &a.
NOTICE.—In a few days will be produced FAUST, by M.
Guonod, embracing the entire company of this establishment
with augmented band and chorus.
Director, Mr. F. Jonghmans.

UNSWORTH and EUGENE will make their re-appear.
awe This Evening.
--——- -- • -

Comedy, by Mr-T. Maclagan, W. Randall, G. Hutchenson,
G. W. Jester, Miss Nelly Powor (the juvenile comedienne),
&c., &a

Admission—Area, 6d, ; stalls and balcony, Ss. ; private
boxes, 10s. 6d.

CANTERBURY HALL.
The Fairy Entertainment, entitled

PRINCE BLOSSOM IN THE LAND OF SHADOWS!
Is written expressly for this establishment by W. F. Vander-
vell, author of the celebrated " Enchanted Hash," and en-
ables Mr. Morton, with the aid of Professor Pepper's Optical
Illusion (knr,wn as the Ghost), to produce effects never before
contemplated, and which have all been duly registered by
him and Mr. J. H. Weston under the title of The Ghost in
the Magic Fountains." By this new arrangement, that
which is in reality nothing' but a shadow, becomes to all ap-
pearance endowed with life, and when " Fame" takes her
flight through the burning Cataracts, and the Naiads seek
their beds in the Crystal Waters, form a coup d'ccil of beauty
unparalleled even in fairy romance.
Perm,. Blossom (with the Song of all Nations), Miss Townley.
The Marvellous Illusion will take place every Evening at
half-past Nine o'c ock.
All the wonderful entertainment of the establishment, as
usual, in addition to the above.
Admission—Area, 6d. ; Stalls and Balcony, ls.
Open every Evening.

lIOYAL ALHAMBRA. -
LAST NIGHTS of FRANCONI'S GRAND CIRQUE.
EVERY EVENING, at Halt-past Seven o'clock: and on
MONDAY, WEDNESDAY, and SATURDAY, at 2 o'clookg

ROYAL ALHAMBR A.-
FR ANCONI'S ENGAGEMENT will SHORTLY
TERMINATE.

130YAL ALHAMBRA.-
FRANCONI'S TROUPE will RETURN to FRANCE
in a few days.

MADAME TUSSAUD'S HISTORICAL
GALLERY; established 28 years at the Bazaar,
Baker-street.

NEW ADDITION.—AfuII-lenzth Model of JEFFE RSON
DAVIS, President of the Confederate States; also, a full-
length Model of PRESIDENT LINCOLN.

Admittance, 18. ; extra rooms, 6d. Open from 11 till dusk,
and from 7 till 10.

ARGYLL ROOM S, Windmill-street,
Piccadilly,
IS OPEN EVERY EVENING.
During the evening an unparalleled repertoire of Dance
Music, Selections and Overtures, is performed by the cele-
brated Argyll Band, forty in number.
Doors Open a Half-past 8, commence at 9.
Admission ls.
Manager, M. GRENET.

NOTHING IMPOSSIBLE.—The greatest and
most useful invention of the day, AGUA AMARELLA.
Messrs. JOHN GOSNELL and CO., 3, King-court, Lombard-
street, London, Perfumers to her Majesty, respectfully offer
to the public this truly marvellous fluid, which gradually
restores the human hair to its pristine hue—no matter at
what age. The Agua Amarella has none of the properties of
dyes ; it, on the contrary, is beneficial to the system, and
when the hair is once restored one application per month
will keep it in perfect colour. Price one guinea per bottle, or
In half bottles, 10s. 6d. Testimonials from artistes of the
highest order, and from individuals of undoubted respecta-
bility, may be seen on application. Messrs. John Gosnell
and Co. have been appointed Perfumers to her Royal High-
ness the Princess of Wales.

DR. SCOTT'S BILIOUS AND LIVER
PILLS.—A NEVER FAILING RESlEDY.—Pre-
pared without any mercurial ingredient, from the recipe of Dr.
Scott, of Bromley, Kent, will be found invaluable to all who
suffer from bilious and liver complaints, indigestion, wind,
spasms, giddiness, dizziness of the eyes, &o. For habitual
costiveness, as a family aperient medicine, and as a purifier
of the blood, they are truly excellent; mild in their opera-
tion and grateful to the stomach, they create appe rite, pro-
mote digestion, and strengthen the whole nervous system.
Sold by W. Lambert, 8, King William-street, Charing-cross.
London, and by most druggists, in boxes,ls. lid., and three
times the quantity in one, 2s. 9d. Be sure to ask for Dr.
Scott's Bilious and Liver Pills. The genuine are a square
green package, with "William Lambert'''. engraved on the
stamp.

_....... ....... -
. .
• -,
' :,.•••••
.4
.. -.7.....„...„,
4 Qe- ----
.Is*'44
dirt! s I 1
04 ....,, ...
le
..11., ''''....N.
.
__
.- ,I• 4
n
,
...
~..., .._ .„,,,, ,a.l . Ai
s, __,- i..
-. ~,, .. 0, ..,--,„ ~ ,.., ..,..1„-
. ,
-r-otleibigh..-
=
~, . ...
......... ..
.7-7, p,l,a ,1, ~ „.....11v„ . __-... .
70'4- ' D
a v ,-,(TA - 7 •
/4 ,
'4,

-~J~-7~~

„ _
.N.E: W S P. 2 51)ER
Important Decision under ti le Metti..:.': ;:.; ‘.i---.114,--,
Local Managemon t Aci;;;;.---“l.e weffry,'lnt..jel-,:j
~.., \ --
S. -1 .;74-f
,;,,,/
At the Highgate Police-col trt yeste l'''''''olk4-..1.2a-s).'
Lake, of The Grove, Highgat( , v ras sriramoneatiforca S
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Mills, at the instance of the
vestry of the parish of St. Par tors s, to show cause
why he should not pull 'lowa a new building he
had erected without the ck Insult c kf the Metropolitan
_ Board of Works or the veotry or St. Pancras.

PRICE .4d.
STAMPED ....sd.

married ?—No ; bat several persons liberally as-
sisted me.

Were you anxious to get married to the young
man P—l was.

I suppose you loved him ?—(After a pause)—
Well, I did. .

Cross-examined by Mr. Norwood—Did you not
implore Mary Roche to assist you to get married ?
I did not implore her; she came quite freely. I
asked her.

By Mr. Martin—Did the male prisoner attend
upon the occasion of the marriage, and give you
away as your father P—Yes.
The magistrate adjourned the case, in order that
the original papers from the Consiatorial Court
might be produced. He accepted bail for the pri-
soner.
Child Murder in the City-road.

A respectably-attired young woman, who ap-
peared to feel her position very acutely, and who
gave the name of Selina Bent, aged 18, a domestic
servant, was charged before Mr. Barker, yesterday,
at the Clerkenwell Police-court, with wilfully mur-
dering her new-born infant, in the City-road.
Mr. Beard, of Basinghall-street, attended for the
defence, and Inspector Judge, N division, watched
the case on behalf of the police.
Mrs. Theresa Lavey, of 341, City-road, said—
The prisoner was my servant, and had been so for
about 8 months. On Friday three weeks I left my
house about a quarter-past 12, and returned home
about 4. I knocked at the door twice before I was
admitted, and then rwas much frightened at seeing
the prisoner looking very ill. She then went into
the kitchen, and I asked her what was the matter
with her, and she said it was nothing but natural
causes. I asked her for the address of her mother,
but she would not give it to me, saying that she did
not want her mother. Feeling dissatisfied I sent
for my medical man. She said she would go to her
mother the following day. When the doctor came
she was still very obstinate, but when I said I would
send for a police-constable she gave me the ad-
dress of her mother. I went to the mother,
who said that she had no room for her daughter, but
after a great deal of persuasion she came to see her
daughter. The prisoner said she knew nothing was
the matter with her, and rather insulted her.
Cross-examined—l was not aware what was the
matter with her, nor was I aware that she was ill
in the morning. I did not refuse to let her go
home. The doctor saw her at my request.

Police-sergeant Taylor, 33 N, said—On Friday
night, the 29th of January last, about half-past 10,
I was called to 341, City-road. From what I heard
I went into the kitchen and saw the prisoner sit-
ting there apparently very ill. I sent for Dr. Powell.
I assisted her upstairs. I then made a search for
the child. I went to the privy in the backyard,
and after wrenching off the seat I found the body of
a male child nearly covered over with soil, with a
piece of oid stocking tied tightly round its neck. I
then washed the child and called the doctor to see it.

Mr. Joseph Taylor Powell, M.D., 325, City-road,
said—l was called by Mrs. Lavey about half-past 5
on the 29th of last month. I went downstairs, and
saw the prisoner in the kitchen, with her hand upon
her face, with a great many marks of blood about
the place. I asked her what was the matter, and
she said "Nothing at all." She did not want any
doctor. I tried some time to find out what was the
matter. She would not let me examine her, At
about half-past 8 I was fetched again, and correctly
examined her, and gave it as my opinion that the
prisoner had been delivered of a child. She was
taken upstairs, and I then ascertained that within
a few hours she had been delivered of a child. After-
wards I was called downstairs into the kitchen, and
found the sergeant washing a dead child. I examined
it and found a piece of stuff round its neck. I have
since made a post mortem examination. Externally
I found that the naval string bad been torn about
an inch and a half. The face and bead were very
much congested and the lips livid. Internally the
brain was congested. as were the lungs, which
floated in water. The lungs were full of air all
over. The heart contained no blood. The other
organs were perfectly healthy, and the stomach was
empty. The child had partly breathed.
Mr. Barker—What do you say was the cause of
death ? Witness—l should say it was suffocation.
Mr. Barker—Was the piece of stuff tied tightly
round the neck ? Witness—Yes: the skin under
the ligature was white, and the parts above and
below were raised. There were indentations from
the texture of the ligature.
Cross-examined—l will not undertake to swear
-e was any separate existence of the child from

the.
its mots, :r'
Mr. Bear, :aid an inquest bad been held, and the
jury returned a fie: diet of wilful murder, but the
coroner said he hoped :he magistrate would send
the case for the concealment of birth.
Mr. Barker said the prisoner' would be sent to
the Central Criminal Court for trial.
SAD END OF A YELVERTON.

Mr. W. D. Cooper, the so li citor to the vestry,
attended to support the complm'i it, and Mr. Layton,
vestry clerk of Islington, watche d the case on behalf
of some of the freeholders of Tht ) Grove,

The facts of the case need not be given, as they
are fully recapitulated in the jad t 7tnent.
Mr. Bodkin gave judgment a a follows:—This
case comes before us in consequen te of a complaint
made by the vestry of the pari th of St. Par eras
under the 7th section of the . 'Metropolis Local
Amendment Act, 1862, against Mr. Lake, for that he
being the owner of a certain buih' ing and'erectien,
known as No. 1, The Grove, H ighgate, did erect
there a certain building beyond t lie general line of
building without the consent of the Metropolitan
Board of Works, the distance of s ach line of build-
ing from the highway not exceedia ig L'Oft. We have
given the best consideration in oil r power to what
was urged on either side upon th o hearing of this
complaint; and it appears to us 1 hat the case on
behalf of the complainants was eat tablished without
question. It was proved by then aor admitted by
the defendant, that The Grove is .5 within the Metro-
politan district; that the goner: t 1 line of building
has been decided by the superin :tending architect
to the Metropolitan Board of W .orks„ as set forth
in a certificate duly made and signed by him,
which, with a plan annexed thereto, was laid before
Us at the hearing—that the gene ral line of build-
ing is within 50ft. of a highway— -that the erection
which is the subject of compla int projects be-
yend such general line, and that it has been
erected without the sanction rit the consent in
writing of the Metropolitan Bor ad of Works. The
defendant objeo ted firstly that the road in front of
the houses in " T.he Grove," sand within 50 feet of
the line described tes the general line," is a private
road, and not a highway witb.in the meaning of the
75th section of the act ire question, and he referred
to section 80, which rape als the proviso of section
106 of the Local Manaseinent Act of 1855, as to re-
pairing streets not beings; highways, and to sections
105 and 108 of the act cef 1862, Secondly, that
" The Grove," is not a stray et, row, or place within
the meaning of the act. Th erdly, that the buildings
complained of is erected on an old substructure, and
are raised on walls previously 'xisting ; that there
is no prohibition in the act as to raising a building
except in cases specified in sectiotl 89 of the act of
1862, which does not apply to l'he buildings in
question, but he admitted that a part of the more
projecting portions of those buildings is not erected
on any previously existing wall ; and fourthly,
that- the Metropolitan Board of Works have no
jurisdiction in this matter; that they have no power
to deal with an application to erect in his ease; that
it is not necessary to have their consent in writing
to such erection, and that the application alleged to
have been made by him to the board, was made
really in consequence of a notification from the
builder whom he employed in reference to the straws
ture itself, and not in relation to any consent re-
quired for the erection beyond the alleged "general
line." Upon a full consideration of Mr. Lake's
objection, and after inspecting the premises, we
consider that "The Grove" is undoubtedly a high-
way within the meaning of the act. It has been for
many years a footway, freely used by the public as a
general and unrestricted thoroughfare ; and as to
the roadway running parallel thereto the inhabi-
tants appear to us to have lost any control which
they may have once had over it by their failure
for more than one year to claim the right of
closing it. Mr. Lake's argument, that the
parish cannot repair it without notice under sec-
tion 106 of the act of 1855, and that no notice of
such intention has ever been given, appears to us to
lean the other way, since it would tend rather to
show that the parish deemed itself liable to repair
without the notice which must be given were it a
private road. But there is really no force in this
argument, since it is not contended that the parish
has ever repaired the road, or intend to do so; the
parochial authorities have asserted their right over
the road in another way, namely, by cleansing ani
lighting it ; besides these two, both footway and
road are, in our judgment, undoubtedly streets or
highways, within the meaning of the interpretation
clause of the act of 1855, which (sec. 250) defines
the word " street " to apply to any highway, road.
footway, passage, whether a thoroughfare or not,
&c. 2 That " The Grove" is a " row "of houses
within the meaning of the act, although the houses
are not attached one to the other. The words of the
75th section of the act of 1862 are ample to include
such a row of houses as " The Grove." Those houses
are not semi-detached villas, or are at a considerable
distance from each other, and from the road within
their own grounds, and which in that case it is pre-
sumed might be altered according to the tastes of
their respective owners, without prejudice to the
public interests; 3. And with reference to the only
substantial objection by the defendant, that the
buildings are not new buildings, but the alteration
of existing ones, we consider that the projections
complained of are manifestly separated into two
distinct buildings, and must be separated, as they
are differently circumstanced. There is first the
projecting portion of a three story building, adjoin-
ing the house, the ground-floor story of which has
been built a considerable time, probably for many
years. The defendant has added thereto, or raised, a
superstructure of two floors, and we conceived that
he was fully justified in doing this without the con-
sent of the Metropolitan board of Works, the juris-
diction of the board being limited to new buildings
only, it appeared to us that the word " raise,"
used in one part of the 75th section of the act
of 1862 must be construed to mean "erect," and not
"heighten." The other part of the projection, viz.,
the two buildings in front of the three-storied
erection stands in very different circumstances.
This is entirely a new building, erected, except a,
very small portion, on the north side upon an en.
tirely new foundation, and covering ground the
greater portion of which was previously uncovered.
We are of opinion, therefore, that the present is a
building within the meaning of the act, and that it
has been erected beyond a " general line," within 50
feet from a highway, and without the consent in
writing of the Metropolitan Board of Works; and
that the defendant's fourth objection is untenable.
We therefore determine that the said complaint, so
far as it relates to the low buildings projecting be-
yondtisae
ttiho enand
three
wstoried
rpor
thatti the o isd
demo-
lish so much of the buildings complained of which
are beyond the "general line," andepfernoydeada tdooour sa-
tisfaction,
is comprised in
the projecting low buildings in front of the three
storied building, and th at he do pAY the costs in-
curred.

If about two or three o'clock on the morning of Saturday
last any one had chanced to wander down Barrack •street, one
of the vilest of the many vile back slums in Douglas, Isle of
Man, he would have found, lying in the gutter, the stinking
half-frozen refuse water flowing over and around her, the
body of a woman, literally half-naked, and aotually frozen
to death, the night being piercingly cold, with a hard frost,
If the wanderer had been an inhabitant of the town he
would, immediately on looking at the face of the dead female,
have recognised the depraved, besotted, bloated countenance
of the drunken and dissolute Hon. Jane Yelverton, alias
Jenny Keefe, by which name she was better known, the
widow of the Hon. Augustus Yelverton, brother of Lord
Avonmore, and fellow uncle with that nobleman to the noto-
rious Major Yelvetton, whose celebrated marriage and law-
suit have for the last five years occupied the attention of the
public. At an inquest held on the body of the woman on
Saturday it was stated that the Hon. Augustus Yelverton,
the husband of Jenny Keefe, to whom he was married about
25 years since, died in Liverpool about two months ago;
that he left her a considerable sum of money for her mainte-
nance, which was to be paid to her in instalments by a
lawyer in Liverpool, from which town she had arrived
in Douglas on Tuesday last, her fare to the island (accord-
ing to a statement she made to a woman in a low
public-house on the night before her frightful death)
having been paid by the lawyer in question. The in-
quest was held by James Goll, Esq., high bailiff of Castle-
town, and during the proceedings he stated that the
Hon. Augustus Yelverton and the deceased had lived
in Castletown for many years, and so dissolute and '
depraved w,re they in their habits that ho had committed
them to prison fully a hundred times for being drunk and
disorderly. At this time they were allowed by Lord Avon-
more, it was understood, an ample income to keep them
comfortably, but they were in the habit of spending it in
drink as quickly as they got it, and they scarcely ever had
on them sufficient rags, let alone clothing, to cover their
nakedness. Jenny Keefe, who was a low-born woman, was
the third wife of the Hon. Augustus Yelverton, he having
previously been married to a Spanish lady and an Irish one.
He had no children by his last wife, but he had several by
his former wives. In consequence, however, of his depraved
habits, they were taken from him, and they now occupy re-
spectable positions in life. Although in rank and in educa-
tion also there was such a difference between Jenny Keefe
and her husband, yet they were greatly attached to each
other; they invariably accompanied each other, and if one
of them was sent to gaol for some outrage against the peace
committed during a drunken fit, it was the practice of the
other to smash some shop windows, or make a disturbance
in the streets for the sole purpose of getting committed to
gaol also, in order that they might keep each other company.
They scarcely had ever a place to lay their heads in, and
they lived the greater portion of their time either in the
streets or in prison. Such were the Hon, Augustus and
Jane Yelverton ; and their dissolute lives and frightful fate
—one dying in a low lodging-house in Liverpool, and the
other frozen to death in the streets of Douglas—convey a
striking lesson of the evils of intemperance. All the cloth-
ing that Jenny Keefe had on when she was found dead was
an old gauze frock which did not reach to her knees, and
was no thicker than a piece of paper, an old pair of socks
which just reached above her ankles, and a pair of thin
slippers. A few hours before her death she was seen stand-
ing in a house door close to where she was found dead, and
was heard trolling out, in a voice husky with drink, a street
ballad called " True blue for ever."

THE EMPEROR NAPOLEON has comtauted to
imprisonment for life the sentence of the soldier aici, re-
cently condemned to death for desertion to the enemy during
the siege of Sebastopol.
Persons who have been in the habit of paying weekly ae
borrowers of Sewing Machines will do well to apply at once
and become members of Messrs. Watts and Co.'s Sewing
Machine Clubs. By so doing they will not only save the
money they now foolishly throw away, but at the same time
secure to themselves the possession of one of the best and
most celebrated sewing machines in the world. Every in-
formation given on application; or by letter addressed, with
a stamped envelope, to Messrs. Watts and Co., 12, Beaufort-
buildings, Strand, London, W.C., where members are en-
rolled daily between 10 and 4 ; Saturdays, 10 and 2.
[ADVERTlsEmENT.l—Consumption, all nervous, biliou°,
liver, and stomach complaints, in every stage, are only ag-
gravated and accelerated by drugs of every description, but
perfectly curable by Du Barry's health restoring Revalenta
Arabica Food, as proved by thousands of cases which had
been considered hopeless. We quote a few.—Cure No. 62,914 i.
Miss Lange, 18 years of age, cured after the medical men had
abandoned all hope; of her recovery from the lasttsolraagt!;,ll,
pulmonary consumption, with f ,arful cough, P
exhaustion, spitting of Wool, perspiration 4,
od a perfectly
emaciated to a skeleton. She is now, thank
C6oir;missairo de
healthy, blooming, fleshy girl.—
Lanneeberts, of Frimleyi
Police. Cure, No. 46,270. Mr. ,1711oesev cheeks,
c f b3l27.d,3llivisesr
derangement,
omf
etnhtir.
atyndyeparsar'udailsedaesoned
eljusanstl.7 ?sinog.°47
nervousness, indigest
Elizabeth Jacobs, of
extremen.
nervous fancies.—Cure, No.
gatherings, low spirits,
and nervous
Fakenham, Norfolk,
54,816. The Rev. James
T.
of the liver, which had resisted
of indigestion and Writ
Ytins, Jib, 2s lid; 21b, 46 lid; 51b,
dthaiMatesodnilinanodoarsil.
all medical reatment.
an. Barry du Barry and Ca., No. 77,
lis ; 121 b, 2.25; 241 b,
grocers and eh
itegent-Stree,einf:td:l4l2 'eavlesrly'Ft:wri:uoTthane

The jury returned a verdict of—Death from exposure.-
-Liverpool Mercury.