The Sun.
London, England, 1853-07-07 00:00:00

THREATENING THE EARL OF ABERDEEN.

Thomas Whitehead, an artist, was brought before Mr.
Henry, at the Bow-street Police-office, yesterday after-
noon, charged with sending a threatening letter to the
Earl of Aberdeen.

Mr. Reynolds, the solicitor to the Treasury, conducted
he prosecution.

Mr. Clinton Geo. Dawkins, the private secretary of
Lord Aberdeen, proved that he received the letter pro-
duced on the 16th of June. It was addressed to his

lordship, and signed "Thomas Whitehead." It was
subsequently placed in the hands of the police authorities.
Superintendent Pearce, F division, deposed that he
waited upon the prisoner at his lodgings, 57, Great Wild-
street, on the 23d and 27th June. He had some con-
versation with the prisoner, who admitted that he was
the writer of the letter to Lord Aberdeen, and com-
plained that he had been prosecuted by different Go-
vernments year after year. He said that he had made
frequent complaints upon the subject, but to no pur-
pose. Witness understood him to say that the detec-
tive police had been instructed to keep a constant watch
upon him.
The Chief Clerk read the letter in question. It was
very long, and dwelt upon some unexplained persecution
to which the writer imagined himself subject, and for
the removal of which he said he had applied in vain to
several Cabinets in succession. The following is an
extract :

" I know not, my lord, what you may have to say about
these illegal and unwarrantable proceedings ; but this I
say, that there is and can be but one inference drawn
therefrom, and that is, that the Government seem to have
wanted, and it would appear that they do want still, to
make a victim of me, and consequently they have done
everything they can to provoke me to crime. I have been
by them reduced to the greatest depths of misery : for five
years and a half I have endured these ineffable privations
with a patience and a fortitude that I believe there would
be scarcely one in a thousand to do the same. But, my
lord, human patience has its bounds, and these bounds
have already been passed. Everything has been done to
blast my good name, and, not satisfied with that, every-
thing has been done to deprive me of the commonest means
of existence. Beware, my lord, what you do in this mat-
ter ; for if the saying be true that ' self preservation is the
first law of nature,' then, my lord, you have reduced me
to a most painful alternative. Your policy, my lord, like
your predecessors in this affair, has been, and still is, most
pernicious and subversive. You have taught a lesson of
implacable vindictiveness and of unprecedented pertinacious
cruelty that will be cherished by thousands with a savage
satisfaction till the latest day of tiv.ir death. You have
' sown the wind,' and if your lordship should persist in
the same suicidal course, you must not be surprised if you
should one day ' reap the whirl-wind.' You have, my lord,
like your predecessors, returned me evil for good, and that
too in such a sweeping manner that I have been completely
ruined thereby; and I can only say that if this facinerous
flood of evil is to continue, then, my lord, you will compel
me to retaliate out of self-defence ; and if I should he
goaded on to do that out of self-defence which my soul
abhors, remember, my lord, that the guilt will be upon
your head, and the heads of your colleagues.—l am, kc.,
THOS. WHITEHEAD.-57, Great Wild-street, Lincoln's-
inn-Fields.—The Right Hon. the Earl of Aberdeen."

(During the reading of the letter the chief clerk was
once or twice assisted in the interpretation of doubtful
words by the prisoner himself.)
The prisoner admitted that he was the author of the
letter.

Mr. Dawkins expressed his belief that the Earl of
Aberdeen was in danger of personal violence, from some
of the language used therein.
The prisoner—l cannot see that any such inference is
to be drawn from any portion of the letter.
Mr. Henry—The expression, "I shall be goaded on
to do that which my soul abhors," is certainly calculated
to justify such an apprehension. Can you explain it in
any other way
The prisoner— Since my claim of 1848 up to the
moment when that letter was written, I have been con-
stantly watched and insulted by the secret police.
Mr. Henry--I have heard your letter read from first
to last ; but am wholly at a loss to know to what it
alludes. _ _

The prisoner—lf lamto be dogged and assailed by
the detective police, in every form of disguise, like a
pack of hounds ; and if, besides their insulting bearing
towards me, they are to circulate defamatory remarks
to my prejudice, shall I not be justified in knocking that
man down ?

Mr. Henry—What man ?
The prisoner—Any man who thus insults and degrades
me.

Mr. Henry—What is your business or calling ?
The prisoner—I have no occupation.
In answer to further questions, the prisoner stated
that he had no relations in London, but he had a brother
at Liverpool. He lost a fortune in 1847, and had been
unable to procure any vocation since, owing to the
espionage of the secret police. And not only of the
police, for in 1849 he found that the soldiers at the back
of the National Gallery had their eye upon him, and
were arrayed against him. He did not wish his brother
to he communicated. He only wanted it to be settled
as between man and man.
Mr. Henry—But what is it that you want settled ?
Has he ever complained of the police?
Superintendent Pearce said he had ascertained from
the books at Scotia
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Mr. Henry—That is also my opinion.
The prisoner—I was prepared for anything almost but
such an astounding assertion as that. If the govern- I

ments disbelieved my statements, why did they not put
m• to the proofs ?
Mr. Henry directed that the prisoner should be re-
moved to St. Giles's Workhouse for the present.

The people in whose house the prisoner has been
lodging state that he was a remarkably quiet man, and
of regular habits, going out every morning and returning
at night. Some time ago he went to Jersey to avoid the
detective police, but fancying himself still pursued by
them there, he returned to London. He looked about
50 years old.

GOODWO
Subjoined are the weights
time :

Age st lb
Teddington
Lady Evelyn a 9 3
Kingston
Weathergage 4 9 1
Knight of the
Shire
Nancy
Trifle
Ambrose
Muscovite
Colt by Ithuriol
out of Gipsy
Sleeping Partner 5 8 0
Massa Mungo
Now or Never
Talfourd 3 7 7

OD CUP.
calculated up to the present

Age st lb
Rataplan
Pelion 3 7 7
Gadabout
Exact 3 7 3
Dagobert
Sextus
Lambton
Hervine 5 7 1
Break o' Day Boy 3 6 13
Hurworth
Rattle 3 6 13
Zephyr
Peggy 3 6 9
,Violante 3 6 9
Jouvence

WOLVERHAMPTON.
ACCEPTANCES for the WOLVERHAMPTON STAKES. The
highest weight accepting being under Bst 71b, it has been
raised to that weight, and the others in proportion.

Age st lb
Lerrywheut
Haricot
Garforth
Black Doctor 5 8 4
Montague
Melford
Orpheus 4 8 0
Clothworker
Galvanism 4 7 13
Little Fawn
Candlewick
Gladiole 6 7 11
Doubt a 7 11

Age st lb
Musician
Trifle (h b) 4 7 10
Lough Bawn 5 7 10
St. George 6 7 8
Aaron Smith 5 7 6
Cleveland
Ibis 4 7 1
Valour
The Hatchet 3 6 11
Pastrycook
Pride
Nerva 3 6 4
Rosalba

CRICKET.

THE ELEVEN OF ENGLAND v. TWENTY-TWO

OF RETERBOROUGHAND.

This match was commenced at Peterborough on Mon-
day, and resumed on Tuesday. There was an immense
assemblage of spectators, and at the close of the second
day the score bore the following appearance. It will be
found that the Twenty-two, being in their first innings
in arrear of their opponents, were called upon to follow
their innings :

THE ELEVEN.

Cfesar, b Tinly
Arnold, b Jackson
S. Parr, b Jackson
Parr, b Brown
Caffyn c G. Johnson, b Jackson
Anderson, run out
A. Clarke, st Tinley, b Brown
Box, c Ward, 1) Jackson
Guy, not out
Hillyer, b Brown
Clarke, c Watson, b Brown
byes 2, leg-bye 1, wide balls 3

Total
PETERBOROUGH
First Innings.
Head, c Arnold, b Hillyer 3
W. Collingwood, Esq., b Clarke 0
Garrott, b Clarke 1
F. Tinly, c Arnold, b Hillyer 0
T. R. Ward, Esq., c G. Parr, h
Hillyer
L. Reed, Esq., b Clarke
J. P. Sargeant, Esq., b Clarke
Mayer, c G. Parr, b Clarke
J. Foster, Esq., st Box, b
Mayer
Johnson, b Hillyer
H. Nicholls, Esq., b Clarke
Jackson, b Clarke
Watson, c Caffyn, b Hillyer
E. Johnson, c Caesar, b Hillyer
Ellis, st Box, b Hillyer.
J. Nicholls, Esq., b Hillyer
G. White, c Caesar, b Hillyer
Brown, b Clarke
A. Ambler, Esq., not out
A. White, Esq., c Caesar, b

First Innings.
29
0
12
62
14
33
0
6
6
4
6

174

Second In pings

7 1) Hillyer 4
1 c Box, b Hillyer 6
0

1 not out 1

3 b Clarke 8

4 b Hillyor 2

Hillyer _
Jenkins, b Clarke
Arnold, b Clarke
no balls, 1

To al 46 ...... 21
The match was resumed yesterday (Wednesday) morn-
ing.

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.

PORTSMOUTH, JULY 6.

THE SPITHEAD FLEET.

Portsmouth and its vicinity has had a large accession
of visitors this week, owing to the rumour, which we
noticed yesterday, of a review of the fleet by the Queen,
accompanied by the distinguished visitors from foreign
courts now in town, and great will, doubtlessly, be the
disappointment when to-morrow (the day appointed by
rumour) arrives and no movement of a review character
takes place among the ships quietly at anchor off the
town. However, " it's an ill wind that blows nobody
good," says the proverb, and the hotel keepers will pro-
bably not be sorry at the origin of the reports. So large
a force being in such close contiguity to the town neces-
sarily causes a rise in articles of domestic consumption,
and the supplies drawn from the markets relieve them
of a large proportion of their edible commodities. As
this, however, is a benefit to the trade of the port, no
one complains but those of small fixed Incomes, who
cannot participate in the advantages of commercial spe-
culation. A movement of the fleet seaward is daily—
nay, we may with propriety say hourly—expected, and,
we believe, most of the ships are equipped and ready
for sailing. Men, however, are still wanting. The
victualling of the fleet has been most expeditiously
accomplished, all the resources of the Royal Clarence-
yard, Gosport, having been for some time past
in full operation. From 1,000 to 1,500 tons of
water were supplied from that depot by means.
of lighters in about 48 hours, together with pro-
visions for four months for each ship. Much credit is
due to Mr. Davies, R.N., the master-attendant, and Mr.
Pinhornf, R.N., the storekeeper of the Clarence-yard,
for the unwearied activity they have displayed in carry-
ing out their orders, while all their assistants and on-
pZoyes have seconded them with the readiest zeal. The
whole worked early and late over hours, not even avail-
ing themselves of the general holiday on the Coronation-
day. The fleet is the first object of attraction now at
the port, and is a source of great pecuniary benefit to
the watermen, as none of the ships lie nearer than three
miles from the "Point" or "Hard." The ships are now
moored more equidistant from each other than on their
first anchoring on Saturday. The Sidon having shipped
a new mainmast with much alacrity and dismantled her
sprung one, went out to Spithead again about eight
o'clock last night, and took up her station at the head of
the paddle steamers forming the starboard division of the
fleet, which is now ranged thus :

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSIDAY 11,VEN ING, JULY 7,185 a

modore in command of the squadron on the West Coast
of Africa, and co-operated with Colonel Sutherland most
actively during the Ashantee war ; in 1830 he was ap-
pointed superintendent of Pembroke Dockyard and
captain of the King's yacht Royal Sovereign, both of
which appointments he retained until promoted to the
rank •F Rear-Admiral, 1837. By this death an admiral's
pension of 3001. per annum for good and meritorious
services, the Commander-in-Chief on the Irish station,
and an aide-de-campship to the Queen fall to the patron-
age of the Admiralty, and the following promotions
ensue :

Vice-Admiral of the Red Sir Hugh Pigot, K.C.8.,
K.C.H., to be Admiral of the Blue.
Vice-Admiral of the White Sir Thomas John Coch-
rane, K.C.8., Commander-in-Chief at Portsmouth, to
be Vice-Admiral of the Red.
Vice-Admiral of the Blue Sir E. C. Strode, K.C.8.,
K.C.H., to be Vice-Admiral of the White.
Rear-Admiral of the Red John Brett Purvis, Com-
mander-in-Chief at Queenstown, to be Vice-Admiral of
the Blue.

Rear-Admiral of the White A. R. Sharpe, C. 8., to be
Rear-Admiral of the Red.
Rear-Admiral of the Blue Arthur Fanshawe, C. 8.,
Superintendent of Portsmouth Dockyard, to be Rear-
Admiral of the White.

Captain the Hon. R. S. Dundas, C. 8., A.D.C., one
of the Lords of the Admiralty, to be Rear-Admiral of
the Blue.

This leaves Commodore Lord Adolphus Fitzclarenee,
G.C.H., the seniority for his flag.
We believe Admiral Bullen was the last of the ad-
mirals who shared in the glories of Trafalgar.

THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO DIIBLIN.—THE ROYAL 11
SQUADRON ESCORT.—The Royal Squadron, consisting
of the Victoria and Albert, Captain W. Crispin ; the
Fairy, tender, Master Commander David N. Welch ;
the Black Eagle, Admiralty yacht, Master Commander
John E. Petley ; and Blenheim, 58, screw guard-ship,
Captain W. H. Henderson, C. 8., left Portsmouth yes-
terday, to be in attendance on her Majesty during her
visit to the Dublin Exhibition. The Victoria and Al-
bert, Fairy, and Black Eagle to proceed to Holyhead ;
the Blenheim direct to Dublin. The Royal yachts went
out of harbour at twelve precisely. The Blenheim left
Spithead under steam and canvas, at five p.m., taking
the east channel outside the Nab. The Magicienne, 16,
paddle steam-frigate, Captain Thomas Fisher, and Va-
lorous, 16, paddle steam-frigate, Captain Buckle, at
Devonport, were ordered on Tuesday, by electric tele-
graph, to hold themselves in readiness for immediate
service. All their officers, in consequence, received
orders not to quit their ships except on duty. Both
these vessels will form part of the steam squadron to
accompany her Majesty to Dublin. They will join the
other ships under the command of Commodore Lord
Adolphus Fitzclarence, off Devonport, on their way
down Channel for Holyhead, where her Majesty, with
his Royal Highness Prince Albert and suite, will em-
bark in the Victoria and Albert, on Tuesday.
NEW SCREW-SHIPS.—The Admiralty have ordered
three screw line-of-battle ships and three 50-gun screw-
frigates to be built.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

( From the Registrar-General's Report.)
The number of deaths registered in the metropolitan
districts in the week that ended last Saturday was 1,103.
The advance which it shows on previous returns arises
from coroners' cases, many of which were not duly re-
gistered till the end of the quarter, though the deaths
occurred and the inquests were held at dates antecedent
to last week. In the ten corresponding weeks of the
years 1843-52 the average number of deaths was 922.
which, if raised in proportion to increase of population
during these years and up to the present time, becomes
1,014. The actual mortality of last week, therefore, ex-
hibits an excess on the estimated amount of 89.

Fatal cases arising from zymotic or epidemic diseases
are at present, as regards the whole class, fewer than
usual, the total number being 203, while the corrected
average is 244. looping-cough, which numbers 47, is
the most fatal amongst the diseases incident to children ;
its average is 33. To small-pox, from which London has
lately been comparatively free, only 3 deaths are referred ;
to measles, 22 ; to scarlatina, 31 ; to croup, 5 ; to diar-
rhoea, 28 ; to dysentery, 6 ; to scurvy, 1 ; to ague, 2 ;
to infantile remittent fever, 4 ; to typhus, &c., 38 ; to
rheumatic fever, 1 ; to erysipelas, 7 ; to syphilis, 4.
In the south sub-district of St. Giles's-in-the-Fields, at
2, Little White Lion-street, on the 29th of June, a boy,
aged 3 years, died of "diarrhoea." There was no medi-
cal attendant. Mr. Faulkner, the registrar, says—
"This child has been sadly neglected. Not being satis-
fied with the cause of death as reported, I visited the
place and found the child in a most emaciated condition.
It had been ill for a long time, and had not received the
slightest attention for the last month." An inquest will
be held.

In the sub-district, Leather-market, Bermondsey, at
Smith's-buildings, on 27th and 28th June, two daughters
of a wood-sawyer, aged respectively 3 and 5 years, died
of " Scarlatina maligna." Mr. Cross, the registrar, ob-
serves—" These, with a previous death, make three that
I have registered in the same family in one week from
scarlatina. Two other children are ill with it, and one
not likely to recover."
At 7, Bowman's-place, North Holloway, on 25th
June, the daughter of a labourer, aged 1 year and 3
'Months, died of "exhaustion from excessive vomiting."
Mr. Butterfield, the registrar, states that " this child
was prescribed for, and took medicine supplied by, a
chemist and druggist, and was buried at Holloway
Chapel ground without a certificate. There was no in-
quest nor post-mortem examination."
Three deaths occurred from typhus, all on the same
day (the 28th of June), in the London Fever Hospital.
With reference to one patient, who was moribund on
admission, and died 12 hours after, Mr. Watts remarks,
that "this is too frequently the case; the patient is not
brought to the hospital till his condition is hopeless."
The following deaths from carbuncle were registered
in the week :—At Hammersmith, on 24th June, a gen-
tleman, aged 73 years, " carbuncle on the neck (24
days)." A surgeon, aged 52 years, died on the 27th of
June, of " carbuncle (37 days), pleuro-pericardial in-
flammation, and facial suppurations."
Some additional cases are selected from the returns :
—At 6, Park-cottages, New Cross-road, Deptford, on
24th June, the son of a Wesleyan minister, aged one
year, died of " poisonous effluvia arising from defective
drainage, diarrhoea the consequence (14 days)." At the
Workhouse, Coppice-row, on 28th June, the wife of a
labourer, aged 28 years, died of "fright from fire." Six
deaths are ascribed to cases of intemperance.
Last week the births of 856 boys and 855 girls, in all
1,711 children, were registered in London. The average
number in eight corresponding weeks of the years
1845-52 was 1,338.

At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.578 in. The
reading of the barometer decreased from 29.58 in. at the
beginning of the week to 29.50 in. by 9h. p.m. on the
26th ; remained at this reading nearly till 9h. p.m. on
the 27th ; increased to 29.64 in. by 9h. a.m. on the
28th ; decreased to 29'48 in. by 9h. p.m. on the same
day ; increased to 29.64 in. by 9h. p.m. on the 29th ;
decreased to 29.56 in. by 3h. p.m. on the 30th ; and in-
creased to 30.02 in: by the end of the week. The mean
temperature of the week was 59.1 deg., which is 5.4 deg.
lower than the average of corresponding weeks in 38
years. The mean daily temperature was below the
average on every day of the week, except Tuesday, when
it was 2.4 deg. above it. On Friday and Saturday, the
depression amounted to about 6 deg. The highest tem-
peratures occurred on Wednesday and Thursday, and
were about 70'5 deg. ; the lowest occurred on Friday
and Saturday, and were about 48.5 deg. The greatest
difference between the dew point temperature and the
air temperature occurred on Thursday, and was 16'1
deg. ; the least on Sunday, and was 1.4 deg. ; the mean
difference of the week was 8.2 deg. The wind blew
from the south-west.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED

IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, JULY 2
Zymotio Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses lOl
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels . 52
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration l2l
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion
Disehses of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations 4
Premature Birth and Debility ,,
39
Atrophy 4O
Old Age
Sudden
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ll6
Causes not specified

DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated. sponding week in the
1851. of 1852. Week,
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
Males
Females

987 1,103
...... 620
...... 483