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north. The southern portion is the least desirable of the
whole, for when we go beyond the Barotse the land gradu-
all) becomes more lovely, until, in Londo (Lunde), we
reach an exceedingly well watered, fruitful country. It is
flat; bat the luxuriant loveliness of many a spot will re-
main in my imagination for ever. •
"The fever is certainly the terror of this field. But it
must ever be borne in mind that it is the only one. There
are few other diseases. No consumption, nor scrofula, nor
madness. Measles and small-pox paid a passing visit some
20 years ago. I hare seen but one well-marked case of hy-
drocephalus, three of epilepsy, but none of cholera, cancer,
or hydrophobia, or delirium tremens, and many other
diseases common in England.
"The most common diseases are inflammation of different
organs ; but neither these nor fever should form a barrier to
missionary enterprise. I imagine they will not ; for those
who wished to engage therein have never yet stipulated for
a field in which death has absolutely no darts in his quiver.
I hope I am not estimating the prospect of subjection to
frequent attacks of fever too lightly ; for, should mission-
aries who are educated and sent out at great expense be cut;
off as soon as they enter on their labours by causes which
might have been foreseen and avoided, great losses would
be sustained by both the Church and the world. But no
decidedly unfavourable inference should be drawn from
my personal experience in respect of fever. It is true I
suffered severe attacks of the disease no fewer than 27
times in the space of twoand a-half years ; but this cannot
be thought surprising when it is remembered that I slept,
month after month, with only a little grass and a horse-
cloth between me and the ground, emitting so much mois-
ture—that I was exposed in comparative inaction to the
het sun by day, in a temperature generally upwards of 90
deg. in the shade (fur my poor ox would never allow
me to hold an umbrella)—that I was drenched with
showers, often • making me deposit my watch in the
arm-pit—the lower extremities wetted regularly two or
three times every day by crossing marshy streams—and
having food in the half journey north and half pasnage
south purely native. No ulcer was actually formed ; but
this I attributed to being occasionally able to procure a
fowl and some maize. These constitute rather a pitiful
hygiene, and few who fellow will have to endure the like.
These privations, I beg you to observe, are not mentioned
as if I considered therein the light of sacrifices —I think the
word ought never to be mentioned in reference to anything
we can do for Him, who, though he was rich, yet for our
sakes became poor. But I supposed you could not well
estimate my experience at its true value unless I stated the
drawback to fair treatment of the animal economy with
which I came Into collision. No unfavourable opinion
surely can be formed from my experience as to what the
experience of one less exposed to the vicissitudes of the
weather and change of diet might be. Unless I mentioned
the foregoing circumstance it might be supposed that I was
speaking too lightly of a disease which has inspired, so
much terror.
" The fever may be said to commence at the latitude of
Lake Ngami (20 deg. south), and extends to the equator,
or beyond it. Bat from 8 deg. south latitude it generally
assumes the intermittent or at least fatal form. The sequelea
of this are enlargement of the spleen and great emaciation,
which, after a considerable period, end fatally. Abundant
warning is always given to seek cure by change of climate ;
and wo have not far to go, for a few degrees of southing in-
troduce into the dry pure air of the desert,and every step in
that direction is made in the very remarkably healthy tract
termed the interior of Southern Africa. I have had the com-
plaint in its severest forms, and when checked by exposure
during its course, vomiting of large quantities of blood en-
sued ; yet I am aware of no organic affection as the result.
Indeed lam as well now as ever I was in my life. The
greatest inconvenience I was submitted to was being less
energetic, or quite useless, for long periods as a missionary.
" One cause of the great mortality which prevails at
certain times, and particularly at the period of the drying
up of the inundation, is the want of prompt, though not
heroic treatment. Neither doctors nor patients hurry
themselves. Though his services may not have been asked
till danger appears, the medical man must throw his dice
4 first, and spend hours of talking over that ; then, if it is

late in the afternoon, he will go and dig the roots to-mor-
row, and even then stirs not till the sun is well up. The
treatment, when once fairly in operation, is undoubtedly
that best adapted to overcome the disease, fOr they set

themselves assiduously to induce profuse and long-con-
tinued action of th• skin. By a combination of this, with
simultaneous but gentle stimulation of the internal organs
which, as well as the skin, have ceased exertion, I have
found no difficulty in relieving, and ultimately curing,
every case submitted to my care. My company of 27 per-
sons were often attacked (two of them being jaundiced,
appeared as if affected by something of the West African
remittent), but all were brought home in good health.
With an equal number of Europeans it might have been
otherwise. But I apprehend no great mortality among
missionaries—men of education and prudence, who can, if
they will, adopt proper hygienic preparations.
‘‘
THE INHABITANTS : THEIR NUMBERS, CHARACTER, AND
ACCESSIBILITY TO CHRISTIAN INFLUENCE.

"In regard to the people inhabiting this large and po-
pulous territory, it is difficult, in the absence 'of all nu•
merieal data, to present a very precise idea. The tribes
are large, but divided into a great number of villages. So
thickly were these dotted over the country, that in travel-
lingin a straight line, in which we could rarely see more
than a mile en each side, we often passed 10 or 12 hamlets

in a single day. Occasionally, however, we marched 10

miles without seeing any. In no par:: of the south I have
visited is such a population seen. Angola contains 600,000
souls, and Londa seemed more populous, and of larger ex-
tent than it. The Cape Colony, with 200,000 souls, pos-
sesses some hundreds of missionaries and other Christian
instructors and schoolmasters, but it will bear no compa-
rison with Londa as a missionary field. The Makololo ter-
ritory has several tribes—Batoks, Batotse, Bashubca, Ban..
yeti, Matlotlora, &c., and there is no impediment to im-
mediate occupation by missionaries; and to such as aspire
to the honour of being messengers of mercy to the actual
heathen, there is no more inviting field in South Africa. I
am not to be understood as meaning that any of these peo-
ple are anxious for the Gospel. They are quite unlike the
intelligent inquiring race in the Punjaub, or the vivacious
islanders in the Pacific. But there is not such callous indif-
ference to religious truth as I have seen elsewhere, nor yet
that opposition which betokens progress in knowledge.
But there is a large population, and we are quite sure, if
the word of life is faithfully preached, in process of time
many will believe. I repeat again, that I know of no im-
pediment to immediate efforts for their instruction.
Every head man and chief in the country would be
proud of the visit or residence of a white man. There

is security generally for life and property. I left, by mis-
take, a pontoon in a village of Londa, and found it
safe eighteen months afterwards. Some parcels sent
by Mr. Moffatt, by means of Match°le, lay a whole
year on an island in the Zambesi, near Mosioatuniya.
It is true it was believed that they contained medi-
cine which might bewitch, but regular rogues aro seldom
scared by such preservatives. The Balonda aro a friendly,
industrious race, :and thousands of the Balobale find an
asylum among them from the slave-dealing propensities of
their chiefs. They seem to possess a more vivid conviction
of their relation to the unseen world than any of the
southern tribes. In the deep, dark forests near their vil-
lages wo always met with idols and places of prayer. The
latter are spots about four feet broad, and 40 long, kept
carefully clear of vegetation and falling leaves. Here, in
the still darkness of the forest night, the worshipper, either
male or female, comes alone and prays to the gods (Barimo)
or spirits of departed relatives; and when an answer to
the petition seems granted, meal or other food is sprinkled
on the spot as a thanksgiving.

"The Balonda extend to 8 deg. S. lat., and their para-
mount chief is always named Matiamvo. Thor are many
subordinate chiefs, all nearly independent. The Balobale
possess the same character, but are more warlika ; yet no
prudent white man would be in the least danger among
them.

" It seems proper to refer to the Chiboque, Bashinje,
and Bangaula, who treated us more scurvily than any I
had previously met with in Africa. Sometimes they level-
led their guns at us, and seemed as if we must fight to
prevent entire plunder and reduction to slavery. But I
thank God we did them no harm, and no one need fear
vengeance on our account. A few more visits on the same
principle would render them as safe as all other tribes,
concerning which it may be confidently stated, that if one
behaves as a Christian and a gentleman he will invariably
be treated as such. Con'zrary conduct will give rise to re-
marks and treatment of scorn.
" LANGUAGES.

" Reference has been made to the Barotse, Batoka, &c.,
as of the true negro race which occupies-the interior of the
continent. By their subjection to the Makololo, they have
acquired considerable knowledge of the Sichuana language.
We have thus a very important field open in a tongue into
which the whole of the Sacred Scriptures will, it is hoped,
soon be translated. And the time necessary for learning
and reducing the negro language may not be so barren as
is usually the case. The Barotse, Batoka, B llonda and
Ambonda dialects (or language spoken by the Angoleso),
with those spoken in Luba and beyond, as also those of
People on the east coast, are all undoubtedly cognate with
the Bechuana tongue and Kafir. The very considerable
number of words exactly alike or only slightly varied in
their inflections, can only be explained on the hypothesis,
for there has been no intercourse between those tribes, at
least for centuries past. Each of the negro tribes readily,
learns the language of the others. The Bechuanas, how-
ever, often fail to acquire that of the negroes, though
living among them. Yet my companions acquired it in
Angola as readily as I could a smattering of Portuguese,
and failed entirely in tbelatter. The influence of the Sacred
Scriptures in the true negro language will be immense.
If we call the actual amount of conversion the direct
results of missions, and the wide diffusion of better
principles the indirect, I have no hesitation in as-
serting that the latter are of infinitely more im-
portance than the former. Ido not undervalue the im-
portanco of the conversion and salvation of the most abject
it is of overwhelming worth to him
ea
our work of wide sowing of the
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good seed, relatively to the harvest which will be reaped
when all our heads are low, there can, I think, be no coin-
par-bons
" It might be premature to contemplate the probability
of any results from tho circulation of the edition of the
Testament which was furnished to Park ; but the circum-
stances are somewhat similar, seeing that all the Arabs I
have met with are able to road and write. We may accom-
plish that which he was not permitted to do. It will, at all
events, be working in the right direction.
OFENDIUS FOR TRADE AND FOR TEE ULTIMATE SPREAD OF CIVI-

LISATION AND CHRISTIANITY. - •
The African' are all deeply imbued with the spirit of

trade. We found great difficulty in getting past many
villages ; every artifice was employed to detain us, that we
might pumhase our suppers from them. And, having finished
all the game, they are entirely dependent on English
calico for clothing. It is retailed to them by inches ; a
small piece will purchase a slave. If they had the oppor-
tunity of a market they could raise on their rich soil abund-
ance of cotton, and zingoba beans for oil. I cannot say
they were lazy, though they did seem to take the world
easy. Their hair was elaborately curled ; many or their
villages were models of neatness, and so were their gardens
and huts. Many were inveterate musicians. The men who
went with me to Londa, did so in order to open up a path
for commerce, and without any hope of payment from me.
Though compelled to part with their hard won earnings in
that city for food,:on our way home I never heard a murmur.
The report they gave of the expedition, both in public and
private, and very kind expressions towards myself, were
sufficienty flattering. A fresh party was despatched with
ivory, under the guidance of an Arab from Zanzibar, and
two days only given for preparation; and when they return,
or even sooner, my companions are to start again. That
their private opinions are in accordance with their public
professions I have evidence'in the number of volunteers who
offer themselves to the East with mo, knowing I have not
wherewith to purchase food even. And they are not an
enthusiastic race either ; there is not the least probability
of any mere adventurer attaining much influence among
them. If the movement now be;.un is not checked by some
untoward event, the slave trade will certainly come to a
natural termination in this quarter, our cruisers having ren-
dered slaves of so little value now on the coast. Commerce
has the effect of speedily letting the tribes see their mutual
dependence. It breaks up the sullen isolation of heathen.
ism. It is so far good. But Christianity alone reaches
the very centre of the wants of Africa and of the world.
"Theoretically, I would pronounce the country about the
forlis of the Leeba and Leeambye, or Kabompo, and the river
of the Bashnkulompo, as a most desirable central point for
the spread of civilisation and Christianity. And, unfortu-
n.stely, I must mar my report by saying I feel a difficulty as
to taking my children there without their own intelligent
coif-dedication. I can speak for my wife and myself only—
we will go whoever remains behind.—Affectionately yours,
(Signed) " DAVID LIVINGSTON."

" Tette, or Nyungwe, on the River Zambesi,
March 2, 1856.
"My dear Sir,—Having by the mercy of God reached
the furthest inland station of the Portuguese this morning,
I gladly avail myself of an opportunity of sending to Quil-
limane to advise you that I am thus far on my way down
the river. It will be gratifying to you to hear that I
have been able to follow up, without swerving, my original
plan of opening a way to the sax, both on the east and
west coast, from a healthy locality in the interior of the
continent. Not until two months ago was I aware of the
existence of any salubrious point, though I now recollect
a reference made thereto by Sebituane.
"But now I can announcenot only a shorter path for
our use, but a decidedly healthy locality. By this fine river
flowing through a fertile country, we have water convey.
ance to within one or two degrees of the Makololo—the only
impedimenta I know of being one or two rapids (not catar-
acts), and the people in some parts being robbers.
" The Portuguese have been amazingly kind. Here they
are no loss so than in Angola • and much of it is owing, I
believe, to my public-spirited friend, Mr. Duprat, at Cape
Town, and to the Bishop of Angola.
" The kind interest which many of my countrymen have
shown in my work makes me feel deeply grateful, and rime-
what ashamed withal at having done so little to deserve it.
. . . lam not so elated in having performed what has
not to my knowledge been done before in traversing the
continent, because the end of the geographical feat is but
the beginning of the missionary enterprise. May God grant
me life to do some more good to this poor Africa.
" I have a report written for you, but it requires copying.
I rest a few days here, because I have been on foot through
a very rough, stony country, my oxen having all died by
tsetse, and I was too poor to buy a canoe ; with one Icould
have been here a month ago. I am in excellent health—no
fever all the way from Linyanti.—Affectionately yours,
"DAVID LIVINGS TON.

" Rev. Dr. Tidman."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 9.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
IN RE M'LEAN.
There was a long discussion in this case as to the right
of Mr. Sparkhall to prove against this estate.
His Honour ultimately declined at present to admit
the proof.

IN R& J. G. PALMER.
The bankrupt was a printer, of Savoy-street, Strand.
This was his examination meeting. Messrs. Cooper and
Stevens prepared the accounts, which commence January
1,1854, and end June 6,1856, showing—creditors, 5, 6551.;
liabilities, 7031. ; creditors holding security, 931. ; capi-
tal at commencement, 8261. ; profits, 3,7801. ; good and
doubtful debts, 1,024; property, 2,5851., ditto with cre-
ditors, 60/. ; trade expenses, 3,577/. ; house and per-
sonal, 9311. ; losses, 2, 123.
Mr. Plews, on behalf of the assignees, did not oppose.
Mr. Chidley supported.
His Honour allowed the bankrupt to pass.

of stupor. She had bruises about her bead, shoulders
and hip, and marks indicating a criminal assault were
also found upon her.
Mr. Luff, the girl's fathti., *Ai dallea, and he deposed
that though the prisotaei. had lived next door to him for
fear years they had not been in the least intimate, and
hie daughter had never shown the least symptom of hys.
teria. She never had a fit in her life.

Mr. Ribton, in his address to Mejury, urged tbatthere
might be a great deal of falsehood mixed up with a little
truth in this matter, to give the story the appearance of
probability; that the girl might have gone voluntarily to
the prisoner's house after having sent her sister out; and
that she might have been suddenly seized with a hysteri-
cal fit, though she never ba I one before. She might, he
submitted, have baVented the greater part of the story
to screen herself from the blame of being there, and
commented on the fact that there were persons who
were present on the occasion, after Garrod got into the
house, who had not been called on the part of the prose-
cution. lie said he should call those persons, and then if
the jury entertained the least doubt upon the matter,
they would give the prisoner the benefit of it.
Mary Beasley deposed that ehe lived at No. 10, Mid-
dle Copenhagen-street. On the evening in question she
saw the girl and the prisoner talking and chatting toge-
ther for an hour before the occurrence. She was laugh-
ing and lolling about the railings.
Eliza Abraham, a married woman, stated that she was
in Copenhagen-street at the time, and heard the screams.
She saw the prisoner at the door of a house, and he
asked her to go and help him with a female. She went
in and found a female lying on the floor, between the
front and back parlour. Mr. Garrod was there, and
witness assisted him to get her into the front parlour.
The prisoner went up to her, and said, "Emma, for
for God's sake, say, have I done anything to you I" She
replied, "No, you have not." He asked her that more
than once, and she gave him the same answer. A doc•
tor, Mr. Scott, was sent for. Apolicernan came in. When
Mr. Scott came he gave her something in cold water.
Witness went into the kitchen, and on the table she saw
two plates, two knives, two tumblers, which had con-
tained drink of some sort, and some cheese, as if two
persons had had supper. She asked Mr. Scott to examine
th• girl, but he did not until he had been again asked to
do so, and he then said there was nothing to indicate
that violence bad been used. She bad seen persons in
fits, and the symptoms resembled those the girl then ex-
-41110..1. 441 -,aa at the police-court, Due was Hot called
as a witness. On the following morning she called to see
how Miss Luff was.

Susan Marshall, of 6, Copenhagen-street, stated that
she assisted to undress Miss Luff and to get her to bed.
While she was doing so she (prosecutrix) fell back, as if
in hysterics, and knocked the back of her head against a
chest of drawers (this was to account for the bruise).
She observed nothing to indicate an assault.
Robert Scott, F.R.C.S., deposed that he lived at
Arundel•terrace, Barnsbury-road. He was sent for to see
Miss Luff, whom he found in Carroll's parlour. She
was, be considered, in hysterics. Two women and Mr.
Carroll were there, but there was such a hubbub in the
room that he could not say whether Carroll spoke to her
or not, but he thought he asked her something about
whether he had done anything to her and that she an-
swered no. Carroll, when asked by him if he had given
her anything, said she had taken two glasses of ale. He
denied that he had given her spirits. Witness could not
detect the smell of spirits in her breath, hut she night
have taken spirits and he not have smelled it, as he took
a great deal of snuff. He declined at first to examine
her, as he thought there was no one there who could au-
thorise him to do so. He treated her for hysterics, and
gave her doses of laudanum and sal volatile, after which
he ordered her to be taken to bed. He had not seen her
since. Her symptoms were precisely those of a person in
a hysterical fit, and such fits might come on suddenly
with young persons of the age of the prosecutrix, or from
temper. If a drug had been administered, laudanum
would not have been a proper remedy to give, as it would
have increased rather than diminished the symptoms. If
a drug had been administered to her, so as to produce
immediate insensibility, she would not have recovered
so soon. He attended the police-court, and, though it
was known he was the medical man first called in, he
was not examined as a witness on the second examina-
tion, but he was on the first. His evidence was not re-
turned on the depositions. He saw no indications of vio-
lence on the girl when he was called in.

Cross-examined—l had attended Mr. Luff's family
professionally for 3 years or thereabouts, and I also knew
the prisoner as his family's medical adviser. I heard Mr.
Billinghurst give his evidence before the magistrate, when
he described the appearances he found on the girl. I have
been 20 years in practice, and a few cases of poisoning
have come under my notice. Ido not know of a drug
which would produce the immediate insensibility spoken
of by the prosecutrix. Prussic acid will, but of course
it is fatal. Aconite will produce insensibility. I know
Taylor's Jurisprudence—it is a work of authority.
Tincture of aconite will produce insensibility, but there
are no intervals of screaming, and the patient remains
for a long time under its influence.

Mr. Sleigh—Are not these the symptoms of tho ad-
ministering of aconite—flashing of fire from the eyes,
giddiness in the head, and numbness of the extremities I
Witness—Yes, they are.
Mr. Sleigh—The very symptoms this girl has de.
scribed.

Mr. Garrod was recalled, and he denied that the pri-
soner asked the girl whether he had done anything
wrong to her, in his presence or hearing.
Mr. Sleigh then replied.
Mr. Creasy very carefully and impartially summed up
the evidence.

The jury retired to consider their verdict, and after a
short consultation they agreed to a verdict of guilty on
the second count.

Mr. Creasy characterised it as a most vile and infa-
mous case, and sentenced the prisoner to ten month,'
hard labour,

This case occupied the court from ten in the morning
until nearly six in the afternoon.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Sept. 9.

BO WSTREET.

Mors. P. Michael, professor of foreign literature, who
had been remanded from Friday last on a charge of cri-
minal assault, was again placed at the bar before Mr.
Jardine.
The defendant was surrounded by a number of lite-
rary and professional gentlemen, his personal friends, by
whom Mr. Lewis, the solicitor, was engaged to conduct
the defence.
The complainant, Elizabeth Lyons, a delicate-looking
girl, who lived in the service of Mr. Francis, printer, of
25, Museum-street, repeated her former statement, to
the effect that the prisoner was a lodger in the house,
occupying the second floor, that he returned home on
Tuesday evening, the 2d inst., when she was alone in
the house, and having desired her to take a candle into
his room, took her up in his arms, carried her into the
bed-room through the folding doors, and, using a filthy
expression, forced her upon the bed and committed the
offence.
The girl was now subjected to a long and severe cross-
examination by Mr. Lewis. She stated that the defend-
ant, on entering the house, inquired if her mistress was
at home, and she told him no. When he took her up in
his arms they were in the front sitting room. She
screamed and kicked him. Loud screams might be heard
in the street. She might have scratched his eyes out, and
now regretted that she did not do so. She did not like
to scratch his face, it would have disfigured him so much.
He held her upon the bed a quarter of an hour. She
afterwards washed her face, but did not comb her hair,
and make herself look as smart as ever. Would swear
she did not comb her hair. Did not smooth down her
dress. It was not rumpled. Her mistress came home
about half-past nine. Did not tell her then, as she was
poorly, and thought it would upset her. Did not tell her
the first morning, not liking to do so till her master was
gone. Took up a letter to Mr. Michel about nine o'clock,
and laid it upon the table ; and afterwards took up his
breakfast things. Did not speak to him. Abouta quarter
to 11, when her mistress desired her to take up two eggs
to him, she refused, stating that she could not wait upon
that gentleman again, She then told Mrs. Francis what
took place the previous night, and her mistress advised
her to go home to her mother. She did so in the even-
ing, but could not find the heart to tell her mother, but
said to her, " Mrs. Francis wants to speak to you,
mother." On Friday morning her mother called on Mrs.
Francis, who was the first to tell her. She (complainant)
told it afterwards, and her mother said she would take
steps about it on Monday. But she returned two hours
after with a policeman, and gave Mr. Michel into
custody. Daring all the time between the Tuesday
night and Friday morning she (complainant) con-
tinued to wait upon Mr. Michel, but never spoke
to him about his ill-usage. Would swear that she
was not in the habit of having young men to see
her. Once, about a fortnight before this occur-
rence, a friend of hers, a boy about 16, walked home
with her on Sunday evening. He was a cousin, named
Tom Collins, and lived in Crane-court, Fleet-street. He
was a printer, and she had been to see him. He walked
home with her because it was late—a quarter to ten, and
she feared her mistress would be angry. That was the
only time he ever came with her to the house. She had
not seen him since, she would swear.
Mrs. Francis, complainant's mistress, confirmed the
girl's statement relative to her absence on the night in
question, the interview with the mother, &e. She made
defendant's lotcl always, but saw nothing to excite sus
picion.

Cross-examined—She wag much shocked on bearing
the girl's statement, and advised her to go home to her
mother. Wzs not aware, if the girl told Ler directly she
returned home the previous night, that it would have
shocked her riore. She was ill, but not so ill as that.
Examined th 4 girl's linen, but saw nothing. Recollected
the complainant's coming home with a youth on the
Sunday week previous, and she stated that it was her
cousin. Thai was ten days before this occurrence.
Allowed the girl to continue to wait on Mr. Michel, but
kept watch mon her.
By Mr. Jardine-51r. Michel only took breakfast at
home, and %s out all day. He returned • on Wednes-
day, at about six, to dress, and then went out again.
Her reason fir not taking up the matter was that she
thought the Ks mother was thu fittest person to do so.
Ellen Lyols, complainant's mother, a widow, stated
that she liveds.t 5, Fulwood's-rents, Holborn, and had had
one room forfive years. Her daughter never told her a
word of wha the " beast" had done-, but desired her to
call on Mrs. ?rancis, wishing her to tell it, which she
did on Frida' morning.
Cress•ekalAned—The girl has no young man acquaint-
ance. My hisband had a cousin named Mike Collins, a
plasterer, bulhe was fifty, and never had a child. I can
swear the chid has never had a young cousin named
Tom Collins. (This witness had been out of court during
the exatninaton of ber daughter.)
Mr, Coati; the surgeon who examined the girl on Fri. •

day last, svvere that she had been violated Within 04(36
04' Sou} dOel.
rolloe-sergeant 4 1i stated Lhalie Sihirehend_eff tb6
defendant by direction of the girl's mother, tin Fridiiy
afternoon: He found Mr. Michel sitting in his roOlii,
engaged in writing. On stating the charge, Mr. Michel
dAid, "I knO* nothitig Abotit it, but I will go with you."
On reaching the street door, and seeitig the ton and her
mother there, he said, "Oh, it's done to get money. it's
a trick. I have heard of such tricks being played upon
foreigners, and when I was a young man, 20 years k
I had to pay for a similar case. Put I don't want any-
thing of that sort now, for lam a married man.' Wit.
ness had since inquired about the character of the girl
and her mother, and found they were very respectable.
Mr. Lewis addressed the court for nearly an hour,
urging the discrepancies in the girl's statement, and the
suspicious story about the cousin Tom Collins, as proof
that the charge was altogether a fabrication, probably to
fix another's offence upon his client, who was a gentle-
man of great literary eminence and of irreproachable
character.

Mr. W. Turnbill, barrister, 3, Stone's-buildings ; Mr.
Dudley Costello, and M. de Witt, each spoke in the
highest terms of the defendant's moral excellence. The
latter gentleman stated that he was one of the celebrities
of France, a man of European reputation ; and neither
of the witnesses had ever heard him utter an indecent
expression.
Mr. Jardine said—My impression is that this case
must go before a jury. lam quite aware of the difficul-
ties of the case, but many of them may be accounted for
by the extreme youth of the girl ; for inconsistencies of
conduct in a child of 14 are not to be looked upon in the
same light as those of a grown up person of 20. Some
allowance must be made on this score. Still, looking at
the case in all its bearings, I think it is one in which I
ought to admit the defendant to bail. He must find two
sureties in 2101. each, besides entering into his own re-
cognisance fcr 4001., to answer this charge at the ses-
sions.

The bail was immediately.tendered, and the defendant,
who cried bitterly towards the close of the inquiry, left
the court with his friends.

Emma Foreman and Cecilia E. Arnott were brought up
for final examination on the charge of stealing a 201.
note, &c., from Mr. Holdsworth's chambers in Clem-
ent's-inn. They were fully committed for trial.
Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor for Miss Arnett, begged
that his client. who was under 16 years of age, might
be spared the contamination of a gaol by being admitted
to bail. Several gentlemen of the highest respectability,
including one of the benchers •f the inn, having offered
to bail her,
Mr. Jardine said he should make no distinction in the
case.

got info the flyer at all, for such a hypothesis was fever
/fele eticriegth. He (the coroner) did not suppose that
people were Moto moral at Hampton-court than they
were in the inetropolie, and be could assure the
jney that it was a very common practice in London
for persons 'p search dead. bodies under the pretext
of endeavouring' te discover a card or some paper of
address, and if any property was found it was applied
to en improper use, and never found its way to
the OWhtt Prin. If the decca,ed had 15/. in money upon
his person at The time of his death, it was quite possible
that it had bee❑ taken ceeeey by some one who afterwards i
pushe,l the body into the watet; on the other hand, there
had been no evidence to show that he had property
about him at the period when fie died, and although the
witness Jeffreys had told them that he saw the money
when the deceased was drinking brandy with him, still
there were numberless ways by which it might have been
afterwards got rid of by the deceased himself. Having
said thus much upon this part of the case, he (the Coro-
ner) would remind the jury that the first thing they had
to determine was whether the man had destroyed him-
self. His (the Coroner's) own con-viction was that the
man had died by tik own hand, that he discharged the
pistol himself deliberately, and with a fixed determination
to destroy his own life. Then, it might be said, why did
not the shot go through the Guernsey shirt l In answer
to that he would say that there were such things done by
madmen when committing these rash acts that those pe-
culiarities could not be accounted for. Every now and
then a man would leave a ball-room, pull off his best
clothes, and put on his worst to cut his throat. Another
would carefully bleed himself in a washband basin, be-
cause Jae would not spoil the carpet or table cover. There
was no accounting for this ; it was quite possible that
this man had lifted up his shirt with one hand for the
purpose of placing the pistol nearer the heart, with a
view to a more certain death. He (the Coroner) there-
fore did not think that there was anything peculiar in
that. There was another circumstance somewhat remark•
able i❑ the man's conduct—namely, that he had left his
waistcoat and watch at home, and Mrs. Arnold had
stated that he had never done so before. It appeared to
him (the Coroner) that the deceased had left his watch
with a determination to commit suicide before his re•
turn. It was a relief to one's mind that there had been
no murder committed at all. He (the Coroner) could
not, however, avoid reverting to the te4iinony of
the witness Gray. That man had attempted to ac-
count for his time during the four days that the de-
ceased had been missed, but it would have been better if
the evidence had been more clear ; still there was no
reason whatever to impute murder in the case. Gray's
attempt was very unsatisfactory, although he detailed his
own movements, spoke of meeting his wife on the Satur-
day preceding the finding of the body, of giving her
money,and stated that ho bad never been at Hampton
Court at all. It could not be forgotten that it had been
sworn in evidence that Gray said " Solomons should
never take his wife to Australia with him again," and on
that very day, July 26, two days before the body was
found, he had said, in the hearing of several persons, that
" Mrs. Solomons might consider herself a widow."
A juror—But he denied it in evidence.
Several witnesses—We heard him say the words.

The Coroner—He remembered it being distinctly s worn
to at the time; but all those things would go fDr nothing,
unless there was other circumstances of an inculpatory
nature to support them. Putting all these matters before
them, his own conviction was, as he had already stated,
that the deceased man had destroyed himself by a pistol
discharged into the lungs, and which pistol he had on
the night of the 21st in his possession. It had been
proved that he was a man of a very violent temper, con-
stantly drinking brandy to excess, and being a greater
part of his time in a state of frenzy—positively a made
man. Having now made what observations he (the co
roner) felt necessary, he had to tell the jury that they
would have first to consider whether the deceased had
died by the infliction of the wounds himself ; and
secondly, what was his state of Blind when he so in-
flicted those wounds. If the jury should not think that
the evidence warranted them in returning such a verdict,
they would then consider whether those wounds had
been inflicted by any other person. If they returi.ed
a verdict that the deceased died by other hands than
his own, then it might be that an imputation of the
moat fearful nature would rest, perhaps, upon some
person who might be entirely innocent of the deceased's
death. The jury would have to consider and decide
upon the whole of the evidence with the greatest nicet ,
and he would conclude by saying that he fully believed
they would deliver their verdict perfectly unbiassed in
that case.

Upon the conclusion of the coroner's address, the
jury retired to a private room for about twenty minutes,
when they returned into court with a verdict to the
affect that the jury were unanimously of opinion that the
decease man, Lewis Solomons, had died in consequence
of wounds caused by a pistol shot, but whether such
wounds had been inflicted by himself or some other per-
son there was not sufficient evidence to show,

The foreman expressed the admiration of the jury for
the manner in which the police had aoted throughout
the whole affair ; Inspector Rapsey and SergQant
Churchill having travelled between Hampton Court and
different parts of the metropolis nearly 500 miles in
making inquiries about the matter.
After the proceedings had judicially terminated, the
police were obliged to interfere on behalf of the man
Gray, to prevent the execution of summary vengeance
upon him. It will be recollected that he deserted his
own wife and six children, in order to cohabit with Mrs.
Solomons during her husband's (the deceased's) stay in
Australia, and he still resides with her, she having
born him a child. His employer Mr. Green, the blue
manufacturer of Garlick-hill, Thames street, has dis-
charged him on account of this disgraceful affair, as it
was stated that the other workmen refused to stay in
the same shop with him. He was escorted on the way
to Twicksnbam by a policeman, amid the yells and
execrations of the crowd who had gathered at the place.
The matter is still an open question for any future in-
vestigation that may be necessary. A large number of
persons were present during the whole of the proceed-
ings.

HEALTH 01? LONDON.

(From the Registrar-2,3neral's Report.)

Eleven hundred deaths were registered in London in
the week that ended on Saturday. The deaths of males
were 552, those of females 548. As regards the total
number, the present return differs little from those of the
two previous weeks; and it the mortality produced by
epidemic cholera in 1849 and 1854 be excluded from the
average of corresponding weeks in the years 1846.55, it
will appear that the rate of mortality which now rules
approximates to the average rate at this season.
As the births registered last week were 1,634, the
excess of births over deaths was 534.

Diarrhooa continuously decreases, the deaths from it
in the week were 124, which is less than half of the
number caused by this complaint about three weeks ago.
Four deaths are referred to cholera ; three of these oc-
curred to infants ; the remaining case is returned as
follows :—St. Margaret, Westminster, in the workhouse
on Sept. 1, a man, aged 40 years, " Asiatic &mlera."
He was in the last stage of disease when admitted. At
3, Tyro-place, C!erkenwell, a coppersmith died on the
30th ult., at the age of 18 years, of diarrhoea (28 d tys),
gastroenteritis (18 days)." With reference to the h use
in which the young man died, the medical attendan, re-
marks :—" There is a cesspool apparently under tse
kitchen, with an untrapped drain in the court, which
emit very offensive efilavi t, and the whole of the fam t y,
with one exception, have suffered from the couva'rr,
during the past month." In two cases of scarlatiea
out of the 29 which were fatal in the week, two men,
aged respectively 36 and 45 years, were the sufferers. A
child died of tetanus apparently idiopathic.
Two women did at the age of 92 years, two women
at 93, a man at 93, and a worian of more extraordinary
longevity is stated to have attained the age of 106 year;.
She died in the Marylebone workhouse on the 31st Aug.,
and Mr. Joceple, who registered her death, was in-
formed that she had been there 34 years, and that her
son is now living, who is 84 years old. She had been
formerly cook in a nobleman's family.
Last week the births of 827 boys and 807 girls, in all
1,634 children, were registered in London. In the ten
corresponding weeks of the years 1846 55 the avenge
number was 1,451.
At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean
height of the barometer in the week was 29.847 in. The
mean daily reading was above 30 in. on Wednesday and
Thursday. The highest rending in the week occurred' on
the former day, and was 30.17 deg. The mean tempera-
ture of the week was 57.5 deg., which is 1 deg. below
the average of the same week in 38 years (as determined
by Mr. Glaisher). The highest reading occurred en Sun-
,lay (31st Aug.), and was 74 deg. ; the lowest was 43.8
deg., and occurred on Wednesday. The highest reading
in the sun was 93.5 deg. on Thursday. The mean de
point temperature was 48.8 deg., and the difference be-
tween this and the mean temperature of the a'r was 8.7
deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames
was 62.7. The wind blew generally from the east on tee
lest three days. The rain in the week was 0.09 in. It
fell heavily on the night of Saturday.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, SEPT. 6.
ZyinoticDiseases 273
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses ........... 106
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ............. 41
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs ....
Re5pirati0n.................. .......................... 02
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
ofDigestion ............. ........................... 63
Diseases of the Kidneys, &e.
14
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations
Premature Birth and De"oility 44
Atrophy 79
Old Age
:•Aiddert l7
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 67
Causes not specified

DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated. spondiug week In the

1851. of 1855. Week.
west Districts ...... 376,427
North Districts...... 490,396
Central Districts..... 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

Totals
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