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London, England, 1851-12-19 00:00:00

VRIDA.Y IPA-ENING, DECEMBER io, Mt.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD, DEC. 17.—1 n a Convocation holden this
day, the Rev. J ohu Bury Harrison, M.A , of nigcla-
len° College, Cambridge, was admitted ad euwlem.
The Rev. Robinson Thornton, M.A., Fellow of St.
John's, was nominated by the Junior Proctor one of
the masters of the schools.

I❑ a Congregation holden at the same time the
following degrees were conferred :
DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAw.—The Rev. Thos. Francis
Cross, Exeter College.
MASTERS or ARTS.—Rev. Randolph Payne, Mag-
dalen Hall ; Rev. Charles John Newdigate, Christ-
church ; James Empson Alcock, Lincoln.

.
BACHELORS or ARTS.—Alfred Newdigate, Christ-
church ; Herbert Harman Mayo, Scholar of Pem-
broke; Charles James Wynne, Jesus; John Young
Sargent, Postmaster of Merton.

On Monday last Mr. Frederick Elliot Blackstone,
Scholar of New College, was admitted an actual
Fellow on the Law line of that society.
CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 17.—At a Congregation holden
on Monday, graces passed the Senate-
1. To appoint Mr. Johnson, of King's College, an
Examiner of the Moral Sciences Tripos for the en-
suing year.
2. To appoint Dr. Paget, of Caius College, an
Examiner of the Natural Sciences Tripos of the en-
suing year.
3. To appoint Mr. Thring, of King's Cc:lege, and
Mr. Westcott, of Trinity College, Examiners for the
Maitland Prize.

Mr. E. T. W. Polehamptom, M,A., of Pembroke
College, Oxford, was admitted ad eundent.
At a Congregation on Tuesday (being the last day
of term) the said term was dissolved in the usual form.
CROSSE SCHOLAR.

The vacancy in this scholarship has been filled up
by the election of Mr. George Martyn Gorham, BA.,
of Trinity College.

NATURAL SCIENCES TRIPOS, 18.52.
The examination for the Natural Sciences Tripos
will begin on Monday, March 8, at nine o'clock, A.M.,
in the Senate-house.

The order of the examination will be as follows :
Monday—Comparative anatomy and geology.
Tuesday—Physiology and botany.
Wednesday—Chemistry and mineralogy.
Thursday—Mixed questions.
All persons who shall have passed the examination
required for the degree of B.A. after February, 1851,
may be candidates for honours in the commencing
Bachelors' Natural Sciences Tripos.
All persons who have pasted the examination re-
quired for the degree of B.A. between February, 1850,
and February, 1851, may be candidates for honours
in the Middle Bachelors' Natural Sciences Tripos.
All persons who have passed the examinations and
kept the exercises for the degree of LL.B. or M. 8.,
may be candidates for honours in the Commencing
Bachelors' Tripos on this occasion, if the term be the
fourth Lent Term after their first term of residence;
and in the Middle Bachelors' Tripos, if the term be
the fifth Lent term after their first term of residence.
(Grace, May, 1851.)
All persons desirous of being candidates in this ex-
amination must send their names, with notice of the
requisite examination which they have passed, to the
Professor of Anatomy, on or before Friday, March 5,
1852.

:the Lectures of the Professor of Moral P hilosophy
will commence on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1852, at one
o'clock P.M. in the Lecture Room in Trinity College.
Tnese lectures will be continued every Monday,
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, during
the greater part of the Lent Term.
The Professor will examine candidates for the
Professor's certificate on Monday, March 22, at ten
o'clock.

The subjects of this examination will be Dr.
Whewell's "Elements of _Morality," books 1 and 2,
and Plato's " Republic," book 1 (in the English
translation).

HEALTHOF LONDON LURING THE WEEK,

(From the Registrar-General's Report.)
Though the rate of mortality in London is still
high, the present returns bear witness to a considera-
ble improvement. The deaths, which after a period
of continuous increase, ultimately rose to 1,316, de-
clined under the influence of milder temperature, and
in the week ending last Saturday the number was
1,194. The weekly mean temperature which during
the earlier part of November fell to 40 degrees, or 12
degrees lower than it had been during the previous
month, and afterwards suffered a further reduction to
3.5 degrees (which is about 8 degrees less than the
average of the period), again rose in the week ending
6th December to 38.8 degrees, and last week to 44.8
degrees, or about 3 degrees above the average.
Taking for comparison the corresponding weeks of
1841-50, with the exception of that part of the series
which belongs to 1&47, when influenza swelled the
mortality of the week to 2,416, it appears that the
average number of deaths was 1,031, or with a cor-
rection for increase of population, 1,134. The return
of last week shows an increase of 60 on the corrected
average.

Diseases of the respiratory organs, which rose to
333 in the previous week, have fallen to 284, and
phthisis, which in the table forms part of the tubercular
class, has declined from 180 to 142. The number of
fatal cases ascribed to bronchitis last week was 136,
and to pneumonia or inflammation of the lungs 105,
of which 83 were among children. The increase of
bronchitis above the average is worthy of remark.
The mortality from zymotic or epidemic diseases
amounted last week to 243, and is in the aggregate
heavy, though no particular malady in this class
prevails to a formidable extent. The table shows that
37 persons were carried off by small-pox, 16 by
24 by hooping cough, 5 by
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one by dysentery, 2by
cholera, 6 by influenza, one by purpura, 3 by re-
mittent fever, 2 by infantile fever, 10 by fever after
croup, measles,
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childbirth (besides 3 other cases of puerperal disease),
fever, &c., 11 by erysipelas, 5 children by syphilis,
by typhus, continued
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oris. The mortality
from fever is consider.able, and does not yet evince a
disposition to fall to its ordinary amount.

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STATE OF THE WEATHER DUXING THE PAST WEEK
SUNDAY.—The sV was overcast till evening • cirrostratus
and light clouds. Light rain fell at noon 'Electricity—
sorsthio°nwil during the first four days of the week.
of the morning, and generally clear until
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—The 2ky was one-half covered with cloud during
throughout the day;
cirrostratus.
during the evening.
WEDNISDAY.—Ths sky was overcast until noon, and
three-fourths coveted during the remainder of the day ;
cirrostratus, fleecy clouds, and scud.
evening;
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TuunspAir.—Light clouds and haze prevailed during the
afternoon, at other times the sky was clear. Electricity—
Positive, and very active after noon.
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FEIDAY.—Dense fog prevailed throughout the day. Elec-
tricity—Positive, and very active throughout the day;
sparks were shown.
SATURDAY.—Tbe sky was overcast throughout the day ;
cirrostratus Electricity—Positive, and tension strong
throughout the day.
The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main-
mast, and read each day at 9h. A.M. was 45.2° ; and the mean
reading at 9h. F. 31. was 44•8 Q ; the mean readings at the
Royal Observatory for the same times were 43.5 Q and 43.7°
respectively.
The reading of the barometer decreased from 30.13 in.
at the beginning of the week to 29.84 in. by 3h. AM. on
the Bth; increased to 30'09 in. by 9h. A.M. on the 9th; de-
creased to 29.89 in. by 9h. P.m. on the 10th ; increased
quickly to 30.29 in. by 9h. A.m. on the 11th; and still
further to 30.42 in. by 9h. P.M on the same day, at which
reading it remained for several hours, and then decreased
slowly to 30.29 is. by 311. P.M. on the 13th, after which it
turned to increase; and was 30.31 in. at the end of the week.

MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS.
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN
THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 13, 1851.
Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*243
Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 36
Tubercular Diseases „. 190
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 125
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 41
Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of
Respiration ... . 284
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion... 66
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c, 15
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 8
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 8
Diseases of the Skin, &o,
Malformations...
Premature Birth
Atrophy
Old Age
Sudden ... 7
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 51
Causes not specified ~,

...
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DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 1,194
Population Deaths in corre- Deaths
Enumerated, sponding week in the
1851. of 1850. Week.
West Districts... 376,332 .. 177 ... 157
North Districts.. 490,441 .. 215 ... 263
Central I)istricts 392,986 ... 166 ... 202
East Districts ... 485,336 ... 233 ... 270
South Districts.. 616,545 ... 299 ... 302

Totals.... 2,361,640 ... 1,090
Males ... ... ... ...
Femalos ... ••• -- ..•

... 1,194
... 589
... 605

THE EIVGLISH PRESS AND THE FRENCH

P S T-0 Fl C
The great number of English families resident in
France, and the vast sums of mu:ley Goy: into circulation
by them in various departmente of French territory,
forbid the supposition that the French authorities can
imagine they have any intorest to serve in driving Eng-
lish visitors from France, or in rendering that country
a less agreeable place of residence than it has heretofore
been. If the exclusion of certain English newspapers
could be shown to be necessary for the preservation of
public tranquillity, allowance might be made for such
an interference with the rights of Englishmen at home
and abroad. But the fact is, that the vast msjority of
the subscribers to the English newspapers in France are
Englishmen, who, from the British Ambassador down-
wards, have maintained throughout the late unhappy
events the most religious neutrality-, and whose exem-
plary abstinence from any participation in the internal
affairs of France has deserved a more generous
acknowledgment from the authorities of that
country. With regard to the small proportion
of English newspapers which find their way
into French families, we thought it was universally
conceded that the class of persons whose tastes and
whose leisure load them to cultivate a knowledge of the
politics and literature of a foreign country are not these
who make barricades and descend with their muskets
into the streets. The matter becomes worse when we
remember how heartily Louis Napoleon admired in his
better days the wholesome, manly, and practical tenden-
cies of the English press, and its unswerving support of
law and order at home. The latest instance of an
English newspaper stopped in the French Post-office is
that of our excellent contemporary the Illustrated London
News, whose spirited pencil sketches can hardly have
given umbrage to tho President, but whose views of the
breach of the 68th article of the Constitution possibly
approximate much more nearly to those of the High
Court of Justice than to the fashionable belief at the
Elysee. Our contemporary will, no doubt, feel compli-
mented by the exclusion, but his English readers in
France will have some cause to complain of this latest
piece of interference on the part of the French officials
with the liberty of the press.— Times.

lord coming in, the prisoner was removed fr,m the
dece' sffd. At this tim,i it was not di!,covercd that the
deceased heel su4tained any injury, having only the
appearance of stupid unconsciousness, which was es-
cribed to drunkenness ; and tbe landlord, a:siqted by
the waiter, removed him to the passage, and then the
waiter took him to the doer to turn him out of the
house, and while the waiter was raising him up to put
him out, he got over-balanced and fell forward out of
the doorway upon the flags with great violence, and
as soon as he fell blood gushed out of his mouth and
ears. Several persons who were passing in the street
accused the waiter of throwing the deceased down,
and a policeman being sent for, the waiter was taken
into custody, but was subsequently released when
the police had made inquiries concerning all the
transaction. The unfortunate deceased was taken
back into the house, but never returned to conscious-
ness, and died the next morning at eight o'clock, of
concussion of the brain. The surgeon who made the
past mortem examination stated that, in his opinion,
death had not been occasioned by the falls which the
witnesses had described, but by " the jowling" of the
head against the floor. It, however, appeared that
there were no bruises at the back of the head, which
part came in contact with the floor, but there was
an appearance of a violent blow on the left side of
the forehead, which must have been occasioned by
the defendant falling out of the waiter's arms on to the
flags.

At the conclusion of the medical evidence the jury,
without hearing Mr. Price on behalf of the prisoner,
returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
Thomas Sutcliffe, aged 24, was charged with the
manslaughter of Robert Lord, at Todmorden, in the
West Riding, on the 16th of August last.
Mr. Eastwood appeared for the prosecution; Mr.
Overend defended the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 16th of August last, as the
deceased was returning home from the Philharmonic
Society, about half-past eleven o'clock, he met with
a young woman and entered into conversation with
her. They proceeded a short distance in company,
and stood together for a moment on the footpath,
when the prisoner and some others came out of the
York Tavern, in Todmorden, and the prisoner pro-
ceeded down the footpath, near to where the deceased
and the woman were standing. When the prisoner
got up to them he pushed the deceased from the foot-
path and threw him down upon the road. Imme-
diately after the deceased had risen up, same kicking
seems to have taken place between them over the
legs, in the midst of which the prisoner was seen
to kick the deceased with his foot at the bottom of
his belly. Some little further struggle took place,
and the prisoner then ran away, when the
deceased appeared quite exhausted, and lay down
on the footpath moaning and vomiting. He was
then assisted home, and continued to vomit through
the night, complaining of violent pain at the
bottom of his belly, caused, as he said, by a kick
from the foot of a man whom he did not know.
Early on the following morning a surgeon was sent
for, but, notwithstanding his assistance, the deceased
expired about five o'clock in the afternoon. A post-
mortem examination took place on the day after,
when it was found the colon, or large bowel, was
ruptured about a couple of inches, which was the
cause of aeath. It appeared that the deceased did
not know who the person was who struck him, nor
was he aware that any reason existed why the pri-
soner should have done so,
Witnesses were called on behalf of the prisoner to
speak to his general peaceable character.

At the clone of the case for the prosecution the pri-
soner's counsel said he could not resist the case so as
to reduce the charge to anything less than man-
slaughter. . .

gig LORDSHIP having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, ac
companied with a recommendation to mercy.—Sen
tence deferred.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT:

OLD COURT.

MANSLAUGHTER. William Murphy, aged 26, a
cooper, and Mary Ann Murphy, aged 26, his wife, were
indicted for feloniously killing and slaying Bridget
Murphy.
On the 19th of November last the prisoner took a
lodging near to the Commercial•road, and a few days
afterwards the female prisoner came home in a state of
intoxication. Mrs. Walsh, the landlady of the house,
followed her into the room, and was horror-
struck at finding one child lying dead on a table,
and another child lying insensible on a bed,
with its head hanging over the bedside. A few
minutes afterwards the male prisoner also came home
intoxicated, and Mrs. Walsh remonstrated with them
upon the brutality of their conduct, when they
acknowledged that both the children were their own.
The living child was in a wretched state of filth, and
famishing for the want of food. Mrs. Walsh took it
down stairs and gave it some bread, which it devoured
with greedy eagerness. This was the deceased Bridget.
The prisoners, instead of attending to the wants of the
poor child, went out again and remained out all night,
and the next morning, when they returned home again,
Mrs. Walsh told them it would be a charity to send
Bridget to the workhouse, for she had been starved, and
was a mere bundle of ►kin and bones, but the female pri-
soner took no heed of the observation, except to say that
she wished the child was dead, as then she could leave
her husband. Two dad s afterwards Bridget died, and
then a medical ma❑ was called in, who pronounced it as
his opinion, that the child had died from want of food ;
and as it appeared that the female had some money in
her possession when she came home drunk, while her
husband was in a situation by:which he could earn 245.
a week, if he pleased, the two prisoners were given into
custody on the present charge.
The prisoners denied that they had starved the child.
She died, they said, from the effects of the hooping cough,
and the medical witness admitted that the child must
have had the cough, and its ravages upon the child's
windpipe were as much the cause of death as the want
of food.

The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the jury returned
a verdict of Not Guilty.
The prisoners were accordingly liberated.

THIRD COURT,.
(Before the COMMON SERGEANT.)

Elizabeth Thomas, 24, married, was indicted for
obtaining by false pretences, the sum of 5/. from
Henry Philip Davies, with intent to defraud him.
Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Poland prosecuted, the pro-
ceedings being instigated by the Mendicity Society ;
Mr. Charnock defended.
The prosecutor stated that he is a coal merchant,
keeping the Palace-wharf, Lambeth, and first knew
the prisoner some time in July last, when she came
to him, being a perfect stranger, and introduced
herself to him, saying that she wanted to ask his ad-
vice relative to some property she had down at Bath,
which she wished to sell. Witness told her the best
thing she could do was to see some solicitor on the
matter. She then asked witness to write a letter for
her to Mr. Wood, a solicitor, :13, Royal-crescent,
Bath. She then produced what purported to be the
extract from a will, by which she was entitled to a
sum of between 8001. and 9001. He in consequence
wrote a letter, and an answer was returned signed
by a Mr. Wood, and posted from Bath, stating that
901. had been offered for the land. The prisoner
asked him what he thought she had better do with
the money, as she thought of putting it into
the bank. The prosecutor told her he thought she
wouli do better by letting it remain, and she said
she coincided with his views, and asked him
to write to her solicitor again and tell him the
determination she had come to. He did so, and again
received an answer purporting to come from the same
party, acknowledging his letter, and stating that her
wishes should be complied with. Some short time
after he saw the prisoner again, and she then showed
him a letter which alluded to her aunt, and stated that
she was then at Carlisle at the point of death. She
did not ask the witness for any money, but made a
statement about having to wait until she could get
the money, some Post-office orders having failed to
reach her, upon which the prosecutor kindly offered
to lend her 51. to take her down there, and he himself
went and saw her off by the railway. Subsequently
finding that he had been defrauded, he made commu-
nication to the Mendicity Society, which resulted in
her apprehension in November last.
The other evidence went to prove that no such a
person as Mr. Wood lived at Royal-crescent, Bath,
but that the letters so sent down had been got posses-
sion of by some of the gang down there, acting in
concert with the prisoner. When taken in custody
she was searched by the female searcher, who, whilst
she was performing the task, observed her. try to
swallow something, upon which she called in the
officers, and they forced from her mouth a letter of a
similar character to that by which she had defrauded
the prosecutor in this instance.
Mr. CHARNOCK, at some length, contended that the
prosecutor had most foolishly given the money of his
own free will, and was not instigated by any false
pretence of the prisoner.
The jury found her Guilty.
There was another indictment for obtaining 141.
6a. Gd. from another person, on the ground of her pro-
perty in Bath.
Horsford, the Mendicity officer, said the prisoner
was an old offender, and had for years been connected
with a gang of begging-letter impostors and swind-
lers. In November, 1849, she was taken up with a
gang at Bath. There were five in number charged
with obtaining money under false pretences. She
was an associate of the man Bew, transported in the
New Court yesterday.
Norris, another officer, said that she had lived with
a man now under committal at Hanley, in Stafford-
shire, and awaiting his trial for similar frauds.
Also on the prisoner was found a savings bank
book belonging to a woman named Farmer, another
of the gang now under conviction, a circumstance
which showed the system and extent to which the
gang carried on their operations.—The. prisoner was
sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard
labour.