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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A CONSTABLE.—James
Margaretti, a waiter, was charged before Mr.
D'Eyncourt with the following assault :
Police-constable Francis Allwood, 186 C, said
that last night he was called to Mr. LC11101176 Tavern,
Cranbourne-passage, to assist the barman in eject-
ing the prisoner, who was making a great disturb-
ance. On getting into the street the prisoner com-
menced a savage assault upon him, striking him in
the mouth and loosening two of his teeth, biting his
hand and kicking him. Ills coat was so smothered
with blood that he was unable to wear it that

11fr. D'Eyncourt said the prisoner was not to
knock the constables about 'because he thought pro-
per to get drunk, and he would have to pay a fine
of £3 or two mouths.

TOWN AND COUNTRY.

A return has been issued comparing the
rids of Ireland containing Parliamentary borolgA
with the districts not containing boroughs. It states
that the mortality in the former was 20 per 1,000
last year, and iu the latter only 14.1 per 1,000. A
similar return for England gives the respective
ratios in this country for 1865 at 21.7 and 21.4 per
1,000. The mortality in Ireland was understated.
because the calculation for that country is made,
not upon the estimate of the population in 1866,
but upon the population enumerated at the
Census of 1861, and the population has since
decreased in number. These returns go on to
show the number of persons who, on marrying,
had to make their marks on the register, instead of
writing their names, adopting still the abovemen—
tioned novel classification of the population. In Ire-
land, in districts containing Parliamentary bat oughs.
36.4 per cent. of the men who marriel in 1865, and
33.5 per cent. in 1866, had to make their marks;
and 49.9 per cent. of the women in 1865, and 46.5
per cent. in 1866. The uneducate:l were corsider-
ably more numerous in districts not contoining
Parliamentary boroughs : 43.6 per cent. of the .men
marrying in 1865, and 42.4 per cent. in 1866 ; and
53.7 per cent. of the women in 1865, and 52.4 per
cent. in 1866. The ratios inter se show, in the dis-
tricts not containing Parliamentary boroughs, five
women making their marks where four men did so;
in the districts containing boroughs the increase of
instructei persons was greater among men than
among women. The contrast between Leinster and
Connaught is striking enough ; in 1866 only 30 5 per
cent. of all the men married in Leinster had to make
their marks, but in Connaught 52.5 per cent. In the
great county of Mayo three in ev.:ry five of the
men marrying in 1866 and two in every three of
the women had to sign by mark, making a larger
absolute total than even in Cork. There were
30,151 marriages in Ireland last year, and 11,677
of the men and 15,063 of the women made their
marks on the register instead of signing their names.
With regard to England the present return comes no
later than 1865. In that year 20.5 per cent. of the
men marrying in districts containing Parliamentary
boroughs, and 31.5 per cent. of the women had to
make their marks ; and in the other parts of the
country as many as 26.3 per cent. of the men, but only
30.6 per cent. of the women, being a smaller ratio
among women than in the borough districts—a dif-
ferenee especially remarkable in the metropolis,
but observable in several midland counties, and
generally in the north. In Ireland, at the census,
there were were 2,024,051 people in the districts
' containing Parliamentary boroughs, and 3,774,913
in the rest of the country. In England the num-
bers were 11,991,413 and 8,074,811. But the regis-
trar's " districts" not being conterminous with
towns, the first number does not accurately indi-
cate inhabitants of towns. The population of the
Parliamentary boroughs of Ireland was only 797,467
at the census, and of those of England 8,638,569.
It must be borne in mind that unrepresented towns
are not in these two returns classed with the
boroughs.

SERIOUS CHARGES AGAINST A

CLERGY JAN.

A special commission, appointed by the Lord
Bishop of Worcester, was held on Tuesday after-
noon at the Swan Inn, Henley-on-Arden, to in-
vestigate certain serious charges made against the
Rev. Thomas Jones, incumbent of Henley. The
charges brought against Mr. Jones, and which were
the subjcct of investigation, were misconduct, de-
meanour, language, and improper intimacy with a
Mrs. Appleby, and midi being guilty of conduct
unbecoming his character and position as a clergy-
man, with habitual neglect of the aged, the sick,
and the poor of his parish.
The gentlemen forming the commission were
Mr. I'. 11. Pepys, Chancellor of the diocese, Mr.
Darwin Galton, J.P., and the Revs. Patrick M.
Stnythe, M.A. (Solihull), It. Seymour, M.A. (King-
witten), and C. Dolben, M.A., of IpEly. The pa-
rishioners who had petitioned'for the inquiry were.
Messrs T. B. Couchman and George Dartnell,
churchwardens of the parish; and Messrs. John
Hunt, Joseph Smith, James Wakeman. and Dr.
Fayrer.
Mr. James Motteram, barrister, instructed by
Couchman, appeared to conduct the inqniry on
behalf of the petitioners; and Mr. Hawker, of Bir-
mingham, to watch the case for Mr. Jones.
The first witness examined by Mr. Motteram was
Thomas Barnes Couchman, solicitor, in Henley;
and olio of the churchwardens of the parish. He
deposed as to serious complaints having been made
to him as to the conduct of Mr. Jones, the incum-
bent of Henley, and the subsequent steps that had
been taken.

Thomas Godfrey, the assistant parish clerk,
stated that he was a saddler, carrying on business
in Henley. He and a man named George Hem-
ming worked together in the shop. Mr. Jones
was in the habit of coming to his shop every day,
and sometimes twice a day. Ile could not say
his object in coming. Ile used to sit in the shop,
smoke a bit of Obacco, and talk over the news of
the day.. Sometimes he talked to his servant, James
Appleby. There bad been vulgar conversation
carried on in the presence of Mr. Jones.
Mrs. Emma Randall, living at Worcester, stated
that she, in 1866, lived at Mr. Jones's house, and
was attending a Mrs. Russell, who stayed there.
Mr. Jones was in the habit of swearing. Ile made
himself a great deal too free in manner with his
servants. She had seen Mr. Jones come in from
church to the kitchen, throw off his gown, and in-
quire for his wife in the most abominable terms.
She deposed to further gross remarks made by Mr.
Jones about his wife. The house was not a fit house
for a respectable woman to live in.
Martha Hughes said she was sometimes ago ser-
vant to Mr. and Mrs. Jones. She went in 1865,
and remained until the 33th of last August. While
she was there the conversation carried on was very
bad. She confirmed the evidence of previous wit-
nesses as to the bad and indecent language used by
Appleby and by Mr. Jones.
Mr. George Dartuell, the father of Mrs. Jones,
said ho had frequently been called to Mr. Jones's
house, after the scenes between Mr. Jones and
his wife. Mr. Jones maintained a very re-
served demeanour always in his (witness's) presence,
and he believed it was only Mrs. Jones herself who
knew what she suffered. One night he was called
by Mr. Jones to see his daughter, and he found her
in her dressing-gown, at the bedside. She was sob-
bing and crying most piteously, and was in a very
excited and agitated state. He asked what was the
matter, and Mr. Jones said it was all her own fault,
and she replied, " Papa, you know that is not the
case. Don't believe him ho is a bad and wicked

man."
This concluded the ease for the petitioners, and
the case was then adjourned.

THE WHEEL OF LIFE.-113 Christmas novelty
produced by the London Stereoscopic Company, Cheap.
side, for the present year is of a most remarkable kind.
It is one which, whilst it cannot fail to interest and please
both old and young as the most mirth-exciting and
amusing optical toy over discovered, will also puzzle the
most scientific swan to account for many of the very
wonderful changes and effects that are by its agency
proluced. The 'W heel of Life consists of a mst d cylinder
made to revolve horizontally on a centre pivot, around
the sides of which 13 small slits of about two inches in
length and half an inch wide are made, and the objects
forming the source of entertainment are printed in colours
on strips of paper. On one of these strips losing placed
within the cylinder, and it then being given a sharp turn,
the whole series of figures seen through, the slits become
animated and perform a variety of antics which rival those
of Leotard, &hard°, and all the rest of the celebrated acrobats
combined. Thus we can have vaulting, leaping, dancing ;
in fact a thousand antics, all performed with the charac-
teristics of animated beings. There are also certain effects
that will form a subject of consideration for the highly
scientific. For 'instance —when 14 figures are placed
at the top and 12 at the bottom of the cylinder,
the two rows move in a contrary direction. All
we can say is that the Wheel of Life is a perfect won-
der—applicable for scientific purposes as well as amusement,
and one which will produce the most hilarious merriment
in every Christmas party into which it is Detrained, as it
can be seen by a whole room full of people at one and the
same time by simply being set in motion on the drawing-
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