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London, England, 1857-12-23 00:00:00

a fulnale child named Johanna Richardson, atout.
11 wont; s old.

It appeared from the evidence that the mother
of the child had been a w.dow for about throe years
—but, as she herself stated, "had unfortunately
had a chance or love child." The prisoner, who was
also suckling a child, undertook for a email daily
recompense to mind the prosecutrix's child while
she went ot4t to work. Oa the day on which the
child was stolen the prisoner asked the mother to
return as early as she could in the evening, but upon
her doing so she found the child and the prisoner
gone. Nothing could be seen of the prisoner or
child until last evening, when the prisoner was given
into custody. On her way to the police-station she
informed the constable that the child was dead, and
had been buried in the Victoria-park Cemetery.
She also stated that she took the child ,because a
gentleman was allowing her ss. per weekfor it. The
constable had made inquiries of a surgeon at Spital-
fields, who informed him that he attended a child
of the name of Richardson, for the prisoner, and
that after a short illness it died of the measles, but
the prosecutrix now stated that that could not be
her infant, as it had already had that disease, and
someparties had recently seen it alive in the care of
the prisoner. _ _

Police constable Cook, 198 S, informed the court
that on the same week another child had been
stolen, and no trace could Le found of that.
The prisoner, in defence, did not deny taking
the child, but said it was now dead and buried.
Mr. Corrie remanded the prisoner for a week.
Philip M'Guiness, a poor dirty-looking boy, only
six years of age, residing at 17, Short's-gardens,
Drury-lane, was placed at the bar before Mr.
Corrie, charged with feloniously cutting and
wounding John Hall, an errand boy, living with
his mother, at 3, Bryan-street, Catalonian road.
From the evidfit ce it appeared that when the
offence was committed the mother of the prisoner
was charged with being drunk and creating a ( is-
turbance in the Pentonville-road. A mob had
collected n and the woman, and when the pi ose-
cutor, who was only about nine years of age, went
near her, he said to his companion, " Oh, it is only
a drunken woman, let's go on." The words were
no sooner out of his mouth than the prisoner in the
most determined manner, rushed at him with an
open knife, and stabbed the prosecutor in the
shoulder. The injured boy ran away, when he was
pursued by the prisoner and again stabbed in the
ribs, and became so weak from loss of blood that ho
fainted away. Police-constable Holloway, 197 G,
then came up, and took the prisoner into custody,
and having conveyed the pi osecutor to a surgeon's
was informed that if the stab in the ribs had been
a little lower, death might have ensued. The
prosecutor was so weak that he was unable to go to
his work, and in answer to Mr. Corrie, said that he
now felt much better, but was still very weak.
The mother of the prisoner, a low, sot.ish-looking
woman, fell upon her knees, and begged for mercy
"for her poor, innocent, and blessed child."
Mr. Cords said if it had not been for the drunken
and dissolute habits of the mother, the prisoner
would not have got into the trouble. After
censuring a boy for using a knife, and cautioning
him how he did so in future, he discharged him.
Ho then directed the mother of the prosecutor to
send him the doctor's bill, which he would pay out
of the funds of the poor-box, as well as allow him
something for his loss of time.

HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK.

(From the Report of tla Registrar General.)

The deaths registered in London, which were
1,428 in the first week of the current month, and
Poll to 1,240 in the second, were in the week that
ended last Saturday (December 19th) 1,234. In
the ten years 1847-56 the average number of deaths
in the weeks corresponding with last week was
1,249, which if raised in proportion to increase
of population (to admit of comparison with last
we3k's return) will become 1,3 X. In the third
week of December, 1847, influenza raised the deaths
from all causes to 1,946, and consequently, to
some extent, augments the average which is now
given ; and if this element is eliminated from
the calculation, it will be found that the present
rate of mortality approximates very nearly to that
which is to be expected towards the close of the
year.

- Tint those pulmonary complaints (the result of
influenz L) which lately swelled the mortality con-
tinue to grow less fatal appears from comparing the
facts of the last two weeks ; the deaths from
diseases of the respiratory organs (exclusive of
phthisis) were in the previous week 336, last week
they wei e 298 ; in the former week those from
bronchitis were 185, last week they were 159 ;
while pneumonia declined from 119 to 107, and
ca -es, in which influenza is specially mentioned,
from 19 to 15. The fluctuations in the mortality
from plititi3is (or consumption) are apparently not
ruled by the same atmospheric conditions, fur the
deaths from that disease rose in the two weeks
from 114 to 161. In the same periods hooping-
cough was fatal in 47 and 48 cases.

On reference to the zymotic class of diseases it
will be seen with satisfaction that small-pox con-
tinues to exhibit a mortality singularly small in a
population so large ; the deaths in the present re.
turn are 3, and since the present year began the
weekly average has been only 3. Last week measles,
scarlatina, acid hooping-cough produced very similar
numerical results, for the first was fatal in 45 cases,
and each of the two latter in 48. Fourteen young
children died of croup ; 13 persons of diarrhoea,
two of whom were children in a family at
20, Canal-road, Haggeratone West, and had
13,,en surrounded by circumstances of insalu-
brity which, if correctly described, are sufficient
to account for any amount of diarrhea t amongst
persons so unfavourably situated. Three children
died of measles in Plums:ead, where it has been
preval.±nt lately ; in a family of five children
in that locality three have died of the complaint,
and two others are clangerouily ill. The medical
attendant considers that the extreme severity of the
disease in this case is due to the bad condition of
the premises.

Of three nonagenarians whose deaths are returned
a woman was 90 years of age, a man in Poplar 94,
and a widow who died in Albion-terrace, Lime-
house, was 96.

La:t week the births of 936 boys and 894 girls,
in all 1,830 children, were registered in Loudon.
In the ten corresponding weeks (f the years 1847•
56 the average number was 1,503.

MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS
NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED
IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 19.
Zymotic Diseases
Diseases of Uncertain Seat
Tubercular Diseases . . l9O
Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses
Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 45
Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of
Respiration . . 298
Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs
of Digestion / 6l
Diseases of the Kidneys, &c.
Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.
Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles
Diseases of the Skin, &c.
Malformations .... 3
Premature Birth and Debility 37
Atrophy 2B
Old Age
Vudden
.. 15
Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance 46
Causes not specified

DEATHS THOM ALL CAUSES
Population Deaths in corro- Deaths
Enumerated. spending week in the
1851. 0(1856. Week.
West Districts
North Districts 490,396
Central Districts 393,256
East Districts 485,522
South Districts

1,060

Totals
Males....
Females.
BIRTHS IN THE WEEK.

1,234
631
603

Males
'Females

936
894

Total 1,830

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WHITEHALL, DEC. 21.
The Queen has teen pleased. to give and grant unto
Captain Frederick Sayer, late of the 23d Regiment, and
now Deputy Assistant Quartermaster-General, her
Majesty's royal licence and permission that he may accept
and wear the Insignia of the Imperial Order of the Legion
of Honour of the Fifth Class, which his Majesty the Em-
peror of the French bath been pleased to confer upon him
as a mare of his Imperial Majesty's approbation of his dis-
tinguished services before the enemy during the late war.
VICTORIA Cnoss. —Erratum in the London Gazette of
Friday, Nov. 20 :--The date of Lieutenant Symons's Act
of Bravery, is the Eth of June, 1855, and not the 18th of
October, 1854. _ _

CROWN-OFFICE, DEC. 21.
MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THE PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Burghs of Elgin, Cullen, Banff, Inverury, Kintore, and
Poterhead.—Mountstuart Elphinstone Grant Duff, Esq.,
younger, of Eden, in the room of George Skene Duff,
Esq., who has accepted tho office of Steward of her Ma-
jesty's Chiltern Hundreds.

DECEMBER 22.
County of Northampton—Northern Division —George
Ward Hunt, Esq., in the room of Augustus Stafford
O'Brien Stafford, Esq., deceased.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, DEC. 21.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received,
through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy
of a despatch from her Majesty's Minister at Berne, report-
ing that the Swiss Federal Government have reduced the
import duties upon meat, bacon, sausages, and sewing silk,
of British produce or manufacture, if accompanied with a
certificate stating them to be of British origin, to 3f. LOc.,
per quintal, and that all articles intended for transit
through Switzerland should be accompanied with a similar
certificate in order to ba admitted at the lowest rate of
duty.

WAR OFFICE, PALL-MALL, SEPT. 22.
Corps of Royal Engineers--Brevet-Colonel William Biddle-
comb Marlow to be Colonel, vice Portlock, retired on
full pay; Captain Cunolly McCausland to be Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, vice Marlow; Second Captain John Gor-
don Jervois to be Captain, vice McCausland ; Lieu-
tenant Wilbraham Oates Lennox to be Second Captain,
♦ice Jervois. The undermentioned Gentlemen Cadets
to be Lieutenants, viz. :—Joseph Allan Millar, Edward
Pelham Hardingo, John Robert Hogg, Napier George
Sturt, Thomas Pilkington White, Charles John O'Neill
Fergusson, George Herbert Boliand, Richard Warren
Stewart, and William Salmond.
91st Foot—Ensign Elliot Armstrong to be Lieutenant, by
purchase. vice Dobie, who retires ; Win. Hunter Baillie,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Armstrong.
BREVET.

Colonel Joseph Ellison Poi Clock, on the retired fell-pay
of the Royal Engineers, to be Major-General, the rank
being honorary.
Lieut.-Colonel George Sandham, retired full-pay Royal
Artillery, to be Colonel, under the Royal Warrant of 3d
Nov., 1854, in consequence of the promotion of Colonel
Cockburn, who stood below him on the Effective List of
the Regiment at the time of his retirement.
The undermentioned Officers of the Royal Artillery,
having completed three years' service in the rank of Lieu-
tenant-Colonel, to be Colonels in the Army, under the
Royal Warrant of 3d November, 1854 .
Lieutenant-Colonel St. John Thomas Browne.
Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Aylmer.
Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Irving, C.B.
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Bingham.
COMMISSIONS SIGN ED BY LORDS-LIEUTENANT.
Regiment of Royal London Militia—Brevet-Lieutenant-
Colonel Henry Boys Harvey, late 95th Regiment, to be
Major, vice Graham Elmslie, resigned ; Lieutenant Ed-
ward Vere Jones to be Captain, vice Charles Mackinnon
Walmisley, resigned ; Lieutenant Thomas William An-
drews to be Captain, vice Robert Wallen Jones, super-
seded ; Captain Miles Fisher Monckton, late 6th
Regiment of Osmanli Irregular Cavalry, to be Lieu-
tenant, vice Edward Sackville Smith, resigned.
Captain John Lambrick Vivian, late 3d Regiment Os-
manli Irregular Cavalry, to be Lieutenant, vice Edgar
Wainwright Bishop, resigned ; Lieutenant Wm. Henry
Emerson, late 63d Regiment, to be Lieutenant, vice Ed-
ward Kelly Obbard, resigned ; Thurlby Smith, Gent., to
be Ensign, vice Augustus Bole (le Lasalle, promoted ;
Henry Frank Otte Golding, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
James Cunningham, promoted ; Sergeant-Major John
Birkin to be Quartermaster.
3d Regiment of King's Own Staffordshire Militia En-
sign Walter Mainwaring Coyney to bo Lieutenant, vice
Mainwaring, resigned.
Queen's Own Royal Regiment of Staffordshire Yeomanry
Cavalry—Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Pimlott Oates to be
Surgeon, vice Lishman, deceased ; Charles Edward Elliot,
Welchman, Gent., to bo Assistant-Surgeon, vice Oates,
promoted.
King's Own Light Infantry Regiment of Militia -J. F.
Wilkinson, late Lieut. 2d Somerset Militia, to be Lieut. ;
George Waugh, Gent., to be Lieut.
Bedfordshire Militia—John James Spedding, Gent., to
be Ensign ; S. K. Wentworth, Gent., to be Ensign.
2d Somerset Regiment of Militia—Lieut. Win. Henry
Spurway to be Captain, vice Edward Sawyer, resigned ;
Lieut. Wm. Barrett, the younger, to be Captain, vice
Richards, resigned ; Lieutenant Alfred .kiudson Ricketts
to be Captain, vice Barrett, resigned ' • Ensign Kil-
ner Augustus Arthur Brasier Creagh to be Lieute-
nant, vice Willliam John Evered Poole, appointed
to the 60th Rifles ; Ensign Richard Marker to be Lieu-
tenant, vice W. H. Spurway, promoted ; Ensign Edward
Fox to be Lieutenant, vice William Barrett, jun.,
promoted; William Frederic Holt, Gent., to be Ensign,
vice Parkes, promoted ; William Frederic Gore Lang-
.

ton, Gent., lo be Ensign, vice Edwards, resigned;
Spencer Cargill, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Bellamy, ap-
pointed to the 2d West India Regiment; Christopher
Lucas Salmon, Gent., to be Ensign, Tice Chamli,rs, ap-
pointed to East India Company's Service.
Ist Somerset Regiment of Militia—Captain John Mat-
thew Quantock to be Major ; Lieutenant George Deedes
Warry, to be Captain, vice Quantock, promoted ;
Ensign Ralph Sadler, to be Lieutenant, vice G. D. Warry,
promoted; Septimus James Barrett, Gent., to bo Ensign,
vice Winsloe, promoted.
90th, Stirlingshire, &c., Militia, Highland Borderers
Light Infantry—James Dunlop, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Baird, resigned; George Scott, Gent., to be Ensign, vice
Doering, appointed to tho Line.
BANKRUPTS,

Samuel Edward Steane, soap and blue manufacturer,
Oiford, to surrender Jan. 5 and Feb. 4, at twelve, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
Samuel Harris an I rsaac Gabriel Costa, wholesale
clothiers, Commercial-street, Whitechapel, Dec. 29, at
one, and Jan. 23, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
A petition for arrangement was presented by John
Britten, dealer in silk and worsted, Noble-street, Falcon.
square, City, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Andrew Veitch, music-seller, Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
Dee. 30, at eleven, and Feb. 19, at twelve, at the Royal-
arcade, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Charles Hubbard, builder, Queen's-road, Hs.verstock-
hill, Jan. 5, at three, and Feb. 2, at twelve, at the Court
of Bankruptcy.

John Starkey anti John Frederick Adcock, percussion
cap makers, Birmingham, Jan. 9 and 28, at half-past eleven.
at the Birmingham District Court.
John Collinson, licensed victualler, Ohl-street, St. Luke's,
Dec. 31, at half-past eleven, and Jan. 29, at eleven, at the
Court of BaLleruptcy.
William Wainwan, builder, Sheffield, Jan. 2 and Feb.
6, at ten, at the Council-ball, Sheffield.
James Raynes, shipowner, Liverpool, Jan. 4 and 25, at
twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. ..
John Jamieson WRae, tailor, Newark-upon-Trent, Jan
5 and 26, at half-past ten, at the Shirehall, Nottingham•
Thomas Gullick, victualler, Bristol, Jan. 5 and Feb. 8,
at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Thomas Bins, tualster, Sedgley, Staffordshire, Jan. 4
and 25, at half-past ten, at the Birmingham District Court.
Henry Johnson, licensed victualler, West Bromwich,
Jan. 4 and 25, at half-past ton, at the Birmingham Dis-
trict Court.

William Goundrill, farmer, Eastrington, Yorkshire,
Jan. 13 and Feb. 10, at t waive, at the Leeds District Court.
Samuel Barlow, grocer, Sheffield, Jan. 9 and Feb. 6, at
ten, at the Leeds District Court.

John Buckley Sharp, paper merchant, Bradford, Jan. 8
and 29, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Roberts and aimon, worsted spinners, Halifax, Jan. 8
and 22, at eleven, at the Lee's District Court.
John Hampton, grocer, Wrexham, Denbighshire, Jan.
4 and 25, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court.
William Skirving Walker, shipbroker, Liverpool, Ja'.
4 and 25, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. •
Robert Cave, fishmonger, Windsor, Jan. 4, at twelve,
and Feb. 8, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Marjory Moon, child-bed linen manufacturer, Green-
street, Grosvenor-square, Jan. 3, at one, and Feb. 8, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
John Stead, builder, Dewsbury, Jan. 12, at half-past
eleven, and Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court.
Wm. Crossley and Geo. Crossley, cotton spinners,
Elland, Yorkshire, Jan. 8 and Feb. 12, at eLven, at the
Leeds District Court.
Ed win Spence Roberts, shipowner, Liverpool, Jan. 7,
and 28, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court.
George Worsdell, iron manufacturer, Warrington, Jan.
4, and Feb. 1, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court.
Edward Smyth, draper, Swansea, Jan. 4, and Feb. 9, at
eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
Alexander Bryson, brewer, Railcar, Yorkshire' Jan. 11,
at half-past twelve, and Feb. 9, at eleven, at the Leeds
District Court.

MANCEIESTER TRADE REPORT.—MANCHESTER, Tues.
day.—Last Friday was about the most depressed day
in this market since the crisis ; and, _notwithstanding
the rise ad. per lb. in the cotton market since Thursday
last, there is no response here. Prices of last Friday are
maintained for yarns ; for cloths, the prices of
to-day.
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