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The Sun. — 1864-04-09 (London, England)

NEWDEGATE—I knew not one single thing about it. Lord C. HOWARD continued. He hoped this would be a caution to the hon. gentleman in future as to what company he trusted himself in, and what use might be sought to be made by others of one who was a member of one of the largest interests in England. Really, a gentleman of his age—(laughter)—they heard of young men going into the metropolis and being taken advantage of by persons here and there. This did happen, but the house would allow him to suggest, in the most friendly way, that if the hon. gentleman had not been prudent hitherto, he should in future have some little introduction, and see who the persons were who sought to father their views upon him and lead him into practices whioh he himself would deprecate. That paper accused the duchess of the prospective murder of her daughter by immuring her in a certain convent. That young lady was his niece, and he never saw a person so anxious to enter into the order, knowing well its scope and practices, as she was. There were many young w omen who like her never could be happy in the tumult and disturbance of the world. The hon. gentleman had said that they should respect the feelings of others as Protestants. Had the hon. gentleman respected their feelings as Catholics when he stated that he disapproved of the letter being addressed to the duchess, but not its contents. That letter said her grace stood by the grave of his relative in a sort of ecstasy; that was not attributing the most praiseworthy motives to her grace, who seemed to have gone to the funeral to take part in the ceremony that was being performed on the solemn occasion. And then as to the increase in the number of converts; the fact was that in 999 cases out of 1000 these converts simply consisted of two or three nuns, who were invited into the neighbourhood to teach a school which some philanthropic gentleman had founded. There were those—and probably the hon. gentleman amongst the number—who accused the Catholics of keeping their poor in ignorance ;and yet they threw every obstacle in the way of their educating them. He apologised to the house for the statement which he had made ; it had been most painful to him. If the sorrows whichoppressed one more than one could describe were to be raked up in this way before the public one must come to the house and in one's place defend himself from. such attacks. Unfortunately his famiiy had been diminished very considerably of late, but he was happy that he was spared to defend them from the calumnies which he had hoped that no member of this house would have lent himself to. His family could wish the hon. member (Mr. Newdegate) no harm; they would wish; that he might see the error of his ways, and as he became an older he might become a wiser and a juster man. Thanking the house most cordially for the reception they had given him, and convinced that the British public would know where to bestow its sympathy and its judgment —a judgment, although it might be misled at times, was in the main sound and healthy—he left the case with the fullest confidence in their hands. (Cheers.) Mr. O'
The Sun. — 1864-03-30 (London, England)

METROPOLIS.  (From the .Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The deaths registered in London in the week that ended last Saturday were 1,397. The average number for the twelfth week of ten previous years, 1854-63, is, with a corr, etion for increase of popu lation, 1,445; and the actual return is less than the which exhibits an incalculated number by 52. Smallpox is recorded as 37 ; diphtheria in 6 ; whooping-cough in 65 ; foarteaalsei,ninll44ca; esecsaclmateiansalesin, vc. and typhus in 47. Six fatal cases of scarlatina occurred in the Kensington Town sub district; 6 from measles, and 6 from whooping-cough in Islington. The number of deaths referred to phthisis is 158 ; to bronchitis 202 ; which is nearly the same as the number of the previous week. More than half of the deaths from phthisis occurred in the period of life 20-40 years, while nearly half of those from bronchitis occurred in the period 60-180 years. Fifty out of 88 deaths from pneumonia happened to inmates under 2 years of age. On the 22dlinst. the wife of a cabman) aged 51 years, was found dead in Lower-street, Islington, from " syn., cope produced by excitement and want of food.' On the 20th inst., an oilman, aged 79 years, died in the workhouse, Whiteohapel, from " effusion into the ventricles of the brain, accelerated by exposure and cold." On the 21st instant, at 32, Angel-gardens, Shadwell, a dock labourer, aged 42 years, was found dead from " inflammation of the lungs, accelerated by exposure and want of necessaries," Two infants and two adults died by murder or manslaughter ; three persons by intemperance. Seven nonagenarians died, the two oldest of whom were respectively 96 and 97 years of age. Last week the births of 974 boys and 923 girls— in all 1,897 children—were registered in Louden. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 185463 the average number (corrected) was 2,063. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 569 in. The reading rose to 29.88 in. on Thursday, and tell to 29.39 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 40.4 deg., which is 1.7 deg. below the average of the same week in forty-three years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). After Sunday the mean daily temperature was below the average till the end of the week. The highest day temperature was 57 6 deg. on Sunday. The lowest night temperature was 26.9 deg. on Thursday. The range of temperature in the week was therefore 30.7 deg. The mean daily range was 17.5 deg. On three nights the thermometer fell below the freezing point of water. Ile difference between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was 6.1 deg. The mean tegree of humidity of the air was 82, complete saturation being represented by 100. Oa the first four days the wind was in the north-east. There was no rain, except 0.04 in., which fell on Saturday. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 45.7 deg., and that of the lowest was 43.5.
The Sun. — 1864-03-30 (London, England)

HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS.  numberr 0 e 2 ; the Registrar-General'. ,30tW ten previous Return.) The deaths registered in London in the week that (From The average number years, endedblBe rm last f-60r3, tihs o,Saturdaywithtwelfth w week k 1 correction fo r increase 0 f pop u . latioe, 1,449; and the actual return is less than the calculated number by 52. Smallpox is recorded as fatal in 11 cases ; measles, Which 37; diphtheria in 6 ; exhibits an inend typhus in 47. Six fatal cases of scarlatina occurred in the Kensington increase, whooping-coughe ase, in 44 ; scarlatina in 65 ; i n which is Town subdistrict; 6 front les,Thaendnum6. whooping-coughferreida Itoslingultee ans. Plithisis is 158 ; fromabtoaemr e bronchitis oanecdhetiaht tieshs nearly the previous week. More than half of the deaths from phthisis occurred in the period of life 20-40 years, While nearly half of those from bronchitis occurred is the period 6080 years. Fifty out of 88 deaths, from pneumonia happened to inmates under 2 Years of age. On the 22d.inst. the wife of a cabman, aged 61 years, was found dead in Lower-street, Islington, from " syncupe produced by excitement and want of food/ 1 On the 20th inst., an oilman, aged 79 years, died in the workhouse, Whitechapel, from " effusion into the ventricles of the brain, accelerated by exposure and cold." On the 21st instant, at 32, Angel-gardens, Shadwell, a dock labourer, aged 42 years, was found dead from " inflammation of the lungs, accelerated by exposure and want of necessaries." Twoinfants and two adults died by murder or manslaughter ; three persons by intemperance. seven nonagenarians died, the two oldest of whom Were respectively 96 and 97 years of age. Last week the births of 974 boys and 923 girls— in all 1,897 children—were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 185463 the average number (corrected) Was 2,063. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the Week Was 29.669 in. The reading rose to 29.88 in. on Thursday, and fell to 29'39 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 40'4 deg., which is 1.7 deg. below the average of the same week in forty-three years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher). After Sunday the mean daily temperature was below the average till the end of the week. The highest day temperature was 57.6 deg. on Sunday. The lowest tight temperature was 26•9 deg. on Thursday. The range of temperature in the week was therefore 30.7 deg. The mean daily range was 17.5 deg. On three nights the thermometer fell below the freezing point of water. The difference between the mean dew point temperature and air temperature was s'l deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 82, complete saturation being represented by ',OO. On the first four days the wind was in the north-east. There was no rain, except 041 in., which fell on Saturday. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 45.7 deg., and that of the lowest was 43.6.
The Sun. — 1864-03-30 (London, England)

BARBARA'S HISTORY. By Amelia B. Edwards. —Messrs. Hurst and Blackett have just issued a new edition of this charming story. "It is not often," says the Times, 4, that we light upon a now novel of so much merit and interest as ' Barbara's History.' It is a work conspicuous beyond the average for taste and literary culture, and felicitous in its delineation of some very delicate and re,fiued shades of character. It is a very graceful and charming book, with a well-managed story, clearly cut characters, and sentiments expressed with an exquisite elocution. The dialogues especially sparkle with repartee. It is a book which the world will like, and which those who commence it will care to finish. This is high praise of a work of art, and so we intend it."  The Countess Sophia Jodzieska (says the Patrie) whose arrest has been mentioned by telegram, was one of the ladies of Cracow, the most honoured for her devotedness to the sufferings of her countrymen. After a domiciliary search by the Austrian police unattended with any result, she was placed in doss confinement, and prevented from taking any means for her defence or being visited by her relatives. Notwithstanding this treatment the Countess has more than one illustrious alliance with the Court of Vienna. Her brother Count Ryszczewski, married to the Countess Stadion, is attached as Chamber. lain to the Archduke Francis-Joseph, uncle of the Emperor, and a cousin-germain is married to the Prince de Lichtenstein.  A dreadful murder has just been committed at La Seyne, near Toulon. A farmer and his wife, on their return from the town, where they had been to sell their milk, found their daughter, a girl of seven years of age, lying on the bed dead, rind the body covered over with a sheet. Death, which must have been instantaneous, was caused by three blows on thc head with some heavy instrumeat, Robbery was the cause of the act.  Or it El'Ar 043 • A 4 11141  HER MAJESTY,  WINDSOR CASTLE, March 29. His Royal Highness Prince Philip of Wurtemberg, attended by Baron von Guttenberg, arrived at the Castle yesterday on a visit to the Queen. The royal dinner party included his Majesty the King of the Belgians, his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, her Royal Highness Princess Helena, His Royal Highness Prince Philip of Wurtemberg, the Lord and Lady Taunton, Admiral Sir George and Lady Seymour, the Hon. and 'VerY Rev. the Dean of Windsor, General Count de Moerkerlo and Dr. Koepl (in attendance on the King of the Belgians)' Baron von Guttenberg (in attendance on Prince Philip of Wurtemberg), Mr. Woodward, and the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting on the Queen, and on their Royal Hil0" nesses the Prince and Princess of Wales. In consequence of the death of her Royal Highness the Landgravine of Hesse, the grandmother of the Princess of Wales, the princess did not join the royal dinner party.  . The Queen, accompanied by his Royal Highness Prince Arthur, walked in the grounds this morning. Professor Owen had the honour of delivering, before the Queen and royal family, the first of a coarse of four lectures on natural history.
The Sun. — 1864-03-30 (London, England)

HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS.  (From the Registrar-General's Weekly Return.) The London in the week that ended deaths last Saturday registered werel ,397 .. previous years. The average number for the twelfth week of ten 1854-63, is, with a correction for increase of popu lation, 1,449; and the actual return is less than the calculated number by 52, Smallpox fatal in 11 cases ; measles, •,,, • hich exhibits an increase, 37 ; diphtheria in 5 ; whooping-cough in 4 ; scarlatinan 65 ; in and typhus in 47. Six fatal cases of scarlatina occurred in the Kensington 4 i Town subdistrict; 6 from measles, and 6 from whooping-cough in Islington. The number of deaths referred to phthisis is 158 ; to bronchitis 202 ; which is nearly the same as the number of the previous week. More than half of the deaths from phthisis occurred in the period of life 20-40 years, while nearly half of those from bronchitis occurred in the period 6080 years. Fifty out of 88 deaths from pneumonia happened to inmates under 2 Years of age. On the 22dtinst. the wife of a cabman, aged 51 years, was found dead in Lower-street, Islington, from " syncope produced by excitement and want of food/ On the 20th inst., an oilman, aged 79 years, died in the workhouse, whiteehapel, from " effusion into the ventricles of the brain, accelerated by exposure and cold." On the 21st instant, at 32, Angel-gardens, Shad well, a dock labourer, aged 42 years, was found dead from " inflammation of the lungs, accelerated by exposure and want of necessaries." Two infants and two adults died.by murder or manslaughter ; three persons by intemperance. Seven nonagenarians died, the two oldest of whom were respectively 96 and 97 years of age. Last week the births of 974 boys and 923 girls— in all 1,897 children—were registered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1854. 63 the average number (corrected) was 2,063. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 569 in. The reading rose to 29.88 in. on Thursday, and fell to 29.39 in. on Saturday. The mean temperature of the air in the week was 40'4 deg., which is 1.7 deg. below the average of the same week in forty-three years (as determined by Mr. Giaisher). After Sunday the mean daily temperature was below the average till the and of the week. The highest day temperature was 57.6 deg. on Sunday. The lowest night temperature was 26.9 deg. on Thursday. The range of temperature in the week was therefore 30.7 deg. The mean daily range was 17'5 deg. On three nights the thermometer fell below the freezing point of water. The difference between the mean dew-point temperature and air temperature was 5.1 deg. The mean degree of humidity of the air was 82, complete saturation being represented by 100. On the first four days the wind was in the north-east. There was no rain, except 0.04 in., which fell on Saturday. The mean of the highest temperatures of the water of the Thames was 45.7 deg., and that of the loweFt was 43-5.
The Sun. — 1864-08-10 (London, England)

LONDON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1864.  It seems that public interest is not to be suffered to die out regarding the dangers incurred by the present system of railway travelling. The awful catastrophe cn the North London Railway is still fresh in onr recollection. The judicial investigation respecting it is incomplete. The murderer, if tracked, yet unsecured, when side by side with the report of the inquest comes the narrative of another  railway journey performed at imminent risk to life, if not resulting in actual physical injury. Fate is certainly against the directors, shareholders, or other railway authorities who wish to avoid troublesome and expensive changes, and whose motto is the old favourite,  " What we did with yesterday, We'll e'en do with to-day."  The murder of Mr. BRIGGS was heard with the greater horror in our households because it was felt to be a catastrophe that might bafal any happy home; and the same feeling attaches itself to the report which one of the gentlemen who took part in the journey the other night has furnished to the public. The thread of the story is, that five gentlemen were occupying a carriage in the express train to the north on Thursdly evening last. JO5l before the train which started at 9.15 p.m. left King's-cross the guard pushed into the carriage a man in a sailor's dress, who was seemingly somewhat intoxicated—not a very pleasant companion under any circumstances for a journey from Lone don to Edinburgh. They had not proceeded far before the man, who was suffering from an attack of delirium tremens, declared he had been robbed, and rushed wildly about the carriage. At first the other passengers tried not to notice him, but when it came to launching out blows in every direction, and trying to get out of the windows, it was time to interfere; but so strong was the madman, added to the strength given by the frenzy he was in, that it took four of the other passengers to secure him, and these had to exert their utmost strength. One of those present, an elderly gentleman, was naturally unable to render much assistance, and was seriously terrified. The others were not very well satisled with their Position, as unwilling keepers of a lunatic, for the distance of eighty miles,without any means of securing him save a slander strap for his hands and their pocket handerchiefs for his feet. " Necessity is the mother of invention," and the necessity being urgent and the danger imminent, they made the most of these appliances, but it was necessary for two of them to hold him down on the seat all the way. Theydid not resign themselves to this position without a struggle, but their efforts to alarm either guard or driver were totally unavailjug- The occupants of the next carriage heard the commotion, and endeavoured to second their efforts. Ocher passengers became alarmed, but shouts and screams were alike useless, and away rushed the train through the darkness, renaorseiessly bent on reaching Peterborough, the first station where the iron horse draws breath on his northern journey. At one moment, indeed, there was a gleam of hop e
The Sun. — 1864-06-18 (London, England)

CHARGE OF ASSAULT.--DISGRACEFUL CONDUCT OF A " GENTLEMAN."-Mr. John Seymore, but whose real name is said to be Henry Bruce Ogilvy, and who gave the address 2 A, Brook-street, St. Georges, and described himself as a •' gentleman," was charged before Mr. Knox with assaulting Mr Maurice Kehullet, wine merchant, of 17, Panton-street. Mr Kehullet said he lodged at No. 17, Panton-street. About half-past one that morning he heard screams in the house, and directly after the prisoner rushed down stairs. He stopped the prisoner, who said it was all right. He told the prisoner that he could not let him go till he saw whether it was all right, when the prisoner gave him three blows on the head with a stick, wounding him and smothering him with blood. The prisoner then broke three large and thick panes of plass with his stick, and on the complainant succeeding in getting the street-door open the prisoner rushed out of the house, leaving his hat and stick behind him. He with assistance pursued the prisoner and gave him into custody. Inspector Walker said that some prostitutes resided in the house. •  Mr Knox asked if there were any other persons present, and the complainant said there was a boy. Wm. White, a boy about fifteen years of age, residing at No. 27, Grafton place, said he was taken to the house in Panton-strect by a female who invited him to sleep with her. On getting there connection took place between him and the female in the prisoner's presence. He afterwards saw the prisoner struggling with the complainant, Brown, a constable of the C division, said that hearing cries of murder, he went to the house and saw the complainant bleeding from the head. The complainant said the prisoner had assaulted her, and gave him in charge, He noticed that there had been several panes of glass smashed in the door. The prisoner was sc ber. Mr Knox asked the boy whether the prisoner touched him at all, and the boy said, " Only once."  Mr Kehullet said he stopped the prisoner because he did not know what had occurred.  The prisoner said he went to the house with a female, and another female asked him if he would like to see her have connection with a boy, and he said " Yes." I did so. He might have put his hand on the boy by accident. Ho was afterwards going downstairs when he was stopped, and then struck the complainant two or three times, because he thought he wanted to extort money from him, and because he refused to let him leave the house. At last on the door being opened he ran out of the house. Mr. Knox (who it should be stated had cautioned the prisoner before he volunteered his statement, that what he said might be used in evidence against him) remanded the prisoner for a week, Subsequently Mr, Edward Lewis, of Great Marlboroughstreet, applied that the prisoner might he admitted to bail, but Mr. Knox refused the application till he was made aware whether the complainant was out of danger or not.