Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week.
morning of the 30 th nit . to the Great Western Raili-ray station in Windsor , Avhere a special train Avas waiting to convey her Majesty to Wolverhampton , for th _ purpose of inaugurating the statue of tbe Prince Consort , which had been erected there . The Queen Avent out in the grounds on the morning of the 1 st inst ., accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice .
The Queen Avalked and drove in the afternoon , accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Christian . Princess Louise , attended by the Hon . Flora Macdonald , Avent out walking . The Queen , Prince and Princess Christian , Princess Louise , and Princess Beatrice , and the Ladies and Gentlemen in AA " ailing , attended Divine Service in the private chapel on the morning
of the 2 nd inst . The Rev . E . M . Goulbourn , chaplain in ordinary to the Queen , officiated- The Queen , accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice , ivent o-. it in the grounds on the morning of the 3 rd inst . The Queen , accompanied by thoir Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian , and Princess Louise , drove out in a carriage and four in the
afternoon . Her Majesty , ivith their Royal Highnesses Princess Christian and the Princess of Teck , droA-eouton the morning of the 4 th inst . Princess Beatrice also Avent out- The Queen walked and drove in the afteruooon , ancl drove out on the morning of the 5 th instant , accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise . Prince and Princess Christian also Avent
out . GENERAL HOME NEAVS . —Tho Aveekly return of tho Registrar General for tho past AA-eok contains tho gratifying intelligence that in the past week thero Avero only throo deaths from cholera registered , and that tho epidemic is UOAV virtually extinct . Thero AVcro fifteen deaths from diarrhcea , but that number is beloAv tho ordinary nverngo of previous years . Thoso who died
from cholera Avero a labourer at Kiugsland , aged IS : a butcher in Spitalficlds , aged 21 ; and tho daughter of a AA-eaver in Bethnal-green , aged 2 years . The deaths from all causes in tho metropolis AVCI-O 1 , 459 , being 137 loss than tho average , calculated AA'ith . 1 correction for increase of population . The total deaths from cholera in tho lato epidemic havo boon 5 , 548 ( exclusive of
2 , 092 deaths duo in part to tho cholera element ) . Tho deaths per 10 , 000 of tho population in tho three last visits of cholera have been—1849 , 02 : 1 . 852 , 43 ; and 1 SGC , IS . In tho present year tho west districts lost 4 , tho north 0 , tho south 8 , the central 9 , and tho cast ( 14 inhabitants ant of every * 10 , 000 . Tho return contains somo interesting particulars respecting tho disease in Holland , Belgium , and Paris . A circular has been
issued from tho Board of Trade announcing that the Royal Society has undertaken tho duties hitherto performed by the Meteorological Department of tho Board of Trade . Tho storm Avamings are declared to bo in effect useless , and they arc to lie discontinued , but the Aveathor reports will bo published as usual . A serious charge has been preferred against I AVO police-constables at Worship-street Police-court . Davis and . Tarvis , of tho N
division , took a respectable man named Henry Crampton into custody on a charge of assault' ; Thoro undoubtedly had been a fight . One of the policemen Avas a good deal knocked about , but Crampton had sustained injuries of a frightful kind . The statement of D . -iA-is AA-as that when ho AA-ent to the prisoner ' s house to inform him that his tAvo boys had been taken to the station-house
en a charge of loitering , ho Avas violently assaulted . Ou the other hand . Crampton assorts that ho did no more than order Davis out of his house , and that when the two policemen returned together they thrust open tho door and beat him Avith their truncheons . Charge and counter-charge having been made , tho magistrate expressed bis intention to commit all parties for trial . The Duko of Edinburgh ou the 30 th ult . laid tho foundation stone of tho Smalley Aving of tho Licensed Victuallers' Asylum .
The Week.
Thoro AA-as a numerous gathering on tho occasion . Tho coromony Avas perfectly successful . In tho Court o £ Exchequer , a person named Bevan sued Lord NOAATJ * for -6150 . Lord NOAVI- * pleaded infancy , and also that tho debt vras a gambling debt . In 1 SG 1 Lord NeAvry was at Bri ghton , ancl Avent to a tennis-ground and there met Bevan . Thoy played together , and after somo time
Lord NoAA-ry had lost cfiloO . for Avhich he gave a cheque Subsequently , he went again and played with Bevan , and A \* on much more than he had lodge , but did not get back his cheque Bevan proposed that they should play at billiards , and Lord Newry consent-Del . After playing for some time ivith locked doors , his lordship was told he had lost £ 2 , 000- This roused his
suspicion , and he stopped the payment of the cheque he had previously given . The Countess of NeiA-ry Avas called to prove the plea of infancy , aud did so . The verdict Avas , of course , for his lordshi p A curious case of forgery has been investigated at the Mansion House . Francis William Stevens , a cap-spring maker , Avas charged with the offence . He Avorked for
Messrs-Leaf and Son , of St . Pauls ' -churchyard . When ho took completed Avork to their Avarehouse , he took Avith it an invoice , AA-hicb was SIIOAVII to the clerk , AVIIO initialed it as evidence that the work had been brought home . Then the prisoner had to take the invoice to a second clerk , ivho initialed it as proof that the Avork Avas in accordance with the order-book , and that the price ivas correct . Next the invoice had to be taken to the cashier ,
who paid the amount stated in it . BetAveen the second clerk and the cashier the prisoner altered the amount- In one invoice for 16 s- he had inserted £ 16 , and AA-as paid . He seems to have carried on the practice for some time , ancl Avas finally discovered through having made the addition in a bungling manner . He ivas committed for trial . Stephen Joseph Meaney , ivho figured so prominently as a defrander of tradesmen and
exhibitors at the Exhibition of 18 C 2—ii-ho Avas sentenced to a term ol imprisonment for his offences—AA'ho subsequently Avas assisted out to America , and thoro became a Fenian senator—recently appeared hero . A fortnight since ho came to London , and Avas recognised by several persons , who had knoAvn him before ho Avent to America . On tho 1 st inst . a police-officer from Dublin
arrived with a warrant for Moanoy ' s arrest , on a charge of conspiring against the Queen . Tho officer caught his man in the Strand , and took him to BoAv-stroot . Thero seems , however , to havo boon no necessity for his examination there , for it is stated that ho was taken aAvay almost immediately en route for Dublin . Tho police in London aro said to have information that Stephens
is in tho metropolis , ancl they aro pretty confident about capturing him . Mr . R . Arthur Arnold has addressed a letter to tho various local hoards in Lancashire , announcing that tho office of the Public Works Act . established during tho cotton famine , will be closed after tho 21 st inst . It is annonncod that tho Queen Avill confer tho honour of knighthood on Mr . Alderman Phili ps , tho lato Lord Mavor .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
* $ * All communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street , Strand , London , W . C . ERRATA . —South Metropolitan Masonic Sail Company . —By an error in our issue for last Saturday , in tho report of tho mooting , the day on Avhich it Avas held is stated to bo l : Sunday , " Avhoroas it should bo "Tuesday , " tho 27 th ult .
As unusual press of matter compels us to defer inserting this Aveok , several reports Avhich have duly reached us , together ivith correspondence and other matter intended for publication .
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
The Week.
morning of the 30 th nit . to the Great Western Raili-ray station in Windsor , Avhere a special train Avas waiting to convey her Majesty to Wolverhampton , for th _ purpose of inaugurating the statue of tbe Prince Consort , which had been erected there . The Queen Avent out in the grounds on the morning of the 1 st inst ., accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice .
The Queen Avalked and drove in the afternoon , accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Christian . Princess Louise , attended by the Hon . Flora Macdonald , Avent out walking . The Queen , Prince and Princess Christian , Princess Louise , and Princess Beatrice , and the Ladies and Gentlemen in AA " ailing , attended Divine Service in the private chapel on the morning
of the 2 nd inst . The Rev . E . M . Goulbourn , chaplain in ordinary to the Queen , officiated- The Queen , accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Beatrice , ivent o-. it in the grounds on the morning of the 3 rd inst . The Queen , accompanied by thoir Royal Highnesses Prince and Princess Christian , and Princess Louise , drove out in a carriage and four in the
afternoon . Her Majesty , ivith their Royal Highnesses Princess Christian and the Princess of Teck , droA-eouton the morning of the 4 th inst . Princess Beatrice also Avent out- The Queen walked and drove in the afteruooon , ancl drove out on the morning of the 5 th instant , accompanied by her Royal Highness Princess Louise . Prince and Princess Christian also Avent
out . GENERAL HOME NEAVS . —Tho Aveekly return of tho Registrar General for tho past AA-eok contains tho gratifying intelligence that in the past week thero Avero only throo deaths from cholera registered , and that tho epidemic is UOAV virtually extinct . Thero AVcro fifteen deaths from diarrhcea , but that number is beloAv tho ordinary nverngo of previous years . Thoso who died
from cholera Avero a labourer at Kiugsland , aged IS : a butcher in Spitalficlds , aged 21 ; and tho daughter of a AA-eaver in Bethnal-green , aged 2 years . The deaths from all causes in tho metropolis AVCI-O 1 , 459 , being 137 loss than tho average , calculated AA'ith . 1 correction for increase of population . The total deaths from cholera in tho lato epidemic havo boon 5 , 548 ( exclusive of
2 , 092 deaths duo in part to tho cholera element ) . Tho deaths per 10 , 000 of tho population in tho three last visits of cholera have been—1849 , 02 : 1 . 852 , 43 ; and 1 SGC , IS . In tho present year tho west districts lost 4 , tho north 0 , tho south 8 , the central 9 , and tho cast ( 14 inhabitants ant of every * 10 , 000 . Tho return contains somo interesting particulars respecting tho disease in Holland , Belgium , and Paris . A circular has been
issued from tho Board of Trade announcing that the Royal Society has undertaken tho duties hitherto performed by the Meteorological Department of tho Board of Trade . Tho storm Avamings are declared to bo in effect useless , and they arc to lie discontinued , but the Aveathor reports will bo published as usual . A serious charge has been preferred against I AVO police-constables at Worship-street Police-court . Davis and . Tarvis , of tho N
division , took a respectable man named Henry Crampton into custody on a charge of assault' ; Thoro undoubtedly had been a fight . One of the policemen Avas a good deal knocked about , but Crampton had sustained injuries of a frightful kind . The statement of D . -iA-is AA-as that when ho AA-ent to the prisoner ' s house to inform him that his tAvo boys had been taken to the station-house
en a charge of loitering , ho Avas violently assaulted . Ou the other hand . Crampton assorts that ho did no more than order Davis out of his house , and that when the two policemen returned together they thrust open tho door and beat him Avith their truncheons . Charge and counter-charge having been made , tho magistrate expressed bis intention to commit all parties for trial . The Duko of Edinburgh ou the 30 th ult . laid tho foundation stone of tho Smalley Aving of tho Licensed Victuallers' Asylum .
The Week.
Thoro AA-as a numerous gathering on tho occasion . Tho coromony Avas perfectly successful . In tho Court o £ Exchequer , a person named Bevan sued Lord NOAATJ * for -6150 . Lord NOAVI- * pleaded infancy , and also that tho debt vras a gambling debt . In 1 SG 1 Lord NeAvry was at Bri ghton , ancl Avent to a tennis-ground and there met Bevan . Thoy played together , and after somo time
Lord NoAA-ry had lost cfiloO . for Avhich he gave a cheque Subsequently , he went again and played with Bevan , and A \* on much more than he had lodge , but did not get back his cheque Bevan proposed that they should play at billiards , and Lord Newry consent-Del . After playing for some time ivith locked doors , his lordship was told he had lost £ 2 , 000- This roused his
suspicion , and he stopped the payment of the cheque he had previously given . The Countess of NeiA-ry Avas called to prove the plea of infancy , aud did so . The verdict Avas , of course , for his lordshi p A curious case of forgery has been investigated at the Mansion House . Francis William Stevens , a cap-spring maker , Avas charged with the offence . He Avorked for
Messrs-Leaf and Son , of St . Pauls ' -churchyard . When ho took completed Avork to their Avarehouse , he took Avith it an invoice , AA-hicb was SIIOAVII to the clerk , AVIIO initialed it as evidence that the work had been brought home . Then the prisoner had to take the invoice to a second clerk , ivho initialed it as proof that the Avork Avas in accordance with the order-book , and that the price ivas correct . Next the invoice had to be taken to the cashier ,
who paid the amount stated in it . BetAveen the second clerk and the cashier the prisoner altered the amount- In one invoice for 16 s- he had inserted £ 16 , and AA-as paid . He seems to have carried on the practice for some time , ancl Avas finally discovered through having made the addition in a bungling manner . He ivas committed for trial . Stephen Joseph Meaney , ivho figured so prominently as a defrander of tradesmen and
exhibitors at the Exhibition of 18 C 2—ii-ho Avas sentenced to a term ol imprisonment for his offences—AA'ho subsequently Avas assisted out to America , and thoro became a Fenian senator—recently appeared hero . A fortnight since ho came to London , and Avas recognised by several persons , who had knoAvn him before ho Avent to America . On tho 1 st inst . a police-officer from Dublin
arrived with a warrant for Moanoy ' s arrest , on a charge of conspiring against the Queen . Tho officer caught his man in the Strand , and took him to BoAv-stroot . Thero seems , however , to havo boon no necessity for his examination there , for it is stated that ho was taken aAvay almost immediately en route for Dublin . Tho police in London aro said to have information that Stephens
is in tho metropolis , ancl they aro pretty confident about capturing him . Mr . R . Arthur Arnold has addressed a letter to tho various local hoards in Lancashire , announcing that tho office of the Public Works Act . established during tho cotton famine , will be closed after tho 21 st inst . It is annonncod that tho Queen Avill confer tho honour of knighthood on Mr . Alderman Phili ps , tho lato Lord Mavor .
To Correspondents.
TO CORRESPONDENTS .
* $ * All communications to be addressed to 19 , Salisbury-street , Strand , London , W . C . ERRATA . —South Metropolitan Masonic Sail Company . —By an error in our issue for last Saturday , in tho report of tho mooting , the day on Avhich it Avas held is stated to bo l : Sunday , " Avhoroas it should bo "Tuesday , " tho 27 th ult .
As unusual press of matter compels us to defer inserting this Aveok , several reports Avhich have duly reached us , together ivith correspondence and other matter intended for publication .