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cond reading of the British Museum Bill—a measure , authorising the removal of the natural history collection in the Museum to South Kensington , and involving an expenditure of £ 670 , 000—was met by an amendment from Air . Gregory , who moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months . A long debate followed , and , on a division , tbe Government was defeated by a majority of 92—163 against 71 votes . On Tuesday , Colonel Greville , one of the members for Longford ,
gave notice of his intention to call attention to the late election for that county ; and Sir Robert Clifton intimated that , on Air . Stansfeld ' s motion for the reduction of the national expenditure , he should move for papers relating to the armament of France . Sir Charles AVood in reply to a question from Sir Al . Farquhar , said there was no foundation whatever for the statement that ' the Persians were marching upon Herat . Air . Scholefield obtained leave to bring in a bill for the amendment of the law of
partnership , ancl Sir G . C . Lewis a measure for the more speedytrial of "military murderers . " The Lunacy Regulation Bill ivas read a second time , —Sir H . Cairns , who defended the alleged lunatic in the case which so markedly revealed the defects of the existing mode of procedure , expressing an opinion that it would be necessary to amend many of the details in Committee . On AVednesday Sir George Grey gave notice that
he should endeavour to take the Committee on the Highways Bill on Monday evening . Mr . AA . Martin moved the second reading of a bill , the object of which is to repeal a clause in the Tippling Act , by which dealers in spirits are prevented from suing for the value of any spirits they may send out to persons on credit . Sir G . Grey , on the part of the Government , gave his assent to the measure . Air . Ayrton and several other mouthers opposed it , but eventually it was read a second time by a
majority of twenty-nine . The Judgments Law Amendment ( Ireland ) Bill was read a second time , after some discussion with the understanding that it was to be referred to a select committee . Some other bills were advanced a stage . GEXEKAL HOJCE NEWS . —The health of London has again risen , following the return of the present warm bright whether . The deaths last week were 1125 ; the corrected average ofthe last ten years would be 1195 , so that there is a decrease in the mortality to the extent of 10 . The decrease from the preceding
week is still more remarkable , the mortality having dropped from 1249 to the jiresent number of 1125 . There were in the same week 1 S 70 cbldren born , being 34 above the ten years ' average . Air . Tite , ALP ., Professor Donaldson , Air . Smirke , Mr . Gilbert Scott , Mr . Pennethorne , Air . P . Hardwick , jun ., and Air . Digby AA ' yatt , are the architects selected by the committee of advice to assist them in deciding upon a design for the National Alemorial of the late Prince Consort . The
Times states that there is a growing feeling in the literary and scientific world in favour of devoting a portion ofthe fund to the erection of some scientific or literary institution . Added to favourable reports as to the probabilities of harvest prospects in this country we receive equally favourable reports as to the prospects in Ireland . The sportsman may also be encouraged by favourable accounts from the moors . Important
experiments were made a few days ago , at Shoeburyness , with the -view of further testing the soundness of the generally accepted dogma that a smooth-bore gun surpasses a rifled gun in tbe initial velocit y it imparts to shot . It ajipears , from a statement in the Army and Navy Gazelle , that the initial volocity obtnined in firing a 12-pounder Armstrong with a shell weighing eiht poundsancl a two pound charge of powderwas 1749
g , , feet ; while in the case of a nine-pounder smooth bore , loaded with a shot of nine pounds , and 2 ' t pounds of powder , the initial velocity amounted to only 1613 feet . The governors of St . Thomas ' s Hospital have not ytt fixed upon the site on which to build their new hospital ; and now a new difficulty has ¦ arisen to perplex them—how they are to dispose of their patients in the interval that must elapse between the giving up and
possession of their ^ present premises their entering upon the institution that is yet to be . To shut uji the charity altogether for snob a time is not to be thought of ; ancl yet no eligible . place presents itself for their reception . In this dilemma it has been suggested that the action of the Attorney General , as legal custodian of all charities , should be sought in quickening the activit of the . AA e regret
y governors to announce the death of Air . Slaney , ALP . for Shrewsbury , in his seventy-first year . Air . Slaney was first returned for the borough in 1826 , " and , though with frequent intermissions , he continued to represent it . He was a liberal in politics ; but he was better known for his phib . nthrophic exertions in
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favour of ameliorating the condition of the labouring poor . By his death a vacancy is occasioned for the borough of Shrewsbury . AVe have also to announce the death of Sir Benjamin Hawes , permanent nnder secretary for the AVar Department . This able public servant , who was born in 1797 , entered the House of Commons in 1832 as member for Lambeth . He continued to represent that borough until 181-7 , when he was defeated , bnt in the following year he was returned for Kinsale .
He retired from Parliament in 1852 . He was appointed under Secretary for the Colonies in 1846 , and deputy Secretary at War iu 1851 ; in 1856 he was created a K . C . B . in recognition of his official services during the Crimean war ; and in the following year he received the appointment which he filled down to the period of his death . An extraordinary robbery of diamonds has been committed in Regent-street . Two men went to tbe shop of Air . Mendeland
, having chosen diamonds worth 1151 ., produced a box in ivhich they were supposed to be placed . The box was then left with Air . Alondel until the next clay , when the men were to call and pay for the jewels . Suspicions were , however aroused , and on opening the box it was found that pebbles had been substituted for the precious stones . Another case of death from destitution has occurred in the metropolis . A wretched man of
the name of Izand , a cobbler out of work from sheer illness , died from actual want . At an inquest the jury have decided that his death was " accelerated by destitution . " A fire broke out on AA " endesday morning on the premises of Air . Joel , a stationer , Cripplegate . The fire-engines arrived too late to save the building , which was entirely destroyed ; and the fire-escapes were too late to save life . One poor woman unfortunately fell to
the ground as she was being helped into the fire-escape , and sustained such injuries that she shortly died . Three other persons—and old lady sixty years of age , a man of thirty-seven , and a servant girl aged twenty-three , were literally burnt to death . Sheffield has been again distinguished by one of those outrages for ivhich it has unhappily became notorious . The other evening an attempt was made to blow up the premises of Messrs . Craven , builders . A can charged with combustible and explosive substances hacl been thrown into one of the workshops . Fortunately the . injury done was comparatively small .
Alanchester has been the scene of as dark and terrible a tragedy as it is possible to conceive . It seems that a butter merchant , named Taylor , residing in Strangeways , considered himself aggrieved by the conduct of Messrs . Aleller and Sons , the agents for the house in which he lived . Early in the present year the boiler in his kitchen burst , and killed one of his children . He attributed the explosion to the neglect of the Messrs . Meller , and the ill-feeling aroused by this accident was strengthened b
y subsequent circumstances . On Thursday , the 15 th , his three children were murdered—probably by the agency of some narcotic poison . The bodies were carefully dressed and arranged , and attached to each was a piece of paper , containing the words , " Aleller and Sons are our cruel murderers , but God and our loving parents will avenge us . " The work of revenge was commenced upon the walls , doors , windows , and fixtures of
the house , and was brought to a climax by the murder of Air . Evan Aleller , who was butchered in the most fri ghtful manner in his office in South King-street , on the Friday morning . Soon after the office was opened by the deceased gentleman ' s son , Taylor and his wife called ancl inquired for Mr . Aleller , who soon afterwards arrived . An attack was at once made upon him , and on his son making his appearanceAirs . Taylor drew a
, revolver , and the young man retreated into an inner room . Shortly afterwards , liowever , Air . Meller jun . rushed clown stairs to obtain assistance ; but b y that time his father hacl been laid helpless at the feet of his assailants . Mr . Aleller ' s body shows eleven distinct incised wounds , which appear to have been inflicted with a butcher's knife , now in tbe possession of the police ; and there is also a contused wound ou the left
eyebrow . Nor does this terrible story end here . A man named Hooley , employed iu an office in the same building heard a noise as of some one falling down stairs . Ho ran up and found Air . Aleller lying on the first landing . Taylor and his wife then came down stairs , ancl the former fired a pistol at Air . Aleller's head , which the bullet , liowever , missed , passing through Hooley ' s arm . Taylor and bis wife are in custody awaiting their trial .
The Northern Whig reports two murders of a singularly terrible character . Air . John Herdman , who is described as one of the wealthiest ancl most respectable merchants of Belfast , was on Alonday evening shot through the heart near his own residence . His cousin , Air . AA'illiam Herdman , is the suspected assassin , and
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cond reading of the British Museum Bill—a measure , authorising the removal of the natural history collection in the Museum to South Kensington , and involving an expenditure of £ 670 , 000—was met by an amendment from Air . Gregory , who moved that the bill be read a second time that day six months . A long debate followed , and , on a division , tbe Government was defeated by a majority of 92—163 against 71 votes . On Tuesday , Colonel Greville , one of the members for Longford ,
gave notice of his intention to call attention to the late election for that county ; and Sir Robert Clifton intimated that , on Air . Stansfeld ' s motion for the reduction of the national expenditure , he should move for papers relating to the armament of France . Sir Charles AVood in reply to a question from Sir Al . Farquhar , said there was no foundation whatever for the statement that ' the Persians were marching upon Herat . Air . Scholefield obtained leave to bring in a bill for the amendment of the law of
partnership , ancl Sir G . C . Lewis a measure for the more speedytrial of "military murderers . " The Lunacy Regulation Bill ivas read a second time , —Sir H . Cairns , who defended the alleged lunatic in the case which so markedly revealed the defects of the existing mode of procedure , expressing an opinion that it would be necessary to amend many of the details in Committee . On AVednesday Sir George Grey gave notice that
he should endeavour to take the Committee on the Highways Bill on Monday evening . Mr . AA . Martin moved the second reading of a bill , the object of which is to repeal a clause in the Tippling Act , by which dealers in spirits are prevented from suing for the value of any spirits they may send out to persons on credit . Sir G . Grey , on the part of the Government , gave his assent to the measure . Air . Ayrton and several other mouthers opposed it , but eventually it was read a second time by a
majority of twenty-nine . The Judgments Law Amendment ( Ireland ) Bill was read a second time , after some discussion with the understanding that it was to be referred to a select committee . Some other bills were advanced a stage . GEXEKAL HOJCE NEWS . —The health of London has again risen , following the return of the present warm bright whether . The deaths last week were 1125 ; the corrected average ofthe last ten years would be 1195 , so that there is a decrease in the mortality to the extent of 10 . The decrease from the preceding
week is still more remarkable , the mortality having dropped from 1249 to the jiresent number of 1125 . There were in the same week 1 S 70 cbldren born , being 34 above the ten years ' average . Air . Tite , ALP ., Professor Donaldson , Air . Smirke , Mr . Gilbert Scott , Mr . Pennethorne , Air . P . Hardwick , jun ., and Air . Digby AA ' yatt , are the architects selected by the committee of advice to assist them in deciding upon a design for the National Alemorial of the late Prince Consort . The
Times states that there is a growing feeling in the literary and scientific world in favour of devoting a portion ofthe fund to the erection of some scientific or literary institution . Added to favourable reports as to the probabilities of harvest prospects in this country we receive equally favourable reports as to the prospects in Ireland . The sportsman may also be encouraged by favourable accounts from the moors . Important
experiments were made a few days ago , at Shoeburyness , with the -view of further testing the soundness of the generally accepted dogma that a smooth-bore gun surpasses a rifled gun in tbe initial velocit y it imparts to shot . It ajipears , from a statement in the Army and Navy Gazelle , that the initial volocity obtnined in firing a 12-pounder Armstrong with a shell weighing eiht poundsancl a two pound charge of powderwas 1749
g , , feet ; while in the case of a nine-pounder smooth bore , loaded with a shot of nine pounds , and 2 ' t pounds of powder , the initial velocity amounted to only 1613 feet . The governors of St . Thomas ' s Hospital have not ytt fixed upon the site on which to build their new hospital ; and now a new difficulty has ¦ arisen to perplex them—how they are to dispose of their patients in the interval that must elapse between the giving up and
possession of their ^ present premises their entering upon the institution that is yet to be . To shut uji the charity altogether for snob a time is not to be thought of ; ancl yet no eligible . place presents itself for their reception . In this dilemma it has been suggested that the action of the Attorney General , as legal custodian of all charities , should be sought in quickening the activit of the . AA e regret
y governors to announce the death of Air . Slaney , ALP . for Shrewsbury , in his seventy-first year . Air . Slaney was first returned for the borough in 1826 , " and , though with frequent intermissions , he continued to represent it . He was a liberal in politics ; but he was better known for his phib . nthrophic exertions in
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favour of ameliorating the condition of the labouring poor . By his death a vacancy is occasioned for the borough of Shrewsbury . AVe have also to announce the death of Sir Benjamin Hawes , permanent nnder secretary for the AVar Department . This able public servant , who was born in 1797 , entered the House of Commons in 1832 as member for Lambeth . He continued to represent that borough until 181-7 , when he was defeated , bnt in the following year he was returned for Kinsale .
He retired from Parliament in 1852 . He was appointed under Secretary for the Colonies in 1846 , and deputy Secretary at War iu 1851 ; in 1856 he was created a K . C . B . in recognition of his official services during the Crimean war ; and in the following year he received the appointment which he filled down to the period of his death . An extraordinary robbery of diamonds has been committed in Regent-street . Two men went to tbe shop of Air . Mendeland
, having chosen diamonds worth 1151 ., produced a box in ivhich they were supposed to be placed . The box was then left with Air . Alondel until the next clay , when the men were to call and pay for the jewels . Suspicions were , however aroused , and on opening the box it was found that pebbles had been substituted for the precious stones . Another case of death from destitution has occurred in the metropolis . A wretched man of
the name of Izand , a cobbler out of work from sheer illness , died from actual want . At an inquest the jury have decided that his death was " accelerated by destitution . " A fire broke out on AA " endesday morning on the premises of Air . Joel , a stationer , Cripplegate . The fire-engines arrived too late to save the building , which was entirely destroyed ; and the fire-escapes were too late to save life . One poor woman unfortunately fell to
the ground as she was being helped into the fire-escape , and sustained such injuries that she shortly died . Three other persons—and old lady sixty years of age , a man of thirty-seven , and a servant girl aged twenty-three , were literally burnt to death . Sheffield has been again distinguished by one of those outrages for ivhich it has unhappily became notorious . The other evening an attempt was made to blow up the premises of Messrs . Craven , builders . A can charged with combustible and explosive substances hacl been thrown into one of the workshops . Fortunately the . injury done was comparatively small .
Alanchester has been the scene of as dark and terrible a tragedy as it is possible to conceive . It seems that a butter merchant , named Taylor , residing in Strangeways , considered himself aggrieved by the conduct of Messrs . Aleller and Sons , the agents for the house in which he lived . Early in the present year the boiler in his kitchen burst , and killed one of his children . He attributed the explosion to the neglect of the Messrs . Meller , and the ill-feeling aroused by this accident was strengthened b
y subsequent circumstances . On Thursday , the 15 th , his three children were murdered—probably by the agency of some narcotic poison . The bodies were carefully dressed and arranged , and attached to each was a piece of paper , containing the words , " Aleller and Sons are our cruel murderers , but God and our loving parents will avenge us . " The work of revenge was commenced upon the walls , doors , windows , and fixtures of
the house , and was brought to a climax by the murder of Air . Evan Aleller , who was butchered in the most fri ghtful manner in his office in South King-street , on the Friday morning . Soon after the office was opened by the deceased gentleman ' s son , Taylor and his wife called ancl inquired for Mr . Aleller , who soon afterwards arrived . An attack was at once made upon him , and on his son making his appearanceAirs . Taylor drew a
, revolver , and the young man retreated into an inner room . Shortly afterwards , liowever , Air . Meller jun . rushed clown stairs to obtain assistance ; but b y that time his father hacl been laid helpless at the feet of his assailants . Mr . Aleller ' s body shows eleven distinct incised wounds , which appear to have been inflicted with a butcher's knife , now in tbe possession of the police ; and there is also a contused wound ou the left
eyebrow . Nor does this terrible story end here . A man named Hooley , employed iu an office in the same building heard a noise as of some one falling down stairs . Ho ran up and found Air . Aleller lying on the first landing . Taylor and his wife then came down stairs , ancl the former fired a pistol at Air . Aleller's head , which the bullet , liowever , missed , passing through Hooley ' s arm . Taylor and bis wife are in custody awaiting their trial .
The Northern Whig reports two murders of a singularly terrible character . Air . John Herdman , who is described as one of the wealthiest ancl most respectable merchants of Belfast , was on Alonday evening shot through the heart near his own residence . His cousin , Air . AA'illiam Herdman , is the suspected assassin , and