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The Week.

restore the document for a settled sum . A trap was laid and one man was apprehended , who turned out to be a young man employed in the neighbourhood . The coroner's inquest on the remains of the child Elizabeth Hunter , which were found in the greenhouse of a nurseryman , whose present name is Roe , has been again adjourned . A youth named Clarke is at present

in custody on suspicion , and it appears he had the keys of the -greenhouse on the nig ht of tbe child ' s disappearance ; but , ou the other hand , the sister of the murdered girl , who was with her at the time of her abduction , stated that the man who took 'her sister away appeared to be an older man than Clarke . She had known Clarke before tho abduction , but it never occurred

to her that it was he who took away her sister . The occupier of the nursery-ground is one of tbe principal witnesses against Clarke , but lie declines to enter upon his own antecedents . He ¦ gave no reason for his conduct in burying tbe poor child ' s skull , when it was found , without calling tho attention of the police to the discovery . A serious accident has befallen Sir Cresswell

'Cresswell . AAliile riding from the Divorce court up Constitutionhill , he was thrown from his horse by the carriage of Lord Aveland , an axletree of ivhich had broken and the horses taken fright . He was picked up immediately , aud taken first of all to St . Georges ' s Hospital , where it was found that his knee-cap was fractured . His lordship will probably be

confined to his house for some time , and the business ¦ of the Divorce is adjourned until the Michaelmas term . Another shocking accident , arising from those demoralising exhibitions which Blondin made popular , toook place on Monday -at Birmingham . There ivas a fete of the Foresters at Aston Park , in the neighbourhood of that town , and among other . attractions a woman , who appears to be a native of the town , undertook to perform sundry feats on a high tight rope . After

passing once or twice along the rope she put a sack over her head and set out again on her perilous venture ; she had not taken many steps when the ropa broke , and she fell heavily to the ground at her husband ' s feet , and ivas taken up dead . The " Roupell forgeries" have given rise to another trial , which was opened , at Chelmsford , on Thursday week . Our readers Avill remember that the ex-member for Lambeth voluntarily

returned last year from the Continent , whither he had fled for most cogent reasons , and made a confession to the effect that Tie had obtained possession of his late father ' s property by means of a forged > vill and forged deeds . He sold or mortgaged the property to various persons , and his avowed object in returning to England , was to make a clean breast of his crimes , so as to

enable the heir-at-law to regain the estates which he had fraudulently acquired and disposed of . He was sentenced to penal servitude for life on his own confession , and an action brought by the heir-at-law last year for the recoveries of some of the property which the convict had sold ended in a compromise , by ivhich the defendant agreed to pay half the estimated value of

the estate which formed the subject of the trial . A similar ease is now in course of hearing ; but the defendants , it is understood , Avill endeavour to prove that the confession of forgery was merely a contrivance on the part of AVilliam Roupell to regain , for tbe benefit of his iamily , the property which he himself had squandered away . The case has not yet been

concluded . A serious charge of murder has been before the police magistrate at Southwark . A woman , the wife of Joseph Howes , a porter , near the Blackfriars-road , was found lying on her back in her own room quite dead , with the blood oozing from her mouth and nose . A neighbour deposed that both the ivife and husband had been drinking that day and had quarrelled , and that she afterwards heard blows and screams in their r . oom . The prisoner was remanded AA'illiam Howsden , a

working man , was found dead in Leather-lnne on Wednesday morning . It seems that two men Avere seen to assault the deceased , and knock him down . This fact was communicated to the police , Avho are searching for the supposed murderers . COMAIEECIAL . —At the half-yearly meeting of the City Bank a dividend was declared ( after transferring £ 10 , 000 to the reserve fund ) of 6 per cent , per annum on the paid-up capital , and

a bonus of 1 £ , both free of income tax , together equal to 10 per cent , for the year . At the second ordinary general meeting of the shareholders in the Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool ( Limited ) , the report of the directors was adopted and a dividend of 10 s . per share ( free of income tax ) was declared . At an extraordinary meeting of the proprietors of

the National Discount Company the report of the directors was adopted , and a dividend at the rate of S per cent , per annum was declared , free of income tax . At the half-yearly meeting of the St . Catherine Dock Company , a dividend of 1 J per cent , was declared .

FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Monday was the anniversary of accession of the King of the Belgians , and it is gratifying to find that bis Majesty ' s health is so much improved that lie was present at tbe celebration of the event in the Church of St . Gudule . His subjects expressed their joy by loudly cbeeriug him . . The National Government of Poland of Tuesday issued the first number of a new official journal , styled the Independence ,

the leading article in which spurns the idea of any negociation with Russia . The reply of the Russian Government to Earl Russell ' s despatch has been published . Its tone , although strictly courteous , is not by any means so conciliatory as the public had been led to expect by the summaries published in French journals . It holds out no hope of any arrangement

with regard to an armistice , nor does there seem any chance of an understanding such as the great Powers desire in relation to a conference . Even with reference to the six points , the Russian Government only accepts the suggestions Avith the remark that they have already been carried out or promised hy the Emperor Alexander . The despatch contains all the old allusions to

foreign encouragement given to the rebels , and has a good deal of the tu quoque style of retort about it . Coldly urbane , and sometimes a little incisive , neither its substance nor its tone appears encouraging . Tho replies to France and Austria are of

a similar nature , and do not appear to be satisfactory to either Government . A body of 400 Polos and some Englishmen , on board an English steamer , disembarked on the 13 th in Wallachian territory , in the neighbnubood of Ismail . The Wallachian authorities tried peaceable means to stop tbe expedition , which failing , a conflict ensued , and the Poles ivere defeated and retreated . The whole body subsequently surrendered . The

Polish expeditionists who were arrested in Wallachia , are by the order of Prince Couza , to be treated as military prisoners and to receive rations . Their commander has been released upon parole . A letter from St . Petersburgh announces the publication of an Imperial decree , ordering a fre 3 h levy of troops in November next , at the rate of 10 men for every 1000 of the

population . The arrest of five Roman or Neapolitan brigands on board a French steam packet at Genoa has led to a formal demand for " redress" by the French government from the Cabinet of Turin . Certain formalities requisite for arrests on board French vessels in Italian harbours are alleged to have been neglected , and the more or less vigorous protest of the

French Consul at Genoa Avas disregarded . Hence the demanded " redress . " The Italian Government at once agreed to surrender the prisoners on conditions ivhich shall preserve its own dignity and maintain the authority of its laws . Probably this mean 3 that tbe brigands are to be finally handed over to the Italian

“The Freemasons' Monthly Magazine: 1863-07-25, Page 19” Masonic Periodicals Online, Library and Museum of Freemasonry, 31 March 2023, masonicperiodicals.org/periodicals/mmr/issues/mmr_25071863/page/19/.
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THE BOY'S SCHOOL. Article 1
FREEMASONRY AND ITS OPPONENTS. Article 2
ON GEOMETRICAL AND OTHER SYMBOLS. Article 3
PROPOSED GRAND LODGE OF VICTORIA. Article 5
MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES. Article 5
CORRESPONDENCE. Article 6
THE MASONIC MIRROR Article 7
THE BOYS' SCHOOL. Article 7
PROVINCIAL. Article 7
AUSTRALIA. Article 13
TURKEY. Article 14
CHINA. Article 14
ROYAL ARCH. Article 15
KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Article 15
ANCIENT AND ACCEPTED RITE. Article 15
MARK MASONRY. Article 16
Poetry. Article 16
THE WEEK. Article 17
TO CORRESPONDENTS. Article 20
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The Week.

restore the document for a settled sum . A trap was laid and one man was apprehended , who turned out to be a young man employed in the neighbourhood . The coroner's inquest on the remains of the child Elizabeth Hunter , which were found in the greenhouse of a nurseryman , whose present name is Roe , has been again adjourned . A youth named Clarke is at present

in custody on suspicion , and it appears he had the keys of the -greenhouse on the nig ht of tbe child ' s disappearance ; but , ou the other hand , the sister of the murdered girl , who was with her at the time of her abduction , stated that the man who took 'her sister away appeared to be an older man than Clarke . She had known Clarke before tho abduction , but it never occurred

to her that it was he who took away her sister . The occupier of the nursery-ground is one of tbe principal witnesses against Clarke , but lie declines to enter upon his own antecedents . He ¦ gave no reason for his conduct in burying tbe poor child ' s skull , when it was found , without calling tho attention of the police to the discovery . A serious accident has befallen Sir Cresswell

'Cresswell . AAliile riding from the Divorce court up Constitutionhill , he was thrown from his horse by the carriage of Lord Aveland , an axletree of ivhich had broken and the horses taken fright . He was picked up immediately , aud taken first of all to St . Georges ' s Hospital , where it was found that his knee-cap was fractured . His lordship will probably be

confined to his house for some time , and the business ¦ of the Divorce is adjourned until the Michaelmas term . Another shocking accident , arising from those demoralising exhibitions which Blondin made popular , toook place on Monday -at Birmingham . There ivas a fete of the Foresters at Aston Park , in the neighbourhood of that town , and among other . attractions a woman , who appears to be a native of the town , undertook to perform sundry feats on a high tight rope . After

passing once or twice along the rope she put a sack over her head and set out again on her perilous venture ; she had not taken many steps when the ropa broke , and she fell heavily to the ground at her husband ' s feet , and ivas taken up dead . The " Roupell forgeries" have given rise to another trial , which was opened , at Chelmsford , on Thursday week . Our readers Avill remember that the ex-member for Lambeth voluntarily

returned last year from the Continent , whither he had fled for most cogent reasons , and made a confession to the effect that Tie had obtained possession of his late father ' s property by means of a forged > vill and forged deeds . He sold or mortgaged the property to various persons , and his avowed object in returning to England , was to make a clean breast of his crimes , so as to

enable the heir-at-law to regain the estates which he had fraudulently acquired and disposed of . He was sentenced to penal servitude for life on his own confession , and an action brought by the heir-at-law last year for the recoveries of some of the property which the convict had sold ended in a compromise , by ivhich the defendant agreed to pay half the estimated value of

the estate which formed the subject of the trial . A similar ease is now in course of hearing ; but the defendants , it is understood , Avill endeavour to prove that the confession of forgery was merely a contrivance on the part of AVilliam Roupell to regain , for tbe benefit of his iamily , the property which he himself had squandered away . The case has not yet been

concluded . A serious charge of murder has been before the police magistrate at Southwark . A woman , the wife of Joseph Howes , a porter , near the Blackfriars-road , was found lying on her back in her own room quite dead , with the blood oozing from her mouth and nose . A neighbour deposed that both the ivife and husband had been drinking that day and had quarrelled , and that she afterwards heard blows and screams in their r . oom . The prisoner was remanded AA'illiam Howsden , a

working man , was found dead in Leather-lnne on Wednesday morning . It seems that two men Avere seen to assault the deceased , and knock him down . This fact was communicated to the police , Avho are searching for the supposed murderers . COMAIEECIAL . —At the half-yearly meeting of the City Bank a dividend was declared ( after transferring £ 10 , 000 to the reserve fund ) of 6 per cent , per annum on the paid-up capital , and

a bonus of 1 £ , both free of income tax , together equal to 10 per cent , for the year . At the second ordinary general meeting of the shareholders in the Alliance Bank of London and Liverpool ( Limited ) , the report of the directors was adopted and a dividend of 10 s . per share ( free of income tax ) was declared . At an extraordinary meeting of the proprietors of

the National Discount Company the report of the directors was adopted , and a dividend at the rate of S per cent , per annum was declared , free of income tax . At the half-yearly meeting of the St . Catherine Dock Company , a dividend of 1 J per cent , was declared .

FOEEIGN INTELLIGENCE . —Monday was the anniversary of accession of the King of the Belgians , and it is gratifying to find that bis Majesty ' s health is so much improved that lie was present at tbe celebration of the event in the Church of St . Gudule . His subjects expressed their joy by loudly cbeeriug him . . The National Government of Poland of Tuesday issued the first number of a new official journal , styled the Independence ,

the leading article in which spurns the idea of any negociation with Russia . The reply of the Russian Government to Earl Russell ' s despatch has been published . Its tone , although strictly courteous , is not by any means so conciliatory as the public had been led to expect by the summaries published in French journals . It holds out no hope of any arrangement

with regard to an armistice , nor does there seem any chance of an understanding such as the great Powers desire in relation to a conference . Even with reference to the six points , the Russian Government only accepts the suggestions Avith the remark that they have already been carried out or promised hy the Emperor Alexander . The despatch contains all the old allusions to

foreign encouragement given to the rebels , and has a good deal of the tu quoque style of retort about it . Coldly urbane , and sometimes a little incisive , neither its substance nor its tone appears encouraging . Tho replies to France and Austria are of

a similar nature , and do not appear to be satisfactory to either Government . A body of 400 Polos and some Englishmen , on board an English steamer , disembarked on the 13 th in Wallachian territory , in the neighbnubood of Ismail . The Wallachian authorities tried peaceable means to stop tbe expedition , which failing , a conflict ensued , and the Poles ivere defeated and retreated . The whole body subsequently surrendered . The

Polish expeditionists who were arrested in Wallachia , are by the order of Prince Couza , to be treated as military prisoners and to receive rations . Their commander has been released upon parole . A letter from St . Petersburgh announces the publication of an Imperial decree , ordering a fre 3 h levy of troops in November next , at the rate of 10 men for every 1000 of the

population . The arrest of five Roman or Neapolitan brigands on board a French steam packet at Genoa has led to a formal demand for " redress" by the French government from the Cabinet of Turin . Certain formalities requisite for arrests on board French vessels in Italian harbours are alleged to have been neglected , and the more or less vigorous protest of the

French Consul at Genoa Avas disregarded . Hence the demanded " redress . " The Italian Government at once agreed to surrender the prisoners on conditions ivhich shall preserve its own dignity and maintain the authority of its laws . Probably this mean 3 that tbe brigands are to be finally handed over to the Italian

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