| Show kovs OF or lard IO 10 I 1 late papers from europe europ brings brungs b ings of the death of john S agle agleton gon ton copley lord lyndhurst the distinguished jurist and statesman tate A A son eon of the camons self educated copley hewak he was born in boston afa ala amass as in uis 1112 and ii a hia bla third year removed to england klowas ho wab wag at Tri trl nilly C college caa bridge and received the highest honors of the university unive UniTe rily rity soon after he be revisited america returning to england IB in 1798 to prepare for the practice of the law which he commenced in 1801 and slowly but surely toiled his bis way up to eminence in his hia profession leaving his hia name upon th the records of several of the knost most important state trials ilia success was from this time continuous and he successively filled some of the highest offices of the state being eo genera general attorney general master roaster of the rolls and finally in 1827 chancellor under the title of baron lyndhurst originally a liberal be he entered parliament in ih 1818 a tory but afterwards accepted the great seal under the liberal cabinet of canning and retained it through three administrations in the last favoring the catholic emai emal ci pation scheme which chehad he had bad opposed two tivo ears vears before under the admin adain straton of earl grey be was appointed lord chief baron baren of the exchequer and slid on the nomination of the peel cabinet of 1834 1831 was restored to the chancel lordship lor ship but resigned soon after and became an active leader eader ol 01 the opposition 1 by his first wife the widow of lieutenant colonel charles thomas be he bad three children and three years af after atter ter her death he married at the age of sixty five a young jewess beauty M wai kai si and by her bad a daughter his hi power as a speaker was very great and hla hia opinion carried the greatest weight weight A writer in the atlin Allin tic monthly w who saw hlin him in parliament in 1635 1855 says it was singular and somewhat touching to mark the deference paid by the peers to him as le je spoke upon that occasion occasion gion sion ly DEATH OT or archbishop WHATELY for halo halt a century the rev richard whately DD has labored with an a n energy which few men have equaled gia gra it in i 1810 at oriel college oxford wi h dibling dialing I 1 ho honor norbe he eota vOta obtained ined a fellowship which be he retained until his marriage in 1821 being hinted to the rectory of halesworth hal Ual esworth in the i following year in 1830 be was chosen to fill the chair of political economy in oxford uni viti atty but vacated it on obtaining the archbishopric of 0 dublin a year later one at othia bia hia earliest works and at the same tim one of the most moat widely known was waa aa his bis historic doubts relative to napoleon bonaparte roni Ronk parte which was wab prompted b humes essay on alurac miracles Mi I 1 ea from this tune forward every year of his bis life was marked by the publication of works on theolo theological ical or educational subjects which will stand stand among the literary monuments of the caltury century can tury among hils his work works best known are the elements of logic and j elements of rhetoric both of which h have ave been for years textbooks text books in the leading col le lees leges es of EnI engard and and the united states for some time past be hab baa been buffering intensely his mind however remaining 1 to the last V vigorous lorous and clear he hav baving having ing during the last yar ar of his bis life delivered a charge in which le be takes a lon ion long iong and exhaustive review cf of the great church questions of the day advocating caution and reverence for the holy i scriptures as against the authors of essays and re view he e died at dublin on the th ah 8 h int in the beseny begeny seven beven h year 3 ear car of his age ag from the th landor lendor press pre oct 0 5 1 infanticide IN ENGLAND that the be cr me of i tant fant icide is frightfully on th the increase ase is a fact too well attested by a erict variety 1 I ety ely ot at getce iet ce troia tram sources to a admit miti mite of any doubt the tables ot of mor mot teuy tery taUy ex exhibit bi abit a p percentage upon the number of births of rory forty dire infant deaths under the age of two aars throughout england engana and wales that fact alone a one speaks volumes scein it is not agreeable to the ascertained laws of nature that so large a proportion of human beings born into the world alth with an or organization g aniza capable of and destined for life should perish before they attain childhood it is calculated that of the children dying ulder two years of ame age age six out of every deven beven do I 1 not live to see tiye the return of fit their birthday the suspicion which this enormous proposition of infant mortality is calculated to excite ia Is pahi painfully tully fully confirmed by tae the results of coroners cor oneta onera 2 in reduced to a tabular toa tom foa in in one year alone the year 1861 in quests I 1 were held in the metropolis upon upwards of eleven hundred childr children n under two yearb years of age this return of course gives only the number of cases vf t fuch euch strong suspicion as to call for the interference of the I 1 1 quests are not held heid on children who have died or are suppo supposed bed sed to ta have died of nit fit convulsions diarrhea and other infantile ailment I 1 it is only when the case presen a 8 some come peculiarity ilari liati li tys and when there ia is some one at halid hand to bring that peculiarity the notice of or the authorities that a coron coroners erys errs inquest upon an infant under two years old oid ia ever thought of we uda una may therefore safely that the above figure al ure does not represent anything like the number of cases cae OB on which an inq inquest t ought to be held now out of the 11 1100 0 0 cases in question there were are only in which the death ia is ascertained to have resulted from accident Ae suming assuming that none of thoe accidents accident were wilful or buch such aa as ight with common care have been avi ayi avoided abided ded we have to find out how bow the rest aan by their their thein death in upwards of CCO oco the verdict is died through neglect ll 11 hien hlen is a but another expression for idelt iet let to perish and in bow I 1 many of these cafa capa tae the neglect was suit either of an absence of lir mir that the infant gintant should live or of a politic tito vua mua thill that L 1 it might not live who shall tell then we come to another caig eais ct a casts cases equally suspicious suspicions some seme infant dia did 0 overlaid in bed who again shall ay say in how bow many of these bese instance instanced the thi suffocation was the result of a most moat culpable absence of common care and in bov bow many the effect oc of a cause still loore more which the jarr had bail no means of tracing next comes an array of chidden ch idren found dead of the cause of whose abose death anil of whose belongings no account can be given the whole of these may fairly be set down t to the account of undiscovered unproved infanticide and one half number have been pronounced pronounced to ba bat e died through violence la in five cases only out cut of the seventy under circumstances cum stances with justified the jury in reducing the fience to imons mahs mans laughter laught er 11 the remainder being cases in which the crime of wilful murder has been established by conclusive legal proof the estimate of a metropolitan tan taB coloner coi co ioner oner who has paid considerable attention to this thia subject and who calculates that there tha tho are about one thousand infanticides committed every eiery year in the metropolis aiono alono would according to these data appear an exceedingly cee mo moderate detate one but after all we have not reached the fui ful ati 1 l extent of this thia hideous deoUl social iniquity there is an immense number of infant corpes we are almost afraid to say how many for the estimate number pr per annum throughout englan I 1 and wales seems enormous at any rate a very large number disposed of as stillborn which r voke no inquiry from the coroner cu roner and do not figure gure hi tn the regla regia traia raila reports porta re who is there to answer that aby thy are all bona fide still bon bori to that effect indeed behave not a portical par of eviden ce but we have evidence and thet that df of a very alarming nature to the contrary at a recent inquest in oi 01 e ot of the metropolitan districts in consequence oe of rumors which bad reached the ears of the police i was made abou one cf these detill bo borns r ng already in the undertakers undertake Ps hands bands on its way to private unregistered burial bunal there was a cey to the effect that it u vlas vias as a still borns born from a midwife who had assisted at the birth but there wag was evidence also that the child had bad been b burn 0 rn alive aliye a irve lire that it had lived over twenty tour four hours and had during its ita short i existence bad had no more Busten sustenance ance than a little iea tea ea on opening the shell which enclosed it its bead was found crushed in but this was accounted for b by y the shell being too short the midwife confessed that she had bad given a false certificate but could see in no harm barmy ki in what hat she had done it was her practice to do this soi boi bolt t of thing at another inquest held about the rau sau mano period on a number of infant corpses dis covered in various stages of decomposition tu la the root roof of church it t was ara clearly established that the undertakers ara aia in the constant practice of taking charge of 0 11 stillborn till still born borne 11 that the proc process essl essi is to bendio them for an empty shell and to bring it back with a little corpse in it with ith or without a certificate that they eon consider sider a certificate unnecessary and that any certificate to which a fernal femat signature is affixed is taken by them to be the signature of a midwife ald aid ald perfectly correct without any inquiry wha aha ever wih wi a this evidence before us our astonishment at the number of baill borns la Is certainly dl di mini shed ottom thie thil lk london post past oct 71 7 ballooning rob yon MILITARY the members of the ordnance select oin otin rai tai tt ee I 1 va th general sir david wood R A major majo r general sand Sana sandham hAms governor ot of the royal military academy brigade major bitt mil war 1 and other officers assembled at the royal arbe Arst arsenal nal woolwich yeater yesterday jy alteri jocia to witness ascents accents with M Y Cox wells large baloon the war baling sa ird d a series serles of experiments in order to ascertain the vaian of balloons when used to reconnoitre the movements of 0 an army aimy in the field QZ or to obtain information as to the position cf c an forca forc a the whole of the ayalla ble troops in tn garrison had previously previous ay mar marchall choll tA in the divi divisions the royal marines and ir jr fantry comman commanded ded Jed by colonel coonel ai Rh itchell to t and the royal koyal artillery cona cora ana baided ded by colonel Ti travers Tia avers vere to bexley heath the monster balloon having been inflated with cubic teet feet of gas paa at the arsenal works wase moved by a detachment of royal V neer neef a to the gun park part and a r rope e attach el to the balloon baving laying been lashed lashe OT to one on of 0 the guns gung mr coxwell with captain bean beau mont ana L eu tenant grover of the noyl royl engineers took their seats in the car and the th balloon was allowed to ascend aagut aba ut thre three p quarters of a mile at the eite expiration of one hour a descent was and mr presented the fol oving owin report time 21 20 thermometer 49 49 barometer Wo meter view U W the coast t abar tol tor thirty nilles miles very hazy inland ie river beautiful gravesend Grave send and auf fletr clearly overlooked time mo momet dometer meter cr 49 barometer 29 20 3 sliest 1 tian tion time 2 25 blk oll A bare barour irli ter 2060 sogo clouds clouda or misi mial ici lck ta southwest eplen splendid did view for arld arid 1 I ahree subsequent ascent were er enide inde with captain heyman hey man secretary of the ile OrI orf Orina nM select committee ard otha giho officers and tho the troops were ster seen whilst lead bead ed by th banda bahda of the two divisi cods ona oua ultimately matel matei matelyn yi at eve ve ol 01 lock jock the bal bat 0 n was wag bt sat freo free arsin the aspee flad orad onrey onvey pd mr nir cot cou Cs well arid and mr glab Glas Cl ashler ashier hier bier across the river to the tb essex bhare share where it descended deec ended meats are considered highly |
