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Oct. 26,] 



THE NEWSPAPER. 







Tvho are to precede the same, and that they be not 

 re-opened till after Her Majesty has passed out of the 

 city. 8. That the inhabitants of the several houses in 

 the line of Her Majesty's procession within the city be 

 requested to take particular care that the parapets cf 

 their houses are made secure, to prevent accidents occur- 

 ring to their inmates or the public, by the falling thereof, 

 or by the copings or materials therefrom. 9. That the 

 foregoing regulations be put up in the public streets 

 through which the procession will pass, and that the same 

 be printed, and a copy delivered by the police at each 

 house in the line of procession, from Temple-bar to the 

 Exchange. The Court of Aldermen have also adopted a 

 resolution, that the pavement ou each side of Mansion- 

 house-street and the Poultry be railed off from Charlotte- 

 row to the corner of Bucklersbury, and from the corner 

 of Princes-street to the corner of the Old Jewry ; and 

 that no person be permitted to remain on the pavement 

 within those limits from 7 in the morning till after Her 

 Majesty shall have quitted the Exchange, except such 

 members of the Livery companies in their Livery gowns 

 as shall produce to the police in attendance a ticket signed 

 by the Commissioner. It is right, however, to add that 

 these regulations have caused great indignation in the city, 

 and that the remonstrances of the merchants and others 

 against theexclusion of the people from the streets will lead 

 to some alteration. Numerous workmen have been en- 

 gaged during the week erecting seats around St. Paul's Ca- 

 thedral, St. Clement Danes, St. Mary's, Strand, King's 

 College, and various other public phces in the line of the 

 road from Buckingham Palace to the Royal Exchange. 

 The tradesmen along the line of route are also on the alert 

 to accommodate the sight-seers, from whom they will no 

 doubt reap a plentiful harvest, no seats being let at less 

 than 10$. 6d. each : while near the Exchange as much as 

 5 guineas hive been readily obtained for a reserved]place. 

 The day will be observed as a holiday by the principal city 

 establishments. The Directors of the Bank of England 

 have already signified their intention of closing their 

 doors to business operations, and the private bankers 

 have resolved to suspend the attendance of their clerks 

 after 12 o'clock, the previous hours being alleged as 

 necessary for the payment of bills and other affairs which 

 cannot be delayed. The Treasury and the other public 

 offices will be shut, and it is expected that all other lead- 

 ing firms will follow the example so readily set, and make 

 the day one of general holiday and recreation. It is also 

 expected that the Queen, in commemoration of theevent, 

 will confer the honour of Knighthood on the Lord 

 Mayor, the two Sheriffs, the Chairman of the Gresham 

 Committee, and the architect. 



Portsoken JVard.— On Monday the Lord Mayor held 

 a wardmote for the election of an alderman for this ward 

 m the room of Mr. Salomons, whose election had been 

 declared void by the Court of Aldermen. Mr. Bousfield 

 laving retired, there was no opposition to Mr. Moon. 

 Mr. Salomons, however, put in a protest, in writing, de- 

 claring that he was rightful alderman of the ward, and 

 that all the proceedings of the meeting were illegal, null, 

 and void. He then addressed the electors at some 

 length, and stated that he should appeal to a court of 

 la* to establish his claim. Mr. Moon was then pro- 

 posed and seconded, and no other candidate appearing, 

 the Lord Mayor declared him duly elected. It is said 

 that Mr. Salomons will cause a quo warranto to be 

 served on the new alderman, so that the question will again 

 come before the Court of Queen's Bench and the Ex- 

 chequer Chamber respecting the legality of the election, 

 as in the c*se of Alderman Humphrey, on whose elec- 

 tion a similar question arose. 



tor James Graham's Medical BUI.— On Tuesday, in 

 Pursuance of a resolution passed at the aggregate meeting 



2Q-h u medlcal P rofessi °n» held at Exeter Hall on the 

 iA ult. a deputation of the medical practitioners of the 



no ° P p°u attended at Apothecaries' Hall, for the pur- 

 pose of holding a conference with the Master and Court 



ninn ■ t nts ° f tlie Company, and to ascertain their opi- 



ulterior consideration of the subject should be postponed 

 until the official document from the Court appeared.— 

 On Thursday a meeting of the Medical and Surgical 

 Association of St. Marylebone took place, for the purpose 

 of considering a manifesto to be presented to Sir J. 

 Graham, deprecating the bill lately introduced into Par- 

 liament, as not effectively excluding quacks from practice, 

 as erroneously opening the field of practice to chemists 

 and druggists, and as prescribing an improper scheme of 

 professional education. The Association also advocate 

 the institution of a college of general practitioners, with 

 an elective council and court of examiners, in order to 

 secure uniformity of education for the general practi- 

 tioners throughout the United Kingdom. Mr. R. R. 

 Pennington, Senior Fellow of the College of Surgeons, 

 was in the chair, and after some discussion, in which Mr. 



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»ion with respect to Sir J. Graham's Medical Bill, and 

 «e course it would be advisable to adopt on the present 

 that t\° n * J ht Master and Court assured the deputation 

 their V adhered t0 the views which they expressed in 

 to end Gnt sUtement ; that they felt it to be their duty 

 make *L™ Ur ' b ? communicating with the profession, to 

 wishes fi? elTes acc l uainted wi;h the real wants and 

 morp • a great bod y with wh ose interests they were 

 purno, 01 dy connected > and that they had, for this 



of the \f T tChed Wilh great attentlon the proceedings 

 extent al Protection Assembly, and were to a great 



The r Ware °^ ^ le P rmc 'ple which they recommended, 

 nions »-?i 8greed with that body «* their leading opi- 

 when th respect . t0 the n ew Medical Bill, and would, 

 operate e .*V" 0Der ^ me arrived, be happy sincerely to co- 

 that ass • tnena * The Court, however, were of opinion 

 lest the° C1 f 6d b °- dies should move sl °wly and cautiously, 

 mitted ? Y? ould jeopardise or injure the interests corn- 

 best at ° • Care * The y bad 8 iven this subject their 

 the prof •"' and iQ a f ew days would again address 

 which th on » and expound the plan of medical reform 

 »n the m ey ^° L ald recom mend. This plan was conceived 

 s eIf.eor7 al s P irit ' and conceded the principle of 



tion were C i nt t0 its licen tiates, for which the deputa- 

 ^nsideraMi Btrenuous advocates. The deputation, at 

 gainst ill , ngth » ur S ed the necessity of protection 

 ^ welfaJ f P u ractice b y summary conviction, and that 

 landed it ti pubIic as wel1 as the P rof ession de- 

 8it y for thl \ tl alsa subm itted the imperative neces- 

 8Ur *ery for establ,shment of a college of medicine and 

 an d utilirv s f. nera * Practitioners, whose acquirements 



fer ence th^l 7 i C0Mtituted the profession. The con- 



n broke U P» with the understanding that any 



Cooper and other gentlemen took part, the manifesto 

 was adopted. 



County of Middlesex.— At the adjourned meeting of 

 the magistracy on Thursday, the report of the chaplain 

 to the House of Correction was read, stating that daring 

 the past year many prisoners on their discharge had 

 found themselves provided with the means of obtaining 

 an honest livelihood, while many also were in the Refuge 

 for the Destitute learning trades, and expressing the 

 greatest gratitude for the benefit thus conferred upon 

 them. ^ The report also adverted to the strong facilities 

 the existing system of pawning offered to the poorer 

 classes for dishonestly disposing of articles. Mr. Pow- 

 nall congratulated the county on the fact that while since 

 1831 the population had increased a quarter of a million, 

 crime appeared to have diminished, at least so far as it 

 was brought under the cognizance of the magistracy. 

 The number of persons charged with intoxication was 

 less by 18,000 than in the preceding year. He attri- 

 buted this mainly to the extension of religious instruction 

 as well in the prisons as elsewhere. Mr. Rotch also ex- 

 pressed his satisfaction at the spread of temperance. The 

 surgeon stated that the mortality had been less last year 

 than in any former year. There had only been 10 deaths 

 among nearly 10,000 persons. The state of the prisons 

 appeared equally satisfactory to the magistracy, who ex- 

 pressed their obligations on this subject to Mr. Sergeant 

 Adams. The rental of the county was returned at about 

 six millions. Mr. Pownall animadverted upon the dis- 

 crepancy which appeared between the county returns and 

 those to the property-tax commissioners, and said there 

 should be one uniform assessment through the county. 



Forgery of Bank Notes. — The discovery of a forgery 

 of Bank of England notes has created great excitement 

 in the city, as it is probable that the fraud has been car- 

 ried on to an alarming extent. The notes discovered to 

 be forgeries are all for 100/., and dated 5th Dec, 1843, 

 and one marked with the letters " Y. E.," although 

 their numbers are different, as if they formed part of a 

 series. " The paper on which they are printed," says 

 the Times, " distinguishes this from all similar attempts 

 that have been known for some years. In the ordinary 

 forgeries of 51. notes, the water-mark has been copied 

 on a wooden block, and a mark, sufficiently like the usual 

 water-mark to deceive the unpractised eye, has been 

 made on the false note by intense pressure. In these 

 100/. notes, on the other hand, there is a real water- 

 mark, such as could only have been obtained by manu- 

 facturing paper expressly for that purpose. The parties 

 who have seen the notes declare that they are such ex- 

 cellent imitations, that none but experienced inspectors 

 of the Bank of England could detect the forgery, and 

 even those only by the most careful examination. 

 As far as can be learned at present, it seems that 

 the perpetrators of the fraud selected the foreign 

 Bourses as the places where they should give circulation 

 to their forgeries. The notes already discovered have 

 come from Brussels and Antwerp ; and it is said that a 

 real note, bearing the same date and letters as the for- 

 geries, and now in the possession of the Bank of Eng- 

 land, can be proved to have travelled to Paris. The 

 supposition is, that this note, which was paid into the 

 Bank of England as far back as last June, is the original, 

 from which the forgeries were made as copies. It is, 

 therefore, far from improbable that the paper was made, 

 and the plate engraved at Paris. The whole amount of 

 notes already discovered is less than 1000/., but there is 

 no reason to believe that this is the whole extent of the 

 fraud. If the forgeries were copied from the note now 

 in the Bank of England, there has been sufficient time 

 to issue a great number of them, and it is hardly to be 

 expected that so much pains would have been taken for 

 the sake of a limited amount. The foreign Bourses are 

 notorious for the facility with which stolen Bank of Eng- 

 land notes are circulated, and considering the absence of 

 immediate check, it is obvious that the facilities for cir- 

 culating forged notes may be equally great. Every cau- 

 tion, therefore, should be used by merchants and all 

 whose business requires them to receive remittances from 

 the Continent, for it is evident that a party has been at 

 work whose acts it requires the greatest vigilance and 



acuteness to detect." 



Robbery at St. Thomas's Church.— On Sunday last, 

 the church of St. Thomas, Southwark, was the scene of 

 unusual confusion, in consequence of the loss of the 

 whole of the communion plate, which had been in the 

 possession of the parish authorities for the last 200 years. 

 It appears that the plate had been deposited in its usual 

 pla.:e of safety at the commencement of the present 

 month, and on opening the safe on Sunday the contents 

 were found to have been removed. 



Building Extensions JVes ltd of London.— Fro -n a 

 statement made at the Southwark Literary Society, the 

 other evening, on a statistical question, it would appear 



that within the past three years upwards of 3000 houses 

 have been erected westward of London. In the King's- 

 roa.i, Chelsea, great improvements are in active opera- 

 tion, and in the Brompton-road the new Hospital for 

 Consumption is rapidly progressing, and the western 

 wing, it is hoped, will be ready for the reception of 

 patients early in the ensuing yeir. 



Excise Seizures. — Within the last few days a seizure 

 of a most extensive character has been made by the 

 excise officers in an ale and porter brewery of consider- 

 able standing, but in rather an obscure district of the 

 metropolis. From information received, the surveying 

 examiners and an officer of excise proceeded to the 

 premises, and made a diligent search, and the result 

 proved that their information was perfectly correct, as 

 they found a large quantity of the ingredients commonly 

 used in the adulteration of beer, and which may almost 

 be considered as a substitute, though a most pernicious 

 one, for both malt and hops ; viz., Coculus indicus, 

 grains of paradise, liquorice, &c. ; in the whole number- 

 ing six descriptions of unwholesome drugs, the whole of 

 which were seized, and samples taken and sealed in the 

 presence of all parties, besides samples of the beer. This 

 se, it is said, will be defended by counsel, and be heard 

 at the next sittings of the Court of Commissioners. 



The Cutaneous Infirmary. — The inhabitants of 

 Bridge-street and its neighbourhood are still actively en- 

 gaged in opposing the establishment of this infirmary in 

 their crowded thoroughfare. The Committee of the 

 Apothecaries' Company have withdrawn the permission 

 'conditionally granted) of supplying hot water to the in- 

 firmary, and i communication to that effect has been 

 forwarded to the f r oratory of the institution. 



Her Majesty's Ship Rattler.— This fine steam-frigate, 

 after having made a great variety of experiments with the 

 different propellers that have been projected by Mr. Smith, 

 Mr. Woodcraft, Mr. Blacbnd, Mr. Steinman, Mr. Sun- 

 derland, and other psrsons, in order to ascertain their 

 comparative merits, made her final trial in the river last 

 week. The screw th*t has been found to produce the 

 highest rate of speed with the smallest consumption of 

 power is that of Mr. Smith, known as the inventor and 

 adapter of the Archimedean screw. The Admiralty have 

 in consequence determined to send the Rattler to sea, 

 fitted with a propeller in accordance with the suggestions 

 of that gentleman. The trial of last week gave an ave- 

 rage speed of 11£ statute miles per hour. The Rattler 

 is G88 tons, and 200 horse-power ; and her sister ship, 

 the Prometheus, similar to her in every respect with the 

 exception of having paddle-wheels, has only reached 8J 

 knots an hour. The Rattler is to be fitted for sea imme- 

 diately; and, in consequence of her success, the Admi- 

 ralty have given orders for six other iron steam-ships, of 

 a large class, to be forthwith constructed on the same 

 principle. 



Mortality of the Metropolis. — The following is the 

 number of deaths registered in the week ending Oct. 19 : 

 West Districts, 145; Northern, 140; Central, 185; 

 Eastern, 18U; Southern, 245 ; Total, 895. Weekly 

 average for the last five years, 946. 



$robfacfel Ncfos. 



Athcrstone. — On Saturday night, between 12 and 

 1 o'clock, the dwelling house of Mr. Thomas Worthing- 

 ton, at Mancetter, near this town, was broken into by a 

 gang of ruffians, wearing black masks, and disguised by 

 black linen, which they wore over their clothes. The 

 house is in a very lonely spot, and a considerable dis- 

 tance from any other dwelling. The burglars com- 

 menced their operations by cutting a hole in the front 

 door, the noise of which disturbed Miss Worthington, 

 who opened a window and inquired what they wanted, 

 on which the burglars said the cows had escaped from 

 the close ; but Mr. Worthington, who had now joined his 

 niece, seeing a gang of five or six fellows, ordered them 

 to be off about their business, or he would shoot them. 

 Of this the burglars took no notice, but continued their 

 operations against the door, and at last succeeded in mak- 

 ing an opening. The inmates, consisting of Mr. Wor- 

 thington, a niece, a grandniece, and a servant lad and 

 maid, were by this time fully prepared, and Mr. Wor- 

 thington, who is in his 89th year, placed himself at the 

 door, and with a drawn sword cut and stabbed at the 

 fellows through the hole they had made, and kept them 

 at bay for a considerable time. Finding they could not 

 obtain admittance in this way, the burglars battered the 

 door to pieces ; but while they were doing so, Miss 

 Worthington brought her uncle his fowling piece, which 

 was loaded with swan shot, and desired him to shoot the 

 villains, and seeing that his aged hands shook so that he 

 could not take an aim, this courageous lady actually 

 pointed and held the gun while her uncle fired. This 

 did not deter the burglars, but, finding the inmates so 

 resolved they tore up the stones in front of the house, 

 and threw them at the old gentleman and his niece, 

 who still kept their places in the hall, defending the en- 

 trance ; when, at length, after half an hour's fighting, 

 and no assistance appearing, and Mr. Worthington being 

 wounded in the temple and in various parts of the body, 

 his niece, who stood firmly by his side during the con- 

 flict, parleyed with the robbers, and asked whether they 

 wanted their lives, when one of them, who acted as 

 spokesman, said all they wanted was money, and they 

 did not want to hurt them. The lady then said, if they 

 would promise not to hurt her uncle, no further resist- 

 ance should be made, which the robbers promised ; but 

 the old gentleman still continued resolute, and stood at 

 the door with his sword, threatening to cut down the 

 first who approached, the blood all the while pouring 



