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Though the Court and the Parliament, and all the multitude of town residents who follow the Court and Parliament, are now in Scotland or in the provinces, or abroad, still London has not in the least the air of a deserted capital. Indeed, as you walk the great thoroughfares at about three hours before noon, or at about six and eight in the evening, you think them more crowded and choked than ever. It is the flocks of country cousins, still congregating to the Great Exhibition. The Lon- doners themselves have seen it nearly as much they list, and they form but a thin sprinkling of the daily crowd. But now that the harvest ope- rations are pretty nearly over throughout England, the rustic popu- lation has come up by the excursion-trains, and is gorging the London streets.
The proportion of the visitors who pay upon admission, to the total number, is now considerably greater than at an earlier period of the Ex- hibition. The returns for the week give these results-
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The St Pancras Vestry have entered into a contract with Messrs. Pratt and Sewell for the paving of the New Road, from St. Pancras New Church to King's Cross, with small granite blocks such as those used on the ascent to the London side of Blackfriars Bridge. The work is to be done in twelve weeks from the 226 instant, and to cost about 68001..
The adjourned inquest on the body of Charles Kregeloh, the young Ger- man who stabbed Mrs. and Miss Brand, at Tottenham, and then killed him- sell; was concluded on Tuesday. Miss Brand is convalescent, but the mother still suffers from her wound.- The young lady was examined. When Kre- geloh lodged at her father's, he seemed of "a mild and comfortable disposi- tion"; but he had since appeared to be labouring under some delusion. He usually carried a stiletto. On the day of his death he complained of his head ; the top was very hot. He talked and behaved in a strange manner. When he returned at night, Miss Brand was alone in the house ; her mother was in the garden. He looked "very wild." He put his hand in his pock- et, and Miss Brand screamed, for she saw he pulled out a dagger. "He im- mediately stabbed Inc in the chest. He repeated the blow twice. I did not at first feel myself wounded. I slipped aside, so as partly to elude the blows. I taied to get away, but he still held me by the hand. He fell down in the struggle, and, in trying to stab me again, cut my hand. That wound was not deep. He again made a thrust at me. I caught the blade of the dag- ger in my hand. He withdrew it with great vengeance. I caught the blade a second time in my hand. He drew it out again, and instantly, plunged it into his own body twice, and then fell. At this moment my mo- ther rushed into the room, and screamed out 'Murder !' He then attempt- ed to get on his hands and knees, and aimed another blow at me; when my mother rushed in between us, and was stabbed in the upper part of her chest. The wound was very severe. I then saw him raise himself again, and he stabbed himself in the chest. My mother ran out of the house into the street,. and I followed. All this took place in the kitchen." There was no calms to excite jealousy in the German's mind. Mrs. Smith, with whom
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£1200 5s. 2767 17 2795 1 2400 6 2637 19 1906 0 he had lodged, deposed to his strange conduct. He suddenly absented him.. self, ,tuid did not return for thrke weeks. "I tolithim he ought to have let medium that Inywas going; as,L had sat up ferriiiin. He answered, that it was-tione for binuteo, as thelgople in the street cried out, • Kregeloh, kill; Ktegeloh, PM kill.' I told him they aaid..no such things; they cried %Koh ; milk* pk.' Movaiski.' Yes ; whenellputiny head out of the win- dow they cried, £Milk, oh' but then r thaw it-in again they cry, loh, I'll kill.' I told him Mt:-.Brand had called when he was away. Re seeined much annoyed, and exclaimed, When I was there last, Mr. Brand 'said, Kill :Kregeloh' ; and Mrs. Brand said, 'Kill Kregeloh'; Mr. Brand said, Let us stuff his mouth with potatoes and wool, and then rip him open." The Jury gave a venlictof ."Temporary insanity."
John Caffery, a marble-polisher, has been remanded by the Clerkenwell Magistrate on a charge of beating his son, a boy of fourteen, with a red-hot poker. Policeman Grebe heard cries of "Murder !" he entered the house, but Caffery refused to admit him- to his room ; Crib* forced the door, and found him beating his naked boy with a red-hot -poker. The Policeman at- tempted to seize the wretch ; who thereupon struck- him a blow that _crushed his hat. Mrs. Caffery now arrived, and assisted' her husband to throw the constable down stairs : but Crebo managed to keep, the street-door open till aid arrived. A certificate from the surgeon of St. Pancras Infirmary stated that the boy was suffering from severe, contusions and burns on the baek, shoulders, legs, and face. Caffery said,,his son had been a had boy, robbing his father and the neighbours. ......
Walter . Whittaker has-been committed from the .Mansionhousefor-assault- ing Policeman Stride with intent to inflict grievous bodily harm. The Police- man had to take him from a public-house where he was riotous, and hi the street Whittaker suddenly dashed the stem of 's tobacco-pipe into the officer's face. A surgeon, " after three-quarters .of.an liour'shard work,'! cutting into the flesh and breaking_ away bone, drew out a..piece_of pipe nearly two inches long from the cavity of the upper jaw. The -case was so extraordinary, that the surgeon could hardly hazard an opinion what the effects would be ; perhaps the loss of the upper jaw.
The first assent of a balloon from foyer's Symposium, on Monday evening, was a dangerous one. There were-four persons in the oar: at Fulham, the balloon burst, and the gas rapidly escaped : one of the aironauts managed to give the mass of silk something of the shape of a parachute, by which means they escaped with a slight shock and sonic alarm-. Mrs. Johnson, a widow of the groat age of ninety-one, has been killed at Walworth by falling from a window while wandering about. the upper part of a house at night in her sleep.. She was under the care of a nurse, who was not aware that eke had left her bed till roused by a young man who saw her fall upon the pavement.
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