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Miscellaneous. Princk Alfred, It Is Said...
lowing is a verbatim copy of ad entry made in the Derb <¦< Chaplain ' s Book" by one of these gentlemen : — Sep- purp tember 14 . Attended and held Divine Service at they grou ; real Time The congregation Very Fair and very atten- of up tive and it was indeed a Time Be remembered may God confc water There They Sowers and Seed . " . ¦ with Mr . Collier , M . P ., addressed his constituents on the then evening of Friday week , on . the chief political topics of ware the day . He gave a limited support to Lord Palmer- artic ston ' s Government , and advocated reform of many social , beloi commercial , and legal abuses . tort Deer-stalking and Highland Depopulation . — D : Mr . John S . Blackie Writes to the Times from the cider Edinburgh University , on the subject of the depopula- dinn tion of the Braemar district for tie advantage of the the lovers of deer-stalking . He observes : — - " What strikes were a stranger most in the Braemar district , after he has re- medi covered from his first stupendous admiration of moun- even tains and pine-forests , is the great number of ruined heal houses that are everywhere prominent in the glens ; that , ally in fact , many glens which had lately contained a con- the siderable population of industrious peasants present no- mar thing now but a solitude and a gamekeeper ' s house . To sno- \ English sportsmen , of course , this must be a very agree- hav able spectacle ; but to a Scotchman who loves his Ihf country , and who knows that the strength and the pride I hi of Scotland were in her cottars , there can be few things but more sorrowful . In no part of Europe , indeed , except in sucl Greece , have I seen anything that so affected me with ant sadness as in these beautiful glens of my native High- mu < land ¦ .. hills '; - and my enjoyment of the sublime and kno beautiful in mountain scenery was grievously marred by hea the constant contemplation of 'deserted villages' and this green spots of grass , where the young soldiers that feet fought in Spain and Waterloo had mn-sed their heroism , He how preserved only as a winter banquet for wild deer . Gle But what affected me with a yet deeper sorrow was the I universal feeling of despondency and hopeless despair felt that had taken possession of the remaining population , two Every poor man in that district had some sad remini- rena scences of an abandoned home arid of banished friends , tiov and , when you entered into conversation with him with at I regard to his own future prospects , you were sure to 1 learn that the man considered his fate as altogether de- daj pendent on persons in whose estimation one royal stag jesi was of infinitely greater value than a hundred honest im ] tenants . " " ^ he Children Poisoned by Laburnum Seeds . —About am a dozen young children at Otley , in the West Riding of goi Yorkshire , have been nearly killed by eatin g largely of Ca seeds gathered from some laburnum trees which had been hei cut down hi the neighbourhood . They were seized with an rigidity of the limbs , closing of the eyes , and a livid ap- Sc < pearance of the face . SuTgical aid having been procured , emetics were administered , and the children recovered . lat An Antiquarian Discovery at Jerusalem . —Mr . off J . M . Bellew , who has been recently staying at Jeru- ha salem , has written a very interesting letter to the Times , m < in which he states that he has been admitted into the gr < sacred precincts of the Mosque of Omar ( the site of gr ; Solomon ' s Temple )—an honour riot usually conferred on Christians . "While walking on a grassy platform , planted cci with olive-trees , in the neighbourhood of the mosque of and of the south-eastern corner of the city walls , he To made a curious discovery . He writes : — " I observed a small opening in the ground , where evidently a block of nr stoiie in an arch had fallen in , discovering a vault be- Ti neath . In the chamber in the foundations of the south- m east corner of the walls ( where , by the way , the Sheikh A gravely showed me the recesses in which Zacharias re- si sided , and the ' cradle in which he rocked the infant w Christ' —a Roman niche , cut in marble , and laid on its u ; back upon the ground ; the circular head , as is common , R being carved like a shell , and suggesting to the ignorant ft Mussulman an appropriate place for the head of the p cradle ) , and in the very remarkable vaulted passages y under El Aksa it is impossible to resist the conviction a that the masonry , gigantic as the blocks of stone and j pillars are , must , at least , be of Roman , perhaps even of o Jewish construction . In examining them my mind re- c curred to tho vault beneath the olive-trees , and it struck d me that it must be much on the same level underground as the south-east chamber and tho El Aksa vaults . I accordingly examined , tho whole of that platform of olive-trees very minutely , and I was enabled to satisfy myself that from tlio south-cast corner of the walls , and from the Mosquo El Aksa , tho whole area stretching towards tho Beautiful Gate is one mass of vaulted chambers . I came upon one vault , adjoining the walls , where the roof had broken in , and into which I vainly begged to be permitted to descend and explore . Enough , however , appeared in -various directions to prove the existence of a series of vaults , and I discovered that tho olive-trees above have in places struck through tho roofs with their roots ; they have then descended through tho chambers beneath , and again taken root in tho solid earth . " Mr . Bellow considers that these vaults wore necessary for tho purpose of forming an artificial level between tho various hills , on which to build the STomplo or any other edifice . Discovery op Anglo-Saxon Graves . —A discovery of considerable interest , throwing much light upon the funeral rites of our Saxon ancestors , was accidentally niado a short time ago in tho garden attached to tho residence of Mr . Charles Carill Worsley , at Winatcr , pur ground of with the ware articles belong to the Dk cident dinner the were mediatel evening health ally the ¦ many i - have i I » I 3 but i such i an - much 1 know I heaTd I this t feet He ' e E r felt i two - r tion h at 0 . - days cr jesty st their it and of of > n her th and p . c late r a- > s he of m ed ue of ' a of , e- ; h- kh re- mt its on , ant the ces ion » nd 1 of of re- uck und of I of isfv and Line Itcd alia , inly igh \ ex- ' lh ° o ndod ot in aults ftcial tie ; tally do , v , ter
' Derbyshire . WhUe lowering a bank of earth for the the c pose of making some improvements in the pleasure- ansvs , the labourers uncovered two graves at the depth forwi upwards of four feet from the present surface , each an E containing a human skeleton , lying on its right side a yoi the knees drawn -up and the head pointing towards In c < north-east . Some spear-heads , p ieces of an earthen- and 1 vessel , a bead , and some other small m anufactured un de , were also found . The remains are said to year to the period dating from the end of the fifth eithe eighth century . were . Rae , the Akcxic Traveller . —A singular in- conti occurred at the Lochabar Agricultural Society's Timi . A gentleman , apparently a tourist , arrived ( says Engl Edinburgh Courant ) at the hotel just as the party state about to sit down to dinner ; he asked , and wasim- wno y granted , permission to join ; throughout the asks he made himself particularly agreeable , and his Yorl was proposed as the " Stranger , " and very cordi- smit drunk . On rising to return thanks , he said : — " In desc : course of my life , I have seen some rough days and " 3 ST < pleasant ones . I have lived ten months in a kno : snowhouse without once warming myself at afire ; I that had my mocassins cut off my legs with a hatchet ; mea have had to kill my own food with my own gun , and som have been reduced to the necessity of living on bones ; leas all these things are easily forgotten when I meet pos < a pleasant party as that now around me . As I am whi entire stranger . to you all , and as I have received so but kindness from you , it is T > ut fair that you should be who I am . My name is Rae , and you may have anc it associated with the Franklin Expedition . " At so announcement , the astonished party started to their fou and gave Dr . Rae a most enthusiastic reception . tes 1 had been on a visit to Mr . Edward Ellice , II . P ., at tivi Glenquoich , and was on his way to Castle Menzies . ... . 1 authquake in . Egypt . —A shock of earthquake was of c throughout Egypt on the 12 th instant . At Cairo , Tu hundred houses were thrown down , and the In remainder were nearly all damaged . The vast popula- pai had encamped outside the city . The shock was felt cob Smyrna , and in many of the islands of the Levant . . ] Improvements at Balmoral . —During the last two Coi of the residence of the Court at Balmoral her Ma- of : and the Prince were engaged in giving orders for 151 improvements at the castle , to be carried out previous to the next visit , and the laying out of new shrubberies me flower-beds in the grounds . The works are now to : going forward with spirit . The clock-tower at Balmoral res Castle was furnished , with its clock ere the Queen took le < departure . The striking bell has a verjrfine tone , c * can be heard at a great distance among the hills . — an ^ ^ gru H > R BlsIIOP . _ The friends of this ad eminent composer , who for many years held the ^ office of Professor of Music to the University of Oxford , be have commenced a subscription , in order to raise a monu- ot ment to his memory , and above all to purchase the bi ground that covers his remains , and thus prevent his lo < grave from being forgotten . Camels in America . —Some camels have been re- - ccntly imported into the United States for the purpose tt conveying travellers , baggage , & c , over the deserts of po 6 The City Gas-Works . —The General Purposes Com- M mitteeofthe City Commission of Sewers presented on W Tuesday their report on the question . of ^ thc alleged m nuisance caused by the City gas-works at Wlntcfnars . n After giving a brief sketch of the statements on both in sides , they conclude : —" After maturely considering the si whole question , and being distinctly advised that neither s < under your own act of Parliament nor the Nuisances ei Removal Act have you any jurisdiction in tins case , ami n feeling that it is rather for the magistracy of the City to I t < prosecute an indictment in such a case as this than for t you / because they have always been accustomed so to do , i and because it is doubtful whether you would be legally t justified in burdening your rates with the heavy costs such indictments , —for these reasons we beg to re- commend that you lay the whole of the evidence and i documents in this case before the Lord Mayor and Court i Aldermen , that they may direct such steps to be J taken in the case as they may bo advised . " ll » e report was ¦ agreed to , only two hands being held up aguinst it . < The French Inundations . —The Lord Mayor hash remitted a further sum of 15 , 000 f . to the fund for the , relief of tho sufferers by the French inundations . 11 ns raises the total to 850 , 000 f . or 84 , 000 ? . sterling . Suspicious Death .-The body of a Mr . Wilson , a ' merchant of Dundee , lias been found m the Thames * off , Irongntc-stairs , Tower . Twenty-four sovereigns , a 5 L Bank of England note , and a silver watch , were found ^ BeTlAuonna koic Ladibb' EYES .-Thc Lancet alludes in terms of just indignation to tho sale of belladonna to ladies , for tho purpose , ns the vendors unblualunglv advcrti / c , cf giving " brilliancy , vivacity , and the power of fascination to the eye . " Tho writer grants that it may have this power , but he adds that it is at tho pnc « of injuring the eye itself . If persevered in , it may lead tO SfSR . CM Danck of DK ^ a . -Thoextraordlnary story which , wo quoted from tho ' /' ., »« two weeks .. go under this heading lma of " course led to a long controversy and the oxprosslon of considerable doubt w to i the ¦ answer i forward i an s a i In ¦ and L under > year l either were - 3 Times 3 Eng ' - who $ asks 3 York - smith l I " INew a know I that ; means d some ; least it posed ai which jo but Ld be ^ e and Lt so sir ri . te at- tive as of ¦ o , ne The a- parish jit . to a- of " or 15 to then ies ment > w ral ok teen ne , - any his the rd , m- of the his re- — ose j of Mr , m- on Wi ¦» ed in irs . , 0 th in the her ices and v to 1 to I for , do , ¦ ally josts are- and iourt o be sport st it . has the This n , a a off a 5 / . ound hides na to y ad- [ . owcr , at it pric « r lead nordi- weeks 5 con- t aB to I
. . correctness , and even the veracity , of the writer , In to these criticisms , the correspondent has come ; with his real name . He is a Mr . Arrowsmith , Englishman who emigrated to America in 1828 when young man : the alleged events occurred last August . connexion with these fresh particulars , the Examiner the Standard make a strange blunder , being both the impression that the duellings occurred in . the 1828 , though at that time there were no railways in the United States or in England , and revolvers uninvented . Tliis , however , by the way . The controversy does not seem to be yet terminated , as the of Wednesday contains a letter from a "New lander , " who shows that many of Mr . Arrowsmith's statements are inconsistent with well-known facts , and believes that that gentleman has been hoaxed- He why he did not make the statements known at New instead of in London . Alluding to Mr . Arrow' s assertion that such scenes as those he has described are of frequent occurrence in Georgia , the Englander" . exclaims : —" What ! does the man what Iris words really mean ? He actually says five fatal duels and the murder of a child are by no uncommon occurrences in that region , and that one is killed on that line almost daily ! Here , at , is an assertion to which a direct denial can Tie op-. This * ls no statement of a specific fact against any ' general' denial is comparatively ineflBcient , a broad allegation as to a condition of things saidto permanent arid notorious ; and I say , peremptorily unhesi-tatingly , that this assertion alone is so rash , monstrous , and so devoid of even the shadow of foundation , that , according to all general princtpies of stimony , it should invalidate the whole of the narra-. " ¦ - : '¦ ¦ . - ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' ' ¦ " - . . ' - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦•¦ ' ¦ ¦/¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ : ¦ :, ¦ ' , ' . - ' The Nkw Bishop of London . —The formal ceremony electing the new Bishop of London took place on Tuesday ia the Chapter House , St . Paul ' s-churchyard . confirination of the election will take place in the chuTch of St . Mary-le-Bow next Friday , and the consecration in Lambeth Palace on the following Sunday . Reform : of the Corporation of Londou- —A Common Hall was held on Wednesday for the purpose receiving the report of the committee appointed on the th of April " last to carry out the resolutions and petition agreed upon , in opposition to the bill then in Parlia-, entitled "A Bill for the better Regulation ofthe Corporation of the City of London , " and to pass such resolutions as may seem advisable . The report having read , a resolution adopting it was unanimously carried . Other resolutions , pledging the livery to oppose interference with their just privileges , but at the same time to introduce all necessary reforms , were adopted , and the hall then broke up . . ' Cijmbbso Boys at Pkesxon . —A public meeting has been held at Preston to protest against the employment climbing boys in sweeping chimneys . The Chimney Sweepers Act is described as a dead letter in this locality . ¦ _ Liability of Rectorial Tithes to Sewek-Kates . Mrs . Wood , of Wilford-villa , Ryd « , in the Isle of Wight , was summoned on Monday before the \ Metropolitan Board of Works for the non-payment of 91 . os . . Woolrych , the solicitor to the Board , said that Mrs . Wood resided at Wilford-villa , Ryde , Isle of ght , and she had been assessed in the sum of Ql . os . respect of two scwer-rates in the Fulham and Haramcrsmith district , under the Metropolitan Sewers Act , respect to rectorial tithes in the parish of Hammersmith . She denied her liability ; but the Board , having sought legal advice , were instructed that they could enforce tlie demand . Mrs . Wood did not appear either personally or by her solicitor , and a motion was carried , the effect that a distress be issued for the recovery ot the amount . The subject will probably lead to great . litigation , as Mrs . Wood is said to be determined , to try the question in a court of law . Consecration of a Roman Catholic Bishop . — The Right Rev . Michael Desire Vesque , tive newly-. appointed Roman Catholic Bishop of Rosean , Dominica , was consecrated last Sunday morning at bt . Marys , Moorfields . Cardinal Wiseman officintcd . M « . Clakkson , the barrister , died on the afternoon of Friday week at Brighton , after considerable suffering , arising from the formation of a carbuncle jn tho nape of the neck . Ikeland— The new Jujdgb of Aitkal . —Tho Kignt Hon . Francis Blackburne , Lord Chancellor under tlic Government of Lord Derby , hns been appointed Lorcl Justice of the new Court of Appeal under tlio act ot last session . . - Cuysxal Paiack Railway . —Tlio first section of the West of London and the Crystal Palace line , from the Crystal Palace to Wandsworth , was formally openea or traffi c on Thursday . ! ¦ „„„ - « , DlNNKU TO COLONEL LAKE . —A P * T , l ! given by the Mayor of Grhnsby ftlr . Chartoa BarAolomow Moody ) in honour of Colonel Lake , C . B ., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen , & c , at tho Yarborough Hotel , Grimsby , on Wednesday evening . r lho Earl of J mrborougli , the High Steward of the borough , and Lord Worslcy , had accepted tho Mayor ' s invitation , and purposed being present , but wore prevented by the » recent ( loath of Lord Hawardcn . Tho Mayor presided , and the Colonel had a v « ry cordial reception .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 1, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01111856/page/9/
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