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In. Consideration Of The Admirable Hospi...
them to da the work thoroughly at once . He wovVS suggaifc tothe meeting that they should prepare eviaerice * , and submit it to the commissions which Government was about to form in connexion with tie subject . " After the delivery of several other speeehe 3 to the same effect , and the adoptioa of resolutions condemnatory of the scheme of the Board of Works , and expressing ap ^ proval of the Government Commission for investigating theaabjeot of the utilization of sewage , the meeting separated . Sbszvbe and Sale of Pujbwc Works at Rotbe &~ i ? w—The Board of Health for the town of Rotherhani , ia the West Riding of Yorkshire , which was appointed after the passing of ike Health of Towns Act ,
immediately inaugurated expensive systems of drainage and water-supply . The members borrowed , on the security of the rates , and in accordance with the powers given them by the act , to the extent of 32 , 000 ? . ; but even this sum they largely exceeded . They undertook to execute private drainage through their own contractors for a very small per centage ab ' ove the actual cost . To meet these expenses , it was found necessary to impose heavy rates ; but the townspeople became dissatisfied , a meeting was held , and a committee was appointed to investigate the board ' s affairs . A . strongly condemnatory report was sent in ; new members were elected out of the committee to serve on the hoard ; and a stop "was put to further expenditure . It was found impossible , however , to meet the engagements already entered into . Legal proceedings were consequently resorted to by several of the board ' s creditors , and a few days ago their
expensive waterworks , engines , offices , « c , were seized by the sheriff ' s officer at the suits of the Ea-rl of Effiagham for 1100 Z ., Mr . Simpson ( contractor ) for 900 ? ., and Beecroft , Butler , and Co ., for about 1500 / . At the close of last -week , the works were sold to the seizing credito-is on . an appraisement l ) y the sheriff ' s officer . The consequence is that , after an expenditure by-the board of about 40 , 000 ? ., the inhabitants are entirely at the mercy of the creditors for their water supply , and also in a great measure for their drainage , the efficiency of which is largely dependent upon the water supply . Claims to the amount of 400 OJ . or 5000 Z . are still unsatisfied ; and it is fea-red that the disasters of the town will be further aggravated by proceedings in the Court of Chancery on the part of the uapaid creditors . In the neighbouring town of Worksop , tie local Board of Health have likewise involved themselves in pecuniary difficulties , and a few days ago had their office fixtures , & c , seized for
rent * Railway Assessment . — -The Assistant Judge at the Middlesex Sessions gave judgment on Tuesday in the appeal cases of theXondon and . South-Western Railway Company , against the poor-rate of Staines . He said the claim on the part of the appellants was that the rate should be reduced to 159 ? ., while the case ' for the respondents was that it should continue at 6661 . The decision of the court would be that the rate be fixed at 460 / . Costs would not be given , because , although this litigation had lasted from 1851 , great fairness had been shown by both parties , and the proceedings had been most properly conducted . An arrangement was then made with respect to the other rates , and a list of eighteen casea was disposed of .
Prince Adah Czartoryskj . —The venerable Prince Czartoryski , in his capacity of President of the Polish Historical Society at Paris , has recently addressed its members in a long and interesting speech . While reviewing the political events which have just been accomplished—events pregnant with hopes for the Polish cause —he seemed to reproach his countrymen with not having quickly profited by the circumstances occasioned by the late war ; but he also averred tbat the attitude of the Allied Powers towards the Poles was not of a nature to encourage their efforts . Still , ho believed that the foreign policy of Europe had of late become broader and more liberal , and ho thought that there is still hope for Poland .
AsaENio in the Tea-kettle . —The trials of Palmer and Dove have caused a great deal of investigation into tho nature of arsenic , not only in England , but abroad . Professor Otto , of Brunswick , being aware of the fact that metal invariably exists in the ochreous deposits of water , thought of examining for arsenic in tho crust which had formed on the inside of his toakettle , and had not the slightest difficulty , by tho application of Marsh ' s test , in demonstrating its presence there . The water jracd in London deposita a large amount of crust on the inside of teakettles . That crust holds a variable portion of oxide of iron , and , probably , if subjected to chemical teats , will be found to contaia arsenic .
Health of London . —The total number of deaths registered in London in the week that ended on Saturday ya . 1069 , being very nearly tho same as in tho preceding week . In the corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 ttw iwnerago number of deaths was 1247 ; but the deaths of last week occurred in au increased population , ami , thflrjr awto be compared with the average , the latter should be raised proportionately to the increase , in wliich ease it will become 1372 . It appoars that tho number to the present return is less by 300 than would have been , returned if the avorage rate of mortality had prcvaikd . The number of death * referred lust week to auseaseo of tho zymotic class is 211 ; tho corrected av « a «« of corresponding -weeks ia 278 . Hoopingc * u « b , which for aeven previous weeks had shown great
Bjtffpnnity of results , the sreekJy anwber of deaths , having besen about 40 , increased last week to 03 . Typhus and common fever ranked next ia th . 9 order of mortality , and were fatal to 38 persons . The deaths caused by diseases affecting the respiratory organs were 233 , nearly the same as in the previous week , and considerably less than , the average . Fatal cases of ^ pjveu- * monia or inflammation of the luags decreased in two weeks from 93 to 67 . Phthisis ox consumption , which is not included in the class above rr \ entioned , caused 128 deaths , the corrected average being 135 . Only two nonogenarians died in the week , viz ., two widows , aged respectively 91 and 92 years . —Last week , the births of 749 boys and 723 girls , in all 1472 children , - ^ ere registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks , of the years 1846-55 , the average number \ ras 1382 . * ' - From the Reaistrar-GeneraVs Weekly Return .
The United Association op Schoouuasiers held their third annual meeting on Monday at the Society of Arts , under the presidency of Mr , W . M'Leod . The report gave an unfavourable account of the state of the society . The Rev . Dr . Booth delivered the inaugural address . —The second meeting took place oa Tuesday , when the Rev . G . R- G-leig lectured " On the Influence of the Teacher in Promoting Civilization . " Australia . —There is a Ministerial crisis , at Sydney ., the Governor having refused to dissolve the Legislature . Mr . Cowrper has laid on the table a despatch announcing the establishment of a line of steam communication with Great Britain . —Gold is said to have been discovered at Dwyer ' s Creek , near Mornya , Melbourne ; and black lead ore has been found on the side of Mount Kembla
A new gold field has also turned up at Callan ; and there appears to be no doubt that the whole country round about Rocky River teemB with auriferous ore . —A good summer trade was expected at Melbourne . The prices of gold -was 75 s . to 77 s . per ounce . 85 , 000 ounces of gold had been shipped in the week ending October 18 . —Mr . R . H . Home has offered himself to the electors of Rodney , Victoria , as a candidate for their suffrages on democratical principles .
Mr . Thackeray s Lectures . —Mr . Thackeray , on Tuesday evening , delivered at the Marylebone Institute the first ' of his celebrated lectures on " the Four Georges , " which he first delivered in the United States last winter , and has subsequently read in Scotland and the manufacturing districts . The first George engrossed the whole of the discourse on Tuesday evening ; and to him Mr . Thackeray gave but a poor character , personally , though admitting that he served the countrj r welL The lecturer was received with the greatest cordiality .
Christmas Charity . — A considerable number of indigent persons have been relieved from the poor-box by the Marlborough-street magistrates during the week ending last Saturday . About sLxty applicants received small but very welcome sums , varying according to character and circumstances from 53 . to 1 Oa . It was found necessary to limit the amount for distribution , as the donations of the benevolent , though liberal in amount , have not reached in the aggregate the average of former years . The class of persons relieved were widows with families , old and infirm people , servants out of place , occasionally supplied with suitable clothing when situations were obtained , sempstresses , and any of those cases which the Poor Law as administered would not reach . The number relieved during the year has been from four hundred to five hundred . All cases nro
investigated by the chief usher before any money is disbursed . Suicide . —Mr . John Jackson , a middle-aged man , the chief warder of Millbank Prison , has killed himself by taking prussic acid . The motive for the act is not known , and the coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of temporary insanity . The Roman Inquisition has issued an encyclical letter declaring tliat the Church does not admit the practice of animal magnetism .
Dkatii from Starvation . —An inquest was hold on Tuesday at Dudley , before Mr . Robinson , coroner for Worcestershire , on the body of an old man , name unknown , who was found lying in the road close to tho town on . Sunday morning last . He was in a dying state , and was conveyed by the police in a wheelbarrow to the workhouse , but died before he reached that refugo . Tho stomach was afterwards found to bo perfectly empty , and it seemed probable that the man had died from starvation , exposure , and disease .
The Recent Escape from the House of Detention . —Notwithstanding the vigilance of tlio police and the officers of the prison , Davis , the prisoner who recently escaped from tho House of Detention , still remains at largo . A melancholy incident in connexion with the matter occurred last Sunday , in the death from nervous excitement of Nathanial Forth , an old officer of the prison . Forth was warder in charge of that division of the prison from which tho eacapo was effected ; and it Booms that tlio circumstance ao preyed upon him that ho Avont out of hia mind , and died in a otnte of ravin /? madness . He has left a wife and a largo family . Nxmspavkh OBmunY . —Tlie Sheffield iris , formerly edited by tho poet Montgomery , was published for tho last time on . Wednesday morning .
Southampton Election Gossip . —It recently camo out that Lord Palmerston had said to a tradesman of his at BroacUJmds , Hampshire , that M > . Andrews , though a good fellow enough , " was not lit for
Parlianueinfl , being .-uneducated , ; and - $ h « t AJ & -WeguaUn Tptaa the right wan . These x ? f > 5 aiow he . jrfp ^ ated two w tl » r $ e times . JVtr . Andrews , on . heawijrtt ^ % . \? rote < to £ « $ Pahuerstpn , requesting tote infowaa ^ d . - ^ hetber the «^ , pressions . had really been used by hjm . L ^ grni Paknej > ston , in leply , admitted the truth , « f , the atategwuts , while at the same time complimenting Mr . An 4 jwws on the high position hje had attained , in . { b & municipality which he considers his proper sphere Hjs Jordshja ! however , dspneQates the idea of intending to interfere io the election iu any way , and . says that he , has written to Mr . Laukester ( the tEadesman ) , who had commit . te . d " . a gross violation of confidence " in soaking public tfcaA which was merely a . priyata convarsafcHin . After consul ting ^ with bis friends , Mr . Ajadrev * wrote again to hjg loxdshnp-Oft Monday , requesting perx » is 8 «) . n to publish the ep * resp < Hide . njee . To > this letter , ivq .-reply has yet been leceivedv ? .
Bvknbt c * of A SHHV ~ . Tae ] % ra , < tfrSunderfond , was totally consjomed by fire on , hsr way fco Egypt with a eargo . of coa 4 » & om Kevreaatle . Tha cat «& tropie appaarg to hare j » eaulted frona , sjxjntaneous Qombustion . The crewescapsd . DJWPW MK , JowaJ ^ Txox F . & . A .- ~ Mv . Britton died oa Tlwtrsday morning , at his residence , £ urt « u « street , Burton-crescent , at the age of eighty-six . Hj § au-tebiograpiy is left onfjajbhed ^ His > birth was . humble ; his career chequered and laborious ; and his edsucatioa © f bis own acquiring . He -was bora ia * Wiltshire , bu ^ the greater part of his life was spent in . London . Fexo de Ss . —A girl ,, not muck nvre than fiiieen yeaia old , has drowned herself at Exeter , owing to disappointed love , the object of her afectioa being a lad about eighteen , who had quarrelled with her . A verdict of Jela (& * e has been returned by toe coroner ' s jury , followed by the usual petty vengeance .
Fire ax a Bah . wat Station . — - ^ l few nights since , the Great Northern Railway station at iancoln narrowly escaped being burnt down . In one of the rooms a large fire had been left burning through tli © night for those ¦ who came by the early morning trains . At five in the morning , the watchman smelt burning , and discovered that the heated hearthstone had set fire to the rafters under the floor . Part of the furniture was also scorched and charred . As soon as it was discovered , the danger was averted by a plentiful supply of water . Floods in the Weak . —A heavy fresh in the river Wear , on Wednesday , did damage to the amount of upwards ofl 000 / . among the shipping in the harbour at SunderLand .
Another Railway Tuatjd . —A warrant was obtained on Thursday of the Leeds magistrates for the apprehension of a young man , named Edward Antey , of Bentinck-street , Leeds . Ajitey , who has been a clerk for some months in the office of Mr . Martin Cawood , secretary to the Leeds , Bradford , and Halifax Junction Bailway ,-was taken into custody on that afternoon , at the offices of the company , in Bradford . He is charged with having forged the names of the directors to three dividend warrants , by -which he netted about 40 / . The prisoner was lodged in the Leeds lock-up yesterday afternoon , and is debarred all intercourse with any professional adviser until the railway company are in a position to be able to prosecute . Antey , who is respectably connected , was to be brought up before the magistrates on Friday morning , on the charge ; but it is expected that a remand -will be necessary .
Destructive Fire at Bombay . —We lately ( says a letter from India ) had a calamitous fire in Bombay , which though not occasioning any very enormous amount of loss in the aggregate , ie lamentable from falling almost entirely on the property of military officers ill able to bear it . During tho dry season the officers connected with the native regiments of the Presidency have to provide themselves with quarters as they best can , these for the most part consisting in touts , in thatched cottages , and a thatched mess-house , all in the last degree combustible . A week ago a cook room in
tho mitlst of these caught fire , and in a moment the whole flimsy structures around it were in a blaze . Within half an hour property to the value of some ten or fifteen thousand pounds had been consumed , none of it insured , and all of it belonging to men o £ moderate or scanty means . Destructive fires had occurred in the end of October at Rangoon , and on the 22 nd of November at Kurrachce ; and these breaking out close to each other have been set down by the natives as direct visitations from Heaven for some act of sacrilege latoly committed at the ehrine of some one of their numl ) orles 3 deities .
Pehsonation op a Jujrymak . —Soon aftor the commencement of tho second trial before tho Kecorcler at tho Loeda Borough Sessions a few days ago , it was discovered that one of the potty jury men . who had answered to the name of William Edmund L « e , draper , Kirkgate , nnd who had sat tho whole of the day before , wits not tho person represented , but a shopman named < jeorgo Ryder , in tho employ of Mr . Leo . Tho trial was immediately stopped , and another juryman sworn . Ooorgn Ryder was ordered to bo detained in custody . 1 lid defence is , tliat hia mastor was exceedingly bu « y attending the wool sales , and that ho requested him to attoml on tho jury , and answer to his ( Mr . Lee's ) name when called upon . Ho was quite unaware , ho says , thut ho was committing any olFcuco . We underatund that the Recorder "will communicate with tho Attorney-General
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 3, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03011857/page/10/
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