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The Ministerial papers say that the quar...
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The family of Mr. John Bobby, tho propri...
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At the weekly meeting of the Repeal Asso...
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The Courrier De Lyons States That Betwee...
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rp v . L -Pfltifttna Bailroaa ompnuj « iCv . « . ~ ... „ — . —~ . ? fffiSirers with a view to commence operations ri oSi fflx ? i « - * »*** 400 fe , exclusive of as soon as tneaj fc from thg Umted officers ^ d engxneer ^ na ^ e g ^ ot her materials sta ? Mn « SSS ? £ 3 ? No fe 8 S than ^ y : ei s htsaiI f are leaving jWJ j claages , have left for the general ^ t " ftL c ompany at Kavy W , and si * Steam pue-^ AdvL * fro « Ja « ai 6 a , o *< tbtf 12 th of DStteinbef , itt ^ , „„ that the cholfera had most singularly declined m £ _ pll ndSt Catherine ' s . In Kingston a few
cases only remained but in the provinces the disease -AStiSaW and with very many fatal results . ^ rSTntelKgenee froAl Ca lifornia- i * eted Atimgk * The dhK nad bJn making ftifftt * mp » it tte to , interior The death * at Sacramento city for six weeks , Sous to the 14 th of November , were about eighty a dav Four men wert daily employed Hi digging graves , and a ' t night fhifteen corpses remained unburied . The nonunion in consequence of the deaths and- flight of fhe ? nhaWtan ^ , was " educed from 15 , 000 t » 1500 .
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The Ministerial papers say that the quarter's revenue will show a very trifling decrease-if any-when compared With the corresponding quarter of'last year , notwithstanding the reductions made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer . The brick duties— £ 700 , 000 a-year—we # e abandoned , and yet the Excise is saidio be so prosperous in the other items , as scarcely to miss the total loss ib this . The stamps , although greatly reduced , will not exhibit the signs of that reduction in full in the present quarter , since a great encrease of business , which was kept back for the change , will probably show its effect upon the present quarter , which to its full extent cannot be hoped for again . The Customs fluctuate , but are said to show well in spite of the great reductions that hare taken place . _ ,
. . „ . . It was stated some time since that Government had directed the grounds and gardens at Chelsea Hospital , which had hitherto been kept exclusively for the use of the officers of the College , to be thrown open for the benefit of the public . Accordingly , on the first of January , the gardens , including those with the terrace fronting the River Thames , were opened for the recreation of all visitors . It id to be hoped that , in addition to this privilege , arrangements will be made for admitting the public to view the royal chapel and pensioners' dihinghall , in which are deposited the flags captured in the Peninsula and at Waterloo , without continuing the practice of exacting fees .
A number of workmen commenced pulling down the railings and the lodge at Cumberland-gate , the entrance to Hyde-park from the top of Oxford street , last week . At the same time they began building a smith's forge and workshop , together with sheds for the accommodation of bricklayers and masons . It is stated to be the intention to erect the marble arch which had been taken from the front of Buckingham Palace upon this Rite . The British Museum closed on Tuesday afternoon for the purpose of cleansing , & c , and will be reopened to the public on Wednesday next . During the recess the workmen have been actively engaged in constructing a permanent roof to the new House of Commons . When the new house was first
occupied by members , neither the members nor reporters could hear distinctly what was said , and in consequence Mr . Harry constructed several temporary roofs to overcome the difficulty , the last of which was found to answer very well . Before the prorogation of Parliament , Mr . Barry hud determined on muking a permanent roof , after the te mporary model which had been found to answer , and that permanent roof is now almost finished . It rises from the middle of the windows With a high pitch to "early the height which the flrat permanent roof Was , and presents a light and elegant appearance , in perfect
keeping with the other portions of the building . On each aide of the house new galleries and division lobbies arc preparing , and a handsome and elegant waiting-room ih fitting up in the cloisters . The new house in permanently to be taken possession of when the hoUHe meets alter the Easter recess , and will , it is affirmed , be found to aiiHwer aatinfuctoiily . ( Several important alterations « re being made in the approaches to the house , which , wiien iiiiiKhed , will contribute to the comfort und cmiveinon , ; ,. of niMnbers , and give a pleafiing and finished uppenrunoe to the CommonH portion of the New Palace . f -1 ~ * - " " ¦•¦•¦¦**¦¦» . » iiui i > ¦ W ¦ Jk \ . t K till / . A . ^ V ¥ V M . M « ¦•¦*•»•• he custo
^ m of passing the lunt hour of tha expiring y « 'ar in congregational devotion was observed on Tuesday ? 'vening at all the principal Wcsleyan chapels in London , wiucli were filled to overflowing . The superintendent HnniMter 8 of the circuits , who generally conducted tho le votioiiH , delivered addresses oh the occurrences of tho HBt year ; and just before twelve t ^ he assembled oongre-K'iuohb knelt in prayer , until the itroke of a clock an' o unoed that a new period of life and hope had com"fjiced , vy hen all , rising , joined in a hymn of praiHu . * "in practice han of lute yearn been adopted by otht-r de"iiiinalioiiH , and wan observed on Tucaday night in some «« Hie metropolitan churche 8 .
On Hew Year ' s-eve the Society of Fraternal Democrats held their annual festival in John-Street , Fitzroysquate , Mi * . Harney in the chair . " The Sovereignty of the People and the Fraternity of Nations" was spoken to by G . J . Holyoake ; " Our Democratic Brethren of all Countries , " by W * . D . Buffey ; " The Martyrs of Democracy , " by John Pattie } and " The Democratic Journals , " by J . t > . Collet . The tea party and speeches were followed by a ball in the hall and a concert in the coffee-room . Explanations of absence were received from Louis Blanc , Ledru Rollin , and Thornton Hunt . The Tummill-street Refugees received a hamper from the Southampton Democrats the other day , " containing a supply of clothing , coffee , sugar , and tobacco ^ which was immediately divided among fifty-seven of their number with the greatest fairness , arid with a warm expression of thanks to those of their brethren who at this festive season have sympathized with their distressed position .
The Income-Tax Commissioners for the Yeovil division having applied to the Board of Inland Revenue , to ascertain whether they ought to make any reduction in the amount of income-tax assessed on tenant-farmers in oases where their rents had been reduced , the Board replies that , in all eases where there had been a bond fide reduction of rent , there ought to be a reduction of the income-tax in the same relative proportion . The tax must be assessed on the net amount of rent for which the tenant is really liable , and not on the nominal amount at Which the farm is rented .
The last trip of the Royal Mail steam-ship Asia was the cjttickest one ever made between New York and Liverpool . Her ruti of last Summer to the Mersey , on which occasion she steamed past the Rock Lighthouse at midnight on the Saturday , had previously stood unrivallsd , being one hour and twenty minutes less than the finest passage of the United States' mail-steamer Atlantic . He * passage , according to mean time , and deducting forty-five minutes lost off New York repairing floats , may be recorded as ten days four hours and five minutes , or two hours and fifty-five minutes less than her fastest summer passage , four hours and fifteen minutes legs than the United States' mail-steamer's fastest passage eastward , and about five hours and twenty minutes less than the remarkable summer run of the Pacific out to New York .
The Manchester Examiner contains an interesting article upon the Chevalier Clausen ' s experiments , with a view to substitute flax for cotton . Messrs . Bright and Brothers , of Rochdale , having placed as miich of their machinery at his disposal as was requisite to give his plans a fair trial , the result is that a mixture of flax and cotton in equal proportions can be spun into yarn of very good quality . As regards comparative cost , that depends upon the future price of cotton . If it remain at its present price , the difference in favour of flax is great enough to make it worth while to utfe it extensively .
Mr . Cobden , in a speech he made at the Athenaeum soiree last week , urged the members to petition for the repeal of the taxes on knowledge , which he represented as a very serious deduction from the educational resources of such institutions . " I believe , " said he , "it has been said that one copy of the Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides ; and I am very much inclined to think that to an Englishman or an American of the present day that is strictly true . " Colonial prizes of £ 200 are offered to the working men of Great Britain and Ireland for essays on the following question : —
" Whether does a policy of centralizing tbe manufacturingarts in Great Britain , or one of diffusing them through the colonies , offer the greater advantages to the working people of the British Isles ; and is such diffusion more likely to be attained by a system of Colonial Protection or by one of Free Trade ?—meaning by Colonial Protection' that the colony should protect its infant manufactures , whether or not Protection , as a principle , is found to suit the eircumstances of the mother country . " The prizes are eight in number , viz .: — £ 75 for the best essay on the above subject , £ 50 for the second best , and for the next six in order of merit , £ 30 , £ 20 , £ 10 , £ 5 , £ 5 , £ 5—in all , £ 200 . This sum has been lodged in the Bank of Scotland for the purpose , and HughTennent , Esq ., of Wellpark , William Campbell , Esq ., of Tillichewan , and Bailie Mitchell , of Glasgow , have Undertaken to act as judges . ...
A young lady took a ticket by a railway train from Brentwood to town the other day , and on seating herself in that compartment of a carriage where , us tbe panel procluims , there is no entry for man , she discovered opposite her a singular looking personage arrayed in paletot , with sleeves of extra length and width , through which had been thrust a pair of rather ponderous hands , concealed beneath good cashmere . A cloth cloak beeimined within covered the knees of the mysterious being , and
wan shared with a female friend in front , indeed , a corner wan politely proffered the young lady , but refused ; and meditating much on her strange companion , « he journeyed on her way . One lurking suspiciin in her mind wah , that the owner of the cloak and of the large hands in cashmere gloven was of the gender forbidden in that coupe—a suspicion which wan not at all weakened when she afterwards found her purse , with all its Christinas cash , had flown from the pocket of her drcsn about the period nhe parted with the HtrungerH .
The Carlisle , Patriot stutcB that Messrs . J ) ixon , of that town , have reduced the wages of their handlooiu weavers ten per cent . Tho name paper also states that the Glasgow mnnufactnrerfl have reduced the wage * of their workpeople one halfpenny per ell . In Carlisle a , weaver muHt work very hard , it in uaid , in order to realize ( in . a-week .
The Family Of Mr. John Bobby, Tho Propri...
The family of Mr . John Bobby , tho proprietor of tho Cock Tavern , in Leadenhall-Ktreet , City , wits grently terrified on ttunduy owing to a loud exploaion euus . d by an cticupe of giiH on the premised , which w « h attended with considerable damage , Fortunately no one was hurt . An old inun , named John Bicknall , reading in White Lion-Htrtet , who him been out of work ior uoine time ,
died of starvation last week . An inquest was held on the body on Saturday , when the jury returned a verdict that he died from exhaustion caused by the want of the common necessaries of life , and censured the parish surgeon , who had been called in when the man was dying , for not acting with sufficient promptitude . A shocking accident occurred at the erection for the Grand Exhibition of 1851 on Saturday morning . One of the men , named Smith , while at work at one of the gutters by some misfortune fell to the ground , between fifty and sixty feet below . He was picked up in a senseless state , and conveyed to St . George ' s Hospital , where it was discovered that both his legs were fractured ; and his head having , come in contact with a projection of the iron work , the ball of his eye was smashed ; but notwithstanding these and other injuries , great hopes are entertained of his recovery .
Ephraim and George Godbolt , builders and carpenters , College-walk , Chelsea , were made bankrupts on Thursday week , for a debt due to Mr . Joseph Lambert , merchant , of Pimlico-wharf . Notices of adjudication were served upon the bankrupts on Friday evening . The bankrupt , Ephraim Godbolt , had previously laboured , under ill health ; and the fact of having been made a bankrupt , produced such , a shock upon the nervous system , that he expired in a state of raving madness on Saturday morning . A young chimney-sweep , aged eleven years , named Stephen RadcliSe , was suffocated in a boiler flue , at Manchester , last week , owing to the carelessness on the part of the engineer , who shut the damper , and thus prevented sufficient ventilation .
A lad named William Wren was charged , before the magistrates , at Southampton , on Saturday , with attempting to murder the family of Mr . Clarrage , a gentleman residing at Millbrook , by mixing poison in some milk , whieh he was entrusted to take round . It appeared that the milk was observed to be of a bluer cast than usual , which induced Mis . Clarrage to send it back by Wren , and she told him to enquire whether skim milk had not been sent instead of new . He returned soon afterwards , and said the milk was quite fresh . Something was found floating on the surface , and the lad appearing confused , he was given into custody . On the way he dropped a piece of paper , on which was written the word " Poison . " The poison , it was subsequently found , had been mixed in the milk ; and , from the fact of its being required to make a pudding , the whole family had evidently had a narrow escape . The prisoner was remanded .
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At the weekly meeting of the Repeal Association on Monday , Mr . John O'Connell said that , if , on the assembling of Parliament in February , the Queen ' s speech should contain any indication on the part of the Government to propose any penal enactments affecting Roman Catholics , either in England or Ireland , he should feel it his duty , if he stood alone , to move an amendment to the address . The Reverend Father Gilligan said that , if matters came to be decided by blows , he could count to his own share of combatants 150 , 000 Catholics from the
ranks of the British army , besides the various phalanxes he could call to his aid from Spain , Portugal , France , Austria , Belgium , and America ; but , be this as it might , there was one thing he was resolved upon , and no mistake—never to pull bridle for stop or stay until he tumbled to the ground " that horrible and crushing tyranny — the Protestant Church of England . " Mr . O'Connell announced the week ' s rent to be £ 8 Gs . 5 d ., and said that it would be necessary to change the day of the association meeting , in conseqeiuice of his resolve to attend
Parliament . It is understood that thirty-nine of the Irish members have already signed the declaration pledging themselves to resist any legislative enactment for limiting the privileges at present enjoyed by the Roman Catholics , and it is expected that that number will , before the meeting of Parliament , be very considerably encreased . Tlie Castle " season" for the year commences on Wednesday , the 29 th instant , when the first levee will be held . The drawing-room will follow on the ensuing evening . These arrangements negative a report current for several weeks past , to the effect that , Lord Clarendon meant to take his departure from Dublin to London early in January , previous to which his Excellency would hold an " undress " levee , which wa . s to be regarded as the last act of the Irish Vice-royalty .
The Cork sawmills , which were the seene of the murder of one of the original proprietors , Dr . Quarry , and the cause of a conspiracy between the timber aawyeiH of Coik , that , resulted in the maiming with vitriol of the other proprietor , Mr . Wilson , were completely destroyed by fire on Tuesday week . It in understood the premiscH , machinery , and ntock are insured in the ofiiceB of tbe National und Patriotic to the amount of £ . ' 1000 . A HoriotiH affray took place on Monday morning week , at a place in the county of Tyrone , where the revenue police had gone to make a ucizuie of an illicit 6 tiU . When returning to their station with three prinOnerH , whom they hud taken on the occasion , the police were ( ired upon by a number of persona who lay in ambush on the road . After about twenty nhots hiid been exchanged , the police were allowed to proceed on their way , one ; of their number having been dangerously wounded by a rille ball in the lea .
WliilHt the Reverend Mr . Lyons , of Dunmoro , was engaged in the celebration of divine service , on Sunday , Mr . Barrett ( between whom and Mr . Lyonp a diaputu lately arose concerning the occupancy of certain pews , and whieh in Htill pending until the next quurter HebHioim of ' Tuam ) came into the church , and forced bin way , with the aid of a " pineem" into the forbidden pow ; whereupon the officiating lninittter , in great excitement , diverted hiiUHflf of bin sacred vestured , descended from the pulpit , and adjourned to bin own house , to which tho congregation , the nuiiHO of the disturbance excepted , immediately proceeded .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 4, 1851, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_04011851/page/9/
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