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Dec. 7, 1850.] ffl!jj£ &£&&*?» 871
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The first meeting of the newly-elected t...
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A Deputation Of Members Of Parliament, A...
the opinion so very generally expressed , that ratepayers of counties should be placed on the same footing as the ratepayers of boroughs by the Municipal Act , which was on the principle of taxation and representation , yet it did not appear to him that any particular " movement " had been made excepting in Lancashire . Lord Dudley Stuart assured his lordship that after such an expression a (' movement" would be made in the metropolitan parishes , and that the House of Commons during the next session of Parliament , would be inundated with
petitions . An influential and interesting meeting of the general council of the National Public School Association was held on Wednesday evening , at Manchester ; jir . Schwabe presided ; and among the gentlemen present were Mr . Richard Cobden , M . P ., and others . A very lengthy conversation on the principal business which the council had assembled for resulted in the adoption of the following resolution ( moved by Mr . M'Kerrow , seconded by Mr . Cobden ) as the basis of the National Public School Association : —
« The National Public School Association is formed to promote the establishment by law in England and Wales of a system of free schools , which , supported by local rates and managed by local committees , specially elected for that purpose by the ratepayers , shall impart secular instruction only , leaving to parents , guardians , and religious teachers the inculcation of doctrinal religion , to afford opportunities for which the schools shall be closed at stated times in each week . " The council sanctioned a code of rules for the government of the association , and the executive committee was requested to continue in office till the first meeting of the general council in next year .
A most gratifying demonstration , in honour of Mr . Joseph Hume took place at Southampton on Monday evening . Advantage was taken of Mr . Hume ' s temporary visit to the town ( to witness the departure of his son by the West India steamer ) to invite him to a public dinner , which Mr . Hume accepted , and the banquet took place at the Victoria-rooms . Although the arrangements had been only a few days in progress , four hundred persons were present , including men of all classes—from the borough magistrate down to the humblest working man . Mr . Hume , in the course of a long speech , said : — " ] NTo country in the world had more reason to be proud of her institutions than England , if they were only properly carried out . No man was more anxious than he was to see the abuses
which had crept into them removed—none more anxious to preserve the good and destroy the bad . ( ' Hear' and cheers . ) _ And therefore he had , in the two last sessions of Parliament , introduced a measure to give the people a registered suffrage , the ballot , the abolition of the property qualification for members of Parliament , equal electoral districts , and triennial Parliaments . [ On each of which several points Mr . Hume dilated at some length . ] He had great confidence in the future ; and , although he did not expect to live to see them all carried out , he believed the day was not far distant which would witness the advent of many great and wise changes . He highly complimented Lord John Kussell for the services he had rendered in past days to the cause of civil and religious liberty ; and , although he lamented the noble Lord ' s more recent conduct on questions of reform , he looked upon him as a victim to the present state of tilings , and believed that , with a better House of Commons , they would find Lord John ltussell a better man . "
A jury was summoned for yesterday afternoon week to meet at the Horns Tavern , Kennington , for the purpose of adjudicating on a claim for compensation made by " Mr . Payne v . the Commissioners of Woods and Forests , " in respect to some lands at Battersea-fields about to be appropriated for the purpose of a park in that locality . Mr . Laws attended on behalf of the Woods and Forests , and Mr . Bodill on the part of the claimant . Mr . Bodill , before the j ury was sworn , claimed a sum of ^ £ 94 , 800 as a fair compensation for the value of -the land about to be appropriated from his client . He subsequently consented to reduce it to £ 60 , 000 , and finally consented to take £ 35 , 000 , subject , however , to the adjudication of Mr . Titethe architect .
, The greatest activity was observable on the part of the Parliamentary agents on Saturday ; and the official gentlemen of the Private Bill-office were engaged from an early hour in the morning up to eight o ' clock in the evening in receiving and engrossing the portentous documents . Saturday being the final day allowed to parties for the deposit of plans for proposed railway , water , gas , and other schemes requiring the sanction of Parliament . Out of about . ' { 00 notices in the Gazette
for applications to Parliament , plans were deposited for 10-i only ; the greater number , however , of those gazetted are of that class which require no plans , such as bills to raise additional capital for existing schemes , to alter and amend powers and provisions . The first of a series of great temperance meetings was held on Monday evening in Exeter Hall . Samuel Bowley , Esq ., of Gloucester , in the chair . A . Prentice , Esq ., of Manchester , and a . Cruikshank , Esq ., were the principal speakers .
Parliamentary reform meetings were held on Monday evening ut Islington andKingsland . At the former , Mr . E . Clarke , of Walthamstovv , presided . An enormous blue book was issued on Saturday , pontaining the evidence taken before the select committee appointed last session to enquire into the expenditure on account of the army and ordnance . The committee accompany the evidence by a report that they had not had time to give the subject full consideration . They therefore recommend the appointment of the committee at an early period of the next session .
Isaac Buchanan , a prominent Canadian politician , is pushing forward a scheme for getting up a line of steamers to run between Montreal and Glasgow . Stock is being subscribed for this purpose in various parts of Canada . The proposed enterprise does not appear yet to have awakened a great deal of enthusiasm . It is , however , precisely one of those enterprises for which British capital would be readily obtainable whenever it shall be demonstrated that it would pay . A further strike of the glaziers took place at the build ing in UyUo Park , on Saturday evening . The men
assembled at the Ennismore Arms , New Kensington , and passed resolutions expressive of their inability to comply with the demands of the contractors , namely , for each man to put in 58 panes , or 200 feet of glass , daily . They contended that a fair day ' s work was from 35 to 40 squares . It was , therefore , resolved to make an appeal to the public . Mr . Holloway , the proprietor of the celebrated ointment and pills , has obtained an injunction to prevent a party bearing the same name from vending a spurious article , but which he sought to pass as genuine , under cover of the name . The case came on for hearing before the Master of the Bolls in London , on the 9 th ultimo , and , after argument of counsel , the Master ( Lord Langdale ) pronounced judgment in favour of Mr . Thomas
Holloway . In the Court of Common Pleas a case involving a question of legitimacy was brought to a conclusion , on Wednesday , after a trial which lasted three days . The question was whether John Robert Hargrave was the son of John and Mary Hargrave , who were married in 1816 , but who lived separate for a number of years . The father of John Hargrave left property worth £ 5000 in trust for his son John for life , with remainder to the children of John , as tenants in common . John Hargrave died in 1840 , leaving two sons—John Gosling and John Robert . The right of the latter to any share of the
estate was denied , on the ground that he was not the son of John Hargrave , and , in consequence , the estate has been in Chancery ever since , so that very little of it remains . The evidence was of a very contradictory nature , but the Chief Justice , in summing up , said that the law always presumed legitimacy , and that the onus of proving the contrary was upon the defendant . The jury gave a verdict for the defendant . An amusing novelty in advertising has been adopted by the exhibitors of the " Panorama of the Nile , " now on view in Piccadilly . A balloon is sent up from the Egyptian Hall , from which small handbills are scattered through the air , bearing the following semi-scientific announcement : —
" This ticket is sent through the air to the finder by a balloon from' the Nile . ' The balloon was started from the ' Panorama of the Nile , * Egyptian Hall , Piccadilly . ( Lat . 5 deg . 31 m . N . Long-. Odeg . 5 m . * W . ) And the finder of this ticket is courteously invited to bring it to the above address , when , if the place where it was found be written on the back , admission to the exhibition will be accorded at half the usual price . " A boiler explosion took place at Halifax , yesterday week , in the mill of Messrs . Firth and Son , while the hands were all at work . Nine persons were killed , and several others severely injured .
A destructive fire took place near Manchester , on Tuesday morning , at the Irweli Bleach "Works , Douglasgreen , Pendleton . The whole of the works have been burned to the ground . The loss , amounting to about £ 6000 , is covered by insurance . A railway collision took place at Birmingham on Tuesday afternoon . The South Staffordshire train from Walsall , due at thirty minutes past four in Birmingham , approached Vauxhall at its appointed time , but owing to a coke train " shunting " over the main line a collision took place . The fireman jumped from the engine , but came in contact with the next carriage and was killed instantly . Several persons were slightly injured . The
Right Honourable Richard Lalor Shiel and his lady were passengers in the train , but escaped uninjured . A lunatic , who was found wandering in an uninhabited island of the Indian Archipelago , has been brought home to this country by her Majesty ' s ship Albatross . His name is Walter Jenkins , and he is said to have been formerly a shepherd . An inquest was held at BHlericay , on Saturday , on the body of Robert Bamborough , a policeman , who had died from the effects of injuries received by him . from a prisoner of the name of William Wood , a notorious poacher . The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful murder " against William Wood , who is in custody in Chelmsford Jail on a charge of poaching .
The prisoners Dyson , Mahony , and Mitchell , charged with breaking into Mr . Holford ' s house in Regent ' s-park , were tried at the Central Criminal Court , on Saturday , and sentenced to transportation for life . Mary Ann Doe , the girl who brought the charge against the Reverend R . A . Johnstone of having committed a criminal assault upon her , and who , on her second examination , contradicted every word of her first statement , was brought before the magistrates at Brentwood , on Monday , on a charge of perjury . The case was dismissed for want of sufficient evidence , but the chairman stated that the bench had " come to this decision with the less reluctance in consequence of their confident belief that subornation of perjury had been committed , and they are determined that the matter shall be fully investigated . "
A woman , named Mrs . Hamilton , was murdered near Dumfries on the night of Wednesday week , by ^ a man with whom she and her husband had been drinking . Hamilton had gone home , much intoxicated , leaving his wife to follow him , in company with a man named Laurie . Next morning she was found in the road in a state of insensibility , from which she never recovered . She died in a few hours . A medical examination of the body disclosed the fact of the perpetration of another capital offence , which must have been preceded by a fearful struggle and great resistance on the part of the unfortuviolence
nate woman , and accompanied by the most brutal at the hands of her assailant . Three convicts made their escape from Woolwich on Tuesday morning . They managed to let themselves down over the side of the Warrior convict-ship , at Woolwich dockyard , and , proceeding along the mud on the bank of the river without being perceived by tho sentry or any of the guards on board the Warrior , succeeded in seizing a boat , at some distance from , the ship , belonging to a waterman named Spurling , and , crossing the river in it , effected their escape through the North Woolwich marshes before their absence was discovered .
A shocking attempt to commit murder was lately made by a gentleman named Thomas Waters , while staying with his lady at the residence of her father at Wrington , Somerset . For some time Mr . Waters had been in a highly nervous and excited state ; indeed at intervals his malady was so severe as to border closely on positive insanity . On Saturday week , having armed himself with a knife , and sharpened it deliberately on a stone , he went upstairs to a room in which Mrs . Waters was sitting . He then fastened the door , and having assured himself that it could not be opened from the outside , he made a desperate attempt to cut her throat . The unfortunate lady resisted as far as she could , and having
the presence of mind to thrust her chin down into her bosom , she happily saved her life , but did not escape until she was frightfully mutilated , her bosom being deeply wounded , her hands shockingly cut , and the top of one of her fingers cut off . The unhappy lady's screams alarmed the family , and her father and brother burst open the door and secured her assailant , who was found to be quite mad , and was immediately removed to an asylum ; but although every possible kindness and attention was shown him , he obstinately refused to take any kind of nourishment , and in a few days died from the effects of exhaustion , resulting from the intensely excited state in which he had been .
An over-driven ox , on its way from Smithfield , last Monday , suddenly entered the passage of a house in a court opposite the east end of St . Sepulchre ' s Church . Attracted , no doubt , by the savoury smell from the culinary region , it first made its way towards the kitchen stairs ; they suddenly gave way , and the animal rolled into an outer kitchen , in the room adjoining to which Mrs . Harbottle , the occupant , was sitting at the time , while two children were in a closet against the door of which the ox was lying . The screams of the children
soon brought several persons to their assistance , by whom they and Mrs . Harbottle were speedily rescued . Every effort was then made to remove the ox . A bricklayer who was consulted said the only means by which the ox could be extricated was by taking up the ironwork of the area , taking up the stonework in the court , and excavating for several feet across the court . A number of men were accordingly set to work , and ultimately , by means of planks and pulleys , they succeeded in getting the animal up .
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The First Meeting Of The Newly-Elected T...
The first meeting of the newly-elected town council of Dublin took place on Monday , when Mr . Benjamin Lee Guinness , the great brewer , was elected Mayor , on the motion of Alderman Roe , the eminent distiller , seconded by Mr . Darcey , an extensive brewer . " The Hall" was formally rebaptized on Monday , under the new title of the " Loyal Catholic and Repeal Association , " Mr . John O'Connell and Father Gilligan
standing as sponsors at the interesting ceremony . In the course of the proceeding the former announced ^ that the word " Catholic " was to remain as a prefix until the intended persecution of Lord John Russell and the bigots of England was effectually repelled . In a financial point of view , the additional cognomen of " Catholic" appears to have been , so far , a failure , the rent this week having declined from £ 14 odd shillings , the previous week's receipts , to £ 9 19 s . Id .
The estates coming into market in Ireland continue to present in ' general as large an amount of incumbrances as their predecessors . In the case of William Boswell , the yearly rental in Westmeath is £ 381 , the incumbrances are £ 94 . 50 , besides interest and arrears of annuity as far as known , £ 6299 , being nearly a total of £ 16 , 000 charged upon £ 381 per annum . Another encumbered property , that of Daniel Cronin Coltsman , in Kerry and Cork , is estimated at an annual profit rent of £ 2919 , the encumbrances are set down , according to the petition , at £ 53 , 934 , but the " interest or arrears of annuity not known / ' In the case of William Henry Magan , where Louisa , Baroness Von Reitzenstein , widow , is petitioner , the net annual value of the
properties in Westmeath and Dublin is set down at £ 5898 , the encumbrances are estimated at £ 105 , 791 , but " interest not known . " A man named Bourke , in the employment of the Reverend Mr . Butson , of Clonfcrt , while on his deathbed , last week , made a full confession of all the circumstances relating to the murder of Mr . Butson ' s steward , which took place in September , 1845 . From the statement made by Bourke it appears that the gun used belonged to Mr . Butson , and , after fulfilling its deadly purpose , was again replaced in the reverend gentleman ' s room . Suspicion had strongly attached to Christopher
and John Coates ( brothers to the former steward ) , and a man named Joseph Bergin , all in the employment , at the time , of the reverend gentleman . Those parties were arrested , but from insufficient evidence were liberated , and since then no clue could bo discovered to the perpetrators of this dreadful murder . The confession made by this man will now bring the guilty parties to justice ; there were several engaged in the conspiracy to deprive this man of life , nearly all of whom left Ireland for America after the tragedy was completed . A highway robbery and attempt at assassination was committed near Litterkcnny on Saturday morning on the person of James Johnston , Esq ., of Woodlands , agent
to Colonel Pratt , of Cabra Castle , who has an estate near that town . It appears that the robbers were aware that Mr . Johnston had received a considerable sum of rents the day before , and lay in wait for him as he rode home , with the intention , it is clear , of taking not only his money , but his life . Fortunately , however , the bullet missed the rider , but shot tho horse , and the villains then plundered Mr . Johnston of all his money , and beat him in a shocking manner . On Friday night week an outhouse in the town of Abbcybix , in which a poor woman and her child were allowed , for charity , to sleep for the night , caught fire by some accident , and both mother and child unhappily peris pred in the names .
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 7, 1850, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07121850/page/7/
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