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874 T HE LEADER. [Saturday ,
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The new Commissioners to inquire into th...
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On Monday tho Scotch express from Edinbu...
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No ono knows what may bo found in tho Th...
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Camock Chase, a now coal field in Staffo...
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The little Aztecs, mysterious to some, a...
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What the new National Gallery is to be i...
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Tho lute mail for India and Australia se...
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Tho " Busy And Flourishing Port Of Hull"...
in the brighter and more fashionable part of the place that the general meetings and sections are accommodated . " Mr . Disraeli is " to meet his constituents , " or at least a portion of them , at Aylesbury , on the 14 th . On that day the RoyaV Bucks Agricultural Association are to assemble ; a public dinner and several other matters will bo discussed .
874 T He Leader. [Saturday ,
874 T HE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
The New Commissioners To Inquire Into Th...
The new Commissioners to inquire into the administration of Charitable Trusts are , Chief Commissioner , Mr . Peter Erie ; two paid commissioners , Mr . James Hill , and the Kev . R . Jones ; secretary , Mr . Henry Vane ; two inspectors , Mr . Thomas Hare , and Mr . Walker Skirrow . Some time ago , Mr . Lawson , of Bath , offered 10 , 000 J . worth of scientific apparatus , on condition that a sufficient sum was subscribed within a given time , to found a Midland Observatory at Nottingham . The time expires on the 1 st of October ; and the Nottingham Guardian points out that 5000 Z . is still wanting , and urges the claims of the project , so magnificently begun , on the attention of the wealthier classes . An observatory committee sits at Nottingham—Mr . Alderman Birkin chairman ; and active efforts are made in Nottingham to increase its share of the subscription .
Lieutenant-General Sir William Napier writes to tho papers to correct an error . Some journalists said that it was Soult who liberated Sir C . Napier , when taken prisoner in the Peninsular war . It was Ney who acted so : —• " The circumstances deserve to be repeated , as showing the generous temper of Ney . His aid-de-camp , Captain Clouet , reported that a frigate had sent a flag of truce to inquire ' if Major Napier was living ? ' ' Tell them yes ! and that he is well—let him be seen . ' Captain Clouet looked expressively at the Marshal , and said , ' He has an aged mother—a widow . ' ' Let him go himself then to tell her he is alive , ' was the response ; and with Major Napier he sent twenty-five English soldiers , who had been badly wounded and left behind . " The Scotch towns are disposed to pay honour to Ministers . Lord Palmerston is to get the freedom of Perth , and Mr . Gladstone the freedom of Inverness .
Mrs . Beecher Stowe left this country for America on Wednesday morning . She started from Liverpool . Many friends saw her off , and many parting honours were paid her . A " social and friendly entertainment" was given at Gloucester , on Tuesday , to General Sir Joseph Thackwell . In returning thanks for the honour and for the special toast ot his health , the general spoke with soldier-like point and substance . Amongst other things he said : " If on any future occasion the services of my country should call me again into active service" [ the conclusion of the sentence of the gallant officer was drowned amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the company ] . Lord Fitzhardingo also spoke ; his chief saying being , " the most practical members of tho Peace Society arc tho crews of the Agamemnon and the Wellington . "
On Monday Tho Scotch Express From Edinbu...
On Monday tho Scotch express from Edinburgh , going at from 35 to 40 miles an hour , went into a siding ( the points being wrong ) , instead of continuing on tho main lino when past the Euxton Station . The driver felt the jerk , instantly shut off the steam , blew the whistle for the guards to apply their breaks , and then leaped off the engine followed by tho fireman . In another moment the oxpress came in contact with the carriages on the sliding , and a fearful crash took place ; the danger of tho collision being enhanced by the close proximity of a steep embankment . The front part of the engine wns demolished , but , marvellous to state , the carriages of the express sustained
little or no injury , tho passengers being found almost unscathed , although , of course , in a state of great consternation . Tho empty carriages on the siding were shivered to atoms , two wheels belonging to one of thorn being subsequently discovered in tho smoke-box of the engine . Baxter , tho driver of tho express , was found lying by tho Bide of tho line , covered with blood and dirt , and in n state of insensibility , having several severe cuts about his head and back . Tho fireman escaped with comparatively little injurj ' . It appears that tho points were in so dirty a state n . s to prevent their closing of themselves , as they ought to have done , when tho empty carriages were turned . The Queen had passed only a short time before !
Tho ufteriiooii tram from IEolyhond on Tuesday arrived near Chester an a short , luggage-train was crossing both lines of mils to reach a shunting . The latter was completely capsized . Happily , however , there wns no harm dono to life or limb , all tho damage being confined to tho upset vims and tho fittings of the foremost carriages of tho pussenger train .
No Ono Knows What May Bo Found In Tho Th...
No ono knows what may bo found in tho Thames , thnt grand repository i \ m \ cdaw rcrum . A labourer lately / omul " a rod ol gold , coiled by a curious process of workmanship . " It may have been an " Aaron ' s rod" dropped from Lambeth Palace , crooked and golden , like modern Churoh-eruft .
Camock Chase, A Now Coal Field In Staffo...
Camock Chase , a now coal field in Staffordshire , wns formally opened on Thursday , tho Marquis of Anglesey ncting us president of tho ceremony .
The Little Aztecs, Mysterious To Some, A...
The little Aztecs , mysterious to some , and interesting to nearly all who nee them , are about to leave London , /' or a country tour . Next week is their last week in town . London extends over an area of 7 H , O 2 () acres , or 1 ' 22 square miles , and tho number of" its inhabitants , rapidly increasing , was 2 ,. 'W 3 , 2 . ' ](» tho day of tho las ! , cen . nis ; " . Between twenty and thirty cases of Asiatic cholera have occurred in Newcastle and tho immediate neighbourhood within the List fo \ v days , nil terminating ' fatally , it appears to have broken out at ; u place ( railed Hill Quay , on the Month bank of tho Tyne , towards Shields , tho first caso reported being that , ol'a woman residing there , who wan seized on Thursday , and died the day following , shortly aftor nIio hud been brought- to Newcastle . Since then five more euurs have oeeurred at . Hill Quay . Dinrrha : a is very prevalent in the district . - Monthii / Chronicle , Sept . \) . We find thin in a part of | h '( , Chronicle , usually devoted to mutters of no weight . A Statement bo important uhould bo received , with caution .
We are privately informed that many deaths from " something like cholera" have occurred at Newcastle , and that there is much local alarm . From Liverpool there is a cheerful account . The Liverpool Times quoted , without date , in the Chr onicle of yesterday , says :- — " There is no reason at present to apprehend an outbreak of epidemic cholera in this town . During the last five months the . mortality has been below the average , and in fact ,, the health of the town has seldom been so good as at present . No epidemic prevails , and diarrhoea , in particular , which always increases in prevalence and severity before an outbreak of cholera , is now less frequent and fatal than it has been at any time during a similar period within the last five years . " ¦
What The New National Gallery Is To Be I...
What the new National Gallery is to be is foreshadowed by the Morning Chronicle ( Monday , Sept 5 ) : — " It appears to bo distinctly understood that wje are to have a Gallery and Museum , not a mere collection of pictures . Art is to be illustrated ; all schools are to be represented ; we are to trace the infancy and youth of art—its decrepitude too , as well as its vigour , We are to begin at Ciambue and Giotto—we are to learn what fresco is—what Byzantine art is . England will at last have a chance of
knowing that Germany has had a great school of artthat painting existed before Raffaelle , of whom , by the way , we have next to nothing in the Gallery—that there were such painters as Van Eyck and Memling—that Spain has Eroduced a vast series of most important artists—and that itiysdaels and Claudes are not the only things in the world to be admired . The religious aspect of the art will at last be presented , in due proportion , in a collection which has hitherto consisted of landscapes , and of works which are either sensuons , satiric , historical , or portraits . "
Mr . Thomas Daniels was in receipt of a quarterly allowance from Government . On his last quarterday he went home drunk . On the next moi-ning very early a fire broke out in his room ; people rushed in and found Daniels' wife in the midst of the flames , screaming terribly . They removed her , but where was the man ? They searched , and at length found him in the cupboard nearly burned to death . He had either mistaken the cupboard for the doorway , or had shut himself up thinking he was safe there . Both are since dead . " Nothing is known of the cause of the fire . " Then , of course , it is a case of Spontaneous Combustion . Roman Catholics have got a new saint , Father John , of Britto , martyrised ^ in India in 1693 .
While Mrs . Beecher Stowe was at Leeds Bhe was presented with an address from the Anti-Slavery Society of Leeds , a silver fruit-basket by the ladies of Leeds , and 100 sovereigns from readers of " Uncle Tom ' s Cabin . " A death from Asiatic cholera has occurred in Liverpool . The deceased was a German emigrant , and had imported the disease from Hamburgh , and the death occurred in a crowded lodging-house in one of the inferior parts of the town . The attention of the Health Committee has been drawn to the case , and also to the dangerous over-crowding of these emigrants' lodging-houses , which are numerous in Liverpool . A railway bridge of great magnitude is being built across thoTamar at Salhish . Extensive workshops and smithies have been erected . Steam machinery of every description
for planing , rolling into shape , cutting , drilling , and punching the masses of iron to form parts of tho bridge , is in full operation . Tho smiths' shop contains eight forges , worked upon the principle of exhaustion , or what is commonly called fan-bellows , driven by steam . A long slip , similar to that used for shipbuilding , has been laid down for the construction of the cylinders , intended to be sunk in tho river for raising the centre pieces of the bridge . Tho one now being built is to be 36 feet in diameter , and 80 feet deep ; when completed it will bo launched , and Bunk into its position , and being closed at about thirty feet from tho top , will , in fact , bo a hugo diving-bell , and tho men working within it supplied with air , on the same principle as that adopted with tho ordinary bell .
From an official return to Parliament it appears that last year the net revenue of tho sco of Salisbury was 27447 . 14 . 9 . 8 ( 7 . Tho Ecclesiastical Commissioners of that year made several payments . A few days ago a gentleman obtained at ono of tho banks in Liverpool a draft for M 0 i ) L , which ho placed in his sido coat pocket , neglecting , in tho hurry , to put it in his pocketbook , which he had taken out for the purpose . When ho had gone about ten yards from tho bank ho discovered that an export thief had extracted tho book , but tho draft fortunately remained at tho bottom of tho pocket . Tho "largest , pieco of pottery" of Terra Cotta , "in an entire piece , " lmn been produced by Mr . Boll and Mr . IMa . shlield , tho designer and rnodellor of tho statuo of " Australia" in the gardens of tho Crystal Palaco at Sydonhinn . Tho firing occupied throo weeks at thoiuolting-g-luss heat . Tho statue weighs 25 cwt ., and in " including ils plinth , about 8 ft . ( Sin . high . "
An emigrant ship—tho Rebecca—linn boon wrecked on tho west , coast of Van Dip . men ' s Land , between Sandy Cape and Arthur Uiver , while on her pannage to Sydney , from London . Out of thirty men , only eleven were wived —reaching the shore . They found themselves in a wild country , and wore bare of provisions . After enduring great privations and m ' lHori ' ng for nearly a fortnight , ' Ihoy were surprised at the appearance of n dog , which was hailed an tho harbinger of their deliverance . J'Vnring ho might run away , they wrote nn account of their situation .
and tied if ; round his neck . The dog , it appeared , belonged to a gentleman named . HurgoHn , who , with a party , was exploring ( he country to the southward . Tho moment they heard of tho wreck , which was by tho return of tho dog , they net out , and eamo up with tlio survivors of tho Rebecca on tho twenty-third day ufler tho fillip ' s loi * . Tim ]) oor follows were ' fast , sinking when tho exp loring parl y eamo up , » nd through their attention and kinrimisH ( heir liven Avero preserved . Tho peoplo of Plyinouth ask for a local debtor ' u priflon . At proHont , they send their prisoners to Exeter .
Am Agricultural Society ( the " Man chester anA r pool" ) had a meeting at Warrington on Wed j *" The Society ' s district is South Lancashire and W ^ Cheshire . The show was very successful . Lord "n u rt ^ present , but looked ver y ill . " % * aa The ItJiadamanthus , steam-vessel , ran into a raor u man in the Channel , on Monday night , -A nuinl > passengers were on the deck of the merchant-ves ^ l ** after the collision they called out : — - " We are eoinerT lower y . our boats . " Afterwards the merchantman wi ^ 11 ' ' to continue her course . as seen . Three houses in the Strand fell on Thursday mmr ,-They had been undermined by the workmen , in rem " ^ some adjacent houses ! Three persons were killed 5 others dangerously wounded . ' ^ Mr . John Francis Maguire , having been charged ¦ ¦**» . havin g promised his support to the present Ministrv condition that Mr . Hayter would cause the withdrawn ! ° * the petition , has partly admitted the charge , but repudi f any corrupt motive . " It is quite true that I had freoiT * I conversations in reference to the petition pending n ? me with Serjeant Murphy , and it is quite true that fi « fc
lunteered , fully as often as I solicited , his interference my behalf . It is quite true that he did speak to Mr H" ° ter on the subject . It is also true that , s more than nn he said , ' I'll speak to Hayter about it ; he'll put an ' mSt f it . ' It is quite true that I did ask the hon . and learn jj gentleman to do what I have a full recollection of his v lunteering to do—to speak to the Duke of Newcastle a * he was supposed , erroneously or otherwise , to have m ™? influence with Mr . O'Flaherty . More than that is true I asked Mr . Fagan to speak to Mr . Hayter ; and Mr . ] C gan did so . " The Lancet Commissioners have reported on tobacco . It appears that considerable differences exist in the proportion of the various constituents on which its quality depends but that in not one of the forty samples of manufactured tobacco submitted to examination was there found any foreign leaf or any solid extraneous substances of any do * Ccription .
A strange scene took place the other day in the Jardin des Plantes , Paris . Amongst the persons collected round the inclosure of the hippopotamus , was an elegantly dressed lady , accompanied by a little King Charles ' s dog . The little animal having gone inside the rails of the padi dock , was at once seized by the hippopotamus and swallowed in an instant . A bankrupt tailor , Calcutta , examined onjThursday , accounted for his failure by saying that his losses wero very heavy " during the casualties of the Affghan , Chinese , and Punjab wars . In the battle of Moodkee alone customers of the bankrupt owing upwards of 30 , 000 rupees were killed , and by the battle of Ferozeshah and Sobraon 50 , 000 rupees were lost in the same way . "
The Norton controversy has been revived , but merely on minor points . Mr . Norton re-asserts that Sir William Follett advised tho action ; but Mrs . Norton shows , by letters from the solicitors , that Sir William Folletfc expressly declined the responsibility of such counsel . Mr . Norton produces letters from Sir John Bayley , expressing his opinion that if Mr . Norton consented to live with . Mrs . Norton after the action , it would be " tho lowest depth of degradation . " Mrs . Norton asks , in retort , why then did her husband ask her afterwards to live with him P " The question ' prominently before the public' is not whether Mr . Norton should allow his wife an income , or
even the amount of that income ; but , first , whether n gentleman barrister and magistrate , daily sitting in judgment on poor men ' s offences , should himself break a formal covenant , to which , for his own advantage , he urged a solicitor to obtain his Avifc ' s signature . " On Thursday , Charles Keneue , a policeman , was brought up before tho Honourable Mr . Norton , charged with having " assaulted his wife . " Tho husband defended tho assault on the ground that his wife had kissed nnotlior man ; and tho magistrate having elicited this fact , discharged the husband . twelvo
The poors of Scotland mot on Wednesday , at o'clock , in the ancient picture gallery of Holyrood Pntoco , to elect ono of their number to represent thorn in the House of Lords as ono of tho 16 Scotch representative peers , in tho room of tho Earl of Scafield , deceased . Thoro woro 16 poors present , of whom 16 voted , and 6 who wore absent voted by Higned lists . Tho choico fell unanimously on Viscount Struthallau , who was accordingly doclared elected . Another vncancy in tho Scotch representative peerage has been created by the death of General Lord Saltoun .
Tho Lute Mail For India And Australia Se...
Tho lute mail for India and Australia sent by tho Iiuln * ( Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s vessel ) , Wl » 8 ™ ; J heavy , comprising no less than J 38 () boxes , of which ' jl » 'avc for Australia , tho wholo occupying a bulk equal to 4 i > «<»" measurement , or 1800 cubic ' foot . Tho overland ronio being now tho most certain and speedy method of communicating with Australia , tho principal correspondence i . despatched by this moans . Wo not Jong flinco rt ' ™ " /' i upon the fnci , that last year tho Peninsular and Oriniii Company earned in postage nearly tho amount ot ti " annual aubsidy for conveying the- jrmils . Pr «« 011 '' " * , [ poarunces neon ! to indicate that . 1 ho system ia now . ' llirl "< n . nelf-Hupportiiig ono , and that if tho mails coritinu < aiigment in number and in bulk , the PoHt-o / Hco will h |» co ' » ^ bo receiving an ponl . nl ' revenue a mini fur in advance oi
Annual payment to this company . ' ^] , r California sends uh her usual miscellany of nowfl . , papers record I bo capture and decapitation of tho c ' ' , ' ,. ' „ , robber-chief , Jouquin , together with several of hm » ol '' , ¦ . „ Tho wheat crops in most parts of California wero ff } ° " from rust , which it wns niiid would mako tho J '' ^ . - * f () , . cent . Jess than it would olhcrwiHO huvo boon . JWI " 0 IlB wero Klill very rife throughout California . ' ¦ ''" ' \ ie t had been hung nt Culuvoru one for murder , and tlio f « r liorno-Hteuling . Lynch-luw had uluo beeorno V \ ., Jt general . New gold diggings hud been discovered fti- . ^ Oxford , on tho Ujnpqua itiyor . Vivo porooBfl h « u w
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 10, 1853, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_10091853/page/10/
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