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      Pubxic Meetings. The Bishop Of I-Ondon O...

      during the past session . Mr . Williams , on entering the halli accompanied by many of his leading supporters , was received with loud cheering . He addressed the audience in a long speech , in which he reviewed the various votes he had given , and spoke in favour of retwncb-inent . A resolution was then carried , expressing -the satisfaction of the meeting with Mr . Williams '? public'conduct . Mr . H . J . Slack afterwards moved , and Mr . G-. Hill seconded , a resolution declaring that the expenditure of the country is wasteful and extravagant ; and that if the Government could be forced by the pressure of public opinion to keep its accounts in an honest , intelligible manner , and cause them to be efficiently audited , a saving of many millions a year could be effected , and the income-tax might be entirely removed or very greatly diminished . The resolution -was agreed to . On the motion of Mr . Green , a resolution was adopted expressing the opinion of the electors of Lambeth "that the ensuing session of Parliament will be a favourable time for the Ministers to introduce a bill for extending the elective franchise and the taking of votes by ballot , as well as for a general revision of the taxation of the country and an amendment of the existing commercial laws , which protect the criminal while the . punish his victims . " ¦

      December 13,1856.] T H E X E A P E B, 11...

      December 13 , 1856 . ] T H E X E A P E B , 1179

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      • ¦• . ¦ ¦; . ; ¦ ,, : . ——— ———— .. . ¦ - ¦ ¦ . ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . One of the persons injured by the accident at the Den ton station of the London and North Western Railway the particulars of which we gave last week , has died Esther Farrington , a girl of thirteen , is the sufferer ; and an inquest has beea held upon her body . William Henry Tyther , aged seventeen , the porter , said it was hia duty to turn on the distance signal indicating danger but he did not , being hurried by having a crate to carry to th « train and two passengers to assist . Benjamin Woreley , driver of tlie first of the two engines , said owing to the fog he could not see the station signal till within , sixty yards , when he redticed speed all he could by reversing tlie engine andputting on the break . When approaching the station , they were going at the rate of eight or ten miles per hour . The jury found a verdict of " Accidental death , " but were of opinion that the company ' s staff at the Denton station was insufficient for the traffic , arid that , in consequence , the distance signal was not properly attended to on . the occasion of the accident . Wilford Roger Newcome , a young man ap prenticed to his "brother , a chemist at Grantham , has perished misc rably in the ice on a large pond on which he was skating The ice broke , and Newcome fell in . After making several vain attempts to get out , he stood with his feet on . the bottom and his head above the water for three quarters of an hour , while his companions , a fellow ap prentice and a friend , made ineffectual endeavours release him , arid then went a distance of a mile to get some ropes . A mounted groom was sent with ; them and , as he approached , he heard the poor fellow say " Oh , make haste ! " Great difficulty was experienced in . passing the ropes to him , and when at length they reached him , he could not grasp them , but only caugh hold of one with his teeth . The grooin advanced another step to try to throw the ropes over and entangle him for the purpose of drawing him out ; but at that moment the poor fellow sank from exhaustion . An event , of a somewhat singular and alarming na ture , unattended , however , with any very serious result occurred recently at Brussels , through the mischievous freak of some evil-minded person . An English crpues trian company had just arrived in that city , and were exhibiting their performances one evening in the circus ¦ which they had pitched on the Grande Place . Tlie circus was protected from the open air only by a large tar paulin covering , attached by cords to the building ; and Tyhile the horsemanship was going forward inside , thi was suddenly observed to collapse , and directly after wards it fell ilat upon tho whole company , burying per formers and audience ( amounting together to nearl threo thousand persons ) , in one dense mass . Much con fusion and terror ensued , but owing to the prompt exertions of somo soldiers stationed in the building , who immediately drew their swords and commenced hneking the canvas , aided by several others wlio likewise it with their knives , the tent was completely destroyed and the people were thus saved from suffocation . one was severely inj urcd . It wns afterwards discovered that tho exterior cords had been cut from tho poles Which caused the catastrophe . Tho inquest on the bodies of the men lulled by explosion on board tho steamer Parana was concluded on Friday -week at Southampton . The verdict was elaborate , but tho substance was , tluit the deceased their deaths by the accidental bursting of tho Htnrboard forward boiler , during the trial of an experiment ns tho superfluous heat in the up-takc ; that , by a great amount of caution , the accident nught have been vented ; that tho evidence proved that one safety valve applied to one boiler is not a sufficient protection to and property ; that it is questionable whether pafoty valves arc constructed on sound and ouectivo principle that tho snfoty valve of tho boiler which caused accident was insufficient in dimensions , ami defective principle ; and , lastly , tho jury declaro their conviction I that tho Royal Mail Company and their officers exhi

      3 5 5 bited great anxiety to obtain perfection in their ma- j chinery and to guard against accidents , in . having their boilers and engines in good order . A woman has been killed at Liverpool by a shop shutter being blown against her . A child which she was carrying in her arms was not hurt . A very melancholy accident occurred on . the 3 rd inst . at Broseley , in Shropshire . Four collier boys , James Pope , aged sixteen , John Taylor , fifteen , John Yate , fourteen , and Charles Simmonds , thirteen , having come , as usual , after dinner , to their work , arranged themselves over the pit's mouth to make the descent of a shaft between two hundred and thirty and two hundred and forty feet deep . No sooner was the platform withdrawn than the machinery gave way , and the poor lads were precipitated from , the top to the bottom . After a time , some of the men went down , and found that t-wo of the boys were dead and two living . The latter were drawn up , and received with shouts of congratulation . They both ¦ died , however , in the course of a few hours . They were i perfectly free from pain , and able to converse with their friends , arid take gruel and tea with a relish . In answer > to a question as to what was the sensation experienced ' in falling , one of them said he felt as if he was flying . They were all buried in the same grave on Sunday afternoon last , "when the majority of a population of . nearly 5000 persons was collected in the church and churchyard . ¦

      Ireland. The Murder Of Mb. Little.—A Man...

      IRELAND . The Murder of Mb . Little . —A man named Robinson , who was for a time detained as a witness for the Crown , in connexion with the railway murder , has leen handed over to his friends , the police having ascertained that he has been noted , for some time past , for being subject to a species of religious frenzy ; A person coming from Dublin has been detained for a few hours at Cork in consequence of his conversing at the Victoria Hotel in a manner which seemed to radicate that he had some guilty knowledge of the commission of the muider . Two magistrates accordingly met at the hotel , and examined the man , whose answers appeared to be satisfactory . Nevertheless , the police at Dublin tvere telegraphed to , and they replied that they had no charge against him . He was therefore released . MuitDER and Robbery . —William Quin , a Kilkenny farmer , has teen murdered on his way home from the Waterford fair . The men who attacked him carried off from his person a bank receipt for 761 . lls . ( 3 d . the proceeds of some stock which he-had sold at the fair , subsequently depositing the money at the bank ); they also robbed him of three shillings in silver which he had about him . The poor man lingered for some hours , and then died from the effects of the beating he had received- The offenders are not in custody . Death of a Roman Catholic Bishop . —The Bight Rev . Bishop Murphy , of Cloyne ( consecrated in September , 1849 , and known as a warm supporter of education , while never taking much part in political affairs ) , died on the evening of Thursday week at Fermoy . Legal ArpoiNTaiENT .-r-The Hon . John Plunkcfc ( a younger son of the late celebrated statesman , and lawyer ) has resigned the lucrative post of Crown prosecutor at the commissions and quarter sessions for the' city and county of Dublin . His successor is stated : to be Mr . Thomas O'Donohoue . The Education Question . —Dr . Cullen ' s atmual pastoral was read last Sunday from all the Koman Catholic altars in the diocese of Dublin , and has since been printed and distributed . It is of very great length , and contains an attack on the Colleges where Protestants and Papists are taught together . " Censured by the Holy See , " writes Dr . Cullen , " and repudiated by the Irish hierarchy , the Queen ' s colleges will never take deep root nor permanently flourish in this Catholic country . Founded on the principle of indifferentism to religion , and placing religious doctrines , true and false , on the same footing of equality , they will never gain the confidence of the people of Ireland , who believe that there is but one faith , as there is but one baptism and one God . " The doctor goes on to denounce Professor Vericour ' s " Historical Analysis of Christian Civilization , " which has been placed on the Index Expurgatorious by the Pope . He also accuses the Government of favouring Protestantism at the expense of Koman Catholicism ; but ho admits that the common National Schools have been fairly conducted , the different sects being kept apart . Ho points to what he describes as the unhappy effects of secular education in , Belgiuminfidelity and immorality . " We think , " proceeds Dr . Cullen , " that the Catholics of Ireland have a full claim to expect a share in every public grant in proportion to their numbers and their -wants , and we should never renounce so important a right . But , at the same time , it is our duty to insist on having our claims recognized without any interference with our religion . From mixed education wo can expect nothing but evil—wo should not acquiesce in it or encourage it . It is highly dangerous to give over the instruction of Catholic children to a Protestant Government ; wo aro bound to epposo encroachments on this head . " A Priestly Libel . —A jury in the Court of Queens Bench , Ireland , have given 850 ? . damages to a Mr . O'Sullivan , a Koman Catholic magistrate residin g near Athlonc , on account of a libel upon him b y Mr . O'Reilly , a priest , who had made assertions damaging to lm moral character . The action had been tried before , when tho jury could not agree . On tho present occasion , the defondant ' s counsel have reserved several points , which will bo discussed in a superior court . Great Storm . —A tremendous storm of wind swopt over Dublin and other parts of Ireland on Tuesday . The Newcastle ani > Tiwbbmw Banks . —In tho Court of Queen's Bench , on Wednesday , the onso ot Walker ! -. M 4 ) owell was . proceeded with . It y / aa au action instituted by the plaintiff , as public ofticcr ol uio Newcastle Commercial Bank , to recover from the aofondant , as official manager of tho Timierary Bank , tuo :

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      ! entrance to the institution , and when , the destitute poor ! apply for relief they are driven away by the regular frequenters . I have had as many as thirty cards at one time delivered to me by strangers from ike country , who had received cards from . subscribers , and been driven away from the door , on applying fox relief , by these characters . " After some further wrangling , chiefly between Mr . Barber and Mr . Phillips , of the West London Union , the former asked the Alderman if he would come and visit the institution , to which Sir R . W . Carden replied , amidst considerable laughter , " Notafter the description of the company that already visits you . " Mr . Barber then left , uttering threats of vengeance against Mr . Potter , to be wreaked " in a higher court . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1856, page 3, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13121856/page/3/