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g 04 . The Saturday Anafyst dnd Leader. ...
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THE MYSTERY OF MURDER. I T is becoming a...
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THE MARKSIDE PIG-IRON COMPANY (LIMITED)....
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THE DISTRICT SAVINGS BANK (LIMITED.) In ...
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ASKEW'S IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDOW SASHES, T...
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The Late Right Honourable James Wilson"....
of his death , namely , Financial Minister of the Council of India . In this capacity his acts are fresh in public recollection . Hewas the author of a comprehensive scheme of Indian finance , in which an income tax formed a conspicuous item , and the opposition to which we have had occasion to record in our narrative of current events . Mr . Wilson was more successful as a writer than as a speaker . His habits of thought , which rendered him in every way qualified for intellectual exereitation and precise exposition , militated , perhaps , against uiere rhetorical accomplishments . He was better versed in the figures of political arithmetic than in the figures ot speech ; more successful in the demonstrations of exact economical science , than as a demonstrative and flowery orator ; but m the long-run he produced an amount of permanent effect by his facts and figures , and the sound theories he deduced from them , than any mere showy speaker or interminable debater could even hope to produce by flowing periods and verbal graces , which , after all , are mere vox et ¦ oreserea nil Mr . Wilson is a striking proof that a man may be a theoretical views
thoroughly practical man in his scientific and , ana in respect of these may win the highest distinction though unsuccessful in the mere practical business of trade . No man s views were more sound on political economy , finance , and statistics than Mr Wilson ' s though Mr . Wilson himself had not been fortunate in his own mercantile speculations . Perhaps the mind that was capable of grasping the great commercial principles on the application of which the prosperity of a nation depends , was not adapted to the tedious complication of small details : and thus the very man who succeeded at the head of one of the great departments of the national business did not exhibit the same aptitude m a small mercantile concern . Mir . Wilson is an instance in point to show how a man may succeed when he finds a congenial sphere of action . He has died universally respected for hisbusiness capacity even by those who differed from him most in theoretical points .
G 04 . The Saturday Anafyst Dnd Leader. ...
g . The Saturday Anafyst dnd Leader . [ Sbpt . 15 , I 860
The Mystery Of Murder. I T Is Becoming A...
THE MYSTERY OF MURDER . I T is becoming a bye-word and a reproach to the efficiency of our police that the old saying that " murder will out " is being practically reversed . That a clue has come to light respecting the Stepney tragedy may be safely asserted without prejudging the case of any accused or suspected party ; but it does not appear so much to have been discovered by the vigilance of our detective agents , as revealed by the course of events . Still , so far as the my estimation has gone , the result is satisfactory as tending to show that modern experience , so far as this case is concerned , does not falsify the conclusions arrived at of old . But in the Road murder all is still bound in the darkest mystery . Various suggestions have frpm time to time been made with regard to the measures that should be taken to bring the perpetrator or perpetrators of the dreadful deed to justice The authorities have been called upon to take what many consider not merely extraordinary ,. but inquisitorial and unconstitutional proceedings to probe the matter to the very core . The detectives have brought to bear on the circumstances all the acumen they have become masters of in a life-long experience in the hunting down of criminals and the dragging , to light deeds that seemed , as this , does , to defy every effort to clear them pp . Indeed , in this respect they have been charged with officiousncss and precipitancy in seeking to criminate parties , against whom there is proved to be no tangible evidence . But all this has been to no purpose . The deed , like one of those remote nebulae which resist the most powerful telescopes , remains still in inextricable and unfesolvable mvsterv . That it will ' . ultimately be fathomed , sooner or later , we
cannot bring ourselves to doubt . On the contrary , we have every expectation , that the discovery of a clue to the mystery will come upon us as suddenly , but as surely as the light that has broken over the murder at Stepney .. Indeed , we have reason to hope that , although there is no apparent stir , which indeed would l ) e impolitic , the most active measures are still being surely and silently taken , for bringing the investigation to a satisfactory issue .
The Markside Pig-Iron Company (Limited)....
THE MARKSIDE PIG-IRON COMPANY ( LIMITED ) . We have been told how many globes of gold as big as the " great globe itself , " o farthing would make in compound interest , had it been so invested for accumulation , at the commencement of our era , and some great calculator has computed how many oannon bajls ot iron the ore already discovered would make , and how many oities of the same eke as London it would batter down on the average expenditure of shot . But fresh seams are being opened up every day } ana in fact a good iron mine is , to all intents and purposes , eo far as commercial profit goes , virtually a gold mine . Thoro is the minoral property , for instance , to utilize which the enterprise whioh forms the subject of , this article , has been undertaken . It consists of 300 aoros , with three abundant seams of the bost iron oro . The two smaller are about five feet in thickness , and of what is known us the olayband or argillaoious formation , and similar in composition
to the first-olaaB ores of Low Moor . Tho larpeat eoam is oolitio and of a thickness ranging from 12 to 15 foot . It " crops up " at ft convenient elovation , and is worked by an ndifc level about 60 loot above tho oaloining iloors . The property in question is situate in the Bgton Estute ; near "Whitby , in tho valloy ot' tho Esk , and county of York and tho district is famous for the Buporipr quality and abundance of the ironstone it produoes . According to ProfeBBor Phillips , of Oxford who among other competent authorities examined the diBtriot , the yield of ironstone per wore averages between twenty and thirty thousand tons , while the quantity is practically inexhaustible . Ahe oro iflfreo from phoephorus and sulphur , and it is estimated to produoe tlurtvflvo per cent , of puro metal , quite equal to the best Stullordsbiro iron . Tho Great limestone formation ifl within an easy dwtanoo , and hmoutone « an bo delivered at the works at as Iowa charge as 2 e . and 2 s . 6 d , por ton s and ooaland ooke at 0 s . and 13 s . Od . per ton respectively .
The entire cost of raising , winning , royalty , & c , is computed at 2 s . 6 cl . pertonof 2 icwt . of : , so that pigii-on of first-class quality can be turned out at these works at from £ 2 , to £ 2 2 s . per ton . Experiments we understand have been made which justify these results / The means of carriage , moreover , afford every facility for the transit ot goods . The property is connected by a siding with the Whitby and Pickering Railwav , affording direct communication with the Leeds , Masborough , Derbyshire , and Staffordshire iron districts . Now , it is matter of calculation that a couple of blast furnaces would turn out 15 , 000 tons of pier iron per year , yielding from 12 to 15 per cent , profit on a capital of £ 30 , 000 , exclusive of the profit arising from , the sale of ore in the raw state , which would also be considerable . It likewise appears that the whole outlay requisite for getting the project into thorough working order , including the completion of furnaces and the sinking to the lower seams or measures , will riot exceed £ 8 , 000 . The management , we understand , has secured the services of agents of long experience and well tried ability , and the enterprise bids fair to become a highly successful commercial undertaking . .
The District Savings Bank (Limited.) In ...
THE DISTRICT SAVINGS BANK ( LIMITED . ) In connexion . with this backing establishment the following , statistical facts ' are not without interest : — In 1856 , the number of savings banks in the United Kingdom was about 600 ; depositors , above 1 , 300 , 000 ; amount deposited in 1857 ( one year ' s deposits ) above £ 7 , 000 , 000 ; while the average sum now deposited in savings banks is nearly £ 40 , 000 , 000 . The importance of these institutions may be made more clear by comparison . -with other monetary companies : thus , all the banks in the United Kingdom , whether incorporated or unincorporated , joint-stock , chartered , or private , including the Bank of England , ( as shewn by their issues ) , possess only an . aggregate capital of £ 31 , 000 , 000 sterling , being nearly £ 9 , 000 , 000 less than the capital now invested ia savings banks . Again , there are in the United Kingdom about 300 Life , Annuity , Endowment ,
Reversionary , Eire , Marine , and ( general Accident Assurance Institutions , whose total aggregate yearly incomes from premiums , lapses of policies , interest from investments , and all other sources , do not exceed £ 4 , 500 , 000 , or about £ 3 , 000 , 000 per annurn less than was invested in 1857 in the savings banks , even under the very severe commercial crisis . In proof , either of their importance or theii extent ^ nothing further need be urged . ¦; the next thing to find out is whether or not there be good grounds for believing that ample room is left for the operations of this institution ? There are about forty towns , electing Members of Parliament , that are without a savings bank . There are above one thousand towns , having local commercial banks , but no . savings banks . There are fourteen counties without a savings bank . There are two thousand towns without a savings bank ; above three
thousand places with ; money-order offices but no savings banks ; less less than one town in every six with a savings bank ; fifteen millions of tlie population are without a savings bank ; aud , lastly , the total amount invested therein does not amount to £ 1 5 s . per head upon the population of the United Kingdom . The rate of interest paid to depositors in savings banks , by the last returns , only amounted , upon an average , to £ 2 18 s . 8 d . per cent ., while that paid by joint-stock banks to their depositors last year -was sometimes as hig h as eight per cent . ; and one year the Union Bank paid to its shareholders twenty-two per cent . Thus it appears that the field is so open for a sound commercial company , that , with the most ordinnry prudence and enterprise , it is believed one of the largest and best monetary institutions of the times may be speedily and solidly founded .
Askew's Improvements In Window Sashes, T...
ASKEW'S IMPROVEMENTS IN WINDOW SASHES , The danger attendant upon the usual mode of cleaning windows higher than the ground floor , and , in cases where there is an areu higher than the basement , is so serious as even to havei attracted tlio attention of tlie legislature . But a very ingenious invention hus been recently brought to our notice , which is of a nature to obviate the risk in question . By a very simple mechanical contrivance every window sash may be made reversible and turned inside out , so as to bo cleaned from the interior of the room instead of suspending the cleaner in tho air , with all the peril but none of tho romance of " one who gathers n « mnliirfl . " This ia no inconsiderable advantage . But the same devico
iB subservient to purposes of ventilation . The sash that can be revorsed can be semi-reversed , that is placod in a horizontal instead ot in a vertical position ; so that for all practical purposos tlio whole area ol tho window , instead of only half , may bo made available for tho adnimeion of fresh air . Perhaps this latter circumstance will furnish tho consideration that -will cause tho invention to be most extensively patronised . A convenience of dailv and oven hourly use , is something that is continually reminding evorybyody of its importance , and thud , by an acoumlation of small but perpetually-recurring » dvantng « i , makes a large sum total of utility in popular estimation . But tlio mil importance of the invention in a humunitarian point oi viow it * unquestionably tho safety ib alfords in the operation of cleaning . And , apart from tho speoiilo bonefit arising from such sni ' ely , there ia tin ' economy of labour whioh will be incidentally soeurod . Any moolmnioiii oontrivanoo economising labour , tomla to social ach' « ntug <« j ol i || iii' ' another kind than those within tho mere range of its direct uncl obvioim influence . This rendering external objects subserviont to tho human utilities iB , at tho samo timo , one of the chief results and one ot tin * most potent agencies of tho highest civilisation .
Linitisit And Inisa Maonetio Tkmiar.U?Ii...
liniTisit and Inisa Maonetio TKMiaR . u ? ii Company ( LrMmcn ) , As a specimen of tho proaont rapidity of telegraphing , it may Do mentioned , the rate at whioh tho Queen ' s Spoooh waa syiit by tin ) Magnotio Telegraph Company , from their now Central London Stution , in Threudneedle-streot , to some of tho principal towns , aho ^ ioeoli oontained 672 wprde , and was sent to Mnndhester in twonty minutes j Liverpool twenty-one minutes ; Glnsgow twenty-five minute * s ami dthprtplaoefl , including Leeds , Hull , & c , in tho same proporl ion . lw whole transmission averaging about forty words pop uunuto . Jlw qpiefcest transmission was forty-throe words por ininuto . It w « a uiao sent direct to Paris from tho snmo station .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 15, 1860, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_15091860/page/12/
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