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THE DANGER OF BATHING As long as we can ...
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flie price of admission fo tho Cork Nati...
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. The we...
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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. O...
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Overcrowded Steamboats. While The Doors ...
of Aldermen , antecedently to the act in question , many of which clauses had been inserted in the act . The second by law required every steamboat to have a licence expressing the number of persons it should be permitted to carry , such number to be legibly painted on the paddlebox , according to the plan of informing the public on the doors of omnibuses of the fares and numbers according to the travelling regulations of these vehicles , under the penalty of 61 . for every trip in which the offence should be committed . The third by-law fixed the space which each passenger should havenamely , four superficial feet of the deck , to be measured within the gunwales , and the master or manager was
compellable to pay a fine of 40 * . for every passenger over and above the number specified . The eighth section _regulated the speed at the rate of six miles per hour with the tide , and four miles an hour against it . By the ninth section it was provided that any person navig ating a , vessel at a furious and dangerous rate of speed , or wilfully , negligently , or carelessly causing injury to any person or property , should forfeit 101 . Now , " with such an act and such by-laws , and with the support and assistance of his brother magistrates , he had no fear , if they would grant the motion of which he had given notice , of the abatement of so intolerable a nuisance . ( Hear . )
Sir P . Laurie said he had much pleasure in secondin " the motion , the object of which was of such palpable use as not to require discussion . The Lord Mayor thanked Alderman Wilson for having brought forward so important a question , and for having g iven such strong assurances of applying himself to the correction of the dangerous evil . The motion was then carried unanimously , and Alderman Wilson said that he would call the committee into'active business forthwith . .
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The Danger Of Bathing As Long As We Can ...
THE DANGER OF BATHING As long as we can remember , the Serpentine hasbeenknown as a dangerous bathing-place . Yet nothing has been done , always excepting the adniirable arrangements of the Humane Society to prevent drowning . The following story is only ope among many illustrative of _thfc fact above stated . An inquest was held on Tuesday , by Mr . Bedford , at the Malpas Arms , Charles-street , ( xrosvenor-scpiare , on the body of Timothy Conner , aged 34 , who was drowned on Sunday morning in the Serpentine . The witnesses proved that Conner had swam half-way across when he suddenly called for help , and went down into the deep mud beneath It was nearly twenty minutes before he could bo got up by the Royal Humane Society ' s men . Mr . Williams , the
superintendent of the Society , stated that , observing the drags were out , he instantly got a hot bath in readiness ; when tho body was brought in , it was black with the mud over the head to the waist , where he had been fixed . He was quite dead . Throo boats were on the river , and there were about 12 , 000 persons in the water . The Juror : Then three boats aro not sufficient ?—Mr . Williams : No , nor would six be . It is impossible for the boatman to see what , is going on . Tho Coroner : Tho Serpentine , I have understood , is a most dangerous p lace to batho in ?—Mr-Williams replied it was tho most dangerous in the world . There were holes thirty foot deep , and then twelve feet of mud , out of which tho best swimmer could never get . There were cold springs , too , in all parts . —Tho jury rot timed n verdict of accidentally drowned .
Miscellaneous Lord John Russell Arrived ...
MISCELLANEOUS Lord John Russell arrived in Edinburgh from London on Monday night , and left tho next morning for Mintohouse , Roxburghshire . —Scotsman . Mr . Cardwell , according to the Liverpool Times , intends lo recruit hia health on tho Continent . Mademoiselle _Clauss , tho now famous pianist , played before tho Quoen at _Osborno H ouso'yesterday—an honour "ho well deserved . Two other aspirants for immortality , tired by tho doings of Mr . Albert Smith , havo ascended Mont Blanc . Thoy aro niimod respectively Mr . . 1 . I ) . II . Browne , and Mr . Alfred Goodall , " of tho Engineers . "
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_flie price of admission fo tho Cork National Exhibition being now reduced to Od ., it is visited daily by an average _corteourso of .. 000 persons . A society has boon formed at . _Nowcasflc-on-Tyno of coal owners , viewers , and others interested in collieries , to moot nt . fixed times to discuss tho means for tho ventilation of collieries , for preventing accidents , aiut for general purposes connected with the _^ lining and working of collieries . The vacation af tho Hchools of Practical Art , commenced on tho lf >| , h of . July ; thoy will end ou tho _Mist of August . When fhe suasion _ro-ojions , several now special classes will commence thoir courses at Marlhorough-houso ; and among tliein wi || _{„ , _clitHMcs for _( _diina painting , «! hroilholithograpby , and perhaps chasing of metals . Tho Museum of Ornamental Manufactures will also re-opim , both fo tho public and us a _pfiu-o of study , on certain days of tho week .
" erhnpa the largest amount of _prolif obtained under any one patent is that , derived from tho famous American " VVoudworth" planing machine . During iho twenty-four yours tho pat out lias boon in exist , once , onooffhopartnerH bus received _AMii , _MCiOl ., another nearly tho _huiiio amount , and a third a very largo sum . Tho first named is now in receipt of one dollar j > . , thousand feot , planed in ono hundred i'uIIm , ( _-ach ot which turns out ton _fhuunund loot . p « r day . 1 Iio _Athcnrtum understands ( hat arrangements are in progress for extending tho privilege of _soiuCng books , ma-
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gazines , and pamphlets by post , at the low rates adopted for inland carriage of these * articles , to the settlements of Australia . This would be a considerable boon both to English authors and to tleir colonial readers , and would tend to strengthen the intellectual ties which connect the fortunes of the mighty continent with those of the little island .
Count Cavour, Ex-Minister Of Finance In ...
Count Cavour , ex-Minister of Finance in Sardinia , has been in Brussels , on his way to London . The King and Queen of Sweden were expected to arrive at Berlin in the course of the week , oh their way to the baths of Kissengen . ; The cholera is reported to be raging not only at Kalisch and Sieradz , but in tho districts lying at the mouths of the Vistula in Russia . In some of the villages on the Prussian frontier also _tJits terrible malady has appeared . Whilst the Ring of Prussia and the Empress of Russia were at Coblentz , a butcher presented them with » sausage thirteen feet long , containing all sorts of sausage meat , and terminated with a pig ' s head . Their Majesties laughed heartily at the strangeness of the gift , but kindly accepted it . The Emperor of Austria left Pesth on the 6 th , by the railroad , for Waiteen , from which place he would continue his journey by the common road to Vienna , where he will receive the King and Queen of Saxony , after which he will return to Hungary . .
The Liverpool Albion Says That The Elect...
The Liverpool Albion says that the election for that city cost the Derbyites 23 , 000 ? . and the Free-traders 4000 ? . I A labouring man was killed on Friday last by a sunstroke , while working in a nursery-ground at Wandsworth . A policeman named Slaney has been found guilty of " wilful murder" by a coroner ' s jury at Liverpool . He is accused of having beaten a woman until she died . An attempt is now being made to raise the Duchess of iKent sunk in the collision with the Ravensbourne . There have been two collisions on the river . The Star , doing duty for the Duchess of Kent , was fouled by a brig , but no lives were lost , " A steamer ran down a shallop near Blackfriars-bridge , and three lives were lost .
Some boys were playing on the barges near Southwarkbridge on Sunday . One , named Monkhouse , a little fellow , slipped into the river . Instantly James Smith , one of his companions , only _^ en years old , gallantly leaped in after him ; but the current carried him under the barges and he was drowned . A , boatn \ an saved Monkhouse . Two cases of men given into custody on charges of having personated voters at the polling booths were heard by Mr . Maude , at the Borough Court , Manchester , on Saturday . As in the two cases heard on Wednesday and Thursday , the accusers were unable to produce sufficient evidence , and the persons who directed the arrest had to pay 51 . to the accused .
Out of three truck loads of cattle on the Great Western Railway , two of the animals were struck dead by lightning , on Monday afternoon , not very far from . Swindon . What renders it remurkablo is , that oup . animal only in each of two trucks was struck , and five or six animals in each escaped uninjured . The animal killed in one of the trucks was a bull , the cows escaping injury ; and in tho other truck it was a bull or au ox that was killed . A poor man was killed a few days ago by the falling of a balcony attached to a newly-built house in Denbi ghplace , Pimlico . We have before now drawn attention to the dangerous state in which balconios are often left . It ia desirable that stone bottoms for balconies should have cantilevers , however sufficient tho tailing in may bo , for fear of flaws in tho _stono . Many of tho iron balconies that are put up arc little better than nailed to a brick wall . The paragraph is from the Builder , and deserves attention .
The body of a young woman was found in tho Thames , near the West India Docks , on Monday . In tho pocket oi her dress was tho following letter : — " Dear Aunt , —Will you go and toll Bill Barrot ho was tho cause of it . Do for ( Jod sake , and ask him if ho did not take his oath that ho would marry mo . Give my lovo to tho boy , and toll him that ho is aware what Parrot has done to mo . Remember mo to mother and father , and tell thorn I am no more . Farewell aunt and uncle , for I am gone away and fast asleep . It was bad company that , caused mo to bo bore . Aunt , keo \) this letter , nnd do not forget me , for I will eomo to you , but * do not bo afraid of me . 1 _'ray tell Drake 1 will conic to him , and also that I did not forget , tho hand and
word . 1 lovod him , but ho did not lovo me , for his heart was false . Farewell aunt and Fanny too , for 1 am no more . If is in tho deep that you will find me . No more for ever—no more—no more . Aunt , aunt , my heart ! Aunt , remember mo , and think , when I am fast asleep and ( lie fishes aro watching round tho body of Hannah Roach . of Kilbaven town . Remember mo to all my companions , ( hat 1 may bo a warning to young girls novor to lovo an ICnglisbman as I havo done . Farewell . " An impicst Was hold on Tuesday ; but no duo to her friends could bo found . Tiio coroner said , the probability was tho deceased had destroyed herself , but there was no evidence how who camo into the water . The jury returned a verdict of found drowned . Tho dccotisod was pregnant .
A return to tho House of Commons , which has boon printed , states that 7 vessels convoying emigrants , both unassisted aud in Government ships , sailed from tho United Kingdom for Now South Wales in-tho 7 months ending April tho : W ) th , DHB ; MM in the same period in 1 H 4 !>; 14 . in lHf > 0 , fi in _lHfSl , and 27 in tho ( J months ending . Mist , March , _IBfiii . Nino nailed for Victoria during the sumo months in 1 H 4 H , lit ! in 1 H 41 ) , Mt in 1860 , 11 in 1 HF . 1 , Ml in 18 fi 2 . ' For South Australia , H in 1817 , f ) in . 1848 , ; M , j « 1840 , 81 iu _1 H 0 O , 17 in 1851 , and B ) in _lHCi' 2 . Tho balance of the sums in tho hands of tho Emigration Commissioners from Now South Wales amounts to ( . 1 , 000 . ' . , fVom Victoria , to ia 7 , y < H ) . 7 ; from Mouth Australia , to . W . 1 MM _)/ . Two lotfortf aro _npptuidcd to tho return from Captain Mtunloy
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Carr to the Colonial Secretary , describing the effects of the gold discoveries upon the colony . Great excitement existed on Monday the 28 th of June , in New York , in consequence of the decision to be given by Commissioner Bridgman , in the United States Court , in which Thomas Kain was claimed under the Extradition Treaty by England , on the charge of having attempted to murder afanner in Ireland . A rescue had been threatened , and the court Booms and neighbourhood were crowded with Irishmen . The commissioner was not to be
intimidated , howeve * , and he decided that Kain should be given Up — decision subject to the power of the Secretary of State to issue his warrant of extradition . The prisoner was not brought into court , and his counsel addressed the multitude of Irish , telling them that the law must bo obeyed ; they were ready to do all that could be done for then * client , and in case the decision was adverse to him , they would sue . out a . _habeas corpus , but that if there was the slightest disturbance ' made they would abandon tho case altogether . "
Health Of London During The Week. The We...
HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . The week that ended last Saturday brought a considerable accession to the mortality of London , which rose higher than it had been in the 11 weeks preceding . In the week ending July 3 , with a mean temperature of 59 . 7 deg . the deaths registered were 987 ; in last week , ending July 10 , with a mean temperature . of 70 . 9 deg ., they were 1 , 080 , showing an increase of nearly 100 . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 18-12-51 , the average number of deaths was ' 889 , which , with a correction for increase of population , will be 978 . The present return , therefore , shows a mortality greater than the estimated amount by 102 . The average temperature of the corresponding weeks was 62 deg . From these facts
it seems reasonable to draw the inference , that a sudden _, increase of heat above the average , to the amount of 9 degrees , has shortened the lives of more than 100 persons . Still , comparing the facts of the last two weeks , it appears that there is an increase in the epidemic class , arising partly from _scarlatina , and partly from a greater prevalence of diarrhoea ; that diseases of the brain and nervous _Bystem numbered in both returns 131 , while those of the digestive organs rose from 59 to 74 , and those of the respiratory organs from 91 to 122 . This important increase in the last-mentioned class is due to a greater fatality of bronchitis and inflammation of the lungs among children , for while only 39 of the young died in the previous week of those diseases , they carried off 63 in the last .
In the York-road , on the 5 th of July , the son of a gardener , aged 7 years , died of " ascites and albuminuria supervening on scarlatina . " Three fatal cases of scarlatina have occurred in this family , and another member of it ia not expected to live . " On making inquiry ( says Mr . Child ) respecting the drainage , I find that the cea _. spools empty themselves into the front of tho houses , and there , the refuse lies for want of a proper sewer to carry it away . Having had an interview with the landlord upon the subject , I am told " that he has made several applications to the Commissioners of _Servers , and has paid heavy rates since they have have had the matter in thoir hands , yet he cannot get _assistance in any way . Twenty-four deaths occurred last week from small-pox ; two of these in tho Smallpox Hospital .
Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Births. O...
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On tho 9 th inst ., at Holly-grove , Windsor-park , tho Lady Emily Seymour : a daughter . On tho 10 th _histant , at Kirkby-Mallory , Leicestershire , tho Hon . Mrs . Colvilo : a son . On tho 11 th instant , the Viscountess Jocolyn : a son .
MARRIAGES . On tho 6 th inst ., tho Rev . Henry Cadwallador Adams , follow of Magdalen College , Oxford _^ » nn oV Mr . _Serjeant . Adams , to Esther Pell , second daughter of tho lato Rev . Richard Edmonds , rector of _Woodleigh _, Duvon . On the 10 th inst ., at Trinity Church , 1 . uddingtou _, Lewis . 1 . Serjeant , Esq ., to Elizabeth _Soaloy _, _youngest daughter of l hilip _Rarnes , Esq ., of . Norwich . On tho HM . h inst ., at St . Paul ' s , 'Knightt . hriilgo , Iho _Right . Hon . Henry Labouchere , M . P ., to Lady Mary Howard , daughter of the Into , and » iftte > r of the _present Earl of Carlisle . On the 18 th inst ., at St . James ' s , Piccadilly , by tin . Hon . and Rov . Latimer Neville , tho Hon and Rev . Arthur Havilo , youngest son of tho _Ifiarf of Moxhorough _, to the Hon . Lucy Oeorgina Neville , third daughter of Lord HraybrooUo .
DKATHH . On the 22 nd of April , at , Rangoon , in India , from tho _ofTeefat of cholera , in hid 2 ( ith year , John Willoughby Hatoman , Ksq ., Lieutenant in Her Majesty ' s 51 st lteginie . nl of Light Infantry , third son of Richard Thomas Hatoniun , _Ksij ., of _llui'tinglon-hall , . Derbyshire . Ou the ' . 2 ( 11 li ult ., at Utica , in the State of New _Yorlc , after n very few hours _illnesn , while on a tour lo the Kails of Niagara , accompanied b y his family , Hear-Admiral Ralph Randolph Wonnefey , aged ( f < f . Admiral Woriueloy served under Coilingwood , Hir Kdward l _' cllew , and Admiral _PurviH . On the ltd . iiiHt ., the Rev . Kdward Murray , vieiir of N < irtholl , Middlesex , second son of Ihe lute . Lord ( Jeorge Murray , anil grandson of the Dttlcn of Atholl . On the 7 th inst ., at Mouth WraxHll-hoime , Wills , in her U 7 t . li year , Anne , widow of the Into M . Charles _I'Viineois de liollcvillo , of l . olleville _, in the Pays de (! uux _, Normandy , und also relict of ( lie tale Wudo Toby Oaullleld , of Raheentluil ' , _Qiiceu ' rt County , Ireland , _h ' sq .
On the lll . ii inst ., at , IIH , New _Hoiid-streel , _Ceor / _jo Adams , ICmp _, Into Physiciuii-Oonoral 11 . K . 1 . CM ., _Madrtm . . On the _llili ins ! ., aged BI , at his residence in Hiyanston-Huuaro , _Uenerid ( lie Hon . Robert Meade , son of the lirst Karl _Olanwill'nim . On the I I Hi inst ., uf Now-plaeo , Ml . Jolin _' _s-wood , in his MOth year , Hir Kroderick Hcilby Watson , K . K . H , and K . ClI ., formerly ' Mloiter of the Household to their _Majestica OoOrgo IV ., William IV ., mid her present Majesty . On the I lth inst ., at Ilcrcchuich-hall , Sir Ooorgo Henry Htuyl . li , Hurt ., _ajfed ( IH , formerly M . P . lor Colchester . ( in the 12 lh inst ., in . _b'iiuyu . -Mtreel Lieutenant-Colonel _Pition , K . H ., aged ( 10 .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 17, 1852, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17071852/page/11/
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