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    September 17, 1853.] THE LEADER. 897

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    A Lancashire firm has offered to the Cor...

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    Near the country town of Warrington a ra...

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    The Spectator gives the following as a s...

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    Prince Eugene de Savoi.e Cangnan, cousm-...

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    An Injured Cabman Appeared Before The \M...

    fter driving 1 him about for upwards of eight hours , he found that " he ' adn't got not a single mag . " The old gentleman admitted that the statement of the complainant was quite light , and said the few goods he had were in the hands of a broker for rent . Saunders , the summoning officer , said he had heard that the defendant owed 7 * . more to a second ' cabman , and he , Saunders , much doubted , from his propensities to oab-riding , whether there were not a great many more whom he had victimised . The prisoner , being withput the means to pay , was sent to ^ The School of Design has been now entirely removed

    from Somerset House , and has been centralized at Marlboroug h H ouse , The removal is now complete , and the rooms " given up to the Registrar- General of Births , Deaths , and Marriages . The school is removed to Marlborough House , and will form part of the Central School of Art of the Department of Science and Art . The several district schools already established in the metropolis , at the Mechanics' Institute , Westminster , St . Thoma 3 , Charterhouse Schools , Finsbury , and about to bo established in St . Martin ' s parish , and elsewhere , will supply the elementary instruction in art formerly given at Somerset" House , whilst the higher branches will be taught at Marlborough

    House . Mr . Scott Russell ' s steamship factory , at Milwall , took fire a little after twelve o ' clock on Friday night . At first the fire was so little that a bucket of water , it was thought , would put it out ; but , from one room in the furnace departments , the fire shot up into the sheds , and soon the whole range was in one blaze . The fire spread with fearful rapidity , seizing six forges , and reaching to the saw-mill on the north side . This , a brick building , one hundred feet long , was soon burnea up . One thousand tons of planks next took fire , and then the store of eighty tons of coals joined the enormous conflagration . The huge fire lighted up

    Greenwich Hospital , the Observatory , and the shipping on the river . The progress of the flames now endangered the most valuable part—the engineering department , one hundred and sixty feet long , and five stories high . The Raines rose from floor" to floor , and then shot forth from the roof . From factory to factory the flames progressed , and nothing but some premises on the east side , of slight value , escaped destruction . The adjoining works of Messrs . Napier were also set on fire , and burned down . Engines were early on the spot , but they did little good . The loss is estimated at 100 , 000 ? . The origin of the fire is not known . Three other fires occurred in the metropolis this week . The details are not interesting .

    September 17, 1853.] The Leader. 897

    September 17 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 897

    A Lancashire Firm Has Offered To The Cor...

    A Lancashire firm has offered to the Cork Guardians to employ the young children in their workhouse . They would be supplied with good wholesome food , clothing , lodgings , and have every attention paid to their comfort , and , after obtaining a knowledge of the business , small wages would be given , them , in addition to tho above , according to their merit .

    Near The Country Town Of Warrington A Ra...

    Near the country town of Warrington a rare sight is to be seen . Following tho course of tho river , Warrington is not loss than thirty miles from Liverpool ; and thousands of people travelling by tho London and North Western Railway through tho town , and seeing a huge ship of 2500 tons burtnon on the stocks , without perceiving tho water near , have naturally asked " how and where is it to bo launched P" Many of these persons , in tho absence of any cortain knowledge , havo speculated on the Buhject , and supposed that it was a vessel fitting together in parts , as iron houses and churches are for tho

    colonies , to bo taken to pieces again , and removed in a more convenient form . The fact is , however , that tho river Morsoy flows past tho foundry , and though insignificant in width ( somothing liko tho Thames at Henley ) , it has tides which givo it occasional depth . The vessel is buildin g at a bonelof tho river , so that sho will bo launched not across , but up tho river , in a straight reach of tho stream , up which sho may run half a milo if necessary , with amplo depth and apace . But tho Taylcur dosorvoa no to also aa a sign of tho times . Ship-building is going on at mieh a rapid pace , that tho yards of tho old builders , on tho Clyde , at Sundorland , and olsewhoro , aro full of

    new vensols ; tho Bank Quay Foundry Company havo obtained this order , becauso of tho great attention which owners aro just now directing to iron as tho material h > r ship-building . Thero aro well informed pooplo who fiay that tho time is not far distant whon thero will not bo a largo craft in tho merchant service that is not of iron . Tho prosont vessel is to bo built , completed , and delivered m . Liverpool within Bix months from tho laying down of herlcool . J b Tho shareholders of tho Shrewsbury and Birmingham Iwiilway havo nwolved , l > y a largo majority , on accepting tho proposal of amalgamation with tho Groat Wontem I'ompany . For 1001 . Shrewsbury and . Birmingham stock , ho shareholder will got 85 / . of tho Groat Western stock , n'i < l 00 / . will bo givem for ovory 100 / .. a took to shareholder : * in tho Shrewsbury and Ohostor lino — a conjoint

    spoeu-I ho Solent , a now "Went , India packet , ia built on ' "tgoniil lines , liko tho Vccfitt and ValcUa , and groat ings aro oxpoelod from heir porfortnancoH . Sho is in-¦ undud for tho ( Southam pton and Panama ( . radio —probably jlio uiohI , important in tho world . -That lino has Europe ) ™ ono ten-minus , and tho Pacific , including tho S ( , ate » of tonlruj and Mouth Arnorim , California , and Australia , for "w > thor . That ships can ho built capable of running from "' Jl'hampton to Panama in nix toon days , in undoubted , ' \ l > if any company in tho world should poHHOBH tmch HI 1 'PH , i | , iM tho Wont Inelia Mail Company . ho Marco IPoto has again mado a romarkablo run from ^ UHlraliu . Hho started fro m Australia on tho 10 th of '/' ° ' » d arrivod in tho Morsoy on Tueisday of thin woeik . V ^ 'P > l : $ . ) It w iH I ,,, ,.,, ( : « . lhjcVod that Ilio Marco J ' ofo I "J ' hint voyago in five ) months and twonly-ono elays uor lavourablo auspieos J tho prnsont voyago lias boon " . i ' ° exactly six monl . hu undor vory unfavournblo ausl » wa , sho having been detained live dayu in the ice , and

    fifteen days by calms on the line ; but , for a ship to have made two voyages to Australia and back in ten days under twelve months is the most remarkable achievement ever recorded in the annals of navigation . Captain Forbes appeared on 'Change about one o ' clock on Tuesday , and met with a hearty welcome from all the merchants assembled . The cheering was long ami loud . An illustration of the injustice arising from the rate of colonial postage has just occurred . We find by the Times of August 20 th , that the mail brought by the screw steam ship Harbinger from Australia was the largest ever landed at Southampton . It consisted of 250 boxes and bags of letters and newspapers . As there is no contract

    existing between the Government and the General Screw Steam Ship Company for conveying- mails between this country and Australia , the Harbinger ' s mails all came under the designation of ship letter-bags , and the letters are charged to the public at the rate of 8 d . per half-ounce , instead of Is ., which would be the case if conveyed by postal contract . Of this 8 d . the Post-office appropriates 6 d . to itself for merely distributing the letters throughout the kingdom ( an operation performed for Id . in the case of inland letters ) , and pays 2 d . each to the ship . Thus the General Post-office charges three times as much for merely delivering the letters to the public as is appropriated to the vessel for bringing the mails by steam from the Antipodes .

    The Spectator Gives The Following As A S...

    The Spectator gives the following as a simple rule for converting the present into the new denomination of money . Multiply the shillings by 50 , then turn the pence ( and farthings if any ) into farthings , and if above 15 add 1 , above 30 add 2 ; the sum of the whole wili be decimals , or mils . m , f l 6 s . l 0 § d .= 16 X 50 + 43 + 2 ^ = £ 0 . 845 , or 845 rails . J . nus j 13 ^ . 2 irf .= l 3 X . 5 QH-10 = £ 0 . 660 , or 660 mils . The completion of the electric telegraph through Ireland

    will be of commercial advantage . The Queenstown telegraph will be of great use . A swift steamer is to be kept running from outside the harbour ' s mouth to Queenstown , which is to convey intelligence of such vessels as are outward or homeward bound , to be transmitted by telegraph to Dublin , London , & c . In like manner , by the aid of the tele graph , the state of the markets , funds , rates of exchange , & c , will be sent to America twenty-two houra later than a vessel bound from Liverpool could be in possession of , as ali vessels pass Cork harbour on their

    voyages . _ Gloucester this week has had its festival of the three choirs . This is the 130 th anniversary , and there is every prospect of the festival paying its own expenses instead of causing the usual tax upon the stewards . There are three hundred performers , including Clara Novello , Mademoiselle Bellini , Mrs . Weiss , Madamer Castellan , Miss Dolby , Mrs . Lockey , Mr . Lockey , Mr . Weiss , Gardoni , Tagliafico , and Herr Formes . Mendelssohn ' s Elijah , and Handel ' s Messiah , have been the staple performances . Tho London Temperance Societies had a demonstration on Monday . They marched with bands and flags to tho Surrey Gardens , and thero spent the day in pleasant dissipation .. Mr . J . B . Gough , a great Temperance orator , from America , was present . The new Omnibus Act comos into operation on tho 1 st of October .

    Near Leicester , somo persons working on a public road discovered ono hundred skeletons , all apparently of male adults , and in many instances of remarkable stature . It is singular that none of tho skeletons were found at a greater depth than two feet , and that , in somo instances , they were actually lying within only as many inches of tho surface . No regular method appears to havo been observed in thoir interment , tho limbs crossing each other confusedly in all directions , as if a numbor of bodies had been heaped together in haste , and merely covered by a » hallow accumulation of earth . A fow of the skulls boro marks of fracture and depression ; but although attempts wore mado to secure somo for tho purpose of ethnological comparison , their disintorment in an entire condition was found to bo impossible )—tho slightest touch , after a fow minutos' exposure to tho air , boing sudiciont to reduce thorn to dust .

    Railway accidents aro always hushed up , unless corpses aro mado , or bodies mangled . Thus , on last Friday , a luggage train broke down within tho Watford tunnol , and was completely smashed to pieces , so much ho , that two hours elapsed before ) a multitudo of workmon could cloar away tho rubbish , and linos of carriagos , extending a milo and a half , awaiting tho opening of tho passage . What caused tho break down has not boon rovoalod . Railway oilicors aro pledged to secrosy in such matters . A Tipporary man named Conmers was tranpporteel for stealing a horse . In Australia ho got a tickot of loavo , and bee-amo rich . Tho other day ho died , loaving his sister , a poor Irishwoman , 800 ? . has in tho

    A sectarian pe > int crept among guardiano of tho poor of Abereloon , at tho St . Nicholas Parochial Board . Mr . Oaldor insists that children who havo no responsible guardians Hhould rocoivo tho rito of Christian baptism from tho chaplain , and bin view scorns to havo tho support of tho Board of Supervision . A numbor of tho members , howovor , aro unwilling to undertake ) " tho godly upbringing" of tho pauper cliildron falling to thoir cliargo ; and ono of tho arguments menl by Mr . Leslie arid Buillio Urenihart is , that tho board may come ) to bo e-ennposoel of mem who rojoe : t altogether tho doctrino of infant baptism . Tho ohurob-rato system in Jh-ninjLrew having boon inipodod by tho lato decision in tho ilouso of Lords , tho pooplo e > f tho placo havo raised a voluntary Hubscription for tho repair of tbo ohuroh . Somo corporate ) funds lying- in evhaneory , belonging to the ) Windsor corporation , havo boon upplieiel to sanitary pin-pom's . The > newoHy and proprioty of tho application oxeiiteH surprise ) .

    Tho groat St . Logor was won em Wodnoadoy by Mr . Bowe > a ' H West Australian , rideltm by that luoky jockey Frank Butlor . 'Xki » horao has thus won tho three artmti

    events of English racing—namely , the Two Thousand , the Derby , and the St . Leger . Tho competition on Thursday was lively . After the customary canter and parade , the horses drew together at tho post , and at the very first signal a beautiful start was effected . Feversham , followed by Sittingbournc , The Reiver , Cobnut , ' ami . Rataplan , in the . order named , made the .-running to , the Old . Road , where Sittingbourno went in front , and galloped on with tho lead at a telling . pace . Passing the mile-post , Rataplan drew into the third place , and West Australian began gradually to improve his position . Coining round the bend , Sittingbourne was caught anil passed by Tho

    Reiver , whose mends now began to count their gains . At the distance , however , ho found West Australian at his quarters , a position which was held until they were opposite the Stand , when West Australian went in advance , and , amidst the cheers and roars of the vast multitudes , " Frank , " with hands down , landed him an easy winner by three lengths ; four lengths between second and third . Balrownie a bad fourth , accompanied by Jlr . Sykes and Cineas , behind whom at long intervals came Sittingbourne , Cobnut , and Catspaw . Feversham pulled up a long way from home , and through tho serried crowds that rushed into the course immediately after the race , he slowly threaded his way back to the saddling inclosure .

    An accident happened to a Queen ' s messenger on the road from Balmoral to Perth . The carriage in which ho and Colonel Biddulph were travelling upset . Colonel Biddulph was bruised , and the messenger was seriously injured . Some children gathering blackberries in a field near Liverpool , eat the root of a poisonous plant . One of them died , and the rest lie dangerously ill . Prince Albert has placed on his farm at Windsor a new reaping machine—one of Hussey's make . It is worked with a pair of horses abreast , requires one man to 'drivo the horses , or ride as postilion , ono to sit on the machine to regulate its working , and to rake the corn off for the labourers who follow to tie up the sheafs , tho corn for whi c h is as neatly laid as that cut by the hand-reaper . The machine performed its work altogether very smoothly , and left the ground very clean . It is calculated that it will reai ) an acre an hour .

    Prince Eugene De Savoi.E Cangnan, Cousm-...

    Prince Eugene de Savoi . e Cangnan , cousm-gornian to the King of Sardinia , has arrived in Paris . The Grand Trunk Railway , designed by Sfcephonson , is causing a sensation in Canada , and Mr . Jackson , the proposed executor of the work , is a hero . " The country is rabid—rabid beyond all calculation—with the Jacksonphobia . The arrival of the groat man with Mr . Stephenson . has turned all brains . No one talks of anything elso but Jackson—sees anything else but Jackson—dreams of anything else . Poor Jean Baptisto has heard of him till , in the simplicity of his heart , he regards him as a noun of multitude—a creature with a groat many complex existences : and if he sees any one with a stick moro than a

    yard long , and a piece of tape hanging from bis pocket , exclaims , ' C ' est un Jackson ! ' A friend of mine , who was visiting some of tho French parishes below Quebec tho other day , was almost mobbed in consequence of asking the price of two or three farms , out of mere curiosity ; tho rumour immediately spread that it was Jackson—Jackson who had come to buy all tho parish—Jackson who had come to build bridges anel railroads , and finally , the unfortunate victim of a rumour had to mizzle incontinently . Tho railroael rules everything , and will rulo everything . The car of Juggernaut ia nothing to what tho car of tho main trunk will bo , and wo bid fair to bo crushed beneath an ielolatry almost as tremendous aa that of King Nebuchadnezzar . "

    From Buenos Ayrcs wo receivo intelligence that Urquiza having fled to his province ) ( Entre Jlios ) , tho sicgo at Buenos Ayres had come to an end , peace having been just restored . Commercial matters are going em moro favourably . Tho general feeling was in favour of tho good intentions of tho present Government , and no eloubt oxisteel that pcaco woulel last . The latest news from . Now Orleans , through New York aelvices of tho 3 rel instant , is that tho elaily amount of doaths from yellow favor was but 100 por day . Ono de ; ath

    by yellow fever was reported in Now York in tho last \ U ! olc of August , and seventeen of other fe ) vers ; in Philaelolphia , four deaths b y ye ; llow , and twonty-two by other fovers . Tho week's eleaths in Now York wore 511 ; in Philadelphia , 227 . Now York lias about < jr > O , ( X ) O inhabitants , Philadelphia nearly 500 , 000 . Tho population of Nenv Orleiann now scarcely oxcoods 40 , 000 pooplo , twothirds of tho inhabitants having Joffc for tho north . Of thoso roinaining , thoro aro erortainly 20 , 000 neigroeis and native ) Creoles , so that tho elraul mortality has only about 20 , 000 peoplo to proy upon , tho negroes anel Creoles hoing littlo , if at all , liable ) to its ) baneful ln / luewo .

    Our best trado frieinds aro fren pooplew , and \ ve > gain littlo from eleHpolfl . In tho trades rope > rt e > f thin weieilc , wo roael : — " Theiro ban boon a groat falling oil' in South American orders ; " a rewulfc that may bo partly attributed te > Santa Anna ' s despotism , and to tho eli . sturlmiicon in Bueinos Ayros . During tho Oavazzi riot , tho Mayor of Montreal oreloml tho treums to liro . . 'IIo has boon hold to ( mil em a

    charge ) of mureler . Tho Australian Gazette ( a homo paper full e > f intelligence ) from tho ereilony ) has tho following :-- " No gmit are ) the ) privations which now emigrants are ) put ( o on ( Irnt lanelmg on tho whnrf , Mint they are . ) glad , an far nn the * limitml ' neex » nnie ) daUon' will admit , to ulcop in tho irem boilers that aro lying abemt ( hero in all elim : tie > iiM . For thin npole ) gy for a ' pbe'o of Hholte > r , the ) iron-e > wiieu \ s exueifc twemoneio a night lor a ' ground iUxn ; ' anel lbiirponco for an upper uten'y . ' "

    The ) latent advices from Buoneis Ayreis , ilnloel August 2 nel , bring tho news of the ) flight e > l Uremiza to Eflteu-ion , tho raising e > f < . he > siogo e > f Buonos Ayre ^ H , tho electiem of Honen- Pastor to tho Governorship , ami tho restoration of puueo .

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 17, 1853, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17091853/page/9/