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• Jot* 19, 1851.] ^_ gift * agafret. ers...
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PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP. The doings of ...
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Joseph Ady, although in the Corapter, co...
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H ORRIBLE RA V AGES OF CHO L E R A IN GR...
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AMERICAN NKW8. The Arctic brings news fr...
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MISCELLANEOUS. A petition to the Queen f...
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The numbers attending the Exposition hav...
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The usual Indian Mail arrived thia week,...
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• Jot* 19, 1851.] ^_ Gift * Agafret. Ers...
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Personal News And Gossip. The Doings Of ...
PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . The doings of the Court this week opened with a visit of the Queen and Prince Albert to the Royal Agricultural show on Monday morning , and the splendid state ball at Buckingham Palace in the evening . The Royal party visited the Exposition on Tuesday morning , and attended , the Royal Italian Opera in the evening . A visit to the Exposition , and Prince Albert ' s attendance at the agricultural dinner , were Wednesday ' s amusements . The Queen stayed at home in the evening . There has been no gossip in particular , except about the bishops , the daily flight of balloons , and the failures of the City dignitaries in their laborious efforts to get up a ball . The Duke of Cambridge reviewed the Seventeenth
Lancers at Woolwich on Wednesday . Sir George Grey was so unwell on Wednesday , that the Queen and Prince Albert , and Sir George a colleagues , sent to inquire after him . The Lord Aldborough , of Baltinglass , county Wicklow , has written to the Times , denying that the Aldborough arrested at Leghorn is only a fictitious Lord . Which is which ? , The great libel case of Captain Wynne verstts the Marquis of Westmeath was brought to an abortive conclusion on the 15 th , after a trial of eight days' duration . The jury found for the plaintiff , but could not agree as to damages . _ , Mr . Paxton has written a very temperate reply to Lord Campbell , respecting the Crystal Palace , showing that with ordinary care the structure would last at least fifty
years . ... .. .. « _^ , „_ , _„ Lord Listowel , who resides opposite the Crystal Palace , writes to the Times , protesting against the assertion of Lord Campbell , that the petition he presented to the House of Lords the other night , represents the feeling ol the neighbourhood . Lord Listowel had not been asked for his signature , and if he had , he should have declined to sign , as he approved of the project for preserving the building intact .
Joseph Ady, Although In The Corapter, Co...
Joseph Ady , although in the Corapter , continues his pursuit of dupes and unclaimed dividends . The Bishop of Southwark was consecrated at Rome , by Cardinal Franzoni , on July 6 . M . Daguerre , discoveror of the daguerrotype , died suddenly on Thursday , aged sixty-two . It is reported that M'Manus has escaped from Van Diemen ' s Land . John Mitchell is the authority for the rumour . M'Manus is said to have taken advantage of the interval between the cancelling of the old , andthe granting of the new ticket of leave , and slipped off in a ship .
Letters were received in town on Wednesday from Hornby , in Lancashire , announcing that Dr . Lingard , the historian , was ill , and hi 3 death hourly expected . " He has been for some days past speechless , " says the Post , " and in his own case in some measure , realizes the picture he has drawn of the last days of Queen Elizabeth—having a dreadful horror of going to bed , he has not left his easy chair for the last fortnight . The last rites of the Roman Catholic Church have been administered to the invalid , who has now reafched a patriarchal old age . Report has it that Dr . Lingard more than once declined the offer of a oardinal ' s hat .
H Orrible Ra V Ages Of Cho L E R A In Gr...
H ORRIBLE RA V AGES OF CHO L E R A IN GR AN D CANARY . Cholera has seldom appeared in a more ghastly form , and committed more frig htful havoc , than in the case of Grand Canary , published in this week ' s papers . Our authority for the statement we are about to pen is Mr . Iloughton Houghton , British Vice-Con 8 ul at the afflicted island . He relates , in his official despatch ; that on the last day of May , a person died in a part of the town called San Jose under suspicious circumstances , and that his body was opened . Shortly afterwards another person died in an opposite part of the town , and it was found that , he had visited San Jos 6 .
Gradually the reports of strange deaths became more alarming , and on the Sth of June medical men had arrived at tho conclusion that the deatha had been caused b Asiatic cholera . The deaths in the suburb of San Joso now rapidly increased from 5 to 20 on the 7 th . " I myself , " writes tho consul , " was witness on that day to an emigration of the poor people , with their few household chattels , towards the end of the town bordering on the mole , und to the centre of the circle which in culled tike ltisco , the latter composed chiefly of huts dug out of the rock , und inhabited by sailors and the very lowest class of the population . On the 8 th the scourge broke out in full force . At the timo of the emigration of those from Sun Joso the principal inhabitants of tho city were escaping in all directions . Od the 8 th and
9 th the greater part of them were out" of the town , driven by the most horrible panic to take refuge anywhere . I consider that out of a populution of about 10 , 000 inhabitants there did not remain upwards of 4000 on the 10 th ; for , not only did those fly who could count upou the mums of support , but , auoh w . ih the consternation , that tho distressed people who had not a day ' h sustenance at their command , wildly escaped anywhere they could ; fathers left their children , and children their parents ; all ties of relationship were forgotten , and nought but the safety of the moment wim thought of . Many were the victims of such conduct . The roads were soon covered with dead bodies , and the disease seized its Erey in runny of the adjacent small towns und villages . ivery calamity now rapidly upproached . On tho 10 th ,
llth and 12 th , the deaths were upwards of 100 daily . The hespital was overwhelmed with the dying and the dead . Assistance was eagerly demanded by the few rational witnesses of such scenes , but nowhere to be found . Public funds there were none . The wealthy inhabitants had only thought of their own security , and the paltry sum of 400 dollars that is said to have been received from the provinci al board ought , to have been expended in a few hours . No pen can give you an idea of our sufferings . It has been left to this little insignifiant place to complete the picture of horrors so ably described by Daniel Defoe ; for in addition to everything by him related , we had the new feature of the soldiers chasing the few men remaining who had sufficient strength to lift the bodies of the dead .
Yes such was our state that the living could not bury their dead before corruption commenced , and the only remedy left was for the soldiers to seize on any one they could find—some to die trenches , and others to hunt m the narrow defiles and filthy huts for the bodies that had been abandoned by all connected with them . This state of things continued with unabated rigour till the 16 th , the principal question asked by those who still maintained any degree of composure being , whether it was possible to inter the dead ; and the echoing noise in the void and empty streets of the sledges and carts conveying the naked but
bodies , covered by a few mats , made comparatively little impression , as the only anxiety was that they should be hurried away . " By the evening of the 17 th the dead were in a great measure buried . During that night the number of the deaths declined , but already one-fourth of the 4000 who did not fly the city , were destroyed . Fortunately , the weather changed and continued more healthy , and up to the 24 th of June the decline had been marked and satisfactory : The inhabitants partially returned , and the dead being buried , the desolate place tried again to look cheerful .
But the scourge had reached the country , and had even broken out in the towns , notably Felde and Arucas , which were in an awful state . " They had not been able to bury their dead , and every horror was in full force " on the 24 th of June . There is another part of the account not less afflicting , and , indeed , more so than even the prevalence of death—the state of the people which rendered . them an easy prey to the disease . The victims were chiefly the poor , the weak , the vicious , the timid , and the ignorant .
" A great part of the mortality has been caused by the absolute dearth of the common necessaries of life among the class attacked , and one medical man 6 tated to me that it was useless his going to the Risco , as when he ordered applications to excite perspiration , in most cases they would show him a mere rag of the size of a handkerchief as their additional covering , and , as in this climate so little is generally used , there were no means of meeting this Sudden emergency . Ventilation is the great preservative , and these people are entirely ignorant of
the origin or means of security against the attacks of this epidemic . Those who have read of , or been witnesses to the ravages of this dreadful scourge in other parts ( as was the case with myself the year before last in London ) , cannot form any conception of the accumulated horrors in this unfortunate island . The people were wholly unprepared for it either in their habits or education ; they saw nothing but death , and only thought of flight without making the slightest effort to face or endeavour to avoid it by proper diet and ventilation . "
As to the origin of the cholera upon this isolated spot the consul wisely indulges only in conjectures , and statements of the rumours in the island . The whole passage ia interesting , and will furnish an important case for the quarantine congress : — " Tou are aware that during the prevalence of this epidemic in Europe , even when it reached Cadiz , these islands as well as Madeira wtre preserved intact ; the usual course of the winds is from that direction ; there has been no change noted in this respect within these last months . The cholera has latterly been making great ravages in the West Indies , a position diametrically opposed to the current of the air . It appears , therefore , almost impossible that we should have received the germ of thia destroyer simply through the atmosphere .
The credited reports here tend to a contrary opinion . About the 8 th or 9 ih of May a vessel arrived from the Iiavannah with a clean bill of health , and was consequently admitted to pratique without any preliminary fumigation . It is said that tho first house in San Jose ( a suburb principally inhabited by poor people ) in which this disease made its appearance , was that of a washerwoman who had taken the mattress and foul clothes of one of the poorer passengers to wash , and that her children slept upon them dining the night . Death soon followed ; one neighbour after another was slowly hut graduall y attacked ; the seed had found its appropriate soil , and slowly but too surely germinated , and when the air waa sufficiently contaminated its fatal effects were generalized .
American Nkw8. The Arctic Brings News Fr...
AMERICAN NKW 8 . The Arctic brings news from New York up to the 6 th instant . There is little- of importance ; but it would aeern from the accounts that the Unionists had , at present , ruther a decided advantage in the Southern States . Walsh , the deserter from New Brunswick , whose extradition Sir Henry Bulwer demanded , has been acquitted of the crime under which he was arrested , and be left the court amid hearty cheers from a body of Irishmen . He bus joined the American army . S » n Francisco in rising up as great a » ever . It ia to be noted that Chinese emigrants wore arriving in great numbers . ^ I ho Toronto news present some interesting points , lhe Governor General had attended a dinner , to promote
the interests of British-American railway enterprise . Some Americans were present , and he told them the Canadians were prepared to interchange with them upon fair and equal terms , if they willed it so—if not , they were equally prepared to rely on their own exertions . He expressed a conviction that the Great Western line , now in course of construction , will prove to be only a line in a great chain which , at no remote day , shall run through British North America , from the Atlantic to the Pacific . Mr . Howe spoke after Lord Elgin , and stated that the Imperial Government were prepared to advance the means of carrying out this gigantic undertaking , at three-and-a-half per cent , interest , while wealthy contractors in England were ready to bring their establishments to Canada to aid in the work . Mr . Roebuck ' s name was down in the estimates for £ 500 as agent of England . The Upper Canada members had refused to vote for the secularisation of the Protestant clergy reserves .
Miscellaneous. A Petition To The Queen F...
MISCELLANEOUS . A petition to the Queen for the restoration , at the first fitting oportunity , of the separate and distinct See of Gloucester is said to have been very numerously signed throughout the diocese . The proposition raised by Dr . Cumming to set up a Protestant Church in Home , by subscription , has been taken up by the Reverend Mr . Burgess , of Chelsea . He has written to the Times , signifying that he is authorized to state that a " high dignitary of the Church " will be responsible for £ 1000 . Reprisals of this kind would prove infinitely more formidable to Rome , than the Russell-Durham-Thesiger mode of meeting Papal Aggression .
The Numbers Attending The Exposition Hav...
The numbers attending the Exposition have this week arisen to their old point , and the building has been crowded every day . Of course the receipts have been proportionately large . The reason of this improvement upon last week appears to be that many came up from the country to attend the Cattle Show at Windsor , and took advantage of the occasion to visit the Exposition . It is said the Parisian authorities are about to give a grand hanquet to the Royal Commissioners . The Peace Congress will assemble in Exeter-hall on Tuesday next .
The correspondence with respect to the incomes of the Bishops has been continued this week with great vigour . " H " ( who ? Horsman ?) has written repeatedly to the Times , showing up the irregularities and uncertainties attending their incomes . The Bishop of Ely , also , has availed himself of the bold type of the Times to register a grievance . He gets , on an average of five years , about £ 2000 less than the fixed sum agreed to by the Commissioners—at least , he says so . George Frederick Young has gone down to Scarborough to oppose the reelection of Lord Mulgrave . The nomination took place yesterday . The Harwich election committee have declared the election of Mr . Crawford " null and void , " on the ground that the poll was closed before four o ' clock ; that hereby a voter named James Wood could not vote ; and , moreover , that the proceedings were interrupted by violence and obstruction .
Lord Alfred Paget is not the owner of the yacht Cygnet , which carried off the silver cup at the last yacht race . The owner is Mr . H . Lambton . The Right Honourable Edward Strutt , has , it appears , been chosen to succeed the Earl of Arundel and Surrey in the representation of the Duke of Norfolk ' s pocket borough of Arundel , which lies almost under the walls of Bramber Castle . Lord Arundel and Surrey , it ia rumoured in the Irish correspondence , is to succeed Mr . John O'Connell as member for Limerick ; and as Mr . John O'Connell is not likely to be elected elsewhere , he will not have , for some time at least , an opportunity of performing his long-promised feat of " dying upon the floor of that House . "
The Knareborough election has terminated , though not without a contest , in the success of Mr . Collins , who has beaten his opponent , Mr . Andrew Lawson , by 95 to 04 . Mr . Collins is described as a Peelite , and Mr . Luwson as a Protectionist . The contest arose upon the retirement of Mr . Watson , Q . C , who left the field when he found that local influence was arrayed too strongly against him . Mr . Lawson had declined to stand while there w & s a chance of dividing the Conservative interest , and Mr . Collins had interpreted thia to mean that Mr . Lawson would not oppose him at all . The Whiga , however , annoyed by the retreat of Mr . Watson , carried Mr . Lawson to the poll , and were beaten . The election was distinguished by those disturbances and outrages which are customary in small boroughs and corrupt
constituencies . The Evening Mail announces the death of the Earl of Charleville , which took pluce suddenly on Monday last in tho neighbourhood of London . By his decease a vacancy occurs in the representative peerage of Ireland . Ilin lordship ia succeeded in his title and estates by his eldest boh , Vincount Tullainore , now Earl at Charleville . Tho gentleman who presided at the soiree given in honour of Mr . Ebenezer Syme at Sunderlund , was not Mr . John , but Mr . William , Chapmui , a bookseller and nativo of tho town , and not the eminent publisher in the Strand .
The Usual Indian Mail Arrived Thia Week,...
The usual Indian Mail arrived thia week , but contained no important or striking news . It is stated that the Governments of Prussia , Austria , Belgium , France , and England have consented to send deputies to a congress to be held this autumn at l * rankfoit , for the purpose of deliberating on common measure * with regard to patent * for inventions . It ia proposed to conclude a treaty rendering a patent granted in one country valid in all the other countries which shall be parlies to the measure . Dravo Murillo ' s proposition for the settlement of the Snanieh debt has been agreed to by a large majority .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 19, 1851, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19071851/page/9/
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