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Miscellaneous. A Memorial From A Number ...
The Metropolis Water Supply Committee , after hearing Professors Cooper and Brande on the question of the chemical peculiarities of Thames water , the committee have passed the first clause of the government measure , winch sets forth " that from and after ( a date to be named ) it shall notbelawfulfor any water company to take for-the supply of the metropolis ; or of any part thereof , any water from any part of the river Thames below Teddington lock , or from any part of the tributary rivers or streams of the river Thames , below the highest point where the tide fldwd in such tributary rivers and streams respectively . " _ Officers have been appointed to see that the provisions of the amended Steam Navigation Act , for the prevention
of overcrowding on board river steamers , are complied with . By the 12 th section , the owner , master , or person in charge * will be fined 201 ., and also 5 s . for every additional passenger he carries beyond the number for which he is certified . Upwards of a hundred vessels ,- cutter-rigged craft , says the Morning Chronicle , are now lying in the Hull docks ; the fishmongers' shops are almost destitute of stock , and the middle-men , whose business is done upon the south-end pier there , in transmitting packages of fish across the country to the inland towns , are doing next to nothing . The fishermen have struckj not " for wages , " but on account of certain perquisites and usages , which have hitherto been by consent recognised as part of the agreement between the owners and the crews .
The project for the establishment of a Crystal Palace m the Champs Elysees "is going on with great activity . A company , formed Of capitalists , has already subscribed the amount necessary for this undertaking , and it is occupied in examining the p lans which have been submitted by a number of French and foreign architects . M . Sallandrouze de Lamornaix , commissary of the Government at the liondon Exhibition , is at the head of this company . That useful feature in large towns , the Penny News ' Boom , is multiplying itself in . the Metropolis . Six doors west of Somerset House another has been opened , which thus expresses its " mission : "— " "Whoever takes an interest in public news , desires to note the current statics of his business , or has sometimes a leisure hour which he would
turn agreeably to ; account-rr-who is liable to occasional need of information from directory , chart , or time-table ; of convenience for writing an impromptu note ; or of a central address for letters and appointments—has felt some of the requirements which the Stea-KD News Rooms are intended to fulfil . " . Advices received at Liverpool communicate a discovery at Porto Sico in the chemistry of sngax-m & Mng ; J > on Juan Ramos , a native of Port Rico , is the discoverer ; the agent is a vegetable extract , which cleanses the saccharine liquor to a degree far beyond that at which the tempered lime hitherto used ceases to operate , while the result is an immensely increased produco of sugar , of a quality very superior to that produced under the present mode ; and the greatest merits of the discovery are , " that it requires no change of the existing apparatus , involves no additional outlay , " and it is " so simple as to be easily acquired . "
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The Course of People ' s Lectures , in New York , has closed successfully . Its object , avowed from the outset , was the wider and cheaper diffusion of the benefits of popular lectures , while the best lecturers should at the same time be more liberally rewarded than had hitherto been usual . These objects have been obtained . The New York Tribune adds : — " These lectures will bo resumed next autumn , and preparations will . be made to render them
effective and popular . We hope they may succeed ; for we do think the habit of requiring lecturers to give their time and audiences their money for purposes of local , personal , or sectarian importance , has been stretched somewhat . Besides , under the old plan , attractive and uninteresting lecturers are paid alike , while in this courso each receives -according to his power of commanding an audience . We hope the hint will bo improved in our sister cities , and to this end commend it to general consideration . "
The Swansea Herald relates this touching instance of a woman ' s heroism and courage : —A child about four or five years of age fell over the Pothouse-quay , Carmarthen , into the Towey , a strong tide running at the time . Two young men wore standing near , but , being unable to swim , rnado no effort to rescue the boy , merely crying out , " Ho is drowning ! " but a woman named Hannah JLvans , who was in her houao attending her sick daughter , saw the accident , and ga llantly rushed into tho water up to her arm-pits , although totally ignornnt of tho art of swimming , and saved tho child , just as it waa on tho point of finally
sinking . Illustrative of how early a Bontimont of honour may exist in tho young , a curious instance has occurred in Porby , whom " a little boy , ton yoava old , has drowned himself , from mortification at his mother having discovorod that ho had stolon nixponce , Tho New York Tribune gives this curious instanco of the creation of a public wonder : —Somo years ago an opticiari of this city hi ado a glass oyo of the proper « ize , filled it with distilled water , and put therein a small col . I A gontloman of nubile wjt saw tho bauble , wan struck wtyh an idoa , purchased it , Jind departed . Shortly afterwards tho public woro running down Park-row , somowlioro ,, to boo " a hors o with a snake in his oyo , " tho greatest wonder of tho ago . . Money camo plentifully to tho camp , and tho chow wont on bravoly until tho optician inadvertantly mentioned tho glass oyo , and then tho wholo affair collapsed ,.
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It appears thoro aro reasons for supposing that Mr . Boyd may not bo killed , but merely rotainod in captivity . The American whalers will bo directed to nound tho natives , those adventurous oeamon boing adroit at this porilouq diplomacy . ' ¦ . ' . .... - Tho Record relays that Mr . Sjponcor , bettor known M Father Ignatius , ia in Yicnna , raising funds for tho " oonvoroion" of tho ProtofllantB of England .
The son of Prince Mura ' t has joined the Chasseurs d'Afrique as a private soldier . Mr . Frank Forster , recently the engineer to theMeferbpolitan Commissioners of Sewers , died suddenly last week , at the age of fifty-two . He was a man of great attainment and large practice as a mining and civil engineer . A contemporary sketches his career—After a long jexercise of Kis talents in . pursuits not devoid of contention / and into which personal feelings are frequently imported , Ms knowledge , 'his untiring assiduity , ; and his high , integrity , left him without an enemy . For many years he was the energetic coadjutor of Sir Robert Stephenson , having had entrusted to him the direction of many works of magnitude , ainone which may he particularly mentioned the
Kilsby Tunnel and the masonry of the piers of the Britannia Bridge , and the general arrangements of that great work . On the formation of the present Commission of Sewers for the metropolis , Mr . Forster was appointed chief engineer ; but his health failing he tendered his resignation , which had been , however , too long delayed . The labours entailed by the system of centralization now sought to be introduced , and the anxieties of the position , proved too much for his frame . He has left a widow and a large circle of relations . Mr . Forster was interred in the Highgate Cemetery . . In the cortege were the carriages of Sir W . Ciibitt , Mr . Rendel ( President of the Institution of Civil Engineers ) , Mr . Stephenson , M . P ., and Mr ! Trezerant . A considerable number of gentlemen met the procession at
the gate of the cemetery . Among them were—S . M . Peto , Esq ., M . P . ; Capt . Claxton , R . W . ; Messrs , Erringtoh , Betts , Gregory , Martin , Grlynnj C . Manby , Edwin Clark , Phillips , Donaldson , Bazalgetti , Smith , Munday , Wild , Gotto , Pollard , Humphries , Harding , Hatton , Scott , and other members of the profession . The mental state of Mr . Feargus O'Connor has been brought before one bench of magistrates of the metropolis . The Sunrepprts that the preliminary steps have been taken in the Lord Chancellor ' s office for issuing a commission of lunacy upon this unfortunate gentleman , whose eccentricities have for some time past been known to the public , with a view to his confinement .
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As a man was crossing a field near Barnsbury Park , Islington , hefound the body of an infant lying in a ditch . Pr > Adams who examined the body , declared that notwithstanding its decomposed state the . deceased was bom alive , and that , if not from violence , at least its death was caused by neglect . Theeoroner has ordered an inquest to be held on the body . . Mr . Bjchard Cartwright committed . suicide at the Star Coffee-house , Old-street , on Saturday . Mr . CortWrightr was a butler oat of place .
Ferdinand Bock , a powerful German , has been apprehended , after attempting to rob a shop , throtigh the resolution of Mrs , tnight , who is described as a " delicate-lo 6 king" woman . Bock had broken ; by night ? into the shop of Mr . Heirons , in Leadenhall-street . Mrs . Knight , wife of a policeman , and housekeeper to the premises , heard a noise , and detected Bock as he came out of the shop heavily laden with plunder ; she grappled with him , and compelled him to relinquish his load , before he could shake her off . He then ran into the street ; but she pursued : him , and raised an alarm , and he was chased and arrested .
Abel Ovane underwent capital punishment , in front of Monmoutli gaol , on Friday , for tho murder of his illegitimato child , by drowning it in a stream of water at Newport . About fpur thousand persons collected to view tho execution , most of t hem women ; who " behaved in anything but a becoming manner . " Tho mother , Sarah Dove , lies under respite ; doubts having been cast upon the degree of her complicity . A Dutch trader , Maria Johnanna , ran foul of tho Triton , from Cardiff to Bremen , off the Dorsetshire coast , six or seven of tie Dutch crew sinking with tho ship . Tho GUoncove , of Now Orleans , has exploded at St . Louis , utterly destroying the vessel , and many passengers . Accidents in America are on a scale commensurate with the people ; and their utter contempt for human life is , perhaps , explained by tho constant stream of fresh life
over pouring . At ten minutes before 1 , on Sunday morning , a firo broke out at 212 , Piccadilly , a brush-maker ' s , tho back chiefly suffering . Engines , manned by 100 hired auxiliaries , rondorcd prompt osaistanco . Several houses were injured . . Tormyn-stroot was crowded with spectators , many of thorn gentlemen accustomed to gaiety and lato hours : not loss , probably , than half of tho wholo number , women . Tho villago of Rcntoti , situated about sixteen miles west from GlaBgow , has boon tho scono of an appalling catastrophe , the destruction of two dwelling houses by firo , and tho donth of sovon children by tho miuio moans . Thoro is reason to bolievo that tho poor children woro suffocated boforo tho flames roachod thorn . .
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Tho Manchester JUxaminer furnishes those local statistics of etrikos taken from tho returns publishod by tho various trades unions whor o tho several strikes took place : To support tho weavers' striko , at Hoy wood , in 1844-5 , tho operatives of that district had to subscribe ) nearly 600 Z . \ which , with tho loss of 160 persons' wages for ton wooka , at 7 « . each , will mako tho above Bum into 1120 Z . ; this sum , added to tho loss sustained through all tho mills stopping in conseq uence of tho striko ,-may bo j > ut down at 2000 Z . ' Tho money subacribod to support Messrs . Jones ' s
weavers , of Oldham , in 1845 , amounted to 8500 ? ., which , with tho loss of tho weavers' wages for thirty-six wookH , will amount to 7000 ? . Tho weavers etriko at Royton , in tho same year , cost tho operatives ^ in money subscribed and loss of wagon for eight weeks , 700 ? . Tho turn-out of Messrs . Collingn nn 4 guu ^ f den ' a weavers , Oldham , in I 860 , cost , in Ions ofwAi ^ jM § r £ 'W n ty weeks , 10007 ., and tho money aub-Hcribod id support them amounted : to 7 W . ; total , 1710 ? . Tho strike wrxhe Limeflold woavors , near Bury , and tho weavers and mill hands of Messrs . Schofiold , near
Littloborough , cost in money subscribed 1300 ? J ; loss of wages ' for eight weeks ; about 1 & 00 &; totalcost ; of strike , 2900 ?" During the strike of Messrs . Ogdeh ' $ weavers , ofOldham ' in 1851 / the operatives lost 1200 ?; in loss of wagejsi and money subscribed to support thetuna-outs . Thei Weavers ' strike at Stalybridge , in 1850 , cost abdut 1000 ? . The ' weavers' strike at Droylsdeh , ¦ in 1861 , Cost iti money subscribed' 1200 ? ., which , with the loss of twenty-four Ayeeks ^ wages , ^ 1 mate a totial of ^ 220 f . The " strikes at Hyde have cost the . operatives more than' 2 Q 00 ? . Tdauppprtthe Pendleton strike the operatives had to subscribe between 7000 ? . and 8000 ? ., which , with the loss of wagesduring the strike , will nbt be far short of . , 000 ?; as" the money lost to the operatives in that contest ; . Total cost of the above strikes , 39 , 736 ? . During the'last few years : the weavers within a circle often mues around Monchaster have lost 40 , 000 ? .
DEPARTMENT OF PBACTICAIi AKT . We are informed that at thei forthcomingExhibition of the works of thie students at Idarlbbrough-house , the Board of Trade have decided that medals shall be awarded to the producers of meritoripas .. works . Hitherto the prizes have been limited to the students in the head schools , but in ftiku'e they will be thrown open to the students of all the provincial ; schools as well . The President of tlie Royal Academy , Sir C . Eastlake , and Mr . Macuse , RiA ., ; have consented to act as Honorary Examiners of the students' works oh the present occasion , in co-operfttibn with ^ Vtr . Redgrave , R . Ai , the Art Superintendent .
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HEALTH OF LONDON DXJRING TH ^ WEEK . The mortality of London again exhibits a slight increase , the deaths in the previous week ^( ending April 10 ) having been 1 , 051 , those in the week that ended last Saturday heing 1 , 092 . In thes 10 corresponding weeks of 1 S 42-51 the average number o & deaths was 944 , which , if Raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 1 , 038 . The mortality of last week , thereibre , exceeds the corrected average by 54 deaths . In comparing the returns of the last two weeks it appears that there is a small in < area 8 e , m ,, . epidemic 9 , ^ m : dweases of the nervous systen > , , the heartjvand the digestivo organs ; but a decrease in diseases pf the organs of respiwnich
ration , and also in the tubercular class . ; SsmaUpox , it * . fth £ tjpr , evipu 8 , Week was fatal in 34 cases , numbers inithe present return 38 , whiph-are those of ' 3 ijchildren and 7 adults , 6 of Whom were 20 years' oFage ana upwards . In 6 cases it is stated that vaccination had been previously performed , and in these the patients died at the following agea ;_ 2 , 3 , 7 , 10 , 22 , 27 years , Measles has increased in the two weeks from 11 deaths to 18 ; typhus , remittent fever , & c ., from 51 to 56 . . Influenza numbered in the two weeks respectively 4 and 6 cases ; croup 8 and 10 . Tho wife of a labourer , aged 26 years , died suddenly on the 31 st of March at 21 , Goodman ' s-yard , Whitechapel , from cholera . An inquest was held on the body .
The class which includes diseases of the respiratory organs still exhibits a great excess above the ordinary amount at this period , the number of deaths referred to it last week being 214 , while the average of corresponding weeks corrected for increase of population is only 165 . In those weeks tho actual numbers ranged from 107 to 185 , which latter amount is much bolow what is now experienced . Bronchitis predominates , and , with tho exception of p hthisis , produces at present a greater mortality than any other disease on the list ; it carried oil 102 persons , pneumonia 77 . Phthisis was fatal to 13 »; its mortality , which is always great , is not sensibly aggravated by causes that have given additional force to otnor diseases .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS On the 16 th inst ., at Cftvendish-Bquare , Lady J . Manners : a B On the 16 th inst ., at 0 , Eaton-pUco West , Lady Elizabeth Russell : a son . . . „ „?« , n « rlr On tho 16 th inst ., at 17 , Nottingham-place , Jtegent s-parK , Mrs . H « witt Davis : a son . ' , ., T „„!„„ On tho 20 th met ., at Esoriolc-pork , the Ladv Elisabeth Lawiey , prematurely : a son , who only survived one hour . On the gist inat ., at Ifonrietta-street , Mrs . Charloa * ow . » daughter . MABRIAGHS . nnnra 0 On tho 17 th inst ., at St . Mary ' u , Hammeramith , Georgo Hooper , Esq ., to Jane Margaret Winnard , of Nortn-enci . On tlie 17 th inst , at Christ Church , Miwy lebono , Mr . \ v Mucfarren , of AJhort-etreet , Mornitngton-oreaoont , » ° ' {'" ' second dau K hter of H . A . Fanner , Esq ., of St . John s-wooo . On tho 20 th inst ,, at St . John ' s , P ^ dmgtoii , by the , £ or Bishop of WinchoBtor , Fuller Midland Wilson , Eaq ., eldeet no of Henry Wilson , of Stowlan R toft-hall , BuiMK Meq ., ^ -Jg Oarolino , eeoond daughter of tho Hon . tho Vioe-Chiinoou K oS & h inat ., at Leamington Priorn , byt !> o Bov . JJjJJj niol Hey wood , Charles , soeond flonof the late G « o * 'W Esq ., of Brockmoro , Staffordshire , to Kathormo , M f T ^ Sn ' . of Albert W . Bcetham , » . B . S ., barriflter-at-law , oi Lmcoin s inn , and Ropo-hill , near Lymin | rtpn . Hampshire . . n v # On the 20 th inst ., at St . Peter ' s Olmnoh , Fromo , W , „ E . D . Wioklmn ., inouriibent of Holniwood , Surrey , ««*» « J ^ J tho Rev . J . B , B Clarke , rector of Bagborough , So ^ morBOMo Sheppwrd , E « q .. of tho Won-gatos , Ffome , to Susanl AnnflLv vouncost dwifffitor of James Antkony Wiokhani , Wl «
North-hill , Frome . On « ho 12 thinat ., at Olapham , I » ai * d Culllmon ) , Esq ., F . K- - >•> nKod 01 . i . Tamhr ivscd On tho 17 th inst ., at Worthing , of hoomng-ooug h . J efls ^^^ 2 years and 8 months , tho lout uujvivlng child oi 3 otov *» ° Eh < j ., pfOheyne-row , Ohelaoa . ' nrj .- « n in-tl « o Fiolfls ' dn the lOfli inst ., at tho V ^ arngo , St . M * rtta-In ui ^ Blnnoho Amolia , the youngest daughter ot tno »» Mackenzie , aged 16 months . nnnntv of Berks , » ir On tho 10 th in « t ., at flwollowilold , In the county oi » Henry Russell , Bart ., in tho opth your ot his ftg « .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 24, 1852, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24041852/page/12/
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