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September 27, 1856.] * . ¦ ""¦ T H B L E...
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BOOKSELLERS' ADULTERATIONS. The Aihtnaum...
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OBITUABY. .-. ' • ¦ ¦ Lord Hardinge.—The...
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, MISCELLANEOUS. - Tiik Court.—Wo hear v...
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Accidents And Sudden Deaths. A Crane At ...
Martha'Lanton ; has fceen accidentally poisoned , in consequence of two tallespoohsfuls of a "preparation of opium having been administered to her in lieu of an aperient which had been prescribed for her . TJie woman had been in a bad state of . health for the last two years , and on the day of her death it was judged necessary to give her a dose of what Tvas called in the asylum the ' house medicine , ' which was a mixture of senna and salts . " This was accordingly administered to the invalid by the under matron ; but Lanton had not long swallowed it when her face underwent a sudden change ; her lips became livid in colour , and her eyes -were fixed . The surgeon-superintendent was immediately called in , but , notwithstanding that every effort was made to recover her , she expired in the course of the day . The bottle from which the medicine was poured had been filled by the house-porter in the absence of the surgeon and Ms assistant , as it had often been before , and in the place where it was kept there was another jar which greatly resembled the proper one in size and general appearance . This contained opium , and had been used inadvertently by the porter , who never looked at the label to see whether he had taken the right vessel or not . It was afterwards discovered , however , that the label , of the opium jar was so worn and stained that it was impossible to read it . An inquest was held on the following day , and a verdict of " Accidental Death" returned , with a recommendation from the coroner that there should be a more oareful arrangement of the medicine tottles for the future . Richard Scott , an ornamental painter , aged seventysix , who for the last fifty years has been an inhabitant of Exeter-street , Strand , was run over on Sunday night by a cab close to the Lyceum Theatre . The driver went on ^ and the old man was picked up by a police-constable , who found him bleeding from a wound . in the head , but thought he was drunk . He was taken to the Bow-street " station , and afterwards removed , by medical advice , to King ' s College Hospital , but was not admitted . He was then carried back to the station , and placed in a cell . In the morning , he was found in a state which induced the police to send again for a medical man , and lie was then admitted to the hospital , and put to bed , "but he died on Tuesday afternoon . An ironmonger of Bradford , Wilts , named Tanner , who possesses considerable mechanical genius , lately constructed a steam-engine by which to propel a small rowing-boat , and he used frequently to use this boat on parties of pleasure on the river Avon . One of these excursions took place last Saturday , when Mr . Tanner lad with him his wife and his only daughter , about three years of age . Mrs . Tanner fell , overboard , and her husband , in'leaning over to rescue her , capsized trie boat , and all three were drowned . Loud cries for help -were heard by a shooting-party not far off ; but they arrived too late to help . Mr . Tanner has left an infant behind him . Lieutenant-General Eyre and staff , and a number of pleasure seekers in the Saguenay river , Canada , have Jiacl a narrow escape . The gun on the forward promenade deck , which is used to give the passengers an idea of the echo , burst , and -was blown to atoms . The majority of the passengers , including General Eyre , were on the deck at the time , and their escape is surprising .
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Booksellers' Adulterations. The Aihtnaum...
BOOKSELLERS' ADULTERATIONS . The Aihtnaum of last week contains the annexed tetter and rejoinder : — An eminent publisher , writing under the signature w A Lover of Consistency , " sends us the following : — - " Sept . 7 . " In last week ' s Leader appeared an excellent nrticlc on ' Booksellers' Adulterations ; ' one of many examples given of a too frequent style of advertizing books in the present day was , that on tho fly-leaf of other works , or in the advertisement of tho book itself , one constantly sees ' These books are tho happiest efforts of their authors . ' It seems to me strange that , objecting to this style of pufilng on tho part of tho proprietors of tho nrticles to be sold , your contemporary should loud his assistance to spread it . On tho outside sheet of tho same day ' s issue there is an advertisement of three or four works by popular writers , underneath which is tho following announcement : —' These boots are decidedly tlio happiest efforts of their authors . ' They may be , but surely some one olset than their owners must tell us so before wo can take it for granted . At any rate the Leader , while writing against a too common practice , should not destroy the effect of its own argument by aiding in its continuance . " Our Correspondent deals , wo think , unfairly with our contemporary . From his own position in the trade ho must bo aware that the editorial and business departments of a journal are distinct , —that an editor reads the advertisements in his own paper at tho same time with the general public . But oven if ho read the advortisomonts before they appear in print , it is far from obvious that ho ought to refuse thoir insertion in his columns . The advertizing sheet is a kind of common ground on which publishers display thoir wares . An editor cannot undertake to examine tho genuineness of each article advertized in his pages ; nor < : an he profitably interfere with the business department , oxcept wlieu somo violence j 3 done to public morals . In his own department ho may
preach as he pleases . There he is orfhis own tripod . If answered at all he must be answered on the literary ground ; but if he were to say to advertizers , " No puffs without chapter and verse , " th « advertizer might append to his laudation of his wares the name of the Manx Cat ; and hoir is the editor to know that the Manx Cephas not called the work in question " the greatest production of the human mind ?" Nothing need be added to the remarks of our contemporary . Every literary journal contains advertisements of "the greatest productions of the human mind . " The Nonconformist has an article on the same subject , the writer of which entirely agrees with'us in the opinions we have put forth ; but we have no space to quote it .
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NAVAt . AND MILITARY . The Genoa Tbansatlantic Steam Company . — A rial trip was made on Thursday week between Graves- ind and the Nore , the ship being a handsome new screw iteamer called the Genova , < one of the ships composing ; be fleet of the Genoa Transatlantic Steam Company , recently established , to form a regular line of communi- nation between Genoa and South America on the one land , and between Genoa and the United States on the jther . The results were very satisfactory . She maintained a speed of twelve knots an hour , and was found free from the unpleasant vibration often felt in steamers pro- pelled by a screw . She is 265 feet in length between perpendiculars , 38 feet broad , with a depth of hold of 28 feet , and draws , when loaded , 20 feet . Her tonnage is 1852 16-94 ths builders-measurement . The engines , of which there are two , constructed by Messrs . Maudslay , Sons , and Field , are of 300 nominal horse-power , and operate on the principle of the direct horizontal action with two piston rods , the * airpumps being worked on the opposite side of the crank shaft . In addition to the four boilers employed in generating steam for the propulsion of the vessel , she carries a vertical tubular boiler on deck for the purpose of working a steam winch on Taylor ' s , patent and donkey pumps , as also for distilling salt water into fresh for the use of the ship , which it does to the extent of about 4 = 50 gallons a day . This winch is like- wise employed in raising the anchor , warping , loading and unloading the cargo , and other purposes , dispensing with hand-labour . She is also fitted up with a telegraph and signal alarum , which can be worked from the bridge , and by which , in case of imminent danger , instructions can be immediately conveyed to the driver , and the en- gines reversed or accelerated as the emergency may re- quire . She is provided , lastly , with Skelton's patent tiller , which , in , tlie highest sea , can be worked by two men . Collision off Holyhead . —The ship Imogenc , Cap- tain William , bound for Pernambuco , with six passen- gers and a crew of eighteen , came in collision , last Saturday morning , with the screw steamer Falcon , Cap- tain Hynes , from Cork , with one hundred and fifty pas- sengers and a number of cattle on board , twenty miles off Holyhead . In about two hours , the ship went down , but all hands were saved . The steamer was struck in the starboard forerigging , and received considerable damage , She arrived in the Collingwood-dock at half-past four , p . m ., with the crow and passengers on board . Eeuchon TmuarPHiNG over Skct . —A troop of the Royal Artillery ( says a local paper ) lately pas 3 ed through Carlow , and we have been informed that a number of those brave fellows , who have not long re- turned from the Crimea , proceeded as soon as they were freed from their duty , though saturated with wet and fatigue after a long march , to the Mercy Convent , to return thanks to the nuns wlio had been in the Crimea , for their kind attention to the sick and wounded . What adds more weight to this touching scene of gratitude is , that of the whole party only one was a Roman Catholic . Fire in Portsmouth ILarbour . —Some alarm was caused in Portsmouth harbour early last Saturday morn ing by the ringing of the fire-bell and the report that her Majesty ' s steam corvette Highflyer was on fife below Tho report turned out true , l > ut no serious damage was done . It appears that one end of tho after sleeper of the port boiler cauglit fire and was charred through . This is supposed to have been caused by tho ashes not being sufficiently extinguished when tho fires were drawn after the use of the boilers to work the engines in moving from tho dockyard to buoy-moorings . The fire was speedily discovered by the sentinel on board , and was put out by tlie ship ' s company . Majok-Geneiul . Sir Henry Somerset , K . C . B . will succeed to tlio colonelcy of tho 25 tli Regiment , va cant by tho recent death of General Sir 11 . F . Campbell Sir Henry served during the latter portion of the Peuin ¦ ular war , and -was at Vittoria , Orthcz , and Toulouse he was also at Waterloo , and during the various opera tions against the Kaffirs ho has hold important com mands . Wukck op a Finnish Merchantman . —A Finnish mercliant-ship and her whole cargo has been wrecked off tho north coast of Scotland , on her passage homewards from Liverpool . Tho captain and all tlio crew and pas sengers have perished , with tho exception of two men Tho vessel , whi « h was a largo brig , ran ashoro early one morning , and struck upon a rock on the const , noar the village of Ham , Tho wind at the time was blowing hurricane , and tlie soa was vory rough in consecjuoncc
- w * yvQ ^ j tn ( ^ t tll ( of Shortly after the slip had struck , she was drifted off . again , and carried towards a deep pool opposite a place called Donald's Cave . Here sh-e stuck fast . The mast 3 went overboard very soon afterwards , and the vessel then began to sink by slow degrees ' . A great many people were speedily collected on the spot , but , being unable to obtain any serviceable boat , no assistance could be rendered to the crew foi several hours , and the persons" on shore were compelled to witness the spectacle of their fellow-creatures beir . g one by one washed overboard by the waves , and submerged ; After a time , the ship likewise sunk , and was completely buried under the waters . About three hours afterwards , a boat , manned by five fishermen , was brought from a village on the estate of Mr . Traill , M . P ., and two of the crew were rescued . All the rest , six in number , were drowned . The two men who were saved were both foreigners ( one appeared to . be a Russian ) , and , as neither of them were able to speak a word of English , no one has yet been able to learn anything relating to the cause of tlie disaster . The body of the captain ' s wife was washed ashore on the evening of the day on -which the wreck occurred , and was buried in the village churchyard . It is aiot expected that much ; ¦ - of the ship ' s cargo will be saved . .
Obituaby. .-. ' • ¦ ¦ Lord Hardinge.—The...
OBITUABY . .-. ' ¦ ¦ Lord Hardinge . —The late Commander-in-Chief of tho English army died at his residence , South Park , near Tunbridge Wells , at about half-past eleven o ' clock on Wednesday morning . Henry Hardinge was the son of a workings clergyman in the N " orth of England , and the exalted position to which he climbed cannot therefore be attributed , as too often is the case , to family influence or high birth . He entered the army as ensign in 1708 . After the battle of Corunna , -when the English troops were hurriedly getting aboard ship , Marshal Beresfortl ' observed that yoiing Hardinge was more especially enargetic and zealous in his efforts to facilitate operations . Beresford thenceforth kept his eye upon him , and , when the former was organizing the Portuguese forces to oppose Bonaparte , lie gave him a brigade in the service before he was twenty-five , bis foreign grade , after a time . . being transferred to the English army . He served all through the Peninsular war , during which lie fas Deputy Quartermaster-General of the Portuguese arnrj- ; was wounded at Vimiera ; was at the passage of the Douro , the battle of Busaco , the celebrated lines of Torres Vedras , the final capture of Badajoz , and the fall of Ciudad Rodrlgo . At the battle of Albuera , the success of the day was owing to a . manoeuvre executed . by Hardinge , partly on his own responsibility . ' lie was severely wounded at Vittoria , and lost a hand under Blucher at Ligny . After the conclusion of the war , he was successively made Secretary at AVar , Secretary fur Ireland , Master-General of tlio Ordnance , and , in the year 1844 , Governor-General of India . On the outbreak of t ' nc Sikli insurrection , Lord Hardinge again appeared on the field of battle ; and much creel it is due to him , not only for the energy of his movements , but for the disinterestedness which induced him , notwithstanding his office , to place himself second in command uuder Gongli . For this conduct he was raised to the peerage . In 1852 , on the death of the Duke of Wellington , he was made Cominander-in-Chief— a post which lie resigned la ^ t July on account of the stroke which has now ended in his de : itli . Al » kuman Huntkr . —This gentleman died on Monday night at his residence in Hyde Park-square , lie had for many years represented Coleinan-streot Ward , and was much esteemed . Puofkssor Wkuceslaus Bo . jkr . —The last overland mail from the Mauritius brings intelligence of the death r of Professor WenceslUus Bojer , a name well known for many years past to tlie botanists of Europe on account of ¦ the maiiy and beautiful specimens which ho wasthefir . ^ t 1 to introduce to their notic ? . Gkseual SirColi . in Hai , kistt , G . C . B ., Governor of p Chelsea Hospital , expired on Wednesday morning , at the asylum over which ho presided . Gout was the J cause of his decease . He had served with great gal-3 lantry in tho Peninsula , -where lie was severely 1 wounded , and ho was also at Waterloo . Ho was in the ^ eighty-third year of his age . J Majou-Gknekal Jamks Jones , K . H ., another ol < l 1 Peninsular officer , died on Monday , in the seventy-fifth J year of his age . Lc Ei Ti W a ex at hi , Ai wi ob ge B < th po be be th D < vrs D < T < fa su b > ^ B w ii u S : u f 0 C £ of y q j , ^ j n n 0 „ t - ( . t c j ^ j ^
, Miscellaneous. - Tiik Court.—Wo Hear V...
, MISCELLANEOUS . - Tiik Court . —Wo hear very little news about the Court . in its far Highland retirement . The Queen and her - family fieom to bo living in their usual autumn style of ; quiot ' rtomesticity , taking picturesque drives during the - day , and giving select dinner-parties in the evening . - Prince Albert , of course , hns boon ilecr-stiilliing ; but the details of his achievements have not been provided for ! i the edification of a loyal and enlightened British public . T Tub Sicks ok LoNnoit ani > DuniiAM .- —Wo believe s we are correct in stating tliut a division of the See of - London is contemplated , and thut this was the reason i . why the vacant bishopric was not filled by translation , c The Seo of Durham will ala » be ultimately divided , but e at present it 13 thought more desirable to fill it by trunsa lation rather thnn by a new appointment . Wo may add . » :. that , except in the case of the archbishoprics , tho prin-, - r . , i - 1 ; < - < - i - . a .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 27, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27091856/page/9/
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