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eight persons , a horse , and a corpse . Only four of the eight are to be found . Neither the engineer nor firemen were injured . The locomotive was broken to pieces . On the 9 th of July ( the day the last packet left Boston ) a terrible conflagration broke out at Philadelphia . Four hundred houses fell a prey to the flames . Articles of luxury , as well as of utility , are finding their way to California in great abundance . Statuary , alabaster vases , &c , are extensively advertised for sale . Very large quantities of counterfeit Mexican dollars have made their appearance in San Francisco . They are admirably executed , and can only be detected with great care . Imitation lumps of gold have also been made and brought into circulation in California . The state assayer states that above forty specimens have been brought to his notice .
Private advices from Amboyna announce the occurrence there of a severe earthquake ; after which an epidemic broke out which carried off nearly all the European population . The Governor and most of the civilians had died , and the garrison was reduced to
seventeen men . Accounts have reached Singapore of sad ravages committed by the cholera in Cambodia and Cochin China , depopulating whole villages and decimating the towns . The disease broke out in September , immediately after the rains , and quickly spread throughout the kingdom . In both countries the deaths , in a few months , were estimated at nearly 200 , 000 .
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The proceedings of the Hoyal Agricultural Society at Exeter , last week , terminated with a grand banquet on Thursday , at which Monsieur Soyer appears to have displayed his wonderful powers in agricultural produce and a few auxiliary items into an excellent dinner for an immense number of people . The Marquis of Downshire was in the chair , and among the guests were the French , American , and Belgian Ambassadors . The speeches were all of a very hopeful character . No one seemed to entertain the slightest alarm about foreign competition .
By an award of the arbitrators , Mr . Hudson , M . P ., has paid to the Eastern Counties Company the full amount of their claim for the sum drawn out by him while chairman of the company , in connection with an alleged purchase of scrip of the Wisbeach , St . Ives , and Cambridge line , and for which , according to the report of the investigation-committee in April , 1849 , " no scrip could be found . " The amount to be refunded was £ 1000 , with interest from the date of the transaction . The nomination took place at Chester , on Saturday , when the show of hands was in favour of the Whig candidate , the Honourable W . O . Stanley . A poll was demanded on behalf of Mr . Egerton , which took place on Monday , when Mr . Stanley was returned by a large majority . _ . . _ .. . _ ., Brid
The fourth and last tube of the Britannia ge was safely and successfully floated in the Menai Straits on Thursday , amidst the enthusiastic applause of a vast concourse of interested and admiring spectators . The Printers' Amateur Dramatic Society , recently established , gave an entertainment at the Strand Theatre , on Saturday evening , in aid of the funds of the Industrial Exhibition of 1851 . The performances wore the play of The Hunchback , the farce of The Eton Boy , and Sketches in India , the characters in which were creditably , indeed ably , sustained by Mr . Bustin , Mr . C . B . Christian , Mr . Hartwell , Mr . Dorrington , Mr . Harriott , Mr . Thomas , Miss Moss , Miss Catherine Williams , Miss Jane Coleman , and Mrs . C . Wharton . The house was fully and most respectably attended , and the audience judiciously applauded the praiseworthy exertions of this young
society of amateurs . What will be the next move of the Sabbatarians ? Mr . Campbell , of Monzie , is assisting us to answer the question . He is attempting to " shut up" Ben Nevis on the Sunday ! This monarch of the Scottish mountains is to be protected , if Mr . Campbell can have his own way , from the tread of man on the first day of the week . And thus would the Sabbatarian shut us out from the green fields in which the founder of our religion walked on the Sabbkth-day . — Gatashead Observer . and Birkenhead
A gentleman well known in Liverpool for the Oriental cast of his features , while in London lately , was strolling up and down the Strand , when he was accosted by a gentleman , who , after apologising with the utmost politeness for his familiarity , bogged Mr . to allow him to take a sketch of his face , us it wore the exact expression which he wished to introduce in one of the characters of a grand historical picture . Our townsman consented , and accompanied the artist to his housewhere his visage was quickly traced on
can-, vass . A friend was subsequently anxious to know what the grand painting was in which the gentleman was to appear so conspicuously . He called upon the painter , and requested to be allowed to see the picture . This the artist strongly objected to , alleging that it was against etiquette to show a work of art unfinished , &c . But all his attempts to put him oil were unavailing . At length the nrtist consented , took him to his studio , and there he saw his townsman figuring in a large Scriptural piece as Judas lscariot . —hivvri > ot ) l Times .
The thunderstorms of last week appear to have extended over the whole of the kingdom . In the county of Donegal a man and woman were killed by lightning . At Johnsiono , near Paisley , one man was killed and several others severely injured . A silver mints hns recently been discovered at Tytherington , near Thornbury , Gloucestershire . { Several scientific gentlemen from London have inspected it , and it is slated that they have must encouraging prospects before them . The Spanish Government has entered into a contract with an eminent CiUsgow firm for building two fiist-rato steam-vessels , of 800 horse power . They aro intended to run from Cadiz to Cuba and back , as mail-packets . The butler of Mr . Cooper , of Manor-house , Brixton , having been out shooting , on Tuesday morning , left his
loaded fowling-piece on the hall table whilst answering his master ' s bell . Henry Cooper , a lad of sixteen , entered the hall at that moment , and taking up the weapon presented it at his sister who was along with him . Mrs . Evans , the housekeeper , who had followed them , was in the act of remonstrating with him on the foolishness of his conduct , when the piece exploded , and both females fell with a loud shriek . Miss Cooper received the chief contents of the charge in her neck and face , and , should she recover , will , it is feared , be disfigured for life . The housekeeper is so dangerously injured , that no hopes are entertained of her recovery . The SulimaryEast Indiaman , from Bombay to
Lon-, don , was lost on the Indian coast on the 24 th of May . An attempt was made to save the passengers by means of the boats . They were , however , quickly destroyed by the fury of the sea , and upwards of forty persons , including the captain , his wife , and thirty-three seamen , perished . Another Indiaman , named the Guna , was lost on the same coast during the storm , but all the crew escaped . The loss of both vessels exceeds £ 50 , 000 . A frightful catastrophe occurred in one of the coal-pits belonging to Mr . Sneden , at Comraonade , near Airdrie , on Tuesday morning . The miners , to the number of twenty , descended to their work , as usual , about six and went for
o ' clock ; the foreman accompanied them , - ward to ascertain the state of the air in the pit . All of a sudden a terrific explosion took place , which instantly killed nineteen out of the twenty , and shattered and destroyed all the implements and machinery in the pit . Only one man escaped . He was standing near the bottom of the pit when he heard the explosion , and suddenly threw himself down to allow the fiery storm to pass over . On rising he found the buckets which communicated with the surface shattered ; but , finding a piece of wood , he inserted it into one of the links of the chain , and , giving the signal , was pulled up to the pit-mouth . The men had not Davy lamps .
In consequence of the medical and other testimony adduced at the trial of Robert Pate , Sir George Grey was induced to direct a medical examination of the prisoner , and the result has been the recommendation , ( or his confinement in the infirmary of Millbank Penitentiary . He is stated to be in a very delicate state of health . He employs his time by writing letters in different languages . A decent young lad , calling himself " Willie M'Dougal , " obtained work in Drumlanrig Tunnel some weeks ago . Suspicion was soon excited that he belonged to the " better-half of creation "; but this he at first
stoutly denied . Unable longer to keep the secret , the young woman stated her reason to be a desire to raise the " needful" to carry her out to America . The manager's lady supplied " Willie" with appropriate clothes , and a subscription has been got up among her brother workmen , to provide the heroine with ample funds . —Ayrshire Advertiser . Lititia Cox , a smartly-dressed and interesting-looking young woman , was charged , at Marylebone Police-office , on Tuesday , with having attempted to commit suicide . She had been seen , in a state of great mental distress apparently , going along the edge of the canal , near
Albert-road , llegeut ' s-park , between six and seven o'clock , on Tuesday morning , and she was just about to throw herself into the canal , when a shoemaker named Palmer interfered . Her own statement was that she had recently left the service of a lady in Clarendonsquare , and that on the previous night she had been in the company of a young man , who kept her out so late that she did not like to return to her lodgings , as her landlady would have been disturbed . Upon her promising not to make a similar attempt , she was taken away by the landlady , who undertook to give her up to the care of her friends .
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A good deal of alarm has prevailed in Ireland during the last ten days owing to a rumour that the potato rot had made its appearance in many parts of the country . Subsequent information tends to dispel no small portion of the fear at first created . The blight has attacked the stalks , it is said , but the tubers are still perfectly sound . To compensate themselves for the " insolent and scornful rejoicings of the enemies of Ireland" at the downfall of repeal , the association has announced another meeting to be held in the hall on Monday , the . Oth of August , being most positively the very last opportunity that will be afforded to the people of Ireland for paying down their money to keep the name of O'Connell in the memory of the country .
A land agent travelling by rail from Tipperary to Coik , a few days ago , left a parcel of bank notes , amounting to £ 100 , behind him in the carriage , which , however , was fortunately observed by the guard soon after , who took charge of it , and safely returned it to the
owner . At the Sligo assizes a man named James Gillegan , on Thursday week , was convicted of assisting in the abduction of a young girl named Mary M'Garry , with the view of forcing her to marry a young man named James M'Loughlin , who has since gone to America . lie was sentenced to only six months' imprisonment , on account of the intercession of the prosocutrix in his favour , as her forced lover was now beyond , the reach of giving her any further molestation . Perhaps we could not give a stronger proof of the decay ot families of fortune ihau the taut that the grand jury of an extensive county where the judges of assizes aro now sitting , numbers but live of the gentlemen who were accustomed to be summont d . The other eighteen are all new men . —Cork Constitution .
Tho leprosy of Unniskillen society is its gross immorality uud beastly sensuality , accompanied by mental ignorance and imbecility . Too many grow up mere fungi , without end or aim . God is not in their ways . They are taken with the lusts of the ilesh , and , in the present blaze of Gospel day , Enniskillen is worse than were Sodom or Gomorrah . —Fermanagh Reporter .
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ONE OF THE CONSEQUENCES CONSIDERED . Associative views are hourly being realised in detail , and not less remarkable is their progress in idea . From being too bad to be entertained even in criticism , they have in a very short period passed into acceptation , not merely special but general , and come to be considered too good to be practical . Better than that , they are felt to be practical ; but the harmony and competence likely to result are felt , or assumed to be so overwhelming , that a surfeit of enjoyment is dreaded . That recent work on Political Economy , which was first to admit the feasibility of associative views , yet foreshadowed the inanity and monotony which must supervene when the spur of animal want
was conquered and withdrawn . Among men of a greatly inferior order to that of the author of the " Principles of Political Economy , " the same apprehension is found to deter them from aiding when theoretical conviction is perfect . The Redemption Society have found it necessary to combat this feeling by a special Tract , entitled , " Community Justified . " As some persons when , well can never believe they can . ever be ill ; as others ill can never believe they shall ever be well , so many persons in one state of society can never believe there can be an opposite ; and when the opposite is once reached it becomes so natural to them that they come to deny that that state of society ever existed , which they once vehemently denied could ever be altered .
Is it true that men once above the fear of want , and out of the sphere of competition entirely , come to feel a distaste of life and sigh for the days of salubrious excitement , when their hand was against every man ' s and the sharp pang of hunger spurred them to action ? It is calculated that some 70 , 000 or more persons exist in Great Britain , enjoying incomes of £ 4000 and upwards per year . In some recent journeys through the provinces I diligently enquired if any of these unfortunate persons were seeking to escape from the dull misery of competence . Did any abandon the woodland view , the well-spread table , the infinite variety of gratification which easy affluence places at man ' s disposal ? Have any
independent gentlemen fled to the tailor ' s board , to the shoemaker ' s last , to the weaver ' s shuttle , to the miner ' s pickaxe , to relieve the miserable ennui of being above want and being placed without the arena of competitive strife ? I heard of no such cases ; no such cases can be heard of . Men bear competence very well . Riches may be pronounced very agreeable , at least so far so that we may labour by the new agency of wise , well-considered association , to raise the poor in the scale of comfort , and even above that ferocious struggle which is now dignified with the name of social life , without undue terror that men will be too happy to live , or too well off to find enjoyment in life . Ion .
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THE REDEMPTON SOCIETY . Few will doubt the vast importance of a successful experiment of practical Communism in this country . In the American communities nearly , if not all , crime has ceased , and the inhabitants attain an average age far beyond that of any other people with whom we are acquainted . We think we are not presuming too much when we state that these results arise from their complete exemptions from poverty . Are we to regard these facts as accidental social anomalies or as suggestive beacons ? The phzenomena exist . Many thousand people are living in this way in the United States at this present time . It is in vain to say that all this is attributable to peculiarity of religious ideas and uniformity of creed , for it may be replied , why it is that unity of faith only gives these remarkable results in communities ? If peculiar phenomena attract the attention of the natural philosopher , he eagerly investigates the nature and laws of its action to turn it to human advantage . Is it of less importance to know how this world is to exist without poverty und crime than to demonstrate tho proximate return of the great comet ? We know that many have never regarded this matter as worthy of serious consideration . Others have said , ' The
Amoican people are not more than human ; their institutions are neither ancient nor of divine origin . What they have accomplished was possible to them , and why not so to us ? Nay , wh y not more so to us , since we may profit by their experience r" Thus reasoning , tho . se * \\ ho formed the Redemption Society , and had it enrolled under the Friendly Society ' s Act in October , lS-i < 3 . It is one of the laws that no person should receive a salary or wages out of the funds collected for communal purposes ; but this rule docs not apply to hired labour on the farm in Wale-. Another rule prevents the board of directors from running the Society into debt .
About four years ago Mr . George Williams , junior , of Gorse , near Carmarthen , who for a time had dwelt in tho American communities , offered the Society the reversion of an estate of 160 acres of land upon which was a mortgage of £ 1200 . This the Society accepted , and a proper deed of con-
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Leader (1850-1860), July 27, 1850, page 416, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1848/page/8/
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