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      A shocking accident occurred at the building for the Exhibition in Hyde-park , on Monday morning , to two of the glaziers . The men were engaged at work on the machine or swinging stage , when they were pitched out and fell with the scaffolding to the ground . The unfortunate men were immediately picked up and conveyed to St . George ' Hospital , when it was ascertained that they had received most extensive injuries , having struck and bounded from girder to girder in the fall . They now lie in a very dangerous state . A lamentable accident took place at the present temporary terminus of the Great Northern Railway on Saturday afternoon , by which one unfortunate man has lost his life , and three other persons have been seriously injured . It appears that a number of the workmen were employed in raising an iron girder to one of the upper

      floorings , by means of what is termed on board of ship and dockyards , " sheers" or " sheer legs . " This girder , it is stated , is in weight from five to six tons , and the men had raised it to the fourth story , when suddenly one of the " sheer legs" broke , and the ponderous mass fell with a frightful crash , crushing everything in its progress downwards . Some idea may be formed of the immense weight which fell , when it is stated that two large logs of timber , placed across the creek , were completely snapped asunder . Two of the men , named Green and Rolfe , were so seriously injured that immediate removal

      to University College Hospital was found necessary . A third was conveyed to his own residence . The foreman of the works having called a muster of the men , a ycung man named James Kendal , a carpenter , was found to be missing . Drags were procured , and after dragging for about an hour his body was found embedded in the mud . He had a frightful lacerated wound over the left eye and temple . It is believed he must either have been standing on some of the planks which the girder struck at the time it fell , or that the girder itself must have struck him in its descent .

      A collision , by which several first-class and other passengers sustained considerable injury , took place on Saturday on the London and North-Western Railway , at Boxraoor . A goods train had been detained there , shortly after three o ' clock , till certain repairs were effected , of which due warning was given . But the Liverpool express train , which is due in London at four , and does not stop at Boxmoor , was going at such a rate , and the rails were so slippery , owing to a recent shower , that , in spite of the signals made , the breaks were not powerful enough to prevent it from coming into collision with the goods train . The driver and stoker of the express train , seeing that a collision was inevitable , and

      knowing that the steam was shut off , jumped from their engine . The driver escaped unhurt , or , at least , but slightly ; but the stoker , not having completely cleared the engine , was found on the line , and was for some time supposed to be dead , but , stimulants having been applied , he became better , but he has sustained some dreadful lacerations and other injuries to the legs . It is stated that twelve or fourteen persons were more or less injured . One gentleman had the bone of his right eye driven in and broken , a lady had her teeth knocked out , another was severely cut about the face , and others received contusions about the head and limbs ; but , with the exception of the gentleman referred to , no bones were fractured .

      A fatal accident from the incautious handling of a loaded gun took place at Birmingham , on Thursday week . A mechanic named Lockley , residing in Hollidaystreet , having returned home from the garden at the rear of his house , where lie had been engaged in shooting small birds , placed his loaded gun , muzzle downwards , behind the kitchen door , intending when he again returned home to discharge it . In the meantime a young man , named Crook , a nail cutter , and his wife , to whom he had been married a fortnight only , and who lodged in the house , came home from work . Ann Crook , the wife , came in first , and her husband , who almost directly afterwards followed , after affectionately saluting her , and requesting her to pet him a comfortable cup of lea , was

      proceeding to wash his hands at a basin behind the kitchen door , when he perceived the gun . His .. wife had cut a piece of bread , and had knelt down opposite the fire to toast it . Crook , unaware that the weapon was charged , turned round as he took it up , and hud scarcely raised the barrel from the ground when it exploded . Lockley , who was in the room und knew of its being loaded , was about to inform Crook of the fact the moment it went off . Almost simultaneously , the poor young woman dropped the bread she was toasting , and sank quietly backwards as though fainting , but , in fact , a for

      corpse ; Mrs . Lockley , who immediately ran to her assistance , clasped her in her arms , and found that she was dead . The charge took effect in her head , and with the exception of a short convulsive twitching of the mouth , she never moved or articulated , ho instantaneously fatal was the discharge . The distraction of the unhappy husband , when lie perceived the effect of his own incaution , wits most heartrending , lie tore his hair , and running out into the street , he i xclaimed " 1 have murdered my wife . " At an inquest held on Saturday , the jury came to the conclusion that the occurrence was entirely accidental , and returned a verdict to that effect .

      Two colliery accidents , attended with loss of life , took place on Thursday week ; one at . Llanelly , where three men were killed by falling a distance of twelve fathoms , owing to the tilting of the basket by which they were descending ; the other , at Cwinbach , where four persona were ncverely burnt by an explosion of fire-diimj ) . One of the sufferers died shortly after being brought out of the , level , und another in not expected to survive . Another accident from the incautious handling of firearms took place at Bedford last week . ClmrleH , son of Captain Rutherford , Victoria-terrace , took U |> a pistol belonging to his brother Thomas , off the dressing table , ro amuse his brother << eoigr by letting off a few caps . Tlu- pistol unfortunately being loaded , the ball passed

      under George ' s left ear , and came out at the right temple . The youth died immediately . ¦»* A girl about twelve years old , whilst visiting Mr . Batty exhibition of wild beasts , on the Market-place , Bolton , one day last week , was seized by a lion through the bars of its den , and the poor child was in imminent danger . She was considerably lacerated on the head and face by the claws of the beast : but fortunately the bystanders dragged the child away before the lion had time to renew its hold . The Carlisle Journal records a storm and flood of unprecedented height , at that city , as well as at Pennth and Appleby , on New Year ' s-day . The damage caused by the inundation has been much less than what might have been expected from its magnitude .

      Mr . G . A . Scriven , aged thirty-four , a surgeon , of Deptford , who formerly practised at Peckham Rye , and has been lately in embarrassed circumstances , put an end to his life , by taking poison , on Christmas afternoon . The body of a man , respectably attired in a blue paletfit , black satin waistcoat , and dark trousers , was found lying partly on the towing-path , with the head m the canal , near the Old Ford-bridge , Bethnal-green , on Sunday . The body of the unfortunate man bore marks of violence . Nothing of value was found on his person , and it is strongly suspected that he has been robbed and murdered . At the Central Criminal Court on Wednesday , William

      Thompson , aged twenty-six , charged with having , in company with two other persons , robbed and attempted to strangle Adolphus Dubois , dentist , a few weeks ago , by putting a gag round his neck , was se ntenced to transportation for life . James Pennington , a poor man , who had been for many years subject to epileptic attacks , and consequently unable to work , was lately turned out of St . Pancras workhouse for disobeying the rules . On the 14 th ultimo he applied for re-admission , which was refused ; but he was given a ticket for work on the roads and outdoor relief . The conviction that he was unable to work on the

      roads drove him to the commission of suicide , which he perpetrated on Thursday week , by cutting his throat with a razor . He survived until Saturday , when he died in the hospital . An inquest was held on his body , on Wednesday , when the above facts were stated . A verdict of ' Temporary Insanity " was returned . The case of cruelty to a parish apprentice , in which Mr . Sloane and his wife are implicated , has found a parallel in Birmingham . In the report of the proceedings at the boardof guardians last week , a serious charge was made against a tailor , named Roe , with whom a pauper boy had been apprenticed . The case is yet ex parte , but there is no reason to doubt that cruelty of a moat revolting kind has been perpetrated on the poor friendless boy . According to the surgeon ' s report , the hair and the scalp were torn from his head , and his body presents a mas 3 of bruiees and discolouration .

      Mr . J . P . Hesselton , assistant overseer of Wakefield , has been apprehended on a charge of embezzling various sums of money belonging to the parish by a systematic falsification of his books . The Guarantee Society in London is said to be bound in the sum of £ 500 as his security , but the amount of his defalcations is said to be much beyond that sum . He has been four years in office at a salary of £ 70 per annum .

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      The Ulster Gazette says that two flax scutch-mills were maliciously fired , on Thursday night , by some parties at present unknown . One of the mills is the property of Messrs . Atkinson and Bryans , and the other , at Shanecracken , is the property of Mr . Small . A fire , of a most extensive character , broke out in the premises of Mr . Hutton , the coachioaker , on Summerhill , Dublin , on Sunday morning , which ha 8 almost entirely destroyed the premises , and caused a loss of property , it is supposed , to the extent of £ 20 , 000 . It is gratifying to be able to state that Mr . Hutton is well insured , and that a number of very valuable carriages were got out of the premises without injury .

      At the sessions of the Dublin Criminal Court on Tuesday , the only case of the slightest intenst was that of a fashionably-attired female named Martha Benson , who had the address and active ingenuity to abstract from the side of a lady who chanced to be her fellow traveller in a second-class carriage of the Kingstown Railroad , in the open day , a gold watch that hung by a guurd chain . The lady missed the watch when she got out at the terminus , and the prisoner being pursued , it wuh found in her possession . She was sentenced , on conviction , to three months' imprisonment , and some people will think her a lucky convict .

      1 he folly of playing practical jokes was sadly illustrated in u farmhouse near . Kilrush , on Christinas night . A woman , named Bridget llaugh , dressed herself in man's clothes , and , having blackened her face , went , to her father-in-law ' s house to have some diversion . Her brother-in-law was taking cure of the house , aB his father was not at home ; he had a loaded gun in his hand , and when lie saw , as he thought , the man blackened , he presented the gun at his sister-in-law and fired , and lodged the contents of it between her shoulders . She died at once . There was an inquest held on her body , and the verdict returned was " Manslaughter . "

      Mr . Andeison , the " Wizard of the . North , " has not been conjuror enough to prevent his being robbed a few days iigo of a large collection of valuable silver coins of Russia , Prussia , France , Spain , Denmark , and other countries which ho had visited in the course of his professional peregrinations . The coins were contained in a box in the Jtotunda-room , Dublin , where the Wizard nightly exhibits , and were occasionally shown as curiosities to the visitors , and having been left in the room during the day , some persons who probably had watched their " whereabouts , " got into the . ipartrnent , broke op < n the box , and carried o ( l' the contents , which the Wizard has not as yet been able to corjure back .

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      The Premier has addressed copies of the following letter to his supporters in the Lower House : —" Downing-atreet , Dec . 28 , 1850 . —Sir , —I take the liberty of informing you that the meeting of Parliament having been fixed for Tuesday , the 4 th of February , business of importance will be brought forward without delay ; I therefore request your attendance on that day . I have the honour to be , Sir , your obedient servant , J . Russell . " A public meeting was held at the Court-house , St . Marylebone , last night , for the purpose of receiving and determining on the report of the Metropolitan Sewers Reform Committee , for preparing the heads of a bill to be submitted to Government and urged on their conV . sideration through the medium of a deputation . Mr . Toulmin Smith gave a brief report of what the committee had done , and submitted the following heads of a bill for carrying out administrative arrangements .

      " 1 . Making DistrictH . —A representative body—elected by the householders of . parities within a given range—to have the upocial duty of making districts . " 2 . HsHt'iitiulu of Districts . —No district to contain lees than 100 , 000 , nor more than 150 . 000 inhabitants . Kach district to bo divided into wards , each containing not less than 500 , and »< more than 1000 male adults . TIiobc who have occupied in the ward for a yenr and a day , shall be electors for the ward . Each ward to have two or more repivuuntativcs annually chosen—hut rec'ligihle—to a district council , for carrying out nil local purposea . That it be an express duty of one or m- > re of the repre-8 <; iitiitives of each ward to meet in open meeting the inhabitants of their ward onee every month at least—to lay before them the proceedings of the diutrict council , and to receive any complaints or Hiig « cnlioiiH .

      • ' 3 . Combinations of Districts . —A general council for all purposes , where combination in needed , to be formed of two persons elected out of its own body hy each district council . " Lord Dudley Stuart showed that the Crown-appointed Commissioners gave no satisfaction . Several other speakers corroborated his statements , and it wub ultimately resolved to accept the statement laid before the meeting by Mr . Toulmin Smith , us embodying the only principles on which u measure relating to the sewage of the metropolis could be received .

      The last examination of Captain Warner took place in the Court of Bankruptcy yesterday . The balance-sheet , which extended over twenty ycurs , contained some remarkable items . From the 1 st of Junuary , 1831 , to the JJlst of October , 1850 , he appears to have received from various parties £ 30 , 9 % . Of this £ 10 , 800 was advunced by the , Karl of Talbot , from time to time , to assist in carrying out his experiments ; £ 1300 from Government , towards the expense of th , ; expeiiment at Cunuock Chuae ; and the following uifto : — King William »

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      TO HEADERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . j B . is informed that SegrouvS ' s Histoite Morale des Femme $ cva be procured of W , Jeffs . Burliugton-arcade , or any other forei gn bookseller . «• A FeUow Worker" next wfiek . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If lony , it encreasea the difficulty of finding space for them .

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      The adjourned meeting of Protestant Dissenting deputies was held at the King ' s Head Tavern , in the Poultry , at two o ' clock yesterday , Mr . John Eemington Mills in the chair . It will be seen from , a parapraph in another part of to-day ' s paper , that the previous meeting , held on the 4 th instant , was adjourned on account of the conflicting opinions expressed in the concluding clause of the committee ' s report regarding " the Papal aggression ; " and that in consequence an am ~ endmentr ~ made ^ by Mr . Cun - nington , to the effect that the last clause be expunged , was not put from the chair . Mr . Kilpin said as the objection was chiefly to the last clause of the report , he would propose the following amendment : —

      " That this meeting , while it records its continued and unmitigated opposition to all penal enactments on ^ account of religious opinions , at the same time deems it to be the bounden and especial duty of Protestant Dissenters to resist by every legitimate means the encroachments of the Papacy in this country , believing it to be the sworn and determined foe of civil and religious liberty ; and this meeting further considers that it will be the duty of this deputation , immediately on the reof

      assembling of Parliament , to meet for the purpose expressing their views on the present aspect of Popery , especially its recent aggressive policy , and by it petition both Houses of Parliament to protest against any legislative encouragement of that system , and particularly against the continuance of any pecuniary grant towards its support , either in ~ the United Kingdom or its dependencies ; and that it be an instruction to the committee to call a special meeting of the deputies at an early period after the meeting of Parliament . "

      After some discussion , Mr . Cunnington ' s amendment was put and rejected , as was also another , deprecating any attempt by legal enactment to prevent any portion of her Majesty ' s subjects from following out that form of Church government which they may prefer , and at the same time declaring that "it is wrong on the part of any Government to foster or support by its connection with the State , or by State endowment , any ecclesiastical body or institution whatever . This amendment having also been rejected , that of Mr . Kilpin was carried after some discussion .

      Postscript. Saturday, Jan. 11.

      POSTSCRIPT . Saturday , Jan . 11 .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 11, 1851, page 34, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1865/page/10/