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Chamber had given way from the great crowd formed by the University deputation . The members of the corporation were all arrayed in their official robes . The Lord Lieutenant , seated upon the throne , heard -their address read , and gave a graciqus answer , and all went ;' off with due solemnity and dignity .
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It is stated in the last advices received from the Cape of Good Hope that a London firm of eminence and wealth had undertaken to complete a railway to connect Gape Town with some of the most productive districts of the colony , furnishing locomotives , carriages , &c , for a certain sum , in the short space of two years . The project had only at the date of these accounts been made public , but it had received a most cordial reception , and its advantages were at once -appreciated . In addition to the many reasons brought forward for its adoption , it is remarked that as the Cape appears destined to become the intermediate port for several lines of ocean steamers to India , China , and Australia , it is therefore necessary to provide a better means of communication with the interior than now exists , for the conveyance of produce to the port of shipment .- —Morning Chronicle . K '
The royal mail steam ship Teviot which arrived at Southampton from Buenos Ayres , on Saturday , brought the news of the complete overthrow of the power of General Rosas , who has been the absolute Dictator of the Argentine Bepublic since the year 1834 . On the morning of the 3 d of February , a severe and decisive action was fought at Lugares , about two leagues from the city of Buenos Ayres , between the forces of Rosas and the allied Brazilian and Banda Oriental troops , under General TTrquiza . The German cavalry , from the disbanded army of Schleswig Holstein , in the Brazilian service , literally rode over the cavalry of the Dictator of the Argentine republic , and the battle terminated in the total defeat of the Buenos Ayrean troops , of whom 4000 are said to have been killed and wounded .
The action commenced at about six in the morning , and lasted with great fury until ten ; in the afternoon the dictator ' s infantry and artillery , being almost completely surrounded , laid down their arms and surrendered to Urquiza ' s forces . Rosas himself was present during the action , and was weundedin the hand , though his troops were commanded by General Pacheco , who is reported to have been killed . The Dictator escaped with great difficulty , disguised as a marine , andtook refuge on board her Majesty ' steam ship CentauffRmth . his daughter , Manuelita , in the dress of a sailor boy , and several of his suite . General Mancilla , who commanded , in the city of Buenos Ayres , had offered to capitulate to General TJrquiza . The diplomatic agents of the various foreign powers were endeavouring to arrange matters amicably .
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A large party of gentlemen went down on Thursday to view the Great Grimsby Docks , now so far completed as to be ready for opening on the 1 st of May . Some . more experiments were made at " Woolwich on Thursday with rifled cannon . The Minie" rifle practice , which took place recently at Woolwich , has been so satisfactory to the authorities at the Horse Guards , that orders havo now been sent to commanding officers of various other reg iments to send up parties this week to Woolwich for similar practice in this effective weapon .
Captain Delvigne , formerly of the Royal Guard , in the French army , has written a letter to the Times , detailing the circumstances of his invention of the cylindro-conical bullet , and of the mode of forcing it into the rifled grooves by the force of the discharge , and complaining that the weapon is now universally known by the name of Captain Mini 6 , who only made a trifling improvement in the application of Captain Delvigne ' s invention . The Albion 90 , the Encounter screw-steamer , and Indefatigable frigate , left Malta on the 6 th inst ., for the westward . The Pheeton frigate received sudden orders while at Corfu , to proceed to Malta ; she arrived there on the 10 th , and on the 11 th was towed out by the Fury steamer , also bound for the westward . The destination of this largo portion of the Malta squadron was kept a profound secret , tho captains having sealed orders .
The mortal remains of Marshal Marmont are , says tho JPresse , to bo brought to Franco , and deposited in a vault which ho caused to bo prepared in the church of St . Vorlos , at Clmtillon-sur-Seine , tho village in which he w as bqrn . M . Thiors was among tho " foreigners of distinction , " present on Wednesday night at the first of tho Countess of Derby ' s " receptions , " at tho official residence of the Premier in Downing-streot . The widow of Marshal Soult died during the night of the 12 th at her chateau of Soult-Borg , in the department of the Tarn . She was in her 81 st year . Her eon and her daughter , the Marquise de Mornay , had not quitted her since tho death of their father .
A long letter from San Francisco appeared in the Times of yesterday against the gold companies and tho mining mania which raged ho violently in London a short time ago , and intelligences of which had reached California .
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Major Ilonry Eardloy Wilmot , of tho Royal Artillery , who was killed in action with tho Kaffirs on Now Year b Day last , was tho fifth eon of tho lato Sir Jolin Eardloy Wjumot , Bart ., Lioutonant-Govornor of Von Diomon s Land . Ho was born in 181 , 6 , and after tho usual course of instruction in the Military Academy , Woolwich , now presided ovor by his older brother , Captain Eardley Wilmot , ho obtained his commission in 1834 . After eight years service in Canada and Newfoundland , ho returned to England , and shortly after accompanied his father , then just appointed Governor of Van Diomena Land , as his iiirio-do-eamp . When war broke out inl 845 in Now Zealand , Cap !; . Wilmot volunteered to go with tho troops who wore despatched from Van Diomon ' s Land b y tho governor . Ho was afterwards joined by a younger brother , Charles Eardloy Wilmot , an ensign in the 90 th ; tho two brothers ought side by side throughout tho Now Zealand
campaign , and the young artilleryman ' * energy and usefulness "were so conspicuous that he received tj } e brevet rank of major in 1846 , when he was only thirty years of age . When peace had been established with the New Zealand chiefs , Major Wilmot returned to Hbbart Townj and found his father on'his death-bed . He left Van Diemen ' s Land after his father ' s death , and returned to England . In 1850 his company received orders to embark for the ; Cape , and from January 1851 , whten . the present Kaffir . war broke out , until the day of his mournful but glorious death , -he was actively employed wherever hard and gallant service was required .
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At the Palace of the Bishop of Exeter , on Sunday last , George Octavius Smyth Pigott was ordained deacon . The Marquis of Londonderry having come to a right frame of mind , has agreed to present the Rev . Mr . Law , who recently eloped with his daughter , the Lady Adelaide Vane , to a Kving worth about 600 ? . per annum . It is reported " on good authority , " that the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol ( Dr . Monk ) has , by a deed of gift , conveyed the whole of his interest in Horfield Manor—his disposal of which was so much discussed in the last session of Parliament—to trustees , for the benefit of small livings in his diocese . The donation takes effect from the present time , and its term is for the lives of the Princess Helenaand the
Royal , and the Princesses Alice and , longest liver of them . The annual income of the manor exceeds a thousand pounds . The Liverpool police have been making- a regular onslaught upon the begging fraternity . Between fifty and sixty of all ages , sizes , countries , and colours , were brought before the magistrates , and summarily dealt with . Some sturdy fellows , negroes and Malaya , a few of whom had been within the grasp of the law before , looked as though begging was only the mildest pursuit which they adopted for a livelihood , robbery and -violence being evidently to them more congenial . Amongst the crowd of prisoners was a hoary mendicant , upwards of 112 years of age . He was handed over to the care of the parish overseers .
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Of late our metropolitan police courts have become a sort of supplementary poor-law board for conveying relief in cases of urgent destitution . Mr . TTardley , the magistrate at the Thames police court , on Tuesday , announced that the total amount forwarded by benevolent persons for Frederick Shaw and his wife , whose painful story we related last week , was 701 . 16 s . ; and for John Lauder , who had attempted to poison himself from despair at seeing himself and his eight children on the brink of starvation , 30 ? . 8 s . j and for the purpose of providing an outfit for some destitute New Zealanders and Sandwich Islanders , 43 ? k 8 s . 6 d . ; He also stated that means were being taken to advise these poor people how to lay out this money to the best advantage . On the same day Mr . Yardley received 21 . from the workmen employed by Messrs . Deane , gun-nwers , for the relief of Lauder , and 10 s . from H . S ., for Shaw and his wife . . .
Mr . Disraeli appears to be no favourite wish the griiat landed proprietors of the county of Bucks . He was very cavalierly treated during his recent visit . Earl y last week , an application was made on behalf of the right hon . gentleman and his lady , for the use of the Judges ' Chambers , a suite of apartments adjoining the Shire-hall , which have recently been built at the expense of the county . The ground of the application was that suitable accommodation could no t be obtained at the Aylesbury Hotel , and the matter was formally brought before the magistrates at quarter session , who refused the
application , alleging that the Judges' Chambers were public property , and that the George Hotel , built by one of the Dukes of Buckingham , and which had accommodated the Duchess of Buckingham , and other of the families of the leading landed proprietors , was quite good enough for Mrs . Disraeli . It was remarked , that on tho arrival of Mr . Disraeli on Thursday evening , at Aylesbury , there was no one to receive him—not even a carriage in attendance , and ho and his lady were obliged to avail themselves of a one-horse fl y from the station to the George Hotel , where his only visitor was his solicitor , Mr . Smith .
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Mr . J . F . Ansley , an under graduate of Trinity College , Cambridge , about twenty years of ago , son of Mr . Gilbert Ansley , of Houghton Hill , Hants , was trying a horse on Monday afternoon at leaping fences in a field belonging to Mr . Sparrow , at Chesterton , about a mile from Cambridge . Tho horse suddenly refused one rather higher than usual , swerved aside , and started off at full speed round the field . Mr . Ansloy retained hold of tho saddle for some timo , although ho had lost his scat , but at last ho slipped off , and his foot remaining in tho stirrup ho was dragged three or four times round tho field , his head at every stride , of tho horso coming in contact with tho ground . Ho was taken up insensible , and convoyed to Mr . Sparrow ' s house , but ho survived but a short period , having sustained sovoro injuries of tho skull .
An accident , attended with tho loss of two lives , and injury to sovoral other persons , though fortunately none of tho-passengors were seriously hurt , occurred on Saturday night to a train on tho South Western Railway . Tho train loft the Waterloo Station at half-paat eight , and tho journey was safely performed as far as Winchester , but when ft had arrived within a ' mile- and a half of BiHhopstoke , a few minutoB after olovon o ' clock , tho tiro of the near loading Wheel of tho engine flow off , and tho cngino
almost immediately loft tho lino , and ran down an embankment of about twenty feot doop , dragging with it tho tondor , tho guard ' s van , and tho post-oflico tondor . Tho crash was , of course , terrific . Tho stoker was killed on tho spot , and the engine-driver was so much injured that ho died shortly after his removal-to tho Southampton infirmary . Tho guard of tho train was also much hurt , and the post-oflico guard had ono of his arms fractured . Tho post-office clerk happily escaped . The policeman at tho Biehopotoko Station , who was watching tho approach
of the train , could , distifigiush whathad roccurred thn light in front of the engine , marked its direction as it ra off the line . He gave the alarm ^ and an engine at onc « proceeded to the scene of the catastrophe , and YemovSi the passengers , who were conveyed in another ¦ train tn Southampton and Portsmouth . Mr . Stovin ; the general manager , and Mr . Beattie , the locomotive superintendent after inspecting the shattered ^ remains of the engine and tender , gave it ias their opinion that the accident wal " one of those casualties which rip human foresight could have averted . " A coroner's inquest on : the bodies , pf the two men killed , held at Southampton on Tuesday broii « . k » in a . verdict of " Accidental death , " ¦ ¦ ¦; - ¦ - "S ™ A plantation near Exeter was on fire on Saturday for nearly a quarter of a mile . - * . ;
A man who had taken chloroform while undergoing an operation in the St . Bartholomew's Hospital on Wednesday expired in the hands of the operators . An'inquest was held , and a verdict returned of " died from the effects of ¦ chloroform . " . . '• ¦ '¦¦¦ ,. ¦' :: ' : ' . ¦ ¦'¦ ' :. - ' ¦ ' ¦; ¦• : , ¦ / '' V . . ¦ Some burglars effected an entry on the night of Friday week at the shop of Alderman Carter , " : . watchmaker and . jeweller , at the corner of Cornhill and Bishopsgate-street and . carried off rings , brooches , and other jewellery to the value of between 400 ? . and 600 Z . No watches were removed . A reward of 100 ? . is offered for the apprehension of the thieves . v Mx . Gleaves , a brewer , of Willingham , Cambridgeshire .
and his wife , left- home on the afternoon of Friday week for St r ives , and the same night a fire broke out in a barn on his premises , which was not got under until five horses , three oows , aiid a large number of pigs and poultry , with a great quantity of dressed corn and some valuable implements were consumed . Two adjacent cottages were also destroyed with all their contents . There is no doubt that tho fire was maliciously occasioned , as a fire broke out in exactly the same place a few ^ weeks ago ; The ' property belonging to Mr . Gleaves was insured . ' A very extraordinary accident , which might have been attended with serious consequences , occurred a few days since at the Foreign-office .. The new Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs ^ -the Earl of Malmesbury—had made an
appointment to meet the Austrian minister at three o'clock in the afternoon . His excellency arrived at the hour appointed i but the Earl of Malmesbury having been unexpectedly engaged > requested Count Buol to oblige him by calling again at four o ' clock . In the interval , between three and four , the whole of the ceiling of the room in which the earl would have received the Austrian minister , fell with a tremendous crash—covering the tables and chairs , and floor of thaapartment several inches deep with the debris of the plaster , which was between three and four inches thick . The room was unoccupied at the time , fortunatelv no person suffered any injury . Had the acci r
dent happened a few minutes later it might certainly , have been considered an unfortunate omen . It is understood that the whole of the buildings on the south side of Downing-street are in a very insecure condition , and quite unfit for Government offices . Kalabergo , who was condemned to death at Oxford last assizes for murdering his uncle at Banbury , made a most determined attempt on Friday week to escape from Oxford Castle . He was taking his usual airing in the yard accompanied by a guard , and while the attendant was looking another way he made a desperate leap , and succeeded in scaling the wall like a cat . There were stout iron railimra at the top of the wall , but ho managed to run oi
along the wall , and sprang some distance to the top another wall , but there was still another wall beyond it , and from the peculiar construction of tho building lio was unable topveeed any farther . The alarm beU was rung , and several of the turnkeys soon arrived below the place at which he had arrived ; aid Kalabergo , finding his escapp impossible , waited patiently till aladder was sot for Jum w despond . He was then conveyed to ¦ coU and secur ^ manacled . This is tho second attempt made by Kalaborgo to escape . On a previous occasion he jumped worn » window ; and broke his log . After receiving sentence < m A » a * h ZrMnh «« r »««™ l to mako vorv little impression on
the pr isoner , he was visited in the gaol by the ™ ffiSZ l Mr . Maggioni , and the Roman-catholic P ™ ^ ., ^ - 2 ham , buthe made no confession of his f ^ ™ f ™ Z $ & when ho wrote-ono in tho presence of Dr . Tandy , anotnor priest , and tho Rev . Dr . Harington , Principal of Brazon ^ so College , to whom he gave permission to disclose all tw cir ' cumstonces under which tho murder was committca . A fight took place in tho streets of Dublin on St . I *™ day . Inio people were so very happy » m ^ S ^ military band with " hats off" that on their returnJro m attending tho troops to tho barracks , they »«» W . " hats off" protty generally . Some persons WMjJ ' , , row ensued ,- tho police interfered , and wore mot > tf showers of stones ; finally , tho mob was q «« " 2 W police and a troop of artiUorymon accidontaUy P ^ ° l"J ' . ^ Honry Poulson and Thomas Paddock , , ^ ^ P
Cftllaghan , Alfred Trott , James Wharton ^ alimf J JSjtt 6 Bfack , Ud ton others , pleaded " guilty /\ 5 vSco « f tico Jorvifl , at tho Derby Assizes , on Monday , tc » oc » ' ^ riot , and aesaulting two constables in tho o * " ^ . * o ) , o duty . Tho transaction out of which thispr 08 ^ ^ Retook place atTurnditch , noar Bolpor , on tuo ^"" p ^ jock comber last . A prize fight botwoon P ° « lflOn < i" n ^^ d tho had boon nrranged to corao off upon that J ^^ ^ gtrutt , expectation had collected an immonso mob . ^ possible * a magibtrato , intending to prevent tho "B \* i , iL of tl » o wont upon tho field accompanied by two wwJJJJL ^ wa Ao namoof Wragff and AbolC and with ^ 'JRjJKut tho hia way into tho crowd . By . . direction " ragK ^ ropos which liad boon used to form tho ™ lB >™ h ^ # )¦ oxprossod thbir detormination to proceed , f " , " i ^ fon ; saulting tho constables . Wragg was ft 6 £ od ? r £ t T hot and some attempt waa mode , to unhorseW- ° , " n ff th fo « gentlomon , however , rood the Riot Act , but at long ^ huneolf compelled to retire . The mob romttJn ^
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Leader (1850-1860), March 20, 1852, page 272, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1927/page/12/
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