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      The Metropolis Water Supply Committee , after hearing Professors Cooper and Brande on the question of the chemical peculiarfties of Thames water , the tt > mmittee have passed the first clause of the government measure , which sets forth "that from and after ( a date to he named ) it shall not he lawful for any water company to take for the supply of the metropolis , or of any part thereof , any water froin 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 flows 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 6 * . for every additional passenger he carries beyond the number for which he- is certified . Upwards of a hundred vessels , cutter-rigged craft , # 6 ays 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 struck , 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 in 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 plans which have been submitted by a number of French and foreign architects . M . Sallandrouze de -Lamornaix , commissary of the Government at the London 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 wejst of Somerset ELouse 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— -whois 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 Steakd News Rooms are intended to fulfil . " Advices received at Liverpool communicate a discovery at Porto Bico in the chemistry of sugar-making . Don Juan Ramos , a native of Port Rico , is the discoverer ; the agent is a vegetable extract , whi ch 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 produce of sugar , of a quality very superior to that produced under the present modei 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 jat the same time be more liberally rewarded than had hitherto been usual . These objects have been obtained . The New JTork Tribune adds : — " These lectures will be resumed next autumn , and preparations will be made to render them effective and popular . We hope they may succeed ; for

      we . do think tlie nabit of requiring lecturers to give their tune and audiences their money for purposes of local , personal , or sectarian importance , has been stretched somewhat . Besides , under the old plan , attractive and uninteresting l ecturers are paid alike , while in this course each receives according to his power of commanding an audience . We hope the hint will be 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 tlio time . Two young men wore standing near , but , being unable to swim , made no effort to rescue the boy , merely crying out , " Ho is drowning ! " but a woman named Hannah [ Evans , who was in her house attending her sick daughter , saw the accident , arid gallantly rushed into the water up to her arm-pits , although totally ignorant of the art of swimming , and naved tho child , just as it was on tho point of finally sinking . . illustrative of how early a sentiment of honour may evist in the young , a curious instance has occurred in Derby , whoro ' a little boy , ten years old , has drowned-himuelf , from mortification at his mother having discovered that he had stolon sixpence . The New York Tribune gives this curious instance of tho creation of a public wonder : —Some years ago an optician of this city mado a glass eye of the proper Hizo , filled it with distilled water , and put therein a small col . A gentleman of subtle -wit Haw tho bauble , was struck with tin idea , purchased it , and departed . Shortly afterwards tho public wcro running down Park-row , somewhere , to Boe " a horso witli a snake in his oyo , " tho greatest wonder of tho ago . Money came plentifully to tho cump , and tho show went on bravely until tho optician inadvertently montionod tho glass oyo , and thon tho wholo affair collapsed .

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      As a man was crossing a field near Barnsbury Park , Islington , he found the body of an infant lying in a ditch . Dr . Adams , who examined the body , declared that notwithstanding its decomposed state the deceased was born alive , and that , if not from violence , at least Its death was caused by neglect . The coroner has ordered an inquest to beheld on the body . Mr . Richard Cartwright committed suicide at the Star Coffee-house , Old-street , on Saturday . Mr . Cartwright was a butler out of place .

      Ferdinand Bock , a powerful German , has been apprehended , after attempting to rob a shop , through the resolution of Mrs : Knight , who is described as a "delicate-looking" 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 Ovans underwent capital punishment , in front of Monmouth gaol , on Friday , for tho murder of his il legitimate child , by drowning it in a stream of water at Newport . About four thousand persons collected to view the execution , most of them women ; who " behaved in anything but a becoming manner . " The mother , Sarah Dove , lies under respite ; doubts having been cast upon the degree of her complicity . A Dutch trader , Maria JbJinanna , ran foul of the Triton , from Cardiff to Bremen , off the Dorsetshi re coast , six or seven of the Dutch crew sinking with the ship .

      Tho Glencove , New Orleans , has exploded at St . Louis , utterly destroying tho 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 the constant stream of fresh lifo

      ever pouring . At ton minutes beforo 1 , on Sunday morning , a fire broke out at 213 , Piccadilly , a brush-maker ' s , the back chiefly suffering . Engines , manned b y 100 hired auxiliaries , rendered prompt assistance . Several houses wero injured . Jermyn-stroet was crowded with spectators , many of them gentlemen accustomed to gaiety and late hours : not less , probably , than half of tho whole number , women . Tho village of Renton , situated about sixteen miles west from Glasgow , lias been tho scone of an appalling catastrophe , tho destruction of two dwelling houses by firo , and tho death of seven children by tho sarao means . There is reason to boliovo that the poor children wore suffocated before tho flames roachod them .

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      Tho Manchester Examiner furnishes these local statistics of strikes taken from tho returns published by tho various trades unions where tho several strikes took place To support tho weavers' strike , at Hoy wood , in 1844-5 , the operatives of that district had to subscribe nearly 6 ( XM . which , with tho loss of 160 persons' wages for ton weeks , at 7 a . each , will mako tho abovo sum into 11201 . ; this sum , added to tho loss sustained through all tho mills etonpinir in consoquonco of tho strike , may bo put down at

      20001 . Tho-money subscribed to support Moasrs . Jonps ' a weavers , of Oldham , in 1815 , amounted to 36001 ., which , with the loss of tho weavers' wages for thirty-six weeks , will amount to 7000 J . Tho weavers striko at Rpytoh , in tho aamo year , cost tho operatives , in monoy subscribed and loss of -wages for eight weeks , 70 W . Tho turn-out of Messrs . Collingo and Marsdon ' s woavers , Oldham , in 1860 , cost , in loss ofwages for twenty weeks , 1000 ? ., and tho money subscribed to support them amounted to 7101 . \ total , 1716 Z . The etrike of tho Limofleld weavers , near Bury , and tho weavers and mill hands of Moasrs . Sohofiold , near

      Littlobotough , cost ^ for eight -weeks , aboujt l $ ti 0 l , i' tot *! cost x # , stn&e ; fc&OOt J ) uring the strike of Messrs . pgden ' s ^ weaversl ' ofQldfcaih Th 1861 , theoperatives lost 12 O 0 Z . ^ p ^ : ^ yr ^^ ^^ money subscribed tdi support thei turn-outs . The weavers ' strike at Stalyhridge ; m 186 . 0 , cosfcrahdfc ^ I <)^; The weavers' strike-atDroyisdien , in 18 » 1 » ^ t $ n $ n ^ subV scr ibed 1200 ? ., which , with the loss of tVenty ^ ijr ' Weeks ' wages , will niake a total of 322 OZ . The' stii $ fc ( Ji : at ^ Byde have cost the operatives more-than ^ 2 CK 10 2 . : ; $ & a Pendleton strike the opjeratives had . to subscribo between 7000 Z . and 8000 ? ., which , with the J ^ ss of wi ^ i ^ Uiraag ^ the strike , will not be far short of 20 , 000 ? . as . the , inoney lost to the operatives in that contest . Total cost bf the above strikes , 39 , 736 Z . During the last few years the weavers within a circle of ten miles around Manchaster have lost 40 , 000 ? . ' . ; :. ' . ' \ ' ¦ : ... ' ¦;¦ . ' : . ¦ , ¦ . •; :. - . ¦ ¦¦ ¦¦ ¦¦•• . ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦

      DEPARTMENT OP PBACTICUIi ABT . TVb are informed that at the ^ forthcpining E : iuibltion of the works of the students at ^^ Marlborough-hottfe , the Board of Trade have decided that medals shall be awarded to the producers df meritorious . works . Hitherto the prizes have been limited to the students in the head schools , But in future they Will fee thrown open to the students of all the provincial schools as well . The President of the Royal A ^ deinyi Sir " a Eastlake , and i % . Mac ^^ to act as Honorary Examiners of the students' Works on the present occasion , in co-operation : mtn \ 3 & . Bedgrave , B . A ., the Art Superintendent . ¦

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On tho 16 th inst ., at Cavendish-squaro , Lady J . Manners : a B On tho 10 th inst ., at 6 , Eaton-placo West , Lady Elizabeth Russell : a son . ' ¦ . On the 10 th inst ., at 17 , Nottingham-place , Regent s-parK , Mrs . Hewitt Davis : a son . _ _ , On the 20 th inut ., at Escriok-purk , tho Lady Elw » beth littWloy , promaturolv : n . son , who only survived one hour . On tho 21 st inst ,, at Henrietta-street , Mrs . Charles Tow : a daughter . MARRIAGES . . , _ On the 17 th inst ., at St . Mary ' s , Hammersmith , George Hooper , Esq ., to Jane Margaret Winnard , of North-end . On tho 17 th jnat , at Christ Church , Mftrylcbono , Mr . > v . Maofurren , of Albert-atreet , Mornington-oreacent . to Juno , second daughter of H . A . Fanner , Esq ., of St . John 8-wood . On the 20 th inst ., at St . John ' s , Paddington . by « " > **** Bishop of Winchester , Fuller Maitland Wilson , Esq ., eldest son of Honry Wilson , of Stowlanprtoft-haU , Suffolk , Esq ., _ to Agnes Caroline , eeoond duughter of the Hon . tho Vioe-Chanceuor OnTlKlh inst ., at Leamington Priora , bytho Rov . NMJ * - nicl Hoy wood , Charles , tiocond Bon of the late George I « e y ^??'' : l ?« n « f nrnMemnvn . Hfn-Hhrrlnhirn . to KathorJHO , elder ClttUgluei

      of Albert W . Becthwn , F . R . S ., barristor-at-law , of Lincoia o inn , and Rape-hill , near LyminKton , HainpHhiro . On tho 20 th inst ., at St . Peter's Church , Frome , by tiw Ivov . E . iX Wiokham , incumbent of Holmwood , Surrey , «¦»**? H the Rev . J . B . B . Clnrko . reotor of Bugborough , SomorfloMoim Sheppiml , Esq .. of tho Iton . RateB , R » mo , to SutonAniw W j youngest daughter of Jumcs Anthony Wiokhain , J 5 sq ., «» North-hill , Froino . ' DEATHS . _ _ „ a t . On tho 12 th inst ., at Olupham , Isaac Culhmoro , Eoq ., I . tt . o . u ., ae t ) io 17 th inst ., at Worthing , of hooping-cough , Jofl 9 e , ftBe < l 2 youra and 8 m « mtha , the Iwt eurvivingoliildoi Joaop h JJonon , Esq ., of Cheyne-row , ChelooB . . , .. -pj elda , dn the 10 th mat ., at tho Vicarage , St . ^" ; ln ^ Sonry Blanoho Amoliiv . tho youngest daughter of the Mev . » j Maokonsie , aged 16 months . . - » -rtB . gir On the 10 tl ? inat ,, at Swaliowneld , in tbo county of BerW , " Monry RubboII . Bart ., in tho 00 th year of hifl » ge ,

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      It appoars there aro reasons for supposing that Mr . Boyd may not bo killed , but moroly retained in captivity . The American whalers will bo directed to sound tho natives , those adventurous seamen being adroit at this perilous diplomacy . 1 ! ho Kecora relates that Mr . Spencor , better known as father Ignatius , is in Vienna , raising iunds for tho " conversion" of tho Protestants of England .

      The son of "Prince Murat has joined the Chasseurs d'Afrique as a private soldier . Mr . Erahk Forster , recently , fibe engineer to the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewersi died suddenly last weekj 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-r-After a : long exercise of his talents in pursuits not jlevbid of contention , and into which personal feelings are frequently unpbrted , his knowledge , his untiring assiduity , and his high -intdgrity , left hiin without an enemy . JFor many years ho was the energetic coadjutor of Sir Bobert Stephenson , having had entrusted to him the direction of-many works of magnitude , among which may be 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 l > y 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 corUge were the Carriages of Sir W . Cubitt , Mr . Bendel ( President of iOie 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 M . P . ; Capt . Claxton , BJST . ; Messrs . Erringtori , Betts , Gregory , Martin , Glynn , C . Manhy , 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 metropoh ' s . The Suit reports that the preliminary sfojps have been taken in the Xord 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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      HEALTH OP LONDON DTJBiING THE ^ EEE . The mortality of London again exhibits a slight increase , the deaths in tlie previous week (^ ii'dSaig April 10 ) having peen 1 , 051 , tliose > in the week that ended last Saturday being 1 , 092 . In the 10 corresponding weeks of 1842-51 the average number of deaths was 944 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , beepmes 1 , 038 . The mortality of ' last week , therefore , exceeds the corrected average by 54 deaths . In ^ comparing the returns of the ; last two weeks it appears that there is a small increase in epidemics , in diseases of the nervous system , the heart , and the digestive

      organs ; but a decrease in diseases of the organs of respiration , and also in the tubercular class . Smallpox , which in the previous week was fatal in 34 cases , riulnbersmthe present return 38 , which are those of 31 children and 7 adults , 6 of whom were 80 years of age . a » d upwards . In 6 cases it is stated that vaccination had been previously performed , and in these the patients died at the following ages : —2 , 3 , 7 , 10 , 22 , 27 yeai's . MeaBleshas 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 . The 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 oorrespondnig weeks corrected for increase of population is only 165 . In these weeks the actual numbers ranged from 107 to 185 , which latter amount is much below whatsis now experienced . Bronchitis . predominates , * and , with the exception of phthisis , produces at present a greater mortality than ' any other disease on , the list j jt carried off 102 persons , pneumonia 77 . Phthisis was fatal to low ; its mortality , which is always great , is not sensibly aggravated by causes that have given additional force to other diseases .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 24, 1852, page 392, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1932/page/12/