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that the lives of our officers and men should be endangered in vessels so notoriously unseaworthy as the Harpy , one of a batch of half-a-dozen iron steamers , built for service on the coast of Africa , and which have been officially reported as not only incompetent , but unsafe . The Admiralty incur a heavy responsibility in sending them to sea . The Harpy has been on the south-east coast of South America for some years ,, and was . one of the squadron engaged in the Parana . She is badl y designed , and is incapable of carrying her intended weights . She is very much overpowered with machinery . She is under 350 tons , and has engines of 200 horse power . This batch of steamers has proved scarcely fit to do the work of tenders for dockyard and channel service . Another of them is now tender to the Herald , on an exploring expedition in the South Seas .
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Christopher Maisey , who was found guilty by a coroner s jury of the murder of the child whose body was found in Wadley Park fish-pond , Berkshire , has been recently arrested in Liverpool . He had been living in lodgings under the name of Slater . The police have ascertained his assumed name , discovered his retreat by means of a post-office order , sent to him by his friends under that name . A police-officer was waiting at the post-office to detain the person who might apply for the order . Maisey had made every preparation for going abroad , disguised as a woman , having provided himself with a fine bustle and luxuriant curls , &c , and shaved his whiskers off closely . The mother of the child , who was Maisey ' s servant , has been acquitted of the murder , as it was shown that she never saw the infant .
Charlotte Hislop had been for some time living with Maurice Coulan , as his wife . He had been accustomed to treat her with great cruelty , and had on a previous occasion driven her to lay a complaint before the magistrates , in consequence of which he had been imprisoned for some time . On Tuesday night he came home drunk , and after abusing her for not having his supper ready , he seized her by the hair and struck her violently in the face with his fist . He then thrust her out of the room . As he became more quiet she ventured into the room again , but the moment she appeared , he caught up a yellow earthenware jug , and swearing that he would smash her , struck her two terrible blows upon the face . The blood flowed forthwith down her neck and clothes ; one of the wounds if it had
been a little lower down , would have been fatal . Mr . D'Eyneourt , after hearing proof of these facts , said thia was just one of those cases that he should wish to send at once to the sessions for trial , but he knew very well if he did so , that the complainant , like a number of other -wjves and women in recent cases , would fail to appear and prosecute him , either from fear or affection , and that the prisoner would then get off altogether without any punishment at all . He would , therefore , take care , ' as far as he could , that the prisoner , and all men actuated b y similar brutish propensities who were brought before him should suffer the extreme amount of punishment that he could inflict . Ho consequently ordered him to pay the full penalty of 51 ., or in default to bo committed to the House of Correction for two months .
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Two bodies were found in the Serpentine on Monday . They were supposed to have been drowned while bathing . A boiler exploded on Monday , in the Green Bank Saw Mills at Wapping , the shed in which it wns placed being blown into the air , and some of the pieces thrown a quarter of a mile [?] . One man who was at work on the roof of the mill received fatal injuries , and several persons were wounded by the falling materials . Mr . Worsley , a hair-dresscr and perfumer in the New Cut , Lambeth , was awoko on Sunday morning by a noiso in his shop , which ho attributed to cats ; but on opening his door ho was met by volumes of hot smoke , which nearly suffocated him . lie woke up all his household , but the smoke was too grout for them to escape by the
staircase . All of thorn , except one bed-ridden old lady , at length got through the upper windows upon a pent-houso over the nhops , where they wailed for the arrival of the firemen , who at last brought them safely to the ground . The old lady , too , was not forgotten , one of the inmates , Mrs . . Jackson , having carried her out on her back ; but at the same moment , a policeman named Ireland had climbed up to a window by meium of a pole , and went from room to room , in Hearcii of the invalid , not knowing that bIio had been already rescued . The smoke at last ho overpowered him , that ho wan obliged to loap from a window to escape HuHoeution . He fell through a skylight , and wiih ho fearfully mutilated and cut by the glass that his life in in great (" lunger .
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The TAvcrpool Chronicle mforinn uh that a vessel has been fitted up in Liverpool by a set of speculators , to take four or five hundred passengers to AuHtralia , on the plan of paying the expensen out of the passage-money of the emigrants . . Finding that they could not obtain above half the necessary number of passengers , they have " bolted , " and left the unfortunate gulls minus their pusnage-money . An ill feeling irt paid to hnvo arisen between the Oreat Northern Railway Company and the Midland . ' Railway Company . On Monday hint , an engine belonging to the former Company brought a train into the Nottingham Htation , wliioh ntation , it hcoiuh , the Great Northern ciigiiieH have no right to outer . Ah it wiih about to depart wiUi another ( rain , it wiih taken into custody an a trospaHHor , by the Midland ' s Company ' s enginen , which eaine up behind iijid before , and would not allow the intruder to iiaHH for Home time .
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On Wednesday evening , between tho hours of live and mix , one of the large wagonn belonging to Messrs . Yoiinglmsbiuxl and Co ., tho railway carriers , Ac ., of the Old Hailey , was proceeding through Lincoln ' H-iim-lioldH , ladon with hemp ; the hornet * woro at tho name time driven by a young man , who wiih Hitting on the dickey , whon . nil of a ouddou a huire shoot of flume shot forth from tho centre ol
the hemp , and almost encircled the driver . He instantly jumped off the wagon , and before he had time to stop the horses he found the vehicle in one broad sheet of flame ; by a desperate effort he succeeded in taking the horses out , and a number of persons soon came to his aid . They succeeded in turning the vehicle over , and shooting the blazing material into the carriage road , where it burnt more furiously than before . Mr . Morris , the engineer of the High Holborn brigade station , quickly attended with an engine and a body of firemen , and in the course of an hour or so the flames were entirely extinguished . The property belonged to Mr . Maggs , of Somersetshire , and was worth from 120 ? . to 150 Z .
A collision took place on the Clyde , on Friday week , between the Citizen steamer and the Princess Alice , a large steamer from Londonderry . The Citizen in going down the river met the Princess Alice , and on then- approach , the latter , as it is supposed , from touching the ground , refused to answer her helm , and fell across the track of the other . The engines were reversed , but not in time to prevent the collision . A number of passengers who were standing on the deck of the Citizen were thrown down by the shock and seriously bruised . A young woman with her child , five weeks old , when the Citizen was supposed to be sinking , rushed towards the other vessel and fell overboard . She got under the paddle-wheels , and was drowned , together with her infant .
The inquest respecting the death of Mr . John Sard , who was drowned on board the Duchess of Kent , on the first of July , was resumed , on Wednesday , at Gravesend . A number of witnesses from the crews of both the Duchess of Kent and the Jlavensbourne , were examined . The coroner stated , that the rules laid down for the navigation of the Thames , obliged vessels meeting each other , and coming within a dangerous distance , both to port their helms [ which would turn them in the direction of the starboard , or right-hand bowl . The evidence was slightly contradictory in some points , but it seems that the ^ Ravensbourne was going down the river , near midchannel , leaving plenty of room between her and the north , or Essex side , of the river . The Duchess of Kent was coming up the
river , near the north shore , when the vessels came in sight , and at this point struck across the river towards the south shore , between the Bavensbourne and the Meteor . There was some difference of opinion as to the propriety of the course of the Duchess of Kent , the captain of that vessel , and some others , maintained , that when the tide was running down , as it was at the time of the accident , it was the usual and proper course , for a vessel coming up , to cross from the north to the south side , at that point . On the other hand , some of the witnesses maintained that the proper course- for a vessel coming up the river , was to keep near the north shore . The Bavensbourne was in charge of a pilot at the time , who seems entirely free from blame . the
When the Duchess of Kent was seen approaching , engines were stopped , turned astern , and the helm ported . The Duchess of Kent , on the other hand , kept on her course across the river till she was near the Bavensbourne , and then starboarded her helm [ which would turn her bows towards the left , apparently with the object of crossing in front of the Bavensbourne ^ . It was said by several of the witnesses , that if tho Duchess of Kent had ported her helm in time , the collision would have been avoided . Others , again , seemed to think that if this had been done , the force of the tide would have rendered her unmanageable . The captain of the Duchess of Kent was below , at dinner , until just before the collision . ITe was not sure that ho would have taken the course adopted . Tho inquiry is adjourned .
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Tho police-stations in London and its outskirts aro shortly to be connected with each other and with tho railway-stations by electric telegraphs . Collins , the celebratod connoisseur of portraits , was brou ght up once more on Tuesday , and onco more remanded . Some fresh light was thrown upon tho case of the portrait of Mr . Power , M . P ., which Collins had obtained from Mr . J . E . Mayall , tho American daguerrotypist , and on thi . s case Mr . Arnold committed Collinn for larceny . Evidence was given of some other cases , but these woro not on that occasion satisfactorily made out .
A policeman , named Fisher , being in Gray ' s Inn-road , a little before twelvo o ' clock on Tuesday night , saw a singular party coming along in a cab . A woman was on tho box by the side of the cabman driving at a great rate . Tho whole party woro smoking cigars . The policeman called out " Hallo , that won't do ; " "Its all right , Bobby , " was the lady ' s reply , Hinacking her whip and driving on . Tho officer , however thought it was not " all right , " and stopped the cab . When the case eamo before Mr . Corrie , tho lady , Mrs . Kinallbone , was asked what she had to say for herself . She said that hIio was a married woman . Mr . Corrie discharged the lady , but fined the cabman five shillings .
Mr . George Dexter , a lodging-house keeper , at Wlnteehapel , wan disturbed about four o ' clock on Monday by a violent shaking from his wife , who assured him who saw a man in the adjoining room . Mr . Dexter . slips quietly out of bed , and comes up to the man , who in standing on a table , busily taking off his gas-fittings . Mr . Dexter taps him on tho leg , " You mustn't take too much of that , for I Hhall want it myself . " Tho visitor , continuing bin work , "K ' h all right ; ' i shaVt take much . " Mr . Dexter gets angry , and insists on his intent's coming down , which the
guost declines to do , and continues bin job , till he is pulled off tho table by Mr . Dexter . On . thin ho beeomoH abusive , and challenges liiH host to corno out into the Htroot to light him . But Mr . Dexter preferred a more nummary proceeding , and struck tho impudent fellow a blow on tho head with a piece of pipo , which induced him to walk , oil " , threatening to dash in his skull with a brick at tho first opportunity , lie wiih found noon after under a tarpaulin on the top of a hay cart . When brought before the magistrate , he confessed tho charge , but pleaded tho blow oh a Hiifficient " set-off . " TJie magistrate , not acquiouciug , sentenced him to throo months' hard labour .
An adventurer has appeared in Paris , pretending to be the last member of the illustrious family of Gouzague He assumed , in addition , the titles of Duke of Mantua Prince of the Roman Empire , Officer of the Legion of Honour , Grand Officer of the Order of Stanislaus , Knight of the Order of Military Valour of Poland , Grand Master of the Order of the Redemption , Lieutenant of the Grand Master of the Supreme Order of the Four Emperors of Germany , Protector of the Orders of Merit of Prussia and of the Lion of Holstein , &c . In 1845 , he lived in . Paris in great style , and was received by high personages , who were convinced of his rank by papers which he produced . During the last reign it was for some time in contemplation to appoint him colonel of the foreign legion . However , he was sent back into his native obscurity by a discovery that he was receiving an allowance from the French Government , as a Polish refugee , under the name of Count Manizouski . He recently ventured forth again into the light , bub the inquiries of the police sealed his fate . It was found that ho had supported himself by obtaining large sums under pretence of conferring all the orders which he assumed . Many seem to have been his victims .
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HEALTH OF LOISTDON DURING THE WEEK . The health of London in the week ending Saturday , 31 st July , has been disturbed by the prevalence of summer cholera and diarrhoea , yet the deaths have been 1040 , or 118 below the weekly average , which in the previous ten years was , when corrected for increase of population , 1158 . 532 males , 508 females , died in the week ; the mortality bore most heavily on early life ; for of 1040 who died , 586 were children under 15 years of age , 289 were in the middle stage of life extending from 15 to 60 , and 165 were of the age of 60 and upwards . A woman attained the advanced age of 96 . One death in seven occurred in a 92 in workhouses
public institution , —namely , , 39 in hospitals , 6 in lunatic asylums , one in prison , 8 in the Greenwich and Chelsea Hospitals . The districts of Chelsea and Greenwich , as well as Kensington and Wandsworth , experienced more than the usual mortality . During the week 18 deaths are assigned to small-pox ; 2 cases are recorded as having occurred after vaccination . Fifteen children were left unprotected by their parents , and died the victims cf this negligence ; 64 children died of scarlatina , which is prevalent ; 34 persons died of typhus ; 145 of consumption ; 45 children of convulsions ; 31 persons ( all , except 2 , adults ) of disease of the heart ; 17 of bronchitis ; 32 of pneumonia ; 13 of enteritis ; 14 of disease of the liver ; and 25 of violence .
Diarrhoea was the reigning disease ; it was fatal to 110 children , 7 adults , and 8 persons of advanced age . It often approached in the severity of its symptoms to summer cholera , of which 10 children , 4 adults , and 2 persons over the age of 60 died . Here , as in epidemic cholera , early and prompt medical treatment is called for . Sixteen cases of cholera have been registered in tho week .
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752 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On tho 29 th tilt ., at Guernsey , the wife of Major C . H . Michell , 66 th regiment : a daughter . On the 1 st inst ., at Trelissick , Cornwall , tho Hon . Ann , wife of J . D . Gilbert , Esq . : a son . On tho 1 st inst ., at 30 , South-streot , the Hon . Mrs . Doncombo : a son and heir . On the 1 st inst ., at Livermead-cottage , Torquay , the Lady Anna Maria Courtenay : a son . On Tuesday , the 3 rd inst ., in Upper Brook-street , tho Hon . Mrs . Monckton Milnes : a daughter . MARRIAGES . On tho 10 th of May , at Cannanoro , Lieutenant P . D . Horno , Madras Horse Artillery , to Miss Bruco , daughter of Lieutenant Colonel Bruce , 39 th Native Infantry . On Thursday , tho 22 nd ult ., tho Viscount Maudevillo , oldest son of tho Duko of Manchester , to tho Comtesso Louise Frederiekp Augusto D'Alton . in tho Palace Chapel in Hanover , in tho presence of her Majesty tho Queen of Hanover , tho Itoyal Princess , mid a distinguished assembly of friends . Tho niarriago was a second time solemnized in tho chapel of the British Embassy , after which tho noblo pair proceeded by special train to Brunswick , on a tour . At Ht . Paul's , Knightsbridgo , on Saturday , tho 31 st ult .. Captain Henry Lowther , M . P ., 1 st Life Guards , eldest son of tho Hon . Colonel Lowthor , M . P ., to Emily Susan , eldest daughter of Ht . George Caulfleld , Esq ., of Wentworths , Surrey . On tho 3 rd inst ., tit the Abbey Church , tho ltov . Percy JameH Croft , M . A ., vicar of Exiling , Huflblk , son of tho Venerable tho Archdeacon of Canterbury , to Mary Ellen , daughter of tho Itev . Charles ( treenail Dimes , M . A ., Vicar of Towkenbury . On Tuesday , tho 3 rd inst ., at Kt . Swithin ' s Church , Wmchnstor , tho Itov . Edward Halifax Hanscll , Fellow and Tutor ot Magdalen College , Oxford , to Mary I ' Hizaboth , fifth daughter of the Itov . Dr . Williams , Warden of Now College , Oxford , and Canon of Winchester . On the 3 rd inst ., at Isloworth , by tho llev . H . GlosHop , Mr . TIioh . IF . Edmunds , of Brentford , to Sarah Davidgo , eldest daughter of Mr . Kirhard Limptis , of Isloworth . DKATII 8 . On tho 2 i ) fh ult ., Sir John Wentworth Loring , K . C . B-, K . C . H ., Admiral of tho Blue , of Peartreo-houso , near Houtliiimpton . At East Looo , Cornwall , on Thursday , tho 2 » th ult ., nged !)<> , Margaret ,, widow of Commander John Harris Nicolas , K . N- » and mother of tho late Itoar-Admiritl Toup Nicolas , C . B ., Hir Harris Nicolas , ( J . O . M . dl . Jlor memory will bo affectionately cheriHhcd by her three surviving hoiih . . At tho Palaco , . ' Lincoln , on tho . 'list ult ., Mary , tho belovea wifo of Jtichurd Hniith , Esq ., secretary to tho Lord Bishop ol Lincoln . On tho Mist ult ., ut Dover , itftor a severe attack of bronchitis , Lioiitoiiiuit-Ciiloncl It . W . Flomming , of tho Hon . East India Company's Horvieo , Into of Brompton-grovo , Bromptwii . On tho 3 rd inst ., at Brighton , ngod 45 , Mary Ann , tho «»< 1 ( ^ and only surviving daughter of tho Into John HpinltB , for merly of tho inner Temple * , London , Esq . On Tuesday , tho 3 rd inst ., at Canterbury-row , Ncwmglo " , Mrs . K itty Htoolo , in her 8 l » th year , relict of J onathan Btnelo , JWIOn tho 4 th hint ., at 30 , Gordon-squaro , Itoao , tho inH """ daughter of J . Cuiiliflu 1 'ickoingill , Esq .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 7, 1852, page 752, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1946/page/12/
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