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322 . Not a single claim had yet come against the officea strong proof of the vigilance of the directors , and of the care of the medical officers . The expenses of founding the society had been paid for , and the directors had every confidence in the society ' s success . The Chairman expressed his entire satisfaction with the progress of the society , in which expression Mr . Alexander liichmond , as a director and large shareholder , said he fully concurred . Mr . James Andrew Durham said he looked to the fact of the society not being encumbered with an excess of capital , but having a respectable proprietary to look to in case of necessity , as one of the means that must contribute greatly to its success . He believed the company had been established on the right basis , and that it would succeed .
On the motion of Mr . Harriss , a dividend of five per cent , upon the subscribed capital , clear of income-tax , was carried unanimously , after an expression of opinion that this rate of per-centage had been agreed upon with a view to permanency , and that if one year only had been taken into consideration , the dividend might have been at the rate of twenty-five per cent , per annum . Mr . Cribb , in proposing a vote of thanks to the auditors 3 took occasion to animadvert upon the conduct of the press in commenting upon the position of life assurance companies . His remarks were deprecated by Mr . Edward Brooks , as a niember of the society , and one who was not desirous that the Athenaeum Society should take up the cudgels for the vounger life offices .
Mi . Mitchell said that , seeing Mr . Toinline s name connected with the society , he had had every confidence in its management . It was his firm persuasion that the society would confer a great benefit upon literary men , and that the Athenseum Institute would prove to it a valuable appendage . Mr . Tomline adverted to three recent instances of men of genius who had died suddenly , and left their families almost wholly unprovided for . He ( Mr . Tomline ) was secretary to the Shakspearian Society , and , as such , meeting in conversation with the Lord-Justice Knight Bruce , that learned authority had remarked to him— " How is it that we find men of literature and genius , who can write essays
that are the admiration of their country , thus making no provision for their families ? If you can point out to me a way in which ifc could be done , it should have my best support . " He ( Mr . Tomline ) had said that it could only be done by means of a self-supporting institution like the present . Any mere eleemosynary institution would wholly fail . It was his duty to state that Mr . Disraeli , although so much occupied in affairs of State , had taken so warm an interest in the prosperity of their Institute that he had called twice personally to express his interest in its progress , and Jus desire to render it any good offices in his power . Sir G . Staunton and the Marquis of Bristol had similarly tendered their good offices .
Mr . Sutton and other gentlemen having expressed their favourable opinions of the progress of the society , and all the customary resolutions having been unanimously adopted , the meeting terminated with a vote of thanks to the reverend chairman .
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The news from India by ( lie last iiisi . il is not very striking . No further advance liad been made up the country by General Godwin . On the contrary , he was demanding morn troops , am ! ho had declined to move until they won ) granted . Lord Dalhousie was on his wny i , , o Rangoon to judge for himself . Tho troops wurii healthy . Tin ; only activity was in the naval force ; the Proserpine hi »< l forced her way up I he Irrawaddy nearly to lYoino , and had intercepted boats ladon with provisions , destined for the Burmese army assembling at Promo . I'Yom the north-western frontier conies a report thai-Sir Colin Campbell h : i « l resigned the Peshawur command in disgust ut the obstructions of the military board .
The Board of Health have , in consequence of the recent news from abroad , expressed their formal opinion to the Government that two medical officers should be specially appointed to take such steps as may seem best calculated to meet and mitigate any attack of cholera upon this country .
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The new Rules and Orders in Chancery were issued on Wednesday , and published in full by most of the morning papers . A meeting was held on "Wednesday at the Belvidere Tavern , Pentonville , when a society was formed under the title of the Pinsbury Knowledge Tax Itapeal Association . The object of the society is to obtain the repeal of the newspaper stamp , and of the advertisement and paper duties . The foundation stone of the newly endowed schools , in connexion with the Hebrew Educational Institution , was laid in Hope-street , Liverpool , on Tuesday . The ceremony was performed by Israel Barned , Esq . The Rev . Dr . Adler , the chief rabbi , was present . The proposed structure , which will be in the Tudor style of architecture , is intended for some 400 pupils .
Sir John Patteson , Archdeacon Froude , and a large number of the clergy , assisted in laying the foundation stone of the new chancel of the parish church of St . Mary Church , South Devon . Many of the nobility and gentry have liberally contributed to this work , among whom was an anonymous donor of 1000 Z . After the ceremony was over , a substantial dinner was provided for one hundred widows and aged poor , on the vicarage lawn . In the evening a supper was given to the workmen employed in the bunding . The spinners of Blackburn have applied for an increase of 10 per cent , upon their present wages . The millowners of this town had a meeting on Wednesday to take the matter into consideration , but they declined to accede to the men ' s request until they ascertained whether other spinners throughout the district were receiving or were prepared to demand a similar advance . —Preston Chronicle .
In July , the Government Emigration Commissioners contracted for upwards of twenty vessels , destined to carry out 3500 emigrants to Australia . During August four ships have been chartered ; and during September , three more will set sail . - Big steamers are the order of the clay . Another was launched at Blackwall on Monday , and named the Hydaspes . Her engines are on tho screw principle . She is intended to carry mails to East India via the Cape of Good Hope . The great Synagogue of tho Jews , in Duke ' s-place , was opened on Thursday with solemn ceremonies . It is said to resemble a Protestant church , except that there is no communion table , no pulpit , no pews ; and that the wnrarai urn barro . rl ofF from tlio men . Mr . Adler ofliciatud
as chief llabbi on the occasion . A meeting was held at St . Martin ' s Hall , on Thursday , to promote emigration . The real object was to obtain public support for tho Austi * alian Employers' and Emigrant ' s Registration Society . This society proposes , by a system of registration , to bring together those who want labour and those who want employment ; so that emigrants might proceed to Australia and find certain situations there . The means of the association would bo a capital raised by shares subscribed for by tho emigrants themselves .
The evening servico in Bartholomew ' s church at Liverpool was disturbed ou Sunday week by the breaking of two windows , and by the report of six pistol shots immediately outside the church . The windows were found to have been broken by stones thrown from the front of tho church . The pistols were fired in a beershop close ; at hand , kept by a man named Al'Manus . Tlio man excused himself by Haying ( hat his house had been recently broken into , and he occasionally lircd pistols to . prevent the naino thing ( aking place again . Tins neighbourhood near tho church is inhabited by very low Irish , and it is said that an extra policeman is required to protect thechurch and congregation .
Tho . ship Vellora lj ^ as left Bristol Melbourne freighted with n large number of passengers and cargo for 1 Ik ; all-ahHorbing gold diggings . The passengers numbered nearly . 'JOO , and their departure ! created quite a sensation in the city . Thousands of persons of all grades crowded down to the Cumberland-basin to seo her start , n steamlug towing her down the river Avon . She passed along amid tho cheers of tho assembled npoctalorn , of whom ( hen ; were 7 , 000 or 8 , 000 present . Emigration is taking plan ; ( o a large extent from Bristol , and an effort is being made by ( lie authorities to obtain the sanction of ( ioverninent to its being made a port for tho departure of ( Jovernnieul , emigrants , on the ground Unit it is most centrally situated for South Wales and the Went of England . The Montreal Gazette gives the following return of the number ofhoiiHcs , Arc , burnt in tho city of Montreal ou the HI hand Nth of July : --. Number JV umber . , Estimated ,,, . .. ., . Assessed ., , .. Wards , of - ol y I Value ot Holism . . Families . " "' Property . Wl . Louis . r > l , 7 H (( 8 . £ () . ) 7 « . C 150 , 000 HaM , . . . 1 !) 27 . 10 HO 28 , 000 St . James 27 H . ' 180 r > 5 H 0 ( KJ , ( MM ) St . Alary . 201 Kill . 'XSl . t ( 10 , 210 Total . 1108 2 H 80 JU 20 M 1 ) . C ; ilO , 81 . 0
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Mr . (! . I ' . Itonoy , tho secretary of the Dublin Industrial Inhibition , which takow place next year , left town on Saturday for i ' uriu . Mr . Itonoy io provided with strong letters
Nassau balloon , Mr . Green being again the driver on Thursday last . The ascent took place at twenty minutes before five , and tho observers , Messrs . Welsh and Nicklin remained up nearly three hours ; the descent being safelv effected about five or six miles from the Boxmoor station at thirty-five minutes past seven . The greatest altitude attained was somewhat less than on the former occasion being 19 , 000 feet , and the lowest temperature experienced was the same- —viz ., 7 ° of Fahrenheit . The air at this altitude was found to be extremely dry . —Athenceuwi .
of recommendation from the Count Walewski to the Meters of the Interior and of Commerce , and he has 7 n " letters to Mr . Jennngham , the charaS d ' affaires at Parff to Baron Dupm , M . Sallandrouze < 3 e Lamomaix , audio * other influential persons in Paris , who were identified wit * the Great Exhibition of 1851 . He has had sSfaSrS interviews with the authorities there . ^ The second balloon ascent for scientific purposes undpy the direction of the Kew committee of the Council ' th British Association , was made from Vauxhall in th
A line of railway has been provisionally registered ( thirty-eight miles in length ) , in order to connect Woolwich Chatham , Portsmouth , Windsor , and Ham pton Court ' joining the Windsor and Stainefl railway at Staines , crossing the Thames at Sunbury , then forming a branch on the Surrey side to Walton- on-Thames , in order to shorten the royal progress en route from Windsor to Osborne . The line is to proceed to Hampton Court , where it intersects the London and South-Western at the ] unction , thence passing through Maiden , Mitcham , to Penge ( from the Crystal Palace ) , through Beckenham , Bromley , Eltham , to Woolwich , with a branch to Dartford , embracing Chislehurst , the Crays , and Bexley , thereby connecting Chatham with the other important government depots . A connecting link , therefore , will be created with all the leading ran ways in England .
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Captain Shepheard is now likely to be decently withdrawn from public notice . On Tuesday , at the Marlborough-street police-court , a gentleman applied to Mr . Bingham for an order to deliver into his keeping the captain who is at present in prison for want of sureties . The applicant said he was prepared to send Captain Shepheard to Haslar as soon as released . Mr . Bingham was very glad to hear that the captain ' s friends had done that which it would have been more desirable had it been done some months ago . He would readily do all in his power to get Captain Shepheard placed in proper hands .
An elopement took place last week from Portsmouth . The young lady concerned was one of the daughters of a gentleman of considerable wealth , whose mansion is in the immediate vicinity of Portsmouth , on the sea shore , and she herself was possessed in her own right , it is said , of 2000 ? . She was twenty-one years of age , and the person with whom she eloped was her father ' s groom . This prudent young gentleman had taken the opinion of counsel as to what danger , if any , he should run in eloping with his master ' s daughter . He also inquired as to what would become of the 2000 J . to which the young lady was entitled . To these inquiries he had satisfactory replies , it would appear , the young lady being of age , and the money clearly her own . Ho was at the same time cautioned not to
convey away any property whatever belonging to his master . Upon tins measures were taken , and one day last week tho pair proceeded to tho Fareham station of the South Western Railway , from whence they proceeded to London , where , on Saturday , wo are informed , they were married by special licence . What is " acting as a waterman" on tho river Thames ? A caso was tried before the Lord Mayor , on Tuesday , at tho Guildhall , which turned upon this question . James Kemp , a fisherman , at Teddington , was charged with acting as a waterman . Tho act consisted in taking gentlemen to angle in a punt . Evidence was brought to show
that fishermen have so acted for many years unchallenged . Now the watermen claim the exclusive privilege undor ^ tho Waterman ' s Act of letting boats on tho Thames . The Lord Mayor said ho considered it to be his duty , as conservator of tho river Thames , not only to protect tho righto of the watermen but the rights of tho river fishermen . H <> well knew that tho business of those industrious men » uu been most seriously interfered with , particularly ot lute years , by the introduction of steam-vessels on the river , him by other causes , which operated to break down their spirit with their want of prosperity . Ho could not but consider that tho employment of fishermen in punts , in rendering assistance or instruction to gentlemen in angling , formed a part of their business as fishermen . Indeed , ho
apprehended that such employment constituted tho only > " ° "" they could be said to possess of obtaining a livelihood ' <) their families . Under all the circumstances , he was sure he wan bound to put a liberal interpretation upon U " words of the act of Parliament , to which he had lookoa with very anxious care , and , having attended to tho arg niontB of the gentlemen engaged upon both sides , no " come to the conclusion that tho defendant had not in «»' instance " acted , " according to the words of tho 37 IU sc - tion , " as a waterman , or plied or worktfd or navigatou wherry , lighter , or other craft , from or to any pliu'o i « hire or gain . " 1 Le should , therefore , dismiss tho suminoi ¦» , and , as it appeared to him to have boon tho object ot uw » interested to try the right , no costs should bo
required-John Itirt , tho proprietor of tho miscellaneous «> ° ' of animals , living in blissful union in Tralalgar-sqa' > applied tii Mr . floury on Saturday under tho l """* ^ i-irouinstanceH :--For Homo time past ho ha < : I I « ' <' ' , r polled to confide the charge ! of his " family to » ¥ " Jj man , owing to rheumatics . This young man hart " ( rieking him in various ways to an alarming oxi m ^ £ soiling Homo of his favourito pots without leave , aim l ing the money . Home time ago tho voung man Hala a pcroon hud tukon a iaucy to lua boat monkey—on "
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846 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen , Prince Albert , and five of tho royal children , left Osborne on Monday for Balmoral . All along their route the stations of the railways were bedecked with flowers and evergreens , and the usual manifestations of loyalty were made at places whore the train stopped . The royal party slept on Monday at Derby , on Tuesday ut Edinburgh , and reached Balmoral safely on Wednesday afternoon . The Karl and Countess of Eglinton , accompanied by Captain (' list , private secretary , Major JJugot , aide-decamp in waiting , Lord and Lady Naas , Mr . Wynne , &c , left Dublin on Tuesday morning by the Dublin and Drogheda Railway , and after a short stay in Drogheda continued their journey'to Belfast , where they arrived in the afternoon . Addresses were presented to his Excellency by the mayor and town council of Belfast , and by the directors of the Ulster Railway Company , and in the evening ajiiagniliccut banquet wits given in the Music II . ill . Tin ; Lord Lieutenant will be present , therefore , at the meeting of the British Association , which began at Belfast on Wednesday . Lord Eglinton visited on Tuesday the Queen ' s Colleges at Belfast , ami in reply to the address ol" f he president passed a high encomium on the system of education there pursued .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1852, page 846, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1950/page/10/
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