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.. i , est hands at keeping guinea pigs , and such like , as afl Pver seen ; and , being a poor man wishing to get his iv ? by the monkey , he applied to have it cheap . Well , on this understanding , although not wishing to part U % the monkey , he sent word as he shouldn't mind w + ui ' ff him have it for 35 s . The monkey was sold , and 1 ? vounff man P aid him ^ 5 *" ' ^ ttt a feV ays aft ® r te re " Jipived a letter from Mr . F . Pigou , a gentleman living at 11 Albert-te rrace , Knightsbridge , saying that he gave 51 ft the monkey to the young man , although he had heard nis master iiere
that the latter only paia oos . » o ne was learlv robbed of SI . 15 s . His servant had also sold a hawk f r 8 s . and had only paid him 6 s . In fact , he had been t rribly robbed , there was no doubt about it ; and " now the thinff had come to light , the fellow had made a bolt of it . Mr Henry said he would be happy to assist him if he couid trace the young man ' s whereabouts ; but they could do nothing without . The applicant said he would keep a sharp look out for him , and give him into custody if he turned up .
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An old woman died at Shenfield , a few days since , who had been receiving parochial relief for many years . At her decease it was found she had property by her to the amount of nearly 1000 Z . —Essex Serald . The old well from which Holywell-street takes its names has lately been examined and cleared of the rubbish with which it has long been filled . It is on the premises of a public-house in Holywell-street . The well is of great depth , and the walls are in good condition . The springs have not been reached , but they are in action in the neighbourhood , as the old Roman baths and the well in Strand-lane are still supplied from them . —Gentleman ' s Magazine .
A lady was travelling in the parliamentary train on the Chelmsford Railway , on Friday week , who gave singular evidences of insanity . She was noticed to throw out of the window , first heir gold watch and guard , and afterwards a purse , containing twenty or thirty pound . The articles were picked up and restored to the owner at Ipswich , when she seemed to have a better appreciation of their value . According to the log of the Tropic , just arrived in the Downs , an earthquake was felt at sea off Jamaica , on the 17 th of July . " The ship had lost her way , and the watch below , running out of the forecastle , declaring the iron tanks ( each containing 400 gallons of water ) were dancing in the 'tween decks . While the horrid rumbling noise continued going along under the bottom , the sensation on deck was that of a ship tearing over rocks at a violent rate . In a few minutes the ship was quietly gliding through the water at three miles per hour . "
An Englishman who had been lost in the mountains on the shores of the Rhine , opposite Bonn , finally made hi 3 way to the banks of that river , where there is a " flying bridge" of boats . As he could not wake the ferrymen , he undid the fastenings , and with true English insolence set about ferrying himself over . But he found the bridge too much for his skill ; the cables snapped , and ho was set floating down the stream . At length he was overtaken by boatmen , arrested , and only liberated by the Bonn authorities on the payment of tho damage done to the bridge . Inflammable coke is formed in moulds , of shapes calculated to allow of the free passage of air when ignited in the thereboccasionin combustion and
grate , y g perfect the absence of all smoke , and , in lieu thereof , a bright flame . Each piece of coke , be it round , oval , hexagonal , octagonal , or other shape , has a cell in its centre , filled with waste coal , or other inflammable substance or compound , secured by moans of coke male and female screws , and is rendered slightly porous . As many substances—such as small pieces of wood , coal-dust , Ac . —are very cheap , because usoloss for fuel in their existing form , and as they can bo rendered by this invention more available for fuel than the most expensive coal , at a very much less cost , it is reasonable to suppose that tho patent inflammable coke will supersede the use of other fuel . —J&fininq Journal .
Disastrous accounts of inundations are given in the Savoy papers . The Arve continues to devastates tho country . A waterspout burst over tho province of Chiablose on tho 19 th , and dotachod such a quantity of largo atones from tho mountains in tho vicinity of tho village of Locum tliat tho bridge of tho Thonon road was half do-Htroyod by them . Tho road itself iy impassablo . The village of Buttes , in tho territory of Clusea , has boon entirely inundated . Letters from Hwitzerland of tho 25 th state
that alarm was felt lost tho Rhino should overflow . An inundation was threatening in tho canton of Uri . Snow had buguti to fall , and that caused tho rivers to riso . In the canton of Lucerne tho contiuual rainn had made tho rivoi-H overflow , and tho lako had risen a foot . Serious lesson had boon sustained by tho inundations in tho villages at tho Coot of tho Jura , the Gros do Van a , and iu th « val J ( » ya of tho Alps . Tho Courrier de Vlabro states that tho Juiono Juts washed away upwards of forty houses in ono ol ho ( iommunos .
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Mr . Taylor , a gonlJoman rosiding in JTanovor-squaro , 'Xing himself on Suiuluy night . Monk , a tailor , who livoil in Groon Arbour-court , cut I » . s throat in tho street opposite tho Old Itailoy on Tuesday ; "uiho unknown . Warwick Phillips , a policeman , wan committed for trial <> ' » Saturday , olutrgud with indocontly assaulting two woinwi . 1 » i " ' ) rOli 0 out ' 'ho ship-yard of Messrs . Wigram , of "lackwall , on Wednesday , destroying tho greater portion ' »« tho Htoro-houfios , a portion of tho mast-houflo , aconsidorftWo quantity of timber and Btorcs , and seriously injuring t"o Btoum-nittdiinory .
John Arone " , a foreigner , considered himself ill used by foreign consuls in several places , notably in Syria . He could get no redress in his own estimation , from the Foreign Office ; and so he sent threatening letters to the Earl of Malmesbury , hinting at the fate of Percival , who was shot by Bellingnam . John Aron £ was brought before Mr . Henry on Saturday on this charge ; and as he could not find bail when ordered , he was committed in default . Thomas Philip Butler , a clerk at the Post Office , was committed for trial by Mr . Henry at Bow-street , on Tuesday , on the charge of havin g plundered letters containing cash and j ewellery . Butler , wno is " well-connected" appears to have robbed ietters to an immense extent . He was caught in the fact at last , by Mr . Sculthorpe , one of the presidents of the London district post , and Mr . Cole , inspector of letter-carriers . It is astonishing how people will , in spite of . numberless warnings , confide money and jewels to the care of the Post Office . M . v . Clough , a Bradford solicitor , living at Bolton Grange , near that town , was dining late on Monday evening , when he was alarmed , by a loud scream . He went up stairs to the bedroom of his children , but found them all quiet . Returning down stairs he was met by a servant who told him he was wanted in the kitchen . Thither he went , but on his entrance he was knocked down by one of seven men wearing masks . They lifted him up , forced him into his bed-room , and compelled him to lie still while they plundered his plate-chest . Meanwhile a detachment from the gang took all they could find in the house ; locked all the family and servants in the cellar , and turned loose all the horses in the stable . Altogether they captured property worth about 300 ? .
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Several of the betting-shop gentry are usually in league together , and they refer to one another , and have so plausible a story that parties take them as tenants without suspicion , and then so defective are our laws that there is the greatest difficulty in getting them out and avoiding serious loss . We have a case before us to illustrate it . An owner had the misfortune to let a house some time ago to a nest of swindlers of this description . It is now shut up , has been so for months , possession of it denied him , and a scoundrel pettifogger in league with them coolly tells him , " You can do nothing till November , and unless you give us a sum of money ( besides losing all the rent due ) we shall keep you out as long as possible . " The rent being just above 501 . a year the County Court is not available ; but the owner intends to see what the laws against conspiracy may do to punish such vagabonds , and we mention the circumstance as a warning to others . Some of our legal readers may be able to give him a useful hint . —The ' Builder .
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The Belgian Government has just published returns , from which it appears that the total population of Belgium on the 31 st of December , 1850 , was 4 , 407 , 241 . In the course of tho year the number of births was 131 , 416 , and of deaths 98 , 909 . From a Parliamentary paper just published , it appears that the receipts received on account of the several county and borough lunatic asylums in tho year ending the 31 st of December last in England and Wales , amounted to 236 , 724 ? . 4 s . 2 % d . ; the expenditure was 207 , 017 ? . 18 s . 6 £ rf . The balance in the hand of the treasurer at the end of the year was 33 , 584 ? . 3 » . 8 fcrf ., and there was duo to the treasurer , 3 . 877 ? . 18 s .
According to a return to the House of Commons just printed , the annual value of property assosscd to tho poorrate in England and Wales and Ireland , in 1842 , was 75 , 894 , 575 ? . ; in 1847 , 80 , 515 , 413 ? . ; and in 1851 , 79 , 280 , 071 ? . For the poor rate and county rate in 1851 there- was voted by Parliament , or otherwise paid out of tho public funds , the sum of 391 , 500 ? . The county rate is paid out of tho poor rato . A return to Parliament has just boon issued showing the number of houses valued at 20 ? . and upwards , tho number of Uioho which pay house-tax at sixpence and ninepence in tho pound , with other information on tho same
subject . In England and Wales thoro aro 179 , 234 houses charged at sixpenco ; and in Scotland , 0 , 377 . Tho amount of duty in England and Wales % 20 O , 182 ? . 19 s . % l . ; and in Scotland , 5 , 288 ? . lls . \) d . ; making 205 , 4711 . 10 s . lid . at sixpence ; while at ninoponco in tho pound thoro aro 252 , 213 houses in England and Wales producing 403 , 204 ? . 4 s . M . ; and in Scotland , 24 , 095 houses at 38 , 340 ? . 17 s . Id . ; making tho ninopenco duty 501 , 545 ? . Is . i ) d . Tho total amount of duty is stated at 707 , 010 ? . 12 s . f td . Tho return , which was obtained by Mr . Goulbiirn , contains tho number of Iiouhoh in Rome of tho principal towns rated at 10 ? . and other Mums .
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEKK . Tun mortality has declined in London , and 080 deaths have been rogistorod in tho fourth week of August . This number jh Iohh by 104 than the number rogintorod in the jireviou . s week , and Ie . su by 144 than tho numbers registered in tho lirnt week of August . Of tho 980 portions who died , 5 () H wore males , 472 females ; 558 worn children under tho age of 15 ; 277 woro adults of middle ago , and 144 wero people who hud attained the ugo of 00 and upwards . 7 () l of tho doutliN occurred in tho districts north , 279 in tho districts fiouth of the Thames . 120 of tho deaths took p laco in public institutions , namely , 80 in workhousos , 28 m hospitals , 4 in lunatio asylums , 4 in military and naval au / lumo , 2 in tho Dreadnought , and 2 in the Woatuiinster House of Correction . No death wa » registered in any other prison .
Scarlatina is still prevalent ; it has destroyed the lives of 51 children . Fever was fatal to 32 adults and 16 children . Diarrhoea was fatal to 107 children , 8 persons in the middle of life , and 10 of the age of 60 and upwards . It is gratifying to observe the sudden decline of tho deaths from diarrhoea from 208 to 125 ; 15 deaths from cholera are registered , including 11 children and 4 adults . Ten males and 5 females died of the disease , 12 on the north and 3 on the south side of the Thames . Che death of the labourer ' s wife , aged 34 years , in Rothcrhitho , after 15 hours illness , is the most remarkable of the cases .
In the interval between tho two great epidemics of Asiatic cholera in tho years 1832 and 1849 , on the continent , a partial outbreak occurred , which did not reach England , and wo may hope that on the present occasion this country may enjoy the like immunity ?" " At the same time all the measures contemplated for purifying the earth , air , and water of London , and other cities should be accelerated . Last week the births of 753 boys and 740 girls , in all 1499 children , were registered in London . The average number in seven corresponding weeks of the years 1845-51 was 1331 .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BISTHS . On the 22 nd ult ., at Stebbing , Essex , the wife of the Rev . Roger i ) aw 3 on Duffield : a son . On the 24 th ult ., at Kilkenny Castle , Ireland , the Marchioness of Ormonde : a son . On tho 24 th ult ., at Braeondale , the Lady Henrietta Harvey : a daughter . On the 25 th ult ., the Hon . Mrs . Parnell , of 13 , Bryanstonsquare : a son . On the 25 th ult ., at Bloomsbury Rectory , the Hon . Mrs . Montagu Viliiers : a daughter . On the 29 th ult ., at the Lawn , the lady of A . L . Goddard , Esq ., M . P .: a son . On the 30 th ult ., at 24 , Cavendish-road , St . John's-wood , the widow of the late T . C . Granger , Esq ., M . P . : a son . On the 31 st ult ., at Ladbrook House , Kensington Park , the wife of W . Downing Bruce , Esq ., K . C . S ., F . S . Af , of the Middle Temple , and 9 , " Victoria-square , Pimlico : a son . MARRIAGES . On the 12 th ult ., at tho Spanish Legation , Washington , U . S ., by proxy , the ceremony performed by the Right Rev . Bishop M'Gill , of Virginia , Aggrapina Zaggrewsky MacLeod , daughter of Alexander N . MacLeod , of Harris , to Jose Mnria Magallon , second son of tho Marquis dc San Adrien . His Excellency Don Angel Calderon de la Barea , her Catholic Majesty's Minister to the United States , stood as proxy . On the 24 th ult ., at Stonor , in ttio county of Oxford , Henry Charles Silvertop , Esq ., of Minster Acres , in the county of Northumberland , to the Hon . Eliza Stonor , third daughter of tho Right Hon . Lord and Lady Canioys . On the 24 th ult ., at Brompton , Yorkshire , Whitehall Dod , Esq ., late of the 6 th Dragoons , only son of J . W . Dod , Esq ., M . P ., of Clovevley , Shropshire , and cousin to C . R . Dod , Esq ., Author of " The Parliamentary Companion , " " The Peerage , " &c , to Emma Matilda , daughter of the late Lieutenant-General Sir H . M . Vavasour . Bart ., of Melbourne and Spaldington , Yorkshire .
On the 25 th ult ., at Broadwater Church , Worthing , tho Rev . Henry F . Hull , B . A ., late curate of Christ , Church , and domestic chaplain to the Earl of Castlestuart , to Charlotte , only child of John Howell , Esq ., F . R . S ., M . D ., and Deputy Inspector-General of Military Hospitals . On tho 25 th ult ., at All Souls' Church , Langhum-plaeo , Commander Rodd , H . M . S . Imprctmable , youngest sou of ( ho late Rev . Dr . Rodd , Trebartha-hail , to Wilholmina Mary , youngest daughter of tho lato Vice-Admiral Sir J . Treimiyno Rodd ,
K . C . B . On tho 25 th ult ., at Salisbury Cathedral , George- Alfred Ellisa Wall , Eaq ., of Worthy-park . Hampshire , to KiUlierine , youngest daughter of the lato Hir Homy Rivers , Hart . On tho 26 th ult ., at St . Peter ' s , Eaton-square , Edward Coploston Bnckland , Esq ., second hoii of tho Very Row ( ho Dean of Wepitininster , to Rose Mary , daughter of tho Into John Walter , Eaq . On the 26 th ult ., Geor ^ o Fownos Lull roll , liuq ., oldest son of FraiHM'H Fowneo Luttrol ) , E . sq ., of Kilvo , SoiinirHotHhiro , to Anne Elizabeth , youngent daughter of tho lato Hir Alexander Hood , Dart ., of WooUon , in tho sumo county . On the . " 51 st ult ., at St . Mary ' s Church , Hryiuislon-flquaro , Louis ChiirleH , third mm of the Right Hon . Charles Tennyson D'Kynoourt , of Jiayon'n Manor , Lincolnshire , to Hopliiu , youngoat daughter of John Anhtou Tales , Esq ., of LJryaiiHtonsiiuaro . iiml Dinirlchcad , Luncushiro .
DEATHS . On tho 22 ndult ., Annette-, Countess Dowager of Waldegrave , and wil ' w of A . Hicks , Eaq ., ol HuUon-pluoo , Ouildford , Kurroy , aged ( 13 . On tho 23 rd ult ., at Burford , near TVnlmry , Harriot , tho hihtor of Georgo Uushout , M . I * ., and daughter of tho lato Hon . und Rev . Goorgo Rimhout Howies . On the iiilrd ult ., at KotliHiiy , Miss Kiniliu dimming , daughter of tho lato Hir Alexander l . Vnroso dimming Gordon , < if Allyro , ISaronot , and HidtorofC . L . Ciininiing liiucc , ICi-iq ., M . I * . On tho 25 th ult ., at Cuntlccraig , Francis Nimicr ( Jiuiiiichacl , third non of I ho Into Hir Thomas G . ( Jiiriniolutol , Hart . On tlio 2 f > th ult ., at Claromont , near MniiclicHtor , Hophin . Anno , tho wife of Sir Benjamin Hey wood , Jiarl ., and daughter of Thomas Itobiimon , lOnq ., 0 fJVtaiHil 1 cMt . fi-. On tho 25 th ult ., tho Kov . I ' otcr Kwurt , Koelor of Kirklington , Yorkshire .
On tho 2 < ith ult ., Mr . J . W . Allen , ( ho o . lclniitod laiidm : apn painter , at hm house in tho Lower Mall , Iliimmormnilh , mnldonly , of a disease of the heart , in Ilio 1 ! Hli your of liis ng- o , Jouving a widow and eight , children to Juinont his untimoJy < i 0 C 0 UH 0 . On tUo 27 th ult ., H , Haxo ( Joliourg-iilaco , Edinburgh , lluiiiara ForboH , widow of tho Into Andrew Davidson , Kh < j ., advocate , Aberdeen , in the H-Wli year of her ago . On tho 2 Hth ult ., ntdliellonhiiin , 1 / ioutoimnt-Colonol Goorgo IIiiU-liiiiHon , K . K . H ., lalo Mejigul Kngiiujers , u « od f , » . On tlio 28 th ult ., lit Hie Cove , Torquay , EhicubeMiLaura , wiio of Captain Holder , of tlio Hoota FuHilier GuurdH , daughter of Colonel anil Lady Laura Meyriok , and granddaughter of tlio Duke of Cleveland . * On thn 20 th ult ., ut Ilia mother h remdonco , Tytleld M-unnrhouHo , Wilts , H # od 21 , PoiiHonby , third Bon of the lato CUarloa l ' enruddooko , Esq ., barriutor-ttt-liiw .
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d September 4 , 1852 . ] THE LEADER . 847
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 4, 1852, page 847, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1950/page/11/
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