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tions of the Provostship he .. will find that dignified and congenial repose which we trust he . may live long to enjoy , to his own happiness , and to the advantage of Eton .
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On Monday the counsel for Dr . Achilli will show cause against the rule nisi obtained last term by the counsel for Dr . Newman . Sir Frederick Thesiger , Sir Fitzroy Kelly , and Mr . Ellis are retained by Dr . Achilli ; Sir A . Cockburn , Mr . Sergeant Wilkins , Mr . Bramwell , Mr . Badeley , and Mr . Joseph Atkinson , by Dr . Newman . A respectable contemporary somewhat one-sidedly protests that Dr . Newman ' s persistence in this case is calculated to bring scandal upon religion . We do not know to what religion our contemporary refers , but we think it more just and more generous to give Dr . Newman credit for no motives of personal animosity or glorification , but rather for a sincere and earnest desire to clear the honour of his Church involved in the issue
of the trial ; and the decided opinion of his counsel , no less than the general voice of Westminster Hall , renders him sanguine of a result favourable at once to the interests of religion , morality , and justice .
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Earl Granville was thrown while hunting near Woburn Abbey , on Thursday week , and his collar-bone was broken . The Earl of Stair died at Oxenfoord Castle , on Monday . Long known as Sir John Dalrymple , and a hearty Liberal , when it was unsafe to be a Liberal , the Earl of Stair never forsook the good old cause , but was always ready to help in the time of need .. He was in his 82 nd year when be died . Sir James Graham attended his office at the Admiralty on Saturday for the first time . Letters from Nice inform us that Lord Denman has suffered a paralytic stroke ; but he is expected to rogpver .
Franklin Pierce is the youngest man who has ever been elected President . He is 48 years of age . Washington , John Adams , Jefferson , Maddison , Monroe , John Quincy Adams , and Van Buren , were each 58 ; Jackson , 62 ; Harrison , 68 ; Taylor , 66 ; and Polk , 49 . Catherine Hayes gave her first concert at San Francisco on the 30 th of November . " The house was crowded with a brilliant audience , " says the San Francisco Whig ! Mrs . Harriett Beecher Stowe , the authoress of " Uncle Tom ' s . Cabin , " has accepted an invitation to visit England " froe of expense . " Sir Thomas Mitchell , the Surveyor General of New South Wales , has brought home a diamond , weighing three quarters of a carat , found at the Ophir diggings , west of Bathurst .
Some time ago the French papers paraded a statement that a General Rybinski , in the name of the Poles in France , had offered , in tho most servile manner , the services of his countrymen to the new Emperor-usurper . It turns out that this General Rybinski is tho last man who should have darod so to act . Wo have before us the proteat of the Polish Democratic Committee against his conduct . Rybinski ' s behaviour in the revolt of 1831 is shown to have been treacherous in the extreme ; and every possible pretext for his authority to speak in the name of the Poles is dourly taken away . The parado mado of tho matter in Franoo seriously injured the success of tho Polish ball ; and wo are glad to do tho Polea in England tho justice of
showing that with Rybinski they have no connexion . Madame D'Arusmont , well known as Miss Frances Wright , died , at Cincinnati , on the 14 th of December . She first obtained notice by an eloquent little book , entitled , " A F ( w Days in Athens . " It is a story , contrasting the philosop hy of tho schools of Epicurus arid Zeno ; written with all tlic fervor of romance , and much of tho accuracy of reality . Subsequently , who published a book , entitled , " Views of Society and Manners in America , " which was ono of tho most popular hooka on tins subject of that day . After a stay of throo years in Paris , who wont lo America , and bought a farm at TennesHee . . She purchased negroes ,
gave them their liberty , and directed their labour * on the farm , but her henlth failed , and she was obliged to gives up tho project . Tho negroes wcro went oil' to ilayti at her expense . Her career afterwards , as a Socialist lecturer , through the United States , was very remarkable . Her lust book was entitled , " England , the Civilizer , " published in London . At the time of her death , Madame D'Arus--inont was lifty-soven years of ago . ^ ' a tllll > l » ul <| - Homo woman , with a commanding bearing ; her manners and conversation were extremely fascinating , and as a reformer of uii advanced Hrhool , who ban exercised a great
influence on the progress ol the race . Southampton has been the scene of a novelty in the way of banquets a Hteam banquet , to celebrate tho connexion of tho General Screw Steam-ship Company with Southampton . To this banquet wore invited the chief men ol all the great «| eam companion . . After the loyal toasts , Sir Alexander Coekburn replied to " Her Majesty h Ministers ;" others for the Army and Navy ; and the Lord-Lioutenant of tho county . Then , " Tho General Steam Navigation' Company" drank to tho " I ' eninsular and Oriental Company , " ' and tho Peninsular and Oriental returned tho compliment in tho spirit in which a million
would propose tho health of a promising child . Then the Two companies united to drink the health of the " Koyal Mail Steam Navigation Company ; " and dually , thin company combined with tho two others in jovial good wishes fortho prosperity of tho " Ocean Hteam Navigation Comnanv" Hy the mouth of its representative , Mr . Croslcoy , ho American Consul , this company fraternized with the n . e " hers . Mr . CrosKoy " could not forget" that , " IV ... II .., norl of Southamp ton tho Maj / Jlottwr went with » M . . »¦ Hie ( lrnt A merican Nloamor mumi iwvohh Hm > rtiS . " A ^ thV cancluBiou of Mr . Croake / . , p «* h
the four companies drank the health of the " Australasian , Pacific , Australian , and African Steam Navigation Companies" in a coalition toast . The whole passed off most harmoniously . We understand the directors of the London and North-Western Railway are taking measures to apply io their trains the best practical communication between the guard and driver . . The Northern Boards of Guardians , meeting at Manchester , have resolved to urge on Mr . Baines tho total and immediate repeal of the amended prohibitory order issued by Sir John Trollope . Malt tax repeal , as of old , has its rustic supporters ; but now they propose to " waive differences of ojnnion , " and exert themselves for its abolition . A meeting of farmers adopting this view was held on Saturday at Norwich .
At a meeting of the Council of the Tenant Eight League , held in Dublin on Tuesday , a resolution , " unequivocally condemning" the conduct of Mr . Keogh and Mr . Sadlcir , in accepting office , was agreed to , after a gallant stand made by Dr . M'Knight , of Belfast , and others , in defence of the gentlemen condemned without trial . At the first ballot for rights of choice on the Conservative Land Society ' s estates , on the 8 th instant , at the offices in Norfolk-street , one hundred uncompleted shareholders in Middlesex , Surrey , Hertfordshire , Kent , Essex , Suffolk , Sussex , Herefordshire , Berkshire , Nottinghamshire , War-Avickshire , and Derbyshire , were fortunate in the drawing , and will shortly have to select their allotments . Fifty shareholders have the same privilege by seniority of membership , besides one hundred completed shareholders .
In the Bail Court , on Wednesday , Mr . Justice Erie stated that , in conformity with the practice adopted by his predecessor in all cases of verdicts against acceptors of bills of exchange , and makers of promissory notes , and drawers of cheques , execution would issue in four days , but where the parties were only secondarily liable , execution would not issue for fourteen days , as those parties might be unexpectedly called upon to pay .
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Whatever may be said to the contrary , the warfare of surprises is not yet over in Kafirland . Two British officers , with small detachments , were surprised in the early days of November by rebel Hottentots : one bad to run for bis life , leaving ten horses and five guns in the hands of the enemy ; the other stood his ground . Oxen had been carried away in sight of the troops at Keiskamma Hoik ; and the names of Kat River , Fish River , and Committees Drift , where spoors ( tracks ) have been found , show that the enemy infests bis old quarters . General Cathcart was in the Orange Sovereignty , whither lie had gone to settle disputes , " not to make war .
Telegraphic despatches from Trieste announce that Pegu was taken on the 21 st of November , and will be annexed . The campaign may be considered at an end , unless the Burmese government should invade our new territory , which tbey will probably do . In suck a case we should march on Ava . It is stated that Sacramento , lately destroyed by fire , was in great part rebuilt within a fortnight after the fatal catastrophe ! . San Francisco bud nobly helped in tho rebuilding .
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The Maqdalcna , from the West Indies , arrived at Southampton on Saturday . Eight of her crew had died of yellow fever . No fewer than sixty of the crew of 11 . M . S . Dauntless had died . The fever was committing frightful ravages in some of the colonies ; but especially among the shipping . As the last death on board the Maydalcna occurred more than ten days from the date of her arrival , she escaped quarantine ; but another man died on Saturday . The 1 ' aUas , 60 ,. Russian frigate , having undergone- a thorough relit , was towed out of this harbour to Spithoad on Monday evening after sunset . She has been supplied with a patent diving apparatus by Messrs . Hernia ' , of Great Port land-street , London . On Wednesday la-t , a gentleman from the firm came down and tried if . before the oflieers and crew , sonic of whom were instructed in ( he use of if , with tho improvements made by Mr . lleinke . The trial gave great sat isfaotion , and tho invention seems ii most , important and invaluablo one for submarine operations .
( . hiliqnan ' ts Messcnqer gives tho following account ol M . RaousHC-t-Houlbon , ' who is at the head of the adventurers who have entered ( lie Mexican province of Sonom : — " M . do Itaousnet Houlbon was a few years ago a brilliant , member of tho fashionable world in Paris . Having lost part , of his fortune , be went with tlie remainder ( o fako part , in the colonisation of Algeria . Some unfortunate speculations there completed bin ruin . He then net out for California , where he hoped to iind new occasions for re-establishing his fortune . M . liaoussef- Houlbon in . about thirty-live or thirty-nix yearn of age , of rennirkublo intelligence and warm ' imagination ; of an active , hold , and chivalrous character ; possessing , in fact , all the qualities which can render him , us a chief of partisans , success ) ul in an enterprise to which ho has attached bis name . It i . s staled that the bead of the family of M . Iwiousset- Houlbon was the illegitimate son of a prince of the Ilousnof Houibon , and that ho had been authorised to bear its iniiiio .
Subsequently one of his heirs received a considerable Hum ol money to induce him to renounce the mime of the house which occupied tho throne of France , and he safislicd the desire that had been expressed by simply changing bin name from Hourbon to Houlbon . " A question now universally asked in every society in Paris ( suyH a correspondent , of the Daily News ) in , " Have you Hoeii ' lho broken window i ' " This refers to an accident of ii very ordinary nature , followed , however , by an inlinitely improbable result , which occurred a , few day . s since in the I two de la ltourse . M . Moliere , a bootmaker , at No . in
that street , has bad fortune " thrust upon him' by a . cart knocking againn ( , bin shop-window . Rather Into af . night , a restive horse backed a earl , against tho iron shutters ol the shop-front , with Hueb force , that a pane of plate-glass immediately buhmd tho part struck wat * cruokod into
thousands of splinters . M . Moliire ' s first care was to secure the address of the owner of the horse and cart , and in the morning he was about to send for a glazier , whoso bill he would have charged to the person responsible for the trespass upon bis property ; but this window was cracked in such a manner as no window ever was before , and M . Moliere observed that every passer-by in the street stopped to look at it , and exclaimed , " How curious !" " How extraordinary ! " " During the whole day , a crowd was collected in front of the house . It then occurred to M . Moliere that since his broken window appeared to possess such attractions for the public , it might answer his purpose to make tho public pay for the gratification of
their curiosity . Accordingly , he put up his outside shutter , and charged one franc per head for admission to his shop . Visitors flocked to the exhibition , and in a few hours tho fame of it spread far and wide . Not a single particle of the glass has fallen out , but the cracks radiating from tho centre with wonderful regularity , are so numerous , that the pane presents the appearance of a gigantic cobweb . Seen from the interior of the shop b y gas-light , it reflects the prismatic colours with extraordinary brilliancy , and may be compared to a peacock ' s tail . A speculator has offered the enormous sum of 4000 francs for the purchase of the fragile property , and the offer has been refused . M . Moliere calculates that he shall receive that sum in
francs from Parisians alone , and afterwards the pane may be removed in its iron frame , and carried round the pro-A-inces . This event has made more sensation than any other that has occurred in Paris since New Year ' s-day . The excitement is on the increase . Crowds , too poor to pay the admission money , stand about the house to talk over the story , and mathematical students in the Quartier Latin are "working problems , in the confident hope of finding how to crack another window in the same way . Poor France ! The eruption of Mount Etna , which had nearly subsided , has recommenced with renewed vigour since the 9 th ult . Accounts of the 14 th and 15 th state that violent detonations occur from time to time , and that the lava increases daily .
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An odd marriage was celebrated on Monday at the church of St . Peter ' s , Walworth . In King ' s-rovv , WahvortL , a small building , ordinarily used as a cooper ' s shop , is occasionally occupied as a sort of chapel by a congregation akin to the followers of the late Johanna Southcote . The leader of this band , an elderly woman named Vaughan , deemed it advisable to become betrothed to a young man named Peacock , said to be one of the priesthood of tho above sect . Accordingly on Monday morning , about 11 o ' clock , a procession was ' formed and . « et in motion towards the of li
St . Peter ' s Church . Some of men wore jackets ght material , others a species of coronet , and several singular looking caps , while around the waist and across the shoulders of some were polished leather and other bands and belts , inscribed with , apparently , cabalistic and zodiacal characters . The women , about twelve in number , were attired in white , with various singular decorations , and from the bead of each depended long showy veils . In this singular procession were borne sixteen various banners , comprising the standard of England , the union jack , ono for each of tho twelve tribes of Israel , one of the sun , and
one of the moon and stars . In the midst , of this was a sort of shepherd ' s crook , and fhe bridegroom , who , together with his venerable companion , headed tho procession , boro on his shoulder a species of mace , surmounted by a crimson velvet caj ) with gold fringe . On reaching the church-porch the bridal party wr-ro compelled , by order of tho minister , to deposit their flags , &e . This Rev . F . F . Sfatham , tho incumbent , performed the marriage ceremony , and tho entry in ( be register at the vestry was , '' John Cleiirlighfc Peacock Peacock , aged ; i () years , married to Klizabeth Fail-light Vaughan , aged CO years . " At the conclusion tho bride conversed very freely ' with the rev . minister , whom she urgently endeavoured to convert , declaring that it had been revealed io her that she wan to introduce Shiloh to the world . The procession then departed in ( lie sarno order as it arrived , amid the hooting , laughter , and jeering of the assembled crowd .
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The jiriiemar carrier , . Alexander Grant , was overtaken by a violent snowstorm on the (' iiirnwell , and , finding it impossible to proceed from tho drifting snow , ho locked up bis van and took his horse from the carriage , and retraced his steps to the Spital Inn . This he did with much difficulty . He called bis dog lo follow , anil did not miss him until he arrived at tho inn . After a diligent search no dog was to bo found ; but on 1 . 1 io Monday following , Mr . Grant went , with assistance to get . bis fart dug out of the snow , when , to bis astonishment , he found his faithful dog alive and in charge of tho van , having watched if , two days and two nights . I'crt / i (' onricr . The chesniit .-freo called " The 'JOth of M arch , " in tho garden of the Tuilerics , is nearly in leaf ; in the garden of the Luxembourg there are several rose-1 recs in full bearing as in the spring ; and at the Jurdiu den Pinnies some of the alniond-liecs are in flower . The mildness of the present winter renders the following enumeration of mild winters of , some interest : In the winter of I I 7 i ! the trees were covered with leaves , ami in January Hie birds wero seen to build their nests . In l'JH !) there was no winter ; ( lie ( . ¦ mperatiuv was . so Hpringlike at Christmas , that tho young girls of Cologne worn violets and spring llowerrt duriii" - the festivities of that pnrf of the year . In l-t' 21
( he liven were in ( lower in Maivli , mid the vines in April . Kipo cherries wero gathered in May . In I C > r > K , 1 ) eeemhor and , January beheld the gardens variegated with bloom . In I f > 72 thei leaves a p |» a ret 1 on Mm liven , and birds built their nests in February . In lf > Nf > the Hiuni ) phenomena were seen at the Name season . In 1 ( 107 , IC > 01 ) , and 1 ( 11 . 7 , there was scarcely any winter . In I (> f > U Micro wan neither hiiow nor frost . In 17 * - ! : ! the month of January wan ho warm , even in the north of Gennany , that , there wiut no occasion to lig ht , the sloven , and all llio trees wero in flower in tho month of February . In 1 H 07 t . hui-o watt Hciircch / any winter-
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January 15 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 57
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 15, 1853, page 57, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1969/page/9/
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