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working of the Manby ' s apparatus . There was at first delay in getting the apparatus , then mistakes in working it , and then deficiencies in itself . And all these blunders were going on while more than a score of people were clinging to the breaking ship , within sight of the shore . Before the apparatus was got ready , most of the passengers not saved by the boats were drowned !
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MISCELLANEOUS . England has another Prince . For some time the event which occurred at Buckingham Palace , on Thursday , has been daily expected . Nevertheless Queen Victoria , with true British courage , has been constant in taking carriage exercise . Nor has she given up her favourite public amusement—the Theatre —having been at the French Plays , on Monday . Even so late as Wednesday afternoon , her Majesty visited the Duchess of Gloucester . The event took place the next day , at ten minutes p ; ist one o ' clock , when the Queen was safel y delivered of a Prin op .
I here were present on the occasion in her Majesty's room , his Royal Highness Prince Albert , Dr . Locock , Dr . Snow , and Mrs . Lilly , the monthly nurse . In the adjoining apartments , besides the other medical attendants ( Sir James Clark and Dr . Ferguson ) , were the Duchess of Kent , the Earl of Aberdeen , Earl Granville , the Duke of Norfolk , the Duke of Wellington , the Duke of Newcastle , the Marquis of Lansdowne , the Marquis of Breadalbane , the Duke of Argyll , Viscount Palmerston , and the Lord Chancellor . At once the Park and Tower guns fired the customary salute . At three o ' clock a Privy Council was held , and a form of thanksgiving to be prepared by the Archbishop of Canterbury , and said in all the churches was ordered . Her Majesty and the infant are doing remarkably well .
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j \ ir . Thomas S . Duncombe ' s motion , upon the projonged French and Austrian occupation of Italy , stands over for a few weeks . Monday next was the day fixed , but it has been thought advisable to allow more time for the organization of the Petition Movement in its favour . We earnestly recommend all who are concerned for the cause of Italy to lose no time in applying to the Office of the Society of the Friends of Italy , 10 , Southampton-street , Strand , for forms of the Petition ; and to spare no efforts in getting the Petition influentially signed , ami properly attested , in their several localities .
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The Reverend William Charles Lake , Fellow and Tutor of Balliol College , who behnved with so much courage on the election of Lord Derby to the Chancellorship , and on the elections of Mr . Gladstone , retired from office , on Wednesday . In doing so , he made : i speech , in Latin , on the events of his terms of office , nnd after alluding to Wellington '*! death find Lord Derby ' s election , lie passed to more conuncn Universit y topics . I To Rpoko of the new studies , and fho results which might bo hoped from them , mid congratulated the University Mint Air . Ilallurn . should have taken bo lively an interest in Minn us to become ; oik ; of I lie examiners . The
commotion info which ( he appearance of the blue-book of the commissioners had ( brown the University , and the hopes and fears which different persons entertained , were discussed ; and also ( ho heat of the two fierce elections , one of which had net the place on lire for fourteen days . . IIebc / T < jed ( . Ik ; University not ( o discard a great man from being iln member because ; be would not bind himself to electioneering pledges or mere party net ion ; speaking brielly but earnestly of Hie real honour and advantage which " Mr . Gladstone conferred upon t he University , lie paid high compliments both to tint Into and present
Viee-Cliiuiccllor , and gave n description , which excited a grout ; deal of amusement , of the didicullicH nnd varieties of n . proctor's life . Ileonded by speaking of tin ; prospects of Hut University , and exhorted them to rolitin the principles of their moral and religious leaching , and their academical liberty , bu t' not to he afraid of alterations which did not violate those principle . ' ! . Oxford , he said , as the ; {( rent iiihI . ruetor of t he greatest of countries , was in the lnVhcNt of nil positions as utmi'licr ; and he exhorted the ; University , while acting calmly and deliberately , not to disappoint the just expectations of the nation .
Tho n ^ riculfuial strike ( 'hipping-Warden lias been miecessful . The employers , assenting to the wishes of the labourers , have given them flu ; : iddi ( , ion ; d shilling per week asked for . A peaceable re I urn ( o work was the ; result .. Wages continue fo Imve an upward tendency . At , Manchester , the railway porters , on the Lancashire and \ orlishire , have obtained an advance of ten percent . Strikes partially continue , at IJiistol ; hut , ninny of ( lie iiuinters have granted the demands of the men . At Hunelcrluiul , ( lie shipwrights have asked for mi advance , by circular , in a very business like way . They would not accept lew than five shillings a day , after i , lie t ) th .
If acceded to , and there seemed every prospect of it > the shipwrights would have obtained an advance of a shilling a day in two months . The strikes of operatives , in different branches of woollen manufactures , have , in most instances , been either terminated or prevented , by proper concessions on both sides . The movement has reached Ireland and Scotland ; and everywhere we hear of prosperity . Government , however , has declined to increase the sawyers' wages at Plymouth .
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The Earl of Carlisle , in returning from the festivities which attended his inauguration afc Aberdeen , was presented with the freedom of the City of Edinburgh . Viscount Enfield has been summoned to the House of Peers by the title of Baron . Strafford of Harmondsworth , in the county of Middlesex .
In consequence of the death of Lord Skelmersdale , the meeting of Conservative members of Parliament , which was to have taken place at Lord Derby's on Monday next [ Mr . Wilbraham was created Lord Skelmersdale in 1828 . His youngest daughter is the Countess of Derby ] , has been postponed until the ensuing Saturday . — Standard . The chairmanship of committees , vacated by the resignation of Mr . Wilson Patten , will probably be succeeded by the Hon . E . P . Bouverie . Nothing daunted by the report of the commission which unseated their members , the dauntless friends of " W . B . " at Maldon are going to entertain the unfortunate Ducane nnd the unfortunate Miller at a banquet . It is the apotheosis of corruption in Essex . Let . " W . B . " be chairman . « The Bishop of Oxford laid the foundation stone of anew Theological College , near Cuddesdon , on Thursday .
Mrs . Beecher Stowe , we regret to hear , is prevented by illness from visiting England this " season . " [ A later report says she may come . l
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A Board of Ordnance , comprising Lord liaglan , the Master-General , Sir John Burgoyne , Inspector-General of Fortifications , &c , visited Portsmouth and Gosport yesterday , and made an inspection of the batteries and outworks connected with-the port of Portsmouth . There is some talk of another large meeting on India at Manchester . At the last the cotton-kings did not get beyond " India as a cotton and commercial question . " It is said they now propose to consider whether Government should legislate at once , or pass a provisional renewal of the present system . The Society for the Improvement of the Dwellings of the Poor , under the presidency of Lord Ingestre , intend to inaugurate the laying of the first stone of their new building on Tuesday , the 12 th , by a dinner at the London Tavern . The Duke of Argyll will presido upon the
oc-. Active measures are still in progress for obtaining a free library in Marylebone . A meeting was held on Wednesday for the purpose . It appears that among the supporters of the scheme are the Duke of Cambridge , tho Archbishop of Canterbury , the Dukes of Wellington and Argyll , Lord Aberdeen , Lord Ashburnham , and Sir Alexander Cockburn . Lord I'lilmerston is certainly in earnest with tho London graveyards . Notices have been received by the authorities
of tho various parishes , that , on and after tho 6 th proximo , the undermentioned places of interment , will bo closed : — St . Margaret ' s , Lothbury , St . Christopher-le-Stocka , St . Bartholomew 'Change , St . Edmund tho King , with St . Nicholas Aeons , AIlluillows the Great , Allballows the Less , St . Lawrence Jewry , SL Mary Magdalen , and St . Mary Uaggerston , in Ihe parish of St . Leonard's , Shorediteh . St . Hotolph ' s lias had a burial ground for 500 years in -it . tc . The yard is now Home feet above tho level of the street ; . . Lord I'nhnerston has officially notified mi intention to close it by nn order in council .
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Jt appears , from a return to Parliament ; , just issued , that tho expense of tho Oxford Commission defrayed last year was 1220 / . 4 . s \ , and of that relating to Cambridge , < KM ) ' / . The numbers attending tho Museum of Ornamental Art at Marlborough House , during the month of March , wore as follows : —12 , 0 ) 57 persons on the public days , and admitted free ; 101 ) 1 persons on the students' days , and admitted an students on tho payment of (> . each , besides the registered students of the classes and schools . Tho saht of the properties nnd fittings of Her Majesty's Theatre recommenced on Thursday . An offer of tho amount asked for the whole in one lot , viz ., 1 1 , 000 / ., less tho amount realized by the two days' sale which have already taken place , was immediately made . Mr . Scott , on behalf of the mortgagee in possession , immediately accepted the oiler , and the proeccdings terminated .
The contract for supplying the new copper coinage for Groat Wrifain has been obtained by Messrs . 1 Icatori and Son of Miriniiighmn . Tho weight of coin required by the contract is no less than fiOO tons , lo be minted into ponce , halfpence , farthings , and liiilf-farfhingH , and—novel currency ¦ qutirtor farthings . The copper is to he of the best quality , and the dies are to be supplied by tho Mint . The operation of easting Ibis vast weight of metal will not be commenced before the end of . 1 lino , and when once begun Messrs . llcaton will not bo required to furnish more than H 0 , 000 pieces aday . Tho same firm is also engaged to cast the new copper coinage of ( Jmada and I'Vanco . Operations are about to ho commenced on a portion of tho Quantoek-hills , SomorHotuhire , which bid fair to create
a mining district of some importance . The scene of these operations will be near Broomfield , and about six miles from Taunton . Although this movement is owing to a fresh discovery , it has been known for many years that these hills contain abundance of that very valuable mineral ¦—copper . The matter has been taken up by men of capital , practical experience , ability , and energy , and sanguine expectations are entertained that a perpetual source of great wealth , will be opened with the Broomfield mines .- —Times . The Great Britain arrived at Liverpool , from Australia , on Saturday evening . Although she brought no fresh , news , her arrival had an intrinsic interest : she was
anxiously expected in Liverpool , and when the guns announced her approach , thousands ran out , and hailed her passage up the river with loud cheers . Her passage home has occupied eighty-six days ; her average speed was 184 miles a-day ; on some days she made 247 and 248 . She brought 205 passengers , and 600 , 000 £ . in specie . All the passengers speak well of tho arrangements , which , would seem to show that an Australian steamer need not be dangerously damaged and excessively uncomfortable . Some of the passengers have been lucky adventurers . One man had made 20 , OOOZ . in ten months by keeping a public-house in Melbourne : another upwards of 30 , 000 Z . by a circus .
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A singular story has been told at the Liverpool assizes . Elizabeth Wright , a young , well-looking girl of seventeen , lived as servant with Mr . Harwood , at Bolton . She was entirely uneducated . Her master having ascertained that she was carrying on a clandestine correspondence ( tho woman who betrayed the secret acting as amanuensis , ) he charged Mr . Miller , a rigid Methodist , and a middle-aged married man , with , " a cold-blooded attempt to ruin" the girl . Mr . Miller replied to the charge in a meek and excessively civil tone ; said that in regard " to the proceedings with the name
mentioned , ( Elizabeth Wright ) " modesty and kindness had been the only results , " and that he " hoped Mr . Harwood would take no more notice of the affair , as it could do him no good to injure him . " Mr . Harwood then indignantly detailed the proceedings of the Methodist , asking him in a long catechism , why he had asked the girl to write to him as " uncle , " why desire her to meet him at Halshawmoor station , why send her a brooch , why tell her , when unwell , that he would pay the doctor , why tell her that his wife was intemperate and he unhappy , and why , finally , ask her to come and live with him in the bosom of his
family ? This correspondence led to exposure . The mother of the girl took the disgrace to heart , and has suffered severe illness from the shock . But by some means , not published , the family have been soothed ; some say by a promise of marriage to be performed after the death of the Methodist's present wife . Mr . Harwood , however , is the father of a family , and , " acting upon principle , " brought an action for the seduction of his servant-maid , " whereby he had lost her services . " These statements came out on the trial . But the Judge did not consider tho action maintainable : tho plaintiff was therefore nonsuited , the counsel for tho defendant incidentally stating that they were prepared to prove that the girl remained a pure virgin , and that if sho was married even to Henry VTII . she would not be subject to pains and penalties .
A scoundrel , named Fossey , has behaved with shameful indecency to a married woman on the Greenwich railway . Tho affrighted woman jumped out of the carriage at tho first station , and entered another . Sho complained to a gallant old gentleman , who jumped on to tho platform , exclaiming , " Show mo tho man , and I'll punch his head . " Fossey has been lined 40 s . —a trifling penalty . But tho magistrate had no power to inflict a higher . George Sparkes , tho murderer , was executed at Exeter on Friday week . About 10 , 000 persons — principally women—assisted at tho scene . Tho man Mackctt was tried on Thursday for tho murder of Eliza Lea , by drowning her in tho liegent ' seannl . When tho jury wero about , to bo locked up , one was taken ill , and it , was found unsafe to lock him up . Tho jury were accordingly discharged , and tho evidence will bo repeated before a new jury .
Elizabeth Vickors , charged with tho murder of the old gentleman named Jones , who lived at Brixton , has been acquitted at the Central Criminal Court . Mr . Fores , tho gentleman who was " possessed" to take two papers , lias got off lightly . In consideration of his good character , tho prosecutor withdrew his charges . Grenfc batches of cab-drivers have been summoned for violating the Austrian regulations issued by Sir Itichard Mayno . In most enaos the magistrates have been bound to convict , but in ono case costs only wero inflicted , nnd in another tho infliction of a penalty tras accompanied by censure of the regulations .
In consequence of the refractory conduct of fho females in the Marylebono Workhouse , who , although supplied with situations as domestic servants , leave ( heir places in a few days , and return lo the workhouse , where they inoculate the other females with their evil propensities and vices , the house rota have recommended tho board of guardians to adopt fho separate system ns regards thoso characters by keeping each inn coir by herself . In an order lately issued by the Prefect of Calvados to close a low < ' <>/' <' , the following reason for doing ho is assigned : ' . ' Considering that , among other facts which have boon clearly shown to us , three children , aged seven , eight , and cloven yours , wore served with eofleo nnd spirituous liquors for the sum of If . . 'JfSc , and tliat fho woman who keeps the cttft ' t hor . Helf gave them a match to light their pipes ; that , furthermore , they wero all drunk when they left tho promises , the oldest having become no ill as to cause the greatest anxiety to his parents , &c . " Baker , tho man who attempted to rob tho houao of Minn Kelly , bus been transported for sovon yoars .
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Mrs . Charles Saville Wallack has announced a Musical Lecture and Entertainment , at Blagrove ' s Concert Booms , for Monday evening next . The title , " The Voice , or how to make a singer , " illustrated vocally , suggests quite a novel and instructive public amusement . We believe Mrs . Wallack was formerly a promising pupil of the lioyal Academy .
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346 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), April 9, 1853, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1981/page/10/
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