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fthicesa Alice have also had an attack , from which they have safely recovered .
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Mr Michael Williams has been elected member for West Cornwall , in room of the late . Mr . ^ endarves . Mr . SnnS has been elected for Korth Derbyshire . Mn JEvane , the son of the late member , withdrew after the & Durham Petition * Committee have naively directed the eerious consideration of the Hoase to the conduct of Mr . Coppock , respecting the presentation of the sham petition , praying the seat for Lord Adolphus Vane . Mr . John Eoberfc G-odley has been appointed Chief Commissioner for the collection of the Irish Income Tax .
. The new Governor of Jamaica , Mr . Barkly , is to receive the honour of knighthood , with the order of Civil Knight Commander of the Bath . The London merchants connected with Jamaica have already honoured Mr . Barkly with their confidence . They feasted him on Wednesday . The Duke of Newcastle was present , and Mr * Thompson Hankey was in the chair . ¦ _ . . '; , ¦ The eldest daughter of the Emperor of Russia has been in London during the week , but simply as a private ^ General . Sir Josep h ThackwelL , lately landed after his long and famous service in India , was received on Tuesday in Queenstown Harbour with marked demonstrations of respect . Bonfires blazed on the hills ; flags fluttered from * 11 the vessels in the harbour , and the people loudly cheered .
¦ As a testimony to civic worth , a new dock at Liverpool was named after Mr . Bramley Moore . This gentleman eet up as an independent Conservative candidate at the late Liverpool election . The Tory party , indignant at this offence , proposed on Wednesday at the Dock Committee to change the name of the Dock ! the motion was defeated . The daily attendance at the Dublin Exhibition now averages over 10 , 000 . The commercial travellers of the United Kingdom number 30 , 000 , and to provide a school for their orphan children , a large building is to be erected at Pinner . It will be completed , it is hoped , in a twelvemonth .
The office of Colonial Secretary for the island of Tobago is vacant , John Thornton , Esq ., having accepted the office of agent and secretary to the General Screw Steam Packet Company at Calcutta . At Chicheater , the Archasological Institute ( making : excursions in search of the old and picturesque ) were chur lishly refused admittance to Arundel Castle , the seat of the Duke of Norfolk . The tourists were itot excluded from a view of the exterior ( a liberal concession . ) The Chronicle reporter is satirical : — " Harshness , is , however , a characteristic of ' curry powder / and those who make it an habitual article of diet may naturally be expected to contract some of its peculiarities . "
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A new Town Hall is to be built at Leeds , It will cost 41 , 835 ? . On the site of Smithfield-market , about to be removed , a square , or small pai'k , is to be laid out for the health and pleasure of the citizens . The improvement of the metropolis was urged on Lord Aberdeen by a deputation on Saturday . The opening of culde-sacs , the widening of streets , the constructipn of arcades or glazed passages for the convenience of ibot-passengers , and new streets to take away the thick stream of traffic through present thoroughfares , new bridges , more convenient railway stations , and nearer , larger parks , were stated as the most urgent wants of the city . The funds could bo raised by a direct tax on the 15 , 000 , 000 ^ . yearly rnntal of London and the suburbs .
The new Government Bill for Savings Banks is objected to by the trustees of the grest majority of banks throughout the country . They object to the low rate of interest , to the taking away oE the surpluB funds of the respective banks , and to the exclusive responsibility of the trustees . Twenty-six emigrant vessels , of 16 , 300 tons , are now being fitted out at Liverpool for Australia . The militia raised in the past year numbered 56 , 740 , and the estimate was 380 , 715 / . Flags of all nations flutter in Falmouth Harbour : 135 vcflaels arrived there within tho last three days . , Tho nationalities of this varied ileet nro aa follows : —English , 47 ; Greek , 7 ; Hanoverian , 2 ; Dutch , 7 ; Ionian , 1 ; Maltose , 1 ; Sardinian , 12 ; Norwegian , 13 ; Neapolitan , 4 ; Austrian , 14 ; French , 5 ; Hambro ' , 2 ; Swedish , 7 ; Prussian , 6 : Hussion , 8 ; Danish , 3 ; Itoman , 1 ; Wallachian , 1 ; American , 1 ; Mecklenborg , 2 ; and Spanish , 5 .
Tho number of submarine messages is rapidly increasing lrom week to week . During tho last week 2 , 766 messages ( paying 1 , 316 Z . ) have been Pent between Franco and England and Belgium . At this rate tho annual income of tho Company would warrant a nob dividend of eleven or twelve per cent . " A friendly game of cricket , exclusively played b y females ( married against unmarried ) , came off on Friday week , at the village of Wales , near Itothorham . Tho extraordinary spcctuclocreated quito a sensation , and confiequontly thoro wan a munerouH concoursn of BpectatorH . The players wore bloomer hata . trimmed with pink and blue , and decorated . . with roHettcH of various kindn . Tho result of the game wan an follows :--Married , 21 andlf >; unmarried , 12 " and 18 . " —Xjacite Times .
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Mazzini employed ' tho . J ' rinco do la llocca , bin friend and follow exilo , to arrango tho distribution of money to jiooi- Italian rofuffoos in thin country . 1 'iotro Guccioni , conceiving that his case was wilfull y nogloctod , atmaultod tho Prince . Ho has been bound to . { coop tho peace . Tho folly of legal verbiage was proyod luat wpok at , tho Worcester Assizes . Tho 7 th flection of Lord CampboH ' n Act for tho Bolter Prevention of Offoricpa onaofs that " If « ny portion shall wilfully and inalioioualy cant , thrbw , or f ( Wo to ( all Q ? « trjko ugftfynfc , jnto , PP Upon any ongme ,
tender , carriage , of truck * uaedtlpon any railway , any wood , stone , or other matter , < $ r thing , with" intent to endanger the safety of any person being . in or upon such engine , tender , carriage , or truck , every such offender shall be ffuilty of felony , and upon being convicted shall be liable to bo transported for hia natural life , or to be imprisoned , &c . " Joseph Count was proved to have thrown a stone at a tender . The stone passed near the heads of the engine-driver and stoker , but hit the teridefr . There was no person on the tender at the time , and on . this account the offence is not included in the above clause . The man was acquitted . If the act had simply enacted that " throwing stones at a railway train" was felony , the man would have been convicted . :
A clergyman living at lichfleld is much annoyed by a neighbouring brewery . The smoke from an engine stack pours into the parson ' s rooms when the windows happen to be open , covering everything with smuts and dirt ; then , again , the noise caused by a cooperage and " a : inalt mill is so great that he cannot hear what his wife says if she is tenyards off : and lastly , the brewers hav # eo built their premises that the rain pours from the roof upon a row of fruit trees , and completely destroys them . Upon the clergyman complaining of this some time back , he was told by bne > f the brewers that as he is no customer of theirs , but gets his beer from Bass , of Burton , he must just " put up with it . " An action was brought , but the case has been referred to arbitration .
A man named Elliott opened a betting-shop at Manchester . Crowds flocked to him , and in a few weeks he received 1500 Z . in wagers on the races . The day after the races he was gone . The litigation between the " York and North Midland " Directors and Mr . George Hudson promises to be eternal . The Master of the Rolls was " shocked" on Wednesday by another suit . It was an action to compel an . account of monies misappropriated by Mr . Hudson . Abraham Giles , a labouring man , paid his addresses _ to a servant-girl in Warwick-square . He had a quarrel with her . On Monday evening he visited her , and on leaving the house , put his hat upon the railings , and then put the barrel of a loaded pistol in his mouth . ' > He pulled the trigger , and his brains were shattered against the railings . He had left his wa tch with the young girl .
Sabbatarian tyranny is homoeopathic in its operations . At Bradford ( as the local Observerrecords ) a poor widow , Judith North , was fined 5 s , and 11 . Is . M . (!) costs for selling on the Sunday tc a pennyworth of nuts . "" Indisposing of this case , Mr . Pollard said disgraceful proceedings were practised every Sunday in a garden at TJnderclifre , apa » rently without any interference , on the part of the authorities , and inquired of Mr . Inghain how this happened . Mr . Ingham reminded Mr . Pollard that the garden referred to was within the borough . " This straining at a nut and swallowing a garden is characteristic of these pious people , who devour the widow ' s substance , and for a pretence make long prayers .
As Mrs . Coombes and Mrs . Eyten , her daughter , were walking in Church-street , Shoreditch , they found that a tall , strong young man persistingly walked ' by their side . The younger lady soon detected the stranger's hand in her pocket . She seized him by the arm : he struggled , but she held on . He then struck her a heavy blow in the stomach , but though , in fearful agony she still held him fast until a policeman came up . ( Being pregnant the life of the lady was seriously endangered by the coward's blow . ) Three months' imprisonment for the attempted robbery , and six months' imprisonment for tho assault , have been awarded to tho fellow .
The Methodists have been fighting amongst themselves for some time on somo point of doctrine or discipline . At tho little village of Yeadon , Yorkshire , two separate parties wished to , use the chapel for service . The " Conference " party got there first , and got an old soldier with a blunderbuss to protect them . A stone was thrown at tho windows , tho old soldier fired , and seriously wounded Hiram Yeadon in the leg . . Tho old soldier apologized before tho judge , and Avns sentenced to imprisonment for one month .
How tho " douceurs for situations" go , is told in the report of tho Insolvent Court . Mr . Sykes offered to give 200 Z . for a situation . Mr . Thomas Wilson , a respectable architect , and a man of an inventivo turn , ofljpred him a situation of 100 Z . a year in tho Great National Pyramid Necropolis Association office . Thoro was such a company , but it found littlo patronage , and Mr . Sykes , after giving 200 Z ., found littlo to do . Ho was released from his attendance after receiving 2 ' dl . salary . Wilson became insolvont , and Sykos opposed his release
In a confectioner ' s shop in Loiccslor-square a firo broko out on Wednesday . It burned down tho interior of a very large warehouse .
The gas at tho Sun Inn ( villago of Bootlo near Lirerpool ) exploded , blow up the house , killed ono man , and injured two others .
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . It is satisfactory to notice a further doercano in tho mortality of London . In tho weok that ended last Saturday the doutliH registered woro 004 ; in tho preceding Week they w « ro 925 '; within iho last nix wookn tho weekl y nitmbor has boon reduced by a hundred . In tho ton weeks corresponding to lout week of tho yearn 1813-52 tho avorago number was 1004 , which , raised in proportion to increase of population , bocornoH 1104 . 1 lonoo it , appeara that tho actual number of deaths in last weelc is Iohh than tho estimated amount by 200 . Fatal cubch'produced by zymotic or epidemic discasoa , and rogiatorod last weok , are in the aggregate 225 ; tho avorago number in ton corresponding weoks , after corrocMon for incroawo of population , in 3 A 7 , TIuh avorago , however , is nwollod by tho oholoru of 1840 , and inakoa tho camp-on moro favourable for Jot ^ wepk tyan if founded
on the results of ordinary years . P ?^^ , £ ^ £ exhibits a considerable increase in the . present return , namely , diarrhoea * whfch amounts tcM 54 . deluding dysentery ! the numbers in the last tbxfce weeks have been 34 39 , 54 SmaU-pox was , fatal tp two children , measles to 26 scarlatina to 28 and one adult , hooping-cough to 37 , croup 8 ; thrush 4 i influenza one ; puipura to two persons , typhus and other fever 51 ; erysipelas , 7 , syphilis 3 ; and three cases of cholera were registered in the week . Last week the births of 746 boys and 651 girls , in all istered in London" In the eight . ¦ ¦ ¦ - . ¦ ••¦'¦¦
1367 children were reg . corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average number was 1289 . , .- > . , At the Eoyal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29-598 in . The reading of the barometer decreased from 29 * 81 in . at the beginning of the week to 29-90 in . by 9 h .-am . on ^ theWth i decreased to 29-16 in . by noon on the 14 th ; and increased to ^ -49 in . by the end of the week . The inean temperature of the week was 68-7 degs ; , which is 3-3 degs . lower thatilike average of the same week in 38 years . The mean dafly ^ mnerature was below the average on every day of tne
week , except Monday and Tuesday ; it was more tnan ^ degs . below the average on the last three days . The hiohest temperature occurred on Tuesday , and was 75-3 degs . ; the lowest on ^^ Monday , and was 50-4 degs . The greatest difference betwen the dew point temperature ^ nd liv temperature was 16-7 degs ., and occurred on Tuesday ; the least 2-3 degs . on Wednesday ; the mean difference in the week was 8-6 degs . The wind blew from the sdftthwest . The week has been remarkable for rain ; the qufcntitv measured in inches that fell on Wednesday was . 10 , on Thursday 2-63 , on Friday ^ 8 , on Saturday . 13 ; the total amount of the week 3-14 . ;
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIETHS . On the 9 th of July ; at Dernwenfaur , Glamorganshire , the wife of George Byng Morris , Esq .: a son . ; _ On tiie 10 th , in Lanadowne-p laoe , Brighton , the Bwonejrae Linden : a daughter . ' ' . r , « . On the 16 th , at Westover , Isle of Wight , the wtfe of the Hon . William a'Court Holmes : a daughter . - ¦ ¦ ,-. On the 15 th , at Edgbaston , near Birmingham , the wife of William Bacchus , Esq .: a daughter . OnthP 17 th , at 24 , Maida-hill , West , the wife of Lieut .-Colonel Stopford , C . B ., her Majesty ' s Sixty-fourth JRegunent : a son . On the 17 th , the wife of the Bev . J . N . Langley , M . A ., of Wolverhampton : a son . : . ¦ '< On the 18 th , at Aynhoe , Lady Fanny Cartwright : a daughter ., On the 18 th , at Doneraue , County of Cork , the Hon- Mrs . St . Leger : a daughter . - MABEIAGES . ' On the 13 th , at Rotterdam , C . W . Hoyack , Esq ., to Eliza , third daughter of Sir JameB H . Turing , Barb ., H . M . Gonsul in that city . . ..: ¦ On the 14 th , at the British Embassy , Paris , Arthur P | ime , Esq ., eon of K . Prime , Esq . M . P ., of Walberton-lwuse , Bu |) sei , to Mary Matjilda , daughter of the Jlev . Robex . t Machell , of Etton Rectory , Yorkshire ' . .: On the 14 th , at Kelly , Harry Reginald , Becond ap ^ , o | Sir William L . SI Trelawny , BaM . » Lora ^ tieutenant of Jhf bttanty oi Cornwall , to Jnliapa , eldest daughter of Arthur Kelly , Esq ., of Kelly , in the county of Devon . ' , ., On the 14 th , at Paris , Alexandrine Aurora , eldest dangh ^ prof Monsieur de Gesslftr , Russian Consul ^ Geniaral in 8 paio ,, to Monsieur Charles I / acrois , of Paris and of Chatou , pre St .
Germain , Attache" au Minist . fere des Affaires Etrangeres ; and at the same time , Maria Aurora , second daughter of Monsieur de Gessler , to Monsieur Charles Lambert do Ste . Croix , of Party ^ and of Montligny , pres Montmorency . ' On the 16 th , at St . Mary ' s Church , Cheltenham , Keitji' Edward Abbott , Esq ., her Majesty ' s Consul at Tehraui Persi * . Agnes Anne , eldest daughter of Sir S . Osborne Gibbea , Bart . On the 16 th , at St . Marylebone Church , George Boui-ohier , Esq ., Captain in the Bengal Artillery , eon of the late Re , * . Edward Bourohier , Rector of Bramfield , to Georgina Cleiratson , younger daughter of John Graham Lough , Esq ., of 42 , Harewood-square . . ' ; On the 10 th . at St . Georere ' 8 . Hanover-square , Alexander
Mathoson , of Ardrosa and Loohalsh , M . P ., to the Hon . 'JJavinia Mary Staploton , sister of Lord Beaumont . ' 1 On the 19 th , at St . Mary Abbott ' s Church , Kensington . Joseph , only son of . Toeeph Ruahbridger , Esq ., of 0 , Adaison ; terrace , Kensington , Sophia' Matilda , second daughter of Mojor-Goneral Wavell , K . F ., K . O . S ., P . R . 8 ., of Bullingham-plaoe , Kedflington , und granddaughter of the late Sir William Paxton , of Mjddleton dall , Carmarthenshire . , On the 20 th i at St ; Georco ' s , H anover ^ aquaro , John ( Sheridan , Esq ., of Ohatham-ploce , Blackfriara , grandson of the lafco ^ Suit uflnu'd Porrott , Bart ., Lord High Admiftil of Pruaaiiv ,. and nephew of the present baronet , to Laura Cornelius second daughter of tho Rev . John Wood , late of G , r « at , ' MalVern , Worcestorflhirn .
DEATHS . On the 20 th of January , at Auckland , Now Zealand , the Rov . John P , Churton , colonial chaplain , and minister of St . Paul ' s Church , Auckland , aged flity-aix . On tho iiith of March , on board H . M . S . Sphyux t between Trincomiilee and the Cnpo , fr ^ ni fever consequent upon severe wounds received" while serving under . Captain Loch , at the storming of Donabcw , in llurnmli , Lioutonunt Hugli JVjan Hinde , aged twenty-throo , late mate of II . M . S . Wincheafttr , and third son of tho late Rov . Thomas Hiudo , of Winwiok , in the county of Lancaster . On the 8 th of May , at Guatemala , Charles Itydolph Kle " e , JCHq ., ConHiil-Qoneral o f their Majesties llio Kiuga of Prussia and , Hanover , and of tho Hnntte Towns , in Centrujl'America , an 4 partnor in the ttrm of Klde , Skinner , and Co ., of > hnt city , nged forty " -nine . . . . ; J On the l'ithof . Tuno , at Jorunulen » , aged t ; en morttha , JTrederiok William , mlant son of the Might l ( ev . the Lord Bishop of . Taruniuoni . ' i . i *
On tho 27 th , off St . Vinoont , on his . passaga'to Engl » n ( i for the recovery of his Uuulth , tlio Rev . ^ illiaini , Cornewall , 0 Olonial chaplain at tho Gold Coast , aged , forty . qjfelit . On the 14 th of July , at Hurstbono-park , Uatits , John Ohatlom , Earl of Portsmouth , in hifleiphty-sixth year . ' " ¦ < in *»© 16 th , at Nottiner-hill , London , * Aa apve ^ ty-oeren , Jtfrcdoriok < W ( j ( p , Esq ., for pbtteen yoarft'Hjr Majeity " * Com , SJ 55 ? ft " Tmtiil *^ ^ ' ° ^ ^ W ™ J Wto W WW *«'
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Leader (1850-1860), July 23, 1853, page 708, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1996/page/12/
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