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upon which ho acted was , when he gave his workmen a holiday , to pay them the ; same wages as if they had been at work . " How many mayors do this ? ¦ ¦ ¦' .,. The Boyal Agricultural ^ Society appears , from the latest reports , to be in a flourishing state . Since June it has lost 43 and gained 156 members ; and has besides a balance of 2249 / . at the bankers . The next Show Meeting will be at Lincoln . At the Christmas show in Smithfield-market on Monday , there were 7 . 037 beasts , 25 , 832 sheep , 260 calves , and 290 p igs ! . No fewer than 566 vessels were entered inwards at the Custom-house last week ; and of these 336 were coal-laden vessels from various ports . It is estimated that they brought 67 , 000 tons of coal . - . Natal seems flourishing . The crops of arrowroot have been very good , and coffee and sugar planting are on the
. ^ Pilchards abounded on the Cornwall' coast last week . Few , comparatively , were caught , in consequence of the idleness of the fishermen . A competent commission have been instructed to report on the construction of an organ vast enough to fill the Crystal Palace . They find that it will occupy 5400 feet ; be 50 "feet deep , and 140 feet hi g h . A eteam-eiigine will work the bellows . The highest pipes will be 64 feet longhalf as long as any hitherto used . It will require three years to build it , " and will cost 25 , 000 ? ., " or more . "
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In 1836 an Act of Parliament took away the jurisdiction of the Palatinate of Durham from the Bishop , and conferred it on the Crown ; but left all the stipends of the officers of the court chargeable on the surplus revenues of the see . From 1788 to 1836 it was usual to pay the Chancellor of the Court 100 / . for each sitting . In 1851 the Crown anpointed Mr . Christopher Temple Chancellor , and he instituted a suit against the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the fee of 100 / . each sitting of his court , to be paid out of the surplus revenues in their hands . They contended that the 100 / . was paid at the pleasure of the Bishop , and was not a stipend recoverable at law . The Lord Chancellor gave judgment upon a special case , drawn up by mutual
agreement , on Saturday . He decides that the fee of 100 / . was included in the stipends , aiid must be paid . Captain Cox , who took the Melbourne to Lisbon , as commander , when she set out on her first voyage to Australia , has obtained 400 / . damages from the Australian Mail Company , for wrongfully dismissing him-. The case was tried in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , but settled in the midst of the Attorney-General's opening speech for Mr . Cox , by the offer , on behalf of the company , of the damages demanded . Lord Campbell said Mr . Cox left the court with the reputation of a " skilful , attentive , and stouthearted seaman . " .
The judge of the Pontefract County Court has decided that where a railway company promises to convey goods to their destination in a given time , they are bound to make good any damage arising from the non-performance of'the implied bargain . The case out of which the question arose was that of a market-gardener , who was told that 27 sacks of peas would reach Leoda by half-past two in the morning of market-day . They did not arrive until some hours after , and the gardener lost his market . Miss Sellon engaged Catherine Callanan as servant ; but did not pay her wages . The servant has sued Miss Sellon , and obtained a county court award for . 71 . 10 s . It would appear that there was some misunderstanding in the matter , as Miss Sellon alleges Callanan was taken out of charity ,
and that there was no contract for wnges . From a number of documents which appear in tho Chelten . lutm Examine )' , it would seem that the judgment of the County Court , by which Dr . Humphreys , the Head Master , was ordered to pay four guineas damages , with costs , to a boy named Micklewrighr , for an alleged undue and excessive correction , has not been indorsed by the public opinion ot that town . The patrons of the school , the President and IMlows of Corpus Uhristi College , Oxford , have formally absolved tho master from blamo . An address , headed by the RovercMid F . Close , the incumbent of Cheltenham , and signed by between 200 and # 00 of the most respectable inhabitants of the town , has been presented to Dr . Humphreys , and finally tho scholars have subscribed 40 / . for a testimonial to him .
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Sunday burglaries nvo growing frequent . There were two Jjjst Sunday . In one cuso all the family had gone to churcli . Iho thiove . s tried to force tho door , but failing , they got in '" the parlour window , nnd carried off u large quantity of Property . In the other ense , burglars oponed the Htreetd <» r with Hkelcton keys . ¦ Ihree men lmve been nrreatcd on suspicion of having committed the burglary at Leighton Buzzard . The evukneu w rather strong against them . Another garotte robbery has been perpetrated at Manpnestcr . Two fellows followed » i wine agent into hi . s olhYo «* tho evening , half strangled him , robbod him of 25 wereigns , and turned the key of hi . s own door upon him . * ° 8 creainc d for assistance from tho window . Persona camo "n ( l hroko open tho door . lie . w : \» dreadfully hurt , and Wwh o xliuustcd . riii - — --
— *»»• no of tho Italians paid throw ! " < m to a K ' rl wll ° WttS wi | h ^" mi > H - K W "' ° tho r V- <> 1 U ' 8 truck Kmne . H between the « ye . s , and he hIjihIc blow ' " ' lcilot ' "K him down . Ho died , but , not from the ventii "' . , tlm JUIT "'t urned a venlict of "die . l by mmiid-Itnl ; ,. ' A 2 ><>» tmortetn examination uhoued that the "aliun was much diseased . a oiii . * ! 1 ' 1 * rufli »« named Nolan , recently blow hi » fntlicr in I " » u- ol , ,, t « pinco j ,, tiaiway com , ty . After ho had killed
him , he took his father ' s shoes off , put them on his own feet , and fled ! : Another agrarian outrage , in Ireland is reported . The Reverend Mr . Rossborough went to Belfast . It was fortunate ; for _ the night after some scoundrels visited his house and fired into it , nearly shooting a servant . A reward of 501 , has been offered by Government for their apprehension . A servant has robbed a lady named " Cocker " of 100 J . in cash , and bolted . A Roman Catholic priest , named Foy , went out shooting . He chanced to fire at a small bird near the cottage of a
Presbyterian minister , named Collum , whereupon Collum assaulted him with a stick . The facts were cleary proved , and Foy got 50 / . damages and costs . Edward Drane Hunibell , a coach-builder , married Miss Cuffey , of Manchester , for money . He soon deserted her , and , pretending to go to America , went to Hull . There he wrote " religious" - letters to a dissenting lady named Crackles , and taken by his piety , as he had been taken by her " brass , " he wheedled and married her . The facts were clearly made out at his trial at the Liverpool Assizes , and the scoundrel was sentenced to four years' penal servitude .
The Reverend Francis Hewgill , the curate , who ran away with the schoolmistress of the national school in his district , leaving a wife and four children behind , and cheating two tradesmen out of two sums of 15 / . and 251 ., has been committed for trial . George Woodcock , a prisoner awaiting trial in the Derby County Gaol , fell savagely upon Camngton , a turnkey , and beat him senseless with a bludgeon . Fortunately , assistance arrived and the ruffian was overpowered . « John Clark set fire to a rick . He escaped at the time ; but , apparently , unable to keep his own secret , a fatal habit that clings to many men , he gave himself up to the police . He would not say why he did it ; so we are left to conclude that it was the mere criminal impulse of the moment .
A fortune-teller has been imprisoned at Bristol . She pretended to be dumb . The police reports of the week have furnished the usua ] varieties of the brutal treatment of women . Begging is being vigorously put down in some district . But on the whole the police calendar is not sufficiently striking to require of us our usually detailed treatment . The wife of one of the Flynns , whose exploits we recorded last week—the Mrs . Flynn whose arm was nearly severed by an adze—now swears that she fell upon it while drunk . Tho surgeon says it was cut through the whole thickness . She persisted in her statement : her husband is gout ! to her , too good . What is the exact truth it is now impossible to say . e 1
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Lamentable effects have followed hard upon the celebration of the Cambridge Race Ball . Several persons who were present have since been afflicted with a dangerous fever , and the Reverend George Treherne and Miss Richards have died . On inquiry , it has been ascertained that an old drain was accidentally broken into jusfcbefore the ball , close to the ball-room . It had not been opengd for years . The fever , it is suggested , was causod by the malaria from the drain . There was a collision of coal-tr . tins on the Great Northern Railway , on Thursday . The driver-of the first train , anxious not to run into the passenger tmin ahead , was going slowly through the Stoke tunnel , near Grant ham , when a second train , whoso driver was not so careful , ran into the first in the tunnel . Guard injured .
Mrs . Laman Blacher , one of the persons severely lnjuivd in the accident at Straffun , died on Wednesday-Five persons have died from suffocation by smoko in a coitl-pit at Wordsley . Coal , as a cargo , is sometimes productive of terrible effects . The crew of the Flora , a Sunderland collier , ran great ri . sk last week . In the fog , all hands that could be spared went to bed . The captain , fortunately , i \] t himself suffocating before he went to sleep . He rose and found the ship full ( if sulphuric vapours . The crew , asleep , were so far gone that they had to be dragged through the hatchway . The bouts were got out , and tliey had barely hit the ship when . she blew up .
The Hyperion , from Now York , bound for Kingston , was wrecked at sea . The captain and three of the crew escaped on nieces of wood , unknown to each other . T 1 V 7 were two nights at sea , and were then picked up by the Edward Everett . The three men had barely wood enough to cling to . They kept up each other ' s spirits , and " to while away the time , endeavoured to searo oil two sharks th . it continued to flounder about , their linlf-awamped raft !" During th « recent fogs , no fewer than fifteen vesse ' . H have been wrecked round the coast . A free negioin Virginia recently sold himself into alnvi-ry , and received part of tho purchase-money . Ho had been emancipated , and ordered to leave Virginia , under penalty of being sold for the benefit , of the St ; ite ; ho that Inn sale of himself looked like , an attempt to choat the State . It is thought to bo illegal , and will bis tried bt-foro a superior
court . There in a story going about , whethor authentic ; we know not , to the effect , that a gunner ' s mate recently returned fronr India unwell . His stomach was swollen as with the dropsy , ho that , he die . l . Two hours before his deatli a Hiiako , nine inches long , leapt from hi . s mouth ! It ; is supposed ho . swallowed the roptilo when it was young , n « : » rTrincomaler " clos <> to a small island c . tiled Snakn Island !"
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The secession of Lord Palmerston from the Coalition Ministry is the subject of a thousand rumours and inventions . The Tory-Radical Sun and the venerable Standard insist on the late Home Secretary having been driven out of office by disgust at the vacillations of the Aberdeen peace policy in the East ; while our spirited contemporary , the Press , courteously furnishes us with the information that Lord Palmerston has acted " with the concurrence arid approbation of the Marquis of Lansdowne and of the principal members of the old "Whig party . " " Lord Palmerston " ( continues the same authority ) " is now on a visit to the Noble Marquis , at Bowood , to which seat he repaired after having sent in the resignation of . his office to the Prime Minister , in
order that it might be formally laid before her Majesty . " The P ? -ess , however , with all its indiscretion of hot youth , does not favour us with an official authentication of another and far more startling rumour which has reached us : to wit that the Coalition is to . be completely broken up , to make room for the Earl of Derby as President of . the Council , Mr . Disraeli , Foreign Secretary , and Viscount Palmerston , Principal Secretary of State . In such a combination the Earl of Malmesbury would probably be Chancellor , of . the Exchequer . There are , indeed , those who , not content with the explanations vouchsafed by the powerful organ of Lord Aberdeen , suspect something awful behind it all . They whisper , mysterious hints about royal autographic letters , and mutter Coburg !
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Haxuhdav , December 17 . Tun despatches from India mid China arrived in London yesterday afternoon by- the Overland Mail . Up to the U . 'Jnl of October ivc have news from Uurinah . Our provinces are not in quite no niiHcttled a Htnto aw they were at tho period of tho lant mail . The gallant ; Captain letter and Captain ( Smith had purriued and broken the columns of ao-ealled daooits , infesting Tronic and Sarrawiih , and had hanged one
of their chiefs , desperately wounded the notorious Mean Toon , and driven , another into hiding . The King of Ava wanted to send white elephants into Bassein ; but as they superatitiousl y affect the Burmese , Captain Phayre had met the King's proposition by another — " Would the King give up D'Orguny , his French drill-sergeant ?" From India Proper we have the news of the death of General Godwin , at Simla , on the 26 th October ; and the appointment of Major Edwardes to be Commissioner of Peshawur . The cholera had , up to the 13 th November , killed 275 persons at Bombay . From China we hear nothing of importance whatever .
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Major Magnan , who assisted Omer Pasha in constructing the immense fortifications erected on the Danube and in tho Balkan , and M . de la Cour , have arrived in Paris . Namik Pasha ha 9 left Paris for London .
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Despatches reached London late last ni _ jht announcing that the combined fleets had en tore-1 the Black Sea " to put an end to further hostilities . " They also state that the Russians hid attacked Kalafat .
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There is nothing ao revolutionary . because there is iiothmff ao unnatural and convulsive , as tho ntniin V . d keep thiii # 3 llxeil when all Ukj world ia by the very law of its creation in eternal pro < . ; rcs » . — -Dii . AitNOM ) .
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ENGLAND IJKTWJMN TWO STOOLS . Tin : position of tho Kn-lish (¦ Jovonmumt between iniluenee . H that menaci : iLs political strength abroad i . s never known nt any one moment ; but there is no doubt tliat , down to a certain clay not long ptiht , our Mirii . sf . ens were ho conducting the public bu . siness as to render this country passive between . the two extremes . Attention lias often been drawn to the Tact , but we do not think that the danger which i . s threatened from the passive poskion of England , while these etftreincB arc encroaching upon us , has yet been fluily appreciated . In Hom « of tho public journals lately vrn have . seen vehement attacks upon IVIazzini , Kossuth , Louis 1 thine , and Leilru Kollin , for imputed projects of spoliation and sanguinary teiuUmeiea ; but the fact is , that not one of these men—not even Ledru Kollin— has been convicted of any wanton aggression on life or property ; while the arbitrary Governments of Europe are at this very moment exemplifying in the very grossest manner
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 17, 1853, page 1209, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2017/page/9/
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