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Bowrine saiarfcat upon Via return 'from XJBina , some tim ] Snotbing i «< U <* JttW ; li' * ttr < wiied llis ^ ttenti < m as denoting the vast progress which had teen made in this country during the last quitter of * Cfefituiy , a 8 tShe estfcblisllrnent of mechan ^ cs * iiwti *« 3 MiB : He W ^ nimtich s ^ pk inj ^ jgfc ^ lar wfth-Uiow at Waachttifer astd ^ ivwpool , which he *« 3 » gg £ tos * T BwSPrttJWwt ^ Wttiy « B » ataa « nent fiwtfft the w * w » W « C olftsses . fa fe « aidot ^ h < wev e i > - « ad it was mnch to thetdlttfWI of the mititjpoliB—thoy had been left for behind by the- prow viiioiaLtawtiEb a ?> * cr-The parochial aulbarUwttff St . GUea-uwtfoe-Fields have kept open their gtavoyard Uv spite of Lord Paimerston'a order ofJtagnst last . The inhabitants are determined to nave it closed . , , Steps have been taken to obtain from Parliament th « powers requisite for € he construction of a new road between Brompton and Kensington—an . improvement greatly needed .
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Thtf Chften has ' ap ^ prWed sen Order Cbanxnl' removing tii g Sontiteet Assizes Trottt Bridgewate * , and transferring them / to Taufiton and Wella . ¦ Anothe * commission has beea ustfeti by the Court < rf Queers Seech to take the « vsdeneb of Mibs WagOer and her father in ttw cfcuae of Luhikty t « rst « Gye . It is issued to the judges of the itoyid Gonrfc of Berlin . . . In th 6 case of Oiocci &ettalian , whose vg rfe sued him in the Consistory Court for sepaafatibjjVDr . XushMg ton dehvered jud ^ ent on Wednesday , fte found that Cioctfi had been gTuTty of idttltery ^ wittt wonien of thfe tow * -, anil ott that grofihd decreed for a separation-. TPhfr charge of crueltynamely , commnnicattegra ^ iBsBaBe- tor hisr ^ ftte—could not be legally Bustidnied . ^* ^ A somewhat norol snd irh ^ portant <* ase eAtte before the
] of other things , in a cupboard iu the vestry . The still being thus completed , was brought away by the officers to Chorley , and the particulars of the seiznre communicated to the Board of Excise in London . —Preston Chronicle There was a bad fire at the residence of Mr . Howard 'Douglas , York-terrace , Regent ' s Park ) on Tuesday . It brok « Afiklon the ground floor , and the persons in the upper rooms KMApt& withdifficulty . The ire originated in the flue of a Ijpt fitefe o- Another fire broke out on the premises of Mr , fti { fmSraJFfeBtitt ' n , No . 1 , Wllstead-street , Somers-town . Th ^ -ftfcapfl Wft extinguish ed until the front shop and upper part were destroyed ; cattie unknown ; contents insured in ; the Sun . Another . fire broke out at Mr . J . Peat ' s , Blue Anchor tavern , which did considerable damage ; cause unj known . One also happened at Mr . Taylor ' s , 118 Churoh-Street , Bethnal-gfeen , caused by an explosion of gas ; and , ; lastly , one broke oat at No . 2 , Corbett-eourt , Gracechurch-• street , in the occupation of Mr . Davis , bootmaker , caused by ; an explosion of gas in the first floor .
There was a serious fire © a Tuesday in New-street , Govent-garden . Three children were saved by the daring of Cooper , the sab-engineer , who , dashingijp tfestairs through the smoke , brought out one ia each hand , and tlieji fetched the third on his hack I . ' . ' . .. . .. j , There were 960 fifes hist year in the ritetrbpolis ; 90 "< : hihiu ^ jp alarms , and 72 false alarms—making « total of calls ' upon the fire brigade of 1061 , . A large Rotnan Catholic School , at Tottenham , was completely destroyed by fire on "Wednesday A terrible accident occurred" in the Ci ' tJy on Monday "Workmen have been-engaged in taking down a large building , in Old Broad-street , formerly used as the Inland Revenue-office . Some time ago several tons weight of bricks fell and buried many workmen , killing one . On Tuesday ¦
The records of the American patent office continue to attest the fertility of American invention . A harpoon is described which makes the whale kill himself . The more ha pulls the line the deeper goes the harpoon . An ice-making machine has been patented , which goeB by a steam-engine . In an experimental tri p it froze several- bottles of ice or the sue of a cutic foot , when the thermometer wtfcr standing at 80 deg . It is calculated that tor every ton of coals put into the furnace , it will make a ton of ice . Seven new machinea that spin , twenty that weave , and seven that sew , are also described . Examiner Lane ' s report describes various new electrical inventions . Amongst these is an electric whaling apparatus , by which the whale is literally " shocked to death . Another is an electro-magnetic alarm , which rings belU and displays signals incases of fire or btrrglars . Another is an electric clock , which wakes you ; up , tew you what time it is ,. and lights a lamp for you at any hour you . please . There is an invention that picks up pins from a confused heap , turnsthem all round with their neads up , and sticks them in paper ift regularrowB . Another goes through the whole process of cigar mating , taking in , tobacco leaves , and turning out the perfect article . One machine cuts cheese , another scours knives- and forks , another blacks boots , another rocks the cradle , and seven or eight take in washing and ironing . There ' are a number of guns patented that load themselves ; a fishline that adjusts its own bait , and-a rat-trap that throws away the rat , ana then baits and sets itself , ana stands in the corner for another . The truths of the PatBnt-officeare stranger than . fiction .- * -Amtrictm CottrUr : __^ . . .,
two hundred tnen were on the premises , when a floor , laden with brick rubbish , broke , and crashed through the nest floor with aloud tfeport }> ke artillery , filling the air with clouds of dust . Some men escaped with a rough tumble , but seven were buried entirely , or partially , in the rains . They were quickly got out , but two were dead , not from hurt but' suffocation . A coroner ' s inquest showed that the accident was caused by one of the great girders having been , when the floor was originally put up , cut away too much by the carpenters in morticing the bmder in . There were fifteen hundred , weight upon , the floor , Tmt it would have held twenty Had the binders been let m in the proper way . No one was to blame for the accident ! The jury found a verdict accordingly . Some houses adjacent to the fianley Arms in the Hornscyroad , have recently been taken down . . The exposed houses ,
unshored , partially gave way oh Sunday ; Fortunately no lives wer ^ lost . The . . people were rescued . The Jofitf O ^ Gat ^ riL , ironv Canton , stmck on a rock off Holyhead , dn Tuesday ; seVeH men and the widow of the captain , vvho hail died at sea , were saved . Anothe * passenger , Mr . EHison , barometer maker of Narwfcfy injured m the accident a « Harting , is dead . A drunken man recently inounted an engine at the Birkenhead station , and drove off . He must have got down and turned the points at Tranmere ; for he returned to the station at great speed , aad running into an engine standingthere , knocked it off the line . The fellow escaped ! . JSot " satisfied with "the management of the- life-boat by those who , control it , fhe seamen of Hartlepool havje held a meeting anttresoTved to hare a life- boat of their own . Thev were moved tb'this course by the great destruction 6 f life daring the past ^ eek . The Frenchman Marietta has at last succeeded in
discovering the long sooght-for-entisince into the Sphynx , The entrance leads into beautiful marble rooms , which are supposed to be connected by subterranean passages with similar chambers in the adjacent pyramid . There is but little travelling this year in Egypt . The Builder is seriously shocked at the proposition to remove theG ! ty € hurehes .-r- "Pull down ! level the churches ! is the cry . why ? Because the population of London ha » become so . small that they are usekNsS r and may be transferred to the suburbs . Stop a moment . By * special commend from the Right Honourable the Lords of hi « Majesty ' s Privy Council , ' the population of the several wards appears to have been taken in August , 1631 ( 7 Charles I . ) , and the number , including the liberty of Southwark 118 , 660 ) , was 130 , 268 . This may , therefore , be taken as a fair statement of what the population of London was-at the time of the iire .
Now it was 1 ^ 8 , 269 in 1801 , and 127 , 869 in 1851 . Long previous to tihe fire of London , there were , according to the London topographer Fitzstephen , in London and the suburbs , thirteen churches belonging to convents , besides 126 pariah churches . These latter , no doubt , continued until the fire , which destroyed upwards of eighty at once ; before this fire , London must have appeared a forest of steeple * . Only thirteen of the present htractures escaped its ravages , and thirty-four of the old churches were never rebuilt . Surely it cannot be intended to remove any of the thirteen which are now existing . Will not every citizen of London respond to an appeal for his churches ?*' Died at Great Bentley , on the 10 th instant . James London , aged 100 years . The deceased , who completed his 100 th year in August last , preserved to the last a beautiful head of hair of raven blackness , with scarcely a tinge of " tell-tale
gray . " Mr . Oliveirn , M . P ., has a notice of motion for the forthcoining session " to call the attention of the House to the present high rate of duty charged upon foreign and colonial wines , with a view to its reduction . " The Durham bdrou ^ h police have adopted the rnoustuche . There ia everjr probability that in a short time this hirsute appendage will become quite general hero . — Sunderland Herald . By official accounts just published , there -vvero in Prussia , in 1849 , among u population of 16 , 850 , 000 souls , 567 , 65 J > persona who were in receipt of alms , in average 7 tluilers 1 silber groschen ( 20 s . ) . The total sum expended on their relief amounted to 5 , 481 , 3 L 7 tlmlers ( 783 , 045 / . ) . 1 , 230 , 000 letters passed through the London district post on Saturday last . This ia the htrgest nunibor ever known , even upon " St . Valentine ' s day . "
cotmtr « iaiistwrt « : atTivertda on Saturday .. It appeared that Mr . ClMriejBicommerciaS traveller of Easter , bad taken , a tiefcet ^ er tAe Bristol andEteter line fro ^ Wellington to the Tiyertan Jimctioairbuti janstjead : © f alighting there , le proceeded pa to his destinatioa at Exeter . On- arriving -at Hele , which is the next stafiaa from Exeter ( where it is tie practice of the ( Qdr ^ nany'a servants to collect the passengers ' ficketsijile te 0 km i&i&L , tfee ; fartfclkar |^ tfptoi Tiv « rt <( n junction to > ^ efefe Wi ^ m ^ bifeli ^ c ^ etoteii ^ y i ; he Bfetfonmaster , the deftndan ^ wotQd -have g ^ neii Is . on the jburnev , inasmuch t is the <^ mpMTs c 3 iarge ftr the- through journey ftom Wefifai ^ n't&fl&eiKrii ^ gerctakM « tftketfrom Welliagtoh to Tirtoton jtuictidn and
then proceedB ! Ottf tnence , tQ Efewv in tne present uistanee thei defiBBdantit ^ t-pnJtq Hele , and-whfen asked for his ticket to Exeter , tert ^ iedi iji . ^ L as Im . fareJromTiverton . junction to ttat city-at the same time ; producing £ ^ ti cket from Wellington to ^ verton ^ jjttnctioB . TTJhyBjstaiSbrj-cIerk , " However , demanded a halfrcrownj ^^^ jSalancje , oT fare -orjj . the through journey , which the clefen 3 a » t reru £ e $ to P 3 y , the defence being that it'was a greet apftmaly to charge more for one moHei " of jjiBrTb ^ min ^ 'ttflar , fetiritey ^ - * tfetn . wtc another . B was stated : tii * ehaff ^ f m & > & $ & $ that the J had been fie 6 ue ** rjr ^ tfi ^ faSa ed in ^ tfiis-iray before , an € 'tfife full £ ena 3 ry of 21 . was demanrded , which the magistrates inflicted witn costs .
Lord Palmerstbn has written to th . e Mayor of Exeter , inquiring as to the accuracy cfr the reports which have been published -respecting : the' riots which took p lace on the 9 th mat . He als » requested to be ? furnisuedi wit a the particalars oftheontfceettvand the rferalt of theinv ^ tigations yhich have been ^ ing on > before ; tbie local magistawtes . A simitar communication has bfteh addressed to My . M . B . Bere , a county miagiatrafe , who accsoihpanied the troops frbfn the boundaries of the city into tie cbuntyj andieijdered so much assistance in qnelliiigithe outbreak and iti apprehending the rioters . In both instances the request has been-promptly complied with . The business at the Sprih-g Assizes for . the county of Devon is likely U > be more tearvy than has been known for years , in conseqaeace of the large number of prisoners who have been committed for trial for being concerned in the late riots . In . Exeterand the vicinity alone there have been no leas than 44 convictions , while arrests have been made at Goediton . and other towns in the north of Devon .
After all , however , it is generally acknowledged that the men who took the most active part in these disgraceful outrages have escaped apprehension . Of the 33 who were committed to the'Castle on Thursday week hist , not one of the male prisoners exceeded 20 years of age , while at least half of them averaged from 11 to 17 . Of the four or five female prisoners , only one was above 20 , while neither of the others was above 17 . No less than 16 of both sexes were under 16 , a fact which was ascertained by the magistrates on Friday morning ,, when they admitted , two under that age to bail . . The bread riots did not end at Exeter , l > nt subsequently extended to Uflculme and Torquay . At the latter place the Devon Rifle Corps Volunteers tendered their services ; the coast guard were in readiness to act , and the riot was prevented .
Mr . Wildbore , the man arrested , and accused , on the evidence'of three ! boys , of being concerned in the Acton murder , has been dismissed by the magistrate . No kind of evidence was forthcoming to connect him . with the horrid act , and he left the canrt without the slightest prejudice . It seems that the child bo'brutally murdered in the Bialiop Auckland workhouse had been kidnapped by the murderesB , who is of gipsy origin . Considerable sensation has been created in this neighbourhood by the discovery of a still in Euxton church , near Chorley . A few weeks ago ^ onae ¦ vyor . kmen were employed iu making acme repairs in the church , when they discovered ,
concealed underneath the pulpit , a perfect still . The minister of the church , whose parsonage is adjoining , was apprised of the circumstance , and the still was removed from the pulpit into the vostry . Notwithstanding the Bbov « extraordinary fact became known to a f « w individuals , so well has the secret been kept that it wns only on Saturday night last that the Kxcme became acquainted with it . Early on Mohduy morning , therefore , Mr . Peacock and Mr . Bendy , Excise officers of inland revenue , obtuiued a seareh warrant from Captain Anderton , of Euxton-hall and proceeding to the parsonage first , found a part of the BliU iu the pantry : another portion wna found in tho coach- houed ; and on searching tluj church the rcmuinder waa fouad , uo < ior a h « ap
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SATtrs ©!^ , January 21 , The Society of Arts has deferred its Conference on Wages , Combinations , and Strikes ^ uatU Morida ^ y , the-30 th of January- As much interest is deservedlyfelt in , this : promising scheme of intervention on delicate ground , pains wall &o doubt fee taken to get together an assembly as able , and aw feMy representative as ' pogsibie ,. Under the auspieeS Of ttos society masters and men , students anil journalists , will be brought Ikee to fatte , greatly to' thfr jatrdflfc df ill . If the ntatiagers of the conferetice adfiiere strictly to theit prograrfime ^ and logically follow it out , We may see a new era in the relations of capital and labour .
We sliall probably not have tie answer of the Czar before Tuesday , or Wednesday next . The last diplomatic proposals left Vienna only on the 13 th > and could not Teach St . Petersburg till the 18 th at the e »* BJeBt . Meanwhile advisees hate reached Paris from St . Fetewburg of the 12 th of January , which desefibe the position of affairs as afFording little hope for the inaintenance of peacev The Emperor is described t > y those who have an opportunity Of observing his movements , as living in a state of religious exak ^ tion , regarding himself as the chosen instrument , under the hand of God , to drive the Moslem from Europe , and only regretting that he should have allowed
so many years to pass by without fulfilling his destiny . The populace at St . Petersburg have worked themselves up to the highest pitch of fanaticism ^ cheering the Emperor whenever he appears in public with the wildest enthusiasm , and denouncing as traitors all who dare to speak of peace , "the only Minister who is supposed to advocate a peaceful course is Count Nesselrode , and he has entirely lost his influence with hi « Imperial master . Count Orloff , on the other hand , who is the Emperor ' s dearest friend , is eager for war .
The Russian Court Gazette has lately teemed with articles abusive of England and France , who are described as having invented for the Turks the word " independence , " a term hitherto unknown ia the Turkish vocabulary , and as teaching the Porte todesert its best friend , Russia—the only power which is able " to protect the East against the tempests of the West . "
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The Post-office steamer the Tancrede arrived at Marseilles during the night of Tuesday . She quitted Constantinople on the 5 th of January . The city was tranquil , and the entry of the combined fleet * had produced a great sensation , aad the best effect on the feelingB of the population .
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It was thought that all the Russian fleet , consisting of forty ships , of which one-half are of the line , might have come out of Sebastopol . On this account Admiral Dundas did not wish to disseminate his fleet , as was intended in the first instance , and , in the uncertainty as to the plans of the Russian admiral , he entered -with all his forces into the Black Sea * .
The instructions to the admirals of the Trench and English vessels are—to salute Russian vessels ; to warn them to return to a Russian port ; , to accompany Turkish vessels to different Turkish ports ; to cruise off the Turkish coasts ; to avoid all collision with Russian vessels , and to prevent the same between the belligerents ; not to approach the Russian const ; find , if attacked by Russians , to act simply on the defensive .
A private despatch received from Vienna , l ) y a commercial house in Paris , states that orders had been sent to Sebastopol by the Emperor of Russia for the whole fleet to put to sea .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 21, 1854, page 58, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2022/page/10/
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