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MISCELLANEOUS . Suicides . —A Mr . Rose , a hairdresser living on St . Andrew's Hill , Blackfriars , cut his throat last Saturday morning at the back of his shop -while a customer was waiting to be shaved . He deliberately took off his handkerchief , leant across a table , seized hold of a razor , and nearly severed his neck . Uttering a shriek , he fell dead on the floor in the presence of his wife , who had just entered the room to seek for him . —A young lady , about two-and-twenty years of age , has drowned herself in a bathing machine at Walton-on-the-Naze . She was discovered with her head firmly fixed downwards under the steps of the bathing machine , her bonnet and shawl being removedbut no other part of her dress . Her
, story is very melancholy . Arriving at Walton some three months ago , she lived there very solitarily , and , since the place became crowded with visitors , retired into still deeper seclusion . She had with her an infant six months old , and latterly she was obliged to pledge her watch to raise funds . She stated she was only the guardian of the infant ; but it now appears that it was her illegitimate offspring , and that its father was an officer in the army , who had deserted her , and was about to be married to another woman . According to some accounts , the young lady was also abandoned by her relations ;
according to others , she absented herself from them voluntarily . The coroner ' s jury have brought in a verdict otjelo de se , and the young lady has been buried without any religious ceremony , according to the vindictive custom " in that case made and provided . " — A Mrs . Rowlestone , the wife of a builder at Woolwich , has cut her throat . She had been , suffering for several days with bronchitis , but was rapidly improving . —The body of a man was found with the head cut off , and lying at at a few paces distant , on the London side of the Erith station on the North Kent Railway . It is thought that the deceased committed suicide .
A Dense Fog has occurred on the Northumberland
coast . The Manchester Exhibition . —A deputation from the committee of the proposed Manchester Exhibition has waited on the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland at the Viceregal Lodge , Dublin , to solicit his aid in carrying out their design . The Earl of Carlisle , while receiving them courteously , did not hold out to them any great hope of his being able to assist them in the collection in Ireland of works of antiquity and art . Thk Crops . —The fine , sultry weather we have been enjoying for several days has had a most beneficial
effect on the crops , which are now rapidly ripening , and will very shortly be ready for the sickle . In some districts , indeed , reaping has already commenced . Honours Bestowed by the Empekok ok the French . —A supplement to the London Gazette of Friday week was published on Monday , announcing that her Majesty has been pleased to grant permission to various officers and men in her Majesty ' s military and naval service to wear the insignia of the several classes of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour , which the Emperor of the French has conferred upon them .
Periodical . Meteors . —Mr . T . Forster , writing to the Times from Brussels , says : — " At no period since I have made regular observations has the summer season been marked by such rapid and important changes both of temperature and electricity as it has this year ; it is therefore probable that Sunday next , the 10 th of August , will be marked by an unusual number of those remarkable meteors which caused that day to be called 1 dies meteoro 8 a' in some old MS . calendars . The phenomena of the present season have been very unusual , the atmospherical electricity quite irregular , and tho atmosphere towards midnight has of late been full of very minute meteors , scarcely discernible to an unpractised person . The thermometer in tho deepest shade and
under a north wall has for tho last three days risen to 00 degrees of Fahrenheit ' s scale at noon , while it has fallen to nearly 65 degrees by daybreak . The sky has been perfectly cloudless , and tho wind varying in gentle breezes from N . E . to S . E . " The writer therefore calls the especial attention of scientific men to the meteors which he anticipates will be seen in great abundance on the nights of Saturday ( this day ) , Sunday , and Monday . Sale of Autographs . —A series of forty-four letters f the poet Cowpor have been sold at Messrs . Puttick and Simpson's . Of this number , twenty-ono were unpublished , being part of the correspondence of the poet with his friend , Mr . Samuel Hose . These interesting letters were sold singly at priecs ranging from two guineas to ten pounds fifteen shillings . Tho following
extract from an unpublished letter , dated October 80 , 1791 , will be read with interest : — " You have seen , perhaps , the beginning of a review of my ? Homer' in tho Gentlentan . * Magazine for last month . Can you tell me , or can you guess , who ia tho author of it V He says so many handsome things of me , that at times I suspect it to bo the work of Nichols himself , but then he BeomH so " much disposed to find fault , that at other times I give it to I know not whom . X ask out of more curiosity . In the meantime , I have received and heard of ho many testimonica in my favour . given by some of tho beat judges , that I feel myself armod with at least a sevenfold shield against all censure that I can have to expect from others . I hopo , as you hope for mo , thut I ahull find my Miltonic studios agreeable . At present , I occupy myuolf in tho tranulation of hia Latin pooms , « ud have
just finished his seven elegies . The versification of them is , I think , equal to the best of Ovid , but the matter of them is almost too puerile for me , who , if I wore any beard at all , should now wear a grey one . For which reason I am glad that I have done with them . " This letter ( No . 222 of the catalogue ) sold for 51 . An Injustice to Criminals . —Mr . David Henry Monckton writes to the Times to point out that it has been a habit of late in courts of justice not to give convicted criminals time to state their reasons why sentence should not be passed on them ; and he instances the recent cases of Palmer and Dove . This should assuredly be looked into .
A Whirlwind in Staffordshire . —The neighbourhoods of Parkfields and Barlaston have been visited by a whirlwind . This occurred on the 23 rd ult ., the same day on which a thunderstorm passed over the Potteries , It is remarkable that the wind which brought the thunder and severe hailstorm was from the north-west , while the whirlwind came about the same time ( half-past four o ' clock in the afternoon ) from the south-west or southsouth-west , and passed across the valley of the Trent , to the east of Parkfields , west of Barlaston . Station , and on in the direction of Barlaston Hall , doing much damage amongst the trees and hay . The whirlwind , from its ravages , has been traced for about two miles in length , and from fifty to a hundred yards in breadth . Many trees were torn up by the roots ; others were stripped of their branches ; and the hay was much scattered . — Staffordshire Advertiser .
Report of the Ecclesiastical , Commission Committee . —The third report from the select committee of the House of Commons on the Ecclesiastical Commission was ordered to be printed on the 18 th nit ., and is nowissued to the public . The committee give a resume of the present constitution of the commission , and an account of the operation of the act under which it discharges its duties . They see no sufficient reasons ( subject to certain slight modifications recommended in their resolutions ) for disturbing the present law under which the property vested in the Ecclesiastical Commission is made applicable to the wants of the whole kingdom , a
preference being given to those places in which assistance for the cure of souls is most required . The committee regard as desirable the continuance of the Church Estate Commission , as a separate commission , for the purpose of sanctioning the enfranchisement effected by ecclesiastical corporations . The consolidation of the Church Building Commission with the Ecclesiastical Commission , after a certain date , is also declared to be desirable . The committee advise the withdrawal of the Bill for the Better Management of Episcopal and Capitular Estates referred to them ; and they likewise make various suggestions with reference to matters of
detail . Free Trade Congress at Brussels . —An international congress is to be convoked at Brussels on the 22 nd , 23 rd , and 24 th of September , under the auspices of the Belgium Free Trade Association , for the purpose of discussing the necessity of further Customs reforms . The last meeting of a similar kind at Brussels was held in 1847 . The English Chambers of Commerce are invited to attend the approaching gathering . The council of the Society of Arts have requested their chairman , Colonel Sykes , who is also the chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company ; Mr . Thomas Twining , jun ., vice-president ; and Mr . T . Winkworth , to represent them at the conferences . Mr . Cobden is likewise expected to be present , though this is not certain , as he has retired very much into privacy since the recent death of his son .
Asylum for Fatherless Children . —The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of a new Asylum for Fatherless Children at Stamford-hill , was performed on Tuesday by the Lord Mayor , assisted by Mr . Mcchi , Mr . Sheriff Rose , Mr . Alderman Wire , the Marquis of Townshend , and a large number of the corporation . The proposed asylum is situate at Stoat ' s-ncst , in the neighbourhood of Croydon , on an estate purchased by the society . It is intended to accommodate between two hundred and three hundred children , tho present number being one hundred and twenty .
Health of London . —The rate of mortality in London is still below tho average rato which the inhabitants have suffered in former summers . 1025 deaths were registered in the week that ended on Saturday , Auguat 2 ; while tho corrected average of tho week is 1259 , or , omitting tho week of previous ycurs , when cholera was epidemic , 1102 . Of tho persona who died , 515 were females , 510 males ; and in the previous week tho deatha of females exceeded the deaths of males . Although tho females living in London greatly exceed the maks in number , the dentha are generally in tho inverse proportion . Of 1025 deaths 695 occurred at ages under
20 years ; 152 were of the age 20-40 ; 120 were 40 GO ; 12 iJ were G 0-80 ; and 27 woro of tho nj * o of HO years and upwards . Two old widows , one of 95 , tho other of 9 G yearn , died in Hackney . Diarrhcoa . ia the prevailing disease of the week ; it killed 125 persons—namely , 1 ) 4 poor infants under a year old , 17 children of the ago 1-2 , and two of tho ago 2-3 , ami three- of the ngo 6-10 ; nine adults of tho ago of 20 and upwards ; 81 * of the doutlis were on tho north , »(> on tlio south h ' kIo of tho Thames . To cholera Hi deaths are referred ; 12 children under five yoara of n&o died of thin disease ; tho rest were adulta . During the week , tlio births of 869
boys and 870 girls—iu all , —were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-1855 , the average number was 1431 . — From the Megistrar-GeneraTs Weekly " Return . A Cueanlt Contrivance . —The Marylebone vestry has commenced a system of cleansing those parts of Oxford-street which come within its jurisdiction . The watering-carts , at four o ' clock in the morning , lay the dust with a good drenching of fluid , and their progress is closely followed by a gang of scavengers , armed with long brooms , who sweep up the mud thus produced , and cart it away . The consequence is , that the street remains clean during the next four-and-twenty hours . The practice ought to spread into other parishes . Mb . Charles Mathews ' s Bankruptcy . — To the
surprise of most men , Mr . Charles Mathews , after having been examined by the County Court Judge at the Insolvent Court , Lancaster , has been discharged . The facts , as stated on hehalf of the insolvent , exhibited great recklessness . He was enabled to reopen the Lyceum Theatre , in June , 1854 , partly by means of funds advanced by Mr . Allcroft . He also received loans from various other persons to the amount of 3500 ? ., including the discounting of bills ; and he obtained in receipts from the theatre 5838 ? . 19 s . lOd . This was up to November , 1854 . The insolvent ' s immense professional earnings are shown by the following entry : —" Between these dates ( March , 1855 , to July , 1856 ) , I received from my profession as comedian about 10 , 3307 . " It was also stated , on behalf of Mr . Mathews , that , in order to enable him to obtain other moneys , he was induced to renew debts which otherwise were
cancelled by his bankruptcy , viz .: — Mr . Woolf , 50 ? . ; Mr . Allcroft , about 4000 ? . ; Mr . Roberts , 80 ? . ; Mr . Pratt , 100 ? . ; and Mr . Wyatt , 500 ? . The insolvent , in his schedule , attributed his difficulties , to a considerable extent , to his wife's illness , stating that the medical expenses alone amounted to 400 ? . in two years , and the loss of her services during that period to the amount of at least 5000 ? . Picco , the Blind Performer . —The terms on which this celebrated pipe-player was brought to England came out the other day in the Court of Chancery , where an injunction was sought by one Gay against Picco .
Gay had seen Picco at Florence in 1855 : he was then under an engagement to two jugglers , Gaetano Bagurelli and Antonio Poletti , but was transferred by them to Gay for a consideration of 130 / . The assignment was for three years . Picco came to England , and performed in public , as the reader will recollect . Ultimately , he absconded , in company with Poletti and his wife , and the injunction sought for was to restrain him from performing except on the plaintiff ' s account . The Vice-Chancellor commented on the indecency of transferring a man as if he were a horse , and added that , as the contract was with Poletti , and not "with Picco , the injunction must be refused , with costs .
The Republican Barb-ks . —A letter from Vichy , in enumerating the persona who are at present taking the baths at that watering-place , mentions Barbes , the socialist , as one of the number . His health , the letter states , is greatly shattered . Mr . John Frost , the Chartist , is about to become a political lecturer . At Last ! — New Victoria-street , leading from Farringdon-street to Bagnigge-wells-road , was opened for vehicles on Monday morning . The carriage road is levelled , but at present unpaved . Masters and Operatives . —A massive blue book ,
just issued , contains the report of the select committee appointed to inquire into the expediency of establishing equitable tribunals for the amicable adjustment of differences between masters and workmen . A majority of the witnesses examined concur in expressing themselves in favour of the establishment of boards of arbitration between masters and 4 |> rkmen , but they differ as to the constitution of the proposed boards , and still more as regards their jurisdiction . The existing law on the subject of arbitration ( the act of 5 th George IV ., cap . 96 ) is examined , nnd found to be nearly inoperative , as hardly anybody resorts to it , nnd few arc aware of its existence . Three causes are assigned for the failure of this measure : — 1 . The unwillingness to go before a magistrate ;
2 . Tho reluctance to defer to the decision of unknown arbitrators ; and , 3 . The objections of tho workmen to magistrates in tho manufacturing districts , as they are generally manufacturers themselves . To obviate these objections , it has been proposed to establish in tho various manufacturing districts " Courts of Conciliation , " like tho " Conscils do Prud'hommes" in France . Tho committee believe that the formation of such courts in tho country , more especially in tlio large commercial , manufacturing , and mining districts , would be beneficial , and suggest the introduction of such a measure as an
amendment in the present Arbitration Act , by enabling masters and operatives to choose referees from their own clusa or calling-, equal in number , and presided over by a chairman unconnected with cither party , to bo elected by tho referees . Tho tribunal would bo appointed to act for a certain period . Those boards of arbitration , on being licensed by tho Secrotury of State , would have full powor to act and decide on all questions of existing contracts . Tho committee , however , think it would bo impossible to give these or any other tribunals any power whatovor of forcibly regulating tho rate of wng *« . County Court Oiwivbiih at Fault . —Two officers of
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1739 children Atjotst 9 , 1858 . 1 ygE XEADER . 753
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1856, page 753, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2153/page/9/
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