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1012 __ THE ^ E ^ J ^ Jg ^^ [ No . 344 , S ^ ttjkda * ,
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steam , but could not prevent his engine from coining in violent contact with the waggon of coke , which it smashed literally to atoms , the concussion throwing the driver violently to the ground . The man , however , in charge of the engine of the coke train , immediately upon seeing his danger , jumped off without even shutting off the steam , and the locomotive , being entirely without control , proceeded at a rapid speed until it reached Southampton station , where its progress was stopped by being brought in contact with a line of empty carriages , five of which , consisting of two first-class and three
second , were materially damaged , A newly-erected shed , at the end of the platform , and supported by stone pillars , was partially destroyed , the concussion causing one of the pillars to fall , which was immediately succeeded t > y the displacement of the roof . Although , several men were engaged at their daily duties in varioii 3 parts of the station , no bodily hurt was given to any of them . It is also fortunate that the passengers in the down train escaped with a few slight bruises only . The driver sustained a few severe bruises , and the engine was very much damaged .
An unusually large number of accidents occurred at Liverpool towards the end of last week . Margaret Priestley , a little girl , was burned to death on Thursday week , her clothes having caught fire during the temporary absence of her mother . — -MaryJM * frison , aged two yeaTS , the daughter of a waj&hmaker , died the same day from the effects of balding , caused by a kettle of boiling water falling ^ ^ on her —Another little girl , named Catherine _ I&wling , was killed on Friday week by falling down Stairs . —On the same day , James Stevens , aged , ; three years , was killed at the workhouse by a S ^^' falling upon him . —Joseph Duley , a sea captain , > 5 Kio fell into the hold of the ship Sir Charles Napier , and fractured both legs , died from the effects ; and on the same day , a man named Thomas Hughes died from injuries done to the spine by falling against a table in a public-house .
The premises of Mr . Warrener , toy-maker , 191 , Bishopsgate-street , suddenly fell to the ground last Saturday morning . Tie bouse was undergoing repair in consequence of having been almost destroyed by fire about two months previously , and , in order to support the third floor , fresh girders were used for that story . Accordingly , one end of one of them was fixed in the side wall , the other end being shored up to support it until the wall on which it was to rest was secured by new work . While the workmen were engaged on the
building on Saturday morning , the girder gave way , and completely crushed all the floors beneath , down to the cellar , burying twelve men , some of whom were in the cellar at the time mixing mortar . An alarm was raised ,, and several policemen were speedily on the spot , who , with other men , began clearing away the ruins . The workmen were all extricated , and , although five of them were taken to the hospital , none were seriously injured , owing to the walls of the house having given way on one side , and therefore fallen in a slanting direction .
A man named James Sails , of Hales , was assisting with a steam threshing-machine , at Earsnarn-park , and , in attempting to jump into the feeding-box , mistook his distance , and jumped into the engine . The works were stopped as soon as possible , but on the poor fellow being removed it was found that ho was dreadfully lacerated . He lies in a hopeless state . A train was being made ready on the main line for Hampton Court , yesterday ( Friday ) forenoon , and several passengers were seated , when another train was being taken upon the Windsor line . The last train was going at its usual speed , and the pointsmen , by some
accident , turned the points so as to send the "Windsor train upon the main line ; the consequence was , that the ' Windsor train came into collision with the one for Hampton Court . Mr . Parker , one of the chief inspectors , seeing the great danger that existed , rushed off the platform , entered one of the break carriages , and , applying the break , was enabled to skid the wheels , and thereby stop to a groat extent the momentum of the carriages , but not until the train had been forced almost to the extremity of the platform . By the sudden concussion several persona were hurt ; one lady had an eye severely injured ; another was seriously cut on both legs , and three or four more sustained bruises , &c ,
While the flat Patent , of Chester , was going down the Mersey on Wednesday evening , she ran against a . shi p / the weather being foggy at the time , when the mast of the flat waa struck , and fell upon the master , John Hughes , killing him on the spot . The flat was towed by the Queen , steam-tug , into George's Basin , and the body was brought ashore , and deposited in the deadhouse . By the fall of some scaffolding used in the erection of the Art-Treasures Palace , Manchester , five or six men were moro or leas injured on Thursday evening , but none of them fatally .
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AMERICA . Thk approaching Presidential contest is causing great excitement in the various parts of the Union . It is anticipated , that Mr . Buchanan will not he able to carry Pennsylvania 5 though a letter from . Philadelphia . ohnrgos hw partizana with resorting to dishonourable means to secure the return of their candidate . It is asserted by the wntor of this communication ( which is
addressed to the New York Times ) that more than 15 , 000 " wild men have been placed upon the assessors ' list as voters . " This statement , coming from a declared political enemy of Mr . Buchanan , must of course be received with caution ; but it is also put forth by the New York Tribune , which adds : — " These facts , together with the significant circumstance that the commissioners have determined not to publish the names and residences as is usually done , assigning the preconcerted reason that no appropriation had been made for such publication by the Democratic Councils , have excited much feeling , showing as they do a manifest design to
carry the election by fraud . The colonization process has been managed principally T ) y recruits from New Jersey . We are informed that , if the attempt is made to carry it out on any such wholesale scale as is threatened , collisions at the polls cannot be prevented . " The same paper states that Mr . Buchanan recently offered Mr . Fillmore the embassy to England as an inducement to withdraw from the Presidential contest } but this was declined . From Washington we learn that the Assistant-Secretary to the Treasury has levied a tax upon all the clerks in his department to meet the expenses of the Buchanaa club of that city . Upwards of 3000 dollars were paid in .
Mr . John M . Botts , a slaveholder in "Virginia , has made a sensible speech on the question of slavery extension . He said : — " Muzzles -were made for dogs , and not for men , and no press and no party can put a muzzle on my mouth so long as I value my freedom . I make bold , then , to proclaim that I am no slavery propagandist . I will resort to all proper remedies to protect and defend slavery where it exists , but I will neither assist in nor encourage any attempt to force it upon a reluctant people anywhere , and still less will I justify the use of the military power of the country to establish it in any of the territories . If it finds its way there by legitimate means , it is all well ; but never by force , through any instrumentality of mine . I am myself a
slaveholder , and all the property my children have in the world is slave property , inherited from their mother ; and he who undertakes to connect my name or my opinions with abolitionism is either a knave or a fool , and sometimes both . And this is the only answer I have to make to them . I have not connected myself with any sectional party or sectional question ; and , so help me God , I never will . That is the only answer I have to make you upon the position I occupy on the slavery question . " ( Cheers . ") H « then taxed the slaveryextension men with desiring to acquire an undue
influence in the Federation ; and lie said that the northern men oppose their southern brethren simply in order to prevent this extension of political power , and not with , a view to abrogating slavery where it already exists . He doubted if Fremont would attempt ! to disturb the institution of slavery , and he thought he and his party would be more likely to behave well in power than out of it . —The son of the Mr . Botts who made this speech left Richmond , Virginia , to fight a duel with the son of the editor of the Richmond inquirer , on account of a political quarrel between their fathers ; but the police prevented the meeting bv arresting all the parties .
Several election riots have taken place at Baltimore ; and a fight occurred at Louisville , Kentucky , between some Fremontites and Fillmoreites , during a political meeting . Mr . Preston S . Brooks received a great ovation from his constituents on the 3 rd inst . The people turned out in vast numbers , and strong dis-Union speeches were made by Brooks , Butler , and others . Two goblets , one gold and one silver , and two canes , were presented to Mr . Brooks , whose victim , Mr . Sumner , is still under medical treatment , and forbidden to take part in political discussions .
In some of the States , the municipal elections have taken place . In Connecticut , Fremont has gained twenty-three towns , and tho Democrats 14 . In the Southern State of Florida , the Buchanan party has been equally beaten . In Santa Rosa country , the American party has gained a majority , the extent of which is not yet known . At Baltimore , Maryland , during the election for Mayor , several riots have occurred , and the streets were covered with blood . The opposition parties came into collision , and made use of their fire-arms , by which four persons were killed , and upwards of fifty wounded . Several personal roncontres took place on the 10 th inst , in one of which a man was shot dead .
Captain Onkcs , with a detachment of the 2 nd Cavalry and 1 st Artillery , has succeeded in reaching the mouth of the Rio Pecos , and driving the hostile Iudians across the river into Mexico . The Rio Pocos is a point never before readied by any troops or surveying parties , nnd has hitherto been considered inaccessible . Kansas remains quiet . Warrants have been issued for the arrest of Stringfcllow , Sheriff Jones , and other pro-slavory leaders . Mr . Dowe , another memiier of the Executive body of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee , has been arrested in New York at the instance of Charles P . Duano , one of the expatriated . The drivers upon the Now York and Erie Railroad struck in a body on the 4 th in consequence of the refusal of the directors to modify the rule making them responsible for running off at a switch where their train waa to stop . Their placos were filled promptly , and tho trains arc running as usual . Yellow fovor , cholera , and small-pox , aro very prevalent at Guayama and Bermuda . At tho former place , a
drought has spoilt the canes . —The steam-chest of ¦' «« passenger boat Isaac P . Smith ( between New York anr Albany ) exploded on the 7 th near Haverstraw fcillinn the engineer and two firemen . A portable steam-eneim has exploded at an agricultural fair in Cincinnati and killed fourteen persons , besides wounding several ofhaJ The Tennessee left New York on the 6 th for Nicara ' gua , carrying out one hundred and fifty new recruits toai <] in the support of General "Walker ' s Government Ther ? was an unusually large crowd at the wharf , and m-eat cheering at the departure of the stearher . The vatthl leaving were mainly of the better class of emigrants Some took their families with them , besides a lame sun ply ^ of agricultural and other implements . The situation of General Walker is said to be greatly improved and his government is now looked ou as established his enemies having received several discomfitures . ' The Hon . Pierre Soule has left Granada for New Orleans
General Vidaurri in Mexico is preparing to resist the Government forces sent against him . He demands the dismissal of Comonfort from the position of President Substitute , and accuses him of a desire to subject all the states to central rule . Some officers of the United States corvette Cyane have been grossly insulted while passing through the streets of Halifax , Canada , by a crowd of disorderhr persons , who advised them to " go to Greytown " and who gave vent to various opprobrious epithets . ' In reference to the treaty entered into between Paraguay and the Brazils , for opening the Upper Paraguay River to navigation and commerce , the New Ywfc
Herald observes : — " By this treaty is opened an outlet for the gold , silver , precious stones , and valuable woods of a region hitherto almost unknown to commerce , but with which the reports of Lieutenants Herndon nnd Gibbon , of our navy , have made our readers somewhat familiar . When we state that the Brazilian province of Malto Grosso—a sparsely populated territory , where the inhabitants scarcely possess sufficient mechanical skill to enable them to construct a ¦ wheelbarrow—has exported upwards of 15 , 000 , 000 dollars' worth of diamonds , not to mention gold and other valuable products , some idea may be formed of the advantages gained for the commerce and manufactures of the ivorld by the treaty alludedto . "
It is now ascertained beyond reasonable doubt , " says the New York Tribune , " that the burning of the Niagara steamer on lake Michigan , by -which some seventyfive lives were lost , > vas the work of an incendiary . " The Panama ' difficulty' would seem not to be at au end , as we read in the " New York Herald " that , if a second bloody riot has not already taken place there , it may be expected at any day . It seems that parties are divided on grounds of colour ; that the whites outnumber
and consequently outvote the blacks ; and that the latter , like the border ruffians of Kansas , appeal from the ballot-boic to the machotc and the revolver . On the 15 th instant , tlieTe w . oul . d have been a riot and much bloodshed but for the United States Marines , who pulled to the -water line and lay there in their boat * , ready to interfere in . case of disturbance . We have no positive account of any subsequent riot ; but , at the time the steamer loft Navy-Bay , a rumour was current that blood had begun to flow at ¦ Panama . We have
every reason to believe that a settled purpose exists among the half-breeds and negroes of Panama to inflict some severe injury on our people in revenge for supposed wrongs , and also to plunder the specie express on the first convenient opportunity . There is no ground for hoping that the deed will be attempted in an awkard , or foolish , or helpless manner . On th « contrary , it is . likely that it will be performed with cunning and executed with bloodthirsty daring-. The train will not be attacked under the guns of the frigutes ; but a few rails will be torn up at some twenty miles from the sea , ami in the confusion created by the sudden stoppage of tho train the specie car may be robbed , and an indiscriminate massacre at least commenced . "
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THE CASE OF ARCHDEACON DENIS 0 N . The Court constituted to try the suit promoted by tlio Rev . J . Ditcher , vicar of South Brent , Somerset , against the Ven . G . A . Denison , Archdeacon of Taunton , tot preaching and publishing doctrines relating to the Sicmment of tho Lord ' s Supper alleged to bu repuffw ^ f t 0 tho Thirty-nine Articles , sat on Tuesday >« t » e Guildhall , Bath , by adjournment from the 12 th of August last . At tho last sitting , Dr . Lushington , on behalf of tho Archbishop of Canterbury , read a declaration containing the conclusions of his Grace nnd his assessors on tho questions at issue . His Grace therein pronounced tho doctrines of the Archdeacon to bo contrary to tlw
28 th and 29 th articles of the Church , and called * ip on him to revoke Ins errors before tho 1 st hist , on puln of deprivation . The Archdeacon having allowed the period of grace extended to him to expire without lodging *' required retractation in the registry of Hath and Wells , the Court reassembled to deliver , judgment . After nmen legal and ecclesiastical argument , the court adjourned till tho following morning 1 . The arguments were resumed on Wednesday niornh'gi when Dr . Phillimoro , who appeared for the Archdeacon , snid , with refcrenco to tho question of the sacrament , that liia vencrnblo client had never intended to my «""" pliciter that the wicked oat the body nnd blood of Christ ;
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 25, 1856, page 1012, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2164/page/4/
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