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No . 410 , January 30 , 1858 . 1 THE LEAP EE . _ 105
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band had threatened to carry her off once more . She therefore . sought protection . Sir Frederick Thesiger , now appeared on behalf of Mr . Cherry . He denied in general terras the truth of the allegations , and said the wife was neglecting her duty to her husband . The rev . gentleman , however , was bound over to keep the peace .
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OBITUARY . Signor Lablacke . —It is with great regret that we record the death of the most jovial and genial of singers . Signor Lablache expired last Saturday at Naples , which , despite his French name , was his native town . His health failed after his last return from Russia , and he therefore went to the shores of the blue bay in order to enjoy repose and change of air . Here for a time he Tallied ; but it was only the last flash . In his final illness ( which he bore with great fortitude and calmness , notwithstanding his excruciating sufferings ) he was attended by his daughter , Madame Thalberg . He was born in 1796 , and made his first appearance in England , in 1830 . Ever since then , he has been one of the great favourites of the London opera-goers , who seem to have regarded him with a kind of personal friendship . His comic acting and singing sparkled with all the happy vivacity of * the sunny South ; ' but he was also very fine in tragedy . In private life he was greatly beloved for his cheerful and generous disposition . The Rev . Sir Henry Dunkinfield , vicar of St . Martin's-in-the-Fields , and well known for his extensive connexions with the charitable and religious institutions of the metropolis , died last Sunday evening at Eatonplace , after an illness of only two days , in the sixtyeighth year of his age . The Queen of Oude died on Sunday at the Hotel Lafitte , Paris . She had left England a few days previously in very bad health , intending to proceed to Egypt , and eventually , it is said , to Mecca . She rallied slightly after her arrival in Paris ; but the improvement was only of very brief duration . She was in her fiftyfourth year . The funeral took place on Wednesday , in the Mussulman part of Pere la Chaise .
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . Prussian " Visit to Woolwich . —Prince Adalbert of Prussia , attended by three gentlemen of his suite , and Lieutenant-Colonel Cavendish , one of the Equerries of the Prince Consort , visited Woolwich Dockyard Ia 3 t Saturday . The Late General Havelock :. —A meeting of the inhabitants of Birmingham , convened by the Mayor , was held on the evening of Friday week , in the Town Hall , for considering in what manner the town shall express its admiration of the character and services of the late General Havelock . Some fifteen hundred persons were present , and a committee was nominated , A large subscription is confidently anticipated . —A meeting with a similar object ( also under the presidency of the Mayor ) was held ou the same evening at Sunderland , the General ' s native town . Resolutions were adopted in favour of a monument in the public park ; a subscription-rlist was opened , and a vote of sympathy with Lady Havelock was passed .
The Leviathan . —A further advance of about eight feet was made last Saturday ; but it is not expected that the vessel will float before to-day or to-morrow . There was a large attendance of her Majesty's foreign visitors . —On Monday , another accident took place , similar to that which gloomily signalized the first day of the launch . One of the immense baulks of timber , applied to connect the pressure of the largest ram with the aft cradle , flew from its position , striking several of the workmen , and hurling two into the air . They were removed to Poplar Hospital in a very precarious state . Gale in the Channel . —A very heavy gale prevailed in the Channel on the Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday of last week . Several vessels were wrecked , and some persons were drowned . The Monster Mortar .- —The select committee of Royal Artillery officers have decided not to recommend the repairing of the monster mortar for future experiments .
Inspection op Troops at Chatham . —The Commandant of the 1 st , 2 nd , and 3 rd Depot Battalions at Chatham inspected the whole of the troops under his command on tho plains within tho lines of the fortifioations , last Saturday ; the number on tho ground exceeded 8000 . The troops forming the Corps of tho Royal Engineers also had a general field-day on tho Great Lines . Colonel Ross , Major and Adjutant Nugent , and a number of staff officers , were on tho ground . Worthy Soldiers . —Tho whole of the officers and men of the Chatham division of the Royal Marino Light TfiTanR 5 Mn ^ wTSt "' h'ea 'd- (][ uaTters"wero-a 88 embled-on-Monday in thair barrack-square , for the purpose of witnessing tho presentation of two oilvor medals , together with gratuities of 15 / . each , awarded by the Lords of the Admiralty to Sergeant-Major G . W . Lane and Sorgeant-Major J . Morrison , both of the Chatham division , for long oorvico and meritorious conduct .
Warrior , belonging to Hull of Shields . The Acor has been cut down completely from her bulwarks to two feet below water line on the starboard side between the fore and main masts , and \ she was just enabled to run inside the pier heads when her fires were put out , and she sank . Her cargo is of a general description , and much of it perishable . She was bound for Gibraltar and Malta . Shipwreck . —The Excel , a brig of 250 tons burden , from Weymouth , has been wrecked off the harbour of Calais . Efforts were made , both by French and English seamen , to bring off the crew ; but the only life-boat on the spot was thirty years old and almost useless , and several attempts to reach the wreck entirely failed . One by one the poor creatures fell from the rigging and were lost ; but at last , on the following morning , the only one surviving was brought ashore , after having clung to the rigging for twenty-six hours . He was greatly exhausted , but has since rallied .
Burning of a Ship at Sea . —The ship New England , Captain Pemberton , bound from New York to Glasgow , with a crew of eighteen men including officers , and a cargo of naphtha , took fire on the 9 th of January when at sea , owing to an explosion of the combustible . The vessel had encountered a tremendous hurricane , which caused her to leak so much that it was found necessary to throw the cargo overboard . While this was being done , one of the barrels of naphtha exploded , and a fearful scene ensued . The burning fluid flooded the deck with liquid fire , and all on board were threatened with an agonizing death , when the barque Cora Linn bore down on the New England , and ultimately succeeded in getting off all the crew , some of whom , however , were dreadfully burnt—one so much so that he died the next night . This man was found alight all over . Bucket after bucket of water was thrown on him , but he continued to burn for a considerable time . Prince Ai > albert of Prussia visited Sbeerness Dockyard on Wednesday .
Collision in this Channel . —Tho scrow steamer Aoor , of London , entered Folkestone at four a . m . ou Sunday morning in a sinking state , having boon run into between Folkestone and Dover by tho acrow steamer
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Court .- ^ -Prince Frederick William of Prussia arrived at Dover last Saturday , and received an address of congratulation from the Mayor and corporation at the Lord Warden Hotel , with which he appeared highly pleased . He then departed for London . A full account of the marriage ceremonial of Monday will be found in other columns . The Queen held a Court on Tuesday afternoon at Buckingham Palace . The Earl of Mulgrave had an audience of her Majesty , and resigned his Wand of Office as Treasurer of the Queen ' s Household . The Hon . Spencer Ponsonby had an audience of her Majesty , and kissed bands on being appointed Controller of Accounts in the Lord Chamberlain ' s Department , and
Gentleman Usher to the Queen . The King of the Belgians , the Duke of Brabant , the Count of Flanders , and the Prince of Hohenzolleru-Sigmaringen , took leave of the Queen on the same day upon their return to the Continent . Some of the other German Princes also departed on the same day . The Queen , Prince Albert , and the Royal family , left London for Windsor on Wednesday , to visit the newly-married couple . Her Majesty held a Chapter of the Order of the Garter at the Castle on Thursday afternoon , at which Prince Frederick William of Prussia was made a knight . A grand banquet was given in the evening in the Waterloo Gallery : the guests amounted to seventy-one . Last night , the Queen and her guests attended the last of the Festival Performances at Her Majesty's Theatre .
The Westminster Abbey Services . —Tho fourth of the special services in Westminster Abbey was held last Sunday , when the crowds attempting to gain admission were even greater than on any previous occasion . The neighbouring church of St , Margaret ' s waa also filled to overflowing . The sermon at tho Abbey was preached by the Bishop of Oxford . Siu Robbrt Cauden , M . P ., the Lord Mayor , sent a donation of 60 / . to tho Benevolent Society of Gloucester , to bo expended in coals , blankets , &c , for the poor inhabitants , to be distributed on tho day of tho marriage of tho Princess Royal . Tub late Douglas Jerrold . —The Government has granted to the widow of Douglas Jerrold a pension of 100 / . a yoar .
Mr . Bellamy , the Lancaster . County Magistrate . —Mr , Bellamy , who , it will be remembered , was tried at tho last Lancaster Assizes , and convicted of appropriating to his own use a fine of 2 / ., levied on two men detected In poaching , and who was afterwards sentenced in London , by Mr . Justico Coleridge , to pay a fine of 200 / ., and to bo imprisoned for a period of twelve months , waa on Wednesday liberated from the Queen ' s Prison , whore he had been undergoing his sentence as a iuisdemeanank , J ? £ 4 lL ° _ JliESlJ&P *? .: T " SIS ""* 1 of nIs roleaso was a serious illness with wHSclFho win ' s seized ; He had boon in prison rather more than two months .
Thm Royal Marriage . — Tho Court of Common Council , at a epocial court hold on Tuesday , unanimously adopted addresses of congratulation to tho Queen and Prince Albert , to tho Duchess of Kent , and to Prince Frederick William of Prussia and tho Princess Royal , on tho marringo of tho two last-named . Other corporate bodies have voUitl similar addreaaes . Distress in London . —Tho Rov . Matthew Churton ,
Curate of St . Mary ' s , Southwark , writes to the Times to call attention to the fearful amount of destitution now in the metropolis . He speaks of several cases where families have been on the point of perishing from want of food . . . Suicide .- —A woman living at Leicester , named Mary Stringer , the wife of a marine store dealer of that town , has lately committed suicide in consequence of her husband having entered into an improper intimacy with , another woman . Having one evening missed Stringer from home , she and a friend went out together to search for him , and were on their way to a public-house in the neighbourhood , when Mrs . Stringer saw her husband standing in the street with his arm round the waist of
a girl named Elizabeth Simmonds , to whom he was known to be attached . The wife was so exasperated at seeing this , that she accused Stringer of being false to her , and a violent quarrel ensued between them , at the end of which the woman ran across a piece of waste ground , and threw herself into the river Soar , where she speedily sank , and was drowned . When her husband was informed of the fact , he seemed greatly shocked and exclaimed , " I have broken Mary ' s heart . " The inhabitants of the town were so much enraged against Stringer and the girl Simmonds , that they broke the windows of the latter ' s house , and the police were obliged to protect her and the man from the fury of the mob .
Telegraphic Communication with Int > ia . —The Court of Directors have again had under their consideration the question of telegraphic communication with India , and have- again expressed their willingness to grant to the Red Sea Telegraph Company such support and assistance as would enable them to raise the necessary capital for the undertaking . We believe that tbe amount estimated for a line of telegraph from Suez to Kurrachee is 700 , 000 / . ; and the Court , we understand , are prepared to join with her Majesty ' s Government in guaranteeing a revenue equivalent to five per cent , upon that sum , so soon as the work is finished and as long as it is kept in good order . The proposition now only awaits the ratification of her Majesty's Treasury , to whom , by-the-by , a similar plan was submitted four months ago without eliciting any expression of approval or support . —Daily New 3 . .
Funeral of the Duke of Devonshire . —The funeral of the Duke of Devonshire took place on Tuesday at Edensor , near Chats worth , and was of a private and unostentatious character . General Havelock . — " If the Havelock family is of Danish origin , " writes a correspondent , " the name may have been derived from the Danish hav-log , a sealeek , or have-lcg , a garden-leek . " Health of London . —The total number of deaths in London in the week that ended last Saturday was 1344 . In the ten years 1848-57 , the average number of deaths
in the weeks coresponding with last year was 1207 ; but , as the deaths of last week occurred in an increased population , the average , to admit of comparison , must be raised proportionally to tbe increase , in which case it will become 1328 . From these statements it appears that the number of deaths in the present return slightly exceeds the estimated amount . — -Last week , the births of 941 boys and 857 girls—in all , 1798 children—were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1848-57 , the average number was 1563 . — From the Registrar-General ' s Weekly Return .
Marriage of a Turk and a Christian , —A commission under the Church Discipline Act having been issued by the Bishop of Exeter , to inquire into certain charges against the Rev . W . J . St . Aubyn , rector or" the parish of Stoke Damcrel ( in which parish the borough of Devonport is included ) , the commissioners assembled at the Royal Hotel , Plymouth , on Monday , for the purpose of such inquiry . The commissioners were tho Rev . Chancellor Martin , Rev . Prebendary Oxonham , and Revs . J . Yonge , J . May , and W . T . H . Eales . The offence with which Mr . St . Aubyn ia charged is that of having baptized a converted Turk without giving due notice to tho Bishop of the diocese . The commissioners , after taking an hour to deliberate , stated that they were of opinion that there was sufficient primA facie evidence to justify the Bishop in a prosecution of tho case in tho Ecclesiastical Courts .
The Educational Conference . —The committee of this conference lmve determined not to hold a meeting this year , They hope to have one , however , next year . Colonel Phipps . —Much indignation and disgust has been ex pressed on tho elevation of Colonel Phipps , tho Keeper of her Majesty's Privy Purse , to the honour of being a Knight Commander of tho Bath—tho same honour which at the same time is conferred on such mon aa Colonola Greathed , Showers , Cotton , and Baird Smith , the Indian heroes . But Colonel l'hipps is a man of noble and influential family , and wo all know that in ¦ Etigland- ^ the-learnod ^ pato-duclwaa ^ UiU -S ^ ien .. ^!^ ,,, _ This late Sm IIknuy Lawrence . — A committee lifls boon formed in Calcutta fur a Lawrence memorial , which is to take tho Bhnpo of an endowment fund for tho Military Asylum founded by Sir Henry Lawrence . Lord Canning h « ada the list of subscribers with a donation of 1000 /
. AiVIKNDMKNT OK THIS LAW Olf BANKRUPTCY . A . movement h < is commenced In tho woat of England with a view to amend tho law of bankruptcy .
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 30, 1858, page 105, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2228/page/9/
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