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Ex-Au > erman Gdsbs .- —Mr . Michael Gibbs , "who was for many yeara Alderman of the Ward of Walbrook , and ia his tarn Xord Mayor of London , is just dead . Some yeats ago , lie involved himself in serious differences with his fellow parishioners , in consequence of his resfasal to give up the accounts of several charities with which he-was connected , and this eventually led to the resignation of his gown . He lived during tie last few years in retirement . * General Hawker—The colonelcy of the 6 th Dragoon Guards has become at the disposal of the General-• Commanding-in-Cbief , by the death of General Sir 'Thomas Hawker , -who died on the 13 th instant at Cliftun , in the eighty-first year of Ins age .
Admiral Sib Cbarx . es Ogle , Bart ., Admiral of the Fleet , died on Wednesday , at a quarter past one , at Tunbridge "Wells , after a short illness . His eldest son , Mr . Chaloner Ogle , formerly in the army , succeeds io the baronetcy . John Skakspere , Esq ., a gentleman -who , though bearing the name of the poet , seems not to have been related to liia family , but who has recently exhibited great munificence in connexion with the house at Stratford-on-Avon , died , at the latter end of last week ,
at Langley Priory , at the age of eighty-three . Db . Bumrmo . —The Rev . Jabez Bunting , D . D ., died on Wednesclay at his residence in Myddelton-square , Pentonville , having attained the eightieth year of his age and the fifty-ninth of his ministry . " Thia rev . divine , " says a biographer , has been described as the Hercules of modern Methodism . He was a native of Manchester , and earned hi 9 recent exalted position in the ranks of his sect by the force of natural talent and assiduous selfcultivation . "
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MERCANTILE MARINE . Ship-bukjung on the Tyne . — -On Saturday evening , an immense concourse of- people crowded the shores of the Tyne , in the neighbourhood of Jarrow , and some hundreds were also on board of steamboats and other craft on the river , Jto witness the launch of the Hudson from the building-yard of Messrs . Palmer , Brothers , and Co ., the largest iron steamship yet built on the Tyne . She ia ; 3 O 00 tons burden , will be propelled by engines of 7 P 0-horse power nominal ( about 2000 effective ) , aitd is of the following dimensions : —345 feet over all , 40 feet beam , and 26 feet deep . She has four decks , poop , spar , middle , and lower , and she will accommodate 100 firstclass , 125 second-class , and about 400 third-class passengers . She is one of the four first-class steamers , two built on the Tyne , two on the Clyde , ordered in this country by the North German Lloyd ' s , and intended to run between Bremen and New York with , passengers .
The Cby ; x > n , a new vessel just added to the fleet of the Peninsular and Oriental Company , was launched last Saturday from the building-yard of Messrs . Samuda , Brothers , at Poplar . Miss dc Salis performed the christening ceremonials , and the vessel was launched completely masted and rigged— -a novel feature in such proceedings . The following are the exact dimensions of the Ceylon : —Length on deck , 300 feet ; beam , 41 feet ; depth , 29 feet ; burden in . tons , builders'measure , 2376 tons ; displacement at load line , 3200 tons . —The day
did not pass over without one of those fatal accidents which "frequently occur in connexion with launches . About nve o ' clock in the morning , James Jolly , a shipwright ' s apprentice , was assisting near the anchor in making preparations for the occasion , when an unperceived nail in a plank , which was being lowered to the ground , caught in his trousers and dragged him down with it from a terrible height . The poor fellow died a few-minutes after , as be was being carried to tlie hospital . - ¦ . . ¦
Wreck of tub Steam-ship New York . —The screw steamer New York , which sailed from the tail of the bank ' for New York last Saturday , got ashore at the Mull of Kirityre about midnight of the same day . The weather was not stormy , but it is said there was a dense fog , and this is assigned as the cause of the accident . When , the ship struck , the passengers were all in bed ; but the concussion was bo great that they were awakened . All were saved , and ao was their luggage .
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NAVAL AND MILITARY . Movements at Malta . —The fleet of Admiral Lord Lyons was in Valetta harbour at the last date ( June 7 th ) . The Admiral has received tlie Grand Cross of the Order of St . Michael and St . George . Her Majesty's atearn-gunboat Wanderer left Malta for Gibraltar on tho 28 rd of May , to order to remain there the Renown , 91 , and Racoon , 21 , on their -way to Malta from England , in consequence of the large naval force which is being assembled at Toulon . The Algesiras , screw line-ofbatUe ship , bearing a rear-admiral ' s flag , arrived on the 18 th of May at Corfu from Toulon , and left on the following day , accompanied by tho Xylau steam-frigate for tho Adriatic . A French screw stoam-frig » t « , bearing another rear-admiral ' s flag , arrived at Alexandria on tho JL 0 tht and ia reported to have landed a party of gendarmes to protect Frenoh subject * in concert with the Egyptian polio * . A very large force is said to have beon landed at Oran from the French Toulon fleet . —Wo road in the Malta Daily Newt , of June 11 th : — About 11 . 30 r . vt
last night , a heavy cannonade was heard , which at first alarmed many of the natives , but it proved to be a sham battle fought by the fleet , bearing N . N . E . of the island . The firing was quick , and lasted till a little after midnight . Some of the broadsides were so heavy that houses were actually shaken from the effects , and several people fancied it was a shock of earthquake . " A Much-needed Reform at Chatham . —Colonel Eyre , -with the sanction of the authorities , has issued
orders directing that all clothing and other necessaries required by soldiers during their voyage to India shall be sent into the barrack stores , when the whole will be inspected by a board of officers appointed for that purpose , and no stores are to be issued to the troops but such as have been approved by the board . The practice of issuing necessaries to the non-commisioned officers and men on board ( a practice which prevented the . soldiers from remedying any defects in the goods , which frequently existed ) is to be discontinued .
The Royal . Arsenal at Woolwich . —One of the members of the Royal Commission went to Woolwich last Saturday and instituted inquiries relative to certain departments of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich . Notwithstanding the length of time which has elapsed since the Royal Standard Gun Foundry was completed , not one serviceable gun has been turned out and passed the ordinary proof , although a guarantee was given to the Secretary of State for the production of'two hundred and fifty gun 3 from that foundry by the 31 st of last March . The important blunder , it is understood , lay in the utter absence of practical men to airect the working of the establishment . The nominal and responsible founder is an Artillery officer , and the subordinate foremen or sub-directors , -who should be well up to the
work of gun casting , are mere novices in that class of duty , having passed their lives as engineers' workmen and cylinder casters , and being therefore unaquainted with the proper fusion of the metals requisite for making good and durable iron ordnance . Tue ^ RoyalLaboratory is also about to -undergo investigation , it having been stated on official authority that in spite of the large expenditure and cost of that establishment , the British Government is not in possession of a single species or shell adapted to present use . The enormous sums claimed by that department for the expenses of the late peace rejoicings in Hyde-park are also about to be rigidly inquired into . It is stated that the cost of the fireworks alone amounted to upwards of 100 , 000 ? ., and that the surplus , buried and destroyed at times in Woolwich marsh , ia inconceivable . —Times .
Launch of the Oui , a : ndo . — -The launch of the firstclass screw steamer frigate the Orlando took place at Pembroke last Saturday . The Orlando is the first of the new class ; she is 300 feet in length , and of 8726 tons burden , and her armament is of the heaviest calibre , She is of greater length than the Duke of Wellington , and carries 40 guns . Rewards fok Crimean Heroes . —The Queen has conferred the decoration of the Victoria Cross on seven officers ( non-commissioned and otherwise ) who
distinguished themselves during the Crimean war by acts of extraordinary courage . Their names are—Sergeant Henry Ramadge , 2 nd Dragoons ; Brevet-Major Mark Walker , 3 rd Regiment , late of the 30 th ; Colour-Sergeant George Gardiner , 57 th Regiment ; Surgeon James Mount , C . B . ( now Deputy-Inspector-General of Hospitals , late of the 6 th Dragoons ); Captain Howard Crauford Elphinstone , Royal Engineers ; Colour-Sergeant Henry M'Donald , Royal Engineers ; and Colour-Sergeant Peter Leitch , Royal Engineers .
Wreck , of thb Indian Empire . —A telegram from Dublin reports that the steamer the Indian Empire , which was to make the experimental trip between Galway and New York with the mails , got on a rook on Tuesday morning . She was got off however , apparently without damage , and it is to be hoped that this accident will not delay tho voyage .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —The Queen and Prince Consort have been visiting Birmingham during the week . A full account of their progress will be found in another , column . The Royal family is now again in London . In Re thk " Cowhidxng" of Mr . Charles Mathkws . —A correspondence has been published in tho New York papers by Mr . Charles Mathewa and Mr . Davenport , touching the circumstances out of which the recent " cowinding" arose . Mr , Mathews accuses Mr . Davenport of drunkenness , of having ill-used his late
wife ( now the wife of the English comedian ) , and of habitually defaming her . Mr . Davenport , it ia said , sought the divorce and obtained it , though Mrs . Davenport , aided by Mr . Mathews , had already determined to apply for the same . Mr . Mathewa admits that lie had already determined on making the lady his wife as soon as she should be legally freo ; but ho denies having had illicit intercourse with her . To thia Mr . Davenport replies by quoting some of Mr . Mathews own letters to his wife before the divorce had boon obtained , which ohow unequivocally the natur « of tho acquaintanceship then existing .
Thundbrstorms . —A very violent thunderstorm burst over tho neighbourhoods of Liverpool and Birmingham lust Saturday . Several buildings wore struck and
injured ; haystacks were fired , horses killed , and men in a few instances , knocked dd ^ n and . seriously hurt . ' At Birmingham , the rain fell with remarkable heaviness carrying vrith it a great number of meteoric substances ' about the size of peas , and looking like coal— On the previous Tuesday , the West of Scotland was visited bv a storm of most alarming violence . A great many ani mals were killed and human beings injured , and much damage -was done to property . Near Portpatrick a boy and girl were drowned while amusing themselves near a burn which had become greatly swollen during
the storm . On the same day , there was a storm in Shropshire , when a man was killed by the lightning . __ The town and neighbourhood of Reading were visited last Saturday evening with a deluge of rain and hail accompanied by violent wind , which broke agreatmanv windows , and did immense damage to the crops , inthe open fields . The storm has had no parallel in that vicinity since 1840 . For a long time afterwards the hail remained in places fully six inches deep , and one singular effect of the storm was , a dense fog which prevailed after dusk .
State of thk Sewers . - —The Commissioners of Sewers met on Tuesday , at Guildhall ; Mr . Deputy Christie presiding . Mr . Deputy Harrison ( one of the representatives of the City in the Metropolitan Board of Works ) brought under the notice of the court , as a matter of great importance , the fact that the boatd , in order to prevent the annoyances now arising from the deposit of noxious substances along the shores of the river , had determined upon carrying out the sewer outfalls to a distance below low water-mark . TJiey intended so . to deal with ten of the sewer outfalls , and on the previous Friday decided to commence with four , of which the London-bridge sewer , and the Goswell-street , or , as it was ^ called , the Dowgate Dock sewer , were two . The expense of the works in the case of these two would be 6000 & After some discussion , a motion-was carried , instructing Mr . Hayward , tlie engineer of tho
Commission , to inspect the plans to ascertain what proportion of the expense was proposed to be thrown on that court , and to report the result to the next meeting . Thk Worthing Local B <> AR » . ^ -Mr . William Hugh Dennett , clerk to the Worthing Local Board , has written to the Times to deny the inferences sought to be established from the case of Frend v . Dennett , in the Court of Common Pleas ,, of -which we gave a summary last week . He asserts that all amounts fairly earned by Messrs . Frend and Hammill , the contractors , nave beeti paid ; but that the sum disputed was not a fair charge . To this Messrs . Trend and Hammill reply by the assertion that their demands -were perfectly fair , and by a statement of facts tending to support that view .
; Obelisk Christianity . —The meetings which , for a long time past , "have taken place nightly at the Obelisk , for the purpose of discussing Christianity > re and con ., have been put down by the police . They collected large mobs of thieves and ruffians , and led to great danger and disturbance . The Heat . — -The heat during thi present week has been most extraordinary in its intensity . Wednesday was the hottest day , when the thermometeT stood at 120 in the sun . The heat has since abated .
Fire . —A very extensive fire , commencing in an undertaker's shop , in Curtain-road , Slioreditch , and extending to several other buildings , burst out on Wednesday night , and did great mischief before it could be suppressed . The parish church of St . James ' s is a good deal injured by the flames and the water , and a policeman who was attempting to keep the crowd out of danger , was so seriously hurt by the falling of the walls that he was taken to the hospital . The total damage to property is estimated at 4000 ? .
Attempted Suicide . —A French lady , a governess , has attempted to drown herself in the sea at Brighton , owing to disappointment at losing an action she had brought in the County Court . She nearly succeeded in her design , and now lies , in a very weak state . Australia . —The new Victoria Ministry has adopted the Reform Bill without the minority clause , and there ia every chance of its passing . The principle of this bill is that of equal electoral districts , and tho representation is based on population . Business was stagnant at Melbourne , and the unemployed were set to public works . Church-rates in St . Ccement Danes . —A churchrate haa been refused in tho parish of St . Clement Danca by 81 to 82 .
Mr . Washington Wilks . —The working men of Carlisle havo held a tneoting , * at which tlioy have resolved to present a testimonial to Mr . Washington VTilks . Heavy Penalty Tho penalty which will bo incurred by tlie European and Australian Company for delay in bringing to England tlie lienvy portion of tho Australian mail , recently brought to Suez in tho steamship Victoria , will amount to about 52501 , Reduction in the Chahcir for Passives .--Notice is given in tho Gazette of Tuesday that , on and after that day , tho charge payable on the issuo of a Foreign-office passport is reduced from alx shillings to two shillings .
Commission on Manning thk Navv . —Wo read hi tlie Gazette of Tuesday that " tlie Queen has been p leased to direct letters patent to bo passed under tho great aco 1 appointing the Right Hon . Charlca Philip Earl of H » r * -
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588 TO : IiEADEfc [ Npv 430 , Juke 19 , 1885 .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1858, page 588, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2247/page/12/
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