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      the Bishop of Lincoln , Sir J . Trollope , I . P , Mr . Milnes , M . P ., Dr . Whewell , Professor Owen , Sir J . Bennie , Sir Benjamin Brodie , Lord A . Compton , Dr . Latham , and a most numerous assemblage . Lord Brougham delivered aii oration which has scarcely been surpassed by the eloquence of his more youthful days . The dema ' nd upon our space prevents pur giving more than a very slight sketch of this magnificent discourse . His Lordship said : — " To record the names and preserve the memories of those whose great achievements in science , in arts , or in arms have conferred benefits and lustre upon our kind , has in all ages been regarded as a duty and felt as a gratification by wise and reflecting men . We are this day assembled to

      commemorate him of whom the consent of nations has declared that he is chargeable with nothing like a follower ' s exaggeration or local partiality , who pronounces the name of Newton as that of the greatest genius ever bestowed by the bounty of Providence , for instructing mankind on the frame of the universe and the laws by Which it is governed . " The noble Lord , after a very elaborate and masterly description of the imperfect previous efforts of philosophers in their search after truth , said that there is no doubt that Newton stands at the head of those who have extended the

      bounds of knowledge . " The most marvellous attribute of Newton ' s discoveries is that in which they stand out prominent among all the other feats of scientific resarch , stamped with the peculiarity-of his intellectual character . Their great author lived before his age , anticipating in part what was long afcer wholly accomplished ; and thus unfolding some things which at the time could be but imperfectly , others not at all , comprehended ; and not rarely pointing out the path and affording the means of treading it , to the ascertainment of truths then veiled in darkness . He not only enlarged

      the actual dominion of knowledge , penetrating to regions never before explored , and taking with a firm hand undisputed possession ; but he showed how the bounds of the visible horizon might be yet further extended , and enabled his successors to occupy what he could only descry . But the contemplation of Newton ' s discoveries raise other feelings than wonder at his matchless genius . The light with which it shines is not more dazzling than useful . The difficulties of his course , and his expedients , alike copious and' refined for surmounting them , exercise the faculties of the wise , while commanding their admiration ; but the results of his investigations , often abstruse , are truths so grand and comprehensive , yet so plain , that they both captivate and

      instruct the simple . The gratitude , too , which they inspire , and the veneration with which they encircle bis name , far from tending to obstruct future improvement , only proclaim his disciples , the zealous because rational followers of one whose example both encouraged and enabled his successors to make further progress . Of Newton it might well be said— " If you seek for a monument lift up your eyes to the heavens which show forth his fame . " Nor when we recollect the Greek orator's exclamation , —" The whole earth is the monument of illustrious men , " can we stop short of declaring

      that the whole universe is Newton s . Yet in raising the statue which preserves his likeness , near the place of his birth , on the spot where his prodigious faculties were unfolded and trained , we at once gratify our honest pride as citizens of the same state , and humbly testify our grateful sense of the Divine goodness which deigned to bestow upon our race one so marvellously gifted to comprehend the works of Infinite Wisdom , and so piously resolved to make all his study of them the source of religious contemplations , both philosophical and sublime .

      At the repast which followed the inauguration , the Mayor eulogised the noble lord ' s exertions for the abolition of slavery , the extension of education , and the reformation of the law . Lord Brougham , in returning thanks , alluded to people having assembled from all parts of the country Bimply to testify their honest and heartfelt pride that the country which gave them birth had produced the greatest genius'which had ever existed , —am , au whose talents had never been exercised but for the extension of truth , for the instruction of mankind , and with a view to illustrate the wisdom and power of the Creator . In the course of tho evening , Dr . Whewell observed that the University of Cambridge , and Trinity College especially , had always manifested the most vivid and active sympathy in the speculations and the fame of Newton .

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      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A few days ago a fire took place at Greenwich which unfortunately resulted in the death of two infant children . The adjourned coroner ' s inquest was held On Monday , when evidence was submitted of a character to justify the suspicion that the crime of arson had been committed . The investigation into the circumstances of the late accident on the St . Germain Railway is at an end . The station-master at Vesinet and the telegraph director on the line between St . Germain and Paris have been sent before the tribunals , charged with homicide by imprudence . A shocking accident occurred on Tuesday evening to Mr . Turner , the station-master at Sawley , on the Midland line . While recros . sing the rail , after adjusting the signals , he was overtaken by a passenger train , by which ho was struck , and killed on the spot .

      Between one and two o clock on Wednesday morning , a wooden bridge on the Trent Valley line of railway was discovered to be on fire , and by six o ' clock the structure was entirely destroyed . At the distance of a mile and a quarter from Stafford the railway crossed the River Penk and tho canal by means of the viaduct now consumed , which was one hundred and fifty yards in length , and erected at a cost of 8000 ? . The traffic between Stafford and Rugby , of , course ,. ja . completely stopped by the calamity . It cannot be ascertained what was tho origin of tho fire .

      Two houses fell down in Pilgrim-streot , Ludgute Hill , on Thursday morning about half-past one . The whole of the two houses had fallen outwards , completely blocking up tho doorway of the adjoining house , which contained fourteen persons , who cried piteously for help . It was at first supposed that great loss of life had occurred . We have not heard of any person being injured , however except , from tho terror occasioned by this fearful midnight alarm .

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      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . Tub civic persecution of the street fruit-sellers still continues . On Saturday the Lord Mayor gave another illustration of his ideas of justice by fining one of these poor creatures a shilling , or committing him in default to three days' imprisonment . A commercial traveller named Sigismund Sinkerfeld , in the service of a Manchester fringe manufacturer , was charged before the Lord Mayor with stealing a quantity of goods , tho property of his employer . The prisoner was apprehended by an officerin Hbuhdaditch , who received instructions to convey him to Manchester , to be dealt with by tho magistrates there . Duplicates for some of the goods -were found upon him . He said there was some money owing to him by his employers . A commercial traveller , named William Peakall , in the employ of a wholesale oilman in Woolwich , was committed for trial by Mr . Traill on a charge of very extensive robbery , carried on in a systematic manner for a lengthened period of time , by sending goods oat to tradesmen and drawing the money without rendering any account of it . A carman whom he had taken into his confidence was admitted as witness against him . A man was brought before the Lambeth police magistrate oni Saturday , charged with having deliberately mutilated an orange-tree in the grounds of the Cryaw Palace . The charge was clearly proved , and the offender justly sentenced to pa } ' a fine of 61 . . Sometime ago , the lato secretary to tho \" ^ f *" Investment Company appeared at Guildhall again « 6 tho direotors , who wore represented by Mr . «***> » , ** £ accountant , charging them with ncff leo th } ff £ * 6 & *» r according to the requirements of tho Joint-Stock Companios Act . At the appearance to the adjourned sum-

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      visited with the storm , followed by mundati ons and destruction of property . In the west the visitation has been equally severe . For the last month the weather in Mayo has been most unfavourable for the farmer . Endless rain , accompanied by furious gales of wind , bad almost suspended all the husbandman ' s operations . On Friday-last it blew very hard , and about three o'clock p . m . it began to rain as if it had . never rained before . It fell in torrents , and before nightfall the rivers had all flooded their banks . The news from Connemara and Westport is equally disastrous . . and her

      The Marchioness of Londonderry Tenantry . —The annual entertainment of the tenantry on the estate of the Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry was held in the village of Carnlough , on Thursday last . Her Ladyship said : ^ - " I confess I feel great satisfaction in knowing that since ten years ago , when I first came to reside among yon , a great and visible improvement has taken place—that you , in conjunction with the people of the country generally , have made yast strides in progress and amelioration of your condition ; but though much has been done , much more remains to be accomplished . Might you not , by thrifty and frugal

      habits , improve your homes and domiciles , still greatly capable of it ? and might you not , by supervision ^ promote , what is more important than all , the educationof your children , rather than , from a false desire of gain , take them from school at a period when every hour is of advantage for their future welfare ? Now , I ask you to ponder over these questions , and if I am right I ask further , for your own sakes , to apply a remedy . Discard prejudice , determine to advance , be thrifty and careful , and , with God ' s blessing , you will advance in that path of improvement in which you have already made such progress . "

      Policy of the , Independent Opposition . —There was a meeting held on Tuesday , at Mill-street , in the county of Cork , for the purpose of considering the position and prospects of the Tenant-right question . The proceedings occupy no less than nine newspaper columns . The priests mustered in respectable force , and took their share in the speeching ; but the leading speaker on the occasion was the member for Dungarvan . The hon . gentleman was the proposer of a resolution , which was unanimously adopted •— ¦»¦ That we look forward with natural anxiety to the promised bill of the Government , in the earnest hope that it may be acceptable to the peop ' e of Ireland . " The Reporter ( Liberal and Roman Catholic ) describes the meeting as being of the usual character . The orators were mouthy , and the general complexion of the deliberation decidedly flabby .

      IRELAND . Inundations and Loss qv Lire .- —Tho Irish papers describe at great length tho serious effects of a etorm of rain which broke over a wide district on Friday last , VRHSlPSJW ^ M ^ aiW » normousydestruction ^ or > Tproperty 7 but hIho loss of human life . At Abbeyfeale , a correspondent of the Evening Mail reports that Mr . Rourk , clerk to the Kev . Mr . Norman , Mrs . Bailey , an old lady about eighty years of ago , who lived with her aged husband in a cottage near the bridge—^ -which wus swept away by the force of tho water—a respectable farmer , warned Dennis Connor , a workman numed Sheehan , and ft gwl , whoao name was not known , had all boon carried away with the flood . The county of Cork was also

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      found the deceased had been stabbed between the hip and the navel . Death ensued . Homicide . — - An inquest was held at Dover on the body of John Walsh , a private in the 60 th . Rifles , who died on Sunday from the effects of a blow given him by Joseph Blackwell the keeper of a public-house in Priory * street . " Walsh was drinking . there with some other soldiers , and as he had not money enough to pay for the beer he . had drunk , a quarrel ensued between him and the landlord , who , on Walsh ' s leaving the house , followed and struck him a blow on the neck with a poker . Walsh died soon after he was taken to the guard-house . The inquest was adjourned . ¦ ScrPPOSED Suicide , —An inquest was opened at Camberwell , to ascertain the cause of death of a man who was found in a field near the New-road , Rotherhithe , with his throat cut . The inquiry is adjourned for

      identification of the body , but it is believed the unfortunate man has committed self-destruction . A Military Scoundrel . —On the 22 nd of March , 1855 , the 7 th Regiment of Fusiliers were performing trench duty before SebastopoL when privates Thomas Tole and Moore left the lines and went over to th ' e enemy . Tbe treacherous information they gave , of the position of the company they had deserted from proved a guide to the Russians , who , making a determined attack upon them the same night , killed Captain tbe Hon . Cavendish Brown and thirty men . Tole was not given

      up with the exchange of prisoners at the end of the war , but went to St . Petersburg . He returned to England , and took up his quarters in Manchester . Several months ago he was taken into custody on suspicion of this crime , but the evidence failed . Later correspondence with the commanding officer led to the production of witnesses who could speak more positively / and on Monday Tole was again placed before the city magistrate , when satisfactory evidence was given regarding his going over to the enemy , and he was delivered to the military . Tole states that his companion , More , died in two _ days after they joined the Russians . —Manchester Examiner . at

      Arson . —A fire occurred on Suiid ^ v evening Warley , two miles from Halifax . The barn / attached to the farm of Mr . Hargreaves , of Winterburn-hill , was-buru * to the ground , occasioning the loss of a large quantity of hay and grain , together with four fine cows . It appears clear that the fire was the work of ah incendiary . Mr- Hargreaves , about midnight , was alarmed by his wife , who heard a crackling noise . He endeavoured to open the door of the barn or mistal , but could not , because of an obstruction within . He obtained assistance , but the flames had become too powerful , and the premises were destroyed . On examining the building , afterwards , one of the cows was found lying dead behind the mistal door , its head and foreparts being literally roasted . Three others were chained within the booths . The four cows were valued at about 657 ., the stock of hay and wheat at 160 L , and the building at from 1502 . to 200 £

      Removal of Convicts . —On Wednesday , a party of 100 convicts were forwarded from the metropolis to the new convict establishment , Chatham , for the dockyard and public works now in progress at that place . The convicts left London-bridge station by train , in charge of several warder ? , all armed . 0 P their arrival at the Strood station they were chained together in gangs , and convej-ed in vans to the convict establishment . They will supply the places of 140 convicts recently forwarded from Chatham to Bermuda .

      CRIMXNA-L-ItEGQRD . ^ - — Mukdku at Lihkisakd . —William Ball , a young miner , of St . Cleer , has been committed for trial by tho Liokeard magistrates for the wilful murder of Daniel Donaway , also a miner . Prisoner , deceased , and several of their companions , after having boon drinking several hours , loft the public-house at midnight , when a row ensued . Deceased struck prisoner , who thereupon went back eight or ten feet , made a run at deceased , and gave him an under blow In the bowels . It was subsequently

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      TSTo . AiA . September 25 , 1858 . ] THE XEAPEB , 993

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 25, 1858, page 993, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2261/page/9/