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Leader (1850-1860), 9th October 1858, Edition 1 of 2, Page 1054, ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS

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      sense of your own inferiority ! But need you admit the Jruth of tl * t unwelcome suspicion ? He who has obt ained the' prize has undoubtedly manifested superior excellence in certain qualities of niind ; he has shown that he has the power of acquiring and arranging knowledge , of recalling it readily , and of expressing it clearly and rapidly . But surely it does not necessarily follow that he is the most learned man , the deepest thinker , the most energetic actor , or that he is endowed in any degree with any of those transcendent gifts which confer distinction and fame in literature and art . Again , some of you have won the laurels for which you have wrestled—I doubt not , gentlemen , you have deserved your rewards , and I offer you my sincere congratulations ; . -But how gratified

      are you affected by your success ? Are you ¦ with the result , but already weary of the effort it has cost you , and satisfied with your present victory , determined to lapse into indifference and idleness ? If this be the effect , I am sorry for you ; yet take your prizes and keep them , nay , deem them hereafter , as now , honourable distinctions , but they will become instead a standing reproof to you for time ami opportunities lost , for talents neglected and abused . Has your first success ministered to your vanity , and given you an exalted estimate of your own importance ? You have mistaken the prizes for what they only represent , you have worshipped the image instead of the gpd ; you have complacently listened to your praises and believed themhave esteemed that absolute which was only conditional that true which was in effect exaggerated ! Pause , barrier to

      gentlemen , ere you make your vanity a your success , ere you render yourselves objects of pity , of ridicule , of contempt ! But if you regard the prizes you are this day to receive as objects of secondary importance , and value them only as the external indications of positive advance in knowledge and worth ; if vour conscience tells yoli the praises heaped upon you are disproportionate to your merits , and you believe your conscience ; if you look on your medals as incentives to renewed exertions , and credit your excess of praise to the account of future deserts ; if your successes , instead of rendering you vain , have made you humble ; depend upon it you deserve the rewards you have striven for , th ey have done you good ; you are in the right path , go on in it and prosper . The lecturer concluded his address with a few words of welcome to the new students , congratulation to the

      prizemen , and thanks to his audience . At the conclusion of his address , the lecturer was loudly cheered . The prizes were tlien distributed by Sir John Musgrove among the successful pupils of the preceding year , with which interesting ceremony the proceedings closed .

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      NAVAL AND MILITARY . The Rotal Marines . —Several additional recruiting parties are out in the metropolis and suburbs to raise recruits , the Lords of the Admiralty having resolved to increase the strength of this corps by 5000 men , and to form a fifth division of Royal Marines at Pembroke Dockyard , Wales . . * d ifc . « . The Prussian Admiral . —H . R . H . Prince JSmbert of Prussia , High Admiral of the Prussian navy , left his yacht , the Grille , in Hamoaze , on Monday morning , and "With his flag-captain , Bothwell , was received at the Pevonport Dockyard by Mr . James Brown , Master-Attendant , and the principal officers , who conducted the royal visitor round the Arsenal , and through the tunnel to Kham steam-yard .

      ey Foreign Princes at Devonport . —The Count de Paris with the Duke of Wurtemburg and suite arrived at Devonport on Wednesday morning , and , being attended by Captain Stewart and Lieutenant Preston , drove to Keyham-yard , where they were received by the Master Attendant , who escorted the party through the factory and the other branches of the establishment . The great size of the new steanvfrigato Orlando appeared to excite special attention . After visiting the Himalaya , now preparing to convey troops to India , his Royal Highness and suite went through the tunnel to Devonport Dockyard , over which they wore conducted . Defences op the Welch Coast . — -The authorities

      have had their attention drawn to the defenceless condition of the whole of the south coast of Wales , where not a single gun is mounted for the safety of Newport , ^ Cardiff , Swansea , Llanolly , &c . A lbatltory of heavy guns is to be immediately erected on the high ground at Ponarth Head for the protection of the shipping frequenting the roads . It is said that Swansea is to be better protected . Caldy Island lias been named as another point for a battery .

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      GATHERINGS FROM LAW AND POLICE COURTS . The tedious charge of fraud in picture-dealing against the Barnses has been brought to a close by beinj : dismissed . The medical attendant of 31 r . Peter , the prosecutor , was examined as to the condition of his patient , anil pronounced him to be in such a state of mental imbecility as to render his appearance at the Guildhall dangerous to * himself . ' ' . Alderman Wire expressed his conviction that a compromise hud been cll ' eeted , but as the evidence was defective he could not scud the case for trial .

      Those who made themselves acquainted with tire ' case of Miss Frances Johnson , a youni ; - woman only eighteen \ -ears old , charged with attempting to commit . ¦ suicide , will rejoice to hear that tho Lord Mayor has sentenced her father to one month ' s imprisonment as a rogue and vagabond . The pity is , that the law could not punish him more severely . The young lady niade the effort to destroy herself rather than accept ' the parent ' s advice to maintain herself by a career of iniquity . Mr . Johnson ,

      the rogue and vagabond , is described as a " respectable grey-headed looking man , " but it is impossible to imagine parental feelings more brutally depraved than his appear to be . The case has excited the public sympathy to a great extent . 19-i members of the Stock Exchange have contributed the sum of 172 / . 11 s . Gtl . for the Iniiictit of Frances Johnson and her sister . They have placed the money in the hands of tho Lord Mayor , to be employed at his discretion . Numerous smaller sums have also been received .

      Edward Thurgood , surgeon , of Camden-town , and John Kiley , an agent , have been brought up at Guildhall , for further examination relative to a charge of conspiring to defraud Mr . Charles Christie , distiller , Liverpool , out of whisky to tho value of more than JWl-The publication in the papers of the facts elicited at tho former inquiry has had tho effect of bringing out a Hood of information regarding tho two prisoner , * , which niny prove useful in securing tho ends of justice . On _ tho case being again remanded , tho accused were , in delimit of bail , sent to prison . tra

      At tho Middlesex Sessions , Theodore Kidiards , - vollor , plonded guilty to having ombcz / . lod wvoral sums of money , which ho had received on account or Ins maator . It was proved that tho prisoner had bium previously convicted , and had been sentenced to seven yeara transportation , nnd tho Court now m . < i * unced him to undergo poual sorvitudo for ton years . — lames KonilaM wan indicted for huving inflicted griovous bodily lmrin upon Mary Kondnlo , his wife . The medical testimony was to tho efl ' cot that tho prisoner was insane . Tho jury found tho prisoner not guilty on tho ground of insanity .

      At the Middlesex Sessions tho court sat on Ilnirsfiny to hoar applications for the renewal of licenses lor m ^ si ° and dancing and for now licensor . Thoro wore -uh application for tho renewal of licenses for music only , 05 for mimic und duueing , -13 now app lications for tno license . fwr muaie only , aiid 11 for tho duublu lii'u » so . An application by Robert Bignoll , for tho Argyll ' ^ "' which vrns rofviHod laut your , nnd onu by Mv . I ' " . ' Smith , for tho Allmnibra Palace , wore ilxoil ( or hearing on Friday morning , both applications being op |) o «««« With a few oxcoptions tho old liceuaos wore rqiunvml .

      A widely dMbnint version of tho story told hy " lll' ° - Irnin , tho man who ohni ' tfod his wlfo with making tuo sovomi attempts to murUor him while asluop , has mm glvon by a witness to tho inngiafcrutu at WoatnUiifHor . It appears thut tho nsauulto had boon rcoipruoiil , « n « that tho husbauU was qulto as hiuoli to bluniu )»« »¦» wifoj they , woro thorofuro both bound In Burutius u » 10 / ., to U « op tUo pcuoo toward * ^ . aoU otlwrlor twt »>« months . « P

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      • heck the flames . The traffic on the Blackwall Railway was stopped bv the fire . The fearful occurrence at tho Page Bank Colliery has turned out to be less disastrous than was at -first anticipated . Out of eighty-six men and boys in the various workings at the time the fire broke out , seventy-six have been rescued alive , most . of whom are doing well . The corpses of the remainder have been brought to the surface . The pitmen who were in the mine at the time of the accident were variously affected by it ; We are told that some were congregated in groups and engaged in prayer , while others were singing and jokinsr and telling tales , in order to cheer their companions . One of them says he laid down at nine o ' clock and quietly slept the time away . A shocking death from chloroform has taken place at the London Opthalmic Institution . A little boy eight years of age went to the hospital to undergo an operation in his eyes . Chloroform was administered , but death very speedily ensued . The jury returned a verdict of Accidental Death , but coupled with it a suggestion which -will doubtless be attended to in the proper quarter . The recurrence of death from this cause will , no doubt , make people hesitate in accepting the means that promises to alleviate the natural pangs of the body under surgical operations . Just after the opening of the doors at the Surrey Theatre , on Monday night , a man , whose name is at present unknown , who had got a front seat in the gallery , and was leaning over the rail , overbalanced himself and fell headforemost into the pit , driving in his skull . The unfortunate sufferer was . carried to St . Thomas ' s Hospital , where he expired in a few hours . The inquest which has been held in connexion with the late fatal collision on the Oxford , Worcester , and Wolverhampton Railway has resulted in a verdict of manslaughter anainst Cook , the guard , who was committed for trial . It is not impossible that the verdict of the jury may be set aside . The gentleman who stands in the coroner ' s precept as foreman of the jury is charged by the Chairman of the Committee with acting under hostile feeling , he having had two lawsuits with the compainv Five of the jurymen declared , besides , that they did not concur in the latter portion of the verdict , which imputed great blame to all the officers uf the company . We have to record an awful tragedy on the great deep . The Austria steamship , while pursuing her passage from Southampton to New York , was totally destroyed . by fire . As there were six hundred persons on board , it is feared that a large portion of them may have perished . It is known that sixty-eight persons from the ill-fated ship had been picked up by a French barque , but the others on board , stated to be upwards of oOU , remain unaccounted for .

      ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . A dreadful flro occurred on Sunday afternoon near the West India Docks , whereby an immense- amount of property was consumed . The premises belonged to Moesra . Westropp , and Messrs . Boll and Wright , ship-riggers , And the building containod almost every article necessary to that business . Tho flro obtained a groat head before mpans eould bo procured to chock It ; but by ton o ' clock the firemen woro onablod through groat exertions to

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      on helping those who seem disposed to help themselves . The people of Limerick deserved no help from an v one " because there was no disposition , on their part to aid themselves . That the packets from Gal way will i > i'ove a paying speculation the following facts are good omens : — The amount of passage money paid in the last steamer " the Pacific , was over 3000 ? .,- and in one of the sccpnd-cltiss . packets , which arrived ' at Gal way a short time ago * nearly " 2 0007 . ' was produced by the passenger traffic alone , being , as in the other case , exclusive of the freights for conveyance of merchandise . . The receipt ! of the Midland Railway have bfcen vastly increased by the arrival and departure of American packets at Galway . The company is in a most flourishing condition , and they propose to continue their line of railway down

      IRELAND . The Ouakgemen . —The Downslure Protestant , the official Gazette of the Irish Orange Society , has just put forth an article which destroys any expectation that might be entertained as to the probability of tho Confederation dissolving . There is no chance whatever of such a consummation . Representative Peeks . —The following are the spiritual Representative Peers for the next session of Parliament : —The Lord Primate , closing fast upon his 87 th year ; the Bishop of Down , tho Bishop of Ossory , and the Bishop of Cork . As regards politics , the four are pretty much of one mind , but tho Bishops of Down and Cork aro considered to be favourable to the national system of education . Gal way and America . —At a meeting of tho Galway Harbour Commissioners , a communication from the Viceregal Lodge was read by the chairman , Father Peter Daly . In this letter Mr . Plunkett Dunne says ho has communicated the telegram and Mr . Daly ' s note to the Lord-Lieutenant , who was much gratified by tho successful voyage of the last steamer from St . John ' Galway , which decides tho advantages of tho Irish passage over that from Liverpool , so as to make it plaiu even to English understandings . Lord Eglintouu has succeeded inhaving the Commissioners sent to Galway ,, and all are sanguine that their report will bo favourable and tho lino of packets from thence firmly established . At the meeting , Captain Thatcher , of tho Propeller , recently arrived from America , presented Fathor Daly with an American hickory stick , tho gift of a Transatlantic admirer . After a brief speech , tho gallant seaman placed the stick in tho worthy father ' s hands , amid

      enthusiastic cheering . The following statement appears in tho Limerick Chronicle of yesterday . Tho Southerns , It would soovn have abandoned all idea of tho establiahmont of tho transatlantic packet station at their side of the kingdom : — " Wo havo boon informed that at the assembling of Parliament Govornniont will roooinnjoiul giving to Galway a grant of 00 , 000 ? , as tho first instalment of tho sum needed to construct tho broakwator , if tho commissioners no . w inspecting 1 Galway should report favourably of it ( is a harbour of rofugo . Tho total required for the purpose will be 150 , 000 ? . Owing to the energy and enterprise of tho Galwoginns tliomeolvos . thq entire amount will bo advanced out of the imperial exchequer , and that , too , not as a loan , but as a grant , free and for over . iLord porby k uutormlnod

      to the dock . The Gulwtcy Vindicator announces the arrival there of Captain Washington , K . N ., one of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the subject of harbours of refuge . Captain Washington hi formed Mr . Lynch , the ltev . Mr . Darcv , Mr . P . A . Fynn , and one or two other gentlemen who waited' on him , that lie would be most happy to meet some gentlemen connected with the Harbour Board who could give him information on the subject of his inquiry at the . Railway Hotel this day . There will be no public court of inquiry held , but we have reason to believe that Captain AVashingtou is disposed to enter . on his inquiry with a degree of earnestness which will leave nothing undeveloped in relation to the natural resources and immense capabilities of the harbour of Giilway .

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      k THE LEADER . [ Ko . 446 , October 9 , 1858 . ' 1054 s . ^ , , ; : — * ¦ - — ' : ~ - — - ^*— :

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1858, page 1054, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2263/page/6/