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850 THE LEADJE R, [Saturday,
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The " Catholic University" will, it is s...
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A branch railway into the new and import...
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Tho House of Commons Hat 1(50 days in th...
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Tho lifo of a London policeman is cheque...
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On Sunday last there were thirteen ships...
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The Australian demand for Birmingham too...
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A Vacancy In Tho Representation Of Lisbi...
say ) have been given to the Duke of Athol and the Lord Panmure . The vacancies were caused by the death of the Earl of Brooke and Warwick , and the more recent death of Lord Saltoun . The Marquis of Chandos is reported as the new chairman of the London and North Western ¦ Company . Sir do Lacy Evans , it is said , is to get one of the vacant [ Regiments , the 2 nd Queen ' s Royals ; or the 22 nd Fusiliers . The Governor of the Bahamas , John Gregory , Esq ., died of fever on July 29 . He was highly respected . He was brother of the late Dr . Gregory , of Edinburgh . M , Jullien arrived at New York on the 7 th August , by the Baltic . The renowned chef d'brchestrc was met on the quay by a party of friends , who escorted him ,
accompanied by Madame Jullien and Dr . Joy , to his hotel , in a carriage and four . In the evening M . Jullien was greeted with the honours of a grand orchestral serenade . In mid-Atlantic a concert was given in the grand saloon of the Baltic , at which M . Jullien delighted his fellow-passengers with , a solo on the piccolo . It may be remembered that the now world-famous conductor began his professional life on board a French line-of-bat tic ship , and was attached to the admiral ' s band . In that capacity he was present at the Battle of Navarino . He bids fair to be as great a popular favourite in America as he has long been in England , and there is no doubt he will know how to rouse our Yankee cousins to enthusiasm , with the first wave of that magical baton , and of those ambrosial locks .
Colonel Eagani , an old officer of the Empire , widower of the once-renowned Grassini , aud uncle to Grisi , lias become impresario of the Italian Opera at Paris . After the ruin of Konconi and Mr . Lumley , and the failure of M . Corfci , it was feared that no speculator would be found rash enough to embark in the speculation . Bat Colonel Eagani , who has just obtained a concession of the " iDrivilege" for nine years , appears to be in a fairer way of success than his unfortunate predecessors . He has the immediate favour of the Emperor , as a veteran of the grande aiinee : he has already secured the services of Grisi and Mario , whose engagement in America , it appears , will not commence till next February : he has engaged Tamburini and Gardoni , and is negotiating with Alboni , whose terms are almost too formidable to be entertained . If the new
director is able to complete his programme as satisfactorily as his first efforts indicate , the season will commence in the third week of October , and it is confidently expected that some of the old eclat will bo restored to the Italians .
850 The Leadje R, [Saturday,
850 THE LEADJE R , [ Saturday ,
The " Catholic University" Will, It Is S...
The " Catholic University" will , it is said , be in working order in a twelvemonth . The contributions from America have been large . Four thousand and five persons emigrated from Ulster in the year 1 S 53 . Many of the constabulary have emigrated . One who in Ireland had 271 . a year , has now 219 Z . a year , as a v / arder in one of the Australian prisons .
A Branch Railway Into The New And Import...
A branch railway into the new and important coal fields of Cannock Chase is to be made by the South Staffordshire Company . One hundred and thirty vessels for Australia are now loading in London , and the rate of passage has been increased from HOI . to 40 / . " We understand that the Admiralty have determined to discontinue the employment of lieutenants of the royal navy as Admiralty ngcnt . i in the North American mail contract steam-packets . " —Standard . ( August 27 . ) The collective receipts of the metropolitan railways have averaged during the last r . ix months an increase of nearly HO per cent ., as compared with the corresponding period of last year , although the tracks of the country was even at Hint time highly prosperous .
In the now American clipper , the Sovereign of the Seas , tho ropes which form the- running rigging are of cotton , which in not only capable of a tighter twist , but is not liable to become deteriorated by friction in tho same degree as hempen cords . After they have been in use , too , for years , they can bo sold for nearly as much as tho original cost . ' Those ropes are quite smooth , and run with great , rapidity through tho blocks . The sails also of this vossel nro of ' col ton , two po . ts of cotton sails costing only tho num pni < l for one Met of linen . A supply of coal exists at . Nal . al , and to open it up an English company is to bo formed . A . supply for tho many steam-ships calling at the Capo will thus bo obtained . Tho circulation of our private and joint-stock banks have decreased during tho last , month by 'J !) , f >(>] V ., but , compared with the corresponding period of last yoar there is an increase of 4-KU 0 W .
There being no pilots at tho Needles , Cowea , tho eaptuin of the United States steamship 'H ' a shiny ton took his ship through tho passage wit . h great . skill , managing it . successfully in a tremendous sea . Tho expem ; o of educating tho Irish people under tho National Education system has been 01 Iy ) l 7 / . during tho last five yours . Foreign countries sent last year f . o England 2 , 12 . ' ? , 017 quarters of corn , and in tho lirnt . half of Mum your they sent I 2 i'M , ( M'i ) quartern . Last year Ireland gave * to Knglnnd "l ' iS 5 ' 1 v "J () H quarters of corn , and England nont to Ireland 47 f > 02 S quarters . During tho first six . months of tliin yc ar tho proportion of ox / 'lmngen wan about tho hhiiio . Tlmro aroonly 4 . 21 / 1 ' 13 Parliamentary volnrs in England fiiitl Wales !
Tho House Of Commons Hat 1(50 Days In Th...
Tho House of Commons Hat 1 ( 50 days in tho Into Session . It . mil , l . 'WJ hours after midnight . To prosoryo tho stonework of Buckingham l ' alnoo it in now bninp ; painted . An extromo vogotnrian , a young man who Iuim lived on nothing but apples , figs , and ' cold water lor the lust three years , has appeared beforo tho polk'o courts on a . charge ol pawning a book . Tho magistrate at . firs ! considered him insane , but the surgeon docided tlmt ho \\ i \ n not no , being < jiiilo rational in his conduct . An ollioiiu pvmmum on matrimony in a novel institution . Tho 8 / urfflcld Times report * n peculiar arrangement of u
Board of G uardians in the neighbourhood . The schoolmistress was engaged on the express understanding that 8 he was to be married to the schoolmaster ! A curious cure for consumption is notified from America . Dr . Cartwright , of New Orleans , asserts , from personal experience , that a few hours spent in a sugar manu . factory , inhaling the saccharine fumes , is a certain cure for consumption . - ' At an alcohol factory near St . Quentin ( France ) , a young chemist , stepping over a boiler containg boiling potash , fell in . The agony was fearful , but he got out , and rushed into a vat of cold water . The burning pain continued , and he frequently called for prussio acid . From the lower parfc of his body the flesh literally fell away . He died the next day . ¦
Gold has been found in Cumberland , and rich lodes of copper and lead are suspected . Lanarkshire is also said to be auriferous , being " similar to Australia in geological formation . " Four men employed at Euston-square carried a long iron bar across the rails just as an engine was approaching . All were knocked down and injured—two fatally , it is feared . Daylesford , the seat of the celebrated Warren Hastings , has heard the sound of the hammer ; its furniture and memorials have been sold . One of the books was "A Collection of all the Evidence against Warren Hastings . " It sold for eighteen guineas .
A heraldic right , or rite , dear to the Scottish lion , came off at the cross of Edinburgh atnoonon Friday . Heralds and pursuivants appeared in full official costume , and read a royal proclamation , commanding the Peers of Scotland to meet afc the Palace of Holyrood , on Wednesday , the 7 th September , and elect a representative peer in room of the Earl of Seafield . An express train started from the Great Northern Eailway at five o ' clock on Wednesday evening , from King ' s Cross ( London ) , for York . A coal train started from Doncaster , in Yorkshire , which was due at the King ' s-cross ( London ) station at ten minutes past five . The trains should pass each other between London and Hornsey . When the coal or up-train reached Hornsey , and was
about to go from one set of rails to another , the switch did not act—the tender got off the line , and shunted across the line . The telegraph was immediately set in motion , but before the message conveyed by it arrived at King ' scross , the express train had started , and proceeded at full speed . When about two hundred yards from the Hornsey station , the stop signal was observed ^ by the guard to be up , but from the impetus of the train , or from not observing the stop signal'in sufficient time , the express train could not be stopped to prevent a collision . The tender attached to the pilot engine with the coal wagons were still across the line , and the express engine went into them ,
causing , of course , a dreadful concussion between the express train and the coal train , which was shunted across the line . Several persons in the express train , among them the Lord Mayor and Mr . Denison , the chairman of the company , were going on to Sheffield ^ to attend the annual dinner of the Cutlers' Company of Sheffield . Sir James Duke w as on his way to attend a funeral at Newcastle . Tho collision was so great that all tho occupants of tho express train were thrown from their seats and were more or less injured . All of them were . in . first-class carriages . Some have got compound fractures , others scalp wounds , others simple fractures , and one gentleman has had both tho bones of his nose broken . Lord Eufield and
tho Bishop of Lincoln escaped , but tho Lord Mayor of London was hurt . The Lord Mayor's privato secretary wrote to the evening papers , on Thursday : — " It was a mistake to state in this morning ' s papers that tho Lord Mayor was not hurt by tho accident on the Great Northern Railway , last night , at Hornsey . His face was much bruised , and his nose and mouth , and ho cannot spoak or swallow without considerable difficulty and pain . It was fortunate for him that he bled profusely , or tho effect of tho accident ; might have been serious . He passed a very restless night , and is still confined to his bed . " On Tuesday night last , Cardinal Wiseman delivered a long leoturo in tho Philharmonic Hall , Liverpool , on tho connexion of commcrco with the fine arts .
Tho Directors of tho South-Eastern Kailway will re commend tho proprietors at the ensuing meeting to do claro a dividond for tho past half year of 8 s . per 301 . stock
Tho Lifo Of A London Policeman Is Cheque...
Tho lifo of a London policeman is chequered with incidents of romance . Tho following tale presents a picturo and a bit of dramatic situation : —Between twelve and ( mo o ' clock on Wednesday morning , as polico-constablo Hindos was on duty in Upper Albany-streot , Regent ' s-pnik , ho observed a I ' omuloin her nightdress , walking briskly along the pavement . Ho spoko to her several times , but receiving no answer , felt convinced that sho was in a state of HomnambuliHin . 11 o immediately laid hold of her , and wrapping her up in his great coat , called a cab , in which
ho conveyed hor to tho Albany-. streot-station , whoro , ' after tho lapse of un hour , nlwj becamo restored to consciousness . Sho wns thon asked by thooflicor on duty as to hor liamo , address , and occupation . In reply nho said sho was a domestic in tho service of Mr , ll ' iiines , chemist , Allmny-Mtreot . 1 ( , appeared that , having been in tho habit , of en aging a cab for her master in tho morning , nho had , wlnlo hor " souses wero shut , " gono in her sloop upon tho Hiimo errand . Tho koy of tho street door , which ' was discovered to havn boon left opon , was at tho station found in her hand .
Infantry barracks for ii thousand lvion aro to bo built at Ipswich . At Bradford , the grand Town-ball , n . now building for general assembly purposes , bus boon inaugurated by a Niiewsrtf ' ul musical festival . Tho building has cost 25 , 000 / . —covers an area of "I < $ ()() yards , and ban ono hall 152 fool ; by 7 ( 5 : a worthy strueturo ' for a stirring town like Bradford , containing over ono hundred thousand intelligent eilizons . Wlion people in IJio present day piano coins and noat iiiHeriptions in tho hollow of a foundation-stono , Uioir hope in thai , tho Now Zealand traveller , aflor having finished
his great oil-pain ting of St . Paul ' s , " as seen from + 1 ruins of Westminster-bridge , " may hapl y disinter iV treasure from among the ruins of the special building , fh down , and that the Antipodean Layard will tell the fenM men on the other side of the world the exact meanin r Dei gratia encircling the head of Victoria I . Iu IpsJ ? ? a new church was built , and thus hoped the Grand Fr mason of the county . JBut the other night a thief th % the coins away , and has doubtless used them ere now " monies . " as At Maidstone the vestry have refused to strike a chur V rate . They rejected the propqsition to that effect by a ma jority of 1124 to 1026 . The majority represents 10 OT ratepayers , wnile the minority represents but 643 . A little girl , four years old , fell down a Welsh quarry-, a height of 120 feet . She was hurt , but not killed , and she is now getting on well . Her lightness and her buoyant clothes saved her .
Railways are fatal in more ways than one : not content with sacrifices of full-grown males , they now demand infants , and the iron Moloch must be satisfied . Mrs Green took her grandchild , a delicate child , on the North Western from Edinburgh , on Saturday . She held the child in her lap , and before she arrived at London the child had died from the foul air in the carriage . This out-Herodg Herod .
On Sunday Last There Were Thirteen Ships...
On Sunday last there were thirteen ships of war in Ton bay . The squadrons bearing the flags of Admiral Corry and Commodore Martin had put into the bay for stress of weather . They have since sailed westward .
The Australian Demand For Birmingham Too...
The Australian demand for Birmingham tools is greatly on the increase . Picks , hatchets , hammers , shovels , and every description of building , and agricultural implements , are being shipped off to the diggings in immense quantities , and with liberal profits . A singular alliance will be seen in the Japan seas . It is thus mentioned in the English papers printed in China : — " His Imperial Majesty the Emperor of all the Eussiaa having- heard that the United States Government had
determined on sending a large naval force to Japan , with a view to the opening of that long-closed country by peaceable means , and entirely concurring in the policy of demonstrating to the Japanese Government that foreigners had the power to take what they ( the Japanese ) might feel indisposed to give , has resolved on aiding in the experiment by sending as a squadron of co-operation tho Pallas , 52 guns , the Dwina , 19 guns , and the Vostock , 4 guns . " The Melbourne post-office is most irregularly managed . A father writes fo the Times : " I have written him by every mail the last thirteen months , and posted papers weekly to him at the post-office , Melbourne . No letter or paper ever reached him . "
The liability of Mississippi upon her repudiated obligations known as the { t Union Bank Bonds , " has been unanimously affirmed by the High Court of Appeals in that State , before which it had been carried . These bonds , which amounted only to a total of 1 , 000 , 000 ? . sterling , were issued by the State more than fifteen years ago—namely , on tho 5 th of June , 1838 , —when their full value was received and expended , some questions which were subsequently raised two
as to their legality being met by the Legislature with distinct resolutions , at different periods , to the effect tbat tho contract was in every respect sound , and that any attempt to deny its validity would bo " a calumny upon tho justice , honour , and dignity of tho State . " A new English church has been consecrated at Grenovn . Tho people of New York are suffering from thointonso heat of the weather . At New Orleans tho yellow foyer is very fatal . Tho dead aro so numorous that flomo bodies
have been burned . Tho stato of Indian society is illustrated by nn item m somo lato news from Bengal . A man of the blacksmitii casto has been creating quite a sonsation amongst Ji . countrymen by his having resolved on tho rc-marrmgo his widowed daughter ; his casto threatened to expel Him , but ho defied thorn to do their worst , and told them ho *« resolved to break through tho barbarous custom by winui ko much misery is inflicted on tho helpless fomalos oi country . , The valuo of land is rising at Van Piomon ' s Land ; uucleared land has been lately sold at 21 . per aero . ^ Canada shows growing prosperity . Hor 1 » iH-y ° . revenue has increased by 133 , 333 / . tin ' s yoar : its crops w year have been well got in ; and it will bo able to CM
8 , 260 , 000 bushels of grain . > ] inic j Abd-el-Kader lives atBroussa , in great privacy , occup with meditation and prayer . . ii . (; Tho correspondent of tho Times at California " ^ u tho yield of gold does not diminish : — " Fow ot » 9 ™ havo boliovod ( hat up to tho present timo so little 11 ^ would navo taken place in tho nature of tho diggi" ( j ! - j tho only perceptible difforoneo hitherto is a grn « uni Mtead y mcraiso in the yiold of tho placers , for tho »'"" ( Jj 0 mines which aro in operation in different H ? ctl < " (; nU n country havo not yet < : omo into play . Tho Chmeso < : o ^ ^ to arrivo hero in largo numbers , and aro permittee . ^ in tho mines , for which privilogo they havo to ] j > three
common with nil im-oigners , a tax of <«> ' ' ^ , 1 month . Erom their very parsimonious habits an ^ wants I am inclined to boliovo that many inust "j ^;^ . ' amassing what to thorn must prove quito an indopei ^ ^ Tho Now York iournal . s contain startling " <; c < /"" , tvH deaths by boat in that city . Tho Tribune h «» " ,,, rthus : " 220 deaths by boat : yollow fovor and cjiw . ^ || l 0 passed : a week of firo : tborinomotor W > to ^ r ( , ut shado : names of tho ( load . " Tho dot ails KIV "" " , or » in this crying placard which " roars so loud an" , ' j " <>( ., ) iinl tlio indox . " In tho samo paper wo find a dotaii * - . ^ r . of a numt dreadful ucridont on tho Frovi < l « " ° » „ , «<«» wstor Railroad . A train going fit forty miles am ^ j ,,, full in tho ini'o an oxem-mon train on tli « Bnnl " , ' ,, | , w'W collision was torribh ^ . Moro than a do ^ n \ m ° killed aud a grout number wero wounded .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1853, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_03091853/page/10/
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