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Sept. 6, 1851.] ffifte it******* 845 _. ...
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CHARLES GEORGE HARDING. The following le...
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PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP. When we went t...
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Major-General Sir Henry Watson, Kuight, ...
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M. lierenger, President a la Cour de Cas...
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Accounts from Madrid of the '2!)lh ultim...
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Holnicote, ISir Thomas Aolaiid's beautif...
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MURDKKS. A master butcher of Morpeth, na...
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Association In America. [We Have Receive...
Buffalo . I have not seen the Shakers yet ; but am invited to spend two or three days with them at Shirley , which I shall not fail to do . Whilst here , we heard a lecture from a Mr . Andrews , of New York , a visitor like ourselves . He said , it was not important that men should live in community . The world might be saved without it if people were strictly honest to each other ; which he denned to be exchanging commodities , not at their
market value , which is the present system ; but at their cost price , which would do away with rent , interest , and profit of all kinds . For instance , if one man made shoes , and another hats , instead of selling them to each other at their market value , they would each calculate the time spent in making the articles . The shoes might be twelve hours a pair ; the hats more or less , as the case might be , if more , probably the shoemaker would have to mend a pair of shoes , as well as make a pair , in order to pay for his hat .
The lecturer said there was a village in Ohio , where this principle was successfully adopted . If you asked the price of new milk there , you were told it was ten minutes a quart ; corn was three minutes per pound , that is , you could get ten minutes' labour for a quart of milk , and three minutes' labour for a pound of
corn . Mr . Andrews has agreed for some land on Long Island , where he and some others intend to commence living on this system very shortly . Affectionately yours , M .
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Charles George Harding. The Following Le...
CHARLES GEORGE HARDING . The following letter has been published in the Heasoner , and we insert it out of respect for the memory of the brave fellow now no more : — " My Dear Holyoake , —Will you permit me to say a word for our departed mutual friend , Charles George Harding ? An earnest soldier of Democracy , brave , intelligent , disinterested , and devoted , he was , as , you know wv 11 , ever ready with his purse , his pen , and his time , to work in that good cause in whose ultimate triumph he so firmly believed . In 1847 , alone and unaided , he set on foot the Republican , a journal in which will be found great earnestness , great candour , true chivalry , and a more than ordinary intelligence . Essentially a man of the People , Charles Harding wrote for the People , uttering their thoughts and feelings in their own language . Gentle , graceful , affectionate , yet strong and firm , possessed of unfailing good temper
a-nd unwearied z : al , h 2 passed through life a useful servant and a Stirling ornament of our party . With a mind free from all superstition , without orthodox beliefs of any kind , Republican in politics and Rationalist in religion , yet full of belief in the great truths of nature , full of reverence of the great men and great thoughts of humanity , he lived and died ( alas ! too young ) an honourable man and a noble citizen . His was one of those happily balanced minds which never fret at difficulties , but work on , ever steadfast and ever believing . His was one of those genial hearts which see more of gladness in human life than sorrow , without selfishly ignoring that sorrow ; sympathizing , kindly , generous , true . Where work was to be done , therein the midbt of it was Charles Harding ; where sympathy was needed , from the fountains of his warm heart it sprang up clear , and fresh , and abounding .
"Hut , alas ! the sec do of that fatal disease which robbed us of Robert Nicoll were implanted in his system ; and on the 22 nd , only twenty-six years old , after great buffering , gently and uninumiuriiigly borne , he died true to his early and cherished convictions , and firm in his faith in our great cause . I know you will mourn with me the loss of one who would have fought so manfully in the coming strife ; and over his grave drop the teur ofsincere but unavailing regret ; and in your heart , as I ia mine , aa all his friends will in theirs , inscribe his name with those of the true and good , whose memories we hold in honour and remember with affection , and whose example helps to sustain us in the arduous path we pursue . Yours in truth , Geokuk Ilooriut . " August 2 G , IHftl . "
Personal News And Gossip. When We Went T...
PERSONAL NEWS AND GOSSIP . When we went to press lust week , our account of tin ; Queen ' s progress left her Majesty on the road to . Halmoral . After remaining lit Itolyrood on Thursday , driving out about the town in the afternoon , she held a levee in the evening , at which the Ji <> rd Provost was knighted . Prince Albert , says a Seoteli paper , handed the < iueen the sword , with which her Majesty struck hia lordship a tun art slap on each shoulder , mid Haul " Ri . se , Sir William Johnston " ' —which Sir William immediately did !
The Queen left . Ilolyrood the next morning aoon after eight o'clock , and took the train at St . Margaret ' s Htat . ion . The ear ) ia ^ e was very handsome , being in fact quite a drawing-room . The ongine und tender which < lre \ v the train were gorgeously decorated ; and the royal party started off amid loud cheers . They lunched at Stone-haven , taking carriages from thence to JJalmoral , and arriving there ou the same night . Very lew of tli ,. peasantry were assembled to receive her . We quote the Aberdeen Herald : - "Nine retainers , in ' ill Highland costume of Victoria and Royal Stuart tartan , were drawn up in front of the lawn , a few yardrt apart . Prince Albert ' s yager was easily din-Unguituiable from his large and powerful-looking i ; , ure . The Queen ' s piper , during the approach of her Majesty and for a short timo ufter she had
alighted , performed with good taste and spirit several fine airs , dwelling specially on ' Johnny Cope , ' ' Tullochgorum , ' ' The Glen ' s My Own , ' and ( of all the tunes in the world ) « The Wee , Wee German Lairdie , ' an air to whistle which in the royal ears would , in former times , have been reckoned rank and atrocious treason . " Prince Albert has had an iron ball-room constructed at Manchester , intended for Balmoral . It is sixty feet
long , twenty-four feet wide , and ten feet high , with a peaked roof , supported by pilasters . The floor is made of wood , and it is said , by the Manchester Examiner , to present an agreeable and satisfactory effect externally , and that the constructive arrangements are praiseworthy . Lo . rd Cranworth and Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce have been appointed Judges of Appeal , the latter with a seat in the House of Lords . Sir W . Page Wood and Mr . J . Parker are to become Vice-Chancellors . A vacancy is thus created in the post of Solicitor-General .
A short time since the Duke of Wellington started early for Bangor , walked through the Britannia tubular bridge , returning outside the structure—a service of no uncommon peril—and then came back to town to dinner . The Times of Thursday contained the following : — " Arundel Castle , September 2 , —On Sunday morning his Grace the Duke of Norfolk , E . M ., attended Divine service at Arundel Church , when an excellent discourse was delivered by the Reverend G . , H Hart , chaplain i n ordinary to the Queen . The Duchess , Lady Adeliza Howard , with Lord and Lady Ellesmere , & c , were also of the party . " Lord Saltoun is to be a Kuight of the Thistle in the room of the late Viscount Melville . Mr . Samuel Morton Peto , has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers . — Gazette .
Signor Saffi , one of the Triumvirate of the Roman Republic , testified at the Evangelical Alliance to the religious persecution practised by the Court of Rome . Mr . Charles Koenig , aged 78 , for many years keeper of the mineral department of the British Museum , fell down in Museum-street , on Friday , and died shortly after . He was observed to stagger by a sentinel , who ran to his assistance . The cause of his death was extravasetion of blood to the brain . John , the only son of Mr . Henry Grattan Curran , has been shot accidently at Strokestown , in Ireland . He and some companions were playing with pistols , which were believed to be unloaded , and one of the boys pointed a pistol at John Curran and pulled the trigger , when to the amazement and horror of all present the weapon exploded and the poor boy dropped lifeless . The hoy who unwittingly fired the pistol has been suffering so intensely from the shock he received that his life is despaired of .
Major-General Sir Henry Watson, Kuight, ...
Major-General Sir Henry Watson , Kuight , Colonel of the Fifteenth Regiment , died in town on the 31 s- ultimo . He entered the army as cornet in the Third Dragoon Guards in May , 1795 . He served in the Peninsula , and was present at the passage of the Douro and "battle of Oporto , capture of Campo Mayor , siege of Olivcnza , actions of Los Santos and Usagre , bullies ofAlbucra ( in which he commanded a regiment of Portugese cavalry ) , Fuentes d'Onor , and Salamanca , where he was severely wounded . At Toulouse he commanded all the Portuguese cavalry . He became a Major-General in I 8 . 'j 8 , was made Colonel of the Sixty-third Regiment in 1847 , an i was removed to the Fifteenth in November , 1850 . liy his death the colonelcy of the latter corps is vacant . Sir Henry Watson had a gild medal for Salamanca , and the silver war medal with two clasps for Albuera and 'I ' onloiisf * .
M. Lierenger, President A La Cour De Cas...
M . lierenger , President a la Cour de Cassation at Paris , had an interview with Mr . Waddington yesterday at the Home-office .
Accounts From Madrid Of The '2!)Lh Ultim...
Accounts from Madrid of the ' 2 !) lh ultimo , announce that the Duchess of Montpcnsier was safely delivered of a daughter on the previous evening , in her palace at Seville . The mother and child were doing Avell . A legitimist correspondent from ( ie . rur . uiy states that Don Miguel ( whom he calls King Don Miguel ) is about to marry the Princess de Lowenstein-Rosenberg , a relative of Prince Schwarzenberg , who , although not appertaining to u royal house , is Htill of the \ c _ - y highest nobility . An agent of the Emperor of Russia has just ordered of Messrs . Runsomes and May , a Universal Ridge Plough .
Holnicote, Isir Thomas Aolaiid's Beautif...
Holnicote , ISir Thomas Aolaiid ' s beautiful neat , in Somersetshire , was destrowed by ( he on Saturday ; but ut present no particulars arc kmiw . i . The liou . se and its contents were insured with the Went of England Company to the amount of £ 700 !) , a fuih thought " to bo furbelow I he amount , of damage . The Exeter ( iaztttt . ( sm \ . yn , that a bronze medal has been lately bunded by Captain Scott , II . N ., to a waterman named Hitchcock , who had jumped overboard and saved the life of a gentleman from drowning . Ho had sunk but Hitchcock dived after him and brought him to the surface . He was reutored , and is now in a fair way of recovery . Captuin Sc . oU , by way of rewarding him , has collected suflioient funds to give him a new boat also
On luenday week , as a young mini named Henry Mlyth was on the west side of the river at , Yarmouth , he heard a cry of boy overboard . The boy was going * ou board a smack on the east side of the river Mr Myth immediately pulled a boat to the . spot , and found tin : boy was m . ilung and the tide taking him rapidly under Mr . , huke « , ; « al depot . He immediately jumped from the bout dived , caught , the hoy in his arms , and swam with him to Mr Ambrose Palmer ' s dock , to the great delight . ot many that wore standing by . # uth he uud the boy
SF' ^ i 11 ??! . ™ ' ^ exbau 8 t . This the fourth life Mr . Blyth has saved in a very short space of time . The last was about three weeks since . The Giornale di Roma gives an account of a most singular meteor which was remarked on the 19 th after sunset , in the vicinity of the Volscian Apennines and the Alban mountains . The phenomenon was ushered in by sudden flashes of light , shooting from two distinct points of the eastern horizon behind the Hernic mountains , near Monte Fortino . The colour of the light resembled that of the auiora
greatly borealis . After some time a splended fiery globe , apparently as large as the moon , when seen at the horizon , rose to the altitude of about 30 degrees . From the rose-coloured light it cast upon the adjoining clouds , it was evidently above them . It continued its course , describing something like a parabola , from west to east , for some time , and at last burst with the noise of thunder , scattering thousands of luminous fragments around , which soon disappeared . The phenomenon had been preceded by several falling stars in the same quarter of the heavens .
A correspondent of the Daily News says : —On Saturday last the necessary preliminaries and conditions were arranged and finally agreed upon by which Commodore Stevens transfers the America to Captain de Blaquiere , of the Indian army , for the sum of £ 7000 , who will this day ( Monday ) become her sole and undivided possessor . It was the intention of the American commodore to visit the London waters , for the purpose of giving the inhabitants of the metropolis an opportunity of inspecting this
nautical wonder , but this arrangement has been set aside by the ready acceptance of the ownership on the terms proposed , without any abatement whatever . Sunday being the last opportunity of inspecting the America at Cowes , she was visited by an immense number of persons from London and elsewhere , who universally expressed ; heir admiration of her extraordinary feats and singular and unique construction . The present , or rather future owner , it is stated , will at once proceed with her on a voyage of pleasure to the Mediterranean .
We cut a queer bit of gossip from the Natiofial : — " Count Orlolf has just presented to the Emperor of Russia an extraordinary musical phenomenon , in the person of a young Wallachian called Frederick Roltz . This man has been born with four hands , each having five fingers . He was brought up by a clergyman , who taught him to play on the organ , but the young man , in the course of time , made a pianoforte for himself , of considerably greater power than that of ordinary instruments . He enjoys excellent health , and , with the exception of the hands , presents nothing strange in his person . It is only from the elbow that the malformation
commences . I he arm there divides into two limb * , each ending in a hand with a double supply of fingers . These additional arms are regularly made , and the only remarkable point observed by medical men is the immense development of the deltoid muscle at the summit of the shoulder . The clergyman who had brought up Roltz at his deat ) i left him a small property , and the young man immediately purchased diamond rings , with which he loaded hia twenty fingers . It w . % s with them so adorned that he performed before the Emperor of Russia , who expressed his surprise at the music : il powers of the younsj man . lioltz , it is said , is to shortly visit Paris . "
Murdkks. A Master Butcher Of Morpeth, Na...
MURDKKS . A master butcher of Morpeth , named Milburn , left his home on Tuesday week , on horseback , for Boshall Rectory , where he had to settle an account . On his return home he called upon a friend at Choppington , and they parted company at the Guide Post Tavern , at twelve o ' clock . Early on the following morning , Mr . Milburn ' s horse was found roaming about llippscot , with the bridlerein cut . Nothing could be heard of the unfortunate man . Search was made along the road , and at a distance
of about half a mile from where his friend had parted company with him , was found his riding whip broken to pieces , his hat . smuhht d , and his memorandum book with some leaves torn out . and the pockets emptied . Near to where these artielea were found were symptoms of a struggle , spots of blood , and footmarks of two persone , with appearances as if a body had been dragged along the road and over two or three fields to a wood , where all traces ceased . ( Jreat exertions have been made to find the body , but without success .
I here is a mysterious rumour floating about on tlic coast of Lincolnshire , according to the Boston Herald . Fifteen years ago a boy named Euderby disappeared . He was the adopted son of an innkeeper at Skegness . Every search w ; h made without avail . A few years since , a m . m of the name or Milnes , of Croft , made some unintelligible reference to this mysterious event before ho died , but nothing definite could be gathered from his semi -delirious ravings . However , a " navvie , " called Cand lor
y Iay , who had married a sinter of Milnes , died very recently , and before his death mude the following horrible disclosures , viz ., that as young Enderby was bringing home some horses , ho lighted upon Taylor and Milnes engaged in slaughtering a sheep ; that , to prevent detection , they murdered the poor hid and buried hiw corpse in the sand about four miles off , at Jngoldniells Out-end . These two fellows , Taylor and Millies , were desperate characters , and the terror of the neighbouihood .
Mary Ann liorcluim waa found drowned in a pond near IJrixton , alleged to have been murdered between the 16 th and 27 th of August . . She was a servant , und hi r disappearance was connected with tin ; loan of vome property , such as slipper-tops , a gold pin , u knife , and pencil-cuse . Mr . Jsa . icx , whose Hcrvuiit « h «_ w « s , for tionu ; reason or other , HiiHpccted Miithew WiilianiH , the clerk of it wine merchant who lived o |> j > oni <<' , "'»« ' asked him about the mining girl . He ( hiiird all knowledge of her . Hut . on an application In-iiij ? iih »< 1 <> •<» his master ho wuh forced to < : on fe . su that h <; did know her and alao Unit he . had got the Mlipper-topH . Thin led to his urrent , when other ai-tides where found at hid lodgings . Ho
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 6, 1851, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06091851/page/9/
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