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¦ . ¦ -- «« :' THE LEADER. [-No. 350, Sa...
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A -" Sunday Morndtg Expedition In J Sear...
st eamer WUch assies by « tan ™* * Va f £ « vf ssjEf ^ sfsa-a %£% & %$ & S ^ rf S aaorinff sun , shone out bright and clear aSve [ he smoke and dross of the City ; while on the S ™ siteT side the grim , shapeless shot-tower spoke of SJ Vd ^ ncefand ungoverned passion . And now Se were more signs of vitality , foot passengers became Sole frequent , and even an occasional cab might be ^ enVeYg hted with live lumber . Here a party of three spruce apprentices , with large-checkered neckcloths pierced with a yellow pin , guiltless of gold , were harry inff on to Tottenham-court-ioad to escort as many ' misses' to ' arapstead , or 'ighgate , or ' ornsey Wood There the hebdomadally shaven artizan was striding along with his hard-featured , brig ht-bonneted wife carrying in her arms a lump of vivified putty , regardless of the injunction to ' commit no nuisance . ' A mourn in ^ coach with two sable steeds is waiting at yon door , but bent on no hypocritical errand . It is not eoinff about the streets this day with grief made order : a merry family gioup are off to Annerley , and those baskets from their weigM impress agreeable asso ciations on the inner man . A little further on a crazy old phaeton , drawn by a small , rough , long-haired , gr quadruped , is about to convey a dapper little man and largely developed wife to Uncle Sam ' s , who has market-garden near Forest-hill—the smallest quantity of horse to the largest quantity of wife . Ah ! myolun tarily I shudder and draw back as from the adjoining court emerges a casual unsoaped Delilah , blotch and blear-eyed , hazy and nebulous , dreamy devious , dreaming of gas-light , dreaming of alcohol dazzled by daylight , vandyking the pavement without ^ rud der or compass , heavily lurching till brought iip the lamp-post , " What'U you shtan' ol' feller ?—giv ahum drink , '' reeking with gin , and deeming herself . duchess . Grazed by these icebergs , hemmed in by these floes , by the time I hadreached the ' Olebisk in front of the Indigenous Blind , ' my sensations were those Columbus when he again fell in with sea-birds and drifting weed . For here I actually secured a bit of gulf weed , in the shape of a ' Stirling tract , 'the ' fifteenth million of the series . ' It told how a young gardener Scotland was making a road from the gate-lodge to mansion , in March , 1842 , when he was suddenly seized with a dangerous illness , and , in reply to the consoling observations of his friends , could only say , " I have making a road to hell . " In a few weeks he recovered and-ivas seen walking slowly down the avenue , wan emaciated , but lost in silent meditation . The scales from his eyes ( in Scotland , remember ) , he gave making roads downhill , and "in heart became a mis Bionary . " Cheered by this indication of being near a I was farther encouraged by beholding a gull , or . other fishy bird of prey , with cold , grey , restless like those of the daughters of the horse-leech described bv naturalists—on the authority of King Solomonalways crying " Give , give . " With one wing creature unceasingly flapped the air , while the tremity of the other was inserted in a sort of pouch Hoarse , croaking sounds issued from its throat , . which , from the redundance of h % an aitch-bone seemed to have stuck . And this was the burden of its mono tone : — " You must have faith , brethren . There faith in this hisland only a short time ago short time in the hearth ' s hage . It was faith caused the Druids to make ' uge vicker baskets , which they crammed men , women , and children , then set fire to them in honour of their hidol . At day there is faith in Hindia . There the poor benighted heathen throw themselves beneath the weels of J Naught , and think they hoxpiate their sins . " At moment a 'bus slowly crawled past , and the conductor cried out , " Go it , Mike ! " " Mike" shot a basilisk glance at the fellow , and muttering , under-tone , "Oh , my soul , sit not thou in the seat the Bcornei , " continued with his discourse about hefficacy of faith , while I trudge d on through the tectural ' remnants' which in this neighbourhood muster for houses and streets . At one time I was , returning to my garret , thinking I had mistaken the for a brisk traffic was going on , and shops and were open aa at any other period of the week . sently , however , I rememfcered that there could be harm in works of love , mercy , and necessity . photograph for 6 a ., or Mary Jane ' a "in this sty neatly framed , for la ,, waa clearly a work of love ; as it was a work of mercy to put aa end to the ling misery of those unhappy oysters . And who can that it is a work of necessity to buy greens for the man ' s Sunday dinner when they can be had for " ' apenco a bunch , " or to flavour the potatoes with ' orrin , ' when these can be got " three for tuppence Tho doors -were not yet open , but a considerable c had already gathered together . Somebody , trou ¦ wi th tho infirmity of always chattering , hoped we have a moving exposition of the Gospel . "Oh , not the same man eince that haxidint , " repliod one looked like a gentleman ' s groom . " In what way ventured to ask . " WeU , sir , " Baid ho—just as aa if I had over owned a horse— "he appears llko the ginger had dropped out . " " What a funnybuilding 1 " exclaimed another . "Yea , " comp remarked hia companion , lt it ia an eastern building somewhere in China , £ have beard . " " Gammon
£ n ss won . thKV self , mere with buil ( on ^ , One - tran ot t , men stea , ap The - insi gre < eve to flav red - mu con ey pre a stn a the sal - joy do y th ( and on , lui gr ; by mi ush sir a wj be sh of a , the th - of no in loi a Di of so been in ; th and n » fell st < up pr - nc port , 01 some sp eyes H ns as of this it ex- as . d ( . in . m \ - B was n —• a si that tt into b and t this n 1 ugger t this 1 profane i paused , in an 1 of ' the i archi- . pass nearly i day , stalls Preno Jack ' s le , juat ering deny good three an ?' rowd bled should ho is who ? " I civilly aa if looking lacently — !" ' croaked an ancient mariner , " it ' s no more Chinese than my right hand ' s my left . " " Well , " rejoined the other , deprecatingly , "it'seither Chinese or Burmese , I ¦ won ' t be certain which . " Just then the doors were . thrown open , and a rush took place , everybody for him- ¦ self , and nobody for unprotected females—happily , by a merciful dispensation of Providence , they are furnished » with sharp elbows . In a few minutes the spacious s building was filled in every part , but without any in- ; onvenient crowding . The utmost decorum prevailed , Once inside thcrowas no more squeezing , pushing , - trampling . I was struck by the immense preponderance 7 of the male sex ; mostly mechanics and small trades- . men , a large proportion of whom were young men . In- ' ¦* stead of the aristocratic baldness , you looked down upon Z a platform of smooth , well-oiled , bushy-haired heads . 3 The aristocratic element , indeed , was altogether wanting , - Instead of musk , and lavender , and patchouli , you were a greeted with the fragrance of peppermint , which m the > t evening would probably have been modified with a , o flavour of onion . A general blowing of noses ensued d red and Hue handkerchiefs with large white spots being > - much in yogue with the gentlemen . Then everybody y coughed once or twice a short , dry bark . And then the > y preacher appeared in hid lofty and roomy pulpit , con a structed after the fashion of the Cossack look-outs at a the foot of the Caucasus- He was a young man , with y sallow complexion , a broad , flabby face , sensual about the i- jowls , his hair divided nearly in the middle , and streaked iff down on either side , an affectation of inspiration about ay- , the eyes , and the simper of conscious salvation ad on the lips ; his shoulders , and carcase generally ol lumpy . The service commenced ' . with a short prayer for , ut - grace , to which succeeded a paalm of several verses and by indifferent metre , sung in several keys , as suited each sh singer , mostly sharp , and always loud . Altogether ' a was a considerable noise , and everybody did las or her sse best , particularly a young worn an behind myself , whose , nt shrill , wiry voice shrieked through the windings of a hollow cork-screw ami caused me acute -pain he the pit of my stomach . After the psalm a portion If- of Scripture was read and expounded—coarsely , but ith not unskilfully . And this was followed by a very in loud prayer , illustrating Mr . Grattan ' s charge agamst < a- Dissenters , that they always seem to be ' on terms ; ed of noisy familiarity with their Maker . " It was ng so much praying as talking to the Deity , and point « en ing out what must be done for the congregation during ed the ensuing week ; in fact , until further orders . Some nd more singing , in which my friend the nymph of ttl steam-whistle again distinguished herself , served as up prelude to the sermon . I am bound to confess that is- never for a moment slept , or nodded , or dozed , throug > rt , out its delivery ^—a thing almost unprecedented . I de me spairof giving you any idea of the ¦ preacher s manner res , His voice is possessed of great compass , and in an ordir bed narily sized church would be very effective : the exertion -as of filling so large a building as the Surrey Hall made his it occasionally rather harsh . Ilia enunciation is as ex- as his denunciations are emphatic . He possesses consi ch . derable melodramatic power , and in the delivery in moral platitudes wouia draw down the gallery at ned Victoria or the Princess ' s V he would surpass Charles no- Kean as Rolla . At times he rose to a strain was rude eloquence which held his hearers in suspense , -a stopped even the eternal coughing . Inlentvpic ; hat tenebant . His illustrations were often appropriate into but more familiar and homely than one is accus and tomed to , in these clays of refined taste and good breed this ing . Frequently he broke off into a dialogue with ited imaginary sinner , or with Satan himself , or even ' ffer the Deity . Ho scorned fond of alluding to himself , this his own labours and experiences , and to the attacks fane upon him by hia enemies , who are also the enemies Lsed , God . His language was bold , forcible , and ungramma n an tical . Ever and anon he introduced some doggerel . t of which he spouted with great emphasis and noise , lie tho evidently an ill-educated man , but one possessed chi- energy , self-confidenco , and fluency of speech . He pass never at a loss fo an expression , and ho expresses sarly self clearly , though not with elegance , or after tho day , of Oxford or Cambridge . The subject of his sermon italls Manasseh in the threofold light of a bold sinner , who Pre- what waa right , but purposely did what was wrong—of o no unbeliever , who becomes ao because he has been a sinner jck ' s andfinally . of apenitent . Thesovarious phases of diameter yle , " furnished him with many opportunities of dramatizing juat the position o hia hero , and in this he displayed aring much veraatility as a Woodin . I suspect his doctrine deny not quite orthodox ; I know it is contrary to common good sense , but perhaps that may be an argument in its three However , ho succeeded in making himself master h an nearly two hours of at least 8000 human beings , and ? " mpreaaing upon them tho necessity of . self-examination rowd and repentance . Ilia vulgarities of manner and ubled would not appear aa such to tho bulk of hia hearers , nould are cortainly a matter of minor consideration . 1 he ho is point , of courae , ia tho subject of his teaching , nnd who that I am not competent to decide . Jlut I can y ? " I understand that ho ia likely to do really good ivilly among tho class to which ho belongs , though ho aa if be a ncandal and a nuisance at St . George's , Hanov oking aquare , or in Westminster Abbey . : ontly Your obodiont servant , ing— Paiious Cultok ion !"
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¦ .. • ihb with tne j aem in w a *? e * " « on i on t tuui tiai se q ; -spri nnu run " « ™ J .- ^ a , » "J a »«* *>™ - * ° * ¦*>¦ a tan . . ¦ « & ei , f ™ : « v . « jj «* it ev an of ** at ou pei ac sei ™ ta not m ' - ai ™ co the j > 3 a " I J ; h- ™ - . . ' ™ ^ clear V - 1 ol the » " of » ana ora , 1 - - an with to made of - lines , is of is hiinstylo was know an — as is favour , for of stylo and real on quite acrvico would er-. ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . The verdict lias at length beea delivered in connexion with the inquest on the . bodies of the two men killed at the Nantydeny station of the Hereford Railway . After deliberating for two hours and a half , the jury gave in the annexed decision : — " We are of opin ion that the deceased persons , Edmund Henry Hands and Mark Hicks , came to their deaths near the IN " antyderry station on the Newport , Abergavenny , and . Hereford Railway ] on the 12 th day of November last , owing to a mineral train running into two carriages of the down express train , which had been thrown across the up-line in censequence of the engine having lost her left hand leading spring , and ha-ving run off tlae line at this place . ^ y find a verdict of manslaughter against George King , the running-shed foreman , and also a verdict of man-. slaughter against Nathaniel Sargent , the driver of the ' , down express train . We are of opinion that it is de-[ sirable that the locomotive superintendent should personally examine all candidates for offices in his department , r and that reading and writing should be always cour sidered . as necessary qualifications for such candidat « s . " ; Sargent is supposed to have absconded . "King : .-was I absent in attendance on his duties . Steps were ordered t to be taken for the apprehension of both . They will a take tbeir trials at the next Monmouthshire assizes , to e be held iu . March , 1857 . d A gentleman has been killed at the Lime-street xailt way station , Liverpool , owing to his own carelessness in iv getting out of a carriage before the train had come to a r stop . Slipping between the platform and the wheels , , r he received such severe injuries that , when taken out , lie Ll faintly implor « d those who were assisting not to touch h him , but to let him dio there . lie was removed , toyr-[ t ever , to the Infirmary , where he expired in about half , an hour . j C A circumstance occurred on Wednesday week on the jf Manchester , Sheffield , and Lincolnshire railway , a mile lt on this side of Shelfield , ^\ 'hich might" liave been atn tended with fatal consequences . It appears , from an it account transmitted to the Times by one of thepasy seuger 3 , that the train , in rounding one of the curves st ran off the rails , ploughed up the ground for somedis-13 tan . ee , struck the opposite rails , and at length lost its ot momentum in the gravel , and came to a standstill . t After a delay of more than two hours , the passengers Z . were forwarded by other trains . The writer of the aciti count confidently asserts that the accident was caused ; by the shame fully , defective state « f the rails , added to a the frequent sharp curves . Where the train went off , X the rail was quite Worn down at the side , so ttat in h _ turning- the curve there was not sufficient ' catch' for e the flange of the engine-wheel . , An action for damages , arising out of injury susi ; taincd by the plaintiff , Mr . Bayley , a barrister and on member of the Home Circuit , who was knocked down , aL while getting : into an omnibus in Waterloo-place , by a , ^ cart belonging to the Great Northern Railway Com" _ pnnv ,-has been brought in the Court of Queens Bench , o e and has terminated in a verdict for Mr . Bayley-da-Un . maces , 180 / . It appeared lie had been so severely hurt i « , in the spinal cord that he had since been unable to « f attend to business . Tho defence was that the symp-£ toms-had been exaggerated , - and that the injuries verc ;"" of less importance than had been alleged ; butthecomt T nanydid not deny their liability . —In the same court , lb C i JanicsDver , a blind man , engaged at a factory ; near "L Whitechapel , brought an action against Messrs . J \ ood-• : bridge and Co ., the brewers ( trading under the title of ¦ S Hoaxe and Co . ) , for injuries resulting from the negh-{„ gerico of their servants . Some of the draymen wenad 0 lowering casks of beer in a public-house cellar , and had of guarded the gap by placing empty barrels , c ^ c , agaw ° . it ; but , as it would seem , not suihciently , » rUj « , " 3 who was going along at the time , feeling Ins wayjitj L f L a stick , fell into the cellar , and seriously hurt ono of hi of legs- Thc J y decided in bis favour , and assessed the B ia damages at 47 J . . ,, t hn The Countess of Desart met with a serious accident two while staying at Lord Craven ' s a short time since . Jto wa 9 was thrown from her horse ; but the accident J n ^ J garded slightly until , on her arrival in own . fottrcU } ? an afterwards , it was discovered that the blade-bone « as > T _ broken . Her ladyship is progressing favouraoly , cter George Pawlctt , a man employed by Mr . Hum , « f tM rlZ Market-place , Lincoln , druggist , in the preparation , l vanush , has endured a frightful death . "J ^^ g Jc i » florae boiling turpentine and asphalttim o 0 thefirj J JJ » non so . no was upset about the grate nnd on his cl to ™™ He was immediately enveloped in flames , winch a cW ¦ X woman , who was on tho spot , vainly onetoavourM to ex ,, i of tinnuish by throwing ber worsted shawl ° \ , to ? utferer . Pawlett , finding himself . till vrrnpned jou » J l by the flre , crawled on His hands and kn '¦* tojrui and P ^ sago of considerable length , and renched the Marii real Place , when tho flames were cxt . ngm . sbcd . H > J ' I On had also been fired ; but the nrriva of ^^ mWt luit 0 set matters to rights in that a «« rtcr . /^ Sg for Jvico however , was mortally injured , and , after J "' f ™ f Sd some hours in indescribable agony , died , len >» o ) YCr- mothcrlcsH . child belilnd him . t ( ll 0 V A labouring man , named Kelly , emp loyed at Ore * . Iron Works , near CheaterlloW , ^ "XhSp * some matoTiols into the furnace , from a calcjneu « i ' »• ironstone , when a huge burning mass of tuc ja
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 6, 1856, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06121856/page/4/
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