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Owing To The Heavy Raina Of Late A Large...
"" ~ _ . r of - working man . fell in love 'With a Frencb ?« Sure ? andlolThfm so . * Li ke Joseph , he rey ^ ffwSSis dSing th e ' Ufetline of her husband . 3 ? l ? wd d 2 d suddenFr ; was buried ; exhumed , and ' r - \ ? i ^ Sened - aweni / was foun d in his . stomach ; Jf ° l ile Mrs French had been made hap £ y-but here J £ S ? S £ loSer and his jury to inquire , fte . -young C whom she lusted after was examined , and , in a few weeks after the indulgence of her mad passion ,, she » S ^ d for the wilful murder of her husband ! C ] KSh SmtiSied , when the last mail left New York , Tanuary 24 , to excite the greatest enthusiasm wherever H went the prospects of an Anglo-American alliance Wer ?& g hiening , and the probabilities of American Servention in Europe increasing , ^ Resolutions , and oeiore iu
c & unter resolutions are now vung «« une » uufeet whose fate we shall know probably by the next mail The winter has been very severe , snowrand ice ^ nrlant and all the world out sleighing . The East £ w between New York and Brooklyn , was frozen over during the week . A rather angry correspondence is going on between the President and the Austrian The final arrangements respecting the form , plan , and contents of the works of Dr . Lees , of Leeds ( original and collected , revised and edited by the author ) , ^ having now been made , it only remains that the friends of the project for their publication should complete their canvass for subscribers . They will contain an accurate portrait of « h * author , eneraved by Linton , and several ¦ illustrative
engravings and diagrams . The entire edition will be published , uniform , in three volumes , post octavo , neatly bound and lettered . Volumes one and two will form the first or Temperance " series—including the discussions and ' essays on diet , temperance , physiology , and the scriptural wine question . If preferred , they may be had in parts , per post , as they . are printed , each volume paid in advance . The second , or " Truth-Seeker" seriesy containing the philosophical and exegetical essays , and a popular system of logic , or the method , means , and matter of argument , will form volume three . After the works are issued , the three volumes will only be obtain-¦
able together . ¦ , " ¦ _ . The Society for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge has just published its first annual report . It contains striking instances and opinions in favour of the desirable object the society seeks * But the Morning Post , of January 23 ,-contained in its chronicles of the Amazon tragedy , an additional fact—a fact so curious and astonishing of the want of more widely-diffused knowledge and cheaper neswpapers , that it deserves repetition and permanent record ,- as an historic fact of thetimes . Had any one made any such assertion of the darkness of England in 1852 as that fact reveals , it would have been utterly incredible . The Morning Post relates
that " Notwithstanding the most strenuous exertions of the Southampton Amazon Fund Committee , they experience the utmost difficulty in discovering the families and relatives of those persons who were lost in the Amazon . The Royal Mail Company ' s establisment do not even retaina . list of the crew ; and even if they did , it would not furnish information of where the men resided when ashore . Although the loss of the Amazon has been daily proclaimed and noticed in every newspaper throughout the kingdom for the last foi tnight , persons _ most deeply interested in the event , who live in the vicinity of Southampton , are even now ignorant of the calamity . This appears almost incredible , but it is nevertheless true . It was only on Monday that the committee learnt that
there was a widow with nine orphan children who had claims on them , living at Deer Leap , a few miles from Southampton , in the New Forest . Thousands of the wives ana children of poor seamen cannot read or write , and thousands can never enjoy the luxury of reading a newspaper . Means have been adopted to obtain information of the sufferers by the loss of the Amazon , by desiring the Southampton postmen to acquaint all those poor persons living in their districts , whom they may suspect to have had relatives on board , to attend at the Mail Corripany ' s offices , and give information , after which such information is handed over to the committee . Many a poor creature who had a relative on board has received , from the postman the first announcement of the calamity that has befallen her . "—Reusoner . No . 297 .
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Saturday , January 31 . The news of the morning , especially political , is the announcement in the Times of the long-expected retirement of Lord Broughton from the Board of Control . His successor is Mr . Fox Maule , leaving the War-office at the disposal of the Whigs . Whom will they appoint r Also , in the same leader , the Times reveals what it knows of the new Reform Bill . " The principle of the new Reform Bill is to propose as little as possible , on the speculation that either the House of Commons will accept that little , or will take on itself the responsibility of more . There is to be neither
disfranchisenient nor enfranchisement , as far as regards localities , if we are rightly informed , but only a general enlargement or swamping of the existing constituencies . For the £ 10 householders we are to have £ 5 householders ; for the £ 50 tenants we / are to have £ 20 tenants ; and the notorious boroughs are to be enlarged by copious annexations . On this plan there will not be a single change in the seats — no new metropolitan boroughs—no more representatives for Manchester and Liverpool—none for the score or two large towns now unrepresented—and no obliteration of the names that have brought on the Reform Act the odium of having created more corruption than it destroyed . That , at least , is our present information . We confess that we can hardly believe it . " - ¦ ^ ¦ *
Sir Robert Peel and his colleague were entertained at Tamworth on ' Wednesday . In his after-dinner oration Sir Robert made a tierce attack upon the Whigs and their Reform project . " Was he ( Lord John Russell ) disisterested ? No ; the secret of his reform lay in a lingering thirst for political importance —( ' hear ' and cheers )—& . mean and shabby truckling for party purposes . ( Beneioed cheering . ) Here lay the magnanimous self-denial of a tottering government . Tottering did he say ? Why , that which was and outjht to be intended as a public benefit , was debased into the promotion of personal interest . ( Cheers . ) A family coterie governed the
State . The honours and distinctions of the public •« rvice were not distributed according to the merits of the best men , but were mjiinly reserved for family connections . Take the Cabinet , for instance . What had they there with few exceptions—the Lord Chancellor and the Postmaster-General—but a web , a net-work of family ties ?—( cheers)—the members of which would contract , if they could , within , their own narrow minds and capacities the public weal . And what was the great victory thjey achieved ? They succeeded in destroying the only man that gave character and dignity to their counsels , who alone amongst them could secure reanect abroad and countenance at home . ( Cheers . ) The
Government ejected Lord Palmerston , let Lord Paltnerston eject them—( renewed cheering )—and let him seek in the applause of his fellow-countrymen that which the Government could not expect—that respect and support which his talents , and courage , and mainly British heart , entitled him to enjoy . ( Great cheering . ) And what was the result of this measure on the part of the Government ? Scarcely recovered from the effects of their own audacity , they would fain bolster up their tottering forces with the assistance of the friends of the late Sir Robert Peel ; but he was proud to say that their generous offers were indignantly declined . ( Cheers . ) Was it probable that a ministry , in tho very last gasp of political existence ,
should be successful in inducing their enemies to unite with them , at a moment's notice , to keep them in power ? He would as soon expect to see Mr . Gladstone Prime Minister to the King of Naples—( Imtghler )— or General Changamier aid-ae-oamp to Louis Napoleon , as to suppose that those friends and acquaintances of an enlightened statesman—the relics of a great party—his living parliamentary legacy to his country—should be guilty of such political apostacy . ( Cheers . ) Let them bear in mind how Sir Robert Peel , on the very last ocoasion he addressed the House of Commons , spoke of tho Government . 1 I have not , ' he said , ' tho honour of their personal friendship ; I have never had any political connection tho memorable words
with them . * ( Hear . ) Let « e animate to a reoollcction of the past those who might bo induced to aaorifioo to the hasty diotatca of political ambition their own political antecedents . If the Government had forfeited the confidence of the country , jet them give place to others . Lot a liberal Conservative policy be inaugurated . It would be supported by public opinion ; and surely there are those who , perhnpa even once colleagues , could now , in tho present oriaie , forget former differences , whjoh , after all , if nothing else had ,-time and experience must have modified and soothed ; and uniting their common efforts for the public good , once again rally around the popular atandaia
of a Liberal Conservative policy . But where was the recognized leader ? Where was the man to take the helm , and , supported by able counselors , guide the vessel of State through all dangers ? Scanning the long array of benches in both Houses of Parliament , the eye wandered with fatigue for some fitting object upon which to fix its attention . At length it was arrested by the presence of one whose powerful eloquence , character , abilities , and position , marked him out as the man destined to relieve this country from the slough of despondency . He spoke from conviction ; he was uninfluenced by motives which might thwart his deliberate judgment . He believed he recognised that leader in the man so well known to them all by the name of Stanley . "
Adopting the «» -English suggestion of the Morning Chronicle , the Commissioners of Police have issued an order that the police are to undergo a severe course of infantry drill , previously to going through musketry and other exercises , the same as the troops of the line * They were to commence , says the Herald of yesterday , on Thursday . Did they ? When shall we have the continental system in full force among us ? May it please your lordship to state when will it suit your lordship to introduce passports r
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Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Births. O...
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 28 th of Janukry , at Kiddington , Oxon , the wife of Mortimer BicarUo , Esq .: twins—a boy and girl . On tho 29 lh , at Carlton-giirde ' ne , the Viscountess Goderich : a boil On tho 30 th , at Berkeley-square , tho wifo of John Martin , Esq ., M . P .: a daughter . r r'V ? l 8 t of February , at Camdon-street , Camden-town , the wile of rrofeaoor Spooner : a daughter .
MARRIAGES . On tho 29 th of January , at 8 t , James ' s Church , Westminster , the ltoverend George John Uloomflcld , to Isabella , third daughter of the Lord Uishop of London . On tho 3 rd of February , at 3 t . Botolph ' s , Blahopsgate , James xwor-pott , of Leicester , Esq ., to Ana laubella , eldest daughter of i > npiain JackBon , of the same pltioe . on tho 3 rd , the . Reverend T . P . Rogers , vicar of Bath Easton , womcraot , to Catherine lilizabeth , eldest daughter of John macknrnesn , Keq ,, of Queen-street , Westmlnatcr . n-K " th « 3 rd . » t St . Margaret ' s , Westminster , the Reverend Jnoinne Darker . M . A ., of Queen ' s College , Oxford , and curate ? . Mounslow , to Myra Auguata HunddiBon , nioco of tho lute 'L . uwurd Banks , Ebo ., of JNewcaBtle-on-Tyne .
DEATHS . « r ? i n HYJ 2 ( Jlh of January , General Lewis Grant , K . C . H ., Colonel orthe WinBty-elxth Regiment , lined aeveaty-four . «« J ! . 2 ** » ln Curaon-Btroot , MIbb AguoB Berry , in the ei ghty-eighth , yoar of her nge . On the and of February , nuddenly , from pulmonary apoplexy . John , eldest aon of Major Mainland , lleubury , Olivvliire . n i « l ! ° * i . » ut "UB residence , Afnen-oorner , Paternoster-row , aged llfty-four , Mr . William L . Graven , more than forty years in . ! , < . r ? £° * JJ nd for longperiod the muohesteemedrepieacntnuve , of the firm of Lewia Berger and Sons , London .
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The Hellespont , which anchored off Plymouth yesterday , brings files of Cape papers up to the 28 th . of December , and has performed the shortest passage on record . The war is not one step nearer to a termination . Sir Henry Smith still remains in King William ' s Town , and the hostile Kafirs are cultivating their gardens within sight of head-quarters . The promised expedition had been sent across the river Kei into the territories of Kreli , the chief of
Kafirland , commanded by General Somerset . The latest intelligence informs us that the division had experienced little opposition from the enemy beyond the Kei , and had captured in all about 2500 head of cattle . But the operations had been greatly impeded by very heavy and almost incessant rains , and it was thought that the troops would have to return to King William ' s Town to recruit . General Somerset ' s force , including irregulars , numbers about 4000
men . From Lieutenant-Colonel Eyre ' s division no later intelligence had been received ; but it was reported that he had been very successful in the capture of cattle . The Forty-third Regiment , about 600 strong , Lieutenant-Colon el Skip with commanding , had arrived at King William ' s Town from East London , together ' with small reinforcements of the Twelfth Lancers . The regiment made a fine appearance , the officers and men being mostly young men , and in excellent health and spirits .
The enemy within the colony had taken advantage of the absence of most of the troops to make a daring attack upon the town of Alice , and another upon the Fingo settlement of Fort Peddie . The attack upon Alice was made on the 11 th instant , in considerable force , the number of Kafirs being supposed to be about eight hundred , of whom nearly two hundred were mounted . They shot six Fingoes , and carried off above thirty head of cattle ; but were finally repulsed with the loss of a few of their numbers . On the following day a party of Hottentots were repulsed With loss , in an attempt to carry off some cattle from the vicinity of Fort Hare . From Fort Peddie , a few days afterwards , the Kafirs drove off a small number of cattle belonging to the Fingoes .
It is reported that the chief Seyolo is willing to come to terms , and that he accuses the " Prophet " Umlangeni of having deluded him . Rumours of this kind have been before spread , and have hitherto proved to be undeserving of credit .
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Mr . Gladstone has published "An Examination of the Official Reply of tho Neapolitan Government . " Experiments are being made at Woolwich in the adaptation of rifle grooves to nine-pound cannon . The jury had not on Thursday returned their verdict against the Kellys , charged with the murder of Bateson . They were locked up accordingly . A protest against the decrees of M . Bonaparte , confiscating the Orleans property , appears in the Indepondance Beige , signed " Dupin , De Montmorency , J ) e Montalivet , Laplagnc-Barris , Scribe , " testamentary executors of Louis Philippe .
A letter from the Under-Secretary in the Home-offico to the inchoate Newcastle Rifle Club , informs those gentlemen and the public that Ministers are considering whether they shall sanction tho formation of rifle clubs , and therefore declining to state whether tho Newcastle Itiflo Club will bo sanctioned by authority . . t A deputation from tho Association of Employers of Operative Engineers , consisting of Mr . Field ( of the firm of Messrs . Maudnlay , Sons , and Field ) , Mr .
ltavenhill ( of the firm of Miller , Ruvenhill , and Co . ) , Mr . Pcnn ( of tho firm of John Penn and Son ) , Mr . T . Fair bairn , ( of the firm of Messrs . W . Fairbairn « nd Sons } , and Mr . J . Blyth ( of the firm of J . and A . Blythl , had an interview with Sir George Grey yesterday , nt the Home-office . We suppose this portends mischief . So many supporters of the doctrines laid down in the " strictly confidential " circular could not meet the chief of tho Homc-offloo without an aim ; and , with those doctrines , they can hove but one .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 7, 1852, page 13, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07021852/page/13/
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