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A FIRE FOUNTAIN. (Prom the Correspondenc...
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"MODEL" LODGt&G HOUSES! Dennis Daily, Ca...
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The Emigration Swindle. The Investigatio...
A WIFE "BY COMMISSION . " a cube of a rather uncommon character was brought into o , l . Sheriffs' Small Debt Court in Glasgow , last Thursday k Mr Scott and Mr . Deans met once in a _spirit-TSlax and had some conversation over a gill , respecting a _f widow upon whom Mr . Scott had cast matrimonial 8 Mr Scott afterwards married the widow , and forth-X received the following choice document : — " Mr . Thomas Scott , merchant and manufacturer , Nelson-street , _Tradeston . " To Archibald Deans , Commission Agent , No . 10 , Albion-street , Glasgow . " 1852 . _ , _-, " June 7 . —To sum agreed to be paid by you to me commission or agency , for the purpose of introducing you to Mrs . Margaret Gray or Irvine , now Scott , your present wife , with a view to _marriage between you and her , and using my influence thereanent at your special request , which services I undertook and performed , and the marriage took place in consequence 301 . _e Restricted to . £ 868
Mr . Deans insisted that a regular bargain had been made , that he had got Mr . Scott a wife worth from 2001 . to 3001 ., and that the sum he claimed was nothing more than a fair per centage or commission for his services . ' Mr . Scott of course maintained that the " commission" was a joke , in which view the sheriff acquiesced .
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A FIRE FOUNTAIN . ( Prom the Correspondence of the New Tbrk Tribune . ) Waiohinu , Hawaii , March 28 , 1852 . On my return to * this place from Honolulu , a few weeks since , I found an immense volcanic eruption in progress , on the base of Mauna Loa . I arrived on Friday , Feb . 28 , and on the Monday following started with Rev . Mr . Kinney to visit the new volcano . We took four natives with us , to carry our provisions and clothes , for , since the region through which we passed is an uninhabited wilderness , we had to provide against hunger and cold , sleeping in canoes and wigwams of our own construction . We were two days and a half reaching the crater , a distance of seventy-five miles from Mr . Kinney ' s station . We walked most of the
way . We heard the roaring of the volcano at the distance of forty or fifty miles , and saw its smoke as it arose in an immense column at the base , and spread out into a magnificent arch above , presenting a grand appearance , especially at night , when lighted up by the masses of red hot lava below . But no language can describe the scene which opened upon . us when , on approaching within about two miles of the new crater , we ascended an eminence which overlooked both the crater and the
river of fire that flowed from it down the mountain side . Our emotions were those of mingled admiration , surprise , and terror . There played a fountain of liquid fire of such dimensions and such awful sublimity , shaking the earth with such a constant and deafening roar , that no picture of the classic realms of Pluto , drawn by Grecian or Homan hand , can give you any adequate conception of its grandeur . A few figures way assist your imagination in its attempts to paint the scene . I made tbe following calculations , after careful observations during nearly twenty-four hours , from different points within a mile of the crater .
The diameter of the crater , which has been entirely formed by this eruption , is about 1000 feet , its height from 100 to 150 feet . One part of the crater was raised 50 feet during our presence on the spot . The height of the column of red-hot liquid lava , constantly sustained above the crater , varies from 200 to 700 feet , seldom falling below 300 . Its diameter is from 100 to 300 feet , anel rarely perhaps reaching 400 feet . The motions of this immense jet of fire were beautiful in tho extreme , far surpassing all the possible beauties of any water fountain which can bo conceived ; constantly varying in form , iu dimensions , in colour , and intensity ; sometimes shooting up and tapering off like a symmetrical Gothic spire , 700 feet high ; then rising in one
grand mass , 300 feet in diameter , and varied on the top and sides by points and jets , like the ornaments of Gothic architecture . Tho New Yorker , who , as ho gazes on tho beautiful spire of Trinity Church , can imagine its elimensions increased threefold , anel its substance ; _converted into red-hot lava , in constant agitation _, may obtain a . tolerable ielea . of emo aspect of this terrific fire fountain . But he shoulel stand at the foot of Niagara Falls , or on the re > cky _jjhore of tho Atlantic , when tho sea is lushed by a _tenqiest , in order to ge : t the most terrific element in this sublime : composition of the Great Artist . For you may easily conjecture that tho dynamical force necessary to raise : 200 , 000 to 500 , 000 tuns of lava ut once into the air woulel neit be silent in its operations .
The eruption broke out em the morning e > f the 18 th of March , at about three o ' clock , anel e : ontiuue : eI twenty days . » The crater is situated on tho base of Mauna Lou , _alx . ut thirty-five miles from Hilo , and twenty-five from the old crater of Kilanen , Its height , ubovo tht ; sea is about 7000 feet . It has formed a stream , winding down the mountain side , with several branches
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thirty or forty miles long , from one-fourth to two _mdes broad , having a depth , in some places , of 200 or 300 feet . I was at the crater when the action was the most intense , and I judged the amount of lava thrown out of the crater and the several fountains below was not less than one tun a second during the day and night I was there , and for several days before and after it . The people of Hilo were much alarmed at one time , as the lavra stream was flowing toward them . But could they have seen the configuration of the country
above them , as I did , they would have found their fears of dangerfrom _thelavastreamto be groundless , as it could not reach them without runuing over quite an elevated spur of Mauna Kea , or , otherwise running round the spur , through a part of the : district of Puma . In the first place , it must violate the laws of fluids and run up-hill , and in the second place , it would seek the sea in Puma rather than turn back toward Hilo . But the danger is now past—the grand exhibition is closed . Where the next will open we know not .
"Model" Lodgt&G Houses! Dennis Daily, Ca...
" MODEL" _LODGt _& G HOUSES ! Dennis Daily , Cain Mahony / 'Catherine M'Gair , from Church-lane , St . Giles's , appeared before Mr . Henry on Wednesday , in answer to a charge under the New _Common Lodging-House Act . Inspector Reason had visited the house , No . 6 , in that lane , at midnight . In the room occupied by Daily he found fourteen persons sleeping on the floor , on four beds composed of matting and shavings , saturated with filth and vermin . The first bed contained a woman , a girl of 16 , a boy of 14 , and three boys from 8 to 10 years of age ; in the second bed , a man who slept with his mother , and paid 8 d . a week for
the accommodation ; in the third bed , a woman , a girl of 13 , a girl of 10 , a boy of 6 , and a boy of 8 , for which the woman paid Is . a week ; in the fourth bed , a man , his wife , a girl of 11 , a girl of 9 , a boy of 6 , and a girl of 4 , for which Is . per week was paid . There were _apo bedsteads , and no partitions to separate the sexes . He understood from Daily that he paid 3 s . a week to his landlord for the room , ¦ which had never been registered at Scotland-yard , owing to his refusal to obey the new regulations , which had been repeatedly explained to him . His room was only fit for six persons , but on one occasion five families had been found there , consisting of twenty-four persons . There was no water in the house .
Daily was proved never to be engaged in any work , and to do nothing for his living . He said he could not get the lodgers out ; but he'd clear them off at once , if the court would acquit him . Mr . Henry said that great pains had been taken to make him understand the obligations of the Act . All that such men seemed to care for was , to live rent free , or make a profit by their lodgers and live in idleness , instead of seeking to support themselves and their children by labour . Some example must be made in this case , and he should , therefore , inflict a fine of 40 s ., or eight days' imprisonment in default . Daily said he had not got 5 s . or 5 s . worth of goods in the world . He was committed _.
In _Mahony's room , there were found four beds on the floor , without divisions ; and in the first a man who paid 6 d . a week ; in the second , Mahony himself , his daughter aged 14 , a boy of 16 , a boy of 14 , and a boy of 10—also his children ; in the third , a man and his sister , aged 22 , who paid Is . a-week ; and in the fourth , a woman who paid Ud . a week . He said he paid his landlord 3 s . a week for tho room . As this man had got rid of his lodgers , and promised to havo no more , Mr . Henry deferred his decision . M'Gair said she had lived upon her lodgers for thirtyfive yearf _^ having been a widow twenty years . She was a
very old woman , and incapable of labour . It was stated that she occupied three rooms , had beds anel _bedsteaels , but no partitions to separate families . She paid a rent of 8 s . a-week , and , at tho timo when the officers visited her , her _loelgews wero paying her 12 _* . 9 d . por week . Mr . Henry : You aro making a profit of 4 s . fid . a-week out e > f yt _> ur rooms , and you cannot do this without complying with the Act . Tho defendant : Why , your honour , I have 3 s . a-week to pay for cleaning tho rooms , anel mighty little ia thewo left to live upon , for sometimes I'll ne _> t have so many _loelgeirs in the house , and how'll I put up partitions P
Mr . Henry _consieloroel that she could elo _se > out of tho profits sho was making ; he thought her a vewy obstinate woman . However , he would give her a wee ; k either to comply with tho Act or get riel of hew lodgera .
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MLSC E L L A N E O U 8 . Thc Orkney electiem has terminated in the elefeat _eif the Lord Advocate , antl in the triumph of Free-trade . Mr . _Dunelofl polled 227 _veites , and Mr . _Inglis 1 _JM ; giving Mr . DnnehiH ji majority of 33 .
Mr. Touhniu Smith Has Forwarded It) Us U...
Mr . Touhniu Smith has forwarded it ) us _u " proof " copy of his new pamphlet em the Yon Peck affair , _entitliel The , Pacta of the Case . From a cursory _glain-e—all that we are ; able : te > bestow upon it this week' —we should infer that , it , contains conclusive evidence upon tho subject , showing that the ; saiel Vein _Hee-k was an imposture ; . Hut we : are compcllcel to defer w full consideration e > f the new evidence until next week .
Count D'Orsay Dieiel In Pans On We:Dne>H...
Count D'Orsay dieiel in Pans on We : dne > Helay morning Tony Johannot , tho celebrated artist , died on Wednesday
Count D'Orsay Dieiel In Pans On We:Dne>H...
Lord and Lady John Russell were fited on Friday week by the inhabitants of Callander , in which village they have taken up their residence , by a general illumination . A procession escorted the noble family through the village to the front of their residence , where they were entertained with Highland songs and dances . A project has been brought forward by Mr . Thomas Woollcombe , Chairman of the South Devon Railway Company , for forming public gardens for the use of the inhabitants of Plymouth , Devonport , and _Storehouse . The gardens- are to cover an area of twenty or thirty acres , and are to comprise a Crystal Palace covering an aero of ground . Mrs . Wilson , the widow of the well known singer of Scotch songs , died suddenly on Saturday last at Portobello , while bathing . She plunged suddenly into tho water , and appeared no more till she was taken out lifeless . The cause of death seemed to be apoplexy .
Mr . R . W . Mackay , an English traveller , was stopped on the frontiers of Lombardy by the Austrian police , although his passport was perfectly regular . But it appears that he might have proceeded had he chosen to give up the following books , which he had in his carpetbag : —Murray ' s Handbook for North Germany , an Italian vocabulary , Keller ' s Map of Switzerland , Hawthorne ' s House with Seven Gables , and a volume of the English translation of Plato . The Jndex Expurgatorius must be extensive in this region 1 The completion of the Freemasons' school for female
children , which has been built on Wandsworth-common , was celebrated on Monday . "Under the presidency of the Earl of Zetland , M . W . G . M ., supported by the Earl of Yarborough , R . W . D . G . M ., by the provincial grand masters , the officers and members of grand lodges , and the officers and members of provincial grand lodges , a splendid and imposing masonic procession encompassed the new edifice , and with the peculiar rites of the order devoted it to the purposes for which it had been constructed . After which a grand lodge was held , and various otner ceremonies performed , in which the chilelren took part .
The Rev . F . G . Lee , well known for many miles round Manchester as a gentleman interested in the welfare of the working classes , wrote several pamphlets on the subject of a strike which , in September , 1850 , took place at Pendleton , near the chapel where he ministers ; and this enraged Sir Elkanah Armitage , and offended many of the wealthy men in the body of which Mr . Lee is a minister . New Windsor chapel , Salford , of which place Mr . Lee is the minister , has lately been undergoing extensive alterations , involving a very great outlay , and , as is usual in such cases , Mr . Lee has had to wait upon a number of gentlemen to solicit subscriptions towards the repairs , and several who on former occasions gladly and handsomely assisted the reverend gentlemen , have this time declined all help . But Mr . Wood , of the firm of Wood and Wright , of Moseley-street , Manchester , had the honesty to tell Mr . Lee that his not helping the people at New Windsor was because of the course Mr . Lee had taken on behalf of the working people !
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The Committee for raising a testimonial to Nadaud , the ex-representative of the people in the National Assembly , now a working mason in London , beg to acknowleelge the receipt of a subscription from a few sympathising friends at Blackrock , Lancashire . A meeting of delegates from factory operatives was held on Sunday last , in the Cotton Tree Inn , Great Ancoatsstreet , Manchester , and the following resolution was carried : — " That our endeavours during tbe present year to vinelicate the present factory law , and to secure the necessary improvements , have the approval of tho majority of the factory workers represented at tbis meeting , as evidenced by the reports of their delegates here assembled ; we therefore plcdgo ourselves , should any further agitation bo necessary to accomplish the above objects , to urge upon our respective constituencies te ) proviele such funels as may be necessary , anel thus make the present Factory Act effective for its intende : d purposes . "
Tho Orinoco Arrived At Southampton From ...
Tho Orinoco arrived at Southampton from tho West Indies , on Monday , with a cargo of _previous metals and stones , worth 8 , 600 , 000 dollars . A body of 800 emigrants started from Gravcsenel on Sunday , on hoard tho Diuapore , the Admiral , nnd the ; Chalmers , for Port Phillip . Tho Chalmers was fitted up on Mrs . Chisholm ' s group or family colonization system , and carrie : d 250 emigrants . The ; Northumberland started tho next day with thirty-six _distressed needle : _weanem , belonging to the Female _Immigration Society .
A small _vesse'l in faking up her _aiu-. hew on the : morning of Friday week , br ought up the ; elce .: trio cable :, which has been laid'down between _Donaghadeu : aud Portpatriok . The ; captain , supporting it , to be ; a _wimmon cable , cut , e > _il anel carrieel away about a quarter of a mile ' s length of if . On his arrival at Lame , he ; found out what , he had elone ; , and Rent the ; cable ; at one : e ; te Belfast . If is saiel that ( ho mischief will be ; e : asily rectified . Two or three cases havo oe : curroel in which the stremgt . h of the Hccfrio < : able _* s havo been similarly tested . Pilot , _bueiyt . will prevent any similar occurrence : in future * .
Iho rowing match for a livewy and budge ; , bee ( iie : at . hotl by Thomas Doggott , a famous e : omodian , in coiiininmonition of the ; ucccssiem to the ; fhreme _; of tho family of our _pre'sont Quoem , was helel on Me > _ftday , the ; appointed elay l ) e : ing flu ; 1 st of August . Sums of money , partly given by tho _Fishmongews' Company , and partly ariNing from a boqutmt , oi * flu : late ; Sir W . Jolillo _, arc awarded to the first six of the ; _competitors . Tbe race is _fVe . ut tho Swan at London-bridge to the Swan at _CIidIhuh . Tho first place was won by Chariot . Constable , who in in the- ) employ of Messrs . Hemlton anel _Wylel , and who built his own boat .
H . M . _steamew Harpy , fifty-eight days out , from Rio , has at last boon ho / _irel of at _I' _^ ayal , which _nho bail re : uche : el in greml , _elistresH from want , of water , fuel , anel provisions . Sho is _bounel to Kngland , with invalids , from the ; South American anel Brazils _sepinelreins . If is really a _shtvmo
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 7, 1852, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_07081852/page/11/
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