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July 8, 1854.] THE LEADER. 635
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Kossuth addressed a meeting at Glasgow, ...
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There is great doubt after all whether O...
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Mr. Charles Mnthows received jiulgmont, ...
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Some of the cases of murder which have r...
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1 he I\Jo)ti(<iur of Tuesday contains tl...
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From a parliamentary return just publish...
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The Slicjlekl Times, July 1, unys:—" It ...
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It Ia Rumoured, Nnd It In Mud On Credibl...
June , 1351 . He died on the 28 th of June , at the age of three years and twenty-six days . Another Minister of the Anglican Church , the Reverend W . 'Wilkinson , of Sheffield , has betaken himself to . streetpreaching . Peterborough , and Sheffield are blessed ! The Bishop of Bath and Wells was " confirmed" at Bowchurch ) on Sunday ; and did homage to tie Queen for his see on Monday . On Wednesday , a Court of Directors was held afc the East India House , When Lieutenant-General the Hon . George Anson was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Company ' s forces on the Fort St . George establishment , and second Member of Council at that Presidency . The Scots Greys left Nottingham on Monday—" those crev horses" being ordered on " foreign service . " that is
service in the East . Before they marched , Notttingham , worthily representing the feeling of England , met them in its market-place , and there , through its mayor , Mr . Reckless , passed round the " loving cup" and kept up a gallant custom . To the men ale was distributed— " Nottingham ale "—not the worst in England . There were 30 , 000 people present . Mr . Albert Smith has received from the Queen a diamond pin , as an acknowledgment of the pleasure she experienced during her recent visit to the " Ascent of Mont Blanc . " Mr . Gladstone has been unwell . Towards the end of last week he had an attack of chicken-pox , which has kept him from the House . Ho is now recovering . The Duke « f Devonshire is also getting tbe better of his attack of paralysis at Brighton . ' - .
The widow of Ney , the bravest of the brave , died at Pans on Monday last . The Turkish Ambassador presented to the Emperor of the French , this Week , Mustapha Bey the brother , and Omar Bey , the nephew of Omar Pasha .
July 8, 1854.] The Leader. 635
July 8 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 635
Kossuth Addressed A Meeting At Glasgow, ...
Kossuth addressed a meeting at Glasgow , on Wednesday , in support of his views of the duty of England in the pending conflict . Those views , well known to our readers , were advocated by M . Ifossnth with his accustomed eloquence and force . The meeting resolved that we ought not to ally or compromise ourselves with Austria , and that we should restore Poland . The 4 th of July was celebrated in England ; by Mr . George Peab p dy , a worthy citizen of the United States , by a dinner at Richmond . It was tho seventy-eighth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence . Among the guests was Sir James Emerson Tenpent , and tho toast he proposed was the memory of Washington .
There Is Great Doubt After All Whether O...
There is great doubt after all whether Odessa is blockaded with sufficient rigour ; and the more than suspicion of laxity , and the obvious advantage which uncertainty is to neutrals , causes great dissatisfaction among traders . Last week the arrivals of specie were unusually largeabout S 50 , OQ 0 ? ., including 40 , 600 * . froni Russia . The agitation which slumbers often , but never dies , against Sunday trading in liquors , showed itself last week in the House of Lords . A petition , praying that the sale of liquors on a Sunday may bs prohibited , and signed by the Archbishop of Canterbury , tlie Bishop of London , and 1 £ 9 other priests -was presented to the House of Lords . The " Omar Pasha" has been adopted as tho sign of a new bcershop near the infantry barracks , Windsor . [ Will he succeed the omnipresent Marquis of Granby of the last century ?] The June returns of tho numbers attending the Museum of Ornamental Art at Mnrlborough House , show an increase
of 7956 over thoso of last year : the total number is 13 , 333 . The merchants engaged in tho tobacco trade have agreed toclose their business at two o ' clock on ( Saturdays . Our import of rags for making paper varies trom 7000 ) to 10 , 000 tons in a year ; a return just issued shows that last year it was 9687 tons . Our export lias seldom exceeded 600 tons , but in 1852 it suddenly rose to 17-14 tons , and in 1853 no less than 2462 tons , almost all British and Irish , were exported . A set of old coins , collected by tho . lato Mr . Cuff , and disposed of by Sothoby and Wilkinson , haa realised tho largo amount of 7054 ? . Recent explorations at Pompeii have brought to light a new bath-house larger than thnt discovered in 1821 , A moro valuable discovery is that of a piece of glass shaped Hko ft magnifying glass . Somo intelligence of tho state of the harvests in different countries has been received ; and the crops nro described aa abundant in France , Algeria , Tuscany , and Portugal .
Mr. Charles Mnthows Received Jiulgmont, ...
Mr . Charles Mnthows received jiulgmont , on Saturday , in tho Bankruptcy Court . Ncurly all tho creditors petitioned for a high class ccrtificrito for him . Mr . Commissioner Fane , in reviewing the case , oxonornted Mr . Mathcws from everything but " tho greatest of all faults , " ho had almost said crimes—that of ily in ^ in tho face of tho law and sotting up his own ideas of right instead of its provisions : in other words , Mr . Mnthows , on two occasions , renewed debts from which ho wua legally fro © . H « gave u Jirat-cUtaa certificate with pleasure . ( Ajiphuao . ' ) Two actions for JamngoH fur seduction wore successfully prosecuted in tho Court of Common l'loan , on Monday . Tho firnt tvns extremely simple . Jauo Griffiths , ngod Vfl , wont to Iceop house for Mr . Tbi'tgon , a toyshoplcooper , in
Buhopsgaio-Wnnout , while Mrs . Tcetgon win in the country . She went on tho 11 th April , 18 M : on tlm 2 nd May , ToelROii , who liad taken « wny tlio key of lior room , camo in nt night . Ho repeated his visits . No ono w « h in tho house except i \ n old woman nnd a ecrvunt ( jiil , alcc-piim tit n distance . On tho Hth Mny . she wont away . Jn tlio January fullmvinfi lior father turned her out of doom , ll , was contended lhal tlioro wan no Ions of aorvico to tlio father . Lord Chief JiVttico Jems « i » id ) . hat Iobh of mu-vioo i » a fiction of luw i ' or providing a romody . Verdict , duniauoa 26 ? . 1 ha other case wan singular , laubolla Forman met . Dufonr , a I ' ronchmiui , in Kooont-Blreot , ono Sunday afternoon , in December , 1802 . DutW nukud hor to " walk" with * tim ;
she declined , but made an appointment for the same evening-Dufour took her to his private house ; they partook of sherry ; and "he succeeded in seducing me , " said Miss Isabella Fonnan . He took her home ; -ha mot her again by appointment ; went with him to Verey's ; she . passed several nights and days at his lodgings ; and he brought sweetmeats , but not a- silk dress he promised , and declared he would take care of her if anything happened . A baby was born . Miss Forman is 29 ; Mr . Dnfonr 32 , and a married man . The defence set up was that Dufour , who had no reason to suppose that he was a seducer , wa 3 made a victim in an action for seduction . Chief Justice Jervis told the jury that the verdict must be for the plaintiff . It is not necessary in order to give foundation to the action that the woman should be a virgin ; but it was not an aggravated case , and in estimating damages they must take all the circumstances into account . Damages , 50 ? .
Some Of The Cases Of Murder Which Have R...
Some of the cases of murder which have recently shocked the public were disposed of , on Thursday , at the Central Criminal Court . Anne Alice Seago , the woman who killed her step-son , on a Sunday afternoon , by subjecting him to brutal ill-usage , beating him , throwing him across the room , knocking him down , & c ., has been found guilty of manslaughter , and sentenced to transportation for life . Henry Simmons , the man who murdered Kosina Murray , his landlady , has been acquitted on the ground of insanity , and ordered to be detained . During tbe past fortnight the chief magistrate at Bow-street has been called upon , almost daily , to issue his warrant for the apprehension of convicts who have- been liberated under the ticket-of-leave system . They have been generally brought by the warrant-officers from Edinburgh , Aberdeen , Exeter , Isle of Wight , and . other distant places , and then conveyed , back to Dartmoor , Portland , & c , to undergo the remainder of the term for which they had been Sentenced to penal servitude .
The investigation into the cause of tho death of the child Richardson , at the Free Hospital , has been continued this week , From the evidence of Mr . Curcenven , who performed & post-mortem examination of the body , we leam that Mr . Cooke , the operator , missed tbe bladder and cut into the urethra ; that there was a stone in the bladder , which Mr . Curcenvgn took out and produced . The medical m < jn examined differed in opinion as to whether the operation was unskilfully performed or not , but the weight of testimony acquitted Mr . Cooke of great want of skill . From the evidence of Mr . Steele , the solicitor , we learn that he paid the 1007 . to Evans on his own responsibility , and at his own discretion , his object being to prevent a publicity that would injure the hospital . But he did not pay it until Evans had shown him a document sighed by the father of the child withdrawing the inquest .
Lines , the industrious workman , who put the legs of his termagant wife on the fire , as a punishment for the burning of his trousers , has been sentenced to six weeks imprisonment , by the Assistant Judge at the Middlesex Sessions , who gave this lenient punishment in consideration of the repeated provocations of the wife . It seems that Latour , tlie French aeronaut , who insanely went up in a parachute attached to a balloon , and descended therefrom in this dangerous vehicle , did not alight safely , but fractured his ribs . ' Mrs . Emma Smitho , a Brighton person , has been sent to prison for cruelty to a pupil . Mrs . Smithc kept a schooL . and among her pupils was a little girl named Browne , only three years old . The child was dirty in her habits , and Smitho was inhuman in her notions of reformatory discipline .
Her idea of improving the little thine ; in cleanliness was to strip her naked , and in that state to sfiut her up in the coalcellar ; or to throw as many as four pails of water over her , and givo her no food . Surely pur teachers should be sent to reformatories and traininginstitutions . Two old houses on Saffron-hill , in process of demolition , fell down on Tuesday , and six men wero buried in tlio ruins ; Ono was killed , three had their limbs fractured , and two were dug out , not much injured . Mr . JbWrgus O'Connor has a sister , Harriet O'Connor . Sho is in deep distress , and applied this week to the Murvlcbono magistrates for rolief . blic imputes her poverty to tho detention oiLher brother in a lunatic asylum , which prevents her from obtaining properly . Ono of tho policemen employed at the Crystal Palace has been committed to prison Ibv stealing a silver spoon . Isabel and Mary Itussell , two young ladies , went down to
tlie bottoh near Iuncnug , life , to bathe . Doth wure drowned . It is conjectured that one got into docp \ v : itor ; and that the other perished in trying to assist her sister , Mr , E . C . Lutird illustrated tho neglect of tho Sonthumptort Harbour Commissioners last wqqIc , by Ins death . A part of tho town quay is quite unprotected and unlit ; Mr . Lunrd , a near-sighted person , going to soo » omo friends off to Jersey , at midpight , walked ink ) the water , ami was drowned . Tho jury recommonded tho commissioners to provide , some protection against aucli disasters . A corpulent German lady tvbusod tlio Russian Government nj St . Petersburg . Ono day she was suiumoiiod to tlio police-altfce , and loctureil by tlio prefect ; and before oho could roply who siinlc through tlio ilwnl . Nothing was seon of hor but her anus and crumpled clothes , and in tluit position thirty blows were dealt below . Ai ' ier this she ruse again niul wnu bowed out ,
1 He I\Jo)Ti(<Iur Of Tuesday Contains Tl...
1 he I \ Jo ) ti (< iur of Tuesday contains tlio following : — " Somo nerHoiib luvo attributed to tlio ( iovernmciit an active intorlorcuco with reniioet to tlio qucuiion of Uwjiing tho Sunday us a Stiljlmth . Isovur Imti tlm Government had thin thought j It diiiirci Unit tlio roliL ; iim « l . » w tilioulj be observed ; it . h « I & evurj'whoni the oxintipfo j but it itotthvr winlios nor ou ^ ht l »> do inoro ; thnt U i \ n- every one a quest ion of free conaeioncis , whUih uiluiita uoitlior eoiisiruiiu nor imiui ' ul . ition . " The UrUitth Ahuoflntion arc to meet , nt Liverpool tliis jcar , tho Hurl of iliurowby plodding . Tlio lirett gunen \ l uiiii'liiifj will bo hold at ligln u ' oliuk i \ m . oh tlie ii « tli ui' Sopteniber , wliou tli « proaideut will deliver his iiddrcsM : « imt tliu luat on
Wednesday , the 27 th of September , when the association will be adjourned to its next place of meeting . Evening meetings will talre place for discourses and general conversation . Professor Owen has promised to conduct one- of thesa discourses ; but there will be no regular lectures . Excursions have been arranged , but these are not sufficiently matured to enable us to report upon them . However , the salt mines of Northwich , and the harbour works at Holyhead , with the great tubular bridges between this and Anglesea , are likely to be visited . There will be several soirees , either in the Philharmonic-hall or Towu-hall , during the meeting , and a dinner before the adjournment , doubtless , as usual . —Liverpool Times . It has long Dem a desideratum in the adaptation of fine art to the refined wants of daily life , as well as for purposes of
science , that works of sculpture should be capable of being produced at a cheap rate . Many processes have been tried to render plaster solid ; but none has hitherto proved in every respect successful , the requisite degree of transparency not having been obtained . Dr . EmiT Braun has at length succeed edj we are told , in the production of a material adapted to plastic purposes which affords the same sharpness of outlines as plaster of Paris , is scarcely inferior in whiteness to the finest statuary marble , and even snrpasssit in impermeability' of surface , being perfectly impervious to wet , and capable of resisting all inclemencies of weather The inventor has already exhibited several busts and statues of this composition , which have been viewed by the sculptors and artists of Rome , who are
un ' animous m tleir opinion as to the beauty and value of the material , the fracture of which even presents a crystallised structure . This material is well adapted for the most delicate objects as for -works of colossal size ; the former exhibiting the utmost refinement of execution , whilst the latter proves that it is capable of resisting any degree of weight arising from the bulk of the objects themselves . In this material fac-sinulies of the most beautiful monuments of ancient or modern times , architectural ornaments , & c ., may be reproduced at a price not greatly exceeding that of plaster casts . Thus not only houses and museums ^ but also gardens and parks , and all open court-yards , or spaces destined for decorative purposes , may be adorned with the finest works of sculpture vrbich . the world affords . —The Builder .
From A Parliamentary Return Just Publish...
From a parliamentary return just published , it appears that 146 , 882 persons paid income-tax under schedule D in the year ending April 5 , 1853 . Of these 33 persons possessed more than . 50 , 000 Z . per annum , 373 , from 10 , 000 « . to 50 , 000 ? .-, 664 , from 5000 f . to 10 , 000 ? . ; 380 , from 4000 ? . to 5000 ? . ; 683 , from 3000 Z . to 4000 k ; 1456 , from 2000 ? . to 3000 ? . ; 4843 , from 1000 ? . to 2000 ? . ; 815 , above 900 ? . ; 1709 , above 800 ? . ; 2004 , above 700 Z . ; 3021 , above 600 ? . ; 52 G 0 , above 500 ? . ; 7187 , above 400 ? . ; 14 , 679 , above 300 ? . ; 30 , 142 , above 2 O 07 f ; 40 , 473 , above 150 ? . ; and 33 , 158 , below that amount . The four ' classes which contribute the most to the tax are those from 150 ? . to 200 ? ., from 200 ? . to 300 ? ., from 1000 ? . to 20 Q 0 ? ., and from 10 , 000 ? . to 50 , 000 ? ., each of which pays nearly the same suin on the whole . Under schedule E 49 , 800 persons paid- income-tax , of whom 54 paid on incomes of over 5000 ? . a . year , and 21 , 226 on incomes under 150 ? .
A general rneeting of the committee of the Society for the Preservation of Life from Drowning , was held at ho offices , John-street , Adelphi , on Thursday . Mr . TChapman , F . R . S ., deputy-cnairman , presided . Various pecuniary rewards were granted for saving life on the coasts . The attention of the committee was afterwards directed to tlio necessity of providing , without delay , carriages for eight lifeboats which it had recently placed on different parts of the coast . A carriage is now being constructed , under tho direction of the institution , by Messrs . Ransomo and Sims , of Ipswich , which , with , the exception ; of its cost , which we understand will bo upwards of 100 ? ,, is
likely to answer the purpose admirably . Tlio committee sanctioned tho sale of a considerable portion of the small funded property of the society to meet the expenses on lifeboats , boatliouses , & c . They earnestly appealed to tho public for increased pecuniary siipport , to enable them to carry on successfully tlio operations of tUo institution , in which appeal wo cordially join , for we believe that few societies are more deserving of support than this is , considering its really national and benevolent objects . Mr . Hamilton Fitzgerald having been announced as giving the liberal donation of 100 guineas , and a grant in aid of the Ilartlepool seamen's lifeboat voted , the proceedings closoJ .
The Slicjlekl Times, July 1, Unys:—" It ...
The Slicjlekl Times , July 1 , unys : — " It seems thnt when supplies arc required the Board of Ordnance send out to contractors lihts of urtielea so multifarious that only a very limited number of persons—factors —can entertain them , and tlint theso factors find out where the requisitegoods can be had at tho lowest prices nnd shape their tenders accordingly . Under such a system as this tha quality of tho gootla is altogether ft secondary consideration . Tho proper course , it is obvious , would bo for tho 15 oui' < l of Ordnnnco to classify tho articles and invite tenders ) for Sheih ' eld goods from Sheffield manufacturers , liinnlnglmm wares from Birmingham manufacturers , ami tlio liko in all tho other department ;) of stores . S . ) far from tlhniniahinff coinpotilion , a system Hko this
would incieaso it ; and wo can Jiuswer for it tliat , us far as edge-too ' . H iintl other Slielliold munufuclureru nro concorued , tlio very li ( wt articles might bo piwured at fair- prices . It turns out , us wo anticipated , Unit tho hatched , billhooks , iixoH , oil ' ., furnished to tho nr / nj wore none of thorn from SheflHd . It may bo that they h ; id bemi purchased below the Nhellielil iiriceB ; but their utter wortlileMsnosa was tho surest iirouf that they had beon bought too dour , howovor ttiuuN tho coat . In ease tlio jiroceodiiiKa whiolx have been taken nnd nro in ennteinrilatioii produce tho effect of placing tho eil ^ c-loal niuiiiil ' actuierrt on a fair footing with rospoet to Uoverii ' iin'iit coutractM , mid quality to bo made , «\ s it ought ; to bo a */ . w ifiii non , we will ana-wer for it tli . it there will bo an cul i , f tin- iinliniianl . eondonmntion of that dofiurintlon of tool . H ( in account uf tliur being unlit fur tho uses for whiuh they are doijjuud . "
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Leader (1850-1860), July 8, 1854, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08071854/page/11/
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