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December 8, 1855.] THE LEADER. 1173
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pears to be still in a very disturbed state , and another revolution is anticipated . Alvarez , who is the sou of a Spaniard and a uegro woman , and about twentyfour years of age , appears to be unfit for his position ; but it is said that perfect liberty is enjoyed by all classes , and the tariff has been lowered . A band of adventurers from Texas made an inroad on the country , but were defeated . It is reported that another body has made its appearance on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande . The West Indies . —Fever is prevalent in Kingston , Jamaica , and there have also been several deaths from cholera . The weather , at the last advices , was very sultry , and rain was desired . Trade was dull .
San Domingo is in a state of alarm , owing to a fear of invasion from * Hayti ; and these apprehensions are increased by the fact of the French and English protectorate having expired , and the unwillingness of France and England to renew it . At Trinidad there has been a large and enthusiastic meeting in . favour of the arrangements proposed by the Board of Health for improving the sanitary condition of the colony . From British Guiana there is no news of importance . Fine rains have fallen in Grenada ; the canes are showing signs of an approach to maturity , and hopa 3 are entertained of an excellent crop ; but the financial state of the island , as well as that of Barbadoes , is embarrassed .
A Finb Library in Decat . —A letter m the Times calls attention to the condition : of the fine old libraiy founded about 1695 by Archbishop Tenison . The writer says : — " I stepped into this library yesterday by accident , and , on inquiry of the curator , the Rev . Philip Hale , what formalities ¦ were necessary to be admitted there , he informed me that all who resided within the jrrecincts of the liberty of Westminster had a right , and all strangers like myself were welcome to cjme at any time . But wheu I exercised thi 3 right , what a spectacle presented itself ! I stood
in a room , well-proportioned , built by Sir Christopher Wren , surrounded by books of the fathers of the English church , 5 , 000 in number , rotting and mouldering like tlieir authors in their graves . I was told that for the last two years the heat of summer and the damp of winter had done their worst upon these ancient and valuable relics of a past age—works which iu some hands would be considered priceless . There lie Bacon ' s Note-book , and various other MSS . of his , buried amid a heap of dust . Can nothing be done to resnne tlie 3 e noble works from t . heir
present sepulchre ? The trustees cannot even afford money to pay for firing and light , so I left my dusty friends to their fate for a while with a sad heart On leaving the house I stepped accidentally into the school-room , which forms the basement floor . That , too , was untenauted , and I was informed that , although there were a few scholars still on the foundation , the trustees had refused to elect more , and the school would be closed at the end of the year . What are the Charity Commissioners about in St . James ' ssquare ?" The Late Evictions in Galway . —Mrs . Blako , the owner of the Dartfield estates , on which the recent evictions have taken place , has written to a Galway paper , to say that , though the tenants bad paid their rent , she was desirous of getting rid of them , on account of tlieir ruffianly and murderous character , her agent and herself having been threatened with assassination .
Suicide from Nervovhhebu—Mr . Leopold James Lardner , assistant librarian to the British Museum , committed su cide iu the course of last week , by leaping from his bedroom window . Ho had been made very nervous by His horse having knocked down a man j and his excitability , which was alwayB great , increased to such an extent that ho refused at the Museum to pass by himself down a dark passage , because he was afmid the arches would fall on him . It was at length found necessary to send him home , to placo him under medical attendance , and to keep
a . watch on him After a time , however , ho peremptorily ordered the servant girl who wns with him to quit the room , and in . her absence took the fatal leap * —Mr . It . Tatteranll , civil engigeer , has been found drowned in the Groavonor Canal . About two o ' clock in the morning ho was Been by a lighterman sitting astride a . boom which was afloat in the canal ; but ho made no reply to observations which wore addressed to him . The post mortem examination showed an un-Batural quantity of fluid in the ventricles of the brain , from which it would seem that the deceased had been labouring under conaiderublo morbid excitement .
This Cholera , in this Ionian Islands . — Letters from Corfu to tho 21 st of November report cholera aa etill prevailing both there and at Ztmte , nu well among the military as among the civil population ; and it h >» a also manifested itself in some of tho villapjoH of the island of Cephalonia . From the 4 tU of October , on which day it first made ita Appearance at Corfu , up to the 10 th of November , of 708 Mtackod , 389 had succumbed to tho disease , and only 122 hud been discharged as cured ; 257 wore still under hospital treatment . About one-seventh of tho total attacked were among tho military .
State op Trade . —The trade reports from the provincial towns for the week ending the 1 st inst . describe no alteration , the course of business being generally steady , and apparently little affected by the high rate of discount * At Manchester , the transactions have been to a moderate extent , and prices are supported by the partial strike of the operatives , which checks the accumulation of stocks that would otherwise occur . The Birmingham advices mention a rather unexpected improvement in the demand for manufactured iron , especially for home purposes . Many of the general occupations of the place likewise exhibited considerable activity , partly from the stimulus of the ¦ war , and partly from an increase in the quantity of foreign orders . At Nottingham , and also in the woollen districts , the markets have been quiet , but . steady . The Irish linen trade is without alteration . —Times . Tit for Tat . — Cardinal Wiseman , on Monday evening , delivered an inaugural address to the Young Men ' s Society in the school-room , Winchester-row . The chief subject of his discourse was an answer to the observations made by Lord John Russell , - at Exeter Hall , on the persecutions of the Protestants by Roman Catholics . The Cardinal did not attempt to deny these acts ( it would , indeed , have been a vain attempt to do so ) , but he showed what is equally indisputable , that Protestants have acted with similiar cruelty and injustice to Papists . He admitted that , in times of religious excitement , all parties have been too apt to use the temporal sword ; but he contrasted the bi-ief outbreaks of Romanist fury with the longabiding oppression of the Papists in many countries , including England . His Eminence , however , forgot the fact that an equivalent despotism is exercised over Protestants in most Catholic countries . In opposition to Lord John Russell , the Cardinal questioned the propriety of recommending young men to read such authors as Locke and Milton , whose toleration stopped short of Papacy , but included atheism and democracy . However , his Eminence advised the young men of the St . James ' s Society to study science to its utmost limits , for the church had no fear of its discoveries . Let them study all literature that was virtuous , and enjoy that innocent and healthy recreation without which study became a load and a strain . But they kuew the boundaries that faith had marked out , and beyond that he warned them not to go . Health of London . —The mortality of the metropolitan district :- ! continues to increase . The deaths , which in the two previous weeks had been 975 and 1 , 073 , rose in the last week of November to 1 , 124 . The number of deaths last week in lees by 137 than would have occurred if the rate of mortality had been as high as it was , on an average , during the corresponding weeks of the last ten years . The weekly deaths in November have beeu , taking the averages , 126 ' more than they were in the preceding mouth ; and tho mean temperature of November has been lower , to the extent of . about nine degrees , than that of October . There died last week 547 males and 577 females . The number of males corresponds exactly with that of the previous week , and , therefore , tho increase ( amounting to 51 ) iu the total deaths arose entirely in the femnlo part of tho population . Four deaths from acarl itina are returned from Kensington , all of them , except one , having occurred in the " Potteries . " Four occurred also in Sornors-town , where tho Registrar complains that cleansing operations have been greatly neglected by tho Paving Board , under wIioho management part of his district was placed . A labourer , aged fifty-eight yoirs , died of cholera , after forty-seven hours' illness , in Fullor ' sront . s , Cotton-street , Poplar . Fifteen women dioil of fever or other illness incidental to child-bearing . A girl , seven years old , died from drinking n quantity of sherry , " being ignorant of its effect * . "—Liwt week , tho births of 8 z 8 boys and 787 girls , in all 1 , 015 children , were registered in London . In tho ton corresponding woolen of tho years 181 / 5-54 , tho average number was 1 , 415 . — Pram the Reyi & trar-Ueneral ' s Weekly Return . The Aooidknt on this Giieat Wishtkun Rahavav . —An inquest hits boon opened , but stands adjourned till next week , on tho body of John Moore , tho breaksman employed on tho West London Railway , who was killed at tho junction of that lino with tho Oreat Western . As fur us tho ovidenco haw yot gone , it bcouis to show that tho accident wan caused by ISonnott , tho signalman fit the Actoi ? cutting , showing a white ( or " goon" ) Hignal to tho driver of tho Groat Western engine , whim ho should have repeated tho rod ( or danger ) sigiuil exhibited by a switchman noarly u mile-iind-ahalf distant . It was about haltpast nix o ' clock in tho morning , and was rather dark , though clear ; and Bennett says ho could not soo tho ied light ; from whoro he was placed . To dotormino this point , tho inquiry wns adjourned . ' Amalgamation of Piiims . —Two of tho Wtmt-end banking flnns , Mossivt , Hansom and Co ., of Pall-mall East , and Messrs . Bouverie and Co ., of tho Haymarkot , acting upon tho recent Huggestion that a combination of tho HinalUr ostabliwhments would bo advautagooiiH
both for themselves and the public , have resolved upon an amalgamation ; and the business of the two houses will , on and after the 1 st of next month , be conducted under the address of Ransom , Botiverie and Co . DR . CULLEN ON THE STATE OP THE ClIUHCH . A pastoral by Dr . Cullen , . read from all the chapels of Dublin , and extending to very great length , has been published . The Rev . Doctor considers that the humbling of the Russian arch-heretic , and the bowing of the neck of Francis Joseph to the yoke of Rome , are the blessed results of tho recognition of the Immaculate Conception . The exemplary piety of the Austrian Emperor , in rising superior to the infidel " prejudices " of his age , and " undoing the unhappy
work of one of his predecessors who had beeu led astray by the prevailing errors and false liberality of hi 3 days , " is highly commended ; while the irreligion of Sardinia , Spain , and parts of Germany and Switzerland , is frowned and wept over . With respect to the wicked romances and novels , and other ungodly ( or unpapal ) publications of the present day , Dr . Cullen advises his flock to " imitate tho example of the faithful of Ephesus , who , moved by the preaching of St . Paul , " burnt all their books : a broad hint in the direction of the late Bible immolations . On the subject of these so-called immoral publications , the Papistical primate earnestly desires to be informed " who will give water to his head , and a fountain of tears to his eyes , to -weep over the ruin and desolation , " < fee .
The Patriotic Fund . —The members of the Loyal United Riggers' Friendly Society of the port of London , have subscribed £ 20 for tho Patriotic Fund . New Reformatory at Aberdeen . —The buildings of a , reformatory on an extensive scale , and intended as a model institution as well as for local benefit , have just been commenced at Old Mill , about two miles from the city of Aberdeen . Van Diemen's Land exists no longer , the Queen having been graciously pleased to accede to a petition from the colony praying that the name of Van Diemen ' s Land should be changed to that of " Tasmania . " —Australian and Ncio Zealand Gazette . The Scottish Universities . —The Lord-Advocato of Scotland has agreed to bring in a bill for the reform of the Scottish universities next session of
Parliament , provided that the various parties more immediately interested shall agree on the heads of a feasible and practical measure . Murder by a Russian Sailok . —An inquest was commenced on Saturday , and concluded on Tuesday , at tho Bristol Infirmary , before Mr . J . B . CJriudon , respecting the deatli of Joso Francois MureschnJ , a Bels , 'ian sailor , one of the crow of tho Leopold I ., now lying in the port . Tho evidence proved that , on Sunday morning , tho 25 th ult ., thrco men , one of whom was the deceased , while intoxicated , wore
quarrelling on tho quay . Tho other two men wore Johan Willem Adolfo Schinck , a Russian , and Frederick Lnngenon , a Belgian . They all belonged to the vessel , uud , as soon us they got on board , the Russian took up a capstan bar , and struck Mareschal on the head with it . It appeared that be was irritated against him becauso he had taken tho part of tho other man . Tho injuries inflicted on tho deceased were ho severe that ho died from them in tho Bristol Infirmary last Thursday . The jury returned a verdict of" Wilful murder" against Schinck , the Russian sailor , who lias absconded . tho
Sir lioBKivr PuKr . ha . s written to Mommy Chronicle , to disavow tho opinions inimical to our navy and to tho Admiralty which hud boon imputed to him in consequence of hi * Into sjicoch at Turnworth . Ho asserts that ho was misunderstood . TiiSTHi . KM Mosi'iTAi .. —The governor * of this institution , in carrying out their present humane practice of non-restraint , combined witli the promotion of musio ami other iunusoiuuut » calculated to sooth tbo minds of tho unfortunate inmates , as well us from the considerable increase of patients , have felt it necessary to make extensive additions and alterations to the
hospital . Two PiCATiia kuom Finn . —Two young girls , of tho respective ages of eighteen and twelve , daughters of » carpenter at Soutbtown , . Suffolk , have been accidentally burnt to death . They wore Hitting before the fire , whon the linen clothes of the yoiirgor worv ignited , and , in endeavouring to extinguish the flumes , tho older girl became upeedily involved " > them . Both lingered for some days , and then oxpiio'iol tfatur
Fikks and Lows ov Lii' « . --In tJio eourso day undUuuday Hi K ht « , several wry < lo . itruetivol . roii , attended by loss of life , ocourrocHu v . u-iohh J « r » o tho metropolis . In JMvio « - « H-eut , H « rk « l « y-Hq . « r > , an elderly woman , who w ,, s par « yti « , was b . n . b t death . Her pioroing orios bro .. g . taH « , sta »«« . . t too lute to save her life . A hooojuI fli-o oooiim d in A-un street Klard-row , Bethnal-greeu , where a _ house ™ burnUlow" ; a thir . l took njaoo at Jlatcl . ff and relultodin tho death of a young man , who to oiioapo tirtmnos jumped out of a third floor window ; « nd a fourth in Uough- » quaro , where one life was also loot .
December 8, 1855.] The Leader. 1173
December 8 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER . 1173
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 8, 1855, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_08121855/page/9/
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