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MISCELLANEOUS. Suicides.—A Mr. Rose, a h...
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Irlsin All1739 Children August 9, 1856.....
August 9 , 1856 .. ] THE IEADEB , ——— — ' —
Miscellaneous. Suicides.—A Mr. Rose, A H...
MISCELLANEOUS . Suicides . —A Mr . Rose , a hairdresser living on St . Andrew's Hill , Blackfriare , cut his throat last Saturday morning at the back of his shop while a customer was waiting to be shaved . He deliberately took off his handkerchief , leant across a table , seized hold of a razor , and nearly severed his neck . Uttering a shriek , he fell dead on the floor in the presence of his wife , who had just entered the room to seek for him . —A young lady , about two-and-twenty years of age , has drowned herself in a bathing machine at Walton-on-tbe-Naze . She was discovered with her head firmly fixed downwards under the steps of the bathing machine , her bonnet and shawl being removedbut no other part of her dress . Her
, story is very melancholy . Arriving at Walton some three months ago , she lived there very solitarily , and , since the place became crowded with visitors , retired into still deeper , seclusion . She had with her an infant six months old , and latterly she was obliged to pledge her -watch to raise funds . She stated she was only the guardian of the infant ; but it now appears that it was her illegitimate offspring , and that its father was an officer in the army , who had deserted her , and was about to he married to another woman . According to some accounts , the young lady was also abandoned by her relations ;
according to others , she absented herself from them voluntarily . The coroner's jury have brought in a verdict oijelo de se , and the young lady has been buried without any religious ceremony , according to the vindictive custom " in that case made and provided . " — A Mrs . Rowlestone , the wife of a buildef at Woolwich , has cat her throat . She had been suffering for several days with bronchitis , but was rapidly improving . — -The body of a man was found with , the head cut off , and lying at at a few paces distant , on , the London side of the Erith station on the North Kent Railway . It is thought that the deceased committed suicide . A Dense Fog has occurred on the Northumberland coast . The Manchester Exhibition . —A deputation from the committee of the proposed Manchester Exhibition has "waited on the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland at the Viceregal Lodge , Dublin , to solicit his aid in carrying out their design . The Earl of Carlisle , while receiving them courteously , did not hold out to them any great hope of his being able to assist them in the collection in Ireland of works of antiquity and art . The Crops . —The fine , sultry weather we have been enjoying for several days has had a most beneficial effect on the crops , which are now rapidly ripening , and will very shortly be ready for the sickle . In some districts , indeed , reaping has already commenced . Honours Bestowed by the Emperob of the French . —A supplement to the London Gazette of Friday week was published on Monday , announcing that her Majesty has been pleased to grant permission to various officers and men in her Majesty's military and naval service to wear the insignia of the several classes of the Imperial Order of the Legion of Honour , which the Emperor of the French has conferred upon them .
Periodical Meteors . —Mr . T . Forster , writing to the Times from Brussels , says : — " At no period since I have made regular observations has the summer season been marked by such rapid and important changes both of temperature and electricity as it has this year ; it is therefore probable that Sunday next , the 10 th of August , will be marked by an unusual number of those remarkable meteors which caused that day to be called ' dies meteoroaa' in some old MS . calendars . The phenomena of the present season have been very unusual , the atmospherical electricity quite irregular , and the atmosphere towards midnight has of late been full of very minute meteors , scarcely discernible to an unpractised person . The thermometer in the deepest shade and
under a north wall has for the last three days risen to 90 degrees of Fahrenheit ' s scale at noon , while it has fallen to nearly 65 degrees by daybreak . The sky has been perfectly cloudless , and the wind varying in . gentle breezes from N . E . to S . E . " The writer therefore calls the especial attention of scientific men to the meteors which he anticipates will bo seen in great abundance on the nights of Saturday ( this day ) , Sunday , and Monday . Sale of Autographs . —A series of forty-four letters f the poet Cowpor have been sold at Messrs . Puttick and Simpson ' s . Of this number , twenty-ono -were unpublished , being part of the correspondence of the poet with his friend , Mr . Samuel Rose . These interesting letters were sold singly at prices ranging from two guineas to ten pounds fifteen shillings . The following
extract from an unpublished letter , dated October 30 , 1791 , will be read with interest : — " You huvo aecn , perhaps , the beginning of a review o / my ' Homer' in the Oentleman ' a Magazine for last month . Can you tell me , or can you guess , who is the author of it ? IIo eays so many handsome thinga of mo , that at times I suspect it to bo the work of Nichols himself , but then lie scema so much disposed to find fault , that at other times I give it to I know not whom . I ask out of more curiosity . In the meantime , I have received and heard of ao many testimonies in my favour given by some of the boat judges , that I fool myself armed with at loaat a . sevenfold shield against all consuro that I can hnvo to expect from others . I hope , as you hope for me , that I ahull find my Miltonic studies agreeable . At present , I occupy jnysolf in the translation of hti latin poems , imd have
just finished his seven elegies . The versification of them is , I think , equal to the best of Ovid , but the matter of them is almost too puerile for me , who , if I wore any beard at all , should now wear a grey one . For which reason I am glad that I have done with them . " This letter ( No . 222 of the catalogue ) sold for 51 . An Injustice to . Criminals . —Mr . David Henry Monckton writes to the Tirnes to point out that it has been a habit of late in courts of justice not to' give convicted criminals time to state their reasons why sentence should not be passed on them ; and he instances the recent cases of Palmer and Dove . This should assuredly be looked into .
A Whirlwind in Staffordshire . —The neighbourhoods of Parkfields and Barlaston have been visited by a -whirlwind . This occurred on the 23 rd ult ., the same day on which a thunderstorm passed over the Potteries , It is remarkable that the wind which brought the thunder and severe hailstorm was from the north-west , while the whirlwind came about the same time ( half-past four o ' clock in the afternoon ) from the south-west or southsouth-west , and passed across the valley of the Trent , to the east of Parkfields , west of Barlaston Station , and oh in the direction of Barlaston Hall , doing much damage amongst the trees and hay . The whirlwind , from its ravages , has been traced for about two miles in length , and from fifty to a hundred yards in breadth . Many trees were torn up by the roots ; others were stripped of their branches ; and the hay was much scattered . — Staffordshire Advertiser .
Report of the Ecclesiastical Commission Committee . —The third report from the select committee of the House of Commons on the Ecclesiastical Commission was ordered to be printed on the 18 th ult ., and is now issued to the public . The committee give a resume' of the present constitution of the commission , and an account of the operation of the act under which it discharges its duties . They see no sufficient reasons ( subject to certain slight modifications recommended in their resolutions ) for disturbing the present law under which the property vested in the Ecclesiastical Commission is made applicable to the wants of the whole kingdom , a
preference being given to those places hi which assistance for the cure of souls is most required . The committee regard as desirable the continuance of the Church Estate Commission , as a separate commission , for the purpose of sanctioning the enfranchisement effected by ecclesiastical corporations . The consolidation of the Church Building Commission with the Ecclesiastical Commission , after a certain date , is also declared to be desirable . The committee advise the withdrawal of the Bill for the Better Management of Episcopal and Capitular Estates referred to them ; and they likewise make various suggestions with reference to matters of detail .
Free Trade Congress at Brussels . —An international congress is to be convoked at Brussels on the 22 nd , 23 rd , and 24 th of September , under the auspices of the Belgium Free Trade Association , for the purpose of discussing the necessity of further Customs reforms . The last meeting of a similar kind at Brussels was held in 1847 . The English Chambers of Commerce are in . vited to attend the approaching gathering . The council of the Society of Arts have requested their chairman , Colonel Sykes , who is also the chairman of the Court of Directors of the East India Company ; Mr . Thomas Twining , jun ., vice-president ; and Mr . T . Winkworth , to represent them at the conferences . Mr . Cobden is likewise expected to be present , though this is not certain , as he has retired very much into privacy since the recent death of his son .
Asylum for Fatherless Children . — lhe ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of a new Asylum for Fatherless Children at Stamford-hill , was performed on Tuesday by the Lord Mayor , assisted by Mr . Mechi , Mr . Sheriff Rose , Mr . Alderman Wire , the Marquis of Townshend , and a large number of tho corporation . The proposed asylum is situate at Stont ' s-nest , in the neighbourhood of Croydon , on an estate purchased by the society . It is intended to accomuiodute between two hundred and three hundred children , tho present number being one hundred and twenty .
Health ok London . —The rate of mortality in London is 8 till below the average rate which the inhabitants have suffered in former summers . 1025 deaths were registered in tho week that ended on Saturday , August 2 ; while the corrected average of tho week is 1259 , or , omitting the week of previous years , when cholera wan epidemic , 1102 . Of tho persons who died , 515 were females , 610 mules ; and in the previous week the deaths of females exceeded the deaths of males . Although the females living in London greatly exceed the males iu number , the deaths are generally in tho inverse proportion . Of 1025 deaths 695 occurred « t ages under
20 years ; 152 were of tho age 20-40 ; 120 were 40 00 ; 12 H were 00-80 ; and 27 were of the u « e of 80 yearn and upwards . Two old widows , one of 1 ) 6 , tho other of 96 years , died in llacknoy . Diarrhoea la the prevailing diaiiaso of tho week ; it killed 125 persona—niunoly , !) 1 poor infants under a year ohl , 17 children of the ago 1-2 , and two of the ago 2- » , and three of tho ng <; 6-10 ; nine adults of the ago of 20 and upward ;); 89 of tho deaths were on tho north , UG on the Month aide of tho Thames . To cholera 16 deaths are referred ; 12 children under flvo yourn of age died of this diriuuso ; tho rest woro adults . During the . ) wook , tl «? births of 809
boys and 870 girls—in all , 1739 children—were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-1855 , the average number was 1431 . — From the Reg istrar-General ' s Weekly Return . A Cleanlx Contrivance . —The Bfaryiebohe restry has commenced a system of cleansing those parts oi Oxford-street which come within its jurisdiction . The watering-carts , at four o'clock in the morning , lay the dust with a good drenching of fluid , and their progress is closely followed by a gang of scavengers , armed -with long brooms , who sweep up the mud thus produced , and cart it away . The consequence is , that the street remains clean during the next four-and-twenty hours . The practice ought to spread into other parishes .
Mr . Charles Mathevs ' s Bankruptcy . — To the surprise of most men , Mr . Charles Mathews , after having been examined by the County Court Judge at the Insolvent Court , Lancaster , has been discharged . The facts , as stated on behalf of the insolvent , exhibited great recklessness . He was enabled to reopen the Lyceum Theatre , in June , 1854 , partly by means of funds advanced by Mr . Allcroft . He also received loans from various other persons to the amount of 3500 ? ., including the discounting of bills ; and he obtained in receipts from the theatre 5838 / . 19 s . 10 d . This was up to November , 1854 . The insolvent's immense professional earnings are shown by the following
entry : — " Between these dates ( March , 1855 , to July , 1856 ) , I received from my profession as comedian about 10 , 330 / . " It was also stated , on behalf of Mr . Mathews , that , in order to enable him to obtain other moneys , he was induced to renew debts which otherwise were cancelled by his bankruptcy , viz .: — Mr . Woolf , 50 / . ; Mr . Allcroft , about 4000 / . ; Mr . Roberts , 80 / . ; Mr . Pratt , 100 / . ; and Mr . Wyatt , 500 / . The insolvent , in his schedule , attributed his difficulties , to a considerable extent , to his wife ' s illness , stating that the medical expenses alone amounted to 400 / . in two years , and the loss of her services during that period to the amount of at least 50 O 0 Z .
Picco , the Blind Performer . —The terms on which this celebrated pipe-player was brought to England came out the other day in the Court of Chancery , where an injunction was sought by one Gay against Picco . Gay had seen Picco at Florence in 1855 : he was then under an engagement to two jugglers , Gaetano Bagurelli and Antonio Poletti , but was transferred by them to Gay for a consideration of 130 / . The assignment was for three years . Picco came to England , and performed in public , as the reader will recollect . Ultimately , he absconded , in company with Poletti and his wife , and the injunction sought for was to restrain him from performing except on the plaintiff ' s account . The Vice-Chancellor commented on the indecency of transferring a man as if he were a horse , and added that , as the contract was with Poletti , and not with Piccothe injunction must be refused , with costs .
, The Republican Barb £ s . —A letter from Vichy , in enumerating the persons who are at present taking the baths at that watering-place , mentions Barbes , the socialist , as one of the number . His health , the letter states , is greatly shattered . Mr . John Fkost , the Chartist , is about to become a political lecturer . At Last ! — New Victoria-street , leading from Farringtlon-strcet to Bagnigge-wells-road , was opened for vehicles on Monday morning . The carriage road is levelled , but at present unpaved . TVlASTEits and OPKRA . TiA ES . —A massive blue book ,
just issued , contains the report of the select committee appointed to inquire into the expediency of establishing equitable tribunals for the amicable adjustment of differences between masters and workmen . A majority of the witnesses examined concur in expressing themselves in favour of the establishment of boards of arbitration between masters and workmen , but they differ as to the constitution of the proposed boards , and still more as regards their jurisdiction . The existing law on tho subject of arbitration ( tho act of 5 th George IV ., cap . 96 ) is examined , and found to bo nearly inoperative , as hardly anybody resorts to it , and few are aware of its existence . Three causes are assigned for tho failure of this measure : — 1 . The unwillingness to go before a magistrate ;
2 . The reluctance to defer to the decision of unknown arbitrators ; and , 3 . The objections of tho workmen to magistrates in the manufacturing districts , as they are generally manufacturers themselves . To obviate these objections , it has been proposed to establish in tho various manufacturing districts " Courts of Conciliation , " like tho " Conseils do Prud'hommes" in France . The committee believe that the formation of such courts in the country , more especially in llio large commercial , manufacturing , and mining districts , would bo benoflciul , and suggest tho introduction of such a measure as nn amendment in the present Arbitration Act , by enabling
masters and operatives to choose referees from their own class or culling , equal in number , and presided over by a chairman unconnected with either party , to bo elected by tho referees . Tho tribunal would bo appointed to act for a certain period . Theso boards of arbitration , on being licensed by t ho Secretary of State , would have full power to act and decide on all questions of existing contracts . Tho committee , however , think itwould bo impossible to give theso or uii } ' other tribunals any power whatever of forcibly regulating tho rate of wagen . CovjNtt CoyiiT Qwigisus at Fault . —Two officers of
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09081856/page/9/
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