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964 T H E LEAD E E. [Satiwhy,
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An attempt has been made to assassinate ...
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The Corporation of Liverpool have passed...
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Mr. Shadwell, one of the revising barris...
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Tho famous Cleopatra was at Madeira on t...
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK Is the ...
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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. ....
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The Lladdimjton Arrived At, Southampton ...
only fact of importance in the journals is the official introduction of the new Peruvian Minister at Washington to the President . The expressions on both sides were highly favourable to peace .
964 T H E Lead E E. [Satiwhy,
964 T H E LEAD E E . [ Satiwhy ,
An Attempt Has Been Made To Assassinate ...
An attempt has been made to assassinate the Shah of Persia . While hunting , four men stopped his horse , fired on him with double-barrelled pistols , and . wounded him in the face and thigh ; but he kept his seat until the attendants came up , and hewed two of the assassins to pieces . Two were captured . The Shah was not much injured .
The Corporation Of Liverpool Have Passed...
The Corporation of Liverpool have passed a resolution requesting the mayor to apply to the proper authorities , that the inhabitants of the town may be represented by the mayor , supported by members of the council , at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington . Greenock , grateful for the long and efficient services of Mr . Wallace , her late representative , has subscribed a round sum for him , purchased an annuity of 500 ? . with it , to smooth the asperities of a poverty-stricken old age , and p resented Mr . Wallace with a marble bust of himself . Mr . Thomas Thomson , one of the colleagues of Jeffrey , Sidney Smith , and Brougham , in the establishment of the Edinburgh Review , died on the 2 nd of October . He was one of the Clerks of Session . Mr . Thomson was , it is said , a thorough Liberal , a learned antiquary , a profound lawyer , and an excellent man . His great service was the collecting and arranging of the national records and muniments .
The Birmingham Fine Arts Prize Association have conferred their premium of sixty guineas on Mr . Edward M . Ward , A . R . A ., for his picture of " Charlotte Corday going to Execution . " The "Ophelia , " painted by Mr . Millais , was honourably mentioned . The French journal of Frankfort of the 3 rd , says that Prince Lucien Bonaparte is at Hombourg , where he plays at the public gaming-tables with varied fortune . After his winning . 150 , 000 florins on the 30 th ult ., the bank was compelled to close . A sporting paper states that the Home Secretary , last
week , gave his approval to the draft of a bill , aiming at the suppression of bettiug-houses . It is remarked that the measure , as approved , is calculated to give an impetus to betting , and to create a new class of offices for its conduct on a larger scale . Miss Blair , a ward in Chancery , heiress to about £ 1000 a y ear , has eloped with a daring gentleman named Garratt O Moore , who apparently has no fear of the Lord Chancellor . The bridegroom is The 0 'Moore of Queen ' s County . Why the " parties" ran away is only conjectured , as the young lady is only seventeen , and her parents were not averse to the match . But it was thought the Lord Chancellor would not consent .
" Prosperity Has Reached The Iron Distri...
" Prosperity has reached the iron districts of Wales , and workmen in some places have obtained a rise in their wages . Emigration from the Isle of Skye and -St . Hilda is going on very fast . Four hundred landed at Glasgow last Friday , including thirty-six : from St . Kilda . Mr . Francis Pryor has just got up a company , with a capital of 40 , 000 ? ., to work the Poldice and Wheal Unity Mines in Cornwall . Emigrants are now proceeding direct to Australia from the North of Scotland . On Friday week , the Jean Q-eary brig left Aberdeen for Port Philip , with 70 passengers , all from the city and county of Aberdeen . Another vessel sailed lately from Banff witli emigrants , and a third is now taking in passengers in the Aberdeen docks for the land of gold .
Pauper emigration has been mooted at Liverpool . The Albion observes , that there arc in the workhouse three hundred well conducted , ublo bodied paupers , anxious to work , but kept idle ; and points out how " a voluntary rato ofa penny in tho pound would raise a fund amply sufficient to aid tho emigration of 210 poor persons , who nnnually cost tho parish nearly 2000 / . As an example , the AJLbion cites tho fact , that " tho balunco of laist year ' s voluntary rato has been made tho means of sending out a limited number of young girls , who took their departure for tho Australian colonies on Saturday in tho Catherine Mitchell . Before tho vessel had left tho river , ton of them had obtained engagements ns servants to families on board . They have takon out with them letters of recommendation , signed by tho mayor , and with the corporation seal aflixed . "
Wo wcro , wo believe , tho firwt to alludo to tho formation of the Australian Inland Carrying and Conveyance Company , advertised in our coIuuuik of Hub day , and a <> favourably mentioned by houio of our coritcmporaricH . Wo obwtvo that th « erection of hotolH for the accommodation of emigrant ** on their arrival , in not l . o form part of ( ho plan , unloHS private eiitorprim ) should bo insufficient for tho purpose ; and wo think tho directorH havo acted judiciously in making Mils restriction . The carrying hunincHs of Victoria Colony resin on a Komowhat din " or <; nt footing , and wo think it oflont a vory legitimate field for tho embark - ation of linglwh capital , under tho control of an eliiciojit local direct-ion , and wo ropuat our wihIich for tho hucccsh of tho plan . Tho great idea of . ironnocl . ing 1 the Atlantic ami Pacific by
railway , in fermenting in many iiiduIh . Tho Costa Iticii Company , ostubliHhed in London for tho purpoHo of forming a road or railway hci'omh tho IhIIiihiim of Contral America , to unite tho Atlantic and . Pacific OcoaiiH , having received a grunt , of liioro ( Jinn u million of iutoh of land , in n healthy climato , with a fertile noil , adapted to almost , ovory doHcripl . ion of cultivation , and in tho immediate neighbourhood of great mineral doponi ( n of gold , wilvor , copper , iron , nn < l coal , havo conferred a moHt Hubntaiiliul benefit , on their Hharolioldoru , by allotting- to them , n » a free gift or bonun , one uoro of " cultivable land for every Hhare hold by them , und to tho holdora of twenty Bharoa and upward * , em additional allotment of one nquaro yard
amount paid in that week during the years named were—1845 , 3001 . 3 ± d . ; 1846 , 386 Z . 3 s . l % d . ; 1847 , 438 Z . 4 * . 6 % d . ; 1848 , 4921 . 17 s . 9 % d . ; 1849 , 442 ? . ; 1850 , 457 ? . 18 s . lid . ; 1851 , 2391 . 8 s . ll ^ d . ; and 1852 / 2291 . 8 s . 7 % d . These figures speak for themselves . They are equally marked in Manchester . The payments for 26 weeks in 1851 [ that is , from March 29 th to September 27 th ] were 5936 Z . to the settled out-door paupers , of 2636 Z . to non-settled poor , and of 5198 Z . to Irish ; while in the corresponding 26 weeka of this year the payments have been respectively 4 , 7151 ., 2224 Z ., and 3886 Z . The gross total has been 10 , 825 Z . 16 s . 3 d . this year , against 13 , 7711 . 11 s . 3 d . in the same period of 1851 . The decrease is 1220 Z . in payments to the settled poor , 412 Z . to non-settled , and 1312 Z . to Irish ; total , 2945 Z . 10 s . or at the rate nearly ( in round numbers ) of 6000 Z . per annum .
of building ground for each share held , in the places selected for laying out towns by the company ' s surveyor . This offers advantages to emigrants , of the middle classes especially , as , in addition to whatever profits may be yielded by the company ' s operations , they will have an estate in proportion to the shares held by them , and building lots for their dwellings , free of all further cost , and an exemption from all dues or taxes , for a period of fifteen years ; while the voyage out will hardly exceed twenty days , and not cost half the amount of a passage to any of our Australian colonies . These are prospects which deserve attention from " persons ahout to emigrate . " Beturna from Poor-Law Unions show how greatly pauperism has decreased . At the last weekly meeting of the Board of Guardians at Leeds , the following returns of the sums expended in the last week of September during the last seven years , were read . It was found that the
In the recently issued parliamentary paper respecting poor relief , it appears that there was a decrease in the number of paupers relieved in the quarter ended Ladyday , 1851 , compared with the like period of the preceding year . In the Lady- day quarter of 1850 the number of indoor paupers relieved was 26 , 049 , and in Lady-day quarter 1851 the lumber was 25 , 049 , whilst of out-door paupers the number was reduced from 93 , 147 to 74 , 396 .
Mr. Shadwell, One Of The Revising Barris...
Mr . Shadwell , one of the revising barristers , has decided that a plot of land does not confer a vote unless it costs £ 50 . As this is a question of fact , not of law , it cannot be contested at the Common Pleas ; but Mr . Huggett , Secretary of the Westminster Freehold Land Society , suggests a memorial to the Lord Chief Justice , praying him to dismiss Mr . Shadwell from his office . Who will" come out" next in favour of freehold land societies ? The Church of England has come out . The Reverend T . P . Dale presided , at Exeter-hall , on Wednesday , over a meeting of the " Church of England and General Freehold Land Allotment Society . " According to Mr . Dale , the society " has nothing to xlo with politics ;" " it is a commercial question ; " " land is the safest
investment ; " " the society was as little religious as it was political ; and the directors would be very sorry to lay down as a condition of admission to the society the signing of the Thirty-nino Articles . " ( Laughter . ) The meeting declared tho society worthy of public support . It was stated , that although the society had only existed six months , they had purchased two estates , at Forest-hill , Sydenham , and at Finchley . Tho half-yearly meeting of the Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear , was held on Wednesday last , at the dispensary , Dean-street , Soho-square , the Reverend W . Charles Williams in the chair . The secretary read the amount of subscriptions , from which it appeared that tho institution had been aided by contributions from his Majesty the King of the Belgians , Mr . Robert R . Wood , and a portion of a
legacy of the late Mr . Joseph Roberts . Although the funds havo been augmented of late , they are not commensurate with tho great increase of applicants for relief . Tho dispensary had afforded treatment to an increased number of applicants during tho lost half-year . Tho statistical amount of tho new admissions , Mr . Harvoy , surgeon to tho institution , stated to the meeting , were ( 398 ; and 380 consisting of cases of deufnesH , combined with noises in tho head , ana other diseases of a kindred nature . A hope was expressed at the mooting , that tho usefulness of tho institution would bo moro fully extended by an increase of funds ; to which it was urged on their wealthy friends to contribute , upon tho assuraneo that thoy would thereb y benefit Buffering humanity , ami bo aiding a valuablo institution .
Tho Famous Cleopatra Was At Madeira On T...
Tho famous Cleopatra was at Madeira on tho 13 th of September . Thoro had boon on alarm of fire ; and Homo wood-work round the funnel waa found to bo actually smouldering . JVI . Cluu-oonnoc , a pupil of tho observatory of Marseilles , discovered a now planet ; in tho constellation Pisces , on the night of tho 20 th September . It appeared like a star of tho ninth miignitudo , and i « to bo named Maasilia . Three toiiH of gunpowdor wore exploded at tho JTurnosa Granite Quarry on Wednesday week , lifting a muHU of rock weighing between bovoii and eight thousand toiiH .
Four men and one woman wero struck doad by lightning in an oaHthouHo , at Sut-ton Valenco , Kent , on Tuowday woolc . Thoy wero hop-pickers . Ahout , fivo o ' clock on Tuefiday morning week , CriofF , Perthshire , wa « visited with a hIiocIc of earthquake , accompanied with a loud rumbling noitu ) like ( hat of distant thunder . A threat number of tho inhabitants were rouHod from Hloep . Tho tremor of tho earth waa not groat , and it hinted but , a nhort time . ( jrout , damage waH dono by a firo in SpifalfioldH on Sunday . The Jowb' Freo School and largo timber utoroH woro destroyed , and hoiiio houses greatly injured . Some pornonH were hurt in the crowd . The lire among tho timber hinted until Monday .
An oxplofiion took placo during tho great firo on Sunday , in Hpitalllolda , in the Iiouho of a maker of fireworks . Homo boy a were tlum at work , a squib exploded , igniting aorao trun powdor , and sotting firo to tho prexaiifi »> Two of the > oyi hnvo died from injuriw received .
Heavy rains fell last week in the , JSTorth of England The Great Northern Railway , north of Darlington , unde * water , and the floods stretched quite one hundred yards on either side . There have also been great floods in the north of Scotland , where many sheep have been drowned The American ship Mobile , was lost in a hurricane in the Irish Channel on Monday . She struck on the Blackwater bank ; a high eurf disabled the boats ; the crew and passengers clinging to the wreck , were washed off . one by one during the night ; and when morning dawned , and relief came in the shape of two schooners , only eight seamen and one passenger remained . They were saved , nearly dead with cold . The captain and all the officers perished .
Testing a life-boat has caused eight deaths . Eleven seamen , natives of Lytham , a watering-place in the estuary of the Ribble , set out on Friday week to test a new life , boat , pronounced fit to go anywhere and through any sea . She was a pretty craft , and gallantly bore out under a good press of sail . But , as it has turned out , the captain was too daring , carried too much , the wind rose and became squally and gusty . A reef was taken in ; and while the sailors were disputing with the captain about taking in more , a sudden squall overset the boat . Five hands clung to her , but one by one they were obliged to let go their hold . The boat drifted ashore , keel uppermost , with only two men in her , who breathed throug h apertures in her keel .
Another of Beeching ' s boats , intended for use at Port Madoc , upset last week , in the Menai Straits . None of the crew were drowned .
Health Of London During The Week Is The ...
HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK Is the week that ended last Saturday 1251 deaths were registered in the metropolitan districts . It is necessary to state that the increase which this return exhibits over previous weeks is not the effect of an increased rate of mortality , but is produced by an aceunvulation of cases , principally violent and sudden deaths , on which inquests have been previously held , but which have not been f 6 rmally registered till the close of the quarter . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1842-51 the average number of deaths was 1000 , which with the addition of a tenth for increase of population , and for the sake
of comparison with last week ' s return , would be 1100 . The following are the fatal cases , as enumerated in this week ' s table , under the several kinds of zymotic disease only 6 cases , two of which were in the Small-pox Hospital , occurred from small-pox , 5 from measles , 13 from hooping cough , 8 from croup , 2 from thrush , 2 from influenza , 4 from purpura , one from ague , 2 from remittent fever , one from rheumatic fever , 4 from puerperal fever , 51 from typhus , 6 from erysipelas , 2 from syphilis , 72 from diarrhoea and dysentery , 2 from cholera , while 81 were caused by scarlatina . The fatal effects of this last complaint in particular instances are noticed both by registrars and medical men .
Last week the births of 807 boys and 797 girls , in all 1604 children , were registered in London . The average number of seven corresponding weeks in the years 1845-51 was 1335 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week waa 29-403 in . The mean temperature was 62-2 deg . The wind blow from tho northeast on the first three days , and from the souch-west afterwards .
Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Births. ....
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . . On the let inst ., at Wellington , Somerset , tho wife of . Benjamin Treacher , Esq .: a son . On Saturday , the 2 nd inst ., at High Wycombe , Mrs . Ihomas Wheeler : a daughter . ...,, On the 2 nd inst ., at Walthamstow , Essox , Mrs . F . F . Duflell : a son . lxr . On the 2 nd inst ., at Soethrog-houso , Brecon , South Wales , the wife of W . W . Manning , Esq ., barrister-at-law : a daughter . On Sunday , the 3 rd inst ., at West Ilsley , Berks , tho wiio oi Henry William Cripps , Esq ., barrister-at-law : a boh . MARRIAGES . On tho 28 th wit ., at St . Peter ' s , Petorhcad , Lieutenant Conn Campbell Kane , K . N ., to Jane , daughter of the Jute James Hutchison , of Richmond , Poterhead . , On tho 29 th ult ., at Duisburg , on tho Rhino , Richard Hiclioia , Esq ., of Uramley-hill-top , near Leeds , to Surah , youngs daughter of tho late John Leyland , Esq ., of Liverpool . On the 2 nd inst ., at St . Paul ' s , Doptfonl , Mr . Samuel Charips Hiiioka , of AmerHham-road , to Mary Ann , eldest daugnior u Mr . Charles liiitcku , of Counter-hill , New-crosa . - On the 2 » th ult ., at Spaliling , John Hope Maolean , Usq .,, <« Vontnor , Mo of Wight , to Mary Jane , only daughter ol Jaini-A . Pollard , of Kpnlding , gentleman . T , On tho 5 th iiiHt ., at Wallon-on Trent , the Rev . Thomas . l <> nn Hearn , M . A ., Fellow of New College , Oxford , mid V 1 7 ' Roxwell , Kssex , to Martha Caroline , oldeofc < lauf filter ««¦» ' »» L . Ridinvay , Una ., of Piccadilly , and Warren-house , YVuiioii .
JUKATHB . T ? On the 25 th ult ., at , Hhipton-under-WyoIiw ood , l"o ' Robert Philliinoro , vicar of thai plaee , mul ivetorol Hl"l >'""> the county of lluokt ) , in tho ( HM . li year ofliin agf , , „„ . On tho 20 th ult ., i . ft > r a nhort illnoHH , at Camcf < mi-h root , i . » den-town , Robert Wornuni , of Storo-Htroot , Ueilford-sq '"" ' his 7 ' ZA year . ' n ... On tho aotli ult ., at hit * residence in Wandfor d-Hnuaro , an . ' few dtiVM' illnoHH , of bronchitis , Roar-Admiral William i' » » in the 72 nd year of his « g <» . lm-lio On Friday , the 1 st inst ., at Pyt-liouHO , c f m » H' ° f" \ ho Heizure , in Iuh HOth year , John HenH . t , Hmij ., lute M . t- » Southern . Division of the eounty of Wilts . . < j ( , On the 2 nd ult ., on board the I ' ottinijer , m tlu > JC < ^ , ()( M l on his lmntiiii'ei homo from Rangoon , Optu . in Alien V j v Ball . I . A .. Into OonumuxW of tho If . . 6 .. Z rno '"' . ' ^ lamented by ' his relatives , his brother olHcurH ; , and all win
hllll . , llriirhtOHi On Saturday , tho 2 iul inst ., at 70 , Marine- para « lo , »^ t afW a nhort iUnnra , > % «» : « < JCmily , ag « d f » moi . tlm , daughter of Charles K . Murra ^ , Ksq . ., 2 Mh At Pordiswoll , on the iird inst .. Lady YVaknman , iu tno year of her age . ... ¦ u . l / irn in ^"' On the 6 th iiiBt , in Grosvenor-plaoe , tlu . it url So . »«»» - 05 th year of his ngo . , n r ft fb \ t On the 6 thin « t ., in Jermyn-Btrcet , fit . J £ a , aftw day * ' UlnoM , of rheumatlo f tvor , tho Lord 3 erg "" Konnetiy * th « 27 th yew of hi # » ge .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09101852/page/8/
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