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Tiicutenant-General Sir Thomas Downniun,...
A correspondent of the Daily News says , that a circular letter from Cardinal Wiseman was read on Sunday at all the Roman-catholic chapels in London , requesting the congregations to contribute towards the expenses of tho late trial . The means to be used for carrying out this obiect are left to the discretion of the priests , and in most places a collection will be made after each of the services of next Sunday . The letter states that Dr . Newman ' s expenses amount to 7500 _Z _., and that of this 2500 _Z . has been already collected .
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Tho Cholera Is Said To Be Making Great R...
Tho cholera is said to be making great ravages at Dantzic . The drainage of the Lake of Haarlem is now completed , with the exception of a little running water . The Courrier du Pas-Rhin announces that the German Gove rnments have ratified the convention with Prance for the junction of the French and German railways . The King of Naples has appointed the Marquis de Balestrino to the post of NeapoHtan Ambassador to the Court of Turin . The Duke and Duchess do Montpensier had arrived at Lisbon on the 30 th ult ., in the Isabella II . steamer , and been received by the Queen of Portugal in the Palace de las Necessidades .
A Vestry Meeting Of The Parish Of St. Pa...
A vestry meeting of the parish of St . Pancras was held on Wednesday , at which it was determined that a new burial ground should be provided for the parish under the new Act . The Islington Cattle Market was offered for sale at _Gangway ' s on Monday , by direction of the mortgagees . It was bought in at 62 , 0002 ., a sufficient sum to discharge the claims not being offered . A communication has been received from the American Government in reply to an application from , the British minister at Washington , in regard to Mr . Boyd , who is supposed either to have been murdered , or still to be held
in captivity by the natives of Guadalcaner , an island in the Southern Pacific Ocean . A notice has been issued by the American Government requesting the attention and co-operation of all masters of vessels of the United States , engaged in the neighbourhood of that island , to ascertain the fate of Mr . Boyd , and , if a prisoner , to use peaceful and lawful means to obtain his release . It has beenstated by Captain Lort Stokes , TON . , well known as a surveyor in the South Seas , that the natives of those islands are fond of having a white man amongst them , and will not easily part with him ; but that no instance has ever been known of their hurting a white man when once they had got him on shore .
The Following Announcement Has Been Issu...
The following announcement has been issued from the General Post-Office : —1 . On and after the 1 st of September , 1852 , an additional commission will be charged in every case of transfer or repayment of a money order . 2 . The payment of the additional commission , viz ., 3 d . on all sums not exceeding 21 ., and Qd . on all sums between 21 . and 5 Z . must be invariably made by postage stamps transmitted with tho application for transfer or repayment , and unless the amount bo so transmitted , tho application will not bo complied with . 3 . All applications for transfer or
repayment must be addressed to the President of the London , Dublin , or Edinburgh Money Order-office , according as the order was issued in England ( or Wales ) , Ireland , or Scotland . 4 . To prevent tho necessity of a transfer , in consequence of an order being erroneously drawn on a different office from the one at which payment is desired , tho public are advised to furnish in writing to tho issuing Postmaster , at tho time of application , the full particulars of the money order required , and also to ascertain , beforo quitting the issuing office , that the order corresponds with thoso particulars .
An association having for its objoct tho promotion of a cheap and uniform system of colonial and international postage , was formed during tho Exhibition of tho Works of Industry of all Nations , including among its members many of tho foreign commissioners . A meeting of tho association was hold at tho house of the Society of Arts , on Tuesday , August tho 10 th , and tho following resolutions wore unanimously adopted : —That it appears to this association that all tho arguments used by Mr . Rowland Hill in favour of tho justice of an uniform rato of postage , ll _» ply certainly to colonial , anil probably to foreign _correspemdenco . —That tho _ooet of _convojiinco , as was proveel by Mr . Rowland Hill , depends upon tho number of letters , and neit upon tho distance , and that therefore the justice of an uniform rato is evident . —That tho association
welcomes the recognition of this principle in tho recent adoption of uniform rates for printed papers to somo of enir colonies . —That the simplicity and convenience of prepayment also appe ; ar to apply to colonial anel foreign correspondence . —The Right lion , the Earl Granville has consented to become president of the association .
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fhe ol <; etrio telegraph is now _completo to IMymouth . An opportunity is thus alforded for the ; uniform adoption ol Orcenwieh time throughout tho west of _Englunel , by which railway travellers would escape much inconvenience f _* i ur < 1 rH W < 'r" 'HH , U !< _1 orl _Saturday , by the Lords Lieutenant ol M iddlesex , and otber counties , to thoir deputies , to take uiunodmto ( . tops for raising the required number eif mem for tho militia ; during the next week general courts _of ' Iioutoliancy will be hold in most of tho counties throughout tho Kin gdom to settle fhe preliminary matters . It is intended to selee _; t a number of men freim tho e _. nrollod Chelsea , pensioners to form the staff of the ; militia . An _uinpootion of some who hael boon selected Iiy Colonel : l , llo eh took place on Wednesday , at the officers' quarters , j" llunhill-row . If an _etfieient staff cannot bo found for 'lie regiments eif militia freim fhe enrolled _pensione-i-H nolongmg to _elistrie " : f , _s within the respective counl . ioH , appointments will be given to the most competent and the
- conducted of tho non-commissioned ofHe ; ors and privates ot tho orunwla _» m _l tho lino . At it * stated that much important evidence has turned WI » in reference to tho _Borouford bribery case , including
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other letters from the Secretary-at-War , showing a close intimacy between him and Frail , of Shrewsbury . Detectives were brought from London by the Liberal party , and were kept , as commercial travellers , at the hotels occupied by the Tory party . As soon as Sharrack had given his evidence against the Tory agents , he was served with a notice signifying that he was to be visited with the fine imposed hy the recent act , for receiving a bribe . The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland made a trial of , reaping-machines at Perth , on Friday week . A competition took place between Hussey ' s American reaper
and a new machine , invented by the Rev . Mr . Bell , of Carmyllie . Bell ' s machine is similar in principle to that exhibited by M'Cormack in the Great Exhibition . This machine is propelled by horses walking behind it , while the other requires a clear space on the right hand of the standing corn for the horses to draw it . The result of the trial was greatly in favour of Bell ' s machine , which cut the corn with the greatest regularity , even where the corn was laid , leaving an even stubble three inches in length . The other machine acted very imperfectly , failing altogether where the corn was down , and at one point coming to a dead stop .
There Is Said To Be A Great Want Of Silv...
There is said to be a great want of silver comage in the Australian colonies . A number of speculators have been sending out large quantities of silver money , one party to the amount of 10 , 000 ? . Mr . Thomas Sidney , in a letter published in the Times of Tuesday , describes the state of the " labour-market" as affected by the recent emigration . One lady in Cumberland is hopeless of obtaining a suitable cook ; another finds that housemaids are at a great premium . Clerks and shopmen , and even men of business , are becoming scarce . Mr . Sidney goes on to say that the workhouses throughout the kingdom are becoming emptied , and that the eaols are so little frequented as to excite alarm among
the officials of those hospitable abodes . An Australian merchant , in a letter to the Times , published on Thursday , says that he has received a communication from his correspondent at Hobart Town , dated the 31 st of March , complaining of the injustice and inexpediency of transporting convicts to the Australian colonies . He says , — " The AbouMr brought about three hundred prisoners , the greater portion of them receiving a ticketof-leave from the government on landing , and engagements at from 18 s . to 20 s . per week , from the advocates of transportation . When these men write to their friends in England , stating the bright prospects they have before them , we should think there will be plenty of applications at the Old Bailey for a passage , at her Majesty ' s expense , to Van Diemen's Land . "
A Well-Dressed Man, Accompanied By A Wom...
A well-dressed man , accompanied by a woman , supposed to be his wife , applied on Sunday to Mr . Ansell , the proprietor of a coffee-shop in the Lower Marsh , Lambeth , for a lodging . In the evening one of them was heard by some persons in an adjoining room saying , " why don't you come to bed ? what are you doing there ? " Some one going to the room found the man hanging by the neck to a hat-peg , and the woman lying on the bed insensible , apparently from the effects of drink or some narcotic . The man was quite dead , and the woman was unable to explain what
had happened . A ferocious beggar , named Georgo Wood , who bears tho title among his brotherhood of the " king of the western cadgers , " was brought bofore Mr . Long on Saturday , by two officers of the Mendicity Society . They stated that ho had been convicted eighteen times of begging and brutally assaulting officers who had taken him into custody , and that on the whole he had served thirty months in tho House of Correction . On ono occasion he drew a large knife , and attempted to stab ono of the officers .
Thomas Collins was finally brought beforo Mr . Arnold on Saturday , and the long series of charges against him was at length completed . Ho declined to say anything in his dofenco , and was fully committed for larceny . Among tho portraits which ho had pawned were thoso of Viscount Hardingo , Lord _Mannors , tho _JSarl of Eglinton , Sir E . Codrington , tho Earl of Minto , Admiral Downman , Lord Craven , Don Miguel , Viscount Camelon , Lord Cathcart , Lord Hay , Lord Jf . Manners , Lady _Bossborough , tho Countess Moroton , Mr . _Justieo Talfourd , W . James , Sir Henry James Ward , Messrs . Miles , Guinness , Wonnett , Glads ' tono , _Gronsditch , Betro , Anderson , and Guin .
A number of Irishmen and women wero brought beforo Mr . Norton on Monday , charged with making a _disturbane ein tho Vauxhall-road . A policeman stated , that seeing two mon fighting , ho interfered , and almost immediately tho street was filled with a mob of riotous Irish , who attacked him nnel some other constables who came to his assistance . Mr . Norton observed that lately thero had boon so many of these ; Irish fights , and ho thought tho polico ought not to bo quite bo prompt in interfering . He would lot them break each others heads if they liked , but ho diel not seo why the polico should risk their lives among such a brutal
sot of fellows , in attempting to quell their riots . Seven or eig ht men in black masks and armed with guns and pistols , about nine o ' clock on Monduy evening , entered the house of Mr . Gerrard , a farmer , near _Didsbury , a few miles from Manchester . They looked up tho whole of tho family in a cellar , having cleverly entrapped a man-Horvurit , who oame homo at tho timo . They then plundered the house of some clothes , _u wiiteh , and a gun , together with 101 . in money , and remained an hour afterwards to refrosh _thoniBelves with roast beef , broad and cheese , anel beer .
Johnny Broome Has Boon At Last Captured ...
Johnny Broome has boon at last captured at Brussels , Iiy two officers from Tunbridgo Wells , named Morten and Hudson , lie hail been recognised by the Belgian polico , whei _hiiel kept their eye upon him . William Thomas was fried at Chester on Wednesday , for tho murder of his mother , at Pronton , near _Uirkonhoael . The facts narrated last , wook woro again proveel , and tho _jm'y , according to tho directio n ot Mr . Justice Crompton , acquitted tho prisoner on tho ground of insanity
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The trial of Christopher Smith , who , some weeks back was arrested for the murder of George Bush , near Bath , and who made such a singular confession , took place at Wells on Friday . The prisoner pleaded ' guilty ; ' Mr . Baron Piatt called for Mr . Walker , the surgeon of the gaol , who said he had seen Smith nearly every day for three weeks , and he had continually talked of his having committed three murders , one having taken place seventeen years ago , when he could have been only thirteen years of age . He said he wished to be hung , and thought that if he confessed he should be hung . He stated that he had murdered his child : and it was the fact that this child had never been seen or heard of since . His conversation was perfectly rational on all other subjects , but Mr . Walker was clearly of opinion that he was insane . Mr . Boyd , a surgeon at the Somerset County Lunatic Asylum , coincided in this opinion ; another surgeon pronounced him sane . The jury decided that Smith was insane , and ho was sentenced to be detained during her Majesty ' s pleasure .
A Man Named Frederick Somerville Was Fou...
A man named Frederick Somerville was found dead in Hyde Park a few days ago . Od of bitter almonds was found in his stomach . Two or three men were at work in a limestone quarry near Llangattock , Monmouthshire , on Friday , when one side of the quarry slipped and fell with a frightful crash , burying the poor men beneath the mass . It is stated that 60 , 000 tons have fallen . A large body of men from tho neighbouring quarries at once set to work to remove the fallen material , but it must be some time before they can uncover the bodies .
Three engineers entered the boiler of tho Widgeon steamer , lying at Woolwich , on Tuesday , without having taken the necessary precautions . In a very short time , it was found that they had fallen , overcome by the foul air . A convict at work on board at the time , ventured into tho boiler , and brought out eaeh of them through the narrow man-hole , being obliged to come up himself several times to breathe the fresh air . A horrible catastrophe has occurred on the Hudson river . The steamboat Henry Clay , after racing a
considerable distance with another steamer ( the Armenia ) belonging to a rival line , caught fire amid-ships , and was run on shore ; and there being 300 or 400 passengers on board , a frightful scene of terror ensued . From 50 to 60 persons were either drowned or burnt , and the remainder saved their lives with the greatest difficulty . This calamity has excited the greatest sensation in New York , and the details of thc occurrence exhibit a fearful disregaid of human life on the part of American steamboat proprietors . Some " indignation" meetings of the survivors and their friends have been held at New York .
A nursemaid at Hollingbourne went to sleep before the kitchen fire early on Saturday morning , having an infant in her lap . Her dress caught fire , and giving the infant to another woman , she ran out into the yard . Her master , Mr . Marshall , on hearing her screams , jumped out of bed , and without putting on any of his clothes ran out into the yard with a blanket . He threw tho blanket over tho girl and smothered the flames , which would otherwise soon have burnt her to death . Thc Cumberland Pecquet states that a young girl , named Hughes , fell into a well 60 feet deep , at Wetherall , a few days ago . A man went down in a bucket for the purpose of bringing up her corpse , but _\^ as astonished to find her not only alivo , but uninjured , except by a few
trifling bruises . The narrowness of tho shaft rendering it difficult to raise tho bucket , she again fell to tho bottom , after having been lifted 12 or 15 feet . She was _ultimately oxtricated in a state very littlo tho worse for her falls . A fearful thunder-storm took place in tho neighbourhood of Manchester , between ten and elcvon o ' clock on Tuesday morning . Tho lightning struck a chimney at tho oncl of a row of eight unfinished houses . The electricity scorns to havo run along a Ieadon gutter at tho front of tho roof , sending off branches through almost every ono of tho houses . Thoso streams seem to _fiuvo takon nearly a similar course in each case , passing elown through tho houses . Seven persons , chiefl y workmen , who wore in tho houses , were struck , four of whom wero killed
instantly . A barn in a _lnrpo farm-yard , belonging to Mr . Thomas Ceillior , of ParrocK Hall , on tho east Bide of Windmill Hill , Gravesend , took fire on Sunday night , about halfpast nino o ' clock . Tho yard is very close to the hall , anel contains an _extensivo rango of buildings . The ftro rapidly caught two or throe stacks of hay and straw , and extended from them to tho great rango of barns . An abundant ; supply of water was at hand , and enabled the firemen , who were assisted by a body of _seileliors from tho fort , to keep the firo from tho mansion , anel its out-oflices . Tho whole ; of the farm-yard , however , was swept by the flames , anil all the barns anil farm-buildings destroyed .
A largo oil and flour-mill , belonging to Mr . _ISdward Boll , called Tottenham Mills , caught firo on Sunday morning , about four o ' clock . Tho building occupied an island in the river Lea , anel is nearly one hundroel anel fifty fool long . The fire was first noticed by a watchman , who soon brought tho parish engine ; to tho sped , anel a _moHtmmi wan immediately afterwards tologruphoel to _Lonelem for further assistance ; . Three engines , with strong bodies of firemen , started at once from town , and arriveel at Tottenham in little more than half an hour . The oil mill was soon
on firo throughout ; tho flour mill , which contained three hundrod quarters of corn , anil a large quantity eif ( lour , anel which is onl y depurated from the ; either by an interval of eighteen foot , was not long spared . All that the ; firomem could effect was the preservation of the engine Jiomho anel senne outbuildings , anel to restrain the firo from extending beyond the promises eif the mills . At one time sovonty tons of oil , anel subsequently several othor large quantities took fire , anel bursting tho vessel in which thoy woro contained , ran upon tho river in a burning state . Workmen have _uinco boon employed in skimming the oil from tho _ourfuco of the river .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 14, 1852, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_14081852/page/9/
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