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t ¦ October 16, 1852.] THE LEADER. 9 ^ 9
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Satubday, October 9. THE ARCTIC EXPEDITI...
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The Emancipation of Brussels states that...
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A public meeting of the inhabitants of S...
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A dinner was given, on Thursday, ut, Wel...
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Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P., is to be propos...
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A new species of omnibus, intended to ca...
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Satubday , October 9 . THE ARCTIC EXPEDITION . ¦ Aberdeen , Thursday Evening . THE Prince Albert has just arrived , bringing no accounts of Sir John Franklin . She wintered in Baffin ' s Bay , searched Prinee Regent ' s Inlet , discovered a channel on the west of North Somerset , traversed it with sledges , and round by Port Leopold , but found no traces of the missing expedition . The Prince Albert got as far north as Beechy Head . On the 19 th of August last she fell in with the North Star . The expeditions had passed up Wellington Channel early in the season . The channel was open , and quite free from ice . The Prince Albert left the ice on the 23 rd of August , and brings despatches from the North Star . The officers and crew were all well . The Davis' Straits fishery was a failure . Up to August only six fish had been taken between all the ships . The Regalia , of Kirkcaldy , had been lost ; also an American whaler .
The Emancipation Of Brussels States That...
The Emancipation of Brussels states that the following list of a new Ministry is in circulation , but , it says , it cannot guarantee its authority . Finances , M . Liedts ; Interior , M . Piercot , burgomaster of Liege ; War , M . Anoul ; Public Works , M . Van Hoorebeke j Justice , M . Haider ; Foreign Affairs , M . H . Brouckere . The Moniteur Beige publishes the reply of M . Rogier , to the note of M . Drouyn de Lhuys , of which the substance has been given in the Messenger . The reply
of M . Rogie * is of very great length , and is only an amplification of the defence of the Belgian Cabinet , which had already appeared in the Independance of Brussels ; but the tone , generally speaking , is less conciliatory than the article of the Independance . After answering , seriatim , the different points of the letter of M . Drouyn de Lhuys , and commenting upon the different propositions that had been made in the course of the negotiations , M . Rogier concludes as follows : —
" The Belgian Government did not accept the last proposition of the French Government , because , from the manner in which it was presented , and in which it was to be admitted and executed , it affected , as regards us , considerations , the appreciations of which we could not leave to a foreign Government ; because this proposition changed in our eyes the character and object of the arrangement of the 22 nd of August ; and because , in the new negotiation , no offer was made to place the convention of the 22 nd of August among the elements of this negotiation ; and , finally , because , in claiming the provisional vigour of the convention of 18-45 , we were not oven given to understand on what bases the future negotiation could be established . "
The Court of Sweden has gone into mourning for three months on account of the death of Prince Gustave Oscar . His Royal Highness had been ailing for some time , but was not taken ill till two days after his return from his tour with his illustrious father . The report of the physicians is very concise ; they say : — " The illness of his Royul Highness took a sudden and melancholy change for the worse during the night ; his strength gradually failed , and , alter a short struggle , his Royal Highness died in perfect peace at eleven o ' clock in the forenoon . " Prince Gustavo was born on the 18 th of June , 1827 , and , consequently , he was only * few mouths over his 25 th year . He v / as the second n (> u of King Oscar . All the royal family were assembled round his deathbed . He ( lied gently , and
without pain , having been ill only ten days . Up to the 5 th , the whole number of discs of cholera i » Berlin , since the appearance of the- disease , is returned ut 107 . Ofthe . se cases , 56 hnvo been fatal , 14 1 'iivo boon cured , * and 37 remain under treatment . l ' Voin tlio 3 rd to the 4 i . li then- were eight new eases . In Duntz . ic the epidemic is abating ; in Konigsberg , ' ¦ '"in the 1 st to the 2 nd , seven new cases were announce d . In the district of Wroschon , the returns also show a decrease .
Meyerbeer , the composer , is tit Spa , in such bud liftalth Unit , he cannot even make uso of the baths . The Prophete in at lav . t allowed to bo performed in Russia ' » . y tin ; authorities . The notices of Jullien ' s opera , Peter Me Great , given by the London journals , have been '"'gorousl y eut out by the Russian police censors , one of ' he- incidents being a plot against tho life of tho Czar . We learn from Vienna that un English officer ha « J'WMi insulted by an officer in tho Austrian service . Wo ' » avo received no particulars , but nro informed that M > rd Westmoreland has thought it necessary to demand redrcHH . Tho J ' Jpooa of Milan announces that tho Emperor of A ustria is to visit Venice in tho month of November , tqguthojr with othor crowned heads .
A fearful conflagration broke out on the 2 nd inst . at the prospering manufacturing town of Grafenthal , at the south-east side of the Thiiringen forest , in the Meiningen territory . Upwards of 250 houses and factories have been destroyed , and only 20 houses , with the church , remain standing . More than 1000 persons are roofless , and have lost all they possessed . The calamity is said to have been the result of wilful nicendiarism on the part of a skinner , who was menaced with bankruptcy , and whose calcined body was found among the ruins of his house .
A Public Meeting Of The Inhabitants Of S...
A public meeting of the inhabitants of Stamford-hill , Stoke Newington , and the vicinity , was held last night at the Manor Rooms , Church-street , Stoke Newington , to consider what measures shall be adopted to press upon the Government the necessity of at ence proceeding to secure the park for Finsbury . The chair was taken soon after seven o ' clock by Mr . Josiah Wilson , who said that it was of the utmost importance that the inhabitants of Finsbury should impre-s upon the present Government the advantages which they would derive from carrying out the plan , which had received the sanction of the late Government , for the formation of a park for this populous district .
Mr . Lloyd detailed the steps which had been taken to carry out the projected scheme . He stated that in January , 1850 , he wrote to Prince Albert requesting him to allow the park to bear his royal highness's name , and received an answer from the prince to the effect that before he could give any such sanction the scheme must receive a certain degree of public favour and the approbation of the Woods and Forests . In the following March a committee was formed , and shortly afterwards , through the influence of Lord R . Grosvenor and other influential individuals , a public meeting was held , at which a memorial was agreed upon , which was subsequently presented to Sir George Grey and Lord Seymour . The memorial was followed up by various applications , and at length Lord John
Russell gave directions to the Commissioners of Woods and Forests to prepare plans for the formation of the park . These plans were accordingly prepared , and a bill was about to be introduced int o Parliament when the disruption of the Government took place , and the affair was brought to a standstill . After the formation of the new Government , a deputation waited on the Earl of Derby , who stated that he and his Government were as willing to carry out the measure as the late Government ; but the great t hing was the want of means for so doing . The object of the present meeting was to obtain an expression of the opinion of the inhabitants of Finsbury in favour of the proposed scheme , and he trusted the meeting would adop t such resolutions as to show the Government that they were earnestly desirous of carrying it into effect . ( Applause . )
Mr . Abbott moved a , resolution , expressing the approval of the meeting of the plan proposed by the late Government , and regretting that circumstances had arisen to delay its being carried into effect . The resolution was seconded by Mr . Marsh , and agreed to . The ' next resolution , moved by Mr . Porett , stated that every district round London , except Finsbury , was provided with a park , and that the districts of St . Luke ' s , Clcrkonwell , Hoxton , and Shoreditch , which were but a few yearn since open fields , were now hemmed in by bricks and mortar , and that the inhabitants bad not an acre of ground for amusement or recreation .
Mr . Lloyd seconded the resolution , and read a letter from Dr . Conquest , who stated that forty years' experience had enabled liiin to affirm that a large proportion of the diseases of the lower classes was to be traced to the closeness and impurity inseparable from confined residences ; many of the evils of which might be counteracted by pure air and exercise , which , without a park , were wholly unattainable by persons living in such localities as those for whoso benefit the proposed park wan intended . The resolution was agreed to .
A resolution , moved by Mr . Lawson , and seconded by Mr . Sandozo , was then adopted , pledging the meeting to take measures to inn ; i 0 B 8 upon the Government the necessity of proceeding to secure the land forthwith , as the builder was already upon the ground , and every month would increase the expense of tho purchase . On the motion of Mr . PottiHH , seconded by tho Rev . Mr . Garrett , a committee was appointed to confer with Lord . John Munnorw on the subject , ami , after a vote of thanks to the chairman , the proceedings terminated .
A Dinner Was Given, On Thursday, Ut, Wel...
A dinner was given , on Thursday , ut , Wells , to Mr . Tudway , M . P . for that city . Three of the county members were present— -Mo 8 br » . W . Miles , W . F . JtuatohbulL and W- Goro Longton ; also tho Very
Reverend the Dean , Dr . Jenkins , and a large number of the clergy and gentry of the vicinity . Mr . W . Bernard presided , and Mr . J , Nicholls occupied the vicechair . In the coiu-se of his speech , Mr . William Miles said : — # " The country had so far spoken out ; they said that Lord Derby should not be put down till his proper policy was promulgated . He bad asked them to hear that policy , and then be guided by it . It was very often the case with those persons who had taken a first place in politics , that they took occasion to promulgate certain opinions , and every one who was conversant with and read the daily papers must have seen that the former Premier , Lord John Eussell , had lately made a speech at Perth , and he neither by letter nor speech indicated the policy lie himself intended to pursue . He looked in vain for that policy ; it
was only to give a fair trial to his friend Lord Derby , and to bear from him what would be the line of policy , he intended to adopt . He therefore thought , so far as political foes went , that without any factious opposition from Lord John Russell , Lord Derby would be able to put before tho country what really were the views which , if he continued in office , and what the bne of policy , he should adopt and endeavour to pursue . That was all they could possibly wish . The ministry were now , it appeared , silent as to that . They were as well able to judge of what that policy might be as himself . SufFce it , that one thing was settled , there could be no more care on the very vexed question which had agitated the country for four or five years—namely , the question of the imposition of a duty on corn . That was for ever settled . Those who were tried and injured by that taxation had to look to other measures than tho reimposition of those taxes , for justice .
As for the hero of the day , eschewing " rash" pledges , he confined himself to expressing confidence in Lord Derby . The most important point in the agricultural gatherings of the week is , that everywhere there has been a complaint of a scarcity of labour .
Mr. Wilson Patten, M.P., Is To Be Propos...
Mr . Wilson Patten , M . P ., is to be proposed by the Government as chairman of Committees of Ways and Means . There is some expectation that Mr . Baines will be put forward in opposition to Mr . Patten by the Liberal party . — / . aily Neivs . The Earl of Derby was present at a banquet given by the Mayor of Liverpool , in the Town-hall , on Thursday evening . The exhibition of the county of Dumfries and stewartry of Kirkcudbright union of agricultural societies took place at Dumfries on Tuesday . The show was one of the best ever held in Scotland , particularly in the class of sheep .
The dinner was given in the afternoon in the Georgestreet Assembly Rooms . His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch and Queensbury presided , and Lord Drumlanrig , M . P ., officiated as vice . Upwards of 350 of the gentry , yeomen , and farmers of the district assembled .
A New Species Of Omnibus, Intended To Ca...
A new species of omnibus , intended to carry eighteen passengers—ten in and eight out—is proposed for public accommodation . The inside seats are to be so arranged across the omnibus , that each passenger will have a separate compartment , with a seat facing tho horses , a space being left from end to end along the centre passage , which is to be covered with a semicircular glass roof to admit light , the roof being of sufficient height to allow of tho passengers standing up . Provision for ventilution is to bo inndo in each compartment , and the doors of the vehicle are to have perforated metal plates for that purpose .
About three o'clock , yesterday afternoon , a douse vojumo of smoke issued from tho deep areas in front of the * houses in Laiicustor-place , Waterloo Bridge . Tho lire-engines soon marie their appearance , and the- fire , which turned out to bo a low one , caused by the ignition of some hay and straw in the plate-glass stores in tho area , tho entrance to which is from Savoy-street , Strand , was soon exlinguishod . Eluvou crates of the Tyne and Tees ( jllass Company ' s glass , and tho flooring of the stores , were destroyed , but no other duinago was done . An elderly woman , named Williamson , appeared on Wednesday at tho Newark Police-court , and charged a man named Thomas Freeman , a hawker , of Nonwell , near Newark , with cutting and maiming her with intent to
commit bodily harm . J . I . appeared in evidence , that 1 ' reoimin came to her house in tho night , a short , time before , and grasped her arm , making several cuts with Home sharp instrument , which caused the blood to flow freely ; lie then went , away . The defendant , being called on to answer tho charge , made the following extraordinary statement : — Some limn ago one of bin daughters was ( alien ill ; sho wan reduced to a complete skeleton , and suffered much pain , during which sho frequently called out cDinpliiinant'M nmiio . Recently another of his daughters was attacked in a similar manner , which induced him to commit , tho outrage , being encouraged so to do by soino of his
neighbours , who told him that if ho could by any means draw blood from l . ho complainant , who was supposed to havo bewitched his daughter , it . would dissolve l . lio charm , and both his daughters would got holler . Accordingly ho repaired to tho hoiiHO on the night in question , and requested tho complainant to eomo down and scie Kin da ugh tors . Sho , however , rofuHcd , in coii . soqueiico of tho scandal ho hud raised about , her . Ho admitted having drawn a riarning-iiendlo across her arm , and upon being reprimanded by tho magistrale , nnri asked if bo believed in hhcIi superstition , answered that ho did , and if I bo bench had booh at * much of such charms aa ho had they would boliovo in witchcraft too . Jle was fined 14 * . Qd . and coala .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 16, 1852, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_16101852/page/9/
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