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December 17, 1853] •; THE LEADER. 1209
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In 3836 an . Act-of Parliament took away...
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Sunday burglaries aro growing frequent. ...
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Lamentable effects have followed hard up...
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Saturday, December 17. Tiuo desputtlies ...
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The secession of Lord Palmerston from th...
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Major Magnan, who assisted Omer Pasha in...
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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1S53.
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ENGLAND BETWEEN TWO STOOLS. Tun position...
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Tho Irish Priests Of Dublin Have Aent A ...
upon which lie acted was , when he gave his workmen a holiday , to pay them the same wages as if they had been at work . " How many mayors do this ? The Royal Agricultural Society appears , from the latest reports , to be in a flourishing state . Since June it has lost 43 and gained 156 member ' s ; and has besides a balance of 2249 / . at the bankers . The next Show Meeting will be at Lincoln . . At the Christmas show in Smithfield ^ market on Monday , there were 7037 beasts , 25 , 832 sheep , 260 calves , and 290 p igs ! ¦ ¦' ¦ ' No fewer than 566 vessels were entered inwards at the Cuatom-house last week ; . and of these 336 were coal-laden vessels from various ports . It is estimated that they brought 67 , 000 tons of coal . ; Natal seems ' flourishing . Tho crops of arrowroot have been very good , and coffee and sugar planting are on the
. Pilchards abounded on the Cornwall coast last week . Few , comparatively , were caught , in consequence of the idleness of the fishermen . A ' competent commission have been instructed to report ont ihe construction of an organ vast enough to fill the Crystal Palace . They find that it will occupy 6400 feet ; be 50 feet deep , and 140 feet high . A steam-engine will work the bellows . Tho highest pipes will be 64 feet longhalf as long as any hitherto used . It will require three year ? to build it , and will cost 25 , 000 / ., " or more . "
December 17, 1853] •; The Leader. 1209
December 17 , 1853 ] •; THE LEADER . 1209
In 3836 An . Act-Of Parliament Took Away...
In 3836 an . Act-of Parliament took away the jurisdiction of the Palatinate of Durham from the Bislfop , and conferred it on the Crown ; but left all the stipends of tho officers of the court chargeable on the surplus revenues of the see . From 1788 to 1836 it was usual to pay the Chancellor of the Court 100 ? . for each sitting . In 1851 the Crown appointed Mr . Christopher Temple Chancellor , and he instituted a suit against the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for the fee of 100 / . each Sitting of hiar court , to be paid out of the surplus revenues m their hands . They contended that the 100 / . was paid at the pleasure of the Bishop , and was not a stipend recoverable at law . The Lord Chancellor gave judgment upon a special case , drawn up by mutual agreement , on Saturday . He decides that the fee of 100 / . was included in the stipends , and must be paid .
Captain Cox , who took the Melbourne to Lisbon , as commander , when she set oat on her first voyage to Australia , has obtained 400 / . damages from the Australian Mail Company , for wrongfully dismissing liiin . The case was tried in the Court of Queen ' s Bench , * fcut settled in the midst of the Attorney . General ' s opening speech for Mr . Cos , by the offer , on behalf of the company , of the damages demanded . Lord Campbell said Mr . Cox left the court with the reputation of a " skilful , attentive , and stouthearted seaman . " .. ' . ' . -ihe judge of the Pontefract County Conrt has decided that where a railway company promises to convey- goods to their destination in a given time , they are bound to make good any damage arising from the non-performance of the implied bargain . The case out of which tho question arose was that of a market-gardener , who was told that 27 sacks of peas would reach Leeds by half-past two in the morning of market-day . They did not arrive until some hours after , and the gardener lost his market .
Muss $ ellon engaged Catherine Callanan as sorvant ; but did not pay her wages . The servant has sued Miss Sellon , and obtained a county court award for . 71 . 10 s . It would appear that there was some misunderstanding in the matter , as Miss Sellon alleges Callamm was taken out of charity , and that there was no contract for wages . From a number of documents which appear in tho Cheltenham Examine )' , it would seem that the judgment of the County Court ; by which Dr . Humphreys , the Head Master , was ordered to pay four guineas damages , with costs , to a
boy named Micklewright , for an alleged undue and excessive correction , has not been indorsed by tho public opinion ot that town . The patrons of the school , the President and Fellows of Corpus Christi College , Oxford , have formally absolved tho master from blame . An address , headed by tho Reverend F . CIosp , tho incumbent of Cheltenham , and signed by between 200 and 300 of the most respectable inhabitants of tho town , has been presented to Dr . Humphreys , and finally tho scholars hnvo subscribed 40 / . for ai testimonial to him .
Sunday Burglaries Aro Growing Frequent. ...
Sunday burglaries aro growing frequent . There were two last Sunday . In one ease , nil the family had gone t <> church . ¦ the thieves tried , to force the door , but failing , th <* y goj in « t thepitrlour window , nnd carried off a large quantity of property . In tho other case , burglars opened the streetdoor with skeleton keys-. - > lhreu men b « vo been arrested on suspicion of Iiaviug committed the burglary at Leigh ton Buzzard . The ovidenco » s rather strong against them . Another garotte robbery lias been perpetrated at Mancnestor . Two fellows followed a wino agent into lii .-t oih \ o ir » tho evening , half strangled him , robbed him of 2 . "> ovor
Three men walked into tho Iiouno of Thomas BincliflV , ° y r 8 erynia « i , near Swindon , bound kii ' kI Thomas , curried «( F Ida tlll T could , and ran nwny . Tho house was in a lonely Im ? I lncllu " M was le ^ bound , but as tho cords wcro now , » g » t them loose and rclcnsod JiimBelf , Fifteen years ago " ww HOTved tho same . . bomo Italians ami an Irishman , nnnird Eumos , wore in a aomft « i ° . lllltton -K " < l «» . Ono of tho Italians paid thrrw ll 4 j <> Ii to " K ' * vho vvas witl' K «« " ^ . I < : « K S VVCI < X tho X , v (> ' ° " tnick ^ '"nt'H between th *; eyes , and he struck Mow " ] ' , ; not ' K Ilil » « lwn . He rii . il , but not liom tho ve utiir . "" H 10 - ] my "turned a verdict of " died by mi , « . « l-Itu ) iu » ' poat-worlcm examination uhoivcd that . tli « ¦"" inn was much di « ensed . n rmJlTV " * . " nolllc < 1 N <) 1 " »> recently MIew hi . s faiWr in * " " ' " l » ' « co " » Ctolwny county . After hu luul kilkM
him , he took his father ' s shoes off , put them on Ins own feet , andfled ! : Another agrarian outrage in Ireland is reported . The Reverend Mr . Rossborough went to Belfast . It was fortunate ; for the night after some scoundrels visited his house and fired into it , nearly shooting a servant . A reward of 50 / . has been offered by Government for their apprehension . : ' 'A-servant , has robbeda lady named " Cocker " of 100 / . in cash , and bolted .. A Roman Catholic priest , named Foy , went out shooting . He chanced to fire at a small bird near the cottage of a Presbyterian minister , named Collum , whereupon Collum
assaulted hint with a stick . The facts were cleary proved , and Foy got 50 / . damages and costs . Edward Drane Hunibel ] , a coach-builder , married Miss Cuffey , of Manchester , for money . He soon deserted her , and , pretending to go to America , went to Hull . There he wrote " religious * ' letters to a dissenting lady named Crackles , and taken by his piety , as he had been taken by her " brass , " he wheedled aud married her . The facts were clearly made out at his trial at the Liverpool Assizes , and the scoundrel was sentenced to four years' penal servitude .
Tho Reverend Francis Hevygiil , the curate , who ran away with the schoolmistress of the national school in his district , leaving a wife and four children behind , and cheating two tradesmen out of two sums of 151 . and 25 / ., has been committed for trial . George Woodcock , a prisoner awaiting trial in the Derby Count y Gaol , fell savagely upon Carrington , a turnkey , anil beat him senseless with a bludgeon . Fortunately , assistance arrived and the ruffian was overpowered . John Clark set fire to a rick . He escaped at the time ; tut , apparently , unable to keep his own secret , a fatal habit that clings to many men , he gave himself up to the police . He would not say why he did it ; so we are left to conclude that it was the mere criminal impulse of the moment .
A fortune-teller has been imprisoned at Bristol . She pretended to be dumb . The police reports of the week have furnished the usua varieties of the brutal treatment of women . Begging is being vigorously put down in some district . But on the whole the police calendar is not sufficiently striking to require of lis our usually detailed treatment . The wife of one of the Flynns , whose exploits we recorded last week—the Mrs . Flynn whose arm was nearly severed by an adze—now swears that she fell upon it while drunk . Tho surgeon says it was cut through the whole thickness . She persisted in her statement : her husband ^ is good toiler , too good . What is the exact truth it is now impossible to say .
Lamentable Effects Have Followed Hard Up...
Lamentable effects have followed hard upon the celebration of the Cambridge Race Ball . Several persons who were present have since been afflicted with a dangerous fever , and the Reverend George Trpheruo and Miss Richards have died . On inquiry , it has been ascertained that an old drain was accidentally broken into just before the ball , close to the ball-room . It had not been opened for years . Tho fever , it is suggested , was caused by the mal . uki from the drain . There was a collision ofcoal-tr . uns on the Great Northern Railway , on Thursday . Tho d : Jycr of tho fi-st . train , anxious not to run into the passenger train ahead , was going slowly through the Stoke tunnel , near Grantbam , when a second train , whoso driver was not so careful , run into the first in the tunnel . Guard injured . Mrs . Laman Blacher , one of the persons severely injuroil in the accident at StrafFiin , died on Wednesday .
Five persons have died from suffocation by smoke in a cod-pit at Wordsley . Coal , as a cargo , is sometimes productive of terrible oftect . s . The crew of the Flora , a SunditrLind collier , ran great risk last week . In tho fog , all hands that could be . spared went to bed . Tlie captain , fortunately , frit himself suffocating before he went to sleep . He rose and found tho ship full of sulphuric vapours . Tho crew , asleep , were so far ^ oi \ o that they bad to be dragged through tho hatchway . Tho boats were got out , and they had barely left the ship when . she blew up .
Tho Hyperion , from New York , bound for Kingston , was wrecked at sea . The captain and three of tin ; crew escaiKMl on pieces of wood , unknown to each other . Tln'y were two nights at sea , and were then picked up by tho Edward Everett . The thrco men had barely wood enough to cling to . They kept up each other ' s spir its , and " to wliile aivay the time , endeavoured to scare oil two . sharks lli . it continued to flounder about their lialf-swnmpttd raft I " During the recent fog . ** , no fewer than fifteen vessels have been wrecked round tho coast . A free negro in Virginia recently sold himself into slavery , and received part of tho purchaMe-nioney . Mo had been emancipated , and ordered to leave Virginia , under penalty of being nold for the brnefit of the Stato ; ho that his sale of liimse-lf looke I Hko an attempt to cheat the State . It is thought to ho illegal , ami will ho tried beforo a . superior conrl .
There is a . story g' > ing about , whether nutheiVie we know not , to tho effect , that a gunner ' s mate nurntly returned from India unwell . His stomach was . swollen as with the dropsy , s <> that ho dio . l . Two hours beforo bin death n sn . nkt ) , nino inches long , leapt from hi . t mouth I It is supposed he . swallowed tho reptile when it was young . ne . irTrinlomuUv " close to a amull island called Snake . Island !"
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Saturday, December 17. Tiuo Desputtlies ...
Saturday , December 17 . Tiuo desputtlies from India and China arrived in London vosterday afternoon by the Overland Mail . Up to the ' i : \ i \\ of October wo have news from Niirinali . Our provinces are not in quite so unsettled a stsUe as they worn at the period of the lust mail . Tho gallant Captain Latter and Captain iSinith luul pursued and broken tho columns of so-called diUMits , infecting lYomo and Surrawnh . und hud hanged o > ie
of their chiefs , desperately wounded the notorious Meah Toon ^ and , driven another into hiding TM King of Ava wanted to send white elephants into Bassein ; but as they superstitiously affect the Burmese , Captain Phayre had met the King ' s proposition by another — " Would the King give up D'Orguny , his French drill-sergeant ?" From India Proper we have the news of the death of General Godwin , at Simla , on the 26 th October ; and the appointment of Major Edwardes to he Commissioner of PeshaAvur . The cholera had , up to the 13 th November , killed 275 persons at Bombay . From China we hear nothing of importance what ever .
The Secession Of Lord Palmerston From Th...
The secession of Lord Palmerston from the Coalition Ministry is the subject of a thousand rumours and inventions . The Tory-Radical Sun and the venerable Standard insist on the late Home Secretary having been driven out of office by disgust at the vacillations of the Aberdeen peace policy in the East ; while our spirited contemporary , the Press , courteously furnishes us with the information that Lord Palmerston has acted •'¦ with : the ' concurrence
and approbation of the Marquis of Lansdowne and of the principal members of the old Whig party . " " Lord Palmerston " ( continues the same authority ) " is now on a visit to the Noble Marquis , at Bowood , to which seat he repaired after having sent in the resignation of his pffice to the Prime Minister , in order that it might be formally laid before her Majesty . " The Press , however , with all its indiscretion of hot youth , does not favour us with an official authentication of another and far more
startling rumour which has reached us : to wit that the Coalition is to be completely broken up , to make room for the Earl of Derby as President of the Council , Mr . Disraeli , Foreign Secretary , and Viscount Palmerston , Principal Secretary of State . In such a combination the Earl of Malmesbury would probably be . Chancellor of the Exchequer . There are , indeed , those who , not content with the explanations vouchsafed by the powerful organ of Lord , Aberdeen , suspect something awful behind it all . They whisper mysterious hints about royal autographic letters , and mutter Coburg !
Major Magnan, Who Assisted Omer Pasha In...
Major Magnan , who assisted Omer Pasha in constructing tlie immense fortifications erected on the Danube and in the Balkan , and M . de la Cour , have arrived in Paris . Namik Pasha has left Paris for London .
Despatches Reached London Late Last Ni^H...
Despatches reached London late last ni ^ ht announcing that the combined fleets had entere . l the Black Sea "to put an end to further hostilities . " They alaO .. state t ' aat the llussians had attacked Kalafat .
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There Is Nothing Ao Revolutimmrv, Becaus...
There is nothing ao revolutimmrv , because there is i ^ otlmiff so utinal . urul and convul .-iivo , aa Lho atruin to lc ,-e [) things lixcd when all ( . he world 13 by the very Liw of lbs creation 111 eternal proi ; roan . —J ) n . Aknoid .
England Between Two Stools. Tun Position...
ENGLAND BETWEEN TWO STOOLS . Tun position of tho English ( iov (; rnnient botween " mdnenees that menace its political atre-ngth abroad is never known nl any one moment ; but , there ia no doubt tlmt , down to a certain day not long past , our Ministers were- so conducting t . lie j ) ublio buninos . s a . s to render this country passive between the two exlreines . Attention has often been iliawn \ o the fact , but we tlo not think that the danger which is threatened from the passive po . silion of England , while tluvse extremes are encroaching upon 119 , bus yet been faiily- appreciated . Jn some of the public journals lately we have seen vehement attacks upon Mazzini , K . ossuth , Louis lilanc , and Lcdru Kollin , for imputed projects of * spoliation and sanguinary tendencies ; but the fact is , that not one of these men—not even Ledru Kollin— ban been convicted of any wanton aggression on life or property ; while tho arbitrary Governments of Europe are at this very moment exemplifying in the very grossest miinn , cr
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 17, 1853, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17121853/page/9/
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