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April 18,1857.]
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MISCELLANEOUS. ] Thund erstorms. — Good ...
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April 18,1857.]
April 18 , 1857 . ]
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Miscellaneous. ] Thund Erstorms. — Good ...
MISCELLANEOUS . Thund erstorms . — Good Friday was signalized _ by some thunderstorms in the north of England . The lightning was very vivid . There have also been some very severe and disastrous floods . Found Drowtsed . —The body of Captain Asa A . Corning , formerly of the ship Confederation , was picked up on Friday week , floating off the Rock Light , Liverpool . He had been missing since last January , when his shin was wrecked in the Channel . All the crew were saved ; but he , one of the mates , and a boy remained by the vessel , and went down -with her . An inquest was held last Saturday , and terminated in a verdict of " Found drowned . " The Ekgijsk Army and the French Military Medal . —A supplemental list of non-commissioned officers and soldiers selected for recommendation to the Emperor of the French , to receive the decoration of the French military war medal , has been published . Death of a Miser- —A few days ago ( says the daily papers ) , the body of an old man named Partridge , a rug and bone collector , was discovered on a heap of filth in a room in one of the lack streets of Exeter . ¦ He was in the habit of prowling about the city , collecting bones and garbage , and he las been seen to eat the most dkgiiating Tnorsels from the streets . He lived alone In a xpp «» ~^ fc * - " was filled with rags , filth , and vermin . £ & 4 uii ^ cotflg > lained of illness a few days before his deithZ ( fct ( i 4 i »« t * -ia 8 © rted to intoxicating liquors , of which h ** xmcimd & r After his death , a savingsbank book ' j || S fewMfr > wMch it appeared ^ that he had a large jam of money in the bank ; and he had also lent 15 Z to utsun ^^^ besides sums of money to other persons : ^ - « i * aeW » -evidentl y caused by selfneglect , ditifeMM ^ «^ wsufficiency of food . _ AptttT ^ HAp ? t > 'BaR 4 P- " ^ - ] F Croydon bakers have been finedS ^ J ^^ f osts fo r adulterating their bread with atum . c ~ ¦ , Discovery of HfJMSttJ-SKEMSTONS . —Some workmen employed in . digging , « r drain behind York Castle the other day lur 8 e ? W > tu $ * emain 3 of about twenty human bodies , the sl * ll » of thieeWfourof which were wanting The conclusion formed respecting them is that they are the remains of twenty-one Scottish rebels , ten of whom were executed on Saturday , the 1 st of November , 1746 , and the remainder on the folio-wing Saturday . The New Survey of the Thames . — -An interesting report by Captain Burstall , on Ms survey of the river Thames from Blackwall to Putney , has been published . The general upshot is that the depth of the river has increased several feet ( varying in differeni parts ) in consequence of the removal in 1832 of old London-bridge , which , with its large projecting stari ; n » ei or . /! i * iTcnprni m « is 9 iveness of structure ,
performed in some degree the office of a dam to the river . The removal of the obstruction has accelerated the u scour , " and consequently increased the depth of the water . The effect has also been aided by dredging , and by the continual action of the river steamers . The last previous report on this subject was made in 1823 , when the causes which have produced the deepening were not
in operation . , Tan Bishopric op Norwich . —An intimation lias been received in . Norwich that the Hon . and Bov . J . T . Pelham will succeed the Rev . Dr . Hinds in the bishopric of the diocese . The uncertainty which has hitherto prevailed on the subject is now considered at an end . Mr . Kitson , of Norwich , vrill continue to act as secretary . Snowstorms on Easter Sunday . — -There were seve- I ral heavy falls of snow at Manchester and the neighbourhood on Easter Sunday ; but owing to previous and
] , , 1 ; the good sense , judgment , and self-denialmamfested m its proper use that can eyer be reasonably urged as a qualification for the exercise of political or municipal rights . Now there is one piece of property that every man possesses , and in connexion with which there is a test of his fitness to have a voice in the commonwealth . That piece of property is his own life , and that test is his providing for the contingency of its loss . A man who insures his life confers a benefit upon society , while he manifests his own reasonableness . He benefits society , for he is taking care to prevent his family from becoming a burden upon it , when deprived of their protector , and he gives evidence of his good sense and judgment in applying the results of science and observation for that purpose , instead of misinterpreting Scripture to justify his own imprudence , or trusting to the chance of being able to provide for the uncertain future by accumulated savings . —PP . Bridges on Life Assurance and
Colonization . The Easter Dinner at the Mansion House -was eaten on Monday , when the most distinguished guest was the young ex-King of Oude , who was accompanied by his retinue . Several other Eastern Princes were also present . The chief speaker was Major Bird , who acknowledged the toast of " Their Highnesses the Princes of Oude ; " cut nothing was tittered worthy of
. repetition . The CoaCET . —Herr von Littrow , the celebrated German astronomer , has written a letter to the Vienna Gazette on the subject of the comet-which is expected to appear on the 13 th of next June . . The purport of this communication is to still the apprehensions which liave for some tinae past existed in the minds of several persons on the Continent , who anticipate a collision , between the terrible meteor and this -world . Von Littrow thinks it doubtful that the comet will be even visible at the time stated , but admits that " it is possible , although anything but certain , that we may see it between the present year , 1857 , and 1860 . " As regards the fear which many persons have repeatedly entertained of comets coming in contact with the earth , he says that such a circumstance is , in the first place , highly hnpro-. hah !* - . indsecondlv . that even if such a catastrophe
were to ensue , it would by no means cause the destruction of the world ; for , " it is irrefutably certain that the matter of which comets consist form s an extremely loose texture , that comets are in reality not coherent masses , but mere agglomerations of small , corpu 3 cules separated from one another by large interstices . " The effect of a collision with such a body of vapour would barely equal that produced by thunderstorms and hurricanes . Incredible as it may appear , " he adds , " we hear it from too trustworthy a source not to believe it , that in Austria , the country people , in expectation of what is tc happen , have ceased to till their fields , and are wasting their time in idleness . Such a delusion might provoke a smile , if it were not too lamentable . " Mr . Westekton has been again elected—this time without onnosition—to the churchwardensbip of St .
Paul's , Knightsbridge- } The Late Mb . John Towers . — This gentleman , one 1 ; of the oldest and most indefatigable agricultural writers t in England , died last Saturday , at his house at Croy- f don , at the age of seventy-nine . k The Bajsk of England . — Mr . Sheffield Neave was < elected Governor , and Mr . Bonamy Dobree Deputygovernor cf the Bank of England on Tuesday . i Health of Lomdon . — The deaths registered in Lon- j don , which in the previous week -were 1235 , in the week < that ended last Saturday declined to 1059 . In the ten ^ years 1817-56 , the average number of deaths in the 1 weeks corresponding with last week was 1101 . Jlut , as tho deaths of last week occurred in an increased popula-2 s - g
auDsequeni rams , me ' »»» . ... .-. in the course of a few hours . M Death of Mr . Thomas Sculi > y . —Mr . Thomas < Scully , brother of the late member for Cork county , died i at two o ' clock on Monday , after a short illness , attri- i buted to the fatigue he underwent during the contest for the county . Present to the Queen from the Sui-tan . —Her Majesty ' s steam corvette Sphynx , on her way to England from Malta , has on boaTd a beautiful piece of brass ordnance of about twenty pounds calibre , of peculiar workmanship , the carriage being most exquisitely carved , as a present from tho Sultan to Queen Victoria . Life Assurance Qualification . —When the Minister introduced into Parliament the bill for inflicting a tax of 200 per cent , upon all persons guilty of insuring their furniture against fire , ho obsorved , wittily if not wisely , " "We have taxed your vices , we must now tax your virtues . " Now that we have passed the meridian of the nineteenth century , and statesmon , rubbing their eyCB , awake to the conviction that people seriously object to legislation being dealt with as a joke , we shall haply see that , instead of taxing our virtues , our representatives will actually base their legislation on the opposite principle of encouraging them ; and ao modify Auq laws affecting partnership , salvage , insurance , & c , as to bring them all within tho category of common sense . Thus , a ¦ projpoa of this thome—the rewarding instead of the repression of prudential habits—we trust w « shall not bo deemed theorists for affirming that the practice of life assurance involves a property qualification more practical than an educational test , and certainly more legitimate than tho in ere possession of capital or Income . It is not tho mere possession of property , but
; ion , the average should bo raised for the purpose , of iompiwUoni in proportion to the increase , in which case it becomes , 1214 . Hence it appears that tho deaths now returned were less by 155 than the number which tho average rate of mortality would have produced . — Last week , the births of 835 boys and 773 girls , in all 1008 children , were registered in London . In the ton corresponding weeks of the years 1847-50 , tho average number was 1511 . —From the lleyistrur-CeneraVs Weekly Return . Mil . DlSUAKLI AND THE NlSV REFORM BlM ,. 111 October , 1832 , Mr . Disraeli issued an address to the electors of High Wycombc . In that address Mr . Disraeli said : —" I urn prepared to support the Ballot , which will preserve us from that unprincipled system of terrorism with which it would seein we arc threatened even in this town . 1 am desirous of recurring to those old English and triennial Parliaments of which the Whigs deprived us . I shall withhold my support from every Ministry which will not originate some groat measure to ameliorate the condition of the lower orders , to rouse the dormant energies of tho country , to liberate our shackled industry , and reanimate our expiring credit , " , „ , The China Mission . —We understand that the Ivirl of Elgin is to be accompanied i" his diplomatic mission to China by his brother , this Hon . Frederick IJruce , by Mr . Oliphant , as Inn private secretary , by Mr . Fit / . roy , and by a gentleman to bo selected from the Foreign Office . —Manchester Guardian . I Nkw Risadinu Koom at the Bkitjhii Musisum .- —It I is stated that the present reading rooms of the British I Museum will not bo used after tho UOtli instant . On th
8 th of May the new reading room will be thrown open , to the public generally , who will be allowed to visit it freely till the 16 tb , after which day it will be devoted exclusively to the use of readers ^ Mr . Cobden has addressed a letter to Mr . Willans , chairman of his committee at the Huddersfield election , thanking those electors who voted for him for their
support . . ' "• ¦ " . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦'¦¦'¦ ' ¦ ¦•¦• '¦ _ , ' ¦ Finsbury Election : Dinner to Serjeant Parry .- — Some two hundred of the electors of Finsbury , supporters af Mr . Serjeant Parry , the unsuccessful Liberal candidate , gave a dinner on Monday to that gentleman at the Freemasons' Tavern . The Serjeant , in addressing his bosts after dinner , refuted the accusations that had been brought against him by his opponents , such as , that he was a Socialist , and that he had signed a petition for opening the British Museum , National Gallery , Crystal Palace , & c ., on Sundays . Referring to one cause of his non-success , he said : — " In the course of his canvass , he found a large number of persons who were in every way qualified to vote , but whose names were not on the register . Many went up to vote , and to their astonishment discovered that they were not registered ; and he was told that in the polling district of Clerkenwell alone , out of 6000 qualified electors , only 3000 -were on the register . What was required in the borough was a
liberal registration association . The Liverpool Tree PubuoLibrartt and Museum . -r-The proceedings in connexion with laying the foundation stone of the New Free library and Museum at Liverpool , which is being built at the sole cost of Mr . William Brown , M . P . for South Lancashire , took place on Wednesday . The weather was fine , and the ceremony passed off extremely well . The cMef speakers were Mr . Alderman Holme , Mr . Brown himself , Lord Stanley , Sir John Pakington , and Lieutenaut-General Sir Hairy Smith , The religious ceremonies were conducted by the Bishop of Chester . Previous to laying the stone , an address was presented to Mr . Brown by the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire , of -which he is a member , and in the evening he was entertained at a banquet in St . George ' s Hall . The chief additional speakers here were Mr . Monckton Milnes , M . P-, and Mr . Nathaniel Hawthorne , the American consul and celebrated author . —On the same evening a soiree was i given at the Concert Hall , Lord Nelson Street , by the working-classes , at which a highly eulogistic address
i was presented to Mr . Brown . i Sunoerland Docks . — The important trial between I the Marchioness of Londonderry and the Sunderland Dock Company , in which a verdict of 20 , 0007 . damages i was taken by consent at the Liverpool Assizes last week , subject to a reference to be made a rule of court , > has since been finally arranged to the mutual satisfaction ; of the noble plaintiff and the defendants . It is-under-1 stood Lady Londonderry gives up all claim for past damages , on condition that the Dock Company erect 5 shipping berths and carry out other arrangements at . the docks in connexion with the Sunderland and Seaham Railway , within a specified time , for the use of her ladyship ' s collieries ; so that the Dock Company escape being mulcted in pecuniary damages for neglecting to fulfil their agreement with Lady Londonderry to ship ^ a iven quantity of coals annually from her ladyship's
The Late Thunderstorm in I ? RANCE .-r The storm which prevailed on Friday week in several of the departments was attended with melancholy consequences in certain points of the Oise . At Chevieres a young man who was at work with his parents in a potato-field was knocked down by the lightning and killed on the spot . His cap was burnt , his boots ripped up , and a part of the chain of his watch melted . At Sauqueuso St . Luion , as two men named- Carron and Gcffroy were passing a windmill , tlie miller requested ' tlieir assistance to turn round tlio sails , as he feared a storm waa coming on . Scarcely had they completed their task , when the rain began to fall in torrents , and they ran for shelter , Carron into u stable , and Gcffroy arid the miller into the mill . When the storm , which lasted for some time , was over , Carron camo out of his hiiling-placo , and called for hia coinpunion , but , not receiving any answer , commenced a search for him , and found him near the shaft of | he mill , quite- dead . The lightning had perforated a small holo at the hack of hia neck , and several aimilar holes were found in
different parts of tho body . His clothes remained uninjured . Carron states that , from tho place in which he stood in the stablo ho saw the lightning fall on tho mill five different times , but no injury appears to have been done to the building . Daring the storm the electric fluid fell on tho wires of tho telegraph between the stations of Bueil and Boissct ( Eure ) , and melted tho metal for a distance of about half a mile , riirnt'tiirnirirr nt « lio nnmn t . iinn four or five of tllQ WOOdcn
supporters . It finally entered the ground on tho ironway , tearing up several of tho sleepers , and leaving a large hole , which would most probably have caused an accident had it not been perceived in time . DisuRACKKiri , Wkdi > in « . —On Easter Monday , a remarkable wedding took place in Bradford parish church . James Tctloy , a pauper , well on in years , was . married to Bettv Stockdalo , whose previous husband was killed
at Bowling Ironworks . The parties had lived some timo as man and wife , and the legalization of tho marriage wub necessary to secure pauper relief . A procession left
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Leader (1850-1860), April 18, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18041857/page/9/
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