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Misceilaneo Us. The Court.—The Queen Lef...
having been made to Mr . Mechi to inaugurate the -winter session of the Woodbridge Literary Institution with , an address , and that gentleman having consented , he -was invited to a public dinner , at which the High Sheriff presided- In replying to the toast of his health , 3 Mr . Mechi discoursed at large on model farming , and gave same interesting particulars of Mr . ' , Boy dell's traction engine . " It was stated that it drew ploughs after it and cultivated land at a great depth , at a cost of only one-fifth of the expense of ploughing by horses ; and that the work it was doing , which would cost 15 s . by horse power , was done by it at 8 s . But Let them give 7 s . 6 d . in , and say it did for 10 s . ¦ what with horses they could do for 15 s ., then see what the result of that saving
would be to the agriculturist . Instead of the horses being obliged to leave off at half-past one or two ( and sometimes when the wort was really wanted to be done ) , which was necessary to enable them to continue at -work from , day to day , if they had got a steam horse they " would not require to be quite so kind to him , butWould make hay while the sun shone . . When he ( Mr . Mechi ) said to him , 'I want tbis engine , ' he replied , * The Emperor of Russia will have me and my engine in a fortnight . He has secured my engine and me with it , in order that it may beused in , Russia for various purposes , but above all , for drawing cannon , for it was a remarkable fact that that engine would take a weight up or down hill or
over a swamp where horses could not go , a fact he recently saw illustrated at the Arsenal-hill , at "Woolwich , which had an inclination of one in ten . first of . all , he saw ten powerful artillery horses attached- to a gun , but they failed to move it ; but , twelve being put on , they at last got it up the hill ; whilst BoydelTs engine took the gun ( which weighed ten tons , and itself twelve ) up the hill , and , what was still more surprising , down the hill as well ; in audition to which the commanding officer told him it had gone over rough ground and deep ravines in an extraordinary manner . "—It is said that Mr . Mechi means to put up for Maldon in Essex in the Liberal interest , whenever a vacancy occurs .
St . Mary ' s Hospital Mak-chester . —This institution , known of late years under the title of the Manchester and Salford Lying-in Hospital , is now provided with a new building , which was formally opened on Friday week by the Countess of "Wilton , in the presence of a large number of ladies and gentlemen . The company assembled in the lecture hall of the newly-eiected hospital , in Quay-street , and included the Earl of Wilton , the Countess of Ellesniere , the Xord Bishop of Manchester , Sir Harry and Lady Smith , the Rev . Dr . Vaughan , Miss Atherton , and Mr . J . C Harter . The Countess of "Wilton presided .
Diseased- Meat . —Dr . Thomson , . the medical officer of health for St . Marylebone , has laid before the parochial authorities "his monthly report , in , which he says , "I have great reason , with regret , to state that a large amount of diseased meat has been sold to- the poor in the course of the month . Mr . Porter , one of the inspectors , seized the entire carcase , and the hind quarters , with some fragments of two cows in a slaughter-house in Middlesex-mews . One of these carcases was traced from a
co-wkeepers near Kensall-: green . The animal was affected with disease of the lungs , and , when on the point of death , it was killed , and sent , in the middle of the night , to the slaughter-house in question . The flesh was in a most flabby state , and possessed a peculiarly offensive smell , characteristic of the animal being in the last stage of pleuro-pneumonia , while the fat , which was deficient in quantity , presented a watery aspect , and feculent matter was detected in considerable quantity in more than one portion of the animal . "
Return op , the British Special , Mission : from Russia . —The members of the Special Embassy sent to Moscow to represent this country at the coronation are on their way back to England . Clerkenwkll Incumbency . —Tho dispute -with reference to this incumbency still proceeds , and presents another lamentable instance of our clerical ' civilization . ' Mr . Maguire was elected to the incumbency by the vestry board on tho evening of Friday week , and on the following day , tho Rev . Mr . Roberts , one of tho defeated candidates , issued a placard , in which he stated that he and his committee had tuken steps for giving to tho parishioners the power of exercising their right of confirming or setting aside tho choice of the vostry—a right , he tedwhich
asser , they have exercised without opposition for two hundred years , but which has been usurped by tho vestry . Should these efforts result in the restoration to the ratepayers of their privilege , Mr . Roberts proposes to solicit their votes . —A largo congregation gathered in the church on Sunday morning , drawn there by the anticipation that Mr . Roberts would claim the light of preaching ; nnd this x > roved . to bo tho case . That gentleman , backed b y his friends , insisted on hia light to preach the sermon , and Mr . Mngutre , rather than create a disturbance , yielded . Tho sermon was then delivered , Mr . Maguire remaining in the churchwardens pew . Great excitement prevailed , iind it may be safely conjectured that no ono was much edified by a discourse preached under such circumstances . ¦ vik
fw ] . t- ---- ~ - * w * - * v ^ iiiignvvuwvui t » i t » ii t ^ " * XOGQINO A * MAitYMmoNac — Mr . vS ™ i ? ? % f % S T ° ^^ Vationa in tho Marylebone JXfl S < " » y » with reference to the violence wS ' ° ? T t 0 W iT "rfmetory young women iu the workhouse . Ho called attention to the ft-ulttercmesa of attempting to reform abandoned girls by moanB of per _
sonal chastisement , and said that some ladies who- had recently been visiting the workhouse had effected great good by kindness , and had succeeded in placing some of the penitents in respectable situations , from which only a few had lapsed . The subject was again adjourned . Tub Castlk Howard Reformatory Institution . — A meeting of the supporters of this institution was held at York on Thursday week ; Lord Bolton presiding . From the report , which was read by the Rev . T . Myers , otie of the honorary secretaries , it appeared that about 400 / . are yet required to fulfil the objects the society has in view . After the delivery of some speeches , and the carrying of sundry resolutions in support of the institution , the meeting separated .
The Waed op Coleman-Stkeet . —¦ Mr . Alderman Hale , the newly-elected Alderman of this ward , was sworn in at a sitting of the Court of Aldermen on Monday . A Snake in Bags . —A large and -venomous snake was discovered a few days ago in the watch room of the Custom House , Bristol . One of the men was entering the room , when the creature was heard to hiss , and was presently seen among some rags . It raised itself , -with the design of springing at tlie intruder ; but , a rope having been procured , it was strangled . Probably it was brought from an African or other foreign ship .
Eclipse op the Moon . —An eclipse of the moon took place on Monday night . The eclipse began at 9 h . 21 'lm . y greatest eclipse at 10 h . 54 * lm ., ending at 12 h . 27-lrn . First contact 1 , 170 , from the moon ' s vertex towards cast . Last contact 1 , 550 , from the moon's vertex towards west . This eclipse was visible to the whole of Europe , Africa , and South America , nearly the whole of Asia , including the islands of Sumatra , Borneo , and Java , the western parts of Australia , the eastern parts of North America , and an extensive sur-. face of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans .
Australia . —The last advices from Australia describe a generally prosperous state of trade . In the labour market , there was a steady demand for agricultural labourers . Six miles of the Melbourne and Geelong Railway have been opened , and it was expected that the whole would be ready for traffic by Xew Year ' s-day . A very prosperous state of the commerce of Victoria is indicated by the half-yearly report of exports and imports . In the northern portion of South Australia , Mr . B . Herschell Babbage has discovered geological indications of coal beds . In Tasmania , the search for gold continues to be prosecuted , and two Welsh miners have discovered both silver and copper . Messrs . Meredith and Hume , pioneers of the colon v , have died .
The Railway Robbery in France . —Among the passengers on board the Asia , which arrived on Monday at Liverpool from . New York , were Mr . Goddard , late one of the principal officers of the police-office , Bowstreet , London , who had been sent to America by Messrs . Rothschild , arid has succeeded in capturing Louis Grelet , Eugene Grelet , and Auguste Parot ( wh ° had changed his name to Dubud ) , charged with others in the great robbery of the Northern Railway of France . A considerable sum of money was found in their possession , and on Parot several railway coupons and private papers .
Malta . —Great indignation has been excited at Malta among the friends of the lato Captain Graves by the verdict given on the trial of Giuseppe Meli for the murder of that gentleman . In consequence of tho medical testimony of four witnesses for the defence , who said that death did not necessarily follow from the wounds inflicted ( though this was in direct opposition to the evidence of fourteen other medical men on tho opposite side ) , the jury declared that Meli was " Guilty of severe bodily harm , wilfully inflicted upon the person , of
Captain Thomas Graves , followed by death , owing to a supervening accidental cause , and not to the nature and consequences alone of such harm . " Meli has fceen condemned to labour at tho public works for a period of nine years . —The writer of a letter in the Times of Monday says , as the result of personal experience with respect to trial by jury in some of our possessions , "that no scheme ever succeeded better in promoting perjury , lawlessness , and injustice than has the extensionof this Anglo-Saxon privilego among tho hybrid populations of our Eastern and Southern dependencies . "
Agricultural Dinners . —Tho " Waltham Agricultural Association dined at Waltham , on Wednesday . Mr . Norton , of Elton , took the chiiir . After dinner , tiic chairman , speaking of tho advisability of increased cultivation of the land , said : — " When he saw nearly 300 , 000 , 000 ^ . invested within tho last forty years in railways , the return from which was not extremely profitable , and when ho considered , that tho investment of 100 , 000 , 0007 . would be tmuiciont , as had been proved by calculation , to bring all tho sterile land which it was possible to rccluim into cultivation , he thought it would bo obvious to them all that tho wealth of tho country would bo so materially increased that an ample return would bo made lor tho capital invested . " Mr . Chowlor afterwards spoke , and said he sincerely trusted that tho prosperity of the manufacturers might continue , they being tho best ctistomcru of the fnmiors .
Ascicnt ok Mount Etna . —Two Englishmen nnd a young Prussian oflicer ascended Mount Etna on the 22 nd of September , and reached tho summit . They started at eight , r . M ., and gained the top by sunrise .
St . Margaret's Churchyard . —A corresponden t of the Times , who , under the signature of " Resurgaro " called attention last spring to tho rotten state of the soil of St . Margaret's Churchyard , close to Westminster Abbey , and who suggested the covering of tho ground with turf , now again writes , to point out a confirmation of his views . He had occasion , a few evenin g s a ^ o t , pass the locality . " I had scarcely , " he relates * » foot into the west end of the churchyard , when I tumbled into what seemed a hole of considerable dimen sions . I fell on my face , and if my nose had been like the noses of the Pauloffsky regiment , it would have suffered severely . After scrambling out , I passed on but on Saturday morning , returning to look at the lace
p by daylight , I found , I cannot say to my surprise a chasm several feet in extent , formed by the subsidb j of two gravestones , which had carried a considerable quantity of soil with them . A bystander informed me that the yawning gulf had been there for some days , but he believed it was going to be filled up to-morrow . Even if it has been , filled up , any of your readers whose business or pleasure may lead them across St . Margaret's Churchyard will not fail to recognize the spot by the freshness of the gravel , and at the same time may " see how much the general level of the whole area has changed since the improvements last spring , how many of-tic stones have tipped up , aud , if the day be rainy , ho-sv many little plashes and pools there are airOver the surface "
Sir S . Bionold , M . P ., met his constituents last week at Norwich , and reviewed the present position of public affairs , objecting to the present Government on the ground that it was weak and vacillating , and that it hail no definable policy- He advised Conservatives to be watchful , and to follow out their true policy of seizing every really sound measure of reform ( including Parliamentary reform ) , and of rejecting '" hollow schemes . " - Expressing his approval of the disfranchisement of local policemen , he said lie believed that , at his own election , the police were compelled to vote against him , though many would gladly have supported him .
The Bridgenorth Agricultural Association met on Thursday week , Mr . M . G . Benson presiding at the dinner . Alluding to the ' polities' of agriculture , Mr . Benson said'that . two .-important questions had occupied the attention of the Legislature during the last session , one having reference to the collection of agricultural statistics , and the other as to whether England could produce sufficient corn for its own population . As regarded the latter , he did not think the problem would be satisfactorily solved in the present generation . If the population remained stationary , wheat enough ,- 'for home consumption might be grown in this conntry , but , as the population increased with the improved system of cultivation , he much doubted whether it could be done .
There were 11 , 000 , 000 acres in the country not cultivated which were capable of producing cereal crops , and he thought that the land now under cultivation migut be made one-third more productive . In reference to the subject of agricultural statistics , though he was strongly opposed to any inquisitorial prying into the private ailairs of the agriculturists , he thought the measure a -wholesome one , and calculated to benefit the farmer as much as anybody else .- —Mr . W . Whitmore contended that the produce of this country in corn is double that of France , though - \ ve possess only half the acreage of that country . —Viscount Newport thought that agricultural statistics hould b « obtained voluntarily , not compiilsorily , and hould be confined to largo items . —After the delivery of ome other speeches , the meeting broke up .
A Nkw Use vor Hou-oru-iiouse . —Holford-house , Regent's Park , th < j appropriation of which has frequently been a matter of speculation , and which was only recently in view for the residence of tho ex-Queen of Oude , is to become a Baptist college ; that is ? , Stepney College is to bo removed to this new and advantageous site . Health of London . —The return for the week that ended last Saturday exhibits a low rate of mortality . The deaths , which in the previous six weeks ha-ve been on an average 1085 , declined last week to 039 . In the corresponding weeks of the ten years 184 . 6-55 , the average number was 1003 , and , if this Ls raised by a tenth part for increase of population , it becomes 1103 ,
compared with which the present return shows a reduction of 161 . Of the total number , 481 were deaths of males , 155 those of females . Deaths from the zymotic or epidemic class of diseases , which iu the previous week were 256 , were last week only 234 . Of these , 14 were from small-pox , 25 from measles , 28 from hoopingcough , -12 from typhus , 4 G from scarlatina . Tho deaths from diarrhoea have now fallen to 4 l » . No fatal caso of cholera is recorded . There were 11 of erysi pelas , four of syphilis , and two of purpura , Seven of tho deaths from typhus occurred in Pancras , five in Shoreditcli- 'A' 10
medical attendant of a woman who died at <> . ' } , Drummoml-Rtrect , Soiners-town , of malignant typhus , reports certain nuisances in tho rear of the house , nnd stated that tlio wholo of this neighbourhood in more ; or less affected with low fever ; the drainage , ho nddn , is everywhere defective . A girl died of tetanus apparently idiopathic ; and a child of erysipelas juhI absccssee ,. consequent , it is said , on purulent infection of tiic blood after vaccination . Two persons died ol * carbuncle . 1 'ouv persons died at tho ago of i > 0 your * or upwards ; _ two womoji wlio wcro 1 ) 0 years old , a ( Irasnwiu-h pcii . sioner who was 01 , and a gardener ' s labourer who died in the
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994 Tj ^_ LEA ]) EB __ [ No . 343 , Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 18, 1856, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18101856/page/10/
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