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588 THE LEAPEB. [1^6.430, ^^19 ,1885.
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^ UCANTELE MARINE. Ship-buiudik& on the ...
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NAVAL AND MILITARY. Movements at Malta.....
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MISCELLANEOUS. The Counr.-—The Queen and...
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Okituary. The .Lain) Ju&Tice Ci-Iouc.—Th...
... Ex ~ Aw >« bj * an Gcbbs . —Mr . Michael Gibbs , -who was for , many yean Alderman of the Ward of Walbrook , and in bis torn Lord Major of London , is just dead . Some rears ~ p ° > ^ involved himself in serious differences -with his feiiow parishioners , in consequence of his refusal to give up the accounts of several charities -with which he was connected , and this eventually led to the resignation of his gown . He lived during the last few years in retirement . GiorEBAT . HA \ s KBB .- —The colonelcy of the 6 th Dra'goon Guards has become at the disposal of the General-Command ing-in-Chief , by the death of General $ ir Thomas Hawker , who died on the 13 th instant at Clifton , in the eighty-first year of his age .
Admiral Sir Charles Ogle , Bart ., Admiral of the "Fleet , died on Wednesday , at a quarter past one , at Tunbridge Wells , after a short illness . His eldest son , Mr . Chaloner Ogle , formerly in the army , succeeds to the baronetcy . John Shaksp-bkje , Esq ., a gentleman who , though bearing 1 the name of the poet , seems not to have been related to his family , but -who has recently exhibited great munificence in connexion with the house at Stratford-on-Avon , died , at the latter end of last week ,
at Xangley Priory , at the age of eighty-three . - ' Db- Bunting . —The Rev . Jabez Bunting , D . D ., died on Wednesday at his residence in Myddelton-square , Pentonville , having attained the eightieth year of Ms age and the fifty-ninth of his ministry . "This rev . divine , " says a biographer , "has been described as the Hercules of modern Methodism . He was a native of Manchester , and earned his recent exalted position in the ranks of his sect by the force of natural talent and assiduous selfcultivation . " : "
588 The Leapeb. [1^6.430, ^^19 ,1885.
588 THE LEAPEB . [ 1 ^ 6 . 430 , ^^ 19 , 1885 .
^ Ucantele Marine. Ship-Buiudik& On The ...
^ UCANTELE MARINE . Ship-buiudik & on the Ttnr—On Saturday evening , an immense concourse of people crowded the shores of the Tyne , in the neighbourhood of Jarrow , and some hundreds were also on board of steamboats and other craft on the river , [ to witness the launch of the Hudson from the building-yard of Messrs . Palmer , Brothers , and Co ,, ilie largest iron steamship yet built on the Tyne . She is 3000 tons burden , will he propelled by engines of 70 Q-lorse power nominal ( about 2000 effective ) , and is of the following dimensions : —345 feet over all , 40 feet beam , and 26 feet deep . She has four decks , poop , spar , middle , and lower , and she will accommodate 100 firstclass , 125 second-class , and about 400 third-class passengers . She is one of the four first-class steamers , two built on the Tyne , two on the Clyde , ordered in this country by the North German Lloyd ' s , and intended to run between Bremen and New York with passengers . The Ceylon , a new vessel just added to the fleet of the Peninsular , and Oriental Company , was launched last Saturday from the building-yard of Messrs . Samuda , Brothers , at Poplar . Mibs de Salis performed the christening ceremonials , and . tlie vessel was launched completely masted and rigged—a novel feature in such proceedings . The following are the exact dimensions of the Ceylon : —Length on deck , 300 feet ; beam , 41 feet ; depth , 29 feet ; burden in tons , builders' measure , 2376 tons ; displacement at load line , 3200 tons . ;— The day
did not paBs over . without one of those fatal accidents -which frequently occur in connexion with launches . About five o'clock in the morning , James Jolly , a shipwright ' s apprentice , was assisting near the anchor in malting preparations for the occasion , when an unperceiied nail in a plank , which was being lowered to the ground , caught in his trousers and dragged him down with it from a terrible height . The poor fellow died a few minutes after , as he was being carried to > the hospital .
Wreck of cthe Straw-ship Nbw York .. —The screw steamer New York , which sailed from the tail of the hank for New York last Saturday , got ashore at the Mull of Kintyre about midnight of the same day . The weather was not stormy , but it is said there was a dense fog , and this is assigned as the cause of the accident . When the ship struck , the passengers were all in bed : but the concussion was so great that they were awakened . All were saved , and so vas their luggage .
Naval And Military. Movements At Malta.....
NAVAL AND MILITARY . Movements at Malta .. —The fleet of Admiral Lord Lyons was 3 n Valetta harbour at the last date ( June 7 th ) . The Admiral has received the Grand Cross of tlie Order of St . Michael and St . George . Her Majesty ' * steam-gunboat Wanderer left Malta for Gibraltar on the 28 rd of May , to order to remain thexe the Renown , 91 and Racoon , 21 , on their way to Malta from England ' In consequence of the large naval force which is beine assembled at Toulon . The Algeslros , acrew line-ofbfcttle ship , hearing a rear-admiral ' s fiag , arrived on the 18 kh of May at Corfu from Toulon , and left on the following day , accompanied by the Eylau steam-frigate for the Adriatic A French screw ateam-Mgate , beorinir another re » Y-adnilraVs flog , arrived at Alexandria on tho iStn , and is reported to have landed a party of gendarmes to protect French subjects in concert with the Egyptian ] M > lice . A very large force ia said to have been landed atOran from the French Toulon flaet . —W « read in tho Malta Daily Newt , of June 11 th : — " About 11 . 30 rvw
last night , a heavy cannonade was heard , which at first alarmed many of the natives , but it proved to be a sham battle fought by the fleet , bearing N . N . E . of the island . The firing was quick , and lasted till a little after midnight . Some of the broadsides were so heavy that houses were actually shaken from the effects , and several people fancied it was a shock of earthquake . " A Much-seeded Reform at Chatha . m :- —Colonel Eyre , with tho sanction of the authorities , has issued
orders directing that all clothing and other necessaries required by soldiers during their voyage to India , shall be sent into the barrack stores , when the -whole will fee inspected by a board of officers appointed for that purpose , and no stores are to be issued to the troops but such as have been approved by the board . The practice of issuing necessaries to the non-commisioned officers and men on board ( a practice which prevented the soldiers from remedying any defects in the goods , which frequently existed ) is to be discontinued .
The Royal Arsenal at Woolwich . — One of'the members of the Royal Commission went to Woolwich last Saturday and instituted inquiries relative to certain departments of the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich . Notwithstanding the length of time which has elapsed since the Royal Standard Gun Foundry was completed , not one serviceable gun has been turned out and passed the ordinary proof , although a guarantee was given to the Secretary of State for the production of two hundred and fifty guns from that foundry by the 31 st of last March . The important blunder , it is understood , lay in the utter absence of practical men to direct the working of the establishment . The nominal and responsible founder is an Artillery officer , and the subordinate foremen or sub-directors , who should be -well up to the
work of gun casting , ; are mere novices in . that class of duty , having passed their Iive 3 as engineers ' workmen and cylinder casters , and being therefore unaquainted with the proper fusion of the metals requisite for making good and durable iron ordnance ! TheTtoyal Laboratory is also about to undergo investigation , it having been stated on official authority that in spite of the large expenditure and cost of that establishment , the British Government is not in possession of a single species or sliell adapted to present use . The enormous sums claimed by that department for the expenses of the late peace rejoicings in Hyde-park are also about to be rigidly inquired into . It is stated that the cost of the fireworks alone amounted to upwards of 100 , 000 / ., and that the surplus , buried and destroyed at times in Woolwich marsh , is inconceivable . —Times .
Launch ok the Oblando .- —The launch of the firstclass screw steamer frigate the Orlando took place at Pembroke last Saturday . The Orlando is the first of the new class ; she is 300 feet in length , and of 3726 tons burden ,, and her armament is of the heaviest calibre . She is of greater length than the Duke of "Wellington , and carries 40 guns . Rewards fou Crimean Heroes . —The Queen has conferred the decoration of the Victoria Cross on seven officers ( non-commissioned and otherwise ) who
distinguished themselves during the Crimean war by acts of extraordinary courage . Their names are—Sergeant Henry Ratnadge , 2 nd Dragoons ; Brevet-Major Mark Walker , 3 rd Regiment , late of tho 30 th ; Colour-Sergeant George Gardinor , 57 th Regiment ; Surgeon James Mount , C . B . ( now Deputy-Inspector-Genoral of Hospitals , late of the 6 th Dragoons ) ; Captain Howard Crauford Elphinstone , . Royal Engineers ; Colour-Sergeant Henry M'Donald , Royal Engineers ; and Colour-Sergeant Peter Leitch , Royal Engineers .
Wreck of the Indian Empire . —A telegram from Dublin reports that the steamer tho Indian Empire , which was to make the experimental trip between Galway and INew York with the mails , got on a rook on Tuesday morning . She was got off however , apparently without damage , and it is to be hoped that this accident will not delay the voyage .
Miscellaneous. The Counr.-—The Queen And...
MISCELLANEOUS . The Counr .- —The Queen and Prince Consort have been visiting Birmingham during the week . A full account of their progress will be found in another column . The Royal family is now again in London . In Rb the " Cow-hiding" of Mb . Charles Mathrws . •—A correspondence has been published in tho New York papers by Mr . Charles Mathews and Mr . Davenport , touching the circumstances out of which tho recent " oowhiding" arose . Mr . Mathews accuses Mr . Davenport of drunkenness , of having ill-used his late
wife ( now the -wife of the English comedian ) , and of habitually defaming her . Mr . Davenport , it is said , Bought the divorce and obtained it , though Mrs . Davenport , aided by Mr . Mathews , had already determined to apply for the same . Mr . Mathews admits that ho had already determined on making tho lady his wife as soon as sho should be legally free ; but he denies having had ilhcit intercourse with her . To this Mr . Davenport replies by quoting some of Mr . Mathews own letters to nia wife before thel divorce had been obtained ,-which show unequivocally the nature of tho acquaintanceship then existing . TituMDHnsroRMS . —A very violent thunderstorm burst overthe neighbourhoods of Liverpool and Birmingham last Saturday . Several buildings wo *» struck and
Injured ; haystacks were fired , horses killed , and men in a few instances , knocked down and . seriously tu . it . ' Birmingham , tlie rain fell with remarkable lieaviness carrying with it a great number of meteoric substances ' about the size of peas , and looking like coal . On the previous Tuesday , the West of Scotland was visited bv a storm of most alarming violence . A great many animals were killed and human beings injured , and much damage was done to property . Near Portpatrick a boy and girl were drowned while amusing themselves near a burn which had become greatly swollen durinc
the storm . On the same day , there was a storm in Shropshire , when a man was killed b y the lightning . — The town and neighbourhood of Reading were visited last Saturday evening with a deluge of rain and hail accompanied by violent wind , which broke a great many windows , and did immense damage to the crops in the open fields . The storm has had no parallel in that vicinity since 1840 . For a long time afterwards the hail remained in places fully six inches deep , and one singular effect of the storm was , a dense fog -which prevailed after dusk . .
State of the Sewers . —The Commissioners of Sewers met on Tuesday , at Guildhall ; Mr . Deputy Christie presiding . Mr . Deputy Harrison ( one of the representatives of the City in the Metropolitan Board of Works ) brought under the notice of the court , as a matter of great importance , the fact that the board , in order to prevent the annoyances now arising from the deposit of noxious substances along the shores of the river , had determined upon carrying out the sewer outfalls to a distance below low water-mark . They
intended so to deal with ten of the sewer outfalls , and on the previous Friday decided to commence with four , of which the London-bridge sewer , and the Goswell-streefc , or , as it was _ called , the Dowgate Dock sewer , were two . The expense of the works in the case of these two would be 6000 & After some discussion , a motion was carried , instructing Mr . Hay ward , the engineer of the Commission , to inspect the plans to ascertain what proportion of the expense was proposed to be thrown on that court , and to report the result to the next meeting . '
The Worthing Local Board . —Mr . William Hugli Dennett , clerk to the Worthing Local Board , has written to the ' 'Times to deny the inferences sought to be established from the case of Frend v . Dennett , in the Court of Common Pleas , of which we gave a summary last week . He asserts that all amounts fairly earned by Messrs ; Frend and Hammill , the contractors , have teen paid ; but that the sura disputed was not a fair charge . To this Messrs . Frend and Hammill reply by the assertion that their demands were perfectly fair , and by a statement of facts tending to support that view . Obelisk Chkisttanitv . —The meetings which , for a long time past , have taken place nightly at the Obelisk , for the purpose of discussing Christianity jproand con ., have been put down by the police . They collected large mobs of thieves and ruffians , and led to great danger and disturbance .
The Heat . —The heat during tin present week has been most extraordinary in its intensity . Wednesday was the hottest da }' , when the thermometer stood at 120 in the sun . The heat has since abated . Fire . —A very extensive fire , commencing in an undertaker ' s shop , in Curtain-road , Shoreditch , and extending to several other buildings , burst out on Wednesday night , and did ' great mischief before it could be suppressed . The parish church of St . James ' s is a good deal injured by the flames and the water , and a policeman , who was attempting to keep the crowd out of danger , was so seriously hurt by the falling of the walls that he was taken to the hospital . The total damage to property is estimated at 400 O 7 .
Attempted Suicide . —A French lady , a governess , has attempted to drown herself in the sea at Brighton , owing to disappointment at losing an action she bad brought in the County Court . She nearly succeeded in her design , and now lies in a very weak sUte . Australia . —Tho mew Victoria Ministry has adopted the Reform Bill without the minority clause , and there is every chance of its passing . The principle of this bill is that of equal electoral districts , and tho representation is based on population . Business , was stagnant at Melbourne , and the unemployed were set to public works . Church-rates in St . Clement Danes . —A churchrate has been refused in tho parish of St . Clement Danes by 81 to 32 .
Mr . Washington WiLKs .- ^ -Tho working men of Carlisle have held a meeting , at which they have resolved to present a testimonial to Mr . Washington Wilks . HKAvr Penaltv . —Tho penalty wliiak will bo incurred by the European and Australian Company for delay in bringing to England the heavy portion of tho Australian mail , recently brought to Suez in the steamship Victoria , will amount to about 525 OJ . Reduction in the Charge Kon Passports . — Notice is given in the Gazette of Tuesday that , on and after that da 3 ' , tho chnrgo payable on tho issue of a Foreign-ofnco passport is reduced from aix shillings to two shillings .
Commission on Manning , this Navv . —Wo read in the Gaxttte of Tuesday that the Queen lias been p leased to direct letters patent to bo passed under the groat seal appointing the Right Hon . Charles PhiHp Earl of Hard-
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Leader (1850-1860), June 19, 1858, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19061858/page/12/
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