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It is stated in the last advices receive...
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A large party of gentlemen went down on ...
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Major Honry Eardloy Wilmot, of tho Royal...
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_ At the Palace of the Bishop of Exeter,...
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Of late our metropolitan police courts h...
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Mr. J. F. Ansley, an under graduate of T...
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Tuesday Was Quite A Gala-Day At Dublin C...
Chamber had given way from the great crowd formed by the University deputation . The members of the ^ rporation were aU arrayed in their official robes . The Lord Lieutenant , seated upon the throne , heard their address read , and gave a gracious answer , and all went off with due solemnity and dignity .
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It Is Stated In The Last Advices Receive...
It is stated in the last advices received from the Cape of Good Hope that a London firm of eminence and wealth had undertaken to ' complete a raUway to connect Cape Town with some of the most productive districts of the colony , furnishing locomotives , carriages , & c ., for a certain sum , in the short space of two years . The project had only at the date of these accounts been made public , but it had received a most cordial reception , and its advantages were at once appreciated . In addition to the many reasons brought forward for its adoption , it is remarked that as the Cape appears destined to become the intermediate port for several lines of ocean steamers to India , China , and Australia , it is therefore necessary to provide a better means of communication with the interior than now exists , for the conveyance of produce to the port of shipment . —Morning Chronicle .
The royal mail steam ship Teviot which arrived at Southampton from Buenos Ayres , on Saturday , brought the news of the complete overthrow of the power of General Rosas , who has been the absolute Dictator of the Argentine Republic since the year 1834 . On the morning of the 3 d of February , a severe and decisive action was fought at Lugares , about two leagues from the city of Buenos Ayres , between the forces of Rosas and the allied Brazilian and Banda Oriental troops , under General Frquiza . The Ger * man cavalry , from the disbanded army of Schleswig Holstein , in the Brazilian service , literally rode over the cavalry of the Dictator of the Argentine republic , and the battle terminated in the total defeat of the Buenos Ayrean troops , nf whom 4000 are said to have been killed and wounded .
The action commenced at about six in the morning , and lasted with great fury until ten ; in the afternoon the dictator ' s infantry and artillery , being almost completely surrounded , laid down their arms and surrendered to Urquiza ' s forces . Rosas himself was present during the action , and was wounded in the hand , though his troops were commanded by General Pacheco , who is reported to have been killed . The Dictator escaped with great difficulty , disguised asa marine , and took refuge on board her Majesty ' s steam , ship Centaur , with his daughter , Manuelita , in the dress of a sailor boy , and several of his suite . General Mancilla , who commanded in the city of Buenos Ayres , had offered to capitulate to General TJrquiza . The diplomatic agents of the various foreign powers were endeavouring to arrange matters amicably .
A Large Party Of Gentlemen Went Down On ...
A large party of gentlemen went down on Thursday to view the Great Grimsby Docks , now so far completed as to be ready for opening on the 1 st of May-Some more experiments were made at Woolwich on Thursday with rifled cannon . . The Minie rifle practice , which took place recently at Woolwich , has been so satisfactory to the authorities at the Horse Guards , that orders have now been sent to commanding officers of various other regiments to send up parties this week to Woolwich for similar practice in this effective weapon .
Captain Delvigne , formerly of the Royal Guard , in the French army , has written a letter to the Times , detailing the circumstances of-his invention of the cylindro-conical bullet , and of the mode of forcing it into tho rifled grooves by the force of the discharge , and complaining that the weapon is now Universally known by the name of Captain Minio , who only made a trifling improvement in the application of Captain Delvignc ' s invention . The Albion 90 , the Encounter screw-steamer , and Indefatigable frigate , left Malta on tho 6 th inst ., for the ¦ westward . The JPheeton frigate received sudden orders while at Corfu , to proceed to Malta ; she arrived there on the 10 th , and on the 11 th was towed out by the T ? v , ry steamer , also bound for tho westward . Tho destination of this largo portion of tho Malta squadron was kept a profound secret , the captains having'sealed orders .
The mortal remains of Marshal Marmont are , says the Preaae , to bo brought to Franco , and deposited in a vault which ho caused to be prepared in tho church of St . Vorles , at Chatillon-sur-Seino , tho village in which he was born . M . Thiors was among tho " foreigners of distinction , " present on Wednesday night at the first of the Countess of Derby ' s " receptions , " at tho official reBidonco of the Premier in Downing ' -stroet . Tho widow of Marshal Soult died during tho night of tho 12 th at her chateau of Soult-Berg , in the department of tho Tarn . She was in her 81 st year . Her eon and hor daughter , tho Marquise do Mornay , had not quitted her Bineo tho death of thoir father .
A lonp letter from San Francisco appeared in tho Times of yesterday against tho gold companies and tho mining mania which raged no violently in London a short time ago , and intelligence of which haa reached California .
Major Honry Eardloy Wilmot, Of Tho Royal...
Major Honry Eardloy Wilmot , of tho Royal Artillery , who was killed in action with tho KaffirB on Now Your 8 Day last , was tho fifth , son of tho late Sir John Eardloy Wilmot , Bart ., Jjioutonant-Governor of Van Diomon b Land . Ho was born in 1810 , and after tho usual course of instruction in tho Military Academy , Woolwich , now provided over by hi » older brother , Captain Eardley Wilmot , ho obtained his commisnion in l 8 iM . Affcor oight years service in Canada and Newfoundland , he returned ti England , and shortly after accompanied his father , then just appointed Governor of Van Diomon ¦ Land , as hia uide- ; do-camp . Whon vrar broko out in ! 845 in Now Zealand , Capfc . Wilmot volunteered to go with tho troops who wore despatched from Van Diomeu ' s Land by tho governor . Ho was afterwards joined by a younger brother , Charles Eardloy Wilmot , an ensign in tho 90 th ; tho two brothers ought side by aido throughout tho Now Zealand
campaign , and the young artilleryman ' s ^ energy and useful ness were so conspicuous that he received the brevet rank of maior in 1846 , when he was only thirty years of age . When peace had been established with the New Zealand chiefs , Major Wilmot returned to Hobart Town , and found his father on his death-bed . He left Van Dienien ' s Land after his father ' s death , and returned to England . In 1850 his company received orders to embark for the Cape , and from . January 1851 , when the present Kaffir war . broke out , until the day of , his mournful but glorious death , he was actively employed whereve * hard and gallant eerViee was required . ^
_ At The Palace Of The Bishop Of Exeter,...
_ At the Palace of the Bishop of Exeter , on Sunday lasfc , George Octavius Smyth Pigotfc was ordained deacon . The MarqUis of Londonderry having come to a right frame of mind , has agreed to present the Rev . Mr . Law , who recently eloped with his daughter , the Lady Adelaide Vane , to a uving worth about 600 ? . per annum . It is reported " on good authority , " that the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol ( Dr . Monk ) has , by a deed of gift , conveyed the whole of his interest in Horfield Manor—his disposal of which was so much discussed in the last session of Parliament—to trustees , for the benefit of small livings in his diocese . The donation takes effect from the present time , and its term is for the lives of the Princess Royal , and the PrincesBes Alice and Helena ^ and the longest liver of them . The annual income of the manor exceeds a thousand pounds . The Liverpool police have been making a regular onslaught upon the begging fraternity . Between fifty and sixty of all ages , sizes , countries , and colours , were brought before the magistrates , and summarily dealt with . Some sturdy fellows , negroes and Malays , a few of whom had been within the grasp of the law before , looked as though begging was only the mildest pursuit which they adopted for a livelihood , robbery and violence being evidently to them more congenial . Amongst the crowd of prisoners was a hoary mendicant , upwards of 112 years of age . He was handed over to the care of the parish overseers .
Of Late Our Metropolitan Police Courts H...
Of late our metropolitan police courts have become a sort of supplementary poor-law board for conveying relief in cases of urgent destitution . Mr . Yardley , the magistrate at the Thames police court , on Tuesday , announced that the total amount forwarded by benevolent persons for " Frederick Shaw and his wife , whose painful story we related last week , was 701 . 16 * . ; and for John Lauder , who had attempted , to poison himself from despair at seeing himself and his eight children on the brink of starvation ,. 307 . 8 s . _ ; and for the purpose of providing an outfit for some destitute New Zealanders and Sandwich Islanders , 431 . 8 s . 6 d . ; He also stated that means were being taken to advise these poor people how to lay out this" * money to the best advantage . On the same day Mr . Yardley received 21 . from the ¦ workmen employed by Messrs . Deane , gun-makers , for the relief of Lauder , and 10 s . from H . S ., for Shaw , and his wife .
Mr . Disraeli appears to be no favourite with the great landed proprietors of the county of Bucks . He was very cavalierly treated during his recent visit . Early in last week , an application was made on behalf of tho right hon . gentleman and his lady , for tho use of the Judges ' Chambers , a suite of apartments adjoining the Shire-hall , which have recently been built at the expense of the county . Tho ground of the application was that suitable accommodation could not bo obtained at the A y lesbury Hotel , and the matter was formally brought before the magistrates at quarter session , who refused the application , alleeiner that the Judges' Chambers were public
property , and that the George Hotel , built by one of the Dukes of Buckingham , and which had accommodated the Duchess of Buckingham , and other of the families of tho leading landed proprietors , was quite good enough for Mrs . Disraeli . It was remarked , that on the arrival of Mr . Disraeli on Thursday evening , at Aylesbury , there was no ono to receivo him—not even a carriage in attendance , and ho and his lady were obliged to avail themselves of a one-horse fly from the station to the George Hotel , where his only visitor was his solicitor , Mr . Smith .
Mr. J. F. Ansley, An Under Graduate Of T...
Mr . J . F . Ansley , an under graduate of Trinity College , Cambridge , about twent y years of ago , eon of Mr . Gilbert Analoy , of Houghton Hill , Hants , was trying a horse on Monday afternoon at leaping fonces in afield belonging to Mr . Sparrow , at Chcstorton , about a mile from Cambridge . Tho horse suddenly refused ono rather higher than usual , Bwervcd aside , and started off at full speed round tho fiold . Mr . Ansloy retained hold of the saddlo for some time , although ho had lost his scat , but at last ho slipped off , and his foot remaining in the stirrup ho was dragged thrco or four times round tho field , his head at every stride of tho horso coming in contact with tho ground . Ho was taken up insensible , and convoyed to Mr . Sparrow ' s house , but ho survived but a short period , having sustained severe injuries of tho skull .
An accident , attended with tho loss of two lives , and injury to several other persons , though fortunately none of tho passengers were seriously hurfc , occurred on Saturday night to a train on the South Western Railway . Tho train left tho Waterloo Station at half-past eight , ai \ il tho journey was safely performed as far as Winchester , but whon it had arrived within a milo and a half of Bishopetoko , O ; fow minutos after elovon o ' clock , tho tiro of the near leading wheolof tho engine flow Off , and tho ongino
almost immediately loft tho lino , and ran down an embankment of about twenty feet deep , dragging with it tho tender , tho guard's van , and tho post-office tonder . Tho crash was , of course , torriftc . The stoker was killed on tho spot , and tho ongine-driver was so much injured that ho died shortly afler bin removal to tho Southampton infirmary . Tho guard of tho train was also much hurt , and tho poat-oflico guard had ono of his arms fractured . The post-ofllca cleric happily oBctipod . Tho policeman at tho Bitfhopstoko Station , who was watching tho approach
of the train , could distinguish what had occurred th light in front of the engine marked its direction as . ' it » n off the line . He gave the alarm , and an engine at one proceeded to the scene of the catastrophe , dnd removed the passengers , who were conveyed in another train tn Southampton and Portsmouth . Mr . Stovin , the general manager , and Mr ; Beattie ; the locomotive superintendent after inspecting the shattered remains of the engine and tender ,, gave it as their opinion that the accident was " one of those casualties which no human foresight could have averted . " A coroner ' s inquest , on $ he bodies of th two men killed , held at Southampton on Tuesday brrmo-ii * in a verdict of " Accidental death . " gM A plantation near Exeter was on fire on Saturday for nearly a quarter of a mile . . ¦
A man who had taken chloroform while undergoing an operation in the St . Bartholomew's Hospital on " Wednesday expired in the hands of the operators . An inquest wag held , and a verdict returned of " died from the effects of chloroform . " . Some burglars effected an entry on the . night of Friday week at the shop of Alderman Carter , watchmaker and jeweller , at the corner of Cornhill and Bishopsgate-street and carried off rings , brooches , and other jewellery to the value of between 400 Z . and 60 OZ . No watches were removed . A reward of 100 ^ is offered for the apprehension of the thieves . ¦ ¦ > ¦¦' .
Mr . Gleayes , a brewer , of Wulmgham , Cambridgeshire and his wife , left home on the afternoon of Friday week for St . Ives , and the same night a fire broke out in a barn < m his premises , which was not got under until five horses three cows , and a large number of pigs and poultry ^ with a great quantity of dressed corn and some valuable implements were consumed . Two adjacent cottages were also destroyed with all their contents . There is no doubt that the fire was maliciously occasioned , as a fire broke but in exactly the same place a few weeks ago . The property belonging to Mr . Gleaves wasinsured . A very extraordinary accident , which might have been
attended with serious consequences , occurred a few days since at the Foreign-office . The new Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs-r-the Earl of Malmesbury—had made an appointment to meet the Austrian minister at three o ' clock in the afternoon . His excellency arrived at the hour appointed , but the Earl of Malmesbury havin g been unexpectedly engaged ^ requested Count Buol to oblige him by calling ggam a & four o ' clock . In the interval , between three ancTfour , the whole of the ceiline of the room in which the earl would have received the Austrian minister ,
fell with a tremendous crash—covering the tables and chairs , and floor of the apartment several inches deep . with the debris of the plaster , which was between three and four inches thick . The room was unoccupied at the time , fortunately no person suffered any injury . Had the accident happened a few minu tes later it mig ht certainly have been considered an unfortunate omen . It is understood that the whole of the buildings on the south side of Downing-street are in a very insecure condition , and quite unfit for Government offices .
Kalabergo , who was condemned to death at Oxford lasfc assizes for murdering » 4 us uncle at Banbury , made a most determined attempt on Friday week to escape from Oxford Castle . He was taking his usual airing in tho yard accompanied by a guard , and while the atte ndant was looking another way he made a desperate leap , and succeeded in scaling the wall like a cat . There were stout iron railings at the top of the wall , but he managed to run along the wall , and sprang some distance to the top ol another wall , but there was still another wall beyond it , and from tho peculiar construction of the building he was unable to nrocced anv farther . The alarm bell was rung , at
and several of the turnkeys soon arrived below the place which ho had arrived ; and Kalabergo , finding his escape impossible , waited patiently till a ladder was set for him to descend . He was then conveyed to a cell and securely manacled . This is the second attempt made by Kalabergo to escape . On a previous occasion ho jumped irom a window , and broke his leg . After receiving sentence oi death , which appeared to make very little impression on tho prisoner , ho was visited in tho gaol by the ' ^ P ™^ Mr . Maggioni , and the Roman-catholic priest , Mr . xtr ^ - ham , but ho made no confession of his £ " !* , until Mondaj , when he wrote ono in the presence of Dr . Tandy , another of
priest , and the Rev . Dr . Harington , Principal B ™ < f ° College , to whomvhw gave permission to disclose all tno wr cumstancos undor which the murder was . committed-A fight took placo in tho streets of Dublin onSt . FatricK . e day . W people were so very happy m following Uw military band with " hats off" that on their return ttom attending tho troopa to . the b arracks , they immw » " hats off" pretty generally . Some persons . reeistcci , row onsued ; tho police interfered , and wore mot j ohowors of stones ; finally , tho mob was quelled by police and a troop of artillerymen accidentally Pft 8 J"b ' . Honry Poulson ondThomaa Paddock , two noted pn ^ fighters , with their Bcconds and bottleholdera ; Jonn i .. ~ i . « aia .. w 1 rr ^* f Tamna Wlinrtnn . alias """ "i , ..
_ _ Kk , and ten SK , pSted" ^ V- ?*? ° S ^ tice Jorvi 8 , at tho Dorby Assizes , on Monday , to ft cu ^ riot , and assaulting two constables in the execution ™ duty . Tho tranaaition out of which this prosecut on n ^ took place at Turnditch , near Belpor , on * ne . * ^ Paddock comber last . A prize fight between Poulson unci . x «« ^ had boon arranged to coirno off upon that occ 2 "orV H t , rUtt , expectation had collected an immense mob . Mr . * ibi 0 > a inagi » trato , intending to prevent tho » ff u V L of tho wont upon the field accompanied by two o ° n » tob «» ™ ftdo name of Wragg and Abelf , and with ^ X 3 cut tho his way into the crowd . By hia direction > ywffg ^ ,, 1 , ropoa which liad been mod to form the ring ,, W « * ofl , oxprossod thoir determination to proceed , « nu " > fttonJ eaulting tho conutablea . Wrftgg woa n good « o » J vhtt t and Homo attempt was made to wntt ^ VY ^^ -Ui found gontloman , howovor , retulthoRi » fcAct , butivtlong i ] i 0 Himself cowpeUod to xotiro . Tino mob romamcci
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Leader (1850-1860), March 20, 1852, page 12, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_20031852/page/12/
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