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Tho Duko Of Hamilton And Brandon Died At...
The Earl of Shaftesbury has promised to be present , and _amon" other gentlemen expected , are Sir E . Bulwer Lytton , M . P ., and Mr . Charles Dickens . Mr . Welsh and Mr . Wicklin , of the Kew Observatory , ascended in a balloon , on Tuesday , for the purpose of scientific observation . They reached a height of 19 , 400 feet , in n temperature of 7 ° Fahrenheit . They descended near Cambridge , having , travelled nearly sixty miles in an- hour and thirty-five minutes . Tho Electric Telegraph Company have arranged with the Astronomer Royal , at Greenwich , for distributing information of correct Greenwich time to all parts of London , as well as to all the principal ports of England and Scotland . A zinc ball , six feet in diameter , painted a bright red , has been raised above the Electric Telegraph Odice , at Charing-cross ; and it has been contrived that it shall drop at one o ' clock , simultaneously with the ball above the Royal Observatory at Greenwich .
The Leeds Chamber of Commerce held a special meeting last Saturday to consider the present state of our relations with the United States . The general feeling was that the Government should be memorialized , praying that every means might be used to bring about amicable relations . Some of the American merchants present , however , expressed an opinion that the state of affairs was really far less menacin g than was generally supposed ; and one of them was satisfied , from his private correspondence , that there was no real danger to peace , the great outcry made having been originated in the United States for politica purposes . The meeting was adjourned till tho following Thursdav .
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The _North and South Western Junction Railway is expected to be opened about the 7 th of next month . Agricultural labourers have become so scarce in West Sussex , that the services of the Scots Fusilier Guards have been obtained to assist in harvesting the crops in some places . A great many colliers in the counties of Stirling and Linlithgow have , we understand , left their work this week and betaken themselves to shearing , at which they are earning 3 s . per day . To so great an extent has this taken place , that in the case of one colliery 78 men have left , and the result is already beginning to tell on the traffic receipts of the Monklands Mineral Railway . It is some consolation that , even should all thc Irish go off to the gold diggins , we shall have our black-diamond men to fall back upon , in order to get in our golden grain . —North British Mail .
Mr . H . Sewcll of the Mansion House , who was requested by the Lord Mayor to accompany the emigrants to Liverpool , who were about to sail by the City of Lincoln , reported to his lordship , on Wednesday , thc success of his mission . The vessel had fallen into the hands of a man of respectability , who had paid great attention to the comforts of thc passengers . He further stated that the Prince Alfred , the delay of which had been bitterly complained of , had passed through the Downs . Thc Emigrants' Aid and Transit Society held a meeting on Tuesday evening , at the Apollonicon Rooms , St . _Martin's-lane . Lord Erskinc presided . Mr . Guedalla , a
gentleman who hael spent some years in the colonies ot Australia , stated that tbe object of the society was to carry out an _organizeel system of emigration , as recommended by Mrs . Chisholm . Thc society hod an agent in thc colony , Mr . W . Hawkins , through whose means settlers might provide feir tho sending out of their relations . The society had not been formed by speculators ;—its only object was the benefit of tho emigrants . There were two classes in thc society—emigration classes and colonizing classes ; the subscriptions of tbo former went entirely to defray the expenses of the ; passage out ; those of the latter formed a _fiinel for the purchase of land in Australia .
The city solicitor appeared at tho Mansion-house on Tuesday , by tho direction of the Court of Aldermen , to prefer an information against Captain Chippenham , for overloading tho Queen , a steamer plying between I feme Buy and the city of London . By an not of tho Htli and loth Victoria , a penalty of 201 . is imposed lor this offence upon the owner , master , or other person having charge of a steamer , together with 5 s . feir each person over the number authorized to he carried by the certificate issued by tho Board of Trade . Several witnesses proved that there wero Ofif ) passengers on board , while ; tbo certificate only authorized her _te _> carry IIOO . The ; Lord Mayeir lined the captain 51 . for the principal offenco , anel 51 . for excess of number , making together 10 / . ; if the ; _ollene-e ; we're committed in future , cither by Captain Chippenham eir by any other porsein , the ; full penalty would bo indictee ! .
Mr . Lionel ( _Je ; orgo Thompson , of Riches-court , _Liniestreet , appeared at the ; Mansion-house ; em Saturday , te > answer to e : eimphiints of _scve ; ral persons _respecting the delay of a vessel which hael been announced to sail for fort , Philip em the ; 101 b eif . Inly . Thc vessel in which the complainants were originally to sail , hud been , from somo miuvoidablo circumstances , laiel usiele _, anel the ; Citi _/ of Lincoln , now at Livcrpoed , had hceui substituted . Mr . _IJullantine ; , _eut behalf of Mr . Thompson , admitted that tho emigrants had been subj <; o ( od tei unreasonable _ele-lny , unel Mr . Thompson
was willing to pay them compensation . lie ; bail himself suffered severely from the ; fail urn of the ; parties on whose ; behalf ho hael engaged ( lie ; passengers . The ; ve ; Hse ; l would , however , bo ready to sail on Meinduy next , and theme ; who had ongiigod thoir passages might oithor take their berths or rei'eivo again their passage money , in either _e-ase ; having the ; sum of 51 . as _comiieiisatioii for tho delay . The ; Intra Mayor anil A ' ldorinan Finnis _advisi'd the complainants to accept thoso terms , and dim-ted Mr . Henry Howell , of the Mansion-house , to _nreicccd lo Liverpool I . o superinte ; nd the arrangements for their benefit .
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Cliarle' _. rt _Ceuhiis , whei has become _neitorioiiH feir raising money on portraits of e ; _uiine ; iit persons , was tried at , thet Ceuit . ral Criminal Court- on Wednesday . _Tltroo cases wore gone into , but through defects in tho ovidoneo he was _ucquittoil upon all of thorn . Inspector dimming said that
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there were fifty other cases if the parties would have prosecuted . The Tunbridgo-Wells constables , Morton and Dadson , who discovered Johnny Broome at Brussels , attended on Saturday before the magistrates at Brighton to report their proceedings . They stated that they had not been able to bring him to England , as the laws of Bel g ium would not allow them to do so . The Belgian authorities , however , will expel him from that country , and at his own desire will send him to Hamburg . It i _3 expected that he will not bo allowed to enter Prussia , but will then be sent back to England , in which case the police will accompany him on his return .
Mr . Sergeant Wrangham , and two other magistrates for Gloucestershire , wero occupied , on Tuesday , in inquiring into the cases of twenty-three persons , concerned in the late riots at Bridge Yate , during the late election . Twenty-one of them were committed for rioting , and two for highway-robbery and assault upon Mr . Dickenson , one of the county magistrates . Two policemen were nearly killed in the riot , and several others more or less injured . Thomas Medley was charged at the Lambeth policecourt , on Tuesday , with altering the date of a railway ticket , and attempting to defraud the South-Western Railway Company of twelve shillings , his fare from Southampton . On arriving at the Waterloo Station , he had offered the ticket in question , which was a return ticket
dated the 1 st of this month , merely entitling the holder to go and return on that day . The date had been altered to the 16 th . Medley said he had bought it for two shillings , on the morning of his journey , from a man who looked like a sailor . He did not think there was any harm in his using it . The officer of the company did not wish to press the charge , as it might have been done through ignorance or mistake . Mr . Norton , consequently , merely ordered the man to pay the twelve shillings . William Rose , who stated that " he had a regular stipulated emolument or stipend as a general independent agent of the General United and Incorporated Association for Providing and Producing everything required for the
Benefit , Comfort , Consumption , and advancement of Mankind , " was indicted at the Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday , for obtaining the sum of 11 . 5 s . 6 d . from Joseph Wilson on false pretences . He had met with Wilson and told him a story about 750 / . in money , and thirty-seven acres of land in Warwickshire , that Wilson was entitled to . He represented that he had come to a knowledge of these facts through being an officer of the Court of Chancery . By these impositions he had gulled Wilson out of the sum of 5 s . 6 i . at one time , and of a sovereign at another time , the latter to pay for filing a bill : Wilson ' s suspicions had at last been aroused , and he had given Rose into custody . It seems that he has been playing the same trick upon other persons . He was remanded in order that further information might be obtained . «
William Avis , who was summoned last week on a charge of having buried an infant without a proper certificate , appeared again at Bow-street , on Wednesday . It was on this occasion proved tbat tbe certificate had been made out and given to the grandmother , and that she had given it to the daughter of Avis , who was acting as agent for him in his shop , when the body was loft in his charge . As it was stated on behalf of Avis that he bad not had the certificate , thc case turned upon the question whether he had
" buried" the body within tho meaning of the act . Mr . Henry referred to Johnson ' s Dictionary , which described the word " bury" as signifying " to put in a grave , to hide , to conceal . " Ho thought it was quite clear that there was in this case a concealment of the body from tho 7 th of Juno , when it was delivered to the defendant to be buried , until tho 10 th of August , when tho officers found tbo body in the coal vault of Mr . _Avis ' _s bouse , nnd . consequently , that this case came within the act . Ho sentenced Avis to a fine of 0 / .
A body of nawies wero drinking at a public house belonging to David Davics , at Lower Swinforel , in Worcestershire , on the evening of Monday week . A quarrel arose amongst them , and they turned out to fight . They returnee ! to tho house nnei kept up a groat disturbance , so that a crowd was collected in front of the door . In tho _mielst of it Davics came home , and was greatly annoyed at the riot . He tried roughly to _disperso the mob , and enraged at his want of success , ho returned to tho house and nrmeel himself with two guns , ono single anil tbo other demble-bnrrelled . Thus prepared , and with a Ron to assist in _reloading the . weapons , he opened a buttery upon tho mob freim an upper window and fired four shots . One woman , who was looking for ono of her children , was killed , one man is not expected to recover from the wounds bo received , and three other persons , two of thorn women , w <; ro seriously injure ; d . . Davics is committed feir trial on the charge of " wilful murder ; " bin son is committed as au accessory .
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Mr . Ilarllnnd , tho comedian , passing along the _pavomiMit in Mount-street , Westminster , was killed by tho falling of a piece of scaffolding . A ve ; _sse ; l at Henderson ' s ship-building yard heeled over a few elays ago , anel fell eih ' a number of men . Between se ; ve'n and twelve men aro saiel to havo boon killed . Fifteen men at . work upon the ; Orinoco ste ; ame ; r , lying in the ; Southampton _efeie-k , got , upon a raft , on _Tuosilny , to go te _> dimmr . Tho raft , upset , and" they all went into the ; water . It is feared that ono or two of them wore ; _elrenvneid . An inquiry wan commenced on Wednesday at Southampton , _re'spe-eting the ; lire ; which broke out on board the ; West Inelia Mail Steam shi p Severn . Nothing , however , was _breiugbt tei light which _allbrehul any explanation of the cause eif the fire ; .
A _yeiung man loft Loudon , with his wife , for Chester , on Woilmwday _, in a Itrst-edass carriage . The husband being very unwell tbey hail a compartment to themselves . On arriving al , Chester tbo with awoko out , of a gontlo doze into which « ho had fallen , and on turning to her husband sho found ho was dead .
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Mr . William Cam , of Clinger Farm , in the nan" i _. Cam , in Gloucestershire , received a kick in the _feoTr of one of his cows , as he was milking her . It ia _«„ tL _"i that she was frightened by a rabbit . He died befor fu next morning , although he obtained the best _medial j vice that could be had . medical ad-A boy named William Leed , in passing alon » a sh- l in Manchester , during the thunder-storm of Tuefdav 1 t was struck on the forehead b y the electricit y , and bee completely blind . His temples , as well as one of his thf _*? were burnt . There is some hope of the recovery of K A thunderstorm of uncommon severity visited the nei 1 bourhood of Bristol on the night of Friday week , and last A for abovo three hours , increasing in violence _during _thf time . The rain was so heavy that several places were undated ; at Congresburg a massive stone wall , six feet _^" height , was washed away , and a horse was carried off " _^ legs and drowned ; at Redhill , a large piece of wheat th f was in shock was floated away entirely . In various plae the crops were damaged or destroyed . es
Some extensive farm premises , near Colchester in th occupation of Mr . Samuel Bloomfield Bl yth , of _Langha m 8 were destroyed by fire on Tuesday week . The fire was caused by a stream of electricity , which it is said had the appearance of a rocket , and was observed " to go hissin _? through the farmyard , aud strike the end of a barn setting it in a blaze in a few minutes . ' A fire took place in Fitzroy-court , Tott _enham-court-road about three o ' clock on Monday morning . The-inmates of the house in which the fire commenced had but just time to escape . The fire soon spread to the adjoining houses and the heat became so great that those living opposite could scarcely leave their houses without injury . One house , No . 3 , was completely destroyed ; No . 4 _suffered but little less . Five other houses were damaged more or less
A fire was discovered by a policeman abo ut two o ' clock on Saturday morning , in the house of Mr . Feyle , in W ellington-place , West India Dock-road . On the alarm being given , Mr . Feyle at once jumped out of bed , but the floor was so hot that he could scarcely stand upon it . By the time he had aroused all the household the staircase was burning so fiercely that they were quite unable to eseape in that way . Eventually , however , all but two of them contrived to escape by the upper windows . The house was completely destroyed . The body of one of thc sufferers has been found under the ruins .
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The efforts made to bring up the Duchess of Kent were rewarded with some success on Tuesday , her decks being brought above the level of the tide at low water . The East India Company has just determined to establish a system of electric telegraphs in India , traversing a distance of 3000 miles , and connecting Calcutta , Agra , Lahore , Bombay , and Madras . It is to bo completed within three years . A return to the House of Lords just printed states that the number of cases heard before the commissioners of insolvency on circuit in 1841 was 3832 ; in 1842 , 2955 ; in 1843 , 2533 ; in 1844 , 1715 ; in 1845 , 698 ; in 1846 , 650 ; and in 1847 , 566 . After the spring and summer ones iu this year thc circuits axo abolished .
The Portland Argus gives us the following story : —A young man named Bean , of twenty years of age , was haying in a field near Andover , Oxford County , Maine , together with a boy of twelve years of a _^ e , when he suddenly saw a largo white-faced bear near him . Bo fired a fowling-piece at tho brute , but with little effect . Bo retrcated backwards slowly , loading his gun at tho same time , but , _justas it was charged , ho tripped up and fell . He was able to fire onco more , as tho boar fell upon hini _, but withno result . The bear began upon his leftarm , bitingit severely , and wasatthesamotimescratching the young man _s breast with hispaw . Tho shaggy tormentor then determined to make short work with his victim , and opened his huge mouth to make a bito at thc young man's face ; at that moment Bean , with a desperate effort , thrust his wounded arm down tho creature ' s throat as far as bo could . Tho
boar was thus " fixed , " and could neither advance nor retreat . Bean now got the boy to como and take a kmfo out of bis pocket , tei do which ' it was necessary to push tbo bear's head a little on ono side . Tho young man then , with his disengaged arm , cut tho bear ' s throat from ear to car , killing him stone dead as ho lay upon him . Tho Blanche , Indiamnn , on her passage from Singapore to Ningpo , in China , having sailed through the Java ben to tbo Pacific , struck on Helen ' s Shoal , on tho 3 rd ot January . She sank in about a quarter of an hour . Ono _<» l ber boats was got alloat , and tho crow , numbering tw 0 ! 7 _^ niuo persons , got on board with one hundred pounds weig _» of broad , this ho ' _intr all that tlmv had timo to obtain . Ihey
bail no water . Soon after , falling in with tho whnlc-l . _o'ix bottom upwards , tbey separated thoir party , anel both _sc out for Lord North ' s Island . Tho noxt night , however thoy lost sight of each other , and tho whalo-boat and _«» crew have never been hoard of since . After five d'iyH severe suffering from fatigue and thirst , thoy reached tin _islanels of Syang and Wyang , and tho next day Unit oi Balabohik , where thoy found somo fresh water and slidfish , but , tbey saw-no ' inhabitants in thoso islands . _»<><> after the » y arrived at tho island of Gngy , tho , mUvo _, _^ which furnished them somo refreshments . Hero tho cu
refused to proceed , and Captain Tcdilington , and Mr . _«<>» > the chief _eiflie-or , with no ut _' ondunt but u Chinese » ,, r j ' and a I / ascar seaman , sot out , and in two elays rem 'J '" ' island eif ( b ; b y , whoro thoy wero treated with groat _«" "" by the ; rajah : After remaining thoro for thirteen aay , the ; rajah sent thorn to Batnvia , and thonco thoy »»« their way to Tomato , where thoy found the crow , »' they hael loft at Uagy , in prison . The Dntch nalhor < _^ to whom thoy had boon delivered up , not _thiUK-iitfe ' _^^ account of _thomselvos satisfactory , had put thorn u _^ finomont , but released thorn on tho app lication '' _£ j . captain . With much difficulty , and aRor _oonsidorau suffering , thoy succeeded in getting back to Singap _^
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 21, 1852, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21081852/page/10/
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