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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS. Two serious...
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STATE OF TRADE. STATE OF TRADE. The repo...
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SPOLLEN ON THE STAGE. The course pursued...
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The Late Storms. Serious Damage Has Boon...
"" f , « nse in Shkd ^ U was y lightning on A *? A We stone chimney was forced from the ? v £ work of the roo ^ and carried by a sudden gust of b " 1 X * os ? the street into the back premises of an W 1 D Ltf neiehbonr , by which the roof of an outhouse ° TrSS Soyed , but no personal injury was sus-SbyS inmates . The roofs of several buildings . ffSe sine neig hbourhood were also similarly damaged Sartoftne eastern suburbs were much injured , and the low-lying lands of Essex suffered greatly from water an Tn ? souttSastern pinnacle of St . Michael ' s Church , Stamford , was struck down by the electric fluid . The frSclamps fastening the mass of the masonry together were first caught by the lightning , which at every point drove out large masses of the stonework , and , reaching the base of the pinnacle , uplifted the whole mass , which weichs abont fifteen hundredweight . To this it imparted a kind of circular motion , dashing it into fragments , and then escaped down an iron rain-spout , and passed into the earth without doing any more damage . The town of Retford has been inundated to such an extent that even the high lands around it were covered with water . The flood invaded the churchyard , though it stands high , and persons were taken out of their houses in boats . The crops lying in the fields were swept away , or utterly destroyed ; and several heads of cattle were lOSt . - . , , i __ ;_ _* . C < ^ o ^ caused
_ A great fall of earth was oy me ram ^ « v «« borough , on the eastern face of the Castle-hill . A semicircular piece of about half an acre has gone sheer down , leaving a precipitous face from the top to the bottom , a depth of nearly two hundred feet . The quantity of earth ana rock which has fallen cannot be less than a hundred thousand tons in weight , and is probably much more There was a large cavern there , which was entered from the Castle-yard , at no great depth below its surface . It was regarded as a curiosity by the people of Scarborough and , when the 28 th Regiment had an encampment in the Castle-yard three years ago , the officers sometimes had their mess in the cavern . This "id ? banqaeti « g . ¦ hall has perished with the portion of the cliff which has iW Very serious floods have occurred in Manchester , where the water has poured into many of the manufactories , doing immense damage . Horses and other animals have been carried away , and there has been a great loss of property . A house was set fire to by the lightning , but the property was saved- _ At Stowe , in Lincolnshire , on Thursday week , during a thunderstorm , some stacks of corn were set on fire by the lightning , and in one instance a field of standing corn was also set on fire , and destroyed . The West Riding of Yorkshire was visited on the night of Friday week with a terrific storm of thunder and lightning , which caused great destruction of property , and unhappily did not terminate without loss of life . A house at Morley , nearly opposite to the railway station , was completely washed away by the flood , and at Saddleworth a great portion of the towing-path connected with the canal was carried off . The Standedge Tunnel , the property of the London and North Western Railway Company , which is nearly three miles in length , was for some time three feet deep in water , causing great delay . ¦ •« . _ t . ^ * nf n _ AUnn 4 . AH nn ^ Pl » OWft . A t . TVl flTSQGlliraui tu luawuucotoi ^** i
to tne man ****** -vw-w . — , two bridges , one built of iron and the other of wood , were destroyed , and also a great number of cattle ; and much damage was done to the mills , the lower stories of some being completely filled with water . At Milnesbridge , near Huddersfield , several mills and houses were flooded , and a bridge over the river was torn up to the foundation , so that not a vestige of it now remains . Other bridges and houses were destroyed ; and at Farnley , a village about three miles from Huddersfield , a woman was-struck dead in her chair by the lightning . The whole of Derbyshire suffered greatly from the rains ; and the various railway lines traversing it were for a time blocked up by the flood . Whitchurch , in Shropshire , has also been invaded by the waters , which created groat havoc . On the night of Thursday week , the electric fluid struck the Flag Tower of Windsor Castlo , displacing about four tons of the parapet , but doing no further damage . One of the trees in the . Home Park , nearly opposite the residence of the Duchess of Kent , was struck by the lightning and stripped of a considerable portion of bark . An elderly woman was found dead in her bed on the following morning ; her death ia supposed to have been occasioned by fright at the violence of the storm . At Thorpe , the lightning struck a barn belonging to Mr . Joseph Taylor , causing great destruction of farm property and produce . At Reading , tho lightning struck tho engine-house at Messrs . Barratt , Exall , and Co . ' b . Two I rish labourers , who had boon reaping a field of beans near Wooduouso , Leicestershire , woro struck dead by the lightning on Thursday week , while taking shelter under an oak . Owing to the excessive rains , an immonao maea of rock , copulating of , earth and atones , fell in tlio deep . cutting near Warmnwortl ) , on tho South Yorkshire Railway , last Saturday night . Tho excavation at thla point ia about ono hundred foot deep , chiefly through
; the gullet at intervals to strengthen it . Shortly before nine o'clock on Saturday night , a goods tram passed through the cutting , and almost immediately afterwards one of the crossbeams was heard to crack , and a fall of rock succeeded . The greater portion of the material dropped into the large stone quarries at the end of tne cutting , but sufficient fell on the line to block it up . Fortunatelv , a person engaged on the line witnessed the accident in time to stop an approaching passenger train from Sheffield and Barnsley , the inmates of which were conveyed back to the Conisborough station and forwarde ' d thence to Doncaster by road . A ballast-engine , however , was thrown across the lines on Sunday night at the scene of the landslip ; but the rail was open again on Mondav morning . . During the floods in Lancashire last Saturday night , the water collected on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway at Walsden to such a depth as to put out the fire of the engine , and the train was stopped for upwards of five hours .
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Accidents And Sudden Deaths. Two Serious...
ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Two serious accidents have occurred on the Great Northern Railway , in consequence of the late heary rains The line was flooded on Thursday week , near Carlton , owing to the insufficiency of the culverts to carrv away the immense body of water which pressed against them , and which therefore rose to the level of the line , and washed away the ballast and the embankment ( only a few feet high ) leaving the raihr and sleepers suspended like a skeleton above the flood When the fish train from the north came to the spot it plunged into the gulf , and engine and trucks were instantly submerged . Almost at the same instant , the Edinburgii passenger train came up from the south , at ¦ a rate of between forty and fifty miles an hour , and fell with a horrible crash into the hole , one of the passenger carriages being thrown completely on the top of another . Most of the passengers had settled themselves into sleeping positions , when they were awakened by the shock of the breakdown , and at the same moment were thrown into the torrent . Several of the passengers were considerably shaken and bruised ; and one sustained a spinal injury , while the leg of another was broken . The traffic was impeded for some days . _ A fatal catastrophe has occurred on the Lincoln and Nottingham branch of the Midland Railway . One of the rails gave way , and several empty carriages next the engine left the metals . A panic seized the passengers in the other carriages , and several leaped Out on to the embankment . In doing this , a young lady got her dress entangled in some part of the carriage , and fell on the line . The wheels immediately went over her , and she was killed . ¦ ¦> A horrible accident ( says the Durham Advertiser ) occurred on Thursday week to a pitman named Hunter , at the Elemore colliery . Hunter , and another man named Lishman , having finished work , came to the bottom of the Lady pit , to be drawn to ' bank . ' They both placed their feet in the loop of a chain , attached to the engine at the mouth of the pit , and , holding to the chain by their hands , began to ascend . After being drawn about half the distance , a loop in the descending chain got over Hunter ' s head , which was completely torn from his body . The headless trunk came to ' bank with Lishman , the feet in tho loop , and tho hands still grasping the chain . r , Three lads have been drowned in a creek of the Medway near Rochester , while bathing . One of them got out of his depth ; the others went to his assistance ; a fourth went off for help ; and the three in the wator Sfl It is reported in the north of Scotland that another lamentable boat accident has occurred off the Zetland Islands—tho fourth during the present-summer . Seven fishermen are said to bo drowned by this last catastr Aman , named William Harper , forty-five years of ace , has been nearly torn to pieces by a horse . He went into a stable for tho purpose of feeding the animal , when it seized him by tho hair of tho head , and commenced bitimr him over the head and faco in a frightful manner , and shaking »»'" like a dog . Ho was extricated , and convoyed to St . Thomas ' s Hospital ; 'but no hopes are entertained of hia recovery . . Sarah Wlietton , wife of a labouring man living at Moss Pitt , two miloa from Stafford ( says a Manchester paper ) was crossing tho London and North-Western Railway , near Stafford , on Tuesday , when she was cut down by a train from Birmingham , travelling at express apeed- Neither tho engine-driver nor guard noticed any obstruction to the train ; but , on its arriving at Stafford , blood and pieces of iloah were observed on the engine . A porter waa aont ulong tho Hue , nnd at tho Mosa Pitt crossing lie discovered the mangled remninH of the woman ? Tho body had been cut in two noroBS the bowels , and numerous fragments lay atrowod about , presenting a most fearful Hpectaclo . Mrs . Whotton waa eighty yoara of ago , and tho mother of sixteen children , moat of whom are living . She waa in poHsoauion of nil her faculties , and , n » uho could hoar well , it ia not easy to account for her not being aware of tho approach of the truin .
State Of Trade. State Of Trade. The Repo...
The reports from the manufacturing towns for the week ending last Saturday show a good general business . At Manchester , the markets have been steady , and , since the arrival of the Overland Mail , there have been some purchases for India . The Birmingham advices are favourable , as regards the iron trade , the orders for America having increased , while in some of the general manufactures of the place there is remarkable animation . At Nottingham , this is usually the dull season . In the woollen districts , the state of prices induces caution ; but there ia .-no ' want of confidence . The Irish linen markets have been heavy . —Times . .-. ' -,. In the general business of tho port of London during the same week there has been increased activity , the arrivals from the Baltic haying been very large . The number of ships reported inwards was 317 , being 150 more than the previous week . These included 16 with cargoes of sugar , one from Hpng-Kong with tea , and the unusually large number of 100 with cargoes of grain . The total number of vessels cleared outward was loO , including 25 in ballast , showing an increase of 15 . Ut those cleared outward , five are for Shanghai direct , and two for Hong-Kong . —Idem .
Spollen On The Stage. The Course Pursued...
SPOLLEN ON THE STAGE . The course pursued by Spollen since his acquittal of the murder of Mr . Little has been very extraordinary . He first went about among his former fellow-workmen , soliciting subscriptions ; but , on these being indignantly refused he tried another and still more audacious expedient . He advertised that he would give a ' personal narrative , ' at the Prince Patrick Theatre . This he accordingly did on Tuesday , at two periods of the day . The first occasion was at one ; o ' clock , p . m . Very few persons were present , and these consisted chiefly of youths , representatives of the press , and policemen . Spollen a eldest son James officiated as money-taker , and afterwards , as will be seen , came on the stage . On the hero of the day making his appearance , lie addressed the audience in a speech which was not a ' narrative at all , personal or otherwise , but merely an appeal for pecuniary assistance for himself and son . He said he believed his wife would ' do nothing' for this sonthat she had ' excluded' him . After he had gone on for some time , ho was interrupted by a Mr . Fitzpatrick , one of the audience , who protested against Spollen being allowed to make a speech , adding : — " The fewness of the audience shows that the public are so disgusted that thev would not come to listen to this man . If you encourage him , you will be only holding out a bounty to others to follow his example . I come here to-day determined to do my best to show a good example to iny fellow-citizens . It is a monstrous thing for that man to come forward to make speeches and to expect to have an audience of the citizens of Dublin . You ( addressing Spollen ) got off through the merciful charge of the iudKe , but there was not a man of tho jury that was convinced of your innocence . " Young Spollen hero entered the room , and tried to prevent Mr . Fitzpatrick Koing on , telling him he was not a gentleman . Tho elder Spollen also called for tho interference of tho police , as ' there was rent paid for tho place . ' Mr . Fitzpatrick then aaked him who told his wife where the money was . " That is nothing to you , sir , " answered young Spollen , striking in before his father could reply . Mr . 1 ' itzpatrick rejoined that , if hq remained till six , ho would not let Spollen go on any further till ho had answered that question . On this , young Spollen said he would have the Questioner removed by a policeman if ho did not desist Mr Fitzpatrick retorted that ho had seen many actors on tho stngo , but never listened to a man so brazen as young Spollen . . . After some further Hparring , SpoUon , senior said : — " Just answer mo ono question . " Mr . Fitzpatrick : "The iury have acquitted you , and I cannot say anything . Spollen son .: " Answer thla question . Supposing I wna the most guilty man in existence , would you run mo into a hole to starve . Now , answer that humane queatioin" Mr . Fitzpatrick : " Upon my word , I would run vou into whore you would bo away from tho public , that vou intent not do further mischief . " Spollen , son . : » That is not a very Christian opinion . " Mr . Fitzpatrick : " The Lord Mayor ought to atop these proccejlinea . I l » opo ho will do so . " SpoUon , flcn . : " I hope it will not bo tho caoo . " Mr . Fitzpntrick < " At any rate there w no one to listen to you now ; so I may go owoy . " Mr . Fitepatrigk then loft the room , and , alter a pause , the c der Spo en proceeded in alow voico . He churactomod Mr . I'iUl artel * " ebullition of temper" as » not very C'iriaUan " Ho then naked what ho was to do , and P ^ cd as If for an answer , but did not gat ono . Ho then again dilated on hHhSploBS condition , and aaid that if it were not for tlo encumbrance of his family , ho could go into one of the noor-houROA . Hero ho paused again fora considerable time , I Cd vr Jed hi , eyes with his handkerchief . On . ™ «™^> *™ once more put it to tho audience to my * h . it » io Iwi <« boat do , and complained « that the aaered bondI of ma . nony should bo destroyed by hl » w . fu . ' . J ^;| ™ J ( nald '— "I tlilnk , gentlemen , you will « U m lt _ l inn iqaerving in Home way of . upnort , You will admit that Ur bI ^^ n £ ^^ ntU Wo intended Spollen ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 22, 1857, page 5, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22081857/page/5/
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