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1012 THE LEADEE. [Saturday ,
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THE RAILWAY "ACCIDENT" SYSTEM. Two train...
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MISCELLANEOUS. Parliament was yesterday ...
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A meeting was. held on Thursday at Warri...
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The League Banquet will be held on tho 2...
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The Board of Trade has resolved that " t...
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The Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Warwic...
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Two old persons, brother and sister, hav...
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Is A Railway Station A Cab-Stand? Mr. Gi...
call upon him to appear on the 15 th of November next . During the interval thus afforded the opportunity will bo given of making- such regulations respecting hackney carriages plying for hire at a railway terminus -within the metropolitan , police district as the law will authorize and the public convenience may require . " The summons was adjourned .
1012 The Leadee. [Saturday ,
1012 THE LEADEE . [ Saturday ,
The Railway "Accident" System. Two Train...
THE RAILWAY " ACCIDENT" SYSTEM . Two trains were on the same lino of the Bristol and Birmingham Kailway last week . The one in front was a goods train , the one in the rear an express . And seeing that the express was going express-speed , it is no wonder that , although the driver shut off the steam on seeing the goods train on a-head , the quick dashed into the slow train . Some passengers were greatly bruised . Mr . iSliinoy Pakington , private secretary to the Colonial Minister , happened to be one of the passengers , lie has addressed the following queries to the company , hoping they may be induced to attempt the prevention of such accidents , and partly with the view of ascertaining whether he is doing " anyone injustice by supposing 1 that the collision was caused hv carelessness" : — " 1 . Whether there
is at every station suflicient space for ' siding a tram , so as to leave both lines clear for traffic up and down ? 2 . If not , whether you have any regulation or ' by-law' to prohibit the practice of ' shunting' one train in the way of another known to he at that moment approaching ? 3 . Whether in ( his case , looking to the great improbability of au obstruction being seen in time by the approaching train , it was not the duty of the officials at King ' s Ivorton , nob only to turn on the ordinary danger signal ( which was not done ) , but to send us some other special warning as well ?
4 . What your practice is in such cases , where much suffering is caused , but providentally a coroner ' s inquest is not required , with respect to investigation and punishment ? 5 . Whether you do not think it expedient that important duties , the slightest omission of which may lead to fatal consequences , should be entrusted to an adequate number of first-rate servants ? G . If so , whether you arc quite clear that your scale of remuneration is such as to ensure these duties being so discharged ? 7 . Whether you have any regulation about lighted lamps being put into every carriage of every passenger train ?"
Miscellaneous. Parliament Was Yesterday ...
MISCELLANEOUS . Parliament was yesterday formally prorogued by the Lord Chancellor until the -l < th of November . Prince Albert has been unanimously elected to fill the vacant post of Master of Trinity House . The Duke of Cambridge has been appointed liangor of St . James ' s the Green , and JJyde-parks , in tho room of the late . Duke of Wellington . Lord Derby was privately installed , on Thursday , by a deputation , as Chancellor of the University of Oxford . The ]\ larquis of Londonderry will have the Garter held by the . Duke of Wellington ; and the Marquis of Winchester will succeed his draco as Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire . Lord John Itussell , who had been staving in Scotland nearly all the vacation , arrived in town with his family last week . Lady Robert ( irosvyior laid the foundation-stone of a new church at JVorthwood Jvuislip , -Middlesex , on the 112 th inst . The . Karl of Kllesinere delivered a lecture on the " Life and character of I , he lale Duke of Wellington , " in the Coiirl -house , W ' orslev , lust Thursday week . Sir -James South , t \\ v Koyul astronomer , fell into the penal JIowlli , the other day ; bat having loose coats on , and crying loudly for help , Iks was rescued . Arisla , President of . Mexico , lias sent some harness and trappings us presents to ( , 1 m royal children ; id . so Home boxes oi' cxqui . sifc sweetmeats . By the lii . st iiccounts from America , General Scott had knocked himself up by addressing too ninny meetings on his western ( our . We lire enabled ( n slate , that ( lie (! lirisl , in : iM revels of
the olden ( line will he again held a . t Windsor l . liis year , and with a novel Iy which recalls ( he I iine ol' ( ho " groiil . Klizu . " Queen Vieloria will open her dnuunhr campaign wit h a , new poetical-prose comed y of Kuglish life from tho pen ol I ) ouglus tlerrold . This is a . good beginning of ( he dritniiitic new year , wilh un agreeable smack of old day . s and of a lit . eriirv Court about it ,. The play will lie brought out nt the Princess ' s Thont re on the night , following ( hat , on which it is to be produced before tho Queen anil (! ourt at \ V indsor ( laslle . A ( Iiciiiiiim . A p roject is on fool , to place a laeinoriul to Wordsworth in the new church now building at ( lockerinoul h . Scripture culijects in I he cast window uro proposed .
Stops lire being taken lo erect , a . monument ( o tho memory of 'I'ho mas 1 I nod , over his remains in Kcusiil G recn cemetery . Nome verses in h ' Jiza ( look ' s Joit nutl gave rise to I he idea ; and a knot of gentlemen belonging ( o ( he \\ liitl ingl on Club proceeded at once lo carry il . oul . They liave subscribed privately rjo / ., and furl her subscript ionn nre ( lowing in . Subscriptions will be received nl I lie \ V hit t ingl on , Aruiiilcl-. sl reel , Strand ; at I he ollice ()| ' Mlisii (' auk ' s Jonriuil , ' < l , Jiuquet-courf , Kleel -street ; by Klizu ( \> ok , f , I , Great () rii > oiid-streol , Hloomsbury ; anil by M r . John
Walkins , . ' $ ¦!• , I ' nrliamcnf-sl reel , Westminster . I ' oMf-oflicc orders may be mndo jmyiible lo ( lie Treasurer or Secretary . A nol . her necepluiiec of Lord do ltlai |( iicre ' s elm llenge has been inn < le . Lord Loiidcahorongli has oll ' ereil to run a schooner of 1 HO Ions <) . i \ l ., just laid down for him by I he Messrs . . liiman , of I'oole , against the . iinoricn , upon n . n y course which Lord Do l ( lai | iiiere may inline I he match to bo for I , <)()< > g uineas , and to he sailed in I he month ol' September nexl , lhal being the earliest period at which bin vessel can he built , nml her proper trim found .
The follow'ing brief announcement appears in I he » S ' < o < Fraud . sco Herald of A ugusl 'J I , received Ibis morning , under a lofler from its correspondent ut . Monterey , dulcd
August 19 , 1852 . We fear there is no foundation , however , for tho report , which is too good news to be true : "We learn that the English discovery ships , JSrebus and Terror , have arrived at Santa Barbara , with many of their crews down with the scurvy . " —Evening paper .
A Meeting Was. Held On Thursday At Warri...
A meeting was . held on Thursday at Warrington in favour of Diocesan Synods . . It was remarkably well attended , but was similar in its character to those wo have so often reported . The Bishop of Rochester has reinstated Mr . Winston as Master of the Rochester School—upon condition ; to wit , that Mr . Whiston do not attempt to obtain the salary of the Master during the three years of his suspension . The Bishop cautions Mr . Whiston against re-issuing his pamphlet , which he considers " libelkras . "
The League Banquet Will Be Held On Tho 2...
The League Banquet will be held on tho 2 nd of November . Upwards of fifty members of Parliament have promised to attend ,, and the vice-presidents , chiefly large labour employers , amount to two hundred . Mr . Booker presided over the dinner of tho Herefordshire Agricultural Society , on Tuesday . Mr . Beresford Hope presided over the dinner of the Cranbrook Agricultural Association on Friday last , He recommended the farmers to drain and manure ; and he strongly insisted on the necessity of cottages being built for the labourers , which would enable the sexes to sleep in separate rooms .
A deputation from tho Financial Reform Association , headed by Sir Joshua Walmsley , had a conference on Saturday with Mr . Joseph Hume , at his residence , where Mr . Henry Berkeley , M . P ,, and other Liberals assembled . Sir Joshua Walmsley , and the other members of the Financial Reform Association , expressed then * aversion to any separate movement in favour of the ballot . The Livei-pool Free Public Library and Museum were opened to the public on Monday by the Mayor , Mr . Littledale , and the chief members of the corporation . Among other persons present wore Mr . William Brown , M . P ., Mr . Charles Turner , M . P ., and Mr . Thornely , M . P . The Museum is mainly formed of the great zoological collection of the late Earl of Derby ; the library contains 10 , 000 volumes .
The Board Of Trade Has Resolved That " T...
The Board of Trade has resolved that " the Department of Art shall have the power to assist schools with examples for teaching drawing , upon tho condition that all applicants for them pay half the prime cost : that is , when a school has subscribed 11 . the Department will furnish examples worth 2 ? ., and so on . " A list of examples of drawing copies , models , and casts , will shortly bo printed , and obtainable by application .
The Oxfordshire, Gloucestershire, Warwic...
The Oxfordshire , Gloucestershire , Warwickshire , and West Riding militia regiments are nearly complete , and days have been named for drill and exercise . The Devonshire militia have already assembled . The city militia will assemble on the 1 st of November . The second war steamer , built at Rotherhithe for tho Spanish Government , and intended for tho defence of Cuba , was launched on Saturday , and called the Secundo . At a meeting of tho Batli town-council on Tuesday , it
was resolved that m future tho public clocks of the city should be regulated by ( Urcenwich time . The Post-ofliee authorities have appointed a river postman , wlio . se duly it will ho to deliver letters addressed to persons on board of vessels lying off Gravoserid . The Bridgonorlh Union extends over twenty-seven parishes , in a rural'district containing a population of l ( i , () 0 () persons ; yet , there are only forty-live inmates of the workhouse ; and the guardians have been obliged to biro labour lo supply the house with water .
A small meeting to consider the law of settlement waw held on Monday in the vestry-room of St . James ' s , Westminster , attended by TV 1 r . Jacob Hell , M r . ( 'harles ( ! oehrane , . "inil others . It was resolved to appoint a committee lo watch any bill on the subject drought into Parliament next session . fl living three hundred passengers on hoard , hound for ' Melbourne and I ' ort Phillip , the Clarti Si / tncs left Bristol on Saturday . " A farewell dinner was given on the departure of the ship . ( Milt-house , near ISrisfol , is now used as a factory for I he making of portable houses for einignition . The 7 Vy , emigration ship , which sailed hist week , was the lirsl , flint went directly out to sea from the Cumberland basin .
It appears from the latest accounts that there are upwards of l . 't , ()()() miles of railway completed and in operation in the United States . The average uddil ional construction is calculated at the rate often miles a day , mid this rate oi progress is expected to continue for the nexl . live years . The average cost per mile is from ' . 1 , 0001 . to HJtOOL , wilh rails ol' ( SOlbs . per yard , and a I ra . dic of 10 / . per mile is reckoned to give n , return of from nix lo eight per cent . Mr . Diinlop , a . writer to the signet , was the victim of u delay on Ihe Glasgow Unilwiiy , which arose out of I he break
down of Ihe engine , imperfect ly repaired the preceding lay . Mr . Diuilop brought , un action in tin- Small Debt ( 'ourl . at Glasgow , for damages sustained by losing time . 'I'he sheriff decided that , although if was stipulated on the tiine-tahles that , I he company ( lid not guarantee the hours of arrival and departure , nevertheless , such sfipiila . l ion would not , Mhelter them from I lull- responsibilities us public carrier . t , especially" in the present case , as ( ho engine vvns delieionl , ; anil he decided tliaMho company should pay the damages claimed and nil the e \ penses . An example for aggrieved Immunit y this side the Tweed .
I he l ' i > rcriin ) irr \ v »)\ nt Mndniriion the . 'tOlli of September . Three MMeceiitiivo failures have been made to connect Great . Uritain and Ireland liy submarine elect rie telegraph one between I lolyhead ' mid llowth ; and two from Doiiagliiidee to Porfnat . riok .
The boats of H . M . S . steamer , Merapi , rescued sixteen shipwrecked Batavian seamen from off . an island nt + u entrance of the straits of Sunda in June last . Nin ^ * . ! been , drowned when the ship struck and went to pieces ± he Amelxa , a Singapore brig , went down in a stoian of wind anddightning in July ; and seventy persons Vero lost . Twelve escaped in a boat . ° Tho barque Hector , from Batavia , hound to Bremen went on shore on the Natal coast last June , and was corr pletely lost . Some of the crew were saved . A Prussian brig accidentally ran into the Metropolitan a steamer running between London and Glasg ow off Beaehey Head , early on Monday morning . The * Metro politan sank , but the crew were saved .
Two Old Persons, Brother And Sister, Hav...
Two old persons , brother and sister , have been brutallv murdered at Swords , in the county of Dublin , for the sako of a few pounds , supposed to be possessed by them . The men charged with the murder of Deegan , the soldier of the Thirty-first , at Fermoy , have been liberated on . their own recognisances . Two stokers on board H . M . S . Retribution , quarrelled over their supper , and one killed the other with a knife . Sullivan , a convict undergoing a sentence of seven years confinement with hard labour , escaped from Woolwich , on Saturday . He was seen running along tho shore , and shots were fired , but in vain . He got clear off . Mary Ann Proudfoot , a servant-girl living near Yarmouth , had been seduced by Samuel Howth , a corn porter . She met him . by appointment one evening last week and
while she -was on the ground he placed a pitch plaster over her mouth . She tore it off ; he beat her over the face until insensible , when he again placed the plaster over her face . She was found and rescued by some persons . Howth was arrested by his own fireside , sitting without his coat , cravat , or shoes , smoking a pipe . Spear was a drunken shoemaker living at Bristol . On Monday he pawned two gowns belonging to his wife , and went to a tavern . His wife , missing the gowns , tracked her husband to an ale-house , and entering with a child in her arms , reproached him bitterly , and threw a pipe at him . He rose and stabbed her in tho stomach , dead . Spear was instantly arrested . It is a revolting tragedy . The wife not only had a child in her arms when her brutal husband killed her , but she was about to bring forth another !
Two young shoemakers were " larking' last week at Brentford . One grew tired , and wished the other to desist , threatening to stab him if he did not . As the one continued to lark , the other kept his word , and stabbed him . A verdict of manslaughter has been returned . An old woman , aged sixty , who makes shirts at a penny each , finding her own needles and thread , and who lias been hitherto always punctual in returning her work , has been sent to prison for fourteen days , by Alderman Lawrence , for pawning eight shirts . A soldier , -who bore an irreproachable character in his regiment , " as a soldier , " knocked down a policeman twice , who tried to arrest him for forcibly trying to detain a woman against her will , has been fined twenty shillings and discharged , by Mr . Serjeant Adams .
Sir James Francis Rivers , Baronet , has been convicted ot assaulting two railway policemen at Bath . He drove into tho yard in a dog-cart and pair , and when civilly requested to make way for the omnibuses , and take his place amongst tho private carriages , he lashed the policemen and tried to make the horses run over them . Ho was fined in tlio highest penalties , namely , 71 . 10 s . and costs , which he paid . A madman appeared in a Catholic chapel at Liverpool , during the celebration of mass . He cried , " Down with the pope ! " " The church is on lire ! " The congregation were dreadfully frightened . The police gave u good account of the inferrup ! . civ
A ' -lady" who has seen "better days" left two prcHy children at a school in St . John ' s-wood ' the other day . As she did not come for them at tho time appointed , ( lm school- mistress gave them over to tho care of the Marylebone workhouse . The mother was tracked out ; and obtained the liberation of the children , and thirty shilling to release her furniture , from the charily of one of the parochial authorities . She hud once before loft her children at Norwood . . Ireland furnishes another agrarian murder . 1 M r . JMumi fold wan returning from Tullamore , in King ' s County , l <> his home ; mid while he was driving slowly up >\ hill i" > assassin got , close up behind the gig , and shot him < le » with slugH from a pistol . Ton persons were approliciulm -all tenants on an estate to which Mr . Manifold wa * a'rent-in id seven of these have been remanded .
While one of the keepers a ( , Urn Regent's-park zoolotficiil gurdetiH wiih " stirring up" some birds in a cases ot kuiiM'h , a cobra cupello darled at his face , and bit him in Ihe no *< jllo wiih instantly taken to the University College- llospitul , hut died . shortly after in dreadful |> uii > . Some time ' ago an accident look place at lleadrnr " . on the South Unslern Railway : the tidal « ;» ' "'" ' 'l' "/ " ' . " . ^ neiilal express , ran info two trains . The driver ol II" press , who was hurl , has been charged wilh ncghtfj driving , found guilty , and sentenced to six months imprisonment , lie caiiio on in the face of a danger sitfi'iii . An incendiary lire has occurred at a farm in Keiil , < -ul ( , ' ' Overland-court , near Sandwich . Several stacks ol ^ mi and hay , two barns , and two lodges were destroyed . A boiil . was swamped on fho Thames on Sunday , » i '
one man drowned . . , , An old mule , recently stolen from the Worsley csi'iu , has been recovered . Ill belongs to l . he Karl ol HI « 'M" < " > ftnd in between ninety mid one hundred years oil - Three men lost ( heir lives in a pit at DowIiiih last . \\< ' ¦ The | -iiido duiiii hrolio when they were nearly ai . bottom of l . he shaft . Tho jury found a verdict ol iicck ; " ' death , hut . " recommended Yhal , the instructions ol Government , iimpeclor be carried out in I ho inaimgcim ¦ of l , h ( i pit ; " thereby implying ooino bJumo m < ho 0 OJ 1 ( lu jnauutfcrfi .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1852, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23101852/page/8/
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