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HEALTH OF LONDON. (From the Registrar-Ge...
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FALL OF A BRIDGE AT BRISTOL. A vbky alar...
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THE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST LORD CLANRICARDE...
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MISCELLANEOUSThe Edinburgh (steamer)' ha...
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Fire.—At an early hour on Sunday, a fire...
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State Of Trade, Labour, And The Poor. Th...
lad' beyond ' all jjapeeedent . $ he -advent of mild spring weather -has ^ improved ¦ the condition of-the ¦ workiiig classes , 'and the . pauper . pressure in -Birmingham has now greatly-diminished . From-Manchester we-learnthat -a't the close of last week the cloth-market was- much depressed ,-and that the recently obtained advance in the price of some kinds of yarns has been lost , though in other kinds the demand is still brisk . The late improvement in the demand for lace and
hosiery at Nottingham has not been maintained ; and an equal depression in the same branch of manufacture is noticeable at-Leicester , where , however , the wool market is firm . At Leeds , the woollen-cloth trade is improving , and the reports from several of the manufacturing villages of the West Hiding are cheering . Thelinen trade at Barnsley has for some time past been very dull , and the flax-spinning trade at Leeds is still so ; but it is thought that for the former a better day is near at-feind .
Intelligence from Belfast says that there is increased activity in the sales of-linen , flax , and cotton in the North of Ireland . The strike of LoTdVernon ' s colliers still continues . The turn-outs hold meetings daily , at which violent language against the "knobsticks" is indulged in . A few of the turni-outs have returned to their work , but there is noHmtnedirtte prospeet of "the-strike coming to an end . Some of the colliers have left the neighbourhood , and-gone to look for employment elsewhere . The neighbouring colliers are subscribing for the support of the turn-outs , about forty of the principal of whom have-been served with notices to leave their cottages .
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Health Of London. (From The Registrar-Ge...
HEALTH OF LONDON . ( From the Registrar-General ' s Repot t . ') Thk mortality of London is still high ; the deaths which had fallen from 1560 to 1377 in the previous week again rose last week to 1425 . The mean weekly temperature was 40-8 deg . in the beginning of March , higher by 14 deg . than it had beenTn the latter half of February . It fell to 36 deg ., and in the week that has now passed it was 38 : 5 _ deg . From natural causes , as welTas from the circumstance that deaths are not always registered as soon as they occur , the consequences of a change of temperaturwin one week are only developed in the returns of J ; he week following , or at a later period . The return shows that 169 persons died above the estimated number . - Diseases of the respiratory organs were fatal in 339 cases , whilst the average" is 260 ; besides these , phthisis numbers 160 , hooping-cough 76 , and influenza 9 . Last week the births of 906 boys and 873 girls , in all 1779 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 , the average number was 1537 .
Fall Of A Bridge At Bristol. A Vbky Alar...
FALL OF A BRIDGE AT BRISTOL . A vbky alarming catastrophe took place at Bristol "onTueBday'morning , airabout ten-o ' clock ;—A-steambarge , worked by a screw-propeller , and having nn engine of six-horse power , was descending the river Avon when she came in contact with the iron framework of the bridge , which resre on piers . The force of the collision was so great , that , notwithstanding the power of a very strong ebb tide , the steamer rebounded eight or ten feet , and the bridge immediately fell , carrying everything that was on it . Several persons passing at the time , and two carts , were thrown into the river . Three or four of the people swam to the banks , and were got out alive ; but several are missing , and a few horses were drowned . The cause of the collision is differently stated ; by some it is said that the barge was coming down under full steam , the tide also running fast ; while the engineer asserts that by the captain ' s order he was reversing some time before they reached the bridge , but the current ( it had been the high St . David ' s flood ) was Irresistible . Tlio captain of the barge has been arrested . Several very narrow escapes took place . Two men were talking at the end of the bridge , one boing just off ! On the bridge giving way , the mun who was just on disappeared , and was drowned , while the other remained on the brink of the clinsm . A gentleman in a gig pulled up at the very moment that the bridge was sinking a few feet before him ; and the same thing happened to foot passengers . Only two persons are as yet known to be drowned . A letter , under the signature of " Ono who fell with jthe Bridge , " appears in the Times of Thursday . We derive from it the following additional particulars : — " When tho bargo was about fifty yards from the ¦ bridge , I distinctly heard tho captain givo orders to reverse the engines , and every exertion was made to prevent the collision ; long poles were put out to endeavour to push her off" from tho ehoro , but all efforts were ; then too late ; tho men seemed to havo lost all control over'h « r . She camo down in an obliquo direction . I flheard the eaptaln cry « ut , ' Oh dear , oh dear ! ' and in a
few seconds afterwards the right bow of the barge struck the end of the bridge , on'the Bristol side of the stream . At this time I was standing just in the middle of the bridge , little thinking that it would not withstand the shock , when the bridge immediately sank , bearing slightly towards the railway . We descended at a frightful pace , and I was hurled'headlong into the water , together with several others who were crossing at the time . Whether the bridge was in a good state of repair I know not , but I have since heard that one of the authorities had either refused to cross it , or said that he did not like to do so , shortly before the accident occurred , when there was a large waggon upon it , because he considered the bridge unsafe . Should this , however , be the case , great blame is attached to the authorities for allowing so frail a structure to remain there . "
The bridge was of cast-iron , and was erected in the years between 1805 and 1809 . It consisted of only one arch , and was o ne hundred and sixty feet in span . In T 808 , owing to some defects in the stonework on which it rested , it fell , and either killed or severely injured thirty-two persons .
The Accusations Against Lord Clanricarde...
THE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST LORD CLANRICARDE . Lord Clanricarde has filed an affidavit in the Irish Court of Chancery , in which he emphatically denies the charges that have recently been brought against him in connexion with the suit " Handcoek v . Delacour . " A copy of this document has been transmitted to the daily papers by Mr . Power , his lordship ' s solicitor , who says : — " Some of the charges made against Lord Clanricarde were unsupported by a particle of evidence , some rested
upon loose inferences , drawn from insufficient premises , and some were negatived by documents proved in the cause . Of the former class were the assertions that Lord Clanricarde was the father of the boy Delacour ; that he caused the-separation of Mr . and Mrs . Handcoek ; that he accompanied Mrs . Handcoek to Paris ; that he drew a codicil to Mr . Handcock ' s will , whereby Mr . Handcock made his wife the guardian of his daughters ; and that he gained admittance to Mrs . Handcock ' s house ' by a latch-key . '
' * There was hot a shadow of evidence to support any of these statements . Lord Clanricarde denies them , in his affidavits ; some of them -are disproved by documentary evidence ; and the solicitor of Mr . J . D . Handcock now says , ' the latch-key was used in a figurative sense . '¦ ¦" . - ' ~ ¦
' , 'It was alleged th " ot Mr . Handcoek had said he suspected his wife of infidelity with Lord Clanricarde . But a witness has since contradicted , upon oath , the supposed . fact said to have created the suspicion ; and the person ( Mr . Handcock ' s brother ) who swore to the conversation of 1842 , supported in 1843 Mrs . Handcock's claim to be guardian of her daughters , in opposition to his own sister , and supported also the selection of Lord Clanricarde to be guardian of their fortune . " Lord Clanricarde , in his affidavit , denies tlwit he nssisted in promoting the marriage of Mr . and Mrs . Handcoek ; that lie " was on " notoriously Intimate terms" -with Mrs . Handcoek before her marriage ; that he had improper connexion with her after , her
marriage ( in proof of winch denial he mentions that after the separation of Mr . and Mrs . Handcoek , he received a very friendly letter from the former , and was on friendly terms with him in Paris ); that he was the father of the boy Delacour ; or that he caused the separation of Mr . and Mrs . Handcoek , which he attributes to money differences , and to the former taking the French maid , Sophie , as his mistress . With respect to his connexion with the will of William Henry Handcoek , he states that that individual appointed his wife and his sister guardians of tho persons of his children , and a Mr . Francis Langan guardian of their fortune , and sole trustee and executor ; that he ( Lord Clanricardo ) persuaded
Mr . Handcoek to alter the latter of these provisions , as he doubted Mr . Langan ' s fitness for the offico ; that Mr . Handcoek drew a codicil to his will , appointing his wife joint executrix , though Mrs . Handcoek never proved tho will or acted as executrix ; and that he ( deponent ) afterwards consented , though without proposing it , to become guardian of the children , who were made wards in Chancery . lie furthermore states that the three Misses Handcoek , Anne Mary , Josephine , and Honoria , who died successively at short intervals of time , severally consulted him about making a will in favour of their mother ; that he dissuaded Anno Mary from doing
so , but , after her death , consented to make such a will for Josephine , and , after tho death of Josephine , refused to make a similar will for Ilonoriu , but persuaded her to reserve a power of revocation , to which she agreed , " and such a power was inserted , and she survived her mother nine months , during which interval she might , if so minded , have revoked the deed . " With regard to the assertion that his object was to obtain for the infant , John Delncour , tho property of the Misses Handcoek , Lord Clanricanlf positively denies that ho had any such wish . " And deponent saith that Mrs . Handcoek felt greatly annoyed with deponent on account of'the rower oi
revocJif ion ' , * ' & c . Finally he ^ asserts ' that he hadnb connexion whatever with the suit of John Stratford Handcoek , which sougkt to set-aside the will of Josephine Handcoek and the deed executed Tjy Honoria Handcoek . ^
Miscellaneousthe Edinburgh (Steamer)' Ha...
MISCELLANEOUSThe Edinburgh ( steamer ) ' has teen wrecked near Varna . The crew are saved , but nothing else ; her engines ate in 41 fathoms of water .
Fire.—At An Early Hour On Sunday, A Fire...
Fire . —At an early hour on Sunday , a fire broke out on the premises of Mr . Murrell , hay salesman , of 65 , Russell-street , Bermondsey , which , besides consuming much valuable property , destroyed six Valuable horses in 'the stable . The fire extended to the adjoining buildings , 'several of which were more or less injured . The North York Rtfi . es have been for some days in a state 6 f great insubordination , which at one time assumed a serious appearance . Part of the men'had taken Offence at an order of the commanding officer , by which their bounty was paid to them by . 6 d at a time ,
instead of in quarterly sums of 5 s . at a time . On the quarter-day when the instalment of 5 s . became payable , the'money was not forthcoming , and a large portion of the'men evinced a determination to set their officers at defiance . They collected in the market-place and round tie King ' s Arms Inn , and hooted such of the officers as were unpopular . During the night great drunkenness and disorder prevailed , and next morning the ringleaders , by wheedling some and bullying others , brought the business of the regiment to a standstill . Order -was restored with some difficulty .
The Adulteration of Flour . —Mr . Scholefield , the member for Birmingham , has given notice for the appointment of a select committee of the House of Commons with a view to put down the adulteration of flour . Some cases of the kind have recently been discovered in the West Riding of Yorkshire , which have led to the conviction of several corn millers . In two cases the delinquents were fined 20 ? . and costs . It appears that the flour was adulterated with sulphuric acid and oxide of iron ! The Pulverising House at the Kennel Yale Potvder Works , near Truro , has blown up . The night police at Truro , which is seven or eight miles distant , plainly saw the flash of light , and immediately afterwards felt a distinct shock of the ground . Fortunately no lives were lost ; but much damage was done to t he premises where the explosion took place .
The Moniteur publishes an Imperial decree , granting a silver medal of honour to Edward Richard Warden and George Edwards , fishermen , of the port of Rye , for having rescued from certain death , on the 14 th ot January last , the crew of the French merchantman Notre Dame du Mont Carmel . Commissary-General Luscombe , for many yeara connected with the Commissariat Department , died . a few days ago in Dublin . He was attached to the army during thirty-five years , and served in the Peninsula and in Italy , and was the man whom General Picton threatened to hang in the event of his troops being left a few hours longer-without the necessary supply . A very few weeks ago tho press charged the Commissariat-General Filder with being the person who was thus threatened ; but this was an error .
From America we learn that the Senate has struck out of the Civil and Diplomatic Appropriation Bill that portion relating to the tariff ; and that the House of Representatives has agreed to the omission . Havannah . —Letters from Havannah to the 25 th state that Sefior Estampes and Mr . Felix had been sentenced , the former to death by the garotte , and the latter to ten years with the chain gang in Africa . Everything wore a gloomy aspect at Havannah , and the banishment and disarming of Creoles continued . There were three British ships of war in port . Garcia Monroe and the Conde de Carnijo had been appointed respectively to tho Military and Civil Governorship of Havannah .
Inundation in Dhmeraiia . —An inundation , supposed to bo connected with some subterranean perturbation , has done considerable damage in Dcmerara . Meteorological phenomena , unusual in February , hnvo also manifested themselves . " Houses" ( saya the Royal Gazette ) " have ' toppled down' beforo extraordinary winds ; forest trees have also been levelled or dismembered , and such a sea has broken upon the const as to destroy the seaward defences , break kokors to p ieces , a \ v \ create an amount of destruction unprecedented in man h memory considering tho shortness of tho time . During ono or two dayn , the rain fell incessantly and in torthe
rents ; but , although bnok dams were endangered by pressure of tho accumulating savannah waters , no grout damage , could-bo eflocted from this case—it only kqit estates drainlng-engines in constant employment . Hie « oa has thoroughly saturated Kingston ( part of Goor / jo Town ) with salt , killing , as a matter of course , tree * nw \ shrubs and fruit and flower with which it vena ornamented , and which cost both timo nn < l money in tlio raising . Thero in also a mud deposit upon the land- in this country a certain oauso of disease . Tho Kxecutivu And tho Court of Policy havo agreed to get out a Dutcu engineer , accustomed to sea defences on the coast oi Holland . "
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Leader (1850-1860), March 24, 1855, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_24031855/page/10/
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