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The beautiful spire of Norton-by-Gaulby ...
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From ...
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TO CORRESPONDENTS. IN reply to complaint...
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[The following appeared in our Second Ed...
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The intelligence which, reached us yeste...
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Explanations with regard to the recall o...
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The Belgic Xof/'On Says That " Since Pro...
Intelligence has just been , received of an enormous field of ice , 150 miles in length , floating in the Atlantic , about the parallel of latitude 46 . The vessel which brings the news of it was entangled for several days amongst the icebergs , some of which were more than 200 yards high from the surface of the water . This early drifting of ice from the Polar seas is considered extremely favourable to the expeditions in search of Sir John Franklin and his brave companions . Does it not also account for the coldness of May ? The Bombay Telegraph speaks of a tremendous hailstorm near Sattara . The hailstones are described as being as large as cocoa-nuts . Several houses fell , cattle were slain , and several people were killed by the houses falling in . Many large fish were killed in the river also . The natives declare they never saw such hail in their
lives . An incredible number of snakes have made their appearance in Gipps Land , indeed to such an extent that the settlers' lives have been in many instances endangered . Many providential escapes are recorded , and an immense number were killed . —Adelaide Observer . The New South Wales University , about to be established at Sydney , is a remarkable step in the progress of colonial improvement . The cost is estimated at £ 30 , 000 for the building , and £ 5000 for the furnishing . The rector , a professor of classics , is to have £ 800 a year ; the other professors to range from £ 330 to £ 400 , and £ 100 is to be allowed for expenses to those who come out from England . ......
We learn from Persia that the Shah ' s troops have taken Mesched , the seat of the revolters . It is thought that all Korassan will shortly submit .
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The Beautiful Spire Of Norton-By-Gaulby ...
The beautiful spire of Norton-by-Gaulby Church , in Leicestershire , was totally destroyed by lightning , on Monday week . The planet Mercury , which is seldom visible to the naked eye , is now in a position where it may easily be observed on a clear evening . Dr . Chevalier , of Paris , has invented a disintoxicating potion . It consists of acetate of ammonia dissolved in sugared water . It renders a drunken man immediately sober . Mr . John Macdonald , of Mansfield Woodhouse , who attained his 100 th year last November , will run any man in England , his own weight and age , for any sum . N . B . —No hurdles . —Nottingham Guardian .
The farm of Hallowood , in the parish of Lhanbryde , was let the other day to anew tenant—the last occupant having died—at a little more than double the former rent!— Caledonian Mercury . The following advertisement appeared in the Times last week : — " Rescue of Sir John Franklin : to the rich and chivalrous . A gentleman , whose claims to common sense , respectability , and talents are corroborated by university distinctions , honorary medals , and works of art and literature , offers to construct for £ 8000 , and in three months , a flying machine , able to travel in the air at the rate of 100 miles per hour . The expense of an experimental model would be £ 300 , and one month ' s time . "
Some few years ago , Mrs . Saltcr , the widow of a wealthy brewer at Rickmansworth , Herts , provided in her will , that a hogshead of ale should be daily given away by the possessors of the brewery for ever ! Accordingly , every morning the ale-barrel is placed on the public road , with an iron ladle by its side , when such of her Majesty ' s lieges as are not above quaffing a ladleful of stingo in that public manner may be seen wetting the day , or washing down their eleven o ' clock . — Sussex Express . . . ..
The driver of a coach which journeys between a distant city and Bath , last week received a hint from the ostler of an inn in the suburbs of the latter city , that a common informer was seated on the roof of his coach . Conscious that he had exceeded his licensed number , the knight of the whip resigned the ribbons to the ostler , and hastened to the magistrates , laid an information against himself , was fined £ 5 , and received back one-half ( £ 2 10 s . ) as the informer ' s fee . Great was the chagrin of the common informer on presenting himself before the bench for a summons to find that he had been forestalled . —Bristol Mercury .
_ __ Considerable alarm was caused in the vicinity of Clarememt on Monday by the discovery of afire having broken out in the dining-room of the palace , but it was immediately extinguished before any material damage had taken place . An overheated flue was the cause . An alarming fire took place at St . George ' s Hospital on Thursday morning . The flames were first discovered in the drying-room , an apartment thirty or forty feet long , immediately under one of the wards , and , owing to tin * ' great quantity of linen which was drying in the room , the flames broke through the back window looking into
Tiittetsall's yard . Several men connected with the yard ami stables went to render assistance , and owing to their exertions the flames were prevented from extending beyond the ward in which they commenced ; but the heat was so intense that it was found prudent to remove the patients from one or two of the wards . The whole of the contents of the drying-room were destroyed , and the nuilding much damaged . Had it not been for the fact of the fieiling being exceedingly thick and lofty , there is no doubt but the fire wonld have burnt into the patients ' ward .
A eage-likc iron railing has been fixed on the top of the railings which surround the capital of the Duke of York ' s Column . The ironwork is light , but of sufficient strength to prevent persons getting through , and readies from the uppermost horizontal bar of the perpendicular rails to the summit of the pedestal upon which the statue stands . lather Buro , a widow , aged forty-eight years , housi .-kft' | K . 'r to a Brighton lofl ' . 'ir . g-housekeepcr , cciiiiiiiticil suicide on Monday laat , by throwing herself out of her
bedroom window . She had taken offence at some fancied slight on the part of the family , being at the same time in low spirits from some « ' trouble " relative to a sister . The coroner's jury returned a verdict of " Temporary insanity . " Mr . Fothergill , honorary secretary to the German refugees , and M . Struve , one of their committee , applied at the Mansion-house , on Thursday , for advice as to the means of obtaining employment for about one hundred poor Germans , who had been expelled from Switzerland on account of their political opinions . They were all industrious artisans . Alderman Gibbs said there were vast numbers of Englishmen in precisely similar circumstances , able and willing to woik , but unable to procure it . Since neither their Ambassador , nor the Society of Friends of Foreigners in distress , would help them , he could only advise them to apply to the parish
authorities . A determined battle took place one night last week , between four of the Earl of Derby ' s gamekeepers and a gang of poachers , fourteen or fifteen in number . Three of the keepers were left for dead , but they are now recovering . The Earl of Derby has offered a reward of £ 50 for the apprehension of any of the offenders . The paupers in the new City workhouse at Mile-end have been in a state of mutiny during the week , in conseqence of an alteration in the dietary , which has reduced the meat days from four in the week to two . The attitude of the paupers is so threatening , that apprehensions are entertained lest they should destroy the costly internal fittings of the house , and it had been thought prudent to call in a garrison of police . — Weekly Chronicle .
Another savings bank , that of Market Weigh ton , has been weighed in the balance and found wanting . Mr . Jeremiah Itoantree , draper , an influential member of the Wesleyan society , a local preacher , class leader , and trustee , and a most liberal contributor to all objects connected with the society , has been the agent and manager of the branch establishment for the last fourteen years , and his character was always considered to be beyond suspicion . Last week the directors of the Hull Savings Bank , of which the one at Market Weighton was a branch , sent a deputation over to ascertain how its affairs stood . They have found that , out of £ 8000 which has passed through Mr . lioantree ' s hands , there is a deficiency of £ 1900 . In addition to this defalcation , it is said that his other liabilities amount to £ 3000 . The
amount of deposits in the Hull Bank will enable the trustees to pay the depositors 15 s . in the pound . Robert Hardiman , a hatter , was charged , at the Thames-street Police-office , on Thursday , with assaulting the police ; and John Moore , a general dealer , Joseph Bravo , a tailor , and Amelia Corrigan , were charged with inciting the mob to rescue Hardiman . Since the discharge from custody of the woman Barker , who was recently accused of the murder of an infant , the issue of her which liv
self and a man named Bailey , the house in they e has been beset by a mob of persons , who were only restrained from breaking in by the exertions of the police . The prisoners , having made themselves remarkable by their opposition to the constables on duty at the house , were fined in sums varying from from £ 2 to 10 s . each . Since this Bailey and Barker have quitted their lodging . To do this they were obliged to call for the assistance of the police to protect them from the assaults of the ir . ob . The constables are still employed in protecting the
house and furniture . Mr . and Mrs . Boreham , a farmer and his wife , residing at Biliericay , who were lately committed to the Essex Sessions for most inhuman cruelty to Eliza Walter , a union-workhouse child , were placed at the bar at the Town-hall , Chelmsford , on Wednesday . Upon the indictment being read over to them , contrary to general expectation , both prisoners pleaded guilty . The case was one of a very aggravated nature . One night the prisoner and his wife were from home late , and came home in a state of drunkenness . The poor child , worn out with fatigue , had laid down on a bed and fallen which the
asleep , leaving the candle burning ; upon female prisoner caused the child to strip herself naked , when herself and husband commenced beating her to such an extent , that her whole body was one mass of brui-es and wounds ; and so great was the injury , that for several days the life of the poor child was despaired of . The appearance of her body was described as frightful from head to foot , to say nothing of the attendant indecent and revolting circumstances . The chairman , on the part of the magistrates present , cxpressid their horror and detestation of the cruelty to which this poor helpless and inoffensive child had been subjected , and should mark their sense of it by fining them jointly in the sum of £ 50 .
Health Of London During The Week. (From ...
HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . ( From the Registrar-General ' s Returns . ) In the week ending last Saturday , 880 deaths were registered in the metropolitan districts ; a mortality which is still less than the average corrected for increase of population , but shows a disposition to increase on the low rate of mortality that has been observed during the previous three weeks . A gradual rise is apparent in recent returns : for since the third week <>{ A »> ril the numbers have
been successively < S 03 , 829 , 857 , 88 ' ) . Taking the ten corresponding weeks of the years Itf 10-9 , it nppe « rs that last week ' s mortality was greater than in any correspond ing week of 1 S 1 OG , but less than in any of 1847-9 ; a » d that the actual average of the tun weeks was 808 , or , raised in the ratio of the population , 947 , compared with which latter number the present decrease amounts to (> 7 . The mean height of the barometer in the week at ijio Royal Observatory , Greenwich , wus 29 . 817 in . 5 the mean temperature was -J 9 . 2 rJe # ., lf-ss than the average of the same week in 7 years by JJ . 2 dog . On three days or t . iu- wh k , utimMy , T . h'mIhv , Wednesday , and llmrsdiy , thf mean U'iuj >« rut . ures were so much as from b to ii decrees be low the averages of the several days .
To Correspondents. In Reply To Complaint...
TO CORRESPONDENTS . IN reply to complaints from several of our readers , of irregularity in the delivery of their paper , we have to remind them that such accidents inevitably occur to new journals . But those in the country who find any difficulty had better send their orders direct to our publisher , Mr . Joseph Clayton , junior , 265 , Strand , London . Copies of our country edition ought not to be served to subscribers in town : henceforward the different editions will be distinctively marked , at the bottom of the first page — " Country Edition " " Town Edition "—and London subscribers should require to be served with the latter . Several excellent communications for our Open Council are inevitably deferred , on account of the pressure on that department ; but they will appear in our next number . The earlier in the week our correspondents can let us have their communications , the better chance have they of prompt insertion .
[The Following Appeared In Our Second Ed...
[ The following appeared in our Second Edition of last week . \ POSTSCRIPT . Satujbdat , May 18 .
The Intelligence Which, Reached Us Yeste...
The intelligence which , reached us yesterday of a rupture between the Governments of France and England is fully confirmed to-day . In the Freneh National Assembly , on Thursday , the order of the day being M . Piscatory's interpellations on the affairs of Greece , General de la Hitte , the Minister of Foreign . Affairs , ascended the tribune , and said : —Gentlemen , in the sitting of Saturday last I had the honour of announcing to the Assembly that , in consequence of the failure of our good offices in the negotiations pursued at Athens , the Government of the Republic had considered it its duty to apply to the English Government for explanations . The reply ¦ which was given us not being such as we had a right to look for , considering the good intelligence which existed between the two countries , the President of the Republic , after having taken the advice of his Council , gave me orders to recall from London our Ambassador . ( A loud burst of cheering from the Right , clapping of hands , cries of Bravo , bravo ! " renewed cheers , and clapping of hands from the same quarter ; the Left all this time remaining silent . The approbation continued at least Jive minutes . ) When the Minister descended from the tribune , he was complimented by a crowd of members , amongst whom were MM . Thiers , Mole , Piscatory , Larochejaquelin , Admiral Dupetit-Thouars , General Changarnier , & c . The sitting was then suspended for half an hour , amidst the utmost agitation ; the members of the right assembling in the centre , discussing the communication , made ; whilst the Left remained impassive as before .
Explanations With Regard To The Recall O...
Explanations with regard to the recall of the Ambassador were demanded last night in both Houses of Parliament . We borrow the account of what took place in the Commons from an eyewitness . " Mr . Disraeli , rising amidst profound silence and anxious attention , asked the noble lord at the head of her Majesty ' Government , Lord J . Russell ( for Lord Palmerston was somewhat strangely absent ) , * Whether he could give the House any explanation of the circumstances to which the letter read by M . Lahitte in the French Legislative Chamber referred ; so that the anxiety out of doors might be satisfied , and the possible consequences of mistake and apprehension be prevented . ' _
.... " The explanation vouchsafed by the noble lord was meagre in the extreme . * True it was , ' he said , ' that the French Minister had been recalled , and it was natural that he should be so , as he had been sent to England to arrange the matters in dispute between Greece and this country ; which matters being settled , he returned to France to give all necessary explanations respecting the negotiations relating thereto . But he ( Lord John Russell ) believed that in spite of some unexpected and inexplicable anger on the part of M . Gros there was no reason tn apprehend any serious difference between the Governments of the two countries ' He then described his own wishes for a
continued good understanding , and stated his reasons for believing that it was likely to continue . Sir John Walsh , not entirely satisfied with this explanation , proceeded to put a further question to the noble lord , but found that he was not at all equal to cope with his opposite neighbour in the wily arts reeded for Parliamentary interrogation . May I ask , ' said the plain and simple country gentleman , launching himself in a very frail bark upon the stormy sea of political discussion , ' may I ask if , when the French Minister , according to his instructions , left this country , he gave a copy of his letter of instructions to the noble lord the Foreign Secretary ?' Had Lord John Russell been actually trained in the office of a special pleader , he could not more accurately
have answered by following the words of the question — ' The French Minister gave no copy of that letter to the noblu lord ' : and there he left his answer . Mr . Roebuck , who apparently had a glimmering of the truth , then , as if simply for the purpose of playing an unwonted part and putting matters straight which from accident had gone wrong , suggested that the answer of the noble lord mi ^ ht Hcem to cast some imputation upon the French Minister , which was wholly undeserved . He supposed , he said , that the French Minister in accordance with his instructions had communicated the letter to Lord Palmerston—which meant in . diplomatic language had read it to him , according to the invariable usage upon such occasions—and ? was not , ' auid the learned gentleman , was
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Leader (1850-1860), May 25, 1850, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25051850/page/9/
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