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A Few Evenings Ago The Political Prisone...
Commercial letters from Mogadore speak of great sufferings in that part of Africa from a prevailing scarcity of food , amounting almost to a famine . The latest advices from Sydney state that the result of the poll in the election of a representative in the Legislative Council for the city of Sydney was that the numbers were—For Dr . Lang , 970 ; for Mr . Holden , 945 ; being a majority of 25 in favour of Dr . Lang , who was , consequently , declared duly elected . At the conclusion of the Doctor ' s address he was dragged home in his carriage by some of the more energetic of his partisans , the horses having been removed by them for that purpose .
Lieutenant John Bailey , at present employed in the slave-trade suppression squadron , on the South American coast , in a letter to his brother , the late member for Herefordshire , says he has taken three empty slavers and one half full . He had only been on the station five days when he captured his third vessel , the last of which was from within pistol shot of a battery manned and loaded . He arrived off Rio on the 28 th of June , and in sight of the harbour captured a slaver . The slave traders are terribly he
enraged at him . " The Brazilians are furious , " says <« they declare their only treatment of us shall be the knife and the musket , and their threats are not empty ones . The Rifleman had a volley poured into one boat ' s crew , which killed one man dead ; and the whole party would have been murdered had it not been for their own presence of mind . The Cormorant had three men killed in the street of Rio by being thrown out of a window . We are , therefore , close prisoners , and never think of going anywhere . '' __ ' ....
_ ... In the States the working of the Fugitive Slave Bill seems to be the only topic for discussion . Several seizures of slaves had been made at various places in the Union , and many of the fugitives have escaped to the Canadas for an asylum . Meetings were being held in all the free States to denounce the bill , and it was believed that a great effort to effect its repeal would be made next
. The joint commission of the army and navy despatched by the United States Government to explore the whole coast of the territory lying on the Pacific Ocean , have returned to San Francisco . The coast of California , north of San Francisco , including the whole of Oregon to 49 degrees , has been thoroughly explored , and much valuable information obtained . Coal was found to exist in immense quantities all around Beaver Harbour , on the north-east part of Vancouver ' s Island , extending to a great distance in every direction . The examinations in all respects have proved highly interesting , and the American Government is already engaged in the preparatory steps for fortifying our Pacific possessions , and availing itself of their remarkable advantages for naval establishments .
The New York Express states that the mechanics and brewers of the city had resolved to present a silver flagon to Messrs . Barclay and Perkins ' s draymen . A controversy is going on in the Lima papers as to the pleasurableness or indecency of dancing the polka in private balls . The ground taken by those who object to it is , that it shocks the modesty of the young ladies ; whereas the gallants of the other sex aifirm that it is the young ladies who introduced the polka and insist on dancing it .
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The first meeting of the commission to enquire into the state of education in the University of Oxford took place at two o ' clock on Saturday , in Lord John Russell ' s office in Downing-street . All the members of the commission were present , as well as the Reverend A . P . Stanley , their Secretary . The second meeting took place on Monday Since the new Stamp Act came into operation , on the 10 th of this month , the demand for stamps has been so great as to add to , instead of diminishing , the amount of revenue derived from that source , notwithstanding the great reduction which has taken place in the tariff of prices . _ . _ . _ da
In commemoration of St . Luke ' s y , which fell on Friday , the 18 th instant , an entertainment of a novel character was given to the inmates of St . Luke ' s Hospital . Under the judicious management of the resident officers , acting with the sanction of the house committee , and upon the suggestion of the physicians , between sixty and seventy of the patients , men and women , were assembled at six o ' clock in the evening in the great hall in the centre of the building , and music being provided , they wore quickly arranged in their places for the old English country dance . This , with appropriate changes , was kept up with great spirit until nine o ' clock , when all retired peaceably and cheerfully to their respective apartments .
The first of a scries of six monthly meetings , in furtherance of the object ( if Chancery reform , was held on Tuesday evening , at the Mechanics' Institute , Southampton-lmildings , Chancery-lane . The attendance consisted for the most part of persons who , from sad experience , could testify to the necessity of Chancery proceedings being rendered greatly cheaper and more speedy . Mr . Meryweather Turner presided . The object of the association , " as explained by the chairman , is the removal ot' Chancery abuses , and the restoration of courts of equity to their pristine state of purity . The
horrors of Chancery have yet to be told . The mode of correction is a subject of too much importance to be hastily resolved upon ! In due time , however , a scheme of reform will be submitted to the people of England for their adoption or refusal . The association has no intention to wage war against the legal profession , its object is to wni * e war against prejudice , injustice , ami corruption . The duel ' speakers were Mr . Ac-land , Captain M . Turner , Sir Charles Ahlis , Mr . llainey , Mr . Alfred Richards , tuul Captain Sautunro / .. It was stated by Mr . Aclund that the costs levied imon suitors annually amounted to
£ 2 , 000 , 0 ( 10 . The trustees of Owen ' s College , Manchester , have advertized lor proposals from gentlemen qualified and
willing to undertake the following offices in the College : — Professor of Chemistry ; Professor of Natural History , including Botany and Geology ; Teacher of the French language ; Teacher of the German language . The salary of the two professors will be £ 150 each , that of the teachers £ 50 each , with a proportion of the fees from students . The Government authorities are deliberating as to what port shall be selected for landing and embarking the Cape of Good Hope mails , which are about to be conveyed for £ 30 , 000 a-year by a screw steam-packet company . It is said that either Plymouth or Southampton will be chosen . The former port would be preferred by the contractorsand the latter by the Government .
, A meeting of clergy was held in Liverpool , last week , " to consider the propriety of adopting open air preaching as an instrument for improving the spiritual inhabitants of Liverpool and its neighbourhood . " The proposition met with general approval , but it was considered that the campaign should not be commenced until the spring , when the weather will be more genial , and the out-door preachers willbe more likely to attract auditors . The Gazettes of last week presented altogether but five bankrupts , the usual number two years ago being twenty i n each gazette , or an average of forty per week . for
A number of the smiths employed on the building the exhibition in Hyde-park struck for an advance of wages from 4 s . to 5 s . per day this week . Fresh hands were taken on ; and there was an attempt made to intimidate them , but the police soon restored order . — Standard . Within the last few days Mrs . Lingham , a married lady residing with her husband at No . 21 , Lacy-terrace , Penton-place , Walworth , close to the principal entrance to the Surrey Gardens * discovered that she had been plundered of Bank of England notes to the amount of £ 350 , and the robbery and abstraction of the property seems enveloped in the greatest possible mystery . It appears from the information conveyed to the police that in the month of April , 184 9 * Mr . and Mrs . Lingham sold out property in the Funds amounting to £ 800 , and each took £ 400 ; Mrs . Lingham placed her portion in a cashbox , which she kept locked up in her bedroom . From time to time since that period she added to the stock , so that by the time the robbery was committed , the whole should have amounted to at least £ 600 . When about to make the last deposit , Mrs . Lingham thought the bulk of notes had diminished , and this circumstance induced her to count them , when , to her great consternation , she found £ 350 missing . A fire broke out in the premises belonging to the Travellers' Club , Pall Mall , on Thursday morning . The flames were observed to issue from the upper part of the house ; and although the inmates were soon aroused from their beds , and engines were speedily brought into play , the work of destruction spread rapidly , and before the fire could be extinguished a great deal of damage was done to the building , and also to the costly furniture .
One of the most extensive fires that has ever occurred in Plymouth broke out in the large soap manufactory at Coxside , in that town , on Wednesday night . The whole of the windows of the building , above one hundred in number , were wholly destroyed , as was the roofing , which fell in , together with the flooring , with a tremendous crash , forcing up large showers of red sparks and volumes of thick smoke . Two coppers of soap in the boiling-house , ready for clearing , were burnt , together with several thousand pounds' worth of manufactured soap of all kinds . About midnight the whole establishment was thoroughly gutted , and within the bare walls lay a heap of burning ruins , now and then sending forth immense showers of red sparks . The extent of the damage is very large , amounting , it is said , to about
£ 30 , 000 . Of that sum only £ 2500 was insured in the Star Office ; and £ 2700 in the County Fire office ; and it also unfortunately happens that a great number of poor men will be suddenly left without employment . A large five-story spinning factory of Messrs . Allen and Co ., Butter-ma ' rket-street , Warrington , was burned to the ground on Tuesday afternoon . The fire commenced just as the hands were returning from dinner . One boy , in making his escape , fell from a great height , by which he is very dangerously injured . Another , in jumping out , fell upon the spike of an iron palisade , by which he was so much hurt that he is since dead . For some months to come , about 200 persons will be thrown out of work .
A sad accident happened to a pleasure-party on Saturday . The workmen iu the employment of Mr . Hughes , varnish manufacturer , Rotherhithe , had bpen invited to dinner by him at his private residence , in Sydenham , Kent , and were proceeding thither in a spring » van . On their way the horse ran off , the van was overturned , and thirty persons were more or less injured , one of them so severely that he died next day . Ann Pilkington , a sempstress , twenty-two years of age , who appeared with a half-starved child in her arms , and j esides at North-street , Limchouae , was charged at Thames-street Police-office , on Thursday , witli pawning seven cotton shirts which had been entrusted to her to make up by Ann Mitchell . It appeared that the prisoner had handed them over to other parties , and pawned them when finished . The other persons applied to Mrs . Mitchell for payment , and it was then she was made aware of the fact . Ellen Hardy , a most miserable-looking object , said she lived with the prisoner , who was formerly on the town , but had been induced to take to her present course of life by her ( Hardy ) . The prisoner admitted her guilt , but said she had nothing else to do but starve . Having promised to relieve the things and return thorn by Monday , the magistrate took her recognizances that she would appear on Monday . The enquiry into the poisoning case at Laugharne , Carmarthenshire , has terminated in a verdict of wilful murder against Elizabeth Gibbs . This woman , it will be remembered , was cook in the house of a Mr . Severne , and poisoned his wife and Rebecca Uphill , a
fellowservant . She had received warning to leave , and committed the crime , apparently , out of revenge . At a redent quarter sessions , in the West of England a girl with a child in her arms was indicted for stealing some sugar . The case was clear and plain , and the foreman of the jury returned a verdict of guilty , with a strong recommendation to mercy ! The chairman , rather unadvisedly , begged to ask , " upon what grounds , " as reasons are not always very satisfactory with gentlemen of the petit jury ; when from the other end of the row up jumped a hero , and said , '• ' Because , Sir , we didn ' t think she done it I" The poor chairman sat in amazement , and the court in a roar of laughter .
An affray with a gang of poachers took place , early on Saturday morning week , in a field belonging to Mr . T . B . Crosse , of Shaw-hill , North Lancashire . Five persons , servants to Mr . Crosse , were engaged in the affair , three of whom were seriously wounded in the melee , and one of them now lies in a dangerous state . The fight was desperate on both sides , but the superior numbers of the poachers gave their opponents little chance . They fought their way off the grouud without any capture being made . Several persons have been taken into custody on suspicion of having been engaged in the affray .
At the annual meeting of the Bampton Farmers Club , one of the members said he had been looking over the programme of the prizes , and his gravity had been assailed on noticing that a prize of £ 2 was offered " to the labourer who had brought up the longest family , " it struck him that the merits of the respective competitors for the prize should have been estimated by measurement , in which case it would perhaps have been awarded to some father possessing thirty feet of daughters ! The Plymouth Journal says that the following lines have been penned for the ' epitaph of a young Methodist recently deceased : —
" Oh , snatched away in beauty ' s bloom , On thee shall press no Conference tomb , But on thy turf shall roses rear Their leaves the earliest of the year , And the wild cyptess wave in tender gloom . " Does the Plymouth Journalneed to be informed that this is the opening verse of one of Byron ' s Hebrew melodies , with no other change but the word Conference for ponderous . Mr . John Heard , of Chittlehamholt , in the parish of Chittlehampton , near Southmolton , Devon , has constructed a very curious piece of mechanism for the Exhibition of 1851 , which consists of a pair of bellows . While blowing the fire the bellows play the tune of " God Save the Queen" ; and , as soon as the operator ceases to blow , the music stops . It is first intended for the Exhibition , and at its close is to be presented to the Queen .
The Dublin Evening Packet Says That Inte...
The Dublin Evening Packet says that intelligence has been received from Rome that the Pope has finally condemned the Queen ' s Colleges , and thereby placed his ban and interdict , as head of the Roman Catholic Church , on the education of Roman Catholic youths in these seminaries . Thus the remonstrance of the thirteen Catholic prelates against the condemnatory decree passed by the fourteen Catholin prelates at the Thurles Synod has been treated as nothing by the head of the Catholic Church .
At the meeting of the Repeal Association , on Monday , the hitherto desponding spirits of Mr . John O'Connell were revived by the handsome sum of £ 18 15 s . 7 d ., which was announced as the week ' s contingent . Of this , Water ford sent £ 10 , in a patriotic letter of great length , for which the writer had the modesty to apologize . Mr . John O'Connell , however , with great magnanimity , comforted the donor on this point , 6 aying that £ 10 covered a multitude of prosiness ; and that if any other gentleman wished to write a long letter he had only to send with it £ 10 to that hall , and it would be read and cheered , no matter how long or prosy it might be . ....
Mr . John O'Connell , M . P ., in declining the invitation to the Limerick meeting , last week , pointedly refers to his published address to the constituency , written nearly twelve months a « o , tendering his resignation , and calling on the citizens of Limerick to elect another representative in his stead . All the seaports , great and small , in the south and south-west of Ireland , are arrayed against each other in deadly hostility in the great competition for the Transatlantic packet station . Cork affects to treat the claims of all the others with contempt , on account of its own superior commerce , and is quite indignant with the small ports of Bantry , Crookhaven , and Dunmanus , in its own county , which have the insolence to put in their claims . Limerick , after a very long silence on the subject , is again in the field , but " appears to have a dangerous rival in the little village of Tarbert .
Preparations are in active progress for the reorganization of the Dublin Trades Union—a body which , some years since , possessed considerable influence in the conduct of political affairs in the Irish metropolis , and which , notwithstanding the extreme Democracy of its composition , came frequently into collision with the popular leaders of that time , including Mr . O'Connell hitnself , then in the full meridian of his power . The revived body contemplate , as a portion of their future labours , the disentombmont of the Repeal question , direct interference in the parliamentary representation of the city , and other matters of minor note .
A letter from Armagh announces khe death of Mr . William Blacker , the eminent agriculturist , and agent of the extensive estates of the Earl of Gosford . He died on Sunday , in the seventy-fifth year of his age . The Clonmel Chronicle gives a long account of a foot race run by the Honourable Mr . Colborn and Mr . Baird , both officers iu the Seventy-fourth Highlanders , which was won by the latter , after a severe contest , over a three-mile course of most difficult country , both by " flood and field , " and which was galloped over by the winner in the short space of eighteen minutes .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 26, 1850, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_26101850/page/8/
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