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1134 THE LEADER. [Saturday ,
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Tho discovery of gold in South Australia...
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According to a recent decision in the Co...
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A Parliamentary paper published on Wedne...
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HEALTH O F L ONDON DURING THE WEE K Duri...
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BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS. BIRTHS. O...
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A Deputation, Headed By Twcnf.Y-Oiio Mem...
The Manchester Free Public Library has now been open eleven weeks , and the total number of volumes issued during that time has been ; from the reference library , 19 , 387 ; from the lending library , 19 , 630 : total , 39 , 017 , or a daily average of 591 from both libraries . The University of London has determined on a vigorous effort to obtain one of the now vacant seats in the House of Commons , which Mr . Disraeli , notwithstanding bis strongly-avowed inclination to an educational franchise , was fain to hand over to agricultural constituencies . A preliminary meeting , " to concert the necessary operations , " and to appoint a committee to conduct the movement , is to be held at the Freemason ' s Tavern , on Tuesday next . Mr . James Hey wood , M . I ' ., in the chair .
The annual meeting of the Association for Promoting the Repeal of the Taxes on Knowledge , is announced to take place at Exeter Hall , on Wednesday next . Douglas Jcrrold will take the chair . It is hoped that Mr . Disraeli may , at least to some extent , have anticipated " the objects of this meeting in his forthcoming financial revision . Mr . Cole , the general superintendent of the department of Practical Art , opened the session , on Wednesday , with an address on the facilities afforded by the department to all classes of the community in obtaining education in art . Among other things Mr . Cole stated , that a . 4 far as
practical on self-supporting principles , the department would endeavour to encourage and assist , but not supersede , all local efforts to introduce education in the elements of form and colour into schools of all kinds ; to promote the establishment of special schools for the practice of advanced studies ; to afford instruction in the specialties of manufacture , so far as they regulated the nature of the art to be applied ; aud , lastly , to establish a central museum of arts and manufactures applicable to direct instruction . In all these various objects the principle would be to give assistance half-wn . v , but no further .
The working-classes of Marylebono were invited to attend a meeting at the Princess's Coucert-room , on Saturday evening , at seven o ' clock , by Mr . Oliveira , M . P ., for the purpose of promoting that gentleman ' s scheme for establishing libraries , to which these classes may have gratuitous access . Mr . IV Wilson , a wood carver , was called to the chair . Mr . Oliveira forcibly impressed upon his auditors the importance of assisting an attempt to diffuse a humanising and kindly influence , by drawing together persons of high and low degree in the same room and for the same object—the attainment of useful knowledge . Mr . Oliveira instanced the success of the infant institution at Manchester , and the recognition of the value of these libraries by the Common Council of London , and then read extracts from a letter of Lord Brougham , highly approving the plan , promising ( o contribute , and suggesting that tho
management should be placed m the hands of the working classes themselves . It was also stated that warm encouragement had been expressed in communications from the JUarl of Carlisle , the Earl of Harrowby , mid other gentlemen . Jn conclusion , Mr . Oliveira said a rate of a halfpenny in the pound would be amply suflicicnt to maintain in efficiency such an institution in Marylebcnie , and there was every reason to hope that legislative authority would bo conferred , as it would be in strict accordance with the act already passed upon this subject . Mr . M . 'Gregor , M . I * . ; Mr . l ) igby Seymour , M . P . ; Mr . Goldsmith , and Mr . Withers , delivered addresses of tho like tenor , and resolutions were adopted , pledging ( he meeting 1 to support tho establishment of a free libraiy in Marylebone , appointing a committee of working-men to co-operate with Mr . Oliveira '« committee , and soliciting a penny-subscription in the parish .
Jn addition to this , Mr . Oliveira presided ( nor a spirited meeting at the Marylebono Court ,-bouse on Wednesday . Among their supporters they now number I ' rinco Albert , the Duke of . Portland , the Duke ; of Newcastle , Lord linxighiini , Dr . Spry and t ho . Bishop of London . Among the speaker ;! wen ; Mr . I'aviiH , Sir H . . 11 all . Lord 'Dudley Stuart , Air . John lVlur «; iv , ^ or , members of Parliament ; and other gentlemen . In the g ; irri ;; oM church at . Merlin , ; i fi moral service for the Duke of Wellington whs performed on ( be IHth . The royal family were present , and great numbers of . soldiers . Thanks for their admirable conduct ; on the lSl . h , have been uddres > ed ( o i \ w Army in u ( i 'inr . il Order by Lord Hardinge ; and t . > ( ho 1 'ol ' ice b y Mr . Wnlpole . Neither omit , to mention the good conduct of the people . A gratuity ( if one . shilling h ; is been given to t he troop : ; .
SI . Pimfs lias , this week , been opened to the public , illuminated iin at . the DiiIkTm funeral ; but , ( lie urraiigcnienfH for granting tickets of admission linvo been no ii : i < l that numerous complaints have appeared in I he daily journals . One person went , three Miieees . sivc days , Monday , Tuesday , and Wednesday , and could not , procure tickets , whi ' lo rirgamulliuM were . selling Ilieiu at . liiilf-ti-crown niul cighteen-pence each in St . Paul ' s chuivhyanl . Accounts continue to be received I ' roni the counties of the siicccsh of I be M Hit i : i Act . ; and I . be da si i ing appearance of I lici volunteer ;; . 11 , in clear Unit , I Ik ('><) , < ) 0 () men uro in mimic . ' ( ii'l . select : and , although only live feel , two and upwards , likely l . o become frond and brave . soldiers . T \ loro than o . io of lint Prefects and IWnyor : ; of Louis Napoleon , in urging the electors to \ ol . e , reminds I . linn of the treaties of ISI . ' i , to be n \ cn ;; r < l , anil the disaster of Wiit . erloi ) l . o be e \ pi , i . l . e < l . The . hmriKil i ' rs hrluita has at . length accepted ( he Umpire not ., however , before il . bad become a ( jiiesliou of life or death uit . h Hie proprietor , ! of Unit . < lir ; l inguislied journal . Whether M . M ichol < 'hevalier , m . ii old contributor to the I )('!)«( : ; , and a Senator , may have had any . share in cll ' ecl . iiijr ( hi .-i con ver : ion , \\ e cannot , tiny ; but . we should think the ncce . vdon of Mich n nupjiorlor would ( ierioiisly alfecl . t . h ' . ' condition of ( lie more iil . rictlv lionnpiirl i : ! t , orgn . nti . The rcniain . 'i of the Abb , ) Oioberl . i Jia . vo arrived nf , Turin . The restored " palnriml" ( iovermnenl , of ( he ( Jrand Duke nl , . FJoreiieo him rc-e , 'i ! , ab ) it , hcd the ruillolino for
crimes against religion , of public violence against the Government , premeditated homicide , and robbery with violence . Abd-el-Kadcr , we are told , expressed his desire to be allowed to vote in the election of the Emperor . Accordingly tho Emir and all his suite at Amboise were provided with a balloting urn , in which they deposited their contributions to the degradation of the French people . "Verily , Abd-el-Kader , as he dropped his bulletin of Oui into the urn , must have felt himself avenged ! The obnoxious law presented by the Belgian Ministry to the Chamber , in compliance with . the wishes of the French Emperor , to restrict the press from speaking freely of foreig n powers , has been considerably shorn of its uglier portions in its passage through the committee appointed to examine its provisions . When it again reaches the Chamber , it will be scarcely recognizable by its authors .
1134 The Leader. [Saturday ,
1134 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
Tho Discovery Of Gold In South Australia...
Tho discovery of gold in South Australia is now an authenticated fact . Large quantities of surface gold have been discovered in the district of Onkaparinga / fifteen miles east of Adelaide . The auriferous district is supposed to be sixty miles hi extent . These facts are confirmed by the reports of the colonial secretary and tho land
commis-. The Forerunner was dismasted , it appears , in a gale on the 4 th . After refitting at Gibraltar , she set out for Plymouth , where she arrived on the 21 st . The passengers had come home previously in tho Tiber . At Gibraltar some of the passengers presented Captain Atkins , before leaving , with a letter of thanks for his kindness during the voyage , and coolness and discretion during the gale of the 4 th instant . They further stated that their reason for leaving the ship was not from any want of confidence in him , or doubt as to the seaworthiness of the Forerunner .
Abbas Pacha , viceroy of Egypt , has had a steam frigate yacht built for him in the Thames . Her dimensions arelength 283 feet , with a great breadth of beam . She is of 2217 tons burden , old measurement , with paddle-wheels 42 feet in diameter , the largest ever made . There are two engines of 400 horse-power each , manufactured by Maudslay , Son , and Field . She is called the Faid Grihaad , or Favour of War . " She left the Thames on Thursday week , and anchored in Southampton-water on Friday—a capital run for new machinery . She is a magnificent little craft , sp lendidly fitted up , and runs 15 knots an hour . « JiA banquet was given on hoard on Saturday .
According To A Recent Decision In The Co...
According to a recent decision in the Court of Exchequer , the rule which had been obtained- by Mr . G-ye for leave to demur to the declaration of Mr . Lumley in the Wagner case , was made absolute . Probably the trial will come on next week . Sir Charles Napier has brought an action against Mr . John Murray , the publisher of the Quarterly Review , for libel . The offending passages were contained in an article on thft Ameers of Scinde , charging Sir Charles with disgraceful conduct in his civil and military career in Scinde . This was rebutted by an affidavit stating that the facts , as alleged in the article , were untrue . The case was tried in tho Court of Queen ' s Bench on Tuesday . Lord
Camphell held that there Avas nothing in the article to show an intention to calumniate Sir Charles . It was written upon u disputed passage in history as to whether ho had treated the Ameers with harshness or generosity . Believing the affidavit of Sir Charles , Lord Campbell still thought that it , would be encroaching on the liberty of the press to grant a criminal information . Whatever might take place elsewhere , he trusted we . should always have a free press . It was no libel to impute incompetence to a high public functionary . Sir Charles Napier was one of the most gallant ., most meritorious , and most distinguished generals who had over led a British army in the Held . Me could not grant a rule for the tiling of n criminal information .
Lord Campbell has refused the application made by Mr . Iluddleslone , that Marlheloniy mid Morny , participants in the late duel , should be admitted to bail . Tim Lord Chief . Justice , of Ireland delivered judgment on ( he motion of the A . ltoniey- (» etieml to quash the proceedings of the coroner ' s inquest , in the Six-mile Hridge nll'air . There was no precedent to guide the decision of the Moncb ; and in tins absence of precedent , he could not undertake to quash those proceedings ; therefore , without expressing any opinion whatsoever upon the merits of the finding of the jury , bo i ' olt . bound t . o refuse the rule .
Two other persons , named Barton and 1 earco , have lied from the elieelM of the squeezing in the crowd at the lying in si ale . lienry Blackburn , or Bhickband , bus been committed on a , charge of murdering his father and mother , the old couple who . se bodies were found half burned iiml dreadfully mutilated in acol . tiige near Sl . alford . A light haired , thin-faced person , wit h bushy whiskers , and an ollemimil . c voice , has been creating a nensa . 1 ion in Manchester by u ( . l , e ; -iii £ forged notes of the Hank of I'iii < rlniul .
Two young women , both domestic nervnnlH , have been acquitted lhi : i week of charges , one of killing her illegitimate child ; I be other of cnnroiilnitf the birth . lOliznboth Kiirwnkcr , bad been suspected by her fellow Hcrvants ; on tho Mth of November certain indical ions were visible about . the Iiounc ; a noise like the cry in /; of a cat in distress was beard in a , cupboard ; Karwaker wont info ( . he room and the cry censed . Subsequently a child's body was found dead in the yard . The ol her case was similar . Itridgcl . Howling denied her condition ; nenrch was made , proofs of delivery were found ; and the body of a child in the < luntbin wrapped in carpet ,.
Two youii'r men , residing in ( he neighbourhood of Droit . wich , VVorce , slc , rnbire , niinicd John Smith and Charles Onoli , bnve been committed to Worcester County-gaol , on a , chai- |; -n of al . lempl . in /; to murder one of Sir John Pukington ' . i Kiunekeopers , by shooting iiX him . II . uppearH I hal . I ho keepers hail foiiml I bat . on ( Sunday inornin /; t « poaching was curried on in the pretiorvos , it ml accordingly <> u
Sunday , the 7 th inst ., the underkeeper and two watchers W in wait for them . About five (/ clock in the mornW tt prisoners made their appearance , and Smith was seized h one of the watchers , named Nott . Upon this both mon attacked Nott , who received a violent , blow on the head and also had an arm broken with a gun-barrel Smith also called to Cook to blow out JSTott ' s brains , upon which Cook put a percussion cap on his gun , and pulled the trigger . The cap exploded , but not the charge in the eun or N ott must have been a dead man . Both pr isoner- * were afterwards taken into custody . The Thames and rivers running into it between London and Oxford , has again overflowed its banks this week damaging property at Heading and Maidenhead and stopping the trains on the lines from Oxford . The Frome has risen again and covered the country between Bristol and Clevedon . Nottingham has also suffered .
A Parliamentary Paper Published On Wedne...
A Parliamentary paper published on Wednesday , proves that only one vessel containing negroes landed in June 1852 on the Brazilian coast , but that tho importation of ' negro slaves into Cuba amounted to 4 , 118 in the period between ' the 1 st of January and the 9 th of October of the current year .
Health O F L Ondon During The Wee K Duri...
HEALTH O F L ONDON DURING THE WEE K During the three weeks that have passed of this rnontli tho deaths show a decrease , having been successively 1101 1022 , and 922 . In the ten weeks corresponding to the week that ended last Saturday the average number was 1016 , which , if corrected for increase of population , becomes 1118 , than which amount last week ? s mortality is less by 196 . These facts are evidence that the public health has not suffered lately , notwithstanding the unusual and prolonged wetness of the weather . A decrease is also observed in the mortality of zymotic
diseases , which have declined from 228 in the preceding week to 184 in the last , while in the same time diseases of the respiratory organs ( exclusive of phthisis ) have decreased from 192 to 167 . Scarlatina has fallen from 88 to 59 ; and with respect to other epidemics tho numbers referred to them , last week are as follow : —Small-pox , 4 ; measles , 8 ; hooping-cough , 17 ; croup , 4 ; thrush , 4 ; diarrhoea , 16 ; dysentery , 1 ; influenza , 3 ; purpura , 1 ; ague , 1 ; infantile and remittent fever , 2 ; typhus , 50 ; puerperal fever , 6 ( besides other five deaths that occurred in child-bearing ); erysiDelas , 5 : syphilis , 1 .
' Last week the births of 770 boys and 720 girls , in all 1490 children , were registered in London . In the seven corresponding weeks of the years 1845-51 the average number was 1337 . At _ the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean reading of the barometer in the week was 29 * 159 in . Tho mean temperature of the week was 49 ' 3 deg ., which is 5 - 2 deg . above the average of the same week in ten years . Tho mean daily temperature was above the average on every day of the week , and tho excess was more than 8 deg . on Monday and Tuesday , and 6 deg . on Wednesday and Saturday . Tho wind ' blew generally from tho 6 outh-west . The rain in the week amounted to 1 * 77 in .
Births, Marriages, And Deaths. Births. O...
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 14 th of November , at Drake ' s-plaee , tho wifo of tho Itov . W . "VV . Pulnmn , M . A ., vicar of Wellington , Somerset : of a boh . On tho 17 th , at , 25 , Purk-stroot , Grosvonor-squarc , tho who of Protheroe Smith , J 5 nq ., M . D . : si daughter . On tho 20 t , h , at No . 7 , Chester-terrace , Kegent ' s-park , tho lfoii . . Lady Pearson : si daughter , On tho 22 nd , ntllalc-houBe , near Salisbury , tho Lady Adda Oofi" : a daughter . ... On the Mad , at 13 , Chnrington-Htroet , Homera-town , tho wilo of Ulueher Thomas Edward Death , JSsq . : a aon . MAKKIAGK 8 . On Hio 10 th of N § voml > e . r , at , St .. Michael ' s Church , Chester , the Rev . Henry Cunlille ., M . A ., vicar of Shinnall , Haloij , t . hinl ;;< m of Li < Mil , enant .- ( li'iicial Sir Hubert . Ounlillo , Hart ., C . H ., <>' Actou-park , Denbighshire , l . o Mary AubuhI . ii , only daug hter ol Hir James Itiudcll , Hart .., of Hl . ront . inn mid Anliiainiirclmii . TS . ii . On the Kil . h , at , S .-nl , William Tnlbol Agnr , JOsii ., <> t W' » - lorfijo , Oaiiidnii-town , to Jenny Harriot , weon . l dauglilcr ol on AleimiiLir Crichton , K . S . W ., X . H . A .. IMt . H ., of tho Grow , Hual , near Mrvenoaks . . , On tho I 7 lli , nl , St . John ' s Kpincojml Oliapel , I'orres , > y ' »" Vory K .-. v . tho Dean of Moray and Km * ., John Henry ' < ' » 'C 1 I 1 M "' J . I'lsfi ., yoimgor . t ; . son of ( ho laid John Haiikn JcnkinHon , IJihw | U > HI ,. Diivid ' M , to Alice Henrietta , third duuglitor of Sir Wiw . im ( Jordon CminniiiL ' Iliirtof Altyro i
, ., ,,,,,,,, ; ,, On < ho SM-d , uC All Kouln" Chim-li , X ; nigliiuii-i > lac <\ « " I " Colin Campbell , 1 st Madras Lig ht Cavalry , son of tho Into -loan Campbell , Ky (| ., of Kinloch , IVrthsliini , to Amelia , . V ";; ' . iMughler of tho Into Major- ( Jenerid Sir Archibald ( . allo ^ ay , K . C . U .
DHATIIH . Ont . be 10 th of Juno , IHM , at Christ church , Canterbury > ''¦ - Moment , New / ie . nlaiul , lOuslace , third Him of Conwuy i ^ - ¦ ' oil tho ir > lh of November , at HoiKhl . orough , 111 " Lady 1 jO 11 IHI * lloyle , off >!> , Ciiinl > ri ( lj , 'r- ( , eirrae <' , II yilc-jmrli-gardeiiM . flm Lady Winston lliirron , wilo ol' Sir Henry VV "' , " ,.,,,,. ron , Hart . ; of Ifamm-oourt , county of Waterloo , and da " ,, , ofSir ( Gregory I ' ago Turner , Hart ., of HatllcMdcn-parU , tordtiliire , Ac . . ( . oinovMt-Oii tho IJMi , at , Naples , tho Right Hon . Job" K "" ol f " < in ' Mio 17 tli , nl . hiii rcHi . lence , Hiiiiini < ii-lan ( lH , Kxelcr , I- " " ' niinl-dcnerai Alfred KicliurdH , i ' . H-, Jl -tO . I . t-. H . , „„„ , On the , 171 , 11 , ill tl . o Chateau « lo Viuiv , Nemo-H" Hue , ' < ap-ilHixIcen , IlKMlanght . M- «» f l . ho Unn . n Miinx'hcll' - | i | n On the IHth , at Wrcxlinin , K . nnin , llurd diuigli « m . . , . lan . i . H Topping , | . Jh «| ., M . I ' ., of Whalcrolt-hall , Che » h . n > , h i . ' oilllHI'l . . •• ,., ] ,, Iliilhl ( 'l > > On ( lie IHth , nl . ¦ H arimrd ( Pintle , Durham , Lmlj widow of the latd Mr . Baron Hiilloeli . ,. , , ;|( | ( lu . (» n ( lie IHl . li . Hi , H ! iii-l .-v- |» iirli , Huriry , | . '" """ T , f Jlio !»•" On 1 . 1 m an . li , nl . MoMlroMe , Mm . llnllonr , rcli t « ( - ho tain Halfoiir , ofthat ton .., and hIh ! cr ol JonepJi H'i" ,
^ Oiit . I . e ^ lHl ., al , her li . mtio in Cur / . oii-slreet , AHmm I ''' ' 1 * ' " tho ninctielli year of licr n ; ce . , ( jr ( Wvrll < 'VOntho ' / and , ut hit . idHid . Mice , M , Hrooli- » ti «« t , uw niiM-o , Haniu .-l jMcrriinnii , M ., J > ., uyM eiglity-o '"" -
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 27, 1852, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27111852/page/10/
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