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Makch 29, 1856.1 THE L E A P E B. flQ7
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Miscellaneous. The Court. — Mr. Albert S...
church , to which edifice the people ran , and greatly I terrified tlio congregation by their manifestations . The churchyard-gates were locked , aud not only therector , but some of the auditory , had to be escorted home by the police . Affray with Coolie Emigrants . —Some uoolie emigrants , to the number of two hundred , on board the ship Samuel Enderby , from Macao to Havannah , made a desperate attack , while off the island of Java , on the crew . They had not previously exhibited any disaffection , and it does not appear that they had any real cause of complaint . They were eventually overpowered . Street Preaching . —A gentlemanly-looking man , having the appearance of a clergyman , and giving the name of Edward Jones , was charged at the Marlborough police office with obstructing the thoroughfare in Chapel-street , Tottenham-court-road . A policeman , said he found five hundred people gathered aboub him , listening to his religious exhortations . He refused to " move on , " and was ultimately taken into custody . Before the magistrate , he denied having caused an obstruction , for he had only * ' a quiet circle of about eighty paying devout attention to the Word . " On a previous occasion , he had been informed by a police inspector that he might pursue his street meditions . Mr . Bingham , the magistrate , said it was quite clear that no man had a right to obstruct a thoroughlortn wnat lermeu ±
that , he should be ready to bow to the law . ( Laughter , and criea of " Yon must . " ) Dr . Baring added that , directly the question now pending was settled , he was prepared to break ground afresh , and to rai ^ e some new question for th « consideration o f the courts . h A FRiGiiTFDii Accident occurred at the _ . London Docks on Thursday . Two young women paid a visit to a brother of one of them , who is a clerk on the establishment , for the purpose of being shown over some of the biddings to witness the working of a machine known as "the hydraulic lift , " and other contrivances for superseding manual labour . "While the brother was engaged in another part of the warehouse , after cautioning them as to the danger attending the slighest carelessness on their part , they inadvertently got too near the aperture through which the hydraulic machine travels up and down to the various compartments of the warehouse . Holding their heads over this hole , under the belief that the machine was not then at work , the instrument suddenly came down , killing one o f the women , and dreadfully injuring the other . Demolition op the Last Gibbet . —A day or two ago , the last gibbet erected in England was demolished by the workmen employed by the contractors making the extensive docks for the North-Eastern Railway Company upon Jarrow Stake , on the Typ e . a « : ( . » . «<» nrVm < nni-r 1 ari > rl o ma . < ri « frn +, « = » rlurinflr a strike
whole female Bex ? " To -which Mr . Bittlestone , counsel for the plaintiff , replied that Iadie 3 might very properly , and more naturally , reserve their caresses and affections for worthier object 3 than lapdogs . Health © I 1 London . —In the week that ended on Saturday , the total number of deaths registered in London was 1 , 213 , of which 638 were deaths of males , 575 those of females . In the corresponding weeks of the ten years 1846-55 , the average number wa 3 1 , 164 . This number , if raised by a tenth partjEbr comparison with last week ' s deaths , which occurred in an increased population , becomes 1 , 280 . The present rate of mortality is therefore less than the average . The mean temperature of the air fell below the average on Tuesday the 4 th insfe ., and has continued more or less below it every day since that date , with the exception of four days last week . That this unusual coldness has to some extent affected the public health is shown by the deaths from diseases of the respiratory organs , which were in the last three weeks successively 191 , 223 , and 281 . Of 26 deaths from scarlatina , half occurred in the north districts , principally Pancras , Islington , and Hackney ; -while of 58 from typhus and common fever , 18 occurred in the east districts , chiefly in Whitechapel and Mile-end . Four deaths from typhus and " fever" occurred in the workhouse , St . Peter , Walwor th , besides two from whooping-cough ; and
fare by nolcting ne me woru u the Lord ; for , as . no two persons agree on the subject of religion , if the millions of this great city were each to set up bis own view of Divine authority , to supersede the jurisdieton of the magistrate , nothing but . anarchy would en & ue . " Ho therefore approved the act of the policeman ; but as Mr . Jones had no intention of violating the law , he was discharged on entering iuto his own recognisances not to renew the inconvenience . Fire at Wappino . —An extensive fire , which ha 3 destroyed a considerable quantity of property , unattended , however , with loss of life , broke out last Monday , at the Black Boy Tavern , High - street , Wapping- About three o ' clock in the morning-, smoke was seen by the police to issue from the crevices in the window-shutters ; and they therefore attempted to alarm the inmates . It was a long time , however , before they could succeed in arousing the family , and it was not until the flames had made such progress that no one in the house could get down the stairs , and that the inmates were not aware of their dangei * . A ladder was brought by the Thames police , no other escape then being at hand ; and three persons were safely got out of the house . Express messengers were sent to all the nearest engine-houses , and presently the Brigade of the East London Company arrived on
in 1832 , was the person for whom the gibbet was erected . * The Last Scotch Hangman . —A man named John Murdock is just dead , after nearly reaching ninety years of age . He was " paid by the job , " and used to take a grim pleasure in his work . The last man he hanged was executed as late as 1851 . A Man Killed by a Piece of Coal . —Two men at Liverpool had an altercation , wlen one seized a piece of coal , and threw it at the other , who dipped his head , and avoided the missile . The coal , however , struck . a third man on the temple , and knocked him down . He went home , but , in spite of medical aid , died in the conrse of a few days . Suicide of a" Clergyman . —Mr . C . F . R . South , a Church of England clergyman at Glasgow , has committed suicide by hanging himself . On the previous day ( Monday ) , he was observed to be singularly excited . In the morning , he said he should never address them again , but he came again In the afternoon , and was then so disturbed and wild that his friends removed him . He must have destroyed himself , from some unknown cause , in the course of the night . Mb . Walter Savage Laudob , and M . Kossuth :. — A communication from Mr . Walter Savage Landor has appeared in the Times , recommending a subscrip-+ ; , rvr » f .-LT AT TCnnsnfch . -whose circumstances are sm » 1 \ ± 1 ± 9 a - — -
four occurred from the same disease in Uhelsea , north-west sub-district , two of these in the workhouse , Mr . Faulkner , of the south sub-district of St . Giles , registered two deaths from typhus in . the workhouse , and he stat es that the deceased persons were not regular inmates , but " when brought in were suffering from the fever which appears to have prevailed lately in the parish . A few houses have each had several cases , and the assistant-surgeon has been attacked by the disease . " In ' North St . Gilesjjat 29 A , Crown-street , a woman died of typhus ; Mr . Simpson , the registrar , writes that four persons have been attacked by the fever in that house , and three have died . In last report , a woman . was stated to have died at the agebf 104 years . In the returns for last week , another remarkable example of longevity i 3 recorded . A woman who had lived " , Williarnstreet , Dorset street , Claphain-road , died on the 17 th inst . of " decay of nature ; diarrhoea ( three days ) , " at the age ( as stated ) of 103 years . She was the widow of a gardener . Mr . Edwards , the registrar , mentions that her illness was caused by hearing of the death of her son , at man 61 years old , who died in Guy ' Hospital , where he had undergone an amputation . She was previously in good health and in possession of her faculties , and assisted in the last Week of her life in the usual domestic duties ^ The
TQe SpOu , ftUU . liUV OJLUUC 13 HUUll BCb U 1 CU U-LU 1 U . O VigUlously to work , together with those of the lower steamfloat from the Thames ; After a while , the wind carried the flames on to the roofs of the neighbouring houses , the occupants of which fled , taking with them all their household effects . It does not appear , however , that these buildings were much destroyed or injured ¦ by the fire ; but the tavern , together with its furniLure and stock-in-trade , was all but destroyed . Juvenile Reformatories . —A preliminary meeting has been held at the Town Hall , Manchester , with a view to petitioning Parliament to facilitate the formation of Reformatory Institutions , to support them at the public expense . Whittington Club . — The members of this
insti-^ , § * . ¦ ^ ^ JMJ . ^^^^ WW —— y ' _—_ __ „ ,.. __ . barrassed . To this , the Hungarian exile has replied by declining the assistance , the suggestion of which , while acknowledging "the noble generosity of the intention , " lie considers " extremely injudicious and uncalled-for , inasmuch as , whatever be my private circumstances , I am wont to consider theu the sacred domain of family life , " He can therefore " find no words to express his deep mortification and regret . " Glancing at a , leading article in the Times with respect to himself , M . Kossuth says : —" As to your remarks on the ' immorality' of the struggle which it has been my destimy to load , you must allow me to say this much in return—that you must be perfectly ignorant as to its nature and character , or else you
age of old persons is , however , otten exaggerated , and such statements are not to be received without doubt , unless they are confirmed by a register of birth or baptism , or other satisfactory evidence . Last week , the births of 889 boys and 838 girls—in all 1 , 727 children—were registered in London . In . the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number was 1 , 565 , — From the Registrar General ' s Weekly Return . * Sudden Death oe an Impostor . —A man has been drowned at Northstoke , near Bath , almost immediately after attempting to impose upon another by mean 3 of a begging letter . On Thursday week , a stranger at a public-house in the village of Upton was observed t iol unmetui noyomi *¦— £ —^™
tution are about to celebrate the eighth anniversary by a grand ball at the Freemasons Hall , on Thursday evening next . We understand that tho money required for the completion of the new building has been all subscribed and paid , and the dni e of re-opeuing will very shortly be announoed . The PusEYrrH Contest in Knightsbiud « e . —Mr . Westorton was on Tuesday re-elected to the churchwardonship of St . Paul ' s , Knightsbridge , aftor experiencing some opposition from a Mr . Tuck , a florist and coal-merchant . Party feeling , as usual , ran high : placards were posted by tho Puseyito section , denouncing Mr . Westerton a » disloyal to the Queen and an enemy to the Church of England j and on tho — — — ¦ « T ' 1 * I 1 _ T % M _ 1 _ 1 ot cuecriuuieci
could not think of perverting historical truth to that extent . " CONGBATULATIONS ON THE IMPERIAL BlRTH . —The London Court of Common Council , and several other municipal bodies , have votod addresses of congratulation to tho French Emperor on the birth of his son and heir . The Oath oe Abjuration . —A motion has been proposed to the Court of Common Council , for soliciting tke Government to obtain a repeal of the law requiring tho oath of abjuration to be taken by persona appointed to publio offices . The Mormon Exodus . —Three hundred men , women , boya , nnd girls have started from Bir-AOl
o inquire me * u » «» . » .. » ... inhabitants in the vicinity ; he was next seen to write a letter , to which he appended two forged signatures . He then proceeded to Northstoke , where he presented tho letter to a farmer living there , named James Taylor . Pex-ceiving at once that the , letter was a forgery , and that the whole affair was an imposition , Mr . Taylor threatened to give the man iuto custody , upon which the latter struck Mr . Taylor a violent blow on the head with a stick ho had in his hand . Ho was prevented , however , from striking any more blows by Mr . Taylor forcing the stick fronci him . He then ran away aud plunged iuto the river Avon , where ho attempted to swim to the opposite *>»?*; hut . Rmnn mnii at one of the wharves , seeing Mr .
_ ner jtmua , many jokcs were an uxo expense of Mr . Tuck . Tho meeting for the purpose of tho eleotion -was held in tho parochial sohool-room , when tho numbers wore found to be so groat that it ¦ wa s feared the floor would break down , and Mr . Liddell , tho chairman , was askod to adjourn the meeting to the open nir ; but he rofuscd , saying that ho must yrocoed according to law , and take tho chance of an acoident . Ultimately , however , it -wan agreed that tho mooting should be held in the yard at the rear of tho Bohool-houae . Hero , after aomo discussion , loud « f \ lls woro niaclo for Mr . Tuok , who did not appear , and Mr . Wostortou was declared duly elected . In tho oourso of his upeooh proposing Mr . Westorton , Dr . Baring aoauaed Mr . Liddoll of having broken faith in first promising that ho would remove tho offensive orncvnionts in the ohuroh if legal means wore taken to compol the removal , and thorn , when a faculty for that purpose was obtained , appealing . against it . Mr . Liddoll said ho was only anxious to aacovtaiu what tho law was . Whon ho had ascertained
JU & IU ^ JUUWU JUlVt 5 J . jJl 7 Ul , miAUA U UU UIVXW f ^ llkJJ flSA . HM % 3 Mormon territory sib Utah . Nine hundred will leave in tho vessel for the same destination . AOOIDKNT ON TUB WlMBLETONT AND CltOYDON Rail-way . - —A man has boen run down on this railway "whiles crossing tho ] ino , and has been killed . The engine was about twenty yards off when tho driver saw him . Tho latter blew his whiatlo , and shut off tho steam ; but tho man was deaf , and docs not acorn to have been aware of tho train until it was on him . Ladies and tiieik Pkts . —A gardener , namod Binary , has recently obtninod £ 60 damages as tho roftulb of an action at tho Warwick Ansisses against ix clergyman , two dogs belonging to -whoao wilb had bitten him . Lord Campbell direotod that tho < loga —Popper and Mustard—should bo culled ; and thoy were placed on tho table . Movoml witnossos proved that tho doge woro notorious bibora . Mr . Serjeant Hayoa , for tho dofonoo , askod , in tuo ovunt of ludioH dogs being " put down , " " what would boooino of tho
Tuylor in pursuit of him , pulled him out . Nevertheless , ho managed to osoapo from thorn , and again jumped into tho rivor , when , having swam a short distance , he suddenly sank , and was seen no more until his body was discovered tho following Any ( Good Friday ) . Ho waa by trade a saddler , and had lormerly lived at Barnstaple . A Malevolent Attempt . —A bar of iron waa found a few da-ya since on tho Hereford llaihvay- by tho driver of an up-train . It was lying on the down hne , on whiuh a goods train was expected at full speed in , a fuw minutes ; but tho obstruction waa removed in tiino , and a roward has boen ottered for tho discovery of tho perpetrator . These malevolent oil'ences hftVO booomo common of lato . ' lfiABTKH DlNNlCU AT THIS MANBION-MOWSlli . Tula annual bnuquot took plaoo on Monday . Tlio Duke of Cuinbi'ld « o responded to the toaatqfthe royal family ; mid ho also acknowledged tho ton » t of the Army und Navy . " Lord "WodehouBo acknowledged tho
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Makch 29 , 1856 . 1 THE L E A P E B . flQ 7
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Leader (1850-1860), March 29, 1856, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29031856/page/9/
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