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726 THE LEADER. [Saturday,
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. In tho...
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The Geeat Moral Want of the Masses.—Now,...
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A communication was received on the same occasion from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , to obtain the assistance of the parish in placing watertroughs in different parts of the parish for the use of dogs . A resolution was come to with a view to carrying out this suggestion . A prospectus has been issued advertising the formation of a now association for the performance of sacred and classical music , both of the ancient and modern schools . The concerts are to be held at Exeter-hall , and are not to consist exclusively of sacred music , the programmes including cantatas and such compositions . Mr . Benedict is to be the conductor . ¦ The annual general assembly of the company of proprietors of Drury-lane theatre took place on Saturday in the saloon . The report of the general committee stated that , in consequence of Mr . Bunn having declined to continue his lease from June last , they had been unable to meet the current expenses of the season , while the lessee remained unremunerated for his outlay . The receipts for the year , including a balance of 215 ? . 6 s . _4-d . from the former season , had been 3 , 492 ? . 14 s . lid ., and the payments 3 , 438 ? . Os . 6 d ., leaving a balance of 64 ? . 14 s . 5 d . in the hands of the treasurer . subscribers
A special general meeting of the friends and to the Orphan Working School , which was established in 1758 , was held on Wednesday , in the offices of the institution , Ludgate-hill , for the purpose of taking into consideration the terms of a proposed enfranchisement of the copyhold property of the corporation at Haverstock-hill ; and also to consider the agreement entered into by the corporation for building upon the City-road estate . Mr . Coombs , who presided , stated that Lord Southampton , to ¦ whom the _Hatnpstead property belonged , had promised to present to the charity the sum of 250 guineas , for which he was to have the privilege of always having one child in the school . The report stated that there were at the present tune in the school 171 boys , and 87 girls .
A vestry meeting of the ratepayers in the parish of St . Martin ' s in-the-Fields , was held on Saturday evening , to decide upon levying an additional rate , for the purpose of assisting the paupers in emigrating . Mr . C . Cochrane , with a body of noisy followers , seems to have done his best to disturb the meeting , and to hinder its proceedings . The motion for making a rate of one penny in the pound for this purpose , was supported by Mr . Kidgway . It was denounced by Mr . Kussell as " a rascally scheme , " for the purpose of establishing an extra rate . An amendment , to the effect that the means already supplied by the Act of Parliament were sufficient , was put and lost . Mr . Cochrane then proposed another amendment , consisting mainly of vituperation against the guardians for their treatment of the paupers . He then indulged in a fierce tirade against the guardians , complaining , among other things , of the bread provided for the paupers . This accusation seems to have been in some degree acquiesced in , the fact being attributed to the hot weather . After some discussion , in which , in answer to a charge that bean flour was one of the ingredients of the pauper bread , a guardian asserted that bean flour was dearer than wheaten , the chairman refused to put the amendment , pronouncing it to bo libellous . The original motion was put , but a poll was demanded . On Tuesday , Mr . Cochrane attended a meeting in St . Martin ' s-lane , when resolutions , condemning the plan of the guardians , wore passed . The result of two day ' s "poll gave , for the rato , 807 ; against it , 221 . Friday's poll will not be known until Saturday . The church of St . Giles , Camberwell , was pillaged , on Monday night , the robbers entering by means of a waterspout . They carried away an altar cover worth thirty guineas , as well as the velvet from tho pulpit , and various cushions . A cloth warehouse , belonging to Mr . Joshua Barker , at Mirfield , Yorkshire , was broken into early on Friday morning , and was plundered of cloth of tho value of above 100 ? . Tho robber had out a hole in tho door , and unfastened it by putting his arm through . He went ho coolly to work that ho selected tho bent cloth on tho _establishment .
726 The Leader. [Saturday,
726 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
Two Girls, Of 17 Or 18 Years Of Age, On ...
Two girls , of 17 or 18 years of age , on _tlioir way to Nowc . _ihUo , wore _seeking for a night ' s _lodging in Loods between two and throe o ' clock on Friday morning , whoa they worn mot by two policemen , Pay no and Out liwu . it o , who _uskcd Two garotte robberies took place in Leeds on Sunday morning within a very short interval of time and space , and committed , to all appearances , by the same persons . They were found concealed under Homo loose hay in n field , _shortly after tho deed . One of the victims sustained _aovero injuries from blows about tho head and face , as well as from strangulation . Thomas Collins appeared again before Mr . Arnold on Tuesday . Several more charges were made against him , of having obtained portraits , and converted them into money , but on account of tho lapse of time lifter tho offences bad been committed , onlv one of them could bo maintained . A letter which be him written to obtain ono portrait contained tho following passage : — " Mr . Collins is much in want of a specimen of a lady ' s portrait , in liiHnew work of ' The Female Aristocracy of tlie reign of Queen Victoria . ' Mr . ( . ! . tried for the Nepauleso Ambassador , but was just too late when ho arrived from tho north , as his excellency sat elsewhere . " Jlo was remanded forunothcr week . At a meeting of tho Miirylobono Vestry , held on Saturday , a complaint , was made by Mr . Row , that ho hud up . plied at the workbouso to obtain admission for two girls , of the ages of eleven and thirteen years respectively , whoso parents had absconded . It was between ten and eleven o ' clock in Mie evening when he made the application . lie had great ; difficulty in getting thoin to open tho door ; ho could hoo neither the master nor tho matron , but sixpence -was sent , down to find the children a nig ht ' s _lodging . _Tlio chairman staled that a rigid enquiry should be made into the facts of the case .
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them if they had any money to pay for lodgings . One of the girls gave Outhwaite sixpence and some coppers , expecting that he would find them a lodging . The man , however , walked off , while his companion , Payne , " leathered " ' the girls away , as they expressed it . On complaint being made to the superintendent , the men were both discharged from their office , and were ordered to be taken before the magistrates . These facts being proved , the Mayor expressed great disgust at their offence , and sentenced them to ten days imprisonment in the House of Correction , regretting that he could not inflict a heavier punishment . The Mayor said he would make an order to assist the girls to proceed to Newcastle by railway . William Chappell _, a policeman employed by the North Western Railway Company , who was stationed at the north end of the Kilsby tunnel , near Rugby , when a collision took place some time ago , was tried at the Coventry assizes for the manslaughter of Thomas Williams . There is in use at this tunnel a special telegraph , by which the officers at each end signal to each other when a train has entered or left , and it is the duty of each to prevent another train entering , until the road is clear . In this case a luggage train had come into collision with a ballast train in the tunnel , and had caused the death of one man . The prisoner maintained that he had received the signal , " train out , " while the other policeman swore he had not given it . It was suggested that the apparent signal might have been caused by electricity , there having been a thunderstorm at the time . been found in the
Sound beams of mulberry wood have ruins of Nineveh . They are supposed to be upward of 2500 years old . A fire broke out on Saturday at the store-house of the South Eastern Railway Company at Ashford . The whole of the store-house , with all the property in it was destroyed . The loss is estimated at upwards of 16 , 000 ? . The thunderstorm of last Sunday evening was very severe at Barking in Essex . A considerable part of the church of St . Margaret was flooded with water , and one of the large pipes of the organ was struck down by the lightning . A girl in front of the organ was also struck , and her back and left side were seriously injured . Her clothes seemed as if they had been torn through with a hook .
Twenty-three passengers , who had taken their places in the Otillia , for Australia , were left behind at Liverpool last week , the ship having sailed a day sooner than they had expected . The agent sent them to Holyhead and put them on board a steamer which went in chase of the Otillia . She was sighted a long way off , running before a fine wind very fast ; the chase failed , and the unlucky passengers returned to Liverpool . The case was brought before the County Court , and the judge decided that the passengers could recover their passage money , with 6 ? . for compensation .
A boiler thirty feet long and five feet nine inches in diameter , exploded in a mill at Euxton , near Preston , on Friday week . The cause of the accident is quite unknown . The pressure was not excessive , the boiler had been in use but six months . Ono side of the building in which the boiler stood was open and abutted upon a river seven yards wide , with an interval of ten yards . The end of the boiler on this side was torn off and thrown into the river . Some portions of tho boiler and the building , as well as a Avheelbarrow which stood near , were carried a hundred and fifty yards . There were several persons sitting on a piece of timber on tho opposite side of the river , four of them were grievously injured , of whom two have died . A fire broke out on Saturday morning between nine and ten o ' clock , in Bromley , originating from a lucifer-match ignited by some children . It first caught a barn , and then extended to two timber buildings , cowsheds , and other erections . Mr . Pawley , tho owner of theso buildings , in endeavouring to rescue some of his property , was seriously burnt . The parish fire-engine , though the inhabitants crowded to tho spot to give their assistance , being of little avail , the only supply of water being n pond at a considerable distance , a messenger was despatched Lo London toobtain the assistance of the fire brigade . Mr . I _fonderson immediately started with a ( ire-engine , and arrived at Bromley , which is ten miles distant , in three-quarters of an hour . Still the engine could not be made very serviceable , but . tho firemen brought , tho fire under by pouring buckets of water upon it .
Health Of London During The Week. In Tho...
HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . In tho week that , ended last Saturday 912 deaths wore registered in tho metropolitan districts . In the week that ended 10 th July the mean temperature rose suddenly to _70-iP , which was eleven _decrees higher than it had been in the week preceding . Next week it declined to ( $ 7-. 'l _° ; mid last week it was ( if )" . In tho same three weeks the deaths have boon respectively 1080 , 1 ) 21 , 1 ) 12 . In tho corresponding weeks of tho ten years 1842-61 the average number of deaths was 1 () 1 (( , which , with a correction for increase of population during ( . bat . period , and up to the present time , becomes 1151 . Tho present return , therefore , shows a mortality less by 2 « _'H ) than tho estimated amount . Hut . notwithstanding tho mortality is still below the _average , it will bo seen that fatal sickness amongst children , so frenucnl . in London in the summer months , has increased exceedingly in tho lust week . Though the last two returns are nearly tho same as regards tho total number of deaths , they differ materially in the proportions assigned to particular onuses . In the previous week 48 persons , mostly < -liil < lrcn , sank under _diarrboMi ; last , week the number rose to 5 M > . The deaths by cholera have risen from 4 . to 1 O ; those by scurlutiria lrom !) 1 to 45 . . Katul eases produced by pneumonia have declined in tho same tirno from 4 . 5 to 20 ; those by disease of tho brain from 25 to 10 ; while those referred to enteritis havo _increased from 4 > to 11 ; those to _tlieeauo of tho livor from 7 to 14-.
Health Of London During The Week. In Tho...
BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 23 rd of May , in camp , Ahmednugger , the wife of Lion tenant James W . _Cottell , 26 th _Eeriment Bombay N . I .: gZz " On . the 22 nd inst ., at Dane-end , Herts , prematurely " tVi « io _«* " of H . E . Surtees , Esq . : a son , stillborn . * ' tueiady On the 23 rd inst ., at Upper Grosvenor-street , the wife of Dudley Coutts Majoribanks , Esq .: a son . On the 25 th inst ., at Chettle-lodge , Cranborne , Dorset tho wife of Captain Douglas Curry , K . N .: a son . ' On the 25 th inst ., at Glebe-cottage , King-street , Woolwich the wife of Dr . Burns , K . N ., Surgeon-Superintenden t of the Convict Establishment at Woolwich : a eon . MARRIAGES . , On , the 14 th inst ., at the British Protestant Chapel , Hightown , Boulogne-sur-Mer , Hooke Robinson , Esq ., son of the late Lucius Hooke Robinson , Esq ., one of the Gentlemen of Her Majesty ' s -Most Hon . Privy Chamber , to Mary Emma eldest daughter of George Alexander Kent Sloper , Esq . ' iest daughter ot _w-eorge Alexander itent eloper , Esq . On the 20 th inst ., at Plvmpton , St . Mary ' s , Devon , Henry J r allack , Esq ., Captain in Her Majesty s 77 th Regiment to Maria , third daughter of the late Captain James Polkinghorne _RJST . On the 22 nd inst ., at St . Mary ' s Church , Cheltenham , Aru ndell Calmady Hotchkys , Esq ., only son of C . H . Hotchkys " Esq ., of Cleverdon House , Devon , to Maria Louisa , youngest daughter of Admiral Sheridan . On the 22 nd inst ., at Clay gate , Surrey , Thomas Frederick Teo , Esq ., of Kingstown , county of Dublin , to Matilda , second daughter of Colonel Robert Dougla ? , C . B ., late Royal Artillery . On the 28 th inst ., at Hurstpierpoint , Sussex , John Tidier Esq ., of Hurstpierpoint , to Hamilton Dunbar , only daughter of Colonel Tovey , of 54 ., Cambridge-terrace , Hyde-park , London DEATHS . On the 22 nd of May , at Rio de Janeiro , of yellow fever Elizabeth , wife of John Gait , Esq ., and eldest daughter of the late George Mortimer , Esq . ; and , a few days after , then * infant daughter , aged nine months . On the 18 th inst ., at Dover , Mary , widow of the late Captain Henry Bazely , R . N ., aged 82 . Cn the 20 th inst ., at Woolwich-common , Anna Elizabeth , relict of the late Colonel John Cockburn , R . A ., in her 73 rd year . On the 20 th inst ., aged 50 , Charlotte , the wife of John Meares , Esq ., of Plas Llahstephan , Carmarthen , and eldest daughter of Sir John Owen , Bart ., M . P ., of Orielton , Pembroke . On the 23 rd inst ., William Robert Bigg , Esq ., Q . C ., of Oldsquare , Lincoln ' s-inn , aged 48 . On the 24 th ult , at Port-au-Prince , Hayti , W . K . Gretton , Esq ., H . B . M . Vice-Consul ; and on the 23 rd ult ., Annie , his wife , daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir Jolin P . Burgoyne . On the 26 th inst ., at Annan , N . B ., Mary Carruthers , relict of Thomas _Dickson , Esq ., London , and last survivin g daughter of the late John _Carruthers , Esq ., of Denbie , Dumfriesshire , N . B . Ou the 29 th insfc ., in Davies-street , Berkeley square , Sophia , widow of the late Thomas Chapman , Esq ., of Richmond , Surrey , in the 77 th year of her age . At New York , Mrs . Monroe , wife of Colonel Monroe , of Fanwood .
The Geeat Moral Want Of The Masses.—Now,...
The Geeat Moral Want of the Masses . —Now , of all qualities , which is the one men most need ? To the absence of what quality are popular distresses mainly attributable ? What is the quality in which the improvident masses are so deficient ? Self-restraint —the ability to sacrifice a small present gratification for a prospective great one . A labourer endowed with due self-restraint would never spend his Saturdaynight ' s wages at the public-house . Had he enough self-restraint , the artizan would not live up to hi s income during prosperous times , and leave the futur e unprovided for . More self- restraint would prevent im prudent marriages and the growth of a pauper popula " tion . And were there no drunkenness , no extrava " gance , no reckless multiplication , social miseries would " be trivial . —Social Statics .
Our Honourable Friend's " Principles . " —Our honourable friend being come into the presence of his constituents , and having professed with great suavity that he was delighted to see his good friend Tipkisson there , in his working dress—his good friend Tipkisson being an inveterato saddler , who always opposes him , and for whom he lias a mortal hatred—made them a brisk , ginger-beery sort of speech , in which he showed them how the dozen noblemen and gentlemen had ( in exactly ten days from their coming in ) exercised a surprisingly beneficial effect on the whole financial condition of Europe , hud altered the state of tho exports and imports for tho current half-year , had prevented the drain of gold , had made all that matter right about tho glut of the raw material , and bad restored all sorts of balances with which the superseded noblemen and gentlemen had played the deuce—and nil this , with wheat at so much a quarter , gold at so much an ounce , and tho Hank of England discounting good bills at so much per cent . ! Jlo might be asked , lie observed , in a _jwroraf _. ion of great power , what were his principles P His principles were what they always had been . His principles were written in the countenances of tho lion and unicorn ; wore stumped indelibly upon tho royal shield which those grand animals supported , and upon the freo words of fire which _tlrnt shield bore . His _principle were , Hridmniu and her sea-king trident ! _Jfis principles were , commercial prosperity eo-existently with perfect and profound agricultural contentment ; but short of this ho would never stop . His principles were , those , —with tlm addition of bis colours nuiled to tho mast ,, every man ' s heart in tho right placo , every nuui _« eyo open , every mini ' s hand ready , every man ' s mind on Mm alert . His principles were , these , concurrently with a general revision of something—speaking generall y— - and a possible rc-adjustmont of something _olae , to bo mentioned nioro particularly . — DicJcens ' s " Mousehold Words . "
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Leader (1850-1860), July 31, 1852, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_31071852/page/10/
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