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found their way stopped by barricades , from behind which they were received with a volley of stones and some musket-shots . The lieutenant who commanded the gendarmerie was struck by a bullet , which broke his under jaw . The troops halted for an instant , loaded with ball , fired a volley at the assailants , charged , swept in an instant the barrier before them , and scattered the infuriated mob in all directions . The ffirant of the Presse , M . Neffzer , was condemned to a year of imprisonment , 2000 f . fine , and costs , on Monday . The destruction of the numbers seized was ordered , and the period of constraint , par corps , fixed at one year . The great commotion made by the mockmessage of the Presse at Lyons dictated this rigorous
. ... The electric telegraph , hitherto under the exclusive direction of the French Government , has been placed at the dispositionof private individuals . The law fixes thescale of charges for transmission of correspondence , and imposes severe penalties on any of its officers who shall violate the secrecy which it is requisite to maintain . All messages , except newspaper correspondence , must be signed and dated by the sender , and must , before transmission , be copied into a Government register . in th
A terrible accident befel the French ship Valmy , e passage from Torbay to Brest , on the 8 th inst . About five in the morning a terrific explosion was heard . ^ The shock was so great that all the lights were extinguished ; , complete darkness prevailed , and the crew were almost suffocated by the smoke of the powder . The men soon got the fire under , and then they began to see the extent of the damage . Twenty seamen , whose forms had lost all human appearance , were found amongst the ruins . Ten of them died in half an hour after , and few of the others are likely to live . The explosion was caused by a gunner having gone into the magazine with some boxes of fire-works , one of which exploded . storm of
Considerable damage was done in Paris by a wind on Monday night and the night previous . The Carousel and the quays were covered with slates blown from the roof of the Tuileries and the Louvre . A chimney was blown down in the Rue Sc . Avoir , and branches of trees torn away in the garden s of the Tuileries and the Champs Elysees . General Itadowitz , says the Deutsche Reform , has been replaced on the active list , and has received unlimited leave of absence for the purpose of informing himself of the latest progress made in England in matters connected with artillery and the building of iron bridges . Popular report ascribes to him a mission of a different character .
All the conductors of newspapers in Augsburgh were summoned to the presence of the city commissary last week , and informed of a resolution of the Ministry requiring them to print nothing relative to the military preparations going on , \ mder penalty not of mere confiscation of the offending numbers , but of total suppression of the journal . A letter from Sarajevo says that all Bosnia and the Herzegowina is in arms . Sarajevo lies under the guns of the entrenched camp of Goriizka , and trembles before him and the insurgents in the neighbourhood . The city , with its ( 30 , 000 inhabitants , its riches , and great commercial stores , is devoted to ruin , unless the deputation which is now gene to the insurgent camp can buy oif the attack . . _
A letter from St . Petersburgh , of the 8 th , contains an account of an attack on the . Russian fort of Tanadtschi , in the Caucasus , on the 6 th of the previous month , by a body of troops under the Naib Melkum , lladschab of Lezghia , and it states that they were three times repulsed , and eventually routed by the Russians under Prince SchanikofF . The Caucasians had , it is said , fifty-one men killed , and lost twenty horses and a great quantity of arms ; whilst the Russians had only eight wounded .
The splendid steam yacht called the Peterhoff , which was built in this country a few months since , expressly for the Emperor of Russia , and which excited so much admiration while lying in the river , has been entirely lost on its passage out to St . Petersburgh . It struck on the island of Oesel on the night of the 24 th ultimo , the master having unfortunately mistaken its light for that of Dago , which was more than thirty miles distant . As soon as they were seen from the land , three boats were despatched to their relief , and the weather favouring their exertions , the wreck was gained , and the whole of those on board were taken oil ' .
The accounts from China by the last overland mail bring alarming news of the progress of rebellion in the Celestial Empire . The insurgents were said to be getting the better of the Imperial troops . Numerous bands of robbers were plundering and burning throughout the provinces of Kaugsi and Canton , and , after the capture of the city of Kintschan , the insurgents had advanced to within one hundred anil twenty miles of Canton . The last American mail brings intelligence of active
Hostilities between the Ilaytiens and the Dominicans , i'he vanguard of Soulnuque ' s army , while descending the puss of IJoniea , was attacked , on the Oth ultimo , by 300 Dominican boons , and repulsed with great slaughter . 1 'Ue Kiuperor was thrown into a state of great excitement liy the report of the skirmish , and immi'tliiUely took the icld in person at the head of his stall' anil 100 of his ( iiiinls , Alluvtieu bri ^ -of-wnr , carrying 2 «"> 0 men , has ilso been captured by two Dominican gunboats , and iriie . il as a trophy into Macao roadstead .
adjoining parishes , was opened on Wednesday , in presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury , the Bishop of London , the Bishop of Winchester , and a large assemblage of magistrates , guardians , and others connected with the district . There are 180 boys , 200 girls , and 90 infants , all of whom were regaled on the occasion with a substantial dinner of roast beef and plum pudding . The establishment is strictly industrial , and no pauper officers or servants are allowed on the premises . The Solicitors of the ' * Woods and Forests " have received instructions to give the necessary parliamentary notices preparatory to the introduction of a bill to extinguish the right of the Crown to stock the New Forest , in Hampshire , with deer , and other wild beasts of the forest , and to empower her Majesty to enclose the several portions of the said forest . It is also intended to put an end to the several encroachments on the Crown lands
which have been so much complained of . The Law Times says : — " As yet we have heard of no appeal from the County Courts . This is extraordinary , seeing that the act has been in operation upwards of three months . It would appear from this that the suitors are more satisfied with the law dispensed to them in these courts than we lawyers have supposed . " The military departments have been called upon for estimates of the probable charge for the year ending March 31 , 1852 . These are to be prepared with the most rigid economy , retrenching every expence not indispensably required for the public service . m m d last week in aid of
Among the subscriptions receive the funds of the National Public School Association is one of £ 5 from Viscount Goderich . His lordship says , " I shall be too happy to renew it annually , until our efforts are no longer needed , through the carrying out of the object of the Association . " He also asks for a supply of explanatory papers for distribution among his friends . Henceforward all newsvenders will be allowed to print upon the covers of all newspapers and stamped periodicals which they may send by post , the title or name of such newspaper or periodical , and also their own names and addresses . No writing or printing of any description whatsoever , either on the outer or inner side of the wrapper , except that above-mentioned , and the name and address of the party for whom the newswaper or periodical may be intendedwill be permitted .
, A histrionic club for members of the two universities is in course of formation , by whom it is proposed to give a series of six performances every season at the St . James ' s , or some other theatre at the West-end . The first essays of the members are to be made in the coming winter . The population of the Hebrides are again reported to be in a state of famine . In Long Island the failure of the potato crop is as extensive and complete this year as in any season since 1846 , the oats are " almost a total failure , and the bere crops inferior to those of last year . The sheriff states , as his deliberate opinion , that " the population of the Long Island are almost in all respects in a worse state than they were in 1846 , when the potato disease bejran . " The condition of Skye and other islands is said to be nearly similar to that of Long
Island . . The vessel Lancefieltl of London , which arrived in the Clyde on Saturday from St . Ube ' s , spoke the barque Emerald , bound for London from Cadiz , on the 3 rd instant . The latter ship had on board the master of a Portuguese vessel , who had been picked up when floating on a bundle of corkwood , about twenty miles from land . He had been on this precarious raft for three days and nights , and during the whole of that period was destitute of food or fresh water . The first delivery of ice this season took place on Friday week , several cartloads of ice , nearly half an inch in thickness , having been delivered on that day at the shop of a fishmonger in Bond-street . of
A remarkable incident , illustrative of the caprice fortune , occurred on Saturday last , at Gloucester-place , Kentish * town . A distraint had been levied on the premises by the landlord , for arrears of rent , to the amount of £ 80 , for which sum the whole of the household furniture had been placed in two vans , preparatory to removal , with the exception of a chest of drawers , of antique appearance , which had been left to the last from , mere accident , when , on looking into one of the drawers , a small paper parcel was discovered , which , on being opened , was found to contain no less a sum than 114 old guineas , of the reign of George III . It is hardly necessary to add that the claim was soon discharged , and the furniture returned to its former position .
The vicinity of Montreal has been visited by one of hose annual storms from the east which e imo with the uluiuti . It hcjran on Saturday , the -Oth ultimo , nnd jiitinued lo rain furiously , with heavy gules of wind , nt . il Sunday evening , when a shift of wind lo the north LJiivt-rted the falling rain into snow , wliie . h covered the round u > the depth of two im : lua with a Ik-coy coat , and jvert'd the waters with ice . Tho Industrial School at Annerley , for the pauper lildrcu of the parish of St . Luke , Chelsea , and several
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cutting , dipping , and packing business . The property formed two sides of the square , and stretched across the entire length of the public road . It was nearly eleven before the fire was extinguished , and by that time the whole of the property in which it originated was destroyed , and the adjoining buildings severely damaged . None of the property destroyed was insured . Shortly after midnight on Monday morning a fire was discovered to have broken out in Portman Chapel , situate in Baker-street , Portnjan-square . The chapel had been heated on Sunday in the usual way , and after
the congregation had dispersed in the evening , the place was apparently perfectly safe . It was , however , found out that the heat of the furnace had set fire to some of the joistings and flooring in the furnace-room , on the ground floor , and the flames were quickly spreading when the fire engines of the parish and London Brigade attended . The firemen at once set to work , and , by taking up the flags in that part of the building , they were enabled to reach the exact seat of the fire ; but they were unable to get the flames extinguished until some of the joistings and flooring were destroyed in the furnaceroom , and a quantity of wine in bottles damaged in the cellar under the chapel , by breakage and hasty removal .
The fire at Bermondsey , on Saturday morning , has caused a loss of from £ 20 , 000 to £ 25 , 000 to Messrs . Eason , tanners and leather-dressers , which is nearly double the whole of their insurance . It is suspected that the fire was the work of an incendiary . Several hands were discharged some months ago , and the firm , had lately received various threatening letters . Another colliery explosion took place near Stone
Clough , seven miles from Manchester , on Friday morning . Two mere were killed , and one man and one boy severely injured . The explosion arose from the carelessness of one of the men , who went without a safetylamp . A fearful collision took place on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway , on Friday week , near the Huddersfield Junction , by which , although fortunately no lives have been , lost or much personal injury sustained , an immense amount of damage has been done to the stock of the company , three engines being destroyed and a train of carriages knocked to pieces . An alarming accident occurred on Wednesday the 13 th , at a quarter before three o ' clock , on the Eastern Counties Railway branch between Wymondham and Fakenham . The twenty minutes past two p . m .,
passenger train from Fakenham to Wymondham was run into with a fearful crash by a goods train from Norwich , near Ellman station . As there is only one line of rails there was no means of escaping but by the slip , which the engine just reached in time to clear itself . The carriages were smashed in and all thrown off the line , and the last carriage of the passenger train was thrown athwart the line and the goods train engine . Most of the passengers were more or less bruised or injured , but happily no lives were lost . It appears all the blame is to be attributed to the engineer of the goods train , who , it is said , passed the Ellman station at the rate of twenty-five miles an hour . At half-past four o ' clock a special engine , with luggage van attached , was despatched from Wymondham station to raise the carriages and clear the line .
The ancient and beautiful church of Cockermouth was destroyed by fire on Friday week . The fire broke out about two o ' clock in the morning , and although the utmost exertions were made to stop its progress , the edifice was reduced to a heap of ruins . Mr . Constable , a master painter , residing at Penshurst , was approaching the South-Eastern Railway station , on Friday , with the intention of proceeding to London , and , when within a short distance , seeing the train was at the station , he began to run , hoping to be in time . On entering the booking-office , however , he staggered into the arms of the station-master , faintly asked for a glass of water , and instantly expired .
The gentleman who was found dead in a cab last week , under suspicious circumstances , turns out to have been a Mr . Symes , lately practising as a surgeon in Hungerford . A gentleman of his acquaintance had accompanied him to London on the 9 th instant , and parted with him in the Regent-circus that evening , in good spirits and quite sober . His death took place on the morning of the 12 th , and appeared to have been produced by taking prussic acid . Mr . E . It . Hawkins , in a letter to the Times , states that , as he was crossing the Green-Park on Saturday evening about eight o ' clock , a man rushed from behind a tree , and stabbed him in the thigh . He attempted to close with his assailant , but the ruffian ran away . Mr . Hawkins complains that there were no police near .
Two boys quarrelled at Ness , in Cheshire , the other day , when one threw a stone which struck the other behind the ear . He fell , was conveyed home , and , after lingering a few days , died of concussion of the brain . A verdict of * ' Manslaughter " has been returned against the assailant . In the Court of Queen ' s Bench , on Monday , the Solicitor-General said he was instructed to move , on the part of Mr . David Paciflco ( Lord Palmerston ' s prot <'(/< i ) , for a rule , calling upon the printer and publisher of the Mornhu ; Herald to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against them for a libel published in the Morning Herald on the 13 th of March last . the Herald
The eldest son of Major Ashtnore , of her Majesty ' s Sixteenth Regiment , was running down stairs at an hotel at IJoun , one day last week , and unfortunately fell over the balustrades upon his head , a height of about forty or fifty feet , and was killed on the spot . The landlady of the hotel happened to see the body without previous knowledge of any accident having taken place , and was so shocked that she fell down by the child ' s body and instantly died ! A melancholy accident occurred at the works in Hydepark , on Tuesday afternoon . It appears that as a painter was engaged in painting one of the iron girders at the top of the bin hi in a at the eastern end , the girder broke , and
fell with him to tho scaffold underneath , on u'hich several carpenters and labourers were at work , carrying it and one of the carpenters and a labourer to the ground . The unfortunate men were immediately picked up , placed on stretchers , and conveyed lo St . George ' s Hospital , where , on examination , it was found that the painter was dead . Tho carpenter ami labourer were still alive , although extensively injured . A lire broke out in the premises of Mr . Tlynam , chemical light manufacturer , situate in Princes-square , Princes-street , Finsbury , on Thursday night , between eight aud nine o ' clock . The premises were of great extent , nnd comprised sundry compartments for the
The libel consisted of a letter from ' s Athenian correspondent , retailing some current scandals respecting Pacifico's daughters . The rule was granted . The persons charged with the late robbery of plate in the Strand were broughtup atBow-street , on Wednesday , for further examination . The chief object of Mr . Humphries , who conducted the prosecution , was to show that a close connection had existed for some time between the prisoners Shaw and Badcock , and Clinton , the errand boy . lie stated also that it was the impression of the prosecutors that Kelly was entirely innocent . The latter was then discharged , nnd the others were remanded until Saturday ( this day ) .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 23, 1850, page 824, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1860/page/8/
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