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fully , and its prayer , for reference to the Foreign Affairs Committee , complied with . By the latest accounts from the United States , it appears an anticipated insurrection of the slaves in the state of Virginia , was causing some apprehension to the citizens of that district . Upwards of 600 slaves belonging to different plantations are said to be implicated . The whole of the South American Republics seem to be in a state of excitement and conflict , which in many instances borders upon anarchy . News from Honduras jconfirms the account of hostilities between Guatemala and San Salvador , and several skirmishes have taken place between the troops of the respective States . Th « reported cause of difficulty was the blockade of the port of San Salvador by the British » quadron on the Paeifle coast .
A Canada pa per , speaking of the mining operation * on Lake Superior , says that vestiges of apparently very ancient mining operations continue to be wet with , and in greater numbers and extent than any previously discovered . The age of these traces is supposed to be at least 2000 years ; but their connection wit& a particular race has not been ascertained . There are indications , however , that the copper was carried off from the mines by way of St . Mary River and the lakes . The excavations found are , in some cases , such as could only have been effected by years of labour , and they have very much facilitated the miners , as well as pointed them to the best locations .
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The Lords of the Treasury have sanctioned the transmission of printed books by post to the colonies in the West Indies , Newfoundland , Gibraltar , Malta , and Hong Kong , at very low rates ; and as soon as the concurrence of the several colonial governments can be obtained , it is intended to extend the benefits of the measure to all our colonies . The regulations under which the transmission may be effected are as follows : On and after the 1 st of March next , any book may be sent from the United Kingdom to the above-named colonies , and vice versa , at the following rates , viz , : —Not exceeding half a lb . in weight , 6 d . ; not exceeding 1 lb ., Is . ; not exceeding 2 lb ., 2 s . ; and so on in proportion . "Each parcel must consist of a single volume only ; it must be
sent open at the ends like a newspaper , and must not contain any writing either within or without the wrapper with the exception of the address . They must be prepaid , if sent from the United Kingdom , by affixing a sufficient number of stamps , and from a colony , the prepayment to be made in money . Several meetings in favour of the abolition of the window duty have been held this week in the metropolis and elsewhere . On Thursday evening an aggregate meeting of representatives of the several parishes comprised in the City and Liberty of Westminster was held at the vestry room of St . James ' s , Piccadilly , when Lord Duncan stated his intention to renew his motion for the total and immediate abolition of this obnoxious tax .
A few additional appointments to clerkships on the census have been made under the patronage of the Treasury . There were , it is said , upon this occasion upwards of 1000 unsuccessful applicants . The larger number of appointments remains in reserve , until the census has been actually taken , when a staff of about sixty clerks will be set to work on the statistical calculations necessary to be made . A deputation waited by appointment at the Home Office on Sir George Grey , on Thursday , to present a memorial to the Queen for the amendment of the patent laws , signed by oOO of the skilled mechanics of Lambeth . A deputation from the Society for the Suppression of Vice had an interview with Sir George Grey , on Monday , at the Home-office , on the subjects of " lodgingh ouses" and " penny theatres . "
An aggregate meeting of representatives of the several metropolitan parishes in the county of Surrey took place on Tuesday evening at the vestry room of St . George ' s , Southwark , " to consider the best means of promoting the movement in favour of county financial boards . " Resolutions were passed pledging the parish officers present to use their best endeavours to promote the movement in their respective parishes , by vcatry meetings and by petitioning Parliament . The Morning Advertiser says , "It is intended , soon after the meeting of Parliament , to introduce an l' ] ncumbered Estates Act for Scotland . "
The eighth party of emigrants , for whom the means of effecting a passage to the colonies ban been provided , embarked in the ship Stately , for New Zealand , on Tuesday . It consisted of thirty-two young women , who have been rescued from starving to death , or something worse , ut home , and Heat , to a country where they will be able to live by their labour . A matron , ( insisted by four Hiib-matronw , has the entire charge of the young women , who will be kept wholly separate , from the Other passengers .
The legality of carrying passengers on a " longitudinal aeat upon the roofs of omnibuses " was decided last , work jit the Middlesex Sessions , in a case entitled " Sophia Gay wood versus a conviction of Mr . Henry . " Numerous witnesses were examined , and the court was full of anxious jarvies and their employers . The conviction was quauhed . Mr . Phillips gave one of a scries of public " demonstrations " of the . power of his firoannihilator to extinguish fires in ships on Wednesday . The first exhibition took place at two o ' clock , the . second at . four , and both
were well attended . The Wear , of l /> 0 tonu , won the VfHsel experimented Upon . Ilesidi-s the crowds of spectators collected upon the Jtluckwull Railway pier , a great nuiiibi r of persons assembled on board to witneua the working and effects of Mr . Philli p *' ** apparatus . Thi « id uy be considered no small proof of confidence in his invention , when it ia remembered that the orders by which visitors were admitted Ntated thut the " nut inhold of the vessel wau filled with nugur hogsheads , tar and turpentine barrula , sulpetro bags , and other highly combustible matter . " The machines were placed in the
hands pf common sailors , who having placed them as near as possible to the hold , whence flames were shooting upwards , struck the pin by which the charge was ignited , and thus discharged the vapour , which , according to promise , speedily extinguished the fire . Presence of mind is all that would seem to be required to work an engine , which , properly applied , must always be successful . The members of the Yarborough Lodge of Freemasons , meeting at the . George Tavern , Commercial-road , now one of the most influential lodges in London , gave a full dress Masonic ball and supper at the London Tavern , on Tuesday evening week , in aid of the funds of the Royal Freemasons' School for girls , which was numerously attended , and by the excellent management of the worshipful master , his officers , and the stewards , the comfort friends
and pleasure of the members and their were duly cared for , and a very pleasant evening spent . In the Court of Common Pleas , on Tuesday , an action of ejectment was brought by order of the Court of Chancery to recover certain estates in the eounty of Stafford , worth about £ 80 , 000 , and the cause turned unon whether a will dated the 18 th of June , 1818 , was executed by Thomas Bainbrigge , the testator , whilst he was in a saae state of mind . The case was tried at the last assizes for the county of Stafford , when it was decided that the will was not valid . Last Michaelmas Term , however , a rule was obtained which called upoa the plaintiff to show cause why this verdict should not be set aside , and a new trial had , upon the ground that the verdict was against the evidence . The facts of the case having been already given in the Leader , it is unnecessary to repeat them . After hearing the arguments the rule was made absolute ,
on payment of costs . In a cause tried in the Court of Exchequer last week , it came out that the Reverend Mr . Bereaford , formerly rector of St . Andrew ' s , Holborn , sold the o ce o parish clerk for the sum of nearly £ 500 . All the judges , with the exception of Mr . Baron Platt , were occupied on Saturday , in the Exchequer Chamber , with the case of Bird and his wife , now in prison for an assault on their female servant , and who had appealed from a second trial . The matter had before been submitted to the five judges sitting as a Court under a recent statute , to consider cases reserved from the criminal courts , but those judges not agreeing , it was referred to the fifteen judges . The arguments of counsel were heard at great length , and the judges reserved their decision .
At the last Middlesex Sessions Mr . John Goldsmid was tried , before Mr . Sergeant Adams , for an assault alleged to have been committed on George Tideman , an excise officer , and after a trial which occupied a considerable time found guilty , and sentenced to an imprisonment of three months . Since then Mr . Hoggins , who was said to have committed the assault , has come forward to take upon himself the responsibility , and to relieve Mr . Goldsmid from the imputation against him . The statement of Mr . Hoggins having been reduced to a declaration on oath , was forwarded to the Home Secretary , and the result was that within half an hour of the presentation of the document Mr . ' . dsmid was liberated from custody with a free pardon , the pardoning being , of course , a mere form , but necessarily arising from the fact that the verdict of the jury was " guilty . "
A public meeting was held at the Odd Fellows' Hal ) , Pocklington , on Saturday , to take steps relative to the present state of agriculture . The room , which will hold about 500 , seemed to be full , and principally of those connected with agriculture . The chief personage on the occasion was Mr . Busfeild Ferrand , who was announced in the advertisement as one who would take part in the proceedings ; and as this was the first time he has addressed the farmers of this part of the . East Riding , expectation seemed to run very high , and he was met at the railway station , where he was hailed with cheers , and then escorted into the town . The Honourable A .
Duncombe , M . P ., Mr . C . A . Darley , Mr . R . Denison , of Waplington , Mr . Jonathan Harrison , and other gentlemen , were present . Mr . Ferrand having been heard at great length and with much cheering , the meeting adopted a petition for the revision of the present tariff . The National Independent Order of Oddfellows in Manchester , being convinced of the paramount necessity of education , and conceiving that there is no present prospect of any public measure on the subject , have determined to open a school to provide for the instruction of the orphan children of the Manchester district ,
which shall be conducted on purely Hecular principles In order to carry out this object , they have taken a room in Faulkner street , Manchester , and engaged as schoolmaster a gentleman named Shield , from London . At the City Mechanics' Institution , Gould-square ^ on Monday lust , Mr . ( Juliet gave his lecture , entitled " Music of the Seasons , " usaisted by Miss A . Hincka , to h full room . The favourite piecea of the evening were Mr . Collet ' s recitation of Tennyson ' s poem , " The . Death of the May Queen , " imd Miss A . llincks ' s two aongn , 14 The Maypole" and " A Wealthy Lord , " which were encored .
On Monday last . Messrs . J . Harper and F . J \ Nichols guve an entertainment at the Union hull , Artillery-street , Bishopsgatc . It , coimisted of a careful selection of recitations , and Gilbert A'Beckel . t ' n farce of the Man witlt the i ' arpet Ituij . Mr . Upton's careful rending of a passage ft urn I'arailitk Lost , uml the grotesque humour displayed by Mr . Harper iu his recitations , gave great satisfaction to a nmnerouH audience . Mr . F . 1 ' . . Nichols , as Sergeant ltu / . fuz , pleaded with great ability against the unfortunate Pickwick . Mr . F . O . Butler's imitations of London performers were easily recognized by the audience . 'Jin- object of this entertainment wuh to promote the establishment of a Society for instruction and practice in Klocution , by meant * of recitulioiiH and o . i iti < ism , to be held ut Finubury Hull , Oti , Buuhill-row , St . Luke ' s . It is to be under the management of Messrs . J Harper and F . P . Nichols .
A man , with «¦ fine intellectual « ounten&nee , wfeo a * ve his name Iacchimo GuicioU , and stated himself to be a natural son of the late Lpr < j Byron , was brought un at Marylebone , on Saturday , very nearly in puritnaturalibus and shivering from head to foot , charged with being drunk . He told tbe magistrate he had but just returned from the Arehipelago , and had fallen in with some land sharks , who had stripped him of all his worldly wealth and worldly garments likewise . The magistrate dismissed the
case . During the performance of Dick Turpin ' s Hide to York at Cook ' s equestrian amphitheatre , at Windsor , one nignt last week , the mimie highwayman , in discharging a pistol at Tom King , not only killed his colleague theatrically but severely wounded the drum-major of the Coldstream Guards , who was present as one of the audience ia the pit . A portion of the wadding entered his right eye causing much pain and resulting ia the complete lesa of the sight o € that eye , and serious injury to the remaining
one . Ann Clark , residing in Maryport , the wife of a seaman who has beea at sea for three or four months , was found last Monday , lying on the floor of the cellar where she lived quite dead , with a towel tightly twisted over her head and under her chin . From a pott mortem exatnf * nation of the body it has been concluded that she could not have put an end to her owa life . A verdiet of " Wilful Murder" has been found by the eoroser ' s inquest . The workhoase of the Hartismere Union , which has for some time been filled to overflowing with able-bodied paupers , was , oh Wednesday last , the scene of an alarming riot . For a week or ten days before a large body of the out-door applicants had been employed pieking oakum , Sir John Walsh am having recommended that as
a labour test , but , as the system proved totally inefficient for the proposed purpose , the guardians resolve d upon its abandonment , and on Tuesday last they gave notice to the men to that effect . On the following day a large body of men , armed with large sticks , made their appearance at the gate and demanded admittance , and before the gdvernor eould get down to the gate it was broken in , the vails sealed , and the house in the possession of the mob , who at once began to demolish the windows and commit other depredations . The principal inhabitants went to the assistance of the authorities , and soon captured the ringleaders , seven of whom have been committed to Ipswich gaol for various terms of imprisonment . Another body of rioter * assembled oa Thursday , with the apparent intention of a second attack ; but , finding the authorities well supported , peaceably dispersed . —Bury Post .
The Glasgow Daily Mail contains an account of a clergyman , the pastor of the Levern . ehureh , at Barrhead , having been convicted in the penalty of £ 20 for poaching on Sunday . The reverend gentleman had set a snare , and taken some game upon the estate of the Earl of Glasgow . The public prosecutor requested that the penalty might be mitigated to £ 10 ; but the Provost of Paisley , where the ease was heard , refused to entertain the application . In the hyperborean village of Shieldaig , on the western shore of Scotland , a lady appeared the other morning whose visit is likely to throw the sea serpent into the
shade . It appears that a number of women had risen , pretty early , as their custom is , to go for fuel to the Gascan , when the attention of one was attracted by a number of seamews which were hovering and screaming near the church . On a further inspection she discovered a lady sitting on the rock , with a comb and glass in her hand , singing one of her madrigals in a plaintive voice , and duly pointed her out to the others , who all maintain that they saw the strange apparition . The probability is that this mermaid was one of the Razaay white seals , which are known to sit frequently on roek 8 during night , uttering plaintive sounds ; but so superstitious are the fishers that not a single boat has put to sea since . — Glasgow Paper .
Some months since two ladies and a gentleman , Germans . applied to Mr . Laws , the resident agent at Springwell Colliery , near Newcastle , for permi 8 » ion to go down one of the pits and inspect the method of working the coal . He very readily acquiesced in their wishes , provided them with proper clothing for their subterranean excursion , and descended the shaft with them , and showed them through the streets and alleys of his underground dominions . Having hospitably entertained them at his houne , he then dismissed them , highly gratified with what th « -y had Been . At Christmas he was
agreeably surprised by the receipt of a letter from Count Groeben , chamberlain to the King of Prussia , recalling the circumstance to his recollection , thanking him for his polite attention , and informing him that ho was one of the di « tinguinhed visitors , and the others were the Princess Leignitz , widow of his late Majesty the King of Prussia , travelling incog ., under the name of Counted Wilknn , and a lady of her suite . The Count further informed Mr . Laws that her Majesty had sent two fruit basketh of Bohemian glu » a as a present to his lady , »« ! l souwnir of their visit to Sprinurwcll . — lienoick Warder .
It appears byalHter froiu Mr , John O'Connoll , M . I iu WedmscUy « Dublin Vreenumy that the ooutei" ! ' !* ' * - ' ' meeting of Irish Rouiau Catholic Memhirapf Parliament in Dublin , previous to the opening of the sessioni wu ' IU ) t be held . Mr . O'ComicII « tat « n that 41 several M . P- » have sent iu mes « iagfB to the effect that tb-ey ( i «< l theinsthe « unable to attend us they had proposed , but that ot cuman they will be ut th <; ir m > stt » in Parliament . " In the Court of Queen ' s Bunch , Dublin , Iwit Saturday , the Chief JuHtioe | , ouk occuuiou to observe th * t he ** several gentlemen wearing coloured w * Utttc" * t a > RI appearing d res nod in a nmim « r which *»«» not » uit » hl « to the profrwsioM , and he hppe < 4 he wou ) d not be obliged t ( J auvvrt to the subject vgain . Judge CramptO 11 * * * that th * wearing of blat'fc haodkerchiefa wfej" ' « <\ waf wrtainly wot in *» por 4 w »« ii « M » tb # W <* f *** ** oostuin * which barrUtars ought ( 0 » PPf ** »» -
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 1, 1851, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1868/page/8/
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