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POSTSCRIPT. Satubday, April 12.
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took place on Monday , when the Right Honourable Edward Strutt , late member for Derby , was nominated , as was Mr . Geach , of Coventry . No speeches were made by the proposer or seconder of either candidate . The polling commenced on Tuesday morning , and was ke-pt rip until four o'clock , when the numbers were—Geach , 1669 ; Strutt , 1091 ; majority in favour of Mr . Geach ,
578 . . Mr . Rutherfurd has accepted nthe vacant seat on the Scottish bench , and the Solicitor-General , Mr . Moncreiff , succeeds him as Lord Advocate . This , of course , creates a vacancy in the parliamentary representation of the Leith district of burghs ; and the new Lord Advocate has presented himself to the constituency . It is not likely that there will be any opposition . The election is fixed for Monday next . The n omination of a member to serve for the western division of Somersetshire , in the room of the late Sir Alexander Hood , took place at Taunton , on Thursday , when Mr . W . G . P . Langton was elected without opposition .
The vacancy for Aylesbury , caused by the unseating of Mr . Calvort , for bribery , is contested by Mr . Ferrand , Protectionist , and Mr . Bethell , Free Trader . The nomination took place on Thursday , when the show of hands was in favour of Mr . Bethell . A meeting of three branches of the operative weavers employed in tickings , nankins , fustians , &c , was held on Saturday , in the neighbourhood of Manchester , to manifest their sympathy for the workpeople lately in the employ of Sir E . Armitage and Sons , who have completed the twenty eighth week of their strike . It appears that the operatives collect the sum of £ 169 weekly , of which £ 110 weekly goes to support the persons late in Sir E . Arrnitage ' 8 employ—350 in number . A regular procession of operatives from different districts was formed , and between 4000 and 5000 persons were collected together , who , having reached Pendleton , assembled in the open air . The language of the speeches was temperate and no breach of the peace took place .
A new trial in the case of Bainbrigge v . Bainbrigge , which has been so frequently before the public , was to have taken place at Stafford en Monday , but was prevented , to the great disappointment of a large audience , by an amicable arrangement . The terms , it is said , are , that the estate is to be valued and equally divided . The costs , which amount to about £ 20 , 000 , are to be borne by the respective parties . Samuel Harwood , one of the persons charged with the murder of the Reverend G . Holiest , but who was acquitted ,
was brought before the magistrates at Horsham , Sussex , on Monday , charged along with James Hamilton , one of the Uckfield burglars , with having broken into the dwelling-house of Mrs . Harriet Stoner , of Kirdford , Sussex , on the 4 th of June last , together with James Jpnes , Levi Harwood ( now under sentence of death for the Frimley murder ) , John Slones alias Smith ( transported for life for the Uckfield burglary ) , and John Isaacs . The inquiry was adjourned in order that the magistrates may consider whether they will accept Hamilton as an approver against Hurwood .
William Grey Smythe , forty-seven , surgeon , who was tried at the Central Criminal Court this week , upon several indictments , charging him with felonious assaults upon girls of tender age , was found guilty and sentenced to transportation for life . The trial of the Irish labourers , at Chester Assizes , charged with having taken a part in the Birkenhcad riots a few months ago , was brought to a close on Tuesday . Of the six prisoners three were sentenced to nine months' imprisonment , two to one year , and one was acquitted .
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Lieutenant Marchland , of the United States navy , has brought home with him from Java a living ;; pas tree , ho famous for its real and fanciful poisonous properties . By his assiduous care it was preserved alive during the long voyage , and a few days before its arrival at Norfolk , Virginia , leaves sprouted forth . It has been presented to t . e National Institute at Washington , and can be seen at the new observatory . It was once rumoured and believed that the poisonous diluvium of the tree was so fatal that birds flying over it dropped dead , and that all vegetables died under it and far around it . It is now ascertained that the juice only is poisonous . Into this juice the savages dip their arrows , which then have a double fatality . —New York Observer .
Professor Salomon , of Marrodsburgh , . Kentucky , has successfully applied the power of carbonic acid gas as a substitute for steam in propelling enginery for every purpose . The power of this gas h ; in long been known to chemists , but . their inability to regulate and govern it lias prevented its use as a propelling agent . Professor Salomon claims to he al > le to control it witli perfect safety , and averts that it will afford a power equal to Htemn in one -lilt icth of the upaee , and one-huudredth part of 111 * ' expense with both furnace and boilers . Kxperinifiits have recently been made in Cincinnati , which are said to be entirely ( satisfactory .- Nashville liainier . A correspondent of t he Noncoiijurmist Hpcaks of a remarkable female traveller who lias arrived in London : —
" She has distinguished herself by her extensive , travels in distant lands ; and , Htrange to Kay , she has gone iniuiens ' e distances without her companion , overcoming the greatest diflieultieM by her" unaided genius , and penetrating into the midst of what KuropeaiiH are pleased to eall 'the most , uncivilized nations , ' passing through them unscathed , without any other protection than her harmless deposition and her firm confidence in Providence . Mrs , 1 'feifi ' er iH a native of Vienna . During the earlier part of her life nl » e attended with exemplary devotion to the duties of a wife and mother . When her children had grown up to manhood , and gained an independence for themselves , hIic then thought herself justified in following a propensity which was in her ho powerfully at work , and which prompted
her to leave a comfortable home and many loving friends . She first directed her steps to Palestine and Egypt . After her return she visited Scandinavia and Iceland . Then she set out on a voyage round the world , landing in Brazil , surmounting the Parahyby , and penetrating through thick , primitive forests , _ to visit the aborigines at their own homes ; then ^ passing Cape Horn , touching at Valparaiso , she traversed the Pacific Ocean to Otaheite and China , Singapore and Ceylon , as far as Kandy ; wandering hence to
Bengal , Hindostan , and Delhi , turning her steps to the caves of Adjunta and Ellora , to Bombay . From that spot she sailed through the Arabian and Persian Sea to Bassora , followed the Tigris up to Bagdad , continuing to pass over an immense country to Babylon , Mosul , Nineveh , into Kurdistan , and Persia ' s second capital , Tabris . Pursuing her course over Tiflis , along the Caucasus , she embarked at Redoubt Kali for Constantinople and Greece , whence she returned to her native country . " _ ... _ . _ .....
A marriage has just been solemnized in St . Cuthbert ' s Church , Wells , which , on account of the disparity in the ages and circumstances of the bride and bridegroom , has caused a deal of gossip and considerable merriment in this city , especially among the fair daughters of our quiet citizens . The happy and fortunate bridegroom was a full private in her Majesty ' s Blues , in his twenty-fourth year , and the fascinating bride the owner of a china shop , a spinster " withering out her virgin thorn , " the shady side of seventy . The wedding party was accompanied to the altar by a large concourse of juveniles , who lustily cheered the procession as it returned . —Bristol Journal .
A singular scene took place in Wombwell ' s menagerie at Rochdale on Saturday . There were about 150 persons in the exhibition , and while one of the keepers was showing the lion cubs at one end of the place , there was a dreadful crash heard at the other end . A huge and savage-looking animal , called a South American tapir , had broken loose from its den , and walked majestically forth into the space assigned for the visitors . The people were terribly alarmed , and ran about in all directions . The other animals were much excited by the noise and consternation produced , and the whole place shook with the sounds which issued forth from bipeds and quadrupeds combined . The keepers at length succeeded in replacing the animal in his den without any accident .
The Falkirk Herald says , that on Saturday last , there was an extraordinary flight from the town of single ladies and gentlemen of a certain age , who all duly reappeared on Monday morn ing . A clothing firm in London the other day offered £ 850 for the outside end cover of the Exhibition Catalogue as an advertisement page ! The offer was refused , the charge , it is said , being £ 1000 . A machine for cleaning shoes has just now been discovered and patented by a Devonshire parson . It sets in motion two brushes , by one of which the dirt is removed , and by the other the blacking applied , being burnished up to a mirrow-like gloss . By this method a pair of shoes or boots can be cleaned in a few seconds .
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one . IIKALTH . OF LONDON DURING TUN WKKK . ( From the itegistrar-Cjieneral ' K Report . ) The last work has witnessed a great , improvement in the public health . The deaths in the metropolitan districts , which had ranged above 1400 in the hint three weeks of Mined , fell in the weekending last Saturday to 10 / 7 . ) . Hut . this is still a high rate of mortality , not only as compared with what prevails in country districts , under conditions more favourable to health , but also with that , which the population of London usually miller at .
thin period of the year . In none of the ten corresponding weeks of 1 H 1 I- / H ) , with the exception of that of 1 H / J 0 , did the number of deaths exceed I 02 K , while the average of the « e weeks was 5 ) 4 ( 5 , which , if a correction bo made for increase of population , will become UVA 2 . Compared with the latter estimated result , the deaths registered last week Hhow an inereane of ' 2 J . The cases in which the fatal cause is specified as influenza have now sensibly decreased ; the number in this return is 2 ' . i . . Limt week the births of HOH hoys and WL , ^ irln , in nil l />( 5 () children , were registered . The average , of six corresponding weeks in loir » - /> 0 was V . ili ' . i .
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The nomination of candidates for the representation of Enniskillen took place on Wednesday . Mr . Whiteside and Mr . Colhun , the two candidates , severally addressed the electors , Mr . Whiteside in a speech of some two hours in length ; and the polling was fixed for Friday . Mr . Colhun is an avowed supporter of the Anti-Papal Aggression Bill , and both candidates are decided Conservatives . The constituency numbers only 172 voters . The Limerick corporation have , by a division of seventeen to nine , rescinded the vote of censure on Mr . John O'Connell . Baron de Schocpping , the charge d ' affaires for Russia at Lisbon , has transmitted to Ireland ninety thousand pounds , to be laid out in the purchase of encumbered estates .
1 he Cork journals announce an epidemic amongst horses in that district , whicli is becoming almost as fatal as the malady which pi oved so destructive amongst cattle last year . Several cases of incendiarism have lately occurred in Ireland . Lust week a poor man was burnt to death in a house of which his father had just obtained possession from a tenant who emigrated to America . The house was discovered in the morning enveloped in flames , but the neighbours declined to render any assistance . A stable , containing five valuable cows and two horses — the property < if a respectable farmer residing near Sligo—was Ht't on fire a few nights since , and all the animals which it contained were reduced to ashes . This was also the work of incendiaries , and the scene of destruction is described as having been a heartrending
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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . The letter of G . H ., on " The Money Question , " will appear in our next . W . B . S . —Excessive length alone prevents the insertion . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter ; and when omitted it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . Communications should always be legibly written * and on one Bide of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty of finding space for them . AH letters for the Editor to be addressed 9 , Crane-court , Fleetstreet , London .
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By a strong muster of the Protectionist party , aided by a majority of the Irish Catholic members , Ministers were almost beaten last night . Mr . Disraeli made a clever , satirical speech , in which he showed up Sir Charles Wood , and ridiculed the blustering of certain weathercock metropolitan members in his happiest style , but he did not promote the cause of protection much by anything he said . He commenced by giving a humorous history of the Ministerial crisis , its origin , character , and consequences . Parliament had opened with an admission by Ministers of the existence
of agricultural distress , and a statement that they could do nothing to relieve it . Then came a long and grave discussion as to whether it was not the duty of Ministers , after the acknowledgment of such distress , to introduce some remedial measure . The proposition to that effect was negatived by a majority so small that " upon a subsequent occasion the Pirst Minister confessed that the result of the division shook the Government to its centre . The frightened Chancellor of the Exchequer , with a due sense of the warning given , brought forward a budget within forty-eight hours after that division in which were
included two measures to mitigate the distress of owners and occupiers of land . This was a step in the right direction . Ministers had first of all said that they could do nothing to relieve agricultural distress , but , finding the House strongly against them , they immediately came forward with , certain measures to mitigate that distress . Still , however , their Budget met with a most unfavourable reception , much worse , indeed , than he ( Mr . Disraeli ) thought it deserved . Among the friends of Ministers there was a general outcry throughout the country , and especially in the towns : —
" There is hardly any term of vituperation , any epithet of obloquy , which was not showered upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer . { Laughter . ) He was vilified , he waa denounced , he was described as the Jonah who ought to ) be thrown into the surging waves to save the perilled craft . ( Renewed laughter . ) This was the proposal of one of his most eloquent supporters . ( A laugh . ) Indeed , it was generally understood among all the members of the Liberal party that , though they were prepared to make any sacrifice to keep the Tories out of office , still the sine qud non of their adhesion to the present Ministry was that
the Chancellor of the -Exchequer should never appear again before the red box . ( Laughter . ) In the general discontent we might particularly recognise that which I would describe as the . metropolitan discontent—( hear , hear )—a peculiar outcry , which has its characteristics , which threatens a great deal , but which does very little ( a laugh )—which does not carry Reform Bills like Birmingham , or corn-law repeals like Manchester , but which always deports itself at a crisis in the most alarming manner ( laughter ) , which always commences by announcing that it will ' stop the supplies , ' and invariably ends by supporting the Minister . ( Cheers and laughter . )"
Its reception in the House was not much more favourable , although ho could not say that the country members had so much to say agatnst it ; indeed , one or two of them spoke rather favourably of " the boon to the agriculturists , " as seeming to involve tho concession of an important principle : — " As to its reception by the agricultural community , among the constituencies out of the House , I certainly should find great difficulty in selecting any terms of panegyric that were lavished upon it—( a laugh)—that even the Chancellor of the Exchequer could not have antioipated—( laughter )—but I think I may defy even the researches of the Treasury to bring forward any expressions of importance in its condemnation . " Then came tho Ministerial crisis , during which " public business wuh arrested and suspended for six weeks . Over that chuotic period , however , ho would throw a veil and proceed to describe tho reformed budget , which wuh at last brought forward , after almost convulsive efforts on tho part of Miniflte . iH to evade the exposition : — " Oreut expectations existed in the public mind , and in this Houhc too , that there would be considerable
alterations in the Bcheme of the MiiiiHtry ,. The gentlemen who hud described the Chancellor of the Exchequer us Jonah naturally felt some awkwardness in coming into this House to Hiipport tho same budget which they had thus cursorily denounced . ( Laughter and cheers ?) We waited in great expectation . ( Hear , hear . ) I grr * much credit to the right honourable gentleman that under the circumstanced ol the casu he mainl y adhered to the financial scheme which he ori ginally proposed ; it showed moral courage —(« laugh )—which both sideB appreciate . ( ' Hear , hear , ' and laughter . ) Hut what surprised me most wub that in the alterations that were made the
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POSTSCRIPT . Satubday , April 12 .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 12, 1851, page 342, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1878/page/10/
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