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the door found hot smoke pouring up the staircase ; in great fright she ran to the back window , threw up the saeh , and leaped out , without waiting a moment . She fell upon the glass skylight over the kitchen of the White Hart Tavern , in Botolph-lane , and remained there , the flames gradually approaching her , until extricated by Joel King and Ihomas Howard . She was taken at once to Guy s Hospital , dreadfully injured . The persons living on either side of the premises
assert that they heard loud and fearful screams in the building , that a man appeared at the third floor window and begged of some one to go and procure a ladder , and immediately afterwards disappeared . A man named Hart , living at Mr ? . Blundell ' s , next door , then went on to the roof , and having opened the trapdoor called loudly to the persons within to make for that part of the building , but not receiving an answer he imagined that probably they had made their escape from one of the lower windows .
Ultimately the fire was in some measure extinquished , and its progress stayed . Mr . Braidwood gave directions for several lengths of scaling ladders to be attached , and some of the firemen to search the upper rooms . Upon their so doing they beheld a most frightful scene . The lifeless bodies of four human beings were discovered , three in the attics and one on the second floor . They were all shockingly burnt and disfigured . At present it is not known how the fire originated . Besides the fire in Love-lane , a house and all the property contained therein were burnt , and two others injured , on Tuesday morning , at Stoke Newington . The flames commenced in one of the bed-rooms , owing to a young woman approaching too near the
bed curtains wiih a lighted candle in her hand . The drapery suspended to the bedstead immediately ignited , when the poor creature made a vigorous attempt to subdue the flames , by tearing the blazing material down . In so doing she caused her dress to take fire , and before the flames could be subdued she was fearfully burned over both hands . Being obliged to rush out of the room , the flames , unrestrained , extended with unusual swiftness , and it was with great difficulty that the other inmates were enabled to effect a safe retreat-as it was they were nearly suffocated . The engines were quickly on the spot , and the extension of the fire was stayed . Unfortunately neither the house nor the property of the principal eufferer , Mr . Donoghue , were not
insured . Pontifex is a name known in every town in England . On Wednesday night , Mr . Lamplough , chemist , of No . 88 , Snow-hill , whilst looking out of one of his bedroom windows , perceived an unusual glare of light in the premises of Messrs . Tontifex , in Shoelaue , accompanied by a dense volume of smoke rolling towards the roof of the market . He immediately proceeded to the spot , calling , as he went along , the engines in Farrin ^ don-streot . Forthwith the various engines of the Brigade , West of England Company , of
and the parish were despatched to the scene danger . The fiiemen then found that the conflagration was raging in the premises used us the lead casting shop , and the brass castiag departments . A plentiful supply of water having been procured from the New Itiver mains , the engines were called into operation , and powerful . streams of water were scattered over the blazing pile , but it wus nearly midnight before the flames could be conquered , and not until the lead and brnSH casting whops were nearly burned out , and tlio contents destroyed . The origin of the lire is unknown .
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E P S O M 11 A C E S . The races commenced on Tuesday under very favourable auspici h , the weather being charming , and the attemiu 2 i < : e unusually large . There were five races ran on the first day ; the Woodc-ote Stakes being the sporting feature , cleverly won by Mr . ( Mark ' s JKlcot , own brother to Marlborough Huck , one of tin ; Derby favourites . The result of fhiH race improved the feeling in favour of the "Buck" for the great event . A good ^ day ' H sport was brought to a close shortly after five o ' clock . In point of weather the seventy-second anniversary of tbii Derby-the Exposition Derby—wa « remarkably fortunate ; a . shower of rain fell early in the morning , enough to lay the dust , but neither heavy enough nor long enough to have any effect on the courne which wiih anything but favourable for horses
with doubtful feet . We may as well state at once that in point of racing , thia Derby was inferior to many of it « predcc : esHorH , Not particularizing the leaner races , the grcut prize w iih curried off with comparative ease ; the impri'Hsion everywhere prevailing that the bust ] ior » e won the nice . Thirty-three homes started , a gnat ( r number than any previous year cun whow . We annex the oflicial account of the race : —
! ho Derby Stakes of rtO hovh . each , h . ft ., for threeyear <> 1 i 1 h ; coltH , Hst . 71 b . ; fillien , « at . 21 b . ; th « M-cond to receive ; 100 hovh ., and the winner to pay 100 hovh . towards the police rrgulutionH of the course , and f ><) hovh . to the judge . One mile and a-hulf on the new courne . 102 Hubs .
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Sir J . Hawley ' s Teddington . ( J . Marson ) Mr . C . Clark ' s Maryborough Buck ( G . Whitehouse ) 2 Mr . Wilkinson ' 8 Neasham ( J . Holmes ) • « Lord Enfield ' s Hernandez ( S . Mann ) * Betting-3 to 1 agst Teddington , 7 to 2 agst Marlborough Buck , 7 to 1 agst Hernandez , 7 to 1 agst Prime Minister , 15 to 1 agst Constellation , 15 to 1 agst Theseus , 15 to 1 agst Neasham , 22 to 1 agst Black Doctor , 30 to 1 agst Lamartine , 30 to 1 agst Hippolitus , 40 to 1 agst Bonnie Dundee , 50 to 1 agst Ariosto , and 1000 to 15 agst any other . with
Buckhound took the lead from the post , and the Enterprise colt in his wake , the latter , waited on by Teddington , Constellation , Neasham , and Ariosto , led the way nearly to the top of the hill , the running being then taken from him by the Enterprise colt , Teddington following Buckhound , in company with Neasham and Ariosto , next to the latter lying Constellation , Heartbreaker , the Marlborough Buck , and Lord Eglinton ' s two . This order lasted only to the mile post . Teddington then quitting his horses and going on with a decided lead , the Enterprise colt and Buckhound giving way to Hernandez , the Marlborough Buck , Neasham , and Ariosto , to which lot the race , after making the turnwas confined . Marlborough Buck took the
, second place at the road , and held it to the distance , where Neasham went up , and by sufferance got within a neck and shoulder of the favourite , by whom , however , he was very speedily disposed ot . The Marlborough Buck and Hernandez were thus left within half a length of the favourite , who , having had the race in hand from the time he took up the running , left them without an effort , and won in a canter by two lengths , the Marlborough Buck beating Neasham by a length—Hernandez ,-who would have been third but for a disappointment opposite the Stand , finishing a neck from the latter . Prune Minister was fifth , and Theseus , Ariosto , and
Lamartine well up . Run in 2 min . and 51 sec . Being Exposition year , everything has been attended by a happy fortune . The weather on Wednesday was warm without being sultry , the atmosphere harmonizing with the sport of the day . The assemblage was unusually brilliant , and in numbers passed all computation . We have , however , to state , by way of diawback , that numbers of " fast ithe
men" on the road and the course , engaged n gentlemanly occupation of throwing a newly-invented missile , consisting of balls filled with powdered chalk , at the company , materially damaged the costumes of her Majesty ' s Heges , and destroyed a deal of comfort . On Thursday the sport was moderately good . But after the " gathering of all nations" on the Derby day the downs yesterday presented the appearance of a desert , the muster outside the stand being quite as scanty as it was within . The racing was over at half-past four o ' clock .
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WORKHOUSE SCHOOLS IN COVENTRY . ( From the Coventry Herald . ) We are glad to find that the directors of the poor of this city are about carrying out school arrangements of a superior kind for the education of the pauper children in the workhouse . To many who look at the question thoughtlessly , the proposal to educate pauper children well—better , in fact , than the children of the independent poor man—may
seem wrong . Such persons overlook , or aro unaware of the fact , that pauperism springs from weakness of physical and mental constitution , and that the best education that can be given to the offspring of paupers is the only way to strengthen and prevent thorn from falling into the condition of their parents . The case waH strongly put many years ago by the proprietor of this journal , who , when serving among the " most discreet , " in a letter on the subject of improved schools in the workhouse , observed : —
" Pauper children ought not to be regarded as in any way responsible for the errors or misfortunes of their parents . Whatever may have been the faults of the latter , the children , at least , had no share in them ; and most of them being deprived of their natural guardians , being orphans , or deserted , or illegitimate , or the children of cripples or felons , the board of director !* is to them in loco parentis . Such children are ordinarily born with the needs of pauperism deeply implanted in their constitutions ; their bodied weak and sickly , their minds feeble and ill organized ; ho that a much greater educational euro than ordinary is required to put them upon u level with the children of independent parents , to eradicate such needs , and to prevent their producing a plentiful crop of both adulta and children dependent through life
upon the parish funds . It in the duty which the directors ovye , therefore , both f . o the children and the ratepayers , to give iih good an education to the former as <) in ; umHtanoe » will permit . It i » their duty to the children iih their legal guurdiuns , and to the rate-payers , because it ih the best and moat direct nicaiiH of keeping down the rates . Tliat , thin iis not . at once acknowledged by all , in owing to contracted views respecting the objects of education , the term being but too frequently confined to a measure of mere reading , writing , und arithmetic , and facility in Haying cutcchiuintt . Hut education consists , in fact , of physical , moral and religious , und intellectual , each all uut uHc-lesft without , the othorn . I'liysicftl , that , may give Htrength to the body und a healthy tone to each Vital function ; moral und religious , that may implant
habits ( not maxims ) of honesty , industry , temperance , frugality , and piety ; and intellectual , that shall not merely teach reading and writing , but give that know ledge that shall best fit them to discharge the duties of their station , and enable them in after life to earn an honest and independent livelihood by skilful labour . To carry out education in this sense , the children must not be imm ured in cellars , but have plenty of light and air and exercise , be well fed and clothed , and those with any kind of contagious disease must be kept apart from the healthy . They must be separated from the adult paupers occasionall such
( excepting their parents y ) , as , frequently , are persons of loose and dissolute and confirmed pauper habits , association with whom would render any system of moral training impracticable . This separation is desirable also on other grounds ; for the dependent condition of pauper children being the consequence of the improvidence , want of industry , crimes , or misfortunes of theu parents , and not , in any sense , of their own conduct , they ought not to be taught to regard themselves as paupers , but a spirit of independence should be carefully implanted that shall act as the most powerful of ^ all stimulants to keep them from the parish m after life .
More than ten years , we believe , have elapsed since these observations were penned , and but little has been done in the interim to carry out the views of the writer , but now , we understand , it is seriously intended to attempt to put these ideas into practice . Nearly six hundred pounds are to be laid out in a spacious and well-ventilated new school , with convenient dormitories overhead , having every arrangement for promoting the health of the children . An active and competent master is to be engaged , to give the boys a good plain education , and , as far as possible , train them in industrial habits . This was then thought to be merely one of the proprietor ' s crotchets . " He was also a warm advocate of a Sanitary Bill of Baths and
Washhouses ; but worst of all , of a complete plan ot the toM-n , which was to cost £ 300—a sum then thought monstrous , as applied to such purposes . These things are now , we are glad to see , all taking a practical shape . So that the " crotchets " must now almost all be used up . By the way , does a " crotchet" mean anything more than a principle or theory which people as yet do not understand—practical in itself , and impracticable only to the minds of those who have not given themselves the trouble to understand the subject ? Thus it is , that important reforms and improvements are so frequently denounced asjibsurdities when first proposed , but in course of time being examined and belter understood becomes practically adopted .
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CHURCH DISCIPLINE AND CATHOLIC CLAIMS . One archdeacon , nine rural deans , and 243 of the clergy of the archdeaconry of Graven , in the diocese of Ripon , have signed , an address in reply to the celebrated address of the bishops to the clergy in March last . The chief points in this response are , that the signers sympathise with the bishops in their anxiety " to allay the troubles consequent on the introduction within the last few years of ritual observances exceeding those in common use among them ; that they fully assent to a reference ' for the solution of
all doubts ' in rubrics of uncertain interpretation to the bishop as to their true construction ; that in regard to the remaining question , to which their attention was invited , the license , namely , claimed by some to adopt at their discretion any form or usage existing in the church before the Reformation and not distinctly forbidden , they feel themselves concluded against every such principle by the Thirtyfourth Article ; and that wich every feeling of unwavering fidelity to the Church of England , they would record their deliberate and solemn conviction
that nothing would more tend to heal our unhappy divisions , to conciliate the respect of the laity , to reestablish mutual confidence , and to strengthen and enlarge their power for good in the great spiritual work before them at home and abroad , than a general and willing acquiescence in the seasonable and parental address of the bishops ; . neither disparaging the ritual by neglect of its requirements , nor bringing it under suspicion and reproach by exaggerating ita relative importance . "
A similar reply has also been published from Dr . Hook , and nearly the whole clergy and rural deanery of Leeds . They declare that they are more than ever attached to the Church of England , and they regard the differences between her and the Church of Rome as matters of momentous importance , affecting the vital truth of Christianity . They bless God that they posrtcHH orthodpx und primitive truth , embodied in the liturgy and . articles of their Church ; and therefore earnestly deprecate all attempts to tamper witji
these formularies . The V large proportion of the Roman Catholic laity" who have signed tho declaration , apropos , ot the Ecclesiastical Titl « a Bill , mentioned in , pur postscript of ltfut week , thereby declurVr-That the Bishop of Rome i » tho chief pastor und ruler of the Church , and tho supreme .-earthly h-oud thereof ; that th » State- never did tut uny time , or in' any country , potjHOBS the right to interfere with , the appointment , jurisdiction , Bee , or title of a biwhop , afJ biwhop of tho Church , or on account of hia spiritual and ccclcBiastiaal character ' uiidj ' ' office but Holcly on account of the temporal ' privileges * WI 1 ( i
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Leader (1850-1860), May 24, 1851, page 482, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1884/page/6/
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