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Leader (1850-1860), 22nd May 1852, Edition Town of 2, Page 487, Untitled Article

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      «*» Prussian militaxy twrenade&i&ie Duke of Augusten-» ii ''' his hotel in the Bosamarkt at EVankfort oil the fSf This reads Strangel y after m declaration . of the ^" afy oatheDaxu ^ mWMasiaD v M 1 ^^ ' $ *? & «*»» styled attainted . Tim Auashurg Gazette states , that not only the Senate / f g . g . % city of Frankfort , but those also of Hamburg AI LubOck have received from the Federal Diet a moni-?^ n to bring their several constitutions into harmony with Xrtof the Buna , - . ' .. Shocks of earthquake were distinctly experienced at ¦ Rideieh North Carolina , at Washington , in Baltimore , as eQ . as in Frederick , and other parts of Maryland , on the

      29 th ult . The papers contain a longlist of marine disasters . The steamer Osprey , arrived at Halifax r reports fifty oir sixty sailing vessels wrecked pn the ice off Newfoundland , and the loss of ft large number of lives . A vessel which arrived at St . Johns on the 27 th ult ., reports that upwards of a thousand shipwrecked sailors had reached Greensford . An expedition ; , consisting' of three ships of war * wenfcout against the Sooloo pirates eail y in the year . They hunted up the country for many nules , searched many of the rivers , lost several men , brought others away wounded , and finally returned without knowing whether they had killed a single Sooloo . The object of the expedition was to SOOioos ior tae iauruer jilt

      punish the m . x > urns . The fate of Sir John Franklin interests seafaring men all the world over , as the following extract from a ^ letter dated Hong Kong , Ma ^ h 28 , shows : —" There have been here no less than 37 whalers from the Arctic Seas . It may interest you to know that they almost all believe that Sir John * Franklin is safe , and that he has got through the ice bamer into inner waters , where he will not be reached until a , mild season . arrives , which they say the present will be . Most of then ! have now departed * They « av Franklin will not . suffer for Want of food . They

      give strange accounts of the Esquimaux vibrating from the Asiatic to the American continent and back again , carrying their boats , made of skins and whalebone , over the ice , and launching them when they meet with open water . They all confirm the fact that the whales found in the Bearing ' s Straits and in Baffin ' s Bay areishe same species , proving the existence of a passage ; for a whale of the Arctic species , they say , has never been seen to the south of 22 deg . of latitude , so they cannot have doubled either of the Gapes ( of Good Hope or Cape Horn ) , and the whale is under the necessity of making his presence known by coming to the surface to > blow . "

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      A clergyman , named Errington , incumbent of Burntwood , near Lichfield , was routing out some sparrow nests from a pear-tree growing against the wall of his house , on Wednesday week , when a branch broke , and he fell to the ground ) dying instantly . Mr . James Fielden , of the firm of Fielden Brothers , of Waterside , brother of the late Mr . Fielden , M . P ., went to bed on Sunday night in good health , but was found dead a short time after ny his wife . He was much respected by the workpeople , He died from disease of the heart . A foot guardsman cut his throat in the guard-room of tho Horse-guards , on Wednesday . Cause unknown . A man fell between the barges of tho Temple * bar Pier , on Sunday morning , and was drowned .

      Tho Rov . Dr . Cahill has addressed another of his violent epistles to Lord Derby , insinuating various threats of forei gn invasion and rovengo against England . Manea , a village in Cambridgeshire , was burnt down on Sunday . Tho inhabitants , with tho wreck of their household goods , were drivon to tho fields . It was a dreadful

      Bcono . Thcro is not a single able-bodied pauper in tho Cheltenham workhouse , although tho union comprises 40 , inhabitants and 13 agricultural parishes . Mr Charles Chalk , of Liverpool , in tho rush to got to tho train after tho races at Chester , was thrown across tho ™ i . Ho instantly throw himself on his back , and tho loving train passed over him without causing tho slightost ln iry . . A woman was sold in Nottingham market-placo , a fow fays Hinco , by her husband , for a shilling , including a now ropo , value sixpenco , which was attached to her neck .- —• ¦ nonconformist .

      On Monday afternoon a youth , in tho employment of Mr . warren , a wood-euttor in tho vicinity of Park-lane police station , Lock ' s-fiolds , employed in clearing out a sawpifc , at hI n mi ° iour fllJofc from tuo Bm ' * ftCO > discovered a human , « p i , P olico wore sent for , a search was made , and a period ; skeleton found . f ,. A w atfcftckod a largo seal , 10 foot long , brought bnv ) ! ftgOnia" ? r ° 8 fcr « ck ^ on tho hoarl with a crow-0 "} ., ut ll ; roso on its hind iins and rushod upon tho broast i « ftu wwjor . Happily four othor eoamon camo to tho Whcuo , and the poor seal waa killed . mti ? t mt fo 11 oufc of « - window fifty foot high , in Sid . l . V , ? > Cray ' s , inn-road , breaking through a skyoimh . ° i ll 0 r < lo ^ ont . Hor ribs Wore Vokon , hor body jff " ? if' , Bku 11 frttcturod . ' Sho diod in tho Boyat Aloo JloBintal .

      <>! ' th , ? . sllm ftn » ongagod in placing stonos aorosu tho rails XhiirH . 1 y lino > WIW wrostod almost in tho act , on in , W Wook Ho wa 8 committed <* <> trift 1 ' HitJ l ) lo ( V > « tarvi ° ' ? ays tho G » fte « y Packet , was , " that ho wn « fiuuh f T * rtnxious to got to gaol ! Tho ponalty for law i i ncoUi transportation for lifo , and cortainly tho * snon oascfl cannot bo too Hovoro . " Uaa w !! fr' nftmod ICa » > conflnod in Huntingdon gaol , 'inojy i , oon mipoaohing bis asflooiatos . On Sunday ho

      made disclosures implicating six more ruffians . Ho has already caused tfie arrest or conviction of twenty burglars , who infested Huntingdon , Lincolnshire , Cambridgeshire , and ftorthamptonshire . Their exploits extend over thir * teen years . One painful fact revealed is , that a policeman on the Eastern Counties Hailway , near Peterborough , was knocked down and robbed , and , because he resisted , his life was taken ; the bod y was then dragged across the metals , so that the next train going thereon might run over the lifeless matt , and . make it appear that the poor fellow had lost his life through such an accident . . .

      The good folks living ; in that part of tho Old Kent-road near the Canal-bridge , w # re frightened by an accidental explosion which took place in the gaa-works adjacent . About half-past nine o ' clock , a . m ., a large brick building , situated within a few feet of the largest gasometer , was suddenly rent apart by an explosion of gas that had unaccountably collected and taken fire . The brickwork of the building , a great portion of which was thrown into the canal , was scattered about in all directions , while the woodwork readily caught fire , and Tendered it a work of gome danger to the men , who , nevertheless , contrived to throw a copious discharge of water upon that side of the gasometer nearest the burning ruins , and in a short time succeeded in extinguishing the flames . One man is * it is feared , mortally injured : and four more or less scorched .

      The Ipswicli Express contains the following striking paragraph t—Ever since his liberation from prison after his acquittal at the assizes at Ghelmsford in March last , Harrington , the man tried for the wilful murder of Mrs . Cobb , at Tollesbury , has become an outcast , and has only been seen by accident wandering about the fields to avoid public observation ; and until last week had not been seen or heard of in the neighbourhood for a considerable time , when he was discovered by a labourer ' s dog lying under a hedge in the parish of Wigborough , in the last _ stage of exhaustion ; his frame being reduced by pr ivation from

      a state of corpulency to that of a living skeleton , and scarcely able to walk . When observed by the owner of the dbg , he begged that some one would shoot him , as no one would notice him , except with the utmost derision and contempt wherever he went ; and his lodgings hadJbeen the out-houses of the different farmers by night , the hedgerows his places of concealment by day , and his food such vegetables as he could procure in bis travels . He is now in the Lexden and "Winstree Union-house at Stanway , as a pauper of the parish of Salcot .

      It appears from a return to Parliament printed on Saturday , that in 1850 the quantity of spirits exported Was 308 , 914 gallons , of which 123 , 774 went to British colonies and possessions , and 185 , 140 to foreign countries and colonies . In 1851 the quantity exported was 229 , 650 , being a decrease of 79 , 264 gallons in the preceding year . A trade in periwinkles has sprung up between the West Highlands and London . No less than . 660 bags , says the Greenock Advertiser , were sent by the screw-steamer Metropolitan on her last two trips ^ each bag weighing two and a half cwt ., and making in all 82 tons and a half

      According to the New YorTc J&vening Post the following scene actually occurred in the House of [ Representatives at Washington , on the 8 th ult .: — " Mr . Chandler said he had not time to give adviee , but could say , in all ages , times , and countr ies , Old Fogy ism has been that which has saved nations from tho rashness and imprudence of Youngwhatever it might be . —Mr . Polki 'I meant by ' Young America' only the spirit of the age , and not trembling limbs and wrinkled brows . Wo think we ore old enough to carry tho nicrht-key and try ourselves . ' ( Laughter . ) Mr .

      Chandler replied , that perhaps tho gentleman had road moro ot the sacred Scripturos than of tho profane ( Laughter . ) He would recollect there was a row among tho Young Israels , and that Absalom sot up young Israel against tho Old Fogy , his father . ( Laughter . ) If Absalom had as bad a head as tho gentleman from Vermont ( Mr . Moacham ) , or his head covered with a wig like that of tho senator from Michigan , ho novor would havo got hung on tho oak-troo of hiafathor ' s forest , and boon pierced through with a dart . ( Excessivo laughter . )"

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      HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . T iih mortality of tho metropolis oxhibitB in this return a considerablo increase on that of tho procoding week . In tho wook that ended 8 th May tho deaths foil to 072 ; m tho wook onding last Saturday they roso to 1070 . Last week was markod by a riso of moan tomporaturo irom 48-1 dog . to 52-7 dog . ; tho wind which had blown with romarkablo constancy for , nearly throo months irom tup north-oaHt , changed to aouth-wost on Friday tho 7 th , ana continued in tho samo direction throughout last wook ,

      and thoro wore i ' roquont showers of rain . ¦ In tho ten corresponding wooks of 1842-51 tho nvorago number of deaths was U 07 , which , if raised m proportion to inoroaeo of population , becomes 908 . Tho doaUw > ot lust wook , thoroforo , exceed tho estimated amount l > y 1 & . Compared with tho facts of tho previous wook , the pro-Hont return disoovoru an increase in doathfl causou by cm . - domics from 103 to 234 , whilo in thoso from disoaaos of tho respiratory organs tho numbers aro almost identical . J-horo is an incrcftBO from 180 to 142 iu deaths by plithwifl ,

      Diseases of the heart , also rose infrthe two weeks from 37 to 45 ; those of the digestive organs from 60 to 74 . Amongst epidemics the increase arises chiefly from smallpox , and in the next place from scarlatina . The former malady was fatal last week to 38 children and 8 adults , altogether to 46 persons ; the latter to 44 . In only four cases of small-pox is it stated that vaccination had been - performed , apparently with effect , and in these the ages were as follow : —5 , 18 , 28 , tand 41 years . Zymoties in ' aggregate . produce at present considerably more than the . average mortality of the season .

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      A Queen ' s Ma 2 T . —The Author had been appointed Deputy Adjutant-General in the Australian Colonies . The following anecdote was related at a regimental mess in Sydney by a gentleman holding a high official appointment in the colony under the crown . Returning home on leave of absence about the year 1847 , ho got into conversation with an Irish cabman , who , recollecting- his person , demanded respectfully " where hia honour had been this long time . " " In New South

      Wales / ' was the reply . " Botany Bay , is it P" pursued the driver . " Exactly , " said the gentleman . After a short pause , Paddy ' s curiosity overcoming his politeness , ho whispered , " Might I make bould to ask , sir , what took you there ? " " Oh ! I went at the Queen ' s expense , " answered tlio other , humouring his interrogator's evident suspicions . Here Paddy ' s politeness recovered itself , although his suspicious were confirmed . " Ah ! " said he , " there ' s many a good man gone oufc that same way . "—Our Antipodes , by Coionui . Munvx .

      The Old Whaler . —My second inossmato was an old whaling skipper , with two very young grandchildren , —littlo fatherless , motherless , helpless creatures , a boy and a girl , who clung together all day , and at night slept in each other ' a arms ; and who could not boar to bo for a moment out of sight of the old sailor their grandfather . Looking from my borth of a morning through tho Venetians , I felt the moisture riso in my eyes as I watched tho bald and grey veteran taking his littlo protegees one by one from their common crib , carefully washing and dressing thorn , combing their flaxen locks , and then folding away thoir bed *

      ding . During tho day lie would feed and tend them , and carvo toys for them with his pocket lonfo . And at night , after undressing his " littlo people , " as ho called them , ho " coiled away and stowed" thoir day gear , and put on their night clothes , —his great rough hands fumbling tho small tapes into all sorts of nautical knots , which cost him i \ world of troublo to undo in the morning . Then ho placed them in thoir bed , —• side by Hide generally , but somothnos with thoir beads different ways , —and , having " shipped" tho panel to

      prevent their falling out , ho would King thorn to sleep with a low hoarse lullaby , of which tho words " Yo hoavo oh ! " and " Whack Old England ' s foo , " formed tho ' burthen . Then " he listened to their light breathing , and , assui'od that they slumbered , dropped his furrowed brow on tho bod panol for a timo , us though ho blessed and prayed for them , and , posting himself on a boneh below , he oponcd an old cheat , and , talcing out tv well-worn book and putting on his glnsson , ho rood therein sometimes for halt' tho night . — Ovr Antipodes , by CoioifEii Mira > y .

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      Mr . John Chapman , tho publisher , was summoned , on Wednesday , by Mr . Panizzi , on bohalf of tho trustees of the BritiBh Museum , before Mr . Hall , at Bow-stroot , to answer a chargo of having neglected to furnish tho museum with a copy of the Westminster Review . It was shown that a copy had boon sent , but that it had not reached tho library . Mr . Hall fined Mr . Chapman 40 s ., tho prico of the book , 5 s ., and costs 2 s . ; on tho ground that Mr . Chapman was responsible for tho neglect of Ins servants . Ho acquitted Mr . Chapman of wilful or improper motives . The money was paid immediately .

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BERTHS , On tife 14 th inst ., at Torquay , tlio wife of Charles Langton Maasingberd : a daughter . On the , 14 th inst ., at Brighton , the wife of Colonel C . Komeya Tynto , M . P .: a daughter . On the 15 th inst ., at 56 , Upper Brook-street , Grosvenorsquarej the Lady Manners : a son and heir . On the 16 th inst ., at Dartford , the wife of D . Culhane , Esq ., M . D .: a daughter , , On the 18 th inst ., at 48 , Eaton-place , the Countess of Galloway : & daughter .

      MAEEIAGES . On the 15 th . instant ., Mr . Walter Cheesman , of ImddeadoTvneonrt , Kent , to Ellen , second daughter of Samuel Turner , Esq ., of Haverstock-hill , Hampstead . On the 18 th inst ., Henri do Kougemont , of St . Aubin , " Neufchatel , son of the late Georges de Eougemont , President da Conseil d'Etat and Erocureur-Gene ' ral de la Principaute de M " eufchatel i to Caroline , eldest daughter of George Eougemont , Esq ., of Chester-terrace , Begent ' s-park . On the 38 th inst ., Edward Francis , youngest son of E . W . Herring , Esq ., of Brixton-hill , to Sarah Lucy , second daughter of William W . Jenkins , Esq ., of Grove-place , North Brixton . On the 18 th inst , at St . Nicholas Church , Brighton , William Crosb y Wesley Season , eldest son of William Eeason , Esq ., to Adelaide , youngest daughter of John Pococt , Esq ., ol 21 » Grenville-place , and the Union Bank , Brighton .

      DEATHS . On the 1 st inst ., in the parish of Bethnalrgreen , Mr . Joseph Haythorne , second son of the late D . T . Haythorne , Esq ., of Baswell-hoH 8 e , Stapleton , near Bristol . On the 4 th inst ., at ViUafranca , near Genoa , the Hon . John Capel Hanbury Tracy , third son of the Right Hon . Lord Sudeley . On the 13 th inst ., at Newbold-hall , Warwickshiro , Sir Gray Skip-with , Bart ., in the 81 st year of his age . On the 13 th . inst ., at her residence , in Paris , after a very few days' illness , the Hon . Xiady Airey , widow of the late General Sir George Airey , K . C . H . On the 15 th inst ., in . Hanpvor-street , London , in the 80 th year of his age , William Winstanley . M . D ., of West Cliff , Preston , one of Her Majesty ' s justices of the . peace for the county of Lancaster .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 22, 1852, page 487, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1936/page/11/