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site , fora new metropolitan cattle market , without due inquiry being previously made as to its fitness as regards the public health . Mr . Secretary Walpole said he had already given his consent to the site in consequence of the representation made to him by the Corporation of London , and upon- the belief that nothing more than his nominal consent was required . If the memorialists couid induce the corporation to reconsider the matter , he would also be most happy to entertain any objections which might bo raised . The London Philanthropic Society held its anniversary festival at the London Tavern on Tuesday . The chair was taken by Lord Stanley . This Society was established in the year 1841 , for the object of providing the poor with bread and coals throughout the metropolis , each subscriber
being supplied with tickets for these articles . The Chairman , in proposing " Prosperity to the Society , " quoted a statement that he had met with , that the various metropolitan charities have among them a fixed income of 750 , 000 ? . per annum , and that , in addition to this sum , they receive casually above 1 , 000 , 000 ? . annually . His lordship remarked that this amounted to the revenue of a second-rate European power , and was sufficient to maintain an army of sixty thousand men . He proceeded to state that he found that of this gross sum , the provision for the aged and the infirm amounts to little short of a quarter of a million ; medical relief , by voluntary contributions , little short of another quarter of a million ; the sum for education and religion exceeds a million ; and the remaining quarter of a million is applied to miscellaneous purposes .
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The French and German Socialists at New York en . tertained M . Cabet at a banquet on the 8 th inst . Judge Betts of New York has confirmed the decision of Commissioner Brigham respecting Kaine , the Irishman , accused of murder in Ireland , and whose extradition was demanded bv the British Government , and consented to by the Commissioner . W e have advices from Boston of a destructive conflagration at Montreal . The fire burst out at 9 A . M . on the 8 th , in a small building at the corner of St . Lawrence and St .
Catherine-streets , extending its ravages through the latter to St . Denis-street , and destroying in its progress a number of buildings in St . Constance , Mignone , and Elizabethstreets . In these localities some 300 dwellings were consumed , including Cornwall-terrace , the Bishops' Church , the palace in St . Denis-street , Viger-square , the market , and the cattle market . Up to 4 A . M . on the 9 th , the fire was still raging : and it was rumoured , that the barracks , officers' quarters , the Hayes-house , Donegana ' s Hotel , the theatre , and Dalhousie-square had been destroyed .
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A large range of cowhouses at Hampstead , belonging to Mr . Pickett , were partly burned down on Monday morning-During the tempest of Friday night , the tower and spire of Woolpit Church , in Suffolk , were almost destroyed . Mr . Blacklock , one of the sufferers in the disastrous railway accident in the Claycross tunnel , in 1851 , has brought an action against the Midland Railway Company , and obtained 800 ? . damages . On Friday , the Kith inst ; ., the Viffilant revonue cutter captured , off the Isle of Shoppy , a largo river skiff , filled with half ankers of foreign spirits of Geneva and brandy , 84 . in number .
During the thunder-storm in the south of England on Friday last the lightning entered tho Electric Telegraph office at Southampton on the wires , and played round the instruments in Huch an alarming manner that tho telegraph clerks rushed from the office in a fright . A mini died from the pressure of Liu ; atmosphere the same night in Birdcage-walk . in the afternoon of that same Friday , tho heat was no great that it fired the grans on the side of tho Bull ' s . PoutI embankment , of the India Dock railway , running from Blackwall to Camden Town . We leai-n from Corfu , under datoof the ( ilh of July , that the smallpox hud manifested itself in that island , and was muking much ravage , chiefly among the lower classes . There had been us many uh two hundred cases reported in tho course of a low days .
The J ' aelia of hgypt has put on board tho I eninsular and Oriental Company ' s steam ship the Ripon , Captain . ' Moresby , several lions and panthers , besides Home very curious and rare animals from the Nubian desert ., as a pro-Hcnt to the London Zoological Society . A cricket match was commenced on Wednesday , at Copenhagen House , between tho Albion and I Tinted Amateur ' s CIiiIih , bul > was broken off about ( wo o ' clock , by a member of the former club , Mr . . John Dewdney , suddenly falling ( low ii , just , as he was about to run after having made liin first , stroke , lie died in a . few minutes , lie was about ( JO years of age , and was much respected by the members of his club . Me had Hiiffered from a sun-stroke during the last , week . There in n « doubt , that ho died from disease of the heart .
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Daniel Ward , a clerk in the General Manager s office of the Eastern Counties Railway , left London by that railway on the 5 th of this month , at five minutes past eleven . As the train was about to stop at the Broxbourne station , he jumped upon the platform , but in ponsequence of the train being still in motion he fell on to the rails , and the carriages passed over his left leg , and fractured it horribly . He was conveyed to the London Hospital , and the leg was amputated , but he died on the 18 th inst . from exhaustion and secondary hemorrhage . A jury hare returned a verdict of "Accidental death . "
An engine driver , named Stanley , got off the Saturday evening train , at the G-ohomen station , on the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway . While the stoker was putting in a fresh supply of water , Stanley put his arm through one of the wheels , to ascertain whether a portion of the machinery inside had become overheated . Suddenly the train was shunted down an inclined plane , and Stanley's arm was torn off and his heart torn out , and thrown on the road . An inquest was held , and a verdict returned of " Accidental death . "
Daniel Walter , the man who so singularly and wantonly murdered an old lady , named Fox , at Sawley , in Derbyshire , and who declared that his name was Caesar , who went about half-naked , and behaved in a very extravagant manner , has been found guilty of wilful murder by a jury at Derby , with a recommendation to mercy , on the ground of imbecility . Mr . Justice Coleridge commented with great severity upon the conduct of the officers of the Ash by Union for allowing the prisoner to go at large after the caution they had received .
The adjourned inquest on the bodies of the three persons who were drowned last week at Blackfriars-bridge , was resumed on Tuesday . The evidence given wasffiightly contradictory on some points , but on the whole went to prove that thos ' o in charge of the shallop were incapable of properly managing it , and that its overturning was in great measure attributable to the persons in it standing up . At tho same time , there did not appear sufficient ground for attributing any negligence to Maddox , in the management of the steamer , which was proved to have been stopped before the collision . The jury gave the following as their verdict : — " Accidental death ; at tho same time tho jury are unanimously of opinion that a sufficient look-out was not kept on board tho steamer , and recommend that in future arrangements be made by the steamboat company that will secure the public from accidents as far as possible , during the present crowded state of tho river . "
liichard Roe and Frances Roe wore tried at the Winchester assizes on tho 19 th of this month , before Mr . Baron Platt , for tho murder of Alfred Roe . A coroner ' s jury had previously investigated tho circumstances , and returned a verdict of murder ; but tho indictment for this crime was ignored by the grand jury . The child was six years old ; Richard Roo was his father , and married Francos , tho step-mother of tho child , in last March . It was proved that tho child had been for some timo in a state of debility , and had died in a very emaciated condition . There were several marks of severe bruises , but it seemed that these might have been occasioned by falls . The two surgeons who gave evidence could not decide upon the cause of the child ' s death . One of them considered that his emaciation was caused by the want of sufficient
food , but the other inclined to the opinion that he had had suitable nourishment . Some of the neighbours stated that the child had begged food of them , and that he had been cruelly treated , and one of them , who lived next door , had heard blows through tins wall day after day . There seemed sutlieient , evidence that the child was of dirty habits . A servant girl , who had lived with tho prisoners for two days , but whose evidence was very contradictory , stated that the child had had no food from early one morning till seven o'clock the next , evening . Air . Baron Platt said he thought they could not convict , the male prisoner , since , having provided sufficient food , lie was not responsible for the mother ' s neglect in administering that food to the child . As regarded the woman , if the jury believed the evidence , they must find a verdict against- Tier . The jury returned a verdict of Not ( hiiltit as to both prisoners .
Thomas Witcher , a builder in tho Westminster-road , was indicted at the Middlesex sessions on Wednesday , for assaulting ( ieorge Thomas M inor , a linen-draper of Homerstown , and also for beating and wounding him . Minor stated that his wife had come home one inornjng a little after one o'clock , in a cab with Witchor . On their arrival , Minor rushed out , and found Witcher and tho lady much excited with drink . Minor had succeeded in getting his wife inside his house , when Witcher rushed up to the tloor and insisted on entering . A scuffle enmiod , in which Mr . Minor received a blow on the mouth and one on the chest . The latter then called a policeman , and gave Wilcher into custody . The policeman stated that ho found Minor bleeding at the mouth . The cabman entirely contradicted Minor '« utateincnt , but tho jury diucreditcd hi « evidence ,
where he committed the assault . When she screamed , he threatened to murder her . She resisted , but he was too powerful for her . She tried unsuccessfully to mark his face . She at last got away from him , and ran till she found a cab , when she drove home . She swore positivel y to the identity of the prisoner . Mrs . Morgan , and Mrs . Wood , who resided at the house of the former , confirmed part of her evidence , and testified as to her disordered appearance on her arrival at home . A surgeon gave evidence that the capital offence had not been committed . The prisoner had a good character from his inspector . The jury gave a verdict of guilty , with a recommendation to mercy on account of the prisoner ' s previous good conduct . The Assistant-Judge agreed with the verdict , and sentenced the prisoner to four months' imprisonment .
and found Witcher guilty of the assault . The Assistant Judge strongly reprobated the conduct of the cabman in committing wilful perjury , and of the defendant in suborning him , and sentenced the latter to three months' \ m prisooment . Joseph Brown , a policeman , was tried on the same day , for an assault and an attempt to violate Elizabeth Smith , a girl of twenty years of age . She stated that , about a quarter to nine , on the 20 th of June , she was sent out by her mistress , Mrs . Morgan , of Maida Hill . On her way she met the prisoner , and asked which -was 7 l Finchley-road . After giving her two or three false directions , he went with her some distance , pretending to show her the way . He then put his arm round her waist , and on her praying him to let her go , he seized her by the wrists and dragged her to the gate of an empty house
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The following charm was practised a few weeks since in the village of Newport , Essex , on a poor lad subject to epileptic fits . Nine sixpences were procured from nine virgins ( "for which they were to be neither asked nor thanked" ); the money was then made into a ring , which the child wore ; but with no satisfactory result , possibly from some flaw in the primary condition . —Front " Notes and Queries . " A correspondent of the Daily News says , that the staff of the Tithe Office amounted at one time to 130 officials , consisting of commissioners , clerks , and surveyors . At the present tune it does not amount to a tenth of that number . There are three commissioners , with salaries of 1500 Z . a-year each . Owing to a personal quarrel among them , one of them at one time never went near the office for three or
four years . Another of the commissioners is absent about six months in the year , personally superintending a pottery which he possesses in the west of England . A short time since the Government ordered a reduction of the staff of the Tithe-office , and after it was done the commissioners assured the clerks who were retained , that no further alteration would take place . To the surprise of the latter , however , a short time afterwards their salaries were considerably reduced . Many who had worked hard for a series of years , and whose salaries had been raised from 80 Z . to 200 Z . a-year , found them reduced to 160 Z . ; a
respectful memorial was addressed to the commissioners , hut no redress was obtained , and nearly all the clerks resigned . Not tho slightest reduction has taken place in the commissioners' salaries , nor have the labours been increased . Soon after the resignation of the clerks some of them were solicited to return , as it was found their services could not be dispensed with . Tho conduct of the Tithe Commissioners will be brought before Parliament next session . The whole of the tithe documents , which havo cost the country a million of money , aro now so carelessly attended to that they will shortly be seriously injured , if not wholly destroyed .
Electricity has lately been applied successfully in killing whales . The invention is duo to a Bremon gentleman named Heinoken . He sent out a ship last July , having on board three rotation machines of various sizes , in order to ascertain the degree of power necessary to socuro sperm or right whales ; one machine containing ono magnet , another four , and another fourteen . Captain Geor , kcn , in a hitter dated New Zealand , Dec . 13 , 1851 , writes as follows : " Tho first experiment wo made with tho new invention was upon a shark , applying the olectricity from tho machine with one magnet . Hie fish , after being struck , instantly turned over on its side , and after wo had poured in upon him a stream of electricity for a ihw moments , by turning tho handle of the machine the shark became stiff as a piece of wood . We next fell in with a blackfish . As noon as the whale-iron was thrown into him and tho
machine handle turned the huh began to sink . Tho operator then ( -eased turning the machine , and the fish immediately rose , when the machine was again set in motion , upon which the fish lay stiff on the surface of the water , and was taken alongside of the ship . At this time we mado use of the four-magnet machine . We saw sperm and other whales , and lowered our boats , but were unsuccessful in getting last to them , as they disappeared on our approaching them ; while at all other times the weather was too boisterous to permit , us to lower our boats . Thus wo
had hut one chance to try the experiment upon a whalo , which was made with the four-magnet machine . Tho whale , upon being struck , made one dash onward , then turned on his sido , and was rendered perfectly powerloSH . Although I have , as yet , not been fortunate enough to test the invention in more instances , I have the fullest confidence in tho Hume , and doubt not to be able to report tho most astonishing results on my return from tho Arctic hooh , where I am now bound . " Home of our readers will doubtless remember that Franklin killed small animals by bin first experiments with tho oleotrie fluid . It has token seventy years to step from chickens to whales I
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It appears from a return jiihI , issued , that the surplus public income over tho expenditure was in 1 H 41 ) 2 , 01 ) 8 , 1267 . ; in lHf )() , 2 , 578 , 80 ( 5 / . ; and in lHfil , 2 , 72 <> ,: W 0 / . A return obtained from the KecleHiastical Commissioners , by Sir Benjamin Hall , was printed on Tuesday , from which it appears that the incomes assigned to the bishops are oh follow : The Archbishop of Canterbury , 15 , 000 / . ; the Archbishop of York , 10 , 000 / . ; the Bishop of Durham , BOOO / . : Bishop of Buth mid Wolla , 5000 / .: the Bishop ol
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704 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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The Yachting season has commenced at the various stations with great . t-. clat . This week tho . Royal Victoria Yacht Club have held ( heir Regatta . On the first day , Tuesday , ' tho f > O / . Cup for small-class schooners , was sailed for by the , Itianca , J ' rinrr . su OUja , and Vestal . The last named gave up the content when it threatened to become a drift ing-mutch ; and the ll ' utnca was the winner by an hour and eleven minutes . On Wednesday , the only match was for a 50 / . cup for cutter-yachts of any Royal Club , of 20 tons , or above , being under 50 feet in length : the course , what is called the Victoria ( bourse , about 25 miles , round the Nab , the Calshot , . Lightship , and the Brambles . Tlireo vessels entered YavlitH . Owners . Toim . KoaNerpenl T . and . 1 . N . Wanhill , KNqrs . ... 20 Lilla losh . ( U-c , Kh . i " \ Antagonist I . Maiigcon , Ks <| ~ Tho ISabriita , W . Jl . Woodhouoe , Ji ' wq ., was entered ,
but did not arrive in time for the start , when the committee allowed the Antagonist to be substituted for her . The race between the two former was very excitingthe Sea Serpent winning by one minute and 15 seconds only . The entries for the Queen ' s 100 Guinea Cup were—Yachts . Owners . Tons . Vestal B . G . Rowles , Esq . 74 Mosquito ... Lord Londesborough 50 America Lord de Blaquiere .. 180
Princess Olga .. Thos . Rutherford , Esq 102 Brilliant G . H . Ackers , Esq 393 Aurora Le Marchant Thomas , Esq 48 Zephyretta H . B . Webster , Esq 180 The course round the Isle of Wight . The America arrived only a few days since from a winter cruise in the Mediterranean . The abstract of her log , sent b y her owner to the Times , is the best testimony to her sailing and seaworthy qualities ; and is an example to our yachtsmen who hug the shores of the Solent .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 24, 1852, page 704, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1944/page/12/
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