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A c orrespondent of the VattyNewa says , that a circular i Si * fromCardinal Wiseman was read on Sunday at all ? t « Koman-cathdli c chapels in London , requesting the cr eations to contribute towards the expenses of the fttr ial . The means to be used for carrying out this h ct are left to the discretion of the priests , and in most laces a collection will be made after each of the services K axt Sunday- The letter states that Dr . Newman ' s xp " nses amount to 75007 ., and that of this 2500 ? . has been f t ^ v collected . -
The cholera is said to be making great ravages at The drainage of the Lake of Haarlem is now completed , witfi the exception of a little running water . The Courrier du Has-Rhin announces that the German Governments have ratified the convention witk France for the junction of the French and German railways . The King of Naples has appointed the Marquis de Balestrino to the post of Neapolitan Ambassador to the Court of Turin . The Duke and Duchess de Mbntpensiejr had arrived at Lisbon on the 30 th ult ., in the Isabella II . steamer , and been receive d by the Qtteen of Portugal in the Palace de las N . ecesaidades .
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A vestry meeting of the parish of St . Pancras was held on Wednesday , at which it was determined that a new burial groiuyfsho ^ ld be provided for the parish under the new Act . The Islington Cattle M / arket was offered for sale at Garraway ' s on Monday , by direction of the mortgagees . It was bought in at 52 , 000 ? ., a suffiqent sum . to discharge the claims not being offered . A communication has been received from the American Government in reply to an application from the British minister at Washington , in regard to Mr . Boyd , who is
supposed either to have been murqered , or stall to be held in captivity by the natives of Ghiadak > . aner , an island in the Southern Pacific Ocean . A notice has been issued by the American Government requesting the attention and co-operation of all masters of vessels of the ITnited States , engaged in the neighbourhood of tha , t island , to ascertain the fate of Mr . Bqyd , and , if a prisoner , to use peaceful and lawful means to obtain his release . It has b eenstated by Captain Lort Stokes , R . N ., well known as a surveyor in the South Seas , that the natives of those islands , are fond of having a white man amongst them , and will not easily part with himj but that no instance has ever been known of their hurting a white man when once they had got him on shore .
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"" The following announcement has been issued from the General Post-Office : —1 . On and after the 1 st of September , 1852 , an additional commission will be charged in every case of transfer or repayment of a money order . 2 . The payment of the additional commission ! , viz ., 3 d . on all sums not exceeding 21 ., and 6 d . on all sums between 2 Z . and 5 ? . must be invariably made by postage stamps transmitted with the application for transfer or repayment , and unless the amount be so transmitted , the application will not be complied with . 3 . AH applications for transfer or repayment must be addressed to the President of the London , Dublin , or Edinburgh Money Order-office , according as the order was issued in England ( or Wales ) , Ireland , or Scotland . 4 . To prevent the necessity of a transfer , in consequence of an order being erroneously drawn on a
different office from the one at' which paynient is desired , the public are advised to furnish in writing to the issuing Postmaster , at the time of application , the full particulars Of the money order required , and , also to ascertain , before quitting the issuing office , that the order corresponds with those particulars . An association having for its , object tho promotion of a cheap and uniform system of colonial and international postage , was formed during the Exhibition of the "Works of Industry of all Nations , including among its members many of tho foreign commissioners . A meeting of tho association was hold at the house of the Society of Arts , on Tuesday , August tb , o ] Othj and tho following resolutions were unanimously adopted : —That it appears to this
association that all the arguments used by Mr . Rowland Hill in favour of tho justice of an uniform rate of postage appjy certainly to colonial , and probably to foreign correspondence . —That tho coat of conveyance , as was proved by Mr . Bowland Hill , depends upon tho number of letters , and not upon tho distance , and that thoroforo tho justice of an uniform rate- is evident . —That tho association welcomes tho recognition of this prineiplo in tho rocont adoption of uniform rates for printed papers to some of our colonies . —That tho simplicity and convenience of prepayment also appear to apply to colonial and foreign correspondence . —The Right Hon . tho Earl Granvillo has consented to bocome president of tho association .
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The electric telegraph is now completo to Plymouth An opportunity is thus afforded for the uniform adoption of Greenwich timo throughout the weBt of England , by which railway travellers would escape much inconvenience . Orders wero issued on Saturday , by tho Lords Lieutenant of Middlesex , and other counties , to their deputies , to take immediate s ^ eps , tbr raising the required number of men for the militia ; during the next week general courts of lieutenancy will be held in most of tho-counties throughout tho
kingdom to settle the preliminary mattorn . It is intended to select 'a nuinlior of men from tho enrolled , CUelnea pensioners ^ o form the utaU' of tU , « , j militia . An inspection of some who Ipud boon selected by Colonel . ra ° Vft JooV place on Woanosday , at the olUcors' quarters , in , liunUUl-row . If an ofjioiont staff" caunot ho found for tho rogiroenta of militia from too onro'lled paiyuoners belonging to diutricttj within tW respective cou , utioa , apf > omto ^ ontti will bo given , to tho , most competent au 4 tho )() Hfc (^ ni ) fllW » t *»/! / kf Alis * nun t ., . » n »« ¦ <¦ n 1 inil / 1 s t lt . /» Jk 1-LJ AWWl « tM .
* va . t « B of the guard ** an , d tli ^ l \ iy > f It w etatotl ti ^ afc much important evidence ^^ turned U in referohco to tho Borooford bribery awe , including
other letters from the Secretary-at-War , showing a close intimacy between him and Frail , of Shrewsbury . Detectives were bro ught from London by the Liberal party , and were kept , as commercial travellers , at the hotels occupied by the Tory party . Aa soon as Sharrack b «« d given his evidence against the Tory agents , he was served with a notice signifying that he was to be visited , with the fine imposed by the recent act , for receiving a bribe . The Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland made a trial of reapirig-machines at Perth , on Friday week . A tween American
competition took place be Hussey ' s reaper and a new machine , invented b y tho Rev . Mr . Bell , of Carmyllie . Bell ' s machine is similar in principle to that exhibited by M'Cormack in the Great Exhibition . This machine is propelled by horses walking behind it , while the other requires a clear space on the right hand of the standing corn for the horses to draw it . The result of the trial was g reatly in favour of Bell ' s machine , which cut the corn with the greatest regularity , even where the corn was laid , leaving an even stubble three inches in length . The other machine acted very imperfectly , failing altogether where the corn was down , and at one point coming to a dead stop .
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There is said to be a great want of silver coinage in the Australian colonies . A number of speculators have been sending out large quantities of silver money , one party to the amount of 10 , 000 / . Mr . Thomas Sidney , in a letter published in the Times of Tuesday , describes the state of the " labour-market" affected by the recent emigration . One lady in Cumberland is hopeless of obtaining a suitable cook ; another finds that housemaids are at a great premium . Clerks and shopmen , and even men of business , are becoming scarce . Mr . Sidney goes on to say that the workhouses throughout the kingdom are becoming emptied , and that the gaols are so little frequented as to excite alarm among the officials of those hospitable abodes .
An Australian merchant , in a letter to the Times , published on Thursday , says that he has received a communication from his correspondent at Hobart Town , dated the 31 st of March , complaining of the injustice and inexpediency of transporting convicts to the Australian colonies . He says , — " The Aboukir brought about three hundred prisoners , the greater portion of them receiving a ticketof-leave from the government on landing , and engagements at from 18 s . to 20 * . per week , from the advocates of transportation . When these men write to their friends in England , stating t h e bright prospects they have before them , we should think there will be plenty of applications at the Old Bailey for a passage , at her Majesty ' s expense , to Van Diemen ' s Land . "
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A weU-dressed man , accompanied by a . woman , supposed to be bis wife , applied on Sunday to Mr . Ansell , the proprietor of a coffee-shop in the Lower Marsh , Lambeth , for a lodging . In the evening one of them was heard by some persons in an adjoining room saying , " why don ' t you come to bed ? what are you doing there ? " Some one going to the room found the man . hanging by the neck to a hat-peg , and the woman ly ing on the . bed insensible , apparently from the effects of drink or some narcotic . The man was qmte dead , and the woman was , unable to explain what had happened- _ , , . ., A ferocious beggar , named George Wood , who bears the title among his brotherhood of the " king of the western cadgers , " was brought before Mr . Lone on Saturday , by two officers of the Mendicity Society . They stated that he
had been convicted eighteen times of begging and brutally assaulting officers who had taken him into custody , and that on the whol e he had served thirty months m the House of Correction . On one occasion he drew a large knife , and attempted to stab one of the officers . Thomas Collins was finally brought before Mr . Arnold on Saturday , and the long aeries of charges against him was at length completed- He declined to say anything in his defence , and was fully committed for larceny . Among the portraits which ho had pawned wore those of Viscount Hordinge , Lord Manners , ( he Earl of Eglinton , Sir E . Codrington , the Earl of Minto , Admiral Downman , Lord Craven , Don Miguel , Viscount Camden , Lord Cathcart , Lord Hay , Lord J . Manners , Lady Bessborough , tho Countess Moreton , Mr . Justice TaUburd , W . James , Sir Henry James Ward , Messrs . Miles , Guinness , Wennett , Gladstone , Gronsditoh , Betre , Anderson , and Guin .
A number of Irishmen and women wero brought be f oro Mr . Norton on Monday , charged with making a disturbano ein the Vauxhall-road . A policeman stated , that seeing two men fighting , he interfered , and almost immediately the streofc was filled with a mob of riotous Irish , who attacked him and some other constables who come to his assistance . Mr . Norton observed that lately there had been so many of those Irish fights , and ho thought tho police ought not to bo quito so prompt in interfering . Ho would lot them break each others heads if they liked , but ho did not see
why tho police should risk their lives among such a brutal sot of follows , in attempting to quell their riots . Sovon or eight men in black masks and armed with guns and pistols , about nine o ' clock on Monday evening , entered the house of Mr . Gorrard , a tarinor , near Didsbury , ft few miles from Manchester . They locked up tho whole of tho family in a collar , ^ having clovorly entrapped u man-servant , who came home at the timo . ^ Chey then plundered the house of soino clothes , a watch , and a gun , together with 10 / . in money , and romainod an hour aftorwarda to refresh , themselves with roast beef , bread and chooBO , and beer .
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Johnny Broo ^ no been a , t Uujt captured at Brujasols , by two officera from Tujibrjidge WoIVb , named , Morten and Dadaon . Ho had boon recoguiaod , by the . Belgian , polico , who had koptf their oyo upon him . Wjttyim . ' Thoiu » ia woa tried , at Chester on Wednesday , for'iUo . m , ur 4 o $ ^ hi « mother , at Proton , noaar Birken houd . The , lfa # U » narjatod la ^ woolt wore again proved , » u 4 ^ ha jwy , a ^ cordiog to tho , ofoe ^ VW Ql Mx- 4 wflt » w Crompton , acquitted tho prwonor on the ground of insanity .
The trial of Christopher Smith , who , some weeks back was arrested for the murder of George Bush , near Bath , and who made such a singular confession , took place at Wells on Friday . The prisoner pleaded ' guilty ; ' Mr Baron Platt called for Mr . yv " alker , the surgeon of the gaol , who said he had seen Smith nearly every day for three weeks , and he had continually talked of his haying committed three murders , one having taken place seventeen years ago , when he could have been only thirteen years of age . He said he wished to be hung , and thought that if he confessed he should be hung . He stated that he had murdered his child : and it was the fact that this child had never been seen or heard of since . His conversation was perfectly rational on all other subjects , but Mr . Walker ^ ras clearly of opinion that he was insane . Mr . Boyd , a surgeon at the Somerset County Lunatic Asylum , coincided in this opinion ; another surgeon pronounced him sane . The jury decided that Smith was insane , and he was . sentenced to be detained during her Majesty ' s pleasure .
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A man named Frederick Somerville was found dead in Hyde Park a few days ago . Oil of bitter almonds was found in his stomach . Two or three men were at work in a limestone quarry near Llangattock , Monmouthshire , on Friday , when one side of the quarry slipped and fell with a frig htful crash , burying the poor men beneath the mass . It is stated that 60 , 000 tons have fallen . A large body of men irom the neighbouring quarries at once set to work to remove the fallen material , but it must be some time befrre they can uncover the
bodies-Three engineers entered the boiler of the Widgeon steamer , lying at Woolwich , on Tuesday , without having taken the necessary precautions . In a very short time , it was found that they had fallen , overcome by the foul air . A convict at work on board at the time , ventured into the boiler , and brought out each of them through the narrow man-hole , being obliged to come up himself several times to breathe the fresh air . A horrible catastrop he has occurred on the Hudson river . The steamboat Henry Clay , after racing a
considerable distance with another steamer ( the Armenia ) belonging to a rival line , caught fire amid-ships , and was run on shore ; and there being 300 or 400 passengers on board , a frightful scene of terror ensued . From 50 to 60 persons were either drowned or burnt , and the remainder caved their lives with the greatest difficulty . This calamity has excited the greatest sensation in New York , and the details of the occurrence exhibit a fearful disregard of human life on the part of Amer ican steamboat proprietors . Some " indignation" meetings of the survivors and their friends have been held at New York .
A nursemaid at Hollingbourne went to sleep before the kitchen fire early on Saturday morning , haying an infant in her lapi Her dress caught fire , and givingthe infant to another woman , she ran out into the yard . Her master , Mr . Marshall , on hearing her screams , jumped out of bed , and without putting on any of his clothes ran out into the yard with a blanket . He threw the blanket over the girl and smothered the flames , which would otherwise soon have burnt her to death . Tho Cumberland Facquet states that a young girl , named Hughes , fell into a well 60 feet deep , at Wetherall , a few days ago . A man went down in a bucket for th « purpose of bringing up her corpse , but was astonished to find her not ooSy alive , but uninjured , except by a few triflins- bruises . The narrowness of the shaf t rendering it
difficult to raise the bucket , she again fell to the bottom , after having been lifted 12 or 16 feet . She waa ultimately extricated in a state very little the worse for her falls . A fearful thunder-storm took place in the neighbourhood of Manchester , between ten ajnd eleven o ' clock on Tuesday morning . The lightning struck a chimney at the en ^ J of a row of eight unfinished houses . Th , o electricity seems to have run along a leaden gutter at the front of the roof , sending off branches , through almost every one of the houses . These streams seem to have taken nearly a similar course in each case , passing- down chieflworkmenwho
through tho houses . Seven persons , y , were in the houses , wore struck , four of whom were kiUod instantly . A barn in a large form-yard , bolonging to Mr . Thomaa Collier , of Parrock Hall , on tho east side of Windmill Hill , Gravesend , took fire on Sunday night , about halfpast nine o ' clock . Tho yard is very close to tho b . 01 , 1 , and contains an extensive range of buildings . Tho fire rapidly caught two or tlarco stacks of hay and straw , and extended , from them to tho great range of barns . An abundant supply of water was at hand , and enablod the firemen , who wore assisted by a body of soldiers from tho fort , to keep the fire from tho mansion and its out-offices . Tho whole
of tho farm-yard , however , was awept by the ttames , and all tho barns and farm-buildings , destroyed . A large oil and flour-mill , belonging to Mr . Edward Bell , called Tottenham Millp , caught fire on Sunday morning , about four o ' clock- The bunding occupied an island in tho rivor Lea , a nd is nearly ono hundred aud fifty feet long . The fire waa first noticed by a watchman , who soon brought tho parish engine to tho spot , and a laessnge waa immediately aftcrwarda telegraphed to London for further assistance . Throe wginos , with strong bodies of firemen , started at once ftpm town , and armed at Tottenham , oil mill
in little moro than half an hour . The was aoon on fire throughout ; tbo Hour mill , which contained three hundred quarters of corn , and a large quantity o % flour , and which i « only separated from the oth ^ r by an interval of eighteen feet , waa not long spared . AU , that tl » o fu ;* , men could effect was tho presorvat ^ n of the engmo houso and some outbuildings , and to retrain the fire from extending beyond the promises of the millB . At one time seventj tons of oil , and subsequently several other largfl quimtitws took tiro , and bursting , tho yoaacl m winch , they worb contaW > 4 , W upon fcho riyor m , « bur ^ ug jfcU , Workmen have ainco been employed m ¦ TtUMiung tiu > oU from tho Burfaco of tho rivor .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 14, 1852, page 773, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1947/page/9/
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