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The Earl of Shaffcesbury has promised to be present and among other gentlemen expected are Sir E . Bulwer T xrff «« M P and Mr . Charles Dickens . 7 Welsh and Mr . Wicklin , of the Kew Observatory , amended in a balloon , on Tuesday , for the purpose of scien-K observation . They reached a height of 19 , 400 feet , in a temperature of 7 ° Fahrenheit . They descended near Cambridge , having travelled nearly sixty miles in an hour and thirty-five minutes . . The Electric Telegraph Company have arranged with the Astronomer Royal , at Greenwich , for distributing information of correct Greenwich time to all parts of London , as well as to all the principal ports of England and Scotland . A zinc ball , six feet in diameter , painted a bright red , has been raised above the Electric Telegraph OfUceat Charing-cross ; and it has been contrived that it
, shall drop at one o ' clock , simultaneously with the ball above the Royal Observatory at Greenwich . The Leeds Chamber of Commerce held a special meeting last Saturday to consider the present state of our relations with the United States . The general feeling was that the Government should be memorialized , praving that every means might be used to bring about amicable relations . Some of the American merchants present , however , expressed an opinion that the state of affairs was really far less menacing than was generally supposed ; and one of them was satisfied , from his private correspondence , that there was no real danger to peace , the great outcry made having been originated in the United States for politica purposes . The meeting was adjourned till the following Thursday .
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The North and South Western Junction Railway is expected to be opened about the 7 th of next month . Agricultural labourers have become so scarce in West Sussex , that the services of the Scots Fusilier Guards have been obtained to assist in harvesting the crops in some places . . A great many colliers in the counties of Stirling and Linlithgow have , we understand , left their work this week and betaken themselves to shearing , at which they are earning 3 s . per day . To so great an extent has this taken place , that in the case of one colliery 78 men have left , and the result is already beginning to tell on the traffic receipts of the Monklands Mineral Railway . It is some consolation that , even should all the Irish go off to the gold diggins , we shall have our black-diamond men to fall back upon , in order to get in our golden grain . —North JBritisJi Mail .
Mr . H . Sewell of the Mansion House , who was requested by the Lord Mayor to accompany the emigrants to Liverpool , who were about to sail by the City of Lincoln , reported to his lordship , on Wednesday , the success of his mission . The vessel had fallen into the hands of a man of respectability , who had paid great attention to the comforts of the passengers . He further stated that the Prince Alfred , the delay of which had been bitterly complained of , had passed through the Downs . The Emigrants' Aid and Transit Society held a meeting on Tuesday evening , at the Apollonicon Rooms , St . Martin ' s-lane . Lord Erskino presided . Mr . Guedalla , a
gentleman who had spent some years in the colonies of Australia , stated that the object of the society was to carry out an organized system of emigration , as recommended by Mrs . Chisholm . The society had an agent in the colony , Mr . W . Hawkins , through whose means settlers might provide for the sending out of their relations . The society had not been formed by speculators;—its only object was the benefit of the emigrants . There woro two classes in the society—emigration classes and colonizing classes' ; the subscriptions of the former went entirely to defray tho expenses of the passage out ; those of the latter formed a fund for the purchase of land in Australia .
The city solicitor appeared at the Mansion-house on Tuesday , by the direction of the Court , of Aldermen , to prefer an information against Captain Chippenham , for overloading the Queen , a steamer plying between 11 erne Bay and the city of London , liy an act of tho 14 th and 15 th Victoria , a penally of 201 . is " imposed for this offence upon the owner , muster , or other person having charge of a steamer , together with fts . for each person over tho nuin )> ar authorized to be carried by the certificate issued by tho ' Hoard of Trade . Several witnesses proved that there were C >( H 5 passengers on board , while tho certificate } only authorized her to curry 3 < K ) . Tho Lord Mayor lined tho captain 6 / . for the principal offence , and 57 . for excess of number , making together KM . ; if the offence were committed in future , either by Captain Chipponhum or by any other person , tho full penalty would be inflicted .
Mr . Lionel George Thompson , of Riches-court , Lime-Btroet , appeared at , the Mansion-house on Saturday , to answer to complaints of several persons respecting the delay of it vessel which had been announced to Hail for l ' ort , J'hilip on the lOth of July . Tho vessel in which the complainants were originally to nail , had been , from Home unavoidable oireuinHtances , laid aside , and tho i'itij of Lincoln , now at . Liverpool , had boon substituted . Mr . Hallantine , on hohulf of Mr . Thompson , admitted that tho emigrants had boon subjected to unreasonable delay , and Mr . Thompson
wuh willing to pay them compensation . Ho bad himself Huffored severely from tho failure of tho parties on whoso bohulf ho hud engaged tho passengers . Tho vessel would , however , bo ready to . sail on Monday next , and thorn ! who had engaged their passugos might , either l-uko their bortliH or receive again their passage money , in either case having the sum of 5 / . uh compensation for tho delay . Tho Lord Mayor and . Alderman Finnis advised tho complainants to ureopl . these terms , and directed Mr . Honry Newell , of I ho Mansion-house , to proceed to Liverpool to superintend 11 <¦ urrunLrementH for their bonofit .
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Charles Collins , who lias become notorious for raising lnonoy on portraits of ominonl , persons , was triod at tho Central Criminal Court on Wednesday . Throo eases woro rotio into , but through defects in tho evidence ho was ucquittod upon till of thorn . Inspector Gumming tuiid that
there were fifty other cases if the parties would have prosecuted . , The Tunbridge-Wells constables , Morton and JDadson , who discovered Johnny Broome at Brussels , attended on Saturday before the magistrates at Brighton to report their proceedings . They stated that they had not been able to bring him to England , as the laws of Belgium would not allow them , to do bo . The Belgian authorities , however , will expel him from that country , and at his own desire will send him to Hamburg . It is expected that he will not be allowed to enter Prussia , but will then be sent back to England , in which case the police will accompany him on his return .
. Mr . Sergeant Wrangham , and two other magistrates for Gloucestershire , were occupied , on Tuesday , in inquiring into the cases of twenty-three persons , concerned in the late riots at Bridge Yate , during the late election . Twenty-one of them were committed for rioting ^ and two for highway-robbery and assault upon Mr . Dickenson , one of the county magistrates . Two policemen were nearly killed in the riot , and several others more or less injured . Thomas Medley was charged at the Lambeth poncecourt , on Tuesday , with altering the date of a railway ticket , and attempting to defraud the South-Western
Railway Company of twelve shillings , his fare irom Southampton . On arriving at the Waterloo Station , he had offered the ticket in question , which was a return ticket dated the 1 st of this month , merely entitling the holder to go and return on that day . The date had been altered to the 16 th . Medley said he had bought it for two shillings , on the morningjbf his journey , from a man who looked like a sailor . He did not think there was any harm in his using it . The officer of the company did not wish to press the charge , as it might have been done through ignorance or mistake . Mr . Norton , consequently , merely ordered the man to pay the twelve shillings .
William Rose , who stated that "he had a regular stipulated emolument or stipend as a general independent agent of the General United and Incorporated Association for Providing and Producing everything required for the Benefit , Comfort , Consumption , and advancement of Mankind , " was indicted at the Middlesex Sessions on Tuesday , for obtaining the sum of 11 . 5 s . 6 d . from Joseph Wilson on false pretences . He had met with Wilson and told him a story about 7501 . in money , and thirty-seven acres of land in
Warwickshire , that Wilson was entitled to . He represented that he had come to a knowledge of these facts through being an officer of the Court of Chancery . By these impositions he had gulled Wilson out of the sum of 5 s . 6 d . at one time , and of a sovereign at another time , the latter to pay for filing a bill : Wilson ' s suspicions had at last been aroused , and he had given Rose into custody . It seems that he has been playing the same trick upOn other persons . He was remanded in order that further information might be obtained .
William Avis , who was summoned last week on a charge of having buried an infant without a proper certificate , appeared again at Bow-street , on Wednesday . It was on this occasion proved that the certificate had been made out and given to the grandmother , and that she had given it to the daughter of Avis , who was acting as agent for him iu his shop , when the body was left in his charge . As it was stated on behalf of Avis that he had not had the certificate , the case turned upon the question whether he had ' •' buried" the body within the meaning of the act . Mr . Henry referred to Johnson ' s Dictionary , which described the word " bury" as signifying " to put in a grave , to hide , to conceal . " Ho thought it was quite clear that there was in this case a concealment of the body from the 7 th of June , when it was delivered to the defendant to be buried , until the 10 th of August , when the officers found tho body in the coal vault , of Mr . Avis ' s house , and , consequently , that this case came within the act . I To sentenced Avis
to a fine ol M . A body of navvies were drinking at a public house belonging to David Duvies , at , Lower Swinford , in Worcestershire , on the evening of Monday week . A quarrel arose amongst them , nnd thoy turned out to fight . They returned to the house and kept up a great disturbance , so that a crowd was collected in front of the door . In the midst , of it Duvies came homo , and was greatly annoyed at the riot . He tried roughly to disperse tho mob , and
enraged at his want of success , ho returned to tho house and armed himself with two guns , one single and tho other double-barrelled . Thus prepared , and with a son to assist in reloading tho weapons , ho opened a battory upon tho mob from an upper window and fired four shots . Ono woman , who was looking for ono of her children , wan killed , one man is not , expected to recover from tho wounds ho received , and throe othor persons , two of thorn women , wero seriously injured . Duvies is committed for trial on tho charge of " wilful murder ; " his hoii is committed us an accessory .
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Mr . llartland , tho comedian , passing along tho pavement in Mount ,-strcet , Westminster , was killed by the falling of it piece of scaffolding . A vessel at , Henderson ' s ship-building yard heolod over u few days ago , and foil on a number of mon . Between seven and twelve men aro said to have boon killed . Fifteen men at work upon the Orinoco Htcumor , lying in tho Southampton dock , got , upon a raft , on Tuesday , to go to dinner . Tho raft , upset ., and they all went into tho water . It is feared that ono or two of them woro drowned . A n inquiry was eoimnoneod on Wednesday at , Southampton , respecting tho fire which broke out , on hoard tho West India Mail Steam ship tionorn . . " Nothing , however , was brought to light , which , afforded any explanation of tho euuso of tho tiro .
A young man left London , with his wife , for (/ hooter , on Wednesday , in u first-class carriage . Tho husband being very unwell they Iwul a compartment , to themselves . On arriving at , Chester tho wifo uwoko out of it gentle dozo into which she hud fallen , and on turning to hor huubund « ho found he wua dead .
Mr . William Cam , of Clinger Farm , in the nari \ Cam , in Gloucestershire , received a kick in the facef one of his cows , as he was milking her . It is sunn ^ that she was frightened by a rabbit . He died befor tv , next morning , although he obtained tho best medical Ja * vice that could be had . meoical ad-A boy named William Leed , in passing along a strwf in Manchester , during the thunder-storm of Tuesday it was struck on the forehead by the electricit y , and bee completely blind . His temples , as well as one of his thin * were burnt . There is some hope of the recovery of V sight . J aw A thunderstorm of uncommon severit y visited the neieth bourhood of Bristol on the night of Friday week , and lasted for above three hours , increasing in violence during that time . The rain was so heavy that several places were in undated ; at Congresburg a massive stone wall , six feet in height , was washed away , and a horse was carried off its legs and drowned ; at Redhill , a large piece of wheat that was in shock was floated away entirely . In various places the crops were damaged or destroyed .
Some extensive farm premises , near Colchester , in the occupation of Mr . Samuel Bloomfield Blyth , of Langham , were destroyed by fire on Tuesday week . The fire was caused by a stream of electricity , which it is said had the appearance of a rocket , and was observed " to go hissing through the farmyard , and strike the end of a barn ' setting it in a blaze in a few minutes . ' A fire took place in Fitzroy-court , Tottenham-courfc-road about three o'clock on Monday morning . The inmates of the house in which the fire commenced had but just time to escape . The fire soon spread to the adjoining houses and the heat became so great that those living opposite could scarcely leave their houses without injury . One house , No . 3 , was completely destroyed ; Wo . 4 suffered but little less . Five other houses were damaged more or less .
A fire was discovered by a policeman about two o ' clock on Saturday morning , in the house of Mr , Feyle , in Wellington-place , West India Dock-road . On the alarm being given , Mr . Feyle at once jumped out of bed , but the floor was so hot that he could scarcely stand upon it . By the time he had aroused all the household the staircase was burning so fiercely that they were quite unable to eseape in that way . Eventually , however , all but two of them contrived to escape by the upper windows . The house was completely destroyed . The body of one of the sufferers has been found under the ruins .
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The efforts made to bring up the Duchess of Kent were rewarded with some success on Tuesday , her decks being brought above the level of the tide at low water . The East India Company has just determined to establish a system of electric telegraphs in India , traversing a distance of 3000 miles , and connecting Calcutta , Agra , Lahore , Bombay , and Madras . It is to be completed within three years . A return to the House of Lords just printed states that the number of cases heard before the commissioners of insolvency on circuit in 1841 was 3832 ; in 1842 , 2955 ; hi 1843 , 2533 ; in 1844 , 1715 ; in 1845 , 598 ; in 1846 , 650 ; and in 1847 , 566 . After the spring nnd summer ones in
this year the circuits aro abolished . Tho Portland Argus gives us tho following story : —A young man named Bean , of twenty years of age , was haying in a field near Andover , Oxford County , Maine , together with a boy of twelve years of ago , when he suddenly saw a large white-faced bear near him . He fired a fowling-piece at the brute , but with little effect . Ho retreated backwards slowly , loading his gun at tho same time , but , just as it was charged , ho tripped up and iell . He was able to fire once more , as tho bear fell upon him , but withno result . The bear began upon his leftarm , bitingrt severclv . and was at the same time scratching tho young man s
breast with hispaw . The shaggy tormentor then determined to make short work with his victim , and opened . his nugo mouth to make a bito at tho young man ' s laco ; at tliai momont Bean , with a desperate effort , thrust his w " ™ „ arm down the creature ' s throat as far as he could , uw bear was thus " fixed , " and could neither advance nor retreat . Bean now got tho boy to como and tako a Km out of his pocket , to do which it was necessary to pusli . iaa boar ' s head a little on one side . Tho young man then , with his disengaged arm , cut tho bear ' s throat lrom oar oar , killing him stono dead us ho lay upon him . Tho Blanche , Indiaman , on her passage from Snl k ' Q P ?™ to Ningpo , in China , having sailod throug h tho Java , * to tho Pacific , struck on Helen ' s Shoal , on tno Aia { January . Sho sunk in about a quartor of an hour . Kn li / . i- bouts wjih , rnt , n / loiit . and tho crow , numbering two" v wcjl
nine persons , got , on board with ono hundred pounds of broad , this being all that thoy hud timo to obtain . * J bad no water . Soon after , falling in with tho wl » ftl « - ° 5 bottom upwards , thoy separated their party , iinu i >«•¦ out for Lord North ' s Island . Tho next nigh ' , how » v ^ , they lost , sight of each other , and tho whale-boat , an ^ crew havo novor boon heard of since . Alter live «' , ] , „ severe suffering from fatigue and thirst , thoy rcux , _ ^ islands of Syang and Wyung , and tho next »<> fr <>«(< irl with uroai , »••
by tho rajah . " After remaining there lor tuu ' ' ]) Ul , lo ffie rajnli sent them to Uatavia , and < ; ' »<'"< ' <> l " / w | lOiri their Way to I ' crnuto , where thoy found t , lio <'" ' . ' i ,, i (! H , they had left , at ( lagy , in prison . The DutcH lh () ir to whom thoy had boon delivered H |> , not u »> ' > ( . () n . account , of themselves satinfuctory , hud put tn « ' » f ( ho fineinent , but released thorn on tho u PP lu ! tt " nBi ( lorabl " captain . With much difficulty , and ^ ' ~" porO . Buffering , thoy auccoodod in ff ottin £ book to wmh i
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798 . THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 21, 1852, page 798, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1948/page/10/
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