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was putting the barrel in his pocket , when the percussion cap which he had imprudently placed on the nipple , exploded , sending the charge through his heart . A venomous snake was found in Queen-street , Cheapside under a pile of window sashes . How it came there is not known . Edward Dunn , a private of the 30 th foot , who appears to have been somewhat deranged , jumped off Shakspere's cliff on Monday week , and was killed . James Lewes and Thomas Cookson , old heroes in Thames sculling matches , both died last week ; the first by drowning , the second in a kind of apoplectic fit . Another man has died from wounds received at Sixmile-bridge ; and two other persons have been arrested on the information of the soldiers , for being concerned in the riot .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 1 st insfc ., at Pixton-park , ( ho Lady Mary Hood : a daughter . On the : inl insfc ., at ' Brunswiok-H'ni ; iro , Brighton , the wifo of Hi " Itfv . William Montgomery Hiu-osford , oi" Mcllifont Glcbo , county of Louth , Ireland : a daughter . On Mm 3 rd hint ., at III , Lower JJrook-slroct , tho Lady Wodojiohhc : a diiu ^ htor . On the Mil inst ., at No . 5 , Upper 1 larky-street , the Lady Caroline ( Jnrnier : a dim ^ hter . On the-tth inst ., at Kield-hoiiHO , in tho county of Durham , Lady Braekonbnry , of Mkondleby-liiill , in the county of Lincoln : a win . MAUKIAGHS . Ontlin 20 l . li of . Inly , nt 1 'Yedcrieldon , New Brimswiok , Kdiiuiud ( Cornwall Lctfh , Khii ., !) 7 lh Ketciinent , to . Julia , Heeond ( laughter of Liu ; Hon . Nevillo Parker , Mantel-of the Rolls oil lutt , province . On \\ n : Hist ult ., at Hurtst , Church , IJorltH , Frederick Lewis Horym ^ eonr Weilderburn , Ksq ., of Weddorlmrn , Korfurnliire , and Hirkliill , Kite , to Melina Mary , second daughter of the late Captain ( Sarth , it . N ., of IIiiiiMw-iiill , Berlin . On the \ iiui hint ., at i ' eiirlrco green ( Jliureh , near KoiithatU ]) - ton , ChnrlcM ( iarner , hou of the late Kir H < Miry Richardson , of OIichmcI , Hunts , to Caroline Henhornu , Heeond daughter of the Rev . C . VV . Dnvv , of Heal lillcld Bit ( erne , and niece , of Lieutoiiunt-General . Sir Win . ( 1 . Davy , C . B ., K . C . H ., of Tracy-park , near Bath . On the 4 th iiiHt ., nt Trinit y Church , Bronipton , Matliew Parker , Knq ., hdii of the late Win . 1 ' arker , Khii ., Culhani , BerltH , to Nevillia Kiiiiliu Donnelly , only ( laughter of the lute TIiodiuh Gunning , Kh (| ., InHpeHor-Goiieral Army Medical Department , of Urompton-creHcent . At the UritiHli Legation , * Bi-iihmc 1 h , Kichnrd Giihiiichh Hill , of Hlillorgun , in the county of Dublin , Km < j ., to Amy ( Jeorgina Burdett , youngest daughter of the late William Joiich Burdett , Km ) ., of ' tSlowcy-hoiiHc , HoiiKM-HelMliins and Twickenham , i \ liddlcHex , and niece of the late Hir Krnneirt Burdett , Bart . DKATIIH . At her rOHi . leneo , Briimford-hall , HullVilk , Lady Mi « ldleton , widow of Hir W . Middleton , HaW ., of HIiriibliind-iMirk , in the 04 th year of her ago . ,, On the 22 nd ult ., at Gibraltar , aged 7 ( 1 , ThonuiH I ' ower . lwq ., during iimny yearH \ Ui »» mn ( Joi . h . iI at that |> ort , and H . unor mirviviug partner in the hou . se of Arclibol . l , JoliiiHon and 1 ovvers On the : Uh ( , ult ., at I'lamlow , IWx , aged B . I , Ivlwanl Htoek , late of l ' o , ) lar , IW . ono of Her Majon < y ' n . ( iwtioos o < the I ouco lor the county of Middlene * . . .. . On the 2 nd hint ., at Claymnore , Knileld , Mcrclmn , wilo ot 1 . W . BoMftiuniet , lflHq ., and only daughter of tlio Into Jtignt " <»> . Jjord ChieJ . luntioe Tiudal , aged U 7 . . . On tho 2 nd iiitit ., at Toiibridgo-wolls , Georgo KicharUHCm Torter , Jttaa ., Joiut Uourotorv to tho Jiourd of Trade ,
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Satubday , September 11 . The Tenant Bight Conference was brought to a close on Thursday evening , and resolutions intended to secure the enactment of Mr . Sharman Crawford ' s bill were agreed to . It should have been stated that . forty-one members of Parliament attended the conference . In the evening a banquet was given to Mr . Crawford , which was a very spirited affair . And yesterday a meeting was held at which seventeen Irish members attended ; and a committee was appointed , preliminary to a conference , to decide upon ^ ie manner in which the question affecting religious equality shall be treated nfixf-, session .
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Thursday will be memorable in the rule of M . Bonaparte . It has been marked by the first unmistakable exercise of despotic power , which has occurred since the ostensible deposition of the dictatorship on the 29 th of March . The Paris newspaper Corsaire has been suppressed by a decree , signed Louis Napoleon . Austria ( says the Constitutibnnel of yesterday ) has just made an additional step in her attempts to absorb all the petty States in a commercial and customs union . The Duchy of Parma , which had long repulsed the propositions of Austria , lias at length acceded to' them . A treaty has been signed , and Baron Ward has left Parma for Vienna to exchange ratifications . He was to have arrived there on the 6 th instant .
The Minister of the Interior has postponed the opening of the Provincial Diet of Posen from the 12 th to the 19 th inst ., on account of the prevalence of the cholera . The last returns are to the 3 rd , on which day there were 99 new cases , and 37 deaths ; 434 remained under treatment . The Catholic Archbishop of the diocess had issued a pastoral letter to the clergy , directing them to exhort the people from the pulpit to . contribute funds for the relief of the places in which the epidemic rages , and to form committees to assist the authorities as much as possible in their sanitary measures . In Brombcrg the disease has increased ; in consequence of its progress , a telegraphic despatch from the War-office in Berlin of the 4 th countermanded the annual exercise
of the Landwchr for tho present season . The men who hud assembled were dismissed to their homes . The manoeuvres of the division of regular troops stationed in the district have also been suspended for the same reason . The disease had appeared in Ortelsburg and its vicinity . In Ostrowa the number of ca ^ es has been in all 428 , of whom 225 died ; 191 have recovered . In Dantzic by the hut returns the disease wai on the increase ; on tho 30 th and 31 st ult ., 60 new cases and 20 deaths were reported ; it also appeared in the villages of Oliva and Oppot . Reports of the appearance of the epidemic in Hreslau have boon contradicted officially . Tho report of its having appeared in Magdeburg was founded on some isolated cases of dysentery that terminated fatally .
Miidemo ' iBelle Wagner appeared on tho 7 th at Berlin , for tho first time after her long absence , an Jtoineo , in Bellini ' s Capulctfi c Montccchi . The valuable musical library of the celebrated organist llink , of Berlin , hu » been purchased by Professor Lowell Mason , of New York . The Emperor of Austria , whilst attending some military uianumvrcs at Vienna on the 4 th , fell from his horse ; but fortunately his Majesty was not hurt .
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The Birmingham Musical Festival concluded on Thursday . It linn realized the sum of 10 , 7517 . In . 1849 , K 9 () 2 / ., and in 1846 , 1 . 0 , 17 (>/ . were collected . We are glad to hear that the City of London School lias given fifty guineas to tho widow and family ( eight children ) of their late professor of drawing , Mr . . 1 . W . Allen , the well-known landscape painter , whose sudden < UaMi on tho 29 th ult ., left them in such ai state that it . was found necessary to make an appeal to his friends and tho admirers of art . The head-master , tho Rev . Or . Mortimer , lias also given ten guineas , and tho othor masters have made this sum up to thirty guineas . Ah tho Hum of 1000 / . would permanently benefit tho widow and family of this truly English artist , a grcait effort is buinur miulu to raiwe thin uuin ; and we heartily
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wish well to this proper testimonial to the artist and the man .
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The inquest on the body of Robinson , who was murdered near Sheffield , was concluded on Thursday , a man , named Hinde , who saw Barber near the spot gave the following characteristic evidence : —• ' George Hinde—I live at Newfield-green , and rent a small farm under Miss Brownell . On Thursday last I was coming from Newfield-green to Sheffield , as near three o ' clock as I can tell . When I got at the bottom of Mr Pearson ' s clover-field , and just below Mr . Renton ' s house I sat on the stone steps leading from the road to the footpath across the fields . While I was sitting there , smoking a bit o' bacco , two men came up . One of them carried a bundle under his arm and a parcel in his hand . He was taller than the other man . I got up to let them pass over the steps along the footpath leading to Newfield-green and
Grleadless . 1 said to them , " 1 will give you room , gentlemen , to come over , " and the man without th e bundle said " What are you doing sitting here ? It ' s proper you were at some employment . " I told him I thought I had as much right to sit there to smoke a bit of'bacco as he had . ( Laughter , in which the prisoner joined . ) He did not say anything more . I turned myself round and looked after them , and I tell ' d that young man that hugged ( carried ) the bundles to let that other young man " hug one . " ( Renewed laughter , the prisoner joining . ) Him that had the bundle turned round and smiled , but said nothing . I did not take particular notice , but I know that the one who carried the bundle was taller and slenderer than the other . Would you know him again ?—Well , I don't know . I didn't take particular notice of him . I didn't think it worth while . ( Laughter . )
The witness was here taken into an adjoining room , and from four others he instantly selected the prisoner , exclaiming , " That ' s the man , ' and said to the prisoner , " Didn ' t you see me in my smock-frock on't steps ? " The prisoner replied , " Never . " On returning to the room this was reported to the jury , and the witness added , '' I ' m sure it ' s the man that spoke to me on Thursday , and who was with the taller man that carried the bundle . " The Deputv Coroner . —You have also heard the prisoner
speak just now ; do you think his voice resembles that of the person who spoke to you ? _ Witness . —I am quite certain he is the man . Three boys who were near , heard pistol shots . At the close of the inquiry , Barber was asked what he had to say ; and he replied in a firm voice , and repeating the words dictated by his solicitor , said , " I am not guilty of this supposed murder ; and , if sent for trial , I reserve my defence to the charge . " to the statement
The prisoner signed his name " James Barbour , " though throughout the proceedings the name had been treated as Barber . The jury returned the following verdict : — " We unanimously agree in a verdict of Wilful Murder against James Barber . " A truly " horrible" accident happened on Wednesday evening , on the Manchester , Sheffield , and Li ncolnshire Railway . The train was one of the Great Northern Company , which leaves the Sheffield station at 9 . 10 p . m ., in order to arrive at Retford in time for the mail train from the north , which is due at the latter place at 10 o ' clock . On arriving at the embankment about three-quarters of a mile from the Woodhouse junction , and less than four miles from Sheffield , on Wednesday evening , the train from some cause or other got ofl tho line ; the engine and carriages ran some distance ,
tearing up the rails and earth , when the former fell over tho south side of the embankment , which is he re fifty feet high , and tho hitter over the north side , the driver being crushed under tho fire-box , where he lay , with his legs burning , for upwards of an hour before ho could be extricated . Tho guard was killed on the spot , and tho other persons in tho train more or less injured . Tho following statements , by tho stoker a nd one of t ho passengers , embody all tho material details of this shocking occurrence : —
William Loo , tho stoker , states , —Wo loft tho « 1 » jJ ' station at ten minutes past nino o ' clock last night ( vyc " nosduy ) , and wont on as usual until we got to within ft mile of WoodhouHO junction . I . perceived nothing wrong until wo ran off tho rails . Tho ongino ran off tho up- mo , alter tearing up about eighty yards of both tho rails , when , by a jerk , h ! io ran across tho down-lino , tearing somo o tho linen up there , and then foil over tho embankment on tho down or south side of tho lino . Tho carriages , UrcaK . van , and goods carriages woro thrown down tho onion mont on tho up , or north side of tho lino . By tho on * ? "' electric Wir
going off on tho other sido of tho lino , tho - were broken down by tlio chimnoy . Whon wo got to i « bottom of tho embankment , I found mysoll under ' ¦' ongino , and crept out botwoon tho driving-whool and « of tho others . I looked around , but could hoo "" V ^ , guard nor driver . I afterwards saw Gosling , ono oi ¦ puflsengors , but I was ho affected with hoing wca woiri j stunned , that I scarcely know what I wiw about . / determined to go to tlio Woodhouso junction , but , 1 ""' of doing ho , by mistake I took thoroad to Bhofhold , w " "' I ran as fast a « 1 was ablo all tho way . Or . arriving Ujor I procured the pilot angina belonging to tho . ^™" j Kheflield , and Liricolrisliiro Railway , and again PJ ^ j to Mm spot . Whon wo got thoro , Homo powons jut £ uoor Wriirht out , and convoyod him away to tno under
Lum . junction . Ho had boon found u . > ^ . omplotoly imbedded iu tho sand . 1 procew «( I to v * Iioubo junction , and thoro saw Wright witU both . -hia U , burnt to a cinder , and almoet off . lie had boen arna ^ down under the iirobox . Whon I found Tuckwood , h » «*
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HEALTH OP L 0 XD 0 N DURING THE WEEK . Ik the week ending last Saturday , 966 deaths were registered in the metropolitan districts , showing a considerable decrease on the mortality of August . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1842—51 , tho average number of deaths was 1143 , which , with a correction for increase of population , becomes 1257 . In comparing the deaths of last week with this average , it is proper to bear in mind that the latter is lnueh increased by the cholera that prevailed at this season in 1849 . In the epidemic class of diseases it will be perceived that small-pox has become much less fatal in London than it was at an earlier period of the year . Twelve cases were registered last week , and amongst these is recorded the death of a labourer , at the age of forty-five years , in Upper Holloway , who had caught the disease from one of his
children who had not been vaccinated . It is omitted to be stated whether vaccination , had been performed in his case Last week , diarrhoea carried off 89 children , and 16 persons of more advanced age ; cholera was fatal to 8 persons , 4 of whom were adults . It is satisfactory to observe that these complaints , usually so fatal among children during the summer months , are now on the decline . The Registrar of Fulham , however , calls attention to the great prevalence of diarrhoea at the present time in part of his district , and also to the bad sanatory condition of the locality . Fifty-three deaths are returned as caused by scarlatina . In Hoxton , Old Town , at 8 , Old Ivy-street , the three sons of a spectacle-maker , aged respectively 7 months , 2 years , and 4 years , died of scarlatina maligna , each after five days' illness . Two of the deaths occurred on the 1 st of September , one on the 2 nd . Mr . Pcarce , the Registrar , remarks in reference to these cases : " In this house there
are frequently very offensive smells , arising from imperfect drainage , and having a tendency to produce infectious disease . The above cases were in a state of collapse when the medical attendant was first called in . The fatal results might have been prevented by proper attention to cleanliness and seasonable medical nid . " Last woek the births of 785 boys and 739 girls , in all 1524 children , were registered in London . The average number in seven corresponding weeks of tho years 1845-51 was At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean daily reading of the barometer was above 30 in . on W e dnesday , Thursday , and Friday . Tho moan of tho week was 29-979 in . Tho mean temperature of tho woek Avas 62-4 dog ., which is 2 - 8 dog . above tho average of tho same woek in ten years .
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TO READERS AND CORRESPONDENTS . It is impossible to acknowledge the mass of letters we receive . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a press of matter j and when omitted , it is frequently from reasons quite independent of the merits of the communication . _ . ^^ No notice can be taken of anonymous communications . Wnatever is intended for insertion must be authenticated by the name and address of the writer ; not necessarily for publication , but as a guarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to . return rejected communications . All letters for the Editor should be addressed to 10 , Wellingtonstreet , Strand , London . Communications should always be legibly written , and on one side of the paper only . If long , it increases the difficulty ot finding space for them .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 11, 1852, page 870, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1951/page/10/
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