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only fact of importance in the journals is the official introduction of the new Peruvian Minister at Washington to the President . The expressions on both sides were hig hly favourable to peace .
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The Corporation of Liverpool have passed a resolution requesting the mayor to apply to the proper authorities , that the inhabitants of the town may be represented by the mayor , supported by members of the council , at the funeral of the Duke of Wellington . Greenock , grateful for the long and efficient services of Mr . "Wallace , her late representative , has subscribed a round sum for him , purchased an annuity of 5001 . with it , to smooth the asperities of a poverty-stricken old age , and presented Mr . Wallace with a marble bust of himself . Mr . Thomas Thomson , one of the colleagues of Jeffrey , Sidney Smith , and Brougham , in the establishment of the Edinburgh Review , died on the 2 nd of October . He was one of the Clerks of Session . Mr . Thomson was , it is said , a thorough Liberal , a learned antiquary , a profound lawyer , and an excellent man . His great service was the collecting and arranging of the national records and muniments .
The Birmingham Fine Arts Prize Association have conferred their premium of sixty guineas on Mr . Edward M . Ward , A . R . A ., for his picture of " Charlotte Corday going to Execution . " The " Ophelia , " painted by Mr . Millais , was honourably mentioned . The French journal of Frankfort of the 3 rd , says that Prince Lucien Bonaparte is at Hombourg , where he plays at the public gaming-tables with varied fortune . After his winning 150 , 000 florins on the 30 th ult ., the bank was compelled to close .
A sporting paper states that the Home Secretary , last week , gave his approval to the draft of a bill , aiming at the suppression of betting-houses . It is remarked that the measure , as approved , is calculated to give an impetus to betting , and to create a new class of offices for its conduct on a larger scale . - Miss Blair , a ward in Chancery , heiress to about £ 1000 a year , has eloped with a daring gentleman named Garratt O'Moore , who apparently has no fear of the Lord Chancellor . The bridegroom is The O'Moore of Queen ' s County . Why the " parties" ran away is only conjectured , as the young lady is only seventeen , and her parents were not averse to the match . But it was thought the Lord Chancellor would not consent .
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" Prosperity" has reached the iron districts of Wales , and workmen in some places have obtained a rise in their wages . . Emigration from the Isle of Skye and St . Kilda is going on very fast . Four hundred landed at Glasgow last Friday , including thirty-six from St . Kilda . Mr . trancis Pryor has just got up a company , with a capital of 40 , 000 / . ; to work the Poldice and Wheal Unity Mines in Cornwall . Emigrants are now proceeding direct to Australia from the North of Scotland . On Friday week , the Jean Geary brig left Aberdeen for Port Philip , with 70 passengers , all froin the city and county of Aberdeen . Another vessel Bailed lately from Banff with emigrants , and a third is now taking in jmssengera in the Aberdeen docks for the land of trold .
Pauper emigration has been mooted at Liverpool . The Albion observes , that there are in the workhouse three hundred well conducted , able bodied puupern , anxious to work , but kept idles ; and points out . how " a voluntary rato of a penny in tlio pound would raise a fund amply sufficient to aid tho emigration of ti-AO poor persons , who annually cost the parish nearly 2000 / . Ah an example , tho Albion cites the fact , that " the balance ; of last year ' s voluntary ruto has been made tho means of sending out a limited number of young girls , who took their departure for tho
Australian colonies on Saturday m the Catharine Mitchell Jlcforc tho vessel had left the river , ton of them had obtained engagements as servants to families on board . They luivo taken out with them letters of recommendation , tsignwlby tho mayor , and with the corporation seal affixed . " Wo were , we believe , the lirnt , to allude to the formation of tho Australian Inlund Carrying and Conveyance Company , advertised in our columns of this day , and ho favourably mentioned by Nome of our contemporaries . We obnorvo that Hie erection of hotels for the accommodation of
( iini ^ rants (* arrival , is not to form part of the plan , unhmn private enterprise should he insufficient for the pur-TH ) H <>; and wo think the directors hnvo acted judiciously in making this restriction . The carrying hiisiitcss of Victoria Colony rests on a somewhat different footing , and wo think it offers n very legitimate field for the cmlmrkution of I'Jngli . ih capital , under tho control of an efficient local direction , and we repeal , our wishes for the hucc . chk of tho plan . Tho great idea of connecting the Atlantic and Pacific by railwav is fermontinir in many minds . The Costa Rica railway , is fermeniing in many minds . IJioiohUi Idea
Company , establishec / in London for the purpose of forming a toad or railway across tho Isthmus of Central America , to unito tho Atlantic and Pacific Oceans , having received a grant , qf ' inoro than a million of acres of land , in a healthy climat *** with a fertile soil , adapted to almost ovwy description of cultivation , and in the immediate neighbourhood of great mineral deposits of gold , silver , ( M >|)|)« ir , iron , and coal , have conferred u most , substantial benefit , on their nhurehohlors , by allotting to them , as a frou gift , or bonus , one acre of * cultivable land for every nharo hold by thorn , and to the Jioldors of twenty shares nnu vpwurdi , * n additional allotment of one nquare yard
of building ground for each share held , in the places selected for laying out towns hy the company ^ surveyor . This offers advantages to emigrants , of the middle classes especially , as , in addition to whatever profits may beyiaWed by the company's operations , they will have an estate in proportion to the shares held by them , and building lots for their dwellings , free of all further cost , and an exemption from all dues or taxes , for a period of fifteen years ; while the voyage out will hardly exceed twenty days , and not cost half the amount of a passage to any of our Australian colonies . These are prospects which deserve attention from " persons about to emigrate . " Keturns from Poor-Law Unions show how greatly pauperism has decreased . At the last weekly meeting of the Board of Guardians at Leeds , the following returns of
the sums expended in the last week of September during the last seven years , were read . It was found that the amount paid in that week during the years named were—1845 , 300 / . 3 \ d . ; 1846 , 386 / . 3 s . 1 £ < J . ; 1847 , 438 / . 4 s . 6 % d . ; 1848 , 492 / . 17 s . 9 \ d . ; 1849 , 442 / . ; 1850 , 457 / . 18 s . lid . ; 1851 , 239 / . 8 s . ll ^ d . ; and 1852 , 229 / . 8 s . 1 \ d . These figures speak for themselves . They are equally marked in Manchester . The payments for 26 weeks in 1851 [ that is , from March 29 th to September 27 th ] were 5936 / . to the settled out-door paupers , of 2636 / . to non-settled poor , and of 5198 / . to Irish ; while in the corresponding 26 weeks of this year the payments have been respectively 4715 / ., 2224 / ., and 3886 / . The gross total has been
10 , 825 / . 15 s . 3 c ? . this year , against 13 , 771 Z . 11 s . 3 d . in the same period of 185 i . The decrease is 1220 / . in payments to the settled poor , 412 / . to non-settled , and 1312 / . to Irish ; total , 2945 / . 10 s . or at the rate nearly ( in round numbers ) of 6000 / . per annum . In the recently issued parliamentary paper respecting poor relief , it appears that there was a decrease in the number of paupers relieved in the quarter ended Ladyday , 1851 , compared with the like period of the preceding year . In the Lady- day quarter of 1850 the number of indoor paupers relieved was 26 , 049 , and in Lady-day quarter 1851 the number was 25 , 049 , whilst of out-door paupers the number was reduced from 93 , 147 to 74 , 396 .
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Mr . Shadwell , one of the revising barristers , has decided that a plot of land does not confer a vote unless it costs £ 50 . As this is a question of fact , not of law , it cannot be contested at the Common Pleas ; but Mr . Huggett , Secretary of the Westminster Freehold Land Society , suggests a memorial to the Lord Chief Justice , praying him to dismiss Mr . Shadwell from his office . Who will " come out" next in favour of freehold land societies ? The Church of England has come out . The Reverend T . P . Dale presided , at Exeter-hall , on Wednesday , over a meeting of the " Church of England and General Freehold Land Allotment Society . "" According to Mr . Dale , the society " has nothing to do wjth politics ;" " it is a commercial question ; " " land is the safest
investment ; " " the society was as little religious as it was political ; and the directors -would be very sorry to lay down as a condition of admission to the society the signing of the Thirty-nine Articles . " ( Laughter . ) The meeting declared the society worthy of public support . It was stated , thatalthoughthe society had only existedsix months , they had purchased two estates , at Forest-hill , Sydenham , and at Finchley . Tho half-yearly meeting of tho Royal Dispensary for Diseases of the Ear , was held on Wednesday last , at the dispensary , Dean-street , Soho-square , theReverendW . Charles Williams in the chair . The secretary read the amount of subscriptions , from which it appeared that the institution had been aided by contributions from his Majesty the King
of tho Belgians , Mr . Robert It . Wood , and a portion of a legacy of tho lato Mr . Joseph Roberta . Although tho funds have been augmented of lato , tlioy arc not commensurate with the great increase of applicants for relief . Tho dispensary had afforded treatment to an increased number of applicants during tho lust half-year . Tho statistical amount of tho now admissions , Mr . Harvey , surgeon to the institution , stated to tho meeting , wore ( 51 ) 8 ; and « J 8 ( $ consisting of cases of deafness , combined with noises in tho head , and other diseases of a kindred nature . A hope was expressed at tho meeting , that tho usefulness of tho institution would bo more fully extended by an increase of funds ; to which it , was urged on their wealthy friends to contribute , upon the assurance that they would thereby benefit suffering humanity , and bo aiding a valuable institution .
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Tim famous Cleopatra wan at Aludoira on the l . Jtll of September . There had been an alarm of fire ; and some wood-work round tho funnel was found to bo actually smouldering . M . Churconncc , a pupil of the observatory of Marseilles , discovered a now planet , in tho constellation Pisces , on tho night , of tho 20 th September , it- appeared like a star of ( lie ninth magnitude , and is to bo named Massilia . Throe tons of gunpowder w < t <> exploded at . t . lio Furness Granite Quarry on Wednesday week , lifting a inasn of rock weighing between woven nnd eight thousand tons . Four men and one woman wero struck dead by lightning in an oaslhouse , at Mutton Valence , Kent , on Tuesday week . They were hop-piokorH .
About , five o ' clock on TuoHdny morning week , Cried " , Perthshire , was visited with a Hliock of earthquake , accompanied with a loud rumblin g noise like that , of distant thunder . A great number of tliih inhabitants were roused from sleep . Tho tremor of the ourth was not . great , and it lasted but , a short , time . Great , damage was ilono by a lire in Spitalfiolds on Sunday . The Jews' I'Yoe School ant I large timber stores were destroyed , and some houses greatly injured . Somo persons were hurt , in the crowd . The iiro among tho timber lasted until Monday .
An explosion took place during * the great , fire on Sunday , in Spitullioldn , in the house of a maker of fireworks . Some boys wore then at work , a wquil ) exploded , igniting Homo gunpowder , and Hitting flrp to tlio promiacH . Two of tho boys have died from injuries received .
Heavy rams fell last week in the [ North of England The Great Northern Sailway , north of Darlington uncW water , and the floods stretched quite one hundred vardn on either side . There have also been great floods in the north of Scotland , where many sheep have been drowned The American ship Mobile , was lost in a hurricane in the Irish Channel on Monday . She struck on the Black water bank ; a high surf disabled the boats ; the crew and passengers' clinging to the wreck , were washed off one bv one during the night ; and when morning dawned , and relief came in the shape of two schooners , only eight seamen and one passenger remained . They were saved , nearly dead with cold . The captain and all the officers perishfid lifeboat has caused
Testing a - eight deaths . Eleven seamen , natives of Ly tham , a watering-place in the estuary of the Ribble , set out on Friday week to test a new lifeboat , pronounced fit to go anywhere and through any sea . She was a pretty craft , and gallantly bore out under -a good press of sail . But , as it has turned out , the captain was too daring , carried too much , the wind ros e an d became squally and gusty . A reef was taken in ; and while the sailors were disputing with the captain about taking in more , a sudden squall overset the boat . Five hands clung to her , but one by one they were obliged to let go their hold . The boat drifted ashore , keel uppermost , with only two men in her , who breathed thr ough apertures in her keel .
Another of Beeching ' s boats , intended for use at Port Madoc , upset last week , in the Menai Straits . None of the crew were drowned .
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HEAXTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK In the week that ended last Saturday 1251 deaths were registered in the metropolitan districts . It is necefsary to state that the increase which this return exhibits over previous weeks is not the effect of an increased rate of mortality , but is produced by an accumulation of cases , principally violent and sudden deaths , on which inquests have been previously held , but which have not been formall y registered till the close of the quarter . La the ten corresponding weeks of the _ years 1842-51 the average number of deaths was 1000 , which with the addition of a tenth for increase of population , and for the sake
of comparison with last week ' s return , would be 1100 . The following are the fatal cases , aS enumerated in this week ' s table , under the several kinds of zymotic disease : only 6 cases , two of which were in the Small-pox Hospital , occurred from small-pox ^ 5 frotn measles , 13 from hooping cough , 8 from croup , 2 from thrush , 2 from influenza , 4 from purpura , one from ague , 2 from remittent fever , one from rheumatic fever , 4 from puerperal fever , 51 from typhus , 6 from erysipelas , 2 from syphilis , 72 from diar . rhcea and dysentery , 2 from cholera , while 81 were caused by scarlatina . The fatal effects of this last complaint in particular instances are noticed both by registrars and
medical men . Last week the births of 807 boys and 797 girls , hi all 1604 children , were registered in London . The average number of seven corresponding weeks in tho years 1845-51 was 1335 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29-403 in . The mean temperature was 52-2 deg . The wind blew from the northeast on the first three days , and from the south-west afterwards .
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BIRTHS , MARRtAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 1 st inst ., at Wellington , Somerset , the wife of Benjamin Treacher , Esq . : a son . On Saturday , the 2 nd inst ., at High Wycombe , Mrs . Thomaa Wheeler : a daughter . . On tho 2 nd inst ., at Walthamatow , Essex , Mrs . F . F . DulloU : a son . . On tho 2 nd inst ., at Scethrog-houso , Brecon , 8 outh Wales , the wife of W . W . Manning , Esq ., burriater-at-law : a daughter . On Sunday , tho 3 rd inst ., at West IlHley , Berks , tho wifo ot Henry William Cripps , Esq ., barriater-at-law : a son . MARRIAGES . On tho 28 th ult ., at St . Peter's , Petorhead , Lieutenant Colin Campbell Kane , It . N ., to Jane , daughter of tho lato James Hutchison , of Richmond , Potorhead . . , On tho 29 th ult ., at Duisburg , on tho Rhino , Richard ISiokow , Enq ., of Hramloy-hill-top near Leeds , to Sarah , youngest daughter of tho late John Loyhuid , Bsq ., of Liverpool . On tho 2 nd inst ., at St . PuuI'h , Deptford , Mr . Samuel Charltfl HinclM , of Amorsham-road , to Mary Ann , eldest daughte r oi Mr . Chariot * lliucka , of Coiintor-hill , ISfow-oroHH . , On the 2 i > th ult .. ttt Spalding , John Hopo Maclean , Jtijq ., " » Ventnor , Tnl < " of Wight , to Mary Jane , only daughter of . James A . Pollard , of Spalding , gentleman . r , On tho fith iiiBt ,., at Walton-on Trent , the Rev . Thomas . loan 11 earn , M . A ., Follow of Now College , Oxford , and vicar oi Roxwoll , Ksbox , to Martha Caroline , oldest daughter <> l •"" " ™ L . Ridgvvay , Esq ., of Piccadilly , mid Wiirron-lioiiHO , Walton .
jDKATHS . , , . ,, On the 25 th ult , at , Hhipton-undor-Wycliwood , tli « «• " »• Robert I'hilliinoro , vicar of that place , and rector of Hlaplon , ( he county of Htiokn , in tho ( il ) th year of hit * ago . „ On tho 20 th nit ., af ter a uliort illnosn , at . Camden-Htreoi , i >»> den-town , Robert Woinuin , of Storo-atreet , Bedford-square , bin 72 d your . , | i ,, On tho : i () lh ult ., nt hiH residence in Hlandfoid-HiMiaro , aH < r low dayn' illuoHH , of bronchitis , Roar-Admiral William i m » » in tho 72 nd your of Iijh age . i « rlio On Friday , tho lNt mut ,., nt Pyt-houno , of " "fr * ,. ' Hei / . uro , in liin «< Hh year , John Uonel . t , Esq ., lato All I () r Southern l ) ivinion of * tho county of Wiltn . .. . a .. * On the 2 nd ult ., on board tho foUiuyer , m the «•"'"„( on bis panHugo homo from Rangoon , Coptum Allen i- , nail , I A , iJtto Commander of tL H . d 8 ¦ *<¦>'"!"'• . % fi lamented by Inn relatives , liin brother oHl (!« r « , ftnd all wn » » " ( 'in Saturday , tlm 2 nd innt ., at 70 , M arii .. vparado , « »« JJj "{ after a idiort iIIiiohb , Kloronoo Emily , agod ID mont'iH ,
daughter of ChurlcM K . Murray , K » q . . ., a j , t | l At I ' erdiuwoll , on the tfrd ijmt ., Lady Wufcoman , in me * ¦ V 'T ) u " tlio 5 H l MnMt . ; in OroHvenor-plao <\ tho FCarl Soinern , m t > ° 05 th year ofhi » ago . ,, ft few On tho $ M ioot ., in Jormyn-otreot , 8 t . J * " > 0 B • K « nnedyi *•» d * y * ' Uln « B » , of rhoamivtio fiver , tU . Lord Jf « rg «» »«»•«" th « 27 th year of his « u «<
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An attempt has been made to assassinate the Shah of Persia . While hunting , four men stopped his horse , fired on him with double-barrelled pistols , and wounded him in the face and thigh ; but he kept his seat until the attendants came up , and hewed two of the assassins to pieces . Two were captured . The Shah was not much injured .
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 9, 1852, page 964, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1955/page/8/
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