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call upon him to appear on the 15 th of November next During the interval thus afforded the opportunity will be given of making such regulations respecting hackney carriages plying for hire at a railway terminus within the metropolitan police district as the law will authorize and the public convenience may require . " The summons was adjourned .
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THE RAILWAY " ACCIDENT" SYSTEM . Two trains were on the same line of the Bristol and Birmingham Railway last week . The one in front was a goods train , the one in the rear an express . And seeing that the express was going express-speed , it is no wonder that , although the driver shut off the steam on seeing the goods train on a-head , the quick dashed into the slow train . Some passengers were greatly bruised . Mr . Slaney Pakington , private secretary to the Colonial Minister , happened to be one of the passengers . He has addressed the following queries to the company , hoping they may be induced to attempt the prevention of such accidents , and partly with the view of ascertaining whether he is doing " anyone injustice by supposing that the collision was caused by carelessness" : — " 1 . Whether there is at every station sufficient space for ' siding' a train , so as to leave both lines clear for traffic up and < lown ? 2 . If not , whether you have any regulation or ' by-law' to prohibit the practice of ' shunting' one train in the way of another known to be at that moment approaching ? 3 . Whether in this case , looking to the groat improbability of an obstruction being seen in time by the approaching train , it was not the duty of the officials at King ' s Norton , not only to turn on the ordinary danger signal ( which was not done ) , but to send us some other special warning as well ? A : What your practice is in such cases , where much suffering is caused , but providentally a coroner's inquest is not required , with respect to investigation and punishment ? 5 . Whether you do not think it expedient that important duties , the slightest omission of which may lead to fatal consequences , should be entrusted to an adequate number of first-rate servants ? 6 . If so , whether you are ijuite clear that your scale of remuneration is such as to ensure these duties being so discharged ? 7 . Whether you have any regulation about lighted lamps being put into every carriage of every passenger train P "
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MISCELLANEOUS . Parliament was yesterday formally prorogued by the Lord Chancellor until the 4 th of November . Prince Albert has been unanimously elected to fill the vacant post of Master of Trinity House . The Duke of Cambridge has been appointed Eangcr of St . James ' s the Green , and Hyde-parks , in the room of the late Duke of Wellington . Lord Derby was privately installed , on Thursday , by a deputation , as Chancellor of the University of Oxford . The Marquis of Londonderry will have the Garter held by the Duke of Wellington ; and the Marquis of Winchester will succeed his Grace as Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire . Lord John Russell , who had been staying in Scotland nearly nil the vacation , arrived in town with his family last week .
Lady Robert Grosvenor laid the foundation-stone of a new church at Northwood Euislip , Middlesex , on the 12 th inst . The Karl of Ellesmere delivered a lecture on the " Life and character of the late . Duke of Wellington , " in the Court-house , Worsloy , last Thursday week . Sir James South , the Royal astronomer , fell into tho sea . at Howth , the other day ; but having loose coats on , and crying loudly for help , he was rescued . Arista , President of Mexico , hits sent aoine harness and trappings an presents lo tho royal children ; also souin boxes of exquisite . sweetmeats . liy tho last accounts from America , General Scott had knocked himself up by addressing too many meetings on his western tour . Wo are enabled to state , that the Christinas revels of
tho olden tune will be again held at Windsor thin year , and with a novelty which recalls the time of tho " fjrAt Kliza . " Quri'ii Victoria will open her dramatic campaign with a new poeticul-prose comedy of Kngli . sh life from the pen of Douglas . Jerrold . This in a good beginning of ( he dramatic new year , with an agreeable smack of old dny . s and of a literary Court about i ( ,. The play will be brought out . at , tho Princess ' s Thent re on the nig ht , following thai , on which it is to be produced before the ( iueeii and Court , at . Windsor Castle .- -Alhcntctini . A project , is on fool , to place a memorial to Wordsworth in tho new church now building a ( , CooUormouUi . Scripture HubjectH in the east , window are proposed .
Steps art ! being taken to creota monument to Mie memory of Thomas Mood , over bin remains in Kensal ( ilrecn cemetery . Some verses in l <] liza (!< io />\ s Jo-itrmil gave rise to the idea ; and a knot , of gentlemen belonging to the Whittington Club proceeded at , once to curry il , out ,. They have sub-KCi'ibed privately I -JO / ., and further subscript inns are flowing in . Subscriptions will be received at tlic Whillington Club , Arundel-islreet , Strand ; at the ollice of I'J / izii Coo / Zs Journal , . ' $ , Raquet-court , Fleet-street ; by Kliza Cook , f > - | << rrnt Orniond-streel ,, Itloomsbury ; and by Mr . . John Wal . kinn , . 'Ms Parlinincnt-sl . reet , Westminster . I'ost-ofiico . ordon-t may be made payable to the Treasurer or Secretary . A not her acceptance of Lord do Maquiore's challenge him beon made . Lord Londesborough has offered to rim a Hohooner of 1 H 0 tons O . M ., just , laid down for him by the MoHHrs . Jiiiuun , of Ponle , against , the America , upon any course which Lord De Blaquioro limy name the match to be for 1 , 000 guineas , and to bn nailed in the month of September next , ( hat being the vuvVwhI period at which his vessel can be built , and her proper trim found . The following brief announcement appenrM in the- S # n Francisco 11 orald of August , 21 , received I bin morning , under ft letter from its correspondent at Monterey , dated
August 19 , 1852 . We fear ther « is no foundation , however , for the report , which is too good news to be true : " We learn that the English discovery ships , Erebus and Terror , have arrived at Santa Barbara , with many of their crews down with the scurvy . " —livening paper .
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A meeting was held on Thursday at Warrington in favour of Diocesan Synods . It was remarkably well attended , but was similar in its character to those we have so , often reported . . . The Bishop of Rochester has reinstated Mr . Whiston as Master of the Rochester School—upon condition ; to wit , that Mr . Whiston do not attempt to obtain the salary of the Master during the three years of his suspension . The Bishop cautions Mr . Whiston against re-issuing his pamphlet , which he considers " libellous . "
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The League Banquet will be held on the 2 nd of November . Upwards of fifty members of Parliament have promised to attend , and the vice-presidents , chiefly large labour employers , amount to two hundred . Mr . Booker presided over the dinner of the Herefordshire Agricultural Society , on Tuesday . Mr . Beresford Hope presided over the dinner of the Cranbrook Agricultural Association on Friday last , He recommended the farmers to diain and manure ; and he strongly insisted on the necessity of cottages being built for the labourers , which would enable the sexes to sleep in separate rooms .
A deputation from the Financial Reform Association , headed by Sir Joshua Walmslcy , had a conference on Saturday with Mr . Joseph Hume , at his residence , where Mr . Henry Berkeley , M . P ., and other Liberals assembled . Sir Joshua Walmsley , and the other members of the Financial Reform Association , expressed their aversion to any separate movement in favour of the ballot . The Liverpool Free Public Library and Museum were opened to the public on Monday by the Mayor , Mr . Littledale , and the chief members of the corporation . Among other persons present were Mx . William Brown , M . P ., Mr . Charles Turner , M . P ., and Mr . Thornely , M . P . The Museum is mainly formed of the great zoological collection of the late Earl of Derby ; the library contains 10 , 000 volumes .
The Board of Trade has resolved that " the Department of Art shall have the power to assist schools with examples for teaching drawing , upon thecondition that all applicants for them pay half the prime cost : that is , when a school has subscribed 1 ? . the Department will furnish examples worth 21 ., and so on . " A list of examples of drawing copies , models , and casts , will shortly be printed , and obtainable by application .
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The l <\> rminvirwiiH fit Mndeimon the . 'lOl . h of September . Three MiicccMHive failures huvo been made to connect Ureat Hrilain iind Ireland by submarine electric telegraph one between llolyhcad and JlowUi ; and two from Donaglmdoe to Porl . putriek .
The boats of H . M . S . steamer , Merapi , rescued sixteen shipwrecked Batavian seamen from off an island at the entrance of the straits of Sunda in June last . Nine had been drowned when the ship struck and went to pieces . The Amelia , a Singapore brig , went down in a storm , of wind and lightning in July ; and seventy persons were lost . Twelve escaped in a boat . The barque Sector , from Batavia , bound to Bremen went on shore on the Natal coast last June , and was com ' pletely lost . Some of tho crew were saved . A Prussian brig accidentally ran into the Metropolitan a steamer running between London and Glasgow off Beachey Head , early on Monday morning . The Metropolitan sank , but the crew were saved .
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Two old persons , brother and sister , have been , brutally murdered at Swords , in the county of Dublin , for the sake of a few pounds , supposed to be possessed by them . The men charged with the murder of Deegan , the soldier of the Thirty-first , at Fermoy , have been liberated on their own . recognisances . Two stokers on board H . M . S . Retribution , quarrelled over their supper , and one killed the other with a knife . Sullivan , a convict undergoing a sentence of seven years confinement with hard labour , escaped from Woolwich on Saturday . He was seen running along the shoro , and shots were fired , but in vain . He got clear off .
Mary Ann Proudfoot , a servant-girl living near Yarmouth , had been seduced by Samuel Howth , a corn porter . She met him T ) y appointment one evening last week ; and while she was on the ground he placed a pitch plaster over her mouth . She tore it off ; he beat her over the face until insensible , when he again placed the plaster over her face . She was found and rescued by some persons . Howth was arrested by his own fireside , sitting without his coat , cravat , or shoes , smoking a pipe .
Spear was a drunken shoemaker living at Bristol . On Monday he pawned two gowns belonging to his wife , and went to a tavern . His wife , missing the gowns , tracked her husband to an ale-house , and entering with a child in her arms , reproached him bitterly , and threw a pipe at him . He rose and stabbed her in the stomach , dead . Spear was instantly arrested . It is a revolting tragedy . The wife not only had a child in her arms when her brutal husband killed her , but she was about to bring forth another !
Two young shoemakers were "larking" last week at Brentford . One grew tired , and wished the other to desist , threatening to stab him if he did not . As the one continued to lark , the other kept his word , and stabbed him . A verdict of manslaughter has been returned . An old woman , aged sixty , who makes shirts at a penny each , finding lier own needles and thread , and who has been hitherto always punctual in returning her work , has been sent to prison for fourteen days , by Alderman Lawrence , for pawning eight shirts .
A soldier , who bore an irreproachable character in his regiment , " as a soldier , " knocked down a policeman twice , who tried to arrest him for forcibly trying to detain a woman against her will , has been fined twenty shillings and discharged , by Mr . Serjeant Adams . Sir James Francis Rivers , Baronet , has been convicted of assaulting two railway policemen at Bath . Ho drove into tho yard in a dog-cart and pair , and when civilly requested to make way for the omnibuses , and take his place amongst the private carriages , ho lashed tho policemen and tried to make the horses run over them . He was fined m tho highest penalties , namely , 71 . 10 s . and costs , which he paid . A madman appeared in a Catholic chapel nt Liverpool , during the celebration of mass . He cried , " Down wit ii tho pope ! " " The church is on lire ! " Tho congregation were dreadfully frightened . The police gave a good account of the interrupter .
A " lady" who has seen " hotter days" loft two pretty children at a school in St . John's-wood tho other day . As she did not como for them at tho time appointed , tu « school-mistress gave thorn over to tho care of the Jvlurvlebone workhouse . The mother was tracked out ; ami obtained the liberation of the children , and thirty . shillings to release her furniture , from tho charity of one ol the parochial authorities . She had once before left her clnUln'ti at Norwood . ,,- Ireland furnishes another agrarian murder . Mr . Ma fold was returning from Tullamore , in King ' s (;<> uiity , bis home ; ami while lie was driving slowly up a iull ' j assassin got close up behind tho gig , and shot mm '' with slugs from a pistol . Ten persons wero appro "'" " —all tenants on an estate to which Mr . JM amlnKl \ u ¦ agent—and hovcii of these have been remanded .
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While one of the keepers at the Uegenf ' s-park "V ^ ' . " gardens was " Nfirring up" some birds in u ease " Hl" 1 ' ' , ' a cobra capello darted at his face , and bit him in tie no" He was instantly taken to the University College Iloxp " but . died shortly after in dreadful pain . l . -n Some timo ago an accident took place at > '' ' "' " . ' on the South Knstorn Railway : the tidal train , *| ' 'J ' ^" neiital expreHs , ran into two trains . The driver ol ¦ ' ^ press , who wmh hurt ,, has been charged with nog 'k ^^ driving , found guilty , and sentenced to si \ nionl i ^^ prisonment . Uociinio on in Liu ; face of n danger nig An incendiary Urn has occurred at a farm in kern , ' j ( 1 Overland-court ' , near Sandwich . Several stacks ol fi and hay , two burns , mid two lodges were destroyed- ^ ^ A boat wan swamped on the Thames on Sunday ,
one man drowned . qlato An old mule , recently stolen from the Wors » 'V ( H ' has been recovered . It belongs to tho Karl ol Wie . in , and is between ninety und one hundred years ol < - . Three men lost their lives in a pit at Dowhus JusH ^ Tho guide ( ' 1111111 broke when they wore nearl . V _ . ^ |>(| l i bottom of the shaft . The jury found a verdict' ol aco ^ death , but " recommended " that the instruction * ^> ^ ( Government inspector bo carried out in tho inanag . t of the pit ; " thoroby implying some blame in tl »> w managers
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. Having three hundred passengers on board , bound for Melbourne and 1 'ort Phillip , tho Clara Sj / mea left Bristol on Saturday . A fun ; well dinner was given on the departure of the ship . Clift-houHe , near Bristol , is now used as a factory for tho making of portable houses for ernigiation . The Try , emigration whip , which sailed last woek , was tlie first , that went directly out to sea from tho Cumberland basin . It appears from the- latest accounts that there are upwards of 1 . " { , ( MH ) milert of railway completed and in operation in the United States . The average additional construction is calculated at tho rate of ten miles a day , and this rate ol l > rogrcHH is expected to continue for the next five yearn . Tho average cost per mile is from ' , \ , IHM ) I . to . , f > 0 O / ., with rails of ( JOlbs . per yard , and a trutlie of 10 / . per mile is reckoned to give a return of from six to ( ti ght per cent .
Mr . Dunlnp , a writer to the signet , was the victim of a delay on tho ( Jlasgow Railway , winch arose out of th <» break down of the engine , imperfectly repaired the preceding day . Mr . Dunlop brought an action in the Small Debt Court , at (< lusgo \ v , for dainagcH sustained by losing time . The sheriff decided that , although it was stipulated on tho . time-tables that tho company < liil not guarantee the hours of arrival and departure , nevertheless , hucIi stipulation would not shelter them from their responsibilities as public ; carriers , especially in the prcsonl . case , as the engine was deficient ; and hi 1 decided that , tho company should pa . y tho damages claimed and all the expenses . An example for aggrieved humanity this side the Tweed .
The Bridgenorth Union extends over twenty-seven parishes , in a rural district containing a population of ](') , ()()() persons ; yet there are only forty-five inmates of the workhouse ;; and the guardians have been obliged to hiro labour to supply the house with water . A small meeting to consider the law of settlement was held on Monday in the vestry-room of St . James ' s , Westminster , attended by Mr . Jacob Jiell , Mr . Charles Ooehrane , and others . It was resolved to appoint n . committee to watch any bill on the subject brought into Parliament next
The Oxfordshire , Gloucestershire , Warwickshire , and * West Riding militia regiments are nearly complete , and days have been named for drill and exercise . The Devonshire militia have already assembled . The city militia will assemble on the 1 st of November . Tho second war steamer , built at Rotherhithe for the Spanish Government , and intended for the defence of Cuba , was launched on Saturday , and called the Secundo . At a meeting of tho Bath town-council on Tuesday , it was resolved that in future tho public clocks of the city should be regulated by Greenwich timo . The Post-ofHco authorities have appointed a river postman , whose duty it will be to deliver letters addressed to persons on board of vessels lying off Gravesend .
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1012 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 23, 1852, page 1012, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1957/page/8/
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