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society that an unlimited supply of the manure at a price not exceeding 57 . per ton "will at all times be within the reach of the agriculturists of the United Kingdom . A Birmingham house has obtained one portion of the contract for making the copper coinage of the Froneli Empire . Five thousand tons of copper will be required for the first issue of the metallic currency , nearly seven hundred tons of which will be used by the Birmingham firm ; and the work will probably take four years to complete it . —Horning Chronicle .
Colonel Colt , the inventor of the celebrated repeating pistols , or revolvers , and other fire-arms , which attracted so much public attention in the Crystal Palace , in the American department of the Great Exhibition of 1851 , has found his arms to be so greatly in request in this country , not only for the private use of individuals , but also for officers in both departments of her Majesty ' s service in Great Britain , and likewise in the various British possessions abroad , that he has deemed u ; expedient to make arrangements for establishing a place for the manufacture of them in London . With this intention the colonel has
recently arrived in this country from the United States , and has imported a large quantity of machinery and the necessary implements for the purpose .
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The consecration of Dr . Singer took place yesterday , in the college chapel , after morning service . The officiating prelates were the Lord Primate , and the Bishops of Xillaloe and Tuain . The guardians of the Tuam union have just been put in receipt of an " imperative order" for the stoppage of the instalment of the consolidated annuities out of the rates in process of collection . Ireland has not been without its share of the rain which has incessantly poured down of late . At a meeting of the Royal Dublin Society , held on Friday week , Mr . Moore ,
curator of the Botanic-garden at Glasncvin , stated the results obtained from the registry of the rain-gauge in that garden during the last six weeks . They were as follow : — The quantity which fell during twenty-six days was six inches and a half , being one fourth of the amount which falls annually in this locality . The greatest quantity which fell in a single day was on the 11 th of November , when the amount was almost an inch and a half ; on the 12 th of November it rained nearly a quarter of an inch , on the 13 th more than half an inch , and on the 14 th nearly three quarters of an inch .
An old gentleman , having lived sevent } -one years , bearing the name of Wreford , was last Thursday week found drowned in a canal near Exeter . The facts that have come out at the inquest bear witness to frightful immorality . Wreford , it appears , was accustomed to send for a young woman named Slee , through her mother , to come and stay with him through the night . He did so on Thursday Aveck . Slee , the mother , took Maria , her daughter , to Mr . Wreford , and " delivered the girl to Mm" in
the market-place . Thence , the girl followed Wreford at a distance , until they came to the canal . Here Maria Slee says he " fell in , " she saw him fall in , and called murder . Wreford was taken out and found to be dead ; and carried to an inn near ; the girl following him . Soon after she went away . Then it was that Wrelbrd ' s money was found to be wanting . Suspicion foil on the girl ; she was a rrested ; it was thought she had pushed him into the canal . But as the evidence against her was not sufficient , the jury returned an open verdict of " Found drowned . "
Air . Uoodo , tobacconist , whs chnrged at , the instance oi the Society for the Suppression of Vice , with exhibiting in the windows of his shops on Ludga . ' o-hill and ( lie Strand , pipes , indecently illustrated—especially oik ; pourfraying the loves oi" Lcda ami the Swan . Mr . ( Joode hud been warned by the Society ; but it was said look no heed of the warning . Mr . Lewis , who appeared for him , explained that the ' shopman had disobeyed orders . On tho other hand it was alleged that Mr . ( Joodo had pledged himself not to sell the jiijies , and had broken the pledge . In defence Mr . Lewis contended tljul , tin * pipes were not more indecent than the illustration !? of Mii : . same incident in ( lie British Museum . Mr . Henry , ( he magistrate at liiiw-Hlrect , indignantly repelled ( . his kind of defence . As judgment was not pressed , ( he summons was adjourned for two months , in order ( . hat . Mr . ( Joode might have lime to amend .
Allot her num named Oltthui'ii , wns similii rly charged . Ho had exhibited a partly nude figure of a wonitin , in ivory , an a tol > aceo-, s !( ip |> ei \ wearing a collegian ' s cap and gown , thrown hack m Iron ! :. The s ; nn < ' defence was set . up . Hut Air . Henry \ 'ery wnsihly said i ( , was ulisiird and idl « ' Lo compare Midi indecent productions , which were especially intended ( o he oHeiisive , wit li such works of art . us 1 'ower ' n ( ireek Slave und others wliieli were rather suggestive ol modesty Hum ( he reverse . It was a mistake to suppose Hint nakedness was the . l . est of indecency . lint . it . was
neither necessary nor convenient , lo define the limits ol such things in a crowded court ; but . c \ cry ri glil ,-minded p erson needed not be told ( lie ( list inef ion between a . graceful mill beautiful slat ii / . fi . v ., and til . I O . v . ( lie price of the pipes ; and Mr . Oldbnrn was adjudged lo pay ft / . o , v . liol . li Miit defendants ' <> pay costs .
Mr . Long , of Mnrylebone police-court , Iiiim made a decision the reverse of Mr . A' Heekel l . ' n , respecting ( he question whether a railway station ih > a cab-stand . lie hold : thai Ilin station is privale properly , and l . lial . cabs standing IhVe are not plying for dire wiiliiii Hie meaning of flic Act of Parliament . ( Jeorgo I { . (> I ) ci * Ih was found guilty , on Monday , before Mr . iScrjeanl Adams , of robbing liis employer . In giving in Iho verdict , die foreman said , " Wo add u recommendation to mercy on account , of Iuh long service . " Tlui Assistant-Judge . Did they think Hint , because a man iiad been robbing bin employer for nix years he wan lo bo recommended to mercy Y
One of the jury . —We are not unanimous in the recommendation . The Assistant-Judge was glad to hear it . He thought that offenders like this man ought to be made very strong examples of , for the warning of others in tho services of large companies and firms . Roberts was sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour for one year . The judge added— " I hope this will be punishment enough to deter others ; if not , the next man
who comes here shall bo transported . " Mary Brooine , wife of John Broome , has brought an action against John Hamp , tho plaintiff in the famous Brighton card-cheating case , and his friend , the Reverend Mr . Probert , and another person , for conspiring to defraud her of 400 Z ., which he obtained , by pi * omising not to prosecute John Broome hi the cheating business . The jury have returned a verdict against Hamp and Probert , but recommended them to mercy on the ground that " they were the victims of a base and infamous conspiracy . "
Miss Anne Campbell was tried at the Middlesex Sessions on Wednesday , and acquitted of any intent to steal , in taking possession of the jewels belonging to Mrs . Phillips . Three English swindlers have been arrested at ! N " York .
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Mr . BTowson , a fellow of Christ's College , Cambridge , was out riding on Tuesday , when his horse ran away just as he had started , and Mr . Howson dashed against a tree , and fell insensible . It is feared he has suffered concussion of the brain . A land-slip on the North Western Railway near Hayton , overthrew the express on Thursday night , and the driver and stoker were killed on the spot . Mr . James Longshaw , a rent-collector , was standing between two stationary trains at the Pendleton station , on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Hailway on Tuesday . A cry was raised of " look out . " Thinking it had reference to some movement of the stationary trains , Mr . Longshaw stepped on to the other line . The express at that moment came up and killed him . Had he received no warning he would not have lost his life .
Last Friday week a train from Birmingham to London , vastly behind its time , came up to Heyford , a station on the Great Western Railway . While here the express from Oxford was pretty nearly due ; nevertheless , the stationmaster ordered the driver of the passenger-train to cross the down line and take up some goods-trucks from a shed there . The train was being backed ; half of it had got over , when the alarm was raised that the express was coming . The driver did all he could to get off the mainline ; the station master turned on the danger signal ; it was too late ; the express driver and fireman had the moment before seen the white light ; when they saw the red they were close on , coming down with great , though diminished power . Just before the crash the driver of the express jumped off and was killed . Two passengers were injured by the collision . An inquest was begun on Saturday and adjourned .
lwo large factories in the West Riding , one near IIuddersfield , the other near Bradford , have been destroyed by fire . During a heavy gale last week two colliers wont ashore near Aberdeen , and the master and men of one of them perished , except one , who was saved by the daring exertions of a crew of carpenters in a life-boat . Tho captain of the other boat was saved on a spar , but six men woro drowned . At Montrose a schooner was wrecked ; a brig foundered off Catterlinc . Not . I ingham and Shrewsbury have again suffered severely from inundations : and the waters were out in tho early part of tho "week , on all the low-lying lands mentioned in the previous accounts . At Oxford six lives have been lost . The damage to property in enormous .
A Scotchman fell into a pig-stye at Kingussje ; ho was stunned by ( lie fall ; and the two hogs began to eat him . When rescued he was mangled and dead . Two shocks of . an earthquake bad boon experienced on ( he morning of the 8 lh inst ., at lfeggio , in Sicily . Two shocks were felt the following day at Cosenza . . Fortunately no damage was sustained . Opinion in Rome is well known not-to he so enlightened as it is elsewhere , even on the most , trivial mutters ; but we wen ! not . prepared for such astounding ignorance as is disclosed in the following passage extracted from a loiter from the Internal City : " A short , time since it disciple of IM . lvobin was in Koine , and , among bis conjuring ( ricks ,
he bandaged Ins wife ' s eyes , placed her in another part ol I he theatre , and asked her what , be had in his band , where il was made , and other questions . This trick , so common in Knghiud , was I lioughl . so wonderful in Koine , that when the l \> pe ' n Vicar heard of it . he suspended ( he performance , although ( lie announcement , had been stuck all over t . lio city . The conjuror was called before his Eminence , charged with being in league wilb the black gentleman below , and threatened wilh all sorts of things . The poor man , to got . himself out , of the scrape , was obliged to divulge the secret ol the trick ; nfler which the performance was allowed l , o hi' continued . I mention this thai , you may judge of ( he iiilellerhud stale of the lOlenuil City !"
A most , singular instance of the fulfilment , of a dream has transpired at , Newe . nt , ( Jloucesfersbire . An inquest was licM ii . | , ( bat plnce . on Monday , before Mr . Lovegruvo , one ol lhi < coroners for i i loiieestershire , on the body of a man named Mark Lane , who had been found drowned under most remarkable circumstances . The evidence of ( be deceased ' s brother wan l . o ( . lie following effect ,: 11 o was informed on I ' Yiday night , that , his brother Mark was missing ; bo immediately replied , "Then bo is drowned , for I dreamt last , night ihal , he was drowned , and Unit . I was up to my armpils in wafer , endeavouring to gel . him oiil . " Thai , very same night , the mini dreamt again thai , bis brother wns drowned near the loekn at Oxenhall , uud Ihal . there was a trout , by him . Noxl , morning hit woul . l . o Oxenhull with another brother , and l . horo bo saw a troll I , in tho water . Ho foil convinced that tho body of hie
brother was near ; and , in fact , the body was found near <» the spot . The deceased , it appeare d , was addicted to drink ing ; , and on attempting to pass home along the ^ 3 " which was flooded , he was carried away by the stream » wi drowned . The verdict of the jury was 4 ound SSSS ?
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . The weekly Return continues to exhibit a comparativelv favourable condition of the public health . In the week that ended last Saturday the deaths were 947 , a number which differs not much from that of the preceding week In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1842-51 the average number was 1087 , which , if a correction is made for increase of population , gives a mortality for the present tune of 1196 . Compared with this estimated amount , the deaths actually returned last week show a reduction of
In the last week of October the mean temperature fell to 44 " 6 degs . ; this was followed in the next week by an increase of mortality , which rose to 1101 . Under the influe nee of a higher temperature the mortality in the last three weeks declined , and was as follows : 1022 , 922 947 . In the four weeks of November the mean temperature has been 64-2 degs ., 51-2 degs ., 49-3 degs ., and 45-7 degs ., which one with another , is 5 degs . above the average . The amount of rain that has fallen in each of the same weeks is 0-84 in ., 1-30 in ., 1-77 in ., and 1 * 46 in . Last week an inch of rain fell on Friday alone . It may be supposed that excessive rains by thoroughly washing the drains and carrying off injurious matters tend to promote the public health , and it is not till they have ceased that the effect of increased evaporation begins to be observed in an increase of sickness and death . Last week the births of 855 boys , and 816 girls , in all 1671 children , were registered in London . The average number in seven corresponding -weeks of the years 1845-51 was 1346 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer last week was 29 * 369 in . The mean temperature was 45 " 7 degs ., which is 2 * 3 degs . above the average . * The mean daily temperature was highest on Sunday and Friday , when it rose to 50 * 8 degs . and 52 degs ., or 7 degs . and 9 degs . above the average . The wind blew generally from the north hi the beginning of the week , and from the south-west on Friday and Saturday .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 26 th of November , at Tunbridge-wella , Mrs . Henry Broadwood : a daughter . On the 29 th , the Viscountess Folkestone : a son . On the 30 th , at the residence of her father , Lieutenant-General De la Motte , C . B ., 15 , Westbourne-terrace , tho wife of Major Faunee : a daughter . On the 30 th , at Chew Magna , Somerset , tho wife of tho Bov . Edward A . Ommanney : a son . On tho 30 th , at tho Manor-house , Chiswick , the wife of Harrington Tuke , M . D . : a aon . MARRIAGES . On tho 19 th of May , at Otaki Church , New Zealand , theVen . Archdeacon Octaviun Hadfield , to Kate , third daughter of tho Von . Archdeacon Henry Williams . On tho 30 th of Juno , at St . Fetor ' s Church , Past Maitland , New South Wales , by the Right ltov . tho Lord Biuliop of Nowoastlo , Arthur Edward , fourth Hon of tho Rev . Townshend Selwvn , Canon of Gloucester , to ltoao Elizabeth , youngest daughter of the Rev . G . K . Rusdon , M . A . On tho 8 th of November , at St . Oswald ' s Church , Chester , Neville Parry , K » q ., onl y son of John Billingsley Tarry , Esq ., Q . C ., to Caroline , eldest daughter of the Into Roar-Admiral Hir Tlioiniw Un . shor , O . J ) ., K . G . I 1 . At 8 t . Michael ' H , Cheslor-Nquans 1 > y tho Rev . J . H . Hamilton , M . A ., Ellen , only daughter of the Into Lieutenant-Colonel George , H . 1 < U ' . O . N ., to F . H . Tremlelt , Lieutenant K . N ., only aon oi'Vice-Adniiral Tremlett . On t . tio ' 2-l . th , at Wollaton , Not , ( ingliamnhire , Captain fleorgo Thompson Wade , Thirteenth ( Prince Alberl / H ) Lighl . Infantry , youngest uon of tho lute Colonel Hamlet Wade , O . B ., » l ' ¦ ' »« Killo itrigndc , to Caroline , Louisa Henrietta , ( -Ideal , daughter ot Diiiicui ' Davidson , Ks < j ., of Tulloch Ca . si . lo , - N . U ., and granddaughter of ( ho late Lord Mitedouald . „ On tho 2 { Hh , at HI . Jiuuos ' h Church , by tho Lord Bullion <> r Oxford , the Lord do Hlnquiere , to Eleanor Amelia , eldebl . daughter of Sir Willimn G . II . Jollillii , Hart ., M . I ' . On tho : U ) lh , at the I'Yench Catholic Chapel , and uflorwanlM at , Kl ,. . Iiumoh'h , riiddin ^ ton , Alfonso Sealia , Kh (| ., ol' l ' alo « - » " >» and of ( Joiiiiaiight-miuare , London , to Giulief tiiCordolia Ilianoa , only daughter of tho lute I ' ompey Anichiiii , IOnq ., of Dpi ' ' Jvlonlagiio-Htroet , Moiifiigiio-Hijlnii'o . On tho . 'JOt . li , Mnjor II . W . liiinhiiry , third mm of Sir Homy liiinhiiry , Hart ., lo ' j \ linH ( Veilia Napier , daughter of Lieu' . " " " " General Hit * George JVapier . K . C . H .
DIOATIIH . On tlio tilth of November , at lim bonne on thoKoynl Yorkereneonl ,, Clifton , CuiuN deWinlon , Km <] ., nged noyenty-two , < iiiugiHtrule n ml deputy-lien ( . ennui , lor tlieeounlii'H of Uhiniorg " ami Noinorurl ,. On Iho 'Mini , itl . Terry-vale , Hy <| f nhiini , Augimlin , » ' i |; Creuzi' , K ;; . | ., K . lt . H ., principal muveyor lo " J / loyd'n Ui'fi'M' * . nged lltly-two . . On - Mio ar . lh , n . t Hromplon-cmKM'iil ., George Mow , ' » ' ••» Superintendent of ( hit IMiiil Department , Genoriil IW oH" -o . On Ihe 2 < IIJi , ill jWlaiM-houHO , < . liimoigiuiHliirr , Bir ' . """ , . lolin ( hiesl , Hurt ., M . I ' ., for Merthyr Tydvil , in U "' *[) Lly ~ eighth year of hitt age . On the iJ 7 lh , at No . 7 , WeHl . bniirne-plaeo , I 0 iilon- »< l" 11 "' Oharlotlo I'YanceH , tho beloved wifo of •><>) " » Dowjne , ''"' Iformerly Kind , Puimio Judge of Hrilinh Guiana , aged >" > y- . On tlio 27 th , at No . ( I , Great , Ctiiiiberln . iid-pl"ee , m «¦'"' , ' , ' . i of Meveul . li year of her ago , AugiiMtaAda , wife of Wlllmr" iw » ' Lovelaen , and only daughter of Goorgo Gordon . Noel ''
' On ihe 2 HI . li , at bin lenidenee , 12 , n «> iHe ( .- »« ie (» l , Vi . u « l '' ' - bridge-mail , . James . ) . Iliirrinon , Jato bnxlieojier nl . U »» " '" ' oi' / lji o IlOlh , u . 1 . ( JiiniborJand-lodgn , WindHor-imrli , J ' « lu < * ] l V ' . IIt ' Glcinoriil YVeinyw » . Colonel of tho Ninety-third ilegnnont ol i- "
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1156 THE LEADER , [ Saturday , ¦ ¦ I I ¦ MM ^^^^^^ fc ^^ M _^^__^ Mj ^^_^^^_^^__ ^— 0 ^^^^^^^^^^^^ —^ _^^^_ - «!¦!! ¦ I I - — ^ . ¦ -. - - — ¦ —^^~—^^^^^^__ _ . ^ _ M . __ ^ .
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Aceording to a return obtained by Mr . William William * M . P ., the deduction in the year end jng the 5 th of JanuaS last from the public revenue for costs of collection & 7 and of amounts received by public departments other than Parliamentary grants , &c , were 6 , 072 , 151 Z Qs 9 d expended in 1851 , which never reached the Exchequer
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 4, 1852, page 1156, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1963/page/8/
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