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Privy Council ; at the latter , pricking off the high sheriffs for England and Wales . The Dnke of Wellington , Lord Drumlanrig , and Mr . Charles Villiers , were sworn of the Council . On Tuesday and Wednesday , the Queen and Prince drove out in an open carriage . The Archbishop of Canterbury , the Duke and Duchess of Wellington , Lord Hardinge , and Sir James Graham , have visited the Castle during the past week .
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Lord Roden has replied _ in such a manner to the offer made by Earl St . Germans to restore him to the commission of the peace , that Earl St . Germans has been compelled to withdraw his order to that effect which he had given the Lord Chancellor . It is not known whether the two gentlemen named Beers have either been offered , or whether they have accepted any offer of restoration . Mr . B . A . Christopher having stated in his late
speech , that on the Wednesday of the week during the debate on the late Budget , an influential meeting of tho Whigs took place at Lansdowne-house , Lord Lansdowne has written formally contradicting the statement , and inquiring on what authority it was made . Mr . Christopher apologises for telling the story , which he believed to be true , and which was the talk of the Carlton at the time ; but is " not able" to state his precise authority .
Resolutions , in favour of the extension of penny postage to the whole of the British possessions and colonies , were agreed to , at a meeting of the Society of Arts , held on Tuesday . Sir John Pakington has notified to the Association , that he in in favour of cheap ] oolonlal postage .
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Among the signs preceding the openingof Parliament are the greetings exchanged between newly elected members and their constituents . Two occurred on Monday ; Sir Thomas Wilmington was entertained at Stourport , and Mr . Oliveira at Pontefracfc . Both support the existing Government . "Viscount Elmley , son of the present Earl Beauchamp , is the new candidate fox the representation of West Worcestershire . He is a conservative ; and as such he says , — " I shall extend my most cordial support to any measures of real reform Which may seem to me calculated to increase the efficiency of our institutions ; but , at the same time , reserve to myself tie right of opposing any hasty or illconsidered cnange in the fundamental principles of the constitution . "
According to the Standard , on Wednesday an official notice was served upon the functionaries of the Board of Trade , requiring a correct return of the number of clerks , messengers , and other employes attached to that immediate branch of the public service , together with an accurate account of the items of expenditure attendant thereon . It is rumoured that the present course of inquiry will not be confined to tho department of the Board of Trade alone , but that a similar procedure of investigation will be maintained throughout all the various branches of \ he public service . PartieB are named who have been already appointed to see the above measure effectually carried out in relation to the Board of 3 ' rade , which , it is expect e , will take place on Saturday , tho 12 th instant .
The Milton Club is a new London institution supported by Nonconformists ; who will give a grand dinner on the 16 th inst ., to the Protestant Dissenters who are members of the House of Commons . DisBentera from all parts of England will attend tho banquet . Arrangements are in progress for tho establishment of a now club , mainly of a literary character , in connexion with tho existing- Eclectic Debating Society , which now numbers years and members enough to venture with safety upon this long contemplated development . Members of all tho liberal professions will bo eligible ; Mr . Sidney X . fiman Blanchard has undertaken the honorary
secretaryship . At a mooting hold at Torquay , on Saturday , a resolution waa agreed to , declaring tho expediency of raising in Torquay ono company of tho South Devon volunteer Juflo Battalion , now forming under royal authority . Every county should imitato Devon , and every town Torquay . Wo are happy to stato that Captain Inglefiold has received another commiHsion to sot out in search of Sir John Jfranklin . 31 o will command tho I'kaenix , screw sloop ; and bo accompanied by tho Lady Franklin , fonder . After depositing stores an Beechoy Island , ho will loavo tho Tjndi / JPranklin as a dopot , in Baffin ' b Bay , and utoam off whither ho plcasos in search of tho lost travellers .
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Mr . G jlos Daubony , a rolativo of Dr . Daubony , tho professor of botany and chemistry at Oxford , was drownod last wook noar Lfltoy . Another member of tho Banjo family was killod about two years ago by fallin g from a railwaybridge . Sir tTamos Gralinm narrowly escaped serious injury on Wednesday morning . Jlo was on his way from the Palaco to tho Admiralty , m a Hansom ' s cab , when just opposite ; tho Duko of York ' s column , in Pall-Mall , tho horep droppod down doad , and 8 ir . Tamoa was violently jorkod out of the cub on his hoiul . Wo aro glad to learn , however , that
although he sustained an injury to tho iiohq and mouth , and lost a tooth , ho was enabled to attond to board duties at tho Admiralty in . tho cour « o of tho day . The Rov . Ilimh Htowoll , in tho courao of a lecture on " Habit" which li « gave t ( > the members of tho Manchester Young Men ' s Christian Association on Tuesday night , denounced tho practice of tobacco-smoking in Unmeasured twms . He said , "Never myself will I Hire a ourate who
indulges in it . I never now make inquiries for a curate but I invariably inquire is he a smoker of tobacco ; if he ia . I instantly reject his application . "
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The reverend Richard Lee , rector of St . Dunstan ' s , Stepney , has fled from his- creditors , leaving debts to the tune of 11 , 000 ? . and upwards . -Yet his living was worth 8002 . a year . The minister , it appears , was a railway speculator ! The House of Correction has had a good effect on lord Frankfort . Mr . Macbeath , tho solicitor , and one of the persons libelled in the infamous circulars issued by lord Frankfort , has obtained 200 ? . damages in the Court of Queen ' s Bench in an unopposed action . Sir Frederick Thesiger , counsel for the incarcerated lord , was instructed to offer the fullest apology .
An . action has been brought and won by Mr . Lennox Butler against Mr . Oliveira , M . P . for a libel uttered by the latter at the last Hull election . It seems that the two gentlemen were once rivals for the votes of the Conservative part of the constituency , but that Mr . Oliveira resigned his claims in favour of Lord Goderich . Before doing so , however , he publicly stated that Mr . Butler had refused to pay a demand for 10 Z . 8 * ., in connexion with the Star Club ; that he had been expelled the club in coneequence j and that he , Oliveira , had thereupon threatened to Trick Mr . Butler out of his house , if he did not go . That was the libel . During the election , Mr . Butler made a personal attack on Lord Goderich at a public meeting ; and when an explanation was demanded by Mr . Butler of
the alleged libel , Mr . Oliveira replied by sending him a letter , forwarding a copy at the same time to the committee of Lord Goderich , by which means the libel was circulated through Hull . Mr . Oliveira pledged himself to prove the truth of the libel , and put in that plea as a justification . Mr . Lennox denied the accusations , and gave a different version of the affair . He stated that he had called on Mr . Oliveira to pay the subscription to the club due by Lord Dunboyne , his father , intimating at the same time that the latter withdrew from the club . That took place in 1836 . Mr . Oliveira did not threaten to kick him out ; no " man , woman , or child" had ever threatened to kick him . The 30 Z . 8 s . was not demanded until he had left the club . Mr . Oliveira ' s counsel abandoned the defence , and the jury awarded 1001 . damages to Mr . Butler .
A correspondent of the Daily News tells the following 8 tory : — " A short time since there was mention made of the elopement of the daughter of a Dorset baronet with a gentleman of the medical profession ; and in some of the papers these parties we erroneously " confounded with two individuals who were guilty of a similar escapade at Stourbridge , 4 n Worcestershire . The Dorset elopement case is a peculiar one . A physician , a Scotchman , practised in a town of Dorsetshire ; he was a married man , with a family of beautiful children ; his wife possessed personal attractions , and an amiable disposition ; he was called in professionally to attend a family who lived in the
neighbourhood , and the head of which was an aged baronet ot ancient lineage , and he seduced the daughter . This could not be proved , however , and the rascal was enabled , by the privileges of his profession , to conceal his own improper intimacy and his victim ' s infatuation , at least from the father . A short time since the father died , and the doctor brought in a bill to the family of 1300 ? . for professional attendance . This sum was hundreds of pounds more than he was entitled to , but he was paid , and implored to cease tho unhappy and disgraceful connexion which be had formed . Ho took the money , ran away with the daughter , and of course forsook his wife and children . "
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The great Obelisk exhibited at tho Crystal Palace , in 1851 , and which it was at ono time feared would leave tho country , has been purchased by the inhabitants of Whitechapel . It is now being- erected in tho centre of tho haymarket . Information was received at Lloyd ' s , on Saturday , under date Liverpool , Feb . 4 , of an extraordinary marino convulsion experienced by the Maries on her passage from thonco to Caldera . On tho morning of tho 13 th of October , tho ship boing twelve miles from tho equator , in long . 19 noise to issuo from tho
W ., a rumbling appeared ocean , which gradually increased in sound till the uproar became deafening ; the sea roso in mountainous waves ; tho wind blowing from all quarters , tho control over tho ship was loot , and she pitched and roso frightfully , all on board expecting oaeh moment to bo their last . Thin continued fif ' teon minutes . The water then gradually subsided , when several vessels in sight at tho commencement of tho convulsion were found to have disappeared . Shortly afterwards a quantity of wreck , apart ot a wcrew steamer , were pnased , so that nomo vessels and lives were lost .
An interesting discovery of a beautiful vestigo of Gothic architecture , in excellent preservation , baa boon made bonoath the house at tho south-east corner of Xoiulonhall-Btroot , and directly opposite Aldgate pump . The arches and vaults on tho basement have boon hitherto usod as a Btoreliouse for wood and other materials , but tho extreme bonuty of tho architecture , particularly tho sculpture and graining , led to an investigation . After the most diligent research it was ascertained to bo the remains of n chapel dedicated to Rt . Michael , and is designated by old liistorianH
oh " next Aldgato . " It appears to bo ot very great antiquity , having boon built b y Norman , Prior of St . Katharine of tho Holy Trinity , m the reign of Henry I ., and hi » Queen Matilda of Boulogne , about th « year 1108 , and in now nearly 750 years old . Tho chapel consists of pillars and arches ; its length from north to south is fortynight font , and its breadth from oast to west nixteon foet . Tho walln aro constructed with oblong blocks of chalk , similar to those of Rochester Castlo ; tho arches are of etono , t | i « k « yn of which aro beautifully sculptured with " knOla , and other devices , atid c-xhibit at t » glanco tho skilful masonry of our ancestora ,
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . \ BIETHS . On the 30 th of January , at Hamburgh , the wife of William Lindley , Esq ., of the Adelphi-terrace , London : & son . On the 2 nd of February , at May-place , Crayfprd , Kent , the wife of James MacGrepor , Esq ., M . P ., a daughter . On the 3 rd , at 16 , Mansfield-street , Lady Charles Kussell : a 8 the 3 rd , at Marston-houso , the Hon . Mrs . Eobert Boyle : ft SOU On the 3 rd , at Rockinghsm Castle , the Hon . Mrs . Watson : a daughter . . On the 4 tb , at 103 , Eaton-place , the Countees of EnmskiUeu : a daughter . , _ , On the 7 th , at Castle Townsend , in the county of Cork , Lady Coehill : a son . ' , - A , T -, TT j . On the 8 th , at Marchington , Staffordshire , the Lady Harriet Vernon : a daughter . - «•/ -, On the 8 th , at Ashbourne , Derbyshire , the wife of Sir George Gervis , Bait .: a daughter . At the Lees , Derbyshire , the Lady Anna Chandoe Pole : a son and heir . MARKIAGES . On Thursday last , at Trumpington , Cambridgeshire , Alfred Poland Esq ., of St . ThomaB ' s-street , London , second sou of Sir William Poland , of Blackheath , to Susanna Belle , younger daughter of Stephen Adcoclt , Esq ., of Cambridge and ot Trump-1 D On the 2 nd of February , at Woodlands St . Mary , John Rocke , Esq ., of Clungunford-house , Salop , to Constance Anne , second daughter of Sir Charles Cuyler , Bart . On tho 3 rd , at St . Mary ' s , Paddington , Brooking Soady , fcsq ., of Wimbledon , Surrey , to Sibella , daughter of Eoger Gadsden , of Maida-hill West . On tho 3 rd , at St . Paul ' s , Southsea , George Augustus Scnomberg , Esq ., of the Hoyol Marino Artillery , son of the late Admiral Schomberg , to Mary , third daughter of Charles Wright , Esq ., of St . Clare , Southsea . On tho 3 rd , by special license , at St . George s , Hanovorsnuare , the Hon . Thomas Mont ague Carringlon Wilde , younger son of tho Eight Hon . lord Truro , to Emily , second daughter of Charles Chapman , Esq ., of Balham-hill , Surrey . On tho ard / iitSt . Jnimw ' H , l ' oole , . Dorsetshire , Henry Francis Robinson , Esq ., second son of tho Into G . It . Robinson , Esq ., Into chairman of Lloy d ' s , ami M . P . for Poole , to Matilda Allen , only daughter of tho ' lato Lioutonant Allen , lt . N . On tho !) rd , at St . George ' h Church , Captain Augustus Jjaho Fox son oft ho Into William Luno Fox and Lady Caroline Lano Fox , to Alico Stanley , daughter of Lord and Lady Stanley ( of On the nth , at fit . Jimics ' a Church , tho Marquis of Hoadfort , K . V ., to Frances , widow of « ir William Hay Maonaghten , Hart ., lute , Envoy Kxtruordinury at tho Court of Hhah Hoojah . On the 10 th , at . St . Murylnlumo Church , Hir James Meek , C U of llfraoombc , in tho county of Devon , Into Controller of tho Victualling of her Mai ^ ty ' H Navy , to ftlisa ( 1 rant , daughter of tho Into Dr . ( Jnint , M . D ., of Kingston , Jamaica . DKATHS . On the Int of January , ul ; Harlmdoes , of yellow fever , John Ashloy Cummins , Ksq ., Deputy AiiKistant Commissary Ucuoriil , iiged thirty-four . ... . .. . .. On tho ' 5571 , 11 , at , Rome , tho Right Hon . John Wioholl , in tho llftv-Hixth year of hid ago . ... - On Mm > JKthof Kobnmry , at Cheltenham , Mm . Lombo widow of tho Into Kdwurd Loml . i " , Hsq ., of Great Melton , Norfolk . On tlio r . th of Kohru . uy , at Cheltenham , » ge . d niiioty-Hir , Lo . ' i ™ , relic , of Ounlam John Oooke , of tho fl ' f ^ - wh <) fell at tho notion of Vrafulftar , October twenty- irst , 1 H 05 . On tho ( Ith , U Cheltenham . Mrs . Anno NowouhiH . i , aged »| xtv-, lvo Vidovv of Major No ^ . h . u ,., lato of that phuje ™*™> n ™* J for many years M . P . for tlie htmnah of ClonmoHn Ire and On thVuth , at WoHton-Supor-WUnx , suddenly , lUisiabuth . wile of Mr . Alorandor lln > wu , hookm-llor , itgc d lhuty-tw <> yo . irs Oh the Hlh , at , Hheil . oino , "Dorset , WulUir HranciB Hhfiil Mncron . ly , fourth son of William Charles Mnoreudy .
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J ) o < jmah . VVliona iiuui luyH down iw » n absolute truth wliuf , is only a win live ouo , and duntmuls a uecoa-Hiiry union ixitwtHjn thinga which uru only acridfttttftUy coiincrtcd , 1 >« commits u wrong aguimt tho truth » t # elf , and < 1 oom more to injure religion thuu the man who denicH i <) altogether . —iMNOl'OWp ' M Meligion * n 4 Education .
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FfiSRuABY 12 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . " *'
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HEALTH OF LONDON DTJRTNG THE WEEK . Chanob of temperature has produced a great increase in the mortality . The present return shows that the deaths in London , which scarcely- exceeded 1000 in any of the four weeks of January , rose in the week that ended 5 th February to 1220 . The mean weekly temperature in December of last year , was about 48 dog ., in the two foj'owng Weeks of January it was 46 deg ., it then fell to 41-9 degr . and in the last two weeks it declined to 37 ' 7 deg ., and 36-5 deg . On Tuesday last week the mean temperature W ° Sie ten corresponding weeks of the yeata ^ 843-52 the averaee number of deaths was 1058 , which , if raised m n ^ n ^ nrfinn to increase of -population , would give & .
mortality of 1164 for last week . Hence it appeaw that the mortality , which for many weeks has been below the estimated amount , now exceeds it . The increase arises chiefly from diseases of the respiratory organs ( principally bronchitis arid pneumonia ) which having been fatal in the ttfo preceding weeks in 171 and 199 cases have now risen to 250 . Ptlnsis in thd same periods carried off 134 , 138 , and 151 persons ,- and 49 40 , and 64 children died of hooping-coug h . ^ Last week the births of 827 boys and 732 girla , in . all 1559 children , were registered in London . In the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 the average number was 1507 . . _ ....
At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 " 782 in . ; the mean daily reading on Monday and Tuesday was above 30 in . The mean temperature of the week was 36-6 deg ., which is 1-3 deg . below the average of tho same week in 38 years . The mean daily temperature } fell from 39-1 deg . on Sunday to 31-6 deg . on Tuesday , or G-l deg . below the average of the same day ; and it continued , though not to the same extent , below the average during the rest of the week . The wind blew from the n « 5 rth-east at the end of tho week , but the air was for the most part calm . The mean dew point temperature was 31-5 deg .
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 12, 1853, page 155, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1973/page/11/
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