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celebrafcea with all clue honours befitting the occasion . An immense ntttnber of " pilgrims" to the shrine of the poet came jnrtp the , town from Birmingham , Oxford , and the eurrbuttdittg neighbourhood , and the reverence with which anytime appertaining to the immortal bard is universally rece&retf ^ in this town was never more strikingly manifested t&an on this occasion by the numerous strangers , who anxiously sought those places and objects of interest associated with his , name . In the evening a dinner took place at tile Town-hall , at which Mr . Benjamin Webster presided . - The Society of the Friends of-Foreigners in Distress dined together-at the London Tavern on Saturday , lord Carlisle presiding . Mr . Ingersoll and the Chevalier Bun-Ben were present . Among the subscribers are . the following persons : —Her Majesty 1001 ., Prince Albert 251 ., the King of Denmark 60 ? ., ETing of Spain 10 £ , the Emperor of Austria 102 ., King of Belgium 101 ,, and the Emperor of Russia 302 . What ari odd mixture !
M . Alexandra Thomas , on Tuesday , delivered , at the Hanover-square rooms , the first or introductory lecture of a course , styled in tbe programme , Conferences sur I'Histoire de France ; being a sketch of the manners and opinions of the Frenchduring the age of Louis XIV ., principally drawn from the correspondence of Madame de Sevigne . Mi Thomas delivered his lecture with great distinctness ; and the extracts with which he illustrated it were appropriate and interesting . To all who wish to study the literature of France during the age of Louis
XTV ., or to improve their knowledge of the beauties and pronunciation of the French language , we can safely recommend these readings . She room was generally well attended ; and , amongst the company present , we observed the following distinguished personages : —The Marchioness of Aylesbury , the Countess of Zetland , the Countess of Lichfield , and Lady Anne Chartjjris , Lady Anne Tufnell , Lady Moreton , Lady Buclley , Lady Harriet Vernon , Lady Bomilly , the Earl of Carlisle , Le Chevalier and Madame Bunsen , Mr . Monckton Milnes , the Sight Hon . T . B . Macaulay , and Mr . Hallam .
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Captain Bunbury has been elected , unopposed , for Carlow , in the room of Colonel Bruen . North Xincolnshire has formed a Liberal Association for the purpose of returning two liberal candidates at the next election . Public meetings of the inhabitants of St . James ' s parish , and the borough of Southwark , have decided in favour of the Budget . At a meeting of the leading grocers and dealers in
Manchester , held on Thursday , apropos of the Budget , it was resolved— " That the proposed increase of duty on licenses is viewed with feelings of much surprise , being marked with great injustice , as pressing on a few trades while others are exempt ; and that while there is no desire to shrink from bearing a fair share of public burdens , or to embarrass the Chancellor of the Exchequer , it is resolved to memorialize him , with a view to obtain an abandonment of the proposed alterations . " A committee was appointed to draw up and present the memorial .
The Dorset , Notts , and Lincolnshire militia have been ordered out for twenty-one days training during the month of May . Captain . Blackwood Price ' s field-battery , quartered at ShornclifF , have received orders to hold themselves in readiness to join the great camp to be formed on Chobhamcoramon , near Windsor , in the beginning of June next . The battery is composed of 6 guns , 85 horses , and 138 noncommissioned officers and men . Captain F . A . Campbell ' s
field-battery at Chatham , of similar strength , has also been ordered to join the camp at the same time . The 6 th Dragoon Guards ( carabineers ) , at present stationed at Canterbury , and the 13 th Light Dragoons , at present stationed at Hounslow , will form a portion of the Cavalry Brigade . A return to Parliament , printed on Wednesday , shows that in 1851 the declared Talue of the exports to Turkey was 2 , 681 , 2302 . ; to Russia , 1 , 289 , 704 ? . ; and to Austria , 812 , 942 ? . ; thus giving Turkey the advantage over both by upwards of 400 , 0002 .
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Mr . Sarnucl Woodburri , the well known amateur and dealer in pictures of old masters , early drawings , and prints , died , during the past week , at his house in Piccadilly , at tho ago of 73 . He has helped , for tho last fifty years , in forming the principal picture-galleries of Europe . The collections of the Duke of Hamilton , grandfather of tho present Duke , and of Lord Fitzwilliam ( now at Cambridge ) , wcro formed chiefly by him ; as wore also tho Dimsdale , the Sykos , and tho Lawrence collections .
Mr . Thomas Dax , Taxing Master of tho Court of Exchequer , died suddenly on tylonday evening . Ho was taxing costs on Monday , and afterwards went into the city . When near the Mansion-house ho was seized with a fit , and expired from apoploxy . Mr . Dax had held tho office for a groat many years , and had been connected with tho court for about half a century . The appointment is in tho gift of tho Chief Baron , and tho salary is 12002 . a yenr . Mr . Dax hod an additional 2002 . a year for tho abolition of an office ho hold before tho court was thrown open to tho
public . In the course of tho last few days an oloctrio telegraph station has boon opened adjacent to tho lobby , by tho Electric Telegraph Company , for tho uho of members and parties engaged in Parliamentary proceedings , and diroct telegraphic communication is thereby obtainod with all parts of tho country , and intelligence transmitted to tho provinces ot" divisions and debates . Operations woro on Monday commenced for placing un oloctrio clock ovor tho principal ontranco to tho lobby , and a general system has fust boon introduced of notifying to members in all parts of tho House the preciHO moment of a division by tho olootrical ringing of thirty bolls in various directions , iho bells boinir sot in motion by on upporatuH in charge of ono of tho officers of tho Houso « t . tho lobby door . Wires are abo being carried from the Huubo to tho Oarlton , Reform ,
and other clubs , for the intercommunication and information of members . The Reverend Henry Nathan , rector of Jordanston , Pembroke , has been suspended for three years for drunkenness and swearing . He was also of a belligerent turn ; having rushed upon a poor-rate collector with a knife , and declared he would shoot his successor . Honora Gibbons and Bridget Gerratty , who were convicted at the last assizes atr Chester , for the murder , by poison , of the child of the former , lave had their capital sentences commuted to transportation for life . William Terrell and Charles Williams , who were left for execution at the late assizes for Lancashire , for murder , respectively , have had their capital sentences commuted to transportation for life , in consequence of the representations made to the Government on their behalf .
One of the most infamous police cases is recorded this week . It is that of a scoundrel named John Jiidd , who , under pretence of courting a young -woman , took her into the Victoria Park at night , and brutally assaulted her : once she escaped , the second time he knocked her down , and was successful . She followed him , however , with great courage , and was the means of his apprehension . Two fellows have been committed for picking pockets in St . Stephen ' s Church , Rochester-row , while the Bishop of London was holding a confirmation ; and two others who
accomplished similar feats in a church , at Brixton , during the performance of the same ceremony . While M . Lafont was playing tie part of the Chevalier St . Georges , at St . James ' s Theatre , on Friday week , some thieves entered his apartments in Bury-street , St . James ' s , and completely stripped them . His entire wardrobe , comprising every article of wearing apparel , jewellery , including a gold snuffbox , and a valuable gold chain , presented to him by the French Ambassador , were carried off , leaving him literally nothing but the clothes he was wearing at the time .
Elizabeth Linnet , a barefooted Irish girl , was brought before Mr . Bingham , charged with the following artful and dirty mode of obtaining money : —Police-constable Martin said a ge ntleman saw the prisoner pick up pieces of orangepeel , chew them , and then throw the mess on the dress of any lady who passed . If the mess stuck to the dress , the prisoner would run up to the lady , and , with a curtsey , beg permission to clean off the dirt . She did this to several ladies , and was in most cases thanked and rewarded . Martin detected the prisoner after she had thrown the dirt on a lady ' s dress , and was about to receive sixpence from the lady for her services . Mr . Bingham said the artful trick and proceedings of the prisoner ought to be made public , as it would servo to put ladies on their guard against
imposition , and perhaps to protect a valuable dress from injury . The practice must be checked by some means in order to prevent it spreading . The constable having also heard the prisoner begging , Mr . Bingham committed her to prison for one month .. At least our dogs are protected . It is well known that dogs-are stolen for the purpose of obtaining the reward offered for their restoration . Certain persons make a trade of finding them , and a . compound name for these people , " dog-negotiators , " has actually been invented . Two of these go-betweens , father and son , named Taylor , were arrested
on Monday . The Taylors were returning from a stolendog dep 6 t behind Shoreditch , when a constable saw them on an omnibus . He stopped the omnibus , captured the prisoners with an Isle of Skye terrier , and took them to the station-house . On being again asked about it , the elder exclaimed , " Good God , I ' m not obliged to tell you everything about it , am I ? " but on finding tho charge being taken , ho then acknowledged that tho dog had only been in his posession about two hours , and that it was tho property of Sir Charles Harding , of 21 , Montagu-squaro . This turned out to be correct . The constable hoped tho
magistrate would grant a summons to enforce tho attendance of the owner . Elder prisoner . — " Ah , ho wont como ; he ' s quite satisfied with my conduct in tho affair . The fact is , that tho dog belongs to Mr . Edwin Harding , who has been negotiating with mo for about a month to got his dog restored ; ho was at my houso yesterday with a friend , and gave njo instructions to procure it . Well , I did so from a public-house behind Shoreditch Church , and was taking it homo to Montagu-square , when I was apprelionded by tho policeman . I don ' t see anything wrong in my conduct , and only a short time ago I recovered a valuable dog for Mr . Henry , the magistrate of Bow-street , by tho samo means , and ho was perfectly satisfied with what I had done . " They wore remanded ; bail not forthcoming , sent to prison ; and a summons for the owner was granted .
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Ono of tho giraffes which his Highness Ibrahim Pasha presented to tho Zoological Society gave birth to a beautiful female fawn at their gardens in tho RegontVpark on Monday . This is the seventh which lias been bred by tho society since tho importation of thoir original herd from Khordossan in 1836 .
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . Thk mortality of London continues to < lecroaso by slow degrees . In tho three weeks of April the numbers of deaths returned have been 1340 , 1243 , and in tho week that ended last Saturday , 1182 . In tho ten corresponding weeks of tho years 1 Hi > 3-C > 2 , tho average number of deaths was 944 , which if rained in proportion to increnso of population nineo tho deaths occurred , will give a mortality of 1038 for last week . Jlenco it appears that tho 11 H 2 deaths rogisterd last week aro in oxcohs of tho estimated amount by 144 . Tho decline in diseases of tho respiratory organs during tho last four weeks is shown by tho following numbers : tho deaths in thin chum ( oxclusivo of phthisis and hoopingcough ) wero 420 , 323 , 251 , and 242 ; from bronchitis , 2 . J 1 , 180 128 and Ii 2 «; from pneumonia , 122 , 98 , 89 , and 80 ; from aatlunu , 38 , 18 , 11 , and 10 ; from liooping-cougb , 84 ,
80 , 68 , and 66 ; from phthisis ( or consumption ) 179 , 166 , 165 , and 139 . It will be seen that diseases of the organs of respiration are still much more fatal than is usual in the middle of April , for the deaths from this class , as above stated , were last week 242 , while the corrected average in ten corresponding weeks was only 163 . Fever , which threatened to spread its ravages , has , so far as the mortality affords an indication , apparently subsided . Typhus was fatal in the last four weeks in 77 , 49 , 65 , and 47 cases ; scarlatina in 35 , 37 , 20 , and 26 . The mortality of small-pox , it is satisfactory to observe , continues low , only 3 cases , which occurred among children , having been recorded last week . Measles carried off 24 children . Three children died of ague , one of noma , 4 children and an adult of syphilis . Eheumatic fever was fatal in two cases . Ten women died after child-bearing , two of these from metria ( puerperal fever . ) Thirteen children died of laryngitis and laryngismus stridulus .
Last week the births of 812 boys and 768 girls , in all 1580 children , were registered in London . In the eight corresponding weeks of 1845-52 the average number was 1476 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 * 694 in . The reading of the barometer decreased from 29 * 96 in . at the beginning of the week to 29-67 in . by 9 h . p . m . on the 19 th ; remained at this reading till 9 h . p . m . on the 20 th ; decreased to 29 * 19 in . by 3 h . p . m . on the 22 nd ; and increased to 29 74 in . by the end of the week . The mean temperature of th «
week was 45 * 9 degs ., which is rather below the average of the same week in 38 years . The highest temperature in the week was 60 * 5 degs . en Monday , the lowest was 37 ' 3 degs . on Saturday . The mean daily temperature was above the average only on the first three days . On Monday , when it was highest , it was 51 * 8 degs . ; thereafter it continued to fall , till on Thursday it was 41 * 8 degs . The greatest difference between the dew point temperature and air temperature was 14 * 8 degs . on Wednesday ; the least was 1 * 0 deg . on Thursday and Friday . The mean difference for the week was 6 * 4 degs . The wind was very variable .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 16 th of April , at Nice , the Marchioness of Abercorn : a son , which only survived twelve hours . On the 20 th , at 18 , Bryanstonc-square , tho Hon . Mrs . Augustus Byron : a daughter . On the 20 th , the Hon . Mrs . Edward Upton : a son and heir . On the 21 st , at 2 , Upper Hamilton-terrace , St . John ' s-wood , the wife of the Eev . Anthony F . Thomson , Head-maBter of St . John's Foundation School : a son . On the 23 rd , at Bitterne , near Southampton , the wife of Eobert Hesketh , Esq ., late her Majesty ' s Consul at Eio de Janeiro : a son and a daughter . On the 23 rd , in Brook-street , the Hon . Mrs . Proctor Beauchamp : a son . On the 24 th , at 42 , Brunswick-square , Brighton , the wife of Beaumont Hankey , Esq .: a daughter . On the 24 th , at No . 4 , Hyde-park-gate South , Mrs . Batiol Brett : a daughter . On the 25 tu , tho wife of the Bev . "W . C . Izard , M . A ., headmaster of the Stepney Grammar School : twin sons . On the 25 th , the wife of E . Lankcater , M . D ., F . R . S ., of Old Burlington-street : a daughter . On the 26 th , at Windlestone-hall , county of Durham , Lady Eden : a daughter . On the 27 th , at 18 , Hertford-street , Mayfair , Lady Charlotte Neville , prematurely : a daughter . On the 28 th , at Lyndhurst-road , Peckham , the wife of Harrison Weir , Esq .: a daughter . MAEBIAGES . On the 12 th of April , at Boston , United States , Abbot Lawrence , jun ., Esq ., son of the iron . Abbot Lawrence , late Minister to this Court ( St . James ' to Harriett *? , only daughter of James W . Paige , Esq ., niece of the late Hon . Daniel Webster , and grand niece of the Hon . Joseph Story , Associate Justice of tho Supreme Court of tho United States . On the 26 th , at All Saints' Church , Maidstone , tho Rev . G . W . Corker , M . A ., perpetualcurate of Weald , Sevenoaks , to the Lady Charlotte Maraham , sister of the Earl of Komney . On the 21 st , at St . Peter's Church , Eaton-square , J . II . Manners Button , Esq ., M . P ., ofKelliam-hall , Notts , to Mary Jemima , eldest daughter of the Hev . Gustavus Burnuhy , roetor oC St . Peter ' s , Bedford , an < I Canon of Middloham . On tho 25 th , at St . Michael '*) Church , Chester-square , Ouutavus 1 ' . Smith , Esq ., of Goldiooto , Worcestershire , to Lady Mordaunt , of Walton-court , Warwickshire . On tho 26 th , at 8 t . George ' s , llnnover-squaro , Charles Ponruddocko , Esq ., of Compton-park , Wilts , to Flora Henrietta , second daughter of Walter Long , Esq ., M . P ., of Hood Ashton , Wilts . On tho 26 th , at IIovo Church , Brighton , John , eldest son of John ltound , Esq ., of No . 15 , Urunswiok-torraee , Brighton , to Laura , youngest daughter of tho lain Horace Smith , Esq . On tho 27 th , at Acton , Middlesex , Henry Poring Pellew Crease , Esq ., of tho Middle Temple , eldest , son of Captain Crease , I t . N ., to Surah , eldest daughter of Professor Lindsay , of Acton-preen . On tho 27 th , at , HiWjhoster , Huntn , Captain Geoffrey Thomas PhippH Hornby , R . N ., oldest son of Admiral Sir I'hipps Hornby , K . C . B ., to Emily Frances , only ( laughter of tho Itov . John Coles , of Ditchaui-park , and rector of Silchcster . DEATHS . On tho 28 th of March , nt Brighton , Hubert Pntrirk Mil-nan . Esq ., Lieutenant , It . N ., llf tli son of Lioutommt-Generul Milnian , need twenty-three . . _ . ,. , .. _ On Hid 30 th , at Munich , Henriotto Clementine Mullet , wifo of Baron Alfred von Lotzbeok von Weyliern , Peerol Havana , aged twenty-four . ,,., / . 1 »*¦ n On the IHth of April , very suddenly , nt Bidefiml , Mary , tho beloved wifo of Admiral Glynn . « g < "d novenjy-sn . On tho 10 th at HImiwilKoii , AyiHlurn , 111 Iiih Iwonty-flrst year , Henry Diiiidnslloylo . 11 . H . l-C . H ., youngest son of tho Into Right Hon . Dnvid Uoylo , ofHhewallon . On tho 20 th , nt hi * residence lilt , Piccadilly , Hanniel Woodburn , of Ht . Miirtin ' H-Iami , nnd Cofldgwgiin-hall , Radnorshire . " oil tho 20 th , at Brighton , aged Boventy-Meven , Lioutenant-Genern ! Poroirn , MimIhih Army . On Mm 20 th , at Dover , General Kir Thomas Gage Montreaor , K . C . H ., K . C ., Colonel of tho Second ( tho Qucon ' a ) Dragoon Guurdn . On t . tin 20 th , regretted by his widow and friends , Mr . Charles Jtloomfleld , oldest mm of tho author of "The Ifarnior ' s Boy , " in tho ilfty-flilh yow of liis ago .
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A ^ i , 3 fy 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 421 _ . i ; _ ' ii ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
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Leader (1850-1860), April 30, 1853, page 421, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1984/page/13/
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