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2 te ?™ 5 fi , t PerS ' * hB Clay seemed * ° retain ** " > USSrS t ? l P ™ one or two caae 3 which he examined . He observed several instances of enrines pawing over the line . These caused the rails to woi in the chairs , and the chairs to work on the sleepers , and the sleepers also appeared to work in the ballast a little . If sleepers were packed equally on both sides , it would give an undulating motion to trains , but if one end of the deeper were more firmly packed than another , this motion would be converted into an oscillating motion . The road was not in such a good condition as it ought to have been . It depended very much on the speed of a train whether the line was in a safe condition . He did not consider it in a good condition with heavy engines at a high speed . If he had been t
requesed to report on the state of the road , not knowing of the accident , he should not have reported that it was safe for the public to pass on with the present traffic going over it . " On this evidence the Coroner's Jury , before whom the inquest took place , returned a verdict of " Manslaughter agai'Ast the Directors of the Mailwat / . " In consequence of this verdict , warrants were issued for the apprehension of the directors . They were not , however , executed , as the directors surrendered yesterday . Their own recognizances , in 1001 . each , were accepted for their appearance at the next Yorkshire assizes . An accident , causing extensive damage , occurred on the Western Valleys line on Monday . A very large train , laden with coal , was on its way to Newport ; in passing through Sir Charles Morgan ' s park it was suddenl y thrown off , the coal and the heavy carriages falUner in immense masses
upon the passenger line , blocking it up completely . Information was immediately given at the next station in time to prevent the down passenger train running into the wreck . The broken carriages lay in a place of peculiar peril . Near the spot a steep cliff descended to Ebba river , flowin g beneath , sijtty feet below the line ; and had the passenger-trains , many of them well filled with holiday passengers , continued their journey , the consequences might have been very serious ; unless we cannot apply the word " serious" to events which the companies seem to think matters of course . The " cause" of this accident is stated to be the falling off of one of the wheels of the train ; but besides this the part where it took place is now admitted to be " a dangerous piece of road . " Worn wheels or dangerous bits of road are always discovered through accidents .
A great- fire took place in Liverpool on Tuesday evening . The Worth Shore Cotton Mill , an immense building , eight ¦ tories high , and extending far along the Leeds canal , waa totally destroyed by the fire . It was first noticed about nine o ' clock , and in a half hour the flames flooded the building . Floor after floor gave way , the brick walls fell with terrific sound , and the glare of the burning building flamed high and wide . Some estimate the mill , machinery , and stock , as worth 100 , 000 Z ., while accounts , more probably accurate , state 50 , 000 / . as the probable amount of loss . Over one thousand workmen are thrown out of employment .
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HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK Thk mortality of London last week was considerably hig her ESusual m tho middle of May , but it exhibits a redact i < m as compared with that of tho i . rocodmg week . Tho lumbers o / doaths registered in tho last three weeks in o 1160 and 109 § . The moan temporaturea in ^^ 3 ^ inc « 3 «« ofiMrtXtyrt the beginning of M ' the ton weeks , correspond ing to the woek that ended , TV ? aP , « f thn voara 1843-52 the average number of last Saturday , of the years 10 n for increft ( J 0 of *^ JT , ^ " 027 Ho . ee the , 1000 deaths of hut
Si exceed ^^ iTZil ULo , a diminution
sum . Typhus forms an exception , for the deaths from this disease have risen from 41 in each of the two former weeks to 71 in the last . From hooping-cough also the mortality is high , and does not show much disposition to subside it was fatal to 59 children . Last week the births of 870 boys and 806 girls , in all 1676 children , were registered in London . The average number in the eight corresponding weeks of the years 1845-52 was 1383 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 780 in . The mean
temperature of the week was 45-3 degs , which is 6 * 6 degs . below the average of the same week in 38 years . The mean daily temperature was below the average on every day of the week , and this depression amounted to 12 degs ., 10 degs ., and 9 degs . on the first three days . The air became gradually warmer , and on Saturday the mean was 61 degs . The mean difference between the dew point temperature and air temperature was 7 * 9 degs . ; the greatest difference was 17 * 4 degs . on Thursday ; the least was 2 * 1 degs . on the same day .
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BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 3 rd of April , at Simla , the wife of Colonel J . Bloomfield Gough , C . B ., Aide-de-camp to the Queen , and Quartermaster-General of Her Majesty ' s Forces in India : a son . On the 4 th of Mar , at Edinburgh , the Hon . Mrs . William M . Maule : a daughter . On the 11 th , the wife of the Eev . F . Watkins , one of her Majesty ' a Inspectors of Schools : a son . On the 12 th , at Tiptree-hall , near Kelvedon , Essex , the wife of Mr . J . J . Mechi : a son . ^ On the 13 th , at 8 , Carlton-houae-terrace , the lady Londeiborough : a daughter . On the 14 th , at 6 , Portman-square , Mrs . Parquharson , of Invercauld : a son . On the 14 th , at Ponty Pool-park , Monmouthshire , the wife of Gapel Hanbury Leigh , Esq .: a son and heir . On the 16 th , Lady Charles Wellesley : a daughter . On the 16 th , in wilton-crescent , the Viscountess Chewton : a daughter . On- the 17 th , at No . 21 , Chester-square , the wife of John George Phillimore , Q . C ., M . P .: a son , stillborn . On the 19 th , at 2 , Wilton-crescent , Mrs . Charles Whitmore : a son . MAEEIAGES . Oa the 11 th of May , at Watford , the Eev . Edward Henry Loring , M . A ., Ticar of Cobham , Surrey , only son of the late Venerable Henry Lloyd Loring , D . D ., Archdeacon of Calcutta , to Hannah Adelaide , youngest daughter of the late Arthur Cuthbert Marsh , Esq ., of Eastbury , Hertfordshire . On tho 12 th , at St . James ' s Church , Paddington , by the Eight Bev . the Lord Bishop of Manchester , Major Shakspear , late of the Bengal Artillery , to Marianne Elizabeth , daughter of Joseph Hodgson , Esq ., of Westboume-terrace , Hyde-park . On the 12 th , at St . George ' s , Hanover-square , hy the Lord Bishop of Salisbury , Hugh Francis Lethbndge , second son of Sir Francis D . Astley , Bart ., to Augusta Ellen , second daughter of James Cockburn , Esq ., and granddaughter of the Dean of York . On tlie 12 th , at St . Clement ' s Church , Henry , second son of Major J . E . Godfrey , E . I . C . S ., of Northernhay-house , Exeter , to Mary , eldest daughter of the Eev . William Polwhele , vicar of St . Anthony , Helstone , and niece of Major Eichard Graves Polwhele , of Polwhele , Cornwall . On the 12 th , at Clapham Church , Edgar AlfredBowring , Esq ., fourth son of Dr . Bowring , late H . M . Plenipotentiary in China , to Sophia , third daughter of Thomas Cubitt , Esq ., ofClaphampark , and Denbies . On the 17 th , at Great Saiham Church , Sholto James Douglas , Esq ., of tho Inner Temple , barrister-at-law , second son of Lieutenant-General Sir James Douglas , K . C . B ., to Ann Harriet , second daughter of William Mills , Esq ., of Saxhamhall , in the county ofSuffolk . On the 18 th , at Lyonshall Church , Henry Charles Stewart , Esq ., of Grove-road , St . John's-wood , to Sarah Frances IsabeJ , vouncest daughter of the late Lieut .-Colonel J . Crosse , K . S . F .,
of Ovals , St . Crosse , Herefordshire . ,..,,,,., On the 18 th , at St . John's Church , Notting-lull , Frederick Valiant , Esq ., First Bombay Lancers , son of tho late General Sir Thomas Valiant , K . C . B . and K . H ., to Josephine Anne , only daughter of Charles Frederick Hardman , Esq ., of Caatledown , Hastings , apd Dawson-place , Bayswater . On the 19 th , at Marylebone Church , by the Eev . Lord Bishop of Clogher , assisted by the Bev . P . Green , curate of Finehley , Middlesex , the marriage having been previously performed at the Jewish Synagogue by the Chief Habbi , the Rov . Eichard Henry King , B . A ., sohoolmaater , lind rector of Littlo Glemham , Suffolk , son of the late Mr . B . King , apothecary , to Fanny Margaret eldest accomplished daughter ofAmedd Mj 6 vi 11 o , Jisq ., Btockjobber , of the Asylum , Pixham-lune , Dorking , Surrey , late of Burton-crescent , St . Panoras , Middlesex .
DEATHS . On the 19 th of March , killed at the storming of tho stronghold of the rebel Moa Toon , in Burmah , Lieutenant James Marriott Taylor of the Ninth Madras Infantry , son of Lieut .-General H . G . A . Taylor , of No . 3 , Clarendon-place , IIyd « -pnrk . On tho 31 st , at Aahfleld , tho Eev . I ' rofeHSor Kobort Murray , of Queen'a College , Toronto , Canada . On the 2 nd of May , at Bideford , North D ovon , Jemima , widow of the late Henry Charles Boisragon , Esq ., M . D . On the 5 th , in his twentieth year , lost from a rowing-boat , run down by a river steamer , about 6 p . m ., near tho Nine Elmo-Difir . Chelsea-reach , William Graham ( the orphan son of
Thomas Dow , formerly ot tho Soots Fusilier Guards , and grandson of the late William Vow , of Needhum-hall , Elm , Islo of Ely ) , of 21 , Leicester-square , a medical student of King ' s ° On the Olth Sir Francis Waskett Myers , K . C . 8 ., of Eatonsquare . London , in tho sixty-fifth year of his ago . On the 9 th , at Leyrath , Kilkenny , Ireland , Sir Jonah Denny Whoeler ditto , B » rt ., in the eighty-eighth year of hit . age . On the 10 th , at Corston , near Bath , Lucy Esther , tho wife of Vice-Admiral Charles Philip Boteler Batenuin . On tho 12 th . at Grosvenor-house . Knightabridgo , Elisabeth , La Marquise do St . L 6 aer , agod eighty . On the 12 th , at 61 , Cadogan-place , the Lady Biverndalo , aged
" ° On &"" 13 th , at the Grove , Gravesend . Ellen Maria the wife of Mr Edward llaylis , actuary to tho Professional Life Assurance ConiDanv 76 . Choapside , aged fifty-nine . On thoTnh at Leorainater , Thomas Davios , Esq ., biunBterat-law Denuty Lieutenant of tho county of Hereford , and an dauKhter of t ' hite Wolmter Mount , Con-ul-OenerJ from £ fi 3 e « ly & ° « Of th ° Nothwl » IldB to th 0 * ml »« ror of M n * the " l 6 th at his residence , Claphnm-rise , Surrey , Anthony Brown , Esq . 6 hwnberl » ia of the Oily of London , . » hi , awntythird year .
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THE CAULDBON . The rulers of Europe appear more and more to treat the world as though , there were no security in it . They are returning to the savage tenure of property , —actual grasp . The negro who carries about with him his blanket , his tin kettle , and his top boots , believing a moment ' s repose in freedom on the deck for tho . se valued articles to be total loss , is the prototype of the emperor holding every foot of his ground by a standing army of soldiers , of police spies , and priests . Absolutists , ignoring the principle of insurance , regard " chance , " or the natural course of events under Providence , as wholly adverse to themselves , and malignant ; and as if to verify that diabolical doctrine , the world is crowning longcontinued peace with tumult and ferment in every quarter .
China is admitted to the freemasonry of nations by virtue of her rebellion and the uncertainty of all she is and has . Her dynasty may by this time be with the fugitive monarchs of the world , promoted to equality with that of France—those of France we should say . Her rebel chief may be her Emperor , and the victory of some great " principle" may by this time have suspended her commerce and ravaged her fields with civil war . In India , the borders of English authority are known by the smoke of war ; and in Burmah , true to the type of native India , the barbaric race is expending recklessly its strength in a resistance , the cost of which recalls the ceconomists of the House of Commons to the
immorality of aggrandizement by war . Between India and China , in the Indian seas , Uajah Brooke exemplifies English rule by strange alliances ; and British philanthropy weeps over the pirates that are victimized in trying to victimize him . At the Cape of Good Hope , General Cathcarfc has just concluded peace by establishing some of the most warlike tribes on a territory too small to hold them—beautiful provision for securing the fruit war out of the seed peace .
It is out of CafFraria that our ally , Spain , la detected in snatching a supply of those JVegroes for a trade which she has undertaken to suppress , and about which she has so recently insulted the officers of that very British fleet upon which she counts to protect her against tlio United States . In the North of Africa , the Pasha of Egypt is calculating chances of rebellion againist his suzerain of Turkey , and resting his hopes in tho
break up of the empire to which ho belongs . In Constantinople , diplomatists are endeavouring to conceal tho quarrel amongnt themselves , lest one should get the start of tho others , and seize the larger share in partitioning Turkey . Turkey ' s near neighbour , and sharpest persecutor , Austria , is , in all parts of her dominions , keeping down rebellion by a tyranny which renders submission impossible—Austria tho ally of England , who would rather break with liberty , with truth , with her own traditions , than with
the ally of 1816 ! ituHBia continues to inonano Europe with universal subjugation , Europe retorting in the hope of Kussian disruption . Germany imprisons GervinuH becauso ho interprets tho history of modern timos as indicating tho victory of tho great masses of the people . Germany has aspired to " union , " and her kings have continued for the five ensuing years to move about consulting each other how they may keep the peoples apart ; for royalty in Europe at tho present moment restH its hopoa on the influences of anarchy and disunion . On tho seven hills of Italy , supported by foreign contributions , sits that pauper potentate the rontiff , who assists tho emperors in sowing
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. \ yilson , the person charged with attempting to extort money from Mr . Gladstone , has been committed for trial . The Freeman ' s Journal , on the authority of a correspondent of a Sydney paper of the date of January 13 , announces the escape from Van Diemen ' s Land of Patrick O ' Donohoe , one of the Irish State prisoners who was sentenced along with Mr . Smith O'Brien . The Frenchmen concerned in the duel near Windsor have been liberated , the two months imprisonment to which they were sentenced having expired . They are four , — Etienne Barronet , Edmond Allain , Emanuel Barthelemy , and Philip Eugene Mornet . Near Bristol a murder has been committed by a boy
under ten years old . He pushed his playmate into the river , and prevented a companion running for help . A private marine of II . M . S . Ajax , who , being drunk , Btruck his sergeant , has been sentenced at Plymouth " to be hanged by the neck until he is dead at tho yardarm of such one of her Majesty ' s ships , " and at such time as the Lords of tho Admiralty shall appoint . A wife has killed her husband at St . Leonards-on-Sea . She stabbed him with a knife because ho was jealous—with causo . She is in gaol . . . Near Coleshill , about eleven miles from Birmingham , a bravo old man and his bravo old wife , living alone m an isolated country house , dofondod thomsolvos on last Saturdav with success against tho attacks of a partj of burglars . They . barricaded tho stairs and shot one of tho ruihans , who immediately decamped . A " suspected" party ia in
A boiicr explosion took place at Dudley , on Saturday , in a glass factory near tho town . Four men were killed and one seriously wounded . . , Here is a fact for Mr . Fitzroy . A conscientious cabman has manifested himsolf during tho week , in time to redeem his class from tho general stigma . Ho found in his cab a bag of gold left by a bank clerk ™ ™ f ^ delivered it up at tho Excise-office , in Old Broad-street . The bag contained one thousand sovereigns .
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There is nothing so revolutionary , because there 23 nothing so unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law ot its creation in eternal progress . —De . Abnold .
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SATTODAY , MAY 21 , 1858 .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 21, 1853, page 489, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1987/page/9/
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