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nine persons . In due course , it vaa announped , thai } Mr .. Eargan ' if tender , amounting to 6 p , 154 £ . was approved of and accepted . This has occasioned much , astonishment , especially to those , who sent in tenders upwards of 14 , 0062 . tinder Mr . Dargan . The board state , { n their advertisemenVtnat they are not hound to accept the lowest tender . The Messrs . Moore , and the Messrs . Williams , two firms well known fior the magnitude of the public works they have executed , were amongst the tenderers , and it appears that the Messrs . Moore sent in a tender 14 > , O 6 Ol ., and the Messrs . ¦ Williams , of Talbot ' -atreet , a tender 10 , 000 ? . less than Mr . Dargan ' s . Messrs . Williams are known to have executed most of the many public works in the kingdom , and why their tender should have been , slighted appears at the present moment a mystery .
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Mr . James Hannay ' s lectures are continuing with the conditional Sctat . to have been expected . His second essay was read on Wednesday to a sufficiently numerous audience , intellectual , and admiring , the more that the subject was npt familiar , and that tnje treatise was pleasant literary gossip about Erasmus , and those two Scotch wits of the Reformation , —Sir David Lindsay and Buchanan . The lecturer has a graceful unaffected manner ; and it is a great merit , the management of the manner , so as to call no attention away from , matter , particularly when as in this case , the matter is really good—not , perhaps , profound , but piquant and personal , and admirably illustrated by mots and anecdotes . These lectures will make a capital book .
Photography , as an infant art , can receive much aid from organization . T he new Institutions , an'l the evening meetings which have lately collected professors and amateurs of the art , have alread y done much good . Mr . De La . Motto ' s soirSe in Bond-sCreet , on Thursday night , was pleasant and profitable , and excited much interest . Several beautiful specimens , representing microscopic objects were exhibited , and the general display was moat satisfactory .
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A message from Liverpool to New York and back again now takes but twenty days . Australian news is ta the 23 rd of March . In Mew South Wales some restrictive legislation has disgusted the diggers , and many have left for "Victoria , where the increased richness of the gold fields is an additional temptation . Melbourne is embarrassed by the immense increase of population , and the difficulty of getting houses or tents for the population is still very severe . There seems an entire want of vigorous administration in Melbourne , and a general immorality among the people . The female immigration is still comparatively scant , and the obstacles to the education of children are such that the rising generation are growing up without instruction . fothe Penin
The Valette , new paddle-wheel steamer , r - sular and Oriental Company , will have an average speed of sixteen-and-a-half miles an hour . A new port has been made on the Mersey . From the coal and salt districts of Lancashire runs a new railway to Garston , heretofore a quiet little village on the Lancashire side of the Mersey . A fine large dock , over six acres in extent , has been built , and all the conveniences for the storage and shipment of coal have been constructed in first rate style . . . The ne \»\ nropoller , the boomerang 1 , has been again tried at Porfcsmoufck . and has given satisfaction . Its average speed was 9 . 1 Z& . knots an hour . It saves one-eighth of the coal used in common screw steamers , and has much less vibration . \ London consumedN last year over 3 $ million tons ot
Cigars , tobacco , andWuff , to tho extent of 28 * million of pounds , were consutoed last yew in England . They paid duty to tho amount of 4 , 660 , 741 ? . 9 « . 6 rf . Hood ' s " Song of tho Shirt" will be inapplicable m a few years Tho new American sewing-machine—a box two feet square—is said to work well . " The right hand of tho worker turns a small wheel , which puts in operation two needles , ono a n upright needle , the other a sort ot tabular surface at tho
eemicircular ono ; and on a strong left hand extremity of which these two needles work—tho tiDrielit abovo and tho circular under—the cloth is laid with the loft hand , and propelled between the needles as tho machine proceeds with its stitching , till the two bobbins wh ich eupply the thread to tho double needle machinery be wound off . Tho machine can stitch m drclea or zig-zag , or any other way that may bo desired , and may boiivon at the rate of 6 & stitches per mutate , 7 l ? 1 L ^ ~ f ™« ,. W twi « n that rato . Tho work is strong
cLo . owing , beautifully regular , and such as would requuo a . verv firm and wcll-practiaed hand to equal . _ . tE following bit of advice about Indian postages given in the TiLJ Uvrkam . — " A secret worth Inowmjj ! How to avoir yourself of tho cheap book postage m India . If Jou send a Llf-pound book from Calcutta to Lahore by 'dawk banghy / under tho most liberal Indian rules it will cost you in the conveyance thirteen annas . It money w oOTeater object with you than time , as it sowiotiines w with thrifty popple in the matter of literature pond your book to a ffioml in England , Scotland or Ireland at the So of four annas , and let , him redirect , t to Lahore , wM tber it will go f ° <" ° " Anniw moro - TI T tho b °° ' carried some 12 , 000 roilos for eight annas , and you save live annas by tho process . "
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Tho late Earl Kridgowator loft oHtatos worth < W , 00 W . fl v ar to Lord AlfhS , on condition that Lord Alfind \ J U nHmn the dignity of Marqui « or . Duko of BridgDphouW attorn Uio J p y 1 . ftttaini fcho honour , W tho next in remainder now claims tho estates The * V fr Nfflf ^ iitow man , eoloclod a library for Mr . AfT ^ ood wno ' in consideration of that and other , literary A fl nromiod Mr . Nelson a Government appointment , ; or v , ces prom ^ ea h ^ ^^ . g ^^• tof ktateWOfc Mr . Attwood , on
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oath , denied point blank that he , had promised patronage or contracted the debt . But the Jury believed the evidence of Mr . Nelson , and awarded him 360 ? . The cost of manufacturing stupendous mountains , and vast prairies was illustrated in the law courts this week . In Gremorne may be seen Mexico , with its vast prairies and antique temples ; then comes Switzerland , with its lakes and mountains ; afterwards California , ; and , lastly , Jfineyehj , the oldest and yet the most modern city in the igorld . ' TJiege paintings occupy about forty feefc , and cost forty shillings a fooj . In another building West minster Hall is exhibited , and there the visitor " have the pleasure of looking into the Court of Common Pleas , and losing nothing by the visit . '' So spoke the advocate for the manufacturer , who nofc being paid for his work , sued the proprietors for the money . He was awarded 108 ? . 6 s . for his construction of so much of the world .
Mrs . Richards is a widow lady , lived in 6 , Alfred-terrace , Maiden-lane ^ and in the house her daughters kept a school . Mr . Rose purchased the house next door , and in making a drain under his own house , undermined Mrs . Richards ' dwelling . The walls cracked , wavered , and sunk , much to the fright of the good lady and her daughters , who in alarm left the house . They have been awarded 251 . as damages . How noblemen arrive at the truth is told by Lord Downshire . Susan M'Clelland came to him asking for charity , saying that she was the sister of a lady from whom the Marquis , some time before , had purchased pictures . " I asked her how her sister was , and she replied that she was dead . This strengthened my belief in her statement , for the sister was suffering from asthma , and at that time I made the remark that she was not long for this world . " So the impostor got 101 . from his lordship , too gratified at
the fulfilment of his prediction to remember that a dead sister is not as uncommon as a dead ass . Fresh from the diggings , Frank Eglyn Prank landed in London , lately ; he had realized two thousand pounds . Among his jollifications in town he went to the Victoria Theatre , on Monday night , having a hundred and nine sovereigns in his pockets . Afterwards he went to a publichouse , and while there conversed about the diggings with a tall man , wearing a white hat . Suddenly the scene changes . Frank finds himself in the street , " recovering his senses ; " hia money is gone , and the white hat has disappeared . The police are making enquiries after the hat . The new Westminster Bridge allows only twenty feet headway for the navigation ( London Bridge allows twentynine ; and Vauxhall , the lowest of the present bridges , allows twenty-six ) . This , it is said , will place a permanent obstacle to the navigation of the river Thames .
A blacksmith in Poplar had a quarrel with his wife , and in the fight broke his fiddle . This vexed him exceedingly , for he was about to raffle the " violin . " While his wife was asleep that night he cut her throat , widely and deeply , and then cut his own , not so deeply . The wife died without a struggle , the man died on the evening of the next day . A painful instance of the perversions of feeling resulting from imperfect education and unhealthy society , has shown itself at Burford , Oxon . Hannah Pratley gave birth to a child on Tuesday of last week . With reluctance she told her fellow-servants in the morning , and directed bv her they found the child alive and struggling in a pail ,
but its stifled cry showed that it was suffering severely from cold . It had been exposed for two hours , and it died before the day was over . Henry Isles , a workman living in tho house , seemed disturbed when ho heard of the occurrence , and his wife questioned him on tho subject . But he denied all knowledge . That evening , however , he hanged himself in the garret , and was cut down , yet warm , but dead . Hannah Pratley is in gaol , and tho body of Henry Isles was buried at midnig ht in the parish churchyard , privately , without any roligious burial service . Closo to the roadside , near his own house , an Irish gentleman was killed on last Friday , shot dead from behind a ditch . His namo is Robinson , and ho lived in
Btinfry , Wexford . . There wero six murders in Liverpool during 1852 . Of othorfloriou 8 offoncosthoroworo 31 , whilothe cases of bigamy wero 3 . 3211 drunk and incapable persons woro arrested by tho police . Passing over the offences of promoting profligacy and vice , numerous in . Liverpool , wo find that 30 persons wore accused of doserting their families . Perhaps this want of domestic happiness may be accounted for in the following statistics . Thero uro 1406
publichouaos , and 918 boer-houHes , while tho coffeo-houses number but 5 ) 0 , certainly a small proportion for a city so largo as Liverpool . There are 33 houses in which stolen property in receiver ! . Of tbo persons taken into custody , 11 , 801 ) woro inaleH , and 7 , 217 females . Tho number of professional thieves in Liverpool is 384 , 02 being females ; tho occasional thieves are 100 , and tho suspicious characters 00 . A woman of StaflbrdHhirn , named Snrah Barker , throw her infnn ' t down tho shaft of an old coal-pit , eighty yards ( Icon . Who is to bo tried for murder .
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At n factory in PreHton Homo men woro taking down a partition-wall by undermining it . It fell on them , crushed ono man to death , and grievously wounded two others . Several shops and factories in thoNow-road have boon destroyed by fire . Tho " work of destruction , " tho " devouring olomont , " and tho " sheets of llupio , " proceeded in tho usual order . Finally tho firemen , wit )» an immonao corps , quenched tho firo . On board H . M . S . Tjorylon , in tho recent oruiso , a cable not having been properly secured , a strain took place , tho ring-bolt was carriod away , and tho cablo Hew round with groat force .. It killed ono of ( , l » o lieutenant ^ and' six ncarnon , and wounded nino others . A poor Scotswoman lost hor wn . y in a snow- storm . Sho sank exhausted b y a b ' urn-eulo , ' and could not get on . Hho miulo repeated efforts to crawl towards home , out was too weak and cold . Thus boo lingorod for eight days , having nothing to oafc but a littjp bread , Yet » h « wan ¦ lived—and p no . w recovering ,
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BIRTHS , MABBIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS .-On the 17 th of June , at 13 , Cavendish-square , the Viscountess Mandeville : a son and heir . . On the 18 th , at 10 , Hyde-park-gate South , Kensington-gore , the wife of Gilbert Abbott & Beckett , Esq .: a daughter . On the 18 fch , at 40 , Russell-square , the wife of James Eussell , Q . C .: a daughter . On the 18 th , at the residence of her uncle , Crawshay Bailey , Esq ., M . P ., 16 , New-street , Spring-gardens , Mrs . Henry Bailey ; o son On the 19 th , at Gaddesden-park , the wife of Captain Leopold Grimston Paget , Eoyal Horse Artillery : a aon . On the 21 stT the wife of Thomas Platt , Esq ., of Burton-crescent , and of l / incoln ' s-inn , barrister-at-law : a son . MARRIAGES . On the 1 . 9 th of May , at St . Mary ' s Chapel , Chatham , Miramichi , New Brunswick , James Charles Edward Carmichae ] , Esq ., only son of the late John Edward Carmichael , Esq ., and grandson of Charles Douglass Smith , Esq ., of Dawlish , Devon , late Lieutenant-Governor of Prince Edward Island , to Ehza Jane , eldest daughter of John WUliston , Esq ., M . P ., of the above place . On the 14 th of June , at Monkstown , near Dublin , John Inmmer Esq ., Assistant Commissary-General , to Phcebe Porter , only daughter of the late Captain Nenon Alexander Connor , formerly of H . M . Seventy-first Regiment , granddaughter of the late Edward ConnorEsq . of the War-office , Dublin Caatle ,
, , and maternal granddaug hter of the last Count Bronet-dit-D tho ' l 4 th , at St . Johu ' 8 Church , Notting-hill , Augustus J . W Norther , Esq ., of Llangwathan , Pembrokeshire , Major 41 st Regiment , eldest son of Colonel Northey , late Quartermaster-General , to Laura Sophia , only daughter of the late- Joseph Price St . George , Esq ., of Notting-Wfl-square . On the 15 th , at St . Paul ' Church , Witherslack ,, Westmoreland , tho Rev . William Leonard Williams , eon of Archdeacon W . Williams , of Turantfa , New Zealand , to Sarah , aecond daughter of John Bradshaw Wanklyn , Eaqt-, of Halecat , West" o ^ t he 18 th , at St . Pancras Church A . Cleveland Wigan . Esq ., to Rosamund Dorothea , second daughter of the late John Curtis ,
On ' ticSf , at Ermouth , in the parish church of Littloham tho Her . SudlowGarratt , son of John Garratt , Esq ., of Birfiop scourt , Devon , and of Clevemont , near Cheltenham , to Anna Maria , third daughter of the Into Venerable Georgo Baruea D . D ., Archdoucoii of Burnstaple . On tho 2 lot , at St . Georgo ' 8 , Hanover-square , tho Hey . Ldmond John Morgan , of Ponvke , in the county of Worcester , to Jemima , second daughter of tho late Vice- Admiral Maling , of tho Elms , Abberloy , in tho same county . On tho 21 st , at 8 t . George ' s Hanover-squaro , Fjtz P » tf" * TIenrv Vernon , Esq ., eldest son of tho Right lion . Robert rZL JSM . P . ? t o the Lady Albreda Elizabeth Wentworth Fitzwilliam , youngest daughter of Earl PitzwiHiam . On the 2 l 8 t , at St . John ' s Church , Nottinc-hiU , Kensington , Hcnrv Mcmbury Wakley Esq ., of tho Jtugle T « m P l « ' X , T ter-at-tlaw , second son of Thomas Wakley , Baa ., of Harefleldrmrk i-orotior for Middlesex , and lately M . P . ior Fmsbury , to Salherfnc ? Anno , second daughter of tho late Francis Pmkncy , iof Whitehalland SwanseaOlamorgansW
E * ., , . o ' n tho S at Lewi ^ m , Kent , John Hill Williams , E » q of 12 Waterloo-place , Pall-Mull , to Edwina Anna daughter ot Maio ' r-O " eral tfdwur ' d Nicollfl , late of the Royal Manne » . On tho 22 nd inst ., fit Lewlfiham , Kent , by the Hon . and Rev . II « Vnry l 4 K o , John Hill William * , Esq ., of 12 Waterloo-place { Small , to is « lwina Anna , daughter oV Major-G oncral Edward Nicolte , lato of the Koyal Marines . DEATHS . On tho 15 th of Juno , in Yorkshire , agod twon ^¦¦ "Jo ^ Waltor ™ n a AV , u . d « sfonlo voungoHt son of tho Hon . t / iiarica n . y . IwLSoX , Cf Ukli ^ gton-hall , Torkehiro , and C . M . tle-0 X ? hl r mh !*« o Marouls of lUintly , in liin ninoty-Hooond year . O t 17 th at Cheanunt , Mrfl . Price , of 4 ft . Upper Oharfotteh ( " h FitVr y-sq « . are , olde 8 tda .. ght « rofthoitttoJoBophBatho ,
K T »« fl . n 17 th at Edinburgh , Miflfl Susan Maxwell , younger fliHt " ofthelifeffir WillLmVaxw ,, H , dfM « , nr lth , Bart . . On t e 20 th , at tho rootory . Witnoy , OxiordBhiro , ajrod ojghtythroo tho Kov . Chari ™ Jorram , rector of Witnw . wil late v . oar of Ohobham , and fobnerly minister of St . John '« dhapbl , London Onthe 20 «» . ** E » ton- » quare , Malcolm , the infant son of the Marl and Countess of Galloway . On tho 20 th , Uonry Weir , ^ laq ., manager of tho IiOndon and County Bank , Knightabridffo , « igo < Hiny-kwo . _ _ On flia 21 at , at Fortan Keotory , Btauordtthiro , tho Kev . John Vontott in « to ) ier Doughoy , aeoond son of tho lato $ ir John Kontori lloughoy , Bart ., of Aqnolato , in tho eamo county . At Bournemouth , HanM , aged twenty-three , Mary , the aftoond daughter of the lato Sir David Erakine , Bart ., of Canabo , N . B ., andTTrUyojcoohpn , peuWgQBhire ,
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average of the same week in 38 years . The mbaii daily temperature was belovf the average on 4 days , above it aboiifc 2 deg . on Wednesday , Thursday , and Friday . On Monday , when the wind blew from the north-weafc , an 4 1 * 15 in . of rain fell , the mean temperature was 9 ; 1 deg . below the average . The highest temperature occurred on Thursday , and was 74 deg . ; the lowest was on Friday , 49 * 7 deg . The greatest difference between the dew point temperature and air temperature was 19-5 , and occurred on Thursday ; the difference fell to 0 deg . on Monday ; the mean difference of the week was 7 * 1 deg .. The wind blew from the north on tho first three days , and afterwards from the south-west .
1 HEALTH OP LONDON DIJ ^ TNG THE WEEK " The public health is now in a . mpre satisfactory state . The weekly deaths registered in iojidbn were at ' t ^ e beginning of April abQV . e 1300 ; in MaVthey ayer ^ aWd , ' more than 1100 ; in the weet lhali endea last Saturday the number $ eE to 934 . fc the ten weeks corre ^ oridingn *) last week , of the years 1843-52 the average number was 896 , which * it raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 986 . Hence it appears that the actual mortality of the week is less than the estimated amount by 62 , a result more favourable than has been obtained during a long period . Last week the births of 742 boya and 667 girls , in all 1409 children , were registered in London . In the corresponding weeks of the eight years 1845-5 & the average number waa 1348 . . At the Koyal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29-798 in . The reading of the barometer increased from 29 * 59 in . at the beginning of tho week to S 9-04 in . by 9 h . p . m . on the 15 th ; remained at this reading nearly till 9 h . P . M . on the 17 th ; and decreased to 29-79 in . by the end of the week . The mean temperature was 58 * 3 deg ., which is 1 dog . below tho
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Leader (1850-1860), June 25, 1853, page 611, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1992/page/11/
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