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say ) have been given to the Duke of Athol and the Lord Panmure . The vacancies were caused by the death of the Earl of Brooke and Warwick , and the more recent death of Lord Saltoun . The Marquis of Chandos is reported as the new chairman of the London and North "Western Company . Sir do Lacy Evans , it is said , is to get one of the vacant Regiments , , the 2 nd Queen ' s Royals , or the 22 nd Fusiliers . The Governor of the Bahamas , John Gregory , Esq ., died of fever on July 29 . He was highly respected . He was brother ot the late Dr . Greerorv , of Edinburgh .
M , Jullien arrived at New York on the 7 th August , by the Baltic . The renowned chef d ' orcliestre was met on the quay by a party of friends , who escorted him , accompanied by Madame Jullien and Dr . Joy , to his hotel , in a carriage and four . In the evening M . Jullien was greeted with the honours of a grand orchestral serenade . In mid-Atlantic a concert was given in the grand saloon of the Baltic , at which M . Jullien delighted his fellow-passengers with a solo on the piccolo . It may lie remembered that the now world-famous conductor began his professional life on board a French line-of-battle ship , and was
attached to the admiral ' s band . In that capacity he was present at the Battle of Kavarino . He bids fair to be as great a popular favourite in America as he has long been in England , and there is no doubt he will know how to rouse our Yankee cousins to enthusiasm with the first wave of that magical baton , and of those ambrosial locks . Colonel Bagani , an old officer of the Empire , widower of the once-renowned Grassini , and uncle to Grisi , has become impresario of the Italian Opera at Paris . After the ruin of Ronconi and Mr . Lumley , and the failure of M . Corti , it was feared that no speculator would be found rash enough to embark in the speculation . But Colonel Ragani , who has just obtained a concession of the " privilege" for
nine years , appears to be in a fairer way of success than his unfortunate predecessors . He has the immediate favour of the Emperor , as a veteran of the grande armec : he has already secured the services of Grisi and Mario , whose engagement in America , it appears , will not commence till next February : he has engaged Tamburini and Gardoni , and is negotiating with Alboni , whose terms are almost too formidable to be entertained . If the new director i 3 able to complete his programme as satisfactorily as his first efforts indicate , the season will commence in the third week of October , and it is confidently expected that some of the ^ ld Sclat will be restored to the Italiens .
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The " Catholic University" will , it is said , be in working order in a twelvemonth . The contributions from America have been large . Four thousand and five persons emigrated from Ulster in the year 1853 . Many of the constabulary have emigrated . One who in Ireland had 27 Z . a year , has now 219 Z . a year , as a warder in one of the Australian prisons .
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A branch railway into the new and important coal fields of Cannock Chase is to be made by the South Staffordshire Company . One hundred and thirty vessels for Australia are now loading in London , and the rate of passage has been increased from 3 Ctf . to 40 Z . " Wo understand that the Admirnlty have determined to discontinue the employment of lieutenants of the royal navy as Admirnlty ngents in the North American mail contract steam-packets . " - —Standard . ( August 27 . ) The collective receipts of the metropolitan railways have averaged during the last six months an mcrea . se of nearly 20 per cent ., ns compared with the corresponding period of last year , although the trade of the country was even at that time highly prosperous .
In the new American clipper , the- Sovereign of the Seas , the ropes which form the running rigging are of cotton , which is not only capable of a tighter (¦ wist , but is not liable to become deteriorated by friction in the- same degree fts hempen cords . After they have been in use , too , for years , they can bo sold for nearly as much as tho original cost . These ropes are quite hitiooMi , and run with great , rapidity through the blocks . The nails also of this vessel are of cotton , two sets of cotton wails costing only tho Kiim paid for one set . of linen . A supply of coal exists at Natal , and to open it , up an 'English company is to bo formed . A supply for the many Ktenin-Khip . H calling at . the Capo will thus be obtained . The circulation of our private and joint-stock banks have decreased during the last month by 21 > , r >(> H ., but , compared with the corresponding period of last year there in an increase of 41 ( 5 , 108 / .
There being no pilots at tho Needles , Covves , the captain of ( ho United States steamship Washington took his ship through tlio passage with great , skill , managing it successfull y in a tremendous sea . Tho expense of ( -ducating the Irish people ! under the National Education nyHtom has been ( ill ., 047 / . during M lust live years . Foreign countries sent last year to England 2 , l' 2 . 'l , O 17 quarters of corn , and in the first half of this year they sent ; 1 , 234 (> 0 i > quarters . Lust ; year Ireland guvo to England ] 8 . > i , 3 (> H quarter / I of corn , and Knglund mint to Ireland 475 , 028 quarters . ! l hiring the first six iiiont . liM of this year the proportion of exchanges was altout . Mm name . ' There arc only 421 , 413 Parliamentary voters in England mid Wales ! The JI ouho of Commons sat , KIO days in tho late Session . It sat 133 J hours after ¦ midnight .
To preserve the stonework of HiielungTiam Pulaee it is now being painted . An extreme vegetarian , a young man who has lived on nothing but apples , tigs , and cold water for the last three years , lias appeared before the police courts on a charge of pawning a book . Tho magistrate ot . first considered him ' insane , but the surgeon decided that , he wuh not so , being quite rational in his conduct . An ollieial premium mi matrimony isunovel institution . Tho Sheffield Times reports a peculiar arrangement , of a
Board of Guardians in the neighbourhood . The schoolmistress was engaged on the express understanding that she was to be married to the schoolmaster ! A curious cure for consumption is notified from America . Dr . Cartwright , of New Orleans , asserts , from personal experience , that a few hours spent in a sugar manufactory , inhaling the saccharine fumes , is a certain cure for consumption . , -, ¦ At an alcohol factory near St . Quentin ( France ) , a young chemist , stepping over a boiler containg boiling potash , fell in . The agony was fearful , but he got out , and rushed into a vat of cold water . The burning pain continued , and he frequently called for prussic acid . From the lower part of his body the flesh literally fell away . He died the next day . . . ¦ > . . Gold has been found in Cumberland , and rich lodes of copper and lead are suspected . Lanarkshire is also said to be auriferous , being " similar to Australia in geological formation . "
Four men employed at Euston-square carried a long iron bar across the rails just as an engine was approaching . All were knocked down and injured—two fatally , it is feared . Daylesford , the seat of the celebrated Warren Hastings , has heard the sound of the hammer ; its furniture and memorials have been sold . One of the books was " A Collection of all the Evidence against Warren Hastings . " It sold for eighteen guineas . An express train started from the Great Northern Railway at five o ' clock on Wednesday evening , from King ' s Cross ( London ) , for York . A coal train started from Doncaster , in Yorkshire , which was due at the King ' s-cross ( London ) station at ten minutes past five . The trains
should pass each other between London and Hornsey . When the coal or up-train reached Hornsey , and was about to go from one set of rails to another , the switch did not act—the tender got off the line , and shunted across the line . The telegraph was immediately set in motion , but before the message conveyed by it arrived at King ' scross , the express train had started , and proceeded at full speed . When about two hundred yards from the Hornsey station , the stop signal was observed by the guard to be up , but from the impetus of the train , or from not observing the stop signal in sufficient time , the express train could not be stopped to prevent a collision . The tender attached to the pilot engine with the coal wagons were
still across the line , and the express engine went into them , causing , of course , a dreadful concussion between the express train and the coal train , Avhich was shunted across the line . Several persons in the express train , among them the Lord Mayor and Mr . Denison , the chairman of the company , were going on to Sheffield , to attend the annual dinner of the Cutlers' Company of Sheffield . Sir James Duke was on his way to attend a funeral at Newcastle . The collision was so great that all the occupants of the express train "were thrown from their seats and were more or less injured . All of them were in first-class carriages . Some have got compound fractures , others scalp wounds , others simple fractures , and one gentleman has had both the bones of his nose broken . Lord Enfield and
the Bishop of Lincoln escaped , but the Lord Mayor of London was hurt . The Lord Mayor ' s private secretary wrote to the evening papers , on Thursday : — " It was a mistake to state in this morning ' s papers that the Lord Mayor was not hurt by tho accident on tho Great Northern Railway , last night , at Hornsey . His face was much bruised , and his nose and mouth , and he cannot speak or swallow without considerable difficulty and pain . It was fortunate for him that he bled profusely , or the effect of the accident ; mig ht , have been serious . He passed a very restless night , and is still confined to his bed . "
On Tuesday night last , Cardinal Wiseman delivered a long lecture in the Philharmonic Hall , Liverpool , on tho connexion of eoinmerco with tho fine nrts .
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The life of a London policeman is chequered with incidents of romance . The following tale presents a picture and a bit of dramatic situation : —Between twelve and one o ' clock on Wednesday morning , as police-constable Hindcs was on duty in Upper Albany-street , Regent ' s-paik , ho observed a female in her night dress , walking briskly along the pavement . He spoke to her several times , but receiving no answer , felt convinced that sho was in a state of somnambulism . Ho immediately laid hold of her , and wrapping her up in his great coat , called a cab , in which
he convoyed her to tho Albany-street-station , where , after the lapse of an hour , she became restored to consciousness . She was thon asked b y tho officer on duty as to her name , address , nnd occupation . In reply nho said she was a domestic in the service of Mr . llaines , chemist , Albanystreet . It appeared that , having been in the habit of engaging a cab for her muster in tho morning , sho hnd , while her " senses were shut , " gone in her sleep upon the same errand . The key of tho street door , which was discovered to Jiuvo been left , open , wan at tho utatiou found in her hand .
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Saturday , September 3 . EviCKViiom : will bo . glnd to greet the appearance of Mr . Ifoehuck again in public lift ) . Wo lmvo greatly ininse <| him in I'nrlimnent , whore , in a hohhioh lileo tho last , ho would have boon of groat ; use . On . selfish eoii-Nidemfion . s alone , nnd netting aside the great public
sympathy with his recovery , wo aro heartily glad to hoo him in h ' right , place onoo again , tho chiof guost h <; 1 : 1 io Culler's I ' Ynst , which took pluce u (; Sheffield , on Thursday . This happy and annual festivity not , only elicited a speech from Mr . lfoebuok , but brought forth Hpecoliori from honl Wlmnieliffe , Mr . Denison , M . P ., mid oUior . s . Lord Whnrnclillo loll ; it , a relief to " tell gentlemen to their f ' acen that they wore prosporoiiH , "
and referred with laudation to the friendly ma present strikes in comparison with such movement ^ old . Mr . Denison stated an eloquent fact : tlie ex ° of hardware and cutlery have been one-third xaor ^ 1853 than in 1850 , an increase mainly co ntribute / il * Sheffield . And the agriculturists are equally « perous . << I am in one-of the happiest ; WilfeT ?" the world—the population of . the West Riding "J Yorkshire . " He added with great pleasure , that ° the militia enrolled at Doncaster , no men ' beha ' rt better than the men from Sheffield . Mr . Roebuck " not as a death ' s head at a feast , " but as a sine friend , warned his hearers that the present prosperiT may cease , either through our own conduct or the corf duct of parties abroad .
" I was present at the great peace meeting the otW day-the meeting of the fleet of England . ' Depend S it that meeting had more to do with the maintenance of peace than all the meetings you can collect of persons who profess to be the promoters of peace . ( Cheers . ) Th man who bears an injury tamely , is he on whom all th . bullies around him will fasten , and if you give the world to understand that you will submit to insults and injuries every bully in Europe will heap them upou von ' ( Cheers . ) " l * He added , with emphasis : — -
" On England , at the present time , are centred the hopes of liberty throughout the world . ( Cheers . ) In this corner of Europe liberty now has its refuge and home If England were broken down , Belgium would follow Sardinia would be nothing . The despots of Europe would walk over the whole , and liberty , freedom , and constitu . tional government would take refuge in that great Ee . public which emanated from you . But having confidence in the spirit of our country- —believing that you are what your ancestors "were , I believe in the future of England .
I look to it as the great harbinger of civilization . The world looks to it for the benefit of mankind ; and depend upon it that it requires you to maintain the glory—though that is a hard word to use—the honour , and the liberties of England . If her liberties were broken down , Europe would be prostrate ; civilization would be hurled backwards instead of progressing , and we should not be what we are , worthy descendants of our great predecessors . I told you I was weak , and I feel so . The few sentiments I have uttered have shaken me with emotion . It is not
simulated ; it is what I deeply feel . T will act on these principles ; and in your name I will endeavour to maintain the power , the honour , and the integrity of this great country . " ( Cheers . ) [ In a letter from Lord Fitzwilliam , read afc the beginning of the feast , there was strong warning as to the necessity of meeting Russia , without compromise or weakness . ] Mr . Peto was the last speaker of note , and he was very peaceful and commercial in his anticipations : " They saw in France indications of a desire on tho
part of the Emperor to consolidate his own power by making freedom of exchange contribute to the prosperity of his empire . What would be the effect upon tho tradeof Sheffield if files , iron , and cutlery , should be admitted at a nominal duty into France , and the wines of Franco on similar terms into England ? Europe was becoming indoctrinated with tho principles of free trade , and when they looked at the fact that the United States contained a third less people than France , he need not point to tho great hope it afforded to Sheffield when Franco should consult her truo interests . " The final act of the Kusso-Turkish drama seems nt hand , if the telegraphic despatch received to-day speaks truth . Under date , " Vienna , August 29 , " it snys : — " Prince Gortschakoff inspected the line of tlio Dam ' when he received tho despatches informing him of the Sultan's acceptance of the Vienna note . Ho ret urned immediately to his head-quarters , and sent couriers m various directions . The Russian officers expect tho immediate evacuation of the Principalities . " Italy is not dead , but sleepeth . News from Genoa to the 29 th nit ., states that tho burial of a democratic priest has given occasion to a grand demonstration , largo number of people joined tho procession . I < ; ) fi asserted that this priest died of poinon . Thobcs has been almost entirely destroyed by » n earthquake . ( Tho intelligence comes by Hubninrino ' * wige from Vienna , and is dated Athens , Auguwt % » - )
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Queen Christina , of Spain , m , at present , in Lo with her huBbnnd and bor illeg itimate children- ^ A decline in tho price of broad bus l > eoii * PT . | | t \ ] 0 in ninny parts of France , owing to tho effect w » arrivals in foreign corn lias had on tho " mrJf um eil Tho collie ™ of tho DowlaiH Iron WorkH have xc » work . Each mnn got a gratuity on hi « return-¦ ¦ -- ' "" ' ' ¦ f ,, * i / 1 f ) I ]
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Tho Queen fulfils the real end of her visit to J veW by carefully inspecting tho Exhibition . Sho hi * P »» private visits to the Exhibition on Wednesday , Tim ™ '•>' and Friday . Sho does ho quietly , and without ccroi" « j " She liiiH purchased her right of e ntrance , and tun her family and mute , like tho rest of tho world wl >< H ^ there , being now tho holder of ten Henson tlcl ? J . . business-like tribute to tho character of tho " >» ' ( f tion . " On Friday hIiu paid u visit to tlio i ' -f Howtli . On this evening , at nix o ' clock , slw »' Ireland for Hoi yhciul , < m route for Scotland . ¦
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 3, 1853, page 850, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2002/page/10/
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