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The new Commissioners to inquire into the administration of Charitable Trusts are , Chief Commissioner , Mr . Peter Erie ; two paid commissioners , Mr . James Hill , arid tho Rev . H . Jones ; secretary , Mr . Henry Vane ; two inspectors , Mr . Thomas Hare , and Mr . Walker Skirrow .
Some time ago , Mr . Lawson , of Bath , offered 10 , 0001 worth of scientific apparatus , on condition that a sufficient sum was subscribed within a given time , to found a Midland Observatory at Nottingham . The time expires on the 1 st of October ; and the Nottingham Guardian points out that 6000 ? . is still wanting , and urges the claims of the project , so magnificently begun , on the attention of the wealthier classes . An observatory committee sits at Nottingham—Mr . Alderman Birkin chairman ; and active efforts are made in Nottingham to increase its share of the subscription .
Lieutenant-General Sir William Napier writes to the papers to correct an error . Some journalists safd that it was Soult who liberated Sir C . Napier , when taken prisoner in the Peninsular war . It was Ney who acted so : — " The circumstances deserve to be repeated , as showing the generous temper of Ney . His aid-de-camp , Captain Clouet , reported that a frigate had sent a flag of truce to inquire 'if Major Napier was living ? ' ' Tell them yes ! and that he is well—let him be seen . ' Captain Clouet looked expressively at the Marshal , and said , ' He has an aged mother—a widow . ' ' Let him go himself then to tell her he is alive , ' was the response ; and with Major Napier he sent twenty-five English soldiers , who had been badly wounded and left behind . " The Scotch towns are disposed to pay honour to Ministers . Lord Palmerston is to get the freedom of Perth , and Mr . Gladstone the freedom of Inverness .
Mrs . Beecher Stowe left this country for America on Wednesday morning . She started from Liverpool . Many friends saw her off , and many parting honours were paid her . A " social and friendly entertainment" was given at Gloucester , on Tuesday , to General Sir Joseph Thackwell . In returning thanks for the honour and for the special toast ot his health , the general spoke with soldier-like point and substance . Amongst other things he said : "If on any future occasion the services of my country should call me again into-active service" [ the conclusion of the sentence of the gallant officer was drowned amidst the enthusiastic cheers of the company ] . Lord Fitzhardingo also spoke ; his chief saying being , " the most practical members of the Peace Society are the crews of the Agamemnon and the Wellington . "
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On Monday the Scotch express from Edinburgh , going at from 35 to 40 miles an hour , went into a siding ( tho fioints being wrong ) , instead of continuing on the main ine when past tho Euxton Station . The driver felt the jerk , instantly shut off " the steam , blew the whistle for the guards to apply their breaks , and then leaped off the engine followed by the fireman . In another moment tho express came in contact with the carriages on the sliding , and a fearful crash took place ; the danger of the collision being enhanced by the close proximity of a steep embankment . The front part of the engine was demolished , but , marvellous to state , the carriages of tho express sustained
littlo or no injury , the passengers being found almost unscathed , although , of course , in a state of grant consternation . Tho empty carriages on the siding were shivered to atoms , two wheels belonging to one of them , being subsequently discovered in the smoke-box of tho engine . Baxter , tho driver of tho express , wns found lying by tho side of the line , covered with blood and dirt , and in a . state of insensibility , having several severe etits about his bend and back . Tho lircrnan escaped with comparatively littlo injury . It appears that tho points were in bo dirty a stato ns to prevent their closing of themselves , as they ought to have done , when tho empty carriages were turned . Tho Queen had pawned only a short time before !
Tho afternoon train from Holyhead on Tuesday arrived near Cheater as a abort luggage-train was crossing hoth lines of mils to reach a shunting . The latter wan completely capsized . . Happily , however , there was no harm done to life or limb , all the damage boing confined to tho upset vans and tho fittings of tho foromo . st carriages of tho passenger train .
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No ono knows what may he found in the Thames :, that grand repository nndodax rcrum . A labourer lately found " a rod of gold , coiled by a curious proee . su ol workmanship . " If . may have been an " Aaron ' s rod" dropped from Lambeth Palace , crooked and golden , liko modern Church-craft .
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The lil , tlo Aztecs , mysterious to sonic , and interesting to nearly all who wen them , aro about to leave London , for a country lour . Nexft week is their last , week in town . London extends over an urea of 7 H , O 2 i ) acres , or 122 square miles , and the number of its inhabitants , rapidly increasing-, was 2 , « 'HI' 2 , i 3 . 'W on the day of the hint census . " Between twenty and thirty cases of Asiatic cholera have occurred in . 'Nowciisf . lo and tho immediate neighbourhood within the las | . fo \ v days ,, all terminating fatnlly . It appears lo have broken out at a place called Bill Quay , on Mm south hank of the Tyne , towards Shields , tho first ciiho reported being that of a woman residing there , who was seized on Thursday , and died the day following , shortly after she had been brought , to Newcastle . Since then live more canes have occurred / it Hill Quay . . Diarrhoea is very prevalent in the district , ¦ - Montiiuf C / irouivh ; Sept . i ) . We find this in a part of the ( t / ironiclo usually devoted to matters of no weight . A r , | aloment bo important should bo received with caution ,
We are privately informed that many deaths from " something like cholera" have occurred at Newcastle , and that there is much local alarm . From Liverpool there is a cheerful account . The Liverpool Times quoted , without date , in the Chronicle of yesterday , says : — " There i 3 no reason at present to apprehend an outbreak of epidemic cholera in this town . During the last five months the mortality has been below the average , and- in fact , the health of the town has jscldom been so good as at present . No epidemic prevails , and diarrhoea , in particular , which always increases in prevalence and severity before an outbreak of cholera , is now less frequent and fatal than it has been at any time during a similar period within the last five years . "
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What the new National Gallery is to be is foreshadowed by the Morning Chronicle ( Monday , Sept 5 ) : —" It appears to be distinctly understood that we are to have a Gallery and Museum , not a mere collection of pictures . Art is to be illustrated ; all Bchools are to be represented ; we are to trace the infancy and youth of art—its decrepitude too , as well as its vigour , We are to begin at Ciambue and Giotto— -we are to learn what fresco is—what Byzantine art is . England will at last have a chance of knowing that Germany has had a great school of artthat painting existed before Eaffaelle , of whom , by the way , we have next to nothing in the Gallery—that there were such painters as Van Eyck and Memling—that Spain has Sroduced a vast series of most important artists—and that ^ uysdaels and Claudes are not the only things in the world to be admired . The religious aspect of the art will at last be presented , in due proportion , in a collection which has hitherto consisted of landscapes , and of works which are either sensuons , satiric , historical , or portraits . "
Mr . Thomas Daniels was in receipt of a quarterly allowance from Government . On his last quarterday he went home drunk . On the next morning very early a fire broke out in his room ; people rushed in and found Daniels' wife in the midst of the flames , screaming terribly . They removed her , but . where was the man ? They searched , and at length found him in the . cupboard nearly burned to death . He had either mistaken the cupboard for the doorway , or had shut himself up thinking he was safe there . Both are since dead . " Nothing is known of the cause of the fire . " Then , of course , it is a case of Spontaneous Combustion . Koman Catholics have got a new saint , Father John , of Britto , martyrised in India in 1693 .
While Mrs . Beecher Stowe was at Leeds she was presented with an address from the , Anti-Slavery Society of Leeds , a silver fruit-basket by the ladies of Leeds , and 100 sovereigns from readers of " Uncle Tom ' s Cabin . " A death from Asiatic cholera has occurred in Liverpool . The deceased was a German emigrant , and bad imported the disease from Hamburgh , and the death occurred in a crowded lodging-house in one of the inferior parts of the town . The attention of the Health Committee has been drawn to the case , and also to the dangerous over-crowding of these emigrants' lodging-houses , which are numerous in Liverpool . A railway bridge of great magnitude is being built across the Tamar at Saltash . Extensive workshops and smithies have been erected . Steam machinery of every description
for planing , rolling into shape , cutting , drilling , and punching the masses of iron to form parts of the bridge , is in full operation . The smiths' shop contains eight forges , worked upon tho principle of exhaustion , or what is commonly called fan-bellows , driven by steam . A long slip , flimilar to that used for shipbuilding , has been laid down for the construction of the cylinders , intended to bo sunk in the river for raising the centre pieces of tho bridge . Tho one now being built is to be SG feet in diameter , and 80 feet deep ; when completed it will be launched , and sunk into its position , nnd being closed at about thirty feet from the top , will , in fact , bo a huge diving-bell , and tho men working within it supplied with air , on tho samo principle as that adopted with the ordinary bell .
From an official return to Parliament it appears that last year tho net rovenuo of tho see of Salisbury was 2744 Z . 14 s . 8 d . The Ecclesiastical Commissioners of that year made sevoral payments . A { cay days ago a gentleman obtained at ono of the banks in Liverpool a draft for 0000 / ., which ho placed in his side coat pocket , neglecting , in tho hurry , to put it in his pockethook , which he had taken out for tho purpose . When ho had gone about ten yards from tho bank he discovered that nn expert thief had extracted tho book , but tho draft fortunately remained at tho bottom of tho pocket .
Tho " largest piece of pottery" of Terra Cotta , " in an entire piece , " lias been produced by Mr . Bell and Mr . Blashficld , the designer and modeller of tho statue of "Australia" in the gardens of the Crystal Palace at Sydenliain . The liringoceupied three weeks at tho melting-glass heat . Tho statue weighs 25 cwt ., and is " including its plinth , about 8 ft . ( Jin . high . " TVn emigrant ship—the Jlehccca— -lms been wrecked on the west , coast , of Van Dieinen ' H Land , between Sandy Cape and Arthur Kiver , while ) on her passago to Sydney , from London . Out of thirty men , onl y ( eleven were saved —reaching ( ho shore . They found themselves in a wild country , and were hare of provisions . Alter enduring
£ r « n . t privations and suffering for nearly a fortnight , they were surprised at the appoarunco of a dog , which was hnilcri ns tho harbinger of their deliverance . Feni-ing lie might run away , th « y wrote an account of their situation , aim tied it round his neck ., Tho dog ; it appeared , belonged to a gentlom / ui named Bur / Miss , who , with a party , was exploring the country to tho southward . Tho moment they heard of the wreck , which was by the return of the dog , they net out , and came up with tlio survivors of the l {< il ) cct : <( , on ( ho twenty-third day after tho fillip ' s lows . Tho poor follows were fast , sinking when the exploring pzirty cnnio up , and through their attention and kindness their lives were preserved . Tho people of Plymouth ask for a local debtor's prison . At prcHont , they send their prioonoru to Victor ,
condition that Mr . Hayter would cause the withdrawal f the petition , has partly admitted the charge , but repudiate any corrupt motive . " It is quite true that I had frequenf conversations in reference to the petition pending again f me with Serjeant Murphy , and it is-quite true that he vo lunteexed , fully as often as I solicited , his interference on my behalf . It is quite true that he did speak to Mr . Hav ter on the subject . It is also true that , more than once he said , ' I'll speak to Hayter about it ; he'll put a n end to it . ' It is quite true that I did ask the ton . and learned gentleman to do what I have a full recollection of his i ™
An Agricultural Society ( the " Manchester and T pool" ) had a meeting at Warrington . on W « i I " The Society ' s district is South Lancashire and w J ' Cheshire . The show was very successful . Lord TwiT ^ present , but looked very ill . mjJei % Was The Mhadamanthus , steam-vessel , ran into a mor \\ man in the Channel , on -Monday night . A numb ** passengers were on the deck of the . naercharit-vesspi ° 1 after the collision , they called put : — " We are goW ^ , ! lower your boats . " Afterwards the merchantman was to continue her course . seen Three houses in the Strand fell on Thursday mom * They had been undermined by the workmen , in removT ^' 6 ome adjacent houses . Three persons were killed a ^ S others dangerously wounded . ' a Mr . John Francis Maguire , having been charged witk having promised his support to the present Ministry n
lunteering to do—to speak to the Duke of Newcastle as he was supposed , erroneously or otherwise , to have most influence with Mr . O'Flaherty . More than that is true — I asked Mr . Fagan to speak to Mr . Hayter ; and Mr . Fa . gan did so . " The Lancet Commissioners have reported on tobacco . Ifc appears that considerable differences exist in theproportion of the various constituents on which its quality depends but that in not one of the forty samples of manufactured tobacco submitted to examination was there found any foreign leaf or any solid extraneous substances of any description .
A bankrupt tailor , Calcutta , examined on . Thursday accounted for his failure by saying that his losses were very heavy " during the casualties of the Afghan , Chinese , and Punjab wars . In the battle of Moodkee alone customers of the bankrupt owing upwards of 30 , 000 rupees were killed , and by the battle of Ferozeshah and Sobraoa 50 , 000 rupees were lost in the same way . " The Norton controversy has been revived , but merely on minor points . Mr . Norton re-asserts that Sir William Follett advised the action ; "but Mrs . Norton shows , by letters from the solicitors , that . Sir William Follett expressly declined the responsibility of such counsel . Mr . Norton produces letters from Sir John Bayley , expressing his opinion that if Mr . Norton consented to live with Mrs . Norton after the action , it would be " the lowest
depth of degradation . " Mrs . Norton asks , in retort , why then did her husband ask her afterwards to live with him ? " The question ' prominently before the public' is not whether Mr . Norton should allow his wife an income , or even the amount of that income ; but , first , whether a gentleman barrister and magistrate , daily sitting in judgment on poor men's offences , should himself break a formal covenant , to which , for his own advantage , he urged a solicitor to obtain his wife's signature . " On Thursday , Charles Kenefle , a policeman , wns brought up before the Honourable Mr . Norton , charged with having " assaulted his wife . " The husband defended tho assault on the ground that his wife had kissed another man ; and tho magistrate having elicited this fact , discharged tho husband .
The peers of Scotland met on Wednesday , at twelve o'clock , in tho ancient picture gallery of Holyrood Palace , to elect ono of their number to represent them in tho House of Lords as ono of tho 10 Scotch representative peers , in the room of tho Earl of Seafield , deceased . Thcro were 16 peers present , of whom 15 voted ^ , and 0 who were absent voted by signed lists . Tho choico fell u """ " mously on Viscount Strathallan , who was accordingly declared elected . Another vacancy in tho Scotch representative peerage lias been created by tho death of General Lord Saltoun .
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The lato mail for India and Australia sent by tho In *** ( Peninsular and Oriental Company ' s vessel ) , , ^^ / heavy , comprising no less than 380 boxes , of which iW w for Australia , tho whole occupying a bulk equal to 44 > io « h measurement , or 1800 cubic ' fcot . Tho overlan d rouw being now tho most certain and speedy method ol coi municating with Australia , tho principal correspondence despatched bv this means . Wo not long since /«? " »*; .
upon the fact , that last year tho Peninsular nnrf ""^ Company earned in postage nearly tho amount oi ' annual subsidy for convoying tho mails . J . rosciii i pearnnces seem to indicato that ; tho systom is n ° ^ . '" t 0 a self-supporting ono , and that if tho mails "" liinui augment in number and in bulk tho Post-office will sF <; <» J be receiving as postal rovenuo a sum far in adviinc annual payment to this company . rj'jl 0 California sends us hor usual miscellany <> i nowfl . - papers record tho capturo and decap itation oi tho cay robber-chief , Joaquin , together with several ol M * w"LmR Tho Wh ( , at crops in . most parts of California wore » » J £ from rust , which it , was said would make tho yw » /^^ centless than itwould otherwiso havo neon ¦ niless than it otnerwiso jiuvu " ¦
, , . ce ; . , wpuM " - 1 )( , oi ) fl wero still very rife throughout California . Xwo J , | 1 ( , liad boon hung at Calavora—othj for murder , and i- " ( for horse-Htealing . Lynch-law had also Dccoinu j Konornl . Now gold diggings had been discover ^ . Oxford , on the UmpqS River . Five ^ " ^ t * 1000 dollars per day out for several days . ' A , i i in < l nln « ver y d « ar , pork selling for 45 c . per pound . " «»» J )( , ir ( l , o been discovered in largo quantities at Santa onw , _ ^ Man Lorenza Creek . The San Francisco Minr * . J „ of <) Viir / mated , and , in the face of very heavy imiM » ru >»"" tion in description of merchandise , thoro h «« boon w almost ovcry branch of trade .
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in the brighter and more fashionable part of the place that the general meetings and sections are accommodated . " Mr . Pisraeli is "to meet his constituents , " or at least a portion of them , at Aylesbury , on the 14 th . On that day the Hoyal Bucks Agricultural Association are to assemble ; a public dinner and several other matters will be discussed .
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Camoclc Chase , a now coal field in Staffordshire , wns formally opened on Thursday , the Marquis of Anglesey actin / r as president of tho ceremony .
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 10, 1853, page 874, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2003/page/10/
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