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      den said he should willingly avail himself of the suggestion , and handed 16 s . to Mr . Markwick , and 2 s , besides for the summons , and the matter ended . In Paddington there is a large ditch , formerly emptied into the Serpentine , but now filled with rubbish , from which oozes the most offensive matter . Partly in the parish of Upper Chelsea is the ¦ Itarielagh 8 e \ yer , which , from the King ' s-roacl to the River Thames , pours forth its footid contents in a broad open ' channel , thickly surrounded by the habitations of the poor . Tho neighbourhood is never entirely free from cases of low fever . The north district of Marylebone appears in a bad state . In St . Panoras the stench from the sewers now being cleansed is much complained of by the medical officers .

      The inhabitants of St . John ' s-wood and its vicinity complain loudly of the noxious effluvium emitted from the ReT gent ' s-canal , under which there is a "dip , " into which tho surrounding cesspools discharge themselves , leaving a heavy pestilential deposit . The filthy condition of King ' s Arms-yard , Drury-lane , is again exposed by the editor of the Builder . " The miserable condition of the filthy place in which this pump stands is but feebly set forth in the statements published . Here about a dozen residences , in a sort of gallery formed over stables , are

      ranged around what has been one immense rotting duugheap . I say ' has been , ' because some efforts are now being made to improve its condition . On Monday , men were carting out of it a mass of decomposed filth , the smell of which was scarcely endurable , and ' not before it was needed , ' said one of them , with a shake of the head . Close to this spot , the approach to which from Drury-lane has now , appropriately enough , a coffin-maker's shop on each side , the great plague of 1665 broke out , and here up to this moment of writing , neglect , ignorance , and laissez faire prepare the way for a fresh pestilence . "

      Several small streets leading into the New-road are in a shocking state of filth , and generally unwholesome condition . Families live in small rooms of housss without water-closets or privies , and the state of the houses is most offensive to any one visiting tho place . These nuisances are being abated . In St . Pancras the sewers are still bad , and many burialgrounds teem with human remains . "The earth is described as a mass of putrefaction , from which rises of a night a body of miasma , poisoning' the surrounding neighbourhood . " A fatal case of cholera occurred in the York-road , Waterlooroad , on the 3 rd inst . ; one also at the bottom of Stangatestreet , " Westminster-road . Since the beginning of the px-esent week several deaths have taken place in the low , filthy courts and streets in the borough ; and there has been a large increase of bowel complaints in several districts .

      Tho great deficiency of the water supply in Southwark and the neighbourhood , while it is a serious privation to many of the poorer classes , adds to the difficulty of -cleansing the street ' s and yards , and to the removal of various nuisancoe . Several of the crowded courts have only a single tap for tho use of all the inhabitants , who are thus necessitated , when the water is laid on , to collect their stinted supply in an old bucket , fish-kettle , or basin , for the use of their families . Even the public urinals , which wore put up some years ago , have never yet had water laid on for cleansing them . The result is , that they have become . a . positivo nuisance to passers-by .

      At Newcastle the epidemic is on tho decline . The deaths daily have fallen to ten . The total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhooa . in Newcastle , during tho prosunt outbreak , has been 14 ! iS . In tho name period ( viz ., the first thirty-five days ) during tho prevalence of epidemic cholera there in lS . 'U-2 , tho number of doathn wan 2 f > 5 . Dr . Molior , tho French , doctor , deputed to this country to watch tho progress of the cholera , han visited Nowcantle . He etatos that ho ban soon tho dirtiest parts of tho woi-Ht-conditionod towns in Franco , but that nono of thorn are uh bad an tho bad parts of Newcastle . Tho epidemic in nearly extinct atGatcshcad ; only ono person died on Thursday . Tho total number of deaths from cholera and diarrhoea in Gutonhcud , to tho prcsont date , has boon 387 . During tho like poriod ( viz ., tho first twenty-nino days ) in 1831-2 , tho deaths amounted to Ml .

      Sinco last Monday thoro have boon thirtcon deaths at Walker . Medical men from Newcastle havo visited tho town . Four fntal canon of oholorx havo occurred at . Stoc ; kton-on Toos , three in ono hotwo . Ono fatal case of cholera has occurred in Darlington . Wo hiivo a horrible utory from Liverpool . Tho cholera has broken out among tho Gorman paHnonp ; orn on hoard tho American omigrant-Hhip , Isaac Wi'hjht , which put , back to tho port on Tuesday , having Htruck on a rock off Capo Clour . Before- tho vohhoI reached tho Moinoy forty-mivon puHHongorM wore thrown ovorboard , mid after making tho river throo moro died , and wore ourriod iiHhoro . It wan then found noooHflary to romovo n considorablo number to tho hospital at fcho worlchouHO , throo unfortunate- creatnron dym / fin tho carts

      on thoir trannlt thithor . Hovoral diod on Wodnunday , ; in < l five moro oxpirod on Thursday . Thoro worn l . hon thirt , y-ci / rlit : nick emigrants in tho hospital , many of whom urn , no doubt , dead boforo thin will moot tho public oyo . Tho poor oroatui-OH woro loud in thoir complaints of tho inmilfioioniiy und unwholesoiTionoHH of tho provinionH on board , Homo of thorn usnortintf that novoml of tlioir roldtivoH and frionds had diod from ponitlvo hunger and thir . st ; wbilo thoy doscilbod tho conduct of tho officers -ind crow an having boon brutal in tho oxfronio . Thoro uro still a fow eanoH of cholera in tho 'Livorpool workliouBo from tho American emigrant ship , Silax ( Ireemtum ; but tho dJmiuHO among thom han boon partially overcome * , and ik > duntfor in apprehended in thiiir on . no . Thoro havo boon novuml doathn from cholora -in tho town ninco Monday .

      At , iU >\> ffht , on-lo-Hpriiiff throo f « it . «\ l ciuwm of cholom . havo occurred . In Hundorliind , tho authorities havo prohibited tho October fair . At , llonghtoji-lo-Spring , ( , ho nnciont "foast" lmn boon poHtponod ; and all oxc . urnion traiim in tho neighbourhood havo boon Htoppod . Tho policy of thomi nioaHuroii in very doubtful . In tho Month Hhioldii union foi'ty-two doathn havo occurred ninco tho outbreak of tho oholoru .

      The late reports from Tynemouth are favourable . In Grays , Essex , there has been one fatal case of cholera . It is remarkable that , on all occasions of epidemic disease , the Jews escape almost quite free . There are good reasons for this exemption . — -1 . It is well known that , however poor the lower class of Jews may be , they never crowd more than one family into a room . 2 . They are not , ad a class , given to the abuse of intoxicating liquors . 3 . They , " in virtue of their religion , are particular in the food they eat . All shellfish is avoided . If any disease is found in a slaughtered animal , it is condemned , and not allowed to he sold for human food . 4 . Sabbath rest is strictly enjoined by their religion . 5 . They are unable , from religious motives , to enter our workhouses , and are relieved by the more wealthy of their own persuasion . 6 . The Jewish festival of the Passover enjoins every Jew to have his house thoroughly cleansed annually , and the rooms of the lower classes are for the most part annually limewashed .

      Cholera has broken out among the passengers of an emigrant ship , the Silas Greenman , dealing out from Liverpool . There have been three deaths . The immigration of Germans into Liverpool alarm the authorities , as the immigrants , it is thought , bring the cholera . In Greek-street , Deptford , a very filthy locality , a fatal case occurred on Saturday . A fatal case of cholera took place in Leith , on Thursday week . Vaccination is now compulsory by law . All children must be vaccinated within three months after birth . The Devonshire custom of infecting children with the small-pox , by actual contiguity with the clothes of an infected person , is the latest illustration of the necessity for this law .

      A second case of cholera , not fatal , occurred in Edinburgh , on Monday evening . Several ca 3 es have occurred in Berwickshire . In Liulithgowshire there have been six fatal cases .

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      CRIMINAL RECORD . John Poole , a plumber , had a largo family , and could not obtain employment , or-means to-support them . He tied his arms together with a black silk handkerchief , and went into the mill pond at Nine Elms-lane , Battersea , where he was found dead . Ribbonism is again so rampant in tho north of Ireland that a special commission for the county of Monaghan is contemplated . The Chelsea omnibus and the Hacknoy omnibus were racing . At tho comer of Mortimer-street ( near Portlandstvect ) the first omnibus struck against James Mason , and killed him . A verdict of manslaughter has been found against both . Mrs . Elliot , of Liverpool , haa set an examplo to ladies fearful of housebreakers . On entering her bedroom she noticed a man ' s feet stretching- from under the bed . Instead of screaming , she told her maid to go for a policeman . The burglar rushed from under the bed , and struggled to get to the door , but Mra . Elliot , who is handsome as well as bold , held him fast until tho constable came . The Glasgow news supplies a story of a singular robbery . Mr . Rait koepn a largo jewellery shop in Buchanan-street , over which aro the wrvrorooms of tho Messrs . Campbell . Some thieves got into the upper rooms , and then commenced boring through the floor . Tho thick joints wore a difficulty , but thoy wore stopped more effectually by tho coiling of sheet iron beneath . After attempts in two places 1

      thoy succeeded in boring a largo hole , find lottingthemselves down with a rope . They were now in tho jewellery shop , and forthwith they opened the canon , and daintily selected the bost things . Thirty-nino Albert chains , worth 27 Of . ; fiovcnty-onetfold broochos , worth 800 / . ; thirty-nine gold bracelets , worth ' 23 M . ; wore among the booty , which on the whole amounted in vnluo to ° . l' . W . ) t . Tho thieves had skeleton koys for entrance and ox . it into the Campbell warehouse , but in corning Hofl . ly out—their booty stowed away compactly in a carpot bajf;—the privato watchmanof tho warehouse- mot the two men fuco to face . After a short parley thoy knocked him down ; ho called "Murder , " tho polico hoard tho erica , tho burglars van , and ono was nocured . Ho is a gentlemanlike follow , and of lato has been living in tho first stylo , at nomo of tho bent hotcln in tho country .

      Tho body of tho Dublin suicide has boon finally identified ao that of M'l '' arlano , a clerk , w ) io committed forgory on liin employers nt Jedburgh , and abneondod with tho money .

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      I'lin Aurt / irni U Jiii / nlatos tluit . Air . Ii . iehanlson , of r , mnbn u , tho (' niittiTvut . ' mi candidate lor l . i . sburn , him rt . 'tirrd , but Hint , another conservative , ( ho , ion of Dean Stannur , i . i likely ( o ln'conii ! ii ( 'uiididuto for Lisburn . A ( -uhiuet (' oiuieil , attended !> v nil the Ministers in town was held yi'dti'riliiv n ( . 111 <> Foreign Oflico at . two oVIorlt . IMr . < Jli |( l : l () ii (> , according to present , arrangements , \\\\] appear at a public luncheon at , i \ I iinclie . itcr , on Wednesday . Addresses will Im presented to him < ui llie occasion ,

      The iiiivnl Hipmili-him left . Cor ! : early on Friday morning , for a fortnight ' s cruise . I'll ;! < 'onsurvalivcs ,, | -,. pushing ( Jn . 'ir foree . H into t . lin po |> ular held . At TnlteiiliMiu , on 'I ' ue . Mlay eveuiii )< , they li < i |<| „ ) iulilie niiMiiinu ; i , > pnnaotti the objeel . i of the Oon . M'rvat . ive Lund Nue . irty . ViNeount Itani'lafrli ' and others attoinled wn doputatiou from the ^ ocidy . I ho Qim'kii , on Iho ree , oniHKiiidatioii of t . Iio 'IVciuinr , htm juM ^ 'ran ' ed n |» fin « ioin > f 1 ( 1 ( 1 / . ( .,, Sir Frauds 11 end , and of UMl . to ( he uiili . w of lint Into iMr . IMoir ( I ) ellii . ) The eldest . < lr . UKliter of ( jneon (! lirintina of Spain i . s to be K iviin in iiiiirrini , 'n lo lli ,. « ,,,, ,, | - ( h ,, l ) ,, l ( o of ( iwi Uui , i , | 1 ,,, Tuscan INliaiMer of l '' orei u AHiiirs . This report in juow nlutod positively .

      The testimonial to Mrs . Chisholm has reached t >^ t 2000 ? . e ^ nea about Robert , Stephenson has returned to this country frnm Canada . J m The widow of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was interr A at the Friedhof , Franfefort-on-tlie-Maine , on Wednesd ^ last . Frau Mendelssohn was only thu ^ v-fi vc ¦ years of air and leaves four orphans . The orchestra under CaDeH meister Schmidt executed Mendelssohn ' s noble piece " P ist bestimnit in GoUes Rath . " ¦ •> -Us The ne \ T sheriffs t ) f London and Middlesex were presented to the Cursitor Baron for her Majesty ' s approval , yesterdar week . Alderman Wire is the senior sheriff , and Mr . Wallig is his colleasrue .

      We observe the Zulu Kafirs have returned to the St George ' s Gallery , where tliev will giva the ir rema rkable exhibition of savage life , for a week onl y , previous to their departure for one of the most popular theatres of Paris ; and it is announced by the proprietors , in order to enable all classes of the public to avail the mselves of this very limited opportunity , the prices are considerably re . duced . "

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      The revenue of Ireland amounted to 4 , 286 , 514 ^ . f or the year 1852 . The customs . and excise contribute more than " three millions of the -whole amount . If the Irish Exhibition be closed on the 31 st of this month as at present arranged , Mr . Dargau will , it is calculated lose lO . OOOJ . ' Miss Burdett Coutts has offered to contribute the liberal sums of 100 / . towards tha establishment of a model lod ging , house for families in Dublin , and " a yearl y donation of 57 . for tho purpose of helping to form an industrial educational school to be attached to it .

      According to the authority of the Limerick Chronicle a very curious circumstance has occurred in Dublin garrison which , it is said , must lead to a court martial . It appears that a field-officer of the 90 th Light Infantry has placed his commanding-officer under arrest for alleged drunkenness . The last crop of cotton in America amounted to 3 , 262 , 882 bales , being' 247 , 853 in excess of tho largest crop—that of the previous year—ever grown . The now crop will , it is said , show a further increase . The trlass manufacturers . of Birmingham have brought out a new invention likely to be of use . They are window-sashes made mostly of Hint glass . Tho bars aro moulded in several lengths , -which are hold together by polished steel rods , running through the centre , and enclosed in fluted glass

      tubes , which have the effect of harmonizing the bright siirf . ice of the metal with its outward covering . The joints are concealed by close-fitting moulded rings , and are rendered perfectly nir-tighfc , as are also the grooves in which the large plates are inserted . The objects aimed at are , novelty of appearance , increase of light , and facility of cleaning . It will bo readily conceived that the latter operation may be mor :: easily performed mid at less cost Avith glass than brass or any other metallic substance , as well a * without that deterioration of tho fabric which repeated friction in tho Inttor case must entail . Great strength and durability nro also . stated to be attainod by this modi ! of" construction , and injuries which might result from violent casualties to which no description of article—whatever its nature—can bo consiuered invulnerable , admit of easy reparation .

      A Mining Stock-Exchange—a ^ s a place of meeting foi dealers in mining stock mid isliure . s—is talked of in "the city . ' The NorthWestern and tho Great Western Companies compete so keenl y in South Staffordshire , that between Shrewsbury and Wellington one may travel at the rato of one penny for eleven miles ! The Jh'lfaul Chronicle says : — "A natural uneasinn « s exists at present in tho minds of merchants and shipowners engaged in the , Baltic trade , lost in ease of war Russia should place an embargo on British shipping mid enrgoes coming from tho Baltic tins month with flax and flax-. veed . For the purpose of , if p ossible , removing tho api > rclion- . ion » so geiu :-rnlly prevalent , oral least of obtaining some reliable information , Mr , Pavison , M-I \ , addressed ft letter to Mr . Cardwell , President , of ( he Board of Trade , who replied that Govornmont would give tint subject duo and full consideration . The accident , on tho Great Northern . Railway will cost tho company noiirly ' 20 , 0001 .

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      A Spanish brigantine was observed coming up Channel oil' Mnndgnto , on Sunday , in diuigcroiiu proximity to tho const . Thorn was , however , ^ io . jack living from her masthead to indicate the want of n pilot , mid an thisi is the only uiean . i of ascertaining whether assistance is required or not , tho boatmen on shore contented tLcinsolves by looking out , never supposing that , on a tolerably calm and very fine evening the captain would ( prove so ignorant of the const us to run his ship actually ashore . Iu this they miscalculated , for on arriving opposite Iho ledge of rnckn known as JWillpoint , lying between Saudgatn and Folkestone , the briganti "' nailed directl y on to tho reef , where nho litcanie fixed , rolling »» nd labouring with every sea iu an alarming manner . "'' ' position wiim al , oneo . seen , and a crow of Sand ^ ito fi . 'Jicriae " , assist

      who happened to bn within easy reach , went to render . nnre . On ,, iio of them , u man named (' oleninn , mounting the bulwarks , he found ( ho captain and crmv on their Uncc * in prayer . It appears , however , tlm ( irtlit-nnan ' . s visit « 'ns n » exactl y ( he aid they worn imploring , for upon Ooleiiuin attempting lo step onto the deck , one of the crew jumped up and deult ( he poor fellow a nnvero blow on tho head with u niurlinspike , causing Mitt blood to < h >« ' freely . An well us they could jmako themselves undorn ( ooil by signs , ( J . o crow refused to receive any assistance . In about an hour , . " * "' came ashore within 1 00 yards of the harbour railway stntion , and at low water wan lo / l . " hig h and dry" on iho beae . li . Tho piioo of hoiiHohohl broad in Maiichoster is H // . tho 41 b . loafhist atthis timeit was 5 ^< l Tlio j nieo oi

      ; . year , . , . milk was raisttd to : \ d . per quart on Salunluy , 1 > . V UK """ " nimtiig tho dealers in that , article . , A military com ;*! dent of tho Timeit ( oIIh a nlory > . " ing how Nohlicr . s can bo kept in order without H < W > ' *¦ " 1 luul iu iny company an Irishman wliow nanio wjw l /(> "" ^ -- « clean , hniarl , H ood-humoured , and bravo cohhor , inn

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      96 B THE LEADER [ Saturdat ,

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      MISC KLLA . NI 3 OUS . Tins Queen lian jiasscd tho week in walks and drives hither and thither , about Balmoral . Sir James fjralmm is : \ . t , present tlie Minister in attendance . The Queen iu to leave- Balmoral on tho I ' MU for Windsor .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 8, 1853, page 968, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2007/page/8/