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      the R ossington station , when an axletree of one of the trucks broke , and threw the truck across the down line . The express came up at the instant , punctually to its time and dashed into the broken train at full speed . The engwe-driver ^ toker , , and three passengers were seriously iniured , neither fatally . . Another illustration of the carelessness of railway officials has occurred on the Bristol and Birmingham line . About a mile from j ; he Cheltenham station there is a coal depdfc . A coal train was shunted across the rails at the moment a passenger train from . Cheltenham was due ; fog prevailing at the time ! A collision of course ensued , and several passengers-were bruised .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . The Queen holds her Court still at Windsor , and continues the theatrical performances begun lasiweek . The second dramatic performance took place on Thursday evening . Tlie pieces selected upon this occasion were a Oomedy , in three acts , by Mr . Slfagsby Ija-vyrence , entitled the Game of Speculation , and a Comic Drama , in one act , by Mr . Charles Matthews , entitled Little Toddlefcvns .

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      A Special Court of the Corporation of the Trinity-house was held on Wednesday , for the purpose of swearing in the Earl of Aberdeen as an elder brother . Prince Albert , Master of the Corporation , presided on the occasion , and was supported by Sir J . Crraham , , Tirat Lord of the Admuraity , Captain Shepherd , Deputy-Master , and the other elder brethren . ... . The Duke and Duchess cf f Brabant have been on a visit to Plymouth and' Torquay , this week ; there inspecting the wonders of our arsenal , shipping , and the breakwater . Lord Fullerton , one of the Scotch judges , has resigned

      his " post , in consequence of ill-health . Salford has now a aiew building for its Mechanics' Institution . It was opened on Monday , and , at the evening gathering , Mr . Brotherton , Mr . Hindley , Mr . Bayley , and other local gentlemep of note attended . _ A meeting of British residents in Paris has been held at Meurice ' Hotel , to honour the memory of Lieutenant Bellot ; and it has been , resolved to erect a tablet , in an appropriate place , with a suitable inscription . Lord Seafield is the new representative peer for Scotland , in the room of the late Lord

      Salterinu-The Count Walewski , the French Ambassador at this Court , has been summoned to France , to attend his Imperial master , but will reiurn in a few days . —Times . It is reported at Sunderland that on the meeting of Parliament Mr . Hudson will apply for the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds . The Conservatives speak of Mr . Duncan Dunbar as his successor . — -Tory Paper . Before he was recalled , Canedo , the Captain General of Cuba , prohibited the entry of the Daily News into the island . The reason for this was that tho British journal has consured the authorities for conniving at the slavo trade . Canedo says it is " calumny . " Lord Minto is at Florence , his hotel watched by tho spies of the police ! , . , .

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      The Tynomouth Bribery Commission opened its sittings on " Wednesday . Tho contest , at Salisbury , ended abruptly , on Wednesday by the resignation of the " independent" candidate , Captain Julius Itoberts . At two o ' clock tho Captain had Only obtained 88 votes , while his opponont , General Buckley , Xiberal-Conservativo , had polled 255 . The mob pelted tho General , and would not hear him . On Monday evening last tho working men of Hull prosontod silver tankards to their lato riiembers , Lord Godorich and Mr . Clay , who wpro unseated lost session . Tho ox-Mayor , Mr . Blundell , presided on the occasion . The mooting was largo , and Mr . Clay and Lord Godorich made amplo speeches . ¦

      TT * fc ^ — - mm . m . ^ . mm -m * M m * . * fe I ** Birmingham has again bestirred itself on behalf of tho repeal of taxes on knowledge . A public meeting was hold this-week at the Public Office , Birmingham , Mr . Boodlo , of tho Birmin gham Journal , in the chair ; the purpose being to tako into consideration the best moans of aiding tho removal of tho two remaining taxes upon the uso of paper and on a free press . After a Btatomont had boon made by Mr . Dod » on Collet in reforonco to the general 'MiflincK . s of tho mooting , it wan resolved , on the motion of ¦ M r . Cleorgo Moir , that a further effort bo made in

      Birmingham to assist tho oxertions of tho Central Association ; and Mr . Scholettold , M . I * ., and tho Mayor , wero respectively appointed president , and trensuror of tho association . Ayloabury lias refused Church Kate . At a vestry meotm on Friday weok , a proposed rato of Id . in tho pound "nil with ho limch opposition that it was withdrawn . Tho «« m required lor ro-povving tlio ehinuli is proposed to ho mined us follows : —\ m ) l . by allotting 400 of tho new Beats •¦<> s ubserUiers , 320 L by donation from tho Incorporated J . 'hurcli Building Society , and 370 / , by voluntary

      contribu-An important preliminary committeo mooting was hold ° . u Niilur day lanl ; , nt Birmingham , under the presidency of " >« Ripht JIom . Sir J . H . I ' ukinglon , Bnrt ., attondodby Mr . y - < Adderlo y , M . P ., Mr . 0 . It . . » rncnbri ( lgti , Sir F . E . Keott , * % Jlov . Sydnoy Turnnr , tlio town olork , and other gentlemen ; avIk ,,, j ;] 1 ( , | () rxu o j- ftI 1 | nvijatiou t , o the Conference ou ¦ uvtmiln Delinquency proposed to bo hold at Dee ' s Hotel , ^ "ning ljam , on Tuesday , December 20 , was adopted , and 'j'tttigoriHintH made for -ensuring that , it should bo gohrtiuiy circulated , with aviow to a largo attendance It was . nnounced that several noblemen and gonUoitaon of tho ; ° of Commons , in addition to tho ' Mayor of Binning-, i I ¦ ' . K ° ntl « inon throughout iho country who kv « . HUri ffuiHh <)( l thoinnolvoa for their interest ; In tlio question , f , " 7 , ° ' iltmil y indicated their- intention to attend tho Con-Sii '' t ' i ' ftomo o ' whom it will bo convened , including ...,:, tI () i l ^ ikington and Mr . Addorloy , who , it . will bo nuhi < Orm 1 ' lirou ff' » t into Parliamont tl ^ o M ' » U on tho ) c « t ; tho Mayor an < 5 tlio' Kocordor of Birmingham

      the Bishop of Worcester ; Lord Denbigh , Lord Calthorpe , and Lord . Lyttelton ; to whom we have also to add the Lord Mayor of Londqn ; and other distinguished individuals . , A vestry meeting of the parish of Sit . MaW i Lambeth , was held ' on Tnursday , ^ in the new vesfcr ^ iall , Kennington-green . Wit ]( i reference to the Gomrnissiohers of Sewers , resoluwons were ^ adopted in favour of appointing a deputation to impress on Lord Palmerston tie necessity of' protecting the interests of the ratepayers by introducing a representative system , and inviting the rector and churchwardens to take into their serious consideration the present state of the dwelling's of the poor , and to confer with

      the parocMal officers , wjth the members for the borough , and with owners of property in the parish , as to the best means of remedying the evil . Mr . Williams and Mr . Wilkinson , the members for the borough , were present . Sir Eobert Kane distributed the prizes at the Queen ' s College , Cork , on Saturday . Mr : Fagan . and Mr . Beamish , the city , members , were present . After the distribution of the prizes , the President delivered an address , in which , after bearing testimony to the uniform excellent conduct of the students since the opening of the College , he said , — "We have had , pursuing their studies together in this college , in each ' -year ,- some 150 yoUng men , of various social conditions , of various degrees of intellectual capacity , and of various forms ; of belief , and there has not

      occurred among ' . those masses of students a smglc instance of controversy or collision ; not in a single case has it been necessary to apply those rules of discipline wisely provided by our statutes for the repression of serious irregularity of conduct ; and in the higher responsibilities of morality and religion , I believe I may appeal to the reverend gentlemen , who being officially connected with this college have favoured me with the expression of their views , and who consider the conduct of the students in those regards to merit their full approval . " Mdlle . Sophie Cruyelli , on Saturday last , signed an

      engagement with the Opera for two years , at a salary of 4000 ? . sterling a-year . She is to choose her own parts , to play only twice a week , and to have four months' vacation in each year . In case she is called upon to sing three times a week , the ' extramgnt-is to be paid 60 ? . A separate engagement is entered into for two months of her ' edfl ^ , during the Universal Exhibition of 1855 , at the rate of 1000 Z . per month , so , that the salary for the second year will , in fact , be 6000 Z .: —O-alignani . On reading the quotation which' closes the manifesto just issued by the Emperor of Prussia , the Sultan relieved his mind in Turkish verse , of which the following is a literal

      translation : — . ? ' Setting off on your wars , you sing a Te Detim , As if you'd already made tnwm of meum ; Just now you prefer the accusative case , But the nominative soon will appear in its place : For ( not to . observe that this terrible fuss "Will certainly provo in the end Te-dious ) , Those who chant out Te Deum at matins must , later , At vespers sinar small Dcus miserahor . "

      — Morning Chronicle . It appears that there is a Dutch fleet in tho Mediterranean . Tho Frins Van Orange , frigate , bearing tho flag of Admiral Bouriciers , was at Smyrna on tho 29 fch of October , on -which day the Halembang , frigate , was despatched to Malta , arrived thero on the 5 tli of Novombor , and was to sail on the 8 th for the Texel . Tho Zeebond , brig of war , was also at Smyrna , about to proceed to Nauplia . Tho Makassar , schooner of war , was on the 7 th of November hourly looked for at Malta from tho Texel .

      A significant fact was mentioned at Portsmouth , on Tuesday , in reference to tho rolations existing at presont between this country and ltussia . A gentleman , formerly in the dockyard thero , who had accepted n situation in tho Russian dockyard at Cronstadt with a vory handsome salary , had returned thoro that day , reporting that all tho English artisans in tho norvice of Russia have boon disohargcrl . Their number was vory considerable . Ton o-unnors and drivers have boon added to each of tho field batteries of tho Royal Artillery , making tho present strength of gunners and drivers in each battery 128 men . Tho strength of tho batteries during tho lost war was 120 gunners to each battery ; but at , that time ther « was a corps of drivers exclusively attached to tho horses and not included in tho 120 for serving and working tho guns . The men and horses of tho batterios are at present in excellent condition , and have on every occasion , whon tho weather is favourable , plenty of exorcise .

      The Russian Church aflbcts toleration . Of tlio vast population of fully (> O , OOO , 0 ( X ) , only about 4 . fi , < KK ) , ( KX ) are membern of tho regular Church ; 350 , 000 aro dissenters or heretics to that , Church itself ; 3 , 500 , 000 Roman Catholics aro found throughout the wide domains of tlio Czar ; and fully 260 , 001 ) Armenians . Tho Protestants of tho Augsburg Confession of . Faith amount to 2 , 000 , 000 ; thoso of tho Reformed Church to 54 , ( KX ) . Thoro aro IOjOOO Morarians , while no leem than 2 , 500 , 000 belong to tho

      Mahometan creed . The . lews are 600 , 000 in number , and tho followers of that mysterious potentate , the Grand Lama of Thibet amount to no lens than half that amount . But thero aro miodfl fitill more extraordinary throughout tho onorinouH traol ; of territory which conatituttu ) tho Russian empire ; 170 , 000 are open idolators , and no less than ( HX ) , O () o ' iire addicted to the disgiiHtingpraetiooof Fotichimn , worflhipp ing hats , cows , and every uncouth specimen of bruto , tw repreHontativeof tho divinity of honvon . ' —barker ' s national Miscdhtw / .

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      Wo omit ; our usual criminal record under that title , boeauso the easefl this week bavo been of (( into an ordinary character . Thoro lias boon one- case of bigamy , ono of denm'ting a wife and family , two of assaults ou tho police , nnd the ordinary run of potty thefts and frauds . TonoB , a priionw , ehargod wiWi flto ' aling a wnt ; eh , at Iho Mif ^ lhiHiud BeHiiioiis , told an ( extraordinary flt » ry . Iri extenuation of hid offence , ho said that in . Tnmiftry hint ho left tho WoHtininnlor Bridowoll , whore ho had boon for 12 rnontlis , \ yitih tho best , of , olianuitiu'fl mid a euit of olothes and half-a-crcrwn . Ho then got work at a , houao in tho

      course of erection near the prison , and remained there , giving great satisfaction , until a boy who had known him in prison , and happened to be assisting the workmen , told them that he ( Jones ) was a convicted thief . The workmen told the foreman , and he was in consequence discharged . He then obtained work at the Queen's Palace , which was being repaired . It was there found out again that he had been in prison , and was turned away . He afterwards got some work in Old-street , and a policeman came and told his master the old story that he was a convicted thief , and he was for the third time turned away . He had wished to have gained an honest living , but he found this was impossible , as , wherever he worked , as soon as it was found out , by people informing against him , that he had been in prison , he was at once turned away . A policeman threw great discredit on the story , and the judge ordered dn inquiry .

      Sarah Clarke , walking along Oxford-street , fancied Emma Jones insulted her , and thereupon , saying , " What do you look at '' me for ? " thrust her umbrella in the eye of Miss Jones . She was very properly fined 51 . or six weeks in gaol . James ffanna , a policeman , had a butter-tub and lost it . He met an old woman , named Webb , carrying it along the street . Hanna declared the tub was Ins , and hurried the woman to the station-house , having previously boat and kicked her . He was fined 40 s ., or a month ' s imprisonment .

      Mr . Boddy , a surgeon , lost his daughter . She was missing a fortnight . He suspected , at length , what was the fact—she had become a Catholic . Applying to the Lambeth magistrate for aid to recover her from the Clapham nunnery , where he believed she was , Mr . Elliott advised him to apply to Dr . Grant , " Bishop of Southwark , " Dr . Grant gftve Mr . Boddy a note to the lady at the convent , arid she referred them , to the Servants' Home . Here Mrs . Boddy found her daughter . The ' girl cried very much , said she was perfectly at liberty there , and expressed her fear that she would hot be allowed to attend the church

      of her adoption . She was taken home . The horrid murder of the little girl at Dunster , Somersetshire , seems to have been brought home to the stone-cutter , Bailey . When he was arrested , a knife was found upon him ; his trouaers were bloodstainedj and in the barn where the body of the poor little victim was found , there ^ as a buckle-strap identified as belonging to Bailey . The Court of Common Pleas has decided an important

      case bearing on freehold land societies . It came before tho Court on an appeal from the decision of tho revising-barrister of HSTorth Lancashire . The appellants wero the owners of undivided shares in freehold property in Preston . A portion of this property was let under agreement that the tenant should pay 40 s . a-vear for it to the landlords , on tho terms that they should jmy the poor-raxos , waterrate , and local hoard of Health-rate . The revising-barrister held that the annual value did not amount to 40 s . a-year , but that the real annual value was 40 s . mimis tho rates .

      On this decision a number of votes now depended , and tho joint owners appealed from it . The Court wero of opinion , that tho tenant's rates , being paid by the landlord , must be deducted . All the landlord got was 40 s . for tho land and for an agreement to pay the rates , which was tho same thing as though he had agreed to pay for the tenant ' s beer . Ho did not recoive 40 . 9 . a-year for his land . The revising-barrister had no very diflicult task in deciding on this question ; and tliat moderately difficult task ho had performed very well , and bad como to a right- conclusion . Andrews , a tailor in Cork-street , Bond-street , sued Mr .

      Douglas Jorrold in the Sheriffs Court for a debt of 191 . ( is ., " for clothes delivered at his request to Mr . Henry Mayhew . " This was a ease of contradictory testimony . Androws contended that Mr . Jorrold had told him t < i " make tho clothe * ordered , and no more . " Mr . Jorrold , on the contrary , said ho had told Andrews that Mr . May hew " good for 10 £ . " In . answer to a question , Mr . Jerrold said Mr . Mayhew vrns eight years younger than ho was . Mr . tliider-Shcriff Burchcll facetiously remarked that that answer was rather avoiding the question , which was as to Mr . Muyhew's ago . Mr . Jorrold . —I am fifty .

      Mr . tlndcr-Sheriir Burchell . —I hope thai , is not considered " elderly . " ( Laughter . ) Mr . Hawkins . —Ho is no chicken , then . Mr . Jorrold . ~ Oh , no , he is no chicken . ( Laughter . ) Tho ^ jviry believed tho evidonco of Mr . Jerrohl , and gave a verdict for him . A singular cane of breach of promise of marriugo came before tho Bail Court on Thursday . Hard , a retired Serjeant , courted a young widow and jeweller b y ( . ratio . Hard urged his suit with such warmth uj ) on Chalfont , tho father , that ho consented i <> tho match . Horn is hifl dramatic account of the conclusion of the bnrgnin : — " Some days after this tho defendant and my daughter came to my house together . . Ifo was vory uneasy for marriage , and wished to be married . I said , ' May j understand Mr . ll ' ai'd winhos to many you P Do you think you can love Mr . Hard , and inako him a good wife ? ' Hlio 1 out

      said , ' I can , father . ' Ho sprang forward , andput , bin right hand , and my daughter rimu up and putu her hand tmiftok into his- I presses ' em together like that ., an hard an I could wquoozo thoiu both towtlior . I said , ' 1 boo you are now both happy and pleased , anil I hope you will remain no , and , vnrtunlly ypeaking , I consider you aro now roally married . ' I Haw there wiis a little move made , and a hoMIo produced , and Homo wine and water wnH made . X took a little drop neat . Ho urged very much I ' or Monday , thin being Friday . I was tho only person who overruled it ., i'or lie was ho very obstinate . Ho told mo ho Lad liought . a license , atid it would 1 )« carried out on Monday . I told him thoro was not time to draw the deed up—tho marriage covenant . Tho Thiirmlny following woh thon fixed foe tho marriage . They romAinod about , two hours , u . ud went away together . " Hard bought a ring , nnd pjava it to " May , but ho aftorwttrdH altered Inn mind , and wont and marriod somebody olso . " Damagou 60 / .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 19, 1853, page 1113, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2013/page/9/