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^ J ompden . ; and protest , against spirit of Sftf , Doxaixucy which is . now revived , against that man : of God ? - ^ the Archdeacon , of Taunton" The Record declares heretics all those who preach the . personal reign of JesHs Christ ^ among which numhepyomare ; . and yet I shall ' . Be rejoiced to give eviden . ce ip , i 3 fouT behalf whenever called upon" Tours , affectionately , ' " Joseph Wot-Fir . " Isle Brewers ,, near Taunton , Somerset . " '
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THE' EMPEROR AND THE IMPERIAL GUARD . Has Emperor on * Tuesday reviewed , several detachmeats of the Imperial Guard preparatory to their departure for the Crimea . His Majesty was loudly cheered . He addressed to them the following speech , -which was so . effective that many of the soldiers , in their emotion , shed tears : — " The French nation , by its sovereign will , has : resuscitated many things which were thought for ever dead , and to-day the Empire is reconstituted ; intimate alliance exists with our ancient enemies ; the flag of France waves with honour on those distant shores where
the bold flight of our Eagles had not before ventured ; the Imperial Guard , the heroic representation of military glory and honour , is now before me , surrounding the Emperor as formerly ^ wearing the same uniform , carrying the same flag , and having , especially , in their hearts the same sentiments of devotion to their country . Receive , then , these flags , which will lead you to victory as they led your fathers , as they have just led your comrades . Go , and take your share of what still remains of danger to be overcome and glory to be earned ; you-will soon have received the noble baptism which is your ambition , and you will have lent your assistance to plant our Eagles upon the walls of Sebastopol . "
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METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS . Me . F . O . Ward has given notice of the following important motion for the next Committee of the Metropolitan Commissioners of Sewers : — " Whereas a large proportion of the houses ravaged by cholera and ' typhus in-the Metropolitan Sewers District are cesspool houses situate within reach of existing Sewers ; " And whereas experience has shown that , by private improvements , consisting mainly in the abolition ~ of cesspools , open privies , and untrapped sinks , and the substitution of tubular house drains , trapped waterclosets , and trapped sinks with water duly laid on such houses may be freed from the ravages Of cholera and typhus , and of other allied forms of sickness and mortality ;
And whereas , notwithstanding the great advantage and small cost of such improvements , experience has further shown that the owners and occupants of such houses , sometimes because of poverty or ignorance , sometimes because of the shortness of their term of occupancy , sometimes on account of divided or disputed . ownerghip , _ and . from a variety of other causes , are unwilling or unable themsslves to execute ' such miproveinente ; " And whereas , considering the limited menns at the disposal of this Commission , and the length of time which must necessarily elapse before large works of
arterial drainage can be brought to completion , the execution of" such private house improvements on an extended scale appears to be the course by which thia Commission may effect the most rapid and considerable abatement of ' 'sickness and mortality , and may most immediately and completely put districts heretofore ravaged by cholera in a state of defence against future invasions of that pestilence , and may effect the largest reduction of the pecuniary burdens imposed on tho rate-payers of tho London parishes by prcvenrible sickness and premature deaths , nnd by the excess of orphanage and widowhood thorebv entailed ;
" And whereas a heavy responsibility will rest on this Commission if , in presence of tho fact that districts in which such improvements have been extensively carried out , enjoyed , during tho lato cholera epidemic , a largo abatement' of the mortality they had suffered during previous cholera epidemios beforo such improvements hiul been effected , this-Commission should , novertholosR , neglect to exercise its powers , under tho Act , of extending liko improvements throughout } the metropolis ; " And 1 whereas it appears , that tho' borrowing powers of this- Commission for the aforesaid purposes aro insufficient , partly by reason' of the security of the private improvement rates being hold technically defective in tho money-mnrkot , and partly by reason of tho Commission having already borrowed nearly to the full , limit fixed in tho A « t :
" That , therefore , application , be muda * by this Commission' to Parliament , immediately on its' meeting , for such extension of its borrowing powers , and such amendment of tho technical defects in the security of tho private improvement rates as Khali bo necessary to enable it to-rais * th « -monoy rcqnifiito fbr forthwith cxeouting private improvemeiitH in 20 , 000 cesspool housosi f situate Within reach' of existing sowers ; u That immediately on tho auruitaition of tho requisite
powers and funds , the . District Engineering Inspectors of this Commission be instructed to-prepare- plans , and the Secretary to serve notices , forth © immediate improve , ment , as-aforesaid ^ ' o * 20 j 0 O 0 cesspool houses , such houses hein ^ chosea ^^ tlkit pri&pattiotiB- from among : thei worst Houses' of'tBe ^ sevwatratteA dSstafctSyprecedence-being in each district ! given to such louses afccanr . be dealt : with , in groups or block * , and the- coate being diatribntedoibeach case over a term not exceeding thirty yeaiS . "
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THE . P . TJBLTC HEAXTH . ( JEram the JSigietrca--General ' s Return . ) In the first week of the year the deaths of 1 / 404- persons , namely 671 males and 733 females-, were registered in the metropolis . In- the ten ' corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 the average number of deaths-was- 1313 . With a correction for increase of population , necessary for the purpose of comparison , this average becomes 1444 , a result which differs to no great extent- from the number of deaths as returned last week .
Of the 1404 deaths , 692 occurred under 20 years of age , 193 at 20 years and under 40 , 213 at 40 and under 60 , and 246 at GO years and under 80 , and 60 were deaths of octogenarians . Of 335 which were caused by zymotic diseases , 265 occurred in the first vicenniad ; of 36 referred to small-pox , 6 were those of persons who had attained their twentieth year ; Of 140 cases in which phthisis ( consumption ) was fatal , 19 occurred under 20 years of age , 76 in the period 20-40 , 37 in the period 40-60 , and the remaining 8 under 80 years of age " . The return of this week contains two new tables .
The first table exhibits for the first time the occupations of the males who died in London at the four Vicennialperiods 20-40 , 40-60 , 60-8 O , ^ nd-80 _ andupwards , in juxtaposition with the numbers of the living enumerated at the last census ( 1851 ) . The investigations , of which this is an example ; will assist in determining the influence of occupation on life and longevity . The second table shows the distribution of smallpox , measles , scarlatina , < hooping-cough , diarrhcea , and typhus over the several sub-districts of London ; thus , it will be observed that small-pox has been chiefly fatal in the north , east , and south districts , while no death from small-pox occurred in the west districts . Measles prevails chiefly in Belhnal-green and St . George-in-the-East . Scarlatina is widely diffused , and proved fatal in 85 instances . Hooping-cough was fatal in 64 cases . The westjjiorth , and south districts suffered from diarrhoea 4 the east and south districts from typhus . _ . Last week the births of 908 boys and S 79 girls , in all 1787 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1845-54 , the average number was 1546 . -
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LOSS OE THE CANNING WITH NINETY PASSENGERS . By the arrival of the General Steam Navigation Company ' s mail steamer John Bull , in the river , from Hamburg , we are apprised of a most lamentable fatal-shipwreck—tliat of the . George . Canning ^ ajfine ship , 700 tons burden , one of the Hamburg and New York packets , with every soul on boardj at the mouth of the Elbe , during an awful storm which visited that coast on New Year ' s-day . The unfortunate ship was lost on the south side of the entrance to the Elbe , ou what is called , the Scarhorn ( a sand similar to the Maplin , at the mouth of the River Thames ) . Slue sailed from New York for Ham bung , on the 3 rd of December , with a cargo of sundry merclrondise , anil , it is reported , above fifty passengers . She had a favourable run across , and arrived off Heligoland on the evening of the 31 st of December ,, all well * when tho outburst of the gale compelled- her captain ( Mr . Jacobs ) to heaveto , and await a ; more favourable opportunity-of running into the Elbe . Up to nine o ' clock that evening , the storm continued with nil possible fury . Several ships that were lying in the river were driven ashore and wrecked . One vessel , a brig , called the Rytham , belonging to London , in . ballast , was'blown at the top of . the high tide over the bank of tho rivor into a field , from which it will be impossible to extricate lier : Another English * vessel , a sohooner , the Stately , Captain Whiting , from' London for Brake ,
with a cargo of tar oil , was totally lost near Neuwreek , nnd upwards of sixty vessels lost their anchors . The , melancholy fata of tho George Canning was first brought to * light on Tuesday morning lost , by at quantity of wreck being washed up near Cuxhaven ,. withi the name of the vessel on tho fragments ; and later in tho day a tin box , with the wholo of tho papers therein , was found on the beach , as olao portions of her cabins , sundry merchandise , imliarubber shoos , shoo-nails , and passengers' baggage , &c , leaving little doubt that tho vessel must have quickly gone to pieces , and that all belonging to her , about ninety persons in number , perished . Pilots havo since : gone out to discover the wreck , bub have been unable to do so ^ . , iu cojiscquoneo of tho heavy seai still running . Several bodies have been , washed ashore .
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AMERICAN NEWS ; By the arrival of the Pacific we have American news to the 28 th ultimo . Among the passengers was Lord Elgin , who , previous to his departure , was presented with an address by" the Sir Edmund Head , the new Governor of Canada , had been sworn in . In the House of Representatives the Committee of Foreign Affairs had concluded a resolution requesting the President to tender to the Powers engaged in the present war the mediation of the United States in such a manner as in his judgment may seem most likely to lead to a pacification . Mr . Chase , a senator , had stated his intention to bring in a bill to abolish African slavery in all the territories belonging to the United States .
The news from the gold mines was of a satisfactory character , and a lump of quartz gold , weighing 160 Alb ., had been found . The Russian ship Kuintschatka had arrived at San Francisco , after having escaped the ship 3 of the allies . x , -,. The affairs in Central America , says tho Times correspondent , are again occupying public attention , in consequence of tho Central American x , and and Mining Company ' s scheme . Tho story of this new speculation is briefly this : —
" The former King of Mosquito , in a drunken fit , in 1838 or 1839 , made a grant of a large portion ( or it may be the whole ) of his dominions , amounting m alJ to about 30 , 000 , 000 acres , to an Englishman , named Uennick , and three Jamaica traders , named tfainuci Shepherd , Peter Shepherd , and S . T . Ilaly , out of which grew in those days a species of scrip and . paper titles , Sd other thinRB , whioh were well known ^ ^^^ ^^^^^^^^^ : cZti Uwlathmua the Shepherds * ero at Grey town , hawking about their wortUoaa paper titles . A purchaser was at length found , and- a filUbuatenntf company lias been organised for emigrating , to taut
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LORD ELGIN AT LrVERFOOT . " Loao Elgin * has ; juafo , arrived ; at Liverpool from Canada . He was received by the Mayor ; . &c , with much , respect .. After visiting Sfc . Gfidrga'kHall , they pjcoceeded to the Towa HalL , where , the . members of the-Liverpool Chamber , of Commerce ,, and those of the American Chamber , of Commerce , pxesented ' addresses of congratulation .. Lord Elgin , in , responding , to ; the dompjiment . paid him * said : — " They would all understand , the feelings of pleasure and gratification , with , which , he had received those addresses—particularly as they had been received by one who had been engaged in . the service of his country for several years in . such . a , remote part of the
Empirefrom . bodies filling so high a position aa those who now honoured him with congratulations . The tale of his administration of affairs in America , was very simply and easily told . He went out in January , 1847 , with two objects in view . In the first place it had been his earnest endeavour to place the colonists ha such a position politically and economically as would leave them nothing to envy in the condition of other people on earth ,: not excepting that of their , neighbours * and- prosperous citizens in the United States ^ He might say , without egotism , that in undertaking this task * he-considered it of- no ordinary difficulty and magnitude . In the report of Lord Durham on Canadian- affairs , the respective conditions of the territories lying on opposite
sides of the boundary line separating the United States and the British Provinces was contrasted , and even if later evidence were required of the hopeless entanglement of Canadian affairs , it would be found in the recently published pamphlet of his distinguished and immediate predecessor . He felt , however , great as was the task , it was his duty to undertake it , because he felt confident that upon no other condition than its fulfilment could the connexion between England and the Canadas be permanently maintained ; The o £ her view was not of inferior importance . It was to place the commercial relations of the United States and the British Provinces on such a footing that they should not , if possible , at any aliena
future period ,-furnish occasion to estrangement or - tion between those two kindred nations- ; , and ha thought that both of those objects he had , to some extent at least , accomplished . Indeed , he imagined he might say that nine-tenths of the people of Canada were now of opinion that their condition in connexion with England contrasted favourably with that of any other people in the civilised world , and he believed also that the intimate commercial relationship which would spring iip between the United States and Canada when the-Reciprocity Treaty came into full operation , would render Canada in its affairs , not-a barrier or a . severance , but a link that would unite the kindred people of the United States and England . " His lordship concluded his address by cordially acknowledging the kindness with which , he had been reoeived , and resumed his seat amid loud cheering-.
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 13, 1855, page 35, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2073/page/11/
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