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day evening from Liverpool , to embark upwards of 1000 of the brigade of Guards , a large detachment of Royal Sappers and Miners ^ and sundry officers and men for passage to the seat of war . She is a splendid ship , 2500 tons register , 500-horse power , 3 . 17 feet over all , 40 feet beam , and 30 feet depth in hold ; and can accommodate 1450 troops , ' besides the ship ' s company , &c ., Various other vessejp have left , or are about to leave , with infantry , cavalry , and horses . The Duke of Wellington ( flag ship of Admiral Dundas ) has been obliged to return to Spithead from the Downs , J : o effect repairs of the damages she sustained by getting into collision with the American emigrant ship George Hurlbert , on the night of the 4 th inst ., about six hours after leaving Portsmouth .
RECRUITING FOB THE CRIMEA IN AMERICA . The efforts of the English Government to obtain recruits among the British and German settlers in the United States have met with great opposition . The district attorney for New York has issued a notification , stating that the act is a breach of the neutrality laws , and that all persons attempting such enlistment are liable to fine and imprisonment . Militia Disturbance at Guildford . —The militia
stationed at Guildford has given another instance of the working of the " fifty-six days " breach of faith . The 1852 men , having for some time been informed that they were to be disbanded , were suddenly told that they were to await further orders . They , therefore , refused to enter the parade-ground ; but were at length driven in by other detachments at the point of the bayonet , some few being injured . Orders have since arrived for the dismissal of those entitled to their discharge ; and , in consequence , 427 out of 576 have left .
Collision in the Channel . —The new screw steamship , North Carolina , from Philadelphia , left that Port for Liverpool on the 4 th of February last , but put back on the 18 th , with the blades of her propeller broken , and having sprung a leak . She had encountered very severe gale 3 , and shipped heavy seas . Having undergone the necessary repairs , she resailed under the command of Captain Washington Symmes on the 21 st ult ., and had progressed very favourably until her arrival in the Channel , when , on Sunday morning , at half-past one
-o ! clock , she was run into-by the ship Robert ,. Captain Stagg , which left Liverpool for New Orleans on ^ the 5 th inst ., about thirty miles west of Tuskar Light . The ship struck her on the port side , forward of the forerigging , causing her to fill immediately ; and she sank in about ten minutes . The captain and twenty-one of the crew were taken on board the Robert , and brought back to Liverpool . The remainder ( eleven men ) were seen in the boats alongside another ship , at daylight . Beyond the loss of her cutwater , the ship sustained little or no
damage . Severe Gale astd Loss of Life in the Atlantic . —The American ship John Rutledge arrived at Liverpool on Friday week , from New York , having suffered severe damage , and lost two seamen overboard during the gale of the 10 th ult . The following is from the report of Captain Sands : — " Left New York March 9 , in company with the Hendrik Hudson , for London ( which sprang a leak in the same , gale , and was abandoned on the 12 th ult . ) ; and on the 10 th ! the > ship was"tlirown ~ 6 n her beam-ends by shifting of the cargo . Wind NNW . to KW ., blowing aheavy gale . The cargo shifting so much ,
she became unmanageable . Three feet water in the hold , and two feet in the between decks . The crew and passengers were engaged in pumping and baling out water , in order - to free her as soon as the gale abated . When they were able to get the hatches off , they went down to the hold , and commenced throwing out cargo . After throwing overboard about two hundred barrels of spirits of turpentine , and some tar and logwood , they succeeded in righting the ship . Lost two men overboard in the gale . During the latter part of the voyage there was very unsettled weather—squally , with variable winds and much rain . "
The Aberdeen Clipper , Schombero . —The following account of this vessel , which Mr . Layard has lately christened , appears in the morning papers : — . " The Schomborg ia tho largest vessel over built in Great Britain . It belongs to what is well known as tho * Aberdeen clipper-build '—that is to say , it possesses great length in proportion to breadth of beam and depth of hold , with a sharp entrance , and fine run aft . In this respect , tho Schomberg may bo regarded as tho perfection of Aberdeen clippers . Her dimensions are as follow : — Length over all , 288 feet ; extreme breadth , 45 foot ; depth of hold , 29 feet . Her tonnage ia 2400 now measurement , and 2600 hold , per register ; from 8500 to 4000 tons burden . The Schomberg will bo fitted up as a passenger ship , having thrco decks , witli poop nnd forecastle . Altogether , it is calculated that there will bo accomodation on board for 1000 souls . Tho vessel has
boon named after Captain Schomborg , R . N ., tho chief government emigration ngont at Liverpool , according to whose plans all the arrangomonttt bearing on the comfort of passengers have boon carried out . " A Biaaor Pukachin « in Prison . —Tlio liishop of Ripon has preached a sermon in the chapel of tho Leeds gaol . After tho usual evening service had been rend by tho chaplain , and tho . prisoners had chanted a hymn , the Bishop delivered his discourse , which ( aflirins tho fjeeda Intelligencer ) he did with such affectionate earnestness and simplicity , that he drew toara from tho oyca
even of the men . The demeanour of the prisoners was in the highest degree decent and attentive ; and the effect of the scene was very impressive . It is by such plain , honest wrestlings with the spiritual necessities of repulsive , outcast vice , in its naked wretchedness , that our bishops may earn for themselves some better title than wealth and high position to the respectful consideration of the world . ' . " The Loss of the Tiger . —A court-martial is being held at Portsmouth to inquire into this unfortunate affair ; but as the whole of the evidence has not yet been taken the result is not j'et known .
The Advanced Squadron of the Baltic fleet entered the Kattegat and sighted the island of Anhalt on the 31 st ult . A separation was then ordered to ascertain the state of the ice in various directions . The harbour of Elsinore was found to be completely blocked up , and the ships- experienced some rough usage from the floe or drift-ice . The harbour of Wingo Sound was not to be entered on account of the ice . Kiel harbour , at the latest advices , was blocked up , and the Belts were full of ice ; but the Sound was pretty clear , though it was thought by the pilots that for several days the violence of the floes would defy the strongest steam-power . Departure of Guards fob the Crimea . —At half-past seven o ' clock on Thursday morning 1126 of the Guards started by the South-Western Railway for the Crimea .
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THE HALFPENNY NEWSPAPER STAMP . On Thursday last a meeting of the Provincial Newspaper Society was held in London , Mr . Baxter , of the Sussex Express , president of the society , in the chair , at which the following resolution was passed unanimously : — " That in the opinion of this meeting it would be highly conducive to the interests of the public , and to that of the newspaper proprietors , that the stamp duty on newspapers , to entitle them to transmission and retransmission through the
post-office , should be a halfpenny , instead of a penny and they are convinced that it would yield a greater amount to the revenue . " The resolution was presented to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the course of the same day , by a deputation consisting of Mr . Baxter , the president of the Provincial Newspaper Society , Mr . Johnson Gedge ( Bury Post ) , Mr . Austin ( JMaidstone Journal ) , Mr . B . Johnson ( Worcester Journal ) , Mr . E . Baines ( Leeds Mercury ) , Mr . Kemplay { Leeds Intelligencer ) , and Mr . Hobson ( Leeds Times ) . _ ¦ _ - _
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STATE OF T R ADE , LABOUR , A ND THE POOR . The accounts of the stale of trade in the manufacturing towns ( says the Times , in a City Article ) exhibit , with the exception of the iron districts , a tendency to improvement . At Manchester , the business transacted has been on a larger scale than for some time past , and prices , especially for yarns , have become firm . At Birmingham , great heaviness still prevails , the only support of the market for manufactured iron being from a moderate home demand . The strike-among-the colliers
against the recent reduction of wages continues to be extensively maintained . The Nottingham report shows a great increase of activity in the lace trade , many home and foreign orders having been received , while in the hosiery branches also there is increased confidence . In the woollen districts , the gradual signs of revival reported during the past month are still observable ; and the same is the case in the Irish linen markets . In tho business of the port of London there has been increased activity , owing to the change of wind , which has enabled many of the weather-bound vessels to work up . The quarter ' s revenue for Dublin has been : — April 5 , 1854 . £ 184 , 129 — 1855 181 , 428 Increase JE 299 In this , as well as tho following comparison * , it must bo borne in-mind ( lint , in consequence of making up the accounts to tho Slat of March in place of the 5 th of April , both year and quarter arc five days short . Tho revenue for the year is 899 , 537 / . against 89-1 , 596 / . in 1854 . In ten there was an increase of 7829 / ., notwithstanding tho reduction of duty ; in sugar , an increase of 19 , 280 / ., owing , of course , to the additional 15 per cent . ; nnd in almost every other article a decrease .
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IEALTII OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . ( From the Itcgistrar-Guncrul's liepott . ") The deaths of 122 G persons woro registered in tho week that ended last Saturday . Tho corrected average of deaths that occurred in tho corresponding weeks of 1815-54 is 12 G 8 . These figures are satisfactory evidence of an improved state of tho public health . Tho mortality , which has for many weeks been oxcoasive , showed a decrease last week on tho ordinary amount ; but tho mortality from bronchitis , and also from hooping-cough , is still great . Last week , tho births of 828 boys and 089 girls , in . all 151 " children , woro registered in London . In tho ton
corresponding weeks of the years 1845-5 * , the average number was 1494 . At the Royal Observatory , Greenwich , the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29 * 881 in . The mean temperature was 41 -9 deg . which is 2-2 deg . below the average . Monday was remarkably cold , andthe mean daily temperature . was below the average till Friday and . Saturday , on which days it was 6 deg . above it . In the 13 weeks of severe weather that ended on the 31 st of March , 19 , 627 deaths were registered , , in excess of the average , nearly 4000 persons in advanced age , weakly children , the sufferers from chronic diseases , and others , who when the winter set in were in sound health . Congestion and inflammation of the lungs were the most prevalent fatal diseases .
The zymotic diseases prevailed generally ; but no deaths from smallpox happened in 46 sub-districts , no death from measles in 45 sub-districts . Hooping-cough and scarlatina were the most fatal epidemics , and their poison was the most equably diffused over the metropolis . Diarrhoea lay chiefly in the low west and south districts , where fever also prevailed , but not so fatally as in the east districts . 3938 persons died in the public institutions of London—namely , 2567 in workhouses , 1196 in civil and military hospitals , 166 in lunatic asylums , and 10 in prisons . 20 in every 100 of the deaths occurred in these public institutions ; in Paris the proportion in 1853 was 39 in 100 . The number of persons in London of the age of 20 and upwards , was 632 , 545 in 4851 ; and the deaths among men of those ages were 4955 ; so that the mortality was at the rate of 31 in 1000 annually , or 8 quarterly .
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THE VISIT OF THE FRENCH EMPEROR AND EMPRESS . The Morning Herald of Thursday says that t lias the best authority for the following- programme of the approaching visit : — " Their Imperial Majesties the Emperor and Empress of the French will arrive at Windsor , by the Great Western Railway , at six o ' clock next Monday evening . They will be received by a guard of honour composed of the 94 th Regiment _ of the Line , a company of the Foot . Guards ^ and a detach men t of the Rifle Brigade . - " The Mayor of Windsor will have the honour of receiving their Majesties on their arrival at the terminus . " On emerging from the railway station , their Imperial Majesties will pass through a triumphal arch erected at the junction between Thames-street and Highstreet . There will also be another triumphal arch , erected in Castle-street , under which the Royal carriages will pass . — " The Castle-green , immediately beneath the Castle walls , opposite to the establishment of Mr . Layton , confectioner to the Queen , will be furnished with thousands of seats , which will extend as far as Henry the Eighth's gate , for the accommodation of the public—tickets being previously granted by the committee . " On the arrival of the Emperor and Empress at the Castle , they will be received at the grand entrance by her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Prince Consort . " ------ ~~ _ . . _ .. " On Tuesday next the mayor and corporation , in their official robes , Avill present an address of congratulation to the Emperor Napoleon III ., and afterwards participate in a public dinner of the inhabitants , to be given at the Town Hall .
" There will be state dinners at the Castle on every evening after the Emperor ' s arrival ; and , subsequently to the investiture of his Imperial Majesty with the Order of the Garter , on Wednesday , a * magnificent banquet will be given , at which the elite of the kingdom will be present . There will also be a review of the whole of the household troops . " The preparations at the Castle are by no means complete , no less than three hundred workmen being still engaged . It ia supposed that the visit of tho Kmpcror and Empress will be the grandest affair ever witnessed at Windsor since the installation of liis Grace the Duke of Rutland , in the year 1805—just half a century since . "
From other sources wo learn that on Thursday the Court will como to London , and , in company with their Imperial visitors , will proceed in stale to the Italian Opera ; that on Friday it is expected they will visit tho Crystal Palace , and exhibit themselves on the balcony to the people . in the gardens ; and that on Saturday the Emperor and Empress will return to Paris . It is thought thnt the freedom of tho City will be conferred on the Emperor .
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MISCELLANEOUS . Coi-onki , SroTiioiir asi > Tin : Soutii-Linoounsiiiiik Mi , iriA —Colonel Sibthorp attended at tho Clerkomvcll police-court on Saturduy last , to give some oxplnnntioiM with respect to tho statements of tho thrco South-Lmcolnshire militia-men who had applied for rchof a day or two previously . Tho Colonel Biiid ho was so astonished at tho allegations , that ho applied at tho War Oflice , and ascertained thnt a communication had been sent to tho Lieutenant-Colonel ; and he himself Bent a privato letter . Ho added that ho waa euro tho ac-
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April 14 , 1855 . ] T H E Ju E A D E B . , 345
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Leader (1850-1860), April 14, 1855, page 345, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2086/page/9/
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