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ogMro Surrey -l * e » tife *^ r- « that name . Four thi witty haa : paMeds < nrough T ag » p In the hedge into an other field , and Jfe . Greswiek was = following ; when hij son-accidentally went off , and killed Mr . Shepberc amibst . instantaneousl y ; Mr . Oeswick had put dowi the hammer of one barrel for security , and was about t < put dowa the mother , when the accident occurred . Th < theatre was closed for a fbwnights inconsequence . c JUaissnaycjfti 'Btrr not BEAtrriFtrLL—A tradesman a 1 Ifoolton is ; papering the interior of his premises witt cancelled-postage ^ stamps .-blue stamps , and some others a £ . different nations , are" so worked in as to form a pattern . - ' = ¦ - > ¦¦ - - >• ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦'¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦¦' . - . etersTCAi . Palace for Sunderland . —Mr . Backhbuse '< s schemeifor the erection of a Crystal Palace upon a . picturesque eminence within the municipal boundaries afrSnnderland'has been submitted to a public meeting of ttoe inhabitants , and received With general favour . The estimated cost of the bunding is 70001 ., and a vigorous attempt is now in progress to raise this amount by voluntary subscriptions . Ward sub-committees are tt $ ing- formed to institute a canvass from house to house , and donations of considerable amounts have been already received : from some of the principal shipowners and merchants" in the borough . The Dowager Marchioness of Londonderry has contributed 100 ? . The working men are-strongly in favour of the proposal , and are organising sub-committees among themselves to assist in the movement ; and the painters and glaziers have voluntarily : sent in • a n ; offer to the committee of three days ' labour from each man as their contribution towards the erection of the building . rTjafi Naphtha Explosion at Wolverhampton . — Ait' inquest has been , held on the bodies of the sufferers hy this catastrophe . The cause appears to have been tlj . e shortness of the pipe which conveyed the vapouT from the still to the receiving cask . The jury , in retttrning a verdict to the effect that the deceased had died fcwriAha effects of the explosion , recommended the removal of all naphtha manufactories from the neighbourhood' of-= towns ; - • • • * - ' ' .-.-- ¦ Boiler Explosion . —A colliery at Kibblesworth , in the north of England ,. has-been the scene of a boiler explosion ; which has ; resulted in the death of one man and serious-injury by scalding to several others . The body of . the . boiler was carried over the top of the engine-house , and Janded in an adjoining- field ,- -while the ends were tmrled ' iAL separate dlrectibna ito ^ a consideratrte-dhrtabce . Two other boilers " were moved < oat of their beds several yards , John -Bewiey , the deceased , who wa 3 standing on the top of the boiler , for the purpose of making some examination , was carried high into the air , and hurled a distance of nearly two hundred yards . A banksman and a brakesman were also projected a long way , and tbnaa firemen were severely scalded . -TjHE F ^ bewell . Banquet to Mr . Duffy will take place on : the 16 th of October at Dublin ; and the tenantright meeting , whichi was fixed for this week , is postponed t « the same day . , . ! o 4 u ! Burglar ' s . Letter . — 'We never studied " The Complete Letter " Writer , " but we take it for granted that it does not contain any form according to which you ate to Address your friend Bill Sikes , inviting him to your house , ' and requesting him to bring the implements ofi . vbis .. craft . The- ' , following letter may therefore be * i 8 § ful as an exemplar ; but we must premise that the writer ,: previously to , the date of the epistle , was transported for ten . / years ; for burglary , received a ticket-oflqave , and was subsequently , sent to the hulks on suspicion ol ) ,, 'having performed fresh exploits—a suspicion amply verij&ed : by the discovery of the letter , which runs thus : - * i [ f (^ rjUsle , December 3 , 1854 . —Dear Friend , ^ -Yours duly came to hand , and was happy to here from you , antt , « jy mother being ( out ) of hilth , or I would have bgefl , with you , I had a little money which I intended to have . taken me up to your place but through my Mothers U lijess j have laid it out . If you have aii 3 inclination « t coming to Carlisle I will find you Bord & Lodging as lopng . . as you have a , mind to stop , ' as I am anxious tpjsoe you to converse with you , and should you come you must bring a good . Brace and the set of center bits , 1-jQhisel 1 inch broad , and one half inch , and wat you ttunk : best to cut . doors or windows out , and a bow sow to , £ Jut Irpn with , and six half inch bits for cutting Iron suoh as , to cut through a Safe if you have them , if not I wil ! purchase them when you ' come . You must write TOJa , by , return of post and let mo know how you intend ¦ coining and when you intend to set off , that I may look fofryjW * I * * good health , but my Mother continues ill ., $ would like }* au to come as soon as you could make it ^ onvenient , and inquire for , ho will find me as Bqjpn . as you come . —I remain your Obedient Friend , Jqhw , . Glasuy . No- 4 . Watha Lano , Botchorgato , C * r&lp , " , Aw , Unexpected Comment . —A clergyman of an Independent Chapel in Yarmouth was lately preaching a sermon pn the ; story of Christ casting out dovila , when , ^ - . M * . niomqn , f , , ^ at the congregation was most highly wTtyugJtjb upon , ! . the fcbby-door was thrown open , and " ft gentleman in black , " wi , th his faco of the- aamo colour , rushed , along tJxp chapel and began to ascend the pulpit b ' ? tF "' , -. todies fainted , and the preacher seemed for a moment paralysed at this practical evidence of domqnjAcal possesajpn . , The devil , however , was soon cast out , and has since' been sentenced to three months' » mprfoonment with hard labour . ¦
' & ¦ Ouk' Clerical CiviLKiATioir . - ^ A distraint and public - sale of the goods of aNonconformist took place last weel 3 at Market Harborbugh . Mr . William Stanyon , a dis-1 senter , refused , out of a conscientious objection , to pay i i church-rate that had been levied , in consequence o > which his goods were seized . At the close of the sale i Mr . Stanyon put in an eloquent protest ; and he seemi to have gained the sympathy of the greater number o : fc the townspeople . Sarcastic placards , levied againsi i " the Establishment , " appeared on the walls , and a con-! siderable degree of indignation has been excited . It i ; i a truth which might rather be called a truism to saj that such acts as these are doing the most vital injury to the Church of England in the estimation of all honesi i men . i The late Railway Accident near Glossop . —Th < ' inquest on the bodies of the persons who stepped over a ! railway viaduct near Glossop has terminated in a ver i diet of Accidental Death , accompanied by a recommendation that the parapet wall of the viaduct should b ( railed , or otherwise sufficiently fenced , and that the distance or danger signal ( in obedience to which the trail had stopped , to enable a previous train to pass on ] should be removed so far nearer Manchester as to rendei it unnecessary to stop a train on the viaduct . Mr . Hargreaves , the traffic superintendent , while doubting the advisability of these suggestions , promised to submit them to the board . —It appeared from the evidence that , when the train stopped , the guard called out to the passengers to keep their seats , and that he gave this caution three times from the step of the break-van on the getting-out side . The parapet , according to the guard , is further from the train than the edge of the station platform , and is about on a level with the floor of the carriages , while the platform is much lower . The train was lighted , but not the viaduct . Mr . Liddelj ^ , M . P ., has met with a serious accident . He was riding with , some ladies in a carriage , which was precipitated over an embankment which formed the approach to a bridge . Mr . Liddell and one of the ladies were severely hurt ; the horses also were injured ; and the carriage was broken to pieces . A Memorial of the catastrophe at Newcastle on the 6 th of last October , when one of the ' most awful explo-I sions and fires on record caused the death of more than fifty persons , and serious injury to many others , has been placed in the parish church of Gateshead , in the iorm of an illuminated window , containing pictures and mottoes drawn from . tire Bible . An Anomaly in our ^ Military Administration . — Lord Panmure has stated , in answer to ari ' application on behalf of the relatives of an officer who died of cholera at the seat of war , that the regulations by which he is governed , require that an officer shall have been killed in action , or have died of wounds , to give his relations a claim to a pension . A Discreditable Oath . —The Oxford Town Council have agreed to memorialise the Vice-Chancellor , asking the University to dispense with the oath taken by the Mayor of the City on his election to that office , and which runs as follows : —" You shall swear that truly you shall observe and keep all manner of lawful liberties and customs of the University of Oxford , the which the Chancellor , Masters , and Scholars of the said University have reasonably used , without any gainsaying , saving your fidelity to the Queen ' s Majesty . So help you God . " Mr . John Plowman , a member of the corporation , conceiving that the oath was illegal , and the ceremonial degrading , wished the Mayor to refuse to sign , and to try the question at law ; but the Council determined on memorialising . The Bishop op Exeter in a Ragk . —At a meeting of the Exeter Auxiliary of the Incorporated Societies for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts , held last week , the Bishop of ExotcT made a very violent speech on the withdrawal of the patronage of the Crown . He characterised that withdrawal as " the abandonment of a first duty , " and snid that "it did not udd to the dignity of the illustrious ladj who wears the crown . " She had been advised " moat unfortunately for her credit , unfortunately for tho interests of the country , unfortunately for the honour of tho Crown . " Tho Queen , it was urged , is bound to protect tho rights of tho Church ; but then , added tho Bishop , this certainly was not a right , and therefore ho did not complain of a departure from constitutional duty . Ho did complain , however , of a blow having been struck at tho Church of England " by some miserable onomy , " and not merely at tho Church of England , but —and hero tho Right Reverend Father seemed particularly anxious to mark a distinction — also " at the Church of Christ . " In conclusion , bo observed that tho Queen ' s present advisers had acted " regardless of tho feelings which Englishmen entertain . " Turn Reformatory Institution ron tun Wi : st of Enqlanjd . —A reformatory institution , tho nucleus of ono that is likely before long to ombraco tho four western counties of Devon , Dorset , Somerset , and Cornwall , is now in operntion at a few milos from Exotor ; and tho report which has just been made gives a most satisfactory account of its progress . Fall from a Cwfw . —Mr . John Holder Strange , a draper , having property in tho IhIo of Wight , has boon killed by falling over a olifF at Shnnklin . Shookino AcciDUNT . —John Lcathby , a workman in '
i an iron foundry at Cambridge , upset a " cradle' * cori-: taining about six and a half hundred-weight of molten - metal , which , surrounding his feet , burnt 6 ff his shoes i and stockings , and seriously injured him . He lies in a f very precarious state . Another workman was also ,. injured . ¦ 9 A Man Buried Altve . —An inquest has been held f at Clay Cross on the body of John Wildgoose , labourer . t The deceased was working in a cutting near a coal pit ; - one side of the hole fell in , and it was an hour and a 3 half before he could be ex tricated , when life was quite 7 extinct . A verdict of " Accidental death" was returned . T Accident at Oxford . —A man was knocked down fc a few days ago by a vehicle in which Lord Dillon was driving , and was killed . His lordship gave information . at a neighbour ing public-house , and also to the police , 1 and the man was found dead on the road . Three Quarrymen at the Llanberis Slate Quarry - have been suffocated by the smoke remaining after an ' extensive blast had been discharged . Popular Vengeance . —An attack was made a few 1 days ago on the premises of a large potato-dealer in > Paisley , who was supposed to be the author of a rise in ' the price of potatoes . A great deal of damage was done , and the loss of property on the part of the unhappy ' potato-merchant must be very great . Suicide in Birmingham Gaol . —A boy lately confined in Birmingham Gaol for picking pockets , has hung 1 himself . in his cell . He had been previously heard to say to his mother that , if she fretted , he would destroy himself . A slate on the wall of the cell was found to be scrawled over with three pictures of hanging . A verdict of " Insanity" was returned . A Grand Baby Show has taken place at the Pomona Gardens , Cornbrook , Hulme . The Manchester Guardian gives a vivid picture of the repulsive nature of the scene , where mothers touted for votes , babies grew cross and feverish in the vitiated air , and little boys and girls , old enough to feel their humiliation , held tickets descriptive of their claims , and stood to be gazed at and examined like prize pigs and oxen . We are certainly surprised to find English matrons imitating this not very delicate American absurdity . Alleged Religious Persecution in Turkey . —A correspondence between the Secretary of the Turkish Missions Aid Society and Lord Clarendon , with reference to the alleged execution in Turkey of men who have renounced Mahometanism for Christianity , has been published . In his first letter , Lord Clarendon , on the faith of a communication from Lord Stratford de Redcliffe , affirms that the executions were fo r " blasphemy , " not for " apostacy ; " but ultimately he promises to direct Lord Stratford to make inquiries , and to deniand an explanation from the Porte as to the interpretation put upon the law of March 21 , 1844 , as doubts exist respecting its application to Mahomedans by birth . ' State of Trade . —A degree of steadiness , very remarkable considering the sudden change in the money market , is still observable in all the great seats of industry . The decline in the price of cotton , consequent on the last American advices , hii 3 caused business to be limited at Manchester ; but in the iron and woollen districts the increase of business has been fully maintained , and tho Irish linen markets exhibit an upward , tendency . Day of Thanksgiving . —To-morrow ( Sunday ) is to be observed as a day of " Prayer and Thanksgiving to Almighty God f or-the signal rind repeated successes obtained by the troops of her' Majesty , and by those of her allies , in the Crimea , and especially for the capture of the town of Sebastopol . " The form of prayer for this occasion is of the usual character . A Petition in Bankruptcy has been adjudicated against Mr . C . J . Mare , representing the firm of Messrs . C . J . Mare and Co ., of Blackwall . Tho step was adopted in consequence of an execution having been put upon the premises at Blackwall for 1 ) 000 / ., which the creditor refused to withdraw . If tho sale had taken place , it would have been at an enormous sacrifice , and tho establishment , employing several thousand artisans , would have been stopped . Mr . Commissioner Holroyd has now sanctioned the continuance of the works , and the Commercial Bank have placed 10 , 000 / . to tho credit of tho oflicinl assignee to onablo him to pay wages and other necessary charges , Tho vhoico of assignees ia fixed for Friday , tho 12 th of October . Static of tiiio Tiiamks . —At a mooting , on Tuesday , of tho City Commission of Sewers , the Chairman said that tho engineer of that court had had several meetings with tho engineer of tho Metropolitan Commissioners of Sowers ; that they hud ascertained that tho cost of tho grand sower which it was proposed to carry through Islington would bo ubout tbrco millions ; that Lord I '« lmorfltou had been startled by tho results of thoir inquiries ; and that tho subject had dropped . Dk . Dionysius Lakd . nkk has written to tho Jtme '™ urge tho Government to make such p roimratlona aa wi « enable thorn to send the long . lcjmteho . from the . joat of war by telegraph . Ho * iy « :- '' *>™ T . 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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 29, 1855, page 933, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2108/page/9/
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