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December 22 , 1855 . ] THE LEADER . 1221
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civil marriage , put on some other sacerdotal gar ments , and , accompanied by two clergymen bearing wax tapers , read , standing in the middle of the church , the sentence of excommunication against M Sonntag and his lady . He then extinguished the tapers , saying that the persons named were not worthy to see the day of the Lord , and , throwing the candlesticks to the ground , breaking them to pieces , -exclaimed , " Let the bells sound the funeral knell !" Immediately was heard the sound of bells and the chants for the dead . The dean , in conclusion , proclaimed that no one whomsoever was to hold relations with the excommunicated , to salute them , &c . This prohibition has not had much effect , for their house has been filled ever since with visitors , and at night they have been serenaded . —Letter front Coblentz ( Dec . 12 ) . Gunpowder Explosion and Loss op Life in South Staffordshire . —A frightful catastrophe occurred on Friday week , at Coseley , near Sedgley , in South Staffordshire , which has already killed four persons , and injured several others , some of whom are not expected to recover , in addition to destroying a considerable amount of property . It is customary in the mining districts of Staffordshire for the overseers of pits , either of iron , stone , or coal , and who are technically called " butties , " to keep in their possession large quantities of blasting gunpowder , which is not unfrequently kept hi unsafe places , and used with a guilty want of caution . The present catastrophe is one of the results , it is feared , of this reprehensible practice . At the Coppice , on the road leading to the nearest station of the Stour Valley branch of the London and North-Western Railway , stood three small houses , inhabited by men employed in the neighbouring mines and others . On the morning of last Friday week , the occupant of the middle house , a man named David Millard , went with his son and two fellow-labourers to work at a colliery in Priorfields . After they had worked about a couple of hours , Millard sent a boy to his house to fetch some gunpowder from the cellar where a stock was kept . Soon after , Millard ordered his son to bring some horse-corn from one of the houses ; on arriving at which he met the first boy with the gunpowder he tad been desired to fetch . Having to wait some time for the horse-corn , young Millard went out to his father ' s house to warm himself , and had not left the corn-shop many minutes when a tremendous explosion took place , which blew up both that and the two adjoining houses with all their inhabitants . Four persons were immediately killed by the explosion . These were David Millard's wife and three children , including the boy who had been sent for the com . Several others were more or less injured , some very seriously . The doleful news of his family was communicated as rapidly as possible to Millard , who repaired at once to the spot where the accident occurred , and where the first object he saw among the ruins of his dwelling was one of the lower limbs of his wife , quite crushed . The rest of her mutilated remains were afterwards dug out from the rubbish . Seeing the head of one of his little boys amongst the ruins , he was extricated , and is likely to recover . The other dead bodies were afterwards discoveced and disinterred . The cause of the explosion is not positively known , but it is quite certain that Millard kept gunpowder in the cellar of his house . He admits the fact , but adds that , in the barrel , there was on Friday only a small quantity . From the position of the body of his son , and from the circumstance of gunpowder having been found in his pockets , there is no doubt that , with the desire of possessing some powder—a desire incited , probably , by seeing hia companion with some—he took a light into hia father ' s cellar , and was obtaining the dangerous prize when a spark ignited the powder , and the explosion ensued . North West London Reformatory . — This institution , which has been almost wholly rebuilt , was opened on Wednesday by a public meeting , at which Sir Benjamin Hall , M . P ., and other gentlemen of note , wore present . The chair was occupied by the ' Hon . W . F . Cowper , M . P . The new building is capable of accommodating one hundred inmates . The Metropolitan Board of Works . —This now board held its first sitting on Wednesday , on which occasion the salary- of the chairman was fixed at £ 1 , 500 a year . Mkdioal Reform . ^—A deputation of medical men waited on Sir George Grey , on Thursday , to request his support , and that of the Government , to the medical bill of Mr . Headlam . Sir George replied that ho would give the bill his individual support , after it should have received certain modifications ; but that he could not pledge the Qovornmont . Suffocation by Cokk . —Two men have boon suffocated at Middlesborough by sleeping in a room with burning coke . Finn and Loss OJf LlFE .- ^ -A firo broke out on Thursday morning on the premises of a gas-fitter in Mint-street , Southwark , by which a Mrs . Robinson 4 \ nd her child have boon burnt to death . Fivm Persons Aooidkntallv Poisoned . — Five persons havo boon poisoned ( two of whom havo < liod )
. - j at Billesdown , Leicestershire , by partaking of a pud j ding in which arsenic had been mixed in mistake foi s egg-powder . The two who died were an old womai . and a child . s Dr . Haslewood has written to the Times to defend ; the course he took in connection with the death o : s Mr 3 . Wooler , in concealing his suspicion of poison . He argues that , had he made known his conjectures ' to the poor lady , it could not have saved her life , as ¦ ¦ she was doomed , while it would have subjected hei to an unnecessary horror , and have precipitated hei death . """ Ascent op Mount Ida , in Crete . —The ascent oi the highest peak of Mount Ida , in Crete , was accomplished on the 3 rd of last month—probably for the fii-st time by any of our countrymen—by two English officers and myself , the rest of our large party having proceeded only so far as the grotto ( about 5 , 000 feet above the level of the sea ) , in which , according to the old legend , the infant Jupiter was concealed . At six o ' clock a . m ., on the morning of the 3 rd , we commenced the ascent of the mountain , and in two hours and a half reached " Jupiter ' s " Grotto . So far the path is passable for mules , and winds up under precipitous cliffs and through a magnificent forest of evergreen oaks . Half an hour above the grotto we reached the base of the central cone of the mountain , which reminded me of that of Parnassus ; and here we left our mules . The toilsome and abrupt ascent of this cone took us two hours on foot before we reached the summit of the highest of the three peaks in which it terminates , and which , as nearly as it can be ascer tained , is 7 , 674 feet above the sea . This point commands one of the most extensive , most beautiful , and most interesting panoramic views in the world . The whole of Crete was spread out like a map below our feet ; the outlines of the White Mountains to the west , and those of the Dietcean Mountains to the east , with the coast line of the ^ E gean to the north , and of the African Sea to the east , are perfect in variety and beauty . In clear weather many of the " isle 3 which crown the . / Egean deep" are visible , as also Grandos ( the Clauda of the " Acts of the Apostles " ) , in the African Sea . —Letter in the Times . The Placard Bible . —We learn from the British Banner that a proposal has been set on foot for posting placards all over the City containing passages from the Bible , printed in the largest chai ^ acters , so as to arrest attention . Each placard tojeontain only one verse , and sometimes only one sentence ; and to be renewed as frequently as the funds obtained will permit . The Sound Dues . —The United States and Denmark . — Mr . Marcy , the Foreign Minister of the United States , has addressed to the Danish government a despatch relative to the proposed convention at Copenhagen to settle the Sound dues question . The President declines to send a representative to the conference ; and Mr . Marcy says : — " The convention is to assume as a basis of its proceedings the very right on the part of Denmark which the United States deny . It is assembled without any power to pass an opinion upon the right of Denmark to levy a contribution upon commerce , but only authorised to adjust the sum to bo paid by each nation in lie " u of the collections theretofore assessed upon their respective vessels and cargoes . The United States , however , contest their liability to pay any contribution whatever . The main question at issue between this government and that of Denmark , is not how much burden shall be borne by our commerce to the Baltic , but whether it shall be subjected to any burden at all . " The Bishop of Manchester on Church-rates . The Bishop of Manchester , who ia at present engaged in the triennial visitation of his diocese , makes the following remarks on church-rates in his charge to the clergy : —" The returns called for in August , 1854 , at the request of the coxnmitteo of Convocation of the province of Canterbury , showed that , in the majority of instances , the recovery of church-rates in this diocese is almost , if not quite , hopeless ; and that the number of jmriahcH refusing was , if anything , on the increase . As a pr inciple expressly recognised eight hundred yours ago in the laws of Canuto , and acknowledged uninterruptedly since by botlx ecclosiustical and civil courts , the obligation to contribute to the repair and sustontution of churches cannot bo denied . It may bo doubtful , however , how far now , in the altered position of those not connected with tho establishment , it may not bo wi « o to limit tho demand on tho public to tho maintenance of tho fubrioof our ancient edifices , leaving tho cost of tho sorvico to tho privnto contributions and tho pioty of those who benefit by its porformanco . " Another Cash of Susi'koted Poibonino . —An inquest was hold at the Throo Tuns Inn , Cuthoriuostroot , Dovoupork , before A . B . Bono , Esq ., coroner , touching tho death of Louisa Mitcholl , aliaa Louiwv Hallott , living as tho wife of Mr . John Hallott , druggist , of James-street , but commonly known an Dr . Hallott . It appeared that tho deceased had lived with Dr . Hullctt upwards of ftovon yearn an his wifo ,
and , from the evidence of several witnesses , they had lived hi a state of discomfort , and had quarrelled frequently . The deceased had been ill several months . At the inquest , a great deal of irrelevant evidence was given . The medical witness stated that deceased died from congestion of the lungs , not arising from natural causes . The jury here pressed the witness to give an opinion whether poison had been administered ; and he replied that it was his opinion that something of a deleterious nature had been administered , but he was unable to say what . The inquest was adjourned to Monday , the 31 st inst ., to give time to have the contents of the stomach analysed . Erratum . —In our last week ' s paper , news article " The Monomania of Jealousy , " middle column , for —Handcock was " induced " to leave the room , read , was " requested . "
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. Leader Office , Saturday , December 22 . WAR MOVEMENTS . The Journal de Constantinople says , that after the passage of the Unfour or Ingour , Omar Pacha moved rapidly forward , crossing several tributaries of the Rion , without meeting serious resistance . On the banks of the Chopi stands a fortified village of tho same name , having " a very considerable depdt of ammunition and provisions , and eight battalions to defend the position . " According to the Journal , Omar Pacha attacked at once , and the Russians resisted but feebly , and quickly gave way , retiring without either carrying away or destroying his stores . Of what these consisted , beyond 12 , 000 sheepskins , the Journal says nothing , but adds that Omar Pacha continued his march ; that the last news from Batoum ( via Trebizond ) stated him to be on the banks of the Rion , opposite Kutais ; and that he would soon be in pos " session of that town , which was defended by 8 , 000 or 10 , 000 Russians . The Jnvalide Russe publishes tho following : " Aide-de-Camp General Prince Gortschakoff has forwarded the following , under date of tho 28 th of Novembei- ( l Oth December )' : — 'Everything goes on ' satisfactorily in the Crimea . On the 26 th of November ( 8 th of December ) , Colonel Oklobjio , with a small portion of the detachment of the Upper Belbek , crossed the mountain pass which gives access to tho valley of Baidar , attacked tho advanced post of tho u emy at Ourkousta , and at Baga , and , having dislodged them from those villages , threw them back upon the Tchernaya . Twenty prisoners remained in our hands . ' "
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DIPLOMATIC MOVEMENTS . The Swedish Ambassador at Vienna has formally announced to the Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs , that his Cabinot adheres to tho views of tho Western Powers in regard to the four points of guarantee . It is aaitl that Count Sfcackolberg brought proposals of peace to Vienna from St . Petersburg , somewhat different from thoao agreed on by Austria and tho allies . Tho subjoot of tho Principalities is reported to bo finally adjourned , and Count Coroniui is consequently to resume- the command there . Mr . Trelawnev , formerly member for Tavistocfc has been iuvitcd by that borough to conio forward ou tho Liberal interest in tho event of a dissolution of Parliament . Death of Thrice Chimhikn from Starvation . — An inijuost was hold iu Hope Town , Bolhual Groon , pn tho bodies of throe children , ranging from two to Hovon years , who havo reccutly diod from starvation . Their mother , who wan a widow , was loft in a state of destitution , and sho received fvum tho parish two quartorns and iv-Unlf of broad , and Is . 3 d . iu money , nor wook . » Sho hurt throo othor children besides those who have diod , Tho latter had Buffered from hooping cough and inflammation of tho lungs ; and it is but too oloar that duath was hastened by tho want of common necessaries . Tho jury returned a verdict of " Diod by tho Visitation of God . "
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 22, 1855, page 1221, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2120/page/9/
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