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registrar adds ) , from being the worst , is now the beB court in my district , and is a striking proof how much the health of a neighbourhood maybe improved by attention to cleanliness and comfort . Last week , the births' of 897 boys and 866 girls—in all 1 , 763 children —were registered ia London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number was 1 , 497 . —From the Registrar QemeraVs Weekly Return . ¦ Australia . — The prosperous condition of Melbourne is thus noticed by the Times Correspondent from that city : — Reduced rents , a declining price of . land , food at a moderate price , the supply of gold increasing , and trade reviving , are features favourable to the prospects of the immigrants , and all these elements in our condition now prevail . "
been conducting himself in a very eccentric and indecorous manner about ; Beaumaris , Carnarvon , and Bangor , died suddenly from apoplexy in a low beershop at Conway . Some years ago , he attempted to kill himself by shooting . A wound was discovered in his throat , but the bullet waa missing . The post mortem examination which has just been made , re vealed a great deal of esotravasated blood behind one of the ears ; and in the siull was found the missing bullet . £ ^ Z The Black : Emperor and his Wars . —ITews from
Port au Prince to the 10 th of January states that the Emperor Faustin passed the frontier of the Republic of St . Domingo on the 20 th of December with three army corps—one in the north from the Cape , one in the south , and one from Port au Prince , commanded by himself . He was , however , repulsed everywhere , sustained heavy loss , and was obliged to mske a precipitate flight . Eighty cases of ammunition were captured by the Dominicians . After his defeat , the Emperor lefb for the Cape , where a revolution was threatening to upsefc his empire . Several Generals , for retreating , were tri « d by court-martial , and condemned to death . Business was at a complete standstill . ¦
before Sir George Grey by Mr . Mitchell , the owner of the ship ; and the Home Secretary has conveyed to the magistrate his disapprobation of such conduct . To this Mr . Yardley ha 3 replied by stating that he " acquiesces in that decision , " and desires to express to Mr . Mitchell , through Sir George Grey , his regret that he was impelled to use the language in question . Official Dinnebs . —The Lord Mayor , on Wednesday evening , entertained , at the Mansion House , the chairman and members of the Metropolitan Board of Works . —Lord Palmerston , Earl Granville , and Mr . Disraeli * on the same evening , gave dinner partie 3 preparatory to the opening of the Parliamentary
session . At Lord Palmerston ' s and Earl Granrille ' s residences , the Queen ' s speech was read to the guests . We are about to enter another Macaulay controversy . Mr . Hepworth Dixon announces for next week an answer to Mr . Macaulay * s charges against Penn . Mr . Macaulay , —so rumour lias it , —is employed upon a rejoinder to his various critics , —particularly ( it is said ) to the Times and the Athenceum . Penn , Dryden , and Maryborough are the chief men whose reputations have been assailed by the historian ; and his judgments on these personages stand in highest need of explanation and defence . Mr . Dixon , we understand
replies upon the entire case as against Penn , —Mr . Macaulay ' s accusations standing in the latest editions as they stood in -the first . We shall be glad to see what Mr . Macaulay can urge in defence of the Taunton charge ,- ?—of his assertion that Marlborough ' s letter caused the failure at Brest , —that Dryden changed his religion for money , —that Jeffreys is buried in the Tower and Schomberg in Westminster , —the two latter , blunders which the Times presses against him . Literary controversy is always pleasant ; and when conducted with courtesy , and . with an earnest desire for the truth— -as this controversy most assuredly will be—it ia serviceable to history as well as pleasant to readers . —Athcnceniii .
The | ACciden : ta . Ii Poisonxngs at Dingwaxl .- —An examination into this lamentable affair has exhibited the fact that , by a mistake on the part of a servant lad , some roots of the highly poisonous plant , wolf sbane , were substituted by the cook for horseradish in making a kind of sauce which was poured over the roast beef . The wolf Shane grew close ^ to the horseradish ; and a similarity of appearance might readily lead "to the mistake . Dismissal of a Postmaster Mr . James Hatfield , postmaster of Hvintingdon , has just been dismissed from that situation for unlawfully detaining a
postoffice order enclosed in a letter addressed to Messrs . Du Barry for Arabica food . Being an agent for Messrs . Du Barry , Mr . Hatfield stopped the order and directed that tJhe Arabica should be sent to Mr .. Pox , of Upton , the writer of the letter . The food was sent accordingly and charged to the account of the postoffice . The postmaster alleges that Mr . Fox left the order with him , as usual , to be enclosed and posted ; but this Mr . Fox denies , declaring positively that on the present occasion he posted it himself . Mr . Hatfield lias been examined before the Huntingdon magi * , trato and committed for trial . Bail to the amount of
* 300 was accepted . ' Changing the Venue op Palmer ' s TatAt . —Mr Serjeant Wilkina on Tuesday applied in the Court of Queen ' s Bench for a ccrtiorari with , a view to causing William Palmer to be tried at bar , or that the venue might bo changed to any other county than Staffordshire . Affidavits on the part of William Palmer and John Smith , has Rolicitor , setting forth the degree of prejudioe excited in Staffordshire against the former
were read ; and a long discussion on points of law ensued . Lord Campbell denied that any ground had been shown for a trial at bar ; but he granted a rule nisi to bo sorvod on the solicitor for the prosecution in London and the attorney in the country . Ho bus since directod that the ccrtiorari shall issue , 3 tMARBIAGH WITH A DECEASED WjFE ' s SlSTEIt . —A recent decision of the Court of Session iu Scotland lias declared the porfeofc legality of marriage with a deceased wife ' s sister .
The Irish Ten ant League . —The annual gathering of this body took place at Dublin on Tuesday . Seven members of Parliament , and about , thirty other gentlemen , lay awl clerical , wore present . A long reports was read and adopted , and the meeting broke up .
Accidental Hangings . —A child of twelve years old named Abraham Longman , living near Southampton , has accidentally strangled himself by a leathern strap hanging from , a beam- His parents had gone out , and he was left at home with thiee younger children , when for the sake of a frolic , he took up a strap of leather and tying it to a beam across the house , playfully observed to one of his companions that it would soon kill a man , and added that he meant to hang himself . He then mounted a chair , thrust his neck into a noose which he made in the strap , and swung himself off . He was % » und hanging from the beam quite dead , by one of his elder sisters whocame home in the course of the afternoon , some time after
the occurrence . An Inquest was held on the body , and a verdict of Accidental Death was returned-- — Another case , very similar to the one just mentioned , but without its fatal termination , has occurred in Bencnondsey . Some boys were playing a game at hanging , when one of them , volunteering to be the hanged one , tied a noose round his neck by means of a rope that hung from the eeiling of the room , and kicked the chair on which he was standing from under Mm . His face immediately underwent homMe contortions , and he would in all probability have been hung in earnest , had not the cries of his companions brought assistance , when he was cut down , and restored to animation .
The Caee of Good Horn . —The Natalpapers publish long accounts of the -visit of Sir George Grey to that colony . At Sprin g field , bis Excellency visited the sugar estate , and expressed much astonishment * finding an area of one hundred and twenty acres of cane ripening for next crop . He was , moreover , informed that here were from four to five hundred acres in other directions , north and south , on the coast lands in a similar state of progress . His Excellency was everywhere received with the greatest enthusiasm .
Retirement op In . Blackett , M . P . —Owing to the same cause which has deprived the House of Commons of Mr , Macaulay—ill health—Mr . Blackett has signified his intention of retiring from the representation of Newcastle-upon-Tyne . Mr . George Ridley has come forward an the liberal interest , and it is thought that he will simply walk over the course , though there is some talk of hi 3 being opposed by Mr . Ralph Walters , who in 1852 contested the borough of Gateshead on anti-radical principles .
Proposed College at N " EwoASTM 3-uroN-TirNH . — The mining engineers of the north of England a ehort time ago proposed to found a college in Newcastle , with a capital of at leaBt £ 30 , 000 . Mr . Nicholas Wood , an eminent coal viewer , and President of the Mining Institute , brought this intention under the notice of the Duko of Northumberland , requesting that his Grace would lend his assistance to tho movement , and become- patron of tho college . Tho duko , in answer to this appeal , signified ) to Mr . Wood that , in case the amount of subscribed capital should roach £ 15 , 000 , Iub Graoe would add £ 5 , 000 to that sum ; and , if it should reach £ 30 , 000 , his Grace would subscribe £ 30 , 000 .
The Case of Ma Dvoe Sombre . —Sir John Dodson , in the Prerogative Court on Saturday , gave judgment in this case , whioh was argued at great length last Trinity term . Th-o question was as to tho validity of Mr . Som . bro ' 8 will , which waa disputed on tho ground that ho was insane . Tha ohiof allegation will bo found in tho leader of Juno 2 , 1855 . Sir John Dodson , last Saturday , pronounced agninst tho will and codicil ; and tho oxeoutor , and other partiea comiootod with the will , wore condemned in costs .
Tub Cask of this Janet Mitoiirix . —It will bo rocollootod that , between two and threo months ago , tho manter of this voseol was brought before Mr Yardloy , tho Thames polico magiutrate , on a oliargo of ill-treating eomo Laaoar ooamon , and thnt Mr Yardloy oxprosHod himself with groat warmth and vehemence on tho Hubjoot . Hin langiiago waH brought
Mb . SiiADE , Q . C ., met with an accident an St . James ' s-park . His horse fell , and grazed Mr . Slade in several places . The learned gentleman , however , was in Ms place as usual in the Court of Common Pleas . Bailwat Accident at Manchesier . — An accident has happened to a train from Manchester to Altrinchatn , as it was starting from the Oxford-road station , Manchester , the man whose duty jt waa to turn , the points , so as to admit the train frorn the platform siding on to the main line , turned the wrong points ,
the consequence of which was that the train ran into the engine of a goods train about forty or fifty yards from the station , waiting to come towards Oxfordroad when the passenger train had ; passed . The latter was advancing at the rate of only two miles an hour , or the results might have "been extremely serious . As it was , Mr . Rogerson , farmer , Mrs . Itogersoii ,. and Mrs . Palmer , of Sale-moor , were severely bruised , the the lady first named received so sever e a blow , on the head as to induce concussion of the brain . Several other persons were bruised , but not seriously .
LQVE-tOBN .- —A young German Uving at Manchester , has shot himself from disappointed affection . Bt © had become passionately attached to a young waitress at a . public , dining-roonis , but his parents had refused their sanction to his marriagewith her . On tiis , he threatened t 6 kill himself , and succeeded in taking some opium , which had no effect . A friend was requested to sleep with him , which was done . The young xnanj however , contrived to shoot himself while dressing one morning-, and he expired instantly . Instead of wresting the weapon from him , his friend is ^ aid to have embraced him affectionately , and merely to have , attempted pel-suasion .
A Humble Poet . —The Daily News publishes some verses by Mr . John , Critchley Prince , a reed-maker at A ^ hton-iinder-Lyhe , Lancashire . Death in his family , ill health , and want of employment , reduced the writer to a conditioin of the utmost distress . He has now , however , obtained fresb . employment ; "but lacks the means for settling p&at embarrassments . All who ave willing to aid him . are invited by the Daily News to send their contributions to , the office of that paper . Mr . Prince obtained £ 50 from the Queen ' s bounty when administered by Sir Robert Peel .
The Eastern Counties Railway-. —The adjourned meeting of this company was held on Tuesday at the London Tavern , to receive the result of the poll on Mr . Goodson's amendment in favour of Mr . Waddington . The chair was taken by the latter gentleman , who stated the results of the votes . These were in favour of Mr . Waddington . Eor Mr . Goodson ' s amendment , there were 160 personal votes , representing £ 277 , 340 stock and 4 , 111 votes ; and 552 proxies , representing £ 1 , 174 , 880 stock and 17 , 014 votes ; together 712 proprietors , representing £ 1 , 462 , 220 stock and 21 , 120 votes . Against the amendment were recorded 508 personal votes , representing £ 695980 stock
, and 11 , 716 votes ; and 175 proxies , representing £ 231 , 500 stock , and 3 , 894 votes : * £ ? £ ?*? to K etb - ° r 683 proprietors , representing £ 92 7 , 480 stock , and 15 , 704 votes . Majority for amendment and in favour of Mr . Waddington 29 proprietors , representing ; £ 524 , 740 stock , and 5 , 421 votes . Mr . Bullor said he beliovod the majority of proxies iu favour of Mr . " Waddington was principally made of ladies and ladies' maids . Mr . Ball , M . P . explained that tho Committee of Investigation had issued their proxies too lato , and the personal votes for tho committee wore between five and jrix hundred , while , only one hundred and sixty were given for Mr . Waddington . The procQedinors terminnWi in « ™ - > f «
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT . The Queen opened tine Parliamentary session on Thursday . The day was fine , though cold ; the populace thronged , as usual , along the route ; and the Queen was loudly applauded , as , in the mutet of her cscovt of Life Guards , she drove towards the House . She left Buckingham-palace shortly before two o ' clock , and entered tho House ol Pocvs about half-past two . The carriages of tho ambassadors—or , rnthcr , their inmates—were variously received by the populace ; Turkey , Sardinia , and France being loudly applauded , and others less so . A brilliant attendance of peeresses ami their daughters filled to overflowing tl » o galleries of the Upper House j and the black ambus
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r 104 THE LEADER . [ No . 306 , Saturda y ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 2, 1856, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2126/page/8/
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