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Martha Lanton , has fceen accidentally poisoned , in consequence of two taWespoonsfuls of a preparation of opium having been administered to her in lieu of an aperient which bad been prescribed for her . The woman had been in a bad state of health for the last two years , and on the day of her death it was judged necessary to give her a dose of what Tvas called in the asylum the ' house medkine , ' which was a mixture of senna and salts . " This was accordingly administered to the invalid by the under matron ; but Lanton had not long swallowed it when her face underwent a sudden change ; her lips became livid in colour , and her eyes -were fixed . The surgeon-superintendent was immediately called in , but , notwithstanding that every effort was made to recover h . er , she expired in the course of the day . The bottle
from which the medicine was poured had been filled by the house-porter in the absence of the surgeon and Ms assistant , as it had often been before , and in the place where it was kept there was another jar which greatly resembled the proper one in size and general appearance . This contained opium , and had been used inadvertently by the porter , who never looked at the label to see whether he had taken the right vessel or not . It was afterwards discovered , however , that the label , of the opium jar was so worn and stained that it was impossible to read it . An inquest was held on the following day , and a verdict of " Accidental Death" returned , with a recommendation from the coroner that there should be a more oareful arrangement of the medicine bottles for the future .
Richard Scott , an ornamental painter , aged seventysix , who for the last fifty years has been an inhabitant of Exeter-street , Strand , was run over on Sunday night by a cab close to the Lyceum Theatre . The driver went onj and the old man was picked up by a police-constable , who found him bleeding from a wound . the head , but thought he was drunk . He was taken to the Bow-street station , and afterwards removed , by medical advice , to King ' s College Hospital , but was not admitted . He was then carried back to the station , and placed in a cell . In the morning , he was found in a state which induced the police to send again for a medical man , and he was then admitted to the hospital , and put to bed , "but he died on Tuesday afternoon . An ironmonger of Bradford , Wilts , named Tanner , who possesses considerable mechanical genius , lately constructed a steam-engine by which to propel a small rowing-boat , and he used frequently to use this boat on parties of pleasure on the river Avon . One of these
excursions took place last Saturday , when Mr . Tanner lad with him his wife and his only daughter , about three years of age . Mrs . Tanner fell overboard , and her husband , in' leaning over to rescue her , capsized the boat , and all three were drowned . Loud cries for help were heard by a shooting-party not far off ; but they arrived too late to help . Mr . Tanner has left an infant behind him . Lieutenant-General Eyre and staff , and a number of pleasure seekers in the Saguenay river , Canada , have had a narrow escape . The gun on the forward promenade deck , which is used to give the passengers an idea of the echo , burst , and -was blown to atoms . The majority of the passengers , including General Eyre , were on the deck at the time , and their escape is surprising .
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BOOKSELLERS' ADULTERATIONS . The Athenaum of last week contains the annexed letter and rejoinder : — An eminent publisher , writing under the signature w A Lover of Consistency , " sends us the following : — " Sept . 7 . " In last week ' s Leader appeared an excellent article on Booksellers' Adulterations ; ' one of many examples given of a too frequent style of advertizing books in the present day was , that on tho fly-leaf of other works , or in the advertisement of the book itself , one constantly sees ' These books are tho happiest efforts of their
preach as he pleases . There he is oifhis own tripod . If answered , at all he must be answered on the literary ground ; but if he were to say to advertizers , " No pufls without chapter and verse , " the advertizer might append to his laudation of his wares the name of the Manx Cat ; and hov is the editor to know that the Manx Cat has not called the work in question " the greatest production of the human mind ?" . Nothing need be added to the- remarks of our contemporary . Every literary journal contains advertisements of " the greatest productions of the human mind . " The Nonconformist has an article on the same subject , the writer of which entirely agrees with'us in the opinions we have put forth ; but we have no space to quote it .
authors . It seems to mo strange that , objecting to this style of puffing on tho part of tho proprietors of the nrticlea to be sold , your contemporary should lond his assistance to spread it . On tho outside sheet of tho same day ' s issue there is an advertisement of three or four works by popular writers , underneath which is the following announcement : —' These boots are decidedly the happiest efforts of their authors . ' They may be , but surely some one olso . than their owners must tell us so before wo can take it for granted . At any rate tho Leader , while writing against a too common practice , should not destroy the effect of its own argument by aiding in . its continuance . "
Our Correspondent deals , wo think , unfairly with our contemporary . From his own position in the trade ho must bo aware that the editorial and business departments of a journal are distinct , —that an editor reads the advertisements in hia own paper at tho same time with the general public . But oven if ho read the advortisornonts before they appear in print , it is far from obvious that ho ought to refuse their insertion in his columns . The advertizing sheet is a kind of common ground on which publishers display their wares . An editor cannot undertake to examine tho genuineness of each article advertized in hia pages ; nor « an he profitably interfere with the business department , oxcept when some violence is done to public morals . In h | a own department ho may
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OBITUARY . Lord Hardikge . —The late Commander-in-Chief of thu English army died at his residence , South Park , near Tunbridge Wells , at about half-past eleven o ' clock on " Wednesday morning . Henry Hardinge was the son of a working clergyman in the Korth of England , and the exalted position to which he climbed cannot therefore be attributed , as too often is the case , to family influence or high birth . He entered the army as ensign in 1798 . After the battle of Corunna , -when the English troops were hurriedly getting aboard ship , Marshal Beresfortl observed that young Hardinge was more especially energetic and zealous in his efforts to facilitate operations . Beresford thenceforth kept his eye upon him , and , when the former was organizing the Portuguese forces to oppose Bonaparte , he gave him a brigade in the service
before he was twenty-five , his foreign grade , after a time . being transferred to the English army . He served all through the Peninsular war , during -which he was Deputy Quartermaster-General oi the Portuguese army ; was wounded at Viruiora ; was at the passage of tho Douro , the battle of Busaco , the celebrated lines of Torres Veuras , the final capture of Badajoz , and , 1 h ? fall of Ciudad Rodrlgo . At the battle of Albuera , the success of the day vVas owing to a manoeuvre executed by Hardinge , partly on his own responsibility . ' lie was severety wounded at Vittoria , and lost a hand under Blucher at Li gny . After the conclusion of the war , he
was successively made Secretary at Avar , Secretary fur Ireland , Master-General of tho Ordnance , and , in the year 1844 , Goreruor-General of India . On the outbreak of tiic Sikh insurrection , Lord Hardinge again appeared on the field of battle ; and much creel it is due to him , not only for the energy of his movements , but for the disinterestedness which induced him , notwithstanding his office , to place himself second in command uuder Gongli . For this conduct he was raised to the peerage . In 1852 , on the death of the Duke of " Wellington , he was made Cominanuer-in-Cliief—a post which he resigned la ^ t July oa account of the stroke which has now ended in his death .
Alokkjiajt Hunter . —This gentleman died on Monday night at his residence in Hyde Park-square , lie had for many years represented Coleinan-streot Ward , and was much esteemed . Puofkssor Wkuceslaus Bo . ikh . —The last overland mail from the Mauritius brings intelligence of the death of Professor Wenceslilus Bojer , a name well known for many years past to tlic botanists of Europe on account of the man } ' and beautiful specimens which ho was the fir . it to introduce to their notic ? . General SirColi . in Hai , kistt , G . C . B ., Governor of Chelsea Hospital , expired oa Wednesday morning , at the asylum over which ho presided . Gout was the cause of his decease . He had served with great gallantry in tho Peninsula , -where he was seveivlv wounded , and ho was also at " Waterloo , lie was in the eighty-third year of his nge . Majou-Gknekal Jamks Jones , K . H ., another ol < l Peninsular officer , died on Monday , in the seventy-fifili year of his age .
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MISCELLANEOUS . Tub Court . — "We hear very little news about the Court in its far Highland retirement . The Queen and Iiri family fieom to bo living in tUeir usual autumn style oi quiet domesticity , taking picturesque drives during tin day , and giving select dinncr-pnrties in tho evening Prince Albert , of course , hns boon ilecr-stiilliing ; but tin details of hia achievements have not been provided fo tho edification of a loyal and enlightened British public Tub Sicks ok LoNnojfc ani > DuniiAM . —Wo bcliev we are correct in stating tliut a division of tho See o London is contemplated , and that this was tho reasoi why tho vacant bishopric was not filled by translation Tho Seo of Durham will alao be ultimately divided , bu at present it 18 thought more < losirablo to fill it by tmna lation rather than by a new appointment . Wo may adi that , except in the case of tbe archbishoprics , tho prin
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Shortly after the slip had struck , she was drifted off again , and carried towards a deep pool opposite a place called Donald ' s Cave . Here sh « stuck fast . The maat 3 went overboard very soon afterwards , and the vessel then began to sink by slow degrees" . A great many people were speedily collected on the spot , but , being unable to obtain any serviceable boat , no assistance could be rendered to the crew foi several hours , and the persons * on shore were compelled to witness the spectacle of their fellow-creatures being one by one washed overboard by the waves , and submerged ; After a time , the ship likewise sunk , and was completely buried under the waters .
About three hours afterwards , a boat , manned by fire fishermen , was brought from a village on the estate of Mr- Traill , M . P ., and two of the crew were rescued . All the rest ) six in number , were drowned . The two men who were saved were both foreigners ( one appeared to be a Russian ) , and , as neither of them were able to speak a word of English , no one has yet been able to learn anything relating to the cause . of the disaster . The body of the captain ' s wife was washed ashore on the evening of the day on -which the wreck occurred , and was buried in the village churchyard . It is mot expected that much of the shin ' s cargo will be saved .
NAVAt . AND MILITARY . The Genoa Tbansatlantic Si'Eabi Compaq *" . — A trial trip was made on Thursday week between Gravesend and the Nore , the ship being a handsome new screw steamer called the Genova , « one of the ships composing the fleet of the Genoa Transatlantic Steam Company , recently established , to form a regular line of communication between Genoa and South America on the one hand , and between Genoa and the United States on the other . The results were very satisfactory . She maintained a speed of twelve knots an hour , and was found free from the unpleasant vibration often felt in steamers propelled by a screw- She is 265 feet in length between perpendiculars , 38 feet broad , with a depth of hold of 28 feet , and draws , when loaded , 2 0 feet . Her tonnage is 1852 16-94 ths builders-measurement . The engines , of which there are fwo , constructed by Messrs . Maudslay , Sons , and Field , are of 300 nominal horse-power , and
operate on the principle of the direct horizontal action with two piston rods , the" airpumps being worked on . the opposite side of the crank shaft . In addition to the four boilers employed in generating steam for the propulsion of the vessel , she carries a vertical tubular boiler on deck for the purpose of working a steam winch on Taylor's patent and donkey pumps , as also for distilling salt water into fresh for the use of the ship , which it does to the extent of about 4 = 50 gallons a day . This winch is likewise employed in raising the anchor , warping , loading and unloading the cargo , and other purposes , dispensing with hand-labour . She is also fitted up with a telegraph and signal alarum , which can be worked from the bridge , and by which , in case of imminent danger , instructions can be immediately conveyed to the driver , and the engines reversed or accelerated as the emergency may require . She is / provided ,- lastly , with Skelton ' s patent tiller , -which , in the highest sea , can be worked by'two
men . Collision off IIolyhead . —The ship Imogenc , Captain William , bound for Pernarribuco , with six passengers and a crew of eighteen , came in collision , last Saturday morning , with tho screw steamer Falcon , Captain Hynes , from Cork , with one hundred and fifty passengers and a number of cattle ou board , twenty miles off Holyhead . In about two hours , the ship went down , but all hands were saved . The steamer was struck in the starboard forerigging , and received considerable damage . She arrived in the Collingwood-dock at half-past four , p . m ., with the crow and passengers on board .
Religion Tmubiphing over Sect . —A troop of the Royal Artillery ( says a local paper ) lately pas 3 cd through Carlow , and we have been informed that a number of those brave fellows , who have not long returned from the Crimea , proceeded as soon as they were freed from their duty , though saturated with wet and fatigue after a long march , to the Mercy Convent , to return thanks to > the nuns wlio had been in the Crimea , for their kind attention to the sick and wounded . What adds more weight to this touching scene of gratitude is , that of tho whole party only one was a Roman Catholic . Fire in Portsmouth Harbour . —Some alarm was
caused m Portsmouth harbour early last Saturday morning by the ringing of the fire-bell and the report that her Majesty ' s steam corvette Highflyer -was on fife below . Tho report turned out true , l > ut no serious damage was done . It appears that one end of tho after sleeper of the port boiler cauglit fire and was charred through . This is supposed to have been caused by tho ashes not being sufficiently extinguished when tho fires were drawn after the use of tho boilers to work the engines in moving from tho dockyard to buoy-moorings . The fire was speedily discovered by the sentinel on board , and was put out by tlie shin ' s company .
Majok-Geneiui * Sir IIexky Somerset , K . C . D ., will succeed to the colonelcy of tho 25 tli Regiment , vacant by tho recent death of General Sir 11 . F . Campbell . Sir Henry served during the latter portion of the Peninsular war , nnd -was at Vittoria , Orthcz , and Toulouse ; he was also at " Waterloo , and during trie various operations against the Kaffirs ho has hold important commands . Witiscic op a Finnish Merchantman , —A Finnish mercliant-ship and her whole cargo has been wrecked oil ' tho north coast of Scotland , on her passage homewards from Liverpool . Tho captain and all tlio crew ami passengers have perished , with tho exception of two men . Tho vessel , whi « h was a largo brig , ran nshoro early one morning , and struck upon a rock on the const , noar the village of Ham - Tho wind at the time wns blowing a hurricane , and tlie soa wns vory rough in consequonce .
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September 27 , 1856 . ] ' * T H E L E A I ) E R . 921
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 27, 1856, page 921, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2160/page/9/
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