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    think a was a precipitate , ill-timed , and unwise * ct I think there "was in ft an indication of a disposition much to be lamented and deprecated , to which I will not further allude . But I do not regret the withdrawal of the Queen ' s letter in lehalf of , or in regard to-, th ? interests of this Society ; for I feel convinced that the withdrawal will have the effect of the former withdrawal of the Parliamentary grant- Since that withdrawal , the revenues have txot only quadrupled , as was modestly stated in the report , but have multiplied tenfold . This increase is not only since the withdrawal of the grant , bat in no small degree ia consequence of it . " Farther « n , Mr . Gladstone remarked : — " I confess I see , with , great pleasure and satisfaction , a tendency in some of the colonies towards the ¦ introduction of a real system of

    discipline among the members of the Church , not founded upon the action of secular" power , but representing the free inclination of the Christian minds of the people themselves . In point of fact , it seems to be the Characteristic of those whom we call the savages of New Zealand , ami of those converted from heathenism in India , that they do not understand belonging to a society in which there are no laws , no obligations , no means of preventing misconduct or repressing error . If , by their own free-will , therefore , they have established for themselves these rules—have placed upon themselves this yoke , not of arbitrary law , but of the law of . Christian improvement—is there not in the fact something like a pattern to us at home ? " ( Ajrplause . ') At both meetings , resolutions in favour of Church Missions , &c , were unanimously passed .

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    THE SUBSCRIPTION POR ITALY . We have already printed the letter addressed to the Society of the Friends of . Italy . That Society no longer existing as a body , a committee has been formed of some of its former members , for the purpose of circulating the letter throughout England , and receiving subscriptions for the " Emancipation of ¦ Italy ;" .- The members of the Committee are , at present , Douglas Jerrold , Esq ., 26 , Circos-road , St . John ' s-wood ; W . H . Ashurst , Esq ., 6 , Old Jewry . ; John Bennett , Esq .,- Cheapside !; . W . C . Bennett , Esq ., Greenwich ; Richard Moore , Esq ., 25 , Hart-street , Bloomsbury ; James Stansfeld , Esq ., Swan Brewery , Walbam-green ; George Dawson , Esq ., Birmingham ; 'Joseph Co wen , Jun ., Esq ., Neweastle-upon-Tyne . The Honorary Secretary ia James Stansfeld , Esq ., Office , 22 , Sloane-street , Knightsbridge , London . In Leeds , Bradford , Derby , Chester , and Newcastle , the appeal has met ¦ with a ready response , and . Felice Orsini is to lecture in these towns for the Italian cause . .

    prone to neglect ' foreign polities , * and have allowed aiistocraticel ministers and conspiring diplomatists to misrepresent British sentiments , and misapply BrftBh energies—moral and physical . Those sentiments £ in spite of the tendency to ignore * foreign politics" ) are unquestionably in favoar of the ' oppressed Nationalities , ' yet at this moment there appears to be imminent danger of intervention in the affairs- of Naples , on the per t of the English Government , in conjunction with that of the Trench despot , fortlte purpose , in reality , of preventing an insurrection , under the pretence of

    checking the King of Naples in the commission of his crimes . In this threatened intervention we have no confidence . Honest intervention , open and earnest war on tlie part of England against the tyrants of Italy ; Austrian , Neapolitan , Papal , &e ., &c , we would applaud , and support ; but as no such course is possible to England ' s present administrators , we mistrust and condemn , tlieir interference . We demand that to Italians be left tie initiative of settling with King Bomba , and that greater curse , the brutal Austrian domination . It is for Englishmen to support that initiative by all moral and material means at their command .

    We hope that in this holy work we shall meet with the general co-operation , of our countrymen , but at least ,, ¦ we will do our duty . And Italians will d » theirs ! They will perform the more onerous duty of combating foreign aggressors , and the mercenery troops of blood-stained tyrants , on the fcattle-field . May their arms be blessed , may victory attend their flag , and may Italy be free throughout her rich and lovely land , from the Alps to the Ocean . Men of Genoa , Italians , Brothers , accept the assurance of our fraternal devotion , and our heartfelt aspirations for the speedy and enduring triumph of your glorious cause . Evviva l'ltalia ! Evviva la Liberia ! Three Studies from the Vita NJuova of Dante— " The Salutation , " " The Vision , " " The Anniversary" — are to be raffled for , in 200 shares , at 5 s . eacB . The proceeds to be devoted t © the Italian Cause . On view , at 147 , Fleet-street .

    On Tuesday , September 30 , a public meeting was held in Newcastlt-upon-Tyne to receive the Address from the Italian Working Men to the Working Men of England . Above GOOO working men attended . Joseph Cowen , Jun ., Esq ., of Blaydon Burn , Mr . Josiah Thomas , Mr . Richard B . K . , smith , Mr . Joseph Southdown , smith , Mr . Win . Elder , and other gentlemen , addressed the meeting . The following resolutions were moved and carried with " great unanimity and onthusiasni , " and the following-letter to the Italian Working Men of Genoa v as adopted : — '

    " That this meeting desires to convey to tbe Italian working men ( through the working men of Genoa ) their sympathy with them in their struggles for emancipation , hithorto unsuccessful but always heroic . They desire to assure them that they watch their efforts for independence , for liberty , and for national sovereignty , with the warmest interest , and they look hopefully forward to the time when the noble Italian people shall renew their final conflict with their oppressors , and declare their country free . " " That this meeting recognizing the right of the Italian people to a national existence , and believing it to be the duty of all freo nations to aid them ia their Struggle to obtain it , resolves to open forthwith a subscription , to be handed to the Italian National Committee , to be applied by them in such ways as they deem expedient , for assisting in the emancipation of their fatherland . " The English Working M'en of Nmocastle-upon-Tyne to the

    Italian Worhihy Men of Genoa . BROTiircrts , —We have received your address , and - we respond to it heartily and with pleasure . Tho wrongs and sufferings of Italy we deplore , the cruelties of her tyrants we execrate , the heroism of her sons wo admire , and we recognize the duty , so far as in our power lies , of aiding in tho holy work of effecting lior emancipation . ^ " We know , lirothers , tlmt with you , as with other oppressed peoples , that emancipation must bo accomplished mainly by yourselves . Aa ' our great Byron said to the

    enslaved : " By your own arms the conquest must be wrought . " Nevertheless it ia tho duty of peoples as of individuals , to afford to ench other whatever help they can in combating for that liberty , which is tlio chief of earthly blessing , tho greatest privilege of our common humanity . Therefore we have assembled ; therefore w « have resolved to subscribo our humble pence towards Bwelling tho coders of the Italian National Treasury ; therefore * wo "will endeavour to arouse our fellow-workmen and our countrymen in gonoral to do likewise , to co-operate in the performance of a great national duty . Unhappily tho mass of Englishmen have been too

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    in deptfe and diameter and capable of holding tea or fifteen thousand . gaHons of spirit . Mr . Green , the excise supervisor , entered tie v-at about three o olock , for the purpose of examining it , and found nothing- tc-ex « it » alarm , though the air , as usual , - was -oppressive . He remained tiere a few rninutes , and then ascended through the large orifice at the top ; . About a thousand" gallons of water were then thrown in , stirred ronmd fbr some thne , and drawn offi Twenty ruimites . afterwards , a man named John Drew , fifty years- of age , descended without & light , to assist in the cleansing ; but , En a little while , a fellow-labourer , Henry Bough , percePred that he was struggling at the bottom . Bough entered , followed by Richard Powell and Henry Wilts , aH of whom / were instantly suffocated ,. and fell to the bottom of the vat James Rogers then voluntered to go in , Tmi

    • was dissaaded by another of the workmen , who had just made the attempt , and had withdrawn , daunted by the strong smell of carbonic acid gas . Disregarding tfaeae dissuasions , Rogere entered , and immediately fell a victim to his courage and devotion . Benjamin Baker then made an attempt , but speedily drew back , and - was followed by Mr . Swan , the manager , who likevvise rapidly retreated . A lighted chafing-dish waa then . lowered iuto the vat , a hole was bored in the side , ami air was pumped in by a ' Iarga-pair of bellows . Baker afterwards again descended , and brought up one of the men , who was quite dead . The other four were subsequently raised from the vessel , and were also found to be corpses . Medical aid was sent for , but it was of no avail . All the deceased men were married , and had families . The oldest of them ( Powell ) was sixty years of age .

    A labouring man named diaries Harmsworth was employed with others on Saturday afternoon repairing the roof a bouse m Tilney-street , P irk-Jane . While in the act of carrying a pailful of Water along the parapet , he was either seized with a sudden giddiness or overbalanced himself , and , falling on the spikes of some- iron railings between sixty and seventy , feet below , he was impaled on them . He was removed to- St . George ' s Hospital , bat expired in & few minutes . He has left a widow and large family .

    Tho engine and carriages of a train on . the East Xancasbire line parted company a few days ago at Bootle , the one continuing on the right rails , the other goinrg- on to the Southport branch . The coupling chains snapped , the wheels of one of the carriages were broken off , and two- of the carriages had their ends stove in . The passengers were thrown into the greatest consternation :, but no personal injuries were sustained beyond a few trivial contusions . A great many -workmen being engaged elose by at the time , the roadway wtts speedily cleared of its encumbrances , and . the traffic was soon resumed .

    A . man' . living at Woodham Walter , named Isaac Lynn , lias died fro-rci drinking a quantity of home-made wine with which arsenic had been acci-dentally mixed . The wine was produced by the man and bis wife , on account of their being visited by some friends at their house , and all the company d * ank largely of it . On the eatne night every one of the guests ivaa seized' with fits of vomiting , and Ljain himself was attacked with , headache and sickness tho following morning . Ho nevertheless went to his -work as usual , and in the evening two of the visitors of the previous day requested to taste the wine again , as they believed it to hare- been the cautie of the nausea Avith which they had recently been troubled . The bottle out of which they had already drank was produced , and , after tlie two men had tasted it , Lynn , said that he was not afraid , as lie had had so much , and would therefore drink the rest . He accordingly emptied the bottle , antl he and the others were

    ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . Mr . J . Ashby , for several years one of the clerks at the . New Palace , Westminster , fell into the river a few days ago in attempting to get on board a steamboat . A boathook was put out to him , but no other attempt at restore seems to have been made , and Mr . Ashbysankto rise no more . The body has not been found . An illustration of the imperfect administration of our poor laws is contained in an inquest held at'Doncaster on ' . the body of Elizabeth Dufty , the wife of a small shopkeeper , who , afteT being missed for some days , was found drowned . She had been deranged , in her mind , and , having been sent to Bingham , in Nottinghamshire , where her parents reside , application was made to the governor of the workhouse there and to the board of

    guardians , to put her into an asylum . This was refused on the ground that the woman did not belong to the parish . An application was then made to the board of guardians at Doncaster , but they also refused , saying that she vras not resident there . The poor woman was therefore not placed under proper restraint , and having wandered from her home , met with her death . The coroner , who sent for the clerk of the Doncaster board of guardians , strongly criticized the conduct both of that body and of the Bingham board of guardians , and said he considered the case one of such a serious character , that he thought it his duty to forward the evidenca taken at the inquest to the Poor Law Board . The jury returned a verdict of ' Pound drowned , ' accompanying it with a severe censnre on the neglect tho poor woman had experienced at the hands of the two boards .

    The criminal folly of practical joking-with dangerous weapons has led to the death of Thomas Burridge , a young man employed , together with some others , in thrashing com in a field at Charter House , Hinton , a village about four miles from Bath . Bur-ridge throw a backet of water over Jacob Francis , onoof the labourers , who immediately flung a barley fork ( an instrument with three prongs , each upwards of a foot in longth ) at the yotirrg man with great force : this entered his back jnst below the shoulder and penetrated to so great a depth , that the handle remained horizontal . The poor fellow culled to another labourer , who was standing by , " John , do pull it out ! " Hales , tho poraon spoken to , caught hold of tlio handle and pulled ;

    but Bnrndge was only dragged back by tho force , the fork remaining . A horrible scene then ensued . Putting his foot to Burridge ' s back , Hales , according to tho account ho gave before the magistrate , " pulled with a jerk , when the fork came ont , and Burridge fell forward , blood at tho same tiino gushing out of his mouth . " Hales then went for assistarico , but Francis akl not make any attempt at succour . Death terminated tho sufferings of Burridge , who was only nineteen years of age , in a very short time . There did not nppoar to have been nny angry feeling between Iiim and Francis ; but they had been ' larking' together nearly tlio whole of tho morning . Francis is in custody , and under remand . * Five men have been suffocated in an empty gin vat at Willinnns ' s distillery , Worcester , worked by Messrs . Gosnoll , It was determined on tlio afternoon of Friday week to clean ft large waste charger or vat . twelve feet

    ogam taken ill the same night . Mrs- Lynn immediately sent for three bottles of mixture which she administered to tbe invalids , and her husband at first felt better , but the sickness speedily returned , accompanied by violent purging , and he died about a week afterwards . The bottles containing tbe wine which bad cansed his death , were bought at an auction about a year ago , and were carefully washed with cinder dirt . The contents of several of them had been drunk already nnd there were still some left . A bottle having been given to a medical gentlemen to examine , he discovered a whitish setL' r « nt at the bottom of it , which , on analysing , ho found to contain three drachms of whito arsenic . Ho had no doubt that Lynn had died from their effect , but believed lie might have recovered had ho been ft man of sound health .. Tho bottle , probably , had originally contained a preparation of arsenic for sheep-dressing . An inquest was held , and the jury returned a verdict in accordance with tUe evidence .

    A case of experimental hanging in TTalf-Moon-street , Piccadilly , has terminated in tho death of tho young man who performed tho foolinh trick . lie was found one night dead in a loft , hanging by a line attached to tho skylight window . Ho had been seen alive and in good spirit ?) a quarter of an hour boforo . It appeared that ho was in the habit of hanging himself in sport , nnd at lengtn ho did so once too often . A iiowder-inilL nt Mareafield , ton mucn from Lcwep , was tho sceno of nn explosion on Friday week , when part of a wull was thrown down , and a workman , named Ellis waa killed . TIio other workmen wcro « t their breakfast nt tlio timo , and thus escaped without injury . A collision between a passenger train and some coal wnggems occurred on Tuesday on ttio Woolwich lin <

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    October 4 , 1856 , ] THE IEA ]) Il . 939

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1856, page 939, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2161/page/3/