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daring the past session . Mr . Williams , on entering the hall , accompanied by many of bis leading supporters , tras received with loud cheering . He addressed the audience in a long speech , in which he reviewed the various rotes lie had given , and spoke in favour of retrenchment . A resolution was thon- carried , expressing the satisfaction , of the meeting with Mr . Williams ' s public conduct . Mr . H . J . Slack afterwards moved , and Mr . G . Hill seconded , a resolution declaring that the expenditure of the country is wasteful and extravagant ; and that if the Government could be forced by the pressure of public opinion to keep its accounts in an honest ,
intelligible manner , and cause them to be efficiently audited , a saving of many millions a year could be effected , and the income-tax might be entirely removed or very greatly diminished . The resolution -was agreed to . On the motion of Mr . Green , a resolution was adopted expressing the oj > inion of the electors of Lamoeth ; " that the ensuing session of Parliament will be a favourable time for the Ministers to introduce a bill for extending the elective franchise and the takiiig of votes by ballot , as "well as for a general revision of the taxation of the country . and an amendment of tie existing commercial laws , which protect the criminal while they punish his victims . "
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ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS . One of the persons injured by the accident at the Denton station of the London and North Western Railway , the particulars of which we gave last week , has died . Esther Farrington , a girl of thirteen , is the sufferer ; and an inquest lias been held upon her body . William Henry Tyther , aged seventeen , the porter , said it was his duty to turn ou tlie distance signal indicating danger , but he did not , being hurried by having a crate to carry to the train and two passengers to assist . Benjamin Woraley , driver of " the first of the two engines , said , owing to the fog , he could not see the station signal till ¦ within sixty yards , when he reduced speed all he could by reversing the engine and putting on the break . When approaching the station , they were going at the rate of eight or ten miles per hour . The jury found a verdict Of . '" Accidental death , " but were of opinion that the company ' s staff at the Den ton station was insufficient for the traffic , and that , in consequence , the distance signal was not properly attended to on the occasion of the accident .
^ Wilford Roger Newcome , a young man apprenticed to his brother , a chemist at Grantham , has perished miserably in the ice on a large pond on which he was skating . The ice broke , and Xewcome fell in . After making several vain attempts to get out , he stood with his feet en the 'bottom and his head above the water for threequarters of an hour , while his companions , n fellow apprentice and a friend , made ineffectual -endeavours , to release him , and then went a distance of ix mile to get some ropes . A mounted groom was sent with them , and , as he approached , he hoard the poor fellow say , •' Oh , make 3 iaste ! " Great difficulty was experienced in passing the ropes to him , and when at length they reached him , he could not grasp them , but only caught hold of one with his teeth . The groom , advanced another step to try to throw the ropes over and entangle him for the purpose of drawing him out ; but at that moment the poor fellow sank from exhaustion .
An event , of a somewhat singular and alarming nature , unatteiuled , however , with any very serious result , occurred recently at Brussels , through the mischievous freak of sonic evil-minded person . An English equestrian company had just arrived iu that city , and were exhibiting their performances one evening in the circus which they had pitched on the Grande Place . The circus "was protected from the open air only by a large tarpaulin covering , attached by cords to the building ; and while the horsemanship was going forward inside , this was suddenly observed to collapse , and directly after-Wards it fell ilat upon the whole company , burying performers and audience ( amounting together to nearly three thousand persons ) , in one dense mass . Much
confusion and terror ensued , but owing to the prompt exertions of some soldiers stationed in the building , who immediately drew their swords and commenced hacking the canvas , aided by several others -who likewise cut it with their knives , the tent was completely destroyed , and the people were thus saved from suffocation . 2 STo one was severely injured . It was afterwards discovered that the exterior cords had been cut from the poles , Which caused the catastrophe . The inquest on the bodies of Uio men killed by the explosion on board tlio steamer Parana was concluded on Priday week at Southampton . The verdict was very
elaborate , hut the substance was , that the deceased met their deaths by tho accidental bursting of the starboard forward boiler , during the trial of nn experiment nu to tho superfluous heat in tho up-tnko ; that , by a great amount of caution , tho accident , might lmvo boon prevented ; that tho . evidence proved Unit one snfoty valve applied to one boiler is not a suHicicnt protection to life and property ; that it is questionable- vhethor wilory valves are constructed on . sound and etluct ivu priuoiplofl ; that tho safety valve of tho boiler which caused the accident was innullicient in dimensions , and defective in principle ; nnd , lnHtly , tho jury declare their conviction that tho Itoyftl Wail Company nnd their ofliuers
exhibited great anxiety to obtain perfection in their machinery and to guard against accidents , in haying their boilers and engines in good order . A woman has been killed at Liverpool by a shop shutter being blown against her . A child which she was carrying in her arms was not hurt . A very melancholy accident occurred on the 3 rd inst . at Broseley , in Shropshire . Four collier boys , James Pope , aged sixteen , John Taylor , fifteen , John Yate , fourteen , and Charles Simrnonds , thirteen , having come , as usual , after dinner , to their work , arranged themselves over the pit ' s mouth to make the descent of a shaft between two hundred and thirty and two hundred and forty feet deep . No sooner was the platform withdrawn than
the machinery gave way , and the poor lads were precipitated from the top to the bottom . After a time , some of the men went down , and found that two of the boys were dead and two living . The litter were drawn up , and received with shouts of congratulation . They both died , however , in the course of a few : hours . They were perfectly free from , pain , and able to converse with their friends , and take gruel and tea with a relish . In answer to a question as to what was the sensation experienced in falling , one of them said he felt as if he was flying . They were all buried in the same grave on Sunday afternoonlast , -when the majority of a population of nearly 5000 persons was collected in the church and churchyard . . ' ¦ . ¦'¦ ¦' ¦¦ ' ; ¦ ¦ ¦¦; . . . ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦•
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A ' GOOD SAMARITAN' INSTITUTION . There is an institution in West-street , Smithfield , called ' The Samaritan , ' which professes to relieve the destitute poor and to reclaim abandoned characters . A few days ago , a Mr . Potter waited on the Alderman at Guildhall , and stated that he believed no one was ever relieved there , and that the whole thing was an imposition . On Monday , Mr . Barber , the secretary , and Mr . Horsley , the solicitor of the association , appeared before Sir R ; W . Carden , and indignantly denied these charges , asserting that the institution does great good , and adding that Sir Fitzroy Kelly is a warm supporter of it . It appeared that Mr . Barber , who describes himself as a merchant , rents the premises , and carries on his business in
part of them , sub-letting the other part to the institution at 100 / . a year , and also nominally receiving a second hundred pounds annually for his secretaryship , though for the last two years he has not had any part of that salary . Aldernia ' n . Carden , having asked several questions , elicited the fact that the institution , though putting forward the Lord Mayor as President , had no authority from his Lordship for doing so ; and the Alderman added that he knew that the present Lord Mayor had absolutely refused to give the sanction of his name , for what were doubtless good reasons . Mr . Barber attempted to justify himself by saying that the preceding Lord Mayor had been president , and that he had reason to believe the present Lord Maj-or would be : but the Alderman refused
to listen to this . In the course of his statements , Mr . Horsley , the solicitor , made some insinuations against Mr . Phillips , the master of the West London Union , hinting that he had caused a rev . gentleman connected with the Samaritan Institution to resign . To this Mr . Phillips retorted : — " Really , Mr . Horsley , if you persist in that statement , I shall be obliged to reply to it , that the Rev . Mr . Knott left the institution because his name was attached to accounts he never audited , and that there was no undue influence exercised over him in any way . " Mr . Barber : " The Rev . Mr . Knott never was an
auditor ; he was only a member of tho Finance Committee . " Mr . Potter : " Since my former statement , Mr . Barber called on me , and said that , as I had done all I could to shut up his shop , he would do all he could to shut up »«¦«(? . " Mr . Barber : " What I said was this , that you had done all you could to close the institution , and that I would be the means of closing your shop , as I intend bringing an action against you in one of the superior courts . " Two witnesses were then brought forward by Mr . Potter in support of his statement . These were a police inspector who lives opposite and the coustable on the beat . The inspector said : —
" I have lived opposite from the commencement of the institution to the present time , and it is the general opinion of the neighbourhood that it is worse than usoless . ' The greater number of persons who apply there daily go awny without relief , and many who have been relieved , have been fed with food , which I have tasted , that is not fit to feed pigs with . I have remarked that shortly before Christmas in every j'ear there has been great activity evinced in the institution , and immediately
after Christmas such activity bus entirely ceased , and I have drawn my own conclusions from it accordingly . I have had charges at tho station-house against persons connected with that institution , arising out of disagreement among Us promoters . On one occasion , Mr . Cochrauc charged Mr . Barber with an offence that I am not prepared now to mention . The successors charged their predecessors with secreting the goods snpplicd by the butcher and linker in other parts of the building than those in which tliev should have been found . The class of
persons contributing there arc n disgrace to the persons causing them to come tliero , nnd when they got relief , they do not consider it : worth tlieir ( leoc'iiduitie . " The constable ' s statement wan an follows : — "I am the constable , on that , boat , and have frequently observed that there is a certain set of characters who infest the
entrance to the institution , and when the destitute poor apply for relief they are driven away by the regular frequenters . I have had as many as thirty cards at one time delivered tome by strangers from the country , who had received cards from subscribers , and been driven away from the door , on applying for relief , by these characters . " After some further wrangling , chiefly between Mr Barber and Mr . Phillips , of the West London Union , the former asked . the Alderman if lie would come and •\ 1 sit the institution , to which Sir R . W . Carden replied , amidst considerable laughter , " Not after the description of the company that already visits you . " Mr . Barber then , left , uttering threats of vengeance against Mr . Potter , to be wreaked "in a higher court . "
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IRELAND . Tide Murder of Mr . Little . —A man named Robinson , who was for a time detained as a witness for the Crown , in connexion with the railway murder , has been handed over to his friends , the police having ascertained that he has been noted , for some time past , for being subject to a species of religious frenzy . A person coming from Dublin has been detained for a few hours at Cork in consequence of his conversing at the Victoria Hotel in a manner which seemed to indicate that he had some guilty knowledge of the commission of the murder . Two magistrates accordingly met at the hotel , and examined the man , whose answers appeared to be satisfactory . Nevertheless , the police at Dublin were telegraphed to , and they replied that they had no charge against him . He was therefore released . -
Murder and Robbery . —William Quip , a Kilkenny fanner , has been murdered on his way home from the Waterford fair . The men who attacked him carried off from his person a bank receipt for 76 / . lls . Cd . ( the proceeds of some stock which he had . sold at the fair , subsequently depositing the money at the bank ); they also robbed him of three shillings in . silver which he had about him . The poor man lingered for some hours , and then died from , the effects of the beating he had received . The offenders are not in custody . Death of a Ro 3 ean Catholic Bishop . —The Bight Rev . Bishop Murphy , of Cloyne ( consecrated in September , 1849 , and known as a warm supporter of education , while never taking much . paxt in political affairs )' , died oh the evening of Thursday week at Termoy .
Legal Appointment .- —The Hon . John Plunket ( a younger son . of the late ' celebrated . statesman and lawyer ) has resigned the lucrative post of Crown , prosecutor at the commissions and quarter sessions for the city and county of Dublin . His successor is stated to bejfclr . Thomas O'Donohoue . Tub Education ; Question . —Dr . Cullen ' s aimiial pastoral was read last Sunday from all the Roman Catholic altars in the diocese of Dubliu , and has since been printed and distributed . It is of very great length , and contaius an attack on the Colleges vvhere Protestants and Papists are taught together . " Censural by the Holy See , " writes Dr . Cullen , " and repudiated by the Irish hierarchy , the Queen ' s colleges will never take
deep root nor permanently flourish in this Catholic country . Founded on the principle of indifferentism to religion , and placing religious doctrines , true and false , on the same footing of equality , they will never gain the confideuce of the-people of Ireland , wlo believe that there is but one faith , as there is but ono baptism and one God . " The doctor goes on to denounce Professor Vcricour's " Historical Analysis of Christian Civilization , " which has been placed on the Index Expurgatorious by the Pope . He also accuses the Government of favouring Protestantism at the expense of Roman Catholicism ; but he admits that the common National Schools have been fairly conducted , the different sects
being kept apart . He points to what lie describes as the unhappy effects of secular education in Belgiuminfidelity and immorality . " We think , " proceeds Dr . Cullen , " that the Catholics of Ireland have a full claim to expect a share in every public grant in proportion to their numbers and their wants , and we should ncvei renounce so important a right . But , at the same time , it is our duty to insist on having our claims recognized without any interference with our religion . From mixed education we can expect nothing but evil—wo should not acquiesce in it or encourage it . It is highly dangerous to give over the instruction of Catholic children to a Protestant Government ; we are bound to oppose encroachments on this head . "
A Piuustly Llkel . —A jury in tho Court of Queen ' s Bench , Irelaud , have given 850 ? . damages to & Mr . O'Sullivan , a Roman Catholic magistrate residing neai Athlonc , on account of a libel upon him by Mr . O'Reilly , t priest , who had made assertions damaging to his moral character , Tho action had been tried before , when thi j ury could not agree . On the present occasion , the defendant's counsel have reserved several points , which wil bo discussed in a superior court . Git hat Stoum . —A tremendous storm , of wind swep over Dublin and other parts of Ireland oa Tuesday . TlIK HjSWCASTLK AND TirPEUARY BANKS . 111 til
Court of Queen m I tench , on Wednesday , tho oaso o ¦ Walker v . M'Dowell was proceeded with . It was ni action instituted by the plaintiff , as public oflicer of th Newcastle Commercial Bank , to recover from the . de fondant , as official manager of tho Tipp « niry Batik , th
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December 13 , 1856 . ] THE LEA DE B . 1179
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1856, page 1179, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2171/page/3/
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