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corpse is that of one of her sons . She speaks , however , only from a piece of the trousers , which -was cut out and brought to her ; while the relations of Gray derive their opinion from actual view of tie remains . An inquest was opened on the three bodies , and adjourned to the 30 th . The remains were buried on Sunday in the presence of a large crowd . On Monday , in consequence of the notices which had been issued , the men who volunteered to descend the mine and assist in . the search for the bodies assembled at the offices of the company , where their names were taken down . They were mostly experienced men . Some of them had come from "Wigan , in Lancashire ; others from Claycross and Alfreton , ia Derbyshire . They numbered more than one hundred . On commencing their search on Thursday , five more bodies were found .
the officers of the Health Committee of the town-council , was found , on being analyzed , to be thus constituted : — Butter , 47-4 ; salt ( chlo . sod . ) , 23-4 ; nitre (" nitrate potasse ) , 0 * 8 ; vegetable matter , derived from Irish moss or other seaweed ,-with water , 28-3 ; total , 99 . 9 . This " butter" ( so called ) is an . importation from America , and therefore the manufacturer will escape that punishment to which , were he an English subject , he would be liable . Major-General Mathias Everard , C . B . and K . H ., a gallant officer who served with great distinction in Spain and elsewhere during the last French war , died on Monday at Southsea .
partly dismasted her , and drove her back almost a ¦ wreck to Queenstown , Cork . The emigrants were dispersed , but subsequently reassembled , and again sailed about three weeks since , or less . The ship has been again dismasted , driven back to England , and run ashore ia bringing her in . The poor emigrants , above five hundred in number , are in the Government depot at Plymouth . " Mr . Charnpney 3 recommends the case to the consideration of the charitable and affluent .
Saxe of the Property of Leopold Hedpath . — The freehold , leasehold , and reversionary property of Leopold Redpath was offered to public auction by Mr . Marsh , in a very crowded room , on Tuesday . The freehold residence at "WeybrLdge , Surrey , fitted up and decorated at a great expense , with pleasure and kitchen gardens , stabling , &c , and purchased by Kedpath so recently as the spring of last year , sold for 2670 / . The leasehold residence , 49 , Gloucester-place , Portmansquare , held for an unexpired term , and let at a rental of 851 . per annum , sold for 800 ? . The reversion to a freehold house , Marsham-street , "Westminster , on the death of a lady and gentleman , aged , respectively seventy-five and eighty-one , of the yearly value of 427 ., sold at 3507 . A similar reversion to a house , Richmondbuildings , Soho , let at a rental of 54 Z . per" annum , sold at 560 / .
A Fortnight Without Food . —A man was found last Saturday night lying on the ground in Stockton ' s Wood , near Speke Hall , in the neighbourhood of Liverpool . He was in a state of great exhaustion , and , on his being removed to a house , he was attended by a surgeon , who found it necessary to cut off his hoots , as his feet were swollen and gangrenous . He was then taken to the infirmary . From documents found on him , and from his own statements , it appeared that he is a native of one of the Bermuda Islands ; that he is a captain , and had
brought a ship to England , but that , some one having detained hi 3 certificate , h e was reduced to great distress ; that , being unable to pay his rent , he . left the town , wandered about , and at length lay down in the wood ; and that he had been there a fortnight and two days , occasionally eating a little grass , and drinking some water from a brook which ran close by . A day or two before he was found he had written with pencil on a scrap of paper some lines to his friends in ; Bermuda . It is thought he will recover .
Illness op the Bishop op Exeter . —The triennial visitation of the Uishop -was to take place at Exeter on Monday ; but his lordship was unable to attend , owing to illness . It is hoped , however , that he will speedily recover . The Princes of Oude have been at Manchester , visiting the chief objects and places of interest . Tkstimonial to Mil . Masterman . —Several City gentlemen are taking steps to raise a subscription for presenting some testimonial to Mr . Masterman , one of the late members for London . Mothers of Illegitimate Children . —28 CO mothers of illegitimate children were relieved as out-door panpers on the 1 st of last January . Xori > Harry Vane and Mr . Henry Pease , the two Liberal members for South Durham , were entertained at dinner on Monday by a party of their political friends .
Signor Bazzini . —Letters from Germany and Italy speak very highly of the eminent violinist Bazzini , who is coming to England for the approaching season . Signor Bazzini was the j > rominent artist in the concerts given by the Emperor of Austria at Venice , Milan , and Trieste , during his stay in Italy . Signor Bazzini comes over to England with the new pieces—Les Abeilfos , La Calalraise , Un Conte Arabe , &c , whicli , we are told , had the greatest success among the fashionable and musical world of Italy and Germany . Tiik Falkirk Election : —A protest having been lodged by Mr . Baird ' s agent against Mr . Merry ' s election on account of alleged bribery , the electors of Hamilton have got up a counter petition , praying for an investigation on the ground that tliey were subjected to intimidation , &c ., by the commissioner of the Duke of Hamilton , in favour of Mr . Bainl . A very large number of signatures has been appended .
A London Antiquity . — l $ y the removal of a house in Great St . Helen's , the south transept of tho ancient conventual church of St . Helen ' s , IHsliopsgntc , is now visible ; but it is probnble that it will again bo covered up by a now house . The Buihlirv ) Nauru puts in a plea for preserving it as it is , and nlso for rescuing Crosby Hall from its threatened destruction . Elv : ction . s to Convocation . —Tha Rov . Michael Gibbs and tho ltev . Dr . M'Cmd have been elected to represent the Archdeaconry of London in tho Canterbury Convocation . — Canon Hay and Canon Sale have been returned as proctors to represent tho benefited clurgy in tlie York Convocation . Nil . Layauij has issued a farewell n ; l < lrcss to his late constituents at \ ylesbi \ rv .
-An Appeal fok Charity . —Tho Rev . TV . "Weldon Chmnpncya writes to tho Times ; — . " One of my coininunlcants sailed about eight or nino weeks since an matron of the emigrant ship Boanerges . Tho ship , on Hearing tliQ Bay of Biscay was caught in a severe storm , which
Self-Poisoning . —Mr . James Thompson , a young man of thirty , living at Manchester , has killed himself by drinking a glass of ammonia . He had been in a desponding state for two years previous to his death , and , finding some ammonia in the house , lie said that was tlie very thing to cure him . He was prevented on one occasion drinking a glass of it ; but he afterwards got hold of the bottle , drank a large draught , and expired . The coroner ' s jury returned a verdict to the effect that he had drunk the poison under a singular belief that it would do Mm good . The probability seems to be , that it was a case of suicide . —An old woman at Gateshead has died from the effects of a pennyworth of paregoric ( a quarter of an ounce ) , taken to allay a chronic cough . The same amount would not have killed a younger person ; but the woman in question was very feeble from advanced years . A verdict was given in accordance with , the facts .
A Jew Churchwarden . — -Mr . Jonas Jacobs , a Jew , has been elected churchwarden for the parish of St . James ' s , Aldgate . For the last two years he has been junior churchwarden . Mr . Goitgh on the Failure of the Maime-Law . — The Weekly Record , the organ of the National Temperance League , gives an extract from a letter written by Mr . Gough , the well-known temperance orator in America . The letter is dated the 23 rd nit . " The
cause in this country , " writes Mr . Gough , "is in a depressed state ; the Maine-law is a dead letter everywherej—ndpre liquor sold than I ever knew before in Massachusetts , and in other states it is about as bad . " The Hon . N " eil Dow , the Originator of the Maine Liquor Law arrived in liverpool on Monday from America . He has been invited by the United Kingdom Temperance Alliance to make a tour through this country for the advocacy cf his opinions . While at Liverpool , he denied the correctness of the statement by Mr . Gough quoted
above . A Parish Feud at Radcliff . —Considerable excitement and angry feeling have prevailed in the hamlet of Radcliff on , account of a contest that has been going on between the ratepayers of the vestry . The former maintained that they have a right to vote at the election of a churchwarden and twelve trustees for the parish under the local act of 1810 . A majority of the vestry denied this , asserting that the old act has been overruled by Sir Benjamin Hall ' s act . The ratepayers forced tlieir way into the vestry room on Easter Monday , broke the balloting-box , and prevented any business being done that day . Several meetings of the ratepayers took place during the week , and last Monday they elected four gentlemen as guardians of the poor , and others as churchwarden and trustees .
Address to Lord John Russell . —The Town Council of Southmolton , Devonshire , has presented an address , expressive of their great esteem , to Lord John Russell , -while he was staying at the seat of Earl Fortescue , at Castle Hill . In his reply , his lordship , after glancing- over the progress of Liberal legislation £ or tho last thirty years , and showing that , contrary to the Conservative prophecies , the country has increased in prosperity and loyaltyin consequence , proceeds : —" May we not hope , then , gentlemen , that by following- tho same policy , by nniting progress with order and
improvement with wisdom , -we may attain still further and greater benefits ? * The opinion of the good , saya Milton , ' is knowledge in the making . ' By consulting the opinion of the good and the enlightened , the House of Commons recently elected " may find means to promote education , to extend political franchises , to enlarge the boundaries of religious freedom by removing some remainiii " disabilities , and to relieve tho people of some of their vexatious burdens . I shall have every reason to bo grateful and contented if I am xiermitted by my votes in Parliament to contribute to such happy results . " The
Siege or Sebastopol . —A correspondent of the Globe contradicts tho story that General Todlcbcn recently told the French Emperor that we might havo taken Scbastopo ] with tho greatest ease had wo marched on it directly after tho battle of tho Alma . Tho writer saya there were insuperable difficulties in tho way of auch a result . Street PwcApuEns . —Two street preachers at Liverpool wctg arrpatcd Inat Sunday night for obstructing the public way , but wore discharged tho next morning by the magistrate , who said they were not to be molested in future . Tins Butter , wb Eat . —A quantity of butter , seized at the shop of a . dealer in Liverpool a ' few days ago by
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THE DANISH MINISTRY . The Cabinet ( says a despatch from Copenhagen ) is being reconstituted slowly . The cause is the difficulty of bestowing the portfolio of Foreign Affairs and that of Holstein , left vacant by the retirement of M . Scheele . M . Andrae , Minister of Finance , will carry off the Presidency of the Council ever M . Hall , Minister of Public Worship . Still , with the exception of M . Scheele , the retention of the former Cabinet is no longer doubtful .
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The SrEAK . EB . ~ We have reason to believe that , on the meeting of Parliament on Thursday next , the motion that Mr . Evelyn Denison be the new Speaker will be moved by Lord Harry Vane and seconded "by Mr . Thornl ey .- — Globes Another Great Pike at Liverpooi .. —A fire was discovered in a warehouse in Sparling-street yesterday morning . The building is seven stories high , and the fire broke out on the fifth floor , used as a cotton store . Upwards of 2500 bales of that material worth 131 per bale , must have been destroyed . Malcolmson and Co . are the owners , but the property is fully insured . The fire is still raging at noon , and considerable apprehension was felt for the lower part of the building , which is stocked with wine and rum .
Ireland . —The Lord-Lieutenant has commuted the sentence of death passed on Norris and Power , who were to have been hanged next Monday for the Spike Island murder . —The annual show of the Royal Dublin Society was held on Wednesday , but , owing to the unfavourable state of the weather , the attendance of visitors was very meagre . Lord Carlisle and the Viceregal suite arrived at three o ' clock , and stayed in the yard for two hours . Tub Case of the Murderer Mansell . —The prisoner IMansell , now lying under sentence of death for the
murder of a comrade in the 49 th Regiment , was brought up yesterday by a writ of habeas corpus from Maidstone Gaol , for the purpose of assigning error in the Court of Queen's Bench upon the record of his conviction—his execution being respited till the 5 th of May . Tho legal forms being gone through , Lord Campbell appointed next Saturday , the 2 nd of May , for hearing the arguments . In the meanwhile , Mansell will be confined in Newgate . The alleged " error , " it will be recollected , turns upon the formation of the jury whicli tried the murderer . . .
GlCOIJfiE CUUIKSHA-NK AND A BlJRBLK COMPANY . An action was brought in the Court of Common Pleas yesterday , by a man named Coclcsbaw , a stationer and printer in Iloraeshoe-court , Ludgate-hill , against George Cruikshank , tlie artist , to recover the sum of 501 . 9 s . 6 d ., the price of goods supplied to a life and fire insurance company for the working . classes , of which Mr . Cruikahanlc had been director . In tlie course of his evidence , Mr . Cruikslmnk said the company was a fraudulent affair , started by one IIowcll . 1 I < j himself had been duped for a time , but be soon found out the sham , and denounced It to the public in a pamphlet . —After the case had gone on , it was decided by private arrangement . Mr . Justice Williams paid Mr . Cruikahiuik u high compliment as « friend of the working classes .
NoIIbkorm !—The Liberal representatives of the citj and county of Hertford , Sir Henry Gecrs Cottercll , Bart . Lieutenant-Colonel Clifford , and George Clivc , Esq . were invited to a grand banquet in the Shire-hall or Thursday . The Itight Hon . tho Chancellor of tho Ex chequer presided , and , in uddreasing tho company , sail that Government " would seek to introduce all prnctico ameliorations in our domestic institutions , without die turbing the fouudntions of our national prosperity . II meant to say , that , eschewing orr / unio changes , tho Go vernment of Lord Pnlinerston would endeavour to met tho necessities of existing circumstances , without dh turbing tho fundamental principles of order and society . That in to say , no PVirliunientiiry Reform , after all ! Crystal 1 ' alack . —Rotum of admissions for s »> day a ending Friday , April 21 , 1857 , including soasoi ticket holders , 19 . 106 .
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Leader Office , Saturday , April 25 th . FHANCE , ( By Elective Telegraph . ' ) Paris , April 24 th . Prince Danilo , of Montenegro , has just left for Vienna . The journal Le Pays asserts that the British forces ¦ will commence their operations against China by the capture of the Island of Formosa .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page 393, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2190/page/9/
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