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up for lost . They had their lamps with , them ; bat in about an hour they burnt oat for want of oil , and the prisoners were left in total darkness . The sound of the labourers working for their release appeared at times very near , but at other times several fathoms distant ; The men slept at intervals with the lad lying between them , to keep him warm , and he , poor fellow , would talk of his mother , and say how happy she would be to see him . come up . One of the engines was kept constantly working , to prevent the flooding of the pit . On the labourers getting near enough , a medical gentleman who was present handed in to the prisoners a piece of cake and a quantity of diluted brandy-and-wateT ; but the poor boy was greatly surprised at the size of the cake , and asked if that was all for the three . When at length rescued , all were in a very exhausted state ; but they are recovering .
A young gentleman , named Bayley , son of Mr . W . R . Bayley , of Cotford House , near Sidmouth , was found dead in his bedroom on Tuesday morning , while on a visit to his brother , an undergraduate of Qriel College . He had apparently fallen out of bed ; but the death is attributable to apoplexy . The coroner ' s jury has returned a verdict io tbat effect . Two goods trains going at a moderate speed came into collision on Wednesday evening on the Manchester and Sheffield Railway , between Kiveton Park and Wbodhouse , causing damage to the amount of about 100 / . The down-line was blocked up in consequence ,
and , to ensure th « safety of passenger traffic , all the stations to the east and west were warned by telegraph of the occurrence . The guard of the express train from King ' s-cross to Manchester , leaving London at five p . m .., accordingly received the information at Newark , nearly forty miles from the spot . This train was therefore stopped at Kiveton Park , transferred to the up-line , and piloted as far as Woodhouse , the detention being only about ten minutes . All the trains-were dealt with in the same way , the road between these two stations being tbAt 3 -worked as a single line until the obstruction was removed .
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STATE OF TRADE . The disturbed state of the political world during the week , ending last Saturday had a bad effect on business ; and the improvement which has recently been noted has not / been generally sustained . Dulness is again complained of at Manchester , Nottingham , Leeds , Huddersfield , and Dublin ; but , at other localities , the signs are more hopeful . The reports from the iron districts of South Staffordshire continue favourable ; but inactivity is still prevalent in some of the districts , in consequence of which several thousand men are either destitute or only partially employed . The inhabitants of
Birmingham are looking forward with great pleasure to her Majesty ' s approaching visit to their town , which is fixed to take place on the 15 th . of next month , and which will of course give a great stimulus to trade . A little more haa been done in the hosiery trade of Leicester , and there is rather more activity in the -wool market . Bradford , is recovering from the late stagnation in all the branches of its trade , and animation has been felt in the business circles of Halifax , and Sheffield . A shade of improvement is reported in the iron trade of the Wolvcrhampton district ; and the boot and shoe trade of Norwich has been increased by severjil large orders , especially from Australia .
In the general business of the Port of London during the week ending last Saturday , there has been considerable activity . . The number of ships reported inward was 33 7 , including 78 with cargoes of corn , flour , rice , &c , 47 with sugar , and 3 from China , with 37 , 883 packages of tea and 639 packages of silk . The number of vessels cleared outward was 149 , including 22 in ballast ; and those on the berth loading for the Australian colonies amount to 73 . The Board of Trade returns for the past month ( April ) were issued on Wednesday morning . They show still a considerable falling off in the declared value of our exportations , but it is of much less extent than was presented during each of the three preceding months of the present year , the average on those occasions having been 1 , 772 , 401 / ., while the reduction now is
only 534 , 411 ( As compared with the same month of 1856 , there is an increase of 26 , 607 J . Owing to the Eastern demand , the shipments of cotton goods show an augmentation of 827 , 0672 . The chief items on the unfavourable side are iron and steel , the orders for America and the colonies being still small . Silk and woollen goods HkewiBO continue to show a decrease . On the whole , however , the return must bo considered to furn iah some signs of a tendency to revival in moat departments of trade . " With regard to imported commodities , the arrivals of wheat and flour have again been lnrgo ; but those of otlicr kinds of grain ngain show a great reduction . In all other articles of food and luxury , except tobacco and fruits , the quantities taken into use at length exhibit a falling off , but not more than proportionate with tho decline in our exports . — -Timea .
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IRELAND . This Murder of M « . Elms .. —One of the informers , named Burke , has been arrested for perjury , and underwont an examination at the head police-office , Dublin , on Friday-week . It wne not stated whether the perjury is
in connexion with his evidence against the Cormacks , who died asseverating their innocence ; and lie has since been discharged . The Limkrick Election . —Mr . Ball having retired from the contest , Mr . Spaight was on Friday week elected without further opposition . The Weather . —Since the memorable storm , or typhoon rather , of April , 1850 , Dublin has not been visited by weather of such ; peculiar severity as was witnessed on Sunday . For nearly four hours the rain fell with but slight interruptions as though a waterspout had burst overhead , the intervals being filled up by the descent of hail showers , which from their density almost darkened the air . Some of the hailstones -were
the size of small marbles , and dul considerable damage in the smashing of windows in places exposed to the full fury of the storm . The wind all the while blew wildly from the north-west , and it is feared that the fruitblossoms have suffered to a terrible extent . No thunder was heard ( luring the day . —Times . MuitDKie ln Tipperaky . —A farmer has been murdered in a field near Tipperary , and close to his own house . The body presented evidences of a severe struggle , and the face was shockingly mangled . The police are looking after the murderer . Mb . Jon * r O'Co ^ nkix , the favourite son of " Liberator , " has just died of bronchitis . By this event , the Clerkship of Hanaper , of the value of 800 / . per annum , is left at the disposal of Government .
Tbinity College , Dublin . — -The visitation appointed to be held in Trinity College to hear the appeal of Dr . Shaw and Dr . Carm ' ichael , two of the fellows , ¦ who had been censured , or admonished , by the Board , for having ' written a letter to a newspaper , was opened on Monday , by the Archbishop of Dublin and the Vice-Chancellor of Ireland . The letter in question was one addressed by Dr . Shaw to the Dublin Daily Express i on the 27 th March last , with reference to some remarks made by . Mr . Stephens , in his letter to Sir George Grey upon the- ' report of the Endowed , School Commissioners issued on 1 st of February . Dr . Shaw observed that the suggestions of Mr . Stephens for the improved administration of endowed schools were applicable also to other educational institutions , and he went on to make some severe remarks on the college . The case , after spreading over two or three days , has been adjourned to next Tuesday .
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AMERICA . Somk prospect of a rupture between the United States and Paraguay seems to be opened by the last advices from America . The Senate at Washington has adopted a joint resolution authorizing the President to take such measures and use such force as he may deem necessary if the Government of Paraguay decline to give just satisfaction for the attack on the United States steamer Waterwitch and other matters . It has also received a report stating tbat the Judiciary Committee cannot
agree upon the terms of a general bankruptcy law . The sudden death of Senator Evans , of South Carolina , was afterwards announced , and an adjournment immediately took place . The Houae of Representatives also adjourned for the same reason . It had previously , upon the question of engrossing the preamble of the resolution recommending the abrogation of the Claj'ton-B ^ ulwer Treaty , rejected it by a majority of 32 . The bill admitting Minnesota into the Uuion has been carried by a large majority .
Iho Senate lias confirmed James M . Buchanan , of Maryland , as Minister Resident at Denmark , in place of Mr . Betlinger ; and Colonel S . 1 ? . Morgan as Minister Resident at Portugal , in place of John M . O'Sullivan . A frightful accident has occurred on the Centrul Railroad by the crushing of a bridge near Sanguoit Creek , threo miles and a half west of Utica , near Whitesborough . Seven or eight persons were killed and more than forty injured . The bridge was in a very rotten
. The schooner Mobile , from Mobile , has reported at New York that the British man-of-war Styx had fired into her off Key West , and had sent a boat ' s crow on board . There has been considerable excitement at Havaiinah , in consequence of the insults offered to , and the detention of , Amorican vessels by English cruisers ; and Home of the American captains in port are said to have determined to resist any attempt to board and search them .
lhe expedition against the Mormons scorns to have como to a standstill . The troops were in good health at the last accounts ; but provisions " \\ ere acarce , n good deal of sno , v lmd fallen on the mountains , the -weuthor nnd roads were unfavourable for advancing or for the arrival of reinforcement ? , mid the Mormons woro preparing to harass their enemies . A collision Iuih occurred in tliu Littlo Onage country , ending in a aoldiur being killed mid ono of the officers wounded . Tlio spocdy downfal of tho Zuloaga Government of Mexico is considered likely . Vidnurri ' a forco has won a very hardly-fought battle , and Zulonga is reported to bo distressed for want of monoy . Suaroz , tho constitutional President , haa boon warmly wolcomod at Vora Cruz . Tujnpico , at tho last advices , was still bosieged by General Gurza , with 170 O mon , anil defended by about GOO troops , in bettor condition than Garza ' a . Tho Freo-Stato Convention to nominate State ofticera , inot at Tonoka . Kaiiana , on tho 28 th instant . II . J .
Adams was nominated for Governor , Colonel Hoii ^ . day for Lieutenant-Governor , and M . E . Conway fo Congress . In Boone county , Kentucky , a young man named Hardisty has been tried and acquitted for having killed a man named Grabb , who had seduced his sister . XJnnn acquitting him , the Judge congratulated the prisoner and stated that , had he been wronged in the same manner , he would hav ;> done the same thing . The Stonesilule Democrat , 'published in Wayne county Pennsylvania , chronicles the death of a revolutionary heroine , named Mrs . Sarali Benjamin , at the a ^ c of one hundred and fourteen years five months and " three days .
In the Circuit Court , Sussex county , United States the victim of a rape , on presenting herself to give evidence , was objected to on the ground that she was not sufficiently white to entitle her to such a privilege Two physicians and an expert were called upon to decide the question ; but the former were unable to come to a conclusion . The latter , however , decided thai she was at least one-fourth coloured , and the Court thereupon rejected her as an incompetent witness . The state of the Aveather has increased the duliiess of the New York money market . The condition of affairs in the new territory of Arizona is represented as deplorable . A memorial from the citizens of Santa Cruz Valley urgently prays Congress for relief , and confirms the great value of " the late silver discoveries in the interior of the territory .
Armed men are being regularly drilled at York-town , Texas , preparatory to an irruption into Northern Mexico . The overflow of the Mississippi still continues , and the cotton , sugar , and fruit crops are immensely damaged . Serious charges of fraud and embezzlement have been preferred against three of the directors of the Chicago , Alton , and St . Louis Railroad . One of the parties , named Henry Dwight , has been arrested . Six warrants have been issued against him , in which , he is charged with the fraudulent issue of coupons and canal bonds ,. &c . The New York Herald says it is the most enormous and startling charge of fraud yet brought to light in America .
The American Tract Society—the richest of the religious associations—is engaged in a fierce internecine war . The Southern members wish the tracts to be so treated as to omit ' all reference to slavery ; the Northern men are determined to preach against the sin of buying and selling black men as much as they please . Similar splits have already occurred among ' the Baptists , the Presbyterians , and the Methodists . An incident related with great coolness in the New York Times shows tlw disorderly condition of what is virtually the capital of the United States . Richard Harry , " proprietor of the liquor saloon , No . -IS , Pearlstreet , and member of the Board of Education , " had been
m company one evening with a girl belonging to " the house of ill repute . No . 15 , Howard-street ; " and , fancying that she had robbed him of twenty dollars , he at first endeavoured to recover the money from "Wolfe , the proprietor of the house , " by mild measures . " But , oh finding these fail , he summoned to his aid " a gang of Sixth Ward rowdies , " , at a late hour of the night , commenced a savage attack on Wolfe , whose head w * i 3 ultimately " pounded almost to a jelly , ' while a great pool of blood covered the floor . Thepolieo were called in , and arrested Barry and one Patrick Burke . " the balance of party escaping . " The recovery of the victim is considered doubtful . The yellow fever still rages very fearfully among the shipping at Rio ; but it is on the decrease . Several of the merchant vessels there have been completely denuded of their officers and crews by its violence .
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CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow ami unchristian feeliiit ; 13 Lo be condemned which regards with jealousv the progress of foreiga nations , and cares for no ' portion ot the human race but that to which itscli' belongs . })} l . j \ BN 01 P . I--RANC 1 J . Tun editor of the Fujaro has addressed a letter to tho editor of tlw Nord touching the late lamentable duel which rosultcdsoseriously to M . dc Pino , who wna a writer in both the papers . M . do Villemessanr , editor of the Figaro , had had an interview with the Minister of Justice ; and in the letter to the Nord hu states that he did not ask for tho interview to lodge a complaint with veapect to tho duel , " because mngiatratuH in France an ; aware of the duties they have to fulfil without need of admonition . " Ho " never for a moment doubted that full justice would be rendered ; ' * but , having liuard thnt several gentlemen had " emulated each other in oll « ra to ftvengo their lost comrade , " and that another duel wan to take pluco between M . do Ponimercux ami 11 . < 1 « Gnllifet , ho thought it his duty to call on tin- ' Minister of Justice to assure him that he would < lo evorytbing in bin power to prevent further IjIooiIhIiciI . Some of the officers of tho army , it appear * , have condemned the conduct of the homicidal duellist . "An imposing spectuclo , " says the Daily Nvws , " vns witnessed lust Saturday at tho office of tho Jiulustrichfl St . ( iormiun . Forty-two oflicora of tho French army mnrched to tho olllce , in full uniform , and presented to
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1858, page 508, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2244/page/4/
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