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partments by longitudinal and athwart-ship bulkheads , which axe so placed as to add greatly to her strength and safety in case of accident . A steam , yacht of one hundred and thirty to one hundred and forty tons is being built by Mr . Laird of the same material .
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MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —Prince Albertand suite landed at the dockyard , from Osborne , shortly after six on Thursday even ing , and proceeded to Dover en route for the Continent . He was accompanied by her Majesty in the royal yacht Fairy , as far as the dockyard ,- and , after taking leave , " landed at the Royal Stairs . Her Majesty left the harbour about a quarter-past six ou her return to Osborne , receiving on entrance and exit the usual salutes . Retirement of Mr . Jxjstice Coi / eridge . — ¦ Mr . Justice Coleridge , --who . has sat for three-and-twenty years as one of the Judges of the Court of Queen ' s Bench , is about to retire , ami ¦ will be succeeded bv Mr . Hugh Hill , Q . C ., -who was called to the bar iu " lS 41 , and who is about sixty years of age . Strike zx' Yorkshire . —A strike has taken place among some of the colliers in Yorkshire . They demand higher wages and more time for the improvement of their moral and intellectual condition . Fire . — -A fire burst outlast Saturday morning on the premises called Charlton Wharf , the property of Sir Thomas Wilson and of the Messrs . Hoare , the brewers , but let to a Mr . Ayler , a rope-maker . The engines were quickly on the spot , the " call" liaving been received by electric telegraph ; and the flames were at length extinguished by the firemen and police . The cause of the misfortune is unknown , and the total amount of loss is variously estimated ; but a good deal of the building was destroyed , and the furniture was considerably damaged .
Stamped Cheques . —The bill imposing a penny statnp on cheques came into operation on Tuesday morning . In cases where money is paid across the counter to the drawer of a cheque himself , such cheque being "to self , " and not to order , no stamp is requisite , the cases contemplated in the . various Stamp Acts being those only in which a third party is concerned , and which are held to arise out of transactions of profit . Transfer tickets for Customs and other payments issued by bankers against stamped cheques for the sake of security are also exempt . Suicide in Chester Castle . —The son of a
labouring man at Seacombe , near Chester , named Littler , recently ran away from home in order to escape some punishment with which he was threatened for misconduct . He returned , however , the following day , and was soon afterwards apprehended by a police officer on a charge of stealing some bottles of wine and a -n'ritingdeslc . Littler was subsequently examined before the Wallasey magistrates on this charge , and was committed to Chester Castle for twenty-one days . On the second day of his imprisonment , he learned that his mother had been taken seriously ill in consequence of his apprehension , and ho therefore begged to be allowed to go home and see her . The officers of the prison in vain attempted to calm the boy ' s feelings ; his grief at not being with his mother was beyond control , and at length brought on a fit . He was last seeu alive at three o ' clock one afternoon by the deputy-governor of the prison . "When the gaoler went into his cell with his tea at six o ' clock the
same evening , he found the . hanging suspended from a hook in the wall . Life was quite extinct , and on a slate in the cell a few words were written by the boy to Iris parents , saying that he should die if they did not come to sec him . An inquest was held , and the jury returned a verdict of " Temporary Insanity , caused by excessive grief . " The Funeral Car op the First Nai'olkcw . —From the circumstances of the long lapse of time and the spoliation by visitors since the funeral car of the Emperor Napoleon was placed in the Royal Repository at
Woolwich , coupled with the fact of there being no records nor sketch specifying tho precise state in which the relic was received after the funeral in St . Helena , some difficulty lias been experienced in a « ccrtaining the peculiar species of drapery and other ornaments with which tho car was decorated at the time , the whole of which aro now wanting . At length , however , a veteran soldier—one James Cooper , eighty-three years of nge has been found at Ttaxloy Heath , who haa given tho required information . He was nt tho funeral of the great conqueror , and can recollect all the details sought for .
Mr . Pollock , lato Judge of the Liverpool County Court , died on Thursday . Professor MaxMWllkr . —The fellows of All Souls College , Oxford , hnvo elected Professor Max Miiller a fellow . By the new ordinance the fellowa are allowed to elect professors to fellowships without examination . These fellowships ore tcnablo for life , and are not vacated by marriage . Protestant Alliance . —The seventh nnnufil meeting of this Boelety was held on Monday at the Freemason ' s Hall . The Karl of Shnftesbury presided , and the report stated that tho allianco has made successful representations to tho Privy Council on the subject of Incc ' s Outlines of English History , but has failed in Ita attempts to
induce the Society of Arts to take the same view of the work complained of . It is still engaged on the general question of the Privy Council school-books . A correspondence has also been carried on with the authorities of Oxford University respecting Lingard ' s History of England , which the examiners in law and modern history had recommended ; and the result is , that tlie recommendation has been set aside . Mu . Sfurgeos ' s New Cicapel . —Mr . Spurgeon and his congregation have at last fixed on a site for the large chapel they are about to erect . The spot they have chosen is the open space opposite the Elephant and Castle . The ground belongs to the Fishmongers' Company , and they are to receive a ground-rent of 150 / . for it . " The building will be speeflily commenced . The Koyal Geographical . Society . —The annual
meeting of this society was held on Monday at Burlington-house , the President , Sir Itoderick Murchison , in the chair . He detailed to a numerous audience the progress of the society during the past year , and concluded by investing with the medals awarded them Mr . Alexander Dallas Bache , of the United States , and Captain Collinson , of Arctic fame . In , the evening , about one hundred and twenty of tlie members attended the dinner at the Freemasons' Tavern , Sir Roderick Murchison again presiding . New Seuje \ mts-at-Law . —Mr . Petersdorff and Mr . Payne ( of the Home Circuit ) , Mr . Cross ( of the Northern Circuit ) , and Mr . Tozer ( of the Norfolk Circuit ) , have been raised to the rank of serjeants-at-law , and were on Friday week sworn in before the Lord Chancellor , in his private room in the House of Lords .
Major-Geseral Sir Aiichdale AVilson , of Delhi , has arrived in town from India . It is the intention of the members of the Oriental Club to give a banquet to celebrate the return of the gallant officer . Lord Shaktesbury ' s Sabbath Observance . — -The Earl of Shaftesbury writes 1 o the Times to deny that he attended a meeting on Sunday at Cambridge House . He snys : — "I did not attend any meeting on the Sunday alluded to , or on any other Sunday , either at Cambridge House or elsewhere . " Lord Derby also writes to deny that ( as stated by Lord Sbaftesbury ) he had said that his Lordship had attended the meeting . The Premier ' s precise words were :- — " I do not know whether he attended it . " Lord Shaftesbury , however , quotes sonae further lines from his Lordship ' s speech , containing what lie conceives to be an inuendo to the effect that , lie was . at Cambridge House on the Sunday in question .
Commission of Lunacy . — An inquiry has taken place into the condition of mind-of the Rev . Mr . Leach . The chief grounds on which his sanity was doubted appear to have been that he entertained peculiar religious opinions ( believing himself to be inspired by the Holy Spirit ); that he contemplated marrying his servant-maid ; that he treated his domestics on terms of equality ; that he sang hymns in the intervals of cardplaying ; and that he was in the habit of firing pistols in his garden , to the danger of the passers-by . His mother caused him to be shut up in a lunatic asylum for several months , and he complains greatly of her cruelty in so acting . Mr . Chambers , Q . C ., in speaking on behalf of Mr . Leach , contended that the inquiry wasj instituted for the purpose of obtaining the money possessed by that gentleman . The inquiry ( after spreading over some days ) ended in a decision that Mr . Leach is perfectly sane .
Health of London . - —The deaths registered in London , which in each of tho two previous weeks were about 1050 , rose in the last week , ending Saturday , May 22 nd , to 1082 . In the ten years , 1848-57 , the average number of deatlis in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1030 ; but , as the deaths of last week occurred , in an increased population , they can only bo compared with the average , after the latter is raised in a degree proportionate to tho increase , a correction which will make it 1132 . Hence it is seen that the actual number of deaths now returned is loss by 50 than the number which would have occurred if the average
rate of mortality , as calculated for the third week of May , had prevailed . Six persons who had attained tiio ago of ninety years and upwards were registered in the week , tho two oldest of -whom were a man , aged ninetysix years , who died in Great Dover-street , Ncwington , and a wotnam , aged ninety-seven , in Beaumont-street , Marylebone . Boside . i these , a labourer ' s widow died at tho ago of one hundred years , at < t , Pratt-alle }' , Whitochapel . —L . ast wock , tlie births of 84 G boys and 779 girls , in all 1625 children , were registered in London . In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1848-57 , tho average number was 1548 . —From t / ia lleyistrav-General ' ti Wce / ily lietuni .
The Hoksk Tamkr . —Mr . Rarey gave a lecture on horse-taming , on Monday , at his school in Kinncrtonstreet . The once savage , but now docile horse , Cruisor , was exhibited ; and two or three unruly beaata wore tamed in tho sight of tho audience , and brought to such a point of good breeding na to do anything they were bid and to follow Mr . ltarey about with all tho Affection of a dog . A euvngoi zebra was alao introduced , and at first appalled the audience by tho fierconcRH of his yells and hifl demeanour ; liut Mr . Raroy compollpd him to Ho down , and considerably , though not entirely , quelled
the perilous wildness of his manners . The audience were highly delighted with the proceedings , and received Mr . Rarey with enthusiasm . The horse-tamer ia about to visit Manchester , Liverpool , and Scotland . The Cape of Good Hopk . —Advices from tho Cape up to April 20 th , have been received during the weei * The hostilities between the Free States and JIosTi esh have resulted in a slight advantage on the side of the Boers , who have killed thirty natives . Owing to thig state of things , Sir George Grey seems unwilling to avail himself of the . leave of absence granted him . Everything is quiet in Kaffirland , and most of the savages who recently escaped from Amsterdam Fort have been retaken . One had travelled eight hundred miles towards his old station near Fort Murray .
The Suam Italian Conferences . — Count Arrivabene transmits to the papers declarations ( to the effect that they knew nothing of the alleged Italian Conferences in London ) from Count Vitaliano Borromeo , and Siguors Luigi Carlo Farini and Cesare Corventi , Dep uties to the riedniontese Parliament . The Irish impostor it is thought , has once before imposed on people by pretending to be a French nobleman . A Working Mkn ' s Entertai : nmk : nt . —An entertainment was given at the Crystal Palace , on Mondlay , to
the working . men of Bermondsey and their families by their employers . A substantial dinner was provided , and the chair was taken by Mr . J . I * . Bevington , faced by Dr . ChallicG ; and these gentlemen were supported by a number of the clergy and principal inhabitants of the neighbourhood . BIr . James Turner , of Thrush Grove , near G-lasgow —a well-known Liberal politician in the stormy days at the early part of the present century—died on Thursday week at the great age of ninety .
Wilhelmine Clauss . — -Madame Szarvady's second Matinee was given at Willis's Rooms on Monday afternoon . The saloon was brilliantly crowded , and the exquisite grace and feeling of the charming and renowned pianist ' s playing was acknowledged with a murmur of delight that found a vent from time to time ia impressible applause . Musical Union . — There wag an extraordinary gathering in St . James ' s Hall on Tuesday afternoon , at the bidding of Mr . Ella , to hear Joachim and Rubinstein play Beethoven ' s Grand Sonata in A minor ,
commonly called the Kreutzer Sonata , and a inc-re magnificent performance was never listened to by mortal ears . Signor Piutti played a charming solo- on the violoncello on the theme of Schubert ' s Litania , and the concert concluded with Beethoven ' s wonderful Septetj in which , besides Joachim , Piatti , and Mr . Blagrove , Mr . Howell , Mr . Barrett , Mr . Lazarus , Mr . Hausser , and Mr . C . Harper , from the Koyal Italian Opera orchestra , played the contrabasso , oboe , clarionet , bassoon , and horn , and the musical qualities of the new Hall were tested to advantage .
Her Majesty s Thkatke . —Mozart ' sNozze di Fiyaro will be produced to-nigbt , with Mademoiselle Titiens as The Countess , and Mademoiselle Tiecolomini as Susannah . . Royal Italian Opkka . — -La Traviata was produced on Tuesday for the rentree of Madame Bosio , with Gardoni and Graziani as Alfredo and Germont . The opera was played again on Thursday , and to-night tlie IIu < jue , ~ nots will be repeated . Deceptions at the Ayrshire Show . —A discovery was made < n \ the morning .-iftcr the show at Ayr that the two-year-old bull , for which the first prize ' had been awarded , hai ! been decorated for the occasion with a pair of false horns . The deceptive work had been neatly done . A thin band of gutta percha was put round tlie base oi ' the horns and fastened b } r some adhesive substance , and
the hair was carefully placed over it . The skin of the animal had been punctured behind the shoulder , ami air blown in to prevent a slight hollow being observed . The third animal in the same class had alsobuen altered in appearance by puncturing and blowing . The offending person is very properly excluded from showing stock again in Ayr , and the directors further resolved that the CU 8 C should , be laid before the l ' rocurator fiscal for the Crown counsel to decide whether or not tho offender should be criminally prosecuted . —Caledonian Mo'cunj Tins Umtod Kingoom Ambiance . —A meeting of tho members of this alliance—which has for its object tho passing in England of an act . similar to the Maine Liquor Law of America—took place on I Ved'iosttay at Exeter Hall , when resolutions were pnsscd imd Hpcechc 3 made in accordance with the proposed object . 1
Dbfjsax of this CuuRon-itATE Partyat withnall . —At the Charley petty sessions , o" Tuesday , soverul persons were summoned for a non-i > a . yi »» ellt ° ^ church-rate to tho parish of Witlmall , u village four milea from Chorley . Mr . W . l \ Robert * , of M anchester , uppearcd for twelve of the defendants , and . took three objections to tho rate . One objection was , thut " mooting had been hold in May last year , to la / « . rate , and the proposition was then defeated . Tho present rate was laid nt a meeting hold in December last . wr » Koberts contended that the church wardens were funott ,
ojffkio by tho defeat In May . The second objection v « s « thut part of the rate was mado for tho piirnoau of purchasing a heardc , which ho contended coulil not possibly be supposed , by « uy sophiatry , to be n portion of t | ic
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I512 TjBj ^_ JLE AjjKE B , ^__ [ No ; 4271 May 29 , 1885 . 1 '
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1858, page 512, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2244/page/8/
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