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searching thought . "Ehough we could have wished that this fine work had remained to ornament the metropolis , we cannot dispute the claim of Grantham to possess thi 3 memorial of our great philosopher . Here it was that Newton ' s education commenced at the grammar-school of Grantham , and his birthplace ,: Woolsthorpe , is only six miles off . In Mr . Timbs ' s School-days of Eminent Jiflenj a little volume replete with information and interest , we are told that at Grantham , according to his own confession , Newton was extremely i nattentive to his studies , and stood very low in the school . When he was last in the lowermost form but one , the boy above him , as thov were gping to school , Mcked him on the stomach ; Newton subsequently challenged the boy to - . _ . , - .- . - .
endeared ; him to all with whom he came in contact , th never-failing benevolence , the simplicity , and the truth fulness which shone in every word and act—these ar best known to us , and as we recal them , we are mad to feel how poor and inadequate is this tribute to th generous , noble man whose loss we deplore . " Sklf-dkfenck ' of Biarisir Colonies . —In Sir E Lytton ' s despatch to theGovern or-General of the Leeward Islands , the colonial authorities are earnestly recommended to raise from their local resources such a local force as will place the colony in security from internal disturbances . They are advised ^ in short , to keej the peace for themselves , instead of i-eposing habitual reliance upon the troops of the mother country , which the paramount emergencies of the empire may at any time _ ¦ . -i ¦ j i _' - * . j . ^ _ 11 : n , * iK . n'U /\» i h « notrifl in tyfin + flr » t * .+ Vl
remove . Dr . Lethebt and the Seweks . —At a . court of the City Commission of Sewers , holden on Tuesday , Dr . Letheby , the Medical Officer of Health , presented a voluminous and very valuable report on the composition and properties of sewage and sewer gases and on the ventilation of sewers . The report alluded to the condition of the sewerage of the metropolis , and showed ^ that with the best arrangements for the disposal of the liquid refuse it underwent decomposition before it left the sewers , and evolved gases which are dangerous to the
inhabitants . The Council of Izntdia . — The Council sat oii Wednesdav , and remained in deliberation for two hours . Lord Stanley submitted to them his scheme for the revision and arrangement of the various departments both in Leadenhall-street and Cannon-row . The ratification of this scheme now rests with the Queen in Council . We are enabled to enumerate the principal offices in the new establishment of the Secretary of State for India , and to furnish the names of the several gentlemen in charge , as secretaries of the various departments . They are as follows : —Revenue , Mr . Prideaux ; Judicial , Mr . Hawkins -, Political , Mr . Kaye ; Railway and Telegraph , Mr . Daiivers ; Public Works , Mr . Thornton ; Public or
General , Mr . Bourdillon . In the Military Department the Secretary is not yet known ; the Assistant-Secretary is Mr . Eade . In the Marine and Transport Department the appointments are —Superintendent , Mr . Plp . wden ; Aeeountant-General , Mr . Friend ; Auditor , Mr . Sandoz ; Cashier , Mr . Dunsmure ; Inspector-General of Stores , General Bonner ; Agent to AdministratorrGeneral , . Mr : Clarke ; Statistical Department and Keeper of Records , Mr . Hornidge ; Chief Clerk , Mr . Onslow . The ofi 5 cer 3 of committees are as follow : —Secretary to Finance , Home , and Public Works Committee , Mr . Dahvers ; Secretary to Revenue and Judicial , Mr . Prideaux ; Secretary to Political and Military , Mr , Eade . The gentlemen named above have , we believe , all been i n charge of the duties which they have now to perfprnt
under a different denomination . Mr . Kaye , besides the responsible office he has heretofore filled in the Examiner's Department , is known to literature as the author of " The Life of Sir John Malcolm , " and the "History of the Affghan War . " Mr . Danvers has been connected with railways and telegraphs from their introduction into India , and was the first witness examined by the parliamentary committee of last session . Mr . Thornton was selected for the Public Works Department upon ita formation a few years ago . Two distinguished men , Mr . John Stuart Mill and Mr . Philip Melvill , retire from the public service , with which they have been long and honourably identified , the former as the head of the Examiner ' s Department , and the latter as the Military Secretary . —Ti ?/ ies .
A Significant Fact . —The Journal , de Bnueelles points out a singular fact , which , it states , ia now taking place in Belgium . According to it , a French company is buying iip all the Belgian journals that can bo purchased , and has alrendy become the proprietor of $ h& Observataw , the Journal de la Belgiqtie , the T 4 Ugraphe , « &c . The company appears to have made an offer lor the Preourseur of Antwerp , whioh resisted the temp- - ¦ Lotion . But the Journal do JBruxelles remarks- that if the Antwerp paper hns not given itself up to the French company , it does , not , the Toss * ec . koi » , among the membera of its committee of surveillance the gentleman who has purchased the other journals . " There ia a mystery in all this , " says tho Journal da Brunettes , which the Belgian press has not beon able to penetrate . " Reduction of this Allowascis to the Loud Mayor . —Wo are informed that it is tho iutention , of tho Corporation Revenue Committee to recommend a material reduction henceforward in tho salary of Lord Mayors , to commonco tho ensuing year . Tho amount hitherto allowed hna been paid out of tho wino duties , anil othor Lord Mayor ' s foes , but wo understand it will bo proposed to pour all tho receipts into tlio City Chambor , und fix tho allowance for tho chief magistrate at QQOQf . JftgfJhP , qivlflr ^« s »~ .- ~» -. »—> ¦ ¦¦ . — " ' -,. Itiaamu and Tackhc oomi'lkxk for La hies . —xuo Muc / ianicJ Mayazhiti for last week gives tho following description of patunt No . 198 , dutud Fob . 8 , 1858 : — " Improved apparatus for rnisiugand loworlng Miu 8 " ™ a of Indies drosses . Tula consists in tho use of n ginlio with cords uullod atone end In a knot , whitet tho » r ° tnor oxtroinltiea are attached to tho garment . Uy uwung thorn up by hand at tho knot tho dross will bo raised to tlie clistnnoa raqitlmd , uniformly all round . Aho ooids are passed over pulleys . " i ' ' '
questions to a woman he visited foi ¦ the purpose of ad . ministering spiritual consolation . In the ^ event of that portion of the case being proved , the Commissioners will enter upon a consideration of the general , question , ind this will necessarily involve a . wide ami verjr . mportant field of inquiry ; inasmuch as all cases which have occurred of this sort since the consecration of Boyne-hill Church , nearly two years , have to be m-^ SuSratioss of TiiAcrARiAxisM .-The Western Times reports as follows : —" In administering the Holy Communion on the first Sunday in August , at a
fashionable watering-place near Exeter , the officiating clergyman allowed the . clergy only to take the cup into their hands , firml y holding it in his own hands whilst the laitv drank of the sacramental wine . A mother and son ' communicated that morning side by side . The son was a clergyman , not of the High Church , and had the chalice placed in his hands ; the mother had the cup held to her l ips by the officiating minister , but none of the wine reached her . Another step towards Rome . It is expected that choristers in white surplices w ill soon form another grade in the same direction . " Manchester Examiner
Questionable Story . — The publishes an extraordinary letter , to the effect that a person is in custody at Gibraltar , charged , on his own confession , with having been employed by the murderer Rush to shoot the Jermy family . He states , so i t is affirmed , that he , and he only , iired the fatal shots . If it is true that a person in Gibraltar has told such a storv , he is probably a- lunatic . Gough and his " Tketotalleks .- —A splendid soiree has b ? en given to Mr . J . B . Gough at Edinburgh . It was graced by the presence of some of the leading Temperance Reformers of Scotland , who expressed great indignation at the charges preferred against Mr . Gough . That gentleman ? s reception was most enthusiastic , and in the course of his speech he magnanimously announced his intention not to require from Dr . Lees payment of his costs , amounting to 1000 / ., hut to pay them out of
his own pocket . . . Dk . Livingstone ' s Steam : Launch . —We { Liverpool Albion ') have been favoured with the following interesting letter from Dr . Livingstone , the distinguished African explorer . Our readers will be glad to see that the pretty little launch , built by Mr . Laird , and taken out by Dr . Livingstone , in compartments comfortably stowed away on board the Pearl , is satisfactorily doing her part in the great enterprise : — "Ma Robert , Zambesi , June 21 , 1858 . —My dear Sir , —As you will no doubt feel anxious to hear how we get on- with the launch , 1 am happy to be able to inform you that we entered what has been called West Luabo ( properly Luave ) on the loth of May , and finding a fine safe harbour , we proceeded at
once to take out the three compartments of the Ma Robert from the Pearl . The first day was sufficient for getting her into the water and putting her together , by the admirable and ' simple contrivance your son invented . We had only to stand on a compartment in sufficient numbers to sink it , down , and , drawing it to the middle section , the bolts slipped in with the greatest oasc ; on the evening of the third day she was ready to act as pilot to the larger vessel , and lias been doing admirable sei'vico ever since .. She goes puffing away on this grent Zambesi now , to the infinite disgust of the hippopotami , whole herds of which rush off pell-mell as soon as we approach them , and the crustiest old bachelor amongst them dares not do her battle . It would be an immense
boon if Government would send out such vessels to run up creeks and rivers and chase slavers , instead of taking it out of tho poor sailors' muscles at the oar , but you would require to make them broader than this , and not quite so long ; the length might be borne with if they ¦ were four or live feet broader , and no objection would bo taken to this , as tho mon-of-var could carry thorn with ease between masts . Allow me also to suggest , as an improvement , two plates near the bottom of each compartment , wilU plugs which , when the compartments were once put together , might bo taken out and bolts
inaortod . I mention this because our after-compartment Bhowa some symptoms of tho bottom bolts , or dowels , becprpinglooso .,. ... 1 venture , also to -suggest the greater width , as wo can ' t carry luggngo at present , and four foot additional width , with , perhaps , a little more power , would make her porfoct . Sho lias dono exceedingly ¦ well , and tows a largo launch fur bettor than wo as .-pectod . Now , as I am done with criticism , which you may think sufficiently presumptuous , I beg to bo most kindly rqmoinborocl to Mrs , Laird ami all your family . ( Signed ) David Livingston it . John Lainl , Esq .
Statue to Sir Isaac Newton . — . This noble figure , tho inauguration of which takes place at Grantham on Tuesday next , is now removed from tho mould , anil it ready for inspection , at Messrs . Robinson and Cottoiu ' ri foundry , Plnuico . Tho statue , is one of the best and most ° , mrn ° t ° yl ? t ^^ rr-Tl , nn , l , l , n ^ . l , « .. ^ w ^ Blni IiIconoBB is snid to bo a porfoct copy of the philosopher In his priino of life and fume . Mr . Theoil , to render this , had tho advantage of forming his modol from tho moat accurate contemporary portraits of Newton , and from a small bust of him done during his Ufotiino , and which , torn its roeoinbja ' nco to tho portraits , la evidently ft . r « littblo work , Tho features , though not deficient In ftn almost animated look , and full of a happy expression , yet convoy ai 80 tno iuOft of tho most profound ,
deepfight , the combat took place in the churchyard , and Newton was the victor . His antagonist still stood above him in the . form , until , after many a severe struggle , Newton not onlv gained the individual victory , but rose to the highest place in the school . By watching the workmen in erecting a windmill near Grantham , Newton acquired such knowledge of its mechanism , that he completed a large working model of it , which was frequently placed upon the top of the house in which Newton lived at Grantham , and was put in motion by the action of the wind upon its sails . Although Newton was at this time a " sober , silent , and thinking lad , '
who never took part in the games of his schoolfellows , but employed all his leisure hours in " knocking and hammering in his lodging-room , " yet he occasionally taught the boys to " play philosophically . " He introduced the flying of paper kites , and is said to have investigated their best forms and proportions , as well as the number and position of the points to which the string should be attached . He constructed also lanterns of " crinvpled paper , " in which he placed a candle , to light him to school in the dark winter mornings ; and in dark nights he tied them to the tails of his kites , which the terrified country people took for comets .
The English and French ik Madagascar . —The rumour of a French expedition to Madagascar is Contradicted . The Patrie says :-rf" We believe we know from a very certain source of information that there is absolutely no foundation for the rumours which have been circulated by several journals with respect to an expedition alleged to be projected by France , and to be undertaken shortly against Madagascar . It is possible that such an expedition may have been talked about at
the ministries a few days ago , because as France has never renounced her ancient claims upon that island the news of the departure of a detachment . of English troops from the Mauritius to Madagascar has naturally recalled everybody ' s attention to this question . But on the one hand the English operation referred to is not yet officially confirmed , and , on the other hand , we are assured that the Emperor ' s government has not pronounced an intention lately to send any force whatever against the Malgachesr
Colonel , Waugh . —" A Sufferer" writes to the Times that Colonel Waugh is in London ! The writer saw him in a cab , on Sunday , near Hyde Park . " My friends are sufferers by the Eastern Bank , having lost all they . possess . Why should this wholesale plunderer be at " large while they are starving ? Pray use your influence by giving publicity to this , that he may be apprehended and be compelled to disgorge some of his ill-gotten wealth . You will have the thanks of the widow , the orphan , and the ruined soldier . " Ovkbcbowding ov Steam-ships . —This practice is
attended with ^ so much danger , and is so frequently seen on the Thames , that the wonder is public attention has not , loug ugo , been directed to the subject . We observe that the evil has become tho subject of magisterial examination in Glasgow , on Monday . The Thistle steamer , on her way from Londonderry to the Clyde , was found to have 8700 passengers on board , and the master was , under tlio Merchant Sorvieo Act of 1854 , ordered to pay a lino of one shilling for each passenger in oxcess of the nuinbor allowed by his certificate * He also has to pay a penalty of 10 / ., —in all , 681 . Ha .
Mimtoi'ou'fAN Toll Ruikhim . —The lioyal Cornmission appointed towards the close of the last session of Parliament to inquire into the practicability of providing a substitute for tho metropolitan toll-gates within six miles of CJ 4 jar , iug-cross , will oommeuco its sittings early next : month , in order to bo able to report at tho comuicuCiMUcnt of next session . Viscount 13 versify , late Speaker of tho Ilousa of Commons , will preside over the commission , and will have the valuable assistunco of Sir J . T . Coleridge , late a judge of tho Court of Queen ' s lioiu-h , in conducting the invuullffHtion .
Tub L . vru William Wkiu . —This gentleman , who has boon tho principal editor of tha JMily A e « m since tho death of Mr . Frederick Knight Hunt in 1804 , died at his town roiiiilonco , on Weilnosiliiy , after an illness of a few days . Mr . Wulr was borni in Scothiiul ., in 1802 i lie •¦ BtutlMinsrWfo ^ Uhlv ' or ' flny ^ nSm ' tiiVgeri , and returning to his nntlvo country , was culled to the Scottish bar in 18 UU . Me rulinquishoil tlio legal profession to undertake tho management of a loading Scottish newspaper . Removing to London , ho at onco took a high position in his profession , nnd joined tho / Sfwcttitor . On tho establishment of tho Duifi / Nam hifl knowludgo anil groat ability nttractod tho notice of Its conductors , who associated him to their editorial stair . His private character ia thus alluded to by ono of his colleagues " : — - " Tho genial qualities which
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1858, page 963, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2260/page/11/
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