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Sept . 15 , 1860 ] The Saturday Analyst and Leader . 805
The CoNSEBVATrvrE Land Society . — -This Society has now entered on the ninth year of its operations . The receipts during that period have amounted to about £ 477 , 000 i and it has purchased 45 estates in 15 counties ,. to the amount of £ 245 , 000 , all laid out in building plots ; : every attention ' having been paid to road-making and the sanitary considerations of drainage , at a cost of upwards of £ 82 , 000 , and frequently with worts greatly to the improvement and ornament of the localities . The amount of land sold to the members of the society exceeds £ 251 , 167 . Many villas and houses , in squares * crescents , and streets , have been erected , and site ? , in many cases , been set apart for churches , of which several are completed and in progress . The society has , besides , been instrumental in . conferring the electoral franchise on thousands of persons who did not previously possess votes n counties . ¦ . Railway Passengebs Assurance Company . —The half-yearly meetwas held at their new offices , 64 , Cornhill , EiC . It was stated in the directors' report , ' which was unanimously adopted , that the operations of this company have now acquired an extension which says much for the growth of habits of providence amongst the people . In the recent accident from the bursting of a gun at Dover , which excited such general sympathy , none of the sufferers were insured , although several of those present , who fortunately escaped uninjured , were policy holders in this company . The report observes : — "A certain degree of risk must necessai'ily attend the handling of fire-arms as well ss heavy pieces of ordnance , and as . your directors . have agreed to cover this extra risk of accident to-volunteers without additional charge , it can scarcely be doubted that the fact only requires to bs known to induce maiiy of that numerous body to avail themselves of the protection afforded by the company's policies of insurance against all accidents . "
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CasselVs Illustrated Family Paper . Part' 33 new series . September . London and New York : Cassell and Co . —This is one ^ of the best cheap weekly periodicals of the day . In its pages will be found a vast mass of really useful information , as well as a diversified melange of light reading for the leisure hour . CasselZsIllustrated Family Bible . Part 16 . September . Cassell and Co . —This part concludes the first Book of Kings , and contains the first portion of the second Book as far as chapter 10 . The illustrations are numerous and excellent . . . CasselVff Illustrated History of England . Part 8 , new series . Cassell and Co . —This is another of Messrs . Cassell ' s illustrated publications . The text is by Mr . W . Howitt , whose liberal tendencies and literary ability are well known . Thisr promises to be one of the best works of the kind ever issued . . CassclVs Popular Natural History . Part 18 . Cassell and Co . —The in-esentpart concludes a section of the carnaria , and commences the department of the pachydcrmes , giving some most interesting facts recarding the elephant . The illustrations in this , as in Messrs . Cassoll ' s other illustrated publications , deserve the highest commenda . tion . The Ladies' Treasury . lN o . 43 . September . Cassel and Co . —This work may bo regarded as a sort of repertory , containing every kind of information conducive to real feminine accomplishments , and should bo upon every drawing-room table . Routledge ' s Illustrated Natural History . Part 19 . September . London and New York : Koutledge and Co . —Tho part before us , of this excellent work treats of the " fledged biped " portion of animated nature . The predacious family of the feathered tribe occupies tho opening sections of the present part , in which its history is brought to a close ! and to the " goatsuckers" ( about which a foolish superstition prevails among the ignorant ) , and the ewallows 19 dovoted the remainder . ¦ ¦ ¦ PoweWs Dome stic Magazine . No . 1 . September . London : Mnrlborough and Co . Brig hton : Enabling and JBeal .-Tlm is the first number of a new serial whioh purports « to consist of domestic literary sketches , tales , poems , biographic , historic , and soiontittc papers , toeether with reviews of and extracts from valuable works ; " and ps far as the present specimen goes , acts up to its professions . Memoirs , Journal , and Correspondence > qf Thomas Moore . -Peoples edition , * ith portraits , to ; Part 0 . London : Longman ai , d Oo . ™ rhfe present is the last part but one of this work , winch is to ^ bo 'OOinploted in ten parts . It has from time to time received appropriate notice from us as the various portions have appeared . " Jomini ' s Strategy" extracted from the Precis do Part do la Guerre , on nouveau tableau : « nali / lique , and tranelatod by JSnsign Prod . Adam , of tho 22 nd Regiment . Bombay Native Infantry , pnee -k . Cd ., has just boon published by Messrs . Saunders , Otley , and Co . Although Jonum is " clmowlodged to be tlie standard military writer of tho ago , it is nltraordinarv that no single work pf his has been yot translated . EnsTg n Adam' * , translation is a faithful and valuable reproduction of the sense and spirit of the original .
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First in importance at the present season , and under peculiar circumstances originating in th / unprocedontedI bad weather throughout thoXg and summer , tUo harvest is the subject which among " homo newfpoTaoseoe tho gmtoet interest , and must bo regarded as of the h ^ XSpSto"" - Wo nro hWta report thatlU weok closed wfih Tovouniblo intoUigenoo . from the agricultural dlstnpte . Tho West ( Soro was scarcely room for a doubt loft ) wUl bo At least equal to tho average , and na the-present week advanced , and tho voathov hold SirirjSpwt -aaunwd a more and more cheering aspoot . As recards tho potato crop , > vo Jcarn that in some looaUtics . 'ftfl m East EotSai , Scotland , the yield promises to bo good , both in quantity and jSSSv I ?? thoso pal , indeed , there eccme to have bopn no exooss of wot nt > nil ,
Sunday brought an addition to the record of crimiial proceedings which knows no day of rest . George Mullins , plasterer , Barhsleystreet , Bethnal-green ( who had been in the occasional employ of Mrs . Mary Emsley , so mysteriously murdered at Stepney ) , gave information to the police that led them to-take both him ( MuUins ) and WilUam Thomas Emms into custody , on suspicion of having perpetrated the crime . The man Gallagher , who while drunk murdered liis wife , was hung at Liverpool on Saturday . . . _ ¦¦¦ The progress of events in Italy , and the probable complications they may give rise to , depressed the price of stocks on the opening of the week / Gold , to the . amount of . £ 64 * 000 , was deposited in the Bank cellars on Monday . . . . Another item in the list of those dubious occurrences which one does not know whether to rank as accidents or not , is furnished by the result of the inquest upon the body of Mr . Fawcett , late of the Admiralty , who either threw himself , or fell , under a train on the ( Jreat Western Railway . One of the witnesses deposed that Mr . Faw-cett deliberately placed himself in the way of the train ; another witness heard him just before complain of being in . great trouble respecting his mother-in-law , and observed that he was labouring under great depression of spirits . The verdict was that the . deceased died from the injuries he had received in being run over by a train , but there was not sufficient evidence to show what was the state of his mind . The gold in the Bank of England was on the increase , when the week opened . Consols had been at 93 . } . The French Rentes were ¦¦ " looking up . " _ . ¦ . ¦ _ . ¦ : '¦ . A somewhat unusual application was made at the Westminster Police Court on Saturday—which , in default of unseasonable gooseberries as big as cocoa-nuts , abnormal pigs bringing forth litters of kittens , gigantic turnips containing small rabbit warrens , and mares' nests with half-a-dozen eggs in them , so essential to . " the manufacture of hews-at this dull period of the year—we take the trouble to record . The Rev . ; Francis Garden produced to Mr . Paynter a board , having pasted upon it some slips cut from Reynold ' s Neiospaper , and which' he had taken from the door of " James Gowan , proprietor of a medical establish- , itient (!) in Grey-coat-place , called ' tlncle Tom ' s Cabin . '" The extracts objected to consisted of a . criticism of the past session , and perorated in this fashion : ^— " Its opening ( i . e . the session ' s ) was signalised by a speech from the throne , in which , amongst other cheering intelligence , the long-looked for and earnestly required boon ot Parliamentary and legal reforms were solemnly promised ; but thanks to the imbecilitv of the Government , treachery of Liberal members , and the cunning manoeuvres of malignant Tories , tho Royal lips—not for the first time—were made to utter a long list of miserable falsehoods ; the Queen of England , being the gilded pxtppet of a hberty-hatmg aristocracy , has been made to break faith with , the toiling _ miUions on whose enslaved industry she and her famUy are sustained in profusion and luxury . The liberty which she . has solemnly pTOinised to the _ workers and wealth-producers pf the land is withheld , and instead of the franchise which the Queen said they were to have they have been bespattered with the foulest filth which honourables and favorites had fished out of the polluted depths of their own depravity . Mr . Cowan , said he cougidered himself justified in exhibiting the remarks in question , and Mr . Paynter told tho Rev . Mr . Garden ( v ; ho is sub-dean and chaplain of St . James ' s Palace ) that if he thought it worth whilehe might acquaint the Home Office with the circumstance , and so tho matter dropped . . '„ , , / -i -i IFresh particulars of the Prince of Wales' progress in Canada arnvo by every post . " Jcnkinsism » ' is in a nourishing state ot exuberance , and all that the Prince docs and doesn't—what he snys and what ho leaves unsaid , and a great deal more , is given in all tlio redundant and multiform variety pf a score of different versions . He seoms-as how can royalty fail in doing ?—to be winning goldon Opinions from all ^ Th ^ reS o ' f tho examination which took p lace before the magistrate Mr Selfe at the Thames Police Conrt on Monday wae , that Jirams was admitted to bail , and Mullens was remanded , for further examination . At Queenstown , the Prince of Wales had been reviewing the volunteers and regular troops belonging to the place and t 9 Montreal , at tho Cl Iro ? and har prot ' ntcd Opneral Mae Mohon with a sword as a <« tribute of nfTection , " so tho address that accompanied it states , to the genius am biwery of tho gallant warrior who has onco more identified tho he iditnry chivalry of Krin , with tho glory of Imper al ^ onco . " Tn the thrao oitv nrisons of Whitooroas-street ( dobtors ) , Nowgato , and Ho ^ ow ay ^ the ^ e arcCspeotively 202 , 80 , and 33 , making a total of 315 A vXntoor belonging to the Royul Arsenal corps has been summonod « t the Woolwich police court , nnd conviotod in double tho amount ot Irroars duo for subscription . Not having sent » n his notice of resigna-Son ho was held still to belong to the corps 5 otherwiso tho remedy aS Tho ^^ ? 0 - / -f last week wore 9 C 8 , the number of tho previous week being 1 , 018 , Tho avorLoof the last ton years being 1 , 148 ,, there is a iailing oft m tho morta lUy of London to tho oxtent of 174 . on the OiBorotaod mean immborfand an actual diminution of 50 as compared with the preceding W £ tiiv Tnmefl Wilson , formorly propriotor of tho Economist newspaper , un ^ late MintoTS $ Ftoce iVthe Oounoil of India , dkd of ohofora at Oa aiiTwitam toirSi n « w irrao ,: « xh « st Thp latest , news from Shnngai ( whoro trade . m ijb ««» ^ i ^ j ^^ s ^ hS irx ; * . ™ 4 ^«
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 15, 1860, page 805, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2365/page/13/
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