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    fully , and its prayer , for reference to the Foreign Affairs Committee , complied with . __ .. , „ .. .. By the latest accounts from the United States , it appears an anticipated insurrection of the slaves in the state of Virginia , was causing some apprehension to the citizens of that district . Upwards of 600 slaves belonging to different plantations are said to be implicated . The whole of the South American Republics seem to be in a state of excitement and conflict , which in many instances borders upon anarchy . News from Honduras confirms the account of hostilities between Guatemala and . San Salvador , and several skirmishes have taken place between the troops of the respective States . The reported cause of difficulty was the blockade of the port of San Salvador by the British squadron on the Pacific

    coast . « . .. A Canada paper , speaking of the mining operations on Lake Superior , says that vestiges of apparently very ancient mining operations continue to be met with , and in greater numbers and extent than any previously discovered . The age of these traces is supposed to beat least 2000 years ; but their connection with a particular race has not been ascertained . There are indications , however , that the copper was carried off from the mines by way of St . Mary River and the lakes . The excavations found are , in some cases , such as could only have been effected by years of labour , and they have very much facilitated the miners , as well as pointed them to the best locations .

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    1 'he Lords of the Treasury have sanctioned the transmission of printed books by post to the colonies in the West Indies , Newfoundland , Gibraltar , Malta , and Hong Kong , at very low rates ; and as soon as the concurrence of the several colonial governments can be obtained , it is intended to extend the benefits of the measure to all our colonies . The regulations under which the transmission may be effected are as follows : On and after the 1 st of March next , any book may be sent from the United Kingdom to the above-named colonies , and vice versa , at the following rates , viz . : —Not exceeding half a lb . in weight , 6 d . ; not exceeding lib ., Is . ; not exceeding 21 b ., 23 . ; and so on in proportion . Each parcel must consist of a single volume only ; it must be sent open at the ends like a newspaper , and must not contain any writing either within or without the wrapper with the exception of the address . They must be prepaid , if sent from the United Kingdom , by affixing a sufficient number of stamps , and from a colony , the

    prepayment to be made in money . Several meetings in favour of the abolition of the window duty have been held this week in the metropolis and elsewhere . On Thursday evening an aggregate meeting of representatives of the several parishes comprised in the City and Liberty of Westminster was held at the vestry room of St . James ' s , Piccadilly , when Lord Duncan stated his intention to renew his motion for the total and immediate abolition of this obnoxious tax . A few additional appointments to clerkships on the census have been made under the patronage of the Treasury . There were , it is said , upon this occasion upwards of 1000 unsuccessful applicants . The larger number of appointments remains in reserve , until the census has been actually taken , when a staff of about sixty clerks will be set to work on the statistical calculations necessary to be made .

    A deputation waited by appointment at the Home Ofiice on Sir George Grey , on Thursday , to present a memorial to the Queen for the amendment of the patent laws signed by 500 of the skilled mechanics of Lambeth . A deputation from the Society for the Suppression of Vice had an interview with Sir George Grey , on Monday , at the Home-office , on the subjects of " lodginghouses" and " penny theatres . " An aggregate meeting of representatives of the several metropolitan parishes in the county of Surrey took place on Tuesday evening at the vestry room of St . George ' s , Southwark , " to consider the beat means of promoting the movement in favour of county financial boards . " Resolutions were passed p ledging the parish officers present to use their best endeavours to promote the movement in their respective parishes , by vestry

    meetinjrs and by petitioning Parliament . The M orning Advertiser says , "It is intended , Boon after the meeting of Parliament , to introduce an Encumbered Estates Act for Scotland . " The eighth party of emigrants , for whom the means of effecting a passage to the colonies has been provided , embarked in the ship Stately , for New Zealand , on Tuesday . It consisted of thirty-two young women , who have been rescued from starving to dei . th , or something worse , at home , and sent to a country where they will be able to iiye by their labour . A matron , assisted by four sub-matrons , has the entire charge of the young women , who will be kept wholly separate from the

    other passenger * . The legality of carrying passengers on a longitudinal seat upon the roofs of omnibuses " was decidedlaht week at the Middlesex Session * , in a case entitled " Sophia Gaywood versus u conviction of Mr . H « nry . " Numerous witnesses were examined , and the court was full of anxious jarvit'H und their employers . The conviction was ^" Phillips gavo one of a series of public " demonstrations " of the power of his lire- « niiihilntor to extinguish fires in ships on Wednesday . The lirnt exhibition took olace at . two o ' clock , tin ; second at lour , and both

    were well attended . The Wear , of 1 . 00 tona , was the vessel experimented upon . I $ enidea the crowd * ol spectators collected upon the JUackwull Ruilway pier , a great number of persons assembled ou board to witness the working and effects of Mr . Phillips ' * apparatus . I his may be considered no Hiiinll proof of confidence in hiH invention when it in remembered that the orders by which visitors wer .- admitted Mated that the " mainhold ' of t' »

    and pleasure of the members and their frienwere uy cared for , and a very pleasant evening spent . In the Court of Common Pleas , on Tuesday , an action of ejectment was brought by order of the Court of Chancery to recover certain estates in the county of Stafford , worth about £ 80 , 000 , and the cause turned upon whether a will dated the 18 th of June , 1818 , was executed by Thomas Bainbrigge , the testator , whilst he was in a sane state of mind . The case was tried at the last assiues for the county of Stafford , when it was decided that the will was not valid . Last Michaelmas Term , however , a rule was obtained which called upon the plaintiff to show cause why this verdict should not be set aside , and a new trial had , upon the ground that the verdict was against the evidence . The facts of the case having been already given in the Leader , it is unnecessary to repeat them . After hearing the arguments the rule was made absolute ,

    ds dl hands of common sailors , who having placed them as near as possible to the hold , whence flames were shooting upwards , struck the pin by which the charge was ignited , and thus discharged the vapour , which , according to promise , speedily extinguished the fire . Presence of mind is all that would seem to be required to work an engine , which , properly applied , must always be successful . , ¦ _ ¦ The members of the Yarboroug h Lodge of Freemasons , meeting at the George Tavern , Commercial-road , now one of the most influential lodges in London , gave a full dress Masonic ball and supper at the London Tavern , on Tuesday evening week , in aid of the funds of the Royal Freemasons' School for girls , which was numerously attended , and by the excellent management of the worshipful master , his officers , and the stewards , the comfort

    on payment of costs . In a cause tried in the Court of Exchequer last week , it came out that the Reverend Mr . Beresford , formerly rector of St . Andrew ' s , Holborn , sold the o ffice o parish clerk for the sum of nearly £ 500 . All the judges , with the exception of Mr . Baron Platt , were occupied on Saturday , in the Exchequer Chamber , with the case of Bird and his wife , now in prison for an assault on their female servant , and who had appealed from a second trial . The matter had before been submitted to the five judges sitting as a Court under a recent statute , to consider cases reserved from the criminal courts , but those judges not agreeing , it was referred to the fifteen judges . The arguments of counsel were heard at great length , and the judges reserved their decision .

    At the last Middlesex Sessions Mr . John Goldsmid was tried , before Mr . Sergeant Adams , for an assault alleged to have been committed on George Tideman , an excise officer , and after a trial which occupied a considerable time found guilty , and sentenced to an imprisonment of three months . Since then Mr . Hoggins , who was said to have committed the assault , has come forward to take upon himself the responsibility , and to relieve Mr . Goldsmid from the imputation against him . The statement of Mr . Hoggins having been reduced to a declaration on oath , was forwarded to the Home Secretary , and the result was that within half an hour of the presentation of the document Mr . Goldsmid was liberated from custody with a free pardon , the pardoning being , of course , a mere form , but necessarily arising from the fact that the verdict of the jury was " guilty . "

    A public meeting was held at the Odd Fellows Hall , Pocklington , on Saturday , to take steps relative to the present state of agriculture . The room , which will hold about 500 , seemed to be full , and principally of those connected with agriculture . The chief personage on the occasion was Mr . Busfeild Ferrand , who was announced in the advertisement as one who would take part in the proceedings ; and as this was the first time he has addressed the farmers of this part of the East Riding , expectation seemed to run very high , and he was met at the railway station , where he was hailed with cheers , and tlion PHcortrd into the town . The Honourable A .

    Duncombe , M . P ., Mr . U . A . Darley , Mr . It . Denison , of Wuplington , Mr . Jonathan Harrison , and other gentlemen , were ' present . Mr . Ferrand having been heard at groat length and with much cheering , the meeting adopted a petition for the revision of the present tariff . The National Independent Order of Oddfellows in Manchester , being convinced of the paramount necessity of education , and conceiving that there is no present prospect of any public measure on the subject , have determined to open a school to provide for the instruction of the orphan children of the Manchester district , which shall be conducted on purely secular principles . In order to cany out this object , they have taken a room in Faulkner-street , Manchester , and engaged as schoolmaster a gentleman named Shield , from London .

    At the City Mechanics' Institution , Gould-square , on Monday last , Mr . Collet gave his lecture , entitled " Music of the . Seasons , " aasiuted by Mins A . Hincks , to a full room . Tliu favourite pieces of the . evening were Mr . Collet ' s recitation of Tennyson ' s poem , " The Death of the May Queen , " and Mias A . liiiicks'u two song * , " The Maypole" and " A Wealthy Lord , " which were encored . On Monday lust MeKms . J . Harper and F . 1 ' . Nichols Kitvo an entertainment at the Union-hall , Artillery-street , UishopKgatc . It . consisted of a careful selection of r « ' < iliitions , and ( iilbert . A'UuckuU ' s farce of the Man with

    the , Carpet Hag . Mr . Upton ' s careful reading of a \> . inn ; igc from 1 ' aradise Lost , mid the . grotehqin : humour displayed by Mr . Harper in his recitations , nave great satisfaction to a numerous audience . Mr . F . I * . Nichols , us Serjeant Uuzfuz , pleaded with great ability ngainst the unfortunate l'ie . kwiek . Mr . F . O . Butler's imitations oi London performers were easily recognized by the audience . The object of this entertainment was to pioinoto the establishment of a Society for instruction and practice in Klocution , by means of recitations and criticism , to be held at Finsbury Hull , (>(> , Bunhill-row , St . Luke ' s . It is to be under the management of Messrs . J . Harper and F . P . Nichols .

    A man , with a fine intellectual countenance , who gave his name Iacchimo Guicioli , and stated himself to be a natural son of the late Lord Byron , was brought up at Marylebone , on Saturday , very nearly in puris naturalibus and shivering from head to foot , charged wit h being drunk . He told the magistrate he had but just returned from the Archipelago , and had fallen in with some land sharks , who had stripped him of all his worldly wealth and worldly garments likewise . The magistrate

    dismissed the case . During the performance of Dick Turpin s Ride to York , at Cook ' equestrian amphitheatre , at Windsor , one nignt last week , the mimic highwayman , in discharging a pistol at Tom King , not only killed his colleague theatricall y , but severely wounded the drum-major of the Coldstream Guards , who was present as one of the audience in the pit . A portion of the wadding entered his right eye , causing much pain a nd resulting in the complete loss of the sight of that eye , and serious injury to the remaining

    one . Ann Clark , residing in Maryport , the wife of a seaman who has been at sea for three or four months , was found , last Monday , lying on the floor of the cellar where she lived quite dead , with a towel tightly twisted over her head and under her chin . From a post mortem examination of the body it has been concluded that she could not have put an end to her own life . A verdict of " Wilful Murder" has been found by the coroner ' s inquest . The workhouse of the Hartismere Union , which has for some time been filled to overflowing with able-bodied paupers , was , on Wednesday last , the scene of an alarming riot . For a week or ten days before a large body of the out-door applicants had been employed picking oakumSir John Walsham having recommended that as

    , a labour test , but , as the system proved totally inefficient for the proposed purpose , the guardians resolved upon its abandonment , and on Tuesday last they gave notice to the men to that effect . On the following day a large body of men , armed with large sticks , made their appearance at the gate and demanded admittance , and before the governor could get down to the gate it was broken in , the walls scaled , and the house in the possession of the mob , who at once beg an to demolish the windows and commit other depredations . The principal inhabitants went to the assistance of the authorities , and soon captured the ringleaders , seven of whom have various terms of im

    been committed to Ipswich gaol for - prisonment . Another body of rioters assembled on Thursday , with the apparent intention of a second attack ; but , finding the authorities well supported , peaceably dispersed . —Bury Post . The Glasgow I ) aily Mail contains an account of a clergyman , the pastor of the Levern church , at Barrhead , having been convicted in the penalty of £ 20 for poaching on Sunday . The reverend gentleman had set a an ire , and taken some game upon the estate of the Earl of Glasgow . The public prosecutor requested that the penalty might be mitigated to £ 10 ; but the Provost of Paisley , where the case was heard , refused to entertain

    the application . In the hyperborean village of Shieldaig , on the western shore of Scotland , a lady appeared the other morning whose visit is likely to throw the sea serpent into the shade . It appears that a number of women had risen pretty early , as their custom is , to go for fuel to the Gascan , when the attention of one was attracted by a number of searnewa which were hovering and screaming near the church . On a further inspection she discovered a lady sitting on the rock , with a comb arid glass in her hand , singing one of her madrigals in a plaintive voice , and duly pointed her out to the others , who all maintain that they saw the strange apparition . The probability is that this mermaid was one of the Razaay white seals , which are known to sit frequently on racks during night , uttering plaintive sounds ; but so superstitious are the fishers that not a single boat has put to sea since . —

    Glasgow Paper . Some months since two ladies and a gentleman , Germans , applied to Mr . Laws , the resident agent at Springwell Colliery , near Newcastle , for permission to go down one of the pits and inspect the method of working the coal . He very readily acquiesced in their wishes , provided them with proper clothing for their subterranean excursion , and descended the shaft with them , and showed them through the streets and alleys of his underground dominions . Having hospitably entertained them , at his house , he then dismissed them , highly gratified with what they had seen . At Christinas he was agreeably surprised by the receipt of a letter from Count Groeben , chamberlain to the King of Prussia , recalling the circumstance to his recollection , thanking him for

    liiti polite attention , and informing him that was - of the distinguished visitors , and the others were the Princess Leignitz , widow of his late Miijesty the King of Prussia , travelling incog ., under the name of Countess Wilkan , and a lady of her suite . The Count further informed Mr . Laws that her Majesty had sent two fruit baskets of Uohemian glass as a present to his ludy , is a souvenir of their visit to Springwell . — Berwick Warder .

    It appears by a letter iron * Mr . John O'Connell , M . I .. in Wednesday ' s Dublin Freeman , that tho contemp lated meetin g of Irish Roman Catholic Member * of Parliament in Dublin , previous to the opening of the BCHBioii , will not hi .- held . Mr . O'Connoll mates llmi " neveral M . I - ^ have , sent in nu-. s ^ Hgcs to Uk- effect thut they find tlieinselveti unable to attend as they had proposed , but that ol com so they will be at their posts in Parliament . ' In the Court of Quern ' s lieneu . Dublin , last Saturday , the Chief Justice look occasion to observe that he ** several gentlemen wearing coloured waistcoats , u appearing dressed iu ft njannor which was not mutable to th «! profc'MHlon , and ho hoped ho would not bo <> l » lig « a to advert to the wubject Jifjain . Judge Ciainptoii added that the wearing of black handkerchiefs whilo f" court . wa » certainly not iu accordance with . tl »« profession *" costume which , barristers ought to appear in .

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 1, 1851, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01021851/page/8/