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    fendant with allowing a nuisance to exist of a threefold character and injurious to the health of the inhabitants of the locality . The nuisance on the premises of the company was described as follows : —Several open pits for the reception of refuse from the gas purifiers , very offensive ; open tar tanks , very offensive ; also method of slacking glowing coke by foul water , giving off filthy effluvia ; the premises altogether a nuisance and injurious to health . " After a long discussion , Mr : Selfe mado an order for the abatement of the whole nuisance in one month , and it was arranged that Mr . Fulcher ; the Sanitary Inspector , should see the thing done in an eftectual manner .

    A suit for divorce , by roason of adultery , was brought in the Arches Court on Wednesday by Mr . Omwell Lloyd Evans , of Cheltenham . Sir John Dodson , in pronouncing judgment , felt obliged to come to the conclusion that , notwithstanding a verdict in Mr . Evans ' s favour on a second trial for crim . con ., the evidence against Mrs . Evans was not sufficiently strong to justify . h im in granting the suit . The adjourned examination meeting in the affairs of Edward Baldwin , the late proprietor of the Morning Herald , Standard , and St . James ' s Chronicle newspapers , took place in the Court of Bankruptcy on Thursday . The copyright , plant , and machinery of those journals have been sold for 16 , 500 /* We believe they have been bought by the Derbyite patty . An adjournment for three weeks was ordered .

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    Ascot Races. Tttesdat Was A Bad Day For ...

    ASCOT RACES . Tttesdat was a bad day for tlie first of the Ascot Races . The clouds gathered heavily , and a steady rain drenched the ground and damped the spirits of the pleasureseekers . Nevertheless , the Grand Stand was crowded ¦ with fashionable company , and the races came off in due course . They consisted of—The Trial Stakes of five sovs . each , with fiftv added , won by Mr . T . Walker ' s Early Bird ; the Ascot Deeby Stares , of fifty sovs . each , won by Mr . R . E . Cooper ' s Claude Lorraine ; the Gold Vase given by the Queen , added to a sweepstakes of twenty sovs . each , won by Mr . Howard ' s Arsenal ; the First Ascot Biennial Stakes ( First Year ) , of ten sovs . each , with one hundred added , won by Mr . Howard ' s Clydesdale ; and the Seventh Ascot Triknotal Stakes ( Third Year ) , won by Captain White's Aleppo . ¦ ¦

    __ _ _ The races on Wednesday were—The Coronation Stakes , of one hundred sovs . each , won by Lord Exeter ' s Beechnut ; the Windsor Castle Stakes , of ten sovs . each , with one hundred added , won by Baron Rothschild ' s Sydney ; the Eotal Hunt Cup , a piece of plate value two hundred sovs ., by subscription of ten sovs . each , with one hundred added , won by Lord Londest > orough ' s Rosa Bonheur ; Handicap Plate , of fifty sovs ., for all ages , won by Mr . B . Land ' s Amelia ; Sweepstakes , of ten sovs . each , with twenty-five added , won by Mr . Merry ' s Lady Albeit ; and the Fern Hill Stakes , of fifteen sovs . each , with fifty added , won by Mr . Barber ' s Polly Peachuin . the

    Thursday was the Cup Day—the chief day of race 3 . The weather was fine , the company brilliant , and the Queen honoured the occasion with her presence . Lord Palmerston , on horseback , was in attendance on her Majesty , and among the royal and fashionable visitors were Prince Edward of Saxe-Weimar , the Duke f of Cambridge , the Duke of Beaufort , the Duke of Montrose , the Russian Ambassador , Earl Derby , Earl Granville , Lord Maltnesbury , Sir William Codrington , and many others . The first race was for a Sweepstakes of fifty sovs . each : this was walked over by the winner of the Derby and tire Oaks , Blink Bonny , whp was afterwards , by desire of the Queen , paraded in front of the Royal Stand . Then came a Handicap Sweepstakes of five sovs . each , with fifty

    added , won by Mr . La Merc ' s Maggie Lauder ; and then the Gold Cup , which was won by Lord Zetland's Skirmisher . As the horses concerned in this race were proceeding to the starting post ( say the daily papers ) Winkfiold l bolted' for the gateway through which he is accustomed to enter the course daily . Bartholomew , his rider , instantly pulled him up , but in doing so his stirrup-leather broke , and lie fell heavily to the ground . His horse was instantly stopped , and Bartholomew was only for the moment stunned . After a little delay , ho remounted , and joined the horses at the starting-post . Much anxiety and compassion were evinced for Bartholomew bjr the spectators , for ho was one of the most severely injured jockeys in the fearful accident at Goodwood last year . Hia second mount since that occurrence was on Thursday .

    The conclusion of the race for the Gold Cup ( which , by the way , is a ailver cup ) in thug described by the learned gentlemen who report those matters for our contemporaries : — ' * Aa they rounded the turn by tho brick kilns , Skirmisher began to creep forward , and soon joined Saunterer , and these two wore now in close company with Chevalier d'Induetrle . On entering the straight , tho Chevalier had completed hia work , and dropped back , leaving Sauntoror with a slight load , Skirmisher taking second place , with Polestar and Gemma di Vorgy in close attendance . They ran thus to ttio half distance , where Skirmisher hoadod Sauntoror . Opposite tho Grand Stand , Gemma dl Vorgy passed PolQBtar , caught Sntintoror within a fow strides of tho

    chair , but failed to reach Skirmisher , who won easily l > y a length and a half ; a head only separating the second . from the third ; two lengths dividing the third from , the fourth ; Rogerthorpe and Chevalier d'Industrie passed the post , side by side , fifth and sixth , about six lengths behind Polestar ; Tasmania waa seventh , Warlock eighth , Winkfield ninth , Wardermarske tenth , and Leamington eleventh ; Pretty Boy " walked in . " The last important race of the day was that for the New Stakes , of ten sovs . each , with one hundred added , won by Mr . Howard ' s Sedbury .

    Naval. And Military. Return Of Troops Fr...

    NAVAL . AND MILITARY . Return of Troops from Ijjdia . —The East India Company ' s troopships Owen Glendower and Vernon have arrived at Grayesend , having on board nearly £ ve hundred invalid troops from regiments serving in India . The Owen Glendower , Commander Watson , sailed from Kurrachee on the 11 th of February last , having on board two hundred and thirty-five non-commissioned officers and men belonging to the 8 th ( the King ' s ) , 24 th , 2 7 th . ( Eimiskillens ) , 81 st , 87 th ( Royal Irish Fusiliers ) , and the Royal Artillery , with thirty-three women and children . During the voyage , six men died , and one insane soldier , named Mahon , belonging to the 24 th regiment , jumped overboard when the vessel was near St . Helena , and was lost , although every effort was uuide to save him .

    Military Banquets . —A banquet was given by the Grenadier Guards at the London Tavern last Saturday evening . Covers were laid for sixty . The chair was taken by his Royal Highness Prince Albert , and among the company was his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar . —The officers of the 17 th Lancers gave their annual dinner at the Clarendon Hotel on the p ~ revious day , when they -were honoured with the company of the Duke of Cambridge . A Goat for this Welsh Fusiliers . —The Queen las just presented to the 23 rd Regiment ( Royal Welsh Fusiliers ) a beautiful Cashmere goat , from the herd in

    Windsor Great Park . It was despatched on Wednesday week , under the charge of Drum-Major Knight and a drummer of the same regiment , to tho head-quarters in Portsmouth garrison . This is the fifth , present of a similar kind made by her Majesty as a special mark of her favour to this regi m , the other goats having died at various periods . One , which had become very docile and trained to march before the regiment , died on its passage from the Crimea , since which time it had been replaced by another goat from Windsor Great Park . This died a few weeks ago , and the present animal , which is perfectly white and two years old , is intended to replace it . —Times . John Pennefatlier

    The French War Medal . —Sir has assembled the regiments at Malta , for the purpose of presenting the French war medal to those on whom the French Emperor had bestowed it . The General called the men out , and personally pinned the medal on tlieir breasts . He also assembled with them all those who had previously received it , and addressed them in a spirited speech . Shipwrecks . — The barque John Calvin , Captain Duncan , which left Greenock on the 15 th ult . for Quebec , foundered at sea about ono hundred and eighty miles west of Tory Island ; but her cx'ew , consisting of seventeen , were picked up by the brig Mary Young , which arrived at Greenock from Trinidad on Saturday . Tho Venus of Bath , laden with limostones , was lost about four a . m . on Monday morning opposite Abordovery . The captain swan on shore , but hid crew , three in number , were drowned .

    Misc Ellaneous. Tins Court.—The Queen He...

    MISC ELLANEOUS . Tins Court . —The Queen held a Drawing-room in St . James ' s Palace last Saturday afternoon . This reception , the first public Court hold by her Majesty this season , was very numerously attended . —Tho baptism of the infant daughter of tho Prussian Minister and Countoss Bernstorff took place on Monday at tho Prussian Legation , on Carlton-house-terraco , on which occasion tho Princess Royal stood sponsor to tho infant . Prince Albert and tho Princess Royal arrived at the residence of tho Legation soon after one o ' clock , attended by Lady Caroline Barrington , the Marquis of Abercorn , Lord George Lennox , Mnjor-General Wyldo , and Colonel F . II . Seymour . After tho christening , tho royal pinty remained to luncheon , and returned to Buckingham Palace at half-past three o ' clock . —Tho Court on Tuosday left town for Windsor Castlo . —Tho Duchess of Mecklonburg-Strelit !! and suite stavtcd from Dover for Calais on tho same day , in ono of tho Dover Royal T € m Company ' s boats . A sympathetic roportor records thnt , shortly after thoir arrival , hor Royal Highnoss and aulto partook of a small quantity of chloroform and water in order to nllay tho soa-eicknoss . —Prince Frodoriclc of Prussia arrived at Dover on Wednesday evoning , ratlior unexpectedly . Thonco ho immediately started for Windsor .

    Tun Crush at this Drawino-Room , — Correspondents of tho JVwiefl , who evidently speak from gruel oxporlonco , repeat tho complaint , uttered by tho fair Vorbona' two ye ars « ffo , of tho bad management at hor Mfljosty ' a Drawing-room with respect to tho admission of tho visitors . More are invited than can bo comfortably packed in tho antoroomB ; and tho consequences

    are , stifling pressure , a fierce strand * for tT Throne-room , and a general rumplinc and f ; L I of the ladies' silks , satins , eauzeTEL . ^ towbance and their entrance into the presence of RovaltvShS so smooth and composed as the occasioned * ^ Sf require or would lead one to expect . For these dS " arrangements the Lord Chamberlain is to blame T Saturday , he caused to be constructed in oaaSrf * approaches a barricade of old benches , over which l , ever , some adventurous Irish ladies leaped in snorH *" style , to the great admiration of all beholders eS ? the officials . The reader will no doubt aSiTftf publican simplicity of this proceeding . The Exhibition

    of Art Treasures at Maxchtter . —We have authority to state that the Queen , ^ Prince Albert , accompanied by the Princess Eoval tl , Prince of Wales , the Princess Alice , Prince Alfred . ' ««? Prince Frederick William of Prussia , will visit Man Chester on Monday , the 29 th inst . They will honn , ^ the Earl of Ellesmere by residing at TTo & sy-luffl £ noble earl ' s seat , near Manchester , during their star Her Majesty will pay a formal visit to the Exhibition on Tuesday , the 30 th inst . On Wednesday , the 1 st of July , the Exhibition building will be reserved for the private examination of its contents by the Queen and it is expected that her Majesty will return to London on Thursday , the 2 nd of Jul y . The Secretary of State in attendance upon her Majesty will be Sir George Grey — Times . •"

    The Nile Expedition . —Mr . A . W . Twyfurd , who was the only Englishman in the late scientific expedition to discover the sources of the White Nile , has returned to England by the overland mail . He had proceeded up the Nile with the steamers and boats under his charge as far as the fourth cataract ( Meroe ) , when he was recalled by the Pacha of Egypt , who had determined to break up the expedition . Open-Air Preaching . —Bet \ yeen thirty and forty clergymen and Dissenting ministers of Bristol have arranged to carry out a series of out-door services during the summer months .

    The Rotten New Cathedral at Plymouth . — Another fall occurred at the new Roman Catholic cathedral on the evening of Friday week , happily without injury to any one . The remainder of the western transverse arch of the transept gave way first , and . was followed by the eastern arch , which brought down the roof of the transept and all the roof of the chancel except the small portion of the apsis , or semi ,-octagon , at the eastern end of the cathedral . Ordination Saiibath-breaking . —The Bishop of London held hi 3 second ordination at St . Paul ' s Cathedral on Sunday . There were forty candidates for priests ' and deacons' orders . The service lasted about fwe hours . Hard work , this , for Sunday !

    Finsbury I * ark . —A report from the committee of Works and Improvements , on the subject of the formation of Finsbury Park , was brought up on Friday week before the Metropolitan Board of Works . The architect ' s estimate of the cost of making the park was stated as follows : —Purchase of property , including all interests , 175 , 000 / . ; formation of tho park—viz ., fencing , gates , and boundaries , 6336 / . ; levelling ground , filling ditches , making drives and footpaths , 9750 / . ; plantations , roads , and iron bridges over the New Kiver , 603-1 / ., making together 22 , 120 / . ; addition of ton per cent , for contingencies 10710 / . ; maintenance of the park , constables ,

    , , gardeners , lifting , & c , at 3000 / ., and capitalized at four per conf ,, equal to 25 years' purchase , 7 o , OWl . ~ - making a grand total of 201 , 830 / . On the other side , tho report showed a return from tho salo of ground rents , 50 , 000 / . ; by rents from grazing lands , 30001 . — -making a total returp of 58 , 000 / . A letter from tho Secretory of tho Treasury to tho Vestry Cleric of Islington , explaining tho conditions upon which tho Lords ot tiw Treasury are prepared to propose to Parliament to vote money for making tho park , was also read , lie comutionaare thus stated " 1 . The amount to ho ftirnwhed

    by tho Government to be in tho proportion of onHW < J of that furnished by tho Metropolitan Board of W « , but not in any case to exceed 50 , 000 / . 2 . ihe Government to propose to Parliament to vote ono-tlnrd , ott ne sum of 50 , 000 / . in tho present session , and «»* " » £ » each of the sessions of 1858 and 1859 . 8 . H >«^« JV mont to make tho actual issue of tho money aftei it , m boon voted , but at no time to be called upon for more tl on a sum equal to one-third of that which »>»•»» h « J » JjJ actually exponded from time to time by tho Metro w » n ««~ i ~ e WnrltB . " Tim rflnort was rocoivcd ; tlio ow t

    for tho formation of tho park was introduced , and discussion , after extending over some cIuuhoh ,, «« journod . Several of tho clauses woro agreed to on sequent days . ci , i ,. mw Boo-Tmb Lukdb Eucor . ON .-Mr . GoorgQ , 81 \ ^ J " croft ( Conservative ) has been elected to 111 t c > J « J J in tho representation of Leeds caused by '' ° « ° s 6 ( M Mr . Robert Hall . Ho obtained 2070 volus to ^ given to Mr . Mills , tho Liberal candidate A su ia throatonod by tho friends of tho latter . d Dibmwokd FA * K .-Somo persons who on morning were making preparations at ^« ora A iv 0 ro menoo a fair , were arrested by }»« H' ^ JJ , on tho brought before the Greenwich po" ™ fi * a to find following day . Tho chlof offender wo * Dj toJ * * ^ bail i » 40 / ., mid to enter hia own rooognU « " « °

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), June 13, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13061857/page/10/