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      of the evidence for the ¦ ¦ B ^ """* JSTo . 508 . Dec . 17 , 1859 ] THE LEADEE . 1363

      About A. Fortnight Ago We Reported An] A...

      About a . fortnight ago we reported an ] accident which occurred at York to Miss Watson , a rising vocalist , well known throughout the country . Whilst moving about her room , the unfortunate lady ' s crinoline expanded dress caught fire , and she was severely burnt . She expired on Saturday morning . On Tuesday morning , between two and thres o ' clock , a fire broke out in the great -warehouses belonging to the firm of Messrs . Rock , Brothers , and Co ., wholesale stationers in Walbrook . The building

      the conclusion prosecution the counsel for the prisoner said there was no evidence of a false pretence having been made , although strong suspicion attached to the prisoner . An acquittal was then taken . At Marlborough-street Police-court ,-Mr . Bingham gave judgment in a ' case of interest to workmen belong ing to benefit . societies . An operative mason , while " locked-out \ " had occasion to lay claim to the sick fund of a "benefit society of which lie was a member . The society repudiated his claim , on the two-fold ground that he rucuived money from the lock-out " fund , and that ho was a member of a funeral society , contrary , as it was stated , to one of their rules . The act of . the society was confirmed by the decision . of the magistrate .

      was sufficiently large to enable 140 hands to work in it , and at the time of the outbreak many thousand reams of paper and other articles were stored in the various floors . The premises were exceedingly old , they having been , according to the entablature over the entrance , erected in 1 * 668 , two years after the great fire of . London . Before the firemen had time to get their engines into full working order , the fire had seized upon the stock of paper . The stock and buildings are destroyed , but we believe are insured to the full value .

      General Home News.

      GENERAL HOME NEWS .

      ^ Gpjneratj .Iiojie News

      Principal of King ' s College , Dr . Irons * , and . the Rectors of St . James ' s and St . Marylebone . What is hoped to be done is , to show so large an amount of protest as to set the matter at rest . Public Health . —There was a slight fallirig-ofF in the mortality of the metropolis last week . The deaths from small-pox were 40 ; 82 from scarlatina , and 181 from bronchitis . The total number of deaths was 1 , 289 , which is a little below tiie average . The births of { last week amounted to 1 , 838 . In the City the mortality returns have fallen , from , an average of 70 per week to 58 .

      St . Geohge ' s-in-the-East . —On Sunday there were four services , as usual , at the parish church , at one of which the Bev . Bryan King , the rector , officiated . That conducted by Mr . Hugh Allen passed off quietly , but the other three , in which the regular parochial clergy wer . e engaged , were interrupted by hissing and coughing , the interruptions proceeding entirely from boys and girls , who evidently looked upon the matter as a good joke . Some few grownup persons made a point of" saying " the responses in a loud tone , in order to destroy the effect of the choristers' chanting , but their eifbrts were weak and by no means successful . The morning service was

      performed by the Rev . C . F . Lowder ; who also preached , the Rev . Bryan King reading the lessons . The rector ' s afternoon service was interrupted in the usual style , but the police gave some gentle hints to the principal offenders , which tended to moderate their hostility . At half-past six o ' clock the doors were thrown open for the evening service , and in a few minutes the building was tilled , nine-tenths of the congregation being composed of boys and girls , who attended with about the same amount of reverential feeling as they would have displayed on a visit to the Victoria Theatre . The Rev . A . H . Mackonochie was the officiating minister , and he

      was permitted to go on with the service without interruption until the clos ^ pt'tha second collect , when on giving out the hymn he was assailed with a general fit of coughing . At the close of the sermon the rev . gentleman did not turn his face to the altar ; and it may therefore be fairly assumed that the clergy are willing to make concessions as far as they can do so without violation of principle . Mr . Mackonochie has within the last few days refused the vicarage of St . Saviour ' s , Leeds , which was offered to him , rather than desert the rector in the present excited state of the parish . At the close of the evening service a large body of people followed the choristers through the streets to the

      Missionhouse in Wellclose-square , but beyond hissing and hooting , they were guilty of no violence . On Thursday evening a vestry meeting was specially convened , for the purpose of considering the conduct of the rector in sending a " threatening letter" to the churchwardens on the subject of their retention of the keys of the parish church , which the rector claimed in connection with his right as the ecclesiastical ruler of the parish . Mr . Churchwarden Thompson , who presided , deprecated any further movement ; and , without saying so in . so many thatbetween

      words , gave the vestry to understand , the rector and the parishioners a compromise might be made , if the olive-branch of peace were held out by the parishioners . Some discussion ensued ; and , at tho earnes t request o f the churchwarden , the proceedings were adjourned , the churchwarden having pledged his word that he would not yield an inch unless tho wishes of the parishioners were complied with . It seems pretty clear that the rector and Mr . Thompson , each of whom has always expressed a desire for peace , have had a consultation , which , it may bo hoped , will load to the best

      results . Sympathy with tub Poris . —One of . the first meetings of tho kind was held at Halifax on Monday , with Father Kavanagh in tho chair . Resolutions of sympathy with the Pope were moved , bub it soon nppoared that there were other than Roman Catholic elements in tho meeting . The resolutions wore declared to " bo oarried , There is a talk of a mooting of a similar kind in London , composed of Roman Catholics exclusively . Tho Roman Catholic Primate of Ireland , 3 > r . Dixon , has boon making a speech on tho subject at Droghoda , which is remarkable for its attuok on the Emporor of tho Fronch . ' Tho star of Napoleon , " said tho speaker , " is no longer in tho ascondant , and there will bo no more Solforinoos or Magentas—tho noxt will bo a Waterloo 1 " .

      The Goukt . —There is' no incident of the slightest importance to relate of the lioyal family this week , except that the Queen and her children are all in good health , and enjo 3 ing complete privacy at Osbbrne ; the only visitors have been the Prince and Princess of Leiuingen . According to present arrangements , everything is to be held in readiiiess at Windsor Castle for the return of the Queen on the 21 st instant , though her Majesty will not probably arrive till-the day after . The Prince of Wales was to leave Oxford yesterday for the Christmas vacation . Prince Alfred has been with the Euryalus to Corfu , where he has been feted and made much of .

      The New Solicitor-General . — Mr . William Atherton , Q . C ., M . P ., has received the appointment of Solicitor-General , rendered vacant by the appointment of Sir Henry Keating to the judicial bench . He is the son of the late Rev . William Atherton , a distinguished Wesleyan minister , and sotne time President of the Conference , his mother being a daughter of the late Rev . Walter Morison , a clergyman of the Established Church of Scotland . He was born in Glasgow in 1806 , and was married in 1843 to Agnes Mary , the second daughter of Mr , Hall , the Chief Magistrate of Bow-street . In 1839 he was called to the bur by the Inner Temple , having during the previous seven years practised as a special

      pleader . Ho has represented the city of Durham since 1852 , and is what may be considered a very advanced Liberal , being in favour of the ballot , u large reform of the laws , the removal of all religious disabilities , and tho extension of the suffrage . Game Slaughtering : Spout . — The Duke of Cambridge , says a fashionable paragraph , and soveral other noWomon and gentlomon , have boon shooting during the past week in the preserves of Lord Huntingfield , at ilovinghurn , Walpole , and Cookloy , Suffolk . About ; 2 , 400 head of game wero killed

      during the two days , during which tho Duke remained in the neighbourhood , but tho party shot altogether 3 , 700 head . Tho Duke left the county on Thursday . His Royal Highness thon , it appears , visited tho Karl and Countess of Derby , at Knowsloy . The Earl , accompanied by tho Duke , Princo Edward of Saxo Weimar , tho Earl of Wilton , and the other gentlemen of the party , enjoyed the sport of ehooting on Wednesday , when about 1 , 300 hoad of gamo fell to their guns . On tho noxt day there was another battue .

      Revision oit this Book of Common Prayer .- — Certain of tho clergy of the Established Church are signing a declaration which states that any attempt at tho presont time to altor the Book of Common Prayer would bo attended with groat danger to the peace , and unity of tho Church . It is ft movement , as we need not explain , against Liturgical Reform . The declaration is made in answer to what Lord Ebury said in the House of Lords , when , in spenlcing of the matter , he declared that it would bo fooliBh and -fruitless to forco alterations which would bo distautoful to tho clergy . The circular announcing this stop is signed by Dean Trench , Dr . Juki ,

      _ . . . Tub Scandal . at Norwich . —It is to bo hoped that the bribery and corruption at Norwich is not entirely shuffled aside . If thoro had boon a Royal Commission , as at Wakeflold and Gloucester , charges would not have been pre & rred by both sides ana then ¦ withdrawn , just as in a phantasmagoria exhibition . The Liberal citizens who have tukon up tho alleged municipal bribery have threatened to submit tho mutter for tho consideration of Government , wuu a view to the flllng oi' an ex-oflloio information against certain parties by tho Attorney-General , or an indictment may possibly bp preferred at tho noxt

      assizes . An action has been brought against the Norfolk Chronicle , an organ of the Conservative party , for alleged libellous articles in August , in reference to the bribery committed , on behalf of the Liberal party of Norwich at the general election in April . A Memorial of Disgrace . —A somewhat ancient piece of ordnance has just been accidentally discovered in the river Medway , near Chatham Dockyard , a short distance from Uprior Castle . The canno ' n was found embedded in the mud at Gillingham-reach , by a dredger named Itobinson , when it was with . ' some difficulty raised to the surface , and removed to the Gun Wharf , for the purpose of being examined , in order tojdiscovor any marks upon it indicating its age . The gun is of iron , and its weight 21 cwt . 2 qrs . 6 lb . When discovered , it had

      three shots in it , believed to be twelve-pounders . The discovery of such a large cannon in the . situation where it was found has given rise to much speculation , an opinion being expressed , which is somewhat favoured by its appearance and shape , that the gun formerly belonged to one of the men-ofwar burnt in the Medway at Chatham in the reign of Charles II ., when the Dutch fleet , under De Huyter , sailed up the river as far as Upnor Castle , opposite tlie dockyard , and burnt the Royal Oak , the Royal London , the Charles V ., the Great James , and several other English vessels of war then lying in the Medway . The gun has been carefully cleaned and scraped in order to ascertain the date on it , but the only marks which have yet been discovered are the Admiralty broad arrow , aud some figures showing its . original weight .

      England and Fbanxe . — -The able correspondent of the Daily . News , who styles himself "A Westminster Elector , " writes to that journal : — "A friend of mine , intimately acquainted with France and the French , has just returned hither from Paris . He declares the statement so pertinaciously reiterated , that all French soldiers , ' priests , and civilians are panting for war with England , ' to be false . Among liis French acquaintances , my informant numbers two distinguished generals and a recent Marshal of France . These eminent , men , he tolls nu , never speak of England , save in tho kindest terms , mingled with regrets that so much exasperating language should have been bandied by ill-conditioned persons

      between the two countries . I myself travelled about France in the course of tlie past ' summer . I conversed with all sorts and degrees of men . On no occasion did I come across the Anglophobia which our agricultural and clerical orators take upon themselves to deprecate in language more strong than polite . I fraternised with soldiers also , high and low . Even in the barracks I failed to discover the anti-English mania which Mr . W . Williams , M . P . and Sir A . Hood , M . P ., cum multis aliis , fervidly picture to amazed audiences as a plague now raging' in la belle France . Let us have a national guard by all means—one in which the

      upper , middle , and working classes shall be duly represented , both in officers and rank and file ; but let us organise it with cool heads , and disouss its details with civil tongues . The word ' panic ' is misplaced in an English dictionary . A great people should not understand its moaning . Nor should the true Briton ever deign to bluster . On a fit occasion he ought , like his bull-dog , to bite , but never bark . Again , why exaggerate our weaknesses ? Why proclaim to the world that England is both old and toothless ? Old she may bu , but toothless—no ! All people on earth know her strength—except certain of her own sons apparently . _ _ , Oh

      Prorogation op P . uilument .- 'Ihursday , Parliament was again further prorogued . At two o ' clock the Lord Chancellor and tho other peers named in tho royal commission took their seats in front Of the throno in the House of Lords , and ' her Majesty ' s faithful Commons " were summoni'd . I ho officials of the IIouso oC Commons having made their uppoaranco at tho bar , thu royal commission was again road , and tho Lord Chancellor thon , in tho terms of tho royal commission , declared the Parliament prorogued until tho 24 th of January , I 860 , tlion to meet " lor tho consideration or various divers important affairs . " This Oihustmas Holidays . —On Thursday , ac noon , a meeting of tho bankers , merchants , manuinuamtftins oi

      facturers , shopkeopers , and other Bradford and its vicinity , was hold at the Kxohongo in that town , on tho s ubject of kooplng tho day attor ChrUtmus-duy as u central holiday . IIio MW ° f » Mr . Isaac Wright , by whom tho meeting had been oonvonud , was in tho chair , nnd u resolution to that effect was unanimously adopted . Tho Lord Mayor , ns tho chief civic authority , following tho oJtamplo of two of his predecessors under similar circumstances , a few days since made u recommendation to tho morohants and traders of tho Ulty that Monday , tho 26 th Inst ., should bo kept us a public holiday . Tho principal houses in the Manchester trado , a » also the loading west-ond ailk-morcers , have already , with great consideration for tholr young people , an-

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 17, 1859, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_17121859/page/7/