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    November 19/1853.] THE LEADER. 1113

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    MISCEL LA NEOUS. The Queen holds her Cou...

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    A Special Court of the Corporation of th...

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    The Tynemouth Bribery Commission opened ...

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    Wo omit, our unual criminal record under...

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    the Rossington station , when an axletree of one of the t rucks broke , and threw the truck across the down line . The express came up at the instant , punctually to its time , and dashed into the broken train at full speed . The engine-driver , stoker , and three passengers were seriously injured , neither fatiilly . , Another illustration of the carelessness of railway officials has occurred on the Bristol and Birmingham line . About a mile from the Cheltenham station tliere is a coal dep 6 t . A coal train was shunted across the rails at the moment a passenger train from Cheltenham was due ; fog prevailing at the time ! A collision of course ensued , and several passengers were bruised .

    November 19/1853.] The Leader. 1113

    November 19 / 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 1113

    Miscel La Neous. The Queen Holds Her Cou...

    MISCEL LA NEOUS . The Queen holds her Court still at Windsor , and continues the theatrical performances begun last week . The second dramatic performance took place on . Thursday evening . Tie pieces selected upon tins occasion were a Comedy , in three acts , by Mr . Slfagsby Lawrence , entitled the Game of Speculation , and a Comic Drama , in one act , by Mr . Charles Matthews , entitled Little Toddlehins .

    A Special Court Of The Corporation Of Th...

    A Special Court of the Corporation of the Trinity-house was held on " Wednesday , for the purpose of swearing in the Earl of Aberdeen as an elder brother : Prince Albert , Master of the Corporation , presided on the occasion , and was supported by Sir J . Graham , First Lord of the Admiralty , Captain Shepherd , Deputy-Master , and the other elder brethren . The Duke and Duchess af Brabant have been on a visit to Plymouth and Torquay , this week ; there inspecting the wonders of our arsenal , shipping , and the breakwater . Lord Fullerton , one of the Scotch judges , has resigned his post , in consequence of ill-health . Salford has now a new building for its Mechanics' Institution . It was opened on Monday , and , at the evening gathering , Mr . Brother ! on , Mr . Hindley , Mr . Bayley , and other local gentlemen of note attended .

    A meeting of British residents in Pans has been held at Meurice ' Hotel , to honour the inemoi'y of Lieutenant Bellot ; and it has been resolved to erect a tablet , in an appropriate place , -with a suitable inscription . Lord Seafield is tke new representative peer for Scotland , in the room of the late Lord Salterun . The Count Walewski , the Trench Ambassador at this Court , has been summoned to France , to attend his Imperial master , but will return in a few days . —Times . It is reported at Sunderland that on '* the meeting of Parliament Mr . Hudson will apply for the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds . The Conservatives speak of Mr . Duncan Dunbar as Ms successor . —Tory Paper . Before he was recalled , Canedo , the Captain General of Cuba , prohibited tie entry of the Daily Jtfetos into the island . The reason for this was that the British journal has censured the authorities for conniving at the slavo trade . Canedo says it is " calumny . " Lord Minto is at Florence , his hotel watched by the spies of the police 1

    The Tynemouth Bribery Commission Opened ...

    The Tynemouth Bribery Commission opened its sittings on Wednesday . The contest , at Salisbury , ended abruptly , on Wednesday , by the resignation of the " independent" candidate , Captain Julius Roberta . At two o ' clock the Captain had only obtained 88 votes , whilo his opponent , General Buckley , Liberal-Conservative , had polled 255 . The mob pelted the General , and would not hear him . On Monday evening last the working men of Hull prefiontod silver tankards to their laLo members , Lord G oderich and Mr . Clay , who wore unseated last session . The ox-Mayor , Mr . Blundoll , presided on the occasion . The mooting was largo , and Mr . Clay and Lord Godorich made ample speeches . Birmingham ban again bestirred itself on behalf of the repoal of taxes on knowledge . A public meeting was held this week at tho Public Oflieo , Birmingham , Mr . Boodle ,

    of tho Birmingham Journal , in tho chair ; the purpose boing to take into consideration tho beat moans of aiding tho removal of tho two remaining taxes upon tho u . so of paper and on a freo press . After a Htutomont had been made , by Mr . T 3 orlnoii Collet in reference- to the general buHiiKw . s of tho mooting , it wan resolved , on tho motion of Mr . George Moir , that a further effort bo made in Birmingham to . assist tho exertions of tho Central Association ; and Mr . Seholofield , M . I ' ., and tho Mayor , wero vohjhsotivoly appointed president and treasurer of tho association . Aylo . sbury ban refused Church Rate . At a vostry mooting , on Friday week , a proposed rule of 7 d . in tho pound met with ho much opposition that it was withdrawn . Tho Hum required for ro- ]> owing the church in proposed to bo vaiaod an follows : —JKX ) Z . by allotting 400 of tho now Healu to subscribers , 220 L by donation froiri the Incorporated Church Building Hocioty , and ;) 70 / . by voluntary contributions .

    An important preliminary cominittco meeting wax hold ° n Saturday last , at JJirmirigham , under Iho presidency of thoRiirht iVon . Sir J . S . Pakington , Bart ., attended by Mr . *'• B . Addorloy , M . l . \ , Mr . C . 11 . Um

    y circulated , with aviow to a largo attendance . It . wan '" inoiuicod ( , hnt Hovond noblomon and gontlomon of ( ho Homo of CommonH , in addition to t . ho Mayor of iHrmingbanj , mid gentlemen throughout tho country who liavo dintinguiHb « td thomsolveN for their interest in the question , " vo already indicated tboir intention to attend tho Oonforoiic . o ; by Homo of whom it . will bo convened , including » u ? . loin Pakington and Mr . Addorloy , who , it will bo ^ "oinoinlmrod , brought , into Parliament tho la-st , Bill on tho "ubjoot ; tho Mayor and the Eocordov of Birmingham

    the Bishop-of "Worcester ; Lord Denbigh , Lord Calthorpe , and Lord Lyttelton ; to whom we have also to add the Lord Mayor of London ; and other distinguished individuals . A vestry meeting-of tho parish of St . Mary , Lambeth , was held on Thursday , in the new vestryrhall , Kennington-grepn . . . With reference to the Commissioners of Sewers , resolutions were adopted in favour of appointing a deputation to impress on Lord Palmerston the necessity of protecting the interests of the ratepayers by introducing a . representative system , and inviting the rector and churchwardens to take into their serious consideration tho pro * sent state of the dwellings of the poor , and to confer with the parochial officers , with the members for the borough , and with owners of property in the parish , as to the best means of remedying the evil . Mr . Williams and Mr . Wilkinson , the members ' for the borough , were present .

    Sir Eobert Xane distributed the prizes at the Queen ' s College , Cork , on Saturday . Mr . Fagan and Mr . Beamish , the city members , were present . After the distribution of the prizes , the President delivered an address , in which , after bearing testimony to the uniform excellent conduct of the students since the opening of the College , he said , — - " We have had , pursuing their studies together in this college , in each year , some 150 young men , of various social conditions , of various degrees of intellectual capacity , and of various forms of belief , and there has not occurred among those masses of students a single instance of controversy or collision ; not in a single case has it been necessary to apply those rules of discipline wisely provided by our statutes for the repression of serious irregularity of conduct ; and in the higher responsibilities of morality and religion , I believe I may appeal to the reverend gentlemen , who being officially connected with . this college have

    favoured one with the expression of their views , and who consider the conduct of the students in those regards to merit their full approval . " Mdlle . Sophie Cruvelli , on Saturday last , signed an engagement with tho Opera for two years , at a salary of 4 O 00 Z . sterling a-year . She is to choose her own parks , to play only twice a week , and to have four months' vacation in each year . In case she is called upon to ; sing three times a week , the extra night is to be paid 601 . A separate , engagement is entered into for two months of her congS , during the Universal Exhibition of 1855 , at the rate of 1 O 0 OZ . per month , so that the salary for the second year will , in fact , be 6000 Z . — G-alignanu On reading the quotation which closes the manifesto just issued by the Emperor of Russia , the Sultan relieved his mind in Turkish verse , of which the following is a literal translation : — 1

    " Setting off on your wars , you singa Te Deum , As if you'd already mrjde tutim of meum ; Just now you prefer the accusative case , But the nominative soon will appear in its place : For ( not to observe that this terrible fuss AVill certainly prove in the end Tc-dious ) , Those who chant out Te Denm at matins must , later , At vespers sing small Deitu miscrutur . " —Morning Chronicle . It appears thnt there is a Dutch ileet in tho Mediterranean . The Prins Van Orange , frigate , bearing tie flag of Admiral Bouriciera , was at Smyrna on the 29 th of October , on which day the Balcmbang , frigate , was despatched to Malta , arrived there on the 6 th of November , and was to sail on the 8 th for the Tcxcl . Tho Zceband , brig of war , was also at Smyrna , about to proceed to JSTaupliu . The Makassar , schooner of war , was on the 7 th of November hourly looked for at Malta from the Texel .

    A significant fact was mentioned at Portsmouth , on Tuesday , in reference to the relations existing at presont bet-ween this country and liussia . A gentleman , formerly in the dockyard there , who bad accepted a situation in tbo Ituasian dockyard at Cronsladt with a very handsome salary , bad returned tlioro that day , reporting that all tho English artisans in tho service of Russia havo bcian discharged . Their number was very considerable . Ton gunners and drivers have boon ndded to each of the field batteries of the . lioyal Artillery , making tho present ^ strength of gunners and drivers in ' each battery 128 men . The strength of t . ho batteries during tho last war whs 120 gunners to each battery ; but at that tinio ( bora whs a eorpa of drivers exclusively attached to tho horses and not included in tho 120 for nerving and working tho guns . Tho men and horses of the batterios aro at presnnt m excellent condition , and havo on every occasion , when tho weather is favourable , plenty of exerci . so .

    Tho Jtunsian Church ufl'eotH toleration . Of tbo vast population of fully 00 , 000 , 000 , only about 45 , 000 , 000 aro raombera of the regulnr Church ; . ' 150 , 000 aro difi . sontora or heretics to that Church itnolf ; 3 , 500 , 000 Roman Catholics aro found throughout tho wide domain ?) of tho Czar ; nnd fully 250 , 000 Armenians . Tho Prote . slant . H of tho Au ^ hburg Confession of Faith amount to 2 , 0 O () , ( XK ) ; tliono of tho Reformed Church to 54 , 000 . Thero aro 10 , 000 Moraviann whilo no Iohh than 2 , 500 , 000 belong to the Mahome-500000 in number

    tan orood . Tho . Town are ( , , and tho followers of that mysterious potentate , the Grand Lama of Thibet ,, amount , to no Ions than half that amount . Hut there , are creeds still morn extraordinary throughout tho enormous tract of territory which constitutes tbo Russian ompiro ; 170 , 000 are open idolatorw , and no leas than GOO , ()( M ) arc addicted to tho dingusting pract ico of Fotiohism , worshipping bats , cows , and every uncouth npeanwn of brute , aH representative of tbo divinity of heaven . —Parkcr ' n National Mi . wl / irnt / .

    Wo Omit, Our Unual Criminal Record Under...

    Wo omit , our unual criminal record under that title , because the chhch this week have boon of quite nn ordinary diameter . There 1 ms lieen one onso of bigamy , one of dcflortinjr a wile and fiunily , two of amaullN on tho police , and tbo ordinary run of potty thefts and frauds . Jonen , a prisoner , charged with stealing a wateli , at tho Middlesex Messionn , told im extraordinary Htory . In oxt . onuation . of bis olYimco , be waid that , in January hist ho loft tho Westminster Uridevi'on , where ho iruJ l > oeii for Vi months , with llio 'boul of eliaraetera and n Hint , of eloihoH and httU-ti-croww . He thou got work at u Junuo irt tlw

    course of erection near the prison , and remained there , giving great satisfaction , until a boy who had known him in prison , and happened to bo assisting tho workmen , told them > liat he ( Jones ) was a convicted thief . Tho workmen told the , foreman , and he was in consequence discharged . He then obtained work at tic Queen ' s Palace , which was being repaired . It ; was there found out again that he had been in prison , and was turned away . lie afterwards got some work in Old-street , and a ' policeman came and told his master ' . old story that lie was a convicted thief , and he was'for the third time turned away . He had wished _ to have gained an honest living , but ho found this was impossible , as , wherever he worked , as soon as it was found out , by people informing against him , that he had been in prison , ho was at once turned ¦ away . A policeman threw great discredit on the story , and the judge ordered an inquiry .

    Sarah Clarke , walking along Oxford-street , fancied Emma Jones insulted her , and thereupon , saying , ' ' What do you look at-me for ? " thrust her umbrella in the eye of Miss Jones . She was very properly fined 51 . or six weeks in gaol . James Hanna , a policeman , had a butter-tub and lost it . He met an old woman , named Webb , carrying it along the street . Hanna declared the . tub was his , and hurried the woman to the station-house , having previously beat and kicked her . He was fined 40 s ., or a montli ' s

    imprisonment . Mr . Boddy , a surgeon , lost his daughter . She was missing a fortnight . He suspected , at length , what was the fact—she had become a Catholic . Applying to tho Lambeth magistrate for aid to recover her from the Clapham nunnery , where he believed she was , Mr . Elliott advised him to apply to Dr . Grant , " Bishop of Southwark , " Dr . Grant gave Mr . Boddy a note to the lady at the convent , and she referred them to the Servants' Home . Hero Mrs . Boddy found her daughter . The girl cried very much , said she was . perfectly at liberty there , and expressed her . fear that she would not bo allowed to attend the church

    of her adoption . She was taken homo . The horrid murder of the little girl at Dunster , Somersetshire ^ seems to have been brought home to the stone-cutter , Bailey . When he was arrested , a , knife was found upon him ; his trousers were bloodstained ; and in . the barn where tlie body of the poor little victim was found , there was a buckle-strap identified as belonging to Bailey . The Court of Common Pleas has decided an important ease beai-ing on freehold land societies . It came before the Court on an appeal from the decision of the . revising-b . irrister of North Lancashire ^ The appellants wero the owners of undivided shares in freehold property in Preston . A portion of this property was let under agreement that

    the tenant should nay 4 . 0 s . a-year for it to the landlords , on the terms that they should pay the poor-rates , waterrate , and local board of health-rate . The reviaing-barrister held that the annual value did not ainount to iU . s . a-year , but that the real annual vnlue was 40 , s-. minus the rates . On this decision a number of votes now depended , and thrt joint owners appealed from it . The Court ; were of opinion that the tenant ' s rates , being paid by the landlord , mush be deducted . All the landlord got was 40 , 9 . for the land and for an agreement to pay tie rates , Avbieh was tbo samo thing as though he had agreed to pay for the . tenant ' s boor . He did not receive 40 s . a-year ibr his land . Tho revising-barrister bad no very didicult . task in deciding on this question ; nnd that , moderately ditlieull ; task be had performed very well , and had come to a right conclusion .

    Andrews , a tailor in Cork-street , Bond-street , sued Mr . Douglas Jorrold in the Slierill"ri Court , for a debt ; of IS )/ . (? , < r ., " for clothes delivered at bi . s request to j \ 1 i \ 11 ' onry Muyhew . " Thin was a ease o ( " coiilradiclory testimony . Andrews conti'iiili'd Mint ] S \ i : Jerrold bad told him to ( ' rnnko tho clothes ordered , and no more . " Mr . Jorrold , on the contrary , said he hml told Andrews that Mr . May how " was good for JO / . " In answer to a question , Mr . Jerrold said Mr . Mayliew was eight years younger than be was . Mr . ilnder-Sberitr Burchell fucot . iouKly remarked that , that , answer wan mther avoiding the question , which was as to Mr . M ' aybevv ' s age . Mr . Jerrohi . —I am lil ' t . y . Mr . Under-Sheriff Burehell . —I hope ; ( Iml , is not , considered " elderly . " ( Laughter . ) Mr . Hawkins . — TIo is no chicken , then . Mr . . Jorrold . —Ob , no , bo is no chicken . ( Tnughfer . ) Tho jury believed tho evidence of Mr . Jerrold , and gave a verdict , for him . A . singular cuso of breach of promise of marriage came before , l . lio Bail Court ; on Tlnuviday . iliird , a retired Horjeant , courted u young widow and jeweller by trade . Hard urged his unit , with such warmth upon Chultbui , tbo father , that ; bo consented to ( lie match . Ifero is bin dramatic account of tho conclusion , of the bargain .-- " Some days after thin tho defendant and my daughter came to ii ' iy house together . lie was very uneasy for marriage , and wished to be married . I said , * Mny I understand Mr . Hard wirdios to marry you ? Do you think you can love Mr . Hard , and make him a good wifoP' Bbo Huid , ' I e / ui , father . ' Ho sprang forward , and put , out ; bin

    right himd , and my diuightor runs up and pnl . H ber band Hiiiftck into his . 1 presses ' em together like Mint , as bard ani I could squeeze them both together . 1 Maid , ' I-nco you are now both liuppy and pleased , and I . hope you will remain no , ami , viirlually s ] leaking , i consider you are now really married . ' 1 Haw thero iviin a , little move made , nnd a bottle produced , and Home wino and water was made . I . took a little drop tienli . lie urged very much lor Monday , this being Friday . I was the only person who overruled it ; , for , ho wim no yvry obstinate . Ho told mo he hud bought , a lio . oiiHo , and id'would be carried out , on Monday . I ( oil him there wiih not timo t <> draw the deed up—the marringo covenant . The Thiirwlny following wrh thou fixed for tho nmrringo . They remained about two hours , and wont away together . " Hard bought a ring , and gavo it , to " May , but ; he al ' torward . M uUorod hi « mind and " wont and married Homebody elae . " Datmifrocj 60 f . '

• Citation
  • Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 19, 1853, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_19111853/page/9/