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      Accidents And Sudden Deaths. A Giiil Abo...

      . SSSsS ^ gSS ^/ V * ff ^ tIepool H « -bt « r in search for vessels , on ^ Sf & n S lobert . The father was put on board a Swedish vessel , near to the stone buoy , leaving the sons fntheeoftl * Shortly afterwards , the coble was observed from the shore to capsize , and a signal was given to some other cobles at a distance , which set sail , and were soon near to the seat of the accident ; but both men had disappeared . . . . . , has been returned

      A verdict of manslaughter against Thomas Baxter , the driver of a passenger train which ran into a goods train while the latter was being shunted across the line at the Albion Station on the Stour Valley Railway , in consequence of which an old man , named Thomas " VVilbraham , received such injuries that he died in the course of a few days . The danger signal was up at the time the goods train was being shunted ; but Baxter either did not observe or disregarded it . —A child , about three years old , was being fed by its grandmother with mashed potato . Suddenly , about half a potato was missed ; the child made a noise as if choking ; its face turned black , and its tongue protruded . Surgical aid was sent for , but it was too late . There was no doubt that the child had seized the half-potato while the grandmother ' s back was turned , and had endeavoured to swallow it without mastication .

      A sixty-horse-power steam boiler burst early on Wednesday morning , at Hampson Mills , near Bury , the property of Messrs . Warburton and Holker , bleachers and dyers , completely destroying the engine-house , dyehouse , and . a warehouse , and carrying a large iron flue , eighteen feet long , to a distance of eighty yards . Nine lives , according to one account , have been sacrificed , in addition to many more placed in jeopardy . The number of those severely scalded and injured exceeds that of the killed , and one of the number was scarcely expected to survive the night . Another report states the loss of life at only six , with four bodies missing . The cause ef the accident is not yet known .

      A child has been drowned m a tub , in which the mother was washing some things . During her absence , the child ( a little girl , four years old ) must have climbed up the tub and tumbled over . She was found with her face downwards in four inches of water , and , on being removed , she was . quite dead . —A dreadful accident occurred on Wednesday evening to Mr . Badger , a commercial traveller . He was in the act of passing in a gig a crossing on the Moreton and Stratford Branch Railway , when the passenger-train was seen coming along the line at a rapid rate . The guard of the train , perceiving the danger , hallooed at the top of his voice , and applied the breaks ; but all was of no avail , for the next moment the gentleman was hurled into the air , and , in falling to the ground , came in contact with the metals . Little hope is entertained of his recovery . The gig was completely smashed , but the horse escaped unhurt .

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      THE LEABUK [ No : 335 , Saturday , _ .-i i— — * t ~ t — . . ^ ^ ^ ——^^^^^—^^^—^ m ^^^^^^_^_^_

      Naval And Military. Siege Operations At ...

      NAVAL AND MILITARY . Siege Operations at Chatham . —Some siege operations , on a scale of great magnitude and splendour , were conducted at Chatham on Tuesday in the presence of the new Commander-in-Chief . The evolutions were of an exceedingly elaborate kind , and appear to have been executed with the utmost precision and brilliancy . The crossing of the pontoon bridge exhibited the vast improvement which has recently been effected in this species of extempore communication from ahore to shore . " Another operation of the Sappers , " says the Times reporter , " which attracted much attention was that of subaqueous explosion . A charge of 501 b . of gunpowder was attached to a case filled with balks of timber and sunk in the middle of St . Mary ' a Creek . At a given signal it was fired by a voltaic battery , under the . direction of Captain . Cumberland , and instantaneously there rose from the surface of the river a vast pillar of water resembling' a waterspout . The siege operations having been brought to a close , the Duke of Cambridge , who expressed his cordial approval of the manner in which they were conducted , visited the hospitals and inspected the Crimean invalids of the Royal Engineer corps . " As usual , on accident occurred during the operations . A mine exploded ; a quantity of clay was thrown into the air , and a portion of it descended on some of the men of

      the Provisional Battalion , breaking the leg of one , and bruising others ; but no lives were lost . The men are progreolng favourably . MxunuaY Swxnx > i . kks . —Tho practice has become bq ptwwtattof ; late , amongst several of the young officers *** * J *> 8 «» libftinpton gurriaon , of giving fictitious bills to ™* JJ **** l * UM » i to payment , that tho commandant ( Col . Jefflwrtea ) . h *» feund it necessary to caution the public TTiu * * * •• V- *' tli « m in exchange for goods or cash witbout flm MmrtOning from their bankers ov army «^ nt » TrtM * be * jfewer i » . wy balance in hand to meat them . ~ - # amp , Mro tndttHmcknt . 0

      iJI * 2 *» B »* »»«* M « m , WWckod at the Lizttrd Point X 2 S ! i" ^ T ] ^ L *• 16 th ** " * - » •*«* thi ttWWjr gn >« n 4 swell which had t « t to , an * to which aha was completely exposed . Had the weather continued

      moderate , there was great expectation of saving her , all machinery and necessary appliances being on the spot for use after the blowing up of the rocks under the starboard bilge had been accomplished . The Basin at Sheerness . —In consequence of the constant filling up of the middle discharging basin and camber at Sheerness , -which now prevents vessels of moderate draught of water entering to be discharged , the Lords of the Admiralty have entered into a contract -with Mr . Thomas Stutely , merchant , of Sheerness , for the removal of not less than thirteen thousand tons of mud from the basin and camber . A powerful mudengine lias been set to work , by which three hundred and sixty tons of mud per hour can be put into barges . The work will be completed in ten weeks , and when done , ships drawing from fifteen to sixteen feet of water will be able to be taken , in for the discharge of their

      cargoes . The Mediterranean Submarine Telegraph . — Mr . Brett has arrived at the Isle of Galita , on the Algerian coast , with the cable and communication in excellent condition , after having successfully passed depths of two thousand metres . A despatch has been sent to London to order a cable of sufficient length to reach to Bona . Army Regulations . —A circular , of which , the following paragraphs are the most important parts , has been addressed from the Horse Guards to officers commanding certain regiments : — " The establishment of the regiment under your command will probably be shortly reduced to fifty-seven sergeants , twenty-one drummers , and one thousand rank and file . As the regiment is now considerably above that establishment ,

      I am desired by his Royal Highness the General Commanding-in-Chief to request that you will select from the whole present strength of the corps the specified number of men , being careful to retain none but such as are in every respect able-bodied and effective soldiers and not under the prescribed standard of five feet six inches , if so many are available . Should there be any very eligible young men , well-limbed and broad-chested , of five feet five inches , you may use your discretion in retaining them . Having completed your battalion , you will cause a strict medical inspection to be made of the remainder , and send to this department the usual discharge documents of all such as are deemed unfit for the service , accompanied by a nominal list , according to the form enclosed , and report how many are left , in order to their being permitted to volunteer for other regiments , which will be hereafter notified to you . "

      The Bath Waters and the Crimean Soluikrs . — The medical authorities of the army havo advised that a large number of invalid Crimean soldiers should be sent to Bath for the benefit of the mineral waters of that city . Accommodation is required for one hundred and fifty men , and on Friday week a gentleman sent down by the Government , accompanied by Mr . Bush , the Mayor of Bath , inspected various buildings with a view to the selection of one adapted to the required purpose . Banquet to the Hon . Baheington Pkllew . —The Hon . Captain Pellew , of the second battalion of Rifles , having returned from the Crimea to the residence of his

      mother , the Dowager Lady Exmouth , at Canonheign , Devonshire , the inhabitants gave him a hearty welcome , and invited him to a banquet . Mr . Laurence V . Palk , M . P ., presided , and , in proposing the health of the Captain ( which was drunk with enthusiasm ) , he alluded to the achievements of hia grandfather , Lord Exmouth , " , when told to attack stone walls , thought not of his ships , and who , when he was ordered to attack one of the greatest arsenals of the world , placod his wooden ships against stone walls , and there nailed his colours to the mast . Hia namo was Pellew , and not Napier . "

      Miscellaneous. The Court.—Her Majesty, O...

      MISCELLANEOUS . The Court . —Her Majesty , on Friday week , proceeded by special train to Salisbury , where she was received by the Mayor and corporation . Having visited tho cathedral , they proceeded on to Gosport by the Southwestern Railway , and from thence to Oaborno . —The Duchess of Cambridge , and tho Princess Mary of Cambridge , started on Saturday evening from Dover for Cologne . The West Indiks . —Most of tho West India islands aro suffering from the ravages of yellow fever ; but a slight decrease in this disease has taken place in St . Thomas ' s . At Demorurn , the Court of Policy met ou tho 11 th ult . Several bills were under consideration , among which was ouo to aufliorizo the payment of

      bounties to Indian immigrants who might prefer to reindonturo themselves instead of returning to India . Bills for improving the criminal law havo alao boon introduced . Tho Hon . Potor Rose wua elected a member of tho Court of Policy in the place of tho lion . Robert Smith , whoso term of service had expired . Tho Governor has Bent instructions to tho agent of tho colony at Madeira not to send any more Portuguese immigrants until they were ordored . Tho Portuguese immigrants on the cast aud wout coasts of Domcraru havo suffered greatly from sickness . Fovcr and dysontry havo been provafont at Georgetown ; but tho public health at Barbadoes is excellent , and tho general aspect of affairs satisfactory . At Trinidad , tho Council of Government had a mooting on the 14 th ult . It was stated thut au incrcaso of 11 , 000 / . had taken place in tho Customs

      revenue over the same period of last year , and 9500 / over the half-year of 1854 . A very favourable turn also taken place with regard to ^ local taxation , the number of defaulters having diminished from nine hundred in 1855 to four hundred for the present j-ear . Australia . —The opening of the Colonial Parliament at Sydney under the new constitution , establishing the system of responsible government , passed off favourably , and suitable replies to the address of the Governor-General were voted unanimously in the Legislative Conncil and the Legislative Assembly , the Ministerial programme being generally approved . In the Assembly , Mr . Daniel Cooper had been chosen Speaker by a vote of 24 against 23 for his opponent , Mr . Parker . Mr . Cooper is a wealthy native of the colony . It was he who headed the New South Wales subscription for the Patriotic Fund with a . donation of 1000 L

      Egypt . —Said Pacha , the Viceroy , has just resolved upon running steamers , carrying the Egyptian flag , all round the Red , Seo , from Suez to Cosseir , Massawah , Aden , Mocha , Jedda , Yambo , and to extend occasionally to Bussorah and Bagdad . The Pacha has requested a number of Europeans to act as directors of the

      steamers . New Zealand . —A war between two hostile tribes has broken out in New Zealand . Several of the natives have been killed . A City Missionary . —There lives at the east end of London a City missionary ( Mr . P . L . Jackson ) , belonging to we know not what sect , but assuredly a Christian , who for many years has devoted his life in the most practical way to the rescue of young people of either sex who have become thieves , vagrants , and profligates . With no more than the very slender income that a City missionary gets , he has habitually and for many years brought miserable creatures to his house , has filled his home with people of bad character , upon whose hearts

      he has been working , and who have said that they are willing to be honest . With his own hands he has cleaned and cured of skin diseases miserable youths whom even their companions loathed to touch . To the utmost of his power he has kept such people out of harm ' s way , until , by immense efforts , he lias found for them admission to some charity , or means of emigrating , or of earning in this country an honest living . Also . when he has touched the heart of some castaway boys or girls , he has not seldom discovered their first homes , and , by urgent letters and persuasion , reconciled them to offended parents . The contributions by which , he is now aided do not amount to more thaji about fifty pounds a year . That is the -whole endowment of his little hospital . —Inquirer .

      The Earl of Shrewsbury died at Lisbon on Monday week , in his twenty-fourth year . Ho succeeded his cousin John , the sixteenth earl , in 1852 , and was premier earl iu the English aud Irish peerages , and Hereditary Lord Steward of Ireland , in which office , as well as the Earldom of Shrewsbury , he is succeeded by his kinsman , Earl Talbot , of Ingestrie Hall , Stafford ; but it is supposed that the large family possessions do not descend with the title . His death will be greatly lamented by tho Roman Catholic Church , of which he was a member .

      Railway Detention in the North . —Our table is literally covered with complaints from all quarters as to the loss of time and inconvenience experienced from the irregularity of tho railway trains . Not a single day passes without the trains being hours behind their time , and on Saturday night it was no less than four hoiira ate . Wo have heard it reported that Lord Panmure was kept two hours sitting in a wheelbarrow at Guthric , lost week , waiting for the train . — 3 font-rose Standard . Dahtmoor Convict Prison . —Tho eighth report ui " Colonel Jebb , surveyor of convict prisons , juat issued , gives some interesting information relative to Dartmoor prison . The establishment having been formed as a prison for invalids capable of light labour , it is of importanco to know how far it has uuswered the purpose as regards health . Phthisis appears to bo the cause oi the greatest mortality , but during the year 1855 there was u considerable reduction iu sicknesH and mortality .

      Tho deaths only amounted to 24 , and this decrease , a . s compared with previous yours , was the more remarkable , from tho increase that had taken pluco in tho invalid class . Out of 51 !) prisoners received during the yeui 1855 not more than about 20 were able-bodied men . The convicts ure chiefly employed in agricultural work—i " reclaiming tho waste moorland , by trenching , draining ) and enclosing with stone wulla . In referenco to tho tiicket-of-leavo system tho governor of Dartmoor prison n ,, ., „ ft A « - » j-. * |« j- « w ipnn * i ' . i 4 ** a >> 1 < -. f 4-ii ^ t lioSkltLin U « r >^ tf * lll / lllOlCltJ —Another ' s trial of thu license system uiiorus

      saya , " year an opportunity of referring to its results . » Si » eo tm ) passing of tho act for the discharge of prisoners on license in this country , 9 G 2 havo been lib « ruted , of whom 2 <> havo had their licenses revoked , and I have only heard of five who huvo undergone u now trial aud are again tin ) Inmates of a priaon . " On thci whale , tho prison nt Dartmoor is said to bo " going on in all rcapecta aa hiiUhfactorily as cun be expected , considering the difliouluo . i insoparublo from the enforcement of diuciulino on ouch n

      clans . " New Invention to Piucvknt Sticam Boilicu Kxi'i-u * hionh . —An experiment hus been made at Munchurtter , in tho presence of a number of uciontiflc gentlemen , to teat au invention to prevent steam bailor exp losions . ^ iho trial took pluco at tho works of Iho patentee , Mr . Willmiu

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 23, 1856, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23081856/page/10/