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    august 23, 1856.]

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

    Routledge , -Newbridge Brass Foundry . The apparatus , whichMs of most simple construction , consists of an elbow pipe connecting the furnace with the side flue , and is fixed f ust below the water level in the boiler , but may be fixed at any eleva * ion , -or inuny position requisite , and can be applied to any kind of boiler , as anopening into a side or centre flue is all that is required . This pipe is perforated with a number of holes , about half an inch diameter , so placed as to be subject to the immediate action of the furnace fire . In these holes ore metal plugs , moTe or less fusible , according to the working pressure of the boiler . The moment the water in the boiler , from neglect or otherwise , is below the level , and leaves this pipe bare , the heat from the furnace acts upon the plugs , which melt , and the steam escap ing through the holes , immediatel y relieves the pressure on the i

    yesterday by the sudden announcement that the Queen was expected at one o'clock . How long will she stay i Where will she go ? What will she think of the new fountain ? Will the Hanoverian band play God Save the Qmen at the station ? Should the clubs turn out with banners and drums ? Up went St . George ' s banner , broad and gay , at the Abbey—bunting fluttered at the comer of every street visible from the station—several hundreds of Sunday dresses strutted or wriggled down to the railway—little b oys rehearsed their shrill hooray ! little girls puttheirhairstraightand jerked their bonnet forward—the clergy brushed their coats and lengthened their visages—the Mayor practised walking backwards for an hour by St . Michael ' s clock , to the peril of the drawing-room furniture and of his wife s nerves—many a boiling of preserves was spoiled , as ? i , ™« rt housewife hurried away to ' clean herself and

    g , those of the London press as well , I hope , and something which will prove to my countiymen that Henry Harrison is , and will continue to be , not an impostor , but a real benefactor of his species . " Eailway Sleepers . —Some interesting experiments were made on Monday on the premises of the Permanent Way Company , Great George-street , Westminster , showing the operation of Dr . Boucherie ' s patent process for preserving timber sleepers from decay . The effect ot the process is first to expel the sap , and then fiU . tJie pores of the timber with a preservative solution . Madeira . —The cholera is beginning to abate ; but the mortality up to the present point has been very considerable . Health of London . —The inhabitants of London are not in an average state of health . 1250 deaths were registered in the week that ended August 16 , whereas ui uuiiw —o— ¦

    boiler , and in a short time extinguisnes vuu ^^^ ~^ . The experiments were highly successful . America and England .-The Liverpool Reform Association has sent a friendly rejoinder to the answer of the mayor and citizens of Philadelp hia to the addresses from Liverpool and Mancheste r on the subject of war between America and Eng land . The rejoinder expresses the most amicable feelings , laments the evils ot secret diplomacy , and points out the necessity of abolishing resident ministers of state in foreign countries , as being " intriguers at the best , and too oftei ^ nothing better than spies vested with official immunity . The Recent Storms . —Extraordinary accounts are published in the Wakefield Journal of the devastating effects of the violent hail , thunder , and lig htning storm which passed over the neig hbourhood of Wakefield on the 23 rd of July . Though rather out of date by this time , the details are of sufficient interest to bear repetition . The storm , though extremely heavy , was very narrow in its operation . Several fields of corn were completely destroyed , a large amount of g lass was broken , whole limbs were torn from the trees , and the country presented a desolated appearance . "A field of wheat near the tollbar , on the right-hand side of the road from Wakefield to Doncaster , affords an excellent illustration of the law of hailstorms . The bulk of the field is

    unlook a bit tidy . ' Suddenly the bells rang out as when the demon steed of Michael Scot smote the pavement with his hoof , and all the steeples of Paris shook . The Royal Train was in sig ht . The Mayor , the Clergy , the Fashion , and the Beauty stood , metaphorically at least , on tiptoe . The Royal Train entered the Station—the Royal Train slackened its speed—the Royal Tram passed thr ough the Station—the Royal Train quickened its speed—the Royal Train was out of sig ht—before a hat could be raised , or a shout uttered . There stood the Mayor and Co ., fairly dumbfounded . One gaunt lady , indeed , pretended that she saw her Majesty s bonnet and part of Prince Albert ' s face . But nobody believed her She was no doubt a very ill-natured and invidious person , and wanted to make others miserable by proclaiming her own superior good fortune . Transportation . —The select committee of the House of Lords have reported to the effect that a continuance of the system of transportation to some colony or colonies would be highly desirable , provided the system could be carried on with advantage to the colony and with satisfaction to the colonists . The committee call the attention o Government , in the event of a new convict settlement being formed , to the northern portion of Australia , and more especially to the head ot tne ^ <¦» « . ^ -i j . ~_ : nr \ A + fro < irii »/> PTit . islands . Amonfc uiiu — —

    tne corrected averag e we ^ v ^ w-o ; . of previous years , when cholera was not epidemic , is 1127 In the second week of August , 1849 and 1854 , cholera was epidemic , and the deaths amounted to 2230 and 1833 . Summer cholera now prevails to a slight extent , and was fatal in 22 cases ; diarrhoea was fatal in 253 cases . 242 children died of these diseases under the age of 10 ; 11 of the adults were under 60 yean , and 22 were 60 years of age and upwards . Ol 1 JOU persons of the various stated ages , 760 were under 20 years of age ; 150 were of the age 20-40 j 145 were 40-60 - 156 were 60-80 ; 39 only were of the age of 80 and upwards . 620 of the persons whose career was cut short under 60 years of age died either of zymotic diseases or of diseases of the respiratory organs and consumption . These diseases are natural to man , but their ravages are greatly aggravated by the physical impurities of the atmosp here seen from a distance hangmg in _ a cloud over London . —During the week , the births of / 93 boys and 782 girls , in all 1575 children , were registered JXndSn . In the ' ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846—55 , the average Dumber was j 1427 . — I'lom tins Registrar-GeneraVs Weekly Return . mtr * ot * A The Cymmer Colliery Explosion —The protracted inquest on the bodies of the men killed in this awful catastrophe still continues ; and instances are consitantly r rt .-i i « n / , 1 rloocTioca or T . I 16 IX 16 Ila ic ^^

    affected by the storm , showing clearly that it was oeyonci the limit of the hail in that direction ; but the corner pointing towards Badsworth Church happened to be within the limit , and the effect of the hail across that corner is distinctly visible . The wheat is damaged for twenty or thirty yards into the field . The breadth of the storm at Badsworth was about a mile and a tenth . From Badsworth to Thorpe , the ravages of the storm are everywhere visible . Corn crops are thrashed in the field , and the ears cut off from the stalks . An orchard at Thorpe is as black as if it had been enveloped for a minute or two in a shaet of flame . A gentleman named Seaton , residing at Wentbridge , was sitting with his family at table when the storm came on . In a few moments most of the glass in the front of his house waa broken ; masses of ice went through the panes with such rapidity as not even to splinter them , cutting out holes as cleanly as ritle bullets . A decanter three-parts full of wine was knocked off the table , the wine-glasses were broken , and the table was indented in many p laces . Ihe , ii ^ _* *» : / w > nfUmnii ' Q iiiiildinrrs arc nittcd all ui gunuvuii * —

    ljull Ol \_/ H . ri ) ei * i «!*» i <* . »* .-. ~—j— existing colonies , Western Australia seems to offer the only field for the continuance of transportation ; but tne committee suggest that a return should immediately be made to the lately abandoned princip le of selecting tne convicts . . -. A Methodist Sin . —Dancing and card-playing , it seems , have become common of late years among sundry backsliding Methodists . At the last sitting oftheManchester Conference , the question was broug ht before the notice of the reverend councillors ; and , after many groans of horror had been vented , it was resolved to "improve "—that is to say , to render more strict—the wording of the rule which prohibits all such worldly amusements . . . , Gales rx the Channel . —Dover was visited on Wednesday night by a fearfully heavy gale of wind from the south-west , which caused considerable damage to the railway station , and some slight injury to the new wks of the harbour of refuge , where large blocks of granite were wrenched from their places . Some poor destruction ui

    coming out ot tne singuiai o-.. — — - One of the witnesses , William Morgan , a collier , said that , on the Friday before the explosion , ' my stepson , who has since been killed , called my attention to the fact that there was no air , the candle not movnig ini ^ air-way . I took the candle in my hand and examined ? he stall . The air was very bad , and there wasacap on the candle of from an inch to an inch and a half ui length . This was on the same morning . The flame ot the candle did not move , there not being the Blightest air there . I went back with my candle , buttoned my facket over my head , to enclose a portion of the air , and nut the boys to stand back . I then went very cautiously to the face of the work to examine whether there was a danger-mark there . I reduced the flame of my candle down to one thread of the wick , but the cap did not at all decrease ; the colour of the cap was red . Having proceeded to the face , I held the candle up to the top , out it w 7 uM not catch . » -The Coroner : « What , did you want to set the place on fire ?"_ W itness : « No , to try it with mv candle ; in that way there was no danger m

    , „ sione uans nn ^ «» - « -.-.----o ~ A over with holes made by the hail , for the most part larger than would be made by firing swan shot at them . Mr . Seaton states that five or six buckets of ice were gathered up in his dining-rooin . A person living at Wentbridge was about a mile and a quarter from home , at right angles to the storm's path , when the . storm occurred . With two or three other persons , ho took shelter in a turnip-field from the rain . There was no hail whero he was , but so strong a wind set in , blowing at right angles to the storm path , that the turnips were lifted up out of the ground above an inch . " A Mysterious Fire . —A strange story comes to us from Bedford , where fire has suddenly burst forth from various parts of a house , without ( except in the- first instance ) any apparent cause . Articles thrown down upon the floor instantaneously kindled ; the damp towels on the horse in u bedroom ignited ; a handkerchief placed on a sofa burst into flrnno ; a box containing articles ol apparel was found suddenly alight ; snioko issued from cupboards , from drawers , from unopened boxes ; the very furniture appeared to be charged with sonic mysterious nclf-igniting gas . The house was several times

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    fishermen We also suffered loss by tbe their boats on the beach . —A severe gale also visited the Sussex coast , extending eastward from Brighton during the early part of the night of Wednesday . The storm occasioned a vast amount of damage to small shipping , and the loss of eig ht lives . Many thousands tons of shinelc have been washed away , and some injury was done to the Chain Pier , the lower platform being washed up together with portions of the lower railings . I ord John Ritpsklt , arrived with his family on the 12 th instant at Vevay . He will probably return to England about the close of next February , or at any rate before Easter . „ , Tin- Coixieky Explosion near Oldhury . — iwo inquests have been held on the bodies of the men who were killed by the explosion on Wednesday week at Lord Ward ' s Kamrod Hall Colliery . The evidence , n 9 1 far as it lin s yet gone , seems to show that the pit was not properl y ventilated , and that the men were culpably careless , oii the morning of the accident , in not taking their safety lamps down with them . Dovk and T Wizard Harrison . —The ast . rologm , x » « ! .. » .-. .. / 1 r 1 fAOOn < l fl lAllff mt . t . PP tO tllC i —

    my opinion . It is frequently done . VVlien x weucu , the face of the coal I found no mark of the fiieman having been there . I had no ticket . . My mark was a shovel or mandrel ; there was nothing there then . laid not complain about the gas . " Surprise having been expressed at this omission , the witness stated that , since the last strike , the men did not like to comj . n Ho was afraid ho should have been turned oft had he ^ INTERESTING DlHCOVKllY AT GUILDHALL . — The WOrkmen engaged in making the improvements at Guildhall , Wl ile removing , on Tuesday , a portion of the wall on the south side , disclosed a Gothic window in the old wall . It has been closed ever since the Urcat 1-ire of London , nearly two hundred yeara ago . . Bamboozuno the rAi-KHS .-Thrco hoaxes , in the shape of false intelligence of murder , rape , _ &

    in flames ; but each tinio tho conflagration was stopped in tho bud . A jury waa summoned to inquire into these strange facts ; and the only apparent mode of accounting for them lny in the circumstance that , n few ( lays before tho first nrc , bo me brimstone , and charcoal hnd been burnt in one of the rooms to rid tho house of vermin . It was shown that a portion of the sulp hurous fluid escaped on to tho floor , and set lire to it ; and it . was suggested by soveral scientific men that the house had bocomo charged with sulphurous fumes and charcoal gas , which took firo , in oomo casein by means of electricity , in others by friction . ! Tho verdict of tho jury , us regards tho first iiro , was " Accidental , " and , as regards tho rest , tho verdict was open . —[ Query : has another hoax been pla 3 ed off upon tho daily press in this strange story ? llow is it wo never henr of thcno romancos in tho Parliamentary season , and that wo always do hear of them when newB in alack and dull ?] A Disappointment at Bath . — A correspondent writing from Bath , on tho Kith inst ., says : — . " All Bath was thrown into a ludicrous state of excitement

    and wizard iinmnuii nun <»* . » .. * ....- « - r > - editors of tho Leeds Mv . rc . ury in vindication of Ins conduct with reference to Dove . Ho says : — "A more scandalous , unsatisfactory , and Impudent statement never appeared in print than that winch ca . no out in your Tuesday ' s impression . It appears to mo , and to hundreds moro in this town , that Dovo ' h villnnous habit of lyinfr followed him oven to hi « prison , and to tlio scufl'old ¦ Goutloinon , it will be of no use mo attempting to deny any one particular statement made by that profligate and unfeeling criminal , as I declare to you upon my honour , that there is scarcely a sentence of it true ; and what is trnc is told in such a raving , incoherent manner , that tho public—ay , tho pub lie—have seen the folly of publishing it , and that same discorning public declare ' that tho document ought not to liavo been put into print . '" Harrison prays Owl to help any man who might have dealings with such a profligate as Dovo , - mid concludes with this prodig ious piece of sollglorlltaiition :-- " I am preparing for tho press a something which will alter your opinion , and the op inions ol

    , OHO Ol « .... a leading article , where a Mr . Aytoun is turned into the well-known Professor Aytoun . . , Tub liovAi , Family ok Ouoicand suite liavo arrived at Southampton . . , T . i .. ; liovAi . Victoria Yacht Cum K ^ ; " p lace on Tuesday , when the Thoug ht ««»« lby » r . 'G Coopo , won tho prize for «« ttar ^ boilUl VVn ^ ibert ' s ganL ( Sir Percy Shclloy ) , winch won Prince Aborts cup at Cowcs , by tea minute * . —Tho lloyal l-hatnoa National ltoKatta co . mn « nce « l on the » amo day , when lo ' rTLcitS . g matches wore , ^ outl y contested uniUho bunks of tho river from Putney to Chiswick wcro c owdcl with spectators , n otwithstanding the ram , which obliged thorn to stand all day « under-tuo aliado of melancholy" umbrellas . . „ St . Panciub Wokkhouhr-A communication from tliu Poor-law Board waa road at a ineotmtf on \ ™*»* of tho directors and guardians of tho poor of bt . **™*™ - It was to tho effect that , althoug h so . no i . nprovoonentfl

    August 23, 1856.]

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 23, 1856, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23081856/page/11/