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      corpse is that of one of her sons . She speaks , however , only from a piece of the trousers , which ¦ visa cut out and brought to her ; while the relations of Gray derive their opinion from actual view of tie remains . An inquest was opened on the three bodies , and adjourned to the 30 th . The remains were buried on Sunday in the presence of a large crowd . On Monday , In consequence of the notices which had been issued , the men who volunteered to descend the mine and assist in the search for the bodies assembled at the offices of the company , where their names were taken down . They were mostly experienced men . Some of them had come from . Wigan , in Lancashire ; others from Claycross and Alfreton , in Derbyshire . They numbered more than one hundred . On commencing their search on Thursday , five more bodies were found . Self-Poisoning . —Mr . James Thompson , a young man of thirty , living at Manchester , has killed himself by drinking a glass of ammonia . He had teen in a desponding state for two years previous to his death , and , finding some ammonia in the house , he said that was the very thing to cure him . He was prevented on one occasion drinking a glass of it ; but he afterwards got hold of the bottle , drank a large draught , and expired . The coroner ' s jury returned a verdict to the effect that he had drunk the poison under a singular belief that it would do him good . Tha probability seenjs to be , that it was a case of suicide . —An old woman at G-ateshead has died from the effects of a pennyworth of paregoric ( a quarter of an ounce ) , taken , to allay a chronic cough . The same amount "would not have killed a younger person ; but the woman in question was very feeble from advanced years . A verdict was given in accordance with the facts .

      A Jew Churchwarden .- —Mr . Jonas Jacobs , a Jew , has been elected churchwarden for the parish of St . James's , Aldgate . For the last two years he has been junior churchwarden . Mb . Gotjgh on the Failure of the Mainb-Law . — The Weekly Record , the organ of the National Temperance League , gives an extract from a letter written by Mr . Gough , the well-known temperance orator in America . The letter is dated the 23 rd ult . " The cause in this country , " writes Mr . Gough , "is in a

      depressed state ; the Maine-law is a dead letter everywhere , —more liquor sold than I ever knew before in Massachusetts , and in other states it is about as bad . " The Hon . Neil Dow , the originator of the Maine Liquor Law arrived in Liverpool on Monday from America . He has been invited by the United Kingdom Temperance Alliance to make a tour through this country for the advocacy cf his opinions . While at Liverpool , he denied the correctness of the statement by Mr . Gough quoted above .

      A Parish Feud at Radcxiff . —Considerable exciteanent and angry feeling have prevailed in the hamlet of ¦ Radcliff on account of a contest that has been going on between the ratepayers of the vestry . The former maintained that they have a right to vote at the election of a . churchwarden and twelve trustees for the parish under the local jict of 1810 . A majority of the vestry denied this , asserting that the old act has been overruled by Sir Benjamin Hall ' s act . The ratepayers forced their way into * the vestry room on Easter Monday , broke the ballotin ^ -box , and prevented any business being done that day . Several meetings of the ratepayers took place during the week , and last Monday they elected four gentlemen as guardians of the poor , and others as churchwarden and trustees .

      Address to Lord John Eussell . —The Town Council of Southmolton , Devonshire , has presented an address , expressive of their great esteem , to Lord John Russell , while he was staying at the seat of Earl Fortescue , at Castle Hill . In his reply , his lordship , after glancing over the progress of Liberal legislation for the last thirty years , and showing that , contrary to the Conservative prophecies , the country haa increased in prosperity and loyalty in consequence , proceeds : — "May we not hope , then , gentlemen , that by following the same policy , by uniting- progress with order and

      improvement with wisdom , we may attain still further and greater benefits ? The opinion of the good , says Milton , * is knowledge in tho making . ' By consulting the opinion of tho good and the enlightened , the House of Commons recently elected may find means to promote education , to extend political franchises * to enlarge the boundaries of religious freedom by removing some remaining disabilities , and to relieve the people of some of their vexatious burdens . I shall have every reason to bo grateful and contented if I am permitted by my votes in Parliament to contribute to such happy results . " The

      Siege ov Sebastopoi ,. —A correspondent of the Globe contradicts tho story that Generul Todlebon recently told the French Emperor that wo might have taken Sevastopol with the greatest case had we marched on it directly after the battle of the Alma . Tho writer says there wcro insuperable difficulties in the way of such a result . Street Preachers .- —Two street preachers at Liverpool were arrested lust Sunday night for obstructing the public way , but wore discharged tho next morning by the magistrate , who aaid they wcro not to bo molested in future . Twc Bunm wbEat . — -A quantity of butter , seized at the shop of a dealer in Liverpool a taw days ago \> y

      the ' officers . of the Health Committee of the town-council , was found , on being analyzed , to be thus constituted :: — Butter , 47 * 4 ; salt ( chlo . sod . ) , 23-4 ; nitre (" nitrate potasse ) , 0 - 8 ; vegetable matter , derived from Irish moss or other seaweed , with water , 28-3 ; total , . 99 . 9 . This u butter" ( so called ) is an importation from America , and therefore the manufacturer will escape that punishment to which , were he an English subject , he would be liable . Major-Generax , Mathias Everard , C . B . and K . H ., a gallant officer who served with great distinction in Spain and elsewhere during the last French war , died on Monday at Southsea . Sale of the Pkoperty of Leopold Kedpath .-

      —The freehold , leasehold , and reversionary property of Leopold Redpath was offered to public auction by Mr . Marsh , in a very crowded room , on Tuesday . The freehold residence at Weybridge , Surrey , fitted up and decorated at a great expense , with pleasure and kitchen gardens , stabling , & c , and purchased by Redpath so recently as the spring of last year , sold for 26701 . The leasehold residence , 49 , Gloucester-place , Portmansquare , held for an iinexpired term , and let at a rental of 85 ? . per annum , sold for 800 ? . The reversion to a freehold house , Marsham-strect , "Westminster , on the death of a lady and gentleman , aged respectively seventy-five and eighty-one , of the yearly value of 42 Z ., sold at 350 / . A similar reversion to a house ,. Richmondbuildings , Soho , let at a rental of 547 . per annum , sold at 560 / .

      A Fortnight Without Pood . —A man-was found last Saturday night lying on the ground in Stockton ' s Wood , near Speke Hall , in the neighbourhood of Liverpool . He was in a state of great exhaustion , and , on his being removed to a house , he was attended by a surgeon , who found it necessary to cut off his boots , as his feet were swollen ' . arid gangrenous . He was then taken to the infirmary . From , documents found on him , and from his own statements , it appeared that he is a native of one of the Bermuda Islands ; that he is a captain , and had

      brought a ship to England , but that , some one having detained hi 3 certificate , he was reduced to great distress ; that , being unable to pay his rent , he left the town , wandered about , and at length lay down in the wood ; and that he had been there a fortnight and two days , occasionally eating a little grass , and drinking some water from a brook which ran close by . A day or two before he was found he had written with pencil on a scrap of paper some lines to his friends in Bermuda . It is thought he will recover .

      Illness of the Bishop of Exeter . —The triennial visitation of the liishop -was to take place at Exeter on Monday ; but his lordship was unable to attend , owing to illness . It is hoped , however , that he will speedily recover . ' . : . . '¦ . ¦ ; ¦ . - . ' ¦ : ' . : . ' . ' .- . " . The Princes of O . ude have been at Manchester , visiting the chief objects and places of interest . Testimonial , to Me . Masxerm ' as . —Several City gentlemen are taking steps to raise a subscription for presenting some testimonial to Sir . Masterman , one of the late members for London . Mothers of Illegitimate Children :. —28 G 0 mothers of illegitimate children were relieved as out-door paupers on the 1 st of last January . Lord Harry Vane and Mr . Henry Pease , the two Liberal members for South Durham , were entertained at dinner on Monday by a partv of their political friends .

      SiGNOtt Bazzini . —Letters from Germany and Italy speak very highly of . the eminent violinist Bnzzini , who is coining to England for the approaching season . Signor Bazzini was the prominent artist in the concerts given by the Emperor of Austria , at Venice , Milan , and Trieste , during Ins stay in Italy . Signor Bazzini comes over to England with tho new pieces—Les Abcilfes , La Calabraise , Un Conte Arabe , & c , which , we are told , had the greatest success among the fashionable nnd musical world of Italy and Germany . Thk Falkiuk Election ' . —A protest having been lodged by Mr . Baird ' s agent against Mr . Merry's election on account of alleged bribery , the electors of Hamilton h . lve got up , a counter petition , praying for an investigation on tho ground that they were subjected to intimidation , & c , by the commissioner of the Duke of Hamilton , in favour of Mr . Baird . A very large number of signatures hns been appended .

      A London Antiquity . —By the removal of a house in Great St . Helen ' s , the south transept of the ancient conventual church of St . Helen's , Bishopsgntc , ia now visihlc ; but it is probable that it will again be covered up by a new house . The Building News puts in < i plea for preserving it as it is , and nltio for rescuing Crosby Hall from its threatened destruction . Elections to Convocation . —Tho Rev . Michael Gibbs and the Rev . Dr . M'Cuul have beim elected to represent the Archdeaconry of London in the Canterbury Convocation . — Canon Hay and Canon Sale- have beeu roturnud as proctors to represent tho bcncflccd clurgy in tho York Convocation . Mit . Lay Ait i ) has issued n farewell address to his late constituents at Aylcsburv .

      An Appeal for Charity . —Tho Rev . W . "Weldon ChninpncyH writes to the Tinws : —" Omi of my communicants sailed about eight or nine weeks since as matron of the emigrant ship Boanerges . Tho ship , on Hearing the Bay of Biscay was caught iu a severe storm , which ¦

      partly dismasted her , and drove her back almost a wreck to Queenstown , Cork . The emigrants were dispersed , but subsequently reassembled , and again sailed about three weeks since , or less . The ship has been again dismasted , driven back to England , and run ashore in bringing her in . The poor emigrants , above five hundred in number , are in the Government depot at Plymouth , " Mr . Champneys recommends the case to the consideration of the charitable and affluent .

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      April 25 , 1857 . ] THE LEADER . 393

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      Leader Office , Saturday , April 25 th . FRANCE . ( By Electric Telegraph . ) Paris , April 24 th . Prince Danilo , of Monteuegro , has just left for Vienna . The journal Le Pays asserts that the British forces will commence their operations against China by the capture of the Island of Formosa .

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      THE DANISH MINISTRY . The Cabinet ( says a despatch from Copenhagen ) is being reconstituted slowly . The cause is the ''' . difficulty of bestowing the portfolio of Foreign Affairs and that of Holstcin , left vacant by the retirement of M . Scheele . M . Andrae , Minister , of ' Finance , will carry off the Presidency of the Council over M . Hall , Minister of Public "Worship . Still , with the exception of M . Scheele , the retention of the former Cabinet is bo longer doubtful .

      The Speaker.—-We Have Reason To Believe ...

      The Speaker . — -We have reason to believe that , on the meeting of Parliament on Thursday next , the motion that Mr . Evelyn Denison be the new Speaker will be moved by Lord Harry Vane and seconded by Mr . Thornley . — Globe . Another Great Fire at Liverpool . —A fire was discovered in a ¦ warehouse in Sparling-street yesterday morning . The building is seven stories high , and the fire broke out on the fifth floor , used as a cotton store . Upwards of 250 O bales of that material , worth 13 ? . per bale , must have been destroyed . Malcolmson and Co . are the owners , but the property Is fully insured . The fire is still raging at noon , and considerable apprehension was felt for the lower part of tbe building , which is stocked with wine and ' rum . . Ireland . ;—The Lord-Lieutenant has commuted the sentence of death passed on N " orris and Power , who were to have been hanged next Monday for the Spike Island murder . —The annual show of the Royal Dublin Society ¦ was held on Wednesday , but , owing to the unfavourable state of the weather , the attendance of visitors was very meagre . Lord Carlisle and the "Viceregal suite arrived at three o ' clock , and stayed in the yard for two hours . The Case of the Mubdereu Mansell . —The prisoner Mansell , now lying under sentence of death for the murder of a comrade in the 49 th Regiment , was brought up yesterday by a writ of habeas coiyus from Maidstone Gaol , for the purpose of assigning error in the Court of Queen ' s Bench upon the record of his conviction—his execution being respited till the 5 th of May . The legal forms being gone through , Lord Campbell appointed next Saturday , tho 2 nd of May , for bearing the arguments . In the meanwhile , Mansell will be confined in Newgate . The alleged " error , " it will bo recollected , turns upon the formation of the jury which tried tho murderer . George Crtjiksiianic and a Bubble Company . — An action was brought in the Court of Common Pleas yesterday , by a man named Cockshaw , a stationer and printer in Horseshoe-court , Ludgntc ' -hill , against George Criiikshank , the artist , to recover the sum of 50 J . 9 s . 6 d ., the price of goods supplied to i \ life and fire insurance company for the working classes , of which Mr . Cruikshank had been director . In tho course of his evidence , Mr . Criiikshank said the company was a fraudulent affair , started by one Howell . He himself had been duped for a time , but he soon found out the sham , and denounced it to the public iu a pamplilct . —After the case had gone on , it was decidod by private arrangement . Mr . Justice Williams paid Mr . Cruikslinnk a high compliment aa « friend of the working classes . No Reform !—The Liberal representatives of the citj and county of Hereford , Sir Henri * Goers Cottcrcll ; Bart . Lieutenant-Colonel Clifford , and George Clive , Esq . wcro invited to a grand banquet in the Shire-hall oi Thursday . Tho Right Hon . tlio Chancellor of tho Ex chequer presided , and , in addressing tho company , sai that ( lovernment " would seek to introduce all practicr ameliorations in our domestic institutions , without dis tuvbing the foundations of our national prospcrit }\ II meant to say , that , eschewing organic changes , the G < vcrinncnt of Lord Palmcrston would endeavour to mei the necessities of existing circumstances , without dis turbing the fundamental principles of order and society That is to say , no PnrliamenUry Reform , after all ! Ckystal Palace . —Return of admissions for si ; days ending Friday , April 2-1 , 1857 , including scaao ticket holders , 19 , 406 .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), April 25, 1857, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25041857/page/9/