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      Sir Charles Wood And Mr. Frank Crossloy ...

      on Friday afternoon . The Earl of Morleyand a large number of the landowners and magistracy attached their names to the requisition . The meeting was most numerously attended . Mr . W . Porter was in the chair . Sir « T Buller was present , but did not speak . A resolution was adopted , setting forth that some of the clergy encouraged auricular confession of a Romanising character , and that inquiry was necessary b y competent authority .. It was also carried that a memorial be presented to the Queen , praying for a royal commission to examine into the matter , and take steps for putting an " effectual stop" to Romanist innovations , the memorial to be signed throughout the county , and to be presented by the Earl of Morley .

      A series of lectures to working men will be delivered in the theatre of the Museum of Practical Geology , on Monday evenings during the present session . The first will be upon the practical applications of physical science , by Robert Hunt , professor of mechanical science ; the second , on the elements of geology , by Andrew C . Kainsay , F . R . S ., professor of geology ; and the third , on the elements of natural history , by Edward Forbes , F . R . S ., professor of natural history , To working men the price of admission will be 6 d . for the whole course . A free library has been opened at Hampstead , near Chalk Farm . It is styled the Library of the North-London Anti-Enclosure and Social and Sanitary Improvement Society . As this is the first free library established in the metropolis since the passing of the Public Libraries Act , it has additional claims to support .

      104 The Leader. Esatprpay,

      104 THE LEADER . ESatprpay ,

      Wonderful To Relate—And We Suppose The A...

      Wonderful to relate—and we suppose the act must be taken as one of international amenity of the confectionary order—Louis Napoleon has actually ordered his bridecake at the famous Pnrssell ' s , on Cornhill ! By the latest news from the Cape we learn that General Cathcart was encamped with 2500 men on the river Caledon in the Orange Sovereignty on the 3 rd of December . What he intended to do was unknown . The Hottentots and Kafirs still continued their cattle-liftings , surprises , and murderings on the frontier . General disgust at the continued postponement of the Constitution had also been expressed .

      The United States Senate , up to the latest date , the 14 th instant , had been occupied with the discussion of . the Clayton and Bulwer treaty respecting Central America . The President was requested to transmit all correspondence between Mr . Lawrence , late Minister at the Court of St . James ' s , and the British Government in regard to Central America , and particularly any correspondence relating to the claims of Great Britain to the Mosquito Coast , or any portion of the territory of Honduras or Yucatan . The Americans dispute our right to found a colony on the islands in Honduras Bay , called the Bay of Islands colony . They insist that these islands are included in the Clayton and Bulwer treaty , by which it is stipulated that neither the "United States nor England shall plant colonies in Central America . But what are the limits of Central America has never been defined by the two powers .

      The Twenty-Ninth Party Of Female Emigran...

      The twenty-ninth party of female emigrants left England for Port Philip , Victoria , on Tuesday . They were sent out by the Female Emigration Society . The parting scene was impressive and affecting . This excellent society deserves support . The Builder suggests the following practical remedy for an acknowledged nuisance : — "A mode of making cabriolets less objectionable vehicles in London , would bo to limit the charge ( within a certain circle , as in Paris ) to Is . only for two persons , and Gd . for every extra person or luggage . The . operation would bo similar to the penny postage , depend upon it , for many would prefer this to iiii omnibus for cheapness—and many more , when they knew at once what they had to pay . ' Thus the cub would be kept generally employed even in fine weather , instead of standing half u-duy Idling . For cleanliness and civility the name and number of the proprietor , largo inside , would prove ? partly , if not qui ( , e effective . "

      Our readers will remember the famous anfi-turnpikc riots in Wales , by the so-called Kebec . enil . eH . An imitation on a small scale has been got up in Sninersot , between Bath , Fronie , and Warininsler , and on Thursday week one of tho f . urnpike-gate . s belonging to the Black Dog Trust , was forcibly removed . This trust , for some time past , it , appears , has been in difficulties , and under the provisions oi their net , the trustees , a t \ : \ v months ago , endeavoured to compel the parishes through which their roads pans to repair thorn . They failed , however , in consequence of its being . shown that , a former treasurer was a defaulter to the extent , of about G . OOO / .., and thai this sum had not been

      brought , into the accounts . Accordingly , . since that tiino neither the trustees nor the parishes have repaired tho roads , which have now become in a . shocking tituto , while the bondholders , who have seized the gates , continue to take the ( . ( ills for their own security . High tolls and bad roads have caused complaints to bo incessant , and about one o'clock on Thursday morning week u number of persons quietly assembled , and carried tiway the miissivo gates at , Midford , about , four miles from Hath . Tlio firing of Hovoral guns had ( he etfoet of keeping the tolltuker within doors ., and so effectually was the thing done thai , ruit ( . he ulighlest trace has since been obtained of ( he niiHsiug gutos , or any clue- to Iho persons who removed them .

      About MH > briekinukors went from Manchester by railway to Ashlon-under-Lynoon Thursday woek , for I Ik ; purpose of intimidating some non-society men . Mr , Meteulfo , mayor of Ashfon , met them at , ( he ( J aide-bridge railway station , and advised them to bo peaceable , warning them of tho consequences of any infraction of tlio luw-Thuy proceeded , however , in procession , to ( . ho brickcroft of Mr . W . Cowley , whore twelvo men not bolonging to their society were at work , uifd flioir conduct , though not , accompanied with violence , induced two of the twolvo men to go away . A demonstration was afterwards held in the theatre , where the mayor again tendered them good n « lvico , and they separated ju-acenbly . Three companies of the 4 fh infantry were ordered out of barracks and stutionod in tho lown-ball , but their Her vices wore not required .

      Wages of labour are rising in every direction . The trade reports of last week mention a rise at Nottingham ; and the consequences of a rise in the wages of the colliers of Yorkshire has been serious to the proprietors of the Great Northern Railway , who will , it is hoped , benefit by this costly experience in opposing a legitimate- rise in wages . Owing to the opening of the Great Northern and South Yorkshire Bail ways , the demand for coal from ^ the South Yorks pits has very greatly increased during the last twelve months . Formerly a large supply was always in readiness at the pit's mouth , but latterly it has been found impossible to meet the demands of the railway companies , notwithstanding the number of new shafts recently sunk in this district and now in full working operation .

      The operative miners , perceiving this state ot things , demanded at the close of last year an increased rate of wages , which , in almost all instances , was complied with by the ^ coal proprietors . This concession necessitated an increased price to the consumer , through the larger and more immediate purchasers , the Great Northern Company . It was therefore intimated to the directors of the company , early in the present month , that an increased price of sixpence per ton ( viz ., from 4 s . to 4 s . 6 d . ) , at the pit's mouth , would in future be required by the coal proprietors , and also that the extra hundredweight theretofore allowed in each ton for breakage would be charared in the traffic account . This

      demand the directors of the Great Northern Company rejected . However the accumulation of orders on the books of the company , rendered it imperative that a new source of supply should be forthwith obtained ; and , after some negotiation , they effected terms with the proprietors of the Gawber-hall pits , near Wakefield , notwithstanding that the arrangement involved au increased mileage of twenty-four miles , at the rate of lOd . per mile , and an increase of 9 d . per ton in the price of the article as compared with the original charges of the South Yorkshire pits . The effect of this change wasj as might be expected , very considerably to diminish the traffic returns of the South Yorkshire

      Railway Company ( whose line runs from Doncaster to the pits ) , the reduction being , in fact , as much as 2000 £ . per week . The Gawber-hall proprietors , however , having learnt the state of affairs just described , and that the Great Northern Company had resorted to them aa a matter of temporary expediency , resolved to increase the price of the Gawber Pit coal in the same ratio as the South Yorkshire pits , viz ., 6 d . per ton . This being intimated to the Great Northern directory , arrangements were made for resuming their traffic with the South Yorkshire pits at the increased price .

      Mr. Panizzi Made Another Razzia For Miss...

      Mr . Panizzi made another razzia for missing copies of books . His victim was again Mr . Bohn . Mr . Jardine , who acted as peace-maker , inflicted only a nominal penalty ; but the whole of the costs and the penalties amounted to 11 ? . 11 s . Qd . As a pendant to the hanging of Barbour and Waddington , it is related that a convalescent lunatic at Sheffield , excited by the talk of the execution , has hanged himself ; and that a boy , who set a snare to catch a cat , has also ,

      by some unexplained accident , fallen a victim to his desire to hang the animal , and hanged himself . The little child , so inhumanly burnt by the woman Oldham in the Greenwich Union , has died . It will be remembered that Oldham was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment—a ridiculous sentence considering the enormity of the offence . Oldham was liberated on the 15 th instant ; and a i ' cw hours after went , drunk , to the Greenwich Union , and claimed admission . Surely she should be further punished .

      It would appear from tho following story that it is not safo for women to travel in second class carriages without a protector . Mrs . Dufli ] , the wife of an innkeeper at Beverley , got into a second class carriage at Mull . Her only companion was a man nameoj Ifolliday . She wus afraid , and asked her uncle to go with her , but he refused . At Cottinghiun , between Jlull and Beverley , a porter heard a woman calling " Thief , thief . " The train wns gathering speed ; the porter shouted ; a hand was seen on tho bundle of tho carriago-door ; a moment , after tho body of a woman fell heavily on the line . The porter ran up ; it was Mrs . Duflil . . Hither she had jumped out , or ilolliday had thrown her out . The porter picked her up ; but sho soon

      died . 11 olliday got away , but was afterwards apprehended . A dastardly case of stabbing occurred , on Friday week , at Manchester , resulting in the death of Quin , the person stabbed . The facts were pdmirably narrated ut tlio inquest held on Monday , by John Clements , who witnessed the whole affair .- — " About half-past seven on Friday night 1 was going up Oldhain-road , M uiichestor , on tho righthand side , and mot with Quiii , whom 1 know from having worked with him . Jlo was along with Thompson and William Tyrrell , tho prisoner . Tho latt . or was rather inclined to light , and deceased said he would fight , him if ho would show him his hands . Tyrrell hold up tho left hand , hut would not show tho right , which he kopt in his pocket . Tyrrell asked Quiii to come along with him and have it out , and they all three wont up Addingf . on-streot . I followed , keeping on the flags . All was peaceable until they

      got , to the first lamp , leading into ( Ihadderton-streot , and Tyrrell said to Quin , ' Hit mo "first ,. ' Quiii said , ' J won't , fight unless you show me both your hands . ' Tyrrell said tho same several times , and Quin still stood with his arms crossed , saying he Would not , fight till ho Haw both bunds . Tyrrell drew out his right hand , and 1 saw tho glitter of a blade in his hand , and lie ran at Quin and slabbed him in tho belly . Quiu did not speak on tho mutant , and Tyrrell again said < ' Hit mo first , ' and stubbed him in tho shoulder . Quiu said , ' I am stubbed , tnko mo somewhere , ' sovoral times . Tho moment it was done tho offmirs camo up , and Tyrrell had then run along the street , and was making his cHcn . pe towards Kochdulc-roud . Quiii wus taken to tho infirmary . Tho blado seemed to have boon uh long us my linger . I saw very plainly by tho light of tho lamp both times whore ho stubbed Quin . 1 did not boo tho huf't . All tho I ' hroo men Boornod sober . Tho « um « night I wont with

      and that instant he ran away , ers came up . There was no time for me to interfere . " From other evidence it appeared the prisoner and Quin had been quarrelling and fighting previously , and Tyrrell had taken out a clasp knife , saying , « This knife has killed many a one , and has only another to kill . " Quin died at the Royal Infirmary on Monday morning . The jury having agreed to a verdict of " Wilful murder , " above stated , the coroner made out a warrant for the committal of Tyrrell for trial at the next South Lancashire assizes at Liverpool .

      and the offic the police to search for the prisoner , and we found him at Lang ' s public-house . At the police-station I charged him with stabbing Quin , and he never contradicted me . I di < J not know of their having quarrelled before . They seemed to me as if they had t » een coming down Oldnam-roa < J . They had had some liquor . They were standing oppositp the Cheshire Cheese / and it was hearing ; Tyrrell say , ' We will have it out / that made me stop . He stabbed Quin so suddenly that I had not time to say anything

      " Captain" Johnson has been again remanded , as no further evidence of the horse-stealing affair has been produced . The " small bottle" has been fatal to one landlord : wo do not mean that he has died of drink ; but that he has been convicted of selling beer in bottles not imperial quarts and pints . At the Sunbury Petty Sessions on Tuesday week , John Wayte , of the Angel and Crown Hotel , Staines , was fined 40 s . and costs for selling beer in quart bottles , deficient 12 ounces 14 drachms , and pmts deficient 6 ounces 7 drachms . We trust the anti-small-bottle crusade will continue .

      The Reverend Edward John Chaplin, Fellow...

      The Reverend Edward John Chaplin , Fellow of Magdalen College , was found dead in his bed , on Monday morning . He had purposed going out shooting . Hia servant called him twice , and got no answer ; he looked in the bed , and found the dead body . A jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death ; " in fact there was no-reason to doubt that Mr . Chaplin died of an apoplectic fit . A gentleman well known in city circles , having been on a visit on Friday last at the country seat of an eminent railway contractor , narrowl y escaped destruction from the accidental discharge of a pistol . His attention was called by the latter to some novelty in the manufacture of these weapons , and in pointing out the change , as he was unconscious of its being loaded , he pulled the trigger of one he held in his hand . The pistol went off , lodging the ball in the looking-glass , after having passed , in its course , through the breast of his visitor ' s coat .

      John Williams , the hawker , who had his arm so seriously injured by the late dreadful accident at Oxford , died in the Radcliffe Infirmary on Monday . This is the eighth victim of that accident . The Rhyl life-boat went on the night of the 22 nd to assist a vessel which was wrecked on the Hoyle-bank : nine men went out , but the vessel was abandoned before the boat reached her . On the boat returning she capsized , and all the men were obliged to make the best for shore ; six met with a watery grave , and three were saved . About twelve o ' plock on Sunday night , a fire was discovered in one of the officers' cabins in Pembroke dockyard , which , from the fortunate circumstance of its early detection , and the prompt measures adopted for its suppression , did little injury .

      A locomotive exploded at the Newcastle station . The report says : " Great complaints have frequently been made that old worn out engines are used on tho Tynemouth branch ; " and it is significantly added , —" break-downs aro not of uncommon occurrence . " ? A railway " accident" occurred near Womersley , last week , to a Groat Northern train , running on tho Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway . The train , which consisted of an engine and tender , a horsebox , a guard ' s van , eight or nine passenger carriages , and then another guard ' s van , hud arrived within about a mile of Womersley station , twelve miles from Pom-aster , when tin ; ongiuo-driyor , Phillip Johnson , and tho fireman or stoker , William Oliver , folt ono of tho lending wheels of tho ongino jolting

      very much , and , suspecting the real cause , they at oncoondeuvoured to atop the train . As , however , it , wus then running at a speed of something like fifty miles an hour , this could not be very quickly accomplished . They reversed tho engine , and signalled to tho guard to put on tho break , and wore in hopes they could pull up without any serious consequences . Tho train had run about ( MM ) yards in this way ( tlio distance was afterwards traced for our information by tho murks on the rails ) , when suddenly tho engino jumped off tho lino on the side whoro tlio embankment wus ut leuBt twenty foot high , with a deep cutting full of water immediately ' beyond . Tho driver and stoker , who wore prepared for this , but , stuck to their posts to tho last moment , sprung oil' tho ongino on the other nido , but unfortunately both suulained severe injuries in tho full , 1

      Johnson havinghis log broken , and Oliver bis foot crushed . Tho ponderous ongino and tender , tho horsebox , and first guard s van immediately heeled oyj ^ r down tho embankment with a tremendous crash . Luckily , from tho velocity of tlio train having been redwood , tho coupling chains of tho lirst passenger carriage gavo way , leaving uil tho remaining vehicles on the line , with no othor injury to tho passengers than n violent shock . Tho guard a van , which wont down with tho engino , was smashed to pieces , but tho guard inside miraculously escaped with only soinu slight bruises . Tho unfortunate animal in tho horsobox ,

      which was likewise liimi . shed to pieces , wus very much out and mutilated , and n portion of its skin was literally peeled oil' by ( ho scalding water from tho ongino . It , was shot on tho spot . As soon uh the passengers hud recovered from thoir consternation ( hey rushed out of tho carriages and proceeded to render assistance to tlio driver , firomun , and guard , who , as soon us possible , were reseuod from their terrible position , and oonvoyod <*> a cottage close by to await tho arrival of medical assistance . Tho causo of thin ucoidont wan tho coining oil" of tho tiro of ono of the leadiua whodw .

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 29, 1853, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29011853/page/8/