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      ) ec . 28 , 1850 . ]

      tectea at a cost 01 irom £ 2 UU 0 to £ 2500 per mile , O branches being made into the various farmyards . man e pupils of the Manchester School of Design held hou : second social soiree on Monday evening . Mr . hiel : en , M . P ., Mr . Brotherton , M . P ., the Mayors of wor ] shester and Salford , and other influential merchants was entlemen were present . Mr . Thomas Bazley , Pre- situi t of the Chamber of Commerce , presided on the oc- The a , and delivered an interesting address , in which he ate ¦ > important innuence wfcichthe Exhibition

      upon me . . stag 151 would exert upon the arts in general , and upon mac ! jf design in particular . Mr . Joseph Brotherton re- less lended the establishment of a museum in connection mac ] the school . Taste , he argued was not intuitive ; the than mst be tutored , and it could only be tutored by com- Ken Dns , facilities for making which such museums Of tl 1 afford . Mr . Brotherton referred to the Museums A which empowered the levy of a rate of a halfpenny her i , e pound to provide buildings for the reception of No . 3 of art , &c , and he recommended the directors of a si : hool to endeavour to bring their institution within sittii ui aui

      pcjaLiuji njis > . ju . r . ^ ouaen , m . jr ., ajsomaae pape ; nce to a local rate for the support of the school . He and lot fond , he said , of government interference ; but fire , » uld say that , if a local rate in Manchester could be she ] tnately raised for anything in the shape of eduea- got < it might be raised for the purpose of supporting a mom 1 of design . He would rather have money raised by so m 1 rate than derived from the exchequer , because , if Ai y raised , it would be better applied . If money was were I where it was spent , it was well looked after ; there wife rery little jobbing about its disposal , while there som < rrraa 4 * / I £ io 1 r \ T i rtViVii v » re o Vk /\ n 4- m r \ v \ a « y * Hor \* -w * c > j-t * 3 f « A * v > J -w va ¦» w * -u

      ^— - w ** a a ^ r V *** £ _ w * w «« AW * V I ^»* W V ** •»**• *¦» A A . VUA UU W J ? ntral government . fore ; are glad to find that an organization has been ting ed for the purpose of securing the repeal of the pieci duty , which operates so injuriously , not only upon catei ffusion of knowledge amongst the people , by means drea ; heap press , but also upon the industrial interests of The juntry . An influential and effective committee has mori formed , and we believe the plan of operation , which . M roposed to follow , embraces the following particu- ISris —1 . The suppty of statistics , and other matter il- ever Ltinj ? the evils of the nancr dutv . to the countrv tastr

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      try of lectures in the metropolis and principal towns othe 3 kingdom . 3 . Petitions from every class of the fowl lunity affected more or less directly by the tax , and sent every mechanics' and literary institution , &c . T . John Norton delivered an address on taxation in One In theatre , to a numerous audience last night week , on " \ hair was occupied by the Reverend E . R . Larken , ling rton , who , after a few preliminary remarks on the sent al question , introduced Mr . Norton . The main for •< t of the address was to phow the enormous evils of £ g from our system of taxation , on account of its muc too great , and pressing iniquitously upon the 21 ] ng class . In the work of retrenchment , Mr . Nor- whi < imposes to go much further than Mr . Cobden . mar \ d of reauiririff a revenue of £ 55 , 000 . 000 , as at 1

      esent , he thought it would be quite possible to pay iterest of the debt and manage our national affairs in S efficiently for £ 35 , 000 , 000 , thereby effecting a re- the on of no less tlvin £ 20 . 000 , 000 , which would enable dea rnment to abolish the duties on tea , coffee , sugar , exp obacco . voap , and many other articles of daily con- is a tion , thus affording a great boon to the labouring and not c Great Britain has at length been sold by the di- und rs of the Grout , Western Stpam-Ship Company , to A Patterson , the eminent shipbuilder , of Bristol , for beti nm of £ 18 , 000 , about the seventh part of her ori- poa cost . Elv o strike of the 1100 hands employed at the extensive of 1 ay engine works of E . B . Wilson and Co ., Leeds , <« \ inated on Monday by an amicable arrangement be- pen

      a the employers and the men . \ e parish clerk of Westcote , near Stow-on-the-Wold , swe esigned his office . Ilis mode of proceeding was by up ng the following notice on the church door : — " This stri give notice that I shan ' t be clerk any longer , so you o n liberty to get another . " bio ' stag turned out by Baron de Rothschild , followed « ea ) out thirty couples of hounds , jumped on to the vok ay near Cheddiugton the other day , and dashed inss ; the cutting in the direction of Tring , at a time a cl both the up and down mails were due . The hunts- the although dreading that both the hounds and the witl would be destroyed , did nor . lose his presence of ^ ; and , getting on to one of the bridges , luckily sue- waa

      cl in calling the hounds off the line prior to either cy , a e trains coining up . The stag , however , was unfer- pro ely cut to pieces . _ tur ) jookseller in Newcastle recently had upon his stall a ] t spies of Emerson ' s work on Fluxions , all of which j n Id at 7 s . Gd . a copy to pilmen . He said they were j ^ his best customers , and that a standard mathema- ., ro work nover lay long on his . stall , being secured by w 0 , as a prize . On a subsequent day , at the same stall , jm ; wcrfi three men ; ono bought a work on algebra , j ^ cr requested a Greek delectus , the third was pe- , jin ' . * a Spanish grammar . Those men were all hewers \ o (} tl . \ vh <

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      of the name of Kyle , who has since been appre-Repeal Association held its weekly gathering on iy , when Mr . John O'Connell announced the mas gifts to be in amount £ 20 14 s ., the first item ch came from America ; so that all Ireland only 4 s . to sustain the great cause of national indeice . work of extermination is going on rapidly in nmon . A strong party of military and police , panied by the sheriff and his officials , proceeded , 19 th instant , to the lands of Curnamuckla and oy ( the property of Colonel Sewell ) , there to do rk of desolation and destruction , by throwing out bleak world , on the verv eve of the great

      Christestival , and in the depth of winter , about forty ? s , amounting in number to at least 200 indivia great many of whom had their rents paid up in Poor-Law Commissioners have at one swoop dia-1 every officer in the workhouse of the Longford , from the master and matron down to the hall . railway case that came before the assessor at Cork , esday week , the jury refused to agree , and were rged from giving a verdict on the sole grounds , as 1 by the foreman , that they were not treated like men , because ten guineas were not given to them ; at , if they received that sum , they would acree to

      ict immediately ! police-constable on duty in Bridgefoot-street disci in the hall of the house No . 48 in the same street , urday evening , a woman , name unknown , stretched floorway in a state of insensibility . Her skeleton and general appearance showed but too plainly 10 was rapidly perishing from the effects of destitu-The constable hastened to the Newmarketstationfor the purpose of procuring the stretcher to have Dnveyed to the South Dublin Union Workhouse .

      UUiuiii lie ii / uuu iici a . buijjou . irm-housc , at Glassdrummond , in the ncighbour-Df Market-hill , was burned to the ground by incen-8 , on Monday . The farm on which this outrage rmimitted is held under Lord Gosford , one of the kind and considerate landowners in the north of id , at a low rent ; but the tenant being much in s , and totally unable to cultivate the land , was d ; and on giving up possession was taken into the > yment of Lord Goaford as a labourer , for which the seemed satisfied and grateful . The in-coming t , however , had no sooner paid the arrears of rent iken possession of the farm , than his house was d and his property destroyed . iu iuu

      very serious acciucut uuppciiuu jurtuuui , X , qx son of the late Mr . O'Connell , by the unexrl discharge of one of the barrels of his fowlingon Wednesday morning . Mr . O'Connell had been looting at llockn ' eld , near Killarney , and , after dising one of the barrels of his double fowling-gun , ibout to reload it , when the other undischarged I exploded , and shattered the right hand frightfully ig away the palm and the two forefingers and thumb . * j daughter of a sub-inspector of police , named Teelv ' fifteen years , at Clonakilty , in the county of Cork hot dead on Tuesday last by the accidental disc' argo p ; un presented at her thoughtlessly by a youth , a it in the family . amas Pagan , the labourer who wns gored in tho ucn by an unfuriated bullock , on Monday week , „_ lUmlnocilnit 'I'Kn ivwiunaf nug mlinil rtin / 1 till Altw Atlu itvuw # % i' ^ w > w

      Utl TV V > UliUI 7 UUTl « v v * . . v » «» . .. « ... Monday , to give the police an opportunity of dising the owner or the drover of the animal , but they ot been able to do so . The jury returned a verdict idcntal death . The animal is worth about £ 25 . [*« mwsm « * *\ n wia / 1 A / T inVtnstl f ! n ** i"n 11 o # Ttr \*» rionl * r » nf * in

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      ® 9 i 3 Lett # tt . i of the most destructive conflagrations known for lady years in the county of Kent broke out at an early tagui m Monday morning , involving the destruction of in th r valuable property , and throwing some 130 or 150 spom leople out of employ . The scene of this disaster All ti he extensive paper mills of Messrs . Weatherby , and i 3 at Chartham , about three miles from Canterbury . gran < remises were 260 feet in lengthand of proportion- agair

      , 3 th , large stocks of paper finished , or in various excu : of manufacture , were on hand . The engine-houses , that ae-rooms , drying-house , and stores , were more or indie nsumed , and although a considerable portion of the paym iery has been saved , the loss is estimated as greater nary tie amount of the united insurances effected in the they Sun , and National Mercantile offices for £ 16 , 000 . Ini origin of the fire nothing is yet known . on "V \ miden lady , named Brooks , aged eighty-five , and office ice , Miss Hannah Storey , aged thirty , residing at of £ 4 Arlington-street , Pimlico , met with their death in gistr ;

      3 king manner on Monday night . The neice was office : before the fire in the parlour , when she put some him on the coals , which was almost instantly lighted , Di own by the wind into her lap . Her clothes caught cattl le was soon enveloped in flames , and in that state the ( shed into the room where her aunt was in bed , who ing t t to assist her , but in her haste fell down . At that lowii 3 t her aunt's clothes caught fire . They were both gow , ; h burnt that they died in a few hours . knov Parker , the wife of a potter , and his infant child , hend iurnt to death on Saturday night . Parker and his his p ; turned home about ten o ' clock from market , and TJnic iiiue

      943 lo had kindly given the girl a home , nor Mr . Moncv"hr » hitr \ hppn nlr ^ nrlv nut t . n punpnse and tvmiVtiA AAVA « t \ A VW ^* AAUMVWM ^ ^ # « A w ww « r . » fr % « .. KJ ^« UAAU UUUViV

      * . . . > matter , could be expected to make themselves re * le for the expenses attending the prosecution , witnesses were present at the Middlesex Sessions , re kept there ym til the business was over , and the jury were discharged without any indictment Werdinski having been placed before them . An was made to Sergeant Thompson to the effect e delay arose from some omission or error in the lent , but it -was sufficiently obvious that the nonit of the fees was the real cause of the extraordicurrence . Mr . Jardine was not able to say what ould do in order to bring the culprit to justice , mation was received by the metropolitan police , Inesdav . that J . Gaches . one of the parochial

      , had absconded from Peterborough with upwards > , the money of the ratepayers . The bench of ma-? s have issued a warrant for his apprehension , and have been despatched to the outports to prevent m quitting the kingdom . ng last Hallow fair , Mr . Gordon , an extensive salesman , was skilfully robbed by two women , in issmarket , Edinburgh , of a pocket-book contain-» ut £ 700 . The women were captured on ttye folmorning , as they were entering the train for Glasith part of the money ; and a man named Main , to be their intimate acquaintance , was apprein Glasgow the same day , with a bank receipt in session for £ 240 , which he had deposited in the Bank there . The discovery was made at the same

      ; ime aiterwaras Jf aricer , wno , my Dn the sofa and went to sleep , his wife sitting be- in th ae fire nursing the child . The mother , while get- Mail le infant to sleep , herself fell into a doze , when a hend jf blazing coal rolled off the fire , and communiwith her dress . Both mother and child were Tt ully burnt . The child only survived a few hours . Mon mother lingered in great agony till Tuesday Chri ag . of w Wooles , the landlord of the Blue Bowl Inn , near gave 1 , was shot by his son , on Thxirsday , and died that penrl ig . Accounts vary as to the cause of the fatal ca- Tli ? he . One statement is that it was the result of a Rose ¦ 1 which had taken place between father and son ; accoi affirm that the young man was not aware that the on tl mai

      g-piece was loaaea , ana ne nau . mtieiy pie- xrat 1 it at his father in jest . the ' ) soldiers at Chatham committed suicide last week . on £ f them , named John Elliott , aged 21 , shot himself , mas ednesday , during a fit of insanity . Philip Spar- famj he other , had been confined for some offence , and dual iced to one day ' s drill , and to Teturn to the corps fun . lich he enlisted , as being unfit to serve in the corps Tl ppers . This preyed on the young fellow's mind so miSJ , that he drowned himself in despair . He was about Uni ars of age , was much respected in the service , in pOrt ior two itnu iu u « u

      ne nau oeen years , waa nave jj ^ d on New Year ' s Daj' to a young woman residing on i > mpton . disc ? adjourned inquest on the late fatal sewer accident aiiq tland-yard , was brought to a close on Monday , when gent lry returned the following verdict : — ' * Accidental DUt by drowning , and the jury cannot separate without a Ve jsing their unanimous opinion that great negligence Tl ributable to the contractors , Messrs . Humphreys cove hirst , and to the foremen , Wheeler and Parrctt , in On S insulting the engineer of the Commission before Ou t taking the work which led to the accident . " figul erious conflict took place on Friday night week that rn a tinmhor nF cramnkpencrs and a T ) artV Of tinn t'il O I 1 UII 1 UU 1 Ul JJCllIJVIVlV- | O- » KF K .. ^» » jr .-. vj — . HUI

      : . . . ers , on the domain of William Newton , Esq ., of hou Ion-hall , near Thetford , which ended in the death her r . Napthan , the head gamekeeper . A verdict of On [ ful Murder" has been returned against several ^ as unknown . hoo llinm Newson , a middle-aged man , a member of the * j ia , mob , who has been once transported , was brought wag Lambeth Police-office on Monday , charged with moj ng Eliza Cooper , a girl of the town , a violent blow Ire e head with a poker " on the previous Tuesday . The arn was struck with such for ce as to bend the poker e .- e < y to an angle . The defence set up for the unpro- C J [ outrage was that it had been a mere act of drunken ma ity . Mr . Norton said it was one of much too serious tcn ractor to be lightly dealt with , and fully committed anf ] nsnnpr to take his trial for cuttine and woundinc kn

      intent to do grievous bodily harm . ^ vcll-dressed man named Edward Amos , a carpenter , yoi . rought up at Marylebone Police Court , on Monday , ' ed on his own confession with having set fire to piei rty belonging to Captain Itoss , a gentleman of for- l ont residing at Clapham , and thereby doing damage to cna r e amount . He had boon employed as a carpenter waf 3 erection of a terrace now building for Captain bar and about three weeks aco he was discharged , im- * „_ .

      j _ y i i j . j ^ j . ^^ " * - * ' * w ^^ ^^ ^ ^ ^»^— - ^ — - — — — - — - g red on Wednesday week , at the Crow Trees Col- dis a few miles from the city of Durham . The boilers , I lich thrrt ! nvc three , of largo size , were minutely sor inert only about an hour before , when they were of ilprorl nrriv > r «! lv rjl lv » and no dancer was annrehcudcd am

      rly , as lie imagined , by Woods , the foreman of the ,, i . The damage done was estimated at about £ 800 . diately after setting fire to the property he gave * If up to a policeman , stated what he htid done , and f ; his objpct was ** in order to obtain food and ' ig . " He was sent to the House of Detention , Dl "' » he would remain till y esterday , when he was to , cen to Wandsworth Police Court , that being the jjjj ft in which the ofFencc was committed . , _

      s . Fleming , Mr . Montague , and several other per- " who lately interested themselves in the prosecution . . clolphe de Werdinski , a Polo , on a charge of brutal f unnatural treatment of a child named Mary Ann

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 28, 1850, page 943, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1863/page/6/