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Leader (1850-1860), 10th May 1851, Edition Town of 1, Page 436

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      it with both . He was hailed as a genuine actor , and crowned with applause . In 1805 he was engaged at the Hayraarket Theatre , and on the 15 th of August in that year he revived for his benefit the warm weather tragedy of The Tailors , which produced that memorable fracas between the " dungs" the "flints , " and ended in the committal of three dozen and odd , and on . e rebellious carver and gilder , to the watchhouse . The principal roles in the burlesque were sustained by Dowton , Mathews , Liston , and Mrs . Gibbs , as Francisco , Abrahamides ,

      Zachariades , and Tittilinda . Ihe groat success of Tom Thumb , in which Mr . Dowton played King Arthur very humorously , stimulated him to vhis attempt . His two principal Shakspeariau characters were Sir John Falstaff and Dogberry . As Dr . Cantwell in The Hypocrite he was inimitable . His other best parts were § ir Anthony Absolute and Major Sturgeon . With the proceeds of his farewell benefit at Her Majesty ' s Theatre a few years since an annuity was purchased , on which he lived to a " fine green old age , " happy in the bosom of his family and a large circle of professional and private friends .

      The Reverend J . Kenrick , whose name has been so prominently brought before the public in consequence of his refusal to bury , at Chicbester , a Dissenting minister and a poor woman who had destroyed herself in a fit of insanity , has resigned the vicarages of St . Peter the Great , Chichester , value £ 150 , and of North Marden , value £ 65 ; to which the Reverend T . Bayly has been promoted . The Reverend Mr . Longmuir , of Aberdeen , made an experiment in his own church the other day , to demonstrate the rotation of the earth . To the great confusion of the assembled savans the machine indicated that the earth was turning the wrong way .

      A skeleton of the ancient Scotch elk was discovered the other day in boring the rock in Mr . Dove ' s quarry , at Nitshill , under a bed of moss , about six feet below the surface . The skeleton appeared to be lying on its face , interlaid on the clay which immediately overlies the rock to the depth of four or five feet . The vertebra measured from the skull seven-and-a-half feet , and in attempting to remove the bones the greater part crumbled into dust ; however , the crown of the skull and the root of the antlers are quite entire and attached ; their tips extend six and a half feet asunder , and their blades measured nine inches broad . — Glasgow Post . to the

      The British Museum was reopened public on Monday , and will continue to be accessible to visitors on Mondays , Wednesdays , and Fridays , from ten till seven o ' clock throughout the summer . In addition to the new Assyrian gallery , a portion of the library was thrown open for the first time to visitors . The Great Peace Congress to be held in London this summer will open its sittings on Tuesday , July 22 , and will continue for several days during that week . The above time has been selected after extensive correspondence with influential gentlemen in America and on the continent . At an evening party recently , it wis proposed to dispose of the belle of the room by lottery . Twenty tickets were immediately sold at a fixed price . The joke ended not here . The fortunate adventurer has since married

      the lady . The first Floral Exhibition of the season took place at Chiswick , and , of course , the weather was unpi opitious ' During the past year considerable improvements have been made in the grounds . Many duplicate and worthless species of trees and shrubs have been removed ; the shrubbery adjoining the long broad walk round the south-east and south sides of the gardens has been completed ; the walk itself lias been gravelled and furnished with seats ; a new flower garden formed , winch ere long will be the scene of an exhibition of American plants , by Mr . Hosea Waterer ; and various other portions oi the grounds newly laid out with additional walks . But , alas ! on Saturday all these improvements were of no avail for nobody could enjoy them ; every person that number few

      did visit the gardens , and the was very , being glad to avail theuiHclves of the shelter offered by the tents of Mr . Benjamin Kdgingtou , beneath which the flowers were principally exhibited . The bands of the Coldstream Guards , the First Life Guarda , and the Horse Guards ( Blue ) , were in attendance , and played several favourite marches , waltzes , polkas , &c , during the afternoon , but all their HlortH to enliven the company proved of little avail in oppotution to the blighting influence of the weather . In tlit- early part of 1 he morning , we observed the Duke of Devonshire , the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland , and other members of the nobility amongst the company , but t . liey , like the nuijoriiy of other persons , soon retired to find a more genial place in which t' » spend their time .

      Mr . Dyce Nomine lias again applied , through Mr-Itolt , to llu > Lord Chancellor , f <> r an inquiry into the Btate of h « n mind . The peculiarity of the ousc in this instance in , that , the Lord Chancellor was formerly counsel for Mr . l ) y « e Sombre , and , therefore , he culled Vicv-Chnncellor Knight . Mruce to sit with him . The case itself did not differ from preceding suits . The same opposition was manifested by Mrs . Dyce Sombre , and allegations made , as to the ttensuul ii regului it ies of her husband . In addition to this it \ v >< i * argued that Mr . Dyce Sombro had published libels against his next of kin , Madame . Solaroli and Mrs . Troup . Alter hearing the oase , Vice-Uhauet'lloi . Knight Bruce thought that u new examination ought to be made-, and in this opinion tin-Lord Chancellor com-. uin d .

      At a meeting of the council of chairmen of the Metropolimu ' CtuuuUhsiou , presided over by I ' riiicc Albeit , it yvuH unanimously resolved to invite the Foreign Coniinisaionerq to an entertainment . The invitation will be extended to the foreign Am basNadors and Ministers , and tUc pri e . iuul members of the ltoy . il Commission Kxeeut ivo . Tint banquet is to be oil it scale of great wplendour , and i ? intended to luuiuiuiu our national character for hosnitulity . Sion House , the auburbuu munition nt tiio Puke ol

      Northumberland , with its state apartments , conservatories , and pleasure grounds , was thrown ppen to the public on Tuesday . Robert Coombes beat Mackinny after a hard race by a dozen lengths . He remains therefore champion of the Thames and the Tyne . The Cardinal Patriach at Venice was taken ill during the celebration of mass on Eaater Sunday , and compelled to quit the church . He was carried home forthwith , and received medical aid ; but a violent inflammatory fever came on , and upon the fifth day ( April 25 ) he expired . loations the

      Dr . Beke has been making long exp on Egyptian side of Africa . He expects that the missionary effor ' ts for that part of Africa will have their centre in the region of Uniamesi , or " of the Moon . " Among these mountains Dr . Beke saw a volcano in an active state . In the same region he found there was a vast lake named Usambiro . Some of the mountain peaks are above the snow line , glittering in perpetual whiteness . — Philadelphia Colonization Herald . It may , perchance , be a matter of more than ephemeral interest to many chenalitrs d'industrie , who have visited our shores to practically demonstrate , in their own persons , the " industry of all nations , " on the hearth of John Bull , to notify the fact that Herr Felzenthal , the Daniel Forester of the Viennese capital , and the vigilant M . Stieber , the police agent of Berlin , have been among the most recent and not least important arrivals in

      London . The new postal arrangements for the city of Berlin came into force on May 1 st . There are now twelve daily deliveries on week , and six on Sundays—an embarras de richesses in a city of the size of the Prussian capital , especially as regards the later deliveries , seeing that bankers , merchants , and shops shut up , generally speaking , before the last two deliveries . The Augsburg Algemeine Zeitung announces that a few days before the departure of King Otho from Munich , the succession to the throne of Greece was settled on Prince Adalbert , on the condition that his children should become members of the Greek Church .

      The grand jury of the United States' District Court at Boston has brought in new bills of indictment against Elizur Wright , one of the editors of the Commonwealth newspaper , and others , for aiding in the rescue of the fugitive slave . California is probably the greatest country in the world for precocious youths . Boys from ten to sixteen years of age , who , in the Atlantic cities , would be either at school or apprenticed to some useful trade , are found here upon our streets , wharves , and in our saloons , with a pile of gold before them , offering to " bet a hundred dollars that no gentleman can pick up tbe ace of spades , " or betting their hundreds at faro or monte . —San Francisco Herald . The steam-ship Great Western , of the West India line , was at Chagres on the 8 th March , taking in about halt a million of specie sterling for England .

      The New York and Erie Railway is finished , and la a few « lays passengers will pass from Dunkirk on Lake Erie to New York in a single day . The distance is about 400 miles . Great preparations are making to celebrate the day of its opening . This is one of the greatest efforts of modem times . It is equivalent in value to the Erie Canal , and opens vast regions to the commerce of New York . An extraordinary case was lately submitted to the civil tribunal of the Seine . The widow , elder son , and other children of Naundorff , the Prussian watchmaker , who represented himself to be the son of Louis XVI ., and

      who assumed the title of the Duke de Normandie , brought an action against the Duchess d'Angouleme and the Count de Chambord , the object of which was to compel them to recognize him as the legitimate son of Louis XVI . and Marie Antoinette , and , consequently , to declare that the register of his death in the Temple , said to have taken place on the 8 ih of June , 17 ' . ) 5 , was false . M . Jules Favre supported the pretensions of the applicants in a long speech , which he had not concluded when the court rose . The case was put off for a fortnight . Naundorff , it may be remembered , died at Delft , in Holland , in August , 1845 .

      On the arrival of the Aranjuea train at the Pinto station one day lust week , the passengers were much suppriued at not finding the Madrid tram , which they expected would have already arrived at Pinto . It was soon ascertained that a slight accident hud happened to some of the waggons , during the repairing of which the . passengers all ansenibled in the third-china waggons , and guitars and wine being forthcoming , a noisy ball took place in which grandees of the first class , 1 . idles of the highest line-age mixed in the merry groups with the manolae and chulos of Lavapics . Wild so much spirit tvun the ball kept up , tliut . when the second train airived , it was with general reluctance that the festivity was put an end to . The honours and invdais conferred on artists for the

      Pat is Inhibition of 1 B' > 1 were delivered by the Minister of the Interior on Saturday . M . Decamps has been promoted to the rank of OHicer of the Legion of Honour , and MM . Diaz , Jollivet , Leon FJeury , Muxiine David , Ku ^ tine . Giraud , DesluRiifs , and Achillo Lefevre . have hern appointed cluv-aliei a of the mi me order . A griiit number of gold and . silver medalH were also di-iIntuit <¦( - ! . M . Menne , a Belgian , had the licket . TM . Mo in the AriiNtH * Lottery , which won the prize , of n hl , itu « by 1 ' rndier , in gold , nilver , and ivory , repiem-nted to be

      worth 2 () , 0 ()() f ., ; ind u golrl medal . On iipi )] yin << for !> u : Ht . ul . ue , hi ; was re <| ii «> sied to wait , a few days , as he inn told it was not . terminated . Mn tit teiidant , a gold iricchil , or r . ilher a sum ol / j . OOOI ., the value of ihe medal , Kan offered him . Having read an announcement in the newspapers that the wtatuo was to he sent to the Exhibition of London , M . Menne brought an action ugitiiiut tho directors of the lotteiy to compel them to give it up to him . They in return demand that , ua u foreigner , M . Men no should be , obliged to deposit a « uin of money as security for the coats . The case was argued On Saturday

      befordthe Civil Tribunal , and the judgment waa put off for a week . The fast trains between Berlin and Cologne , and vie * versa , commenced running ob the 1 st of M ( ay , as well as , a night train between Cologne and Ostend . JJetters from . Berlin , therefore , will gain twelve hours / and those from , Vienna twenty-four . The London mails , also , will arrive , some , hours sooner . A curious meteorological phenomenon has just taken place at Lardabourg , in Calabria . A luminous meteor was perceived to fall on a barn , which it set on fire . Professor Tosti , who has given an account of the matter ,

      mentions that this is only the second time . th » t such an event has been known to take place . The other cue occurred on the 13 th of June , 1759 , at Captieux , near Bazas , in France . The meteor there also set fire t , o . % barn , iu which a beggar had taken refuge . He was arrested under a charge of incendiarism , and _ t # l $ en to Bordeaux . He declared in tbe most solemn manner that he was innocent , but he would , notwithstanding , have been certainly condemned had not the Atob £ Nollet , tl \ en celebrated as a natural philosopher , examined the premises , and having found among the rubbish the aerolite that had fallen , everted himself in favour of the pAor man , and got him acquitted . The phenomenon mentioned by Professor Toeti wasj witnessed by several persons .

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      THE CHESHIRE RAILWAY SMASHLast week we gave a brief account of this deplorable accident . We now recapitulate the facts . Wednesday week was the great race day at Chester , and trains were arranged to run all day as fast aa they filled . The train , heavily laden , which , left the station about seven o ' clock , went at fair speed toProdsUam , entered the long tunnel there , and then , partly for want of Btearn , and partly owing to the wetness of the raila , it stuck fast in the tunnel . Naturally the passengers became alarmed . The tuunel waa quite daik , and rapidly filled with steam and smoke . Some people began to think of getting out , others were lighting paper with luuifers , and burning small torches , when some one assured them that it vra « i " all right , " and that the train would proceed immediately . In this state of suspense they remained about half an hour ; when the noise of a train approaching from behind increased the alarm , and raised the excitement to an intolerabl y pitch , when the advancing ran into the stationary train . No material damage was done by this concussion . The excitement now he- , came unbearable . Passengers were all inquiring what was the matter , and some lor a long time could get no answer . The wildest schemes were proposed . Suddenly the bellowing of another train was heard above the confusion in the tunnel ; it came on at a smart pace ; nearer and nearer ; and then crashed into the hindmost train , smashing the carriages , throwing the passengers in all directions , the engine itself leaping up , and turning off the rails . The scene now became intensely horrible . Shrieks mingled with the din of the escaping steam , darknesa rendered denser by the steam and smoke enveloped all . At length lights were brought , and what was then seen and endured will be best described in the

      words of those who saw and suffered . An inquest has been held at the Red Lion , Preston Brook , upon the bod ies of six passengers , killed on that night . Extracts from the evidence will convey a lively idea of what took place . Mr . Clarke , of Cuddington-lodge , near Bolton , was travelling with his sisters-in-law , Mrs . Hidgway and Mrs . Wettenhull , both of whom were killed . They went in the second train . In the tunnel , he says : — 41 I called out through the window to Home persons in another carriage and proposed that we should get out and walk ; but some one replied that there was no danger , as persona had been sent to both ends of th * tunnel with signal lights to stop other trains from entering .

      I did not perceive any lighta in the tunnel , and it waa very dark . A few minutes after I felt the shock from q collision . It waa a very violent shock . I and Mrs . Ilidgway were on one Bide of the carriage , and Mrs . Wettenhall was opposite her Bister . I vas thrown from my seat by the colliuion , and it appeared to me that the carnage was Hhuttered to pieces . I waa not much hurt , and immediately set about seeking my relatives . I coul < l find no uncut first , it waa so dark , but at length I felt th « legs of Mr « . Kidgway , who appeared to be auepcndetl among the fragments of the carriage top , ana I attempted to pull her down . 1 could not see anything of Mr « . Wettenhull or find her . I remained in the earring * eight or ten minutctt , and then some one came with a lantern . "

      Thouins Newell , brother to James Newell , killed , 8 ui < l : — " I was knocked down , and tUe next carriage behind u « came on to the top of ours . I tj » d not sec what became , of my brother then , but on looking for him in about ten or fifteen niinuttn I found him ly ing under the c . nrria < e , the wheeln of which hud been knocked froin under it . I believe he wuh then dead . " 1 went uway and got into a hole at the aide of the . tunnel to be out ol danger . " Mr . Taylor , Superintendent of % hc I ) division of the MftiicheHter police , who rode in tl ^ e third train , de-Hcrihed what he did alter llu ; nhock : —

      " 1 linked what was * the mutter , but for nearly half an hour got . no anuwcr . A man then came with a light , uiul I learnt that u casualty liad occurred . I walked up to the engine of our own train , aud fpujid ; i ( « ff the Hue , and tbuta heap of p&rriage * were 8 in «« bcd to piecea , blocking up tho tunnel . I uuw Dr . Leete , of Newton , taken out ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), May 10, 1851, page 436, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1882/page/8/