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      fl kes of fire drifted across the windows of their compartent . Mr . Crampton , guessing what was the matter , nd comprehending at once the danger , opened the door with great coolness and daring , and leaping from carriage to carriage by the aid of the footbridge , made his way l ast that which wm in flames , and was approaching the engi'ie . when he was observed by the guard and driver , Lho as soon as possible , stopped the tram . The luggage on the top of the carriages had caught fire , and the flames were extending rapidly . In the mean time Mr . Crampton ' s companions had had a narrow escape ; for the flames found their way into the compartment which he had left open , and set the clothes of the inmates on fire in several places . They had the greatest difficulty in extinguishing the sparks and flakes of fire , but beyond some singes and a blister or two , no personal injury was suffered . Had it not been for Mr . Crampton ' s presence of mind , however , very melancholy consequences might have resulted . Perhaps , when the ingenious conceiver of the Crjsfal Palace had been reduced to ashes , some measures might have been taken to secure the necessary means of communication between driver and guard . As it was , all the passengers were greatly frightened and a great deal of luggage was burnt .

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      POLICE . A five-pound note was tendered to the landlord of the Old Globe public-house , Fish-street , on Friday , in payment of a glass of brandy and soda water , by " two Liverpool gentlemen . " The note wag pronounced by the landlord and the company assembled at the bar to be a forgery . A policeman who happened to be taking a glass of ale at the bar took the two gentlemen into custody , and the case came before the Lord Mayor the next morning . On inspection the note was proved to be genuine by the Bank authorities . The Lord Mayor laid it down that the note might have been refused ; that the gentlemen had great reason to be indignant at the transaction ; and that he should not interfere to prevent them from seeking satisfaction for the injury Tbey left the court without imputation on their characters , and declaring that theyshould bring the matter before another tribunal . An Irishwoman , possessed of the immense Bum of 5 s 4 £ d ., went to the City of London Union to solicit relief . She was brought before the Lord Mayor , and sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment . Her defence was that she had obtained the money to buy shoes . She hoped the money would be returned . The Lord Mayor : ' Not at all ; that must pay the ratepayers for your support I sent a countryman of yours 16 Biidewell yesterday for a a similar offence . He called at the Union and applied for something to eat and a bed , as he was not only starving but dropping asleep ; but , when we searched him , we fonnd the sum of £ 1 15 s . in his clothes . You and he

      shall go to Ireland together . ' Several Irish tailors were brought up , charged with having committed violent breaches of the peace , and sentenced to different terms of imprisonment . In delivering sentence , the Lord Mayor thus commented on the conduct of Irish tailors in general : — " I must say that the Irish tailors seem , at this time of general harmony , and enjoyment , and peace , to be an exception to the rule fry which all the rest of society are evidently guided . Since the Grand Exhibition commenced , there his not been the slightest tendency to disturbance or row of any kind in the city of London , except the districts inhabited by the persons I allude to , who are , I am sorry

      to say , a most drunken , ragged , improvident class ol men . Many of them are notorious for deserting their wives and families , and several who stay with their wives seem to stay merely to beat and half-starve them . I regret to be obliged to notice publicly the strange contrast which such men present to the mass of the citizens , but 1 cannot help making the observation . I have learned from the police authorities that the City force have had , since the auspicious event of the opening of the Great Exhibition , little or nothing , comparatively , to do . It would f > eem as if the numerous population , gathered together from all parts of the world , had combined to fihow what could be effected by the most glorious

      of all competitions . " James Callaghan loved Julia Love—a pretty name f r a sweetheart ; but lie was jealous . A policeman told him one day that Miss Julia had been out all Sunday week with " a man . " Jealous James took fire thereat , and formed a tragic resolve , not quite in accordance with hid professions of devotion , and he seut his mistress the following letter on Thursday week : — " Faithless Julia , —You , like all your nex , is abase deceiver , and breaker of man ' s heart . I don ' t believe that ( the man you went to the Exhibition with , is your cousin no more than I arn ; and I am fully confirmed in thai from some conversation 1 had with a police countable yesterday . I am determined to do for you , ao that you uhan ' t have an opportunity of deceiving anybody else , ao you had better look out . This from your brokenhearted sweetheart , Jamkh Ca-L IjAQHAN . '

      " Faithless Julia , " who is a sensible girl , was greatly surprised , but took no notice of this affectionate note , thinking that the gallant James , who betrayed more pas Hion ttian love , could not be in earnest . When he called to Bee her the next day , she confidingly walked out with him ; but when they came to a lonely part of the Maze , Bt unondney , heauddenly sprung upon her , blackening her oyea , and beating her dreadfully . A policeman rescued her from death , as she believed , and the infuriated lover was walked off to the station-house . On Saturday mo . ning , Miss Julia made her complaint before Mr . Seeker , at Soulhwark , and the facts were proved . In defence James Callnghan had nothing to nay . He could only urge that he w «« " inclined to be jealous ; " that he waa extremely sorry for what he had done ; " and that the story of the policeman had driven him rnad . As for Misa Julia , she behaved admirably . She told Mr . Becker that bUo could forgive tho injury but not th « insult ; and

      that she could not " think of keeping company with Callaghan any more until he got rid of his jealous temperament . " She then magnanimously withdrew the charge , with Mr . Seeker's consent ; and he , after binding over the ferocious Jamea to keep the peace , dismissed him .

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      MISCELLANEOUS . William Eastwood , who stabbed his wife at supper , has been fully committed . The Western Literary Institution , Leicester-square , was partially destroyed by fire on Saturday morning . A meeting was held at Willis ' s Rooms on Tuesday , for the purpose of obtaining the establishment of " Tribunals of Commerce " The Board of Ordnance being desirous of obtaining for the officers of the Twelfth Lancers , now under orders for the Cape , twenty-five repeating pistols invented by Mr . Colt , a citizen of the United States of America , and now being exhibited in the Great Exhibition , a request has been made and preferred to the authorities for permission to receive the pistols from the Exhibition building , as they are intended solely for the use and service of the Queen's troops . The Old City Gas Company and the Great Central Gas Consumers Company have consented to amalgamate . The reduction in the price of gas has created so large an additional demand , as to require the works of both companies . Captain Laffain has made a report to the Commissioners of Railways upon the late accident on the Brighton and Lewes line . The principal point in the report is the condemnation as " objectionable and dangerous " of the plan of running the tender before the engine . Mr . Billing , of the county of Westmeath , who was so severely wounded by a shot from an assassin , a short time ago , is so far recovered as to be quite out of danger , and able to proceed to the continent to recruit his strength , after much suffering and confinement .

      The Society of United Law Clerks dined together on Wednesday , under the presidence of Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce . Every English subject will be henceforth admitted into the Prussian dominions upon a passport of the competent British authorities without any visa of a Prussian legation or consulate , which hitherto was required . There are two candidates in the field for Greenwich , Mr . David Salomons and Mr . David Wire , each , beside being a " David , " and therefore calculated to settle his opponent , is also an Alderman . The nomination of these gentlemen came off on Thursday . Mr . Wire ' s party dispensed with the usual display of flags , but on the side of Mr . Salomons they were pltnitful . Mr . John Pontifex proposed , and Mr . Roff seconded the nomination of Mr . Salomons . Mr . Wire was nominated by Mr . Wade , of Deptford , but so much noise was made he could not be heard , the crowd constantly expressing a wish that Mr . Wade should " go home and sell his muffins . " A great deal of amusement too was created by Mr . Salomons , who , when the speaker was embarrassed bvthe row and his own unheard eloquence , politely handed him a pot of porter , of which he took a copious draught . The nomination was seconded amid the same confusion . Mr . Salomons made a long speech , the short of which is that the alderman will vote for household suffrage , and vote by ballot . Money , he exclaimed , was a great thing , but education was moreand then , amidst loud laughter and louder cheers , he took a long diaughtfrom the aforesaid pot of porter—therefore he should vote for education . Mr . Wire spoke in his turn , but the feeling against him was so strong that he could scarcely be heard . The sliow of hands was decidedly in favour of Mr . Salomons . The election was fixed lor Friday . The B ah election , which took place on Wednesday , hab ended in the return of Captain Scobell , the Liberal candidate . The contest was very close : at hall past one they were ncck-aud-neck ; but at that period the Conservative electors flagged , Mr . Sutcliffe ' s committee ceased to post returns , and the Liberal candidate went ahead , and " won by a majority of 69 . The numbers were , as officially stated on Wednesday—Captain Scobell , 1110 ; Mr . Sutcliffe , 1041 . Majority for Suouell , Gilt appears by an ofiicial return before us , that the nim . b r of registered electors for Irish counties ( 32 ) is 135 245 for county-towns and cities ( 9 ) is 20 , 255 ; und for boroughs ( 24 ) is 8 , 046 . Total registered electors for Ireland , 163 , 546 . . Very gloomy reports are in circulation respecting the fearful decline of the Irish people , which will be made manifest by the forthcoming official returns of the Census Commissioners . It is stated on an authority which ought to be deenietl competent that these returns will show that the population of Ireland in the year 1850 is about the same as it stood in 1821 , juHt thirty years back—a result scarcely credible , even making full allowance for the recent ravages of famine and pestilence , and prodigious tide of emigration which has been rolling on for the last four or five yeurs . A fatal affray took place on the 17 th , in Londonderry , between some soldiers of the thirty-fourth depot , stationed there , und the constabulary . Tne uffair originated in an iiiHtilt offered by the soldiers to a countryman ; and the police having interfered to disperse u crowd which had collected , the soldiers attacked them , using their belts in the assault . Oncof the police survived the injuries which he received little more than twenty four nouns , and an inquest having been held on his remains on the ll ) th , the juiy found that he had died from the effect of a blow inflicted by John Day , one of th « boIcIutb , three others aiding and abetting . It wm stiongly recommended that tho custom of soldiers wearing behu off duty should be discontinued . Some portions of Lancashire were visited with a storm on Saturday evening laat , which , though of short duraion , ivau fearfully violent , and destroyed a good deal of

      property . It appears to have come from St . George ' s Channel , and to have passed over Holyhead , Chester , and Birkenhead , in its course , at all which places travellers spoke of its violence at early period s of the afternoon . It reached the neighbourhood of Manchester between seven and eight o ' cloek in the evening , but the town felt comparatively little of its force . The main fury of the elements seems to have fallen upon the villages and towns skirting the Cheshire border of the county—Cheadle , Didsbury , Levenhulme , Gorton , Denton , Droylsden , Fairfield , Ashton , Oldham , Middleton , and Rochdale .

      An action brought against the Times for libel was tried on Saturday in the Court of Queen ' s Bench . The libel consisted of an unfair report of certain legal proceedings before Mr . Baron Platt , in Judges' Chambers . The plea eet up in defence was that the statements contained in the report were true , but on the trial the plea was withdrawn . The counsel for the proprietors of the Times expressed regret that they had inadvertently allowed the report to find a place in their columns , and

      offered to settle the question by paying : the costs , an offer which was accepted . Lord Campbell said the lawhad been correctly stated , that fair reports of judicial proceedings may be made ; but that in this instance an unfair report had been printed . That was an exception to the general rule acted upon by the Times which generally gave an impartial account of what took place in the courts . A verdict of forty shillings was taken by consent , on condition-that the proprietors of the Times paid all expenses incurred .

      In a letter to Mr . Harvey , of Leeds , made public in the Leeds Mercury , Mr . Cobden thus explains why he did not divide the House on his Peace motion , and what he will do another time : — " As a general rule , I think it is best to ascertain one ' s strength or weakness by a vote of the House ; but , on the present occasion , I yielded to the wish of my parliamentary friends , who seem anxious to persuade themselves that Lord Palraerston will do all that we wish him to do without a vote of the House . I hope they may not be disappointed ; but if , after the lapse of another year , it shall be found that nothing is done or attempted by the noble lord , then I trust that the friends of our pacific and oeconotnical policy will pursue a bold and independent course , totally regardless of the views or wishes of the Minister of the day , whoever he may be . "

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      The National Guard of Ory , arrondissement of Fontainebleau , has just been dissolved and disarmed , for having , when assembled fora review on the 2 nd , received the commandant with hostile shouts and seditious cries and 6 ongs . The emplo ) 6 s of the Prefecture of the Seine are now engaged in classifying and making up the census returns . Their labour will be terminated and the result made known in a fortnight . There is an increase in the populalion , but it is far from being so considerable as on f < rmer occasions . In 1846 , when the last census was taken , the population of Paris , within the walls , was 1 , 033 , 897—in the whole department ( including Paris ) 1 , 364 , 4 ( 37 . The Hanover Gazette gives the following details of the propositions of the Governor of Hanover respecting the German fleet . It desires—1 st , that the Germanic Diet shall immediately declare the German fleet on the North Sea to be tlie property of the Confederation ; 2 ndly , that a commission shall be formed by the Diet , to report on the question whether the fleet shall be kept up or not . A terrible fire bioke out on Saturday afternoon in the town of Hanau , in Hesse-Cassel , which destroyed six houses , with their out-buildings , and a fine old church . It originated accidentally . Very little of the lurniiure and other property of the poor inhabitants was Baved , more than twenty families of whom have been rendered homeles .- > and penniless . A frightful fire occurred at Madrid on the 16 th . The parish church of San Lorenzo , a timber warehouse , and two other houses , have bten destroyed . Fortunately no lives were lost . A supplement of the Gazetta di Venezia has a modification of the military council of Ruvigo , sentencing ten culpiits to be shot , five to twenty ytara' imprisonment , five others to the same punishment for eighteen years , three to fifteen years , and sundry others to smaller terms . Auatiia cannot give up its severe measures . Ruvigo has become notorious of late , on account of the numerous persons sentenced there .

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      The total importation of specie from the other Bide of the Atlantic during the week has been nearly £ 600 , 000 , and at present there in every indication of a continuance of these supplies . The rnginemanand stoker of a steam-tug quarrelled at sea , off the Tyne . They fell to blowH , but were separated by the helmsman . When he returned to his post they fell to again , and , stumbling , slipped over the wide of the vessel . When the helmsman looked for them , he " saw nothing but the rolling of the sea . " There were only those three on board . A gentleman named Edward Burloy Clayton was killed in Park-lane , on Saturday , while riding on horseback . Ah he and two friendH wvic turning the corner of Deane-Btreet , a cab , proceeding at a rapid pace , dashed againatMr . Clayton , the » h-A Hiriking him in the groin . The wound waa fatal , and ho died m tit . Oeorge h

      Hospital . ... * i »_ A somewhat singular return has just been printed by order of the House of Lords , on the motion ol Lord brougham , allowing for twenty year * the great udvantuua which u i » "tuted haft resulted from the cases treated bv the Coiiunitihionera of the Courts of Reconcilement in Denmark It " » " be sullie . ienl to kivo the result of the hiHt year in the return . 1846 . In that y « ur 24 , 625 omb « 's weie under taken , 16 , 068 were aJjusted or stopped . 324 were postponed , 18 , 233 were rolerred to the law courts , and 2761 were tried .

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      JuNB 28 , 1851 . ] { CD * ILlgfrif * 605

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    • Leader (1850-1860), June 28, 1851, page 605, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1889/page/9/