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Leader (1850-1860), 25th October 1851, Edition Town of 2, Page 1012, Untitled Article

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      ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTING THE REPEAL OF THE TAXES ON KNOWLEDGE , 20 , Great Coram-street , Brunswick-square , October 15 , 1851 . Dear Sib , —Inclosed is a copy of our financial report up to Michaelmas . It has been made up earlier than Usual , as it will be necessary to commence agitating immediatel y in , favour of the motion to be introduced in the House of Commons , and which may probably be brought forward at an early period of the session . The report of the proceedings of the Association , and of the state of the question , will be issued , as usual , in the beginning of the new year . In the mean time , I am instructed to urge on you the necessity of assisting the Committee in every way which your means will allow ; and beg to Buggest that the following things should be done by all ¦ who are able : — 1 . Subscriptions to be promised immediately , and paid as early as convenient . m 2 . Petitions to be got up , and signed as numerously as possible , for early presentation next session . 3 . Public meetings to be held whenever that course is ^ J ^ etters to be written to the Board of Inland Revenue whenever any irregularity is observed m the administration of the law . ... All who are willing to give their personal assistance , or have any information to communicate , are requested to apply to the Secretary ; if personally , on Wednesday mornings , between ten and two , or on Wednesday evenings , after eight o'clock . Yours faithfully , C . Dobson Collet , Sec .

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      Financial Report from the lZtk of February , 1851 , to Michaelmas , 1851 . President—T . Milner Gibson , M . P . Treasurer—Francis Place . Sub-Treasurer—J . Alfred Novello . Chairman—Richard Moore . Secretary—C . Dobson Collet , 20 , Great Coram-street , Brunswick-square . BECEIPTS . Addiscott , W . . £ 0 10 0 Lombe , E . . £ 100 0 0 Allan . T . ( Edin- Lushington , C . burgh ) ... 110 M . P . ... 200 Ashurst . W . . . 3 3 0 Members' shil-B ., J . . . . . 0 10 0 ling subscrip-Baldwin , J . ( Bir- tions ... 3 18 0 mingham ) . . 5 0 0 Mill , J . S . . . 10 0 Bond , W . . . 0 10 0 Mills , J . . . . 0 4 0

      Bonnick , J . . . 0 10 Mollett , I . F . . 0 10 0 Bowkett . Dr . . 10 0 Mudie , C . . . 10 0 Bunting , C . J . 0 5 0 Novello , J . A . . 4 0 0 Carloss , W . I . . 0 4 0 Piercy , W . . . 0 10 Cassell , J . . . 5 0 0 Place , F . ... 10 0 0 Cliristie , W . . . 110 Reasoner Fund . Clarke , C . C . . 10 0 Trevelyan , A ., Cobden , R ., M . P . 5 0 0 Edinburgh , Collection at St . £ 2 ; Holyoake , Martin's-hall . 1 14 9 G . ( through ) , Cuthbert , J . . . 0 5 0 £ 2 . Is . 6 d ., Dixon , W . . . 0 16 being the last Edwards , P .. . 110 instalments of Epps , Dr . . . 110 £ 25 subscribed Ewart , W ., M . P . 5 0 0 in sixpences . 4 1 G Finch , J . . . . 0 2 6 Saull , W . D . . 0 10 0 Gibson , T . M . Smith , J . (

      Bing-M . P . ... 10 0 0 ley ) .... 500 Hall , A . ... 040 Roames , J . . . 040 Hargreaves , W . 5 0 0 Turner , J . 0 2 6 Harrison , S . . . 110 Walhouse , E . . 10 0 Hickson , W . E . 110 Westerton , C . . 0 10 0 Jackson , A . . . Wilkinson , W . ( Derby ) .. 070 A 500 Larken , Rev . E . 110 Williams , W . . Le Blond , II . . 6 0 0 M . P . . . . 110 Lectures ... 9 8 o Lee , Dr . ... 100 £ 208 1 G 0 Linley , W . . . 110 EXlMiNUlTUllR . Advertising .. .. .. .. . £ 99 G Lectures .. .. -. .. 20 6 6 Porterage .. .. .. .. .. 607 Postage 20 13 6 Printing .. .. 32 7 0 Rent of office , £ 18 . 15 s . ; rent of rooms for public and upecial meetings , £ 13 . /}» . .. 32 0 0 Stationery .. 5 19 10 Sundries .. .. .. .. .. 13 511 Travelling expenses of the Hecretary to Manchester , Liverpool , Ac . .. .. .. 500 Writing .. .. .. .. .. .. 150 Debts of the . Newspaper Slump Abolition Committee .. .. .. .. .. 46 1 G 10 Balance in hands of treasurer .. .. 9 11 4 £ 208 1 G 0 Examined and found correct , October 13 , 1851 . ( Samuki .. IIakuinon , BaruHbury-park , Islington . P . A . Xayi . ok , Curry-lane .

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      JVIISC KLLA N KO US . Parliament was further prorogued on Thursday , at n Privy Council held at . Windnor , until January 1 T > , 18 /> 2 l *> rd . Seymour and . Nurl ( Jranvillc were Bworn of the Privy Council Mr . Richard Kinderaley and Mr . James Parker ( nominated Viw-Chimcrlloni ) were presented to her Majenty by Viscount PaliiMTNton ( officiating for hir ( J . Grey , Home Secretary ) , and received the . honour of knighthood from her Mojenty . Mr . Joweph Paxton , Mr . William Cubitt , and Mr . Charles Fox were Hcvcral y presented to the Queen by ViHCOunt l ' ulmerston , and had the honour of knighthood conferred upon them by her MujeHty .

      Rapidly , very rapidly , the whole contents of the Crystal Palace are disappearing . The heroes of the Palace nave been knighted . What to do with the surplus , is now the question most interesting respecting the Exhibition . The Society for Improving the Condition of the Labouring Classes opened , on Wednesday , a portion of the Thanksgiving-buildings in Portpool-lane , Gray ' s-innlane , as a public washhouse for the use of the poor in that densely populated neighbourhood . M . Caplin , of Manchester , whose name appears in the

      list of persons entitled to Exhibition medals for gymnastic apparatus and orthorachidic instruments , has just forwarded a juvenile gymnasium to Buckingham Palace for the use of the youthful members of the Royal Family . Miss Glyn , who was so long one of the chief supports of Sadler's Wells Theatre , ' has again resumed her Shakspearian readings , On Thursday night she read Macbeth in the great room of the Whittington Club to an overflowing audience , who were enthusiastic in their applause .

      Anew omnibus association has been formed this week , to work various omnibus routes , at reduced fares . The first route opened is from Bayswater to Tottenhamcourt-road , 2 d . ; thence to the Bank , 2 d . Second route , from the Great Western to the Great Northern Railway , 3 d . ; and from the Yorkshire Stingo to King ' scross , 2 d . A body of carpenters , bricklayers , and labourers amounting to 300 or 400 , struck work at the terminus of the Great Northern Railway on Friday week . The cause of the strike was the stoppage of the hour and a half allowed to the men on Saturday . The men gained their point .

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      The organ of Russia and the Foreign Office , the Morning Post , published tne following announcement before any of its contemporaries : — ' We are happy to be able distinctly to state , that the political difficulties to which we have more than once referred , as having threatened to obstruct that important undertaking , the proposed railway between Alexandria , Cairo , and Suez , may be considered as finally removed , the opposition which had been offered on certain technical grounds by the Porte to the intentions of Abbas Pasha having been

      honourably reconciled . It is not necessary that , in making this announcement , we should at present enter into the details of the real history of these transactions , on which , as we perceive from some of the speeches made at the late public meeting in the City , considerable misconception has existed on the part of the public . Still less need we enlarge on the immense prospective advantages of this plan both to England and to Egypt , or to the high credit which the conduct and ultimate arrangement of such an enterprise reflects on our own country . "

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      The Municipal Council of Marseilles has come to a resolution , expressing a desire for the establishment of a line of electric telegraph between Paris and Marseilles . It is announced that the Duchess d'Angouleme died at Frohsdorf on the 19 th instant , the anniversary of the execution of her mother , Marie Antoinette . The lioman Republic abolished and destroyed the guillotine . The Pope , with loud exultation of the TJltramontanes , had a new one made , and set it up again . It is now actively employed in the cause of religion ! A powder magazine blew up on the 15 th at Kreims , in Austria . The whole of the building was destroyed . The bodies of three members of a commission , who had been on a visit of inspection of the fortress , have since been found , but that of the director , who accompanied them , has not yet been discovered . Two soldiers and a young girl were also killed , and several other persons seriously injured .

      It is not intended , as stated by some of our contemporaries , to make any further immediate addition to the forces now at the Cape or on the voyage to that colony . — Globe . The Glasgow Free (!) Press of last Saturday says : — "We avow ourselves the willing Blave of the priests ; ami feel happier under their severest admonition than the veriest independent who ever gloried in the impious right of private judgment . " - The great cable , for telegraphic communication

      between tliis country and the Continent , the progressive stages of ¦ which have already been recorded , was completed on Friday , by carrying it up one mile out of the sea to Sangatte , on the Calaia coast . Telegraphic communication between Calais and the South Foreland , the latter about three miles from Dover , was practically , and for the first time through a perfected uea cable , eilected between coast and count ; and it is , therefore , hoped that no interruption will urine to continuous and successful telegraphic intercourse , when arrangements at present pending arc completed .

      JJy the screw-steamer Arno , which arrived at tins port froin Italy last week , we hud transported to our atioreu an interesting refugee , in the uhupc of u inert : boy , Bixteeii years of age ( wIioho nume , for obvious rcamum , we ure not permitted to mention ) , who literally hud to " run hia country to huvo hit ; neck . " Half an hour before the Arno left Leghorn , he was brought , on board , eonceuled in u Hack , and placed for . safety amongnt the provi . iioiiM in the lazaret .. The pcrnon in churgc of " the parcel " paid itti pattHuge money to Ktiglaiid , nud Uiuh far wan all Captain Hunim knew about the mutter at

      the tuuu . On getting clear of the port , however , it turned out that " the Hack , " like many of Uioh « occasionally dropped into the Jlo . sphorutt , contained a living frui tful ; and a dark-eyed boy made hi * appearance to claim tlii- protection of the commander oi the vcKHel . Ilia only clcdentialK were an appeal to the nyinp ; it hicH of human nature in a . stsititing a follow creature in < liHt . re » n , and a letter of int induction to Mensrs . M'Knui , M'Larty , and Co ., of thin town . It appeared that Umh young gcntlemun , and a number of other precocious npirits , had formed theinKclvcn into a secret eooiety for the printing and circulation of religious

      and political works , among which the distribution of t » T Bible , and pamphlets on the " freedom of Italy form a a prominent part . The authorities having got wind t their proceedings , several of the members were arrest ^ and summarily shot ; and to escape a similar fate o hero was embarked on board the Arno . His parentf knew nothing of his connection with the affair untM startled by the appearance of the soldiers to demand th person of their son ; and for a couple of days previous to the Arno ' s arrival at Leghorn , he had been removed from house to house in the suburbs of the city to escaDP detection . *

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      One man has been killed and two others injured by an accident at the terminus of the Great Northern Railway A great stone was being raised on Monday , the tackle broke and the men fell to the ground , the stone crushing one . s Mr . Crosby , the Bristol solicitor alleged to be implicated in the Bath poisoning case , has been committed to take his trial for the wilful murder of his batyy . It will be remembered that Elizabeth Slater , or Lewis , had been previously committed . Mr . Crosby in the most solemn manner protested his entire innocence . Mr . Edward Perry , the tinplate worker , of Wolverhampton , has been indicted for perjury , by Mr . William Peel , Secretary of the National Trade Association , and acquitted , on account of the contradictory nature of the evidence .

      A master bricklayer , named William Scadden , knocked down one of his men , named Taylor , in Chiswell-street , last Saturday . The man died instantly from the blow , and the coroner ' s jury returned a verdict of " Manslaughter " against Scadden . A serious fire broke out in the premises of Mr . Paris , at Enfield , on Wednesday . Its magnitude may be guessed when we state that it blazed away from Wednesday midday until Thursday evening ; and that the property consumed consisted of three barns , eight stacks of corn and hay , and many sheds and stables . An accident , similar to that at Bicester , occurred on Monday at the East Lancashire Railway near Clifton , five miles from Manchester . The engine took one line , the carriages another . Six passengers were injured , but none fatally .

      Maria Stewart , charged with having killed two of her illegitimate children , made the following confession on Wednesday week : —She said , "It is a fortnight today since my child was born . " I asked her if it was born alive . She said , " Yes , it was ; it was a fine little girl , and after it was born it cried and sucked its fingers , pretty dear . " And then in a lamentable kind of way , she said , " Bless the dear child ! I cried over it , and did not know what to do with it . " I asked her what time on the Wednesday was the child born . She said " It was born about nine o ' clock in the morning , and was alive in the afternoon , when I laid hands on it , held it to my

      breast , and let it suck . It began to cackle , and I thought some one would hear it , and that I must kill it . I put my hand over the mouth , and nipped the throat with my fingers , and then touk my garter and tied or put it round the neck , so that it might die easy . " I killed it because I thought I should not have a father for my child . I kept it in my bed until Monday morning , the morning of the day I was taken , when I buried it in my uncle ' s lodge . It is the second little girl 1 have murdered . I strangled them both . After I murdered the first child , I prayed to God , and told him if he forgave me I would not do so again . But I have , and if I pray to him again he will not hear me . "

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      BIRTHS . On the 2 tat of October , Mrs . O . II . Lewos , of a daughter . On the 8 th , at I ' ortclew-house , near Pembroke , South Wale * , the lady of Alexander John Morison , Esq ., M . I ) ., of a daughter . On the 14 th , at Brighton , thu Viscountess Downe . of n boh . On the 15 th , at Manchester , Mrs . Samuel Ingliain , of a daughter . On the lftth , at Claysmore , near Knlield , the wife of Jainea Whatman Hotianquet , of a daughter . On the 17 th , at the residence of Lord Wemyss , Queen-street , Edinburgh . Lady Anne Charteris , of a daughter . On the lHth , at Windleatone-hall , county of Durham , Laay Eden , of a son .

      MABttiAOKS . On the 14 th of October , at All Saints' Church , Southampton , William Wynne ladder , Ksq ., Captain Fifty-ninth Kegimeiiw eldest ion of Captain Lodder , late of Southampton , to ICIizobetn Francis , daughter of Henry A . llardmaii , Hsu . .. of Laura-p lace , Southampton , and niece of bir Andrew Armstrong-, Baronet , M . I and grandniucu of thu late Lord Ashtown . On the l . > th , at the Church of the Holy Trinity , Broinpto " . Auguatua l ' emberton Gipps , Kmi ., to Helen , only daughter ol tin ) lau ; Kevercnd George Crookahuuli , of Ohigwoll , JiBB « x . and nit'co of Bir Fitzroy Kelly . .. On the 10 th , at Uyvreil St . Andrew ' s , Sir ICdward BIack « u . Baronet , of Matfen , Northumberland , to France * Vone , > v »<»» w of the late William Henry Old . Um | ., M . I ' , for Newport , Isle «> i Wight , and daughter of the Into Hir William Lorainc . Baronei . On the 21 at . at All Saint * ' , Fulham , William KnotteHloid GrcMon . Kh < i . ( late Fifth Fuuiliura ) . to Annie second dung » ler ij Major-General Hir John F . Burgojiiu , K . C . K ., lnHpuctoi -Ucnui " of Fortilicaliouu .

      PFJVTIIS . On the Kith of Ootoher , at Frimley-park , near Hagnhot , ImJ GriHclda Tekell , aged H « vrnty-thri : « , wil > of John ' lekull , ' ¦ " I ¦ wi . ster of Karl Hlanhope , and lutit biiiviving irranddnughter Hint Karl of Chatham . ,,,. ,,,,,... 1 , On Iho 14 th . Hi Hlainton , in Cleveland . Colonel William ; - late of Jill DnigooiiH , wec . ond mm «> t ' the late air Tliomutt u <» . ' . of Henar . ro , in the county of Hullolli . llaronot . , i , m ( ,,, rablo On tho ir > lh , at her Heat , KiiHt < : oml >« , the Right Hom . uiuiu Kleauor A-nen , l . ) o « -a « : r Counter of ISiului . g haiii . shne . Lately , at H . ith . France . < l , » u ht , r ol the late If-vew I J « HodMo .. . rector of Liverpool , and winter of tho lain Kevm .. Frodttliam HodHon . I ' rlncipal of ltnr / . enone College , Ox <>» " ¦ On the lHih , at Kocin J ' riory , lh « Honourable Via Alexunder , Mimler of Kiiinnird . . (| 10 On tho ^( tth , lit . h . i" i '« -Hid « ii .-. n in Hy de-imrk-gar 1-- »» ^ t Dowager Lady Otway , relict of tho lato Admiral »»» iu " Waller Otw . iy , Baronet . G . C . B .. utfo < l « ixty- « even . , , tho On HiwtUy morning , tho IHth . Ague .. « oarth . V ^ . TounW . I . eloved wlfo of Sir 1 'Uarov Kelly , on « of hor Majesty ¦ couiw ««

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 25, 1851, page 1012, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1906/page/8/