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Leader (1850-1860), 31st July 1852, Edition Town of 2, Page 726, Untitled Article

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      A communication was received on the same occasion from the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals , to obtain the assistance of the parish in placing watertroughs in different parts of the parish for the use of dogs . A resolution was come to with a view to carrying out this suggestion , A prospectus has been issued advertising the formation of a new association for the performance of sacred and classical music / both of th 6 ancient and modern schools . The concerts are to be held at Exeter-hall , and are not to consist exclusively of sacred music , the programmes including cantatas and such compositions . Mr . Benedict is to be the conductor .

      The annual general assembly of the company of proprietors of Drury-lane theatre took place on Saturday in the saloon . The report of the general committee stated that , in consequenco of Mr . Bunn having declined to continue his lease from June last , they had been unable to meet the current expenses of the season , while the lessee remained unremunerated for his outlay . The receipts for the year , including a balance of 215 ? . 6 s . 4 < d . from the former season , had been 3 , 492 £ . 14 s . lid ., and the payments 3 , 438 ? . 0 * . 6 d ., leaving a balance of 54 ? . 14 s . 5 d . in the hands of the treasurer .

      A special general meeting of the friends and subscribers to the Orphan Working School , which was established in 1758 , was held on Wednesday , in the offices of the institution , Ludgate-hill , for the purpose of taking into consideration the terms of a proposed enfranchisement of the copyhold property of the corporation at Haverstock-hill ; and also to consider the agreement entered into by the corporation for building upon the City-road estate . Mr . Coombs , who presided , stated that Lord Southampton , to whom the Hampstead property belonged , had promised to present to the charity the sum of 250 guineas , for which he was to have the privilege of always having one child in the school . The report stated that there were at the present time in the school 171 boys , and 87 girls .

      A vestry meeting of the ratepayers in the parish of St . Martin ' s in-the-Fields , was held on Saturday evening , to decide upon levying an additional rate , for the purpose of assisting the paupers in emigrating . Mr . C . Cochrane , with a body of noisy followers , seems to have done his best to disturb the meeting , and to hinder its proceedings . The motion for making a rate of one penny in the pound for this purpose , was supported by Mr . Ridgway . It was denounced by Mr . Russell as " a rascally scheme , " for the purpose of establishing an extra rate . An amendment , to the effect that the means already supplied by the Act of Parliament were sufficient , was put and lost . Mr . Cochrane then proposed another amendment , consisting mainly of vituperation against the guardians for their treatment of

      the paupers . He then indulged in a fierce tirade against the guardians , complaining , among other things , of tho bread provided for the paupers . This accusation seems to have been in some degree acquiesced in , the fact being attributed to tho hot weather . After some discussion , in which , in answer to a charge that bean flour was one of the ingredients of the pauper broad , a guardian asserted that boan ilour was dearer than wheaten , the chairman rofuscd to put the amendment , pronouncing it to be libellous . The original motion was put , but a poll was demanded . On Tuesday , Mr . Cochrane attended a meeting in St . Martin ' s-lane , when resolutions , condemning tho plan of the guardians , were passed . The result of two day ' s poll gave , for tho rate , 807 ; against it , 221 . Friday's poll will not be known until Saturday .

      Tho church of St . Giles , Camborwoll , was pillaged , on Monday night , the robbers entering by means of a waterspout . They carried awuy an altar cover worth thirty guineas , as well as the velvet from the pulpit , and various cushions . A clot . li warehouse , belonging to Mr . Joshua Barker , at Mirfield , Yorkshire , was broken into early on Fv ' ulny morning , and was plundered of cloth of the value of above 100 ? . The robber had cut n hole in the door , and unfastened it by putting his arm through . He went ho coolly to work that ho selected the best cloth on tho establishment .

      Two garotte robberies took place in Leeds on Sunday morning within a very short interval of time and space , and committed , to all appearances , by the same persons . They were found concealed under some loose hay in a Held , nhorlly lifter the deed . One of tho victims hiixIuuhmI aovorn injuries from blows about the head and face , as well as from strangulation . Thomas Collins appeared again before Mr . Arnold on Tuesday . Several more charges worn made against him , of having obtained portraits , and converted them into money , but on account of the lapse of time after the offences had been committed , only one of them could bo maintained . A Kilter which he had written to obtain one portrait , contained the following passage : — " JM r . Collins is much in want of a specimen of a lady ' s portrait , in his new work of ' The Female Aristocracy of the reign of Queen

      Victoria . ' Mr . C . tried for tho Nepaulese Ambassador , hut Victoria . ' Mr . C . tried for tho Nepaulese Ambassador , hut . was just too late when he arrived from the north , as his excellency Hat . elsewhere . " He was remanded for another week . At a meeting of the Marylebono Vestry , held on Saturday , a complaint wuh made ' by Mr . Row , that ho had anpiled at the workhouse to obtain admission for two girls , of the ages of eleven ami -thirteen years respectively , whose pnrcnts had absconded . It was between ten and eleven o ' clock in tho evening when ho made the application , lie had great dilliculty in getting them to open the door ; he could see neither the master nor the matron , but sixpence was sent down to find the children a night ' s lodging . The chairman stated that a rigid enquiry should be made into the facts of the case .

      them if they had any money to pay for lodgings . One of the girls gave Outhwaite sixpence and some coppers , expecting that he would find them a lodging . The man , however , walked off , while his companion , Payne , " leathered the girls away , as they expressed it . On complaint being made to the superintendent , the men were both discharged from their office , and were ordered to be taken before the magistrates . These facts being proved , the Mayor expressed great disgust at their offence , and sentenced them to ten days imprisonment in the House of Correction , regretting that he could not inflict a heavier punishment . Tho Mayor said he would make an order to assist the girls to proceed to Newcastle by railway .

      William Chappell , a policeman employed by the North Western Railway Company , who was stationed at the north end of the Kilsby tunnel , near Rugby , when a collision took place some time ago , was tried at the Coventry assizes for the manslaughter of Thomas Williams . There is in use at this tunnel a special telegraph , by which the officers at each end signal to each other when a train has entered or left , and it is the duty of each to prevent another train entering , until the road is clear . In this case a , luggage train had come into collision with a ballast train in the tunnel , and had caused the death of one man . The prisoner maintained that he had received the signal , " train out , " while the other policeman swore he had not given it . It was suggested that the apparent signal might have been caused by electricity , there having been a thunderstorm at the time .

      Sound beams of mulberry wood have been found in the ruins of Nineveh . They are supposed to be upward of 2500 years old . A fire broke out on Saturday at the store-house of the South Eastern Railway Company at Ashford . The whole of the store-house , with all the property in it was destroyed . The loss is estimated at upwards of 16 , 000 ? . The thunderstorm of last Sunday evening was verysevere at Barking in Essex . A considerable part of the church of St . Margaret was flooded with water , and one of the large pipes of the organ was struck down by the lightning . A girl in front of the organ was also struck , and her back and left side were seriously injured . Her clothes seemed as if they had been torn through with a hook .

      Twenty-three passengers , who had taken then" places m the Ottilia , for Australia , were left behind at Liverpool last week , the ship having sailed a day sooner than they had expected . The agent sent them to Holyhead and put them on board a steamer which went in chase of the Ottilia . She was sighted a long way off , running before a fine wind very fast ; the chase failed , and the unlucky passengers returned to Liverpool . The case was brought before the County Court , and the judge decided that the passengers could recover their passage money , with 51 . for compensation .

      A boiler thirty feet long and five feet nine inches in diameter , exploded in a mill at Euxton , near Preston , on Friday week . Tho cause of the accident is quite unknown . The pressure was not excessive , the boiler had been in use but six months . One side of the building in which the boiler stood was open and abutted upon a river seven yards wide , with an interval of ten yards . The end of tho boiler on this side was torn off and thrown into the river . Some portions of the boiler and the building , as well as a wheelbarrow which stood near , were carried a hundred and fifty yards . There were several persons sitting on a piece of timber on the opposite side of the river , four of them were grievously irnured , of whom two have died .

      A fire broke out on Saturday morning between nine and ten o ' clock , in Bromley , originating from a lucifcr-match ignited by some children . It first caught a barn , and then extended to two timber buildings , cowsheds , and other erections . Mr . J ' awlcy , the owner of these buildings , in endeavouring to rescue some of hit ) property , was seriously burnt . The parish fire-engine , though the inhabitants crowded to the spot to give their assistance , being of little avail , the only supply of water being a pond at a considerable distance , a niessengorwaHdespatchod to London to obtain the assistance of tho fire brigade ! . Mr . Henderson immediately started with a ( ire-engine , and arrived at Bromley , which is ten miles distant , in three-quarters of an hour . Still tho engine could not he made very serviceable , but tho firemen brought tho liro under by pouring buckets of water upon it .

      Two girls , of 17 or 18 years of age , on their way to Newcastle , were seeking f ,, r a night ' s lodging in Leeds between two and three o ' clock on Friday morniiur , when they were met by two policemen . I ' ilviu ) and OutilWtiito , who nuked

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      HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK . In the week that ended last Saturday 01 . 2 deaths wero registered in the metropolitan districts . In the week that ended 10 th July tho mean temperature rose suddenly to 7 < H <>" , which was eleven degrees higher than it had been in the week preceding . Next week it declined to ( i 7 " . ' <"; and last , week it was ( if ) 0 . In the same three weeks the deaths have been respectively 1080 , 021 , 012 . In tho corresponding weeks of tho ton years 1842-51 . the average number of deaths was 1040 , which , with a correction for increase of population during thai ; period , and up to the present time , becomes 1151 . Tho present return , therefore , shows n mortality less by li . 'Ji ) than tho estimated amount .

      lint , notwithstanding the mortality is still below the average , it will he seen that fatal sickness amongst children , ho frequent in London in the Hummer months , has increased exceedingly in tho last week . Though the last two returns am nearly the chiiio an regards ( ha total number of deaths , they differ materially in the proportions assigned to particular cuiises . In the previous week 48 persons , moHtly children , mink under diurrhu'ii ; last week the number rose to 1 ) 4 . The deaths by cholera have risen from 4 to 10 ; those by hcarlutina l ' rom III to 45 . Fatal cases produced by pneumonia , have declined in tho same time iroin 45 to 20 ; those by disease of the brain from 25 to 10 ; while those referred to enteritis have increased from 4 to 1 J : those to diboauo of tho livor from 7 to 14 .

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS . BIRTHS . On the 23 rd of May , in camp , Alimednugger , the wife of Lieu , tenant James W . Cottell , 26 th Regiment Bombay N . I .: a son On the 22 nd inst ., at Dane-end , Herts , prematurely , the lady of H . E . Surtees , Esq . : a son , stillborn . On the 23 rd inst ., at Upper Grosvenor-street , the wife of Dudley Coutts Majoribanks , Esq .: a son . On the 25 th inst ., at Chettle-lodge , Cranbome , Dorset , the wife of Captain Douglas Curry , R . N .: a son . On the 25 th inst ., at Glebe-cottage , King-street , Woolwich , the wife of Dr . Burns , H . N ., Surgeon-Superintendent of the Convict Establishment at Woolwich : a son .

      MARRIAGES . On the 14 th inst ., at the British ProteBtant Chapel , Hightown , Boulogne-sur-Mer , Hooke Robinson , Esq ., son of the late Lucius Hooke Robinson , Esq ., one of the Gentlemen of Her Majesty ' s -Most Hon . Privy Chamber , to Mary Emma , eldest daughter of George Alexander Kent Sloper , Esq . On the 20 th inst ., at Plympton , St . Mary ' s , Devon , Henry J . Wallack , Esq ., Captainr in Her Majesty s 77 th Regiment , to Maria , third daughter of the late Captain James Pol&nghorne , R . N .

      On the 22 nd inst ., at St . Mary ' s Church , Cheltenham , Arundell Calmady Hotchkys , Esq ., only son of C . H . Hotchkys , Esq ., of Cleverdon House , Devon , to Maria Louisa , youngest daughter of Admiral Sheridan . On the 22 nd inst ., at Claygate , Surrey , Thomas Frederick Teo , Esq ., of Kingstown , county of Dublin , to Matilda , second daughter of Colonel Robert Douglas " , C . B ., late Royal Artillery . On the 28 th inst ., at Hurstpierpoint , Sussex , John "Vidler , Esq ., of Hurstpierpoint , to Hamilton Dunbar , only daughter of Colonel Tovey , of 54 , Cambridge-terrace , Hyde-park , London .

      DEATHS . On the 22 nd of May , at Rio de Janeiro , of yellow fever , Elizabeth , wife of John Gait , Esq ., and eldest daughter of the late George Mortimer , Esq . ; and , a few days after , their infant daughter , aged nine months . On the 18 th inst ., at Dover , Mary , widow of the late Captain Henry Barely , R . If ., aged 82 . Cn the 20 th inst ., at Woolwich-common , Anna Elizabeth , relict of the late Colonel John Cockburn , R . A ., in her 73 rd year . On the 20 th inst ., aged 50 , Charlotte , the wife of JohnMeares , Esq ., of Plas Llanstephan , Carmarthen , and eldest daughter of Sir John Owen , Bart ., M . P .. of Orielton , Pembroke .

      On the 23 rd inst ., William Robert Bigg , Esq ., Q . C ., of Oldsquare , Lincoln ' 8-inn , aged 48 . On the 24 th ult , at Port-au-Prince , Hayti , W . K . Gretton , Esq ., H . B . M . Vice-Consul ; and on the 23 rd ult ., Annie , his wife , daughter of Lieutenant-General Sir John P . Burgoyne . On the 26 th inst ., at Annan , N . B ., Mary Carruthers , relict of Thomas Dickson , Esq ., London , and last surviving daughter of the late John Carruthers , Esq ., of Denbie , Dumfriesshire , N . B . Ou the 29 th inst ., in Davies-street , Berkeley square , Sophia , widow of the late Thomas Chapman , Esq ., of Richmond , Surrey , in the 77 th year of her age . At New York , Mrs . Monroe , wife of Colonel Monroe , of Fanwood .

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      726 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ,

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      The Great Moeal Want of the Masses . —Now , of all qualities , which is the one men most need ? To the absence of what quality are popular distresses mainly attributable ? What is the quality in which the improvident masses are so deficient ? Self-restraint —the ability to sacrifice a small present gratification for a prospective great one . A labourer endowed with due self-restraint would never spend his Saturdaynight ' s wages at the public-house . Had he enough self-restraint , the artizan would not live up to hi s income during prosperous times , and leave the futur e unprovided for . More self-restraint would prevent im prudent marriages and the growth of a pauper popula tion . And were there no drunkenness , no cxtrava " ganoe , no reckless multiplication , social miseries would " 1 m * trivial . —Social Statics .

      Ouit Honourable Fjuend's " PitiNCiriiES . "—Our honourable friend being come into the presence of his constituents , and having professed with great suavity that he wu 6 delighted to see his good friend Tipkisson there , in his working dress—his good friend Tipkisson being an inveterate saddler , who always opp oses him , and for whom lie has a mortal hatred—made them a brisk , giiigfar-l * o « i-y » ort of npeeoh , ***¦ which he shtr » n »« l them how tho do / en noblemen and gentlemen had ( in exactly ten days from their coming in ) exercised a surprisingly beneficial effect on the whole financial condition of Europe , had altered the state of tho exports and imports for tho current half-year , had prevented the

      drain of gold , had made all that matter right about t ho glut of the raw material , and had restored all sorts of balances with which the superseded noblemen and gentlemen had played the deuce— -and all this , with wheat at so much a quarter , gold at ho much an ounce , and tho Hank of England discounting good bills at ho much per cent . ! He might be asked , ho observed , in a peroration of great power , what wero his principles ? His principles were what they always had been . His principles worn written in the countenances of the lion and unicorn ; wen ; stamped indelibly upon tho royal shield which those grand animals . supported , and upon tho free

      words of fire which that shield bore . His princip les wore , lii itiuiniii and her sea-king trident ! His principles were , commercial prosperity oo-oxistently with perfect and profound agricultural contontnusnt ; hut short of this he would novcr utop . His principles wore , those-, with tho addition of his colours nailed to tho mast , every man ' s heart in tho right place , ovcry man ' s eye open , every man ' s hand ready , ovory man ' s mind on the alert . His principles wero , these , concurrently with a general revision of something- speaking generallyand a poHsiblo ro-adjustinont of something olso , not to ho mentioned moro particularly .- —JJiokons ' s " Household Words . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), July 31, 1852, page 726, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1945/page/10/