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      associated together for tho purpose , and have been assisted their endeavours by those well-known kind-hearted Gentlemen , E . V . Nealo , Esq . and F . J . Furnival , Esq . They have taken with them a consignment of boots and shoes , the workmanship and property of the Working Shoemakers' Association . The Janet MitcJwll has had Mr 3 . Chisholm ' s approval . It is to be hoped that their enterprise will be successful , for upon their success will hang the determination of many more in the same walks of life . - . . The men belonging to the Metropolitan Police have been informed that sis would be selected from those in each division , who wished to be candidates for service in Australia . There are seventeen divisions , and the number thus formed will consist of picked men , not above five years in the police , and presumed to be well acquainted with their duties . Each man will undertake to remain five years , or incur the penalty of 501 . ; pay , 7 s . 6 d . per day ; passage and all expenses paid .

      Tho Emigration Commissioners have called for contracts for the erection and furnishing with beds , bedding , and messing utensils , several emigrants' homes , or depots , in London , Liverpool , Plymouth and Southampton , where the emigrants may live at the smallest possible cost during the time they are waiting for the sailing of the ships , and also to prevent them from being fleeced by the heartless land-sharks that continually beset their path . The London depot will be either at Greenwich or Blackwall , and will contain 300 emigrants ; Plymouth and Southampton the same number ; whilst the Liverpool home will be for 600 persons . The apartments will be on the same plan as the cabins on board the vesels .

      Some time ago , our readers will remember , government resolved to make Freemantle , in "Western Australia , a convict settlement . They have kept their resolution . The first batch , consisting of 250 , will be despatched early in the ensuing month of October . They will consist chiefly of persons who have served three years' probation in the Dartmoor and Pentonville convict prisons , and whose conduct there has entitled them to favourable consideration . Each convict will , on landing , receive a ticket of leave , strictly confining him to the colony of Western Australia . A company of enrolled Chelsea pensioners go out as a convict guard : their wives and children go with them , and they will be located in the country as military colonists .

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      An Irish lady wrote to her lover , begging him to send her some money . She added by way of postcript , " I am so ashamed of the request I have made in this letter , that I sent after the postman to get it back , but the servant could not overtake him . " Mr . Hampton ' s balloon , called Erin-go-Bragh , which was to have ascended on Monday from the Pavilion Gardens , over against Woolwich , broke from its retaining cordage , ascended without a pilot , and when at a great height burst with a loud report . We gave such a full account of tho hearing of the Montague and Tripe case before Sir Robert Carden , at the Mansion-house , some weeks ago , for their share in the swindle called the Australian Gold Mining Company , that we need only state they were both found " guilty" at the Central Criminal Court on Tuesday .

      Samuel West , a quarryinan , is in custody at Leeds for tho murder of his wife . They had gone to bod ; Mrs . West had been unwell for some time , and was still weak ; she refused to comply with the wishes of her brutal husband , and ho leaped out of bed and stabbed her . Information reached the police on Saturday that a clever rogue had been duping tradesmen from Bolgravia to Windsor , lie simply presented himself , said ho was " Lord John lluasell , " and every tiling was at his command . By these means , ho , knowing human ¦ weakness , obtained a tilbury , in which he drove to llounslow , loading it , as ho proceeded , with goods of various kinds . From Ifounslow lio wont in a post-uhaiso to Windsor , whore- ho borrowed « 'M . 14 s . of tho waiter at tho " Georgo . " Then his lordship disappeared .

      " Our cottago is built , of mud , by tho sido of tho road , and adjoins tho Primitive Methodist Chapel , " said Elizabeth Bird , in giving evidence against her husband on a charge of assault , at Swindon Petty Sessions last , woek . In that "house , ' whose damp walls press on to the " I ' rirnil ive Mctho-< lint Chapel , " there is only " one sleeping-room . " " We havo nix children , " continued Elizabeth Bird ; " nil sleep in ono room . " But it had another inhabitant . " My eldest , boy and my father sleep together , tlireo of the children with " » y ( laughter , Mary Bird ,, and the youngest along with "io und my husband . " Tho husband of Elizabeth Bird had conceived a brutal passion for his daughter , only twelve yours old . She said her husbund attended the ¦ I'iniitivo Methodist ; meeting , and ono evening bad read nun the . Bible the story ol Lot ami bin daughters , and H > iid that ho could whow that Lot , had committed no h ' iu , '" id that , ho had told his daughter tho Hame . The Bench hound over Thomas Bird to " keen tho ponce" !

      . An inquest was held on Wednesday which led to a K | nmilar verdict , showing the readiness of juries to construe •' videm-e in favour of husbands . The subject of the inquiry wan how , lano I ' arry came by her death . She was found ' . Vug on Sunday at the bottom of the HtairH , ( load . Whim ( 'xiuiiinod , the body was dreadfully bruiHod on the lower ( "lit of the back . Richard Parry , nor hunbaiid , wiih taken "' to custod y at the time , and brought before Mr . Klliot , 11 ¦ U » o Lambeth police-court , on Monday , when he wiih re''' < I ( ' < 1 to a wait , the result of the present inquiry . George Jiteholl , who h ) djred in the Hume houso an the I ' urryn , Nl'iitod that the wife was very much intoxicated on Siitur-1 Hy night ; that nlio and her ' husband quarrelled ; that ho ' » ard a HeuH ] o on the Hour above , and a fall ; and that 11 forwards the husband came down and mud his wife was . Vug at the bottom of tho HtairH . Mitchell assisted him l

      V with Uio deceased , who wan quite ( lend ; hut ho could '" I- toll how h ) io got at tho bottom of the HtairH . Mr . a *? . P H () n » a surgeon , mud ho hud oxaininod tho deceased , of ii 10 , wft 8 ° t opinion that death was caused by concussion ilio brain b y docoasod falling on hor loft toinplo while

      in a state of intoxication . There was a wound over the left eye , the result of the fall , and not of a blow . That caused instantaneous death . The jury returned as their verdict , " That deceased ' s death was caused by concussion of the brain , the result of a fall ; " but they took no account of the fearful evidence of severe beatings previously undergone .

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      A tanner , recently deceased , at Manchester , is said to have left a fortune of 250 , 000 ? ., which he had accumulated in that trade . The bookseller , Schrader , of Leipzig , has been sentenced to four months imprisonment , for selling a work entitled " The Will of the People . " An old soldier , named James O'Neil , died at Salford , Manchester , the 16 th instant , who was born on the 2 nd of March , 1745 . He entered tho army 1774 , at the age of 29 , served 38 years , and was discharged in 1812 . He had been 40 years a pensioner , and had attained the great ago of 107 . '

      The excavations on Weston-super-Mare-hill have been actively resumed under the superintendence of the Rev . F . Warre . Two skulls , bearing marks of great violence , a considerable quantity of coarse ware , two iron spear heads , glass beads , and a very large quantity of broken pottery , apparently of Roman date , among which no less than 200 brass coins of Constantine , Caransius , &c , were discovered . Two distinct shocks of earthquake were felt in Kingston , Jamaica , on the 20 th ult . ; the first very severe and of long duration , at about a quarter to 9 o ' clock ; and the other , which was rather slight , at about ten minutes after that hour . No injury to property or human life .

      The Official Gazette of Savoy , of the 19 th , states that a letter has been received at G » noa from a friend of Garibaldi , who relates that the latter , having made several voyages between Callao ( Peru ) , and Canton , has realized a sufficient sum from the sale of guano to purchase the vessel under his command ; that he has hoisted the Sardinian flag , and intends visiting the Mediterranean .

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      Last week , the Honourable Charles Robert Weld Forester died suddenly in Cavendish-square . Ho was the brother of Lord Forester , and late assistant military secretary of the commander-in-chief at Dublin . His sudden death excited some suspicion , and an inquest was opened . From the evidence taken it would seem that he had died from the effects of medicine , composed partly of strong narcotic poison . The medicine was made up from a regular prescription , and obtained from a chemist . The inquiry is

      still pending . Daniel Almond , a labourer engaged with others in fixing up the bronze alto relievo on the western face of the pedestal of the Nelson column , was dreadfully injured on Saturday by a gush of boiling lead spouting over him . The lead was being poured into the granite , to fasten the bolts of the cast , when it rushed back . The eause of tlie explosion of the boiling lead is said to be some water in the cavity of the hole , which was instantaneously converted into steam , thus producing the explosive power .

      Last Friday ono of the huge gates of the lock at the Cumberland Basin , Bristol , fell from tho iron " eyes" on which it was hung . At present , says the Bristol Mercury , the fallen gate forms a complete impediment to the entrance , as , the small lock being in the hands of the masons , it obstructs the only avenue to the basin . The workmen do not seem to regard the accident as a bad job , for one of them , who must havo curious notions concerning tho speciality of Providence , was heard to say , with apparent seriousness , to a companion , " The Lord is very good to us , for no sooner is one job done than he sends us another . "

      Leaning against the door of a railway carriage is very dangerous . Listen : —Mr . Williams , proprietor of tho Cambrian newspaper , was leaning upon the door of the carriage in which he was travelling , on tho Swansea and Carmarthen line , when tho door ilew open , and he fell out upon the line as tho train was proceeding at full upced . His body fell clear of tho rails , but tho carriage-wheels passing over both his feet , cut his toes completely of !" . As the down train , which left London at , 7 v . m . on Tuesday , was slowly coming up to tho platform at our terminus , an elderly lady not taking the precaution to wait , until it had stopped , stepped from her carriages , and missing her footing , slipped under the wheel . The moving train passed over her logs , completely cutting off one Coot , and injuring the other very severely . —Briqhtou ( tuardian .

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      BIRTHS , MARRIAGES , AND DEATHS , n urn i h . On the Kith iiiHt ., at Hath , tho wifo ol' I' \ \ V . Culvert , Vm \ ., JI . JJ . M . OoiihuI lit tho Dardanelles , of u dmi ^ htor . On tho 17 th iiiHt ., ut Now-ntre « it , iSpi-in ^ - ^ urileiiH , Lady Mayno , of ii ( laughter . On tho IHth iiint ., at the Vineyard , HrrelordMliiro , tho wifin of . Idingor HyniondH , Knq ., l > nrriHtcr-ut law , of u won . On tho iHth hint ., ill , Oniiiijmiill-houso , near . Miiiicluwtcr , the wil ' o of Halin Hehwabo , limy , of n non . On tlio IJHh iunl ., at . rVnziinco , tho wifo of 10 . H . I ' olking-Iioi-no , Kh < i ., of ii noil .

      MAKIUAUKH . On tho Kitli iimt ., at Ht . Matthew ' s , ( loHport , . Iiuiich II . 'l ' owoll , Kh <| ., 1 ' iiymnNtor K . N ., to Hiiruh Ann , oIcU-hI ( lun ^ hler ol John . DtivioH , IOmij ., MiiHte-r-Attendii . nt of Iho Koyal Cluroneo-Ynrd . On Ilio Kith iiiHt ., at HiHliopwoarmoutli Ohunili , Ilonry , mm of John Hoott , Kh < h ., of FawooM .-Hlreet , to ICmniii , youngoHt ( laughter of Ilio Into John ( iodd / irl Tylor , Ki-iq ., of Itrighton . On I ho IHth innl ,., ul HI ,. liooniml ' H , lii'oinloy , Alexander IC < lwnnl , oIiIchI-hoii uf JnincH Imiicm DiclioMon , ICh <| ,, of llurlcy-Ji luro , Hiiw-idiul , Id Mli / . ithotli Hiiruh , vmhiiil'chI , dim ^ 'liler of tho iito Niilhaniol Gill , Knq ., of liromloy , M iddloMox . On tho IHIh innt ., ul HI ,. N ichohiH' Cliurcli , Itii ^ htoii , ijcutoiiunt-C ' oloiKil IYiiIciimo , Into Oronudior ( Juardu , to Kli / . iihoth Minimi , youngoHt daughter of ( 'hurlew I'liillipH , IOn (| ., of Gordonhuuiu'o , London .

      On the IHth iiiHt , at Ilio Church of tho Holy Trinity , llrompton , William Liuigffcrd , ICnq ., of Hununur-plnutt , Oimlow-Hqumo , to Hiiruh Louimi , t » ldot > t daughter of David JIMviea , Ebo ., ol Onulow-rKiuaru .

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      DEATHS . On the 1 st inst ., at Albany , in the United States , after an illness often days , Laura Borth wick [ known as Laura AdciisonJ , third daughter of Thomas "VViimshurst , Esq ., of Walton-on-the-Naze , Essex . . On the 13 th insfc ., at Chacomho Priory , Northamptonshire , Lieuteuant-G-eneral William Francis Bentinek Loftus , Colonel of the 50 th Kegiment , in the 69 th year of his age . On the 16 th inst ., at his residence , Chatham-lodge , Woolwichcommon , having nearly completed his 80 th year , Sir John Webb , Knight , C . V ,., K . C . H ., lato Director General of tho Ordnance Medical Department , for many years a justice of the peace and Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Kent . On the 18 th inst ., at Portland-place , Sir Sandford Graham , Bart ., aged 61-. On the 18 th inst ., at the Eectorv , Cuxham , Oxfordshire , the Rev . Francis Kowden , B . D ., late fellow of Merton College , Oxford , and for thirty years rector of Cuxham and Ibstone , in the same county , aged 70 . On the 18 th inst , at Pfymouth , Catherine Frances , wife of William Charles Macready . On tho 19 th inst ., a , t Mortlake , Surrey , Charlotte , the eldest daughter of tho late Baron Best .

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      Saturday , September 25 . THE " LEADER" AND THE RED REPUBLICAN QUESTION . ( To t / ie Editor of the Leader . ) September 21 , 1852 . My Dear Friend , —A note in your first edition of this week calls upon me to make a statement which I should gladly have waived , as I am opposed to the opinion that all newspaper writing should be signed , or that all writers should be held personally responsible for the work of their pens , when executed in concert with their colleagues . The rule which makes the editor responsible is quite sufficient . And I should not now speak , if my doing so could in the slightest degree discredit the friendship between us .

      When the conduct oi' the Leader passed into your hands , I notified my surrender of it in a letter signed by my own name . That letter notified not a form but a fact . Subsequently to that letter I have continued to serve you with my pen ; and I need not invite you to avow the cordiality which subsists among the staff around you . Combination is impossible unless personal distinctions of opinion be rendered subordinate to broader agreements of opinion ; and I have been proud to accept the conditions of a discipline which I have always found to be cheerfully and frankly obeyed when it was my duty to enforce it . In transferring the management to you I expressed the confidence I then felt that the paper would be as efficiently guided by you as by myself , as zealously , and as usefully ; and my confidence has not been disappointed .

      It is a personal accident , however , which in the present instance renders my position somewhat diiferent from that of the other writers on your staff , or from my own position on any other journal with which I have been connected . The strictures on the comments which were published in the Ije < uU'r , o \\ Red-Republican politics , have been mingled with suggestions that I myself , personally , have receded from opinions which I had formerly expressed . It is my rule never to defend myself ; and I should have thought it unnecessary t . o answer the personal allusions , if your answer io tins attack on the doctrine had not read like an admission that no answer was possible to tlio other portion of iho attack .

      My reason for speaking is this . It so happens that the politicians of the working class take a more lively interest than politicians of other classes in the personality of journalism , and your silence on the one part of strictures advanced against you , would by my friends of the working claH . s be construed in mich manner as to deprive ; me of their confidence . The number of those who honoured me with their confidence ; had already been diminished by the part , I took in adhering to a compact at Copenhagen-fields ; by my unreserved ad- * hesion to a particular political tenet ,, and by other

      causes , tho explanation of which would require me io discuss the conduct , of other men . I did not , defend myself on any of those occasions , hccau . se aw soon as a man becomes my accuser I cease to value his opinion ; and as soon as any man withdrawn his trust , from me on the mere report " , of a third person I cease to covet his trust ; . . Hut even a tacit , falling oil' from doctrines which 1 hold woidd deservedly lose me ( lie trust , of tho friends tha | , still remain to me . Lest , want , of explicit , - ness should give rise to mistake , I will state the two points which appear to concern myself .

      Some of ; t , ho" leading men among I'Yoneh Socialists are also " Ited Republicans : " with some of those men I sympathi / . e most , heartily . I dissent from the censure which the Leader has panned upon them ; believing Mint it , is not ; applicable either to the leaders of tho party whom I know , nor to the working men who came out , to defend with their blood ( he Republic compromised by tho " Moderate" Republicans , and wlio werq bliuightered by the Holdiery of tho . HO Mndurutc llopub ?

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 25, 1852, page 917, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1953/page/9/