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Leader (1850-1860), 29th January 1853, Edition Town of 2, Page 104, Untitled Article

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      on Friday afternoon . The Earl of Morley and a large number of tho landowners and magistracy attached their names to the requisition . The meeting was most numerously attended . Mr . W . Porter was in the chair . Sir J . Buller was present , but did not speak . A resolution was adopted , setting forth that some of the clergy encouraged auricular confession of a Romanising character , and that inquiry was necessary by competent authority . It "was also carried that a memorial be presented to the Queen , praying for a royal commission to examine into the matter , and take steps for putting an " effectual stop" to Romanist innovations , the memorial to be signed throughout the county , and to be presented by the Earl of Morley .

      A series of lectures to working men will be delivered in the theatre of the Museum of Practical Geology , on Monday evenings during the present session . The first will be upon tho practical applications of physical science , by Robert Hunt , professor of mechanical science ; the second , on the elements of geology , by Andrew C . Ramsay , F . R . S ., professor of geology ; and the third , on the elements of natural history , by Edward Forbes , F . R . S ., professor of natural history , To working men the price of admission will be 6 d . for the whole course . A free library has been opened at Hampstead , near Chalk Farm , It is styled the Library of the North-London Anti-Enclosure and Social and Sanitary Improvement Society . As this is the first free library established in the metropolis since the passing of the Public Libraries Act , it has additional claims to support .

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      Wonderful to relate—and we suppose the act must be taken as one of international amenity of the confectionary order—Louis Napoleon has actually ordered his bridecake at the famous Purssell ' s , on Cornhill ! By the latest news from the Cape we learn that General Cathcart was encamped with 2500 men on the river Caledon in the Orange Sovereignty on the 3 rd of December . What he intended to do was unknown . The Hottentots and Kafirs still continued their cattle-liftings , surprises , and murderings on . the frontier . General disgust at the continued postponement of the Constitution had also been expressed . 1

      The United States Senate , up to the latest date , the 14 th instant , had been occupied with the discussion of the Clayton and Bulwer treaty respecting Central America . The President was requested to transmit all correspondence between Mr . Lawrence , late Minister at the Court of St . James ' s , and the British Government in regard to Central America , and particularly any correspondence relating to the claims of Great Britain to the Mosquito Coast , or any portion of the territory of Honduras or Yucatan . The Americans dispute our right to found a colony on the islands in Honduras Bay , called the Bay of Islands colony . They insist that these islands are included in the Clayton and Bulwer treaty , by which it is stipulated that neither the United States nor England shall plant colonies in Central America . But what are the limits of Central America has never been defined by the two powers .

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      The twenty-ninth party of female emigrants left England for Port Philip , Victoria , on Tuesday . They were sent out by the Female Emigration Society . The parting scene was impressive and affecting . This excellent society deserves support . The Builder suggests the following practical remedy for an acknowledged nuisanco : — "A mode of making cabriole ! r less objectionable vehicles in London , would bo to limit the charge ( within a certain circle , as in Paris ) to la . only for two persons , and ( id . for every extra person or luggage . Tlio operation would be similar io the penny postage , depend upon it , for many would prefer this to an omnibus for cheapness- —and many more , when they knew at once what they bad to pay . Thus the cab would be kept generally employed even in line weather , instead of standing halfn-day idling . For cleanliness and civilit y tho name and number of the proprietor , large inside , would prove partly , if not quite effective . "

      Our readers will remember the famous ; m ( i-lurnpiko riots in Wales , by ( he so-called Robeceailcs . An imitation on * . small scale lias been got up in Somerset , between Bath , Fro me , and Wiirminstor , and on Thursday week one of the turnpike-gutes belonging to the lilack Dog Tru . st was forcibly removed . This trust , for some time past , it appears , has been in difficulties , and under I he provision *! of their act the trustees , a t \ ' \ v mouths ago , endeavoured to compel ( he parishes through which their roads pass Io repair thorn . They failed , however , in consequence of itw being shown that a former treasurer was a defaulter to tho extent of about 6 , 000 / ., and that / this mini had not been

      brought into tho accounts . Accordingly , since that timo neither the trustees nor the parishes iiave repaired tho roads , which huvo now become in a shocking state , wliilo the bondholders , who have seized the gates , continue to take the tolls for their own security . 11 igh tolls and bad roads have canned complaints to be incessant , and about . one o ' clock on Thursday morning week a number of persons ( illicitly assembled , and carried away tho massive guten at , Midford , about four miles from Hath . The firing of soveral guns bad the effect of keeping I he lolltaker within doors , and so oHertually was the thing done that not ( ho lightest trace has since boon obtained of the missing gates , or any duo to the persons who removed them .

      About 6 < H ) brieJunakors went from MnnChester by railway to Ashloii-under-I-yneon Thursday week , for ( he purpose of intiiuidiiting some mod-society num . Mr . Mel .-calfV' , mayor of AsJulon , met them at tho (» uido-brid | re railway station , and advised them to bo peaeoablo , warning them of tho consequences of any infraction of tho law - Thoy proceeded , however , in procession , to tho brirkerofl . of Mr . W . ( ! owley , where tuelvo mini not belonging to their soeinty were nt work , and their conduct , though n <> t accompanied with violence , induced two of the twelve men to go away . A demons ! rat inn w / is afterwards held in' tho theatre , where lint mayor n ; , iin tendered them good advice , and they Kopuruted \ n < :, vably . Three companies of tho 4 th infantry were ordered .. nl , of barracks and statiottod \ n the Town ball , \ n \( ( Heir iv vvio'M wore not romiirod .

      Wages of labour are rising in every direction . The trade reports of last week mention a rise at Nottingham ; and the consequences of a rise in the wages of the colliers of Yorkshire has been serious to the proprietors of the Great Northern Railway , who will , it is hoped , benefit by this costly experience in opposing a legitimate rise in wages . Owing to the opening of the Great Northern and South Yorkshire Railways , the demand for coal from , the South Yorks pits has -very greatly increased during the last twelve months . Formerly a large supply was always in readiness at the pit's mouth , but latterly it has been found impossible to meet the demands of the railway companies , notwithstanding the number of new shafts recently sunk in this district and now in full working operation .

      Ihe operative miners , perceiving this state of things , demanded at the close of last year an increased rate of wages , which , in almost all instances , was complied with by the coal proprietors . This concession necessitated an increased price to the consumer , through the larger and more immediate purchasers , the Great Northern Company . It -was therefore intimated to the directors of the company , early in the present month , that an increased price of sixpence per ton ( viz ., from 4 s . to 4 s . 6 d . ) , at the pit's mouth , would in future be required by the coal proprietors , and also that the extra hundredweight theretofore allowed in each ton for breakage would be charged in the traffic account . This

      demand the directors of the Great Northern Company rejected . However the accumulation of orders on the books of the company , rendered it imperative that a new source of supply should be forthwith obtained ; and , after some negotiation , they effected terms with the proprietors of the Gawber-hall pits , near Wakefield , notwithstanding that the arrangement involved au increased mileage of twenty-four miles , at the rate of lOd . per mile , and an increase of 9 d . per ton in the price of the article as compared with the original charges of the South Yorkshire pits . The effect of this change was , as might be expected , very considerably to diminish the traffic returns of the South Yorkshire

      Railway Company ( whose line runs from Doncaster to the pits ) , the reduction being , in fact , as much as 2000 ? . per week . The Gawber-hall proprietors , however , having learnt the state of affairs just described , and that the Great Northern Company had resorted to them as a matter of temporary expediency , resolved to increase the price of the Gawber Pit coal in the same ratio as the South Yorkshire pits , viz ., 6 d . per ton . This being intimated to the Great Northern directory , arrangements were made for resuming their traffic with the South Yorkshire pits at the increased price .

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      Mr . Pamzzi made another razzia for missing copies of books . His victim was again Mr . Bohn . Mr . Jardine , who acted as peace-maker , inflicted only a nominal penalty ; but the whole of the costs and the penalties amounted to 11 I . 11 s . 6 cL As a pendant to the hanging of Barbour and Waddington , it is related that a convalescent lunatic at Sheffield , excited by the talk of the execution , has hanged himself ; and that a boy , who set a snare to catch a cat , Las also ,

      by some unexplained accident , fallen a victim to his desire to hang the animal , and hanged himself . The little child , so inhumanly burnt by the woman Oldham in the Greenwich Union , has died . It will be remembered that Oldham was sentenced to fourteen days' imprisonment—a ridiculous sentence considering tho enormity of the offence . Oldham was liberated on the 15 th instant ; and a few hours after went , drunk , to the Greenwich Union , and claimed admission . Surely she should be furthru- punished .

      It would appear from tho following story that it is not safe for women to travel in second class carriages without a protector . Mrs . j ) ufnl , the wife of an innkeeper at Beverley , got into a second class carriage at J full . Her only companion was a man named . Holliday . She was afraid , and asked her uncle to go with her , but he refused . At Cottingham , between Hull and Beverley , a porter heard a woman calling "Thief , thief . " The train was gathering speed ; the porter shouted ; a hand was seen on the bundle of the carriage-iloor ; a moment ; after the body of a woman fell heavily onthe line . The porter ran up ; it was Mrs . ]) uflil . Jollier she had jumped out , or jiollkluy had thrown her out . The porter picked her up ; but she soon

      died . . Holliday got away , but was afterwards apprehended . A dastardly case of stabbing occurred , on Friday week , at Manchester , resulting in the death , of Quin , the person stabbed . The ftiuta were pdmirubly narrated at tho inquest , held on Monday , by John Clements , who witnessed tho whole affair . -- " About half-past seven on Friday night I was going up Oldhain-road , Manchester , on tho riglithand side , and met with Quin , whom I knew from having worked with him . Ho was along with Thompson and William Tyrrell , tho prisoner . Tho latter was rather inclined to light ., and deceased said he would fight him if he would show him his hands . Tyrroll hold up tho left , hand , but would not show the right , whjfsh ho kept in his pocket . Tyrrell asked Quin to come along with him and have it out , and they all three went up Addiiigton-strcet . I followed , keeping on tho ( Ings . All wan peaceable until they

      got to the first lamp , leading into Chadderlon-strocil , and Tyrrell said to Quin , ' Hit me first . ' Quin said , ' I won't fight unless you show me bo ( h your hands . ' Tyrrell said the niimo several times , and Qiiin still stood . with his nrins crossed , Haying he would not . light till he saw b *> t , h hands . Tyrrell drew out his right hand , and I saw the glitter of a blade in his hand , and he ran at , Quiii and stabbed him in Ihe belly . Quiii did not speak on the instant , and Tyrrell again said , ' Hit me first , ' nud stabbed him in ( he uliouldor . Quin sit id , ' I am stabbed , take me somewhero , ' Hoveral times . Tho moment it . wan done the officers eamo up , and Tyrroll hud then run along the street , and was making his escape towards Rochdalo-rond . Quiii was takon to tho infirmary . The blade Hoomod to have been as long ( is my ilngovi I caw very plainly by the light of tho luiim both lilies where he stabbed Quin . J did not sen tho hiu ' t . AU tho three mon Hoomod sober . The game night 1 wont with

      the police to search for the prisoner , and we found him at Lang's public-house . At the police-station I charged him with stabbing Quin , and he never contradicted me . I did not know of their having quarrelled before . They seemed to me as if they had been coming down Oldham-road . They had had some liquor . They were standing opposite the ' Cheshire Cheese , ' and it was hearing Tyrrell say , 'We will have it out , ' that made me stop . He stabbed Quin so suddenly that I had not time to say anything ,

      and that instant he ran away , and the officers came u £ There was no time for me to interfere . " From other evidence it appeared the prisoner and Quin had been quarrelling and fighting previously , and Tyrrell had taken out a clasp knife , saying , " This knife has killed many a one , and has only another to kill . " Quin died at the Royal Infirmary on Monday morning . The jury having agreed to a verdict of " Wilful murder , " as above stated , the coroner made out a warrant for the committal of Tyrrell for trial at the next South Lancashire assizes at Liverpool .

      " Captain" Johnson has been again remanded , as no further evidence of the horse-stealing affair has been produced . The " small bottle" has been fatal to one landlord : we do not mean that he has died of drink ; but that he has been convicted of selling beer in bottles not imperial quarts and pints . At the Sunbury Petty Sessions on Tuesday week , John Wayte , of the Angel and Crown Hotel , Staines , was fined 40 s . and costs for selling beer in quart bottles , deficient 12 ounces 14 drachms , and pints deficient 6 ounces 7 drachms . We trust the anti-small-bottle crusade will continue .

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      The Reverend Edward John Chaplin , Fellow of Magdalen College , -was found dead in his bed , on Monday morning . He had purposed going out shooting . His servant called him twice , and got no answer f he looked in the bed , and found the dead body . A jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death ; " in fact there was no reason to doubt that Mr . Chaplin died of an apoplectic fit . A gentleman well known in city circles , having been on a visit on Friday last at the country seat of an eminent railway contractor , narrowly escaped destruction from the accidental discharge of a pistol . His attention was called by the latter to some novelty in the manufacture of these weapons , and in pointing out the change , as he was unconscious of its being loaded , he pulled the trigger of one he held in his hand . The pistol went off , lodging the ball in the looking-glass , after having passed , in its course , through the breast of his visitor's coat .

      John Williams , the hawker , who had his arm so seriously injured by the late dreadful accident at Oxford , died in the Radcliffe Infirmary on Monday . This is the eighth victim of that accident . ^ The Rhyl life-boat wenft on the night of the 22 nd to assist a vessel which was wrecked on the Hoyle-bank : nine men . went out , but the vessel was abandoned before the boat reached her . On the boat returning she capsized , and all the men were obliged to make the best for shore ; six met with a watery grave , and three were saved . About twelve o ' clock on Sunday night , a firo was discovered in one of the officers' cabins in Pembroke dockyard , which , from the fortunate circumstance of its early detection , and the prompt measures adopted for its suppression , did little injury .

      A locomotive exploded at the Newcastle station . Tho report says : " Great complaints havo frequently been made that old worn out engines aro used on the Tynemouth branch ; " and it is significantly added , —• " break-downs are not of uncommon occurrence . " A railway " accident" occurred near Womersley , laafc week , to a Great Northern train , running on the Lancaq |^ re and Yorkshire Railway . The train , which consisted of an engine and tender , a horsebox , a guard ' s van , eight or nine passenger carriages , and then another guard ' s van , had arrived within about a mile of Womersley station , twelve miles from Dcmcaster , when the engine-driver , Phillip Johnson , and the fireman or stoker , William Oliver , felt one of tho leading wheels of the engine jolting

      very much , and , suspecting the real cause ; , they at once endeavoured to stop the train . As , however , it was then running at a speed of something like fifty miles an hour , this could not be very quickly accomplished . They reversed the engine , and signalled to the guard to put on tho break , and were in hopes they could pull up without any serious consequences . The train had run about ( 500 yards in this way ( tho distance was afterwards traced for our information by tho murks on the rails ) , when suddenly tho engine jumped off the lino on the side where tho embankment ; was at least twenty foot high , with a deep cutting full of water immediately beyond . Tho driver and stoker , who were prepared for this , but stuck to their posts to tho last moment , sprang of ! " the engine on tho other side , but

      unfortunately both unstained severe injuries in the fall , Johnson having bis leg broken , and Oliver his foot (¦ rushed . Tho ponderous engine and tender , I he horsebox , and first guard ' s van iiimu-diatclv heeled over down tho embankment , with a tremendous crash . Luckily , from tho velocity of tho train having been reduced , the coupling chains of tho first , passenger carriage gave way , leaving all the remaining vehicles on the line , with no other injury to tho passengers than a violent , shock . The guard ' s van , which went , down with tlio engine , was smashed to pieces , but tho guard inside niiniculouNly escaped with only somo

      slight bruises . The unfortunate animal in tho horsebox , which was likewise sniaslird to pieces , was very much cut and mutilated , and a portion of its skin was literally pooled off by ( ho tit-aiding water from the engine . It wasshoton tho spot . Ah hook as the passengers had recovered from their consternation they ru . slietl out , of tho carriages and proceeded Io render ussinlitnee to tho driver , firoinan , and guard , who , as soon as possible , worn rescued from their terrible position , and conveyed to a cottage ( dose by to await , tin ; arrival of modieal " aHnistiinoo . The cause of I bin accident was tho coming off of tho tj » o of oim of Uio Jotul . xne wheels ,

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      104 THE LEADER , [ Saturday ,

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 29, 1853, page 104, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1971/page/8/