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      Smith , Mr . Edward Smyth Pigott , Mr . Robins . In the course of an exhibition of fireworks on the lawn , Mr . Albert Smith and one of the gentlemen present had a narrow escape from losing their eyesight , by the bursting of an imperfect rocket in their faces , ' with sufficient force to blow their caps off . The face of the former gentleman was scorched by the powder , but beyond the temporary pain np further harm ensued .

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      lord John Russell will state the intentions of the Government with regard to education on Monday next . The Earl of Carlisle was installed Lord Rector of Aberdeen University , on Wednesday . He delivered hig inaugural address on Thursday . Lord St . Germans attended the cattle show of the Royal Dubliti Society , held oft Tuesday . Many English exhibitorsf carried away prizes . Lord St . Germans hoped the Irish would soon bring them back . Great preparations are being made to receive Mrs . Beecher Stowe at Glasgow ; where she is to be duly lionized .

      One of the new candidates for Lancaster is Mr . ' Thomas Greene , member for the borough for so many years , bat defeated at the July election . The other is Mri Jotm Armstrong , brother of the unseated member , a Liberal who does not canvass , and is rigid as to electoral purity . We regret to state that the borough of Blackburn has further disgraced itself by a series of riots , committed since the election . The special constables of the town being wholly useless , it was found necessary again to call in the assistance of the military . It appears that the roughs engaged in the election were armed with the most formidable weapons , and it is stated that there are grounds for believing that the material with which they were composed , iron and lead , had been obtained from some factory , leading to the inference that factory hands were engaged in the row .

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      The commissioners have just issued notice that all Government emigrants will be required to sign a written agreement that , if they go to the gold fields or quit the colony within four years after landing , they must pay to the colonial Government a proportionate part of their passage-money , " at the rate of 4 < l . per adult for each year wanting to complete four years from landing . On Wednesday a mournful spectacle was presented at St . Pancras Workhouse . Nearly 200 families demanded admission to the workhouse . It appears that the paving board of the south-western district resolved to carry out the powers of their Act of Parliament and cause the removal of all the stalls which have for the last quarter of a

      century occupied the western side of Tottenham-courtroad . The requisite notice to the stall-keepers having expired , they were removed on Monday . The entire staff of relieving officers were engaged the whole day in affording temporary relief pending inquiry into the cases . The Rev . Dr . Worthington , the incumbent of Trinity district , in the parish of St . Andrew , Holbom-above-Bars , and the Rev . George Mansfield , the incumbent of St . Peter's district , having caused summonses to be issued against several hundred parishioners for non-payment of tithes , a meeting of inhabitants was held on Tuesday evening at the Yorkshire Grey Tavern , King ' s-road , to consider the propriety of opposing such legal proceedings , Mr . made it

      John Lloyd in the chair . From the statements appealed that many of the persons summoned had not paid tithes , nor had they ever been demanded from them for upwards of twenty years . In the year 1712 proceedings were commenced in the Court of Exchequer against the inhabitants for tithes , and it was decided that tithes were duo from forty-eight houses only , though they were now demanded from a larger portion of the parish . A strong opinion was expressed that tho dojnand was made without legal authority , in tho expectation that tho claims would bo compliod with , in order to prevent litigation . It was resolved , on the motion of Mr . Low , — " That , in the event of proceedings being taken against any of tho parishioners , measures of resistance HhotfM be adopted . "

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      Bearing date Wednesday , the Times prints the following letter : —" Tho Agamemnon , 01 , screw two-decker , ( crew 1000 ) , Captain Sir Thomas Muitland , C . B ., continues infectod with sickness , which , wo regret to state , is on tho increase . It seems a most remarkable fact , that a vessol infected with contagious fovor should have been brought into a thickly populated harbour , and no other means adopted to abate the visitation than morely turning the crew into a hulk , and lashing that hulk to the infected fihip , or , viccversd , and fumigating her . Tliis , we believe , is all that Iiuh been done . W other stops have been taken , wo huvo not heard of them , and tho matter of the peculiar treatment , of this sickly ship linn now becomes the talk of tlit ; port . Why lias not a board of medical officers been appointed to inquire into Mie chuho of tho fever , with tho view to its abatement P We believe upwards of 300 of the

      Apamcmnmi " a- craw urn Hlill ' down with tho lever oven thin distant date huico hor breeding tho Lnfcction . Dr . Sir William ¦ Burnett , K . C . B ., K . C . U ., F . lt . S ., Director-Goncrul of tho Modiciil Department of the Navy , has arrived at the port to-day , to institute inquiry personally into this enNo , and is extending the accommodation within tho Naval Hospital at llunlar for patients alllictod with thoeliiHW of fever which in fjfoing through Mm Aganiomnuris crow . The extraordinary ease this ship represents ought to be made tho subject of a Parliamentary inquiry . "

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      Tho last , mail from Australia contained Hoveral thousand registered letters ; nearly a thousand of them woro for Trolaixi . There were Homo for almost , every town in' the kingdom . About forty woro for Manchester . Tho largest fragment of puns gold yet discovered inAuntrnlin is being hIiowii in tho city . It woi ^ im over 4511 m ., in worth 2 , 200 / ., and iln posm'HHors call it the " John Hull nuirgot . " It was found in White llorHo-gully , " near Port Phillip" ( as the papers not very exactly specify . ) ft is intended for public exhibition . Torriblo earthquakes occurred in the Dutch epico ialands

      last December—it lasted nearl y a month ! It was accompanied by the most wonderful motion of the sea . Bays were half emptied at fciictes , and at otfiers the awful waves swept over the land . Houses were tprown down ; lives lost ; and for several days people eolt fd not stand at all . Many islands are totally ruined . Some of the establishments in Soutnsfihpfon are endeavouring to prevent their clerks leaving them by in > dueing them to enter into bonds to remain With thent a certain number of years . Mr . Mare , the eminent shipbuilder , who has commenced the building of works close to Southampton for repairing the steamers of the General Screw Company , is about to build one hundred cottages for M 3 workmen . There is also pleasant news of another

      kind from the Liverpool of the south . In the heart of the town of Southampton there are about one hundred acres of land , called East and West Marlands , Houndwell , and Hoelands , in which the inhabitants have common rights dnring some portion of the year , and private individuals have privileges the other portion . The townspeople , through the medium of their municipal corporation , have nearly completed the purchase of the whole of the privileges of private individuals on these lands , and are going to plant the latter ornamentally , to form public pleasure grounds . In another twelvemonth these grounds , it is expected will be planted and open for the pleasure and recreation of the public all the year round . A botanic garden , a maze , and an observatory , will as soon as possible be formed and erected on the grounds . A portion of the land is to be set aside for a cricket ground .

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      Doncaster Church is to be " restored . " At a public meeting in Doncaster on Tuesday , much enthusiasm prevailed and several subscriptions were announced for the re-edification . The , Archbishop of York spoke earnestly , and Lord Harewood seconded him , giving the homely advice that in the new church the flues should be kept in proper order and that the church should not be built of limestone , ( in quenching the late fire the water used did as much damage to the outer limestone walls as the fire itself . ) The Queen , breaking through the rule of not giving a subscription for a purely local purpose , baa given 100 ? . ; the Archbishop of York 500 Z . Mr . Wnghtson , M . P ., 5001 the High Sheriff of Yorkshire , 1001 . ; Mr . J . Brown , 3501 ¦ Mr . Denison , M . P ., 200 ? . ; Sir C . Wood , 200 Z . ; Mr . Childers , 200 Z . ; Mr . Brooke , 200 ? . ; Iiord Feversham , 150 / . ; and Lords Carlisle , Harewood , and Londesboroug-h , 1001 . each . Entirely , over seventeen thousand pounds has been already collected .

      Another church , that of St . Hilary , Cornwall , has been destroyed by fire . " There were no stained windows , and it was altogether a plain building . " It bad been built early in the seventeenth century : and is now to be rebuilt m a better style . The stove for warming the church is believed to have caused the disaster in some unexplained Letters from St . Petersburgh mention a disastrous fire at the port of Cronstadt . All the principal timber wharfs had been burnt , and the loss is estimated at between 500 , 000 and 600 , 000 silver roubles . It happened that the quantity remaining in stock in consequence of the want of shipping last autumn was unusually large , and hence the evil is moTo serious than would otherwise have been the

      case . . , Tho Wigan explosion , briefly mentioned last week , appears to have been far more fatal than was at first supposed . The total ascertained number of deaths now amounts to fifty-seven ; nine bodies have been recovered since Saturday , and one bf the men recovered alive from the mine , named Robert Ainscough , having died on that morning . He appeared to bo suffering from asphyxia . An inquest was held on his body on Monday , before Mr . Grimshaw , tho borough coroner , and adjourned till Monday next , to await before Driffield

      tho result of the inquiry Mr . . From a careful examination of the appearance of the workings of the Arley mine , Mr . Darlington , the Ince-hall Company ' s manager , has come to tho conclusion that tho explosion did not originate near tho furnace , aa was at first supposed , but at a point about 800 yards distant from it , in the north workings . This loads to the opinion that the catastrophe must have booh the res * ult of neglect on the part of some of tho colliers in leaving open one of the air doors immediately adjoining tho seat of the explosion , so as to and allow tne to

      cnano-o the course of the ventilation , gas accumulate , otherwise it is believed that tho immense ventilating power in tho mino would have boon sufficient to prevent Bueh a disaster originating in that part of tho mine . A Hick and burial fund oxists among tho Ince-hall Company s colliers from which M . will bo paid towards tho funeral of each one who has lost his life by the late catastrophe , and the coffins am supplied gratuitously by tho company . Tho funerals of twenty-one of the deceased took place on Sunday liiHt in the burial-ground of the parish church , and fiomo four or five others wens interred in the graveyardH of the Catholic chapols .

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      Maunders , tho rnurdorcsr of Toller , was hung at ChelniHford on Wednesday . To tho last ho protested that ho killed Toiler in solf-dofonco . A well-dressed man can bo groat in the assaulting lino for 20 s . Joseph Goodman insulted a married woman in W hiteohapel at night ; her husband camo to protect her , and Goodman struck him fiercely . Tho price of thin , according to Mr . D ' . Kyneourt ' s tariff , is 20 s . Savage uncles did not go out with tho Children in the Wood . Lately one Tinkett had an orphan nephew named moved b benovo

      Brown in the workhouse ; y capricious - Innce the undo took him out , and carried him homo . Young Brown , only four years old , offended LTnclo Pinketfc , whereupon he brutally beat the child . Ho him boon properly Hi'nt to primm for flix monthn . Australia ia not quite out of tho reach of tho London police . I n the beg inning of last year a fellow calling hirntielf " SpriggH and Company , " obtained poods on credit ! , and converting them into tho sterling coin of the ronlm , not out for Australia in th « . Cleopatra . An otficor wont ¦ ftfcr him iu tbx ) Sarah Sand * , arrived at Port Phillip threo

      days before the Cleopatra , arrested his man , and is now en route with him to N " ewgato ! Glasgow and Edinburgh are having a dispute about intemperance , and "drunken rows" of figures stagger through the contending columns of our contemporaries . Tho object of the co ntroversy is io decide in which city intemperance most obtains . It seems now settled that in Edinburgh the cases of drunkenness are one in eighteen of the population , and in Glasgow one in thirteen . " There we are , " says the Scotsman , " Edinburgh low , but Glasgow lower still . " A claim to the unenviable honour has been

      put in by Dundee . , . . On Sunday , Mr . Everett , an expelled minister , having been announced to preach in the Wesleyan Chapel at Yeadon , near Leeds , and being prevented by a legal process , a iHrmber of ttte reformers attacked the bouse of the chapelkeeper , and began to break the doors and windows , when a gun was discharged from within , and one of the men wounded in the legs . Constables having been called in , took five men who were in the house into custody . —Exeter Flying Post . Somersetshire and Cumberland furnish two striking instances of the agricultural mode of love-making . The facts were brought out at the Taunton and Liverpool assizes . At the former , Elizabeth Crocker brought an action for

      breach of promise against an ignorant but wealthy farmer named Moore . The girl lived as domestic servant with Moore , and he was so smitten with her charms that he offered ' to marry her . She refused , because she loved " Charley Rawle , " and left his service . Thereupon much negotiation ensued , and ultimately she went back to his service , but left it again , renewed her intimacy with Rawle , and was again wooed back by Moore , he calling from day to day entreating her to give him her company , talking about his property , and even parading Ms bullocks before her father ' s house . He said he was woTth 5000 ? . Finally she went back , was seduced , and sent home again . Then Moore bought a ring , fixed the wedding , day , and again broke off the marriage . In defence it was alleged by several witnesses that Miss Elizabeth was unchaste ; that she

      kissed the country bumpkins , was on most intimate terms ¦ with Rawle , going to him when he was in bed and so on . But the jury did not credit these witnesses , Rawle himself included , and gave damages 300 ? . The Cumberland case was tried at Liverpool . Young Selkirk , a farmer ' s son , courted Hannah Singleton . He met her at a fair , came afterwards to see her , at night , at her father ' s house ( it was common in Cumberland to court late at night ) , told her he would marry her , seduced her , gave her medicine , and deserted her . A child was born . The lawyer for the defence said , that the negligence of the father in permitting these nig htly visits to his daughter at his house was so great as to disentitle him to any serious amount of damages , and that if such a custom existed in Cumberland as had been proved , there ought to be another custom , that no actions for seduction should bo brought . Damages 501 . T

      _ _ , . . Another case of the same kind was also tried at Liverpool . Young Syddall , the son of a calico printer , at Marple , induced Agnes Alexander , his father ' s servant , to run away with him . They fled to Grctna Green , saw the famous blacksmith , but were not married either in tho Scotch or English fashion . They returned to Liverpool , young Sy ddall writing to the parent Alexanders tViat their daughter was married to him . In about two months he grew tired of her , and deserted her . Being a sensible girl she applied to a solicitor . She had a child born . By the advice of the solicitor the action was brought . Damages

      501 . Adelaide Mordaunt , for a lark , donned the uniform of a middy , being " fair" time , and resolved to have a lark She went into a public house , and called for grog , talking big about the sea . Questioned by a sailor , it was readily discovered that the seeming midshipman was an impostor , whereupon he fchrew beer at the sailor , and kicked up a row . A policeman , knowing her real sex , took her into custody . She was a very troublesome woman . The Southifc could not be that

      ward magistrate said , permitted a woman like the defendant should go about assuming men ' s dress * , insulting persons , and disturbing a neighbourhood . He should therefore commit her for seven days . Mian Adelaido : What am I to do ? You don't intend , f hope , to send mo to gaol in this uniform ? Tho magistrate said , that if 8 ho did not provide herself witha change , hIio must bo taken off with tho other prisoners in tins van as , she wan . Adelaide , exclaiming , " This is a pretty go , " was then taken away by tho gaoler .

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      The Kentish Gazette contains tho following story of what it calls " a singular diwcovtsry made in Franco by a M . Fabro , a humblo gardener of Ay do , but . of some local note a « a botanist . The herb < cgilops , heretofore considered as worse than useless , grows abundantly on tho Mediterranean . It produces a species of grain resembling wheat in form , but much smaller . In fho year 18 : 10 M . Fabre flowed a quantity of this grain , and ho was struck by observing that the produce of it nocnkmI Io bear a close affinity to wheat . Tins produce Iks wowed t \ w next vear , and the yield was Htill more like wheat . Ho went " on sowing the ' yiold in that way , year after year , anil each year found a marked improvement in 'he produce , until at last ho had the satisfaction of getting as lino a crop of wheat , and of as pood quality , at \ could wish to bo seen . At fh-Hfc he produced his crops in « garden , but his later sowings woro made broadcast in an opnri Held . , T 1 iun then a wild and miHchiflVOHH herb , which is particularly iI « shtructivo to barley crops , cun bo educated into excellent ;

      wheat . ' - , ¦ i -. According to ft Parliamentary paper just lsmied , it uppciirM that tho total expenditure for tho relief of this poor m Ireland during the last quarter of I he last , live yearn , was—In 1848 , 425 , 04 ^ . ; in 1 . 841 ) , 302 , t > 7 (> 7 . ; in 1850 , 247 , 271 / . ; in 1 H 5 I , 200 , 428 / . ; and in 1802 , 1 H 7 , 0 WH . Tho total number on tho relief lists during the sumo periods were fliiecwwively , 685 , 100 , auOjOlT ) , 2 U 0 , r > : l 3 , l ( M , 22 r > , anil 141 , 822 . Tho mortality doorooaod ^ progreoeivoly from G . fi per 1000 m 1848 to a . ^ ' tn 1832 .

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      Afhii , 2 , 1853 . ] THE LEADER . 323

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    • Leader (1850-1860), April 2, 1853, page 323, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1980/page/11/