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Leader (1850-1860), 17th September 1853, Edition Town of 2, Page 897

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      -. _ driving him about for upwards of eight hours , he found that 7 ? he ' adn't gob not a single mag . " The old ntleman admitted that the statement of the complainant ^ 03 auite right , and said the few goods he had were in the ihnds of a broker for rent . Saunders , the summoning fficer said he had heard that the defendant owed 7 s . more to 'a second ca bman , and ' he , Saunders , much doubted , from bis propensities to cab-riding , . whether there were not great many more whom lie had victimised . The prisoner , being" without the means to pay , was sent to ^^ School of Design has been now entirely removed

      from Somerset House , and has been centralized at Marlborough House . The removal i $ now complete , and the roomsgiven Up to the Registrar-General of Births , Deaths , and Marriages . The school is removed to Marlborough H ouse , and will form part of the Central School of Art of the Department of Science and Art . The several district schools already established in the metropolis , at the Mechanics ' Institute , Westminster , St . Thomas , Charterhouse Schools , Finsbury , and about to be established in St . Martin ' s parish , and elsewhere , will supply the elementary instruction in art formerly given at Somerset House , whilst the higher branches will be taught at Marlborough

      Mr . Scott Russell ' s steamship factory , at Milwall , took fire a little after twelve o ' clock on Friday night . At first the fire was so little that a bucket of water , it was thought , would put it out ; but , from one room in the furnace departments , the fire shot up into the sheds , and soon the whole range was in one blaze . The fire spread with fearful rapidity , seizing six forges , and reaching to the saw-mill on the north side . This , a brick building , one hundred feet long , was soon burned up . One thousand tons of planks next took fire , and then the store of eighty tons of coals ioined the enormous conflagration . The huge fire lighted up

      Greenwich Hospital , the Observatory , and the shipping on the river . The progress of the flames now endangered the most valuable part—the engineering department , one hundred and sixty feet long , and five stories high . The flames rose from floor to floor , and then shot forth from the roof . From factory to factory the flames progressed , and nothing but some premises on the east side , of slight value , escaped destruction . The adjoining works of Messrs . Napier were also set on fire , and burned down . Engines were early on the spot , but they did little good . The loss ia estimated at 100 , 000 ? . The origin of the fire is not known . Three other fires-occurred in-the metropolis this week . The details are not interesting .

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      A Lancashire firm has offered to the Cork Guardians to employ the young children , in their workhouse . They would be supplied with good wholesome food , clothing , lodgings , and have every attention paid to their comfort , and , after obtaining a knowledge of the business , small wages would be given them , in addition to the above , according to their merit .

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      Near the country town of Warrington a rare sight is to be seen . Following tho course of the river , Warrington is not loss than thirty miles from Liverpool ; and thousands of people travelling by tho London and North Western Railway through the town , and seeing a hugo ship of 2500 tons burthen on the stocks , without perceiving the water near , have naturally asked " how and where is it to be launched ? " Many of these persons , in tho absence of any certain knowledge , have speculated on tho subject , and supposed that it waa a vessel fitting together in parts , as iron houses and churches are for tho colonies , to bo takon to pieces again , and removed in a more convenient form . The fact is , however , that tho

      river Mersey flows past tho foundry , and though insignificant in width ( something like tho Thames at Henley ) , it has tides which give it occasional depth . The vessel is building at a bond of tho rivor , so that sho will bo launched not across , but up the river , in a . straight reach of the etroam , up which she may run half a milo if necessary , with ample depth and spaco . But tho Tayleur deserves no to also as a sign of tho times . Ship-building is going on at such a rapid pace , that the yards of the old builders ,

      on tho Clyde , at Sundorlanrt , and elsewhere , aro full of now veasola ; tho Bank Quay Foundry Company have obtained thia ordor , becauso of tho groat attontion which ownors aro just now directing to iron as tho material for ship-building . There are well informed peoplo who Bay that tho timo is not far distant when thoro will not bo a large craft in tho merchant service that is not of iron . -Iho present voasol ia to bo built , completed , and delivered in Liverpool within six months from tho laying down of hor Icool .

      Tho shareholders of tho Shrewsbury and Birmingham ¦• iiilway have resolved , by a largo majority , on accepting tho proposal of amalgamation with tho Great Western J- 'Oinpany . For 1001 . Shrewsbury and Birmingham stock , tho sharoholdor will got 8 « . of iho Groat Wostorn stock , and \){)/ , ; u j ) 0 g j voa f () 1 . ovory 1001 . stock to Hharoholdora jn tho Khrowflbury and Chester lino — a conjoint spocu-I'ho Solen t , a now WoHt India pnokot , is built on < ingonal linos , lik 0 iho Veclis and Valotta , and groat ' ¦ lungs aro oxpnetod from hor imrforninnoos . Sho is inlunuod for ( , IM ) Southampton and I ' unainn traffic—probably £ »« most important in tho world ; That lino Jm « JTCuropo . ™ r ono torminuH , ' and tho Pacific , including tho Htatos of uonl . ral and South America , California , and Australia , for rtnothor . That ( drips can bo built capable of running from * oiuharnploh to . ' Panama in six toon days , in undoubtod , n < l , if any company in tho world nhoul < l possess such l

      m »>» , it in tho Wo . st tndin Mail Company . ho Marco Polo has again niiido a romarlrablo run from . ^ UHtmlin . Sho Htarted from Australia on tho 10 th of '/«!'"" ' """ I arrived in tho Morsoy on Tuesday of thin woolc nuT ' Y ^ 1 't wiU l ) ° m !<> n °

      n j 1 ! l exactly « ijc months undor vory unfnvournhlo nusk « h ) h , oho having boen detained five days in tho ico , and

      fifteen days by calms on the line ; but , for a ship to have made two voyages to Australia and back in ten days under twelve months is the most remarkable achievement ever recorded in the annals of navigation . Captain Forbes appeared on 'Change about one o ' clock on Tuesday , and met with a hearty welcome from all the merchants assembled . The cheering was long and loud . An illustration of the injustice arising from the rate of colonial postage has just occurred . We find by the Times of August 20 th , that the mail brought by the screw steam ship Harbinger from Australia was the largest ever landed at Southampton . It consisted of 250 boxes and bags of letters and newspapers . As there is no contract

      existing between the Government and the General Screw Steam Ship Company for conveying mails between this country and Australia , the Harbinger ' s mails all came under the designation of ship letter-bags , and the letters are charged to the public at the rate of 8 d . per half-ounce , instead of 1 * ., which would be the case if conveyed by postal contract . Of this 8 d . the Post-office appropriates 6 d . to itself for merely distributing the letters throughout the kingdom ( an operation performed for Id . in the case of inland letters ) , and pays 2 d . each to the ship . Thus the General Post-office charges three times as much for merely delivering the letters to the public as is appropriated to the vessel for bringing the mails by steam from tho Antipodes .

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      The Spectator gives the following as a simple rule for converting the present into the new denomination of money . Multiply the shillings by 50 , then turn the pence ( and farthings if any ) into farthings , and if above 15 add 1 , above 30 add 2 ; the sum of the whole will be decimals , or mils . rp , ( 16 s . 10 f < 2 .= ; 16 X 50-f-43 + 2— £ 0 . 845 , or 845 mils . xnus 1 2 | rf .= 13 X 50 + 10 = £ 0 . 660 , or 660 mils . The completion of the electric telegraph through Ireland

      will be of commercial advantage . The Queenstown telegraph will be of great use . A swift steamer is to be kept running from outside the harbour ' s mouth to Queenstown , which is to convey intelligence of such vessels as are outward or homeward bound , to be transmitted by telegraph to Dublin , London , &c . In like manner , by the aid of the telegraph , the state of the markets , funds , rates of exehange , &c , will be sent to America twenty-two hours later than a vessel bound from Liverpool could be in possession of , as all vessels pass Cork harbour on their >¦

      voyages . Gloucester this week has had its festival of the three choirs . This is the 130 th anniversary , and there is every prospect of the festival paying its own expenses instead of causing the usual tax upon the stewards . There are three hundred performers , including Clara Novello , Mademoiselle Bellini , Mrs . Weiss , Madame Castellan , Miss Dolby , Mrs . Lockey , Mr . Lackey , Mr . Weiss , Gardoni , Tagliafico , and Hcrr Formes . Mendelssohn ' s Elijah , and Handel ' s Messiah , have been tho staple performances . The London Temperance Societies had a demonstration on Monday . They marched with bands and flags to tho Surrey Gardens , and there spent the day in pleasant dissipation . Mr . J . B . Gough , a great Temperance orator , from America , was present . The new Omnibus Act comes into operation on tho 1 st of October .

      Near Leicester , some persons working on a public road discovered ono hundred skeletons , all apparently of male adults , and in many instances of remarkable stature . It is singular that none of tho skeletons wcro found at a greater depth than two feet , and that , in somo instances , they wero actually lying within only as many inches of tho surface . No regular method appears to have been observed in their interment , the limbs crossing each other confusedly in all directions , as if a number of bodies had boon heaped togotbor in hasto , and merely covered by a shallow accumulation of earth . A fow of the skulls boro marks of fracture and depression ; but although attempts wore made to sccuro somo for tho purpose of ethnological

      comparison , their disintorment in an entire condition was found to bo impossible—tho slightest touch , after a fow minutes' exposuro to tho air , being sufficient to reduce them to duat . Railway accidents aro always hushed up , unless corpses aro mado , or bodies mangled . Thus , on last Friday , a luggage train broke down within tho Watford tunnel , and was completely smashed to pieces , so much so , that two hours elapsed before a multitude of workmon could clear away tho rubbish , and lines of carriages , oxtonding a milo and a half , awaiting tho oponing of tho passage . What caused tho break down has not boon rovoalod . Railway officers nro pledged to aecreay in such matters .

      A Tipporary man named Conmcrs was transported for stealing a horse In Australia ho got a tickot of loavo , and bocamo rich . Tho othor day ho diod , leaving his sister , a poor Irishwoman , BOO / . A sectarian point bus crept in among Iho guardians of tho poor of Aberdeen , at tho St . Nicholas Parochial Board . Mr . Calder insists that children who havo no reflponsiblo guardians should rocoivo tho rito of Christian baptism from tho chaplain , and hit ) viow Booms to havo tho support of tho Board of Buporvision . A number of tho inoinborn ,

      however , aro unwilling to undertake " tho godly upbringing" of tho pauper children falling to their charge ; and ono of tho arguments used by Mr . Leslie and Buillio Urqnhart is , that tho board may como to bo compoHod of men who reject altogether tho doctrine of infant baptism . Tho church-rate system in Brainlroo having boon impodod by tho Into' decision in tho II ' ouho of ' Lords , tho people of tho placo havo raiHod a voluntary subscription for tho ropair of tho church . Somo corporate funds lying in clmncory , belonging to tho Windsor corporation , havo boon applied to Hnnitary purposes . Tho novelty and propriety of tho application

      oxeitos surprise . Tho groat Ht . Logor wan won on Wednesday by Mr . Bowoh ' h Woat Australian , ridden by that lucky jockoy Frank Butler . Thia horae has thao won tho throe irreat

      events of English racing—namely , the Two Thousand , the Derby , and the St . Leger . Tho competition on Thursday was lively . After the customary canter and parade , the horses drew together at the post , and at the very first signal a beautiful start wag effected . Feversham , followed by Sittingbourno , The Reiver , Cobnut , and Rataplan , in the order named , made . tho running to the Old Road , where Sittingbourne went in front , and galloped on with the lead at a telling pace . Passing the mile-post , Rataplan drew into the third place , and West Australian began gradually to improve his position . Coming round the bend , Sittingbourne was caught and passed by The

      Reiver , whose friends now began to count their gains . At the distance , however , he found West Australian at his quarters , a position which was held until they were opposite the Stand , when West Australian went in advance , and , amidst the cheers and roars of the vast multitudes , " Frank , " with hands down , landed him an easy winner by three lengths ; four lengths between second and third . Balrownie a bad fourth , accompanied by Mr . Sykes and Cineas , behind whom at long intervals came Sittingbourne , Cobnut , and Catspaw . Feversham pulled up a long way from home , and through the serried crowds that rushed into the course immediately after the race , he slowly threaded his way back to the saddling inclosure .

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      Prince Eugene de Savoie Carignan , cousin-german to the King of Sardinia , has arrived in Paris . Our best trade friends are free peoples , and we gain little from despots . In the trade report of this week , we read : — " There has been a great falling off in South American orders ; " a result that may be partly attributed to Santa Anna ' s despotism , and to the disturbances in Buenos Ayres . . During the Gavazzi riot , the Mayor of Montreal ordered the troops to fire . He has been held to bail on a charge of murder .

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      Satfkdat , September 17 . The authorities are taking steps to meet the Cholera . An Order in Council appears in last night's Gazette , putting in force tho .. Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Act of" 1848 , for the whole of Great Britain . In Newcastle the epidemic is spreading fast . Tlio type of the epidemic is anuch more severe than that of 1831-32 , as a comparison of the first fifteen days of the two visitations gives 61 deaths in the former to 219 of the latter . The medical officers have been authorized to call in the assistance of private practitioners , and nearly 30 of such assistants are employed . Great activity prevails on the part of all the local authorities . Return for the 15 th September : — Deaths from cholera , 97 ; diarrhoea , 4 * . Deaths in Gateshead since last report , 20 . The cholera has extended to Hexham , from which three cases are reported—two deaths and one recovery . One fatal case of cholera has taken place in Shields . Mr . Bratlshaw , compiler of the celebrated JRailway Guides , died of cholera , at Christiana , in Norway , on tho 6 th . He had been very nervous , was always taking preventives , but after six hours illness he died .

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      September 17 , 1853 . ] , THE LEADER . 897

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      The price of corn has risen in Paris and the neighbouring- districts . In the Gazette of yesterday tho Board of Trade republish a decree of the Freffch Government , provisionally abolishing tho additional duties on iron oro . It is rumoured that Mr . Anthony O'Flaherty , M . P . for Galway ( formerly ono of tho " Irish Brigade" ) is to bo appointed Governor of ono of the Australian eolonios .

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      Sir John Bailey has written a lottor to tho Times in which , from facts within his own knowledge , he proves that Mrs . Norton is " a deeply injured woman , " and that Mr . Norton ' s conduct to her has been marked by " the grossest cruelty , injustice , and inconsistency . "

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      Tho Liverpool Chamber / of Commerce- invited Mr . Buchanan , tho American Minister , to a public banquet . Tho Minirttor , while appreciating tho honour , declines it on tho ground of public duties which take up bin timo . Ho adds : —" No man in either country appreciates more highly than I do tho coimuerco conducted between Liverpool and tho United States /' Sir Charles Adamn , K . O . B ., Governor of Greenwich Hospital , 18 doad . Ho never recovorcd tho shock occasioned by tho Hiiddon death lately of bin brother , General Sir Frederick AdimiH . Sir Churlos was aovonty years old .

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      Lord Londonderry has issued a circular , cnlling on hi * tenantry to pay their arrears of rent . He . says : — " Tho Government of tho day havo decreed that Irish landlords nro to havo their ' incomes taxed according to thoir rental , not according to thoir receipts . If tho occupiers of tho soil will not pay tho proprietor , tho landlord ' s position is pitiablo ; and all tho comfort awl instruction ho got « from tho Minister ol' Liberal Coalition Cabinet of tho day is , forsooth , that tho Irish landlords aro fools if thoy don't mako thoir farmors pay them . Much in tho Iohhoh of tho Liboral xulors in . England . It cannot , Uion , tmrpriso tho tenantry that Lord Londonderry informs thorn that thia state of their ftfltiiro with him can no longer go on . "

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 17, 1853, page 897, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2004/page/9/