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    count had beet inserted in the Times for the sake of * ' vilifying" him , and that he would resist the proceedings of " a licentious preas . " He had always , he said , treated Jiis men with the utmost kindness , and had spent between three and four thousand pounds out of his own pocket in providing extra comforts . —Mr . Corriej the magistrate , having calmed the Colonel's wrath against the " licentious press" by pointing out that the obnoxious paragraph was only a report of proceedings which had actually taken place , and not an editorial comment , stated that he had received a letter from the Lieutenant-Colonel of

    the South-Lincolnshire Militia , from which it appeared that the opinion of the War Office had been sought with respect to paying the passage-money of the men , but that the recent complaiuants had refused to wait until that opinion was obtained . The authority for the payment having been since received , the passage-money had in all subsequent cases been allowed ; and the sum disbursed from the Clerkenwell poor-box would be returned . —Neither the Colonel nor Mr . Corrie appeared to be aware that the report did not appear exclusively Jn the Times , but in the other papers as well .

    Improvement nt the Electric Telegraph . — A Swedish savant , Professor Edlund , of the Royal Academy of Sciences , succeeded last year in making an improvement in the construction of the electric telegraph apparatus , by which it becomes possible to send messages by the same wire simultaneously in two opposite directions . The principle on which this discovery is based is very simple , and altogether different from , that applied by Dr . Gintl , at Vienifa , which was found not to succeed . As far back as the month of August last , Professor

    Edlund made some experiments on the wires of the telegraph line between Stockholm and Upsala , by permission of the directors . These succeeded so well that he constructed the necessary apparatus , which was put np in December last , and has been in daily operation ever since . As soon as the apparatus are constructed , they are to be introduced at every telegraph station in the kingdom ; and , as the alteration is not expensive , the advantages gained over the old system are obvious , as one line of wire will now do the work done formerly by two . —Daily News .

    The Russian Prisoners on Good Friday . —The Emperor of Russia remitted through the Swedish Embassy a sum sufficient to give-every prisoner in the Lewes Gaol 6 d . each for hot cross-buns . —Sussex Express . Metropolitan Overcrowding . —The rector of one of the most populous parishes to the north of the City has published an Essay "On the Erection of Fire-proof Houses in flats , " in which he says there has been in his parish an addition of 1000 to the previous population of 4000 , owing to the poorer classes , driven out by the recent improvements in other parts of London , having settled there . He states that honest workmen have been obliged , from sheer want of space , to herd with the outcasts of Field-lane , &c . ; and that great evils have arisen from the want of proper dwellings for the poor . The fault , we conceive , lies in always building handsome , first-class streets upon the sites of the demolished , " slums . "

    " "Mr . Ernest ' James" Augustus Fitzroy , whorecently made himself notorious in connexion with certain riotous proceedings at St . Paul's Church , Knightsbridge , has been sentenced to four months' imprisonment at Chichester for uttering forged cheques . The Recorder stated that Mr . Fitzroy had commenced life in a very vicious manner , though under the cloak of religion ; and it appears that he is still liable to prosecution upon other charges of forgery . The first and last weeks of his imprisonment will be solitary confinement . Mr . Fitzroy , it is said , will , on attaining his majority next Juno , be entitled to 24 , 000 / . But . it seems ho could not wait for this .

    A Gunpowder Explosion , by which four children have been dreadfully burned , has taken place at an oil and colour warehouse in James-street , Covent-garden . A boy was sprinkling some powder from a flask iipon the fire , when the contents of the flask exploded , forcing out the windows , destroying the coiling , and setting firo to tho children ' s clothes . The sufferers wore removed to Charing-Cross Hospital in a very precarious state . Lord Dundonald no longer intends offering his secret to tho French Emperor , since , as His Majesty has given up his design of going to tho Crimea , he fears that the plan might fail for want of a sufficiently expanded mind to carry it into effect .

    Irish Emigration . —Tho " Exodus from Ireland , still continues at a very groat rate , notwithstanding tho attempts mado by tho priests to prevent tho people going to America , which has fallon into great disfavour in consequonco of tho "Know-nothing" agitation . A paper which is supposed to speak tho sentiments of John of Tuam obsorvos : — " Wliilo tho Irish Catholic race wns treated with kindness in America , wo never uttered a word of romonstrnnco or warning ; but , now that all

    parties agrco in complaining of tbo dreadful persecutions which await tlroni , from nil tho powers of ' Know-Nothingism' in tho ' hithorto boasted land of liberty , wo fool it our imperative duty to raiso our voice in protest and reclamation , , . Bail us homo in , and cold as is tho prospect that awaits our pcoplo under a system of laws that obstinately rofuso security for tenant industry , it is better to remain and battle with tho ills they know than fly to others of a moro revolting kind . A quiet death in tho old land of tho enints , with tho aid of religious

    consolation in that awful hour , is better than contact with the awful demoralisation and almost total absence of religious comforts which await the emigrant beyond the Atlantic . " The Irish Roman Catholics now look upon Canada as the land where all creeds and classes may enjoy equal liberty , although under the " upas-tree " of English rule . Early Closing Association . —A document put forth by this Society , states that it was formed in 1842 . That , previous to its establishment , the hours of employment in nearly every department of industrial life were excessive ; in many cases almost incredibly so : for instance , it was a very common practice for the linendrapers to keep their shops open during a large portion

    of the year till eleven and twelve o ' clock at night , it being often one , and sometimes even two o'clock , before the assistants were really free . On Sunday mornings they not unfrequently were kept at work till three , four , and even five o ' clock , and numerous have been the instances of young men , instead of retiring to bed , preferring going off to bathe , it being broad daylight when they left their respective shops . That , through the agency" of the Early Closing Association , the hours of employment in many departments of business have already been materially curtailed . That this Society , often in the face of much discouragement , continues steadfastly to labour in this cause of social

    progress and humanity . That the efforts of the Board are at the present time more particularly directed to the case of the Assistant Chemists , whose hours of employment extend , for the most part , from about seven o'clock in the morning till half-past ten or eleven o ' clock at night , with a liability , moreover , to their being called up at any hour in the night , and without being able to call so much as the Sabbath their own . That it is proposed ere long to draw attention to the condition of that sadly oppressed class—the Journeymen Bakers . And that the Society at present stands greatly in need of funds . " The object of the Society is excellent ; and -we trust it may procure the money assistance it requires .

    The Annual Tisit of the Bluecoat Boys to the Lord Mayor took place , as usual , on Easter Tuesday , on which occasion the Duke of Cambridge was present , his arrival being signalised by the band of the City of London Militia playing the National Anthem , which was afterwards sung by the boys in the Egyptian Hall of the Mansion House . The Lord Mayor having briefly addressed the boys , and the presentation of buns , wine , and money having . taken place , the company separated , and his Lordship , the Duke of Cambridge , and several of the aldermen proceeded in procession to Christ Church , to hear the Spital Sermon preached . The Duke of Cambridge , on entering the Lord Mayor's carriage , was loudly cheered by the people .

    Miss Ejiilie Gordox . —A letter with respect to this person , whose shocking treatment of her pony we noticed last week , appears in the Times of Wednesday , under the signature of "A Neighbour to Miss Gordon . " The writer , whose communication is drawn forth by some editorial comments on the case , asserts that Miss Gordon is not accountable for her actions , and that she ought to be p laced ~ 1 uTider ™ pers ^ nalTfelitraint'f ''" a ~ ddiiig ' that "her vagaries have too long continued to be alternately the jest , the scandal , and the terror of the neighbourhood in which she resides . I have ' not the least doubt that the mania , of Avhich her savage treatment of the pony was only one manifestation , has been developing itself in her mind for years past , and is making rapid advances towards a highly-dangerous stage . "

    A Hard Case . —Two women , wives of seamen taken prisoners by the Russians , applied on Monday at tke Lambeth police-court for assistance . The' men had gone out in a military transport hired by Government ; and , until their capture , tho wives had received from Mr . Ferguson , owner of the vessel , a certain sum per month ; but this was now stopped . The poor women had applied at the office of tho Lloyd ' s Patriotic Fund ; but received for answer , that , as they were not widows , nor their children orphans , relief could not be extended to them . Under these circumstances , tho magistrate gave them 10 s . each from tho poor-box ; and it is to bo hoped that their case will bo considered by the charitable and affluent . Tho women stated that they had letters from their husbands , who snid that they had lost all their property , but that tho Russians treated them kindly .

    The Eastkr Banquet at the Mansion Uou . se .- — This yearly festival took place on Monday , and was chiefly remarkable for the presence of tho Duke of Cambridge , and tho absence of all tho ministers except tho Chancellor of the Exchequer . In order to do honour to tho Dulco , tho streets from Temple Bar were lined with militia-men , who also formed a guard in tho vestibule of tho Mansion House . The after-dinner speeches wero of tho u . sual routine character . Tub London Suiisciui'tion for the sufferers by tho floods in Holland , on tho ( ith ult ., which destroyed fiOOO dwellings in various villages , has amounted to 121 ) . ' $ / ., and tho committee havo mado a fresh nppoal , with the hopo thnt it may yet bo increased . Accidental Poisoning . —Six persons havo been poisoned at Cardigan , by partaking of somo broth into which oatmeal that luul boon mixed with arsenic , for the purpose of killing ratfl , had been put . Ono of tho sufferers died in a few hours ; and tho others are still in a very precarious state .

    The French Emperor and the London Cc ration . —The Court of Common Council has u mously agreed to present an address to the Empe the French upon his visit to London , and to request he will " honour the City with his presence" at a j entertainment in . the Guildhall . . ••' .-Remarkable SuJcide . —In the neighbourhoo Marlborough , a man recently cut Mb throat in a 1 rushed into the public thoroughfare , threw himself a low garden wall , and shortly afterwards died . body was found in the garden , with the head r severed from the body . No motive for the act con assigned . Raising of a Ship at Gravesend . —The Pru

    barque Samuel , of Dantzic , which was sunk ii fathoms water off Coal-house Point on the morni : the 8 th of March , after coming in collision wit : Westmoreland , has been successfully raised withi present week by Mr . Bell , of Whitstable , the known diver . The Militia . —The rapid collapse of the m owing to the secession of the men who enlisted pre to the last act , continues in the greater number o regiments , and the force is reduced to a mere ske It is feared that recourse mast be had to the bal re-creating it . In the Warwickshire Militia , ho ^ large numbers of the men have come forward fc attestation ; and in some of the other regiments se of the members have volunteered for the line .

    Lord Palmerston and the Commissariat .-commissariat officers in the Crimea have addres letter to Mr . Filder , which they request he will before Lord Panmure , and in which they indigui deny an assertion made by Lord Palmerston in Pa inent , that they do not belong to the class c " gentry , " and that they have been " wanting in c city , energy , intelligence , and in the accurate zealous performance of their duty . " The officers ing this letter describe Lord Palmerston ' s remark a most unjust and unfounded imputation ; " assert claim to be considered gentlemen ; and contend they have performed _ their duties to the utmost of power . _ „ . . , ,. 1 ? T _ electionwinch

    The Cavan Election . —This , usual in Ireland ,, has been signalised by scenes of graceful riot , has terminated in an immense maj for Mr . Burrowes , the Derbyite candidate . EASTER ^ MONDAY ^ -E aster Monday , the grand , day of the masses , was this year rendered doubly aj able by fine weather ; and the : Cockneys came out i their ^ lory in their . traditional iireenvricli Park . have elsewhere noticed the Easter productions at theatres 5 but we may here note that the British , seum , the National Gallery , Marlborough House Vernon Collection , and other receptacles of objec science and art were thronged with visitors . Bet 8000 and 9000 persons attended at the Crystal 1 al but the working classes did not muster very str The uneducated still prefer the booths , gingerbread , clowneries of Greenwich .

    Scandal in High Life—We quote the folio froin a contemporary : — "If itwerenot themereit . v of delicacy to use further disguise regarding the 1 which has formed for some days past , perhaps , the ] cipal subject of conversation in society , the politic Mr . Francis Villiers as a member of Parliament w justify that open reference which cannot be long ] poned . Without speaking more minutely of tho ui tunate affair , we may state that it is of a charact create a vacancy in the representation of Rochester , learning the circumstances alluded to , Mr . Villicrsa SouthJZastern

    supporters , we are told by the - Oo : had a meeting , at which a deputation was appointee wait on the lion , gentleman and call upon bin resign his seat . ' Everything had been arranged loi departure of the ' deputation' to London , when ltoccu to one of them more sagacious than the rest , ' that difficulty was where to find him ; ' and , tins ren taking every ono by surprise , tho ' deputation b up in disgust . " Mr . VUliers ' s liabilities are sni amount to considerably upwards of 100 , 000 / . ; and understood that several persons of high rank are corned with him in very questionable proceedings .

    A Great Conflagration has taken place at M stone . It broke out in an inn standing at the conic the market ; and , the structure being old , and 01 w and containing necessarily a largo amount ot « l' »" ° » fire rapidly gained head , and waa communicated to adjacent buildings . Tho firemen were autod by a ii of cavalry and militia ; but a largo number of ciui present refused to lend any help , because thoj »»< not bo paid for their services . There was a K rt t < cioncy of water for tho engines : novortholo * ., « iltu t exertions , tho fire wan got under . Tho lo * .,. a 1 * tl " will bo between 3000 / . and 4000 / . ; but tho aiilR

    uro insured . , , Dr . Asinimw Smith has delivered into the M » nsl ' Committee copies of certain official intern vu u him , from which it appear * that bo nntH-lpnt ^ innn , tho ovila of tho Crimean campaign . In Apr' , » jSmlth . suggested . that tho drosses of tho «»< l . i . s mh bo accommodated to tho climate of the , hast " ^ necessities of warfare . Ho also suggested the 1 rm of a hospital corps , BOO strong at the leant , to bo 111 immediately on tho arrival of tho army in l urKcy ,

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  • Leader (1850-1860), April 14, 1855, page 346, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2086/page/10/