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    has been held at Frome . —Other meetings have been held at Leicester , Cambridge , &c , against the continuance of the present income-tax beyond next April . At Lancaster Sir Joshua Walmsley-was present , and spoke strongly upw the impolicy of continuing the tax in its present shape . Bebmondsey Purified . —Great efforts have recently been , and aie still being , made to cleanse and purify Bermondsey . Great changes for the better are already effected—a fact -which those who kneir Bermondsey as it was will be rejoiced to learn .

    A Piece op Scotch Beag . —TheGlasgow Herald recently published the particulars of some large casting at the foundry of Mr . Neilson . After describing in glowing terms the vastness of the undertaking , the excited Caledonian penman , spluttered forth this boastthat the work just accomplished was " a work -which all the iron-workers in England refused , the like of -which none of the iron-masters of England ever saw . " Hereupon , Messrs . H . and M . J > . Grissell , of London , -write to the Times ( which had quoted the Boreal bluster ) in these terms :- ^ - No doubt the Glasgow Herald perfectly agrees with Professor Blaclde ( now of some notoriety ) thai we are an ' inferior nation . ' But J would add . that the Glasgow Herald'knows nothing of English , ironr

    workers or English iron-masters , and that we could , easily find him fifty workers and masters "Who would , make but » light " question of the ksk Mr . Neilaon has no doubt so ably " performed ; and that , among many ptiers , it was not refused by , because not-offered to , Yours very respectfully , &e . " Really , the vanity , the restless self-assertion , of these out noisy neighbours amounts to : a kind of national disease , which , might make the subject of a very interesting medical discourse . Their vanity is not even amiable , since it is allied to gratuitous impertinence . We are inclined to address our northern cousins in . tlie words of an old song , as the best advice they can receive : — " Cease , rude Boreas , blustering railer . "

    In Kb Humphrey Beoto , M . P . —The petition for adjudication of bankruptcy in this case was disposed of in the Bankruptcy Court last Saturday . The Commissioner held that the petitioning creditor ' s debt ( that of the Royal British Bank for about 40 , 0 00 ? . ) had been proved , as also an act of bankruptcy . Adjudication of bankruptcy . was accordingly made . Mr . Patrick Johnson is the official assignee . Messrs . Linklater and Hack-• vrood : are the solicitors in . the case . The asset 3 available for the creditors are said to be of inconsiderable amount .

    ^ Paper Pence *—Tie issue of packets of omnibus tickets , at a reduction of 10 per cent , on every sovereign ' s ¦ worth taken , commenced on Thursday week . In the course of that day , upwards of 10 , 000 tickets were sold at one place only , -the central office of the company at Charingr-cros 3 . The inconvenience of carrying halfpence will by this simple means be entirely spared to omnibus passengers . Several large drapery firms have declared &n intention , of availing themselves of these tickets , aa the pleasantest small change for their

    ladycustomera . . The SroitM in the Metropolis . —A violent storm © f wind passed over London last Saturday . It had been blowing rather freshly all day ; and at evening the force of the wind increased , and continued until af ter midnight , blowing a perfect gale . The Thames was lashed into a furious state , and a great many of the barges and small vessels were sunk , driven against one another , or sent adrift . Several persons in the streets were injured by falling tiles and chimney-pots ; and some of the trees in the parks were uprooted or seriously damaged . The gale was al&o very violent on the coasts , where it caused several casualties which we have chronicled in our Naval and Military columns .

    The JJASKntrrTc-jr of Lton Samuel . —Judgment in this case , the facts of which have already appeared in the Zauter , was given on Monday by Mr . Commissioner Goulbum , who bolieved that the bankrupt and Peter Bimond had been acting in confederacy for the purpose of cheating the creditors . Ho felt bound in duty to remand ' trta bankrupt to prison . Samuel , who had been very noiey < m previous occasions , received this judgment with respectful eileace , and notice of appeal was given by hia counsel .

    withdrawing the weapon and casting it on the ground , he plunged headforemost into the Thames ; It being high water at the time , the body was not discovered until the tide had receded , when it was found imbedded in the soil of the river , six lours and a half after its immersion . There appears to be no doubt that the man was insane ; and the morbid tendency of mind was probably excited by the fact that his brother-in-law had committed suicide last week . - ...-. SliL . CockshoiA—The Board of Customs has appointed Mr . Cockahott to the vacant office of Chairman of Surveyors in the port of London . This gentleman was tee first to bring the decimal system of weights into practical operation in this country by its partial introduction into the Customs .

    didai f for . Newport , Isle of Wight , in , rthe * owa of Mr Biggs , resigned . —The electors of Salf « r& are said to be preparing a . requisition to Mt . E . R . X * iagworthy , ^ allow" himself to be put in nomination ft > r the reprasentation of the borough , in the room of Mr . BrotkertOB , 4 q , ceased . Dr . Wolff on Herat . —The Bev . Dr . "Wolff & „ Hvexei a lecture last Monday evening , at Leamington on the religious and political condition of : the countries of the East , in connexion-with the second coming aad personal reign of Christ . Speaking of Bterat , he said that the British . Government " made ah infamous treaty a disicmoarafcle and disgraceful treaty , with . Yaar Muhamruad ; Khan , the Chiefof Herat ; . by-which treaty the British Government assisted Yaar Muhammad Khan in 1840 , against the Persians , who besieged Herat in order

    to liberate their 300 , 000 slaves scattered in and around Herat , Bokhara , and . Khiva ! They sent—he repeated the British Government sent- —the skilful officers Majors Pottinger and Darcy Tod to Herat , i& order not only to pre \ -ent the Peraiaosfrom liberating their countrymeufroia slavery , but also in order to enable Yaar Muhammad Khan and the Turcomans to' make wore slaves , unde r the protection of the British artillery . The people of Herat , of course , succeeded , and i ^ a aj ? . Muhammad Kban , addicted to every crime not to be mentioned , and a murderer besides , threatened , to kill Dw « y Tod , if be should refuse to give him money * Poor Ted was obliged to fly from Herat , and on his arrival in Iatfia the < 3 overamea * most basely disgraced that brave office * as a coward ^ who died most bravely afterwards in . battle agaiast the Siklis , under Generals Lord Gough .- atad Bardinge . "

    Stri < Jn > E . —A Mr . J . Winter , living on-Tower-hill , and but recently arrived from Bfigntony has feilled himself by swallowing ; laudanuin . H « had been in a very desponding state of mind for some time past ; but the cause of hia depression is not knowrn . : Lobd Napeer has' been appointed -as English Ambassador to Washingtoh . A ' Fast' CtERGYMAN .- ^ The reverend gentleman frofa . Leicestershire who was robbed last week , in Stamford , after spending some hours in a pmbKc-botase where dancing was going on , has not yet recovered the property stolen from him . TEras his tuiiseewly predilections haVe lost him his watch , and also , it is saM , the respect of the bishop , who has b « en made acquainted with , the whole of the circumstances . It is fnrthek

    stated that the rev . gentleman S'self-willed conduct had previously attracted the notice of his superiors in the Church . —' Stamfdrd Mercury . Bbigands at a Railway Station . —As the omnibus ¦ wlich conveys passengers to the Sefravalle WndGavi Uailway ( Piedmont ) was on the 28 th ultimo turning a corner at no great distance from the station , it was suddenly attacked by five robbers , who forced the passengers to give up all they had about them , one parting vrith 600 f . in gold . Having made this Capture , they proceeded to a nook at a short distance from the road , -where they thought themselves safe , to divide the booty . Here , however , they were discovered by two carbineers , vrhich threw them into such consternation

    tliat , without the slightest attempt at resistance , though they were -well armed , they took to flight . The carbineers pursued them , arid overtook two , -with whom they commenced a struggle of life and death . One of tlie ruffians managed "to get out his stiletto , -with which he dealt his antagonist a blow , -wnich might have proved fatal had not the sheath , fortunately stuck to the weapon ; nevertheless , the carbineer was -staggered by the violence of the blow andlet go his hold , bo thaJt his prisoner escaped . The other * hief was ovdrpowered and manacled ; in his pooket they found a certificate « f good conduct , signed by the Syndic of Pozzttolo ,. f < rt" a passport to France . The others had not been oaptured . up to the latest account .

    EXFfcOSIOlf OF A PoftTAfcLB GtAB CARRIAGE . —TIlC Paris papers describe a curiotfs accident . One of the large vehicles employed to convey portable gas stopped at an early hour on Sunday morning at the CWe" de Parb , in the R « e Tfcattibuteail , and delivered a supply . The man in chargo of the vehicle , in order to ascertain , the quantity ffiVen ^ imprudently placed alighted candle so near to the vessel placed on-the cart that the gas in th 6 pipe w hich communicated with the re&ervoir caught fire . iFwosurgcns-< 3 e-ville , who happened to be ' near , with great presence of mind Immediately caused the vehicle to be removed to the open spado at the eritnmce of the Roe Benubourg , so as to isolate it ; and when this was done th « horses ' were unharnessed . A faw ( seconds later a column of flamosiiot up to a prodigious height , higher than tho roofa of tjio houses '; tben a trotaondouis explosion tool place ; and , lastly , a mass of flames burst forth .

    Obontoivoguoai , Society o « p London . ' —The first meeting of this society was held on Monday evening , p , t # 2 a , ( 3 eorgo-atraet , Han&ver-equare , -when a largo muster of the leading practitioners . of dental surgery , both in town and from the country ,. met together . Homo preliminary business having , fofien gone lihrough , th& President , Mr . Cartwright , delivered nn address , in which , After glancing at the , pi ojrreBB of dental surgery during the last century , ho took a review of the present position and prospects of the profession , arid strongly urged the necessity of a liberal education , in conjunction - with the apodal quafincatwnH requirxxi for those who wotud practise this xtepartment of surgery with credit and success . He then teferred to tlw

    TecE Vicaragjs of Cbippxegate . —Archdeacon Hale has resigned the living of the vicarage of Cripplegate , which , he has held for the last ten years . In the early part of last week * the archdeacon forwarded his resignation to the Bishop of London , and he has received an official notification that it is accepted . The living ia in the gift of the Chapter of St . Paul ' s , and is valued , it is said , at 1 . 800 & a year . Ma . Sidney Hkrbebt . —It ia now stated that there is no foundation whatever for the rumour that Mr . Sidney Herbert has inherited any part of the property of tte latQ Prince "WoronzoS ; £ n ke SEA . cor , B and j- » ay . —^ Thursday was appointed for tbe last examination of these bankrupts—tne former being the lady so highly extolled for her humanity and generosity to our gallant soldiers in the Crimea during the late war . The examination was passed without the slightest opposition .

    TjtfB Royai / Betxish Bank . —A private meeting was held on Thursday , in the Court of Bankruptcy , the object being to discuss a great number of proofs on the part of shareholders , who desired to prove as creditors against the estate . The examinations Avere not concluded during the day . Australia akd the West Indies . —The last mails from" these colonies do not bring any news of importance . Asr AmebicanFokgeb . — A man , named Huntiogtoh , said to be descended froni the " Pilgrim Fathers , " is now being tried in America on several charges of forgery to an immense amount . ; The defence was ' that the accused was insane . He had been religiously brought up , and

    had at one time acted as a Sunday school teacher ; but he had exhibited a great propensity to destroy things , out of a morbid curiosity to know their composition . Setting up in business , he started a vast number of schemes , some of them of the wildest character , but never kept long to anything . He then got into pecuniary difficulties , and committed the forgeries with which he was charged . " His furniture , " said his counsel , " was of the most costly description , and he had an immense iron safe filled with expensive silver plate , and it was said even gold spoons . He purchased jewels ¦ worthy of an emperor , and gave them away -with frightful prodigality . He sported fine horses and equipages . All his forgeries , however , were bungled . He frequently

    left out one of the names of the firm , sometimes put in an extra name , and sometimes reversed their order . He had signed names himself when he could have got the gonuine ones by asking for them . He had raised money on forged securities at sixty per cent ., and lent it at eighteen and even seven . He kept no books during these transactions from which the extent of his affairs could be ascertained -with any approach to accuracy . He used forgeries in some instances to obtain money on credit , -when no security would have been required or asked . He took no measures to prevent hia arrest in caso the forgeries should be detected . His design was io remain in New York , or the vicinity . AU his extravagant purchases , with trifling exceptions , were

    made for cash upon forged paper , when he might have made them upon credit . He committed crime to paydebts from which he had been already released . He omitted to destroy evidence of his forgeries . He procured an honest , iaexporienced person—a relative—to prepare notes which he subsequently converted into forgeries . He accumulated no property for himself or family . He made no preparation for defraying the expenses of LJq defence in the event of exposure . Sijiee liis arrest , he has sent to sevftvrti p 6 raons who ] laVe 8 uffored by Min > soliciting money to aid ' him in his defence . On his first

    indictment he was bailed with . 20 , 000 dola . by twoof his alleged victims as securities—one of whom was Charles Bejden and tlie othor Harbeck ; He was Buffered to go a , t largo a who ^ o day , without malting an effort to escape-He pie . t ; these two alleged victim * by appointment , and admitted that nearly all the commercial paper lie had delivered to them waB forged . He wept over this state of things , and Belden and Harbeck wept with him—probab _ bs 4 lu ) first time in many yoara . The next morning , while yet it large , ho made a voluntary assignment to them , excluding all othor creditors . "

    Ejection NEws .- ^ Mr . Bailfio Cochrane has been returned for 'Lanarkshire without opposition . —By tho

    caam Aa » IwSOLVENT TBSlOUGH PoOTIOAL ANIMOSITY . —An ansolvent debtor , named Lucaa , stated before Mr . Com-? 4 lSS »! 5 » r Phillips on Monday , that ever sinco th ° Isst JS <»« taljfleo # pn , wlien he voted ior the Conservatives hjs buflmess ( thai ; of a licensed victualler ) had been gvar aually decreasing . He belonged . to Maccleafield ; and the Commissioner said he must be removed to Chester at the creditors * ( ocpense . . . .. ... . C ^ BWTMAs itosPiTALiTY , —Misa Burdett Coutts , on tfl «> , ni ^ ht of New Year ' s Day , entertained to supper a ot

    wqe wmoer working men and woraea and soma savea liundred children belonging to the parish of St . JPejior a Stopney . ^ yiCTDE _ AT Wooivrton . —A'frightful occarronco ' toolv JPAW-. * . Monday rnornirig at Woolwich Dockyard . " 9 f the labourers employed in the chain testing departltte ? > ar " vea a * his place of labour at seven o ' clbck A . M tod "VW 9 the ^ Irat man to whom a ticket was doliverod . B * proceeded towards tho chain wharf , wlwre , standing D Wi ^ , th fi : P 9 ' tho marine sentry and tho police-, ¦ SSS&fSTS ? duty , ho was seen io draw a clasp-knife de-• TO W ftoni h ^ a pocket , vyitK which ho inflicted a ' aeep -nround in the region of tho heart . Immediately

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  • Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 10, 1857, page 34, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2175/page/10/