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The Week.
frigate . They were also greatly interested in Mr . Richardson's preparation of petroleum , which it is expected will supersede the use of coal in steam ships . A very influential deputation waited upon the Lord Mayor , with reference to the deplorable famine which prevails in certain districts of India , and the expediency of raising a fund ia the metropolis for the relief of
the sufferers . An interesting discussion took place , in the course of which the Lord Mayor gava an account of his interview with Lord Cranbouvne on tho subject . The opinion which he had formed was that since July the Indian Government had done everything in its power to mitigate tho distress , and had appropriated ample funds for this object . The inference , of course ,
was that they had failed iu energy and promptitude before that period ; but as Lord 0 ,-anborue was emphatic in the expression of his opinion that help was not now wanted , and as the Lord Mayor adopted the same view , the deputation came to the conclusion that their interference was not now necessary . Mr . Doulton , M . P . for Lambeth , was one of the witnesses
examined before the Reigate election commissioners . With respect to the election of 1858 , the lion , gentleman stated that he " managed the business part of the election himself . " Ho admitted that he had placed £ 1 , 000 in the bank and authorised Barton and Trueman to make the necessary payments in connection with his candidature . He had always put down the
cost of the election at £ 1 , 500 . This money , he said , was expended in paying canvassers , and for printing and advertising . He admitted that the election was a very noisy , a very exciting , and a very riotous one ; but he denied that it was owing to corruption , either by treating or by bribery , on his part or on the part of the other candidates . He attributed the excitement to the facts that up to that time Reigate had been practically a close borough , and that gross intimidation had been practised
by persons living iu the town and the immediate neighbourhood . He also admitted the truth of the assertion that in the accounts presented after the election large amounts were stated to have been expended in treating at public-houses , and for " employment , " but he denied that any of them were paid . An inquest , which disclosed some facts of an exceedingly shocking
character , has been held at Bethnal Green . A wretched woman , named Margaret Goudly , died from the effects of painter ' s colic , she being employed at a lead factory . An illness occasioned by a malady of this nature was bad enough , but it was aggravated tenfold by the brutality of the man with whom she lived . This fellow admitted , in an answer to questions put to
him hy the Coroner , that he sometimes beat her—'' tapping " was the ingenious phrase the man used—and that he actually struck her on the nig ht before her death . The jury found that the death of the woman was accelerated by the treatment she had received , but stopped short of a verdict of manslaughter . The ruffian was soundly lectured by the Coroner ,
but all he appeared to think about was his own safety . If he had been brought before a magistrate , he would have had administered to him a course of hard labour ; now he escapes with a moral rebuke , which he has probably by this time forgotten . A shocking death has taken place in the German gymnasium . A young man , named George Thomas Mally , was
very skilful in practising with the trapeze , but owing to an indiscreet desire on his part to vary the performance , he fell to the ground on his back . The consequence was concussion of the spine , paralysis of all his limbs , and death . Tho moral is sufficiently obvious . A pastoral letter from Dr , Manning was read in all the Roman Catholic churches in his archdiocese on the 30 th ult ., ordering speeir . l prayers on Sunday next for the Pope . Dr . Manning gives a sort of historical resume of the
difficulties of the Papacy from time to time with the object of showing apparently that when it has been most threatened it has been nearest to its greatest triumph . Dr . Grant , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark , also issued a similar pastoral . Mr . Alderman Gabriel has been elected Lord Mayor of London for the ensuing year . The present Lord Mayor
gave a banquet in honour of the Lord Mayor Elect . The winter session of the various medical schools in London opened on the 1 st inst . The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have given a banquet to the gentlemen who have so successfully laid the Atlantic Cable . Sir Stafford rTorthcote presided , and Lord Stanley delivered a speech on the occasion . In the course
of the evening Sir Stafford Northcote read a message from Her Majesty , bestowing honours upon some of them who have been foremost in the great work . Shortly before six o ' clock on the 1 st inst ., there was a fearful explosion in Woolwich Arsenal . By some means , as yet unknown , a quantity of gun-cotton stored in one of the arsenal buildings became ignited and
exploded . The building was levelled to the ground , and bricks and other materials were hurled to a considerable distance . It is believed that no person has been killed . An accident of a somewhat serious character has taken place at Tunbridge station . A passenger train got off the main line , and ran into a number of empty carriages . Beyond a severe shaking , no
great harm appears to have been done to the passengers . The police have caught three men who appear to have been engaged in a forgery of Spanish bank-notes . They employed a die-sinker in ClevkonweW to vnahe some press-dies for them with which to carry out their forgeries , and two of their number were arrested in the very act of removing these dies from the place of business of the man who made them . The prisoners were brought up at the Clerkenwell police-court and remanded .
Two young adepts in crime—the eldest being only twentyone years of age—have been captured in the purlieus of Drurylane on a charge of being concerned in a burglary at a picture dealer's in Broker ' s-alley . Some of the oil paintings which had been stolen were discovered in the room iu which the prisoners were sleeping . The Middlesex Sessions—which , although perpetually open for the trial of prisoners , are
constantly being inaugurated with the usual formalities—made a fresh start on the 1 st inst . The Assistant Judge lectured the grand jury on the performance of their duties , and recent events have shown that the admonition was not uncalled for . The Gazette of the 2 nd inst . contains two Orders in Council : the one prohibiting the lemoval of sheep and lambs in certain
districts of Cheshire where sheep-pox has broken out ; tha other authorising the removal of sheep and lambs from Northumberland into Scotland . The Speaker ' s notice for the election of members to fill the vacancies at Falmouth and Tipperary also appeared . The Conservative candidate has won the seat at Brecon , where the territorial authority of the Camden and
Tredegar families have been too strong for tho independent Liberals . Mr . Howel Gwyn polled 128 votes against 102 votes recorded in favour of Lord Alfred Churchill . Profesor Fawcett distributed the prizes to successful students of the Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes on tho 1 st instant . His speech on the occasion was interesting . He
declined to join in the cry that mechanics' institutes were failures . They had done and wero doing very much , although they had not fulfilled all that was expected of them , simply because those expectations were impossible of fulfilment . Pointing out the difficulties in the way of education , he urged that Earl Shaftesbury and those who had supported him in compelling the manufacturers to educate children in their
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The Week.
frigate . They were also greatly interested in Mr . Richardson's preparation of petroleum , which it is expected will supersede the use of coal in steam ships . A very influential deputation waited upon the Lord Mayor , with reference to the deplorable famine which prevails in certain districts of India , and the expediency of raising a fund ia the metropolis for the relief of
the sufferers . An interesting discussion took place , in the course of which the Lord Mayor gava an account of his interview with Lord Cranbouvne on tho subject . The opinion which he had formed was that since July the Indian Government had done everything in its power to mitigate tho distress , and had appropriated ample funds for this object . The inference , of course ,
was that they had failed iu energy and promptitude before that period ; but as Lord 0 ,-anborue was emphatic in the expression of his opinion that help was not now wanted , and as the Lord Mayor adopted the same view , the deputation came to the conclusion that their interference was not now necessary . Mr . Doulton , M . P . for Lambeth , was one of the witnesses
examined before the Reigate election commissioners . With respect to the election of 1858 , the lion , gentleman stated that he " managed the business part of the election himself . " Ho admitted that he had placed £ 1 , 000 in the bank and authorised Barton and Trueman to make the necessary payments in connection with his candidature . He had always put down the
cost of the election at £ 1 , 500 . This money , he said , was expended in paying canvassers , and for printing and advertising . He admitted that the election was a very noisy , a very exciting , and a very riotous one ; but he denied that it was owing to corruption , either by treating or by bribery , on his part or on the part of the other candidates . He attributed the excitement to the facts that up to that time Reigate had been practically a close borough , and that gross intimidation had been practised
by persons living iu the town and the immediate neighbourhood . He also admitted the truth of the assertion that in the accounts presented after the election large amounts were stated to have been expended in treating at public-houses , and for " employment , " but he denied that any of them were paid . An inquest , which disclosed some facts of an exceedingly shocking
character , has been held at Bethnal Green . A wretched woman , named Margaret Goudly , died from the effects of painter ' s colic , she being employed at a lead factory . An illness occasioned by a malady of this nature was bad enough , but it was aggravated tenfold by the brutality of the man with whom she lived . This fellow admitted , in an answer to questions put to
him hy the Coroner , that he sometimes beat her—'' tapping " was the ingenious phrase the man used—and that he actually struck her on the nig ht before her death . The jury found that the death of the woman was accelerated by the treatment she had received , but stopped short of a verdict of manslaughter . The ruffian was soundly lectured by the Coroner ,
but all he appeared to think about was his own safety . If he had been brought before a magistrate , he would have had administered to him a course of hard labour ; now he escapes with a moral rebuke , which he has probably by this time forgotten . A shocking death has taken place in the German gymnasium . A young man , named George Thomas Mally , was
very skilful in practising with the trapeze , but owing to an indiscreet desire on his part to vary the performance , he fell to the ground on his back . The consequence was concussion of the spine , paralysis of all his limbs , and death . Tho moral is sufficiently obvious . A pastoral letter from Dr , Manning was read in all the Roman Catholic churches in his archdiocese on the 30 th ult ., ordering speeir . l prayers on Sunday next for the Pope . Dr . Manning gives a sort of historical resume of the
difficulties of the Papacy from time to time with the object of showing apparently that when it has been most threatened it has been nearest to its greatest triumph . Dr . Grant , the Roman Catholic Bishop of Southwark , also issued a similar pastoral . Mr . Alderman Gabriel has been elected Lord Mayor of London for the ensuing year . The present Lord Mayor
gave a banquet in honour of the Lord Mayor Elect . The winter session of the various medical schools in London opened on the 1 st inst . The Liverpool Chamber of Commerce have given a banquet to the gentlemen who have so successfully laid the Atlantic Cable . Sir Stafford rTorthcote presided , and Lord Stanley delivered a speech on the occasion . In the course
of the evening Sir Stafford Northcote read a message from Her Majesty , bestowing honours upon some of them who have been foremost in the great work . Shortly before six o ' clock on the 1 st inst ., there was a fearful explosion in Woolwich Arsenal . By some means , as yet unknown , a quantity of gun-cotton stored in one of the arsenal buildings became ignited and
exploded . The building was levelled to the ground , and bricks and other materials were hurled to a considerable distance . It is believed that no person has been killed . An accident of a somewhat serious character has taken place at Tunbridge station . A passenger train got off the main line , and ran into a number of empty carriages . Beyond a severe shaking , no
great harm appears to have been done to the passengers . The police have caught three men who appear to have been engaged in a forgery of Spanish bank-notes . They employed a die-sinker in ClevkonweW to vnahe some press-dies for them with which to carry out their forgeries , and two of their number were arrested in the very act of removing these dies from the place of business of the man who made them . The prisoners were brought up at the Clerkenwell police-court and remanded .
Two young adepts in crime—the eldest being only twentyone years of age—have been captured in the purlieus of Drurylane on a charge of being concerned in a burglary at a picture dealer's in Broker ' s-alley . Some of the oil paintings which had been stolen were discovered in the room iu which the prisoners were sleeping . The Middlesex Sessions—which , although perpetually open for the trial of prisoners , are
constantly being inaugurated with the usual formalities—made a fresh start on the 1 st inst . The Assistant Judge lectured the grand jury on the performance of their duties , and recent events have shown that the admonition was not uncalled for . The Gazette of the 2 nd inst . contains two Orders in Council : the one prohibiting the lemoval of sheep and lambs in certain
districts of Cheshire where sheep-pox has broken out ; tha other authorising the removal of sheep and lambs from Northumberland into Scotland . The Speaker ' s notice for the election of members to fill the vacancies at Falmouth and Tipperary also appeared . The Conservative candidate has won the seat at Brecon , where the territorial authority of the Camden and
Tredegar families have been too strong for tho independent Liberals . Mr . Howel Gwyn polled 128 votes against 102 votes recorded in favour of Lord Alfred Churchill . Profesor Fawcett distributed the prizes to successful students of the Union of Lancashire and Cheshire Institutes on tho 1 st instant . His speech on the occasion was interesting . He
declined to join in the cry that mechanics' institutes were failures . They had done and wero doing very much , although they had not fulfilled all that was expected of them , simply because those expectations were impossible of fulfilment . Pointing out the difficulties in the way of education , he urged that Earl Shaftesbury and those who had supported him in compelling the manufacturers to educate children in their