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Summary Oe News Eor October
Brougharn . There were also present Lord John Russell , Lord Stanley , Lord Hatheton , Sir J . Pakington , Sir Fitzroy Kelly , Sir B . Brodie , Mr . Tom Taylor , and several other gentlemen of distinction in politics and letters .- On the same day , . the Middlesex Archaeological Association held its annual meeting at Hampton Court Palace , and investigated the antiquities of that locality . On the lith , a public statue in honour of the poet Moore , was with great
splendour inaugurated at Dublin . On the 16 th , the Art Treasures Exhibition at Manchester was closed , but not without a row which would h ^ iye disgraced the least refined assembly that could be got together at Patagonia . " ^ On the 19 th , the monster gun , made from designs by Lord Palmerston , was tried with the most unequivocal success in Plumstead marshes .- — - ^ On the same day , Mr . William J . Pox was without opposition once more returned for
Oldham . On the 20 th , a court-martial assembled at Chatham for the trial of a lieutenant of the engineers , named Yule , on the charge of shirking his duty and telling lies to excuse his playing the truant . The trial lasted several days , but the finding of the court has not as yet been made known . ——On the same day , the annual oyster feast took place at Colchester . The mayor presided , and there was a capital attendance of natives . On the 21 st , the Duke of Cambridge laid at Sheffield the first stone of a monument to the men of that town who fell during the war in the Crimea . On the 22 nd , Lord Macaulay was elected High Steward of Cambridge , in the room of the late Earl Fitzwilliam . — - ~ On the same day , there was a meeting of the cab-drivers of the metropolis for the purpose of taking measures to put down cab-driving on Sundays .
During the last month , crime in England seems to have reached to a height it never before attained . We have not now , it is true , to speak of such commercial offences as those of Sir John Dean Paul , of Robson , and of Redpath ; but the offences against life and person which we have to chronicle , exceed in number and atrocity any it has hitherto been our painful duty to record . The accidents , too , have been numerous , and destructive of both life and property . On the 24 th of September , a plate-layer on ^ he London and Blackwall Railway was struck by the buffer of an engine , and killed . On the 25 tb , a boat upset on the river Ribble , near Lytham , by which five persons lost their lives . On the same day , a pointsman belonging to the London
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and North-Western Company , fell from the steps of a carriage upon the line , and the train passed over his legs . On the same day , at Dunmanway , Ireland , a boy who was hanging behind a showman ' s waggon , fell under the vehicle , and was killed . On the 26 th , afcnan fell down the shaft of a w ell , fifty feet deep , in Hanbury ' s brewery , and was killed . On the same da } r , a gentleman named Howard , residing" at Colnbrook , near Windsor , had his hand shattered by the accidental
explosion of a pistol . On the same day , William Bryan , a jockey , was committed by the Monmouth magistrates for trial at the ensuing assizes , upon the charge of having set fire to a stall in which Mr . Evans ' s horse " Tan Eyck" was stabled , with the intention of injuring the horse . On the same day , at the Ordsal station , near Salford , a woman , in stepping out the train while yet in , motion , fell , and fractured her leg : she afterwards died of the injury .
On the 28 th , an explosion of fire-damp took place at Springbank , in consequence of a trap-door having been left open . Several persons were more or less injured by the explosion , but fortunately no life was lost . On the 30 th , two houses fell in Bartletfs Buildings , Holborn , burying several men in the ruins ; they were , however , dug out alive , although greatly injured . On the same day , at Manchester , a drunken besom-maker cut the throat of
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Summary Oe News Eor October
Brougharn . There were also present Lord John Russell , Lord Stanley , Lord Hatheton , Sir J . Pakington , Sir Fitzroy Kelly , Sir B . Brodie , Mr . Tom Taylor , and several other gentlemen of distinction in politics and letters .- On the same day , . the Middlesex Archaeological Association held its annual meeting at Hampton Court Palace , and investigated the antiquities of that locality . On the lith , a public statue in honour of the poet Moore , was with great
splendour inaugurated at Dublin . On the 16 th , the Art Treasures Exhibition at Manchester was closed , but not without a row which would h ^ iye disgraced the least refined assembly that could be got together at Patagonia . " ^ On the 19 th , the monster gun , made from designs by Lord Palmerston , was tried with the most unequivocal success in Plumstead marshes .- — - ^ On the same day , Mr . William J . Pox was without opposition once more returned for
Oldham . On the 20 th , a court-martial assembled at Chatham for the trial of a lieutenant of the engineers , named Yule , on the charge of shirking his duty and telling lies to excuse his playing the truant . The trial lasted several days , but the finding of the court has not as yet been made known . ——On the same day , the annual oyster feast took place at Colchester . The mayor presided , and there was a capital attendance of natives . On the 21 st , the Duke of Cambridge laid at Sheffield the first stone of a monument to the men of that town who fell during the war in the Crimea . On the 22 nd , Lord Macaulay was elected High Steward of Cambridge , in the room of the late Earl Fitzwilliam . — - ~ On the same day , there was a meeting of the cab-drivers of the metropolis for the purpose of taking measures to put down cab-driving on Sundays .
During the last month , crime in England seems to have reached to a height it never before attained . We have not now , it is true , to speak of such commercial offences as those of Sir John Dean Paul , of Robson , and of Redpath ; but the offences against life and person which we have to chronicle , exceed in number and atrocity any it has hitherto been our painful duty to record . The accidents , too , have been numerous , and destructive of both life and property . On the 24 th of September , a plate-layer on ^ he London and Blackwall Railway was struck by the buffer of an engine , and killed . On the 25 tb , a boat upset on the river Ribble , near Lytham , by which five persons lost their lives . On the same day , a pointsman belonging to the London
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and North-Western Company , fell from the steps of a carriage upon the line , and the train passed over his legs . On the same day , at Dunmanway , Ireland , a boy who was hanging behind a showman ' s waggon , fell under the vehicle , and was killed . On the 26 th , afcnan fell down the shaft of a w ell , fifty feet deep , in Hanbury ' s brewery , and was killed . On the same da } r , a gentleman named Howard , residing" at Colnbrook , near Windsor , had his hand shattered by the accidental
explosion of a pistol . On the same day , William Bryan , a jockey , was committed by the Monmouth magistrates for trial at the ensuing assizes , upon the charge of having set fire to a stall in which Mr . Evans ' s horse " Tan Eyck" was stabled , with the intention of injuring the horse . On the same day , at the Ordsal station , near Salford , a woman , in stepping out the train while yet in , motion , fell , and fractured her leg : she afterwards died of the injury .
On the 28 th , an explosion of fire-damp took place at Springbank , in consequence of a trap-door having been left open . Several persons were more or less injured by the explosion , but fortunately no life was lost . On the 30 th , two houses fell in Bartletfs Buildings , Holborn , burying several men in the ruins ; they were , however , dug out alive , although greatly injured . On the same day , at Manchester , a drunken besom-maker cut the throat of