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Summary Of News Foe November
SUMMARY OF NEWS FOE NOVEMBER
During- the past month the great leveller of all human greatness has been but too busy in his avocation . Among the victims of his wrath have been the brother of her Majesty , Prince Leiningen ; the Countess de Sales ; the Earl of Scarborough ; the Earl of Bandon ; Lord Scarsdale ; Lord Middleton ; Sir John Jervis , the able Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas ; our much-respected brother in Masonry Sir E . S . Gooch , M . P ., Provincial Grand Master for Suffolk ; Admiral Watkins , the senior of our naval veterans ; and the celebrated artist Paul De la Boche . —The Court , which is now in mourning , has , since its return from Balmoral , been resident at Windsor . Among the royal visitors have been the Duke and Duchess of Brabant , and Prince Frederick William of Prussia . On
the 3 rd nit . Prince Alfred left England , in company with General Sir F . Stovin , for a tour on the continent , the object of which it is difficult to imagine , as a child of twelve years of age is little likely to bring the acumen of an Ulysses to bear in judging upon the men and manners which may come under his observation in the different cities he may visit . There may , however , be some good and sufficient reason for sending H . B . H . to see the world , especially as he has had for some time past an establishment of his own , distinct from the parental roof . — Tbe agricultural members having terminated their starring it in the provinces , Lord Palraerston , resolved to supply the want of excitement occasioned by their
disappearance from the stage , visited the great towns of Manchester and Liverpool , and explained to admiring thousands the principles of his government , and the present aspect of foreign affairs . —On the 5 th tbe Sultan was invested , by Lord Stratford deBedcliffe , our ambassador at the Porte , with the insignia of the Order of the Garter , and is the first person out of the pale of Christianity on whom such an honour has ever been conferred . —The state of our relations with Naples is still most unsatisfactory ; and we are , without knowing the why or the wherefore , drifting into a war with Persia . —In America the advocates of slavery in its worst form have obtained a triumph over the friends of human freedom , in the return of their nominee , Mr . Buchanan , to the presidential chair .
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES . On the 29 th of October a thick fog not only enveloped London , but spread over the country for nearly 100 miles around it . In the streets , and at the railway stations , several lives were lost , and in a collision which took place on the Northwestern Railway , near Wolverton , a man named Bike , a foreman in the employment of the company , was killed . It has been remarked that railway collisions , and similar accidents , come like plover , not singly , but in flocks ; and as if in confirmation of the remark , we have to record a second collision on the North-western line , which occurred on the
3 rd ult ., at King ' s Langley , and by which the lives of several persons , including a nobleman and his lady , were jeopardized . On the North Kent line too , there was a similar accident on tho evening of the 30 th of October . Again , on the Newport and Abergavenny line there was a collision , by- which several persons were killed ; and the following week , namely the 19 th ult ., the engine of a train on the Western Valley line jumped off the rails , and rolled down a steep embankment , killing the stoker . F ' ortunately the connecting-chain broke , or the whole train would have likewise tumbled over . On the same day the express train on the Waterford and Kilkenny lino , at a place called Dunkitt , ran into a ballast train , when , fearful to relate , live passengers were killed , and several others seriously injured . The fog , too , was not left without a companion , there
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Summary Of News Foe November
SUMMARY OF NEWS FOE NOVEMBER
During- the past month the great leveller of all human greatness has been but too busy in his avocation . Among the victims of his wrath have been the brother of her Majesty , Prince Leiningen ; the Countess de Sales ; the Earl of Scarborough ; the Earl of Bandon ; Lord Scarsdale ; Lord Middleton ; Sir John Jervis , the able Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas ; our much-respected brother in Masonry Sir E . S . Gooch , M . P ., Provincial Grand Master for Suffolk ; Admiral Watkins , the senior of our naval veterans ; and the celebrated artist Paul De la Boche . —The Court , which is now in mourning , has , since its return from Balmoral , been resident at Windsor . Among the royal visitors have been the Duke and Duchess of Brabant , and Prince Frederick William of Prussia . On
the 3 rd nit . Prince Alfred left England , in company with General Sir F . Stovin , for a tour on the continent , the object of which it is difficult to imagine , as a child of twelve years of age is little likely to bring the acumen of an Ulysses to bear in judging upon the men and manners which may come under his observation in the different cities he may visit . There may , however , be some good and sufficient reason for sending H . B . H . to see the world , especially as he has had for some time past an establishment of his own , distinct from the parental roof . — Tbe agricultural members having terminated their starring it in the provinces , Lord Palraerston , resolved to supply the want of excitement occasioned by their
disappearance from the stage , visited the great towns of Manchester and Liverpool , and explained to admiring thousands the principles of his government , and the present aspect of foreign affairs . —On the 5 th tbe Sultan was invested , by Lord Stratford deBedcliffe , our ambassador at the Porte , with the insignia of the Order of the Garter , and is the first person out of the pale of Christianity on whom such an honour has ever been conferred . —The state of our relations with Naples is still most unsatisfactory ; and we are , without knowing the why or the wherefore , drifting into a war with Persia . —In America the advocates of slavery in its worst form have obtained a triumph over the friends of human freedom , in the return of their nominee , Mr . Buchanan , to the presidential chair .
ACCIDENTS AND OFFENCES . On the 29 th of October a thick fog not only enveloped London , but spread over the country for nearly 100 miles around it . In the streets , and at the railway stations , several lives were lost , and in a collision which took place on the Northwestern Railway , near Wolverton , a man named Bike , a foreman in the employment of the company , was killed . It has been remarked that railway collisions , and similar accidents , come like plover , not singly , but in flocks ; and as if in confirmation of the remark , we have to record a second collision on the North-western line , which occurred on the
3 rd ult ., at King ' s Langley , and by which the lives of several persons , including a nobleman and his lady , were jeopardized . On the North Kent line too , there was a similar accident on tho evening of the 30 th of October . Again , on the Newport and Abergavenny line there was a collision , by- which several persons were killed ; and the following week , namely the 19 th ult ., the engine of a train on the Western Valley line jumped off the rails , and rolled down a steep embankment , killing the stoker . F ' ortunately the connecting-chain broke , or the whole train would have likewise tumbled over . On the same day the express train on the Waterford and Kilkenny lino , at a place called Dunkitt , ran into a ballast train , when , fearful to relate , live passengers were killed , and several others seriously injured . The fog , too , was not left without a companion , there