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Da. Gnsnusow, in his interesting report to the THE STATUE OF THE LATE EDWARD BAINES has this MR. CHARLES BRIGHT, the engineer of the Atlantic
Bead of Health, establishes the fact that the loath- week been erected in the great halt of the Leeds Telegraph, received the honour of knighthood from
tome and disgusting disease of smallpox is ore- , Town-hall. It is a very fine statue. The size is the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, on Saturday, in the
ventibbs Every cfficial paper that falls into his colossal, eight feet in height; it is wade of a fault- presence of a large and distiiteuished party whom his
bands testified to the expediency, nay, the necessity less block of Carrara marble. Excellency had invited to dinner on the occasion.
of enforcing among the lower orders of the people THE REPORTS from the Perthshire moors are THE TIPPERARY BANK CREDITORS, who trusted to the
the beneficent practice of vaccination. 1)r. Green- favourable. Parties of three or four guns bag fifty chance of settlement by compositions, have received
how shows that smallpox in nine years (frorn 1848 brace daily iu the space of five or six hours. two dividends, amounting together to 3s. 6d. in the
to 1858) killed 41,290 persons, or 4,587 a year. As TuE ACRYSE ESTATE, which stretches for several pound.
tome prejudice exists, even among professedly "(lut- miles between Elam and Canterbury, includes four THE POTATO DISEASE has, according to the Cork
oiled "persons, against the efficacy of Dr. Jenuer's manors, and extends over seven parishes, has just Reporter, a journal which is usually ll
careful
il • 't
immortal" patent," so to speak, for the prevention of been sold for 190,0001., including timber, to Mr. statements, within the lest few ays, madeit:
the pestilence, we shall do well to quote On evidence Mackinnon, M.P. appearance in the Park, and spread with destructive
of the report before us. It is to the effect that rapidity. We hear, says the same journal, of partial
there is no difference of opinion among Competentquarters,
failure from other also, but the statement
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persons as to the almost entire preveutibility of the 3 r tlaut. comes unaccumpanied with alarm for the general crop.
deaths from smallpox." The medical statistics of all _______
countries a here vaccination is general prove as much,
in defiance of the most obstinate sceptics, and the A GRAND BANQUET was given at Killarney on Elle 6burtb
vast majority of those who fall victims to the foul Tuesday night by the gentry of the county of Kerry, J J ,
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disease in England are persons non-vaccinated or in honour of the successful laying of the Atlantic
THE DEAN
badly vaccinated. Dr. Greenbow adds, in emphatic cable. The chair was occupied by Colonel Herbert, OF CARLISLE AND PRECENTOR
LIVINGSTON.
itaties, "it is certain that if vaccination were univer- the late Secretary for Ireland, and the entertain Ox Tuesday the Bishop of Carlisle, in his capacity
sally performed in tbo best known manner deaths by merit was graced by the presence of the Lord
of Visitor of the Cathedral, held a Court in the
smallpox would be among the rarest entries in the Lieutenant of Ireland, together with the major
Chapter-house for the purpose of hearing the appeal
register." " The very large continuance of smallpox portion of the individuals whose names are insepa
reg • of the Rev. Thomas Gott Livingston, the consequence
in England is a painful fact, and it is an established . rably associated with the success of the great enter
of a dispute which arose some time ago between the
truth that this is due to the non-practice or the in- prize. The Lon') LIEUTENANT, in the course of his
Very Bov. Dr. Francis Close, the Dean of Carlisle,
efficient practice of vaccination. The inference to speech, thus adverted to his absence from the
be drawn from these data is sufficiently obvious. banquet given to Sir Charles Bright at Dublin, a anti Mr. Livingston, who held the office of precentor
Anosasr THE COI.LECTORS of income-tax in the circumstance which was said to have been occasioned and minor canon, and which at the time created
much interest in the public mind.
city of London appears the name of Mr. Richard Till, by the presence of Cardinal Wiseman :
The bishop bad for his assessors the Ray. Dr.
who, apart from his other emoluments (derived from lam most grateful, indeed, for the manner.having
in which you Travers 'Pwiss, Chancellor of the Diocese of London,
the discharge of various duties), receives as much UM have drunk health,
youatti,df for
th,e yh'oeuarr'ttlytiningtegreivsetnwhmicehl and the Rev. C. J. Burton, the Chancellor of the
1,5121. a year from the income-tax, out ot' which, how- o-eusion to myassure Diocese of Carlisle. Mr. Edward James, Q.C., and
ever, he pays several clerks to the amount of about take in the great enterprise that has been lately completed, Mr. Laurie appeared for the Dean and Chapter, and
1,h071, and 1971. for rent of office and stationery. end to show you that my absence on a late occasion in
Mr. Daniel Harker, the wellknown crier, parish- Dublin was not caused by any lukewarnmess on my part, Mr. Temple, Q.C., represented Mr. Livingston.
clerk, and toastmaster, receives 4501. (at the rate of or any want of desire to encourage and promote this The nominal point at issue, and which the bishop
3d. in the pound); Mr. W. Ogilvie receives 7541.; enterprize by every means in my power, but simply by had to try, was the right to prescribe the selection
Mr. G. Singer,27o/.; and Mr. G. Howard, 2841. The official necessity. That I could have needlessly or wilfully of music to be used in the cathedral service. Mr.
total amount el the income tax in London last year absented myself on such an occasion, either from any Livingston claimed this right under a clause which
personal hostility or from any sectarian bigotry, I trust no gives the precentor the command of the minor canons,
was 403,211 f.; the landtax, 50,8591.; and the one who knows me will for a moment imagine; and as cierks, and choristers—" Quicquid ilk legendum ant
assessed taxes, 48,577/. there are men here who have not as yet known me, and us canendurn prrescripserit prompte parere debent." It
Mn. FISHER, Surgeon-in Chief to the Metropolitan these public occasions are the only ones on which lam
Police, has received the honour of knighthood from able tobeg speak my feelings to the people of Ireland, 1 was for the bishop as visitor to decide whether the
general authority of the dean does not overrule this
tier Majesty. to assure these who have not hitherto known me that such
limited
,jurisdiction. The facts are these. A dealt
is the fsct. I am glad also to have the opportunity of
p tilintial. bearing my testimony to the good taste and the excellent of a selection of music for the fl'th Sun lay in Lent.
feeling which seem to have characterized the proceedings was handed to Mr. Livingston by the organist, con-
-- on the occasion to which I refer. taining an anthem from The Messiah to which he
Moe PICKING has commenced in several parts of entertained objections. He presented the draft to
Lord
Eglintoun then made the follow pine happy the
Kent and Sussex. The crop is stated to be ofdean and canons, with a marginal note objecting
allusions to the coincidences connected with the sth
superior quality as to size, colour, and freedom from to the anthem, but not suggesting any substitute,
of August, the day oil which the Atlantsc cable was
disease of any kind. It is found, nevertheless, in and received it back again with a memorandum by
completed :
most cases where the gathering has begun, that the the dean, dissenting feom the objection. The pre-
quantity is less than was anticipated, and there is a It was on the sth of August, 1857, that this enterprize center next addressed to the dean a letter, asking
general belief that the duty, as at present estimated, was first commenced untie,- the auspices of my distin- him to reconsider his judgment ; but on the follow-
will not he realized. Red mould is spoken of as guished predecessor, who I wish was here now to rejoice ing day, being applied to in the usual course to fur-
in its success. I mean only in a private capacity. (Cheers
having made its appearance in one or two districts in nish the customary list of the next Sunday's music,
and laughter.) It was on the sth of August, 1858, it was
Sussex. completed. It was on the sth of August, more than three he, without waiting for the dean's answer, wrote and
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH between Jersey and Eng• hundred years ago, that Columbus left the shores of Spain exhibited lists altered in conformity with his own
laud was opened on Tuesday. The event was cele- to proceed on his ever.memorable voyage to America. It opinions. Upon this a correspondence took place.
brated in Jersey with great rejoicing, and a message was on the sth of August, 1583, that Sir Hugh Gilbert, The dean prohibited Mr. Livingston from having
was sent, congratulating the Queen on the auspicious a worthy countryman of Raleigh and of Drake, steered anything more to do with the singing-lists, and
event. his good ship, the Squirrel, to the shores of Newfound- eventually suspended him from his office. The dis-
THE PENNY PRESS iS "born to die," says the land, and first unfurled the flag of England in the very putts' anthem was restored to its place in the list,
Staffordshire Advertiser, which seems the ordinary bay where this triumph has now taken place ; and it was
the dean's name being appended to it as an authority,
fate of the cheap papers of which the repeal of the ort this same sth of August that jour Sovereign was re-
and that of Precentor Livingston struck out. Upon
ceived by her Imperial friend amid the fortifications of
Stamp Act produced so large a crop. The Wednes-
this Mr. Livingston wrote and circulated charges
Cherbourg, and thereby put an end to the ridiculous non-
/airy Observer, a paper half-printed in London, has
ceased to appear ; and a similar fate has happened sense about strife and dissension. Let this sth of August against the dean, which he in vain attempted to in.
be a day ever memorable unmet; nations. Let it be, if I GUCO the chapter to receive. The dean then pro-
to the Dudley Express, originated by a limited liability may so term it, the birthday of England. (Applause.) nounced formal sentence of suspension upon him,
company, a course in which he was supported by the canons
A Tilionmnitc MESSAGE was received in Hull a .No definite opinion was expressed as to the possi•
residentiary of the cathedral. Against this Mr.
day or two ago front Gottenburg, stating that a mail Why of' remedying the defect in the cable which has
Livingston appealed, and this was the issue that had
interrupted the communication, but Professor
had licen robbed, and instructing the police to search to be tried.
the steamer Humber on her art ival at that port, and Thompson spoke soinewhet gloomily on the subject.
Mr. TEMPLE opened the case for the appellant—
if they found three suspicious looking men, with a _
the facts alleged in the petition, as far as they went ,
large sum of - •
money en they were directed to CARDINAL WlSEMAN.—Scareely had his Eminence, not being denied.
take them into custody, and telegraph back the hi- the "Lord Arelib shop of IVestininster," set his toot Mr. JAMES, on behalf of the Dean and Chapter,
telligence of their capture. Accordingly, on Monday in the capital of Ireland, which he has selected for a contended that the grounds of Mr. Livingston's
ondis-
nleftrblers of
tbe H arrival of the. umber, some of the tour partaking more of the character of a triumphant ',almost were not solely those alleged in the document
members
the force were in readiness to board her. Mardi than a pilgrimage, than he received a chef- purporting to dismiss him, and entered into a long
S:clnameheewknw
or other the object of their presence lenge. from the Rev. Thomas Mills to meet him in a statement, and read many letters, showing that the
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in the locality, and many people theological controversy, which the Cardinal declined. rev. gentleman had been wilfully contumacious and
assembledand waited with considerable interest the His Eminence was the guest of the Lord Mayor of disrespectful to Ira superiors since 1855.
result of the inquiry on board. Upon two or three Dublin on the occasion of the dinner in honour of The Court then adjourned, and reassembled next
detectives the duty of communicating the object of Sir Charles Bright, the engineer of the Atlantic morning at ten o'clock, when the bishop read from a
their visit to the Captain devolved, and on doing Telegraph. The absence of the Lord Lieutenant on written paper that the Court had determined that no
scithey,
the
tonce learnt that there was no one on the occasion was attributed to a desire to avoid lend- I witnesses should be examined unless some matter
boardimpi ofted i vessel likely to have committed or been ing his sanction to the banquet at which oat) of the of fact we're disputed, in which case the bishop would
o such a robbery. The detectives, alter principal ',nests bad been a party to the deliberate himself question the dean and members of the
due
these arcli, being satisfied that such was the ease, insult to the Queen, by omitting her Majesty's health cathedral.
left
vessel. On making inquiries respecting the at Ballinamloe. His Excellency, has, however, since Ur. TEMPLE, Q.C., then proceeded to regly on
robbery, the captain of the linlnber stated that taken the first opportunity of correcting the erroneone behalf of the appellant. He went minutely into all
before he left there was some talk of a mail robbery illnPre!^8.1011 to which his absence gave rise. On the circumstances brought up by Mr. Edward James,
]saving beeln. n b
cutntitted, and he beliteed .it was the Friday the Cardinal visited Dundalk, where he met Q.C., on behalf of the Dean and Chapter, as showing
the li,ut he did not learn tire particulars. with very sorry treatment, but his reception at May- that Air. Livingston had been for some time contu-
It. seems
umber was boarded at Grimsby by nooth College was, of course, as gratifying as "the inucitnis and disrespectful in his behaviour, and
the police authorities, with the same success as nit Cardinal Lord Archbishop " could expect or desire. argued that a totally different construction ought
lie liull. amount of money of which the mail was COLONEL ATWELL LAKE, C. 8., and A.D.C. to the fairly to be put upon them. Mr. Temple concluded
robbed was 6,0001.
THE Queen, has been appointed to the commissionership by saying that it was quite evident that the Cathedra;
NELSON MONUMENT Al' YARMOUTH is to be of the Dublin police, vacated by the resignation of of Carlisle was not in a healthy condition, but that
restored.
Th4eslubscriptions for this object amount Colonel Browne, who retires on full eatery on the the sins of the whole body were not to be put on Mr.
at present
to
a s 8 •
will 'ro
Carry
out the proposed s cols grounds of length of service and advanced age. Livingston, who had been treated air was the scape-
-200/, additional
be
required. Colonel Lake's appointment is deservedly popular. goat, and cast out into the wilderness.
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