The Press.
London, England, 1856-11-29 00:00:00

aftetwalitan.

A lionox for the "assessment and rating of the
city of London, for the purpo-es of the Local Metro-
polis Act, upon an estimate of the income tax paid,"
was carried at a meeting of the Metropolitan Board
of Works on Tuesday. It was afterwards agreed to
refer the whole financial statement to the committee
of the board.

• TUE ELECTION OF A DIRECTOR for the Eastern
Counties Railway, in the room of Mr. Waddington,
was proceeded with on Monday at the London
Tavern. Two candidates presented themselves, Mr.
Love and Mr. Matins. Mr. Matins met with great
opposition. Allutions to his bankruptcy many years
since, when connected with his brother in some

was carried at a meeting 01 nie metropolitan jjoArti disreganling his warning not to love the world, nor the tram siaceening at um eiewum Juucuon t wntre
of Works on Tuesday. It was afterwards agreed to things of the world, and his repeated declaration that this there is a rounding) ho stepped off, and, coming
refer the whole financial statement to the committee love is incompatible with the lore of the Father- Surely it into collision with some waggons on the siding,
of the board. cannot be maintained that the Gospel in its simple fulness was killed on the spot. The body was not at all
is not the true remedy for the evils of this class a 150....
• TUE ELECTION OF A DIRECTOR for the Easternmutilated.
Counties Railway, in the room of Mr. Waddington, In the higher, n.• less than the lower, walks of London ANOTHER ACCIDENT occurred on the North-Western
society there is much to deplore, to rebuke, and to reform
was proceeded with on Monday at the London The new- *Ter writer, the satirist,' and' the popular' Railway on Wednesday morninm. The over-night
Tavern. Two candidates presented themselves, Mr.evils which goods train from Liverpool, behind time by two
novelist, areil) labouring to' correct some of those
Love and Mr. Matins. Mr. Matins met with great the church w.;s designed to cure ; and some colour is hours, ran into the 7.45 Dunstable passenger train,
opposition. Allusions to his bankruptcy many years given for the startling assertion of a modern historian, that while delivering passengers at Leighton Buzzard.
since, when connected with his brother in some ' the press is the chief spiritual power in England. The collision was tremendows break-vans, engines
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NOVEMBER 29, 1856.

and tender, and one passenger carriage were smashed
and thrown on the top of one another, but happily
without causing serious injury to anv one.

THE BOILER of the West India mail steamer
Parana exploded, on Wednesday, at Southampton,
while undergoing the usual testing before putting to
sea. Three coaltrimmers were killed on the spot,
and nine other unfortunate men were seriously in-
jured. The Parana, in consequence, will not sail on
the 2nd. The La Pluta will take her place. A
strict investif,ation into the circumstances of the
case is being held. A fourth sufferer died at an
early hour on Thursday mottling, and a fifth
is not expected to survive many hours. A re-
markable fact connected with the explosion is, that
when the explosion took place the pressure of
steam upon the boiler, which had previously been
up to 171 b. to the inch, had fallen to 121 b., and
the safety-valve was open. Mr. Summers, the
engineering inspector to the Board of Trade, had
been on board officislly during the afternoon, and
bad expressed himself perfectly satisfied with every.
thing, and he had only left the ship twenty minutes
when the accident happened. The fact of the steam
gauge indicating no more than 121 b. pressure
just previously to the explosion is felt to be so
extraordinary that Mr. Summers has caused
it to be removed for the purpose of testing
whether its action be perfect. The gauge is one of
Bourdon's patent, and is believed hitherto to have
always acted correctly. A coroner's inquest on the
bodies of the deceased is at present sitting.
MR. ANDREW ARCEDECKNE, High Sheriff of
Suffolk, has been presented by his Suffolk neigh-
bours with a pair of handsome silver claret jugs, as
a token of their high esteem.
THE QuEsrlos of "revising" the salary of the
Recorder of Bristol is to be considered this day at a
meeting of the Town Council, although the matter
was supposed to have been finally decided when Mr.
Justice Crowder resigned.

THE DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC CLERGY3IAN is re-
ported at West Retford. The Rev. Henry Dicken-
son, M.A., a man of studious habits, and an excel-
lent Greek scholar, has died literally from
starvation. The rev. gentleman was not a
poor curate, but he was a miser. His living was
worth 500/. a year, and he has left 50,0001. behind
him. For years be has been remarkable for his
eccentric habits—he was dirty, shabby, and though
miserly to a degree in his own domestic arrange-
ments, he was a liberal friend to his tenants and
charitable to the poor. He never kept a servant, and
rarely admitted a soul inside his house. He was
married, and to his wife he has bequeathed his entire
property. The following description is given of the
appearance of the rectory :
The interior of the house presented a scene of utter
neglect. The windows had not been cleaned for nearly
twenty years ; the window•blin.is, which had never been
drawn up during all that period, were rotten with age and
dirt, and were patched up with pieces of newspaper ; the
kitchen had hardly a particle of furniture, and there had
been no fire in it for many years; the walls were covered
with dust and cobwebs; the floors, both board and brick,
were of one uniform colour from long accumulations of
dirt ; the room in which Mr. and Mrs. Dickenson resided
was nearly filled to the ceiling with large packing•cases,
containing beds, linen, and furniture, including a piano,
none of which articles had ever been unpacked. The
bed-rooms were almost bare of furniture, and presented
the same wretched and dingy appearance as the rest of the
house.

THE B/RMINGHAY CATTLE Scow opens on Tuesday
next. Lard Ward, it is believed, will be elected pre-
sident of the society for the ensuing 3 ear.

THE HUDDERSIILLD MECHANICS' Issurrra held
an anuiversary meeting on Wednesday. Lord Gode-
rich, M.t'., Sir John Pakington, M.P., Mr. Edward
Baines, and other distinguished gentlemen were pre-
sent. After the usual distribution of prizes to suc-
cessful students had concluded, Lord Goderich ad-
dressed the meeting in favour of this excellent in-
stitution, and concluded with giving the students
some sound advice upon the principles which should
govern them in their studies. Dr. Booth followed,
insisting upon the necessity of education, and of ap-
plying to it that principle of political economy which
recognises supply as necessarily following demand.
H the Government and employers of labour made
intelligence, industry, and application the qualifica-
tion for places, and neither family influence nor local
favour the criterion of employment, they would give
an irresistible stimulus to education throughout the
country. Sir John Pakington congratulated Hud-
dersfield upon possessing so excellent an institu-
ti--

48 one of upwards of one hundred
which did honour to the county of

members of these institutions num-
tan 20,000. Now, he would humbly
A county of York, with its 1,400,000
,t to be content with 20,000 members
Positively it was a great number, but
not many. He hoped that encourage.
-ed from the admirable example of

AN AS because be had been informed
one such more distinguished than this

ti°n
He
believed this- wi
mechanics' institutes
York, and that the n
berel not less than
suggest that the great
inhabitant=, ought not
of such institutes. F
comparatively it was
went would be derie4
Huddersfield. It x%
that there was not op