^^ ^ c A POLITICAL AND LITERARY REVIEW. greater to a e r Tffc ^^oP^l^elfeen men into distinctness is the Idea of Humanity—the noble endSro^ tivr^low^^^fwwSS 6l ^ttS^Z y prejudice and one-sided views ; and, by setting aside of R|]iBiSi OouSJv ana GoW A tV^f ^ K ^ S -^ ^distinctions

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Mazzini and M.Gallenga....;.... 1069 Kate Coventry ...... ,1073 COMMERCIAL AFFAIRS— . - Naval and Military..... 10C4 > A Simple Railway Accident . 1070 Poetry andPolitics on the Danube 1073 City Intelligence, Markets, &c...-.,. 1078 VOL. VII. No. 346.] SATUIiDAY, NO^EMBEE, 8, 1856. Price {S£^^^ :::I SS? OE- the disavowed Constitulionnel ; and, at all events, the malting'of railways. What, indeedj does |Rt to the highest; authority has permitted the Constitu- Count de Mount care for railways, - running _ be - tiotinel, which it could so easily gag and crush —a tween St.Petersburg and Ekaterinqslay ? ^uttheye VTO insurance office would grant an insurance far more effectual course than a formal dis- is another thing which many of the-concessiona- XV for the continuance of peace. The feeble claimer. ries of the railway contract care much about, and guarantees that appeared to exist at the conclu- There is no siga that our Ministers give way. that is scrip. The ultimate result of the scrip, sion of the Russian war have become still feebler, Keschid Pacha, as we have said, has acceded to the ultimate accession of railways to Russia, the and it is clear that intriguers of the very lowest power, and the fact shows that the advice of Lord ultimate profits to the ultimate buyers—vvhat does order have so mingled in the administration of Stratford be Redcxiffe prevails in Constanti- all that matter ? As little does it matter to the Europe, that aw accident may embroil the whole nople. The circumstances have placed us in . a old woman at the corner of the street what be- Continent, and this country with it. The Consti- painful dependence upon the fidelity of Austria, comes of the apples when once she has sold them. f oitionnel has been permitted to launch at this coun- and Austria is not likely to fulfil the expectation The question for the concessionaries is, what try the most intelligible invectives. It pretends without being paid for it. At present she has her profits they can make in the transfer stage of the that the change of Ministry in Constantinople, troops in the Principalities, because Turkey and busindss. There is a property, nominally, of forty which has now been completed by the accession of England wish it; some day, perhaps, she may millions in the market, upon which they will have Reschii> Pacha to power, is no defeat for the keep them there because France wishes it; some agency commission, and for that agency commis- Counsels of France, because that Minister must say , because it is the wish of Austria. sion the statesmen of France ' go in' for the listen to reason ! That is to say, M. Thouvknbi. .Lord I almerstow throws no light upon these Russian lines. and his superiors at home intended to persevere in subjects. In his great Manchester demonstration, We have had a plentiful allowance of autumnal urging their policy upon the Turkish G-overninent, his words are . the words of peace, but his tone is public meetings. The member of Parliament is coute que coilte. That policy is now avowed. France, the tone of mistrust. In the late war, his pbject, loose just now, and is available for local associa- according to , the Constitutionncl, upholds the latest he 6:iys, was to prevent Avar, for it is only by re- tion. Lord Palmers-ton has accordingly ' done * proposal of Bussia, which is to compromise the pelling the approach of insult and the appearance three important local bodies in Manchester at the difference between herself and the Western of wrong that a great country cavi guard its peace. meeting which we have already mentioned. He Powers, and to strike a line between the two This explanation x'enders one of his statements visited Peel Park and Salford, Manchester Town Bolgrads. "What objection can there be to such more intelligible than oth erwise it would be. u I Hall and Mr. Mayor, tlie Free Trade Hall and a proposal ? asks the Constit idionnel, forgetting hope and believe," he says, " that peace will con- the Mechanics' Institute. With his gay and that, in a question of the kind, no one of two tinue in Europe;1' but he says it with an "if," charming vivacity, he delighted mayor , manufac- allies ought to depart fr om the ground originally and afterwards he says, " I trust that Power which turers, burghers, and working men. 3STo man is taken up, and, without the other, to> accept a brought upon itself the hostility of all Europe, by more perfectly free and easy, at the same time compromise. " The French press," says the Co>i- forgetfulucss of international rights and duties, tliat there is something in his upright carriage stitutioniicl, by way of boast, " has shown itself will observe the treaty and fulfil it with faithful- and the glances of liis eye which prevents unanimous in condemning the pretensions which, ness," and then no doubt peace will be of " long the most presumptuous fr om forgetting that in their interested connivance, the Governments duration." " I hope," says the Emperor Alex- they have among them a real nobleman. This of Austria and England arrogate to themselves." ander Nicolaiewxtch to General Lu»ers, in re- ia delightful. He places the most homely on a This is the view which the organ of the French leasing him from his present duties, " I hope that level with himself, but does not descend to the Ministry puts forth. The Siecle, indeed, endea- if circumstances give ,me occasion to recal you to level of the homely. He told the people of Man- vours to counteract this counsel. It asserts that employment before the expiration of that period, chester nothing, in so emphatic a manner that despatches have passed between the two Go- you will resume your duties with the same zeal they caine away wiser than they went ; and if there vernments of France and England, which have and alacrity which have ever signalized your mili- is a nmn popular in Manchester at the present removed any want of concord. But whose organ tary career I" What is " that period?" One moment it is Palmekston. ia the Sil-cle? It is the tolerated representative year ! The Crimean, heroes stationed near the Scotch of the J£udME section of the Bonaparte family, Do we count any longer upon capital have had their entertainment from the « w France for pro- a kind of intruder in the family circle of tecting this precarious peace ? How can Lord Provost and the press we do so, all the notables o£ the place, , permitted out of consideration for our when the oflicial representative of our ally is now and the modern Athens shines amongst the hosts "dear Uncle ;" and we may accept us authentic residing of the the closo to the Czaii who writes thus to heroes. Part of the trade of the place is declaration of the Constit utionnel, that " those General Luders scholastic who , and when the whole of the ; moral philosophy is peculiarly obtain- oppose themselves to new conferences create clique who helped tho able in that market the sole Emporor Napoleon to the , and the orations were, ne- and true obstacle to the execution of the throne, and adm cessaril treaty. i nister in his name, are trying to y, quite fit to pass an examination. " The disclaimer of the Moniteur is more wean him from the Eng Ladies too ;- important lish alliance, and to drag , , graced the festival with tl^ew p^e- —. it disavows the Constit utionnel by him into a Russian alliance sencc ; and facts '.^ V name : but , because the Russian were brought fortli by Cplonel it admits that there is a difference Emporor is giving to some of thorn a valuable HamXiBV, Sir John M'JSTeiix between France con- , and others: wiich and England ; it so far endorses tract for the making of railways ? No, not for really contributed to tho history of th"e Cilpioa. ' '•m* J > i

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1058 THE IEADER, [N o. 346, -Sattodat gj ^^^^ Z^ HIi ^— ^ ' * Lord Shaftbsbdbt has been entertaining his of Prance rushing to the assistance of our troops at These observations also were loudlv innin, 7". home none the worse Inkerrrtan, arid proceeded:-— find Mr. O'Connell, after expressing hisVi 6 •workpeople in a harvest , " My Lord, as you belong to neither denomination of gS the kindness and courtesy of the Lord Mavor h* ^\ because he took them to church ; and the service creeds that X have mentioned, I earnestly appeal to your and withdrew. * ' Ovrw was none the worse because they marched to it to lordship to throw out a suggestion which I have no Of course, these matters coukl doubt will be taken up b not pass whlmi,* sound of music. y the police authorities and the arousing the ire of the bigots; and one of the magistrates generally of this great and pofMMfftd metro- class presented tint i«5 To descend , the Board of Works has beea pre- himself on Monday, in the rw- l polis, and that an end will be put to this ridiculous and a Mr. Clark, and said he wished to answer to Sir Behjamis Ham an inadmissible barbarous exhibition—at least that portion some «n? senting of It that servations made by Mr. O'Connell/and calculated proposition—a plan of sewage inconsistent -with puts fbr\var4 the effi gy •<)£ & Catholic bishop. I thank affect the chara ctei-of the boys and t lordship for the kfeftd indul population of tl£ the Act of Parliament, and frightful to Erith, trho you* gence which you have kingdoms The Lord Mayor urged some sho^tt to rate Upon this decision. I have lead "Wtth great to the justice room objectS "b deputation |Htt»teste«L The Board & ftic t, being turned into a dubathVH has y , satisfaction your admirable decisions during your year but consented to hear Mr. Clark after o office and I must be permitted to say, the cfn 5 proposes to discharge the drainage of London f , -without flattery business. The gentleman heroically kept his Srwf right into the face of Eritli ! or egotism, that if the aslies of the great Lyeurgus could during the morning, and then again be collected from the came War? Robson, the Crystal Palace swindler, has been briny waves and formed into man when the Lord Mayor said that, " if he (Mr Claris convicted and sentenced to twenty years trans- again, and were to preside in the chair which your Lord- had been a little boy, and wanted to say somciMni ' ship so worthily and so honourabl ies " portation. He was sketching likenesses while the y occup , he could on behalf of Guy Fawkes, lie could hear, hi , » K not have acted with greater ability or more decided im- that lie must not attack the Eoman Catholics ' evidence was convicting him,- find he stepped out partiality than have characterized the whole of your "' Mr-r* ¦with Clark then continued :— a jaunty air to have his head cropped. actions during your Mayoralty." "I wish to say that there was one akpentier point wbicli Hr Ch , too, has been seized, for the A considerable amount of applause followed the O'Connell improperly omitted to touch upon ; grasp of the offended Rothschii/d can reach even for your conclu sion of Mr. O "Council's speech ; and, when this Lordship and all here must remember that, before the into the heart of the American Republic had subsided, the Lord. Mayor, ¦who was sensibly year 1850, nothing was exhibited by the boys and lads The North-Western Railway has been offending moved, and who received Mr. O'Connell with marked but the effigy of Guy Fawkes, and in that year the against the laws of life, this time, however, with courtesy, replied :— ' Roman Catholics insulted Protestant feeling, not only on some excuse. The collision of an express and a " I thank you for the compliment you have just paid the 5th of November, but daily, -when the Roman Ca- me. I may say that it has been my anxious desire, and tholics took their stand in the face of tie law's of broken-down coal train proved, experimentally, '¦ the that a new plan which the company has I believe it is the desire of every magistrate of this country and the proclamation of the Queen;" .. ' ; metropolis, so to act in the administration, of justice as The Lord Mayor thought all this established, of signals all along the line, is not " did not justify quite sufficient to that our conduct may merit public approbation. With insulting the Roman Catholics. But the undaunted prevent accidents. A little regard to the more immediate subject of your appeal to Mr. Clark change of the system—probably checking each , solicitous for the character of the boys me, it is one that depends more upon public taste and returned to the charge after this fashion:— ' train from passing a signal-post until the train ¦ ¦ public feeling than upon any jurisdiction I can exercise. .. Oul before it should have passed two signal posts— : " y a few days ago, I saw a placard in whicli it -was It is very difficult in any country to get rid of traditional stated that a new Catholic Bishop was to be consecrated W would.be effectual. customs. The annual exhibition of the effigy of Guy the Cardinal Archbishop of Westminster We look abroad again to those far lands whicli Fawkes has come down to us from the time of James L and the Bisliop , of Southwark, and, if the men and lads of this country take will not readily interfere with our European poli- when party feeling between Catholic and Protestants tan the trouble to read, and know thexe are no such bishops tics. In the United States, we have in the acces- very high, and the conspiracy to blow up the Hotise3 of allowed "by law, can you le Parliament Iia3 always been held by historians to have surprised that they nkiU it sion of Indiana, a new guarantee of Buchanan's tlieir business to vindicate the law which the law officers of election. At the Cape of Grood Hope Sir Geokg b been a Roman Catholic conspiracy. The burning of ike Crown neglect to do? " Grey has gone to the frontier, in the hopes of London in the year 16 GG was attributed to the same source, and it-is only recently, through the exertions of The Lord Mayor thought Mr. Clark's argument subduing the Kafirs by diplomacy- But- even he the present City Solicitor, that the libellous inscription tended to the justification of lynch law ; and, after a ¦will find the Black man too obstinate and intract- upon the Monument on Eish-street-hill, attributing the little more discussion, the doughty champion of able for his purpose. From Madeira they report fire of London to the Roman Catholics, was by order of juvenile Protestantism left the scene of combat, first a clean bill of health, and they wish us, most em- the Court of Common Council erased. "We cannot, how- bestowing a knightly compliment to his opponent. phatically, to understand that the island is as ever, conceal from ourselves that all our party struggles The 5th passed off without any very marked fea- salubrious and nxore cleanly than ever, arid its at almost every period have been quickened by feelings tures. Some large Guys were carried about as usual, arising out of a presumed Catholic or Protestant as- and at night several bonfires were kindled, and there wine as excellent as ever. A panic fear may pre- was much squibbing-. Some enterprizing vent those invalids, to whom the climate is a cendancy. I, however, regret extremely that the ' ' Pro- exhibition of Guy Fa^rkes, instead of being a mere testants, having been driven by the police i'rom the blessing, from conferring on the islanders that summit of Tower-hill—a favourite place ..for those visit which insures to them a livelihood in minis- memorial of a treasonable plot, should have lately as- sumed the offensive form of which you so justly com- autos-da-fe—adjournedto a piece of waste ground at tering to the visitors' wants. And a mere delu- the end of Farringdon-street, and there vindicated plain ? that the figure, instead of being the figure of an -w sion about the vine produce may prevent that abominable conspirator, Guy Fawkes, should be exhibited their religion with mucli armth and brilliance, un- demand for Madeira which, while adding a variety as an individual dressed in the habiliments of a Roman disturbed by misbelieving constables. It does not to the wine-table, will add a mite to the .-harrow Catholic ecclesiastic, bearing oh his breast the emblem appear whether Mr. Clark was present; but no means of the Madeirans. doubt he was. Large crowds collected, and two boys which all Christians are bbund to honour and to worship. and a woman -were Such conduct must be obnoxious to every one, and severely burnt by fireworks, for most offensive and painful to members of the Roman the honour of tlie Anglican Church. Some -very GUY FAWKES' DAY: riotous proceedings have taken place at Urighton, BIGOTRY REPROVED FKOJ t IHE MANSION HOUSE. Catholic communion. I lament that any custom should be kept alive in our times, even among boys, calculated and several persons have been iined. A tine sermon on tolerance was preached last Satur- to give pain to any single individual. I hope, there- day, and again on Monday, at the Mansion House, by fore, that your representation will be conveyed through ACCIDENTS AND SUDDEN DEATHS. our Israelitish Lord Mayor. On the first of those the public press, and that it may have the effect of A very alarming collision took place on Monday after- days, Mr. William. John O'Connell, kinsman of the modifying this annual exhibition, if it does not altogether noon, on the London and North-Westem Hallway, about late Daniel O'Connell, attended at the justice room, get rid of it. If this cannot be accomplished let us a- mile and a half north of King's . Langley. It is and after some preliminary , , at , observations, said :— all events, have a Guy Fawkes ivhom boys should only thus described in tho daily papers :—¦" Between ihrec " I do not know whether your Lordship has ever recollect as a wricked traitor who sought to blow up the and four o'clock p.m., the engine of a coal train on its •witnessed a most foolish exhibition which generally King and Parliament, and not taught to mix up -with it journey to London, became suddenly disabled and stopped takes place in this country on the 5th of November. If anything calculated to wound the feelings of their near a place called Nasli-mills, about midway between the persons who indulge in such absurdity were to con- Roman, Catholic fellow-subjects. How desirable it is tho stations of Boxmoor and King's Langlcy. The ex- fine themselves to tlio representation of Guy Fa-wkes, or that ire should all act together upon a comprehensive press, -which was travelling up to town behind on the any miserable diabolical conspirator of that description, principle, that we should not be prone to condemn whole same line, at its usual hi gh rate of speed, ran right into I certainly should not have troubled your Lordship ; but, communities on account of tho faults or the frailties of a it while in this state of suspense, and in the collision tlio when I witnessed on the 5th of November last the effi gy few ! I venture to say, as you have alluded to the sub- break van of the coal train was smashed to atoms, and of a Catholic bishop with Iris pontif icalibus, with a large ject of the French and of the Irish Catholics nnd Pro- the engine of the passenger tram thrown ofF the line, but cross upon his back, paraded about the town in the most testants all fighting side by side, ns I trust they always not overturned. The carriages of tho passenger train insulting manner, I consider that that ia an indignity to will, fo r tho honour and glory of their common coun try, were also injured , but not so seriously as might have those loyal subjects of her Majesty who profess the Ca- that you might have included the Jews. There- are a been apprehended ; a few of the buffers and nxle guards tholic religion, and I am perfectly satisfied that the considerable number of Jewish soldiers in tho French were torn off or dislocated, and the coitpd of one carriage period has now arrived wlien bigotry and intolerance arniy. In France, there is a conscription to whicli ail was crushed ; but, Btran go to say, with the exception of should be for ever fcuried in the trenches before Sebasto- persons are liable. Tho army is not composed of volun- tho engine, no part of th<3 train left the line of rails. The pol, where it is known that the Protestants, the Presby- teers as it is in this' country, but every one is there liable whole of the passengers immediately after the collision terians, and tho Catholics, were fighting with the " to military service. Of late years, there have been a wcro naturally more or less in a state of alarm nnd ex- most indomitable bravery foot to foot and shoulder to great many Jews in the ranks of tho French army. A citement. Mr. Donaldson, the landlord of the Swan Inn, shoulder, and that their blood fl owed . in tho same stream few days ago, I had transmitted to me from Constanti- Homel Ilcmpstead, who was in tho immediate vicinity to uphold the honour and glory of this great country, nople an account of a special funernl service, which was at the time of the accident, nnd tvho, with others pro- and to do away for over with all sectarian differences. attended by the Turkish and French authorities and held ceeded ut once to tho spot to render what assistance lie The bravery exhibited by tho Catholic soldiers at the in ono of tho synagogues at Constantinople, in honour of could, describes tho pitiable condition of the traveller.'', Alma and Inkennnn, with their Protestant brethren, tho French Jewish soldiers who hud fallen du ring the especially the Indies, most of whom had been removed never can bo forgotten. His Royal Highness the campaign in tho Crimea. Now, I hope that, -whatever from tlio carriages and wcro lying, some on each Fide of chivalrous Duke of Cambridge witnessed their courage the religious community to which wo belong, -we shall tho lino, and sonic in an adjoining Held , while others and phared their dangers, and, I am perfectly sure, would of tho Uigh over be united in ono common feeling of loyal ty to our kept tlieir seats or sat outside on the footboards \y disapprove any insult being offered to their reli- country, and of attachment to the Government that pro- carriages. Many of them woro bleeding from tlio •-•on- gion. His Excellency tho Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, fnee than -whom tects us. We ought to try to promoto tho public good tuscd wounds they had sustained in the head and a more dignified or high-minded Englishman by extending kindly and benevolent feelings towards by tlio collision, nnd the eyes of others worci bruised nuil never entered the portals of the Castle of Dublin, or to represented Majogty eacli other, and to avoid anything which mny wound the discoloured. Medical assistance was .soon despatched in my nativo land, apolco of th«m susceptibilities, or ridicule the religious peculiarities of them. They were also under great obligations to Jr. in tho most liberal and handsome who display the manner at tho grand any class of our fellow-subjects ; and if your repre- Dickinson, tho eminent pnper-maker of .Abbotshill , other day in Dublin, when a dinner was given wi ne and to four thousand Crimean sentations have tho effect of mitigating or reducing tlio resides in tho imincdiato neighbourhood , for heroes, irrespective of religious nuisance of Guy Fawlces' day, I shall truly rejoice. I other comforts which he caused to bo diBtribut ed among consideration by tho Protestants and r XriBk metropolis. the Catholics of the am sure that this representation will bo convoyed to tho them, and whose workmen lent thoir aid in the em " " Mr. StubMJ . The 3peaker public through the ordinary organs, and I trust that it gency. About a qunrter past four o'clock, then alluded,to the Catholic Boldiera may liavo tho effect which you so ardently wisli." tho Btationninstor at ¦Wat ford , received a telegrapuic November 8, 1856.] THE LEADER, 1059 Congressional vote shows the election of twelve message apprising him of the collision, and he immedi- Bacon, the proprietor of the Sussex Advertiser, published Repub- d y eight Democrats. The ZFillmoreites ately sent thirty men to the spot, where they rendered at Lewes. Mr. Bacon was superintending the working licans an onl in lvania have refused to Unite with the assistance in clearing the up line. A train from Ayles- of a new steam printing-press, when a portion of the Pennsy Fremont bury arrived at the spot shortly after the collision , and machinery caught one of his feet, taking off the great- party, thus weakening the cause of the Free-soil men. In the meanwhile strange tricks are imputed "by to this the passengers by the express were transferred, toe, and completely drawing out the nails of two or , the Republican party to the Government. It is stated by »nd after a few hours' detention —unavoidable, perhaps, three, of the other toes. Medical aid was immediately circumstances—-conveyed to London, with the called in and Mr. Bacon is progressing as favourably, the Washington correspondent of the New York Herald under the , ¦ ¦¦ exception of three—a mechanic, -who -was seriously in- under the circumstanc«s, as could be desired. \ that the Secretary of War has transferred nearly all, if jured, and Lord and Lady Byron, -who were travelling Thomas Russell, a comedian, has died suddenly in the not quite all, the troops from the ports on the Virginia by the train, and who remained overnight at King's green room of the theatre at Great Yarmouth. It ap- coasts to other stations. " Startl ing as it may appear,'*" Langley, at the house of Dr. Solly. By ; eight o'clock peared that he had been, in embarrassed circumstances, he writes, " I am told that this has been done for po- the up line was in a state to admit of the resumption of and had denied himself, to a great extent, the neces- litical effect. It is to enable the democracy of Virginia, the traffic, which, during the temporary interruption, saries of life. by an apparent popular insurrection, to seize those ports was -worked on the down line for a short distance tinder Another railway accident las occurred through a about a vreek before the election, as an indication and the uBual precautions." An inquiry is being made into defective coupling iron. This time the casualty hap- earnest, indeed, of what Governor Wise, Jeff I>avies, the causes. pened on the Dundalk and Enniskillen Railway. Two Governor Adams, of South Carolina, and their followers, Frederick Waters, a night policeman, about seventeen waggons became detached from the carriages, and re- intend to do if Fremoat shall be elected to the Presi- years of age, in the service of the Taff "Vale Railway mained behind on the line (which is single) for the dency." . Company, was killed on Wednesday week by the up .whole night. The consequence was that an up mail In Kansas, two hundred and fifty emigrants, men, Wo- luggage train. He was on his way home to Storms- train from Dublin, travelling at the rate of thirty miles men, and children, had been stopped near the Nebraska town ; the luggage train was approaching, and he at- an hour, ran into the waggons. The shock was very line by a Deputy Marshal, disarmed, and placed under tempted to spring into the last truck but one, but lost great, but fortunately there were no passengers in the surveillance. To insure their stoppage, seven hundred bis hold, and fell. Both trucks passed over his body, carriages, or serious loss of life might have been the con- men, with six pieces of cannon, were drawn up. The and nearly cut him in two. sequence, as the waggons were dashed over the embank- property of the emigrants was taken possession of. The bodies of the thirteen men -who lost their lives by ment, closely followed by the engine and the carriages A session of the Episcopal Convention was held at the inundation at the Bryn Mally colliery on the 30th attached. The train .guard , driver, and stoker escaped Philadelphia on the 21st tilt., at which Mr. Buchanan of September, having at length been recovered, an unhurt ; but the maiL guard sustained severe injuries. attended. The House of Deputies was notified that the inquest has been opened, winch stands adjourned. Some shocking injuries have resulted to a little boy House of Bishops had erected Kansas and Nebraska into Several porters at the Lime-street station of the about six years old from a foolish trick which he wasi a separate missionary diocese, and had nominated the London and North-Western Railway Company, were playing. The child , who belongs to a coachman: Rev. Dr. Clarke, of Waterbury (Connecticut), bishop. A when one of Captain Mackinnon R.N" of Ham Com- discussion, of rather a •warm character, thereupon ensued, amusing themselves with feats of strength, employed by , ., ¦ them, while in the act of lifting a bundle of steel bars mon, lay down in tlie roadway, and covered himself some being of opinion that it was unadvLsable to create on his shoulder, slipped and fell. The weight struck up with dead leaves. A cart (fortunately empty) wasi the new diocese. The debate was adjourned. him on the neck close to the base of the skull, crushing passing at the time; and the driver, not conceiving that; The war between Nicaragua and Costa Rica proceeds him so severely that he died in twenty minutes. the leaves contained anything human, drove across them^ with vigour. General Walker has made an attack on An artizan at the chemical -works near Carmarthen One of the wheels went over the child's face, completely the Costa Ricans and their allies, and after two battles stooped over the cog-wheels of a steam engine which was smashing the nose and breaking in the teeth- Thei has driven them back upon Massaya, where, at the last in motion, to reach a hammer which had been left sufferer was got out in a terrible state of mutilation, and;: dates, he was preparing again to attack them. Walker . asserts that he was completely victorious in both nghts "beyond the wheels. He was warned of the peril in was ultimately taken to St. George's Hospital, where he¦ ¦ , which he placed himself, but replied that there was no now lies slowly recovering ; but he will be disfigured although he had but 1000 men engaged, and the -enemy danger. At -that"moment, however, the wheel caught for life. Were 40O0 strong. The enemy lost 1100 men in killed his jacket, dragged him in, tore off one arm, and in- A child has been killed at Brompton by an; accident-, and wounded. Walker's loss was small. The decree of flicted other injuries, from which he speedily died. resulting:from, climbing up behind a cab. While hang- the Nicaraguan Constituent Assembly abolishing slavery Pike, the fireman of the London and North-Western ing on at the back, one of his feet was . caught by the¦ has been revoked. At a public dinner, Colonel Wheeler, Railway, who was injured in the collision which oc- . wheels, which drew him over and . dashed him on. the, the United States Minister, freely expressed the sym- cured during the fog last Wednesday week (of which an ground. The left leg was torn off at the knee joint, and pathy which his Government entertains towards Walker. account appeared in our previous issue), died on the other injuries were sustained, which in the course of a Lieutenant Estelle, a native of Tennessee, has been tried ensuing Friday morning at the farmhouse to which he day or two ended in death. by court-martial and shot for murdering a brother officer. was taken. An inquest was held on the same day, and A man named William Birchall and his wife were re-. Walker's force is represented as numbering 150 0 Atne- terminated in a verdict of Accidental Death. The turning late on Monday evening to Hoyland fromi ricans. The allied force is estimated at 3000. evidence received went to show that, as originally stated, Rotherham " statutes," and had reached a part of the5 The sales of church property in Mexico have realized the coupling iron had broken, and that the guard or road near the village of Elsecar where there is a reser-. up to the Oth ult. the sum of five million dollars. At breaksmah stationed on the train, not knowing what had voir on each side of the path, when they were alarmed byr that date, there were rumours of impending revolution occurred, owing to the fog, did not apply the break. He some missiles being thrown at them. The night was3 under the influence of the clergy. states that he perceived a slackening of speed (-which very dark, and the woman screamed out " Murder !"' "Brigham Young," says the Times "New York cor- •was in fact owing to the carriages proceeding simply by while her husband made a precipitate flight, leaving his3 respondent, " has turned up once more in a troublesome their own momentum down the incline), but that he wife to take care of herself. He dashed through a hedge, way in "Utah. Brigham dislikes the presence of the attributed this to the driver doing something to his and fell into one of the reservoirs, where his body was3 Gentiles in his settlement. I am afraid, from all I see engine. The driver was first made aware of the catas- found on the following morning. and hear, that these wicked barbarians find more favour trophe by noticing the increased speed of his engine, in the harems of Utah than suits the sanctified notions although he had not put on any extra pressure. Looking STATE OF TRADE of the Mormon leaders. They have had a grand convo- back, he saw that the carriages were unattached. cation in the Temple to denounce the infidels, and have He The trade reports from the manufacturing. town9 for the kept on for about a mile and a quarter wlien he stopped 3 followed up their denunciations by watching the federal , , week ending last Saturday contain nothing of impor- in order that Pike, the fireman might go back and signal mails, to prevent egress or ingress of suspicious persons." , tance. At Manchester, the market is without alteration. the guard on the train. At that instant the train struck • We read in the same letter :—" Charpentier, the prin- , The Birmingham advices indicate a slight increase of" the engine. The latter was not reversed. The driver cipal person connected with the frauds upon the Northern steadiness in the iron, trade. In the general manufac- called out to Pike that tbe train was upon them ami at " Railway of France, has been arrested in a most romantic , tures of the place tliere is fair employment and the the same moment he set his engine in motion ; but the , a manner. It seems that he succeeded in. eluding the arrangements likely to be made in connexion with theB mischief was done. The engine was overturned ; Oscar, vigilance of the officers and escaped to the country, suspension of Fox, Henderson and Co., are expected to5 the driver wns thrown over the boiler and severel , where he disguised himself as a farm labourer, and let , , y prevent the extension of any serious inconvenience from ^ scalded ; and Pike was mortally injured.—In the course * himself to a farmer. He was arrested by a mysterious that event. At Nottingham, this is usually a quietk of the evidence, Mr. M'Connell, one of the supcrinten- person, melodramatically draped in a large cloak, who season but the American orders for lace continue on11 dants on the line, explained that a recent improvement , fettered him and brought him to New York at midnight. a satisfactory scale. In the woollen districts confidence has been adopted by the London and North-Western e An official was aroused from Ms bed, and, while in a is well maintained and tho character of the home de- Company for securing safety of travelling over their , " state of undignified and offended semi-nudity, was re- mand gives evidence of the prosperous condition of the line. This is the establishment of a special train e quired to receive and take charge of the prisoner, tho " general telegra ph," with sigual stations every two miles. At population. Tho Irish linen markets have not•*• officer arresting keeping his cloak draped about bis face, been well supported and each station, a policeman is on duty niglit and day, in , prices are tending downwards.B# and refusing to give his name. A portion of the money Vrhoae watchbox there is a telegraph dial with a single -—Times. has also been recovered." The mysterious officer , after In the general business of the port needle. By inclining the needle to the left hand tho of London duringS leaving his prisoner, tyetit away, and has not been seen , tho same week tho number of vessels person in charge gives notice to tho next station that a reported inwardd since, nor is it known who he was. It was found that was 1C8 being 8G less than in the train has passed on to tho two miles of road entrusted to , previous week. These10 Charpentier was handcuffed, and in great pain from the included 10 with cargoes of grain his special care while inclining it to the right hand shows , rice, and flour ; 200 swelling of his wrists about tho manacles. His hands , with fruit 5 with sugar that the train lias passed ofT that portion of the lino. , , and 3 with toa. The numberr were then sot free, though with some difficulty. A por- of ships cleared outward was 108 including 9 in There arc in fact but two signals— train on" and " train , ballast, tion of tho shares has been discovered under the pavement " showing a decrcaso of 21. Tho total number of shi ^ off ;" but as it may happen as in this case that an ac- ps8 of a coal-cellar of a house in, New York, let out £n sepa- , , on tho berth loading for tho Australian colonies cident occurs upon tho two miles of road between the is 50' >, rate tenements. Information that it was there concealed being 4 more than in tho last account. telegraph stations tho guards and brenksmen are in- Of those, 7 aree was conveyed in an anonymous letter to M. Tissandior, , for Adelaide 3 for Gcclong, 3 for Hobart-town tructed instantly to sever tho special train wire " which , , 6 forr inspector of the French Northern Railroad Company, " , LaunccHton, il for Melbourne 2 for Moreton-bay, has tho effect of placing the needle at each next station , 8 forr now in Now York. The letter gave tlie most precise New Zealand 12 for Port Phili 11 for S dntjy, in an upright position. Tho policeman on duty at , p, y 1 instructions as to how tho box containing tho property for Swan ltiver, and 1 for Wnrrnnmbool.—Idem. onco becomes e by this movement that something Was burled ; and M. Tissandier accordingly obtained a awar In consequence of the letter addressed b is wrong, and is immediatel laced in a position to y the Crystal*1 search-warrant, and, the coals having been removed y p Palace Company to tho Stock-Exchnnge r act according to circumstances. Several of tho jury re- , of which wo° from tho place indicated, tho pavement waB talten up, gavo the substance hist week being considered satisfac- marked that tho system appears to be well calculated , !" and tho box, with tho valuables inside, was found. to prevent accident. tory, the committeo liavo resolved that tho name of tho10 Money is comparatively easy at New York. company shall bo continued in tho Oflicml List ns ueunl. A fatal accident has occurred to a Mr. William Tyror, !• The factory girls of Lowell havo given expression to an independent gentleman residing at Liverpool. Being their feelings upon tho late Snmncr outrage, by sending troubled with sciaticn, ho determined on having a warm AMERICA. to Mr. T. 9. Brooks thirty pieces of silver (three cent h pat ; but some time having elapsed without his appear- Pkmocuaticat* election successes nro still recorded. Inn pieces), a ropo, and a winding sheot, with, a lottor frcol y ing again, his housekcepor went into his room , and found Florida, the pro-slnvory candidate for tbe Governorshijp ., expressing their sentiments. mm face downwards in tho bath, lie wag finite donrt , and has boon elected by upwards of fouv thousand majority. had apparentl y fallen head foremost in an apoplectic lit. Th e same party iipponi'.s also tohnvo a majority in Indiananj, IRELAND. Several 1 parts of his person were much scalded.—Another and it is stated that tho Cougrcrisioiml oloutions , so far asis ltF-rivrcsENTATioN op Bandon. —A vacancy has been B°ntleman baa since been drowned in tho aamo way. they arc yet dctcrimi ief fi fty-two membersr» created in tho representation of tho borough of Bnndon. A sorioua casualty happened last Saturday to Mr.¦ in ten states for tho Democrats). la Ohio, however, theio by the death of tho Jiurl of Bimdou nud the consequent 1060 THE LEADER. [No. 34l6> Satu rW of Lord Bernard, the sitting mem- agree in thinking that the recent article of the Moniteur succession to the title earnest of the future, their subscription for the ber. Lord Bandon's death was the result of an attack against the British piess was a great political blunder. of Alessandria. cannon ¦ Yes, as an earnest ; for, united a, I of apoplexy, with which be was struck on Friday week, The Presse compares the * note' in question to those are to Italy by the bonds of love he sank a few hours later in the day. effusions which appeared in and hatred J and under which, the Moniteur during the Roumans of the Danube, shall never forget The Harvest op 1856.—" The harvest," says the reign of Napoleon I., and reminds his successor of the have that the same enemy to beat down and the &Z1 Belfast Mercury, '' has at length been closed, and it will probable consequence of a rupture with England.— Times country to raise up. Piedmont all hands that the turn-out of the fields has defended us oj be admitted on Vienna Corresponde?i L the field of diplomacy : it is our duty proved most abundant. There have been seasons of Some interesting particulars to thank her T has with respect to the cur- the fiel d of victory.—Your devoted servant no less ample returns in particular departments of Ire- rency reforms of Austria, are given by the Times RosETTr C a , ex-Member of the Provisional Governmenverniaeutt land's agriculture, but certainly the yield of this season Vienna corresponden t, who says :—" Great secrecy was Wallachia in 1848.—Paris, November 1,, of in every variety of cereal has never been equalled. The observed as long as the currency conferences were going SPAIN. Irish wheat crop of 1856 occupied an area of 529,363 on, but the results of the prolonged deliberations of the " Official complaints against the press acres, showing a pretty large increase in the breadth so representatives of the leading German States are now of fon-im, countries," observes the Times, " appear to be occupied last j-ear. This season'syield of oats, at a very generally known. The basis of the silver currency will common just now. S " This time it is the French journal, moderate estimation, cannot be utider 1,550,000 tons. be the Customs-Union pound. One pound of fine silver that have given offence : and, if what Including the value of the straw—the one of the Spanish growth of 1856 will be coiued into forty-five florins in Austria, into papers says be correct, the fact of the press of having been perhaps the finest raised for several years a countrv thirty dollars in Prussia, and into fifty-two and a half being under the absolute control of a Government past—the actual marketable worth of Ireland's oatfields florins in the Federal States in Southern Germany. A ha* its troublesome side as well as its advantages Thi> will be found rather above 15,000,OOOZ. sterling. Seizures silver coin which -will be a legal tender in all the Epoca remarks :—* We have already drawn attention to for non-payment of rent are all but unknown ; and, German States is also to be minted, and fifteen of them the views of the Ministerial press respecting what is no less astonishing, landlords and tenants live certain will contain one pound of fine silver. The coin in articles which the Presse, the Gazette de Franc e, the in the greatest state of harmony with each other." question will therefore be worth E$." two dollars in Prussia, tafette, the Siecle, and other Parisian papers have pub Thb Defences. —Lord Seaton, accompanied by a three florins in Austria, and three and a half florins in lished on the affairs of Spain. As the numerous staff French press is , has again left Dublin, with a view of Southern Germany- A gold Customs-Union coin will under the censorship and direct inspection of following up a close inspection of the au- all the military and also be printed of the value of fourteen or fifteen Austrian thorities, it seems our Ambassador at Paris has naval positions in the kingdom. The first posts to be received florins. This gold coin will be called a ' crown,' and orders to complain of the language used in noticine visited on the tour are Limerick and all the forts on fifty crowns will be coined out of one pound of gold. Spanish affairs.'" 6 the river Shannon. The protocols of the currency conferences have been General Enrique O'Donnell has resigned the command Tactios Murders.—-A farmer, named Kenna, has forwarded to the German States which were not re- of the province of Cadiz. been killed on the borders of Tipperary by some poli- presented, here, and when they have been taken into On the 27th and 2«th ult., the Iberia Clamor tical opponent. He was , Publico waylaid, and knocked on the proper consideration another and general conference will Cortes, and Association, Madrid journals, were seized bv bead. Two other men belonging to an opposite fac- be held. It must be added that the price at which the the police. . ' .. tion have been murdered in the course of disturbances gold ' crown* is to be taken in the German States will be The Civic Guard is to be raised to 12, provoked b 000 mcu. y the same kind of animosity. fixed every six months." Sixteen Government bakeries are to be opened at Madrid The Austrians lave evacuated Forli, Faenza, and to supply cheap bread to the poor. Tins measure, taken CONTINENTAL NOTES. Imola. The Austrian occupation of the Papal States together with, ' ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ the sal« of 200,000 bushels ¦¦' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦' - ¦ ' ¦ ' of wheat, the ¦ '/ ¦; • ' . -• ¦ • ¦ . . .. . FRANCE. . , . . . . is now confined to the towns of Bologna and Ancona. produce of the national property, and with the number The Emperor (says the Times Paris correspondent) has In consequence of a violent article against Austria of hands which will be required for the public works it is just given his approval to a proposition made by Marshal which recently appeared in the Morning Post, and which intended to carry on, willj it is hoped , meet the difficul- TTaillant, Minister of War, for removing some unpleasant nearly dissipated the entente cordiale noyv springing up ties of the food crisis. difficulties which have arisen in Algeria between the between the Cabinets of Vienna and London, informa- The Gazette publishes a decree, re-establishing the officers in command and the functionaries of the military tion is said to have been sent to the Austrian Govern- laws of 1844 and 1845 on the subject of the Press. intendance relative to the exercise of the right of punish- ment, to the effect that Lord Palmerston has no con- Senor Luiz Estrada is appointed Director of the ment. The proposition of the minister is to the effect nexion with the journal in question. National Property.

that the Governor-General of Algeria, the commander- ¦ ' ' ¦ ' ¦ poutugal; " ¦ - ' ¦ ¦ ¦ :¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - ' . • ¦ ¦ • - vtxui. ; . . . in-chief of an army in the field, and.. any. general officer . . . ; . . . . The first section of the SantaTem Railway, which is provided with special letters of service to command a The Austrian authorities in Milan continue, says a completed for about seven leagues from Lisbon to Car- division or a brigade employed separately abrbad, shall letter from that capital, to give themselves " a great deal regado, was opened on the 28th. ult., in the presence of have the direct right of punishing the functionaries of of trouble in order to induce the citizens to exhibit a the King. the intendance serving under his orders. proper degree of the newly-invented duty of enthusiasm KUSSIA. The Gazette de Fran ce attributes the present unsettled for the present dynasty.'* In their desire to shirk con- In reply to a demand made by M. de Boutenieff, state of Europe, the financial difficulties of France, and, tributing funds to the proposed monument to the Admiral Lyons has declared that the English fleet will in fact, all existing evils, to the pernicious influence of emperor, some persons have proposed . to dedicate a remain in the Black Sea until the treaty of Paris shall England. newly-erected slaughter-hou3e to the commemoration of be fulfilled.. . M. Goujon, a young astronomer of great eminence, the Imperial visit ! Assuredly nothing could he more Count Gortschakoff, the Russian Minister of Foreign who was chosen by the late M. Arago for his assistant, appropriate. Affairs, has just transmitted to all the Russian agents has just died of apoplexy, at the age of thirty-three.— A piece of financial news, contained in, a letter from abroad a circular from General Prince Gortschakoff, Paul Delaroche, the artist, expired on Tuesday. Parma, says that it has been at length definitively settled Governor of Poland, stating that all Poles who have The Daily News and Express were both seized on that the Custom-house League with Austria shall not be taken refuge abroad in order to avoid military service Friday week. Punch was seized the day before. renewed, and that this decision was mainly, if not are admitted to enjoy the benefit of the amnesty, ami MT. Brenier, the French Minister at Naples, has arrived wholly, to be attributed to the firmness of M. Lom- may return home without fear of being molested. in France, together with Mr. Petre, the English bardini, the Minister of Finance of Parma. It is stated in St. Petersburg that, "to oblige representative. Some of the Genoese journals (says the Times Turin Franco," the Emperor of Russia has not prohibited the A new mairie tor the 4th arrondissement is to be built correspondent) are very indignant that at the official export of corn from the Sea of Az of. The export of on the Place du Louvre, as also a residence for the cure reception of the Empress Dowager of Russia by the corn is prohibited From all the ports of the kingdom of of St. Germain l'Auxerrois, and a maison de secours. Prince Carignano a.nd the Count D'Aglie Delegos, the Greece. Xhe houses which are to form the new place are pro- latter should have displayed a blue cockade, while the According to the Swiss Eidr/enossische Zeitung, the gressing rapidly towards completion. Those opposite former and his suite wore the tricolored badge. Ex- Dowager Empress of Russia nearly met with a fatal the colonnade of the Palace have arcades in front similar planations are loudly asked for, as also for tho further accident as she was passing the ' Via Mala' in Grau- to those in the rue de Xtivoli. asserted fact that the old azuro flag was hoisted at the bllnden. One of the leaders of the team of six horses A. treaty of commerce has been signed between Franco Fort of St. Giuliaiio during the King's visit. was restiflf, and the carriage in which her Majesty sat and the republic of Liberia. It is stated that the King of Naples has recently made was drawn so close to the precipice that two of the posts The Paris papers have received orders not to allude to ome ironical remarks at the expense of the Western on the side of the road were broken down. "The the Imperial festivities at Compiegne it being by this Powers ; and after what has occurred, it appears but wheels, , ¦ " says the correspondent, " touched the very time understood that they only excite the ridicule natural that he should do so. If the diplomatic world edge of the precipice, and, if there had been auy os- and anger of the people in their present state of pecu- speak truth, King Ferdinand, on the Queen's name-day, cillation, the carriage must have gone over." niary embarrassment and gloomy depression. (October 15) spolce of his son, the Duke of Calabria, as "On the 14th or 15th ult," says the Times Vienna It is said that fivo persons have been arrested in Paris, his successor "by the grace of England and France." correspondent, " tho Allied Powers forwarded to St. in consequence of disclosures made by Charpentier, the His Majesty, who was in remarkably good spirits, even Petersburg a note, or notes, in which it was said that man concerned in the railroad robberies. drank to the prosperity of the two Powers, which had they must still insist on tho cession to Moldavia of the The Parisian courts of law opened on Tuesday, and so kindly offered to assist him in governing his kingdom. new town of Bolgrad, which lies at the north-eastern on Wednesday the Moniteur contained a report of a very —Times Vienna Corresp ondent. extremity of tho Lake of Yalpuck. There cannot be « long address delivered in the Imperial Court by M. On the departure of tho Fre nch and English repre- doubt that Russia has attempted to take unduo ad- Vaisse, the Procureur-Gene'ral, on the subject of the sentatives from Naples, the utmost precautions were vantage of the incorrectness of the map which was used Empire, which the speaker thought was the truest ex- taken by the Government. The streets were lined with at tho Paris Conference ; but the Allies, and wore par- ponent possible of the national will and tho national ten- soldiers and police, and a determination was exhibited on ticularly France, are so very desirous to get the frontier dencies :— " To say of a dynasty that it is now," observed the part of the King to use all his power for the suppres- question Kusj iia w settled , that they are willing to cede to M. Vaisse, is only to say that it is, and should be, so sion of any insurrection. Everything, however, remains a rich valley which lies between tho rivers Yal puck and much the more dear to the nation, as it is nearer to the quiet as yet. Yalpoujck if she will make no further difficulties nbout time in which public gratitude consecrates it. its title " Several chests filled with arms, and addressed to tho ccasion of New Bolgrad. It seems that Franco pro- is not in its antiquity, but in its work accomplished." Leghorn," says tho Risorgimento, " have been seized at posed to cede tho territory in question as an ' indemni- Further on the orator said, that tho Emperor had " only Avenza. The wnole of tho officers of the Customs have fication ,' but England, Austria, and Turkey objected to sinned against humanity by tho excess of his genius !" recently, by order of the Government, been incorporated tho uso of tho word, as it would Iiave been nn indirect The country had become tired of the hollowness of an with tho troops of the lino ; great numbers complain of confession that Russia had some chiim to New IJolgnul.' ariatocratical government, and, therefore, struggled this arrangement and'demand their discharge. On tho Imperial u , A recent collision between a vessel and tho feverishly until eho acquire d tho right of suffrage to 6th of October, Bevernl young men who had belonged steamer during tho late review of tlio troops ut CronatitiU he 110 ™«it * vi^ H """1! and a single chief to carry that to the British-Italian Legion wore arrested at Frizzano, has been more serious than was nt first made knoivn. execution A People and an Emperor, that is to which place they had had the imprudence to return. Tho force an oflicer Whati? * tho*u ' of tho collision -was ho great that nation wanted ; tliat is, in two words, tho What will Lord Normanby, "who appears to be on such belonging to tho corps of pilots wufl carried overboard 011 of ff /.W Franco." Elsewhere, M. Vaisse excellent terms with the Duke of Modcnn, say to and drowned , while- the Minister of W«rr Suchosniiet , im^}™8 f th0 *«««ne«tfaiy 8V8tem.» this ? " and the aidc-do-camp of tho Grand Duke- Constantino, Bu^But thetlfe Empire has dan,° _ gers ; and among these, M. The following lottor, with a subscription of 500f., has Greig, were seriously wounded, tho' former in tho hciu't . been addressed to M. Manin :— " Master and Brother,— and the latter in tho log. . ^^ Tsas&r *" *- ^ ™°- Until such time as, ungagged and unimpeded, tho TUUKKY. AD8TOU. Roumana speak and act, their children, students in Tho gnation tho Siiltnn It as worthy of remark flint Ottoman ministry, wlioso resi all tho Vienna papora Paris, have charged mo to doposit in your hands, as an recently refused to accept, lias at length definitively rC" November 8, 1856. J T H E X E A T> E R. 1061 sense of by 219 6 registrars in all the districts of England during and a new ministry, with Redschid Pacha at its in protecting subjects, because there we find a tirea, ¦ ttlhe summer quarter that ended on September 30, 1856 ; has come into power. _ right and wrong that, when appealed to, is sure to ob- head, aiand the marriages in 12 194 churches or chapels, about Commission on the navigation of the Danube is tain justice and redress, (.Hear, hear.) It is among , The 3783 registered places of -worship unconnected with the to reassemble at Vienna. The Porte will be re- the smaller States, where, from various circumstances 3 about Established Church, and 628 superintendant-registrars' presented at it. The Boundary Commission has still which I don't wish now to go into, the principles of E 01offices, in the quarter that ended on June 30, 1856. months' -work before it. right and wrong are not quite so steadily kept in view— two The marriages are still below the average number, the SWITZER LAND. (laughter) —it is there that we are most frequently called upon to interfere. And then, when we do interfere, bbirths are above, and the deaths are below the average. lish minister, in the name of his Government, The Eng people say-—'Ah! you attack the weak.' Why, those TThus, although the high price of provisions keeps the communicated to the superior executive Federal has countries abuse their weakness; they make their weak- ncmarriage rate below the high rate which has prevailed a proposition for the settlement of the question authority ness the pretence for doing evil trusting that you "will ftfor sometime, the increase by birth and the public health Neufchatel. , of because you are able o|of the ;English population present in the returns a favour- The Federal examining magistrate charged with the overlook their delinquencies merely " to obtain redress for yourselves." After glancing at one -aable aspect. affair of the 3rd and 4th of September," saj'8 a letter or two topics connected with the extension of our foreign Marriages.— 77,434 persons were married in the from Neufch&tel of the 29th ult., " has terminated his and colonial trade and with education, the Premier tlthree months of April, May, and June ; and the mission. Several royalist notabilities of the important nmarriage rate of the quarter was -817 per cen t. per annum. have just signed an ad- brought his remarks to a conclusion ; after which, to- town of Locle, in this canton, 1The average rate of the quarter is "855. The marriages their fellow-citizens in which they declare that gether with Lady Palmerston, he visited the Exchange dress to . , (38,717) exceed by 263 the marriages in the correspond- of putting an end to civil discords and and other parts of the city. 0 the best means , i>ing quarter of the year 1855, but are fewer by 1801 confidence necessary for the development of At eight o'clock in the evening, his Lordship ad- restoring the tthan the marriages in the spring quarter of 1854. The ,, inion in the defini- dressed the members of the Manchester Mechanics' In- public prosperity, consists in their op , ddecrease of marriages is most obvious in London, in ratification of the independence of Neufchatel as a stitution, who met in the Free Trade Hall, which was tive SSussex, in Bucks, in Somerset, in Gloucester, in state and Swiss canton. densely crowded. Here his remarks were of a more republican " ILeicester, in Nottingham, and in North Wales. In ¦ ¦ ' ¦' " ' ¦ ¦ ¦ literary character. Quoting Pope's well-known couplet, - . v GERMANV. • the Iforth Riding A little knowledge is a dangerous thing ; Berks, Northampton, Suffolk, Devon, The German Diet, at its sitting on the 30th ult., was " and South Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring," °of Yorkshire, Cumberland, Westmoreland, occupied with the question of ZNTeufchatel, brought for- Wales the marriages increased. - lie added:—¦ ward by Prussia. The question was referred to a com- " I hold that that is a mistake, and much Births.—157,633 children, who were born alive, were mittee formed of the Plenipotentiaries of Austria, Prussia, error has it produced. A little knowledge is better , than regr istered in the quarter ending on the last of Septem- Wurtemberg, Saxony, Baden, and Darmstadt, no knowledge at all. (Cheers.) The more knowledge Bavaria, ^ber. The birth-rate of the quarter is 3'278 per cent, •which, on the 1st inst., declared itself, with certain a man has, the better ; but, if his time and the per. annum, while the average rate is 3/209. The num- modifications , in favour of the Prussian propositions. means at his disposal do not permit of his ac- ber] of births exceeds by 2799 the births in the corre- SWEDEN. quiring deep and accurate knowledge, let him have sp, onding quarter of 1855, and is the greatest that has he will Some Roman Catholics have established themselves as much as he can, and, depend upon it, ever\ ^been registered before in England in the corre- near the Alten Copper Mines in Finmark (which are be all the better for it. (Continued app lause.) We sponding, quarter of the year. An increase in the births managed by an English company), and have set to may be told that we shall make him a mere smat- isj observable in every division, except tie North Mid- work vigorously in spreading; their tenets among the terer in knowledge, to which I reply, that it is better land] division, the North-Western division, and York- ' ¦ ¦ " ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ for a man to be a smatterer than to be ignorant and ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ .: population. . shire., , , . : . . uninstTucted. There are many lines of information Deaths. — 91, 330 deaths were registered in the three which it is most essential for a working man to pursue, • and September and the death- months¦ of July, August, , LORD PALMERSTON AT MANCHESTER 1but from which, were it not for institutions such as rate was 1-899 per cent, per annum, the average rate AND SAL1ORD. this, he would be hopelessly excluded. In the first being 2-199 ; so that it was during the last season -300 ' lace there are certain laws of nature of which some • Lobd and Lad Palmerston arrived at Manchester on p , Tinder the average of the preceding ten summer quarters. y regulate: the trade in which he is employed some Tuesday evening, having left London at ten o'clock in , Out of the same population, there were six instead of the govern and control his industry, and on others depend the morning, by the day mail. They were met at the j average tale of seven deaths. Cholera -was epidemic in the well-being of his existence ; and yet those laws are London-road station by Sir Benjamin Heywood, at [ 1854, and the summer death-rate, then so high (2-423), ¦ not to be known by the simple-minded man." fell to 1-854 and to 1-899 in the subsequent summer . <*rhose residence, at Claremont, they made their tempo- ' ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ' ' ' " ¦ ; ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ' ' ¦ ' ' ¦ t ¦ ¦ ^ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ • ¦ ¦ ¦ His Lordship added that he would not only have the arters. . ;¦ ¦: . . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦:¦ *Tary sojourn . q u ;: . .;. . . . ., . . . . , . . but would have An address was presented to the Premier on Thurs- working man study matters of science, [[A ppended, to thesd statistics are some admirable liiiii icfi csli LI3 riimu by occasionally reading worics of day by the Salford Corporation, in reply to which his observations by the Registrar on the necessity of Lordship made some remarks on the excellence of local imagination and fancy, such as poems and romances, keeping our houses cleanly, of removing all decaying which are useful b iving buoyancy to the intellect self-government, and complimented the corporation on " y g , animal and vegetable matter, of draining the land about the efforts it had made to spread education among the and inspiring the mind with noble sentiments." dwellings, and of choosing healthy, i. e: elevated, sites, lower classes. Alluding to his alleged warlike tenden- At the conclusion of this speech, Professor Scott and instead of the damp hollows now, frequently built on. Dr. Vaughan addressed the meeting at some length and cies, he said :— "M hon. friend the member for Salford , He alludes more especially to farmhouses, which are y 'clock. has remarked upon the imputations which on former oc- the proceedings terminated at ten o often surrounded by large heaps of offensive substances casions were cast upon me personally of a disposition to Lord Palmerston gave a promise on Thursday to visit generated in the farmyard, and which are also too Liverpool on the following day. risk, without necessity, the peace of the country, and to frequently stifled by trees and ricks. He adds :—] go, if not into the thick, at least to the verge, of In the dairy, a little dirt spoils the milk, butter, Or cheese ; unless the vessels of the brewery are clean wars with other countries. Those accusations, al- SANITARY MATTERS. , low me to say, were founded on a misconception of the ale is injured ; and farmers have hence learnt by THE UEGISXEK-GENEBAl'S WEEKLY BETUBN. the nature of things (cheers and laughter) ; for, de- experience the importance of cleanliness in the interior pend upon it, a country like this, with great in^ The returns of the London districts are still of a very of their houses. From them, the taste for household terests at stake and a great reputation to maintain, favourable character. In the week that ended on Satur- cleanliness has been diffused through the surrounding does well to guard against tlie approach of insult and day, the number of deaths registered was 969. In the population. They have only to render the ah? which the very appearance of wrong, and that it is easier to corresponding weeks of the last ten years (1846-55), the they breathe about their houses pure, to become, with stop the beginning of such affairs than to find a remedy average number was 1009 ; and the same rate of mor- those around them, the halest people in the world. when the evil has risen to a great magnitude." After tality would produce in the increased population of the To place any of the new farmhouses and cottages to avowing that his government is a government of pro- present time 1110 deaths. The improved state of health be built on certain elevations is the first point ; to carry gress, and paying a high com pliment to Mr. Brotherton, now existing has therefore reduced the number of last out and to cover with earth all the refuse of the house M.P., who had previously spoken, Lord Palmerston con- week's return by 141 ; and similar results have been and yards daily, would prevent the escape of the am- cluded by warmly thanking the corporation for the obtained during the month now terminated. Diseases monia, the most precious part of the manure, and at honour they had done him. of the zymotic class were fatal to 175 persons ; the same time rid the atmosphere of the fatal malaria He then departed for Manchester, in " the Town Hall affections of the respiratory organs, exclusive of' that surrounds the farmhouses- and cottages of the of which he received the address of the Town Council, phthisis and hooping-cough, to 190. Under the: country. About 642 G English farmers die in a year, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Commercial Asso- average rate of mortality from zymotic diseases in. and of them many are young. 2605 are under sixty- ciation, and then replied at great length. He spoke in former years, the deaths last week would have been 295. five yeaTS of age. favour of the principle of Free Trade, the adoption of Scarlatina is at present the most prominent in this class, which had largely increased the wealth and happiness of and numbers 40 ; and St. John, Marylebone, where five the country, and which he trusted -would soon be spread children died of it, returns a greater number of deaths OUR CIVILIZATION. among all continental countries, though they had bit- from this disease than any other sub-district- The ——?— terly opposed it upon grounds the most incongruous and registrar of Hampstead records the death of a girl at 19, THE CRYSTAL PALACE FORdERIES. self-contTadictory. The apparent difficulties of the Boundary-road, St. John's Wood, being the second from William James Robson lately a clerk at the Crystal government upon first assuming office were overcome b scarlatina maligna within a few days in the same Louse , y ; Palace was tried last Saturday at the Central Criminal the indomitable energy and zeal of his coadjutors and he reports the statement of the medical attendant , , by , Court for the frauds and forgeries committed on the the confidence in them and in himself of the Sovereign that the complaint has prevailed particularly at this , company, and which amount according to the state- and by the manly spirit of the nation. Referring to the spot (which ought to be healthy), and is in his opinion , ment of Mr. Ballantine counsel for the prosecution war ing the usual comp fostered by the accumulation and decomposition of or- , , to , and pay liments to the valour of rather more than 10,000/. The accused our soldiers ganic mattor in that part of the Bridge-road which lies , who is about and sailors and the faith ful co-operation of thirty-five years of age appeared to our all in the parish of Hampstead, and where, it appears, there , have recovered ies, his Lordship said :—" We are now at peace, entirely from tlie depression which he exhibited when and I hope is a want of drainage. It is satisfactory to find that that that peace may be lasting. Its duration before the Lambeth police magistrate and now con- must depend small-pox has lately been more rare, and last week the , upon the honour and fidelity with which ducted himself in a very confident manner. He pleaded its con deaths from it were only four ; viz., two in St. John ditions are fulfilled (cheers). I trust that that , Guilty to three of the indictments ing him with Power Westminster and two in the Small-pox Hospital Is- charg which brought upon itself the hostility, either , , larceny as a servant active lington. The deaths from typhus declined to 32. Threo , and Not Guilty to the charge of or moral, of all Europe, by a forgctfulness of forgery. Upon this issue therefore he was tried. international fatal, cases of carbuncle are recorded ; and two of morti- , , rights and duties—I trust that that The facts brought out in evidence wero thus stated b Power fication in children fro m the application of blister. Two y , having concluded a treaty, will observe that the Judge (Mr. Justice Erie) in summing;up:— illiam treaty and women and a man died at the age of 91 years; a man "W fulfil it with faithfulness, and then, no doubt, James Eobson was indicted for tuo forgery of an instru- peace will bo and a woman at 92 ; and a woman in the Belgravo sub- of long duration." The Premier after- ment called a transfer of shares ' and in another count 8 alluded district at the age of 95 years.—Last week, the births of ' , , ^j?^ to foreign politics in general, observing:— of the indictment witlx having forged 4 a deed of Henry The difficulties 777 boys and 792 girls, in all 1569 children were re- , that may arise in regard to the pro- , Johnson.' The deed purported that on the consideration tection of gistered in London. In the ten corresponding weeks of , individuals from wrong, are difficulties which of 156/., Henr Johnson transferred to Joseph Lowe fifty generally arise in the years 184<5-65, the average number was 14-15. 3' weak and small States. Lurger Powers shares in the Crystal Palace Company, numbered from are above these things. With those Powers—either of THE QUARTERLY RET URN. 145,052 to 145,101. The signature to that deed, where Europe or the United States—wo have little difficulty This return comprises the births and deaths registered the name of the transferror ehould be, was Henry John- 1062 TH E LEADER. [No. 346, Satvbbav that name were the seal and signature workpeople. Mr. Taylor has recently adopted the lit 3on. Opposite to sys- mig lead to the discovery of the perpetrators of fho of the attesting witness. The words in the instrument tem of working two looms, instead of one, by one forgery. Mie and delivered by the above-named weaver who thus earns were, * Signed, sealed, , about half as much more wages In the course of last September, Hardwicke Johnson,' and the signature was attested by than a weaver at a single loom ; but double the quan- Attivell ami Henry appeared at Yarmouth, where they each com ' William James Kobson, of No. 3, Adelaide-place,' tity of work is performed, and the employer, therefore, mittod a series of frauds upon different people : was affixed as the attesting -witness. manifestl but thpv whose signature y reaps the greater advantage. Another mill, were at length discovered, in consequence of to the evidence of Mr. Clement, it appeared situated at Shipley, in the same general locality, lawyers who £k*Z According is also had been applied to happening to meef that Kobson applied . to.him. to sell one hundred shares— owned by Mr. Taylor, who lias not here introduced tho casually, when the circumstance of tho different ar7 fifty in the present instrument and fifty in another. two-loom system ; and. the workmen at this establishment plications which had been made to them, b these instructions, Mr. Clement -went into y AttivelJ Acting upon proceeded in a body on Wednesday week to the Baildori being mentioned, their suspicions were aroused, and market and sold one hundred shares, and then re- mill and threatened the stem the , two-loom weavers. This went were immediately taken, which ultimately led to the aV ceived from Robson the paper produced and another on for some time, and at dusk the mob prehension of the amounted to two prisoners. The jury fJund them both paper. Mr. Clement paid Kobson 295?. as the profit of thousand persons, men, women, and lads. They de- guilty. A second charge was brough t forward these instruments which, profit passed from. Mr. Cleinent against , manded that Mr. Taylor should turn the overseer and Haidwicke, who, it was stated, had forged an acceittancp to tha prisoner at the bar. Xow, was the instrument all the two-loom weavers out of the mill. lie. refused ; to a bill of exchange for 1000/. ; and so n<>arlv had he produced a forged instrument ? It purported to be a and the inot> then "began to destroy the mill. At this succeeded in carrying out this fraud , that the clerk transfer of ' Henry Johnson of Birmingham contractor ' at the , , , juncture, Thomas Smith, a ¦weaver, went out to reason bank was in the act of handing him the notes in -pav- and that individual had been called, and had sworn with the malcontents ; but he was struck on the head meiit, when the largeness of the amount induced him positively that the signature of ' Henry Johnson' was to with a stick by a woman named Griinshaw, and some of examine the bill a second time more narrowly, and it not his or written by his authority. He also said there the men then beat him severely, knocked him down, and was then discovered to be a forgery. was no ' Henry Johnson, of Birmingham, builder and kicked him, several exclaiming," Throw him iuto the The prisoners were sentenced to transportation for life contractor,' but himself. He swore most positively that water•!"¦ " Kill him ! kill Mm !" At length, however, he never had any shares in the Crystal Palace Company, ' he managed to get back to the mill. Another two-loom WiTcncKAKT is? So.-uEttSKTSniP.K.—-A case of and that he never knew until the transactions of that gross , weaver was also murderously assaulted, but escaped credulity luis just been made public at Slieptoh-JIallct. day in that court were brought to his knowledge, that ¦with his life. A -woman named Welshman, who is by profession his name was entered on the register of the Crystal and In the meanwhile, the destruction, of the edifice pro- repute a witch, was recently sent for by nnother woman Palace Company as having any interest therein. If they ceeded. Mr. Wheater, the designer of tlie mill, broke named Bathe, of Downside, to dispossess her of' ' "h a. spoil believed Mr. Johnson that he ad never sigued the deed through the brick wall of liis room with au iron bar, under which the latter fancied hersel f labouring. Welsh- in question, or given Kobson authority to sign liis name made his way to the back part of the premises, removed man quickly put her magic in operation, impressing on for him, the offence would be proved, and it would be two panes of glass, and thus escaped, the mob shouting her victim - the - necessity of strictly abiding by hex in- shown that the prisoner uttered this deed and. received out in front that they would have hold of him. Mr. structions. The poor -woman went on for some -\veek3 value for it as for a genuine instrument. But the pri- Taylor, having made his appearance before the crowd, until she was brought to a very low state of health, by soner's counsel had contended, after a great deal of cross- and endeavoured to prevent them obtaining further various tricks which had been practised upon her, and examination of Mr. Johnson, that it was doubtful whe- access to the premises, was seized round the waist by a sh« then communicated what had been going on to some ther Johnson did not give Robson authority to put his man, who tried to throw him into the water ; but he neighbours:. The result was that Welshman was brought same to this instrument, and something had been said extricated himself and knocked his adversary down. At before the magistrates, and, it being proved that she had about the hesitation or anxiety in Johnson's manner in that moment, he was struck on the forehead by a large extorted various sums of money from her dupe, besides giving his evidence. That was a question eutirely for stone, which inflicted an extensive wound. It was now supplying herself -with vegetables from the garden, she -the consideration of the jury. Johnson stood in the re- dark, with a thick fog. Some ef the rioters, however, was committed to the House of Correction for six weeks. lation of a brother-in-law to the prisoner, and that carried blazing besoms, which had been dipped in tar or A.Sad Case.—Emma Ililey, a girl of seventeen , -who might explain a good deal of his anxiety without im- pitch, -with' which they threatened to set fire to the appeared to be in a very miserable state, was indicted at puting to him an intention to defraud or to state that building. The light thus afforded, however, served to the Central Criminal Court for the manslaughter of her "which was false. Johnson said that he had borrowed secure the identification of the ringleaders. Volley after illegitimate infant. She wus charged upon an inqui- 7001. or 800& of Kobson, and he believed that iu 1854 volley of large stones was thrown, and nearly all sition taken by Mr. ^Vakluy, the coroner; but there had he borrowed 100/. from, him at the Telegraph-office in the mill -windows were broken ; the machinery was been no- inquiry before , a magistrate. The young woman CorhhiU, when he wanted to make up some money to pay inj ured, and damage to the amount of 200?. was done. had been seduced by. a in an named Bennett, who had Jus. wages. Mr. Johnson said: this was not so late as De- One of the rioters seized a pole with some blazing tarred left her and her infant to. starve.' It was sought to be cember, 1854, and the paper which the prisoner was shavings at the end of it, and thrust it into the mill ; made out, in support 6£ the charge of manslaughter, charged with having forged was dated 'February 2, 1855. ' another man ran up the outside stairs with a similar that she had wilfully "withheld from her child that Johnson swore that on that occasion nothing passed about burning mass, and made a second endeavour to fife the nourishment with" which ' she -was in a condition to Kobson not using his own name, and using instead the building. But both these attempts failed, aud the mob supply it. The evidence, however, failed entirely to name of Johnson. As Johnson, indeed, had no shares dispersed about eight o'clock. make but this fact ; on the contrary, it appeared that in the Crystal Palace Company, it was idle for him to . Seven women and two men were subsequently taken the. miserable young -woman was herself almost in a give the prisoner authority to execute a transfer of fifty into custody, and, after examination last Saturday before starving condition, and that her milk was nearly dried non-existing shares. If they believed Johnson, the in- the magistrates, were sentenced to various terms of im- up iu consequence. She was Acquitted, aud has been strument was a forgery." The Judge having commented prisonment and hard labour, with the exception of one taken under the protection of the sheriffs,.who will see on the rest of the evidence (which was all of a confirma- of the women, •who was merely ordered to find sureties that she is properly looked to. tory character), the jury consulted for a few minutes, to keep the peace. Muri>krous Assault.—A man named Thomas Burke and then found the accused Guilty. Another indictment has nearly murdered a woman of the town living near against him, in connexion with the forgeiy of a dividend ASTUTE FORGERS. llolborn, with whom he was to have been married. He warrant, was withdrawn. Robson vcas then sentenced Two men, named William Salt Hardwicke and Henry had brought home to her last Saturday night a trifling to be transported for twenty years for the forgery, and Attwell, -were indicted at the Central Criminal Court for sum of-money, which she said was.not enough to keep for fourteen years on account of the larceny—the latter forging and uttering a cheque of 410/. 7s. 4d. on her honest ; and she refused to go to the theatre with sentence being concurrent with the first, and therefore Messrs. Gosling and Sharpe, the bankers. Early in the him, say ing she must " stay at home and earn her simply nominal. The convict walked from the dock present year, Mr. Turner, a solicitor of Red Lion Square, living." Burko then -went out, but, returning about with a defiant air. lost a pocket-book, containing a blank cheque and some half past twelve o'clock, found her iu bed with another While the jury were deliberating, it was remarked letters belonging to him. Attwell shortly afterwards man. Enraged at this, he struck her over the head that, instead of looking towards them, Robson employed called at his office and requested him to apply to a man with one of hia boots, aud fled , leaving her bathed, in himself by scribbling upon a sheet of paper. This sheet of the name of Hest for the sum of 38Z., which Attwell blood. ¦was afterwards handed roun d the bar, and was found to alleged was owing to him. An I O U for the amount Ari'HEHENsio;* of am Escaped Convict. —A man 'Contain, the following observations :—" If I am found claimed was produced. Mr. Turner took the necessary named Priest, who escaped from the Oxford gaol early guilty upon this charge, I will not plead again, but take proceedings, and a stranger called upon him a few days in August, has been apprehended in Birmingham. A my chance. Johnson has completely sold me—Henry afterwards, and paid the 38?. into his hands, and also letter from a woman with whom ho cohabited to a Johnson, of Birmingham," In one corner of tho sheet, 6s. 8d. for the letter which tho lawyer had written to female acquaintance who could not read, and who took the convict sketched a very good likeness of his brother- him. Attwell called again at Mr. Turner's ofilco not tho note to a publican that he might inform her of tho in-law, having thus engaged himself while Mr. Justice long after this, and was paid in cash the sum which he contents, disclosed the place of Priest's conceulment Erie was passing sentence upon him. This extraordi- claimed. After a very short interval, he presented Ho hail lived for some time with a set of travelling nary conduct will scarcely fee matter of surprise when it another I O U to Mr. Turner for 103Z. 18s. Gd., with a showmen, who promised to protect him should he bo ia stated that, after liaving left Mr. Passon, the account- similar request to that which had accompanied the first. sought after ; but he afterwards quarrelled with them, ant of tho Crystal Palace, at his o-wn residence, on the Tho lawyer took the same proceedings as before, and and left. On ouo occasion, at Summer-town, he was 17th of September, Kobson drove direct to a famous the amount was subsequently paid to Attwell by a very noarly captured by tho police in a public house; "West-en d tavern, which he was then in the habit of cheque on Mr. Turner's bankers, Messrs. Goslin g and l>ut ho jumped over a back wall, and got clear off frequenting, and ordered dinner for himself and a lady Sharpe. A forged draft in Mr. Turner's name, for Across the fields. who joined him during the afternoon. The dinner con- 400/. 7s. 4d., was then drawn, and a young man who Centuax Ckiaiinal Coukt.—Thomas Dennis, a con- sisted of fi sh, curry, and a brace of partridges ; and, had advertized for a situation was employed by a person vict iu the Model Prison at IIol loway, lias been found while it was being served, Robson, addressing the waiter, (doubtless a confederate of tho prisonors), to take it to Guilty of a murderous assault on ono of the >varders, said, "I am sorry Mr. ——— has sent me curry, for I the bankers to get it cashed. Attwoll's accomplice, tinder circumstances which were relutod in the Leader never eat it. Pray tell him to remember this when I Hardwicke, was in the banking house at the time it was of October 25th. Ho is now sentenced to be transported dine here again." On that very night he fled. presented, probably with the intention of seeing that for fourteen years, to commence nt tho expiration of his A public auction took place on Monday, at the Livery- matters wore all right ; and the cheque was paid, former sentence.—William Smith pleaded Guilty to a stables, Hart-street, Covent-gardon, of the last remaining partly in eight 507. notes,, and the rest in gold. After charge of firing a loaded pistol at William "Wa rd. Tho effects belonging to Kobson. These comprised a chestnut this, Hardwicke'a wife went to the Temple Bar branch offence was committed under an impression that Ward gelding, a set of plated gig harness, riding saddles, of tho Union Bank, where sho stated that she wished to had been on terms of improper intimacy with tho wifo bridles, stabling implements, a handsome brougham, transmit 20/. to Mr. Richard Gurney at Hamburg1. The of tho accused. On finding the pistol miss iire, Smith dog-cart, &c. A large number of spectators assembled, cashier acceded to her request, and told her that the beat Ward about tho head with tho weapon. IIo \vaa and very high prices wore- realized—higher, indeed, Hamburg agent of tho bank would bo advised to pay sentenced to hard labour for eighteen months.—W illiam than would have been reached, but for the associations the amount to Mr. Qurnoy upon his applying for it. Anderson a labourer was charged with stealing pro- which ollng , , to the purchases. The harnesB is stated to Very soon afterwords both prisoners made their appear- perty from tho person of Richard Feistearf, an errand- have fetched , a prl<>« tut above its original value. ance at the Hamburg bank, when Hardwicke repre- boy, about twelve yeara of ago. Tho theft was com- sented his name to be Gurney, and claimed the 20/. mitted in a street in Clerkonwell, on tho evening of tho A FACTORY RIOT, Taking advantage) of the introduction thus offered them, 14th ult. Tho boy was knocked down l)y a blow on toe Somo very BOrioas dlsturbancea have occurred at Bail- they aaked for, and obtained, chango in gold for the head ; but ho jumped up and valorously ran after tho don, near Bradford, owing to a disagreement between eight 60/. Bank of England notes which wcro tho pro- thief, wlio was stopped by two passengers. Anderson Mr. Taylor, a worsted manufacturer, and aomo of hia duce of tho forged cheque, thua removing every cluo that was found Guilty, and sentenced to fifteen years' trans- November 8, 1856.] THE L IE ADEB, 1063 realized 3?., and some paintings, one of the best The Recorder ordered that 21 should be Some rudeness was committed by Theiss, to a girl at the of oortation. , Spitalfields about twelve o'clock which had been since sold for 12s. Who were the to the witnesses who had atopped the thief, and corner of Vine-court , eivcn last Saturday night. Moules interfered, and was struck by parties to this transaction ? One was an uncertificated that the like sum should be invested in a savings bank Brownman, a fashionably dressed the German. The former then threatened to give the bankrupt, and the other a person just upon the threshold for the boy —George of the court. He considered the transaction an Creole, lias been tried on three indictments, latter into custody, and the policeman (Warner) hap- in* young Theiss ran at him iquitous one, and unbecoming any trader." The books charging him with forging an order for 3/. 3s., with pened to come up at that moment. sovereigns, and with obtaining some shirts with his knife, and stabbed him once in the chest, and of the bankrupt, however, had been well kept ; and tha stealing three commissioner therefore thought that the justice of the under false pretences. He alleged that he was in a high twice iu the thigh. He then broke away, and slashed in the East India House, "but this was false. Moules across the face. A working man, who was case would be met by a suspension of the certificate position (third-class) for a year, with protection. He defended himself with great ability, and obtained an passing by, grappled with the ruffian, threw him to the acquittal in the first two cases, but was convicted on the ground, and broke the blade of the knife against the Assaults on the Police. —-William Harrison, a rufianly member of the prize-ring, who has but recentl last, and sentenced to nine months' imprisonment.— pavement. Several other policemen arriving, Theiss y Richard Gower has been found Guilty on a charge of was conveyed with great difficulty to the station-house. been discharged from prison, has been committed for a embezzling several sums of money belonging to the He was examined on Monday before the Worship-street month to the House of Correction for an assault on. a Eastern Kailway Company, by whom lie was em- magistrate, and remanded. The wounded men are in a policeman, whom he struck and kicked on the sides and South abdomen. When before the magistrate, he alleged in bis ployed, as station-master, at Forest Hill. He was sen- dangerous state. tenced to four years' penal servitude. —Joseph Lane, who Robbery at the House of the Assistaxt^Judge. defence that he could not go about without being looked convicted before the Recorder of a libel, was brought —Some impudent thief has committed a robbery at the after by the police, and he complained of having been was ill-used. On hearing his sentence, he said, " Can' up last Saturday for judgment, and sentenced to be im- residence of Mr. Pashley, Q.C., the Assistant-Judge. He greatly t prisoned for two years.—The court, at its rising, ad- presented an official-looking letter at Mr. Pashley's ybw worship make it a fine, because I can get the money?" journed to Monday, November 24. house in Manche3ter-square, and said he was to wait for This was of course answered in the negative, and when The Case of Alleged Conspiracy, &c—George an answer. As the bell rang, the footman was bringing leaving the bar, Harrison made use of a violent threat Fossey surrendered at the Central Criminal Court on the tea-service down stairs, and he placed it on a table towards the constable, upon which he was brought Monday to take his trial with William Neary upon an in the hall while he went to the door. Tie took the back, and ordered by the magistrate to find bail for two indictment of misdemeanour and other charges of the letter up-stairs to Mr. Pasliley, and when he came down months, to commence on the termination of ona montb-'s same character. It will be remembered that Neary was the man was gone ; so were the tea-spoons, sugar-tongs, hard labour.—Joseph Tomllnson, a j>rivate in the_ ,:. tried last week, and convicted of stealing money belong- tea pot, and sugar-basin, as well as an umbrella. The Grenadiers, and Deborah, his wife, were charged at the ing to the prosecutor, Mr. Walker, an iron manufacturer thief got clear away. M arylebone police office , with a ferocious assault on. and contractor, at MUlwall. He was afterwards tried A Disgraceful Business.—-The town-crier an- several policemen. Both the accused were drunk last charge jointly with Tossey for obtaining nounced a few days ago at Itetford, in Northampton- Saturday night at the corner of Duke-street, Man- upon another cliester-sqtiare and on a policeman arriving, money by false pretences ; but the case failed entirely, shire, that a married woman, of the name of Starkey, , , the woman and the defendants were acquitted. Mr. Serjeant Ballan- would be offered for sale in the public market on the fol- said she would give her husband into custody for however the offi tine said upon that occasion that there were several other lowing day. At the appointed hour, a large number of knocking her about. The moment, , cer indictments against Neary and Fossey, and he -would people assembled ; but, previous to this, Starkey went to toolc him in charge, the woman attacked the constable. he ought, in the performance of his the house of a man named Bradley, where his -wife re- O ther policemen then arrived, and a fi ght took place, consider whether " duty, to proceed -with any of those indictments. The sided, and presented a halter with which to lead her the Grenadier and two other soldiers striking at the result was the laying of the present indictment, winch away. Bradley then attacked him, and bit his cheek officers with their belts, and the woman biting them, same circumstances as the former, and very deeply. As soon as he could get away, Starkey with great ferocity. Ultimately, both were conveyed arose out of the "b the chief witness, as before, was Steele, the nephew of returned to the iii6rket-place, related his sorrows, and to> the station-house. Tomlinson, wlien brought efore Possey, and the son of his former partner. There was was in the act of receiving the condolence of the by- the magis trate, said he was sorry for what had oc- confirmation of his testimony, however standers, when two policemen made their appearance, curred ; but the woman, with a loolc of defiance at the very little, if any, , ' and it transpired, as on the former trial, that legal pro- and took him into custody on a charge of being a deserter magistrate, ask».l, "Why don t you take my head off at ceedings were pending between the parties; and that from the militia of the West Hiding of Yorkshire. once?" . Both were sentenced to tlireee months' hard Fossey, who had since become bankrupt, had obtained an Committal of as Attorney i'x Court.—Mr. Cooper, laoour.—William Gaffer and Eliza Gaffer, man and , immediate second-class certificate after a full investiga- ah -attorney, was committed to prison one day last week, wife, have been found Guilty . at the Middlesex Sessions tion of his accounts and affairs by the Court of Bank- by the Chairinau of the Cheshire Quarter Sessions, for of an assault, accompanied by 'great violence, on two ruptcy ; and that he had a claim of between 6000£ tearing to pieces an invoice which would have damaged policemen on Saffron-hill. The 'former was sentenced . and 7000/. upon the estate of the, prosecuto r, which, if the case of the client he was representing. The action to- hard labour for a year, and the latter to one month's was seen by several persons, and the pieces were re- imprisonment. established, would enable him to pay 20s. in the pound • to all his creditors. The jury returned a verdict of Not covered ; but the event cieated a great sensation in Attempted Murder at Holloway. — Samuel Guilty.—In connexion with the offence of which he was court, and the chairman said, he had never known an Lowry, a -watchmaker, carrying on business at Spencer- previously convicted, Neary has been sentenced to nine event so audaciously wicked. Mr. Cooper was discharged street, Clerkenwell, but living at Holloway, has been months' hard labour. the next day : but an application will be made to the charged at the Clerkenwell police-office with attempting Strange Discovery of a Child.—-A shor t time ago, Court of Queen's Bench to have his nama struck off the to kill Thomas Poulson, a-labourer, by shooting at him. at the village of West Derby, as a carter living in. the rolls. The hearing of the case, thus strangely inter- Some time ago Lowry let Poulson a piece of ground at neighbourhood was proceeding with his cart and horses rupted, was suspended. Holloway, but finding that the latter was not regulaT in Along a lane, he observed, in an adjoining meadow, two A Reckless Bankrupt.—Judgment was given by the payment of his resit, he gave him notice to quit last highly respectable looking women, dressed in deep Sir. Commissioner Croulburn on Tuesday, in the Court Lady-day. Poulson refused to do so, and Lowry, to mourning, engaged in an operation, which attracted his of Bankruptcy, iu the case of W. Tingey, the proprietor prevent the other fro m occupying the ground, put up a attention. Having finished their work, they walked off of the Pantechnicon, Tottenham - court - road. His giite with a padlock attached to it. This was knocked hastily across the fields. As soon as they were gone, Honour said, " The case was one of a class which were down by Poulson almost immediately afterwards, in the carter repaired to the spot where he had noticed increasing in number in this court. In June, 1855, the consequence of which he was given into custody and them at their work, and at first saw nothing but a heap bankrupt had a capital of 23,000£, including 10,000/. brought before the Clerkenwell magistrate, who, how- of fallen leaves. After a time, however, the leaves seemed at his banker's. On the 13th of January, 185G, he ever, declined to interfere in the matter, as it arose to become suddenly animated, and the hand of a child handed over to the official assignee 13/. 5s. 5d., being entirely out of a case of disputed possession of land. ¦was projected above the surface. The carter immediately all the cash he had. Not only was the capital gone, Since that time the two men had been continually quar- removed the leaves, and found underneath them a male but the estate was involved in heavy liabilities. The relling, and the police, on several occasions, were obliged infant. He had it conveyed at once to the West Derby calculation of the official assignee was that the estate to interfere in order to quell the repeated broil3 and ¦workhouse ; but, notwithstanding all the care and at- would pay from 3d. to 4s. in the pound. It was but fi ghts which had arisen between the disputants and their tention which was paid to it, the child died of convul- just, however, to the bankrupt to say, that if his calcu- friends. One morning Poulson went there accompanied sions in a few days. The police arc searching for the lation had been realized the dividend would bo about by a follow-labourcr named Wright, whom he sent for a women. double the amount. Now, what were the charges si)ade, and, as the man was going to fetch this imple- Garotte Robbery neak Halifax.—Mr. Norcross against the bankrupt ? They were—first, that he did ment, he saw Lowry, who twice threatened to kill both Burrows, a printer of Halifax, has been assaulted and that which was a great offence on the part of any trader him and Poulson. After they had worked together for robbed by three men, with blackened, faces, on the high- :—viz., that when close upon bankruptcy he transferred some time on the piece of ground, both the men loft to Toad within a short distance of that town. Mr. Burrows, to another a portion of his property, the property being get some tools, when Poulson was shot at by Lowry ¦who is a shareholder in a new mill lately erected in the the Pantechnicon. The property was transferred to a from his bedroom window, and was wounded in the locality, had been lately in the habit of going there oncei near relative at a time when the bankrupt must h ave face, neck, and arms. The magistrate remanded Lowry a week, often taking with him large sums of money to known that lie was in failing circumstances. The next for a week, that the result of Poulson's injuries might be pay the contractors. One night, about a week ago, as charge was,that intending to give hia sister a preference, known, and refused to take bail. he was proceeding on horseback to the mill as usual, hoi he had given her a charge upon part of his property. FottQKitY.—Henry Sharp, a tickct-of-leavc man, was stopped by three men at a spot where two principal The third was, that ho had recourse to conduct which went with a forged cheque for 20?. to Stuckoy's bank- roads meet. One of the ruffians knocked him off hiai must always bo reprobated—obtaining money by any ing-house, Bristol, last Saturday morning. Suspicion horse, and he fell headlong on to the road. "While ho wasi means. Take, for instance, his transaction with David being excited, the man was requested to .go with one of in this situation, he was forcibly held down by two of thei Leopold Lewis, who passed through the Bankruptcy the clerks to the house of the firm purporting to have men, one of whom tried to throttle him with the scarf hei Court not very creditably, and obtained a th ird-class signed the cheque ; but he ran off while on the way. had on; and the third emptied his pockets of all thei certificate. Lewis had been a bankrupt once. He had On the same evening, he went to the shop of Messrs. money they contained, which fortunately did not amount; also been an insolvent. The bankrupt had had recourse Ilyam, outfitters, and tendered in payment for some to more than a few shillings. Exasperated at getting; to Lewis in raising money in a manner which wan most clothing a cheque on Stuckey's bank for 1 0/. He was in, bo small a booty, the thieves kicked their victim in[ improper. His own expression was—' The price is high, desired to call again in about an hour. lie left, and different parts of his body several times, with suchl but wo must have the money.' The transactions with the meanwhile the cheque Avas discovered to bo forged. violence as to cause the blood to gush from his mouth,, Lewis occurred at the time when the bankrupt know Sharp did not return, but ho was seen in the streets by nose, and ears. Mr. Burrows call ed for assistance, ancI his position , and ought to have been husbanding thei tlio cashier at Messrs. Hymn's, and wna told that the the sliop. the ruftlans, hearing the sound of footsteps approaching, property of his creditors. Rowland and Evans werei good3 ho had ordered were waiting for him at ran array. The injured man then attempted to romounit told to negotiate bills to the amount of 2000/., and tci Thither, accordingly, he went, and was given into cus- or at any price. Lewis at thia times tody. On his way to the station-house, he threw away liis horse, but found that the saddlc-girth3 had boon cut, get money nnj'how, ¦ and ho once more fell to the ground. Although much burt was an uncertificated bankrupt, and could have no pro- a blank cheque-book of Stuckey's Banking Company, by the blows he had received from the men, it is bclievcc1 porty of his own unless he had perjured himself aiulI from which two cheques had been taken. Sharp was that his injuries aro not fatal. retained it from liis assignees. The practice could nott committed for trial on both charges. Ho was tried, at 3 G loucester Assizes in 1852 for a similar oflfemco to that Murderous Assaults iiy a Discharged Getimai* be too much reprobated of procuring discounts in th< Soldikr.—Ludwlg Thttiss, a German, formerly belongingj form of artlclos of only nominal value. In this case3 -with which ho is now charged, and was sentenced to to the disbanded German Legion, is in custody under ia. there wero given, for the 2000Z. of bills, cash undeir ten years' transportation. Ho obtained his ticket of charge of murderously assaulting, with a s-pring dagger- 200/., certain poisonous liquids christened for the nonce3 leuve in May of the present year. knife, a man named Moules, and a police-constables. champagne (a laugh), some railway sleepers which hatI A YOUMO GlSNXLKMAJT AND HIS Ri:VIiL3. A 1064 THE I/EAPER. [No: 346, Sat urd at Mr. Lindsay, an hotel-keeper, broug ht an action in the and Francis Davenport have been sentenced at the pillars were almost concealed with flags and the recovery of 901., due to Middlesex Sessions to four years' penal servitude for latter banners tfc Court of Exchequer for inscribed with the names of Crimean heroes ' At him from a young man of twenty-five, named Meiklam , stealing small sums of money, the one from a Hindoo the bottom of the hall were emblematic figures ¦ indebted to him to that amount sailor , and the other from an Englishman.-^-At the and illn whom he alleged to be urinations, surmounted with a scroll bearing the name nf for the use of apartments, and for food and .goods sup- same sessions, William Walsh was condemned to only ' Florence Nightingale.' In the compartments entered the house in December, 1855, eight months' hard labour for assaulting and seriously of th« plied. He first roof were armorial devices representing the allied na and it was soon apparent that he did not live in the injuring a man who reproved him for insulting in the tions, the United Kingdom, and the city of * manner. He used frequently, said streets his (the prosecutor's) sister-in-law. Edinburgh most respectable " " Ihe number present considerably exceeded 2000 Table.' Mr. Xindsoy, in cross-examination, " to he drank." He Attempted Suicide.—Elizabeth Fogarty, a girl of -were set in the body of the hall for 1420." The nineteen was charged at Worship-street with attempting Risht often had ' ladies ' in the house, unknown to the hotel- , Hon. the Lord Provost presided. The speeches were too keeper, and racing men frequented the place. " Young to commit suicide by swallowing- laudanum. It appeared long to permit of our reproducing them. (a friend) and the defendant," continued Mr. Lindsay, that about a fortnight before she flung herself off one of Proposed Ciumean Monument At Sheffieid. used to have suppers at my house a d then they ent the brid ges but was dragged out. On that occasion she - —a " , n w , movement has been commenced among some of the out to their midnight revels. Young only had a bed- was taken to Bow-street. On being now asked the working men of Sheffield to erect a monument in room at my house. Sometimes the defendant used to reason of these attempts , she rep lied :— My father is a of that ' toivn to the memory our countrymen who fell in the get into Young's bed , and Young did not come home woodcutter in Westminster, I have lost my mother, but Crimea. They have communicated with Miss Florence until the nest day, -when he wonld arrive in a smart I have a stepmother, arid, as my father would not do Nightingale , through her relative, Miss : ~ Shore, of Meers- brougham— St. John's-wood, you know. (JLaughter.) anything for me, and I have no place to go to, what can brook Hall, Sheffield , requesting that she would consent On one occasion , I lent a person 21.; that was for her I do ? I yesterday went to the Mansion-house to ask to lay the foundation stone. Miss Ni r ghtin gale "has re-* to get a page s dress for her maid. She was dressed as for an asylum ; but the Mansion-house was shut up, plied as follows:—-" Lea Hurst, Matlock, Oct. 23, 1856 a queen, and wanted her maid to be dressed as a page and I therefore wandered on to Hackney, and swallowed — "My dear Lydia,—The purpose mentioned to me in to hold her train at a bal masque. I went to fetch the the poison in .Mare-street. ' I bought the poison in the your letter has my deepest sympath * y. It would have defendant fro m the theatre when . she arrived , but he was Strand, at a chemist 's, where the gentleman asked me been most congenial with my feelings, on my return with somebod and on my telling y he liked better, and he would not come. what it was for, , him it was not for from the deathbeds of so many brave men, to take a I can't tell who ate the suppers I have charged for; me, he served me directly." The girl was remanded, part in it. I shall be with the men of Sheffield in spirit they were supplied to the defendant in his private and on the following day Mr; D'lSyncourt, the mag is- whenever they execute their proposed plan. It is with room." A verdict was given for Sir. Lindsay, for the trate , told her he had succeeded in obtaining for her an real pain that I feel compelled to decline the privilege amount claimed. admission into the Elizabeth Foy Institution, for which which they- offer to me, of laying the first stone. But I A BURGXAR CATJGBriC IN A ChIMSEY. A thief she seemed very grateful. believe I shall best honour the cause of those brave dead clxnxbed a fe\v nights ago on to the roof of a house in Riotous Boys.—For some weeks past a congregation by abstaining from appearing to court that publicity Baitffshire occupied by a widow, and attempted to de- of Dissenters, who meet fox worship at a school on which I consider to have been my greatest impediment scend the chimney in order that he might ransack tha Brixton-hill, have been greatl y annoyed by a number of in the work I have been engaged in for their sakes, im- house. But he stuck fast in ' a * narr ow . part, and could idle boys, who have persistently disturbed the service by peding it by arousing in some minds care for worldly not get up or down. His struggles roused the old making loud noises outside. One evening, a few Sun- distinctions. . . . . Pray believe me, my dear Lydia woman from her sleep, and she strai ghtway kindled day s ago, a member of the congregation, on going out to ever trul y yours ,—Florence Nightengale." -_ mj8s some straw in the grate , the result of which -, was that ascertain the cause of the clamour, received a severe blow Nightingale has also sent a cheque of 20/. towards the the thief was horribly scorched. He roared for assist- from a brickbit. A"t length it was found necessary to object , consisting of subscriptions of . '51. each from her- ance, and some navvies -who were passing got a ladder obtain the services of one or two policemen ; and last self, her father, Mr. 'Nightingale, and her uncle and and ropes, aad drew- the intruder forth more dead than Sunday, a youth of seventeen , the son of a Dissenter, aunt , Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Smith. The undertaking was caught and placed on the following morning before will be laun alive. Two policemen who were among the crowd then , ched' by a public meeting convened by the * ' " ' ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' • ' • toot him into custody. the Lambeth magistrate , by -whom he was ordered to Ma yor. . . ¦: ; ¦/' • . . - . - . ¦: .; • ¦ find two sureties in 10£ each, or one in 20/., to be of Grajjd Night Attack anjd Siege Operations at Middlesex Sessions.—The ¦November - general ses- ; sions commenced on Monday, when Josep h. Boucher, a good behaviour for one month. CHATiiAM.-r-Tfae whole of the troops belonging to the Furious Driving.—A boy of fifteen, the serv ant of lloyal Engineers together with the East India Company s designer , was indicted for embezzling- the sura of 18/. 1 2s., * ' and a variety of other sums of money, which he had re- a marke t gardener , has been sent to prison for a week Sappers and Miiieri, and a large party of troops belong- ceived on account of James Jacquier, a jacquard loom by Aldermau "Wire for driving a cart belonging to his ing to the provisional battalion and the Royal Marine manufacturer in Bethnal-green, his master. He pleaded master with such reckless speed as to knock down arid Light Infantry, were engaged until a late hour on Mon- " GS-uilty," by advice of counsel. It appeared that he seriousl y injure an old man in Thames-street, City. day night iu a night attack and other siege operations, had. committed the offence under the pressure of embar- The Knife again.—Giuseppe Sasella, a soldier iu the which took place on Chatham Lines, in the presence rassment, arising out of some foolish speculation. He Anglo-Italian Legion, has attempted to stab a woman of several thousand spectators. The tactics, which became very repentant, and confessed what he had done of the town in the streets at night y and also a man who included the tracing of parallels , the formation of t o Ms master , whose opinion of him was so high that, went to the rescue of the girl. He was intoxicated at trenches and "batteries, and the conducting and re- notwithstanding the confession, he continued him in his the time. Having been apprehended, he was brought pulsing of sorties, occup ied about four hours. , The service as collector for three weeks after he was aware before th e Guildhall mag istrate, by whom the case was points attacked consisted of those portions of the line of of his offence , and then, after consulting some other adjourned. Sasella denies that the knife was open. fortifications which surround Chatham Garrison, and per son or persons , he gave him into custody. The As- This Murderous Assault is Pakliament-street. •which are known as the Spur Battery, the King's sistant Judge sentenced him to three months' hard labour. —-The wounded man Cope is still unable to attend at Bastion , the Prince of Wales's Bastion, and Prin ce —Thomas King, a youth of seventeen, has been found the police-office ; but he is progressing favourablyj and Edward's Bastion. The whole force employed is calcu- Guilty of stealing some plate fr om the house of a clergy- no doubts'are now entertained of his recovery. lated at 1200. men. The effect of the lights and fire- —John Parke balls man at Hackney, and was sentenced to six years' penal Moue Tick.et-of-Lea.ve Ruffianism. , , which the garrison burnt in order to reveal the servitude , it being shown that he was an old companion a sullen-looking young man, out on ' ticket of leave,' locality and doings of the attacking party, was extremely of thieves. Another young man, named Plane, was has been committed for trial for a violent assault upon grand, causing the country to be illuminated for some Acquitted of a charge of being concerned in the sam e Edwin Hoyle, assistant to Mr. Milo, tobacconist, of Bull- miles round. robbery. He was able to prove an alibi.— Samuel Lane, inn-court, Strand. The prisoner walked into the shop OBITUARY. a shoemaker, has been sentenced to six months' hard on Monday morning, and , asking for a pennyworth of Sir John • Jekyis, Chief Justice of the Court of Common labour for a murderous assault on Eliza Mollov, an snuff, took up a silver-mounted meerschaum pipe and a Pleas, died last Saturday night from atrophy caused by bundle of cigars and concealed them under the sleeves Irishwoman with whom he lived, and whom he used to , a distemper from which he had long suffered, and which ill-use and threaten, for being ' a heretic ,' he being a of his coat. He was observed by Mr. Hoyle, and fol- had reduced him to a very delicate state. In early life, Protestant and she a Roman Catholic. The prisoner lowed. He then handed back the cigars, but , on being he served for some time in the army. He was called to said, he did not care for six months, but he was entirely- detained by Hoyle, he struck him a violent blow on the the bar in 1824. Having in time become a Queeu's innocent of the charge which had been brought against head with some weapon, cutting open his temples, but Counsellor, he was made Attorney-General in 184G, and him. He did not mind a little while in a Xondon prison happily doing him no serious injury.—A well-dressed in 1850 was raised to the Chief Justiceship of the Court after twenty-one years' hard service in India.—Maria man , with several aliases, is 3n custody for a garotte rob- of Common Pleas, in succession to Lord Truro, who Sitch, Louisa Harper, and Lydia Mayno, -were indicted, bery committed some few nights ago on the person of became Lord Chancellor. Sir John Jervis was a Liberal the first on a charge of stealing a sum of 80/. from her Mr. Edward Mason, a banker's clerk in Blackman- in politics. lie sat for Chester from 1832 to ISnO. master, a feeerseller in Holborn atreet, Borough. Two other men (not captured) were Haggard , and the others for re- concerned in the outrage. O n Mr. Mason calling out for Dr. , Chancellor of the Diocese of Man- ceiving the sum, knowing it to have been stolen. chester , expired at Brighton yesterday week, in the Mayne was Acquitted, but Sitch and Harper were found assistance, the prisoner, who was engaged in rilling his sixty-third year of his age. Guilty. Tho first was sentenced to victim 's pockets, exclaimed to one of the others who was four, and the second , p to six months' hard labour. grasping him by the throat, " Pinch him tighter ! inch MISCELLANEO US. Fraud.—Tho charge against Alexander Steinberg him tighter !" which was accordingly done. He was then thrown on the ground and all the men ran away. Australia.— Some interesting particulars of fresh of defrauding Mr. John Deportu of 1650?". (the particu- , gold-fields are contained in the Straits Times, which lars of which were related in thia paper last week) was The chief of the gang, ho wever, was stopp ed and secured ings at ^ by a constable. The police report biro, as an old offender ; says :— " The discovery of new and rich digg again gone into at Guildhall on Tuesday, when a man Kocky River and Stony Creek, near the town of named Collins was also put at the bar, char ged with and he has been committed for trial. Bnthurst—which place has been deftrted for tho gold- conspiring in the same fraud. Both prisoners were re- fields—has caused a complete panic (sic). They wore manded, and bail "was refused. NAVAL ANP MILITARY. rushing in hundreds from the older diggings to the new Mobk KoyalBkitish Bank Robberies.—Tho widow The Edinburgh Crimean Banqukt.—" The banquet El Dorado, which we need not be surprised at when we of Inspector Rumball attended at the Marylebono police- to the Crimean soldiers iu Edinburgh," says the Times, aro gra vely assured, on credible authority, that one office on Tuesday, to say that she was loft witlx a family " took place in the Corn Exchange there on the evening party secured three hundred ounces and another one Of six children, and that she was in so distressed a state of Friday week.. The hall was decorated with a profu- hundred and sixty ounces in the course of one after- that she knew not what to do. A subscription had been sion of ornament, while with tho brilliant uniforms of noon. Many thousands were on the newly-discovored 6Jfc J?Pi after her husband's death, among tho inspectors the guests was combined tho still more attractive splen- tr eas ure spot, and among tho number about two thou- k«? 8eaeral police force, and a sum was collected, dour of a large assemblage of tho fair sex. Tho spectacle sand Chinese. By the way, the latter class of immi- •wwch, after payment of debts, &c, left in tho hands of Adelaide by 0 Thia 8h0 in tUe was altogether one of tho most dazzling and magnificent grants wcro pouring into Sydney and SJnSf V 1- Plaoea Royal British which the city of Edinburgh has seen for many a duy. shiploads , and several steamers had been chartered to w,J*^ *w° ^ya before it stopped. She had since Behind the platform table was raised a huge military convey them along tho coast and up the rivers so as to IST«£SK?? part with many articlc3 of tonituro tro phy, consisting in great part of spoils taken from our enable them to reach tho diggings by the shortest pos- ^i f rec ent ene mies, over which tho flags of tho gnllnnt regi- Biblo route. At Melbourne, they were seriously dis- r ; ments invited to the banquet waved. Surmounting tbc cussing tho propriety of removing the restrictions placed &S^«X '^7^K;whole was emblazoned tho significant scroll ' Welcome on , the landing of tho Chinese in that province, scciug to Auld Reekie !' On cither side were tho ancient arms that the influx into the colony, either viA Sydney ot S£^a»«ws»2an: free DiarcoroRTioHA™ of Scotland and tho heraldry of tho city, as also the por- Adelaide, is greater than when tho Celestials were Sektehcik,. -Henry Tlmrlow traits of tho allied sovereigns, Tho walls and centra l to land at Melbourne and WilliamBtown." November 8, 1856.] THE LEADEB, 1065 mSmmSt^mSm^mmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmiimmmammmmmmmmmm ^mmm ^mmmmmimmmmmmmm^^ •^mmmmmmmmmmmm m^mm ^m ^m ^^ m^— ^^^^ ^^ —^ —^^ "^ —— to hear a serm on for the benefit of the City Dispensar y. Thb Ca pb of Good Hope.—The last advices from himselfh a Wesleyan Method ist, said he bad felt pleasure t There has been an interview inii contribu ting personall y towards the fund raised by TThe edifice now presen ts a very splendid appearance. . the Cape are very meag re. ed his seat as a Baron and the chief of the Kafirs , and ttlhe churchwardens of Cheltenham , in order to " add to Mr. Baron Plait has resign betwe en the Governor has been succeeded by been , arr anged. — St. Yincen t, Cape de thetl stinted income of Mr. Close." The churchwardens of the Court of Exchequer. He matte rs Lave who on Thu rsday went through cer- ered terribl y from cholera. Out of a had added, in the shape of Easter dues and other offer- MMr. Watson, Q-C, Verd , has suff and on Friday " took the 1200, 800 persons hav e died, prin cipally ingsii , 40 01. a year to Mr. Close's stipend. He rejoiced tatain pr elimina ry ceremoni es, population of " The bodies of the dead were burnt in the at Mr. Close's removal to a scene of less arduous duty, oa ths and his seat. males . 's Political Soirees. — The q in the " absence of means to inter them - where-n he would be under the Evangelical Bishop Villiers. Mr. Ernest Jo nes public s uare 's political soirees was held at Imperador screw steamshi p, which took out troops Mr.Talk , M.P., on the State of the Nation .— second of this gent leman The 's Hall on Tuesday night. Th e speaker fro m England, was coaled by women. TThe annual dinner of the Agri cultural Associat ion of SiSt. Martin , West Ind ies. -—There is little news of importance Woodbury,T Devonshire, wa3 held on Wednesday week, a^again insisted on the misappropriation of the land , and The relic of Nor- any of the West India Islands. At Jam aica, the 1The health of Mr. Palk , M.P. for South Devon , having assserted that the British constitution is a from that it represents only two elements , sugar crops were in a prosperous stat e, but it was ex- beenb drunk , tha t gentleman , in acknowled ging the mman feudalism, the pimento plant would , fall very short of honour, r eviewed the presen t stat e of politics in the land and money, and that it is " one of the vilest shams pected that " ordi nary avera ge. In many places it had totally sistyle peculiar to meetings of the kind he was then ad- aiand greatest legislative curses ever inflicted on a people. the Mr. Jon es said the re failed. The Demerara Royal Gazette says that the im- dressing.d He said that he was a Conservative in his InIr the cour se of his address , soi es himself migra tion pro spects in that colony are much brig hter opinions , yet that he was not the slave of prejudice , wwere not given for the sake of profit to , for that season than they were last. Alread y seven ships norn of systems whose day has gone by, bu t would , anyai money remaining after the payment of expenses this " chartered to bring immigrants from Calcutta and susi pport that progress which the country demand s, as wwas applied to " the propagation of political truth. are Cen tral Afbica. Madr as. Immigration from Madeira is stopped for the 1l Society-.— A.' publ ic'¦ ' thou hast brou ght him from the fiery furnace , and not The Turkish lastj Monday evening, at the Society s Rooms, in Water- has been hel d at Exeter HallL even a smell of fire has passed upon him." The acci- meeting of this society . l]oo-place, T all-mall ; Mr. Collier , Q.C., M.P., occup ied raised for the propagation of1 dent, he afterwards said mi ht not have arisen so in aid of the funds being the, chair. A large number of new members were bal- , " g M r. Kinuaird M.P., in the5 much fr om the malice of men a3 from some simpl Protestantism in Tur key ; , loted] for and elected , and a long document was read , y was to take3 ¦wicked intention to disturb the congregation. I cannot chair. The special object of the gather ing ]pointing out the chief subjects connected with the re- ' great oxxrtions forr : entertain for a moment the thought that there was any. leave of Dr. Hamlin , who had made form of the law, which would demand discussion during intention to murder those fellow-crcaturos whose lives, the missiou. In the course of his address , that gentle-" the session. ' were sacrificed on that melanchol y occasion. God for- man spoke of the rap id spread of Christianity in Turk ey,» Oddities and Tkut iis, by Mr. Hus ky Drummoni >, and Christian 1 give th e insti gators of that horrid scene. They have[ and of tho facility -with which tho Bible M.P. —This eccentric gentleman presided on Friday week lo which wasa my forgiveness from the depths of my soul. It sh all[ tracts may be distributed among the peop , at the annual dinner of the Dorking Agricultural Society. ago. But ho observed not stop us ; I shall preach there again yet— not -the case only a few year s , >, In addressing tho feastere , he alluded to agricultural , however , to preach ProtestantismI (suppressed sounds of approval)—and G od sh all give usj " If En glishmen were to attempt statistics , which ho did not think would be of any use, it would arouse their constitutional souls. Satan ' ire shall tremble yet more and more. among the Turks , * but he thought tho far mers had better let the Govern- s emp fanaticism. However if they could evan- God is vri th us. Who shall be against us?" The ser-[ jealousy and , " meat have the informat ion required , " for tho se fellows ' Armenians they were so intimatel y ussociated mon afterwards delivered , is gelizc the , * would have the returns , whether they would give them which Mr. Spurgeon pr inci ples would be dissemi- describe d as singul arl y free from the preache r's usuali with the Turks that their " or not , and , if they refused to give them quietl y, fellows nated among the latter. If therefore , tho great problemII peculiari ties. A grea t crowd awaited Mr. Spurgcon 's , would be sent about tho country to obtain tho informa- Christianize Turkey, he believed the way to0 depar ture from the clinpel and many eage r admirers was how to tion , and the wors t of it would bo that they would have , spread the ti>uth among the Anne- ran af ter his carriage to grasp the hand which ho ex-~ solvo it wduld be to ," to pay them , and therefore he thought it was a ' bad , nians. Direct missions to Turkey woul d fail , but if' " tende d from tho window of hi s br ougham. It is stated " spec' " (Laughter.) Ho then distributed tho awards , broug ht the three millions of Armenians in Turkey that the child who was carried away wounded by his they Y observing that agriculturists were as much skilled to embrace tho princ iples of Christianity, it would in-" since a Blanchester man father after tho accident is not dead , but is recovering.r labourers as any other class, ' " nuenco the whole empire and each Protestan t Armenian, Another of tho sufferers however (a man), b aa died in , ' t would bung '.e at drivin g a plough or shearing a sheep, , would become a missionary to the Turk. " Thre 10e * the course of this week. in fact , while a ' clodhopper , as ho was called , would do both Protesta ntism said tho speaker , have been11 The New Dean op public meeting ; off elements of , perfectl y well. Ho congr atulated tho meeting on tho Carlisle. —A free press free schools, andd the inhabi tants of Cheltenham has been held for the introduced into Turk ey—a , conclusion of the war , and upon their attaining, " if not —Colon el Rnvvlinson gavo some particu- purpo se of inaugurating some testimonial to the liov. F.;i free churches. '" peace , at least the possession of a par chment with several ' id progress of tho JSestoriuu Christians43 Close, the late incumbent of tho parish who has recentl y, lars of tho rap i illustrious names appended to it; but whether it was , after various resolutions had beenu been appointed to tho deanery of Carlisle. Several Evan-\_ of Kurdistan ; and , intended to net up to all tho conditions therein oxpressed , broke up. ht to gelical clergymen and some Disscntera were on tho plat-._ carried , the mooting ho could not say. " H o though t thu t En gland oug form. Speech es expressive of affection for Mr. CloseiO Sr. Mar y Aldeumau y. — The Lord Mayor , thoio interfere , and tell despotic soverei gns that they should were delivered , and resolutions in accordance with tho10 Sheriffs of London and Middlesex , and tho Under-r- not treat their subjects in a way according to their fancy. objec t of tho meeting were carried. One of these reso->- sheri ffs, attended at St. Mary Aldennary Church upon,n Alluding to the Empero r of tho French , ho said that lutions was seconded by a gontloman who, in avowingg | its ro-opening, af ter extensive ropa irs and restorationss, I " individu al had been making war against tho English 1066 THE IiEAD E R, [No. 346, Sat ukd at newspapers ; and, although he (the speaker) had seen MATHBsnr v. Lord Maidstone—A ruleto show cause many abuses made of the liberty of the press, he would why the verdict in this action (which was tried at the rather have it exist >vith all its mischief than suffer it last Guildford assizes) should not "be set aside on the Ifimtmiyl to be controlled one iota. (Hear , hear.) They mast grounds of misdirection, and that it waa against evi- tell tie Emperor of tie French that, before he puts dence, has been granted by l£r. Justice Cresswell in the down the English press, he must put down the English Court of Common Pleas. Lbadek Office, Saturday, November 8. people (great cheering) ; for they would be fighting, not Education in the Mnasa Districts. —An interest- THE FRENCH OFFICIAL PRESS. merely for their own Interests, but for the interests of ing Report on the actual state of the population in the all civilized beings in the world." Mr. Drummond cou- The following article from Friday's Monitzur may Mining Districts has lately leen drawn up by Mr. Hugh t ba clndcd by saying that he thought Lord Palmerston Seymour Tremenheere, the Commissioner appointed, aken as an. example of the official equivocation con- " the right man in the right place." under the Act of the 5th and 6th of Victoria, c. 99, for stantly practised in Paris. What becomes of Hakvest IIosie.—The old English custom of the re- harvest- the investigation of the subject. The statement offers a sponsibility of the press, in a cou try home las just been revived on the St. Giles estate, Dorset- n in -which one descriptive and statistical view of the social and educa- ministerial organ is thus insp shire, the seat of the Earl of Shaf tesbury. Having pre- tional improvement of these classes, and more especially ired to contradict another ciously entertained at a fes tivity of this description the of the voluntary associations formed for educational pur- so as to keep up a system of universal duplicity and peasantry on a portion of his domain in that county to poses by their employers. It appears that the "working of mystification ?— the number of nearly three hundred, his Lordship last the compulsory school system had proved very defective The Constitutwnnel of the 5th week invited those residing in the parishes of Horton, " in9t. contains an when these local combinations weTe first set . on. foot article upon a point in dispute in external affairs Woodlands, Sutton, and Gassage All Saints. The some five years ago. Until the age of ten, indeed, the which labourers and servants on the various farms, numbering children of miners were not allowed to work in mines ; we should be very sorry to allow the reader to suppose about three hundred and fifty, assembled during the and up to that time they attended the regular schools. has emanated from tho Government. To envenom a morning in the yard adjoining the mansion of St. Giles, But it happened that, when the labour of life began, discussion is not the way to facilitate its solution. under the care of their respective employers, and shortly Eng- education in its turn immediately ceased ; and chil- land and France, who together carried on afterwards proceeded to church, headed by a band of dren of eleven and twelve were found to have the war and music. After the service, an hospitable dinner was forgo ttea all that they had been taught in the ordi- concluded peace, and who agree upon all the great served in a large tent. The Earl then addressed the nary schools. In order to cure this evil, Mr. Trernen- questions of the day in Europe, are divided in opinion company in terms of cordial welcome, and finally the heere succeeded, in 18 51, *' In inducing all the principal upon one of a very minor interest (asses faibh). "Will park was thrown open and ¦ dancing kept up with much ' '¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ , ¦ ; ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' iron and coal masters in South Staffordshire to form • ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ; '¦ ' ' ¦ ' the difference be settled by a preliminary arrangement spirits . . . . ¦ ' . . . . themselves into an association, and to provide adequate or by conference ? That is the only thing to be Herat.—Notwithstanding the efforts of England, the funds for offering prizes of some value; in all the schools decided Persian army (according to a despatch, from Constanti- of their respective neighbourhoods, to children of not But, under all circumstances, we entertain the firm, con- nople) is actively pressing the siege of Herat. It is less than eleven years of age." This scheme for per- viction that the difficulty will soon be removed, without fortifying the environs, of which it has obtained pos- petuating or extending the period of education by running upon the double error of weakening the English session after having defeated the Affghans 6000 of whom , means of competitive examinations was soon more alliance and of failing to fulfil engagements contracted."' have surrendered. widely adopted. The iron and coal masters of Follow srsr Leader.—-A newspaper is shortly to be North Staffordshire and Shropshire formed similar The article alluded to appeared in. the Co/istitutionnel started in Somersetshire, the title of which is more associations ; and those of South Wales followed the of Wednesday, and had reference to the question at issue fl attering than fair to ourselves, being nothing less than example- Since the accession of these districts to the between France and England with respect to the new The Leader ' and Somersetshireman. It /was at first stated scheme, Mr. Tremenheere has directed his attention to Bessarabi an boundary. The article is written with great that the journal was to be an organ of Mr. Prince and the North Midland and Northern Counties with similar his followers in the bitterness, and imputes bad faith and ambitious designs ¦ ' ' Abode of Love ;' but' ¦ this' has¦ ¦ been success; and it appear - ' ¦ • ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ : ¦ ' ¦ ¦ • s that a system of competitive denied. . .. ; . - - • • • . education, prolonging and extending the operation of to England. Mr. Htoephrey Beown; M.P., of British Bank repu- the regular schools upon a purely voluntary system^— There are rumours of an approaching change in tha tation, has, in the exercise of his magisterial capacity at and initiated so lately as the year 1851—rhas now been French Ministry, owing to the financial embarrassments Tewiesbury, condemned a man to two months' imprison- adopted in nearly all the mining districts of England.— and the distressed state of the working classes. ment for stealing half-a-crown's worth of coal. The 2)aily News. foolish man ought to have committed depredations to The Firework Explosion near HuD»ERSPrEiT>. the extent of some thousands¦ , and then he would have — beea safe. . ' . - . , ' ' . • . .;.: : - : ; " . ¦: • ' The man who was injured by the firework explosion at . Raschcliffe SIGNOR MANIN AND MURATTSM. Eabthquake bj South Austbaij a. :— A shock of , near Huddersfield, of which we gave the earthquake -was distinctl particulars last week, has died. This makes the second The following letter has been addressed by Sign or y felt in and around Adelaide death resulting from the casualty. at about a quarter Mauin¦ ¦¦ to the Unione of Turin¦ :— past two o'clock on Wednesday ' • ¦: ' morning, the 25th of June. It was accompanied by a The Great Gold Robbery.—William Pierce and . }. . . -, " Paris , Nov. 4. lond rumbling sound, which lasted for several seconds James Burgess, the former once a guard, and the latter, u Sir,—-Your Parisian correspondent has included van and gave the idea of thunder underground. It was till Wednesday night, holding a. similar office in the among tlie partizans of Prince Murat. That statement is naturally felt more in lofty houses, in some of the service of the SouthrEastern Railway Company, were incorrect, and I hope you will permit me to rectify it. I upper rooms of which the earthenware and even the on Thursday brought before the Lord Mayor, in custody rally to the flag of the National Party, whose wish is the furniture were perceptibly shaken. From the nume- of a detective officer , charged with having been con- independence and unification of Italy. I may accept an ad- rous letters published in the Adelaide papers, from per- cerned in a robbery of 15,OOOJ. worth of gold from a vance, though slow, in the way which leads to a linal sons resident in town and the suburban districts, it package in its transit from London to Paris in the month object, until an opportunity be presented of attaining it seems to have extended over a wide range.—¦Australian of May, 1855. They were remanded. completely; but, in any case, I disapprove and reject and New Zealand Gazette. Fikes.-—A fire broke out yesterday morning en the every retrograde or divergent step, and I therefore General Williams and Oslvr Pacha.—In reply to premises of Mr. J. Lamparr, jeweller, 3G, Church-street, reject and disapprove the Muratist solution ns nnti- some observations of Lieutenant-Colonel Simmons, "Sir Shoreditch, which has been attended ¦with great loss of national. Tho Muratist solution would not be progress, W. P. Williams writes to the Times, explanatory of a property. Thepremises in question were in the joint occu- but retrogression. If, for our misfortune, it succeeded, remark in his published letters depreciatory of Omar pation of several families, the members of which were it would consolidate the Austrian domination in Northern Pacha's generalship in the Asiatic campaign: — "On sleeping when the constable on duty pevceived the indi- Italy ; it would introduce in Naples an indirect foreign the arrival of Omar Pacha to take command of the cations of fire. Before more than one or two of the dependence ; it would probably dismember Sicily, and army which was intended to relieve Kars, he -wrote to inmates could be awakened, the flames had taken pos- abandon it to another foreign influence, and it would the Mushir Vassif Pacha, by the hands of an aide-de- session of the staircase ; the rest of the inmates then create a most serious obstacle to future unification. camp, telling him, that ' if we stood firm for twenty escaped by the back windows. Several houses were Murat on tho throne of Naples could not, even if he days he would relieve us.' It can easily bo imagined damaged. — Another fire occurred at the same time on wished, establish a national policy, nor a liberal policy. that we waited anxiously and worked hard during those the premises of Mr. Rushton, licensed victualler, Grove- Murat on the throne of Naples would be fatally, aiid'by twenty days in expectation of the succour which Omar street, Deptford. The building -w as nearly burnt down. the inevitable force of circumstances, the rival mid tho Pacha know while promising that he could or would In both cases insurances had been effected. antagonist of the House of Savoy, and necessarily th e not render. Selim Pacha played j the same game from Paris Savings Bank.—The sums paid into the Paris friend and the ally, secret or avowed, of Austria, tho Trebizond, telling us that he had an army sufficient to Savings Bank last week amounted to 899,528f. from natural enemy of that House. relieve us, and that his men were burning for advance. 4124 depositors, of whom 497 were new, and tho reim- " He who affirms that Murat, when King of Naples, Wo therefore held on to the hopes inspired by these bursements to 4 GO,01GL would give a liberal constitution, form an alliance with. two generals, until famine had reduced the strength of Robhery by IJani>itti The Pr esse d'On'ent of Piedmont, and furnish a contingent of troops for tho our devoted little Turks, and rendered impossible nil Constantinople gives an account of a horrible crime, war against Austria, is either a dupo or a deceiver. chance of marching and cutting their way over the similar to those of the chauffeurs which caused such ter- Such tilings Murat while a Pretender may promise, but mountains ; and I -will venture to say that as long as a ror in Franco in 1793 :—" Four bandits wearing masks that promise Murat when King would not and could not soldier of that garrison survives, the names of those two entered on the 17th ult. the house of M. Nonna, of tho fulfil. men will bo execrated." village of St. Georges, near Sulina, and, seizing liis wife, " Far from me any intention of personal oflence I Colliery Infohmations. — Several small colliery who was alone in the house at the time, summoned her speak not of tho man, -whom I do not know. I siicak owners have been fined by the West Riding justices for to say where her husband, who -was supposed to be rich, of the situation and its inevitable conditions. I sum up breaches of the law in not having established special kept his monoy concoalcd. The poor woman solemnly my intimate convictions in these words:—Ho vlio is ft rules, for non-publication of general rules, for omitting declared that he had no monoy secreted ; but they, not partisan of Murat is a traitor to Italy.—Accept, &c, to fence shafts believing her, bound her hand and foot, and committed , &c. ! " Manin.'V .. ^A3Llj ov A Bridge and Loss op Life.—Some of great atrocities on her, amongst other things cutting and tab arches of a newly-constructed bridge over the River hacking her back and tlie fleshy parts of her person, and vii^*1>iasda*e i nQav Darlington, have fallen as the applying a lighted candle to her bosom. Whilst they NAPLES. ei1 ere rom the woodwork or woro thus treating tho woman, M. Nonna came in, and ™«!rS T -°ving centres. Two A French and an English steamer arc cruising of 1"6 0X1° hopolossly inJttred. anat Town. Hall that the open supporters and sires, the penalty is too remote, too faint, to the profit which he can rake together in the Premier, and the policy he have its effect upon him. The very difficul the covert foes of ty higher stage ; and may ultimately be even an 13 supposed to represent, found themselves is to get at such men in the nick of time, to honourable director, with his own face. It is in the addresses of the carriage face to preach the sermon which Eobson illustrates his own mansion, and his own debts, all Town Council and the Commercial Associa- to the Robson before he accumulates its raw placed on a safe footing, with the possibility that vre have the expression of tie views material ; and we doubt tion even whether the of converting the debts into assets by some of Manchester on large imperial questions, picture of the two RoBsoifs, repeating Ho- lucky turn. "We could point to more and a hearty recognition of the niesumed ga than rth's moral of the Rake' s Progress, would one man whose name now fi gures high in lists merits of Xord Palmees'ton'. It is in the make the new Robson of the hour pause in of directors, whose contribution is believed address of the Chamber of Commerce tbat his supper, or do anything hut quiz the to be an. honour to a charity, whose prese we see traces of the spiri nce t, if not the pen, of ultimate fate of the fellow who had not been would be hailed with heartfelt delight at a Cobben, Bright, and Gibson—of the mate- sharp enough to keep a better costume. public meeting, but who might at some period rialists and non-interventionists. In the Besides, the Robson may turn round upon of his life have gone into a melancholy siding former addresses luord Palmebston is re- us, and say that he could not accomplish his such as that in which Robson has come to a garded as the maintainer of British honour, career without our assistance. Somebody collision. It all depends upon the degree of the " foe of oppression in every form;" the must make his opportunity, and so it was in cleverness and luck, and perhaps upon the " protector of British subjects abroad ;" as a the present case. Eobsoit was first intro- degree of complicity into which higher jer - Minister who in a time of danger and Aber- duced to the Crystal Palace Company as a sons can be drawn. Davidson and Gorion deenism was found " possessed of firmness smart young man, well worth his clerk's obtained first-rate assistance, even after one and abih'ty commensurate with the crisis." salary of one pound a week. The Crystal of the firm had been distinctly recognized as And Mr. Tubister assured his lordship that I?alace Company offered double ; and soon " a thief." These are considerations wHch Me Manchester men are not wholly devoted after be entered the glass house establish- materially abate the moral influence of the to cotton-hags and money-making ; but that ment, he was promoted to a better position. pair of pictures. The Robson of 1855 was in a ju st and necessary war Her Majesty At the head of the transfer department was sharp enough to attain the distinguished would " find no men more determined to a Mr. Easson, who " suffered a good deal position that he did, but it was want of sharp- support her arms, or to hear -without a from ill health," and while enjoying the con- ness or luclc which sent the Robson of 1856 murmur the burdens of war, than tie citizens sideration which his position, implied, he into his truly ludicrous position. of Manchester." But in the address of the "left a great part of the management of the And Society draws exactly the same dis- Chamber of Commerce, the spirit of the business of his department to the prisoner," tinction that we have imagined the Uouson Cobdenmen rises up to lecture the Govern- said Mr. Serjeant Baxlah"tine, " arid un- drawing. The wh ole difference between the ment for its shortcomings, not in. upholding doubtedly this afforded to the prisoner the venial man and the culpable is, whether or the honour of the country3 but in not up- means of committing the frauds that were not lie has the money in his purse. Any- holding the cotton interest—in not passing imputed to him." Robson thus found him- thing short of atrocious crime is pardoned the Shipping Dues Bill—— in not mating self early placed in a position of great respon- to a full parse. A tavern-keeper proceeded India a cotton, country. And this negative sibility, with a salary of 1501. a year. He was against a gentleman this week for 901.' as censure in an address of welcome was capped paid for his smartness ; and be used his the balance of a tavern bill, incurred ap- by a clumsy apology for introducing so much sharpness against those who paid him. so low parently during a mouth or six weeks. The shop talk. a salary for doing duties to \rhich a high whole transaction is instructive. The tenant But PaIiMebston always can get the salary was attached. If there is some degree pleaded "never indebted, payment, and the weather-gauge of any assailant. To the "War of laxity here, it appears to iis that it does fact that the lodging had been let to him for men, he is the "War Minister ; to the Peace not lie exclusively with Robson. an immoral purpose." This reminds us of men, he is for continued Peace ; to the IFree But it requires something more to manu- the old plea in bar of the action for the traders, he is a JFree-trader, as c< the OExe" facture a full-grown RoBsoir. The plant broken coal-scuttle,—-that it was not broken, witnesseth ; to the Chamber of Commerce, will only flourish in a certain atmosphere ; had been mended, and bad never been bor- he is for " progressive improvement." He and, luckily for the species, the atmosphere rowed. While courts of law admit pleas let out the secret of Ms general agency. The is as readily found in moral London as it is which are absolutely incompatible, and which English people have what is called " self- in New York or Paris. Several gentlemen convict each other of being lies, we can government ;" and the way to govern them is engage in a joint-stock speculation ; it is scarcely wonder tbat men out of doors are to find out what they will have, and what they very desirable to have good commercial data lax in their moral distinctions. Mr. Meik- will let you take : concede the former, and to go upon ; but essential to have a plausible lajj : had sinned against the landlord of an they vrill grant the latter, will press it upon project. The inconsiderate public, however, hotel in Air-streefc. He was accused of you. He told them at Manchester that, if is less influenced by the details of the iiro- having ladies to sup in his rooms, but that the people do not get what they want, it is ject, upon which of course it depends, than was not tlie sin,; the landlord, indeed, " was their^ own. fault. That is, if they have made by the names of the directors and the look of not aware of it," except retrospectively. up their minds, and will persist enough, the establishment. Accordingly, the pro- Mr. Meiklam was accused of consorting e Mascakilxe will recognize the sense ' of jector tries to get ' eminent' names on with another gentleman, who came some' their petitions to Parliament. Leigh Hunt the published list of directors ; he seeks very times in a brougham—' St. John's Wood, tells somewhere of a man. who vent about handsome apartments as the offices ; and you know !' But that was not the offence Iiondon * crying ' every fish tbat was in equips them splendidly, with good substantial that was unpardonable. The lodger was season ; yet be had but a little hand-basket furniture, footmen in official livery, and all sometimes tipsy ; but l andlords forgive that, hanging on his wrist. Tell him the fish you that can give to the house an, appearance of although they consider it ' mauvais gout. wanted, and be would get it in a trice, better opulence. In these days, names are easily One lady once came to the gentleman's and cheaper than you could buy it, from the got ; many a company at the East-end, and room, and sent for the gay gentleman ; but circumjacent fishmongery. P-AXMrEitSTON is even at the Wesfc-en d, has its splendid apart- he was already at the theatre with another that fishmonger. We should not wonder if, ments, its footmen, and that ready com- lady, and did not feel inclined to return. supposing the people wan ted even a Keform mand of cash which looks so aristocratic ; That, however, was hot the- unpardouablo Bill, they would find a good specimen in Pal- ail at the expense of the doomed original sin. All went smoothly enou gh during the mbeston's basket. But they must call for shareholders. Can any Robson be igno- first month, while the. gentleman psu'd his it, and must call loudly, too. rant of these facts ? He sees around him bills;bills: his character wwasas gradualcrraduallvly seen througthroughh high or low obtaining money simply by when he did nob pay his bills. It is the sove ROBSON'S TICKET OF LEAVE. the appearance of having ifc ; he observes reigns that make the distinction between tlie The picture of Robson as he appeared soon that men. of his own class, who wear first- pardonable and the un pardonable ! And so after his sentence, with a close-cropped head rate clothing, wbo have always got shillings it is through all life. The gentleman in wmI prison dress, would have more effect upon in their pocket for any amount of ' Hansom,' question was visited by a lord : Rob son, no *ke population at large than any verbal report and of gold for any amount of tavern ex- doubt, might also find his lords, or other of the trial; but to complete the moral, it penses, can get into the society of men who ornaments; and so long as he could pay for should be accompanied by the picture of the lend their names to directories ; and he sees tlie horses, the dinners, or the othor sub- same man in full swing aa a great that while they himself lie A. pair gentleman. have the opportunity for ad- strata of good society, he would of pictures ofthia kind should be vancement, they can realize a considerable a ' good' societarian, mid would command tin* uung up in the coffee-rooms rooms and ' private amount of substantial enjoyment in the pro- roBpect of most whom he met. of those handsome and convenient cess. In fact, " the Idle Apprentice" of thia The Robson then learns that so loiig aa to hotels, where the Robsons of our day < most class can often gallon through a career which can conjure money into his purse, for the ?° congregate. 'As to the mere nunishment. him « is uatetul leaves " the Industrious Apprentice" behind. moment3 the pew opener will bow to j & to the individual while he under- " The Idle Apprentice'* who is lucky, may es- church, the landlord will welcome him ft3 t(? goes it ; but he is not undergoing it in the "wink at previous years. tablish himselt'in one promotion after another; a home, the landlord's daughter will While he has the life he do may pay the debts incurred iu one stage by the peccadillo, the lord will grace his supper- November 8, 1856.] THE LEADER. 1069 table, the merchant will assist him to get the Southwark improvements ; and on the conspirac y to f latter is as significant as a con- over his * difficulties * in connexion with 13th Sir Benjamin replied that there was spiracy to calumniate. It is a vulgar artifice the penal law ; but the punishment, the dis- nearl y 84,0007. for making a continuous line to draw attention to the pretty ankle on that gra ce, the hair-cropping, overtake him when of street connecting the bridges. On the side of the street to shield from, curiosity the he fails to have the cash in his purse. The 15th of April, the Board asked f or plans ; on lovely face on this. devices which bring him to transportation the 17 th they were sent. On the 31st The truth is, that as long as we believe when they f ail, will carry him on to the bench of July a letter was despatched from the in the possible triumph of Liberalism in of justice when they succeed. Most men office of Public Works, putting a specific Italy by means of the constitutional Govern- will study their morals empirically from the question ; and on the 7th of August, eleven ment of Piedmont, we shall not turn for that fact, and society may therefore be considered weeks after the question, the Board replied, desired consummation to the* democratic decidedly to make the Eobsoits whom it that the subject was under consideration ; party ; and until a democratic movement worships while they succeed, and kicks when having done nothing since! They have not, takes place in Italy, there is not much danger they are down. in fact, yet agreed to a plan,—so President to despotism in any part of Europe. We are making a great fuss about the Thwattes admitted ; but he promised that An enumeration of the means and the ticket-of-leave man who is abroad seeking the Southward: improvement plan should be agents employed in England for the propa- whom he may devour ; but how much do the laid before Sir Benjamin HaIiE ' as a matter gation of false notions, and the stimulation unconvicted outnumber the convicted—how of courtesy.' of false hopes with respect to Piedmont, much more is the devouring done by the un- As Prince Albert said to the Merchant would considerably startle the public. They convict, whose ticket of leave is, like Tailors, representative institutions are on would hear of many f ugitives, with the demo- Kobson's, another man's sovereign! their trial, and the Board certainly has cratic stigma upon them, becoming graduall y not done much to strengthen confidence converted to constitutionalism, rising to fa- THE NA.UGHTY BOAHD. in popular representation. It is quite vour and emp loyment in. England , and using PbobabIiY no public body has been subjected evident that if the Minister had been un- their newly-acquired positions in order to in- to such a rating as that which Sir Benjamin obstructed, tliose improvements which are f luence opinion, and ultimately return, either Hall administered to the youngest of the still ' under consideration,' with very grea t permanently or as ' distinguished visitors,' to British municipalities, the Metropolitan Board doubt as to a proper decision at last, would the land whence they fled as exiles. The of "Works, on Wednesday last ; but the re- most likely have been begun, and probably on English governing classes are glad to bring monstrance was more completely j ust in the the best available plans. There are several about these conversions and make them pro- case of Hall than of CromwelIi. President reasons for the unhappy result of this refer- fitable, f or every forei gn Liberal corrupted is Thwattes said that, in conformity with the ence to a municipal body. In the first place, a new pledge to the cause of Order—-and provisions of the Metropolitan Local Ma- the subject is one rather for picked men of we know that order, which means the gagging nagement Act, the deputation came for the high scientific , attainments and deeided pur- of the press and the destruction of all liberty purpose of submitting to the Minister '." Plan pose, than for debate by a federation of individual and political, is in high favour at B," as that of which the Board approved. parishes. In the second place, the subject present with all who have any pretensions to In the ordinary course of things, any re- was not fairly left to the Board by -the Legis- statesmanship, or know those that have. You spectable Board might have antici pated that lature. The municipality was only permitted cannot go into a drawing-room without meet- the Minister would bow, would use some to execute that part for which it was least ing some old lady who deplores the excesses expressions of courtesy towards * so impor- suited—scientific inquiry. In the third place, of liberty, and says, " Serve them right," tant a body,* and would promise that he the Board itself is an evasion of duty on the when anything happens to anybody who is should ' give the subject his best con- part of the Executive and the Legislature. no friend to Napoleon III. sideration.' Imagine, then, the feelings of That which -was demanded by the circum- Tor the present, however , we have only to a Board, when Sir Benjamin demanded stances of the day, was an incorporation of the notice the close of the career of one of the an exp lanation of the whole scheme, ' from whole metropolis, with the ancient corpora- pr incipal agents employed to spread mis- beginning to end !' Having had his explana- tion as its nucleus, and with powers to legislate statements in England with respect to Pied- tion, he asked something more. How was it and administer on purely local subjects. If a niontese affairs—we allude to Signor Anto- that they submitted to him this Plan B, once municipality had been ereetied, it would have nio Gtallenga, otherwise known as Luiai rejected by the Board for further informa- had before it a large amount of real business. Makiotii. That gentleman has been very tion, and subsequently rejected under a total Its members would have been engaged in active under various signatures in the press condemnation ? "Why submit to him a plan duties sufficient to engross their attention, in lauding the present Government of Pied- as comp lying with the provision of the act and to stimulate their faculties ; and instead mont, and vituperating those who have at- which confessedly vould admit a reflux of the of attempting to , justify their existence by a tempted to enlighten the public. His influ- sewage within the metropolitan boundary, show of tal k, they would most likely have ence has been very great, because he writes when the act expressly directs that no such taken the natural course of referring: this in- tolerable English for a foreigner, and knows, reflux will be admissible at all ? The Board quiry to a select committee and certain ap- when necessary, how to assume a candid had no sufficient answer to make to these pointed officers. But the Executive and the tone ; makes admissious not pa rticularly da- questions. In fact, the Board has not com- Legislature shrank from constructing a me- maging to his friends ; and imitates pretty plied with the act. And it has not complied tropolitan municipali ty, in the paltry fear well the English way of asking f or ' a f air with common courtesy to the Minister of lest that body should become so important construction ' when acts are too evidently Public Works ; for it lias permitted numerous as to vie with Parliament. immoral to bo directly defended. delays to retard its own decision, and has then To account for the present absurdity is not Success, however, aeerns to have bred auda- left the Minister but a few days to determine to remove ifc. The fact remains, that the city. Having published in English a rather upon his approval or rejection of the plan. Metropolitan ' Board of Works' is nothing clever, though shallow and not amusing The next duty was to lay before him the plan more than a sounding board, which prevents history, in which he shows great contempt for the Oovent Garden improvements, with an the execution of the 'works.' It is a ma- for old facts and dates—-making Crom- estimated cost of 45,000?. ; and here again chinery, not for assisting the consideration well alive and active, for example, three the Board had to undergo the chastisement of the Minister, but for hindering and yeara after his death—ho " reserves the of questionings and reminiscences. On the baffling him with inadmissible propositions ri ght of translation," iind actually brought 16th of July the Minister called the attention and idle discussion. If we desire a munici- out an Italian version. This was too of the Board to the subject, stating that he pality for the whole metropolis, the Board much. Criticism, whicli had spared him should prefer the Board to carry out the does not furnish what we want ; if we desire until then, came down upon him with a "WorkB. ELeven days afterwards Jie had a metropolitan improvements to be carried out, fell swoop. Every line of his chapter on letter of been, and f ound , thanking him for his plan ; and then the Board is a bad substitute for "th e City recent events has analyzed, 1 he heard nothing more until the 5th of London, which has promoted improvements, to contain " as many mistakes as words. * November ! Four months did the Board or for a Minister, who could execute thorn , They call these tilings hxigie in Italian : " TTn take to consider its own decision, and then it with the aid of the best scientific advice, on bra-no di storia che contienG piu bugie che allowed the Minister ten days to reflect upon a comprehensive plan, with energy and de- parole ," says Signor I'isderioo Campatsella. " before giving the Parliamentary notices spatch . For example, there is in a dozen lines a which must appear on the 15tli instant ! If narrative of the expedition to Savoy, at- the Board had declined the duty, it could M. MAZZINI AND M. GALLENGA. tempted in 183-i , under command of Kamo- have been executed by the official department Tub English public has long been kept sys- rino. See how it has been analyzed at of Public Works. In this case, therefore, tematically in ignorance with respect to the Turin, not only, be it observed , by the the Board is nothing but a hindrance and an state, the history, the prospects, and tho pro- political friends of Mazzini :— obstruction. jects of Piedmont. Tho energy and ingenuity " A column of a thousand adventurers [230 at most, There was a third series of inquiries. On brought into play in order to effect an object all noblo young patriots] entered Savoy from Carouge the^ 8th of March last, the Board asked for [no: from Plan-los-Onates] andmarched upon St. Julion fo in- apparently so unimportant, suggests that [no : exactly in the opposite direction], under command rmation aa to the funds at its disposal for great interests are in reality at stake. A oF Mazzini himsolf and Rnmorino [no : of Ramorino, " 1070 THE LEAD EB. T^° v B46, Satu rd ay. "who refused to act on BTazzini'a advice], wandered about Chabxes Axbeet. Mazzint: objected, and say or do something clever preconcerted plan [no : the plan was to main- Savoy without heaped up reasons against the act, although tain his position. Instead of that, definite and preconcerted, but circumstances prevented he admitted that the ferocious king he its execution]. They came to Anneey [they did no de- bows to the storm, and sends in his resijj. such thing], and occupied it [never] ; and then retreated served death. Gxaxxen-ga. stood firm, showed nation as member of the Chamber, and and coasted the lake towards Thonon great re-" [worse and worse] enthusiasm, obtained a passport and turns the Cross of St. Maurice and Sfc Fall wrong]. The proclamations of Mazzini in. Italian money, and started. It is a curious cir- Lazarus. Evidently there is a mystery [no: they were in French] made little impression, on the ums ance Savoyards " &c &c c t , however, that he at first com- in all this, says the reader. So there is pared himself to Habmoditjs ) and at last "We know it. To explain it woiild be Most of .these errors are those of a man remembered that there had been such a to give an interesting episode in the life perfectly indifferent to material facts, and person as Lobenzino di Medici. But he of M. Gaxxenoa ; but we must not fore- only anxious to effect his general purpose, started, and went to Turin. Here his stal the publication of the letter from namely, to exhibit Mazzini in a ludicrous movements were interesting, but it would be Egypt which M. Mazzini still holds in light as the leader of an insurrection, occu- too long to relate them. The most amusing terror cm over his former friend and co- pying the most important place without re- fact is, that he professed to be unable to ob- conspirator. Suffice it thai the English sistance, retreating "without motive, and ad- tain any weapon to "-fulfil his act" with; public i3 now edified on the value of the in- dressing j the population in a foreign, lan- and actually sent a person named Sciaudra formation it has so greedily swallowed on. guage ! The passage becomes cruel and all the way to 3VEazzi:n"i at Geneva to obtain the constitutional prospects and wonderful libellous, however, when it comes to talk of one. SoTAKEBA came to the great revolutionist progress of the ambitious little kingdom of the man who has laboured so much in the and took, by his permission, a dagger with a Piedmont—-as well as on the character of its cause of revolution, being startled by shots handle of lapis lazuli from his table. Times princes and statesmen. We hope it will fired at hazard, seizing his carbine, and sud- have since changed, for men were actuated profi t by the lesson. denly fainting away, to be carried in safety by different passions from what they are at over the frontier. M. Galxenga., alias Ma- present. Our opinions on such attempts are biotti, must have known very well that known. It is unnecessary to refer to them. A SIMPLE RAILWAY ACCIDENT. Mazzinx, instead of fainting, assumed the It is sufficient to say that the idea of assassi- The accident near Kings Langley lias tlie command of the expedition after Bamobino nation was suggested by GtAxxebtga, that the merit of simplicity. An express train rushed had fled , and was one of the last to leave the pathetic touch about the mother of Kuffini by a danger signal at a speed of nearly sixty territory of Savoy. is a poetical ornament, and that if " the act" miles an hour, and before it was stopped, Another passage in this precious history was not fulfilled this arose simply from the dashed into a disabled coal train. The colli- has led to more serious controversy and a want of nerve 'on the part of the man who sion was mitigated by a reduction of speed very unexpected ; result. Mazzini himself aad undertaken it. bufcv as it was, a lord was wounded, ' an has T)een brought into the field. M. Gax- Of course, if Signor GrALXENGA had merely honorable gentleman was bruised, and others, liEKQA relates the story of a " young fanatic" accused himself under the mild alias of " a less notable in a " Court Guide," were seri "who was wandering about Switzerland once, young fanatic," no one would have cared , but ously injured. who, moved to enthusiasm by the grief of the he mixes up the names of other people; and Kings Langley is a station on the London mother of Rtjjffini, offere d to go to Turin his object evidently is to justify the Piedmon- and North-Western line, about tliree miles and assassinate Ohaeles Albert in 1833, tese aristocracy for their aversion to Maz- at the other side of Watford ; and beyoad went there with passports and money from zini in "] 1848. In many other ways, also, Kings Langley the next Btation is Boxmoor. Mazzint, did not dare to strike the blow, and he endeavours to blacken his old friends ; Between Boxmoor and Kings Langley is a "ultimately disappeared. Those who are be- and to exalt the foolish, ignorant, and in- signal hut at a place called ISTashmills. Here hind the scenes already know, though the dolent nobles of Piedmont into political a man was stationed, whose duty it was, public may not, that this " young fanatic" idols. The " Senate," according to him, is when a train passed, to telegraph forward was Q-AXLENGAhimself; and that it is to him an " Assembly of Kings," &c, &e. He has that tho train had passed, and to telegraph that a recent writer alludes "when lie says : succeeded more, however, by his anonymous backward that " the line was clear." A coal "An old disciple of Mazzlni, after watching than his signed labours, in producing a train passed on Monday about four o'clock, a Mag for two months, blunderbuss in hand, totally false impression concerning the state and he made both signals. The signal that out of the window of a inezzanino, comes be- of Piedmont ; and as, in order to arrive at the line was clear was contradicted before fore us with an ill grace to curse his master this result, he lias been obliged frequently his eyes just as he had made the signal,—for when he has become a deputy, and aspires to to resort to calumny, we are not surprised the coal train , after it had gone less than two be minister of the son of the very man that Mazzini lias at length lost patience. hundred yards from his hut, was stopped whose death he planned in this unmanly His crushing attack, published at Genoa, in through the loss of a bolt in the engine. An manner !" the Mazzinian paper, although impeded in express traia from Derby to London now Whether Signor GUxxestga ever enter- circulation by the unscrupulous agents of thundered on ; it had been late forty minutes tained the ambitious idea here attributed to the post-office , has produced a tremendous at Derby, and the driver was going, it is said, him we do not know. It is evident he can sensation in Piedmont. Signor Gaxxenga at at the rate of sixty miles an hour, to wake entertain them no longer. 1M. Mazzini has once wrote (October 27), praising the " con- up for lost time. Passing Boxmoor, the driver stretched out his strong arm and utterly summate genius," &c., &c, of Mazzini, ex- saw the signal representing that the line was crushed his detractor. His letter to the pressing his love for him , and declaring that ho clear, and rushed on with undiminished speed Italia e JPojpolo is too long for us to extract has written the truth ! ' Observe the character towards the signal hut at Nashmills. llere at present. In substance it is as follows :—In of courtiers and Ministerialists. For two the signal-man, who had just signalled, "Hue 1833 , after the frightful execution of inno- or three days, the partisans of Count Cavotjk, clear," put on the danger signal, and ran cent people in Gtenoa, Alessandria, and affected to treat the revelations from Genoa down the line waving a red flag. "It was Chatnbery, by order of the former Carbonaro, with contempt. They counted on a clear broad daylight—about four o'clock in the ¦who had deserved a throne by treachery and danger • denial. Por some mysterious reason, M. Gax- afternon—there was no fog, and the was determined to keep it by murder, a xenga tells the truth-—admits everything said signal at Nashmills is raised high in tlio air, young man called on Mazzini at Greneva. agninst himself most humbly, and only tries and can be seen about eight hundred yards He bore a letter from a Signor Mexegahi, to exculpate his dear friend Mhxeoabi. Next before arriving at it." The driver still tlien a democrat , now a professor of constitu- day, indeed, he writes again, more cautiously, rushed on: at length he saw the signal, and tional law, and a ministerial deputy—of speed, ¦we whom and quibbles on a few points ; but still Maz- tried to stop tho train. He checked its may dispose at once. He recommended zini is a great man, and has written what is but, seeing a collision certain, ho and the his friend with extreme warmth, and said he true—has merely erred from inadvertence in fireman jumped off without injury. The was firmly resolved to "fulfil one act." Now, one or two details. Vile human nature ! passengers wore wounded and bruised—one the son of tho man on. whom the act was to The Ministerialists ab onco fall away, and or two seriously. Tbe performed being on the throne, said pro- the unhappy pamphleteer found himself in The accident clearly shows that the system fessor writes to the natters, savmrr. thni. the centre of the battle-field , aimed at from on this line is defective, and that on this whatever may liave been the words of his all sides. The King falls into ecstasies of occasion it was not well used. A signal that letter, he was completel when latal y ignorant of the indignation at the idea that a man who once the line was clear was shown at a time project entertained. We should like to planned tho assassination of his father should a coal train was actually in sight of tho sign*1" SSTf 5? T5** of tlie letter : and hav e no be an important political personage, and man, and just as ho gavo the signal tho coal ?Vb6 Kine> whoso great political should wear on his breaBt the decoration of train broke down. Had ho waited until no ?WnV - ¦ »° whom he St. Maurice and St. .Lazarus. Tho Ministers saw the coal train safely out of eigl*. disobeyed and betrayed when living, aro shocked—because the culprit has not tho been enabled ib equally inquisitive. a should on this occasion hnvo courage to deny what is undeniable. Great telegraph back to Boxmoor that tho lino-xw However, to return to Si duty _oi He gnor ^AXLEKaA. is the commotion ; groat tho coining and not clear. It will be argued that the was then a member of "foung Italy and h th at to OiBtinctly proposed to ; going. Friendly companions suggest at the man was simply to telegrap go and eUb or Bhoot tho last moment that Gaxxenoa may train had passed his hut—but if the comply November 8, 1856.] THE LEADE R. 1071 hire a man to watch, a line, it ought surely the Grreat "Western , the South "Western,, and renewed confidence in tie means already at to use his eyes to their full power ; he could the South 3Sastern offer, through themselves their disposal. They say they have a ma- see forward and backward, as well as right and their respective allies, to convey the jority; if they h, have obtained that without before him,- and should not telegrap " line people to Iiondon at very cheap rates ; and parliamentary help, they may surely hope to clear" until he saw the line clear. one company comes down to something prevail with the dissentient minority. The driver of the express train, is un- ess than a. farthing a mile for second-class doubtedly guilty. His instructions are, when passengers ! Our * managers ' are rival un- sees a danger signal;, to pull up at the sta- IMPERIAL STOCK-JOBBING. he dertakers ; our shareholders are dupes, and "We tion that makes the signal. lie could have our passengers are parcels, sent at forty miles find ourselves often compelled to retrace seen the signal eight hundred yards from an hour. our. steps, and to reproduce our -words, the station, and yet his train was only stopped in order to establish our relative position by the collision. The company's instructions THE EARLY CLOSERS. towards certain of our contemporaries. Lately, presuppose that; a driver seeing the signal The impatient friends of the Early Closing Cayenne, the political penal settlement of the could pull up at the signal station : either Movement are asking for a parliamentary en- French. Imperial Government, was discovered the instructions are founded on error or the actment to prohibit the carrying on of retail by one or two of our daily contemporaries, who driver di d not look out for the signal in time. trades after eight o'clock in the evening. A are now beginning to discover the singular and alarming fact, that persons high in the That he was making up for lost time is likely, strong objection to such a proposal is the ' but on a line -where a telegraph system is impossibility of giving effect to it; but, as its councils of Louis Napoleon are addicted to supposed to secure that no train passes authors are sincere, it is very desirable to stock-jobbing, and are even chargeable with until the line is clear, -the driver has aio excuse divert them from the pursuit of a chimerical making the policy of France subservient to for going beyond his proper speed : he ought scheme, and to engage all the friends of the their operations on the Bourse. The semi- to have known that no train could overtake important reform in question in the support official Pays indignantly repudiates the him. The original error that caused loss of of -practical measures. A perusal of the ad- generous equivocation of the Times which time has also to be investigated. As to the dress lately published by the Honorary Secre- would sever the responsibility of the Emperor driver of the coal train, we find him stopping tary of the Early Closing Association, will from that of his confidential advisers. Our for an engine bolt, although he knew, or tend to dispossess their minds of the idea readers will perceive from the subjoined ought to have known, that an express train that little progress lias been made, and article, which appeared in our columns on the was behind him. He was slackening his that nothing 9th of June, 1855, that we said then can be effected with legislative what our speed when passing the signal hut, and had intervention. A large majority of employers, contemporaries are saying now. he then stopped to mend his engine, the Mr. XilwaI/Ii reports, have assented to the The only difference between the practices of express ebuld have been signalled back at principle of Early Closing. Onl the Imperial intimates in June, 1855, and in y an incon- November Boxmoor. To make a coal train precede ah siderable minority resist it —- a minority , 1856, is, that in the one case they express by a few minutes seems limited jobbed the war, and in the other they are ^ very bad , in many cases, to one or two persons management, and the culpability of the com- in each trade throughout an extensive dis- jobbing the peace. pany is indicated pretty clearly by a refer- trict. Of course, the one argument of the IMPERIAX STOCK-JOBBING. ence to Brqdsfr cno. The express train "was non-content is, that late hours of business {The Leader, June 9, 1855.) due at Boxmoor at 3.25, and yet ten minutes are profitable. The objection, that if young The Paris correspondents of the London press after that hour this coal train was allowed to men enj oyed additional leisure they would have lately been complaining that certain tele- creep along 1 jNo system of telegraphs can employ it disreputably, is an impertinent grap hic despatches from tlie Crimea have been compensate for direct violations of the com- pretence, or, at least, could only be sincerely kept back, either wholly or in part, for some time monest principles of precaution. In fact; it urged by a man ' serenely unconscious that he after they have been, known to have arrived at seems that the company, .relying on their is a, fool? That children should be overtasked the TuUeries. The French journalists have also new plan of telegraphing back and forward, to keep them out of mischief was a pre-rail way observed the fact ; a pardonable reticence lias pre- think they cau send any number of trains idea ; but that young men and girls should vented them from commenting upon it. The on the line in time or out of time. The be overworked tor the same reason could he oddest thing about the matter is, that the des- resent p rule has shown that signals will not maintained by none but a scoffer or a dolt. patches in question y those which when avail where are precisel , the traffic is covetously over- It is really charitable on the part of the they become public, exercise the liveliest influence crowded and unscrupulously intermixed. secretary of the association to suppose that But upon the Bourse; and, to make the joke perfect, ' the system ' is clearly in fault. "We controversialists of this class have feelings or it is genei'ally found, have express trainsgoing so fast that no dange when the news does come r senses to which he may successfully appeal. out, signal can stop them; and \re have si that some mysterious person or persons have gnal-men Of co urse, over-work is demoralizing ; of operated upon the market to no inconsiderable telegraphing that the line is clear before the course, the assistant is as likely to profit by preceding train is out of sight. "Either the reasonable leisure as his employer. If the extent. instructions of the company are in fault, or draper who said, " So intolerable was his con- It is perfectly well known that whe n Louis the driver and signal-man are guilty of gross dition that he often lias wished that death Napoxeost lived in London, he got his living by neglect. Another question suggests itself: itself would terminate his misery," had been doing a little stock-jobbing now and then ; and, as Is there any necessity for trains at forty miles disposed to pass his time disreputably, why he was occasionally able to pick up a crumb of in- an hour ? Could not the journey between he had Sunday for his indulgence, and if he formation through his acquaintances there and Iiondon and Derby, even for lords and ladies, spent that day in ' desecration ,' it was, pro- connexions abroad, he is generally supposed to be properly done at thirty miles an hour—a babl}'-, because he spent the other days of the have made a little money tliat way. At that time pace that would ensure safety ? Thackeray week in servitude. Dr. Copland's opinion, a Corsican was employed by him, and it was in his Bays, not without reason, that " we do not that " excessive labour is only another term name that the transactions in Capel-court were travel now-a-days ; we arrive at places ;" and for sickness, suffering, and death ;" and Mr. carried on. Htjskin, in his late -volume, says, that " rail- GfRAiNGEJi 's opinion, that " nearly three- That Corsican may now ho daily seen very busily way travelling is not travelling at all ; it is fourths of the diseases prevalent in the me- employed upon the Bourse(and the Boulevards. merely being sent to a place, and very little tropolis are traceable to over-work," may be The taking of Genetchi was announced in Lon- different , from becoming a parcel ." Wo for- taken as an antidote to the whole mass of pre- don by the Secretary to the Admiralty in time for bear to "back Mr. Buskin's philosophy against judice existing In connexion with this sub- late editions of the morning papers ; but it was modern progress ; but when we find ourselves ject. sent like a very late in the afternoon, and just about tho parcel (only not " tins side up," The difficult y is to convince those shop- close of the Bourse, that the agence Havas was nor " with care "), and flung against coal keepers who say that if they did not keep their trains, we may consider whother such speed selling the despatch as an important piece of in- shops open others would, and this is tlie class telligence to the various journals of Paris. So as forty miles an hotu*, with collisions, is not which solicits an. act of Parliament. IBut the well was thia managed, that tho Presse of that haste rather than despatch. The wear and groat remedy, in such a case, ia in the hands tear of the rails, and of the rolling stock, is of tho public afternoon said not a word about it. , which might be induced not During the whole of that day the transactions also another consideration which might in- only to adopt a habit of early purchases, but fluence railway proprietors. But why talk to discountenance those tradesmen who re- upon the Bourse were more than usually brisk. of proprietors ? They are the sh areholders, fu se to allow humanity to have any influence Any one. who walks into tho garden of the who, on somo of our ' grand ' lines, aro re- over their business affairs. It is encouraging Tuiieries and sees the electric wires diverging ceiving two per cent, dividend, or none at all, to lonrn that so much progress has been fr om a small cabinet at the northern end towards "Wlnlo the managers and secretaries of the made ; and it certainly is to bo deplored that every point of the horizon (looking like reins by Hval railways carry on a keen competition, a minority should stand in tho way of a great which a single pair of hands may drive the world), both as to speed and faro—keen enough to social reform. But, instead of being driven will find it difficult to bclievo that tlie tenant of «eep tho company alivo and their own snhi- to the could have gnornnt of that nes expedient of petitioning the Legislature that cabinet been i going. At Rending, thrco companies for a compulsory law, wo think tho best important piece"of news for an hour after its ro- compete for tho bodies of tho townsmen : friends of tho movement will go to work with ccption in London. Wliat was to prevent him I, 1072 THE E^ D^B_g:: _^ [No. 346, Satu^ay, mentary taxes would from receiving it simultaneousl¦ y¦ with our Secre- be in opposition to the Govern Admiralty ? ¦ • . ment despatch of May 30th , 1856. tary to the The public institutions ¦ (fitytt r CEtrariL for the support out of many ; but ex ¦ of but one instance ¦ ¦ the des- This 5s •¦ • . - ¦ est pris. v ¦ » titute are in a distressing financial condition. Com- uno disce—Sebastopol [IK THIS DEPA.UTUKNT , A3 AXT. OPLNIONS , HOWEVER EXTUKME , A11B mercial people can" ALLOWED AN EXPR ESSION , TUB ESITOB NECKSSARILT HOLDS HIM- scarcely afford to meet their KEFORM-BILL RUMOXJES. SELF BESPOKS1BUS FOB NONE.] private engagements, and the public yearly contribu tion of 99,000 Austrian livres (3300?.)- Landowners A nttmbbb of rumours are flying about con- There is no learned man but -will confess he hath are obliged to have recourse to a system of unpro~ cerning a Eeform Bill which Xord Paimer- much profited by reading controversies, his senses ductive loans to discharge the governmental taxes awakened, and his judgmeat sharpened. If , then, it imposed since 1848 stoit Is to introduce next session., and wlich be profitable for him to read, why should it not, at , as well as to support the agricul- Lord John" Uttsseli. will endeavour to set leaab.be tolerable for his adversary to write ?—Mli/TOH". tural labourers, especially such as live in the area of 64,548 jugera of land where the vines have beeu aside in favour of a more popular bill pro- withered by the cryptogam plant. jected by himself. - Some of the rumours THE AUSTRIANS IN ITALY. Summing up the foregoing exposition, the Pro- have come to us neatly finished, -writh. the (To the Editor qj' the Leader.) vincial College begs to lay before your Excellency the various schedules al abe ic ll and Sir,—-I have just received from Italy the address of following comprehensive statements:— ph t a y marked, The income of the Lord John Rttsseli. s amendments more the Provincial Congregation of Brescia to the Aus- Province of Aust. liv. ' Brescia is . . . . 12,240,627 54 plainly set forth than we could hope to find trian Government of Lombardy. The importance Ordinary land and additional them at Chesham-place. But the story bears of that document makes me hope that you will think s very little examination. It is old, and comes it proper to lay before the English public the follow- taxes .:¦ . ...5,010 ,375 64 District taxes . . . . of a notorious family. The truth is, that ing translation of it. 367,218 84 Trade and art taxes . . . 99,000 such Teporta have been among the autumn I am, Sir, yours truly, Income-tax A loMBAED...... 101,000 fruits of ten successive years. "We always Customs - . . . . 6,600,000 expect in November to hear of next XHK PROVINCIAL CONGREGATION OF BRESCIA. TO THE session's Reform Bill. The -war being CJOVEKNOR OH XOMBiiKDT. 12,177,594 4.8 over, and a new -war not yet commenced, the Excellency,—Among the original attributions of 12,177,594 livres!! That is to say, we pay for the Provincial Colleges, one of the most important public charges all the prodxict of the provin ce, as vre have promise is renewed for 1857.: but we con- is the right granted to th«m to respectfully repre- included in Llie above figures the product of the trade, fess that we feel not in the least degree ex- sent to the sovereign the wishes of the population, arts, and income-tax, which, although it should be cited- Iidrd Palmebstoh" does not want and, above all, its most urgent wants, so that, either laid on other sources of rent, resolves itself into a Reform ; the House of Commons certainly through the justice or the clemency of the monarch, land imposition, because it falls on the product of th.e they shall never bring tlie subjects to such irre- soil in consequence of the absence of external com- does not want it ; we very much doubt whe- trievable economic disorders as are always produc- merce and industry. ther it is wanted by the constituencies. "We tive of public dissatisfaction, of sanitary and social These charges are so excessive, that to speak only must not shut our eyes to the fact that twenty disturbances, as well as of grave transgressions both of the first district in 1853, upon a sum of 184,000 years' possession of the franchise sufficed to in the moral and in the political life. Austrian li-yres, an arrear of from 17 ,000 to 19,000 render the ten-pound householders a petty The Municipal Councils, not less than the 334,000 livres remained unpaid ; and in the present year, political inhabitants of this province, gratefully acknowledge 185£J, 29,000 livres in the taxes of the month of aristocracy, which is not everywhere that the importance of those attributions, and the March, and 31,000 livres in those of June; hence inclined to lower the qualification and confidence of which the Provincial Congregation is the there is a great number of land-lots which are about cheapen, the privilege. In some localities the object , are exclusively intended to promote the in- to be sold toy auction to the profit of the Govern- electors may be eager for Reform, because, tellectual and material development of tlie repre- ment, and tie complaints of ruined families are con- sented population. sequently numberless and continuous. though the Bill of 1832 gave them influence, Excellency, it is the first time,that the Provincial it did not give them enough ; and the power The undersigned would fail in their duties towards Congregation of Brescia has had recourse to you, with ot the the population, and in their responsibility before his a hope that it will not be in vain. Our exposition is territorial aristocracy has a tendency Imperial Majesty, were they not to inform the com- to increase. But if the constituents, as a confirmed by the joint support of the municipality, petent authorities of the actual economic condition to -which we have also added similar petitions from body, had made up their minds aboui; Re- of the province: they accordingly beg your Excel- the inhabitants of the districts of San Bartolomeo, form, and if there were twenty .men in the lency to take into special consideration what they Rezzato, Bovezzo, and Calcinato. House of Commons really earnest on the are going to state. The only thing we ask for is, that, through the subjeict, we should not have public opinion Owing to the great commercial associations esta- powerful intercession of your Excellency, the contri- nibbling blished in other countries, to the advantages they butions niaj be put in harmony with the rent, before at rumour, and political plans the derive from the abundance of capital, from the dis- the capital, already so impoverished, of this province exclusive property of gossips. We, of course, covery of coal and the improved means of communi- be altogether annihilated. . do not abandon the hope of a thorough reno- cation, every article of our provincial industry has (Signed) Cavalier Porcellt, Relator. vation of Parliament ; but whatever may be become unable to withstand the competition of the the views of the [Liberal party, no good pur- cheaper manufactures, either foreign or of other parts of the empire. The sources, consequently, of THE MOON'S ROTATION. pose can be served by concealing the truth our local industry, consisting in ironworks, arms, that the masses of the nation are indifferent, paper-mills, leather, wool, thread, and other articles, (To the Editor of the Leader.) and that the Reform Bill rumours flit from are nearly dried up. This may easily be argued from Sir,—I would, with your permission, ask your cor- tongue the increase of pauperism along the -shores of our respondent on the Moon s liotation, Thomas Best, to to tongue without exciting expecta- lakes, and especially iii the Sabia and Trompia ' tion or interest. It is felt that, at present, valleys; and it noay also be inferred from the num- make two very simple experiments ; I have found the work to be done is to be done abroad. ber of unproductive loans weighing on those commu- them to be very efficacious in enlightening people in nities, the interest of which is mostly unpaid since his mental condition. IMPERIAL RESPONSIBILITY. two or three years, nor do they present any prospect Let him pour some water into a large basin, and, of being settled ; and it is a fact full of mournful having allowed it to become quite motionless, care- The JPays has a reply to the suggestion of gravity, that more than fifty thousand inhabitants the Times fully place in the middle of it a piece of straw three that the Emperor of the Trench are without any industrial occupation. INor can we or four inclies long. Then, having taken hold of the is not to be held responsible for all the expect much from the rent of woods, which is so basin with both hands, let him turn smoothly round proceedings of his Ministers. ¥e call our much exaggerated in the official estimate that the on his heels once. The straw will seem to turn readers' special attention to these paragraphs products are reduced to a rate below the public lia- round ; that is, the water will have an apparent rota- bilities ; and it may also be added, that, in conse- tory motion. Let him put the basin gently down from the article : — quence of the destruction of vines, fuel wood has The Times again, he will find this motion to have been only ap- *' insinuates that differences of opinion undergone a general decline in its price. was exist between the Emperor and his Ministers, amount- parent; the straw will be as motionless as it ing to a difference of policy, and that the Emperor's The silk manufacture, which was the only one re- before he lifted the basin, that is, the water in wluch views maining and the most productive, has been subjected it is placed will have no rotatory motion. ' are sometimes misrepresented by the acts of his per- Cabinet. But can such a proposition bo seriousl to an alarming situation , owing to the fact that only The reason of this phenomenon is, that in y 80,000 jpesi (nearly 13,388 cwt.) of cods have been forming tlie above experiment a compound motion is affirmed ? Not only does the character of the eminent it men, placed by the confidence of the Emporor at the obtained, instead of the ordinary product of 550,000 communicated to the basin, a part only of which pesi (nearly 92,000 cwt.). transmits to the water. The basin not only m oves head of public affairs, demonstrate tho absurdity of this on its hypothesis, and place the Ministers of France beyond The owners of the soil, in the impossibility of sup- round the experimenter, it also turns round porting the usual expenses of agricultural work, are o-wn centre, and has a rotatory motion. The water the reach of the attacks of the Times;tho simplest to its knowledge of the mechanism of our institutions would effecting a considerable reduction in the number of moves round the experimenter, but in rotation suffice to do so. hands, and leaving aside any idea of improvement, own centre remains at rest, has no rotatory motion. 11 coul d be Is it possible any they are compelled to reduce, also, the necessary If this le true, it follows that if tho water one can persuade himself that a nmde to rotate along with the basin, the straw would French State functionary could, in these days, entertain outlay of animals, manure, and ordinary works. a policy different from that of the This sad necessity weighs tho more lamentably on appear to be motion leas. Epiperor, ox contra- Let Thomas Best then ing first removed tlie dict, by his personal conduct, tho wise inspirations of those who suffered fro m tho late hailstorm, which, , (hay , mm to -whom through hnlf of the best territory of the province, straw) cause tho water to whirl round in the basin the entire nation has confided its destinies ? having allowed itave we fallen again amid tho evil days of tlie parlia- destroyed almost all the Indian corn crop and part of say by stirring with his hand, and m rotatory motion thua communicated to become entary regime, in which a Minister, resting- upon his that of the wheat. the tlie Pa y c tm very slow and smooth, let him carefully replace Jv. .£ 5t* B a Personal majority, might annul the Nor is it to bo supposed that the districts could bo then fl"tt m( nwob able to allay tho public misery by the means of now straw in the centre of tho basin. He will £tl 1 }£* > . ™d relegate him, an impotent that he can, by turning round with the basin ui n» tq?°U wWch h0 mi6ht "fc* w*thout works to employ tho poor: whicli t»e goTemi ?» Because, to pay their share of the national hands in a direction contrury to that in Firstly. water is revolving, causo the straw to appear at rest, The devout imperialism of the Fays can loan, they are obliged to sell out a part of their samei faco hardl tho more ao as they arc still in- and (ns tho moon always presents tlie * y be suspected. It writes a literal con- public patrimony, tho same end to ins nrmation of our debted on account of tho expenses caused by the the earth) to present ftlwuys statement on this subject, cholera of 1855. nose. I am, &c, &c, published last weelc. Secondly. Becauso any augmentation of supple- Edinburgh. William Kenvmrd- November 8, 1856.] T H E L E A P E IL 1073 perhaps, the masculine hand throughout this autobiography, but no eyes ICtteratttr^ will detect anything but free, healthy animal spirits. Kate is a dashing ¦ ¦ .. ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦ . . ¦ ¦ irl, . . . . g fonder of horses than worsted work T , but sound in heart and limb . . . . ; and if she is enthusiastic about riding Critics are notthe legislators , but the judges aad police of literature. They do not and hunting, where is the woman who, make laws—they interpret and try to enforc e them.—EdinburghReview. having once surmounted the timidity of her sex, and made direct acq uaint- ance with pigskin, can speak of these things without enthusiasm ? That Kate 'EYEBY one' has now been to Paris, and is of course familiar with the sometimes outrages the proprieties is very true ; mammas will think her Bois de Boulogne in its new splendours ; but probably that which most ' so bold,' and dyspeptic clergymen unfamiliar with pigskin will shake arrests the attention is the richness of the equipages, and the costumes of the dolorous heads over her levity ; but the majority of Englishmen will admire her pluck, and rejoice in her final h p ; surely the wealth here represented enormous ? On this ' ' a piness. coquettes must be While the spirited pages of this novel carry us gaily to the end, we are subject let us hear a writer in Blackvcood:~— not much troubled by misgivings as to the commonplaceness of most of the Though it was the end of February, the sun -was shining evidently in total foTgetful- incidents and a general defiance of minute probabilities ; there is a great ness that it was not June. Shining, •warming, lighting, extracting such variety of ex- deal of true observation in the book, amid much that evidently belongs to quisite colour from the thousand splendidly-drest ladies who walked and strolled and the invention, of the circulating -library. Here is fancied he was a good hit :— lounged about the open alleys in the wood, that it is quite possible he People may talk about country pleasures and country duties, and all the charms of bestowing his favours on a prodigious bed of flowers. On the beautiful lake floated country life ; but it appears to me that a good many things are done under the titles gay boats with many-coloured sails, carrying cargoes of bright-hued parasols and of pleasure and duty, which belong in reality to neither ; and that those who live radiant bonnets and richest glistening silk. In the road rested or slowly moved for- entirely in the country, inflict on themselves a great variety of unnecessary dis- ward barouches and "britzkas, and chariots and phaetons, all -with bright panels and agreeables, as they lose a great many of its chief delights. Of all recei wheels and gorgeous linings with horses trapt with gold and silver, and pts for weari^ glittering , ness, commend me to a dinner-party of country neighbours by daylight—people who reins of spotless White ; while behind hung suspended a bunch of peony or tulip six know each other just well enough to have opposite interests and secret jealou sies— feet high, with immense calves to its legs, and a cocked hat on its head, and some- horsemen—gaiety of who arrive ill at ease in their smart dresses, to sit through a protracted meal with hot times even a velvet-sheathed sword at its side. Then the servants and forced conversation, till one young lad apparel is not left entirely to the ladies in France. There were green coats, and blue y on her promotion being victimized at the pianoforte, enables them to yawn unobserved, and welcome ten o'clock brings coats, and olive coats so shinj' that they looked like pink, and grey coats so brilliant round the carriage and tipsy coachman beauties cara- , in order that they may enter on their long-, that they looked like white : and still the cavalcade passed on ; and dark, dreary drive home through lanes and by-ways, which is only endurable from coled on long-tailed steeds ; and bewhiskered men galoped past on strong-legged the consideration that the annual ordeal has been accomplished, and that they need chargers, and, countless as the combinations in a kaleidoscope, they formed in lines, not do it again till this time next year. in squares, in circles ; and ever over all shone that cloudless sun, and beside them Very well observed also is the sparkled that waveless water. And on seeing all that brilliancy, all that show, and wayward recklessness with which Kate all that wealth, I said to old Busby, tl Who are all these ?—where does all the money teazes her cousin—persisting in the very course she knows is making him grieve, and grieving while she persists. Here is an animated descri come from ? There de Park in the ¦ ' ption of¦ 's more appearance of riches here than in Hy ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' " ¦ ' ¦ a hunt :— . : ;;¦ . • ¦ - ¦ ¦:¦ - - . - height of the season." Old Busby will certainly have a concussion of the brain if / . . ; . \ . :. . he shakes his foolish old head with such disdainful jerks much longer. He shook his " Gone away !" exclaims Squire Haycock, lifting Ms cap high above his red head ; Yonder he goes ! Don't you see him Miss Coventry, ' , how whisking under " ' '¦¦ ' the head as if he had been a mandarin for many years in a grocer s window and said ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ¦ ' ' ' ' " " " ' , , ' ¦ ' ¦ ¦ - ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ • ¦ • • ¦ .: . . . . • ¦; ¦ ¦ - . " My dear, how you are blind ! These are nothing but a set of humbug foreigners ; gate¦ ?" . . . .\ . : . . . . ; swindlers every man ; all adventurers on the Bourse or founders of the Credit Mobi- ¦" ^Forward, forward !" holloas Frank, giving vent to his excitement in one of those Iier ; lords to-day, beggars to-morrow, and galley-slaves the day after. But what prolonged screams that proclaim how the astonished sportsman has actually seen the then ? the spectacle is the same to us. These same carriages will be here this day fox with his own eyes. The next instant he is through the hand-gate at the end of week— so will these horses— so will these ladies ; but the proprietors, mark you, will the ride, and, rising in his stirrups, with the wicked chesnut held hard by the head, is be different. That fellow's clerk will succeed to his fraudulent compagnie and his speeding away over the adjoining pasture, alongside of the two or three couples of britzka, and he himself will he marker at a billiard-table. That other fellow will be leading hounds that have just emerged from the .covert. Ah! we are all for- shot in a duel by a co-forger of Government hills, and his Aadalusian mare will be gotten now, women, children, everything is lost in that first delirious five minutes ridden here by some gambler whose loaded dice are not yet discovered- But the Bois when the hounds are really away. Frank was gazing at me a minute ago as if his will be as gay, Very life was at my disposal, and now he is speeding away a field ahead of me, and the lake as charming', and the sun as bright. I have been intimate*" said Busby, in a very foreign accent, " with some English squires on their short- don't care whether I break my neck following him or not. But this is no time for legged uff lk cobs such thoughts as these, the drunken huntsman is sounding his horn in our rear. "Will, S o ¦ ¦ , whose¦ rent-roll -would buy ' the¦ fee simple of all the vagabonds' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ' ¦ ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ " " • ¦ ¦¦ • ¦ ¦ • ¦ • . • ¦ , heie. - , . . . . the whip, cap in hand, is bringing up the body of the pack. Squire Haycock holds the gate open for me to pass, Cousin John goes by me like a flash of lightning; A true picture, and forming the appropriate introduction to an interest- White-Stockings, with a loose rein, submits to be kicked along at any pace I like to ing story, called " A Cause Avorth Trying," in which the writer contrives to ask him ; the fence at the end of the field is nothing, 1 shall go exactly where Frank excite curiosity, though he has not taken the pains to work out the denoue- did ; my blood thrills with ecstasy in. my veins : moment of moments ! I have got a ment in a satisfactory manner. How rare it is to meet with a good story ! capital start, and we are in for a run. " As I sit here in my arm-chair and dressing-gown, I see the whole panorama of to- We do not allude to the want of invention displayed in creating new situa- day passing once more before, my eyes. I see that dark, wet, ploughed field, with the tions—these will always remain rare—but in the want of that invention white hounds slipping noiselessly over its furrowed surface. I can almost perceive which supplies all the details, which fills up the outline of an old anecdote, the fresh wholesome smell of the newly-turned earth. I see the ragged, overgrown, and makes it a new drama. straggling fence at the far end, glistening with morning dew, and green with for- Except poems, nothing is so abundant as midable briars. I see Frank Lovell's chesnut rising at the weakest place, the rider stories, nothing so rare as stories that are really good. sitting well back, his spurs and stirrup-irons shining in the sun ; I see Squire Hay- cock's square scarlet back, as he diverges to a well-known corner for some friendly- In the Remie de Paris there is a striking paper by Henri Martin, the egress; I hear Cousin John's voice shouting, " Give him his head, Kate !" As White- historian^ , on Calvin Loyola Stockings and I rapidly approach the leap, my horse relapses of his own accord into .a , , and Rauelais, in which, is quoted tbe frank trot, points his small ears, crashes into the very middle of the fence, and just as I but startling avowal of Calvin's disciple, Theodore be Beza, that " the give myself up for lost, makes a second bound that settles me once more in the saddle, liberty of conscience is a diabolical dogma—libertas cwiscientUs diabolimm and lands gallantly in the adjoining field , Frank looking back over his shoulder in dogma " - Frank the avowal is, because, as all history- shows, whatever the evident anxiety and admiration, whilst John's cheery voice, with its " Bravo, Kate !" rings in my delighted ears. We three are now nearest the hounds, a long strip of motto of Protestantism may have been, its practice has considered this liberty rushy meadow-land before us, the pack streaming along the sid« of a high thick of conscience the prompting of Satan whenever liberty happened to issue hedge that bounds it on our left ; the south wind fans my face and lifts my hair, as I in the adoption of opinions not held by the denouncing sect ; startling the slacken my horse's rein and urge him to to liis speed. I am alongside of Frank. I avowal is, because if Protestantism does not protect and encourage could ride anywhere now, or do anything. I pass him with a smile and a jest. I perfect am the foremost with the chase. What is ten years of common life, one's feet upon liberty of conscience, what is its own mison d' etre ? M. Henri Martin the fender, compared to five such golden minutes as these ? well characterizes the Reformation as enfranchisement of national churches Criticism, if inclined to be severe, might pick large holes in the book • but from the yoke of Rome, enfranchisement of particular churches, Christian its pleasant style disarms criticism. On one point only will we suggest to communities within ill-defined limits, but no enfranchisement of the con- Colonel Melville the necessity of l'evision, and that is the somewhat too science. obtrusive odour of cigars which rises from his pages. Every body smokes, and is always smoking, till the word cigar becomes an impertinence. After a period of dulness almost unparalleled, Literature seems, in Eng- FOETRY land at least, to be entering once more into a season of activity, although AND POLITICS ON THE DAN UBE. few books of jamciv promise are announced. In France there is an absolute Itouman Anthology; or, Selections of Roman, Poetry, Ancitnt and Modern. Boing a cessation of literary life, which is almost certain to continue as long as Collection of the National Ballads of Moldavia and Wallachia, &c. By the the Hon. Henry Stanley. Hertford : Stephen Austin. present ignoble despotism continues. Much as we may deplore the blind- Les Principaute' s de Moldavie ness of et de Valachie. Par Paul Bataillard. Paris : Amyot. fear—fear at the bugbear of Socialism so dexterously raised by one Stephen* Austin is an artist. Sadi of party and so foolishly and treacherously stimulated by another—which Shiraz, that poet of rich fancies, alone has made France would scarcely recognize his own " Rose Garden" in its illumination of gold servile, it is a source of great consolation to know and colours, from, the press of the Hertford taat the intelligence of France has nq,t accepted the present regime. printer. Nor could the llouman Bayonets songsters ever have hoped to appear in the West so gorgeously costumed may rule for a time ; but only over an ignorant people. Ideas in Turkish and Byzantine decoration 1 are more powerful than, ' bayonets, and Louis Nai*ol,kon is at war with as in. this volume by Mr. Stanley. ideas. Every page is a picture. Between delicate-green covers, on ivory paper, with gilded edges, their verses lie, each in a frame of arabesque beauty, red, blue, green, and gold KATE COVENTRY. , with superb initial letters, vignettes, and tail- Kate pieces, and faultless typo. Mr. Stanley's publication is thus recommended Coventry : ran Autobiography. Edited by G. J. Whyto Melville, Author of to notice by its external characteristics. Upon opening Digby Grand." r its earlier pages J. \\ . Parker and Son. the reader may be disconcerted by fin ding a number of poems in a language Thjerbi is something fresh and healthy in all that Colonel Whyto Melville writes, probably strange to him ; and this ho may take it for-bnrbaric Italian, for some Kate Coventry is very unlike the mawkish stories which delight the curious dialect of Sicily or Corsica, but there are translations for those who ¦libraries, and weary all sensible people. It is the autobiography of a. fast young lire not Rouman scholars, and for those who are, as -well as for those who are lady, and yet is neither vulgar nor insipid. Feminine eyes may detect, not, there is a well-writ ten and informing preface, by Mr. Stanley. 1074 THE LEADER. ^ _____^ The WaUachians love their country, and, like all patriotic nations, express As a contribution to our knowledge of the neglected Rouman The Syrian does rot turn to hia Damascus, the Spaniard and literature, Wii n T* their love in songs. this volume does honour to every one concerned in its *, to his Seville, -with more devotion than the Wallachian to the river that flows duetion—to Mr. Stanley, in the first place, but to Mr. Austin also S?n fcy Bucharest. The national minstrels still sing among the M.Ro uman valleys renders a real service to art aud scholarship by his polyglot and decora airs and ballads of an untraced age, some of which^ from Aleksandri's tive Stanley has translated- All these roving singers are gi collection, Mr. psies ; From a literary to a political friend of the Rouman race : this is 4ilrt with the language they employ philologists are not yet familiar. Of course, right moment at which to recommend to the English reader a r>eruS the Slavonian, origin attributed to the people has long been set aside by the of M. Bataillard's concise but lucid summary. M. Bataillard evidence connecting theni with the is a nn ^historical Legionaries of Tiajan and of independent views, who has had rare opportunities of studyin g fh« Aurelian ; and though many Slav words have been undoubtedly intr oduced, politics of the great Danubian valley. He has travelled there so also have Albanian words there resided , with others of an unknown genealogy. The , associated with all classes of the population, familiarized himself real Routnan tongue is Latin, the Latin of a province, indeed, yet still with the national opinions, whether expressed in state documents allied in genius and structure with the Latin of s ngs or in Cicero aud Koine. The peasants' o , and has written clearly and simply a statement of the whoS¦ deviations from the regular ancient language do not seem to have been acci- matter now under discussion in tlm.W *»sf-.. Wo l-nnm 4Vi«* . +i« ~ ~ —: . dental, the leading peculiarity consisting in the position of the article, which M. Bataillard's explanat ions has been admitt ed, where it was most liielv to 19 placed at the end of the -word. " The Latinity of the Rouman is, how- be questioned—in the Principalities themselves. It is , therefore, a wel-* •ever," says Mir. Stanley, " sadly disguised under the Cyrillic alphabet, in come hook, at a time when Danubian politics contain a problem which which it has hitherto been habited. This alphabet was adopted about whether intelli gible to the public mind or not, must shortly be solved. The ajd. 1400 ,_ after an attempt by one of the Popes to unite the Koumans to Rouman race, which inhabits not Walluchia and Moldavia alone, but Bes- the Catholic Church. The priests then burned the books in the Roman or sarabia and the Bukovina—formerly Moldavian territories—with portions of European letters, and the Russians have opposed all the attempts made the Banat and of Transylvania, arid is also scattered over various districts latterly to cast off the Slavonic alphab et, by which the Rouman language is of European Turkey, is, as its name indicates, of Latin ori * gin, kindred to enchained and bound to the Slavonic dialects." But the tendency of the the West by ties of blood and of history. It forms, as it were, a wedver a period of more than thirty years. tary and diplomatic, in that part of the world. llussia and Turkey have Accordingly, Mr. Stanley also has printed his collection of Rouman laboured with equal assiduity, though with different aims, 16 enfeeble this ballads in poetry in the ordinary Roman or English character. With the singularly situated nation, which, after successive conflicts, iift een centuries exception of the ballads, Yvhicn refer at times to remnants of an antique in duration, now claims, in. 1856, at least a semi-independent existence. mythology that once reigned along the borders of the Danube, the selections Events have demonstrated that which was well known to politicians before Are from the works of living men—Radulesco, Aleksandresco, Aleksandrini, the late vyar commenced—that the ambition of'Austria is not less dangerous Bolentineanti, Cretzianu, and others. The translations are in a literal form, to the Ottoman Empire than the ambition of Russia. The position oi and include historical and legendary pieces, love-songs, and fables. The Russia and Austria, indeed, is one of rivalry, and can only cease to be such square border of ornament is adapted from a rare Byzantine manuscript of when the one power Las attained a decisive and recognized preponderance the fifth century, the initial letter being taken from a Byzantine work of a over the other. Within the last year or two the Austrian press has been somewhat later period. Another border with a circular top is now used, engaged in disseminating the most extravagant pretensions, on the part of for the firs t time, in modern book decoration. We should mention that the the imperial government, with respect to the territorial line of the Danube. volume is further illustrated by some gems of engraving from Canaletti, Not only newspapers, but pamphlets, and even large volumes, have set forth, representing views in Venice—among others, the house supposed to have formally, a scheme for Germanizing the Principalities, precisely as Bohemia been inhabited by Titian. has been Germanized. This new perspective, opened in the East, has Among the translations, the first is the short story of Prince Radu's flatt er ed the German mind , and was one of the reasons for the sudden rise suit to a young maiden.:—- of Austrian influence in the Frankfort Confederation. It was. an imposing " Come and kiss me, sweet little girl, idea—this suggestion, of a new Germanic marine to be established on the And I will gire thee a necklace and a robe." Black Sea, this annexation of Moldavia and "VVallachia to the llouiuan pro- " A necklace or a robe for a kiss vinces alr ead y absorbed—Transylvania, the Banat, the Bukovina. It Never at any time, my lord, never have I take n." would be little consonant with the policy of Austria to create, by the union " Give me a kiss, proud maiden, of the Principalities, a second Piedmont as her Eastern frontier, llussia Or I will bind th.ee to the tail of a flying steed." acts in the East by three methods—by a propagand, which operates upon " Amidst wild horses thoa may'st bind me, the Greek and Slavonian populations ; by a diplomatic strategy, which has Bat to thee, my lord, I will not give a kiss." its centre at Constantinople; and by direct territorial pressure, designed The horse is led forth ; it snorts, it strikes out , it bounds , firs t to neutral ize, and then to destroy, the independence of the Princi palities. " Dear little girl , give me one kiss." The power of opposition possessed by Austria is worked solely in her own " To this flying steed thou may 'st bind me, interest, against Russia in a spirit of jealousy, and against the Ottoman Em- But to you, my lord , I -will not give a kiss.'^ pire and the Moldo-Wnllachiun provinces in.a spirit of faithlessness and Prince Radu thereupon assembles his Court rapacity. And joyfully marries th.e proud maiden. The fir3t solution proposed in behalf of Moldavia and Wallachia is that ThU is very of union , and of complete independence. The question of right can scarcely chastely suggested. In the Venetian Biondinetta's poem, to descriptive of her love, she says :— be raised on the part of Turkey. The Moldo-Wallachian people agreed admit the exercise of certain prerogatives by the Porte in exchange i'ur pro- One day beside the fonntain tection. Por this they paid tribute ; for this they oflored allegiance ; and Titian said to me, softly: they " There is no land in a condition this they have not enjoyed. Fulfilling their share of the engagement, To attempt tbr y portrait , have never obtained the guaranteed equivalent, but have been under the But I swear, by the superb sun, necessity of defending themselves, so that the cap ital article of the contract If thou wiahest it on the spot, ha ving been repeatedly broken, the contract itself is void, and the Porte has I -will make tliee immortal , no legal claim to sovereignty in the Danubian Principalities. M. Uataillard Attempting only thy shad ow." cites an array of historical evidence in support of this conclusion; but the " Mocenigo the Handsome," and the Doge, also address Biondinetta : subtl° vapour, generated of the purer oico V Are not philosophers, mathematicians, find astrologers often 7™!5 ° ieat?y* of tho hoartlPt And as tho vapour from blear eyes falling upon eyes inferior to country-women in their divinations ami predictions, and does not tho old 0 i m Orru them, nurse very often beat the doctor? be nourJ ° and bCso th may tho motionsof and imaginations of one spirit Socrates himself, the wisest of men, did not disdain ^ r°"e y a vcuiculum thafc B irit through tho oyca of to receive knowledge f rom Aspasia , nor did ' Apollo tho Theologian dospiso th« Wm that is « ^ ° ° ° P teaching of Pjiscilla. And this ?— thehia THE ZOOLOOIO AL FE3UACE. nailH into and Th-o queen of all birds, he says, is tho eagle, ulways of tho female sex, for no they " wT? ¥ *%¦ * begana11 tU draw °f firsbo Pmustut Pores' caves, and malo eagles lmvo been found. Tho so^ ?\ to^^ nail* t bo taken bound phoenix is a femalo always. On tho othoi theue uSnocK, wad byh .^th to hand, tho. most pestilent of serpents, call ed tho b asilisk, exists only as a male: it ia ^ w moana will tho diaeaso be removed. Alao they say that a man's impossible*for it to hatch a female. 1076 THE IEADEB, _____INo. 346, SactBdat. THE TRAVELS OF A JEW. the grave of Ezekiel, our traveller tells us, is a wall, a large ' large enclosure.^ Those town ancH Travels of' - Rabbi 'Petachia , qf Eatisbon. Translated from the Hebre-w toy Dr. A. entering the wicket have ordinarily to crawl o« Explanatory Notes by the Translator, and William F. Ainswortb hands and feet; but on the festival Benisck, with , of Tabernacles, people from all countri * F.S.A. &C. . Trubner. resort thither, when the entrance becomes enlarged by itself, so thiS S? The heart of Rabbi Moses Petachia, brother of Yizchak the White, and can enter it even on camels. Whoever wishes to go to a distant land 5 Y Nacbman the Learned, burned within with him the desire of -visiting his posits his purse, or any valuables, with Ezekiel, and many purses " he there rotting, ynthmo™!, brethren of the captivity, scattered over the various districts and through because observes the Rabbi,.th ey lay there many vearf the numerous cities of Western Asia and Southern Europe. Hence ue their proprietors probably having been murdered on their in/,™. resolved to encounter the perils of far journeyings, and being, if not wealthy, From the grave of Ezra a column of fire ascended to the sky, during $ ' in easy circumstances, he made the necessary preparations. eleventh and twelfth hour, and sometimes was seen in the first hour ni of th Rabbi Petachia, the reader ought to know, was born about tb.e middle of ght. Ry its light people could walk three or four passages, that is from the twelfth century at Batisbon, distinguished, at the time of his birth, for twelve to sixteen miles. However, before setting out for tLe Ezra, grave nf its numerous congregations of wise men, which gained for it the title of the the Rabbi Petachia was shown, at Sushan, the coffin of Daniel Ori Jewish Athens. In what year he set out upon his travels is unknown ; but ginally it was buried on one side of the river, and caused <*reat plentv" prosperity, and blessing. But it must have been before the year 1187, since he describes the Holy Land 41 the men on the other side of the river said as_ being still held by the Crusaders . On his return, he told the marvellous Because the holy man is not buried on our side, therefore is our land not things that he had seen and heard to the groups of faithful and credulous blessed ;" and there were constant wars for the possession of the ^ coffin Afc Israelites who gathered around hinx "Whether, however, he -wrote an ela- last some elders came and the affair was compromised. The coffin was sus borate account of his travels, an abridgment of which we have before us, pended by strong iron chai ns on high pillars, in the centre of the river +hna or whether he only kept an itinerary, or whether Rabbi Yehoodah the Pious, tne land on either side obtained an equal share of the prophet's blessin* who was amongst his hearers, obtained possession of his notes, It is difficul t But the marvels end not here. Vessels passing underneath the coffin onfy to say. From the fragmentary character of this work, and oilier internal proceeded in safety if tliose in it were pious : if this was not the case they evidence we are led to beli-eve that it is the production of the Rabbi Yehoo- foundered. Moreover, our traveller was assured by the Jews inhabitants dah, and not of Petacbia himself. of the place, that underneath the coffin there were fish with golden pendants Travellers are privileged to tell strange tales, and the travellers of the in their ears. middle ages availed themselves abundantly of this privilege. Benjamin of However, we will dwell no longer in these gardens of enchantment Tudela before him, and Marco Polo after him, saw things, or related that though the Jew has much to tell in the style of Pinto—who may have been they saw them, which excellently keep in countenance the experiences of the his imitator. We must pass by those rich trees whose "berries were Rabbi Petachia. In fact, the marvellous is never a stumbling-block to his pure gold, as verified by Rabbi Moses Petachia, brother of Yizchak the reason. Whatever he .sees he believes, whatever he hears he credits. Yet White and Nachrnan the Learned, himself, and forsake those beautiful cities his fondness for the marvellous has its limits. If a miracle is performed •w hose gates of brass were so highly polished that the horses, seein^ them. it must be wrought by some prophet, or the disciple of a prpphet, or he is selves reflected in the panels, refused to approach. We cannot, however, incredulous. Ail the wonders he relates to his brethren take place at or conclude without observing that, stripped of the fabulous and marvellous] near the tombs of the holy men of God, and though not so voluminous in the book contains incidental descriptions of manners and customs very inte- bulk, this work before us savours of the spirit of the A eta Sanctorum. resting, and that the notes by which it is accompanied, arid for which we Rabbi Petachia set out on his tiavels from Prague in Bohenaia, journey- are indebted to the translator and Mr. Ainsworth, are not only useful in^ g to Poland, from Poland to Kieff, in Russia, and from Russia in six but amusing. days to the River Dnieper. This river he crossed on ten extended horse- hides sewn together—a kind of leathern. raft which served the country PUNCH'S POCKET-BOOK FOR 1857. people for a boat—and thus entered the country of Kedar or Lattle Tartary, Punch's Pocket-Bookfor 1857. Bradbury and Evans. where there were no Jews, only heretics. The inhabitants live in tents, we Everyone knows what TuncJCs JPockei-Book is. We have only to say, then, are told ; are far-sighted, recognizing objects not distant less than a day's that this year it is as usual. The frontispiece concerns hoops, petticoats, journey, and have beautiful eyeis, because they eat no salt, and feed on and tent-like silks and. gauzes, while in the ' miscellaneous department' fragrant plants. Thence, traversing Togarma or Armenia, our traveller J?zmch frolics among follies and fashions in great pride, and to the content passed through the country of Ararat, and in eight days, which, by- of the jovial, generous reader. the-by, is Impossible, arrived as far as Nisibis, leaving the high mountain of Ararat to the right. In three more days he comes to New Nineveh, which, according to his account, is three , days* journey from Old Nineveh. The whole land around this latter city is .black like pitch. There is neither herb nor any vegetation whatever. He exclaims that it has s"hared the fate DRAMATIC AND MUSICAL NOTES. of Sodom and Gomorrah. However, at New Nineveh his heart is rejoiced, The Italian week at Drtjrt Lane terminated last Saturday with the perform- for there he finds more than six thousand Jews ruled over by two princes ance of II Trovatore, when Madame GRisiwas seen for the first time these several of the seed of David. Here the Rabbi sees an elephant—for the first time. years by a Xondon audience in a new part—that of Leonora, in which she first " It is big," he tells us, " and eats about two waggon loads of straw at once ; appeared at Dublin last season, and which was played here during the summer by its mouth is in its breast, and when it wants to eat it protrudes its lip Mademoiselle PiccolomiNi. Manrico was sustained by Mario ; and Graziani, about two cubits who had been singing on the previous Thursday at Paris, was brought over ex- , takes up with it the straw, and puts it into its mouth. press] - When the sultan condemns any body to death, they say to the elepha t }- to sing in the character of the Count de Luna on this one night. The n , success, as a matter of course, was immense; the house was crowded to over- * This person is guilty.' It then seizes him with its lip, casts him aloft , and flowing, and the audience was as enthusiastic as if the locality had been the kUls him. Whatever a human being performs with his ha.nd it performs bottom of the Haymarket, and the month had been May. -A. second brief with its lip ; this is exceedingly strange and marvellous." season is advertized to commence next Monday. At Nineveh the Rabbi embarked on the Tigris, and descending its stream, The same company gave a concert last Monday evening at Exeter Haix. came to Babel, where was a garden belonging to the head of the academy, Besides various Italian airs, Mario sang Ha/tton's ballad " Good-bye, sweet- in which grew mandrakes having the face of a human being. A few hours heart," with the English words, which he pronounced with great correctness. more brought him to Bagdad, -which was a day's journey from end to end, Grisi enchanted the audience, not only in conjunction with Mario, with whom and three days' journey in circumference. Here no women were to bo she sang Donizetti's duet, u Un tenero core," but also in the air " Taceala seen, nor did anybody go into the house notte," from the Trovatore. M. and Madame Gassier, Herr Formes, Madame of his friend lest he should see the the wife of his neighbour. If business calls a person to the house, he knocks Amadei, and Messrs. XoniNi, Albicinx, and Tknnant, also contributed to with a tin knocker success of the evening; and between the acts a patty of Swedes, just arrived in , when the nxaster comes forth and speak s to him. The England, performed a quintet on the Sax brass instruments, to the entire satis- Jews of Babylon are very learned, and well versed in the Talmud. " There faction of those who heard them. is no one so ignorant in the whole of Babylon, Assyria, Media and Persia, CHA.nx.ES MiTUEws made his first appearance since the death of Madame but he knows the twenty-four books, the punctuation, the grammar, the Vesthis at Drury Laue on Monday night, when he played Marplot in the -Bt^y superfluous and omitted letters," &c. Even the daughter of one of the Body, and one of his favourite burletta parts in Cool as a Cucumber. He was re- Rabbin was expert in the Scripture and Talmud, and gave instruction to the ceived with a perfect fever of applause, which showed itself in four demands for young men. She, however, was invisible ; her words proceeded through a his appearance before the curtain, with which he complied.—The Iveeleys dark window, whilst her disciples stood outside the house listening to catch afterward s performed in the farce of Twice Killed. them. The Lyceum has made two additions to its stock—one, a revival; tlie other, Many strange anecdotes are told about the tombs of the prophets. The a new farce. The revived piece is Mr. Wjiitkiiead's two-act drama, The Cava- lier, in which Mr. Dillox performs the part of Captain Ilarjrave s, and Mrs. sultan who reigned in the days of Rabbi Shelomoh -wished to see the and prophet Ezekiel, whose Dltxox that of Mrs. Margraves. Tho farce is entitled Doing the Hansom, sepulchre was distant a day and a half's journey comprises a set of incidents of most preposterous improbability. But it gives from Bagdad. The Rabbi objected : '* Thou canst not see him, for he is an opportunity to Mr. Toowe? to exhibit that genuine faculty for grotesque lioly, nor must thou uncover his grave." The monarch insisted. "My humour which has earned him a position in the course of a few weeks, and lord and king," replied Shelomoh, " Baruch ben Neriah, his disciple, is which, on the present occasion, a8 on one or two others, drew forth tlie hearty buried near the enclosure of the prophet. If it be thy -will, uncover his sympathy of the audience.—Mr. Dillon appeared on Wednesday evening H> grave. If thou canst see the servant thou mayst try to see the master." the part of Claude Mehtotte. in the The Lady of Lyons. ¦ , The princes^ and potentates of the kingdom are assembled and commanded Mr- and Mrs. Barney Williams have vanished from the Axhzlvui, and the to dig ; but whoever touches the grave of Baruch ben Neriah falls down Green Bushes supplies the place of tlie vivacious Irishman and the fascinating im- like a mediately and dies. The Jews are then ordered to dig. After three days' " Yankee Girl," whose acting (we speak more especially of the lady) was fasting they bit of fresh wild nature set blooming in the midst of the faded , made-up, gas- ¦ commence, and are not hurt. The coffin of Baruch is reached , enthusiasm when the sultan exclaims, ever, they come to thing sad in the absence of the well-known voices and looks of Mrs. the distance of a mile from tho grave of Ezekiel they liam, Mr«. Vates, and Mr. O. Smith, two of whom have now departed from a" cannot stir, neither ca.n horse nor mule move the coffin from its place. Then ot tins, aaid Rabbi Shelomoh « earthly stages ; but tho gaps were well filled up. After the conclusion , Here tho righteous man withes to be buried. And tho most successful of melodramas, a little piece was produced called A Jiora tr they buried there thw coffin , und built a beautiful palace over his grave. Marriage, which brought forth the united faculties of Mr. Lkioh Muuray, M* This la not the only legend in connexion with the prophets tomb. Round Witwur, and Miss Wvndham, the lady giving especial delight by fighting w»" ISTovembeb 8, 1856.] THD LEADER. 1077 rapiers a gentleman whom she has just married according to Scottish fashion- the only merit does not lie in the diction, and the words serve to convey some really The piece turns upon the entrapping of this gentleman, a cavalier of the time of interesting story." the Commonwealth, into an unexpected marriage with the lady (a young Juixien—and the fogs—have arrived. Not that we mean to identify, in any- widow), who is herself equally inveigled by a third party ; but fi ghting speedily thing more than contemporaneousness, the harmonious Frenchman and our dull and the wounds which the cavalier has received from the fair leads up to lo-ve, November visitors, those drooping mists thatwe steam up from the Essex marshes hands of his opponent are healed by the smiles and tenderness of the charming and the muddy river ; but it^so happens that generally have to make our way . - ' victor vanquished.' to the Promenade Concerts through an atmosphere damaging alike to the stiff- At the Cits or London Theatre, Mr. and Miss "Vandeniioff have been ness of shirt collars and the curling of mustachios, and at petty warfare with performing high class tragedy. Mr. Vandenhofjf , long familiar with the London lungs and throat. Wednesday, however, was a fine, though cold, night for M. stage, is here seen on the extreme verge of dramatic civilization, acting in high Jullien's first appearance at Her Majesty's Theatre—for it is in that classic style in the severest of classic dramas (Talfourd's Ion), and winning classical and aristocratic locality that we are this year to enjoy our musical pere- attention and interest from the sometime worshippers of the melodramatic. grinations. In this favourite resort of fashion did the large crowd, which on Wed- This success, no doubt, is not a little aided by the acting of Miss Vandenhoff nesday evening filled every available place, behold the well-known baton, hear —a lady who -unites grace, dignity, and passion, and av ho has the power of being many of the familiar airs, and get up the old ' rows' for the delight of inextin- classical without being fri gid-—as if an ancient Greek statue should be made to guishable * gentdom.' We have not the space to particularize all the performances pulse with living blood and veritable human emotion. The Times critic appends or performers ; but we must find room to note that Miss Cathebine Hayes ap- some interesting remarks on the new development of East-end dramatic tastes. appeared for the.first time after several years of travel, and Was received with a He writes:— degree of enthusiasm which nearly destroyed her self-command. She sang several ballads and cavatinas, and was loudly and repeatedly applauded.—Be- " Let us add that the tragedy has been followed by one of those old-school melo- tween1 the first and second parts, " God save the Queen" and " Partant pour la dramas on the subject of murder and of wrong accusation which a Londoner of the Syrie ' were sung; and here we must interpose an objection. - Why are we to be West-end would declare to be just the thing for his eastern brethren, and that the for ever pelted with the latter air ? There was some reason to be alleged for it interest awakened by this humble production lias been less than that created by Ion. during the war as lie is with all the ordinary expedients for producing dramatic effect ; but there is now absolutely none. It is not the national air of Familiarized , Fran ce in any genuine sense, for it is only recognized by one section of French- and taught to regard long-established motives and sentiments from an ironical point men. The French military it is the western man -who easily grows impatient -while and quadrille bands are not always thundering of view, witnessing a dra- " God save the Queen" into the ears of the auditors; they do not even play matic representation, and who considers the word ' slow ' the most damnatory of pre- " Partant" so often as we do, though it is the poetical drama is a comparatively fresh phenomenon and the chosen air of the existing Govern- dicates. In the east, , , ment. Surely, then, it is time for us to give up what is nothing better than a as its theme is usually one of generally human importance,—or, as the Germans say, clap-trap—especially after the recent insult passed upon the English press by aUgernein-menschHch—-it has all the capabilities of awakening sympathy, provided ! the Imperial Moniteur.' READING FOR ARTIZANS. FKOM THE LONDON GAZETTE. piegne. it is thought by many people, will alter the tone of the Ministerial journals. (From the Times.) Tuesday, November'4. BANKRUPTS-—James Watiing Knights, Quay-street, The accounts from Paris continue very uncomfortable as The Bishop of Manchester, at the recent opening of the Ipswich, corn, coal, and seed merchant and auctioneer— regards scarcity of money, dearness of provisions, and house William James White, 135, Vauxhall-walk and Putney, rent, and there are people who have been residing in Paris Preston Lyceum, congratulated the meeting on the fact late of Praed-strcet, Paddington, and Goswell-street, Mid- who assert that the army is jealous of the Imperial that "in one -week the number of books issued from the dlesex, 'baker—Joseph James Reynolds, 21, Threadneedle- Guard , &c. The Italian question must come to an issue stree t, City, raining and share broker—Johst Vickeks, 14, sooner or later. Thus, there are breakers enough ahead to free library amounted to 1750 volumes, and from the Eldon-road, Yictoria-road, Kensington, 4, Cross-lane. St. make everybody cautious and anxious for tlie coming winter. lending library to 1950." Very satisfactory indeed ; Mary-at-hill, Lower Thames-street, City, and 93, High- Foreign stocks are very little inquired after. Turkish Six streot, Sonthwark, wine and spirit merchant—Samuel per cents, are about 90, and have fluctuated but little during but tis Lordship had a little drawback to make from Bone, the elder , , , the week. The Four per Cent, guaranteed have been rather Dagenham Essex beer-shop keeper — more in demand. this .announcement. " "What were the books selected Francis Seatvabd, 2, Abchurch-yard, Abchurch Tlane, City, licensed carman and carrier-^—Robert Jokes Stirkop, Railway shares have been firmly supported, and a consi- and circulated ?" He thought it only honest to meet Ironbridge, Salop, currier—John Doughty derable advance in price has taken place in the leading lines. , Castle Dori- Foreign hues are also ratJier better, particularly the , that question, though it involved a slight confession , nington, Leicester, builder and auctioneer —• Stephen Belgian Greaves, Eecleshill, York, cloth manufacturer— Samuel and Dutch Rhenish shares. Ceylons remain steady at 1 which he proceeded to make with rather a blushing, Biggin, Heney Biggin, , , premium, and the Indian lines without change. Great and Paul Smith Sheffield saw Western of Canada have experienced a remarkable rise, hesitating candour. manufacturers—Samuel Biggin, the younger, Sheffield , " I am willing to admit, nav, more, saw manufacturer-Charles Hammond Thompson, Conis- having been done at 251, 25?; they are now 11. per share I am prepared to expect ; any, more"—his Lordship brough, York, common brewer—Heatow "Weight, Burnley, flatter,"a reaction having taken place. Lancaster, timber dealer and sawyer—David Imbie Joint-stock Banks, but little doing in them ; Bank of becomes bolder as he approaches the point of announce- , Belfast Egypts, a trifle better;. National Discount, and London. ment— and Manchester, manufacturer , merchant, and shipper. " I am to a certain degree glad to see, because it SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS.—D. WALEEii and Sok, Discount Compa.nys are firm. The . shares of the once far- is a natural, and therefore a healthy system , that the 56, South Bridge-street, Edinburgh., auctioneers and ap- famed Australian Agricultural Company have moved a class of general literature is that to -which the greatest praisers— Maxcolm M'Geegor, Milton of Drinamie, Perth , little this week—Zl. per share—owing perhaps to a rich dis- farmer, grazier, and cattle dealer—Johk Cajwtdufe, Edin- covery of gold in the vicinity of their estates. Peel Rivers recourse is had." It is easy to see what " general lite- . have also sympathized with this -upward movement. burgh, tailor and clothier. Mining1 dull, both British and Foreign. At rature," as distinguished from " history, biography, Friday, November 7. shares are science, and theology," means ; but his Lordship would four o'clock Consols close 92 L 934 ; Turkish Four per Cent. BANKRUPTCY ANNULLED. — Jons Gregory, Man- 90*, 90i. not use so light a word as the real one. Let all novel- chester , accountant and general agent. Aberdeen, —, —; Caledonian, 56, 56i; Chester and Holy- readers know that they are students of " general litera- BANKRUPTS. — Lou/a Casteique, Philpofc-lane, City, head, 35, 37 ; .Eastern Counties, 9, 9i; Great Northern, ture merchant -Edward Jonw Hoddbe, Birmingham, grocer 924, 1; Great Southern and "Western (Ireland), 115, ; "—that is their designation, and let them thank the —Thomas Bkikdi-ey, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire, grocer- 93 117 Bishop of Manchester - Great Western, 6EDSTEADS, BEDDING, and F of the human frame hi liealth and disease, the race of men, JL> I'URE.-WILLIAM S. BURTON'S URNI- Cash payments ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ and. a large¦ trade¦ solely onabling¦ them to Stock oiv show rf , - ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ •¦ ¦ &c. Lectures delivered at Twelve Two, and at Half- . . do it.; - ...... Iron and Brass Bedsteads past , and Children's Cots, stands un Seven, by Dr. G. Sexton, F.U.G.S.; and a uew and nvalled either for extent >auty of design, or modSnm highly-interesting Series of Lectures is now in course of of prices. He.also supplies Bedding and delivery by Dr. Kahn, at Four t.si. precisely.—Admis- in guaranteed quality Bod-haniriiiKS«»b«iks oiof " (^ ENTLEMEKT SEARCH of a TAILOR and workmanship. sion, Is. Portable Folding Bedsteads, from 12s. U arc directed to B. BENJAMIN, Mcrchaut Tailor, 74, ^ Gd. ; Patent Iron Regent-street. Bedsteads, fitted with dovetail joints and patent s^w HARRINGTON, PARKER, and CO., Wine The FORTY-SEVEN SHILLING SUITS, made to order, fro m 153. ; and Cots, from. 20s, each.'.Handsome ornamental and Spirit Merchants, 5},PAIiIi MALL, LONDON, from Scotch, Heather, and Cheviot Tweeds, all wool and tho- Iron and Brass Bedsteads, in great variety, from il. 7s. CU. offer to the public Old and Superior WINES, pure, and of roughly shrunk. the finest quality, at prices not exceeding those charged for The PEILISSIER SACS, 21s., 25s., and 28s. A Half-Tester Patent Iron Bedstead, three feet wide with The BENJAMIN CLERICAL and PROFESSION-AL — Bedding, &c., complete : ' ordinary Wines. Bedstead HARRINGTON, OVER or UNDER COAT, fro m 30s. The ALBERT LONG .. ^ , £\ a n PARKER, and CO. would call special FROCK or OVER COAT, fro m 35s. to 55s. The REVER- Chintz furniture...... ,..„ .. . ' o 14 ft attention to their PALE and GOLDEN DINNER SHER- SIBLE WAISTCOAT, buttoning : four different sides, 14s. Palliasse, wool mattress, bolster, and pillow " i n o RIES, as under : Imperial Pints, 27s. to 34s. per dozen; or The TWO GUINEA DRESS and FROCK COATS, tho A pair of-cotton sheets, three blankets, and'a bottled in Reputed Quarts, 36s. to 4os. per dozen. GUINEA DRESS TROUSERS, and the coloured counterpane Agents for Allsopp's Pale and India Ale. HALF-GUINEA i so WAISTCOATS.—N.B. A perfect fit guaranteed. ¦ ' ' ¦ ' ¦ ' ¦ ' - ; ' ' -; ¦: - - ¦ ¦ . . ;¦:¦ . . • . ; ¦ . ^-a 11 & and WESTPHALIA HAMS, . . SPANISH S£d T3EGISTEKED.—The OUDE WRAPPER, A double bedstead, s _p«r lb. Good Cheshire Cheese, 5jd., GJd., and 7£d. per ¦¦ " ¦ ame...... £q 3 q lb. Rich Blue Mould Stilton, 8d-, lOd. and 12d. per lb.; -LV combining Coat, Cloak, and Sleeved Cape, by iB. IBEN- _,.. . ' ¦• , If without Half-Tester and Furniture • matchless do., 14d. per lb. Osborne's fa^ med best Smoked JAMIN, Merchant Tailor, 74, Regent-street, and Court of Single bed, complete .. £3 1:5 0 Breakfast Bacon is now- in excellent cure. York Hams, Inventions, Crystal Palace, readymade or made to order, Double bed, complete ...... ;. i 15 0 largo and small, in abundance, and Butters in perfection at in Autumn Tweeds and Meltons, 23s. ; Winter Tweeds, reasonable rates. A saving of 15 per Meltons, Pilots, aud Witneys, 323. ; double milled cloths T AMPES a MODERATEUR, cent, to the purchaser and beavers, 42s. from 6s. to of all provisions. Packages gratis. ii . 7/- 7S.-W ILLIAM S. BURTON lias collected from ' tne different makers hero and in France a variety that OSBORNE'S Cheese ¦ ¦ ¦ "Vfarehouse, 30, IiUdgate-hill¦ ¦' , St.' . ¦ • ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ - • ' . ¦ ¦ • ; - - ¦ :¦ ¦ . • . • clerics competition. Paul's.. . . . As many imported from France are in- DEAFNESS.-—Prize Medals 1851, First class ferior m the works, Williaiii S. Burton selects at Paris from 1855.—The newly invented ACOUSTIC INSTRU- the best makers only, and lie cau guarahteo each lanip he SCHWEPPE'S MALVERJf SELTZER MENTS, to suit every, degree of deafness, however extreme, sells as perfect in all its parts. STATER. Having leased tbe Holy Well Spring at can only be obtained of 1\C.REIN , solo inventor andmaker, at his Paradise for the Deaf, 103, Strand, London. Also His stock comprises also an extensive assortment of Malvern, renowned for its puritv, J. S. and Co. can now SOLAR, C AMPHIN E produce a SELTZER WATER with all the CHEMICAL and Rein's celebrated Cork Respirators. , PALME1VS, and all other LAMPS. MEDICINAL properties which have rendered the Nassau Pure Colza, Oil, 4s. 8d. a gallon. Spring so celebrated. They continue Manufacturing SODA, Patent Campbine, 4s. a gallon. : MAGNESIA, and POTASS WATERS and LEMONADE, at FURNISH YOUR HOUSE Palmer's Candles, 9d. per lb. IiONDON, LIVERPOOL, BRISTOL, and DERBY. WITH THE BEST ARTICLES AT The late additions to these extensive premises ¦ ' ¦ ¦¦¦ ' (already , Every bottle is protected by a Red Label bearing their ¦¦ ¦7 • ¦ • by far the largest in Europe) are of such a character that signature. . • - . DEAisTE's :: ¦ . the entire of EIGHT HOUSES is devoted to the display IRONMONGERY AND of the most magnificent stock of GENERAL HOUSE FURNISHING WAREHOTTSES. IRONMONGERY (including Cutlery, Nickel Silver, Plated TO INVALID S, MOTB1ERS, AND FAMI- A Priced Furnishing List sent Post Free. Goods,Baths, Brushes, Turnery, Lamps,Gaseliers, Iron and XiTES.—By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent (the Brass Bedsteads, Bedding, and Bed-hangings), so arranged only patent for these preparations). Strongly recommended DEAME, DRAY, $c CO., LONbON-BRIpCE. in Sixteen Largo Show Rooms as to afl'ord to parties fur- by the Medical Profession. ADIfAM'S IMPROVED PA- Established A.D. I 700. nishing facilities in the- selection of goods that caiiuot be TENT GROATS and BARLEY aro manufactured by a pro- hoped for elsewhere. cess which entirely removes the acidity and unpleasant fla- Illustrated Catalogues sent (per post) free. vour, so universally found in sitnilar preparations. They pro- 39, auce Gruel and Barley Water in the highest perfection, and, " THE LANCET" OXFORD-STREET ; 1, 1a , 2, and 3, NF/WMAX- being manufactured perfectly pure, yield food of tho most ON DR. DE JOtfGH'S STREET; and 4, 5, and C, PERRY'S-PLACE, LONDON. light and nourishing quality for the Infant, the Invalid, and . . : Established 1820. the Aged. The Barley also makes a delicious Custard Pud- LIGHT BROWN COD LITER OIL. ding, and is an excellent ingredient for thickening Soups, &c. The most speedy and effectual remedy for CONSUMP- .The Patentees publish one only of the numerous testimo- TION, BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA, GOUT, RHEUMATISM, WATCH, CLOCK, and CHRONOMETER nials they have received from eminent medical professors, SCIATICA, DIABETES, DISEASES OT THE SKIN, MANUFACTORY, 33 and 31. LUDGAT1MULL, relying more confidently on the intrinsic quality of tho NEUBA.LGIA, RICKETS, INFANTILE WASTING. GE- LONDON. Established 174!).—J. W. BENSON, Manufac- articles, of which one trial will not fail to convince tho most NERAL DEBILITY, and all SCROFU LOUS AFFEC- turer of GOLD and SILVER WATCHES of every descrty- fastidious of their purity and excellence. TIONS. tion, construction, and pattern, invites attention to his ' tho to tho magnificent and unprecedented display of >Vatchcs, which "Chomical Laboratory, Guy's Hospital, " Dr. de Joimir.i^ives preference Light-Brown is admitted to be tho largest and best selected Stock in February 19, 1855. Oil over tho Pale Oil, which contains scarcely any volatilo London. It consists of Chronometer, Duplrx, Patent, De- fatty acid, a smaller quantity of iodine, phosphoric acid, tached Lover, Horizontal, , .jewelled , ;' I have submitted to a microscopical and chemical exa- and the elements of bile, and Vertical Movements mination the samples of barley and groats which you have and upon which ingredients tho &c, with all the latest improvements, mounted in superbly- forwarded to mo, and I beg to inform efficacy of Cod Liver Oil, no doubt, partly depends. Some ilnished engine-turned and engraved Gold and Silver Cases. you that I find in of the deficiencies of the Palo Oil aro attributable to tho The desjgns engraved by emi- them only those principles which, aro found iu good barley ; method of its preparation upon many of the cases arc there is no mineral or other impurity present, , and especially to its nitration nent artists, ana can only be obtained at this Manufactory. and from the through charcoal. In the preference of the Light-Urown If the important requisites, superiority of Hnish , combined result of my investigation I believe them to be genuine, and over the Palo Oil wo fully concur. Wo have carcfull y tested tp possess those nutritive properties assigned by tholato Dr. with accuracy of performance, elegance, durability , and rea- Pereira to this description of food. a specimen of Dr. »e Jowon's Light-Brown Cod Liver Oil. sonableness of price, are wished for, the iiitom ling Pur- We find it to bo genuiuo, and rich in iodine and the elements chaser should visit „,, ., , (Signed) "A. S. TATtOE. of bilo. this Manufactory, or send for the IL- ff Messrs. A.dnara and Co." " LUSTRATED PAMPHLET, published by J. W. JtHXSON CAUTION.—To provent orroTs, tho Public aro requested (and scut post free on application), which contains sketches, to observe that each package bears tho signature of tho Pa- Sold ONLY in IMPBWAX Half-pints, 2a. Cd.; Pints, 43. Od. ; prices, and directions as to what Watch to buy, where to tentees, J. and J. O. ADNAM. Quarts, Os.; capsuled and labolled with JJn. i>k Joncih's buy it, and how to usoifc. Severa l hundred' letters have been To bo obtained Wholesale at tho Manufactory, Maidon- Stamnand Signature, without wjiioh no»u akk ginuink, received from persons who have, bought Watcln s at tins liMio, Queen-street, London ; and Retail in Packets and by ANSAli, HAILFORD, and CO., solo British Consignees. Manufactory, bearing testimony to tho correct iiorfonuauofls Canisters at 6d. and Is. each, and in Canisters for Families 77, Strand, London ; and by many respectable Chomlstsand the same. at 2s:, 5s., and 10s. each, of all respectable Grocers, Druggists, Druggiats. OPINIONS Ol? &c, in Town and THE PRESS. Country. From tho Liverpool Journal , Juno 11.—" Wo would uu- BLAIR'S qOUT and RHEUMATIC PILLS. hesitatingly recommend thorn to intending purchasers.' Under tho Patronage of Royalty and tho Authority of the This preparation is one of tho benefits wliich tho From tho Leicester Journal , May 9.—" Hnvinp tried his Faculty. science;of modern chemistry has conferred upon mankind, watches, wo are enabled to givo thoin a lirst-rato cha- KEATING'S COU GH LOZENGES. Tor, during tho first twenty years of tho present century, to racter," Certain — A speak of a euro for tho Gout was considered aronianco—but Ifrom tho Jlerts Guardian, May »1.—" SpcalunR in soino Remedy for Disorders of the Pulmonary now tlio efficacy and safety w Oraans ; in Difficulty of Breathing— in Redundancy of of this medicine is so fully de- degree from experience, Mr. Bouaon'a slock is scarcely Phlcgm—ln Incipient Consumption (of which monstrated by unsolicited testimonials from pcrsonain every bo equalled." Cough ia the rank of life, that public opinion proclaims this asoue of tho e for most positive indication), they aro of unerring efficacy. In most important From tho Ahcrdcni Journal, August 31.—" Suitabl Asthma, and in Winter Cough, thoy havo never been known discoveries of the present a«o. all classos and purses." W) I&lla SoM bj VPPUT and UABSAJNT, 220, Strand, London, and all Medicine Vendors. "From tho liaily Tolcoraph , March 28.—"Wo havf prm* Prepared pleasure in pointing where our and sold in Boxos, Is. TJdy and Tins, 2s. 0d., Prico is. 1 id. and 23. 9d. per box. out a watch manufactory exor- 6 ldl s- ^- ^cli, by THOMAS IDEATING-, Chem ist, friends can purchase a good watuh without payinK an Z 4"A% ^ I aul s-church bitant price" ^Drug yard, London ; *nd rotaU by OP let I^llAMPTON'S PILL HEALTH.—Tho GOLD WATCHES, Horizontal •Movements , .TowvlH, '*0; 3- manifold advantages to tho heads of families from tho acourato time-keepers, M. IBs., 4'-. 15s.. r>I. "l fis., to ir> (. im- TT°LLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS. possession of a medicine of known efficacy, that mny bo re- each. Gold Lever Watches, iowcllcd , nnd hlKhly-ll",^'1™ sorted, to with confidence, and used with success in cases movemcntH, 01. tin., HI . 8s., 10/. lus., VZl.1:2s. , 11/. its., I1"- m> ol temporary sickness, occurring in families more or less to to guineas. IS2?f=saaSi^^ '^ s ^ s every day, nro so obvious to all, that no question can SILVER WATCHES, Horizontal Movomonls, J.'WelH bo raised of ita importance to every housekeeper in the &o., exact timo-Uecpors, 2/.2s., It. ir,s.,!?/. 15s., to .1'. ns. eain- ^s ^ ^S «sf kingdom. Bilver Lovov Watches, highly liniHlied , j«w«llod niovi'inciii'lC 19i For females, thoso Pills aro truly excellent, romovina all 3/. 10.S., U. 10s., 5/. 10s., 71. 10k, «/. 103., iol. 10s., lo '^t K"» ' ' obstructions, tho distressing headache so very prevalent Watch, niw with tho sox, depression of Hpirits duhiess of sigh A Two Years' AVarranty given with ovory . t, nervous sent, carriage paid, to Scotland , Irulmul , Wales, . j, aSS ^ d' affections, blotches, pimples, and uallownoaH of tho skin, and <»r°'' »»»«""'' '", ^ ^^ ^ produce a healthy complexion. of tho kingdoiTi , upon ronoii>t of Tost-odlco u'" order, mado payable to J. W. BENSON, 33 ami $ •'> I'lll( ^ d«n. and M . S, h ,R.OU an,d HARSAJNT. 229, Strand, London, hill, London. .. .m^^^&^^i^^^^^^AJ^n.. and.°H all MedicineZ ? £Vendors. Old Btantlnoplo , A. GoiUloy, dfir£f?SUK Mulr 00"" Morchnnts, Shlpporfl , and "Watch Clubs supplicu. Kta Prlco Is. 11 d. and 2s. Od. per box. Watchca taken iu Exchange. KoTembeb 8, 1856. j THE LEIDIB, 1079 TTNITEP MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE THE EAGLE and PALLADIUM In course of publication, price 5s. each, a Series of • LJ SOCIETY, 64, Charingf-crbss, London. INSURANCE COMPANY, PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS of LIVING Whole Profits divided annually. No charge for Policy 3, Crescent, New Bridge-street, Elackfriars, London. CELEBRITIES. Stamps. Every description of Life Assurance effected on. TJl trSXEES. By MATJLIi and POLYBLANK. eqiiitablo terms. Lord Bateman. Joseph Esdaile, Esq. With appropriate Biographical Notices. THOMAS PRITCHARD, Resident Director. Captain Chas. J Bosanquet, Charles Thomas Holcombe. B.NT. Esq. Ther Jt' 'ovember Number contains :— Robert Cheere, Esq. Bicliard Harman Lloyd, Esq. SAMUEL AVARREN, Esq., Q.C., MP. Established 32 Years. Patrick Colquhoun, LL.D. Ealph Charles Price, JEsq. HE SCOTTISH UNIOK INSURANCE Already Published:— T COMPANY (Fire and Life) invite attention to the Citaiiliis ThomasDIttECTOES. Holcombe, Esq., Chairman. No. 1. containing PROFESSOR OWEN", F.B.S., Sec. liberal terms and conditions, and large resources of the old- EicnAED Hakmah Llotd, Esq-, Deputy-Chairman. No. 2. „ ¦ The Right. Hon. T.B.MACAULAY. ¦ ¦ Iso. 3. . . „ ROBERT STEVENSON, Esq. established office. - . ' . - Charles Bischpfif , Esq. Sir W. G. Ouseley, K.C.B., . , M.P-, insurance duty exceeds 26,0OOf. per annum. Thomas Boddington, Esq. D.C.L. The fire ¦W. No. 4. ,, J. A ROEBUCK, Esq., M.P. F.R.S., &c. The additions to life policies average lj per cent, per Thomas Devas, Esq. Anderson. Peacock, Esq. No. 5. „ Sir JB. C. ;BRODLE, Bart., D.C.L.,. annum. Sir James Buller East, Bart., Ralph Charles Price, Esq. Prospectuses in detail may be had at the offices. M.LV Philip Rose, Esq. No. C. „ E. H. BAII/Y.Esq., R,A. -37, Gornhill, London. F. G. SMITH, Sec. Nathaniel Gould, Esq. Thomas Godfrey Sambrooke, Robert A. Gray, Esq. Esq. London : Matjxl and Poi.ti5la.nk:, 55, Gracechurch-street - •William Augustus Guy, M.D. Charles Evan Thomas, Esq. David Booue, 88, Fleet-street, and all Book and Print- T7QUITY and LAW LIFE ASSURANCE Joshua Lockwood, Esq. Rt. Hon. Sir John Young, sellers. JDi SOCIETY, No. 26, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. James Murray, Esq. Bart. TKTJSTEES. Audxxoes—Thohas Alien, Esq.; William H. Smith, A LEXANDER SMITH'S NEW POEM, Eight Hon. the LORD HIG K CHANCELLOB. Jun., Esq. XX. " The Night before the Wedding," in No. VII. of The the NATIONAL MAGAZINE, price. ad. weekly, The Bight Hon. LOUD MONTE AGLB. Medicax Ofe'iceks—Seth Thompson, M.D. ; Jameb monthly. ¦ lOd. The Right Hon. the LORD CII IE F BAltONi Saner, Esq., M.D. ; Wir-tiAJt Cooke, Esq., MJ)., 39, The Hon. Mr. JUSTICE COLERIDGE. Trinity Square, Tower Hill. ¦Paex T. will be forwarded as a spechnen, post free, from the Office , on receipt The Hon. Mr. JUSTICE ERLE. Actuaky aad of ten postage stamps; or regularly for NASSAU, W., SENIOR, Esq., Master in Chancery. Seceetabt—Ohableb jErjiicOE, Esq. 12s. a year, paid in advance. R, CSABLES PURTON COOPE Esq.. Q.C., LL.D., F.R.S. The realized Assets of this Company amount to One Million Natiokai. iMa&azine COMPAirr audited), 25, Essex- GEORGE CAPRON, Esq. Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds. street, Strand, London. Examples of the Bonus upon Policies declarecl to the 31st The Annual Income exceeds Two Hundred Thousand December, 1851:^ Pounds. The number of existing Policies is upwards of Six Thousand P>ARTmDGE and COZENSV Ko. 1, Chan- Date of Policy ... I March 18, 1845- April 2*. 18457Nov. 7, 1S45. Five Hundred. : - Age at Entry...... 30 43 51 The total Amount Assured exceeds Four Million Tour Hun- noteEviMS&iRft!®!siiSif, -'8&fiSS!S Annual Premium £25 7 6 '^35' 16 8 £t9 8 4 dred Thousand Pounds. 5 quires for Gd. ; super thick ditto, 5 quires for Is. i 0 ' 100.6 0 0 1000 0 0 superfine cream laid adhesive envelopes, 6d. per 100; larce Sum Assured 1000 0 A division of Surplus will take place in June next : the divi- blue office envelopes, 4s. 6d. per Bonus added...... 157 10 0 184 0 0 211 10 0 sions are quinquennial, and the whole Surplus (less 20 per 1000 ; letter paper 4s. 6d. per t, ream. Partridge and Cozens' new paper made from straw, Copies of the last Keport, Prospectuses, and everv infor- cen only) is distributed amongst the Assured. 2s. 9d. per ream. The Correspondence steel peri (as flexible mation may bo had upon written or personal application as the quill) is. 3d. per gross. Catalogues post free. Orders- The Premiums required, although moderate, entitle the over 20s. carriage paid. to the Office. Assured to 80 per Cent, of the quinquennial surplus. —Observe, The lives assured are permitted, in time of peace, and not PARTRIDGE and COZENS, ManufacturingStationers , 1, being engaged in mining or gold digging, to reside in any Chancery-lane.^ HE CAMBRIAN and UNIVERSAL LIFE country, or to pass by sea (not being seafaring persons by T and FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY. profession) between any two parts of the same hemisphere, Capital lQO.OOOi!. Established 1849. distant more than 33 degrees from the Equator, without ¦ ITALIAN AND FRENCH LANGUAGES. Office , 27, Gresham-street. Agencies in the principal towns extra charge. Ji/TR. ARRIVABENE, B.LL., from the Uni- of England and Wales. All Policy Stamps¦ ¦and¦¦¦ Medical¦ ¦ Fees are paid¦ by¦ the¦ ¦ Com- JLTA Tersity of Padua, who has been established in London pany. ' . : . . ' • - ' : . • ' • : ' . . , ' . ¦ : ' • for three years, gives private lessons in Italian and French This office offers the benefit of assurance in all its By recent enactments, persons are exempt, at his own house, branches, and is highly eligible for every description of life under certain or the houses of his pupils. He also at-' assurance. restrictions, from. Income Tax, as respects so much of their tenUs.Schools both in town and country. Mr. ARRIVA- income as they may devote to Assurance on Lives. BEN-E teaches on a plan thoroughly practical and the A new and most important feature , entirely originating The Annual Heports of the Company's state and progress, most mediocre mind cannot fail to thoroughly comprehend^ with this Company, viz., Marriage Dowries. Life Assurance, Prospectuses and Forms, may be had, or will be sent, post his lessons. . and Deferred Annuities included in 0110 policy. free, on application at the Office , to or to any of the Company's ''¦irtypty, by, ^tfcer Mr. ARRIVABDNB, No. 4, St. Rates of premium moderate. Agents. Michael s-place, Brompt on. Annuities granted. Family endowments. Loans on personal and other securities. MUTUAL LIFE ASSURANCE Forms of proposal and every information may be obtained THE SO- SOUTH AUSTRALIAN BANKING on application. By order, CIETY, 39, King- street, Cheapside, London. COMPANY. ALFRED JIEL HADO, Manager. Established 1834;. Incorporated by Royal Charter, 1847. This is a purely Mutual Life Assurance Society, with a The Court of Directors GRANT LETTERS of CREDIT Capital of 25O.000Z., iuv«sted in Government and Real and BILLS upon the Company ¦ ¦; ¦ ¦ ¦ ' 's Banks in¦ South¦ Australia- • • HE HOUSEHOLDERS' ASSUKANCE Securities, created entirely by the steady.accumulation of at par. . • . . . . . , . • . .; T COMPANY. the. Premiums, and all belonging to the Members. The Approved drafts negotiated and sent for Assurances in force are 3,250,000/., and the Income 50,000?. collection. DIRECTO RS. Business with all the Australian Colonies conducted Win. Ashtou, Esq., Horton-house, Wraysbnry, Staines. per annum. through, the Bank's Agents. The Rev. Tlios. Cator, BryanstonrSiHiaro, and Skclbrook- , Detailed Prospectuses and Forms of Proposal, together park, Doncaster. with the List of Bonuses paid on Claims in 1855, and the . Apply at the Company's Offices , 5*. Old Broad-street, Charles Hulse, Esq., Hall-grove, Bngsliot. Office Accounts for the same year, will be given on a written London. WILLIAM PUBJDY, Manager. P. D. Bullock Webster, Esq.j Norfolk-terrace, Hyde-park- or personal application. London, November, 1856. Arthur P. Onslow, Esq., Lawbrook-houso, Shore, Guildford. CHARLES INGALL, Actuary. Thomas 1'ocock, Esq., Southwark-bridp;e-road. rpHE Peter Patcrson, Esq., jun., Park -road, Holloway. ANNUAL DIVISION OF PROFITS. CONSERVATIVE LAND SOCIETY James Laughton, Esq., Holm Yilla, Lcwisham-road. J. —THE FIFTH TEAR.—Prospectuses wiU be sent, free AT BRITAIN MUTUAL LIFE of charge, to any part of tho United Kingdom, the Co , This Company enables persons, without speculation , to GRE ASSU- nent, nti- invest large or small sums, at a higher rate of interest than RANCE SOCIETY, 14, Waterloo-place, Loudon, and and the Colonies, on application to the Secretary at can bo obtained from the public fuuds, 30, Brown-street, Manchester. the Central Office , 33, Norfolk-street, Strand, London. and on as secure a Plans of estates, price 6d. each, or 7d. if by post, oasis. Directors . Agencies. Forms of application to doposit sums of money, at 5 per THE CHISHOLM, Cliairman. —Applications for agencies in tho Provinces cent, interest, payable half-yearly, or to purchase sharcs (the must be accompanied by references. As the Society has now present interest on which is 0 per cent.)i may RICHARD HARTLEY KENNEDY, Esq., Alderman, just entered on its fifth year, a good opportunity is aflbrded ho had on Deputy-Chairman. lor new agencies, tho terms and conditions for which will application to R, U.ODSON, Sec. duly forwarded by bo 18 and 10, Adam-street, Major-Gen. Mi chael E. Bag- William Morley, Esq. Adclphi. nold. Robert Francis Power, Esq.. CHARLES LEWIS GRUNEISEN, Secretary. Francis Brodigan , Esq. M.p. A FIXED AL LOWANCE OF £6 PER WEEK Alexander Robert Irvine, Usq. Archibald Speiis/Esq. rpEETH.—Messrs. GABRIE , John Inglis Jerdein, Esq. Frederick Valiant, Esq. L supply COM- IN CASE OF IN'JURY BY James John Kinloch, J- P1ETE SETS, without Springs, on the principle of Esq. ltev. F. W. J. Vickery. capillary attraction, avoiding tho necessity of extracting \ CCIDENT OF ANY DESCRIPTION, This Society is established on tho tried and approved stumps or causing any pain. •**• OR THE SUM OP principle of Mutual Assurance. The funds aro accumulated for tho cxclusivo benefit of tho Policy-holders, under their rp™5n&P??US ^WJEIiLEb AMERICAN MINERAL £1000 IN CASE OF DEAT H own immediate superintendence and riiJi XH. tho best in Europe—guaranteed to answer every , control. The Profits purpose of mastication or articulation—from 3s. Cd. per May bo secured by an Annual Payment of £3 for a Policv arc divided annually, and applied in reduction of tho cur- Tooth. . in the rent Premiums. Policy-holders participate in Profits after the payment of Jive annual Premiums. Sets, 41. 4B.~Hcr Majesty' s Royal Letters Patent have RAILWAY PASSENGERS ASSURANCE COMPANY. The Annual General Meeting PSS1} .I^V^S4 f9r production of a perfectly*M**« WHITE A weekly Allowance of Fifteen was hold on the28th of May, ENAMEL, for decayed FRONT TEETH, which can only Shillings for Injury or 1850, when a highly satisfactory Report of the state of tho bo obtained at Messrs. jfflOO in case of Denth Becurod by a payment of Ten Shillings. affairs and progress of tho Institution was presented to tho Gabriel's Establishments Members. JJuriug tho last thrco years, upwards of 1200 new tto ou NO CHARGE FOR STAIVIP DUTY. assurances have been effected , yielding an increase of pre- ¦*^^^ §feKto^ ™* Forms of Proposal , Prospectuses, &c, may bo had of the mium income of moro than 20.000?. per annum; and al- Consultation and every information gratis. Agents—of tho Clurk H at all the Principal Railway Stations though a general high rate of mortality has prevailed among —and at tho Head OiHco, London , where also Assured lives during tho last two years, it has not been deumed necessary to reduce, i n tho slightest degroo, the RUPTURES.-BY ROYAL LETTERS PATENT. RAILWAY ACCIDENTS ALON E allowances previously awarded to tho Policy-holders. WHITE'S MOC-MAIN LEVER TJRUSS is May bo insured against by tho Journey or by tho Tear as The Members present at tho Meeting were fully satisfied YY allowed by upwards of 200 Medical Gcutlemon to bo heretofore. with tho Report, and resolved unanimously that a reduction Uie most cflcctivo invention m tho curative treatment or WILLIAM J. YIAtf, Secretary . of 814 per cent, should bo inado in tho current year's Pre- Hernia., Tho use of a stool spring (so often hurtful in its mium payable by all Policy-holders now entitled to partici- effects) isi hero avoided.a soft Bandage being worn round tho Ballway Tassonpiora Insurance Company, Empowered "by pate in tho Profits. dy 1lllo lh ro lfiit« resisting a Special Act of Parliament. OHlces 3, , £? \?' . -.J ? q" power is supp lied by tho London. Old Broad.street Credit is allowed for hal f tho Annual Premiums for tho Bloc-Main Pad and Patent Lover, fitting with so much ease ' first live years. and closeness that it cannot bo detected, and may be during sleep. worn The following Table exemplifies the effect of the A descriptive circular may bo had, and tho T> UPTURES EFFECTUALLY CURED present Truss (which cannot fail to fit; forwarded by pest, on tho OUT TltUSS.-Dtt; reduction. circumlerence of tho body, two inches below tho hips MMi?W A BARKER'S celebrated bemg sent to tho Manufacturer, Mr. JOHN protooto(\ by tlm'° Pat<»lts. of .England, ' A"»«alPro- Piccadilly, "WHITE, 228 K« .n i viVi«»H& ; and from its «roat success in private Ago when Amount ^"F.m/nrf"Allowance of London. . n™Si V imdo k »<>wn as a uublio duly through Aw rod- ^"" d. - 81* por ccnt. l'rko of single truss, 10s., 21s., 20s. <5d., and 31s. (Id.— mw?lii«, V?J tho " ginally paid. ^XlT Postage, is. l>oublo Truss, 31s. Cd.( 42a., runtinS. i th,°, P1CSH- In cvor-V Cfts0 of 10 or double _ Postage, and 52s. Od.— oitllol H0X ai v >lS0 llowovcr""'K bad or long " la. 8d. Umbilical Truss, 42s. and 52s. Od.—Postage, Btandini *At! « \, > °f. \ i £ £ s. a. £ a. d. X s. d. IHt J UCl* dma; wfi, f .Ofl»i"y applicable olfcolinff a euro in a few 20 1000 20 17 fl 0 11 6 11. 0 0 all wC im?, i iuco!lvciluon,co > nnd wil1 ll° fiftilca as a boon by HO 10IH) 25 18 4 8 18 17 11 8 ELASTIC STOCKINGS, KNEE-CAPS, &c, - 40 1 01)0 :$. 'i 18 4 10 18 8 2!J 4 8 ca for JA1 0??13 VEINS, and all cases of WEAK- CO 1 000 -tS 1U 8 15 7 8 »» 9 0 NESS™.< and SWELLING^. of tho LEGS, SPRAINS, &c. ^ T^f ^^ ^^ ^ 00 1000 70 17 (1 23 18 0 5L 10 0 They aro porous, light in texture, and inoxpciiHivo , and aro j^tosftesss^ffiB^&flsjas;^ ~ drawn on liko an ordinary stocking. Prico from 7s. Od. to 1-ii, Watorloo-placo, Londou A, R. IRVINE. Ids. Pcatago, tid. Juno 2, 1850. Managing Director. Manufactory, 228, Piccadilly, London. 1080 THE L.EADE.R. 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