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" ' THE LEADER. [No. 284, Saturday, ooU ...
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The Lion Hunter at Home.—Mr. Gordon Cumm...
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T H E W A R. Expectation is still the do...
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the scattered British settlers , slaughtered two ladies on their travels , and threaten to yivade Moorshedabad . Local causes would quite account for this outburst . It is also possible that Nepaulese agents may have been getting up a diversion . It is almost certain that Russian agents are there ; for it is consistent , we may almost say , with our own knowledge that a
Russian agency is in India a permanent and ubiquitous institution . Anyhow , our military governors have the more on their hands ; and we should not be , perhaps , -far wrong if we supposed some kind of community of feeling , vague and precarious as it may be , to rule all our enemies from Indus to Pola , from the Neva to Nepaul , and back to Naples , the Papacy , and Potsdam .
Such is the aspect of the world in the week of Queen Victoria ' s return from Paris . Her visit has been an incessant round of activity , —public shows , inspections of Exposition , state dinners , state balls , sight-seeing , drawing-room conversations with diplomatic parentheses , pleasant interludes of freer amusements , artistic enjoyments at Versailles , the giddy round of the most elabo - rate flattery and the most effective attentions , — all tending to exhibit France and Eng land allied in the silken bonds of commerce , by the golden
interlacing of their imperial diadems , and even by the dearer interlacing of embraces . For the pale Empress , who lends grace to the ball , but must not dance , is seen in the most familiar conversation with the Queenly ruler of the British Empire , embracing her , exchanging tears . Nay , the Empekob , who was but now descried riding as guard of honour by the side of € he Queen ' s carriage , is next observed lounging at his ease and walking in and out of the eottage in the Forest of St . Germain , where the
Queen takes a hasty luncheon , or escorting her to all the sights of Paris ; at once host in that magnificent home and first gentleman of her suite . We view the prosperous adventurer taking the visitor to his fraternal embrace , chatting familiarly in friendship , sustaining her in the dizzy waltz , laying France and chivalry at her feet » and having flattered her to the highest bent , identifying himself for evermore with the influence , the policy , and the strength of Imperial Britain . Enough work done in that nine days ! But the work is not yet finished . We have
already mentioned the list of monarchs who are to follow after those that have been before . Royal Bavaria is not so absolutely influeential with his son-in-law of Austria as he expected to bo . Royal Wurtemberg , " a giant in a crib , " could be a popular sovereign of an energetic people if the miserable Diet of German Princes would let him be so . Both these men are overlaid by Prussia and Austria , who make them secondary or third-rate princes ; and they are coming to the capital of France to find themselves appreciated .
Spain , who is at issue with Rome , as Sardinia is , has already sent her compliments to the Western Powers , implying her desire to join the alliance . Let ua remember , too , that Queen Isabella is not without jealousy of the Montphjn-8 Ier pretensions , connected as those pretensions are with the House of Orleans . At ijio same time , any solid hopes which the husband of the Infanta Luisa can have must also lie in identifying himself with the popular power in Spain and with the rising influences of the day .
At home the events are few ; the incidents that are thrown up by the intelligence of the week being signs rather than occurrences . There is pot much , for example , in uncovering the statue of Pmmx , before the Town Hall of Birmingham , except in the fact that the legislator of 1819 has a statue given to him by the town which was the fiercest opponent of his policy in money matters . Xet it is a sign how completely old distinctions
have passed away ; and how the policy of Peel has become national instead of factional . Again , two haymakers in Essex have b ' een sent to prison , for leaving their labour , under the severe labourlaws of this country—two men-who had given notice of their desire for a half-holiday , and had gone to see a militia ' review under the impulse of the national Reeling of the day . The local clergyman who committed them vindicates his conduct ; and is answered by a burst of reprobation from all quarters and all ranks . The circumstances prove that the value of the man is better appreciated , at the same , time that juster estimates
of labour are also introduced into the labouring market . On this point , however , we have touched in a separate paper . Finally , Messrs . Chdrtok & Sox have grappled with the Saturday halfholiday question , and have publicly announced that they intend to close their shop at two o ' clock on Saturday afternoon . We do not believe that their customers will let them lose by this tribute to the well-being of the shop-tending class . Their example is likely to emancipate many tradesmen from the difficulty of making a move : while it is certain to show that the hours of labour may be abridged without sacrificing the fruits of labour .
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The Lion Hunter At Home.—Mr. Gordon Cumm...
The Lion Hunter at Home . —Mr . Gordon Cumming has opened , at 232 , Piccadilly , a Museum arid Diorama of the Wild Sports of South Africa , profusely decorated with the trophies of his own adventurous exploits . There is a singular propensity in our overcivilised humanity to find a fascination in those rude contests which were the " life" of our forefathers , and though a time of war may be thought to create almost a sufficient diversion to the arts of peace , there is still enough of the humour in most English natures at least to seek other fields of danger and enterprise . Mr . Gordon Cumming is every inch a sportsman of the aboriginal sort , and he discourses to an audience of
Cockneys who have never fired at anything more terrible than a partridge with a terrible simplicity . We were not unreservedly pleased with Mr . Gordon Cumming ' s written adventures ; ve could not pardon his sipping a cup of coffee , as he watched the agonies of the dying elephant . We found it hard to swallow the chops from the rhinoceros , and we almost feared once or twice that the author had exchanged his rifle for a long bow when he sat down to write . Still there was more than enough in those stirring pages to make the hero a " lion" on his own account . The present exhibition will , we doubt not , attract a large share of popular interest ; it is something new , uncommon , and unquestionably amusing . number of death
Health of London . — The total s registered in London in the week that endqd last Saturday , was 1003 , of which 476 were deaths of males , 527 those of females . This return shows a decrease on that of the previous week , in which the number was 1095 . It may be stated in general terms that the mortality is at present as low as it was , at the same season , in those years when the public health was best . It is satisfactory to notice a decrease in fatal cases of diarrhoea . Last week the deaths from this cause declined to 127 . The deaths reported for last week as caused by cholera are 15 , which is not more than is usual towards the end of August . In ten cases , the disorder is described as " cholera infantum , " or " choleraic diarrhoea , " and in one as English cholera . A case apparently of sudden
and severe character occurred at Milc-ond , in which the patient was a woman of thirty years of age , and death is stated to have ensued after seventeen hours' illness . Cholera , designated " Asiatic , " " was fatal to a girl four years old , after twelve hours' illness , in Church-street , in the sub-district of Christchurch St . Saviour ; and a case of " Asiatic cholera" is returned in which a woman , aged thirty-seven years , was seized when returning from a visit to her sister who was ill with cholera at Amsterdam ; she died soon after her arrival at homo in Houndsditch . At Bethnal-green , a little girl has died of " plica Polonica . "—Last week , tho births of 755 boys and 785 girls , in all 15 dO children , wore registered in London . In tho ten corresponding weeks of tho years 1845—54 , the average number was 1894 . —From the Registrar-General ' s Weekly Return .
This Child Mubdbb at Bbistol . —The inquest on tho body of Molinda Payne has agnin set , and is onco more adjourned . Since tho former sitting , tho police have discovered among tho rocks tho jar in which tho child was fetching tho boor , and have also found a pioco of black riband stainod with rod marks , some white woollen twist , apparently part of tho fringe of a shawl , and a stone which had on it marks of blood . Tho mother of tho child , in giving ovidonce , explained tho fact of hor husband ' s clothes bolng bloody by stating that ho h * ad hurt himsolf on tho arm a few days before tho murder . Ho was at homo all tho time tho little girl wont on hor errand , u » £ il , hor abnonco having created ilarm , ho issued forth to seek her .
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T H E W A R . Expectation is still the dominant feeling before Sebastopol . Asmall success , however , i \ as taken place before the Malakhoff , on the glacis in fiont of -which an ambuscade or rifle-pit has been cairied by the French . The glacis is the smooth and gradual slope leading to the ditch ; and it is therefore evident that our Allies are now close to the very \ ral < e of the formidable outwork from which they have beta once repuls . ed . General Pelissier adds , that five hundred Russians came out to retake the ambuscade , but were brilliantly repulsed with a loss of three hundred killed and wounded . It has been conjectured that the reason why this sally was made by so small a number of men was that , the space being very coa . fined , there was no room for more . The work has been turned against the Russians , and is now definitively occupied by the French .
The day before this exploit , which occurred on August 23 rd , the enemy , closely pressed by the French miners in front of the battery No . 53 , fired five mines against that battery . The result , however , was wholly inoperative , the French receiving no damage whatever . The Russians are as industrious as ever in piling Battery on battejgr , and earthwork on earthwork , at every point where they may serve them now , or prove terrible in the day of assault . The great army of the Allies is still cooped up between the mountains and the sea , with the liberty of cautiously roving at will in the pleasant valley of Baidar ; and the enemy , so far as we know , has returned to his camps in the villages behind the Mackenzie heights , to recover from the blow on the Tchernaya :
It is said that the delay , in undertaking the assault is owing to the discovery of a new battery of six hundred guns behind the MalakhofF , which -would have annihilated our attacking columns ; but a reason at least as probable is to be found in the recent disclosures touching the critical situation ot the Russians within Sebastopol , which may naturally be supposed to modify the tactics of the besiegers , since it is possible that in a short time our end may be gained without the carnage of a coup de main . Advices from Constantinople state that on the morning of the 17 th of August the English batteries
opened their fire , thus giving an opportunity for advancing the works of approach ; but it will be observed that we have no official intimation from General Simpson of this fact . Equally are we without authentic notice of the resignation of the English Commander , though the continental papers continue to assert it , and to mention Lord Henry Bentinck as his successor . Omar Pacha and Hussein Pacha , it is rumoured , will leave Constantinople for Batoum , where the Sultan has given orders for the landing of twenty-five battalions selected from the Turkish troops in the Crimea and on the Danube .
From Kars and Erzeroum we have some \ gratifying intelligence . Erzeroum , there is no doubt , was very seriously menaced ; so seriously , that the English consul removed all the archives of his office to Trebizond . Some wonder has been expressed that the Russians were allowed to cross the ridges of the Soghanli Mountain—Mohammed Pacha having , it is said , sufficient troops to stop them at so difficult a pass ; but the error , if error it were , has been repaired by a vigorous and successful sortie by the
garrison at Kara ; apparently owing to which , the divisions lately threatening Erzeroum have retreated . It is reported that , previous to this , 12 , 000 Russiuns , under General Susuloff , defeated the Turks at Kerpi-Keui . The fortifications of Erzeroum arc said to be completed ; but there is a want of artillery and ammunition . Bands of . Kurds , who are supposed to have a secret understanding with the llussians , make the roads in the neighbourhood of Erzeroum extremely insecure .
The telegraphic despatches relating to the progress of affairs in the Baltic do not amount to much ; and , indeed , we must now bo prepared to see the termination of " the season" in the North . Tho short summer of those regions is beginning to depart ; and with October will come tho icy blockade which lasts through half the year . In the meanwhile , Stockholm newspapers give a few particulars of the engagement which took place oil' Riga on siuci
August 10 . Soventeen Russian gunboats , it is , came out of Riga , and fought for two hours with tlio English screw block-ship Hawke , 60 , and the dcrew corvotto Desperate , 8 . Tho result appears to luivo been indecisive . The English cruisers have visited Uloaborg , Simo , and Windau , and destroyed Government ships and stores . Advices from St 1 otersburg bring reports from Revel that on tho Kith ult . two frigates , which had left Nargo n for thac purpose , bombarded Port Baltic for several hour , and tlion
rqtired . In the Wliito Soa , as wo learn from Norwegian papers , tho Allied squadron has captured two Russian ships and a small steamer . The latter liaa boon employed for a long time in keeping up a communication
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Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 1, 1855, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_01091855/page/2/
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