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No. 450, November 6, 1858.] THE LEADER. ...
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dissimilar in their features to the Eedpath frauds , have been under investigation for several days . As far as was ascertained , the amount embezzled exceeded 8001 . The delinquent was in custody , and would be brought to trial at the next circuit court . The Bishop of Kingston continued indisposed . Mr . Justice O'Reilly had been granted leave of absence for nine months , and came to England ; the Governor had appointed Mr . J . F . Roper , barrister-at-law , to act pro tern . Mining reports continued favourable . The pimento crop had generally failed , owing to the long drought , and the coffee crop was also reported to be a failure . The health of the island was good . GRENADA . Our intelligence is that the island was not as healthy as could be wished during the last two months , and was not free from fever . The weather was very favourable for agricultural operations . In common with all the other West India Islands , the comet was engaging great attention among the colonists . Trade was dull . The harbour was almost devoid of shipping . ST . LUCIA . The weather is reported as unfavourable for the grow- ing crop , the canes having suffered considerably in some , localities from yrant of moisture . ST . THOMAS . The fiftieth anniversary of King Frederick VII . 's birthday , on the 6 th of October , was ushered in at St . Thomas's by a royal salute from Fort Christian , the military band playing the national anthem . The town and harbour were decorated with flags . A levee was held , and in the evening the Governor entertained large company at dinner . CUBA . From Havanna we learn that the judges of Superior Court had all re ' signed , in consequence of receiving the usual salute from the military at the birth day fete of the Queen on the 10 th , by order , it was said of Concha .
No. 450, November 6, 1858.] The Leader. ...
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a j the e not g - ^ , 3 . f ; t < of si tl a ] h a . ; : : PERU . Recent intelligence states that Peru was again threatlie ened with , war on her borders and internal revolutions . ° She had already sent two vessels of war to Ecuador ™~ with commissioners to get satisfaction on behalf of her "> Minister to the latter ltepubile , whose withdrawal from his post was some time ago announced , and there is a fair prospect of Avar between the two countries . General Echenique , late President of Peru , was said m to have passed from Chili to Bolivia , where he was of supposed to . be occupied , in fomenting a revolution , against g the Castilla Government . It was reported that lie had ie already got a large quantity of arms and ammunition at is his disposal , se ¦ —¦ : — ' - . " ' ' , . . '
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: ~ MEXICO . The state of affairs in Mexico could hot be worse than it is at present . iJot only is the country in a state anarchy , but the cause of . one party ( the Liberals ) being espoused by the AmeriGans , and that of the other ( the Conservatives ) Ly the Spaniards , may lead to a serious complication . The latter is the priestly , and of course intolerant , party . The authorities at Tampico had levied a contribution of 100 , 000-iTollars on foreignmerchants Several of them refused to pay , and were imprisoned without food ; amongst them the consular agents Prussia , Denmark , Hamburg , and Bremen . Mr . Tolly the Royal Mail Packet Company's agent , had to pay 700 O dollars . A British subject who refused to pav and took shelter under the British flag , was forcibl taken from under it , the flag insulted , and the man im prisoned . The Spanish consul had hauled his flag down and gone off on board his vessel of war . During these proceedings , involving so much the commercial interests of England , the European powers are represented b Spain- ^ -as not a single man-of-war of any other nation except America , is at present in the Gulf . In the mean time the Yankees arc going ahead . Shortly the mails for California will go by the Isthmus of Tehuantepcc thereby saving a week in tho transit . A staff of sur veyors had also leen planning a railroad from Veru Cruz to Mexico . Mexican news to the 18 th ult . confirms the report of the battle between Vidaurri and Miramon . it was fought near Ahualusco , and lasted four days , Vidaurri being badly dofented . He had retreated to Monterey , and was making preparations to attack Miramon again . Culiacan , the onpltal of tho state of Sinalon , had pro- nounced in favour of tho constitutionalists , and Coronndo , the chief of tho constitutional forces there , was march- ing on Mazatlan . Throe companies of Eoheagary's forces , at Jalapa , had gono over to tho constitutionalists , who wore posted , iniclor Llavo , five lOaguo * from that city . Three othor companies \ yoro to follow this example noxt day .
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. T of ri < , A in , hr y Cl - gr Gi tei y its , m < ha >™ , Bl - fa < Ca of ha fro np , sor riv Th An ' ¦ oig the in d ' ¦ ' ¦ " ,. BRAZIL . el The Avon arrived at Southampton on Thursday with > f news from Rio to the 10 th of October . From Buenos ¦ j Ayres we learn that important progress had been made y in the question of the frontier defences . A bill which , had caused much angry discussion had passed the y Chamber of Representatives , retracting the public lands - granted to individuals during the administration of i General Rosas . The British Packet of the 25 th of Sep . e tember says : — s " The revolt of the division ' Escolta de Gobjerno , ' in { its march towards the southern frontier , wore at lirst a , more serious aspect ; but the energetic way in wliich it i has been put down is calculated to strengthen the Ad- ^ 3 ministration . Correspondence from the Azul and Bahia , Blanca represents the armed force as in a most satis-- factor / state of discipline and efficiency , and the Indian : Caciques as disposed to treat for peace . " On the arrival of Mr , Christie from Parana it was rumoured that he had brought new propositions of negotiation . Judging i from tho tone of the public press of tho confederation , it i appears tbata warlike policy is at a discount for tlie present . " Tho Paraguayans were staking the lower part of their river to prevent tho ingress of tho American squadron . The shores of Paraguay were well fortified , and the Americans would meot with a very warm reception . _ Mr . Humphreys , tho civil engineer , who has been eighteen years in Brazil , in connexion with the railways there , has died at Rio . He was a man of groat ability in his profession . Ho was sovonty-ono years of ngo .
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| MISCELLANEOUS . Tun Court . —Tho Qucon and tho Prince Consort , with the royal children , continue in good health at Windsor . Her Mujosty rides and walks th \' \\ y in the Homo Park . Tho Prince shoots occasionall y . Among tho visitors to the CiiHtlo this week have boon tho Eiirl and Countess of Derby , the Murquis of Winchester , and tho Earl and Countess of Clarendon . Dis . vrn of Ida Piwippbu . —Madame Ida Pfoiflfar expired at Vionnn on Wednesday week , novor having recovered the effects of hor severe fovor attack in Madagascar . Her books of travel will long bo a papular momorlnl of that spirited and intelligent ambition to sco for herself the wondoru of tho wide oarth , and to describe what alia Jiad soon to others , by which ahe won tin honourable distinction through achievements not owsy to hor sox . Phismck Piuntino-oifioich . — " Thoro are now in Franco , " says the Palriv , " 1087 p > lntirig-oflicou , which oinploy 9500 compositors , 8000 pressmen , and 900 correctors and overseers . Tho average annual nuintor of
1 works printed is 8000 . The produce of the whole is estimated at 25 , 000 , 000 francs . " Thus the whole P » nting power of France is considerably below that of London . . " The Social Evil . "— -Mr . Harding , the Secretary of the Association formed to protect women , delivered an admirable lecture on prostitution , or , as the affectation of the present day has styled it , " the Social Evil " ( as though there were not a dozen other " social evils" equally rampant ) , in the Birmingham , Town-hall , on Tuesday night . Among other things he advocated the making the landlords of brothels responsible for the uses to which their houses were put , and he also proposed that seduction should be treated as a penal offence . His first proposal is in accordance with the bill Mr . Warren intends to move for leave to introduce when Parliament meets . Cardinal Wiseman ;—On Wednesday this dignitary gave an account of his recent tour in Ireland to a numerous audience in the Hanover-square Rooms . He entered into details respecting the improved condition of the sister country , and emphatically declared that worldly prosperity has not in the slightest degree weakened the feeling of the Irish people for their religion , or lessened their attachment to the Papal See . The Atlantic Cable . —The Minister News contains the following : —" The Stag , with seven miles of the shore end of the cable on board , has arrived in Valentia harbour , and Captain Kell will , no doubt , commence the laying of it without , unnecessary delay . There is one rather dangerous reef of rocks lying about one mile and a half or two miles outside the mouth of Valentia harbour , called the Coast-guard Patch . On this rock there are about ten fathoms at low water , and about twentysix fathoms all round it . Unfortunately , as the Agarhemnon entered the harbour , owing to the wind being unfavourable , she was obliged to lay the cable over this spot . It is thought that the drifting of the cable over this place might have partially caused the injury which * has stopped the working for so long a period . From this point it will , of course , be removed and deposited in the most secure and level channel into the harbour . With ., a view of discovering such a channel Captain Kell has for the last few days been closely sounding every approach to . the ' bay ,, both on the Valentia and the Lough Kay sides of the Beginish Island . As there are already between four and five miles of the shore end of the cable laid down , the additional seven miles which will be added to it by Captain Kell will render the rope quite secure against injury from the wash of the tide . It is understood that Mr . Healy , whose powerful magnetic-electric machines have for some time been used at Valentia , has undertaken to superintend the- electric operations at Valentia for a short period . If the next accounts from Newfoundland should show that the reversals from Mr . Healy ' s instruments have been received from Valentia , no time will be lost in despatching a similar piece of apparatus to the station at Trinity Bay . " A Penalty op Democracy . —John Hutton Annesley , Esq ., or Moreland Lodge , Hants , eldest and onlv surviving son of Alexander Anuesley , Esq ., late of Hyde Hall , Herts , Cadogan-place , and the Marine-parade , Brighton , has recently died childless . Had Mr . Annesley died intestate , his heir-at-law would have been his nephew , Mr . Ernest Jones , the well . known Chartist leader ; but so great was tho animosity he eutertained for Mr . Jones , on account of the democratic principles of the latter , that he has loft his entire property ( reserving a lifeinterest for his widow ) to utter strangers , thus cutting Mr . Jones off from a fine fortune , which , by every ordinary and customary course , would have come into his hands . Tins Weedon and Woolwich Inquiry . —The commissioners on the army clothing and stores met on Thursday at the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich . Mr . Howell handed in papers relating to purchases of timber by public tender , from the lot of Januarv , 1854 , to September , 1855 ; also of timber purchased through brokers ; and a letter written by Captain Fanner to Colonel Tulloch , dated from tho Royal Carriage-department , Oct . 17 , condemnatory of the system of employing brokers . Tho whole of tho evidence received was purely of a technical , charaotor , us to t lie com mission paid to brokers , and tho system formerly pursued by wny of open competition . Mr . Sims wus examined at great length , and read from , a written document to prove that a groat saving had boon made in favour of tho Government by the presont system . Tho proceedings weru then adjourned . City Sewkus . —Tho Commissioners of Sowers for tho City hold a court on Tuesday . Tho report of tlie City Ofllcer of Health us to tho sanitary state of tho City was received ; tho authorities of tlio Tower Ilaiulots < md tho Victoria Park Comotorios having applied to tho court to close tho City Cemetery on Sundays , a oommittco recommended that tliid implication bq not compiled with : rocommondation nyrooil to , Tlio Gonoral Purposes Commlttoo brought up i \ roport rooommondlng rulos for , tho regulation , of slaughter-house * for tho futuro—thoeo regulations embracing tho paving of olaiiglitor-housud wkh asphalto , and tlint they bo properly cleaned , drained , ventilated , < w » d supplied with va tors roport agreed to .
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BOLIVIA . An attempt has been mado at La Pass to assassinate the President , from which he was miraculously auved , Geneval Prudencio and Sonor Birbuot , who stood beside him being both shot dead . In order to execute their plan , the revolutionista , knowing that the President \ vaB In the palace , presented thomsolvoa in tho equaro in front of , t , giving the alarm and proclaimin ^ Gonor lieteii , who at prQ 3 ent resides in Europe . The President , accompanied by General Prudencio and this , Sonor Birbuot prosontod himself in the balcony , and a well-directed shot struck his two companions , who ox " pirod in hia anna Tho barracks wore attacked at tho H « mo time , but without success , aa tho person who headed tho insurants was killed by a pistol-aliot . Tho eoronlty and courage of Sonor Linares and hia frlonda wore equal to tho situation , and tranquillity was refitoroa A ory of general iudignatlon rosoundod throughout tho country , and it was believed that thia sun- ] guinnry attempt would strengthen still rapio Sonor < Linares' administration , y j
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< < . 1 i 1 < ' < t " * I . iat he ost nd : ed ud sh a la et it th > r i _ 1 S » s ie . _ n , f s t a n EGYPT . A letter from Alexandria , dated October 18 , says that with regard to the passage of British troops to India the journey through Egypt is performed with the utmost facility , and every possible comfort both to men and officers . The Suez Railway may at length be looked upon as rapidly approaehing its entire completion . Said Pasha evinces a desire to second the wishes of the British Government in every way in his power , and takes a personal interest in all the arrangements . Nothing has been heard at Alexandria of the Medina since she . left for Candia on the 6 th . She was to meet the steamer with the telegraph cable from . Ungand at Canea . M . Sabatier and Captain Pullen left Suez for Jeddah on the 8 th , by the Cyclops . It is understood that for the present the two Commissioners will occupy themsalves exclusively with the adjustment of the claims brought forward by the European merchants for losses and damage sustained through the late outbreak . The total amount of the indemnity demanded is said to exceed 500 , 000 / . sterling . Said Pasha continues for the present at Cairo , or in i its vicinity , engaged in his favourite pastime—that of ' training and exercising his soldiers . By last accounts I the Viceroy was encamped with his army in the Desert near the city , busily occupied with his military hobby . I The young Prince of Oude is still at Cairo , leading a s very retired life , and but seldom seen abroad . He is 1 residing at the house of an English shawl merchant , a 1 Maliomedan from Lahore , who for several years lias been i established in Egypt . j
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 6, 1858, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_06111858/page/9/
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