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SPAIN. Generals Echague and Garcia have ...
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Miscellaneous. Suicides.—A Mr. Rose, A H...
w & mmm S ? fenS 3 ' p « mi 3 esin 3 tead , and commenced seizing «&?™ mrtv The father and son resisted , and struck 2 ftE 5 ? £ rt they were apprehended and locked up , Sd-S ? 3 tar defendant was severely hurt in the eye by fSoW from one of the officers' staves . Mr . Come , the magistrate , denounced the conduct of the officers , which was illegal . He discharged the accused , and their counsel said an action would be brought against the officers- _ , . . Clapton Gate was removed on Tuesday , lms is the first result of the toll reform agitation . Advancement
The Bbitisbc Association fob the of Science inaugurated its twenty-sixth annual meeting on . Wednesday at Cheltenham , under the presidency of Dr . Daubeny , F . R . S . The President ' s opening address was on the subject of " The Progress of Physical Science within the last twenty years . " The Svnda . t Bauds es Manchester . —The Manchester City Council ,, at their quarterly meeting on Wednesday , were occupied for about six hours in debating the question on Sunday bands . Memorials having been presented against the bands , a resolution recommending the bands' committee to withdraw them was passed without a . division , an amendment having been previously negatived by 27 to 18 . The . Patriotic Fund . —The Legislative Council of " Victoria have voted a further sum of 20 , 000 ? . to the Patriotic Fund .
Egypt . —The annual rise of the Nile has commenced , and unfortunately in a manner completely unusual . The rapidity with which the waters rise inspires great uneasiness , and brings to mind the disasters caused by the inundations in France . In a general way the inundation of the Nile , which is a periodical , phenomenon resulting from the geological constitution of the country , causes no alarm ; but at the present moment the Egyptians are really afraid . This sudden elevation of the river will compel the Government to open some time before the ordinary period the canal which carries off the superfluous water . —Letter front Alexandria in the Dgbats . StrsjPENSiox of Two Mercantile Fhois . — The
suspension of two mercantile firms was announced on Thursday—viz ., Messrs . Pickford and Keen , and Messrs . Courtenay Kingsford and Co . The liabilities in the first case are said to be small , but in the latter they are believed to be little short of 100 , 0007 . Both houses were shippers of various goods to the United States and elsewhere . A Walkek . —An extraordinary pedestrian feat has been performed in Derbyshire . A man named Alfred Helson undertook to walk on six successive days the distance of seventy miles a day . He commenced his performance ; on Monday , July 21 , and completed it with ease on Saturday , the 26 th ult ., doing it within the
specified time . The seventy miles were usually walked in about fourteen hours , but on one of the days they were completed in twelve . While on travel he took very little food , except beef-tea or a small bit of mutton half cooked ,, and a little stimulant occasionally . In stature , he is about the middle height , thin , extremely muscular , and having a somewhat intelligent countenance . When on travel , Helson had a slight swing with his arms , and appeared to be going at a steady rate of some three miles an hour , and it was only when any one attempted to keep up with him that his real pace was perceptible . Hob usual pace was probably from four to six miles an hour .
Poison fob Gin . —Mr . George Richard Westcotfc , landlord of the Hunters * Arms public-house , Comptonstreet , Brunswick-square , St . Pancras , has been committed . far trial on a charge of selling to a Mrs . Brodie half a quartern of a fluid purporting to be gin , but which was in facfc tartarized emetic . After drinking some of this in cold tea r Mrs . Brodie becaino seriously ill , and remained so for four days . The fluid was drawn out of a tap . It appears that the mistake was accidental ; but haw came the tartarizod emetic in the publican ' s vats P Th » Electric Tklkoraph ih Tukkby . — The Turkish Government had decided on constructing two lines > of electric telegraph from Adrianople to Salonica and to Alexanitza . The latter ia to be afterwards extended to Belgrade by the Servian Government . A credit of live millions of piastres has been appropriated for-these-works , which arc to be commenced immediately .
Th » Cowbs Regatta opened on Tuesday . Prince Albert ' s cup has boon won by Sir Percy Shelley ' s yacht Caprice . The annual dinner of the Royal Yacht Squadron members took place on Wednesday evening . A N « w SfAXDK for Gjuarino Citoss . —Sir Benjamin Sail ,, or some more intangible and unseen but ntill more powerful authority—aomo mysterious oracle or Anglicuu flibyl— ha * at length assigned a site for Mr . G . Adams ' s statue or the great Indian warrior , the lato Gonorul Sir Charles Napier . This colossal statue from Mr . AdanWn model , cast in bronzo at Messrs . Thompson and Son ' a foundry , Punhco , is now receiving the flniahing touches , and will bo erected in the course of a few days in Trarahjar- » quare , near tlio south-west angle , whero the fifth of thecapatan poats bus hitherto stood . —Daily News .
Bazaar , & c , ra thb Isub or Wisbt . —The bazaar and horticultural show at Carisbrook Castle , in the Isle of Wight , under the immediate patronage of the Queen , Prince Albert , and the Duchess of Kent , to raise funds for the rebuilding of St . Thomas ' s Church , at Newport , the chief town in the island , commenced on Wednesday , and will last three days . Count Gavour . —A new homage has been paid to M . Cavour . Some Florentines have sent him the bust of himself in marble , and the Romans decreed him a medal . More recently certain Neapolitan subscribers have announced their determination of having a gold medal struck with his effigy , and of sending it to him . Kaktjnin . —> A letter from Berlin in the Deutsche
Reioks Zeitung ^ contradicts ra positive manner the liberation of Baktmiu , and adds that he is considered in Russia as a far too dangerous subject to be restored to liberty , not only on account of the leading part he took in the revolutionary movements in France , Poland , and Germany , but for his panslavistic speeches and philosophical writings . The writer further maintains that a mitigation of Bakunin ' s imprisonment is all that can be expected from the " clemency" of the Czar .
The Eefokmatoey Movement . —A meeting of clergy and gentry of the county of Hants was held in the St . John ' s Rooms , Winchester , for the purpose of taking steps to constitute the Reformatory Institution for boys which has been established at Eling the recognized reformatory for the county under the recent act . The Right Rev . the Lord Bishop of Winchester occupied the chair , and upon the platform and near it were several distinguished characters . In aid of the proposed object , 100 ? . were subscribed on the spot .
Jealousy . —In my reminiscences of Tiflis I have to pass , with a somewhat sudden transition , to a sad event which occurred during my sojourn there . Winding its slow and solemn way before our windows one morning I saw the procession of a military funeral . Upon enquiry , I learned that it was that of a young officer of dragoons . A brother officer and himself had had some difference about a young lady , in whose affections the former thought that he had been supplanted by his friend . This jealousy didnot lead to any open breach , bat there lay a smouldering hate , under the show of courtesy and familiarity with which they associated . The discarded lover and his successful rival were engaged in a game of cards , when the former accused the latter
of unfair play . Words immediately ensued ; the jealous rival , not satisfied with bringing such an accusation , also demanded satisfaction of a hostile kind . The other refused to meet him ; when , maddened with the revenge kindled by his rejection and wounded pride , he followed his former friend and companion into a room alone , and drawing out a pistol , shot him dead . —Colonel Lake . Death of an American Revolutionary Veteran . —Mr . Denyse I . Denyse , one of the few surviving heroes of the American revolution , died at his residence , Flatbush , Indiana , on the 20 th of July . He was born in the town of New Utrecht on the 18 th of October , 1760 , and was consequently ninety-six years of age . He
participated in the battles of Long Island , Trenton , Princeton , and was present in several other contests . In the war of 1812 , he received a captain ' s commission ^ and was stationed at Fort Greene . He was also present at the evacuation of New York by the British . —New York Herald . The Last Englishman in the Crimea . —The last man of the English in the Crimea is said to have been one of the Land Transport Corps , who , long after the Crimea was given up and all had embarked , was found lying very drunk in one of the ditches . He was carried to the beach by six Cossacks , and pulled off to the last ship quitting the port .
A Grim Discovery . —A feeling of horror was excited in tho neighbourhood of Hay , in Wales , by a rumour that the skeletons of four infants had been discovered in a walled-np water closet at Llambacho-wyo in the parish of Llambcdr Paincastlo , in the county of Radnor . Upon inquiry , tho rumour was found to be correct , and an inquest was held at the Iiauso of Mr . James Smith , where tho bodies were found . Tho place , although originally intended for a water-closet , was never finished , and was
covered by a paving-stone that fitted the top . Mrs . Smith , finding the stono loose , was led by curiosity to put a curtain-rod down ; and , feeling what she thought a bundle of clothes , she got a long pike and raised , a portion of them , which contained the skeleton of an infant . This led to tho taking down of tho wnll outside , and tho discovery of three more skeletons , which had been covered with limo . The jury returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder against some person or persons uncnown . "
METRorOI-lTAN ASSOCIATION OV MEDICAL OFFICERS ok HicAi / ni . —Tho medical officers of health recently elected in tho metropolis under the Local Management Act of Sir Benjamin Hall havo formed themselves into an association for tho purposes of mutual assistance and the advancement of sanitary science . Mr . Simon , of tho General Board of Health , has been elected tho president for tho proHOiit your ; Dr . Thomson and Mr . Liddlo , vice-presidents ; Dr . Aldiw , treasurer ; and Dr . llillior , secretary . Provisional committees havo boon appointed , to inquire into various suhjcctH affecting the public health , Much uh the sale of unwholesome meat , the condition of the vaults under tho metropolitan ehurchen , & c . Standing committees havo been uIho appointed , to
report severally on trades nuisances , adulteration of food and drugs , the causes , of disease , and the relation of meteorological phenomena to the state of the public health .
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?— Leadek Office , Saturday , August 9 . RUSSIA . Lord GrabtvtOjLE left Kiel on Monday for St . Petersburg in an English line-of-battle ship . M . de Boutenieff is invested with full powers to arrange , on his arrival at Constantinople , the differences which have arisen relative to the Isle of Serpents . The irregularities of Russia in carrying out her part of the Treaty of Paris have hitherto attracted in France little of the public attention or of newspaper notice ; but I hear that the Government begins to occupy itself concerning them . The Russians maintain , up to the last accounts , their right to the Isle of Serpents . As regards the progress of affairs , and what has really occurred on the Bessarabian boundary and at Kara , we are rather in the dark . Meanwhile , we learn that the British naval forces in the Eastern waters have received orders to rendezvous in the Black Sea . It is to be hoped that the Western Powers , France as well as England , will show themselves very decided in the matter in dispute . Russia seems disposed to make but a shabby return for the handsome manner in which she has been treated . — Times Paris Correspondent ( this day ) .
Spain. Generals Echague And Garcia Have ...
SPAIN . Generals Echague and Garcia have been named grand crosses of Spanish military orders . Generals Zapatero Marchessi , Armaro , Macrohon , and Mantillan , are promoted to the rank of lieutenant-generals . Three incendiaries have been executed at Rioseco . The celebration of the marriage of the Infanta Am alia with Prince Adalbert of Bavaria is fixed for the ICth inst . General Eos de Olano has resumed the general direction of the infantry .
Italy. Baron Brenier, Minister Of France...
ITALY . Baron Brenier , Minister of France at Naples , has informed the French Government by a telegraphic despatch , that the King of Naples has at last resolved on making some modifications in the policy of severity which he has hitherto followed . On the 28 th ult ., it is stated that King Ferdinand signed several pardons of persons condemned for political offences , and Baron Brenier expresses the firm assurance that in a short time still more important proofs will be yet given that the internal policy of the King has become milder . Thus , the difference between tho government of the Two Sicilies and the Western Powers has taken a favourable turn , and this result must be ascribed principally to the intervention of the Austrian Cabinet . —Paris tetter hi the Augsburg Gazette . [ We must be permitted to doubt the probability of any real tendency to reform on the part of the Neapolitan madman . ]]
The news received from the Legations , though npparently trifling in itself , is really such as gives promise of events of the highest importance , not only for that division of the country , but for the whole of Italy . It is stated that the Municipal Council of Ravenna lias followed tho example of that of Bologna , and voted an address to tho Pope , praying for tho removal of the Austrian occupation ; and it is added that many other . " , if not all of the municipalities of the largo towns in those provinces are likely to adopt similar resolutions . — Times Turin Correspondent .
Mazziki And Manim.—A Third Letter From M...
Mazziki and Manim . —A third letter from Mazzuu to Manin on the Italian question has been published . We have received it too late for analyzution thin week , but propose to introduce our readers to its main features in our next impression . Accident . —A man employed at tho Fulham Gan Works has fallen , from a seat suspended at u groat height by ropes , and has been killed . A Maoihtbatr ' h Warning . — Mr . Bingham , tho Marlborough-fltreet magistrate , has been assuming the character of a denunciatory moralist . Two girls were brought before him yesterday , charged with profligate
conduct in tho IIay market at night , and with inipudonce to n policoman . One was fined ten Hhilllngn , or ton dnyH imprisonment in default ; the othor was discharged ; and both received this exhortation : —" Tako my mlvieo , and abandon such a wretched and wicked life of profligacy ; for , rest assured that , if you do not , in less tluni fhrw yours you -will < lio on a dunghill . " Tho advice to h-avo a degrading and miserable life whh very proper ; but . how can Mr . Bingham tako on himself to inului no mi " a calculation with respect to tho time of tho dunghill catastrophe ; or even to say that it will take phirci nt « ll ' Such exaggerations increase the tendency to prolligatd living by providing it with food for HcolHng thnt has some warrant .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 9, 1856, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09081856/page/10/
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