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1182 THE LEADEE. [No. 351, ' Baiumw*
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• SHIPWRECKS. The late boisterous weathe...
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NAVAL AND MILITARY. Sir Cmaules Nai'IEr ...
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0Ult CIVILIZATION.. . ' .:• ' . -¦"•¦ . ...
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Caspian Sea , has been strengthened by the accession of three thousand men . This fact , says a Berlin . journal , appears to furnish us with another proof that important movements are likely to take place in Central Asia before long . ¦ . A document was addressed by the Russian Government , at the latter end of October , to all tlie powers signing the Treaty of Paris . It was accompanied by a circular requesting the reconvocation of the Paris Conferences . 'This memorandum , which , has just been published , contains an . expoatf of the steps taken by the Cabinet of St . Petersburg with regard to the fulfilment of Articles 20 and 21 of the Treaty of the 80 th of March , and presents the various questions in dispute from a Russian point of view . Fifty thousand Russians , commanded by <* eneral Bernloff , are ready ( according to a rather improbable despatch from St . Petersburg ) to march upon the frontiers of Persia at tlie first call of the Shall . "' GERMANY . The Grand Duke of Baden has granted an amnesty to all persons condemned for participation in the armed revolt of 1848 , except the chiefs of the insurrection , and individuals sentenced to infamous punishments for crimes not political . 1 . - . . . ¦ ¦¦ ¦ ¦ . ¦ " . ' . ¦ TTJBKET . ' ¦ '¦ ¦ ¦ : - The Divan , according to intelligence from Constantinople of tb & 30 th . ult ., has authorized the English fleet to winter at Sinope . The Cabinet of Rcdschid Pacha is becoming established . The Sultan has received , at an audience , GJeneralDurando , the representative of Sardinia . The conferences opened "by the English Embassy ¦ withTerouk-Khan appear likely to detain the latter at Constantinople for several months . Aali Pacha is mentioned as the new representative of the Porte at Paris .
• .. , ¦• . - . ¦ . . ; ¦ ¦ ¦ ¦ . . - . GKEECE . \ . ¦¦¦" . The army of occupation trill -winter 5 a Greece . ¦ ¦ ¦ '¦ ¦ : ¦ ¦ ' . ' ¦ ¦ ' ¦ ... - •¦ ' : spaix .. ¦ ¦ • : * ' " ¦ ¦ '¦ : . ¦ ' ¦; . , _ A royal decree has beea published , fixing the elections of the municipal councils for the oth of neit Tebruaryi ' - .- ¦¦' . ¦ . '¦ ' ¦ ¦ ¦/ SWITZERL-AXD ; ... ; .. ¦ - . ' '¦ " ¦' . The Federal Government has communicated a memorial on the STenfchatel question to the several cabinets of Europe . This document reviews all the historical bearings of the matter in dispute , and deduces from various ¦ antecedents the right of Switzerland to the territory daimed by Prussia .
1182 The Leadee. [No. 351, ' Baiumw*
1182 THE LEADEE . [ No . 351 , ' Baiumw *
• Shipwrecks. The Late Boisterous Weathe...
• SHIPWRECKS . The late boisterous weather has again furnished us ¦ with several shipwrecks to record . " Great consternation has been felt at Watcher ., -in Somersetshire , for some days past , in consequence of several pieces of wreck having "been washed ashore , showlag that a vessel had been wrecked in the Bristol Channel . Some papers thrown up behiad the quay proved that this vessel was a schooner of one hundred and fifty-nine tons register , named the Invoice , of Plymouth , and freighted-with iron . Ht . Boswell , Customs' officer , communicated with the ship broker at Cardiff , who states in Teply that the Invoice -was a fine schooner , with a crew of nine hands , and sailed from Cardiff on the 21 st of
. November , with one hundred and thirty tons of bar iron , bound for Genoa . It is feared that all the poor fellows have perished . Parts of boats have also been found . The brig Emma , Captain White , thirty days from Liverpool , with a cargo of salt , has been lost about midnight at Seal Cove , a small opening three miles N . of Flat Rock , and ten miles from St . John ' s , Newfoundland . A heavy swell setting into the bight , the ship became unmanageable , and finally went on shore . The cook , an Italian , -was drowned while endeavouring to save the re 3 t ; but his appears to have been the only life lost .
The uew American Buip Clarendon , Captain ISToyes , seven hundred and fifty tons register , bound with a cargo of timber from Miramichi to Liverpool , for Messrs . Miller , Houghton , and Co ., -went on shore at Redness Point , about half a mile north of Whitchaven , last Saturday evening , and became a total wreck . She struck upon the rocks , etem . on , and in a few minutes broke in two in the middle . The lifeboat was at once got out , and , af ter about t wo and a half hours' hard labour , twelve of the crew w « re got out and eafely landed , but tbe _ captain and eight others refused to leave the vessel , which , as the wind was not blowing directly on shore , he thought would hold together till the tide left her . In this h « was no t disappointed , and about midnight the water had so far receded as to enable the captain and the remainder of the hands to land , without any worse mishap than a few slight bnaisee .
The English , steamer , William Beckett , has foundered roout two hundred and fifty miles W . by S . of the » c * w . Captain Holdridge , the master , and crew of the « 2 Si ? ? £ ?* ° * Iast Saturday , having been for-ZZEl * ii . ^ 8 l" * d ** Consul . Captaia Holdridgo ST , Y , ^ caweaoo took place on the 12 th of last S mMifr "* s »» i l '' a boats they expe-2 ^ 22 , ? » . \ t Uy ta Pwwitinjr thorn being dashed %£ X 2 . 1 7 \ " J ^* tfane Wft 8 TOnni » fi violently . Tkefcontairore at longtt * a *« y « 0 t <„* by pouring a
quantity of oil overboard into the sea , which seemed to deaden the Surf rouud tile ship . The boats vrero lowered , and got clear without touching the- ship , ' winch went down in less than , five minutes afterwards . The crew also took a can of oil ' with them in each boat , the can containing about three gallons , and used the same with similar results , -while running down to the ship Eugenie , which took them on board . The William Beckett was only partly insured . Intelligence has been received at Liverpool of the
wreck of tho American ship Adriatic , near 1 ) ungarvan . on Sfonday morniug , -with three men droAvncil . The Adriatic sailed from Liverpool for NcvV York on the 30 th ult ., with two-hundred passengers , and a crew , including officers , of fifty men . The ship nnd cargo are reported to have been worth 100 , 000 / . On the 7 th inst . ( last Sunday ) , a ship , supposed to be the J . L . Warner , which cleared from New Orleans for Liverpool on tho 23 rd of October , was at anchor . in-. distress , off Tacunishm Lough , near Wexford . She had cut away her masts ,, and was in great extremity .
David Mason , mate , and James Crowther , seaman , the only survivors of the brig Messenger of Shields , liavc arrived at that port from Hartlepool , the vessel having been run down and sunk by the Janies Hartley steamer , when the master and five of tho crew were drowned . The Messenger left Gravesend on Thursday week for the Tyne , and while off Seaham , running at nine luiots an hour , the men on the look-out saw a large steamer coming towards them . With a view of running under the ship ' s steni , the steamer ported her helm , but , unfortuhateJv , ran into h « r amidships , and cut her down to
the water ' s edge . ' The brig began immediately to sink , and the two survivors had only time to jump into the steamer when the brig went down bodily , taking the master , three seamon , and two lads-with her . The whole of the frightful occurrence was completed , within six minutes of the vessels coming into collision . The steamer did not put out a boat to try to save the drowning men , aad the only excuse that cau bo made for those on board is , that they were worn out with their exertions iiia gale they ha-d encountered iu the Baltic , the master having been four days and four nights on deck . ¦ ¦ •'¦ ¦ - ¦''¦ ' . •¦ ' '¦ . ¦¦ -.. ¦ . ' . '; . ' ¦¦ •; ¦¦ ¦ ¦
A great number of wrecks—in . some cases attended with , loss of life—aie reported from various parts of the English and French coast .
Naval And Military. Sir Cmaules Nai'ier ...
NAVAL AND MILITARY . Sir Cmaules Nai'IEr Again I — The Cronstadt grievance is price more dragged forward by Sir Charles Napier , who publishes in the daily papers some letters of his addressed to Lord PalmersUm on the subject of Sir Robert Peel ' s allusions , at some recent -meetings ,- to the conduct of the Admiral virile in the Baltic ; a letter from himself to the Grand Duke Constautine , and the reply of that Prince . From the correspondence with the Premier it appears that Lord Palmerston approves of Sir Charles Napier ' s discretion in not attacking Croustadt , but that ho thinks that his discussions with the Board
of Admiralty , both in and out of Parliament , have been of a nature to give his best friends great cause for regret . Sir Charles , on the strength of Lord Paltnerston ' s favourable construction of his conduct in the Baltic , argues that the Premier could not have been " the very chiefest authority"" hinted at by Sir . . Robert Peel as confirming : his ( Sir Robert ' s ) opinion that Cronstadt might have been " crumbled to the dust" if the English Admiral had " done his duty . " That authority , continues Sir Charles , could not have been the Queen either . He therefore thinks " the country has a right to know "
who the authority really is . The letter of the Grand Duke Constantine runs thus : — " St . Petersburg , Uth ( 25 th ) Nov ., 185 G . —My dear Admiral , —In answer to your letter of the 29 th of October , I -willingly affirm that you have quite exactly reported the conversation I had with you concerning Cronstadt . ' With regard to Sir R . Peel ' s statement , I consider it necessary to say that I spoke with , him but once , viz ., at his official presentation in Moscow ; and that not a word concerning Cronstadt' —not even tho name itself—was mentioned by either of us .- —Yours affectionately , Constantink . "
The Hew Rocket Factory a . t Woolwich . —Tho buildings , twenty-four in number , a contract for the erection of which was entered into two months ago by Mr . Smith , buildor , of Pimlico , are now completed , upon the marshes immediately below tho Royal Axscnul at Woolwich . They are intended to constitute tho new rocket factory , and , by way of precaution , are isolated from each other . . This Gajndia .- —The heavy portion of tho India and China mails , due at Southampton on the Oth mat ., by
the Candia , did not arrive till Monday , the 8 th , and were then brought through France , by tho Admiralty agent of the Candia , Lieutenant Tickell , lt . N . The delay arose from eonao injury to the vessel caused by a succession of hard gales from tho north-Tvest , which , two days after leaving Malta , obliged thorn to put into the Bay of Tunis , wliere a Tunisian war-steamer was lent to convey the mails and passengers to Marseilles . The Candia is being repaired at Tunis . During tho gales , a seaman was washed off the bowsprit , and drownod , aad another man was much injured at tho holm ,
MisaiKG Vessels—Two Governmeui steam-veJT have been ordered to proceed to Archangel in ZZ 1 ** live merchant ships belonging to the port of S winch have been missing- lor two months Thev ^ on their homeward-bound voyage- y eie Exi » ix > siox at Sea . —The Mecldenlmrg brie- M Brbckelmann , Captain C . H . Voss , witl * a care ? oSni from . Cardiff , bound to Barcelona , wlien off Can ^ oT Vinccat , on the ICtli- of September , experienced violent explosion from the gas generated hi tlietwof which blew ot f the hatches and all around them shaktnt tho . vessel so tremendously that the crew preparedI take to their boats . The mate was lighting a chemical match in the cabiu whom the casualty took place Th result was , that the mate received-sohie severe burns of which he afterwards died , and another of the seamen was also much
hurt' . liiis'MiurAKV- at Malt a—Two English sentries at Malta have been stabbtil by natives . One of them "^ dead , and the ' other , at the date of the last despatches * lingered hopelessly . TJic assassin is in custody Some soldiers of . the Koyal Artillery ha ve attacked the police and severely injured several . ' . iNFASTity llEuiMKvrs . —A circular memorandum las been issued fixing the establishment of regiments of in .
lantry , exclusive of those in . India and dq > ot battalions With the . eight , service-, companies there--will be 1 Ueu- ' teuant-coloiicl , 2 majors , 8 captains , 10 lieutenants , 6 eiisigua , 6 stall ; 47 sergeants ,- . including sehoolmaster 21 drummers cr buglers , 32 corporals , and 70 S privat es ' and with tho depot , 4 captains , 4 lieutenants , 4 ensi gns ' 20 sergeants , iucludihg a schoolmaster ,. i drummers ' or buglers , 1 G coTporals , and 18-i -privates '; ' -total , 1000 . The 12 th and 65 th lieyimcnts will follow this rule .
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0 Ult CIVILIZATION . . . ' .: ' . - ¦"•¦ . - ¦ ' ¦ ' » ' . — ' .. ' ... ' A rOKKSHIIUv TRAGEI > Y . A Double Muiidku—the persons slain being ; a man . and his wife , both old—has been cptnniitted at Bulton-upoal > eurne , a secluded village in Yorkshire , about a mile and a half . from the Wath station of the North Midland Railway . The particulars of the tragedy , as communicated to the daily papers from the spot , are very siagular . Mr . Luke White , the murdered man , was nweli esteemed , not only in 13 olton , but in the neighbouring villages , where he "vras ¦ well known . He Avas the village druggist , grocer , and postmaster , and also entrusted with the transaction of all the parochial business , including that of overseer , vestry clerk , & c ; and , like most village druggists , lie was-to-a great extent the village surgeon . His parochial trusts -were not even confined to Bolton , but embraced several of the neighbouring villages , wliere he was held in great repute for his general knowledge , but more especially for his accurate acquaintance'with all matters relating to parish business . He was likeavisc looked upon bj r tbo villagers as an extremely . pious person , and he was an occasional preacher . lie belonged to the Calvinistic sect , and .-held its doctrines somewhat extremely . The temperance movement also found an advocate in him . Ho was well to do in the world * being the owner of the house he occupied , -with " several cottage houses adjacent , and about eight acres of laud . But , though , his duties were multifarious , he performed them without assistance , and lived alone with his aged
partner . It was the custom of the couple to sit up till midnight , the wife reading the lttble , and the husband making notes of his sermons , writing out his parish documents , or reading . On the afternoon of Thursday week , a meeting of the principal ratepayers of the village ~\ vnsheld at his house , for the purpose of petitioning , under the new police regulations coining into operation next month , that tho village , which for some years past has hud the advautage of a paid resident constable , may still enjoy the same protection . This meeting broko up about live o ' clock , and neighbours ami customers visited thu house and shop up to about half-past eight o ' clock in tho evening , when everything was satisfactory . It hail beeu mainly through Mr . White ' s influenco tlmt tlie village had maintained a parish constable .
Between nine and tea on the morning of Friday week , tho wife of a labourer named Luke Downing , went to the shop to make a purchase . She found the door closed and the window shutters up , but was not at all surprised at the circumstance , as it wus tho habit of the couple to open at rather a lato hour in the morning * Suo tried the door , and ,. finding that it was only latched , opened it so as to ring tho bell . ; but , receiving no answer , who rang the bell a second time . Feeling surprised at hearing nothing of either of tho nithe
matcs , or of a littlo dog which genorully burked on ringing of tho bell , she pushed open an inner door , recently put "up for tho sake of warmth , and looked into tho shop . Slio perceived some wet on tho floor , > vW however , hIic did not recognize as blood ; but ahe rotrcatou in undefined terror , ami , seeing a hawker , named Harvey , crossing the road from an ndjacunt house , called out to him to como in . Harvey ran into tho shop , and roturnea , saying that ho had found the dead body of a urn" Watering in blood . A Mr . Day , who lives on tho opposite side of tho road , was then called in , and found tho bouy
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Leader (1850-1860), Dec. 13, 1856, page 6, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_13121856/page/6/
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