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v . —. Leader Ootice, Saturday, April 18...
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DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS IN CIECASSIA . " ...
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MILITARY TRACAS IN GERMANY. "A report wa...
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SPAIN AND MEXICO.—PORTUGAL. " The Mexica...
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GREECE. The Finance Committee has declar...
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DENMARK. The Supreme Council has unanimo...
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TheRotat, British Bank: Dividend Meeting...
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the neighbourhood of Sfcieker-lane , -where the couple re ^ - sided , fehortly after eight o ' clock , accompanied by thousands on its onward march , the multitude still increasing in density as it passed down Leeds-road and up Vicarlane to the Old Church . It was led by a man on horseback -with -white hair , rrinety-s & ven years of age , dressed in a scarlet cloak , and this patriarch of the cavalcade gave away the willing bride . Two other horsemen followed—one dressed in a soldier ' s coat and a sorry hat , with his face painted as red as the coat ; and the other in a bearskin j acket or cape , with hat to match , and his face painted like that of a savage New Zealand chief . Then followed , in a cart , the bride and bridegroom , with an object sitting low between them , resembling in his crouched position , the figure of" Old Nick" playing the bagpipes in . " Tarn O'Shanter . " The bride sat calm and meek , seldom looking round her , but the excited bridegroom
often , gesticulated violently , showing the intended wedding-ring on the little finger of his right hand . Thirty riders , on patient-looking donkeys , came next . Many of them were smoking , had their faces coloured , and ivere dressed in all imaginable costumes . Behind these came several vehicles full of " weddingers " and others enjoying the singular scene ; and to add excitement to all , a band of musicians made the welkin ring-with their furious execution , of " See the conquering hero comes . " By the time the procession had reached the top of the Church-bank , no fewer than 20 , 000 persons , who had escaped chiefly from mills and -warehouses , crowded the churchyard and many of the adjacent streets . When the knot was tied , they were prevented from parading through the town by the " police , and -went to a public-house up Harrowgate-road , thousands still following . —Manchester Examiner .
Peogeess of Fkee Trade in Russia . —Free trade makes progress alike in free and despotic countries . Hussia recently published a new tariff , in which considerable reductions are made on the duties formerly levied on numerous articles of import , and the Government of the Pope has lowered its tariff by 50 to 70 per cent- on cotton and woollen fabrics , clothes , soap , oil , and other commodities . The United States have also taken another stride towards free trade . An Act was passed & t Washington last month ¦ which , reduces the import duties on no fewer than eight schedules of articles of trade . The duty on spirits is reduced from 100 to 30 per cent . ; on cut glass , rosewood and cedar manufactures , prepared meats , comfits , cigars , -wine , and alabaster ornaments from 40 to 30 per cent . ;
and on beer , clothing , coal , coke , confectionary , dolls , furniture , glass , hats , hemp , iron > jewellery , manufactures of various kinds , muskets , olive oils , paper , saddlery , soap , sugar , tobacco , & c , from SO to , 24 per cent . Reductions of smaller amount are made on a multitude of other articles . It is true the schedules , lengthened as they are , do not include some articles , such as ^ iron , which constitute the head and front of the Protectionist system in America , bat these changes are nevertheless considerable , and every new tariff reform in the United States has the effect of isolating the more injurious monopolies and / preparing an assault vrader which they must ultimately fall . It is gratifying to know that the good cause of" free commercial intercourse makes progress in all latitudes and under all forma of
government , and that we aTe daily approaching nearer the happy condition when mankind , whatever other differences may divide them , will bo knit together in the bonds at least of material interest . —North British Daihi Mail J The Education < imssTio : s-.--Lord Robert Cecil , M . P ., addressed a meeting at Stamford on Wednesday afternoon on the subject of education . He enlarged on the importance of education at the present moment , when it is proposed to extend the franchise , and pointed to the late revelations of -witch superstition in the country as signs of the existence of a great deal of debasing ignorance . The increase of crime was also an alarming feature , and this must be stopped at the fountain-head
by raising the intellectual and moral condition of the people . Pie believed " there is nowhere in the world that stolid , invincible , insuperable ignorance that is to be found iu the genuine English peasant . " His Lordship spoke more especially of the men of Sussex . The poor benighted savage , " ho said , ia far above them . — iV mooting was held on Monday , in the parish of Brooke , ol the membera and friends of throe associations which have been , at work during the past winter in different parts of this county in the promotion of adult evening classes , the circulation of a simple , wholesome ( chioflv illustrated ) literature among the cottages , and the delivery of conversational kcturos on useful and practical subjects , and of tho most familiar kind . All classes are co-operating in this good work , and they appear to be
A » mTioNAi > Mail to Ghavesend . —On and after Monday , the 20 th inst , a * additional mail will bo made ? ££ fr , / ° ° ( * : e 801 « l , to bo despatched by the Irftinwh . ch leaves the Xondon-bridgo station at 4 . 50 miSf S ?' i cxc ° » > - Otters for this despatch must bo posted « t the receiving oflicea in London beforo fJvf ; L 2 . if ° ' ° filcOa in Cha > -ing-crosa and Lombard-atroet , the south-eastern district office , 170 , Hi Kh-Btroet , Borough T and the western district office ( OW ^ "Sk r \ h ^ rM - ' and at the ««««* 4-oflt-offico , fet . Mattm ' a-lo-Grand , boforo 8 . 30 rM
They will be delivered in Gravesend in time for reply by the London mail which leaves that place in the evening . —By command of the Postmaster-General , Rowland Held , Secretary . — General Post - office . 16 th April , 1857 . . The Maidstone Murder . —An inquest has been held on the body of Elizabeth Jone 3 , a girl of light character , who was killed by a bargeman striking her a violent blow on the head in a boat . A verdict of Wilful Murder has been returned against the man . Discovery of a NewPlanet . —Mr . M . J . Johnson writes to the Times from the Radcliffe Observatory , Oxford , under date April 16 th : —" I will thank you to inform jour astronomical readers that another planet , the forty-third of the system between Mars and Jupiter , was discovered last night at this observatory by Bfr Pogson . "
Sir Hexry Bttlwer at Bucharkst . —The landed proprietors , advocates , and young boyards of distinction , of Bucharest , have been presenting to Sir Henry Lytton Bulwer , our Commissioner in the Principalities , an address of esteem and confidence . They observed : — " The Roumans welcome with delight in you the worthy representative of free England—the Envoy of her Most ( xracious Majesty the Queen of Great Britain . They indulge in the firm hope that your presence among them will powerfully contribute to deliver them from all restraint , and thereby secure to them an unshackled manifestation of the wishes of the country , with entire
independence in the elections . We have the greater right to expect an attentive care on the part of the Commissioners in the application of the electoral law , as we have not taken any part in drawing it up . We have too long lived without liberty for abuses not to be rife , particularly at a distance from the capital . We solicit the attention of your Excellency to this point . We take great pleasure in reminding you that at the Congress of Paris the representative of her Britannic Majesty was the first to insist strongly on the necessity of taking into account the free wishes of the country . " Sir Henry made an appropriate repLy .
Welsh-speaking Bishops . —Letters from Lord John Russell and the Earl of Derby , relative to the appointment in Wales of Bishops who know Welsh , are published by the E . W . Morgan Middle ton . Both statesmen are in favour of the ^ Telsh Bishops understanding the language of the Principality ; but Lord John Russell does not see the necessity for all Welsh Bishops being natives of Wales . The Piano as a Room Ojxnament .- —Too often a huge music-box :, shaped like a coffin , and called par excellence , a grand piano , is foisted into a room , utterly regardless of effect . And , generally speaking , a grand piano , at best , is no beauty , either in colour , form ,, or execution . Whatever progress may have been made in
the internal parts of pianos , externally they remain much the same as when first rising into fashionable repute . They are rarely so constructed as to be ornamental in a room decorated according to the present taste . There is much scope for improvement in the external ornamentation of pianos . They retain their old features too strongly , and are evidently designed by u cabinetmakers , " and not by artists . Why should they not become ornaments to a room , instead of mere pieces of " furniture . " They are nearly all of one prevailing type , and stick to the same form and pattern as pertinaciously as if designed by Chinese artists , —who conserve old patterns in everything . But who would pay for an artistically-designed piano ? Who cares for a
combination of art and beauty in the external case of a piano ? Very few , it is to be feared . They are treated as mere music-boxes on a large scale ; as mere cases to cover an ingeniously-contrived combination of hammers and wires . But why should they not be so formed as to please the eye as well as the ear ? Let us hope that the time is not far distant when the case of a piano will be looked upon as a work of art , and so designed aa to be an elegant and appropriate ornament to a tastefully decorated apartment . Its conspicuous sizo in a modern room imperatively demands ornamentation , in harmony with tlio general features of the prevailing decorations ; to which at present they violently contrast in every particular . —The Builder .
Tiik Foncu op this Anglo-Saxon Tongue . — -Tlie groat lesson to bo drawn from the fact that Anglo-Saxon underlies , like original granite , all the strata of tlio English language , is , that to write in it is to write for the hearts of the people . It is their mothor-tongue , strong , sinewy , and expressive ; and they cling to it witli a fondness which no change of uaago can uproot , and no caprico of fashion can destroy . Just compare , in point of force and significance , a " sanguinary action , " with a " bloody deed ; " " eternal felicity , " with '' everlasting happiness ; " and " tlio exemplar of the celestials , " in the liliemsh version of the Scriptures , with " the pattern of things iu tlio heavens , " in our own ; and you will feel at onco how the language is omusculated by such attempted equivalents . —Franer . The Irish Giuicv Si : citis rAimnrn \ — Tho Dublin
papers state that the- report of Mr . liorsnmn a rebignntion , which originated in a Scotch newspaper , is perfectly correct , and that the ri ^ ht lion , gontlcman is no longe r Irish Secretary . Mr . Ralph Bornal O . sborne , Secretary to the Admirnlty , is mentioned as Mr . IJLorsman ' s successor . —Times .
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v . — . Leader Ootice , Saturday , April 18 th . PRANCE . ( By Electric Telegraph } . __ ¦; ^ ris , April 17 th . M . Mocquard , Pnvate Secretary to the Emperor W addressed from the Tuileries a letter to theJournST characterizing the assertion in the Times of the refuel of Prince Napoleon to proceed to Touloa to receive tie Grand Duke Constantino as « a jiure invention . " So fir so good . M . Mocquard ' s letters , however , are notusuallv accepted as undeniable , either in Paris or in London . The Moniteur publishes a conventioa , by the terms of which . England gives up the light to trade between the embouchure of St . Jean and Poiten & c , in return for the cession of Albreda .
Defeat Of The Russians In Ciecassia . " ...
DEFEAT OF THE RUSSIANS IN CIECASSIA . " The Circassians , attacked by the Russians ia the last days of March , " says a despatch received at Trieste " repulsed the strong columns which had penetrated into the mountains of Tnab . The Russians lost 700 men ; the Circassians 300 . Mehemet Bey is giving to Circassia a military organisation . The tribes of Daghestan have captured Fort Saliah and massacred the garrison . The garrisons of the neighbouring villages surrendered . "
Military Tracas In Germany. "A Report Wa...
MILITARY TRACAS IN GERMANY . " A report was current yesterday , " says the German Journal of Frankfort of the 14 th , " that a quarrel had taken place between the Prussian and Austrian soldiers of the garrison of Mentz . The rumour is now con _ firmed , and it is further stated that the whole garrison has been confined to barracks . A local journal speaks of four vehicles filled with killed and wounded , and another version states that five Prussians were Mllecl on t he spot ; but both accounts are doubtless greatly exaggerated . "
Spain And Mexico.—Portugal. " The Mexica...
SPAIN AND MEXICO . —PORTUGAL . " The Mexican question , " says the Courier of Madrid , " has made a great step towards a pacific and satisfactory solution . The letters and journals received from that country bring the latest intelligence down to the 3 rd of March , and give the important news that the crime committed on the persons of Nicholas Bermejillo and his companions has been , punished . The military commission established at Cuernavaca has succeeded in arresting four of the assassins , and caused them to le shot upon the spot . " An expedition is about to leave Lisbon for Macao , to order to enforce the treaty of 1796 between the Portuguese and the Emperor of China . It is alleged that the Chinese have usurped the authority then acccordecl to Portugal .
Greece. The Finance Committee Has Declar...
GREECE . The Finance Committee has declared that the Ministry lias extravagantly' spent tho public revenue .
Denmark. The Supreme Council Has Unanimo...
DENMARK . The Supreme Council has unanimously adopted the treaty for the settlement of tho Sound Dues . M . Tilliach has not succeeded in forming a Ministry .
Therotat, British Bank: Dividend Meeting...
TheRotat , British Bank : Dividend Meeting . — Yesterday was appointed for the anxiously expected dividend meeting , and a great number of persons who liad not proved on the previous occasions were generally admitted without opposition . There is little doubt that the dividend will bo 2 s . Gd . in the pound . West Indiics , & c—From Barbacloes we learn by the last mail that tho financial condition and prospects ol the country wero most satisfactory . Tho unusual state of the weather at St . Lucin had overthrown all the calculations of the agriculturists . Tho quantity of " ram had been detrimental to the young canes . From -Nicaragua tlicro aro rumours of tho doath of ex-President Rivas of Nicaragua by assassination . This French Republican emigration have juat lost one of their most energetic members , M . ltottgeie . I " refugees of all nations and the English Democrats have been invited to attend hia funeral on Sunday , the l- > tn hist ., at half-past nine , a . m . They will moot at tho residence of the deceased , No . » C , Charlotte-bt roct , BlackiViaas-road .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 18, 1857, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18041857/page/10/
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