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740 THE LEADER. [News
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WAR INCIDENTS.
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The Priests in L,ombardy and Piedmont.— ...
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GERMANY. June 14th. The rumour of last w...
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Nisw York.—A Severe Fight Has Taken Plac...
and Costa Rica . The New York papers , however , announce the arrival of General Walker at New York . . The New York journals were occupied with full reports of a trial , for breach of promise of marriage at St . Louis , which had occupied some time , and is remarkable from the fact of the large damages awarded by the jury . The lady is a MissEffie Garstang , a native of New York , and the defendant Mr . Henry Shaw , of St . L , ouis , a gentleman counting 65 years , and said to be possessed of 1 , 500 , 000 dols . The lady laid the loss of her peace , and her prospects of sharing a portion of the 1 , 500 , 000 dols ., at a sum of 100 , 000 dols ., and the jury brought In a verdict in her favour for the entire amount . Measures M * ere being taken to obtain a new trial .
West Indies . —There has been no substantial change of weather at Jamaica since last packet . The drought in some districts was very severe , and ¦ was likely to be attended with serious results to the colony . . Intelligence from Hayti reports the opening of the Chamber of National Representatives , by President GefFrard , who delivered an inaugural address , guaranteeing to them their liberties , wliich was replied to by the President of the Chamber in animated terms . The Secretary of State had also presented an exposition of the state of the island before and after the revolution which drove away Soulouque .
The Bishop ot Antigua , Dr . Rigaud , died on the 16 th of May of yellow fever , and had a public funeral on the 18 th . Mrs . Rigaud and family , who also suffered from fever , return home by the Plata . Her Majesty ' s ship Alert , Commander Pierce , arrived in Panama Bay , from the Coast of Mexico , on the night of the 22 nd ult ., with upwards of 2 , 000 , 000 , dollars in treasure , for England , which La Plata brings . Judge Wilkinson comes to England in the Plata oti leave of absence , and Justice Roper will act for Mm . The young canes were looking well generally at Barbadoes ; old canes were being taken off the ground as fast as possible , but could not be manu-± actured as rapidly as they ought to be , and were said to be rotting fearfully .
usage from the authorities . Mr . Bingham had rendered himself obnoxious by an apparent display of partisanship for President Monagas , whose wretched and unprincipled Government was overthrown by the recent revolution ; but this , even assuming it to have been substantiated , can afford no justification for the insults to which he is alleged to have been now exposed . The statement is that , after a long series of annoyances had been inflicted on him , with the evident connivance of the Government , he was at length seized on a clumsily fabricated charge of possessing concealed arms—a gun having been found among some fodder on his premises—and marched through , the streets of Caracas amid the hootings of a rabble incited by the soldiers employed . The affair , unless it has been misrepresented , calls for attention , and is one among other indications that the people of Venezuela who tolerated Monagas for many years have not suddenly changed their nature , and become honest and capable of self-government merely because they now enjoy license and term it liberty . South America . —From the south of Chili there is no news of importance ; everything in a tranquil state , business very bad , nothing doing . A slight revolution had broken out at Arequita . butnoparticular could be got . Guayaquil was still blockaded . There was a rumour of an arrangement being made by which the blockade wouldbe concluded . The Peruvian Government continued very much disorganised ; it appeared , that although the Grenadian minister was received by Castilla , he had not been very courteously treated by him since his reception . A battle had taken place at Valparaiso between Revolutionists and the Government , on the 29 th , in ¦ which the former were completely defeated .
Costa Rica : The Belly' SciiEME .- ^ In Costa Rica , President Mora has been re-elected without any opposition for ten years longer , and it is expected that he will use this period more for public than for private good . His trip down to Nicaragua has not turned out as anticipated , as his reception was rather cool , but at all events the Martinez-Mora-Belly treaty has been ratified . From Nicaragua there is nothing particular to report ; the Belly
enterprise is the only talk of the day ; but , with the exception of a few excited Frenchmen , there is nobody who . believes in the possibility of that gigantic work , although Belly ' s people assure us that all has been subscribed , and that no actions are to be expected . The French engineers are now levelling the river San Juan and the land between Virgin Bay and Salinas , so we may have their return as to the possibility of the canal in about two months . Mexico . —The State Department at Washington has received voluminous despatches from Mr . M'JLane , the American minister to Mexico , setting forth in an official form his misunderstanding with Miramon . It appears that ho simply followed the precedent set by the British Government in making demands of one government while recognising Ihe other , but Miramon declined to received Mr . M'Lane ' s communication . The latter complains bitterly to the United States' Government . Miramon , after forbidding any communication between the city of Mexico and VeraCruz , sold to a party the exclusive privilege of transporting goods between the two places , in consideration of the payment of nn ad
valorem tax to the Government of 20 per cent , on all goods . The latest despatches forwarded ! to Mr . JVI'Lttne had not reached him . It was believed that they would result in the speedy conclusion of a treaty with the Juarez ; Government , as special instructions relative to the transit question were included . The Navy Department have also received despatches from Captain Faragut , commanding the United States steamer Brooklyn . He announced his intention , according to the desire of Mr . M'Lane , to send a naval force immediately to Tnmpico , in anticipation of an attack on that place by the Miramon party , the object being tho protection of the United Stutea Consulate and other American interests there .
Vhnkzuisi-a . —Advices to tho 12 th ult . report that affairs continued ' very unsettled , Tho Government troops iiad mot with defeat from the hands of General Tamera , of tho insurgent army , at Coro , and tho insurgents were holding the province of Coro . Private letters , dated tho 71 h of May . assert that Mr . Blnijham , formerly British Charg 6 d'Affaircs to the Venezuela Republic , had met with gross ill-
740 The Leader. [News
740 THE LEADER . [ News
War Incidents.
WAR INCIDENTS .
The Priests In L,Ombardy And Piedmont.— ...
The Priests in L , ombardy and Piedmont . — A correspondent of the Morning Post says : — "When the French arrived at San Martino , they met with a priest at the bridge of Buffalora , and asked him if there were any . Austrians in the town ? He said , No . ' They had hardly advanced 100 yards before a fire was opened upon them ' which killed many , and I think General Cler fell there . The gendarmes immediately rode back and took the priest before he had time to escape , and he was killed on the spot by one of them . He ~ had 400 Austrians concealed in his own house . The priest of Magenta gave the same answer when asked . There were at that moment 4 , 000 Austrians in a convent .. He was taken and sent to Turin , tied hand and foot . "
Napoleon HI . at Magekta . —The correspondent of a contemporary , writing from the seat of war , says : —" Ifc is utterly erroneous that the Emperor was ever in the slightest danger of being taken ; a stray shot at a long range might have wounded him , but it would have been an extraordinary accident . His Majesty , it is true , did ride down to the banks of the river as the first troops were crossing , but , like his prototype celebrated by the French pout , he remained on the bank" Louis lee animant du feu do eon courage So plaint do so , grandeur qul 1 ' attache au rlvnge , " but soon after got on the roof of a house , at the outskirts of San Martino , where he remained during the greater part of the day . "
them personally interested , through near and dear relations , in the solution of the ciphers , she sank back in a swoon , grasping in her closed hand the paper upon which were . traced the figures whose hidden meaning conveyed sentences of despair to -so many . It is well known that swooning ^ like veeping , is catching by contact . One by one the ladies gave way to the sensation , and the drawing-room at St . Cloud soon resembled the scene in the " Sleeping Beauty in the Wood . ' Madame MacMahon , who who has been quoted as the only one to whom the accident happened , was , on the contrary , the first towhom consciousness returned , and soon it was to learn the high fortune to which her husband had attained , and the glory he had earned at Magenta .
Iyrolese Sharps hooters . —Most of the French generals who fell at Magenta were victims of the unerring rifle of the Tyrolcse jager . Espinasse was shot through the left eye , and the bullet crashed through the brain ; General Cler Was , like poor Beuret , who fell at Montebello , shot like a chamois right between the eyes . The Austrians make a great ; mistake in not being a little more sparing of these riflemen ; they should be employed exclusively as sharpshooters . They are , on the contrary , employed as heavy infantry . The French charge them with the bayonet , and the Tyrolese has no bayonet to defend himself with . They use the butt-end of their rifles with good effect , but even that breaks their line .
PlKDMONTESB AND FRENCH SOLDIERS . — At tllO triumphal entry into Milan , says a correspondent , " all the soldiers had nosegays or wreaths at tho end of their muskets . The G-uard so severely tried at Buffalora , carried almost exclusively the . latter , and certainly not without good claim . No Piedmontese troops took part in the procession . In , fact , ever since the battle of Palestro they have been completely banished to the background , find not a word U heard of them . You might suppose they were carpet knights , only flit for drawing-room service . They complain on their side of tho French , as being too quick for them ; while tho French say the Piedmontese never arrive in time . The understanding between tho two , you will thus
aee , is perfect . " Tub Nnwa at Saint Clodd . — -Reforring to the reception of the despatch , announcing the victory at Magenta , a Paris letter says : — - " The story about faintings which is going tho round of tho papers in not exact . It was not Madame MacMahon alone who fainted . An eye-witness has recounted the scene . Tho despatch wa 8 brought to the Lady Regent . It was in cipher as usual—a cipher ot which tho Imperial Lady nlone has the key . It was tho longest which has over been , transmitted by electric tojogruph ., As tlio Empress proceeded in her deciphering , the emotion and dread grew greater at each word , until complotely overpowered by tho agitation of tho moment , thti dread of whac was to come , tho eagerness and ' terror evinced by tho ludies present to lonrn the contents of the despatch , all of
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Germany. June 14th. The Rumour Of Last W...
GERMANY . June 14 th . The rumour of last week has become the fact of tin ' s . Prussia has mobilised six army corps . This fresh mobilisation is asserted l > y some journals as a consequence upon the change of ministry in . England ; others view it as a threatening reply to v the Russian circular note , wliile very many regard it as a measure directed against those bellicose States of Bavaria , Hanover and Saxony . It is , indeed , not impossible that the Prussian army may have a very different task marked out for it , to that which has hitherto been imagined . A union of the students ot the several Universities have drawn up a petition to the linn to him
Prince Regent of Prussia , praying proclaim - self at once Emperor of Germany . This is considered by some journals as a puerile ebullition , and they affect to ridicule it , but I for my part am fully convinced that the prayer of the petition finds a ready echo in the hearts pi the . overwhelming majority of the different peoples speaking the German language , who would all hail the acquiescence of the Prince in the prayer of the petition with boundless delight . Hanoverians and Saxonians , ii not Bavarians , would rejoice to be incorporated with Pm-sh ' . f do not think this petition a laughing matter , puerile- thoL- . t-h its origin may be ; old men don't in ake revolutions ; if youiifr men are silly , old men are diu ! , Those who fought at the barricades f 1848 were mostly very younp men , ai ) d this petition- issuing 1 from beinys not lived h to be fond oi life
who have long-enoug over- , at the expense of overy noble virtue , may lead to results of much greater importance than its contemners fancy . I should not be astonished to see a revolution all ov « r Gornumv before this year expires . As every observer o ! public aiiiiirs wns \\< -ll awum that the war , which is now raging-in Italy , vvus a certainty , sooner or later , so lie who Fs now watching : carefully the different phases oi public opinion here , feels tljnt sooner or later there will be a desperate struggle to make a united Germany . Cnn anybody believe that tho Germans will calmly vleAV a united Italy , and they themselveB disunited , and exposed through that disunion to the Insolent dictation oi a semibarbarous nation like that of , Hussin . This students petition may prove the match that will set Germany in a blaze . ' . .
The battle of Magenta has produced the effect winch I predicted in my lnst . The caricatures of Louis Nnpoleon nre less numerous and the many sina committed iiy Austria against Germany are becoming the tlieiuo oMiie journals . Even in Vienna a eortnin amount ot civility is evinced towni-ds tho cnoiny , as -shown ; by tno circumstance , that the performance oi a ¦ tliwUrien plec « . entitled : " MoiiseJur Louis and his friem Caviar / ' litu been lately prohibited by the authorities . 'Ihe tone , too , of tho Bavarian and Saxoniane la Bllghtly altered , maw especially of the latter . We are now reminded , us n sliifruiai clroutnsliiincfi , that , ncecording- to an old c"a \ 0 ™> "'* court theatra at Dresden is closed on the « n " > y ™* ?' tho denth of thoarcat Napoleon , and that not vItlwH -
wKkewiae She « on th 6 tl . of May , WHJ . *>{««; ably disposed ore tho Saxonlans growing , that wo a titoKi thai , forgetful of tho war , they " ™ . }™ b fi v "i } , J ' $ thoughtsto tho great exhibition oi 1 ' « X- ' oSiilv acxt all nutlonB , which ia to bo opened on t !»« J ™ ™ jjj ™ t Tlio Kintr of Bavaria lias grown suddenly vary sweet . -T St b & oof M « ™ onla ! lr . Wuta , ^^ bS Ion ns vlcu-presldcnt of tlio Chamber lod to Its $ *« £ " ?? bv tlw kincr liua boon elected Mnyov of Wuwburtf . I & orybodywas iUilnff whether tho <*» tkm jjgg reeulvo tho roy . il sanction , or . a though tiw ¦ canidnttf was poaaossod of every qunllfloation to iUl fcliO oilkfo , it wan thought that tho Government would view tlio choice ns unothor demonstration , Tho Wn ¥ '« i Tffi / nn tho OHtoniaiunont of nil , not only ooiiflrinej tho oloctton , but , ndrlud , Chnt ho de » lre < i tobo at ponco with his subJcetH , and iliat , for hh part , he was ivady to iorgot and iorts lvc .
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Leader (1850-1860), June 18, 1859, page 8, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_18061859/page/8/
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