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Miscellaneous. The Court.—Her Majesty An...
powerful force of the corps of Royal Engineers , prov ided ¦ with everything necessary for the formation of ro ^ i bridges , to open up the resources of the colony ; also to erect block-houses for the reception and safe custody of the gold which may be disposed of by the miners ; and at the same time form an organised military force for the maintenance of law and order . Health of London . —The EegistraT-General ' s return for last week shows a very favourable state of the health of the metropolis , the deaths being 208 below the average rate . Diarrhoea 19 again on the decline , which is very unusual at this period of the year- Scarlatina and -diptheria are the prevailing diseases . The total deaths for the week were 1147 , and births 1496 . a a ¦ <•¦* _' . __ j * TT > 1 T ^_ ? — -. __?^ 1 rtH
Prince Axfred . —A correspondent of the Sydney Herald states , on the authority of Sir Charles Ificholson , that Prince Alfred was about to take a cruise rouud the world , and would spend some time in Australia . The correspondent adds that Sir Charles had this information from the Prince Consort direct . The Pbtncess Frederick " Wu-liam .- —A correspondent of the Independance Beige , writing from Berlin , states that for some weeks past the physicians have interdicted the Princess Frederick "William from taking journeys , her accouchement being expected in October . IReigate Election .- —A Conservative candidate for Beigate is announced in the person of the Hon . Mr . Jfcnson , brother of Lord Monson . He / will have the entire support of the Government .
" WrrcacBAFr" and Agriculture .- —Pliny has recoided the story of aiv industrious and ingenious husbandman ,-who , being in advance of the knowledge of his time , cultivated a small piece of land upon an improved method , by which he gathered much more fruit , arid reaped larger profits than the neighbours about him , though their possessions were more ample . His uncommon success "" excited their envy , insomuch that they brought this accusation against him— "That by sorcery , charms , and witchcraft ^ he had transported hLs neighbours ' fruits , fertility , and increase to his own fields . " For this he was ordered peremptorily , by Albinos , a Roman general skilled in agriculture , to answer the charge before him . Cresinus , fearing ; the issue , resolved upon '
his best [ defence , brought his plough and other rural implements , and displaying them openly , he set there also Ms daughter , a lusty , strong lass , big of bone ; then , turning to the citizens— " My masters , " quoth he , " these are the sorceries , charms , and all the enchantments that 1 use ; I might also allege my own travel and labour , my early rising and late sitting up , and the painful sweat that 1 daily endure ; but I am not able to present these to your view , nor to bring them with me into this assembly . " This bold and open defence captivated the people ; it proved the coup de main which turned a doubtful result to Ms entire favour ; he was pronounced " not guilty , " and
those present took note of his inventions . This story , though not strictly belonging to the history of our own island , is derived from those who are said to have first taught to the Britons the arts of husbandry . It may , therefore , be fairly employed to show that the first improvers of agriculture had their days of trial ; that in all ages and countries , and in every path of inquiry and invention—in the discovery of the rotation of crops , as in that of the rotary motion of the earth—a Galileo has had to answer for his daring before some embodiment of ignorance constituting an inquisition . —Philip ' s History of Progress .
The Lomdox Letter Carriers . —A meeting vras held on the 15 th inst ., to receive from the committee a report of what had been done to obtain from Lord Colchester some amelioration of their condition . The promises made by Lord Colchester justify the hope that tlus most useful , but not sufficiently appreciated class of public servants , will at least obtain a large instalment of what is justly their due . GoiNO out 01 ? Office . ^ —Lord Lyndhurst tells a good story apropos of his surrender of the great seal in 1846 . "When I wont to th « Palace , " says his lordship , "I
alighted at the grand staircase ; I was received by the sticks gold and silver , and other officers of the household , who called in sonorous tones from landing to landing , and apartment to apartment , ' Uoom for the Lord Eigh Chancellor of England . ' I entered the presence chamber ; I gave the seals to her Majesty ; I had the honour of kissing her hand . 1 loft the apartment by another door , and found myself on a back staircase , down which 1 descended without any one taking any notice of roe until , as I was looking for my carriage at the outer door , a lacquey bustled up , and with a patronising air said , ' Lord LyndhuTst , can X do anything for you ? '" " »
Finn at Bi ^ ckwall . —A great fire occurred on Saturday , on the premises of Mr . Emery , an extensive cooper in Brunswick-street . Seven largo cooperages with stabling and loft » wore entirely destroyed , and the adjoining premises severely damaged . Royal . Dramatic College . —Mr . Benjamin Webster has received a lotter from Col . Sir C . B . Pliipps , dated Fotsdum , August 18 th , announcing the Queen ' s intention of becoming th « patroness of tlio Dramatic College , and enclosing a cheque for 100 / . as her donation thereto .
... * £ ¦• Walter Savage Landor , —Tho action for ub « l brought by tho Hon . Mrs . Yescomb againat Mr . Walter Savage Landor , ia entered for triul at tho Bristol
Assizes , aud although it is currently reported that the defendant has left the country , tho plaintiff is determined to go to the jury . Savings' Banks . —Among the various recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee on Savings ' Banks , in their report , just published , we observe that they have adopted the important suggestion made by Mr . Scratchley , President of the Friendly Societies' Institute , in his Treatise on Savings' Hanks , "that the Commission should be empowered to invest a portion of A _ _ 1 !•»__ . _ i _» i » . % . ¦_•_ *
the Savings Banks' funds ( not exceeding one-third ) in other securities than those authorised by the existing law , and productive of a higher rate of interest than the three per cent , of the public funds , provided such securities are created or guaranteed under an Act of Parliament . " If this recommendation be finally adopted by the Legislature , a considerable improvement will arise in the financial condition of Savings' Banks , and the average rate of interest and consequent available profit will materially increase . A further margin will also be created for expenses of management .
Experiments upon ajt Execute © Criminal . —A letter in the New York Tribune says : —?* The form of sentencing criminals to death in this State will have to be changed . Instead of condemning them to be hanged by the neck until they are dead , the language will be , " to be cut up by doctors until you , are dead . " The change "will be perfectly safe , for the doctors may bo implicitly trusted not to let any criminal escape after ue is once placed in their hands . " The -writer proceeds to remark upon the " post mortem appearances" in the body of a criminal named Magee . Some scientific doctors commenced their observations within seven minutes of the man being hanged ; they were continued with great minuteness , and the autopsy was . begun within the hour from the time of the execution , while the man ' s heart was still beating eighty times a minute .
The Countess Walewska . —At the dinner given by Ceunt Walewski in honour of the Emperor ' s fete-day , it was remarked that Couatess "Walewska wore two very elegant bracelets which , had been presented to her at Cherbourg by Queen Victoria and the Empress Euge ' nie . These souvenirs contained the miniatures of the two sovereigns . . ' . . : :-. . " v . . . ¦ ' ¦ - '¦ ... ' . ' ; ; " -.. ¦' The Lost Tbaveixer . —An expedition is about to leave Simla under Lord Charles Hay , in the hope of determining the fate of the celebrated traveller , Herr Adolph Slagentweit , or of rescuing liim from peril , if still alive . When the two younger brothers returned home in March , Adolpb remained behind to carry on some inquiries not then completed . He was believed to have been at Ladak about a yeai ago ; he has not since been heard of . :
The Pbince Consort at Beklin . —A correspondent of the Daily News writes : —What do you think Prince Albert ia doing at Berlin ? Frequenting the lectures at the University . Yesterday his Royal Higliness went with Sir James Clarke and Dr . Wegner , chief military physician , to Professor Dubois Reyinond ' s lecture on physiology , which derived additional interest from experiments made with electric eels , Which tlie professor had received from Africa . A Spaktish Bandit .- —The famous Andalusian bandit , Muaelina , of whose exploits every traveller in the south of Spain has heard , has just terminated his career in a very characteristic manner . During the last month the police and soldiers have been upon his trail , but he succeeded in eluding them and committing fresh crimes ,
He was traced to Estepn , and a detachment of gendarmerie searched several houses in that village without success . The officer in , command , after protending to withdraw his troop , returned almost alono to search the bandit ' s house . On arriving at a low windowless room on the ground floor , ho went in alone . The . door was immedi atel y shut from within , and a pistol discharged at him j he fired in his turn , but without efl ' ect . A desperate fight then took place in the dark , tho men striking at each other at random . Tlie guards outside broke down the door very opportunely , tho ollicer having already been wounded . The bandit then sprang upon one of tlio guards with his dngger and severely wounded him ; alter which he himself wus killed . Ho had been cng th < j terror of the province of Cordova .
Mr . Bright , M . P . —Mr . Bright is still ia Scotland , recruiting his health . IIo v ill be in Birmingham in October , and stay there a week or two , taking tho opportunity of addressing his constituents in the Town-liall . The exporieuco of tho past session has convinced his friends that a little cure , and tho husbanding of his strength , will enable liim to take that active share in public lifo for which his temperament and hid talents alike fit him . —Birmingham Journal . Uamulinoj at Baden —A lottor from Hamburg says :
Ckossed Cmkquks ;—A banker savs- _ ' < -Nr . . — standing all that you say about crossed cLueg fj ? " tam that when a cheque is propcrl v cwJit am obliterated , except trough fhe ' fauft oTnegli g ^» person crossing it . If the crossing is made fvkl , 5 transverse lines , it cannot be erased without mntii r S the cheque ; but 1 have seen many croL ^ l I where the crossing was not observable withont , 5 * 1 examination , and in such cases it could , of court , 7 easily erased so as to avoid detection . " ' e A Tax on Ciunohhe . —According to the rw de Charleroi , the lessees of dancing saloons in It 1 ' ' complain bitterly of the falling off in their receipts Sf sioned by the extra space now occupied by crinoline , a „ instrument called the « Crinolimotre , " j £ consequ ^ been adopted by some of them , and persons vtiosccrinJ l } l ^ : ? ™ *™ ^ mQnt ™ b arged an extra "
y admission fee . At a ball given on Sunday last atMon tigny , one female was measured , and charged an extra 75 centimes ; another person , of an economic disposition preferred reducing her crinoline by taking out txvohoons ' The New Mixes ik thkNokth ov Adelaide —The Adelaide Observer of 12 th June has the following — "There in the most undoubted reason for supposing that the northern districts of the colony . ¦ ¦ will prove immensely rich in mineral resources , la addition to tie discoveries formerly noted , we understand that a lease has recently been granted by the Government to Mr TrestraiL , of Barossa , of some land containing a copper lode of extraordinary extent . The chief difficulty with reference to these northern mines is their distance from a place of shipment , and the vant of mining labour to work them . We think that in nothing so much as in
mining operations is the introduction of the camel to be desired . Port Augusta ' -will , we presume , be the shipping port for the principal portion of the mines north of the Burra , but it will be a somewhat expensive affair during tlie earlier stages of their working to get the produce shipped , except through the aid of beasts of burden . Such , however , is the reported extent of the mineral discoveries in the north , that it is probable that a railway or tramway will , within a moderate period , be laid over the chief part of the road between the mines and Port Augusta . "
A Novel Battue . —At Lublin , in Russian Poland , a tiger and two hy as lias escaped from a travelling menagerie , and sought refuge in the woods of Beizyce and Konopniea , in the neighbourhood ; Several animals were subsequently torn to pieces by the tiger , and the terror ' which prevailed was so great that the inhabitants dared not go to the fields to reap the crops . A number of soldiers had been sent to surround the wood aud kill the animals . A Cuiuous City Custom . —A few days ago one of tlio ancknt customs still extant iu the City of London , ¦ was observed w ith all due form and solemnity , at the parish church of St . Antliolin , Budge-row , AVatlingstreet . The circumstances were as follows : —The
rectory of St . Antliolin having become vacan t by the retirement of the Rev . James "William Calvcrt , M . A ., one of the minor canons of St . Paul ' s Cntliedral , it fell to the lot of that gentleman to " induct" his successor to tlie benefice , the licv . William Milner , M . A ., " according to custom . " At twelve o ' clock the retiring rector appeared at the door of the church , bearing the keys of the sacred cdilice . These he handed to the incoming ; clergyman , who , having received them , opened the door , entered tlie church alone , and then turned the key upou himself . He then proceeded to the belfry , and commenced
vigorously tolling one of the bells for a minute or so , in conformity with the ancient usnge , thus " ringing hiniself in" to the benefice . The reverend gentleman then opened the door and received the present churchwardens of St . Antliolin , Messrs . Good and Garnor , and Mr . William Ooucher , one of the Common Council of the ward of Cordwaincr , in which the parish is situate , and Mr . Ilemniens , another of the parishioners , who were the only persons of the neighbourhood present . Having received the congratulations of the party , the newly installed rector retired .
Tins Bihth of Pauses Childish . — -Tlic infant w introduced into tho world on the ground-floor of tho house , to which the mother is conveyed as soon as she is seized with the paina of labour , and sho remains therefor forty days , at the expiration of which period , after undergoing purification , she is allowed to appear in tie family « a boforo . The exact period of birtL \ is carefully noted down , and five days after the event , or aa soon as convenient , au astrologer is invited , xtho ia either a Uruliniiu or a Parsee priest , to cast the nativity of the child . The fellow , who thoroughly understands tlio worth of his forecuHtingH , gives out , with an air of satisfaction ,
that the child is destined to liold a distinguished position in tho community . lie lms first , however , to enumerate tlie mimes which the child may bear , and tho parents have tlie right to miiko choice of one of them . Tlio nstroloyer is then consulted 11 s to tho influence tho child will oxort upon tho fortunes of the futhor , tho mother , brother , and family generally . Tho pretender gnively delivers himself in somo such strain us thin : —" Tlio child really i « a fortunate one . To its father it lifts brought incieu . ied respectability and wealth ; the mother will bo very fortunate . By tho birth of this bubo thoro will bo increased ntt ' ectioH between tho huaband mid wife . With i ta brothers and . siatcrs it will bo on good
— " Tho Prussian Uoveihrnent continue their cxurLions to abolish the gaming-tables throughout Germany , but tho run of bad luck to which tho bank at Baden hns latterly been exposed may have a greater influence in tho accomplishment of tliut object than any legal enactment of tho Diot would bo likely to effect . Tho ' bunk ' there has thia reason beon 'broken ' twelve tiniea , five of which BucceaHca had been gained by a baron ( a captain in tho Austrian army ) , who , on leaving tho place , gave 6000 fr . to tho poor of tho towu in tok « n of gratitude for his « luck' there . "
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834 THE LEADER . [ No . 439 ^^ x 21 ^ , ^ — ¦ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ " ^^^^^^^ I ^^^^ m ^ '
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 21, 1858, page 10, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_21081858/page/10/
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