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1012 THE LEADER. [Saturday;
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LETTERS FliOM PARIS. (Fkom ouit Own Cohk...
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Corn riots took place at Turin on the 18...
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The return, just published, of tho comme...
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The Danish Chamber, on tho l.'Jth inst.,...
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Tho Governments of Naples, Turn-any, and...
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together in filth , can wonder at such a result . There is a general opinion prevalent that the Kensington Board of Guardians might have done much more than has been done to correct this monster nuisance , and it has even been alleged that soiae of the guardians are owners of the property in '' The Potteries . " A , case of cholera has occurred within the last few days in Kensington , in the very same room where the first fatal case occurred in 1849 . There have also been two fatal cases in St . George ' s-in-the-East . In Newcastle much good has been done by the covering up of heaps of refuse -with fresh earth . The nuisance is completely buried out of sight . The earth will have a deodorising action on the refuse , which after some time can be harmlessly removed .
The cholera still lingers in Newcastle . The deaths daily have fluctuated during the week from 6 to 2 . In G-ateshead , on the 19 th , there was no death , and one or two have occurred on each other day of the week . In the metropolis sudden outbursts of the cholera occur in bad places . In a close and unwholesome court , New-court , Bluegate-fields , two deaths have occurred . Such was the filthy condition of this court , and so imminent appeared the danger to the inhabitants in general , that the medical officer recommended their removal , if practicable , until the place could be thoroughly cleansed .
Beneath a great portion of the town of Hull there extends a system of flat brick sewers , which , under present arrangements , constantly accumulate foul deposit . During the last twelvemonth the local board have turned their attention to clearing out these receptacles of filth . Upwards of 10 , 000 cubic yards of foul matter are estimated to have been removed by hand labour and cartage from about ten miles of sewer . The condition of the small town of Castleford is very bad . Foul middens , dung heaps , and collections of decomposing refuse , abounded in all parts of the town , and the liquid filth and house refuse stagnated on the neglected surfaces of yards and streets . At the last visitation of cholera Hull is reported to have suffered the most severely of any town ; Castleford was next on the list .
In York-buildings , Grub-street , Westminster , the Commissioners of Sewers emptied a cesspool down one of the old sewers which they were not able to flush , while the rule ia to empty such pools into flush sewers only . The magistrate has been obliged to interfere to prevent the Commissioners from committing a nuisance . Under the arches of the Eastern Counties Railway a heap of manure is allowed to remain , spreading most dangerous effluvia throughout the neighbourhood . Diarrhoea , typhus fever , and other dangerous maladies prevail in the neighbourhood . The officials of the railway station have been warned by the police .
In Gloucester a system of sewerage is in progress , but at present the inhabitants of the four principal streets live over cesspools , which are in their cellars , and the contents of which are nightly pumped into the streets , creating a stench of tho wont frightful description . Only a few days since it was decided that water should bo procured from the filthy Severn instead of the Seven Springs , the source of an unbounded supply of pure water , the expense being about equal !
1012 The Leader. [Saturday;
1012 THE LEADER . [ Saturday ;
Letters Fliom Paris. (Fkom Ouit Own Cohk...
LETTERS FliOM PARIS . ( Fkom ouit Own Cohkkbpondhnt . ) Lkttkr XCV . Paris , ThurNclay Evoniiif , , Oct . 20 , 1 H 5 U . Akkests arc falling thick as hail just now upon tho Republican party . Charles DeleHcluze , tho friend of Xiodru iiolliu , and a follow-refugee with him at London , lias boon arrested on a secret journey ho wan making to Paris . His arrest caused a number of others . Ho had gone to nee M . Goudchaux , and some thirty men of the party . Tho police paid a domiciliary visit to tho honourable Republican banker , nnd conducted him to prison at the Prefecture do police ; but he was only
detained there two hours . The Emperor , informed of Inn arrest by tho electric telegraph , ordered his immediate release . It wan not ho , howovttr , with the other porHonw compromised in tho visits of Dolescluze . They were all arrested , and lire ntill , : ih 1 write , in confinement . The arrests have not been limited to Paris ; they have been carried on very extensively in the provinces . At Tours five democrats have been thrown into prison . At Nantes tho popular and esteemed Doctor Guopin , and Roehor ( tho inventor of that admirable machine for filtering Halt water , which figured at the Great Exhibition of 18 /> 1 ) have both been arrested . They were both connniHsaries qf the
Provisional Government in Brittany in 184 8 . Doubtless the fact of their having held that temporary position exposoH them to the suspicion of boi » £ a « it wore tho rallying centres of the patriotic party in . Brittany . Two more pornoim have been arrested at Tours ; they are tho printer and editor of tho Phare < le hi Loire , MM . Mangin , father and won . After n numt minute domiciliary visit they were both takon to prison . Vou will remark that all those various umwtH are directed against tho republican party of the mkldfeclatmeH ; not a single working-man in arrested . PorhapH the reason for thin may be that the working-claHHOH havo a far stronger organization than the howyemme . All the worUing-mon who hivvo tried isolated agitation , who
Paris , and nine-tenths of those at Lyons , are now regularly organized . The southern departments have been considerably agitated of late . A serious exasperation has shown itself in the public spirit , as the Government inspectors have themselves attested . In a recent report to Bonaparte they assured him that it would be imprudent in the existing state of effervescence of the public spirit to relax those rigorous measures under which those departments are placed , and that the strength of the garrisons cannot be diminished .
have not been willing to undergo the salutary yoke of the strictest discipline ; all , in fact , who have tried to preserve their individual initiative , their private freedom of action , have been severely punished for their pains ; " witness the journeymen hatters of the quarter of the Temple arrested three weeks since . On the other hand , not a single one of those who have submitted themselves to the mot d'ordre has been either imprisoned or disturbed . So , half the working-men of
With this slight interruption , Bonaparte is hunting , as if nothing had happened . The whole official world of the first class has received invitations to Compiegne . They take their turns by ticket , as you do in an antichamber . The finances ai-e in a bad state . I have already mentioned the deficit . It appears the Government is preparing a series of measures to provide against the difficulty : among others , a loan of 400 millions ( of francs ) , 16 , 000 , 000 ? . This is seriously talked of at the Bourse . We are now in a complete stagnation of business . Commercial men are universally complaining . They have bought dear , and can find no sale . Bonaparte fancied that to toss stone and mortar about would be
at once to revive commerce . But this political economy of 1803 is found to be totally unavailing in 1853 . The State and the Municipality of Paris have been plunged into fabulous expenditure . A tenth of Paris has been knocked down ; and after all , at the close of the year , the result is disastrous . Now , as it is the first of the reign , you may imagine it is far from an encouraging prospect . And thus it is that some change or other is looked for in all quarters . Now it is to be observed that when such is the disposition of the commercial world in Paris , it is just then that revolutions happen—and succeed . The working men of Paris have translated the fact into a pr inciple . They say , to make a revolution the workmen must be up , and the tradesmen looking
on . Now circumstances are such ( next May they will be a thousand times worse ) that the tradespeople at their wits-end will have nothing more to lose . Then revolution will be possible . So people are beginning to have a presentiment that the year 1854 may even hold the promise of 1852 . Not to speak of the chance of a European war , and of the whole continent being under arms . In vain Austria and Prussia are trying to preserve neutrality ; it is impossible . " Of two things one : either Turkey will beat Russia , or Russia will beat Turkey . In th e first case Russia , driven to madness , will only redouble her efforts ; she will raise a million of men if necessary to avenge her defeat ; then France and England , to prevent Constantinople falling into the hands of" tho Czar , will , be forced to give the Porte material succour of another kind than thn
mere presence of their squadrons ; they will have to send an army into Turkey . Russia will call Austria , if not Prussia , to her aid , and then we have all Europe in a blaze . In tho second caso the result is the same : only more immediate . In the meanwhile , preparations are made on all hands for war . An army of observation is to be formed at Motz , under tho command of Prince Jerome Napoleon . This army would be designed , in oertain
contingencies , to act directly against Rhonish Prussia , and to operate on the Rhine from Landau to Cologne . All the garrisons in tho northern departments are being brigaded by brigades , divisions , and corps , ho as to be ready to furnish , at the first flash of tho electric telegraph , a second army of GO , 000 men , to act on Belgium and on the Rhine , from Cologne to Dussolddrf . All these garrisons could now , by means of tho railway , be concentrated in one grand corps d'armcc in twenty-four hours .
Russia , on her side , i « not remaining inactive . The Czar , it is said , on learning the Turkish declaration of war , said , that'it hIiouU bo a w ; ir of extunniriation . Consequently , he gave ordern to mobilize the entire active army—that iw to way , tho ton c . ot-jm d ' armcc , of ( 50 , 000 men oaoh , and to march them upon the Pruth . Russia , then , pretendH to bo ablo to march 000 , 000 men to tho conquest of Turkey . Shall wo lot this lw' ( Shall civilization lot barbarieim triumph ? Lot mo oito
the words of one of our eminent writorn :- ~ "l ' t i « high time to put an end to the middle ages , prawrvod , like a mammoth , in Polar ' ico ; to have dono witL a world which lias no place in tho century , and which htm given to humanit y neither an idea lior an induHtry , nor an invention , nor a Hoioneo , nor an art , nor a genius -nothing but war and Cholera . Kuwria \ n the nation of death . To kill or perish , mieh it * her iiuh-Hion . " 1 auk again , hIkiII we let it bo ? S .
(Jon T1 N H] N T A L N O T E S. Tun Empr...
( JON T 1 N H ] N T A L N O T E S . Tun EmproHH Eugono in reported to bo again in an "intoronting situation . M . Zmnoyald 1 wb written to tho Dtbats to tjtuto that
there is no truth whatever in the assertions made by the New Gazette of Prussia ( copied into the Messenger ) of an auxiliary legion of refugees being formed at London to assist Turkey , under the direction of a committee of Polish officers and the Polish Literary Society . The Moniteur , ofthe 20 th instant , contains a decree granting an extraordinary credit of 5 , 000 , 000 f . to the Minister of the Marine . The Ministerial report on which this decree is founded states that France has at present two squadrons of 40 shinsofthelinewith proportionate increase in the
--, a number of steam-frigates and corvettes . There is in the French navv one steam-line-of-battle-ship , the Napoleon ; four with auxiliary power , completed ,- while nine others are being fitted for steam , and will be ready for sea within the ne xt two months . Two 90 gun steam line of battle ships are to be launched at Brest on the 31 st inst . Six new steam-vessels after the model of the Napoleon , are on the stocks and will be launched about the end of 1854 .. The total of the French navy amounts to 161 vessels , manned by 33 625 sailors , gunners , and marines . '
All this is mainly owing to the energetic economies effected by M . Dueos , the present Minister of Marine and it sufficiently reveals the determination of his government to mate France a really formidable maritime power . It -was oil Tuesday week that Alexandre Dumas addressed the letter , which we printed last week , to the director of the Theatre Francais , proposing to write and complete an entirely new comedy , in five acts ( to replace the play stopped b y the censorship ) , by the following Monday . On Friday night , just three days after the ofUr was made , the new comedy was finished ; on Saturday it was read before the committee of the Theatre Francais , and accepted with enthusiasm . It was declared to be superior to the comedy for which it was substituted .
With regard to the recent obsequies of Francois Arago , the > Siecle remarks : — " Many were astonished not to see a single member of the Provisional Government in the procession . MM . Lamartine , Dupont ( de l'Eure ) , Crenicux , and Garnier Pages , are absent : Ledru ltollin , Louis Blanc , and Flocon are in exile : Albert is atBelleisle , and Armand Marrat is no more .
It Appears That There Is Some Chance Of ...
It appears that there is some chance of the Austrian quarrel with Switzerland taking a turn equally unexpected and unwelcome to both parties . A considerable party in Tessin , exasperated at what they think the unpatriotic and spiritless conduct of the Bundesrath towards Austria , is active at present in bringing about a separation of the canton from the Swiss Confederation , and its annexation to Sardinia . The Federal Government acknowledges that the policy of conciliation is exhausted towards Austria , but declines , for the present , to do more than assist the suffering ' Tessinese with grants of money and provisions .
Corn Riots Took Place At Turin On The 18...
Corn riots took place at Turin on the 18 th inst ., but were easily suppressed . Fifteen or 'twenty of the refugees lately arrested at Grenoa were to bo conveyed to Malta . . , Miss Margaret Cunninghamo had'literally , we arc told , to be forced out of the Tuscan prison . She would not accept the pardon of the king , as it was acknowledged that not even under tho Tuscan laws was she liable to imprisonment . The conduct of Mr . Scarlett , tho British cltftrgd d ' affaires ,-who is so completely in the good graces of the Grand Duke , that the release of Miss Cunninghame is granted as a compliment to him , is complained of as similar to his conduct in the Mather affair—unworthy of tho Power lie represents , and full of weak subservience to the Court to which lie is accredited .
The Return, Just Published, Of Tho Comme...
The return , just published , of tho commerce and navigii tion of tho Netherlands during tho year 1852 , shows conHi derablo increase of imports , exports , and transit , aa com pared with the former year .
The Danish Chamber, On Tho L.'Jth Inst.,...
The Danish Chamber , on tho l . 'Jth inst ., rejected th ( Government scheme for the revision of tho constitution , known an the Wholo-Stato project . It decided unanimously , after a short discussion , to reject tho project of the Government , and to take for tho base of itn deliberation " the fundamental law of the 5 th of Juno , 1849 . Thoro will bo thrcci eiiHCus . sioiiH . This in a cheek to itiiHsian intrigues . Tho attempt <» the Ministry lias united tho whole of tho Danish PiirJinmerit against tho Wliolo-Stato law . So that tho Ministry must oithor " decree" a constitution , or dissolve tho Parliament . Tho lirnt course might oflisot their winheH , wun > they audacious enough to attempt it ; tho second woulu lead to tho election of a new Parliament still more oppose " to thoir policy . It is notablo , that tlio Peasant-l < 'ftg uortl hitherto partisans of the Court—havo now joined tho J ' ' and the centre in opposing tho Court .
Tho Governments Of Naples, Turn-Any, And...
Tho Governments of Naples , Turn-any , and liomo , throwing open the ports to corn , and are thinking to fi » ut out cholom by strict quarantine a ^ airiHt vohhoIh from i '' tf " land and tho north . We are glad to hear that Malta and Trieste uro gradually aboliHhing the absurd Hystom of quarantine , nnd «¦<> - mitting vchhoIn from ports i'ormorly ^ HUBpocUwl W i ru pratique without delay . i '<»« The Cologno ( hiztkto complaint ) of tho rosullH ol " ' comHioreiftl ' treaty with Austria , of ' Fobruary J » w < -, ll " ' , , " mental to the Western KtatoH of tho JZollvoroin . AH " propoHitioiiH of JinnHiaandtho Northorn Htalonof GorrniU'J j tending to roduetioiiM of tho tariif , uro naid to havo mum Inbori \\ AuMfriuti j'Ofilifinn i unnmi utu i iiMiJu i
n , u . .. . uuu juimijI . -uu . . « Tho Aiwtriaii Government ban roducod its army l > y ' " creo to tlioOKto . it of 75 , 000 won . Wo havo «»»« *" unni oxpoHtMl lli « IioUowiichh of throw i » roton < lo < l mlucuw , intondod to throw duat in the oyoy of oapitaliwtH wi «'" loan in wanted . , r ( ,. Itnlhor inopportunely , tho miino Oovwnuwn * """ ' outabliuhed xlll tho political < md wcitU tliaabUitioa «««
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 22, 1853, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_22101853/page/4/
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