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No, 474, Apbu. 23, 1859.1 THE LEADEB. 52...
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PACTS AND SCRAPS.
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Mr An<rus Mackay, formerly piper to her ...
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No, 474, Apbu. 23, 1859.1 The Leadeb. 52...
No , 474 , Apbu . 23 , 1859 . 1 THE LEADEB . 527
Pacts And Scraps.
PACTS AND SCRAPS .
Mr An<Rus Mackay, Formerly Piper To Her ...
Mr An < rus Mackay , formerly piper to her Majesty , has been accidently drowned in the river Nith , Dumfriesshire . . .. ,. , The Bishop of Rochester is again indisposed ; his illness is stated to be of a serious character . An old Russian soldier , who was made prisoner in the first wars of the Consulate , has just died in the hospital of Avesnes ( NordY ^ aged 104 . Oil Saturday Mr . Edward Conder ( sheriff ) , was elected alderman of Bassishaw Ward . .. Some Russians in Paris , in conjunction with some French literary men , are about to bring out a new « Sclavonic Review . " _ . . ¦¦ ' __ .
The Kin « - of Bavaria , has offered a prize of 96 / . for the best " drama illustrative of German history . The competition is open to authors of all nations . / At -the ' weekly meeting of the discussion class belon < nng to the London Mechanics' Institution , the proposition was debated , and carried , " That the prevailing system of apprenticeship isS both impolitic and unjust . " ^ n _ On the 30 th ult . Lords Grosvenor and Cavendish and the Hon . Mr . Ashley were visiting the island of Cuba . : . w ' ^ ¦ , The new Society of Painters in Water Colours have addressed a memorial to the Lords of the Treasury in prosecution of their claim to share in the benefits to be derived from a permanent National Palace of Art in Piccadilly .
TJbe journeymen bakers of London held a meeting on Saturday , for promoting the movement to shorten their period of labour to twelve hours per day , which is long enough to work , in all conscience . St . Mark ' s Chapel , Fulhain-road , took fire on Sunday ; two-thirds of the roof were burned off , and the rest of the chapel and fittings damaged by breakage and water . . Mr . John Taylor , for fifty years connected with the Bristol Mirror , of which he was of late years the editor and sole proprietor , died on Monday , to the great regret of his fellow citizens . The Sadler's Wells froup ' e of pnntomimists—Charles Fenton , Deuliix , Miss Parkes , and others have gone to Hamburg , en route to Berlin , where they intend to produce the last pantomime played at Sadler ' s Wells , under the direction of Mr . T . L . Greenwood .
A new Secretary , Mr . Selater , has succeeded to the management of the Zoological Gardens , Mr . David Mitchell having undertaken , at the Emperor's request , the arrangement of a new garden in the Bois dc Boulogne , in . Paris . Sir . Charles Barry , we ( Athenceuni ) hear , is named the architect of tho new Palace of Art in Piccadilly , to bo luiilb for the Royal Academy . Messrs . Barry and Banks are the areliitects of the adjoining Palace of Science . It is intended to erect a monument to the late
Marquis of \ Vatorford . One idea is the erection of a bronze equestrian statue , which would cost about l , 50 Q / ., in the demesne of Currnghmore . Another is , erecting such a monument in the centre of the Peop ' leVpurk , Waterford ; . while a third is to raise funds to build and endow an institution for tho relief of jockeys or huntsmen who arc disabled by accident , or overtaken by oLd age . The condition of the Cambridge men after their upset in the lxnt on Friday was rather distressing . They wore tit ripped of their wot clothes , and they wore-not many . . How to get dry ones was a difficulty not got over till they arrived at Putney . Tho bow-oar in thu Cambridge boat was so ill that ho was carried , helpless us a child , out of tho T ^ ondon ltowing Club-boat , and kindly received by Mr . Gregory , of I ho 1 . 1 ox Club , into his house at Barnos , ¦ whore- ho received proper medical treatment . Our " defectives " have boon rtoiiujf < yonil service to tho Picture' Gallery at Amsterdam , by . recovering for it , in- London , from * the hands of thieves , a picture by Vandorworir , lately stolon thence , and valued at the figure of £ g , oi > 0 . On the Prince Consort ** farm at Windsor sumo boys picked up what appeared to be a lump of load , but upon further investigation proved to be a leaden case , containing upwards of 150 picc . es of silver coin , principally Imlf-crowiiH . of tho reigns of Klimhulli , James 1 ., and Clmrle * 1 ., . in admirable preservation . Tho Lord Mayor 1 ms lixod tlio election of hi < j ; h bailiff of HouMnvurk for Thursday , tho 5 th of May next . Tho salary ( independently of foes , which will bo of but trilling amount ) is to bo 100 guineas per annum . Mr . Grosham , of' Farringdon Without , is the only eiui < U ( lnt : o at present In tho field . Two Haytian onvoyr » had ' iui interview with tho Quoon on Saturday , to nnnounco to her Majesty tho QBtJibllshiTiont ; of a Hopublic in JIayti . Tho Bishop of J 3 nn . gor . has just Uiod , at tUo tiga Of 8 ( J ,
Imminence op War . —The Globe of last night well remarks : — " It is a hideous satire on the sincerity of Christendom , that on this day we are compelled to notice a step , as rash as it is deliberate , to break the peace of Europe , and to commence a war , the violence , destruction , misery , and crime of which defy all estimate . If we may trust diplomatic dispatches , which we have no means of contradicting , Austria has thrown away the scabbard , and-has virtually , although not actually , declared war against Sardinia ; the three days of grace which she has allowed , expiring to-morrow , if they do not , indeed , to-day . It is on this memorable anniversary that
the head of " the Holy Roman Empire" declares peace to terminate . Should the intelligence prove to he accurate , Austria will then stand in antagonism , not only to Piedmont or to France , but to all the Four Powerseollectively , for she will have slighted their counsel , defied their authority , and set their manifest interests at naught . She will have placed herself in the ' wrong all round , and falsified her own conduct in appearing to listen and negotiate . It is on this account that , even now , especially since the receipt , at the last moment , of the brief notice in the Moniteuf , we cannot help looking for some further information of a kind to modify the belligerent character of the recent intelligence .
The Agricultural Society of Algiers has offered a premium of 5 , 000 f ., raised by subscription among the members , to any person who shall discover the means of preserving tobacco plants , during their vegetation , from the ravages of insects . The Gkanjd Tkitstk Road . — Mr . Russell says —It is the liveliest road in the world—not in the sense of the departed stage coachman , but in constant life and change of objects , The natives are essentially gregarious : rarely or never do you see a solitary man or woman , but they march in groups , men , women , and children , the first with brass lotahs or earthen pots and gourds , and stout loner sticks and light loads ; the last with big bundles back
on their heads , the heavy baggage on their s . Owing to their food , men and women of the lower classes when advanced in life become excessively thin and shrivelled . Those who are better off" , on the contrary , grow Cat as they advance in life , so that a man ' s pecuniary condition might be not quite unfairly estimated by a weighing- machine—a suggestion I humbly place at the disposal of any Income-tax Commissioner who may be hereafter appointed in India . In the fair sex these peculiarities are distressingly exaggerated . A feu- yards of very thin fine cotton , frequently patched or torn , around the lower portion of the person is nil the covering which these people can afford . As you approach Calcutta turbans disappear , and the
natives march about bareheaded ; but their scalps are not shaven , and the thick crop of coarse black hair , aided by an . umbrella of leaves , enables them to bear the rays of the sun . Now and then a man of substance passes in his palkde , " larding the , lean " bearers , and followed by pipe-bearers and baggage coolies , who jog along swiftly with very oddlyshaped tin portmanteaus , something like the tea chests in grocers' windows . This is the marrying month ; and I met several processions of men and women in yellow or saffron coloured robes , matchlock-men , palkees with concealed beauties ins ' ule , corpulent ; young bridegrooms with the usual serious aspect of that evanescent species of man , and luggage which would much astonish , the London-bridge porters ,
King ' s Newton Hall , Derbyshire , was destroyed by fire on Sunday . The origin of the fire is not known . King ' s Newton was built by a member of the Hardinge family about 400 years ago . Of late years King ' s Newton Hall became the property of Lady Palmerston . Montague House , Whitehall , the old residence of the Duke of Buccleuch has heen levelled to the ground . The new building will be a spacious and magnificent edifice , in the Elizabethan style of architecture , with a broad and imposing frontage to the Thames . The National Scotch Church , Regent-square , is advertised for sale . The church was erected in 1827 for a congregation of 1 , 500 .
At Aleudia * in the province of Cadiz , a mob recently assembled vociferating against the dearness of bread ; but the municipal authorities had , after causing the gendarmes to fire their carbines in the air to frighten the people , succeeded in re-establishing order . Horace Vemet is going to be manned , at the age of sixty-seven . The banns are now placarded at the mayoralty of the 10 th Arrondissement , in the Rue de Grenelle , Paris . The illustrious painter has gained the heart of a widow , Madame Marie Amelie Fuller , whose first husband was a M . de Bois Richeux .
The journals of the Loire record a rare case of longevity in a horse : —Count de Foudras , of the chateau of Origny , near Roanne , purchased in 1821 a 7 ^ year old horse , and the animal has just died aged 45 years . Up to the age of 40 , it is added , the animal worked regularly , and remained " in good spirits" during the last five years of its life . The Messdgerie di Modena announces that the Duke has nearly recovered from his attack of the measles . The Duke d'Avaray ^ who at one time was Chamberlain to Charles X ., and military commander of the department of Loir-et-Cher , has just died at Parisaged 88 .
, The Osservatore Triestino announces that , by a special favour , the city and- territory of Trieste is this year to furnish only half of its contingent of recruits for the army . The National Defence Question-.- ^ -A propos o an article in the Times on this subject , a nieniber of the " University writes from Oxford to that journal : — " When next term begins there will be some thousands of us strapping youngfellows up here , whose average height , weight , and ' activity might , I have no doubt , equal , if not excel , that of any regiment in her Majesty ' s service . In three years' time they will be scattered all over the empire . "What useful results
might not ensue from their being instructed in the ars militaris as well as the ars logica ? And as they stand , they would be a , corps behind none in pluck and vigour to tackle invaders , be they from Europe , Asia , Africa , or America . Why should not the Royal Oxford University Volunteers be embodied arid drilled in Port-meadow or Christ Church-walk ? If I remember right , the lloyal Horse Guards are , properly speaking , the * Oxford Blues ' to this day , and were raised among us in lving Charles ' s time . What man has done man can do . Two hours' drill twice or three times a week would set us up bravely , and a blue flannel tunic and white trousers could ruin nobody . Verbuin sat . "
Politics and Adultery . — Tho Now York correspondent of n contemporary says : —In Sickles ' s easo the community is divided into two great parties on the morality of tho deed , and , in addition to this , the affair has unhappily assumed somewhat of a political aspect , from a remark attributed to Key , previous to the catastrophe . A friend remonstrated with him on the impropriety of his attentions to Mrs . Sickles , and warned him that it would uoi . no to her hasband ' o knowlodge , and mischief would follow . The reply was , it is said , " that Sickles was a d d Yankee , ami would do nothing if ho did find it out . " Tho peaceable habits of tho Northerners , and their dislike to violence , havo long been tho subject of Southern sneers , us in the South u brutal readiness to shod blood on small provocation ia one of the
musicians hurrying to . assist at the festivities , servants charged ' with the care of nothing mpro weighty than a parrot ? , and a trail of mendicants of holiness at least a quarter of an inch deep . Sometimes one encounters a native gentlemen going out sportingT-that is , a train of elephants bellowing melodiously , laden with accessories fur the chaso , head a long lino of doolies , in which the Nimrods aro smoking their pipes , and behind thorn are the falconers , with beautiful peregrines perched on their wrists , which lly up , and ¦ with a quick jerk uro brought down again as they strive to get nway from tho approaching gharry . How the opon eliads BWiinii with little brown Cupids an , I I ' hvcIics , withbo
initrks of Kontloinnnhoori . It is this ciruumstaneo that gavo point to ltoy ' a course allusion , if ho over inailo it , and unfortunately it constitutes in thu ayes of many poaplu who would othorwiao condemn Siuklos a justification of tho hitter ' s couiluct . No doubt is entertained by anybody us to tho rosult of the trial ; and in fuot , so far as thu affair has gone , thu prisoner ' s friends havo arranged to make it an ovation fur him . Tito competition for tho notoriety attendant on acting aa Inn counsel , was immense , and all his old political friends of the legal [ K'ufcsfiiqn , besieged him with proffers ol ' tholr serviced . Amongst them figures Thoiuus ITruuciii Muugher . Me . Muagher ' s legal attainments are of a very diminutive order , and whatever sorvieo he might render in oxpending < m oration en tho jury , his opinion on points of law would uot bo of umoh vuluo , '
out winys or bows and arrow * ur flatfic-s , whp - lmvo as most children do under the inlluuueo produced by the sight of nnylnnly in »*« l ' . ' notion , ond yo-ll ' unil dunce after the manner of tho juveinlo aborigines of lIani | i 9 U'iul ! All ilio sheds are nhops , and so it would sucm as if wieh man In ordor to eneourago tntcTo honglu / Void lii . s m-ighhour , or sold his little stock uf rlisu , Hruin , dull , tf hoc , or calico to himself . J . oug tiluu ol AH ^ Iiiimh , loading gaunt eamols , strl . le past towards tho wu .-itwavd , and tho olophunt shulJles uluntf by tho elootriu tolegrftplx nosts suugcHt ing strange con trusts and jomliugs Q \ Klu / is in tho mind of thu reflective pnssungor , unless ho bo , as Is inuoh moro likely , ooonipied in calouhvting what aro his chances of getting a morsel to oat or drink at tho bunyiilow whoi ' u ho intends to make his next halt .
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Leader (1850-1860), April 23, 1859, page 15, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_23041859/page/15/
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