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ne NeTyeOr ! " The word sounds ominous for J h ; h perchance be e ^ p Ted ^ Svn ^ tsl . alfW-bairpolicy . andfor thZ Uo ^ ntuve to ally themselves agamst us . The first body af ibreigu leg ionaries are assembled at Shorncliffe , numbering about 3000 or 4000 They are a fine , soldierly body of men , and the manner in Wlnch they have been treated will tell foreign countries something of the feeling of the English people . The entire body , officers and men , have been entertained by Mr W P . ™* a private Member of Parliament , in his
, , park . In other . vords , Mr . Ccrkk , who represents at once the independent Member of Parha- ment , the Liberal party , the commercial classes ] in the City , and the elite of English society , becomes the hospitable entertainer of a body of men solely because , besides constituting a part of the forces to attack Russia , they represent those natives of Switzerland , Belgium , Germany , Denmark , Holstein , and Italy , who are prepared to take service under the English banner in the battles against the Czar and arbitrary power ; for the arbitrary power has much to * V" * £ Independently of the set speeches of the table , where Lord Palmerston used a few words about the Italians in the Crimea , such as he knows how to fill with so much meaning-innumerable things must have been said in conversation which would make the foreigners and the English understand each other better than they sometimes do through official communication . We talk about other alliances besides those with the imperial head of France ; we have already constitutional Piedmont , ^ Sng and country ; " Spain offers herself ; but here The English gentry were seen welcoming the first advance of Germany , Denmark , Holstein , and Italy . The natives of those countries , too , although they will fi"ht under the English flag , will fight , vhere they " an show what the subject races are made of . They will be able to win the respect of Englishmen and the fear of their enemies . We have had some other entertainments besides this strange one of a foreign force by an English private gentleman . Lord Stanley has been presiding as host , when the grounds and mansion of Knowsley—seat of the once royal Stanleys of Derby—were thrown open to 5000 people , constituting the united Mechanics' Institutions of Lancashire and Cheshire . The courtesy was shown in no measured style ; Lord Stanley made a speech , but it was short and unpretending ; the crounds were freely thrown open to the thousands and not only the grounds but the house itself . The servants will probably report that less dam age was done by the 5000 humble visitors than happens sometimes when « carriage company " fill the rooms , and advertisements in the papers next day tell that fans or shawls have been " taken away by mistake . " At all events , the heir to the Stanleys of Derby , a Conservative and a noble , knows how to trust the people of this country in the very bosom of his own home . That is another form in which the nobility , as well as the gentry of England , see the policy of extending hospitality to a foreign legion . The next host is Lord Robert Grosvbnob , who received at Rickmansworth an army of Scripture Readers in a triennial visit . Lord Robert has been a leader of fashion , a distinguished Whig in the county representation of Parliament . H < is no longer young ; he thinks of the other world and appears to be acting as Member for a certan constituency which he is to represent m " anothei place , " superior even to the House of Lords II © plays the patron in piety with a pfood grace-Without ; prcten 8 ion , but with liberality ; and th « Scripture Reader * no doubt are fond of Lor <
I Robert . They , carry Christian comfort to many a bumble , home , and with it the good repute of Lord Robert . It is here that he finds his strength , lie only happened to mistake the great-working districts of London for Rickmansworth , when he proposed a Sunday Bill that would do very well in that rustic district , but which threatened a sudden and inconvenient revolut . on m the habits and manners of regions that he » imperfect y acquainted with . Lord Robert is nt home at Rickmansworth , he was out of Ins clement in Bethnal-green ; and after being astounded at the ingratitude of his species for refusing to be edified ami beatified after his own fashion , he retreats to congenial Hertford , and finds solace amongst his Scripture Readers . It was another sort of foreign legion entertained there-foreign only to the feelings and ideas of a great number of English
people , not to the noble host . Two other appearances before the public , per-3 onally and by pen , do not require many words , because , although they are events within the survey of the week , they do not belong to the present time . Mr . Laing has been down to his constituents at Kirkwall , making a clean breast of it and Mr . Duffy has been bidding farewell in an address to his constituents at New Ross . Mr . Laing tells the electors of Kirkwall that he received offers of place under Lord Palmerston s Cabinet , but he has not full confidence in Lord P ^ lmerston . He trims somewhere between ^ war and peace , and his chosen leader is Lord John Russell : in the between-day-and-night the moth deliberately elects to follow the lead of the Willo ' -the-wisp ! Mr . Laing evidently is not to be reckoned among the strong statesmen of the day . He has chosen at the commencement of his public life to identify himself with the declining career of
Lord John . The list of outrages this week is considerable . From lunatics to railway directors there has been an unusual activity . An unhappy little girl is found half buried under a heap of stones—by a cottage where her parents resided , near Bristolhorribly cut with a sharp instrument ; and the women of the neig hbourhood are terrified at the idea that there is some lunatic wandering about seeking whom he may murder . At KnVhtsbridge an unhappy old woman is found with her throat cut , and her daughter , woman of middle age , tells an unintellig ible story implyin « that the mother killed herself . A great anxiety about lodgers who would not come , an extreme depression of spirits , and a restless desire to get possession of a razor indicating in the daughter a state of mind that inevitably suggests the probable denouement . It is a case of poverty mastering the mind . Passin" over ordinary cases of assaults b y husbands up ° on their wives , we have a story which in some respects resembles another that recently excited public curiosity . At Clapton , in Somersetshire , Emma Candy , wife of a farmer , suddenly dies , and unmistakable traces of arsenic arc discovered . She seems to have been greatly dopreased and to have been addicted to intemperance A cousin lives in the house—a dairymaid , of whom the husband is said to be " very fond ;" but there is no direct evidence of jealousy on the part of the wife , nor anything in fact which confirms , suspicion against tho husband or the cousin ; 5 while it seems probable that tho wife herself had » been purchasing poison . r "Whether it is some wonderful lunatic or boiiio j ** skeleton in tho household" that introduces crime , and spreads suspicion , tho precariousness of i human life is not half so far betrayed by these r individual cases aa by tho wholesale nsflfuiltn . which railways inflict upon passengers . ' Wo hnvu - half a dozen cases this week of accidents in which d the Eastern Counties , the Groat Western , the 1 Lincolnshire and Yorkshire , the South Devon , and
the Korth British Railways havo assailed their passengers , either with switches that turn when they ought not to have turned or do not turn when they ought ; or trains that overtake other train 9 labouring along with imperfect steam ; engines have been thrown off the lines , carriages dragged or jerked off and smashed , travellers brutsed , their limbs broken , their lives put in danger if not actually taken from them ; whole masses of wreck , suffering , and destruction inflicted on a scale which no private lunatic or murderer can command . ^
~~ sLt Chaiu . ks Napier and the Attack on Swkaboko —Stung by the recent success of the Allies at Swiorg , Sir Charles Napier has addressed a long lettS to The papers , setting forth the history of his own schemes of last year , and of his alleged ill-usage by the AcnnTralty , and more especially by Sir James Graham . He say s that , had he been provided with a hundred gun and mortar-boats , he could have » annihilated Sweaborfi- but , without one of these indispensable vessels , he wks ordered by Sir James Graham , October , after the proper season had passed , to make an attack winch , under the circumstances , must have resulted in the destruction of the fleet . Forty-three was the number of mortar and gun-boats employed by Admirals Dundas and Penaud . Sir Charles conceives that , if they had had a hundred , they might have utterly destroyed Sweaborg , instead if leaving the sea defences a most untouched Drainage ok Sydenham . — A deputation from the inhabitants waited on the Commissioners of Sewers on Tuesday , to complain of the wretched sanitary condition of that neighbourhood , which , owing to open sewers and defective drainage , is held to be in a worse state than any place around London . The chairman said they had to encounter a great obstacle n being provented from making a higher rate than sixpence , 11 c ™> und . The deputation retired without any dctinite
"SESS Sr-lJ the same Court of Sewer , the drainage of the New Cattle Market at Islington into this Srook was again alluded to , when Sir John Shelley saul it appeared by the report of the engineer that 30 , 000 / - was required to be expended to mitigate the nuisance , and looking at the fact that another body would > oon come into power , he could come to no other conclu-ion than that it was not advisable to expend such a sum of money on a temporary work . A resolution in accordance with this opinion was carried , rrvm-il A Recklkss Fkat was performed at the ( rjstal Palace a few afternoons since . One of the workmen encaged in the completion of tho circular water tower for a wager of a gallon of beer ascended to the summit of the southern tower by a rope which had been mwpended there for some purpose , and which hun tf down into the high road , a height of more than two hundred feet . He accomplished the daring exploit , to the astonishment of a considerable number of spectator .- , by pulling himself up hand over hand , and twisting 1 »>
legs round the rope . Tub " Queen ' s En « ine" vnsafk— 'Ihe cxprep ii . which left Edinburgh at ten minutes to ten on M .. iil . i > . ran off the rails about three miles north or Ii . nw'h . The engine No . 67 is the largest which the com !';"') possesses , and is that used for the royal train : but ' » ' ^ said that it was not considered a perfectly suto v \\*\ nc the nange of the wheels not having " sunicicnt ^ n . The accident occurred on an embankment , down vlu . n the engine , the tender , and ( several carriages ran , tin-niiiir comp letely over . The fireman van thrown ug .-. mM a wall , and picked up insensible . Of the th . it >¦ ,. a * - sengerH , only three or four were slightly mjun-. l . n < effect of the accident upon nomo of them was nillin Angular , and haa been thus described : —An Ann .. can lady , as aoou as blie was dragged out , desired to km . « the address she was to write to for damage . Al """ lady entreated t hat her plan of Sevastopol ahould ! . «• recovered ; » he was Htudying the plan wIm'M tin- n . odont occurred . Out of one carriage , the «* i » l . ¦•» « » " win broken in , n gentleman jumped laughing i young man , finding a smash inevitable gut un « i » -i ¦' seat , and as noon as tho carriage upset loajM-d nut , '" run with K ™ it rapidity into Harwick ivr . " ^ l ' , j which was at onco . sent , nil the medical hicii in H " «"
being put in requisition . , ,... Kaii . way Com . ihion . — About one o ' clock , » M" '" 0 morning last , a heavy excursion train , convoying « » ¦ one thmibiuid person * , on its return Journey « ' <"" ' ' pool to Sowerby-bridge , Yorkshire , w ovfi-talw-n . i run into by a goocln train in tho Suiimt t « n » -l " LnncnMhlre and Yorkshire , Railway , near 1 ( l ( lin , . , ,. The exclusion train hud come almost to a nt « i « l-i- ¦ tho want of Htenm ; but th « goods train fi . rtu > <« . Hluckeiud itH H «« d , or tho collmion would liny ; worms . A hoy had bin leg * frnHurwl , « nd m'fi »» other poHw « iKorn worn hrwiMed . . .,, .,.,,,,,, 1 , 'v in TOTNKHH KMWrTM . N . — H 1 h Hllld tllllt tl « H "'» > , ^ tho rnprnNuntntlou of thin borough , wmwnl «» y ll " , ,, | Lord Seymour to the House of 1 W , av « 1 bo < - •« - by Mr . Mount , u relative of the pWHeiU . nol . l « Tho ConsorvativoH ar « expoctod to bring forwuiU » didate , but , hh yet , nothing definite ia k nown .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 25, 1855, page 2, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_25081855/page/2/
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