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Miscellaneous. The Court.—Her Majesty -W...
verse happily enough , melts into reflective symphony , touched delicately by husband at the piano . Still suffering from that impecuniosity , as Doctor Samuel Johnson has it , which is the sharpest stone on his lover ' s walk , the youth finds himself necessitated to go abroad and fiffht his country ' s battles . Vows are interchanged at parting . The music slackens . " I go , " says the youth , " forget me not . " " But , " says Madame , in mournful and desponding accents , " love , without wealth , is nought , is nought ! " Then comes halting , dirge-like symphonies from the husband , in favour of the pie-crust quality of lovers' promises , and hinting at the extreme likelihood of such foolish talk being forgotten with the Iap » 3 of time . "But years go by , " Madame continues , taking up the measure in a vigorous and even noisy manner . "There is gaiety abroad , and the marriage-bells are sounding ( happy imitation of bells on the top notes of the piano ) . But for whom ? She will wed a proud and wealthy
milord . But there is the clatter of a steed upon the hills ( galloping rumble among bass notes ) . He comes ! He comes ! ( startling chord ) . Mon Dieu ! too late ! too late ! " ( staccato chord . ) Then recurs , heartrendingly and mournfully , the burden : this time conveying a world of reproach , sorrow , and despairing adhesion to the eternal truth , " Car l ' amour sans bien—sans bi-en—n ' est rien ! n ' pst Tti—i _ i _ iiii—en ! ! f" Dead March in Saul
Symphony from husband , who seems utterly overcome . The old men present weep hysterically . — Diclrens's " Household Words "
Gkkat Loss of Shipping is the CHrNA Seas . — We subjoin a list of the British ships reported lost : — The brig Anonyrhe , the ship Glendower , the schooner Gazelle , the barque Hong-Kong , the ship Shapscote , the ship Kinaldi , the barque Louisa Baillie , the barque Louisa , the barque Moultan , the brig Pantaloon , and the ship North Star . The following are on shore at Swatow : —The ship Alfred the Great , the barque Beverley , the ship Dennis Hill , the barque Harvest Home , and the barque William Frederick . The Atlantic Cable . —The Tralee Chronicle says : — " Xothing of importance occurred since my last until Friday , when the weather was so fine that no further pretext could be advanced for not proceeding with the laying down of the shore end of the cable . The vessels in sub
accordingly proceeded to sea , and succeeded - merging the few miles of shore cable , and in making a splice with the deep sea portion about five miles off Doulas Head . I am not aware that the shore cable has been tested since it was laid down , nor is there any person of sufficient experience here to do so , and when we recollect that some of the most eminent practical electricians of the day have differed materially in the manner and result of their testing , Ve must have very little reliance on the opinion of others of far less scientific experience . Nothing is , therefore , known of the present condition of the cable , or whether the laying down of the portion of shore end has materially improved its condition , as the office has been shut up since the 1 st inst ., and the staff , with one exception , discharged —not removed to London , as has been asserted- "
Tijb Camben-Town Buuiae .-ground .- —At a meeting held in the Court-house , Camden-town , on Thursday , it was announced , amid loud expressions of satisfaction , that a decree had been issued by the judge of the Consistory Court calling in the license or faculty granted on the 23 rd of June last , which authorises the removal of dead bodies in the Camden-town Cemetery , and further calling on the rector and churchwardens to show cause why they should not reinter the bodies , already removed . Db Montalem hurt ' s Judges . — A Paris letter Bays : — " One of the foremost men in France is to be tried to-morrow , for an alleged political libel , by a tribunal composed of three persons , whose united salaries
• re less than the pay of a county court judge . The president of the tribunal will beM . Berthelin , onoof tho vicepresidents of the Inferior Court , called the Tribunal de Premiire Instance , He will bo assisted by M . Benoit , a puisne judge of tho same court , and bvM . Nacquart , a supplementary judge ( juge suppk ' ant ) . Unless these gentlemen are angels rathor than mon no man prose ^ cuted by the Government can reasonably expect to receive justice at their hands . Tho salary of Mr . Vice-Presidont Berthelinis 280 / , nyonr ; that of his colleague , M . Bcnott , is 240 ? . , and tho jurjc ettppfdant , M . Nacqunrt > is an apprentice judge , who receive no pay . whatever . If Count do Montalombert should be acquitted , M . Bortholin , who possibly may be amiddlo-aged man with a largo family , knows well that ho can never expect to be
promoted to tho bench of the ' Imperial Court . ' M . Benoit also must oithor concur in a vordict of guilty , or resign himself to remain all his life an inferior judge with 240 / . a year , and M . Nacquart , the aspirant , may try his " prontlco hand ' at administering justice till ho grows grey , without ovor tasting tho sweets of quarter-day . Such is tho constitution of the tribunal invontod by tho Government of tho aottp d'dtat for securing the condemnation of all obnoxious wrltors in the press . Probably the sentence will not ho heavy ., The forma of tho society in which they move will provont tho judges from being very severe . They doubtless fool a sympathy for the man , but , as Poaohurn says to Lookct , they must provide for their famUios , ' " Judicial . —Mr . Sorjoant WoIIb , of tho Norfolk
Circuit , has accepted the appointment of Puisne Judge of the Supreme Court at Calcutta , vacated by the retirement of Sir Arthur Buller . Court of Common Council ^ — On Wednesday a discussion took place on the question of the proposed county rate for the City Paupers' Lunatic Asylum . Various memorials having been read , the Lord Mayor gave a summary of the history of the question , from which it appeared that in his judgment there was no alternative but to impose a county rate . A resolution was proposed , rescinding the previous resolution of the court anctioning the rate . This gave rise to some discussion , and the debate was adjourned . . Wire is
The Best " Wire Thap . —Since Lord Mayor " so fond of laying traps to catch people , why does he not originate a Reform meeting in the City ? London is about the only large town that has not yet spoken out on the subject . Even Manchester , that of late years has been a political mute , so far as Liberal sentiments were concerned , is about to have its say . Now , it is full time , we think , that the metropolitan members spoke out about Reform , though , instead of being the last , they should have been , properly speaking , the first to speak . If only Lord J . Uussell falls into the trap , it will be well worth setting . We are curious to know what his lordship has to say for himself in connexion with Reform . Will Lord Mayor "Wire oblige us by catching him at his earliest convenience ?—Punch .
Opium . —A deputation from the Anti-Opium Association had an interview on Wednesday with Lord Stanley . They presented him with a memorial , which , portraying the frightful effects of the use of the drug , prayed for the entire prohibition of its cultivation in India . Lord Stanley admitted the evils produced by the opium traffic , and expressed , his general sympathy with the antiopium philanthropic movement , but could not consent to the proposed prohibition of cultivation . There were , however , two other courses which might be taken—a heavy export duty might be imposed , or an excise duty levied at the place of production . He promised that the Government would lend no support or countenance to the traffic .
Tiie Cemetery Question . —The question as to the future arrangements for the burial accommodation of this great metropolis will not be disposed of in the single case of the Camden-town Cemetery . The so-called suburban cemeteries one day " must all be closed , " so declares the report of the General Board of Health , addressed to the Crown in 1850 , and then a new movement must be made further into the country . The railway offers the ready and economic means of reaching any such rural site ; and this mode of transit has been already adopted in respect of the London Necropolis , at Woking Cemetery , and with complete success . Nor has the example so set remained without imitators . The Burial-G round Committee of the Birmingham Town
Lesseps has received a terrible and severe blow through the retirement af M . Barthe"lemy de St . Hilaire from the office of Secretary to the Company of the Suez Canal . " The severity of the blow which the scheme has received is owing to the high scientific reputation of M . de St . Hilaire ; since his abandonment of the Suez speculation implies that he thinks it no go . Besides being an adept in science generally , M . de St . Hilaire is , we believe , a great hippophagist ; and if he can manage a horse-steafc , but feels a difficulty about getting through the Isthmus of Suez , we may be pretty sure that the latter is a tough job . —Punch . .
The Murder ix Bloomsbury . —After the adjournment of the inquest yesterday , the jury agreed upon a memorial to the Home Secretary , requesting him to cause Edward Tombs to be produced before them at the adjourned inquest , on Tuesday , the 30 th inst . This document the coroner forwarded , with a note stating that in case the Home Secretary should see fit to comply with the request of the jury , he ( the coroner ) undertook that Edward Tombs should not be discharged from , the custody of the police , and that he should be sent from the adjourned inquest to appear at the policecourt at the time stated in the warrant for his remand .
Lightin g up St . Paul ' s . —The whole of the many thousand jets or nipples attached to the pipes leading from the monster meter in the cathedral of St . Paul , for the aecomodation of the congregation attending Divine service in that edifice , were lighted , to test their safety and general effect . They were all pronounced to be perfectly correct , and not the least fear of an explosion may now be entertained . Liability of Railway Companies . —An important decision in reference to articles left in the charge of servants of railway companies has just been given at Leeds . At a recent sitting of the County Court there a person named Berwick sued the Great Northern
Railway Company for the sum of 31 . 3 s ., the value of a silk dress which the plaintiff alleged had been taken from a parcel left by his wife in the cloak-room at the l > oncast ' er station . After the evidence for the plaintiff , Mr . Blanshard , barrister , for the defendants , submitted that as the person who packed the parcel had not been called , the robe might not have been placed therein , and contended that as no felony had been proved against any servant of the company , nor any complaint made by the plaintiff ' s Wife ~ at the time she took away the parcel , the defendants were entitled to a verdict . His Honour , however , gave judgment for the plaintiff fox the amount sought .
French Corn Trade . —The Echo Agricole gives a table of the imports and exports of grain for the ten first months of the year 1858 , from which it appears that , notwithstanding extraordinary arrivals into Marseilles , probably owing to the return of the sliding scale , the exports have exceeded the imports by about 800 , 000 hectolitres , equal to about . 270 , 000 quarters . And this difference , the Ecfio says , is more in reality , because in the importations figure this year large quantities of oats , barley , arid rye ; whilst in the exports , on ,
Council having recently sent a deputation to inspect the arrangements of the Necropolis establishment , were so satisfied with them that they recommended the adoption of a similar plan for that borough , a recommendation which was unanimously agreed to . The committee , in their report , say of this system of railway funeral transit , that , " already extensively used in the interment of the dtad in the metropolis , it will soon become the universal and only means by which the spirit of the Burial Acts can be satisfactorily complied with by the burial boards of large towns , and their dead conveyed cheaply and decently to their last hqme , at such a distance from the habitations of the living as not to endanger the public health . "
the contrary , if the wheat flour was reduced into an equivalent quantity of wheat , it would cause the latter to amount to a much larger number of hectolitres . A , very large proportion of all these exports have been directed to Great Britain and Ireland , and have , no doubt , exercised an important influence on prices there . The arrivals at Marseilles during the month of November have sensibly diminished . It is therefore probable that at the end of the present month the excess of exports will have still further increased to a considerable
ex-New Egyptian Loan . — It is said that negotiations have been set on foot in London for an Egyptian Loan , but the amount wanted has not transpired . Hitherto the financial requirements of the Viceroy in our market have usually been met through the instrumentality of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Company . Continental Telegraph . — Posts are now being carried on between Norwich and London for the purpose of connecting some of the Submarine Telegraph Company ' s continental Hues with the metropolis . The existing telegmphic communication betwoen Norwich and London is vid the Eastern Counties Railway , and is worked by . tho Eleotrio and International Telegraph Company ; but it is understood that a now and independont route is now boing carried out by the Submarine Company , which has lately submerged two linos to Hanover and Holland from the Norfolk and Suffolk
tent . The Lesseps Scheme . —The Grogressa de Egitto ( a senri-oflicial organ of the Viceroy of Egypt ) gives a quiet warning to some of M . de Lessep ' s friends : — " It becomes necessary , therefore , to declare that in no way has the Egyptian government any interest in the financial composition of the company ; and that , whether it be in regard to the contribution or . to the reimbursement of capitul , the government is under no . guarantee , nor does it assume any responsibility whatsoever towards the shareholders . " Crystal , Palace . —Return for six days ending Friday , November 26 th , 1858 : —Number admitted , including Season Ticket holders , 12 , 660 .
Dunlop on Liquor . —On Thursday a deputation from the Temperance Reformers of Grcenock , had an interview with A . M . Dunlop , Esq , M . P ., in reference to the Forbes Maokenssic Act , und the proposed permissive bill for the suppression of tho liquor tralHo . The deputation , after thanking Air . Dunlop for his successful exertions in tho House of Commons , in defence of tho Forbes Mac-Uonzlo Act , suggested that in the apparently inovitublo appointment of a committee of inquiry , it would boimport-Londonand
coast . Sunijerland . —A crowded mooting was hold in this town on Tuesday night , tho Mayor presiding . The burden of tho wholo of tho speeches wns manhood suffrage , as forming the only really satisfactory basis of a now JUoform Bill . Mr . Cowon and Mr . Rood attended ns a deputation from tho Northern Reform Union . Tho resolutions , wl \ ich included the adoption of a petition , were unanimously carried . Mn . Dickons and tiik Glasgow Students . —Wo CQhwgow Morning Journal ) Uavo soon a latter from Mr . CharivB Dickons , in which ho repudiates strongly his nomination to tlio Lord Kootprsliip , and says that the movement of a suction of tho students was not only without his sanction , but wna expressly opposed by him . A Stxkf Nkok—ov Land- — By advices from tho Lqvnnt wo loam that " the scheme of M . Ferdinand do
niit that it should sit in Scotland , anit not in , that it sh « uld have power to suggest improvements in the net . They afterwards referred to tho pormissive bill , nmi tho canva ' ss with rufurenco to it which had jubt taken place , tho result being extremely favourable to the measure . Mr . Dunlop approved of the auggcirttonfl mado as to tho Mackenzie Act , i » nd exprossud bis augpriso that such an immense majority had «*« " f «« nU in ( Jroonack favoimiblo to tho purmwulvo bill . Ho did not am . rToof < n ab-oluto Malao law , but 10 had a great ! Sg toward" tho penni-slvo bill , whioli placed the matter in tho hands of tho people .
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NO . 458 , ] sroVEMBER 27 , 1858 . ] ' tfll : L ., BADEB , 1283
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 27, 1858, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_27111858/page/11/
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