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iv^ THE LEADER. 665
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WAR INCIDENTS.
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Austbian Politeness.—A Daily News corres...
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PACTS AND SCRAPS,
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FACTS AND SCRAPS.
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France. Paris, Thursday, 6i P.M. T3ie Pe...
that they drove everything before them until they came to Montebello , and there they attacked the French for five consecutive hours . The French say that the Austrians are supposed to have lost 2 , 090 killed and wounded . Some include 200 prisoners , and others make them additional . The French killed and wounded have gradually grown up from 500 to 600 , 700 , and now 800 . If so , the Austrian proportion of loss is very small , for it must be kept m sight that they were the attacking forces , and successively drove the allies from Casteggio and Montebello , which they ( the Austrians ) held until they retired . _/ _ .
Iv^ The Leader. 665
iv ^ THE LEADER . 665
War Incidents.
WAR INCIDENTS .
Austbian Politeness.—A Daily News Corres...
Austbian Politeness . —A Daily News correspond dent writes that at Vercelli , the Chief of the Austrian commissariat actually stole a carriage and two horses belonging to Count Mela . The poor coachman who had driven him to Mortara thought it was his duty to remonstrate . He was threatened with the bastinado . The coachman then asked to have his cloak restored to him , and the answer was " Mantello star buono per mio domestico' ( the cloak will be useful for my servant ) . You would scarcely believe that the Austrian official had the impudence to write to Count Mela , thanking him for the carriage he had thus stolen .
Zouave Theatricals . — Our first evening , passed at Bolzanesto , was very gay . Spmeof our Zouaves were lodged in a barn which the inhabitants had converted into a theatre for a strolling company ; and there still remained a stage , a curtain , scenery , and footlights . Nothing was wanting but the actors ; but our men considered the opportunity too favourable not to give the inhabitants a specimen of their talents . Immediately splendid bills were stuck up in the village , announcing a performance for the benefit of thepoor : and the same was likewise made known by beat of drum in the village , accompanied to be
a lesson in the art of firing , and accordingly placed six small cannon in battery . These guns , firing at a distance of 2 , 600 meters , were discharged , five times , and of the palisades and fortifications constructed with so much labour by the enemy nothing but a . heap of ruins remained . Our rifled guns had fully proved their destructive power . With such arms the effect is produced ' with almost mathematical certainty . The next day the Emperor came from Alessandria to Valenza to judge of the effect of the new artillery by personal inspection ; He ^ the destruction of the previous evening in all its triumphant reality . " . Paris letter in
Fi-owEB Cobbespondence . —A ^ forms us that the correspondence ^ between the court and the camp is carried on with the greatest activity . A further service of twelve new couriers has been organised since Saturday , and messages and packets arrive and depart at all hours of the day . Every morning a bouquet of flowers is forwarded in the Emperor ' s name from Alphonse Karr ' s celebrated garden at Nice j and it is said that his Majesty orders by telegraph the colour of the flowers of which the bouquet is composed , which attention is fully understood and appreciated by the illustrious lady to whom it is addressed , and who alone can fully understand its import .
by the customary declaration that it was " by permission of the mayor . " In the evening the theatre was crowded , and the performances were Charmingly varied—namely , a vaudeville , a pantomime , a ballet , and singing . Fropi the manner in which the inhabitants of Bolzanesto applauded , they must have been delighted . For my own part , I laughed until tears fell from my eyes at the ballet , which was executed by a dozen Zouaves , who were attired like the dancing girls of the opera . In the course of the ballet was a gavotte andapas composed by the dancing master of the regiment , and the finale was so grotesque as to be impossible to
describe . " Piedmont an Austrian Province . —A printed document has been circulating in Paris . There is no suspicion of its being a forgery . It is a kind of passport given to some Sardinian subjects , and dated from Mortara , with these words at the head : — " Austrian Empire—Province of Sesia . " Chasseurs d'Afrique .:- —A letter from Genoa , describing the landing of troops , says : " These int
Chasseurs are mounted on light-limbed , elligentlooking Arabs , not altogether worthy representatives of the race which was matched against our best English blood , nor , it seems to me , in very good condition , but bright-eyed and quick , even as I saw them at their first landing . Tho officer , ready to receive his troop , had the moorings fixed and a plank bridge applied before she swung off , so that sixty men and horses had landed within three minutes afterwards . Each man led his own horse
over , talking to it or teasing it in a brotherly sort of way , and then as it trojtted up the incline jumped on , looking for a moment much like a sack of flour hanging across its back , jn his loose white undress jacket and trousers , his shoulders laden always with a carbine , generally with a sabre , sometimes with a . auspicious-looking gourd or great tin cooking pan . A moment more , and with a touoh Of the spur to settle himself in his seat , the bag of floiir sat upright and steady , whatever his little Arab friend might do to dislodge him . Such cruel spurs and curbs , by the way 1 and rather a wanton uae of thorn , for which our steep slippery streets have punished iuiwhuinkv
. more iii & n one tj * v vuvjmmm , , « u ««« rider bite the dust . " The N * aw FntfNou Artillery . —A correspondent of the ¦ Siccltt writes : — " The outposts of the enemy being on the left bank of the Po , opposite Valenza , I could plainly seo one of our rifled batteries give the soldiers of Francis Joseph a specimen of their skill . The Austrians had turned their fleldpieccs upon a mill , and fired hundreds of shot for about six hours with a very trilling effect . Our soldiers , who were watching the firing , and judged every shot as disinterested spectators , came to the conclusion that the onemy ' a outposts had vary indifferent artillery and wore but sorry gunners . When the Austriana had exhausted their ammunition in firing at this unfortunate mill—which is still standing—our men thought it high time to give them
Pacts And Scraps,
PACTS AND SCRAPS ,
Facts And Scraps.
up in-some fitting situation in the new assize courthouse at Reading . The Savannah Republican had & call a few days since from a subscriber living in South-western Georgia , who dropped in to pay in advance his fiftysixth year ' s subscription . Miss Burdett Coutfcs has consented to lay the first stone of the new Cancer Hospital , at Brompton on Monday next , at 4 o ' clock , on the grounds situ-, ate in the Fulham-road , aad the Bishop of London will preside .
A letter from Moreton Bay , Australia , says that emigrants are engaged eagerly as labourers , a few hours after landing ; single men at 30 ? . to 35 / ., and some at 401 . ; single -women from 20 Z . to 301 . ; the married people from 452 . to 65 Z . The rations are very liberal . A hut is given , and many Other advantages . . Some working men had from 4002 . to 700 J . saved . . The first meeting of the Apiarian Society was held on Monday evening , at the rooms of the Entomological Society , Bedford-row . The report stated that an experimental apiary had been established and placed under the care of the secretary at Muswell-hill , to which the public were admitted . Prizes are to be given to successful bee-keepers . A special meeting of the Birkenhead commission ers has been held , in order to consider . a report of a committee to whom a memorial upon the subject of a charter of incorporation had been referred . The report stated that the cost of the charter would be from 700 Z . to 800 * . ; but that by such charter the present limited taxation of 3 s . in the pound would be entirely removed . The report was adopted . A sale of shares in Drury-lane Theatre has been held this week . A renter ' s share of 5002 :, paying an annual dividend , With a free admission , transferable or saleable annually , held for an unexpired term of forty-six years , sold for 642 . Forty proprietor ' s shares , of 10 OI . each , with , the right to a free admission for life to every pe rformance , were sold in lots of five shares each , at from 182 . 10 s . to 232 . per lot . .
It is the intention of the Queen to honour Ascot races with her presence this year . Her Majesty will be accompanied by a distinguished circle of visitors , and a brilliant court . Her Royal Highness the Princess Frederick William will accompany her Majesty back to town , and will be present at the concert at Buckingham Palace on the 1 st of June . The deceased king of Naples has left a good deal of treasure behind him , some portion of which is securely stowed away in Dutch ducats in the vaults of some of the roy al palaces either at Caserto or elsewhere , while the far larger portion is invested in the English stocks and securities , and , if we be not mistaken , in Russian , Dani s h , and Dutch bonds ..
Lady Leigh was safely delivered of a son on Monday last at Stoneleigh Abbey . Her ladyship and the infant are going on favourably . . The Marquis and Marchioness of Normanby arrived in town on Friday morning from Munich and Florence , after a lengthened residence in the latter capital . The Moniteur states in its Faits divers that the Count de Mornv received a few days ago the news of the death of " Prince Serge Troubetskoi , father , of the countess his wife .
The Bishop of London has appointed the Rev F . Gell , B . D ., of Christ ' s College , Cambridge , and one of Her Majesty ' s preachers , at W hitehall , to be his Lordship ' s domestic chaplain , in the room of the Rev . E . Parry , M . A ., who has been preferred to the rectory of Acton . Count Eynard de Cavour , nephew and heir to the Minister , has just left his post as attach 6 to the Sardinian embassy in London , with a view to entering the army of his country . His elder brother was killed at the battle of Goito in 1848 . Le Sjwrt states that upwards of forty members of the Jockey Club are already at the seat of war , occupying different ranks from general of division down to private soldier . The names are given in order that there may be no doubt on the subject , Sir Moses Montefiore and his companions are shortly expected in England . When they were last heard of they were at Marseilles , oh their way back from Rome . They left Civita V cchiaon the 11 th . The non-electprs of Birmingham entertain Messrs . Scholeflold and Bright at a public dinner on Tuesday next . The invitation has been accepted by both gentlemen . The oiler made by the present Marquis ol Watqrford —presenting the Curraghmore foxhounds to the gentry of the county of Waterford who hunted
with his noble and lamented brother—will bo gratefully accepted , and immediate arrangements are-to be made to keep up the excellent puck in a state of efficiency and permanency . The Washington Republic say a that it ia reported to be a settled thing that Mr . James Gordon Bennett , the editor of the New York Herald , is to have tho French miaaion previous to the expiration of Mr . Buchanan ' s tern ] . At a meeting at Heading it was resolved that , as an acknowledgment of thehlgh estimation in which Mr . Palmer , M . P ., la hold by all parties , ho bo roqueated to permit his portrait to be taken , and hung
A French Imperial decree published in the Bulletin des Lois , orders the formation of two new regiments of infantry , which will bear the numbers 101 and 102 . The twenty-four companies to form these regiments will be taken , one from each of a certain number of otjiers . One regiment is to be formed at Besancon arid the other at Lyons . It is said to be the intention of the Government to send troops all round the coasts both of Great Britain and Ireland , to be placed under canvas during the summer , and in huts in the winter , till the present crisis is over .
About 2 , 000 coalwluppera of the port of London have turned out on strike for an advance of wages , from the sum of sixpence to ninepence per ton for their labour . The strike is the result of a meeting of the men at the Phoenix Taverii , Ratcliffe-cross , on Monday night last , where resolutions for the advancement of their interests were unanimously adopted . The greatest order prevailed . We are happy to hear that it is proposed to engage , during the summer months , the Royal Artillery and Marine Bands to play on Sundays in Greenwich-park . This will indeed be a boon to the residents of London when the hot weather sets in . " Jack Sheppard" was played during the last week at the victoria Theatre , and was announced
for future representation ; but a notice has been sent to the manager from thie Lord Chamberlain ' s office , interdicting the performance . A workman engaged on the roof of a very high house in the Rue Ste . Catherine , Bourdeaux , constructing a room for a pliotographer , lost hia balance and rolled down into tho street . The cart pf a washerwoman , filled with bundles of linen , happened to be passing at tho moment , and ho fell into it , sustaining no other injury than a sprained toot . At Turin Count Sforaa of Milan , aide-de-camp to General Fanti , being fa a weak etuto of health , the general had adviaed him to retire from tho service ; but the idea of retiring at such a niomont so much affeotod him , that ho throw himself from tho window , and was killed . It is believed that Baron IWio , and those of his companions in oxilo who have arrived in iurin , will take service in tho Piodmontoso army . Charles Thompson , and two other seamen , survivors from tho Pomonn , n-rrlved In Liverpool on tho 3 rd Thompson waa ao enfeebled in consequence of long immersion , that dlurrliooa and fever supervened , a ndho died on Tuesday in one of tho local hospitals . An English sailor astonished tho good people of Antwerp , the other day , by climbing tho steeple of tho oathedral , and spending' ten minutes seated astride on tho weathercock .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 28, 1859, page 9, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_28051859/page/9/
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