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508 THE LEADER. [No. 427, May 29, 1858.
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STATE OF TKADE. The disturbed state of t...
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IllELANJ). The Mimnicn ov Mb, Ei.us.—One...
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AMERICA. Somb prospect of a rupture betw...
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CONTINENTAL NOTES. That narrow and imchr...
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Acc1oicnts And Sudden Deaths. Mk. Gkoucs...
up for lost . They had their lamps with them ; but in about an hour they burnt out for want of oil , and the prisoners were left in total darkness . The sound of the labourers working : for their release appeared at times very near , but at other times several fathoms distant . The men slept at intervals with the lad lying between them , to keep him warm , and he , poor fellow , would talk of his mother , and say how happy she would be to see him come up . One of the engines was kept constantly working , to prevent the flooding of the pit . On the labourers getting near enough , a . medical gentleman who was present handed in to the prisoners a piece of cake and a quantity of diluted brandy-and-water ; but the poor boy vas greatly surprised at the size of the cake , and asked if that was all for the three . When at length rescued , all were in a very exhausted state ; but they are recovering .
A young gentleman , named Bayley , son of Mr . W . R . Bayley , of Cotford House , near . Sidind . uth , was found dead in bis bedroom on Tuesday morning , while on a visit "to his brother , an undergraduate of Oriel College . He had apparently fallen out of bed ; but the death is attributable to apoplexy . The coroner ' s jury' has returned a verdict to that effect . Two goods trains going at a moderate speed came into collision on Wednesday evening on the Manchester and Sheffield Railway , between Kiveton Park and " Woodhouse , causing damage to the amount of about 100 ? . The down-line was blocked up in consequence ,
and , to ensure the safety of passenger traffic , all the stations to the east and west were warned by telegraph of the occurrence . The guard of the express train from King ' s-cross to Manchester , leaving London at five p . m ., accordingly received the information at Newark , nearly forty miles from the spot . This train was therefore stopped at Kiveton Park , transferred to the up-line , and piloted as far as Woodhouse , the detention being only about ten minutes . All the trains were dealt with in the same way , the road between these two stations being thus worked as a single line until the obstruction was removed-
508 The Leader. [No. 427, May 29, 1858.
508 THE LEADER . [ No . 427 , May 29 , 1858 .
State Of Tkade. The Disturbed State Of T...
STATE OF TKADE . The disturbed state of the political world during the week ending last Saturday had a bad effect on business ; and . the improvement ¦ which has recently been noted has not been generally sustained . Dulness is again complained of at Manchester , Nottingham , Leeds , IIuddersfield , and Dublin ; but , at other localities , the signs are more hopeful . The reports from the iron districts of South Staffordshire continue favourable ; but inactivity is still prevalent in some of the districts , in consequence of which several thousand men are either destitute or only partially employed . The inhabitants of
Birmingham are looking forward , with great pleasure to her Majesty ' s approaching visit to their town , which is fixed to take place on the 15 th of next month , and which will of course give a great stimulus to trade . A little more haa been done in the hosiery trade of Leicester , and there is ratheT more activity in the wool market . Bradford is recovering from the late stagnation in all the branches of its trade , and animation has been felt in the business circles of Halifax and Sheffield . A shade of improvement is reported in the iron trade of the Wolverhampton district ; and the boot and shoe trade of Norwich has been increased by several large orders , especially from Australia .
In the general business of the Port of London during the week ending last Saturday , there has been considerable activity . The number of ships reported inward was 337 , including 78 with cargoes of corn , flour , rice , & c , 17 with sugar , and 3 from China , with 37 , 883 packages of tea and G 39 packages of silk . The number of vessels cleared outward was 149 , including 22 in ballast ; and those on the berth loading for the Australian colonies amount to 73 . The Board of Trade returns for the past month ( April ) wero issued on Wednesday morning . They aliow still a considerable falling off in the declared value of our exportations , but it is of much less extent than was presented during each of the tliree preceding months of the present year , the average on those occasions having been 1 , 772 , 401 / ., while the reduction now is
only 634 , 411 ? As compared with the same month of 1856 , there is an increase of 26 , 507 J . Owing to the Eastern demand , the shipments of cotton goods show an augmentation of 327 , 0671 The chief items on the unfavourable side are iron and steel , the orders for Americu and the colonies being still small . Silk and woollen goods likewise continue to show n decrease . On the whole , however , tho return must be considered to furnisli some signs of a tendency to revival in most departments of trade . With regard to imported commodities , the arrivals of wheat and flour have again been large ; but those of other kinds of grain ngnin show a great reduction . In all other articles of food and luxury , except tobacco and fruits , the quantities taken into use at length exhibit a falling off , but not moro than proportionate with the decline in our exports . —Times .
Illelanj). The Mimnicn Ov Mb, Ei.Us.—One...
IllELANJ ) . The Mimnicn ov Mb , Ei . us . —One of the informers , named llurlce , has boon arrested for porjury , and underwont an examination at tho head police-office , Dublin , on Friday week . It -was not stntod whether the perjury is
in connexion with his evidence against the Cormaeks , who died asseverating their innocence ; and he has since been discharged . The Limerick Elkction . —Mr . Ball having retired from the contest , Mr . Spaight was on Friday , week elected without further opposition . This Wuau'her . —Since the memorable storm , or typhoon rather , of April , 1850 , Dublin has not been visited by weather of such peculiar severity as was witnessed on Sunday . For nearlv four hours the rain
fell with but slight interruptions as though a waterspout had buist overhead , the intervals being filled up by the descent of hail showers , which from their density almost darkened the air . Some of the hailstones were the size of small marbles , and did considerable damage in the smashing of windows in places exposed to the full fury of the storm . The wind all the while blew wildly from the north-west , and it is feared that the fruitblossoms have suffered to a terrible extent . No thunder was heard during the day . — 71 / nes .
Mukdeu xs Tippkoary . —A farmer has been murdered in a field near Tipperary , and close to his own iiouse . The body presented evidences of a severe struggle , and the face was shockingly mangled . The police are looking after the murderer . . Mr . John O'Coxnell ,, the favourite son of " the Liberator , " has just died of bronchitis . By this event , the Clerkship of Hanaper , of the value of 800 / . per annum , is left at the disposal of Government . Trinity College , Dublin . —The visitation appointed to be lield in Trinity College to hear the appeal of Dr . Shaw and Dr . Carmichael , two of the fellows , who had been censured , or admonished , by the Board ,
for having -written a letter to a newspaper , was opened on Monday , by the Archbishop of Dublin and the Vice-Chancellor of Ireland : The letter in question was one addressed by Dr . Shaw to the Dublin Daily Express , on the 27 th March , last , with reference to some remarks . rnade by Mr . Stephens , in his letter to Sir George Grey upon the report of the Endowed School Commissioners issued on 1 st of February . Dr . Shaw observed that the suggestions of Mr . Stephens for the . improved administration of endowed scliools were applicable also to otlier educational institutions , and he ¦ went on to make some severe remarks on the college . The case , after spreading over two or three days , has been adjourned to next Tuesday . .
America. Somb Prospect Of A Rupture Betw...
AMERICA . Somb prospect of a rupture between the United States and Paraguay seems to be opened by the last advices from America . The Senate at Washington has adopted a joint resolution authorizing the President to take such measures and use such force as lie may deem necessary if the Government « f Paraguay decline to give just satisfaction for the attack on the United States steamer Waterwitcli and other matters . It has also received a report stating that the Judlciarv Committee cannot
agree upon the terms of a general bankruptcy law . The sudden death of Senator Evans , of South Carolina , was afterwards announced , and an adjournment immediately took place . The House of Representatives also adjourned for the same reason . It had previously , upon the question of engrossing the preamble of the resolution recommending the abrogation of the Clayton- ]} ulwei Treaty , rejected it by a majority of 32 . The bill admitting Minnesota into the Union has been carried by a large majority .
The Senate has confirmed James BI . Buchanan , of Maryland , as Minister Resident at Denmark , in place of Mr . JLSeclinger ; and Colonel S . R . Morgan as Minister Resident at Portugal , in place of John M . O'Sullivan . A frightful accident has occurred on the Central Railroad by the crushing of a bridge near Sanguoit Creek , three miles and a half west of Utica , near Wliiteaborough . Seven or eight persons wero killed and more than forty injured . The bridge was in a very rotten
state . The schooner Mobile , from Mobile , has reported at New York that the British man-of-war Styx had fired into her off Key West , and had sent a boat ' s crew on board . There has been considerable excitement at Havannsh , in consequence of the insults offered to , and tlio detention of , American vessels by English cruisers ; and some of tho American captains in port are said to have determined to resist any attempt to board nnd search them .
Iho expedition against the Mormons scorns to have come to a standstill . The troops were in good health at tho last accounts ; but provision * wore scarce , si good deal of ano-. v hnd fallen on tho mountains , the weather and roads wero unfavourable for advancing or for the arrival of reinforcem . jnt .- ; , and the Mormons Averts preparing to harass their enemies . A collision has occurred in the Little Oange country , ending in a aoklicr being killed and one of tho oflicora wounded . Tlio speedy downful of the Xulonga Government of Mexico is considered likely . Vidaurri'n force haa won « very liardly-fotight battle , and Xuloagu is reported to bo diatrcssod for want of money . Suiuei ! , ' tlKi constitutional President , has been warmly welcomed at Vern Cruz . Tuinnico , at the last advices , waa still besieged by General Gurza , with 1700 men , niul defended by about 600 troops , in better condition than Glurza ' s . Tho Freo-State Convention to nominate State officers , met at Toneka , Kansas , on tho 28 th instant . 11 . J .
Adams was nominated for Governor , Colonel Holr " day for lieutenant-Governor , and M . E . Conwav f Congress . * " tt " ,-1 ? 0 ? 6 c ° y »; Kentucky , a young man named Hardisty lias been tried and acquitted for having kiU ^ a man named Grubb , who had seduced his sister rj acquitting him , the Judge congratulated the prisons and stated that , had he been wronged in the same man ner , he would havu clone the same thing . The Stonesdale JJbiuucrat , published in Wayne countv Pennsylvania , chronicles the death of a revolutionary heroine , named Mrs . Sarah Benjamin , at the age Of one hundred and fourteen years five months and thre days . , . ' . ' "
In the Circuit Court , Sussex county , United States the victim of a rape , on presenting herself to give evi ' dence , was objected to on the ground that she was not sufficiently white to entitle her to such a privilege Two physicians and an expert were called upon to decide the question ; but the former were unable to come to a conclusion . The latter , however , decided that she was at . least one-fourth coloured , and the Court thereupon rejected her as an incompetent witness . The state of the weather has increased the duhiessof the New York money market . The condition of affairs in the new territory of Arizona is represented as deplorable . A ¦' memorial from the citizens of Santa Cruz Valley urgently prays Congrass for relief , and confirms the great value of the late silver discoveries in the interior of the territory . Armed men are being regularly drilled at York-tomi
. lexas , preparatory to an irruption into Northern Mexico . The overflow of the Mississippi still continues , and the cotton , sugar , and fruit crops are immensely damaged . Serious charges of fraud and embezzlement , have leen preferred against three of the directors of the Chicago , Alton , and St . Louis Railroad . One of the parties , named Henry ,-Dwight , has been arrested . Six warrants have been issued against him , in whichhe is charged with the fraudulent issue of coupons ani canal bonds , & c . The New York Herald says itis the most enormous and startling charge of fraud yet brought to light in America .
The American Tract Society—the richest of the religious associations—is engaged in a fierce internecine war . The Southern members wish the tracts to be so treated as to omit all reference to slavery ; the Northern men are determined to preach against the sin of buying and selling black men as much as they please . Similar splits have already occurred aniong " the Baptists , the Presbyterians , and the Methodists . An"incident related with great coolness in the New York Times shows the disorderly condition of what is virtually the capital of the United States . Richard Barry , " proprietor of the liquor saloon , No . 43 , PcarJstreet , and member of the Board of Education" had been
in company one evening with a girl belonging to " the houso of ¦ ill repute , No . 15 , Howard street ; " nnd , fancying that she had robbed him of twenty dollars , he at first endeavoured to recover the money from " Wolfe , the proprietor of the house , " by mild measures . " But , on finding these fail , he summoned to his aid " a gang of Sixth Ward rowdies , " who , at a Lite hour of the night , commenced a savage attack on Wolfe , whose bead was ultimately " pounded almost to a jelly , " while a great pool of blood covered the floor .. The " police were called in , and arrested Barry and one Patrick Burke , " the balance of party escaping . " The recovery of the victim is considered doubtful .
The yellow fever still rages very fearfully unions the shipping at Rio ; but it is on the " decrease . " Several of the merchant vessels there have been completely denuded of their officers nnd crews bv its violence .
Continental Notes. That Narrow And Imchr...
CONTINENTAL NOTES . That narrow and imchriatiau feelnu ; is Lo be condemned which regards with jealousv the . progress of foreign nations , and caves for no " portion of the hruTnan race "b ut that to which itself' belongs . Dk ' . Arnold . 1 'KANCH . Tins . editor of the Piyara has addressed a letter to the editor of tho Nord touching the late lamentable duel which resulted so seriously to M . de l'tsno , who was a writer in "both the papers . M . de Villeniessant , editor of the Figaro , had had an interview with tho Minister of J »* - tico ; nnd in the letter to tho JVord he wtiitea that lie < Vul
no * ask for tho interview to lodge a complaint wit " respect to the duel , " because magistrates in Franco are aware of the duties they have to fuliil without need of admonition . " Ho " nover for n moment , doubted that full justice wo uld bo rendered ; " but , having he aril that several gentlemen had " emulated ench other in oficr .- tn avenge their lost comrade , " nnd tlmt another duel was to take place between M . do Pommoreux . nnil M- tlu Gaillifot , lie thought it his duty to call on tin- Minister of Justice to assure him that ho would do owry thing m his power to provent further bloodshed . Ki »» l l 0 officers of the nriny , it appears , hnvc condemned the conduct of the homicidal duellist .
" An imposing spectacle , " says tlio JhtiUj News , was w llnoaaod last Saturday « t the office of tho Imhistrtel oi S < . ( iormain . Forty-two ofliccrd of the French « " marched to tlio ofiico , in full uniform , and presented to
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Leader (1850-1860), May 29, 1858, page 4, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29051858/page/4/
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