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July 29, 1854.] THE LEADER. 703
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CANADA. The elections for the new Parlia...
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SPAIN. The Revolution in Spain halts. As...
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EGYPT. A'new Viceroy reig-ns in Egypt; A...
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CHINA, THE INVOLUTION. The Overland Frie...
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CHOiERA. The-Cholera is everywhere. We h...
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CnouiiRA. in Pauls.—The hospital roports...
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Australia. Tiuu Citikona In Sydney Heard...
the colony was prepared to aid the mother country in defending the great principles at stake . Before the meeting separated hearty rounds of cheering were given for the Queen , the Emperor of France , and the Sultan , and a corresponding i * um"ber of groans for the Czar . Dr . Lang attempted to turn the current of -the meeting by taking the refuge point of view , and appealing in favour of Poland ami Hungary . But he was put down . The commercial markets throughout the colony . are over stocked , but prices have not yet ran down . Sydney was in great dread of Russian men-of-war in those seas . The Governor-General had calmed their fears by assuring the colony that he had the best information , and there was no ground for alarm . An admirahle letter from Sydney , in the Daily TSews , says : — " Many colonists are about to procceJ to England , in consequence of which the passenger fares are greatly increased . I hear that , such is tha demand for berths , it is difficult to obtain one eitlicr in a sailing vessel or steanier . The cause of the movement homeward is attributed in a great measure to the present exorbitant price of house-rent and provisions , which , within only twelve months has been nearly doubled . Four or five years ago , an income of 200 / . to 4 . QVL a year -was deemed an independence . " The same excellent correspondent says : — " We have space and occupation sufficient for the immediate employ ot 20 , 000 labourers from Europe , and as mmiy more for an indefinite number of years to come . There peed not be an able-bodied pauper , from ten years old . and . upwards , in any poorhouso li ) England . Sued , them here—we want them , and they may all do well . '
July 29, 1854.] The Leader. 703
July 29 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 703
Canada. The Elections For The New Parlia...
CANADA . The elections for the new Parliament are in progress . A Toronto paper says : — " A new feature in Canadian politics is likely to be introduced , Viscount Bury , eldest son of the Eurl of Albercuirle , is anxious to represent a Canadian constituency . We are glad of it . There is the grossest ignorance of the wants and advantages of Canada in the British Houses of Parliament . " Mr . Francis Hindi ' s address to his old constituency is characteristic of him ; full of negatives . His conclusion indicates how much political activity we are to expect ia Canada : — " 1 have only to state iu conclusion that while- I regret that the flections will take place at an inconvenient season , and that it lias not been in the power of the Administration to bring the new franchise into operation , or to give effect to the treaty for reciprocal free trade with the United States , to reduce the tariff , I feel assured that the responbibiii 3 ' for the failure of those measures will be tlirown on those on whom alone it should devolve , viz ., the majority by wliose votes the Government was placed in such a situation urn to be compelled either to resign or to recommend a dissolution . "
Spain. The Revolution In Spain Halts. As...
SPAIN . The Revolution in Spain halts . As we predicted from the first , lispartoro has become the master of the situation . The last telegraphic news ( from Bayonne ) is dated the 23 rd , and it is to the effect that all is in suspense in Madrid—waiting for the Duke of Victory . A letter of the : 22 nd , Madrid , says : — ' I have seen a person who has just arrived from Guudaliijara . Between Alcaln . sind ( Juadalajara , he says , the road was lined with people from the surrounding country , wn . iting , notwithstanding the tremendous heat of the sun , tor the passage of Espartero . There is little doubt of his arriving to-night , but the- hour is uncertain . The people will expect him any time after 4 , but I should not wonder if it voro some , hours later beforo lie arrives . As to the enthusiasm here I shall not attempt to describe it , because , you would suspect me of exaggeration . " There ¦ was lighting in the capital up to the 20 th—that ia for three days barricades growing hourly in strength and number ; and the Queen ' s wretched and not very loyal troops everywhere having to givo way . At one time the Junta ( citizens ) , which had been formed , and which had been in communication with the C ^ iieen , was disposed to lay down their arms , on her facile promises ; but caution prevailed—and tlioy hold the city until Espnrtcro arrives . O'Donnell ia no doubt with him . llu was to have left Saragossa 011 the 20 th . The personal incidents of tho revolution are numerous . Queen Isabel seems to have behaved with great coolness throughout , Tho blunder iu attempting to stop diaatluction with the rival ministry ¦ wa s a great one ; but , probably , she wiib not responsible for it ; and there is nothing to show that she " \ vaa not as eager as the nation to put att'tiirs into tho hands of Kspartero . Queen Christina would havo lost her life had sho l ) cen token by tho people ; n , nd it ia doubtful where slue is—whether escaped into Trance , or to Portugal , or lying hid in her ( luughtei- ' s palace , wliich tho insurgents expected . As wo BtJiLcd last week , her own palace was pillaged , us wils ulao Sulamunc « , '« and tiarlonu ' a houses . "A portion answer ing tho description «» r Ll » e former , l > ut wajh hit ) whiskers Hhuveu off , left tho Pulaco iu u cuvriago with Huyeral uttondunts , and m > l into a postohuiao which waited for lain at u fuw inllcttironi the town on tho row ! to
France . A friend of mine , a former officer of the lioyal Guards , whom I met to-d . iy with a nraaket in his hand at one of the barricades , informed me tlmt this morning a person bad escaped disguised as a lamplighter in a -white jacket and trousers , and with the gas company ' s brass badge on his cap . He was tall , stout , and beardless , and quite corresponds in appearance , as far as I could learn , ¦ w ith the celebrated Salamanca . 1 suspect that the higher classes of persons engaged in the revolution are rather inclined to favour the escape of men who , if they fell into the hands of the people , would assuredly be hung , shot , or torn to pieces . " A singular change has taken place in the fortunes of the Colonel Gerrigo who , taken at the first outbreak , was sentenced to death . We now hear of him as the leader of the insurgents , haranguing and fighting at every street . The mob , of course , liberated him . Espartero ' sproclamation to Saragossa significantly makes no mention of the Queen . The cry throughout Spain is the " Constitution of 1837 , and Morality ;" will Espartero make conditions with his Queen that she shall be good for the future ? There are , of course , rumoura of Carlist risings and Montemolin's hopes . But they are not authenticated ; and no movement seems to have been made in Madrid towards the dethronement of Isabella . General San Miguel is the chief in command at Madrid . . Louis Napoleon is reported to have decided to have an army encamped at Bayonne , to watch Spanish politics .
Egypt. A'New Viceroy Reig-Ns In Egypt; A...
EGYPT . A ' new Viceroy reig-ns in Egypt ; Abbas Pacha is dead : Said Pacha succeeds . Of the deceased the Daily News says : — "Egypt experienced very hard usage at the hands 6 f its now deceased ruler . He fulfilled the most . unfavourable rumours tbat were afloat in bis grandfather ' s time as to the fate of lu ' s people and their commerce under his rule . Amidst the extreme difficulty experienced by everybody , from the late Pacha hiinself to the passing traveller , of ascertaining the real condition of Egypt , a few facts stand out indubitable . We fear , al & o , that there is no doul > t that . where Abbas Pacha ' s eye rested , and where his hanl was laid , the decline has been * most obvious , as it is , of course , most recent . There are memorials of his methods , lwwever , which a . re not very recent , and which show whiit became of production under his care . That he would give security of life aud property to his people nobody anticipated . It was more than could be expected in Egypt from any but ; t very extraordinary ninn . There were nut many who supposed be would pay more respect , to internal improvements tliau decorum to the memory of his grandfather and uncle-required . But that he would foster tho European alliances , which had done so much for the country , and countenance tlic foreign trade of his ports , and adhere to his convention of free trade , was confidently expected . At first it appeared as if he meant to clo so ; and his intercom si'S \ C \\ h the English and French consuls-general—friendly and agreeable men tiothwere frequent and familiar . It soon appeared , however , that this was merely in pursuit of pleasure . He liked exchanges of handsome presents With iordgn potentates . He liked ' helping Mr . Murray to tend us the hippopotamus ; he liked offering challenges lor races on the sands under the Pyramids : lie liked to buy English bull-dugs of great price and greater ugliness ; and lie liked ordering and obtaining the most splendid of yachts from an JhigUsh shipbuilder ' s yard . 13 ut he could never be got to atleud to businus . s . He was fitful in his moods ; apt . to shut himself up when an audience-was extremely wanted : apt to runoff , 11 nil forbid anybody to follow him , when sti \ une * s were entering tho port , witli despatches requiring instant ami earnest intention . Of all difficult jd . ices to follow a man to on business , perhaps Mount Sinai is the most so : suid to Mount Sinai , therefore , whs the Pacha most fond of £ i > ing—having a vill . i there , and trying to bo nSardiutapalus 111 a small secondary , vulgar kind of way . His grand occeutricity seemed to be his hatred of Alexundriu . Alexandria in the Cinderella of his family of cities ; and there is no other so enlightened , or , though not very bouutiful , so worthy of hia favour . But ho could not bear trouble , uiul therefore he could not hear trade : and therefore he could not bear Alexandria , He stripped the people—now by puicliuse , nominal or real , and now by coutiscatiun ; aud all tho corn was in his own granaries , that ho could intercept on its way to tho merchants' stores . What tho merchants { jot hold of lust year ho forbade them to sell ; and up to the Lime of his death ho was commissioning hits own oiliciala to buy up tlio total produce or ' iigy pi lor hiinsolf aloue . Ho would not allow any European trader any chance against him . Tins acts of a ruler liko this touch us—not only our merchants ut Alexandria , but our working classes at home . Wo may lwvo no business to mcddlo with an Egyptian Pacha ' s exclusive relations with his own people ; but when Abbas Puchsicaino into tho market in royal atnte , to override coimuorco and treaties with his royal equipage ; when he stepped in between the producers , merchants , and consumers , to break oil' their tnuiHucUoiirt , it became tin 10 to- inquire , in all diplomatic moderation , what he mount , and to inquire also whether he , would bu \ U : or <> y or corii-iloalcr—Una being nu agu of tho world when no mtui can l >« allowed to use tho prerogative- of tho one funoUou to gruup tho pro Ilia of tho other in very toetii of u i ' reo-trade uouvuntioii . lint death haa Mopped him in mid career , and hna uo protected our Egyptian commerce , and ttnvod u . i from tho freuka of » now kind of Mvrulmnt Princu . May his aiioccaaor be a wi .-iw and a bettor man . " Of this auceesaor the tiiUcle snya : — " On twit quo la loi Miisulmune uppi'llo uu irGue c plus ugu des inemurcs do la i ' mnillo HouYumiuo . Cost eutto lol
qua a caose la mort do presque tous les fiferes ct oncles des Sultans de Constantinople , des que ceuxci ont eu des fils capables da leur suceeder . Une politique si barbare devait etre abande . nne ' e par le Sultan aetuel , Abdul-Medjid-Kliaru 11 a respects la vie et meme la liberty de son frere , Abdul-Osys , qui est appele h . lui succeder . " Said- Pacha , aujourd'hui vice-roi d'Egypte , est age" de 3 G ans ; il est fils de MeTlieTinet-Ali ct quatrieme frere du celebre Ibrahim-Pacha , vjinqucur h Koniah et a Nezib . En 1840 , Said , alors amiral d'Egypte , se faisait remarejuer par unepnSfeYence passiomi ^ e pour la France . Son avenement , quoique les circonstances soient bien differences et qu ' il n ' existe plus entre la France et l'Angleterre de rivalite " hostile , doit , etre considere" comnae favorable a- linfiueace Francaiso en Egypte . " The eldest son of the late viceroy , who was to have been married to a daughter of the Sultan , was at Malta when news arrived of his father's death . He has hurried back to Alexandria . Will the marriage now takie place ?
China, The Involution. The Overland Frie...
CHINA , THE INVOLUTION . The Overland Friend of China of June 6 , sums up the China news transmitted by the last mail . " From private sources ( says the Friend ) and on what we deem reliable authority , we learn that the insurgent army now consists of three main -divisions , irrespectively of the central body in occupation of Nanking and Chinkeang-foo . A mere glance at the wide field of operations over which their movements extend , will suffice to show that , notwithstanding a check in the vicinity of the northern capital , the insurgent arms never were , on the whole , more victorious and powerful . " This is very vague : but it is news , and the onljr news .
Choiera. The-Cholera Is Everywhere. We H...
CHOiERA . The-Cholera is everywhere . We hear of it in New York , in the West Indies , in Paris , Marseilles , Constantinople , "Varna , aad along the Dardanelles , Sebastopol , and Berlin . " In England alarm is rising . In Xiond on two or tlrree startlingly rapid cases have occurred . But the Registrar General ' s return as to the general health ! in London is not unsatisfactory ; and at Liverpool the Health officer has quelled a growing- panic by the publication of a report which speaks of that great and thickly-populated place as unusually healthy . But from other places in these islands the accounts are serious . At Fulmouth the barque Lima , of London , nine days for Hobart Town , has put in with six cases of cholera on board . The Bdjast Banner , of "Wednesday , states that 24 cases of cholera liave occurred since that day week , and that the disease lias assumed a very aggravated character , and has proved unusually fatal . It has bsen very fatal in a colliery village named Trimdon , situated between the Ferry-hill station of the York and Horwiek Kailway and llartlepool . It broke out very suddenly on Saturday fortnight , and since then 14 deaths have taken place . Between 40 and 50 persons have been attacked with the disease in a bad form since its outbreak . Some of the deaths have leen awfully sudden , and without those premonitory symptoms that have previously marked the early stages of this terrible disease . Two fatal cases of cholera occurred towards the cud ot last week in this city . 0110 of them a gentleman who had just returned from an infected district in tho west , and tho other his son , t \ child of three or four years of ago . —Edinburgh Couvant . There are brief warnings of a similar character , from places in almost every county in England . In Jjtroud cholera lms broken out , mid from a singular cause , Twelve persons dined off a putrid hare and cholera supervened , —infection spreading . Hero is a description of one choleraic spot in Stroud ;—" The cottage in which deceased lived was one of four adjoining without any buck place whatever , and in every one of which persons were ill ; all refuse matter liucl to bo carried out at tho front into Urn street , and at the present timo tho threo most dangerous cases are in a room not nine f ' eot square ; aomo of tho cxcromcnlitious matter is thrown near to the public road , a wall only Boi > ariitin < j ; it from the foot-path , aad tho rest into what is called a privy . "
Cnouiira. In Pauls.—The Hospital Roports...
CnouiiRA . in Pauls . —The hospital roports from July 0 to July 12 inclusive , givo 202 cases received , 101 discharged , and 102 deaths , lk'twuen tho 18 th nndlUth inclusive tlioro wore 01 admissions and 3 ti deaths * . TI 111 tol . nl from the commencement gives 1310 : 2 lulnriaaionti , U 13 JL recoveries , 1626 deaths , and 5 J « 3 romjuniiigunder treatnmnl . —Moatcal limes and Clttsetto . Ouoi-miA in Dauhadokh . — -By « i > iu' » Ui letter just _ received from Bnrlwdoui } , d . Mted Juno tfii , wo lourn , that amco May 11 to tho ditto of tho loiter , thoro Inwl been 4560 ca & on of cholera in the i . slainl , of whom 241-1 lisid died , lhxa Is from tho police returns ; but tho hiHuootor believed that there lutd been double tlmt number , they h « d » ut been abl « to collect tlio information , Imlf tho pohuo JUkig Itnving boen swept oil by tho ili . io . jou , In ono purieh , out of ai cuaoa , 80 diod . Nino- tent Iih of tlio cnao . t uro of nogroou . Tho dettUUa umouj ; tliu Kiij ; llali uuldiora Luvo already ituiouuLud to 420 . — Medicul Vimos and GumU * .
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Leader (1850-1860), July 29, 1854, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29071854/page/7/
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