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No.. 501. Oct. 29, 1859^ THE LEADEE, ^ 1...
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the existing copper coinage ; and in Man...
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THE CONSTITUTIONJSTEL ON NAPOLEON'S POLI...
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THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE SULTAN Advice...
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New Yoek News.—A duel in California betw...
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CHINA. Despatches from Hong-Kong to the ...
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FOREIGN INCIDENTS.
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Jack Ashore.-*—The Malta correspondent o...
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No.. 501. Oct. 29, 1859^ The Leadee, ^ 1...
No .. 501 . Oct . 29 , 1859 ^ THE LEADEE , ^ 11 9 5
The Existing Copper Coinage ; And In Man...
the existing copper coinage ; and in Manchester have been constructed the engines to drive the stamping presses to be used , and also the boilers needed for that purpose . . The engines and boiler ? have been made by Messrs . B . Ormerod apd Son , ot Hulme . The latter have already been forwarded to their destination , the works of Messrs . R . Heaton and Sons , of Birmingham , wlio have executed all the copper coins struck for this country for many years , and who also successfully competed for the
execution of the French currency issued by Napoleon III . The metal to be used for the new coinage ¦\ yill be very much harder than copper * and as in striking coins from the latter metal the resistance will sometimes check , and even stop , the machinery , there have been special appliances added to these engines , which , by means of levers , will enable wheels to be slipped and the engines in effect thrown out of gear , while other . levers will enable the working arrangement to be gradually and easily restored .
Northern Reform Union . —This body , acting on the suggestion of Lord Brougham at the late Social Science Conference at Bradford , have appointed a Vigilance Committee -, to watch the proceedings of the coming municipal elections , and have pledged themselves to prosecute , under Mr . Cross ' s recent Act , all persons found indulging in corrupt practices . The Gloucester and Wakefield Commissions . — The Gloucester iricf . uiry has been resumed on Saturday , after a week ' s adjournment . A number of witnesses testified to the corrupt transactions in which they had been en gaged , making merchandise of their votes . Mr . Julius Bernard , who acted as the " friend " of Sir R . Carden , was under examination a
long time , giving a good number of hesitating and unsatisfactory replies . At the Wakefield inquiry on Saturday Mr . Charlesworth was reealled , and asked who the " Man in the Moon" , about whom they had heard so much . The short reply was , " I do not know , nor do I know who sent him here . " Other questions respecting the absence of important witnesses were answered in much the same way , although Mr . Charlesworth declared his wish that they should make their appearance . The Wakefield Election Commission has now taken all the evidence that it can get , and when it next comes together the meeting will be in London . It was impossible to obtain the attendance of witnesses connected with the bribery on the Conservative side . The Gloucester Election Commission may also be said to have concluded its evidence .
"General" Meaguer.—Now York, Papers Say ...
" General" Meaguer . —Now York , papers say that Thomas Francis Meagher , the ex-Irish rebel , sailed in the last steamer for Costa Rica , for the purpose , it is said , of commanding " a wing of Walker ' s army . " As Walker is , however , daily expected back in custody , it is feared that the gentleman ' s military career , if he ever enters upon it , will Ibe short and inglorious . Alleged Letter of the Erencii EairEitoit . — A letter , signed " Louis Napoleon Bonaparte , " has been reproduced , and attributed to the present ruler of France as having been written by him to
Pope Gregory XVX , when a young man , and in the year 1831 , at the time when the Prince was in Romftgiia , endeavouring to do something for the intlependence of liberty . This epistle makes the Pope acquainted with the circumstance , that if he would abandon temporal power he would become , adorable Such an epistle was likely , when published in , our day , to produce the most lively remarks throughout the civilised world , but the JSfoniteur is now instructed to say that this letter was not Avritten by the Emperor , but by tho brother of his Majesty , who died in 1831 . That brother was Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte .
New Theory of , Cholera . —A supposed discovery in physiological science is making a sensation in Germany at presont . Doctor Martin Konigsborger has occupied himself , during his fiveand-thirty years' residence in the East , in tho almost exclusive study of that frightful diseaso , c holera , and has arrived at tho conviction that it is occasioned by tho absorption of atmospheric animalculoo invisible to . the naked eye , and inhaled into the lungs , whence they distribute themselves throughout the whole system , corrupting tho blood and poisoning the fountains of life . Dr . Martin
KJonigsbergor accordingly combats the enemy with quaetia , known to bo fatal to insect life , and administers the remedy under tho form of vaccination , which arrests on tho hietant tho decomposition of the blood , and tho patient is cured as if by a , miraolc . It appears that during tho raging of tho disease at Meoklenburgh , the doctor exerted his powers with the most brilliant success . Tho account of hie labours at Hamburg 1 has not yet reached Paris » but oar great medical celebrities appear for once to admit that there may be other medical systems on tho face of the earth as worthy of attention as their own ,
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The Constitutionjstel On Napoleon's Poli...
THE CONSTITUTIONJSTEL ON NAPOLEON ' POLICY . / On Tuesday the Constitutionnel , in an article signed by its principal editor , M . Grandguillot , in reply to the assertions of the English press , that the policy of the Emperor of the French left a state of political incertitude in Europe , endeavoured to state the aim proposed by the Emperor at the beginning of the war , and compared it with the advantages gained by the war , and accuses the English journals of inconsistency . The absurdity of the Grandguillot article is so palpable , that notwithstanding the high authority under cover of which it may be supposed to appear , even the French papers venture to speak of it in
terms of contempt . The Presse , without denying that the thesis is one very good to argue , thinks that the Constitutionnel supports it but feebly . . In . . the same paper M . Peyrat protests against the attacks upon England now to be carried on in certain journals of Paris and the departments with a " significant simultaneity which has been much remarked in Europe , " and he thinks the English papers quite justified in the remarks they have made on finding that the treaty of Zurich was but a confirmation of that " immense disappointment , " the preliminaries of Villafranca . The Opinion Nationale ironically answers M . Grandguillot by echoing one of his own phrases— "To state the facts is to reply . "
THE EMPEROB AND CENTRAL ITALY . From Florence one of the ablest correspondents of our contemporaries writes : — " I am not able to give you the actual words used by the Sovereign of France , but it is certain that the deputations left his presence with great satisfaction . To the Parmese he intimated that there were no serious obstacles against their annexation to Sardinia . His language to the Modenese was held by them to signify that the return of the Duke had become impossible . As for the Tuscans , with whom he conversed for a considerable time ; he repeated to them several times that they would best consult their interests by taking the young Ferdinand the Fourth of Lor-, raine for their prince , who would return to grant them a complete amnesty , and truly liberal
institutions . But he ( Napoleon ) did not wish to extort their compliance , and they would remain the arbiters of their own destinies . He further led the Tuscans to understand that there would be no armed intervention on the part of any power , whether foreign or peninsular ; that he was greatly pleased at the order and tranquillity the Tuscans had maintained , and he begged them to persevere in that course , inasmuch as it was that by irhich they might hest attain their object . From all this it is concluded that the Emperor has not exactly declared himself in an express and direct manner respecting the annexation , but that he has assured it by implication to Parma and . Modena at least , though not to Tuscany . Even to the last he has not uttered any formal disapproval or prohibition .
SPAIN , FRANCE AND . MOROCCO . The latest accounts seem to do away with all hope of an arrangement of the quarrel between Spain and Morocco ; while there is little doubt that there is an understanding between Franco and Spain upon the subject , A despatchfrom Madrid , of the 25 th , says : — " The rumours which have been current concerning a peaceful settlement with Morocco are without any foundation . Generals Zabala and Serrano , and other chiefs of tho army , tnke their departure this evening . General Olano will leave on Saturday . Tho Spanish Consul was still at Tangiers on tho 24 th hist . " A decree appointing Marshal O'Donnell to the command in chief of the
military forces is expected to appear in the official gazette immediately . Tho marshal will start at tho ondjof the week . Genoralenthusiasinprevails among the " people . The French expeditionary force to Morocco is £ o be augmented by two brigades , in the first of whicli are comprised tho 1 st and 3 rd regimenta of Zouaves , who have already arrived at Oran from Genoa . Tho second brigade will follow hard upon the first . 44 expeditionary corps d ' armee is ready to take the field . Letters received from colonists express the hope that complete justice will bo done for the murders committed on labourers as well as on children . Indemnity for depredation done is to bo claimed , and seourity for the French colonists is to be obtained by rectifying the lino of frontier . "
Tun Russian and Prussian Rclehs . —Tho Emperor of Russia and the Regent of Prussia met at Brealau on Sunday , Tho JSmporor of Austria , having exprossO his desired to be honoured by ft visit from tho Czar , tho latter declined , saying that his journey to Breslau was merely tho visit of a relation to the Prince of Prussia .
The Constitutionjstel On Napoleon's Poli...
Xhe Holt Father ; . - ^ - " His Holiness the Pope returned to Rome on Thursday week . A great crowd was assembled on his passage through , the city . " The Paris correspondent of the Independ ence of Brussels states that the Pope entertains the idea of reconstituting the order of Knights of Malta on a military footing . There would be a regiment called after each Catholic state , and composed of subjects of that state . The writer adds that though , the project is certainly entertained , there is little chance of its being realised .
The Conspiracy Against The Sultan Advice...
THE CONSPIRACY AGAINST THE SULTAN Advices have been received from Constantinople to the 19 th inst . Four chiefs of the late conspiracy have been condemned to death , viz .: Hussein Pacha , a Mufti , a colonel , and an individual who waste have killed the Sultan . These condemnations had provoked a fermentation among the populace , and direct threats of revenge had ^ mysteriously reached the palace of the Sultan . The executions have been delayed . The Sultan has written 3 letter to the Ministers reproaching them that the reforms have been incomplete . The Montenegrins have begun again to commit great atrocities against the Turks . The members of the Commission for the settlement of the Boundary Question escaped them quite by chance . A conspiracy has been discovered at Aleppo , and arrests have taken place there .
New Yoek News.—A Duel In California Betw...
New Yoek News . —A duel in California between Mr . Broderick , United States senator for Californke , and Chief Justice Terr ? , resulted in the death of the former . Another fatal duel had occurred m California between Dr . Peterson Goodwyn an d ColoneJ . William Jeff Gatewood , and resulted m the death , ot the doctor . According to the New York Herald , " the Americans were preparing for a permanent occupation o £ the island of San Juan . "
China. Despatches From Hong-Kong To The ...
CHINA . Despatches from Hong-Kong to the 12 th September announce that < the American ambassador had returned from Pekin , without having obtained the ratification of the treaty at that city . The ratinqation had taken place by commissioners at Pehtangv The steamer Thebes , which had been hired by the French , was wrecked on tlie passage between Hong-Kong and . Turin .
Foreign Incidents.
FOREIGN INCIDENTS .
Jack Ashore.-*—The Malta Correspondent O...
Jack Ashore .- *—The Malta correspondent of a . contemporary has the following amusing description of the freaks of British sailors on that station : — - The seamen of the fleet now In Malta , consisting of six screw line-of-battle ships and a proportionate number of smaller vessels , have had a good long cruise on shore , and to all appearance have been , enioying themselves . They landed well stocked with money . The great effort of the sailors appear to be tp create a sensation , and to have a crowd cazinn at them . They are to bo seen in all dirocif it
tions , in all sorts of grotesque costumes as was carnival time—many in " long togs . " Many have been driving about in the very best carriages that could be hired , driving to the garden of the Cafe de la Reine , having ice creams and wafers sent to their carriage , making the waiter take one himself and pelting him with the change , and then driving off , fanning themselves in the most I « ck ««' ' fllc , J ™ £ At tho Opera it was their noting not that of the performers , that tho audience had to a tend to . Most had some extraordinary pots-young pigs with snectaclos on , littlo . dogs dressed up , rabbits ,. daw
monkeys , & c . j these occasionally osenpou , ano very uncoromoniously gavg chase ' d ^ WJ * *^ most extraordinary iminnoJf In what appeared to Jo impossible places . Pigeons , fowls , ™ d cats that dk ^ s ^^^^ iiffl jrr ^« t ? SStod th ! wsslblllty of attending to the music . Italian wi
The sailors do not understand , nor aro « y rosWnod by any false modesty in letting that fact bo SSwn . Tlio demand for an English song was loud and vociferous . An old Italian gentleman in tho Si took some trouble to . translate ono of the . songs oVit was sung . To show the sailor ' s gratitude , half-Kdow " bottles of rum wore passed to It m to dnn * from The old gentleman at last made his escape from hla friend * irno as ho loft pressedupon him a bottloofrumfor his old woman at home . -These anLna n . ra nleasinffly varied in the theatre wltft
battles between tho Bailors and thoir natural toes , police , who have a long and standing hatredI to each other . Tho ceremony before the Maltese magistrate is very short ; neither party understand *
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 29, 1859, page 7, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_29101859/page/7/
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