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      Miscellaneous. The New Lord Helper.—Tho ...

      other interpreters , were also in attendance , and none were allowed to pass in but the nobility and gentry . The reception was held at t he upper part of the hotel , where the Prineea reside . Oriental servants were stationed along the Btaircases to ahow the way to the receptionroom . The visitors passed by the apartments of the zemindars , jagheerdars , and other native gentlemen who have accompanied the royal family of Oude to this country . At half-past three , the reception took place , Major Bird acting as master of the ceremonies . On entering the reception-room , the two Princes of Oude were seen standing at the farther end , dressed in a magnificent costume . The heir-apparent had on a cloak of scarlet and gold . His head-dress consisted of a

      coronetedshaped cap of rather large size , the most prominent ornament of which was a string of large precious stones projecting from the cap . In his hand he held a scimitar sheathed in a magnificent scabbard . Soon after four o ' clock , about thirty ladies of Southampton were admitted into the presence of the ex-Queen . Mrs . Brandon , an English lady who long resided at Cawnpore , in Oude , and who accompanied the Queen to this country , acted as interpreter . When the visitors entered the apartment , the Queen was sitting on a sofa , attended by eight native ladies , one of whom held over her head a species of

      fan . Her Majesty was dressed in splendid shawls , but her head , neck , and one arm were uncovered . Her hair was cut rather short , and brushed back over the head a la Chinoise . She wore two massive ear-rings , but no other jewellery about her head . Her features bear a striking resemblance to her grandson ' s , the heir-apparent to the Oude throne . She is a stout , good-looking personage ; is not very dark , and appears younger than she really is . She has a pleasing voice , and from her features and manners would appear to possess a kind and affectionate disposition .

      A Sympathetic Bird . —Major Bird , the companion and interpreter of the ex-Queen and Princes of Oade , recently addressed the crowd outside the hotel where the visitors are staying , and expounded to them the wrongs ( as he conceives them to be ) of " the illustrious strangers . " He then put a case . " Suppose , " said the Major , " that the Emperor of the French were to deprive Queen Victoria of her throne to save Britons from misrule ; suppose a powerful lord deprived his neighbour of his house because it was mismanaged ; would the valiant burghers of Southampton submit to these things ?" There was a loud cry of "No ; " and the feeling of the auditory 6 eemed to be in favour of restitution of the Kingdom of Oude to the paternal sway of the deposed monarch .

      A vigilant Eunuch . —Two of the officers of the Indus ( the steamer in which the royal family of Oude came to this country ) had their cabins towards the fore part of the ship . Against the door of one of these cabins the chief eunuch one day erected his screen , and brought the ladies of the suite to enjoy themselves' away from their cabins . Suddenly the eunuch heard a slight noise in the officer ' s cabin ; he in an instant locked the door , the key being outside , and the officer was imprisoned for two hours . Had the door not been locked , the officer , on leaving the cabin , would have stepped into the centre of the harem . —Daily News .

      The Cuosskill Reaping Machine , — The prize reaping machine invented by Mr . Crosskill , which was tried a few weeks ago at Boxted Lodge , has been purchased by a Bedfordshire gentleman , and is now successfully working at his farm . It is so easily worked that the servants of the farm , who had never seen any such contrivance before , at once understood the proper way of guiding it . A trial took place on Friday week , when a largo number of the neighbouring gentry and farmers expressed their gratification at the results of the invention . The Panopticon . —Tho proprietors of the Panopticon in Leicester-square have obtained from the Vice-Chancellor Kindersloy an injunction to restrain the mortgagees of tho property from proceeding to a salo thereof by auction , which they had advertized to take place on tho 25 th inst . It appeared that tho mortgagees did not possess any right of sale—at any rate , not without certain previous notice , which had not been given .

      The lioYAL Visit to the West . —Her Majesty the Queen , hearing on her lato visit to Devonport that several hundred pounds woro still required for tho completion of the new church , in course of being built by the Rev . G . W . Proctor , for the families of sailors , marines , aoldicrs , and dockyard artificers and labourers , who ro-Bide in tho district of St . Stephen in that toAvn , has sunt 100 / . as a contribution to assist him to proceed with its erection .

      Use ok Strychnine . —Tho Lord-Advocate , owing to tho uso of this poison by gamekeepers for tho destruction of vermin , ban given instructions that it tthall be made known u « publicly as possible that nny ono placing strychnine or other poison within tho roach of the public , or using it without such precautions as aro needful to prevent injury , ^ viH be hold responsible for tho consequences , and that , if death or injury to health it ) tho result , tho party ofiending-willbc liable to bo prosecuted criminally . —Scotsman .

      A Mkiuwvai , Coffin and its Contknth . —During tho progress , on Tuesday week , of tho restorations at Christ Church Cathedral , Oxford , a sarcophagus or tstono coilin was discovered between tho second and third columnH on the north nido of tho choir , and almost , on n level with tho ground , forming , probubly , at one tinio , a

      part of the paving , « s the lid is richly sculptured witlna long cross , and other ornaments . On removing the lid , which appeared to be of the twelfth or thirteenth century , all that was found were remains perfectly decomposed , a portion of « shoe , retnnants of the ko * ial dress , and one bone- ^ but no skull ; in the coffin ^ svere also found a pewter chalice and patin , a fact which leads us to the belief that the remains were those of some abbot or prior who held some high position to entitle him to be interred in so important a part of the cathedral . This stone coffin , as well as the one which was discovered a few weeks ago in a corresponding position on the south

      side of the choir , has been allowed to remain in its original resting-place . The coffin is formed of a single block of stone , hollowed out to receive the body , with a ^ mall circular ca vity at one end to fit the head , and is wider at this end than at the other . There is nothing about it to denote whose remains were interred in it ; but the spot in which it was found , and the ornamental sculptured cross on the lid , imply that they are the relics of some distinguished ecclesiastic of a bygone age . The coffin is again covered over , but the lid has been preserved , with a view of tracing , by means of the sculptured work upon it , its antiquity and date . —Jackson ' s Oxford Journal . Convocation . — -The convocation of the prelates and clergy of the province of Canterbury was on Thursday prorogued , in the Jerusalem Chamber , Westminster , by the Vicar-General ( Dr . Twiss ) , under a commission from the Archbishop of Canterbury , to Wednesday , October the 8 th . Mazzini , —A letter from " A Traveller in Italy" appears in the Times of yesterday , the object of which is to deny that Mazzini is a Socialist , and to show that Socialism has made very little progress in Italy . " Mazzini , " says the writer , " has entered into controversy with many of the Socialist leaders ; he has taught and argued against Socialism in reiterated publications in Italian , French , and English , during more than ten years . Every theory and system he has ^ -anatomized , from the mildest and most reasonable to that which makes the State universal manufacturer and cultivator . " Failuke op the Newcastle Commercial Bank . — The Newcastle-on-Tyne Commercial Bank has closed , being unable to struggle with the embarrassments caused by the Sadleir frauds . The claims upon the bank ( says the Northern Express ) are inconsiderable in amount . As the assets flow in , the debts will be easily and promptly discharged . The figures we have been informed are as follows : —Liabilities , 25 , 000 / . ; assets ( including 51 , 000 / . Tipperary orders ) , 80 , 000 / . Suicides . —A young man , aged thirty , the son of Mr . Joseph Parrinton , of Thornton-heath , near Croydon , has shot himself in the drawing-room of his father ' s house . His mother heard the report of firearms , entered the room , and discovered the body of her son weltering in blood , and with his brains scattered on the floor . A single-barreled gun , recently discharged , was lying across his legs . To the trigger was fastened a string , to which a piece of stick about two feet long was attached . He had no doubt placed the muzzle of the gun in his mouth and discharged it with his foot . For about seventeen years he had been in delicate health , arising from his having injured his hip by falling through a trap-door , which produced lamenesB , and gave him great annoyance , as he fancied people looked at him . A verdict of " Temporary Insanity" was returned . —Shortly before one o ' clock on Sunday morning , a man went into a shop in Shoe-lane , Liverpool , snatched a carving-knife from the counter , rushed into Hanover-street , and before he could bo prevented , cut his throat . Death ensued instantaneously . —A man , named George Hawthorn Vincent , has drowned himself from sheer destitution . He was a coachtrimmer , and was above forty years of age . On Tuesday morning last about five o ' clock , ho got out of bed to make some cocoa for his wife , who had only been confined a few days . Ho was then in a very distressed state of mind , as there was no food in the house for tho children ( four in number ) , and he said he would go and try to get some money to buy bread . About five minutes afterwards , a man named Morgan called for a debt that was duo to him , and searched tho bedroom to and the poor coach-trimmer , but , not doing so , he said ho should imprison him when he caught him . Shortly afterwards , Vincent ' s son , n boy about seven j'cnrs old , found Ins father in tho water-butt , dead . A verdict of " Temporary Insanity" was returned by tho coroner ' s jury . Miss Niqhtinoalic . —Tho workmen in a largo manufactory in tho neighbourhood of Newcastlc-upou-Tyno sent an address to Mias Nightingale , a few days since , congratulating her upon her safe return to her homo and friends . Miss Nightingale has returned tho following reply : — " August 2 JJ . —My dear Friends , —I wish it woro in my power to tell you what was in my heart when I received your letter ; your welcome homo , your sympathy with what lm » boon passing while 1 liayo been absent , have touched mo more than 1 can tell in words . My dour friends , the things that , aro deepest in our hearts arc perhaps what it 1 h most riillicull to us to oxprcsH . ' She hath douu what nho could . ' Those ; words I inscribed on tho tomb of ono of my host , helper * , whom 1 left in tho gravoynrd at Scutari . It has boon my endoavour , in tho sight of God , to do as hIh ) has done . I will not apeak of reward , when permitted to do our country ' tt work . It ia what we livo for . Hut 1 may say that to receive sympathy from affectionate hearts like

      yours-is-the greatest -support , "the greatest gratification , that it is possible for me to receive from man . I thank you all the eighteen hundred , with grateful , tender affection ; and I should have written before to do so , were not the business , which my return has not ended , almost more than I can manage . —Pray believe me , my dear friends , Yours faithfully and gratefully , —^ Florence Nightingale . " The " Self-Swimmeb . "—M . Danduran , a French civil engineer , now in London , has invented an ingenious little apparatus under this designation , which he exhibited on the Serpentine on Wednesday , by means of which persons wholly unable to swim , including even women and children , > may Y * e protected from drowning under all ordinary circumstances . It simply consists of

      two round instruments , made of tin , zinc , or copper , enclosed at bothends ,-each about fifteen inches in length , of the diameter of an inch and a half at one extremity and four or five inches at the other , and constructed in a crescent shape , so as to accommodate themselves to the armpits , where they are intended to be used . They are covered over with any kind of light linen fabric , and fastened together with a few yards of strong ribbon hi such a manner that a person can put on the apparatus in a moment , as if it were a waistcoat , and with or -without his or her ordinary clothing . Its buoyant power is so great , that any one wearing it in the water cannot by any possibility sink , though wholly unused to swimming as an art ; and another essential characteristic of it is that it invariably , under all circumstances , maintains the head and shoulders above water . —Times .

      The Cotjrt . — The Queen and the Royal Family left Buckingham Palace on Thursday morning , at half-past seven o ' clock , for the King ' s-cross terminus of the Great Northern Railway , on the annual trip to the Highlands of Scotland . The train started at eight , and arrived at Edinburgh at about half-past six in the evening , having stopped at some of the intermediate stations , where her Majesty was cordially received . The Queen stayed at Edinburgh during the whole of yesterday ( Friday ) ; but she will proceed to the north this morning .

      Attgttst 30, 1856 J_ The Leader. 827

      ATTGTTST 30 , 1856 J _ THE LEADER . 827

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      Leader Office, Saturday, August 30. Caye...

      Leader Office , Saturday , August 30 . CAYENNE . We understand that M . Louis Blanc has prepared a complete reply to the assertions made , with reference to the prisoners at Cayenne , by the semi-official apologists of the Empire .

      The Murder Of Cicertjacchio. M. G. Angel...

      THE MURDER OF CICERTJACCHIO . M . G . Angeloni , the person referred to by Enrico Montazio , the London correspondent of the Milan Official Gazette , in his denial of Ciceruacchio ' s murder , has transmitted us a statement to the effect , that he never gave M . Montazio the information that individual pretends to have derived from him . Consequently , the Austrian denial falls to tho ground . Next week , we shall print M . Angelini ' s letter .

      Latest From The Continent. " The Prussia...

      LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT . " The Prussian Government , " says the Presse , " will take no measures to punish tho Riff pirates before the return of Prince Adalbert . —All the Russian troops have now evacuated the Crimea , with tho oxceptio n of a very small garrison at Scbastopol , and a few gendarmes and Cossacks at the other points which had been occupied by the Allies . " — " Tho mission of Baron do Bach to Milan , " says the Constitutionnel , " appears to be twoof ublic

      fold ; first , to ascertain whether the state p opinion is sufficiently satisfactory for the establishment of tho representative system , called tho Provincial Congregations , and at the same time to satisfy himself as to whether tho effect of that measure on tho people will bo such that the Emperor Francis Joseph would be well received in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom , which ho has an idea of visiting . "—On the 15 th inst . tho Consul-General of France at Bucharest gave a grand dinner to tho Ministers and Consuls of tho foreign Powers , and a

      toast-was drunk to the union of the Principalities . " It has been already stated that several towna in tho Komagna had protested against the Austrian occupation , and threaten to enforce tlioir protest by refusing to pny their taxes as long as tho Papal Government abdicates its functions into tho hands of tho Austriunn . It is now stated that Forli has followed tho example of Bologna , Anconn , and liavonna , and swelled tho ranks oi tho malcontents . At Milan , public dissatisfaction is also beginning to show itself in a tangible form . "—Globe .

      Closing Of Sunday Mijhki In Tiik Pakks.—...

      Closing of Sunday Mijhki in tiik Pakks . — The Sunday Handa Committee have issued a notice of their final performances in tho parks this season on Sunday , Neptember 7 , 18 / iO % or on tho following Sunday if that day bo wet . To ronder the closo of tho aoason n « effective ns possible , in the Regent ' Park , Horr Kalozdy ' n double Hungarian Band will attend , in addition to the People ' s Subscription Bund , forming an orchestra , <> i nearly Sixty Performers . Tho time of playing aviH bo from three till six in tho afternoon , both in Regent h Park and Victoria Park , on this occasion . Crybtai , Palace . —Return for six days ending Friday August 2 i ) th , 18 f ) G :- Number admitted , including ecaaon ticket holders , G 1 , 4 70 .

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 30, 1856, page 11, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_30081856/page/11/