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r ^^ K g ^^^^^^^ HBMMi ^^^ HHHMHMMNHM ^^^ HMMN ^^ IMMHM ^^ MiHMHMHHB ^ M ^^ MHK ^^^ MMttMMBM Austria and the Western Powers was never so complete as it is now , and the Italian revolutionary party has never yet been so categorically informed that it has no help to expect from the French Government . " A most dreadful explosion has taken place at the Castel Nuovo in Naples . A portion of this building was devoted to the manufacture of percussion-caps , the whole of which , owing to negligence , ignited . The entire building blew up , and two hundred persons are said to have been buried in the ruins . . This number , however , is probably exaggerated ; but the utmost consternation wa 3 excited all over the city , it being thought at first that a revolution had burst out .
The Conatitutionn ^ l has an article , professing to disclose the existence of a conspiracy on the part of the French and Spanish legitimists , with the direct concurrence of their respective chiefs , the Count de Chambord and the Count de Monteraolin , to get up an insurrection in Spain bj' the aid of liussian gold ; the -avowed object being to make a diversion in favour of Russia , and so embarrass the Allies in their conduct of the war . A report , said to he addressed to the Count de Montemolin , and to have been seized at the house of one of his most faithful generals , is appended by the Constitutiomnel in
proof of its assertions . The Duke de Levis and m . Cbapot , two of the persons concerned in the document , have written to the Constitutiounel to deny the truth of the statements ; but General Elio , the writer of the paper in question , and who is still in Paris , or close to it , lias not yet come forward . Viscount d'Escars admits that he was charged by Count de Montemolin with a letter to Prince GortschakofF , but he asserts that the Count de Chambord and the Duke dc Levis were completely strangers to th « f affair . The Tones Paris correspondent says that even more important memoranda are in the hands of the French ( Jovernnieut , but are
suppressed for the present . A Secret Consistory , it is said , was held on the 26 th of Julv , at the Vatican , on which occasion Spain and Piedmont were threatened with excommunication on account of their recent measures with respect to the Church . French soldiers continue to depart from Rome . Of the twelve gates of the city , only three are now held by them—i . c , the Cavalleggieri , loading to Civita Vecchia : the Porta del Popolo , leading to Tuscany and Homagua ; and the Porta San Giovanni , on the road to Naples .
M . Ferdinand de Lesseps has published a pamphlet with respect to hLs proposed ship-canal through the Isthmus of Suez . Having explored the route , he delivered in a report , in the course of last March , to Said Pacha , who was convinced of the possibility of establishing a ship communication direct from Suez to Pelusium , at an estimated cost of G ,-100 , 000 / . It is said that Said Pacha means to lay the scheme before engineers from . England , France , Holland , Germany , and Italy . From Tripoli we hear that the Arabs arc masters of the country . Accounts from Alexandria of July 28 state that the "Viceroy had returned from his expedition against the Bedouins , who had made their submission . Twenty-live fresh shocks of earthquake have been felt at Broussa . Abd-el-Kader is ill . The Persian Government , instigated by Russia , is said to have suppressed the Protestant schools .
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NAVAL AND MILITARY NEWS . Iiie Naval Hospital at Hasl . au , near Portsmouth , ¦ w as visited on Saturday by the Queen . ' Mokb DnusKKSNEss int tiik Cami \ — Lieutenant A . "V . Kirby , 11 ) th Regiment , has been cashiered for drunkenness and for ottering violence to Lieutenant Molesworth of the same regiment , when parading the guard for the trenches before Scbastopol . The Foukion Lf . oion at Siiohncukkk , —The first ibrigade of the Foreign Legion is no well advanced nt SliornclWYe Camp , that , it will be ready for service in the Crimea in a few days . Its place at Shorncliffo will be filled up by another brigade , which will be formed in less time than the first . The brigade was reviewed on Thursday by the Queen .
JiAttitACK AccoMMoiiATiON . —On Saturday was issued tie Report of tho Oilicial Committee on barrack accommodation for the army . The Committee express an opinion that the accommodation hitherto provided in barracks has been very inadequate both for tho enmifort and convenience of tlio soldiers and for tho creation of -a higher tone- of social habits . They suggest increased ablution-rooms , kitchens , wnsdi-hou . iosi , and Othor conveniences , while they advise the formation of regimental libraries , to bo common alike to noiwommissloned officers and men , and recommend tin ? conti-* Mianoo of the plan of having a chapel in barracks to florvo also ua i \ ncbool .
. Aiimy Clothing . ' —Two Koyal Warrants have boon issued , tho one relieving colonol . s from tho duty of appointing thoir own clothiers , and the othor abolishing ' tbe Consolidated Hoard of General Olliuer . s . Requisitions forolathiugaro henceforth to bo aunt in to the , Diroetor-Genoral of Army Clothing , and requisitions for accoutrements to the Dircctor-dionoral of Stores . Allowance * t » ilL'ho made to tho colonels of tho respective corps in Uou of off reckonings .
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The Sanspakeil . —The new machinery of this vessel failed , from some unexplained cause , on the occasion of the trial at Plymouth last Saturday . The Militia ( West York Rifles ) stationed at Pontefract have lately been committing great excesses ; and two of their lieutenants ( Ilebden and Moss ) have joined in the disturbances . Assertions to this effect have been softened , but not altogether denied , by the Lieutenant-Colonel in a letter to the papers . Memorial to Lord Raquan . —A meeting has been held at the house of the Duke of Richmond , at which it was unanimously agreed " that a freehold estate purchased and entailed on the title and descendants of Lord Raglan would be a most desirable memorial . " Subscriptions for this purpose have been opened .
Miscellaneous. Tub Court.—The King Of Po...
MISCELLANEOUS . Tub Court . —The King of Portugal has arrived in England on a visit to the Queen . —The royal children are now convalescent .
America.—The State Of Affairs In The Gre...
America . —The state of affairs in the great western continent still remains devoid of any great interest . The Know-nothing meetings continue , and at Louisville have given rise to some disturbances . The speakers at an assembly having been frequently interrupted by some dissentients who were supposed to be Irish , some attacks were made upon houses occupied by Irish families . Shots were fired , and a man and woman were wounded . Riots of a similar character are of frequent occurrence in
Louisville . —The annexation of the Sandwich Islands would seem to be shelved for the present ; for the Washington Union of the 21 st ult . states that the Secretary of State and Hon . "William L . Lee , his Hawaiian Majesty ' s Minister to the American Government , has signed a treaty of commercial reciprocity between the United States and the negro monarch . The sufferers from the destruction of Grey town have arrived at Washington , to urge their claims for indemnity . About live millions of dollars is the amount of their demand .
Compensation for another error on the part of the American Government is being sought by the parties taken out of the British brig Buffalo and conveyed to Boston , where they were tried and acquitted of the charge of violating the neutrality laws by enlisting men for the Crimea . These men have now brought actions against Captain Clark , of the revenue cutter James Campbell , for illegal detention and imprisonment . The damage .- ; claimed amount to 40 , 000 dollars . —Continued depredations by the frontier-Indians , and the usual amount of locomotive explosions and sinkings of steamboats , make up the rest of the news from the United States . Trade
is for the most part dull . —Central America is still agitated b } - revolution ; the Mexican rebels are animated bv the mo ? t confident hopes of success ; and General Vidauri , their Commander-in-chief , has issued a decree , in which he pronounces the penalty of death against Santa Anna , his officials ,-general officers , & c ., should he or any of them fall into the hands of the insurgents . — Carvajiil , with twenty-seven other " filibusteros" has been discharged by the federal court at Brownsville , the judge having ordered the indictment to be qua .-hed , as being illegal . —General Castilla , who has been elected President of the Peruvian Kepublie , seems disposed to a popular poliev .
T « k Czarasd tiik Phesidknt . —The Xeic York Herald publishes a communication from its Washington Correspondent dated July ' 20 , which states that the President had received an autograph letter from tho Emperor of Russia in reply to one of congratulation on his accession to the throne . The document , which alludes in liighly complimentary terms to the increasing greatness of the United States , contains a paragraph to the effect that the dying admonitory advice of the late to the present Emperor conveved an injunction to study the
private papers to bo found in the Imperial escritoire which he ( tho Emperor Nicholas ) had received from the eminent men in the United States , among whose names wore to be found those of Jackson , Clay , Wo lister , and others . The letter proceeds to acknowledge the value of those papers , mid expresses his Majesty ' s sense of obligation at tho strong national interest manifested by the American people in the success of the war upon which his great father had entered . It concludes by professing the most lasting friendship between Russia and the United States .
The Potato Bi . ioht has mndo its appearance in Jersey . There aro also now , we are sorry to say , some evidences of its presence in Ireland ; but the disease has merely , and that in only u few instances , exhibited itself on the stalks , the tubers remaining perfectly sound . As tho season in now far advanced , wo may he permitted to hope that tho prophets of evil will be found mistaken in their anticipations . Fikk ani > Loss ok Lii'ic in St . Panokas . —A beerwhop in St .. Puucras-roud , near tho old church , has been destroyed by fire . An elderly woman and a young girl wore burnt to death .
AlHIL / TttllATION OK FOOD , DltlNKH , AND DlUUS . Mr . (! . 11 . Burton , of Furnival ' rt Inn , was examined before tho Committee on Saturday , and stated iu reference to an assertion that chicory is often moulded into the form of codec berries by means of a machine , that ho whs
aware of the existence of such an invention ; that it was patented by a Mr . Duckworth , of Liverpool , in 1851 , but that it was not very remunerative , being seldom used . —Mr . George Phillips , chief officer of the Chemical Department of the Board of Inland Revenue , said chicory itself was adulterated to the extent of sixty or seventy per cent . He had known one case In which a mixture of chicory and coffee contained ninety-five per cent , of chicory ; yet this was legal , since coffee might be sold adulterated with chicory , provided the fact were legibly notified on the outside of the packet . Gin he believed was not adulterated . During the past twelve years , he did not recollect a sample which had been doctored . He did not believe there was any truth in the
report that strychnine is to be found in beer ; and grains of Paradise , he thought , are not at all prejudicial to health . Tea is adulterated before it reaches this country ; but the practice of " manufacturing" it here from exhausted tea-leaves and British plants had , he conceived , been crushed by the Excise . Snuff , also , was " manufactured" to such an extent as sometimes to contain , no tobacco at all . In answer to Mr . Villiers , Mr . Phillips said he had not read Dr . HassaH ' s work , but , from the extracts that had been published , he thought there was gross exaggeration ; and he said this from his own experience , which ( in the article of beer especially ) had been greater than Dr . Hassalls . Out of 1139 samples
of beer which Mr . Phillips had examined , twelve only were adulterated ; but he acknowledged that these samples were chiefly from the brewers . He also stated that government officers sometimes go down into publicans' cellars and catch the adulterators in the very act . Gi-ntowder Exi'Losion in Cornwall . —The safetyfuse manufactory of Messrs . Hawke and Co ., of Gwennap in Cornwall , has been completely destroyed by an . explosion . Sume women were engaged in binding lengths of fuse called " rods , " when one of them broke , a degr . e of friction ensued , which communicated with a quantity of gun | x > wder amounting to a hundred pounds in weight , and an explosion followed . Two of the women were killed , and all the others were injured .
Irel . vxd . — The Clare Journal gives a very agreeable picture of the state of Ireland . The drain of the population by the excessive tendency to leave for foreign lands is rapidly diminishing ; pauperism has decreased to a considerable extent ; and wages are higher . Destruction of a French Brig bt Fire . —The Jeune Louise , while on her voyage from Rouen to London , with a cargo of turpentine and oil , was totally destroyed by fire off Dover . The crew were saved . Mk . Batnes , President of the Poor-Law Board , has resigned his office in consequence of ill health . Mr . Bouverie will succeed Mr . Bnines . Mr . Lowe has been appointed Vice-President of the Board of Trade , in the place of Mr . Bouverie .
A Suir Upset at Liverpool . — The barque Retriever , 500 tons burden , was upset on the afternoon of Friday week , by a sudden gust of wind , as she was being " towed out of Sandon Dock , Liverpool . She turned bottom upwards , and in a very short time disappeared altogether . All the crew , however , consisting of ten or twelve hands , were saved , with the exception of one man ; but the pilot had his arm broken , and one of the sailors was so seriously injured as to leave but slight liope of his recovery . Income-Tax Election Franchise . —A bill brought in by Major Keed , Sir . A . Tellatt , and Mr . Oliveira , confers the right of voting for members of Parliament on
all male persons of full age charged to the income-tax of the amount of 40 s . a year . A year ' s residence is required prior to the 3 l ? t of July . Reimbursements of income-tax paid will disqualify . No person payingincome-tax of -10 s ., and thereby qualified , must be registered in respect of any other qualification . The act is to take ellecc from the 1 st of January , lt * dJ . Tin : Lokd Mayou ' s Visit to Pauls . — M . Alfred Magno , son and private secretary of the French Minister of Finance , waited a few days since upon the Lord Mayor , to convey an invitation to his Lordship and family to be present in Paris during tho approaching visit of the Queen ; and at the same time he placed at
his Lordship ' s disposal the Ministerial residence . Mk . John B . Uougii , the temperance orator , left England for the United States on Saturday by tho mail steam ship America . Mr . George Vnndenhoff , sou of the celebrated tragedian , sailed in the same ship . AnOld Iulsiiman . — During a trial at the Monmouth Assizes , touching the right of the Monmouthshire R .-ulwav and ( .. ' anal Company to encroach upon certain lands , some intercut was excited by the appearance of one oi the plaintiffs' witnesses , named O'Kourke . Ho stated that he was ninetv-oight years of ago , and that ho got usual hour
up that morning at live o ' clock , his , am , while all the rest of his family were asleep , mndc * i pen mid ink -sketch of the / . wim in quo , which lie prodj td m court . From the readiness mul distinctness oi Ins y swors the witness appeared to he in 0 llI » 7 T ^ drawin hi * faculties , lie iris particularly fond « f ^ gS which he had signed with his »« ' »« » h » f " w nma wll 8 fecit . - Etot . 98 . " Tho _ nppo « r « . H'C of » J » strikingly contrasted with that of i i ' » J vcnt ° _ r t called V y tho defendants , ^ J ^^ Z ™ childish who was deaf , mul prnvu M * «)\ l "" treble . "—The verdict was for the nlumtiil .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 11, 1855, page 763, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/ldr_11081855/page/7/
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