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chest were 160 sovereigns j in a butter-pot 500 sovereigns , and in notes and other documents more than 2000 Z . In all 4 . 250 ? . was found in tlie house of the wretched old woman .
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Sattjbday , August 6 . We may probably have a debate on the invasion of the Danubian provinces , next week , as Lord Clanricarde has given notice that he will ask for information on Monday as to what the Russians are doing there , and what steps her Majesty ' s Government are taking . Russia seems " still for war . " Although the Principalities are full of Russian troops , a third corps is expected to march in after the departure of General GortschakofPs corps from Jassy . The bulk of the Russian army is concentrated in the vicinity of Jekacz , a small town at some distance from Berlad . A letter
from Constantinople , of the 21 st , states that the news of the assembling of a corps of Russian troops in the neighbourhood of Erzeroum was fully confirmed , and that that city would be invested by the Russians in the first fortnight of August . In another quarter Russia is making a naval movement not insignificant . The Morning Chronicle correspondent at Copenhagen , writes , under date July 30 : —" The Czar has just ordered the Baltic fleet to be equipped , and to go to sea immediately . This fleet consists of about twenty ships of the line and fifteen frigates . One division is already able to obey the order , and the rest will follow without loss of time . On the
16 th the steamers towed out the liners , and the whole fleet put to sea ; the steamers and four small frigates returning to the inner roads . I have already informed you of the camp of 30 , 000 men forming in Finland . "
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Some new colonial appointments are reported in the Daily News . Major-General Jackson is to be Com * mander-in-Chief of the Cape , vice Major-General the Hon . George Cathcart , whose time has expired . Major-General Stayeley , from Bombay , is to succeed Lieut .-General Sir Richard Armstrong at Madras . Major-General Anson is to be appointed to the staff in the East Indies . Her Majesty ' s intention of reviewing the Spithead fleet has been officially announced at this port to day , and that , according to present arrangements , it will take place on Thursday next . It is understood that all the Russian princesses ( including the widow of the Duke of Leuchtenberg and the wife of the Duke of Mecklenburgh-Strelitz , expected to-day ) will be present on the occasion .
The claim by the Earl of Crawford to the extinct Dukedom of Montrose , reported in our pages some weeks ago , under the heading " A Duplicate Dukedom , " has been disallowed by the House of Lords .
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The accounts of the crops are favourable . The best indication of the coining harvest is the slight decline in the price of corn , which took place yesterday . From Ireland , the agricultural reports are all favourable , with the exception of a few isolated complaints of the " appearance" of blight in the potato . As yet , however , it is admitted that the disease has in no instance extended beyond the stalks , the roots on cxainination being found to be perfectly sound . These , the exceptional , accounts , come from districts in Cork , Kerry , and Clare . From all other quarters the advices arc of a moat satisfactory character .
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The exceptional and exorbitant demand of some millhands at Manchester is noticed in our " wages and workmen" record . The demand is already 37 per cent , udvancc on the rate of wages previous to this season ' s movement towards higher roniunorntion . Wo have had positive information that the general body of tho operatives discourage the demand . Tho Times of this morning sayfl : — " Whother tho doinandB of Messrs . Kelly and Gilmour ' s workpeoplo will bo supported by tho Trades' Union remains to bo soon . It lias boon said that they wished to prevent tho sfcriko , and had gone so far as to threaten to supply Messrs . Kelly and Gilmour with now workmen if thy demand wore persevered in ; but no such statement has boon published on authority . "
In tho action at Croydon reported in the last paragraph of our Criminal Record ( pa ™ 7 ^ 5 ) , tho ovideneo for tho doi'onco lias proved that Mr . Atkinson encouraged tho intimacy between his wiib arid Mr . Baldwin , that ho had UHod disgusting language , o » proHHing indifloronco afl to tho intimacy , and contempt for his wifo , and that in many ways luv . had treated her unkindly . Tho jury found a verdict of forty shillings damagoH .
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NOTICES TO COBEBSPONDENTS . A Tin - plate - wobkeb ' s remarks on " State and Church Morality , " will receive constant illustration at our hands . Qu ^ Stob . — The position taken is useful , but is not pointedly enough put . J . B . H . ( Birkenhead ) We are unable to satisfy the inquiries of our correspondent . . . .., ; > A Light-Dragoon . — -We shall not lose sight of the subject of your letter .
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AMERICA VERSUS RUSSIA . We appear to be on the verge of a war with . Russia . There is in Europe a large porfcon of Governments half inclined to trim , and certainly to side with the victorious state . England has recently suffered her show of influence and strength to decline in Europe ; [ Russia is the power that has gained a signal victory the most recently . In determining the part taken by the waverers , the degree of strength , resolution , and effective alliance likely to be possessed by either side will be a grand consideration . In Austria it has been remarked that the only power which has shown " vigour in the East is the United States . Russia has employed the time allowed by the AlliedPowers forpaciflc negotiations , in measures to strengthen her position and increase the start which she has been permitted to take ; her arrogant pretensions have outrun the indulgence even of her fastest friends in this country ; and the influential paper which has most conspicuously furthered Russian interests , has felt itself compelled by national feeling to point out the impolicy of permitting further time to the arch enemy of Europe .
It is under these circumstances that we are astounded to perceive- in the columns of the Times a studied attack on the President , the 5 eop lo , and the institutions of the United States , 'he occasion is the opening of the Crystal Palace in New York . We take a few specimens in order to show that we do not put any forced construction when we describe the article as offensive ; our abridgement of the whole being only made to save space .
" In tho first place , the smartest nation m the world has failed in the prime condition of success —it has not kept time . Having prudently postponed the Exhibition from 1852 to 1853 , it has been obliged , after all , to defer tho opening from May 1 to July 15 , and , meanwhile , had acquired ho much credit for procrastination that the opening at last has really taken people by surprise . ' It will be impossible to complete the whole work / wo are told , ' including tho machinery department , in less than three or four weeks . ' In fact , tho additional structure required for it will not be liiiinhed
till then . England has kept time , as usual , having sent Lord Ellcsmere in a frigate so early as to give his Lordship rather too much time , for , as often happens when people have time to spare , ho only arrived from Quebec on the day of the opening , and had caught a fit of his old enemy , the gout , which , after all , prevented his being present at tho ceremony . Pfirhnps , like tho rest of the world , ho thought , the conductors of tho affair had been crying ' Wolf' so often that the Exhibition would never open . Tho national vessel of Franco is still on her way , and that of Holland , wo are
told encouragingly , will almost immediately follow . So far , all is behindhand , and tho speakers on tho occasion Hinko it up with promises . Ah for tho proceedings of tho day , wo can only say that Royal pageants are much more punctual , convenient , and creditablo than Republican ; and that Queen Victoria understands her business , and doos it with much less fuss , and much more to tho satisfaction of the public , than ' Mr . l'iorco . ' 1 f (! r Majesty , as everybody knows , entered our Crystal Talnco punctually as tho dock struck , after bowing without iutormiKHion to half a million of her loyal (
subjects filling the two parks . She then stood about an hour , and passed through various ceremonies and made numerous recognitions . She then walked in procession through all the principal gangways of the building —being almost exactly a mile , and then returned home with much the same ceremony . Had Her Majesty hot appeared for three-quarters of an hour after time her subjects , would have thought some thing seriously amisa . Mr . Pierce had made his own punctuality dependent on that of a train from Washington . He entered ' worn down with fatigue / and had 'to take a chair and enjoy a few moments' rest ; ' though why he should be in this state after a railway journey
we cannot divine . After a speech , which might have taken two minutes , and the substance of which was far from exhaustive of the matter or the man , Mr . Pierce had then to encounter some real hard work . It was stated some months since that the worthy President was literally chased from city to city by a determined body of ten thousand place hunters , who followed him in full cry the instant he showed in public . It would appear that the unsatisfied portion of the pack took tickets for the opening , for the instant Mr . Pierce had closed his speech a rush was made for the platform , all anxious to take the opportunity to shake him by the hand . Those near him in vain entreated the crowd to
desist from pressing upon him , and it was for some time feared that in the immense throng he might sustain bodily injury . After great exertion , however , he was rescued from his friends without sustaining any harm , but excessively fatigued by the zealous attentions bestowed upon him . He was carried to Astor-house , where ' he sought the repose necessary for his health / as he was evidently labouring under severe physical debility . .... . We cannot help asking , why twenty millions of the cleverest people in the world cannot choose a President at least sound in wind and limb , able to travel from Washington to ; New York without knocking up , and able , also , to make a better speech than an average common councilman in this city . "
There is . something ludicrous in the care with which even the short-comings of foreign nations are pressed into service , for the purpose of getting up a show of disparagement against the Americans . But the writer appears to be in ignorance of some facts that destroy the force of his diatribe . In the first place , " the nation " had not staked its repute ; for the Crystal Palace at New York is a private and not a national speculation , although it may be said to have national approbation , sympathy , and patronage .
The cut at the Americans for unpunctuahty falls on a callous place—the Americans will own their fault—nay , they proclaim that it is their vice to be never in time , because their impatience makes them antedate practicabilities . Lord Ellesmere ' s punctuality is a joke , when he was absent ; and if Franco is behind her time in crossing the Atlantic , do we forgot that she was so in crossing the Pas do Calais , to meet Queen Victoria in Hyde ParkP But at once the most offensive and the most unfounded attack is that on " Mr .
Pierce . " It is presumed that tho man elected by an enormous body of free citizens can bo surrounded only by " place-hunters "— yes , that is tho word ; and tho thousands of independent patriots who were there , and at whom the word is levelled , will not readily forget it . Was it intended to alienate them from England ? The man who commenced his Presidential career with the most masterly rdsumS of public policy , heard for many a day , is the object of a sneer for a plain and unpretending speech . Queen Victoria is held up with flattery for her physical vigour , in contrast with the man who volunteered to shoulder a brown musket in tho cause of his
country , and who returned , after a brilliant campaign , as a general , to receive the thanks of Congress , for his share in a great conquest . And tho citizens are taunted for not choosing a President " sound in wind and limb "—meaning that man ! The man , too , whoso energetio foreign policy is making his countrymen fool tho protecting power of the star-girt eagle , is compelling oven Austria to acknowledge tho power of the United States in Europe , and is redoubling tho anxiety of true Englishmen to retain tho alliance of that powerful young republic , tho real unfaltering champion of freedom .
Two days later , tho Times makes some amends by a paper , acknowledging tho ability , decision , and practical caro of tho American Government ; , in issuing tho instructions to its consuls abroad , to inculcato republican plainness of costumo , diligence , and proper attention to tho claims of Americans , whether for omploymont at tho Consulate in preference to foroigners , or for
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Tnere is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so -unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed when all the world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —De . Abnoib .
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 6, 1853, page 756, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1998/page/12/
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