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"* * * I givQ ypa'sonre poiltive information as to the state of the vineyards * in tbis pare of France . Unfoitunattly , notliingcan bb more deplorable than what I have to say of them . It is Hot now , as in former years , a partial bliglit , but a univetsaV'ome ; arid the general opinion is that tiie great wine departments of . the Aude , Pyrenees Orient ales , Herault , Gard , &c ., will uot give anything like the fourth of a fair average yield . In tbis iitfmediate dis : rio't , in many instances , we shall hot even so orach as vintage "
Count Oasimir'Batthyany , Kossuth ' s minister and tfcen his opponent ; died on the 12 th at Batignoles , wfrere he was lingering out his exile . Be had given u £ 'l « jKt * 6 s ; ThelEftiypttera Viceroy ' s son , Ilhamy Pasha , whose iritended-visit' to Europe has been announced , is td lettvte Alexandria , a « the end of the present month for Iitmdoi ) , and from here he is tb ^ jo to Paris . He will also , perhaps , visit Germany . He is to be accompanied bySoliman Pasha ( the French Colonel Sefve ) , -Major-General in the Egyptian Army .
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CO ^ INENTAli LOA ^ S . Austria has . perfected the plan of forcing a voluntary loan froin the people . Each separate crownland , according to its poptriation , wealth , an d general resources , will be obliged to take a certrdn share . The persons on whom'the greatest demands will be made at 61 ; hVla « cted proprietors , both of fowand high degree , tbe rich- conventual establishments , the clergy , bankers ,- merchants , &c . Ih order that the people vasty , well understand what is intended , & pamphlet , written ; in a , popular style , will be put into circulattottj by ; which it will become evident to the meanest capacities ^ that , if the loan is not voluntarily taken , a regular forced" loan will be made or heavier taxes levied ! Although the sum required is so large , no financier doubts that it will be raised within the empire without any great difficulty .
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AUSTRALIA . l ^ EwS'lrorn tire Australian colonies of 5 so late a date as Mayvllthvwas received in . Iiondon oft Monday . Jfct Sydney the colonists are agitating against the New Constitution Bill—which , they w 5 U not accept . ^ he ' Council of Victoria has legalised limited liability-ia partnerships i—indieating that England is g ^ ing behind even her ^ young colonists . " The latest iterhvof intelligence from -the goldfields are not very iinporteHt ^ Thb gross produce , as proved by the export yetttriis , keep up t 6 the average , though particular localities rise anil fall in popularity with remarkable rapidity , Of many new 'dig&ines' otienpd since the beeinnine of the
? ear none have yet d « veloped themselves into rivals of the argjest and oldest—Ballarat and Mount Alexander . One of ., the . richest of the new spots has been the valley of the Bueldand K > ver ,. but , it was so uriheulfhy tlmt many persons aVandone'd It when doing a good strokes' in the diggers ' phrase , glad to escape with their lives . Tfie mortality from dysentery , and a fatal kind of low fever has been frightful . Thft river flows ^ through a deep ravine , in which , as the hSgh mountain wall * on each side excluded tiie wind , the air was stagnant'and , from the scorching sun during tiie day * intensely hot .. At '' night tlte temperature rabidly fell to a piercing c \ A& % ao ; that the inhabitants of this-unhappy valley were always either in an oven or an icehouse . "
Among ., the passengers arriving in England by the ship , wiiich btought this news was Me . Latrobc , ex-Govetftop of Victoria , and Mr . Hargreaves , the discoverer of Australian gold . Buth had left the colony underunaatisfictPOTycircurrrstancea : Mr . Lutrobo not very ^ pftjralaTi ; atwj Mr . IJargreaves without the award of WiOOOA which , a comuiittfccs . had voted to him—but wMcnith # legislature wiirtoat give . Ijkbttuters were extremdly " scarce , especially for agricultural ntirpososj and ploughmen wore with 1 difficulty to be had . Owing to the news received out , of fcTtw . Vu . T with Russia , the rate of insurance had been considerably , advanced , and tin ? exchange for bills on London hnd * isen . ThV markets < were avers toefced . 1 A
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AMERICA . ¦ ^ filxs , anniversary of the establishment , of tlto Republic had been colebrated with the usual coremor nios . Tins 8 ennte'ha 3 passed Mr , Clay toil ' s bill fur aroore effectual suppression of the slave trndt ^ by restricting . transfers'of Amerienn vessels in foreign ports . A bill has also passed estabHohimr a line of atenm ships between San ^ raneiBco and Slmnglmc , touching at the Sandwich Islands and Japan , passed by a , vote of twcn ^ -thrcc to > thirteen .
'Mvs . ooitHoritica tit Now Yurk hud thought it necessary to iaauo notlco rertpeutinn the prevalence of cholera . At Boston , Philadelphia , and at St . I » oui » , capcclnUy , where 207 deaths ooeurred in n week . tlio epidoinic was spreading . Accounts from the plains state that the disease wns > creating much havoc among tho-ctnigmnte . A very * destructive fire had oocurrod at JtfhiladdU phW } . whUiu , d # atrojed tho Nuiioiml Theatre , the KU » rd-houses , and n number of other huudaoniobuiliLlngs , with , their coutonts . An nclor , named
Shopherd v lost his life by returning to the burning theatre in search of his watch .. The New Orleans Debater intimates that the clipper ship Grapeshofc was off the Cuban coast endeavouring to land warlike stores for the use of the disaffected inhabitants of tiie island . Several disturbances had occurred" in various parts of the country , originated in the growing ill-feeling between the native Americans : and the' Irish . At Manchester , New Hampshire , a severe fight took place with injury to both sides . A Roman . Catholic Chapel was very much damaged . At Dorchester , Massachusetts , & Roman Catholic chapel , had been blown up with gunpowder . Some persons attributed the destruction of the chapel to the native Americans ; others asserted that the Roman Catholics had deposited arms and gunpowder there for the protection of the chapel .
At Bath , Maine , an itinerant preacher , lmown by the sobriquet of the " Angel Gabriel , " lectured against ! Popery , and so excited the mol > that several hundreds proceeded to the Roman Catholic church , broke in the tlbors-and windows , rang the bell , and finally set fire to the building , utterly destroying it . The mob afterwards paraded the streets , manifesting their gratification at this achievement in the most boisterous manner .
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CANADA . ^ The Philadelphia correspondent of the Morning Chronicle say ^ - — " Quite a sensation has been produced in the political circles of this country by the debate in the House of iLords on the Canadian Bill , and especially Uy the remarks of the Earl of EUenborougli and Lord Brougham . Both noblemen urged a separation of Canada from the mother-country , and in a kindly and friendly way . Such an idea , and from such , sources , has naturally startled people here-, and already the leading j ournals of the United States , and especially those of the north , are responding to and . advocating tie proposition . "
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SPAIN . Oor = newB from . Spain is only telegraphic , and is therefore . abrupt , and incomplete . But we know enough to be sure that the insurrection , so far from being a failure , is a revolution . Early this week , various towns , . principally * Valladolid and Barcelona , . declared for the " movement . " " Down with the ministers ! " " Down \ rith Queen Christina ! " was the cry . The proclamations of the insurgent generals are explicit . They mean— " Parliamentary Beibrm ; " and •—" a Militia . " A telegraphic despatch from Paris , dated yesterday evening " , with newsfrom Madrid to the 18 th , speaks of the flight of the Queen-Mother to France ; of the Queen , having placed herself in the hands of Narvaep ; and of- Esparterp having joined the movement at Saragossa , There can * be no doubt tliat Madrid has " risen . " A late edition of the Morning Chronicle gives a list of the new ministers—Narvaez not being among thetti .
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A GREAT RAILWAY ACCIDENT * EfTOavTHXiNft * the Americans'do > is-on ft great scale ; theSf railway'aecidentB ,- when they have them , are very superior to ours ; On the Baltimore and Susquehanna line there has been & fearful casualty . This is the account ; in brief : — XlThe accommodation train then proceeded , but had not travelled a- mile before it came in collision with the second excursion train from Rider ' s-gjfove , consisting of 14 cars , tilled with mon , women , and children , In charge of Mr . John Scott , ono of tiie most cxporionccd conductors on tho road . When tho collision occurred the crash wua of the most terriuo chaBioter , tho lftcomotiVo of tho outward train nnd tliO'Cattt at tho othor being snmslicj beyond rojiair , while tho groana . of tho dying , tho heiat-remling sliricks ' of the wounded ,. as well as tho manqlecl bodies of tho dead , profionted < jv Bcena which doftes raitlifnl description . The centre < , f tpfe foremoBt enr was fillod with tho dead , dying , and \ vouud « d ,, ftU wedgqti , toaothci' iu ono mum , -with tho fragmenu of . tljo ciu- and the Bea-tu-so compftcttl »» tuhhonirh
, , tl ) 0 accident occurred at 20 Jminutoa past H , it wua btth > pnst 7 o ' ulopk before all tho woundocl could bo talconfrom tho wioete . Im ^ nodiatoly on tlip occurrenco of tho" accident , messengers vrara d «;(^ a * chod In all directions for phyuiciuna , find scvcrftl from tho ^ BuiToundlng country vroro eooii in ivttend&nao , About 8 p . m . a tmin nrrived Yrom thn city with Bovcml othci' phyeicfanej who . did every thing medical ekill cottld auggest to roliovo tho terrible suftorlnga of tlio unfortUttuto wounded . Tho numlior o £ . perBoim lit Ridcr's-woodn , wljon juiphtisoi in < wa « 2000 or 0000 . About 8 o ' olook- a train- w « a de « pfttohQd to tho city , with the hiUioa nnd children , and about lnidniHht another truiu from tlio ficono ofdoivth ronohcd tho city wltli tlio wounded , who wore iinino-( Jlntoly conveyed to tlio infinnoiy , The news of tho diimstor reaching tlio city , ooenwionod the mont intense oxcitoinont \ thousnndfl of icraoiitt , whoso rolalione nnd fViondrt had rouo
out on thO rojid to upend tho day , ropairing to tho Oalvort-Bt ^ tjon ; imxlonHly- 5 nquiiingnn to their Btifoip . "Twcntyt eight , perwonn wore killed i * nd n very lunge nnmbor woundody many orwliom wore not oxpeoted to recover . Tho pwoner '» jury found that tho diKvnaou pewons « ame by thoir dvutho from tl >« varoloaHnoauof thooonduottfc . "
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OUR . CIVILISATION . Thb assize intelligence this week supplies variety in the stock police news of misery , and viHany ^ and madness . "William Campion , a sailor , waiting for- a ship at Whitby , was dining one day with his mother ; the old lady vexed him , and he took up the carving . knift * and killed her . The jury found him " Not gnilty " on the ground of insanity : he harf , in fact , used incoherent expressions— something 1 like this of the jury ' s . Margaret Stanley , tho wife of a labourer , stands remanded at a metropolitan court on a charge of Mrs . Sloane-like treatment of her 6 tep « -dtiwghter . When sho was taken into custody , her neigh boars in a wretched alley hooted her ; but they had never interfered before with her cruelties . " The child was screaming day nnd night , "
John Williams * " an astute cab proprietor" of a single cab , has perplexed a magistrate and baulked the police .- He was summoned for not producing his badge and book of fares when called upon to do- so by a policeman . His defence was he was the' proprietor of the cab , not the driver , and the act only mentioned the driver 1 ! The summons had to be dismissed ; and the cabmen give this ingenuoas man the sobriquet of " the Attorney-General . " Daniel Bull , " of athletic make , " ! has been setit for three months to hard labour for brutally belahouriug his wife , —who would not , after all , give evidence against him : — .
" As he was about being'Conveyed , with the other prisoners to the police van , his wife anxiously ; pressed forward to shake bands with him , but he surlily knocked her . asidej and was led 'away to undergo bis punishment . " At Marlborougb > street Court , — " Georgp Pilkirigton , geirtlfeman , was charged with having violently assaulted -William Love , corn merchant , 28 ,- Warwiok- > srreet , Golden-square . Air . Love said he was returning home through Regent-street about one o ' clock thut morning , and seeing a female smoking a cigar , be askod her fir a light , but she refused , and went into the'road . Seeing Bhe had a little dog , he said , jokingly , ' Will you give roe that dog ?*
Before a reply was made Jjb : was knocked down by a blow from behind , and was stunned for a sliort time ; his bat was cut through j and he bled a great d&al . The prisoner was pointed out as the person who had struck him , and he gave him into cqstody . —James Clutton , a jeweller , of Denmarkstreet , corroborated this statement . —Mr . Pilkin ^ ton , in defence , said he was walking with his wife , and having occasion to leave her for a minute , he gave her his cigar , and , on his return , seeing her accosted and chased off tho pavement by a stranger , ho knocked him down with part of the stick of an umbrella he had in his hand . —The magistrate bound the defendant in his own recognisances to keep tha peace for six month s . "
A most absurd decision . William Stockley , ih Yorkshire , knocks his father down because his father , who was . drunk , abused Mrs . William Stockley j the fall brings on a fatal illness , of which the old gentleman dies , and there is a trial for manslaughter . The jury recommend William Stockley to mercy—because tho deceased got drunk and gave provocation , and . the sentence is accordingly light . At Owlerton , near Sheffield , some , artiannsy who were m « rry-making at " a feast" get drunk -andqueuv rel ; in tho evening several waylay one . ttncLbeat him —to death . An inquest is being held .
John iSlieppard , a London costermonger , has been sentenced to * three months'hard lubour for conduct to a . dog . worthy tho attention of the great company who met it the Mansion House-, . on Wednesday , to arrange about the heathen : —a dog , which had bitten some children , was flung into the liUcet-ditch , a rope round its neck with the other end attached to a heavy stone : — " Tho ropo , however , broke , and tiie creature regaining H « liberty for a short time , w « s hunte 4 about until caught by tlm defendant , wlio , declaring ho would have uilnrlc with it . bogan Blowly torturing tho animal by beating , itahoud and nose until its . eyes started from thu , sockota , and it * howlinga wore so loud and agonising that a largQ concourse of persona assembled , and the prisonor , fearing summary cUiistisemcnt , ilung . it aguin into tho ditch and mtwlo off . " ' ,
William Clark , a . farm labourer , nt Notting-hill , mot a woman , forty years of age , walking ., across some fiqlda : ho " took liberties" with her , and because oho was not complaisant he throw her into a pond , from which she narrowly escaped undrowiied . The defence was sho wns not chaatej and tjiio magistrate ( Mr . Becdon ) supported that defence by liia absurd coinments on the Avoman ' a cxplanaticMis , flnnlly giving a moat ridiculous decision—a flnqof 409 . Mr . Millar , a " highly rospootttblo" cotton-si > innor , at Ashton-ui » ue » vLyuo , has failed for about IX '^ OOl ,, and hus absconded ; leaving bills behind hiiu which are protested us forgeries . Mr . Joseph Cole , a " great" marchant 3 n the < 5 ity , him atood in the dock of tho Mansion House thi « week , on a charge of having " obtained 10 , 000 / . upon warrants representing . goods wliicli wero uot > in oxistcnoo . " Tiiu whulu oily iu sigitating iujniast . thU systum of flctitious bUla . Mr . BlauJcatono , whiloin 1 VLP .,, has > btxtn in tho Insolvent Debtors . ' CoiuL ih |» wu k . Xi la a " bud easef" txnd hiu long iunpriuonmcnt ( it will bo reinQm-
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Leader (1850-1860), July 22, 1854, page 678, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2048/page/6/
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