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e colony was prepared to aid the mother country defending the great principles at stake . Before the meeting separated hearty rounds of eering were given for th& Queen , the Emperor of ance , and the Sultan , and a corresponding number groans for the Czar . Dr . Lang attempted to turn the current of the eeting by tailing the refuge point of view , and pealing in favour of Poland and Hungary . But he as put down . The commercial markets throughout the colony e over stoclted , but prices have not yet ran down . Sydney vfas in great dread of Russian men-of-war those seas . The Governor-General had ealnied eir fears by assuring the colony that he had the : st information , and there was no ground for
arm . An admirable letter from Sydney , in the Daily Jews , says : — " Many colonists are about to proceed to England , in ttsequenco of -which the passenger fares are greatl y infased . I hear that , such is the demand for berths , it is ficult to obtain one either in a sailing vessel or steamer . le cause of the movement homeward is attributed in a great easure to the present exorbitant price of house-rent and
ovisions , which , within only twelve months has been nearly ubled . Four or five years ago , an income of 200 / . to 400 / . rear was deemed an independence . " The same excellent correspondent says : — " We have space and occupation sufficient for the imrneaie employ of 20 , 000 labourers from Europe , and as many ore for an indefinite number of years to cotne . There need it be an able-bodied pauper , from ten years old and upirds , in any joovbouse m England . Send them here—we ant them , and they may all do well . "
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CANADA . he elections for the new Parliament are in progress . . Toronto paper says : — " A new feature in Canadian politics is likely to be introiced , Viscount Bury , eldest son of the Earl of Albemarle , anxious to represent a Canadian constituency . We are id of it . There is the grossest ignorance of the wants and vantages of Canada in the British Houses of Parliament . " Mr . Francis Hinek ' s address to his old constituency characteristic of him ; full of negatives . His conusion indicates how much political activity we are
expect in Canada ;—" I have only to state in conclusion that while I regret at the elections will take place at an inconvenient season , id that it has not been in the power of the Administration bring the nevv franchise into operation , or to give effect to e treaty for reciprocal free trade with the United States , reduce the tariff , I feel assured that the responsibili y i- the failure of those measures will be thrown on those on hom alone it should devolve , viz ., the majority by whose ites the Government was placed in such a situation as to compelled either to resign or to recommend a dissolution . "
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SPAIN . The Revolution in Spain halts . As we predicted om the first , Espartero has become the master of ve situation . The last telegraphic news ( from ayonne ) is dated the 23 rd , and it is to the effect iat all is in suspense in Madrid—waiting for the uke of Victory . A letter of the 22 nd , Madrid , ys : — " I have seen a person who has just arrived from Guadnjara . Botw «( sn Alcala and Guadalajara , he says , the road aa lined with people from the surrounding , country , waitg , notwithstanding the tromendous heat of tins sun , lor the issage of Espartero . There is little doubt of his arriving -night , but tiro hour is uncertain , The people will oxpeot m any time after 4 , but I should not wonder if it were me hours later before ho arrives . As to the enthusiasm ire I shall not attempt to describe it , because you would ispect mo of exaggeration . "
There was lighting in the capital up to the Oth—that is for three days barricades g » -owig hourly in strength aud number ; and the ueen's wretched and aiot very ] oynl troops verywhere having to give way . At ono time the unta ( citizens ) , which had been formed , and which ad been , in communication with the Queen , w « s isposed to lay down their anus , on her ftusile prolises ; but caution prevailed—and they hold the city ntil Espartero arrives . G ^ DonneU is no doubt with km . Ho was to have loft Saragossa on the 20 th .
The personal incidents of tho revolution arc nujerous . Queen Isabel seems to have behaved with roat coolness throughout . Tho blunder in atimpting to stop disaffection , with tho rivul ministry as u groat ono ; but , probably , she was not responblo for itj ftwd there is nothing to shuw that shu as not aa eager us tho nation to put affairs into the ands of Eflpartoro . Queen Christina would huvo > athor life had she been taken by the people ; and ; ia doubtful wltere eho is—whether escaped into ranco , or to Portugal , or lying hid in her daughter ' s alace , which tho insurgents expected . Ab wo stated ist week , hex own palace was pillaged , as was also ¦ alumanca ' s and Sarlonu ' s houses . "A poraoaft . nawonng . au ) dtworlption of the former , but ij h hm whuiluro ahavod off , left tho Pukco iu a caiViuco -ah BHvonil aUendunta , and cot Into a poalohniao wh 4 aitod iw hUa at a few nilloofrom the town ou tho road to
France . A friend of mine , a former officer of the Royal Guards , whom I met to-day with a musket in his hand at one of tho barricades , informed me that this morning a person had escaped disguised as a lamplighter in a white jacket and trousers , and with the gas company ' s brass badge on his cap . He was tall , stout , and beardless , and quite corresponds in appearance , as far as I could learn , with the celebrated Salamanca . I suspect that the higher classes of persons engaged iu the revolution are rather inclined to favour the escape of men who , if they fell into the hands of the people , would assuredly be hung , shot , or torn to pieces . " A singular change has taken place in the fortunes of the Colonel Gerrigo who , taken at the first outbreak , was sentenced to death . We now hear of him as tho leader of the insurgents , haranguing and fighting at every street . The mob , of course , liberated lain .
Espartero ' sproclamatioa to Saragossa significantly makes no meation of the Queen . The cry throughout Spain is the " Constitution of 1837 , aud Moi * ality ;" will Espartero make conditions with his Queen that she shall be good for the future ? There are , of course , rumours of Carlist risings and Montemotin ' s hopes . But they are not authenticated ; and no movement seems to have been made in Madrid towards the dethronement of Isabella . General Sa » Miguel is the chief in command at Madrid .
Louis Napoleon is reported to have decided to have an army encamped at Bayonne , to watch Spanish politics .
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EGYPT . A new Viceroy reigns in Egypt ; Abbas * Pacha is dead : Said Faclia succeeds . Of the deceased the" Daily News says : — " Egypt experienced very Irani usage at the hands of its now deceased ruler . He fulfilled the most unfavourable rumours that were afloat in bis grandfather ' s time as to the fate of his people and their commerce undw his rule . Amidst the extreme dith ' culty experienced by everybody , from the late Pacha himself to the passing traveller , of ascertaining the real condition of Egypt , a few facts stand out indubitable . We fear , also , that there is no doubt that where Abbas Pacha ' s eye rested , and where his-hand was laid , the decline has been most obvious , as it is , of course , most recent . There are memorials of his methods , however , which are not
very recent , and which show what became of production under bis cum . That he would give security of life and property to his people nobody anticipated . It was more than could be expected in Egypt from an } ' but a very extraordinary man . There lfere nut many wlio supposed he would pay more respect to internal improvements than decorum to the memory of his grandfather and uncle required . But that he would foster the European alliances , which had done so much for the country , and countenance the foreign trade of his ports , and adhere to his convention of free trade , was confidently expected . At first it appeared as if he meant to do so ; and his intercourses with the English and French consuls- general—friendly and agreeable men bothwere frequent and familiar . It soon appeared , however , that this was merely in pursuit of pleasure . He liked exchanges of handsome presents with foreign potentates . He
liked helping 3 lr . Murray to send us tho hippopotamus ; he liked offering challenges for races on the sands under the Pyramids : tie liked to buy English bull-dogs of great price and greater ugliness ; and ho liked ordering and obtaining the most splendid of yachts from an English shipbuilder ' s yard . But he could never bo got to attend to business . He was fitful in his moods ; apt to shut himself up when un audience was extremely Wanted : apt to run off , and forbid anybody to follow him , when steamers were entering the port , with despatches requiring instant imd earnest attention . Of all diilicult p laces to follow u iruin to on business , perhaps Mount Sinai is the most so : and to Mount Sinai , therefore , wus tlie Pacha most fond of going—having a villa there , and trying to bo a Su ? 'd < tHapulus in a small secondary , vulgar kind of way . His grand occentricil y seemed to be
his hatred of Alexandria . Alexandria is ttic Cinderella of bis family of cities ; and there is no other bo onhglitenod , or , though not very beautiful , so worthy , of his favour . But ho could not bear trouble , and therefore he could not bear trade : and therefore he could not bear Alexandria . He stripped th « people—now by purchase , nominal or real , and now by contlscation j and all tho corn was iu his own granaries , that ho could intercept on its way to tho merchants' stores , Whut tho merchants got hold of last year ho forbade them to sell ; and up to tho time of his death he was commissioning his own olKciula to buy up tho total produce of Egypt for himself alone . Ho would not allow any European tmder any chance , nguinsb him , Tho nets of a ruler like this touch us—not only our merchants at Alexandria , but our working classes nt home . We may have no
businesa to meddle with an Egyptian Pucha'a wtcluuivo relations with l « ia own people ; but when Abbns Pacha camo into tho market in royal state , to override commerce and treaties with his royal equipage ; when ho Hteppod in botwoon tho pcoducerrt , merchants , and consumers , to break olF thoir tnuisjictiuurt , it became timu to inquire , in all diplomatic inodorution , wliut ho meant , and to inquire also whether ho would bo viceroy or coni-dculer—this being im age of tho world when no iriau can bo allowed to use the pierognlivo of tho ono function to grasp Uio profits of tho other in vury teeth of a free-trade convention . But death hau utoppud Mm in mid career , and haa so protected out ' Egyptian commerce , and hnvod us from tlio IVcaku of a now kind of Merchniil Prince . Mixy his auceoasoi bo a wiaor and a bottor man . " Of this nuo <; eB 8 or tho SiScle says : — . "On sail , quo la loi MuHuhiiiuie nppelle nu trouo o plu . jigO" dou meinurot ) do la 1 ' ainiUo uouvurttluo . O ' oat cotto lo
qui a cause Ix mort de prcsque tons les freres et oncles des Sultans de Constantinople , des que ceuxci ont eu des fils eapables de leur succe'der . Une politique si barbare devait Gtre abandonn « $ e par le Sultan actuel , Abdul-Medjid-Khiui . II a respectd 1 < 1 vie et mGrne la liberty de son frere , Abdul-Osys , qui est appele a lui succeder . " Said-Pacha , aujourd'hui vice-roi d'Egypte , est age de 3 G ans ; il est fils de Me'Jidmet-Ali et quatrieme frere du c ( -lebre Ibrahim-Pacha , -vanqueur a . Koniah et a Nezib . En 1840 , Said , alors amiral d'Egypte , se faisait remarquer par une pr&eVenee passionnde pour la France . Son avenement , quoique les circonstances soient bien diffe ' rentes et qu'il n ' existe plus entre la France et l'Angleterre de rivaiite hostile , doit , etre consider ^ co mme favorable a , l'influeuce Francaise en Egypte . " The eldest son of the late viceroy , who was to have been married to a daughter of the Sultan , wajj at Malta when news arrived of his father ' s death . He has hurried back to Alexandria . Will the marriage now take place ?
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CHINA . THE 1 CKVOL . UTI 0 X . The Overland Friend of China of June 6 , sums ap the China news transmitted by the last mail . " From private sources ( says the Friend ) and on what we de £ m reliable authority , we learn that the insurgent nrmy now consists of three main divisions , irrespectively of the central body in occupation of Nanking and Chinkeang-ibo . A mere glance at the wide . field of operations over which their movements extend , will suffice to show that , notwithstanding a check in the vicinity of the northern capitalj the insurgent arnis never vrere , on the whole , more victorious and powerful . " This is very vague : but it is news , and the only news .
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CHOLERA . The Cholera is everywhere . We hear of it in Uew York , in the West Indies , in Paris , Marseilles , Constantinople , Varna , and along the Dardanelles , Sebastopol , and Berlin . In England alarm is rising . In ! Londpn two or three startlingly rapid eases have occurred . ButtheKegistrar General ' s return as to the general health in London is not unsatisfactory ; and at Liverpool the Health officer has quelled a growing panic by the publication of a report which speaks of th ' at great and thickly-populated place as unusually healthy . But from other places in tliese islands the accounts are serious . At . Fnlniouth the "barque Lima , of London , nine days for Hobart Town , has put iu with six cases of cholera on board .
The Bel / list J 3 cm ? ie >; of Wednesday , states that 24 cases of cholera have occurred since that d ; ry week , and that the disease has assumed a vtry aggravated character , and has proved unusually fatal . It has bjen very fatal in & colliery village named Trimelon , situated between the Ferry-hill station of the York and Berwick Railway and Hartlepool . It broke out very suddenly on Saturday fortnight , and since then 14 deaths have taken place . Between 40 and 60 persons have been attacked with the disease in a bad form since its outbreak . Some of the deaths have been awfully sudden , and without those premonitory symptoms that have previously marked tho early stages of this terrible disease . Two fatal case « of cholera occurred towards tho end of last week in this city , one of them a gentleman who had just returned from an infected district in the west , and the other his son , n child of three- or four years of age . —Edinburgh Co ura nt .
lhere are brief warnings of a similar character , from places in almost ovory county in England . In Stroud cholera has broken out , and from a singular cause . Twelve persons dined off a putrid hare and cholera , supervened , —infection spreading . Hero is a description of one choleraic spot in Stroud : — " The cottage in which deceased lived was ono of four adjoining without any buck place whatever , and in every ono of which persons were ill ; jilt refuse matter had to bo carried out at tho front into the street , and at the present fund tho three nio . st dangerous cases uro in u room not nine feet square ; some of tho oxcromonlitious mutter Is thrown near to tho public road , a wall only soparatuig it from tho foot-path , and thu rest into what is culled a privy . "
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Chomcka in Paris . —Tho hospital reports from July 0 to July 12 inclusive , give 202 c « ae » received , 10 J discharged , and 102 deaths . Between the liith and ltilh inclusive tltcro were Gl admisaions and 38 cleatlm . Tint total from the commencement gives MM aunutiuioiiH , 1851 reeovurii ' s ^ I 62 dl deaths , and 283 remaining under treatment . — Medical Times and Gazette . C 110 UCR . A in liAKUAixMca . —By 11 private letter just received from Burbftdoos , Untod Juno 2 l > , wo loarn , that slnoo May l'A to tlio date of tliu lottor , tlicra iiad boon 46 < J 0 cuoea of cholera ia tlio ishiml , of whom i lld had diyd . This is from tho police rotuniHj but . tlio iiiHneoUir believed that therehad been double that number , us tlioy had not been able to oollcct tho information , half tho police forco having boon Bwcptoll' by tlio ( iirto . itiii . I none parish , out of 81 cation , 80 died . JSlno-teiitliH of tho cane . s are of uogreoa . Tho doivthrt among III' ) 1 'Juyliali hoMiers have already amounted to 420 . — Medical Times and ( Jajatb * .
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July 29 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 703
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Leader (1850-1860), July 29, 1854, page 703, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2049/page/7/
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