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THE COURT . The Queen and Prince returned to Osbome on Saturday immediately after the prorogation of Parliament ; and there they still remain , occasionally taking cruises in their yacht . No day seems yet fixed for the autumn journey to Balmoral . The Morning Post says : — " The celebrated pianist , Charles Halle , hail the honour of being commanded to attend at Osborne yesterday ( Tuesday ) W the purpose of performing before the Queen and
Prince Albert some of the most remarkable productions from the music of Beethoven , of which M . Halle" is so well known to be a faithful and brilliant interpreter . Her Majesty and liis Boyal Highness condescended to receive M . Hall ^ privately during an interview of nearly three hours ; and , alter having appreciated with exquisite taste and remarkable delicacy of artistic sentiment all the beauties of the principal sonatas of the grand master , they were pleased to express to the artist their approval of the excellence of his playing , and to treat him with tlie most flattering distinction . "
Most of the Ministers have left town . Lord Aberdeen remains at the Hanger ' s Lodge , Greenwich , to be near business ; and the Duke of Newcastle is constant at Downing-street as Minister of War . Sir B . Hall , also , will probably remain at his new post while the cholera lasts .
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THE TURKISH LOAN . At last the Turkish Loan is out : the Times City article says : — . " The following notifieat ion regarding the proposed , Turkish loan was issued to-day CWednesday ) by the agents , Sir XL . Guld . sir .: d and Mr . ¦ ' Horslcy Palmer , and is in precise conformity with the particulars already published . An accompanying memorandum states the views with which it i . regarded-by the Governments of France and England- The total amount is to be 5 , 000 , 000 / ., and the first issue will represent 2 , 000 , 000 £ . oi 6 per cent , stock at 80 ( or a cash payment of ; 1 , 600 , 0007- ) , -with a privilege to the ¦ subscribers
of taking a further sum of 1 , 000 ; OOG 7 . on the same terms ¦ within a month- The remaining 2 , 000 , 0007 . of stock is not to be issued for rive months below 8 . > . Subscriptions are to be received both in London aiid Paris , and , as tlie total cash payment involved , even supposing the entire amount of the loan to be eventually subscribed , will r , ot much' exceed 4 , 000 , 0 OiX -, there is no reason to apprehend that the instalments spread over . many months , and , divided between the two countries , will produce any very objectionable eftvet on the money-market- The time allowed for the sending in of subscription ' s is limited to fo-inoiTow , and the applications already far exceed the sum required . "
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EGYPT . ¦\ Vu road in the Debuts : — 'The letters which we have jugt received from Alexandria come down to the 5 th in&U , and are again full of descriptions of thoyiVe * given in honour of Said Pasha ' s accession to the throne . Ho derives benefit from the hatred borne to his predecessor , and it is only just to add that the measures by which he hjis signalised " the commencement of his reign justify tlio joy and hopes of tho population . The removal of the prohibitions imposed by iibbas Pasha on the corn trade i . s an absolute boon to foreign commerce , and more
particularly to the population , whom that deplorable system caused " to perish pf starvation in the midst of tho most fertile country in the world . As if by enchantment , wheat fell at once in price , as till that was necessary to place bread ¦ within ovcry one ' s reach , even of the very poorest , was to throw open " tho Government stores , which were , full to overflowing . The first acts of clemency of the new Government are known , and no ultoiior act has conic to impair their effect . Not only has Klfy Bey been pardoned , but ho still retains tho title of Kinya ; and Said Pasha has confirmed the donation of land which had been made him bv Abbas
Pashft . Tlie moderation and prudence of the new Viceroy aro such , that up to the present timu very few changes are cited in tho administrative stall ' . It is not th . it . solicitors and flatterer .- ) have been wanting , but they have been thrust aside without ceremony-, llhaini I ' uwlia , t > on of Ahbas , being absent , tlie post of Minister of War , of which ho boro the title , has been given to Ahmed Pnsha Eltopdji ; tho prefect of police of Cairo has been replaced by tho former prefect of police of Alexandria , Tnhir liqy , and some prelects of provinces whoso incnpurity or negligence was notorious have been dismisHCd ; but tho highest personages uro inninUiiiod in the places which they occupied before the death of Abbas Pnsha . Pur tho present moment the principal anxiety oi ' tho Government ia to hour up against tlio tlnanciul
crisis which Abbas Paslia hat * bequeathed to it . Tim linanceH exhausted , tho State borno down liy heavy arrears of debt to tho civil and military fuiiotionarii'S , and a deiicit of nearly 50 , 000 , 0001 ' . in tho Treasury—aneh is tho situation . Abbas Pnshii , however , died cxcucdiugly rich , nsj his porwonul fortune in I'HtimiUed at tho hugo amount of 200 , 1 > UO . OOO in uneeio C uo doubt mi exaggerated ligure ) , without reckoning u lurgo amount of real property . No one , IiomiIoh , is ignorunt that that primv , whoso dialniat wuh proverbial , ouiieoided hia troumirc ^ in inyntorioua hiding-plucus , and it will ho exceedingly dilnuult to get iu the sum * to which the Suto incurtnuily oiuklud fVom tho property left , but which right fci . dd I uslm Jiim doehirod that ho will only cxoroino iu tin-strict uiniw oi
Innittt ol thu lnw . To mml fWl ' tim n ,.,. ii wi , ; ,, ! , in ,, iin » i ^ t ! ... . uiu livw . To wurd off the puril which , menuoert them Iroin that quarter , bin brother , nuplmwn , and all thu lu-imoN ol tlio I . iinil y . uuw oloaol y united for thu lii-M timu to tliu Jioad ol the e ovcniment , n » woll an tho principal nrraonugrs , havepliicfd IhciiiHolveBrtt hia JI » plM > H | , and have not li . MtuuJ to ijiiy into tho ironHuxy very imporianL huiiih . It , U hoped tlml , llu-. io cMniordumry rosuuroea , joined to ilium , which may have bU , n croutod by other n , . ula , „ , „ , t 0 , , ) watfHlft rcBiTvci ) ol fcud Paahu , wiU Huniuo t ^ , , . »
" We had not thought it right to mention the rumours which were afloat after the death of Abbas Pasha ; as the present information obtained from a good source did not allow any doubt to-be entertained that his death was one of violence . Two of" his Mamelukes , who had recently witnessed the execution of several of thtir comrades , the victims of the cruel caprice of their mister , and who had been menaced themselves with a similar fate , strangle 1 him in the midst of his debauches , and thvn immediat-ly fled , carry in 2 ; with them all the jewels that they could lay hands on . It was said that one of them hud been discovered in his hidingplace and arrested . On the 5 th , the Egyptian steam frigate Nil arrived at Alexandria from Constantinople , hiving on board Ferid Fffendi , first secretary of the Sultan , bearer of the finnan of inve . itituiv . "
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NAPLKS . The King secludes himself in the Island of Ischia from the attacks of cholera . The reports of bad feeling between the foreign and Neapolitan troops had been revived . The Kin ;; of Naples , it is known , has 15 , U 00 mercenaries in his pay , chiefly Swiss , to whom he shows much more favour than to his 100 , 000 Neapolitan soldiers , giving them higher pay , better food and clothing , anJ better quarters tlian to his own countrymen . Of course , this gives rise to much jealousy , so that , if there were any one to head a military insurrection now , there is every probability that it would be successful , as even the mercenaries have shown themselves not free from the taint of liberalism , tind those who are now loyal to the man who disposes irresponsibly of the Neapolitan revenues would soon give thtir adherence to the party which seemed likely to command the treasury . Luckily for the King , 116 such leader presents himself , and so the Government has another respite .
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. SPAIN " . . In the elections for the constituent Cortes , the l . iw of 1837 -will be carried out with , . some modifications . . There will a representative for every 25 , 000 souls . Everything is in suspense , meanwhile ; Espart . ero and O'Donnell continue on ouoward good terms : Queen Chriiliua . is a ¦ pri ' soner in her daughter's palace . The accounts from Cataloni . i indicate serious disturbances . AtT ' iitosa the mob abolished all taxes , and muruei \ d the principal tax-collector ! The Dowager ' Duchess of Alba has been appoinncd
camerera mayor to the Queen . Her Majesty , v . appears , expresaed some little ' chagrin at the complete change of all the Palace officials : This , for various reasons , was not umuttural . ' They had been long about her , and some of them rnust have been complaisant to a fault . In ^ p : iin it is not the custom for the Queen ' s household to be changed when the Ministry changes , but certainly it was high turn ; to make the innovation . This may have s ' trvck the Queen as strange , and she may have regretted putting . with some of her old familiars , but , upon the whole , the thing passed over very Well . I need hardly say tmu of so promising a molehill as this mountahio have been made .
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AMERICA . General Campbell has been appointed Minister to London , The New York Herald announces the arrival at New York of Dr . Co ' ttrmin , an American gentleman , who lias lived for several years at St . Petersburg , and who h :: s been intrusted by the Czur with a mission of the highest importuncc—viz ., to propose a commercial treaty , and to dispose of Sitkn , the latter on very advantageous terms , to the United States Government . According to tho Herald , the Czar , " in speaking of our relations with Spain , says he
considers that Cuba is ours by right of her geographical position , and tlwit , as she commands the entrance to the Gulf , we should take her , whether the Spanish Government is willing or not ! " The Herald is most fulsome in its praise of the Emperor and abusive of England . This Dr . Cottman , the Czar ' s agent , while in London , en route , to New York , addressed a letter to the United States' Consul in London , speaking in thu harshest terms of tho proceedings of the . British squadron in the Baltic , mid even accusing the crows of violation of Finnish women !
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CANADA . Up to tho 1 st inat . the returns showed the oleetion of Gt Reformers and 22 Conservatives . Mr . lliuclcs , the Premier , has been returned by two eonstituonoies by large majorities .
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CON TIN EN T A L N OT K S . A 1 'iuvATK letter from : m iuflucnti . il person at nordo . iux HiiVHi— "What do you think of ntY . iira in tlio K : mt ? Arc wo to have any duci&ivo action befuro tho end of tho wimson ? If wo do not make a lit I to liasto tho t . V . ar will huvo u . i through the winter behind liin inipeiuai-abh .- barrier of lee . . . "Our grain hnrvo . a in niu }» iiilii'aiit this your . It wnu widly wiuitoil in Franco , for thu pnor huvo BiilVuml Huvordy . Thoro will Ijo smuts littlo tuni'iulii , i ) irha | iH , » , i far ua lire . id i . cijiu : einiul ; but ihoru aro » i'rkou . i ni- owptntn in uthur direct ions . All iii'tiiiliw of hiibrti * l »; iu ! o aro rifting in jirico i | uity unuiiiuilly . " 'I'liu ( juostiuii ol ' mibMlaU'iii ' i- ' io U'voiuinj ; a i-aiiitul qui'Stiuii for our ruk'i-H . In o | iiio-iiiun to tlio toi-n-luu-vint , t hu vintugo will b » i abmihUol y nulli to nucli u degrco thai tliciu huvo biH-n cvi'ii aniilioiilliiiiM from tlio Month to tin- ( ijverunictit lomhnll iho wiui'ti ol ^> : un and l ' ortujrul at a ivil » r «« l ihily , If not lVro , But this iluiinnul cnu huhy . l y bo afi ' cJcil lo . Tho cuniiiR'iYe of Dordcaux will bo uriovuusly ' jilKuicUliv thid
total failure of the viatage . The proprietors are already in alarm : and if the vine disease continues its ravages much longer , there will be an enormous depreciation in all the property of the Me"doc district , and rnany proprietors -will be obliged to sell at ruinous prices , in order to meet their engagements . "
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The Madrid press n . ivv consists of the following journals : —la Espuna , las Xovedadcs , la Nacion , la JSpoca , el Clamor Pullico , el Diario espanal , el Tribuno , la Esperanza , la Iberia , el Cu / olico , et Miliciano , la Indepenckncia , el Guardio , national , el JEsparterista , la Union , la Europa . . The Heraldo , official organ of the lute Government , has ceased to appear .
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LAYAKD AND THE HUNGARIANS . It has been more than indicated in these pages that Mr . Layard is a parliamentary failure , and his late passage of arms with M . Ivossnth ou ^ , when the facts are rightly understood , to finish him in the House-cf-Commons sense . The correspondence hetween Kossuth and himself shows that he was understood to accuse the Hungarians , &c ., of ingratitude to the Sultan for the part they seem to be taking with regard to the war . Tins Mr . Xjayard , in writing , has denied , and declares that he put the matter as a supposition , ' that if the } - did so and sp , then they would , be guilty of ingratitude , ' &c . This declaration , though it got the reporter of the Times
dismissed , is anything but founded on fact . Mr . Lay aril is a blundering , lumbering speaker , evidently always labouring with an overplus of confused matter in his head , which he blurts out without arrangement or any clearness either of voice or language . So that the mistake of a single stenographer in the gallery might be excusable . But what will Mr . Layard . say when a : comparison of the notes of at least two other reporters of his speech , and the testimony of two of the writers of the summaries of-newspapers , besides that of certainly one , if not more , attentive listener to Ins speech , prove that . Ayhatever he may have meant to say , the ; form , the meaning , and the substance of what he did actually say was
correctly stated , in the Times . As has been said before , Mr . Eayai-d w : 3 S listened to during his first two or three speeches , not from any Intrinsic merit they possessed , but on account of " " prestige" of his personal position , literary and antiquarian ; but as his two last efforts had the effect of dealing the House , he may safely be left ' to the tender mercies of that parliamentary aS ' emesis , which ever dogs the pretentious member who is unequal to the daring flight of trying to storm , the House of Commons into listenmi ? to him , or , worse still , who endeavours to take advantage of exoteric circumstances to inflict upon that keenly critical assembly that which it most abhors under every form—a sham I—Glasgow Coiumontveu llh .
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TUB C 1 IOLEHA . The Registrar General ' s Report thus speaks thia week of the " Health in London : "Last week the total numocr of deaths registered in London ^ was 1 , 83- ' , while tho births numbered 1 , GU 2 , thu return exhibiting the unusual ivsult of an excess in tho farmer over the hitter . In the ten corresponding , weeks of the years 1 S-1-1-53 tlic average number of deaths was 1 , 110 , which , if raised in proportion to increase of population , becomes 1 , 221 . Hence it ar > punr . s thnt the . actunl number of deaths in last week ox-feeds the estimated amount by Oil .
This excess corresponds nearly wiili the number of fatal casoH of cholera leeur . led Li ^ t wvelc , which was C 4-i , while those of d ' urrhau numbered 193 . In the 32 nd week of 18-ltt , which ended A . u , u ; us r . 11 , b : 2 : > deaths occurred from cholera , nnd 173 from diarrhooi . Tlu progress of tho prosent epidemic , which sli g htly lmnifu . stcd itself in the seconJ week of . July , is shown by the Lllowin ^ weekly numbers : — deaths from ' cholera , 5 , 2 <> , 1 ! KJ , iJ' . il > , .-uid ( . Ml ; deaths from diarrhoea and dysentery ( also in the last live wei'Us ) , 51 , 63 , b " , MG . iuul 200 . Or' l . ik week ' s do . iths I ' vom cholera 4 < 1 G occurred on the south sido of tho river , a proportion to tljo total nuinhor of U 0 per cent .
lhoGl-1 deaths h \> i 11 cholera in the week now ' reported on wore distributed according to districts thus : —Wvst districtB , 08 ; Hortl * districts , U'J ; central di ^ tricta , 31 ; coat district , 00 ; south districts , \ 16 .
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Ijord Jocelyn ' s death from cholera lust Saturday cxcitodl consternation in town ; and the circumstances have called forth threat sy mputhy for his family , Ho is to be lamented l > y the public because ho was an admirable soldier , and because it is a fair conclusion from tlio facts that his death was occasioned by hia rigid |) cribnnanoe of Iuh duties as the head of a . regiment . This regiment was stationed at tin ; Tower , and deaths from chi > lora having been very iiumoroua there Lord Joeelm thought Hint ho would revive the
confidence of thu men by reniainin .- ! ninoiia : them . AecjunlUitfly he ale |» t nightly ut the Tower amU aa ho was for several days sulK-rinK from diurrhoait , rendered a serious malad y in his constitution by hia having , l > y niuiuis of tlio WiiUt l . ' inv , recently vory Kroatly reduced hia wi ^ lil , l « o bocanie , by hia porsirttunro in romninintf with hi . s ivgunent , u victim . He ij . i ' t thoTowi'i on SaJurday inorniiiK to walk to tho )\ o . il . Kmli lml hiuldonly becoming alarmingly weak vliilo i ) assing- ulong thy JStrand , ho culled u cub
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August 19 , 1854 . ] THE LEADER . 775
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 19, 1854, page 775, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2052/page/7/
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