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to the pride of Russia , a bearding of her guarded coasts , and a warning that Sir Charles Wood ' s reinforcements' may do something more terrible next year . m . " Next year ! " The word sounds ominous for our own Government , which may perchance be compelled to give upits half-and-half policy , and for those who venture to ally themselves against us The first body o £ ibreigu legionaries are assembled at Shorncliffe , numbering about 3000 or
4000 . They are a fine , soldierly body of men , and the manner in which they have been treated will tell foreign countries something of the feeling of the English people . The entire body , officers and men , have been entertained by Mr . Raikes Cbbrie , a private Member of Parliament , in his park . In other words , Mr . Ccrrie , who represents at once the independent Member of Parliament , the Liberal party , the commercial classes in the City , and the elite of English society , becomes the hospitable entertainer of a body of men
solely because , besides constituting a part of the forces to attack Russia , they represent those natives of Switzerland , Belgium , Germany , Denmark , Holstein , and Italy , who are prepared to take service under the English banner in the battles against the Czar and arbitrary power ; for the arbitrary power has much to do with it . Independently of the set speeches of the table , -where Lord Palnerston used a few words about the Italians in the Crimea , such as he know 3 how to fill with so much meaning—innumerable things
must have been said in conversation which would make the foreigners and the English understand each other better than they sometimes do through official communication . * VVe talk about other alliances besides those with the imperial head of France ; we have already constitutional Piedmont , "king and country ; " Spain offers herself ; but here the English gentry were seen welcoming the first advance of Germany , Denmark , Holstein , and Italy . The natives of those countries , too , although they will fi ght under the English flag , will fight where they can show what the subject races are made of . They will be able to win the respect of Englishmen and the fear of their enemies .
We have had some other entertainments besides this strange one of a foreign force by an English private gentleman . Lord Stanley lias been presiding as host , when the grounds and mansion of Knowsley—seat of the once royal Stanleys of Derby—were thrown open to 5000 people , constituting the united Mechanics * Institutions of Lancashire and Cheshire . The courtesy was shown in no measured style ; Lord Stanley made
a speech , but it was short and unpretending ; the grounds were freely thrown open to the thousands , and not only the grounds but the house itself . The servants will probably report that less dam age was done by the 5000 humble visitors than happens sometimes when u carriage company " fill the rooms , and advertisements in the papers next day tell that fans or shawls have been " taken away by mistake . " At all events , the heir to the Stanleys of Derby , a Conservative and a noble ,
knows how to trust the people of this country m the very bosom of his own home . That is another form in which the nobility , as well as the gentry of England , see the policy of extonding hospitality to a foreign legion . The next host is Lord Robert Grosvbnor , who received at Rickmanaworth an army of Scripture Readers in a triennial visit . Lord Robert has been a leader of fashion , a distinguished Whig
in the county representation of Parliament . He is no longer young ; he thinks o £ the other world , and appears to be acting ns Member for a certain constituency which he is to represent in u another place , " superior even to the House of Lords . He plays the patron in piety with a good grace—Without pretension , but with liberality ; and the Scripturo Roadoru no doubt are fond of Lord
Robert , They carry Christian comfort to many a humble home , and with it the good repute of Lord Robert . It is here that he finds his strength . He only happened to mistake the great working districts of London for Rickmansworth , when he proposed a Sunday Bill that would do very well in that rustic district , but which threatened a sudden and inconvenient revolution in the habits and manners of regions that he is imperfectly
acquainted with . Lord Robert is nt home at Rickmansworth , he was out of his element in Bethnal-green ; and after being astounded at the ingratitude of his species for refusing to be edified and beatified after his own fashion , he retreats to congenial Hertford , and finds solaco amongst his Scripture Readers . It was another sort of foreign legion entertained there—foreign only to the feelings and ideas of a great number of English people , not to the noble host .
Two other appearances before the public , personally and by pen , do not require many words , because , although they are events within the survey of the week , they do not belong to the present time . Mr . Laing has been down to his constituents at Kirkwall , making a clean breast of it ; and Mr . Duffy has been bidding farewell in an address to his constituents at New Ross . Mr . Laing tells the electors of Kirkwall that he received offers of place under Lord Palmerston ' s
Cabinet , but he has not full confidence in Lord Palmerston . He trims somewhere between war and peace , and his chosen leader is Lord John Russe : ll : in the between-day-and-night the moth deliberately elects to follow the lead of the Willo ' -the-wisp ! Mr . Laing evidently is not to be reckoned among the strong statesmen of the day . He has chosen at the commencement of his public life to identify himself with the declining career of Lord John .
The list of outrages this week is considerable . From lunatics to railway directors there has been an unusual activity . An unhappy little girl is found half buried under a heap of stones—by a cottage where her parents resided , near Bristolhorribly cut -with a sharp instrument ; and the women of the neighbourhood are terrified at the idea that there is some lunatic wandering about seeking whom he may murder . At
Knightsbndge an unhappy old woman is found with her throat cut , and her daughter , u woman of middle age , tells an unintelligible story implying that the mother killed herself . A great anxiety about lodgers who would not come , an extreme depression of spirits , and a restless desire to get possession of a razor indicating in the daughter a state of mind that inevitably suggests the probable denouement . It is a case of poverty mastering the mind .
Passing over ordinary cases of assaults liy husbands upon their wives , we have a story which in some respects resembles another that recently excited public curiosity . At Clapton , in Somersetshire , Emma Candy , wife of a farmer , suddenly dies , and unmistakable traces of arsenic are discovered . She seems to have been greatly
dopressed and to have been addicted to intemperance . A cousin lives in the house—a dairymaid , of whom the husband is said to be " very fond ;" but there is no direct evidence of jealousy on the part of the wife , nor anything in fact which confirms suspicion against tho husband or the cousin ; while it seems probable that tho wife herself had been purchasing poison .
Whether it ia some wonderful lunatic or soiuo ' * skeleton in tho household" that introduces crime and " spreads suspicion , tho prccariouflncss of human life is not half so far betrayed by these individual cases as by tho wholesale asHnultn which railways inflict upon passengers . ' Wo havo hnlf a dozen cases this week of accidents in which the Eastern Counties , the Great Western , tho Lincolnshire and Yorkshire , the South Devon , and
the [ North British Railways have assailed their passengers , either with switches that turn when they ought not to have turned or do not turn when they ought ; or trains that overtake other trains labouring along with imperfect steam ; engines have been thrown off * the lines , carriages dragged or jerked off and smashed , travellers bruised , their limbs broken , their lives put in danger if not actually taken from them ; whole masses of wreck , suffering , and destruction inflicted on a scale which no private lunatic or murderer can command . _ „ . _ _ . _ _ __ _
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Sik Chari . ks Naiueb and the Attack , on Swkaboro . —Stung by tho recent success of the Allies at Sweaborg , Sir Charles Napier has addressed a long letter to the papers , setting forth the history of his own schemes of last year , and of his alleged ill-usage by the Admiralty , and more especially by Sir James Graham . lie says that , had he been provided with a hundred gun and mortar-boats , he could have " annihilated" Sweaborg ; but , without one of these indispensable vessels , he was ordered by Sir James Graham , in October , after the proper season had passed , to make an attack which , under the circumstances , must have resulted in the destruction of the fleet . Forty-three was the number of mortar and gun-boats employed by Admirals Dundas and Penaud . Sir Charles conceives that , if they had had a hundred , they might have utterly destroyed Sweaborg , instead of leaving the sea defences almost untouched .
Drainage ok Svdesham . —A deputation from the inhabitants waited on the Commissioners of Sewers on Tuesday , to complain of the wretched sanitary condition of that neighbourhood , which , owing to open sewers and defective drainage , is held to be in a worse state than any place around London . The chairman said they had to encounter a great obstacle in being provented from making a higher rate than sixpence in the pound . The deputation retired without any definite arrangement being come to .
Hacknev Brook . —At the same Court of Sewers , the drainage of the New Cattle Market at Islington into this brook was again alluded to , when Sir John Shelley said it appeared by the report of the engineer that 30 , 000 / . was required to be expended to mitigate the nuisance , and , looking at the fact that another body would > oon come into power , he could come to no other conchi' -ion than that it was not advisable to expend such a sum of money on a temporary work . A resolution in accordance with this opinion was carried .
A Recklkss Fkat was performed at the Crystal Palace a few afternoons since . One of the workmen engaged in the completion of tho circular water tower , for a wager of a gallon of beer ascended to the summit of the southern tower by a rope which had been suspended there for some purpose , and which hung down into the high road , a height of more than two hundred feet . He accomplished the daring exploit , to the a .-tonishment of a considerable number of spectator .-- , by pulling himself up hand over hand , and twisting his legs round the rope .
Tiik " Queen ' s Knoink" unsafk . —The cxpm- ~ train which left Edinburgh at ten minutes to ten on Mniidny . ran oft' the rails about three miles north of Btrwik The engine No . 67 is the largest which tl ><< com ] an . ) possesses , and is that used for the royal train ; but it >> said that it was not considered a perfectly safe , engine . the flange of the wheels not having a sullicient fjnp . The accident occurred ou an embankment , down wliiih the engine , the tender , and several carriages ran , iinning completely over . The fireman v « s thrown ji ^ . iin . ' -f u wall , and picked up insensible . Of the thirty passengers , only three or four were slightly injurnl . 'I li <¦
effect of the accident upon some of them was ralhei singular , and has been thus described : —An American lady , as aoou as she was dragged out , desired (<> Know the address hIic wuh to write to for damage . * . Aimiher lady entreated that her plan of Sevastopol . should be recovered ; hIio was studying the plan wInii the m-eidont occurred . Out . of one carriage , the end . i > f which win broken in , a geiitleninu jumped laughing . * > ' »«' young man , finding a smash inevitable , got under hi " seat , and as soon as tho carriage upset leaped "lit , and ran with great rapidity into Uurwick lV » r a .- ^ Nt'iiicc . which was at once sent , nil the medical men in ihe t .. \ w boing put in requisition .
Railway Coi , i , imion . <—About one o ' clock on Sunday morning last , a heavy excursion train , conveying « l »> ut . one thmibund persons , on its return Journey from Black pool to Sowerby-bridge , Yorkshire , was overtaken and run into by a goods train in tho Suunit tunu < l «> f ili > Liincnshire and YorkHhiro Railway , near Tudmoi dci ) . Tho excursion train bud come almost to a utand-M '" ' <>' the . want , of steam ; hut the goods train fortunately slackened it . M Hpeed , or the . collision would Imve /> ccii worse . A boy had bis legs fractured , and several <>/ ' 'I ' other passengers went bruised .
Totmchh Ki , ic < m <» N . " — It Ih Maid that the vacancy " tho representation of this borough , caused by the call «> l Lord Seymour to the House of I ' eers , will Ixi < l < 'Mi''l by Mr . Mount , a relative of tho present , noble < l " " '' Tho ConsorvativoH nr « expected to bring forward « <"" didute , but , as yet , nothing definite is known .
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806 T H E X . E A T > E H . [ No . 283 , Saturday , *"' ' ' ——————!¦—^***™^^^^^^^^^^^^ — -
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 25, 1855, page 806, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2103/page/2/
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