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October 2 ft CI 8553 T H E XTB iA D E R . 31027
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OBITUARY . Mb . Tudway , M . P . for Wells , diocl on Saturday from an affection of the bronchial tubes , under which ho had long been labouring . He woa in his forty-eighth year , and had represented Wells since the general election of 1852 . Lord WHAHNCHii'jra died on Tuesday at Wortloy Hall , the family seat in Yorkshire . Ho was born in 1801 ; and eat for the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1841 to 1845 , when he succeeded his father in the family honouru . He was a Liberal Conservative in politics . Mit . Fkediouck Lucas , M . P . for Moath , who has been struggling for aoino time past with a complication of ailments , expired at Staines on Tuesday . Though member for an Irian oounty , the editor of an Irish newspaper ( the Tablet ) , and . a writer in severul Irish periodicals , Mr . Lucas was an Englishman ; and , though a moat devoted Roman Catholic , wan the son of a member of the Socioty of Friends , and the brother-in-law of Mr . John Bright . " Ho has always , " Bays tha-Globe , " lived a life of political and religious strife ; and , having advocated in the Tablet the right of tlio Irish priesthood to interfere in politics , and being rebuked by the Irish Itoinan Catholic bishops , ho went to Rome early in the present year to prosecute his appeal against Dr . Cullon ' a decision . The appoal wua docldcd against him , and the result was the entire prostration of Mr . Lucas ' s physical system , and his premature death at the early age of forty-throe . "
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madfrin the ttdsainiatratwitof affiaira in Poland , and : that bere'willije ^ another government . " . Theterrorism exercised , <^ d 4 hdimpiuiity enjoyed , by the jQ-reek brigands exhibit in ; the most vivid colours the ntterlydebased and miserable- condition of-themodern Hellenic-kingdom , -whore- the . Government is actually obliged to ; bribe the banditti to give : up their prey . -Some singular particulars on this subject are contained in a letter from Athens published in the Moni&eur . We xead : —" The French Captain ofArtillery , Mj Berthaud , ¦ who was carried off whilst walking -within a short distance of the Piraeus by a band of brigands on the 5 th inst-, < "was released on the payment , by theOreek Government of the 30 , 000 drachmas in gold , / required by the banditti for his ransom . M . Berthaud states that after being taken he was handcuffed , and forced to walk during the-whole night , being only allowed now and then a few moments' rest . -He remained With the brigands the whole of the following day on the top of the mountain of Daphne , whence he could see the roads of the Piraeus . When night came on , without waiting the return of a gendarme , they set him at liberty , on condition that he should proceed to the town and bring back the captain ' s ransom ; they marched off , and stopped the -next morning on the sea-coast , beyond Eleusis . From that point they sent a fisherman to the Piraeus to fetch the 80 , 000 drachmas . M . Berthaud sa 3 's , that , he -excepted the . forced marches in the mountains during two consecutive nights , the obligation they imposed on him to remain during the whole day in a horizontal position * and some threats they addressed to him the last day , he suffered no ill-treatment . The brigand 3 offered to play cards with him , which he declined . The stakes consisted of handfulls of gold and jewels , which they seemed to possess in great profusion . The band is the same by which two English officers and several inhabitants of Athens were arrested two months ago , on the Kephisaia road . The carrying away of Captain Berthaud has caused a great sensation at Athens , as well as at the Piraeus . The French and English troops manifested a deep sympathy for that officer . " Indignation and surprise have been excited in " Wallachia by Emmanuel Balliano accepting the post of <} rand Tornik ( Minister of the Interior ) . Balliano has hitherto strongly opposed the Russian tendencies of tie Hospodar Stirbey , and he was one of the supporters of the inquiry into the conduct of that prince instituted by Dervish Pacha . The fact of Balliano now accepting office under Stirbey is rendered the more remarkable by 4 he circumstance of a letter , signed by the new minister , And demanding justice against the Hospodar , being now , or recently , on its way to the Governments of England and France . Some important measures of finance have been published by the French Government . The Moniteur contains a decree exempting from import duty for three years from the present time building timber , cabinetmaking wood ( when . above a certain thickness ) , rough castings * bar and « heet iron , rough copper and zinc , hemp and flax , pitch and tar , tallow , and other animal grease imported into France and intended to be employed in ship-building , on condition of the importer proving'Within one year after the time of their importation that the said articles have been used for the above purpose . The decree also enacts that for one year ibreign-built vessels of all kinds may be imported on the payment of a duty of ten per cent , on their value , to be fixed , by the Consultative Committee of Arts and Manufactures . Another decree exempts . from tonnage dues any foreign vessels which shall bring building timber to the ports of Algeria from the north of Europe , and return -with cargoes of French or Algerian produce . I f , however , the vessels so arriving have not on board a -quantity equal to three-fourths- of their regular tonnage , ¦ t hey-will be liable to dues for , the number of tons remaining empty .- —The Bank , of . Franco has issued the following notice : — " The Council General in its sitting of the 18 th of October , 1855 , has raised to six per coat . per annum the rate of discount and of interest on advances . " . Austrian finance continues unsettled . The Tirnea Vienna Correspondent , from sources which ho believes to 'be official , makes the following statements : — " The full ceasion of a part of the Stato domains to the Bank , and the establishment of a mortgage bank by that institution have , since the return of Jiaron Bruok from lschl , bocomo positive facts . The Finance Department proposes that the capital of the Mortgage Bank shall be ¦ 4 * 5 , 000 , 000 * 1 . in silver or . gold , which sum is to be raised by the issue of 50 , 000 shares , at 700 silver florins ouah . The State domains which have been conceded to the Bank consist principally of Arabia land . The saltworks , mines , ! and principal forests remain the property of the State-. JLven now that land of tho value of 150 , 000 , 000 / 1 . i > Mtb « en given to tho Bank , tho Austrian State domains or « ntora extensive and valuablo titan those of any other J&uropumiStato , frith the exception of Russia . Buron Bruok probably intends to try if it bo not possiblo to obtain . « noro favourable terms from Rothschild , or if a fusion between thattilixn and the French Credit Mobllior cannot be effected . . Tho Minister of Finance is an able man ,. but he ia likely to fail in both attempts . It is whispered that the head of the Vionna house of Rothschild -would not bo aorcy to bo roloasod from his promise
to establish the CreVlit Mobilier , and . there is a . deadly feud between the ( Rothschilds and the brothers Pereire . " The Kesseler Zeitung of the 17 th publishes the official notice that the resignation of the Ministry in the Electorate of Hessen , sent in asfar back as the 6 th iast ,. has been accepted . The notorious Hassenpflug as Minister of the Interior and of Justice , and MM . Volmar and Baumbach'aa Ministers of Finance and Foreign Affairs respectively , have ceased to . guide the destinies of the Electorate . All attempts to form a new Ministry have as yet foiled . The Danish Prime Minister , M ^ Bapg , has been named President of the Secret Council- of 48 tate , and all the Ministers have been appointed members of the same Council . Lieutenant-General deBulow replaces the Hereditary Prince Ferdinand as Govemor-of Seelandand the islands . The notification to the English Ambassador of the dismissal of Mazza has been accepted by our Government as the amende honorable . That Mazza , however , is not veritably dismissed , appears from the facts ( among many others ) that that petty despot was seen as lately as the 6 th inst . walking in front of the Royal Palace dressed in his official uniform , and that he then-paid the King a visit *—The preparatory railway between Naples and Brindisi has been commenced . The Scala Frctmca has been promised , and a disposition has been manifested to liberalise the tariff . The treaty between Naples and the United States has been signed . It concedes the indirect commerce , and provides that soldiers- are not to be billeted on American citizens . The Concordat has excited great indignation among the humbler clergy of Austria , who object to being so completely handed , over to the bishops . Collisions between the civil and military powers are anticipated ; and fear is entertained that the abolition of the Placetum Reglurn ( which . Ma tthias ^ Corvinus s-wore to maintain in Hungary " till to the end of all time" ) will cause much dissatisfaction in the country of the Magyars . Cholera has appeared with considerable violence , for the first time , in the island . pf Corfu and at Zante . None of the English have as " yet been attacked . The disease is also raging near Missolonghi in Greece . As the French and German papers ( says the Times Vienna Correspondent ) are still disputing about the nature of Baron Prokesch ' s visit to Paris , it may be as well to give some , positive information on the subject . In the strict sense of the word , Baron Prokesch had no mission to the French capital , but he certainly took advantage of the opportunity to learn the opinions of the French Cabinet on various matters of greater or less importance . It does not admit of a doubt that the present state of things in Turkey , the probable future of that country , and the difficulty of acting " comfortably " with such a self-willed diplomatist as Lord Stratford , were matters discussed by Count Walewski and the Austrian diplomatist ; but the latter was not commissioned , either by his Sovereign or by his Government , to endeavour to attain any particular end . Speaking of Spanish financial matters , the Times Madrid Correspondent writes : — " It is rather a gratifying fact , as regards the disposition and resources of the taxpayers so soon after a revolution which paralysed everything for a time , to find by the official returns that out of the 230 , 000 , 000 reals demanded by the Government in the shape of a temporary loan or advance on the property-tax and that on trades and professions , 206 , 991 , 120 reals have been subscribed voluntarily , leaving only 23 , 008 , 880 reals to be levied on the tax-payora in the shape of a forced loan . In several provinces where it could hardly have been anticipated , the amount of voluntary subscriptions has been more than that assigned to them . " The manufacturing districts , howover , show a marked deficiency .
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MISCELLANEOUS Mud at a . PKBHitnu . —The Stamford ilSftmrrj / v adverting to the feleansing out of theiiver Brayforcl , vsHy 8 : —" The men get out 200 tons of rich soil'daily , Or 1200 tons weekly , and it is turned into the diggings to fill up the swamp . One per 3 oii has offered Is . per ton fof 4000 tons , another the same price' for 1000 , and another the same price for 700—all to put on land , as itf forms very superior manure . A farmer , who put 2000 tons on some land some years since , states that the land has not yet forgotten it . This is the same person who now ~ want 8 4000 tons . The cost of getting the stuff out is 25 f . weekly , and 1200 tons at Is : per ton would realise- 60 ? . — a profit of 35 J . weekly . "
The Submarine Railway between" England aot > France . —Mr . Favre , the distinguished French engineer , has published the details of this extraordinary project , which we have already brought under the notice of ottr readers . Alluding to the alleged tedfousness of the work , and to the anticipated difficulty of' disposing of the debris , Mr . Favre says : — " In order to snrmounfc these obstacles , we have established in onr pToject ' wells' constructed at different paTts of the "Channel , which will divide the subterranean works into sections of tunnels of less than a myriametre in length . These maritime wells will facilitate * the formation of the tunnel
at many different places at once . The works , therefore , can be carried on at the same time in the . gallery at the coast of France , in the gallery at the coast of England , and in the galleries of the ' wells . ' Besides , they will afford the means of casting the encumbering earth into the sea , and Of forming little islands around these ' wells . '" Thus aided , the work , it is calculated , -will only take five years for its completion ; the total cost ia estimated at one hundred million francs . It is thought that the transit between France and England will be gre , atly increased by this railway , and that commerce , more especially in coal , will be largely enhanced . Several lines for the tunnel have been suggested ; but M . Favre expresses his preference for the most direct route , viz ., that from Cape Gris - Nez to Dover—a distance of thirty kilometres . On this line , the bottom of the sea descends by an easy declivity ,
which in the midst of the Channel reaches from thirtynine to fifty-five metres , the depth near the coasts being ; only from twenty-five to sixteen metres in depth . M . Seguin , the engineer , has recommended the atmospheric as the best motive power for the subterranean railway ; and M . Favre believes that this system will be adopted . The journey between France and England will be performed in twenty-five minutes . " Our project , " says MFavre in conclusion , " has been received everywhere with the most lively sympathies , and an Anglo-French : Company will be immediately organised upon the most powerful basis to execute the railway of Pas-de-Calais . ' * Dr . Andrew Smith has received from the Medico-Chirurgical Society of Aberdeen a diploma constituting : him an honorary member of that body . The signers of the address which accompanies this diploma sympathise with the Doctor on the calumnies to which they conceive he was exposed at the beginning of tho war , and observe :
—" We have read with the deepest interest the letters addressed by you , at the commencement of the present momentous war , to the authorities at the War-office , in relation to the sanitary requirements of the troops ; and . we cannot withhold an expression of the groat admiration which we feel of the foresight , judicious arrangement ,, and thorough acquaintance with the wants of the army in the field which they exhibit . Had your wise and timely suggestions been attended to , and promptly carried into effect , we feel convinced that many valuable lives might have been saved , and that a great amount of misery to our army in the East might have been prevented . "
The Law of Husband and Wifr . —An action has been brought in tho Exeter District County Court , m which tho plaintiff , the landlord of a public-house , sued a gentleman , a Mr . Whiphnm , for tho maintenance of his wife , who hud left her husband's house inconsequence of a dispute . The Judge gave his decision against the landlord , holding that the wife had no justification for leaving her husband , as she had not been treated with violence , or even threatened , and that , therefore , the husband waa not liable for her maintenance . —Tho curate of Odiham , ilants , is determined to marry a . man to h \ a own wife—wo moan tho man ' s own wife , not the curate ' s . Tho married-unmarried couple are members of tho Independent body , and wore wedded in the chapel of that
sect . The clergyman admits ( what , indeed , ho would find it difficult to deny ) tho perfect legality of this marriage ; but he has induced tho parties to bo remarried according to tho rites of the Church of Erig-1 ««<» - Accordingly , on three successive Sundays , tho bannfl woro put up in the parish church , tho woman bolna : actually described by her maidon name ; and on tho loJIOW '" » ££ 2 J . X = Z £ ^^ S = S r Sfss ^ SSKSSs : = ' " rSSr ' rs-i ' - = ££ tffr * " «™ TcJy LrrM , . Uo « ur «» ka . «^ . an
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 27, 1855, page 1027, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2112/page/7/
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