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"Vienna was arrested by two ge ' nsdarmes about fifteei or sixteen iniles from the capital , on account of noi having a passport with him . He was kept in custodj nine hours , during wMeh he was moved about frone place to place , in search of some proper authority tr receive the charge against him ; and was at lengtli liberated by the order of Barori Dubain . The fall in the price of grain in France continue ? , owing to large importations from America , Algeria , Spain , and the East . The Archduke Albrecht has left Vienna for Naples , with the intention , it is thought , of conciliating matters between King Bomba and the Allies . A respectable tradesman of Altona , who happened to be in Helsingfors early this spring , which place he was accustomed to visit in the way of his business , was detained prisoiver there by the Governor , lest he should , on bis return h : rae , divulge any data connected with the fortress . All his applications by letter to official persons remained unnoticed , until at length , on the 8 th ult , the Governor of Jaroslaff handed him a letter from the Danish Minister at St . Petersburg , who had casually heard of his imprisonment , and had procured ah order for his liberation . For the purpose of his return home , the Minister sent him one hundred and fifty silver roubles . On this occasion , the Governor , who had ignored him during his imprisonment of five months , gave him back all the letters he had written daring that time , none of which had been sent off , although tney contained no political matter , and informed him that he would be conveyed by gendarmes to Kalisch , in Russian Poland , whence he might cross the frontier into Prussia . ' This he has done , after undergoing great hardships from travelling three hundred leagues in open country carts , during cold weather , with no other protection than the body clothes that he wore when first arrested five months back . — Times ' Berlin Correspondent . Accounts still reach England of the reckless brutality -exhibited by the Austrian troops in the Danubiah Prin cipalities . Murder and theft are of daily occurrence , and there seems to be completely disorganized , the soldiers being almost independent of their officers . The Moldavian and Waliachian Governments are too weak to interfere , and Austria chooses to innore the facts . Sardinia has consented to remove M . Casati from his post at the Tuscan Court , in consideration of his being an Austrian refugee ; and her diplomatic relations wiMi Florence wilt in future be carried on by a simple Charge d'Affaires . The quarrel may therefore be considered at an end ; and assuredly Austria and her little Duchy have gained the day . The question of the refugees ( says a letter from Vienna in the Cologne Gazette ) has led to communications between England and several of the Continental Governments . The French Government entertains the same views on the subject as Austria , and it is certain that M . de Persigny has received orders to support the representations of Count Colloredo at the Court of St . James ' s . It is thought that England will on this occasion be disposed to satisfy the wishes of the continental Power ? . The latter , it is said , demand that the Alien Bill of 1848 shall be brought into effect , and that a clause shall be added to it enabling the Government to expel , as a measure of police , any suspected foreigners who may give rise to well-founded complaints on the part of the Governments which are on friendly terms with England . The Emperor of Russia has acquainted liis nobles that it is his intention to maintain untouched all the privileges of their class . This is intended as a stimulant to their zeal in aiding him to carry on the war . The New Prussian , Gazette notifies the following rather singular dinner party : —" The Minister of the Netherlands at the Grand Ducal Court and Consul-General at Munnheim , Von Travors ; the Russian Chargo d'Afiuiros , M . Stolinine ; the Austrian Envoy Extraordinary , Prince Schonburg 5 and the British Charge ; d'AM ' ulres , Mr . Hamilton , have arrived here . The whole of these envoys are invited to dine this evening with II . It . II . the Regent of Baden ; as ulso Baron Moritz von Btithmann , from Frankfort , who has been staying here the last two days .
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NAVAL AND MiUTAR-Y NEWS . Piracy and Muunisu . — Tho captain and the greater part of the crew of the American ship " Jolui , " of New Bedford , huvo teen murdered by two South Sea Islanders who were on board . The captain having ill-used them , they took advantage of the absenco of several of the crew , who had gone on shore , and killed him , together with tho cook und coopor . Tlio crew returned in two separate boats at different timcH , and several wero attacked nnd murdered , the rest escaping in their boats , without food or compass . Tho ship afterwards touched at Roeho's Island , und tho murderers voluntarily gave an account of their crimes to nn Englishman stutionod there . This man , assisted by two of tho islanders , had previously uttotnptud to board tka ship , but they wero repulsed by muskets . Mutiny at HonviKi . n Uahracks . —A number of recruits from tho Gulwny militiu arrived at tho Uorlidd Barracks ( Bristol ) on Tliuitiduy week , and , upon lenrn ¦ ing that their promiacil bounty of 5 / , waa to bo
los-\ sened to the extent of the price of their outfit , became t very riotous , attacked their officers with stones , and t I exhibited so dangerous a spirit , that the artillerymen i ! stationed at the barracks were called out , and a howitzer > was planted . ' The ringleaders were then arrested , and j i the mctiny was quelled . Government is greatly blamed for promising a sum which , considering the deductions , afterwards made , is nominal and deceptive . ! Gunboat Building on the Mersey . —The vigour with which tlie war is to be prosecuted next season and the provisions behiii made by Government for every ; ! contingency , may be inferred from the f . ict that the I facilities possessed by the port of Liverpool for build : L > g vessels of every description are being made avail ! able . Mr . John Laird , the successful builder of the ' troop steamships Resolute and Assistance , is now buikl 1 ing fit his BHv-enhead and Liverpool yards several ¦ wooden gunboats of about 240 tons each , and six or ' seven feet draught of water , the whole to be finished i by the spring . 1 A Female Soldier . —On board the troop-ship ! Simoom , which has just left Spithead for Balaklava ; with the 1 st Light Infantry Regiment of the Anglo i German Legion , is a young woman belonging to that regiment , who is now serving as a soldier . Her sex was not discovered till shortly before the vessel started ! und she begged hard to be allowed to accompany her husband , who is a Swiss , while she herself is a French woman . The regiment is filled with the greatest enthu siasm at her conduct , and visitors to the ship have subscribed upwards of i ? 20 for her . She shoulders her rifle , and performs her military evolutions , to per fection . Two English Military Commissions , the one under Colonel Wilmot , the other under Colonel Smith are at present in Prussia , investigating the manufac ture of small arms , which has attained in that country a high degree of perfection . They have been received with givat courtesy by the Minister of War , who has j shown every willingness to admit them to the different ! Government works . The Commissions will afterwards visit France . Lieutenant Palmer . —The inhabitants of Wrex- ham have given a dinner to Lieutenant Palmer of the 11 th Hussars , who left the possession of large property in England to follow the fortunes of the war , and who ' hns now just returned from the Crimea . In the course of his speech , tbe Lieutenant said , referring to Bala- klava—in the celebrated cavalry charge of which he was concerned : —" When I returned to the ground from which we had moved off , I saw a sight such as I trust I shall never see again , for out of five entire regiments , which but one short half hour before had received the order to advance , you could not then have formed as many troops . Soon after this , came the battle of Itikerman , in which , however , the cavalry can claim but a small share , for the credit of that day was due to those few thousand gallant men who for so many hours held at bay an enormously superior force of the enemy . ( Cheers . ) Once , and once only , during that day , did I fear for the result ; and that was when I saw the Russians come over the crest of a hill , ahout half a mile from where we were drawn up ; but the English charged them with the bayonet , and soon drove them back . When I went over the ground the next morning on duty , a line of dead Russians , like the trace that a wave leaves upon tbe seashore , marked the preciBe spot to which they had advanced . " Militia Pay . —The officers of tbe Royal Cork City Artillery having applied to the Lord-Lieutenant to obtain increased pay , equul to that of the officers of tho Royal Artillery , his Excellency , considering that the subject had probably been already under consideration in reference to the Militia Artillery in England , has in reply stated that he had caused inquiry to be made at the War-office , and had been informed that there was no intention of assimilating the rutes of pay , as the question was very fully considered last December , and the existing rates were then determined on . As at present advised , therefore , his Excellency saw no grounds for departing from the system which prevails in England . Fiiknoh Floating Battrhiks . —A letter from Ho- baatopol to the Od-Dcuischu Post says that the now French floating batteries arc entirely built of iron , und covered with a shell of the some metal , under which the chimney is lowered nnd concealed during an notion , Trials have betn made ngninst this shell with ( i-1-pounders , but they only produced a . slight dent , the projectiles themselves robounding far uway . When shut , the battcricB look like a tortoise , broader in front than behind . Tho front buttery is armed with thirty guns of the hoavicst calibre . The portholes ure in their turn closed by lids , that open of themselves at tho moment tho gun ia ilred , and then shut instantly . A small orilicu in tlio lid enables tlio gunner to take nim . Military Mannkkh at IIiu . ioolanii . —A story is told by u corrcHpomUiut of tho Daily Nairn , which , if the nlh'gatioiiH be true , reflects great , discredit on tho son of tho Governor of Heligoland , Captniii Sir John llindmarsh , K . N ., K . U . Mr . Hindmnrsli met a iirgennt of the Anglo . German Legion , who did not touch his hat us ho passed . On being spoken to , the sergiunt excused liimscH by aaying thut Mr . Hind-
marsh ( who , by the way , has no military rank or appointment ) was in plain clothes ; but the Governor ' s son , far from being molified , knocked off the sergeant ' s hat and cuffed him on the ears . This has excited £ o much indignation among the legion that Mr . Hindmarsh has been obliged to leave the island .
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, - - - | j , - ; - - - , - ¦ , j j j * | . . * ¦ * £ f J " . ^ *' n al st ™ ^ t < l £ h ° P fi n » t ° l w os W h < M so a w . w hi te en g < : in m itf th th pr hi : Ui 1 , in w t . v w ai e ! l > y M fui MISCELLANEOUS . " . Board of Tradk Returns for Seitembke . — ' The Board of Trade returns for the month ending the ^ 30 th ot September were issued on Saturday , and present continued indications of an active commrce . Compared with the month ending tho ] Oih of October last year , which was one of considerable depression , they show'an I apparent falling off ot \ 4 ' : 80 , !) i ( 3 in the declared value of j our exportations ; but , as the tables on that occasion I comprised thirty-five days instead of only thirty days , j it will be necessary in this instance to add a sixth to the total to enable any contrast to be made . In such case , instead of a falling oft * , thive wonld appear an aug-[ j mentation of more than , £ l , ;> 00 , 00 i > . With regard to > ' imported commodities , the same allowance of an addij . tional sixth would h-ivo to be made to arrive at a coi . is parative e-timnte of the two periods . Even in that case , however , it would bu seen tint considerable economy has j . buen practised in the consumption of most articles of food and luxury . — Times . The Shipping Returns of the Board of Trade for g the month ending the 3 iJih of Soptember have been issued . The period with which they « xa compared in 1853 and 1854 , being from the 5 th of September to the 10 th of October , embraces thirty-five days . An addi-„ tion of a sixth must therefore bj made to the present total to enable an estimate to be formed of this relative ' employment of tonnage in th « several cases . This would " bring the aggregate entries to 700 , 221 tons , and the clear-I ! ances to 998 , 052 tons , showing : ig . iin a great decline in 3 ! the number of arrival .- " , but an increase in the departures t ! sufficient to demonstrate th <> activity of our export trade . . j With regard to the coasting trade , thu tonnage entered inward was 1 , 217 . 221 in the month ending the 10 th of October , 1853 ; in the same month of 1851 , it was , 1 , 31 G , 080 ; and in that ending the : 30 th of September last , it was 1 , 079 , 430 , including 3 'i foreign vessels of an aggregate burden ef ( 5 , 51 C tons . The clearances outward for the respective periods were 1 , 32 1 , 700 in 1863 , 1 , 427 , 804 in l « 54 , amll , 170 , 728 ^ including 5 , 272 tons of foreign } in 1855 . —Idem . Intulrhanck in Iki-hnd . —Mr . Wallace , a Wes-Icyan minister , his been in the habit recently of preaching in , the open air on tluj pier at Kinjfstowrn , Ireland . The " ' feeling . * " of u certain Mr . CJ . ilvin , a Kotnan Catholic , having been hurt by this exhibition , lie assaulted Mr . Wallace , and an action at law was the consequence . There was a counter-charge of assault against the clergyman ; but when the counsel for the prosecution was about to reply to this allegation , B . iron Richards stopped him , and laid down the law emphatically in favour of Mr . Wallace ' s preaching publicly . Finally ; the parties came to an agreement , and tlie prosecution was abandoned . The Saxon in Iri ? i-ani > . —Mr .. Edward B . Hartopp , a Leicestershire gentleman , has purchased several large estates in Tiv . land , and the most beneficial results have flowed from his sagacity , humanity , and command of capital . The peasantry regard him with the greatest enthusiasm and love . " Mr . Ilartopp , " says a parish priest in Kerry , " is n model landlord . He was always , from principle * opposed to extermination . He saw , with a wise foresight , that this odious system would work out its own retribution in tho tracts of waste lmids , scarcityof labour , and consi quont neglect of agricultural industry , which , unhappily , ia now but too apparent on thoae estates where the experiment was tried . A tenant on Mr . llnrtopp' .-i estate is seldom disturbed ; the omalleat hold' -r is confident in security . During tho famine years , Mr . Ilartopp {; nve munificent subscriptions In aid Of tho several vhuritnble institutions then cstublihlitjcl . Ho made a general reduction of twenty-live per cent , in his rents , which he has since continued . He subscribed . £ ' 200 towards tho building of a chnpel on his estate , and built , at his own expense , it largo school for tho children of his tenantry , which has been placed under tho superintendence of ' tho liourd of National Education . In f « ct , hia good acts are inmtmoralilc , and will , I confidently hope , moot their well-merited reward . " HisAi / rii ok London . —The mortality in London is much bi-low the usual average ruto which prevails within its limits . Tim deaths of 00 !) persons were rof { intorecl m tho week that endod on Saturday , October 27 th ; whilo tho corrected average of tho corruKpondiiiB weeks of < 'O previous ten years was 3 , 079 . Tim w «« kly < l . '" '" i . /<> w-ro who died , 4 : t 7 w . tro litirler twonty yxnrn «¦ « H ^ - ^ twenty and under loriy , !»¦ ' J . sni ¦ " . ;„' of ng 0 w « ro Mxlylo < -H ' My , <«•• I « ia , i » " . ) ¦ variou « i ^' flT : tt 3 - * -k **~
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 3, 1855, page 1051, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2113/page/7/
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