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in the treatment of the poor had been made since the interference of the Board in April and May last , yet that these improvements had not been earned out to a suffi-SextenTrand the Board therefore intend to issue the following orders . — " One fixing the maximum accommodation of the workhouse and of its several wards respectively ; one regulating the management of the vrorfchous efand prescribing the duties of its officers ; and a third containing rules for the administration of outfurther states
_ relief" The communication : — ^" With a view to secure a regular and complete examination of the parochial accounts , and to assist the directors in carrying out these orders , by enabling them to exercise a complete control over all the officers , it is also the intention of the Board to issue an order authorizing and directing the appointment of an auditor . The directors are doubtless aware that the salary of this officer will not be a charge upon the parish , but will be paid out of the Consolidated Fund so long as his duties are regularly
and efficiently performed . ' . The Fire at Messrs . Broad wood ' s . —In consequence of the general sympathy expressed , and the offers of assistance that have come in from all quarters , a committee has been formed among the artizans whose working tools were destroyed by the recent conflagration in the Horseferry-road , to receive subscriptions through the medium of one of the London banks . Suicide . —Elizabeth Ann Steer , a young woman , twenty-one years of age , has committed suicide by hanging herself . She had been seduced by a man named West , but wa 3 about to be married to a carabinier , who , with his company , was ordered for India . The commanding officer , however , refused to grant leave to the
man to marry , and this appears to have led the girl to the commission of the act . Her friends also were opposed to the marriage , and her mother-in-law had caused her to leave home in consequence " of her desiring the wedding to take place . She went to her brother ' s home , and her body was discovered hanging in the washhouse . The subjoined letter , addressed to her former lover , was found in her bosom : —" George , —You took great trouble to write to me on Tuesday about my going with Greaves . He was a man—he will either live or die for me , and I will do so for him . Remember , George , how you deceived me . Daily and hourly you sought my ruin—often did you wish to get me into trouble , but the Lord protected me so far . Your
conscience will tell you you was a base , deceitful man ; but God never pays debts with money . My life I will forfeit . Pay my dear father and mother what you owe me—it will help my funeral expenses . You have broken my mind—you seduced me—and God will reward you for it . You will never prosper . Remember these last dying words of one who has been the dupe of all your lies . My heart aches—my hand trembles—and in a few momenta I shall be launched into eternity . " The inquest terminated in a verdict of " Temporary Insanity . "—A person named Henry James Jukes , formerly a clerk and commission agent in the City , has poisoned himself , out of fear of being reduced to starvation , as the result of several recent reverses . He left behind
him two letters , both very deliberately pointing to the probability of his committing the act , for it would seem that when he wrote them , he had not quite made up his mind . One is addressed to his wife , and in this he says , " I do not wish you to remain a widow any longer than is usual—say , twelve months . " Further on , he adds : — " You will pray for my soul ; and in xny last moments I declare you to be a really good , true , fond , and faithful wife . From your departed , unaccountable husband , Henry James Jukes . The remainder of the poison is in my trousers-pocket . "— A labouring man at Wendover has drowned himself , apparently in consequence of his wife having been apprehended on a charge of incendiarism .
FutEs . —A large range of premises belonging to a boot and ahoo maker in Church-street , Shoreditch , took fire early on Sunday morning , and it was not till the . flames had got a mastery over the edifice that the discovery was made . By that time , the staircase was on fire ; escape that way became impossible , and the inmatos , -who were roused from their sleep by the police , wore obliged to wait at the window . s for the arrival of the fire-escape . Their perplexity was increased by the fact of there being an old man who was also a cripple in the house ; but , on the arrival of the escape , nil were saved . The conductor ,
as lie brought the inmates down through tho dense smoke , and placed them upon terra firtna , was loudly cheered . The present makes no loss a number than thirty-two persons whom the same conductor has saved at fires in tho immediate neighbourhood during a year and ten months . The fire-engines speedily arrived ; but the premises were entirely consumed , and an adjoining n ( M » $ « traa much damaged . —A block of buildings in ShaVe-aHey , Mersey-street . Liverpool , was on Wednesday morning burnt to tho ground , and six parsons perished ln < the , flames . The origin of tho flre is unknown .
tf "J * ^ ^ atb—Portions tho Stowo estate , in Buckinghamshire , have recently been sold . * 7 u ^ 1 ? 2 x fa « "ly are residing at Vontnor , at the baok of the Islo of Wight . ° \ ' ¥ l > ^ 2 ?? ' Eaq > » tho 1 ** a Lieutenant of tho KZ ! c i , : 2 " P r 08 Onted the Bum of 200 / . to tho ^ Slf'irt ^ llef °£ th 08 e who hav « »«< tored from tho Mc « nt explosion at Cymmer .
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Leader Office , Saturday , August 23 . THE LATE FATAL COLLIERY EXPLOSION IN SOUTH WALES . Pontypridd , Thursday Evening . After a short adjournment , the court resumed , and the coroner summed up with great minuteness . The jury retired for the purpose of considering their verdict at a quarter past three o ' clock , and returned at half-past four .
The Foreman said : " Seventeen of the jury are of opinion that the explosion in the old pit at Cymmer , which occurred on the 15 th of July , whereby Thomas Lewis and 113 other men lost their lives , was caused by the negligence of Jabez Thomas , the manager , Rowland Rowlands the overman , and Morgan Rowlands , David Jones , and William Thomas , the firemen . They therefore find against those persons a verdict of manslaughter . "—Morning Herald this day .
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PRUSSIA—THE RIFF PIRATES . Conformably to the orders of the King of Prussia , the President of the Council on the 17 th inst ., sent a despatch to London , in which he applied for the support of the English Government in an expedition which Prussia intends sending against the pirates of the Riff .
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NAPLES . Our diplomatists ( says a letter from Naples in the Correspondence Italienne ) are very active in their endeavours to prevail on the King to give satisfaction to the Western Powers . The representatives of the Pope and of the Grand Duke of Tuscany earnestly support the demands of Austria . Count dell'Aquila and Count Trapani , brother of the King , have been applied to and entreated to represent to his Majesty the danger of his position . The accounts from the provinces are satisfactory . There , as well as in the capital , the people are calm , but resolute . It is said that the last reports , received from the intendants of Cosenza , Reggio , and other provinces of the kingdom , have produced considerable alarm at Court . Orders have been given to concentrate the Swiss troops in and about Naples . The Government is also said to entertain serious apprehensions for the tranquillity of Sicily .
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The Harvest . —According to the country papers , the weather since Sunday last begins to excite fears for the safety of the bounteous harvest , a great part of which is still abroad . No serious injury has , perhaps , been yet done to the wheat crop , so as to affect to any extent the supply of the people ' s food . The fears are rather for the future . A return of that bright sunshine which so rapidly ripened the harvest and brought it on before the period anticipated , would set all right again — or nearly so , for it cannot restore to the barley on the ground the fine appearance it possessed be / ore the discolouring showers .
Suicide of a Portrait Painter . — An inquest has been resumed and concluded on tho body of Mr . Smart , a portrait painter , aged forty-six , who committed suicide at a miserable lodging in Gray ' a Inn-lane . The unfortunate man was in very reduced circumstances , and he had lived in hid late lodgings nearly three years , during which period he never permitted any person to enter the apartment . His own appearance at all times was exceedingly wretched , and his tattered clothes frequently obtained the commiseration of tho neighbours . A short time before his death , he spoke to his landlord about being unable to pay his rent ( some two or three shillings a week ) , when , much to the credit of the landlord , he told him t ) hat he might run on as long as he pleased without paying . For some days Mr . Smart did not appear . At
length , after considerable knocking at tho door , tho apartment was forcibly entered , with the assistance of the police , when the miserable remains of the poor creature were found , in a fearfully putrid state , on some dirty old rags , which served as his bed . A deep gash across tho throat nearly divided the head from the trunk . In the room were a stale loaf , fourponce halfpenny in money , and some old rugged garments , which served tho deceased for clothing by day and as a bed at night . The only particle of furniture was a cliuir without a bottom . The landlord stated that latterly Mr . Smart was very eccentric in his manners , and had taken to intemperate habits . At the suggestion of tho coroner , tho jury returned a verdict of " Suicide , " leaving tho state of tho deceased ' s mind an open question .
FoitauiiY . —Lewis Holm , August Froitag , and Charles Thompson , wore found guilty yesterday at tho Central Criminal Court of feloniously having in their possession a plato , and a variety of other instruments calculated to niuko forged Bank of England notes . —John Dumont , anotlior Gorman , was also indicted for uttering a forged 67 . Bank of England note , supposed to bo one of the impressions from tho pluto referred to in the previous trial . —Ho was convicted , and sentenced to twelve months ' imprisonment with hard labour .
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ITALY IN PEOGRESS . "We think it may be assumed that the Italians possess the sympathies of the English nation . " What is now important is to ascertain how far those sympathies may he converted into a policy , for without this they are deceptive , and therefore dangerous . It is to little purpose that we multiply the illustrations of tyranny . We know , well enough , that Naples is governed , with the aid of a Lazzaroni legion and a band of Swiss mercenaries , by an incorrigible despot , that
Italian patriots are - liable to be flayed alive by Austrian soldiers , tbat women may be flogged at Milan , and children shot at Contarina . The anecdotes are new , but the practice is old . We are alap perfectly familiar with the prophecy of an impending revolution . But what have we to do with it ? Why is the public indignation fed with daily supplements of horror ? Either the discussion of Italian affairs is mere gossip , or it is
designed to influence the policy of England in relation to the next political crisis in Italy . Up to this moment , the effect of English policy in Italy has been pernicious . When we have interfered directly , it has been in behalf of the worst enemies of the Italian nation ; in behalf of the nation itself , we have merely tampered with our responsibilities , menaced where wo had no intention to
coerce , encouraged where we had no inteation of assisting , and played the part of niiachievous insincerity . It is time to discover whether we are drifting into the same course of action . If we are , it would be well to resume an attitude of harmless inactivity , to withdraw indeed from , all vigorous participation in the afl'airs [ of Europe , because , it we are simply to repeat the policy of the last European war and the last European revolution , we shall become an object of hatred to nations which we have no interest in oppressing , and an object of contempt to governments which wo have no interest whatever in holding . mA % « is hot |
up *»* V ^ t . «« * ¦ « ^^ ^ ^^ * 4 ^ ¦ - The history of Naples , since tho defeat ot Napolkon , is an illustration . We could then not release any part of Italy from one despotism without substituting another . Tho Bourbons woro forced upon tho Neapolitans amiu scenes of terror , to which a British admiral was something more than a witness . Thoy . hav c over aince acted aa our onouuea and libellers . Tho reigning King , especially , refuses our influence , and recognizes that of a Government directly contrary , in its principles , to our own . Wo resent hia contumacy . Wo rceal
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v — - " V / W SATURDAY , AUGUST 23 , 1856 .
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^ There is nothing so revolutionary , because there is nothing so ¦ unnatural and convulsive , as the strain to keep" things fixed "when all the "world is by the very law of its creation in eternal progress . —Dr . Abnold ?
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804 THE LEADEB , [ No . 335 9 Saturday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 23, 1856, page 804, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2155/page/12/
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