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      other interpreters , were also in attendance , and none were allowed to pass in but the nobility and gentry . The reception was held at the upper part of the . hotel , where the Princes reside . Oriental servants were stationed along the staircases to show the way to the receptionroom . The visitors passed by the apartments of the zemindars , jagheerdars , and other native gentlemen who have accompanied the royal family of Oude to this country . At half-past three , the reception took place , Major Bird acting as master of the ceremonies . On entering the reception-room , the two Princes of Oude were seen standing at the farther end , dressed in a magnificent costume . The heir-apparent had on a cloak of scarlet and gold . His head-dress consisted of a

      coronetedshaped cap of rather large size , the most prominent ornament of which was a string of large precious stones projecting from the cap . In his hand he held a scimitar sheathed in a magnificent scabbard . Soon after four o ' clock , about thirty ladies of Southampton were admitted into the presence of the ex-Queen . Mrs . Brandon , an English lady who long resided at Cawnpore , in Oude , and who accompanied the Queen to this country , acted as interpreter . When the visitors entered the apartment , the Queen was sitting on a sofa , attended by eight native ladies , one of whom held over her head a species of

      fen . Her Majesty was dressed in splendid shawls , but her head , neck , and one arm were uncovered . Her hair was cut rather short , and brushed back " over the head a la Chinoise . She wore two massive ear-rings , but no other jewellery about her head . Her features bear a striking resemblance to her grandson's , the heir-apparent to the Oude throne . She is a stout , good-looking personage ; is not very dark , and appears younger than she really is . She has a pleasing voice , and from her features and manners would appear to possess" a kind and affectionate disposition .

      A Sympathetic Bird . —Major Bird , the companion and interpreter of the ex-Queen and Princes of Oude , recently addressed the crowd outside the hotel where the visitors are staying , and expounded to them the wrongs ( as he conceives them to be ) of " the illustrious strangers . " He then put a case . " Suppose , " said the Major , " that the Emperor of the French were to deprive Queen Victoria of her throne to save Britons from misrule ; suppose a powerful lord deprived his neighbour of his house because it was mismanaged ; would the valiant burghers of Southampton submit to these things ?" There was a loud cry of " No ; " and the feeling of the auditory seemed to be in favour of restitution of the Kingdom of Oude to the paternal sway of the deposed monarch .

      A Vigilant Eunuch . —Two of the officers of the Indus ( the steamer in which the royal family of Oude came to this country ) had their cabins towards the fore part of the ship . Against the door of one of these cabins the chief eunuch one day erected his screen , and brought the ladies of the suite to enjoy themselves away from their cabins . Suddenly the ounuch heard a slight noise in the officer's cabin ; he in an instant locked the door , the key being outside , and the officer was imprisoned for two hours . Had the door not been locked , the officer , on leaving the cabin , would have stepped into the centre of the harem . —Daily News .

      The Orosskill . Reaping Machine . — The prize reaping machine invented by Mr . Crosskill , which was tried a few weeks ago at Boxted Lodge , has been purchased by a Bedfordshire gentleman , and is now successfully working at his farm . It is so easily worked that the servants of the farm , who had never seen any such contrivance before , at once understood the proper way of guiding it . A trial took place on Friday week , when a largo number of the neighbouring gentry and farmers expressed their gratification at the results of the invention . The Panopticon . —The proprietors of the Panopticon in i . oiceater-rsquaro have obtained from the Vice-Chancellor Kindcrsley an injunction to restrain the mortgagees of the property from proceeding to a sale thereof by auction , which they had advertized to take place on the 26 th iust . It appeared that the mortgagees did not possess any right of sale—at any rate , not without certain previous notice , which had not been given .

      This Royal Visit to the Wkst . —Her Majesty the Queen , hearing on her late visit to Dovonport that several hundred pounds were still required for the completion of the new church , in course of being built by the Kov . G . W . Procter , for the families of Bailors , marines , soldiers , and dockyard artificers and labourers , who re-Bide in the district of St . Stephen in that town , has aeut 100 / . as a contribution to assist him to proceed with its erection .

      Usic oir Strychnine . —The Lord-Advocate , owing to the uao of Una poison by gamekeepers for tho destruction of vermin , has givou instructions that it Khali bo inado known ub publicly an possible that any ono placing strychnine or other poiaon within the reach of tho public , or using it without such precaution as aro needful to prevent injury , will bo hold responsible for tho consequences , and that , if death or injury to health iH the result , tho party offending will bo liable to be proaecutud criminally . —/ Scotsman .

      A MuDi / KVAt , Cokpin ani > ITS CoNTKNTfl . —During tho progress , on Tuesday week , of tho restorations at Christ Church Cathedral , Oxford , u sarcophagus or stone coffin was discovered between tho second and third eolumriH on tho north wide of tho choir , and almost , on » level with tho ground , forming , probably , at ono time , 11

      part of the paving , as the lid is richly sculptured with a long cross , and other ornaments . On removing the lid , which appeared to be of the twelfth or thirteenth cen-, tury , all that was found were remains perfectly decomposed , a portion of a shoe , remnants of the burial dress , and one bone—but no skull ; in the coffin were also found a pewter chalice and patin , a fact which leads us to the belief that the remains were those of some abbot or prior who held some high position to entitle him to be interred in so important a part of the cathedral . This stone coffin , as well as the one which was discovered a few weeks ago in a corresponding position on the" south

      side of the choir , has been allowed to remain in its original resting-place . The coffin is formed of a single block of stone , hollowed out to receive the body , with a small circular cavity at one end to fit the head , and is wider at this end than at th « other . There is nothing about it to denote whose remains were interred in it ; but the spot in which it was found , and the ornamental sculptured cross on the lid , imply that they are the relics of some distinguished ecclesiastic of a bygone age . The coffin is again covered over , but the lid has been preserved , with a view of tracing , by means of the sculptured work upon it , its antiquity and date . — -Jackson ' s Oxford Journal .

      Convocation . —The convocation of the prelates and clergy of the province of Canterbury was on Thursday prorogued , in the Jerusalem Chamber , Westminster , by the Vicar-General ( Dr . Twiss ) , under a commission from the Archbishop of Canterbury , to Wednesday , October the 8 th . Mazzhtl—A letter from " A Traveller in Italy" appears in the Times of yesterday , the object of which is to deny that Mazzini is a Socialist , and to show that Socialism has made very little progress in Italy . " Mazzini , " says the writer , " has entered into controversy with many of the Socialist leaders ; he has taught and argued against Socialism in reiterated publications in

      Italian , French , and English , during more than ten years . Every theory and system he has . anatomized , from the mildest and most reasonable to that which makes the State universal manufacturer and cultivator . " Failure of the Newcastle Commercial , Bask . — The Newcastle-on-Tyne Commercial Bank has closed , being unable to struggle with the embarrassments caused by the Sadleir frauds . The claims upon the bank ( says the Northern Express } are inconsiderable in amount . As the assets , flow in , the debts will be easily and promptly discharged . The figures we have been informed are as follows : —Liabilities , 25 , 000 ? . ; assets ( including 51 , 000 / . Tipperary orders ) , 80 , 000 / .

      Suicides . —A young man , aged thirty , the son of Mr . Joseph Parrinton , of Thornton-heath , near Croydon , has shot himself in the drawing-room of his father's house . His mother heard the report of firearms , entered the room , and discovered the body of her son weltering in blood , and with his brains scattered on the floor . A single-barreled - gun , recently discharged , was lying across his legs . To the trigger was fastened a string , to which a piece of stick about two feet long was attached . He had no doubt placed the muzzle of the gun in his mouth and discharged it with his foot . For about seventeen years he had been in delicate health , arising from his having injured his hip by falling through a trap-door , which produced lameness , and gave him great annoyance ,

      as he fancied people looked at him . A verdict of " Temporary Insanity" was returned . —Shortly before one o'clock on Sunday morning , a man went into a shop in Shoe-lane , Liverpool , snatched a carving-knife from the counter , rushed into Hanover-street , and before he could be prevented , cut his throat . Death ensued instantaneously . —A man , named George Hawthorn Vincent , has drowned himself from sheer destitution . He was a coachtrimmer , and was above forty years of age . On Tuesday morning last about five o'clock , he got out of bed to make some cocoa for his wife , who had only been

      confined a few days . Ho was then in a very distressed state of mind , as there was no food in tho house for the children ( four in number ) , and he said he would go and try to get some money to buy bread . About live minutes afterwards , a man named Morgan called for a debt that was due to him , and searched tho bedroom to find tho poor coach-trimmer , but , not doing so , he said ho should imprison him when he caught him . Shortly afterwards , Vincent's son , a b . about seven years old , found his father in tho waters : tt , dead . A verdict of " Temporary Insanity" was returx' d by tho coroner's jury .

      Miss Niohtinga . uk . —Tho workmen in a largo manufactory in tho neighbourhood of Newcastlo-upon-Tync sent an address to Miss Nightingale , a few days since , congratulating her upon her safe return to her homo and friends . Mins Nightingale bus returned the following reply : — "August ' 2 iJ . —My dear Friends , —! wish it were in my power to tell you what was in my heart when I received your letter ; your welcome homo , your sympathy with what has been passing while 1 have

      boon absent , have " \ hcd mo more than I can tell in words . My dear < ' ' tho things that arc deepest in our hearts aro porh . < iut it is most dillicult to us to express . 'She hath < K .. ic what she could . ' Those wordw I inscribed on tho tomb of ono of my best helpe r * , whom I loft in tho graveyard at Scutari . It h « n Itecn my endeavour , in tho aight of God , to do as aim has dono . 1 will not upoak of reward , when permitted to < lo our country ' s work . It in what we live Air . Hut I may way that to receive sympathy from affectionate hearts like

      yours as the greatest rapport , the greatest gratification that it is possible for me to receive from man . I thanl you all the eighteen hundred , with grateful , tende affection ; and I should have written'before to do sc were not the business , which my return has not ended almost more than I can manage . —Pray believe m < my dear friends , Yours faithfully and gratefully , —Florence Nightingale . " The " Self-Swtmmeh . "—M . Danduran , a Frencl civil engineer , now in London , has invented an ingeniou , little apparatus under this designation , which he exhibited on the Serpentine on Wednesday , by means oJ which persons wholly unable to swim , including even women and children , may be protected from drowning under all ordinary circumstances . It simply consists oi two round-instruments , made ofi tin , zinc , or copper , enclosed at both ends , each about fifteen inches in length , of the diameter of an inch and a half at one extremity and four or five inches at the other , and constructed in a crescent shape , so as to accommodate themselves to the armpits , where they are intended to be used . They are covered over with any kind of light linen fabric , and fastened together with a few yards of strong ribbon in such a manner that a person can put on the apparatus in a moment , as if it were a waistcoat , and with or without his or her ordinary clothing . Its buoyant power is so great , that any one wearing it in the water cannot by any possibility sink , though wholly unused to swimming as an art ; and another essential characteristic of it is that it invariably , under all circumstances , maintains the head and shoulders above water . — Times . The Court . —The Queen and the Royal Family left Buckingham Palace on Thursday morning , at half-past seven o'clock , for the King ' s-cross terminus of the Great Northern Railway , on the annual trip to the Highlands of Scotland . The train started at eight , and arrived at Edinburgh at about half-past six in the evening , having stopped at some of the intermediate stations , where her Majesty was cordially received . The Queen stayed at Edinburgh during the whole of yesterday ( Friday ) ; but she will proceed to the north this morning .

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      Leader Office , Saturday , August 30 . CAYENNE . We understand that M . Louis Blanc has prepared a complete reply to the assertions made , with reference to the prisoners at Cayenne , by the sgmi-official apologists of the Empire .

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      LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT . " The Prussian Government , " says the Presse , " will take no measures to punish the Riff pirates before the return of Prince Adalbert . —All the Russian troops have now evacuated the Crimea , with the exceptio n of a very small garrison at Sebastopol , and a few gendarmes and Cossacks at the other points which had been occupied by the Allies . "— " The mission of Baron de Bach to Milan , " says the Constitutionnel , " appears to be twofold ; first , to ascertain whether tho state of public

      opinion is sufficiently satisfactory for the establishment of the representative system , called tho Provincial Congregations , and at the same time to satisfy himself as to whotuer the eflect of that measure on the people will be such that the Emperor Francis Joseph would bo well received in the Lombardo-Venetian kingdom , which he has an idea of visiting . "—On the 15 th inst . tho Consul-General of France at Bucharest gave a grand dinner to tho Ministers and Consuls of the foreign Powers , and a toast was drunk to the union of the Principalities .

      " It has been already stated that several towns in the Romagna had protested against tho Austrian occupation , and threaten to enforce their protest by refusing to pay their taxes as long as tho Papal Government abdicates its functions into the hands of the AuBtrian . s . It is now stated that Forli has followed tho examp le of Bologna , Ancona , and Kavenna , and swelled tho ranks ol tho malcontents . At Milan , public dissatisfaction is olao beginning to show itself in a . tangible form . "—Globe .

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      Ci . obinu ok Sunday Mumkj in tiijo Parks . —Tho Sunday Bands Committee have issued a notice of their final performances in the parks this season on Sunday , September 7 , lHftC , or on the following Sunday if that day bo wet . To render tho close of the season ua effective an possible , in tho Regent ' s Park , Horr Kulo / . dy's double Hungarian Band will ^ ' . tend , in addition to tJio People ' s Subscription Band , forming an orchestra of nearly Sixty Performers . The timo of playing will bo from three till six in tho afternoon , both in Roger . k ' b Park and Victoria Park , on thia occasion . Okyhtal Pai . ack . —Return for six days ending Friday August 20 th , lH . > 6 :- Number admitted , including season ticket holders , 61 . 47 'J .

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      THE MURDER OF CICERUACCHIO . M . G . Angeloni , the person referred to by Enrico Montazio , the London correspondent of the Milan Official Gazette , in his denial of Ciceruacchio ' s murder , has transmitted us a statement to the effect , that he never gave M . Montazio the information that individual pretends to have derived from him . Consequently , the Austrian denial falls to the ground . Next week , we shall print M . Angelini ' s letter .

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      August 30 , 1856 J THE LEADER , 827

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    • Leader (1850-1860), Aug. 30, 1856, page 827, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2156/page/11/