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LATEST FROM AMERICA . Dates from . New York to the 20 th ult . have been received by the last mail . Private advices from Mexico , vi& Havannah and Philadelphia , mention reports of a serious difficulty between the Mexican Government and the British Minister ,, and the latter has demanded his passports . The commander of the British steamer , Tartar , at Havannah , is collecting a naval force , ami svill sail immediately . .. .. The disturbance in Kansas may be considered ai ait end . Governor Geary's inaugural address , delivered at Ijccompton on the 11 th inst ., was brief and pointed . A proclamation w . xs issued on the same day , ordering that the volunteer militia bo discharged , and commanding that all armed bodies of men disband or quit the territory . "With respect to the Presidential elections , wo learn from the Buchanan organs that " it is arranged to call the legislatures of Virginia , South Carolina , and Georgia , to concert measures to withdraw from tlie Union before Fremont can get possession of the army and navy and the purse-strings of Government . Governor Wise is actively at work already in the matter . The South can roly on the President in the emergency contemplated . "
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The FnBNon Emperou and Empress returned from . Biarritz on Thursday night . CotXiiisitr Accidknt . —A partition , dividing som a old from some new workings in . the Brj'n . Mnlly minen , near "Wrexham , has been forced in by a weight of accumulated water , and it is feared that upwards of twenty lives have been sacrificed . Murder at Oi / nnuitY . ' —A shocking murder has "been comitted at Oldbury . Some bickering and ' sparring ' hnd tnkon placo botweon Allmnrk , a collior , and Dunn , a blacksmith . The former told the latter ho would " lny him straight before the day was out ; " and subsequently he took up a heavy iron instrument , and atruiik Allmark violently on tho head , remarking , " There ! I told you I'd lay you straight . " Tho man died in a few hours . Tho culprit has escaped . Another Cask op PorsoNTNo by Mistake has occurred neflr Doncnster , whero a child lms been killed liy a dose of laudanum sold at a small villaigo shop in mistake for paregoric . Crykt / i , Palace . —Return of admissions for nix ; days ending Friday , October 3 rd , " 1850 , including season ticket holders , 28 , 17 C
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up m the air to a great height . No one , however , was killed or seriously injured . The gale has likewise been very violent at Dover , Brighton , Shields , and other marine places , where the sea has done great damage to property . A large number of vessels have been wrecked and _ some lives lost , on various parts of the coast . Scotland also has been visited by very high winds , and heavy floods , which have thrown down portions of buildings , trees , 6 cc , and carried away animals . —A violent storm of -wmd and rain has taken place in Dublin , which continued with unabated fury a whole night . The erale lessened at eleven o ' clock the following morning , but the rain continued to pour in torrents . While the storm
lasted , it was of almost unexampled violence . In the neighbourhood of the Irish , metropolis , a large amount of agricultural produce has been swept away ; trees -were torn up by the roots , and many animals were carried off by the wind and floods . Several vessels which were moored in the harbour broke from their fastenings and running 1 on shore , went to pieces . Some lives have been lost , and it is feared that many ships at sea have suffered wreck . On the northern coast , near Laytown , a vessel ¦ was wrecked , and , although within sight of shore , it was found impossible to rescue the crew at the time but it was hoped they would be able to hold on . Ten fishermen's boats have greatly suffered .
Keform Association has published the first of its promised statistical papers , in the form of a letter addressed by Mr John P . Gassiot to Mr . Roebuck , and containing an ahalvsis of votes given by metropolitan members During last session , there were 198 divisions ; and the following table shows the attendance of members generally in connexion , with them : —• " 8 Members did not record their votes in any of the 198 divisions . 86 „ were absent i 80 times and upwards . 221 ' ,-. „ 150 „ not exceeding-180 244 „¦ ¦„ . 10 » » . » 150 75 „ „ 50 „ „ 100 18 •„ „ 10 ;» . „ ¦ 50 1 j » ' » . ' . ¦ " 1 Speaker
654 - - ¦ ¦ .. ¦ ¦' ¦ ¦ . ¦ ' . ¦ " ¦ ¦¦ ' In the largest division , 508 members voted ; in the least , 58 . 230 members who represent county constituencies , and 329 representing boroughs , were absent from 100 and upwards of the 198 divisions during the last session ; and this shows how necessary it is that constituencies should enforce the attendance of their representatives , for even a single-vote may determine the most important question . " Mr . Gassiot then , proceeds to consider the votes of the metropolitan members , and observes : — " It is clear that a constituency having two members is not fully represented when only one of them votes in a division ; still Ies 3 can it be said to be practically represented when they vote ia opposite lobbies ;
consequently , one of the results at which we arrive by an examination is , that , in the 198 divisions of last session , London was represented folly on only three occasions ; Westminster , six ; Finsbury , eight ; Tower Hamlets , thirteen ; Greenwich , sixteen ; Marylebone , nineteen ; whilst Lambeth -was represented by both members voting together seventy-five , and Southwark , from a similar cause , seventy-three times . " A table having reference to the attendance of the metropolitan members is then appended , and Mr . Gassiot continues : — " For the City of London , only one member attended in 43 , two in 29 , and three in 3 divisions . Out of 29 times that two members voted , they opposed each other on 14 occasions .
London was neutralized by absences 123 , by opposition 14 ( total , 13 . 7 > times , out of the 198 divisions . " Farther on , weread : — " The localities enumerated in the preceding table contain a population of 2 , 132 , 812 , represented by 132 , 776 electors , of whom 58 , 048 did not vote at the last general election . Many of those have hitherto , from mere apatly , neglected to record their votes . " Speaking of election expenses , Mr . Gassiot writes : — " It is a disgraceful fact , that , in contesting for the honour of representing independent constituencies , such as Lambeth , the Tower Hamlets , and Marylebone , an expense of upwards of 6000 ? . has been sometimes incurred . " • ¦ . - ¦
A GrJrMPSB at Algeria . —In vain does the . French Government offer sixty acres of fruitful land to every husbandman who can show that he has 300 f . to expend ¦ upon it ; in vain does it give a free deck passage to all who will come over ; in vain does it prove by the pen of M . Carette that Algeria is nine times less populous than France , and sixteen times less populous than England ; there are still less than 100 , 000 acres allotted , and the number of allottees , which in 1848 was but 3333 , is but very gradually increasing . The candidates for the unappropriated 90 , 000 , 000 acres arrive very slowly . The Caire , which is now coming into port , brings ten families . They do not appear to be people whom an emigratioa agent would exactly choose . They nearly all consist of a worn-out , middle-aged man with a toothless wife , several young children , and a patriarchal fomale who
Mr . "Whitehead had not appeared , Mr . Smith , tho proprietor of the hotel , knocked , at the chamber doer , but received no answer . He then placed a ladder against the "bedroom window , and looked into the apartment , when , seeing a pistol lying on a book "upon the table , he directed the ' boots' to enter the charnlber through the window and unlock the room door . This was done , and , on entering the room , Mr- Smith beheld Mr . Whitehead lying on the iloor , face downwards , in a pool of blood . His face was too much covered witl clotted gore for any wound to be observable . He was quite dead , cold , and stiff , and his right hand firmly grasped a diacliarged pistol . On searching the pockets , a pocketbook and various other articles were found . In the book , which contained for the most part memoranda relating to Mr . "Whitehead's Business , the following entry was made : —
" Mjt . Smith , landlord , —Have the goodness to forward this melancholy intelligence to Mr . W . Wright , book , binder , of Beccles , Suffolk . He will break it to my dear wife . I scarcely know what I write . " On the following leaf was written : — "My ever dear wife , —Ere you receive this melancholy intelligence , I shall be no more . "What must have been your anxious hours since I left my house ! I know that you have aothing to support yourself ; only you have been too kind . God Almighty protect and support you , and forgive my worst enemies . Yonr affectionate , though wretched husband , —George "Wb . iteb . ead . " . ' - ' An inquest was commenced on Friday ¦ week and concluded the following day , when , as it appeared that three or four of the suicide ' s relatives had been mentally derauged , a verdict of " Insanity ' ¦ '• ' was returned :
Sir CHAar , ES Napier akd Cronstadt . —Mr . Hussell , "writing to the Times from Moscow , says : —" Sir Charles Napier , in the account of his extraordinary experiences of Cronstadt , forgot one important fact—he talked much of the difficulties , and insinuated the impossibilities of an attack on the place , and mentioned especially the impediments created by the genius of Todtleben in the passage at the north of the forts , but Sir Charles did not tell his countrymen what the Grand Duke is at no pains to conceal- ^ tliat the passage was quite practicable when the Allied fleet first came off Cronstadt , and that the impediments to the passage of large ships were not formed till the winter of the second year of the war . The Russians were perfectly aware that the northern side
could be forced , and that it was quite possible for a determined enemy to run past the forts , most of which are constructed on arcs of spheres , have . ' -their maximum amount of fixe directed in front , and have only part of their guns available for an enemy passing their right flank . They had ever such a casualty in view , and the most desperate resolves were spoken of in case -the fleets forced the N " eva and St . Petersburg were at their mercy . The opportunity was lost , and the Grand'Duke and Todtleben took ' care it never should occur again . ' The moment the Allies retired before the grip of winter , thousands of men were set to work , who sank stones all along the northern channel , or heaped piles of hundreds of tons of blocks of granite on the ice , which went through to the bottom as it melted and formed a line of artificial rocks
across the passage . On some of these rocks , batteries were erected , guns were placed to cover tho approach , and the place was indeed rendered Unassailable by large vessels . Why did not Sir Charles Napier tell us when this was done ? Surely nothing of the kind took place till after his abortive demonstration in the slimmer of 1854 . "—Sir Charles Napier has published an answer to the foregoing , in which he denies the trutli of the Russian statements , and repeats his old complaint that without gunboats ( with which ho was not provided ) it was impossible for him to force the channels .
has attained to an age and a state of mummyism which only French women dry to . However , twenty years hence , if the fevers do riot kill or the dysentery does not deatroy , or if the rains do not wash them away , perhaps the young children may grow wheat for tho Marseilles market . As M . Caretto philosophically remarks , " II esfc plus facile , quand on part do la coto do France , d ' aller en Afrique quo d ' en reyenir . " Let us admit , however , that tho work of colonization , or rather of conquest , has been bravely done . Algiers is a French city . It is lit with gas and peopled by Parisians . Tho roads are as safe as our ronds over Hoiinslow-heath ; and a circular letter from tho authorities in Algiers will protect a traveller among all the wild tribes which tend their sheep and oxen in the Tel or tho Sahara . —Correspondent of the Times ,
Destructive Gales and Floods . —A violent lnirricane has occurred in the west of England , devastating the town of Glastonbury and its environs . The gale was heralded by a few faint flashes of lightning and distant peals of thunder , accompanied by heavy rain , which immediately drove everybody indoors , and thus saved several lives , which would otherwise , in all probability , have been lost , in " addition to tho destruction of a considerable amount of property . Very shortly after tho rain had begun to fall , a storm of wind arose from tho south-weat , which exceeded in violence anything that had hitherto been experienced in that part of the country . The tempest was confined within a very narrow sphere of action , as the extent of country over which it raged did not exceed two or three hundred yards in diameter ; still , its violence was tremendous , the wind blowing with the fury of a tornado , and
StircrDE . —Mr . George Whitehead , a gentleman of Beccles , Suffolk , has committed suicide at the Hen and Chickens Hotel , Suffolk . He had been a builder , and for tho last six months had exhibited great norvousness , owing , it is supposed , to a contemplated dissolution of Pa * £ ier&mp between himself and his hrother . Ho arrived at 1 toe Hotel already named on tho morning of Tuesday ^ if 11 ^ 1014 the waitor ho had travelled n long way , ana was tired . Ho went to bed early , and on the folb 3 fte ^^^ asain comPl * incd of being fatigued , and Defame very sick aftw irlnkW n ftAlinin « f inMna nt
causing great havoc wlicrovcr it extended . Chimneypots out of number were blown down , windows driven anto tho houses , and tiles dislodged from tho roofs in largo quantities . A pair of heavy gates wsis forcibly wrenched off the hinges , and carried awny somo distance . In one part -of the town , tho entire roof of a "house was lifted off tho walls and replaced almost immediately , occasioning great terror to tho inhabitants , who escaped unhurt , while in another place tho roof of an out-house adjoining one of tho town inns was completely blown off and hurled into tho yard below , without injuring * nny person , Tho galo elsewhere raged with destructive- violence , and tho -whole of a largo and thickly-planted orchard , and several fine timber trees , as well ns tho wcather-vano and flag-staff of the church tower , were sacrificed to its fury . A wheat-stack and a stack of pca-hauhn were also blown away and whirled
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An Aldermanic Opinion on the Haxf-Homdatt Movement . — -Mr . Alderman Rose having , at a meeting on Monday of the Court of Aldermen , ' moved , that the meetings of committees should be held on Fridavs instead of on Saturdays , as an aid to the Saturday halfho » liday movement , Alderman Copeland and Alderman Sidney said it would be quite impossible for them to attend to the dutieB of committees on Fridays , and took occasion to express their disapprobation of the movement now rapidly in advance a * pregnant with mischief , and calculated to injure both employers and employed . The motion then fell to the ground .
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- . - - —_« , ... Leader Office , Saturday , October 4 . THE NEAPOLITAN QUESTION . The arrival of the Allied squadrons at Naples is expected dailj-. The English fleet has arrived at Ajaccio , the appointed rendezvous . The preparation of the . batteries and defences goes on . The Government has offered a pardon to Poerio nnd Settembriiii , if they will solicit it . They have refused to do so . "A telegraphic : despatch from Ajaccio , of the 30 th September , " says the Times of this day , " announces the arrival of two English ships of war from Malta , and another despatch from Toulon informs us that the French fleet was still there . M . de Kisselef is expected soon in Paris with , a letter from the Czar to the Emperor .
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9 & 6 ' / THE LEADER / [ No . S 41 , Bajutslday ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Oct. 4, 1856, page 946, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2161/page/10/
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