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Leader Officb , Saturday , November 16 . LATEST FROM THE CONTINENT . The influence of the Roman Catholic Church has teen victorious with the Tusoan Government . The ascendancy of--secular institutions , which that State had adopted ia imitation of the LeopoldLne reforms in Austria in the last century , is to be sacrificed , and a concordat entered into with the Holy See . From Vienna we hear that . Sir Hamilton Seymour ia to accompany the Emperor of Austria on his journey to Italy . The Austrian journals look upon this as one symptom more of the satisfactory relations . between the English and Austrian Governments . " The FrenchGovernment , " says theTimes Paris correspondentthis day , "is in complete accord -with England , relative to the Neapolitan question , and is prepared , if necessary , to assume a more energetic attitude . The Marquis Antonini , King Ferdinand ' s representative here , was yesterday informed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs that there was no chance of his staying in Paris , and that he and the whole of the Legation will have to retire .... ' - . ' ; ' . " , ' - . ¦ ¦ :: ¦ - ¦ -.. ; : ¦ ' A letter from " Vienna states that Sir Hamilton Seymour , our ambassador , is to accompany the Emperor of Austria to Italy , and that he is the only member of the diplomatic corps who is to accompany his Majesty . A Eussian squadron has arrived at Cherbourg , and is expected to remain there a fortnight .
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THE EAST . Uesehid Pacha has already presided as Vizier'at a State Council . Mehemet Pacha will retain his post of Minister of Marine in the new Ministry . Fuad Pacha remains Minister of the Interior . News from Bombay has arrived by the Yectis , to the 17 th nit . The Delhi Gazette , of the 13 th , confirms the fall , of Herat by famine . The Governor and his family have been put to death . [ An account from another source says that the Persians were afterwards expelled by the Aff ghans /] The Persian army has been reinforced to the number of 100 , 000 men . Dost Mahommed is without supplies . His troops in Kandahar are in a state of mutiny . The East India Company -will send him funds . The Calcutta journals criticise freely the projected Euphrates Railway . They maintain that its rates of transport will be too high .
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The Bryn Mally Colliery Explosion . The coroner ' s jury have returned their verdict . They deliberated for an hour and a half , and then found that the deceased came -to their deaths accidentally , in consequence of a body of water having burst into and inundated the mine . They expressed an opinion that the mine ought to be surveyed , and that the drivings should be more frequently marked on the plans than had . been the case hitherto . The new Chief Justice and the Representation of Southampton . —Sir Alexander Cockbum has ^ we believe , accepted the Chief Justiceship of the Court of Common Pleas . There will consequently bo a vacancyill the representation of this town . A preliminary meeting of the liberal party was called for yesterday evening at the Royal Hotel , to consider what steps should be taken in the emergency . Sir Alexander Cockburn ' s successor in the office of Attorncy-Gonernl is Sir Richard Bethell . 2 SCo gentleman has yet been selected to succeed Sir Richard . The names of Mr . Collier , Mr . Atlierton , and Mr . Keating-, who are in Parliament , and of Mr . Edwin James , axe mentioned . Crystal Palace . —Return of admissions for six daya , ending Friday , November 14 , 185 C , including season ticket-holders , 6635 .
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FLOGGING AT ETON . All Eton , and other public school men , will entirely concur with the Times on tho recent flogging case at Eton . It was monstrously absurd and improper on tho part of a father to send his son to a public school with the paternal injunction to resist the well-known discipline o that school ; and it « is evident that , according to tho existing discipline , there "was no alternative for tho head-master "but to expel tho boy who would not be flogged . The case of a boy of eighteen incurring tho penalty of tho birch for tho offence of smoking , suggests the unadvisableness of any boy of eighteen remaining at school ; flogging is a Draconic penalty lor smoking , hut smoking among boys at a public school lias all tho character of an epidemic disease . Doctors diner about the injurious-
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and wheat at five-ahd-twenty shillings a quarter . The troubles of England after ( the Hanoverian succession began with a king who had been , turain the country aspired to rule it . The love of the two irat Georges for Hanover was of great benefit to the country ^ Under them the dangerous spirit of loyalty nearly passed away w-hile the state churches , deprived of the support farnished by that spirit , almost emptied themselves .
The Orient . —The preparations for the expedition to tie Persian Gulf are continued on a large scale . A detachment from tie army before Herat has seized the Afghan city dfFarrath , and sent the Governor a pri-• Boner to Teheran . Advices have been received from Cahul to the 1 st of October . They represent Herat as still holding out . Other accounts state that it has fallen . The Directors of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway have issued ah advertisement for tenders for a line from Waasma to Nagpore , a distance of four Irondred aud eigity-eeven miles . The native troops at Peshawur Are suffering much from fever . Exchange at Bombay , 2 s . I ' d . 11-lGtbs , with an easy money market . The new Government loan is making very little progress . Prices in . the import market are steady . The Calcutta market has been subject to very little change . Exchange Is . Hid . to 2 s . jd .-
Freedom of the Bridges . - —A report has been presented to the Board of "Works from the Committee of Finance to the effect that , in their opinion , the only practicable way of throwing open Southwark and Waterloo bridges is by purchasing the interest of the proprietors . The report was adopted . The Board op Works is about to negotiate with the City of London for the purchase of part of the site of the late Meet Prison , in Farringdon-street , in order to build thereon a sat of offices for the Board . Dr . Livingston . —The arrival of Dr . Livingston , the African traveller , in this country , is expected , according to the Leeds Mercury , in about a fortnight .
The Poor-Law Board am > the Parish : of St . PAsrcBAS . —At the weeldy meeting on Tuesday of the Board of Directors of the Poor of St . Pancras , a communication from the Poor-Law Board , directing attention to the overcrowding of the workhouse , and threatening . legal proceedings in case the Board ' s orders were longer disobeyed , was read . This elicited some expressions of indignation ; but finally the subjoined resolution was carried on the motion of Mr . Cooper : — " That the numbers in the workhouse be reduced , as soon as practicable , to 1380 , and that there be no orders given for admission , except by magistrates and to the infirmary . That out-door relief be given to any other applicants entitled to receive it 5 that Little Bedlam be no longer used for female hinatics , and that those there be removed to some asylum . "
Hbai / th of London . —The total deaths in London , which in the previous -week were 969 , rose to 1006 in the week that ended last Saturday . The average number in the ten weeks corresponding to last week , of the years 1846-55 , was 1032 ; and , this number is to be compared with the deaths now returned , it must be raised in proportion to increase of population , when it will become 1135 . The comparison shows a difference of 129 in favour of the return of last week . The births registered last week exceeded the deaths registered in the same time by 605 . —Last week , the births of 820 boys and 791 girls , in all 1611 children , were registered in London . In tho , ten corresponding weeks of the years 1846-55 , the average number was 1514 . —From the Registrar-GeneraVs Weekly Return .
Remarkable Escape . —A singular escape from a lingering and horrible death happened about a week ago to a malster and his . horse , near Farningh am Wood , m Kent . The maltster , -whose name was Squib , had been present at a ploughing-matcli , which was held at Swanley , but he left about three o ' clock in the afternoon . He Tode across the fields , as being the nearest way home , and was passing through a hedgerow , when his horse suddenly halted . The rider , not seeing any reason for this , struck the animal with his whip . Tho horse then plunged into what seemed to be a bush of briars , but which afterwards turned out to be a deep well . Both horse and man fell a depth of fifty feet . Mr . Squib was thrown on to some sand that had been previously flung
down tho well , and his horse was afterwards precipitated eight or nine feet lower . Neither of them was seriously hurt ; and when Mr . Squib had recovered from tho first shock of his fall , he sat down on a few sticks that ho had collected , and was obliged to pass the night with his homo in this subterranean prison . On the following morning , bearing several people pass above , he tried repeatedly to mako his situation known to them ; but nobody heard him \ intil four o'clock in the afternoon , when a man shouted down into tho pit , and Mr . Squib yrnt then extricated from his perilous position , quito unharmed , but in a very exhausted state . His horse "was got out , also unhurt , tho next morning , in tho presence of a groat many persons .
wards returned to Bucharest his native capital , which , was then in the occupation of the Russians , and , finding that his mother , a lady of fortune , had died during i 5 s -abseace , he entered the Landwehr of the province , in ' tfhe Tanks of which , he served as a volunteer until an arbitrary order was issued for their incorporation-with the invading army , in consequence o which he abandoned his military duties in common with , a number of his countrymen , and succeeded , with some difficulty , in escaping from the Principality . He proceeded , in the first instance , to Yienna ,-whence he passed over into Italy , where he endeavoured to obtain a temporary subsistence as a teacher and translator of languages , as he was an accomplished linguist , and had r « - cerved a classical education ; but , having failed in all his efforts , he made his way to Paris , on reaching which
his health had become so greatly impaired from the trying vicissitudes and privations he had undergone , that his energies were completely prostrated . On partially recovering from his illness , he was advised to come over to this country , -where he was given to understand that he would be able to turn his abilities to profitable account ; but , on his arrival in town , about a fortnight since , after repeated unsuccessful attempts to procure employment at Liverpool and some adjacent towns , he . was again seized with a severe attack of the pulmonary affection under which he had long suffered , a-nd , having sold everything he possessed , he was reluctantly compelled to submit his case to the notice of the magistrate at Worship-street . The result of the application was that he was supplied with temporary funds , and ultimately he was admitted into the Victoria Park Pulmonary Hospital .
Prorogation of Parliajkent . —Parliament was . on Thursday furtlier prorogued by Commission until Tuesday , the 16 th of December next . The Little , Shabby , LeaHj Old Wizard of Queen Anne Street . —In that region of dull and decorous streets which radiates to the north and west from Cavendish-square , Queen Anne-street is one of the dullest and dingiest ; and of that dreary Queen Anaestreet the dreariest house , any of the thirty years before 1851 , was No . 48 . Judging from its weather-stained and soot-grimed walls , its patched windows , dark with dust and foul with cobwebs , its woodwork unfreshened by paint , its chimneys from which , curled no smoke , its unscoured threshold , it might have been
in Chancery , it might have been haunted , it might have been the scene of a murder . / Yet it was not uninhabited . Not unfrequently a visitor might be seen to knock , and , after long waiting , the door would be half-opened by a withered and sluttish old woman , or , before 1830 , by a little shabby , lean , old man . JSay , repulsive as the house might be , and grim as might be its guardians , carriages would sometimes be seen drawn up before its door for hours , while their gay and elegant freight found occupation inside . Could they be prying into the laboratory of an adept , or consulting a wizard , or driving a hard bargain with some sordid old hunks of a money lender ? Truly , neither deep alchemy , nor potent witchcraft , nor hard-fisted nearness was wanting inside that dreary door . But it was the alchemy that coins sunlight from pigments—the witchcraft that evokes
beanty out of the brain—the nearness that is capable of life-long self-sacrifice to consummate an intention of noblest patriotism . In that desolate house—48 , Queen Anne-street West , —from 1812 to 1851 , lived Joseph Mallord William Turner , the greatest landscape painter of the English school . Hanging along a bare and chilly gallery on the first-floor of that gloomy house , stacked against the walls , rolled up in dark closets , flung aside into dump cellars , the rain streaming down the canvasses from the warped sashes and paper-patched panes of the ill-fitting skylights , were collected some hundred of the noblest landscapes ever painted , while piles of drawings even more masterly , and reams of sketches , the rudiments and first thoughts of finished -works , were piled away in portfolios , and presses , and boxes , in every nook and corner of the dark and du 6 ty dwelling . —Times .
Mr . Thackeray's Portrait op Sir Robert Waip ole . —The great satiric novelist has been delivering at Edinburgh Iris lectures " On the Four Georges . " Ho introduced Sir Kobert \ Valpolo , on his way to Richmond-lodge , to announce to the Prince of Wales the denth of his roj ' ul father , and his accession to the throne . " Dat is von big lie , " roared out his sacred Ufajesty when the statesman , after having pushed his way to tho bedchamber of the polite prince , communicated the important tidings . George the Second hated Walpole ; and it was thus that he received tho great minister who , for fifteen subsequent years , served him with admirable prutlence , fidelity , and success . But for Sir Robert
A Miserable Tale . —A very distressing narrative ha ? appeared in the daily papers . Amongst the recent applicants for pecuniary relief from the poor-box of tho Worship-street police-office , was a native of Wallnchia , named Constantino Cantacuzcno , a young man of gentlemanly address and deportment , but evidently in impoverished circumstances , and a wretched state of health . His deplorable condition excited an unusual degree of consideration and sympathy . It appeared from his statement , ¦ Which was authenticated by documents in his possession , that , about five years ago , ho held tho situation of private secretary to the liussiair Prince Domidoff , at his palace , M » Florence , in whose servico ho remained until hia
Walpole we should have had the Stuarts back again ; but for his love of peaco we should have been involved in a war which the nation was not strong enough to have endured . In religion ho wns little better than a heathen ; ho cracked ribald jokes at all tho big-wigs nncl bishops , nnd spent his Sundays tippling with courtiers at St . James ' s , or boozing with boors nt Houghton , lie cared for letters no wore than his master did ; ho judged humnn nature so meanly tlint wo are ashamed to own ho was right . But with his hireling House of Commons he defended tho liberty of tho country ; with his incredulity ho kept down priestcraft . Ho gave Ilritain pence and freedom , tho Tlirco per Cents , nearly at par
patro n suddenly broke up his establishment and repaired to St . Petersburg , for the purposo of placing hi « vast resources nt tho disposal of his Imporial master for the prosecution of tho late war . Cantncuzcno shortly after-
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^ yovEMBEn 15 , 1856 . ] THE LEADER ,. 1091
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 15, 1856, page 1091, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2167/page/11/
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