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reports of disorders on the part of tbe German Legion , bufc * he King W ^ Uam ' s Town Gazette declares that the fecte feave been -exaggerated . < Phb L < MtDO » Society for the Bustd . —The . anniversary meeting of this society , the object of which is to teach the blind * o read , took place on Monday afternoon at tiie Hanover-square rooms ; the Bishop of Carlisle in tie -chair . Several of the pupils of the school were on the platform , and in the course of the afternoon N they
read two chapters from the Bible and sang several pieces of sacred music . The pages both of the Bible of and the mnsic -were embossed . From the report , it appeared , that lite association is flourishing . The Bev . Mr . Gowring , ¦ who is himself blind , testified to the excellence of the method by which the afflicted are taught to read . At the close of the proceedings , a collection was made at the doors , and in one of the small rooms there was a sale of fancy articles in worsted and basket-work , made by the pupils of the school .
Sigkok Saffi . —By invitation of a number of the most influential inhabitants of Dalkeith , Siguor SaflS , ex-Triumvir of the Roman Republic , and the eloquent defender of the cause of Italian independence , delivered a lecture there last Friday week , on the past and present condition of Italy , and the wants and aspirations of the Italian people . The meeting was numerously and respectably attended . —Daily News . The Prkjcks op Gdde have baen visiting Liverpool , Birkenhead , and Glasgow , this week .
An Indian Gestlemak , a devout Mussulman , is now staying at Southampton , and has dined with several of the gentry . His manners are very agreeable , and he is extremely temperate in his mode of living . He speaks English pretty well . Having performed , with great difficulty , in company with his wife and father , a . pilgrimage to the Holy City , Mecca , he conceives that God has blessed him with great abundance . His dress is very rich . He is about forty years of age , and his name is Hadgee Jaffa Suliman .
The Law Reform Society . — The first meeting of the members of this society since the dissolution of Parliament was held on Monday evening . Mr . Headlam , M . P ., occupied the chair . The report , which was read by the Secretary , was adopted , and the meeting separated . The Water we Drink . — The General Board of Health have issued a report stating the results of the microscopical examination which they have caused to be made into the water supplied to the metropolis by the various companies . Dr . Hassall , who conducted . the examinations , and who sighs the report , comes to these conclusions : —" That the waters supplied by the nine metropolitan water companies under the new act for the
improvement of the water supply of the metropolis still contain considerable numbers of living vegetable and animal productions belonging to different orders , ' genera , and species . That these living organic productions were found to be particularly abundant in the waters , supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall , the Lambeth , the New River , and the Hampstead Companies . That they were rather numerous in the waters of the Grand Junction Company . That they were much less abundant in the waters of the Chelsea , West Middlesex , East London , and Kent Companies . That those waters which
contained most organic productions were cloudy and opalescent , as the waters of the Southwark and Vauxhall , the Lambeth , the New River , and the Hampstead Companies . That the waters which contained fewer organic productions were clear and bright , as those of the Chelsea , the West Middlesex , the Grand Junction , the East London , and the Kent Companies . It follows that the metropolis is still supplied with water containing considerable numbers of living vegetable and animal productions , and which are not present in the purer waters , as , for example , that supplied by the Plumstead , Woolwich , and Charlton Company . "
Mountain Railways . ' —A Report of Captain W . Moorsom , C . E ,, has just been published by Messrs . G . Grassi , Volini , and Co ., 14 , Southampton-street , Strand , on tho patent screw locomotive engine , for the ascent of ' steep railway gradients , invented by Signor Grassi , of Milan . By the report of tho eminent engineer it is provied that tho difficulties of crossing mountains will bo removed by Mr . Grassi's system , with which an incline of one in twenty will bo run with facility by the new locomotive . The invention of Mr . Grassi has attracted tho attention of tho industrial world both in ItngJaod and abroadfor tho reason that its application
, will load to the suppression of tunnels , and , therefore , a large economy is to bo attained . One example alone wall aumce to convince our readers . Tho tunnel projected to cross Mont Cenia , on tho lino from Lyons to ., " £ estiinated to cost moro than ono hundred million francs , own although there occurs a . gradient of A 1-8 per cent ., whilst on tho sumo sumo line , Mont Cenis mny eaaily bo Burmounted by Siguor GrusHi ' n system at n , probable oxpoiuUtmo of throe or four million franca at moat above tho cost on ordinary railway * , assuming that tho increased length of tho line is threefold that of tho tunnels .
An XNTicr ^ KSKNT Housic—rn tho cotu-80 of an action for dnmogos , recently brought in tho Court of Common Plena by the widow of an old man who had been killed by a horse belonging to tho defendant , ono of tho witnesses , n policanuui ) said that I ho hornu , at tho time tho
accident occurred , was trotting quietly down " with the intention of being harnessed to his cart . " The sagacity and dev otion , of the beast are beyond all praise ; and possibly it was owing- to his zeal to be at his post—or , rather , at his shaft—that he ran the old man down . - Axdbrman Magnay . —The Court of Common Council , on Thursday , adopted , after some discussion , a motion of Mr . Blake ' s , " that the members of this court be permitted to inspect all the official documents in possession of the City solicitor affecting a member of this corporation" —i . e . Sir William Magnay . Mr . W . H . Russell ' s Lectures . —Mr . Russell—one
of the real heroes of the Crimea , whose pen rescued England from the abyss into which she was falling , and whose genius will perpetuate to succeeding ages the minutest features of the short , fierce struggle with Russia—will , on Monday week , deliver the first of three Lectures on tihe Crimean War ; the two others to follow on the ensuing Thursday and Saturday . The lecturer observes , in his preliminary advertisement , that many little incidents which he was obliged to leave unrecorded in the hurry of daily writing for the press , will now be related . He will " sketch , as it were , the private
life and interior economy of the armies and of the camp , and enter upon the description of subjects which during the war it would have been injudicious and impolitic to have communicated to the world . " It is impossible to conceive a series of discourses of a more profound and fascinating interest . The general public will now be enabled to see personally the man who flushed their cheeks and made their hearts beat stronger day by day during that tremendous period ; and all the wonted spirit , force , vivacity , and colour of the written descriptions will , we doubt not , acquire an additional charm and dramatic interest from the verbal narration .
Sale of the " Morning Herald , " &c . —The copyright , plant , &c , of the Morning Herald , Standard , and St . James's Chronicle , were put up for sale by auction on Tuesday . They were offered at a reserved bidding on the part of the official assignees of 13 , 500 ? ., and it was intimated that one bid of not less than 100 £ would constitute a sale . There being no offer mader the property was withdrawn for the present . Tub Christianity of the Till . —Sitting yesterday in a public place—a place where human sinners go to satisfy the hungry body with roast and boiled , and the famished mind with the morning ' s papers , and the
mutual comments that are suggested by their perusalwe heard a little bit of our nationel Christianity , associated as it not uncommonly is , with the presence of the table-cloth and with reminiscences of the till . From every side rose up scattered comments on the British Bank disclosures of the week ; and in one locality two comfortable feeders thus discoursed : — " Well , so John M'Gregor is gone ! " " Yes : I suppose he ' s in the lowest hell by this time . "—Now , we would by no means put M'Gregor in the catalogue of saints , even of Scotland , where saints are bound to be '' canny ; " but perhaps apit a little less low than the lowest would " meet the justico of the case , " considering that liomba has yet to
come . Sir W . F . Williams has denied the truth of the statement that he was about to vacate his seat in Parliament in order to make room for Mr . Frederick Peel . Jews in Parliament . ^ —At the Court of Common Council on Thursday , Mr . Andertou moved , " That this Court do again petition both Houses of Parliament that the Jews , and all her Majesty ' s British-born subjects , may have extended to them the rights of civil and religious liberty , and be qualified to hold all civil oftices in any of her dominions , without any test of their religious opinions . " The motion was carried unanimously . Poison for Physio . —The Malta correspondent of tho
Daily News says : — Wo had a Had case ol poisoning hero a few days since , which would have most likely proved fatal had it not been for the prompt remedies that were applied . Miss Cleugh , the daughter of the clergyman of Valctta , and her cousin , Miss Graves , tho daughter of tho late superintendent of tho ports , have lately been practising photograph }' . Min 3 Cloug h being unwell had to take medieino early in the morning ; unfortunately Mist ) Graves hud left a bottle of tho poisonous mixture near tho medicine , und tho maid servant , who could not read , gave tho poison instead of the medicine . Misa Clough had fortunately eaten a i > i < - 'c ; o of bread previously , which imbibed tho poison ; medical aid was instantly called to her assistance , and in a couple of days oho w « a all right , again . "
This Ruins ok Covicnt Gakdiw Theatre . —A second sale of dihria took place on Tuesday , wlu-n , among other things , tho four niussivo Doric columns forming the portico were disposed of . These , together with tho adjoining piliiHtur . s , &c , fetched only 25 / ., though their original coat , it in said , aviis at louwt 000 / . Wo cannot but regret their loss . They were n real omumunt to London . Tun Lundhill Collikuy . — Four nioro bodies have been dificovei-t'c ) ; but nothing clso of intercut , him occurred uurihir the week .
Italy . —" For Homo days past , " miyu a letter from Turiu of tho 22 nd ult ., in tho National Gazette , of H « rlin , " amovement has been observed on tho l ' urnio . so frontier . Forged lottora from Garibaldi , declaring that tho tsavdinian Government favours tho movement , nro said to bo in circulation . "
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Leader Office , Saturday , May 2 , . PARLIAMENT OnESTERDAT ) . The House of Lords assembled at two o ' clock . —Ur J . Evelyn Denison , the newly-elected Speaker of the House of Commons , was presented , and the Commissioners , on the part of the Queen , signified her Majesty ' s approval of the choice made by the House of Commons . Their Lordships then adjourned . The House of Commons also assembled at two o ' clock under the presidency of the new Speaker , and the swearing in of members was proceeded with . No other business was transacted . The members were taken in the alphabetical order of counties .
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THE NEUFCIIATEL TREATY . The Federal Council has authorized unanimousl y the signing of the treaty . Two members proposed to submit the question at once to the Federal Assembly , with a recommendation in its favour .
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THE DANUBIAN PRINCIPALITIES . The reason of the adjournment of the elections for the Divans is stated to be a necessity that has arisen for revising some of tbe articles of the firman , which were not sufficiently clear . This will be done by the European Ministers at Constantinople . The elections are not likely to come on till the end of this month .
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" CANDIDE" ON TIIE ELECTIONS . ( To the Editor of the Leader . } S 1 K—I perceive that you , and some of your contemporaries—taking the cue from you—have been sullicicntly deticicnt in gallantry and good taste , to object to the active interference of ladies at election tune . It is humiliating to observe how prone aro oven clever men to prejudice and presumption . Were it not for these conceit-begotten mists that so unworthily dim your intellect , you would rejoice with exceeding great joy to iiud the fair women of England engaging in the strife oi men . Their freedom from envy , hatred , malice , and All tlit enders
littlo jealousies and meannesses of mankind , r them peculiarly fitted for work that is so apt to cnll into play the bad passions of frail humanity . Absorbed in the oxcluHive lovo of country , and actuated only by tlie most loftv and disinterested principles , they devote themselves with all the energy and vivacity ot tUeir nervous organisation to the elaboration of the greuwsi public good , without roferonco to persons or feelings . And thus they descend into tho arena as tho harbingers of peace , good-will , and brotherly lovo . In this ligut i woa particularly impressed by tho remark ol an uotive parliamentary agent in ono of our eastern counties w « in 1 inquired into tho prospect of suocosh that awii ""
certain candidate . , . " Ho Iwih a very fair ennnce , " ho said ; and thon , oiwr u Blight pause , siffnUieuntly added , " ho is going to lot loose his wife and daughters upon tho borough . Tho idea in the learned gentleman ' s mind w | HUvl < lcll ' f that or a nock of snow-whito doves , or fiintm !* , tat " willi a green olive loaf in its mouth , iliittonng nn < ¦» ing , and displaying itH plumage , and dim . sintf « roi n « utimwp-lioro of punco , purity , and chrwUHiily lorbu »« i * £ I know that ; you gentlemen of thu quill "' I '" - - | 0 ™ , ' nt n certain noble lady of the last century who , umi tho impulse of patriotism , imprinted a ( lui-iil ™ lxlU ' tho uiiutumi . 1 « li « ek of a bluc-npronod » on <>» Hlllll * j l , | But , for inv purl , 1 honour and ndmlro ciirnoHtm'HH «' its forms and phases , and consider aiioIi oomliK ' t qi « "J '' LMthiial . lt : mid f . jiniiiino as tlmt of tho chivalrous Imiou .
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418 ^ THE LEADEB , [ No . 371 , Sajtjrpat ,
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There is no learned man but will confess he hath much prouted by reading controversies , his senses awakened , and his judgment sharpened . If , then it be profitable for him to read , why should it . 110 . , ^ least be tolerable for his adversary to write ?—Milton
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The Gkand Ddkk Consta ^ tine arrived Paris on Thursday afternoon . On the same day , the Prcsse contained an article—supposed to be inspired by Prince Napoleon—eulogising the English alliance as a nece 8-sity to European civilization . Convocation . —The new Convocation assembled for the first time yesterday ( Friday ) . The business was merely formal . " The Very Rev . Dr . Elliott , Dean of Bristol , was elected prolocutor . The sitting was adjourned to the following Friday .
Adulteky . —An action for criin . con . was brought yesterday in the Secondaries' Court by a Mr . Smith , of Ulverstone , against the son of M . Duterbe , a resident at Dinan , in France . The damages were assessed at 300 < M . M . UE MONTALEMBERT ANT > THE FllESCH GOVERNMENT . —The Correspondent , the Liberal Catholic Keview , has received a second warning for Count Montalembert's article on the recent condemnation of the Bishop oi Moulins .
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Leader (1850-1860), May 2, 1857, page 418, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2191/page/10/
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