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letter to fragments . He was caught , and several of the bits of the letter were picked up , but nothing could be made out of them . Signor Homodei denied that the note contained any political matters , but said that it referred to private affairs . He subsequently appeared before the Imperial Delegate of Pavia , who said he must apply to Milan for further instructions . In the meanwhile , Signor Homodei has made liis escape—it . is thought , to Switzerland . His house lias been searched , but nothing important has been discovered .
RUSSIA . The St . Petersburg journals of the 16 th inst . state that the navigation between Cronstiulfc and St . Petersburg is interrupted , in consequence of the ice from Lake Ladoga . The postal steamer which was announced to start on the 16 th could not leave .
SPAIK . A discussion took place in the Senateon the 18 th ult . between O'Donnell and Marshal Narvaez . The former endeavoured to vindicate his political conduct , and to prove that Narvaez entirely agreed with him as to the propriety of the military insurrection of July , 1854 . In his reply , the present Prime Minister admitted having expressed himself to the effect that matters had come to so bad a pass that a revolution was inevitable , and that
he was willing to take part in it ; hut he added that he refused to league himself with the Progresistas . _ Narvaez was extremely cool during the argument ; O'Donnell was boiling with rage and excitement . The wordy war was resumed on a subsequent night , when a great many other eminent Senators were drawn into the vortex , and the Chamber was disgraced by the bitterest criminations and recriminations . Much discussion has been stirred up in consequence , and not a few duels are expected to take place .
AUSTRIA . Marshal Radetzky , while walking in his room a few days ago , fell and broke the upper part of the bone of his left thigh . The Emperor has refused to receive a petition from the Hungarian magnates touching various grievances affecting their nationality . The Cardinal Archbishop of Gran , Primate of Hungtiry , was to have presented it . He had an audience of the Emperor , and was received , as he afterwards stated , with the utmost kindness ; but his Majestv declined to accept the petition , ' because it
might contain requests which could not possibly be granted ; ' and he added that he did not wish to know the names of the persons who had signed the document . A messenger has arrived at Vienna from Copenhagen with [ a despatch , in which it is said that the newlyformed Danish Government will convoke the Holstein Estates { Stiinde ) in the month of August , and settle the questions relative to the provincial constitution , domains , &c , in a way that will satisfy the two great German Powers . Austria and Prussia have accordingly abandoned their intention of bringing the matter before the German Confederation .
TURKEY . Izmer Pacha , the new governor of Bulgaria , and Mind Effendi , commissioner Of the Porte , are making great efforts to put down the abuses encouraged by former governors . Hairi Elfendi , former treasurer , has been arrested on the charge of embezzling thirty-five million piastres ( about 280 , 000 / . ) , and has been sent to Constantinople for trial ; he has already made important confessions . Said Pacha , formerly governor of Itoustchuk , is under surveillance , and his administrative nets are being looked into .
TIIK DANUlilAN PttlNCIIVAUTIES . The Ottoman authorities continue to exercise a very despotic power over all who openly advocate the union of the Principalities , and to reward those who support a contrary policy . The Liberal party complain bitterly , and apparently with great justice , of the exclusion from Wallachia of four patriots who were concerned in the events of 1818 , but who were included in the recent amnesty . They have complied with all the necessary forma to enable them to re-enter their native laud ; but , from some unexplained cause , they arc detained on the frontiers .
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THE El'SOM RACES . The DiiRny is a national institution . Uoyalty patronises it ; aristocracy smiles on it ; the Houses of Lords and Commons bow beforo it , and are content for four-and-twenty hours to let the world go by without their supervision ; Palmers die for it , and make others die before them ; universal Cockneydom , and many from beyond the limits of Cockaigne , crowd to it ; Paterfamilias takes hid wife and daughters to its sphere ; and ragged
rascaldom , fresh—or rather foul—from the back slums , Buna itself in its beams . There is no democracy like that of your race-course . Death himself ia not a greater leveller , nor will r , ovo more surely bring extremes together within /<*» ring ; than the Derby within its . , Tho road is an epitome of life itself though thecoatcrmonger ' s go-cart ia at liberty to polo the duke ' s carriage , and the plebeian donkeys that browso on dusty thistles may rul > nosea with the thorough bloods airily whirling my lady down to
Epsom . An amalgam is made of society expressly for 11 lose few : days ; and the divine right of betting supersedes all other considerations , and over-rides all prejudices . And not only do we see these things year after year with unuhniiiished interest , but a perennial freshness exhibits itself unfailingly in the newspaper accounts of the sport . . Time after time have we had that wonderful narrative of the aspect of the road , with its motley characters and equine incidents : but ayain it appears—another , yet the
same . We should probably ourselves reproduce it , were our space as clastic as our will . Sultice it then to say that on Wednesday the sun shone forth with summer brightness , and the roads were dusty white , and ' gentdom' was in force , and the ladies were charming , and the tumblers , Ethiopian serenaders , and puppet-shows , were intolerable , and the breaksdown were up to the average , and the sharpers and pickpockets industriously improved the shining hours . And so swept the cavalcade to the course . From the professional reporter of the daily papers we borrow a description of
TIIK RACE FOR THE DERBY . ' The spectators became more and more impatient as false start after false start was made . Not until after a dozen ineffectual attempts were the horses despatched from . the post , and no sooner had Mr . Hibburd given the word 'Go ! ' than Chevalier dTndustrie took the command , with Gaberlunzie , Commotion , Oakball , Turbit , Anton , Arsenal , Strathnaver , Blink Bonny , Wardermarske , Adamas , Lady Hawthorn , forming a cluster in his wake ; Saunterer , Skirmisher , Tournament , and M . D . being in the centre of the ruck . They ran thus to halfway up the hill , where Gaberlunzie went up to the Chevalier , and was soon in possession of a clear lead , the Chevalier lving second , Anton third , Strathnaver ,
Arsenal , and Commotion heading the next lot . No further change occurred until reaching the mile post , when Anton rushed to the front , Lambourn running iuto the second place , Chevalier d'lndustrie going on third , Strathnaver and Arsenal next . Oil rounding Tattenham Corner , M . D . emerged from the ruck and showed in the third place , Lambourn at the same time joining Anton , with whom he ran nearly head and head round the turn . Adamas , Tournament , Strathnaver , and Skirmisher keeping close company , and Lady Hawthorn , who had up to this point run with the leading horses , gradually dropping away into the rear . When they had fairly landed in the straight , Commotion disappeared from the front , and Black Tommy , Adamas , Arsenal , M . D .,
Wardermarske , Blink Bonny , and Strathnaver showed nearly in a line behind Lambourn and Anton . On crossing the road , Lambourn gave way , and at the distance M . D . broke down , and stopped ' as if he was shot . ' On nearing the stand , Strathnaver headed Anton , with Blink Bonny waiting upon them , Adamas , Arsenal , and Black Tommy going on in close attendance . In a few strides further , a most exciting set-to ensued , and CJiai Itou ' let out' Blink Bonny , who immediately rushed to the front , . Black Tommy , Adamas , Arsenal , and Anton being well up in her wake , and a close race in ending in favour ot Blink Bonny by a neck , the second beating the third by a head only , and a neck separating the third from the fourth . Anton and Arsenal were iil ' th and sixth , close together—so well up , indeed , that the rider of eaoli
thought he was either second or third . Warderinarske , Lambourn , Commotion , Zuyder Zee , Skirmisher , Saunterer , Beeswax Colt , Tournament , and Sydney formed the next lot ; but we were unable to determine their relative positions . The ? tail' consisted of Laertes , Uirdiii-the-lland , Turbit , Gaberlunzie , Special License , Dusty Miller , and Loyola . "—The Ersoai Town Piratic , of fifty sovs . ( Handicap ) , one mile—the first race of the day — was won by Mr . Wilson ' s Questionable . After the Derby , the races were—the Bentikcic Plato , of fifty sovs . ( Handicap ) , one mile , walked over by Mr . I ' . Fisher's Ida ; the Ei'SOM Cur , of one hundred sovs ., added to a sweepstakes of ten sovs . each , won by Mr . 1 ° Parr ' s Sir Colin ; and the Duudanh Staickh , of live sovs . each , with thirty added , won by Mr . Midgley ' s I ' olly Johnson .
On the previous dny—the real opening day of the races , to which , however , the general public pay but little attention—the business wad aa under : —The Ckavkn Stakkh , of live sovs . each , with fifty added , won by Mr . J . S . Douglas ' .- * Blue Jacket ; the Manok Platk , of fifty sovs . ( Handicap ) , won by Mr . JWellish ' s Huntingdon ; the WooucoTH Stakkh , of ten nova , each , with ono hundred added , won by Mr Howard ' s Sedbury ; the Kouh Stahich , a fieo handicap of twenty . sovs . each , with two hundred added , won by the Duke of Beaufort ' s Vigil ; the Hoicton Stakkh , of iivo sovs . each , with thirty added , won by Mr . tttcvem ' s Unexpected ; and the Hicatiicotic Plat-jo , of fifty sova ., won by Mr . John Burnard ' s Ytdlor Gal .
On Thursday , the contests were for—the Ei'hoim Fouk Yicak-Oli > Stakkh , of fifty sovs . each , with one hundred added , won by the JL ) uko of Bedford ' s Wahncr ; the Two-Ykak-Ou ) Staicks , of ton hovh . each , with fifty added , won by Mr . Saxon ' s Princess Koyal ; lime Ma . iksty ' h Platjo , of ono hundred guineas , for inarea only , won by Mr . Saxon ' s Mary ; tho Guano Stand Piratic , of ono hundred sovo . ( Handicap ) , won by Mr .
Saxon's Tom Thumb ; the Selusg Stakes , of five sovs each , with thirt } ' added , won by Captain Christie ' s Un expected ; and the Cobham Platk , of fifty sovs . ( Han " dicap ) , won by Mr . Simpson ' s Fright . On Friday ( yesterday ) , Blink Bonny achieved an other victory , being the winner of The Oaks . Th Railway Plate was won by Squire Watt ; the ' Pai / docic Plate by Unexpected ; and the Glasgow Plate by Nereus . The Foal Stakes were walked over for hv Anton .
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LOSS BY FIRE OF THE JOSEPH SOMES . The Joseph Somes , a teak-built ship , 780 tons register commanded by Captain Elmston , on its passage out from London to Australia , has been completely burnt to the water ' s edge , though her crew and passengers were saved The fire burst out on the 25 th of Februarj ' , when the vessel was off the island of Tristan d'Acunlia . On the morning of that day , the captain and some others went on shore . The party included a Mr . Goodall , late a member of Lloyds ' , who with his wife and famil y were passengers on board . He gives a very striking account of their discovery of the calamity . '' We pulled " he writes , " into a beautiful sandy bay , bounded nearly from point to point by bold bluff cliffs , rising like a huge
wall some o 000 ieet perpendicularly from the shore The captain made arrangements for coming ashore on the following day with the water cask ;; . We then returned to the ship , which hud stood oil " , and was now some seven miles distant . We rowed a considerable distance , and through a heavy sea , when we saw her go about and stand in for the land . The sun was just setting . We had noticed with some astonishment how badly the ship steered , and I joked the captain upon what I thought the smoke from the galley tire , for we had not dined . A minute more , my heart was in my throat , for a cry was raised , ' The ship is on fire ! ' The smoke was coining up about the main hatchway , where wo knew the powder magazine was . " Captain
Elmston exhibited the utmost energy , lie seemed as if he would have sprung from the boat into the ship , and he exhorted his men to pull for their lives . On the boat reaching the ship , he leaped on to the main chains , and ordered the passengers ( though only just in time ) to go forward immediately . When the ilames were iirst discovered by those on board , it was thought they could be quenched by the buckets of water which were poured on them : but it soon became apparent that ( lie mischief
had made too great a head . Considerable alarm then prevailed lest the Ore should reach the gunpowder . Mr Stokes , the chief officer in the captain ' s absence , gave orders that it should be thrown overboard ; and this was done safely , though , "before the operation c-uld be completed , some of the barrels got so hot that they could hardly be held . Alfred Marsh , the steward , and Cassirn , the captain ' s black servant , showed the greatest coolness and intrepidity ; and the women behaved remarkably well .
The pinnace being lowered , the captain stood guard , and saw all the women and children handed down before he allowed the others to follow . The remainder escaped by the lifeboat and gig . " After all the crew were in the boat , the captain hail a struggle to get a Newfoundland dog of his over the ship ' s side , but , finding it impossible , he seized a rojie and swung otV into the bont . lie was the last to leave the ship . She had an immense quantity of spirits on board—in fact , the great bulk of her cargo was brandy and gin—which accounts lor the extraordinary rapidity of the ignition . l '' rom the time of the ( irst alarm to the time of leaving the ship , an hour had not elapsed , and , as we cleared her , the flumes had otl
rushed up in all directions . The gig , which put with live boy . s . was lost sight of , but we mt . ired tlie piunaoo , and were ' hailed to lighten her of some of her freight , for the water was fast gaining upon them , and they na < little room to work their oars . We got alongside , am took Mrs . Klmston and two women into our boat , wnu-i made up our number to thirty . I had only time to bail my wife and child , and tell her to be of good courage , when the boats parted , and darkness completed our separation . On turning our eyes to the burning slnp , ^ saw the fire run up her new rigging with ""'" inerauie flickering jets , like n brilliant gas illumination , ami uu main and mi / . en masts went over the side with a . car i crash . Tho foremast and bowsprit stood a sliort i " to
longer . We pulled straight in for the land , so ah fe under its lee and avoid the swell . On apiwoaclnug tlw stupendous dills , the rollers and roar of tins surf , w' »• into n deeper note by the great boulders rolling overtau other , gave us timely warning not to draw too neai . last , after five hours' pull , wo rounded a point niui ' the sandy bay where tho captain had landed on ino vioiiH day . The settlers had kindled a lire on the » ui jj and , as we noared the shore , wo gave a cheer , ou echo from the overhanging rooks was tho «« b' "" P " ^ and not tho least striking scene of that "' fa ' ' * . " fi ( was tho landing on those black sand- ) by t » u uf j " j clear bright tiro and not a soul to meet u » . / ' » b . islanders had retired from their watch at mnl » M great doubt of our safety . On climbing up tUo "" ' found tho inlamlara up , f'l . om whpm wo * e « " ^ - greatest kindness . " Tho gig containing the u < o « ashore during tho night . , 0 I 1 . For nine days , tho crow and passengers ciuiuriu
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Leader (1850-1860), May 30, 1857, page 512, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2195/page/8/
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