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ployed as a substratum . Tresh promenades , bede of flowers , &c , have been made in Hyde Park . The Leviathan . —Prince Albert and the Priace of "Wales paid a visit last Saturday to the Leviathan . Ma-dlle . Rachel ; is said to . be recovering . Rugby School . —At a meeting of tbe trustees of Rugby School on Thursday , at Eugby , the Rev . Frederick Temple , late Fellow of Balliol College , Oxford , and Principal of Knellar Hall , was elected Head Master of Rugby School . Sir John Lawrence is to be promoted to the first class ( Grand Cross ) of the Order of the Bath .
Communication with India . —It appears that a weekly communication with . India is about to be established . The main points of an arrangement are said to have been agreed between the Government and the Peninsular and Oriental Company for a mail to and from India four times a month , instead of twice , as at present . It is intended to effect this by making the despatch of the mails to and from Bombay to alternate as regards dates with the departure of the mails to and from Calcutta , a plan which will bring four mails each way to Suez every montb , the company undertaking to place such additional steamers on the Marseilles and Alexandria station as shall suffice to convey four mails per month , both outward and homeward , between those ports . —Times .
Last of the Boswells . —The last male descendant of Boswel ] , the friend and biographer of Johnson ( saj r s a contemporary ) , las just departed this life , and the name and title of Boswell have become extinct through the death of Sir James Boswell , of Auchiulech-liouse , county of Argyll , which happened on the 4 th inst ., in his fifty-first year . The famous Boswell left by his wife , the daughter of his uncle , Mr . A . Montgomerie , of Lauishaw , North Britain , besides two daughters , an only son , Alexander , who was created a baronet in 1821 , at the coronation , of King George IV ., but , as our readers will remember , lost his life in a duel in tte following year . His only son was the baronet just deceased ; two daughters , we believe , survive to lament their parent ' s loss 3 and to carry the name of Boswell into other families .
: Death of Mb . Archibald Hastie , M . P . —The death of Mr . Hastie , the member for Paisley , took place at Edinburgh on Monday . He was in his sixty-fifth year . His politics were Liberal , and he was celebrated , for his astute business habits , and for his generous and . hospitable character . . ¦ ';¦ : ¦ . Ploughing by Steam . —The Highland Agricultural Society has awarded the premium to Mr . John Fowler , Cornhill , London , for his steam ploughing machine . The Representation of Harwich . —One of the Liberal candidates , Mr . Tower , has retired from the field and has issued an address of some interest , in the course of which he observes that he came forward '' under a belief that the great privilege entrusted to this borough would be exercised independently on the « ve of a new reform bill . I desired to declare openly and fully before jou all , electors and non-electors , my
opinions on the great questions of the day , and I was prepared to fight a fair fight with any political opponent . But I was not prepared to find the Liberal party divided and distracted as it now is . I deprecate the cause of this disunion—viz ., the attempt by the son of the present member to obtain possession of the vacant seat . I refrain from any steps tending to widen the unseemly echiam , and leave the solution in your own hands . A seat in Parliament offers no attraction to me , if is not based on free and popular election ; and . as an honest man I denounce in our own ranks any approximation to the monopolizing spirit ani close borough system which we Liberals would fearlessly expose if it were practised by our political opponents . " Mr . Dodd , formerly M . P . for Maidstone has paid a visit to the borough ; -whether he will offer himself as a candidate remains to be proved- Mr . Arcedeckne and Mr . Bagshaw arc still before the electors .
The London Omnibuses . —Some statistics with respect to the omnibuses Lelonging . to the French , company liavebcen put forth in the daily papers , from which it appears that " the 595 omnibuses belonging to the company run over 66 different routes , and for facilitating the traffic , cerrespondenco offices' are established nt White « hapel , Oheapside , Bishopsgate , Kegent-circus , Notting-hill-gate , Edgewaro-road , Brompton , Highbury , and Holloway . By means of this arrangement , a person may travel from Kilburn to Chelsea for 6 d ., from Putney to Blackwall , or Hammersmith to Holloway , the distance in each case being eleven miles , for ( id ., and 36 , 000
persons avail tiemsclvcs each week of these ' correspondence * offices . The average weekly receipt from tho wholes of the omnibuses is 11 , 5001 ., but tho state of the weulhor in « t ( T 3 j : J . } j . . ui ^ ia the receipts } thus , a very wet day reduces tho amount received by from 80 O / . to 400 / . per day . On the 22 nil of October , owing to tho continuous rnin , tlio receipts foil short of the usual amount by 889 / . These omnibuses contribute largely to tho g « noral rovonno of tho country ; tho Government duty and licences for tho last year were 38 , 000 / ., while tho sum of 18 , O 0 O / . was paid for tolls on the diftorcnt roada run oven- by tho omnibuses . " Tho total uumljer of omnibuses in London amounts to 800 .
_ Tiim UNHDccKssmr .. Launch . —A careful investigation has shown thnt tlu > Lovinthan has not suffered ' in any appreciable degree from tlio lute mishnp .
UNrvERsirr Refobm ts Sootuusd . ¦—' The annual meeting of the Association for the Improvement and Extension cf the Scottish Universities , founded three yeare ago , -was held at Edinburgh last Saturday , under the presidency of Colonel Mure , in the absence of the Earl of Elgin . There were also present Sir E . T . Colebrooke , M . P ., Mr . Stirling , M . P ., Principal Tulloch ( St . Andrew ' s ) , Professor Blackie , Professor Fraser , Dr . Hodson , Dr . Schmitz , &c ; and apologies for absence were
received from Sir D . Brewster , the Dean of Faculty , Rev . Dx . Robertson , Rev . Dr . Guthrie , Mr . Dunlop , M . P ^ , &c . The report , which was read by the Secretary , stated that some time agoa deputation had had a very satisfactory conference with the Lord Advocate , who expressed his intention to proceed with a measure in Parliament on the subject at the earliest favourable opportunity . Resolutions were unanimously adopted in favour of University reform .
Suppression of the Society of Arts' Board of EjcAamnsKS . —A numerous meeting of the members of the late Board of Examiners of the Society of Arts has been held in the Professors' Common Room of King ' s College , to consider the recent proceedings of the Council of the Society of Arts in suppressing the Board of Examiners . The Rev . Professor Browne occupied the chair , and resolutions were agreed to condemning the act ui question . Lectures on Art . —On "Wednesday evening last , at
the Marylebohe Literary and Scientific Institution , Mr . H . Ottley delivered the first of a series of four Lectures on Painting and Painters , ancient ' and modern , illustrated by examples of the various schools . The opening lecture was devoted to the earlier Italian school , and was marked throughout with taste , judgment , and a fine critical sympathy . It may be remembered that Mr . Ottley delivered a course , highly successful , of lectures at Manchester , in connexion with the Art Treasures Exhibition . The present series attracts much attention and deserves it .
L ' Ainr Havelockat the Phobienade Conceets . — After the performance , at M . Jullien ' s Promenade Concerts on Thursday night , of the Indian Quadrille , which , as usual , was encored , the immortal wielder of the baton came for ward , and indicated that in a certain box was sitting Lady Havelock— ' the wife of that British lion who has so nobly hunted down the Bengal tiger . * Her Ladyship , with her two daughters , here advanced to the front of the box , and saluted the audience . M . Jullien then called for ' three British cheers '—which were given with a perfect torrent of enthusiasm .
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Leader Office , Saturday , j ^ ovember 1-i . PERSIA . Despatches from Teheran , of tho 18 th of Oc tober , state that the civil war continued . Two Turcoman columns had entered the country , and the Ambassador of Russia was urging the Government of the Shah to consent to an armed intervention . This the Shah refused , and had sent au Ambassador Extraordinary to Tiflis , with authority to proceed to St . Petersburg La case of need . The same arrival announces that Ferukh Khan had been recalled , and-appointed Sadrasam .
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AUSTRALIA . LOSS OP THE EMIGRAMNT SHIP DU 2 U 1 AR AN » ONE HUNDRDED AND i- 'ORTV LIVES . The Vanguard reports that the Emeu , with the September mail , left Sydney on the 11 th of September ; Melbourne , the 17 th ; tho Sound , the 25 th ; Galle , tho 9 th of October ; and Aden , the 16 th . In the night of the 20 th of October , she struck on a coral reef in tho Red Sea ,, got off crippled , and was run ashore on the east coast of Nubia to keep her from sinking . She arrived leaky at Suez on the 3 rd of November , j und transhipped G < kO , QOOl . in gold to the Australasian , for Southampton , from Sydney and Melbourne . All was well at the gold-fields . A prolitic inino had been discovered at Aarant , one hundred and twenty miles from Melbourne , The wool-market was very firm , and contracts were taken at a high rate . The coming clip was expected to be less than the last . Money was tight . East India produce won selling at fair prices . There had been great floods in New South Wales , and considerable destruction of property on the Hunter , Paterson , and other rivers . The ship Dunbar , from London to Sydnoy , had been totally lost . Tho crew and passengers , one hundred and forty in number , all perished , except one seaman . Tho cargo was valued at 70 , 000 / . A collision has taken place between tho Ladybird and Champion steamers , off Capo Otwuy , when tho latter foundered , with the Ions of from thirty to forty lives .
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Fjkanck . —Tho Legislative Corps has been convoked for the 28 tli inst . It is thought tho session will bo adourni'd after one or two days' sitting .
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. NOTICES 1 O CO&BESPONDBNTS . Several communications unavoidably atand over . clit ? ° affi ? - **{"""*« ' *»* ' the mass of letters were-3 X ?• . . Their insertion is often delayed , owing to a ores S otmatter ; . and when omitted , it is frequentfy from reasons quite iudepeudeut of ttie meritaorWeom ^ TOici * N ^^ SnS | aSrSs ^ SSI b ^ SSS ^ ¦ f& ^ Kr K an £ * ddp «» - of the wit !?; not * nVcessTrfly for publication , but as a suarantee of his good faith . We cannot undertake to return rejected communications .
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THE MONETARY CRISIS . The Monetary Crisis is the topic of the day . Nothing was talked of a month ago but the latest Indian news— "what intelligence might next be looked for from that quarter— -the day on which we might expect it . Public anxiety had been excited by tlie atrocities of our rebellious Sepoys , and public sympathy aroused , as probably no other subject ever nad roused it , by the endurance and devotion of the few and noble British soldiers on whose courage and exertions the safety of our Indian empire
depended . The fall of Delhi has removed , no doubt , some grounds of anxiety ; this event may reasonably be considered the first of the series of steps for the re-establishment of British supremacy , and the restoration of order throughout the disturbed empire . The news of the relief of Imcknow ( not a little mitigated , Tve fear , by the telegram received from General Otjtkjlm last evening ) has strengthened these hopes , and has removed the worst of apprehensions from the public mind . Had it come a month ago the nation would have been filled with exultation . Now
the intelligence is received wth deep though sober thankfulness , but witli so little outward manifestation of feeling as might lead a looker-on to confound it with indifference . It may be reasonably asked , why is this ? We are not a fickle nation , easily changing our opinions , nor readily giving up an idea that has taken root in the public mind . "Why then has tho subject lost for the moment so much of its interest ?
The answer is simple . The public mind cannot be occupied by more than one question at one time ; .. and ifc is at this moment filled with apprehension on account of some object nearer home , and pressing for an immediate solution . The Monetary Crisis is the topic of the day . It is not at all surprising that the interest in this great subject should absorb almost all other considerations , and make mercantile England put out of view for the time other matters of intense interest , but which do not press so inconveniently and so immediately upon , every-day affairs .
The Bank of England on Monday last raised the rate of discount to 10 per cent . —a rate hitherto unprecedented—8 per cent , having been the highest in October , 1847 , when England was convulsed with the panic JSTo one blames the Bank for fixing- tho interest so high—the Directors only adopted that for their rate which vaa already prevailing out of doors , so that the step was very generally anticipated . W © must call attention to tho fact that tho above ia the minimum rate charged on tlio choicest bills ; the rate
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. ¦ ¦ • . . —_?— . ¦ . . There is nothing' so revolutionary , because there is nothing so unnatural a * id convulsive , as the strain to keep things fixed -when all the world is by the verylaw of its creation in eternal progress . —Db . Abnoxd .
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Leader (1850-1860), Nov. 14, 1857, page 1091, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2217/page/11/
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