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      of the corn / in such good condition that it was thrashed and brought to market very early , so the . quantity-at market has been abundant . The wine trade is always

      dull just before the vintage ; but as a great vintage anticipated , the Burgundian proprietors are selling nieir wines in order to get cellar-room . . More Opium Twaddle . —Under this head a correspondent of the Times ' , who signs himself " Fumus , " writes : —" The well-meaning gentlemen -who signed the address to Lord Derby on the subject of opium seem to be as much in the rearward of passing events as the Seven Sleepers of the legend when they woke up . Have they been so wrapped up in their abstractions as to be been for time freel

      New In ventions . — -Mr . Pike , of - House of Commons , had an interview yesterday-witl Sir John Pakington , at the Admiralty , for the purpost of submitting designs for the construction of breakwaters on a new principle , and also certain projected improvements in steam navigation and in the structure of lifeboats and vessels intended for inland navigation With a view to facilitate the passage of the latter over shoals and sand banks and through shallow waters . Crystal Palace .- —The directors of the Crystal Palace Company have set apart a day on which Mr

      the Committeeoffice in spring or autumn , and not in the hot season ; tha the re-vaccinated should be kept quiet from work for i week .- —Medical Times .

      Manns , the able and energetic director of their permanent band , may take a benefit concert . The arrangements are to be on the most liberal scale , and Will not only be carried out ' by the artistes both vocal and instrumental who have taken part in the great concerts of the season , but will include others of the highest celebrity . The attractive and prominent part which Mr . Manns bears daily at the Crystal Palace cannot fail to ensure a large attendance , and many will be glad of some opportunity of testifying their approval of Mr . Manns ' s taste , and the energy he has displayed in improving the musical means of the Crystal Palace .

      not likely to revisit these parts of space for a few hundred years . Tay Salmon Fishings : —The salmon fishings belonging to the Earls of Wemyssr and Kinnoull were exposed to let by public roup , on Friday , and brought— the former 2537 / being an increase of BO 9 L upon last year ; and the latter 89 / ., which is the same as in the previous Season . The attendance of competitors was considerable , and the biddings brisk . —Dally Mail . ' . „ Vintage in Portugal . —The vintage of 1858 will probably be the most abundant of the last five years . Already a very large quantity of grapes have been shipped to England , and one shipper alone , up to the present time , has forwarded more grapes than the amount of the entire shipments of last year .

      The Wine Crop in Madeira . —There is a probability that the yield of wine in Madeira this year will be some 600 pipes , whereas in former years it used to average between 15 , 000 and 16 , 000 pipes . The farmers , however , are still attending to the cultivation of the grape , and planting new vines in the districts Where the old ones have died put , so that there is every hope that the island may be again restored to its vine-producing condition . An unqualified contradiction may be given to the assertion so freely promulgated in England , that the inhabitants of Madeira have ceased to attend to the cultivation of the vine .

      Post-office Order . —On the 1 st of October next , and thenceforward , the compulsory prepayment of postage will be extended to all letters addressed to Barbadoes , Trinidad , and St . Helena . The postage also of letters posted in these colonies , addressed to the United Kingdom , will be required to be prepaid by the senders . New Guano Island . —Several vessels have gone from Honolulu to load guano at Jarvis Island . There was no longer a doubt about the value of the deposit . Falkirk Tryst .-r-The second for the season of these great annual markets was held on Monday . The general show of sheep was considerably less than on the previous year , the deficiency being accounted for entirely

      by the short supply of black-faced sheep . The buyers were more numerous than was expected , and they came out liberally , although the stock suffered a reduction ; but that was to be expected even by holders , as sheepmarkets have deteriorated in prices for some time past . At the close of the market , few or none of the blackfaced sheep remained unsold ; and there i 3 little doubt that what was left of the Cheviots would be converted into money before the next market . Cheviot wethers from 3 s . to 5 s . below the corresponding market of last year . In some instances Cheviot ewes were sold a shade better than last year , but for the most part they were Is . to 2 s . and even 3 s . below last \ 'ear .

      The Canadian Carrying Trade . —The select committee appointed during the late session of the Canadian Parliament to inquire into the past and present course of trade between the lakes and the sea-board , and between the different Atlantic ports in America and Great Britain , have made their report . From it we learn that the tendency of the Canada trade was to pass over into the United States . " It appears , " says the Quebec Journal , ' ' that while the mails , passengers , and every description of goods can be conveyed from Quebec to the Chicago , or any lake port in the interior , and vice versa , at legs cost and in less time than to or from New York , the high price between Quebec and Liverpool has diverted almost the entire trade between the lakes and

      Europe to New York . To counteract this evil the report boldly recommends the establishment of a daily line of screw steamers , of 2000 tons burden , between Liverpool and Quebec , connecting with a line of steamers on Lake Huron to Chicago . It is asserted that by this arrangement first-class passengers could reach Chicago from Liverpool , by Quebec , over the Grand Trunk Railway , in about eighteen days , omigrnnts and light freight , by rail and water combined , in about fifteen days . " Trade in France . —According to the commercial report of the Presse , the state of affairs has not altqrcd sensibly during the last week . Business continues to increase slowly . Orders are coming . in both . . from , the

      provinces and froin abroad , but credit revives slowly . Business in general is done for cash . Merchants for the most part realised their capital during the crisis , and they now save the discount by paying for goods nt once . This accounts for the small quantity of commercial paper in circulation , although on the whole there is an increase of transactions . Manufacturers complain of the scarcity of labour ; they have boon obliged to rofuse orders owing to the difficulty of finding workmen . This is equally the case in Lyons and other manufacturing towns , as in . Paris . During the commercial crisis

      many workmen left the towns and took to agricultural labour . Operations at Lyona are deacribed na being »^ -- ^ owollory 7 bronzoar

      ignorant that opium has now some as y admitted with a duty as our cottons , and that ( in the words of your own correspondent ) ' the trade is as open and as unrestrained in all the cities of China as the sale of hot cross buns on Good Friday yi the streets of London ? ' And yet the whole of the lengthy address proceeds on the supposition that the opium trade is at present one of a desperate smuggling character . They will next , perhaps , advise the enterprise of a holy war to compel the Chinese Government to prohibit the drug again ! " _ ¦ „ , the Timber Trade

      Tun Liverpool Docks and . — At the meeting of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Board , it was stated that arrangements had been formed for placing the new north dock , called the Canada dock , almost exclusively at the service of the importers of timber at the port , with a total quay space for storage ground of 134 , 000 square yards , apportioned in allotments of from 25 , 000 to 26 , 000 yards each . Nanteos and Penrhiw Mining Company . —A general meeting was held yesterday at Mi-. Murchison ' s offices , Bishopsgate-street ; Mr . J . W . Williamson in the chair . A report was read , from which it appeared that it was desirable the mines should be very fully developed with the least possible delay . More than half the Shareholders were represented at the meeting , and the call of 15007 . ( 6 s . -per share } was unariiinousJy agreed tov '

      The Isthmus of Suez Project . —It is positively stated in a letter from "Vienna , in the Bourse Gazette of Berlin , that the statement made in some journals that the Porte had granted M . de Lesseps a concession for cutting through the Isthmus of Suez , and that England has abandoned her opposition tq _ it , is utterly devoid of truth . The Stage in France . —The Univers has some severe strictures upon the immorality of the Parisian theatricals . It particularly alludes to what are called pieces hfemmes , that is to say , pieces in which the object exhibit the actresses

      of the author and manager is to with as few clothes on as possible , literary merit of any kind being quite a secondary consideration . The Times correspondent says : —" The Univers is caustic , but it tells the truth . The second class of the Parisian theatres are too apt to abuse such merely meretricious means of drawing a house . The most extravagant and witless framework of a play is deemed good enough upon which to hang a score or two of half-naked nymphs . The authors depend for their success not on their brains but on the legs of the ladies , and really they often abuse the license for laziness and dulness thus afforded . Those

      spectators who have even patience to sit such pieces out will hardly , ever return to them j but Paris contains some scores of fresh audiences , and the puffing of the feuilleton is trusted to for bringing the sheep to the fold . The system is not one likely to encourage either good authors or good actors . " TriE Patrons of the Ring . —Referring to a prizefight which took place last week at Thornbury , near Bristol , the Bristol Mercury says : — "It appeara that the fighting fraternity mustored about 8000 , and behaved themselves upon their route with more than usual blackguardism . The country people were so frightened by their appearance and language , as to cause ? many of them to closo their houses . Some of the mob went so far as to assault several of the poor folk , and

      after taking possession of the field in which the light took place ,. demanded of all who wished to enter it an admission foe . On coming to a beerhouse at IMIn'ing 1 , kept by Mr . Huxley , who happened to bo away , hid wife only being in the house , they proceeded to tho cellar nml helped themselves , until tho poor man's stock of beer was exhausted ; they also cleared tho house of all tho eatables they could lay hands on , and departed , without paying tor what thoy had consumed . Tho orchards upon their way wore plundered by tho scoundrels . Tho loser of tho fight , Thomas Squires , aluw Ovens , has , through tho exertions of Sir Thomas Davis , a magistrate , boon committed for trial Ho was captured on Saturday last , at a publio-houso in Bristol , though not without a sharp resistance . It is hoped thi . t , sume « ofwtlio-obhor 8 i » will-nliso '' bo » ina ( 10 ' -nn 'OxnTii'plG' * ofr '""" "

      L ' k-vaccination . —M , Lauoy reports that in sixty men of tho French aimy rc-vacoinntcd nt Toulouse , serious symptoms of a typhoid ami orysipelat , ius nature ensued as u comoquenoo in nine of them , lie advised tho Minister of Wnr that in future only a small number of men of a rogimont should bo vaccinated at onco , no that thoy may not bo forcid to return immediately lo their duty ; that only those ( h bonw volantii ehall bo vaccinated ; that tho operation should only bo performed

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      No , 443 , September 18 , 1 B 58 /]_____ T HE "LEAP EH . 965

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      HAMBUKG . Nqws from Hamburg , dated i ) o'clock v . ar ., , loth Sopjtombor , statos . tho ojqjlosion of tho powder magazine oil" thiit port on board an emigrant ship , tho llnmmonla , for Now York . Out of ' - ' 05 passengers flvo woro badly 'wounded .

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      AMERICA . The steamship Alps arrived at Liverpool to-day with Now York advices to the Sth instant . , The . political nwws is unimportant , the cable jubilee absorbing public attention . It was celebrated on tho let wi th great 4 cl » t . Tho quarantino hospital on Staton Island was entirely destroyed by a mob on tho 1 st inst . by moans of fire . One man was shot during tho affray . Thirty-two bouses wevo reduced to ashes , and tho patients narrowly escaped destruction . Tho excitement was very strong against tho Immigration Commissioners . Captain Hudson and tho officers of tho Niagara have been entertained at Jersey City . Tho yellow fovor still raged at Now Orleans . Advices from Vera Cruz report tho suppression of all Opposition newspapers at tho capital . A decisivo action JLnit . iVjp . OH ^ tho ^ gntoiulinginpawias-wns'Jooketl'rfor .- "' ¦ " " ' The Africans captured by tho Dolphin were to bo convoyed in tho stoam-frigato Niagara back to their homes .

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      WEST INDIES . The Magdalena arrived this day with the West India mails . She brings specie to the value of 750 , 000 dollars . The questions between England and Franco , on the one hand , and the Venezuelan Government on tho other , are likely to be settled satisfactorily . Antigua has been visited by an earthquake . The islands aro healthy , except Cuba . The reports from Demcrara and Trinidad are favourable for the crops .

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      TURKEY . News from Constantinople to the 11 th has been received . It was reported that Fuad Pasha , on his arrival in London , was to demand explanations a 3 to the bombardment of Jeddah and the occupation of Perim . There was an impression that an ordonnance would shortly be published recommending the dignitaries of the empire to limit their expenses and to reduce the luxury of their servants . Some arrests had taken place , but t he sultanas still resisted , and the Sultan was already reconciled with his . brothers-in-law . Steam-packet companies were being organised in various parts of Turkey .

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      . ' — ¦ ? —r- . " ;' Leader Office , Friday Night , September 17 th . SARDINIA . The Piedmontese Gazette states that the so-called cession of the port of Villa franca to Russia consists of the mere gratuitous concession of an old deserted bagne , which is turned into a depot for provisions and fuel . It is also alleged that a clause in the lease enables Piedmont to get rid Of the tenant on due notice , a stipulation which might be . found very difficult to enforce . This , version of the affair has been thought sufficiently important to assume the form . of a telegram , dated the 15 th inst . The Gazette de France holds that the continental Powers should represent to Piedmont that under the present European system , no nation has a right to cede or let any portion of its territory . " What would be said , " it concludes , ' if the King of Naples were to sell a port to England ? " _

  • Citation
    • Leader (1850-1860), Sept. 18, 1858, page 965, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2260/page/13/